Criminal Law
Committee ABA Solo Div Report Spring 2017 COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT FORM
Division Name and Number: Practice Specialty Division:
3
Division Director Name: Kari
Petrasek
Reporting Board or Committee: Criminal Law Committee
Completed By: Kenneth Vercammen Co-Chair, Edison, NJ
1. What has your board or committee
done since its last report (e.g., conference call, meetings, use of discussion
lists, planning for CLE programs, publications and articles, collaboration with
other boards, committees, or sections)?
-Requested meeting at New York
Annual meeting
-Started work on new ABA book Handling
DUI and Drug Possession Defense for Attorneys
--Meet with Shannon Lessman of ABA
Publications in Chicago on March 13 to discuss chapters for DUI and Drug
defense
-Sent Request to Dee Lee and Dave.
L for Brown Bag webinar
-Continue to Publicize ABA “Criminal
Forms Book to help generate revenue for Division
-Added info to GP Solo Linkedin
- Invited members to submit articles to GP Solo EReport
- Offered
forms for free to members from NJ Bar Annual seminar “Handling Drug, DWI and Serious
Cases seminar
--Also helped publicize ABA book ABA’s “Smart Marketing for Smart Firm Lawyers” a book from the American
Bar Association. My staff implemented many of the ideas
to improve our law office.
Smart Marketing and the
Small Firm Lawyer
List Price: $59.95
Sponsor(s): Solo, Small
Firm and General Practice Division Publisher(s): ABA Book Publishing ISBN: 978-1-62722-484-0 Product Code: 5150468
2014, 156 Pages, 7 x 10
2. What is the status of your board or committee’s business
plan for the year (e.g., participation of board or committee members, goals
achieved, and new goals)?
- Publicize Meeting at New York Annual
meeting August
-Continue to
help promote ABA books to raise revenue for section
-Offer to GP
Solo members free portions of articles/ forms from NJ Bar Annual Drug DWI
seminar
-Invite Chair
elect the legendary Steve Williams and Division members to free NJ Bar Summer
Happy Hour at the NJ Shore on July 15
- Hope to submit
articles to Solo
EReport
-Sent draft
of book 22
Does
your board or committee need any assistance
from the Director, Staff, Division Officers, or Council? If yes, please
explain:
The ABAS’
CRIMINAL LAW FORMS book
Book from the
American Bar Association
Solo & Small Firm Division Author: Kenneth Vercammen
Use Criminal Law Forms to help represent
persons charged with criminal and traffic offenses. Detailed instruction and
valuable insight is offered beginning with the initial contact with the client,
to walking into the courthouse, and managing the steps that follow. Two hundred
and ten modifiable forms help make criminal lawyers more efficient and
productive, while also reducing the chance for mistakes. Criminal Law Forms helps lawyers face the challenges of:
• Criminal
defense
• DWI
cases
• Juvenile
offenses
• Domestic
violence
• Traffic
violations
• Auto
Accidents
• And
much more
Regular price $139.95, GP SOLO
Member Price $129.95 To order contact ABA Customer Care, 1-800-285-2221 321 N. Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60653 or fax to 312-988-6030 (PC:
5150457) ISBN: 978-1-61438-879-1
http://apps.americanbar.org/abastore/index.cfm?section=main&fm=Product.AddToCart&pid=5150457
-Also helped
publicize ABA book ABA’s “Smart Marketing for Smart
Firm Lawyers” a book from the American
Bar Association. My staff implemented many of the ideas
to improve our law office.
Smart Marketing and the
Small Firm Lawyer
List Price: $59.95
Sponsor(s): Solo, Small
Firm and General Practice Division Publisher(s): ABA Book Publishing ISBN: 978-1-62722-484-0 Product Code: 5150468
2014, 156 Pages, 7 x 10
ACTION ITEMS
List any action items to be presented
to Council. These are items that require discussion, reporting, and/or decision-making
on the part of the Council (e.g. a request for support of matters appearing
before the House of Delegates, revisions of Division policies, and requests for
use of extraordinary Division resources).
INFORMATIONAL
ITEMS
List any informational items to be
represented to Council. These items are
matters for the Council’s information and do not require action.
