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New Strategic Plan Presented To BOG
Article Date: Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Written By: Russell Rawlings
Formal presentation of the North Carolina Bar Association’s proposed strategic plan for 2006-10 transpired Saturday during the spring meeting of the NCBA Board of Governors in New Bern.
Chair Martin Brinkley of Raleigh presented the plan on behalf of the Strategic Planning & Emerging Trends Committee.
Nearing the culmination of an extensive two-year process, Brinkley provided an overview of the plan’s five major components: the lawyer’s office, the courthouse, the community, the legal profession and the association.
Presented under the title of “Momentum 2010: Final Report and Recommendations of the Strategic Planning & Emerging Trends Committee,” the plan will be reviewed over the next two months and considered for adoption on June 16 when the board convenes at the NCBA Annual Meeting in Atlantic Beach.
The NCBA membership will also have an opportunity to review the plan as it was presented in New Bern.
Click here or in the box above to access a complete, downloadable copy of “Momentum 2010: Final Report and Recommendations of the Strategic Planning & Emerging Trends Committee.”
“Our committee has tried to create a preferred vision of the NCBA’s future rather than a reactive approach to today’s problems,” Brinkley said. “This plan is not intended to be set in stone, but is designed to be in a constant frame of motion over the next several years.”
NCBA President Mike Colombo echoed the sentiments of the board in congratulating Brinkley and committee members for their sterling efforts.
“ ‘Momentum 2010’ represents an amazing combination of leadership, energy, time and talent contributed by this diverse, blue-ribbon committee, many other volunteers, and our exemplary staff,” Colombo said. “It will allow the Board of Governors to look as far down the road as possible when setting policy and priorities for the future.”
Working with Elizabeth Derrico, associate director of the ABA’s Division for Bar Services, the committee gathered an enormous amount of information from numerous stakeholders prior to formulating the initial draft.
NCBA members and representatives of the legal community at large participated in surveys and interviews during the spring and early summer months of last year.
Committee members then convened for a two-day retreat in September and discussed various issues deemed most likely to have a significant impact on the legal community and the public it serves over the next five years.
An outline and early drafts were produced over the latter months of 2005 and discussed during a daylong review session at the N.C. Bar Center in January. Additional editing and review culminated in delivery of the document that Brinkley presented to the NCBA Board of Governors and the NCBA Foundation Board of Directors on April 8, 2006.