Moberly: Closing This Chapter With One Final Column
This is the last column I will write as president of the Indianapolis Bar Association. I’m sure it won’t surprise you that writing this column was one of the hardest duties of the job for me.
Robyn Moberly
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Moberly: The IndyBar – Here for all your ‘Ages and Stages’
I’ve been asked many times why I volunteer for the Indianapolis Bar Association, and I have given lots of reasons over the years. In fact, the reasons I belong and I volunteer have changed through the years.
Moberly: Finding Opportunity in Change
The disruption in the legal profession from multiple sources has been a topic of much discussion at the IndyBar and all around the country.
Moberly: Relationships Are Bridges to Civility (and Satisfaction)
The IndyBar has many mentoring programs designed to provide helpful professional relationships for our newest members.
Moberly: Succeeding by ‘Failing Forward’
A motivational speaker once said “it’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce.” So, reach for that brass ring and you just might catch it.
Moberly: 2020 is in Sight: Charting our Future through the Strategic Plan
As I foreshadowed in an earlier column, recently members of the IndyBar met to discuss and draft the next three-year strategic plan for the association. This isn’t your typical not-for-profit organization’s strategic plan. It won’t be just filed away.
Moberly: Reconnecting with Our Cause
I enjoy lawyer gatherings because they affirm that the work we do is important, and we all take that very seriously, but there is also plenty of room for friendship and collegiality.
Moberly: We’re ‘Showing you the Value’ this September
At the IndyBar, we’ve spent a lot of time talking about how to create value for our members. It seems that younger lawyers want to buy the direct commodity, not just a membership.
Moberly: Finding Comfort in History
As we scratch our head over the behavior of those we see on the nightly news, we must do our part to maintain the integrity of the law, treat each other with respect and serve as a far more positive example to our colleagues, our clients and our community.
Moberly: The Association’s Crystal Ball: Shaping Our Next Strategic Plan
One of the many reasons the Indianapolis Bar Association has served the needs of attorneys very well for 138 years has been that its future is targeted and planned by a cross-section of our legal community.
Moberly: Take Time to Make Memories
Your law practice will not dissolve if you leave it for a week or two. I’m always happy to see that a lawyer needs a continuance to take a family vacation. You probably won’t have plenty of time and money for a vacation until you’re retired and your kids are too busy with their own lives. So don’t wait.
Moberly: A Quarter-Century In, She’s A Legend for a Lifetime
Well, I can tell you about one person who has worked at the same place for 25 years—our Executive Director, Julie Armstrong.
Moberly: It’s Time to get IndyBar-Involved!
Like many members, I have always attended the association’s brown bag seminars and Bench Bar, but for years I didn’t do too much more with the IndyBar.
IndyBar: Bench Bar A ‘Can’t Miss’ Event for 22 Years
The idea for the IndyBar Bench Bar Conference came from similar events in the 1990s in St. Louis and Kansas City. Now, the local event is bigger than either of those and offers great opportunities for education, networking and fun.
Moberly: If At First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again (and Again, and Again…)
It’s no secret that the IndyBar has supported merit selection for decades. It’s also no secret that view is not held by everyone. I sincerely respect our members who would prefer an open partisan election of our judges in Marion County. Mostly that view is held as a result of a reverence for voting rights, which I hope we all share.
Moberly: Maintaining Control Amid Change
The IndyBar has recognized that lawyers want to be in control of their memberships in ways they never could before.
Moberly: Don’t be the Next Betamax: The Necessity of Evolution in the Legal Profession
I’ve had the chance the last few years to think about Internet access to justice, new forms of competition from large global corporations, the possible obsolescence of state-regulated practice of law, commoditized legal services and many other seismic shifts in the legal profession. Lots of other professions have dealt with these changes. You don’t have to look far to see the dramatic change in how medical services are delivered today.
Moberly: A New Day for Judicial Selection in Marion County
The verdict will still be out on how we will select judges in Marion County when this article is printed, but for the first time in decades, we know we will have an entirely new system of selection before May 2017. Hopefully it will be in this legislative session but, if not, in the next.
Moberly: Time to ‘Tune In’ for 2016
I remember the monthly Meetings of Members of the 1980s and how much I looked forward to them. I was a young lawyer and I felt like the new kid in school at those meetings, but somehow I knew it was important to be there and to mingle.