The Atlanta Lawyer August/September 2019 | Page 10

Q&A with Rachel L. King
Chair, Continuing Legal
Education Board of Trustees
General Counsel, Georgia
Department of Community
Health
What is the CLE Board of
Trustees?
The CLE Board of Trustees is a
diverse team of thirteen members
of the Atlanta Bar Association
who oversee CLE program
development and direction. The
Board is tasked with ensuring
the Atlanta Bar and its Sections
provide meaningful, relevant
and high-quality continuing
education opportunities to the
legal community. We are here for
you!
What are your plans for the
CLE Board of Trustees for
2019-2020?
The CLE Board of Trustees
established long-term goals for
the 2019-2020 year in an effort
to ensure continuity and access
to quality program development,
with some programs gaining
more and more traction from
the previous fiscal year. One
previous program that was
created, with the support of the
Atlanta Bar Association, was the
Speaker Database. Individuals
who were interested in presenting
at a CLE event have always been
able to reach out to the CLE
Board of Trustees and request
consideration. However, the
methods for keeping track of
requests, topics and program
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materials from prior years to
ensure the content meets current
standards for Professionalism CLE
credits. We are also video tapping
CLEs going forward and adding
those videos to the library.
Another goal is a communications
plan for Section liaison activity.
Since the success of the CLE
Board of Trustees is inherently
tied to attendance at CLE events,
we developed a plan and issue
communications to the Section
Chairs. The goal is to identify
ways in which the Board may be
of service to each Section and to
make them aware of upcoming
events they may share with their
members. We also set a goal for the
Board to attend Section events on
a quarterly basis,
so we know where
What is your advice for
their interests and
getting more involved
needs are. These
with the Atlanta Bar
communications
Association
in
general?
are in addition to
always looking
the email blasts
for quality
Make the choice to just
and web links all
speakers and
show up. Show up at
members receive
topics to add
events.
Show
up
to
meet
and have proven
to the database,
people.
Show
up
to
help
helpful both
so if you have
out. Pretty soon, you may
in de veloping
an interest in
find yourself involved
relationships and
presenting as a
with
something
you
really
increasing the
speaker for one
enjoy
all
because
you
made
value of the CLE
of the upcoming
a choice to show up.
programs we are
CLEs, please
able to provide.
click the
“Become a Speaker” link from
the main page of the Atlanta Bar
If you have questions about
Association webpage.
N i c e to
M e e t Yo u
materials were not consistent from
year to year. As new members
served on the Board, we noticed
gaps in process awareness and
historical information. We spent
a few meetings saying, “Didn’t we
have a guy who wanted to speak
on that?” and decided there was
a better way – thus our desire to
create a Speaker Database was
born.
The Speaker Database is intended
be a resource for the Board to
assist Sections in finding speakers
for various topics and has already
proven a good resource for the
Board as we develop CLE materials
for the Atlanta Bar. We are
A goal we have for this year
includes the creation of a video
library. The Board is reviewing
CLE requirements or need
help putti ng you r CLE
program together, who should
you reach out to?
You can reach out to Catherine
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