Community
Involvement
The Wichita
Area Chapter strives to make meaningful
contributions to the local legal community
and to the wider community of our city and
state, as well as to the International
Association of Legal Administrations on a
regional and national level.
Legal Community
The Chapter has
partnered with the Wichita Bar Association (WBA)
for many years. Members currently assist
with administrative or organizational needs
by serving on the following WBA committees:
Bar-O-Meter,
Law in Education,
Service to the Bar,
Summer Intern
Program, and
Technology
and are sometimes called upon to make
presentations regarding law office
administration matters. In addition, our organization sells the
advertising slots in the Bar-o-Meter on
behalf of the WBA.
Professional Legal Management WeekSM
(PLMW) provides a forum for recognizing
those in legal management for what they
do and the role they play in the success
of the organization, and in its service
to its clients and those who work in the
organization. The objectives are to
provide awareness, understanding and
education about the legal management
profession, and to increase knowledge of
the diverse roles within the profession.
It is organized by the Association of
Legal Administrators and is co-sponsored
by the ABA Law Practice Management
Section, the American Association of Law
Libraries, Australian Legal Practice
Management Association, the
International Legal Technology
Association, the International Paralegal
Management Association, the Legal
Marketing Association, Managing
Partners’ Forum (MPF) and NALP – The
Association for Legal Career
Professionals. PLMW is celebrated the
first full week in October each year.
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Within
the Association of Legal
Administrators organization, Chapter
members can serve in volunteer
positions, as Regional Officers and on
nominating and conference committees,
and a variety of smaller tasks. These
activities add an extra dimension of
growth opportunities.
Our
City
To help
those in need tackle their every day
challenges, the Association of Legal
Administrators (ALA) created its
Community Challenge Weekend (CCW)
program in 1999 where it encourages ALA
chapters, its members, firms, vendors,
relatives and friends to come together
to contribute time, energy and resources
toward improving their own communities.
Each chapter can choose its own cause or
organization to support, or its own
activity to plan.
The Wichita
Area Chapter has participated in CCW
since its inception and recently
was named to the 10 Year Participant
Honor Roll:
-
1999
- Conducted a food drive within the
legal community for the Kansas
Food Bank;
-
2000
- Mobilized the legal community to
collect business clothing for young
women in the Dream Catchers
program;
-
2001
- Raised funds for 9/11 disaster
relief and sent to NYC chapter.
Also began our long-running
association with the Salvation Army
to put labels on bags for their
Christmas Angel Tree project,
which we have done every year since.
-
2002
- Warm Hearts
–
sorted coats in a warehouse for
Salvation Army.
-
2003
- Peace Garden at Women’s
Crisis Center. Cleaned up the
landscaping, planted plants, donated
a stone bench.
-
2004
- Conducted a social event for
the children at Wichita
Children’s Home, and did
some landscaping and grounds
maintenance there as well.
-
2005
- Conducted yard cleanup at a
Habitat for Humanity
house. Also donated money to Alabama
and Mississippi Bar Associations for
Katrina relief funds.
-
2006
- Volunteered at Special
Olympics volleyball
tounament.
-
2007
- Conducted blood drive challenge
among law firms for American Red
Cross
-
2008
- Volunteered at the ALS "Walk to
DeFeat ALS" event.
-
2009
- Assisted Salvation Army with
advance meal preparation for Angel
Tree Volunteers
The Wichita Area Chapter of the Association of
Legal Administrators is a separate legal entity from the Association of Legal
Administrators (ALA). ALA licenses the use of its name, mark, logos and other
protected properties to chapters which are in good standing. ALA disclaims all
liability or responsibility whatsoever for the actions, representations and
liabilities of the Wichita Area Chapter, specifically including those of any
nature whatsoever arising from or out of the content of other features related
to the Wichita Area Chapter Web site. In no event shall ALA be deemed the
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