Criminal Law
Committee ABA Spring
2018 report Solo Division
COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT FORM
Division Name and Number: Practice Specialty Division:
3
Division Director Name: Daniel Tann
Reporting Board or Committee: Criminal Law Committee
Completed By: Kenneth Vercammen Chair, Edison, NJ
1.
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)?
Since January by speaking with ABA
publishing to request they have an experienced editor as co-author to follow up
on manuscript for new ABA book Handling
DUI and Drug Possession Defense for Attorneys [over 250 pages]
--Waiting for response to Request
for Brown Bag webinar
-Added
info to GP Solo Linkedin
- Publicized program: Make That Traffic Ticket Trash
Your Firm’s Goldmine, on Thursday, April 26, 2018 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
with speakers Sarah Kieny and Pat Monks, at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel Moderator
Kenneth Vercammen, Esq.
-Continue to Publicize ABA
“Criminal Law Forms” Book to help generate revenue for Division
-Served Criminal Law Committee ABA Spring
2018 report on members
- Invited members to submit articles to GP Solo EReport
- Offered
forms for free to members from NJ Bar Annual seminar
For NJ Bar,
working on materials for Drug, DWI and Serious Cases seminar which eventually
will be 2nd edition of “Criminal Law Forms”
--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
-
Offered
to do program if there is a Solo day in Chicago 2018
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)?
-Possible
committee meeting in New Orleans Spring meeting and Chicago Annual
-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
- Waiting
for revisions by Pub Board or co-editor to book “DUI and Drug possession
defense”
3.
Does your board or committee need
any assistance
from the Director, Staff, Division Officers, or Council? If yes, please
explain:
If
yes, please explain:
-
Help set up programs and brown bag webinar
Help promote the ABAS’
CRIMINAL LAW FORMS book
Book from the American Bar
Association
Solo
& Small Firm Division Author: Kenneth Vercammen
Criminal Law Forms helps lawyers face
the challenges of:
-Also help
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
ACTION ITEMS
List any action items to be presented
to Council.
None for Spring
INFORMATIONAL
ITEMS
none
