Commission Highlights
The Board of Bar Commissioners received the following reports and took the actions indicated during their regularly scheduled July 18, 2007 Commission meeting held in Sun Valley, Idaho.
1. Commissioners designated specific goals for the Commission’s work during the short term 2007-2008 year.
2. Ex-officio members of the Commission were appointed: (1) The immediate past president of the Bar; (2) the Bar’s representative to the American Bar Association; (3) the representative to the ABA’s House of Delegates elected by the Utah Members of the ABA; (4) a representative from the Young Lawyers Division; (5) a representative from the Paralegal Division; (6) a representative from the Utah Minority Bar Association; (7) a representative from the Women Lawyers of Utah; (8) the Dean of the S.J. Quinney College of Law; and (9) the Dean of the J. Reuben Clark Law School.
3. Lowry Snow, Nate Alder, Lori Nelson, Rob Jeffs, Steve Owens, Scott Sabey, and John Baldwin were appointed as the Bar Commission’s Executive Committee. The members of the Executive Committee were approved as signatories on the Bar’s checking accounts.
4. Commission liaisons to sections, committees, and local bars were appointed.
5. Committee chairs were appointed.
6. Voting Commissioners filled out and returned disclosure statements.
7. Lowry Snow assigned Long Range Planning Sub-Committee Chairs Nate Alder, Lori Nelson, Steve Owens, and Rob Jeffs to meet and finalize their proposals for adoption as long range objectives at the next commission meeting.
A full text of this and other meetings of the Bar Commission are available at the office of the Executive Director.