COLUMN > In April, I experienced for the first time what I had envisioned—and had been eagerly looking forward to—during my WSBA presidency: an in-person Board of Governors meeting. Now, to be sure, “in person” looked and felt much different than in the past but, for the first time in more than a year, a small group of us gathered in the same room to conduct the Bar’s business and to commune.
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COLUMN > March marked the middle of the WSBA’s fiscal year (October through September), and our budget narrative, I surmise, mirrors many of our own personal outlooks: We have made many adjustments to weather an extraordinarily challenging period and are coming to terms with some of our “new normal” modes of operation. For the WSBA, this means finding opportunities to be innovative and expand service levels and benefits for members, all while continuing to look for efficiencies.
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COLUMN > A full year after the WSBA Board of Governors suspended in-person meetings, Immediate Past President Rajeev Majumdar and I were back in the WSBA’s downtown Seattle headquarters for the March 2021 meeting of the Board of Governors.
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