A DEBATE. ALSO, looks as if Dwight Merriam is out of our league.

GROUP DISCOUNTS. E.G., with Adnet for seminars.

JOANNE PETRILLO AS speaker? Leon Rosenblatt re employment law? Joanne Falkner on consumer law? David Rosengren re costruction law (Pepe & Hazard)?

FRIENDS OF THE Middlesex County Bar Association (model: Friends of the Russell Library).

DOES THE MCBA have a tax ID? Is it current on tax returns? Is it current with SOTS? Who is the agent for service?

SPEAKER: MARKETING PROFESSIONAL.

LAST NIGHT I was elected president of the association. Now I guess I'll use this blog as a notebook of ideas. This URL was distributed a long time ago, but I doubt that anyone consults this site, so it's "virtually confidential."

SPEAKER IDEAS: MALPRACTICE and grievances. Personal injury war stories. Judge's pet peeves or top ten hints. CATIC speaker on developments in Real Estate. Ellen Sostman!

IDEA: SPLIT SECRETARY into recording secretary and corresponding secretary.

CHECK ON STATUS of filings with SOTS! I don't want us dissolved on my watch.

GET A P.O. box or other permanent mailing address, fax address, voicemail address and e-mail address. Web page?

COUNCILS OF FORMER secretaries and treasurers.

YOUNG LAWYERS DIVISION of our association.

COUNCIL OF EASTERN Connnecticut bar associations: Msx, Tolland, Windham (NL?).

WEEKLY NEWSLETTER.

BENCH AND BAR committee.

LAWYER-REALTOR COMMITTEE.

MEDICAL-LEGAL COMMITTEE.

HOLIDAY PARTY COMMITTEE.

STAFF APPRECIATION NIGHT committee.

SPECIAL EVENTS COMMITTEE.

CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION committee.

EELEMOSYNARY COMMITTEE.

LIAISON WITH OTHER organizations committee. Bar associations (CBA, CTLA, CDLA, local and regional bar associations, thematic bar assns (black & Hispanic), realtors, doctors, court employees, title insurers, MCCC, sheriffs' assn, marshals' assn, Tourism council.

SPEAKERS BUREAU. SEVERAL dog and pony shows that anyone can deliver. Powerpoint?

POLICE. YOUTH AND the law. High Schools and 7th and 8th grades.

SPEAKER FROM PERMANENT commission on the status of women.

LEGAL WRITING. THE "no footnotes" school.

FACULTY FROM THREE state law schools.

CALLING CHAINS FOR meetings, notices, funerals.

REPORTS ON SEMINARS.

REPORTS ON SOFTWARE and hardware........

RETIREMENT MARKINGS?

REINSTITUTE REMARKS BY new members.

RATIFY NEW MEMBERS (only BOD can allow newbies).