American Bar Association's Bar Leadership Institute.

Florida Bar News, May, 2001

JOINING SOME 290 other emerging leaders of lawyer organizations from across the country at the American Bar Association's Bar Leadership Institute in March was Terry Russell of Ft. Lauderdale, president-elect of The Florida Bar. The BLI is held annually in Chicago for incoming officials of local and state bars, special focus lawyer organizations, and bar foundations.

The program provides the opportunity to confer with ABA officials, bar leader colleagues, executive staff, and other experts on the operation of such associations. Russell, center, joined ABA President Martha W. Barnett of Tallahassee and ABA President-Elect Robert E. Hirshon of Maine in sessions on bar organization and management, communications techniques, and planning for the year as president.