Saturday, July 20
2:00p – 3:30p
Executive Committee
7:00p – 9:30p
AAJ Opening Reception at the Exploratorium, Pier 15
Sunday, July 21
8:00a – 8:30a
NATLE Registration
8:30a – 8:45a
Welcome to San Francisco!
President Suzanne Keith,
Executive Director, Tennessee Association for Justice
8:45a – 9:45a
Membership on the Rise: Successful Case Studies
Paul Dullea, Executive Director, and Kaleigh Hickey,
Membership & Special Events Coordinator, Massachusetts
Academy of Trial Attorneys; Victoria Coolbaugh, Executive
Director, and Julie Ostrovsky, Development Director, Nevada
Justice Association; Stuart Zanville, Executive Director,
Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles
9:45a – 10:00a
Break
10:00a – 11:30a
Refocus with Rodney Jew: A New Approach to Thinking Critically About Your Communications
Rodney Jew, Litigation Strategist, CDS Strategy Consulting
11:30a – 12:30p
Road to Relevance: 5 Strategies for Competitive Associations with Harrison Coerver, President, Harrison
Coerver & Associates
12:30p – 2:00p
AAJ PAC Town Hall Luncheon (Hotel Nikko)
2:00p – 3:30p
Road to Relevance Continues
3:30p – 3:45p
Learn about the Pound Civil Justice Institute with
Kathryn H. Clarke, Esq. President
3:45p – 4:00p
Let’s End Distracted Driving
with Joel Feldman, Esq., Founder, EndDD.org
4:00p Adjourn
6:00p – 9:00p
California Reception at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
9:00p – 1:00a
AAJ New Lawyers Division Party
Monday, July 22
8:50a – 9:30a
11 Ways to Cut Through the Communications Clutter
featuring the findings from the 2013 Association Communications Benchmarking Report with Charles Popper, Vice President of Association Relations, Naylor
9:30a – 10:10a
Going Mobile and Measuring Member Engagement
with TrialSmith President & CEO, Kent Hughes, CAE
10:10a - 10:40a
iPad Productivity: Tips & Tricks for the Association
User with Ashley Hodak Sullivan, Marketing & Communications Project Manager, Maryland Association for Justice
10:40a - 11:10a
Selling Corporate Sponsorships with Allister Wesson
Director, Partnership for Justice Fund, New York State
Trial Lawyers Association
11:10a – 11:50a
Creating a Culture of Giving in Your Organization
Dan Burkhardt, Executive Director and General Counsel, Bar Association of San Francisco; Suone Cotner, Deputy Director, Washington State Association for Justice
11:50a – 12:20p
What Generation XYZ Expects from Your Association—the “New Millennium”
WSAJ Membership Research with Jeff Boyd, President, Boyd Trial Consulting, Seattle, WA
12:30p – 2:00p
AAJ PAC M Club Luncheon with Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden (Hotel Nikko)
2:00p – 4:00p
Visit the AAJ Exhibit Hall Meet prospective exhibitors, advertisers and sponsors. Bring media kits!
4:00p – 5:00p
AAJ Reception for NATLE Members
6:30p – 8:00p
Dinner for Attendees at First Crush
Tuesday, July 23
8:30a – 8:45a
Public Justice: Righting Wrongs with Jack Landskroner
Landskroner Grieco Merriman, LLC, President of Public Justice
8:45a – 9:30a
Media Training: Delivering the Best Message with Michelle Kimmel
Press Secretary, AAJ
9:30a – 10:00a
AAJ Update with J. Burton LeBlanc, IV, AAJ President-Elect and Linda Lipsen, AAJ Chief Executive Officer
10:00a – 11:30a
NATLE Business Meeting
Noon – 2:00p
AAJ Membership and Awards Luncheon (Hilton San Francisco)
Join your colleagues in honoring Bill Clark, Tiffany McGee and Larry Shannon as they receive the AAJ Partnership Award.
2:00p – 3:00p
Concurrent Sessions: Executives Only: Survive and Advance
Coordinated by Jack L. Harris, Executive Director, Virginia Trial Lawyers Association and featuring Jane R. Bailey, Executive Director, Michigan Association for Justice; Maresa Taylor Fawns, Executive Director, Kentucky Association for Justice; and Richard M. Taylor, Jr., Chief Executive Officer, North Carolina Advocates for Justice
Professional Staff Only: Deep Dive Discussions
Coordinated by Justin Bailey, Deputy Director, Alabama Association for Justice
3:00p – 3:30p
Rapid Fire Hot Tips
3:30p
NATLE Annual Meeting Adjourns See you next year in Baltimore!
9:00p – 11:00p
AAJ Closing Reception