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February 17, 2006 - deadline to receive Annual Meeting bids for 2008 |
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Each year, Texas ALP holds three Educational Conferences in conjunction with its business meetings – February, May/June, and September. Each conference offers a minimum of 6 hours of continuing legal education. For those of you who are certified, these conferences are an excellent source for obtaining your required CLE hours. In addition to the continuing legal education, the conferences also offer leadership training, workshops, and networking opportunities. There is something for everyone! Your next opportunity to join in will be the Annual Meeting in Lubbock, May 18-21, 2006. Don’t miss out – register now! |
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The topic of leadership has provided many quotes of substance including the following thoughtful quotes: “Leadership is getting people to work for you when they are not obligated.” – Fred Smith. “Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present, and keep the promise to posterity.” – Harold J. Seymour “A good leader can’t get too far ahead of his followers.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” – John F. Kennedy “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” – General Dwight D. Eisenhower “Leaders don’t force people to follow – they invite them on a journey.” – Charles S. Lauer “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” – Warren G. Bennis “Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.” – Jesse Jackson “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.” – Indira Gandhi “A leader is a dealer in hope.” – Napoleon Bonaparte “The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” – Henry Kissinger “You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.” – Sam Rayburn “Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.” – Publius Syrus “The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.” – Woodrow Wilson “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go but ought to be.” – Rosalynn Carter “Leadership is not magnetic personality – that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not ‘making friends and influencing people’ – that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.” – Peter F. Drucker “The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.” – Tony Blair “Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.” – Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopt “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” – Bill Gates Diane D. Watters, PLS, CLA |
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Parliamentary Quiz 1. ___________ is used to obtain information about meeting procedure. ○ (a) Parliamentary inquiry ○ (b) Point of information ○ (c) Point of order 2. Previous question means __________. ○ (a) call for the assembly to return to the agenda. ○ (b) if adopted by a two-thirds vote, debate ends and a vote is immediately taken ○ (c) a request for the secretary to read the motion aloud 3. Other than the Articles of Incorporation, the highest body of rules in an organization are _______________________. ○ (a) Robert’s Rules of Order ○ (b) bylaws ○ (c) standing rules 4. A quorum is _______________. ○ (a) the largest number than can be expected to attend a meeting, except in bad weather. ○ (b) a majority of the members present ○ (c) the minimum number of members who must be present for business to be transacted 5. A main motion _________________. ○ (a) brings business before the assembly ○ (b) cannot be amended ○ (c) is the highest ranking motion 6. If a member makes a motion that is not in order, __________. ○ (a) he should be censured ○ (b) he should be ruled out of order by the chair ○ (c) the chair may suggest an alternate motion 7. If the bylaws require an election to be by ballot, __________. ○ (a) a voice vote can be used if there is no objection and there is only one nominee for each office ○ (b) this provision can be suspended by unanimous consent, and a rising vote used instead ○ (c) this provision cannot be suspended, even by a unanimous vote. 8. Division of the question means __________. ○ (a) to separate a motion into two or more parts, each capable of standing as separate motions ○ (b) to retake a voice vote by a rising vote ○ (c) to have members who favor a motion and those who oppose it to move to opposite sides of the room 9. The motion to lay on the table can be used to _____________. ○ (a) kill a motion ○ (b) temporarily set aside a motion because something of immediate urgency has arisen, without a time to set to resume its consideration ○ (c) postpone consideration of a motion until the next meeting, in order to find out additional information 10. A meeting at which the proceedings are secret is called ______________. ○ (a) a convention of delegates ○ (b) an executive session ○ (c) a mass meeting Look for the answers in next month’s issue. |
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You can be a part of the elite group of specialty certified legal support professionals. TISC offers specialty certification for the legal support professional in both Texas real estate and Texas civil litigation. The Civil Litigation exam will be administered in San Antonio on March 11, 2006, and in Houston on March 18, 2006. For information regarding qualifications to sit for an exam, exam dates, and study courses, check out our website at www.txisc.org. |
