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The Iowa State Bar Association has worked out an arrangement with AAA to provide members with discounts on AAA products, including its 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week roadside assistance.
By partnering with AAA, members will be able to get assistance with their travel needs at a discounted rate. To find out more about this new member benefit, call AAA directly at 1-800-222-1333, or go to their website at www.aaa.com. Mention group number G945 to receive the ISBA-member discounts.
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Iowa Caselaw is a free email service that keeps you abreast of recent cases that have been added to the Iowa Bar’s case law archives. It costs nothing to subscribe to the service. Once you are subscribed, you will receive an email each time decisions are handed down by the Iowa Supreme Court and Court of Appeals. Each edition summarizes recent cases by topic and provides direct links to the full text of each decision.
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The purpose of jury instructions is to give the law to the jury in language they can understand. The committee believes the best way to do this is to write jury instructions in plain English. With this in mind, the committee asked the Board of Governors of The Iowa State Bar Association to approve redrafting the Iowa Civil and Criminal Uniform Jury Instructions in plain English. The Board approved this request. It also approved our request to employ a communications specialist to help us translate "legalese" into "plain English" and we did this. While the Iowa Supreme Court cannot give prior approval to the instructions, the Court has unanimously approved, in principle, the plain English redraft of the Iowa Civil and Criminal Jury Instructions. The Court also adopted a resolution commending the Civil Instructions for consideration by the Trial Bench.
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ISBA CLE Outlines are a great way to begin your research for any case. The ISBA CLE Index gives you instant access to the all ISBA CLE outlines from 2000 to present. No more searching the library for a topic you vaguely remember, you can search by author, seminar subject, or any keyword. This database is fully searchable.
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The Iowa State Bar is proud to announce our newest member benefit program, The Member Conferencing Program from Intercall®. As the world’s largest conferencing services provider, Intercall® is ready to help your firm save time and money with world class conferencing solutions from simple audio-conferencing to cutting edge web-conferencing platforms such as WebEx® and Microsoft Live Meeting®. You will receive exclusive member pricing on both audio and web conferencing with rates as low as $.04 per minute on toll free audio-conferencing. There are no contracts to sign or minimum spending requirements, so sign up today! Call the Member Conferencing center at 1-800-514-2818 from 8 AM – 8 PM EST or click here to enroll.
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The purpose of jury instructions is to give the law to the jury in language they can understand. The committee believes the best way to do this is to write jury instructions in plain English. With this in mind, the committee asked the Board of Governors of The Iowa State Bar Association to approve redrafting the Iowa Civil and Criminal Uniform Jury Instructions in plain English. The Board approved this request. It also approved our request to employ a communications specialist to help us translate "legalese" into "plain English" and we did this.
While the Iowa Supreme Court cannot give prior approval to the instructions, the Court has unanimously approved, in principle, the plain English redraft of the Iowa Civil and Criminal Jury Instructions. The Court also adopted a resolution commending the Civil Instructions for consideration by the Trial Bench.
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Iowa State Bar Ethics opinions from 1966 to present in a searchable database.
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Fastcase - Free Legal Research for Members
As of September 1, 2005 The Iowa State Bar Association is providing Fastcase an online legal research to all Iowa Bar Association members free! Members must access the service through the Bar’s Web site, at http://www.iowabar.org or by selecting the icon above. Bar members will have access to all 50 states' supreme court and court of appeals opinions from at least 1950 to the present along with an extensive Federal Package and the Iowa Code, Administrative Code, and Constitution. Fastcase is a premiere American provider of online legal research. The company's patent-pending research software helps busy lawyers sort through the clutter, ranking the best cases and statutes first, and enabling users to re-sort search results to find answers fast. Fastcase is an American company based in Washington, D.C. and founded in 1999.
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LegalDirectories.com provides free, extensive and accurate attorney, firm, and mediator listings on the Internet. They are also recognized as the official directory for The Iowa State Bar Association.
Using our Iowa Lawyer database, you can search Iowa Lawyer magazines from 2000. The magazine is presented in pdf format and is word searchable.
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The ISBA is pleased to partner with the Staples business-to-business online ordering program to give members access to the office supplies most commonly used in the law firm at competitive prices.
The program, known as Staples Advantage, allows members to order office products online and receive free delivery the next business day -- if the order is greater than $30.
All ISBA members, regardless of the size of the individual law firm, are part of a nearly 8,000-person buying group. This gives you access to the significant price breaks that Staples has created for this program, particularly on the 100 office products that law firms buy most frequently.
To assist members, Staples has made available an account manager – Jim Lane. He can be reached via e-mail at James.Lane@Staples.com, or by phone at 800-693-9900, Ext. 561.
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In today’s litigious society, it is vital that firms have Professional Liability coverage in place. Not having coverage can put a firm at risk. That’s why the Iowa State Bar Association (ISBA) partnered with Lockton Risk Services to develop the all new ISBA Insurance Program. Developed under the guidance of ISBA, the program offers the Professional Liability coverage Iowa law firms need to protect their practice at competitive rates that may not be available anywhere else.
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This is the Eighth Edition of the Iowa Land Title Standards. The purposes of the Iowa Land Title Standards are to encourage consistency among examining attorneys within the State of Iowa and to assist the examining attorney in the examination of abstracts of title.
The Iowa State Bar Association appointed a committee in 1941 to formulate and recommend the adoption of title standards. Fifty-seven standards were adopted in 1944. There are currently 99 standards.
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Thousands of members, their families and friends, enjoy State bar international travel programs offered at group rates. Two or more trips to exciting destinations are sponsored each year through Global Holidays. To obtain tour brochures and details about the latest trip, call 1-800-842-9023. www.gonext.com
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Iowa Workers' Compensation Decisions from January 1993 to present in a searchable database.
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