New Orleans conference brochure

Through its educational programs, mentorship opportunities, and business development resources, the Group Legal Services Association (GLSA) improves access to affordable legal services by creating support for legal services plan industry members. GLSA provides its members with unique benefits including: • Up-to-date regulatory and industry information • Self-promotion and volunteer opportunities • Ability to connect with a mentor in the group legal services industry • Educational programs, including teleconferences, webinars, other online media and our annual national conferences • Access to the Universal Application, which connects attorneys to Plan Administrators and opens those attorneys to new clients

New Products Support the Improved RDA Toolkit - Blog Article/Press Release

With RDA Toolkit currently in use in over 60 countries across 6 continents, the revised RDA and redesigned Toolkit will have a global impact. ALA Digital Reference Director James Hennelly explained that “with the new site now live, we will focus on educating users about the Toolkit’s features and how to maximize its benefits for their institutions. We will also continue collecting feedback from our user community and striving to make the Toolkit better suited to their needs.” Mary Mackay, Associate Executive Director, ALA Publishing, added that “ALA Publishing is proud to work with our co-publishers in Canada and the UK, as well as contributors from all over the world, to publish and support this standard, which has important implications for global cataloging in the digital age. The switchover to this updated version is an exciting moment in the history of RDA.” To assist users in adopting the revised RDA, ALA Publishing is offering three major print and electronic educational resources this year.

The People for Whom Erin Popovich Fights

It’s a December evening at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas. A special crowd of San Antonians and many others from across the US have donned their best cocktail attire and sock hop shoes to dance the night away to top hits of the 1950s. Interactive attractions capture all eyes, making the multigenerational guests nostalgic for the era of Rock & Roll, DooWoop, and Motown. Everyone can still taste the fine dinner prepared by San Antonio’s top chefs Andrew Weissman, Pieter Sypesteyn, and Manuel Aredondo. What’s dominant on everyone’s minds, however, is not the catchy tunes or the upscale dinner. This is not the holiday party to end all holiday parties; it’s The Golden Era of EP, a fundraiser benefiting the Erin Popovich Endowment and its mission—to promote access, empowerment, and research for patients living with interstitial lung disease and for their oft-forgotten caregivers.

CHEST Daily News October 2019

As an advanced practice nurse in the division of pulmonary medicine at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Laura Miske, MSN, is committed to illuminating the dangers facing technology-dependent patients every day. On Wednesday, Miske, chair of the session, and her co-presenters will shed light on the unique issues presented by one apparatus through the session Management of Tracheostomy: Before Placement, Before Home, and During Emergencies at 3:45 pm in room 262 of the convention center. Miske sat down with Daily News to discuss issues in educating caregivers about tracheostomies, in anticipation of her session.

Press Release - ARAG's Jean Clauson Named President of Group Legal Services Association

DES MOINES, Iowa, June 8, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The Group Legal Services Association (GLSA), a nonprofit corporation dedicated to advancing access to quality legal services through legal services plans and industry collaboration, announced today that Jean Clauson of Des Moines, Iowa, has been elected its 2017-2018 president. Clauson, Network Development Manager at ARAG® – a leader in legal insurance — has been a member of GLSA for seven years and was elected to its Board of Directors at GLSA's A

The TMIC Test for Too Much Information and Creativity

Republished from my blog and business site at www.theprecociousurchin.com. If you’re not old enough to remember that one of the most internationally beloved figures of the early 1990s was an African-American teenager who invented groundbreaking technologies for the express purpose of pleasing his neighbor and unrequited love on the South Side of Chicago, then you’re probably young enough to have heard Jay-Z and Kanye West compared to him as inner-city innovators. The unlikely cultural icon was

Five Minutes with Matthew Kraft - APPAM Professional Member - APPAM News - News | APPAM

APPAM’s new Five Minutes with… series is being introduced today to illuminate the work of individual APPAM members, and promote connections between members based on their shared interests. The opportunity to be profiled on our website and social media through these interviews is an exclusive APPAM member benefit! Enjoy this first interview in the series with Matthew Kraft, a Brown professor and father of two with aspirations to photograph Petra.

Association Newsletter - Professional Member News and Opportunities | May 2019 Update

Eviction data collected by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University provides a picture of housing instability across the United States, with especially high eviction rates in some urban regions in the south. In this webinar, participants will be introduced to ongoing policy-relevant research based in Richmond VA, Lexington KY, and Kansas City, MO. Experts will discuss how evictions, and more broadly, forced moves, are simultaneously a result, cause, and indicator of urban inequality. Evictions h

John E. Grant Interview: The Agile and Lean Approach to the Practice of Law

Entitled “The Agile and Lean Approach to the Practice of Law,” this teleconference was an interview of John E. Grant (The Agile Attorney Network) by Host Tom Martin (LawDroid) and sponsored by GLSA. Just a few of the topics covered during the 45 minutes interview include: • Defining the agile and lean business management methodologies • Tactics and strategies for implementing agile and lean in your practice • Examples of using agile and lean approach to optimize your effectiveness • Resources