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It
is available 24 hours per day.
It provides attorney contact information that is updated
several times weekly.
It has a live e-mail link.
It is only accessible to Association members.
"It" is the
Member Directory on our website at
www.arkbar.com.
The Member Directory was developed by our Website
Oversite Committee which wanted members to be able
to access up to-date contact information on individual
members, as well as see which attorneys in a specific
city in Arkansas (or another state) are Association
members. The directory includes a live e-mail link
for individual members, thereby enabling one to click
on that individual and send him/her an immediate e-mail
using your computer's e-mail software.
The member contact information
in the Directory is name, address, phone, fax and
email. Updates to your contact information
should be sent to Barbara Tarkington at this office
- btarkington@arkbar.com,
501-375 4606, 800-609-5668.
Minimizing. Some
members have the Member Directory minimized on their
computer screen during the day, opening a second Internet
browser for other purposes. In this way, they are
just one click away from contact information on attorneys
they want to reach.
Email addresses.
Members are getting better about giving us their email
addresses and updating them. We now have email addresses
for over 80% of our membership. We do not sell
or otherwise provide email addresses to other entities.
The Member Directory
as well as Arkansas VersusLaw are password protected
and thereby restricted to current members of the Arkansas
Bar Association. The first time you visit either of
these pages on the website, you will be prompted to
secure your password for future access. Please note
that you may change your password and that it is the
same password for both of these member benefits.
A helpful feature of
the password system is that once you have logged in
to either the Member Directory or Arkansas VersusLaw,
you may move in and out of the password-protected
page to other websites and come back without logging
in again, as long as your browser has remained open.
Supreme Court Number.
It is essential to remember that there is not a dash
(-) in Supreme Court Numbers. If you enter a
Supreme Court Number with a dash or any other extraneous
symbols, your log in attempt will fail.
Relocated Member
List and Organizational Directory. Our traditional
Membership and Organizational Directory has been discontinued,
saving $20,000. But it is now called the Member List
and is located, along with a separate Organizational
Directory, on our website - access it also from the
Member Directory link on the top menu bar. These are
PDF files which you may view and may download for
a printed copy. They are password protected also.
Caution. The
Member List and Organizational Directory are still
only prepared once a year in the fall. They are not
updated as is the online Member Directory, as explained
above.
www.arkansasfindalawyer.com
is your Association's online attorney directory
for the public. Participation is restricted to members
who pay the annual fee of $75. One of its features
is a link to your firm's website if requested. Contact
Barbara Tarkington for more information.
Lastly, please call
me if you have questions about any of these new benefits
and changes.•
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