The Minnesota State Bar Association promotes the highest standards of excellence within the legal profession, provides valued resources to its members, and strives to improve the law and the equal administration of justice for all.

The Minnesota State Bar Association will improve society by developing professional excellence among its members and will be a leader in the state of Minnesota in achieving effective and equal justice for all.

The values that guide the Minnesota State Bar Association and its members are:

• Professionalism. Conducting all of our affairs with the highest proficiency, fiscal accountability, professional discipline, leadership, and moral courage.
• Service. Fulfilling our obligation to our members, the profession, the courts, and the public.
• Integrity. Being ethically uncompromising and earning trust by matching our actions to our words and accepting accountability and responsibility.
• Respect. Respecting the law and individual rights through honoring diversity, human dignity, and equality.
• Innovation. Developing and implementing innovative programs and valuable services to our members.
• Excellence. Demanding and delivering quality in everything we undertake.

The MSBA will be the most comprehensive, reliable, and accessible source of information for members on substantive and procedural developments in Minnesota law, and will provide high quality services and programs that assist members who practice law.

Strategies

• The MSBA will be a leader in providing quality and low-cost programming that regularly informs members about developments in Minnesota law
• The MSBA will provide remote accessibility to members for a majority of its training and education programs
• The MSBA will significantly increase practice-oriented services and resources available to members
• The MSBA will develop or strengthen programs to provide support for members in small firms or solo practices

The MSBA will be a powerful voice in advocating for improvements in the law, respect for the rule of law, and for the quality of and access to Minnesota’s justice system.

Strategies:

• The MSBA will strongly advocate for adequate funding of the justice system, ensuring an impartial judiciary, and full access to the justice system.
• The MSBA will strongly advocate before the legislature and courts for excellence in laws and regulations
• The MSBA will advance and protect the interests of Minnesota’s legal profession

The MSBA will embrace and foster diversity in all its forms.

Strategies:

• All programs and organizational policies of the MSBA will strive to foster diversity
• The MSBA will increase membership among lawyers in underrepresented populations, including personal characteristics, geography, or practice type
• The MSBA will evaluate member services to ensure offerings that are of value and interest to diverse constituencies within its membership

The MSBA will articulate the value of the MSBA as a powerful voice for the profession, vigilant advocate for a quality justice system for all Minnesotans, and an essential partner assisting members’ practice

Strategies:

• Messages and membership recruitment and retention tactics will be informed by data gathered from demographic information and research regarding members’ and prospects’ needs, interests, and program usage.
• The MSBA will develop a comprehensive communications strategy that best delivers information to members and includes communication through social media and interactive online channels
• The MSBA will aggressively pursue increasing its membership base

The MSBA’s organizational structure will reflect excellence in governance, deft and appropriate decision making, and transparency and accountability to members.

Strategies:

• The MSBA will increase the involvement of new, previously unengaged, and diverse members in the Association
• The MSBA’s structure and processes will be analyzed and if necessary, reorganized to allow for effective and streamlined decision making
• The MSBA will use objective criteria to evaluate MSBA programs and services each year relative to the resources and other opportunities available to the Association and its members
• The MSBA will discontinue programs and services that are not directly related to the MSBA’s mission or that provide the least value to its members
• The MSBA will strengthen its relationships with sections
• The MSBA will strive to develop and retain a quality staff that is competitively compensated, actively engaged in professional development, and has the resources they need to achieve their responsibilities and goals

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