Member Benefits

VLex Fastcase

Fastcase, the legal research platform available to you as a member benefit, has recently been upgraded to vLex Fastcase, a new legal intelligence and research platform. vLex Fastcase includes everything you currently have access to, plus unique features that enhance your productivity and provide greater insights into legal matters. VBA members have exclusive Access to Fastcase, a comprehensive online research library featuring Vermont state and federal court decisions, statutes, codes, rules of procedure, state agency decisions, advisory ethics opinions, and much more.

To learn more about vLex Fastcase and find out how to access this new free legal research resource, visit: vlex.com/vlex-fastcase

Please Click HERE for a vLex Fastcase overview

CLE Resources

The VBA has substantial resources to help members meet their MCLE requirements, including a significant discount on in-person, on-demand, and digital CLE courses.  Offerings also include Ethics, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, as well as Wellness credits.  Our Association meetings provide unmatched opportunities for Vermont attorneys to mix and mingle with legal professionals and judges from around the state several times a year.

CLE Tracker

The VBA CLE Tracker is a FREE tool designed to track and record your CLE credits. If you attend a VBA CLE, it will automatically populate in your Tracker, and you have the option to manually add other MCLE credits for a convenient and quick reference for relicensing and reporting.

VBA Members’ portal and Online Directory

Through the VBA members’ portal, you can keep your member profile up-to-date as as well as have 24/7 access anytime, anywhere, from any device to our online VBA Directory of attorneys with:

• Real-Time Updates: Changes to contact information are made in real-time, ensuring the online directory is always current.
• Search Functionality: Members can quickly find others by name, firm, specialty, languages spoken, or location.
• Quick links to court and other information

The online directory can be printed by selecting the “Advanced Search” option and leaving all filters blank. Click the “Search” button to see the option to “Print Directory.”  You can also save the searchable PDF file to your computer.  If you need assistance, don’t hesitate to get in touch with our office at info@vtbar.org.

Vermont Bar Journal 

The Vermont Bar Journal is an exclusive member benefit available to all members, contributing to lawyers’ professional growth and informing readers about what’s new and happening in the Association. It also includes substantive law articles, the standard President’s Column, and the Pursuits of Happiness, which features legal professionals’ interests outside of practicing law, as well as Be Well articles. The Vermont Bar Journal is distributed both digitally and in print.

VBA Pulse

Delivered directly to your email each month, The VBA Pulse offers information about upcoming CLE offerings, news, events, and member benefit details.

Sections and Divisions 

Build your network in a community that will help you advance with our substantive law sections and divisions, including our Government and Non-Profit Section.  Our substantive law sections and divisions are essential communities of practice that provide networking, knowledge, and collaboration opportunities to enhance the practice of law.

VBA Connect

Utilize invaluable networking opportunities through VBA Connect, our online community. Each of our VBA sections and divisions hosts an online community on VBA Connect. These online communities are an excellent way to exchange referrals, share best practices and news, ask questions, and stay informed about legislative activity.

Legislative Advocacy

The VBA’s legislative affairs is your voice at the Capitol.  Our legislative team works diligently to enhance the practice of law and improve the administration of justice.  As a member, you can help shape the legislative agenda.  Keep abreast of what’s happening through our Legislative Updates and VBA substantive law section communities.

VBA Job Center

The VBA Job Center is your one-stop resource for legal jobs in Vermont.

Social Media 

Stay up-to-date with your Association through our social media platforms (Facebook, Linkedin, X, and our VBA Blog).

VBA Office 

The VBA staff prides itself in answering the phone personally, providing friendly and resourceful attention to our members’ needs.  Contact us anytime at 802-223-2020 or info@vtbar.org.

The VBA Conference room is available to all members.  If you need space for a meeting, just email us at info@vtbar.org to schedule.  The conference room is equipped for remote meetings using the Meeting Owl multi-camera video conferencing solution.

Opportunities to Serve

The Vermont Bar Association has several opportunities for our members to serve the Association and your legal community, including serving on the VBA Board of Managers, being a chair/co-chair of a section or division, participating in commissions or committees, as well as opportunities to serve on Vermont Bar Foundation Committees.  If you are interested in any of these opportunities, please complete this FORM.

Affinity Partners

ALPS is legal insurance made easy! Founded by lawyers for lawyers in 1988, ALPS offers comprehensive malpractice and business insurance solutions making it easy for you to protect your entire firm. As the Vermont Bar Association’s endorsed carrier, they understand how valuable your time is. That’s why the ALPS insurance application is flexible, easy, and 100% online. Apply, review your quote, accept and pay in as little as 10 minutes. Apply Now.

Visit alpsinsurance.com/vermont to discover how ALPS can support your Vermont law firm.

Clio – The #1 Practice Management Software

Clio is the world’s leading provider of cloud-based legal technology, trusted by 150,000 legal professionals in 130+ countries. As the industry’s only end-to-end software solution, Clio centralizes client intake, case management, document automation, payments, accounting and more—powered by AI on its unified platform. Recognized by 100+ bar associations and law societies globally, Clio has the most 5-star reviews of any legal practice management software.

Redeem your Vermont Bar Association* discount below and schedule a demo to begin working in Clio today!

Redeem your discount

*Clio is a legal technology solution recommended by the Vermont Bar Association. Members of Vermont Bar Association receive a 10% discount on Clio products, excluding Clio Draft.

ABA Members Retirement Funds Program

Built by lawyers – powered by pros, the ABA Retirement Funds Program has been providing flexible, tailored retirement plans exclusively to legal community, for nearly 60 years. Our structure allows your firm to focus on the success of the practice while we provide the highest standard of fiduciary protection afforded to an individual retirement plan, reducing your fiduciary risk. Through our purposeful innovation we provide an investment platform with options to allow for optimal choice and flexibility for your participants and a fully bundled service model, custom designed to meet the unique needs of your firm, to help you and your plan participants learn more, save more and worry less. And we offer all of this at a competitive price whether you are a solo practitioner or a large legal organization. Through the unique culture created between the ABA Retirement Funds and our service providers, it is the mission of the Program to help every law firm, lawyer and legal professional to and through retirement. Call us at 781-796-9059 for a free consultation or visit abaretirement.com for more information.

Professional IT Support

As a member of the Vermont Bar Association, you understand the importance of protecting your clients’ sensitive information and keeping your practice running efficiently. At Technology Consultants, Inc., we specialize in IT Consulting, Cybersecurity, and Technical Support—and we’re offering VBAR members a special reduced rate of $148/hour (regularly $168/hour). ✅ No management contract required ✅ Just mention you’re a VBAR member when you call ✅ Get expert help when you need it—on your terms ✅ Even better rates available when you become a Managed IT Client With over 38 years of experience and a proven track record of keeping law offices secure and operational, we understand what’s at stake when your systems go down—or worse, get breached. Let us be your trusted technology partner—efficient, secure, and responsive. 📍 Technology Consultants, Inc. 589 Avenue D., Suite 30 Williston, Vermont 05495 📞 (802) 865-4409 Email: law@tcivt.net 🌐 www.TCiVT.net/lawfirms/ Mention your VBAR membership and secure your discounted rate today.

Credit Card Processing

Trust your transactions to the only payment solution recommended by over 60 bar associations.

Correctly safeguard and separate client funds and trust and operating accounts.  Funds are never commingled.

The ability to accept credit cards attracts clients, improves cash flow and reduces collections.

Plus, members save  up to 25% off their credit card processing fees.  If you are considering accepting credit cards or want to confirm that you are processing credit card transactions correctly.

Call 866-376-0950 or visit https://lawpay.com/vtbar/

Insurance

Since the early 1990’s Pinnacle Financial Corporation has partnered with the Vermont Bar Association to provide the VBA membership with a wide range of insurance products.  Benefits offered include, but are not limited to, health insurance, vision, dental, life and disability.  Pinnacle Financial also offers unique healthcare funding strategies and an exclusive prescription drug purchasing product that can save as much as 40% of your prescription drug costs.  Pinnacle  Financial is also certified in long term care and Medicare supplements.  Pinnacle Financial represents the Vermont bar membership, not an insurance company.

Timothy Clain
Phone:  802-773-2617
tclain@financialguide.com

Vision Services Plan

 

The Vermont Bar Association along with our partner, Tim Clain from Pinnacle Financial Corporation is pleased to announce a second Vision Insurance coverage option for your consideration. With the increase in costs for everything these days, Tim and VSP will be able to offer a plan with an increase in the eye contact allowance, frame allowance and will be introducing a new benefit called VSP Lightcare. This is a built in provision offered to VBA membership exclusively at no additional premium. This would allow for a $200 allowance for the purchase of non-prescription blue light filtered sun glasses instead of prescription sun glasses or contacts every 24 month. Any family member can take advantage of this added benefit including children. This additional VSP option can be purchased for an additional cost as little as $.50/mo. for a single individual. The paperwork to move from your current plan to the updated plan or to purchase for the first time is simple. For more information call Tim at 802-773-2617 x202, or e-mail him at tclain@financialguide.com.

Timothy Clain
Phone:  802-773-2617
tclain@financialguide.com

Law Firm Consulting Services

Red Cave Consulting provides DISCOUNTED business management consulting services for Vermont Bar Association member attorneys.  Red Cave has consulted with 3000+ law firms in the past 10 years.  Put our experience to work for you.

Contact Jared Correia at 617-398-7181 jared@redcaveconsulting.com

Read More about Red Cave Consulting HERE

Real Estate Closing Software

Easy Soft real estate closing software will revolutionize the way you handle closings. With Easy Soft you can automate redundant tasks, close 70% faster, reduce risk and work anytime, anywhere. Easy Soft real estate software has been the trusted source for real estate attorneys nationwide for over 30 years.

All you need is a device (laptop, tablet, PC or smartphone) and an internet connection to access and work on any of your real estate closing matters.

Members save 25% off your first year*

Easy Soft real estate closing software includes:

• The most commonly used closing documents
• 1099-S Reporting and Filing
• Centralized data entry
• Automatic calculation of tax prorations, government recording charges, projected payments and cash to close
• Ledger Balancing
• Title Searching
• Integration with popular software programs, including Dropbox, RynohLive, CosmoLex and InfoTrack

For more information please visit https://www.easysoft-usa.com/ and check out the 14-day free trial option. Or call 1-800-905-7638 and use Code VTBAR at initial purchase to receive your 25% off first year discount*.

*Available to new subscribers only.

Shipping Services

UPS is pleased to help members save time and money through special services and shipping discounts.  We put the power of logistics to work for you every day by providing speed, outstanding reliability and technology tools so you can focus on your business – not your shipping.

http://www.savewithups.com/vba/

Investigative Research

Tracers, the #1 trusted cloud-based public and private records software and TechnoLawyer “Top 10 Products of 2020,” provides law firms access to an online database of over 43 billion records from over 6,000 sources. With Tracers, attorneys can have the confidence of utilizing the most comprehensive public and proprietary database to complete their legal research.

– Skip tracing to locate people (witnesses, beneficiaries, parties for legal action)

– Relationship linking

– Asset and address search

– Research businesses

– Perform due diligence

– Check for conflicts and much more!

Vermont Bar members receive 10% off all Tracers search services. Start your free trial today!

https://bit.ly/3cv0JFw

(877) 723-2689

sales@tracers.com

Solo & Small Firm Practice

The Vermont Bar Association is partnering with Solo Practice University® to offer its members a preferred discount on tuition when they enroll as a semi-annual or annual student. Solo Practice University® is the only online educational and professional networking community designed to help lawyers and law students create and build their solo and small firm practices.

VBA members get an exclusive discount to Solo Practice University where you will find more than 1200 individual classes from more than 60 faculty on the 360 degree experience of opening a solo/small firm practice.  Network with similarly situated solo/small firm practitioners from across the U.S. and globe who are choosing to build a thriving 21st century law practice. You will also receive a free one half hour law practice management consultation to help you through challenges in your practice when you enroll as an annual student.

Going solo doesn’t mean going it alone.  The VBA and Solo Practice University® will help you to succeed.

http://solopracticeuniversity.com/vtbar/