VBA members have exclusive Access to Fastcase, a comprehensive on-line research library featuring Vermont state and federal court decisions, statutes, codes, rules of procedure, state agency decisions, advisory ethic opinions and much more.
VBA members have access to a huge library of materials from twenty-eight other states, including every New England jurisdiction. Also included in the library are United States Supreme Court and Circuit Court of Appeals opinions, and a complete collection of state supreme court decisions.
Members access Fastcase through the VBA’s site, using their User Name and Password to enter the Fastcase Web Library. The search engine is as fast and permits natural language and Boolean searching.
Clio is the most widely-used, cloud-based practice management system in the world. Every day, tens of thousands of lawyers use Clio to schedule meetings, organize cases, track time, and invoice their clients. Accessible from your Mac or PC, Phone or Tablet, Clio allows lawyers to take control of their practice from any device, in any location, at any time. Clio even integrates seamlessly with other popular applications like LawPay, Dropbox, Quickbooks Online, Gmail, and Office 365.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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)
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.
TurboLaw is a legal document and time and billing software used by thousands of attorneys for over 20 years. TurboLaw provides thousands of smart legal documents and court forms for most common areas of law at your fingertips. TurboLaw also offers a simple way to track time, bill your clients easily, and get paid quickly. For more information and a free 14-day trial, visit www.turbolaw.com.
Members of VBA are entitled to a 10% discount on the first license valid for one year. Please use the code VBA to take advantage of this offer. Let TurboLaw help you earn more money, get more clients and get home on time.
ABA Publications Discount Program: Your Vermont Bar Association membership entitles you to a 15% discount off the list price of any of the American Bar Association’s more than 300 titles, whether or not you’re a member of the ABA. It’s easy to do. Shop at the ABA bookstorewww.ababooks.org. Use the VBA purchase Promo Code PAB9EVTB when making your purchase and the 15% discount will be applied to your total
The Vermont Bar Association has partnered with KnowledgeWave to offer our members a special tuition rate for its Log on to Learn web based service that provides software training through video, step by step tutorials and quick reference guides. This system was designed to compliment traditional classroom training in the modern corporate environment, self-paced, low cost and available anytime, anywhere.
