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From: Jeffrey Price <jeff@npw-law.com><br>
To: Weintraub, Lee <lweintraub@beckerlawyers.com>; Barry Kalmanson <bkpa1@aol.com>; SPence@cfjblaw.com <SPence@cfjblaw.com>; Reese.Henderson@gray-robinson.com <Reese.Henderson@gray-robinson.com>; rocco.cafaro@hwhlaw.com <rocco.cafaro@hwhlaw.com>; Robert.Doan@cobbcole.com <Robert.Doan@cobbcole.com>; rworman@wormanlaw.com <rworman@wormanlaw.com>; dvega@tevtlaw.com <dvega@tevtlaw.com>; cwright@carltonfields.com <cwright@carltonfields.com>; sam@kirwinnorris.com <sam@kirwinnorris.com>; fred@fcbarneslaw.com <fred@fcbarneslaw.com>; leiby@mkpalaw.com <leiby@mkpalaw.com><br>
Sent: Wed, Apr 10, 2019 10:55 am<br>
Subject: RE: CLC -- lobbyist issue<br>
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<div class="yiv9628581396MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(47, 84, 150); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Big Idea is out there. Now let’s take a look at just what is involved in creating a new “Section.”</span></div>
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<div class="yiv9628581396MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: rgb(47, 84, 150); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Money</span></b><span style="color: rgb(47, 84, 150); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> – the Bar will require money. I recall when certification started,
we had to “guarantee” a minimum dollar income to the Bar which was termed a “nominal” $66,000 the first year if we wanted to go forward and that was when they
<i>wanted us to go forward</i> because they were pushing certification. Section operations will require continuing funds well in excess of any nominal amount. How much? The “new Section” will require staff (money). Outside sponsors will be needed (simply look
at the current Section web site and understand there are companies that pay money to curry favor. What incentive do they have to split their “contributions”? Finally, Pete Dunbar’s of the world cost money. Paper, computers, costs and more costs. But let’s
say money is no object, what next?</span></div>
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<div class="yiv9628581396MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: rgb(47, 84, 150); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Time
</span></b><span style="color: rgb(47, 84, 150); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">– The new Section will require significant time input from a core set of members at start-up. You and your staff will spend many hours. Not the occasional phone conference,
but hours upon hours setting things up, getting approvals, contacting people and doing the grunt-work. You, Mr. and Ms. Lawyer will do this because only you have the weight and political capital to do many necessary things – and you will be told “no” a lot.
Big picture ideas are great, but people with weight need to do the grunt work. I was part of the original class for board certification pre-2005 and even being on the periphery was a time sink. And that was when everyone was on board. I am older now and time
is not in abundance, but younger people exist. But let’s assume time is unlimited, what else do our heroes need?</span></div>
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<div class="yiv9628581396MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: rgb(47, 84, 150); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Political Will</span></b><span style="color: rgb(47, 84, 150); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> – The creation of any new thing in any large organization
requires overcoming institutional inertia. Change is difficult for people to accept who are simply onlookers or isolated members. It is the people holding power who are reluctant to share or release it and they have innumerable means to stifle change. They
may accommodate power-sharing if they believe it is in their best interests, but voluntary relinquishment of power with no benefit is unthinkable. What benefit (or harm) will come their way by “letting my people go”? We can look to all of biblical and political
history for examples – Jews? Lutherans? India? Brexit? The nuts and bolts are easy to turn compared to altering an entrenched machine.
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<div class="yiv9628581396MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: rgb(47, 84, 150); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Membership</span></b><span style="color: rgb(47, 84, 150); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> – Existing members; Where do they stand? Is a new section
in their best interests? How many competing agendas are there? Surety lawyers, contractor lawyers, insurance defense, homeowner lawyers, subcontractor lawyers, developer lawyers, rental equipment lawyers, material and supplier lawyers, and that’s just scratching
the surface. Presently all these conflicting interests are diluted and can be “attacked” “blunted” “reasoned with” “amplified” or “ignored” in a large group. In a smaller group, perhaps not so much. By consolidating power you must guard against extremism.
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<div class="yiv9628581396MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: rgb(47, 84, 150); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Summary</span></b><span style="color: rgb(47, 84, 150); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> – Can we do better in promoting our concerns? Can we do so
internally? Yes. We can. Concerns about our interests can be amplified by our existing leadership and if they are non-responsive, you can vote; either with your feet or your voice. Or, as Lee not so subtly put it, start your own section and leave mine alone.
That is not a dig at Lee, it is a reasonable statement read in context with his other missives and it is most apparent that he (and I) see “Time” as more valuable to us and neither of us see the benefit outweighing the cost – yet (I do not speak for Mr. Weintraub,
this is my take on his position and he will correct me I am sure). </span></div>
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<div class="yiv9628581396MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(47, 84, 150); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I too welcome any effort to expand the reach and power of the Construction Law group and will not stand in the way of change/growth. But I have very little inclination
or time to invest in something unless I see both a broad advantage and a reasonable plan.
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