Welcome, Massachusetts Bar Association!
InternetBar.org was formed nearly two years ago to promote a trusted online community that will work to increase access to justice worldwide and a conversation that connects people without regard to place, time, nationality, culture, or any other barrier to rich interactions among those with similar goals. We have moved in this direction with two Cyberweek programs and participation in many international meetings by our President Jeff Aresty. Most recently, we have launched the InternetBar.org Institute: http://iboinstitute.org, our educational supporting organization.
This week, the Massachusetts Bar Association (MBA) has become the first organization to endorse and co-sponsor our courses within the Institute. We are particularly excited to begin this collaboration with the MBA because many of IBO’s founders have roots within the MBA and Massachusetts has a history of leadership in new ideas and entrepreneurship in the United States (and the Colonies before statehood). Leaders of the MBA, including its President Mark Mason and Executive Director Marilyn Wellington, see this collaboration with IBO and its Institute as a means of helping its members to become better users of internet technologies, of promoting international collaboration between the lawyers of Massachusetts and those from other nations and cultures, and of promoting online dispute resolution and access to justice.
This is an important step for IBO that we hope will be replicated with other bar associations as the work of InternetBar.org and its Institute gain recognition for our work across the world and involving those in the developed and developing world. We hope you will join InternetBar.org and join us in these efforts to open the world for justice and access to our legal systems.
All the best,
Susan B. Waters, EDM
Executive Director