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2017 KBA Survey - Non Private Practitioners 

Welcome

Dear Colleague:

YOUR participation in the 2017 Economics of Law Practice Study is very important, and we greatly appreciate your assistance. YOUR information matters and will make a HUGE contribution.

Regardless of your membership status in the KBA, we address critical needs and concerns of both PRIVATE PRACTITIONERS and NON-PRIVATE PRACTITIONERS.

This questionnaire is designed for non-private practitioners  only and takes only 15 minutes to complete. If you are a private practitioner, please Click Here to receive the appropriate questionnaire.

You may leave the survey and return later to complete it as long as you use the same computer. Your anonymity and confidentiality is assured. Don't forget to enter our drawing for a $250 Amazon Gift Card.

We look forward providing a full report of findings this summer (downloadable at no charge to you) though the Kansas Bar Association.

Thank you.

Steve Six, President
Kansas Bar Association

NEED HELP?

You may contact the survey administrator, Dr. Lawrence Stiffman, at 734-417-5151 (Eastern time zone) in Ann Arbor, Michigan or email him at aslinfo@aol.com.


1.Please indicate where you maintain your principal office:
2.Please indicate your:
3.Please indicate if you are:
4.If you practice part-time, please indicate the primary reason:
5.Please indicate your current primary occupation/ work classification.
6.How many PERSONS are active in the immediate office in which you work (not the whole agency or corporation)?

7.Please click on the field of law/practice area representing your primary source of income. (You can type in additional areas not listed.)

Practice Area
Field of law
8.In your current position, about how many hours
PER WEEK do you engage in the following:
9.About how many HOURS/YEAR do you engage in:

10.Please indicate your current and previous involvement in the following activities:
Yes, currently
Yes, previously
No
Membership in your local chamber of commerce
Board member of any non-profit corporation
Board member of any for-profit corporation
Serving as an elected public official
Servicing as an appointed public official
Active in local and state general bar association
Active in local or state specialty bar association
Active in state,local, or national professional organizations
11.Please indicate your 2016 taxable income derived from legal work. If you worked for only a portion of 2016, please annualize the figure (e.g. If you worked 6 months and earned $45,000, enter $90,000.)
If applicable, indicate the AVERAGE CURRENT (SPRING 2017) wage (excluding any year-end cash bonus) for ASSOCIATES, PARALEGALS/LEGAL ASSISTANTS and SECRETARIES by years of experience: (Please omit $.)
12.Associates
13.Paralegals/Legal Assistants
14.Secretaries
15.Please indicate how often paralegals /legal assistants perform the following:

Routinely
Sometimes
Rarely or Never
General office/clerical work
Drafting of pleadings
Legal research
Drafting of correspondence
Interviewing witnesses and clients
Draftng of discovery requests and responses
Trial preparation and attendance
Analysis and summarization of documents and factual situations (i.e., medical records, employment records, depositions)
16.Is there a pay differential among legal assistants/paralegals with two years and four years of training compared with high school graduates only?
17.Please indicate the school you attended as a law student:
18.If you borrowed money to attend school:

19.About how many more years of payment do you have?
20.If applicable, are you on deferral in paying off your educational debt?
21.What are your sources for on-line legal research?

Primarily
Sometimes
Never Used
Casemaker
Fastcase
LexisNexis
Lois Law
Justia
Find Law
Westlaw
22.Please indicate your usage of the following:

Currently in use
Under consideration
Formerly used but dropped
Never used
iPhone/tablet
Droid phone/tablet
Blackberry phone/tablet
Windows phone,tablet
Mac computer
PC
Trial presentation software
Skip tracing software
Accounting software
Time & billing software
On line CLE
Remote desktop software
Document assembly/ automation software
Electronic calendaring
Voice recognition software
Scanner
eDiscovery software
MS Word
WordPerfect
YOUR PERCEPTIONS ON THE KANSAS ECONOMY
23.Please indicate how you feel about YOUR personal work load:
24.Please indicate how you feel about the number of attorneys in the community in the areas in which you practice:
25.Compared to prior years, current economic circumstances surrounding YOUR legal work are:
26.What do you think the circumstances will be in 2018?
27.How much satisfaction do you get from practicing law?
28.I see the future of law practice in my organization as:
29.How likely is it that you will switch practice areas in the next two years?
30.Please indicate the degree to which the following creates job stress:

Very Much
Somewhat
Very Little
Not Applicable
Insufficient current income
Competition in your legal market
Cost of health insurance
Insufficient level of health insurance benefits
Insufficient level of retirement benefits
eFiling time and effort
Time and effort managing workload
Time and effort managing employees
Techonological requirements and know how
Office/bureau politics
General political environment
General judicial environment
Unauthorized practice of law
Dealing with difficult clients
Dealing with government agencies
Professionalism
Various diversity-related stressors
31.Are you a member of the Kansas Bar Association?
32.If you are a KBA member, does your organization pay your dues?
33.We welcome your feedback. Please use this space for any comments, issues or concerns you may have.
34.You are done! To enter the ASL-conducted random drawing for the $250 Amazon Gift Card , just provide contact information (a nickname or first name, along with a home or friend's phone and/or an e-mail) into the box. This information will not be entered into the database used to generate your report. Good luck!


Please now click SUBMIT to transmit your responses. Thank you.
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