Carlyn Poole CLE Volunteer of the Year (PHOTO)
Carlyn Poole was recently honored as the North Carolina Bar Association's CLE Volunteer of the Year. The Raleigh attorney accepted the award at the winter meeting of the NCBA Board of Governors and the NCBA Foundation Board of Directors which oversees the association's CLE program.
Poole served as author of the N.C. Family Law Marital Claims Book w/Forms CD (2004) First Edition. Her contributions of some 125 hours, the award nomination noted, were exclusively voluntary. The publication has become one of the best-selling CLE Bookstore offerings.
Carlyn Poole accepts CLE award from Gray Styers, left, and Mike Colombo.
NCBA President Mike Colombo joined CLE Committee Chair Gray Styers in presenting the award.
"Carlyn epitomizes the quality and spirit of what we should all endeavor to emulate in terms of service and dedication to our profession," Styers said. "Volunteers, like Carlyn, are the reason our CLE program has been so successful in the past and continues to be successful today."
Poole has been a member of the NCBA Family Law Section for more than two decades and served as its chair in 1985-86. A member of the Senior Lawyers Division, she practices in an of counsel capacity with Smith Tharrington LLP.
The domestic forms project originated several years ago when the CLE Committee sought input from the Family Law Section's Curriculum Committee. The inquiry ultimately led to Poole.
"Though we knew it would be a huge undertaking," a fellow section member and award nominator noted, "we were willing to do it if someone would step up to be the responsible person to shepherd it through. Carlyn Poole volunteered and enthusiastically tackled a project that required numerous hours on her part to arrange for contributors, coordinate chapters, proof and do quality control, etc. . . .
"No one else in the domestic area in North Carolina is more respected or has better credentials than Carlyn Poole. She is highly respected by all her peers. Without her presence, vision, labor and perseverance, the book would not have been produced."
The CLE Volunteer of the Year Award was established to recognize the exceptional contributions of the individual who contributed most significantly to producing and/or providing quality continuing legal education for the North Carolina legal community in a given fiscal year.
Criteria for the award reads:
- Member of the North Carolina Bar Association and, if an attorney, a member in good standing with the North Carolina State Bar;
- Planned, executed and/or spoke at an exceptionally high quality NCBA Foundation CLE program;
- Produced, managed and/or edited exceptionally high quality educational material, such as a deskbook, manual, formsbook, or CD-ROM; and
- Project was financially successful and ensured the long-term viability of the NCBA Foundation's CLE program.
Poole is only the second recipient of the award, preceded by Gary Whaley who was honored for his efforts as a managing editor of the N.C. Real Property Forms Book and Forms CD.
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