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Better Because You Were There

Velvet Chainsaw

A number of our consulting clients have made social responsibility a cornerstone of their conference strategy — with the desire “to leave the host city better because we were there.” This was shortly after the killings of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, in 2012, and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014.

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Ferguson Suits Target Police Records, Crowd Control

Associations Now

Arguing that authorities in the St. Louis suburb haven’t been forthcoming with public records and evidence about last week’s fatal police shooting of an unarmed black teen, the National Bar Association is suing to gain access. . “We want to ensure the family of Michael Brown and the residents of St.