Ask-a-Lawyer....WOW

The one word above describes how successful our new beginning was for the ASK-A-LAWYER program, held for the first time (and forevermore) at our own Tulsa County Bar Center. Allow me to elaborate: Many of you know that before this year, the OBA had ‘partnered’ with the OETA for over 30 years to help host and produce this program. For a variety of reasons, the OBA decided it was time to advance into the 21st Century with new ideas and technology. Our new ideas included a series of informative short 60 second videos that appeared on several social media platforms to help saturate our exposure to the public. These videos will become a permanent addition the various OBA social platforms and will be available all year round, not just on one day! For technology upgrades, we switched to a VOIP protoco, routing calls through iPads, and headphones with microphones for all eight stations we had set up. The OBA and TCBA own this equipment now, so we are no longer ‘borrowing’ space and equipment from anybody. The audio quality was the best in all of my 32 consecutive years being a part of the program. Our volunteer Attorneys all agreed on this aspect; it was as if the callers were in the room with us. Tulsa had eight phones in use, while OKC had only 4 in use. I venture to say we may have finally eclipsed OKC in the number of calls that came through the program. (A goal I have pursued for many years) Some special programming and software placed all the incoming calls into the ‘cloud’ where they were distributed on a pre-set basis with Tulsa always getting