The American Bar Association operates largely through "Sections" that focus on types of law or law-practice (e.g., the Section of Litigation, the Section of Labor Law, the Section of Business Law).  In turn the Sections are divided into "Committees".  The Cyberspace Law Committee (with 1700 members) is part of the Section of Business Law (with about 60,000 members); from 2002-2005 I had the privilege of helping this energetic group by serving as its chair.

I chair the ABA’s Standing Committee on Technology & Information Services, and am a member of the editorial board of Business Law Today.  From 2005-2009 I served on the ABA Standing Committee on Law & National Security and on the 20-member governing Council of the Section of Business Law.

Past ABA President Karen Mathis asked me to co-chair her Second Season of Service initiative (2006-07), and served in that role through the end of its second bar year. The next ABA President, Bill Neukom, then asked me to apply some of our Second Season website expertise to his World Justice Project initiative, on which I participated through 2008.

Selected ABA publications and writings:

-- The Cyberspace Committee's monthly e-newsletter, MIRLN, is discussed and reprinted here.

-- Vince's 2002 book (co-authored with David Doubilet) "Employee Use of the Internet and E-Mail" is available through the ABA here.

-- "Share the Wealth -- What ‘knowledge management’ could mean to your legal department" (ABA's Business Law Today, Nov/Dec 2003) is here.

-- "Legal Department 'Knowledge Management' Systems And Good Corporate Governance" (ABA's CIPerati Newsletter, July 2005)