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​​​​​ The Electric Cooperative Bar Association (ECBA) offers electric cooperative attorneys a variety of exclusive benefits​ to help you become your system's trusted resource for electric cooperative legal issues:

  • Annual Discount on NRECA Legal Seminar Registration: Members receive a $100 discount on their NRECA Legal Seminar registration fees. As the only seminar designed specifically for electric cooperative legal professionals, attending the NRECA Legal Seminar annually will keep you up-to-date with the latest information on the most complex legal matters affecting electric co-ops.
  • Email Discussion List: Your emailed question instantly reaches nearly 800 fellow cooperative attorneys nationwide. You get answers quickly; no more telephone tag and guesswork about who has the expertise you seek on an important legal issue.
  • Online Document Library: A unique library of articles, sample agreements, and other helpful legal and regulatory documents–​like the Bylaw Revision Guide–for electric cooperatives that can be quickly and easily downloaded from the web site.
  • Online Learning: Participate–FREE–in web programs addressing the industry's hottest topics.
  • NRECA Legal Seminar and G&T Legal Seminar Archives: Couldn’t attend a past NRECA Legal Seminar or G&T Legal Semianr? Reseaching a topic for your cooperative client? Search and download presentations from the most recent NRECA Legal Seminars (2012-present) from the Archives or review the Legal Seminar Index and request chapters from any past Legal Seminar–FREE!
  • Online Membership Directory: Search for a colleague by name, state, even by the cooperative they represent! Need a cooperative attorney in Minnesota with tax expertise? Find one quickly with the Online Membership Directory.​
  • Networking Opportunities: ECBA offers great opportunities for networking with both fellow attorneys and cooperative CEOs twice annually during the NRECA Legal Seminars.

The ECBA Annual Meeting is held in conjunction with the NRECA Legal Seminar, providing ECBA members and Legal Seminar guests an opportunity to network in a casual, social atmosphere. ECBA is supportive of statewide networking as well, and can help organize such activities.​

Paralegal members receive all of the benefits listed above, except that they will not be able to send or reply to email on the ECBA email Discussion List​.

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