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Meet the Executive Director of Contra Costa County Bar Association: Lisa Reep | LawCrossing

published April 12, 2023

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Lisa Reep is the Executive Director of the Contra Costa County Bar Association (CCCBA). She has spent the last two decades working in legal service organizations, specifically in the areas of legal education and advocacy.


Reep began her legal career as a law clerk in the Contra Costa County Superior Court. She then transitioned to a position as the Executive Director of the Modesto Bar Association. In 2000, she was appointed Executive Director of the CCCBA, where she has remained ever since.

Reep's primary role at the CCCBA is to ensure the organization is meeting its mission of supporting the legal community and improving access to justice in the county. She is responsible for managing CCCBA's financial and program operations, overseeing staff, collaborating with local judges and court leaders to support legal services, and coordinating the organization's many activities and initiatives.

Reep's success in this role has been recognized with awards from various organizations and institutions. She has received the California Women Lawyers Equal Access to Justice Award, Contra Costa County Bar Association Barristers' Recognition Award, and the Beaumont Travis Inn of Court Excellence in Community Service Award.

Lisa Reep is a respected Executive Director at the Contra Costa County Bar Association (CCCBA). For the past two decades, she has been working in the legal service sector, managing financial and program operations and overseeing staff. In addition, Reep has been recognized with multiple awards, including the California Women Lawyers Equal Access to Justice Award, the Contra Costa County Bar Association Barristers' Recognition Award, and the Beaumont Travis Inn of Court Excellence in Community Service Award.

At the CCCBA, Reep is focused on assisting the legal community and providing better access to justice in the county. She has achieved this through her efforts in coordinating the organization's activities and initiatives, collaborating with local judges and court officials, and implementing measures to ensure the CCCBA is fulfilling its mission. Lisa Reep's admirable work as the Executive Director of the CCCBA has been duly recognized by various organizations, institutions, and members of the legal community.
 

Lisa Reep - Executive Director Of Contra Costa County Bar Association

For the past five years, Lisa Reep has served as the Executive Director of the Contra Costa County Bar Association. Under her leadership, the Association has grown significantly and expanded its membership to include a wider range of attorneys. The Association has also been able to increase its public education and community outreach efforts.

Prior to joining the Contra Costa County Bar Association, Ms. Reep had a long and successful career in private and public law practice, which included roles as an assistant district attorney, a court administrator, and a county supervisor. She also taught law classes at the University of San Francisco. She has served on the boards of many noteworthy Bay Area organizations, including the Boys and Girls Clubs of Alameda County, the Oakland-Alameda County Bar Association, and the California Women's Law Center.

In 2008, Ms. Reep was honored to be included among the “Top 50 Women Leaders” by the San Francisco Business Times. This award recognizes the important contributions that women make to the legal profession in the Bay Area. Ms. Reep is well respected in the San Francisco legal community, and she is frequently called upon to serve as a keynote speaker at legal conferences and other events.

The Contra Costa County Bar Association has seen an increase in membership since Ms. Reep was appointed as Executive Director. She has shown great dedication to the organization's mission to promote access to justice and has actively worked to increase public understanding of the law. Ms. Reep has also been instrumental in enhancing the Association's professional development programs, which have helped to cultivate the next generation of lawyers and legal professionals.
 

Innovative Leadership Of Lisa Reep For Contra Costa County Bar Association

For five years, Lisa Reep has served as the innovative Executive Director of Contra Costa County Bar Association, dedicated to provide access to justice for her community. She has an extensive background in public and private law practice, having served as an assistant district attorney, a court administrator, and a county supervisor. Ms. Reep has served on boards of various charitable organizations, and in 2008 was included among the 'Top 50 Women Leaders' by the San Francisco Business Times in recognition of her contributions to the Bay Area legal profession.

Under Ms. Reep's leadership, membership of the Contra Costa County Bar Association has substantially grown, enabling them to expand their public education and community outreach initiatives. She has also been instrumental in increasing the Association's professional development activities, helping to cultivate the future of the legal industry. Ms. Reep has been a popular keynote speaker at many law conferences, and her efforts have helped to raise awareness around the importance of access to justice.

<<Lisa Reep thought she always wanted to be an attorney - until she went to law school. That experience lasted just one night.

She had paid the tuition and bought the textbooks despite nagging doubts. She hadn't taken the LSATs because she planned to attend a night law school in Santa Barbara. Because it wasn't an ABA-approved law school, she didn't need the LSATs.

"I really didn't have a sense of what I was getting myself into," Ms. Reep said. "And the first class just struck me - I don't want to go to law school."

That was that. Soon after, Ms. Reep left her job as a courtroom clerk and Spanish interpreter at the municipal courts in Santa Barbara and moved to San Francisco. She had a bachelor's degree in social sciences and wanted a legal career, but she wasn't interested in going back to school and she didn't want to be a legal secretary.

"I kept my eyes wide open thinking I would get a terrific job," she said. "And I found after looking very hard for a number of months that without a law degree and without a willingness to be support staff as a legal secretary, there really weren't a lot of legal jobs available in the legal field."

Ms. Reep, 45, ran into a friend by chance in San Francisco who told her the American Arbitration Association was looking for a case administrator. Ms. Reep applied for the job and got it. She loved the work, but as in many non-profit organizations, the money was terrible.

She worked a second job at night, running the tanning salon at a 24-hour fitness center while she worked her way up the ladder at the American Arbitration Association from 8 to 5. From 6 to 11, she worked at the gym. Eventually she became the director of education, planning and administrating continuing education classes and she left the tanning salon.

"It was fun, it was social," she said of the tanning salon. "I was young then, in my twenties. I had the energy to have two jobs."

Ms. Reep, who studied Spanish throughout college and completed an immersion course in Mexico, says speaking two languages has helped in her career, particularly with so many people in the United States speaking Spanish as a first language.

Her background in planning continuing education courses at the Arbitration Association helped her land the job as executive director of the Contra Costa County Bar Association, which offers various courses to its 1,650 members.

Ms. Reep said many small and medium sized bar associations are run by non-attorney executive directors and that people interested in a legal career with a bar association should join the association or apply for support positions within the organization.

She has been the executive director of the association for ten years.

"It's very varied, which is probably what keeps me interested," she said. "It's like running a small business. You have all of the personnel and bookkeeping responsibilities. And you also have all of the membership responsibilities. Like a trade association, we have a big service component to what we do as well so I deal with our board of directors, I deal with our committee chairs, section leaders, and staff that handle the different programs that we run. And I deal with committees and sometimes the press."

It's a voluntary bar association and most of the members are solo practitioners or from small firms. The association gives them a chance to network with their colleagues in other firms.

Ms. Reep said the executive director job can be a "lonely position."

"There's nobody other than other executive directors of bar associations who really understand your job," she said.

But the executive directors are a tight knit group and members of Executives of California Legal Associations, or ECLA, gather often to swap stories and advice.

Ms. Reep, who moved to California from Colorado at 17, said networking is a big attraction for the members of the Bar Association and that membership has been growing. The association offers specialized courses in various areas of law.

"We also have a really great relationship with our local bench," she said. "There are a lot of opportunities for our bar members to interact with the judges. I think that for litigators that's pretty important. And also to have an opportunity to socialize with them, to the extent that judges can, so that they build some collegiality."

The association offers online courses, but Ms. Reep says the classroom based classes are more popular. Attorneys in California are required to have 25 hours of continuing education, recently reduced from 36 hours.

"I think people like coming personally to programs, because they like to see people and have some interaction," she said.

Ms. Reep said she was "lucky" to get her job because the opportunity arose at a perfect time in her career when she had the experience and the desire to take on a new challenge. She urged job seekers to keep an open mind and be willing to consider unexpected opportunities.

"You know, the year before I got my job I wouldn't have dreamed of doing what I'm doing now," she said. "And that applies to my position at the American Arbitration Association as well. So just network, network, network and be open to things that you hadn't previously considered."

published April 12, 2023

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