User:Wanamaker4/Julene Franki

Julene Franki is the fourth executive director of ALI-ABA, a joint undertaking of the American Law Institute and the American Bar Association founded in 1947.

Career
As executive director, Franki is responsible for leading ALI-ABA and directing all of its activities. Since joining ALI-ABA in 2005, she has successfully completed a massive upgrade of all technologies related to creation, delivery and marketing of the organization’s national curriculum. In addition to its flagship multiday live courses, ALI-ABA now offers hundreds of live webcasts, over 2,000 hours of on-demand courses, an online library of all written materials and the Knowledge Portal, a customizable organization-wide CLE platform.

Prior to her work with ALI-ABA, Franki served as Director of Texas Bar CLE where she developed several award-winning programs. She also held positions as Professional Development Program Director and Director of New Projects for the State Bar of Texas. Franki ran a successful private practice focusing in Austin, Texas earlier in her career.

ALI-ABA
ALI-ABA provides post-admission education for the legal profession and is dedicated to keeping the legal community abreast of current developments and providing practitioners with the resources necessary to enhance their practice. ALI-ABA offers a national curriculum of continuing legal education featuring traditional substantive CLE courses, litigation and transactional skills programs, distance learning courses, published books and periodicals, online materials, customized solutions for institutions and in-house services for lawyers at every stage of their careers.

Awards and Honors
Franki has received numerous awards and honors for her work including the State Bar of Texas Gene Calvin Award for Excellence in CLE in 2004. She served as the co-chair of the Association for Continuing Legal Education (ACLEA)’s Executive Leadership Special Interest Group and the 2002 ACLEA Midyear Conference.

Affiliations and Education
Franki holds several professional affiliations including Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the Texas Bar Foundation, member of the State Bar of Texas, American Bar Association and the Association for Continuing Legal Education. She is certified as an association executive by the American Society of Association Executives. She earned a B.A. in history from the University of Texas at Austin and a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law.