Board receives favorable audit.

Although details won't be provided until its December meeting, the Bar Board of Governors has heard that the Bar has received a favorable audit for its 2004-05 fiscal year.

The Bar is also, consistent with a recommendation from internal auditors, setting up a committee to draw up a succession plan for senior Bar staff and, in light of recent hurricane devastation along the Gulf of Mexico and South Florida, studying the Bar's emergency preparedness.

Audit Committee Chair Clif McClelland told the board in October the committee had received the 2004-05 fiscal review from its auditors and was going over the findings. It will be ready for presentation to the entire board at its December meeting, he added.

An audit conducted last year on the Bar's internal operations recommended that the Bar begin preparing for the succession of its senior management, many of whom have been with the Bar for 20 or more years and are 55 or older, McClelland said.

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