Sarah E. Merkle
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Articles
COVID-19: 3 Things Most People Get Wrong About Virtual Meetings
USA - March 20 2020 If you think your board and annual meetings are dull, I have just the thing to liven them up. Make them virtual! That’s right. For a small fee - or...
4 Things Most People Don’t Know About Nominations
USA - September 3 2019 If you make a list of problem-causing parliamentary procedure events, nominations and elections will be near the top. For some reason, groups tend to...
Can the Chairman of a meeting vote?
USA - April 17 2019 Here’s a common parliamentary procedure question: “Can the chair vote?” Robert’s Rules gives us some preliminary help on chair participation with a...
3 Facts You Must Know About a Point of Order
USA - April 3 2019 There are common mental images that go with the words “parliamentary procedure” or “Robert’s Rules.” One of them is a person waving his arm and...
How to Take a Vote in 5 Easy Steps
USA - March 20 2019 Chairing a meeting is harder than it looks. And at times parliamentary procedure doesn’t make that job any easier. Keeping track of what motion is on...
