The State Bar of Texas’ request proposal to settle the mandatory membership litigation is not pennywise, but it is certainly pound-foolish. To have our executive director spending time fighting refunds is not a justifiable use of the job’s $300,000 salary and benefits package. The battle will cost us incredibly more in dollars than the $100 refund. Even worse, it will further alienate conservative lawyers and others for exercising their beliefs. The State Bar of Texas is going in the wrong direction. We need to do our best to assist each of our 107,000 lawyers and make them feel valuable.