I am writing a review as a speaker who has done a number of presentations for NBI. The honorarium is too low. The work put into being a speaker is substantial. NBI wants prose material, and then if you want to do a powerpoint, that is additional preparation. This is why I don't do a powerpoint in addition. No payment for mileage or travel time. I can't afford to speak anymore for NBI. Also, I did a panel presentation in Peoria last year and was shocked to learn when I arrived that I was the only attorney on the panel, so I had to lead all topics, although initially I chose/was assigned only a few of the topics for submission of materials. None of the participants, or the NBI monitor knew how the panel was supposed to run. I never received a critique from participants, as to what they thought, but it was a bad experience for me after driving so far to do the presentation. The only value to me as a speaker was obtaining CLE credit, but it is less expensive for me to just attend CLE sessions for hours.