Dan Rawls the executive director for the Eastern Tennessee and Utah regions of BNI sent a process server to a recent meeting of RLI's Seveirville chapter to serve them with a lawsuit. BNI's director is seeking a temporary restraining order to prevent these Americans from meeting to exchange referrals that provide income for their families. It also ask's that they not be allowed to meet for any reason whatsoever and that they be bared from doing business with current BNI members including those that are apart of their same companies. This move by Dan Rawls shows how threatened our competition is by RLI's massive growth. Instead of making their product better to retain current members they have chosen to bully, intimidate and seek to place fear in the hearts of their former members. ALL current BNI members that have EVER signed the leadership non-disclosure form should be fearful that if they ever chose to leave BNI and join another organization that they too could be subject to a lawsuit. Be sure to contact your local BNI director and ask that your form be destroyed and then send a written request that the form be destroyed, then consider resigning your position. You want it made very clear that you refuse to be subject to this one sided over reaching non-compete forms, that you are a volunteer and if forced to will resign from the organization.

RLI is defending the rights of these heroic members in court. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers.