url(r'^$', StaffListView.as_view(), name="staffmember_list"),

class StaffListView(ListView):
    model = StaffMember
    queryset = StaffMember.objects.order_by('order').all()

    def render_to_response(self, context, **response_kwargs):
        # Shim to affect the CMS Toolbar only
        if self.request.toolbar and self.request.toolbar.edit_mode:
            menu = self.request.toolbar.get_or_create_menu('staff-list-menu', 'Leadership')
            menu.add_sideframe_item(u'Seniority List', url=reverse('admin:staff_seniority_changelist'))
            menu.add_modal_item('Add new Seniority', url="%s" % (reverse('admin:staff_seniority_add'), ))
            menu.add_break()
            menu.add_sideframe_item(u'Staff List', url=reverse('admin:staff_staffmember_changelist'))
            menu.add_modal_item('Add new Staff Member', url="%s" % (reverse('admin:staff_staffmember_add'), ))

        return super(StaffListView, self).render_to_response(context, **response_kwargs)

class View(object):
    """
    Intentionally simple parent class for all views. Only implements
    dispatch-by-method and simple sanity checking.
    """

    http_method_names = ['get', 'post', 'put', 'patch', 'delete', 'head', 'options', 'trace']

    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
        """
        Constructor. Called in the URLconf; can contain helpful extra
        keyword arguments, and other things.
        """
        # Go through keyword arguments, and either save their values to our
        # instance, or raise an error.
        for key, value in six.iteritems(kwargs):
            setattr(self, key, value)

    @classonlymethod
    def as_view(cls, **initkwargs):
        """
        Main entry point for a request-response process.
        """
        # sanitize keyword arguments
        for key in initkwargs:
            if key in cls.http_method_names:
                raise TypeError("You tried to pass in the %s method name as a "
                                "keyword argument to %s(). Don't do that."
                                % (key, cls.__name__))
            if not hasattr(cls, key):
                raise TypeError("%s() received an invalid keyword %r. as_view "
                                "only accepts arguments that are already "
                                "attributes of the class." % (cls.__name__, key))

        def view(request, *args, **kwargs):
            self = cls(**initkwargs)
            if hasattr(self, 'get') and not hasattr(self, 'head'):
                self.head = self.get
            self.request = request
            self.args = args
            self.kwargs = kwargs
            return self.dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs)

        # take name and docstring from class
        update_wrapper(view, cls, updated=())

        # and possible attributes set by decorators
        # like csrf_exempt from dispatch
        update_wrapper(view, cls.dispatch, assigned=())
        return view