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4 Docket Call 1 (1969)

handle is hein.abarchive/dockcalog0004 and id is 1 raw text is: Publishedby Section of General Practice American Bar Association THE CONSENSUS OF THE FIRST NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CURRENT PROBLEMS AFFECTING THE PRACTICING LAWYER Chicago. Illinois January 22-24. 1969 PREFACE On January 22-24. seventy-nine practicing lawyers. active in their profession and community. met in Chicago. Illinois. for the First National Conference on Current Problems Affecting the Practicing Lawyer. conducted under the auspices of the Gen- eral Practice Section of the American Bar Association In this era of myriad social changes and with the many pressures and demands being exerted upon the legal profession, the General Practice Section believed it was imperative that a group of American law- yers be assembled for the purpose of studying and discussing how% the legal pro- fession can most effectisely serse the needs of the public. William J Fuchs. of Philadelphia. Pennsylarnia. Chairman of the General PractiLe Section. and the Officers of the Council of the Section. appointed Richard H1 Allen. of Memphis. Tennessee. to serve as Chairman of the ( onference and Billie Bethel. Executive Director of the Tennessee Bar Associa- tion. to serve as Con sultant thereof The inmited ( onferees represented a cross- section relative to (II Gogrhical distribution. In that the set- enty-nine attending (onferees were residents of forty -two different states across the Nation. 2 1The slic of the laws firm II which ea&h Conferee practiced. in that nine Conferees were sole praLtitioners. fifiteen w ere in t %k o-ieniber firms forty-six wkere in firms hasing fic inenbers or less and thirts-three were in firms Of six nienihers or more. (3) I he si/C Of townri or .itN in which each Conferee pratiLeed. in that ten Conferees w &ere from a cit% has inrg a population of 5.000 or less. fifteen were from -I city of 10.000 or less. twentsi- four were from a city of 30.000 or less, and fifty-one were from a city of 100.000 or less. and twenty-eight were from a city of over 100.000 in population Many of the Conferees were. and a fewk weie not. members of tle ABA. ard some hase heen actise in the ABA 1enty-nine Conferees were currently members of the ABA House of Delegates Some have never served on an ABA Coninittee or belonged to a Section of the ABA. Approximately torty percent of tihe Conferees. although practicing lawyer . had never belonged to the General Practice Section I or two days the Conferees, in snall groups. Lolisidered the sarious sublects hereinafter referred to iii this consnsus, followsirig wshich the Moderators arnd Reporters assigned to each subject drafted a teritatiae consensus. On the third dad. the entire assnibls of all Conferees examined. discusscd. and Modified tle tertatise conSmi sns as presented to thneii. aid agreed upon this final consensus. whiich is published in fill in th4s issne 0. /)ut ( ill Volume IV, Number 1 March, 1900