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16 Miss. Law. 1 (1969)

handle is hein.barjournals/misly0016 and id is 1 raw text is: ABA Board Picks Site For Legal Insurance Project, Approves Due Increase The Board of Governors of the American Bar Association has selected the site for the first experiment in prepaid legal cost in- surance, and also approved a proposal calling for an increase in Association dues effective July 1, 1969. The Clackamas County Bar Association (Ore.) will conduct the pilot project to test the feasibility of providing legal services in- surance to the public comparable to private health care insurance. Cooperating in the program are two union organizations repre- senting 1,100 employees in the paper, pulp and sulphite industries. The Clackamas Bar was authorized to apply for a foundation grant to underwrite the cost of the three-year program which may begin Jan. 1. ABA will provide up to $10,000 for administrative costs. Specific legal services to be covered will be agreed upon by the co-sponsoring organi- zations. All 55 lawyers in the county, which is adjacent to Portland, have agreed to participate in the program. The Board unanimously approved the dues proposal which will now go before NUMBER 1 The Mississippi Judiciary Commission By Mary Libby Payne The 1968 session of the Legislature created a Judiciary Commission charged with the overall responsibility of making a complete survey of the judicial system of Missis- sippi and obtaining statistical information with reference to case loads of the various courts in Mississippi; conducting research relating to improvement of the judicial system in the State of Mississippi; and making a comprehensive study of the judicial system of the State for the purpose of the improvement thereof. There are 10 specific areas of inquiry and a final one involving such other changes or revisions as will improve the efficiency and quality of the judicial system ... . This provision for a comprehensive study of Mississippi's judicial system is the culmination of many years of work and thought by the Mississippi State Bar and many Lawyers serving on its committees. The Commission is made up of ten mem- hers: the Chairman, Chief Justice W. N. Ethridge, Jr., eeeted by the State Supreme the ABA House of Delegates at the Associa- tion's Midyear meeting in Chicago in Jan- uary. The increase would be scaled from $2 annually for new admittees to the bar to $10 for members in practice 10 or more years. Sustaining members, who voluntarily elect larger dues payment, would pay $100. A Board subcommittee, headed by Treasurer Joseph H. Gordon, of Tacoma, Wash., said the increase was imperative in the light of expanding services programs of ABA and inflationary factors. It would be the first dues revision since 1964. FEATURED at the recent Corinth banquet in honor of U. S. District Judge Orma R. Smith, Sr., were, from left, Sen. Theodore Smith, Judge Smith, U. S. Sen. James 0. Eastland and U. S. District Judge William C. Keady. (Photo by The Daily Corinthian.) Court en banc; Chancellor Michael L. Carr, Jr., elected by the chancery judges; Judge Darwin M. Maples, elected by the circuit judges; James Finch, District Attorney, ap- pointed by the Governor from the elected district attorneys; W. B. Greene and W. P. Veazey, laymen appointed by the Governor; Sen. W. B. Alexander and Sen. Jesse L. Yancy, appointed by the Lieutenant Cover- nor from each of the two judiciary commit- tees of tha Senate ond Rep. Horace I. (Sonny) Merideth, Jr., and Rep. Ney M. Gore, Jr., appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives from the two judiciary committees of the House. Judge Carr was elected by the Commission to serve as vice chairman. In its September meeting the Commis- sion heard from Dr. Donald Vaughan, Di- rector of the Bureau of Governmental Re- search, University of Mississippi, in regard to such assistance as his organization might render to the Commission in making govern- mental surveys. Other avenues for gaining comparative studies from the other states were explored, along with other business of the Commission. The next meeting was held in connection with that of the Conference of Mississippi Judges, where the Commission received many helpful suggestions as to areas of need which should be considered in the Commission's program of work. In the October 30th meeting the Commis- sion studied the personnel and methods needed to be employed to obtain the data and make the statistical surveys from which to base recommendations. During November the Commission se- lected as its Executive Secretary Mrs. Mary Libby Payne of Brandon, Mississippi, an attorney of more than 13 years experience in the practice of law and the Legislative Draff*~ fm i the House of Representatives .(.Contiunxe&tr&n Page 6) VOLUME XVI Official Monthly Publication of the Mississippi State Bar JANUARY, 1969