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10 Docket Call 1 (1975-1976)

handle is hein.journals/dcktcll10 and id is 1 raw text is: chairman's corner Frederick G. Fisher, Jr. Elaborate plans are now underway to make the 1975 Montreal Annual Meeting the best ever for the General Practice Section. Bill Power of Doylestown, PA is the Annual Meeting Program Chairman and is being ably assisted by Mel Bassi of Charleroi, PA. Mitch Miller of Philadelphia, PA is Annual Meeting Arrangements Chair- man and Matt Patton of Atlanta, GA is Vice Chairman. The headquarters for our Section will be the Windsor plans for montreal annual meeting Hotel which is located near the other large downtown Montreal hotels. It has adequate facilities for committee meetings, educational meetings and entertainment func- tions. Section activities will start on Friday afternoon, August 8th, with committee meetings. The announce- ments as to time and location will be made later. A cash Five hundred general practitioners in Kansas City, Missouri and as many more in Portland, Oregon, cannot be wrong. Our Section has found the way to bring the message and to teach the lesson of efficiency and economy to the solo and small firm practitioner in America. It has been done by adopting a formula, which, simplistic as it may seem, has eluded the great institu- tions which profit from continuing legal education. The experience of our Section has shown that continuing legal education must be for and by the lawyers. If continued on page 4 bar reception will be held in the Versailles Ballroom at 7:30 P.M. The Annual Reception for the Section will be held on Monday evening, August 11th, and promises to be one of the highlights of the Section's program. Our annual luncheon will be held on Tuesday, August 12th, and on Wednesday morning, August 13th, there will be a breakfast in honor of Jim Bierbower, our incoming Chairman. Several educational programs have been arranged and still others are in the planning stage. We are co-spon- soring two programs with the Insurance, Negligence and Compensation Section. One program deals with the technology of trial preparation and will cover such topics as the use of paralegals in trial preparation and application of computers and other electronic devices. It will feature speakers who not only will be interesting, but who also are experts in their fields. The other joint program with the Insurance Section will be an update of a program on Arbitration for the General Practitioner which Was so well received in Honolulu. Seth Rosner of New York, Chairman of the Class Actions Committee of our Section, is putting together a program on class actions which will undoubtedly be continued on page 10 Copyright © 1975 American Bar Association contents 1. CHAIRMAN'S CORNER PLANS FOR MONTREAL ANNUAL MEETING 2. PROPERTY DISTRIBUTION IN DIVORCE 5. QUESTIONNAIRE ON LAW OFFICE MANAGEMENT 8. CONSUMER CONTROVERSIES RESOLUTION BILL 11. WHAT'S UP * WHAT'S IN '~'AI I I U ~ L W~m~-M SECTION OF GENERAL PRACTICE * AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION* VOL. X* NO. 1* SPRING Produced by the ABA Press