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14 Unauthorized Prac. News 1 (1948)

handle is hein.journals/uaplw14 and id is 1 raw text is: UNAUTHORIZED PRACTICE NEWS A Current Review of Bar Activities to Curb the Unlawful Practice of Law Published by the American Bar Association Committee on Unnuthorized Practice of the Law, 1140 North Dearborn St., Chicago First Quarter 1948 Vol. XIV, No. 1 Otterbotirg Addresses Inter-American Bar Association at Lima, Peru At the Fifth Conference of the Inter-American Bar Associa- tion held at Lima Peru, November 25 to December 8, 1947, Edwin M. Otterbourg, Esq., of New York, formerly Chairman of the American Bar Association Committee on Unauthorized Practice of Law, gave an address on the suppression of unauthorized prac- tice of*law in the Americas. Mr. Otterbourg pointed out that in the history of the formation of governments in the Americas it has been the lawyers who have led the thoughts of their peoples and have crystallized these thoughts into acceptable laws. In the administration of its laws the public must be served by capable, honest and upright judges and administrators, on the one hand, and no democracy can long exist unless there be a vigorous, courageous and independent Bar as well. In any country, Mr. Otterbourg stated, any man - however humble - should have the right to seek and obtain the protection of the law, and to be represented by a capable lawyer who will protect his interests without fear and with undivided loyalty. This duty and responsibility of the lawyer to the individual citizen is the bulwark of the liberties of that individual. Consequently, it has long been recognized that lawyers should be selected by reason of study, attainments, education and character. The ideals of the legal profession are high. The lawyer who is unworthy of them is cast out by his fellow practitioners. The importance of the lawyer