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14 Am. B. News 1 (1969)

handle is hein.journals/ambrnw14 and id is 1 raw text is: VoL 14, No. I I January, !969 Midyear Sessions of House Open Year of Decisions on Issues Facing the Profession and Public in '70s Sessions of the House of Delegates in Chicago this month will tilt the lid on what promises to be an event- f il year in bar affairs. The last months of this turbulent decade will see the Association and the organized bar in the full swing of an enlarging leadership role in activities bearing on problems that will confront the profession and the nation in the 1970s. These activities cover a wide range. They embrace such professional issues as specialization, ethics and discipline, and group legal services. In the public sphere What Your Association is Doing An itemized list of current major programs and ser- vices of the American Bar Association appears on Pages 10 and 11 of this annual Summary of Activities issue of the News. It reflects the increasing range of the Asso- ciation's activities. they include modernization of electoral processes and housing laws, and the charting of legal courses in such uncharted fields as undersea and outer space explora- tions and human organ transplants. In between will be scores of other activities that will be dealt with by Sections and Committees of the As- sociation, and which will be on the agenda of the House of Delegates at the 1969 Midyear meeting Jan. 27-28 and at the annual meeting in Dallas Aug. 11-15. Ethics Code A High on the Association's agenda for 1969 is final work on the proposed Code of Profes- sional Responsibility. T1he Special Committee on Evaluni ation of Ethical Standards has completed a tentative draft of the Code for scheduled distribution this month. The draft reduces the former 47 Canons to nine, cou- pled with Disciplinary Rules and Ethical Considera- tions designed to adapt professional ethical standards to modern conditions of law practice. The Code is ex- pected to go to the House of Delegates for considera- tion of adoption during the annual meeting. Midyear Issues A At its meeting in Chicago this month the House is scheduled t consider recommenda- tions dealing with auto accident reparations (See Page 18 for details); a proposal to seek equality for the self- employed under the Internal Revenue Code; a call for ABA cooperation in implementation of a significant new Department of Health, Education and Welfare program to provide legal services to welfare recipients; recommendations of the Special Committee on Special- ization; proposals relating to group legal services; and a model rule to allow law students -to provide certain legal internship services. Continuing Projects A Meanwhile, other Association programs are continuing. These include: the Minimum Standards for Criminal Justice Project which is ex- pected to produce new proposals for the annual meet- ing; the Section of Criminal Law project to implement the minimum standards proposals on a state by state basis; the efforts of the Special Committee on Housing and Urban Development Law to set up pilot projects designed to determine the role of lawyers in improving the nation's housing; implementation of ABA pro- posals to provide for direct, popular election of the President and Vice President of the U.S., and comple- tion of work on a Uniform Probate Code, The Section of Natural Resources Law already has held an ABA National Institute to explore the problems of undersea law in international waters and now has a committee specifically assigned to this area, The Sec- tion of International and Comparative Law will ask the Ho-;usS to urUf. ratification of a convention relating to astronaui recue and return of space objects And -i the- oi~ ee to Cooperate with the American Medi- cal Assd~t~on has scheduled a medicolegal symposium including discussion of human organ transplants for March 13-15 in Las Vegas. Session of the 297-Member House of Delegtes

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