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4 Docket Call 1 (1969)

handle is hein.journals/dcktcll4 and id is 1 raw text is: Published by 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 effectively serve the needs of the public. William J. Fuchs, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Chairman of the General Practice Section, and the Officers of the Council of the Section, appointed Richard H. Allen, of Memphis, Tennessee, to serve as Chairman of the Conference and Billie Bethel, Executive Director of the Tennessee Bar Associa- tion, to serve as Consultant thereof. The invited Conferees represented a cross- section relative to: (1) Geographical distribution, in that the sev- enty-nine attending Conferees were residents of forty-two different states across the Nation; (2) The size of the law firm in which each Conferee practiced, in that: nine Conferees were sole practidoners; fifteen were in two-member firms; forty-six were in firms having five members or less; and thirty-three were in firms of six members or more; (3) The size of town or city in which each Conferee practiced, in that: ten Conferees were from a city having a population of 5,000 or less; fifteen were from a city of 10,000 or less; twenty- Volume IV, Number 1 March, 1969 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 few were not, members of the ABA, and some have been active in the ABA. Twenty-nine Conferees were currently members of the ABA House of Delegates. Some have never served on an ABA Committee or belonged to a Section of the ABA. Approximately forty percent of the Conferees, although practicing lawyers, had never belonged to the General Practice Section. For two days the Conferees, in small groups, considered the various subjects hereinafter referred to in this consensus, following which the Moderators and Reporters assigned to each subject drafted a tentative consensus. On the third day, the entire assembly of all Conferees examined, discussed, and modified the tentative consensus as presented to them, and agreed upon this final consensus, which is published in full in this issue of Docket Call.

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