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1972-1973 Law Notes 1 (1972-1973)

handle is hein.journals/lnyoung9 and id is 1 raw text is: LAW NTS Fall 1972 Volume 9 Number 1 JOURNAL AND NEWSLETTER PUBLISHED BY YOUNG LAWYERS SECTION, ABA CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN 1972-73 A Year of Challenge The Young Lawyers Section is on the move! This year we are motivated to project the Section even further in its struggle to provide meaningful service in the public interest. Over the past ten years the Section has matured from a body of little substance to an organization which truly has put the energies and knowl- edge of the Young Lawyer to work with tangible results. As evidence of this, we move forward this year with thirty-one committees; two of which are completely new, and some of which have or will have new assignments. Although our bud- get is still insufficent to fund adequately all of our innovative ideas, our committees will be sustained by the largest budget in the history of the Section. Thus, the great success demonstrated in our National Drug Abuse Educa- tion Program; the High School Law Programs; the POW/MIA Family Relief legislative effort; the National Volunteer Parole Aide Program and The Prison Law Reporter, to name a few, has been recognized now by our Board of Governors. Regardless of our progress, our work is not yet done and great care must be taken to insure that we do not rest on the success of these wide- ly acclaimed programs. This year we have formed a Task Force for Disaster Emergen- cy Relief. The project will in- volve a joint effort of the Section and the U.S. Office of Emergen- cy Preparedness (OEP), establish- ing a nationwide network of law- yers ready to respond immediate- ly with legal assistance to those affected in the event of National Disaster. We hope to have the pro- gram in full swing before the close of 1973. Our Election Law and Youth Voting Rights and Respon- sibilities Committee has expanded its involvement this year. It will assist a nonpartisan, nonprofit, youth voter registration organiza- tion by providing Young Lawyers on the local level, willing to advise young people who encoun- ter legal problems in the registra- tion process. What is our corollary goal this year? None of our ongoing or new efforts can maintain or achieve any degree of success without improved communica- tions among, and increased in- volvement by, our members. As you will observe from this issue of Law Notes, we have broad- ened our communications by ex- panding the cover sheets. These cover sheets have been designed to serve as a newsletter in order to provide our membership with a view of what our committees are doing and to promote an exchange of ideas among the committees and our members. I have long felt that our Section (now numbering approximately 58,000 Young Lawyers) requires more than quarterly communica- tion with its members; thus, we hope to spin off the expanded cover sheets into a separate news- letter which will be mailed to our members between the quarterly issues of Law Notes. This year I have appointed a committee to study the commu- nication problems existent be- tween the Section and its local affiliated organizations. This committee is also charged with the responsibility of involving and engaging our affiliates and their members in projects spon- sored by the Section. Increasing communications among and involvement by our members in the work of the Section is a momentous task, due to our vast numbers and the diverse spread of our members. Hopefully, increasing communi- cations will have the effect of involving people. This year we will also embark upon an Associ- ation sponsored, Young Lawyer membership campaign. The ob- ject of this campaign is to have each active member produce a potentially active new member of the Section. We expect the end result to produce more ac- tive rather than passive members. (Continued on page 3)

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