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12 Prob. & Prop. 1 (1983-1984)

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Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law  American Bar Association     Vol. 12. No. 1, Summer -1983


                                 Chairman's Report


by Malcolm A. Moore


   This is my second and final message to Section
 members. The year has gone quickly; it has been
 both a busy and satisfying one for me and, I believe,
 the Section.
   I should begin with reporting to you on the work
 by our committees this year. In my last message I
 described at some length how our committee system
 had been restructured in an attempt to provide a
 greater opportunity to those Section members who
 really wanted to work to do so, and to increase
 overall committee productivity in terms of articles
 for this publication and for our Journal. As you all
 know, we have just about completed our restructur-
 ing, having just finished choosing our committee
 members for the next two years based on responses
 to the committee preference questionnaire sent out
 this winter. The result, as we had expected and
 hoped, is committees of more manageable size,
 hopefully consisting of those who really want to
 work. We have also carefully reviewed committee
 leadership and made changes where we thought
 them appropriate. This current year, of course, we
 have also been operating with somewhat smaller
 committees than in the past, and I believe this has
 helped productivity during the year.
   As objective proof of this, fifteen Real Property
Division committees have prepared and submitted,
or will shortly submit, articles for publication in
either the Journal, Probate and Property, or both.
Thirty-three Probate and Trust Division commit-
tees have either published or shortly will publish ar-
ticles for one or both publications. There are some
committees in each Division, of course, whose
primary function (such as the Group B Committees
in the Probate and Trust Division) is not necessarily
to publish articles, but to monitor federal legislation
and regulations. I find these results encouraging,
and conclude that they represent the beginnings of a
return to hard work and high productivity by the
majority of our committees.


   One special committee which has been very ac-
tive this year is our Forum Committee on Rural
Lawyers and Agribusiness, co-chaired by Council
members Steve Cowan of San Francisco and Bill
Haught of Little Rock. The committee has held
three colloquia in different parts of the country, the
purpose of which was to determine how best the
committee can carry out its stated purpose of plac-
ing rural lawyers, and those having an agribusiness
practice, in a better position to advise their clients in
the real property, probate and trust fields. The
committee's activity was recounted in some detail in
the last issue of Probate and Property. The commit-
tee's next step will be to form subcommittees to carry
out programs which have been identified as being
consistent with its goals. The committee's work has
brought into the Section a large number of lawyers
who have not before been involved in ABA work,
much less associated with the Section. This benefit
is, of course, incidental to the primary purpose of
the committee's task, which is to bring Section
resources to bear on the unique problems facing this
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