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10 Advocate (Texas) 1 (1991)

handle is hein.barjournals/adsbate0010 and id is 1 raw text is: State Bar Litigation Section Report The Advocate VOL. 10, NO. 1 MARCH 1991 rIGATION SECTION FICERS le W. Curry, Chairman I. Drawer 1249 rshall 75670 4) 938-4395 vid E. Keltner, Chairman-Elect )0 First Republic Bank Bldg. I Cherry t.,orh 76107 7)878-0629 phen E. McConnico, e-Chalrmran Congress, 15th Floor stin 78701 2) 476-6337 tnk R. Southers, Secretary 3 Villita n Antonio 78205 2) 225-5251 in F. Nichols, Treasurer X0 Post Oak Blvd., Suite 600 uston 77056 3) 966-4444 rrest Bowers, immediate st Chairman . Box 327 :)bock 79408 )6) 762-0863 UNCIL TMS EXPIRE 1991 Doak Bishop Ilas IgA Charles Gonzalez n Antonio rry Hicks Pas brielle McDonald stin Ben Whittenburg aumont RMS EXPIRE 1992 ui N. Gold Jlas 1P. Patterson stin niel V. Pozza n Antonio ily L. Rowley isritlo in E. Simpson Dbock RMS EXPIRE 1993 ea Conneliy uston her Souies, III n Antonio ige Alice Trevathan uston rrl Weatherby Griffith egview ula Sweeny slas WSLETTER: The Advocate itor-in-Chief fesor J. Patrick Hazel Iversity of Texas School of Law 7 East 26th Street stin 78705 2) 471-5151 CHAIRMAN'S REPORT The Chair relates that things are going so well with the section at this time that there is nothing to report. The next issue will contain a lengthy wrap-up of the section's year, since it will be the last issue under the present chair. The council meets the weekend of April 27th. This issue will not reach you before that meeting, but if you have any comments, suggestions, and the like for the section, please let your Chair know. EDITOR'S COMMENTS Thanks are due to those who responded to my pleas of help. However, don't rest too easy. We can still use some volunteers. The need is for suggested topics for issues and persons who would be good as special editors for those topics. The special editor is to solicit approximately four (4) short articles within the topic by persons considered especially good for those articles. For example, John (Jay) Nelson of Houston is the special editor for the next issue, and the topic is summary judgments. This issue has no special topic or special editor. One of the articles (the first) regarding the automatic sanctions under Rule 215.5 was not even a solicited article. It is basically a letter which Judge Baskin sent to Justice Nathan Hecht, the Supreme Court Advisory Committee, and the Administration of Justice Committee. As a member of that latter committee I received a copy of the letter. It struck me from reading the letter and the many comments I have heard about these automatic sanctions, that it was an important matter. Further, the letter was more than just a complaint. Judge Baskin obviously spent a lot of time and thought in writing it. I felt it was something of interest to the entire section and obtained his permission to reprint it in this issue. This serves to remind me that our section has a great deal of interest in the rules of civil and appellate procedure. A lot of work is being done in these areas with a view towards revision. Two working committees are of special impor- tance regarding this. The first is a committee appointed by the Supreme Court: the Supreme Court Advisory Committee. That committee makes recommenda- tions to the Supreme Court regarding the rules of civil procedure, appellate procedure, and evidence. Hence, they are very crucial in the process. The other committee is a State Bar Committee appointed by the president of the State Bar: the Administration of Justice Committee. This committee works only on the rules of civil and appellate procedure. Justice Nathan Hecht is the Supreme Court member appointed to work on these rules and serves ex officio on both these committees. Several areas are receiving some very important attention at the present: rules relating to discovery, summary judgment, and the court's charge are some of them. I hope all of you will read an upcoming article in the May issue of the Digitized from Best Copy Available The Advocate

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