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20 B. Rep. 1 (1991-1992)

handle is hein.barjournals/breport0022 and id is 1 raw text is: Washington, D C. Permit No. 8655 Vol. 20/No.1 August/September 1991 The Official Newspaper of the District of Columbia Bar Bar's CLE program sets major institute on environmental law Key officials at the Environmental Protec- tion Agency, the Justice Department, and Congress will join lawyers in private prac- tice as presenters at the Institute on Federal Environmental Law: Current and Future Trends in Regulation, Enforcement, and Corporate Management for Institutional Counsel. Set for Nov. 14-15 at the Willard Inter- Continental Hotel in Washington D.C., the Institute is sponsored bythe D.C. Bar/George Washington University Continuing Legal Education Program. It is the second major institute held by the Bar/GWU CLE program since it began as a joint venture last July. The program's first institute was held earlier this year on the subject of federal procurement fraud, There has neverbeen a time when the job of in-house environmental corporate counsel has been more complex and demanding, explained the institute's organizers. The conference will provide corporate counsel with a comprehensive approach to problem solving in the most difficult, inter- related environmental legal and management problems of our times, conference literature said. The conference willbe co-chairedby David T. Buente of the firm of Sidley & Austin, former chief of the Environmental Enforce- ment Section of the Environmental and Natu- ral Resources Division of the U.S. Justice Department, and Joan Z. Bernstein, vice presi- dent of Environmental Policy and Ethical Standards of Waste Management, Inc. The cost of the conference is $595 for D.C. Bar members and alumni of the GWU Na- tional Law Center and $625 for others. Dis- counted hotel and air fare rates are available for conference registrants. For more infor- mation, contact the GWU Office of Confer- ences and Institutes at 202/994-7238. A TOWN MEETING of law firms participating in the Bar's Pro Bono Attorney Recruit- ment Team (PART) provided valuable feedback on the program for the Bar's Public Service Activities Corporation Review Committee, chaired by Stephen Pollak, stand- ing. Pollak moderated the discussion, held during the Annual Meeting of the PART Program. All of the PSAC's programs are in the process of reevaluation to insure they best meet the needs of the community and the legal profession. Bar salutes PART firms, seeks input on ways to improve its public services Recognizing that every organization has room for improvement, the D.C. Bar's Pub- lic Service Activities Corporation (PSAC) sought the counsel of some of its outstanding lawyer volunteers to learn how it can better meet the pro bono representation needs of the community. At the annual meeting of the PSAC's Pro Bono Attorney Recruitment Team (PART), participating law firms took part in a town meetingwhere they candidly discussed ways to improve the six-year-oldprogramdesigned to match the community's pro bono needs and the legal profession's talents. The meeting was moderated by Stephen Pollak, chair of the Bar's PSAC Review Committee which is undertaking a compre- hensive examination of how the PSAC uti- lizes its more than $500,000 in annual voluntary contributions. The panel is seek- ingto determine whatPSAC's mission should be and how that mission should be carried out, Pollak has said. 'The Bar is looking at how we spend our money and how best to spend our money. We want to engage you to express yourselves to issues thatarerelative to this effort, said Pollak. The purpose of PART is to solidify and expand the Bar's pro bono efforts-not the Bar as an organization, but the Bar as indi- vidual members. The Judicial Conference has adopted standards for pro bono service as one case or 40 hours each year. The PART program's objective is to see this standard is met. We want to see how well PART is working, Pollak told the group. Among the issues discussed by participat- ing firms were case screening procedures, ways to avoid conflict of interest problems, and ways firms could provide additional sup- port to limited staff resources. Pollak said all the suggestions would be considered by the PSAC Review Committee before it submits it's report to the Bar's Board of Governers. Awards presented at the PART meeting were: PART Pro Bono Coordinator of the Year: Maria L. Olsen of Dow, Lohnes and Albertson. Contributing Firm Awards: Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld; Dow, Lohnes & Albertson; HeidenianCardin, P.C.; Hogan & Hartson; Mayer, Brown & Platt; McKenna & Cunco; Law Offices of Barbara L. Smith; and Squire, Sanders & Dempsey. New PART Member Firm Awards: Aus- tin & Movahedi, Heideman Cardin, P.C., Marx, Krame & White; Newman & Holtringer; Sidley & Austin; and Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. For more information about PART, con- tact D.C. Bar Pro Bono Coordinator Imani Woody at 202/331-3883, ext. 202; for more information about the PSAC Review Committee's efforts, contactD.C. Bar PSAC Director H.A. Tony Cramer, at 202/331- 3883, ext. 206. Robertson becomes D.C. Bar president at annual convention The new year began for the D.C. Bar at its Annual Convention as James Robertson of the firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, took over the organization's reins from Sara-Ann Determan of the firm of Hogan & Hartson. In his inaugural address during the President's Luncheon, Robertson pledged to turn the Bar's attention to the problems fac- ing the District of Columbia. (A portion of Robertson's remarks are printed on page 4 of this edition of Bar Report.) Also during the President's Luncheon, the more than 250 in attendance acknowledged the accomplishments of a number of out- standing Bar Committees, Bar Sections, and individual Bar members, and learned the results of the D.C. Bar's spring elections from Election Board Chair Joseph E. Hadley, Jr. Elected were President-Elect Jamie S. Gorelick, Treasurer Duane K. Thompson, Secretary Delissa A. Ridgway, Board of Governors members Frances A. Dubrowski, Darryl W. Jackson, Martin D. Minsker, Pauline A. Schneider, and Mark H. Tuohey III; and ABA Delegates Zona F. Hostetler and David B. Isbell, and ABA Under 35 Delegate William E. Lawler, III. Nearly 600 individuals participated in the Seminar programs held during the two-day convention. Between seminar programs, reg- istrants met with 37 vendors in the Con- vention's exhibit hall. At the Convention's Keynote Luncheon, nearly 300 heard differing perspectives on the regulation of hate speech on college cam- puses from speakers John Trasvina, former president of the Hispanic Bar Association of the District of Columbia, and Barry M. Lynn, legislative counsel of the American Civil Liberties Union, prompting a spirited ques- tion and answer sieslif6n. The luncheon con- cluded with the presentation of certificates of appreciation to retiring D.C. Court of Ap- peals Judges James A. Belson and Theodore R. Newman, Jr. The Convention finished on a high note with the presentation of We the People, a musical celebration of the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution written by D.C. Court of Appeals Judge John M. Ferren and his son Peter Ferren, a student at Harvard. Over 200 viewers had the opportunity to meet the cos- tumed cast at the closing reception, cospon- sored by the Bar and the George Washington University National Law Center.

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