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9 Fla. B. News 1 (1982)

handle is hein.barjournals/flabn0009 and id is 1 raw text is: CBS' Fred Graham is keynoter for 1982 media-law conference CBS Legal Correspondent Fred Graham will be thekeynotespeakeratihe Florida Bar's Eighth Annual Media-Law Confer- ence February 6 at the Sheraton, St. John's Place Hotel, Jacksonville. Graham, who covers the United States Supreiie Court and the Justice* Department in Washington, will speak during hmch. The conference is being ca-sponsored by the Florida Times-Union and Jacksonville Journal-The Florida Publishing Company; WJXT-TV (a Post- Newsweek station), Channel 4, Jacksonville and Jacksonville radio stations WQIK, WAPE, and WOKV- WAIV. Up to 500 members of the working news media, state and federal judges, and lawyers are expected to attend the program. Discussions will run from 9a.m. to 5 p.m. Media Access-Evolving Dimensions will be the topic of a moming Socratic dialogue session opening the meeting. Panelists will includerepresentatives of the news media, the judiciary and the legal profession. Small group workshops, led by news media and legal professionals, will be held both before and after lunch on nearly a dozen topics, including: Access to Court Proceedings and Court Records,Recent Speakers, seminars to make 1982 Midyear Meeting 'even better than last year' CBS sportscaster and former profes- sional football star Pat Somerall will be the- headlined speaker at the 1982 Midyear Meeting all-member luncheon in Tampa February 12. The luncheon is just one of many high- lights of the February 11-13 meeting,. organizing cominit ; Chairman'J. Frajer Himes, Tampa, promised. He said The Florida Bar's second annual midyear meet- ing will be more enjoyable and even a better value than last year's meeting. The meetingwllbeheld at theTampa Marriott and Airport Holiday Inn. Besides Somerall, other featured speakers include Barron'sNationalBusdness and Financial Weekly Managing Editor Alan Abelson,. author and humorist Art Holst, and Dr. Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, author of Women in Law. Abelson will speak at the Corporation, Banking and Bu Law Section's lunch- eon on February 12. Holst will speak at the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Sec- tion banquet February 11. Dr. Epstein will address the Florida Association for Women Lawyers at its February 13 lunch- Lake City native Pat Sormerall will speak at Midyear Meeting luncheon. eon, and will be available to autograph copies of her new book afterwards. The Iiucheons, dinners and other social events are just a small part of the Midyear Meeting. The meeting's main focus will be on education. .'The 'concept is siple, Florida Bar President Sam Smith said, to provide Florida Bar members a varied selection of CIE programs,, i one location, and at a reasonable cost. The semiars'will be'.offered on a smorgasbord basis, with one fee-being charged regardless of how many seminars participants attend. A total of 15 sections and otherorganiza- tions have planned programs for the meet- ing, which will offer Florida lawyers an opportunity to improve competence in multiple areaswithin a minimal amount of tisne and expense, Himes said.: - The A ministrative Law Section -will offer a seminar on administrative trial ad- vocacy February 13. The program will be followed by an executive council meeting and luncheon. The Corporation, Banking and Business Law Section will sponsor a seminar February 13 on creditors' remedies in bankruptcy court. Its members will then separate for six committee meetings and lunch. The section will also hold its execu- tive council meeting, spanning February 12-13. The Criminal Law Section will offer a program on. defending clients in federal criminal matters on February 11. The sec- tion will hold five committee meetings and (See Midyear Meeting, page 3) Developments in Defamation: Definitions of 'Fault' and Plaintiffs' Damages, Access to Public Meetings: Florida's Sunshine Law,ReportingonState Grand Jury Investigations: Use, Liability and Problems in News Reporting, Access to Public Records: Conflicts with the Right to Privacy, Privacy and Trespass, including Wiretapping, Access to Pretrial Criminal and Civil Proceedings, Investigative Reporting Techniques, and Access to Federal Documents, Information and Administrative Proceedings. Eugene C. Patterson. presidentof theSt. Petersburg Times, will be the featured speaker at a mid-afternoon session on Summing Up: Issues and Answers. Miami lawyer Talbot D'Alemberte will moderate the morning Socratic dialogue. Panelists confirmed to dati for thatsession include: T. Edward Austin, state attorney, 4th Judicial Circuit, Jacksonville; Judge Susan H. Black, U. S. District Court, Middle District of Florida, Jacksonville; Bob Cain, news director and reporter, WGBS (AM) and WYLF (FM) Radio, Miami; John F. Gaillard, vice president of legal and public affairs, Florida Publishing Company, Jacksonville; Judge Joseph W. Hatchett, U. S. Court of Appeals, llth Circuit, Atlanta; Harry A. Kalkines, vice president, Post-Newsweek Stations of Florida. Inc., WJXT-TV. Jacksonville, Dean Ralph L. Lowenstein, College of Journalism and Communications, University of Florida. Gainesville Ernest Mastroanni, professor, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, Chicago, former investigative reporter, WJXT-TV, Jacksonvlle Eugene C. Patterson, president, St. Petesburg Tines, St. Petersburg; Ed Sears, editor, Atanta lournal, Atlanta; and Nel Skene, chief, Tallahassee Burean, St. Petersburg Times, Tallahassee. The Bars Public Relations Department has applied for designation plan credit for lawyers.attending the conference. News media and legal professionals are invited to attend the conference, which each year provides members of both disciplines an opportunity to examine subjects of mutual concern. A $25 registration fee ($12.50 for students) covers registration, lunch, coffee-Coke breaks and allmaterials for the conference. Registration forms will be mailed to the news media, idiciary and Bar members within the next-10 days. A block of hotel rooms has been reserved on a first-come, first-served basis at the Sheraton -at St. John's Place Hotel (904) 396-5100. The deadline for assured hotel room reserva- tions is Jan. 23. For further information, call The Florida Bar public relations department in Tallahassee, (904) 222-5286. Legal Standards Commission to study competence Responding to American Bar Association President David R. Brink's call to ')make. a maximum effort to ensure effective and competent service from lawyers, Florida Bar PresidentSam Smith appointed The Florida Bar Legal Standards Commission to evaluate and recommend means ofrainngthestandards of. competence among Florida lawyers. An outgrowth of the. i981 Board of Governors Long-Range Planning Retreat, the commission was appointed in November It will meet January 16 in Tampa to plar its approach to studying 1im compten ce . Chairman William .Trickel, Jr., Orlando, :aid the 18-member ;ommission should -make its report by the ith d of 1982. President Smith did not limit the time' the commissio-a may have to complete Trlck - .its study. ' Trke pointed to a recent President's Page in the American Bar Association Journal to explain the study group's task.In the article, President Brink. says, As lawyers, we are strongly tempted to argue with our critics about the degree ofincom- petence in our profession. But whether the incompetent performances by lawyers amount to 50 percent of all cases, or 25 percent, or 10 percent, or something less, we must do what we can to reduce the number. The commission,plas to take an open approach to its study, Florida Bar staff liaison John Hogenmuller said. Questions and considerations are welcome from inside and outside the Bar, hesaid.-Trickel added the commission will probably hold several, public meetings to invite outside views. Among the first topics the commission will stud are mandatory continui legal education, peer review. the effects of designation and certification, and periodic testing. Trickel said the commission will also consider periodic testing for physical health and mental competence.'., Hogenmuller encouraged 'all :Bar members inte e s tc tt him at the Bar Center in Tallahassee, (800) 342-8060. The commission includes nine Board of Governors members, three judges, and two college faculty members. Four others were appointed from the membership at large. From the Board are: Trickel, Orlando; Kay Finley, Summerland Key, William Loucks, Daytona Beach; Robert Plas, Jr., Orlando;' Tobias Simon, Miami; Boyce Ezell.i, .Coral Gables; Edward Moore, Jr.,'Pensacola; and Ben'Bryan, Jr., Ft. Pieice. , From the bench are Florida Supreme Court Justice Parker Lee McDonald, District Court of Appeal Judge -John Beranek, and U.S. District Court Judge James Paine.. Also on the commission are Univ&sity of Florida Collegeof -aw Dean Frank Read and Valencia Community College Professor Carolyn Allen. - At large members are Ronald LaFacm vice-chairman, Tallahasee:Joel Sharp, Jr., St. Petersburg;- Chandler R. Mller, .Winterlt P -rIt Miami Digitized from Best Copy Available

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