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46 Fla. B.J. 1 (1972)

handle is hein.barjournals/florbarj0046 and id is 1 raw text is: . BRIEF-ly yours NEWS I~ H~N [FEMRDHA ~3IK3 COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS for the 1972-1973 administrative Bar year will initiate this month. President-elect Wm. Reece Smith, Jr., through an individual postcard mailing to all members of The Florida Bar, is asking all lawyers and judges to submit their committee appointment preferences to him so that an early start can be made on next year's committee memberships. The postcard procedure will replace the committee questionnaire form usually found in the January or February issue of the Journal. To help committees be- gin work early, tentative plans are on the drawing board for a July 1972 meeting of committee chairmen and vice chairmen in Tallahassee at The Florida Bar Building. So if you are in- terested in serving your profession and the public, and having a voice in mak- ing policies of your organization, return your request postcard immediately. ORCHIDS TO LAWYER LEGISLATORS • . . It is a popular, though unfortu- nate, sport for Florida's lawyer legisla- tors to constantly suffer verbal attack as a professional group by their colleagues in both the House and Senate while these bodies are in session. Perhaps this is inevitable-at least criticism of lawyers dates back to pre-Shakespearean times. But during the recently concluded spe- cial session of the Florida Legislature, when Article V, the Judicial Article, was considered for major revisions, it was pri- marily the lawyer legislator who took the leadership, worked the hardest and manifested the greatest determination to offer to the people of Florida an improved judicial system. Without question, and in the opinion of Governor Askew, judicial revision is singularly the most difficult legislation to pass through the legislature both because of its complexities and the extensive num- ber of persons affected by it. Against VOL. 46, No. 1 • JANUARY, 1972 overwhelming odds, these legislators fought hard to secure the best new judi- cial article possible and the Journal commends them for their diligence, personal efforts and sacrifice in passing an Article V to be approved or rejected by the people at the polls March 14, 1972. MEDITERRANEAN ADVENTURE Recently, the Board of Governors of The Florida Bar, as a service to the membership, approved a Mediterranean trip under the auspices of INTRAV, Inc. of St. Louis, Missouri, the inter- national travel organization which so successfully managed the three Orient Adventures sponsored by the Bar. De- parting from Florida by air August 27, 1972, and returning September 10, 1972, the group will land in Nice, France, and board the Mermoz. This luxury Taquet liner will serve as a floating hotel throughout the two-week trip around the Mediterranean. Scheduled stops include Naples, Sicily, Malta, Crete, Rhodes, Izmir, Delos and Pi- raeus. Many side trips are available in the Grecian islands as well as Italy and Turkey. A color brochure is sched- uled for mailing to the entire member- ship in February 1972. No reservations can be accepted prior to that time. Depending on the stateroom desired aboard ship, the price will vary from $865 to $1,295 per person. FLORIDA'S LAWYER Population Boomsl The official lawyer population certifica- tion of December 15, 1971, filed with the Supreme Court of Florida, shows that the in-state membership has increas- ed 12 1/3% during the two-year period since the last certification on December 15, 1969. The Fifth Judicial Circuit, con- sisting of Marion, Citrus, Lake, Sumter and Hernando Counties, shows the greatest percentage lawyer increase with 27%. Next in line is the Tallahas-

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