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23 Gavel 1 (1978)

handle is hein.barjournals/gavel0009 and id is 1 raw text is: THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE STATE BAR ASSOCIATION OF NORTH DAKOTA VOLUME 23 Number 1 JANUARY 1978 C L R COMPLETES FIRST YEAR Central Legal Research, a criminal law research service for North Dakota judges, prosecutors, court appointed defense counsel and other criminal justice officials, has completed its first year of operation. Coming from 44 of the 53 counties, requests for CLR services totaled 417. Of these requests, 138 were for original re- search done by law students under the supervision of a licensed attorney. During the year CLR alo provided 232 copies of previously written memos, available free of charge to any per- son receiving CLR's monthly news- letter. Qualified users with criminal law questions used CLR's xeroxing services 47 times. CLR's heaviest first year use came from prosecuting attorneys, compris- ing 43% of the total users. Court appointed defense counsel represent- ed 12% of the users, judges 10%, and the remaining criminal justice offi- cials and attorneys in private practice wanting free copies of pre- viously written memos made 35% of the requests. Evaluations of the quality and use- fulness of CLR's first year research memos show that 63% of the users con- sidered the research excellent and the remaining 37% termed it good. A total of 83% of the users stated that the CLR report helped affect the (continued on page 3) NEW INSURANCE PLANS APPROVED The Professional Negligence and Insurance Committee of the SBAND considered proposals for four new insurance plans by the Harold Diers Agency at its regular meeting held in October. The proposal included a PREMISES LIABILITY POLICY which will be offered members of the SBAND as an endorsement to the professional liability policy; a PERSONAL UMBRELLA COVERAGE POLICY $1,000,000 PER OCCURRENCE which also will be offered as an endorsement to the Professional Liability Policy; a BUSINESS UMBRELLA COVERAGE POLICY which can be purchased as an en- dorsement to the Professional Liabi- lity policy only when the $1,000,000 limit is chosen; and THE OFFICE PROTECTION PLAN which offers pro- tection in the event of destruction to office, embezzlement, and liabi- lity claims or defense thereof, in- cluding ERISA. The Committee recommended to the Executive Committee of SBAND that sponsorship of the four plans be approved, provided that the $100,000 employer's liability coverage under the BUSINESS UMBRELLA be deleted if it refers to an equivalent of North Dakota's workmen's compensation coverage. The Executive Committee, at its January 19, 1978 meeting, adopted the committee's recommenda- tion.

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