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2 Headnotes 1 (1978)

handle is hein.barjournals/hdba0002 and id is 1 raw text is: I,, U. VOLUME 2 JANUARY 16, 1978 President's Report By Robert H. Thomas President January is a time when all of us look ahead to chart our course for the coming year. Perhaps it would be good for all of us to reflect on the many large and worthwhile endeavors planned for your Association in 1978. Here are some of which you should be aware. * BELO PROJECT. The plans of the Belo Project were reviewed in some detail in last week's Newsletter, and suffice it to say that much work and planning will be required for us to complete this remodeling and restoration in the quality manner be- fitting the building and the activities it will house. * PICTORIAL ROSTER. Many of you have already been photographed for the new pictorial roster. The roster is a splendid working tool for all lawyers and judges. If money and space permits, we hope to have a section with the local, state and federal procedural rules in order that the book will be of even greater service to the membership. * MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN. In order that the pictorial roster may be as complete as possible and serve us well over the next five or six years, we will concentrate on bringing new members into the Association, pri- marily from the fine new lawyers who have joined the profession in recent years but have not gotten around to joining the Association. * COURT STUDY. In order to plan for the 1979 Legislative Session, and the new courts we will be seeking, a careful and critical evaluation and study must be made of the needs in our criminal courts, our family law courts, and our civil courts. All of our dockets are crowded, and we must be sure that we have the statistics to show to the County Commissioners and the legislature in order to justify our needs and our priorities. * COURT DESIGN. With the building of the new Family Law courtrooms in the Old Red court- house, the restoration of criminal courts in the old Criminal Courts Building, and the restoration of court- rooms in the Records Building Annex, there are many courtrooms being constructed at this time. In addition, the Criminal Justice Center at Com- merce and Industrial is being designed. We have appointed a Court Design Advisory Team to work with the architects and the Director of Public Works in order that our courtrooms are properly designed for effective utilization. * COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT. Our recent committee preference questionnaire indicated a large number of our members want the Bar to be involved in civic and community affairs within this city. We have been assigned a number of tasks by the Goals for Dallas organization and our members are active in this project and in many other worthwhile community endeav- ors. We hope to continue these involve- ments and increase them for the benefit of our community. * BRITISH BAR. Some 300 guests from England, barristers and solicitors and their families, will be our guests in Dallas in August following the British Bar's convention in New York. Our Bar will act as host for these dis- tinguished guests, providing them with housing and entertainment. * 1979 ABA CONVENTION. In the summer of 1979, Dallas will again host the American Bar Association, for what we hope will be the largest and grandest convention ever held by the American Bar Association. Planning and arranging this convention will, in large measure, be done this year to insure success of the convention in 1979. * SPECIAL SERVICES. A new activity launched last year is a program to assist lawyers who need help with problems relating to alcohol and drugs. Last year's program was quite success- ful and it will be expanded and publicized and reach out to more lawyers this year. * CONTINUE AND IMPROVE. In addition to the above listed, we cer- tainly will continue and seek to im- prove our already outstanding pro- grams of continuing legal education, legal ethics opinions, solving of fee disputes, our judicial preference poll in the spring, the Law in a Changing Society program in the Dallas high schools, Lawyer Referral Service, db Headnotes, unauthorized practice of law, improvement of criminal justice, legal aid, interprofessional relations, Law Day observance, and all of the many projects and endeavors which have brought the Award of Merit to the Dallas Bar Association for so many years. The Dallas Bar is a working Bar, working for the community and for the profession. I hope you will join your fellow lawyers and lend your efforts to one or more of these pro- jects in 1978. a NUMBER 1 a a __ lip

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