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![handle is hein.barjournals/hennepin0002 and id is 1 raw text is: Bar Day is The Hennepin Lawyer
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SEPTEMBER, 1933
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THE PRESIDENT'S COLUMN
No visible gauntlet lies in the
dust of the lists before us, but we
know that in an age of revoluntion-
ary changes in the social structure,
we are challenged to justify by our
works the faith that we have in the
profession of our choice. We know
that we cannot attain that justifica-
tion solely by our efforts as dis-
parate individuals, no matter how
technically expert we may be. We
must supplement our personal abil-
ities by co-operative efforts whiclwill
increase our effectiveness as individ-
uals by improving the administration
of justice, and bring to the aid of
a distressed and perplexed society
our professional heritage of skill and
experience. More than that: before
we can live we must eat, and there
are only two means to our survival
as a social group, at least as a
social group of any effectiveness.
First we must protect the prac-
tice of law from lay encroachment.
Victories already gained in the Hen-
nepin county sector show the power
of your Association. Pending actions
we hope will preserve or regain for
you legal business to which you are
entitled but which you otherwise
would not secure. We hope also that
they well have a deterrent effect,
and discourage new forms of lay
encroachment.
Second, bar activity in improving
the administration of justice insures
recognition by the public of the fact
that lawyers as a class are of the
social utility they claim.
Though we boast that ours is a
government of laws and not of men,
yet we know that men make the
laws and administer them. To help
make better laws our present op-
portunity comes in playing our part
towards a better national bankruptcy
act; hence your special committee to
investigate and report on the pro-
posed new law. To help secure the
best quality of men to administer the
law as judges your special commit-
tee on judicial selection is studying
how your association may regularly
function in aid of the appointment
and election of men to the bench. To
consider whether the usefulness of
the bar to society cannot be in-
creased by a change in organization
wide-sweeping in character and vi-
tally affecting every lawyer in his
daily work, your committee on in-
tegration of the bar is making a
thorough study of that particular
problem. And a fourth special com-
mittee will carefully and dispassion-
ately study the problem of courts
of justices of the peace in Hennepin
County. For your brother lawyers
who are working unselfishly on
these committees we have nothing but
praise; we know that they will have
your support.
Testimonial Banquet
In Honor of
John P. Devaney
Newly Appointed Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of
Minnesota
on
Tues. Evening, Sept. 12th
at
Hotel Radisson
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SPEAKERS
HON. ANDREW HOLT
HON. H. D. DICKINSON
HON. FRANK W. MURPHY
Pres. of Minn. State Bar
Association
RON. JOHN B. SANBORN
Judge of the Circuit Court of
Appeals
MICHAEL DOHERTY
Pres. of Ramsey County Bar
Association
HARRY H. PETERSON
Attorney General
OTTO BAUDLER
Co. Attorney of Mower County
ALEXANDER G. McKNIGRT
Referee in Bankruptcy of
Duluth, Minn.
GEORGE B. LEONARD
of the Hennepin Co. Bar Assn.
S
BEN W. PALMER
Toastmaster
0
Tickets must be secured in ad-
vance from W. W. Gibson, 309
N. Y. Life Bldg. Attorneys only
and their guests eligible to
banquet. Adjourn at ten.
DINTINEIR $1.50 PER PLATE
A COMMENDABLE FEATURE
The lawyers of Hennepin County
will be pleased to- learn of a new
feature running daily in Finance
and Commerce concerning the ad-
visability of securing the service of
a lawyer in matters of a public,
personal or business nature and cit-
ing instances and actual experiences
which prove how inestimably valu-
able a lawyer can be if he be con-
sulted more freely.
The writer will venture the guess
that every practicing attorney in
Hennepin County can relate many of
his own experiences with clients who
have had unfortunate dealings through
ill advice of laymen or on account of
their own lack of knowledge. Oft
times it is extremely penny wise
and pound foolish for the average
person to act in matters requiring
experience and logical training and it
is usually the case that the lawyer
is called in after the damage has
been done and when his efforts and
time will demand a larger fee.
It's high time that the public be
educated to the fact that the ser-
vices of a legal adviser are as im-
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UNAUTHORIZED PRACTICE
OF LAW
Since the Minnesota Legislature of
1931 passed an act (Ch 114, 1931
Session Laws) relating t; unauthor-
ized practice as attornev or coun-
selor at law much has been accom-
plished by the Hennepin County Bar
Association in seeing to it that there
are no violations of its provisions
and prosecuting where it has been
found necessary.
During the administration of Lee
B. Byard in 1932 the committee on
Unauthorized Practice of Law con-
sisting of Walter Lundeen, chair-
man, Carl Covell, James Melville,
John A. Weeks and W. W. Gibson
did very effective work in presecut-
ing an action in the name of Elwood
Fitchette and Thomas Vennum, two
members of the Association against
Arthur C. Taylor, d.b.a. Minnesota
Adjusting Association; T. E. Sulli-
van; John Doe and Richard Roe.
A hearing was had before Hon.
A. W. Selover, District Court Judge
in June of this year after the facts
were stipulated to by counsel for the
respective parties. A portion of the
findings are set forth as follows:
3. That the defendant, Arthur C.
Taylor, on the 14th day of April,
1931, and for some time prior there-
to was doing business under the
name and style of Minnesota Ad-
justing Association; that the said
defendant was engaged in the busi-
ness of adjusting and settling claims
for personal injuries; that neither
said association nor said defendant
had the right to engage in the
practice of law, either directly or
indirectly, and neither of them is
admitted, licensed or qualified to
practice law in the State of Minne-
sota or County of Hennepin.
4. That the defendant, Arthur C.
Taylor, operating under the name
and style of the Minnesota Adjust-
ing Association did solicit, advertise
for and held himself out, as being
engaged in the business of adjusting
and settling claims for personal in-
juries and collecting the claimed
damages therefor, all of which was
done for a valuable consideration,
usually upon a so-called contingent
fee basis; that the defendant on
numerous occasions secured employ-
ment by holding himself out as an
adjuster and collector of said per-
sonal injury claims, counselling with
claimants as to what their legal
rights in the premises are and in
presenting to the person or persons
alleged to be responsible for dam-
ages for said injuries, claims for
said damages, and in presenting and
advocating the application of the law
to the particular facts upon which
the particular claim for damages
is predicted in the course of nego-
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