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2 News Bull. 1 (1941-1942)

handle is hein.barjournals/ialaw0002 and id is 1 raw text is: Now 19 THE NEWS BULLETIN Legal Institutes OF THE Held Iowa State Bar Association Vol. II, No. 1. 1101 Fleming Building, Des Moines, Iowa December, 1941 Income Tax School January 22,23 and 24 Plans For Income Tax School Formulated k Result of Many Requests. Open to All Iowa Lawyers. The Association will again sponsor an income tax school to be held in Des Moines. The dates for the school are tentatively set for January 22, 23, and 24, 1942. The school will be open to all Iowa lawyers and will cover Federal and State tax problems and problems connected with the wage and hour law. Instructors will again be secured from the office of the Collector of Inter- nal Revenue and it is hoped that an out- standing tax authority can be secured as the speaker for. a dinner meeting. Full details will be announced in the January News Bulletin and through other publicity to be released shortly. MULRONEY IN CHARGE The committee in charge of the tax school this year will consist of the Association's committee on taxation. The chairman of the committee is John E. Mulroney of Fort Dodge, who is assistant attorney general in charge of the work of State Tax Commission. Other members of the committee are: Charles E. Hughes, Charles B. Hoeven, George Class n, Addison G. Kistle and Thomas B. Roberts. The committee also has had the good fortune to persuade Casper Schenk, whose organization of the school last year contributed so much to its success, to act as adviser to the committee and to participate again this year actively in the planning of the school. The committee and Mr. Schenk have held one meeting and decided that the school would be held for three days, that an attempt would be made to or- ganize evening sessions on particular subjects and that particular stress would be placed on the new Revenue Act of 1941. It is also the committee's thought that time for discussion of es- tate taxes would be arranged. LARGE ATTENDANCE EXPECTED It is expected that over 800 lawyers will attend the school this year. The Association has had formal resolutions from several local bar associations re- questing that such a school be held and numerous lawyers have already com- municated their suggestions for the school. PRESIDENT'S - LETTER W. A. SMITH Dubuque The November issue of the News Bulletin contains a Preview of Associa- tion Work for 1941. One important new activity was not included in this symposium. The omission was due en- tirely to the fact that the Title Exami- nation Standards Committee was not authorized in time for that issue. In a previous letter I mentioned that such a Committee was in contem- plation. It has now been authorized and set up, and before this letter reaches you, it will have held its first meeting. Practically every lawyer has had some experience in the examination of abstracts of title. Even those who avoid this part of the practice know some- thing of the difficulty confronting the examiner. He is haunted, not so much by the spectre of a possible adverse claimant to the premises, as by the far more likely-and menacing-figure of a later examiner who will be more tech- nical and exacting than himself. It is embarrassing after one has ex- amined an abstract and passed the title, to have his client come back later with the opinion of another and more parti- cular lawyer objecting to some techni- cal defect that he has considered too trivial to mention. In such a case, the skeptical gleam in the client's eye is wholly understandable, albeit discon- certing. On the other hand, one dislikes to be unnecessarily technical to the point of discrediting the common sense of his practice. There should be some middle ground, some formulation of standards to which all lawyers can subscribe, some uniformity of viewpoint as to what is and what is not a substantial defect requiring removal. Other state bar associations have wrestled or are wrestling with this problem. The Connecticut Association particularly, has already had a large measure of success attained by the work of such a Committee over a period of years. The success of such a project depends upon the wisdom of a commit- tee whose members can speak with Page Two President's Letter New Title Standards Committee Appointed Lowell Forbes Named Chairman Editor's Note: The editor has requested Mr. Forbei to describe the worn of his committee and the story below has been submitted by him. The other members of the committee are: Karl P. Geiser, Phineas M. Henry, Clyde E. Jones, Carl C. Riepe, B. F. Thomas and Arthur A. Zimmerman. Several years ago the American Bar Association suggested a fertile field for activity by all State Bar Associations evolving uniform standards of practice in the examination of land titles in each of the several States. In response to this suggestion, the Connecticut State Bar Association un- dertook the compilation of standards of practice in the examination of land titles and in due course these were promulgated to the bar of that State. All available information indicates that the standards have proved very popular among the members of the bar of Con- necticut and have afforded great relief from the chaotic condition which had theretofore existed in that State with respect to the examination of titles. Following the pioneering by the Con- necticut State Bar Association, a similar task has been undertaken by the Bar Associations in Illinois, Oregon, Rhode Island and on a local basis in Minnesota and Wisconsin. The Bar Association of Kansas has likewise undertaken the same task and at its 1941 meeting adopted standards of practice in the ex- amination of titles. The Executive Committee of the Iowa State Bar Association has authorized the appointment of a committee on standards of practice in the examina- tion of titles and such a committee has been appointed by the Association Pres- ident, which will shortly Undertake the discharge of its duties. These cannot be successfully accomplished to the satis- faction of the Bar in any short period of time but will require several years of effort. Every lawyer in Iowa fully realizes the need for uniform standards of prac- tice in the examination of land titles in this State. Under prevailing conditions there are three general methods by which attorneys handle a given minor defect in a title which may be designat- Page Three Standards Committee

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