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9 News Bull. 1 (1949)

handle is hein.barjournals/ialaw0009 and id is 1 raw text is: 'THE NEWS C* BULLETIN The jwa State Bar Association Vol. IX, No. 1 1101 Fleming Building, Des Moines 9, Iowa January, 1949 Law Lists Approved Association Backing by A. B. A. Publishers of the law lists and legal direc- tories listed below have received from the Special Committee on Law Lists of the Ameri- can Bar Association, as to the list of lawyers' names In their 1949 editions, a certificate of compliance with the Rules anI Standards as to Law Lists. The lists are printed herewith as a service to members of the Association. Commercial Law Lists A. C. A. List (October, 1948-1949 Edition) Associated Commercial Attorneys List 92 Liberty Street New York City 6. American Lawyers Quarterly The American Lawyers Company 1712 N. B. C. Building Cleveland 14, Ohio. Attorneys List United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company Redwood and Calvert Streets Baltimore 3. Maryland. B. A. Law List The B. A. Law List Company 181 West Wisconsin Avenue Milwaukee 8, Wisconsin. Clearing House Quarterly Attorneys National Clearing House Co. 1645 Hennepin Avenue Minneapolis 3, Minnesota. The Columbia List The Columbia Directory Co., Inc. 820 Broadway New York City 7. The Commercial Bar The Commercial Bar, Inc. 521 Fifth Avenue New York City 17. (Continued on Page 4) NOTICE Occasionally copies of the News Bul- letin and other correspondence which is mailed out to the membership are re- turned to the Headquarters Office stat- ing that the addressee left no forward- ing address. When that happens it is necessary to suspend the addressograph plate of the individual concerned until a new address is received. It would be very much appreciated If all members of the Association who have an address change would inform the Headquarters Office im- mediately so thiat a new addressograph plate may be obtained and the mailing list kept up-to-date. Judicial Rettrment Bill Legislative Program Under Way Juvenile Delinquency and Paroles, which bills will be found in detail in the Annual Proceed- ings of the Association for 1948. These bills, four in number, provide in substance that in all Juvenile Court Cases the parents or legal custodians of children, or both, must be made parties, and that the Juvenile Court be em- powered to make orders binding upon such parents or custodians as to their future con- duct with reference to the children. The bills further provide for summary panishment in Juvenile Court of parents guilty of extreme neglect of their children. The fourth bill em- powers Juvenile Court Judges to appoint pro- bation officers, either for a whole judicial dis- trict or for two or more counties In any judi- cial district. 'Further legislation which m being supported is a bill which will enable members of the Iowa State Bar Association to articipate In a comprehensive group Insurance plan with vol- untary participation on the part of members of the Association, recommendations of the Probate Committee, covering certain suggested statutes in probate matters, some of which will be found at page thirty of Part I of the Annual Proceedings for 1948. In addition, bills have been prepared pro- viding for the upward revision of the statu- (CoNsed on Page 2) Special Law Examination The Supreme Court has directed the Iowa Board of Law Examiners to hold a special examination for applicants for admission to the bar on February 15-18, 1949, at the State University of Iowa in Iowa City. Bar examinations customarily are held twice a year, in June and October, but Charles W. Barlow, Clerk of the Supreme Court, has stated that many candidates are completing their law studies In Janu- ary this year. All prspective and qualified appli- cants may avail themselves of this op- portunity by making application to the Clerk of the Supreme Court, State House, Des Moines 19, Iowa. As stated in last month's Issue of the News Bulletin, the Board of Governors of the Iowa State Bar Association at its meeting held in Des Moines on December 16 unanimously ap- proved a bill providing for the establishment of a judicial retirement system for Iowa. The bill, which is too long to be set forth in full here, provides for the establishment of a ju- dical retirement system to be administered by the State Comptroller. The bill provides that any District or Supreme Court Judge upon reaching the age of sixty-five, having served six or more years as a Judge of the District or Supreme Court, and accepting the provis. ions of the plan while a Judge, may be eligible. In order to receive the annuity, the Judge must, before retirement, pay three percent of the total salary he has received as a Judge into the retirement fund. After the passage of the Act, the payment will be in the form of deductions from salary each month. The annuity will amount to three percent of the Judge's salary multiplied by the years of serv- ice he has as a Judge. One of the most effective means of improving the administration of justice is to Improve the quality of judicial personnel. This can only be done by making the bench more attractive to competent lawyers. The salaries of judges will not compare with the earnings of leaders of the bar but when there Is added to the judge's salary, retirement benefits at the end of a judicial career, the reward for public serv- ice will induce able lawyers to forego the In- creased earnings of a practitioner for the dis- tinction of Judicial dffice. The proposed judi- cial retirement system for Iowa has as its ob- Ject to obtain good judges, to keep good judges in service, to retire superannuated judges, and to insure deserving judges reasonable security in old age. Similar retirement systems are the law in thirty-one states and the United States. It is interesting to note that judges contribute in only eight states, and that sim- ilar bills are pending this year in substantially all other states. The proposed Iowa Judicial Retirement System will benefit the judges, but, in addition, It will at little or no cost to the State of Iowa, give to the state the bene- fits of legislation which, in a large majority of the states, has been found beneficial in Im- proving the quality of judicial personnel and thereby the administration of justice. It Is sincerely hoped that all members of the As- sociation will'support this bill. Other proposed legislation which Is being supported by the Association are several bills promulgated by the Special Committee on

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