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13 News Bull. 1 (1953)

handle is hein.barjournals/ialaw0013 and id is 1 raw text is: NEWS OF BULLE'TIN TheJawa State Bar Association Vol. XIII, No. 1 1101 Fleming Building, Des Moines, Iowa January, 1953 LAW LISTS APPROVED BY A. B.A. Publishers of the law lists and legal direc- tories listed below have received from the Standing Committee on Law Lists of the Amer- ican Bar Association certificates of compliance with the rules and standards as to law lists for their 1953 editions. The lists are printed herewith as a service to the Assoqiation. Commercial Law Lists A. C. A. List Associated Commercial Attorneys List 165 Broadway New York 6, New York Amerlcin lAwyers Quarterly The American Lawyers Company 1712 N.B.C. Building Cleveland 14, Ohio B. A. Law List The B. A. Law List Company 161 West Wisconsin Avenue Milwaukee 3, Wisconsin Clearing House Quarterly Attorneys National Clearing House Co. 1645 Hennepin Avenue Minneapolis 3, Minnesota The Columbia List The Columbia Directory Company, Inc. 820 Broadway New York 7, New York The Commercial Bar The Commercial Bar, Inc. 521 Fifth Avenue New York 17, New York C-R-C Attorney Directory The C-R-C Law List Company, Inc. 50 Church Street New York 7, New York Forwarders List of Attorneys Forwarders List Company 38 South Dearborn Street Chicago 3, Illinois The General Bar The General Bar, Inc. 36 West 4th Street New York 18, New York International Lawyers Law List International Lawyers Company, Inc. 33 West 42nd Street New York 18, New York The National List The National List, Inc. 75 West Street Now York 6, New York Rand McNally List of Bank Recommended Attorneys Rand McNally & Company 536 South Clark Street Chicago 5, Illinois Wright-Holmes Law List Wright-Holmes Corporation 225 West 34th Street New York 1, New York General Legal Directory Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory Martindale-Hubbell, Inc. One Prospect Street Summit 1, New Jersey (Continued on Page 6) BAR EXAMINATIONS Helen Galvin, Clerk of the Supreme Court, has announced that the examina- tions for the Bar will be held at Drake University in Des Moines on February 17, 1953. All prospective 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. ASSOCIATION BACKING JUDICIAL PAY INCREASES LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM UNDER WAY 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 3rd, unanimously ap- proved bills providing for salary increases for Judges of the Supreme, District and Municipal Courts of Iowa. Further legislation being sponsored by the Association are a bill providing for a State Tort Claims Act; a bill providing a one thou- sand dollar per year expense allowance for Supreme Court Judges; a bill providing that servites rendered in connection with joint ten- ancy property shall be included along with real estate and tax maters as extraordinary services in connection with the handling of estates; and a bill providing a fee increase for petit jurors to five dollars per day for each day's attendance. While Iowa is twenty-second in the country in population, its judicial salaries fall far down the line, and it ranks thirty-sixth in salary paid to Supreme Court Judges and forty-fourth in salary paid to District Court Judges. There are twenty-three states, each with a population less than Iowa's, that pay their judges higher salaries than paid In our own state. On a basis of averages, the average salary of a State Su- preme Court Judge in the United States is $13,202, without taking into consideration the expense allowance paid in many states. The average salary of a State District Court Judge in the United States Is $10,155. The bills being sponsored by The Iowa State Bar Association call for a $2,000 per year increase to Supreme and District Court Judges and a $1,000 per year increase to Judges of the Municipal Court. In sponsoring this legislation, the Associa- tion is moved by consideration of the present and future administration of justice in Iowa. The present Supreme Court of Iowa is largely composed of older judges, who left the practice many years ago when financial conditions and cost of living were different from the present. The same thing can be said of the District Courts in Iowa. The net income from the pres- ent salary of our judges, deducting interest and Indirect taxes and in view of the increased cost of living and the decreased value of the dollar, is actually less today than it was more than twenty-five years ago. These bills will not increase the salaries of the present sitting judges during their terms of office. This is prohibited by Article V, Sec- tion 9, of the Iowa Constitution. The bills will provide an increase for all judges who are elected after the effective date of the act. The Board of Governors of The Iowa State Bar Association believes that the public cannot expect to underpay our judiciary and then ex- pect successor judges to be men of the caliber and attainment that should make and distin- guish a judge. The conscientious and practical lawyer, with a family to support and obliga- tions to meet, i obliged to consider a judicial position from a monetary standpoint. In the days to come, the people of Iowa will get jus- tice administered by competent or incompetent judges just as they make the office of a judge attractive to able and learned leading lawyers so they can leave the active practice and take places on the Bench. It is to be remembered that a place on the Bench precludes the occu- pant from any other remunerative work, much less any further practice. With respect to the Supreme Court expense bill, the Board of Governors believes that the members of the Supreme Court should no long- er be required to pay from their own pockets the expense they incur in carrying out their official duties. A study has shown that Judges of the Supreme Court in recent years have each spent approximately $1,000 per year In the performance of their duties, and this is there- fore the amount specified in tha proposed bill. A lump sum expense allowance to Judges of the highest Court of a state is not new. Sev- eral states have long provided such allowance. Among them are New York, where each judge has an annual expense allowance of $5,000; Georgia, an allowance of $3,000, and Virignia, an allowance of $1,500. With respect to the proposed State Tort ,Claims Act, the Association Is sponsoring this bill in an effort to provide a fair and just method of handling claims against the s'ate. As every lawyer knows, the present me hod, under which claims must be presented to the Claims Committee of the Legislature, is not satisfactory. In the short one hundred days of the Session, claims cannot possibly receive the attention and consideration which they merit. The proposed act provides an orderly, (Continued on Page 3) NOTICE Occasionally copies of the News Bulle- tIon and other correspondence which Is mailed out from the headquarters office are returned, stating that the addressee left no forwarding address. When this happens it is necessary to suspend the addressograph plate of the individual concerned until a new address is re- ceived. It would be much appreciated if each member ot the Association who has an I4 2*[* form the head- I Me bilti,I that a new esograph plate may ained and the Ipupto de. THE

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