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44 J. Kan. B. Ass'n 3 (1975)

handle is hein.barjournals/jkabr0044 and id is 1 raw text is: From the President WHILE SERVING my year as President of the Kansas Bar Asso- ciation I have learned that among knowledgable lawyers, the Kansas Bar Association has a well-earned recognition as a progressive, inno- vative, and imaginative Associa- tion. It has, for instance, been in the forefront with judicial reform, procedural reform, disciplinary reform, prepaid legal service, computerized legal research, lawyer referral, consideration of mandatory continuing legal education. It has, indeed, been a signal honor to have been President of such an active forward-looking Association. I leave the office, however, with the great regret that the Kansas Bar Association has not yet come to grips with the most important problem of all, that of making the lawyer's singular skills available, at an affordable cost, to all who need them. The lawyer's claim, sometimes made, that no one is turned away because he cannot pay, is often not true, but in a larger sense is most unrealistic, for most people who need reduced fees not only do not want charity, but resent it. In addition, the recipients of charity often believe that their matter has been slighted because no fee is charged. I know, and I believe every lawyer who reads this knows, of great numbers of people who have believed (often grossly erroneously) that they could not afford legal advice, and that all likewise know of great numbers of persons who dealt disastrously with a legal problem without knowing they had one. Some suggested solutions, prepaid legal service, legal clinics, advertising, socialization of legal service (for instance public defender programs), have been suggested, and some have been tried, but the solution is yet to emerge. If lawyers perform a true and necessary public service, and our experience leaves no doubt on this point, then the Kansas Bar Association, and the lawyer members, and my successors, will some time have to provide a method of making legal services more generally available. I leave the Office of President with the hope that my successors will be more successful than either I or my predecessors have been in solving this vital problem. LEONARD 0. THOMAS, President SPRING 1975

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