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handle is hein.barjournals/tscb0014 and id is 1 raw text is: m / VOL.UME 14, NO. 1 sI5I LILJ Ip ~U~ Bernard G. Segal of lhiladelphia becamiie the 93rd President of the ABA at the close of its 92nd annual meeting in Dallas. During the ABA meetings, Edward L. Wright of Little Rock, Ark., 65, was elected llresidc it-elect by vote of the Ilouse of Delegates. A former chairman of the House, Mr. Wright has been chairman of the Special Committee on Evaluation of Ethi- cal Standards which formulated the Code of Professional Responsibility to replace the Canons of Professional Ethics. William Reece Smith, Jr., Tampa, Fla.. was re-elected to a third, one-year term as A1IA secretary and Joseph H. Gordon, Tacoma, Wash., to a fifth, one-year term as treasurer. Mr. Segal comes to the presidency of the Association at the height of a career marked by many distinctions in professional, civic. and educational spheres. Although he has been a member of ife policy-nmaking House of Delegates sinc: 1952 and long active in other A1BA affairs, he is perhaps best known for his chairman- ship of the Comrmittee on Federal Judiciary between 1956 and 1962. During that time the Association's role in assisting the Justice Depar!ment and the White House in assess- ing the qualifications of prospective appoint- ees to the federal bench became firmly established and the committee's influence grew. A native of New York City, who was reared in Philadelphia, he has practiced there 34 years. At 24, he was the youngest deputy state attorney general in Pennsyl- vania's history, and at 44 the youngest chancellor in the history of the Philadelphia Bar Association. He is a former president of the American College of Trial Lawyers; this year was elected vice-president of the American Law Institute, and continues as a member of its council and executive coi- inittee; a former board chairman of the American Judicature Society: a life Fellow of the American liar Foundation, and a= fellow of the Institute of Judicial Adminis- tration. In recent years he has received the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Service Award, the Federal liar Association Dedica- tion Day Award, and the Cardozo Memorial Award of rin Epsilon Rho law fraternity. rhrce U. S. Presidents have appointed him to major national committees and connis- sions. Fie is a life trustee and member of the executive board of the University of Penn- sylvania, where a recently dedicated moot court room was named in his honor. Fie also is a member of the joint board of the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania. vice-presi- dent and member of the board of Dropsie College, and a member of the lay board of trustees of Villanova University. Mr. Segal and his wife, Geraldine, have two children-Mrs. Bruce A. Cohen, Har- rison, N. Y., and Richard Murry. a Wood- row Wilson Fellow in Harvard University Graduate School. Mr. Wright is a former president of both the Arkansas and Pulaski County (Ark.) Bar Associations. ie has practiced law in his native city since 1928. SEGAL IS NEW ABA PRESIDENT WRIGHT IS PRESIDENT-ELECT FEDERAL CIVIL PROCEDURE COLUMBIA, S. C. OCTOBER 31 AND NOVEMBER 1 REGISTRATION MATERIAL WILL BE MAILED Attorneys Elcted To American Colleg,, of Trial Lawyers Three prominent Lawyers in the State of South Carolina have recently been elected to Fellowship in the American College of Trial Lvawyers. This election is one of the highest honors that can come to a Trial Lawyer. The South Carolina Lvawyers who will become Fellows of the College are lien Scott Whaley, Esq., of Charleston, So ih Carolina, William 1-. Grimball, Esq., of Charleston, South Carolina, and Robert F. Chapman, Esq., of Spartanburg, South Caro- lina. The American College of Trial Lawyers is an honorary society having membership in every state, as well as in the District of Columbia, and Canada. Membership is by invitation only, and is limited to one percent of the practicing Liwyers in any State. '[le total membership of the College is 1,945. The South Carolinians were formally in- ducted at the Annual Banquet of the Col- lege, which was held at the Statler Hilton Hotel, ;.. Dallas, Texas, on Saturday even- ing, August 9, 1969. Mr. Whaley is a member of the Firm of Barnwell, Whaley, Stevenson & Pa'terson of Charleston, and has been practicing since his admission to the liar in 1932. Ie is a graduate of The Citadel, and the Law School of the University of South Carolina. He is a member of the Charleston County, South Carolina, and American Bar Associations, and is a past President of the South Carolina Bar Association. Mr. Grimball is a member of the Firm of Griniball & Cabaniss of Charleston, South Carolina, and has been practicing (Continued on Page 7) i . .. . .... .. .. . . . i a, a A News Publication of The South Carolina Bar Assoniatinn

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