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15 Utah B. Bull. 1 (1945)

handle is hein.barjournals/utbabult0015 and id is 1 raw text is: The Utah Bar -- BULLETIN - Official Organ, The Utah State Bar The ultimate bravery is the courage of the mind. -H. G. WELLS. Volume XV January-February, 1945 Numbers 1 & 2 President's Message to the Bar By ORVAL HAFEN, President, Utah State Bar It is a pleasure for me to tell you brief- ly, as best I can, something about the work and objectives of the Board of Commissioners of the Utah State Bar, but first a few words about the back- ground against which our problems and our projects take shape. For years we were concerned about the over-crowded condition of the Bar. Such a condition does not exist today, and will not exist for a number of years to come. Our numbers are not being replenished, during the war, like those of some other professions. Nearly 25 % of our members are in the military service, and it is only logical to assume that quite a number of them will not come back to Utah to practice law. When law schools operate normally again, it will be some time be- fore they are turning out the number of graduates they did before the war. Con- sequently, for some years to come, we need not worry about having too many lawyers. However, many of our members feel that the need for the lawyer is fast dis- appearing. They point to the declining number of trials, and the increasing num- ber of bureaus which permit laymen to practice before them. They argue that after five years of pre-trial hearings, un- der the federal rules of civil procedure, 58% of civil cases ready for trial were finally settled without trial. As pre-trial procedure comes to be adopted by the states, we can expect a similar result there. The old days, when a lawyer's chief claim to fame was his opportunity to glorify his client in court, are gone; many of us spend very few days in court. All of us, however, have increasing opportun- ities to facilitate the doing of legitimate business, by telling our clients what they can do and how they can do it, and by keeping them out of court. We all realize that our economic and social life is con- stantly growing more complex. I am sure that in the future people will have more, rather than less, need of men who under- stand the law. The assertion that the public has no confidence in the legal profession has be- come so frayed and over-worked by the lawyers that I would like to see its use barred. It is true we have a few shysters in the profession, just as any other large group has, but they are a small minority and they are being weeded out as fast as

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