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10 Va. B. News 1 (1962)

handle is hein.barjournals/valaw0010 and id is 1 raw text is: > Virginia BrNews T/ r v Vol. X, No. 1 JANUARY, 1962 Richmond, Virginia TRIAL LAWYERS TO HOLD THEME SET FOR displays; newspaper advertising designs; SEMINAR IN CHARLOTTESVILLE 1962 LAW DAY USA postage meter plates, and information about how arrangements can be made by bar or- The Virginia Trial Lawyers Association The theme for the fifth nationwide ob- ganizations for cancellation of first class will hold its Third Annual Seminar in servance of Law Day USA next May 1 mail with a special Law Day cancellation Charlottesville February 16-18. The meeting will be The Law ... Wellspring of Lib- stamp through local post offices. The sched- is being planned in cooperation with the erty! By coincidence 1962 also is the 176th ule calls for all of e materials to be University of Virginia Law School and the anniversary of the convention of 1787 at available) at cost by early January. All Joint Committee on Continuing Legal Ed- which the U.S. Constitution was drafted. will be pictured in -ti'e PljAlfy ide, ucation. Thus the Law Day theme will focus at- with prices and an order form. tention on the law as the source and pro- A number of prominent members of the tector of human freedom and contrast this judiciary, lawyers from among the local sharply with the subservience of the indi- ' bar as well as from other parts of the vidual to the state under communism. It NEW ETHICS RULES country are scheduled to participate in an will serve to emphasize that Law Day is elaborate two-day program. the free world's major counterpoise to the Ethics of far-reaching importance to stte Those interested in attending may reg- communist May Day on the same date. ter in advance by sending cheeks for eg- Aross the country, state and local bar and local bar associations and the profes- istration fees to the Office of the Director associations already are making plans to sion at large have been handed down by make the fifth anniversary observance the the ABA Committee on Professional Ethics. Newcomb Hall, University of Virginia, largest yet held. Emphasis will be on broad- One of them, Opinion 302, holds for the Charlottesville. Registration fees are $25.00 ening the public phases of the observance, first time that the habitual chargig of for an individual or $35.00 for registrant as distinguished from activities limited to fees less than those established by a min- and wife. Checks for fees should be made the bar itself. imum fee schedule, or the charging of payable to Newcomb Hall Conferences. SET BY CONGRESS such fees without proper justification, may be evidence of unethical conduct. Pre- In addition to the program which is given The joint resolution of Congress has set viously, the ABA committ e had held that in detail below, a luncheon at the Farming- aside May 1 as a special day of celebra- consistent under-cutting of minimum fee ton Country Club is planned for the wives tion by the American people in apprecia- schedules established by ba associations of those attending the meeting and on Fri- tion of their liberties and the reaffirmation could not be considered an ethical violation day evening a reception and dinner at of their loyalties to the United States of since the schedules were advisory only. The Alumni Hall will be followed by dancing. America; of their rededication to the ideals new opinion overrules the previous Opinion The exact schedule has not been com- of equality and justice under law in their 190 issued in 1939. However, a number of ed the are as follows: relations with each other as well as with state bar ethics committees have previously eother nations; and of the cultivation of held fee-cutting to be unethical. Discovery Procedure Under Rule 3:23() that respect for law that is so vital to the The second major opinion, No. 303, holds of The Rules of Supreme Court of democratic way of life. in effect that lawyers who practice law in Appeals of Virginia ABA MATERIALs the form of a professional association or Moderator-Aubrey Russell Bowles, Jr., The ABA again is preparing a variety corporation-as now authorized in various Richmond, Virginia, Past President, Vir- of Law Day literature and promotional degrees in 16 states-may be, but are not ginia State Bar; Member of the Judicial materials to assist state and local bars. necessarily, violating any of the canons. Council for Virginia. These will include envelope and letter stick- It is the substance and not the form of Wilbur Allen, Richmond, Virginia; Fred era through which every law office can help the arrangement that is controlling, the Bingham Gentry, Roanoke, Virginia; Ed- spread the Law Day message; information Committee said. The 15-page opinion in- ward L. Ryan, R Norfolk, Virginia; and speakers' manuals; billboards; window cluded this Conclusion: Paul Whitehead, Lynchburg, Virginia. The question initially presented in this Opinion-Cnlwescryo h rc Recent Trends In Voir Dire Examination --Can lawyers carry on the r Edwrd . RodTama, lordaPreidetP L E A S E N 0 T E tice of law as a profesional association or Edward B. Rood, Tampa, Florida, President, professional corporation, which has the National Association of Complainants' 1962 Virginia State Bar dUeS characteristics of limited liability, central- Counsel of America, become delinquent on ized management, continuity of life, and (Continued on page 8) Jan. 3 1962. (Continued on page 8) I.

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