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Speakers urge professionalism
Increasing commercialism is turn-
ing lawyers and journalists away from
their crafts and has helped lead to the
low public image of the two profes.
sions, Virginia Supreme Court Chief
justice Harry L. Carrico and Los
Angeles Herald-Examiner Editor
Mary Anne Dolan told an overflow
crowd of more than 300 Virginia
State Bar members and their guests
onjune 16.
Carrico and Ms. Dolan were the
featured speakers at the annual lun-
cheon, which closed out formal ac-
tivities at the 46th Annual Meeting
of the Virginia State Bar in Virginia
Beach.
WILLIAM D. DOLAN, iII The Annual Meeting was con-
... Long active In VSB ductcd from June 14-17 at the
Cavalier and Holiday Inn hotels.
I d A record 727 lawyers and judges Chief Justice Carrico delivers his address on June 16.
II) IS~lattended the Annual Meeting and,
D olan and ith their spouses, families and
gests, brought the total attendance worse in the interim, he said, and Association's Midyear Meeting in
fgure to an estimated 1,500 persons, cited as evidence both the recent February.
PIa tte rs on an all-time high for the meeting. Hearst survey and a speech by U.S. The Hearst survey revealed, among
u uuu . ,Supreme Court Chief Jutice Warren seerl other disconcerting fndaings
assu m e needed E. Burger during the American Bar 'See PROFESSIONALISM, page 9
tope gne tonahere to high SCWor
pcples and standards of profes Take note Revised order
sionalism, and to resist the easy lure
of financial gain, was the basic theme
William D. Dolan, 111, 40, of Arl- of the remarks of both Carrico and fin sued o e h s ou rse
ington assumed leadcrship of the Ms. Dolan, who is the sister of new
Virginia State Bar as its president, State Bar President William D. [Editor's note: Published below is an order from the Supreme Court of Virginia
and Richmond lawyer Robert H. Pat- Dolan, 111, of Arlington. which provides that all active members of the Virginia &te Bar must complete
terson, Jr., 57, was chosen as Both speakers drew extended ap- the ethics course on the revised Code of Professional Responsibility, or have
president-elect onJune 16 during the plause from the crowd following their their law license suspended. This order also provides that new admittees to the
State Bar's 46th Annual Meeting at remarks. bar and members changing their membership to active status must complete
the Cavalier and Holiday Inn hotels Cartico focused on the subject as it the course within six months of becoming an active member.]
in Virginia Beach. relates strictly to lawyers, while Ms.
President Dolan succeeds Norfolk Dolan discussed the problem as it VIRGINIA:
lawyer Alex T. Mayo, Jr., 41. Mayo relates both to journalists and to Ini the Supreme Court of Virginia held at the Supreme Court Building in the City of'
will serve on the State Bar's Executive lawyers. Richmond on Friday the 15th day ofJune, 1984.
Committee and governing Council Carrico also served as a lunchct Heretofore came the Virginia State Bar, by Alex T. Mayo, Jr., its President, and N.
during the 1984-85 bar year in his speaker during the 1983 Annual Samuel Clifton, its Executive Director, and presented to the Court a petit ion approved
capacity as immediate past president. Meeting, and his remarks last year by the Council of the Virginia State Bar, praying that Paragraph 13 1 , Section IV of
Dolan, VSB president-elect during also focused on the low level of the Rules for Integration of the Virginia State Bar, Part Six of the Rules of Court, be
ameded to rea as follows:
1983-84, assumed the presidency of public confidence in the legal profes- a3ddt srpeaasfoll o Co a
*See LEADERS, prage 5 sion. The image problem has grown of the Virginia State Bar shall complete the four-hour course of study prescribed by the
Executive Committee of the Virginia State Bar and approved by the Supreme Court of
Virginia on the subject of the Revised Code of Professional Responsibility, and any ac-
C ou n il efer ac iontive member who fails to complete the course shall be suspended unless a waiver is ob-
O c e ers ac o forgood cause shown.
hmember licensed prior to June 30, 1984, who has not notified the
on house counsel opinion Secretary-Treasurer on or before that date that he or she has completed the required
course or obtained a waiver for good cause shown shall be notified forthwith by cer-
tified mail by the Secretary-Treasurer of his or her delinquency. Any active member
An unauthorized practice of law ethical aspects of the subject which licensed after June 30, 1984, and any other member who changes his or her member-
opiion covering activities of in- need to be covered by an opinion ship to active status shall complete the required course within six months of becoming
iian active member, Any su h active member who does not notif the Secretary-
surance house counsel was deferred, from the Legal Ethics Committee. Treasurer within six months that he or she has completed thc required course or ob-
and a record operating budgt for the UPL, Committee member and tamed a waiver for good cause shown shall be notified forthwith by the Secretary.
1984-85 bar year was adopted, in ac- Council member William W. Treasurerof his or her delinquency.
tions taken at the meeting of the Eskridge of Abingdon said that his Any active member who remains in default for sixty days after mailing of notice of
Virginia State Bar governing Council committee hopes to present its opi- dinquency shall be suspended automatically from activ membership in the Virginia
onjune 14. nion, along with a companion opi. State Bar and shall not further engage in the practice of law until he or she has been
The Council meeting - one of the nion from the Legal Ethics Commit- reinstated. Such suspended member may be reinstated only following notification to
briefest on record at 2 hours, 15 tee, to the Council for its considera. the Secretary-Treasurcr of completion ofthe prescribed legal ethics course or the ob-
minutes - opened proceedings at tion at the October meeting. taining of a waiver for good cause shown. Noieo uhsspninsalb promptly
the 46th Annual Meeting of the State Proposed UPI. Opinion No. 60 given by the Secretary-Treasurer to the Chief Judge of the Judicial Circuit in this state
Baconducted at the Cavalier and (see Virginia Bar News, Vol. 32, No. in which such delinquent attorney's membership mailing address is maintained, and
Bar, tothe Clerk of the Supreme Court of Virginia.
Holiday Inn hotels in Virginia Beach 11, May 1984, p. 9) addresses the toGood cause shown as used herein shall include illness, hospitalization or such
fromjune 14-17. question of whether a salaried in- other cause as may be determined by the Executive Committee, whose determination
The Unauthorized Practice of Law surance company house counsel may shall be final, Any determination by the Executive Committee may be reviewed by the
(UPL) Committee decided not to represent the company's insureds in Supreme Court on reqluest of the suspended member.
move for Council adoption of UPL civil suits alleging claims covered by Upon consideration whereof, it is ordered that the Rules for Integration of the
Opinion No. 60 at the June 14 the policy. Virginia State Bar, Pat Six of the Rules of Court, be, and the same are hereby, amend-
meeting because it felt that there are *See COUNCIL, page 4 ed in accordance with the prayer of the petition aforesaid, effeccivejuly 1, 1984.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.barjournals/valaw0033&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)