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34 Va. B. News 1 (1985-1986)

handle is hein.barjournals/valaw0034 and id is 1 raw text is: Update on recent VSB Council decisions Among many items during a Virginia State Bar to investigate the seven-hour session on June 13, the possibilities of acquiring a building VSB governing Council established a i suburban Richmond after an in Standing Committee on Lawyer terim thiee-year lease, Discipline and adopted a resolution -Adopted resolutions recognizing supporting an exemption from and honoring Messrs. Macon Melville liability for state court judges In cer- Long, Sr. and Henry Lester Hooker tain cases. for theIr 100 years of life; Following a report byl Vann H, Lef- -Deferred action onl amendments coe, chair of the Special Committee proposed by Penelope W. Kyle and on Lawyer Discipline (COLD), the others to Legal Ethics Opinion 10 Council voted to establish a standing concerning obligations to disclose committee which would study the cf. relationships betweecn attorneys; JEFFREY H. KRASNOW LAWRENCE E. fectiveness of the disciplinary pro. -Heard a report by President- BLANCHARD, JR. cess, make recommendations and, in elect William W. Eskridge on torn. Leftce's words, be the vehicle for puterization of the VSB office and the separating of the disciplinary authorized preparation and analysis I1 system from the day-to-.day operation of proposals from private vendors P o g ra mn stresses fthe executive office of the State with a rcommendation to be made is ti ji. The standing committee. Accord. -Heard a report on the judicial -t e t a to n y r l ing to Lefcoe, would respond to com- Ethics Standing Committee by Stuart plaints or suggestions about the B. Campbell and approved the com- While many attorneys still react Some lawyers, like Jeffrey H. disciplinary system, Two of the nine mittee's opinion that it is not negatively o lawyer advertising, the Krasnow of Rkoanoke, have decided members would be non-lawyers, unethical per se for A judge it- ask concept is accepted by scme who see they need ito do more than simPly The Ctiunil. Lpfi-e id,- would questions at A CtirninAl heCrilng when it As a vital anti de~rahir factor hsnlg tileir sinogles.- Krasnow. tile be asked in October to ;Approve a prosecutor is not present; toward the success of their law first Virginia lawyer to implement several changes in the disciplinary -Adce ted amendments to business. With thle abundance of _( advertising strategies following the system, Those changes include Ad. Paragraph 13 H of the Disciplinary torneys currently in practice andi thle Supreme Court approval to do so in ing five investigators and two at- Rules (Rules of Court, Part 6, Section high numnber of young professionals 1977, spoke on June 15 during a pro- torneys to the staff of the disciplinary IV) so that practice ends as of thle graduating fromt law school each gram at thle annual meeting titled, department. In thle future, all in- dlate of resignation, not the date of year, lawyers are fac ing a more corn. Bridging the Communication Gap vestigations would be done by the acceptance of the tresignation;, peritive atmosphere than that which Between Lawyers and Clients - How staff. *Se COUNCIL MERETING, page 3. existed 20.30 years ago. to Attract Clients, How to Keep) The COLD Committee, according Them.' The program, sponsored by to Lefcoe. also recommendedl increas- p 1 * the Young Lawyers Conference of the ing the ethics course in law schools Ptrofession l A ctivity an di VSB, was designed to give insight in. from one to three hours, and requir. to clients' expectations of attorneys ing three hours of ethics courses evcry f fvyn ~ iV ~ ~ i m r v and provide practic al suggestions onl three years for all Attorneys as part of A ttitud SurveyL Li JLLLL LaLy hlow to fulfill these expectations. any mandatory CLE. The committee [Eio' oe h olwn ste eea rciinr nk p1 rasnow favors advertisemrrents for Also said -Bridge the Gap seminars Edt'sot:Teoloigith Gnrapactoesmaeu18 legal secrvics and is heavily involved should be provided to help new at- first of a series of three articles which percent of the bar;, practitioners of in advertising for his own firm. torneys to acquire basic practice summarize the Virginia Stare Bar corporation, banking And business 'While we are all professionals, skills, Professional Activity and Attitude law, 10 percent,, administrative and says Krasnow, we also are, or better In other business, the Council Survey conducted lat fil. This first governmental law, 9) perikent; he. businessmen and business. Adopted a resolution urging the Con- article is a profile of the membership,. criminal law, 9 percent; real property women. If you don't practice law gres o aen Ttle42U..C.~l88 who we are, how we practice. The se- law. 9) percnt And trial practice, 9) profitably, y ou'll end up hiring a col- to exclude the award of attorneys' orarilwilcerm be at pren.Psnlinuy nd league of yours to handle your own fees aainstjudge or juicial&ers udes toward issues affecting the wrongful death law is practiced by9 bakuty fee Aacins bgt : u de r cti onsce- profe~sion. The third article will deal percent of thle bar, 6 percent pla ,in. Fanrom hip xprene.y.so 1981. 1984, 1983.. 19)85, or 1986 (or wit members' attitdes toward the tiff, 3 percent defense, estimates that the best return onl a under, Title IX of Public Law 92-318 '~ ~The survey breaks the bar lwe' detsn olri hog (20 U. S.C. 1681 et seq) or Title VI of The typical Virginia :attorney earns membership 'Into thle following the Yellow Pages. He found televi- the Civil Right. Act of 1964 (42 bectween $25,000 'nd $50,000 ;An. percentages: 88 percent miale. 12 per- sio airsing substantially more U.S.C. 2000 d. et seq)j. nually, works more than 40 hours per (cent female; 61 percent ABA expensive, newspaper ads unsuc- In other matters, the Council took week and is older than 37. Accordtng members; 77 percent members of a cessfuil and advertising in local1 the following actions: to the Professional Activity and At. local bar: 7 percent have been a VSB magazinecs a waste of time. -Heard the report from President titude Survey conducted last fall by ledr 71pretcrypoesoa But ad erising Is niot a substitute Wiliam 71. peocant reviewingssona for providing quality services.* warn. WlimDDoaIIIrviwn the the Virginia State Bar. liability insurance;, and 341 percent recent Long.Rang- Planning Con' According to Professor Kent are members of at least one other ed Krasnow. Despite all the efforts ferecec his 2ddrtss to the Circuit Sinclair, who worked on the survey, state bar that his firm has made in this direc- judicial Conferenct and a joint pro- the high response from 5,100 tion, they have found that the best ject with Virginia raidio and TV sta- members means the attitudes Before taxes in 1983, more than way to attract new clients is to satisfy tions to educate the public about our reflected in the statistics have a broad one third of the bar earned $25,000 thle clients they already have. tie also legal system; base among members, to $49.000; 9 percent earnied under stresses that advertising should be -Adopted a resolution reaffirm. The survey shows that 61 percent $10,000; 15 percent earned $10,000 viewed as a matter of choice, and ing support for continuing substan- of the bar attended a Virginia law to $24,000; 22 percent earned each firm should carefully decide its tial funding from the Virginia Bar school, and 70 percent are in private $50,000 to $75,000; And 18 percent own particular needs. foundation for the Legal Services practice. Although most attorneys earnied more than $75,000, Almost A 1984 nationwide survt showed Corporation; are more than 37 years old, 43.5 per- 25 percent of the bar earned $25,000 that 13.5% of all attorneys have -Approved a recommendation of cent are 36 or younger. The average or less. (See chart for correlations.) decided to implement advertising to the Special Committee to Study respondent was admitted to thle With the pre-understanding that let people know their firm exists and Housing Requirements of the Virginia bar 12.5 yers ago. 'See SURVEY, page 5. 'See CLIENTS, page S.

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