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20 Immigration B. Bull. 1 (1967)

handle is hein.immigration/immigbbu0020 and id is 1 raw text is: IMMIGRATION BAR BULLETIN Published by THE ASSOCIATION OF IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY LAWYERS S ' ... Give ine your tired, your poor, your huddled 4 masses yearning to breathe free . . . I lift my manip beside the golden door. Vol. XX JANUARY-JUNE, 1967 No. 1 MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT ISIDOR OSTROFF The President of this Association has the privilege of communicating with the membership through our Bar Bulletin. We want to tell the membership of the acco- lade g'iven our Editor of the Bulletin when we recently had the privilege of presenting him for admission to the Court of Appeals of the Third Circuit in Philadelphia. Former Chief Judge John Biggs, Jr., now Senior Judge. presiding with former Chief Judge Harry E. Kalodner and Judge William Hastie. commented that the Court was familiar with our Immigration Bar Bulletin, and indicated its worth in our specialized field. It was a compliment both to the Association and to the Editor, Edward L. Dubroff. When you read this, our seminar held at the Statler Hilton Hotel, in New York City on June 9, 10 and 11 is history. We are told that it was the most successful seminar in the history of the Association. If that is so then our devoted Ex-President. Lena Orlow Ginsburo deserves most of the credit for the intellectual side of it, and Haskell Barst and his committee deserve the credit for tile social side. We don't think any President's reception will ever again reach the high water mark reached by our predecessor in office Commodore John J. Barry. Nevertheless, we did entertain a sizable representative group from all parts of the country. We must give credit here to your current President's wife for having planned and carried out that pleasant function. At the annual seminar dinner, the new Chapter from Chicago was inducted. Not only was it a great thrill to your President, but also to the Co-chairmen of the National Membership Committee: Former President An- drew Reiner, and soon to be President, John Manos. who according to plan, and without riots or insurrection will succeed Elner Fried, from Nhose administration next year. we expect great things. Your President has established what lie hopes will be a precedent for future Presidents, by naming preceding President John J. Barry as Chairman of the Washington Liaison meetings and ('ommittee. We must say here that never in tile history of the Association has our relationship, wvith tile Judiciary Sutb-committee of tile (Contillpied on lpyu 2) RANDOM NOTES FROM THE DESK OF THE EDITOR EDWARD L. DUBROFF hit irmuriam - A Cributr On April 24. 1967 death came unexpectedly to Joshua S. Koenigsberg, our Association's founder and guiding spirit, and our revered first President. In the Spring of the year 1946 a large group of at- torneys who had been employed during the World War II ears by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. in its New York District. had their services terminated by reason of a reduction in force. At that time Josh Koenigsberg had already been a practising lawyer before the Service for a number of years although he had never been employed by the Government. He knew, from years of experience, that most lawyers who practised before administrative agencies were held in low repute by those agencies. The practice of law before administrative agencies was a comparatively new concept at that time, and the agencies had not quite adjusted to the then revolutionary idea that a person dealing with them was entitled, as a matter of administrative due process of law, to be repre- sented by an attorney of his choice. Josh also knew of tile lack of ethical standards of conduct of some few members of the bar who practised before the Service, whose activities cast a shadow upon the entire immigra tion bar. With this release of a large group of experienced lawy ers into the private practice of the law, most of whom began devoting their practice to matters before the Service, Josh realized that the time was ripe for the formation of a Bar Association. He had in mind an Association which wvould cultivate the science of juris- prudeuce. facilitate the administration of justice, and elevate tile standard of itcegrit.Y honor and courtesy in tile lcgl profession. to the end that the Service and other ag-elcies with whom tile immigration attorney dealt would recognize and appreciate the role of an attorney in administrative matters, and to place the practice of immigration and nationality law upon a prol)cr and ethical plane. (CIontinued on 1poq 2)

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