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7 Am. B. News 1 (1962)

handle is hein.journals/ambrnw7 and id is 1 raw text is: American Bar News a news bulletin of the American Bar AIssociation Vol. 7, No. 1 5LP',, Q i, l Li :j ID i January 15, 1962 C r a G U p JA N 3LAW DAY USA STICKERS NOW_ Curtain Goes Up On ur LA A SSIKR O,,AD Eventful Bar Year T HE MIDYEAR meetings of the American Bar Associa- tion in Chicago next month, culminating in the semi- annual policy deliberations of the House of Delegates Feb. 19-20, will lift the curtain on what promises to be the biggest bar activities year in the profession's history. These are almost exclusively business sessions spanning six days, but the schedule of events includes speaking appearances by two members of the President's cabinet. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara will address the annual banquet of the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation on the evening of Saturday. Feb. 17. The following day Postmaster General J. Edward Day will speak at a joint luncheon McNamara of the Fellows and the National Conference of Bar Presidents. About 800 Expected e Starting Feb. 15-16 with meet- ings of the Board of Governors, the ensuing three days will see a crowded round of events at the Edgewater Beach hotel. Thirteen ABA committees will meet, as will the executive coun- cils of eight Sections. Seven affili- ated national organizations, among them the national conferences of bar presidents and secretaries. will have business programs. Al- together, about 800 bar leaders Day from every state will be on hand. The delegates will act on many issues. Reports of com- mittees and sections containing recommendations for House consideration were scheduled to be mailed out to delegates in late January. One early report, prepared by the Committee on Peace and Law Through the United Nations, will recommend that the ABA request and accept (Continued on Page 3) OPINION HITS NEWS SOLICITATION The release of unsolicited news items about a lawyer's professional activities constitutes unethical conduct, the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Pro- fessional Ethics has ruled in an informal decision. The decision. No. C-479, cites Canon 27 of the Canons of Professional Ethics which condemns indirect as well as direct forms of advertising and soliciting. The question prompting the new decision, the com- mittee concluded: Assumes that the newspaper does not solicit the proposed news releases, but that the lawyer solicits the newspaper to accept for publication the pro- posed news material directly portraying the activities of the lawyer, designed to accomplish the ulterior purpose of extolling his good name and virtues to the general public. Such conduct of necessity would constitute a form of public self-laudation designed indirectly to further the professional interests of the lawyer. Any lawyer, law firm, bar association or business firm can again participate in the annual Law Day USA ob- servance by using the special sticker illus- trated here on station- LAW DAY U. S. A. ery or first class mail Aemanating from their offices between now and May 1. The stickers are in four colors-red, white, blue and gold. They are inexpensive-rolls of 500 stickers are avail- able at $1.00 per roll, and rolls of 1,000 at $1.50. Orders accompanied by checks made out to the American Bar Association should be addressed to: American Bar Asso- ciation, Law Day USA Observance, 1155 East 60th Street, Chicago 37, 111. ABA Sets Up New Fund For Public Education P RESIDENT SATTERFIELD has announced creation by the Association of a separate fund to be known as the American Bar Association Fund for Public Education. The Internal Revenue Service has tentatively determined that contributions to the Fund will qualify for income tax exemption under the federal revenue code. The Fund for Public Education will. for example, receive and administer the recent grant of S348,000 from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to further the program of the Joint Committee for the Effective Administration of Justice, whose basic aims are to improve the procedures and operations of the state trial courts. $25,000 Richardson Grant * Another grant. in the amount of S25.000. has been made to the Fund by the Richardson Foundation of New York to assist the Special Committee on Communist Tactics. Strategy and Objec- tives to carry out a projected series of seminars to inform the bar and the public as to the nature of communism and and its techniques. The first of these seminars was held Dec. 8 in Cincinnati. The second is scheduled for Jan. 26 in St. Louis under the joint sponsorship of the Missouri Bar and the ABA committee. All contributions to the Fund for Public Education will be kept separate from the general funds of the Associa- tion. and used exclusively for educational purposes. Officers of the Association w'ill be officers of the Fund. SEEK JUDGE AND LAWYER ARTISTS The American Bar Association's Convention Commit- tee on Cultural Events and Exhibits is seeking judge and lawyer artists who wish to exhibit their work during the Aug. 6-10 annual meeting in San Francisco. John K. Hagopian of San Francisco. committee chairman, points out that the first all-American art exhibit by lawyers and judges was held during the 1952 annual meeting in the Bay city. The committee hopes to have one of the local museums put on the exhibit. Hagopian said.

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