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2 Pass It On: Newsl. Gov't & Pub. Sector Law. Div. 1 (1992-1993)

handle is hein.journals/passit2 and id is 1 raw text is: PASS IT ON: The Newsletter of the Govern ntIEp# Public Sector Lawyers Division September-November 1992 A Message to the Division's Members J. Edwin Dietel, Chair It is a distinct pleasure and honor for me to assume the Chair of our Division after our first suc- cessful year. At- torney General Preate led us ex- .Edwin traordinarily well J. 1dwi1Dietel, during our in- Chair 1992-1993 augural year and I look forward to following in his excellent footsteps. I know that all of you will join me in thanking Ernie again for all he has done for the Division. We can only hope that he will stay active with us so that our successful efforts might continue. Since this Newsletter is one of our Divi- sion's best communication devices, I also want to take the opportunity to use it to comment on another individual whose ex- traordinarily hard work and dedication often goes unrecognized. Our Division's Director, Dick Lynch, tirelessly keeps us functioning and undertaking new and innovative pro- jects. Simply put, we would not have been created or survived without his unceasing, and seemingly boundless, energy. How he accomplishes all he does for our Division and other critical ABA projects is almost beyond comprehension. I know all of you join me in thanking Dick for all that he has so generously given to our Division and the ABA. We have accomplished an enormous amount over the last year and we have an ambitious year planned. We recruited new members beyond our most optimistic expec- tations: As of the end of August our total membership had reached 3,698. We began the formulation of a network with the State bar public sector lawyer groups. We initiated our first joint dues program with another ABA Section. We published three terrific issues of our Division newsletter. We organ- ized receptions for government and public sector lawyers at the Dallas Midyear and San Francisco Annual Meetings. We obtained ABA Board of Governors approval for the presentation of the Hodson Award for Pub- lic Service which we will present to an out- standing government or public sector law office at the 1993 Annual Meeting to honor excellence in a public sector practice. We organized and presented an enormously suc- cessful Annual Meeting education program on civil justice reform. And, we made it easier for all of our ABA government and public sector colleagues to attend ABA An- nual Meetings by winning approval of a fifty percent reduction in Annual Meeting Regis- tration fees for these groups. I think we can be enormously proud of such an auspicious beginning. In addition to continuing and significantly building on all these outstanding efforts, one of the major projects I hope we are able to launch this year is a biannual Journal on Lawyer Leadership and Management. That will require a significant commitment of time and resources but I am convinced that government and public sector lawyers have important experiences that deserve sharing with one another and other mem- bers of the profession. In launching this new Journal during our second year of opera- tions, I would like to invite all our members to consider writing about experiences that they think might be useful to other govern- ment and public sector attorneys. In fact this subject of communications among govern- ment and public sector lawyers is a theme about which I believe we need to give signifi- cantly more attention. To me one of the greatest values in par- ticipating in the ABA and, in particular, our Division, is the contact we make with some of the country's finest attorneys. The net- work our Division represents is an extraor- dinarily valuable resource that we too often under value. So I believe we need to share with others in public sector practices the success stories that each of us have found particularly helpful to our practices. I hope that we can apply a broad definition to the concepts of leadership and management for our Journal. For example, articles about particular preventive law programs would certainly demonstrate how public sector law- yers are serving as leaders and demonstrat- ing lawyer leadership. Other articles could demonstrate how even the newest lawyer needs to be a leader on behalf of his or her clients. Other articles could focus on ways through which working level lawyers might better manage their individual practices. We need to make this Journal appealing and useful to all levels and to all segments of our membership. And, most important, each of us has experiences which can be helpful to other lawyers in our segment of the Bar. I would like to touch on one other concept about our Division. We have been very suc- cessful in attracting a number of individuals from a wide diversity of public sector prac- tices who have been willing to make a com- mitment of time to make the Division's ef- forts worthwhile for all or us. Notwithstand- ing that success, we are continually seeking others to lend a hand. We would welcome an article you might like to author. Or, if you have a project that you think could contrib- ute to the Division, let us know so that we might help you get it organized. I want you to join one of our existing committees and hope you will just let us know which com- mittee is of interest to you. That brings me to the last point. Some of our members may be unclear about the purpose of our four Council meetings throughout the year. For certain, they are to transact the regular business of the Division. But, just as importantly, they are occasions for all our members to meet with their coun- terparts and learn how to improve their practices. Every member of the Division is cordially welcome to attend our Council meetings and to raise issues. Should you want time on our agenda please contact me (703 482-4989) or Dick Lynch (202 331- 2287) in advance of the meeting. Do not continued on page 3 Volume 2, No. 1

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