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12 Prob. & Prop. 1 (1983-1984)

handle is hein.journals/prbtprty12 and id is 1 raw text is: Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law American Bar Association Vol. 12. No. 1, Summer -1983 Chairman's Report by Malcolm A. Moore This is my second and final message to Section members. The year has gone quickly; it has been both a busy and satisfying one for me and, I believe, the Section. I should begin with reporting to you on the work by our committees this year. In my last message I described at some length how our committee system had been restructured in an attempt to provide a greater opportunity to those Section members who really wanted to work to do so, and to increase overall committee productivity in terms of articles for this publication and for our Journal. As you all know, we have just about completed our restructur- ing, having just finished choosing our committee members for the next two years based on responses to the committee preference questionnaire sent out this winter. The result, as we had expected and hoped, is committees of more manageable size, hopefully consisting of those who really want to work. We have also carefully reviewed committee leadership and made changes where we thought them appropriate. This current year, of course, we have also been operating with somewhat smaller committees than in the past, and I believe this has helped productivity during the year. As objective proof of this, fifteen Real Property Division committees have prepared and submitted, or will shortly submit, articles for publication in either the Journal, Probate and Property, or both. Thirty-three Probate and Trust Division commit- tees have either published or shortly will publish ar- ticles for one or both publications. There are some committees in each Division, of course, whose primary function (such as the Group B Committees in the Probate and Trust Division) is not necessarily to publish articles, but to monitor federal legislation and regulations. I find these results encouraging, and conclude that they represent the beginnings of a return to hard work and high productivity by the majority of our committees. One special committee which has been very ac- tive this year is our Forum Committee on Rural Lawyers and Agribusiness, co-chaired by Council members Steve Cowan of San Francisco and Bill Haught of Little Rock. The committee has held three colloquia in different parts of the country, the purpose of which was to determine how best the committee can carry out its stated purpose of plac- ing rural lawyers, and those having an agribusiness practice, in a better position to advise their clients in the real property, probate and trust fields. The committee's activity was recounted in some detail in the last issue of Probate and Property. The commit- tee's next step will be to form subcommittees to carry out programs which have been identified as being consistent with its goals. The committee's work has brought into the Section a large number of lawyers who have not before been involved in ABA work, much less associated with the Section. This benefit is, of course, incidental to the primary purpose of the committee's task, which is to bring Section resources to bear on the unique problems facing this (continued on next page)

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