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8 Young Law. 1 (1952-1953)

handle is hein.journals/ynglwr8 and id is 1 raw text is: Published for Young Lawyers by the X -- Junior Bar Conference American Bar Association VOL. VIII FEBRUARY, 1952 No. 1 MABAJ/orBar Sec//on A Sraagr to tfhe 3 tunior liar Awards of Merit Go To Elects Ella Ihomas 3ronm the Nationat Olhairman Dallas and Connecticut Washingtonian Unanimously Chosen Section Chairman at Montevideo The first meeting of the Junior Bar Section of the Inter-American Bar As- sociation was held in Montevideo, Uru- guay, November 21 to December 2, 1951, in conjunction with the Seventh Conference of the I.A.B.A. At this meeting, Mrs. Ella C. Thomas of Washington, D. C., was unanimously elected the first in- ternational chair- man of the Section and Rachael Woody Hanes of tLLA c. THOMAS Washington w a s chosen as U. S. representative on the Executive Council. Mrs. Thomas has taken a leading role in the JC movement to establish a sec- tion for young lawyers in the I.A.B.A. She served as Secretary of [lie JBC Committee on the Inter-American Bar during the period 1948-1950 and was chairman of the Committee for 1950- 1951. She is The Law Librarian at the George Washington University, and is making preliminary plans for the second meeting of the Section which will be held in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1953. Miss Hanes, who is at present the Vice- Chairman of the JBC Committee on the Inter-American Bar, served with Mrs. Thomas on the Organizational Commit- tee and presented a paper on behalf of the JBC at the Montevideo meeting. She is an attorney at the Federal Trade Commission. Other officers of the Section elected at Montevideo include Dr. Pedro J. Man- tellini, Caracas, Venezuela, Dr. Enriquc Vescovi, Montevideo, Dr. Aido Busot, Havana, Cuba, and Dr. Pessoa da Silva, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Vice-Chairmen; Dr. Esperanza Puente, Mexico City, Sec- retary; and Dr. Mario Nin, Montevideo, Treasurer. In addition to Mrs. Thomas and Miss Hanes, the JBC was represented at the Montevideo meeting by Eileen C. O'Con- nor, Washington, D. C., and Paul N. Temple, Jr., New York City. P.I.P. Subcommittee ro Aid ODM Program Paul Lashly, Chairman of the Junior Bar Conference, has appointed a sub- committee of the Public Information Committee, headed by Ben Paul Noble, to participate in the Defense Mobiliza- tion Program of the Junior Bar Confer- ence. The function of the Committee is to assist the Office of Defense Mobili- zation in carrying the facts of mobiliza- tion to the American public through the medium of Community Forums, the members of which will give weekly 4- minute talks to the public in every con- munity in the United States. Lashly appointed Russell G. Bowers of Flint, Michigan, Fred Schillinger of St. Louis, Missouri, and John Grabber and Harry Breithaupt of Washington, D. C., as Vice Chairmen. - -.. .- -.. .. . . . . . - -.. . . . . St. Louis, Mo. February, 1952. PAUL W. LASHLY. Richard Ii. Bowerman, National Vice constantly in need of executive and per- Chairman. has announced that the sonal assistance in those places where Junior Bar Conference this year will, for he visits. In other words, said Mr. the first time, perform a direct and per- Bowerman, Ie needs those services sonal service to the President of the which in military parlance are per- American Bar Association. The Presi- formed by personal aides-de-camp. The dent's duties require him to travel at- Junior Bar has been asked to provide most constantly throughout the country this type of assistance and these indi- on affairs of the Association; he is, con. viduals who will be knon t as the Presi- sequently, constantly under pressure and dent's attaches. State and Local Honors Are Conferred by Lashly and Burton The Junior Bar Association of Dallas was presented on December 14, 1951, with the highest award trat such an or- ganization can receive the Award of Merit for the best Junior Bar organiza- tion in the United States for the period 1950-1951. This Award is annually made by the Junior Bar Conference of the American Bar Association, and is highly coveted as a recognition of achievement among Junior Bar Asso- ciations throughout the country. Mr. Paul W. Lashly, Chairman of the National Junior Bar organization and a St. Louis attorney, presented the Award to the local group at a luncheon meeting held at the Dallas Y. M. C. A. Mr. Lashly was introduced by Mr. R. G. Storey, Jr., a member of the Council of the Junior Bar Conference and spoke on the challenge of the tiies to the younger lawyer. tOM a numerical point of view, the Conference stands at a high point in its history; over 7500 members scattered throughout the United States and its possessions. This truly is an achievement of which those who have gone before us and those who are active in the Conference now are justly proud. Viewed substantively, however, this splendid record still leaves much to be ac- complished. Necessarily, during the years of intensive membership recruitment, emphasis had to be laid upon obtaining members, and thereby equal attention could not be given the problems inherent in an expanding, dynamic association such as the Junior Bar Conference. We have now reached a point where, although our efforts must be continued unremittingly and expanded constantly to add new members in order to maintain our vitality and insure the development of trained Bar workers to take our place, still we must, out of consideration to those who have joined, look about for means of improving our services and facilities., The uppermost aim of the American Bar Association has ever been to maintain and promote the administration of justice. With that we are heartily in accord. The JBC has always undertaken as its additional function the task of administering to the needs of the younger lawyer. It was rt mere accident that this Section de- veloped its first concrete activity in the Unauthorized Practice Committee, which undertook to stamp out the encroachments by banks, trust companies, real estate agents, undertakers, accountants, etc., upon the field of practice normally open and most accessible to the young lawyer. We can take sound satisfaction in the situation today that these fields are largely freed from such encroachments to the younger practitioner. In similar fashion, our Committee on Continuing Legal Education has cooperated with other groups to maintain and raise the standards of admission to the bar. The Justice of the Peace Committee has established on a nationwide basis a drive to see that such courts of limited jurisdiction are staffed only by lawyers. The drive has been successful in over a third of the states. The Procedural Reforms Commit- tee has undertaken hs-Jssttandardization and improvement of procedural law in each state. Many other similar examples can be adduced to show the successful impact of the organized work made possible by our joining together in the JBC. Today's problems are no less and no fewer than those of past years but are brought more sharply into focus by our greatly expanding mem- bership. I fear we have never formed sufficiently close contact with our newer members and our newer Junior Bar Groups. Perhaps we have even lost contact with some of our more established members and groups. Thereby hangs our greatest problem and one which it will be the prime aim of this administration to solve. We must become, if you will a Grass Roots organization. We must open and maintain closer channels of communication between our na- tional committees engaged in their respective missions and the local and State organizations through whom these committees should execute their duties. It must, of course, be a two-way street: we cannot super- impose our ideas of what the local or State groups need; we must listen rather than direct, then assist and coordinate. This, therefore, spells out the necessity that each of our newer mnetnhers and our newer groups, as well as our older groups, tell us whether or not our present program fails to encompass all needed objectives. Where is our program lacking? What additional services or facilities can we furnish the local and State groups? in what way can we go about the improvement of the services and facilities which we now have? In short, I earnestly solicit and invite each reader to let me, any of the Execu- tive Councilmen, or any of the National Committee Chairmen have his frank views. We need then, and want them. Equally, we need and want your help, cooperation and assistance. Let us know in what field or fields of organized bar work you would like to engage. Address your letter to me, with copies to your circuit representative and State chairmen, if you know them. If you don't, send all three copies to me and I will see that they are forwarded. If you will enclose an extra copy in each field of work in which you would like to engage, I will see to it that each of these copies is forwarded to the appropriate national committee chairman. Most of all, let us habe your letters today if possible. Sincerely yours, Past W. Lamhly (left) pras..s.aards. merim is Walter Spr-dl. Prasidaet, Dallas JunIor Bar. The presentation ceremony was wit- nessed by a large group, including Judge W. H. Atwell, United States District Judge for the Northern District of the State of Texas, and representative judges of the various Appellate, District and County Courts in Dallas, together with the officers of the Senior Dallas Bar. (tCsntird on Page Three) Executive Council Holds Mid-Winter Meeting On Saturday and Sunday, February 23rd and 24th,,the Mid-Winter Meeting of the Executive Council ,f [lie Junior Bar Conference will be held at the Edge- water Beach Hotel in Chicago, Ill. This meeting, at which the National Chair- man, Paul W. Lashly, will preside, will be attended by the national officers of the Conference, members of the Execu- tive Council for each of the ten Judicial Circuits, and the chairmen of the na- tional committees. The preliminary agenda for the meet- ing is as follows: 1. Reports of committees and Council members. 2. Review recently adopted appoint- ment procedure in general, more partic- (Continued on Page Three)

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