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48 J. Kan. B. Ass'n 2 (1979)

handle is hein.barjournals/jkabr0048 and id is 1 raw text is: From the President THANK YOU FOR THE PRIVILEGE, it has now become my turn to review my year as president and to pass the gavel. I do so reluctantly because so much work remains to be done. I also do so with a feeling of nostalgia because of leaving the many lawyers who have been so dedicated to the betterment of the legal profession during the year. One of the highest compliments I can pay to my fellow lawyers is that almost no member of the KBA failed to perform any task given to him or her and it was performed well. The entire 3500 members of the KBA should express their thanks to the Executive Council for their dedicated efforts and giving hundreds of hours of valuable time to improve the quality and image of the legal profession in Kansas. Ken Klein, your Executive Director, Marcia Poell, your Public Relations Director and Gary Robbins, your CLE Director and the entire staff of the KBA have done a superb job despite crowded quarters and a burdensome volume of work. We are all grateful to them for their loyalty. I. THE LONG RANGE PLANNING COMMITTEE The year has been busy and hopefully because of it, our profession has profited. With the advent of the Long Range Planning Conference, we have set the course for a continuous study and planning program to meet future demands of our profession. The Executive Council has created a permanent Long Range Planning Committee. It will be chaired by the Honorable Terry Bullock and staffed by capable and dedicated lay persons and lawyers. If utilized properly this can have great value for the future image and effectiveness of the Kansas Bar Association. II. FEDERAL INTERVENTION This has been a year of many problems. It started off with Chief Justice Burger accusing the legal profession of having only 25% competency. The President of the United States said the country was plagued with being over-lawyered -and under served, with 75% of our people being unable to afford an attorney. These thrusts of criticism were the polestar to which we sought reform and improvement. We were faced with various federal programs designed to ultimately control and regulate the legal profession. (1) The Federal Trade Commission The Federal Trade Commission has taken the first steps in such control. The government attorney in charge of this attempt openly advocates that the FTC, through its existing rule making power, develop federal regula- tions for the purpose of overriding and eliminating state regulations and restrictions on the practice of law. The theory of the FTC is that the development of legal clinics, group plans, storefront legal services, do it THE JOURNAL OF THE KANSAS BAR ASSOCIATION

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