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26 Miss. Law. 1 (1979-1980)

handle is hein.barjournals/misly0026 and id is 1 raw text is: Miss. Young Lawyers Win National Awards The Young Lawyers Section of the Mississippi State Bar received two first place awards in the Award of Achievement Competition for 1978-79 sponsored by the Young Law- yers Division of the American Bar Association. Samuel C. Highsmith, of Batesville, Arkansas, Chairman of the ABA/YLD Award of Achievement Committee, announced the Mississip- pi first place awards on August 10, 1979, at the ABA/YLD Annual Meeting in Dallas, Texas. The Mississippi YLS won first place in the comprehensive category, in which state young lawyer affiliates competed in regard to the overall ex- cellence of their programs. The Mis- sissippi YLS also won first place in the single project public service category for its work in providing disaster legal assistance to flood victims in Mis- sissippi during the Great Flood of April,1979. The comprehensive ap- plication was prepared on behalf of the Mississippi YLS by Judith J. Johnson, of Jackson. The single pro- ject public service application was prepared on behalf of the Mississippi YLS by William M. Dalehite, Jr., also of Jackson. James A. Peden, Jr., who served as Mississippi YLS president during 1978-79, commented: The two first place awards are an appropriate recognition of the dedicated service rendered to the public and to the legal profession by hundreds of Mississippi young lawyers during the past year. The presentation in Dallas of the awards of achievement was the high- light of the ABA/YLD Annual Meeting for the large Mississippi delegation, which was led by YLS president E. Clifton Hodge, Jr., of University. With 19 persons in attendance, Mississippi had the largest delegation at the Dallas ABA/YLD meeting with the ex- ception of the Texas host delegation. Representing the Mississippi Young Lawyers, in addition to President Hodge, were Eugene L. Fair, of Hat- tiesburg, Vice-President; W. David Watkins, of Jackson, Secretary; James A. Peden, Jr., of Jackson, Past Presi- dent; Steven C. Edds, of Columbus; Claude F. Clayton, Jr., and Thomas M. McElroy, both of Tupelo; and Jerome C. Hafter, of Greenville. Also, Rick Barry, of Meridian; David M. Ratcliff, of Laurel; F. Douglas Montagur, III, of Hattiesburg; John W. Chapman, of Pascagoula; and C. Delbert Hosemann, Jr., Charles F. Johnson, Ill, Judith J. Johnson, William S. Painter, Hubbard T. Saunders, IV, Suzanne N. Saunders, and William R. Wright, all of Jackson. Suzanne N. Saunders, who chaired the Mississippi YLS Disaster Legal Assistance Committee in 1978-79, ad- dressed the ABA/YLD General Assembly in Dallas to explain how members of the Mississippi State Bar had assisted flood victims in this state. Suzanne will serve during 1979-80 as co-chairman of the VOLUME XXVI ABA/YLD Disaster Emergency Relief Committee. David C. Weiner, of Cleveland, Ohio, the new chairman of the Young Lawyers Division of the American Bar Association, has also appointed Mon- tague to chair the ABA!YLD Commit- tee on Explorer Law, Watkins to serve as chairman of the ABA/YLD Town Hall Committee, and Edds to serve on the Editorial Board of The Barrister, the official publication of the ABA/YLD. Weiner has appointed several other Mississippi young lawyers to serve on ABA/YLD committees for 1979-80. NUMB SEPTEMBER, 1979 Jackson Young Lawyers Plan Symposium On Stress and the Profession By JUDITH J. JOHNSON Stress is the most unrelenting explosive, blustering speech pattern; adversary of the attorney. It con- (8) lack of humor; (9) a sense of dis- tributes to hypertension, ulcers, heart appointment, that life holds few real disease, and insomnia, as well as pleasures. marital problems, excessive drinking While there is no easy answer to and drug abuse. Becuase the attorney elimination of all the stresses to is a prime target for excessive stress, which one is subject, there are ways Bar Associations all over the country of managing stress that can be learn- are turning to experts in stress ed. research in making available to their The Jackson Young Lawyers Asso- members techniques for coping with ciation is in the process of planning a the pressures of the legal profession. symposium on stress. The Committee Research has shown that people believes that we, as attorneys, are under excessive stress exhibit certain peculiarly susceptible to excessive characteristics. Among these are the stress, since we continually deal with following: (1) an overwhelming sense clients and problems that create an of the passage of time; (2) the inability atmosphere of constant pressure. The to delegate authority; (3) the tenden- Committee plans to invite profes- cy to ignore all facets of life except sionals in the area of stress manage- work; (4) the habit of taking on too ment to conduct a symposium to be many projects with occasionally con- held next Spring for a limited number flicting deadlines; (5) an obsessive of attorneys and their spouses. In need for affirmation, coupled with a order to provide adequate -accom- persistent drive to achieve and ad- modations, please call or write vance, competing all the while; (6) the William S. Painter, P. 0. Box 158, feeling that normal conversation pro- Jackson, Mississippi 39205, or phone ceeds at too slow a rate of speed; (7) 948-3030. THEIIISSIS!

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