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29 Philadelphia Bar Rep. 1 (2000)

handle is hein.barjournals/phlbrrpr0029 and id is 1 raw text is: I auay200TeMotl Nwppe Sfth hiaephaBr soiainVo.2, o Annual Meeting Davis Urges Bar to Embrace Civility, Family, by Robert Nigro Anticipating her leadership of the Bar Association this year, 1999 Chancellor-Elect Doreen S. Davis urged all lawyers to embrace civility and family-friendly workplaces and to foster advances in technology for use in the justice system and equality in the profession. Davis outlined her goals in these areas during her address to Bar members at the Association's Annual Meeting on Dec. 7 in the Crystal Tea Room in the Wanamaker Building. As she prepared to become the Bar's 73rd Chancellor, Davis, partner in Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads LLP, touched upon several plans and ideas to improve the profession in her address: * Increased civility among lawyers in the practice of law. 'We must find new ways to build a civil profession and society, she said. She added that she believes she is privileged to practice labor law, where, for the most part, a semblance of civility and collegiality still holds sway She added, however, that she believes the profession must regain a sense of civility 'before we are swept away by a rising tide of detachment, cynicism and destructiveness Davis said that tide' should trouble not just lawyers, but also society. 'Common decency and civility seem to be on the ropes. Meanwhile, crassness, insensitivity and outright mayhem seem to be on the rise, Davis said, while lawyers have fostered a legal and social revolution that may have too often placed individual against individual and group against group, perhaps at the expense of the common good She noted that recently the Council on Civil Society, in its Report to theNation, observed that while our roles as workers and continued on page 12 Technology Doreen S. Davis, the Bars 73rd Chancellor, addresses attendees of the Bar's Dec. 7 Annual Meeting in the Crystal Tea Room in the Wanamaker Building. Bar Adopts Model Family Leave Policy by Robert Nigro During its Dec. 20 meeting, the Board of Governors unanimously adopted the Women in the Profession Committee's Model Employer Policies for Parenting Lawyers and resolutions from the Fee Disputes Committee to adopt operating rules for the committee's new Lawyer Fee Dispute Resolution Program and to permanently incorporate the commit- tee's pilot Mediation Program into the committee's operating rules. The parenting lawyer policies are the culmination of the committee's work, led by Marianne E. Brown and Dana B. Klinges, to update the Bar's existing pol- icy. They are new guidelines for law firms and other employers who are committed to ensuring their own com- pliance with federal law, particularly in the area of disability leave as a result of pregnancy, childbirth and related med- ical conditions and the Family Medical Leave Act. The policies also seek to help remove unfair barriers to the advance- ment of women lawyers and to assist all lawyers who seek better balance of their family, personal and professional responsibilities. The policies were presented to the Board by 1999 Committee Chairs Jane Leslie Dalton and Kathleen Wilkinson. Wilkinson explained that since the Bar's first policies were finalized in 1989, more women have entered the work- force, and workplace trends such as part-time and flex-time work and telecommunting have become more common. But, she added, many women told the committee that their firms still had no policy regarding maternity leave or that there was little opportunity for part-or flex-time work. In revising the model policies, the committee and its Advisory Council and Junior Women Task Force studied the continued on page 14 Visit the Philadelphia Bar Association on the World Wide Web at www.philadelphiabar.org - E-mail the Philadelphia Bar Reporter at reporter@philabar.org .:::4 L ,. I In This Issue ..* Fidelity Award Chacker Reflects Annual Meeting Pics Peckman Leads YLD & Guidance Opinion Z cc O d iH ii H' S Fg' r}' za

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