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1978 Retainer [1] (1978)

handle is hein.barjournals/phlbrrpr1978 and id is 1 raw text is: Thv oinnri nntt .c I. kci Iright), net ricirtd chairman if the board of gosenors, and Robert C. Daniels, vice-chairman., share the limelight. Bar 4ham uin Officers toe 1978: ifrom lrft tw ciht %iso Set- reiary [viher Plaa. Treasurer Richard %. heiner. I hanelkr Jerome E. Boguta, Chancellor Paul Carpenter Droney. Chancel- hrelect Iaeon Kate and Awl. Treasurer James F. Muod. Mary Bell Hamomernan, secretarv of the assriation, ts not shown. Picker and Daniels elected to head Board of Governors The hotad of goveor. i1 the Philadelphia Bar Astia ton elected Benetit G, Picker chairman of the board and Robert C. Danel v ice- chairman at the Jin I orgatn- rational meetrng held at rho assocattonos heidquartors. Bennert Picker, a parroer n the firm of B'rlger and Picker. was elected to the board in 1975. but had versed an the board previously asaI' lant secretary of he assc tion and av chair of the Younc Lawyer Section. Since lwn helias been active in the wok of the association including serving as chairman of the Judiciary Commirtee, tnd vice-chairman of the Ent- ployment Dscriination Re er-al Project. to addition. he is a member of the Civil Rightv Committee. the Judicial Evaluation Committee and the Criminal Justice Section. Beyond the association, Mr. Picker seres ascommis- onrr and stiretatof the tria .ou~*-rto naing Due to a revision of the by-laws. vecion chairpeorsmv are mew- bers of the board of governors for the first time. For 1978, the, are (seated, from left to righti William D. Harris. chairman. Criminal Justiie Section; Paul Carpenter Dewey. James R. Led- with. chairman. Probate and Trust Section; Steven R. Hasman. chairman. Young Lawyers' Section: (standing) Sheldon Tabb, chairman. Family Law Section and Christopher Brands. Jr., chairman. Tao Section. Theodore Kotos, chairman. Corpora- lion, Banking and Business Law Section is not shown. I Dewey '78 plan '.iui I arpentrct Dker1 hanctilot of rhe Philadelph Br Association., delivered l Inaugural address to the me hership at the annual meeti hold on Dec. 7 at the Sheraso llt rI, fr Dewey ackrtowledged m T humor and humsility th ca privdlge lit 1 to mecon, hc chancellor of the oldes I shtslt-spaksng her assocearso n A.imerca before outlinng hs plan to improve the serteces o thc association during his one citr term. effective Jan. 1. 1978 The following escerpas of th rest higlight the major points o Mrt lefweys address lAWYER REFERENCE SERVICE Lawyer Reference war tored to reach the potential mIddle-tocome clients through -1rertoi.ng Now that the ndi- h-lal practitioner may adver- T -a moch rethinking about this ',.,ce - its future utility and -g r.nge programs - is a 4, viev is that this service ,tuld be greatly expanded and *,,i more funds should be made .- bit fir inteusfied advents- Inc NEW PROGRAMS - number of exciting pro- rio, of the Young Lawyers ason wIl be expanded or wilt _mc into eseeac in 1978: one .5 State-fonded program which il preside legal servces for .tuoed children: another is an cspanded program to which ap- proximately 200 lawyerv will support individual school trcher. in teachmsg tar course, ohtch members of this Section have designed; and still another is an espanded Law Esplorers Pot pro IN 1. w, will tnon for th 1,I ths'isas- cdiv l .nicot ia 1c one Odct.n program wihch is wilt be administered by our 11- Lawyer Reference Service. At is the 'me time, we will tilso be Inc- ot latoigs for the fir toune a prorm for delisering legal serviweo to Lit urban elderly persons of moder. 10 ater treal5. itANNOTATED DIRECTORY a BY nest yammer t expect that we will1 base produced our ownvi law hst Idirectory of awy-1t. awhuch w-ttl give Phdladetplua, its first compreheosis price and senice liottog of Phiadetphia oflawyers and such other informa- tion as is permitted by The Rates dcision as subsequec nly ye- sied.) NEW COMMITTEES I u le ukong Our Board n ,osecrs- to aptficis the fearn- lion Of A Legifiultse L-ialsoc. Comittee onder the leadership of former Chancellor. John B McConnell Th.,is Cmmittee .wil ads iw Alt of err Committees with read to endorsing and opsmor' tom and -l recom- mend and 5010r e- kdthying a- tivites oith the approval of our Board it Goverors. I will propose, to due course. to iiir Board that a permanent Committee za AMW Lawyers and J-dgteshe formed. In mry poooo. the j-oosicttont of such a Com- crittcs, should inclovle at least the following dories at Cosalt with younger lawyers about to toter law prac- lice; hr Consult with older lawyerv with regard to Financial. health, disaltie and retirement problems. co Mediate disputes be- tween lawyers, lawyers and clisets and I.awlers and jodgv: d)t Convar a.tth Ito - sAtad i,,d,, -d>15cr attick h, Thc ress One of the best By Howard N.e Recently. I aiandad an %met van Bar Assiattio Conerence on Legal Services and the Public held tn New Orleans. Numerous workshops were devoted to the delivery of legal serlcc to the Public. The topics among others included lawyer referral sersices. legal clitics. prepaid legal plan and public education As a newly appointed dtrector of LRS. this of its kind can m ttili capisure 10 the plemnlt n-ou1ttred h sother r art1s W0hile atten- dance at the IRS and public edu- cation workshops was iportan, the release of the ronal report of the ABA Special Committee to Survey Legal Needs was rho highlight of the conferencr. I am plasevd to wrtc that most of the recommendations con- tamed in the report pertaining to lawyvr referral services have al- THE RETAINER SUPPLEMENT, JANUARY 10. 1978 rea n ar uplettd i, Th, Philadlphia Bar A-ssciation In addition. LRS long ago be came the 'legal inlormalttion can ter' recommended in the rpsort A peron coniacting IRS hi' atallble not only the name of in attoey but alst information on hrs to he an informed constisc of legal services. The report also called for mosm Panicipation by the client in selecting a sutable at- torney '. and suggested that clients he gioen access to a do- r...nedo.es iv Asso iatio eimb r un. ..t . ... ... . n , th , - ,1 . cller at thr Jan. 5 han-i-lm , kITpiiln.I I , .,,, 1. -i 197N chancelior (righit. Bernard 11. Borish. 1977 chuncllir, his wife, Annette. Chancellor-Eleotl Lem Kau and %iice-Chancellor Jerome F. Bogut are also seen chating with an endless lint of members. THE 0 Rtainer PHILADELPHIA BAR ASSOCIATION

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