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4 R.I. Bar J. 1 (1955-1956)

handle is hein.barjournals/ribj0004 and id is 1 raw text is: O. V, VOL. IV, No. 1 OCTOBER, 1955 SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 Published Monthly October through June ANNUAL MEETING TO PRESENT INSTITUTE ON CIVIL TRIAL During the morning and a part of the afternoon of the October 10 Annual Meeting of the Rhode Island Bar As- sociation to be held at the Narragan- sett Hotel in Providence, an Institute will be given on the subject of A Civil Action - The Trial. Charles F. Cotton, Esq., Chairman of the Continuing Legal Education Com- mittee of the Rhode Island Bar Associa- tion, will preside. The morning session, which will start at 10 A. M., will be addressed by Wilfred R. Lorry, Esq., of the Pennsylvania bar, on the subject of The Trial of Civil Cases from a Plain- tiff's Point of View. He will be fol- lowed by John R. McConnell, also of the Pennsylvania bar, who will discuss The Trial of Civil Cases from a De- fendant's Point of View. These speakers have been obtained through the cooperation of the Ameri- can Law Institute's Committee on Con- tinuing Legal Education collaborating with the American Bar Association. Both of these speakers have participa- ted in similar institutes before a num- ber of bar associations, have contrib- ted articles to various legal magazines and specialize in trial work. Mr. Lorry is the author of the American Bar As- sociation publication A Civil Action - The Trial, a copy of which will be distributed to each person registering together with outlines of each talk. At 12:30 P. M. the Narragansett Hotel will serve luncheon, at the end of which the two lecturers will answer questions from the audience. The afternoon session will start at 2:15 P. M. and will consist of a panel discussion led by Aram Arabian, James C. Bulman, Mat- thew W. Goring, Gerald W. Harrington and Francis V. Reynolds, all of the Rhode Island Bar Association, with particular emphasis on Rhode Island law and practice in connection with the trial of civil cases. It is expected that a further question and answer period will follow the afternoon session. There will be a modest registration fee for the Institute of $5 per person and a charge of $2 for the luncheon. Reservations should be made in ad- vance if possible, on the form sent out by the Bar Association office with the notice of the annual meeting. AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION HOLDS ANNUAL MEETING Some twenty-five members of the Rhode Island Bench and Bar attended the annual meeting of the American Bar Association held in Philadelphia the week of August 22. With head- quarters at the Bellevue-Stratford Ho- tel and about five thousand lawyers in attendance, the Convention got off to a busy week of activity climaxed by an address by President Eisenhower in In- dependence Square, at a program cele- brating the two hundreth anniversary of the birth of the great U. S. Chief Jus- tice John Marshall. Vice President Nixon was the principal speaker at the annual banquet and Chief Justice War- ren, Attorney General Brownell, Wilbur M. Brucker, Secretary of the Army, and Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine, were among the other major speakers during the week. The House of Delegates, the A.B.A. policy making body, met daily, and Rhode Island lawyers were represented by their own delegates, Henry C. Hart and Colin MacR Makepeace. Social Security for lawyers was among the many subjects discussed, and the dele- gates were requested to poll their re- spective State Bars on the question whether they would accept compulsory (Continued on Page 2) ASSOCIATION PLANS LECTURE SERIES The Committee on Continuing Lega Education has announced plans for a series of practicing law institutes coln - mencing this Fall covering practical problems in all major fields of law with particular emphasis on Rhode Is- land statutes, decisions and procedure. It is proposed to make the institutes an annual series with not less than four institutes each year. Present plans, ac- cording to Charles F. Cottam, Com- mittee Chairman, indicate that a nomi- nal charge will be made to cover the costs of the program. The first institute will be held in early November. The Executive Committee of the Bar Association has already ap- proved the plans. The Committee on Continuing Legal Education announced its plans with the following statement: The Rhode Island Bar Association's Committee on Continuing Legal Educa- tion has made plans to conduct a series of practicing law institutes for the members of the Rhode Island Bar. These institutes will cover all major fields of law as it is practiced in Rhode Island and the procedural aspects of the practice before State and Federal ad- ministrative bodies. (Continued on Page 3) OCTOBER 10, 1955 ANNUAL MEETING -- OF -- RHODE ISLAND BAR ASSOCIATION NARRAGANSETT HOTEL * LEGAL INSTITUTE-A CIVIL ACTION-THE TRIAL * LUNCHEON * DINNER AND BUSINESS MEETING See Notice of Annual Meeting For Full Details

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