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9 R.I. Bar J. 1 (1960-1961)

handle is hein.barjournals/ribj0009 and id is 1 raw text is: SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 Annually VOL. IX, No. 1 OCTOBER, 1960 Published Monthly October through June REPORT OF ABA ANNUAL MEETING BY ARTHUR J. LEVY Led by Chief Justice Condon and El- lis L. Yatman, President, thirty members of the Rhode Island Bar attended the meeting of the American Bar Associa- tion in Washing the last week in Aug- ust. Among them were Judge Paolino of the Supreme Court and Judges Mur- ray, Licht, Weisberger, MacKenzie of the Superior Court, Colin M. Makepeace and Arthur J. Levy, member of the House of Delegates, Sayles Gorham, President Elect and James H. Higgins, Jr., Vice President, and Robert A. Coog- gan, Superior Court Administrator. Messrs. Makepeace, Levy, Yatman and Gorham attended meetings of the Con- ference of Bar Presidents, of which Mr. Makepeace is the National Recorder. Rhode Island was honored by the elec- tion of Robert A. Coogan as Chairman of the National Conference of Court Ad- ministration Officers. Chief Justice Condon attended the m e e t i n g s of the Conference of Chiel Justices. Judges Murray, Weisberger, MacKenzie and Licht attended meetings of the Con- ference of Trial Judges. Ambrose B. Kelly presented to the Section of Insur- ance Negligence and Compensation Law the session under his Chairmanship of the Fire Insurance Law Committee. Robert Pickard reported as a Committee Chairman to the Section on Taxation. Harvey S. Reynolds, Melvin L. Zurier and George C. Davis, of the Rhode Is- land Commission on Uniform State Laws attended the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws during the week preceding the An- nual Meeting. The report of the Con- ference was submitted to the House of Delegates. Seventeen members of the Rhode Is- land Bar were sworn in as members of the United States Supreme Court in a very colorful ceremony involving 1900 new Supreme Court lawyers from all over the country. Those from each state were presented by individual spon- sors. Matthew W. Goring was the spon- sor of the Rhode Island group. The principal feature of this meeting of the American Bar Association was the participation as guests of nearly 1000 barristers, solicitors and lawyers from the United Kingdom and the British Commonwealth of Nations. These in- (Coninued on Page 5) J*X * ABA Annual Meeting Page I * Dues Discussed Page 2 * Exec. Committee Statement Page 2 * Judicial Decisions Foster Legislation Page 3 Editor In Chief Matthew E. Ward f Lav wyers Admitted to U. S. Supreme C'ourt Bar - Front row, left to right: Joseph J. Nicholson, Judge Joseph R. Weisberger, Charles Z. Alexander, Robert A. Coogan, Anthony J. DeLisi, Mrs. Beverly M. G. Long, Judge Thomas J. Paotino, Stephen B. Ives, Jr., Matthew W. Goring, Sponsor. Second row: Martin Johnson, Herbert B. Barlow, Jr., Benedetto A. Cerilli, Vincent Pallozzi, John Stephen Lennon,- John Bennett Kglaghan,. Ug. Qbarro. Back row, center: Charles J. Bourgault,oke i .t Tessar' I *1 4 i

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