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President's Message




Counsel,

Greetings from Iowa in the heartland of America.  As President of the Association for 2008-2009 my first clear duty (a privilege, really) is to thank my predecessor, Rebecca Messall, for her service during the past year which culminated in the organization of the remarkable symposium held in Colorado Springs in late July dealing with the "INALIENABLE RIGHT TO LIFE." Rebecca brought an intensity to the office which I can only hope to match in part.

Ours is an organization of lawyers and, of necessity, the work we do as lawyers will center on the law, the jurisprudence which underlies our system of law, and the day-to-day practice of our profession. Notwithstanding the fact that all of us are licensed to practice law in our respective jurisdictions I often wonder if we would not be better lawyers, better practitioners of a noble profession if, with some frequency, we intellectually, morally, spiritually and even personally stepped back and thought of ourselves in other ways.  When I entered law school in the 1970s the directors of admission at the several law schools to which I applied made it clear to me they no longer regarded any undergraduate or graduate course of study as uniquely qualifying one for the study of law but that they welcomed applications from people with diverse backgrounds, life experience, and varieties of academic preparation.  This was supposed to be a development in the training of lawyers which would enrich the profession and I believe that it did.

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