 President's Message
By William D. Olson,
August 2008
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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