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Minutes of the meeting of
March 1, 2002
President Birdsall called the
meeting to order at 9:05 A.M. Art
thanked the PABE members for honoring him to be its President. Art introduced the new executive board for
the next two years as follows:
Nancy
Paul, Vice President Becky
Morgenthal, Secretary
Diane
Krivoniak, Treasurer
Art thanked Marianne Canning for her
time and commitment as PABE’s President for the past two years.
ATTENDANCE: Members present were: Alfred Azen (IOLTA
Board), Jean Bednarski (York), President, Arthur Birdsall (PBA), David Blaner
(Allegheny County), Marianne Canning (Lehigh County), Charles Hagins (Cambria
County) Susan Kenny (Monroe County), Barbara Kittrell (Berks County), D. Susan
Kost (Schuylkill County), Treasurer, Diane Krivoniak (Westmoreland County),
Patricia Martin (Bucks County), Claudia Meyer (Northampton County), Donald
Morgan (Dauphin County), Secretary, Becky Morgenthal (Cumberland County),
Francis O’Rourke (PBA), Vice President Nancy Paul (Montgomery County),
Elizabeth Price (Delaware County), Carolyn Seibert-Drager (Franklin County),
Kenneth Shear (Philadelphia County), Sandra Brydon Smith (Erie County), Daniel
Stark (Chester County), and Evelyn Sullivan (Lancaster County); guest(s) Don
Ivol (Colburn).
The president asked those present to
introduce themselves.
MINUTES: The minutes of the November 29, 2001 meeting
held at the Dauphin County Bar Association were presented. Nancy Paul moved to accept the minutes as
presented; Barb Kittrell second the motion; vote: all in favor.
TREASURER’S
REPORT: Becky Morgenthal presented the
treasurer’s report. Liz Price moved to
accept the treasurer’s report as presented; Barb Kittrell second the motion; vote: all in favor.
Bill
Scott, President of the CCBL came into the meeting to thank the PABE members
for their time and effort in helping to make the CCBL conference a success.
HR
110 COMMITTEE REPORT – LEGAL ADVERTISING:
Pat Martin thanked the task force for all their work. The goal was to prepare a packet of
information to give to all county bar associations that would guide us to move
quickly to contact legislators if the need arises. The advertising changes being looked out are
not impacting on the legal journals at this time. David Blaner reported that a drastic change
in public notice ads is happening throughout the country.
APPOINTMENT
TO CCBL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Art
appointed Liz Price and Barbara Kittrell to serve on this committee because
they are the only two past presidents’ who have not served on the
committee. Liz will be on the committee
for 2002-03 and Barbara will serve 2003-04.
FUTURE
MEETINGS AND PROGRAMS: Some of the
meeting dates suggested are as follows: May 2nd – PBA Annual meeting
May 31-June 1 Retreat?
September, the first
weekend after Labor Day (Sept 6-8)
November 21 –
The
question of PABE meeting at the same time and place as the Board of Governors
and YLD was suggested. Pat Martin moved
that PABE have its own retreat by our selves and decline the invitation to join
the Governors and the YLD; David Blaner second the
motion; vote: all in favor.
After some discussion, the first
weekend in September, after Labor Day will be the retreat. Nancy Paul & Liz Price will select the
location. Two places mentioned were
PABE
WEB SITE: Pat Martin wants to be
involved in developing its content.
PABE
SURVIVAL GUIDE & RESOURCE GUIDE: This information should be placed on the
Web Site, the PBA Web site and/or Conference of County Bar Leaders site. The role of the President and the Bar
Executive should be on all the sites.
MyPublicNotices.com – Brian Gottlieb, PA Newspaper Association (Special
order of business at 10:30 a.m.) Never Showed
PBA
ACTIVITY:
·
Fran O’Rourke reported that the new InCite program is just short of
4,000 subscribers; 1100 members have been there at least once; the rest have
used 36,000 searches. The PBA will do a
program to instruct members in your county how to use the Incite program and
they are trying to match young attorneys with the older ones who are not as
familiar with online research.
·
The PBA is looking for more new benefits, such as office products,
membership development (Gateway was the only computer supplies willing to offer
a 5% discount)
·
Tort reform and other legislative info will likely be added to the
email list including House of Delegates and Bar Executives.
·
Board of Governor’s Report from
Art:
Reviewed InCite
status: 3860 people about 36,000
searches
Senate Bills: 869 PBA will approve
1000 Crime on terrorism –
PBA will approve
·
PBI- CLE reports that attorneys are taking shorter courses and not
wanting to stay through the 6 to 8 hour courses. Books are now being sold online.
·
PBA-PA Medical Society committee created by Marvin Lieber has now been
tabled.
·
YLD Mock Trial finals are March 22-23 in the Senate chambers in
·
Family Law committee raised their dues from $35 to $50 per year.
·
PBA
PRESIDENT-ELECT TIMOTHY J. CARSON: Art
introduced Tim Carson. Tim’s plans are
to help market the InCite program; stay on top of technology issues; increase
pro bono programs for individuals; move some programs, such as I signed the Constitution to the Bar
Foundation; increase legislative efforts.
NEW
BUSINESS:
PBI has made a new proposal for charging but no one
seems to know what it is.
Pat Martin moved to have our President ask the PBI
Board to allow a PABE representative to sit on their Board and send the letter
to the PBI Executive Director; Susan Kenny second the
motion; vote: all in favor.
Kit Connor has been nominated to the 3rd
Circuit Federal Bench
Al Azen from IOLTA reported that the recommendations
for distribution of funds that normally go out in March would not be released
until May. There is $100,000 available
and they have received $140,000 in requests.
The Supreme Court is considering raising fees on Civil
cases to raise more funds.
The meeting was adjourned.
Respectfully
Submitted
by________________________________
Becky
H. Morgenthal
Arthur
J. Birdsall Nancy R.
Paul Becky
Morgenthal Diane
Krivoniak
Penna.
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