Executive Director's Report, 0515 ALBJ, 76 The Alabama Lawyer 162 (2015)

• Author: Keith B. Norman, J.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S REPORT

Vol. 76 No. 3 Pg. 162

Alabama Bar Lawyer

May, 2015

\xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0 Keith B. Norman, J.

\xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0The 2015 Annual Meeting-138 and Counting!

\xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0This year's annual meeting will be held July 15-18 at the Grand Hotel in Point Clear. We are very excited about this year's get-together, our 138th since the bar's founding in 1879. It promises to be one of our best and will feature programs for the solo and small firm practitioners, as well as specialty programs for lawyers with a more particularized practice. As they have for many years, our sections will play a pivotal role in the programs at the annual meeting.

\xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0One of the general session programs that we believe will be of great interest coincides with the 70-year anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps of World War II and the war crime trials that followed. The presentation will feature Joshua M. Greene, author of Justice at Dachau, the story of William Denson, the Alabama lawyer who served as the chief American prosecutor of the guards and officers at the death camps at Dachau, Mauthausen and Flossenburg.

\xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0In addition, the meeting will focus on President Raleigh's theme for this year, "Lawyers in Transition," with programs to address the needs and concerns of lawyers coping with changes in their professional lives and a profession that is also experiencing rapid change. Finally, there will be an impressive array of family programs and social activities sure to make the meeting an enjoyable time for everyone. A more detailed listing of this year's annual meeting programs, as well as hotel and meeting registration information, is available at www.alabar.org/about-the-bar/annual-meeting.

\xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0It is interesting to examine how much our meetings have changed over the y ears. For example, the 38th annual meeting was held in Montgomery, July 9-10, 1915, in the hall of the House of Representatives at the state capital. The meeting consisted of the election of association officers, the presentations of numerous committee reports¹ and other association business, including the necrology of bar members.² The annual address was given by Hannis Taylor and entitled, "Our Rights and Duties as a Neutral Nation." One of the several scholarly papers delivered was "Doctrine of...