Note From The Editor, 0517 ALBJ, 78 The Alabama Lawyer 196 (2017)

• Author: Gregory H. Hawley
• Position: Vol. 78 3 Pg. 196

NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

Vol. 78 No. 3 Pg. 196

Alabama Bar Lawyer

May, 2017

Gregory H. Hawley

Dear Keith:

Thank you for your many years of dedicated service to the Alabama State Bar. I am but one of thousands of lawyers who are beneficiaries of your vision, strategy and hard work.

As a young lawyer, when you took over our association, I was proud that the bar’s leadership had chosen a peer– a young lawyer with a track record of success and vision. Now that we are a little older, we can look back on your many successes and congratulate you for those, but we should also give a nod in the direction of those who placed their trust in you 23 years ago. Good call, ladies and gentlemen!

Over the years, I have enjoyed crossing paths with you. Like many, I have attended dozens of annual meetings and enjoyed the lectures, dinners, awards ceremonies, entertainment and cocktail hours that you and the Alabama State Bar staff put together.

I have also seen at ABA meetings the respect that you enjoy among the leadership of the ABA, as well as the respect you enjoy among other state and local bar executives at the meetings of the...