The lawyer in today's world.

• Author: Marchetti, Jr., L. Gino
• Position: President's page

In his last President's Page, Bruce Parker had approximately one month remaining in his term. As I write this, my first President's Page, it seems hard to believe that almost two months of my term have elapsed. In his column, Bruce recounted the number of successes enjoyed by the IADC during his term. He commented on the commitment to excellence exhibited by all those members and staff who made those successes possible.

Not content to rest on past successes, Bruce called upon all members in the coming year to make a renewed commitment to the IADC. I want to continue Bruce's theme and invite, urge, encourage and, yes, require each member of the IADC to renew your commitment to the IADC. It almost seems foolish for a member to invest the effort to become a member, as well as pay the dues and registration fees for various meetings, and then not to commit to the IADC.

While we need each member's efforts and energy to improve the IADC, commitment in the IADC is not a one-way street. The IADC also must make the commitment to each and every one of its members. This commitment begins with me as your President and each one of the members of the Board of Directors whom you have chosen to represent you in leading the IADC. This commitment continues with the Executive Director, Jay Donohue, whom the Board of Directors has chosen and who, with his staff colleagues, makes available to each member the resources necessary for each member to fully enjoy the benefits of IADC membership.

The IADC's commitment continues through each of its Substantive, Advisory, and Standing Committees which are charged with providing an avenue for each member to not only enhance his or her trial skills and knowledge of their particular area of practice or expertise, but also to provide support and business development opportunities to each member. Further evidence of the IADC commitment to each of you, its members, can be seen by a review of projects and programs scheduled for this upcoming year. Some of those programs include a continuation of the skills workshops at future meetings teaching us how to work with PowerPoint and Trial Director. We plan to continue our in-house training programs, not only in employment law, but also in dealing with e-discovery issues.

To address new areas of interest by our members, we have created a new Substantive Law Committee, the White Collar Crime Committee. We continue to address diversity issues within the IADC and have expanded our...