From the President

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming,United States
• Citation: Vol. 28 No. 5 Pg. 8
• Publication year: 2005
• Pages: 8
• Year: 2005
• topic: Business of Law

Wyoming Bar Journal 2005.

Vol. 28, No. 5 #8 (October 2005). FROM THE PRESIDENT

WYOMING LAWYER
October 2005/Vol. XXVIII, No. 5

FROM THE PRESIDENT . . .

By Warren A. Lauer

During the 2005 Annual Meeting and Judicial Conference, a great deal of emphasis was placed on leadership. It was fascinating to hear about all the wonderful things that Wyoming lawyers are doing for their communities and our profession. Mark Harris is to be commended for defining his Bar presidency with the theme of "lawyers as leaders." Because I was so inspired by the recipients of the Leadership Awards, I decided that I would pursue the topic in this column

However, it has not been as easy as I assumed it would be. One of the problems is that leadership is not an easily defined concept. While most people recognize leadership or its lack thereof, it is very hard to come up with a good definition. Justice Potter Stewart's observation in Jacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184, 197 (1964), that while he couldn't define pornography, "I know it when I see it" is relevant. Also, what is seen as...