Executive Director's Report

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming,United States
• Citation: Vol. 31 No. 6 Pg. 6
• Publication year: 2008
• Pages: 6
• Year: 2008
• topic: Business of Law,Civil Rights,Public Sector Law

Wyoming Bar Journal 2008.

Vol. 31, No. 6, 6. Executive Director's Report

Wyoming Bar Journal
Issue: December, 2008

Author: Sleeter C. Dover

Executive Director's Report

The Ties That Bind

From where I sit, there are gaps that not only interrupt, but actually sever the ties that bind the Wyoming State Bar with our service population. This not being Independence Day, I will not roll out the old tried-and-true, stirring speeches crafted to generate pride and commitment to the ideals of our American precepts and creeds. I will not make impassioned pleas to the sitting bar nor will I assert or present the available statistics and anecdotal heart-wrenching stories that find their way before the State Bar staff each day. Guilt-inducing pleas will not be a part of this commentary.

I have no intention whatsoever of interrupting your joyous holiday season with sad and disheartening stories of woe. I mean, clearly there is nothing you could do to help or remedy some of the dire circumstances many of our fellow citizens find themselves in. You and I are not responsible for their plight, or even in many instances, their even being in Wyoming in the first place. Of what concern of ours is it that "outsiders" from other states in the Union find themselves here taking advantage of our great state and its natural...