ABA Section of Business Law
Business Law Today
March/April 1999
Section sound bites
Just a reminder
The San Francisco Spring Meeting is just weeks away and the Section has a full schedule of events planned. If you would like detailed information on registration, CLE programs, committee and subcommittee meetings and other activities, call the Section’s automated fax on demand at 312/988-5810 or check out the Section’s Web site at www.abanet.org/buslaw for complete meeting information and to register online. See pages 6-7 for more information on event highlights. The Spring Meeting is simply the best educational, informational and networking event of the year … all at an extraordinarily low cost. Register today!
Important deadlines: March 15: Hotel reservation; March 26: Meeting registration.
Spring Meeting speaker announced
The Spring Meeting Section luncheon speaker is always on the leading edge of his or her business arena. This year’s speaker, Dick Grasso, chairman and chief executive officer of the New York Stock Exchange, is one of the recognized leaders of the U.S. financial markets and one of the world’s most important financial and business community leaders.
International capital and financial markets have dominated the end of the 20th century with their historic levels of volume and value appreciation and with their extraordinary technological and global expansions. Grasso will deliver a major policy address on "The Financial Marketplace in the 21st Century." Don’t miss this extraordinary opportunity to hear a vision of the future from the leader of one of the world’s premier financial markets.
TechShow 99
The Section will be cosponsoring the 12th Annual TechShow with the Section of Law Practice Management, March 18-20 in Chicago.
TechShow 99 is the world’s leading legal technology conference created by lawyers for lawyers. TechShow features more than 90 educational sessions on the most practical bottom line uses of the latest technology. Ten different educational program tracks, including a corporate and large-firm track, are geared directly toward lawyers’ specific concerns and levels of interest.
As a Section of Business Law member, you are entitled to $100 discount off the registration fee! For a copy of the seminar brochure, call the Section office at 312/988-5588 or visit the TechShow Web site at www.techshow.com.
Section honored for diversity initiatives
The Section was recently applauded for its efforts to encourage the participation of women and minorities in Section activities. Both the Commission on Women in the Profession and the Commission on Opportunities for Minorities in the Profession named the Section to their respective honor rolls in the recently released GOAL IX Report Cards. Business Law is the only section to be named to both lists — congratulations to the Diversity Committee and Section leaders!
At its Midwinter Meeting, the Section Council adopted a Diversity Plan that will serve as a road map to assist and encourage the members and leaders of the Section to ensure full and equal participation for lawyers of color, women lawyers and younger lawyers. The plan sets forth specific long-range goals and action plans. For a copy, visit the new Diversity Committee Web site at www.abanet.org/buslaw.
The nominees are . . .
The Section’s Nominating Committee has proposed a slate of names for officers and Council positions to be elected at the Annual Meeting in Atlanta:
- For chair-elect of the Section for a one-year term: Amelia H. Boss, Philadelphia
- For secretary of the Section for a one-year term: Harold S. Barron, Blue Bell, Pa.
- For Section delegates to the ABA House of Delegates for three-year terms ending in 2002: M. Peter Moser, Baltimore and Myles V. Lynk, Washington.
- For Council members for four-year terms ending 2003: Deborah L. Fletcher, Charlotte, N.C.; James J. Hanks Jr., Baltimore; Thurston R. Moore, Richmond, Va.; Karen L. Shapiro, Newark, N.J.; and Edwin E. Smith, Boston.
- For Council member to complete the unexpired term of John W. Martin Jr., ending 2002: Mary Beth M. Clary, Naples, Fla.
- For Council member to complete the unexpired term of Harold S. Barron, ending 2001: James Fulcher Tune, Seattle.
