Volume 2, Issue 2

Table of Contents

Message from the Chair
by Mary Vasaly

Committee Reports:

Report from the Long Range Planning Committee
by Chuck Cole, Steptoe & Johnson, LLP; Washington, D.C.

Report from the Membership Committee
by Curt Cutting, Horvitz & Levy LLP; Encino, CA

Report from the Program Committee
by Mary Massaron Ross, Plunkett & Cooney, Detroit, MI

Report from the Publications Committee
by Rachel Helyar, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP; Los Angeles, CA

Report from the Rules Committee
by Robert Vort, Pearce, Vort & Flesig, LLC; Hackensack, NJ

Report from the Web Site Committee

ARTICLES

A Practical Approach to Interpreting State Constitutions as Unique Documents
by David Smyth, Steptoe & Johnson, Washington, DC

Summaries of Spencer-Grimes Seminars
by Harold Rauzi, Buckley, King; Cleveland, Ohio

Ethics (With Orientation to Appellate Practice)
by Linda Spring, Swanson, Martin & Bell; Highland Park, Illinois

Mythology of the Law: What We Really Don't Know
by Michael E. Malamut, New England Legal Foundation; Boston, Massachusetts

How Appellate Judges Use Precedent
by Robert E. Biasotti, Carlton Fields, PA, St. Petersburg, Florida

The Rule of Law in America
by Ellen R. Archibald, Kesner, Kesner & Bramble, PPLC; Charleston, W. VA.

Membership Application