Critical re-examination of the structure of the American Bar Association is a manifestation of the bar’s anxiety for its collective welfare. The same sense of insecurity as to the profession’s future has initiated in every state movements to strengthen bar associations either by incorporation or by federation of existing voluntary bodies. Bar association speeches drop the old tone of self approval and take on a tone of apprehension and uneasiness.
Publication Date
April 15, 1932
Citation
18 A.B.A. J. 383-86 (1932), 4 Mo. B.J. 138 (1933) (excerpts) (address before the Alabama State Bar, Birmingham, AL, April 15, 1932).
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Critical re-examination of the structure of the American Bar Association is a manifestation of the bar's anxiety for its collective welfare. The same sense of insecurity as to the profession's future has initiated in every state movements to strengthen bar associations either by incorporation or by federation of existing voluntary bodies. Bar association speeches drop the old tone of self approval and take on a tone of apprehension and uneasiness.
