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Oth VBA Annual Meetin.q: A Millennial Homet:omin.q to Remember 8 Practice Pointers: The ~eb: ~lst Century Acc~ss to Courts, Facts 6" law Gant Redmon 10 Meeting Close-Up: The Dark Side of the Net Caroline Bolte 11 Legislative Update: T~e Assembh/ at Midpoint 12 Across the Commonwealth Spring/summer meeting schedule Professionalism presentation is updated VBA section and committee chairs for 2000 14 Young Lawyers Division Ingold, Anthony & Gibson lead VBA/YLD Harman-Stokes is new Potomac Region rep Barnes, Otero receive Division honors 15 VBA Member Services 16 Calendar On the Cover Photograph of the Page County Courthouse (1834), by John O. Peters. One hundred tbrtv such phot¢~g3"aphs are contained in l’~rginia’s Historic Courthouses, xxa’itten by John O. and Margaret T. Peters x~4th a foreword by Justice Lexx4s E Po~vell Jr.;photographs by John O. Peters; published by UniversiW Press of Charlottess~ille; and sponsored by The Virginia The Official Publication Bar AssociatTion. To order the book, call the VBA at (804) 644-0041 of The Virginia Bar Association or 1-800-644-0987. Volume XXVI, Number 2 March 2000 VBA LEADERSHIP FOR 2000 No more "glass ceilings" fk)r The since 1998. Millner has chaired the VBA Virginia Bar Association. Membership Task Group and is a member The B Ass c On JanuaD’ 15, during of fl~e VBA Domestic Relations, Elder Law, and ~Vills, Trusts & Estates Sections. Suite 1120 the VBA Almual Meeting 701 East Franklin Street in Willianlsburg, Jeanne Four new members of the VBA Richmond, VA 23219 F. Frauklin of Nexandria Executive Committee (804) 644-0041 was voted Association were elected in Januar): FAX (804) 644-0052 E-mail: thevba@vba,org President-Elect for E. Tazewell "Ted" Ellett Web: http:/A~v.vba.org 2000, to succeed of Hogan & Hartson, Poston, nmv president of frook~ L.LP., of McLean and President the Association. Washington, D.C., Anita O. Poston, Norfolk Franklin, a sole practitioner who E//ett representing the President -Elect concen~ates in he~d~ care law and se~es Potomac Region; Jeanne E Franklin, Alexandria as a organizational development Heman A. Marshall III, Immediate Past President David Craig Landin, Richmond consultant, is a graduate of Vassar College managing partner of Secretary/Treasurer and the Universiw of Virginia School Woods, Rogers & H. Victor Millner Jn, Chatham Law. She has studied at the Universiw of Hazlegrove in Roanoke, Young Lawyers Division Chair Michigan School of Public Health and representing the James V Ingold, Fairfax holds a certificate in organization Southwest Region; Young Lawyers Division Chair-Elect development from Georgetown Sharon E. Pandak, Marsha// David N. Anthony, Norfolk University. She has chaired the VBA Prince William County Executive Committee Chair Executive Committee, the Committee Attorney, at large; and J. Edward Betts, Richmond on the Needs of the Mentally Disabled F. Blair Wirabush, Executive Committee Members and the Membership general solicitor of The Officers and Prof. Jayne W Barnard, Williamsburg Task Group. Norfolk Southern Hon. John J. Davies Ill, Culpeper J. Edward Betts of Corporation, at large. In E. Taze~vell Ellett, Washington ~chmond, a partner in addition, Justice Thomas E Farrell II, Richmond Elizabeth B. Lacy of the Lane R. Gabeler, McLean the law firm of Christian Hon. Elizabeth B. Lacy, Richmond & Barton, succeeds Pandak Supreme Court of Heman A. Marshall Ill, Roanoke ~etts Fran~in as chair of the Virginia was elected to Sharon E. Pandak, Prince William William E. Rachels Jn, Norfolk Association’s Executive a third and final one- Frank A. Thomas III, Orange Committee. Betts has chaired the VBA year term as the judicial Anne Marie Whittemore, Richmond Law Practice Management Section and representative on the E Blair Wimbush, Norfolk the VBA Communications Task Group, Executive Committee, Member of ABA House of Delegates and has stowed on the VBA Executive and Professor Jayne w. Hon. R. Terrence Ney, Fairfax Conamittee since 1997. Barnard of the College Legislative Counsel W~mbush of William and Mary’s Anthony E Troy, Richmond H. Victor Millner Jr. David G. Shuford, Richmond of Chaflaam xx~ll se~e as Marshall-Wvthe School of Law was Robert B. Jones Jn, Richmond ~A Secreta~Freasurer elected to a ,~econd one-year term as the Executive Vice President tbr 2000. A principal in law facul) representative. Charles Breckenridge Arrington Jr. the firm of H. Victor Former VBA President and 19th Administrative Director Millner Jr., P.C., in Circuit Court Judge R. Terrence Ney of Sandra P. Thompson Mi/Iner Cha~aam, he is engaged Fairfax was reelected to a second term as ~ New~ Journ,~! Editor Caroline Bolte in the general practice of law, and has the VBA’s delegate to the Mnerican Bar sen’ed on ~ae VBA Executive Commi~ee Association House of Delegates. ~ OUR MISSION The Virginia Bar Association is a voluntary organization of Virginia VBA NIws J()tlV, N’d, the otlk’ia] publication of The Virginia Bar Ass(~ciation (1SSN 1522-0974, USPS 093-110), is I)ublishcd eight times per 5ear (in the months of January, .Mart h, April, June, lawyers committed to serving the public Scpteinl)cr, October and December). Membership dues include the cost ,d one subsclil~ti(m and the legal profession by promoting July, to each member of the Association. Subscription ])rk’c to others, S ~().(1() I)Cl }:ear. Statements or the highest standards of integrity, expressions ot: ol)inion appearing hc~vin are flaosc ot the authors and not nc~cssafilx those ot the professionalism, and excellence in the Associalion, and l~kewise the publication ~1 an\ advcrtiscnwnt is nol to be co;>trued as an legal profession; working to improve en@wscmcnl o[ the product or ser~ke unles> sp~’cificall} staled in the advertisement that thvrc the law and the administration of justice; is such approval or endorsement. Periodicals postage paid at Richmond, VA 232 ~2. and advancing collegial relations among POSTMASTER: Send address d~angcs to The Virginia Bar Ass~,ciation, 7{}1 East Franklin Street, lawyers. Suite I 120, Richmond, VA 2 ~219. 4 THE VIRGINIA BAR ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT’S PAGE Changes and Challenges BY ANI’I’.~ O. POSTON I am very proud to serve as the 112th The protbssion is also experiencing a president oi" The Vir~nia Bar Association, lowering of the median age of laxvvers. but humbled to be measured aside a long Susan Mnq~hy, a husiness and o~gan~don~ series of presidents who haw se~’ed consultant who recently addressed the organization ably and well. The VBA has Natkmal Association o( Bar Execntives, been enriched [(ofla hy outstanding leaders warned that bar associations need to and by memberda~wers and judges who understand fl~e new generation ofa~omeys, are c~mmiued to a ~nission wfiich has as dnbbed "Generation Xers," who now make much vit~iw and si~aificance in the year up approximately 25 percent of the bar 2000 as it Oid more than 110 years ago and will soon dominate fl~e populatk)n. when ~is &ss~Ma~on began ~ ~o hnpro~e Mu~hy’s research su~es~ fl~at Generation the law and administration of justice and Xers are "impatient, anti-authority, to uphold the standard of honor and ’techies,’ not 1wal and totally independent." integrity in the legal prolk, sskm. In addition to these changing Much has changed since fl~is mission demo~aphics, there are sigmificant changes was first crafted. The roots of fl~e in ~e way we practice law. Technolo~" is back to J~y 1888 when more fl~an 100 ha~g a p]o/bund intluence on eve7 aspect am~mevs met in Vir~fia Beach and fi~rmcd of our practices ~ from the way we challenges require that we reflect on fl~e the Vi~nia State Bar Association. (After communicate xvifl~ clients to the way we Association’s mission and how the Virginia State Bar was ~bnned in 19~8, pertbrm our research. Technolo~ is ~mth implement that mission in fl~e next several confi~sion over fl~e similar names eventually a blessing and a c~rse. We have pro~essed years. As stated by tbnner Governor Gerald led fl~is Association to sho~xen its name to in recent years fiom mail to overnight ~aliles, now chair of the ~A Commi~ee The Vi~L~nia Bar Association.) My research deliver- sen~ices, to ~hcsimile, and now to on Special Issues of National and State has not vet nncovered a pictt(re of the e-mail." L~al sen~ces are eN~ected to be Impo~ance, "The best way to predict ~e gronp which assembled on that day in delivered not only competently and fi~tre is to plan tbr it." 1888, but it is sate’ to asstune fl~at tf~ere inexpensively, but a~so instantly.