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Virginia Barristers Alliance, Inc. Does Your Health Insurance Need a Checkup? Make an Appointment with Us and Examine the Possib Does your health insurance need a checkup? Make an appointment with us and examine the possibilities. We all make choices in our daily routine for good health — eating right, working out, getting regular checkups. How is your Health Insurance and Group Life coverage? What about your Group Long-Term Disability/Short-Term Disability? Would you like choices? Call us today for a coverage checkup! We represent the following Insurance Companies: Aetna Great West AFLAC Guardian Anthem Kaiser Anthem Dental Reliance Standard CareFirst Southern Health Delta Dental UniCare Fortis United Healthcare Golden Rule Unum Principal Let’s examine the coverage options available to you as a VBA member. To start our conversation, please complete this form and fax it to us at (804) 762-4192 or 1-800-947-2796. Without obligation, I would like to receive more information about products and services available to members of The Virginia Bar Association. Here’s how you can reach me: Name: ______________________________________________________________________ Address: ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ E-mail: ______________________________________________________________________ Area Code ( ) Phone: __________________________________ ____ Day ____ Evening Virginia Barristers Alliance, Inc. The Insurance Agency Subsidiary of The Virginia Bar Association Dean Hardy and Howard DiSavino Jr. • 4880 Sadler Road, Suite 110, Glen Allen, Virginia 23060 (804) 290-8720 direct line • 1-800-358-7987 toll-free • (804) 762-4192 fax e-mail: [email protected] VBA• • Suite 1120 701 East Franklin Street Richmond, VA 23219 News Journal (804) 644-0041 FAX (804) 644-0052 E-mail: [email protected] THE VIRGINIA BAR ASSOCIATION Web: www.vba.org VOLUME XXXI, ISSUE 2 • APRIL/MAY 2005 President James V. Meath, Richmond 4 • President’s Page: President -elect A Case for the Voluntary Bar William R. Van Buren III, Norfolk James V. Meath Chair, Board of Governors Glenn C. Lewis, Washington, D.C. 6 • The Role of Nonprofits in the Rehabilitation of Prisoners Immediate Past President Remarks of The Honorable Mark L. Earley to the Virginia Law E. Tazewell Ellett, Alexandria Foundation Fellows Law Practice Management Division Chair Gant Redmon, Alexandria 9 • Legal Focus/Domestic Relations: Young Lawyers Division Chair R. Braxton Hill IV, Richmond Update to Summary of Post-1998 Rehabilitative Young Lawyers Division Chair-elect Alimony Cases and Trends (Sept. 2003-March 1, 2005) Lori D. Thompson, Salem Cheryl Watson Smith Board of Governors The Officers and 13 • The 2005 Virginia Bar Association Legislative Review Hon. William G. Broaddus, Richmond John D. Epps, Richmond 16 • VBA Young Lawyers Division: Cheshire I. Eveleigh, Virginia Beach Law School Councils serve and socialize William E. Franczek, Norfolk Marilynn C. Goss, Richmond R. Braxton Hill IV Prof. Roger D. Groot, Lexington J. Lee E. Osborne, Roanoke 18 • Community Service/Young Lawyers Division: G. Michael Pace Jr., Roanoke Whitcomb Dreams Stephen C. Price, Leesburg Brooks M. Smith Glenn W. Pulley, Danville Nancy N. Rogers, Richmond Hon. Pamela M. Sargent, Abingdon 20 • Around the Commonwealth Hon. Diane M. Strickland, Roanoke Democratic and Republican gubernatorial candidates to debate Member of ABA House of Delegates at the VBA Summer Meeting • Author Adriana Trigiani, ABA David Craig Landin, Richmond President Robert Grey are among scheduled Summer Meeting Legislative Counsel speakers • VPLC seeks photos taken “Through Different Eyes” Hon. Anthony F. Troy, Richmond Robert B. Jones Jr., Richmond 22 • News in Brief Anne Leigh Kerr, Richmond 22 • Classifieds Professional Notices Executive Vice President / Charles Breckenridge Arrington Jr. 24 • Calendar Director of Meetings Brenda J. Dillard On the Cover: The Northumberland County Courthouse (1900), photograph by Director of Finance John O. Peters. One hundred forty photographs of Virginia courthouses are contained in Amy B. Cathey Virginia’s Historic Courthouses, written by John O. and Margaret T. Peters with a foreword VBA News Journal Editor by the late Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr.; photographs by John O. Peters; published by Caroline B. Cardwell University Press of Charlottesville; and sponsored by The Virginia Bar Association. To order the book, call the VBA at (804) 644-0041 or 1-800-644-0987. OUR MISSION The Virginia Bar Association is a voluntary VBA NEWS JOURNAL, the official publication of The Virginia Bar Association (ISSN 1522-0974, organization of Virginia lawyers USPS 093-110), is published six times per year (December/January, February/March, committed to serving the public and the April/May, June/July, August/September and October/November). Membership dues legal profession by promoting the highest include the cost of one subscription to each member of the Association. Subscription price standards of integrity, professionalism, to others, $30 per year. Statements or expressions of opinion appearing herein are those and excellence in the legal profession; of the authors and not necessarily those of the Association, and likewise the publication working to improve the law and the of any advertisement is not to be construed as an endorsement of the product or service administration of justice; and advancing unless specifically stated in the advertisement that there is such approval or endorsement. collegial relations among lawyers. Periodicals postage paid at Richmond, VA 23232. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Virginia Bar Association, 701 East Franklin Street, Suite 1120, Richmond, VA 23219. PRESIDENT’S PAGE The Case for the Voluntary Bar by James V. Meath At the outset, let me say that I have been rewarded beyond belief The case for the voluntary bar in two areas. First, many of you association is an easy one to make. have been so kind to let me know Yes, there are tensions, there are that you share my thoughts membership concerns, but I am concerning the singular pride that heartened by the fact that in my we have in being Virginia lawyers. travels around the Commonwealth, Second, because of the nature of people come up to me and ask me my practice, I have not had the how they can get involved, or more occasion to stay in touch with as involved, in the work of the VBA. many of my friends, classmates That, indeed, is our challenge. and colleagues who practice within the Commonwealth as I would like. It has been particularly rewarding to reconnect with these individuals. Association, Roanoke Bar That mission — regulation, Although it is hard to believe, we Association...), when I am required discipline and self-policing. Many have been out of law school for 26 to belong to the mandatory bar?” I of us have been, and should be, years. In every instance, I am have pondered this question for actively involved in the Virginia proud of the contribution that these quite some time, and I believe that State Bar. Indeed, the current lawyers and judges are making to I have formulated the beginnings of Chairman of our Board of the legal system and serving the what I consider to be a good Governors is now on Bar Council citizens of the Commonwealth of answer. and has been actively involved in Virginia. As Chief Justice Hassell has often the Virginia State Bar for many It has been rewarding as well to articulated, the Virginia State Bar years. As our good friend, albeit speak to local voluntary bar groups needs to be strong and responsive to under house arrest, Martha and recognize what good things all of us, but equally as important is Stewart, would say, “That is a good that these groups are doing, the strength of the voluntary bar. thing.” So let me, at least partially, considering the stress that exists Indeed, we are fortunate to have, as make the case for the voluntary for time, talent and funds for leaders of the Virginia State Bar, bar. voluntary bar work. One example current President David P. Bobzien Some voluntary bar associations that I point to is the domestic of Fairfax and President-elect Phillip are struggling to maintain violence project that has been so V. Anderson of Roanoke. Both of membership in an era where there highly successful in Chesterfield these gentlemen are not only are many other entities competing for County. As I studied their project colleagues, but have become friends, coveted dues money. Voluntary bar and realized how successful it has as we have traveled in the same associations are outside of the been, it saddened me that this circles as bar leaders. Both of these regulatory scheme that the project has not been templated and individuals continue to be active legislature has set out. They are not made uniform throughout the members of The Virginia Bar engaged in discipline or regulating Commonwealth. That brings me to Association. It is also the support of lawyer conduct or self-policing the central question that I am often the Chief Justice, that of former issues. We, as attorneys, have little asked. The question is Presidents of the Virginia State Bar, control over the mandatory bar. As understandable and logical. It is and the handwork of our 5,600 stated above, we all participate at “Why should I belong to the VBA members that help me answer the varying levels of the bar structure, as or any other voluntary bar question posed above. we should. Most of the functions of organization (Richmond Bar The mandatory bar must itself be the mandatory bar typically do not Association, Norfolk/Portsmouth strong beyond reproach and also overlap the functions of the voluntary Bar Association, Old Dominion Bar beyond reproach in its mission. bar. The voluntary bar historically 4/THE VIRGINIA BAR ASSOCIATION NEWS JOURNAL APRIL/MAY 2005 has addressed some of these non- blocked in 2002 and the expanded benefits, retirement and disability, regulatory areas and has done quite training of guardians ad litem project it is the Law Practice Management well. I would like to mention a few. of the Supreme Court of Virginia, Division that provides our members First of all, there is the with which our Commission on the with information and guidance on administration of justice.
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