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2017 SMBA Law Day The 14th Amendment: Transforming American Democracy SMBA BAR NEWS 1st Place Poster: Carter Martin, 5th Grade, Wilson’s Creek Elementary LAW DAY! Lunch Celebration Wednesday, May 3, 2017, Hickory Hills Country Club Law Day Poster and Essay Photo Gallery SMBA CLE May Lunch: Steve Garner How to Spot Insurance Bad Faith Claims For Your Clients May Bar Brew: Joe Passanise and Scott Pierson DWI Update and Field Sobriety Demonstration Ethics and Hour by Hour Lots of Job Postings 2017 ISSUE 3 2 : BAR NEWS SUSTAINING MEMBERS OF THE SPRINGFIELD METROPOLITAN BAR Commitments received as of April 12, 2017 Chantel Alberhasky - Randy Alberhasky - The Hon. David Anderson - Kristoffer Barefield - Stacie Bilyeu - Gary Bishop - The Hon. Elizabeth Bock - The Hon. Becky Borthwick - The Hon. Jason Brown – The Hon. Don Burrell - The Hon. Ron Carrier - The Hon. Michael Cordonnier - Kimberly Chaffin - Neil Chanter - Joshua Christensen - The Hon. Sue Chrisman - Ron Conway – The Hon. 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Name________________________________________________________________________ Email________________________________________________________________________ Date___________________ Check enclosed Please invoice me SMBA : 3 ARTICLES 4 President’s Message, by Ginger Gooch 6 About the Bar, by Crista Hogan 8 SMBA Law Day, by Jarica Oeltjen SMBA BAR NEWS SMBA EVENTS 9 2017 SMBA Law Day 11 2017 SMBA Law Day Lunch 12 2017 SMBA Law Day Poster and Essay Contests SMBA CLE 17 Monthly CLE Lunch and Bar Brew 18 Professionalism and Ethics 19 SMBA CLE: Hour by Hour THE OBJECT OF THE SPRINGFIELD BAR Established October 17, 1903 • To maintain the honor and dignity of the profession of law, • to cultivate social interaction among its members, • and for the promotion of legal science, • and the administration of justice. SMBA DIRECTORS The Bar News is published by the Springfield 1615-D S. Ingram Mill Rd. Chantel Alberhasky Metropolitan Bar Association. Views expressed are those of the authors and do not necessary reflect Springfield, MO 65804 Josh Bade the policy or position of the SMBA. Advertising is (417) 831-2783 Jeff Bauer accepted based on space availability and suitability Stacie Bilyeu to audience and does not imply endorsement. SMBA BOARD The Hon. Don Burrell Editorial inquiries should be made to chogan@ Ginger Gooch, President Tom Carver springfieldbar.com. Advertising inquiries should be made to [email protected]. John Pratt, President-Elect Ty Harden Ashley Twibell, Secretary John Lightner BAR NEWS STAFF Emily Kembell, Treasurer Michael Miller Crista Hogan, Editor Robert Palmer, Past President Bryan Musgrave Rebekah Teller, Designer Tom O’Neal James Green, Assistant EX OFFICIO Joseph Reid The Hon. Thomas Mountjoy, Presiding Judge Riley Quinn, Intern Crista Hogan, Executive Director Kirk Kaczmarek, Intern Lindsay Bartholomew, Intern 2017 ISSUE 3 4 : BAR NEWS PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE by Ginger Gooch 2017 SMBA President As I write this, we are less than a month away from winners. Dr. George Connor, Political Science our Law Day Lunch Celebration, scheduled for May Professor at Missouri State University, shared his 3, 2017, at Hickory Hills Country Club. Of course, reasons for selecting the top essay contest winners. the SMBA did not invent Law Day. The first Law Dr. Connor shared that he looked for several items Day occurred on May 1, 1958, by proclamation from in the winning essays: recognition that the 14th President Dwight D. Eisenhower. May 1 is codified Amendment is not about only one thing but covers as “Law Day, U.S.A.” at 36 U.S.C. § 113, which due process, citizenship, and equal protection; provides, in part: discussion of important cases involving the 14th Amendment; and recognition that the unchanged Law Day, U.S.A., is a special day of celebration by text of the 14th Amendment has been interpreted the people of the United States— differently over time. He offered as an example that (1) in appreciation of their liberties and the the same 14th Amendment gave rise to the decisions reaffirmation of their loyalty to the United States in Plessy v. Ferguson and Loving v. Virginia. As I and of their rededication to the ideals of equality listened to Dr. Connor’s “requirements” for the and justice under law in their relations with each winning essays, I realized this would be a tough other and with other countries; and checklist for any seasoned lawyer, let alone for the (2) for the cultivation of the respect for law that is 6th-8th graders participating in our Law Day essay so vital to the democratic way of life. contest. For me, at least, it was very gratifying to hear Dr. Connor talk about how impressed he was I look forward to visiting with many of you on by the essays and to know that the Law Day essay May 3, as we celebrate this year’s Law Day theme, contest winners were present to hear his praise and “The 14th Amendment: Transforming American his remarks about the 14th Amendment. We are Democracy.” fortunate to have great community partners like Mr. Nelson and Dr. Connor. And we are fortunate Those of us on the Law Day Committee are in the that the Law Day poster and essay contests continue Law Day spirit already. We have been busy judging to thrive and grow. I believe it is testament to the essay and poster contests, receiving scholarship SMBA’s role in this community and Crista’s hard applications, and setting up the poster contest work that we continue to set records each year for display at the Library Center. I hope many of you contest entries, with over 100 entries each in the have visited the Library Center concourse and poster and essay contests. Having so many posters admired the great, colorful artwork of our poster and essays to judge is a wonderful problem! Thank contest entrants in grades 2-5. Each year I am you to Neale & Newman, our essay contest sponsor, amazed at how well these young artists depict what and Strong Garner Bauer, our poster contest sponsor. are often complex Law Day themes. I hope I am the first to wish you a happy, meaningful On April 8, the SMBA held the awards ceremony Law Day! And let me make another shameless plug for the Law Day essay and poster contests. We had for the Law Day Committee. If you want to feel good a packed auditorium of contest winners, family, about our community, and the role of the SMBA in and friends at the Library Center, including many our community, I encourage you to become involved SMBA members and their children. Nick Nelson, in the Law Day Committee. You will get back way Director of the Springfield Art Museum, shared more than you give. his reasons for selecting the top poster contest SMBA : 5 SMBA LAW DAY Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.