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Bar News - January 21, 2005 NH Bar's Professionalism Day Admired Nationally The following is an excerpt of a letter to the NHBA's Continuing Legal Education Director, Joanne Hinnendael by Oklahoma City attorney Allen Harris, requesting copies of materials from past years' NHBA Statewide Professionalism Day programs. Harris is collaborating with members of his state's judiciary and his state bar association to put on a similar program in Oklahoma. "It's commendable that you've achieved an enthusiastic response that 950 out of 4,000 lawyers attended [in 2002 and 2003]. Attracting 65 out of 80 attorneys [licensed in a county] to spend the morning at their courthouse on professionalism issues in one rural county shows judicial and lawyer support for your innovative way to promote professionalism through an annual courthouse dialogue. "Your judges canceling their dockets statewide [excepting ongoing trials or emergency matters, and for the morning only] to help put on the CLE in the courthouses obviously ensures its attendance and success. The fact that they had to use courtrooms and hallways in the [Hillsborough County Superior Court - North] courthouse shows that the urban judges and lawyers really turn out and see value in an annual dialogue on professionalism issues. They're apparently not content to dismiss the professionalism and civility movement as being merely about etiquette and manners, or as a characterization of lawyers as 'bad people' as some critics of the professionalism movement have written. "New Hampshire's Statewide Professionalism Day is a great idea and one that could be used by all state bars. Kudos to New Hampshire and thanks to you for sharing it with us." |
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