The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-12
NEW BAR ASSOCIATION
Lawyers Organize
Next Week at Atlantic
City.

Especial to 1.-THE Jersey city News.''1
TRENTON, june Il. 1S99.-The active
members of the New Jersey bar are
greatly interested in the formation of the
new bar association. which will be eff
fected at Atlantic City next Friday and
Saturday. The agitation for this new or
ganization has grown out of the recent
symposium held among the lawyers for
better rules governing the profession and
for its elevation morally. This was the
sequences of the several trials for disbar-
ment that engaged public attention sew
eral months ago.
The movement crystallized in Camden
County, where Judge Joseph H. Gaskill,
of the Burlington County Court, intro
duced at a meeting of the Camden Coun-
ty Bar Association a resolution to this
effect
Whereas. In the Judgment of the
Camden Bar Association, it is desirable
that a State Bar Association be organ
lied for the purpose Of maintaining a
high standard of professional conduct
for discussion upon matters pertaining to
the public welfare and the interests of
questions of legal reform and pro-
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candidates for the bar and the exclusion
of unworthy persons, to guard and pre-
serve the ethics of the profession, as
well as to afford opportunities for social
intercourse"
Then followed a resolution to the eff
feet that the association appoint a com
mittee of five to confer with other bar
associations. Attorney General Samuel
Fl. Grey, ex-Judge David ]. Pancoast,
Judge e. A. Armstrong. Joseph H. GaskiIl
and w. H. Carson were named as this
committee of conference.
The work of comforting has been Wig
orously pushed since April and the result
will be that there will be at Atlantic
City a delegation from eighteen out of
twenty-one counties. Only a few coun-
ties hav bar associations, but all coun-
ties will send representatives. So far as
is known there is no definite line of
action decided on. All lawyers in good
standing will be allowed to participate in
the discussion. A number of committees
will be appointed on Friday, the first day
of the session, and their recommended
ions will be considered on Saturday.
The new association is to be broad, and
all lawyers in active practice will be
admitted. In the old bar association,
which disbanded thirty-five years ago, the
membership was limited to n~inety-five
members. Their principal object was the
creation of a State library for their own
use. Their library and that of the State
were consolidated in 1856. The old board
on which were posted the rules and list
of members is now a curiosity IN the
present State Library.
1t is expected that there will be an ex-
tended discussion on the question
whether the Dunn's five counselor act
shall be repealed and rules formulated
to control the admission of young law
yers. Notwithstanding the large number
of lawyers who have been admitted I'M
der the Dunn act, there is a strong feel
ing for a. change in the law. The Cam
den LAWYERS have been discussing some
of the questions that they think ought
to be regulated by the State Association.
Judge Gaskill has taken advice on a
number of propositions that he will
present. One is the creation of a COM
mittee to look after legislation. so as to
| reduce the number of laws and to pre-
vent continuous confusion because of the
indiscriminate making of laws.
The new association will give much
attention to the question of ethics, and
thew propose to make life unpleasant for
| LAWYERS who go through the profession
carelessly or ~crookedly. Provisions Will
he made to bring irregular lawyers to