Opinion ID: 2392444
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: ABA Advertising Task Force

Text: On June 27, 1977, the date of the release of Bates , Justin Stanley, the then President of the American Bar Association, appointed a task force chaired by S. Shepherd Tate, the then President-Elect nominee, and now President-Elect of the Association. This task force was charged with the responsibility of develop[ing] rapidly a set of recommendations on what the bar must do to respond affirmatively to the Bates decision. The ABA Task Force prepared alternative proposals, generally known as Proposal A, which adopted a regulatory perspective, and Proposal B, sometimes described as directive. Proposal A was approved by the House of Delegates, the policy making body of the ABA, on August 10, 1977. It is this proposal that we accept as a point of departure.