Recommendations as to Judicial Procedure There was a lawyer of our time who holds the highest place in our regard, the warmest place in our hearts. He was just as he was merciful. He was true, but he was tender. He was faith ful in the discharge of duties as exacting as any ever laid upon man. In the midst of cares distracting beyond pre cedent he sought "to encourage good humor among the people." So the people now celebrate the centenary of Abraham Lincoln, the lawyer. Many were his words of wisdom and love, but none were more characteristic of him or more fitting for the lawyer than those of his last inaugural address, "With
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malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right." The lawyer who, with learning and a sense of justice, pursues his vocation in the spirit of Lincoln, seeking ever to promote righteousness, in charity and not in wrath, and, when consistent with duty, to avert sorrow and disgrace from the erring penitent, will have done most to justify to the public the lawyer's right to his livelihood; a livelihood as ample and genial as legitimately may follow the free exercise of his skill and sagacity in the protection and the asser tion of his client's legal rights.
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to Judicial Procedure By Everett P. Wheeler A Paper Presented at the Thirty-second Annual Meeting op the New York State Bar Association, Buffalo, January 28-29, 1909 THE tie between the American Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association has always been close. Many of the founders of that Association were New York lawyers. For a long period its meetings were held in alternate years at Saratoga. Its recom mendations are, therefore, entitled to friendly consideration in this assembly. At the annual meeting of the American Bar Association, held in 1906, a paper was read by Mr. Roscoe Pound, then a lawyer in Nebraska, who has since be come a professor of law in the North western University at Chicago, which was entitled, "Causes of Popular Dis satisfaction with the Administration of
Justice." The subject-matter of this paper was referred to the Committee on judicial administration and remedial procedure for consideration. That Com mittee reported in 1907 that "many evils suggested in Mr. Pound's paper do exist; that an attempt should be made to remedy these evils; that we, the organized lawyers of the American bar, could not devote our efforts to a nobler purpose," and that a special committee be appointed, "selected as far as prac ticable for their peculiar abilities and special study, qualifying them for the work, whose duty it shall be to consider carefully alleged evils, suggest remedies, formulate proposed laws."
