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PRESIDENT’S PAGE As my senior year in college came to a close, I had already decided to attend law school, but did not know where I wanted to attend. I considered going up east where my sister and some friends lived, or to Washington, D.C., but Kentucky kept calling me home. Numerous people I trusted told me, “If you want to practice law in Kentucky, you should attend a Kentucky law school.” I followed that advice, and it is one of the best decisions I ever made. It led me to becoming a “Kentucky lawyer.” It is a title I wear with great pride. For years, the legal profession has endured attacks, many based on either misinformation or ignorance. Still, attorneys continue to prove to the public they have the honesty and integrity worthy of the public trust. As we continue to face ever mounting pressures brought on by increased competition from non-lawyers and lawyers outside Kentucky, the rising costs of practicing law while revenues remain the same or decrease, and the stress inherent in the practice of law, we must keep in mind that we are members of a noble profession whose main purpose is to preserve the rule of law in our society, protect the rights of individual, and ensure justice for all. As lawyers, we provide a service, legal services. Our job is to serve—to serve our clients, to serve the interests of justice, to serve our communities. One such example of Kentucky lawyers serving our communities is the response to the crisis that arose last year in eastern Kentucky when almost 1,500 recipients of Social Security disability benefits learned that their cases would be reopened because of suspected fraud, to which they were not a party, and they would have to produce additional evidence that they were entitled to Social Security benefits Of course, this crisis resulted in a pressing need for attorneys to represent these people. Led by Kentucky lawyers John Rosenberg and Ned Pillersdorf, the Appalachian Research and Defense Fund, the KBA, and the National Organization of Social Security Claimants Representatives, 135 lawyers responded to represent these people. This number includes 54 Kentucky lawyers and 81 lawyers from other states. In a May 9, 2016 article in the Courier-Journal, it was noted that former KBA President Bob Ewald, who had never practiced a Social Security case, was one of the attorneys who stepped forward to help. Thearticle also mentioned Louisville attorneys Shannon Fauver and Dani Seitz, who took on 18 and 52 of these cases, respectively. Theseattorneys and the other attorneys who volunteered to represent these people in need make us proud and reflect ell on our profession. Lawyers throughout the state perform similar good deeds every day. For example, in Owensboro, where I practice, on a regular basis local attorneys conduct a free legal clinic during the weekend at the local public library, offering free legal consultations to the public. At the KBA, we will also continue to focus on serving our members and the public. During this past year, a process that started with a survey of our members culminated in the adoption of a new strategic plan to carry out the mission and purpose of the bar association set forth in SCR 3.025: The mission and purpose of the association is to maintain a proper discipline of the members of the bar in accordance with these rules and with the principles of the legal profession as a public calling, to initiate and supervise, with the approval of the court, appropriate means to insure a continuing high standard of professional competence on the part of the members of the bar, and to bear a substantial and continuing responsibility for promoting the efficie y and improvement of the judicial system. I want to mention a few of the goals from this plan upon which we will work during the coming year. 2 | JULY/AUGUST 2016
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