The Gazette 1983

GAZETTE

NOVEMBER 1983

American Bar Association to Hold its Annual Meeting in London in July 1985 The American Bar Association's 107th Annual Meeting will take place in London, July 14-20, 1985. Solicitors, barristers and judges from the United Kingdom and Ireland are invited to participate in the meeting, which will offer extensive educational and social programmes to the registrants and their families. It is estimated that some 10,000 American lawyers and judges will be coming to London for this meeting. The meeting will open with a formal opening ceremony on Monday, July 15. During the course of that week, over 20 plenary programmes will be sponsored by 23 ABA Sections and Divisions. The plenary programmes will cover such topics as "Practising and Maintaining Offices in Other Countries", "International Arbitration", "Strikes by Public Emp l o y e e s ", "Extraterritorial Enforcement of Regulatory Laws", "Systems of Governmental Procurement", "Computer Technology and Privacy", "Foreign Investment in the United States", "Control of Land Development", and "Regulation of Energy Sources". American and British paper-writers will prepare materials for each plenary programme. The actual programmes will include presentations by the paper-writers with comments from a panel consisting of both British and Americans. Time will be set aside during each programme for questions and discussions with the programme audience. In addition to the plenary programmes, the ABA Sections and Divisions will sponsor programmes of specific interest to their fields. Thus, there will be additional programmes in the areas of taxation, business and corporate law, litigation, energy law, general practice, family law, economics of law practice and antitrust law, to name a few. A host of special events is being planned during the meeting for programme participants and their families. Garden parties, receptions, special opening and closing ceremonies, luncheons, golf and tennis events, theatre tickets, etc., will all be available for registrants at the meeting. "Satellite" programmes are being arranged to take place in Edinburgh and Dublin following the London meeting. The American Express has been selected by the American Bar Association to act as the official travel agent for all registrants attending this meeting. For further information on the meeting please contact Mr. Keddy J. Soffair of American Express. His address is:

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Council Resolution Minimum Salary for Newly Qualified Solicitors

At its meeting on the 9th June, 1983, the Council of the Society adopted a resolution in the following terms:—

"That the Council of the Law Society recommends that solicitors in the first year of their employment, should now be paid a minimum salary of £6,500." At the request of some members, the Council wishes to clarify that it was not the intention that the recommenda- tion for a minimum salary would apply where newly qualified solicitos are retained on a temporary basis by their masters, following the expiry of their indentures while such solicitors are seeking employment elsewhere.

Mr. Keddy J. Soffair Director Gr oup Sales Office — UK and Ireland American Express Europe Limited 6 Haymarket London SW1Y 4BS, England 0 1 / 9 30 4411.

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