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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:
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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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.
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