Public Image Task Force Needs Your Help
ISBA Fall Traveling & Ethics Seminars - Coming To A City Near You
Iowa Court Rules Updated
Prominent Litigator Barry Scheck to Speak at Drake Legal Clinic

Public Image Task Force Needs Your Help

Your help is needed. The Iowa State Bar Association is undertaking some efforts to increase lawyers’ clients, improve existing clients' confidence in their lawyers and increase the awareness of what lawyers do and how they can help. This will be accomplished through brochures on how lawyers can help with various tasks such as buying a house, ads run by the Bar Association, ads run by lawyers and law firms, firm brochures, increased awareness of the ISBA mock trial project and improving relationships between the media and lawyers.

To evaluate the success of this campaign, which will run until February 1, 2007, we need 200 lawyers who are willing to report monthly the number of existing clients who saw or heard the ads or brochures and the number of new clients or potential clients as a result of the ads or brochures. The volunteer lawyers will be given a Reporting Form and asked to inquire of existing clients if they have heard any of the ads or seen the brochure and to ask new clients if they contacted the attorney as a result of the ads or brochure. The volunteers are needed throughout the state and in various sized firms and practice environments.

If you are willing to volunteer, please e-mail Tom Lawler at tlawler@forbin.net with your name, address and telephone number. Thanks for volunteering to help the ISBA.

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ISBA Fall Traveling & Ethics Seminars - Coming To A City Near You

We have revamped the traditional Traveling Seminar schedule to include more sites and to focus on the New Rules of Professional Conduct and how these rules will directly affect your practice. There will be six full day seminars covering 3 hours of Ethics in the morning with 3 hours of Family Law, Commercial & Bankruptcy and Real Estate topics in the afternoon. Register today for a location near you!

October 2005
Oct. 11 Fall Traveling & Ethics Seminar - Clear Lake, Best Western Holiday Lodge
Ethics Only Seminar - Waterloo, Ramada Inn & Convention Center
Oct. 12 Fall Traveling & Ethics Seminar - Cedar Rapids, Crowne Plaza Hotel
Ethics Only Seminar - Dubuque, Grand Harbor Resort
Oct. 13 Fall Traveling & Ethics Seminar- Davenport, Holiday Inn
Ethics Only Seminar - Mt. Pleasant, Brazelton Hotel

November 2005
Nov. 15 Fall Traveling & Ethics Seminar - Fort Dodge, Best Western
Ethics Only Seminar - Spencer, Golf & Country Club
Nov. 16 Fall Traveling & Ethics Seminar- Sioux City, Convention Center
Ethics Only Seminar - Council Bluffs, MidAmerica Center
Nov. 17 Fall Traveling & Ethics Seminar- West Des Moines, Sheraton West
Ethics Only Seminar - Creston, Super 8

All day Traveling Seminar schedule:
8:00-8:25 a.m. Registration
8:25 a.m. Welcome and Introductions
8:30 a.m. Comments by ISBA Officer
8:45 a.m. Overview of the New Rules - Video Presentation by Bruce Braley
9:45 a.m. Break
10:00 a.m. * Ethics Panel Presentation - see description below
11:45 a.m. Lunch (included with registration fee)
12:45 p.m. How has Bankruptcy Changed for the General Practitioner & Chapter 12 Changes - How it Will Affect Your Farm Clients
3:00 p.m. Break
3:15 - 4:00 Title Guaranty

Half Day Ethics Seminar
1:15-1:40 p.m. Registration
1:40 p.m. Welcome and Introductions (Board Member)
1:45 p.m. Comments by ISBA Officer
2:00 p.m. Overview of The New Rules of Professional Conduct - Video Presentation by Bruce Braley
3:00 p.m. Break
3:15-5:00 p.m. * Panel (see description below-same as a.m. program)

*Panel Discussion:
Discussion of the top four (five) rules that will affect lawyers will be reviewed by the panelists with discussion from the audience. These rules cover: Confidentiality, Conflicts of Interest, Legal Fees and Communications with clients. Moderator will be a judge with ISBA board members and others as panelists. Handouts on the new rules will be provided.

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Iowa Court Rules Updated

Below are a couple of recent rule changes posted on the Judicial Branch website. For your convenience, the Judicial Branch offers a free e-mail notification service for Supreme Court opinions, Court of Appeals opinions, News Releases and Orders. Subscribe to this service

Iowa Court Rule 31.16(3) (Registration of house counsel) amended as of September 1, 2005.

Iowa Rule of Appellate Procedure 6.35(4) (Copy Costs) amended as of September 1, 2005.

Prominent Litigator Barry Scheck to Speak at Drake Legal Clinic

Des Moines, IA — September 28, 2005. Barry Scheck, the cofounder and executive director of the Innocence Project at Cardozo School of Law, will be the keynote speaker at a program sponsored by the American Judicature Society (AJS) and Drake University School of Law. “Barry Scheck on Wrongful Convictions” will be held on October 3, 2005 at 3 p.m. at Drake University School of Law, Cartwright Hall, Room 213.

Scheck’s lecture is free of charge and open to the public. One CLE credit has been approved.

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