Financially Distressed Owner of Agricultural Land. Interests in land included the following presentations: Legal Issues Associated with Fencing, Boundary and Survey Laws; Easements by Joe M. Rogers; and Installment Land Contracts; Farm Leases by Donald B. Pedersen. Natural resources issues included these presentations: Water Law Panel Discussion, Chuck Banks, Jake Looney and Jodie Mahoney; Farm Land Preservation Law by Professor Linda Malone; Mineral and Royalty Conveyancing in Arkansas by Professor Phillip Norvell; and Timber Transactions by Prolessor Bill Selig. Taxation issues included these presentations: Handling Special Use Evaluation for Agricultural Land by Tom Overbey; Tax Planning for Real Estate Sales and Exchanges by Professor Lonnie Beard; Evaluation of Land by Dean Larry Averill. The topic on Representing The Financially Distressed Owner of Agricultural Land was presented by former bankruptcy Judge Charles Baker. In addition, there was a special update by Larry Yancey, of Little Rock, on federal income tax. University of Arkansas President Ray Thornton addressed the assembly at a Friday luncheon. Approximately 140 registrants and guests attended the sessions. Health Law Committee Sponsors Symposium The Health Law Committee of the Arkansas Bar Association sponsored a Health Law Symposium on October 5 to 6 at the Red Apple Inn, Eden Isle. The program, chaired by Michael W.
Mitchell. was attended by 55 lawyers and hospilal administrators. 25th Annual Practice Skills Course Held The Annual Practice Skills Course, jointly sponsored by the Association's Young Lawyers
Section and AICLE, is one of the longest running programs in the history of Arkansas Continuing Legal Education. The approximately 65 registrants
consisted
mostly of recent admittees to the Bar. The subjects included: Ethics and Avoidance of Malpractice; Real Property; Estate Planning and Probate; Criminal Practice; Workers' Compensation; Domestic Relations; Representation of Creditors and Debtors and Civil Litigation. An additional. optional session, co-sponsored by the Association's Economics of Law Practice
Section, was devoted to the problems of opening a law office. Topics included: LocationWhere to Practice; Setting Up Shop-How to Get Started; and Operations -How to Maintain Practice.
Arkansas-Federal Tax Institute The Arkansas-Federal Tax Institute, jointly sponsored with Arkansas Society of CPA's, was held at the Little Rock Excelsior Hotel on December 6 and 7. Topics included: Mutual Interests of Lawyers and CPA's Concerning State and Federal Tax Issues. Regional Video Replays The 1984 Fall Legal Institute on advising
land owners and agricultural law was replayed on video in Jonesboro, Monticello, Magnolia and Little Rock.
Mid路Year Meeting The Association's Annual Mid-Year Meeting will be held at the Camelot Hotel in Little Rock on January 18 to 19. The CLE portion will be de-
membership statistics
for September, 1984. Delegates were asked to personally contact delinquent members in
their respective districts. Annabelle Clinton,
voted to an intensive,
secretary-treasurer, cer-
one-day review of recent
tified the election of Jane Knight of Little Rock and Donis Hamilton of Paragould to the House. President Wilson ruled that, pursuant to Article XII of the Association's Constitution, the House, by a two-thirds vote of those presen t and
developments in the law, including: Bad Faith; Significant Arkansas Federal Decisions; Legal Advertising; Pitfalls and the Trial of Lawsuits; and Significant Arkansas Appellate Decisions. On Thursday allernoon, January 18, the annual Trial Advocacy Competition between the University of Arkansas School of Law at Fayetteville and UALR School of Law will be held in the South Courtroom of the Old Federal Building. The semiannual meeting of the House of Delegates will be held Saturday, January 19.
voting, may waive the
requirements of Article XII and consider resolutions at a special meet-
ing of the House. The House of Delegates by Q two-thirds majority voted to waive the re-
quirements of Article XII and consider resolutions
ARKANSAS BAR ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF DELEGATES MEETING TUNE 9, 1984 The House of Delegates of the Arkansas Bar Association held ils special meeting at the University of Arkansas Conference Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on September 21, 1984. President William R. Wilson, Jr. presided. The House approved the minutes of the last Executive Council meeting, the financial statement as of August 31, 1984, and Association
on (a) selection of federal judges No. 84-2; (b) judicial salaries No. 84-3; and (c) Justice Building Commission No. 84-4. Robert D. Ross, chair of the Resolutions Committee, reported the Committee's recommen-
dations that. (I) consideration of Resolution No. 84-2 be postponed until the Association's regular meeting
in
January,
1985, and that in the interim the president of the Association appoint a committee to study the desirability of this Association proposing guidelines for those engaged in the process of nominating or confirming a
candidate; and (2) that Resolution Nos. 84-3 and 84-4 be adopted by the House of Delegates. Resolution No. 84-2 provided in relevant part as follows: "BE IT RESOLVED BY THE ARKANSAS BAR ASSOCIATION that any effort to screen candidates for judicial office lanuary 1985/Arkansas Lawyer/51