NEWS Charles D. Roscopf Elected Arkansas Bar Foundation President Charles D. Roscopf, of Helena, began his term as President of the Arkansas Bar Foundation Board of Directors on July 1, 2014. Chuck Roscopf is with the firm of Roscopf & Roscopf, P.A. where he has practiced since 1984. He is also Managing Partner of East Arkansas Title Co., LLC. After receiving his BSBA from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, Roscopf earned his Juris Doctorate Degree from the University of Arkansas School of Law. He has been a Fellow of the Arkansas Bar Foundation since 1996, is a Sustaining Fellow, and has served the Foundation as a member on the Board of Directors, as Secretary-Treasurer and Vice President, and on the Trust and Special Projects Committees. Roscopf has served the Arkansas Bar Association in leadership roles as a past member of the Board of Governors and House of Delegates and as Parliamentarian. He has been active in his community as a member of the Phillips County Bar Association, the Helena Rotary Club, and the DeSoto School Board, serving these organizations as a past president and as a member of the Board of the Phillips County Community Foundation. He is past Chair of the Arkansas Supreme Court Continuing Legal Education Committee and served as City Judge in Marvell, Arkansas. He and his wife, Ann, reside in Helena.
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NEW Business Associations Handbook Now Available The Arkansas Bar Association is pleased to announce the publication of the all new Business Associations Handbook: Corporations, Limited Liability Companies, and Partnerships—the first update to the Corporations handbook since 1988! This helpful handbook contains both summary and detailed information on the three most widely-used entities in Arkansas, including choiceThank you to volunteers pictured of-entity considerations, steps in formaleft to right for their work on the tion and dissolution, nonprofit corporanew handbook: Robyn Allmendinger, tions, corporate governance, taxation, Bonnie Johnson (front), Paul Parnell, and intellectual property issues; an entire chapter is devoted to federal and Bryan Duke and John Griffee state securities laws, written by Professor Fendler, author of Private Placements and Limited Offerings of Securities: A Guide for the Arkansas Practitioner. The handbook also contains many forms commonly used in connection with these business associations, including forms for formation, bylaws, operating agreements, and other governance documents, forms of amendments and restatements, minutes of shareholder/director/member meetings, sample shareholders’ agreements and much more! Get your copy today! For more information on ordering go to www.arkbar.com under the “For Attorneys” link or contact Michele Glasgow at 501-3754606 or mglasgow@arkbar.com.
Members Celebrating 50 Years of Practice
50-year members were honored with a reception and luncheon at the Association’s Annual Meeting on June 12, 2014.
Congratulations to members of the Association celebrating their 50th year of practice in Arkansas: Judge Harry Francis Barnes, William C. Bridgforth, Paul Dean Capps, Edward Ralph Cotham IV, Ben W. Frank, Martin Greeson Gilbert, Searcy W. Harrell, Jr. (posthumously), Scott Hunter, Ken Jones, Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Charles Matthews, Judge James M. Moody, William L. Patton, Jr., David H. Pryor, Allen P. Roberts, William B. Roberts, Herbert C. Rule III, Don M. Schnipper, William Farrar Sherman, Thomas E. Tanner, William P. Thompson, James R. Van Dover, John W. Walker, James R. Wallace, Edd N. Williams, Jr.