Lawyer Disciplinary Actions November, that condition would be fulfilled. That would mean the Jurisprudence and Law Reform Committee would work on the bar package in approximately June through September. Proposals would need to come to Jurisprudence by May. The Legislation Committee’s work period would be the same time of year, but annually instead of once every two years. The Uniform Law Committee would do its work in the spring rather than the fall. This change hinges on the House of Delegates meeting in November, but such a meeting could substitute for the January meeting.38
Conclusion Uniform laws are a valuable resource for the states. Arkansas’s uniform law commissioners have played an active part both on the national level in the ULC and at the state level in the Arkansas Bar Association to improve the law. The Arkansas Bar Association’s legislative process is well thought out and very thorough, but will have to change in the future if the legislature becomes more active in even-numbered years. Endnotes 1. This article was written with the assistance of a research stipend granted by Dean John M.A. DiPippa. My thanks to Phillip Carroll,
John Stroud, Vince Henderson, and Elisa White for their review. Thanks also to Cliff McKinney for his suggestions as to scope. Jack McNulty, Dennis Zolper and Roy Beth Kelley graciously agreed to be interviewed for this article and have my deepest gratitude. 2. Unusually, the entity has two names: its original name, the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform Laws, and a name adopted several years ago in surrender to popular usage, the Uniform Law Commission. Both names are official. Unif. Law Comm’n Const. art. 1, § 1.1. 3. No meeting was held in 1945 because of wartime travel restrictions. 4. Robert A. Stein, President, Opening Address at the 119th Meeting of the Uniform Law Commission (July 9, 2010). 5. Uniform Law Commission, http:// n c c u s l . o r g / Up d a t e / De s k t o p De f a u l t . aspx?tabindex=2&tabid=60 (last visited Aug. 11, 2010). 6. For further research in this area, see generally Walter P. Armstrong, Jr., A Centtury of Service: A Centennial History of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (1991); Unif. Law Comm’n 2009-2010 Reference Book (2009); Joe C. Barrett & Richard K. Burke, Uniform Laws in Arkansas, 1 Ark. L. Rev.
224 (1946-47); National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, The Arkansas Lawyer (Jan. 1975), at 23. 7. Id. at 16. 8. Id. at 19. 9. Id. at 26. 10. 1945 Ark. Acts No. 159 (codified at Ark. Code Ann. §§ 1-2-401 through 403.) 11. Armstrong, supra n. 6, at 182. 12. Barrett & Burke, supra n. 4, at 226. 13. Armstrong, supra n. 6, at 182. 14. Unif. Law Comm’n Const. art. 6, § 6.1. 15. Ark. Code Ann. §§ 1-2-401 through 403. 16. The ULC adopts both uniform and model laws, although the former greatly outnumber the latter. Uniform laws are those anticipated to be adopted in a large number of states, and those where uniformity of provisions is a principal objective. On the other hand, model acts are those where uniformity is not as important and the purposes of the act can be “substantially achieved even though it is not adopted in entirety by every state.” Unif. Law Comm’n, Statement of Policy Establishing Criteria and Procedures for Designation and Consideration of Acts § 2, in Reference Book, supra n. 6, at 134. 17. Id. at § 1. 18. Id. 19. Additionally, the Official Comments in
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