From the outset, abortion has dominated the agenda of the bar group's annual meeting.
There are conflicting data on just where the rank-and-file of the bar group stands.
For this reason, he said, several bar groups have declined to help him.
Not surprisingly, what to do about it dominated the bar group's recently concluded convention here.
Her niche in the bar group lay in law office management, not civil rights.
And still, the bar group seems poised to emerge from its recent doldrums.
Even the bar groups were few, and fewer of them were drinking anything but water.
The move ends her stormy tenure of almost three years as the bar group's chief administrator.
Officials of the bar groups acknowledge they are getting less than overwhelming response in their efforts to recruit attorneys.
Other local bar groups have adopted similar, or even more ambitious, measures.