ARTICLE VII.

MEETING OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS.

SECTION 1. The Board of Governors shall meet annually, immediately following the annual election and shall hold such other meetings from time to time as may be called by the president or any three members of the Board of Governors.

ARTICLE VIII.

STANDING COMMITTEES AT LARGE.

SECTION 1. The following standing committees shall, unless otherwise provided, be appointed by the president at large:

1. Judicial Administration of nine members, which shall take note of all changes in the administration of the law, and recommend such as may, in its opinion, be entitled to the favorable consideration and endorsement of the Association; and, further, shall observe the workings of the judicial system of the state; shall collect information in reference thereto and recommend such action as it may deem admissible.

2. Law Reform of nine members-three to hold three years, three for two years, and three for one year; and at such annual meeting three members shall be appointed in the place of those retiring, who shall serve for three years. It shall be the duty of this committee to consider and report to the Association such amendments of the law, as in its opinion, should be adopted; also to scrutinize proposed changes of the law, and recommend such as should receive the approval of the Association.

3. Legal Education of nine members.

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Legal History and Biography.

Uniform State Laws of nine members.
Professional Ethics.

7. Program Committee, whose duty it shall be, subject to the approval of the president, to arrange suitable programs for all meetings of the Association.

A majority of the members of any standing committee at large shall reside in the same Supreme Court District.

STANDING COMMITTEES APPOINTED BY SUPREME COURT DISTRICTS.

SECTION 2. The following standing committees shall be appointed, one member of which shall reside in each Supreme Court District:

1. Bulletin Committee, whose duty it shall be to publish the Quarterly Bulletin.

2. Organization Committee, to co-operate with Local Bar Associations. The member from each Supreme Court District shall be the chairman in his district of a sub-committee of five members.

3. Committee on New Members, whose duty it shall be to procure applications from lawyers, whose qualifications and attainments would make them desirable members of the Association. The member from each Supreme Court District shall be the chairman in his district of a sub-committee of five members.

4. Committee on Admissions, whose duty it shall be to pass on the qualification of applicants for admission. The member from each Supreme Court District shall be the chairman in his district of a subcommittee of five members.

5. Committee on Grievances, whose duty it shall be to secure charges and complaints and take action thereon as hereinafter provided. The member from each Supreme Court District shall be the chairman in his district of a sub-committee of five members.

SECTION 3. A necrologist shall be appointed by the president. SECTION 4. Delegates to the American Bar Association-three in number, with three alternates-shall be appointed by the president.

WITHDRAWAL FROM MEMBERSHIP

SECTION 1. Withdrawal from membership may be effected by notice to the secretary and the payment of all unpaid dues, including those of the current year.

ARTICLE X.

CHARGES AND COMPLAINTS.

Whenever any complaint shall be preferred against a lawyer for unprofessional or unethical acts or conduct in his relation to his profession or conduct calculated to bring the profession into disrepute, such complaint shall be in writing, signed by the complainant, plainly stating the matter of which complaint is made, with particulars of time, place and circumstances, and filed with the Committee on Grievances, whereupon that committee shall refer the matter, if it deems wise, to the sub-committee of the appropriate district which shall proceed to examine into the matter under such regulations as it may from time to time adopt.

And it shall be the duty of the Committee on Grievances to take

notice of unprofessional conduct and of violations by any member of the bar practicing in the State of Illinois of the canons of es as adopted by this association.

In order to further the work of the Committee on Grievances in its efforts to maintain and advance the standards of the Bar, and that the committee may take cognizance of all matters tending to affect the standing of character of the Bar, for the purpose of showing the disapproval of acts or conduct deserving censure and at the same time doing justice to any lawyer guilty of unprofessional conduct or a lation of the canons of ethics, by recommending or inflicting a penalty more nearly commensurate with the offense in each case and thereby stimulating by properly graded penalties members of the Bar to follow rules of conduct and ethics more in accordance with the ideals of this Association and the said canons of ethics, the Committee on Grievances shall have power in all matters involving complaint of unprofessional acts or conducts or any violation of the canons of ethics:

1. To privately admonish the offender and recommend to such offender the proper course to pursue under the circumstances, and what, if any, reparation should be made to any one complaining.

2. To refer the matter with or without recommendations to the local Bar Association for the district where the lawyer complained of resides.

3. In all other cases the committee s all first report its conclusions to the Board of Governors in writing, and by and with the consent and approval of said Board of Governors may

(a). Publicly admonish the offender before the Board of Governors of this Association at any meeting thereof.

(b). Publicly admonish the offender before any regular meeting of the Association.

(c). Publish the names of offenders in any report of this Association with the statement of the offense and the censure of the committee.

(d). Suspend the offender from membership in this Association for not less than one year and not more than five years.

(e). Expel the offender from membership in the Association. (f). File an information in the Supreme Court of Illinois with a recommendation to said court that the offender be privately admonished by the court.

(g). File an information in the Supreme Court of Illinois with a recommendation to said court that the offender be admonished by said court and that the admonition be entered of record and published in the current volume of the Reports of said Supreme Court.

(h). File an information in the Supreme Court of Illinois with a recommendation to said court that the offender be suspended from practice for a time to be specified of not less than six months nor more than five years, and that such suspension be published in the current volume of the Reports of said Court.

(i). File an information in the Supreme Court of Illinois with a recommendation to said court that the offender be disbarred from the further practice of his profession in the State of Illinois.

(j). And the Committee on Grievances may take similar appropriate action in the Federal Courts against lawyers enrolled therein.

It shall be the duty of the Committee on Grievances to prosecute all information against members of the Bar presented by the Committee to the Supreme Court of Illinois or in the Federal Courts.

Judges of Courts of Record in this state are requested by this Association to call the attention of the Committee on Grievances to any unprofessional conduct or violations of the canons of ethics on the part of any member of the profession practicing in such courts.

ARTICLE XI.

SPECIAL COMMITTEES.

SECTION 1. The president may appoint one or more special committees to represent the Association, and promote its interest, on any occasion deemed expedient by him; and over his official hand, attested by the secretary and treasurer, duly accrediting him or them as Special Committee.

SECTION 2. The president shall appoint committees at his discretion to attend the inauguration of judges and to attend the funeral or memorial exercises of members of the Association.

ARTICLE XII.

DISBARMENT.

SECTION 1. When it shall appear that a member of the Association has been disbarred, he shall thereupon cease to be a member, and the secretary shall drop his name from the roll of members.

ARTICLE XIII.

LIMITATIONS AS TO SPEAKERS.

SECTION 1. No member shall speak more than five minutes except by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the members present, or except in the delivery of an address upon the regular program.

SECTION 2. No member shall speak more than once on any matter, question or motion.

ARTICLE XIV.

REPRESENTATIVES OF LOCAL BAR ASSOCIATIONS.

SECTION 1. Any county or city Bar Association within the State of Illinois may become affiliated with this Association on application filed with the secretary and treasurer at any time. Such application shall be in writing, signed by the president and secretary of such local association, and shall state the name and object of such association, and give the number of its members. Such application shall be presented at the next succeeding annual meeting of this Association, and favorable action thereon by a majority vote shall constitute the applicant an affiliated association.

SECTION 2. Each affiliated association shall be entitled to at least one delegate to represent it in the State Association. If the local association shall have more than twenty members, it shall be entitled to two delegates and two delegates to every twenty members in addition thereto, or the major fraction thereof.

ARTICLE XV.

ELECTION OF OFFICERS.

SECTION 1. At least sixty days before each annual meeting the president shall appoint, as tellers, three members resident in the place where the meeting is to be held, who shall arrange for the election of officers at such meeting, and canvass the ballots there cast and report the result thereof at such meeting.

SECTION 2. Any twenty or more members of the Association may, in writing, nominate a candidate, or candidates, for each, or for any, of the offices, including the Board of Governors, of the Association. Such written nominations shall be filed with, and received by the secretary of the Association at least thirty days preceding the first day of the annual meeting. In case no nomination shall be made for any office, or if a vacancy shall occur by reason of death, refusal, or otherwise, in any nomination made as above, not less than ten days before the first day of the meeting, then the Board of Governors shall nominate such officer to fill such vacancy. The names of all persons so nominated shall be arranged alphabetically under the title of the offices to be filled, and the secretary shall cause such list to be printed in the form of the Australian ballot, and the same shall be voted in like manner and shall be the official ballot. At least five days before the annual meeting, the secretary shall mail to each mem