THE BAR
"There is a legal explosion!" With these words, courtly Orison Swett Marden, 60, newly elected president of the American Bar Association, summed up a dominant theme of the A.B.A.'s annual meeting held last week in Montreal. Such Supreme Court decisions as Gideon, Escobedo and Miranda have sharply expanded the U.S. right to counsel, requiring the services of many more lawyers and a deep change in the attitude of many A.B.A. members.
In Marden's view, it will all be to the good. Himself a senior partner in White & Case, a prestigious Wall...
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