Lawyers: The A.B.A.'s No. 1 Issue

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At the American Bar Association meeting in Miami last week, Edward Kuhn, a deceptively homespun Memphis lawyer, puffed on his cigar and pin pointed the urgent issue facing him as new president of the A.B.A. The bar, said Kuhn, is just waking up to the fact that millions of Americans yearn for group practice; events are outpacing the lawyer's one-to-one relationship with clients. Warned Kuhn: "We've got to make up our minds as to whether we're going to face the facts of life or stick our heads in the damned sand." Apart...

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