The Law: This Transcends . . .

Lawyers by the thousands—4,500 of them—descended on St. Louis last week for the 84th annual convention of the American Bar Association. As men who deal in words, they found much to talk about. They held some 200 separate meetings in a dozen hotels, divided their efforts between 20 committees and 18 study sections. The principles they live and work by may have been laid down long ago, but their problems seem only to increase. Some of them:

Administration of Justice. Rarely have the mills of U.S. justice been so clogged. In federal district...

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