Thursday, July 9, 2015

July Meeting

Our regular lunch meeting is scheduled for Monday, July 20, 2015, at 12:00 p.m., at Tribeca, located at 127 Market House Square.  The price of the lunch is $12.50 (including tax and gratuity).  Please bring either cash or a check made payable to “McCracken County Bar Association.”

Hon. Craig Z. Clymer, Judge, McCracken Circuit Court, Division No. II, will be our speaker.  The topic will be Ancient Laws and Customs.  This program has been approved by the Kentucky Bar Association for a one-half hour CLE credit.  Judge Clymer describes the program:

It is entitled “Ancient Laws and Customs”.  We begin with the Code of Hammurabi 2285  B.C. and end with the redefinition of marriage this past June.  Forty five hundred years of law in the time it takes you to eat a cheeseburger!  Topics are:  marriage laws and customs; witchcraft and sorcery; judicial independence; trial by battle, by ordeal, by torture, and by compurgation.  The goal is for lawyers to examine from where we came, so that we can better understand where we are, and where we will be.  William Knox wrote: “For we are the same that our fathers have been.”  Had we lived in the dark days we would have viewed these customs and laws as did our forefathers, and viewed them just.
These ancient laws are shocking to us today.  Will today’s laws be shocking when viewed from the distant future?

Please RSVP to belinda@ml-lawfirm.com by Friday, July 17, 2015, so that we can provide an accurate lunch count to Tribeca.

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Retirement Reception for Marshall Circuit Judge Dennis Foust

A retirement reception for Marshall Circuit Judge Dennis Foust will be held this Friday, July 10, 2015, from 1:00–3:00 p.m. in the Marshall Circuit Courtroom.  All McCracken County Bar members are invited to attend.