Editor’s Note: Michael Miller was sworn in Monday night as president of the New York State Bar Association. Here are his remarks:

Members of this great profession of ours, particularly the members of the organized bar, stand on the front lines protecting, defending—and yes, even expanding—our precious civil liberties and the administration of justice. Our emphasis at the State Bar in the coming year will be on a broad range of topics relevant to those liberties and the effective administration of justice which I will briefly describe.