I am delighted to take up residence as a legalweek.com blogger. I thought I’d start by sharing with you my first ‘proper’ presidential duty – which was to tackle the mammoth American Bar Association Conference.

In 1878, 100 lawyers from 21 different US states met to form the American Bar Association (ABA). It is now the largest voluntary association in the world, with a staggering 500,000 members, which equates to about half of all registered US lawyers.