For Immediate Release

	March 27, 2004 NBA PRESIDENT CLYDE BAILEY ATTENDS 9th ANNUAL SMALL FIRMS/ SOLO PRACTITIONERS CONFERENCE IN SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO After leaving the NBLSA Annual Meeting in Boston, Mass., President Bailey journeyed to San Juan to meet with and address the delegates to the Small Firms/Solo Practitioner's Division during their 9th Annual Meeting, March 19 - 21. Introduced by Michael Rosier, NBA Past-President and past chair and founder of the Division, President Bailey acknowledged the outstanding leadership of Chairperson Patricia Rosier and the important role of the Small Firms/Solo Practitioners Division which represents over 80% of the lawyers of the Association. In a brief review of his mid-year report, President Bailey mentioned the Associations' focus on judicial nominees and the NBA's effort to formulate its own judicial evaluation process. President Bailey also committed to formulating an NBA Lawyers Assistance Program before the end of his term in response to a compelling CLE presentation by Darryl Rouson on Work Place Stress and its estimated impact on NBA lawyers. The National Bar Association, founded in 1925, is the nation's oldest and largest association of attorneys of color, representing a professional network of over 20,000 lawyers, judges, educators and law students..