{"content":[{"text":"AALA Presidential Address","bbox":{"left":0.325964,"top":0.089269,"width":0.20091399999999998,"height":0.018393000000000007}},{"text":"NETWORKING WITHIN \n THE AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITY","bbox":{"left":0.224935,"top":0.121143,"width":0.403234,"height":0.047536999999999996}},{"text":"Paul L. Wright*","bbox":{"left":0.370474,"top":0.189943,"width":0.11254900000000001,"height":0.01683499999999999}},{"text":"I. INTRODUCTION: A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN AGRICULTURAL ATTORNEY","bbox":{"left":0.160627,"top":0.237173,"width":0.5316440000000001,"height":0.01839300000000002}},{"text":"Agricultural attorneys regularly have the opportunity to interact with other \n professionals working within the agricultural community. As is natural in this \n profession, frequently there are differences of opinion. The question being raised, are \n the differing opinions the result of true differences? Could it be that many times the \n differences are because the parties involved have not taken the time to understand \n each other or have not taken the time to communicate? \n The agricultural legal profession can benefit from taking time to reach out and \n better understand other points of view. I wonder how many differences are grounded \n in a lack of thorough communication, or a lack of taking the time to create a forum to \n really hear another’s thoughts and knowledge. \n The potential breadth of an agricultural attorney’s contacts is unlimited. The \n contacts may well be with the educational community, agricultural input suppliers, \n purchasers of agricultural products, those companies providing professional services \n to the agricultural community, and those entities providing governmental services. \n This listing is only representative. Imagination can lead to identifying many career \n paths within each group. \n Agriculture has and continues to embark upon dramatic changes. Examples of \n current changes are: producing for niche markets, government policy allowing \n freedom to produce, plant and animal alterations due to biotechnology changes, \n continually larger farming units being put in place, industrialization of agriculture, \n continued emphasis on international contracts for production and marketing, and the \n concerns related to farmland preservation. The legal profession has an important role \n to contribute in each of these dramatic changes. \n Putting “networking” in place is an opportunity—an opportunity for the legal \n profession to be the catalyst. It is possibly more of an opportunity for the agricultural","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.269598,"width":0.6176610000000001,"height":0.407547}},{"text":"* Paul L. Wright is an attorney with and President of Wright & Logan Co., LPA in Dublin, \n Ohio; a former professor of agricultural law within the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and \n Development Economics at The Ohio State University; and a former Ohio State University Extension \n Agent serving the north central Ohio area. This presentation was prepared for the American \n Agricultural Law Association’s 19th Annual Symposium held in Columbus, Ohio, on October 22-23, \n 1998. \n 1","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.697971,"width":0.617654,"height":0.09815099999999999}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}