Journal directory.

I would like join attorney Arthur A. Cohen in calling on our fellow lawyers to contact The Florida Bar Journal to request the inclusion of contact information for the courts, clerks, and sheriffs statewide in the annual directory. I suggest that we also ask for the Rules of Professional Conduct to be returned to the directory. The competent, efficient, and ethical practice of law will be facilitated by having this information at our fingertips.

Richard S. Jackson

DeLand

This letter is to voice support for the position set forth by Arthur A. Cohen in a letter published in the April 1 News, commenting upon the deletion from the annual Journal directory of the names, addresses, and phone numbers of courts, clerks, sheriffs, state and federal officials, and other information.

Having the material "online" is insufficient for those of us who do not spend all day "online," but who spend lots of other time reading, preparing papers, editing, doing other things, often with old style tools, .i.e,, pen and pencil. Additionally, having material "online" is an actual inconvenience, when we are otherwise working "online," since it requires dropping out of the specific item in production, to research another Web site, to acquire information.

In a world filled with voice and telepad access "options," the elimination of a paper source of reference, that was...