January 2020 Bar Bulletin
By Gene Barton
After 14-plus years as the KCBA Bar Bulletin editor, and 174 issues at the helm, this issue will be my last hurrah. I am taking down my lawyer’s shingle and riding off into the sunset of retirement.
My reign (not rein or rain) has lasted much longer than I expected when I sat down at my interview in 2005 with then-editor Bob Anderton and then-Executive Director Alice Paine, and critiqued the two most- recent issues of the Bar Bulletin (then a two-section paper). I had a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and 15 years under my belt as a reporter...