As a result, the association does not oversee attorney Continuing Legal Education (CLE), discipline, or licensing.
The ISBA is governed by members elected to its House of Delegates, board of governors, and executive committee.
ISBA does not handle matters such as law licensing or complaints against lawyers; these are within the purview of the Indiana Court System.
Res Gestae began in 1956 when ISBA President Tom Scanlon created a publications committee to upgrade The Bulletin, a mimeographed newsletter, which, in fact, was a legal-size sheet of paper that was nothing more than a calendar.
Volunteer lawyer-editors and a small bar staff went to work, and the newly named Res Gestae was published, for the first time, in November of that year.