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The Law Alumni THE LAW ALUMNI THE LAW SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA The University of Pennsylvania does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual or affeetional preference, age, relig­ ion, national or ethnic origin, or physical handicap. The University's policy applies to faculty positions and other employment, students and applicants to educational programs. Penn's Law School and the Public Interest Contents The following article was pub­ work; minimal salaries for public FROM THE DEAN: 1 lished in the University's Almanac interest lawyers who often have large Penn Law and Public Interest student loans to repay; and the 1980s SYMPOSIUM 4 describing public interest activities at William Bradford Reynolds 8 the Law School. While we can take thinking that doing well outdoes doing FEATURED EVENTS 9 pride in these activities, we must also good. Ambassador Max M. Kampelman 9 recognize that an enormous amount One strategy for solving the problem Hon. Joseph A. Grundfest 11 remains to be done in the public focuses on the way in which lawyers are IRVING R. SEGAL LECTURESIDP interest arena. Excluding government prepared for their profession. From the IN TRIAL ADVOCACY: outset, they must recognize that their Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. 13 service and judicial clerkships, only ALUMNI PROFILE 15 two or three of the graduates of our exclusive privilege of practicing law Jeffrey M. Stopford, '69 most recent classes have gone into creates the obligation to make their special skills available to all of society. Ideally, PENN lAW PEOPLE IN THE NEWS 16 full-time public interest work. The FACUL1Y 18 such convictions should be shaped in the vast bulk of our graduates go into ALUMNI BRIEFS 19 nation's law schools. private practice and a majority of our IN MEMORIAM 22 At the University of Pennsylvania Law graduates practice with very large Editor: Joanna Charnes School, the process is already well firms. If our alumni are to carry their underway. Assistant Editors: John J. Pease III, fair share of public interest activities, Thomas J. Pease we must find ways in which law Faculty & Alumni Briefs Editor: Promoting Public John J. Pease, III firms, through the example of its Photography Credits: Joanna Charnes, partners and through firm practices, Interest Careers Nancy Wegard encourage their lawyers to devote Through financial assistance Design: The Graphics Guild time to public interest activities. The The Law School's student body of 720 Robert H. Mundheim, Dean Law School and the Law Alumni The University of Pennsylvania Law School is exceptionally well-qualified. Median Society will hold an important confer­ Law School Admission Test scores for The Office of Development and Alumni ence on this key issue during the Relations entering classes rank in the 95th percentile Sally Carroll, Office Manager Spring Term. The Law School is also nationally. Such excellence is due to the Joanna Charnes, Director of Law Alumni considering ways in which the habit School's need-blind admission policy. Affairs and Editor, Law Alumni Journal of engaging in public interest work is But escalating tuition and living costs Margaret S. DiPuppo, Director of Annual fostered among our student body. are making law education more expensive Giving John S. Manotti, Assistant Director of than ever. For 1988-89, the total comes to Annual Giving Dean Robert H . Mundheim $22,400 for tuition, fees, and living Donald G. Myers, Director of Development expenses. The rising costs are outstripping Carol G. Weener, Assistant Director of The legal profession has long held the School's financial aid resources and Development that all lawyers should devote part of forcing more students to rely heavily on their time to pro bono service, a term loans. As a result, those who graduate with Editor's Note: In the 39th Annuall?eport of Giving/Law Alumni Joumal, from the Latin pro bono publico, mean­ a heavy debt are much more likely to several individuals were in correctly recogni zed. Please accept choose the best-paying jobs rather than our apologies. ing "for the public good." Mrs. Charles W. Rosner was li sted under the category Yet less than 18 percent of the full-time public-service positions in "Friends," but should have been listed under " Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Ros ner." nation's private lawyers are involved which lawyers may earn $25,000 or Under gifts made to Annual Giving, Jonathan H. Newman, in public interest law. And according less. '87 and Na ncy Marcus, '87 gave a joi nt gift. Only Mr. Newman's name appeared in the Report. to a recent study in The National Law To aid students who wish to serve Cecelia Bailey, '88, who is clerking for Judge William H. Yohn, Jr. of the Montgomery County Common Pl eas Court was journal, only two percent of the the public interest, the Law School has incorrectly li sted under the category of Federal Clerkshi ps. graduates of the top law schools two financial support programs. Salvatore Faia, '88 is clerking for Judge Donald W. VanArtsdalen, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of during the last five years chose public The new Public Interest Scholarship Penn sy lva nia. Program awards full three-year scholar­ Karen Knox, '88 is cl erking for Judge Robert Cowan of the interest jobs. Third Circu it not the Third District. The problem has several root causes: ships to entering students who excel in Bradford Gram Swing, '88 is clerking for Judge Herbert P. Wilkins of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court not the proliferation of giant law firms that no academics and already have substantial Southern Judicial Court. longer routinely set pro bono goals for records of public service. their members; the shortage of attor­ That student achievers with a proven neys willing to volunteer time for such bent to public service choose Penn is convincing proof that the Law School's clinics, courses, and programs, in the ences ever" ... and one more way in Responsibility and the Legal Profession words of one Public Interest Scholar, which the School is reminding future is required of all first-year law stu­ "demonstrate an overt concern in lawyers of their responsibilities to the dents. The course is noteworthy in promoting public interest careers." public good. several respects, including its promi­ The Public Interest Scholarship Pro­ nence in the first-year curriculum, its gram is a major step by the School in introduction of "real-world" lawyering Through public-interest conferences making such careers possible. materials, and its use of practitioners as The Freedom of Career Choice Fund is Open discussion of social problems teaching resources. The Center has just what the name implies: a resource is an effective way to alert law students developed additional specialized for law alumni who choose pro bono to their legal implications. The Law courses in professional responsibility work. The Fund provides grants that School has such a forum in the student­ for second- and third-year students. help public interest lawyers repay their run Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Indicative of the kind of leadership educational loans. These Career Law Conference, held annually since that the Center offers in the legal Choice grants which range from $1,000 1983. community is an innovative project: to $5,000 can mean the difference The 1988 Conference, for example, programs on professional responsibil­ between staying in or dropping out of focused on "Privacy and the Public ity that are conducted within individ­ low-paying public interest positions. Interest." Students and members of the uallaw firms. For example, one The Law School considers the Fund of public sector discussed possible legal program, presented this Fall, includes such importance that it pays for the solutions to privacy issues associated an overview of the new Rules of awards from its own operating budget. with AIDS, drug testing in the Professional Conduct, recently adopted workplace, needs-tests for welfare by the Commonwealth of Pennsylva­ Through innovative programs recipients, domestic violence, child nia; confidentiality of client informa­ welfare, and gay rights. tion; conflicts of interest; ethical The Law School's highly acclaimed Conference topics have included advocacy in the litigation process; and Clinical Program, described by Dean "Health Care and Justice: Practicing in discussions of ethical dilemmas that Robert Mundheim as "second to none in the Public Interest" and "Law, the participants encounter in their own the nation," teams clinical faculty with Family, and Social Change." practices. students who work with real clients in To advance the law of lawyering, the public service settings. Center will promote scholarly consid­ The program's scope is broad. Examining Issues of eration of this important discipline Students in the Small Business Clinic Professional Responsibility through its research, publications, and represent clients referred by the Wharton consultations. School's Small Business Development Few fields of the law are under more But professional conduct is an issue Center. Others in the Penn Legal Assis­ scrutiny than that of professional responsi­ in fields other than the law. Ethical tance Office, the School's teaching law bility. questions arise in medicine, business, office, provide free legal services to poor Lawyers constantly face ethical nursing, and other professions for clients, while still others serve as child dilemmas in their practice, while the public which Penn prepares its students. advocates or family counselors. Students worries over the media image of lawyers as Recognizing this, the Center will also serve as extems in the public interest "hired guns," as provocateurs who litigate initiate interdisciplinary faculty­ sector. for personal gain, or as representatives of student seminars in the University's other Field-work experiences in the impersonal institutions or governments, professional schools. The Law School is a Program have already spurred many with undefined discretion.
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