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Major Ethics Changes Debated Skadden, Arps College of William & Mary Law School William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository Student Newspaper (Amicus, Advocate...) Archives and Law School History 1995 Amicus Curiae (Vol. 5, Issue 8) Repository Citation "Amicus Curiae (Vol. 5, Issue 8)" (1995). Student Newspaper (Amicus, Advocate...). 147. https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/newspapers/147 Copyright c 1995 by the authors. This article is brought to you by the William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository. https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/newspapers Thatcher Lays down the Law, page 5 MARSHALL-WYTHE SCHOOL OF LAW America's First Law School VOLUME V, ISSUE EIGHT MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 199- TWE TY PAGES • M-W 2nd In moot nationals By Shelley Evans as "getting tortured the longest." In the course of the Moot The victorious 3L team of Sacks commented on "enjo ing Court Competition, Bill and the Doug Miller. Josh Sacks and Bill the experience and meeting all others initiated rituals as part of Pincus returned to a reception in the other people.:' every.day to assure good luck in the law school lobby on Mon­ Ledbetter was given a clock tne next round. One of the rituals day, Jan. 30 as the Second Place by the team in memory of their · invol ed going to the same cof­ Winners in the 45th Annual a­ four days together. It Vv'as a fit­ fee shop, sitting at the same table, tional Moot Court Competition ting gift since she was respon­ and, most importantl y. ha in g held Jan. 23-26 in ew York sible for waking them every Miller pa the coffee tab . City. Miller wa also awarded morning at 9 a.lll. Ledbetter said Ledbetter herself started another Best Brief Winner. (See box for that before law schooL Pincl! ritual by forgetting her camera related story on the trip). was a contender in \vrestling. It for the fir t round. When the M­ Chief Justice Ted Atkinson is rumored that Pincus even W team won Ledbetter decided praised the team although Bill ranked seventh in the world. al- to make her faux pas part of the Dom er aI¥i Bill incus Pincus referred to their triumph though he denies this. rituals. Miller recalled arguing the fina l argument. which wasjudged Two new professors hired; Add to M -W diversity by nine justices. including Asso­ By Vanessa Peterson ruptcy and civil procedure, and orfolk. Dickerson is a 1988 cuit Coul1 of Appeals in Cincin­ ciate Justice ofthe Supreme Court Dean Krattenmaker recently the other for corporations and Har ard Law graduate and ince nati, Ohio. and practiced ' tax. Honorable Ruth BaderGinsburg. inducted into the M-W family law and economics. has served as an admissions of­ general litigation, and employee Probabl to ease any nervous­ two new faculty members who A. Mechele Dickerson, who ficer at Harvard-Radcliffe Col­ benefits at Shea & Gardener in ness, Professor Judy Ledbetter will begin teaching in Fall \ 995. will teach civil procedure and leges in Cambridge, Mass. he Washington, DC. who accompanied the team to Both of tlle new hires are assis­ bankruptcy, is currentl an asso­ also clerked for the Hon . The other new facult mem­ New York. told Miller not to tant professors; one for bank- ciate at Hunton & Wil/iams in Nathaniel R. Hones, Sixth Cir- ber.. Alan 1. Meese, is currently expect a large·audience. Actu­ an associate in the Antitrust and all about 250 people were in Trade Regulation Department at attendance, in addition to the Major ethics changes debated Skadden, Arps. Slate, Meagher bright television lights aimed at By Marybeth Dingledy The Special Committee was Se eral circumstances and Flom ,in Washington, DC. the competitors. For Miller, the On Monday, Jan, 30,. a sur­ formed to re-evaluate Virginia' s prompted the Virginia State Bar Meese is a 1989 graduate from most difficult exercise ofthe tour­ prisin~l>, small contingent oftaw Code of Professional Responsi­ to re-evaluate the state' siegal t~e University of Chicago La\ nalllent was "making eye con­ students, fac ul ty, and interested bi Iity. Current I ,the state code ethics system. One was the School and a 1986 graduate from tact with nine judges" who were members of the legal commu­ is based on the older Disciplin­ prominence oft\'Io cases in which W&M with an A.B. in Ancient sitting behind a bench forcing nity attended the Town Meeting ary Rules and Ethical Consider­ attorneJ s appropriated mone Greek and Economics. Meese him to con istentl " look back on Proposed Changes to the Vir­ ations . The Committee is out of their clients' trust funds. clerked for the Hon. Antonin and forth like in a tennis match." ginia Code of Professional Re­ recommending that Virginia A second was the fact th at it had Scalia, the United States Supreme The case discussed concerned sponsibility held at the law abandon th is system and rep.lace been wei e years since the state Court, and the H n. Frank H. issued on environmental law. A school. Those who did attend it with the more modern Model had taken a comprehensive look Easterbrook. United States Court See MOOT on 14 heard an explanation of some of Rules. The Model Rules are used at professional responsibility. of Appeals .for the eventh Cir­ the changes which have been by the American Bar Associa­ Although the Special Com­ cuit. He has also written se eral -Inside-- proposed by the Special Com­ tion and many states. Those of m ittee realizes that no amount of publications. including " Limita­ Inside story on King, Roe 3 mittee of the Virginia State Bar, us 'who have completed the Le­ rules "will keep errant lawyers tions on Corporate Speech: Pro­ Thatcher, Broder chide us 5 and sometimes heated discussion gal Skills ethics course may from doing anything as base and tection for Shareholders or 3 Rob Kaplans Converge 8 Group Therapy available 8 bet\veen cOll1m ittee mem bers and vague I remember these t\'IO sys­ See ETHICS on 18 See FACULTY on 19 Onley the LonelySurvives II local attorneys. tellls. Carrico: The joy of judging By Jennifer Tosini As part of M-W's International Judges Forum. Chief Justice Harry Carrico discussed "The Appeal of a Judicial Career" with a group of interested students and facu lty on Jan. 23. Referring to hi s 34 years on the Supreme Court of Virginia. Chief Justice Carrico states quite frankl . th at "I love my job'-' Although he and Ilis fellow Justices often disagree about how particular cases should be decided. ··these disagreements are never disagreeable. " Perhaps Chief Justice CatTico's greate-t achieve­ ment on the Virginia Supreme Court has been the -B r l!lI Zli nil ",)! See CARRICO on 20 3L Nicole Fradette teaches a child to fish at the Workaday. See page 3. J •• ~' ., 2 Monday, February 6, 1995 THE AMICUS CURlAE From th.e . Editor's' Desk • • • Last week, The lVashington parts. the males were three times the majorit of classes at M-W, teenage girls become less ag- status of nurses or teachers. Post reported on a soon-to-be as likely to be in the top 10 the three-four hour exam at the . gressive in class and submerge But this may be due to sex published and already contro­ percentofthe class by the end of end of each semester accounts for their individuality. This is the discrimination. - One must ask, versial article by Pennsylvani a the first year and twice as rikel one' s entire grade and th is is where period of time when "the best " \Vhich came first, the job or the La \" School Professor Lani by graduation. the top fi ve students in the class of friend" becomes all important woman seeking the job?" Gu inier titled " Becomi'ng Guinier attributed the afore­ '95 have excelled. and dressing 'alike is common­ If v;'Omen ha e traditionall Gentlemen: Women's E peri­ mentioned variations in la w Inm class experience, women place. On the other hand. ado­ been told they only have the op­ ences at One lv, League Law school perform ance to the do speak less than Inen. VVhenthe lescent males begin to define tion ofbecoming nurses or teach­ Schoo I. " The law school is Penn. Socratic method and general men do speak, they tend to speak themselves more in contrast to ers rather than doctors or lawyers, Guinier assel1s that gender dif­ gender differences. According for longer periods of time. Often others, and more as individuals then discrimination is the cause te re nces account forthe discrep­ to Guinier, the Socratic method, men will raise their hands, make a with autonomous behavior. of women dominating these ancies in performance in law while coercive for all students. point and then raise th eir hands A teenage male becomes "one fields. That would mean that our chool between males and fe ­ is more intimidating for'women again almost immediately with an of the gu s'· by taking on a per­ perception 6fwomen as nurtur­ males. (A Ithough racial distinc­ students in its combative style afterthought or clarification. sona, such as the tough guy or ing and supportive is due to the tions were also apparent, Guinier that is more su itable to males While this may be percei ed as a the class clown, whereas teenage fact that other fields were closed found the minority pool too small than females. The very profes­ sign ofaggressive male behavior. girls flock in nondistinct groups to them, and this is the reason for adequate statistical analysis). sion of lawyer, the article con­ it can become annoying when­ of bad or good girls.
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