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The A/Ledger Boston College Law School Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School The Alledger Law School Archive 2-28-1992 The Alledger, volume 12, number 07 The Alledger Follow this and additional works at: https://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/alledger Part of the Legal Education Commons, and the Legal History Commons Recommended Citation The Alledger, "The Alledger, volume 12, number 07" (1992). The Alledger. 180. https://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/alledger/180 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School Archive at Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Alledger by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The A /ledger Greenberg and Milley Top Client Counseling By Doug Sachs Greenberg, Milley and Parisi all pointed The final round involved an accoun­ tions made by Father Malley and Profes­ out that the subject of this year's competi­ tant for a construction company who had sor Bob Smith, who filled in as a finals One of the most difficult scenarios a tion, criminal law, placed the BCLS stu­ participated in a price-fixing scheme. He judge due to a last-minute illness. lawyer can imagine involves the client dents at a distinct disadvantage, consider­ had participated fearing the loss of his Other judges of the final round of compe­ charged with abusing his own child. ing Boston Collegeofferno first-year crimi­ job, and sought counsel because of an tition, held Jan. 30, included attorneys Phyllis For first-years Nancy Greenberg and nal law course. The subject is selected on a impending investigation. Federico and Michael Perry, Parisi said Janet Milley, such a case posed little moral national level, Parisi said. "We tried to give him options, but no "One judge made the point that no dilemma. "It was really hard to know what we definite answers, because he was a lower­ matter what field of law you go into, you The winners of this year's Client Coun­ didn't know," Greenberg said. "So we tried level employee and hadn't been arrested have to do client counseling," Parisi said. seling Competition, Greenberg and Milley not to say too much. There was a lot of yet," Milley said. "It's something you do throughout your advised four clients, each facing some 'We'll have to get back to you'." Parisi noted the valuable contribu- entire career." criminal charges .. A total of 38 two-person teams com­ peted in this year's event, said Board of Student Advisors member Donna Parisi. "It was a treme~dous success," Parisi said. "We got positive feedback from the students as well as the judges." In addition to the fa ther charged with child abuse, the clients included a teen­ aged girl charged with shoplifting, a drug­ possession suspect and a possible white­ collar criminal. Milley and Greenberg said they ap­ proached each client with compassion and attention, attempting to discover as many facts as possible while helping the client' feel supported. The child abuse case provided an op­ portunity for the team to put their client counseling skills to the test, Milley said. "We felt no conflict representing and supporting him," Milley said. "It was a new feeling for us. The general feeling among lay people would be, 'How do you defend this guy?' We both tried to do our best to support the clients and look at them in the most positive light. We tried to help First-year students Nancy Greenberg (left) and Janet Milley took top honors in the recent client counseling them get out of these awful situations." competition. Job Survey: Top 10% Find Work; The Rest- NOT By Katie D'Urso optimistic. Of the third year responses, 53 finding jobs. No one in the top 10 percent impress an interviewer than a man might Associate Editor percent came from students in the top quar­ of either class reported that they were have. A third year woman agreed, sug­ ter of the class while only 14 percent came still looking for a job. Even this figure is gesting that once you get out of the auto­ The results of the job search survey are from students in the bottom half of the deceiving because many of these stu­ matic top 10 percent track there may be in. Approximately 30 percent of the sec­ class. The second year results were similar dents reported difficulty in finding em­ some gender bias. ~ ond and third year students responded. with 46 percent of the surveys turned in by ployment in their geographic location of The greatest p.umber of offers was re­ Sixty-five percent of the 3Ls who re­ students in the top quarter of the class and choice. ported by a second year man in the top 11- sponded currently have post-graduation only 15 percent by students in the lower In both the third year and second year 25 percent category and a woman in the employment plans. Sixty-eight percent of half of the class. classes, twice as many men as women top 10 percent, each of whom received 10 the 2Ls who responded to the survey have Despite the fact that response to the with no journal experience have jobs. offers. secured a summer position. survey is skewed toward the top portion of One second year woman commented that A few students expressed discontent Because many more students in the top the class, a few interesting observations although she did not experience overt with the fall recruiting season. part of the second and third year classes may be made. It appears that the top 10 discrimination during recruiting season, filled out surveys, these figures are overly percent of both classes had little trouble she felt that she had to work harder to See JOBS, p. 7 Page 2 • The Alledger • February 28, 1992 COMMENT . From the Editor's Desk Pro-Choice Reflects Rape Concern for Quality of Life Letter to the Editor: take all this in, I am convinced that I could By Doug Sachs I would like to respond in a general never bring a child into this world who Editor-in Chief way to the letters from Mr. Fallon and Mr. might be forced to live such a "life." Kelley regarding the issue of a woman's When I hear some people argue that' In the hours following Mike Tyson's conviction for brutally raping an 18-year­ right to choose. Mr. Fallon states that his women who become pregnant should not old beauty pageant contestant, the shockwaves reverberated like a runaway roller group cares very deeply for the quality of be able to choose whether or not to raise coaster. life, but that his group's priorities must their children in these ranks of despair, I In the wake of the two recent major defeats in the Battle of the Sexes, all bets center on allowing the unborn fetus to wonder where our priorities are. Why has were on Tyson to walk. have a life before they can concentrate on the potential life become more important But he didn't. He went down harder than he did two years ago in Tokyo at the the issue of quality. Paraphrasing his sen­ than the actual? Why is the aborting of an fists of Buster Douglas. timents, we need not have a beautiful field unfeeling, unthinking fetus more heinous At first, the taste of victory was sweet. Believers in the truth winning out against if there is no child to walk in it. While the than the suffering of a breathing, thinking, all odds had cause to rejoice. Finally, society believed her. With the likes of pro-life position expostulating the sacred feeling child? Why are such groups' ster­ William Kennedy Smith and Clarence Thomas erecting a seemingly impenetrable nature of life has a laudable sentiment, I ling efforts and laudable sympathies not wall of protection against charges of sexual harassment and violence, women felt believe that it is neither practical nor hu­ being put toward helping children who are knocked out cold. mane. alive to live? None of these groups, while The Tyson conviction turned everything around. Here was a wealthy, powerful Unlike Mr. Kelley, I am -less con­ requiring a woman to give birth, are advo­ man convicted of a violent and depraved act on no other evidence that the cerned with the quality of the world as a cating the means to help her feed, clothe, testimony of the lone eyewitness. whole than I am with the quality of the and protect her child. They merely insist But quickly, the mood took an unpleasant turn. People felt sorry for Mike basic life of a child, a child who deserves that she have it, regardless of its future or Tyson. This incident should not have caused the end of his career, they said. to be nurtured, nourished, loved, and pro­ lack thereof. With sentencing scheduled for March, most watchers expect Tyson to receive tected. I walk through the streets of Bos­ Infant mortality rates in this country's between six and nine years of hard time. That means Tyson, 25, will be in his mid- ton and I see homeless children whose inner cities continue to grow and children 30s by the time he gets out. A little old to mount a comeback. Even if he could eyes tell of deprivation and sorrow. I see living in poverty continue to die, yet we compete physically, his rape conviction will force him to change his name and statistics of a growing number of children are willing to force a woman to subject her appearance like Tony Danza in some pathetic "Taxi" episode.
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