THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF LAW TOWNES HALL NOTES

VOL. 3 NO. 1 A Publication of The University of Texas Law School Foundation SEPTEMBER, 1967

peated daily at the busy Placement Office here in the law school. And the conversations which begin with "We have an opening" are particularly pleasing to Mrs. Mettie Brown, our dynamic Placement Director. When It Begins The placement process begins in early September and continues throughout the year. Along with general registration, each senior student is required to furnish a recent photograph and a personal data sheet to assist potential employers in finding just the right young lawyers to fill their particular needs. Each job opening and each student is a unique and individual case for the Placement Office and Mrs. Brown's personal concern and professional skills are very much in evidence as she strives to match the person to the particular job. The Service Grows— Thanks To You More and more "satisfied customers" are finding their way to our doors these days, and the UT law graduate is being offered increasing opportunities to interview The Placement Process begins in Mrs. Brown's office. with individuals, firms, corporations, banks, and govern- ment agencies. The number of recruiting visits scheduled PLACEMENT-A SHARED through the Placement Office reached an all-time high last year, showing a 54 percent increase over the pre- SERVICE vious year. These figures for 1966-67 speak for them­ How It Begins selves: "Hello, Placement Office? This is Joe Doe. I am in 1407 individual interviews were conducted for per­ general practice in West Texas and I have an opening. manent positions and summer employment. Right now my schedule will not permit a visit to the law school to interview. If you know a graduating senior 201 graduates, at report time, had accepted employ­ or recent graduate who is interested, please have them ment as a direct or indirect result of the placement to write to me and send a personal resume. My require service and personal contact. (Many of our graduates ments are . . ." go directly into military service before accepting permanent employment.) "Mrs. Brown? This is John Doe with Sky, Sky and Sky in Los Angeles. Would it be possible for us to 17 prospective employers from out-of-state inter­ interview on Monday, November 31? We will talk to viewed 301 students. second and third-year students for summer and per­ The Demand Keeps Pace manent employment. A letter will follow giving the description of our firm and the type of practice. Even though graduates of the law school have become more numerous each year, the demand for their services As you suggested, we will begin interviewing at 9:00 both in Texas and outside the state has increased propor­ and will stay as late as necessary to talk with everyone tionately. In addition, there is considerable diversity of interested. opportunity. For example, those graduates with technical undergraduate degrees have found a strong interest in By the way, could you call one of the motels and their qualifications from manufacturing industries and reserve a single room for the 30th?" from the United States Patent OfBce. Law graduates This is the type of conversation that one hears re­ with undergraduate degrees in business or liberal arts 2 TOWNES HALL NOTES

are sought by banks, trust companies, insurance com­ article and letters published below. If you have an panies, accounting firms and government agencies. interest in participating in this program, our placement As the demand for our graduates keeps pace, so does director would be pleased to hear from you. the salary scale. A recent survey reflects that the average beginning salary for our law graduates is $6,600 per year. Alumni Placement From The Faculty Standpoint Alumni placement has become a very important ALBERT P. JONES operation of the Placement Office. Law placement ser­ Professor of Law vices are available to all UT law graduates. During The University of Texas 1966-67 approximately 200 alumni registered with the placement service. A survey indicates that 60 per cent A frequently heard complaint about legal education have been placed. Both experienced and inexperienced is that a law student graduates with a head full of theory alumni are available throughout the year for specific and little, if any, knowledge of the practical aspects of openings, which may be listed at any time by phone, the practice of law. We are cited the example of the mail, or in person. medical profession with its required post-graduate internships and residencies. Any comparison of the two We re Here: professions in this respect is not in point because the To assist students and alumni in their search for legal profession does not have available to it any facility career employment; that resembles the hospital set-up where a young doctor can study many types of ailments. The best training To assist employers by referral of qualihed applicants that any newly licensed lawyer can obtain is the super- on specific job listings; and vision of the lawyer or law firm with which he is to To assist employers by arranging for recruiting inter- practice. The alternative of requiring an additional year views on campus. of formal legal study does not seem to be acceptable. Everyone Benefits Proceeding on the assumption, which I believe to be correct, that a beginning lawyer of normal intelligence The Law School Placement Service provides an ef­ can readily acquire the practical knowledge he needs fective and easy-to-use means for the employer, whether under the tutelage of an experienced member of the bar, he represents a small firm, the large firm, industry, or the question arises as to the relevance of a summer government, to tap the rich resources of our law popula­ internship program. Separate and apart from the benefit tion—and at the same time provide employment for our that may result to the lawyers and law firms that par- graduates. ticipate, observation teaches that there is great benefit Now—at the beginning of a new school year—won't to students who are fortunate enough to have the oppor- you please take a look at your own situation and attempt tunity to spend a summer in an established law office. to anticipate your future needs? We want to be of Of course, there is not always the substantial increase maximum service to you and to our graduates. in grade average that is mentioned by Mr. Langley. However, there can be no question about the fact that Interviews can be arranged Monday through Friday, the final year of law study is made more meaningful. and all interview schedules are published and posted throughout the school in an effort to reach the largest I have had the opportunity of talking with a number number of individuals. It is very simple to get results— of senior students who have had the privilege of being Just pick up your phone and call: Area Code exposed to the workings of a law office during the sum- 512, GR 1-5151. Or write to: mer following their middle law year. Without exception Mrs. Mettie Brown, Placement Director they have been enthusiastic about their experiences. University of Texas School of Law They have begun to see the importance of a funda­ 2500 Red River mental knowledge of the important principles in the Austin, Texas 78705 courses they have studied. They have come to the reali- zation that after all law school training does not consist entirely of theoretical nonsense. Best of all they know that, while a law school could never supply all of the answers to the myriad problems they will encounter in the practice, they have been taught how to recognize THE SUMMER INTERN the problems in a given state of facts and how and PROGRAM where to seek and find the answers. The net result is that they have an increased enthusiasm for the study During the past several years there has been an in­ of law. creasing interest by students and lawyers alike in the summer intern program administered by the Placement For too many students the senior year in law school Service. The case for the program is well argued in the is something that must be endured as a prerequisite to TOWNES HALL NOTES 3 the privilege of taking the bar examination. Anything Basic Objective that can revive to some extent the enthusiasm of a first- The basic objective of our Summer Program is to year student is bound to be good. Experience as a sum­ familiarize the students with some aspects of the practice mer intern does definitely tend to make the senior year of law. I am sure you have heard both practicing lawyers of law study more meaningful. and law professors say that newly graduated lawyers Because of the varied and numerous problems which know a great deal of law, but very little about how to lawyers encounter, law schools simply cannot supply all practice law. Law schools attack this problem in vary­ of the answers to their students. Legal educators have ing ways, usually with moot court programs and prac­ done enough if, in the words of the late Dean Hilde- tice and related courses. The State of Pennsylvania re­ brand, they train their students to think like lawyers. quires each newly graduated lawyer to spend one year In addition to such practical training as may be given, as an intern working under a licensed lawyer. The Baker, there is much benefit in any program that will demon­ Botts Summer Program is still another approach, and is strate the fact that law school training is relevant to the designed to help the student learn to practice some of practice of law. the law he has learned. It has long been one of the fine traditions of the bar Qualifications Of Summer Interns that mature lawyers are willing to devote a portion of While some firms employ students at the end of their their time and resources to the training of those who first year in law school, we prefer students who have come after them in the bar. Significant contributions completed two full years of law school. Because we can be made by an increased participation in the sum­ place great stress on the importance of good legal writ­ mer intern program. Not all students could accept such ing, we lean to Law Review men. We also prefer high summer training. Some out of sheer economic necessity grade averages. In view of today's very high entrance must finish law school with as little delay as possible. requirements at law school, grade averages may not be For those who can devote a summer to the practical as important as was formerly the case. However, we feel experience of seeing how a law office operates and get­ that a high average indicates at least (a) legal aptitude ting an idea of what is encompassed in the practice of and ( b ) that the student has already decided to give his law, such experience is invaluable. work that little extra time which is often the difference between excellent and average work. Naturally, a stu­ I hope that the time will not be long delayed when the dent who is interested in ultimately practicing law in opportunity will be available to all who desire it. I am Houston on a permanent basis is of more interest to us in no doubt the impact of this summer training program than a student without such interest. But it should be is altogether desirable and I would like to invite wide- noted that the Summer Program provides an excellent spread participation. opportunity for a student to become well acquainted with a city as well as with lawyers in that city. Our interns are actively encouraged to explore the civic, cultural, and entertainment aspects of Houston while Highlights Of The Summer they are here. Intern Program In The Most of our summer interns are with us from 8 to 12 weeks, although occasionally we have 1 or 2 who Large Law Firm are here only 6 weeks. We think 10 or 12 weeks is just about right, and we urge the students to leave them- BAKER, BOTTS, SHEPHERD & COATES selves at least 3 weeks of vacation time before returning Esperson Building to school. In connection with general placement advice, Houston, Texas 77002 you might point out to your first-year students that if Honorable Albert P. Jones they have any interest in the Summer Intern Program Professor of Law they would be well advised to attend summer school at School of Law the end of their first year instead of postponing it until The University of Texas the end of their second year. As you know, many law 2500 Red River schools do not have summer school, and students attend­ Austin, Texas 78705 ing those schools do not have this problem. Dear Albert: What Does A Summer Intern Do? Your letter concerning your plans to enlarge the Sum­ In a nutshell, anything and everything that a newly mer Law Intern Program struck a responsive chord here, graduated lawyer would do. Our Summer Program is because, as you know, we have practiced and en­ actively supervised by one or more of our younger part­ couraged this Program for years. I think I can best re- ners. The main job of the supervisor is to see that each spond to your request for information about the Summer summer intern works on as many different problems, Intern Program in a large firm by outlining below the involving as many different areas of the law, and with highlights of the Program as it works here at Baker, as many different older lawyers as possible during the Botts. summer. Because the interns are unlicensed, they can­ 4 TOWNES HALL NOTES not appear or work alone, and the older lawyers are, of I believe that to the extent that you can persuade other course, responsible for their work. firms to participate in this Program, those firms and the Bar in general will benefit equally with U .T . law stu You might be interested in a description of how one dents. of our summer interns actually spent one week. On Sincerely yours, Monday, he met with a partner and a client and there- C. Brien Dillon after did research and prepared a memorandum of authorities on a mechanics lien problem; on Tuesday afternoon, he worked with another partner on some community and separate property problems relating to the preparation of some wills and trust instruments; these last mentioned problems developed into tax prob­ The Summer Intern Program lems and he spent Wednesday morning working with And The Small Law Office another lawyer on the tax aspects involved; Wednesday afternoon, he attended two depositions with still another EARNEST L. LANGLEY lawyer; he spent Thursday in court with two other Witherspoon, Aikin, Thomas & Langley lawyers attending the trial of an insurance case; Friday Hereford, Texas morning he accompanied still another lawyer to Hunts­ We feel that the best time to recruit new men is at ville to interview a criminal indigent client, and Friday least a year before the prospect is scheduled to graduate, afternoon he disappeared, I think to the golf course. and we had planned to conduct some interviews with I do not know how he spent all of his evenings, but I Mid-law students in the Spring of 1966. When we do know that he was at the Astrodome one night and learned about the Summer Internship Program, we out with a young lady on another night. Whether these decided that it should fit exactly into our own inter­ situations presented any problems, I do not know. viewing and recruiting program. We requested the The week described above is typical, and about the placement office to arrange interviews with students who only changes that would occur from week to week or would be available for the Summer of 1966, who would from intern to intern would be the names of the older consider permanent employment in our area upon grad­ lawyers with whom the intern was working and the uation, and who would be ready for permanent place­ types of problems on which he worked. Before the sum­ ment within a year. We attempted to exercise the same mer is over, the summer employees will have run a type of judgment about the prospects that we would use very broad gamut. in permanent recruitment, except that it was made clear that neither the firm nor the student would be in any How Many Summer Interns? way committed beyond the Summer period. The answer to this question varies considerably from We selected two young men hoping that perhaps one firm to firm, and is somewhat related to the size of the of them might work out for permanent association. Both firm. As you know, some of the Eastern firms employ 18 have now joined our firm permanently. We realize, of or 20 interns, and some only 2 or 3. Those of us who course, that batting averages are not made in one game, have worked closely with the Program here feel that and that this type of success proves little—except, that the students get more out of the Program if there are no the system can work, and work extremely well. more than 5 or 6 participating under one supervisor at any given time. We have noted these positive values in the program: Salary (1) The "interview" was extended to many hours of Salaries vary from firm to firm, from city to city and close contacts, under varied conditions of a social and from year to year. At the present time in Houston, a personal, as well as professional, nature. The artificial summer intern could expect to make approximately $400 conditions and incomplete evaluation procedures of a per month. short interview, or even an extended visit to the office, were replaced by many genuine opportunities, on both Policy As To Permanent Positions sides, to get to know one another rather well. Both the Again, this policy varies from firm to firm. Some firms lawyers and the students have felt that the persona! offer employment to all of their summer interns, some associations were as important in the eventual decisions firms employ none of them, and some firms employ a reached as were the professional evaluations made. Both few of them. I think all participants in the Summer strengths and weaknesses, as well as genuine personality Intern Program, both students and firms, understand traits, generally show through rather clearly within three that there is no commitment on either side. months. I hope these comments will be helpful to you, and I (2) Our men attended churches, civic clubs, Chamber think you can safely say that both the quality and the of Commerce meetings, and other such affairs, and went amount of work that can be turned out by a good sum with us to Court, to corporate meetings, and to briefing mer intern will come as a pleasant surprise to most law­ and investigative sessions, and frequently sat with us yers when they first try out the Summer Intern Program. and our clients during interviews and conferences. They TOWNES HALL NOTES 5 learned about the kind of practice we have and the way ANNUAL LUNCHEON OF we conduct it; and they had a fairly comprehensive knowledge of the town and its people, and of the way UT LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI that they could and would be expected to become a Each year at the State Bar Convention law school part of it, by the time the Summer was over. alumni crowd the luncheon room facilities to visit with (3) We did not expect these men to be just briefing old friends and learn about the latest developments at clerks, and we recognized that using them only in the The University of Texas School of Law. This year some library would deprive us of the benefits of a more com­ 375 persons were on hand for the July 7 luncheon in prehensive study of their general capabilities, even Dallas to hear Dean Page Keeton's "State of the Union" though they could more nearly "pay their own way" address and to elect new officers and directors of the UT by sticking to the writing of memorandum briefs. Thus, Law School Association. Elected for two-year terms the immediate economic contribution of their associa­ were: Tom Scaly of Midland, President; Jim Kronzer of tion was likely small (we kept no records on it), al­ Houston, Vice President, and Byron Fullerton of Austin, though their interest and enthusiasm was such that they Secretary. may well have turned a profit for us. The following were elected as directors for their re- (4) Our new men feel that the experiences of the spective districts: Summer were of great value to them. They knew better Tulley Florey, Mt. Pleasant Taylor Nichols, Uvalde how to find the practical aspects of their courses as they studied; they each made certain helpful changes in their Earl Roberts, Jr., Longview Jim Simpson, Texas City scheduled courses; they felt a stronger motivation to Bob Murphey, Nacogdoches Bill Sparks, Victoria study and learn, so as to be more prepared when they Benny Hughes, Beaumont Jack Borchers, New Braunfels "got back to the practice"; and each had a grade average Cam Harrell, Conroe Nelson Sharpe, Kingsville for his Senior year that was more than five full points higher than his average for his first two years! Will Perry, Houston Carlos Castillon, Laredo Welby Parrish, Gilmer Frank Douthitt, Henrietta (5) It would seem that their general level of knowl­ edge and ability in legal research would justify employ­ Mark Martin, Dallas James E. Prothro, Wichita Falls ment of interns just to write briefs and memoranda by Ray Peeler, Bonham Jack Currey, Abilene the average busy firm, but such an intent should be Whitfield Collins, Fort Worth W. A. Griffis, Jr., San Angelo made clear at the outset. Use of the intern program to Joe Cannon, Groesbeck Pat Gardner, San Antonio supply "catch-up" help, or vacation replacement, could be justified entirely apart from its contribution to per­ Bill Anderson, Cleburne Morris Atlas, McAllen manent recruitment, but it has much more to offer Minor Helm, Waco George W. McClesky, Lubbock toward the latter. Will Garwood, Austin Wm. T. Deffebach, El Paso Our belief in the value of the program is such that Phil Cates, Columbus Jerry Kirby, Littlefield we expect to make it a normal part of our future re­ Jerome Byrne, Lampasas W. H. Brian, Amarillo cruitment programs.

Byron Fullerton, J a c k Proctor and Dean Keeton Survey the Crowd. The Turnout W as G reat— W ere You There? 6 TOWNES HALL NOTES Joe Witherspoon Participates In of the J.D. degree. As Charles Alan Wright advised the students in a letter to the paper, 'Throughout the history Urban Coalition Conference of the University of Texas Law School, for more than eighty years, it has conferred on its graduates the degree Professor Joseph P. Witherspoon attended the Emer­ of Bachelor of Laws. That degree has taken on a dis­ gency Convocation of the Urban Coalition in Washing­ tinction because of the high standing of the school and ton, D.C. on August 24. He was one of 1000 persons the many outstanding lawyers who have held the degree. in the United States invited to participate in this con­ A graduate of this school is highly regarded because he ference by a group of the nations outstanding business, is a graduate of this school, regardless of the letters he labor, religious, education, civil rights, and city govern­ may put after his name. A change in the time-honored ment leaders. These included Henry Ford II, A. Phillip practice of the school should be made only if there is Randolph, the Honorable Richard J. Daley, David some good reason to make the change.' That also goes Rockefeller, the Honorable John V. Lindsay, George for the law in general." Meany, Walter Reuther, Roy Wilkins, I. W. Abel, Reverend Martin Luther King, and Whitney M. Young, Jr. The conference focused upon the crisis of our cities evidenced by the recent riots.

Prof. Witherspoon stated "The Urban Coalition be­ lieves that this crisis requires a full new dimension in MORE ON "P E R R Y " both the public and private sectors, working together for jobs, housing, education, and the other needs of our Editor, Townes Hall Notes cities. The Coalition also believes that the sickness of the cities, including civic disorder within them, is the The University of Texas School of Law responsibility of the whole of America and that it is the Austin, Texas 78705 responsibility of every American to join in the creation of a new political, social, economic, and moral climate Dear Sir: which will make possible the breaking up of the vicious As an alumnus of the UT School of Law who studied cycle of the ghetto. The Coalition is especially concerned under Townes, Potts, Hildebrand, Simkins, Cofer and to promote 'Earn and Learn Centers' in the cities to Butte, I was much interested in the letter published provide job training and jobs as a joint venture of busi­ in the June 1967 issue of Towne Hall Notes from Mr. ness, labor, local government, and private organizations." Herf M. Weinert (1935) of Beaumont, Texas, seeking At the invitation of Mr. Roy Wilkins, Professor information of Peregrinus. Witherspoon attended a meeting of the Leadership Con­ The original Peregrinus was in my custody in 1917-18 ference on Civil Rights at the conclusion of the Emer­ when I was editor of the 1918 CACTUS. I had it photo­ gency Convocation of the Urban Coalition. graphed for a feature article and also sketched it for a war cartoon, with Colonel Simkins up, in connection with a Law Banquet that year in the Driskill banquet hall.*

The creature of his own fertile brain, here is how the LL.B. OR J.D. FOR UT? distinguished Professor William Stewart Simkins de­ scribed Peregrines to me for the CACTUS story: According to Dean Keeton, The University of Texas School of Law has no immediate interest in changing Perry is a creature of Equity. With his enormous tail the name of the degree it confers on its graduates, as he brushes aside all technicalities in favor of Justice. indicated by his remarks on this subject at the UT With the long pointed beak he delves deep into the Alumni luncheon on July 7. intricacies of the relevant and the irrelevant for the Truth. On his left forefoot is the Irish ditcher's boot, "Spurred on by an active campaign on the part of confessing his membership in the rank and file. He puts some members of the Council on Legal Education of his "right foot foremost" and it is adorned with an ex­ the ABA, the students recently voted overwhelmingly pensive "Stacey Adams" shoe (evidently a symbol of to change the name for the first degree in law from civilization in 1918). Each of his two hind feet, in box­ LL.B. to J.D.—from Bachelor of Laws to Doctor of ing gloves, hide a 60 horsepower kick (a lot of force in Jurisprudence. It is diffic u lt for me to think of an 1918). The boxing gloves back up the Law and Equity. issue' of less importance than this. But I have had His eye is all-seeing and his fine head is crowned with some letters about this from alumni, especially in view the whitecap of Truth. of the fact that some schools have changed, largely on the specious and unsubstantiated claims the government I do not recall that the original, which was painted agencies and other employers give preference to holders in a mottled effect, as being carved in walnut. If it was TOWNES HALL NOTES 7

it was obviously camouflaged to outwit the Engineers library policy. The membership of the seminar was who wanted to destroy it as Alexander Frederick Claire made up of professional librarians from the top law was destroyed. "Alec," patron saint of Jacoby's Beer schools in the country. Garden, disappeared in 1917. "Perry" was returned by JOE WITHERSPOON spoke at a luncheon meeting me to his bank vault safe and sound in 1918. of the Serra Club in Houston on August 4 on the subject Sincerely, of "The Role of the Christian in Human Relations." Julien Elfenbein While in Houston Mr. Witherspoon, who holds the rank Adjunct Associate Professor of Journalism of Captain in the United States Naval Reserve, was New York University honored with a reception by the Naval Reserve Law Company of Houston and by former UT law students * Editor's note: We hope to publish this cartoon in a residing in Houston. His book, titled Administrative Implementation of later issue if a clear print can be obtained. Civil Rights, is scheduled for pub­ lication by the University Press the early part of next year. Mr. Witherspoon will be on leave of absence during the 1967-68 academic year, teaching at the SMU School of Law. FACULTY ACTIVITIES JOHN F. SUTTON, JR. spoke to the American Bar Association General Assembly, Honolulu, Hawaii, on STANLEY JOHANSON will speak at a meeting of August 9 on the subject, 'Preview of the Code of Pro­ the San Angelo Estate Planning Council on September fessional Responsibility." He also served as one of four 26 on "Federal Estate and Gift Tax Principles Applicable members of a panel discussing the subject at the same to Estate Planning in Texas." On February 15, 1968, he meeting. will talk to the El Paso Estate Planning Council on the CARL H. FULDA spent the months of July and subject "Revocable Trusts and Community Property." August in New Delhi, India, as consultant to the India During the 1967-68 school year Mr. Johanson will be Mission of the Agency for International Development, a on leave of absence from the law school as a visiting branch of the U.S. State Department. He and Professor professor of law at U.C.L.A. Irene Hamilton of the Department of Economics of JAMES TREECE'S article on "Copying Methods of Howard University, mother of UT law professor Robert — Abduct Differentiation: Fair or Unfair Competition?," Hamilton, were asked to make a study of various prob­ which previously appeared in the lems of industrial organization in India, relating to the Notre Dame Law Review, The Trademark Reporter, and T h e concentration of economic power and the legislative Law Review Digest, was recently published at page one, volume proposals of the Indian Monopolies Inquiry Commission, seven, P u blishin g, the impact of U.S. development loans on various Indian Entertainment and Advertising Law Quarterly. Professor Treece's manuscript, tentatively groups, and the emerging tendencies of relaxing existing titled "Trademark Licensing and Verticle Restraints on government controls on licensing of new businesses, Franchisees," has been accepted by the University prices, import and foreign investments. Pennsylvania Law Review for publication this fall. After interviewing numerous Indian government officials, industrialists, bankers, trade association execu­ In July CHARLES ALAN WRIGHT attended a meet­ tives and professors in New Delhi and Bombay, Pro­ ing in Indianapolis of the newly-formed Indiana Civil fessors Fulda and Hamilton submitted a voluminous Code Study Commission in order to advise the com­ report on their findings and recommendations to the mission on how to proceed. In September Mr. Wright Agency in New Delhi, which is located in an annex will be in Washington for meetings of the Standing to the American Embassy. Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the United States, and of the Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules. In October he will argue Haynes v. United States and reargue Grosso v. United States before the United States Supreme Court, and will also go to Washington for a meeting of the PROF. SUTTON Advisory Committee on Rules of Evidence. EXPLAINS CANON STUDY ROY MERSKY attended a seminar for Law Librarians at New York University of Law from August 8-30, for The form of the Canons of Professional Ethics will which the major portion of his expenses were provided be radically changed if the recommendations of Pro­ by a grant. The seminar was the result of a Ford fessor John Sutton and the ABA Committee on Profes­ sional Ethics are accepted. Foundation grant awarded to NYU for the purpose of conducting a month-long institute dealing with the out­ Professor Sutton is the ABA Reporter on the changes standing new methods of legal research and the re- of the (Mahons, and according to his plan, which was evaluation of administrative concepts regarding law first announced at the ABA meeting in Hawaii on August 9, the new canons will be much simpler and more under­ Law School Foundation standable than they are at present. According to Prof. Sutton, the basic part of the new Elects New Trustees canons will be the disciplinary rules, to be known as the President W. St. John Garwood has announced that Code of Professional Responsibility. The first of this four new trustees of The University of Texas Law School Code will be the Rules, which will be in the form of Foundation have been elected for terms beginning on definite statutes, the violation of which will result in a September 1, 1967. They are: Mark Martin ('37) Dallas; lawyer's disbarment or reprimand. They will be definite Cecil D. Redford ('31), Corpus Christi; John J. Cox offenses and will hopefully be adopted by the legisla­ ('28), San Antonio; and Wales H. Madden, Jr. ('52), tures of the states. The second part of the Code will be Amarillo. the Canons, which will be probably ten to twelve simple statements of principles. This form will hopefully be easier to enforce and interpret than the present set of "ideals." Texas Law Review Ranks Fifth The was ranked fifth in the nation There will also be a second document, entitled the among reviews read primarily because of reputation Statement of Ethical Considerations, which will essen­ according to a national poll of attorneys and judges tially be a guideline and teaching tool. It will state the conducted by the Denver Law Journal. philosophy, not the law, and will be for the purpose of The seven prestige winners, in order of ranking, in­ providing a reference when a lawyer is not sure which clude Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Michigan, Texas, Stan­ way is the most ethical. ford and Virginia. Professor Sutton and his committee have set July 1, The results of the study were released at the Thir­ 1968 as the deadline for the publication of the tentative teenth National Conference of Law Reviews held this draft. past spring in San Francisco.

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