The Docket Historical Archives 12-1-1971 The Docket, Issue 2, December 1971 Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.law.villanova.edu/docket Recommended Citation "The Docket, Issue 2, December 1971" (1971). The Docket. 37. https://digitalcommons.law.villanova.edu/docket/37 This 1971-1972 is brought to you for free and open access by the Historical Archives at Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Docket by an authorized administrator of Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law Digital Repository. THE DOCKET Villanova University School of Law Villanova, Pa. 19085 Villanova University School of Law VOL. 9, No. 2 VILLANOVA, PA DECEMBER, 1971 The Fifteenth Annual Hed Mass Celebrated By MARY ROSE CUNNINGHAM On November 5, 1971, the fif­ preting the law. Rather, the law­ teenth annual Red Mass was cele­ yer's role can be compared to that brated in the Villanova Chapel. of Christ in that the lawyer must The Mass, a Votive Masis of the also be concerned with the needs Holy Spirit, is celebrated annually and well-being of his fellow man. to invoke God's blessing on the Analogies were drawn to the Old Law School and all who teach and Testament concei>t of the priests study therein. 'The Chapel was filled and prophets who were joined to­ to capacity with faculty, students, alumni, and friends. gether in the person of Christ. He came not to destroy but to The celebrant of the Mass was enlarge upon the concept of the Dr. Jonas Robitscher Bishop Thomas Welsh Celebrates Annual Votive Mass Bishop Thomas Welsh, in place of law as it existed. The lawyer in John Cardinal Krol who was un­ today's society has a similar ob­ able to attend due to the fact that ligation. He must endeavor to ex­ he was in Rome attending the pand the concept of the law as it Dr. Robitscher To Symposium Held On Synod of Bishops. The Archpriest exists to fulfill the needs of was the Reverend Patrick J. Rice, society; for, if the law is not re­ Teach At Emory O.S.A. The very Reverend Francis sponsive to siociety's needs, its ex- Dr. Jonas Robitscher has been isitence is meaningless. Women In The Law X. N. McGuire, O.S.A. served as appointed Henry R. Luce Profes­ Deacon and Reverend John A. By KEN MILLER The music for the service was sor at Emory University in At­ Klekotka, O.S.A. served as Sub- lanta, Georgia. Dr. Robitscher will Deacon. The sermon was delivered performed by the Villanova Sing­ On October 23, a symposium en­ the golf course or in the local bar ers under the direction of Herbert begin in July 1972 as the first oc­ by Reverend Edward J. McCarthy, aire noit amenablte to female par­ Fiss. They were accompanied by cupant of the Luce Chair at Em­ titled Women in the Law was held O.S.A., president of Villanova Uni­ ticipation. ory. in the new auditorium at Garey versity. Dean Harold Gill Reuschlein play­ ing the organ. A reception was held Hall. A near capacity crowd of fe­ Carolyn Temin, Penn Law School A rare combination of lawyer in the Law School dining facilities male law students and lawyers, plus graduate and now Assistant Dis­ The theme of Father McCarthy's and psychiatrist. Dr. Robitscher following the" Mass and was well a generous sprinkling of their male trict Attorney in Philadelphia, sermon was the role of the lawyer teaches a seminar in law and psy­ attended by faculty, alumni, and counterparts, gathered to partici­ added that the problems faced by in today's society. The lawyer's chiatry at the law school. He also friends of the law school. pate in an open-ended round of female lawyers depend a great deal role consists of more than inter- teaches at the University of Penn­ discussions centered about the on the size of the firm, as the sylvania. His primary profession i problems that women face in get­ smaller firms do not distinguish " aii is psychiatry, which he practices ting into Law Schools, and in be­ between men and women. Mrs. in Bryn Mawr, Pa. ing accepted by the legal profes­ Temin stated tbait when she be­ In February 1971, The Henry sion upon their graduation. came associated with the Defend­ Luce Foundation awarded Emory ers Association in 1959 they felt Lisa Richette, graduate of Penn a grant to establish The Henry R. that women were incapable of Luce Professorship in Law and the Law School and presently Clinical handling men's cases, but that Professor of Law at Villanova, be­ Behavioral Sciences with the aim their attitudes had gradually of "developing refinements in our gan the discussion by calling at­ changed so that today there is no legal system in the area where tention to an article which had ap­ discrimination either in the De­ these disciplines intersect." peared in the previous day's New fenders Association or the DA's York Times. Entitled "Women office. "For a long time society—the Missed Their Day In Court", iit stat­ courts, the penal system—has been ed that "the pool of qualified women Turning to the problems of get­ calling on social scientists for ad­ was just too small for Mr. Nixon ting hired by private law firms, vice. The specialty of Legal Psy­ to fish from it a suitable candidate Barbara Mather, University of chiatry grew up to meet that de­ (for the Supreme Court)", and Chicago Law School graduate and mand. Now a much broader con­ quoted the alarming statistic that associate of Pepper, Hamilton cept is needed to symbolize that out of the nation's 324,318 prac­ and Sheetz, presented a survey this field draws from many discip­ ticing lavsryers only 9,103 — 2.8 which she had recently made of lines and that it reaches out into percent of the total — are women. the large Philadelphia firms. Out many astpects of society. The new Using the article's premise that of 19 firms, each having over 30 terra, 'Social Legal Psychiatry,' de­ this shortage reflects sexual dis­ lawyers, a total of 24 women are scribes this best," Dr. Robitscher crimination on the part of both employsd. Of this total, only one stated. or two are partners. Six firms have Women in The Symposium Panel: Merna Marshall, Carolyn Temin, law schools and legal firms as a Lisa A. Richette, Esther Sylvester, Barbara Mather, and Sharon Wallis. He will teach courses in Emory's starting point, Mrs. Richette intro­ no women at all. Mrs. Mather, as well as the rest of the panel, blam­ law school beginning in the fall of duced her "sisters" in the panel, School graduate and member of ate practicioner, summed this part 1972. The courses planned include and asked them to comment on ed much of this disparity on the "built-in" discriminatory attitudes the District Attorney's Major Trial of the discussion by emphasizing a lecture course on legal psychia­ their experiences regarding this Division, contended that most wom­ the necessity for interviewees to try, a more specialized course on alleged discrimination. of the firms' recruiters, and relat­ ed a series of personal experiences en in the Bar Association are on believe in themselves and the char­ the problems of people held in­ Merna Marshall, graduate of with chauvinistic interviewers. Committees, but that few women acteristics of womenhood. voluntarily because of their psy­ Boston University Law School and eventually get to head them. In chiatric status (such as sexual psy­ At this point, Philadelphia Bar the same vein, Mrs. Temin also The discussion then focused on chopaths, drug addicts or persons Assistant U.S. Attorney, opened discrimination by the law schools. the discussion by stating that the Association President John Mc- disputed this claimed lack of dis­ found not guilty because of in­ Connell was called on to attempt crimination, voicing the opinion That women score higher than men sanity, and a research seminar. Federal government offers enorm­ on the LSAT's, but are admitted ous opportunity for women law­ to rebut these accusations. Speak­ that the discrimination was so in­ Dr. Robitscher's professorship is ing from his seat in the audience, less in proportion to male appli­ yers, but qualified this by saying grained and historical that it can't a dual one, involving law and Mr. McConnell said that he does cants, was brought out by t he that it is still very difficult for be recognized. This prejudice keeps medicine. He will teach psychia­ not feel that there is any conscious panel, along with the fact that women to rise to higher adminis­ many women from applying for tric residents at the Georgia Men­ discrimination on the part of the women perform quite well once in trative and supervisory levels. jobs, as they are discouraged from tal Health Institute and will carry local firms. He went on to say law school. Professors Donald Gi- Mrs. Marshall pointed to the re­ the start. on a limited private practice "to that "girls" didn't take an active anella and Jane Hammond rein­ luctance of the government, as well balance theory with reality." part in the affairs of the bar As­ The panel pointed to themselves forced this statement, saying that as private firms, to send a male sociation — that in recent solicita­ as examples to allay the fears of women applicants are better quali­ "New disciplines like psychiatry and a female lawyer to another tions for committees no women ap­ employers that women would be­ fied as a group than men, and are and psychology are forming their town on case work, as this would plied.