Engagedscholarship@CSU 1978 Vol.5 No.2

Engagedscholarship@CSU 1978 Vol.5 No.2

Cleveland State University EngagedScholarship@CSU Law Notes School Publications Winter 1978 1978 Vol.5 No.2 Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Follow this and additional works at: https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/lawpublications_lawnotes How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! Recommended Citation Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, "1978 Vol.5 No.2" (1978). Law Notes. 2. https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/lawpublications_lawnotes/2 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the School Publications at EngagedScholarship@CSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Law Notes by an authorized administrator of EngagedScholarship@CSU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. CLEVELAND-MARSHALL aw otes Winter/Spring 1978 CLEVELAND-MARSHALL LAW NOTES Winter/Spring 1978 Vol. s No. 2 Contents 1 From the Dean 1 CLE-Law School Challenge by Stephen Werber 2 Anita Morse Heads Library by Gail Gianasi Natale 4 OBAR/LEXIS Helps Student Research by Kurt C. Olsen 6 From the Alumni President 6-9 Alumni Notes 10 Law Library Campaign 12 Public Defender Training 13 Student Notes 14 Faculty Notes 16 Street Law 18 Marshall Fund 19 Reporter Sees Work, Not Drama by Bus Bergen Cover by Marlin Nadorlik What's Happening? Cleveland-Marshall Law Noles is published quarterly for alumni and friends by the Cleveland-Marshall College of C-M Law Notes wants to keep current on what's hap­ Law. Editorial offices: Law Notes, Room 121, Cleveland­ pening to Cleveland-Marshall alumni and friends. We'd Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University, like to know so we can tell others about your special Cleveland, Ohio 44115. Telephone 216/687-2540 accomplishments, promotions, new positions or asso­ ciations, community activities, public offices, retire­ Dean ments, honors, etc. Please send news about yourself or Robert L. Bogomolny others to Law Notes, or telephone 216/687-2540. Be sure to include name, address, telephone number and Editors year of your C-M law degree. Photos can be returned. Gail Gianasi Natale Kurt C. Olsen tncrm th.E Continuing Education­ law school challenge A significant part of this issue of Law Notes is devoted By STEPHEN J. WERBER, Professor of Law to the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law library devel­ With the continued growth of specialization in law opment program. The emphasis on the library drive is practice and an increasing awareness that many attor­ appropriate since it is evident to anyone who has ever neys cannot remain current in either general or specific practiced law that books are a major tool of the profes­ subject areas comes a new challenge to legal education. sion. In assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the Unless this challenge is effectively met, there is little College of Law, a conspicuous deficiency is the paucity doubt that the judiciary will act to meet it. of the library collection. Judicial criticism directed at the competence of prac­ It is not that the University has been inattentative to ticing members of the bar is heard more and more fre­ the library needs, but rather that the growth of the Col­ quently and several jurisdictions have either passed or lege and the increase in legal literature has been so rapid are considering passage of rules aimed at rectifying that heroic efforts are needed to bring the collection up the situation. to standard. The challenge, simply put, is to devise a means by A primary concern of any dean is that the quality of his which practicing members of the bar can be provided law school be nurtured and protected. It was apparent with the theoretical and technical information necessary before I arrived here and it remains apparent to me that to practice competently in an era of changing times and the library is not up to the quality standards set by the rapidly changing laws. This need is now met largely student body, faculty, alumni and physical facilities at through the efforts of the American Bar Association the College of Law. Therefore, a primary task for the (ABA), local bar associations such as the Greater Cleve­ faculty and law school administration is to effect efforts land Bar Association (GCBA) and the Cuyahoga County to carry out a successful library campaign. Bar Association, interest groups such as the Defense It is obvious to everyone involved that the enthu­ Research Institute and the American Trial Lawyers siasm and energy of the law school faculty and staff Association, and a variety of other non-profit and profit with the support of the University community alone organizations. cannot-and will not-produce a successful campaign. It is evident that state judiciaries and legislatures We desperately need the support and participation have the authority to require members of the bar to par­ of all Marshall graduates and the Greater Clevelan.d ticipate in continuing education programs. In the future community to make this drive a success. We feel it is members of the bar may be required to take examina­ appropriate to ask for this support because the law tions in special areas if they seek to practice in such school makes important contributions to the community areas and may even be required to take competency tests through its graduates and has been a major factor in the of a general nature on a continuing basis. At the very continued growth and development of its graduates. We least, participation in approved continuing education hope to increase this latter contribution by continued courses will be required. expansion of our graduates' use of law school facilities The first step in most or all jurisdictions will be to and involvement with continuing legal education pro­ focus on the need for continuing education. Regrettably, grams. there is now no uniformity in the scope of such pro­ All of this is at least partially dependent on the avail­ grams and even less uniformity in the quality standards. ability of a fine library. Making matters worse is the lack of true coordination The consistent aspirations of the College of Law are of effort which results in duplication and unnecessary to continue the sound educational tradition established competition among the most interested parties and while improving the quality of the education experience. those best able to make quality programs available to The library drive is a significant building block in this members of the bar at the lowest possible cost. continued growth and development. We therefore ask Working together, the academic and legal communi­ for the support of the Cleveland-Marshall community ties can bring organization and coordination to the in helping us to carry out a successful campaign. forefront. This combination can also establish accept­ able levels of quality. ~ Continued on page 17 1 Scholar, activist, heads An academician who would rather study than teach ... a legal scholar with a social conscience .. a prolific writer with a head for administration . all describe Anita L. Morse, C-M's new law librarian. Morse will join the C-M faculty May 1 as professor of law and law librarian after serving as associate professor and law librarian at the University of Detroit School of Law for nearly three years. Morse succeeds Patricia Hinck­ HEADING THE C-M LAW LIBRARY is Jacqueline Fox, circulation librarian, {left) after the departure of Patricia Gordon. Anita Morse {right) takes over ley Gordon, act ~ng law librarian, May 1. who left Cleveland in March after earning her J.D. degree. During M .S.L.S . from the University of aid and migrant workers in her the interim Jacqueline Fox, circu­ Kentucky College of Library native Indiana. lation librarian, heads the library Science, the school at which for­ · "Many of us were activists in staff. mer C-M Law Librarian Bardie the late '60's," she said, " because Wolfe earned his law and library we had to be. But most of us w ho "The law library is now degrees. were Urban Scholars and activist s .. a big business with Morse was also a Ford Urban then have taken different direc­ money troubles." Law Fellow at the Columbia Uni­ tions now." Among those she versity School of Law. mentioned was C-M Assoc. Prof. Morse's background includes Morse is an expert on inter­ David R. Barnhizer, director of service in the Peace Corps in Bang­ national boundaries, water re­ C-M's legal clinic. kok, the Job Corps in Indiana, sources and the problems of poor She has not really given up social O .E.O. and legal aid in Kentucky; and migrant workers. activism. For example Morse re­ legal work at the Federal Trade She worked with Prof. Julien cently helped write the "bottle bill" Commission and Douglas Air Juergensmeyer (once mentioned which, when passed, made M ich i­ Craft Corp., and law library work as a C-M dean candidate) at the gari the first industrial state to at the Library of Congress, Uni­ University of Florida and, with require tha t beer and soft drinks versity of Kentucky, and Albany, him, published an article on air be sold o nly in returnabl e bottles. N .Y. Law School as well as Detroit. pollution control in Indiana. Morse expects to work toward She has also taught at the Uni­ Her article, The Rural Worker in an M.S. in public administration versity of Florida's Holland Law the New Deal and the War on Poverty, is at CSU while running the law Center in Gainesville, Fla. as well scheduled to be published shortly library, developing the biblio­ as at the University of Kentucky by Suffolk Uni versity Law Review. graphy for the library fundraising and Detroit.

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