College of William & Mary Law School William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository Student Newspaper (Amicus, Advocate...) Archives and Law School History 1988 The Advocate (Vol. 20, Issue 1) Repository Citation "The Advocate (Vol. 20, Issue 1)" (1988). Student Newspaper (Amicus, Advocate...). 271. https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/newspapers/271 Copyright c 1988 by the authors. This article is brought to you by the William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository. https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/newspapers The voca e Marshall-Wythe School of Law FOUNDED J 779 Volume XX, Number 1 Thursday, April 7, 1988 Twelve Pages New Skills Program Provides Firm Foundation by Carl McIntosh have cases that begin with an in­ Marshall-Wythe unveiled its itial interview and take two years "Law is both a profession and a yet undefined beyond "extraor­ The new program also departs much-anticipated new Legal Skills to develop through negotiation to business. This raises internal con­ dinary accomplishment." Like from the former secrecy surroun­ program this semester during trial and appeal. In this manner tradictions and ethical questions. obscenity, the faculty will know it ding unsubmitted assignments. In orientation week. More than just the associates track cases from in­ By using the law firm model, we when it sees it. fact, unless otherwise stated, the a name change, Legal Skills is a ception to completion, and each can raise the same ethical con­ The fourth-semester ethics exam Legal Skills faculty encourages four-semester course that wholly associate must deal with more siderations; it is Simply a useful is, however, both fully graded and associa tes to ask other firm incorporates Legal Research and than one client at all times. model, nothing more." . fully anonymous. members to review drafts of their Writing, Legal Profession, and written assignments. Lawyering Process, as well as aspects of Trial Advocacy, Ap­ pellate Advocacy, and Trial Prac­ "Law is both profession and business. DRY RUN tice. Also included is a remedial English skills component defined This raises internal contradictions The Legal Skills facuIty in-· by a diagnostic test administered troduced the first-years to their during orientation. and ethical questions. " respective law firms during orien­ tation. Mter explaining the basic THE LAW FIRM MODEL mechanics of the Legal Skills pro­ gram, the faculty introduced the -Professor Frederic Lederer first years to a dry run of law The cornerstone of. the new Legal Skills program is the law school, including case briefing, firm model. Each firm compriSes legal analysis, and case synthesis. An English grammar diagnostic a faculty partner, a third-year Professor Fred Lederer, Legal Students receive one credit hour The new Legal Skills program partner, and approximately one Skills Administrator, explained for the first semester of the pro­ departs from anonymous grading. test was administered. The resul.ts dozen first-year junior associates that the Legal Skills faculty chose gram, two for the second and third Professor Lederer explained that were used to define the scope of the English skills component of the who will become second-year the law firm model because most semesters, and three for the final anonymous grading for most exer­ senior associates next year. The attorneys either work in or must semester. The grading system for new program. The final assign­ cises is not realistic because of the ment for the week was a closed associates deal with five clients deal with law firms, not because all four semesters is highly personal, collegial-type in­ memo which had to be written during th~ir fflur semesters with it wished intentionally to train the Pass/ Fai1/ Honors, with the stan­ struction of the law firm model. the firm. Two of these clients will associates for law firm practIce. dard tor tne Honors ruStmcttoD as overnigh . Lights out -for Elvis Fans Have You of help. Galloway asked Ray too hard." Furthermore, she con­ Nugent, the SBA president under by Karin Horwatt tinued, " I was only going to 'bor­ whose leadership the lamp ap­ row' these to put in the lawn vf a peared, if the lamp was bought us­ friend as a joke. " So we see that Elvis has disappeared. Until this ing SBA money. He said it wasn't. the Death Squads, faceless slaves Seen Me? crack reporter began asking ques­ Dean Galloway then asked him, to their State though they may be, tions, His disappearance was a "Would you object to its have a sense of humor. Of a sort. mystery. Frightened people removal?"- using the assasin's Now with His disappearance, speculated in whispers: was it a trick of referring to his helpless the whole student body is agitated. drug overdose-{)r was it only sup­ victim as "it." "Naaah," Nugent In fact, there have been ugly posed to look like a drug overdose? replied. "So I took it out and goings-on in the Student Lounge. Maybe He is coming back. Was it disposed of it," Galloway said. Elvis has been replaced by a black the CIA? Or was it, saner minds Jon Hudson, crazed with grief velvet Elvis poster. Those of us reasoned, the desperate work of a over the loss of his leader, ques­ who covertly thought that Elvis in covetous, spiteful 3L embittered tioned the morning cleaning crew His lamp incarntion was not Elvis by the prospects of a job earning on the morning of September 1st. at his best, wish fervently, at a mere $52,000 a year starting, plus Sheila and Ruth told him, "They every sight of Him in his black benefits, with only the gray, bleak, left a note saying to throw it velvet poster incarnation, for ~he endless future looming ahead of [Elvis] away. But we didn't do it. reappearance of the Elvis lamp. him, and no hope of bettering We took him to the administration Others share the view of this crack himself? part and they threw him [brace reporter: "I don 't think that [the People, it was the Nicaraguan yourselves, readers] in the trash. poster] is covered by the first Death Squads of good taste. "I was Then we carried it away," Ruth amendment," Rodney Smolla is the person who got rid of [Elvis]," said. "They got rid of it because reported to have said. " Ugh," so­ Dean Connie Galloway said with they said it wasn't working," add­ meone else said more succinctly. that gray, faceless Soviet Death­ ed Sheila. "There has been a grass roots Squad look. "I'd been urged to do Dean Galloway said that "it was policy statement," says Jon Hud­ that for many years by Professor pointed out to [SBA president] Jeff son with revolutionary fervor, Rendleman." but she did not Lowe that they [Elvis lamps] " We want Elvis back. " remove lIiffi immediately because could be gotten cheap at the Pot­ "I make it a practice never to do tery." A new lamp would be allow­ anything Professor Rendleman ed to remain until "everyone had Inside this asks." Then she continued. "The left." presumably, "everyone" more of the blame you put on Pro­ meaning the class of 1991. Issue fessor Rendleman, the better." Ehis came in with the class ot Noting that he was mysteriously 1986. "He appeared one fall mor- no longer on the faculty (The Ad­ ning and was positioned in the lob­ ICorr .............. ....... ... _.!~._ ministration tells us he has left for by. There next appeared a velvet another school. Make of that what -paLl1ting of Prince. Two weeks The Penguin ................ ... p. 5 you will) . Galloway said, "I'm not later that disappeared- but I had Neophobia .... ................... p. 5 stupid." nothing to do with that. " The class Indeed. The thing was done over of 1986, Galloway said, "was also Sports ...................... p. 11 , 12 ~ the summer, after the conclusion the clas responsible for the pink You Name It .. .. ................ p. 6 of the bar review courses, when flamingos." She said she tried to Fair Notice there would be fewer law students remove the pink flamingos over ····.. ··· ···········p. 6 ar und to hear His pathetic cries n Fili ~--------------------------------~ the summer " but the ground was ..IlI • • • .·.···.··.··.··.··.--....··II ··.··.··II··.··.·jP•.• 6... The Advocate . ' .. '. Thursday, september 8, 1988 Profes~,or Profile: Spencer Hired----------- by Caryl Lazzaro Marshall-Wythe, Professor University in 1969 and her J .D. mission in Washington, D.C., she fessor Spencer worked for the Spencer observed that this school from.. the University of Virginia argued employment discrimna­ Department of Justice as Assis­ Why would a successful litigator "offers the best of both worlds in three years later. Her first job as tion cases before federal cow~ts of tant U.S. Attorney for the District with 15 years of appel'late ex­ an academic environment. It has an attorney was with the Equal appeals. From 1979 to 1982, Pro- of Columbia. She tried over 100 perience leave the office of the resources, and yet the school is Employment Opportunity Com- criminal cases and was primarily Virginia Attorney General for the small enough ...that the faculty, responsible for multi-party litiga­ academic rigors of Marshall­ students, and the community can tion and cases involving repeat Wythe? "I've always felt that law develop important relationships -~----=-~~~~-f;.'!"~~------"""""""_ offenders. students were creative, en­ that enhance the classroom ex­ From 1982 to 1985 Professor thusiastic, and very intelligent, perience." Spencer was with the Civil Rights and I thought that... [teaching] Professor Spencer work~ in the Division of the Department of would give me an opportunity to Criminal Divison of the Attorney Justice in Washington, D.C. As work with future lawyers and to General's office from January, Senior Appellate Attorney, she ha ve some role in the future of the 1985, to July 1987.