Dean's Annual Report
THE CORNERSTONE
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Annual Report from the Dean
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Law School News
· .. Barristers Out-Reach Program
· .. EI Paso Firm Sponsors Competition
· .. Law School Receives Grant for Program
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Faculty
· . . Summer Visitors
· .. New Faces
· .. Adjuncts and Joint Programs Offer Variety
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Library
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Placement
· . . Bid System Adopted
· .. Handbook Published
· . . Positions Available
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Alumni
· . . T ech Tops in State on Bar Exam
· . . Law Association Kicks off First Local Chapter
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Annual Giving Report
· . . Alumni Boost Fund-Raising to All Time High
· .. Dean's Inner-Circle
Volume Two, Number One
The Cornerstone is published four
times each year. The first fall issue is
printed in magazine form with the
remaining issues published in a
newsletter format.
The name Cornerstone was derived
from the relationship between the law
school and its alumni: the Tech Law
School serves as the cornerstone for a
successful career in law; and the
alumni, through their support serve as
the cornerstone for developing
excellence in the law school.
Comments from readers are
welcome. Please send them to
Cornerstone, Texas Tech University
School of Law, Lubbock, Texas
79409. The contents of the
Cornerstone do not necessarily
represent the views of the
Foundation, its officers or trustees, or
of the law school administration.
Cornerstone editor: Carolyn
Johnsen Thomas
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Annual Report From the Dean
This year has been an exciting and
rewarding one at Texas Tech
University School of Law. We have
continued to improve the quality of the
student body, the faculty, the library,
administration, and the educational
opportunity offered at the Law School.
There are undeniable signs that the
reputation of the Law School and its
graduates is growing daily. We see it in
admissions applications, placement
efforts, alumni support, and many other
subtle ways.
Record First- Year Class
The year began when we welcomed a
record-setting first -year class to
orientation. Although only 200 in
number (in accordance with a
conscious decision to seek quality
students and to produce quality
graduates), this class has academic
credentials unsurpassed in the school's
history. Their seriousness of purpose,
and the "breathing room" created by
admission of small numbers set a tone
for the school year that was especially
productive.
Six New Teachers
Not all the new faces were students.
Six new faculty members came on
board: two visitors and four permanent:
• Donald Veldman, senior labor
partner in a Michigan law firm took a
sabbatical from his firm to teach
Labor Law and Arbitration during the
fall semester.
• Mel Cockrell, from Exxon's legal
department visited for the entire
year, teaching Oil and Gas, Energy
Law and Business Entities.
• John Murray, brings a wealth of
experience to our law school. John is
a graduate of the University of Iowa
School of Law where he was Editorin-chief of the Iowa Law Review. In
addition to the private practice of
law, John served as Executive
Assistant to the Governor of Iowa
and as a State Senator in that state.
John taught Family Law,
Negotiations and International Public
Law.
• Roberto Soto, is a graduate of
the University of Texas Law School.
He has worked as an attorney for
West Texas Legal Services and spent
a year teaching at Saint Mary's
School of Law. Roberto and Joe
Tucker are both minority law
teachers. Roberto taught contracts
and Research and Writing.
• Joe Tucker, is also a graduate of
the University of Texas. After
graduate studies he served with the
Attorney General's Office in Austin.
Joe taught Research and Writing,
Administrative Law and Immigration
Law.
• Martin White, is a graduate of the
University of Michigan School of Law
where he was on the Law Review. He
served as an attorney for the Federal
Trade Commission for 8 years before
joining the faculty at Texas Tech.
Martin teaches Commercial Law,
Consumer Law and Contracts.
These appointments permit us to
maintain a favorable student-faculty
ratio which is an integral part of the
Law School.
Three Additional Faculty Appointments
for 1983-1984
We have continued our deliberate
but aggressive faculty recruitment
program, and are looking forward to
the addition in 1983-1984 of three
outstanding new professors, all with
graduate law degrees: Bill Casto
(Columbia); Camilla Emmanuel (NYU);
and Robin Malloy (Illinois). These new
faculty will help fill gaps in tax,
business, and real property finance
areas. The Law School continues to
seek outstanding teachers and scholars
in oil and gas law, criminal law,
international law, agricultural law, and
to fill a joint faculty appointment
approved with the medical school.
These will be high priorities next year,
and we will continue our efforts to hire
outstanding teachers and scholars with
special attention given to women and
minority candidates.
Faculty Achievements
The current faculty has had an
especially productive year. Faculty
publications include books, numerous
Law Review articles, monographs,
supplements, newsletters, funded
research papers, and materials for
institutes and seminars in addition to
updating and supplementing class
materials. Members of the faculty have
served as officers for the county Bar
Associations, chairmen or editors for
sections of the Texas and American
Bar Associations, members of
University committees, public members
of state agencies, officers and directors
of Legal Services and Legal Aid,
panelist at the Fifth Circuit Judicial
Conference, and as Director of the
Harvard Law School Summer Program
in Alternative Dispute Resolution. All of
this, and countless hours of diversified
community service, was given with no
sacrifice of classroom excellence, a
hallmark of the Texas Tech faculty. We
can all be proud of them!
Upgrading of Specialized Teaching
Programs
We continue to evaluate our skills
development program. Because of the
extraordinary expense and
administrative problems of conducting
clinical courses, we recently decided to
bring all skills development "in-house."
New course offerings in Client
Counseling, Negotiations Workshop,
and specialized Trial Advocacy courses
have helped in this endeavor. Also
aiding this effort and generally
benefiting the Law School has been the
acquisition of a new color-video system
complete with wide-screen capabilities
for large audience presentations of
videotaped materials.
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Enrichment of Library Resources
Our library has continued to grow
and serve the Law School. Technical
processing and reference services have
become increasingly automated. The
collection continues to grow in an
orderly and efficient fashion although
the increased cost of maintenance of
periodical subscriptions looms as a
potential threat to continued growth
unless new sources of funds are
located. The library staff has helped
train students in the use of Lexis and to
quietly and efficiently maintain this vital
resource of the Law School.
Data Base Strengthened With
Computerization of Records
Other areas of the Law School have
benefited from increased automation
and computerization. Through the
cooperation of the University
administration, the Law School has
equipment and software access to the
computerization of the admissions
process as pioneered by the Law
School Admissions Councils. We
should reap the full benefits of this next
year. We also are in the process of
developing a computer lab, with a goal
of providing computer-assisted
supplemental instruction. Currently,
alumni giving records are being placed
on computer for more efficient access
to this important resource.
Development Breakthrough
Our alumni support this year has
been extremely gratifying. Beginning
with the 1982 Bar Convention in
Austin, I met with numerous alumni
groups throughout the state. The Law
School Association meeting in Dallas in
March was exciting. The enthusiasm
and support for the Law School is
great! The depth of the enthusiasm is
demonstrated by alumni participation in
our expanded fund-raising efforts. Not
only did the $79,123 raised this past
fiscal year-exceed all previous efforts by
a quantrum leap, but especially
satisfying is the percentage of alumni
participation-28% of our alumni have
contributed to the Law School this year
which is well above the national
average. (It still seems low to me,
however, as we hope to get every
alumnus of the Law School involved in
Dean's Annual Report
years to come). The response to the
Dean's Inner Circle has been
tremendous. More than 450 members
have signed up. Outside funding
sources have provided another
$210,000 for scholarships, ~upport of
student activities, and other goals and
programs of the Law School
Foundation.
New Communications Channel
This year saw the initial publication of
the Cornerstone in September,
followed by subsequent issues in
December and June. We had another
publication which was a tremendous
success. We published a booklet for
high school students called "Would
You Like To Be A Lawyer?" We
distributed the booklet to 5,000
perspective high school students and
every high school counselor. The
response was overwhelmingly
favorable. The booklet is designed to
plug the Texas Tech University School
of Law. Even the law students matched
the new tempo around here, and for
the first time a very professional
yearbook was published. The Jurist will
be a great source of pride for years to
come, especially for the class of '83.
Placement Activities
The Placement Office also had a
good year. We started the year with a
seminar on Career Alternatives, with a
panel from corporate law offices, Legal
Aid, and public interest law firms,
military law units, government agencies,
and judicial clerkships. We also showed
a videotape on the interviewing
process. A placement newsletter kept
the students informed throughout the
year and gave tips on job research and
resume writing. Streamlined placement
procedures helped the Placement
Office to arrange 2,533 on-campus
interviews with 101 firms and to post
many more job possibilities. The latest
placement statistics show that the
average starting salary for the class of
1982 was $28,000. Expected placement
difficulties fueled by the large number of
law graduates and the downturn in the
Law students Pamela Duran-Francois, David Bridges and Jo Betsy Spaulding admire the new Law
School yearbook, The Jurist. The first volume published in the summer features a section on the
history of the school as well as student organizations and activities.
Future issues will include pictures of past graduating classes in order to preserve a true historical
picture of the school.
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economy fortunately by-passed Tech.
Because Texas is a healthy state and
our reputation among employers is
growing, the impact of these factors at
Tech has been thus far minimal, but we
must constantly work to improve our
placement effort.
Continuing Education Outreach
Our Continuing Education Program
continues to educate lawyers and to
serve the public. Our two bellweather
events, the Stay Abreast Seminar in the
fall and the Banking Law Institute in the
spring, were well attended and wellreceived. In addition, we conducted
jointly-sponsored programs with St.
Mary's School of Law and Texas A&M
on Medical Malpractice and Farm and
Ranch Estate Planning, respectively.
Outstanding Speakers Drawn on
Campus
Many interesting speakers came to
the Law School this year. Shirley
Abrahamson of the Wisconsin Supreme
Court helped us start the year on a
positive and professional note, and
Judge Patrick Higginbotham of the
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals helped
wind things up with an inspiring
Strasburger- Price lecture at Honors
and Awards Day. Also providing
enrichment opportunities for the
students this year were Kermit Hall,
who spoke on Dissent on the Texas
Supreme Court: 1845-1920; Constance
Matheaussen, who spoke on the
Relationship of Classical Roman Law
and Contemporary Civil Law; John
Gunn, who spoke on Foreign Tax
Credit; and Joel Feinburg, who spoke
on the Philosophy of Law. Judge Gerry
Meier a 1974 Tech graduate and now
Dallas district judge and Georgetown
Law Professor Robert F. Drinan
inspired our graduates at the December
and May ceremonies, respectively.
Long-Term Planning Accented
In addition to being a year of action
and activity, this was a year of planning.
An Academic Planning Committee of
the faculty is looking at the future of the
Law School. Every faculty member is
on some sub-committee and the charge
is to examine where legal education is
going, what is our goal in relation to
that, and how do we achieve that goal.
At a "mini retreat" in May, many of
these issues were previewed and
discussed.
Administrative Lineup
You may have noticed that the
administrative offices have a different
look this year. Associate Dean Joseph
Conboy joined us from the University
of Alabama. Joe is responsible for
admissions, scheduling, student affairs,
and personnel. Assistant Dean Carolyn
Thomas heads up our continuing legal
eduation, placement, alumni relations,
and scholarships. Professor Robert
Wood served as Associate Dean for
Academic Affairs. Next year, however,
Professor Wood will be visiting
professor at the University of South
Carolina.
Quality Assured in Entering First- Year
Class
Finally the admissions process has
produced an amazing class for next
year. We plan to take between 180 and
200 students into next year's class in
keeping with our planned cutback. The
students accepted for admission, from
over 1,700 applicants, represent a
quality class with credentials even
better than this year; an average
G.P.A. of approximately 3.4 and an
average LSAT at the 72nd percentile
and our minority enrollment will
increase to 11% as we strive to diversify
the student body while incresing
admission standards. We hope to raise
all standards as we set high goals for
teaching excellence, placement efforts,
and alumni relations. Improvement and
growth, not quantitative but qualitative,
are watchwords of a vital organization.
Help us where you can.
National Moot Court Team member Mark
Stradley of Dallas prepares for Regional
Competition to be held this fall.
BARRISTERS CREATE
OUTREACH PROGRAM
The Board of Barristers have
combined medicine and mock trial in
creating a new outreach program for
the Texas Tech Medical School in
Amarillo and the Lubbock General
Hospital Continuing Education
program. Originated in 1981-82 and
further developed by 1982-83 Board
chairman William Schuerger, the
program is designed as a learning
experience for nursing and medical
students in the event they are asked to
testify in a lawsuit during their careers.
The program consists of mock trial
demonstrations involving Board
members as attorneys and nursing andl
or medical students as witnesses and
parties to the action. Prior to the
demonstration, Board members
cooperate with the other schools to
develop a problem, usually medical
malpractice or a bio-ethics topic. The
problem is formulated for several
participants in order to involve as many
students as possible.
In contrast to most trial settings, the
competition element was eliminated
and the lawyers worked together to
develop questions. Witnesses were
woodshedded as usual without
disclosure to the opposing side.
According to Board member Mark
Stradley, who along with Allen Stidger
head up the program this year, the
demonstrations require considerable
preparation. "This is so much more
than a demonstrations because we
really want to teach something and
have the audience personally involved,"
he commented. "I think our audiences
were very interested and attentive
because they were involved in the
problem, so I guess the weeks of setting
up the problem and working out the
personalities were worth it," he added.
One of the problems involved child
abuse and a doctor's liability for not
reporting a suspected child abuse case.
A second problem involved a heart
patient who died after a heart drug was
administered to him by a nurse. The
patient's widow sued the doctor, the
hospital, the head nurse, and the
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attending nurses. Stradley said at the
conclusion the audience was given
ballots and surprisingly awarded the
plant iff widow a large sum of money.
The Board tested the first program at
the Medical School in Amarillo and
then held a second demonstration for
Lubbock General Hospital. Each
demonstration lasted from two to three
hours and included both an orientation
session and summary.
Stradley indicated the Board would
continue the program and hopes to
expand it to other types of groups
which might desire a courtroom
experience. The program is held in
conjunction with the Board's outreach
program to area high schools.
Entering Class Profile
From a record 1700 applications, 182
first year students registered for the fall
1983 semester. Of that number,
nineteen students were participants in
the Law School's summer program.
The current enrollment is 588
compared to 640 for fall 1982.
First year-students represent 62
undergraduate colleges and universities
with the highest representation from
Texas Tech (39), University of Texas at
Austin (26) and Texas A&M (13).
Women comprise thirty-five percent
of the first-year class and minorities
account for ten percent. Seven percent
of the class are out-of-state residents.
Grade point and LSAT scores
averaged 3.4 and 35 respectively.
Early Recruiting!
The Law School Admissions office
received the following request from a
prospective law student from
Spearman:
Dear Sir:
I am in the 6th grade. I am
interested in attending the Texas
Tech Law School someday. I was
wondering what subjects to take in
junior high and high school. Can you
give me this information?
Thank you,
We start 'em young!
Law Review editors Karl Baumgardner, John Polewsk i, and Chris Pearson check a case cite for the
next Law Review publication.
Law Review Garners
Second Statewide Award
Speaker Series Presents
Variety of Topics
The Section on Corporation,
Banking and Business Law of the State
Bar selected a student article in the
Texas Tech Law Review as Best
Casenote in a Texas law review
publication.
The article, entitled "Texas Business
& Commerce Code-Notice of
Election to Dispose of or Retain
Secured Collateral After Repossession
is a Prerequisite to an Article 9
Deficiency Judgment: Tanenbaum v.
Economics Laboratory, Inc. , 628
S.W.2d 769 (Tex. 1982)" was written by
then second-year student Randy
Glover. The article appeared in the
second issue of Volume 14 of the Law
Review.
This award is the second statewide
recognition given the Tech Law Review
in the past year. In the summer, an
article by Ronald Nickum entitled
"Negotiating and Drafting a Modern Oil
and Gas Lease on Behalf of Lessor"
(Vol. 13, No. 4) was selected by the
Texas Bar Foundation as the
Outstanding Law Review Article
published in a Texas law review.
Even a record-breaking snow-fall
failed to deter one of the audiences for
the Law School's 1982-83 speaker
series which included speakers from
the judiciary, the legislature, and the
fields of accounting, history and
philosophy.
According to Professor Dave
Cummins, Chair of the Speakers
Committee, the goal of the Series is to
provide speakers from different realms
and backgrounds who will appeal to a
wide spectrum of students, faculty and
the public.
"Of course we want to invite some
speakers with national or state-wide
recognition," he said, "because they
give the school some limelight as well as
give the student body some exposure
to prominent figures. On the otherhand, we also want to have speakers
who may not have public recognition
but who are experts in their respective
fields and can share their knowledge
with an interested audience."
Three distinguished members of the
judiciary were a part of the speaker
series. Wisconsin Supreme Court
Justice Shirley Abrahamson visited the
Law School in early November; Dallas
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State District Judge Gerry Meier who is
a Tech law graduate spoke at the
December Hooding Ceremony; and
Fifth Circuit Judge Patrick E.
Higginbotham of Dallas presented the
Strasburger-Price Lecture on Honors
and Awards Day in April.
International taxation expert John
Gunn spoke on the Foreign Tax Credit
in February. Gunn is the international
manager for the southwestern United
States offices of "big eight" accounting
firm Ernst & Whinney.
Also in February, Dr. Joel Feinberg,
chair of the Philosophy Department at
the University of Arizona and
President-elect of the American
Philosophical Association, presented a
speech on the Philosophy of Law. He is
co-editor of a book by that title.
The subject of the Relation between
Classical Roman Law and
Contemporary Civil Law was presented
in January by Constant Matheaussen,
Professor of Classical Languages and
Roman Law at the Free University of
St. Aloysius in Brussels, Belgium.
Another legal historian Kermit L. Hall
from the University of Florida lectured
in April on the "Dissent on the Texas
Supreme Court: The Civil Side, 18451920."
Finally, two representatives from the
legislative branch were guest speakers
for important Law School events. State
senator John T. Montford from
Lubbock, spoke to the audience
assembled for the School's annual
Honors and Awards Day Program.
Former Massachusetts Congressman
and now distinguished professor of
international law at Georgetown Robert
Drinan delivered the keynote address
at the Hooding Ceremony in May.
Cummins said he felt the speakers
were all well-received and that the Law
School series had successfully provided
"something for everyone."
The Law School hosted as its first
speaker for the 1983-84 academic year
His Excellency, The Honorable S. Ukru
Eledag, the Turkish Ambassador to the
United States. The Ambassador spent
two days in Lubbock in observance of
the sixteenth anniversary of the
founding of the Turkish Republic and
spoke at the Law School as part of his
visit.
Law School Receives Grant for Legal Issues Program
With a grant from the South Plains
Association of Governments (SPAG),
the Law School has initiated a legal
outreach program for counseling to the
elderly.
The original proposal for the program
was submitted to SPAG last fall by
recent law graduate Bo Brown. Brown
and another member of the class of '83,
Steve O'Connor were the first students
to participate in the program designed
to help answer problems for senior
citizens.
Student participants in the program
visit each of twenty Nutrition Sites
located throughout the South Plains
region. These centers provide
'government subsidized meals to the
elderly and the counseling has become
an added benefit for the senior citizens
alredy taking part in the program.
Third-year student Frank Waite, now
in charge of the program for the Law
School, said that while the students do
answer many simple questions, they are
largely a referral service. "We can't
actually advise them since that would
be practicing without a license, but we
can refer them to the local Bar
Association, an accountant, or a state
or federal agency for assistance," he
said.
Waite said the problems range from
wills to questions about social security
benefits or disabilities. "It is a simple
direct service," he said, "we can't
answer all the questions, but we can at
least give general information about the
subject or refer them to an agency
which can help."
The Nutrition Centers vary in size
from 15 to 200 people and range as far
north as Plainview and as far south as
Denver City. When asked about the
reaction of his "clients", Waite felt the
students had good rapport in some
centers and poor in others. "It takes
time for people to get used to us," he
said.
Although the students are paid for
their time and travel, Waite felt that the
program had many more benefits,
including providing a clinical counseling
program for students in the absense of
an actual clinical curriculum. "Besides,
this is an extremely worthwhile service
which the Law School provides to the
community," he said.
Waite and another law student, Liz
Jones handled the program for the
summer making four trips per week,
but with law classes in progress, Waite
is conducting the program himself. "I
hope I can find some other law students
to help because I really feel this is good
experience. Counseling is just like a
general knowledge quiz," he concluded.
May Hooding ceremony speakers professor Robert Drinan, Dr. Lauro Cavazos and law student Gary
S teele watch the hooding of the graduates.
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Visiting Faculty Highlight Summer Curriculum
In keeping with the tradition of
hosting distinguished visiting faculty,
the Law School was honored to have
two outstanding professors for the
summer sessions.
Larry Yackle, professor of law at the
University of Alabama School of Law
and Wylie Davis, distinguished
professor and former dean of the
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
School of Law taught criminal law and
insurance law, respectively.
Yackle received his J.D. degree from
the University of Kansas Law School in
1973 and an LL.M. degree from
Harvard in 1974. Since 1974 he has
been a member of the faculty at the
University of Alabama Law School
where he teaches constitutional law,
criminal procedure, federal jurisdiction
and post-conviction remedies. He
currently chairs the Legal Advisory
Committee of the Alaba\TIa Civil
Liberties Union and is Legal Advisor to
the Alabama Conference, American
Association of University Professors.
He has written a book on postconviction remedies as well as
numerous law review articles.
A member of the faculty from 19481955 and again from 1970 to the
present, Davis served as Dean of the
University of Arkansas Law School
from 1973-78 and has been a
distinguished professor since 1972. He
has also served on the law faculties of
the Universities of Texas, Illinois and
Georgia. Currently he is chairman of
the Committee on Contracts for the
National Conference of Bar Examiners
(Multi-State Bar Exam) and is counsel
to the Fayetteville firm of Davis, Cox &
Wright.
His principal teaching subjects
include admiralty, contracts, insurance,
constitutional law and remedies.
Facuity and Curriculum
Profile
Two new assistant professors and
one associate professor have joined the
faculty this fall increasing the number of
full-time faculty members to twenty-four
(thirty fulltime teaching equivalents) for
the 1983-84 academic year.
In administration, Professor Rodric
Schoen has accepted the position of
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
replacing Professor Robert Wood who
is a visiting professor at the University
of South Carolina School of Law until
May 1984.
Schoen will assume his administrative
duties in addition to maintaining his
academic teaching responsibilities.
New curriculum additions include
Deferred Compensation and ProfitSharing Plans, Government Contracts,
Taxation of Transnational Transactions
and Immigration Law. This past
summer, Entertainment Law and
Insurance highlighted the curriculum.
Three new faculty members, Camilla Emanuel, Bill Cas to and Robin Malloy bring the fa culty total to
twenty-fiv e. Emanuel is teach ing Income Tax and Deferred Compensation. Casto teaches Business
Entities and Malloy has Contracts and Legal Research & Writing.
Rodric Schoen
FACULTY
Charles P. Bubany
CHUCK BUBANY was a speaker at
the Fifth Annual Conference on
Alcohol Abuse Prevention/ Education:
A Community Approach, in April in
Lubbock. Also in April, Bubany served
as a panelist for the topic, "The Right to
Say No," a television program on
substance abuse. He was the academic
director and instructor for seminars for
municipal court judges held 1in
Lubbock, San Angelo and Longview,
throughout July and August, and he
served as an instructor in the "Shake
Hands with your Future" summer
program for gifted children held in
Lubbock. Bubany was awarded a
Texas Tech University Teaching
development grant for innovative
course development for his interviewing
and counseling course during the 1983
second summer session. In August, he
spoke on "Family Law Developments"
to the 69th Judicial District Bar
Association seminar in Dumas.
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HAL M. BATEMAN has continued to
serve actively as a member of the State
Securities Board, specifically in
attending meetings, working on
legislative proposals regarding the
Board and appearing before Senate
Committees handling the legislation. He
has begun work on a one volume
treatise on Business Organizations
which is to be a Revised Volume 12 in
the Texas Practice-Methods of
Practice-Series. In February, Bateman
spoke to the Texas Stock and Bond
Dealer's Association annual meeting in
Austin regarding pending legislative
proposals concerning the State
Securities Board.
BRUCE KRAMER was a speaker at the
Second Institute for Natural Resources
Teachers sponsored by the Rocky
Mountain Law Foundation in May. Also
in May, he spoke at the Southwestern
Legal Foundation's Short Course on
Land Use Planning held in Dallas. His
recent publications include
"T ransboundary Air Pollution and the
Clean Air Act: An Historical
Perspective," which will appear in the
Kansas Law Review this fall and "§1983
and Municipal Liability: Selected Issues
Two Years After Monell v. Department
of Social Services" which will be
reprinted in September in a new ABA
book entitled §1983-Sword and Shield.
FRANK SKILLERN has served as
chairman of the Environmental and
Natural Resources Law Section of the
Texas State Bar since June. His 1983
supplement to his book, Environmental
Protection: The Legal Framework, has
been published, and he has completed
the annual supplement to his chapter in
the book Legal Strategies for Industrial
Innovation . Skillern continues to serve
as editor of the "Natural Resources
Lawyer."
DAN BENSON has completed along
with Professors Cummins and Soto a
layperson's handbook on law applicable
to the elderly. The project is sponsored
and funded by a grant from the Texas
Department on Aging and is a resource
book designed to help persons know
when they may need a lawyer in various
areas of the law such as consumer
protection, real estate, door-to-door
contracts, taxation, traffic court
matters, landlord/ tenant problems and
how to hire and fire lawyers.
JOHN MURRAY served as the initial
executive director of a negotiation and
mediation agency, the Conflict Clinic,
Inc ., at Harvard Law School this past
summer. The Clinic is a program to
help parties to public disputes resolve
their differences by using faculty and
student resources in providing advice
on the best process for negotiation.
Murray helped establish the Clinic's
internal operating procedures and
participated in providing negotiation
assistance for several case projects.
J . HADLEY EDGAR is currently
serving as President of the Lubbock
County Bar Association; Chairman of
the Pattern Jury Charge Committee of
the Texas State Bar; and VicePresident of the International Legal
Fraternity of Phi Delta Phi. In August
he presented a paper entitled Venue
Reform to the 69th Judicial District Bar
Association seminar in Dumas.
TOM BAKER participated in a panel
discussion with University of Texas
professors Charles Alan Wright and
Scot Powe on Supreme Court
Decisions and their impact on federal
jurisdictions before the Judicial"
Conference for the Fifth Circuit in
April.
The old saying suggests, "variety is
the spice of life," but for several law
students pursuing joint degrees, the
saying has become a reality.
The Law School currently offers
three joint programs combining law
with a Masters of Business
Administration (MBA), a Masters of
Public Administration (MPA), or a
Masters in Agricultural Economics.
Eighteen students are personally
enrolled in the Law / MBA program and
one student is pursuing the Law /
Economics degree.
Students in the joint programs enter
the double degree study after their first
year and are required to gain
acceptance into a specific program by
both the Law School and the other
degree-granting college. Most of the
students who enter the joint program
pursue a career with a corporation.
According to Associate Dean Joseph
Conboy, the majority of students
enrolling in a joint degree program are
business oriented and are more-or less
"killing two birds with one stone."
Conboy stated he did not know the
success rate of attorneys with two
degrees but he thought it could be
advantageous where a firm is looking
for a person with both backgrounds. "It
also gives the person the option to
pursue a business career rather than
law," he said.
When asked whether he
recommended students to enter a joint
program, Conboy said the student
really has to want both degrees. "Law
MURL LARKIN was reappointed to the
State Bar Committee regarding
Administration of Rules of Evidence in
Civil Cases. In August he addressed
attorneys assembled for the 69th
Judicial District Bar Association
Summer Seminar in Dumas on the new
Texas Rules of Evidence. Larkin's
book, Texas Rules of Evidence
Sourcebook, was recently published by
Butterworth Legal Publishers.
ROBERT SOTO is a visiting professor
at the University of Texas Law School
for the 1983-84 acdemic year.
ROBERT WOOD is a visiting professor
at the University of South Carolina
School of Law for the 1983-84 academic
year.
Joint Programs Offer
Choices
Faculty
8
School is busy enough," he said. "I
don't know how profitable or beneficial
it is to have both degrees. They're nice
to have but I try to make sure the
student thinks having both will really
help."
As another twist to expanding
student options, the Law School is
working with the T exas Tech
Agriculture Department and Medical
School to establish programs in law and
agriculture and law and medicine.
These programs will not lead to joint
degrees but will give students the
opportunity to take courses relating to
agriculture law and medical-legal
problems.
Conboy indicated that the program
will be implemented by joint faculty
appointments with the Law School and
the other two departments. "The
purpose of providing this joint
arrangement," he said, "is to address
legal problems which are common to
both special interests. Since we are in a
heavy agriculture area, for example, it
seems only natural to want to provide
students with a practical curriculum
they can use especially if they practice
in a rural farming-type community."
Conboy said the combined law and
medicine curriculum would meet the
increasing dilemmas facing both
lawyers and doctors particularly in the
bio-ethics area. "Ethical problems such
as 'mercy-killing' and informed consent
are going to be more prevalent in the
next several years," he felt.
Conboy concluded that both the joint
degree programs and the joint
programs involving shared faculty
appointments serve the needs of the
student, the individual schools and the
community.
Library
9
Library Compiles Student Papers
Associate Dean Joseph Conboy visits with students at orientation.
Adjunct Professors Add Experience
Providing a range of experience from
Bankruptcy to Appellate Advocacy,
adjunct professors have continued to
add their practical expertise to the Law
School curriculum.
For several years, local attorneys
have presented the prevailing flavor of
the courtroom in classes on Trial and
Appellate Advocacy, but other
advanced courses such as Creditor's
Rights and Reorganization of Insolvent
Businesses are now occasionally taught
by adjuncts who practice in that
particular field of law.
Associate Dean Joe Conboy reviews
the adjunct program as a successful
one, "one which gives students a look
at the current practice in an area and
which maximizes our faculty resources
in teaching the core curriculum."
"Now that we no longer have a
clinical program," Conboy said, "the
adjunct program has become a vital link
between academics and the practice of
law."
Adjunct professors are chosen on the
basis of a specific skill which the faculty
feels would meet the demand for a
specific course. "Basically we are hiring
an expert in a field of law which has
some student interest," Conboy said.
"These are courses which may not be
taught every semester but there is an
occasional demand."
Conboy further stated that not all
courses are appropriate for an adjunct
but that certain courses such as Trial
Advocacy & Bankruptucy Law lend
themselves to the practitioner.
When asked if there are any
drawbacks to the adjunct program,
Conboy said, "Only when they tell too
many war stories!"
Recent adjunct professors for 198283 included Lubbock attorneys Joe
Nagy for Trial Advocacy and Robert
Wilson for Creditors Rights, and Dallas
attorney William Rochell for
Reorganization of Insolvent Businesses.
Assistant U. S . Attorney Roger
McRobert, Lubbock attorney Tomas
Garza and Nagy will teach Trial
Advocacy in the fall . Don Hunt who
coaches the Law School's Moot Court
and Mock Trial programs teaches
Appellate Advocacy each semester.
The Law Library Staff has developed
a topical listing of scholarly student
writings which have been collected by
the faculty over the years.
According to law librarian Jane Olm,
the idea originated several years ago as
administration and faculty members felt
original student research should be
preserved for posterity. Olm said, "The
papers were saved but because they
were never indexed, they were never
used."
The topical listing is arranged
alphabetically by areas of law followed
by the student's name, the title of the
work and the volume in which it is
bound. Some writings are listed under
different topics if they pertain to more
than one area.
"We compiled the list in order to
make these papers available as
research tools for attorneys doing
research on the same or similar
subjects as well as recognize the
student's accomplishments," Olm
commented.
The following is a partial listing of the
categorized papers. The remainder will
be contained in future issues of the
Cornetstone.
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
Boze, Elaine. "Problems in Defining and
Applying 'Prescribed Limits' of
Election Jurisidictions under the
Liquid Control Act." 1973-74, 22p.
Carter, Richard W. "An Analysis of the
Proposed Texas Administrative
Procedure Act." 1972-73, 65p.
Riley, Gary C. "Regionalism through
Councils of Government." 1975-76,
32p.
Wheeler, Lisa. "A Search for Bias in the
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission and Recommendations
Concerning the Appointment
Process for Independent Regulatory
Commission." 1981-82, 13p.
AGRICULTURAL LAW
Greer, Kenneth Longino, Jr. "Crop
Financing and Article 9." 1974-75,
25p.
Junell, Robert A. "Crop Financing
under the U.C.C." 1976-77, 21p.
Keng, Steven W. "Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
Service." 1975-76, 20p.
McMillon, James. "Federal Crop
Insurance; Federal Seed Act." 197576,22p.
McWhorter, Owen West, Jr. "Cotton
Allotments." 1974-75, 30p.
Meyer, Larry Clifford. "Federal Crop
Insurance" 1974-75, 26p.
Riley, Gary C. "The Purchase and Sale
of U.S. Cotton." 1975-76, lOp.
Russell, Keith. "Agricultural Wastes,
Water Pollution, and Federal
Regulation." 1977-78, 33p.
Schuiteman, Keith James. "Federal
Marketing Orders." 1974-75, 33p.
Swisher, Kathi. "Aspects of the
Agricultural Coopertive." 1975-76,
lOp.
BANKRUPTCY
Hassler, David P. "Bankruptcy for
Agridebtors." 1975-76, 35p.
Kirk, Bud. "'Good Faith' in Proposing a
Chapter 13 Plan." 1981-82, 41p.
Washburn, Tom. "Real Estate
Transactions in Bankruptcy: Before
and After the Bankruptcy Reform
Act of 1978." 1980-81, 33p.
BUSINESS ENTITIES
Salomon, Charles L. "The Tax
Consequences of 'Key Man' and
Partnership Life Insurance." 1972-73,
28p.
Terrell, Gary. "Section 16(b) and
Corporate Acquisitions." 1976-77,
29p.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Hartt. Grover, III. "FURMAN v.
GEORGIA: Last Rites for the Death
Penalty?" 1972-73, 30p.
Ogan, Sammy Lee. "Selected Problems
in the Punishment Phase of a Texas
Death Penalty Case: Mitigating
Circumstances." 1981-82, 36 p.
CHILD ABUSE
Royse, Carolyn R. "Defining the Scope
of Parental Liability in Abuse and
Abandonment of Children." 1980-81,
60p.
CHILD SNATCHING
Badeaux, Joanne, "Child Snatching."
1981-82,45p.
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Head Law Librarian Jane Olm
CITIES AND TOWNS-PLANNING
Sikora, Vincent A. "The Lubbock
Housing Code: Can a Housing Code
Enforcement Program Survive on
Demolition Alone?" 1976-77, 26p.
CLASS ACTIONS
Robertson, Jonathan S. "The Class
Action: Some Ethical
Considerations." 1976-77, 12p.
COMMERCIAL LAW
Dawson, William Boyd. "The 1974
Amendments to Article Nine." 197475,41p.
Duffy, Patrick S. "Creditor's Right of
the Farmer-Rancher." 1975-76, 19p.
Graham, Rick J.W. "Remedies of the
Creditor Under Article 6 of the
Uniform Commercial Code." 197273,13p.
King, Charles Edward. "The
Commercial Feedyard, the Packer,
the Bank, and the UCc." 1974-75,
43p.
Reese, J. Don. "The Farm and Ranch
Taxation and Incorporation." 197374,32p.
Saunders, Russell. "IMPERIAL
CORPORATION OF AMERICA v.
FRENCHMAN'S CREEK
CORPORATION-The Fifth Circuit
Court's Construction of Issues
Arising under the Texas Usury
Statute." 1972-73, 15p.
Scott, Bob. "The Revised Article 9 of
the Uniform Commercial Code in
Texas." 1973-74, 35p.
10
Shaw, James Howard. "The Farmers
Home Administration." 1974-75, 26p.
Smithee, John. "Farmers Home
Administration." 1975-76, 19p.
Treadwell, Lamar D., II. "Usury, Truthin-Lending and the Texas Deceptive
Trade Practices Act." 1976-77, 33p.
Welch, Deborah, "Survey of Recent
Cases in Texas Usury Law." 1976-77,
22p.
Whiteside, Tom. "Advanced
Commercial Law-the FarmerRancher." 1975-76, 13p.
COMMODITIES
Godfrey, David Fike. "The Commodity
Credit Corporation." 1974-75, 27p.
COMMUNITY PROPERTY
Chavez, Luis. "Community Property:
The Concept of Tracing Ownership."
1976-77,43p.
Thomas, Mike. "Retirement Benefits
and the Inception-of-Title DoctrineBUSBY v. BUSBY." 1971-72, 18p.
CONFISCATION OF PROPERTY
Moudy, James M. "Expropriation: A
Necessary Consideration in
International Business Expansion."
1972-73,45p.
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
Bombach, Charles David. "Extended
Border Searches." 1975-76, 35p.
Callaway, Robert. "Searches
Conducted by the Federal
Government On and Near the
Border." 1973-74, 35p.
Davenport, Mitchell G. "Suffer the
Little Children: The Implications of In
Re Gault." 1972-73, 15p.
Fjetland, Gale Michael. "The Fifth
Amendment Privilege Against SelfIncrimination in Tax Investigations."
1974-75,43p.
Gelsone, Frank G. "Constitutional Law
and Gun Control Today." 1980-81,
35p.
Hale, Steven. "Article V: Amending the
Federal Constitution." 1978-79, 28p.
Kincaid, William H. "The Prosecution's
Use of Depositions in Military and
Civilian Trials: A Violation of the
Right of Confrontation?" 1975-76,
34p.
Leslie, Craig. "Stop and Frisk-Court
Interpretation of Terry, Sib ron, and
Peters." 1972-73, 43p.
Placement
Parker, David. "Fundamental Rights
and the Substantive Values of NEPA:
the Logic to Recognititon of an
Environmental Constitutional Right."
1977-78,25p.
Prohl, Karl. "Analysis of the Present
and Future Constitutional Problems
Regarding Stop and Frisk by Law
Enforcement Officers. 1972-73, 60p.
Rapier, John E. "Title II of the
Organized Crime Control Act of
1970 Is Unconstitutional." 1971-72,
53p.
Wenzler, Marcy. "Pioneers of A
Warless World-Conscientious
Objectors and the Law." 1978-79,
29p.
CONTRACTS
Krugler, Mark. "Baseball's Most Crucial
Game: PROFESSIONAL
BASEBALL v. THE RESERVE
CLAUSE." 1975-76, 24p.
COPYRIGHT
Ashton, Anita. "Computer Programs:
What Protection is Available to the
Owner?" 1972-73, 22p.
Cook, James E. "Common Law
Copyright for Teachers.," 1974-75,
28p.
Wilson, Robert J. "Access." 1972-73,
20p.
Need a transcript?
Just write the Law School Registrar,
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
79409, with your request stating where
the transcript should be sent. Effective
June 1, 1983, transcripts are $2 per
·copy.
Placement Publishes
Handbook
For law students asking questions
about resumes, interviewing and other
aspects of career planning and job
hunting, the answers are contained in
the new Placement Handbook
published this year by the Placement
Office.
The Handbook is a combination of
"how-to's" for resume preparation and
interviewing and a helpful guide to
various avenues of law practice or nontraditional legal careers. Sections
include a description of placement
services to acquaint students, hopefully
in their first year, with the Placement
Office; a set of guidelines on preparing
and sending a resume including how to
write a cover letter; tips on
interviewing; and a description of
various career options such as judicial
clerkships, district attorney's offices
and corporations.
Author of the Handbook Dean
Carolyn Thomas says the reaction to
the book from both students and firms
has been favorable. "We have tried to
be particularly sensitive to what firms
are requesting in the way of resumes
and what they expect in an interview
session," she said.
Thomas said the Placement Office is
distributing the handbooks to firm
interviewers for their comments
suggestions and criticisms.
'
In additon to the general information
sections, the Handbook also contains a
description of the bid system, a list of
interviewing firms and a list of noninterviewing firms-a new innovation in
the Placement office whereby student
resumes are sent en masse to firms
which are unable to interview on
campus but which request resumes
from interested students.
Placement
11
Placement Office Adopts Bid System
for Fall Interviewing
It's not exactly Las Vegas style, but
the new system for interview sign-ups
does require skill with numbers!
Last spring the placement office, in
an effort to remedy inconsistencies and
unfairness in the sign-up process,
announced a move toward
computerization. After a cost analysis,
the computerized system was tabled
and the present bid system was
initiated in its place.
The system is designed to better
balance the chance an individual
student has toward gaining an interview
with a firm as well as provide the firm
the opportunity to interview students
interested in and qualified for the firm.
The system is quite simple. For each
week of interviews, students are given
500 bid points which they can use to
bid on any number of firms they wish to
interview. The highest bids receive
interview slots and any ties are broken
by an at random lottery.
If blanks remain on the interview
sheet, students can sign in these spaces
on a first come, first served basis.
Eighteen interview slots per day are
filled in this manner.
In the event a student does not
receive a bid and is unable to sign in a
blank, the student can put his or her
resume in an overflow box for that firm.
Resumes will be sent to the firm and
the student may be selected to
interview in an overflow slot.
Students then have three
opportunties to gain an interview: the
bid, a free space, or through overflow.
Firms are still allowed to indicate
their academic preferences. (ie. top
30%) and students are encouraged to
note the preferences when bidding.
Another feature of the new system is
the reserved spaces for firms to prescreen selected interviewees. The last
three time slots of the day from 4:005:00 p.m., as well as before 9:00 a.m.
and after 5:00 p.m. are reserved for the
firm's choices. These may be students
whose names were submitted on the
overflow list or whom the firm chooses
based on its own criteria.
According to Carolyn Thomas,
assistant dean in charge of placement,
the system has worked remarkably
well. "Students are studying firm
resumes more and making educated
decisions on where they want to
practice and with which firm", she said.
"By the same token, firms are
interviewing students who have a
genuine interest in them," she added,
"because after all, the students cannot
afford to waste their bid points."
Thomas indicated the Law School's
biggest concern is that firms are seeing
the students they want to see and
potentially hire.
"This is pretty hard to guage right
now and I'm hoping for feedback from
the firms," she said. "You know we are
up to over 103 firms interviewing here
and we want to keep growing. We will
only succeed if we are matching
students and firms."
Thomas also stressed the fairness of
the system. She indicated that more
students are able to get interviews and
as a result, more seem to be using the
placement office. "We have tallied over
4.00 bids each week from approximately
227 second and third year students.
That means about 56/Yo are using the
interview process."
The system will be continued
throughout the fall and then reassessed
as to its effectiveness. Spring
interviewing will remain on the first
come, first served sign-up basis.
Placement Statistics
Tech Remains Consistent with
on-campus Interviews
Fall interviewing at the Law School is
the most active time of year for the
Placement Office. Despite the economy
and the rumors that many law schools
are showing a decrease in interviewing
firms, Tech has remained constant in
the number of firms visiting the school.
There have been a few cancellations
from corporations and firms, but we
have gained a number of firms which
are either new or have not interviewed
at Tech in a few years.
F all Interviewing
Number of Interviewers
103
Texas
94
Out-of-State
9
Law Firms
81
Accounting Firms
5
Corporations
4
6
Government Agencies/ JAGC
District Attorney's Offices
3
Legal Services
2
Court of Appeals
2
Cities Represented
32
Dallas
Fort Worth
12
Houston
10
EIPaso
7
Beaumont
6
Amarillo
5
Midland
4
San Antonio
4
Austin
3
Lubbock
3
Odessa
2
Abilene
1
San Angelo
1
Corpus Christi
1
Tyler
1
Wichita Falls
1
McKinney
1
2
Oklahoma City, OK
1
Roswell, NM
Crownpoint, NM
1
Fort Sill, OK
1
Hobbs, NM
1
1
Phoenix, AZ
Washington D.C.
2
A COMMON GATHERING PLACE FOR
FALL . .. Law Students check the Placement
Board for interviewing information.
Placement
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**Positions Available**
*UAW-GM Legal Services Plan
seeking staff attorney for Arlington
office. Plan provides legal services to
GM hourly employees, retirees, and
their families. Min. 2 years' experience.
Salary $20-30K. Interest! experience in
consumer, wills, domestic and
bankruptcy required. Send resume and
writing sample to: Vickie Johnson, 2008
East Randol Mill Road, Suite 101,
Arlington, Texas 76011.
*Attorney with established civil
practice but needing more time to
devote to outside business interests,
looking for an associate to work with
and do referral work. Good opportunity
for attorney wanting to start private
practice in Fort Worth. Call collect
(817) 336-4451.
*Recognition Equipment, Inc. needs
staff attorney to do general corporate
work, contracts-negotiating and
drafting. Request top 25%, good writing
ability. Send resume to Carol S. Lyon,
Associate General Counsel, P.O. Box
222307, Dallas, Texas 75222, (214) 5796382.
*The following positions are available
with Conoco:
Refining Lawyer: Three to seven
years' legal experience with emphasis
on refinery matters, construction
contracts, and feedstock agreements.
Commercial Lawyer: Three to seven
years' legal experience with emphasis
on refined product sales and exchange
agreements, terminalling agreements,
marine claims, and oil spills.
Natural Gas Products Lawyer: Three
to seven years' legal experience with
emphasis on Natural Gas Policy Act,
FERC, gas purchase and transportation
contracts, NGL contracts, gas plant
operations, construction contrcts,
pipeline matter, right of way and
condemnation matters. Major oil or gas
company experience preferred.
Please forward resumes and salary
requirements to: Conoco, Inc., Legal
Department, Suite 1602, P.O. Box
2197, Houston, Texas 77252 .
*Clary & Clements, Inc., of
Bridgeport seeks associate for
Springtown, Texas, office. Contact Bill
Clary, P.O . Box 728, Bridgeport, Texas
76026, (817) 683-4061.
Law students Chris Kinnear and Teresa Burroff
review firm resumes in preparation for interuiews.
*City Attorney position available in
Lubbock. Send resume to Steve Synck,
City of Lubbock, Room 211, City Hall,
10th and "J", P.O. Box 2000, Lubbock,
Texas 79457, (806) 762-6411 ext. 2317.
*Attorney with two to five years' real
estate and corporate legal experience
wanted as associate general counsel for
TGI Friday's Inc. National
Headquarters in Dallas. Negotiation
experience and excellent credentials
required. Two positions available. Send
resume to Legal Department, P.O. Box
809062, Dallas, Texas 75380.
*Assistant or Associate Professor of
Business Law at the University of
Texas at Austin. Two positions
available-tenure track or tenure
position depending on experience.
Send resume, two samples of recent
legal writing, and class standing by
November 15, 1983, to Dr. Michael
Duggan, Coordinator, Department of
General Business, GSB 4.138,
University of Texas at Austin, Austin,
Texas 78712.
*Associate tax attorney with one to
two years' experience preferred, but
will consider 1983 LL.M graduate with
excellent credentials. Will be working
mainly in all aspects of broad taxation
practice. Some estate planning. As
alternative, would consider well-
qualified estate planning person. Send
resume to Barbara Roethke, Recruiting
Coordinator, Eldridge, Goggans &
Weiss, 3737 Interfirst Two, Dallas,
Texas 75270-2171, (214) 747-9151.
*Position for attorney with two to Ifive
years' experience including civil
litigation. Three person firm. Send
resume to Sam Oatman, Oatman Law
Offices, P.O. Box 517, Llano, Texas
78643.
*Harkness, Fiedman, Kusin & Britt
seeking associate for general civil
practice, personal injury and
workmen's compo emphasis. Send
resume to Bruce Condit, 406 Texas
Boulevard, Texarkana, Texas 75501,
(214) 794-2561.
*The City of San Antonio is seeking
a City Attorney to head the Legal
Department and to act as legal advisor
to other departments and the City
Manager. Applicants must have
practiced law in Texas for at least five
years immediately preceding the
present and have experience in
municipal law and prior practice in the
area, representing cities and/ or
municipal agencies. Send resumes
marked "Confidential" to: Leroy J.
Harvey, Director of Personnel, City of
San Antonio, P.O. Box 9066, San
Antonio, Texas 78285.
*Martindale Services, Inc. offers a
service called Lawyer Exchange
Network (LEXNETIM) for experienced
attorneys seeking new legal
employment. Attorneys who are
admitted to the bar and who are or
have been employed in a full-time legal
position (including judicial clerkships)
are eligible to register with LEXNET.
Each registered attorney will be
contacted by Martindale Services when
an employer requests someone with his
or her qualifications. There is no fee
charged to applicants and strict
confidentiality is assured. For further
information and an application form,
contact Lori Thomas in the Placement
Office, or call Martindale Services at
(800) 223-6111.
Alumni
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Tech Tops in State
ed. note: The following article appeared in the Houston Post on May 1, 1983 and is reprinted below
with permission from the Post. As the article illustrates, Texas Tech is the only Law School having a
100% pass rate on the exam in the last eight years. Tech graduates outscored graduates from other
Texas schools five of the eight years compared.
Scores on bar exam declining at Texas schools
By FRED KING
Post Reporter
Becoming a lawyer in Texas today seems
to be harder than it was a few years ago.
There is little agreement on why.
The passing rate on the July bar exam, the
one with the highest percentage of first-time
takers, was 91 in 1975 and 92 in 1976. It was
83 in 1981 and 82 in 1982.
Of the seven Texas law schools that would
release passing rates, only one-St. Mary's
University in San Antonio-had its
graduates passing at a higher rate in July
1982 than in July 1975. St. Mary's gained one
percentage point.
ONE CURIOSITY IS THAT the passing
rate jumped consistently in July 1980, when
the State Board of Law Examiners
changed-for that one exam-the way
grades are computed. The board plans to
reinstate that change this July.
Some people familiar with the bar exam
say the drop over eight Years may be caused
by tougher grading by the State Board of
Law Examiners. Officials of the board, which
oversees the choice of essay questions and
their grading say that they have not decided
to grade more harshly.
Some say students might not be as strong
or as dedicated. Some, including a number of
law school administrators, have no theory at
all.
One reason suspected in the decline is the
increasing percentage of would-be lawyers
from outside the state who try the Texas bar
exam.
That percentage has increased yearly
since 1976. Meanwhile, the seven schools
relasing scores have been at or above the
state average except for St. Mary's in one
year, South Texas College of Law in three
years and Texas Southern University, which
has never been close to the state average.
THOSE THREE SCHOOLS, PLUS
Baylor, are the four Texas schools with the
smallest number of graduates taking the July
test the past two years.
.
"We haven't really made a study to arrive
at any conclusion about ... why the
numbers come out the way they do," says
William Collins, a Dallas attorney who is
chairman of the board of law examiners.
The 1975-82 period, although short,
appears to be the best for any analysis of bar
exam passing rates.
Texas used an essay exam before 1975.
That year, the state added the Multistate Bar
Exam, a multiple·choice, computer-graded
test. This July, Texas adds a third phase to
bar exam.
Charting the average passing rate for the
state, which includes the performance of
would-be lawyers trained outside Texas,
and the passing rates of seven Texas
schools- a total of eight rates-shows the
rates moving in the same direction most of
the time.
IN ONLY TWO PERIODS, from 1975 to
1976 and from 1981 to 1982, did the rates
seem to move randomly. Those periods are
the ones in which there was the least change
in the stage average.
In periods when the state average changed
more than two points, the rates moved with
a consistency that appears to rule out
coincidence.
The state passing rate in July 1976 was 92
percent. It fell to 86 in 1977. The passing
rates for graduates of Texas Tech, Southern
Methodist, University of Texas at Austin, St.
Mary's, University of Houston-University
Park, South Texas College of Law and
Texas Southern all went down.
Baylor declines to release its passing rates,
as did the board of law examiners.
From 1976 to 1977, when the state average
fell six points to 86, the rates fell at all seven
schools. From 1977 to 1978, the state
passing rate went up to 90. Six schools' rates
went up; UH-UP's rate dropped one point.
From 1978 to 1979, the state rate fell to 85.
Five schools' rates fell while St. Mary's was
unchanged and TSU's went up. From 1979
to 1980, the state average jumped seven
points. Five schools' rates went up; Texas
Tech's did not change, and South Texas' fell
one point.
FROM 1980 TO 1981, the state average
fell nine points, and the rates of the seven
schools all went down.
The change in the passing rates more
likely reflects the ability level of applicants
than the difficulty of the exam, says Stephen
Klein, who is a Rand Corp. consultant in
Santa Monica, Calif., and advises Texas'
board and similar groups in 19 other states.
Passing rates at various schools move
together in almost every state, Klein says. He
says the relative standing of the various
schools tends to be very stable, a point
borne out by Texas school's passing rates
over the eight years.
Klein say the relative difficulty of the
exams can be accounted for by a technique
called scaling if the Multistate Bar Exam,
which can be adjusted for variations in
difficulty, is used as a basis for comparison.
By using that benchmark, variations in the
difficulty of the essay exam, which may be
graded more subjectively, can be ironed out,
he says.
Texas tried using the Multistate as a basis
for comparison only in July 1980, says
Wayne Denton, executive director of the
board of law examiners.
That was dropped after some members of
the Supreme Court of Texas, which is
ultimately in charge of the bar exam, had
difficulty with the idea of announcing a
statewide high score of 106-six points
higher than the 100 usually thought of as
perfect, Justice Charles Barrow says.
BARROW, THE COURT'S liaison with
the board from early 1981 until early this
year, says the scaling that produced the 106
score should not have affected the
percentage of people passing.
Denton says pegging the essay scores to
the Multistate could have caused the higher
passing rate on that test or the July 1980
essay could have been easier. He says he
does not know.
The National Law Journal reported in
April that "passing rates for the summer bar
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exam are continuing their steady downward
trend in a number of key jurisdictions." It
found rates were down in 26 jurisdictions and
quoted a California official as saying Law
School Admissions Test scores were down
too.
Does Texas have enough lawyers? "I don't
have any idea," Collins says.
Passing rate on bar exam
JuiyTechSMU UTSt. MaryUHS.Texas TSU
1975 100 98 97
86
94
89
38
1976 100 98 98
97
93
93
27
1977 98
96 96
85
92
84
15
1978 100 97 97
92
91
90
26
1979 98
94 93
92
84
89
31
1980 98
99 95
99
92
88
47
1981 93
94 90
85
83
76
33
1982 94
94 86
87
84
81
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Note: Percentages were furnished by the
schools and include all of a school's graduates who
took the exam, whether repeaters or first-time
takers.
Alumni
Class of 1973
RICHARD W. CARTER is currently
serving as Municipal Judge for the City
of Arlington, effective August 15, 1983.
He was the Waco Police Legal Advisor
prior to his new position_
Class of 1974
BRUCE YETTER has been appointed
senior Vice President of the Columbia
Engineering Corporation_
Class of 1976
MICHAEL DAVIS was appointed
sheriff of EI Paso County in December
1982.
Class of 1977
PARKER MCCOLLOUGH has been
appointed Municipal Judge for the City
of Georgetown.
LARRY M. THOMPSON is now with
the firm of Quillin & Thompson, 616
Arch Adams in Fort Worth.
Law School Association Kicks Off First Local Chapter
EI Paso was the setting for the
formation of the T exas Tech Law
School Association's first local chapter_
A recepti.o n on August 31st at the EI
Paso club hosted by Association
president Link Beck and EI Paso
district director Risher Gilbert marked
what Beck called, "A new life for our
alumni association."
Beck stated, "My goals for the
Association are to establish alumni
chapters in each district-not for a
really structured purpose but to
provide a means for alumni to gettogether socially one or two times a
year with the Dean and keep contact
with activities at the School."
"Eventually, chapters can also provide
a fund raising base in our larger areas
of alumni concentration," he said.
Guest speaker for the reception was
Dean Byron Fullerton who presented
the successful results of the alumni
giving program and an overview of the
fall semester.
Officers elected for the EI Paso
chapter include Fred Walker '76,
President; Mike Crowley '77, VicePresident and Robert Feuille '80,
Secretary-Treasurer.
Local chapter organizational
meetings were planned for
Amarillo on September 29, Lubbock on
September 30, and Tyler in January.
Dean Fullerton has been the guest
speaker at each kick-off.
Class of 1979
DAVID G . LEWIS has formed a new
law firm with Jim Duvall ('75) in Dumas.
The firm name is Duvall & Lewis, P. C.
and is located at 612 East First Street,
Dumas, Texas 79209.
JAY S. TURNER has opened his own
law office in Irving after working two
years for an Irving law firm and two and
one-half years as Irving Assistant City
Attorney. His new office is located at
304 InterFirst Building, Irving. 7560l.
Class of 1980
LESLIE K O'NEAL was appointed
Assistant General Counsel of T empleEastex Incorporated in Diboll, March
15, 1983.
Class of 1981
LOUIS P. GREGORY has become a
partner in the law firm of Groce, Locke
and Hebdon in San Antonio.
R. HAROLD WHITE was appointed by
Governor Mark White in February of
1983 as District Attorney for Wichita
County, Wichita Falls, Texas. He had
been an Assistant District Attorney in
that office for six months prior to his
appointment.
PENNY WILKOV was selected one of
the Outstanding Young Women of
America for the year 1982_
Class of 1982
BRENDA RUDD has entered into
partnership with her husband Jim ('71),
State Representative District 77, under
the firm name of Rudd and Rudd. The
firm is located in Brownfield.
HOWARD JAY REVIS is serving on
active duty as a First Lieutenant in the
Judge Advocate General's Corps of the
U. S. Army and is assigned to Fort
McCellan, Alabama_
Annual Giving Report
15
Alumni Boost Fund-Raising To All-Time High
$78,582
In the largest Annual Giving Program
in the School's history, Tech law alumni
and friends have contributed $79,123.00
to unrestricted and scholarship funds of
the Law School Foundation.
When combined with gifts from law
firms, corporations and foundations,
the total amount of donations received
for 1982-83 exceeds $300,000.00
By far the biggest breakthrough is in
alumni giving as contributions from 515
individuals including graduates and
friends of the school far surpass giving
records for any other year. As a
comparison the school's last solicitation
in 1980-81 raised a mere $5,800. This
year's amount is over twelve times as
much:
"We are just overwhelmed,"
commented Dean Byron Fullerton of
the results of the campaign. "Our
graduates have truly shown how much
pride they have in this Law School and
their legal education, and I think with
this kind of financial support, we will
see even greater things from this
School."
The majority of gifts were tabbed for
charter membership in the newlyformed Dean's Inner-Circle although
several donations were earmarked for
the scholarship fund _Gifts ranged from
$10 to $5,000 and were categorized in
levels beginning with $100 for a Regular
member of the Dean's Inner-Circle to
$5000 for Life Membership. Scholarship
contributions were pegged as General,
Donor or Named Donor.
The classes of '79 and '77 had the
highest number of contributors (48);
the class of '75 gave the largest amount
($6775.00)_
The number of graduates giving
between September 1, 1982 and August
31, 1983, the campaign year, totalled
28% of the 1660 Law School alumni
solicited. This figure ranks among the
highest in percentage of alumni donors
as compared to the nation's law
schools.
The money raised from the Dean's
Inner-Circle is placed in the
unrestricted funds of the Law School
Foundation. Fullerton noted the
necessity of these funds as providing
support where it is most needed. "We
can't use State money for many things
important to a Law School's growth, so
we need additional funds to supplement
these areas_"
Unrestricted gifts are used for
student organizations, alumni
publications and functions, lecture
series, placement, graduation and
orientation programs, faculty
recruitment and other various
programs and projects.
In addition to unrestricted money,
the giving campaign netted new
scholarship funds which have already
enabled the school to award additional
scholarships to deserving students_
Fullerton said a strong giving
program is probably the most
important step in a law schools'
development because it reflects broadbased financial support and it is a vote
of confidence from the alumni.
For this first year 1982-83, Dean's
Inner-Circle members who have given
$100 or more will be charter members
and will have their names engraved on
a plaque to be permanently hung in the
Law School.
The entire list of contributors
including gifts from law firms and
foundations for 1982-83 follows on the
next several pages.
Annual Giving Report
16
Members of the Dean's Inner Circle
The Dean's Inner Circle was formed
in the fall of 1982 as a financial support
group for the Law School. Membership
is open to alumni and friends of the
Law School for a contribution of $100
or more.
For the first year of the Inner Circle,
1982-83, donors are recognized as
Charter Members and will have their
names engraved on a plaque to be hung
permanently in the Law School.
The Dean's Inner Circle consists of
various level of membership based on
the amount of a donor's gift. Each level
is renewable on a yearly basis.
LIFE MEMBERS
Contributors of $5000 or more are
honored as Distinguished Members of
the Dean's Inner Circle.
Alvin R. Allison
DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS
Contributors of $1000 or more are
honored as Distinguished Members of
the Dean's Inner Circle.
Hershell L. Barnes, Jr.
E. Link Beck
Samuel Boyd
R. Guy Carter
James L. Cox
John W. Dayton
Suzan Fenner
Byron Fullerton
Claude W. (Pete) Harland
J. Wayne Morrison
Ernest R. Reeves
Michael Riddle
Robert Scoggin
Johnny Splawn
William E. Ward, Sr.
HONOR MEMBERS
Contributors of $500 or more are
honored as Honor Members of the
Dean's Inner Circle.
Thomas L. Edmunds
John J . Grost
Theresa Hebert
Daniel J . Hollmann
Garry F. Howe
Roger A. Key
Max N. Osborn
Carolyn and Mike Thomas
William E. Vaught
William D. Wright
SUSTAINING MEMBERS
Contributors of $250 or more are
honored as Sustaining Members of the
Dean's Inner Circle.
Schalan Atkinson
Thomas E. Baker
John C. Blakey
Carey B. Boethel
Jon P. Bond
Joseph B. Conboy
Michael J. Crowley
Gerald Dixon
Richard Dykhuizen
Gerald W. Eddins
Daniel C. Garner
Charles Gentry
Aaron S. Goldberg
Marcus R. Griffin
Karen F. Harrison
John Huffaker
Deets D. Justice
Gerald P. Keith
Andy Kupper
Curtis Leonard
Russell Mcinturff
R. L. (Pete) McKinney
Cecilia H. Morgan
Glen A. Murdock
Alfred Pandolfi
Doug Perrin
Allen Price
Wayne A. Reaud
Barbara Runge
Donald E. Sample
Robert Scott
Patrick Simek
Thomas M. Smith
Mark L. Withrow
William Womble
Kennion Yano
Regular Members
Contibutors of $100 or more are
honored as Regular Members of the
Dean's Inner Circle.
Patrick A. Abeyta
Johnny W. Actkinson
Grant E. Adami III
John Akard
Tom Akins
Leota Alexander
Roger D. Allen
William R. Allensworth
Pablo Alvarado
Steven E. Anderson
Stephen R. Anderton
David Arditti
Douglas L. Baker
James E. Baker
Janet D. Baker
Robert D. Barbee
Brian D. Barnard
Robert E. Barnhill
Stephen L. Baskind
S. A. Bavousett
Herbert A. Becker
Ralph E. Belter
Oran H. Berry
Robert B. Bieck Jr.
John Biggers
John Ben Blanchard
J. R. Blumrosen
J. A. Bobo
Billy W. Boone
J . David Bourland
Richard K. Bowersock
Jim "Kip" Boyd
Charles E. Brandenberg
Pamela G . Brandenberg
P. Jan Breland
Henry E. Bright
C. H. Brockett Jr.
W. B. Browder Jr.
Bill Brown
Martha Brown
Adair Buckner
Wm. Charles Bundren
Marcus J. Busch
Peggy Butler
Kevin Byrne
C. Dave Caddell
John E. Capps
Christopher P. Carnohan
M. C. Carrington
David R. Casey
Mary L. Cassidy
Earnest C. Casstevens
Michael B. Charlton
Sam Chase
Luis Chavez
Tom H. Chorn
Stephen A. Cihal
Richard Clark
Karl N. Clifford
Donald Bruce Cochran
M. W. Cockrell
Timothy Coffey
Milton Colia
Robert Don Collier
Natalyn Collins
Elgin Connor
Annual Giving Report
Hugh & Rebecca Conrad
Louis W. Conradt Jr.
Donald W. Cothern
Kathy L. Cox
Joseph V. Crawford
John Crews
Richard Crews Jr.
Rocky Crocker
Martin C. Cude Jr.
Kenneth D. Cummings
David Cummins
William A. Cunningham
Harry L. Cure Jr.
Don Curry
J . L. Curry
Jim Bob Darnell
Richard Darnell
Clinton J . David
Emilio Davila Jr.
William B. Dawson
Frank G. Delaney
Martin Dies
Robert W. Dockery
Scott Donaho
Dan & Carol C. Donovan
Michael J . Donovan
Buddy R. Dossett
Jack P. Driskill
Harvey Dunham
Michael L. Dunn
Jim Duvall
Robert N. Eames
J . Hadley Edgar
Edward M. Edson
Tom Edwards
Frank W. Elliott
Gary Ellison
Tony Ellison
Bonnie C. Ericson
Tim Evans
Steve Exter
Linda F argason
Carter L. Ferguson
David Fernandez, Jr.
Robert R. Feuille
Guy Fields
Kenneth W. Fields
Michael Fjetland
Kay Fletcher
Thad Floyd
John Fomous
John H. Fostel
Michael Fostel
Bill D. Fountain
John Fouts
Lindsey Fouts
T. Rick Frazier
Scott M. & Jo K. Fryar
Shirley Ann Fryman
Ann Lea Fuelberg
W. Royal Furguson
James R. Gallman Jr.
Juan Carlos Garay
Robert Garcia
Nancy L. Garms
William R. Garrett
Frank Gelsone
Bob & Risher Gilbert
Stephen J . & Kim Gilles
Karen Goheen
Jay B. Goss
Jack M. Graham
Rick Graham
Roger Graham
Nolan E. Greak
Robin M. Green
Dean W. Greer
Louis P. Gregory
Nathan K. Griffin
Curtis Griffith
Charles Grigson
Chester Grudzinski
Bruce H. Gryting
Lee Hadden
Gene Hagood
Kent Hale
Eileen Hall
Jess Hall
Perry Hall
Thomas G. Hall
David W. Hammer
Robert Hammer
R. Keith Hampton
Kent Hance
Bob Hanna
Stephen Harr
Charles Dick Harris
William Harris
Kevin C. Hart
Grover Hartt
David P. Hassler
Charles E. Hawthorne
Joe W. Hayes
Linda G . Hayes
Edward Hellewell
John R. Henderson
Jerome S. Hennigan
Michael J . Henry
D. Murray Hensley
Angie L. Henson
Kenrick R. Hevron
Wynette Hewett
Larry W. Hicks
Randall K. Hill
Terry Hodges
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Nathan P. Hoffman
W. H. Hoffman
Lynn E. Hokanson
Celeste Hoover
Mark Hoover
W. R. Rusty Howard
Walter B. Huffman
Jerry D. Hunt
Charles W. Hurd
Matthew Hutchins
Ronald M. Jackson
James L. Jarrell
M. Charles Jennings
Susan Jennings
Gerald L. Johnson
Karen Thomas Johnson
Katherine Johnson
Philip Johnson
Stephen Douglas Johnson
Jeffrey B. Jones
Loyd Jones
Morgan A. Jones
Robert E. Jones
James Ralph Jordan
Latrelle Bright Joy
Robert A. Junell
William F. Keeling
Edwin Keiffer
Kevin J . Keith
Laura M. Keith
H. Dennis Kelly
Steven W. Keng
Jon R. Ker
Jon Kerr
Marion T. Key
William H. Kincaid
Carol Kirk
E.P. Kirk
Donald Knight
Nancy Koenig
Jerry M. Kolander Jr.
Stephen Krier
Peter Kyle Jr.
Mark W. Laney
Carol S. Leach
James R. Leeton
Neel Lemon
Tim S. Leonard
Harold Lerew
Craig L. Leslie
William H. Lester Jr.
David G . Lewis
James C. Lewis
Kyle R. Lewis
Mike Line
Betty H. Little
Tommy A. Lockhart
Norman Lubke
Joe Lucas
Robert D. Lybrand
Eldon B. Mahon
D. Nevill Manning
Annette W. Marple
Randal Mathis
Marc R. May
Kenneth McAlister
Tom C. McCall
Ronald P. McCluskey
J . Parker McCollough
Roger Kent McCrummen
Constance McGuire
J. Kent McGuire
M. R. McKelvey
Jimmy D. McLeroy
John W. McNey
Douglas McSwane
O~en W. McWhorter Jr.
Stan McWilliams
Randell P. Means
Gary L. Medlin
Dan Meehan
Raymond M. Meeks
Gerry H. Meier
Kyle R. Miller
James R. Moore
Michael T. Morgan
Frank Murchison
Alan L. Murray
Grover E. Murray
John S. Murray
Tom Myers
John F. Nance
George H. Nelson
James E. Nelson
Joe Love Nelson
John David Nelson
Warren New
David L. Nichols
Ronald D. Nickum
Kellogg O'Connor
Dennis Olson
Joseph M. Osborne
W.Gregg Owens
James F. Parker
Paul Parker
Sharen Wilson Parrish
Cathleen Parsley
Steven Patterson
P. Michael Payne
Chris Alexander Peirson
William H. Peirson
Stephen R. Pendleton
R. A. Peralta
Louis A. Perez Jr.
Annual Giving Report
18
Albert Perez
Paula M. Pesce
John Phillips
Kevin M. Pierce
Benton J. Poole
Robert Pou
Emil Karl Prohl
Cecil Puryear
John E. Rapier
Fred D. Raschke
James R. Raup
Kenlon Reeve
Ronald L. Reeves
Robert L. Reinhardt
Robert V. Rendall
Walter Theis
Larriet E. Thomas
R. Keith Thompson
Rusty Thornton
Mitchell Toups
Don A. Tucker
Bill Turner
Bruce E. Turner
Jay S . Turner
Jess Turner
Stephen & Diana Ulrich
Donald Vandiver
Donald Veldman
Robert Vint
Susan S. Vrana
Robert Keith Wade
W. Burgess Wade
Fredrick X. Walker
Jamie R. Wall
Ben B. Wallace
Gary A. Ward
Margaret Ward
William E. Ward
Travis Ware
Gale Warren
Steven Watkins
Stan Weaver
John A. Weber
Deborah Welch
Robin Welch
Ronald Wells
E. Jeffrey Wentworth
Glenn D. West
James Wharton
Tom Whiteside
Jo Ben Whittenburg
Larry Wiese
Pamela Hobgood Wiese
David M. Williams.
Gene M. Williams.
Ken Williams
N. Keith Williams.
Karen Wilson
Mark Wilson
Michael Wilson
Don R. Windle
Wm. Chris Wolfarth
William Womble
Cara Cordell Wood
Larry C. Wood
Robert E. Wood
Danny Woodson
G . Ben Woodward
Teresa J. Wright
William B. Wright
William R. Wright
Timothy Yeats
George Young
John P. Young
L. Everett Young
Michael Young
Ying-Fu Yu
Howard J . Revis
William L. Rivers
Richard J. Roach
Donna Robason
Randy Robason
Billy J. Robinson
Russel Robinson
W . Stephen Rodgers
Andy Rogers
Marta Y. Rosas
Joel L. Ross
Stewart Rowe
John H. Rowley
Carolyn R. Royse
Andrew Rozell
Jim & Brenda Rudd
Michael Sawaya
Tom Sawyer
Rodric Schoen
Philip G. Schoewe
John Sears
David Segrest
David R. Seidler
John D. Settle
Roger Settler
James B. Shackleford
George Shaffer
James H. Shaw
Joel Sheffield
Marilyn Shell
Wade B. Shelton
Edward Shepherd
Barry & Selinda Sheridan
Michael Simpson
Kent Sims
Elizabeth Sisco
John Skogland
Mike Smiddy
Brock Smith
Montgomery W. Smith
John T. Smithee
Charles C. Snuggs
Geral Sosbee
Ty M. Sparks
Newal Squires
David C. Stewart
Michael Stolz
Stancy Stribling
William J. Stroman
Rick Suarez
Roy Sutton
Daniel Taber
Bradley Taylor
Susan Tom Taylor
Weldon E. Taylor
Richard Thamer
Alumni Giving By Class
1969-70
Leota Alexander
Hershell L. Barnes Jr.
Ralph E. Belter
J. A. Bobo
Carey B. Boethel
J . David Bourland
Martin C . Cude Jr.
Tim Evans ,
Michael Fostel
Charles Gentry
Robin M. Green
Ronald M. Jackson
Alan L. Murray
Ronald D. Nickum
Cecil Puryear
David Segrest
John A. Weber
Look At Us Now!
1978-79
1979·80
1980-81
1981·82
Unrestricted
Alumni
Giving
9,807
10 365
28125
10,157
Scholarships/
Loans
11,754
16300 '
16481
17,172
Law Firms
Board of
Barristers
incl.
in
Awards
Foundations
10,000
20000
10,000
16,000
Awards
4,796
16901
8,900
10,832
Grand
Totals
36,357
62756
63,506
54,161
150,000
(Inc . $80,000 Pledge for
4 years.)
4,720.00
303,949
Here's What You Have Done
1982-83
79,123.00
23,606.00
46,500.00
1971-72
Sam Chase
Richard Crews Jr.
Peter & Suzan Fenner
Joe W . Hayes
Mark W. Laney
Craig L. Leslie
Stan McWilliams
Emil Karl Prohl
John E. Rapier
Michael Riddle
James B. Shackleford
Kent Sims
John Skogland
Ty M. Sparks
Newal Squires
Daniel Taber
Mike Thomas
Donald Vandiver
E. Jeffrey Wentworth
1972-73
Johnny W. Actkinson
Tom Akins
Stephen R. Anderton
Jim "Kip" Boyd
Karl N. Cifford
Robert Don Collier
Elgin Connor
Joseph V. Crawford
Thad Floyd
Rick Graham
Grover Hartt
Charles E. Hawthorne
Jerome S. Hennigan
Nathan P . Hoffman
Charles W. Hurd
James C. Lewis
Norman Lubke
Annette W . Marple
W. Gregg Owens
Louis A. Perez Jr.
William L. Rivers
Tom Sawyer
John Sears
Charles Snuggs
Bruce E. Turner
Jess Turner
W. Burgess Wade
Jo Ben Whittenburg
Don R. Windle
1970-71
Herbert A. Becker
David R. Casey
Natalyn Collins
Jack P . Driskill
Robert N. Eames
Tom Edwards
Aaron S. Goldberg
Jess Hall Jr.
Claude W. (Pete) Harland
Loyd Jones
Jerry M. Kolander Jr.
Ernest R. Reeves
Jim & Brenda Rudd
William J. Stroman
Don A. Tucker
William Womble
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Annual Giving Report
Edward M. Edson
Guy Fields
John H. Fostel
T. Rick Frazier
Charles Grigson
Wynette Hewett
Celeste Hoover
Mark Hoover
John Huffaker
James L. Jarrell
Morgan A. Jones
Gerald P. Keith
Peter Kyle Jr.
D. Nevill Manning
Tom C. McCall
Ronald P . McCluskey
Gerry H. Meier
Frank Murchison
Dennis Olson
Kellogg O 'Connor
Albert Perez
Wayne A. Reaud
Barbara Runge
Robert Scott
Joel Sheffield
Marilyn Shell
Robert Vint
Larry Wiese
David M. Williams
Larry C. Wood
William D. Wright
William R. Wright
Robert Pou
Robert L. Reinhardt
Donald E. Sample
Michael Sawaya
John D. Settle
James H. Shaw
Brock Smith
Gale Warren
Mark L. Withrow
William B. Wright
John P . Young
L. Everett Young
Ying-Fu Yu
William H. Kincaid
Kyle R. Lewis
R. L. (Pete) McKinney
Raymond M. Meeks
James E. Nelson
John David Nelson
James F. Parker
Benton J. Poole
David R. Seidler
Mike Smiddy
John T. Smithee
Michael Stolz
Diana Ulrich
Highest Number of Dean's Inner Circle
Members By Class
# Donors
Class
48
1978-79
48
1976-77
46
1981-82
Highest Percentage of Giving
Participation
Class
39.5
1969-70
33.3
1971-72
33.1
1978-79
Highest Average Gift
Class
1970-71
1971-72
Avg Gift
$221.88
202.63
1974-75
Highest Dollar Amounts Given By
Schalan Atkinson
Class
S . A. Bavousett
Amount
Class
E. Link Beck
$6775.00
1974-75
Oran H. Berry
6705.00
1976-77
William Brown
Kevin Byrne
Earnest C. Casstevens
Stephen Ulrich
1975-76
Louis W. Conradt Jr.
Frederick X. Walker
James E. Baker
Emilio Davila Jr.
Gary A. Ward
Stephen L. Baskind
William B. Dawson
James Wharton
Adair Buckner
John W. Dayton
William A. Cunningham Tom Whiteside
Steve Exter
Don Curry
Michael Young
Kenneth W. Fields
J. L. Curry
Michael Fjetland
1976-77
Jim Bob Darnell
Shirley Ann Fryman
Robert
B. Bieck Jr.
Jim Duvall
Daniel Garner
Samuel Boyd
Carter L. Ferguson
Bruce H. Gryting
Luis Chavez
Nolan E. Greak
John R. Henderson
Tom H. Chorn
Eileen Hall
1973-74
M. Charles Jennings
Milton Colia
David P. Hassler
Patrick A. Abeyta
Philip Johnson
Michael J . Crowley
Edward Hellewell
William R. Allensworth Andy Kupper
Frank G. Delaney
W. H. Hoffman
Jon P. Bond
Michael L. Dunn
Harold Lerew
Daniel
J.
Hollmann
Peggy Butler
Tommy A. Lockhart
Gerald W. Eddins
Gerald L. Johnson
John E. Capps
Constance McGuire
David Fernandez Jr.
William
F
.
Keeling
Richard Clark
William R. Garrett
J. Kent McGuire
Donald Bruce Cochran Owen W . McWhorter Jr. Steven W. Keng
Bob Gilbert
Jon R. Ker
Harry L. Cure Jr.
John F. Nance
Dean
W. Greer
Roger A. Key
Martin Dies
Steven Patterson
Curtis Griffith
Thomas L. Edmonds
Stephen R. Pendleton
Gene Hagood
Charles Dick Harris
Theresa Hebert
Walter B. Huffman
Jerry D. Hunt
Robert E. Jones
James Ralph Jordan
Robert A. Junell
Stephen Krier
James R. Leeton
Betty H. Little
J . Parker McCollough
James R. Moore
Cecilia H. Morgan
Michael T. Morgan
Warren New
Alfred Pandolfi
Chris Alexander Peirson
William H. Peirson
R. A. Peralta
Doug Perrin
Kenlon Reeve
Donna Robason
Randy Robason
Stewart Rowe
Montgomery W. Smith
Bradley Taylor
Walter Theis
Margaret Ward
Deborah Welch
Michael Wilson
Wm. Chris Wolfarth
Cara Cordell Wood
1977-78
Roger D. Allen
C. H. Brockett Jr.
Buddy R. Dossett
Gary Ellison
Linda F argason
John Fouts
James R. Gallman Jr.
Risher Smith Gilbert
Nathan K. Griffin
David W. Hammer
Kenric R. Hevror
Lynn E. Hokanson
Susan Jennings
Deets D. Justice
Carol S. Leach
Tim S. Leonard
Robert D. Lybrand
Kyle R. Miller
James R. Raup
Robert V. Rendall
Richard J. Roach
Billy J . Robinson
W. Stephen Rodgers
Patrick Simek
Thomas M. Smith
Bill Turner
Susan S. Vrana
Annual Giving Report
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Jamie R. Wall
Travis Ware
Glenn D. West
Pamela Hobgood Wiese
N. Keith Williams
Danny Woodson
Teresa J. Wright
1978-79
Janet D. Baker
Robert D. Barbee
John Biggers
Martha Brown
Wm. Charles Bundren
Mary L. Cassidy
Michael B. Charlton
Stephen A. Cihal
Hugh & Rebecca Conrad
Harvey Dunham
Richard Dykhuizen
Tony Ellison
Scott M. & Jo K. Fryar
Robert Garcia
Nancy L. Garms
Marcus R. Griffin
Karen F. Harrison
Kevin C. Hart
Randall K. Hill
Jeffrey B. Jones
Kevin J . Keith
Laura M. Keith
Jon Kerr
Neel Lemon
Curtis Leonard
William H. Lester Jr.
David G. Lewis
Mike Line
Kenneth McAlister
Roger Kent McCrummen
John W. McNey
Douglas McSwane
Randell P. Means
Dan Meehan
Allen Price
Marta Y. Rosas
Joel L. Ross
Philip G. Schoewe
Elizabeth Sisco
Susan Tom Taylor
Weldon E. Taylor
Jay S. Turner
Ben B. Wallace
William E. Ward
Steven Watkins
Gene M. Williams
Karen Wilson
G. Ben Woodward
1979-80
Robert E. Barnhill
Billy W. Boone
Richard K. Bowersock
P. Jan Breland
Donald W. Cothern
James L. Cox
Kenneth D. Cummings
Richard Darnell
Clinton J. David
Robert W. Dockery
Dan & Carol C. Donovan
Robert R. Feuille
Kay Fletcher
Bill D. Fountain
Lindsey Fouts
Jay B. Goss
John J. Grost
Lee Hadden
Kent Hale
R. Keith Hampton
Stephen Harr
Angie L. Henson
Larry W. Hicks
Garry F. Howe
Randal Mathis
Marc R. May
David L. Nichols
Fred D. Raschke
John H. Rowley
George Shaffer
Roy Sutton
Carolyn Thomas
Larriet E. Thomas
Rusty Thornton
Ronald Wells
Kennion Yano
1980-81
Brian D. Barnard
Charles E. Brandenberg
Pamela G. Brandenberg
Henry E. Bright
C. Dave Caddell
Christopher P. Carnohan
Timothy Coffey
Kathy L. Cox
Rocky Crocker
Gerald & Deborah Dixon
Michael J. Donovan
Bonnie C. Ericson
John Fomous
Juan Carlos Garay
Stephen J. & Kim Gilles
Roger Graham
Louis P. Gregory
Chester Grudzinksi
Thomas G . Hall
Michael J. Henry
Edwin Keiffer
Carol Kirk
Eldon B. Mahon
Glen A. Murdock
Joseph M. Osborne
Sharen Wilson Parrish
Cathleen Parsley
P. Michael Payne
John Phillips
Russel Robinson
Wade B. Shelton
Barry & Selinda Sheridan
Michael Simpson
Stancy Stribling
Richard Thamer
Robert Keith Wade
Stan Weaver
1981-82
Grant E. Adami III
Pablo Alvarado
Steven E. Anderson
David Arditti
John C. Blakey
John Ben Blanchard
Marcus J. Busch
M. C. Carrington
Ann Lea Fuelberg
Frank Gelsone
Karen Goheen
Jack M. Graham
Perry Hall
Robert Hammer
Bob Hanna
Linda G. Hayes
D. Murray Hensley
Terry Hodges
Matthew Hutchins
Karen Thomas Johnson
Katherine Johnson
Stephen Douglas Johnson
Latrelle Bright Joy
H. Dennis Kelly
E. P. Kirk
Donald Knight
Nancy Koenig
M. R. McKelvey
Jimmy D. McLeroy
Tom Myers
Kevin M. Pierce
Ronald L. Reeves
Howard J. Revis
Andy Rogers
Carolyn R. Royse
Andrew Rozell
Edward Shepherd
Geral Sosbee
David C. Stewart
Rick Suarez
R. Keith Thompson
Robin Welch
Ken Williams
Mark Wilson
Timothy Yeats
George Young
1982-83
Douglas Baker
Scott Donaho
William Harris
Joe Lucas
Russell McInturff
Gary L. Medlin
Paul Parker
Paula M. Pesce
Mitchell Toups
1983-84
J. Wayne Morrison
Annual Giving Report
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Summary of Alumni Giving
Class
1969-70
1970-71
1971-72
1972-73
1973-74
1974-75
1975-76
1976-77
1977-78
1978-79
1979-80
1980-81
1981-82
1982-83
1983-84
No. in
Class
No. Donors
43
17
51
16
57
19
121
29
127
42
134
42
128
39
155
48
146
34
145
48
145
36
171
37
201
46
202
9
Unknown
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Friends In The InnerCircle
$ Given
3100.00
3550.00
3850.00
3300.00
6200.00
6775.00
5100.00
6705.00
3850.00
6070.00
5980.00
4305.00
4810.02
900.00
1000.00
% Participation
39.5
31.4
33.3
24.0
33.0
31.3
30.4
31.0
23.3
33.1
24.8
21.6
22.9
unsolicited
unsolicited
Avg. Gift
182.35
221.88
202.63
113.79
147.62
161.31
130.77 139.69
113.24
126.46
166.11
116.35
104.57
100.00
Computerization At Last!-Connie Barrington works on Alumni addresses on the computer in
preparation for the new alumni directory. With the help of alumni financial support this year, the Law
School Foundation was able to purchase computers and a printer to sort data and update Law School
records.
Law School Develops Computer Lab
Computers are becoming an integral
part of the legal educational process as
the Law School has developed an
operational computer learning
laboratory.
The lab will provide students the
opportunity to learn how
microcomputers can be utilized in the
day to day practice of law in diverse
fields ranging from telephone research
via Lexis and Westlaw, to computer
assisted legal instruction, to word
processing and client accounting, to
effective law office management.
According to Professor John
Krahmer, the first Director of the
Computer Lab, the learning center has
become a reality through the assistance
of Tech Law grads, Scott Fryar '79,
John Akard
Alvin R. Allison
Thomas E. Baker
J. R. Blumrosen
W. B. Browder Jr.
R. Guy Carter
M. W. Cockrell
Joseph B. Conboy
John Crews
David Cummins
J. Hadley Edgar
Frank W. Elliott
Byron Fullerton
W. Royal Furguson
Kent Hance
W. R. Rusty Howard
Marion T. Key
Grover E. Murray
John S. Murray
George H. Nelson
Joe Love Nelson
Max N. Osborn
Rodric Schoen
Robert Scogin
Roger Settler
Johnny Splawn
William E. Vaught
Donald Veldman
William E. Ward Sr.
Robert E. Wood
Brad Taylor, '77, and Barry Sheridan
'81. "My special thanks goes to Scott,
Brad, and Barry for not only bringing
the law school computer needs and
applications to the attention of Texas
Instruments which contributed
equipment, but also for their personal
contributions to the Law School
Foundation which aided the project,"
Krahmer said.
Krahmer said the Law School now
joins the ranks of such schools as
Harvard, University of Minnesota,
Brigham Young, University of
California at Davis in making computer
learning skills available to law students.
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Scholarships and Awards
Awards
Scholarship Gifts
Through contributions of alumni and
friends, the Law School was able to
award 51 scholarships to first, second
and third year law students. The
number of scholarships increased
dramatically due to the annual giving
drive, the addition of three named
scholarship awards, and a $50,000
donation from a foundation enabling .
the use of interest income to be used
for new scholarships.
Named Scholarship Donors
Contributors who give $1,000 or
more to the scholarship fund are
honored as named scholarship donors.
Kenneth H. Burns
Bryan B. Dillard
George H. Nelson, Jr.
Joseph Nelson
M. E. (Buddy) Rake, Jr. '72
Ernest R. Reeves '71
Scoggin-Dickey Buick Company
Edward R. and Jo Anne Smith
Thompson & Knight
Ward Williford
Scholarship Donors
Contributors who give $500 or
more to the scholarship fund are
honored as scholarship donors.
Alvin R. Allison
R. Guy Carter
Patricia A. Chamberlain
Crenshaw, Dupree & Milam
John W. Dayton '75
Gardere & Wynne
Gibson, Ochsner & Adkins
Mike Irish '72
Joe H. Nagy
Barbara Runge '74
General Scholarship Fund
The following contributors have
donated to the general fund which
provides full and partial scholarships
benefiting several students.
James E. Baine
James E. Baker '76
Daniel H. Benson
J . Morgan Broaddus, III '79
Martha Brown '79
James A. Carmody
Christopher P. Carnohan '81
Harvey Dunham '79
El Paso Bar Auxiliary
Gene Hagood '77
John Huffaker '74
Steven W. Keng '76
Lubbock Bar Auxiliary
John F. Maner
Stephen Menezes '76
Mrs. William R. Quilliam
William Reed Quilliam, Jr.
Randy & Donna Robason '77
Rick Suarez '82
Texas Tech Law Partners
David H. Thomas III '81
William L. Thomason
Michael Worden '77
L. Everett Young, Jr. '75
Endowed Scholarship Friends
The following scholarship funds
have been endowed by their
contributors and therefore provide
continuous awards for students.
Durwood H. Bradley Fund
Kenneth H. Burns Fund
William C. Clark Fund
George H. Mahon Fellowships
G. Hobert and Aileen Hackney
Nelson Scholarship Fund
Curt F. Steib, Jr. Memorial Fund
W. D. Wilson Memorial Fund
Loan Funds
The following loan funds have been
endowed by their contributors to
provide short-term and emergency
loans for students.
Alvin R. and Aletha Faye Allison
Fund
Judge Dan Blair Fund
Hunt, Raschke, Robison and
Weinstein Fund
Judge Marvin Jones Fund
Judge E. E. Jordan Fund
Victor H. Lindsey Memorial Fund
Drew Simpson Memorial Fund
Texas Tech Law Review
Scholarship and Loan Fund
E. Wayne Thode Memorial Fund
The following contributors donate
cash awards to students in recognition
of outstanding achievement in law
school.
J. Collier Adams
Richard Bowersock '80
Samuel L. Boyd '77
John Browning '80
Clint David '80
Don C . Dennis '77
Stephen A. Harr '80
Mike Hatchell
Hinkle, Cox, Eaton, Coffield &
Hensley
Garry Howe '80
Jackson, Walker, Winstead, Cantwell
& Miller
Marion Key
Maddox & Renfrow
McWhorter, Cobb & Johnson
Naman, Howell, Smith & Lee
Orgain, Bell & Tucker
Kathleen Shelton '80
Smith, Baker, Field & Cifford
Thomas Walston '80
Memorial Gifts
Contributors were given to the Law
School Foundation in memory of:
G . Hobart Nelson
Curt F. Steib, Jr.
Other Gifts
J. Morgan Broaddus III,'78
Janet Snell Cook '81
Kevin S. Cook '81
William R. Copeland '77
John M. Davis, Jr. '73
Maurice D. Healy '73
Michael S. Hull '82
Barkley T. Miller '76
Ronald K. Morgan '81
E. Dwain Psencik '81
Brian P. Quinn '81
Vincent A. Sikora '77
Mike Swanson '80
Larry M. Thompson '76
Marcy Wenzler '81
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Special Programs
Supporters of Special
Programs
Board of Barristers
In the fall of 1982, the Law School
invited law firms to sponsor the Board
of Barristers intraschool competitions
in mock trial, moot court, and client
counseling and the interschool teams
which represent the school in state,
region and nation-wide competitions.
Several prestigious firms and
attorneys have contributed generously
for the support of the Board of
Barristers programs:
InterschooI Teams
Winstead, McGuire, Sechrest &
Minick
Underwood, Wilson, Berry, Stein
& Johnson
Intraschool Competitions
Phil Brown
Sam Brown
Geary, Stahl & Spencer
Grambling, Mounce, Sims,
Galatzan & Harris
Kemp, Smith, Duncan &
Hammond
Mehaffy, Weber, Keith &
Gonsoulin
Scott, Hulse, Marshall,
Feuille, Finger & Thurmond
Shank, Irwin & Conant
Library
Many donors have contributed
money or books to the library fund to
assist in maintaining and adding to the
library collection. A monetary donation
was made by:
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Other Special Contributions
The following contributors have
given to the law school in response to a
given need.
Jackson, Walker, Winstead and
McGuire
Potash, Bernat, Sipes & Bernat
Todd, Barron, Bridges & McKeel
Fifth Circuit Judge Patrick Higginbotham chats with Dean Byron Fullerton and Len Ainsworth at the
annual Honors and Awards Day reception last spring.
EI Paso Firm to Sponsor Mock Trial Competition
The law firm of Scott, Hulse,
Marshall, Feuille, Finger & Thurmond
of El Paso has agreed to sponsor the
Spring Mock Trial Competition and
becomes the seventh and final sponsor
for the Law School's intraschool
competitions.
The spring competition organized by
the Board of Barristers sports one of
highest rates of student participation
with over twenty second and third year
teams competing each year. A member
of the Scott, Hulse firm will serve as
one of the judges in the final round of
the competition tentatively scheduled
for late January.
Other competition sponsors include
Mehaffy, Weber, Keith & Gonsoulin,
First-year Mock Trial; Kemp, Smith,
Duncan & Hammond, Fall Mock Trial;
Geary, Stahl & Spencer, Spring Moot
Court; Phil Brown and Sam Brown,
Client Counseling; Grambling, Mounce,
Sims & Galatzan, First-year Moot
Court; and Shank, Irwin & Conant, Fall
Moot Court.
The Law School's State Moot Court
team is sponsored by the Amarillo firm
of Underwood, Wilson, Berry, Stein &
Johnson and the National Client
Counseling team is supported by the
Winstead, McGuire, Sechrest & Minick
firm of Dallas.
Three interschool teams remain
available for firm sponsorship.
Texas Tech University
School of Law
Continuing Legal Education
Calendar
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Conference on Alternate Dispute Resolutions
San Antonio
February 23, 24
(Co-sponsored with
St. Mary's University)
Student staff members selected for their
research and writing abilities prepare legal
memoranda at low cost to attorneys.
Annual Banking Law Institute
San Antonio
March 29,30
For more information, call or write:
TEXAS TECH LEGAL RESEARCH BOARD
Texas Tech University School of Law
Lubbock, Texas 79409-0001
(806) 742-3784
Medical Malpractice Conference
San Antonio
AprilS, 6
(Co-sponsored with
St. Mary's University)
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