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2 LAW SCHOOL NEWS
· .. new legal research board prepares for second year of operation
· .. law review publishes Family Law Symposium
5 BOARD OF BARRISTERS BOASTS SUPPORTERS
6 OUTLOOK 1982-83
· .. entering class
· .. library size
7 VISITORS AND NEW FACES
· .. two new deans, four new professors, two visiting professors
8 FACULTY
11 ALUMNI
· .. officers and directors named for new Law School Association
· .. alumni survey results
14 HAPPENINGS 81-82
16 PLACEMENT
· .. myths and realities
17 LIBRARY
· .. library is tops in latest technology
· .. collections of law books donated
The Administration of the Texas
Tech University School of Law and the
Trustees of the Law School Foundation are pleased to present this first issue of the Cornerstone.
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. Plese send them to
Cornerstone Texas Tech University
School of Law, Lubbock, Texas 79409.
The contents of the magazine 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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NEW BOARD PROVIDES RESEARCH SERVICE
After a successful year of providing research service to Texas Lawyers, the
Texas Tech Legal Research Board has announced preparation for an expanded program in its second year of operation.
The Research Board was organized in January 1981 by a group of Texas
Tech law students who wanted to offer economical and reliable research assistance to lawyers as well as research and writing experience to law students. Since its inception, the Board has completed research requests from lawyers across the state.
According to administrative director
C. E. Roth, the Board's goal for 1982-
83 will be to maintain excellence and quality in its work. "We hope more and more members of the State Bar will then take advantage of our service."
Attorneys may use the Research
Board by first calling the board office and then submitting a written memorandum detailing the problem to be researched. The basic charge for the service is $10 per hour plus typing and copying costs. A $40 deposit is required with the initial request, but this money is credited toward the final fee assessment. There is an additional charge for "rush" work. Upon completion of the research and an editing process, the Board responds with an answer in memorandum form.
The Research Board is an honorary organization with membership determined each semester through a writing competition. Students who have completed 28 semester hours and who are in good standing scholastically are eligible.
New editors are chosen each year by editors from the past year. Serving as editing directors for 1982-83 are
Marvin Adams, Jack Gooding, Cheri
Oleson and Deborah Penner. Law librarian Ms. Jane Olm is the board advisor.
To contact the Research Board, call
(806) 742-3784 or write Texas Tech
Legal Research Board, Texas Tech
University School of Law, Lubbock,
Texas 79409.
Legal Research Board editors (/-r) C. E. Roth, Gary Steel and Deborah Penner finalize plans for the organization's writing competition which determines membership on the
Board.
EARLY TECH GRAD SPEAKS TO DECEMBER LAW GRADS
Irwin Coleman, one of the first graduates of Texas Technological
College to become a licensed lawyer in the State of Texas, was the distinguished speaker at the December
Hooding Ceremony. After the ceremony, Coleman was named honorary alumnus of the Law School.
Coleman graduated from Tech in
1928 with a B.A. in English and received his law degree from the University of
Texas in 1932. He began his career in the legal department of Gulf Oil where he later became assistant general counsel, a position he held until his retirement.
In the summer of 1981, Coleman contributed $2,000 to the Texas Tech
Law School Foundation which was matched with a $6,000 contribution from Gulf.
Assistant Dean Carolyn Thomas said the law school hopes to begin a tradition of having a distinguished alumnus or friend of the law school speak at the December Hooding
Ceremony.
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Don Hunt receives "Coach of the Year" award at the Honors Day ceremony.
Presenting the award are Hunt's national
championship teams (/ to r) Joel Fry,
Allan Hoffman, Carmen Mitchell [National
Moot Court Teaml and Marty Rowley,
Murray Hensley, Brad Frye
[National Mock Trial Team].
WOOD AND KRAHMER END SUCCESSFUL TERMS AS ASSOCIATE DEANS
Professors Robert Wood and John
Krahmer have returned to full time teaching this fall after a successful year as associate deans of the law school.
Wood will remain associate dean for academic affairs for one more year but will carry a full teaching load.
Wood and Krahmer assumed their associate dean roles on September 1,
1981, after being personally selected by then interim Dean Byron Fullerton.
"I didn't think I could run the school as interim dean without some experienced assistance. Former dean
Annette Marple had asked to return to teaching, and I felt I should honor her request," Fullerton said.
Wood and Krahmer were each asked to serve as half-time dean and half-time professor. Krahmer agreed to one year as dean in charge of admissions, academic affairs, and personnel. In the event Fullerton remained as dean,
Wood agreed to serve two years. This fall he continues as associate dean for academic affairs but is maintaining his full course load.
"It is my way of fulfulling a commitment I make to Dean Fullerton to help out in administration for two years and also a personal commitment to get back to full time teaching as soon as possible," Wood commented.
The permanent position of associate dean has been filled by Joseph Conboy, former associate dean of the University of Alabama Law School. Conboy will be responsible for admissions, personnel, student activities, curriculum, and scheduling.
Carolyn Johnsen Thomas (,80), who recently completed two years as briefing attorney for Federal District
Judge Halbert O. Woodward, has been appointed assistant dean to assume the responsibilities of alumni relations, CLE and development.
ADVOCACY TEAMS DRAW NATIONAL RECOGNITION
Tech advocacy teams were victorious in moot court, mock trial, and client counseling competitions during the past year.
In March the Tech mock trial team, coached by Lubbock attorney Don
Hunt, won the National Mock Trial
Competition in Houston. The team of
Murray Hensley, Brad Frye and Marty
Rowley was the first Tech mock trial team to win the national championship.
The moot court team of Carmen
Mitchell, Joel Fry, and Allan Hoffman tied for first place at the national competition in New York in January.
But due to a complicated tie-breaker rule, the team, also coached by Hunt, brought home the second-place trophy.
Joel Fry was selected best oralist at the competition.
Tech was host for the American Bar
Association Regional Moot Court
Competition in the spring. The Tech team of Tim Henderson, Kathy Mudge, and Michael Shelby reached the semifinals in the three-day tournament co-hosted by the Lubbock Bar
Association and the Board of Barristers.
Overall, the competition provided excellent exposure for the law school and its advocacy programs.
Coached by professor Chuck
Bubany, the Tech Client Counseling
T earn of Andy Rogers, Robert
Waltman, and Nancy Koenig placed second in the Regional Client
Counseling Competition held in
Houston last March. Tech has participated in this competition since
1975 with two teams qualifying for the national tournament.
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ART WORK ADORNS
LAW SCHOOL
The law school became an art gallery for an evening as local artists displayed their works such as this watercolor by art Professor Hugh Gibbons.
TECH LAW REVIEW PUBLISHES POPULAR F AMIL Y CODE SYMPOSIUM
Like magic, the austere bricks of the law school were transformed into an art gallery as Tech hosted the First Annual
Art Show and Reception last October.
Area artists, art and law faculty, students and their families contributed art pieces which adorned the law school walls and glass trophy cases.
The purpose of the show was to give the campus and the community an opportunity to see the law building and at the same time, admire local art talent. Over 300 people attended with many commenting haw pleased they were to see the law school for the first time.
Contributors included law school
Dean Byron Fullerton; art Professor
Hugh Gibbons; and art students Windy
Wymer, Steve Teeters and Esmarelda
Delany.
The school plans to continue and expand the fall show and reception, set for late October.
Contributions from alumni, friends and families are welcome. Contact
Assistant Dean Carolyn Thomas at the law school for further information in displaying your art works in the annual show.
The Texas Family Code Symposium, published by the Tech Law Review, has been revised this year to encompass legislative and judicial developments concerning the Texas Family Code for the period 1976-1982.
Originally published in 1974 and supplemented in 1976, the widely-read
Symposium contains recent Code language, commentary on each section and a lead article.
According to symposium editor
David Kite, the revision was particularly necessary in view of the addition of Title
IV, "Protection of the Family."
"We felt fortunate to have had a number of experts in Texas Family Law writing the Commentary on this and other sections," Kite said.
Commentators include Leota
Alexander, attorney, Dallas; Charles
Bubany, professor, TTU Law School;
Joseph McKnight, professor, SMU Law
School; Tom Purdom, attorney,
Lubbock; Jack Sampson, professor,
U.T. Law School; Gene Smith, professor, U of H Law School; and
Walter Steele, professor, SMU Law
School.
The symposium has been widely supported by the Family Law Section of the State Bar. To date, the section has ordered 3,500 copies of the publication making the total number of orders over
4,100. The Symposium books may be obtained by calling the Law Review office at (806) 742-3789. Law Review editors chiefly responsible for the publication include David Kite
(Symposium Ed.), Jamie Fuller
(Comment Ed.), Kelly Moore
(Comment Ed.), Jon Royston (Research
Ed.), and Frank Posey (Editor-in Chief).
New law review editors (l-r) Butch Worley,
Tim Crowley, and Tonya Johannsen discuss articles for the next issue.
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FIRMS LEND MAJOR SUPPORT TO INTERSCHOOL TEAMS
The Dallas law firm of WINSTEAD,
MCGUIRE, SECHREST & MINICK has agreed to contribute $4,000 to sponsor the National Client Counseling
Team.
Established in 1973 as a four-man firm, the Winstead, McGuire, Sechrest
& Minick firm has experienced exceptional growth to reach its present size of 63 attorneys. The firm attributes its success to the quality of its lawyers, and to the firm's dedicated commitment to providing top quality legal service with prompt and efficent response to the client in all aspects of a commerical/ business practice.
Officed in the beautiful Mercantile
Dallas Building, the Winstead firm is business-oriented and contains five major departments: corporate/ tax; banking; real estate; construction/ surety/fidelity; and litigation/ bankruptcy.
The Winstead, McGuire, Sechrest, and Minick firm has recruited at the
Tech Law School since 1978 and presently has three Tech graduates associated with the firm.
The three-person team, to be known as the "Winstead, McGuire, Sechrest and Minick National Client Counseling
Team," competes in a regional competition in February with law schools from several states. If the team wins, it has the opportunity to go to the national competition in April. Texas
Tech has participated each year since
1975 with two teams qualifying for the national tournament. In 1978 Tech won second place at nationals. The competition is administered by the Law
Student Division of the American Bar
Association.
The Tech team is selected each year from over 100 contestants by Professor
Charles P. Bubany who also coaches the team. The names of the team members will be inscribed each year on a permanent plaque displayed in the law school.
The State Moot Court Team has received the generous support of the
Amarillo law firm of UNDERWOOD,
WILSON, BERRY, STEIN &
JOHNSON.
Serving northwest Texas for over 70 years, the Underwood firm has developed pride in its skill in the law and in its reputation for active, congenial people. The firm is wellrespected by members of the bench, the bar, and the public.
The Underwood firm's practice has grown to cover virtually all areas of civil law and to extend from the Amarillo area throughout the Southwest and into many other parts of the country.
With 34 attorneys, the firm represents a wide range of clients.
The Underwood firm began interviewing for prospective associates at Tech as early as 1975. Presently the firm employs five graduates of the Tech
Law School.
The State Moot Court team is chosen in April by adjunct professor/"coach" Don Hunt, and competes against other Texas law schools at the State Bar convention in the summer. Each three-person team, known as the "Underwood, Wilson,
Berry, Stein and Johnson State Moot
Court Team" will have the names of its members inscribed on a permanent plaque in the law school.
Prior to sponsoring the State Team, the Underwood firm had supported the
Tech Law School annual intraschool moot court competition.
A new plan enlisting some of the most prestigious Texas law firms has solidified to support the Board of
Barrister advocacy programs for 1982-
83. Each firm has agreed to sponsor an intraschool competition or an interschool team for a period of three years.
"The Board of Barristers is an expensive operation to run when you consider administrative costs, award money, and travel expenses," commented Dean Byron Fullerton.
"That's why we have asked the support of these firms."
Fullerton further indicated that through this program, the law school has the dual benefit of covering administrative costs and assuring the continued existence of these advocacy programs.
There are other teams and competitions which are awaiting sponsorship, including the distinguished
National Moot Court Team, and the reigning champion National Mock Trial
Team. Sponsorship of these teams is already under consideration by various law firms, but if your firm would like to sponsor one of these teams or one of the intraschool competitions, please contact Dean Byron Fullerton at (806)
742-3989.
Board of Barrister members Greg Anderson and Dineen Majcher
show off new plaques designed for the Winstead, McGuire Sechrest
& Minick Client Counseling Team and the Underwood, Wilson,
Berry, Stein & Johnson State Moot Court Team.
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INTRASCHOOL COMPETITIONS
RECEIVE SUPPORT
The Dallas firm of GEARY, STAHL
& SPENCER has continued sponsorship of the Spring Moot Court
Competition.
The competition is held for second and third year students and draws over twenty teams to participate in the twoweek contest. Members of the Geary,
Stahl and Spencer firm assist with judging the final round and determining best oralist.
A permanent plaque containing the names of the winning team members is displayed in the law school.
The firm of KEMP, SMITH,
DUNCAN & HAMMOND of EI Paso has agreed to sponsor the Fall Mock
Trial competition.
This competition attracts the largest number of participants who engage in full-blown trials of 3-3Y2 hours. The entire contest lasts approximately 2Y2 weeks and is open only to second and third year students. Members of the
Kemp, Smith, Duncan & Hammond firm participate in judging the final round.
Amarillo attorney PHIL BROWN has contributed to the Board of Barristers by sponsoring the Client Counseling
Competition in the fall. Brown has asked that the money be awarded in the name of his former professor Charles P.
Bubany.
Brown is a 1975 graduate of the Tech
Law School.
MEHAFFY, WEBER, KEITH &
GONSOULIN of Beaumont has continued and increased its support of the Spring Mock Trial Competition for first -year students.
This competition is designed as a learning seminar for first-year students who have not yet had the opportunity to clerk for.a law firm or been exposed to advanced course work.
The winners of the competition have their names inscribed on a permanent plaque bearing the name of the
Mehaffy, Weber, Keith & Gonsoulin firm.
1982-83 ...
ENTERING CLASS
The 1982 first-year class numbers
201, bringing the total enrollment to
640. Women comprise 35 percent of the entering class; minorities account for 5 percent. The present student body is smaller in number than the fall of 1981 when the enrollment was 670.
Although fewer students were admitted this year, the number of applications increased from 1,319 to
1,475. Both the median LSAT and
Median G.P .A. for students entering in the fall increased substantially.
Twenty-two students in the first-year class were admitted into the Law
School's summer program. This program allows applicants with less than a 500 score on the LSA T, but with a high G.P.A., to enter in the summer before their first year.
Students in the first-year class represent a diverse cross-section of undergraduate colleges and universities including 33 Texas schools and 41 outof-state schools. The largest number of first-year students graduated from
Texas Tech (48) followed by the
University of Texas at Austin (27) and the University of Texas at Arlington
(11). The out-of-state schools represented include Vanderbilt,
Michigan State, Drake, Brigham Young and West Point. Out-of-state residents comprise 10 percent of the first-year enrollment.
Twenty-three incoming students have advanced degrees; of these four have
PhD's and nine have master's degrees.
FACULTY AND ADMINSTRATION
The law faculty totals 32 members including 21 returning professors, two professors on leave, four new faculty members, two visiting faculty, adjunct professor Don Hunt, and part-time law professor John Wunder from the Texas
Tech History Department. The administration is comprised of Dean
Byron Fullerton, Associate Dean
Joseph Conboy, Associate Dean for
Academic Affairs Robert Wood, and
Assistant Dean Carolyn Thomas.
CURRICULUM
The diversity of the curriculum has increased. Titles of new courses offered this year include labor arbitration, discrimination in employment, interviewing and counseling, taxation of transnational transactions, Indian law, immigration law, income taxation of estates and trusts, legislation, and tax procedure-penalties and prosecution. A course in bioethics is being taught in conjuction with the Medical School and the School of Nursing.
In 1980-81 the School of Law adopted a joint J.D./M.S. in
Agricultural Science degree program to add to the existing J.D./M.B.A. and
J.D./M.P.A. programs.
LIBRARY SIZE
The Tech law library has attained a rating of 3A (100,000-249,000 volumesthe highest rating is 4A) in the 1982
Directory of Law Libraries codification scheme. Librarian Jane Olm, says she feels comfortable about the size because quality in the Tech library is stressed and not quantity.
"We could buy several volumes cheaply to increase our numbers but we would then have several books which are of little use to the people who use our library," she said.
Olm said that listing libraries by size is deceiving because of the discrepancies in counting. Apparently some schools count documents as
"volumes" while Tech includes only bound books in the "volume" category.
Olm said the most meaningful comparison is the budget. Tech's library budget has increased by $80,000 to
$580,000 for 1982-83, which makes the library more competitive with other law schools in the State.
ATTORNEYS T AKE SABBATICAL LEAVE TO TEACH
Two attorneys have secured leaves of absence from their respective practices to teach as visiting professors at the
Texas Tech Law School.
DONALD VELDMAN, a senior partner in the Muskegon, Michigan firm of Landman, Luyendyk, Lattimer, Clink and Robb, has taken leave through an experimental program allowing senior members of his firm to teach for a semester. Exxon attorney MEL
"From a personal standpoint," he said, "this is coming at a very good time for me-I'm ready for a new dimension. "
Veldman is teaching labor arbitration, labor law and collective bargaining in the fall. He has practiced law with the
Landman, Luyendyk firm since 1956 and is the senior partner in the labor law section.
Cockrell is teaching oil and gas and energy law in the fall and business entities in the spring. As counsel for
Exxon Co. U.S.A., Cockrell has practiced general oil and gas law and has worked on special assignments in the energy law field.
ADMINISTRATION ADDS
JOSEPH
CONBOY has joined the administration and faculty as associate dean and lecturer. Conboy's duties will involve admissions, student activities, and curriculum. Robert Wood has remained associate dean for academic affairs for the 1982-83 school year.
Donald Veldman
COCKRELL has arranged a year's absence from his corporation.
According to Veldman, his firm began studying the possibility of sabbatical leaves for senior partners two years ago.
"The advantages for the firm," says
Veldman, "are that senior partners can take a break from the day to day practice of law, and client dependency on one particular attorney is lessened."
Veldman jokes about being the firm
"guinea pig" for the project but seriously adds that he hopes it will become a successful, ongoing program.
Another firm in Michigan allows sabbatical leaves, but Veldman says his firm is certainly one of the pioneeers.
Although Exxon does not have a program or policy allowing leaves of absence, Cockrell was able to obtain special permission to teach for a year.
He said this was the first time such a situation had occurred except when a former associate general counsel taught for a summer session at the University of Texas 15-20 years ago.
WOODWARD . .. ON
Outstanding oil and gas scholar M.
KENNETH WOODWARD was a visiting professor the past summer teaching Oil and Gas and Texas Land
Titles. Woodward has been a professor at the University of Texas School of
Law since 1946 and holds the distinguished Robert F. Windfohr professorship.
His publications include Probate and
Decedents' Estates (with Smith), 1971;
Cases and Materials on Oil and Gas
Law (with Huie and Smith), 2nd ed.
1972; Texas Cases and Materials on
Fiduciary Administration, 2nd. ed. 1974; and Texas Cases and Materials on Real
Property Security, 4th ed. 1976.
Mel Cockrell
Joseph Conboy
Conboy was associate dean at the
University of Alabama School of Law prior to coming to Tech. He previously served as assistant dean, director of continuing legal education and lecturer at the University of Missouri Columbia
School of Law.
In addition to his administrative experience, Conboy has been deputy judge advocate and staff judge advocate in the United States Army. He received his J.D. degree in 1956 from
Georgetown University Law Center and an L.L.M. from the George Washington
National Law Center in 1972.
Conboy will teach trial advocacy in addition to his administrative responsibilities.
CAROLYN JOHNSEN THOMAS has joined the administration and faculty as assistant dean and lecturer.
Her duties primarily include alumni relations, CLE programs and development.
Thomas received her law degree in
1980 from Texas Tech University
School of Law. From 1980-82, she was briefing attorney for the Honorable
Halbert O. Woodward, Chief Judge,
U.S. District Court for the Northern
District of Texas.
In addition to her administrative responsibilities, Thomas will teach postconviction remedies and judicial administration.
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FTC STAFF ATTORNEY TO
TEACH AT TECH
Former FTC Bureau of Consumer
Protection staff attorney MARTIN B.
WHITE has joined the faculty as associate professor. His teaching assignments include contracts commercial law and consume; law.
White received his J.D. degree in
1974 from the University of Michigan.
During his eight year employment with the FTC, he worked on several major projects including the "Preservation of
Consumers~ Claims and Defenses
(Holder in Due-Course) Trade
Regulation Rule," and the "Credit
Practices Trade Regulation Rule
Proceeding. "
His most recent article "Consumer
Repossessions and Deficiencies: New
Perspectives from New Data" appeared in the 1982 Boston'College
Law Review.
ASSISTANT ATTORNEY
GENERAL JOINS FACULTY
JOE E. TUCKER has joined the faculty as assistant professor and is teaching immigration law, administrative law, and three sections of research and writing.
Tucker earned his law degree in 1981 from the University of Texas where he was managing editor of the Texas
International Law Journal. He served in the Attorney General's Office in Austin before becoming a member of the faculty.
Joe Tucker
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SOTO RETURNS
TO TEACHING
ROBERTO G. SOTO has become a member of the faculty as assistant professor of law teaching contracts and three sections of legal research and writing.
After receiving his law degree with honors from the University of Texas in
1977, Soto was assistant professor at
St. Mary's Law School for a year, a staff attorney for Texas Rural Legal Aid in
Harlingen for a year, and a staff attorney for West Texas Legal Services in San Angelo for three years.
Soto is a council member of the State
Bar Section on the Concerns of the
Spanish-Speaking Community of Texas.
John Murray
TECH CAPTURES
IOWA STATE SENATOR
Former State Senator JOHN S.
MURRA Y from Iowa has joined the faculty this fall as an associate professor of law. His courses include family law, professional responsibility, legislation, conflicts, and a negotiation workshop.
Prior to his coming to Tech, Murray practiced law in Ames, Iowa with the firm of Murray, Curtis, and Finn. He was first elected state senator in 1972 and re-elected in 1974 and 1978. During his tenure in office, he served as assistant majority leader and chairman of the Senate Appropriations
Committee.
Murray holds a master's degree in public law and government from
Columbia University and a law degree from the University of Iowa where he was editor-in-chief of the Iowa Law
Review.
III MURL A. LARKIN is the author of two books, Federal Evidentiary
Privileges and Part III of The Military in
American Society, 2d ed. which have been published this fall. His article
"Article
and
of the New Texas
Rules of Evidence" will appear in the spring issue of the Houston Law
Review. Larkin has recently been appointed as a continuing member of the State Bar Liaison Committee on
Federal Rules of Evidence.
III CHARLES P. BUBANY received the
1982 President's Award for Excellence in Teaching. This past year he presented papers on "Legal
Responsibiliities of Care Givers" for the
Institute for Child and Family Studies
Conference and on "The Court's
Charge" for the Criminal Practice
Update sponsored by the Lubbock
Criminal Defense Lawyer's Association.
Professor Bubany was moderator for a workshop on "Citizens Complaints
Against the Police" and academic director and instructor for the Texas
Municipal Court Judge's Seminars. His recent publications include
"Commentary to Chap. 21 Uniform
Reciprocal Enforcement of Support
Act" which appeared in the Texas Tech
Law Review Family Code Symposium and "Probation for Class C
Misdemeanors: To Fine or Not To Fine is Now the Question" (with co-author
Professor Tom Baker) which appeared in the 1981 South Texas Law Journal.
III REED QUILLIAM has returned to the Tech law faculty after a year as the executive director of the State Bar.
During his leave of absence, he chaired a panel on "Amendement 9 and Marital
Property" for the Annual Advanced
Estate Planning and Probate Course for the State Bar. In the spring of 1981, he was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Pepperdine University School of
Law.
III BRUCE M. KRAMER will be a visiting professor at the University of
Florida Holland Law Center for the
1982-83 school year. During the summer he was the principal investigator for a Texas Energy and
Natural Resources Advisory Council
Grant study of the conflict between lignite and oil and gas development.
Professor Kramer also wrote a U.S.
Department of Agriculture Monograph
9n the "Legal Aspects of the Use and
Development of Wildlife Resources on
Private Land: Colorado, Kansas, New
Mexico, Oklahoma & Texas."
III JOSEPH NELSON has left the faculty to return to corporate practice in Dallas.
III ANNETTE MARPLE has resumed full-time teaching after leaving her position as associate dean in August
1981. This past year, she served on the
University Tenure Policy Review
Committee, the University's Academic
Leadership Development Advisory
Board and as the law school representative to the University
Steering Committee. She has been active in speaking to various groups on women's rights issues and has been appointed to the State Bar Committee of Liaison with the Law School and Law
Students.
III ROBERT WENINGER has received a prestigious grant from the American
Bar Foundation to conduct a study of the criminal justice system in Texas, particularly sentencing in criminal cases. The first of a series of articles on this subject will appear in the December issue of the American Bar Foundation
Research Journal.
III JOHN KRAHMER has returned to full-time teaching duties after serving as associate dean of the law school for a year. He currently authors the
Southern Methodist University Law
Journal "Annual Survey of Commercial
Law" and the annual Supplements for
Vernon's Texas Codes Annotated:
Uniform Commercial Code Forms.
III JAMES EISSINGER wrote "The
Thirty Years War with Denver
Building," published in the 1982 Tech
Law Review. He recently spoke to the
AFL-CIO Construction Trade Council on "Secondary Boycott."
III J. HADLEY EDGAR was awarded the certificate of merit by the State Bar
Board of Directors and Past Presidents as one of three persons making the greatest contributions to the State Bar of Texas during 1981-82. He has served as vice-chairman of the Pattern
Jury Charge Committee (civil) of the
State Bar and has published Volume 3.
While acting as chairman of the special legislative committee of the Tort and Compensation Section of the State
Bar, Professor Edgar drafted a proposed Comparative Fault Act of
Texas to be presented at the next legislative session. He has lectured on
"Jury Deliberations and Misconduct" at the Fifth Annual Advanced Civil Trial
Course and is the president-elect of the
Lubbock County Bar Association.
III THOMAS CHANCELLOR has left the faculty to teach at the University of
Utah College of Law.
III GARY AHRENS has left the faculty to go into private practice in Wisconsin.
III JAMES BOWERS is currently on leave and is teaching at Louisiana State
University School of Law.
III ROBERT WOOD was promoted to full professor. In addition to his duties as associate dean this past year, Wood remained active in State Bar Corporate
& Banking Law committees and on a special task force on client protection
(appointed by the president of the State
Bar). Wood planned and coordinated
CLE programs on new tax developments, a conference on close corporations, and the Fifth Annual
Banking Law Institute. His publications
David Cummins
III DAVID CUMMINS has penned his own "faculty notes" as follows:
Professor "Dirty Dave" Cummins is still taxing all of us and is himself taxed by the ever-changing tax laws. Rumor has it that he was almost up to speed on the Revenue Act of 1978 when the
Installment Sales Revision Act of 1980 and the Foreign Investment in Real
Property Tax Act of 1980 were enacted.
is verified that he was on the tennis court (losing to a law student) when the momentous Economic Recovery Tax
Act of 1981 was enacted.
Professor Cummins doffs the mufti each summer for Army green.
Lieutenant Colonel Cummins has been
Director of Instruction (Dean) of a
Command & General Staff College
Officer Course for the past three summers at Fort Bliss, Texas. He was recently awarded a medal-presumably for valor at the chalkboard.
III JANE OLM is serving a two-year term as chairman of the Texas Council of State University Libraries-the first woman and the first law librarian to occupy the office. She co-edited the
American Association of Law Libraries
Directory of Law Libraries, 1982 ed., and she assisted in the organization of the Tech Legal Research Board. She served as faculty sponsor for the
Research Board 1981-82.
John Krahmer
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include "Legal and Tax Consideration
Involved in Producing Fuel Grade
Ethanol from Cotton Gin Residue," and a chapter on usury in Creditors Rights in Texas, 2nd ed. Wood continues as editor-in-chief of the Texas Bank
Lawyer.
• FRANK SKILLERN has been elected chairman-elect of the Environmental
Law Section of the Texas State Bar for
1982-83. His recent publications include the annual supplement to his book entitled Environmental Protection:
The Legal Framework; a chapter on
"Environmental Regulation" to be included in the book, Industrial
Innovation: The Law of Research and
Development: and a report,
"State/Federal relationship and
Commerce Clause Issues in Developing
Energy Resources." He is the editor for
Natural Resouces Lawyer, a quarterly publication. For 1981, he received the
Texas Tech Dad's Association
Research Award. Thomas Baker
Frank Skillern
• DELLAS LEE has recently published
Chapter 6, "Secured Transactions," of
Creditors Rights in Texas 2nd ed., a professional development program of the State Bar.
• THOMAS BAKER was promoted to associate professor and was granted tenure. He is co-author of "Probation for Class C Misdemeanors: To Fine or
Not to Fine is Now the Question" which appeared in the 1981 South Texas Law
Journal.
• DAN BENSON has written for the
South Texas Law Journal an article entitled, "Texas Capital Sentencing
Procedure After Eddings: Some
Questions Regarding Constitutional
Validity." In conjunction with Professor
Jere Wicker, he wrote the 1982 annual supplement to the Texas practice set,
Texas Lawyer's Guide. Professor
Benson is currently working with
Professor Charles Bubany on the revision of two volumes of Texas
Practice: Methods of Practice, Part 10 entitled "Preparation and Trial of
Criminal Cases."
• MARILYN PHELAN has published two books, Museums and the Law and
West's Federal Taxation:
Corporations, Partnerships, Estates, and Trusts (adopted by over 350 universities). She recently presented a paper entitled "Legal Implications of
Dismissal of Resident Physicians," to the Texas Tech University Health
Sciences Center.
Dan Benson
• HAL M. BATEMAN was appointed by Governor Clements in April, 1981 to serve a six-year term on the State
Securities Board. In addition to his board work, Bateman completed the pocket parts for the business volumes of West Texas Forms. He remains active in CLE programs and various state committees involving corporate, banking, and securities law.
• RODRIC SCHOEN has completed an article reviewing all reported decisions of the Texas courts interpreting the sex equality provision of the Texas ERA for the years 1978-
1981. The article is a continuation of an earlier summation on ERA decisions published in 15 Hous. L. Rev. 537
(1978). In April, Professor Schoen was elected to a three-year term as the
Texas State representative on the
National Governing Board of the
American Civil Liberties Union in New
York City.
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Since the law school first opened its doors in 1967, over 800 firms, corporations, alumni and individuals have contributed to the Law School
Foundation. These donations have allowed the school to grow in size and in prominence.
The Law School administration and the trustees of the Foundation wish to express sincere appreciation to the many donors who have given their support over the years:
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Patrick Abeyta
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Henry J. Anderson III
Stephen R. Anderton
Albert E. Andres
Jimmy A. Ashby
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Robert W. Baker
John M. Ballenger
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Daniel R. Barret
Stephen L Baskind
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School
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Smith
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Ahrens, Gary
Alderson, Mr.
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Allison, Alvin R
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Anders, M. H
Anderson, Josephine
Anderson, Ray D.
Austin, Harvey
Bailey, John E.
Baine, James E.
Baker, Thomas E.
Baker, Richard
Bateman, Hal M.
Batson, Howard J.
Battistoni, Roger V.
Bean, Robert H. (Honorable)
Beck, George P.
Bennett, A e. (Mrs.)
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Bird, Richard D.
Blackwell, Beth
Blackwell, Billy N.
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Blake, Bill
Blumrosen, J.R
Boedeker, Edwin H
Boerner, Joe
Bohling, William B.
Booker, Brent
Boulter, Beau
Bouverie, Clem
Bowers, James W.
Boyce, Mindy
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Bronstad, Betty
Bronstad, M. T.
Browder, Jr., W.B.
Brown, Samuel E.
Bryce, Mr. and Mrs. J.e.
Bubany, Charles P.
Bucy, Jane Wilson
Burbridge, Mr. and Mrs. RJ.
Butler, Ira
Buzbee, Lynn
Byrd, Rod
Calhoun, Frank W.
Campbell, Neitha
Cantey, H
Carr, Waggoner
Carr, Warlick
Carter, R Guy
Chapman, Alton B.
Chapman, RAdm. D.D.
Christmann, John J.
Clements, Jr., Solon
Cloud, Jerry and Carolyn
Cochran, Syble
Coffee, Wendell
Coleman, Irvin W.
Collins, Jacquelin
Cooper, Diane
Crawford, Brad
Crawford, Dinah J.
Crews, John Russell
Crofton, Edward
Culver, Barbara G.
Cummings, Clifton
Cummins, David C.
Davis, Don
Dent, D.D.
Dickey, Richard
Dieter, James
Dillard, Bryan B.
Donovan, Mrs. RE.
Donovan, Rev. Paul J.
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Durham, Worth B.
Eastland, Mrs. Herman
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Edquist, Manuel
Eissinger, James R
Elliott, Frank W.
Esler, W.R
Favor, Lillian M.
Feldt, Harrell
Forbis, John T
Formby, Marshall
Foster, Robert D.
Frey, Martin A
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Fullerton, Byron
Fulton, G.V.
Furr, Roy
Gallagher, Doris E.
Gallaway, Ransom
Gangstad, John E.
Garrett, Michael T
Geary, Joseph W.
Gilkerson, George E.
Godfrey, Julia and Ann
Goldman, Merton B.
Gollihar, Paige E.
Goodman, Robert E.
Grant, Homer D.
Haddon, Jane Douglas
Hagin, Mrs. Pat
Hance, The Honorable Kent
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Harper, Dr. James W.
Harriger, Harold O.
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Hay, Leo S.
Hemingway, RW
Hewitt, Linda G.
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Holmes, Marian M.
Honey, William
Hopkinson, Ruth M.
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Howard, Dan M.
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Hudson, Arlie e.
Huff, Mrs. Harley
Hull, Ae.
Irish, J.L.
Jackson, Randall C.
Jaeger, Dr. Walter HE.
Jaroszewski, Mr. and Mrs. A
Jarvis, Billy Britt
Jennings, Morley
Jones, Dr. Clifford B.
Jones, John Randal
Jones, Percy
Jones, RL.
Jones, U.v.
Jordon, Judge E.E.
Justice, A Doyle
Key, Lucille
Key, Marion T.
King, Ernest F.
King, John L.
Krahmer, John E.
Kramer, Bruce M.
Krueger, Leila
Labay, Walter
Lama, Jr., Tony
Langston, Lonnie
Larkin, Murl A
Laughlin, Myron Penn
Lee, Dellas W.
Lewis, Edgar G.
Lindsey, Ula
Leonard, Curtis N.
Loevinger, Lee
Lunsford, G.R
Luton Jr., Jesse P.
Mahon, George
Maner, John F.
Manire, Dr. G.P
Mara, John R
Markham, Jack
Marple, Hugo D.
McNeill, Mrs. Maude e.
McArthur, Mrs. Herman
McCarty, Fuston
McCleskey, George W.
McCloud, Hon, Austin O.
McCowen, J.N.
McDonald, Mrs. Alex
McInnis, Ron
McLaughlin, KH.
McNeil, Buck W.
McRae, Hamilton E.
McReynolds, Richard
Mecham, John S.
Milam, James H.
Milam, Tom
Miller, George W.
Miller, Sam H.
Montgomery, Cooper
Moody, Bobby J.
Moore, Thelma G.
Moore, J.H (Law Office of)
Morse, Clinton
Moss,Mr. and Mrs. Bill
Mounce, William J.
Mullan, Carolie R
Murdock, Mark
Murray, Dr. Grover E.
Musick, Mike
Musslewhit, Paul
Nabors, Roland R
Nagy, Joe H.
Natho Jr., Paul J.
Neisig, Russell W.
Nelson, Bert A
Nelson, George H
New, Paul
Nichols, Nick e.
Olm, Jane G.
Oswalt, Winston
Overton M.D., Todd H.
Owen, Rudd
Pace Jr., Lunn
Pankonien, Dean A
Parks, Bob
Parrish, Robert M.
.Parsons, Don R
Pemberton, Bill
Pennington, M.L.
Peterman, Mrs. O.L.
Pharles, Phillip
Phelan, Mrs. Marilyn
Pike, John L.
Pratas, George A
Preston, Joseph
Puryear, Effie
Quilliam, Mrs. W.R
Quilliam, Prof. W. Reed
Rady, Joe & Betty
Ratliff, Mr. and Mrs. O.B.
Ratliff, Mr. and Mrs. W.P.
Ratliff, Mr. and Mrs. Dennis
Ratliff, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh C.
Ratliff, Mrs. TJ.
Reese, e. Tom
Reid, Rust E.
Renfrow, John M.
Reynolds, Paul D.
Rhea, Dorothy
Roberts, Elvia
Roddy, RE.
Rombin, William
Roucloux, Ella R
Russell, Mr. and Mrs. Bill
Ruthledge, Robert M.
Saffle, Rex D.
Sampson, Mr. and Mrs. Dick
Sanders, Bobby L
Scarborough, Mr.and Mrs. Charles
Schoen, Rodric B.
Scogin, Robert
Scott,O.V.
Scott, Prof. Wayne
Sealy, Tom
Shafer, W.O.
Shellhass, Glen W.
Shelton, Robert E.
Sherrill, Charles
Skillern, Prof. Frank
Smith, Craig
Smith, Garland
Smith, Garland F.
Smith, Jerry
Smith, Judge Truett
Smith, Mark
Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Orville
Smtih, Risher
Snyder, Anne
Spencer, Judge Ken G.
Sperry, Mr. and Mrs. J.H.
Splawn, Johnny
Stapleton, Mr. and Mr. John
Steib, Judge and Mrs. Court F.
Stephens, Mr. and Mrs. David
Stine, Stephen B.
Strong, Professor Frank R
Stubbeman, Frank
Sturdivant, Wayne P.
Sullivan III, Frank W.
Sullivan, Prof. David
Summers, Jan
Surman, Dr. and Mrs. AC.
Sutton, Jr., John F.
Taylor, Louise J.
Teague, James
Thomas, Wiley
Thomason, Martha H.
T olk, Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Turner, W.D.
Verner, Mr. and Mrs. Ae.
Vestal, Prof. Allan D.
Wade, Margaret G.
Walker, Susan P.
Wall, Mr. and Mrs. e.I.
Ward, Judge John T
Ward, William E.
Watson, KB.
Weber, Edward G.
Weidmann, Fred W.
Welborn, J.M.
Weninger, Prof. Robert
West, Ben B.
West, Mrs. C.T
Whitcomb, John
Willingham, Clark S.
Wills, Donald
Wilson, L.G.
Wilson, Maple
Womble, Bill
Wood, Horace B.
Wood, Jr. William M.
Wood, Prof. Robert E.
Woodward, Judge Halbert O.
Workman, Don
Wright, William M.
Only through continued donations can the Law School maintain the highest standards and attract the finest students and faculty. The administration is formulating a new giving program to be initiated this fall.
With your support, the T exas Tech
University School of Law can preserve a level of superiority!

ASSOCIATION OFFICERS LEAD ALUMNI, FRIENDS OF LAW
SCHOOL
Hershell L. Barnes, Jr., a 1970 graduate of the Texas Tech Law
School, is president of the newlyactivated "T exas Tech Law School
Association," which includes the alumni, friends and supporters of the law school. Barnes is a member of the
Dallas law firm of Haynes & Boone.
Other officers are president-elect E.
Link Beck of the EI Paso firm of Kemp,
Smith, Duncan & Hammond; vicepresident Larry Thompson, attorney from Fort Worth; and secretary / treasurer Stephen 1. Krier of the Lubbock firm of Smith, Baker, Field
& Clifford.
Elected in March, the officers and area directors met during the state Bar
Convention in Austin to set direction for the Association.
Barnes commented, "1 think we were all in agreement about the main goal of the organization-to provide financial support for the school while maintaining contact with alum friends. 1 honestly did not realize the shape the school was in financially," Barnes said. "It seems to me we need to rally behind the school and provide it with funds to get it moving."
The officers and directors at the meeting voted for the name "Texas
Tech Law School Association" in order to include the school's 1600 alumni as well as friends and supporters who did not graduate from the law school.
Barnes said the association's first task is to form and organize local chapters since most of the fund-raising and social events will be held in the local areas.
The area directors include:
Amarillo-John
Austin-James
1. Huffaker
R. Raup
Dallas-John W. Dayton
El Paso-Risher Smith Gilbert
Ft. Worth-Jon Kerr
Houston - Barbara K. Runge
Lubbock-Rebecca S. McElroy
San Antonio-Dean W. Greer
Midland-Odessa-Steven B. Barron
New Mexico-Robert L. Love
At Large-Robert A. Junell
A GOOD TIME HAD BY ALL!
Over 150 alums and their spouses attended the Texas Tech Law School reception held at the Austin Hyatt
Regency Hotel on July 30 during the
State Bar Convention.
Organized by Joe ('73) and Betty
Crawford of Austin, the event drew one of the largest gatherings of alumni. The common denominator? - enthusiasm for their law Alma Mater!
SPORTS FLASH
Professor Robert Wood is eager to point out that he and Professor Chuck
Bubany won the annual golf tournament and that due, to a lucky draw, a propitious forfeit and being able to hide from students during challenge time, he was able to climb the raquetbaliladder and appear in the finals which he properly and honorably lost.
Tim Coffey ('81), Jeanette Robison ('80) and Wiley James of the firm of Grambling, Mounce, Sims, Galatzan and Harris interview thirdyear student James Harris in the Law School Placement offices.
Directors for the newly-a~tivated Texas Tech Law School Association met during the State
Bar Convention to discuss organizational plans with Law School Dean Byron Fullerton and
Assistant Dean Carolyn Johnsen Thomas. Shown clockwise are Risher Smith Gilbert,
Dean Thomas, Dean Fullerton, Hershell Barnes, and Barbara Runge.
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SURVEY RESULTS: TECH LAW GRADS RESPOND TO QUESTIONS ABOUT THE LAW SCHOOL
The response to the February survey of law school alumni was successful with 25 percent of the school's 1600 graduates returning the survey with nearly all positive comments.
Graduates were mailed a four-page questionnaire complete with computer answer sheet asking their feelings about the school and its various functions.
"The overall purpose of the survey," according to Professor Robert Wood who was a co-author for the questions, along with Professor John Krahmer,
"was to determine the response to a reactivated Alumni Association. We also wanted to see how Tech graduates actually felt about the school- the aspects of the school which produced positive and negative memories for them - and whether things, such as the placement service, have been effective over the years."
Krahmer and Wood felt the responses represented an overall crosssection of the alumni. Krahmer commented, "We don't consider this ultra-scientific but it gives us a general idea of what grads feel about the school."
Here's what was said ...
ABOUT AN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
... 52 percent of alums indicated they would definitely join an alumni association if it was activated. F ortyfour percent said they might join and only 4 percent stated they would not be part of an association. Similarly, 50 percent indicated they would attend functions organized by a local chapter of a alumni association, 46 percent said maybe, and 4 percent said they would not attend.
(Ed. note: The Texas Tech Law
School Association was organized
March 1982 and will include alumni as well as friends of the law school. See p.
11 for the complete story).
Lubbock seemed to be an ideal place for an alumni meeting as 17 percent would possibly attend. Only 6 percent indicated any interest in having a meeting during the State Bar.
Nearly all the responses stressed the importance of alumni communication.
One graduate from Dallas stated, "I am willing to keep active in alumni affairs, if the school is willing to maintain contact with my fellow classmates. The newsletter and questionnaire is a start - keep it up!"
Another alum expressed his feeling this way, "Through (communication), the school can make its goals as well as its accomplishments known to the alumni. Some goals I would be willing to contribute to - others I would not."
Other grads expressed interest in alumni gatherings and reunions and in local chapters to provide not only financial support but also speakers, seminars and parties.
ABOUT PLACEMENT ...
... 34 percent found the placement service helpful in some respect by an inschool interview, by notice of a job opening, or by providing helpful information. Sixty-two percent felt the placement service was not helpful.
The placement service seemed to be most helpful to members of the classes of '78, '79 and '80. The classes of '73,
'74, and '75 found it least helpful. Half of the alumni who graduated in the top 10 percent and the top 25 percent found the placement office helpful, and half thought it was not helpful. Alumni in the
2nd, 3rd and 4th quarters of the class were generally less positive toward the effectiveness of the service.
*"1 am willing to keep active in alumni affairs, dassmates."* if the school is willing to maintain contact with my fellow
Most of the favorable responses to the placement question were from practitioners in large law firms of 10-50 lawyers. Alumni practicing in firms of 2-
10 lawyers and sole practitioners had a less favorable view of placement.
The fact an alum may have been involved in various student activities did not seem to have an effect on whether he or she felt the placement service was helpful. For example, 28 percent of the graduates involved in moot court programs found the service helpful; whereas, 72 percent felt it was not helpful. 55 percent of Law Review alums found it helpful and 45 percent did not.
Alumni who thought the placement service was helpful seemed to be concentrated in Amarillo, Dallas, EI
Paso and Fort Worth. Those who felt the service was not helpful were mainly situated in Lubbock, San Antonio,
Austin, small towns and out-of-state.
Wood commented that, in the past, the placement office has primarily attracted firms from Amarillo, Dallas, El
Paso and Fort Worth, but it is expected to increase the number of interviewing firms and include those from other areas of the state.
(Ed. note: Your firm can participate in our interviewing system. Simply fill out and send the placement card found on the last page of this magazine.)
CONCERNING FINANCIAL
CONTRIBUTIONS ...
... Only 10 percent of alumni have contributed to the Law School on a regular basis. Thirty-seven percent have given on occasion and 48 percent have never given. The majority of contributions have ranged between
$10-$50.
Most contributions have come from grads located in Dallas and in small towns.
(Ed. note: Your contribution is needed now more than ever. See center insert to learn how you can help.)
An alumnus from Tulsa expressed his views on giving, "Alumni are really not interested in contributing to student loan funds and grants. They would respond to well thought-out arguments from you regarding the need to endow chairs etc. -for 'professor enrichment,' which is the only way we will compete with U.T. Austin on an equal basis."
Professor Wood stated, "It seems many graduates have different ideas on contributing to the school. That is why we are re-vamping the giving program to allow people to support a facet of the school they are particularly interested m.
"
ABOUT ALUMNI FEELINGS
TOWARD TECH ...
... The response was absoultely positive! Sixty-seven percent of the graduates have very good feelings about the Law School; 26 percent have good feelings. A mere 1 percent had negative feelings. The feelings were welldispersed throughout the various classes; that is, no one class seemed to have better or worse feelings about the school. Similarly, class rank had little effect, but it is interesting to note that of the five negative responses, four were from the lower half of the class and one was from the top 10 percent.
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Law Dean Byron Fullerton chats with
Texas Tech University President Lauro
Cavazos at the reception following the
Honors and Awards Ceremony.
Simply having poor feelings about one aspect of the school such as the placement service, did not necessarily affect a graduate's total outlook toward the school. Over half of the alums who said their feelings were very good or good, stated the placement service was not helpful.
Predictably, feelings about the law school do not necessarily affect one's pocketbook. Two of the five negative responses have given money to the Law
School. Almost 50 percent of the alums who feel very good or good about the
Law School have never given money to the schoo!.
*"The more that I am exposed to graduates of other law schools throughout the state and nation, the better I feel about having attended
Tech."*
Several grads elaborated on their feelings. One 1980 alum from Houston stated, "The more that I am exposed to graduates of other law schools throughout the state and nation, the better I feel about having attended
Tech. Tech needs to move away from its paranoid obsession of overcoming the University of Texas grip as the scholastically predominant school in the
Southwest. Instead, Tech should concentrate on being a good strong law school- training functioning, tactically skilled lawyers. From this effort will come the regional and national recognition which Tech deserves."
In response to a question asking whether Tech should become the premier law school in the Southwest, 19 percent feel it already is; 4 percent said only if it could be done without them; 62 percent said yes and they would help; 2 percent said no.
ABOUT IMPROVING THE LAW
SCHOOL ...
... Some graduates had various suggestions on how the law school could be bettered. A grad from
Englewood, Colorado, said, "How about moving the school to the mountains?" Short of that feat, grads did suggest building the faculty and its reputation and the reputation of the school. "A strong, popular school is much easier for an alum to get excited about than a weak one that one never hears about," said one graduate.
Other alums suggested instilling a spirit of loyalty toward the Law School while the alum is still a student. "Unless the students feel that the Law School and not their undergraduate school is the institution that will do the most for them, no alumni organization will be totally successful."
Despite the overall favorable response, there were negative comments. Wood responded, "We really expected more negative responses than what we got so we were pleased from that aspect. What we are trying to do is accentuate the positive."
Wood felt the "pro-Tech" faction would provide plenty of support and stated the administration is trying to implement many new ideas that alums have suggested such as a new giving program, a more well-rounded placement service and better alumni communication. "We're trying to fulfill one suggestion of an Odessa grad,
'Continue to maintain a law school of quality that the alumni can be proud
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'81 - '82
Judge Clarence Guittard (center),
Chief Justice of the Dallas Court of
Appeals, receives honorary membership in the Texas Tech capter of the Order of the Coif. Presenting the certificate are Professors J. Hadley
Edgar (left) and Hal Bateman (right).
Judge Guittard spoke to students and faculty of the law school in April as a part of the Strasburger-Price continuing lecture series on advocacy.
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Terry Rhoads of White Deer receives the 1982 George W. and Sarah H.
Dupree Award from Associate Dean
Robert Wood at the annual Honors and
Awards Day in April.
The award is given to a member of the graduating class who, in the opinion of the student's colleagues, best exemplifies the ability, integrity and sense of professional responsibility desired in one soon to join the legal profession.
Recent graduate (of about one minute!) Karen Johnson hoods her husband, Steve, at the May Hooding
Ceremony.
Admissions assistant Rosa
Hernandez chats with Julio Llanas at the pre-law advisors conference held at the Law School in April. Advisors from colleges across the state attended.
Professors John Krahmer, Robert Wood and Bruce Kramer interview a prospective "law student" as part of the
Supreme Tort.
Law students (I-r) Terry Hodges,
Philip Weems, Bruce Williams, and
Brad Douglas perform an original composition entitled "We've Got
Byron," sung to the tune of "Elvira," at the annual Supreme Tort, a Board of
Barristers sponsored spoof about the
Law School.
Professor J. Hadley Edgar speaks to the audience at the Honors and Awards ceremony after being honored as the
Outstanding Professor of the Year for
1981-82. The recipient of the award is determined by a vote of the Law School student body.
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During the school year 1981-82, approximately 2,600 placement interviews took place at the law school.
Over 130 law firms, corporations and other employers used on-campus facilities and another 350 or so posted notices or opportunities. This compares with the approximately 75 firms that interviewed in 1978 when the new
Placement Offices were opened, and represents almost 100 more firms that interviewed on campus five years ago.
Nationwide statistics show that placement offices are important factors in the placement of about 35 percent of the law graduates and on-campus interviews about 20 percent. Of those from the class of 1981 responding to one questionnaire, 43 percent considered the Placement Office a major factor and abQut % of them or 34 percent of the total credited on campus interviews.
11%
Corporations
Private practice 72%
by Associate Dean Robert Wood
Of all the facets of the Law School, placement is perhaps the subject of greatest misconception. Let us examine some of the popular myths and compare them to reality.
MYTH NUMBER ONE: The Law
School has an obligation to get every student a job.
This myth often constitutes the underlying attitude of law students anxious about employment. In reality, placement is an ancillary service provided by the Law School and not part of its primary educational mission.
Without a placement service, law students would still get jobs. The
Placement Office simply serves as a clearinghouse for information - a central market-place for employers to exhange information with students.
MYTH NUMBER TWO: The
Placement Office is only for the top 10 percent of the class.
This myth pervades from year to year as a self-fulfilling prophecy. The reality is that the Placement Office offers assistance to all students who choose to use it. The most visible yearly activity is the fall interviewing session which is used, for the most part, by large law firms and corporations having predictable and continuous employment needs. Since many of these firms want students from the top part of the class, those in the upper percentile can generally walk into a campus interview and come out with a job. Discouraged students with a lower class rank assume this is the only way the Placement
Office serves student placement needs.
In reality, every student should expect to work toward getting the best position available. The Placement Office provides a wealth of information for these students such as listings of firms and individuals looking for attorneys but unable to come to the campus for interviews. The office also has directories of geographic areas and areas of specialty practice, counseling on alternative or non-traditional legal careers, assistance in contacting individual lawyers, and assistance in using law placement offices in other regions. Additionally, the Placement
Office maintains a library of job hunting materials, and it sponsors seminars on interviewing and career alternatives. All of this refutes ...
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MYTH NUMBER THREE: The
Placement Office is only for scheduling interviews.
As you can see, on-campus interviews represent only a small part of the placement effort. The other informational services are available to all students who wish to use them.
MYTH NUMBER FOUR: The
Placement office is not interested in graduates.
On the contrary the Placement Office receives many inquiries specifying:
"licensed attorney" or "3 -5 years experience." This information is passed on to graduates who have made their interest known to the Placement Office.
The problem is really one of information. If a graduate of the law school is contemplating a change of jobs, a discrete letter to the Placement
Office will permit appropriate matching with employer inquiries.
The Placement Office is experiencing greater use by both students and employers. Hopefully, by dispelling some of the myths about placement service, the office will be able to attain its fullest potential.
In keeping with the dramatic debut of computers and microform in the legal profession, the Tech law library has adapted the latest developments in information technology.
The most dramatic benefit to library users was the acquisition of aLEXIS terminal last March. Since its installation, the entire faculty and over
200 students have received comprehensive training on the use of this modern research tool. An ongoing instruction program is available for students and new faculty, and future plans include allowing attorneys to use
LEXIS on a direct charge basis. This fall, Tech librarians hope to obtain the computer's enhanced features such as
Shepard's Citations and selected
Matthew-Bender publications.
The library has also purchased an
Online Computer Library Center
(OCLC) terminal and high-speed printer. This acquisition allows librarians to catalog new books faster and more economically and eliminates duplicative cataloging effort.
Additionally, the OCLC improves the interlibrary loan system and makes it possible for students, faculty, and attorneys to quickly locate and obtain a desired book or document.
During the past two years microforms have been added extensively to the library collection and now constitute a significant portion of the overall library resources. Many government publications, briefs and session laws are available only in microform. Similarly, several articles, commentaries, reviews, and notes which have never been covered comprehensively are now available in a microform edition called the Legal
Resource Index.
To utilize the microform collection, the library has purchased a high-speed reader / printer and has acquired three desk-top readers.
According to law Librarian Jane Olm, the addition of LEXIS and the various microform collections has allowed Tech to keep abreast of the latest technology.
Automated Research Coordinator Sharon Blackburn assists law students Matt King and
Sam Hicks with the use of the LEXIS terminal.
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LIBRARY RECEIVES
GENEROUS GIFTS
The Tech law library has received donations of law books from the collections of four Texas attorneys.
H. M. ADKINS
A substantial portion of the law library of the late H. M. Adkins was donated to the Law School in May by
Mr. Adkin's sons, Allan B. Adkins of
Amarillo and Winston L. Adkins of
Dallas. The extensive collection of books includes Federal Reporter and
Federal Supplement series, United
States Reports, the Trinity Series of
American Reports and Decisions, and numerous treatises dating as far back as 1897. Many of the older books are bound in leather and extremely wellpreserved.
Mr. H. M. Adkins died in July 1980 at the age of 79. he was a partner in the
Amarillo firm of Gibson, Oschner &
Adkins and had practiced law in
Amarillo for over 50 years.
Both of Mr. Adkin's sons are attorneys as is his brother, Thurman
Adkins, of Shamrock.
W. D. HOLLARS
The working collection of longtime
Plainview attorney W. D. Hollars was contributed to the library in June by his widow, Mrs. Opal L. Hollars. The gift consists of Southwestern Reporter,
Texas Statutes (Civil, Criminal and
Annotated Codes), Texas
Jurisprudence, and various form books and development program books.
Mr. Hollars practiced law in Plainview unitl he died in March at the age of 92.
One of his sons, Bill Hollars, is Hale
County Judge.
LEE JONES
Oil and gas attorney Lee Jones of
Colorado City, Tx. has donated numerous text books, case books and institute proceedings on oil and gas law as well as a unique Oil and Gas Index comprising an extensive survey of oil and gas cases.
Finding published digests of cases inadequate, Mr. Jones devised his index which law librarian Mrs. Jane Olm believes may eventually be published.
Library staff members are currently updating the index.
Mr. Jones received his L.L.B. from the University of Texas in 1934 and has practiced as an oil and gas specialist for
34 years. He has served as chairman of the mineral law section of the State Bar and as a visiting professor of oil and gas law at the University of Texas.
JOHN F. TOMLIN
An extensive practitioners' collection of law books was donated to the school in May by Mr. John F. Tomlin of Pecos.
Mr. Tomlin received his law degree from the University of Texas and was admitted to the Texas Bar in 1938.
From 1958-61, Mr. Tomlin served as
City Attorney for Pecos. He is also past-president of the Reeves county and
Trans-Pecos Bar Association and a past-director of the State Bar.
Power, a prize-winning watercolor by Judy Lee is the first painting puchased by the library. Funds from the Library foundation were used to purchase the art work which hangs on the first floor of the library.
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PLACEMENT
Anticipated opening for third ( ), second ( ), and/ or first ( ) year l aw students, or graduate / attorney ( )
Date position(s) available: _
Employer's name and address: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
AN INVITATION to prospective employers to use our placement service .
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Person to contact: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Requirements/ comments: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
( ) I would be willing to serve as a resource or contact person in may area for law school students.
( ) I would be interested in interviewing students at the law school for possible placement.
ALUMNI NEWS
Name: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Address: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
WHAT 'S HAPPENING in your life that might be of intere s t to friends, colleagues, fellow alumni ...
(pictures welcome S X 7 B&W glossy) Phone: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
News or comments: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
PLEASE HELP us keep in touch .
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CHANGE OF ADDRESS
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Office phone: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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