June, 1987
Dear Alumni and Friends of the Texas Tech Law School,
This Cornerstone spotlights our law student achievements in
advocacy, writing and academics. Their individual and
collective accomplishments have brought state and nationwide
recognition to the Texas Tech School of Law. Their successes
reflect on all of us and we can be proud that they are carrying
out the tradition of excellence which makes our school a truly
great one.
As you read further in this issue, you will no doubt agree that
this year has been a remarkable one for Texas Tech. Our
advocacy teams won an unprecedented number of
championships. We won the national and international titles
in the American Bar Association Client Counseling
Competition. We won three moot court and mock trial
competitions. Five different teams qualified for national final
competitions. We were first among state-supported schools
and second in the state overall on the passage rate for the
February bar exam. One of our students won first prize in a
national writing competition. We have received over 1150
applications for the 200 places in our 1987 entering class. The
Texas Tech Law School has enjoyed a stellar year!
A law school is a collection of students in the process of
becoming professionals. Our students have demonstrated that
they will be important assets to the legal profession.
Sincerely,
W. Frank Newton
Dean
I hope to see you at our annual State Bar Convention reunion
on June 12 in Corpus Christi.
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LAW SCHOOL NEWS
Academic Support Center
Established
Under the auspices of the Faculty Student
Counseling Committee and the Law
Library, the Academic Support Center has
been established to provide academic and
moral support for all students. The center
will be run primarily by student volunteers.
Located on the second floor of the library,
the Center includes the Academic Support
Desk, an Audio/Visual Lab, a "Professors'
Corner," and a Student Information Center.
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The Academic Support Desk serves as the
person-to-person student connection.
Current plans determine the desk to be
manned from 10 to II and 12 to I on
weekdays; however, hours can be expanded
as need demands. Students are urged to
come to the desk to ask specific questions
regarding courses, studying, classwork, or
examinations. If the student's question or
problem cannot be answered briefly, then
addi tional time will be arranged.
The Audio/Visual Lab is designed to offer
a relaxed and convenient atmosphere where
students can make use of the variety of
audio and video study aids available
through library reserve. Materials and
equipment available in the lab include
information on taking objective
examinations, essay tests, course outlining,
prior and practice examinations in various
courses, audio and video tapes on study
skills and substantive law; audio tape
players and headphones, as well as a video
recorder and television moni tor. In
developing a solid library of video cassettes,
several tapes are already available and more
are planned, particularly on topics of study
techniques, examination process, and
research and writing.
The area of the center designated as the
"Professors' Corner" will contain materials
to specifically aid faculty members. The
"Professors' Corner " will contain current
course descriptions , practice exams , prior
examination questions and model
examination answers. The Center is
presentl y asking for assistance from the
faculty in keeping materials in the
"Corner" current.
The Student Information Center will
function to provide a centralized location
where students can go for information on
study skills workshops, student
organizations, central campus services, law
school activities and programs, and much
more. From time to time sessions on study
techniques or taking examinations will be
conducted by law faculty and students.
One additional unique service that the
Center is offering involves a centralized
distribution of materials to students .
Whenever an instructor has handouts for
classes, the secretaries may be informed that
the Center is to distribute them. The
materials may then be left at the Center for
students to pick up.
According to present plans, the Center
expects to be fully prepared for the Fall
1987 semester.
Students Make Important
Community Service
Contributions
Community service has been a part of many
law students' "outside curriculum" this
year as student volunteers have assisted
with area drug education programs, with a
clothes drive to benefit local agencies and as
income tax assistants.
Phi Alpha Delta members produced a
program titled "Drugs and the Law" which
is designed to inform citizens about current
drug and alcohol laws. Available for
presentation to local and area civic groups,
the program offers a purely legal
perspective on the consequences of
possession or use of illegal drugs.
Mike Kelly, a counselor in the Lubbock
MHMR Drug Offenders Program, said the
program "adds a dimension of view toward
drug abuse that drug counselors, who
emphasize pharmacology, are not able to
give. It adds the perspective of someone
trained in the law."
The program is designed for junior high
and high school students, youth groups and
young adult groups. It includes a thirty
minute to two hour presentation in a
question-and-answer format. All speakers
are law school volunteers.
Second-year student Cynthia Humphries
single-handedly organized a law school
clothing drive to benefit Women's
Protective Services and the Salvation Army
in Lubbock. Humphries efforts were wellreceived as law students contributed several
truckloads of old clothing and shoes.
Law students also participated in the
Vol un teer Income Tax Assis tance (VITA)
program sponsored jointly by the IRS and
the ABA. Students volunteered one
afternoon a week from February through
April 15 to help people in low income
levels prepare their income tax returns. The
program was monitored by IRS personnel,
but law students Mike Newell and Jan
Blacklock were in charge of student
participation which included meeting in
the Federal Building with citizens needing
assistance on their returns. Law professor
Marilyn Phelan served as faculty sponsor.
Pro Bono Organization
Preparing for Service
This spring the groundwork was laid for a
new pro bono publico program in
Lubbock. Volunteer Law Students &
Lawyers, Inc., a Texas non-profit charitable
corporation was chartered and bylaws
adopted by the group's initial board of
directors. Three law students, three
Lubbock lawyers and three public or
private social action agency persons
compose the board. Those board members
include students Gail Estes, Cynthia
Humphries and Michael Geddes; attorneys
Bruce Magness, Robert Craig and Harvey
Morton; and social action agency persons
Kathy Terrill, Carolyn Lanier and Sylvia
Martinez. Plans for the organization, thus
far, are a result of the initiating efforts of
Professor David Cummins and a founding
student group.
The organization will assume various
duties covering many areas of law and legal
services. Providing free legal services to
poor people in civil law matters will be an
active role of the organization, as well as
providing free information and referral to
private attorneys and private and public
agencies for the benefit of poor people who
cannot be accepted as clients.
The organization plans to make legal
services available to separate programs such
as Women's Protective Services, often in
need of immediate restraining orders for
abused persons; and the Immigration
Reform and Control Act Program, often in
need of documentation of long-term aliens
to remove the spectre of deportation and
increase employability.
With a special emphasis upon service to
and access by the poor, the organization
will act as a community source of education
and information about legal services and
access to legal institutions.
Through the organization, lawyers and law
students will be provided a singular
opportunity to act cooperatively in carrying
out mutual public service responsibilities.
Under the program, an attorney and a third
year law student will register in Austin
under the supervising attorney/third year
student practice rule and a second year
student will be assigned to the team as a
clerk or assistant. The teamwork approach
should facilitate the turnover situation as
second year students become third year
students, double the mentoring opportunity
for the lawyer and students, and lessen the
work burden on the lawyers.
Encouraged by enthusiasm from Dean
Newton, the Lubbock bar and other
students, the organization is quickly
putting together the program. Plans are
now being made to open a clinic in
September 1987, for perhaps two evenings
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PROFESSIONAL NEWS
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per month. Presently, available locations
are being inventoried while office
equipment is being donated by lawyers.
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By cooperating with West Texas Legal
Services, Legal Aid Society of Lubbock and
several social action agencies, there is a
virtual certainty of available clients, if not a
plethora. The students are excited about
this new program and Professor David
Cummins, founder of the program, believes
that students who begin pro bono services
while in law school are likely to make a
personal commitment and continue that
service in some form or another throughout
their careers.
Sex Discrimination:
Greater Protection Found
Under State Constitution
"The Texas Supreme Court finding,"
Schoen said, "fully realizes tha t the Texas
Equal Rights Amendment, as part of the
state constitution, could be and should be
interpreted to give greater rights under the
state constitution than the rights provided
under the federal equal protection clause."
Rod Schoen
American College of Legal
Medicine Presents Award
to Janet Miller Rowland
Third-year law student Janet Miller
Rowland received the 1987 Letourneau
Award from the American College of Legal
Medicine for writing the outstanding
original paper on legal medicine.
Rowland's paper, "Enforcing Hospital
Responsibility Through Self-Evaluation
and Review Committee Privilege," will be
considered for publication in the Journal of
Legal Medicine. She was awarded a $1,000
first prize in the nationwide competition.
to give the Equal Rights Amendment a
different interpretation than that given
under the federal due process and equal
protection guarantees. Otherwise, the ERA
if given identical interpretation, "was an
exercise in futility," despite being passed by
a four-to-one margin by Texas voters, the
decision stated.
Texans now have greater protection against
sex discrimination under their state
constitution than they do under the federal
equal protection clause.
That is the impact of the Texas Supreme
Court's first decision relating to the state's
1972 Equal Rights Amendment, according
to a Texas Tech University law professor
cited by the court in its decision.
"And, the irony of the decision," said
Associate Law Dean Rodric B. Schoen, "is
that it benefits not a woman, as the public
often expects, but a man."
The decision was handed down last month
in the case of "In re Baby McLean," the
first suit under the state's 15-year-old Equal
Rights Amendment (ERA) to reach the
Texas Supreme Court. The case dealt with
the rights of an unwed father to receive
custody of an illegitimate child.
"The Family Code of Texas provided
different standards for unwed mothers and
fathers." Schoen said. "The father had a
more onerous burden than the mother to
receive rights in regard to his child."
The court, quoting arguments first
outlined by Schoen in 1978 and 1983
articles in the Houston Law Review, chose
In addition to providing an expanded
interpretation, the court also adopted a very
strong compelling interest test that genderbased classifications will not be sustained
by the court unless the state can establish
that by no other means than by
discriminating between genders can the
interests at question be vindicated.
Schoen said the decision is significant
because of its interpreta tion as well as the
fact that it is unlikely to be appealed to the
U.S. Supreme Court. Without an appeal,
the decision will become the foundation for
future decisions on sex discrimination in
the state.
"The Supreme Court was careful to rest its
decision on state constitutional law and the
decision does not appear to raise any federal
issues which can be grounds for an
appeal," Schoen said.
The decision could spawn an increase in
Equal Rights Amendment lawsuits, he said.
By 1982, a full decade after the passage of
the state amendment, only 25 cases filed
under the state ERA had reached the state
appellate courts.
"Now that the Texas Supreme Court has
adopted the compelling interest test, many
forms of discrimination - differential
treatment for men and women, boys and
girls - may be challenged in the future,"
Schoen said.
"Differential auto insurance rates for new
male drivers and new female drivers or
perks that are extended to one gender but
not another by a business are the types of
issues that may ultimately wind up before
the state courts," Schoen said.
"If appellate courts continue to follow the
direction given in the McLean decision, sex
discrimination in Texas will be legally
justified only when different treatment can
be explained by physical differences,"
Schoen said.
The court's interpretation follows closely
the arguments put forth by Schoen in his
earlier Houston Law Review articles.
"One of the advantages for professors like
myself writing law review articles is that I
can address different kinds of issues without
having to get into the specifics of
individual cases," Schoen said. " This
allows me to look at the broader issues of
law and the direction the law should take .
It's not tha t the courts will always accept
my arguments because, after all, they make
their own decisions, but rather that they
have a broader range of viewpoints upon
which to make their decisions."
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SPECIAL EVENTS
Award - Steve Coen; Marion T. Key
Outstanding Editor Award - Ross Pringle
and Dick LeMasters; Scribes Award - Dale
Mockford; Berman, Mitchell, Yeager &
Gerber Editor-in-Chief Award - Holland
Neff.
Outstanding
Contributions Honored at
Law Review Banquet
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Eleven students and two practicing
attorneys were honored for their
outstanding contributions to the Texas
Tech Law Review at the Review's annual
banquet held April 3 at the Lubbock
Country Club. Fifth Circuit Judge Thomas
G. Gee presen ted the keynote address to
guests including law students, faculty and
members of the bench and bar.
Introduced by Lubbock Federal District
Judge Halbert O. Woodward, Gee
complimented Law Review students on
their achievements, both individually and
collecti vel y.
This year's editor-in-chief Holland Neff
concluded the program by introducing the
1987-88 Board of Editors including new
editor Christopher Griesel and managing
editor Debra Herauf.
Houston attorney Richard Faulk (cen ter) received the
Fifth Circuit Symposium award at the annual Law
Review banquet. With Faulk are students Jeff
Harrzson (I) and Faron Webb (r) .
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A new award was presented by the Houston
law firm of Gilpin, Pohl & Bennett for the
best student article on a litigation-related
topic. The recipient was second-year
student Chris Griesel.
The merit selection of judges was the topic
of the 1987 Strasburger and Price Lecture in
Trial Advocacy, delivered by Amarillo
attorney Don M. Dean on March 25 at the
Law School.
1986-87 editor-in-c hief Holland Neff receives the
Berman, Mitchell, Yeager &- Gerber award from
managing editor Steve Kotara at the Law Review
banquet.
Dean Frank Newton greets District Judge Halbert o.
Woodward (center) and Fifth Circuit Judge Thomas
Gee (r) at the annual Law Review Banquet April3rd.
Gee was the keynote speaker at the event.
Houston attorney Richard Faulk received
the Fifth Circuit Symposium Award for his
article on "Civil Procedure" (Vol. 18, No.2).
Christopher Bebel of Dallas was presented
with the Lead Article Award for his article
entitled "Why the Approach of Heckman v.
Ahmanson Will Not Become the Prevailing
Greenmail Viewpoint: Race to the Bottom
Continues" (Vol. 18, No.4).
Don Dean Delivers
Strasburger & Price Lecture
Student award winners at the Law Review banquet (l
to r) Johnny Merritt, Richard Casner, Holland Neff,
Ross Pringle, Louis Knabeschuh, Debra Herauf,
Chris Griesel, Dick LeMasters, Michael Northrup .
Other student award winners included
Sherrill & Pace Outstanding First Draft
Award - Richard Casner; Orgain, Bell &
Tucker Outstanding Note Award - Johnny
Merritt; 1979-80 Board of Editors
Outstanding Comment Award - Tim
Perrin; M. Penn L . Best Researched Article
Award - Debra Herauf; Jackson, Walker,
Winstead, Cantwell & Miller Outstanding
Staff Member Award - Michael Northrup;
Outstanding Associate Editor Award Louis Knabeschuh; McWhorter, Cobb &
Johnson Outstanding Third Year Member
Dean, a partner in the Amarillo law firm of
Underwood, Wilson, Berry, Stein and
Johnson, has served the past four years as
chairman of the State Bar Committee on
Selection, Compensation and Tenure of
State Judges .
From 1969 un til 1975 Dean served as the
first judge of the newly created 181st
District Court in Potter and Randall
Counties.
In 1983 Dean received from the S tate Bar
the President's Special Service Award in
recognition for his work on the
Referendum Task Force for Administrative
Rules of the State Bar.
Dean received his bachelor's degree from
Texas Tech in 1955 and his law degree
from Southern Methodist University School
of Law in 1958.
The lecture is sponsored annually by the
Dallas law firm of Strasburger and Price.
Students selected as members of the
national Order of Barristers for excellence
in the art of courtroom advocacy inel uded
Ronnie Agnew, Brian Cartwright,
Katherine DiSorbo, Lin Hughes, Brian
Loncar, and Joe Lovell.
Achievements Recognized
at Annual Awards
Program
Professor Dan Benson was selected the
Outstanding Professor of the Year by the
student body.
Houston attorney John adam was the
guest speaker at the Annual Awards Day
ceremony held in the Law School Forum
on April 15. Over fifty students were
recognized for achievements in advocacy,
writing and academics.
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adam, who served as special legislative
counsel to former Governor Mark White
spoke on achieving excellence to an
audience of students, faculty, University
administration and several members of the
Law School Board of Trustees. adam is
now with the law firm of Helm, Pletcher,
Hogan, Bowen & Saunders.
Lubbock attorneys George Gilkerson (l) and Joe
Nagy (center) visit with John Browning '80 (r) of
Dallas at the Honors and Awards Day dinner.
University President Lauro Cavazos visits with Mr.
and Mrs . Robert Gaston of Midland at the Honors &
Awards Day ceremony. The Gastons have endowed a .
scholarship in honor of her father, the late Mr. Charles
Crenshaw who practiced law in Lubbock for many
years.
The highest student award, the George W.
and Sarah H. Dupree Award was presented
to Diann Hanson. The Dupree Award
honors the graduating student who, in the
opinion of his or her colleagues, best
exemplifies the ability desired in one soon
to join the legal profession. The Judge
Meade F . Griffin Award, recognizing the
student who has best utilized the law school
experience to improve and prepare for
service to the profession and to mankind,
was awarded to Susan Hutchison. C.J.S.
awards were presented to first -year Kevin
Crean, second-year Jody Hagemann and
third-year Skip McCormick.
Law Professor Dan Benson accepts the Outstanding
Professor of the year award from Rafe Foreman,
President of Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity.
Law Professor "Dirty Dave" Cummins (r) explains
matters of importance to Law School Association
President Mike Crowley '77 (center) and State Bar
President Joe Nagy (I) at a dinner concluding the
Honors and Awards Day activities.
Honors and Awards Day speaker John Odam.
Odam's remarks were prefaced by
congratulatory remarks from University
President Lauro Cavazos who also
expressed thanks on behalf of the
University to the many award and
scholarship contributors.
Robin Green '70 of Lubbock presents the Martin
Luther King award to third-year student Orlando
DeHoyos. The award is given to the student who has
worked to realize Reverend King's dream in
preparing for law practice. It is presented by civil
rights and poverty lawyers practicing in West Texas.
C.].S. award winners (l to r) Clyde "Skip"
McCormick, third-year; Jody Hagemann, secondyear; Kevin Crean, first -year.
Law School trustee Charles Gentry 70 and his wife
Susie of Dallas enjoy the Honors and Awards Day
dinner held at the Lubbock Plaza Hotel on April 15th.
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SPOTLIGHT
Louisiana at regionals and then finished in
quarterfinals at nationals. The problem
concerned a complicated damage issue in a
civil case.
1986-87 Proves
((Outstanding)) for
Tech Advocacy Teams
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The 1986-87 academic year was a stellar one
for Texas Tech advocacy teams as they
posted wins in virtually every competition.
A synopsis of the year shows that of nine
interschool competitions, Tech captured an
international title, a national title, three
regional championships, three regional
second places, and one regional third place.
Five teams qualified for national
competitions .
As a tribute to these outstanding
achievements by Tech law students and
their coaches, the spotlight of this issue of
the Cornerstone is on the continuation of
Tech's winning tradition in moot court,
mock trial, client counseling and
negotiation competitions.
The Tech client counseling team brought
home both the national and international
titles after competing against teams from
the United States and other Englishspeaking nations in the American Bar
Association's Client Counseling
Competition held March 27 and 28 in
Toronto, Canada.
The team of second-year students Jody
Hagemann and Kevin Glasheen and thirdyear student Brian Loncar defeated
Hastings School of Law in the final round
to capture the national championship.
Then the squad competed against the
winning teams from Canada and Great
Britain to take the international title as
well.
Sponsored by the Dallas law firm of
Winstead, McGuire, Sechrest & Minick, the
team qualified for the nationals by winning
the regional competition held in Lubbock
in early March. This year marked the third
consecutive year a Texas Tech team has
advanced to the national competition.
Kidd, a second-year student will compete at
nationals in San Francisco next August.
The competition problem raised issues
regarding the proper decision -maker for a
patient who is unable to speak for himself.
Moot court teams were coached by adjunct
professors, Don Hunt and Murray Hensley.
Other regional honors went to the T helen,
Marrin, Johnson and Bridges National
Invitational Mock Trial team and the ABA
National Negotiation team . Sponsored for
the first time, the Thelen, Marrin
competition hosted law schools from
Texas. The Tech team of third-years
Ronnie Agnew and Brian Cartwright won
second place. Volunteer coach for the team .
was Lubbock lawyer Charles B. Frye.
Winstead, McGuire, Sechrest & Minick National
Client Counseling Team (l to r) Brian Loncar, Jody
Hagemann, Kevin Glasheen, Coach Charles Bubany.
The competition tested skills in legal
consultation, this year on the general
subject of "children and the law." Team
coach was law professor Charles Bubany.
Regional titles went to the National Mock
Trial team and the American Trial Lawyers
Association (ATLA) National Mock Trial
Team in their respective competitions held
in early spring.
The National Team of Brian Cartwright,
Joe Lovell and Ronnie Agnew, all thirdyear students, defeated the University of
Texas in the final round to win the
regional competition sponsored by the
University of Houston Law Center. A total
of twenty-one teams from five states
competed on a criminal problem
concerning armed bank robbery and a
conspiracy to commit bank robbery. By
winning regionals, the team qualified for
the national finals in San Antonio where
they finished in the quarterfinals.
The ATLA Mock Trial Team beat the
University of Houston in the finals to win
the regional competition and the right to
compete at the national finals in
Washington D.C. Team members J. Robert
Miller, Thomas Murphy, both third-year
students and second-year David Fisher
participated with twelve other law school
teams from Texas, Oklahoma and
ATLA Mock Trial Team (l to r) David Fisher, Coach
Don Hunt, T homas Murphy, Rob Mzller.
Both mock trial teams were coached by
adjunct law professors Don Hunt of the
Lubbock firm of Carr, Evans, Fouts and
Hunt and Murray Hensley of the Lubbock
firm of McWhorter, Cobb & Johnson.
Two Texas Tech moot court teams
qualified for national competitions after
placing second in their respective regional
competitions. The National Moot Court
Team took best brief honors in addition to
second place at the regional competition in
Dallas last November. Arguing a problem
raising Fifth and Sixth Amendment issues,
the team of second-years Guy Kidd, Les
Hatch and third-years Lin Hughes and
Wayne Howell finished in the octafinals at
the national competition held in January
in New York. This year marked the eighth
time in the last eleven years that a Tech
team has advanced to the National finals.
The ABA National Appellate Advocacy
Team competed with twelve teams in
regional competition and finished second
to South Texas College of Law. Team
members Katherine DiSorbo and June
Higgins, third-year students, and Guy
National Mock Trial Team (l to r) R onnie Agnew,
Team Coach Don Hu nt, J oe Lovell, Brian
Cartwright.
Coached by law professor John Murray, the
Tech Negotiation tealIl won third place at
the regional competition in Waco in
November. Team members Karen Bertram
and Matt Nanny and student
advisor/alternate Michael Spinks, all
second-year students, negotiated a contract
problem concerning a franchise nursing
home.
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FACULTY NEWS
ALUMNI NEWS
MARIL YN PHELAN published an article
entitled "Excess Business Holdings of
Private Foundations" in Tax-Exempt
Organizations, Prentice-Hall, Inc. March,
1987.
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TOM BAKER published a commentary
with Professor Douglas McFarland; The
Need for a New National Court, 100 Harv.
L. Rev. 1400 (1987). Baker was also recently
commissioned by the Federal Judicial
Center to prepare a primer and an
annotated bibliography on federal appellate
jurisdiction for newly appointed judges on
the United States Courts of Appeals. Baker
has been nominated for Outstanding
Young Men of America and was selected for
the next edition of Who's Who in American
Law.
DAN BENSON was chosen by the student
body as Outstanding Professor of the Year.
On May 11, Benson and Charles Bubany
taught a class for the Lubbock Police
Departmen t Academy. Benson and Bubany
taught various a spects of criminal case
prepa ra tion, trial p rocedure, rules of
eviden ce, and rela ted topics havin g to do
wi th the police officer's role in the
presenta tion o f a cri minal case in court.
T h e class was h eld in the courtroom of the
Law School, with 38 candida tes a ttending.
Benson is also in the process o f revising
Chapter H of Wicker & Benson 's Te xas
Lawyer's Guide, on Debtor R elief and
Consumer Protection, for publica tion in
the fall of this year.
CHARLES BUBANY recently taught
several sessions in a Municipa l Court Judge
Training Seminar held in Lubbock at the
Holiday Inn Civic Center May 12 - 14.
Bubany joined Dan Benson in training a
Lubbock Police Academy rookie class in
case preparation and courtroom demeanor
and testimony. Bubany and Bob Wood
paired to win the Delt Spring Partnership
Tournament at the Slaton Golf Club.
John Murray
JOHN MURRAY presented a paper at the
International Studies Association
convention in Washington D.C.
on April 17. The paper was entitled
"Security Treaties as a Reflection of the
US - Soviet Relationship." In addition, the
Missouri] ournal of Dispute Resolution
published Murray's book review on the new
textbook, Goldberg, Green and Sanders,
Dispute Resolution (1985). The Law
Review Digest will soon publish a
summary of Murray' s article on improving
parent-child relatio nships in divorced
fam ilies. The article appeared in full in the
Un iversity of Michigan ] ournal of Law
Reform.
J E R EMY C . WICKER completed the 1987
Annual Supplement to T exas Lawyer's
Guide, with Dan Benson. T he guide will be
re leased in January 1987. Wicker al so
completed the 1987 Pocke t Parts to T exa s
Practice: Trial and Appellate Procedure
(West) released in January 1987. Wicker
lectured on New Texas Rules of Civil and
Criminal Evidence, April 17, to a joint
meeting of Wichita, Clay, Archer,
Wilbarger and Young County Bar
Associations.
W. REED QUILLIAM, JR., who has been
a Visiting Professor at SMU Law School
during the spring semester, will speak at
the Advanced Estate Planning-Probate
Course to be conducted by the State Bar of
Texas June 17 -19 in Dallas. His topic will
be "How Texas Lawyers are Handling
Marital Deduction Problems."
DAVID CUMMINS has traveled the state
during the past year to bring professional
responsibility lectures to Austin, Dallas,
Wichita Falls, Odessa (twice), Midland,
Abilene and Amarillo. The prospective
Texas Rules of Professional Conduct are in
the committee draft stage and are presently
being considered by the State Bar of Texas
Board of Directors. According to Cummins,
this area of law - the law of lawyering - is
moving quickly as marketing activity
increases, new structures are formed for
delivering legal services, specialization
continues apace, disciplinary activity
intensifies, and liability by lawyers to nonclients looms on the horizon. Professor
Cummins enjoys the mid and large
audience groups but he has suggested that
firms and corporate counsel staffs might
consider in-firm or in-house professional
responsibility programs that have been
tailored to fit their specific areas of interest
and activity. He says that participatory
CLE is inevitably more productive than
effortless listening.
BRUCE KRAMER chaired the faculty for a
Short Course on Local Government
Problems. The course was designed for
experienced city executives and municipal
law practitioners with the purpose of
enhancing their ability to deal effectively
with topics of current interest. The course
sessions included "The Tax Reform Act of
1986," "Funding and Management of a
Risk Management Program" and two
sessions by Kramer: "Supreme Court
Developments" and "Alternative Sources of
Revenue." Aside from teaching, Kramer
recently revised chapters on Flood Plain
Zoning in Powell on Real Property.
Currently, Kramer is serving as Interim
Director of Applied Planning Research
Institute for Municipalities, Environments
and Regions (APRIMER), Texas Tech
University.
FRANK SKILLERN received the
"Presidential Excellence in Teaching
Award, 1987."
Texas Tech Law School
Association
ST ATE BAR BREAKFAST &
RECEPTION
Friday, June 12, 1987
Hershey Hotel
Corpus Christi
Breakfas t:
Reception:
7: 30 to 8: 45 am
5:30 to 7:30 pm
Alumni, spouses & friends of the
Law School are invited to join us
for our annual get-together during
the State Bar Convention.
C lass of 1986
SUSAN ZIMMER COX has become a
partner in the firm of Fitzjarrald and Poole,
now known as Fitzjarrald, Poole & Cox,
PO Box 1398, Amarillo, Texas 79105,
806/372-5552.
GEOFF WEISBART recently left
Thompson & Knight to accept an associate
position with Jenkins and Gilchrist in
Austin, 1600 One American Center, PO Box
2987,512/478-7100, Austin, Texas 78769-2987.
C lass of 1985
DEAN R. QUINN recently moved to the
law firm of Lorance & Thompson, 303
Jackson Hill, Suite 300, Houston, Texas
77007,713/868 -5560
Class of 1984
RANDALL FLUKE is now with the
District Attorney's office in Midland. He
was formerly with the Criminal District
Attorney's office in Lubbock. His new
address is Midland County Courthouse, 4th
Floor, 200 Wall Street, Midland, Texas
79701,915/688-1041.
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DONNAL S. MIXON has joined the law
firm of Hopkins & Sutter of Chicago,
Illinois in their Dallas, Texas office. He
was formerly associated with Bondurant,
Mixson & Elmore of Atlanta, Georgia. His
new address is 545 East Carpenter Freeway,
Suite 1000, Dallas, Texas 75062,
214/830-6020.
C lass of 1983
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JAMES W. GOGGANS has formed his
own firm: James W. Goggans, P.C. He was
formerly with Winstead, McGuire, Sechrest &
Minnick. His new address is 2301 Ohio
Drive, Suite 221, Plano, Texas 75075.
JOSEPH R. LUCAS has been elected
County Attorney for El Paso County,
Texas. His new address is Room 201 CityCounty Building, El Paso, Texas 79901,
915/546-2053.
JAMIE S. VANDIVERE has become an
associate of the law firm of Miller &
Herring where he will be involved in a civil
trial practice. His new address is Box 2330,
Amarillo, Texas 79105,806/373-1713 .
Class of 1982
MARCUS J. BUSCH has opened an office
for the practice of law in Dallas. He was
formerly a Chief Felony Prosecutor with
the Dallas County District Attorney . His
new office address is 8117 Preston Road,
600 Preston Commons West, Dallas, Texas
75225,214/373-9100.
DAVID COPELAND has rejoined
Stubbeman, McRae, Sealy, Laughlin &
Browder, Inc. The practice incl udes
bankruptcy, corporate and banking law.
His new address is 800 First City Center,
No. 2, Midland, Texas 79702, 915/682-1616.
JOHN R . HENDERSON, a partner with
Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue of Dallas, was
recently Board Certified in the area of Civil
Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal
Specialization.
NANCY M. KOENIG received a Special
Achievement Award from the US
Department of Justice for "Sustained
Superior Performance of Duty." She is also
mother of one year old Lora Kathleen.
E.W. SHEPHERD has become a partner in
the firm of Hatch, Beitler & Allen, P .A., 500
Marquette, N.W. Suite 1030, PO Box 27180,
Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87125,
505/247-1400.
Class of 1981
TIM CHOVANEC has been certified by the
Texas Board of Legal Specialization in the
areas of Personal Injury Trial Law and
Civil Trial Law. He is a partner in the law
firm of Leeper, Priddy and Chovanec, 2018
Texas Building, Fort Worth, Texas 76102,
817/336-7251.
GERALD G. DIXON has become
associated with Hatch, Beitler & Allen, P .A.
500 Marquette, N.W. Suite 1030, PO Box
27180, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87175,
505/247-1400.
JIM L. PEACOCK is Chief Prosecutor
185th District Court, Harris County, Texas.
201 Fanin, 185th District Court, Houston,
Texas 77002,713/221-6158.
WADE B. SHELTON has become a partner
in the San Antonio law firm of Groce,
Locke & Hebdon.
C lass of 1980
ALAN CARMICHAEL recently became
board certified in Civil Trial Law.
RANDAL MATHIS has become a partner
in the law firm of Strasburger & Price in
Dallas. His area of practice is general civil
litigation.
BRADLEY S. UNDERW OOD was elected
Judge, County Court at Law #2 of Lubbock
County. He took office November 16, 1986.
His new address is County Court at Law #2.
PO Box 10536, Lubbock, Texas 79408,
806/741-8040.
Class of 1979
Class of 1976
JANET DAVIS BAKER has opened her
office for the general practice of law in
Kansas City, Missouri. She was formerly an
associate with the firm Koenigsdorf,
Kusnetzky & Wyrsch. Her new office
address is 819 Walnut, Suite 402, Kansas
City, Missouri 64106, 816/556-9402.
PATRICK DUFFY has opened an office for
the General Practice of Law at the Century
Plaza Building, Suite 714, 310 West Hall,
Midland, Texas 79701, 915/687-0424. He
was formerly legal counsel with Wagner
and Brown.
MARYLANEBROADDUS~sb~n
Class of 1974
promoted to senior staff counsel and
assistant corporate secretary of Paso-Tex
Holding Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of
El Paso Electric Co. With the legal
department of El Paso Electric for more
than a year, she was formerly with the legal
department of El Paso Natural Gas.
DAVID G. LEWIS was elected Judge of
Moore County Court at Law. His new
address is Moore County Courthouse, PO
Box 495, Dumas, Texas 79029,
806/935-2440.
KENNETH L. McALISTER received
certification in Civil Trial Law from the
Texas Board of Legal Specialization.
RICHARD L. MOORE has been appointed
as an assistant United States Attorney for
the Eastern District of Texas and assigned
to the Tyler office. He was formerly First
Assistant District Attorney and Chief
Felony Prosecutor for the Smith County
(Texas) Criminal District Attorney's office.
His new address is PO Box 100 I, Tyler,
Texas 75710, 214/597-8149.
EDWARD M. EDSON, former managing
partner of Brice & Mankoff, has started the
new firm of Stifford, Pezzulli, Edson, Meyer &
Jones. The firm specializes in litigation in
all federal and state courts. The new firm is
located at 1200 Diamond Shamrock Tower
717 North Harwood Street, Dallas, Texas '
75201,214/742-1200.
Class of 1973
ALBERT E. ANDRES is now with Wise,
Stuhl, Andres, Orleans & Morris 1601 Elm
Suite 3434 Thanksgiving Tower: Dallas, '
Texas 75201. 214/969-7525.
Class of 1978
DICK HARRIS and MARC McBEATH
have formed a firm for the practice of
business, commercial, and bankruptcy law.
Harris & McBeath, P.C. Attorneys at Law
are located in Suite 660 of the First
National Bank Building, PO Box 3835,
Abilene, Texas 79604,915/677-3311.
JIM JORDAN is now associated with
R iddle & Brown, P .C., 4004 Belt Line Road,
Suite 200, Dallas, Texas 75244-2317 .
District Director Steve Rodgers '79 of Bryan and
Berry Crowley of Austin visit at the Annual Alumni
meeting on April 2 at the Four Seasons Hotel in
Austin. 1987-88 Law School Association Officers and
Directors were installed including President Michael
Crowley of A ustin; President-Elect David Seidler of
Fort Wort h; Vice -President Harry Cure of Fort
Worth ; and Secretary Terri Board Moore of Dallas.
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