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6 Law Student 1 (1928-1929)

handle is hein.journals/lwstud6 and id is 1 raw text is: THE LAW STUDENI A Magazine for Students and Lawyers VOL. V1, No. I The 1928, by BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 24 Pages SEPTEMBER 15, 1928 PRACTICE BEFORE THE DEPARTMENTS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT By Roger O'Donnell, Esq., of the District of Columbia Bar j The average member of the legal introduced upon which more or profession who practices in one of less extended hearings are held by the forty-eight States of the Union the committees of the Senate and probably entertains the idea that House of Representatives. Upon the practice of law in the District all of these measures involving en- of Columbia is restricted to the croachment upon some existing local courts-that most of the legal right, actual or supposed, interest- work incident to handling business ed parties are permitted to appear to which the United States Gov- and in most cases be represented . 4 ernment is a party is transacted in by counsel, the filing of briefs and the Federal Courts sitting through- discussions of the law being of out the country. However, such very common occurrence. Many an idea is so far from the truth important interests constantly that it may probably be stated maintain counsel in Washington, without the fear of contradiction to keep in touch with legislation that the major part of the legal affecting their affairs and to safe- work touching upon business with guard these rights to' the fullest JUDAH PHILIP BENJAMIN the Federal Government is, and of extent possible. Congress is an in- 1811 -1884 aecessity must be, prosecuted and tensely human institution, and Biography on page 9 :arried on in the District of never refuses to receive informa- Thlumbia. tion and enlightenment in the fram- The Legislative Establishment ing of legislation. This field for A LETTER FROM able lawyers is in no sense what DEAN CARUSI Of the three great co-ordinate is known as lobbying; on the )ranches of the Federal Govern- contrary, it is legitimate legal work Editor The Law Student: nent, as established by the Con- and operates in the public interest I have read with interest Professor ;titution of the United States, of quite as much as for the benefit of Wormser's article in your May num- :ourse all of the Legislative work those directly affected, for it is ber of The Law Student, entitled s centered in the District of Co- obvious that it is better to assist Overcrowding the Legal Profes- umbia and at every session of the in furthering the enactment of o. the extent that any profession ?ongress there are countless bills good and wise legislation than it may have a percentage of incompe- is to bring about the repeal of that tent and dishonest practitioners, it is which has been enacted and found unquestionably overcrowded to just In This Issue bad or destructive, that extent. I have seen some statistics recently The Judicial Establishment published by the Carnegie Foundation Practice before the Depart- which indicate that over a period of tTurning to the Judicial branch ten years last past, the number of ments of the Federal Gov- of the Government, we find that practicing lawyers in America per one erment ............. ....1I er oer ...... .1 the court of last resort-the Su- thousand of population has decreased Roger O'Donnell reme Court of the United States slightly. This was a great surprise to me, but the work done by the News of the Schools ......... 1 sits only in Washington, and the Foundation is so reliable that I think Bar Examination Statistics... 2 thousand and one details, incident there can be no question of the ac- to practicing before that court curacy of its figures. Bar Admission Requirements. 3 ought to be attended to by practi- The thing of very great importance, however, pointed out by Professor Educational Requirements for tioners located in the District of Wormser, to wit: the prevalence of Admission to Legal Practice 3 Columbia, who are usually asso- and the evil involved in our contin- The Law Student's Digest.._. 5 ciated for that purpose by and gent fee system in this country, is with the counsellors in the States such that the whole problem deserves Gray Tells How. .7 whence the cases thoughtful study with a view to pos- Lawyer Goriginate. sible remedy. Legal Ethics ................ 9 The United States Court of I have been more or less in active Claims is situated exclusively in practice for more than thirty years, Judah Philip Benjamin....... 9 the District of Columbia and, un- and it is my deliberate opinion that Comment on Cases .......... 14 der what is known as the Tucker nothing has so degraded the legal profession in the eyes of the laity, has Cases of Interest ............ 16 Act, has sole jurisdiction in actions so demoralized practitioners, and is ex contractu, where the sum in so fundamentally responsible for the Bar Examination Questions... 18 controversy is above $10,000; up abuses which have brought discredit Outlines for Review Series. .20,21 to that amount, the United States upon the legal profession of the United States, as that form of specu- BookDistrict Courts have concurrent lation in litigation which is involved jurisdiction. Practice before the in the contingent fee oractice. (Continued page 10, col. 1) (Continued page ?3, col. 3) NEWS OF THE SCHOOLS College of Law The Tulane University of Louisiana New Orleans, La. The Tulane University of Louisiana is the successor of the University of Louisiana, established in 1847. It was incorporated with its present oiganiza- tion in 1884 and the name of Tulane added to perpetuate the memory of the public spirited citizen who endowed it. The College of Law was established in 1847. It has conferred diplomas on more than sixteen hundred graduates. The new home of the law school is a modern stone, fireproof building. It is constructed of Indiana limestone, containing three stories in which are located the rapidly growing law library, classrooms and separate offices of the resident professors and librarian. The faculty of the Tulane College of Law is composed of five full-time resi- dent professors, in addition to several leading practitioners of the City of New Orleans who have been selected on ac- count of their expert knowledge in the particular subjects that they teach. The following is the faculty with the name of the law school in which they received their training: Rufus C. Harris, Dean (Yale). Newman F. Baker (Chicago). Frederick K. Beutel (Harvard). H. Milton Colvin (Yale). Charles E. Dunbar, Jr. (Harvard). Rufus E. Foster (Tulane). Monte M. Lemann (Harvard). Sumter D. Marks, Jr. (Tulane). Eugene A. Nabors (Yale). Walter J. Suthon, Jr. (Tulane). Edmond E. Talbot (Tulane). Delvaille H. Th6ard (Tulane). Ren6 A. Viosca (Tulane). William W. Westerfield (Tulane). (Continued page 4, col. 1) BENJAMIN F. DUMONT Literally thousands of law students throughout the United States will learn with sincere regret of the passing of Ben- jamin F. Dumont, more famil- iarly known as Ben. Starting as a page boy dur- ing school vacation in June of 1909, he continued with the publishers of Corpus Juris-Cyc until his untimely death which occurred last month. In recent years, Mr. Dumont's activities have been largely de- voted to educational work in Legal Bibliography among the students of law schools located in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio and Missouri, though his name will be familiar to many students throughout the major portion of the country, as he has visited in mte than half the law schools of America.

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