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26 Alaska B. Rag 1 (2002)

handle is hein.barjournals/askabar0026 and id is 1 raw text is: ~ LAW TECH THUS FOR 20102 -ETENM ELECTIONS UPCOMING OUTSIDE COUNSEL $ TO DIP? •. f JUNGE MEMs JAY IN JUNEAU VOLUME 26, NO.1 Dn11 BQk dies at8 'Snow Tiger' was part of Alaska history 'I dgiar Paul Boyko is one of those ,asks attorneys ' £ who will be remembered as a legend of the bar. hlis ,r I death in Washington State on New Year's day left behind frinds, foes, and family who will not soon forget their encounters with the Anchorage attorney who left his mark since Territorial days. Boyko ciied in Des Moines. WA after several years of ill health. 11e'd left Alaska courts, politics and the law in 1999 following a series or strokes. He was 83. As many in his generation, Boyko didn't come up the easy way. lie was born in Vienna on Oct. 19,1918. An only child, Ioyk's father was an eye doctor, and his mother wits an opera singer. whao he called a dramatic soprano n an interview with the nchoraige Daly Newsain 1995.-1.wu a spoiled brat, he com-' .mented. Nevertheless, his,, , family endured two yrwildi --wars; Boyko and his Jew4 i wife-to-be fled the NI'' ala in 1938 while 'atethi University of Viennaandt., landed in Scotland.There, he finished school at St. Andrews University with a depree in chemistry, and the young couple emi- patedtoNewYorkin 1940 with $100 in their pockets. The Depression found Boyko workingwhateverjobs he could find--selling hot dogs at baseball games, working at a rubber-manufacturing plant, cleaning up labeatJohns lopkinsUniveralty, and deliverinigchemi- cals for a match company. It was as close to using his education in chemistry as he'd ever come. By 1945, Boyko had graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in law, and remembers one of his first cases in Baltimore as one that nearly drove him out of the profession. lie was defending a man charged with robbery and murder, who faced the death penalty if convicted. lie won the case, but ha said he didn't much like having someone's life in his hands. 'If I had lost that csue, I would have hung it up, he said in the 1995 interview. Boyko came Into the Alaska Territory in 1953, as a solicitor for the federal Bureau of Land Management. A year later, he was in private practice, and was ap- pointed Alaska attorney general during Walter J. Ilickel's first administration in 196748. During his tenure as the state's top lawyer, it was Boyko who initiated a statewide task force that would lead to the pase of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. lie suggested that such a group--reproeented by Willie Hensley, Emil Notti, John Borbridge Jr., Alice Brown, Richard Frank, Charles Franz, Byron Mallott, Hugh Nicholls, Harvey Samuelsen and Don Wright-would help the state and Alaska Natives find common ground. The Governor's Task Force on Native Land Claims unveiled its proposal for settling Native claims at an historic hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee an Inte- rior and Insular Affairs in Anchorage in 1968, three years before the passage of ANCSA in December of 1971. Never entirely divorced firom politics, Boyko built an Continued on page 13 o semper dignoas $3.00 JANUARY - FEBnUARY, 2002 THE LAW FIRM PICNIC EVOLVES pg. 22 Legal automation technologies and computer hardware picks ously seems to be alwaysjust and, to me, seems to le more By JE KAs beyond reach. With the in- accurate than its main com- troduction of IBM and petitor, Dragon Dictate. ViaVoiceprofeaionalverslon Correction with VanVoice is I)J4'l 1i', '0 8, the early promise of voice finallyeasyandswiftand the 'a, :,,f (illj,',' recognition technology as a program's language model means to increase productiv- continues to constantly read. le':l ityandtodecreaeofliceover- just itself not only to your headhasfinallyreached frui- pronunciation but lNn toyour Lion. writing style. Although no I tom Imter 1'.,,.,; IBM ViaVoice Profes. voice recognition program is sional Version 8 is a signifi- perfect.indoed, we find that hlwe 14'ri'l ,dil 4 111, cant improvement upon ear- uii .th lI , 'I ' lier releases of this program Continued on page 16 P.O(s MIUE7 U 5Pod. Iam Aadme, is0@11IO P.05 He 401 ,/ g Ansdhor., Alauel VOICE RECOONITION Voice recognition technol. ogy has always seemed to be a technology whose easy ap- plcation is just around the corner, a comer that previ-

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