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61 Harv. L. Rec. 1 (1975)

handle is hein.journals/hlrec61 and id is 1 raw text is: HARAR LA5 4REC9R5 America' s Oldest Low School Newspaper SEPTEMBER 19. 1975 TWENTY CENTS Review Quashes Announcement Of 2L Members By Susan Gillette Officially, no one outside Gan- nett House knows the identities of 18 2Ls who have been slaving over Law Review tasks since early August, reaping their reward for receiving the highest grades in their first year sections. In about four weeks these 18 will be joined by the 2Ls who win coveted membership in the Law Review through the writing com- petition. At that time the Law Re- view will announce the names of all its 2L members. For the time being, though, none of the Law Review editors (Continued on Page 2) Tougher J.D. Requirements Confront Entering Students By Ann T. Bailen First year students must con- tend with a new set of require- ments for the J.D. degree. The new standards will not apply to second and third year students, but will apply to students re- entering the Law School in Sep- tember, 1975. Major changes are outlined in materials contained in registra- tion packets. They include the ad- dition of a Professional Respon- sibility Requirement, the altera- tion of semester minimum and maximum credits, and the es- tablishment of new minimum Goldfarb Signals Change In Law 'Business'-Sacks, By Frank E. Sisson Goldfarb v. Virginia State Bar Association, the Supreme Court case decided on July 16 holding minimum lawyers' fee schedules to violate the Sherman Antitrust Act, may signal important changes in some of the practices of the profession, according to Albeit M. Sacks, Dean of the Law School; Sacks, in an interview with the REcoSo, stated that Goldfarb is significant in exposing various practices of the legal profession to scrutiny under the unreasonabl e- 0b restraint of trade test of the Sherman Act. Such practices had been exempted from examination (Continued on Page 13) Dean Albert M. Sacks academic standards, including a minimum grade of B- for the Written Work Requirement. The Professional Respon- sibility Requirement may be satisfied in the first year by taking the first year elective Legal Profession or later by taking Legal Profession or In- troduction to Trial Advocacy. The requirement is the product of a growing concern ex- pressed by bar associations since the Watergate era about the ethical irresponsibility of members of the legal profes- sion. Registrar Mary D. Upton and Assistant Dean Stephen M. Ber- nardi stressed that the faculty was not compelled to adopt the re- quirement by new conditions for entry to state bars. The Faculty acted out of a recognition that most HLS graduates do become practicing attorneys and a belief that a course in professional ethics is an important aspect of a legal education. The faculty has abolished the different minimum and maximum credit restrictions applicable to the first and second semesters of the second and third years. Al- though students still must earn a total of 52 credits in the last two years of law school, they may choose to distribute these credits between the first and second semesters in any manner. The old system arose at a time when the Law School of- fered more year-long courses (Continued on Page 4) VOL. 61, NO. I SEPTEMBER 19 1975 TWENTY CENTS

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