University of Texas School of Law - Peregrinus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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First Row - left to right: Directors; Golemon, Cline, Paine, Lawhon, Manning, Baumgartner. Second Row -left to right: Teis, Heatherly, White, Steele, Norman, Snodgrass, Dejonge, Egan. Third Row - left to right: Blackard, Hall, Danner, Cohen, Jones, Baker, Johnson. Fourth Row - left to right: Carmouche, Hamel, Ausley, Rachal, Rhodes, and Theis. The Legal Research Board was created in 1962, which the approval of the State Bar of Texas. The board serves two important functions: It provides law students with an opportunity to gain valuable experience through researching and preparing legal memoranda on actual cases submitted by lawyers; and it provides a readily available research assistant for lawyers with difficult and time consuming research problems, or with limited library facilities. Cases submitted are promptly researched, and the attorney can expect a thorough memorandum on the legal points involved within a month from the date of the receipt. The Board is composed of a Director, five Associate Directors, and a staff of approximately forty writers. Membership is predicated upon successful completion of a legal memorandum on a difficult qualification problem and producing satisfactory work as a writer-candidate. As a writer the student is expected to complete two problems each semester which include research in the various areas of criminal law, procedure, taxation, insurance, trademarks, and many others. 176 Legal Research Board

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Board of Editors Seated, Left to Right: Jim Coates, Research Editor-Jack Gatewood, Articles Editor; Jay Kaplan, Book Review Editor; Back Row, Left to Right: Steve Franklin, Book Review Editor; Mel Eichelbaum, Administrative Editor; Earl Bentley, Editor-in-Chief; Otto Kitsinger, Casenote Editor. The Texas International Law Forum is a journal devoted to furthering the study of public and private international law. The Forum publishes articles written by authorities in the field and has a world wide distribution. Casenotes, comments, and book reviews written by students of the School of Law are an equally important part of each issue. Those students who fulfill the Forum’s writing requirements become members of the Casenote and Comment Staff and are eligible for election to the Board of Editors. The Forum is one of three student-edited international law journals currently listed in the Index to Legal Periodicals. In spite of cramped conditions and hard to meet deadlines the Editorial Board does the work required to get out a first rate Journal. International Law Forum 175

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First Row, Left to Right: McGrady, Secretary; Lambcrth, Vice Chairman; Parker, Chairman; Lucksinger, Treasurer; Doyle, Coordinator. Second Row, Left to Right: Glast; Guevara; Appleberry; Kay; Yaker; Holland; Griflis; Third Row, Left to Right: Gray; Van Court; Foster: Barefield; Davis; Weber; Lawhon; Klapps; Byrd, Dobroski; and Soules. Not Pictured: Bliss; Lock; Leeper; Bradfoot; Clement; Mooney. An Organization dedicated to enhancing the nameofthe law school; the Moot Court Board seleccs its officers and members from among energetic and able individuals in the student body. Membership on the Board carries an honor point toward graduation with honors and another honor point toward eligibility for the Order of Barristers. During the term ofthe 1966-1967 Board, theteam of Rob Parker, Harry Tindall, and Neil Sullivan won the national championship in the International Law Moot Court Competition. The State Bar Moot Court Team of Bob Peavy, Jim Doyle and Rob Parker won the best brief award in that competition, and the National Moot Court team of Jim Doyle, Stanley Kay and Steve Morris won best brief, best advocate, and best team at the regional competition. The 1966-67 Hildebrand Moot Court Competition was the largest and most successful ever, involving some 200 Texas law students as advocates and 150 Austin attorneys, judges and law professors as judges. The competition began in early October and continued until the final round before the Supreme Court of Texas on Law Day. Members of the Board also serve as the Teaching Quizmasters in the freshman course on legal research briefwriting and oral advocacy. Moot Court Board 177