Brooklyn Law School - Chancellor Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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.g W-jjyfaea 79334 PRACTICE COURT sion of Dr. Edwin Welling Cady, founder and director NDER the supervi f the Brookl n Law School Practice Court, fifty aggressively conducted 0 Y and interesting trials were litigated in the Trial and Motion Parts of the 1933 calendar of the Practice Court. The statements of fact used as a basis of preparation embraced every field of law. There were cases involving Surrogate's Practice, Criminal Law, Sales, Contracts, Carriers, Corporations, Agency, Real Property, Guaranty, Domestic Relations, Insurance, Partnership, Bailments and Trusts, affording to the par- ticipants an unexcelled opportunity to actually become familiar with an un- usually detailed and complete knowledge of the interrelations of substantive and adjective law in the subject-matter under consideration. During the con- duct of the trials, the spectators saw presented before them realistic enactments of situations that arise in everyday practice of the law. There were missing husbands, broken legs, stolen furs, absconding part- ners, murderous gangsters, negligent drivers, defrauding managers, sleeping watchmen, conniving relatives, missing wills, wily detectives, stony corporations, expert doctors, heartless bigamists, reckless motormen, bereaved wives, schem- ing directors and kleptomaniacal spouses, there were witnesses who were shy, who were sly, who suffered from amnesia, who were biased, who were voluble, who were confiding, who were lugubrious, who had extraordinary memories. The locales included cemeteries, streetcorner accidents, deathbed scenes, garages, railroad cars, hotels, restaurants, grade-crossings, police stations, stables, apartments, offices, steamships, penthouses and basements. There were falls in backyards, off trolleycars, defalcations, kidnapping, blackmail- ings, poisonings, the finding of lost property, the losing of stolen property, ghostly visitations, murders, assaults, abuses of confidence, fabrications in testi- mony, crossing accidents, nurses, basketball players, automobile accidents, widows, policemen, co-respondents, robberies, insurance policies, testimony was given by experts on handwriting, medicine, typewriting, ballistics, furs, horses, jewels, stocks, speeds, ages, colors, sizes, shapes, appearances and disap- pearances. D Trials are conducted under the strict rules of pleading and practice, pre- sided over by prominent judges and attorneys, and the court-room procedure is that of the Supreme Court. The attorneys, who are senior students, meet their clients after an enactment of the facts has taken place, it is their duty Pzge One Hmzdaed Six

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,,, to ha. 1933 15 ,L ee --if V I f f X 4 SCENE AT PRACTICE COURT to prepare the case completely for trial, omitting none of the steps which they, as practicing attorneys, would have to go through. Complete papers are drawn up in detailed legal fashion. In a representative case, there were pre- pared and served the following papers: summons, complaint, answer, notice of motion including affidavits, answering affidavits, order, amended answer, reply, notice of trial, note of issue and plaintiffs and defendants trial memoranda of law. To insure the correctness of the procedure followed, the attorneys are guided by graduate proctors, who supervise the work of each attorney through the formal steps. The testimony of witnesses is carefully gone over, and after both sides have had individual conferences with Doctor Cady to insure a con- sistent and triable case, the case is marked ready , placed on the calendar, which is under the direction of the chief clerk, Miss Schumer, and her assistants, and subsequently tried. In this fashion, the students participating in the activities of the Practice Court are given a valuable preliminary opportunity to become familiar with practice and procedure, the preparation of a case, and trial conduct. Since the court is conducted precisely as the Supreme Court, this training has proven of inestimable value to graduating students. As has been the custom in the past, students from other colleges sat as Page One Hzuzdred Eight jt in B. HEL DoU Jaco ISRA1 PETE MUR' WILL PAUL SOLO. Ismoi MAXY MORE JAMES: SAMU SOLO1 HERM CLEM GERAII I. FRA How