Duke University School of Law - Prolocutor Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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Trial by Deposition HE LAST MILE-There is an impression among Hrst- and second-year students that third-year men are a sophisticated group who have left the world of briefing and reviewing to pass into an airy realm of easy contemplation. But in fact, pending graduates feel just as keenly as their first-year brothers the uncertainty that lies ahead. The Bar Examiners and the prospect of practice can engender the same feeling of inse- curity as the Casebook Method. As third-year men, they realize that they are to become the freshest of all freshmen-candidates to practice. But most of the third-year men look forward with anticipation rather than awe to the future. After all they have run their obstacle course from res ipsa to res gCSt21C, and whatever fate may bring to them it can never be so initially mysterious. Indeed an appearance of short-lived exaltation lf ludges in the Courts of Equity reached decisions only after long and careful considerrztion of zurirzcn de- positions. The law student undergoes a three-year trial, and professors decide his fate in each course after grading examination papers. may well be pardoned this battle-worn group as they receive their diplomas. BUT SOME GO FURTHER-Yet, a few hardy souls, for many reasons fnot too easily understood by a majority of their brethrenj elect to return to law school for a year of graduate study. Some want to teach, knowing that today a graduate degree is an almost essential prerequisite to this phase of the profession. Others desire a more thorough legal foundation, perhaps with an eye to specialization in some particular Held. As stu- dents their motives and ways of thinking differ on many things, but all are cognizant of the ad- vantages of possessing a graduate degree in law, whether in order to go into actual practice, teach, or enter the business world. GRADUATE STUDENTS lilrsi row, left to right: Laurent Frantz, Ben johnson, Bueford Herbert, Bill Stanford, Iim Daniels. Serozzzl row: Bill Lemmon, Earle Thomas, Nat Beaman, Hollis Owens, lack North. PAGE 6

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I l CI-I1XRLES H. LIVENGOOD CPIfXRLES L. B. LOWNDES M.KLCOI.1XI MCDERMOTT DOUGLAS B. NIAGGS JOHN DEI. PEBIBERTON D.-XLE F. STANSBURY luslice was possible in old Englcznd only if each case got proper nilentiorz, so the Lord High Chfmcellor had Vlice-Chancellor: to assist him. Duke Law School has cz high faculty-sludefzt ratio, :md all its professors are as learned as they are colorful .... his charming wife. After Mr. Livengood's course in criminal law you knew a good lawyer who could help you have your likeness removed from the Post Office Bulletin Board. A'S'pose you heard a splendid lecture in a class, which was concluded in the hall. S'pose that the lecturer was able to lean back in a chair, hold a notebook on his knee, eat lifesavers, clean his tie, and give one of the best darned lectures you ever heard all at the same time. Who would it be? Why, Mr. Lowndes. Has Maggs gotten you yet? Being gotten by Mr. Maggs was an experience you still re- member. You were certain that you had memo- rized Mr. Cardozo's opinion, but you hadn't caught the meaning of the last thirteen words in the second sentence, third complete paragraph at the bottom of page 761. You have silently thanked him many times since, however, for training you to read carefully. Uncle Mac, as Mr. McDermott was affection- ately known, pushed the law to you from the book and his sleeve. He was one of the best teachers you had, and a fine gentleman. Maestro Pemberton was the one who sought to make us realize the past, present, and future of every opinion and every set of facts. Mr. Stansbury always impressed you as having just stepped off King's Bench, and for that rea- son you called him Lord Stansburyf' Everyone, without exception, liked Mr. Stansbury, who could always be counted on to help the students with their problems. Mr. Wilson's task was to make you less pro- vincial and see beyond the backyard fence and into International Law, a job for which he was well suited. There they are, the men who have shared your triumphs and failures on this highway over which you have just passed. You were probably not aware of it, but they were there with you. For you see, in each of us there was a little of each of them. PAGE 5

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First row, left to right: Art Eddy, Ed Boone, F. A. Benedetti, Louie Allen, Larry Hutchins, lohn Page, Bob Clozlfelter. Second row: Bill Farrcr, Marvin Iones, Alan Borst, Nelson Cobb, B. B. Griffith, Nat Beuman, R. C. Dozier, Bob Goldberg. Third row: Duncan I-Iult, Cliff Benson, Sam Gantt, Walter Butz, Duncan Daugherty, I. E. Boulcliri, lim Howard, Ed Free. THIRD YEAR CLASS Fir!! row, leli to right: Bill Lowry, Wally McCown, Bill Learning, Ed Mopperl. Leila Sears, Mike Kusruriss, Hugh Lee, Hollis Owens. Semml rum: lioh Rowley, Ben Logan, Al Page. Charlie Speth. Ben Parker, Louis Pzlgani, Dave Taylor. Third row: Sid Smith, Fred Maynard, Frank Shoemaker, Bob WolFf, lim Stephen, Silas Williams, Inc Whitener, Al Pearce. l l . ' W 'C' C' .f'f- - r S 'ki ' E- ' PAGE 7