Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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H, r.--. qs.-4,1 Fred Smith handles a problem over the phone in the old office faboveb, while Bob Etienne opens up the new offices in Crothers Hall fbelowy Q V 2221? Betsy Leavy fabovej is one of the hardest working Legal Aiders and Bill Lanam Cbelowl of the Public Defender's Office works closely with law students. The East Palo Alto Office blends into its environment. pt. 4 ff Mrs. Andrea Bobbitt and Irwin Schwartz working in the East Palo Alto Office. Q .1 'wwf Fresh UP--

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lm 3 LEG L AID LEGAL AID: RQW l - E. Leavy, H. Duerbeck, E. Climpson, L. Jones,W. Stevens, C. Curtis, A. Bialson, R. Etienne fPres.J, A. Marlow, R. Allen, G. Clark, H. Chickering, P. O'Hare. ROW 2 - G. Leonard, K. Graham, H. Happel, H. Watson, J. Shafer, N. Clainos, D. Sorenson, A. Pick, M. Eichner, G. Berkeley, T. Houston, M. McCracken, S. Rudd. ROW 3 - K. Gustafson, J. Tobak, G. Monsoon, S. Goerfinkel, J. Bowen, A. Alhadeff, A. von Dioszeghy, L. Guerrieri, W. U'Ren, G. Pickett, A. Katz, J. Charney, A. Wright, S. Owen. ROW 4 - P. Bell, R. Hoffman, R. Baker, C. Johnson, J. Baumann, W. Kircher, P. Hoffman, P. Mair, R. Abrams, T. Johnson, C. Stuppi, R. Thomas, R. Casperson, I. Schwartz. The Legal Aid Society, despite the growth of Law Review and the Environmental Law Society, has continued its almost run-away expansion. The Summer Program, initiated in 1968 with three students and a budget of less than 5400, grew to twenty-six members and a combined budget of almost 514,000 fthe bulk of the funds coming in the form of HEW Work-Study grantsj. Fourteen students were employed full time with the San Mateo County Legal Aid Office, the Santa Clara County Legal Aid Office, the Santa Clara County Public Defender's Office, the San Mateo County Bar Associationls Private Defender System, the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office, and Raven Enterprises Ca nonfprofit sponsor of low income housingi. In addition, a large number of volunteers worked in the East Palo Alto O.E.O. office and with the Private Defender program. Legal Aid also employed a full time program director and secretary. New programs for the year included: flj the Legislative Assistance Program Cunder the direction of teaching fellow Bob Stemj, where, with the approval of the faculty, Legal Aid obtained over fifty relevant writing topics from State Legislators and interest groups seeking research for the development of new bills, C21 the Consumer Protection program fAnnette Bialson and Marshall Goldbergj is assisting Professor Sher, Dean Henderson, and Leroy Bobbitt fReggie Fellow and recent gradj in establishing a Consumer Protection Office in East Palo Alto along the lines of the E.P.A. legal services ofhce. The office opened for business in March, 1970, C35 the Fair Hearings Program fElaine Climpsonj has students representing welfare clients in hearings that determine the rights to receive continued aid under various govemmental programs, Q41 the Domestic Relations unit fTom Johnson and Elaine Climpsonj which designed and operates a divorce milli, for the San Mateo County Legal Aid Office, Q51 the Assistant D.A. program fGene Veehuisj, where students work in the San Mateo District Attorney's Office assisting the deputies and getting a first hand view of the prosecutorial process. Existing programs - San Mateo Assistant Defenders fchaired by Pete Mairjg East Palo Alto Civil CWoody Garnseyig Santa Clara County Civil fGrenny Clarkjg Redwood City Civil fTom Johnson and Elaine Climpsonjg Business fRon Rosenjg Housing fGarthe Pickettjg Santa Clara Criminal fPeter Belljg Juvenile fMartin Eichnerjg Criminal Appeals Uohn Bowenjg and Student Practice fDick Williamsi - continue to prosper. Most of the students in the civil programs deal with Hintakei' or street cases: bankruptcies, debtor-creditor relations, landlord-tenant relations, domestic relations and wage attachment procedures. The principal exceptions are: the Housing Committee, which works with several community organizations providing expertise in matters relating to F.H.A. procedures and requirements and antidiscrimination lawg the Fair Hearings Committeeg and the Business Committee, which assists minority owned and operated small businesses in the community. The bulk of the criminal work consists of assisting attorneys in the Public and Private Defenders' offices with investigation, interviews, research, and the drafting of motions. The Student Practice Committee, under the extremely able direction of Dick Williams, finally reached its goal. In February of this year the California State Bar Association's Board of Governors announced the promulgation of a rule Governing the Practical Training of Law Students. Under this rule, students from accredited schools with one-half of their education completed, may, with the approval of the Dean of their law school, appear on behalf of a client in any public trial or hearing or proceeding pertaining thereto in a court, or tribunal, or before any public agency. referee, commissioner or hearing officer, state or federal, to the extent approved by such court, public agency, referee, commissionor or hearing officer fwhen under the direction of a supervising attorneyj. Stanford Law School can feel especially proud of this rule, as it represents work done primarily by students in the Legal Aid program. In particular: Jeff Jennings, Bill Cottrell, and Read Ambler 09681, Clyde Christofferson 09695, Dick Williams f197lJ, and Steve Rudd and Bob Etienne f1970J, and Michael Thorsnes CU. San Diego Law School, 19685. This breakthru will bring about major changes in the scope of Legal Aid activities. Anticipating those changes, Legal Aid has moved from its one room office in the law school basement to three offices in Crothers Basement, where there is room for additional expansion as new programs develop. The President for 1969-70 was Bob Etienne, who appreciates the quantity and quality of student assistance which has made the past year so successful. Bob Etienne

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g 1 , . -JW' ' ' 1,-c,-.-Sqn. .1 amz i. .f 5r,:' E? ' i M 'f-Stihl . -v. LAW ASSOCIATION: BOTTOMS - W. P. MacGregor fsocial chmn.D, W. Weissman fist year rep.J, G. Berkeley fpresj, W. Robertson Csec.J. MIDDLES - A. Siegal Csocial chmn.J, H. Happel, L. K. Gould 12nd year rep.J. TOPS - C. Rudy Claw ass'n fan clubl. LAW ASSOCIATIO The Law Association spent the year waging a friendly race with the faculty to see how rapidly and significantly legal education at Stanford could be improved. The faculty won, once again proving that the race is not always to the swift. Among our multitude of accomplislunents this year we must specially note: the addition of music to the Christmas Party Skitg the addition of free beer to the post-mortems of each home football gameg the slightly improved quantity of cards for the Law Lounge Bridge Associationg the infinitely improved illumination in the women's lounge fmuggings are down fifty percent over last yearjg and the mutual identification to each other of Larry Gould and his second-year constituency. Anonymous 'O ali vf ,110 XA f' 2x X Hassle ' w - ' M wv.. 15'-mlbii nJ as K K O 0 E li 'Y' 3 D 9 iw ' X .ff J, 'f . ,, jr 1 Q' I .' -' I 4 .f 45? I Y I 492' f W 4,1 , ., p A K K- 'if Y X ,V fm, Q- , - 14140 ff' , . ,