University of Nebraska College of Law - Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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imagination and a lively sense of humor, we should have that saving grace that makes trying situations more easy for us and others to bear and enables us the more readily to enter into and realize the situation of others. The imagination is a kingly faculty, and, cli- rected by strong will, is far more powerful than we are inclined to think. Nothing is ever done that first is not imagined. Not only think over, study out, and carefully prepare your cases, your briefs, your arguments, but also brood over them and clothe them with the warmth of your imagination, and you will act, write, and speak, not by rote, but as a creator of circumstances and a doer of things. A man's inner nature is known by his ideals. They will show forth in spite of his faults. Keep your ideals high: warm them into life and action by the heat of your well-trained imaginationg keep your judgments and your actions well in hand by your sense of humor and by your common sense, and you will be that best of law- yers-one who is a large-hearted, whole-souled man. il xv : l ' V A - - ' . W ! I . jyif' 'L it , ,-K f . 1-12. :xv .5 , air f Design for a Seal for a Will S9

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THE SUCCESSFUL L.-XYVYER BY ifnoressorz GEORGE in cos'r1oixN, Jn. lt is of the first importance for a lawyer to make up his mind early in his legal career what kind of professional success he will seek, and what he will have to do to achieve that success. As early as possible a law student should give the matter serious attention. Success is a relative term, and, as applied to business, has many different meanings, Only a few of the special meanings applicable to the legal profession will be considered here. To the public, a successful lawyer is one who has a large and lucrative practice. Every lawyer is eager for that kind of success, and the great problem is how to get it. That problem is too large to be gone into here, but we may pause to note that what the modern business world demands of a lawyer is a combination of legal at- tainment with sagacious business insight. The lawyer of today is more an attorney-a legally trained agent-than he is strictly a lawyer. Business conditions have so changed, indeed, that in our big cities there are many large corporations which have capable lawyers in their employ as salaried clerks. ln a word, the legal profession is changing into a law business. Good legal training the lawyer of today must have, but practical business sense must sup- plement that training before he can meet the needs of a large mod- ern clientage. A lawyer who possesses both these requisites, and who nnds a reasonable opportunity to make that fact known, should have many clients. But there are a number of truly successful lawyers who do not seem to the average man to be such. Take, for instance, the rather growing class of lawyers' lawyers. By a lawyer's lawyer is meant a man who is so thoroughly competent to transact legal business that his fellow lawyers respect and honor his professional ability. One who attains such proficiency in any profession as to receive the praise of those learned in his profession is essentially a success, and it is increasingly true that this kind of a success is often the possession of one whom the general public regards as unsuccessful. No matter how small a lawyer's practice may be, his aim should be to earn the plaudits of his fellow lawyers. But many lawyers are successful, in a real sense of the word who are not known to be so even by their fellow lawyers. Such 91 7