University of Nebraska Omaha - Tomahawk / Gateway Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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SCHOOL OF LAW FACULTY DANIEL E. JENKINS, M. A., Ph., D. D. President of University of Omaha ALEXANDER C. TROUP, A. B., LL. B. Judge of District Court, Fourth District, Nebraska Dean of Law Faculty ARTHUR C. THOMSEN, LL. B. Secretary of Law College JUDGE WILLARD SLABAUGH Hiram College, Ohio WILLIAM M. BURTON Georgetown University THOMAS B. DYSART Michigan University CHARLES E. FOSTER University of Nebraska CHARLES W. HALLER University of Iowa LEONARD A. HAMMES University of Chicago W. G. HASTINGS Former Dean Nebraska University Law School Judge District Court, Fourth District FRED N. HELLNER Columbia University HARLAND L. MOSSMAN Morningside College ROBERT D. NEELY Northwestern University GEORGE PRATT Northwestern University GEORGE ROGERS University of Nebraska HOWARD SAXTON George Washington University HARRY SHACKLEFORD Creighton University LESTER SLONECKER University of Nebraska HORACE S. STANDEVEN University of Omaha JUDGE CARROLL O. STAUFFER University of Nebraska JAMES M. STURDEVANT University of Omaha JUDGE ABRAHAM L. SUTTON University of Omaha DAVID SWARR University of Nebraska AMOS THOMAS University of Nebraska ARTHUR C. THOMSEN University of Omaha RALPH A. VAN ORSDEL University of Nebraska JOHN W. YEAGER Kent College of Law SPECIAL LECTURERS MR. ARTHUR H. STURGES, Patent Law CAPTAIN BURRITT H. HINMAN, Assistant Judge Advocate, Seventh Corps Area, Courts Martial DR. HARRISON WIGTON, Psychiatrist, Medical Jurisprdudence Deceased 20

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COLLEGES of LAW and COMMERCE 19

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THE NIGHT LAW SCHOOL GENERAL STATEMENT THE Law Department of the University of Omaha has been in exist- ence as such twelve years. It was formerly the Omaha School of Law, a night school, which had been in successful operation for more than thirty years. Many prominent Omaha and Nebraska attorneys, and at least one District Judge, were graduated from this school. The Law Departm ent is a night school. It presents an opportunity to those men who cannot afford to attend day classes to obtain a practical and thorough law education. The instructors are capable, practicing lawyers or judges at the Omaha bar, and mostly specialize in the subjects which they teach. These active practitioners impart a practical understanding of the studies through their own experience, and in a very special way add interest to the work. Every effort has been made to so thoroughly train the student that from the beginning of his practice as a lawyer he shall command the respect of his associates; and to this end the student is required as part of the law course, to take two years of argumentation and public speaking, one year of logic and three years of briefing and brief making. Though the school- year ends for regular work about June 15th, the school is open throughout the summer, and during that time evening elective courses in the use of law books and brief writing are conducted. The Moot Court, conducted on Saturday nights at the University Ad- ministration building. Twenty-fourth and Pratt streets, is novel but char- acteristically practical. Postal notices sent at frequent intervals to families living in that vicinity bring an interested audience of from fifty to one hundred persons, from which a jury of twelve is selected. One of the judges of our District Court presides. The astonishingly serious endeavors of the trial student-lawyer demonstrates the practical worth of an actual jury and genuine court in these Moot cases — and furnishes a cheering omen for the return of the old-time, highly-esteemed and respected advocate. The design of the School is to prepare students for the practice of law in any court of the States of the Union, particular attention being given to the practice of the courts of Nebraska. The School issues a legal bulletin biennially, which is sent free of charge to all universities and all Nebraska lawyers, and those in southern South Dakota, western Iowa and northern Kansas. We have a library of 3,000 law books, and the Bulletin is favorably com- mented on by such schools as Harvard and Cornell. 21