University of Texas School of Law - Peregrinus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Strasburger Trial Lecture Series The Strasburger Trial Lecture Series had its first full season in the fall of 1973 and has operated each fall under the direction of the Trial Division of the Board of Advocates. This lecture series has been endowed by a grant to The University of Texas Law School Foundation by the Dallas law firm of Strasburger. Price. Kelton. Martin and Unis in memory of Henry W. Strasburger. Mr. Strasburger. who died in 1972. was one of the most respected trial attorneys in Texas. The series provides law students valuable lessons on litigation strategy and tactics learned in the heat of courtroom battle.

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No Confidence, Students Say McKee Must Go Reprinted from The Texas Law Forum, Vo. 17 No. 4 The students of the UT School of Law voted December 2 to recall Darwin McKee from the presidency of the Student Bar Association. 1014 students — 58% of the electorate — voted; the final count was 610-402, with two blank ballots. The recall vote was prompted by McKee’s attendance at an American Bar Association Law School Division (ABA-LSD) convention held October 10-12 in New Orleans. McKee obtained $200 from the Student Bar Association (SBA) and $300 from the Law School Foundation to attend the meeting. He was later severely critized because: •he told neither group the other was funding him. •he was accompanied by Nathan Johnson (vice-president of the Thurgood Marshall Legal Society, a member of Project Info and McKee’s roommate), when the Foundation and the SBA assumed he would go alone, and, •the two flew first class, which is against both Law School and University policy. McKee indicated that he felt the choice of a traveling companion was a matter for his discretion and any failure to inform others of plans was due to a lack of time. The first class tickets were a spur-of-the- moment decision based on the length of Johnson’s legs, he said. Testimony from those involved reconstructs the background events as follows: McKee originally planned not to attend the ABA-LSD convention, but was finally persuaded to by Ulysses Jones, governor of the ABA-LSD 13th Circuit, on grounds that 1) the ABA-LSD would reimburse part of the travel cost to those attending, 2) UT’s representation would help McKee decide whether or not UT should continue its participation in ABA-LSD, and 3) participating law schools would be eligible to seek grants for minority, women’s and general programs if at least 20 per cent of the student body were dues-paying members of the ABA-LSD. McKee had contacted Associate Dean Byron Fullerton and on Wednesday. October 8. Fullerton told McKee by phone that he had approved the request. McKee then requested $200 from SBA treasurer Steve Udell. Apparently McKee at no time informed either Udell or Fullerton of the other's funding or of Johnson’s accompaniment. A petition calling for McKee's recall, signed by 109 students and certified by Election Commission Chairman Gary Landers, was submitted to the Election Commission Board on November 13, and December 2 was chosen as the recall election date. According to its originator, Lee Kaplan, the petition was meant to point up a need for a complete and candid explanation. 15 Student Bar Association hearings ended m a no confidence vote.

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September 10, 1975 — Property Settlement and Trial of a Divorce Case Douglas Hearne Richard Criss September 30, 1975 — Direct and Cross-Exam in a Criminal Case Percy Foreman David Crump October 22, 1975 — Settlement of a Personal Injury Suit W. Douglas Matthews Royce R. Till November 5. 1975 — Trial of a Narcotics Possession Case Sam Houston Clinton Tom Hanna November 19, 1975 — Discovery Samuel Seymour Richard Keeton LEFT COLUMN: Richard Criss. Douglas Hearne. Royce R. Till. RIGHT COLUMN: W. Douglas Matthews. Percy Foreman. 17