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

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SPEAKERS 8©0May Byron White, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, visited several constitutional law sections to discuss the role of the judiciary, and judged the final roun of the Spring Hildebrand competition. Justice White also visited the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago in a sweep of moot court judging engagments. JUSTICE BYRON WHITE, APRIL 9, 1982 ALGER HISS, APRIL 7, 1982 Alger Hiss, a former State Department official, temporary Secretary-General of the United Nations, and United States Supreme Court Clerk to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., was convicted of perjury in the 1950’s after a former Time editor accused him of passing along State Department documents to the Communist Party. One of the leading prosecuters in his case was then-U.S. Representative Richard Nixon. Mr. Hiss conducted two seminars at the law school, the first on his experiences as Justice Holmes' sole clerk and on Justice Holmes' contributions to the legal system, and the second on whether McCarthyism is possible again in the foreseeable future.

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K r ftyDl ADVOCACY PROGRAMS Potential litigators and students who wanted a chance to test or improve their skills of speaking and persuasion could choose from a multitude of competitions. In addition to the winners of competitions listed on the facing page, some of the students who captured titles were Bruce Moskow and Dan Freund, and William Wallander and Lori Ryan as the two 1982-83 Patent Moot Court Teams; Dean Pinkert and Joe Neiman as the 1981-82 Grambling Monce Client Counseling winners last spring; Craig Ball as the senior division winner, and the team of Thomas Allen and Alice Oppenheim as the novice division champions in the Kemp. Smith. Duncan and Hammond Mock Trial Competition, last spring Activities ar d Features — 25

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Pet Roto won APRIL 7, 1982 Wendell Turley is one of the foremost plaintiff's attorneys in the nation, and is representative of a fairly recent phenonemon of high-tech work reaching the plaintiff's side of a personal injury or products liability suit. His central office is located in Dallas. The subject of Mr. Turley's lecture was the issue whether handgun manufacturers are liable in tort for issuing inherently dangerous products into the market. WENDELL TURLEY, Racehorse Haynes is perhaps most imous for his successful defense of Ken tv-s he r and multimillionaire Cullen Davis, two separate trials for first degree murder o' Davis' former wife’s daughter and boy '• - od. and for solicitation of the murder of a Mr. Haynes was one of the featured ikers in Trial Lawyers' Conference of the Century, along with the noted cross e immation expert. Prof. Irving Younger. RICHARD RACEHORSE'' HAYNES JUSTICE HANS LINDE, GERRY SPENCE, MARCH 25, 1982 MARCH 26, 1982 .t ee Hans Linde, current justice of the Oregon Supreme Cc.-t and former law professor at the University of Oregon, drived for a two week visit that terminated in early April. . . -,’ cc Lmde, who is a noted constitutional law scholar, e • cularly in the areas of due process and First Amendment spoke to each constitutional law class on the need for appellate advocates to be more imaginative when arguing before an appellate-level court; he observed that much appellate debate amounts to a mere recitation of cases and otdmgs rather than basic interpretation of the state or federal constitutions. Gerry Spence, a self-described attorney for the damned , famous for his representation of the Karen Silkwood family and of Miss Wyoming in her suit against Penthouse magazine, spoke to a capacity audience at the Music Hall of how he broke away from an unsatisfying insurance defense practice to go to the right side of the law. In spite of his famous clients, and his multi-million dollar recoveries. Mr. Spence spends the significant portion of his time representing victims of the market system, often on a pro bono basis. 27