University of Virginia Law School - Barrister Yearbook (Charlottesville, VA)

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Thomas Otis ,.............. ,..,....... ...............,...........,...... P r widen! john E. Clarkson fFall '57J ............ Adminiymzzfive Director William C. Preston fSpring '58D ..., Adminirzmzive Director Roderick D. Sinclair ..............,...............,....,,...,,.. Director Ferdinand S. Salomon ...... ....,.. .... D i realm' john L. Glover .............. .,.,. D irerzor William K. Harrison Howard D. Hermansdorfer joseph Hilton Hobart A. McWhorter, jr. Harwood Martin, Jr. Charles E. Mosher Albert C. Moore William V. Neville, Ir. Stephan Nolan Lewis F. Norton Thomas W. Pettus, Jr. Ben K. Phipps, jr. Williazn C. Preston Charles Robinson John W. Sause, Jr. Morgan L. Walton, III Charles L. Willard Stephen C. Willard W. Swan Yerger MEMBERS Frank M. Archer Benham Black John M. Bullock John S. Burr Randolph B. Chichester Stanley P. Christopher III james Colt James J. Cromwell Edward T. Durant Lenox G. Cooper Phillip E. Cox Donald C. Crounse Alan A. Diamonstein Philip H. Elliott, jr. James H. Ford George P. Freeman john L. Glover Frederick Goldstein I. Lawrence Grim, jr.

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STUDENT LEGAL RESEARCH GROUP Firrz 1-ow: Harrison, Diamonstein, Clarkson, Salomon, Sinclair. Second row: Glover, Cooper, L. G., Phipps, Cromwell, Walton, Christopher, Pettus, Crounse. Third row: Burr, Elliott, Archer, F. M. Ford, I., Willard, S.C., Willard, C. L., Freeman, G. L. Fourth row: Norton, Chichester, Moore, A. C., Martin, Cox, P. E., Yerger, Grim, McWhorter, Hermansdorfer. The Student Legal Research Group exists for those second and third year students who are qualified and who wish not only to serve the legal community but also to obtain a valuable glimpse of what they may very well be doing upon first entering that community. The Group is a non-profit organization which charges for its services only typing costs and such additional administrative costs as the individual projects may require. The services of the group are restricted to the preparation of legal memoranda for licensed attorneys. The present policy discourages requests for general surveys of law limiting the efforts of the Group primarily to the research of specific questions of law actually arising in the requesting attorney's practice. Although the Group prepares memoranda for a large num- ber of Virginia attorneys its services are in no way restricted to the local scene. Requests have been accepted from attorneys practicing in substantially all the states and territories as well as some foreign countries. The Group even has on file a request for the construc- tion of an Algerian death by wrongful act statute. Since its inception in early 1947 the Group has grown from two members, who pre- pared nine memoranda during the first year, to over thirty members who during the year, 1957, produced approximately 130 memoranda.

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STUDENT LEGAL FORUM First raw: Mearns, Clarkson, Burr, Warlick, Pettit. Second row: Howard, Leisure, Clovis, Yerger, Horsley. Tlazd row: Cooper, L. G., Slaughter, Coates, Rivers, G. I.. B., Velde, Peter. The Student Legal Forum occupies a unique and important position among the varied extracurricular organizations in the Law School. The purpose of the Forum is to provide a platform from which distinguished men, lay and professional, may speak on timely national and international issues of general interest. Forum presentations are not always directly related to the subject of law and are open to the entire University and the Char- lottesville community. The 1957-58 programs touched a variety of topics ranging from Congressional Com- mittee Investigationn to The Kohler Strike. One highlight of the year was the Decem- ber appearance of Senator jacob K. javits before a panel of newspapermen. More than five hundred people came to Cabell Hall to hear Senator javits discuss and answer questions on pending civil rights legislation. Representative Wilbur Mills, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, was similarly well received when, in April, he examined in- equities in the Federal Income Tax. Other noteworthy speakers included: State Senator Ted Dalton, Republican candidate for Governor of Virginia, Governor Howard Pyle, Ad- ministrative Assistant to President Eisenhower, Edward Bennett Williams, prominent Washington trial lawyer, L. L. Smith, Vice President of the Kohler Companyg and In- spector William C. Sullivan of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Student Legal Forum was founded in 19-47g its members are all second and third year law students. A faculty advisory committee, composed of Dean F. D. G. Ribble and Professors Charles O. Gregory and Hardy C. Dillard, assists the Forum in selecting topics and procuring speakers.