YMCA Night Law School - Triangle Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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gig-sff t i1-,Q f-Y-- --l ' ' 9 , X ' LQT I ' ' f T1iQie?f,.lsl'TAi' ' agiffii N 2 it ' ,ff We ' fr 'I Me W 5115 5 T XXXQF-fg,'fc7' Nifrvsv Last Fall the Legal Aid Society decided that it would start a Legal Clinic and offer to all senior year 'law students in Cincinnati, an opportunity to participate under the direction of the Attorneys in charge, in the legal services rendered by the Legal Aid Society to its clients. After careful investigation of similar work done at Northf western University at Chicago, an invitation was issued to the members of the Senior Class of both Law Schools to enroll and begin their work. Eleven enrolled and seven of these continued the work throughout the term, took their examination and passed with very creditable grades. John H. Wigmore, Dean of the Northwestern Law School was furnished a copy of the examination questions and in a letter to the President of the Cincinnati Legal Aid Society, stated that he considered these questions fully as hard as those given their students. The Y. M. C. A. law students who completed this Legal Clinic work were Gilbert Shaver, Bennett R. Knight and M. M. Sigler. Heretofore the young lawyer just admitted to the bar, unless he was one of the few who had experience in a good law office while a law student, found himself without practical knowledge of legal procedure and generally did not know where ref cords he must consult were to be found or how to go about using them. His handicap for the first few months of his practice was therefore serious and embarrassing. But still worse he knew nothing of interviewing clients or witnesses and legal ethics had little concrete meaning for him. The Legal Clinic student sees service enough to learn where the offices of public officials are located, what these records are and how to use themg he learns something of the art of interviewing clients and witnesses and how to begin looking up the law relating to a concrete case. The practice of all attorneys connected with the Legal Aid Society must at all times be strictly in accord with the code of ethics adopted by the American Bar Association, and the same careful attention is given to the work of these poor helpless clients that would be given in the service of the most valued client of the best law firms. Therfore, to the extent that their short and intermittent service will permit, the practical training the student receives in the Legal Clinic is precisely what is needed for his best development. Inevitably a student who has taken the Legal Clinic work becomes a better citizen and a better lawyer. But the favored few who serve as Legal Internes, with a year of full time service at the Legal Aid Society, are fortunate indeed. We expect to see those who have had this exceptional opportunity and taken full advantage of it, render distinguished service to their community, whether they practice in Cincinnati or elsewhere. Some of these should become leaders of the bar and the community. These Legal Internes will not have to go to the gallery of the Library of Congress at Washington to learn that Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her voice is the harmony of the world. X Y- . LZI-Elrglxlxl -L -,525 ,I F ci i pf

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inimi eww- X as was XQXZXJ New Opportunities for the Law Student and the Young Lawyer By WALTER A. KNIGHT, '99 President of the Legal Aid Society OR twenty years Cincinnati has maintained a Legal Aid Society for the purpose of providing legal advice and legal services generally in or out of Court, to those who were too poor to hire a lawyer. The people of Cincinnati are socially minded and try to care for the unfortunate persons of the community no matter what the cause of their misfortune. The Legal Aid Society was formed to care for those who would be unjustly dealth with and who would not know and could not enforce their legal rights but for such charitable help. The organigation has been a most useful instif tution from its start, and its usefulness has been greatly ex' tended during the last few years. It maintains its office in the Community Chest Building, 312 W. 9th St., Cincinnati, where it may cooperate most ad' vantageously with other institutions engaged in the work of human helpfulness Almost every kind of legal problem is encountered in the WALTER A. KNIGHT work of the Legal Aid Society as Mr. George H. Silverman, who has been Chief Counsel for fifteen years or more, will tell you. The work grew to such an extent that an Assistant Attorney was necessary and Miss Sarah E. Grogan was employed to fill that position. About a year ago a new idea came to the Board of Trustees of the Legal Aid Society, and that was to offer to some attorney just admitted to the Bar, an opportunity similar to the one a young Doctor would have, who had just been admitted to his prof fession in our City,-that is, an interneship for one year, participating as a fullffledged professional man in the work of the Legal Aid Society under the guidance and direcf tion of its legal staff. Frank T. Bartlett, a 1927 graduate of the Y. M. C. A. Law School was the first person appointed to this position, and so far as we know, is the first Legal Interne in the world. He began his work immediately after having been sworn in at Columbus in July, 1927, and has been diligently at work since then in the Office of the Legal Aid Society. This experience brings him in contact with a very large number of clients, 2689 having been served by the Society in the year 1927. Not only does he ac' quire valuable experience by coming into first hand contact with clients and their legal problems, but the range of their troubles in and out of court is much wider than that of any private law ofhce. Every Attorney of the Legal Aid Society also feels that he or she is engaged in a peculiarly valuable piece of social work, benefitting those desperf ately in need of such service. 3' 9 f I X QIMQQQ Z Sjfgi irgztg-f K. F ' A,,, V 'VT 4, 12,7 ll I ii fists +1 we kfhfs - ' - U .J-Q62 if if fe 'sgy

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I ' .1 ,M - AX ,. W ,,.'f.-.Y gi fax. , ff, +R-X451 - --1 fQ67Jvb1 2FEfrQvEFZda5W?j5wfQw9B - .- 1895 Robert L. Blagg John D. DeWitt John E. Fitzpatrick L. B. McCord 1896 David M. Allen William H. Cowguill Fred L. Hoffman Charles W. McKnight Charles P. Mackelfresh Robert C. McConaughey 1897 J. Harvey Brigham John H. Costello Malcom G. Davies Carl W. Lentz 1898 Wilber Clark Benton Charles A. Davis Alfred T. Fulford Albert W. Highlands Charles Herbert Jones Charles Stewart Lyons Harry J. Meyersieck George W. Platt David P. Schorr Fred E. Wesselman Herman J. Witte 1899 Clarence E. Baen Samuel W. Bell Harry F. Brewer Charles Broadwell William Burkamp John O. Eckert Harry E. Engelhardt Charles A. Gehrlein William H. Grifhth Charles H. Harmeyer John VJ. Harrop. Joseph W. Heintzman Victor W. Hertwig John W. Heuver B. A. Hulswitt Walter A. Knight Alumni iKnairr William S. Longley Frank P. Low Edward Mittendorf William E. Moore William V. Muller Gerrit Raidt James A. Riddell William A. Rinckoif Millard Roebling Frank K. Schaefer Jesse M. Simon Frank C. Vogelbach John J. Ward William Wersel Henry Christian Vwfewer 1900 Harlan Bailey Harry H. Bausch Henry F. Bulow Glen G. Brown Charles A. Haefner Frank Hannaford John J. James Newton T. Jones Clarence J. A. Kyle William Lamb William C. Lambert Robert A. LeBlond Simmon Lemonek Charles C. Martin Clinton E. Mather Arthur C. Minning Carl S. Rankin Harry B. Sprague Max M. Stallman James M. Stone Arthur L. Vickers Nathan I- Zeif 1901 Robert H. Berger Samuel S. Davies Thomas J. Edmonds Fred H. Evans James A. Fraizier Arthur C. Fricke Dennis T. Hackett Dana W. Hartshorn, Jr. Walter R. Hinkey William B. Johnston Joseph A. Keadin Joseph L. Lackner Christian F. Mumm Oliver Wick Roll F. N. Sigler John W. Whalen 1902 John G. Bammerlin M. Milo Beatty Walter M. Beinhart Frederick Bertram Edward A. Bruton James Grimes Cassidy Robert C. Coghill Archer E. Cragg Robert V. Foster William C. Hartshorn William B. Haskins Eugene D. Maxield Lem S. Miller 'Herman A. Nieberding M. S. Pottenger Albert B. Roessler. Harry A. Rust Samuel Salzer William H. Schmidt Oscar F. Shephard, Jr. Thomas M. Taylor James T. Thornton 1903 Hiram C. Bolsinger Frank G. Browne Herman C. Bryant Joseph M. Conway William C. Burton Clifford F. Cordes Herbert R. Davidson Lawrence J. Diskin John F. Frenkel Louis C. Fritsche William A. Geoghegan Willis L. Gibson 'George S. Hawke Jacob F. Jonas Clarence W. Jones Elmer S. King Henry E. Koch HMP: ii0fffli1 1-1olQf5W9gfW'+ewW I .sy .ii.,W. .. .. . . . H, J . .. , L 1 1 e-X -A -gx-jx 74 Qt-DX-MN V A -' t 1 ' H 'L'T7.i,: --fibre -A-A -Y-Irt:, h fl , I ,XV H ara N455 'f:'.17iQ'lJL':Q1.u ii' F 1 A ' .frri-tffj - we ' r V 1' 4.,f-'V