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Client Counseling
Scheduled for STCL
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STCL is again entered in the
1977 National Client Counseling
Competition of the Law Student
Division of the ABA. Dr. Weigel
is the Faculty Advisor. Liz
Rogers, Dan Dobbins and Terry
Stransky are student
organizers.
Now in its ninth year, the
Competition is a firmly
established program at STCL.
Last year Vincent Rizzo and
Leo Salzman represented STCL
at the regional Competition in
Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 1975 Bill
Garrett and Robert Ramey, a
STCL team, won the regional
Competition and lost at the
national Competition in Notre
Dame, Indiana, to the team
which went on to become the
national champions.
This year Landlord-Tenant
will be the subject matter of the
consultation situations. They
will be prepared by Professor
Thomas L. Shaffer, Notre Dame
Law School, Professor Louis
Brown, University of Southern
California Law Center, Harold
Rock, member of the ABA
Standing Committee on Ethics
and Professional Respon-
sibility, and Professor Walker
Blakey, University of North
Carolina.
The Client Counseling
Competition developed as a
legal teaching technique. In
some ways it is analogous to
Moot Court, except that the skill
tested is counseling rather than
appellate argument. At a time
when interest in both clinical
tools in legal education and
preventive law as a substantive
area is growing, this Com-
petition fills a real need.
The Competition tries to
simulate a real law firm con-
sultation as closely as possible
A typical client problem is
selected and a person acting the
role of the client is briefed on his
or her part.
Prior to the day of the actual
Competition students, who work
in pairs, receive a very brief
memo concerning the problem.
This data is equivalent to what a
secretary might be told when a
client calls to make an ap-
pointment. For purposes of
preparation, students are ad-
vised to prepare a preliminary
memo based on the problem as
it is then understood.
In the actual Competition,
which takes place at a regional
host law school, each team of
students is given forty-five
minutes. The first thirty
minutes are devoted to an in-
terview with the client during
which the students are expected
to elicit the rest of the relevant
information and propose a
solution or outline of what
further research would be
necessary.
During the last quarter hour
the students may confer be-
tween themselves and verbally
prepare a post interview
memorandum. This
memorandum can be used to
explain to the judges why the
participants handled the in-
terview as they did.
Last year nine teams from
STCL competed in the school
Competition. Faculty members
and local lawyers judged the
contestants. The school Com-
petition is scheduled for the first
or second week in February.
The Regional Competition will
take place on March 5,1977 and
the National Competition will be
held on March 26, 1977. Start
thinking about your teammate.
FIRST NIGHT OF CLASS, OR
"WHY DIDN'T I GO TO DENTAL SCHOOL?"
1 sit here alone my first night of class,
With this many students surely I can pass.
Then in walks the prof and I begin to feel queasy,
And I sense that law school may not be so easy.
But alas he looks up from her perch so high,
With that smile he really can't be a bad guy.
I open my contracts book and turn to page one,
And then he called on a student and I wanted to run.
I glanced towards the door as a means of escape,
Oh drat, I had left home my superman's cape.
How else could I have made it in a single bound,
Without drawing attention and making not a sound.
The point is rather moot since my legs have turned to
And the prof's face now looks alot like Al Capone.
I had no idea you had to be prepared to recite,
In front of all these people the very first night.
The fear that gripped me made me read to next case,
But my eyes would not focus and there's no time to waste.
I wish I could appear as though I wasn't there,
But I knew he could see a body squirming in my chair.
Oh fiddle, oh faddle, oh darn and oh heck,
Please be over class I feel like a wreck.
All of a sudden my face was aglow,
I finally realized he was going down the roll.
Tonight it's better to be born a Zimmerman instead of an Able,
I was ever so happy I could have danced on table.
While recitation isn't everything and learning is partly by osmosis,
It certainly beats working on someone with halitosis.
Dr. Davis
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Summer Milton, center, standing, with the Rules and Resolutions Committee of the 41st International
Phi Alpha Delta Convention in Kansas City.
New Members Installed
PADs Active Locally, Internationally
PAD has enjoyed another fine
summer running into the fall.
We have undertaken speakers
programs, most notably a drug
seminar on "Prosecuting a drug
case," with three Harris County
District Attorneys as speakers.
On the evening of Oct. 16,
PAD held a bar-b-que in honor
of Senator Gene Jones and
family. Roughly 100 members
and their families enjoyed the
excellent food and hill country
music with the Coors beer
flowing strong. Also, our thanks
to Dean John Ensle and wife for
gracing us with their presence.
PAD had its Fall term
initiation and installation of
officers in US District Judge
Woodrow Seales, courtroom the
morning of Oct. 16. Thirty five
new members were sworn in
and the new officers assumed
their positions.
Outgoing officers were
Justice: Bill Sheetz, Vice
Justice: Norman Dean,
Secretary: Thomasina Thomas,
Marshall: Tom Cooper,
Parlimentarian: David
Easterling, and Treasurer: Jim
Gascoyne. New officers for the
Fall-Spring Term are Justice:
Cynthia Kent, Vice Justice:
Michael Udell, Secretary: Tom
Simchik, Marshall: Jerry
Moore, Parlimentarian: John
Kuhl, and Treasurer: Randy
Wilson.
Further, our chapter advisor
and new District VIII PAD
Justice George Jacobs, Harris
County Asst. District Attorney,
enlightened us with his
presence and forthright
remarks at our initiation. It is
always a pleasure to have
George attend our functions, for
he's one man never at a lack for
words or advice.
Also, a word of thanks to
Summer Milton and Thomasina
Thomas for attending the 41st
Biennial Convention of PAD
Law Fraternity International,
at Kansas City, Missouri during
the July 30-Aug. 2 weekend.
Supreme PAD Justice Ray
Judice was as always there in
all his festive spirit, Ray is an
active supporter of the STCL
PAD chapter.
New members of PAD are
Susan R. Abrams, Tommy
Wayne Baker, Maurice Steven
Barnett, Clifford Warren
Burger, Rudy de la Garza,
Dwight Donaldson, David
Arthur Fahey, James Thomas
Fletcher, and Gary David Fox.
Also initiated this fall were
Vicky L. Goodman, Marte
Cesar Guillen, James Joseph
Hale, Lawrence J. Haskins,
Marcelin Jesse Huerta III,
Milton Mark Kreppel, Jules L.
Laird, Jr. and Cynthia Ann
Norris.
Other new members are
Harrie Marie Operhall, Michael
R. Rainwater, Walter Scott
Red, Jr., Christopher Steven
Till, Tom G. Tompkins, Myrna
Denise Weige, and Robert M.
Wood.
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Milton, Summer. South Texas College of Law, Annotations (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 5, November, 1976, newspaper, November 1976; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth144362/m1/5/: accessed May 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting South Texas College of Law.