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Better lawyei By DEBBIE JONES Law School. Gamecock Staff Writer School Audih Better lawyering is necessary to AS COM dispense the belief that lawyers lawyers inter place impositions on society, for lawyers, i Robert B. McKay, featured are not accej speaker at a seminar on the future but as a firsl of the legal profession, said McKay si Saturday. . believe only McKay is director of the problems in Program on Justice, Society and way. He said the Individual at Aspen Institute can be gotter for Humanistic Studies and former time," the cc dean of the New York University increasingly rs a necessity spe He spoke in the Law issues of our day." "1 )rium. The tendency for citizens to use aco \ the courts as a first resort for pro> P f _ AI MT.Q ncfainci coff linrt rlionttloc nut ???* Mguuii,n uviiiiug uiopuivo uao puv IIIUJJ" dUIl isify, so does the need propriate burdens" on the courts, sec< said McKay. "Courts McKay said. He said if people do edu< pted as a last resort, not overcome the notion that men t resort," he said. federal courts are somehow cent aid many persons superior to state courts, "5,000 the the courts deal with federal judges will be needed to a rational, logical handle the litigation." CI because "an answer syst i in a reasonably fast DESPITE INCREASES in the pro\ iurts are "called upon size of law firms and the number of pen to decide major social law students, the majority of F< Americans do not have access to D. ( I legal protection. McKav said. Aee I Costs for pre-trial motions average curi ab?ut $3,000 per day per lawyer, sure putting preventive justice out of H< knI * nT'Y>jnfJUal the reach of the middle class as insu well a? the poor. unn Sabbatical p QHH new guidelii By KATHLEKN McINTYRK H P r^l Acctclont \lAti;c rxwv oaiTio???(i? i*v *?i? i^uiivi pi U fj > Sabbatical leaves taken during sen 111 1 1 ? moratorium 'as^ spring were poli M si aPProved by ^e Patterson ad- H HI L _I>1 ministration before sabbaticals mis jBryggjniOUS^bl were suspended, according to USC for President James B. Holderman. una Bo? ade ft? B tim :: ?-" nor ^p; I ?ol . -fW e | pre A bat iff 4| I res ^|H| &?HL. zL*fff & a.%fc? ^HS|H^HSNE?^3BMKw?r ?" WmJf ek\ wy/ akersays rhe legal profession should began to increase dramatically in ept the responsibility of the early 1970s. Since 1973, claims aiding legal justice for all," he per 100 cases have jumped from I ? 1 I At -A l? i. Liugdi cuueauun ai me i./b 10 7.7, ne said. jndary school and adult nation level and the establish- John W. Lindsay, chief insurance it of neighborhood legal advice commissioner of S.C., discussed ;ers are possible solutions to the future of legal liability inproblem. surance in the state. According to Lindsay, punitive damages in suits URRENTLY, THE legal aid should be paid by the defendant em has only been able to instead of his insurance company, /ide one lawyer per 10,000 poor He said general liability insurance >ons, according to McKay. is a "practical necessity in our day allowing McKay's speech. John and time " ^appleman, Jr. of the General ncy of Charleston discussed the THE SEMINAR was part of the rent status of liability in- first Law School Weekend for USC ince. alumni. Afternoon sessions on antie said until recently liability trust laws and trends of irance for lawyers had been professional responsibility were ecessary, but that claims also offered. tolicy implemented, nes set for faculty olderman said the moratorium government and international vided that sabbaticals would studies, who was given a sabbe awarded for the 1977 fall batical last September before the tester until a more adequate moratorium, said one of the major cy was approved. changes in the policy is that iolderman was given per- professors have to file a report on sion to implement a new policy the sabbatical to the provost within sabbaticals September 10 by a three months of return. nimous decision of the USC "Under the old policy, faculty ird flf TrilKtfM?S mnmhorc lioro nnlv pn/.nirn^ 1/1 The new policy will be a more submit a report explaining the quate way for allowing full- purpose of the leave before a e faculty members relief from sabbatical was awarded," Kuic mal duties in order to pursue said. "By having them write a nificant projects designed to report upon their return, it can be prove their capabilities as determined if the sabbatical was chers and researchers," beneficial to the university." Iderman said. With the old policy, many "If the dean determines that the lessors were using their sab- time was not spent properly on / icals for other reasons than scholarly or creative acearch," he said. "We hope that complishments," Holderman said. new policy will prevent this." "the university retains the right to 'rofessor Vukan Kuic of request repayment." Earn I Cvtm [] hiiM M (Tloney while helping in (he diagnosis and prevention of blood disorders. 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