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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
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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<
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well a? the poor. unn
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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
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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
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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."
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