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Official Student Publication of the University of Louisville
Vol. 8 Louisville. Ky., Wednesday, November 29, 1939 No. 12
Notables Dedicate New Law Building Today
Judge J. J. Parker
Named Principle
Dedication Speaker
Presaging anew era in the his-tory
of the University of Louis-ville,
on Wednesday afternoon
next, the new School of Law
building is to be dedicated with
fitting ceremonies proclaiming the
event scheduled for the Allen
Memorial Court room. The
Honorable John J. Parker, presi-ding
judge of the Circuit Court of
Appeals for the fourth circuit will
be the principal speaker.
Formal Dedication takes place
at 2:30 P. M., attendance by in-vitation
due to limited seating
capacity of the court room. The
public is invited, however, to in-spect
the building from 6 until
10 P. M., during that evening.
Constructed to accomodate ap-proximately
150 students, the law
building is a two story structure
in Colonial style with four im-posing
white columns setting off
the entrance. Most handsome of
its many rooms are the Attilla
Cox Memorial Library and the
Allen Memorial court room, both
furnished in a commodious, mod-ern
manner. Orignal oil paint-ings
of famed American jurists
decorate the oak panels of the
court room, adding warmth and
beauty to an already pretentious
room.
The library, containing 18,500
volumes, has a main reading
room and a reserve reading room.
Alcoves on either side of the
main reading room each provide
comfort and quiet for six stu-dents.
Armchairs and indirect
lighting on the reading tables add
to the beauty and comfort.
Individual offices for the pro-fessors,
a student lounge, offices
for the Legal Aid Society and the
student Briefing Service which
serves attorneys in the entire
state are other provisions in the
building.
A depository known as the
Allen Memorial Court Room
The court room of ihe new law building, dedicated to the memory of
Judge Charles James Fox Allen, seats 240 persons, is hand-somely
finished and decorated with paintings of pro-minent
jurists. Among law schools it is the
show place of the south.
Moot Court Furnishes Law
Students Practical Experience
“May it please the court, ladies
and gentleman of the jury'’—with
a bit of a catch in his voice and a
turbulous senation in the pit of
his stomach, the future attorney
invokes the attention of the
Honorable Judge and Jury of the
University of Louisville Moot
Court.
Founded By Loll
In September of 1936, firmly
believing that while a man may
know all the law in the books, he
is not a lawyer until he can prac-tice
it, Dean Lott sought a means
of enabling the students to gain
practical experience while in
school. He realized that to force
the young lawyer to gain ex-perience
by experimenting with
his client’s case was a costly pro-cedure,
both to the client and at-torney,
resulting in miscarriage of
justice or at least expensive delay.
Thus, with the aid of the
Judges of the Jefferson County
Circuit Court, who agreed to give
their time to preside over the
cases and render advice, the Moot
Court was conceived. Mr. Edward
S. Hungerland, member of the
Legal Department of the Southern
Trust Cos., was appointed Super-visor
of the Moot Court, in which
capacity he is still connected with
the school.
Advance Students Conduct
The trials are conducted by the
advanced students, two attorneys
to each side, with the other stu-dents
serving as court officials,
witnesses, and jurymen. The
cases are selected from those pre-viously
tried before the Circuit
Courts of Jefferson County and
the attorneys are bound by the
facts revealed in the real case;
however, their pleadings, trial,
and arguments are their own. At
the end of the year the faculty
selects the four most capable bar-risters
and nominates them for
the final moot court case, the two
winners of which have their
names inscribed on a permanent
silver cup.
First Court 1937
On Memorial Day afternoon of
1937, the first of the final moot
court trials was held in the Crimi-nal
Court Room before an
eminent body of justices. On the
bench were Judge James Stites
of the Kentucky Court of Appeals,
Circuit Judge Churchill
Humphreys, and Court of Ap-peals
Judges Richard P. Dietzman,
David McCandless, and Earnest
Clarke. For three boiling hours
H. Appleton Fed era and William
C. Turner for the plantiff argued
against Woodruff Flowers and
Malcolm Johnson for the defen-dant.
After twenty minutes de-liberation
the court decided that
Law Students
Donate Service
To Public
Law students of the University
of Louisville School of Law now
obtain the much needed practical
experience of working out an
actual Case with a real client.
Such training is presented in the
Law School Branch of the Legal
Aid Society, established this year
on the campus, under the direc-tion
of Eugene Field, general
counsel of the Louisville main
office. In addition to affording
opportunities for learning the pro-per
“approach” to the client in
trouble, the Legal Aid branch
stimulates study and preparation
of cases to be presented in the
regular courts.
Also the branch serves as a
more convenient office for clients
south of Hill Street, thus reliev-ing
the pressure on the main of-fice,
312 Realty Building, 522 W.
Jefferson. Mr. Field reports that
the downtown office disposed of
over 11,300 cases during 1938,
which placed Louisville third be-hind
New York and Chicago in
the total number of cases handled.
Three seniors, Lucian L. John-son,
Charles Zirkle, and L. Swin-ford
Rogers, who are licensed at-torneys
have charge of the cam-pus
branch. Office hours are from
9 A. M. to 12 noon on Saturdays,
and from 2 P. M. to 5 P. M. on
Mondays. However, any member
of the staff is glad to receive
clients by appointment at other
times.
There are nearly one hundred
Legal Aid Societies throughout
the United States. All of them
have as their main purpose the
helping of poor people who are
financially unable to defend them-selves
against the more wealthier
credit houses, loan sharks, and
unscrupulous persons of all sorts.
The causes of the person without
money, although just as meritor-ious
as any cause, cannot be pro-fitably
handled by the ordinary
attorney. The time and trouble
of a small case results in a fee
which generally equals or is more
than the recovery. Thus, all over
America, legal service is extended
to persons who are unable to em-ploy
private counsel with the
Legal Aid Societies making little
or no charge. Such an organiza-tion
is of a distinctly social wel-fare
value and should be support-ed
and encouraged by all who
love fairness and justice for all.
The Louisville office, in con-tinuous
operation since 1922, is a
Cummunity Chest agency and is
thus sponsored as a semi-public
charity.
The entire staff stands ready to
serve you in the protection of
your rights and in the enforce-ment
of your due obligations.
Dedicated
Judge John J. Parker, United
States Circuit Court of Appeals,
will speak on “Democracy and
Constitutional Governmen t.”
President Raymond Asa Kent,
Chief Exectutive of University of
Louisville;Dean Jack N. Lott, Jr.,
of the School of Law.
Judge J. J. Parker
Dean Lott Dr. Kent
Distinguished Law Alumnus
Reminisces And Advises
Editor’s Note:
The following article written by Judge Henry J. Tilford, recently elect-ed
to the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, recalls some of the experiences of
a young lawyer in Louisville. Judge Tilford received his law degree from
U. of L. in 1901.
By Judge Henry J. Tilford. Kentucky Court of Appeals
Every young man who conceives the idea that he would like
to practice law as a means of livelihood, should read Dickens’ “Bleak
House”. If he is to be one of those fortunate enough to choose a
profession for which he is fitted and in which he will find some hours
of pleasure as compensation for the many hours of drudgery, he will
probably be aware of it before he has finished reading this book.
At least it seems so to me, as the impressions made by the case of
Jamdyce vs. Jarndyce, and the Court and Temple scenes described
by the great novelist, critical as he is, have never faded; and I be-lieve
that I received the first inkling that I should choose this pro-fession
above all others from the reading of this masterpiece which
so greatly influenced the reforms that have taken place.
Received Degree In 1901
When I received my Bachelor of Laws Degree from the Uni-versity
of Louisville in the spring of 1901, I had no idea how I was
to utilize my newly acquired and greatly exaggerated knowledge
as a full fledged member of the legal profession. It was necessary
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