not being acquired until after some time. spent at the bar and the passing of an ad ditional examination. 5. In the case of lawyers removing from other jurisdictions and applying for admission, how many years of practice at the bar of the highest appellate court of the state from which the applicant removes, should be required in order to entitle him to admission on grounds of comity? In some states the requirement is three years and in others five." 6. Should a provision be inserted in the standard rules providing that comity admissions shall not be extended to lawyers coming from a jurisdiction which refuses to admit on equally favorable terms lawyers from the state to the bar of which the lawyer is applying for admission? 7. Shall the standard of general education required be the standard for graduation from a high school of the state in which the applicant resides or the equivalent of the completion of the first year in a college authorized by the state to confer degrees, or shall the standard be higher? Is it better to designate the standard in some such way as this, or to specify particular subjects or their equivalents? It should be noted that all these differing standards are now followed in different jurisdictions. the bona fide service of a regular clerk. ship in the office of a practicing attorney during the entire required period of study? In this connection it is well to note that the amended rules of admission of the Court of Appeals of New York State, which went into effect July 1, 1908, provide that the candidate must have prepared either in an approved law school or by serving "a regular clerkship in the office of a practicing attorney," and that as to the clerkship he must produce and file "an affidavit of the attorney or attor neys with whom such clerkship was serv ed, showing the actual service of such a clerkship, the continuance and end there. of, and that not more than two months' vacation was taken in any one year. Ilis own and the attorney's affidavit must also show "that during the entire period of such clerkship, except during the stated vacation time, the applicant was actually employed by said attorney as a regular law clerk and student in his law office, and, under his direction and advice, engaged in the practical work of the office during the usual hours of the day." Those who desire to investigate this subject more fully will find a brief of statutes and authorities, American and English, in re what constitutes "a regular clerkship" in A. B. A. Reports for 1905, vol. xxviii, pp. 635–642. 11. What length of time should be recommended in the proposed standard rules for the study of the law? Query: With the leading medical col leges requiring four years, and with a fifth year in contemplation, and with the period of study for the ministry in some denominations even longer than this, and with knowledge of the fact that in England five years' service of a clerkship in an office is necessary for admission even as a solicitor, should the American Bar Association be satisfied to recommend as 4 standard but a three years' course? 12. Upon what subjects should candidates for final examination be prepared? The following are suggested for tentative consideration: Constitutional Law, including the Constitutions of the United States and (the candidate's state), Equity, the Law of Real and Personal Property, Evidence, Decedents' Estates, Landlord and Tenant, Contracts, Partnership, Corporations, Crimes, Torts, Domestic Relations, Common Law Pleadings and Practice, Federal and State Practice, Professional Ethics, the Federal Statutes relating to the Judiciary and to Bankruptcy, and the development in * (the candidate's state) of the principles of the law, as exemplified by the decisions of its highest appellate court and by statutory enactments. 13. Should a candidate be required to announce his application for admission in a professional or other journal, and, if so, in one published in his home county or in one of general state circulation, that all such announcements may appear together? 14. Is it better that the members of the board have a fixed salary, or that the fees paid by candidates be divided among them? 15. What should be the amount of the examination fee paid by candidates? 16. How many persons make the most effective board? In New York and Maryland there are three members of the board, in Pennsylvania and Illinois five, in Ohio ten, etc. All communications should be addressed to the chairman of the committee, Mr. Lucien H. Alexander, 713-714 Arcade Bldg., Meetings of the Association of American Law Schools and the Section of Legal Education of the American Bar Association, 1908. HE Eighth Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools was held on the afternoon of August 25th at the New Washington Hotel, Seattle, Washington. In the absence of the President of the Association, George W. Kirchwey, Dean of the Columbia University School of Law, the meeting was called to order by Dean Henry Wade Rogers of the Yale Law School, the Chairman of the Executive Committee. On motion, George P. Costigan, Jr., Dean of the University of Nebraska School of Law, was made temporary chairman, taking the place of Wm. R. Vance, Dean of the George Washington University School of Law, the Secretary of the Association, who was unable to attend the meeting. The roll call disclosed that fourteen law schools were represented as follows: Columbia University School of Law University of Denver School of Law- George Washington University School University Law School- State University of Iowa College of Law University of Minnesota College of Law University of Missouri Law School-Sel Northwestern University School of Law Southern California University College St. Louis Law School of Washington The following twenty-two schools belonging to the Association did not send delegates to the meeting: Hastings College of Law of the Univer- University of Kansas School of Law. Pittsburg Law School. South Dakota University College of Law. Syracuse University College of Law. University of Wisconsin College of Law. In the absence of Dean Kirchwey, the President's address, "American Law and the American Law School," was read by Francis M. Burdick of the Columbia University of Law. |