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Book Review, Winifred R. Higgins
Book Review, Winifred R. Higgins
Cleveland State Law Review
Reviewing Samuel J. Weiner and Zellie Miner, Ohio Methods of Practice, West Publishing Company, 1957
What's Wrong With Modern Legal Education, John G. Hervey
What's Wrong With Modern Legal Education, John G. Hervey
Cleveland State Law Review
Some one once observed that the size of a man is measured by the size of the things that he will let bother him. Which is to say, that what concerns the legal profession, and those who aspire to enter it, is the adequacy of the job that is being done. The great majority of the lawyers have had training in the law schools of the country - very few come to the practice today via law office study. The practicing profession is, therefore, but the mirror that reflects the schools in which the lawyers were trained. If the bench …
Book Review, William K. Gardner
Book Review, William K. Gardner
Cleveland State Law Review
Reviewing William E. Knepper and Grant S. Richards, The Ohio Manual of General Practice, Allen Smith Company, 1956
Reforms Needed In Negligence Practice, Howard L. Oleck
Reforms Needed In Negligence Practice, Howard L. Oleck
Cleveland State Law Review
Negligence lawyers now often are classed with criminal lawyers, in public opinion, as the "black sheep" of the legal profession. In the minds of many average Americans, there is something vaguely disreputable about lawyers who specialize in plaintiffs' personal injury practice. Nor is defense practice deemed to be without blemish. That public opinion now is so well established, rightly or wrongly, that it no longer can be ignored.
Matt Excell - Trial Lawyer Extraordinary, Elmer E. Mcnulty
Matt Excell - Trial Lawyer Extraordinary, Elmer E. Mcnulty
Cleveland State Law Review
One day, in the civil assignment room, Matt Excell said to me: "When the Lord made that lawyer (pointing to one) he hand-carved him, and when He was making him (pointing to another) He was called to the telephone." If his own definition were to be applied to Matthew B. Excell, he was a lawyer "hand-carved by God." This story pertains to the period in which I knew, worked and lived with him in court and in the preparation of cases for court.