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Show PAGE THE DAILY RECORD EIGHT Tribunal Rules On Time Limit To Sue Lawyer - two-ye- ar Sheepskins No Job Guaranty In Rough 1971 v, us all-tim- Students waged personal campaigns, making direct contact with employers by mail and by solicitation. The graduates also made greater use of commercial employment agencies and executive search firms. door-to-do- or The diligent, student, who put no limiting conditions on where he would work or who he would work for, has a job, but it may not be his first or second choice. Some students, knowing that offers would not be abundant; took the first one that came along, even though it might not have been quite what they wanted. better-than-avera- ge Administrative Post Filled By Bar Foundation CHICAGO (ACCN) Kenneth Fisher of Evergreen Park, 111., has been appointed administrative officer of the American Bar Foundation. He succeeds Wantland L. Sandel, Jr., who will become staff director of the American Bar Association Traffic Court Program in January. The Foundation is the legal research affiliate of the American Bar Association. Fisher has been on the Foundation's professional staff since December, 1968 as a research social scientist. He served as project director, Data Processing of Land WASHINGTON (ACCN) (Special) malpractice suits against physicians, accountants, and other professional persons need not be brought until the client discovers the facts of his claim. Today is no time to perpetuate an - For MINNEAPOLIS (ACCN) 1971 the college graduate, getting his sheepskin did not automatically provide the job he had set his sights nor even one in his chosen field. Hi And in some cases, he may still be driving a taxicab, waiting tables, clerking or doing unpaid volunteer work while searching for a job in line with his qualifications. ' Finding a career job meant a lot of hard work on the part of last Junes college grads. The year 1971 proved to be even the year the worse than 1970 bottom started to fall out of the job market for college graduates. The Family Economics Bureau of Northwestern National Life Insurance Co., in its annual survey of more than 100 colleges and universities, found that job opportunities in virtually every field were down from the previous year. With recruiting drastically reduced, or even cancelled by many companies, several colleges held workshops to prepare students for job searching on their own. In 1970, said one placement official, interviews were held on a 'lets meet you and hope something opens up later basis. In 1971, they just didnt come. J The use of college placement office for employment counseling e reached an high this year. Group Asks Local Bars Act On Panel Reform holding the period runs from the day the attorney committed the carelsss act. The decision pointed out that The a client statutory period may sue an attorney for malpractice runs not from the day the attorney committed the careless act but from the day the client discovers it, according to the California Supreme Court which has filed two unanimous decisions overturning earlier cases SAN FRANCISCO (ACCN) ABA The nation's 100 largest bar associations are being asked to give priority attention to problems of the prison and corrections systems in their own states and communities. The request was made by the American Bar Association Commission on Correctional Facilities and Services in a letter by its chairman, former Governor Richard J. Hughes of New Jersey. There is a vast field where local anachronistic interpretation of the statute of limitations that permits the attorney to escape obligations which other professionals must bear, the Court said. bar leadership can be exercised to "The legal calling can ill afford, the preservation of privileged mission. Such committees are Governor absolutely essential, Hughes said, if the problems of protection against responsibility, a privilege born of error, subject to almost universal condemnation, and, in present-da- y society, opinions were authored by Justice Mathew 0. anomalous. Both Tobriner. In the case of Neel v. Magana, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Neel claimed that their attorneys carelessly permitted the Neels suit against San Bernardino County to be dismissed Dec. 10, 1965, and that they did not learn of this dismissal until Dec. 21, 1967. Their malpractice suit against the attorneys was dismissed because it was not filed within two years of the date of the attorney's negligence. Reversing the lower court, the Supreme Court pointed out that if a client does not learn of his attorneys negligence until more than two years after it has occurred, he would lose his right to sue before he ever his discovered attorneys carelessness. Such a rule, the Court said, ignores the right of the client to rely upon the superior skill and knowledge of the attorney; it denigrates the duty of the attorney to make full and fair disclosure to the client; it negates the fiduciary character of the attorney-clien- t good effect, Governor Hughes said, noting that eight state bar associations already have special corrections committees at work in cooperation with the ABA Com- individual communities are to be adequately defined and attacked. MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1971 Stanford Will Train In Urban Management STANFORD, CALIF. (ACCN) -Stanfords Graduate School of Business has received a $550,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to start a program to train students for careers in urban management, Business School Dean Arjay Miller has announced. - The grant enables the School to into put practice our belief that the skills used so successfully in modern business management can be applied with equal effectiveness in attacking complex problems of the cities, said Dean Miller. Offered to students as an option within the Schools two-yemaster of business administration (MBA) program, the new course couples first-of-a-ki- ar 75.5 Successful On New York Bar Hughes indicated that the opportunities for service were enormous, extending from updating of outmoded legislative codes through legal assistance to offenders and stimulation of modern community corrections programs. He said the ABA Commission, on request, would help state and local bar associations design programs, serve as a clearinghouse for the exchange of ideas and experience, and provide technical assistance and cooperation in following through on the Commissions own action ALBANY (ACCN) Some 1,752 or of cent 75.5 per the 2,321 candidates who sat to the latest (July 1971) New York bar examination were successful, according to data released by the state board of law examiners. Of 2,131 who took the exam for the first time, 1,678 or 78.7 per cent passed. programs. New Indian Law Office Head Named Hughes praised the existing state corrections committees to a variety of programs now underway or being planned. At least six state bars are now operating special corrections committees and two more have been s constituted as of major bar sections and committees. These include: sub-unit- WASHINGTON (ACCN) las C. Robinson has been head the North Carolina Bar Association Penal System Study Committee. New Jersey State Bar Association Committee on Correctional Reform. Michigan State Bar Special Committee on Corrections. named to Indian Denver-base- d Af- fairs of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, ad- ministrator Jerris Leonard has announced. Robinson, 48, has been an area special officer for the Bureau of Indian Affairs since 1957 in Gallup and Albuquerque, New Mexico. In that position, he wrote, criminal codes for Indian tribes in New Mexico and Colorado, and organized and conducted training programs for tribal and Bureau of Indian Affairs police. Robinson originated the concept of an independent judicial training system for tribal judges, which led to the formation of the Indian Court Judges Association. He helper create the curricula for the Indian Police Academy at Roswell, N.M. He was an instructor there, and lectured on Indian criminal justice at the University of Arizona and University of New Mexico law schools. He received his bachelors degree from Oregon State College in 1948, and has done graduate work there and at Chino Slate College in California. He was born in Forest Grove, Oregon. ' He succeeds V. Allen Adams, now the deputy regional administrator in LEAAs Denver office. relationship. In the case of Budd v. Nixen, the Maryland State Bar Association Special Committee on Correca lower Court reversed Supreme tional Reform. a court which had dismissed legal Oregon State Bar Association malpractice suit filed by William Committee on Detention and CorBudd against his attorney some rections. three years after he discovered the) Washington State Bar Correcalleged negligence. Budd, however, . contended that on the date of r tions Committee. New York State Bar Associadiscovery he had suffered no tion Committee on the Correctional two-yeand that the damage Law Section). (Criminal period should not begin until System D.C. Bar Association Commitdamage is incurred. tee on Prison Reform (Young Until the Lawyers Section). The Court agreed: client suffers appreciable harm as a Hughes said projects affecting consequence of his attorneys offenders and the corrections negligence, the client cannot system also are being undertaken by establish a cause of action for other committees and sections of malpractice. bar associations such as those But, the Court emphasized, once i organized around the field of client has discovered his attorneys criminal law, family law, juvenile negligence and suffered some delinquency, and legal services to damage he must commence his indigents. action within the two-yeA complete inventory of existing limitation. The Supreme Court bar association activity in the correturned the case to the trial court rections field has been undertaken for a determination of when Budd by the ABA Commission and will be first was damaged. released early next year. ar ar UTAH AND Doug- classroom study with experience. Nineteen students from the MBA class entering this fall have elected to take the urban management course. When in full operation next September enrollment will reach 40 first and second-yea- r students out of a total of 600 MBA candidates. Upon completion, students will receive MBA degrees and be prepared to follow management careers in ob government, other nonprofit organizations and in urban-relate- d work in business. The curriculum is based on the same core of management courses required of all students in the School but stresses application of analytical tools and political processes in urban management situations through a range of new courses, special workshops and a field internship program, according to Professor of Organizational Behavior Eugene J. Webb, who was in charge of the faculty group which planned the urban management courses. We believe that the MBA curriculum, which concentrates on developing applied problem solving and general management skills, is also the best foundation for urban managers, and in our planning, urban and practitioners academicians have verified and said supported our judgement, Webb. Additions and modifications to the curriculum have been needed to make for the best and most powerful learning experience, he said. The urban management option is expected to have major spill-over benefits for other students at Stanford in the Business School and elsewhere in the University. A background paper detailing the urban management course of study states that business and government at all levels must understand each other better and must cooperate more effectively if many todays massive problems are to be solved and our new national priorities are to be successfully implemented. Urban management students and courses of socio-econom- ic will help significantly in developing this flavor in the Business School and more broadly on the Stanford campus. Businessman Named To Head Postal Service - WASHINGTON (UPI) Elmer T. Ted Klassen, who worked his way up from office boy to become president of the American Can Company, has been named postmaster general of the 750,000-employ- e U.S. Postal Service. Klassen, 63, who had been a board of member of the nine-ma- n his elected fellow was by governors, Winton M. to succeed governors Blount who resigned last October to consider running for the U.S. Senate from Alabama. U.S. TOTAL UNEMPLOYMENT RATE PERCENT OF LABOR (SEASONALLY UTAH ADJUSTED U.S. FORCE UNEMPLOYED 8 Records, and associate project director of a study of a prepaid legal insurance in Shreveport, La. He also was an assistant project director for the Study of Utilization of Legal Services by the Poor. Prior to joining the Foundation he was a marketing research analyst with the Continental Coffee and Foods Corporation in Chicago. He received a B.S. degree in Business and Economics from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1967 and is now a candidate for a Masters of Business Administration at the 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 Shaded Areas represent U.S. recession periods as determined by National Burean ef Economic Research. 1965 1966 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 Source: Utah Department of Employment Security University of Chicago. ) : : |