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Show tr 3 N v micwi IAT2 Sarlali, Urd3r ftjvirtnjnt Unlvoruity of Uteh Fait Lake City, Utah B4112 XJ: '. i 4 i. O o VOLUME 15, NUMBER 200 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH MONDAY. OCTOBER 18, 1971 i LEGAL INSTITUTE Secretaries Are Big Investments Though secretaries represent big investments, good ones can be profitable, lawyers and legal assistants attending the Law Firm Management and Legal Institute were informed. Secretaries are not naturally passive or resistant to the needs of the firm. They may appear so because their law firm experience has made them that way." Legal office personnel were made aware that, secretaries possess potential for development, capacity for assuming responsibility, and are quite willing to join the march toward organization goals. They need opportunity." People are challenged and moti-vated differently and research has shown that satisfaction from the job came first from personal achievement, recognition coupled with interesting work and generous grants of responsibility. Lawyers were encouraged to take sufficient time to screen applicants for secretarial position . . . what would she really like to do . . . what did she like most about her previous job . . . what was her most challenging experience In the last three to four years" . . . were considered important questions to ask in helping to determine abilities. Standards of secretarial success are determined best by knowing the real meaning of quality of work" ami quantity of output" in job performance. Secretaries ARE important and it appears the way to liberate the lawyer today is to hire a good one . . . and then keep her. Capsule For Minor Child CONTINUING SUPPORT DOES CLAIM Using a Clients Deposit Account, similar to a Trust Fund Account, was encouraged by Mr. Volney F. Morrin of Los Angeles. Mr. Morrin revealed that setting up a special client deposit account of the there can be no clients money and the attorneys funds. It inspires accurate monthly accounting, eliminates receivables and maintains a harmonious and confident relationship with clients. Morrin stressed that lawyers arc not in the financing business" and that the use of the client deposit account presents an orderly method of making disbursements for the client regularly with an itemized accounting of all transactions. Ikmsyer Timekeeping Essential no copying" method of timekeeping for lawyers, known as the y System, indicated there were distinct advantages in using the procedure for billing purposes and record keeping. It provides flexibility for comments, simplified filing and billing. In addition it promoted client conA Sans-Cop- fidence. A survey revealed that attorneys who kept time records for billing had net incomes which were almost identical with the gross income of lawyers who did not keep time records. July Data Off For Aluminum - NEW YORK (ACCN) Aluminum ingot and mill products were shipped at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4,486,800 tons during July 1971, it has been announced by S. L. Goldsmith, Jr., executive vice president, the Aluminum Association. The July figure, the latest available, was 8.4 per cent less than r the rate of 4,887,700 tons for the1 comparable 1970 period. V NOT SURVIVE FRANK V. COLOMBO, JR., a minor by Virginia Von S torch, as Guardian, Plaintiff & Appellant v. WALKER BANK AND TRUST CO., Defendant Trial Court: Divorce decree did not ; provide continuing support money in event cf death. Minor child received life insurance benefits plus one fourth of fathers estate. Judgment awarded defendant. Supreme Court: Affirmed. Plaintiff counsel: Parsons, Behle & Latimer, James B. Lee, Edward J. McCarthy, 520 Kearns Bldg. Defendant counsel: Thorit Hatch, 155 So. Main St., Helper 84926 temporary Stephen M. Harmsen MAKES BID FOR CITY Stephen M. Harmsen, city prose- cutor for Salt Lake City, makes a bid for a City Commission post in the forthcoming election October 19th. He advocates police reform emphasizing restructuring police priorities, community relations program, police ambulance service and recruiting minority groups. His platform includes environment reforms with increasing zoning enforcement, enforcing public health and building codes and the establishment of mini-park- s. Mitchell Says U.S. Can Admit Soviet Jews WASHINGTON (ACCN) Gen. John N. Mitchell has Consumer Measures Become Bevy Of an- he possesses the legal authority to allow Soviet Jews to enter the United States as refugees if they are permitted to leave the Soviet Union. Mitchell said the Immigration and Nationality Act gives him the authority to parole refugees into this country and he would exercise my discretion if the situation demanded and parole Soviet Jews who are able to leave the Soviet Union. The Attorney General made his decision known in letters to House Judiciary Committee Chairmar Emanuel Celler and Represen tali' Peter W. Rodino, Jr., Chairman .of House Judiciary Subcommittee No. 1. The question of the extent of the Attorney General's parole authority arose in connection with several legislative proposals dealing with the plight of the Soviet Jews. The mounting evidence that Soviet Jews have unsuccessfully sought permission to emigrate from the Soviet Union has compelled a Departmental reexamination of the Attorney General's parole authority with respect to refugees," Mr. Mitchell said. As a result of this review, he said, earlier doubts as to the Attorney authority Illinois' SPRINGFIELD Atty. nounced Generals COMMISSION In the area of tax reforms, he feels there should be no increase in property taxes and that city services should be paid by recipients. On the economy, Mr. Harmsen desires to encourage renovation and construction in depressed areas with preservation of city heritage and culture. Born and raised in Salt Lake, he is a graduate of East High and the University of Utah as well as the George Washington Law Center. A member of the Utah State Bar, Mr. Harmsen is married and resides with his wife Kelly at 73 F Street. Law In to allow refugees to enter the United States have been diminished. (ACCN) Gov. Richard B. Ogilvie has approved legislation to protect Illinois consumers from deceptive and wasteful practices in the purchase of goods and services. The eight bills will require greater disclosure in medicinal drug prescriptions, credit and wage garnishment practices, and auto dealer warranty obligations. In addition, the bills afford debtors additional rights and set limits on credit card liability, Ogilvie commented: We are all consumers. Shoddy goods and services, secrecy in and transactions, everyday unreliable sales practices cost us countless dollars in wasted, misspent money each year These bills afford the unsuspecting consumer important new protection and legal recourses. And nearly as important, they protect the honest businessman dealing in quality products from the unfair and sometimes ruinous competition posed by the unscrupulous operators. Ogilvie noted more remained to be done in other areas, and called on the General Assembly to consider pending consumer bills. He added: The fulfillment of this order, restraining preliminary injunction pendente life (diffing the life of the suit) and permanent injunction, sought by the teachers, refused to convene a three-judg- e federal court, and dismissed the complaint. In doing so Judge Hauk held that the Teachers Association and its See details page 4 . LAWYER In United decision District Judge A. Andrew Hauk in Los Angeles upheld, October 8, the constitutionality of President Nixons Executive Order of last August 15, freezing prices, wages and salaries for 60 days under the Economic Stablization Act of 1970. Ruling a lest suit brought by the California Teachers Association and those of its members whose wages and salaries were frozen by the Presidents order, against the school districts of Orange and Riverside Counties and numerous school and county officials, Judge Hauk denied all injunctive relief, including the LOS ANGELES (ACCN) FATHER'S ESTATE AGAINST . Mutual Financial Relations Stressed Federol Court Upholds Wage-Pric- e Freeze members a States and order, Utah Supreme Court Decisions - com- mitment for reform will make Illinois a model for the nation, a state in which fair bargaining and healthy competition will benefit buyer and seller alike. Split School Districts Face Court Review - The Su(UPI) 12 to Court October preme agreed look into two cases where school districts were split in two so that white children had an improved numerical advantage over blacks. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed appeals in both cases from Virginia and North Carolina after the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the primary purpose of the new alignment was not to continue segregation but to improve education. The Justice Department joined LDF in appealing the North Carolina case. The two cases will be heard later in the term. The towns are Scotland Neck in Halifax County, N.C., and Emporia, in Greensville County, Va. WASHINGTON in-to- Federal district courts refused to along with the newly created districts but the 4lh U.S. Circuit Court of Apeals reversed them on March 23, 1971, on the ground that the primary purpose of the new alignment was not to continue segregation. The 4th circuit took the opposite view in connection with a split in the Littlelon-Lak- e Gaston District in North Carolina and refused to permit it. The Court of Appeals formulated this test in the Emporia case: If the creation of a new school district is designed to further the aim of providing quality education and is attended secondarily by a modification of the racial balance, short of resegregation, the federal courts should not interfere. If, however, the primary purpose for creating a new school district is to retain as much of separation of the races as possible, the state has go violated its affirmative con- stitutional duty to end state supported segregation. The Justice Department said this kind of examination of motives would trap the federal courts in a quagmire of litigation and would also sanction dn easy method of evading Supreme Court school desegregation rulings. failed to raise a suing substantial constitutional issue and in any event had failed to sue any of the persons and agencies directly charged by law with the enforcement, operation and execution of the stablization law, namely, the President, the cost of living council and its chairman. Secretary of the Treasury John B. Connally, and the director of the Office at Emergency Preparedness, G.A. Lincoln. Rejecting the teachers attack on the constitutionality of the Economic Stablization Act and the President's executive order as insubstantial, peripheral and indirect, Judge Hauks ruling is contrary to at least two other Federal District Courts which have entertained suits attacking the stablization law and the Presidents price and wage freeze, and which have convened federal courts statutory three-judg- e to pass upon the constitutionality of the freeze. One case is pending in the Eastern District of California, a companion test suit brought by the California Teachers Association against the school districts, officers and officials of Sacramento County, in which United States Judge Philip C. Wilkins after convening a three-judg- e court continued the case to await the outcome of the matter before Judge Hauk. The other is in the District of Columbia Federal Court where United States District Judge Aubrey E. Robinson has also court to convened a three-judg- e consider what he has found to be a substantial constitutional question in a suit by the Meatcutters Union against the federal agencies and officers attacking the stablization law and the Presidents freeze or- der. Judge Hauk, in dismissing the teachers' complaint has allowed them 20 days to file an amended complaint should they desire once again to attempt to raise the requisite substantial constitutional issue and sue the proper parties defendant. Push Michigan Woman Judge For High Court - U.S. District DETROIT (UPI) Court Judge Cornelia Kennedy has the backing of 26 Wayne County (Greater Detroit) Circuit Court judges for one of the two openings on the U.S. Supreme Court. Judge Kennedy and Rep. Martha W. Griffiths are the two Michigan women mentioned as possible choices by President Nixon if he decides to submit a women's name. Judge Kennedys appointment was urged in a letter sent to Sen. Robert P. Griffin, (Rep.; Mich.), and signed by the 26 judges. n of We have a great conbench on this humanity servative and liberal, Republican and Democrat and I think it is a tremendous tribute to her (Judge Kennedy) that she has received this universal acclaim, said Judge cross-sectio- Joseph A. Sullivan, presiding judge of the Circuit Court. She is an be a would and outstanding judge tremendous appointment Supreme Court. to the ' |