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Show 4 rluli Unlir 0 2rlty of utafi U Uko CItX m'Pt Utah , WESTERN eH2 rv. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH VOLUME 16, NUMBER 10 v $tnrr UMONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1972 JAN1 Matrimony Law Group Planning CLE Seminars CHICAGO (ACCN) - Utah Supreme Court Decisions - Capsule - Robbery Conviction Formation Supreme Court: Affirmed. court cannot substitute its discretion for that of the trial court, whose rulings will be sustained unless it is clearly indicated that it abused or failed to exercise its discreThis tion. Academy established with the Plaintiff Counsel: cooperation of the university and its Vernon B. Romney law faculty. As what is believe to be David S. Young the first specialized C.L.E. in the Defendant Counsel: United States, its programs will be James N. Barber designed to answer the advanced See details page 3 needs of the matrimonial specialist in responding to todays marriage and divorce problems. Dean Purcell, speaking before a special meeting of the Academy at the Chicago Bar Association, pointed out that lawyers today face problems of such vast and increasing complexity that no basic law school education can be expected to cover them completely. The ARDMORE, PA. (ACCN) Therefore, the practicing lawyer is largest post-win rise percentage obligated to continue his legal average clerical salaries including his legal secretaries, was recorded in education throughout life. professional the twelve months ending June 1971, President For kins stressed The according to an analysis of governorganized bar has an obligation to ment data recently completed by make continuing legal education Altman & Weil, Inc., management available to the profession and this consultants specializing in the legal specialized C.L.E. provides the first profession. The study indicates that program designed specifically to average pay rose 6.5 per cent during answer the needs of todays in- that one year period, compared to creased specialization in the law. 6.2 per cent for the 0 period This joint effort by the Loyola and increases of less than five per University School of Law and the cent for the two prior years. American Academy of Matrimonial Private law firms spend an Lawyers is a further step in con- average of 15 cents of every gross tinuing and expanding the fee dollar on clerical support, acthe Academy and the law cording to Robert I. Weil, a principal school make to the profession. in the firm. Therefore, he said, law Frank L. Whitmer, newly ap- offices should carefully consider the . pointed executive director of the consequences of such steep cost Institute, announced that Joseph N. increases. DuCanto will be chairman and The available data measures pay visiting professor for the first course in larger business establishscales on Tax, Financial and Estate law firms are exments; Planning of Marital Settlements" to cluded. private law firms compete However, be presented at the Loyola the same for secretarial personnel, University Svhool of Law in so the information is useful for Chicago, on thirteen consecutive s. Saturday mornings beginning Feb, Senior Stenographers averaged I 26, 1972. 6555 per month in mid-197This The American Academy of is defined to include legal Matrimonial Lawyers is a group and is roughly stenographers specialized bar organization comsimilar to legal secretaries with no posed of lawyers who practice extensively in the matrimonial field of administrative, responsibilities. law. Information may be obtained Employees classified as Secretaries from the Academy at 900 Lake Shore II and III, who are roughly comto senior legal secretaries, Drive, Suite 2508, Chicago, Illinois parable averaged $620 and $668 per month. 60611. Messengers averaged $404 per Legal Secretaries Shared in 1971 Pay Increase - ar 1969-197- con-tributt- on . lawyer-employer- 1. Jersey Governor Favors Off-Trac- k month. Despite unemployment occupations, in other skilled secretarial personnel continues in short supply in most areas, according to the consultants, so law offices will be forced to compete with these higher Gov. rates of TRENTON, N.J. (UPI) compensation. Regional and William T. Cahill has asked the state local factors influence each emlegislature to set up a commission to ployers particular pay scale. The betting on horse survey provides only averages. study races. A number of steps can now be He said the commission should taken to increase the productivity of make a recommendation well the secretarial work force, and enough in advance of the November hence to hold down the impact of election so the issue might be put to rising salaries, Weil said. referendum. These include: extended use of While I personally believe the power typing; greater attention to State of New Jersey has sufficient selection and training of employees; to improved use of machine dictation; Ifpllml gambling at this time unnot am I our citizens, and improvement of internal satisfy mindful of the logical case which is systems and procedure. advocated in support of Also, where the practice permits, in his said the examination of fee charges must governor an betting," annual message to the legislature, be undertaken in order to hold gross January 11. receipts in line with rising costs. Betting Study off-tra- ck off-tra- ck Home Can Spur Market Purchase Rise Slackens Off - UTAH vs. JIRON of the Institute for Continuing Legal Education Matrimonial has been announced by James M. Forking, president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, and Charles R. Purcell, dean of the Loyola University School of Law, Chicago. The Institute is an activity of the Life Insurance AmerNEW YORK (ACCN) icans purchased life insurance protection in 1971 amounting to $188 billion, but this was nearly $6 billion less than the year before, the Institute of Life Insurance estimates. The drop was attributed to the fact that in 1970 the Federal government had increased by half the amount of life insurance available to service men and women. In 1970, Servicemens Group Life Insurance accounted for $17 billion of the $64 billion in group life purchases. With this sum deducted, group purchases would show an increase of nearly $5 billion in 1971 to reach a total of more than $51 billion. Overall, purchases lifted life insurance coverage throughout the nation by $107 billion, or 8 per cent, so that by the end of 1971 total protection on the lives of Americans rose to $1.5 trillion. This amounted to a protection level of $22,000 for the average family, up $1,100 during the year. Although lower than last year, the largest single increase in life insurance by types of coverage was in group life insurance, which in 1971 went up $55 billion or 10 per cent, reaching $600 billion in force. Third Largest Narcotics Haul Made in Miami WASHINGTON (ACCN) Gen. John N. Mitchell - Atty. has announced the arrest of eight persons in Miami, Fla., and the seizure of 238 pounds of heroin with a street value third largest seizure of $47 million by U.S. authorities on record. The arrests and seizure climaxed k a investigation as special the Bureau of Narcotics of agents and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD) moved in a predawn raid, January 5. The record seizure of heroin by U.S. authorities was 249 pounds in a case in Valencia, Spain, on June 3, 1971. The second largest seizure was made in May 1971, 246 pounds in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In Valencia, BNDD special agents in France and Spain maintained surveillance of a 1971 Citroen which was destined for New York. Spanish National police, assisted by BNDD special agents, found the heroin in traps in the car. John E. Ingersoll, BNDD two-wee- Director, said that preliminary evidence indicates the heroin came from Europe via South America into Miami. He said the Miami Police Department assisted BNDD special agents in the arrests. Mr. Ingersoll said the suspects offered no resistance. Cleanup Job - Teams of BUDAPEST (UPI) Chinese are at work in Peking slogans from wiping for President walls in preparation -PWASHINGTON (ACCN) reston Martin, . chairman of the board of directors of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, announces the new secondary mortgage market program for conventional loans, which, it is LEAA Will Aid States in Meeting Matching Levels WASHINGTON (ACCN) - has Ad- ministrator Jerris Leonard revealed that a number of steps have been taken to ease problems faced by the stales in meeting new matching fund requirements enacted by Congress for state block by the Law Engrants awarded ' AdAssistance forcement ministration. two recent to the amendments Congressional LEAA statute will require the stales to expend more cash as opposed to a fund match by services but he added that another amendment will reduce the over-al- l matching obligations required of the states. The matching fund problems of the states would be eliminated completely by President Nixons proposal for Law Enforcement Revenue Sharing, which has been pending before Congress since early this year, Leonard said. He made the comments in a letter to Gov. Linwood Holton of Virginia, who recently told the Southern Governors Conference that the new Leonard said matching requirements constituted an almost insurmountable barrier to further participation in the LEAA program by Virginia and some other states. Leonard also disclosed that he has sent similar letters to the other 49 governors to explain the matching requirements and outline the steps taken by LEAA to aid all of the states when the two new amend- ments relating to cash expenditures become effective next July 1. In his letter to Gov. Holton, Leonard emphasized that the LEAA "does not wish to see any state withdraw from the Safe Streets Act program and will do everything within its authority to avoid such an occurrence. The amendments relating to cash expenditures are: provision, which will require each state to pay 25 percent of the matching funds which must be provided by their units of local government which carry out projects with LEAA grants. At present, states have to provide matching funds only for state-leveThe buy-i- n ls projects. The hard match provision, which will require that 40 percent of the total match of the state and its localities be in cash. At present, there is no percentage requirement for cash match, although under certain circumstances states and localities contribute goods and services. Nixons trip, a Peking-base- d Leonard said that a third new Hungarian newsman said, January amendment which is in effect for 9. the current fiscal year gives the Dene Baracs, the Peking states and localities significant correspondent of the Hungarian relief. It provides that LEAA will news agency, MTI, said that iwhole pay 75 percent of a projects cost, brigades are at work wiping away with the state-locshare 25 percent. slogans from the Previously, the formula for block walls in places where the Americans grant projects was 60 percent might visit. Federal, 40 percent state-loca- l. anti-Americ- an al anti-Americ- an I claimed, could pump as much as $1 billion into the housing market during 197. Three new loan purchase programs are added to the Corporations existing market for FHA-Vand conventional mortgage participation interests. The new conventional programs will provide for the purchase of both singlefamily and multifamily conA ventional loans as forward a well as commitment for multifamily loans. All loans purchased must be on the over-the-count- er FHLMCs approved mortgage documents. These documents, for each of the fifty States, were designed in conjunction with FNMA and with the active involvement of builders, consumer representatives, political leaders, lenders, title companies and attorneys. The lender and the borrower decide major loan terms, including such items as interest on escrow, the amount of late charges and prepayment penalty. The prepayment penalty is assessable so-call- ed wily in the event of refinancing by the borrower. Prepayment of the loan on sale of the home or for any other reason other than refinancing is allowable. FHLMC loan buying operations are intended to provide flexibility and greater lending capacity and by so doing increases the stability and reduces the cost of housing credit. Surgeon General Says Cigarette Tax May Help WASHINGTON (UPI) - U.S. Surgeon General Jesse L. Steinfeld has asserted that a graduated tax on cigarettes based on their tar and nicotine content is an alternative method of encouraging the use of lower yield cigarettes that are safer to smoke. Steinfelds report to Congress, January 10, on smoking and health urged the tobacco industry to produce a less hazardous cigarette by reducing the harmful contents of cigarette smoke, beginning with carbon monoxide, nicotine and tar. The City of New York now has a graduated tax on cigarettes based on their tar and nicotine content and this experiment should be watched carefully, Steinfeld said in a speech prepared for a meeting of the National Interagency Council on Smoking and Health. The Council is an antismoking of 33 coalition national the including American Medical Association and the U.S. Public Health Service. If the (tax) system works at all in New York City, it should be even more effective elsewhere, Steinfeld said. He said one thing working against the tax in New York City is a black market in cigarettes brought in from states where taxes are tower. Steinfeld also respondend to tobacco industry attacks on the newest surgeon generals report and said that he was especially concerned about teenage smoking. In his responnse to the industry, Steinfeld said the Tobacco Institutes attack on the report was a "self serving statement. He asked the industry to Stop fighting the organizations, government on smoking. |