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Show IFEW NOW STUDY IN LAW OFFICES! Washington, Feb. 24 Th system sys-tem bv which a younsr man lrarnfd law in 1 law office h;.s bcn dead fori decades despite the Illusion which still , exists William Draper lwis rormer dean of tro University of Pennsylvania Pennsylvan-ia school of law. declared In an address i.efore the conference of bar associations. associa-tions. To sit in a lawyer! office and read n law book, or to act ns his stenog-v.mhcr. stenog-v.mhcr. Mr Lewis laid, la not to "go through a law office in tbe old sense ,,( tho word" The so-called office student of today, be declared learns his law not in th law office, but in the afternoon or evening law school THREE vl GOESfl IOJ IS Mr I-owis sall the following sur-g.rtions, sur-g.rtions, If adopted would g" lonK way toward helping the present sltua-,l0Flrst. sltua-,l0Flrst. state or local courts or state or local bar associations, as best suit particular conditions, to appoint legal educational committees. I Second, no persona ol Whose moral, character tbe committee is not rea- BOtnably sure to be allowed to register or continue to be registered as B law Student, or to be gnen the rlgbl to I tJta a final examination for admls- j bion to the bar. Third, all applications for registration registra-tion as law students to be made to the 0Oi mitt ee, no applicant to be regard-j ed until a report has been mad.- con-, earning him b a member of the com-, I inlttec especially appointed to become j personally acquainted with him. ! Wmio IPPROA 1 S Lawyers who have won distinction 1 and a high placo at the bar through native ability and industry and who have not had a college education, may be expected naturally to offer with a certain degree of nestltancy, their approval ap-proval of the "exacting standard wbicn the American liar association seeks to1 Impose" upon future members of the profession. William G McAdOO ofi Xew York declared today before the! former secretar of the treasr ury 6ald he had been unable to go to a law school, but was obliged at the; age of 18 to get out into th' world and make his own living, but that the; recommendation of the American Uarj association that future members of the, profession be obliged not only to take a three year course In a law school ivnd in addition have at least two years 1 ollege training was worthy of support sup-port by II those Interested in the lm-1 provement of legal standards Mr. McAdoo declared that the value, of the highest moral and ethical stan-j dards could not bo overestimated when) the report by the lawyer was so gravel and tho function ho preforms Is so vital to the interest of the client. Sucb responsibilities, he added, make it; necessary that professional education i be of the highest stnndarc ELI HI' ROOT SP Ks Necessity of st rc-ngthrnlng the char-abler char-abler and efficiency of those admitted admit-ted to the practice of law was voiced; by Ellhu Uoot Thursday at the opening open-ing meeting of the conference. Condition which enable Inefficient-1 ly trained menlo be admitted to the bar. Mr. Root said, were unfair to the! public, unfair to the members of the legal profession and a disgrace to the, nation. Tho resolution adopted at the last meeting of the Amorican Har aasocia-; tion recommending two years of college col-lege study In addition to a three yearj course In a law school was a measure which must be approved, Mr. Rool said or "someone in this country will suffer." suf-fer." WILL I-lsr SCHOOLS The American Bar association for 25 years, he suld. had acted under a con-1 tinually growing feeling thai the bar was not functioning quite right. And during that time he added, the organlMtlonB also had been paal . i solutions voicing the same r . i g But up to this time, he asserted, no concrete action had been taken look-i ing to the establishment of r positive I remedy for a condition r Ich has be- : come :i disgrace in e t-ry state m the union. The.ro will be put before the peo-I peo-I pie of the country and tho young men who are seeking admission to the bar during the coming year, a list ol ihe. law schools which conform to the opinion of the American Bar aflSOCia-1 aflSOCia-1 tlon as to what law school ought In ) be and a list of the schools which do .not conform to that opinion. Mr Root said. |