National Library Week Follow-Up
Thanks to everyone for participating in our National Library Week
celebration (April 15-19). Law School faculty, students, staff, Library
staff, library school students, and attorneys responded to the daily trivia
questions and the Legal Research Crossword Puzzle. We gave away dozens of
prizes and lots of candy! Several students and attorneys attended our
research classes and learned about new online resources. In the celebratory
words of the American Library Association’s Proclamation, “America's
libraries are the cornerstones of our democracy; . . . Libraries are for
everyone, everywhere; . . . libraries are places of opportunity, education
and self-help.”
Puzzle People
by Cheryl Nyberg
Fourteen intrepid cruciverbalists met the challenge of our Legal Research
Crossword Puzzle, celebrating National Library Week. The following
attorneys, law students, and staff submitted complete and (mostly) correct
puzzles, in the order of their submissions:
Eric B. Martin Devo Garner Bruce Paddy Jessica Tang
William P. Logan Nikki Pike Corey Niles Tanja Harm
Dana Tumenova Julie Napier Vickie Northington
Andrea Lee Larisa Bosma Megan Blomquist
Thanks for playing along. In a random drawing (supervised by Pryce
Waterlouse) Eric, Bruce, and Dana won better-than-average prizes.
Correct answers are posted on the bulletin board adjacent to the
Reference Office on the 2d floor.
Trivia Contest: Name That (Constitutional) Clause
by Cheryl Nyberg
Actually, we will provide the names. Your mission (should you decide to
accept it) is to match each of the popular names of these Constitutional
clauses with their correct article/section or amendment.
| 1.Commerce Clause |
a. 6th Amendment |
| 2.Full Faith and Credit Clause |
b. Article 4, Section 2 |
| 3.Speedy Trial Clause |
c. 1st Amendment |
| 4.Interstate Commerce Clause |
d. Article 4, Section 1 |
| 5.Establishment Clause |
e. Article 2, Section 2, Clause 2 |
| 6.Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause |
f. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 |
| 7.Privileges and Immunities Clause |
g. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 |
| 8.Advice and Consent Clause |
h. Article 1, Section 7, Clause 1 |
| 9.Indian Commerce Clause |
i. 8th Amendment |
| 10.Origination Clause |
j. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 |
Submit your answers by email to lawrefst@u.washington.edu. Deadline: May
6, 8am. Answers will be posted in the Law Library News column in the
May 6th Condon Crier.
Professional Dilemmas in Law Practice
by Mary Whisner
When I was a law student, I did not have a very good idea of what the
practice of law was like – even after my summer job in a law firm. Perhaps
that is why some of the topics in my Professional Responsibility class
seemed abstract and distant.
Recently I came across a book that uses fiction to illustrate many of the
tough situations lawyers can face in practice. The author, Lawrence J. Fox,
is a member of a large firm in Philadelphia, where he has practiced since
1968. He has written many articles about ethics in legal newspapers, bar
journals, and law reviews. In some he used narrative to make his point – and
that is the tool he uses in the book, Legal Tender, published by the
ABA Section of Litigation (KF306.Z9F69 1995 at Classified Stacks).
The stories cover many situations – conflicts of interest when lawyers
change firms, internal firm politics, pressures to bill more hours, a
client’s displeasure when the attorney is helpful to opposing counsel. One
interesting story involves a lawyer’s decision whether to tell a wife about
her husband’s decision to change his will shortly after they had gone to the
attorney as a couple to make their wills together.
The book’s subtitle – “A Lawyer’s Guide to Handling Professional
Dilemmas” – is a bit misleading. The book does a very good job showing how
professional dilemmas arise and how lawyers experience them, but it does not
always provide a guide for resolving them. You can read the stories as they
come – not necessarily knowing what ethical issues they will address – or
you can use the brief “Story Summaries” at the back of the book. These
summarize the stories and sometimes cite a Rule of Professional Conduct or
ABA Formal Opinion to give you a lead to the relevant law. Reading and
discussing the stories might be a good way to get yourself thinking about
what it will be like to practice law. It might also be a helpful review for
your PR exam – or the bar exam.
For additional descriptions of selected books see the
Book of the Week Archive. |
