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...legal survey disputes Burger's harsh remarks
...more than a decade, Warren Burger has used the podium at conventions of the American Bar Association to administer tongue-lashings to his colleagues. At the A.B.A. convention held in Las Vegas last week, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court delivered some of his harshest comments to date on the ethics of the U.S. bar. He called lawyers "hired guns" and "procurers" and accused some of advertising their services as if they were selling "mustard, cosmetics and laxatives." He said that attorneys file too many frivolous lawsuits and motions, and declared that a few "well-placed...
...applause suggested that many among the A.B. A.'s 300,000 members (out of the nation's 620,000 lawyers) felt that there was more than a germ of truth in what Burger said. "There are too many lawyers," says Los Angeles Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Perry. "I'm really soured on the legal system." Some members of the bar, however, believe that Burger was out of order in portraying lawyers as villains in such melodramatic language. "The Chief Justice has a lot of important and valid comments," concedes David Shrager, president of the Association of Trial...
What, in the final analysis, are the adds that the current Supreme Court. given its conservative bent, will rule favorably on a radical discrimination based appeal when it is finally forced to consider the issue? Not good, agree most constitutional scholars. According to Dershowitz the Burger Court will in all like hood handle the issue "the way they've always handled its poorly stupidly nastily, and without compassion it's all very grim...
...experiment--the first of its kind anywhere--will offer advice to the area's poor on a wide range of concerns. The Boston legal service institute, which employs 350 Law School students, was started in response to remarks by both Presdient Bok and U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger about the failure of law schools to address the legal system's inequities...