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When Yannacone left to concentrate on his own law practice in 1969, E.D.F. hired two bright young lawyers to replace him. Roderick Cameron, then 30, fresh from a clerkship on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, became E.D.F.'s executive director. Edward Lee Rodgers, 38, took over as E.D.F.'s general counsel. Instead of trying to sue every polluter, they carefully picked cases that would create legal precedents...
...demonstrated against the House Un-American Activities Committee. For his efforts, Tigar was investigated by the California legislature's HUAC equivalent. California conservatives and their congressional allies were so disturbed by his activities that they pressured Supreme Court Justice William Brennan Jr. to withdraw his offer of a clerkship for Tigar, who had graduated at the top of his law-school class. Brennan reluctantly went along...
...poverty pro gram. Some are drawn to such work be cause it offers a better chance of escaping the draft. But many are motivated by a genuine desire to help others. The fact that increasing numbers of senior partners are inclined to look on a year-long clerkship or work in a poverty program as excellent training is further encouragement to men who want to wait a while before deciding where to settle down...
After his clerkship with Holmes, Howe entered private practice in Boston with the firm of Hill, Barlow & Homans. After a few years he left, in 1937, to become professor at the University of Buffalo Law School. He became Dean there in 1939, already at work on Holmes' papers...
...University of Rochester has put in a "general clerkship" in the third year to introduce the student early to the problems of diagnosis and treatment. All through Rochester's four years, the student has a wide choice of tutors, and substantial blocks of time are set aside for electives in such fields as psychology, sociology, engineering or chemistry...