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SINCE the inception of our LAW section in 1963, the consultant to the staff has been Professor Marvin E. Frankel of Columbia University Law School. Now, with mingled regret and pride, we are losing him. Last week President Johnson named Frankel to a federal judgeship in the Southern District of New York...
...amendment in 1960. The bench-dominated body that has been set up to do the high court's investigating work is a nine-member Commission on Judicial Qualifications-five judges, two lawyers and two laymen. The commission operates out of San Francisco under Executive Secretary Jack E. Frankel, an able, tactful lawyer...
Gripes about judges may come to Frankel from any private citizen, though meaningful complaints generally come from other judges, lawyers and grand juries. To safeguard the traditional independence of the judiciary, Frankel focuses only on alleged disability and misconduct-for example, senility, public alcoholism or persistent discourtesy. The commission has the power to subpoena medical records, order medical examinations. Once the commission is convinced that a complaint has merit, Secretary Frankel simply sends the judge a registered letter outlining the charges and adds a polite request: "Please comment...
Hooray for You. Even before the invitation from the News, however, Ala bama lawyers had begun responding to the article - in personal letters to Professor Frankel. Most of the letters were attacks on Northern prejudice. But along with the poison-pen mail came letters from five Alabama lawyers who had been provoked into re-examining their own obligations as members of the bar. "Hooray for your excellent anal ysis," said an attorney in Montgomery...
That was not much, perhaps, to weigh against the majority opinion. But Columbia's Frankel did far better than the Birmingham News. In the three weeks since the paper invited the state's lawyers to sound off, the News has not received a single letter - either for the prosecution or the defense...