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Lawyers
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Law School Stories (and Poetry)
"Centaurs," in J.S. Marcus, The Art of Cartography
17-23 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991) [reprinted
in Jay Wishingrad (ed.), Legal Fictions: Short Stories About Lawyers
and the Law 97-100 (Woodstock, New York: Overlook Press, 1992)]
[You will find "Centaurs" in the packet that I gave you
at our first class meeting.]
Biographical
Note-Lowell B. Komie: Lowell B. Komie was a Chicago attorney
and writer. He received his B.A. from the University of Michigan
in 1951 and his J.D. from Northwestern University in 1954.
Obituary for Lowell B. Komie: "Lowell Burt Komie,
87, of Highwood, Illinois, died Thursday, October 29, 2015. Lowell
was born in Chicago, and grew up in Milwaukee and Ravinia, Illinois.
. . . He served in the U.S. Navy before settling in Chicago and
later Deerfield. Mr. Komie . . . was a practicing attorney for over
60 years. He was also an accomplished author, receiving the 1995
Carl Sandburg Literary Award for his short story collection, 'The
Lawyers Chambers.'"
Interview [with
James R. Elkins, 25 Legal Stud. F. 223 (2001)]
Interview [with
Norbert Blei, 31 Legal Stud. F. 983 (2007]
Poems in the section on "A Lawyer's Education," in
James R. Elkins (ed.), Lawyer Poets and That World We Call
Law 19-31 (New York: Pleasure Boat Studio, 2013)
[online
text] [bios
of the poets: Ace Boggess, Lee Warner Brooks, James McKenna, Charles
D. Williams, James Clarke]
One of the poems I asked you to read in Lawyer Poets and That
World We Call Law is by Ace Boggess. Boggess is a graduate of
the College of Law at West Virginia University. For an essay by Boggess
about his time in prison, see: In-Verse:
Poetry and Law Behind Prison Walls. The Boggess essay was published
in 39 Legal Stud. F. 11 (2015).
Supplemental Reading
A Satirical Story: Jeremy Gilman,
"The Real World of Law School," 24 Legal Stud. F. 19 (2000)
[online text]
[Instructor's
Note] [Jeremy Gilman is a partner in a Cleveland law firm. He
was born in Brooklyn, New York, 1955; admitted to the Ohio Bar in
1983 and the Florida Bar in 1985. He received his A.B. in 1979 from
Columbia College, and his J.D. in 1983 from Case Western Reserve University
where he was Editor of the Case Western Reserve University Law Review,
1982-1983. His practice areas include: complex and business litigation;
commercial and securities litigation; class actions; bankruptcy litigation;
health care litigation; unfair competition.]
The Law School Experience: Brenda Waugh,
A Theory of Employment Discrimination, 40 J. Legal Educ. 113 (1990)
[online text] [a verse narrative
by a former West Virginia University student that focuses on her law
firm interview experiences] :: Jason Wandling, Estoppel, 25
Legal Stud. F. 343 (2001) [online
text] [a work of creative non-fiction by a West Virginia University
student]
Law Students at West Virginia University Talk about Becoming
a Lawyer: James R. Elkins, Becoming a Lawyer: The Transformation
of Self During Legal Education, 66 Soundings 450 (1983) [online
text] [The law student accounts in this article were drawn from
student journals written in the early 1980s. My question: Has anything
changed in the ensuing 35 years?]
A Law Professor Talks about Her Days as a Student
at Harvard: Patricia J. Williams, The
Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of a Law Professor
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