The Pompous Professions

Pomposity seems to be a characteristic of many practitioners of the learned professions. Many lawyers, for their self-estimate, are sure that they are the paladins of justice, and also often are vain of their intellectual prowess beyond all reasonable limits of objective evaluation. But for sheer breath-taking pomposity, few things can equal the lofty self-esteem of many law school teachers and administrators

Facts and Fictions about Evening Law Schools

The critics of evening law schools have argued that the problems of such schools far outweigh their advantages. They say that serious matters of fatigue and lack of dedication to the law are endemic in evening law schools. They say too that many evening schools, over-all, turn out an inferior legal product. Most of the criticism of evening law schools seems to emanate from day school people

Non-Profit Associations as Legal Entities

The truth is that some influential non-profit associations long have vigorously fought attempts to give clear legal form and substance to unincorporated associations. They like having it both ways. It is very convenient to be able to be sometimes a legal entity and sometimes not, sometimes a partnership and sometimes not-very convenient for the association (or its managers), not so convenient for creditors, regulatory agencies, injured members, or others affected by the will-o-the-wisp nature of the association

Proxy Voting Power in Non-Profit Organizations

This note will briefly survey the state of American law as to proxy voting in non-profit organizations. It will deal first with member voting by proxy, and then with proxy voting by representatives (delegates, committeemen,directors or trustees)

Non-Profit Types, Uses, and Abuses: 1970

American society long has consisted, to an extraordinary extent, of voluntary associations of persons and organizations not-for-profit, but for the public good (pro bono publico). No other nation in the world even approaches the United States in number and activity of non-profit organizations. These organizations are based on the characteristic American tendency to form groups (to associate themselves) voluntarily, for the accomplishment of social, religious, educational, fraternal, economic, and other purposes. Americans are the greatest joiners in the world. American non-profit organizations, generally speaking, are a magnificent part of the society, despite the disturbing growth of abuses among them

Proprietary Mentality and the New Non-Profit Corporation Laws

New York\u27s New Not-For-Profit Corporation Law statute is likely to increase the abuse of non-profit status by many persons who pretend to be governed by altruistic motives but who actually are motivated mainly by the desire to enrich themselves.-That is the unpalatable thesis of this paper

Reforms Needed in Negligence Practice

Negligence lawyers now often are classed with criminal lawyers, in public opinion, as the black sheep of the legal profession. In the minds of many average Americans, there is something vaguely disreputable about lawyers who specialize in plaintiffs\u27 personal injury practice. Nor is defense practice deemed to be without blemish. That public opinion now is so well established, rightly or wrongly, that it no longer can be ignored

Nonprofit Unincorporated Associations

Western civilization has been (and is) characterized by voluntary associations of people, from the earliest warrior bands and churches to towns and universities and guilds, etc. Corporations, as vehicles for such associations, did not exist until relatively recently, and associations were (and very many still are) unincorporated. Unincorporated associations as a form of organization have been losing ground to the corporation, but are far from obsolet

Book Review

Reviewing Melvin M. Belli, Ready for the Plaintiff, Henry Holt and Company, 195