The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-02-10
GIVES pertinent ADVICE
CounseIing Young Lawyers 10
Attend to Business He De-
cIared That Not More Than
One to a County Does So IN
North Carolina - Other
Speeches of Interest.
(By S. X. WINTERS.)

~
Chapel Hill, Feb. 7.-Brief speeches
with hearty good cheer
and wholesome advice to young at
torneys just entering their profession,
contributed worthily to the convlvl-
ality of the festive board OF me an
nual University law class banquet
held in the University Inn Thursday
night. E~x-Judge r. w. Winston, OF
Raleigh, was the chief speaker. Mem
bers of the law faculty and repreSen~
tatiVe members of the laW class gave
toasts to the celebration Of the no.
table victory won by the boys over
the Supreme Court BOARD, IN that OF
the twenty-six members from the Uni
versity that stood the examination
only one failed to meet the test. h
is a record not surpassed by any pre-
vious class.
The thirty minutes speech Of Judge
Winston was not an abstract treatise
of some phase of the law, but it was
one of bits Of wholesome advice from
an elder member Of the bar to one
Just entering the profession-a code
| Of ethics and practical tactics that
| they would profit by if adopted. Judge
Winston prefaced his remarks by rem
in%iscently referring to his student days
here some thirty-five years agO when
fou students constituted the entire
law Glass;, DIS LduSIL. ny III. hciiip r.
Battle.
Declaring that there was on an
average only one lawyer to the county
in North Carolina that attended to
his business, the speaker held fortl,
alluring opportunities to the class OF
twenty-six lawyers from the Univer.
sity that were just entering the pro-
fessiOn. "VaSt opportunities are be-
fore you provided that you go after
business" was the assertion Of Judge
Winston. Practicing law is not an alb
stract thing, II consists in guarding
the details Of the profession. He re-
called his early days as a young at
not a single lawyer in the town an
swered letters. Early he decided to
answer all letters and answers them
the day received.
Then, the advice of the memberei
the Raleigh bar, to the University
class, was to attend every meeting O
: whatsoever nature in their county
> know al about religion; politics
know every man, woman and baby il
T your county; go to every marriag:
e and funeral in the county.
Regarding the Injunction of Black
: stone that every lawyer should rep
resent his country once in Parlia
e ment," Judge Winston thought tina
v the lawyer should consider with ia
3 VI NAAA1 oIAA ISpAS oClL III
o county at least once in the Legisla
ture. AS to the alluring offers he'll
out to the young lawyer by corpora
G tons. Judge Winston's advice wa
d~isfavorable to the ~acceptanc
r. of corporation business. In bein
e: "gummed' with corporate business i
d your legal profession you are ofte
Is called on to act the lobbyist bef0r
il the Legislature.
< Dean McGhee Speaks.
to Prof. L. p. McGhee, dean of IN
University Law School, in his brie
talk outlined -four things which h
m classified as the objects Of law co,re
SIS as instilled in the minds of the ct,
h, dent: Cd To gather a certain amour
70 OF information, mostly memory Wor,
Ut of which the "quizzer" was the chi.
d, exponent; CD To gather some know
edge OF the lawyers tools and III
rs legal processes; CD To learn from -
lie mind; CD The duties of he 10
1t, teacher is to set high ideals Of M,
nd hood and professional NJ
de idea should permeate through ALI =,
teachings of the legal profession.
ip. other words, to create an honor.h
ad lawyer.
ad Giving ADVICE was tho
lr- that Prof, A. G. Mcintosh hronaht
KS. the attention Of the young atto1no
his at-laW; that is, the advice 49,. :,
to young lawyer should give The -
pectlve cIent-or rather shon,d - -
nd give. He urged against being nro, -
in advice-.giving to every cai nlul''
we the lawyers office, thus spoi1ine ;,
lp- enances ior Clients with payment +
TO tosh was or the opinion that ~
in young lawyer smoothed the many
OF his prospective client hy . >,
rst to freely before he was ~ taikll
defend the troubled parti sasea
aso'u.ns law suits. After the TN IN !
Nd" received an abundance of s aat