The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-04-18
IDAHO TRAINING
START OF CAREER
INTERNATIONAL LAWYER RE-
CEIYES FIRST LEGAL TRAINING
AT UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL.


How the University of Idaho helped
I to put a rung in the ladder of sue
cess for an international lawyer with
offices in IL cities all over the world
is told in a biographical sketch of
| William Glenn Marvin, which is go
ing the rounds of the newspapers.
Marvin who is today the head of
firm of private international lawyers
reputed to be the biggest in the
world, registered in law at the Uni
versity of Idaho in the fall of 1915,
while he was a faculty member at
Washington State college, nine miles
distant, making the trip back and
forth, afternoons, to his studies.
Goes to San Francisco
Taking a masters degree at Wash
ington State and finishing up his law
work at the University of California,
he openedhis own law office in San
Francisco Immediately on graduation,
and within a year was general coun-
sci for one bank, special counsel for
another, and represented several cor
porations.
" He has the priceless possession Of
a brain that can absorb, classify and
use any collection of facts at peak
speed" says a description of him.
Entering the war as private in
the aviation service, he acted as avia-
tion instructor in many camps and
at the wars end was chief of the
technical staff at Wilbur Wright
field, Dayton, Ohio.
The war ended. Interested in the
legal aspects of banking" says Gle
ment Wood, Marvin applied at the
National City bank in New York for
job-any job, to start with. He
was there two years When he re-
signed he was head of the legal de-
partment and the division head over
the insurance, the investigation and
the foreign mechandise departments.
Under his inspiration the legal and
insurance departments became the
model for all American banks. When
he had risen thus far, despite the
glowing opportunities open to him,
he had caught wider division; he
had seen the need of something big
which the commerce of America
needed and suffered for lack of. Up
to that time if any American manu-
facturer did business in foreign cities
he had to trust to the uncertainties
of foreign legal information and
foreign banking facilities. This often
meant the surrender of valuable
American trade secrets. 1t was to
this that Mr.. Marvin, still
two years from thirty, resigned his
big future with the banking industry
Of the country.
First he became a member of
Ball and Marvin, who
were known as the firm which did
the largest corporation reOrganiza-
ton work in the United States. For
one year he stayed here, and then
he saw his way clear to start his own
1t was only little more
than year ago that Marvin and
Peasants began its task of giving to
American business men universal leg
IL service, domestic as well as inter-
There was need for this
work. especially the foreign part of
And to-day? This young firm has
seven foreign offices, at London,
Brussels, Milan, Berlin, Mexico City,
Havana, and Buenos Aires; it has
our additional affiliated offices, in
Moscow, Rio de Janeiro,
md San Juan, Porto Rico; besides
100 foreign correspondents. The
New York office now has nineteen
awyers and legal assistants, besides
staff of clerks, Librarians, and
This young firm is to-
lay general counsel for the American
Export association,
he American Manufacturers Foreign
Jredit Insurance exchange, the Amer
can Chamber of Commerce in Lon
on, the American Chamber Of Com
nerce in Berlin, and counsel for the
ivision of commercial laws of the
United States department of COM
nerce. Besides this they represent
many of the larger American corpora
ions engaged in foreign trade"