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students Get mimical" Black." Patent . Lnuyor At il.C. Central. University A Heriiy
l raining At NPCU
School Of Law
While more and more
taw schools are emphasiz-
ing courses In such-areas
. 'as business and corporate
law, a number of students
, at North Caorlina Central
' University's School ' of
Law are still opting to take
courses in the school's;
clinical program f where
. they provide a much need
ed service, to indigenti
- clients, , .
The clinic gives students
the opportunity to put the
law, into actual use after
' two grueling years of studying-legal
theory, rules
.and case' law. According
to Professor T. Mdodana
Ringer,: director of the
Clini&l Program, "The
' clinical experience is a
, combination of gaining
confidence and of acquir
ing, the technical
background to practice
law. A student does exact
; ly what a lawyer does. The
.only difference is that our
students don't get paid."
The clinic consists of
preliminary courses in the
rules of evidence and trial -practice
with mock trials
and ojral argument. Third
year students may repre
'. sent indigent clients under
the supervision of a prac
ticing V attorney. They
represent clients in such
diverse areas as divorces,
wills, landlord-tenant pro
blems and all phases of
criminal practice under
the supervision of a prac
ticing attorney.
"If a student wants to
practice law, a clinical ex
perience is extremely .
valuable. After all. doc-
tori 'have an internship.
Fledgling lawyers don't
have that. The clinical ex
perience is the closest
thing that we have to an
internship," says Ringer.
Only indigent clients are
represented in the law
school's civil clinic, one of
the relatively few in-house
law school clinics in the
country. Students work'
under supervising at 1
toracys on cases referred'
by the Durham Office of
the North Central Legal!
Services . ? Corporation. . "
Professor ' Ringer points '
out that since legal aid ! "
programs are understaff- -ed,
"we provide services !
that otherwise might not j
be provided."
" In the criminal area, '
students are assigned
either to a district at-
torney's office or to a
criminal defense at
torney's office where they
, work from 12 to 20 hours ,
per week preparing
memoranda and other
' legal documents, inter
viewing clients, and ap
pearing in the courtroom.
Kaymona j acoos, a re
cent graduate who took
most ... of the clinical;
courses offered, says that
one of the difficulties.
students have is relating to
clients in a way that makes
SMITH
them trust you. "The
client knows that you do
not have a degree, but he's
still relying on your skill '
and knowledge of the!
law," he says. i
He also found that
some of his beliefs about
what goes on in the cour- ,
troom were -a little
misconceived. "I found
that judges are fallible
because they sometimes
misconstrue the law."
"Moreover," Jacobs
observes, "a lot of the
practice of the law does ;
not take place in the cour-,
t troom. It goes on in the
back room between the
D.A. and defense at
torneys when they try to
work out a just solution.','
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One of theyeasiest
things to do Isio start an
glrae'n?awrtebf the
hardest things to do is to.
stop one. ..
There are only 36 black
Patent Lawyers in the
United v States. Charles
Edison Smith associate
professor in the School of
Law at North : Carolina
Central ' University in
Durham is one of them.
Smith, son of a Califor
nia builder-construction
worker and a nursej says
that during the past few
years, a tremendous in
terest has developed in br
inging blacks and other
ethnic minorities into
more Xmeaningful par
ticipation in the field of
Patent Law.
"For persons ''with
engineering backgrounds,
Patent Law is one of the
most interesting areas of
law to study," says Smith,
who earned his
undergraduate degree at
California State
Polytechnic University
and his law degree at
Georgetown. "There is a
wide open market for Pa
tent , attorneys," Smith
points out.
Smith believes that the
small number of blacks in
Patent Law stems from
the fact that they are
severely underrepresented
in the fields of engineer
ing, science and technical
education. One estimate
indicates that in 1970, on
ly 1.2 of the engineers in v
the U.S. were black, he
says.
. In., his third year at
NCCU, Smith teaches
Business Associations,
Antitrust and a course in
Patents, Trademarks and
Copyrights. Students
from neighboring Duke
University Law . School
and the University of
North' Carolina have
enrolled in the Patents
" course which is not cur
rently offered at their in-,
stitutions.
"I had never considered
the idea of practicing
Copyright Law," said An
thony Harris, one of'i
Smith's students, "but
this course opened up an
entire new world to me
and it is a real considera
tion now."
Smith's students take
his Patents course because
they want to represent
small to medium-sized
business clients, writers,
artists, entertainers arid
others who want to
copyright their works or
protect new designs.
"The area of intellec
tual property, which is in-
eluded in the field of
Patents, Trademarks and
Copyrights law, is,
challenging for me," says
Smith. "Many of the early :
inventors were blacks and
they were not able to
benefit economically from
their s inventions One V
? reason, perhaps is due to
the fact that there was no
one around to aid and
guide them in the protec-
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, Professor Smith is cur-;
rently writing a textbook '
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am really excited about
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says Smith.
and working in corporate
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Corporation.
' "I have enjoyed the.
Smith came to NCCU ' ctAUen$e of teaching,'
after teaching two years at . Smith. "Durham is a
Golden Gate University ' place away from the
Law School in California hassles of the bigger cities
and one can engage in a
considerable amount of
meaningful research and
thinking here," he said.
, v His wife, Mrs, Joyce
' Smith, is currently work
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at the University of North
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