Word: fuchsberg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jack Fuchsberg, former president of American Trial Lawyers Association (Mario Procaccino's campaign manager...
...Evidence. Among the first to protest the A.I.A. plan was Jacob D. Fuchsberg, vice chairman of the American Bar Association's Committee on Automobile Law. Fuchsberg. who also happens to have a prosperous private practice in auto-damage cases, charged that the A.I.A. members merely wanted "to get the Government off their backs." Another vocal critic of the A.I.A. recommendation was Vestal Lemmon, president of the rival National Association of Independent Insurers, whose 480 affiliates (including State Farm Mutual and Allstate, the two biggest auto insurers) write more than half of U.S. auto-insurance policies. Lemmon raised serious doubts...
...Under Fuchsberg's plan, law students would take "field trips" to courtrooms and work on cases under the supervision of trial lawyers in an apprenticeship program...
...Fuchsberg asserted that the legal profession had nothing comparable to the internship program of medical schools. "As a result," he told the ATLA's nation al convention in New York, "our courts are not manned with skilled advocates who can assure the public that the courts are becoming true testing grounds for justice...
...Fuchsberg said his plan had been suggested to about 100 law schools, of which 20 expressed an interest in the plan, including Southern Methodist, Stanford, Boston University. Harvard was not among the schools responding. "The best schools," Fuchsberg asserted, "have produced a good deal of writing in the law journals on the subject, but little else...