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ANNOTATIONS
Volume VI, Issue No. 2
September 1977
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Bar admissions in 1976 reached
a record high for the seventh
consecutive year, the National
Conference of Bar Examiners
reported. The NCBE is an affiliate
of the American Bar Association.
The total number of persons
admitted to practice in 49 states,
the District of Columbia, Guam,
Puerto Rico and the Virgin
Islands was 35,741.
Exact admissions figures for
Florida were not available,
according to William H. Morris,
director of the NCBE. Florida
instituted a three part bar exam
that can be taken at various
times, Morris said.
With an estimated 2,000 and
2,400 persons taking all parts of
the Florida exam in 1976, Morris
said, admittees nationwide to-
talled more than 37,000, com-
pared with 1975 when 34,930 new
attorneys were admitted to
practice.
Morris predicted that 1977
admissions nationwide would be
another record, based on the
number of students now attend-
ing law school.
Of the 1976 admissions (exclud-
ing Florida), 34,951 were gained
.by passing a bar examination and
790 by receiving a diploma.
Mississippi, Montana, South Da-
kato and West Virginia automa-
tically admit to the bar, state
university law school graduates.
Wisconsin automatically admits
graduates of the state law school
and of Marquette University Law
School.
Of the nearly 50,000 applicants
taking the 1976 examinations,
14,148 failed to pass, up from
12,000 in 1975, the NCBE said.
Once again California admitted
the largest number of lawyers to
practice, a total of 5,437, up from
4,905 in 1975. The next largest
number of admissions were in
New York — 3,727; Illinois —
2,040; Texas — 1,946, and Penn-
sylvania — 1,898.
A few jurisdictions showed a
decline in bar admissions: Arkan-
sas, Indiana, Kansas, Mississip-
pi, New Jersey, North Carolina,
Oklahoma, Oregon, Guam and
Puerto Rico.
Showbiz Law
Entertainment law, the special-
ty of a small group of attorneys, is
demanding, unglamorous work,
according to an article in the
September issue of Student
Lawyer.
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Although most entertainment
lawyers, about 500 or so, practice
in Los Angeles, others can be
found in New York, Nashville,
San Francisco and Chicago,
according to author Nancy Banks,
who interviewed a number of
successful West Coast entertain-
ment industry lawyers.
Student Lawyer is the publica-
tion of the Law Student Division
of the American Bar Association.
Part of the lure is the glamour
associated with working with
entertainers, but few industry
lawyers socialize with their
clients. Los Angeles attorney Sol
Rosenthal estimates only 25 to 50
of the city's entertainment attor-
neys have close social relation-
ships with the stars they repre-
sent and most entertainment/
clients wouldn't be much fun to
be with anyway. "They're either
spaced out most of the time, or
not too rational, or just not the
type of person you'd choose for a
friend," Rosenthal says.
Nick Gainos of Los Angeles
feels there should be no social ties
between entertainment/client
and attorney. "If you want to be
an entertainment lawyer, that
means practicing law. People
don't want a friend sitting across
the table from them when it's
time to negotiate a record
contract; they want a lawyer.
Good vibes aren't enough."
Work of an entertainment
industry lawyer ranges from
negotiating contracts, checking
scripts for possible libel problems
and getting performers out of jail
on drug charges. CHents can be
extremely demanding.
"A lot of entertainers are
pretty insecure, immature peo-
ple," Bob Gordon, San Francisco,
said.
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