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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 20, 1982)
Lawyer gives free advice By Dane Claussen Of tho Emerald All University students are eligible for free legal advice from Legal Services, an ASUO funded program located in EMU 334 That legal aid amounts to about $350,000 in services provided for the 1,700 to 2,000 students using the service, ac cording to program director Charles Spinner Services include just about everything except tax prepara tion, copyrights and patents, profit business matters, repre sentation in contested litigation or representation of a student or student group against another. Spinner says "We don't do written work product for students in a busi ness for profit,” Spinner says, adding that he will assist non profit corporations The subjects that students most often seek his advice on include landlord-tenant dis agreements, divorce and prop erty settlement and insurance claims "We do some adoptions, some land sales," Spinner says, giving evidence of the wide va riety of matters he deals with As a privately-retained attor ney, he can also represent a student, a student group or the ASUO in claims against the University One such case, appealed to the Oregon Supreme Court and currently awaiting final action by the Court of Appeals, in volves University due process procedures. Spinner says Legal Services, in addition to supervising the student defenders hired by ASUO Ex ecutive Coordinator John Moore, helps ASUO Pres ident by offering opinions and researching legal questions A project beginning later this month will concentrate on "who has the right to hold incidental fee money.” Spinner says At present, the state system of higher education has ultimate control over incidental fees, and the ASUO can earn no Interest on it, he says If seven to ten years of incidental fees could be put in a LOWEST AIRFARES USA & INTERNATIONAL 687-2825 EUGENE TRAVEL Your Campus Travel Agency Multi L ingual Staff • 831 EAST 13th AVE. (Between Duffy's & The U of O Book Store) O00-Oo°°. 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Spinner also trained and con sulted with the staff and director of Off-Campus Housing, and reviewed parts of the new edi tion of its Renter's Handbook Changes in the Legal Ser vices this fall will include planned “drop-in times," per iods when students can see him without appointments on a first come, first-served basis, he says The system, tested during the summer, helped free up time for appointments, Spinner says The program will continue to have a professional legal secre tary — new last year — for many hours each week, something that he feels significantly im proved the quality of service Spinner says his legal secre tary's skills are "far superior" to those obtained from the pool of available work-study students "It gave me more time to see clients," he says Spinner says he also will con tinue to be in a "dramatically expanded supervisory capacity over student defenders," third year law students who represent students charged with Student Conduct Code violations The number of conduct code proceedings against students charged with cheating, plagiar ism and other alleged offenses went up "50-fold” last year, he says Spinner, who received his law degree at the University, has been director of the program since 1977. He readily admits that he could be making more money if he concentrated all of his en ergy on his private practice Spinner says, however, that there are a number of reasons why he decided to direct Legal Services — at a net annual salary of only $19,000 — and stay with it “Legal Services is essentially pre-paid legal insurance," he says about the $30,000 pro gram. "I like that as a political concept." Continued on Page 13 BALLADEER Eugene’s Newest Musk Shop Located in the 5th Street Public Market. 3rd floor FEATURING FINE HANDCRAFTED GUITARS, MANDOLINS AND BANJOS ramirez • dauphin • sakurai • kohno • guild • washbum • yamaha custom orders & repair BUY • SELL* TRADE music nr tr corner 13th h Hilyerd across from the new Sacred Heart addition CfOOOOOOOOOOO -,, ;-j» tari*4Hrbooooi 343-6234 JOOOOOOOOOOO PLJ^IJfG MJJTPJJlIJf aooooonoooaaoocaocoaoDooootjo J££srji/j£jpr The one & only real Northern and Canton Chinese cuisine in Eugene. 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