Legal Services is busier
But delegating workload saves time, director says
By Richard Burr
Of the Emerald
Increased efficiency during
the past two years has enabled
Legal Services to handle its in
creasing caseload, says
Charles Spinner, Legal Services
director.
Legal Services offers
students a wide range of non-li
tigatory services, including
legal advising and handling civil
suits, but rarely takes major
lawsuits. The program's ser
vices are funded through in
cidental fees, but students pay
expenses other than attorney's
time, such as filing fees in
volved.
"We see a tremendously
larger amount of people than we
did when I started here five
years ago,'' Spinner says
Spinner says he has noticed
the increase, but didn't have
specific statistics to support his
observations
Specialization may have
something to do with the
increased business Spinner
deals with similar kinds of legal
problems, so he can handle
each case faster
Assigning some paperwork
and the simpler cases to par
alegal staff instead of Spinner
was another method used to
increase efficiency. This leaves
Spinner free to see more clients
and handle more complex
cases like contract disputes and
property damage
Training Off-Campus Hous
ing and Office of Student Ad
vocacy staff to handle more
cases pertinent to their pro
grams has also reduced his
workload. Spinner says.
The office also hired a legal
secretary who doesn't have the
school worries that plagued the
workstudy secretaries who for
merly worked there, Spinner
says
The program withheld pay in
creases and cut some budget
items to get the Incidental Fee
Committee approval for the
legal secretary. Spinner adds
Word-of-mouth and paid ad
vertising also has contributed to
the increased caseload, Spin
ner says
After checking the current
budget for overruns. Spinner
says he may ask the IFC for
more money to pay for office
materials used due to the in
creased caseload
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He will also ask for a cost-of
living salary adjustment
The “cost of living goes up
every year, and I feel it’s appro
priate for me to request that,"
he says. “Whether they want to
give it or not is their business,
but I think that the support staff
ought to receive it."
Although the office's limited
budget usually keeps him from
taking litigation cases, he says
sometimes he gets "suckered"
into handling litigation for
students
“Once in a while I’ll see
something going on that strikes
me as an outrageous injustice,
and the person just has no
ability to get any kind of legal
assistance," he says "I'll get
involved."
Besides these infrequent
cases, Spinner says he handles
a “tremendous number of
divorces
“It's one of the primary rea
sons why I need a legal secre
tary," he says
About 90 percent of the
documents his office files in
court deal with domestic rela
tions, Spinner says
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Spinner says he handies a
"tremendous number of
divorces "
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