University of Maryland School of Law : Catalog, 1924

PRACTICE COURT
G. Ridgely Sappington, Director
Thomas F. Cadwalader "|
Edwin T. Dickerson
Willis R. Jones I Associates
George O. Blome
George E. Kieffner
George O. Blome, Clerk
The Law School endeavors not only to thoroughly equip its students
with an accurate knowledge of legal principles, but also to
train them in the application of that knowledge and fit them for
the practice of the law. To that end, special care and thought are
devoted to the conduct of the Practice Court, which is in session
throughout the scholastic year-.
The work of the Practice Court is designed to afford opportunity
not only for the argument of law questions, but also for the
preparation and conduct of a case through all its stages, as nearly
as possible in accordance with the procedure in actual trial work.
A set of Court rules has been adopted in accordance with which the
students are required to prepare and file their pleadings and conduct
their cases. Students are furnished with statements of facts,
supposed to represent the claims of the respective parties to the
litigation, from which they draft the necessary pleadings and prepare
their cases for trial. They are thus enabled to familiarize
themselves with the practical duties of court practice to an extent
which the mere argument of mooted questions of law does not afford.
The cases assigned are such as to illustrate the principles involved
in all the courses covered by the curriculum, particularly
those of Pleading and Practice. The course extends through the
Intermediate and Senior Years, affording two full years of Practice
Court work. The Court sits in several divisions and cases are
tried in each division.
The Court Clerk keeps the docket, Court records and papers
filed in the various cases.
Attendance at all sessions of the practice Court by members of
the Intermediate and Senior classes is compulsory. Students who
are not engaged in the trial of cases at any session are required to
decide the cases tried by others.
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