Three Perspectives of the Law: Advice to the Young Lawyer

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INTRODUCTION|In a recent issue, the National Law Journal profiled two judicial opinions as significant. In the first, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a search and seizure case out of the Western District of Missouri and, in the second, the United States Supreme Court resolved an important issue of statutory authority and interpretation. The judgment affirmed in the first case had been rendered by my brother, United States District Court Judge Gary A. Fenner. The head lawyer of the federal agency involved in the second case was my other brother, Robert M. Fenner. The article mentioned no names, so only the three of us-Gary, Bob, and myself-noticed this distinction.|The harbinger of spring for law faculty at Creighton University is when the newly elected editorial board sends representatives to the faculty offices in search of publication ideas. Last spring's editor-in-chief, Ashleigh Bausch, and lead-articles editor, Mara Glaser, knew of my brother Gary because he regularly interviews at Creighton for clerks and he has sat on the panel judging the final round of our moot court tournament...