Public Service Law Research Articles

Long‐term consequences of burnout: An exploratory study

AbstractThe aim of this study was to explore the relationship between degree of burnout experienced during the first year of the career and career adaptation during the next decade. Subjects were 25 human service professionals originally working in the fields of public service law, public health nursing, high school teaching, or mental health. They were studied during the first year of their careers and again 12 years later. Early career burnout was assessed via ratings of interviews that were highly correlated with the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Career adaptation variables included career stability, work satisfaction, attitudes towards recipients, and flexibility as measured at the time of follow‐up. Each of these variables was measured via interview ratings, a questionnaire, and ratings made hy confidants of the subjects. Results showed that subjects who were more burned‐out early in their careers were less likely to change careers and more flexible in their approach to work as rated by confidants at the time of follow‐up. The results suggest that early career burnout does not seem to lead to any significant, negative, long‐term consequences. However, burnout occurring later in the career might have more serious long‐term effects.

From Activism to Pro Bono: The Redirection of Working Class Altruism at Harvard Law School

Although a substantial proportion of incoming working class students at Harvard Law School plan careers in public service law, few actually pursue this course after graduation. Through a survey and in-depth interviews with 23 working class students we illustrate some of the ways they are rechannelled toward careers in high status commercial law firms and the ways they deal with the internal contradictions caused by their resocialization.

Right-Of-Way Management Program

Orange and Rockland Utilities (O&R), and its wholly owned susidiaries, Rockland Electric Company and Pike County Light & Power Company serve almost 200,000 electric customers in Orange, Rockland and Sullivan Counties in New York State, a portion of Pike County in Pennsylvania and portions of Bergen, Passaic and Sussex Counties in New Jersey, a total territory of some 1,350 square miles. The Company operates high voltage lines on over 380 miles of right-ofway, some 556 circuit miles. In 1975, an effective vegetation maintenance program for its transmission facilities was developed to prevent tree caused outages, to meet the inception of Article VII of the New York State Public Service Law, to more closely monitor the maintenance of several new high voltage transmission facilities and to meet a Company commitment of selective clearing on all facilities. All transmission rights-of-way, including 34.5KV to 500KV, were surveyed and inventoried according to a "land use type" code. The code, a four digit number, depicted the following information: land use (i.e. forest, field, residential, commercial, and lakes or wetlands), vegetation density, and general previous treatments (i.e. clearcut or selectively cut). The land use code was used as the principal parameter for dividing the transmission line into segments. After surveying was completed, a vegetation management plan was established for each right-of-way for a ten year period. Survey information and vegetation management plans were converted to an electronic data processing system for record keeping purposes. Through this system the company has a detailed record keeping system of all treatments, costs, and its future maintenance and budgetary requirements.

Medical charity for the poor: Hill-Burton and the hospitals.

In previous columns I have called attention to the class-action suits being brought by public-service law firms and other groups on behalf of consumers, including medical patients.1 Among the most active of the legal groups have been the neighborhood law offices supported by the Office of Economic Opportunity. The primary concern, or primary client population, for these offices has been the poor. In the medical field, these Office of Economic Opportunity lawyers have concentrated a great deal of their efforts on class-action suits against nonprofit hospitals in various parts of the country for their failure to provide a "reasonable amount" . . .

Simplified Bookkeeping System for Small Water Companies

Public Service Commission of New York, by provision of the Public Service Law, has jurisdiction over all privately owned water companies with a value of $10,000 or more. At present there are approximately 95 such companies, operating about 113 plants, under Public Service Commission jurisdiction. All companies having annual . revenues of over $15,000 are required to keep double-entry books under systems of accounts prescribed by the commission. The commission, however, has promulgated no bookkeeping system for Class E companies (those having annual revenues of less than $15,000), nor has it recommended a bookkeeping system for them. Of the approximately 95 companies under commission jurisdiction, about 68, or approximately 71 per cent, have annual revenues of less than $15,000; and of these, half have revenues of $5,000 or less. A substantial portion of these small companies are one-man affairs; that is, the principal stock is held by one individual, who has the responsibility of operating the firm. All of these companies are in rural areas and represent merely a sideline to a more gainful occupation of the owner. Although all the operators are mechanically inclined, few are versed in keeping books. From the very beginning of the author's association with these Class E water companies, he was repeatedly requested to formulate, for many of them, a bookkeeping system which would be simple and adequate for their needs and at the same time be sufficient for compiling the various governmental reports. The bookkeeping sys479

Public Utilities. Temporary Rates. Section 114 of New York Public Service Law

Public Utilities. Temporary Rates. Section 114 of New York Public Service Law

Public Service Law. Certificates of Convenience and Necessity. Strict Construction of Exemption Clauses

Public Service Law. Certificates of Convenience and Necessity. Strict Construction of Exemption Clauses

Public Service Law. Foreclosure Sale of Railroad Property. Privilege of State to Intervene

Public Service Law. Foreclosure Sale of Railroad Property. Privilege of State to Intervene

Public Service Law. Wholesaler as Public Service Corporation

Public Service Law. Wholesaler as Public Service Corporation

Public Service Law. Privilege to Discontinue Service

Public Service Law. Privilege to Discontinue Service

Public Service Law. State Regulation of Contracts between Municipalities and Public Utilities

Public Service Law. State Regulation of Contracts between Municipalities and Public Utilities

Pennsylvania Public Service Law

Pennsylvania Public Service Law