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May 27 - June 2, 2007 |
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Sweetnam Scholar Spends Summer as U.S. Treasury Department Intern |
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Benjamin Joseph is the 2007 recipient of the William F. Sweetnam Scholarship.
The $5,000 award will help defray expenses while Joseph is completing a summer externship with the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Tax Policy for six weeks. He will earn law school credit for his work as part of his LL.M. degree in Employee Benefits. Joseph received a J.D. degree from John Marshall in May 2007 with a certificate in tax law.
When he returns from Washington, Joseph will begin his career as at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Chicago working as a legal consultant specializing in benefit plans. He expects his assignments will include compliance work and some executive compensation work.
William F. Sweetnam Jr., an advisory board member for the Employee Benefits Graduate Program, established the scholarship to assist the student selected for the summer externship with the U.S. Department of Treasury, Office of Tax Policy. Before joining the Groom Law Group in May 2005, Sweetnam was benefits tax counsel at Treasury's Office of Tax Policy. The benefits tax counsel is the principal legal advisor to the Secretary of Treasury on all aspects of employee benefits taxation and related matters.
While at John Marshall, Joseph was a research assistant for Barry Kozak, associate director of the Employee Benefits Graduate Program, and assisted Kozak in teaching the Taxation of Compensation class.
A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Joseph graduated cum laude receiving a bachelor's degree in business administration with a major in accounting. During his undergraduate work, Joseph was an accounting intern at the Milwaukee firm Komisar Brady & Co., and was employed by Delta Airlines at the General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee.
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Schedule of Events |
May 28
- Building Closed - Memorial Day
May 29
- BAR BRI NY Bar Video Course, Room 200, 9 a.m.
May 30
- BAR BRI NY Bar Video Course, Room 200, 9 a.m.
- Deans' Meeting, Courtroom, 10 a.m.
May 31
- BAR BRI NY Bar Video Course, Room 200, 9 a.m.
- Clerkship Reception, Union League Club, 5 p.m.
June 1
- BAR BRI NY Bar Video Course, Room 200, 9 a.m.
June 4
- BAR BRI NY Bar Video Course, Room 200, 9 a.m.
June 5
- BAR BRI NY Bar Video Course, Room 200, 9 a.m.
- Dean and Executive Committee Faculty Members Meeting, Baim Courtroom, 11 a.m.
- Domestic & Foreign Patent, Trademark, Trade Secret & Copyright Documentation, Room 413, 6 p.m.
June 6
- BAR BRI NY Bar Video Course, Room 200, 9 a.m.
- Deans' Meeting, Courtroom, 10 a.m.
June 7
- Litigating Unfair Labor Practices before the NLRB, Room 1200, 8:30 a.m.
- BAR BRI NY Bar Video Course, Room 200, 9 a.m.
June 8
- Basic Skills Course for New Attorneys, Room 503, 8 a.m.
- BAR BRI NY Bar Video Course, Room 200, 9 a.m.
- Alumni Association Annual Meeting, Room 1200, 5 p.m.
June 9
- Basic Skills Course for New Attorneys, Room 503, 8 a.m.
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Italian Delegation Visits John Marshall |
A delegation of faculty and students from The John Marshall Law School's sister school, the law school of the University of Cagliari in Sardinia, Italy, visited John Marshall in April 2007. Welcoming them were (back row, from left) Melissa McCollister, director of Graduate Admission; Associate Dean Gerald Berendt; Virginia Russell, associate director of the Center for International Business and Trade Law; Associate Dean William B.T. Mock. (fifth from left); May 2007 graduate Michael Helfgott (back row, right) and 2007 LL.M graduate Stefano Viola (back row, fourth from right). The faculty members of the delegation included Professor Giovanni Coinu (fourth from left) and Professor Gianmario Demuro (sixth from left). John Marshall was one of the group's stops to legal and cultural sites in Chicago. The students and faculty also traveled to Washington, D.C., where they visited the Georgetown University Law Center and various cultural and government sites.
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Fifth Annual Employee Benefits Symposium |
The John Marshall Law Review, with the Center for Tax Law and Employee Benefits, hosted the 5th Annual Employee Benefits Symposium in April. Presenters' articles will be published in the spring 2007 issue of the Law Review. Participants were (seated from left) Justin Watkins, editor-in-chief of the Law Review; Mark DeBofsky of Daley, DeBofsky & Bryant; and Joshua Waldbeser, LL.M. student in the Employee Benefits Graduate Program; and (standing from left) John Heintz, executive lead articles editor for the Law Review; Professor Gerald Berendt, associate dean for Advanced Studies and Research; Professor Kathryn L. Moore of the University of Kentucky College of Law; attorney Albert Feuer; Professor Kathryn J. Kennedy, director of the center; and Barry Kozak, associate director, Employee Benefits Program.
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Glunz Named Scribes Award Winner |
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William Glunz was selected the 2006-2007 recipient of the Scribes Law Review Award from members of The John Marshall Law Review when his article was judged the "best student piece in the law review" for the academic year.
Glunz received the honor at the law review's annual banquet. The award was presented by faculty advisors Professors Donald Beschle and Kathryn Kennedy, and The John Marshall Law Review Editor-In-Chief Justin Watkins.
His article Granholm v. Heald; The Twenty-First Amendment Takes Another Hit. Where Do States Go From Here was published in the winter 2006 issue of The John Marshall Law Review. His piece was judged to have exhibited the highest standards of clear, succinct and forceful legal writing. The work will now be submitted for national judging. The winner of the national competition is announced at the annual National Conference of Law Reviews in spring 2008.
Scribes is an association of judges, lawyers, legal educators and writers, law faculty and deans, who are dedicated to the improvement of legal writing.
William Glunz (second from left) is congratulated on being named the Scribes Law Review Award winner by (from left) Associate Dean Gerald Berendt, Justin Watkins, editor-in-chief of The John Marshall Law Review, and Professor Kathryn Kennedy, faculty advisor for the law review.
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Faculty Activity and Publications |
Adjunct Professor Barry Kozak
Associate Director of the Employee Benefits Program
Activities 
He has been asked by the IRS national training coordinator to teach at all of the agency's internal CPE training programs this summer. Kozak will teach Employee Plans agents in Orlando, Fla., at the Gulf Coast area CPE program; in San Diego, Calif., at the Pacific Coast area CPE program; in Atlanta, Ga., at the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast areas CPE program; and in Chicago, Ill., at the Great Lakes area CPE program.
In addition, Kozak is hosting and coordinating, along with Professor Katie Kennedy, the annual IRS Hot Topics program at the law school on June 28. The program will feature private practitioners and graduate employee benefits students who will present current topics in the field of employee benefits to IRS Employee Plans agents.
Kozak will co-teach Workplace Privacy Law and will teach Survey of Employee Benefits Law during the summer semester, and in fall semester he will co-teach Elder Law and Survey of Employee Benefits Law.
Kozak will begin his Master's and Ph.D. studies in the fall at The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy Studies.
Professor Timothy P. O'Neill
Publications 
His article, "Scalia's Poker: Puzzles and Mysteries in Constitutional Interpretation," will be published in Volume 24 of Constitutional Commentary, the faculty-edited journal of the University of Minnesota Law School. He presented this paper at a Faculty Works-In-Progress at The John Marshall Law School in March 2006.
His article, "Rethinking Miranda: Custodial Interrogation as a Fourth Amendment Search and Seizure," 37 U.C. Davis Law Review 1109 (2004) is discussed in Paul H. Robinson and Michael T. Cahill's new book, Law Without Justice (Oxford, 2006).
His article, "Beyond Privacy, Beyond Probable Cause, Beyond the Fourth Amendment: New Strategies for Fighting Pretext Arrests," 69 University of Colorado Law Review 693 (1998) is discussed in the new edition of Stephen A. Saltzburg and Daniel J. Capra's casebook, American Criminal Procedure (Thompson/West 2007).
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Editor's Note
In the Loop is published by The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, Copyright 2007
Editor: Assistant Dean John M. McNamara; Contributors: Marilyn Thomas, Director, Public Relations and Advertising; Andrea Koklys, Assistant Director, Public Relations and Advertising
All information to be included in In the Loop must be placed in the INTHELOOP folder on the H drive of the law school's computer network by 12 p.m. each Wednesday. When the volume of submissions exceeds the available space in the printed version of In the Loop, additonal material will appear only in the online version of the Newsletter, which can be found on the law school's website at www.jmls.edu. 
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