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`Information Convergence' Opens 25th Anniversary Celebration of IT & Privacy Center
This academic year, the Center for Information Technology and Privacy Law is marking its 25th anniversary.
Leslie Ann Reis, director of the center, said events throughout the year will focus on various aspects of the center's program.
"When the center was officially organized in March 1983, courses in technology and privacy law were seen as interesting electives. Now the legal community recognizes that technology and privacy issues impact virtually every area of law and practice," she said. "The work of the center has come a long way-from the research and scholarly projects of the 1980s to the practical aspects of educating lawyers and business professionals to succeed in today's technology-driven world."
The center's 25th anniversary celebration opened Nov. 9, with a day-long conference, "Information Convergence: At the Boundaries of Access," featuring academics, information specialists and practitioners from the fields of information technology and intellectual property who examined issues raised by the linkage of information with technology and property.
Topics included "Counter Terrorism and Systems Dynamics: Modeling Organizational Learning to Post Modern Terrorist Groups" presented by Alex Tyakoff of Canada's British Columbia Institute of Technology; "The Role of Human Rights Laws and Authorship Norms in Protecting Textual Integrity," presented by Professor Roberta Kwall of DePaul University School of Law; "Dead Ends and Dirty Secrets: Legal Treatment of Negative Information" presented by Professor John Cross of Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville; "Information Governance" presented by Professor Michael Madison of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law; "The Political Economy of Data Protection" presented by Professor Peter Yu of Drake University Law School; and "When Worlds Collide: The Uneasy Convergence of Creativity and Innovation" by John Marshall Law School Professor Doris E. Long, chair of the Intellectual Property, Information Technology and Privacy Group.
Conference attendees were excited by the range of topics. One told Long, program organizer, the conference was "the most high level discussion of issues" program she had ever attended.
"The topics from this conference tell you that we in the field are looking not only at the present, but out in to the future. New inventions and new applications will continue to raise serious issues in the law," Reis noted. "I find it an exciting field to be working in, and our students and practitioners are just as enthusiastic."
The John Marshall Journal of Computer and Information Law will publish a symposium issue for the conference. The journal, an international publication dedicated to information and communications technology, has been publishing since 1987.
A second event hosted by the center was a CLE program, "Gateways and Barriers to Law Practice Marketing through Technology," attended by more than 100 attorneys. The Nov. 16 course covered the use of the Internet as a tool for client development. Speakers outlined the policies that govern Internet use for legal business and gave tips to attorneys interested in learning to design a strategic marketing plan that maximizes the use of technology within ethical parameters and still is consistent with ideals of professionalism.
Other programs are being planned for 2008, Reis said.
Presenters at the Nov. 9 program "Information Convergence: At The Boundaries of Access" were (front row, from left) Maureen Cooney, chief of staff and director of International Privacy Policy with the Privacy Officer of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Charisse Castagnoll of Voco Vilya Consulting Group; Professor Christine Farley of American University Washington College of Law; Professor Roberta Kwall of DePaul University College of Law; Professors Doris Long, Leslie Reis and David Sorkin of The John Marshall Law School; (middle row, from left) Keith Chval of Protek International; Associate Professor Julie Cromer of The Thomas Jefferson School of Law; Professor Dennis Karjala of Arizona State University College of Law; Professor Olufunmilayo Arewa of Northwestern University School of Law; Professor Peter Yu of Drake University Law School; Professor Emeritus Sheldon Halpern of Moritz College of Law; Professor John Cross of Brandeis School of Law; (back row, from left) Professor Michael Madison of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Alex Tyakoff of British Columbia Institute of Technology; Professor Ann Bartow of the University of South Carolina School of Law; Professor Kenneth Ryan of California State University-Fresno; Professor David Schwartz of The John Marshall Law School. Not pictured are Professor Hugh Hansen of Fordham University School of Law; and William McGrath, associate director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law at The John Marshall Law School.
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Women's Bar Foundation Presents Scholarships
Tope Odoffin and Lauren Tobiason are the John Marshall Law School recipients of the 2007 Women's Bar Foundation Scholarship.
The Women's Bar Foundation, the not-for-profit arm of the Women's Bar Association of Illinois, has presented more than 225 scholarships to women leaders at the nine law schools throughout Illinois since 1966.
Tobiason ranks in the top 10 percent of the January 2008 graduating class. She serves as an associate justice for the John Marshall Moot Court Executive Board, an honors program, and represented John Marshall at the National Health Law Moot Court Competition in fall 2006. She served on the Trial Advocacy & Dispute Resolution Honors Council from spring 2006 through spring 2007, and prepared a comment as a candidate for The John Marshall Law Review.
Tobiason is a member of Lambda Alpha International, the honor society for the Advancement of Land Economics, and served as the John Marshall chapter's Philanthropy Committee chair. She was on the board of directors of the Corporate Law Association and was vice president of the John Marshall Law School chapter of Habitat for Humanity.
She has been the recipient of the Fred F. Herzog Scholarship and the Edith & Philip Baim Scholarship, in addition to the Women's Bar Foundation Scholarship. She has been a law clerk at Levenfeld Pearlstein since December 2006.
Tobiason received a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.
Odoffin is past president of the Black Law Students Association; was the second-year class representative to the Student Bar Association; was a co-founder of John Marshall's Diversity Affairs Committee; and has been a member of the Student Ambassadors.
She competed at the Rendigs National Products Liability Moot Court Competition and served on the John Marshall Moot Court Council, an honors program. Odoffin also participated in a summer abroad program in 2006. Her classes focused on European Union law, comparative criminal justice and comparative torts.
Odoffin, who will graduate in May 2008, has been a legal intern at Gray and Idris PC., and at the Cook County State's Attorney's Office. She was a law clerk at Lawrence Walner and Associates Ltd. during summer 2007. She is a research assistant for Associate Dean Rory Smith at John Marshall, and a law clerk at The Petra Law Group.
Odoffin received a bachelor's degree in public policy studies from DePaul University.
Dean John E. Corkery and Lauren Tobiason
Dean John E. Corkery and Tope Odoffin
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Faculty Activity and Publications
Professor Mary Jean Dolan
Publications 
She was solicited by the International Municipal Lawyers' Association for an article dealing with a First Amendment issue. Her article, "Guiding Municipal Partnerships with Faith-Based Organizations in Light of the New Restitution Remedy" will be published in the March/April 2008 issue of Municipal Lawyer.
Professor Doris Estelle Long
Activities 
She presented the paper "Hard Earned Lessons from the IP Wars: The Dis-Integratory Impact of Global Trade on Regional Governance" at the CSGR/GARNET Conference at the University of Warwick in Warwick, England on Sept. 17, 2007. This paper, which builds on her earlier work on democratizing harmonization standards for international intellectual property rights, focuses on the dis-integratory impact of global trade on regional governance institutions using current international hegemonic disputes between the United States and European Union over intellectual property rights as the focal point for her analysis.
Publications
Long's article, "Messages from the Front: Hard Earned Lessons on Information Security from the IP Wars," will be published in the Michigan State University Journal of International Law. The article details 10 lessons learned from the current conflicts over the protection of intellectual property in cyberspace that may prove helpful in establishing workable international standards for the protection of commercial transactions on the Internet. The 10 lessons involve such critical issues as the distinction between protected information in the hard goods world versus cyberspace; the role of technology; and the international needs of electronic communication.
The second edition of the textbook Contracts Law and Practice: Cases and Materials, of which Long is a co-author, has been published by Lexis Nexis.
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Lunch with a Lawyer
Adrienne Davis, a Cook County assistant public defender in the Felony Trial Division was a guest speaker for the Career Services Office "Lunch with a Lawyer" series. She explained her career path, the opportunities for students in the Cook County Public Defender's Office and her most interesting trials, including the one on which Oprah Winfrey was a juror.
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A Rousing Chorus
Members of The John Marshall Law School Board of Trustees and faculty members gathered for a dinner Nov. 1. The camaraderie included a sing-a-long led by the Marshall Mellows (from left) Professor John Scheid, Visiting Professor Mary Nagel, Professor Molly Lien, Dean John Corkery, Professor Robert Nye, Al Gallo and Mary Ann Hynes, members of the board of trustees.
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John Marshall Veterans Legal Support Center Staff Featured in Local Media
Third-year student Nicholas Henry was recently interviewed on two area radio stations, WLS-AM and ESPN 1000. The interviews focused on Henry as a two-time veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and as a co-founder and development director of the Veterans Legal Support Center and Clinic (VLSC).
Ryan Coward (JD '07), director of VLSC, also was featured on a segment of "Eight Forty-Eight" on Chicago Public Radio. Coward read an editorial he had written on veterans returning home from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and obtaining their benefits.
Nicholas Henry (left) was interviewed by area radio personality Roe Conn (right) on WLS-AM.
ESPN 1000 "Beyond Sports" hosts Artie Kennedy (center) and Hannah Stanley (right) recently interviewed student Nicholas Henry on their public affairs program.
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Veterans Legal Support Center Hosts CLE Program
The John Marshall Law School Veterans Legal Support Center recently co-sponsored a CLE program on veterans legal issues. The program was presented by the Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA) General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Section and the ISBA Committee on Military Affairs. Among the presenters were (from third from left) Hon. Abner Mikva, chairman of the Illinois Human Rights Commission in Chicago, and Brig. Gen. Steven J. Lepper staff judge advocate in the Headquarters Air Mobility Command at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois. Welcoming them to the law school were center staff members (from left) Brian Clauss, executive director; Ryan Coward, director; Professor Joseph Butler, director; and co-founders Michael Barnicle and Nicholas Henry.
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Schedule of Events
December 3
- Center Director's Meeting, Room 800, 10 a.m.
- Faculty Executive Committee, Room 1202, 12:30 p.m.
- Faculty Assembly, Room 503, 12:15 p.m.
December 4
- Selections & Appointments Committee Candidate Luncheon, Room 1102, 12:15 p.m.
- Meet the Dean - Open Office Hours, Student Lounge, 4 p.m.
December 5
- "Case Law Study Tour" for Armenian Judges, Room 1200A, 2 p.m.
December 6
- Annual JMLS/IPLAC Trade Secrets Seminar, Room 1200, noon
- Selections & Appointments Committee Candidate Luncheon, Room 1102, 12:15 p.m.
December 7
- Basic Skills Course, Room 1200, 8 a.m.
- Selections & Appointments Committee Candidate Luncheon, Room 1102, 12:15 p.m.
- Selections & Appointments Candidate Presentation, Room 216, 2 p.m.
December 8
- Basic Skills Course, Room 1200, 8 a.m.
December 12
- Selections & Appointments Committee Voting Meeting, Room 1200, noon
- IP Adjunct Holiday Lunch, Room 3East, noon
December 13
- IBT and ITCC Networking Reception, Room 3East, 5 p.m.
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Venezuelan Supreme Court Justice Visits John Marshall
The John Marshall Law School recently hosted Justice Fernando Vegas of the Supreme Court of Venezuela (fifth from left) to discuss "Law and Justice in Revolutionary Venezuela." Welcoming him to the law school were (from left) John Marshall Professors Ralph Ruebner, Arthur Acevedo and Justin Schwartz; John Marshall students Tahani Afaneh and Anselmo Duran; and John Marshall Professors Linda Crane and Rogelio Lasso. The program was co-sponsored by the National Lawyers' Guild, The Latino Law Students Association and the Global Legal Studies Program at John Marshall.
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John Marshall Team Takes Second Place in Negotiation Competition, Advances to National Finals
The John Marshall Law School team of William Kalbac (second from left) and Michael O'Brien (left) were awarded second place honors in the American Bar Association (ABA) Regional Negotiation Competition. They advance to the ABA Negotiation Competition National Finals, which will be held in conjunction with the ABA Midyear Meeting in Los Angeles, California in February 2008. Team coaches were (from third from left) John Marshall Professor Molly Lien and Adjunct Professor Dawn Bode.
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Staff Activity
Rachel Dawson, Associate Director, Career Services
She was recently elected as co-chair of the Chicago Area Law School Consortium (CALSC). CALSC is comprised of law school career services professionals from all the law schools in Illinois plus the University of Notre Dame School of Law and Valparaiso School of Law. Rachel will represent the group at national conferences. She will serve as co-chair with William Chamberlain, assistant dean of the Law Center for Career Strategy & Advancement, Northwestern University School of Law.
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