Illinois Supreme Court Justice Will Address Graduates at May 17 Ceremony
Illinois Supreme Court Justice Anne Burke will address the graduates and receive an honorary degree when The John Marshall Law School awards 334 diplomas at the 3 p.m. commencement ceremony on May 17.
The law school will award 278 JD degrees; 52 LLM degrees and four MS degrees at the 187th commencement ceremony at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers.
The law school also will honor two long-time members of its Board of Visitors-Professor Sherman Cohn of Georgetown University Law Center and Philip Crihfield of Sidley Austin LLP-with honorary degrees.
Graduate William Weltman will deliver the valedictory address.
Three faculty members, Professors Richard Gruner, Celeste Hammond, and Robert Nye, will also be honored for outstanding academic achievements.
Illinois Supreme Court Justice Anne M. Burke has been a member of the court since July 2006. She first was appointed to the court to fill a vacancy, and was elected in November 2008 to a full 10-year term. She represents the First District on the seven-member high court.
In 1987, Burke was appointed to the Illinois Court of Claims by Governor James Thompson. She was the first woman to serve on that court. She was reappointed to the court by Governor Jim Edgar, who also appointed her special counsel for Child Welfare Services and to the Legislative Committee on Juvenile Justice. In these positions, Burke's leadership helped reshape and improve the network of agencies working on child welfare. Significant reforms were made in the Cook County juvenile justice system, and better cooperation was established between the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services and city and county law enforcement agencies, as well as other governmental bodies charged with protection of children.
The Illinois Supreme Court appointed Burke to the Illinois Appellate Court's First District in 1995. She was elected to the court in 1996 and served until her appointment to the Illinois Supreme Court.
Burke received a bachelor's degree from DePaul University and started a career as a physical education teacher with the Chicago Park District. She helped organize programs for children with disabilities. Her efforts led to the founding of Chicago Special Olympics in 1968. She later served as director of what would become the International Special Olympics, hosting children from more than 160 countries.
After graduating from IIT/Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1983, Burke began a neighborhood law practice that specialized in representing the interests of children and families, involving issues of neglect, abuse, delinquency, and custody. She continued in private practice until moving into government service in 1987.
Burke's volunteer efforts are numerous, including serving as chair of the National Review Board of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The board investigated the causes and effects of the clergy abuse scandal and helped establish guidelines and policies for effectively responding to the issue.
Cohn has been on the faculty of the Georgetown University Law Center for more than 40 years teaching in the areas of civil procedure, professional responsibility, Jewish law, and the legal issues of complementary, alternative, and integrative medicine. He writes and speaks in each of those areas, and has traveled the globe as a guest lecturer. Cohn served as director of Continuing Legal Education at Georgetown University Law Center from 1977 to 1984.
He began his legal career as a law clerk for Judge Charles Fahy of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit and in the Appellate Section of the Civil Division of the US Department of Justice. Cohn is a member of the DC, Maryland, and Virginia (retired) bars and is also a member of the American Law Institute, the American Judicature Society, and the Society of American Law Teachers.
When the American Inns of Court were being organized in the 1980s, Cohn stepped forward and agreed to serve as the first national president of the American Inns of Court. He held the position for 11 years. He is a master of the Charles Fahy American Inn.
He served as an administrator of Preview of US Supreme Court cases from 1976 through1979; as president of the American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists; as deputy president of the International Association; and as President of the Jewish Law Association. He is currently on The John Marshall Law School Board of Visitors and the Jewish Council for the Aging.
Cohn lectures at the Georgetown Medical Center on alternative medicine. He is chair of the Board of Trustees of the Tai Sophia Institute, and a member of the board of the Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Alliance. He is president of the National Acupuncture Foundation and served as chair of the board of the Tai Hsuan Foundation. From 1982 through 1993, Cohn served as chair of the Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.
Crihfield is a senior counsel with the international law firm Sidley Austin LLP. On staff in the firm's Chicago office, he focuses his practice on licensing, technology transfer, outsourcing, computer, information resource, distribution, copyright, trademark, trade secret and patent matters. After graduating from Purdue University with an engineering degree, Crihfield enrolled at The John Marshall Law School and earned a law degree in 1971. He completed his admission to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office that same year.
Crihfield was an associate editor of the treatise Business Torts, Matthew Bender & Co., and authored the chapter on Deceptive Advertising in that work. He has authored or co-authored numerous published articles, including "US Intellectual Property Law Rights and Protection," "Impacts of the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights," "Patents are Trumping Trade Secret Protection," and "Privacy? What Privacy?"
Crihfield has been an adjunct professor at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management of Northwestern University where he taught the course "Marketing, Public Policy and the Law." He has spoken at the Chicago Bar Association Law Symposium on legal issues involving the Internet and was a member of the faculty of the 34th Annual Corporate Counsel Institute sponsored by the Northwestern University School of Law.
He shares his expertise on intellectual property law through guest lectures. His topics have included "Protecting Your Intellectual Property" at the Illinois Department of Economic Development's Crossing International Borders conference, and "Copyright Restoration Act in the North American Free Trade Area" in London, England. He also outlined copyright restoration and management of intellectual property issues in corporate transactions at seminars sponsored by the Licensing Executives Society seminars.
A long-time member of The John Marshall Law School Board of Visitors, Crihfield also serves on the board of Youth Organizations Umbrella, Inc., a social service agency serving the youth of Evanston and their families. He has served on the advisory board of the ITT Center for Law and Computers.
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Italian LLM Student Externs at Circuit Court
Sandra Chiarlone is the first foreign student enrolled at The John Marshall Law School to complete an externship at the Circuit Court of Cook County. She has been working with Judge William Taylor at his chambers in the Daley Center.
Chiarlone has lots of experience in courtrooms. She's been a sole practitioner in Italy for more than a dozen years in her town of Cairo Monrenotte (SV) close to the border with France. Her practice included everything from torts and family law to criminal cases. She also has taught criminal law and procedure for prison staff through the Italian Department of Justice.
The last few years, Chiarlone has been practicing with a larger firm in Savona. Her firm gave her a leave of absence to complete the LLM degree in Global Legal Studies (for foreign lawyers) at John Marshall.
The court externship has given Chiarlone an opportunity to learn how judges here interact with attorneys and the public. "There are no interruptions in the courtroom here," Chiarlone said. "It is all orderly. Lawyers are always so polite (in the United States).
"In Italy, the judicial system has immediacy to it. There are problems of efficiency, organization, and orderliness. There are not enough judges. The judges have problems with handling all the cases. So, lawyers, and then individuals have to cope with all those problems," she noted.
"The two systems are completely different, and I love the American one. In Italy, in hearings there are no clerks calling cases. You need to get in front of the judge and plead your case, in the midst of a great confusion and hearings that typically run late. This is the opposite of the hearings held by Judge Taylor, in which I was allowed to participate."
In the United States court system, judges are elected or appointed. Chiarlone explained that, in Italy, attorneys who choose to be judges take an exam that is offered once a year. If they pass the written exam, the candidates take an oral exam that covers 12 topics. The knowledge of a foreign language is also required. Candidates that are selected for a judgeship spend at least two years with a judge who will be a mentor to help prepare the judge-in-training for his new role. After the training period, the new judge is officially sworn-in to office.
Chiarlone is especially grateful to Judge Taylor, who has given her the opportunity to learn by watching and participating in the workings in his chambers.
"I have been in court, so I understand much of what is going on, but I need to learn how it all fits together here. It's like a puzzle for me," Chiarlone explained. "The staff has been very good at explaining the paperwork and why we file certain forms and how they must be prepared."
"My supervisor, Brad Faber, the judge's attorney _ who is very skilled and talented-helped me understand the case law system from a practical point of view. He showed me what is essential and useful and what is not. He really opened my mind to this different legal world," Chiarlone said.
Judge Taylor said he gives his interns, including Chiarlone, a look at everything that goes on in his court.
"It is more than just sitting in court. When I have side bars, I involve the interns. They also are part of all discussions," and they also learn the workings of his office staff as well to understand how the cases move through the court, he said.
"Sandra was fantastic, and it was interesting for us to do comparisons of how we would work out a case and how they work out a case in Italy. For example, in Italy the judges don't participate in settlements and there's no ex parte participation," he said. "That is very different from what I do."
Chiarlone says her experiences at John Marshall have been positive.
"I have taken many very interesting courses here, but really the course Professor (Juli) Campagna teaches is the best. The Legal Presentation and Legal Skills for Foreign Lawyers class has lots of assignments, but each point is important. She knows the difficulties the audience faces, and she goes through the history and the fundamentals that will help us relate them to real life," Chiarlone said.
"For example, she has us write a memo, and she gives us all the elements. She starts with where to put the date and address. I know this seems like the basics, but for us it is important to know. Professor Campagna also is going over grammar rules, which are very important for us."
In addition to preparing for her John Marshall exams, Chiarlone will be taking the Illinois State Bar Exam this summer. "It is important for me to be a registered attorney in the United States," she said.
John Marshall Law School student Sandra Chiarlone, an attorney in Italy who is completing an LLM degree in Global Legal Studies, was offered a spring semester internship with Judge William Taylor of the Circuit Court of Cook County. Chiarlone said the insights into court operations in Cook County she gained were invaluable.
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Congratulations to the BLSA Officers
At the April party hosted by The John Marshall Law School's Glenn T. Johnson chapter of the Black Law Students Association, the work of its officers was celebrated. Guests honored (from left) the 2009-2010 officers Calvin Townsend, president; Meta Brown, vice president; Jamila Ahmed, advocate general; and Bettina Stanford, secretary; and the outgoing officers Maria Barlow, president; Grace Okorie, secretary; Merrick Marthol, treasurer; Crystal Brown, vice president; and Brandon DeBerry, advocate general.
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Guest Presenter Discusses Animal Law
Members of the Animal Law Society at The John Marshall Law School welcomed Joyce Tischler (third from left), founder of the Animal Legal Defense Fund, for a presentation on the early history of animal law. Welcoming her are (from left) Carinn Rasak, president of the Animal Law Society, a chapter of the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund; Cheyne Adam, first place winner in the Animal Law Closing Argument Competition sponsored by Harvard Law School; Clinical Professor Susann MacLachlan, faculty advisor to the Animal Law Society and team coach for the Harvard competition; David Lipschutz, first place winner at the Harvard competition; and Anne Zaluga, vice president of the Animal Law Society. Tischler spoke about her involvement in a landmark case to stop the destruction of wild burros by the United States Navy and how the Animal Legal Defense Fund was formed.
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Fall 2009 Moot Court Executive Board Announced
The fall 2009 members of the John Marshall Moot Court Executive Board are (seated, from left) Associate Justices Andrew Cook, Andrea A.J. Young, James Borkman, Colleen DeRosa, and Matthew Christoff, and (standing (from left) Associate Justices Philip Murante and Rebecca Carlson, Chief Justice Whitney Hutchinson, Executive Justice Justin Strane, and Associate Justices MaCayn May and Katie Anderson.
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Faculty Activity and Publications
Activities
She delivered a speech on "Change is Coming: What Benefit Practitioners Should Expect for 2009" on April 30 for the Western Pensions & Benefits Conference Los Angeles' 2009 Spring Summit. A copy of the speech is available at www.jmls.edu/directory/kennedy_kathryn.shtml .
She made two presentations at the 2009 Great Lakes Benefits Conference on April 21. The topics were "Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS) Advanced Correction Methods" and "AFTAP Certifications." This conference is co-sponsored by the IRS' Great Lakes Tax Exempt/Government Entity division and ASPPA.
Publications
Her article, "PPA's New Benefit Restrictions for Defined Benefit Plans," was published in the latest edition of Tax Notes, available at 123 Tax Notes 583 (May 4, 2009). It examines the new Code restrictions and the IRS' proposed regulations applicable to defined benefit plans.
Activities
Following the announcement that US Supreme Court Justice David Souter will retire, Professor Lousin offered her insights for ABC7 News, Channel 7 in Chicago, on two possible candidates for the post, both who had been at the University of Chicago Law School when President Obama was a lecturer there.
She gave comments to a reporter for the Chicago Tribune questioning whether Illinois had any outdated laws still on the books. Professor Lousin explained that most laws at purged on an "as we go along" basis.
Activities
They were guests on a recent ESPN-1000's "Beyond Sports" program. The program is the public interest segment of the radio station. The topic was Fair Housing Month, and Seng and Bethel discussed the work of The John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Legal Clinic with the hosts.
Activities
He taught classes in Egypt on international commercial law, statutory interpretation, and international legal research. His classes were taught at Cairo University and the Cairo Regional Center for International Commercial Arbitration in April and May.
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Newest Edition of RIPL Online
The editorial team of the Review of Intellectual Property Law (RIPL) has published the Spring 2009 issue on-line.
Articles included in this issue include "Patent Reform Should Not Leave Innovation Behind," by Carl E. Gulbrandsen, Stephanie Adamany, Sandra Haberny and Jason Sheasby. The article addresses a number of the proposed reforms in the current Patent Reform Act and the effect of these reforms on university innovation.
In "The New 'Extra-Ordinary' Observer Test for Design Patent Infringement-On A Crash Course with the Supreme Court's Precedent in Gorham v. White," author Christopher V. Carani argues that the Federal Circuit has improperly replaced the "ordinary observer" test for design patent infringement with an "extra-ordinary observer" test and the Federal Circuit should restore the "ordinary" requirement in the "ordinary observer" test.
The article by Greg H. Gardella and Emily A. Berger, "United States Re-examination Procedures: Recent Trends, Strategies and Impact on Patent Practice," examines the recent trends in United States Patent and Trademark Office re-examination procedures and the impact of these trends in patent practice and litigation.
"In addition to the lead articles, this issue also features three novel and well-written student comments," by Andrew M. Cook, Andrew C. Landsman, and Erin M. McKibben said Professor David Schwartz, RIPL's faculty advisor.
The web address for the Review of Intellectual Property Law is www.jmripl.com.
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Law Enforcement Benefit
Tim Sullivan, president of John Marshall's Law Enforcement Student Organization (LESO), displays one of the T-shirts LESO is selling as a benefit for four families of deceased Oakland, Calif., police officers who were killed in the line of duty March 21, 2009. For additional information on how to support LESO in this effort, contact Marilyn Criss, administrative assistant in Student Affairs, in Room 212.
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