Fall Semester Start Date Changes

Classes for the Fall 1998 semester will begin on Thursday, August 20. This is a change from the previously scheduled date of August 24.

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February 16 -22, 1998

John Marshall students John Consenza (left) and Jamie Knodel (third from left), president of The John Marshall Law School's Fair Housing Association, hosted HUD administrative law judges William Cregar (second from left); and (from right) Thomas Heinz, Constance O'Brien and Chief Judge Alan W. Heifetz at a special reception in their honor. The judges came in from Washington to address a three-day litigation skills training program in fair housing law for federal, state and private attorneys from around the country. It was the sixth annual training program hosted by the Fair Housing Legal Support Center at John Marshall.

Fair Housing Center/Clinic

On February 5 - 7 the Fair Housing Legal Support Center conducted its 6th Annual National CLE Litigation Skills Training Program. Participation was restricted to 36 attorneys. Participants were from 20 states across the nation. In addition, an advisory board member and a friend of the Center audited the training.

Chief Judge Alan Heifetz, and Judges Thomas Heinz, Constance O'Bryant and William Cregar from the Department of Housing and Urban Development Administrative Law Office in Washington, D.C. were the instructors for this program. Instruction focused on the skills an attorney needs to handle a contested hearing or trial in a fair housing case. The first day consisted of a plenary session where the judges discussed fair housing law and practice with the attorneys. Instruction thereafter was by way of mock trial exercises. Green v. Hall and Rose, NITA-sixth edition, by Kenneth S. Broun, Professor of Law, University of North Carolina and updated by Michael P. Seng, was the problem used for the training.

Because of their participation in past programs, the four HUD Administrative Law Judges are well known at The John Marshall Law School, and all appreciate their valuable contribution to legal education.