Fall Semester Date Change

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

Contents

Schedule of Events

John Marshall Publications Win Awards

Fall Semester Date Change

Alumni Assn. Donates $10,000

Two JMLS Board Members Honored

Faculty Activity and Publications

Fair Housing Center/Clinic

Schedule of Events

July 15

Graduate Program in R.E. Law Information Session, Room 1200, 5:30 p.m.

July 18

Adjunct Teaching Effectiveness Day, Room 1200, 9:00 a.m.

Fair Housing Center/Clinic

The third training, Fair Housing Assistance Program Mandatory Training, took place on June 29-July 1, at the Renaissance Hotel, Chicago, for over 200 investigators from the Chicago/Kansas City HUBs. Professor Michael P. Seng and Adjunct Professor Joseph Butler, provided instruction on the Case Law Review which included establishing jurisdiction, case law under FHA, disparate treatment and impact, review of fact patterns and elements of damage. Professor F. Willis Caruso and Adjunct Professor J. Damian Ortiz provided instruction on Data Collections/Analysis and included subpoenas, interrogatories, other methods, analyzing testing results and proving damages. Professors Ardath Hammond and Maureen Kordesh provided instruction on report writing and included organizing skills and how to summarize evidence. John Marshall alumnus Merilyn Brown participated in the program and assisted with instruction on Report Writing.

These programs are among several that John Marshall is doing throughout the country to train HUD investigators and others.

The John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Legal Support Center conducted three Fair Housing Training Programs for the U. S. Department of Housing & Urban Development during the month of June.

The first training took place June 15-17, at the Renaissance Hotel in Denver Colorado, for thirty investigators and staff. Professors F. Willis Caruso and Michael P. Seng provided instruction on Jurisdictional Concerns & Covered Properties, Proper Parties, Theories of Discrimination, and Basic Investigative Techniques. Professor Ardath Hammond provided instruction on report writing and organizational skills and how to summarize evidence.

The second training took place on June 21-26, at the Sheraton Airport in Atlanta Georgia, for ninety HUD managers. This course was designed for managers and supervisors of fair housing investigations. The course addressed the substantive law that every manager should know in order to effectively supervise an investigation. It also addressed the complaint intake process, how to screen and refer complaints, methods of collecting and analyzing information and evidence, and how to conduct an effective investigation and write a final report. The instructors for the training were Professors Michael P. Seng, F. Willis Caruso, Ardath Hammond and Maureen Kordesh, and Clinical Adjunct Professors Joseph Butler and J. Damian Ortiz.

Alumni Association Donates $10,000

Dean Robert Gilbert Johnston (left) accepts a $10,000 check from outgoing Alumni Association President Hon. Jesse Reyes for support of the association's scholarship fund. The presentation was made at the association's annual meeting in June.

Two JMLS Board Members Honored

Claireen L. Herting and John A. Maher, members of the board of trustees at The John Marshall Law School, have been recognized for their outstanding contributions to the community

Herting is the recipient of the 1998 Public Service Award from the Illinois CPA Society. The award is presented annually to an Illinois CPA society member who has contributed greatly to public service on a local, regional or national level.

Herting, tax manager at the CPA firm of Coopers & Lybrand in Chicago, has been involved with numerous public service and community organizations. For 23 years, she has volunteered with the Easter Seal Society of Metropolitan Chicago, where she is a member of the President's Council and has served on its board of trustees since 1974.

The past seven years, Herting has volunteered on the planned giving committee
of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has been on the board of director for the American Women Composers-Midwest and the Chicago Society of Contemporary Composers.

At the Free Arts for Abused Children of Chicago, Inc., an organization focusing on helping abused children through art therapy, Herting has worked with the founders to help establish the Chicago operation through fundraising, and tax-exempt status paperwork for the Internal Revenue Service. She also has become involved with DARE-Illinois, which educates students about the dangers of drugs.

Herting is an active member with the Woman's Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association, Zonta International and the Alliance for Business and Professional Women. She is past president of the Chicago Estate Planning Council, and a past member of the Illinois Department of Registration which monitors the work of licensed public accountants in Illinois.

Maher, a law professor, former dean and a member of the Pennsylvania Securities Commission, received an honorary doctor of laws degree at the commencement ceremonies for Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University.

Maher joined the law school faculty in 1973 and served as its dean from 1989 to 1994. He continues to teach and serves as a commissioner to the Pennsylvania Securities Commission. In 1997, Maher was appointed an honorary lifetime fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the University of London.

He is past chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Corporation, Banking and Business Law Section and chaired a PBA task force on legal education.

Maher is a regular participant in Jesus College's Annual Symposium on International Economic Crime in Cambridge, England, and a member of the board of editors of the United Kingdom's "Journal of Financial Crime."

John Marshall Publications Win Awards

John Marshall Comment recently received the Communications Concepts Apex '98 Award for Publication Excellence in Newsletter Design for the Spring 1998 edition. And the Centennial Brochure received the Communications Concepts Apex '98 Award for Publication Excellence in One-of-a-Kind Publications.

APEX Awards are based on excellence in graphic design, editorial content and the ability to achieve overall communications excellence.

Faculty Activity and Publications

Professor Maureen Straub Kordesh

Activities

She conducted training workshops for HUD housing discrimination investigators. The workshops explored principles of drafting factual summaries for use by attorneys and agency personnel in determining whether there is cause for filing a housing discrimination claim. She conducted these workshops in Atlanta, Georgia and in Chicago, Illinois with Professor Ardath Hamann.

Professor Ralph Ruebner

Activities

On June 22, 1998 he appeared before the United States Supreme Court and moved for a group admission of Decalogue Society of Lawyers members, including John Marshall alumni, Herbert Kanter
(1965), Elliott Levine (1970), and Marvin Margolis (1962).

He also met with the staff of Congressman Thomas Ewing and Senator Carol Moseley-Braun concerning the Jennifer Davis case.

He was awarded a Presidential Citation by the Decalogue Society of Lawyers "in recognition and appreciation of [his] outstanding efforts, achievements and special commitment to the Decalogue Society of Lawyers."

He was recently reelected as Director of the Decalogue Foundation, Inc.

He and Thomas W. Betten, a recent John Marshall alumnus, 1997, are representing an Illinois inmate, Anselm Holman, who is serving a natural life sentence for rape and murder, in the Circuit Court of Cook County, pro bono, under a recently enacted procedure for DNA testing as a means of overturning his convictions.