Third-year John Marshall students Adam G. Kelly and Jacqueline M. Thompson took first place at the 28^th annual Giles S. Rich Intellectual Property Law Moot Court Competition April 20. The team argued a patent infringement case that included claim interpretation and written description validity before three judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C.

The first-place winners shared the $2,000 prize.

The competition started with 60 teams. Kelly and Thompson were runners-up in the regional competition. That finish allowed them to advance to the national competition in Washington. In the first round, the team won over Yale Law School to advance. In the second round, it advanced by beating George Washington University. The John Marshall team took the title by defeating San Francisco's Hastings College of Law in the final round.

Professor Janice Mueller coached the third-year students. The win had special meaning for her because she had clerked for Judge Giles S. Rich for whom the competition is named. The team manager was Brandon Benson.

The team practiced once a week starting in the end of January, and intensified practices to three times a week up until the competition. Lawyers in Chicago volunteered to hear the team's arguments and offer suggestions on how to improve the presentation.

Thompson entered law school after a career as a pharmacist. This is her second year with Moot Court. During the 1999-2000 academic year, she was on the Moot Court Council and represented John Marshall in the National Appellate Advocacy Competition sponsored by the American Bar Association. She will graduate with a J.D. degree in June and return in the fall for an LL.M. degree in intellectual property.

Kelly has a degree in biology. This is his first year with Moot Court. He is in his first semester of his third year.

The John Marshall Law School is proud of each of its teams that represent the law school in Moot Court competition. These teams entered spring 2001 competitions:

ABA Constitutional Law

Teams: Brian Craven, Fred Green and Allison Eastland, Jim Dougherty, Stephen Fields and Marlem Nava

Advisor - Professor Kathryn Thomas

Manager—Elizabeth Durfee and Cynnamon Curtis

Kaufman Memorial Securities Law Moot Court Competition

Octofinalists, 4^th Best Brief

Team: James Carty (7^th Best Oralist) and Tony Goodman

Advisor—Professor Ardath Hamann

Manager—David Kleczek

Robert S. Wagner Sr. National Labor Law Moot Court Competition

Team: Christopher Buenik, Elizabeth Salgado, Ellen Strizak

Advisor—Professor Gerald Berendt

Manager—Tricia Oliver

Niagara Cup International Moot Court Competition

Team: Michael Faley, Wigmor Gadia, Mary McDonnagh, Joel Sestito

Advisor—Professor Mark Wojcik

Manager—Roger Galer

Hispanic National Bar Association Moot Court Competition

(National Hispanic Law Students Association)

Team: Laura Ayala and Jason Esparza

Advisor—Professor Adrian Mendoza

Manager—Elizabeth Durfee

Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition

2^nd Best Memorial (Brief)

Team: Frances Pierson Hadfield, John Lynch, Roger Galer, Melinda Mulbrook (10^th Best Oralist)

Advisor—Professor William Mock

Manager—Elizabeth Durfee

Tulane Mardi Gras Invitational National Sports Law Competition

Semifinalists

Team: Elizabeth Durfee (10^th Best Oralist) and Annette Hoerath

Advisor—Professor Donald Beschle

Manager—Cynnamon Curtis

Frederick Douglass Moot Court Competition

(National Black Law Students Association)

Octofinalists

Team: Melanie Davis and Dortricia Penn

Advisor—Professor Linda Crane

Manager—Brandon Bensen

National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition

Team: Jessica Thomas and Charles Hafner

Advisor—Joseph Annunzio

Manager—Annette Hoerath

Sauk Lefkowitz Trademark Moot Court Competition

Team: Kristina Beck, Chad Christy

Advisor—Catherine Simmons-Gil

Manager—Brian Williams

Team: Randa Barber, David Bertha

Advisor—Professor Ardath Hamann

Manager—Brian Williams

National Civil Rights Moot Court Competition

Team: Tricia Oliver, Ashley Payne, Shawn Torres

Advisor—Tara Bernstein

Manager—Desiree Berg

Tax Law National Moot Court Competition

Team: Brandon Bensen, Brian Day

Advisors—Professor Glenn Schwartz

Manager— Patricia Kladis

John J. Gibbons National Criminal Procedure Moot Court Competition

Team: Desiree Berg, Patricia Kladis

Advisor—Professor Tim O'Neill

Manager—David Kleczek

2001 Evan A. Evans Constitutional Law Moot Court Competition

Team: Andrew Matas, Brian D. Williams

Advisor—Professor Karen Halverson

Manager—Charmaine Vivar

Manfred Lachs National Space Law Moot Court Competition

Team: Charmaine Vivar, David Kleczek

Advisor—Professor Walter Kendall

Manager—Jacqueline Thompson

Giles S. Rich Memorial Moot Court Competition

National Champions

Team: Adam G. Kelly, Jacqueline M. Thompson

Advisor—Professor Janice Mueller

Manager—Brandon Benson

Thomas Tang Moot Court Competition

(National Asian Pacific American Bar Association)

Team: Michael Carroll, Avani Patel

Advisor—Tara Taylor-Bernstein

Manager—Cynnamon Curtis

National Health Law Competition

Team: Marilyn Lablaikis, Campbell Reynolds

Advisor—Professor Maureen Kordesh

Manager—Steve Herzberg

Chicago Bar Association Moot Court Competition

Team: Desiree Berg, Brian D. Williams

Advisor—Professor Julie Spanbauer

Manager—Cynnamon Curtis

Team: Bogi Goodrich, David Roleck

Advisor—Professor John Gorby

Manager—Michelle Blackburn

National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition

Team: Charles Hafner, Jessica Thomas

Advisor—Joseph Annunzio

Manager—Annette Hoerath

August A. Rendigs Jr. National Products Liability Moot Court Competition

Team: Jennifer Robicheaux, Martin Osinski

Advisor—Professor Alberto Bernabe

Manager—Tricia Oliver

Dean Jerome Prince Evidence Moot Court Competition

Team: Michael Carroll, Jennifer Wu

Advisor—Kathryn Thomas

Manager—Roger Galer

Cardozo/BMI Entertainment and Communications Law Moot Court Competition

Team: Cynnamon Curtis, Gretchen Gradinger

Advisor—Professor Ardath Hamann

Manager—Charmaine Vivar

Professor William B.T. Mock of The John Marshall Law School has been selected to participate in the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace workshop focusing on transparency.

Mock, a professor of international law and international trade law, described transparency as a measure of the degree to which processes, such as governmental decision-making, are open to public involvement and scrutiny. Thus, transparency is a vital element in the democratic accountability.

The workshop, May 23 and 24 in Washington, D.C., is part of an ongoing Project on Transparency at the Carnegie Endowment. The project carries out a broad program of policy research into the relationship between transparency and good governance, economic development and the management of global problems. It is designed to create a transnational network of scholars and activists in developed and developing countries to compare experiences across countries and to promote greater openness of institutions around the world.

The Carnegie Endowment has invited persons involved in the transparency debate, including those working on freedom of information policies, anti-corruption efforts, the disclosure policies of inter-governmental organizations and the use of transparency as a tool of governance.

Participants will be asked to discuss the police choices that institutions of all types face when they are deciding whether and how to release information, and the kind of information citizens and others most need and what laws or policies are most likely to get that information into their hands.

Mock, a resident of Downers Grove, received a bachelor's degree from Haverford College, undertook graduate studies at the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham in England, and a law degree from Georgetown University. He joined the John Marshall faculty in 1983, and in 1999, while on sabbatical in Italy, was a visiting scholar at the Law Faculty of the University of Cagliari on the island of Sardinia, Italy.

Students at The John Marshall Law School have established an ethics journal that has eliminated the expensive overhead but still gives them the chance to write about professional responsibility and ethical dilemmas frequently confronting lawyers.

Because law school journals are costly publications, Professor Francis X. Morrissey proposed organizing a journal that would provide materials for existing publications. He first conceived the idea in the 1970s, but it wasn't until he met with student enthusiasm two years ago in his Professional Responsibility classes that he decided to bring his idea to fruition.

The students' journal, "The John Marshall Law School Ethics Case Notes and Comments," provides materials to the Chicago Bar Association's "CBA Record" and the American Bar Association's publication for the Section on Professional Responsibility. Materials focus on case specific developments in legal malpractice and professional responsibility.

Morrissey hopes his students' efforts will pique and enhance practicing lawyers' interest in ethical problems. The members on the editorial board review United States Supreme Court cases and state Supreme Court cases for current decisions on topics of widespread interest to the profession. Morrissey, the students and the editorial boards of the CBA and ABA publications review case comments before they are accepted.

Only eight students are selected for The John Marshall Law School Ethics Case Notes and Comments. Each must demonstrate strong writing abilities and research skills. Journal board members serve for one year. The editor-in-chief, now Eva Matela, has a vote on the editorial board of the" CBA Record."

"We don't intend our articles to be in competition with the school's other publications, The John Marshall Law Review or The Journal of Computer and Information Law," Morrissey emphasizes. Still, he runs a tight ship expecting the hard work and dedication required of any published student writer.

To date, the student articles have focused on a variety of issues, including the meaning of "retired" within the context of a firm non-compete argreement; the differing ethical standards of accountants and attorneys; and the consequences of an attorney's failure to notify authorities of the illegal conduct of a fellow attorney.

"This position requires us to weed through lots of cases and general comments about ethical problems. Sometimes it's tough for us to decide which cases are significant, but by the end of our stint, we gain confidence and some expertise with ethics cases," said the journal's first editor, Roland Keske.

The Student Affairs Office is proud to announce your Student Bar Association for 2001-2002

• President: Todd Murphy
• Vice President: Tania Grey
• Secretary: Anita Oak
• Treasurer: Amy Jensen
• ISBA Representative: Krysia Wysocki
• ABA Representative: Jodi Gaspard
• CBA Representative: Antoine L. Collins
• Should the proposed amendments of the SBA Constitution be adopted? - Yes
• Should The John Marshall Law School continue to offer the CTA U-Pass Program to full time students? - Yes

Monday, April 30^th

The Christian Legal Society will hold its annual spring party at 12:45 on 3 East.

Friday, May 4^th

Student Bar Association "End of the Semester Party" - watch for details.

Phi Delta Phi certificates are available in Miss Criss's office, room 212.

· Money collected will be designated to the Alumni Association Scholarship Fund

· The Scholarship is given to a second or third year JMLS student in good academic standing who has demonstrated a record of service to the community or Law School

· 2001 graduates are asked to give $20.01 in honor of their graduation year

· Antoine L. Collins & Amy Kloempken are your Class Gift officers & have given their gift

· Each gift, no matter how large or small, is important

· Gifts can be made by check, credit card, or cash and are tax deductible

· 2001 graduates who make their gift of $20.01 will have their names printed in a special section of the Annual Report of the Dean

· The Class Gift will be presented to Dean Johnston at commencement

· If everyone in the Class of 2001 contributes $20.01 to the Class Gift, over $6000 will be raised toward the Alumni Association Scholarship. This will be the largest Class Gift ever!

For more information, please contact Yolanda S. Hancock, Director of Development & Alumni Programs at 312.987.1411 or at 6hancock@jmls.edu

Professor Arthur J. Sabin

Activities

He has been invited to speak at the Terra Museum of American Art, 664 N. Michigan Ave., at 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 1. The program is free. The museum is hosting the exhibit "Distant Shores: The Odyssey of Rockwell Kent." Professor Sabin's presentation will be on Kent as an artist and political activist. Kent was one of America's preeminent artists and illustrators. In addition, he was a political activist who tangled with Sen. Joseph McCarthy during the 1950s. Kent won a crucial U.S. Supreme Court case Kent v. Dulles on the right of a citizen to a passport. Professor Sabin used a Kent illustration for the dust jacket of his book In Calmer Times: The Supreme Court and Red Monday published in 1999 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. It was Professor Sabin's second book on the period. His first book was Red Scare in Court: New York Versus The International Works Order. Professor Sabin is now working on a third book that will feature political cartoons for the era.

April 30

IRS Roundtable Discussion, Room 1200, 2:30 p.m.

May 1

Center for Real Estate Law Adjunct Faculty and Advisory Committee Luncheon, Room 1200A, 12:00 p.m.

Alumni Association First Tuesday, Monday's Restaurant, 5:00 p.m.

IP Paralegal Program, Room 201, 6:00 p.m.

May 2

Alumni Association Executive Committee Meeting, Room 1203, 11:00 a.m.

Alumni Association Board Meeting, Room 1200A, 12:00 p.m.

May 3

American Association of Law Libraries, Room 1200, 8:00 a.m.

May 4

American Association of Law Libraries, Rooms 200 and 300, 8:00 a.m.

Lorman Educational Seminar, Room 1200, 9:00 a.m.

Development Committee Meeting, Room 1203, 12:00 p.m.

May 5

ISBA Women's & Minority Lawyers Conference, 4^th Floor, 8:00 a.m.

May 8

IP Paralegal Program, Room 201, 6:00 p.m.

May 9

Lorman Educational Seminar, Room 200, 9:00 a.m.

The International Trade Club of Chicago `s Export Training Series 2001, Room 1200, 2:00 p.m.

May 10

AIDS Foundation Program, Room 1200, 9:00 a.m.

CIBTL Adjunct Faculty Meeting, Room 1101, 12:00 p.m.

Friends of Battered Women and Their Children Meeting, Room 311, 4:00 p.m.