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Writing Revisions Strengthen Nationally Recognized Program
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Starting with the fall semester, students will see changes in the Lawyering Skills program that are being designed to strengthen the courses and offer new options for drafting courses. By updating the coursework, Lawyering Skills Program Director Maureen Straub Kordesh and Associate Director Sonia Bychkov Green say they have not dropped any of the elements of John Marshall's writing program, but rather re-arranged them so that there is more substance in each course, and so that students can have greater flexibility for drafting classes. The Lawyering Skills program will drop from four mandated courses to three courses. The change also reduces the legal writing requirement from 10 hours to eight, giving students the option of using the remaining two hours for additional drafting courses or other courses to be added. The change will not affect students who have already taken LS I and LS II. They will continue on the current system. Under the new program, LSI, the introductory writing class, will cover all book research, including topics covered in the current LS II (administrative regulations, court rules and legislative history). "We've combined the old LS II and LS III, so that students will have a persuasive writing and rhetoric course at the trial and appellate levels as |
`new LS II'," Professor Green explained. After completing this new course, students will be eligible to take the Fred F. Herzog Competition in Appellate Advocacy course, which is being developed. The new Competition course will be one means of selecting students for Moot Court. LSIII will be a drafting course. The law school will continue offering its general practice drafting course, and will give students options in specialty drafting, including Intellectual Property, Information Technology, International Law and Litigation Drafting. Students will be required to have pre-requisite coursework before they can enroll in either the general practice or specialty drafting course. Some of the courses will be coordinated with the Centers for Excellence. Students may take more than one drafting course. Full-time professors teaching in the Lawyering Skills program with Kordesh and Green are Julie Spanbauer, Marie Monahan, Ardath Hamann, Mark Wojcik, Kevin Hopkins, David Sorkin, Samuel Olken, and Joel Cornwell. Professor Alan Kamp will fill in during the fall semester for Professor Wojcik who is on sabbatical. Adjunct professors who have expertise in specific areas of the law will teach many of the drafting courses. |
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Accelerated Trial Advocacy Faculty
Judges and attorneys served as instructors the fall 2002 Accelerated Trial Advocacy Program. The course was attended by 80 students, including three Irish attorneys. Instructors were (from left, seated) U.S. District Court Judge Michael Mihm, Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Crowl, U.S. District Court Judge James Holderman, U.S. District Court Judge Paul Plunkett, (from left, back row) Kenneth Kandaras, director of the Center for Trial Advocacy and Dispute Resolution, U.S. District Court Judge Charles Norgle, attorney Michael Mahoney, U.S. District Court Chief Judge Charles Kocoras, U.S. District Court Judge John Darrah, attorney Kenneth Cunniff, Assistant U.S. Attorney Zaldwaynaka L. Scott, and Susann MacLachlan, associate director of the center. Not pictured are instructors Paula Holderman, of the Cook County State's Attorneys staff, and Rosanne Faraci of McDermott Will & Emery.
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Czech Student Returns to Earn LL.M. Degree
Radim Charvat, who has attended The John Marshall Law School during the fall 2001 semester, on the John Marshall Czech Student Exchange Program, has returned to John Marshall to work on his LL.M. degree in intellectual property law. Radim has received a full tuition and expenses scholarship from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva. WIPO funds one such scholarship each year. Radim received his Magistr (the Czech equivalent of our J.D.) degree with highest honors from the Faculty of Law of Masaryk University in Brno in May 2002.
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John Marshall Hosts 2002 Alumni Reunion CLE Program
E-mail can be a powerful marketing tool, but "spam" is an annoyance, a threat to communications and electronic commerce. It has spawned hundreds of lawsuits, and more than half of the states have enacted new laws in an attempt to curtail it. Despite these efforts, it isn't clear where the lines should be drawn. Not all e-mail marketing techniques are problematic, and regulating spam raises important constitutional concerns.
John Marshall's 2002 Alumni Reunion Continued Legal Education presentation, "E-mail Marketing & Spam," held from 9:30 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Sept. 14, at the law school, will allow panelists to present an overview of legal issues related to spam and e-mail marketing from the industry, consumer, governmental and academic perspectives.
The free event is sponsored by The John Marshall Law School Office of Development and Alumni Programs, Center for Information Technology and Privacy Law and G. Grant Dixon III (J.D. '91) of the Dixon Law Offices LLC, and will feature John Marshall alumni, faculty and adjunct faculty. Professor David E. Sorkin will moderate.
Sorkin's primary research interests lie within the fields of Internet law, privacy and consumer protection. He frequently speaks and writes about spam and related issues. He is the author of Spam Laws (spamlaws.com), a web site that tracks laws related to unsolicited e-mail.
Tours of the law school will also be available in the morning.
For additional information or to register for the program, contact the Department of Event Management at 312.987.1420 ext. 578. Registrations should be made by September 6.
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Faculty Activity and Publications
Professor Celeste Hammond
Activities
The Section on Real Property Probate and Trust Law of the American Bar Association has appointed her to serve as chair of the Significant Legislation Committee for the 2002-2003 bar year.
The Type 29 Certificate Bi Lingual Teachers Cohort at Northeastern Illinois University has been successful in its lobbying efforts to change an Illinois State Board of Education administrative rule. With Professor Hammond's help (she advised and represented these teachers on a pro bono basis) the group was instrumental in amending 23 Ill Admin Code 25.620 (effective July 26, 2002) to permit certain teachers to be paid while completing student teaching.
These clients work full time as bi lingual teachers in the Chicago and other Cook County Public Schools. They take courses on a part time basis to earn their general education teaching certificate at universities that offer certification programs. Many have been teaching for more than 4 years on a full time basis. Under the old administrative rules, these teachers would take a leave of absence to complete the student teaching requirement.
Because they had to give up their paid jobs to complete student teaching requirements, their own students would suffer from losing a very much needed teacher and some of the teachers would have had to give up on a career in teaching. Under the revised rules, teachers working under these special certificates for at least two years are able to do their student teaching in the schools where they currently teach and may be paid as full time teachers. The change makes sense in that it requires the higher education institutions to provide an education professor to supervise and evaluate them while they continue to be paid as teachers.
Professor Michael P. Seng
Publications
With John Marshall student Ann Melichar, he has published an article in the Czech language in this month's journal of the Czech Bar Association in Prague, Czech Republic. The article, "Admission of Lawyers to the Practice of Law in the United States," briefly describes how lawyers are admitted to the bar in the United States and then compares different state regulations governing the admission of foreign lawyers into practice or as foreign legal consultants.
Professor Mark E. Wojcik
Publications
His article, "Career Fundamentals for Turbulent Times," was published in the Summer 2002 issue of the International Law News. Also in that issue is his article, "New Rules on the Citizenship of Foreign Corporations When the `Foreign State' is Not a State."
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Schedule of Events
September 4
- PLI Patent Bar Review Course, Room 1200, 9:00 a.m.
- Alumni Reunion Chair Meeting, Room 1203, 12:00 p.m.
September 5
- PLI Patent Bar Review Course, Room 1200, 9:00 a.m.
- RIPL Orientation, Room 3East, 5:00 p.m.
September 6
- PLI Patent Bar Review Course, Room 1200, 9:00 a.m.
- Alumni Association Executive Committee Meeting, Room 1101, 12:00 p.m.
September 7
- PLI Patent Bar Review Course, Room 1200, 9:00 a.m.
September 8
- PLI Patent Bar Review Course, Room 1200, 9:00 a.m.
September 9
- Ingram Scholarship Reception, Room 1200B, 5:00 p.m.
September 10
- AIDS Foundation Training Program, Room 1200A, 9:00 a.m.
- Tax and Employee Benefits Student Meeting, Room 1203, 12:00 and 5:00 p.m.
- Meet the Employers Night, Room 3East, 5:30 p.m.
September 11
- 9/11 Panel Discussion co-sponsored by BLSA, Room 3East, 12:00 p.m.
- Career Services - Impress the Best: Tips on Interviewing, Room 200, 12:45 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.
September 12
- Dean Search Committee Meeting, Room 1200B, 9:00 a.m.
September 13
- Fair Housing Seminar - Issues in Subsidized Units, Room 1200, 8:00 a.m.
September 14
- Fair Housing Seminar - Issues in Subsidized Units, Room 1200, 8:00 a.m.
- Alumni CLE Presentation - E-mail Marketing & Spam, Room 200, 9:30 a.m.
- 2002 Alumni Reunion & Anniversary Celebration - "Renewing the Bonds", Palmer House Hotel, 7:00 p.m.