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November 24 - 30, 2002 |
2002 Herzog Competition Winners Announced
The intra-scholastic 2002 Herzog Competition had 196 students competing over a two-week period. The final round was conducted Wednesday, Nov. 13. The winners are:
First place: Charles Blair; second place: James Worley.
Semifinalists: Heather Oreske and James M. Smith.
Quarterfinalists: Joseph J. LaRocco; Camille M. Hicks; Wendy D. Raat; Richard A. Danguilan.
Octofinalists: David P. Madigan, Erron Q. Fisher, Whitney B. Mayster, Kelly D. Baird, Gerald L. Bauer, Kathryn R. Briand, John W. Gorby, Bradley P. Reitz.
Best Oralist: Whitney B. Mayster.
Best brief: David P. Madigan.
Second best brief: Joseph J. LaRocco.
Third best brief: James S. Worley.
Associate Dean John Corkery (center) congratulates the Herzog Competition winners Charles Blair (left), first place; and James "Sam" Worley (right), second place.
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Kissling Receives Nordic Law Club Scholarship
Matthew Kissling (second from left) was honored at the Nordic Law Club of Chicago's recent Probate Night dinner as The John Marshall law School recipient of the club's 2002 scholarship award. The Nordic Law Club hosts an annual golf outing to raise funds for law students from each of the area law schools who are active in international law. Also pictured are from left to right: Patricia Oakley, scholarship chair; Kristen Grisius of Loyola; Kenneth Klassman of Chicago-Kent; and Perry Gulbrandsen, Nordic Law Club President.
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ABA Members Volunteer at Annual Work-A-Day Program
More than a dozen John Marshall student members of the American Bar Association-7th Circuit Law Student Division volunteered on a fall Saturday for the annual Work-A-Day project.
Teaming up with the Chicago Park District, students from the 7th Circuit helped run the Pumpkin Patch at Oz Park in Chicago on Oct. 26. John Marshall students joined with students from three other Chicago law schools to help paint children's faces, run games, assist in the pumpkin patch and pumpkin painting station, and help with the pony rides and petting zoo.
"The many activities attracted hundreds of families, and the law students played an integral part in the Pumpkin Patch's success," said Courtney Elliott, a second-year John Marshall student and Executive Lt. Governor of the 7th Circuit. "Students from the 7th Circuit had the chance to bond with students from other schools while making many children's Halloween a special one!"
Work-A-Day is an annual event for the ABA-LSD. In 2001, John Marshall students helped paint a Chicago school.
Lubaina Doriwala and Matt Hector assisted children at the petting zoo.
Courtney Elliott, ABA representative and 7th Circuit Executive Lt. Governor, prepares to paint another child's face at the Pumpkin Patch party at Oz Park.
Volunteering at the ring toss game were John Marshall students (from left) William Moore, Ronak Joshi, Ann Carrera and Leanne Conn.
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Schedule of Events
November 25
- Writing Resource Center Interviews, Room 402, 1:00 p.m.
November 26
- Native American Bar Association Meeting, Room 1203, 6:00 p.m.
December 2
- Faculty Assembly Meeting, Room 1200, 12:15 p.m.
December 3
- IP Adjunct Faculty Lunch, Room 3East, 12:00 p.m.
- Development and Alumni Programs - Bar Program, Room 1200, 5:30 p.m.
December 4
- Alumni Association Executive Committee Meeting, Room 1203, 11:30 a.m.
- CIPL Adjunct Faculty Lunch, Room 3East, 12:00 p.m.
- Special Meeting - Bar Passage Rate & Implementation of Procedures to Improve It - Room 200, 12:00 p.m.
December 5
- IPLAC Trade Secrets Seminar, Room 1200, 1:30 p.m.
December 7
- Practice Management Boot Camp, Room 1200A, 8:00 a.m.
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A complete online listing of events scheduled at The John Marshall Law School can be found at the following URL: http://www.jmls.edu/calendar.htm
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Professor David E. Sorkin Addresses Spam at Internet Conference in Japan
Professor David Sorkin of The John Marshall Law School will be the keynote speaker for the Information Network Law Association conference Nov. 30 in Kyoto, Japan. The conference focuses on regulation of Internet spam.
After his presentation, Sorkin will participate in a panel discussion with Japanese lawyers, government officials, and scholars.
Sorkin is an internationally recognized expert on spam and is widely quoted in trade journals, magazines and newspapers. He recently appeared on an ABC-TV Channel 7 news segment in November on Internet spam.
Sorkin was invited to the conference in Kyoto by Professor Makoto Ibusuki of Ritsumeikan University. Professor Ibusuki was a visiting scholar at John Marshall in 1997-1998. Sorkin contributed a chapter on spam to his book, Cyberspace Law, published in 2000.
After leaving Japan, Sorkin will fly to Australia to teach in Southern Cross University's summer law school at Byron Bay, New South Wales, in December. He will co-teach a course on Cyberspace Law, and also will be a guest speaker for two other courses, Privacy and the Public Sector and International Intellectual Property. Sorkin is teaching in the Byron Bay summer school for the second time; he co-taught the privacy course in 2001. He also traveled to Australia in May 2002, when he spoke at conferences on Internet governance and cyberliberties, both of which were hosted by the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
Since 1999 Sorkin has been a panelist for Internet domain name disputes under the ICANN dispute resolution policy. He has participated in deciding approximately 50 domain name disputes, including challenges brought by America Online, Coca-Cola, Dial-A-Mattress, Knight-Ridder, Madonna, and Vivendi Universal.
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Jonathon Treat Named Carr Scholarship Winner
The Claude Carr Scholarship has been presented to Jonathon Treat, a third-year student at The John Marshall Law School, in recognition of his outstanding academic record and involvement in student organizations.
"It's a great honor to give this first award to Jonathon Treat," said Professor Emeritus Carr who taught at John Marshall for 32 years until his retirement in 1999. "Jonathon is not only an outstanding student, but he also has given back to the school as a volunteer and member of several organizations." The Carr Scholarship is a partial tuition waiver.
Treat, a graduate of Illinois State University, worked for several years before deciding he would pursue a law degree. Treat has maintained an A average and ranks in the top five percent of his class. He will graduate in June.
He is a member of the John Marshall Law Review, and is a staff editor for the Review of Intellectual Property Law. He also serves as a student ambassador for the Admission Office.
He also has participated in the Alumni Mentor Program meeting more than a year with alumna Laura Zervic. Treat is working part-time for the firm Gould & Rattner.
Treat and his wife, Lyne Marie, live in the southwest suburbs with their son, Noah. Treat is originally from Champaign, Ill., and graduated from Champaign Central High School.
Jonathon Treat (second from right) receives congratulations on his being named the first Claude Carr Scholarship recipient from (left to right) Dean Robert Gilbert Johnston, his wife, Lyn Marie, and Professor Emeritus Carr.
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Fair Housing Center/Clinic
Professor F. Willis Caruso, Clinical Director and Lillian Seymore, Testing Coordinator for The John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Legal Clinic presented a Fair Housing Program for the Fair Housing Council of Central California on November 14, 2002, in Fresno, California. The training was for attorneys and support staff from central California, which included the area from Sacramento on the north to Palm springs on the south. The attorneys included Legal Aid, Private and City attorneys. In addition, paralegals and investigative staff attended the seminar. Topics included an update of the Holley and Cuyahoga Falls cases, which will be argued in the U.S. Supreme Court on December 4, 2002 and January 21, 2003, respectively, and other case law developments. Particular issues that arise in insurance, lending and predatory lending case testing were covered along with new developments in Internet research and investigation.
Professor F. Willis Caruso is providing assistance to Northern Mississippi Legal Services with respect to some thirty fair housing cases that are expected to be filed by The North Delta Mississippi Enterprise Community before the end of December 2002. The thirty cases are a result of fair housing legal seminars and tester training provided by Professor Caruso and Ms. Seymore to The North Delta Mississippi Enterprise community during the past two years. The John Marshall Law School Fair Housing legal Support Center has provided Enterprise Community in their efforts to establish a viable fair housing program to eliminate fair housing abuses in the North Delta of Mississippi. Professor Caruso and Ms. Seymore are scheduled for a similar legal seminar and tester training in Oxford and Sardis, Mississippi, April 26 and 27, 2003.
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Holiday Hours
The school's administrative offices and library will be closed from December 21, 2002 through January 1, 2003. Except for a security guard, a skeleton maintenance crew, and an individual that will sort faculty mail beginning at noon on December 27 and 30, the staff will not be working. Any faculty member who wishes to come into the building on December 26, 27, and 30 between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. should email Marty D'Ambrose by Thursday, December 19th. If you have advised Marty D'Ambrose in advance, you will be asked to sign in and out at the security desk. The guard may ask for identification, so be sure to have your identification card available. There are times when the guard may briefly be away from the service desk. If that occurs, please wait for him to return. Since we are operating with a skeleton staff it is expedient to know who is in the building and where they will be working.