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November 9 - 15, 2003 |
Herzog Competition Winner Announced
The John Marshall Law School Moot Court Executive Board announced second-year student Adebayo Adesina as the Fall 2003 Fred F. Herzog Moot Court Competition winner. Adesina also took best brief and best oralist honors.
Adesina is treasurer of John Marshall's Chapter of the Delta Theta Phi international law fraternity, and is a member of the Black Law Students Association, the International Law Society and Corporate Law Society.
Adesina earned a Bachelor of Science degree in political science and education from the University of Port-Harcourt in Rivers State, Nigeria. His legal work experience includes a summer clerkship with Klise & Biel Ltd. in Chicago. This semester he is clerking at Standish E. Willis and Associates, a civil rights and federal criminal defense law firm in Chicago.
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Learning the Legislative Ropes: Lobbying in Illinois
The John Marshall Law School and The Chicago Bar Association are co-hosting "Learning the Legislative Ropes: Lobbying in Illinois," a look at the role of the lobbyist in the legislative process, from noon to 2 p.m. Monday, Nov. 17.
The free program will be in Room 1200 at the law school, 315 S. Plymouth Ct., Chicago.
Illinois Appellate Court Justice Alan J. Greiman, will moderate the panel of two leading experts on the Illinois legislative process, former Illinois Senator Jim Durkin (J.D. '88), now with Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon, and Lawrence J. Suffredin Jr., legislative counsel for The Chicago Bar Association and a member of the Cook County Board. Their discussion will focus on the role of the lobbyist and how to most effectively represent clients in Springfield.
Reservations for this program are being accepted by the Office of Event Management at The John Marshall Law School at 312).987.1420, ext. 578.
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Nepal's Chief Justice Visits John Marshall
The John Marshall Law School, in cooperation with the U.S. State Department International Visitor Program, will host Rt. Honorable Kedar Nath Upadhyay, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Nepal for a 4 p.m. program on Monday, Nov. 10, in Room 1200.
Justice Upadhyay will be nearing the completion of his two-week visit to the United States when he comes to John Marshall. His travels are meant to enhance his understanding of the independent judiciary and rule of law in the U.S. Nepal is currently making plans to set up formalized judiciary training, and his visit will support the development of effective training and continuing education programs for Nepal's judicial branch.
Justice Upadhyay has been on the Nepal Supreme Court Since 1991, and chaired the Administrative Court from 1990 to 1991. He was a justice on regional courts in Dhankuta, Pokhara and Kathmandu from 1983 to 1991. He also served in the Office of the Attorney General, was a judge in a zonal court in Kathmandu, and was the under secretary for the Ministry of Law and Justice in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Alumnus, Dean Johnston Honored by ATLA
Alumnus Philip F. Maher (left) and former dean Robert Gilbert Johnston (right) met with students Belinda Belk (second from left) and Tanya Pagliuzza Petermann (second from right) after the ATLA convention where the students participated in the Partnership in Advocacy Program, which Maher and Johnston helped establish five years ago.
The American Trial Lawyers Association (ATLA) honored Philip F. Maher (J.D. '70) and former dean Robert Gilbert Johnston for their work in establishing the Partnership in Advocacy Program that has trained hundreds of law students from across the country in the art of courtroom advocacy.
Maher, who is in private practice, has been a successful trial lawyer for more than three decades. An active ATLA member, Maher proposed a training program for law students five years ago to then ATLA President Richard Middleton. With the support of Dean Johnston, Maher agreed to pay the expenses for two John Marshall students to attend the annual ATLA convention and mentor them through the ATLA presentations.
That initial step was so successful, that Maher was able to go back to ATLA for its support in establishing a permanent program. This year, 66 students from law schools across the U.S., including Tanya Pagliuzza Petermann and Belinda Belk of John Marshall, attended workshops and seminars on the American jury system and the practice of law given by experienced trial lawyers from across the country. Students also get an opportunity to network with outstanding trial lawyers. Each participant is expected to present ATLA with a publishable paper relating to the conference. Most schools, like John Marshall, provide academic credit for independent study.
Today the Partnership in Advocacy Program is underwritten by the Robert L. Habush Endowment and Maher. The program is open to second-year students. For each of the past five years, Maher has paid for John Marshall students' attendance fees and expenses at the ATLA Convention.
Maher, a past president of the John Marshall Alumni Association, is proud of his accomplishments and his role in training John Marshall students in the art of trial work.
"If there's one thing I've learned," Maher recently told Belk and Petermann, "it's that you don't punish yourself when you lose a case. There are circumstances that cause the decision. Don't internalize the losses. That's not healthy, and it doesn't change the decision."
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Faculty Activity and Publications
Professor Celeste Hammond
Activities
She was co-presenter of a workshop with Jeffrey J. Mayer, a litigation partner at Freeborn & Peters, at the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) Legal Meeting which drew nearly 1,000 lawyers to Palm Desert California October 22-25. The American Journal of Trial Advocacy will republish the course materials, "Arbitration Advocacy: From Clause to Hearing" in the fall, 2003, issue. Victoria Berghel a member of the Advisory Committee to the Center for Real Estate Law was on the planning committee for the conference. John Marshall J.D. alums David Fantauzzi, general counsel to The Cafaro Company, a commercial and industrial real estate developer in Youngstown Ohio, Nora Zeller of Bloomington and Robin Rash LL.M. '03 of Pircher, Nichols and Meeks met, with Professor Hammond at the reception. Karen Ercoli, adjunct professor, and Robert Kolinsky, a current LL.M. student, who practice at General Growth, a shopping center REIT, were among the attorneys who are involved in the development, leasing, ownership and management of shopping centers in attendance.
She was the moderator and a presenter at two workshops at the Fall Meeting of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL) in New Orleans on October 25. "Can Sam Play It Again- Back to Law School as an Adjunct Professor," included Professor Dale Whitman of University of Missouri-Columbia and a member of the Advisory Committee discussing the `good news/bad news' _ there is a shortage of transactional lawyers available to teach as adjuncts but there are few full time openings in real estate law. Professor Hammond told of opportunities for commercial real estate lawyers to teach in entrepreneurial clinics which emphasize transactional aspects of law practice. Janet Johnson, Schiff Hardin & Waite, a member of the Advisory Committee and an adjunct in the LL.M. program discussed using collaborative teaching where students serve in law firms to negotiate and draft document terms in the workshop: "New Tricks: Enhancing Teaching Effectiveness." .
Professor John D. Ingram
Publications
His article, "Vicarious Liability of an Employer-Master: Must There Be a Right of Control?" 16 N. Ill. L. Rev. 93 was cited recently in 55 Rutgers L. Rev. 641.
Professor Arthur J. Sabin
Publications
He received another review of his book, In Calmer Times: Red Monday and the Supreme Court, this one published in the journal American Communist History. The Organization of American Historians has an affiliated group called Historians of American Communism that issues this journal.
The reviewer of Professor Sabin's book is Herbert A. Johnson, Distinguished Professor of Law, Emeritus, University of South Carolina.
Anyone interested in reading the review, please contact Professor Sabin at extension #441.
Professor Ronald C. Smith
Activities
He was one of the "celebrity jurors" for the championship round of the ABA's Northeast Regional Trial Advocacy Competition held at Quinnipiac University Law School in Hamden, Connecticut, October 24 and 25. St. John's University School of Law won, besting an excellent team from Fordham Law School. As winner, St. John's is automatically invited to the National Criminal Justice Trial Advocacy Competition sponsored by The John Marshall Law School and the ABA Criminal Justice Section, April 1 - 3, 2004.
As Director of the National Criminal Justice Trial Advocacy Competition, sponsored by the American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section and The John Marshall Law School, he announced the twenty law schools that have accepted invitations to participate in the Fourteen Annual Competition, April 1, 2, and 3, 2004, in Chicago.
He also announced that The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn, London, UK, has accepted an invitation to participate in the 2005 Competition.
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Irish Guest Lectures on EU Policies
Professor John H. Scheid (left) welcomed Herwig C.H. Hofmann, a lecturer in law and director of the Program of Law and Languages at the Trinity College Law School, to discuss "The European Union's New Draft Constitutional Treaty—Europe's Metamorphosis into a Federal State?" as a guest of The John Marshall Law School. Hoffman addressed the implications of the constitutional reforms for the process of European integration and for governance in Europe, and the constitution's effect on the economic and political relationship between the EU and the United States.
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Palestinians Visit John Marshall
A delegation of Palestinian professionals from the West Bank and their hosts visited The John Marshall Law School in October. Professors Ann Lousin (second from left, front row) and Ralph Ruebner (third from left, back row), addressed the group on the law school's involvement in the Consortium for Palestinian Legal Education funded by the U.S. Aid for International Development Office. The consortium videotaped lectures by law professors from three Chicago-area schools. The tapes are used at four Palestinian law schools. This Palestinian delegation was in Chicago as guests of North Park University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
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Schedule of Events
November 9
PMBR Program, Room 200-01, 9:00 a.m.
November 11
AIDS Foundation Program, Room 1200, 9:00 a.m.
Career Services and Phi Delta Phi Program - Public Interest Law Initiative (PILI) Information Session, Room 503, 12:45 p.m.
Career Services - Resume Workshop, Room 409, 5:00 p.m.
November 12
CTLEB Alumni Lunch Program, Room 1200B, 12:00 p.m.
Law Enforcement in an Age of Terrorism and Tight Budgets, Room 3East, 12:00 p.m.
Writing Resource Center Grammar Workshop held by Director Kadlec, Room 1102, 12:30 p.m.
Board of Trustees, CBA Building - 5th Floor Albert E. Hofeld Room, 4:00 p.m.
Writing Resource Center Grammar Workshop held by Director Kadlec, Room 402, 5:00 p.m.
November 13
Career Services and the International Law Society - "Learn about Study-Abroad Opportunities", Room 1200A, 12:45 p.m.
Young Alumni Meeting, Room 1200B, 5:45 p.m.
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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Student Activities
November 10
The Animal Law Society will be collecting new and gently used pet toys and supplies in the student lounge until November 17. These items will be donated to a local animal shelter.
The Justinian Society will feature Mr. Richard Caldarazzo at its meeting at 5:00 p.m. in room 3 East. Mr. Caldarazzo will discuss how to do a real estate closing.
November 11
Ms. Roslyn Lieb, Executive Director of the Public Interest Law Initiative, will speak at the Delta Theta Phi meeting at 12:45 p.m. in room 503. Ms. Lieb will talk about working for public interest agencies.
The Hispanic Law Student Association will meet at 5:00 p.m. in room 201.
The Corporate Law Association will meet at 12:30 p.m. in room 201.
The Black Law Student Association will meet at 5:00 p.m. in room 216.
November 13
The International Law Society will feature professors, Kenneth Kandaras, Peter McGovern and Janice Mueller on a panel to discuss study abroad at 12:45 p.m. in room 1200A.
November 14
Mr. Todd Weiler will speak to the International Law Society. The topic of discussion will be "International Trade Law and Cultural Protection" at 12:45 p.m. in room 201. Pizza will be served.