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Howard University School of Law won the
15th Annual National Criminal Justice Trial Advocacy Competition defeating
Brooklyn Law School in a competition that brought teams for 18 law schools to
Chicago for the mock trial.
The competition is co-sponsored by the American Bar
Association's Criminal Justice Section and The John Marshall Law School in
Chicago.
Howard student Larry Chris Stewart was
also named the Outstanding Advocate for his performance as a defense attorney
in the championship round.
American University College of Law and
St. Johns University School of Law advanced to the semifinals. Howard's team
advanced to the semi-final round after a tie-breaker on points against The
Honourable Society of Gray's Inn of London, England, which came in fifth.
The Gray's Inn team, barristers
Shabnam Walji and Emily Beer, acted as advocates. They were assisted by John
Marshall students Keith Meister and Anna Gonis as witnesses. The team was
coached by alumni Brendan Shiller and Mary Barry.
The John Marshall Law School team of
Krista Oswald, Mike Bartolic, Mark Javier and Christy Brewer tied for sixth
place.
More than 130 judges and lawyers from
the Chicago area evaluated the student teams as they argued a case in which the
defendant was accused of distributing controlled substances hidden in
home-delivered pizzas.
To date, 131 law schools have
participated in the competition, including teams from Ireland, New Zealand and
England.
In 1998, the competition won the
American Bar Association's Best of the Sections Award for its contributions to
American law.
John Marshall Professor Ronald C.
Smith has directed the competition since its inception in 1991.
The 16th annual competition will be
held April 6, 7 and 8, 2006. 
Members of the Howard University
School of Law team, winners of the 2005 National Criminal Justice Trial
Advocacy Competition, join with supporters and judges after the competition.
With them are(from left) John Marshall Professor Ronald C. Smith, the
competition director; lead evaluator Albert Krieger; Howard students Derrick T.
Simmons and Nisha N. Brooks; presiding judge Carol Kipperman; Howard students
Adonna J. Bannister and Larry Chris Stewart; Howard Professor Monique Pressley
and attorney Erick D. Simmons, team coaches. Stewart won the Outstanding
Advocate Award.
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The John Marshall Law School has extended it
cooperative agreement with Jilin University School of Law in Jilin Province,
the People's Republic of China, making LL.M. degree options available to its
law school graduates.
John Marshall Law School Dean Patricia Mell and Dean
Xu Weidong of Jilin University School of Law approved the agreement during a
March 2005 visit. Dean Mell, with Associate Dean Dorothy Li and Professor Kevin
Hopkins, co-directors of the Asian Alliance, visited Beijing and Jilin.
The John Marshall Law School has been training
judges and prosecutors from Jilin Province the past two years. Li expects
students from Jilin University will be at John Marshall during the next
academic year.
In Beijing, the John Marshall delegation visited
with Jiang Zhipei, chief judge of the Intellectual Property Court of the
People's Supreme Court of the People's Republic of China. He was a visiting
scholar at John Marshall in 1998.
"We are proud to have judges at the Supreme Court
level, the intermediate court level and the district court level who all have
associations with John Marshall," said Li.
The delegation also met with Lin Pinhui, deputy
commissioner of China's State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO). The law
school has been working with SIPO for a dozen years, and more than 100
attorneys at SIPO have earned LL.M. degrees in intellectual property law from
John Marshall. In January 2005, the law school awarded LL.M. degrees to 13 SIPO
employees. Li said nearly all the division heads at SIPO are John Marshall
alumni.
Li and Hopkins interviewed more than 20 SIPO
employees interested in coming to John Marshall for the fall 2005 semester to
complete their LL.M. degrees. Professors Hopkins and Diane Kaplan will be in
China this summer working with the SIPO employees on the first part of their
LL.M. requirements.
Mark Palmer, a J.D./LL.M. student, who participated
in John Marshall's program in China in 2004, will spend this summer as the John
Marshall faculty assistant at the SIPO Training Center. He also will be a
summer intern/employee at the East IP Intellectual Property Services Office in
Beijing.
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The Academic Competition Exam (ACE)
program is sponsored by The John Marshall Law School and The John Marshall Law
School Alumni Association, and administered twice annually to students who have
completed their first year. The students who finish the exam with the top three
scores receive partial tuition waivers for the next semester. Student class
rankings established at the end of the first year of law school are compared
with the score rankings on the ACE. The three students whose ACE scores exceed
their class rank by the greatest margin also receive partial tuition waivers.
Students who received the partial tuition waivers
in the Spring 2005 ACE exam were (from left) Heather Stenmark, Michael Baker,
Joseph Lin, Kari Beyer and Melissa MacLeod. 
Also receiving partial tuition waivers were Janene
Carter (left) and Melissa Lettiere.
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Professor Damian Ortiz, his wife,Adeena J.
Weiss-Ortiz, and Luz Toledo visit at the Hispanic Law Students Association
(HLSA) party. Ortiz coached Toledo and Jason Kendziera, the John Marshall team
for the 10th Annual Hispanic National Bar Association Moot Court Competition.
Dancers from ABC Dance Group of Chicago provided
the entertainment. 
Aleida Barrera (right), past president of HLSA,
presents Cook County Circuit Court Judge Elizabeth Loredo-Rivera, the evening's
honored guest, with a bouquet. Barrera clerked for Loredo-Rivera. 
Judge Loredo-Rivera (left) joins in conversation
with Sharon Aguilera (center), president of the Hispanic Law Students
Association, and Professor Rogelio Lasso (right). 
A special "thank you" from Hispanic Law Students
Association (HLSA) members for Marilyn Criss (with flowers), administrative
assistant of Student Affairs. Extending thanks are (from left) Sharon Aguilera,
HLSA president; Pedro Bernal, incoming HLSA president; Rafael Guzman, current
vice president; Aleida Barrera, past HLSA president; and Graciela Mata,
incoming HLSA secretary.
The tricks of the lasso were presented for the
guests at the Hispanic Law Students Association spring fiesta.
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The John Marshall Law School's Media
Services Department has won a prestigious Honorable Mention from the 2005
Accolade Competition. The award was given for "An Interview with Bernard
Waters" presented by The John Marshall Law School.
The Accolade Competitionwas created to
honor and give recognition to outstanding craft and creativity in film, video,
television and commercials. Entries are judged by highly qualified
professionals in the film and television industry.
The Media Services production was a
short video based on the experiences of alumnus Bernard Waters who helped draft
the 1964 Civil Rights bill.
Waters was a staff attorney for
Illinois' Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen, one of the chief sponsors of the
legislation. Waters' comments explain how Congress worked to pass the
legislation, despite the longest filibuster on record.
The Media Services Department prepared
the video as part of the law school's celebration of the 50th anniversary of
the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
In winning this recognition,The John
Marshall Law School joins the ranks of other high-profile winners of this most
sought-after award. Thomas Baker, competition chairperson, said, "We are
thrilled about the exceptionally high quality of entries in this year's
Accolade Competition. The winners of this coveted award are truly among the
best in their industry."
This is the second honor for the Waters
video. In January 2005, the Media Services Department was named a finalist in
the 26th Annual Telly Awards honoring outstanding local, regional, and cable TV
commercials and programs, as well as the finest video and film productions. The
staff received a bronze Telly statuette for its work on the video.
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Students of The John Marshall Law
School will help middle school students at Swift Specialty School understand
the workings of a trial by presenting "The Case of the Shipwrecked Sailors" at
1:30 p.m. Friday, April 29.
The program in the auditorium of Swift
School, 5900 N. Winthrop Ave., will feature members of John Marshall's Delta
Theta Phi and Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternities acting out the case. John
Marshall students will be the accused, their attorneys and the prosecutors for
the presentation that will have Cook County Circuit Court Judge Casandra Lewis
on the bench.
The case revolves around three
survivors of a shipwreck—Dudley, Stephens and Brooks—who are floating
on a raft with no food or water. They estimate their position as more than
1,000 miles from land. The three understand that their survival rate would be
improved if one of them dies and the two survivors eat from his body. On the
25th day at sea, Brooks suggests they pick splinters to see who will be killed.
The three agree, but after Brooks is the odd-man-out, he changes his mind.
Dudley and Stephens recognize that Brooks is in extremely poor health and will
soon die, so they kill him to help their own survival.
When they are rescued five days later, they share
their story and are charged with murder.
Swift School students will hear the
facts in the case and be asked to help with the decision as jurors. They will
consider first-degree murder, felony murder, second-degree murder, voluntary
manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter options.
This is the second mock trial presented
at Swift. In April 2004, John Marshall's mock trial of Goldilock was a hit with
Swift students.
"The Case of the Shipwrecked Sailors"
is one of a number of programs The John Marshall Law School has conducted at
Swift School during its second year of partnership.
John Marshall faculty and students
have also been leading a Street Law for Juvenile Justice course for seventh-
and eighth-graders, and a Street Law Mediation Program for fifth- and
sixth-graders.
Seventh graders have received
instruction to help them pass the Constitution test.
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Dean Patricia Mell
Activities 
She will deliver the keynote address
for the Cook County Bar Association Law Day luncheon May 2, 2005, at the Harold
Washington Library.
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Professor John D. Ingram
Publications 
His article, "Inherent Agency Powers: A Mistaken
Concept Which Should Be Discarded," has just been published in the Oklahoma
City University Law Review.
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May 2
- Reading Period
- Faculty Teaching Effectiveness Colloquium, Room
1200, 9:00 a.m.
- Alumni & Development Meeting, Room 1101, 1:00
p.m.
May 3
- Domestic and Foreign Patent, Trademark, Trade
Secret and Copyright Documentation Course, 6:00 p.m.
May 4
- Deans Meeting, Courtroom, 9:30 a.m.
- Christian Legal Society Meeting, Room 402, 12:00
p.m.
- Tax and EB Meeting, Room 1200, 12:00 p.m.
- IRS Roundtable Program, Room 1200, 3:00 p.m.
- IRS Roundtable Reception, Room 3East, 5:00 p.m.
May 5
- Exams Begin
- Alumni & Development Staff Meeting, Room 403,
2:00 p.m.
May 6
- Global Legal Skills Conference, Room 1200, 9:30
a.m.
May 7
- Global Legal Skills Conference, Room 1200, 9:00
a.m.
May 9
- International Women Associates Group & CIBTL
Meeting, Room 1102, 9:00 a.m.
- Faculty Assembly, Room 1200, 12:15 p.m.
May 10
- Domestic and Foreign Patent, Trademark, Trade
Secret and Copyright Documentation Course, 6:00 p.m.
May 11
- Deans Meeting, Room 1102, 9:30 a.m.
- Freedom Award Committee Meeting, Room 1200, 12:00
p.m.
- Board of Trustees Meeting, Courtroom, 1:00 p.m.
May 12
- Alumni & Development Meeting, Room 1101, 1:00
p.m.
- Cook County Bar Association Ceremony, Room 1200,
5:30 p.m.
May 13
- Freedom Award Luncheon, Palmer House Hilton
Hotel, 11:30 a.m.
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Loop is published by The John Marshall Law School, Chicago,
Copyright 2005
Editor: Assistant Dean John M. McNamara; Contributors:
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