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News and Events
Presidential candidates won’t be the only ones in Ohio debating immigration issues the last week of February. National scholars and experts in immigration, employment and public benefits law, plus other areas, will visit the University of Dayton School of Law for two events February 27-28. They will tackle the current debate about U.S. immigration policy and help equip attendees to represent the foreign-born in everything from employment disputes to criminal proceedings. Read this story
Staci Rucker, UDSL’s first full-time director of academic support, has a message for the School of Law: academic support is for everyone. Since joining the School’s faculty in August, Rucker has implemented the Academic Success Program, an expanded network of support resources for all students. “This is an expansive growth opportunity,” Rucker said. “I’m here to help all students achieve their best.” Read this story UDSL Hosts Regional Mock Trial Tournament; Employs Actors as Witnesses UDSL will host 13 law schools from Kentucky, Tennessee, Michigan, and Ohio in a regional Mock Trial tournament on February 15-17, 2008. What makes this tournament unique is that the roles of witnesses, normally played by students, will be played by professional hired actors, a first for any regional tournament, says UDSL Mock Trial co-advisor Dennis Turner. Read this story Alternative Spring Break Trip to New Orleans – Updates for Alumni Student organizers are planning a unique chance for alumni to connect with UDSL students as mentors, to provide in-depth legal aid and to live out the Catholic Marianist philosophy as a community through an Alternative Spring Break trip to New Orleans the week of March 16 – March 22. To date, eight UDSL alumni have expressed interest in participating. Read this story Attention Legal Scholars! Have an article you would like to see published? The UD Law Review is always looking for excellent articles and particularly welcomes any articles by UD alumni. Please submit your scholarly works to: University of Dayton Law Review, Articles Editor, 300 College Park, Dayton, OH 45469. You can also contact us at (937)229-3642 by phone or (937)229-4950 by fax. Our email address is udlawreview@notes.udayton.edu. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome. The Law Review is very excited about several of its articles to be published this year. If you are not a subscriber and would like to be, please contact Western Publishing at (800)807-8833. Thank you for your continuing support. |
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Brief Mentions Save the Date! UDSL’s annual Diversity Fest will be Friday, March 28, 2008. Look for more details in next month’s Dayton Docket. Director of Academic Support Staci Rucker has been invited to serve as a panelist during Harvard Black Law Students Association’s annual spring conference, February 22-24, 2008. The panel is entitled “Reflecting on our Roots: A BLSA 40th Anniversary Presentation,” and will feature HBLSA members from past decades. Staci is a past president of HBLSA, and her father, who is also featured on the panel, was one of its founders. Alumna Barbara Wilkey ’05 practices patent law at Senniger Powers in St. Louis. She writes that she has used her experience in Professor Brenner’s cybercrime class this year working with the FBI’s IntraGuard program. Alumnus Jim Casey ‘88 is serving as Visiting Professor of Leadership at Upper Iowa University’s center in Hong Kong. Alumnus Dan Wolff ’01 and his wife Karen welcomed a daughter, Grace Margaret, on January 4, 2008. Dan is a counsel at the firm of Crowell and Moring in Washington D.C. Alumni Joshua Lorentz ’01 and Paul Ulrich ’99 have been named partners in the Intellectual Property Practice Group at Dinsmore and Shohl LLP in Cincinnati. Alumnus Jason Engel ’01 was named a partner at Bell Boyd in Chicago, where he is a member of the Intellectual Property Department. Alumnus William Fendley ’99 has been named a partner in McGuireWoods LLP Richmond, Va office. Alumna Chastity Whitaker ’07 has joined Wood, Herron & Evans L.L.P. in Cincinnati. Alumnus Ted Wood ‘98 has been named a director of Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.L.L.C. in Washington D.C. Women’s Caucus and BLSA will both sell Valentine’s candy-grams as a fundraiser the first two weeks of the month. |
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