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News and Events
Fourteen students will graduate from the University of Dayton School of Law this month having earned their JDs in five semesters. They have weighed in on the first trial of the School’s new option allowing them to finish a semester sooner than the traditional six. The verdict: they will start their earning clocks sooner, save a semester’s worth of college expenses and get a head start on the competition. Read this story Commitment to Pro Bono Is a Part of UDSL Culture In 2004, five UDSL students created a School-wide opportunity to gain more hands-on legal experience before graduation. Today their initiative, the Volunteer Student Law Project (VSLP), is changing the culture of the School and redefining the way UDSL and the Dayton community work together. Read this story
UDSL 1L José Rocha remembers being a child in Mexico and watching his father, a defense attorney in Chihuahua, work a case for an indigenous local woman whose husband had been arrested. His father negotiated the man’s release and, in the mean time, helped the woman find a place to work and live. She paid him, as his clients often did, with a box of apples. “The respect and dignity of human beings was something I learned at an early age,” Rocha reflected. Read this story Moot Court Prepares for Tournament Season UDSL prides itself on being a law school where experienced-focused students work, hands-on, to become skilled lawyers. One skill essential to becoming a good lawyer is effective communication through written and oral argument. “Moot Court is the ideal place in law school to breed those skills,” said 3L Amanda DiOrio, vice chief justice of the Moot Court Board. “Even if someone is not in the advocacy track, these are good things to learn; the skills are applicable across the board,” she added. “In a sense, we will all be advocates.” Read this story Graduate Combines Legal Interests to Create a Rewarding Career UDSL Alumnus Dave Barnette receives his fair share of Christmas cards during this time of the year. Many of them are from the over 1,000 children he has helped through the adoption process, his “legal hobby.” “It’s the only time you go to court and everyone comes away happy,” he says. Read this story  While most recent Ohio law school graduates were being sworn in as attorneys in Ohio, alumnus Vinayak Nain ’07 couldn’t make it back to the state from Washington D.C. Luckily for him, alumna Diana Dickinson ’89 is in her first month on the bench as a judge on the Armed Services Board and was able to swear him in from her courtroom. |
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Brief Mentions  Professor Vernellia Randall spoke at London Metropolitan University in England on November 19, 2007. She is pictured with Professor John Gabriel, head of the department of applied social studies, and Eileen O'Keefe, professor of public health. Over 100 alumni and friends attended a free CLE held at the School of Law on December 13, 2007. One hour of general credit and two hours of credit on substance abuse and ethics were offered. Should law be technologically neutral, or should it evolve as human relationships with technology become more advanced? Professor Susan Brenner addresses this question in her latest book, recently published by Oxford UP, Law in an Era of "Smart" Technology. Women’s Caucus, Sports and Entertainment Law Society, and Phi Alpha Delta collaborated to adopt several families involved with CARE House for the holidays. The organizations supplied parents and children with wish list items, as well as gift cards to the grocery store. Alumni Vaseem Hadi ’02 and Cinamon Houston ’97 have been chosen to co-author a seven-chapter AnswerGuide on Ohio negligence law for Lexis-Nexis. Lexis is doing a series of books, one for each state, and Ohio is the second state for which a book is being written. Adjunct Professor Mark Levy and Distinguished Professorial Practitioner in Residence Ken Germain, both lawyers at Thompson Hine, have been named in the Intellectual Property division on the list of the best lawyers in the country according to the 2007 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. Alumnus Ron Raether ’96 co-wrote an article featured in the December issue of the Association of Corporate Counsel’s Docket magazine. The article, "Defining Data Security Measures to Protect Your Company and Customers" can be viewed at http://www.acc.com/docket The Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association (OPAA) selected Montgomery County Prosecuting Attorney Mathias (Mat) H. Heck, Jr. the 2007 “Outstanding Prosecuting Attorney of the Year.” Heck received the Honorary Alumni Award from the School of Law in 2004. U.S. Attorney Gregory Lockhart has received the national 2007 Humane Law Enforcement Award for his role in an investigation that culminated in one of the largest and most successful criminal dogfighting crackdowns in U.S. history. Lockhart is a former UDSL adjunct professor and a current member of the advisory council. Jon Hoak, vice president and chief ethics and compliance officer for Hewlett-Packard and member of the UDSL advisory council, has been named by Ethisphere as one of the top 100 most influential people in business ethics for 2007. Hoak and his wife Fran Evans, former vice president of advancement at U.D., helped to found UDSL’s newly established Project for Law and Business Ethics. |
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