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News and Events Time to register for Alumni Free CLE The Alumni Association will sponsor an Alumni Free CLE on Monday, December 21, 8 a.m. to noon, in the Mathias Heck Courtroom in Keller Hall. The School has applied for three general hours of CLE credit. Professor Sam Han will present “What Nature Giveth, The Law Taketh Away,” focusing on whether a company can own the rights to human genes. Connie Villelli, project manager for the joint electronic filing project for the Montgomery County Clerk of Courts and Common Pleas Court, will present on “Mandatory E-Filing,” and Jennifer Theibert, a 2003 UDSL graduate, will present on “Confidentiality and Release of Information in Medical Records.” To register, contact Lee Ann Ross at 937-229-3793 or lee_ann.ross@notes.udayton.edu. The deadline to register is Monday, December 14. Students analyze online legal issues in intrasession course UDSL students were introduced to different worlds and new legal problems they might encounter more often in the future during a course on legal issues in virtual worlds and online games last month. The course, “Legal Issues in Online Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds,” which was taught by Professor Susan Brenner, was one of several offered during fall intrasessions. Read this story Ben Hu Retires after 15 years at UDSL
Benjamin Hu, cataloging and automated systems librarian, has retired as of October 2, 2009. Ben was with us since March 1, 1994. Ben was the ultimate “behind the scenes” person at UDSL. Many library users may have seen Ben only rarely; some may have never met him. Read this story Public interest stipends benefit students and community Two years ago, UDSL created the Dayton Law Public Interest Award, a stipend that helps provide living expenses for selected students who have public interest internships. Nine students received the stipends last summer and worked for such organizations as Legal Aid of Western Ohio, the Dayton Unit of the NAACP, and the Office of the Ohio Public Defender. As one of the students, Adam Petty, said, the stipend is a “great incentive for students to give back to the community.” Dean of Students Lori Shaw said the stipends are intended to “help students who want to help the poor and marginalized.” The stipends also allow student to network and gain valuable experience. Read this story Faculty, Staff, Students join Light The Night Walk
Read this story Students Attend National BLSA Event in Washington, D.C.
Read this story Upcoming Events
Indiana Alumni gather at networking luncheon
Kloppenberg provided an update on the School of Law and highlighted the School’s success in career placement and bar passage rates. She encouraged alumni to stay involved with the School by providing students with externship opportunities, recruiting prospective students and helping place graduates in jobs. |
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Brief Mentions Dean of Students Lori Shaw was quoted in an Associated Press article on the Ohio death penalty. The article was picked up by Time magazine and more than 160 other outlets. The Law and Leadership Summer Institute, headed by Professor Dennis Greene, was featured in an article, “Be All that They Can Be,” in the fall 2009 issue of PreLaw magazine and in the October issue of The National Jurist. Professor Jeannette Cox has given numerous presentations this year. In addition, Cox’s article “Crossroads and Signposts: The ADA Amendments Act of 2008” will be published in the Indiana Law Journal (volume 85) in December. She presented on discrimination at the Fourth Annual Colloquium on Current Scholarship in Labor & Employment Law at Seton Hall Law School, on September 26 and at the Ohio Legal Scholars’ Workshop at Ohio Northern University’s Claude W. Pettit College of Law on June 26. She also presented on the ADA at the Law and Society Annual Meeting in Denver on May 31 and at the Conference on Disability Studies in Education at the Syracuse University College of Law on May 2. Cox and Professor Eric Chaffee gave presentations at the Central States Law School Association Conference at Capital University Law School on October 24. Chaffee’s presentation was titled “A Moment of Opportunity: Reimagining International Securities Regulation in the Shadow of Financial Crisis” and Cox’s presentation was titled “Intraclass Discrimination and the Americans with Disabilities Act.” Externship Supervisor Monique Lampke has accepted an offer to publish her article “Why the Fair Use Defense of Free Speech or Parody Under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act Needs Judical Review by the United States Supreme Court” in the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, Spring 2010 edition. Professor Vernellia Randall will present a webinar on “Using Moodle for Your Law School Course,” on Friday Nov 27. Moodle.org is an open-source course management system. Click here to register. Randall has had an article, “Teaching Diversity Skills,” accepted by the Saint Louis University Law Journal. She also was quoted in a report by the Ohio Infant Mortality Task Force, which offered recommendations to Governor Ted Strickland on eliminating health disparities and promoting health equity. Professor Thaddeus Hoffmeister was quoted in an Associated Press story on the Brooke Astor trial in New York City. Professor Dennis Greene was quoted in a Dayton Daily News article, “NAACP as relevant as ever, Dayton unit leader says.” Lee Spangler ’97 was promoted to vice president of medical economics at the Texas Medical Association. Spangler previously worked in the association’s Office of the General Counsel and as a staff attorney with the Texas Department of Insurance and the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners. Cheryl Lynn Keggan ’04 recently changed positions in the Air Force Security Assistance Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Bases in Dayton. After serving for almost two years as a case manager dealing with developing system sales and missile sales case documents for multiple countries, Keggan has been selected as a program support manager for Greece. Matthew P. Harper ’99 has joined Thompson & Knight’s Intellectual Property Practice Group in the firm’s Dallas office. He previously served as senior IPR litigation counsel and IPR legal counsel at Nokia Inc. Michael Eshleman ’08 accepted a job with the Angstman Law Office in Bethel, Alaska. In July, he was appointed to the board of the Young Lawyers Section of the Ohio State Bar Association but has since resigned that post after accepting the position in Alaska. Jesse R. Lipcius ’04 joined Ulmer & Berne. A former attorney with Cors & Bassett, Lipcius is well-versed in complex business and construction litigation matters. |
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