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VOLUME 50, ISSUE 1 Lawyer SPRING/SUMMER 2012

107th Commencement

History of Washburn Law Published

Alumni Profi le: Parallels of Life and Law in the Game of Chess

Our Roots Run Deep The Washburn Law Family

WASHBURN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW ALUMNI MAGAZINE DEAN Thomas J. Romig

he completion of another academic year is Ta proud event for students, faculty, and staff alike. Students who walked through the law school doors three years ago now depart ready to face new challenges. Although we know future events and strong ties will bring us together again, it can be diffi cult to say “goodbye for now.” The 157 members of the Class of 2012 have left an indelible impression on our law school and on those who work to provide students with a high-quality legal education. In many ways, the students become our family members with whom we share triumph and adversity. Pages 3 through 9 include photos and highlights of the 2012 May commencement.

As the Class of 2012 departed, members of previous classes returned, just as family does, to lend a helping hand where needed. Our “cover story” this issue is not one specifi c article but rather many articles interspersed throughout the magazine about returning alumni who participated on a board or committee; provided fi nancial support; and invested time as classroom teachers, guest speakers, competition coaches, mentors to our students, and to additional activities that enhance the value of a legal education. We know there are many more of you who work behind the scenes to secure internships, externships, and employment for Washburn Law graduates or to promote your Law School by sharing our story with colleagues.

Washburn Law is a family. And just as family members journey into the world, they often return home to lend Thomas J. Romig a helping hand where needed. Dean and Professor of Law The roots of our Washburn Law [email protected] family tree run deep, thanks to our alumni who continue to help advance our mission. LWASHBURNawyer CONTENTS Spring/Summer 2012

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DEAN Thomas J. Romig 3 10 107th Commencement Alumni Association Awards EDITORS 3 Honorary Life Membership Judyanne Somers Class of 2012 Director, Alumni Services Legacies Distinguished Service Award Honorary Doctor of Law Award Lifetime Achievement Award Marsha Boswell Director, Marketing Communications 15 Vicki Estes 16 Assistant Director, Marketing Communications Practitioners in Residence New Law School Building Collins and Hooker on Horizon PHOTOGRAPHERS 24 Vicki Estes Gary Jones, Jones Huyett Partners 20 24 Bruce Mathews, Mathews Communications Law Student Corner Student Profi le Mark Shaiken, ’81 If I Were Goldilocks Martin E. Wisneski Ben Jackson

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CONTACT US: We welcome your comments to this publication. Please write, telephone, e-mail, LEGAL BRIEFS IN EVERY ISSUE or visit our website. Letters to the editor and news of jobs, honors, weddings, anniversaries, 17 Barrister’s Ball 2 President’s Letter adoptions, and births are always welcome. 18 31 Please include your name, class year, The Republic of Georgia Faculty Plaudits address, and daytime telephone number. 19 35th Annual Foulston Siefkin Lecture 39 Planned Giving Letters to the editor may be 22 Jessup Moot Court Team Reaches Final Four 41 In Memoriam edited for length and clarity. 23 Law Student Awards 42 Class Actions 25 KAJ Raymond Spring Award 46 Alumni News and Events WRITE TO: 26 Negotiation Team Reaches Final Four 50 Upcoming Events Editor: Washbur n L aw yer 26 Admissions Staff Changes Washburn University School of Law 27 Mineral Title Examination Course Alumni Services 1700 SW College Ave. 28 Concannon Pens History of Washburn Law Topeka, KS 66621 29 Ambassadors Provide ‘Extreme’ Customer Service Telephone: (785) 670-2013 30 January 2012 Spring Class Fax: (785) 670-3249 E-mail: [email protected] Web: washburnlaw.edu/alumni

Washburn Lawyer is published twice yearly by Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kan. Opinions expressed and positions advocated herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily 15 represent the policies of the school. WASHBURN LAWYER | SPRING/SUMMER 2012 | 1 © 2012 Washburn University School of Law All rights reserved. PRESIDENT’S LETTER Alumni Association

n June 14, nearly 160 Washburn University School of Law alumni, Ofamily and friends celebrated those honored at the annual Alumni Awards Luncheon. It was a proud day for all alumni as we recognized PRESIDENT those selected as representing some of the fi nest Washburn Law has Paul R. Hoferer, ’75 to offer. The Alumni Association honored Professor David Pierce, ’77, and Carol Green, ’81, with the Distinguished Service Award and Elizabeth “Betty” Fischer with the Honorary Life Membership Award.

Washburn University In addition, fi ve alumni received the Lifetime Achievement Award. School of Law Alumni Association This award is bestowed on those whose careers have been highly distinguished and whose achievements and contributions are widely recognized as outstanding in their fi eld of endeavor. We were pleased 2012-2013 BOARD OF GOVERNOR OFFICERS: to have The Honorable J. Patrick Brazil, ’62, in attendance to receive his award. In memory and appreciation, we also recognized The Paul R. Hoferer ’75, President Topeka Honorable Dale E. Saffels, ’49, The Honorable Edward R. Sloan, Sabrina K. Standifer ’99, President-Elect ’06, The Honorable William A. Smith, ’14, and The Honorable H. Wichita James C. Slattery, ’75, Vice President George Templar, ’27. These alumni distinguished themselves in private Topeka and McLean, Va. practice, business, government, politics, or the judiciary. Ward E. Loyd, ’68, Treasurer Topeka Jeffrey D. Jackson ’92, Secretary It is impressive to see the far reaching impact of our Washburn Law Lawrence Winton M. Hinkle, ’68, Past President alumni across the nation in numerous fi elds of endeavor. You can read Wichita more about the award recipients on pages 10 through 14 of this issue of Stephen W. Cavanaugh, ’80, Foundation President the Wa shbur n L a w yer. Topeka William D. Bunten, ’56, Foundation Treasurer Topeka Finally, we were all thrilled to see Professor Jim Concannon’s long- awaited book, “The Ideal Place … for the Establishment of a Great BOARD OF GOVERNORS Term ending June 30, 2013 Law School”: History of Washburn Law School 1903-2003, in print. Christina I. Apperson, ’97 (Raleigh, N. C.) Its 681 pages of detailed history include interesting stories and great Marck R. Cobb, ’89 (Galva, Kan.) photographs. You’ll not want to miss the opportunity to thoroughly S. Lucky DeFries, ’78 (Topeka) John M. Duma, ’81 (Lenexa, Kan.) enjoy reading it. You may order a copy from the Washburn Law Alumni John R. Hamilton, ’65 (Topeka) Offi ce for $28. Professor Concannon has generously donated the Eric S. Heath, ’96 (San Francisco, Calif.) Manuel B. Mendoza, ’58 (Bloomington, Ill.) copyright and proceeds to the Washburn Law Alumni Association. S. Ken Morse, ’80 (Topeka) We are grateful to Jim for his devotion and commitment over the years Linda S. Parks, ’83 (Wichita) Calvin K. Williams, ’78 (Colby, Kan.) in researching and documenting this great history of Washburn Law!

Term ending June 30, 2014 Tom Adrian, ’69 (Newton, Kan.) Michelle Canter, ’92 (Duluth, Ga.) Jack Flesher, ’72 (Wichita) John R. Dietrick, ’84 (Topeka) Paul Hoferer, ’75 Art Glassman, ’65 (Topeka) President John D. Jurcyk, ’84 (Fairway, Kan.) Tom Loftus, ’80 (Houston, Texas) Washburn University School of Law Lynn S. McCreary, ’94 (Brookfi eld, Wis.) Alumni Association Frank C. Norton, ’56 (Salina, Kan.) Timothy P. O’Sullivan, ’75 (Wichita) John Petersen, ’78 (Leawood, Kan.) Cailin M. Ringelman, ’02 (Southlake, Texas) Keith L. Roberts, ’80 (Woodbridge, Va.) Angel R. Zimmerman, ’06 (Topeka) washburnlaw.edu/alumni

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he Kansas Territorial Pipes and Drums Tled the traditional processional from the law school building to Lee Arena on the Washburn campus for the 107th Washburn University School of Law Commencement the evening of May 14. Professor Myrl L. Duncan, J.S.D., served as grand marshal, leading the law students, Jerry B. Farley, Ph.D., president of Washburn University, Dean Thomas J. Romig, guests, and Washburn law professors to the ceremony.

Commencement speakers were: Dean Romig; Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Aïda Alaka; Vladimir Viaud, ’12, president of the Washburn Student Bar Association; and Angel Zimmerman, ’06, board member, Washburn University School of Law Alumni Association. Board of Regents Chairman James Klausman presented the 2012 Honorary Doctor of Law degree to The Honorable Christel E. Marquardt, ’74, who also gave the commencement address. Conferring of degrees was led by President Farley. A champagne reception at Memorial Union to congratulate the graduates followed commencement.

Each academic year, the graduating class votes to honor a member of the faculty as the William O. Douglas Outstanding Professor of the Year. Professor Rory D. Bahadur received this award. Terri D. Thomas, ’88, was chosen by the graduating class as the Adjunct Professor of the Year.

Claude Lee, ’62, and James (Jim) Ward, ’62, were Golden Alumni guests of the law school and participated in the commencement ceremonies.

During the May commencement, 157 students graduated, with 64 receiving

WASHBURN LAWYER | SPRING/SUMMER 2012 | 3 COMMENCEMENT

certifi cates of concentration in one or more of the following areas: advocacy, business and Gradu ates ~ 2012 transactional law, estate planning, Amy Jane Ahrens Joshua Allen Decker family law, international and Advocacy Business and Transactional Law comparative law, law and Pro Bono Honors Estate Planning government, natural resources Gregory Philip Albertson Tax Law law, and tax law. Eight students Laura Anne Allison Phillip John Devine were acknowledged for their pro Advocacy Molly Gray Dolman bono work and four students Distinguished Pro Bono Honors Kyle Duffy Donnelly earned the J.D./M.B.A. dual Nathan James Ansley Jessica Lauren Dotter degree. Benjamin Duncan Armstrong Dominic Lawrence Eck Business and Transactional Law Business and Transactional Law Jackie Wayne Arnold Jr. Tyson R. Eisenhauer Erik J. Bailey Conrad Troy Elliott Brandon McKay Barros Jessie-Zakiya Farr Estate Planning Samuel Feather Tax Law Family Law J.D./M.B.A. Dual Degree Natural Resources Law Sean Patrick Bartholick Robert Fitzgerald Family Law Jacob Grant Fleming Rory D. Bahadur Terri D. Thomas, ’88 Caleb Richard Biesterveld Paul Marko Foltz William O. Adjunct Professor Charles Ross Bird Business and Transactional Law Douglas of the Year Jacqueline M. Blaesi-Freed J.D./M.B.A. Dual Degree Outstanding Courtney Dawn Boehm Vincent James Garcia Jr. Professor of the Year Family Law Travis Lee Gardner Joshua John Boehm Chelsea Kay Good Amira Yvette Brazley Law and Government Simon Byron Brody Natural Resources Law Business and Transactional Law Matthew Randall Groom Lisa Marie Brown Johnathan Mark Grube Jessica Elizabeth Marie Browning Alicia Marie Guerrero-Chavez Rhett Carlson Buckley Christina Laurel Hammond Richard Lawrence Budden Law and Government Brady Arthur Burdge Byron J. Harden Advocacy Law and Government Bryan James Bye Natural Resources Law Stephen Kyle Byfi eld Sarah Elizabeth Harris Whitney L. Casement J.D./M.B.A. Dual Degree Law and Government Ashley Renae Heidrick Distinguished Pro Bono Honors Renee J. Henke Boyd Kennard Chappell Nicholas Davis Henry Ian Michael Clark Julie Ann Heschmeyer Matthew Michael Coleman Collin Graham Hildebrand Christopher James Corwin Business and Transactional Law Dustin R. Crook Lauren Park Hill Brandon Joseph Dancer Michael Paul Hinkin Richard Kyle Davis Andrew David Holder

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Lin Huang Ryan Joseph Loehr Cody Michael Snell Matthew Z. Hudson Scott Joseph Long Jessica Lee Stabler Megan Leigh Hughes Business and Transactional Law Nikolas John Stavropoulos Business and Transactional Law Sarah Catherine Longhibler Alison Janel St.Clair Matthew C. Hull Family Law Drew Jordan Steadman Michael Christopher Hunter Larry L. Marczynski II International and Comparative Law Natural Resources Law Allison Haley Maxwell Abby Christine Stenek Daniel N. Jacob Meghan Jane McEvoy Denise Althea Stephens Business and Transactional Law Whitney Lynd Miller Verily Angelica Stevenson J.D./M.B.A. Dual Degree Asel Toktogulovna Mukeyeva Nikolas S. Stoffel Daniel T. Jacobs Estate Planning Adam Dietrich Stolte Advocacy Tax Law Wallace McCammon Stromberg Nicholas H. Jefferson Derrick Thomas Myers Natural Resources Law Natural Resources Law Christopher Michael Napolitano Dillon Lance Stum Myles Dean Jennings Ezzard Emmanuel Nash Business and Transactional Law Corrine Elizabeth Johnson Kelly Ann Navinsky-Wenzl Natural Resources Law Advocacy Family Law Rita A. Krueger Sunderland Family Law Andrew Travis Newcomer Pro Bono Honors Distinguished Pro Bono Honors Advocacy Stuart N. Symmonds Clinton Demond Jones LeTiffany Omosefe Obozele Lauren Nicole Tevis International and Comparative Law Advocacy Jennifer Ann Hull Thomas John Stanley Jones Family Law Pro Bono Honors Melissa Dawn Jones Thomas James Pacchia Todd Byron Thomason Michael Francis Kagay William Carl Patterson Business and Transactional Law Kevin Mark Kemp Business and Transactional Law J.D./M.B.A. Dual Degree Advocacy Estate Planning Katy Elizabeth Tompkins Daniel J. Kennedy Ty Anthony Patton Family Law Business and Transactional Law Jason Kyle Pollock Tyler Keith Turner Allison P. Kernin Matthew Dean Quandt Natural Resources Law Erin Rachel Kessler Jonathan Ryan Reid Cameron Elizabeth Turpin Peter Alexander Klc Nicole Marie Revenaugh R. Justin Tynsky Tax Law Jessica “Drew” Marie Rieger Vladimir Marlon Viaud Kasey Andrew Klenda Madeline Jayne Rogers Ashley Odell Wallace Business and Transactional Law Business and Transactional Law Jane Elizabeth Weiler Patricia J. Kluin Pro Bono Honors Katelyn Elizabeth Weishaar Susan Richelle Kueker Robert J. Rojas Business and Transactional Law Joslyn M. Kusiak Michael Abbott Rost ReAnne Renee Utemark Wentz Jonathan David Kyte Elizabeth Kathryn Schilling John Joseph Westerhaus Geoffrey LaTurner Hannah Carleene Schroller Business and Transactional Law Diane Kristine Lautt International and Comparative Law International and Comparative Law Estate Planning Aaron Douglas Schuster John Christiaan Wilschke Tax Law Andrew Gregory Shireman Distinguished Pro Bono Honors Steven Arthur Lautt Rebecca Faye Sisk Laura Elaine Windheuser Natural Resources Law Family Law Family Law Danielle Marie Lavely William Joseph Skepnek Jr. Distinguished Pro Bono Honors Business and Transactional Law Thomas Edwin Slaughter Jr. Casey Marie Yingling Alan Wayne Lindeke Anthony R. Smith Craig William Young Brian Michael Lindquist Caleb Ellis Smith Lei Zhao

WASHBURN LAWYER | SPRING/SUMMER 2012 | 5 COMMENCEMENT Decembe r 2011 Gradu ates

Twenty-three students graduated in December 2011 with one student earning a J.D./M.B.A. dual degree and nine students receiving a total of 11 certifi cates of concentration.

First row from left: Erin Rachel Kessler, Todd Byron Thomason, Verily Angelica Stevenson, Daniel J. Kennedy, Kevin Mark Kemp, Simon Byron Brody, Ashley Renae Heidrick, and Daniel T. Jacobs.

Second row from left: Jane Elizabeth Weiler, Michael Abbott Rost, Derrick Thomas Myers, Caleb Ellis Smith, Peter Alexander Klc, Sean Patrick Bartholick, Joshua John Boehm, Abby Christine Stenek, and Conrad Troy Elliott.

Not pictured: Stephen Kyle Byfi eld, Vincent James Garcia Jr., Alan Wayne Lindeke, Scott Joseph Long, Thomas James Pacchia, and Ty Anthony Patton.

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Claude Lee and James (Jim) Ward, both class of 1962, were Golden Alumni guests returning to Washburn Law to celebrate their 50-year reunion.

WASHBURN LAWYER | SPRING/SUMMER 2012 | 7 COMMENCEMENT Legacies CARRY ON THE WASHBURN LAW TRADITION

Graduates Courtney Phillip Devine with uncle Boehm and husband Greg R. Wright, ’86, and aunt, Joshua Boehm Allie Devine, ’86

Renee Henke Megan Hughes Matthew Hull Kasey Klenda and father and father and father and father Ronald Henke, ’83 Robert Hughes, ’82 Lloyd Hull, ’85 John Klenda, ’80

Patricia “PJ” Kluin Graduates Diane Allison Maxwell Meghan McEvoy and father Lautt and husband and father and father Kurt Kluin, ’82 Steve Lautt Robert Maxwell, ’78 William Kelly, ’75

Anthony Smith Drew Steadman Drew Steadman John Westerhaus and uncle and father, and fi ancée and stepfather Larry Pepperdine, ’72 Kyle Steadman, ’95 Callie Simnitt, ’11 James J. Ward, ’85

8 | SPRING/SUMMER 2012 | WASHBURNLAW.EDU CLASS OF 2012 Commencement Speaker RECIPIENT OF THE HONORARY DOCTOR OF LAW

he Honorable Christel TTrolenberg Marquardt, ’74, began her professional career as a teacher in Tigerton, Wis., at age 19 after completing two years at Concordia Teachers’ College in River Forest, Ill. She received a bachelor of science degree in elementary education in 1970 from Missouri Western State College in St. Joseph. She entered Washburn University School of Law in 1971 and served as managing editor of the Washburn Law Journal in her third year. She received a juris doctor degree in 1974 and was one of six women in a class of 189 students.

Immediately after graduation, Marquardt started working for the Topeka law fi rm of Cosgrove, Webb & Oman, where she remained until 1986, before becoming a partner at the fi rm of Palmer, Marquardt & Snyder. In The Honorable Christel Trolenberg Marquardt, ’74, was joined by her family 1991, she joined the Levy & Craig at the 107th Commencement ceremony. Her son, Andrew Marquardt, law fi rm in Kansas City. In 1994, far right, is a 1992 graduate of Washburn Law. Marquardt and her son, Andrew, established Marquardt & Associates She was appointed to the Washburn to do so. She has served on LLC in Fairway, Kan. Her legal Board of Regents in 2007 by many American Bar Association career focused primarily in the Governor Kathleen Sebelius and committees, has been a member of areas of labor and employment served as chair of the board during its board of governors, has served in law, and on family law issues. In the 2011 fi scal year. Marquardt its house of delegates since 1988, and 1995, Marquardt was appointed served on the Washburn University is currently serving as Kansas state to the Kansas Court of Appeals School of Law Alumni Association delegate to that body. by Governor Bill Graves. She has Board of Governors for many years been a lecturer on many legal issues and as its president from 1998 to She has volunteered and served for the American Bar Association, 2000. In 2004, she received the on many civic boards including Kansas Bar Association, Kansas Washburn University Alumni the Topeka Symphony, League of Trial Lawyers, Kansas Municipal Association’s Distinguished Service Women Voters, Brown Foundation, Attorneys, Kentucky Bar, Louisiana Award. and American Business Women’s Bar, Washburn University, Missouri Association. Western University, Kansas Women In 1987, Marquardt was elected to Attorneys, Security Benefi t Group, serve as president of the Kansas Marquardt is the proud mother and the Menninger Foundation. Bar Association, the fi rst woman of four sons and has seven grandchildren.

WASHBURN LAWYER | SPRING/SUMMER 2012 | 9 Honorary Life Membe rs hip

The Honorary Life Membership is awarded annually to a non-graduate. The recipient of this honor is someone who has provided an exemplary service to his or her profession, community, and Washburn University School of Law.

lizabeth A. (Betty) Fischer has served in a variety of Ecapacities since earning a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Mount St. Scholastica College (now Benedictine College) in Atchison, Kan. From 1965 to 1967, she was a social worker for Catholic Social Services in Lincoln, Neb. From 1971 to Alumni 1974, Fischer served as assistant alumni director at Benedictine College until her family moved to southern Germany where her husband taught English in university preparatory schools. Upon returning to Atchison, she taught English as a Second Association Language and later was an activities director at a nursing home. She also was the offi ce manager for Legal Services of Northeast Kansas. Awards Fischer’s career at Washburn University School of Law began in 1986 when she became law clinic coordinator. She was appointed assistant to the dean for Dean James Concannon in 1995. In May 2006, the position was updated to director, administrative services. Fischer was responsible for personnel, student accommodations, budget, facilities, and fi nance for the law school and student organizations. To facilitate student accommodations, she encouraged faculty to adopt a computer software solution for exams that is now being used by most students. She has served on several law school committees, The Washburn University including commencement, strategic planning, and the strategic planning facilities subcommittee. Fischer was a member of School of Law several Washburn campus committees and served as the law Alumni Association school representative to staff council. She served on the board Board of Governors of the National Network of Law School Offi cers from 1999 to 2004 and in various other capacities until 2010. She retired selects its annual awards from Washburn Law in June 2010 and subsequently received for presentation at the the “Eminentes Universitatis” designation from Washburn Washburn Law University. luncheon during the B.A., Mount St. Scholastica College, 1965 Kansas Bar Association’s annual meeting.

Honorary Life Membership recipient Betty Fischer posed with her family for photos. Front row: Monika Fischer, daughter, Betty Fischer and her husband, Gunther. Back row: Anne Gomez, daughter, and her husband, Reuben; Albert Geritz , brother; Anton “Tony” Fischer, 10 | SPRING/SUMMER 2012 | WASHBURNLAW.EDU son; Dick Leeson, family friend; Susan Lo, daughter-in-law (Tony’s wife); Nikolaus Fischer, son, and his wife, Rachel. Distinguished Service Award

The Distinguished Service Award is bestowed on graduates of the School of Law who have particularly distinguished themselves and brought recognition to the school through their service to Washburn University School of Law, the legal profession, their community, or public service.

arol Gilliam avid E. Pierce, CGreen, ’81, earned D’77, began his legal a bachelor’s degree career as a solo general in education from practitioner in Neodesha, Southeast Missouri Kan., and served as city State University and attorney for Cherryvale, a master’s degree in Kan. Subsequently, he English from the worked in-house for University of Missouri Shell Oil Company in – Columbia. While in Houston, Texas, and law school, she served as served as of-counsel for managing editor of the the Gable & Gotwals law Washburn Law Journal, fi rm in Tulsa, Okla., and and also garnered faculty the Shughart Thomson & awards for outstanding Kilroy law fi rm in Kansas comment and note. City, Mo. Carol Gilliam Green shared the day with David Pierce with his son, Cody, good friends Pam Alexander, left, Green began her legal Pierce joined the faculty and wife, Martha, at the of Washburn University and Jerre Powers, right. career as a law clerk to Alumni Awards Luncheon. Chief Justice Alfred School of Law in 1989 G. Schroeder of the after two previous stints Kansas Supreme Court and then served as director of the as a visiting professor (spring 1981 and from 1986 to 1987). A Central Research Staff for the Kansas Court of Appeals. nationally recognized expert in oil and gas law, Pierce currently She was named clerk of the Appellate Courts in 1991, the teaches Oil and Gas Law, Advanced Oil and Gas Law, Energy first woman appointed to this position, and serves in an Regulation, and Drafting Contracts and Conveyances. He has administrative capacity on the Board of Law Examiners, also taught the core courses in Contracts, Business Associations, Board of Examiners of Court Reporters, Client Protection and Environmental Law. In 2006, Professor Pierce was named Fund Commission, Commission on Judicial Qualifications, director of the Washburn University School of Law Business and the Supreme Court Nominating Commission. and Transactional Law Center, a position he held until fall 2009.

Green has been active throughout her career in drafting and Pierce has taught at the Indiana University School of Law editing the KANSAS APPELLATE PRACTICE HANDBOOK and has at Indianapolis, the University of Tulsa College of Law, the served on numerous professional committees. She is currently University of Houston Law Center, and the University of Texas chair of the Judicial Council Supreme Court Rules Advisory School of Law. In addition, he has served as visiting chair of Committee. Natural Resources Law at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Green served on the Washburn University School of Law Alumni Association Board of Governors from 2002 to 2008. A prolifi c writer, Pierce is the author of a number of books She appears regularly on the Washburn Law campus with including co-author of CASES AND MATERIALS ON OIL AND GAS the Kansas bar admissions staff to provide orientation for LAW, which is used as a textbook by law schools across the entering students and practical guidance through the bar country. application process for graduating students. Pierce was only the third law professor to serve as the Rocky B.S. Ed., Southeast Missouri State University Mountain Mineral Law Foundation president in its 54-year M.A., University of Missouri - Columbia history, a position he held from July 2008 to July 2009. J.D., Washburn University School of Law, 1981 B.A., Pittsburg State University, 1974 J.D., Washburn University School of Law, 1977 LL.M., University of Utah College of Law, 1982 Photos fr om the Alumni Association Awards Luncheon taken by Mark Shaiken, ’81

WASHBURN LAWYER | SPRING/SUMMER 2012 | 11 Lifetime Achievement Award

The Honorable Th e Honorabl e J. Patrick Brazil, 1962, J. Patrick Brazil grew up in Chanute, Kan., graduating from high school B.S., Rockhurst College, 1957 J.D., Washburn University School in 1953. He attended Chanute Junior College before of Law, 1962 entering Rockhurst College in Kansas City, Mo., where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business administration in 1957. Upon graduation from Washburn Law in 1962, he practiced law in Pratt until 1968, when he moved to Eureka and entered practice with Carl Chase. He was later joined in practice by his law school classmate, Ronald Myers, ’62, and they practiced The Honorable together until his appointment to the district court in Dale E. Saffels 1972. He served as a judge of the 13th Judicial District Born: August 13, 1921 - Topeka Died: November 14, 2002 - Topeka until 1985, when he was appointed to the Kansas Court B.A., Emporia State Teachers of Appeals. He became chief judge of the Court in 1995 College, 1947 and served until his retirement in January 2001. He has J.D., Washburn University School since worked as a senior judge for the Kansas appellate of Law, 1949 courts and has been associated with Larry Rute, ’73, as a mediator and arbitrator for Associates in Dispute Resolution, LLC.

The Honorable Edward R. Sloan Born: March 12, 1883 - Seward County, Nebraska Died: January 29, 1964 - Topeka LL.B., Washburn University School of Law, 1906

The Honorable J. Patrick Brazil and his family gathered after The Honorable the award luncheon. First row: Daughter-in-law Jenny Brazil and William A. Smith husband, Jody; Judge Brazil’s wife Char; Judge Brazil; Michelle Born: December 30, 1888 - Valley Falls Brown, daughter, and her husband Jay Brown. Back row: Died: July 22, 1968 - Topeka The Honorable Tim Brazil, brother, and his wife, Wendy. LL.B., Washburn University School of Law, 1914 Th e Honorabl e Dale E. Saff els, 1949, was appointed judge of the U.S. District Court, District of Kansas, in 1979 and continued to hear cases as a senior judge until his death in November 2002. Speaking at his The Honorable memorial service, Michael Hegarty, one of his former H. George Templar law clerks and a long-time friend, recalled four of Judge Born: October 18, 1904 - Saffels’ fi nest traits: Christian faith, love of family, Arkansas City, Kansas Died: August 5, 1988 - friendship, and fi delity to his oath. Arkansas City, Kansas LL.B., Washburn University Judge Saffels’ career was one marked by public service. School of Law, 1927 As a young man during World War II, he was a major

Photos by Mark Shaiken, ’81 12 | SPRING/SUMMER 2012 | WASHBURNLAW.EDU The Lifetime Achievement Award is bestowed on graduates whose careers have been highly distinguished, and whose achievements and contributions are widely recognized as signifi cant and outstanding in their fi eld of endeavor, whether it be in the practice of law, the judiciary, business, public service, education or otherwise. While all graduates of the law school will be eligible for consideration, in general those nominated should be persons whose professional careers have been substantially completed, and who clearly will represent the very best and most accomplished of the law school’s many outstanding graduates. in the U.S. Army Signal Corps before completing his attorney twice while maintaining a private practice in education at Emporia State University and Washburn Hoxie, Kan. University School of Law. Upon graduation, he entered private practice in Garden City in 1949 and two years In July 1911, Sloan established with Guy L. Hursh the later was elected county attorney of Finney County, Holton law fi rm of Hursh & Sloan. In April 1912, Sloan Kan., a position he held for four years. For the next eight was appointed city attorney of Holton, a position he held years, he served in the Kansas House of Representatives, for 19 years. He also served as president of the Holton the last two years as minority leader before winning the Board of Education. In 1930, Sloan helped establish Democrat Party’s nomination for governor in 1962. the Topeka fi rm of Sloan, Hamilton and Sloan, which included his younger brother Floyd and W. Glenn Judge Saffels served from 1974 to 1975 and from 1977 to Hamilton. It was the predecessor of the fi rm of Sloan, 1982 on the Washburn Law School Association Board Listrom, Eisenbarth, Sloan & Glassman. of Governors. He was awarded the inaugural alumnus of the year award by Washburn Law students in 1983 In March 1931, he was appointed by Governor Guy and received the Distinguished Service Award from the Woodring to fi ll a vacancy on the Kansas Supreme Washburn Law School Association in 1987. Court. Justice Sloan served the remaining 21 months of the term but opted not to seek election for another term. Instead, he chose to practice law with the Sloan fi rm he had helped found with his brother.

Justice Sloan had extensive family ties to the law school, as two sons, a brother and a nephew all became Washburn Law graduates.

The family of The Honorable Dale Saffels accepted his Lifetime Achievement Award. From left: Jim Saffels, son; Elaine Saffels, widow of Judge Saffels; Debbie Godowns, daughter; and Blake Saffels, grandson.

, was Th e Honorabl e Edward R. Sloan, 1906 Members of the Sloan family display “Ted” Sloan’s diploma born in Seward County, Neb. He attended Kansas State from Campbell College. Front row from left: Carol Sloan (John Agricultural College of Manhattan (now Kansas State Sloan’s wife); Barbara Field, granddaughter; Mary Mozingo, University) for one year. He then began law studies at granddaughter; and Paul Sloan, grandson; Sally Nelson, Campbell College School of Law at Holton in 1902 and granddaughter, and Jim Sloan, son. Second row, John Field received an LL.B. there in 1904. However, Campbell’s (Barbara’s husband); Bill Sloan, grandson, and John Sloan, grandson. program lasted only two years and the Kansas Board of Law Examiners required a three-year course before taking the bar exam. Sloan thus entered Washburn with Th e Honorabl e William A. Smith, 1914, advanced standing in 1904 and graduated in 1905. grew up in Valley Falls, Kan., where his high school principal encouraged him to become active in the While still in law school, Edward, or “Ted” as he was literary and debating societies. After graduating, he known to many, ran for and was elected county attorney attended Washburn University School of Law and was of Sheridan County in the fall of 1904. He named the admitted to the bar the same year he received his law opponent he defeated to act as his deputy until he was degree. He began practicing law in Valley Falls, Kan. eligible to take the bar exam. He was re-elected county He enlisted on June 22, 1916, in Company B of the

WASHBURN LAWYER | SPRING/SUMMER 2012 | 13 Lifetime Achievement Award

Th e Honorabl e H. George Templ ar, 1927, was born Oct. 18, 1904, on the Magnolia Ranch, which is located in southern Kansas near Arkansas City. He had not planned to attend college because he knew his parents could not afford it. But upon learning that a football scholarship was available at Washburn College, he decided to apply. He was overjoyed when he learned he had been awarded the scholarship. He supplemented his scholarship with income from a job as a motorcycle policeman for the City of Topeka, working nights as a patrolman.

The family of The Honorable William Smith accepted his He entered Washburn University School of Law in Lifetime Achievement Award. From left: Josh Holden, the spring of 1925 and graduated in 1927 with a LL.B. great grandson, and grandchildren Merri Smith Holden, degree cum laude. He returned to Arkansas City in the Don Smith, and Sarah Smith Barr. summer of 1927 and established a law practice. Second Regiment Kansas Volunteer Infantry. As a While continuing to practice law, he served in the citizen soldier, he served in Texas along the Mexican Kansas House of Representatives (1933-41) and, later, in border. While serving his country, his friends actively the Kansas Senate (1945-53). He served as U.S. Attorney campaigned for him and he was subsequently elected for the District of Kansas from 1953 to 1954. In 1962, he Jefferson County attorney. He served as county attorney was appointed Judge of the U.S. District Court, District briefl y before he was summoned for military service of Kansas, by President John F. Kennedy. He took senior again, this time in France in the fall of 1918. status in 1974, continuing to hear cases until 1985. He Later, he was appointed assistant attorney for the Kansas served in other districts needing judicial assistance and, Utilities Commission and served as assistant attorney by assignment, on the Court of Appeals in the Seventh, general. In 1926, Smith ran for attorney general, the only Ninth, and Tenth Circuits. one of seven candidates to denounce the Ku Klux Klan. He was elected and then re-elected in 1928. During his Among the many honors he received during his lifetime tenure as attorney general, Smith continued to oppose were the Award of Merit from the International Trial the Klan and worked to revoke its corporate charter. Lawyers Association—the highest honor it bestows on a nontrial lawyer—and the Honorary Doctor of Law He became a Kansas Supreme Court Justice in 1930, degree from Washburn Law. He died on August 5, 1988, a position in which he served 26 years, and was chief at the age of 83. justice for 10 months in 1956. At the time of his resignation from the court due to illness, Justice Smith had written more than 1,000 opinions. He was a part- time lecturer on Public Utilities at Washburn Law for two years shortly after joining the Court. For many years, he and his wife, Ada, lived across the street from Washburn where they often rented rooms to law students.

Justice Smith was the fi rst of three generations of Washburn lawyers. Two sons and two grandchildren have also graduated from Washburn Law. Kansas Supreme Court Justices The Honorable Marla Luckert, ’80, The Honorable Nancy Moritz, ’85, The Honorable Dan Biles, ’78, The Honorable Eric S. Rosen, ’84, and The Honorable Lee Johnson, ’80, at the KBA Annual Meeting.

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PRACTITIONERS IN RESIDENCE John Collins, ’91, and Brent Hooker

ashburn Law alumnus of cutting-edge issues, WJohn Collins, ’91, including director and and J. Brent Hooker shared offi cer insurance matters, their expertise with law due diligence concerns, students in Professor Amy parent-subsidiary Deen Westbrook’s Business transactions, insurable Associations and Financial interest determinations, Institutions Regulation state regulation of insurance classes as the Spring 2012 issues, and what it means to Business and Transactional underwrite a risk. Law Center Practitioners in Residence. Ryan Smith, a third-year student, was one of several Collins, who is based in Washburn Law students who New York, has been with had the opportunity to meet American Express, one of with Collins and Hooker the largest card insurers, for over lunch or dinner to glean the past eight years, where he additional information from is vice president and senior John Collins, ’91, and J. Brent Hooker the seasoned attorneys. “We insurance counsel. Hooker, had a fantastic time,” Smith who is based in Santiago, Chile, is general counsel for remarked. He said the conversation included how law ACE Latin America, a large international insurance and school has changed since Collins and Hooker attended, reinsurance company, where he has regional oversight their winding career paths and how they both ended up in of all legal issues connected with ACE Group’s Latin the international re-insurance business in positions where American operations. Collins and Hooker often work their primary roles are deal-making and facilitating. “We together on transactions between their respective learned about the ups and downs of regular international companies and prepared presentations to coincide with travel and living internationally,” Smith reported. Collins topics being discussed in each class. and Hooker also shared with the students the role of a lawyer working as in-house counsel and its contrasts to a Collins and Hooker shared their extensive knowledge traditional law fi rm experience. with students in the Business Associations class discussing corporate groups, including parent companies, Prior to joining American Express in 2007, Collins served subsidiaries and affi liates, and how businesses manage as general counsel for Franklin Credit Management their different sectors. They also explained how their two Corporation from 2004 to 2007, and as an associate in employers, American Express and Ace Insurance, handle the Washington, D.C., offi ce of the New York-based law transactions between each other. Students in Financial fi rm of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae LLP from Institutions Regulation learned about the business of 1997 to 2004. He was an associate in the Washington insurance and how it is regulated both in the U.S. and D.C., offi ce of the Kansas City, Mo.-based law fi rm of internationally. Stinson Morrison Hecker from 1991 to 1997.

Students benefi tted from the practitioners’ experiences Hooker has more than 11 years of experience as an working as in-house counsel for large corporations, attorney at ACE working on international insurance learning about the importance of business relationships, matters. Before joining ACE in 1999, he served as especially those between attorneys when they work on external legal counsel for a variety of corporate clients multiple transactions. Students also gained knowledge within and outside the insurance industry in the United States.

WASHBURN LAWYER | SPRING/SUMMER 2012 | 15 The time is now.

REGENTS APPROVE FUNDING PROPOSAL New Law School Building on Horizon

his is a pivotal moment for Washburn University School them with future needs that the decision was made to Tof Law. Th e Washburn Board of Regents at its July 2012 move decisively forward with our goal of a new law school board meeting approved a funding proposal for a new law building,” Dean Th omas Romig said. “People were talking school building to be located on the southeast corner of the about a new building for the law school when I arrived as Washburn campus. dean in 2007,” he added. “Th ere was a sense that we really needed it because we were out of space. Every time we have Th e decision follows completion of intense and thorough required new offi ces or more meeting space, we had to carve evaluations of the current facilities and projected needs it out of the library. Th is has been a thorough, deliberate required to meet the ever-changing landscape of legal process.” education. Administrators spent three years evaluating the law school’s existing building, examining other campuses, Th e current law facility has provided the backdrop and and soliciting proposals from architecture fi rms. What learning environment for the exceptional educational followed was a law school design charette process in which experience of our alumni since 1969. In the nearly 50 three architecture fi rms presented proposed conceptual years since its construction, the Washburn Law facility has designs and associated costs for both an expansion of the met the changing needs of its students and advances in existing law school building and a new law school facility. curriculum with additions and renovations. Th e continuing Administrators considered an addition and renovation to evolution of legal education requires more specialized the existing space, but determined that constructing a new courses and programs that emphasize group learning. building was the more cost-eff ective option. “We continue to be quite challenged by the lack of space in “It was only aft er a careful review of the learning and the law school. Th e law curriculum is much diff erent than teaching spaces in our current facility and comparing it was 50 years ago. New kinds of courses require diff erent

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types of classroom spaces and teaching resources. Th e curriculum is broader, with more specialized courses and programs. Spaces in the new building will facilitate Washburn Law’s hands-on training educational experience,” Romig said. “To “It was only after a remain on the leading edge of legal education and successfully recruit talented careful review of faculty and students, we must provide the best possible skills training experience and legal educational environment for our students. Our current facility does not the learning and meet today’s needs or those for the future.” teaching spaces in Th e proposed 152,600-square-foot facility will be an investment in a 21st century our current facility learning and technology environment that will accommodate a broader, deeper and comparing legal curriculum and provide much-needed space for classrooms, a student commons area, collaborative work areas, courtrooms, the four Centers for them with future Excellence, the Law Library, and the Washburn Law Clinic. Its estimated $40 needs that the million cost will be fi nanced through a $20 million fundraising eff ort, with an additional $10 million coming from university reserve funds and $10 million in decision was made short-term bonds. to move decisively “We are fortunate to have a wide base of support for this project from the forward with our University administration, Board of Regents, Board of Trustees, Board of Governors, law school alumni, faculty, staff , and students,” Romig said. “A new goal of a new Law building will perpetuate Washburn Law’s stellar reputation and enhance its already School building.” distinguished faculty/student interaction, faculty accessibility, and practical skills training experience.” —Dean Thomas J. Romig Washburn will unveil detailed plans of the building, a video and 3D animation at the Dean’s Circle Dinner on Sept. 22. If you are interested in learning more about the Law School building project, please contact Joel Lauer at 785.670.1702 or [email protected].

BARRISTER’S BALL PROCEEDS PRESENTED TO UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOPEKA

ill Ethridge, president of the Washburn Student JBar Association , right, and Dean Thomas Romig, left, present a check for $6,843.63 to United Way of Greater Topeka President and CEO Miriam Krehbiel. WSBA students organize the annual Barrister’s Ball with proceeds donated to a local charity. Law students volunteer to solicit donations from professors, staff, and local merchants that are used as auction items. The week before the Ball, Washburn Law professors, students, and staff participate in a silent auction, which continues throughout the dinner at the Barrister’s Ball. Following dinner, two professors don their auctioneer hats to raise the bids during the live auction. Some of the donated items, such as a Spam dinner with Professor David Pierce, ’77, are legendary and offered each year by professors.

WASHBURN LAWYER | SPRING/SUMMER 2012 | 17 Law School News The Republic of Georgia

WASHBURN LAW IMPACTS LEGAL EDUCATION WHERE THE BLACK SEA MEETS THE DAWN OF A MODERN LEGAL ERA

he fi rst ever academic symposium in Tbilisi, TGeorgia, ushered in a new era of legal and judicial independence for that country, with Washburn Law playing a vital role in this historic event.

The two-day “Symposium on Commercial Law” in March 2012 brought U.S. and Georgian experts together to discuss critical commercial law issues facing Georgia. It followed an opening ceremony for the National Center for Commercial Law (NCCL) at the Free University of Tbilisi, Georgia, with Washburn Law Dean Thomas Romig addressing the audience about the relationship between Washburn Law and the Free University, and the promising start of the new center.

Washburn Law professors have been working with Foster, at a Washburn Law faculty development meeting their counterparts at Free University in the creation of in April, detailed the success of the NCCL’s opening the NCCL, as well as other legal education initiatives, and the enthusiasm and inquiring spirit shared by the during the past year. The NCCL is the product of a Georgians in attendance. “Basically, private property partnership among the U.S. Agency for International didn’t exist in Georgia until the 1990s so they didn’t Development (USAID), the Judicial Independence and have commercial law,” Foster explained. “Not only did Legal Empowerment Project (JILEP), Free University we have these great back-and-forth presentations, we of Tbilisi, and Washburn University School of Law, opened it up for audience questions and they couldn’t get aimed at promoting the development of commercial enough.” law-related education and practice in Georgia. JILEP is a four-year initiative launched in December 2010, Foster said that the opening of the NCCL formalized funded by USAID, and implemented by The East-West its role as a “clearinghouse” for commercial law study Management Institute (EWMI). As a partner in the and development in Georgia and said its impact will project, Washburn Law receives funding for its role. be bolstered by the passionate support from Georgian businessmen, some of whom serve on the NCCL More than 100 representatives of the Georgian judiciary, board of advisors. “The Center’s board of advisors is leading Georgian law fi rms, and non-governmental committed to an open fl ow of communications with and international organizations in Georgia working Georgians. Plans are underway for video conferences, in the fi eld of commercial law attended the lectures and clinical legal education is a priority with businesses co-presented by both Georgian and Washburn Law partnering to offer internships and externships for professors. Associate Dean for Academic Affairs students at the university.” Aïda Alaka and Professors Will Foster, Patricia Judd, and Michael Hunter Schwartz co-presented several Washburn Law faculty and the rest of the JILEP team symposium topics with their Georgian counterparts and fi rst assessed Georgia’s legal education needs in the conducted additional training activities following the area of commercial law during a trip to the country symposium on legal writing and reasoning, intellectual in January 2011. And although they found general property law, and teaching methodology. defi ciencies in the Georgian legal education system,

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Professor Michael Hunter 35TH ANNUAL FOULSTON SIEFKIN LECTURE Schwartz, left, co-presented “Professional Liability MONROE H. FREEDMAN Insurance for Lawyers” with Tamar Goderdzishvili, “PROSECUTORS’ ETHICS – lawyer for the National FIGHTING TO SUSTAIN UNETHICAL AND Bank of Georgia, at the UNCONSCIONABLE CONDUCT ON APPEAL” fi rst ever academic symposium in Georgia. onroe H. Freedman, a Mpioneer in the fi eld of legal ethics and one of the including a lack of experienced professors and lecturers nation’s foremost experts in with practical legal experience and the ability to teach the fi eld, delivered the 35th using modern methodologies, Foster said the faculty Annual Foulston Siefkin at Free University possessed important attributes from Lecture at Washburn Law which to build. “Free University has very distinguished, on March 9, 2012. Freedman young, energetic, and highly educated faculty who have asserted that prosecutors’ amazing credentials. These are folks who are open to offi ces too often make innovative teaching styles.” calculated decisions to adopt policies and practices Before the offi cial opening of the NCCL, Washburn that are unethical and/or Law Professor Amy Deen Westbrook and three Free unconscionable. For example, it is understandable that a University law professors introduced a new skills prosecutor, in the heat of trying a case, will sometimes training course in January 2012 titled, “International engage in tactics that he or she would not choose to use Business Transactions and Contract Drafting,” to law after adequate refl ection. However, when a prosecutor’s students from six Georgian schools at the NCCL’s offi ce justifi es that kind of trial conduct on appeal or in Winter School at Free University. Professor Westbrook response to collateral attack, after there has been ample created the course specifi cally for Georgian law students time for refl ection, the unethical or unconscionable and shared her teaching notes and other teaching conduct becomes offi cial offi ce policy. That kind of materials with her Georgian colleagues so they could prosecutorial conduct is inexcusable, and should be teach the course themselves in the future. Washburn subject to severe disciplinary sanctions. Law Professor Bill Rich also presented lectures on The American Bar Association awarded Freedman Constitutional Law at the Winter School. its highest honor for professionalism in recognition of his “lifetime of original and influential scholarship Going forward, Washburn Law will remain connected in the field of lawyers’ ethics.” A professor at Hofstra to the professors and students at Free University with Law School and former dean of the school, Freedman the continuation of bi-weekly video conferences that received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University also include offi cials from EWMI. The collaborators and his LL.B. and LL.M. from Harvard Law School. will discuss plans for commercial law and legal writing He has authored many pieces that are required readings certifi cates as well as clinical legal education for at law schools around the country. His books include Georgian students, writing competitions, corporate the treatises LAW YERS’ ETHICS IN AN ADVERSARY SYSTEM trainings, and development of curriculum and course and UNDERSTANDING LAW YERS’ ETHICS (4th ed. 2010), materials. Additional Washburn Law professors will which he co-authored with Abe Smith. Freedman has travel to Georgia and present various topics within also authored articles appearing in the Yale Law Journal, the next year. “Each of us will try to engage to keep the Stanford Law Review, and the Michigan Law Review. For energizing the project,” Judd said. Foster added, “We the past 30 years, Freedman has lectured annually on want to demonstrate our fi rm commitment to them legal ethics at Harvard Law School. He has also been a [Free University] and the Georgian legal community. visiting professor at Georgetown University Law Center There’s a lot of momentum for this project and we’re since 2007. making a big impact.”

WASHBURN LAWYER | SPRING/SUMMER 2012 | 19 LAW STUDENT CORNER If I Were Goldilocks By Xiaolu Fan, J.D. candidate 2013

“Sorry professor, may I do the direct examination a few minutes later?”

y voice was trembling with anxiety. It was my between the legal systems of the United States and Mfi rst trial advocacy class, and the professor had China. The legal system of China is more akin to the instructed students to conduct a direct examination civil law—under which there is no such thing as binding based on the story “Goldilocks and the Three Bears.” I precedent. My previous legal education applauded for whispered to the classmate sitting next to me: “GOLDY me: “Congratulations! You have done the research job what? Is that a case we are supposed to read?” Before I by fi nding the applied statutes and the corresponding entered total panic mode, my classmate kindly showed interpretation.” My American education cautions me: me the story on Google. When the professor stated it “Keep digging the cases! Westlaw is not created for was my turn to do the exercise, I was still working hard fun.” In addition, since cases are not binding authority at fi guring out the issue between the little girl and the in China, law students there are saved from learning the bear family. Upon my request, the thoughtful professor complicated case citation form. However, my experience granted me several more minutes to prepare…and I got in American law school has shown me that a hot debate the unparalleled experience of learning a children’s story may arise not only with respect to the application of in law school class. law, but also from deciding the appropriate abbreviation form of a case name. As an international student who grew up and lived in China for more than 20 years, scanning a children’s Looking back on my two years of law school life in story in class is obviously not the only diffi culty for me. America, all the challenges I have met provide me What challenged me fi rst in American law school is the fantastic opportunities in conquering the language interactive teaching method. According to my three years barrier and learning a legal culture totally different from of experience learning the law in China, the defi nition the one I am familiar with. I enjoy the process of legal of “good student” includes the following: listening research; the excitement at the moment of fi nding an attentively to the professor, taking down the notes applicable case is comparable to the feeling of a gold precisely, and applying rules to reach a “yes” or “no” prospector who fi nally succeeded in fi ltering the gold answer correctly. For this reason, I dropped my pen to sand out from gravel. I enjoy employing analogy in legal the fl oor and jumped up like a spring when a professor writing; this unique common-law reasoning method here at Washburn asked me to state my opinion in inspires me to push the intellectual envelope to explore class about the rule of a case. After I stuttered all the a creative and reasonable explanation of the rule for a answers to a series of “what if ” hypos, the professor specifi c case. I enjoy participating in the open discussion smiled, nodded, and commented, “Thank you. And I in class; my classmates’ original thoughts and opinions actually want to show the class that there is no yes or no expand my horizons and encourage me to conquer my conclusion for this issue.” I was shocked. own shyness of stating opinions in public. Compared to the law schools in China, which focus more on Besides the brand new experience in class, the most instructing the substantive rules, American law schools signifi cant challenge I have confronted comes from legal also emphasize practical skills in legal procedure. Thus, I research and writing because of the huge difference have most enjoyed the clinical experiences in law school,

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suchuch aas the examination exercise in in the forest. Similar to Goldilocks, trialrial aadadvocacy and the oral argument The law school who took some time before getting inil legallegl writing. I learn from these the “just right” porridge and chair, I coursescouco that the law is more is the house also experienced the tough process of thtthan rules or cases printed in fi guring out the right way to survive textbook. It exists in real life. appearing in the through the law school. However, if It receives its value from the midst of puzzling I were Goldilocks, I would never run legal professional’s conduct. away screaming when confronted It is rooted in a distinctive, forest, which with the three bears. Rather, I would fascinatingf legal culture which provides me an take the practice and the techniques I ddeserves my respect. have learned in trial advocacy and my opportunity to other law school courses to persuade AAt this moment, I feel I am like obtain enough the bear family—the American legal ththe girl Goldilocks, wandering culture—that I am not just a girl, but ththroughh the forest of American soul food and one of their long lost family members lalawlaw.w The law school is the house fi nally come home. This is just right. apaappearing in the midst of refreshment ppuzzling forest, which provides before I set out to me an opportunity to obtain enough soul food and refreshment fi nd my own path before I set out to fi nd my own path This article is reprinted with the permission of the in the forest. Kansas Bar Association Young Lawyers Section.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Xiaolu Fan grew up in Tantong City, located in the southeastern section of the Jiangsu Province in China. Fan was admitted into People’s Liberation Army Foreign Language University for her undergraduate education, where she received a bachelor’s degree in English literature. After graduation, Fan left the army to pursue a career in law. In 2006, she was admitted to Peking University Law School, where she earned the degree of juris master. Fan has passed the national bar in China. She was admitted to Washburn University School of Law in 2010 and expects to graduate in 2013.

COURT OF APPEALS VISITS WASHBURN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

ashburn University School of Law and Wthe Center for Excellence in Advocacy hosted the Kansas Court of Appeals on Tuesday, March 13, 2012, in the Robinson Courtroom and Bianchino Technology Center.

From left: Judges Steve Leben, Richard D. Green, and Melissa Standridge of the Kansas Court of Appeals.

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JESSUP MOOT COURT TEAM REACHES FINAL FOUR IN DENVER SUPER-REGIONAL

he Washburn Law Jessup Moot Court Team (St. Louis). In the quarter fi nal round Washburn defeated Tcompeted in the Rocky Mountain Super-Regional Brigham Young University to reach the fi nal four. In a Round of the Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court close split vote among three judges, the Washburn team Competition held at Denver University Sturm College lost to Michigan State in the semi-fi nal, narrowly missing of Law, Feb. 9-12, 2012. The Jessup Competition the opportunity to advance to the World Round in is the most competitive and prestigious moot court Washington, D.C. competition in the world, with more than 500 law schools from over 100 countries competing to reach the The Washburn team won fi fth place for best Memorial world championship round held each year at the end of (brief), and John Hatcher won seventh place for top March in Washington, D.C. Washburn’s team competed oralist overall. against 22 other law schools. The 2012 Jessup Problem involved complicated issues of international law relating “The team put in an outstanding performance in to the legitimacy of governments, the use of armed written and oral advocacy and exhibited a high level of force, sovereign immunity, and the destruction of world professionalism and good sportsmanship, representing heritage property. the best traditions of Washburn in all respects,” Jessup Moot Court team coach Professor Craig Martin Washburn Law’s team was comprised of six students: observed. John (J.D.) Hatcher and Shannon Rush (applicants), Kaitlin Marsh and Bryan Cox (respondents), John Assisting Professor Martin in preparing the team were Westerhaus (of counsel), and Megan Williams providing Professors Jeremiah Ho, Jeffrey Jackson, ’92, Patricia support as the 1L participant. Judd, and Amy Westbrook, Washburn Law alumnus Jeremy Schrag, ’09, and Miguel Rivera. Washburn fi nished fi rst among the 23 teams in the preliminary round, going undefeated against Hamline University, the University of Iowa, the University of Minnesota, and Washington University

“The team put in an outstanding performance in written and oral advocacy and exhibited a high level of professionalism and good sportsmanship, representing the best traditions of Washburn in all respects.”

—Professor Craig Martin

The Washburn Law Jessup Moot Court team clockwise from left: John Westerhaus, ’12, Megan Williams, Kaitlin Marsh, John “J.D.” Hatcher, Shannon Rush, and Bryan Cox.

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RECIPIENTS OF SUMMER/FALL 2011 IRVINE E. UNGERMAN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN CLINICAL PRACTICE NAMED

arah Longhibler, ’12, and providing the highest level of S Casey Yingling, ’12, are the professional advocacy for her summer/fall 2011 co-recipients clients. of the Irvine E. Ungerman Award for Excellence in Clinical Casey Yingling was supervised Practice. This award was by Visiting Professor Tai established to honor one of our Vokins, ’08, and represented outstanding alumni, Irvine E. clients in both criminal defense Ungerman, ’30, who practiced matters as well as general civil law in Tulsa, Okla., until he Sarah Longhibler, ’12 Casey Yingling, ’12 litigation cases. Casey was the died in 1980. The award is given type of student who sent e-mails twice yearly to students who distinguish themselves by at 9 p.m. with questions about a fi le and worked as if the providing highly competent representation to clients in case needed to be seen to the end rather than just worked a manner exemplifying the ideals of the legal profession hard enough to get through the semester. She personifi es and spirit of public service. The award includes a cash the Washburn Law Clinic work ethic; she worked very prize. hard on all of her fi les and went above and beyond for her clients. For example, Casey volunteered to visit a Sarah Longhibler worked under the supervision of client in a nursing home and took the initiative to meet Associate Professor Lynette Petty, ’87, and represented the kids on the adoption case to which she was assigned. clients in domestic matters, including divorces, paternity and adoption. Sarah fully embraced the Law Clinic Casey was the most diligent on client communication experience and took every opportunity to develop her and had a knack for recognizing the “non-legal” issues advocacy skills. Her cases were quite complex, requiring of her clients’ cases. She was interested in knowing about her to explore statutes and case law to research questions the issues her clients faced that caused problems in their of jurisdiction, custody, child support, and ethics. Sarah everyday lives. She approached each case with those is creative and bold in her quest to investigate all of issues in mind (for example, she got to the bottom of the facts in a case. She uncovered facts her clients did a client’s fi nancial status and learned the real situation not even know. What stands out most about Sarah is instead of just reading the fi le) and will be a great lawyer her dedication to understanding her client’s position because of this approach. Most people who come out and perspective. She listens to her client, explores the of the clinic that go on to success are self-made. Casey legal and practical choices available, and understands understands that to be a good lawyer, you have to work the decisions the client makes are in the context of his on all aspects of your clients’ lives because sometimes or her own life experiences. Sarah dedicated herself to that is more important than the legal issues of the case.

LAW STUDENT RECIPIENT OF INAUGURAL AWARD

he Kansas Bar Foundation in January presented Washburn Law student Whitney TCasement, ’12, Topeka, with its inaugural Maxine S. Thompson Memorial scholarship award. The new scholarship will be awarded each year to a student attending a Kansas law school. The criteria of the award include academic achievement and participation in community activities, as well as a bona fi de intention to practice law in Kansas.

Whitney Casement, ’12

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STUDENT PROFILE Ben Jackson

J.D. candidate 2013 Bachelor’s degrees in Criminal Justice and Sociolog y, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyo. Dawson Law Scholar

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FELLOWSHIP: THE COMMON THREAD THAT UNITES

t fi rst glance, the only similarity between Wyoming Aand Washburn is the uppercase “W,” but law student Ben Jackson says the atmosphere he encountered on his fi rst visit to Washburn Law reminded him of home. “I was instantly drawn to the atmosphere of involvement and encouragement. Washburn Law offered the small community feel, the amenities and resources of a large city, and the Center for Excellence in Advocacy.”

Jackson said his biggest challenge as a fi rst-year law

student was initially fi nding common ground with Courtesy of Gemdelin Jackson Photography LLC other students. He recalled a timely remark by former Washburn Law Professor Ron Griffi n that changed his perspective. Land Management and a career as a crew member on “During Contracts my fi rst week, Professor Griffi n said a fi re helicopter where he worked six months a year for to the class, ‘Remember, we are more alike than we are the Bureau and spent the other six months taking classes different.’ This simple phrase changed my outlook.” toward his undergraduate degree. Jackson said the more people he approached, the more things he found they had in common. “I discovered we “The arrangement allowed me to serve communities were all students starting the same new chapter in our threatened by devastating fi res during the summers lives. Even though we had different backgrounds and and receive an education during the winter,” Jackson personal stories, there is a common thread amongst us.” explained. Not content to focus on studies alone, he served as an emergency dispatcher for police, fi re, and It was the common thread of fellowship that united EMS at the University of Wyoming Police Department the ranchers of the Wyoming community in which during the months he was attending college. Jackson grew up and cultivated in him the desire to give back and help others. “The local ranchers were able to “The dispatcher position allowed me to assist my fellow accomplish more for everyone by working together than citizens while providing me with problem-solving skills what any one person could accomplish on his or her that I now use in law school,” Jackson said. “Talking own,” Jackson explained. to someone on a 911 call is equivalent to being in the courtroom. It’s a high-stakes environment and saying It was during Jackson’s undergraduate studies that he the right thing at the right time could resolve many began looking for ways to give back to his local and issues.” national communities. This led him to the Bureau of

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CAROL LONGENECKER SCHMIDT RECEIVES KANSAS ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE RAYMOND SPRING AWARD

arol Longenecker Schmidt, ’11, cases demonstrates that she is committed to Creceived the 2011 Kansas Association providing legal services to clients in need.” for Justice Raymond Spring Award for demonstrating the highest commitment to Professor Hodgkinson described providing legal services to clients in need Longenecker Schmidt’s “zealous as an intern at the Washburn Law Clinic. commitment” to her clients in the Appellate Longenecker Schmidt is the fi rst Clinic intern Clinic. “Ms. Longenecker Schmidt was a to receive a nomination from two professors. great intern in Criminal Appeal Advocacy, She was nominated by John Francis, where she assisted in writing appellate briefs professor, and Randall Hodgkinson, visiting Carol Longenecker for two clients of the Kansas Appellate assistant professor. Schmidt, ’11 Defender Offi ce. The fi rst case involved an appeal from a drug conviction and the In his nomination, Professor Francis noted the diffi cult second from a criminal threat conviction. In each case, challenges Longenecker Schmidt faced in her clinic Ms. Longenecker Schmidt showed zealous commitment work. “One particular case of hers presented several to each client and concern for the professional quality challenges. The client had a serious and progressive of her writing. And she has gone on to work in that area medical condition. He faced criminal prosecution on as a staff attorney at the Kansas Appellate Defender a felony matter stemming from an incident which Offi ce.” occurred years earlier. The charge carried a signifi cant mandatory jail sentence that threatened his already The award is named in honor of Raymond Spring, fragile health. Ms. Longenecker Schmidt demonstrated ’59, who worked in private practice after graduating dedication and innovation while representing this from Washburn Law and later became a law professor client, gathering medical data, interviewing caretakers, and eventually dean of the law school in 1970. Spring visiting with the client and conducting substantial legal drafted the grant proposal and conducted negotiations research. This led to fi ling a unique motion to dismiss with the Council on Legal Education for Professional the case in the interests of justice. This motion intrigued Responsibility, which awarded Washburn University a the court, and while it did not carry the day, it did lay $35,000 grant in 1969 to establish the law school’s legal the foundation for an effective case strategy which clinic program. was later implemented. Carol’s work on this and other

Jackson believes that attending law school is an obvious with Professor Michael Kaye cemented Jackson’s desire choice for someone searching for a career serving to commit to the Trial Team. “He said that there is a lot others. “I was instilled with the value of community of mediocre lawyering in society today because anyone service growing up in a small ranching town in can learn the law, but not everyone learns how to be an Wyoming. I saw thousands come together to battle advocate.” raging wildfi res in states across the nation. I provided a reassuring voice to those who called for help and waited An avid bow hunter, Jackson has discovered another for assistance. So, helping people access justice through common thread connecting his life in Wyoming to the the law was a natural progression.” one he’s experiencing in Kansas. “I discovered that elk hunting in Wyoming is not much different from Jackson is a member of Washburn Law’s ABA Trial deer hunting in Kansas. Catching a trout in a high Team, an instinctive choice for him. “I was always a mountain pond is equivalent to catching a catfi sh in the part of a team growing up, whether sports or working as Kansas River. Although all of us come from different a crew member on the helicopter. The Trial Team was a backgrounds, we truly are more alike than we are natural fi t and encouraged me to work hard to develop different.” my advocacy and cooperation skills.” A conversation

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NEGOTIATION COMPETITION TEAM REACHES THE FINAL FOUR

he Washburn University of the Region 8 ABA/LSD Negotiation TSchool of Law negotiation Competition in November. competition team of Jessica Stabler and Kevin Kemp took Shawn Leisinger, executive director, fourth place at the national Centers for Excellence, is the coach of fi nals Feb. 3-4, 2012. The the Negotiation Competition team. American Bar Association/ “I was complimented by a number Law School Division of the round judges and National (ABA/LSD) Negotiation Negotiation Committee members on the Competition was held at the class and professionalism our Washburn mid-year ABA meeting in team demonstrated throughout the New Orleans, La. Third-year law students national competition rounds,” said Jessica Stabler and Kevin Kemp The team of Stabler and Leisinger. “I was proud to have other Kemp beat 224 teams of 448 coaches comment that Washburn is one law students from 116 law schools across the country. of the recognized competitive teams to try to beat in the ABA/LSD Negotiation Competition.” The Washburn team qualifi ed for the national competition when they took second place in the fi nals

TWO ADMISSIONS EMPLOYEES RETIRE; NEW DIRECTOR AND ASSISTANT NAMED

Karla Whitaker Sandy Knipp Yolanda Ingram, ’95 Cory Payne

ashburn University School of Law Director of Yolanda Ingram, ’95, was named Assistant to the WAdmissions Karla Whitaker retired this summer Dean, Director of Admissions. She brings 10 years of after more than eight years in that position. During her experience to Washburn Law after serving as Assistant tenure, Whitaker directed a national recruiting effort Dean for Student Affairs, Director of the Conditional on behalf of the law school. She always made time to Admissions Program, and as the Director of the personally contact prospective students, giving them a Academic Support Program for the University of fi rst taste of the student-centered atmosphere they would Memphis School of Law. Ingram graduated with honors experience at Washburn Law. in 1995 from Washburn University School of Law. She joined the Admissions Offi ce in mid-July. Janessa Akin, Sandy Knipp, admissions assistant, retired in June assistant director of Admissions, served as acting director after seven-plus years in that position. Knipp was in the interim. often the fi rst contact prospective students had with Washburn Law. She provided a professional and friendly Cory Payne joined the Admissions Offi ce on Aug. 6 environment, which has encouraged students to take the as the new offi ce assistant. She previously worked in next step in attending Washburn Law. the undergraduate Admissions Offi ce at Washburn University.

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THIRTY-FOUR STUDENTS PARTICIPATE IN MINERAL TITLE EXAMINATION COURSE

“…an additional bonus for the n its infancy, the Mineral Title Examination Course is students was to witness the Ialready a catalyst for creating long-lasting opportunities for Washburn law students. The newly established short discussions that took place course, which ran three consecutive Saturdays beginning among the practitioners on how Jan. 21, attracted 34 students who benefi ted from the expertise of 17 former and/or current practitioners they practice their craft and recruited by Professor David Pierce, ’77. interpret various statutes.”

“The most rewarding part of each day was when four —Professor David Pierce, ’77 to fi ve students went into small groups, each led by a practitioner, to work through specifi c title problems,” Pierce said. He added that an additional bonus for the students was to witness the discussions that took place among the practitioners on how they practice their craft and interpret various statutes. many times. One of the ‘newest’ lawyers to ever speak at such a Foundation conference was our very own Nathan Students took the course exam on Saturday, Feb. 4, and Hoffman, ’10,” Pierce explained. “He did an excellent received the results and feedback the same day. However, job. I had no fewer than 50 comments from other lawyers they were “not quite fi nished,” Pierce said. The Rocky about how impressed they were with our students and Mountain Mineral Law Foundation was conducting how pleased they were that they were able to attend.” a Special Institute on Mineral Title Examination in Westminster, Colo., on Feb. 9 and 10, and Pierce arranged The conference attracted more than 700 lawyers from to take the law students to the two-day conference. across the U.S., and Pierce noted that several job-related Funding from the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law discussions took place between attending lawyers and Foundation combined with money from a private fund Washburn Law students. The Rocky Mountain Mineral allowed the students to attend the conference for free. Law Foundation offers scholarships to law students based on their potential to make signifi cant contributions “The conference was excellent and reinforced and to the fi eld. During the last scholarship cycle, of the 30 supplemented what we had studied in our course,” Pierce member-schools eligible for scholarships Washburn Law said. “Washburn, and our students, were recognized students received four of the 20 scholarships awarded.

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CONCANNON PENS HISTORY OF WASHBURN LAW

ashburn Law Professor Jim ConcannonConcannon’s s book Wdetailing the history of the fi rst 100 years of Washburn University School of Law is now available and can be ordered from the Washburn Law online store at http://store.washburnlaw.edu/.

As a faculty member since 1973, and for 30 of the school’s fi rst 100 years , Concannon provides an insider’s view of many of the historicic Washburn Law faculty in 1921 events that have shaped the law school. He introduces the reader to devoted faculty, staff, students, and friends of the law school, and providesides detailed accounts of the law school’s’s storied past, including the search foror equal justice, leadership throughoutt tthehe years, and relationships forged duringng both turmoil and triumph. TheTh completed law school addition in 1992 Woven throughout the book are fascinatingiti historical photographs, some published for the fi rst time. James Concannon signed Also included is a detailed index for quick reference. To his book, “THE IDEAL view the index and historical photos of Washburn Law, PLACE … FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A including those in the book, visit http://washburnlaw. GREAT LAW SCHOOL”: edu/history/. THE HISTORY OF WASHBURN LAW As Concannon points out in the book, Washburn Law’s SCHOOL, 1903-2003 main focus has always been and continues to be on its at the KBA Annual students with a determination to consistently uphold meeting in June. its core values of respect for students, emphasis on student learning, faculty collegiality and camaraderie, and providing a caring atmosphere. Concannon’s TABLE OF CONTENTS comprehensive history of Washburn Law is a great read for those who love history, Washburn Law, or both. The Early Years (1903-1922) Any proceeds from the book will be donated to the The Allen Years (1922-1937) Washburn University School of Law Alumni Association, Going Public and Going to War (1937-1945) The Post-War Years (1945-1959) underwriter of the book. The Howe Years and the Tornado (1959-1970) The Spring Years (1970-1978) The Monk Years (1978-1988) Price: $28 The Concannon Years (1988-2001) Hardbound: 681 pages + index Centennial (2001-2003) Photographs: more than 100 Women at Washburn Law School ISBN: 978-0-615-60187-8 A Commitment to Diversity A Tradition of Public Service Available for purchase online: Washburn Graduates in Academia store.washburnlaw.edu Epilogue Appendices Index

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AMBASSADORS PROVIDE ‘EXTREME’ CUSTOMER SERVICE

hey dress in Washburn Law-branded Tshirts, and with their bright, inviting smiles greet guests with a fi rm handshake and a friendly “Welcome to Washburn Law.” Although they help visitors navigate the halls of the law school, they are much more than tour guides — they are Washburn Law Student Ambassadors, committed to providing “extreme” customer service that refl ects the tenets of a Washburn Law education.

“They are not just walking around the building pointing things out. In a way, they are mentoring the students,” Karla Whitaker, former director of admissions, explained about the successful program launched nearly a decade ago. 2011-12 Washburn Law Ambassadors On average, 50 Washburn Law students apply each spring for the 25 to 30 needs of our visitors. We strive to be fl exible, very fl exible.” ambassador openings for the following academic year. The applicants’ backgrounds and geographic locations In addition to maintaining fl exible hours for tours and vary but their commonality is the desire to pay forward other visitor needs, Whitaker stressed the Admissions the positive experiences of their initial visit to Washburn Offi ce’s requirements of its ambassadors to always take Law. “We have students who can talk about what it’s like the high road when talking with prospective students to pick up and move here. They had a good experience and to project a positive attitude. “During the fi rst week with their ambassador and want to share that with of school, ambassadors give tours as a training tool, to others,” Whitaker said. address the students’ expectations. They talk about how they made the decision to attend Washburn Law but The student ambassador program’s mission is two-fold: never say anything negative about other schools.” to expand resources for the admissions process and to add another dimension to recruiting efforts. Janessa Admissions staff works diligently to partner ambassadors Akin, assistant director of admissions, pointed out that, with students of like circumstances. “Our ambassadors although admissions staff is available and always willing are matched up with prospective students based on to talk with prospective students, the students have a demographics and interests, which helps in making comfort level with those who have walked in their shoes. a more personal connection,” Akin explained. She “Prospective students are more apt to ask questions of described how the ambassadors use a variety of the ambassadors, of those who have ‘been there.’” communication tools to enhance a prospective student’s relationship with Washburn Law. “They take time Exceptional customer service and high standards are to make personal phone calls, send e-mails to them paramount to the ambassador program’s success, and [prospective students], and write personal thank you Whitaker believes they are the keys to attracting a high notes to those they have met and guided through halls of number of qualifi ed applicants to fi ll available positions. the law school. Each admitted student receives a phone “I feel like it’s a pretty prestigious assignment.” Whitaker call too.” explained that the Admissions Offi ce does not operate on a stringent 8 to 5 schedule, preferring instead to work “The ambassadors are an important piece of our around a prospective student’s calendar. “We are a very recruiting and retention efforts,” Akin explained. “They customer service-oriented offi ce that accommodates the are a valuable asset to Washburn Law.”

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JANUARY 2012 Spring Class

An enthusiastic and bright group of 31 students from 23 undergraduate schools, 12 states, and the Netherlands comprise the Spring 2012 starting class. • • • Front row from left: Isabella Gichiri, Hiwot Berihun, Terra Tecchio, Whitney Mills, and Jessica Watts. Second row: Cordero Delgadillo, Jessica Hightower, Lisa Williams, Heather Nevarez, and Jennifer Ouellette. Third row: Jenni Howsman, Alex Gentry, Jason Eslinger, Jenna Morgan, and BreAnne Hendricks. Fourth row: Brian Edwards, Laurie Bertholet, Adam Brillhart, Raymond James, and Christopher Lyon. Fifth row: Melinda Parish, Adison Banks, Christopher Ray, Alex Zimmerman, Rancid “Booten” Carr, Tyler Patterson and Clay Kuhns. Back row: Camiel Vermeulen, Joseph Laski, and Anthony Ford.

pring Start students visited the historic SBrown v. Board of Education National Historic Site Jan. 9 during their fi rst week of law school activities. Dave Schafer, chief of interpretation and education for the site, welcomed the students. The tour of the site included a theater presentation by Site Historian Thom Rosenblum on Washburn University School of Law alumni participation in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.

30 | SPRING/SUMMER 2012 | WASHBURNLAW.EDU RECENT PUBLICATIONS, ACTIVITIES, AND HONORS Washburn Law Faculty AÏDA M. ALAKA American Association of Law Schools of Kansas Judicial Council Civil Code Associate Dean for Academic Aff airs Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., Advisory Committee on HB 2472, and Professor of Law Jan. 7, 2012. • Presenter, “Comparing adopting amendments to the Kansas Lecturing and Multimodal Instruction,” Code of Civil Procedure, House Presentations: Free State University of Tbilisi Teaching Judiciary Committee, Jan. 30, 2012, and Co-taught one-week seminar, “Legal Workshop, Washburn University School Senate Judiciary Committee, Feb. 23, Writing and Analysis for Law of Law, Topeka, August 2011. 2012. Professors and Practitioners,” Free University, Tbilisi, Georgia, June Publications: Publications: 11-15, 2012 (with Tonya Kowalski). • “Maritime Removal: An Unlikely “THE IDEAL PLACE . . . FOR THE Conducted workshop “Legal Writing Heuristic for Anchoring Three Non- ESTABLISHMENT OF A GREAT LAW for Practitioners,” Symposium on Textual Principles of Original Federal SCHOOL”: The History of Washburn Law Commercial Law, National Center Jurisdiction,” 43 The Journal of Maritime School 1903-2003 (Washburn University for Commercial Law, Free University, Law and Commerce 195 (2012). • “The School of Law Alumni Association, Tbilisi, Georgia, March 22-23, 2012. • Scientifi c Impossibility of Plausibility,” 2012). • “Evidence,” (chapter 13), “Legal/professional Ethics: Lawyer and 90 Nebraska Law Review 435 (2011). 2012 Kansas Annual Survey (Kansas Bar Media,” Symposium on Commercial • “Almost a Century and Three Association. Law, National Center for Commercial Restatements After Green it’s Time to Law, Free University, Tbilisi, Georgia, Admit and Remedy the Nonsense of MYRL L. DUNCAN March 20-21, 2012. • Moderator, Negligence,” 38 Northern Kentucky Law Professor of Law “Immigration and Employment Panel,” Review 61 (2011). • “Trayvon Martin and Breaching Borders: State Encroachment Comments on the Florida Self Defense Publications: into the Federal Immigration Domain?, Law,” Arizona State Law Journal Blog, “Global Warming and Non-Point Washburn University School of Law, April 10, 2012. Source Pollution on the Great Plains: Topeka, Oct. 20, 2011. What’s Good for Agriculture Is Also ELLEN BYERS RORY D. BAHADUR Good for Planet Earth” in Climate Visiting Associate Professor of Law Change: A Reader (William H. Rodgers Associate Professor of Law Jr., et al., eds.) (Carolina Academic Presentations: Publications: Press, 2011). Presenter, “An Active Learning “Be Easy on the Court: Get Your Law Approach to Introducing Skills and In Order,” 81:5 The Journal of the Kansas LINDA HENRY ELROD Problem Solving in Chilean Legal Bar Association 12 (May 2012). Richard S. Righter Distinguished Education,” Institute for Law Teaching Professor of Law and Learning, Teaching Methods JAMES M. CONCANNON Training for Law Professors from Distinguished Professor of Law Presentations: Pontifi cia Universidad Católica de “The ABA Family Law Section Model Chile, Washburn University School Professional Service: Relocation Act - Back to the Drawing of Law, Topeka, January 2012. • Appointed chair, ABA/AALS Board?” Sustaining Families: Global Presenter, “Principles of Academic Accreditation Site Evaluation Team, and Local Perspectives, International Support Pedagogy: Creating Context,” Spring 2012, St. Thomas University Society of Family Law North American Workshop on Academic Support, School of Law. • Testifi ed on behalf Regional Meeting and Fifth Annual

Aïda M. Alaka Rory D. Bahadur Ellen Byers James M. Concannon Myrl L. Duncan Linda Henry Elrod

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Midwest Family Law Consortium Meeting, Toronto, Canada, August JOHN J. FRANCIS Meeting, University of Iowa College of 4-7, 2011. • Participated in Solidarities Professor of Law Law, Iowa City, Ia., June 14-16, 2012. • Between Generations conference, “Best Interests of the Child - Judicial International Society of Family Law, Media Interviews: and Parental Roles,” Horizons, Solutions Lyon, France, July 18-24, 2011. “For wrongly convicted man, healing for Change Co-Parenting Program, begins,” Lawrence Journal-World (April 27, Shawnee County Court Services, Publications: 2012). Topeka, May 10, 2012. • “History “A Review of the Year in Family Law: of Kansas Child Custody Laws and Numbers of Disputes Increase,” 45 Presentations: Ten Ways to be a Better Co-Parent,” Family Law Quarterly 443 (2012) (co- “Beyond Angkor Wat and the Killing Horizons, Solutions for Change Co- authored with Robert G. Spector). • Fields: Law, Education, and Life in Parenting Program, Shawnee County “‘Please Let Me Stay’: Hearing the Cambodia,” Washburn University Court Services, Topeka, Jan. 12, Voice of the Child in Hague Abduction Brown Bag International Lecture, 2012. • “Hearing Children’s Voices Cases,” 63 Oklahoma Law Review 663 Topeka, Feb. 8, 2012. in Hague Abduction Cases,” Right to (2011). • CHILD CUSTODY PRACTICE AND Freedom of Personality, Mt. Kopaonik PROCEDURE, 2012 ed. (West Publishing, Professional Service: School of Natural Law 24th Annual 2012). • “Hearing the Voice of the Volunteer teaching, Royal University Conference, Dec. 11-18, 2011. • “Boot Child in Hague Abduction Cases,” No. of Law and Economics, Phnom Penh, Camp Review of Family Law: Child 9, Book 1 PRAVNI ŽIVOT: CASOPIS ZA Cambodia, fall semester 2011 (fi ve Support Guidelines, New Cases and PRAVNU TEORIJU I PRAKSU, Special Issue weeks while on sabbatical teaching New Numbering,” KBA Alternative Law and Responsibility, 24th Annual lawyering and advocacy skills to an Dispute Resolution CLE, Overland Conference. (Belgrade, Serbia: Bar English speaking section of Cambodian Park, Kan., Nov. 18, 2011. • “History Association of Serbia, 2011). law students). of Kansas Child Custody Laws and Avoiding Confl ict,” Horizons, Solutions WILLIAM E. FOSTER Publications: for Change Co-Parenting Program, Associate Professor of Law “Reassessing Concurrent Tribal- Shawnee County Court Services, State-Federal Criminal Jurisdiction in Topeka, Sept. 8, 2011. Presentations: Kansas,” 59 The Kansas Law Review 949 “Piercing the Corporate Veil,” Selected (co-author with Stacy L. Leeds, Aliza Professional Service: Topics and Miscellany 2012 CLE Organick, and Jelani Jefferson Exum) Attended committee meeting of Program, Washburn University School (2011). the Family Law Committee of of Law, Topeka, June 21, 2012. • International Law Section of American “Mergers & Acquisitions: Structuring ALEX GLASHAUSSER Bar Association and Family Law and Tax Considerations,” Wichita Professor of Law Conference, Washington, D.C., May Bar Association Business Law CLE 24-26, 2012. • Attended ABA Family Seminar, Wichita, May 4, 2012. • Presentations: Law Section Spring Meeting, Miami, “Due Diligence: Practical Aspects,” “The Extension Clause and the Fla., April 19-22, 2012. • Attended the Symposium on Commercial Law, Independence of the Supreme Court’s drafting committee meeting for the National Center for Commercial Law, Jurisdiction,” Junior Faculty Federal revisions to the Uniform Child Custody Free University, Tbilisi, Georgia, March Courts Workshop, Florida International Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act, 20-21, 2012. • “Fiduciary Duties, University College of Law, Miami, Fla. Washington, D.C., March 8-11, 2012. • Duty of Care, Business Judgment (Feb. 2012) • “Signs of Distress: The Attended the Uniform Law Commission Rule,” Symposium on Commercial First Amendment and Snyder v. Phelps,” Joint Editorial Board for Uniform Law, National Center for Commercial Fukuoka University exchange group Family Law meeting, New Orleans, La, Law, Free University, Tbilisi, Georgia, (March 2012). Dec. 2-4, 2011. • Appointed, liaison for March 20-21, 2012. • “Responsibility the Family Law Section to the ABA of Directors Towards Rule of Law Initiative, 2011-2012. • Re- the Third Parties / appointed, liaison to the Uniform Law Piercing of Corporate Commission Family Law Joint Editorial Veil,” Symposium Board, 2011-2012. • Re-appointed on Commercial Law, as editor of the Family Law Quarterly, National Center for August 2011-2012. • Attended meetings Commercial Law, Free of the Family Law Section Council University, Tbilisi, and Publications Development Board, Georgia, March 20-21, American Bar Association Annual 2012. William E. Foster John J. Francis Alex Glashausser

32 | SPRING/SUMMER 2012 | WASHBURNLAW.EDU Professors Gabriel Bocksang, Carolina Larrain, Nicolás Cobo, and Raúl Madrid visited Washburn Law in January.

IMMERSION PROGRAM WELCOMES CHILEAN PROFESSORS

our Chilean law professors visited The Chilean professors were practiced their new skills by teaching FWashburn University School of introduced to interactive teaching simulated classes. This is the second Law for a week in January as part of methods with a focus on what the group of Chilean professors to visit a two-week immersion into American best law teachers do, best practices Washburn Law. law school teaching methods. The for Socratic-style questioning, and project is part of the work of the cooperative learning. Washburn Washburn Law and Gonzaga Institute for Law Teaching and Law professors introduced the University School of Law co-host the Learning (ILTL), which is dedicated visitors to free writing, cognitive ILTL, and Michael Hunter Schwartz, to the improvement of law teaching think-alouds, classroom assessment law professor and associate dean for and learning, assessment, and techniques, discovery sequence faculty and academic development at curriculum design in the United instruction, integrated learning Washburn Law, is the co-director. States and abroad. Visiting the law strategies instruction, in-class instant school were Professors Gabriel messaging, and simulations and Bocksang, Nicolás Cobo, Carolina linking to real life. At the end of Larrain, and Raúl Madrid. the week, the visiting professors

Publications: EMILY GRANT LSAC Academic Assistance Training “The Last Word on the Debt Ceiling,” Associate Professor of Law Workshop, University of Denver, Huffi ngton Post (June 20, 2012). • Sturm College of Law, June 15, 2012. “Taking Care of Our Constitution,” Presentations: • “Because Otherwise They Will Be Huffi ngton Post (April 3, 2012). • “‘It’ Is “Legal Writing Concepts and Issues,” Disoriented: Developing a Student- the Supreme Court’s Jurisdiction — Selected Topics and Miscellany 2012 Centered Orientation Process,” Law and Congress Can’t Take Exception,” CLE Program, Washburn University School Admissions Council (LSAC) Huffi ngton Post (Feb. 22, 2012). School of Law, Topeka, Kan., June conference, Los Angeles, Calif., Aug. 6, 21, 2012. • Panelist, “Views from the 2011. Tenure Track,” The 15th Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Publications: Institute, Palm Desert, Calif., May 31, “A New Rhetorical Angle in Marriage 2012. Equality Cases,” 125:036 The Daily Journal, Feb. 23, 2012. • “Helping the JEREMIAH HO Helpers: ASP Basics from Orientation Visiting Associate to the Bar,” Report from the LSAC Professor of Newcomers Conference, Western State Academic Support University College of Law, Fullerton, Calif., Aug. 4-6, 2011 (Law School Presentations: Academic Support Blog, Aug. 29, 2011). “Teaching Students • “Time Capsules,” Idea of the Month, to Become Better August 2011, Institute for Law Teaching Learners,” 2012 and Learning. Emily Grant Jeremiah Ho Randall L. Hodgkinson

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RANDALL L. HODGKINSON Writing Institute, Palm Desert, Calif., Publications: Visiting Assistant Professor of Law May 31, 2012. “Toward a TRIPS Truce,” 32 Michigan Journal of International Law 613 (2011). Professional Service: Submitted Publications: testimony before the Kansas Senate “Be Careful What You Wish For: LIAQUAT ALI KHAN Professor of Law Judiciary Committee, Feb. 2, 2012. Why McDonald v. City of Chicago’s Rejection of the Privileges or Media Interviews: Publications: “Clear as Mud? ‘Clearly Immunities Clause May Not Be Such “U.S. ignores Pakistanis’ feelings about Erroneous’ as a Standard of Review a Bad Thing for Rights,” 115 Penn State drone attacks: Analyst,” Press TV for Instructional Claims,” Kansas Bar Law Review 561 (2011). (June 7, 2012) • “U.S. wants to reserve Association Appellate Practice Newsletter PATRICIA L. JUDD right to kill across border,” Press TV (Spring 2012). Associate Professor of Law (April 29, 2012) • “Obama makes ‘great confession’ on drone strikes,” Press TV JANET THOMPSON Presentations: (Jan. 31, 2012) • “U.S. resumes drone JACKSON “Protecting Your Clients’ IPR strikes in Pakistan,” Press TV (Jan. 11, Professor of Law and Overseas: Strategies for Engaging 2012) • “U.S.-Pakistan ties cannot be Interim Co-director of the Law Clinic U.S. Government Agencies,” 2012 reconstructed easily,” Press TV (Dec. Intellectual Property Law Institute, 14, 2011) • “The Wrath of Khan,” Media: Kansas Bar Association CLE Seminar, Christopher Hitchens Watch (Dec. 6, Host, “The 2012 Kansas Legislature,” Overland Park, Kan., May 4, 2012. 2011) • “U.S. bullying Pakistan in drone I’ve Got Issues (produced by Washburn • “Online Infringement: Secondary row,” Press TV (Oct. 10, 2011) • “U.S. University’s public broadcasting Liability,” Symposium on Commercial fi ghting a failed war in Afghanistan,” station KTWU), June 27, 2012. • Co- Law, National Center for Commercial Press TV (Oct. 8, 2011) • “President host, “Year in Review,” I’ve Got Issues Law, Free University, Tbilisi, Georgia, Obama ‘has morally degenerated’,” (produced by Washburn University’s March 22, 2012. • “Recognition and Press TV (Aug. 13, 2011) • “Kansas public broadcasting station KTWU), Enforcement of International Arbitral Legislature Does Harm in Barring Jan. 15, 2012. • Host, “When Terrorists Awards in Georgia,” Symposium on Islamic Law,” The Huffi ngton Post, May Attack - Remembering 9/11,” I’ve Commercial Law, National Center 15, 2012. • “Murder as Instrument of Got Issues (produced by Washburn for Commercial Law, Free University, Foreign Policy,” MWC News (Nov. 2, University’s public broadcasting station Tbilisi, Georgia, March 20-21, 2012. • 2011). • “Pakistan’s Nuanced Duplicity,” KTWU), Sept. 11, 2011. “From Cacophony to Chorus: A Call MWC News (Oct. 6, 2011). for Harmony, Not Harmonization, Presentations: in International Intellectual Property Publications: Panel Presenter, “Getting It Done,” Dispute Settlement,” Panel on “The Paradoxical Evolution of Law,” 16 Transactional Law and Skills, American Intellectual Property Law in National Lewis & Clark Law Review 337 (2012). • Association of Law Schools Annual Politics and International Relations, “Taking Ownership of Legal Outcomes: Meeting, Washington, D.C., Jan. 7, 2012. International Law Association annual An Argument Against Dissociation meeting, New York, Oct. 22, 2011. Paradigm and Analytical Gaming,” Professional Service: • “Toward a TRIPS Truce,” 2011 55 Saint Louis University Law Journal Board of Directors, Clinical Legal Distinguished Visiting Fellow in 887 (2011). • “A Portfolio Theory of Education Association, 2012-2014. Intellectual Property Law Speaker Foreign Affairs: U.S. Relations with the • Chair, Brown Foundation for Series, Southern Illinois University Muslim World,” 20 Transnational Law & Educational Equity, Excellence and School of Law (presented to students Research, April 2012-2014. and faculty at SIU via Skype), Oct. 6, 2011. JEFFREY D. JACKSON Professor of Law

Presentations: “Recent Developments in United States Supreme Court Cases,” Selected Topics and Miscellany 2012 CLE Program, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kan., June 21, 2012. • Panelist, “Views from the Tenure Track,” The 15th Biennial Conference of the Legal Janet Thompson Jackson Jeffrey D. Jackson Patricia L. Judd Liaquat Ali Khan

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Contemporary Problems 377 (Symposium: one-week seminar, “Legal Writing June 9, 2012. • Keynote Address, A Critical Juncture: Human Rights and Analysis for Law Professors and “Targeted Killing with Drones: At the and the U.S. Standing in the World Practitioners,” Free University, Tbilisi, Intersection of Jus ad Bellum and Jus Under the Obama Administration, Georgia, June 11-15, 2012 (with Aïda in Bello,” Public International Law and Iowa University School of Law) (2011). Alaka). Foreign Affairs Conference, Creighton • Pakistan’s Burgeoning Business of University School of Law, Omaha, Nepotism,” Huffi ngton Post, June 18, Professional Service: Nebraska, March 30, 2012. • “Freedom 2012. • “Attacking Iran Is Illegal,” Co-Editor, Kansas Bar Association Indian of Expression and Hate Speech from Huffi ngton Post, March 7, 2012. Law Section Newsletter, Dec. 2011-present. a Comparative Perspective,” Faculties of Law and Journalism, University of TONYA KOWALSKI Publications: Tuzla, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Professor of Law “Mentoring New Legal Writers,” 81 Jan. 23, 2012. • Oral Advocacy Training, Journal of the Kansas Bar Association 12 University of Sarajevo Faculty of Law, Presentations: (January 2012). • “Demarginalizing Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Panelist, “Views from the Tenure Tribal Law in Legal Writing,” 25:2 The Jan. 20-22, 2012. • Panel Participant, Track,” The 15th Biennial Conference Second Draft 12 (Fall 2011). “Japan’s Peace Constitution at 65: Time of the Legal Writing Institute, Palm for a Change?,” Woodrow Wilson Desert, Calif., May 31, 2012. • Panelist, SHAWN LEISINGER International Center for Scholars, “Designing Legal Research Exercises Executive Director, Centers for Excellence Washington, D.C., Sept. 22, 2011. in Context and WestlawNext Pros & Cons,” Legal Research: Teaching Presentations: Publications: Strategies and Current Issues Panel, Facilitator, Externship Programs “The Japanese Constitution as Law Legal Writing Institute Teaching Working Group, AALS Clinical and the Legitimacy of the Supreme Workshop, University of Missouri- Education Conference, Los Angeles, Court’s Constitutional Decisions: A Kansas City School of Law, Kansas April 30-May 3, 2012. • Presented Response to Matsui,” 88 Wa shington City, Mo., Dec. 2, 2011. • Moderator, a training session on non-profi t University Law Reveiw 657 (2011). • “A “Curtailing Birthright Citizenship board members’ duties and legal Constitutional Case for Amending Panel,” Breaching Borders: State obligations, Washburn University Article 9,” The Constitution of Japan at 65: Encroachment into the Federal Child Development Center Board, Time for a Change?, (Bryce Wakefi eld, ed.) Immigration Domain?, Washburn Topeka, April 23, 2012. • Presented (Woodrow Wilson International Center University School of Law, Topeka, Oct. “Legal Duties and Obligations of for Scholars, 2012). • “Going Medieval: 21, 2011. • Invited speaker, “Toward a Non-Profi t Board Members,” United Targeted Killing, Self-Defence, Pedagogy for Clinical Legal Writing,” Way of Greater Topeka and Washburn and the Jus Ad Bellum Regime,” in The Clinical Theory Workshops at Leadership Institute Introductory Targeted Killing: Law and Morality in an New York Law School, New York, Non-Profi t Board Member Training Asymmetrical World (Claire Finkelstein et Sept. 30, 2011. • Conducted teaching Program, Topeka, March 8, 2012. al., eds.) (Oxford University Press, 2012). and learning Workshop, University of CRAIG MARTIN • “LDP’s Dangerous Proposals for Arkansas, Little Rock Bowen School Amending Anti-war Article,” The Japan Associate Professor of Law of Law, Little Rock, Ark., February Times, June 6, 2012. • “Targeted Killings 2012 (with Michael Hunter Schwartz). Symposium: Craig Martin Comments Presentations: • Opening Plenary, “Value of Variety on ‘Targeting Co-Belligerents’ by Jens “Denial of the Rights of Belligerency: in Action,” 2012 Annual Conference David Ohlin,” Opinio Juris, June 4, The Forgotten and Misunderstood of the Institute for Law Teaching and 2012. • “Obama Administration Fails Clause in the Constitution of Learning, Gonzaga University School to Address the Legality of Targeted Japan,” Law and Society Association of Law, Spokane, Wash., June 25, 2012 Killing,” Truman National Security Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, (with Sandra Simpson, Gerry Hess and Project, Doctrine Blog, May 3, 2012. • Michael Hunter Schwartz). • Co-taught “Why We Should Not Support an Israeli Attack on Iran,” Huffi ngton Post, March 2, 2012.

Tonya Kowalski Shawn Leisinger Craig Martin Joseph P. Mastrosimone

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JOSEPH P. MASTROSIMONE LORI A. MCMILLAN DAVID E. PIERCE Associate Professor of Law Associate Professor of Law Professor of Law

Presentations: Presentations: Presentations: “Recent Developments in Labor and “An Empirical Examination of the “Recent Developments in Property Employment Law,” Selected Topics Noncharitable Nonprofi t Subsector in Law,” Selected Topics and Miscellany and Miscellany 2012 CLE Program, Canada,” Washburn University School 2012 CLE Program, Washburn Washburn University School of Law, of Law Tax Colloquium, Topeka, April University School of Law, Topeka, Topeka, June 22, 2012. • Panelist, 20, 2012. • “The Business Judgment June 21, 2012. • “Recent Developments “Views from the Tenure Track,” The Rule as an Immunity Doctrine,” in Contract Law,” Selected Topics 15th Biennial Conference of the Legal Washburn University School of Law and Miscellany 2012 CLE Program, Writing Institute, Palm Desert, Calif., Faculty, Topeka, April 11, 2012. • Washburn University School of May 31, 2012. • “Writing It Right: “Honest Services Update: Directors’ Law, Topeka, June 21, 2012. • “Basic Ethical and Professional Concerns in Liability Concerns After Skilling and Conveyance Principles: Conveyance Legal Writing,” Kansas Bar Association Black,” Northern Kentucky University, Requirements, Lifetime Transfers and CLE Seminar, Topeka, April 4, 2012. Chase School of Law, Oct. 14, 2011. Transfers at Death, Encumbrances,” • “Creating Ethical and Professional Special Institute on the Nuts and Bolts Law Students and Lawyers: Introducing Publications: of Mineral Title Examination, Rocky Professionalism and Legal Ethics “Honest Services Update: Directors’ Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Through the First-Year Writing Class,” Liability Concerns after Skilling and Westminster, Colo., Feb. 9, 2012. • Legal Writing Institute Teaching Black,” 18 Texas Wesleyan Law Review “Oil and Gas Issues of Interest to the Workshop, University of Missouri- 149 (2011). [127 KB PDF] • “Recent Agricultural Lawyer,” 8th Annual Kansas City School of Law, Kansas City, Developments in U.S. Nonprofi t Agricultural Law Update, Kansas Bar Mo., Dec. 2, 2011. Taxation: The Pension Protection Act Association, Manhattan, Kan., Oct. 28, Takes Effect,” 81:6 Journal of the Kansas 2011. • “What the Courts Have Done to Publications: Bar Association 20 (June 2012). Oil & Gas Law−Recently,” 36th Annual “Adding Punch to Your Arguments: KBA/KIOGA Oil & Gas Conference, The Thesis Sentence,” 81:3 Journal of the ALIZA ORGANICK Wichita, Oct. 21, 2011. • “Common Kansas Bar Association 12 (March 2012). Professor of Law and Interests Created in Oil & Gas,” Oil Interim Co-director of the Law Clinic & Gas Law Short Course, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, NANCY G. MAXWELL Denver, Colo., Oct. 19, 2011. • Professor of Law Presentations: Plenary Speaker, “Introducing “Environmental Regulation of the Oil Indigenous Legal Theory into Clinical & Gas Industry,” Oil & Gas Law Short Presentations: Course, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Plenary session, “Feminist Practice,” Australian National Conference on Clinical and Experiential Foundation, Denver, Colo., Oct. 19, Jurisprudence,” Kansas Women 2011. • “The Oil & Gas Lease: Implied Attorneys Association Annual Meeting, Learning, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Sept. 7-9, 2011. Covenants,” Oil & Gas Law Short Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kan., July Course, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law 14, 2011 (with Jennifer Zook and Shawn Foundation, Denver, Colo., Oct. 18, Jurgensen). Publications: “Reassessing Concurrent Tribal- 2011. • “A Short, Short Course on Oil & JOSEPH E. MCKINNEY State-Federal Criminal Jurisdiction Gas Law for the Wyoming Practitioner,” Visiting Professor of Law in Kansas,” 59 Kansas Law Review 949 Wyoming State Bar Annual Meeting and (co-author with John J. Francis, Stacy Judicial Conference, CLE presentation, Presentations: L. Leeds, and Jelani Jefferson Exum) Cheyenne, Wyo., Sept. 15, 2011. • Speaker, Use and Abuse of Generally (2011). Accepted Accounting Principles, Topeka Bar Association, Topeka, April 27, 2012.

Nancy G. Maxwell Joseph E. McKinney Lori A. McMillan Aliza Organick David E. Pierce

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“Professional Responsibility, Ethics, WILLIAM RICH REGINALD L. ROBINSON and the Transactional Lawyer,” 57th Professor of Law Professor of Law Annual Institute of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation CLE, Santa Presentations: Presentations: Fe, N.M., July 22, 2011. Winter School Course, Constitutional “Our Work Here is Done?: Considering Interpretation, Free University of Changed Circumstances and the Publications: Tbilisi, Bazaleti Training Centre, Continuing Need for Special Rules “Kansas,” 2012 Survey on Oil & Gas, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, Feb. 2012. Under Section 5 of the Voting Rights 18 Texas Wesleyan Law Review 485 (2012). • Workshop on Constitutional Law, Act of 1965,” Thurgood Marshall • “Void Enactments of the Kansas Racial Profi ling Advisory Board of the Program, University of South Dakota Legislature,” 80 Journal of the Kansas City of Wichita, Wichita, June 30, 2012. School of Law, March 14, 2012. • Panel Bar Association 28 (July/August 2011). • Panelist, Affi rmative Action, Fisher moderator, “State Policy Potpourri: • “Professional Responsibility and the v. Texas, Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Some Comparative Assessments,” Transactional Lawyer: The Drafting Association, Kansas City, Mo., May Breaching Borders: State Encroachment Context,” 57 Rocky Mountain Mineral Law 24, 2012. • “Supreme Court Review,” into the Federal Immigration Domain?, Institute 19-1 (2011). • “Carol Rose Comes NAACP Annual Conference, Kansas Topeka, Washburn University School of to the Oilpatch: Modern Property City, Kan., July 11, 2010. Law, Oct. 20, 2011. Analysis Applied to Modern Reservoir Problems,” 19 Penn State Environmental Professional Service: Professional Service: Law Review 241 (2011). • “Developing a Constitutional Law Project, Free Symposium Planner and Host, Breaching Common Law of Hydraulic Fracturing,” University of Tbilisi, Tbilisi, Republic Borders: State Encroachment into the 72 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 685 of Georgia, 2011-2012 (coordinated Federal Immigration Domain?, Washburn (2011). • Co-editor, Oil and Gas Law Washburn student participation in University School of Law, Topeka, Oct. Reporter, Volumes 173 (2012). • Co- consulting with Free University students 20-21, 2011. • Board member, Capitol editor, Oil and Gas Law Reporter, Volume who drafted amicus briefs for cases Federal Financial Inc., 2012-present. • 172 (2011). pending before the Constitutional Chair, Federal Advisory Committee on Court of the Republic of Georgia). Juvenile Justice, 2011-2013. MARY KREINER RAMIREZ • Facilitation of law school retreats, Professor of Law Resource Corps, Association of DAVID S. RUBENSTEIN American Law Schools, September 2011 Associate Professor of Law Media Interviews: and May 2012. • Chair, Association of Quoted, “Ticket case’s legal aspects American Law Schools, Committee on Presentations: unclear,” Lawrence Journal-World (Feb. Academic Freedom and Tenure, 2009- “The Subfederal Immigration 22, 2012). • “Criminal Affi rmance: 2012. Revolution,” Topeka Bar Association, Going Beyond the Deterrence Paradigm Topeka, Feb. 3, 2012. to Examine the Social Meaning of Publications: Declining Prosecution of Elite Crime,” Cumulative Supplement, Modern Professional Service: Citizen Warriors, WSBR Radio South Constitutional Law, 3d ed., Volumes 1-3 Symposium Planner and Host, Breaching Florida 740AM, Feb. 19, 2011. (West, 2011-2012). • “Why ‘Privileges Borders: State Encroachment into the or Immunities?’: An Explanation of Federal Immigration Domain?, Washburn Presentations: the Framers’ Interpretation and the University School of Law, Topeka, Oct. Reader/Responder, “Police Effi ciency Supreme Court’s Misinterpretation,” 20-21, 2011 and the Fourth Amendment,” LatCrit in Infi nite Hope Finite Disappointment: The XVI: The 16th Annual LatCrit Story of the First Interpreters of the Fourteenth MICHAEL HUNTER Conference, San Diego, Calif., Oct. 8, Amendment, (Elizabeth Reilly, ed.) SCHWARTZ (Akron University Press, 2011). 2011. Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Development and Professor of Law

Presentations: Opening Plenary, “Value of Variety in Action,” 2012 Annual Conference of the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning, Gonzaga University School of Law, Spokane, Wash., June 25, 2012 (with Sandra Simpson, Gerry Hess, and Tonya Kowalski). • Conducted week- Mary Kreiner Ramirez William Rich Reginald L. Robinson David S. Rubenstein

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long course design workshop for Iranian and Turkish law learning skills to more than 200 minority or economically professors, Istanbul, Turkey, May 2012. • Conducted week- disadvantaged students who are starting law school in fall, long course design workshop for Georgian law professors, Atlanta, Georgia, Des Moines, Iowa, Los Angeles and San Tbilisi, Georgia, May 2012 (part of year-long train-the- Diego, California, June-July, 2011. • Appointed, Panelist of trainers curriculum). • Guest Speaker, “Maximizing Learning Consultants for Incorporating Practical Problem Solving into in a Multi-Generational Setting,” 2012 PA CLE Providers Non-ADR Courses, ABA LEAPS Project, 2011-present. • Conference, Harrisburg, Penn., June 8, 2012. • Presented, Fellow of Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers, Institute for the “Mid-Semester Student Evaluations,” Capital University Advancement of the American Legal System (April 2012). School of Law, Columbus, Ohio, May 2012. • Presented, • Contracts I and II courses selected by the University of “Non-Exam Assessments,” Charlotte Law School, Charlotte, Denver Institute for the Advancement of the American N.C., May 2012. • Presented, “Assessment,” William Mitchell Legal System as innovative courses that re fl ect exemplary School of Law, St. Paul, Minn., April 2012. • Presented, “What innovative teaching (2011). the Best Law Teachers Do,” University of Mississippi School of Law, Oxford, Miss., April 2012. • Conducted Program Publications: Evaluation for Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, “All About the First Year of Law School,” 12 Transactions: Calif., March-April 2012. • Plenary Presentation, “Choosing The Tennessee Journal of Business Law 77 (2011) (with Chaim Wisely: Beyond Using Technology for Its Own Sake,” Saiman and Jessica Rubin). • “Improving Legal Education by Technology in and Beyond the Classroom, North Carolina Improving Casebooks: Fourteen Things Casebooks Can Do Central University College of Law, Raleigh, N.C., March, to Produce Better and More Learning,” 3 Elon Law Review 27 2012 (with Gerry Hess). • Conducted Half-Day Workshop (2011). [2.6 MB PDF] “Law Teaching Techniques,” Symposium on Commercial Law, National Center for Commercial Law, Free University, AMY DEEN WESTBROOK Tbilisi, Georgia, March 23, 2012. • “Insurance of Professional Professor of Law Liability of Lawyers,” Symposium on Commercial Law, National Center for Commercial Law, Free University, Media Interviews: Tbilisi, Georgia, March 20-21, 2012. • Conducted teaching “War on Terror: Metro companies wary of work with ‘rogue and learning Workshop, University of Arkansas, Little Rock states,’” Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Jan. 5, 2012). Bowen School of Law, Little Rock, Ark., February 2012 (with Tonya Kowalski). • “What the Best Higher Education Presentations: Teachers Do,” College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, “Double Trouble: Collateral Shareholder Litigation Following Va., Jan. 13, 2012. • Conducted workshop, “Outcomes, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Investigations,” The Ohio Measures, and Refl ections: Moving Student Services Towards State University, Moritz College of Law, Columbus, Ohio, the Continuous Improvement Ideal,” American Association March 16, 2012. • Panelist, “U.S. Securities Law and Global of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., Jan. 5, Security,” Panel on ‘Cutting-Edge’ issues in Public and 2012. • “What the Best Law Teachers Do,” University of Private International Law, ABA Section of International Law Missouri School of Law, Columbia, Mo., September 2011. • Fall Meeting, Dublin, Ireland, Oct. 12, 2011. Discussion Facilitator, “Innovations in Teaching,” Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Grand Rapids Campus, Grand Rapids, Professional Service: Mich., September 2011. • “What the Best Law Teachers Do,” Developed and taught a Winter School program on Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Lansing Campus, Lansing, International Business Transactions and Contract Drafting, Mich., September 2011. • “Leadership in Learning: Views National Center for Commercial Law, Free University from Georgia,” Thomas M. Cooley Law School Leadership of Tbilisi, Bazaleti Training Centre, Tbilisi, Republic of Group, Lansing, Mich., September 2011. • “Resources for Law Georgia, Jan. 23-29, 2012. Teachers,” West Publishing’s Innovation Conference, St. Paul, Minn., August 2011. Publications: “The Inadequate Disclosure of Business Conducted in Professional Service: Countries Designated as State Academic Curriculum Coordinator, Sponsors of Terrorism,” 39 Securities Council on Legal Education Regulation Law Journal 15 (2011). • Opportunity (CLEO), 2012. “Banking, Commercial & Contract • Overhauled the design and Law” (chapter 2), 2012 Kansas Annual teaching of CLEO’s two pre-law Survey (Kansas Bar Association). school programs and taught expert

Michael Hunter Schwartz Amy Deen Westbrook

38 | SPRING/SUMMER 2012 | WASHBURNLAW.EDU Planned Giving AAF Family Famamilymilyl AffairAff AffaAAffffairir CAROLL LL.. FOREMANORRE EESESTABLISHESBLIB E S SCHOLASCHOLARSHIPHOHOLA

nspired by their mother’s desire to see The combination of personal Iher children achieve certain academic relationships and professional growth goals, Carol Foreman and three of her is at the core of the unique Washburn fi ve sisters graduated from Washburn experience, the experience that Carol University. Carol’s sisters Ann Dickhoff wants to perpetuate. and Nancy Beier both received bachelor’s degrees in social work. Her sister Janet “Washburn Law changed my life. It Leiker earned a bachelor’s degree in allowed me the opportunity to engage history, while Carol earned a juris with bright people and it opened my doctor from Washburn Law in 1980. eyes to new possibilities. Working hard Their late mother, Mary Ann Foreman, to achieve a goal instills confi dence and had received her bachelor’s degree that’s what Washburn Law did for me,” in sociology from Washburn in 1943 Carol said. and began studies at Washburn Law. Carol L. Foreman However, World War II and the demands Carol has always valued her legal of raising a family required her full time and attention. education and believes it was instrumental in providing the tools she needed to achieve her goals. Thus, Carol Carol was among a growing number of women choosing has fi nancially supported Washburn Law for more a career in law in the 1980s and she found success in than 20 years, giving annually to a myriad of projects government service. She began her distinguished career including the law library, the Dean’s Fund, the annual as a hearing offi cer and within two years received fund, and student scholarships. a promotion to chief administrative law judge. She served in that capacity for 15 years before becoming the Now, Carol wants to ensure future students have similar fi rst director of the Kansas Offi ce of Administrative opportunities that she experienced and the ability Hearings. Carol is widely recognized for her expertise to achieve their goals. She has included Washburn in administrative law and chairs the Kansas Judicial University School of Law in her will to receive a major Council’s Administrative Procedures Advisory estate gift to establish the Carol L. Foreman Law Committee. Scholarship. She desires future generations of women to enjoy and grow from the same rigorous yet nurturing In 2003, Governor Kathleen Sebelius appointed Carol Washburn education. as deputy secretary of the Kansas Department of Administration, which involved leading and managing “Carol is a long-time supporter of Washburn Law a workforce of 500 employees responsible for state whose generosity has made an important impact on government operations. Carol retired from that position the law school. We are extremely grateful for her desire in 2010 and now serves as of counsel with the law fi rm to provide additional opportunities for our future of Glenn, Cornish and Hanson. students,” Dean Thomas J. Romig said. • • • “Washburn Law is a special place where students can Alumni and friends who are interested in joining Carol in building gain more than an excellent legal education,” Carol the future of Washburn Law through trusts, estates, and other explained. “The Law School provides rigorous academic planned gifts are encouraged to contact: legal education in a nurturing and supportive setting and the new Center for Law and Government offers a Martin Ahrens, Senior Development Offi cer unique training ground for future attorneys.” Washburn University School of Law 1700 SW College Avenue, Topeka, KS 66621 (785) 670-2781, [email protected]

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MARCK COBB, ’89 Parallels of Life and Law in the Game of Chess

“LIFE IS A KIND OF CHESS” “The Game of Chess is not merely an idle he fried liver strategy is not Ta mealtime ploy by a parent amusement; several very valuable qualities of determined to improve the eating the mind, useful in the course of human life, are habits of a child. Rather it’s a to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to strategy in the game of chess that can lead to a near certain defeat become habits ready on all occasions; for life is if the opponent doesn’t recognize a kind of Chess, in which we have often points to it. The similarities of the game’s strategies and struggles to those gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend faced in life are what attract some with, and in which there is a vast variety of good players to the sport. and ill events, that are, in some degree, the

“The game of chess mirrors life,” effect of prudence, or the want of it. …” says Marck Cobb, ’89, “in that it teaches you skills you will use to succeed in the practice of law and in life.” —Benjamin Franklin, “The Morals of Chess”

Cobb is president of the International Chess Institute of the Midwest in Lindsborg, Kan., a position he’s held game against another. It’s a fun way of learning how to since 2006. He said he played chess infrequently with a think and be responsible for any consequences.” friend when he was in law school, and even though the Air Force Academy he attended had a chess club he didn’t Cobb explained that players also learn to watch their participate. It wasn’t until his son was in fi fth grade and opponent very carefully, another life skill he believes competing in a national chess tournament in Kansas City is extremely important. “That’s why I was encouraging in 2001 that Cobb became more interested in the game. [playing chess] because one, I could see the kids were “He did well and was excited about it and I decided, well, having fun but they were also developing learning skills we could have a chess club at the school. So I organized that would be with them for a lifetime.” a chess club at the elementary school and ended up being the coach.” If he had to choose a favorite chess strategy, Cobb admitted it would be the fried liver. “The fried liver is For nearly 10 years Cobb coached students in the game basically an element of using the knight tactic, and if of chess, not because he was an expert at the game−he the opponent doesn’t defend against it then they can get said he knows enough to teach the basics−but because of check-mated pretty quickly. They don’t see it coming. the game’s educational value. My son used it on me all the time, and after about three months he could beat me all the time,” Cobb chuckled. “I knew that teaching chess was basically teaching lifetime skills. It’s a very quiet game and that allows [players] to Learning from mistakes in life improves future success, focus their attention on developing their strategies and Cobb noted, and chess is no exception. “The grand their tactics, and of course strategy is long-term planning, masters say to players, ‘Don’t worry about losing a game. which you need in life, and tactics are short-term I’ve lost more than you’ll ever lose.’ Being a grand master, planning which you need in life.” they’ve had to lose a large number of games to get to that level.” Cobb said the game also benefi ts players because they learn the importance of personal responsibility. For players, chess is not just a game, Cobb said. “We call “Obviously they recognize that if they do something it a sport and an art because the mental acuity comes wrong they can only blame themselves because it’s their from both the analytical thinking side of the brain and

40 | SPRING/SUMMER 2012 | WASHBURNLAW.EDU alumni news the creative thinking side of the BIOGRAPHY: Marck Cobb, ’89, has served the Washburn Law Alumni brain.” He pointed out that, just Association in various capacities, currently as a member of the board of governors. as in law school, chess requires He is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colo., and the players to see both sides of an Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, Calif. He served for 24 years with the U.S. Air issue. “When you’re in grade Force and retired as lieutenant colonel. He negotiated an international treaty for special school you look at one side of fl ight operations between the United States and the former Soviet Union. As Deputy the coin—whatever they teach Chief for Long-Range Planning for the Air Force in the Pentagon, he supervised you. When you get to college, the air operation research plans for the fi rst Gulf War. Cobb has been awarded the hopefully, you get to see a little Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, and bit more of that other side but other medals for his fl ying achievements in Southeast Asia, his diplomacy in Russia, and you don’t see as much. In law his accomplishments in the Pentagon. He has served as a legal mediator to facilitate school, we learned how to think solutions for domestic and civil law issues and served in leadership positions with the because we look at both sides of American Red Cross Sunfl ower Chapter in McPherson, Kan.; the McPherson Museum the coin. Chess introduces you and Arts Foundation; the McPherson Chamber of Commerce; and the McPherson to that kind of thinking ability.” County Bar Association.

ALUMNI In Memoriam Washburn Law mourns the passing of the following alumni, whose deaths were reported to the school between October 16, 2011, and May 20, 2012.

42 John R. Alden, 55 Edwin M. Wheeler, 67 Bryson E. Mills, Wichita, Northbrook, Ill., on Dec. 12, Sarasota, Fla., on Feb. 18, 2012, on Jan. 19, 2012, at age 75 2011, at age 92 at age 85 71 William A. Taylor III, ba 47 Raymond E. Stein, 56 William Patrick “Bill” ’68, jd ’71, Winfi eld, Kan., on Beloit, Kan., on Dec. 8, 2011, Higgins, Wichita, on March 19, March 7, 2012, at age 66 at age 94 2012, at age 79 75 Mary L. Blessing, 49 Les C. Arvin, Wichita, 57 William L. Parker Jr., Lawrence, Kan., on Jan. 11, 2012, Jan. 22, 2012, at age 88 • Ocala, Fla., on April 16, 2012, at age 78 • Donald E. Hill, Conant Wait, Topeka, on age not available Wichita, on Feb. 26, 2012, at age Jan. 11, 2012, at age 90 61 • The Honorable Thomas L. Toepfer, Hays, Kan., on April 58 Terrance J. “Jerry” 30, 2012, at age 61 52 Joseph L. McClymond, Muth, Rose Hill, Kan., on Oct. Breckenridge, Texas, on Nov. 7, 10, 2011, at age 85 • James T. 2011, at age 83 Myers, Medicine Lodge, Kan., 77 William E. Metcalf, on Feb. 19, 2012, at age 80 Topeka, on March 13, 2012, at age 68 53 Zillman P. Sheldon, Amarillo, Texas, Feb. 3, 2012, 60 Colonel Stephen R. Bloss, at age 92 Castle Rock, Colo., on April 83 Kristine Kathryn 29, 2012, at age 75 • Senator Schlaman, Falls Church, Va., Franklin D. Gaines, Hamilton, on Jan. 20, 2012, at age 56 Kan., on Dec. 25, 2011, at age 77

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end of 2011. • H. David Starkey, ’74, Board. • Th omas L. Th eis, ’79, of Topeka, is the city attorney for Topeka. Foulston Siefk in law fi rm’s Topeka offi ce, Actions An Army veteran, Starkey previously has been selected for inclusion in the 2012 practiced law in Colby, Kan., and was Th e Best Lawyers in America. Th eis has Updates submitted as of June 12, 2012 chief legal counsel for the Department of also been named 2012 Topeka Health Agriculture. Care Lawyer of the Year by Th e Best Lawyers in America. • Douglas E. Wells, Th e Reno County Bar Association 54 ’79, who has a private law practice in honored John H. Shaff er, ’54, Hutchin- 75 Kathryn M. Wachsman, ’75, New Topeka, has been included in the Missouri son, Kan. Shaff er served in the Coast York, serves as chairman of the board and Kansas Super Lawyers publication Guard during World War II. and vice president of CTI Science Inc., for the fourth consecutive year under a Kentucky-based biotech company the heading of Criminal Defense: DUI/ that specializes in products designed to Th e State Bar of New Mexico has DWI. Wells also has received a top rating 62 improve quality of life. recognized Harry S. Connelly, ’62, Las of ‘AV’ in the Martindale Hubbell Law Cruces, N.M., for his 50 years of law Directory for the 11th year in a row and was selected by his peers for inclusion practice. James P. Rankin, ’76, of Foulston 76 in the 2012 edition of Best Lawyers in Siefk in law fi rm’s Topeka offi ce, has been America in the practice area of DUI/ selected for inclusion in the 2012 Th e Michael R. McNeil, ’65, Roswell, DWI Defense. 65 Best Lawyers in America. • William F. Ga., is an associate broker with Remax Sheahan, ’76, Topeka, is a Republican Around Atlanta and was recently granted candidate for the Shawnee County the status of realtor emeritus by the 80 Mark A. Ridder, ’80, Arvada, Colo., treasurer’s offi ce. Sheahan is a principal National Association of Realtors. He also has joined Titan Lenders Corporation in William Sheahan Associates, a Topeka received the prestigious Crystal Phoenix as executive vice president and general architectural services fi rm. Award by the Atlanta Board of Realtors. counsel. Ridder has more than 31 years of experience in advising in-house corporate clients in areas ranging from regulatory Mark Heitz, ’77, Topeka, recently Bill Kurtis, ’66, Chicago, is co- 77 compliance and operations to corporate 66 retired president of Aviva, was elected into anchor of the weekday CBS 2 News at 6 acquisitions. the 2012 Class of Topeka’s Business Hall p.m. with Walter Jacobson. Th e legendary of Fame. • Ronald D. Smith, ’77, Larned, anchor team reunited in August 2010 and Kan., has been appointed president of returned to WBBM-TV, where they once 81 Th e Hon. Glenn R. Braun, ’81, the Southwest Kansas Bar Association. dominated Chicago’s 10 p.m. news from Hays, Kan., was appointed as a judge to • Ronald P. Williams, ’77, Wichita, a 1973 until 1982. Th ey will anchor the the 23rd District Court in Kansas by long-time aviation attorney and current newscast through February 2013. Governor Sam Brownback. Judge Braun chairman of the board of the Kansas is a partner in Glassman, Bird, Braun Aviation Museum, has joined Yingling & Schwartz, where he has practiced law 70 Steven McGinnis, ba ’67, jd Aviation, the Wichita Mid-Continent for 30 years. • Gary L. Conwell, ’81, ’70, Pleasanton, Calif., joined Capital Airport-based fi xed base operation and Topeka, opened the Law Offi ce of Gary Forensics Inc. and serves as a security Cessna Piston Engine Authorized Sales L. Conwell. • Robert G. Martin II, industry expert supporting arbitration Representatives. ’81, Wichita, has been accepted into the cases. American Academy of Estate Planning Attorneys. 78 Lee Hess, ’78, Dulles, Va., is a 72 Th e Hon. Charles E. Andrews Foreign Service offi cer with the U.S. Jr., ’72, Topeka, has retired as district Department of State and has recently 83 Th e Hon. Bryce A. Abbott, court judge for the 3rd District (Shawnee been assigned to the U.S. Embassy in ’83, Wichita, received the “Service to County). • Linda D. Elrod, ’72, Harae, Zimbabwe, for a three-year tour Consumers” award from the National Topeka, published “Please Let Me Stay: with the diplomatic title of counselor. Alliance on Mental Illness of Kansas at Hearing the Voice of the Child in Hague its 2011 annual convention. • Larry K. Abduction Cases,” which appears in 63 King, ’83, Tulsa, Okla., retired from Douglas S. Pringle, ’79, Oklahoma Oklahoma Law Review 663 (2011). 79 private practice in April but continues to City, Okla., is now with Chesapeake serve as county counselor of Chautauqua Energy Corporation. • Gary R. Terrill, County, Kan., and as municipal judge for ’79, Shawnee, Kan., has joined the Kansas 74 Th e Hon. Th omas L. Boeding, ’74, Sedan, Kan. Kansas City, Kan., retired as a district Department of Labor, Topeka, as a court judge (Wyandotte County) at the member of the Workers’ Compensation

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84 Steven F. Kearney, cj ’81, jd ’84, Defense. She remains an active reserve Kan., joined the law fi rm of James M. Topeka, was appointed to the State judge advocate in the U.S. Air Force. • Caplinger Chtd., Topeka. Her practice Employee Pay Plan Oversight Committee Craig W. West, ’87, Wichita, Kan., of focuses on utility regulation, with an by Governor Sam Brownback. Kearney Foulston Siefk in LLP, has been inducted emphasis in telecommunications law. is the owner of the government aff airs as a fellow of Th e American College of fi rm Kearney and Associates Inc. • Scott Trial Lawyers. Hesse, ’84, Topeka, has become associated 94 Dustin DeVaughn, ’94, and with the law fi rm of Newman, Reynolds Richard James, ’00, have opened their & Riff el, PA. • Craig R. McKinney, ’84, 88 Terri D. Th omas, ’88, Kansas City, own law fi rm, DeVaughn James LLC, Topeka, of McKinney & McKinney law Mo., was named adjunct professor of the in Wichita. Cody Claassen, ’10, has fi rm, has been named Topeka Trusts and year at Washburn Law for the 2011-12 joined the new law fi rm, which focuses on Estates Lawyer of the Year for 2012 by school year. personal injury cases. • Kenneth P. Kula, Th e Best Lawyers in America. McKinney ’94, was promoted to partner at Dallas- & McKinney have moved to the newly based McDole, Kennedy & Williams, Michael J. Kuckelman, ’90, Olathe, renovated Capitol Federal Building in 90 PC, a boutique law fi rm specializing Kan., has joined Kuckelman Torline downtown Topeka. • Alice E. Perry, ’84, in intellectual property and corporate Kirkland & Lewis as partner. • Brian Springfi eld, Mass., a 20-year prosecutor litigation. Kula focuses his practice on R. Sherwood, ’90, Garden City, Kan., for Massachusetts superior courts, will intellectual property litigation and also deputy county attorney in Finney County, serve as program director of the new concentrates in the areas of technology Kan., announced his candidacy for Finney bachelor’s degree program in criminal law and general litigation. • Danielle County attorney. justice at Elms College. Noe, ’94, Palm Coast, Fla., is assistant dean of academic aff airs at the Florida Coastal School of Law in Jacksonville, Fla. Marshall S. Honeyman, ’91, Mark W. Skinner, ’85, Washington, 91 85 Overland Park, Kan., was elected to D.C., is president of the World Federation partner status with Lathrop & Gage LLP. of Hemophilia and Institute for Policy 95 Danielle J. Cole, ’95, Atlanta, Ga., Honeyman practices intellectual property Advancement. has been ranked as a leading practitioner law with an emphasis on advising clients in the 2012 edition of Chambers USA, a with respect to patent matters. • Shane directory featuring client-led intelligence 86 Statehouse regulars Allie A. Devine, T. McCall, ’91, Smith Center, Kan., on America’s leading lawyers for business. ’86, Topeka, and John Donley, ’07, is president of the Kansas Bankers • Rickie E. Ibe, ’95, Farmington Hills, both formerly of the Kansas Livestock Association Trust Division and member Mich., is an attorney in Farmington Hills. Association, have formed Devine and of the organization’s board of directors. • David A. Lunceford, ’95, Lee’s Summit, Donley LLC, an agriculture-oriented Mo., has a small boutique practice in law fi rm and lobbying group. Devine is a Lee’s Summit. • Ryland F. Mahathey, Gwynne E. Harris Birzer, ’92, former Kansas Secretary of Agriculture 92 ’95, Boynton Beach, Fla., has joined the Wichita, is a partner at Hite, Fanning (1995-99). • Randall W. Schroer, ’86, Florida-based law fi rm of Broad and & Honeyman, LLP. • James S. Elliott, Overland Park, Kan., has joined Morrow, Cassel in the fi rm’s Boca Raton offi ce as of ’92, Wichita, Kan., was appointed by Willnauer, Kloft erman, Church LLC, counsel in the Estate Planning and Trusts Governor Sam Brownback to the Kansas Kansas City, Mo. Practice Group. • Teresa “Teri” (Bowles) Sentencing Commission. Elliott owns a Schultz, ’95, Aledo, Texas, was promoted private practice law fi rm.• William R. to associate general counsel in the IP Th ornton, ’92, Atchison, Kan., is general 87 Daniel B. Bailey, ’87, Denver, is with Legal Department at Alcon Laboratories counsel for the Missouri Department of Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health Inc., the eye care division of Novartis, at Higher Education in Jeff erson City, Mo. Systems, Denver, Colo. • Bob Belt, ’87, its headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas. Omaha, Neb., has been promoted to assistant vice president - law. He has 13 Stacy L. Cook, ’93, Indianapolis, years of experience with Union Pacifi c, 93 Mary V. Johnson, ’96, Jackson, Ind., an attorney at Barnes & Th ornburg 96 most recently serving as general solicitor. Mo., was honored as the fi rst faculty LLP, has been elected a partner in the • Susan G. Stanley Hamilton, ’87, fellow of the Supreme Court of Missouri. fi rm. Cook is a member of the fi rm’s Westwood, Kan., is division counsel - She is a professor of business law at Healthcare Department and focuses her telecom for Black & Veatch, Overland Southeast Missouri State University, Cape practice on regulatory and transactional Park, Kan. • Paul C. Herr, ’87, Wichita, Girardeau. issues, including fraud and abuse laws, has retired from Klenda, Mitchell, billing and reimbursement, HIPAA Austerman & Zuercher LLC. • Julia A. compliance, and related litigation matters. Rivera, ’87, Coppell, Texas, retired from 97 Tricia M. Oldridge, ’97, Derby, • Colleen R. Harrell, ’93, Lawrence, a civilian career with the Department of Kan., is with Security 1st Title, Wichita. e-mail:[email protected] WASHBURN LAWYER | SPRING/SUMMER 2012 | 43 Class Actions

• Jack C. Morgan III, ’97, has joined has joined the Overland Park offi ce of Wichita, announces the birth of Leyton the Business Litigation Practice Group Wallace, Saunders, Austin, Brown & Christopher Goos on Dec. 26, 2011. at Roetzel & Andress LPA as a partner. Enochs Chartered. Whitener is licensed He is based at the fi rm’s Fort Myers, to practice law in Kansas and Missouri. Fla., offi ce. • Stephen J. Torline, ’97, His civil practice focus is on tort litigation 05 Vincent M. Cox, ’05, Topeka, Leawood, Kan., has joined Kuckelman defense. has joined the law fi rm of Cavanaugh Torline Kirkland & Lewis as a partner. & Lemon. Cox’s practice focuses on civil litigation, including appellate and 01 John A. Farley, ’01, and Razmi M. administrative litigation, automobile 98 Amy J. Bipes, ’98, Manhattan, Tahirkheli, ’01, both of Osawatomie, accidents, construction law, landlord- Kan., received the Civilian Medal for Kan., have opened the Law Offi ces of tenant, personal injury, real estate, and Meritorious Service. • David A. Bohm, Razmi Tahirkheli and John Farley, LLC school law. He is licensed to practice ’98, Cary, N.C., assistant executive at 560 Main Street. Tahirkheli will work in both the state and federal courts of director of the North Carolina Bar full time in the offi ce, while Farley will Kansas, and the United States Supreme Association, is the 2011 recipient of the work part-time, balancing cases with Court. • Scott A. Grosskreutz, ’05, National Association of Bar Executives his current position as an attorney for Bloomington, Minn., serves as assistant President’s Award. • Michael A. Priddle, the Osawatomie State Hospital. • Lori attorney general in the Minnesota ’98, Goddard, Kan., has formed his A. Fleming, ’01, Pittsburg, Kan., was Attorney General’s Offi ce. • Jeff rey N. own law fi rm. • Angela L. Spigarelli, appointed to the 11th District Court Lowe, ’05, Wichita, Kan., received the ’98, Pittsburg , Kan., was hired by the by Governor Sam Brownback. Judge Young Alumni award from Southwestern Spigarelli Law Firm as an associate Fleming, who most recently was with College in Winfi eld, Kan. He works at attorney. Her practice is concentrated in Wilbert & Towner PA, replaces retired Stinson, Lasswell & Wilson in Wichita. personal injury, business litigation, and Judge Donald R. Noland. • Jeff rey S. • Carolyn L. Payne, ’05, Louisville, Ky., workers’ compensation. Kruske, ’01, Topeka, is general counsel was promoted to associate general counsel for the Kansas Securities Commission. • at Farm Credit Services of Mid-America 99 Kevin J. Cook, ba ’96, jd ’99, Shawn M. Lindsay, ’01, Hillsboro, Ore., in Louisville. • Randy E. Stookey, ’05, Topeka, is the managing partner of Cook was recently named a Forty Under 40 Topeka, joined the Kansas Grain and & Fisher LLP. He is a member of the honoree by Portland Business Journal. Th e Feed Association as vice president and Kansas and Topeka Bar associations. award honors executives under 40 years general counsel. • Kevin N. Berens, ’99, Saint Francis, of age who have character, achievement, Kan., was appointed to the Kansas and involvement as a consistent theme Sentencing Commission by Governor in their career. Lindsay is a member of 06 William M. Burris, ’06, Plattsburg, Sam Brownback. He owns a private Lane Powell’s Business and Intellectual Mo., is the prosecuting attorney for practice, is the city attorney for Bird City, Property and Technology Practice Clinton County in Missouri. • Steven Kan., and serves as the Th omas County Groups, Portland, Ore. He is also a M. Ellis, ’06, Spring Hill, Kan., and attorney. member of the Oregon State House of Alex B. Judd, ‘06, Shawnee, Kan., have Representatives, where he is involved in formed Ellis & Judd. • Les Jones, ’06, the Higher Education, Transportation, Prairie Village, Kan., was appointed as 00 Dustin DeVaughn, ’94, and and Economic Development committees. vice president of Country Club Trust Richard James, ’00, have opened their • Patrick J. Mitchell, ’01, was named a Co., an affi liate of Country Club Bank own law fi rm, DeVaughn James LLC, in 2012 Leading Lawyer by Cincy Magazine. in Kansas City, Mo. He is responsible for Wichita. Cody Claassen, ’10, has joined He is a tax attorney in the Cincinnati risk management and compliance. the new law fi rm.• Kristi (Simmons) offi ce of Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP. • Paula D. Langworthy, ’06, Porcupine, Pittman, ’00, Kansas City, Mo., has S.D., is serving as the chief judge of the joined with Mark Kelly to form Kelly Oglala Sioux Tribal Court. • Jeremiah & Pittman PC in Liberty, Mo. • Jason 03 Wesley L. Ashton, ’03, Overland L. “Jeremy” Platt, ’06, Manhattan, M. Stone, ’00, Des Moines, Iowa, was Park, Kan., and Pueblo, Colo., is the Kan., has been named a partner at Clark selected from more than 180 candidates external aff airs manager for Black Hills & Kellstrom Chartered in Manhattan. for the Des Moines Business Record’s Energy. He previously served as the Th e fi rm has changed its name to Clark Forty Under 40 Awards. Th e annual utility government aff airs manager for & Platt Chartered. • Joni C. Th adani, awards recognize up-and-coming business the Colorado and Kansas divisions of the ’06, and Karan M. Th adani, ’06, Saint and community leaders for their career company. Francis, Kan., have joined James M. achievements and civic and philanthropic Milliken Chtd., in Saint Francis. activities. Stone is a senior shareholder of the Davis Brown Law Firm and a 04 Elizabeth S. Dudley, ’04, Wichita, member of the Business Division. • has established Th e Dudley Law 07 Jason W. Belveal, ’07, Valley Falls, Jason R. Whitener, ’00, Olathe, Kan., Firm LLC. • Clinton M. Goos, ’04, Kan., is the Jeff erson County prosecutor.

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Belveal works at Tenopir & Huerter in of the Kansas Bar Association Young became an associate at Minter & Pollak in Topeka and is a member of the Valley Lawyers Section Executive Board. Wichita. • Shawn P. Yancy, ’11, Topeka, Falls school board. • Statehouse regulars is an unemployment insurance appeals Allie A. Devine, ’86, Topeka, and John referee for the Kansas Department of Donley, ’07, both formerly of the Kansas 10 Cody Claassen, ’10, has joined the Labor. Livestock Association, have formed new law fi rm of DeVaughn James LLC, Devine and Donley LLC, an agriculture- in Wichita. • Jennifer N. Horchem, oriented law fi rm and lobbying group. ’10, Wichita, has joined Martin, Pringle, 12 Sean P. Bartholick, ’12, Sugar City, Devine is a former Kansas Secretary Oliver, Wallace & Bauer LLP in Wichita. Idaho., is law clerk for Th e Honorable of Agriculture (1995-99). • Robert • Darin L. McCollum, ’10, Saint Louis, Gregory W. Moeller, in Madison County, O’Loughlin, ’07, Lakewood, Colo., Mo., is an associate with Armstrong Idaho. is an associate with Faegre & Benson Teasdale LLP, where he concentrates on with its corporate, environmental, and the preparation and prosecution of U.S. intellectual property practices in Denver. and international patent applications in • Pamela R. Putnam, ’07, Kansas City, the mechanical arts. He is admitted to Mo., has joined Trapp Law Firm, Kansas practice in Missouri and Kansas and is City, Mo. • David A. Vinduska, ’07, a member of the American Intellectual Manhattan, Kan., has formed his own Property Law Association. • Tabitha D. fi r .m Owen, ’10, Topeka, has joined the law fi rm of Scott,Q uinlan, Willard, Barnes & @ Keeshan as an associate. Owen will focus YOUR LIFETIME 08 Stephen R. Allred, ’08, Provo, on criminal, domestic, and consumer Utah, is an associate attorney at Zabriskie protection cases, and estate planning. E-MAIL Law Firm managing the criminal defense ADDRESS IS practice for the fi rm. His specialties are WAITING FOR YOU plea negotiations, draft ing of appeals, 11 Aaron R. Bailey, ’11, Lawrence, trial work, and client counseling. • Holly Kan., joined the law fi rm of Sloan, L. Fisher, ’08, Topeka, Kan., is now Eisenbarth, Glassman, McEntire & We are pleased to provide Litigation Counsel at the Kansas Jarboe as an associate lawyer. Bailey our alumni with free lifetime Corporation Commission. • Shawn will be working primarily in Sloan’s e-mail addresses. C. Jurgensen, ’08, Topeka, joined the business, civil litigation, probate, and Williamson Law Offi ce in Topeka where domestic relations sections. • Elizabeth he focuses on bankruptcy practice. E. Bernhart, ’11, Coff eyville, Kan., How Do I Get Started? • Douglas M. Taylor, ’08, Topeka, is has joined CornerStone Law Offi ce, compliance counsel with the Kansas Newton, Kan. • Samuel R. Foreman, Your account has already been Board of Pharmacy. ’11, Wichita, works for Klenda, Mitchell, created. Contact the alumni Austerman & Zuercher LLC. • Aaron J. Good, ’11, Wichita, is with Klenda, offi ce at 09 Jason R. Gianvecchio, ’09, Mitchell, Austerman & Zuercher LLC. (785) 670-1011 or Sandwich, Ill., received his master of • Chantz N. Martin, ’11, Beloit, Kan. is [email protected] laws in entertainment and media law an associate at Frasier & Johnson LLC. to obtain your username from Southwestern University School • Nicholas E. Page, ’11, Overland Park, and password. of Law in Los Angeles, Calif. Jason is Kan., recently joined Country Club currently working in a law fi rm in Beverly Trust Company in Kansas City. • Carol Hills, Calif. • Angela Y. Madathil, Longenecker Schmidt, ’11, Newton, A c c e s s t h i s a c c o u n t a t : ’09, Lincoln, Neb., is with Schivley & Kan., was selected as the 2011 recipient washburnlaw.edu/alumni/email Lannin PC, LLO, in Lincoln. • Jennifer of the Kansas Association for Justice Michaels, ’09, Lenexa, joined Millsap & Raymond Spring Award. Th is award is Singer, a provider of legal representation bestowed upon the Washburn Law Clinic on foreclosure, bankruptcy, and intern who has demonstrated the highest mortgage-related litigation in Missouri commitment to providing legal services and Kansas. Michaels joins the fi rm’s to clients in need (see page 25). • Charion Leawood, Kan., offi ce as an associate Latresse Vaughn, ’11, and Hanh H. attorney with a specialty in judicial Vu-Peck, ’11, Wichita, have joined the foreclosures in the state of Kansas. She Sedgwick County Court Trustee’s Offi ce. currently serves as the mock trial chair • Kathlyn E. Wilson, ’11, Wichita, Kan., e-mail:[email protected] WASHBURN LAWYER | SPRING/SUMMER 2012 | 45 ALUMNI NEWS & Events

WASHBURN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF GOVERNORS

Thomas A. A. Michelle Jack D. Arthur A. John D. Adrian, ’69 Roberts Canter, ’92 Flesher, ’72 Glassman, ’65 Petersen, ’78

he Washburn University School of Law Alumni was most recently a partner at the mortgage banking TAssociation elected fi ve new members and re- law fi rm, Franzen and Salzano PC. Canter is admitted elected nine to the board of governors at the Washburn to practice in Georgia, Kansas, and Texas, as well University School of Law Alumni Association as the U.S. Supreme Court. She is a member of the Luncheon on June 14, 2012, at the Sheraton Hotel, American Bar Association and State Bar of Georgia and Overland Park, Kan. has served as executive director of the Texas Bankers Association. Newly Elected: JACK D. FLESHER, ’72, Wichita, is a partner with the law Firm of Bever Dye LC in Wichita. Flesher’s THOMAS A. ADRIAN, ’69, Newton, Kan., is primary areas of practice are charitable and tax exempt a partner in the law fi rm of Adrian and Pankratz, organizations, estate planning, taxation, and trust and specializing in the areas of estate planning, probate probate law. He is one of the few lawyers in Kansas administration, living trusts, hospital law, and who practice in the area of farmer cooperatives and collections. He founded the fi rm more than 30 years has represented local and regional farmer cooperatives ago. Adrian is a member of the Kansas Bar Association affected by the bankruptcy of Farmland Industries. Continuing Legal Education Committee and is past Flesher is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme president of the Solo and Small Firm Section. He Court, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, served as a trustee and past president of the Kansas U.S. Tax Court, U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and the Bar Foundation. Adrian is a member of the American U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. He is Health Lawyers Association and past president of the a member of the Wichita, Kansas, and American bar Harvey County Bar Association. He was chairman of associations, a fellow of the Kansas Bar Foundation, the Newton Medical Center Board of Trustees and was and a director and past president of the Rotary Club of named Outstanding Citizen of the Year by the Newton West Wichita. Chamber of Commerce. He has established the Thomas & Ann Adrian Law Scholarship. ARTHUR A. GLASSMAN, ’65, Topeka, joined the Sloan Law Firm in 1967. His original trial practice A. MICHELLE ROBERTS CANTER, ’92, Atlanta, included both criminal and civil law cases, but for Ga., is a managing partner for Lotstein Legal. She the last 20 years his primary interest has been in the leads the fi rm’s litigation and regulatory enforcement fi eld of business, corporate law, and acquisitions, practice, representing fi nancial institutions, mortgage with special emphasis on banking law and business bankers, brokers, fi nance companies and other litigation. Glassman’s professional affi liations include creditors. Canter regularly speaks at industry events the Topeka Bar Association (past president), Kansas Bar and is a featured panelist at numerous conferences. She

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Association, American Bar Association, and the Kansas employers and their insurance carriers in all areas of Association for Justice. He has served many non-profi t workers’ compensation and general corporate defense organizations, including acting as the fi rst chairman of in both Kansas and Missouri. He serves as a trustee of the board of the American Cancer Society for the State the Kansas Bar Foundation Board (past president), is of Kansas, president of the Shawnee County Unit of the treasurer of the Kansas Bar PAC, and serves on the American Cancer Society, and president of the Board of board of the Kansas Chamber of Commerce. Jurcyk Family Service and Guidance Center. is a fellow of the American College of Workers’ Compensation Lawyers and serves on the executive JOHN D. PETERSEN, ’78, Kansas City, Mo., committee of the Heart of America Council of the graduated cum laude from Washburn University School Boy Scouts. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. of Law. He is a shareholder in the law fi rm of Polsinelli District Court for the District of Kansas and the U.S. Shughart PC, specializing in public law, governmental Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit. affairs, and insurance. He practices in the areas of administrative and regulatory law. Petersen is admitted TOM LOFTUS, ’80, Houston, Texas, is senior counsel to practice before the Kansas Supreme Court and the for Chevron U.S.A. Inc. His practice focuses on oil and U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit. He is a member gas transactional, legislative, and administrative matters. of the American and Kansas bar associations. He serves Loftus was previously in-house counsel for Koch on the board of directors of the Kansas Chamber Industries and ConocoPhillips, and a litigation partner of Commerce and Industry and the Overland Park with Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld. He graduated Chamber of Commerce. Petersen is former director of with a bachelor’s degree from the U.S. Naval Academy the United Community Services of Johnson County and and served as a fl eet offi cer. Loftus has established the a member of the Advisory Board of the Boys and Girls Tom & Lucy Loftus Law Scholarship. Clubs of Kansas City, Mo. LYNN S. MCCREARY, ’94, Brookfi eld, Wis., and Re-elected: Overland Park, Kan., is senior vice president and deputy general counsel of Fiserv Inc. Before joining JOHN R. DIETRICK, ’84, Topeka, is the chief Fiserv, McCreary was a partner at Bryan Cave LLP, an executive offi cer, general counsel, and co-owner international law fi rm, where she was managing partner of Creative Business Solutions, a regional human of its San Francisco offi ce after working 12 years in resources consulting fi rm, which provides outsourcing the fi rm’s Kansas and Kansas City offi ces. Previously, and consulting services, training and organizational McCreary was an associate at the Topeka fi rm of development, and legal counseling to businesses, Frieden, Haynes & Forbes. She attended Washburn corporations and non-profi t organizations. Dietrick Law after a career as vice president of Metropolitan received an undergraduate degree from Washburn Life Insurance Company’s mortgage lending subsidiary, University and a master of public administration Metmor Financial. McCreary is admitted to practice in from the University of Kansas. He is a member of Kansas, Missouri, and California. the American, Kansas, Topeka, and Louisiana bar associations. Dietrick has endowed the John R. and FRANK C. NORTON, ’56, Salina, Kan., graduated Kristina D. Dietrick Law Scholarship and is a Dean’s cum laude from Washburn University School of Law. Circle member. Norton was the founding partner of Salina’s Norton, Wasserman, Jones, Kelly LLC. He previously served as JOHN JURCYK, ’84, Kansas City, Kan., has been president of the Saline-Ottawa County Bar Association, practicing law with McAnany, Van Cleave & Phillips president of the Kansas Bar Foundation, and on the in Kansas City, Kan., since 1984. Jurcyk represents Kansas Bar Foundation Board of Trustees. Norton

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has received the Robert K. Weary Award, which for Washburn Law students. Roberts is a Dean’s Circle recognizes lawyers or law fi rms for their exemplary member. service and commitment to the goals of the Kansas Bar Foundation. He also was awarded the Kansas Bar ANGEL R. ZIMMERMAN, ’06, Topeka, is the Association Professionalism Award. He is a member of managing partner for Valentine, Zimmerman & the Dean’s Circle. Zimmerman PA. She received a degree in public administration from Emporia State University. TIMOTHY P. O’SULLIVAN, ’75, Wichita, Kan., Zimmerman is the inaugural president for the Kansas is a partner with the fi rm of Foulston Siefkin LLP, Bar Association Law Practice Management section. concentrating his practice in estate planning, elder She has presented on collection law and LPM issues law, probate and trust law, and taxation. He has a both statewide and nationally. Zimmerman received bachelor’s degree from St. Louis University and earned the 2009 KBA Outstanding Young Lawyer award. She his LL.M. in taxation from the University of Missouri- serves as president of HUBNET, a nationwide users Kansas City School of Law. O’Sullivan is a member of group conference for collection law software and serves the American, Kansas, and Wichita bar associations, on several boards and committees. Zimmerman is a the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, and member of the Sam A. Crow Inns of Court. She is a the Wichita Estate Planning Council. Since 1992, he Dean’s Circle member and has endowed the Angel and has been an adjunct professor in estate planning at Larry Zimmerman Law Practice Management Travel Washburn University School of Law. He is a member of Fund. the Dean’s Circle. Outgoing board members who concluded their CAILIN M. RINGELMAN, ’02, Southlake, Texas, dedicated service to the board are: Dana E. Brewer, is with The Wolf Law Firm in Southlake. Her practice ’77, Concordia, Kan., and M. Kathryn Webb, ’83, focuses on civil and commercial litigation with an Wichita. emphasis on transportation litigation. Ringelman was previously with Craddock, Davis & Krause LLP of NEW ALUMNI DIRECTOR Dallas, and the Topeka fi rm of Woner, Glenn, Reeder, udyanne Somers has been named Girard & Riordan PA. She graduated from law school director of Alumni Services cum laude and was a supplement instructor for civil J at Washburn Law. Prior to this procedure, a business associations tutor, and an articles appointment, she was working in the editor for the Washburn Law Journal. She earned a degree Professional Development Offi ce as a in biology from Marquette University. career counselor.

KEITH L. ROBERTS, ’80, Woodridge, Va., has Many alumni may remember Somers been the court executive for the U.S. Court of Appeals from when she was director of Career for the Armed Forces since June 2007. He is a native Services, CLE, and Alumni Relations of Syracuse, Kan., and received his undergraduate at Washburn Law from 1995 to 2003. degree from Washburn. Roberts has served in various She later served as chief of staff for capacities in the Air Force, including a tour as a circuit the Kansas Governor’s Residence, Cedar Crest, from trial judge and one as an appellate judge on the Air 2003 to 2011. She was also the fi rst executive director Force Court of Criminal Appeals. After retiring from of the Topeka Bar Association. Somers can be reached the Air Force in 2002, he worked as deputy general at (785) 670-2013 or [email protected]. counsel, White House Offi ce of Administration, where he was instrumental in providing internships

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OCTOBER 2012 5 Supreme Court Rule 115A CLE, Law School Room 102, 2:30-4:20 p.m. 7 History of Washburn Law, presented by former Dean Jim Concannon, Topeka Shawnee County Public Library, 2 p.m. 26 Alumni Fellows Luncheon, Bradbury Thompson Alumni Center

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