THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO COLLEGE OF LAW TRANSCRIPT FALL 2011

Toledo Law Alumni in solo and small firm practice Letter from the Dean TABLE OF CONTENTS

s you may have heard, I have accepted the position of dean of the College of Law for the next three years. (See story FALL 2011 APage 4.) I am honored and humbled to take this post. It is a wonderful opportunity to assume a new role with students, Table of Contents faculty, staff, and the many alumni I know so well. My affection for this school and its community and a desire to serve the The Toledo Law Transcript is institution that has been my professional home for so long contributed greatly to this decision. published once a year by the College of Law. College of Law News...... 4 Having been a member of the faculty for 26 years and interim dean this past year, I think it is fair to say that the transition Dean should be a smooth one. Rather than learning the lay of the land, I can focus immediately on making the College of Law an Events...... 13 even better place. I will be aided by a gifted group of associate and assistant deans and other administrative staff, all of whom Daniel J. Steinbock will continue. Associate Dean for 9 Speakers...... 16 Academic Affairs We have a great assemblage of students, faculty, and staff, and provide a truly excellent education at an affordable price. I had Graduation 2011...... lunch with several current students recently and was delighted to hear how happy they are with their education here. Nicole B. Porter 20 Associate Dean for Any place can be made better, of course, and I have several goals for the next three years. One is to add to a very talented Cover Story: Student Affairs faculty. At a seminar for new deans this past June (at which all of the reading material came from our Law Review’s deans’ “Doing It My Way” leadership issues!), of the speakers said, “The faculty is your legacy.” If that is the case, I could step down now with my legacy Lee A. Pizzimenti assured. Two terrific new teachers and scholars joined us last year, with three more coming this fall. They have outstanding Assistant Dean for Solo and Small Firm Profiles...... 22 backgrounds; four of the five clerked for judges on the U.S. Courts of Appeals, for example. They show all indications of being Law Alumni Affairs wonderful teachers who will continue the College of Law’s tradition of teaching excellence. They join other successful recent and Career Services Alumni News...... 30 hires. We plan to add a health law specialist in fall 2012 and have a University commitment to replace any faculty who Heather S. Karns 21 may leave. Faculty Notes ...... 33 Assistant Dean Second, I plan to work to enhance the reputation and ranking of the college. In a competitive market, we need to make for Admissions Class Notes...... 39 every effort to bring in top-flight matriculants, and our new admissions dean is off to a great start. We will soon add a Jessica Mehl ’05 communications director to get the word out about our accomplishments and to further enhance our excellent speaker series. Contributing Writers I am looking forward to several building Anita Crane improvements. We renovated the first- floor Heather S. Karns bathrooms this summer. And while I know Ken Kilbert how attached our graduates are to its yellow Brittany Liszak 31 burlap benches, I am committed to giving Jessica Mehl the auditorium, including its technology, Cynthia Nowak a thorough overhaul. All of this and other Lee Pizzimenti Toledo Law admissions goes paperless priorities, such as scholarship support, takes Amber Pursley money (and offers naming opportunities). Geoffrey Rapp he Toledo Law Admissions Office has seen major upgrades over the We will be stepping up development efforts, Tricia Salata Tlast year. New personnel, new technology, a new look for the office including our participation in The University Daniel J. Steinbock — nearly every aspect of our operation has evolved. The most important of Toledo’s capital campaign, and will have Lee Strang change may be our transition to a completely paperless review process. the help of a new principal gifts officer (Page Frank Weir Using Law School Admission Council (LSAC) software, we receive and 4). One of my personal objectives is to boost Shannon Wermer review applications entirely online in a streamlined process that uses our alumni giving percentage. Participation Dean Steinbock frowns at an auditorium space in critical need of refurbishment. Editor absolutely no paper. We’ve received almost 1,400 applications so far doesn’t necessarily take a large amount of Heather S. Karns this admissions season, so the savings in the office supply budget money — just an expression of connection and a pride in the place that helped you on your way. are substantial. Graphic Designer We are grateful for the resources the University has promised in support of these efforts. With your help, too, I think the next Our new system also makes reviewing applications and communicating Stephanie Delo few years will be an exciting time for the College of Law, with the opportunity for significant improvement in many areas. with applicants faster. Our staff has round-the-clock access to applicant information, and multiple reviewers Photographer can work on the same application simultaneously. Storing application materials on LSAC’s online server I have very much enjoyed the messages of congratulations from many of you, and they have helped confirm my decision to Daniel Miller saves physical space in the office, hard-drive space on our computers, and guarantees that we can keep become dean. No matter when you graduated, I will need your help and will welcome your participation in whatever way you working through local computer crashes and network outages. Applicants’ personal information is more feel comfortable. In return, I will do my utmost to make The University of Toledo College of Law a place of which we can all Project Manager secure because only authorized personnel can access the system. be proud. Angie Jones We can also e-mail entire groups of our applicants to keep them updated on the admissions process and Sincerely, what’s happening at Toledo Law. In short, the Toledo Law Admissions Office is striving to be more efficient, effective, secure, eco-conscious and tech-savvy. With even more improvements planned for the next recruiting season, we will be well Daniel J. Steinbock positioned to identify the best applicants, communicate our message about the value and benefits of Toledo Law, and build smart, motivated and successful incoming classes. Harold A. Anderson Professor of Law and Values The University of Toledo College of Law Dean COLLEGE OF LAW NEWS COLLEGE OF LAW NEWS

Daniel J. Steinbock named dean Democko ’12 delivers presentation on social Seger ’11 wins first place in national aniel J. Steinbock, who had been leading renowned law faculty, and highlight the rich Before entering law teaching, Steinbock networking to conference of DThe University of Toledo College of Law learning environment available for students. worked as a law clerk to U.S. District Judge writing competition on an interim basis for the past year, has been “I’m honored to be selected and excited for Constance Baker Motley of the Southern Ohio Association of Magistrates selected to serve as dean for the next three years. the opportunities for the College of Law that lie District of New York, as a public defender ick Seger of the Toledo Law class of 2011, The appointment was approved by the UT with the Legal Aid Society in state and federal won first place in the Fourth Annual ahead,” Steinbock said. “I have been a member reanne Democko, a 2L at Toledo Law, was invited N Board of Trustees on June 20. courts in New York City, and as associate and 2011 Embryo Law Writing Competition, of this faculty for 26 years, and I know firsthand Bto speak at the 2011 Spring Conference of the Ohio executive director of Prisoners’ Legal Services of sponsored by Nightlight Christian Adoptions. “During the strong teaching and scholarship that goes on Association of Magistrates. Her presentation, “Social New York. The competition is conducted to raise awareness the past here. I also know the outstanding graduates Networking and the Ohio Rules of Evidence,” was given and increase interest in embryo donation and year, Dan’s we produce.” Steinbock served as education coordinator on April 28. The subject is part of a note she has written adoption. Seger won a prize of $2,500 for his leadership has Steinbock said he planned to continue his in Cambodian refugee camps in Thailand for for The University of Toledo Law Review. been a key the International Rescue Committee and is scholarly position paper, written in response to work of the past year to further enhance the Democko was recommended to the conference by component to co-author of Unaccompanied Children: Care the provided problem. college’s reputation and its relationship with Professor Beth Eisler, and spoke for about 90 minutes. the important and Protection in Wars, Natural Disasters and the legal community and bar associations, Although the presentation was intended to cover several progress the Refugee Movements (Oxford University Press, and to prepare for the college’s upcoming aspects of social networking and the law, she was able to College of 1987), whose recommendations were adopted capital campaign. complete only about half of her presentation due to the Law has made by United Nations agencies. Since 2004, Steinbock has served as Harold many audience questions. The attorneys and magistrates in teaching A. Anderson Professor of Law and Values. He also has written law review articles and in attendance were interested in more information as it and legal He has taught Criminal Procedure, Evidence, book chapters about refugee children, refugee Democko pertained to specific cases they had encountered. Dean Steinbock scholarship,” law, search and seizure, identity documentation, Immigration Law, Administrative Law, and Democko’s Note, titled “Is the Writing on the Facebook Wall? [No Need to Wrestle with said Dr. and data mining. He has been a member of the Trial Practice. Before coming to UT, he the Rules on Authentication],” will be published in volume 42 number 2 of the Law Review, William McMillen, provost and executive vice Ohio Commission on the Rules of Practice taught at the State University of New York at due out in December 2011. president for academic affairs. “The College of Buffalo and Seattle University. He received and Procedure. Law will thrive under Dan’s guidance.” his undergraduate and law degrees from Yale Dean Steinbock is married to Laurie Jackson, Steinbock said it would be his goal to spread University. a team leader with Hospice of Northwest Ohio. the word about UT College of Law, bring wider They have two children, Sam, 24, and Anna, 22. attention to the nationally and internationally News from the Office of Professional Development

Barbara Tartaglia to serve as he Office of Professional Development deadlines for completion of resumes, writing College of Law principal gifts officer Tcontinued its strong programming and samples and cover letters, as well as requiring student service schedule this past year with 1L attendance at a talk on the state of the Toledo Law alumna Kelly J. Tomlinson ’06 legal economy early in the fall semester. In arbara Tartaglia returned to The Tartaglia has 15 years of fundraising serving as Interim Assistant Director and Pro addition to its regular programming, the office BUniversity of Toledo as Associate Vice experience and was a part of UT’s “The Time Bono Coordinator. addressed topics such as Networking, Building a President in the department of Institutional Is Now” Campaign, in which she served as the “Kelly has both a public sector and private Marketing Plan, and Social Media Implications. Advancement. One of her duties will be to serve principal gifts officer for the College of Business firm background, and has also taught on It also brought in Susan Gainen, a national as Principal Gifts Officer for the College of Law Administration (now Business and Innovation) an interim basis in our legal clinic. Having expert in the area of Alternative Legal Careers. and she will be an important participant in the and director of the East Coast Region, traveling someone on board with that skill set has been Ms. Gainen addressed ways students can use College’s capital campaign. Tartaglia returned with UT presidents and faculty. invaluable,” said Assistant Dean Heather their law degrees outside of the traditional to the University after serving from 2008 to S. Karns. practice of law. “With the legal economy as it 2011 as Associate Vice President and Principal One of the Office of Professional is, students should look at all possibilities and Gifts Officer at the University of Cincinnati opportunities. This helps to widen their scope,” Foundation. Development’s new initiatives is engaging 1Ls in the strategic planning process. This includes Gainen said. Susan Gainen’s visit was made possible by Jim Barone’94, pictured above, founder of the Jim and Tartaglia Melissa Barone Professional Development Fund.

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Named a “Best Value Law School” for third year!

In August, The University of Toledo College of Law was named a Best Value Law School byNational Jurist magazine for the third year in a row. We take pride in keeping tuition at affordable levels and having above-average employment rates and bar results. The 2010 list appears below.National Karren ’11 finds opportunity Jurist will publish the 2011 list in late September. with presidential management fellows program

Cleveland Karren ’11, 2010-2011 Student Bar Association President and Dean’s Award recipient, was selected for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s Presidential Management Fellows program. Karren will work on the legislative staff of the Department of Veteran Affairs in Washington, D.C. The PMF program has been in existence since 1977 and places outstanding graduate students in paid two-year positions with federal agencies.

Karren (at right) with Bruce Stone ’96 (left), 2010-11 Law Alumni Affiliate President.

UT Law student Carty moonlights as NY Times Wittenberg ’11 publishes Students, professors sportswriter article in ABA student and staff join for successful bowling fundraiser hen third-year law student TIPSter newsletter WJim Carty (December 2010) was not busy last fall with Recent graduate Nicholas his classes and his duties as an Student Wittenberg (2011) articles editor of The University of Vol ume 5, Issue TIPSter 2 interviewed Mike Walker Conversations October 2010 Toledo Law Review, he worked as a with Counsel: Walking with ’77, a veteran attorney with Mike – Guiding By Thomas King You Through freelance sportswriter for The New & Nicholas Wittenbe a Summer rg Clerkship A key to complementing the U.S. Environmental obtaining one’s legal educatio an enjoyable and n is York Times, covering University ence. Summer rewarding summer numerous roles positions allow experi- he has had in Opera valuable students to at The Kennedy s performed skills they have put the Center. Advocacy Protection Agency, for the of study learned through comes in many and counseling to practice and long hours forms as life opportunities create important rounded advocate. is a stage for the of Michigan football. His story for the future. networking well points to applying This article discusses for a summer key Nicholas Wittenbe October 2010 issue of the during the job, how to been rg (N): How summer, and how do well in charge of long have you into a permanent to turn a temporary the Summer Honors on the UM-Notre Dame game, position. job Mike Program? Wal ker (M): We had Our I’ve been in the opportunity twentieth anniversary charge since ABA’s Student TIPSter with Mike to discuss this is coming 1992. Walker, a vetera crucial topic run our program up. We actually States n attorney with year-round, with “Sophomore Leads Michigan Environmental the United during the academic students wor Walke Protection Agency year for king r is the Acting (EPA). semester. two to twelve magazine. The article, Enforc Director of the credits ement Training National ages Institute (NETI Any big Past Irish,” was published last the Clinical Legal ) where he man- plans? for Education Honors N: the Office of Enforce Program ous ment. He titled “Conversations with environmental also teaches vari Well, law courses in - my goal has always schools across multiple law least been to ha September. the country. His M: a hundred law ve at envied by man Beltway experi We have clerks every summer. y D.C. aficionados ence is 203 lawyers, and Counsel: Walking with Mike – not to should I think that e mention the be able to keep very lawyer summer half a law clerk . We currently busy for the Inside students are hiring about Before coming to law school, This Issue every summe sixty-five Conversations r. – Guiding You Through a Thomas With Counsel King (T): Dedicated ...... 1 What about during To Success During the year? Carty was a sports columnist for the ...... the year we Opportunities ...... 2 have about thir Summer Clerkship,” was co- M:thirty-five in the ty to On January 13, Toledo Law students, professors and staff participated in Within TIPS semesters. fall, winter, Students For Law What we and spring And Young Lawyers for are finding is Ann Arbor News. Carty has moved ...... jobs has become that as the market For 1Ls: The . . . 3 schools more problematic, the “Gutter Madness” bowling fundraiser at Bowlero Lanes, raising $1,360 Law School are now more many law authored by Vermont School and What Experience whole willing to let people To Expect semester in Wa spend a ...... we’ve shington in residence. Tips For . . . . . 4 never heard of Schools to help a current law student pay substantial medical bills. It was also an on to a legal career and joined a Academic Columbia–are before–like UCLA Success. . . . now or of Law student Thomas King. The Ten ...... 4 offering to sponsor Commandments students here A 1L . Of Being ...... Thomas Continued opportunity for students to interact and have fun with their professors. SBA Michigan law firm, Bodman, LLP...... King is a on page 7 . . . . . third year law Secre ...... 6 Nicholas student at Vermont ts To 1L Wittenberg is School Success a third year law of Law...... Toledo College student at The ...... 6 of Law and currently University of and WLSA organized the event, which concluded with an after-party at Chair on the serves as the TIPS Corporate Law Student Vice- after graduating in December. of the Counsel Committee TIPS Tas k F as well orce on Outreach as a member to Law Students. 1 Chuck’s on Monroe. Carty

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Toledo’s law and leadership students Ann Elick retires after 27 years win in Moot Court competition tudents in the Law and Leadership in law, leadership, analytical thinking, problem took first place in the regional moot court SInstitute (LLI) sponsored by the College solving, writing skills, and professionalism. competition in Dayton. of Law won the 9th- and 10th-grade divisions Students enroll in LLI the summer before The 9th-grade defense team, coached by Ann Elick has been keeping at a Moot Court Competition in Dayton on they begin 9th grade and attend a five-week Lindsy Gwozdz and Zack Hohl, was awarded alumni connected with the law March 19. The students were coached by Toledo LLI Summer Institute held at The University best overall 9th-grade team and named as school for 27 years. She joined the University in 1980 and Law students who spent the last academic of Toledo College of Law or another Ohio competition champion. The 10th-grade plaintiff year teaching the LLI students about First law school. LLI programming continues for worked at the College of Law team, coached by Terrell Ratliff and Cleveland since 1984. On January 11, law Amendment rights in public schools. admitted students throughout the four years Karren, was awarded best overall 10th-grade school faculty, staff, alumni, The Law and Leadership Institute is a of high school and includes internships in team and named as competition champion. and members of the community gathered to congratulate Ann statewide initiative that inspires and prepares law offices, college tours, college admission Professor Marilyn Preston, director of the on her retirement. Assistant students from underserved communities for test preparation, mock trial, and moot court Toledo LLI, said, “We are very proud of these competitions, among other activities. Toledo’s Dean Heather Karns said post-secondary and professional success through students. They worked hard and their efforts during her remarks, “Ann has a a comprehensive four-year academic program LLl 9th-grade and 10th-grade teams each paid off.” way of making each person feel as though he/she was the most important person in the room.” The College of Law was fortunate to have someone like Ann serving on the front line.

Smitley ’11 named one of “Coolest Generous donation Entrepreneurs” presented by litigation section of Ohio State Bar Kyle Smitley ’11, founder of the eco-friendly Association clothing line barley & birch, continues to win accolades for the company she started while a The Litigation Section of the law student. Last February she was featured as the “Greatest Person of the Day” on the Ohio State Bar Association Huffington Post website. Ms. Smitley was University of Toledo 10th grade LLI participants Vania Johnson, Ronald Birchfield, and Eddie presented Toledo Law and also named by Inc. magazine as one of the Ramsey Jr. along with their instructor Terrell Ratliff (first four from left) participated against the other Ohio law schools with 30 Coolest Entrepreneurs Under 30 and by Dayton 10th grade LLI team. FORTUNE magazine as a top-25 finalist for $10,000 to promote trial and/or its 10 Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs. appellate advocacy.

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Like the Tomlinsons, the One of the biggest challenges for graduated in May 2011. Aside his career goal. His wife, Jennifer, Married – with law studies Leavitts feel the advantage of going the Leavitts was not talking about from the birth of their children, chose law later. The Keillors had through it together is that you law school constantly, because, as the most memorable part for Rory been married for a year when they understand what the other person Corey Tomlinson pointed out, “It was studying with his wife on the came to UT. They had worked any married people go to law is going through. In addition to is an all-consuming profession.” To second floor of the law library together previously. Jennifer said Mschool, and a fair number the academic stimulation, there is help with this, Sydney and Doug during finals week. that working together was never a start law school single and find a a competitive atmosphere in law often make up topics to discuss The Keillors faced the added problem for them because they are spouse among their fellow students. school and many of subcategories other than law school. challenge of expecting a child the kind of couple who get along But few married couples decide to within that environment. Having In the end, the most memorable during their first year. It wound better the more time they spend enter law school and go through the someone by your side who part of law school for Doug has up working out so well that they together. “It depends on the couple entire three or four years together. understands this is advantageous. been being able to spend more time decided to have their second child and how strong the relationship is, That’s a lot of togetherness! Is As for how it’s affected their with his wife. The Leavitts feel that while they were still in school. They each person’s individual personality it a good idea or a bad one? The relationship, “We debate more than they have a more normal life as law were able to stagger their schedules and the dynamic of the couple.” Transcript decided to interview we did in the past. He’s become a All three couples say they would three couples who attended Toledo better arguer,” Sydney says. “It’s also recommend jointly attending law Law together to get their “take” helped us have more respect for each One of the biggest challenges for the school to other married couples. on the experience. Here are their other, knowing how difficult it is Leavitts was to not talk about law They also all agree that relationships reactions. and seeing how well each other has school constantly... where one person is not in law “I think that’s the nice thing done,” she adds. school are harder to maintain about going through law school What really makes attending because the other feels left out, together. We always knew why school together work for the students than they did when they so that one of them was always often not understanding the rigors the other one was busy and Leavitts, explains Doug, is that were both in the work force. As home with their daughters. of law school. Going through this understood what the other one their marriage is not based on for how they support each other The Keillors, like the process together produces a shared was going through,” says Kelly the historical head-of-household to achieve their goals, “You have Tomlinsons, remark that UT understanding and support for each Tomlinson ’06. figure; it is more of a joint to make sure that you each know was a good fit for them and their other. Kelly and Corey Tomlinson and daughters Norah (2 1/2 years) and Elizabeth (4 months) what your goals are and where She and her husband Corey ’06 relationship. This type of household family. “Being in a smaller school While each couple had a slightly you’re planning on going,” Sydney had planned on getting married environment, along with the ability where they know who you are as different dynamic and faced their also married in preparation for explains. after they finished their first year, combative or awkward. And here home and explain what happened to communicate, is more conducive individuals and know your situation own unique challenges, they all law school. but made the decision to have the it felt totally normal—it felt right. in your case that day because they to people being able to do this Like Doug Leavitt, Rory Keillor really ended up being beneficial for agree that it is a huge benefit to be wedding two weeks before classes People were friendly: the faculty, understand.” Doug took the leap into law together. “I don’t think people can ’11 has fond memories of time us,” Jennifer Keillor explains. working toward common goals and began once they realized what a the students who we talked to,” He adds, “It’s nice having school with his wife after having be selfish, or competitive with each spent with his wife while they Rory came from a family of to be able to relate to what their challenge it would be to plan a Corey said. someone there to say ‘You can been in the working world for 14 other,” he says. attended law school together. Both lawyers and always knew that was partner is going through. wedding during their first year of Reflecting on how law school do this,’ because it gets stressful years. It was nerve-racking, but law school. Before she decided to affected their relationship, Corey and you may start to doubt “It’s one of the best decisions that enter law school, Kelly was planning said, “You sort of observe what yourself.” Kelly emphasized the I’ve made with her,” he says. The to take a job in Atlanta in veterinary the process does to other couples importance of being supportive and Leavitts had never worked together pharmaceutical sales. During a trip when they’re not going through it understanding, of being able to say, before this, but they found, he adds to Paris, Corey suggested she take together. It can be a very divisive “I know you need this time to study that “We have different interests the LSAT. “What’s the worst that experience in a relationship because and do what you need to do,” and and strengths which tend to come Toledo Law students spend spring break could happen?” he asked her. Kelly of how demanding it can be. A not giving the other one a hard time together pretty well.” took the test and wound up getting spouse will often feel neglected. The about that. The couples both noted that giving back a full scholarship to UT. great thing about doing it together “We understand each other a lot while attending law school together is that neither of us had time to The Tomlinsons found the better because we have this common they have remained individuals and ix Toledo Law students participated in an “alternative spring and Miranda Vollmer. All put in enough hours during the week to feel neglected.” He feels that it’s environment at UT to be a perfect shared experience,” have their own unique experiences. Sbreak” project last March in Memphis, Tenn., where they receive a Public Service Commendation for spring semester. actually better to go through law Kelly says. They rarely take the same classes, fit for them as a couple. “The provided free legal services to elderly and low-income residents of Under the supervision of licensed attorneys, the students worked school with your significant other. share books or study together. atmosphere here was so normal. At They both feel that there’s that area. The project was sponsored by the University of Memphis with clients in three areas: pro se divorce, advance directives, and “At the end of the day you can come They participate in different a lot of other schools, it was either no downside in terms of the School of Law and the Public Action Law Society. Participants nonprofit advocacy. They attended workshops and tutorial sessions extracurricular activities and have relationship, going through the also had the opportunity to work with a number of Memphis-area in a number of legal subjects. Thirty-four students from 10 law their own jobs. They often study process together. There are nonprofit organizations to develop community outreach programs. schools participated, processing 34 pro se divorce petitions and independently due to different “We understand each other a lot better only benefits. The Toledo Law students who attended were Caitlin Frost, preparing more than 60 advance directives. In addition, students in approaches in study habits. “The because we have this common shared Sydney and Doug Leavitt, who Tami Harmon, Jennie Hoffman, Tom Marino, Peyton Mullins the nonprofit track assisted three nonprofits in developing projects. experience...” just finished their second year, two of us have worked well together in doing everything a little bit differently,” Doug says.

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Public service/pro bono commendations

very spring, the College of Prosecutor’s Office, was presented ELaw holds a Public Service with the Outstanding Supervisor Recognition Ceremony to Award, and Robert Salem ’90, acknowledge the clinical, externship Clinical Professor at the College and pro bono work of our students. of Law, presented Jennie Hoffman On April 14, 2011, Trish Branam, with the Patrick M. Burns Memorial Executive Director of the Toledo Outstanding Clinical Student Bar Association, Pat Intagliata ’79, Award. director of Pro Bono Legal Services Cleveland Karren, Student Bar Program, Stephen Dane ’81, Toledo Association President 2010-11 and Bar Association President, law Rebecca Louks, SBA Pro Bono faculty, staff, pro bono supervisors Committee Chair 2010-2011, and special guests gathered with the took this opportunity to present students in the Forum for the 5th a sizeable donation to the Ability annual Public Service Recognition Dane Karren Center of Greater Toledo on behalf Ceremony. Dean Daniel J. Steinbock of the Student Bar Association’s welcomed the crowd to what he commendation, and more than where you can’t do some [public fundraising efforts over the past year. Buck addresses the panel. called “one of the nicest events of the 14,800 pro bono hours have been service],” he said. No matter where students go year.” Prior to his tenure in academia, logged by law students. Stephen Kelly J. Tomlinson ’06, Interim or what they do after leaving law Dean Steinbock’s professional career M. Dane, Toledo Bar Association Assistant Director and Pro Bono school, the pro bono, public service, was spent in public defender, legal President and partner in the law Coordinator in the Office of and clinical programs help to pave services, and nonprofit work. Dean firm of Relman & Dane, offered Professional Development and the way for continued community Steinbock went on to commend an inspiring message. It doesn’t master of ceremonies for the event, involvement. Ewing presents his argument. students for their pro bono efforts. matter where we all end up in our announced the recipients of Public Since the program’s inception, careers; there is always room for good Service Summer Fellowships. Joe 155 students have received the work. “You aren’t ever in a situation Howe ’97 of the City of Toledo’s Forty years of Fornoff competition

Who would have guessed four finalists have the honor of the Michigan Supreme Court, law school institution will be one that an idea raised 40 years ago presenting their arguments before and U.S. District Judge Paul G. of the Judges at the Fornoff Finals would be one of Toledo Law’s a panel of actual judges. The Gardephe of the Southern District this October,” Judge Carr shared. College of Law connects with China best-loved traditions today? In Fornoff finals are a major event on of New York. Says Casey of his Moot Court 1971, Peter R. Casey III ’73 the law school calendar, and most As we look to this year and the experience, “I recall Moot Court ver the past few years the College of students have been involved as well and 2010. The Ningbo Law School delegation suggested an intra-school appellate students and faculty attend, along celebration of a 40-year tradition, as being one of my best experiences OLaw has taken the opportunity to participated in the Beijing Foreign Service was headed by Zhang Bing Sheng, Executive advocacy competition to then- with many community members. we are excited to announce that in law school. It gave me the skills connect with law students and law schools University Intellectual Property Law Moot Dean. They were impressed by the College of Professor James G. Carr, and it The competition is named for U.S. Sixth Circuit Judge Jeffrey that I have used ever since and it in China. As Chinese business investment Court Competition (3rd place 2010). Closer Law facilities, including the library, and the has evolved into a Toledo Law former Dean Charles W. Fornoff, Sutton will preside over the 40th was a big relief from classroom is becoming increasingly important to the to home, we have hosted visiting Chinese law SmartBoard technology in the classrooms. rite of passage. Participation in who retired in 1971 following a anniversary Fornoff Competition. drudgery!” future of the Toledo metropolitan area, and faculty interested in doing legal research in Talks between Deans Zhang and Steinbock the Fornoff Competition begins long and distinguished career at U.S. District Judge Benita Y. We invite all Fornoff and ultimately to the U.S. economy, the College the United States and were willing to teach a led to a Memorandum of Understanding in the spring of a student’s first the College of Law. Pearson of the Northern District Moot Court alumni to join us of Law has continually sought new ways of course on Chinese law. between the College of Law and Ningbo Law year and continues during the Last fall, more than 100 of Ohio will also serve on the at the Fornoff finals, and at this engaging with our Chinese counterparts. The College of Law has now taken another School relating to future faculty and student fall of the second. Students argue students participated in the Fornoff panel scheduled for noon year’s Law Alumni Reunion and The path was blazed by Professor Llew step and established a law school–to–law exchanges. Even before this agreement, before panels comprised of faculty Fornoff Competition. David Mann on Thursday, October 20, 2011 in Recognition Gala, to celebrate this Gibbons, who taught intellectual property school relationship with Ningbo University several students from China made the choice and student judges in a double- emerged as the Barrister and Eli the College of Law auditorium. In milestone! The Gala is scheduled at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law School. In June 2010, while teaching to attend law school at Toledo. Experience elimination tournament. The Ewing was the Solicitor. Kayla recognition of his role in creating for September 24, 2011. Look for Law in Wuhan as a Fulbright Scholar in in China, Professors Bruce Kennedy and teaches that student and faculty interaction student who emerges unbeaten is Buck and Matthew Manning the Fornoff Competition, Peter R. more information about the Gala 2007 and 2008. He was followed in 2009 by Llew Gibbons initiated contact, resulting with Chinese law faculty and students will named Barrister, the other student were Fornoff finalists. Last Casey III, now a partner at Toledo and reunion event throughout the Professor Bruce Kennedy, also a Fulbright in a delegation from Ningbo University facilitate intercultural understanding and who reaches the final round is year’s Fornoff Judges were U.S. firm Eastman & Smith, will join magazine. Scholar, who taught property and consulted visiting the College of Law on September 27, help prepare American students for the named Solicitor, and the two other District Judge James G. Carr of the panel. “I am delighted that on law library collections. Toledo Law practice of law in a global economy. students reaching the penultimate the Northern District of Ohio, one of the ‘Founding Fathers’ of rounds are also finalists. These Justice Maura D. Corrigan of this now esteemed and venerable

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Stranahan speaker discusses 10th annual Water Conference addresses Asian carp, relationship between free wind turbines, and drugs in water enterprise, human happiness

According to Dr. Arthur C. Brooks, there is a cultural struggle over the role of business and the role of government in the United States. Brooks asserts that maintaining a culture of free enterprise is not only the will of the majority and the fairest system possible, it is also a moral imperative. Free enterprise, he believes, enables the largest number of people to achieve the best possible chance of success, and therefore offers the greatest opportunities for happiness. Brooks went on to discuss research showing that individuals are happiest when they have earned their success, regardless of the money they’ve earned. “Lottery winners, welfare recipients, and those who inherit large sums are not happier than others,” he said, and unearned money often creates unhappiness. Brooks argued that, by encouraging entrepreneurship through beneficial tax policies, we can create the best conditions for human flourishing. Brooks is president of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. The American Enterprise Institute is a public policy think tank in Washington, D.C. Prior to his current position, Brooks was the Louis A. Bantle Professor Like Betty White, Toledo Law’s in progress and planned, will of Business and Government Policy at Syracuse University, Great Lakes Water Conference allow the region to leverage where his research focused on the intersection of economics, is more popular than ever. its water advantages and entrepreneurship and philanthropy. The 10th annual Great Lakes boost its economy. But he had The Stranahan National Issues Forum is a joint program of Water conference attracted words of warning, too. The University of Toledo College of Law and its chapter of more than 200 attendees to “All the money in the world is the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies. the College of Law auditorium not going to make a difference It is made possible by an endowment from the Stranahan on November 5. Following if we don’t stop Asian carp or Environmental Protection threat of diversions of waters Foundation. Brooks joins a group of nationally known high- a welcome by UT President toxic algae,” Eder said. Agency Office of Science and out of the Great Lakes basin. profile speakers who have delivered the Stranahan Lecture at Technology, a pharmacologist, More recent conferences Lloyd Jacobs, the crowd heard Other important messages the College of Law. lawyers from the public and have expanded in scope and from a plethora of experts in conveyed by the panels of Brooks delivered the fall 2010 Stranahan Lecture, “The Battle: How the Fight Between private sectors, and law are now viewed as marquee Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America’s Future,” at the College law, science and government experts included the fact that professors from Florida, events for those interested in of Law. as they addressed issues wind turbines are coming to Michigan and Ohio. water and environmental law critical to this region and its Lake Erie and that a vast array and policy in the region. The water resources. of pharmaceuticals are already The Great Lakes Water Great Lake Water Conference Keynote speaker Tim Eder, in our waters because of Conferences, sponsored by is coordinated by Professor executive director of the imperfect disposal methods. the College of Law and its Legal Institute of the Great Kenneth Kilbert, Associate Great Lakes Commission, Panelists included the director Lakes, began in 2001. In its Professor of Law. expressed optimism that the of the Ohio Department early years, the conferences The 2011 Water Conference millions of dollars in Great of Natural Resources, the focused primarily on the will be held on November 4. Lakes restoration efforts, both deputy director of the U.S.

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Day After speaker: Solo practitioner recounts ACLU legal director spotlights Supreme Court victory Attorney David E. Mills spoke at the necessary to explain to Ms. Ortiz that College of Law on March 15 as a part of the argument needed to focus on an continuing inequality the “Day After” Series, a forum for top unsettled point of law for the Court advocates who have recently argued to resolve, rather than on the specific before the United States Supreme injustice she felt she’d suffered. He On November 8, Ohio American Civil Liberties Union that people of color often receive harsher sentences Court. Mills successfully represented convinced her to accept this strategy, Legal Director James Hardiman visited the College of Law, than whites for similar offenses. Mr. Hardiman said that the petitioner in Ortiz v. Jordan. The and filed a last-minute extension while speaking about ways to address the over-criminalization of politicians who want to appear tough on crime will propose case involved a technical question of preparing a certiorari petition. The case people of color in Ohio. legislation that only looks effective, while ignoring other civil procedure — whether a party can was one of the few accepted that year options that could create more meaningful change. Mr. Hardiman began by saying that when he was in college, appeal an order denying summary by the Court. he had hoped that organizations such as the ACLU and He concluded by saying that the solution to these problems judgment after a trial on the merits David Mills is one of the youngest the NAACP would be irrelevant by 2010, and that all major lies at least partially with the students who were in the if the party failed to appeal before lawyers to argue and win a case before racial and civil liberties issues would be resolved. “We audience. It is up to the next generation of lawyers, he said, trial. In a 9-0 opinion, the Supreme the Supreme Court, and one of few solo wanted to work ourselves out of a job,” he said, “but it to decide the course we take in dealing with these issues. Mills Court reversed the Court of Appeals, practitioners to do so. His story has hasn’t happened yet.” Mr. Hardiman has more than 40 years experience litigating reinstating a $625,000 jury verdict in received widespread national attention. Mr. Hardiman shared a brief history of legal cases that complex civil rights and civil liberties issues, including favor of petitioner Michelle Ortiz, who nation’s highest court. They learned “Mr. Mills’ story is incredibly compelling,” have dealt with civil rights and criminal justice, including school desegregation, police practices, and voting rights. had been sexually abused in prison. how he prepared for the argument, said Dean Daniel Steinbock. “Students, Mapp v Ohio, Miranda v Arizona, and Gideon v Wainright, Outside of the courtroom, Hardiman has advocated for civil what that experience was like, and how Mills shared his experience with the faculty and the community had the following the history with more current issues of continuing liberties as chair of Citizens for a Safe and Fair Cleveland, it felt to bring and win a case before the audience, explaining the process that opportunity to hear how a young lawyer discrimination in our society. For example, research shows and as first vice president of the Cleveland Chapter NAACP. U.S. Supreme Court.” led him to take the case and then just starting in his own practice took on persuade the Court to hear it. It was a sympathetic case that reached the

Professor urges regional Northern district of Ohio involved cooperation on alternative energy in representing Guantanamo Bay

“Expanding Regional Renewable wind power plants take up large areas of detainees Governance” was the subject of a March land and must be placed in locations best 25 lecture by Hannah Wiseman, a suited to generating power. This can place Dennis G. Terez, Chief Federal Defender was long and that it was difficult to earn nationally recognized scholar and expert power plants across multiple jurisdictions for the Northern District of Ohio, spoke at the trust of the detainees, but it was his on renewable energy and land use. with differing or even contradictory the College of Law about his experiences office’s responsibility to do so. The pace of renewable energy regulations and requirements. It is Terez representing detainees at Guantanamo Terez went on to discuss the difficulties development must increase, Wiseman difficult — perhaps impossible — to run Bay, Cuba. His talk on November 16 was involved in the plans to close the told the audience, but this is difficult a renewable energy plant under these sponsored by the American Constitution detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. under our current regulatory structure. circumstances. Wiseman identified a Society. Federal funding is required to complete Recent events like the BP Gulf Coast spill potential solution in creating regional Terez explained the Supreme Court’s the operation, and Congress has yet to and the Japanese nuclear crisis have energy boards to handle regulation and ruling that detainees are entitled to fair provide it. In addition, it’s unclear where reminded the public that the costs and grant siting permits. hearings and to the right of counsel the current detainees should be moved. consequences of continued reliance on Hannah Wiseman is an assistant provided by the Sixth Amendment. Terez Terez stressed, however, that closing the conventional fuels can be unpalatable. professor at the University of Tulsa Wiseman learned that AJ Kramer, the FPD for the facility is important, citing the $150 million Americans are slowly becoming College of Law and a Fellow of the District of Columbia and coordinator with annual operating costs, among other convinced of the importance of renewable National Energy Policy Institute. A prolific and the Harvard Environmental Law the National Federal Public Defender concerns Review. Wiseman is a frequent speaker energy, and new legislation on state and scholar, Professor Wiseman conducts Office of this effort, saw an opportunity Dennis G. Terez is also an adjunct faculty at academic conferences on energy local levels is beginning to reflect this research addressing the intersections for the Northern District of Ohio to be member at the Case Western Reserve law and policy, sustainability, land use shifting attitude. of land use, energy, and environmental involved. Terez and colleagues spent time University School of Law. Prior to his and environmental protection. She is a According to Wiseman, however, effective law. She has papers forthcoming in the researching Islam, the Quran and Middle federal appointment, he was a partner nationally recognized expert on issues reform likely will not occur under our Emory Law Journal (co-authored with Eastern culture to understand fully the with the Cleveland law firm of Squire, related to hydraulic fracturing extraction existing systems of governance. Solar and Toledo Law Professor Garrick Pursley) issues involved. He said the learning curve Sanders and Dempsey, LLP. methods for oil and natural gas.

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Obesity litigation criticized Securities regulator speaks on

Theodore H. Frank, founder and to eat higher-calorie foods, according to president of the Center for Class Frank, are contributing to weight gains peer-to-peer lending Action Fairness, spoke at the College for Americans. of Law on November 10. His speech, Frank also noted that class action “Cheeseburger Bills and Obesity On April 11, 2011, Mark R. Heuerman, of a “security,” an “issuer” and an lawsuits don’t fight the causes JD/MBA ’88, the Securities Chief “exchange,” and whether the sites’ Legislation,” was sponsored by the of obesity, because obesity is an Federalist Society. Attorney for Registration with warnings that borrowers may have individualized issue not lending the Ohio Division of Securities, deliberately submitted fraudulent Frank’s talk provided the students and itself to a single common action. discussed Ohio’s approach to online information can be squared with a community members in attendance In addition, Frank pointed to labor- peer-to-peer lending with a large state regulatory regime prohibiting with an overview of the current state saving technologies, increases in audience of law and business fraudulent or deceptive securities policies might not be politically feasible of obesity litigation. Frank explained service-sector jobs, and advertising as school students. Peer-to-peer offerings. Heuerman offered his at this time. that obesity is a growing international contributing to the obesity problem. lending sites such as Prosper.com perspectives on compliance options problem with public policy implications, When asked what solutions he would Frank, whom the Wall Street Journal and LendingClub.com have for such sites, which are currently but the American government’s recommend, Frank suggested that has called “a leading tort-reform attracted considerable attention prohibited in Ohio. A lively question- approach to addressing the problem policies requiring people to bear more advocate,” was a litigator from 1995 since their launch some six years and-answer session followed his has been incoherent. Programs such of their own health-care costs would to 2005 and clerked for the Honorable ago. Using these web platforms, presentation. This talk was made as food stamps, which can subsidize create a disincentive for unhealthy Frank H. Easterbrook on the Seventh would-be borrowers can request possible by the Heuerman Fund for poor food choices, and labeling laws, Circuit Court of Appeals. behavior, though he added that such loans, and “investors” can contribute the Study of Investment Law and Heuerman which may actually encourage people funds to those loans. The sites Regulation, established in 1999. regulatory developments through promise to eliminate the middleman Richard and Lois Heuerman internet-based activities. Richard associated with commercial established the Heuerman Fund for Heuerman is a 1956 graduate of banking, offering borrowers lower the Study of Investment Law and UT Law School. His legal career interest rates and lenders higher Regulations to benefit The University included serving as in-house counsel Virtue jurisprudence explained returns than available in traditional of Toledo Law School. The purpose for Dow Corning and BF Goodrich savings accounts. At the same of the fund is to support the study prior to joining Roetzel and Andress time, such sites have raised difficult of current legal and regulatory Lawrence B. Solum, an internation­ concept of virtue jurisprudence, and serving in their Akron and questions for regulators. Describing issues relating to investor protection, ally recognized expert on legal in which lawyers, judges, and Naples offices. Richard and Lois such sites as offering a perfect market regulation and capital philosophy, spoke on “Virtue and legislators weigh their decisions hypothetical securities law exam, reside in Naples, Fla. Law” on March 22. His talk was against a moral obligation to promote formation. In addition, the fund Mr. Heuerman noted that they raise provides resources to disseminate sponsored by the Stranahan National human flourishing. Under this system, issues that include the definition Solum Issues Forum, a joint program of they consider the consequences of information about current legal and The University of Toledo College of the various options and select the Law and its chapter of the Federalist one that best balances the needs Society for Law and Public Policy of all parties involved. The goal is to Studies. create and sustain conditions where Solum discussed the role that the people can achieve the best possible concept of virtue plays in the lives. realm of ethics and by extension Solum is the John E. Cribbet Correcting Omissions: in the law, suggesting that legal Professor of Law and Philosophy Transcript 2010: professionals consider Aristotle’s at the University of Illinois College Despite our best efforts, we regrettably omitted a few of our idea of an ethical system based of Law and the co-director of the Send Us Your alums from our Judicial Tribute in last fall’s Transcript. We on human character and human Institute for Law and Philosophy. Highlight your apologize and are happy to report the following additions, both News! eudaimonia, or happiness/ A prolific scholar, Solum has in Ohio. personal and professional flourishing. authored numerous works and achievements. Tell us where “The best life for humans is recently co-edited the first anthology Steven P. Beathard ’78 you’re going and what you’re a life of rational and social on the relationship between Judge, Fayette County Court activity in accord with virtue and law, entitled Virtue of Common Pleas doing. Send information to human excellences,” Jurisprudence. Solum has delivered [email protected] Jeff Robinson ’76 Solum said. lectures nationally and internationally Judge, Fulton County Western District Court He went on to and his “Legal Theory Blog” is the discuss the premier website for legal theory.

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Graduation: Defining moments Messages at 2011 College of Law Commencement

ne hundred twenty-one address by noting that everyone worker and above all, believe members William C Koester, Ohappy law graduates received has defining moments. After in yourself.” Bogden, who did Linda N. Mansour ’79, and Judge their Juris Doctor degrees at the sharing his own defining moment not have employment lined up Richard B. McQuade Jr. ’65. Bruce May 7, 2011 Commencement (involving a plate of chocolate-chip when he graduated, sought out Stone ’96, 2010-2011 Law Alumni ceremony. In his welcome, then- cookies and a midnight-movie opportunities and crafted a career Affiliate president, welcomed Interim Dean Daniel J. Steinbock marathon) and the winding for himself. As he noted, “Most the graduates to the alumni told the graduates, “You are path that led him to law school, of all, being a lawyer has allowed community. Stone announced now on the verge of entering the Reusch challenged his classmates me the opportunity to make a that each graduate would receive profession. You have come a long to remember what led them to difference and be responsible a Scales of Justice statuette from way in a short time. law school when they find their for doing the right thing — and an alumnus/a, and asked that Excited graduates await “Lawyers cannot rest on what motivation waning: “Think back to that is of paramount importance they pass on this tradition of conferring of degrees. they learned in law school,” he the person you wanted to become, in any career.” Bogden echoed giving. Professor Kelly Moore, said, reminding the graduates that and let that image guide you Valedictorian Jeffrey Reusch who teaches tax and trusts and they must be lifelong learners. “It forward.” when he said, “Consider why, of estates, received the Outstanding is not a secret you are graduating United States Attorney for all things in this world, you chose Faculty Award for the second time in tough times,” he added, “but the the District of Nevada and 1981 to become lawyers,” adding three in as many years on the faculty. skills we’ve given you will carry you graduate of Toledo Law Daniel challenges for the graduates: Have Kathleen Kormanyos received a through.” G. Bogden offered the keynote the courage to serve others, allow Student Award for Scholarship yourself the courage to take risk, and Leadership from the American Cleveland Karren, immediate address. “Speaking at this year’s and dedicate yourself to doing Law Institute and American past president of the Student commencement takes me back the right thing and making a Bar Association, and outgoing Bar Association and a graduate 30 years to my own law school difference in your community. He Student Bar Association President himself, reminded the graduates graduation,” he said. Recounting closed with, “Like so many whose Cleveland Karren received the that while goals may seem larger the mixture of emotions he names we admire, your success will Dean’s Award for his contributions than life, “take any goal one step at experienced on his graduation be measured not by the cases you to the law school and SBA over the a time and you can always succeed.” day, he identified “great pride of win, or the awards you receive, or past year. Karren is an incoming Presidential accomplishment and satisfaction by the money you make, but by Management Fellow preparing of achievement, but also the the hearts you touch, the souls you to begin a two-year position with uneasiness and uncertainty of April Miller and Bryan LaMar Latta (foreground) Bogden addresses the graduates. enrich, the doors you open, and the the Office of Veterans Affairs in facing the unknown and the lives you change.” Washington, D.C. challenges ahead — the upcoming Following Daniel Bogden’s Joseph E. Slater, Balk Professor bar exam, seeking employment address, the graduates were hooded of Law and Values and a faculty and the sadness at the thought of and degrees conferred by member since 1999, gave a leaving the law school.” Bogden University Board of rollicking (for some) faculty went on to tell the graduates Trustees welcome. that they will need to be open to all possibilities and urged Class Valedictorian Jeffery them, “Always be the hardest Reusch began his valedictory

Dale Bricker and Andrew Barde (foregound) Leo Clark shows his enthusiasm.

20 The University of Toledo | Law Transcript The University of Toledo | Law Transcript 21 COVER STORY Said Orra ’03

Said Orra appears as solid and have served as my mentors over the years: steady as the classic brick walls of his Cherrefe Kadri and Bonnie Rankin. It was downtown Toledo law office. very helpful to be able to ask questions in “I’ll accept that as a compliment,” says the early days.” the seven-year veteran of private practice. Those days were slow but steady. “Doing It My Way” “Steadiness is a positive in practice. “Everything I’ve built in my practice and Depending on their circumstances, clients my client base has been through referrals,” do look for a bit of comfort and hand- he says. “It’s slower that way, but in the Solo and Small Firm Profiles: holding. People skills are a major part of end your referral is a much more trusted a practice.” source: a friend or family member. I’m Although law wasn’t Orra’s first apprehensive about social media, because career choice — with a bachelor’s degree we can all put things online to make in political science, his dream “was to ourselves look good. The proof, though, is hoosing to head out on one’s Toledo Law alums have chosen, or do Peter Jennings’ job,” he says — the always in the pudding: Can you deliver for Cown as a solo practitioner or to fallen into, this career path in a variety of decision to go solo came soon after the client?” graduation from UT. He does maintain a Web site. “In the join forces with someone else to start a practice areas and geographic locations. reputation and be able to deliver great first few years of practice, I would ask “In interviews with different firms, I’d services to your clients.” small firm takes confidence, dedication, On the following pages you will meet a ask if in addition to doing research, I’d have clients how they came across my name. He strongly recommends joining a business savvy, and a leap of faith. small sampling of Toledo Law alumni to chance to go to court. A lot of them said The number one answer was referral; two was ’I looked on the Internet and saw your local bar association, praising Toledo’s. Some alumni had their sights set on who ventured out on their own to begin ‘No, you won’t do that for a long time,’” he says. Web site.’ People want a glimpse of who “It’s a fantastic way to get to know running their own shops even before a solo or small firm. You’ll see fairly you are and your background.” your professional colleagues, make “I thought, if I’m going to be doing all friendships that last a long time, and a way entering law school. Others found their recent graduates making a go of it as the work, I might as well go to court. That’s As his practice grew, it expanded from to network.” when I decided to set up my own office.” corporate and criminal to include family way as a result of circumstances and well as some who have spent decades law. “I never thought the last would be Seven years in, he said he’s much Knowledge gained in his family’s choices later in the game. In 2005, the building their practices, brands, and something I would do, but I found it to be a happier now than when first considering business was an early plus, he says. “My great way to do positive things for clients,” law. “Because then you don’t realize how American Bar Foundation reported that backbones. We applaud all of you and father taught me what’s involved in running he says. much you’re able to help people, how a business — things they don’t cover in 62 percent of all private practitioners look forward to hearing your stories. Visit much knowledge you gain. It’s absolutely law school, like banking, invoicing, how to His advice? “Be patient if you go amazing. Even if somewhere down the line worked in solo or small firms with law.utoledo.edu/myway or scan the QR correspond with clients.” He also cited the solo. It takes time to get established. I decide not to practice, the experience Practical Legal Writing course taught by It’s a profession, but a business like any five lawyers or fewer. Blood, sweat, code below to share it with us. has been a privilege, and I’m thrilled Marilyn Preston. other: you’re building a brand. If you build and tears are essential ingredients for it right, you’ll have a nice practice, a nice with it.” His office space was another building a business, but we don’t always advantage. “I have two office mates who hear about the satisfaction it can lead to or the interesting stories that emerge.

Catherine M. Page ’90

A long route to small firm practice continuing her day job. “I actually had our propelled her in a new direction. “When come in to do filing!” she laughs. “If you She cites a jewel of good advice: gave Catherine M. Page plenty of time daughter halfway through law school,” my daughter entered junior high, I decided work for a big firm, you vaguely know that “Keep your expenses as low as possible to accumulate valuable lessons - including Page notes. “It was a busy time.” I needed to spend less time at the office,” the messenger comes in to pick up the when you first open. Because if you don’t many learned at the College of Law. Busy but eminently worthwhile, she says. “With one of my good friends documents, then they miraculously appear get as much business as you’d thought, Speaking in the accents of her English she added. “I’m very grateful to the at the firm, Jeanne Jorgensen, I started in court in the files. Obviously it was a bit you don’t have to throw in the towel upbringing, the partner of California firm night program. It was very special, with talking about going out on our own — we worrying, but it was one of the things we’d because you’ve taken on more than you Page and Jorgensen LLP says, “People wonderful professors. And I think night- made the decision to do so in 2007.” planned for.” need.” who’ve attended UT can be successful in school people can tell today’s busy Their timing was good. “We’d each New technologies — such as She’s found what she needed, she any practice, large or small. And I’ve done students a bit about time management.” had big-firm training and a good level of timekeeping and billing software, and says, crediting UT with giving her a strong both now.” Eventually, both she and her husband experience. We set our rates lower than legal databases — made their practice foundation. “I’m a firm believer that for Her entry into law school came when accepted job offers in California; from they would have been at Allen Matkins, easier, she says. “But I think we use them people wanting to move outside northwest she was a paralegal in the 1980s, having 1990 to 2007, she was senior counsel taking the mid-level cases of old clients judiciously, pardon the pun. We don’t do Ohio, as long as they’ve done well at UT come to the United States some years at Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & that were harder for a large firm to litigate much billing by e-mail, for example, partly and have a resume with some high points, earlier to follow her husband’s career. She Natsis LLP, focusing on business litigation efficiently, so there was no animosity.” because we like to use the traditional they can make it in any market.” acted upon the idea of law practice by in their Orange County office. More busy, Initially, they had no administrative cover letter that keeps us in touch with our entering UT Law’s evening program while successful years followed. Eventually, life help. “Our daughters would occasionally clients.”

22 The University of Toledo | Law Transcript The University of Toledo | Law Transcript 23 Michael Spiros ’72

For Michael Spiros, the road not His original partner, Stanley Krawetz Initial anxiety gave way to a has ever said, ‘No, don’t be honest with to teach paralegal courses in the UT taken has indeed made all the difference. (’65), hired Spiros, then a third-year law successful long-term partnership. When me; tell me what I want to hear.’ But we’ll Judith Herb College of Education, Health Unlike Frost, though, he has no regrets. student, on a part-time basis for the Krawetz retired, Spiros took on one of his occasionally lose a client for giving too Science and Human Service. Quite the contrary, the attorney looks academic year. However, in another plan former UT students, Julia Stewart (’89), straight of an answer. A guiding principle ties it all together, back on a career of nearly 40 years with shift, Krawetz subsequently asked him to as his new partner. “In fact, everyone who “We still find that it’s much easier he says. “I heard it said of a priest once deep satisfaction. join his private practice in Lambertville. works in the firm today is a UT grad: three to be straightforward from the outset. that he took his faith seriously without “I grew up in New York City and “My initial reaction was no,” Spiros attorneys [his daughter Nicole (’99) is the You won’t find yourself waking up in the taking himself seriously. I use that came to Toledo with a specific plan: Stay remembers. “I was looking for more third], our paralegals and secretaries,” he middle of the night two months later, expression in the classroom and here one semester, then transfer credits.” says security, a paycheck every other Friday.” notes. wondering what it was you promised the in the practice. We take our work very Spiros, who lives in Sylvania and practices The older attorney persisted, The practice’s emphasis on probate, client that you can’t do. It’s best for the seriously, we don’t take ourselves that in the Lambertville, Mich., firm of Spiros convincing Spiros to take both the Ohio real estate and domestic relations affords client and for us as well.” way.” and Stewart. Instead, he remained at UT and Michigan Bar exams. His powers him a rewarding immediacy, he says. With referrals from clients and Oh, and those roads not taken? No to complete a business degree, finish of persuasion succeeded, but another “The feedback happens right away, and other attorneys making up a significant regrets. “One of the jobs I was getting law school, join the UT faculty and act as surprise loomed. the cases tend to turn over fairly quickly, portion of new cases, the firm hasn’t ready to apply for as a third-year student statistician for the men’s basketball team. “Shortly after I joined the many within three or four months. delved far into online marketing, he says, was with the IRS. In those days, they paid Obviously the game plan changed. partnership, he asked me to take over “Plus it’s rewarding that we’re helping though he’s no technophobe — he about $12,000 a year. That was more “I think now, though, how “By the time I finished law school I the administrative end,” Spiros says. “I people through difficult times.” oversaw a computer network installation, money than any of my family had made mismatched I would have been with considered myself a Toledoan,” he says. had no experience in that area. Although I Given the emotional content of many developed case management software in a year. that job.” He also married a Toledo girl: Jennifer had a business degree, I don’t know how cases, he’s cultivated up-front frankness and conducted software seminars. And Hrabak, now his wife of 41 years. well that prepares you for running a five- from the beginning. “In 39 years, no client as a UT associate professor, he continues person office, so I had to feel my way.”

Stacy Lilly ’00 Michael Adams ’04

Stacy Lilly works more hours to the resources of the large firm Michael Adams, solo practitioner in His father’s unexpected and early to advertise,” Adams says. “With time, now than when she was working in a “machine.” Like most young attorneys, Grand Rapids, Mich., came to law older death in 1997 jarred Adams into action: “I though, my name got around.” firm, but says she’s not bothered by it. Lilly had the goal of making partner, and wiser, but in drive and determination didn’t want to look back and say, ‘I wish He preferred staying solo. “Having “I built this from nothing and it’s a great but soon realized there was no lock- he can match any younger, fresh-to-the- I had done that.’ I enrolled at Eastern done it before, I knew a lot about running a feeling,” says Lilly, who started her solo step guarantee and that partnership bar compatriot. “I entered law school in Michigan to finish my paralegal studies business. I knew I could build a successful practice in 2009 and continues to keep decisions were largely influenced by 2001 to fulfill a lifelong dream,” says the degree, and all the while my focus was law practice if I put the hours in. It was 12-hour overhead low by working out of her factors beyond what was taking place attorney who specializes in criminal, family school.” days in the beginning, with a lot of that in home. in Philadelphia. Lilly noticed associates and immigration law. Two years into his UT law degree, a research.” After graduating from law school, who had been out longer than she “still Born in Flint, Mich., Adams’ chance meeting with Michigan attorney gunning” and began to wonder what His primary advice for new attorneys? Lilly stayed in Toledo, practicing background included a four-year tour of John Beason (’81) turned life-changing. “Get to know the court staff: the clerks, insurance defense with the firm of would happen to them if they didn’t duty with the U.S. Air Force, positions in “He was at UT only because he was giving make partner. bailiffs, judges’ legal assistants, even the Doyle, Lewis & Warner. The market in encompasses litigation and trans­ public security, several years of college an assistant a tour,” Adams says. “We deputies who supervise the prisoners in Toledo wasn’t great and the firm closed Instead of chasing an uncertain actional work, primarily for small and five years as co-owner of a successful got to chatting and he suggested I come court. They’re invaluable to new lawyers in 2003, so she moved closer to home. future, Lilly decided to start her own businesses. Lilly’s advice for new locksmith business. “I was flying by the to Grand Rapids over Christmas break, and can guide you through the process — Originally from Geneva, Ohio, Lilly went practice. She scheduled some time off attorneys is “Be flexible, and take on seat of my pants,” he admits. “My father shadow him, check the area. So that’s if they like you.” to work on the insurance coverage side to develop a business plan and create things you may not have considered.” gave me advice to finish college, but at what I did.” at what was then Janik and Dorman a board of advisors. Lilly also partici­ that age, you think, ‘I’ll get to it when I get Being a people person is doubly Doing so has helped Lilly expand her Adams and Beason became good important in solo practice, he adds. in Cleveland. This new focus required pated in career counseling through practice. As a result of that growth, to it.’” friends, with Beason mentoring the her to switch gears. She had grown the Women’s Business Development she cites repeat business and referrals younger man. “That was a blessing, as “If you don’t get along with people, accustomed to court time, but working Center in Philadelphia in order to learn from existing clients as her greatest though God sent him my way,” Adams that can cause problems in a firm, but on the coverage side involved more more about all the hats she would accomplishment. She also has words says. when you’re on your own, it’s deadly.” legal writing. Steve Janik helped her wear. She credits the organizational of caution: “It is important to know your Anticipating a ”banner year” in this, learn that angle. skills and personal discipline developed After reaching his initial goal of being limitations.” The majority of Lilly’s CLE sworn into the Michigan bar, he says, “My the fifth of his practice, Adams is on the After a few years, her husband’s in law school as helpful to her startup hours are spent on developing skills appointment list for both criminal and success. Hard work comes with the bread and butter that first year came out career took them to Philadelphia. and practice areas that matter most to of my assignment to the federal court for juvenile, factors that will allow him to hire Lilly focused her job search on firms territory, but by far her biggest expense her clients. Lilly also takes on a number staff. “And advertise more,” he says. “The has been marketing. Lilly knew invest­ the Western District of Michigan; that and with insurance coverage practice of pro bono cases and invests time in assisting Mr. Beason. I learned a great Internet gives you a lot more ways to get groups and ended up at DLA Piper, a ing in a professional website and other philanthropic efforts such as Dress for your name out.” marketing materials would be a wise deal; I’d sit in on his client interviews and firm that has thousands of attorneys Success. Lilly is excited about what she finish with him in court.” He continues to feel blessed, saying, worldwide but, at the time, only about and necessary move. has built, but with all of this, day-to-day “I didn’t get into this to make a million. 50 in the Philadelphia office. The Her law practice, which began time management remains a struggle. Beason wasn’t paying him a salary, but he provided Adams with office I sincerely thought that I could make a Philadelphia office was a more intimate primarily as providing freelance Lilly admits, “It’s a juggling act, but it’s difference practicing law, and I think environment while still having access legal services to other firms, now my act.” space in his downtown suite. “I had my own practice by this time but no money I have.” 24 The University of Toledo | Law Transcript The University of Toledo | Law Transcript 25 at UT, where I really enjoyed the great teachers,” he says. Jeffrey B. Bogart ’72 A high-profile practice, though, still R alph DiLeone ’84 requires marketing. “The hardest thing Attorneys who accept celebrity clients After graduation, Bogart joined the about small practice is that you’re solely Ralph DiLeone says to new customers: become quasi-celebrities themselves, District Attorney’s Office in New York responsible,” he says. “You have to “We’re not going to have a lawyer-client and Jeffrey B. Bogart, senior partner as a member of the corruption section, generate your business, work it and collect relationship; I’m a partner.” His clientele with Bogart & Bogart PC in Atlanta, is prosecuting organized crime and political for it. I keep five lawyers busy full-time; appreciate it, given that many of them are no exception. Having represented the corruption, then continued doing public that’s from teaching and word-of-mouth family-owned corporations, joint ventures and partnerships, or limited-liability companies. children of former President Jimmy Carter, corruption prosecution with the U.S. from satisfied clients. In domestic relations, Watergate figure John Ehrlichman and Attorney’s Office in Atlanta, eventually which is about 70 percent of the firm’s “I try to put myself in my clients’ shoes,” numerous professional athletes, he and leaving to start a two-person firm. He work, that’s hard.” says the attorney from the Raleigh, N.C., offices his firm are on the high-visibility end of came back to small practice some years The level of the practice is demanding of DiLeone Law Group P.C. small practice, specializing in family law, later following four years with Atlanta’s as well, he notes. “You have to hit the He’s walked the corporate walk for nearly criminal and civil litigation, divorce and Arnall, Golden & Gregory. ground running, so we have always had three decades. Following five years as a tax child custody. He has even had two lawyers with at least fifteen years of accountant for companies that included Reviewing a long career, he names Marathon Oil, he earned his Toledo Law appearances on Court TV. prosecuting as its most rewarding area. experience working with us,” including his wife Christine. The couple has seven degree and practiced with firms in hometown Despite this success, he doesn’t take “You can protect the innocent by not Cleveland before moving to Raleigh and himself too seriously. “I roll my sleeves prosecuting particular cases, and you can children in this blended family and two entering the fast lane — fast food, that is. zealously go against those who need to be grandchildren. up and come to work every day. I don’t in office. I’ve always kept my hand in While his habitual hard work netted prosecuted. think of myself as anything but a hard- prosecuting.” In addition to his demanding life, he speedy recognition — he served as senior vice working lawyer, which is what you need “I enjoyed it so much that when gladly counsels younger attorneys through president and general counsel for Hardee’s Today, in addition to his practice, he to be effective, because it’s all about I entered private practice I was his teaching and seminars. Is there a Food Systems; as vice president, general teaches litigation courses at the University preparation, preparation, preparation.” honored to be selected as a special commonality in the messages he delivers? counsel and secretary for Swifty Serve — DiLeone’s stints in that arena of Georgia and Emory University. prosecutor for the State of Georgia Bar One pictures him rolling up sleeves before were not without bumps. At UT, he says, he developed a taste Yearly, he chairs his own trial practice Disciplinary Committee, and then as replying. “Respect what you’re doing, for trial work: “In 1971, at the beginning of seminar, presented through the Institute The time-zone difference between North Carolina and Hardee’s a special prosecutor for the Judicial represent every client to the best of your corporate offices in California, for instance, made for long days and late UT’s intern criminal practice program, we of Continuing Legal Education (ICLE). Qualifications Committee, prosecuting ability, and always try to be the best lawyer drives home. “The company president said to me, ‘I’m afraid I’m going third-year students worked with Toledo “Teaching has been extremely gratifying Prosecutors Office as public defenders.” judges who’ve committed malfeasance in the room.” to find you as a grease spot on the road one of these days,’” DiLeone for me, and I think I got a sense of all that recalls. Parting from Hardee’s was mutually amicable; his departure from Swifty Serve, though, left him with a classic war story: new president, new game, big broom. “At nine in the morning I was told that my job had been eliminated, by 10 I was on the road, making calls, saying that I was going to start my own firm until I figured out what else to do,” he says. “Well, that was 12 years ago.” In the interim, he’s built on both his existing reputation and that corporate experience. He began as a general business lawyer, though as he wryly notes, he’s amended that Daniel Aharoni ’76 to business divorce lawyer: “I seem to be handling a lot of shareholder fights.” When Madonna needed last-minute just another vendor, but someone they’d interesting and I’d always enjoyed advising I’d come home and literally, my brain hurt. Most family-owned companies, he adds, lack the buy-sell visas for her touring troupe, where did like to meet.” people, seeing solutions to problems that That’s what I remember about being a agreements that can prevent separation anxiety. But that’s a teachable she turn? To the same attorney Naomi stymied them. The study of law appealed young lawyer, having so much to learn.” moment. (He also enjoys more formal teaching at Campbell Law School He has met many of them, starting and University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, assisting former UT faculty Campbell called for help with her green in his early post-OSU grad days as a to my intellect. I came back to my Learn he did, and in time went solo member Mike Kadens.) card, and Iggy Pop retained to settle hometown, where I wouldn’t be tempted road manager for rock bands. “I came to and focused exclusively on the immigration “In business law, it’s fun to create opportunities,” he says. an immigration issue: Daniel Aharoni, New York with a backpack, on my way to by New York and I would study, see my practice he had come to find especially folks, be serious.” “For instance, in an acquisition settlement, probably 85 percent of managing partner of the New York City law Europe, and stayed with a friend who’d rewarding. “I wasn’t an overnight sensation acquisitions don’t work because they’re not implemented properly. I firm bearing his name. gotten into the music business,” he says. At UT, he concentrated on the — I was living on plastic for a long time,” help my client get what they thought they were going to get when they In a 30-years-plus legal practice The hard-rock lifestyle held him for courses likely to fit his planned path, such he says. bought it.” that includes stints in entertainment law a few years, he adds. “But I’d met some as copyright and tax law. “I had great Today, he works with four other He’s retained a focus on middle-market, family-owned business: and corporate law, Aharoni forged his entertainment lawyers; the work sounded teachers,” he says. “They were responsive lawyers who practice on their own but “Putting ourselves in your shoes to help you better your business.” specialty as an immigration counsel to to me, who at 27 had five years on work collaboratively. “It allows everyone Currently operating with a small staff — “a paralegal, me and a creatives: artists, entertainers, new media everyone and had a very fixed career goal.” to be as idiosyncratic with their practice summer intern” — he keeps eyes peeled for lawyers with a matching wizards, and old-style scientists, athletes, Returning to New York after as they like. Immigration lawyers tend to work ethos: “willing to invest in yourself, someone who can go out and educators, and entrepreneurs who need graduation, he took a job with a lawyer be either solo or two people practicing manage the risk.” U.S. residence visas to achieve career who had gone on his own after working for together. A corollary to DiLeone’s self-investment is technology: “I have goals. what Aharoni calls “a very small but high- “We have a great bar — the American Facebook, I have Twitter, I have LinkedIn, we’re trying podcasting, One of his early successes earned quality boutique firm, doing entertainment, Immigration Lawyers Association — that’s revamping our website to make it more searchable. We use technology him a literal standing ovation, Aharoni litigation, and real estate. I was his only very collegial and supportive. The common as much as we can; I think it’s a great way to interact with clients. recalls. “And I liked that.” associate; he passed on what he’d learned opponent is the government, as we try to “But I have yet to get a client off any of the social media; the people He adds, “Americans tend not to know there. persuade them to grant a visa to someone who have contacted me that way have been mainly tire-kickers. I’m anything about immigration, but foreigners “Our biggest client was a rock ’n’ roll or not deport a person.” friends with a Fortune 500 company executive down here; if I want to learn very quickly. The ability to come to booking agency that brought over British hook up with someone of his stature, I don’t think it will happen because A mentor to many, he advises he’s following my tweets.” this country is very important to them, not bands. I found myself applying all my UT students to consider immigration law. “It’s DiLeone’s most valued gain from solo practice: professional only to reach the American market, but courses to real-life questions. It was always an area of law where you can do some satisfaction. “It’s funny,” he says. “I had the same rewards when I was also as creative people wanting to practice multiple contracts for every big deal, and good as well as make a living. It’s not the their art — so whoever helps them is not while all that integration of the coursework in a big firm; they just mean more when you’re on your own. It’s when a highest earning area, but I would venture client says, ‘I sleep better because you’re on my team.’” was fascinating, it did give me a headache. it’s the most rewarding by far.”

26 The University of Toledo | Law Transcript The University of Toledo | Law Transcript 27 Todd M. Williams ’08 Alan Konop ’63

Todd M. Williams of energy law firm “It’s tough starting a firm, even Word of mouth has brought clients, he Alan Konop doesn’t miss a Barbara feel just as strongly about Williams & Moser LLC always knew he’d tougher when you have a niche firm like says. “And I spend a lot of time getting to know beat as his assistant shoves a mentoring. Whether it’s mentoring have his own law offices. What ended up ours,” he says. “The product you’re selling local politicians and business leaders, and stack of papers in front of him to troubled youth or new attorneys, surprising him was the timing. is your legal services, but what you’re other members of the bar, making them aware sign at the same time he motions Konop states, “Mentoring is so “I just assumed that day would come running is a business. You need to pick that there’s an energy firm in town.” the reporter to sit down to begin the important. You have to sort of like after about five to ten years in a nice up additional skills you don’t learn in law A major step forward has been acting interview. Sitting on the front of his people to do this (lawyering) well.” school.” medium-sized firm,” he says. Instead, an as advisers for the efficiencies-implementing desk is the book Quotes from Great Konop describes himself as economy on standby helped propel him Like patience, he adds. “The first year Better Buildings Program Northwest Ohio, Leaders, stacks of paper and tons of an “old-timer.” He never got into into flying solo. there were weeks when I had nothing to do a Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority effort pictures and mementos. Scattered advertising his practice; it grew “I worked for a major corporation except go out and market the firm. I was a supported through a $15 million Department of around the room are various pieces through clients who referred friends before law school, doing accounting,” solo firm for about the first nine months out Energy grant. of artwork and framed quotations; and relatives. To new attorneys he says. “Loved the company, hated the of school. After that I formed a partnership, As the firm grows, initial terror has given some hung, but many not. “No seeking advice he says, “Go for job. So I knew going into law school that I which is about two years old now.” way to intense satisfaction, he says. “I love the rest for the wicked,” he says with a it.” (with that same twinkle in his says. They now have offices in Toledo and didn’t want to take a job just to have one.” That’s the same age as his daughter, reward of being able to build my own name twinkle in his eye. You can sense the eye), but cautions it can be very Columbus. With sparse job offers and even fewer Sophia, which brings up another detail: and brand. Nobody’s second-guessing me; but energy in the air and see the spring frustrating. The key is to respect all in areas that matched Williams’ strong mutual spousal support. “Because of The niche status has been both I did try to build a network of older attorneys in his step. Alan Konop has been people: “Never underestimate the interest in environmental law, he carefully how my wife Megan and I set our lives advantage and challenge, he notes of the past whom I can run questions. That’s valuable. practicing law in Toledo since 1963, need for some degree of civility.” practice that’s heavy on energy regulation. and he still loves what he does. weighed options before leaping. “I already up before I started law school, everything I recommend the Ohio Lawyer-to-Lawyer Is there anything that upsets this “I graduated with an environmental had a client with my small firm while I was depends on her salary. A lot of our mentoring program through the Ohio Supreme Initially he had no idea what he veteran attorney? “Don’t ever think law certificate and a concentration in looking, so private practice made sense current success is due to her willingness Court.” wanted to do. “Before going to law you know it all. If you have self-doubt, environmental law. The regulatory side if I was going to make any money and to support me after law school for a few In the end, he adds, “This choice has school I contemplated becoming you are thinking things through more of energy law is very much classic practice in an area of law I really cared years,” he says. made all the difference in the world to me.” a rabbi, and during law school I clearly. Trouble pops up, he adds, administrative law issues and learning about.” On the other hand, the firm was worked as a social worker.” Upon the minute you say to a client, “Don’t how to operate at the Public Utilities home-based until last fall, which allowed graduating, Konop rented office worry about a thing.” Made sense, but still terrified, he Commission of Ohio, with its own special admits. Nevertheless, he knew that Todd to help raise Sophia. “For a long time, space with some older lawyers and rules for evidence and special procedures; practiced mainly criminal defense His practice and reputation success is in the details, in this case my largest client was in Columbus, the have been built through trust and second largest in San Francisco, so most the administrative law courses I had and general practice for the first accounting, bookkeeping, strategies for prepared me for that.” relationships. “One of the real marketing and reducing overhead. of my work was done over the Internet,” he five to six years. As it turned out, criminal law, civil rights and personal injury areas were where he felt most comfortable. One of his first lessons came from his criminal law experience. Konop was defending a client in a criminal trial and the client was Melan M. Forcht ’01 found guilty. Konop’s face falls as he recounts, “It was bad. I was devastated.” His client turned to him Sitting in her cozy office on the 2 a.m. most nights. “Looking back, it’s Now they share the suite. “It is nice to attorneys leaving the bankruptcy practice after and said, “Don’t feel so bad. You second floor of a red-brick building in hard to believe I did that. I couldn’t stay have company,” Forcht admits. She also the law changed in 2005. She stuck with it and are the first person who has listened downtown Sylvania, Ohio, it is easy to see up until 2 a.m. now if I had to.” Forcht cites the support of the solo practitioners now works to change the bankruptcy stigma to me.” He has never forgotten this why Melan M. Forcht is able to connect admits her favorite law school memories in the area as contributing to her success. that many of her clients experience. She tells experience, seeing it as a lesson with clients. Forcht has a comfortable are of studying for exams with her group Forcht’s greatest achievement? “My family people, “It [bankruptcy] is a tool to help those in how to treat people and how demeanor but is able to speak candidly of friends. Support from this close circle and that my doors are still open after eight who need a fresh start. It gives you a clean important it is to listen. about the ups and downs, the pros and perseverance learned largely from the years of being on my own.” slate to start over.” She’s seen people fall on Konop says as a defense lawyer and cons, the good and the bad of solo demands of law school contributed to the Much of her success may be due to unexpected hard times with job loss and health you have to understand that cases practice. “This is how I built my business,” courage to set out on her own. her approach. Forcht practices family law issues. “Circumstances that are not typically are tough, but everyone is entitled says Forcht. “I spend time with my clients Forcht’s goal after law school was and bankruptcy. She remembers so many planned for can derail someone who is already to the best job the attorney can and I get a lot of referrals. I think people to be hired by a local law office. She had living paycheck to paycheck.” possibly do. “You hope you can problems in society today is we know I’m genuine.” achieved that when she was invited to join Two of the best practice tips she ever be successful, but you can’t win don’t feel connected to each other. Genuine she is. Forcht casually law school friends to form a firm. When received were to return phone calls and to be every case,” says Konop, who went We have to understand we are all references the kid-size table and chairs she decided to leave this arrangement, upfront with her clients. Forcht tells them, “You through law school at a time when connected,” says Konop. “My client stashed in the corner of her office for those one of her greatest concerns was whether may not hear what you want to hear, but you clinical courses didn’t exist. He says saved me when he told me I was the weekends when she brings her daughter clients would follow her; they did. With will hear what you need to hear.” of clinics and practical internships first to listen to him. I was wiped out!” to work. She also openly discusses the the support of her husband and her Forcht knows the importance of “giving now, “Those experiences are vital. According to Konop, an un-hung tough road she had to a law degree. After mentors, she started out small and, this back” and does so through the TBA’s pro bono It’s very important to learn the law, framed quote by playwright Arthur switching majors multiple times, she finally time, completely on her own. One of her services and mentoring. Forcht remembers but the next step is applying it.” Miller says it best: “…but the truth, completed her undergraduate degree. first business decisions was to purchase calling around to ask others for help when she He credits his social work the first truth, probably, is that we are She was several years older than her an ad in the phone book. Forcht took was a new attorney. When she was recently background with creating familiarity all connected, watching one another. classmates by the time she started law care in doing so, recognizing she needed approached by a new Toledo Law graduate with seeing people in trouble and Even the trees.” school. Forcht says, “The toughest part to match the size of her ad with client asking the same question she had asked a trying to find ways to help. His ideals of law school was getting into the groove perceptions of her office and fees. number of years ago, she was more than willing are rooted in rehabilitation, and he of time management.” Her son was going Right now she is just where she to respond. feels early intervention is necessary into kindergarten at the time. She would wants to be. A year ago another attorney for criminal offenders. “We could do work with him, then stay up reading until expressed interest in the space she rents. more,” says Konop. He and his wife

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Message from Law Alumni perspectives: James R. Knepp ’92

Alumni Affiliate President An active year for the Law Periodically we ask alumni to share perspectives on important issues or events. This year, the College of Law was Alumni Affiliate asked to host the Investiture of James R. Knepp, II (1992), who was appointed to the position of Magistrate Judge Jill Hayes ’90 by the judges of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Following the ceremony (summarized on Page 32) , we asked Judge Knepp to share his journey to the bench with us. have the privilege of serving as your he Law Alumni Affiliate had an active year, hosting more than Law Alumni Affiliate president T20 alumni events and offering varied opportunities for alumni to I connect. Highlights include: wonder how many of us have had a memorable message for the lottery, once told me, “You can’t win It was both a for the 2011-2012 term. For many moment at a self-serve gas pump. Maybe the • The 2010 Recognition and Reunion Gala with 120 alumni and I if you don’t play.” relief, and even years, I have served on the former first time on your own as a newly-licensed driver? friends in attendance In fact, as I progressed through the selection more stressful, University of Toledo Law Alumni Perhaps the first time the cost per gallon was • Supporting the Lawyers’ Build for Maumee Valley Habitat for process, I kept reassuring myself that I had no when the calls Board of Governors, which became somewhere north of $4? Humanity realistic chance of winding up with my dream job, and e-mails Judge Knepp graduated magna cum The University of Toledo Law Mine was on May 3, 2010. That evening, while but that fate was merely toying with me. I surpassed finally started laude from Mount Union College, Alumni Affiliate two years ago. I have • Partnering with the Toledo Bar Association for CLE events received his Masters Degree from pumping gas in the rain at the Shell station in an initial round of screening and was interviewed by coming in witnessed many changes throughout • Toledo Symphony concerts at the Stranahan Theater downtown Toledo, I received a phone call that Bowling Green State University, a panel of approximately 30 committee members, letting me and graduated summa cum laude the years and can confidently assure • Pre-event receptions at the Black Pearl restaurant (underwritten changed my life. Judge James G. Carr, then chief mostly attorneys, all selected by judges of the know that and as the class valedictorian at The you the Law Alumni Affiliate has by Key Private Bank) judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern Northern District of Ohio. I was, frankly, surprised friends, University of Toledo College of Law. moved in the right direction. We • Wine-tasting with commentary provided by District of Ohio, called to tell me that I had been when I was advised I was one of five finalists neighbors, have sponsored many exciting events Professor John Barrett selected by the judges of the court as the next recommended to the judges of the district. I knew judges, coworkers and litigation adversaries had this past year, including ice-skating at • The 12th annual Stoepler Scholarship Golf Outing Hayes Magistrate Judge to serve at the federal court in that each of the finalists was well-qualified, and been contacted by the FBI, inquiring about my Tam-O-Shanter, wine tasting at the • Walleye hockey Toledo. feared that perhaps the committee had advanced my character. The low-water mark for that period was Driscoll Center, Walleye hockey games, Imagination Station family outings • Ice-skating at Tam-o-Shanter Several months earlier, when I heard that United candidacy for comic relief to break up an afternoon undoubtedly when my close friend at the office, and performances of the Toledo Symphony. Some events were co-sponsored • Evening at Imagination Station States Magistrate Judge Vernelis K. Armstrong was of serious interviews for the judge. Following my reporting his experience in the investigation, told with the College of Medicine Affiliate, which allowed us to meet alumni from • Exam break snacks for law students going to be retiring (happily for the northwest Ohio interview with the judges, I felt like I had put my me of his response to an inquiry by the agent about the medical school. If you have not attended any of these events in the past, Last but not legal community, she has continued to serve the best foot forward, but was again confident that whether I ever abused alcohol: What do you mean I encourage you to do so this year. I further encourage you to attend the Law least, through court on recall status), I made the decision to apply the foot of another would win the race. Having by “abuse”? Alumni Gala to be held on September 24 at Inverness Club. We are planning your donations for the position. The decision was both difficult and finally concluded that the promised phone call to Apparently, the agent had a sense of humor, a very special evening. the Law Alumni easy. let me know one way or the other was not going because I survived the background investigation and These are challenging times for our law school with the cuts in state Affiliate provided It was difficult to think of leaving Robison, to arrive that afternoon after all, I headed home. didn’t have to explain to my clients and colleagues funding for universities all over Ohio. Michelle Kranz has graciously each incoming Curphey & O’Connell, my professional home While filling my gas tank, my phone registered a that I wouldn’t be leaving after all. In keeping with continued to serve as chair of the Development Committee for our Law law student with and family for the past 15 years. I joined RCO call from an unfamiliar number. In utter disregard tradition, my formal swearing in took place at an Alumni Affiliate. Please consider calling Michelle with your donation so our a leather portfolio immediately after serving a two-year clerkship for and each graduate of the warning on the pump about using cell phones investiture ceremony attended by my new judicial students can continue to receive an outstanding legal education. Judge John W. Potter in the United States District with a Scales of while dispensing the flammable liquid, I answered colleagues from around the district, as well as Court in Toledo. I was always proud to tell law I would like to thank Bruce Stone for his Justice statuette. what turned out to be the call that changed my life. members of the bench and bar, friends and family. service as president of the Law Alumni Affiliate students interviewing for positions with the firm These gifts make a I heard the voice of Judge Carr on the other end of As I was responsible for selecting the location for the 2010-2011 term. Bruce works and lasting impression that it was a special place, where, as trite as it may the line, and the first words out of his mouth were, for the investiture, it was important to me to lives in Ann Arbor, Mich., and Bruce’s deep and send a message sound, people really do care a great deal for each “Welcome aboard, James.” involve UT Law, to which I was grateful in the first about the importance of connections and staying involved. Thanks to other. I worked through my tenure as an associate, commitment to the law school is demonstrated After my selection, I was required to undergo those who donated for your generosity to our students and graduates. made partner, and was presumably going to take instance for bringing me to Toledo and then for by all those miles driven to and from meetings an extensive background check by the FBI. I was over as managing partner at some point in the near matchmaking me personally (my wife, Linda, is a and events in Toledo. I commend you, Bruce. required to answer dozens of questions which began future. I had great relationships with several clients, fellow 1992 law alumni) and professionally (former Finally, I would like to recognize Heather with the phrases “Have you ever . . ” or “Have you, and was able to marry my love of technology with placement director Joyce Shawaker provided an Karns, assistant dean of Law Career Services within the past 15 years . . . ?” Then came a period of the needs of a particular corporate client, which introduction to Judge Potter, my first employer after and Alumni Affairs; Vern Snyder, vice president deafening silence. I was advised to not even check selected me to serve as national counsel for its graduation). for Institutional Advancement; Dan Saevig, on the status of the background investigation for locomotive video program. As Judge Potter administered the oath of office to associate vice president of Alumni Relations; three months. I have never before experienced such The decision was also easy. I have to believe that me, the intervening 21 years since I sat in that very and Susan Fandrey, Law Alumni Affiliate a profound feeling of hanging in limbo. While I anyone who serves as a law clerk to a federal judge same auditorium as a new law student attending events coordinator, for their hard work on knew, objectively, that there was nothing about the considers the prospect of actually being a federal orientation melted into a warm and comforting behalf of the Law Alumni Affiliate. When you background check that could pose a problem, I have judge his or her dream job. That dream job status, sense of an orderly progression to a completely see them at one of our events, please thank them to admit the uncertainty was really uncomfortable. and the relative rarity of opportunities, made it feel unexpected result. And, more than anything, it felt for all they do for us. Despite the uncertainty, over those three months I like submitting my application was the functional good to formally begin this next adventure in the Should you have any thoughts, suggestions or transitioned my law practice to my partners at RCO equivalent of buying a lottery ticket. But as some same place where my professional life began. questions, please give me a call. I look forward to and said goodbye to clients and friends, many of marketing genius, speaking through a commercial seeing you this year at our events. Award winners Pat S. Intagliata ’79, Gerald L. Trepkowski ’02, Professor Robin M. Kennedy, Kenneth whom had come to be numbered in both categories. W. White ’61 and Christopher P. Bussert ’83, join Law Alumni Affiliate President, Bruce Stone, and Dean 30 The University of Toledo | Law Transcript Steinbock (pictured fourth and fifth from the left) for a picture. The University of Toledo | Law Transcript 31 ALUMNI NEWS FACULTY NOTES

Kara Bruce Magistrates, which is sponsored by the Supreme treasurer of the Ohio Regional Association of College of Law hosts investiture of James R. Knepp ’92 Assistant Professor Court of Ohio Judicial College. In June, she Law Libraries, and recently completed a major presented an update on Ohio hearsay rules at furniture renovation project on the main floor Professor Bruce joined the Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association of the LaValley Law Library. He also serves on On September 22, 2010, College of Law hosted the faculty in August 2011 Summer Workshop. Professor Eisler the advisory board for the UT Paralegal Studies the investiture ceremony for James R. Knepp II, who 2010. During her first continues to teach in the American Law Program, and presented a state of the library was sworn in as magistrate judge for the U.S. District year at the College of Certificate Program at Szeged University in update for them at a February board meeting. Court, Northern District of Ohio, Western Division. Law, she taught Secured Hungary. In February, she taught International Knepp, a 1992 graduate of The University of Toledo Transactions and Sales of Goods to the Hungarian law students Commercial Paper. She Ken Kilbert College of Law, was selected from a pool of finalists in the program. by the district court judges of the Northern District is working on an Associate Professor of Ohio to assume the magistrate judge vacancy in article exploring retail Professor Kilbert was bankruptcies in the wake of the Bankruptcy Llewellyn Joseph Gibbons Toledo resulting from Magistrate Judge Vernelis K. awarded a grant by the Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Professor Armstrong’s recent assumption of recall status. Chief National Sea Grant Act of 2005. Bruce presented this article at the Professor Gibbons was Law Center to conduct Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. presided over the investiture Law and Society Association’s annual meeting and was joined in attendance by several district court, elected to membership a legal research and in June 2011 and the Midwest Corporate Law in the American Law public outreach project bankruptcy and magistrate judges from across the Scholars Conference in July 2011. Professor Institute (ALI). The aimed at combating the Northern District of Ohio. Bruce was an invited presenter at a CLE ALI (made up of 4,000 sources of hazardous Judge Knepp also received best wishes from Dean program given by the Toledo Women’s Bar lawyers, judges, and algae blooms in Lake Association in May 2011. Steinbock and several local bar associations. More law professors) drafts, Erie, a growing problem for recreation, tourism, than 150 people attended the investiture. discusses, revises, and aquatic life, and human health. Collaborators Benjamin Davis publishes restatements of on this multi-disciplinary project are the Professor the law. Professor Gibbons has volunteered to directors of UT’s Lake Erie Center and Ohio work on ALI member consultative groups on State University’s Stone Laboratory. Kilbert Professor Davis spoke at the Legal and Economic Principles of World organized the 10th annual Great Lakes Water The University of Toledo trade law, Restatement Third, the U.S. Law Conference in November 2010 at the College on legal issues with of International Commercial Arbitration, of Law, where he chaired a panel on renewable Jeff Crowther ’81, Rule-of-law advisor in Afghanistan respect to the Ahmed and the Restatement Third, Torts: Economic energy. Other speaking engagements included Ghailani (West African Torts and Related Wrongs. Professor a Feb. 2011 workshop in Windsor, Ontario, Jeff Crowther law, international experience in cross-cultural and Pashtunwali. Afghans always take into Embassy bombings) Gibbons co-authored with Lars S. Smith a regarding Great Lakes water levels, sponsored training, martial arts, and it all pointed to this consideration the community; extra-judicial conviction, torture, and ’81 makes his book on trademark law, wrote for Regulatory by the International Joint Commission. He was drones and targeted daily commute type of work,” he says. “It was a perfect fit, for I law, we call it. They’ll call in community Approaches: Crisis, Danger or Opportunity named “Outstanding Newsletter Editor” for killings. In March, he in the mountains truly love what I do.” members to be witnesses, to see that the for Copyright and Trademark Law in the 2009-2010 by the ABA Section of Litigation. spoke at the University of Montreal Faculty north of community is given its proper consideration.” United States (2011) a book chapter, “Reader This was the second time in three years Part of the rule of law is to help the of Law on a humanist vision of international in American Law for Chinese Law Students” that Kilbert and his two co-editors were so Kandahar, constitutional law of Afghanistan become The traditional Afghan way to settle a blood commercial arbitration. He continued his work and a law review article, “Do as I Say (Not as honored for their work on The Environmental Afghanistan. legitimate and reach its people. This is a huge feud, he notes, is to marry three generations as a board member of the Society of American I Did): Putative Intellectual Property Lessons Litigator, published quarterly by the section’s That’s Taliban undertaking, Crowther notes. But the necessary of women from the offending family into the Law Teachers on a wide range of topics affecting for Emerging Economies from the Not So Long Environmental Litigation Committee. territory, just legal education. He wrote commentaries online interaction energizes him. “I love the challenge wronged family. Sharing a much-cited story Past of the Developed Nations,” in the SMU down the road, at Jurist and the Society of American Law of the cultural awareness when talking with concerning an Afghan man whose family honor Law Review. Professor Gibbons also presented Teachers blog, and offline in the Toledo Blade Jessica Knouse in fact, from the someone who’s looking to you for advice, was wronged and who waited 100 years before papers or spoke at 2011 IPR Nanhu Forum — and other media, on issues concerning the Associate Professor home village of Mullah Omar. An employee mentorship and connection to the international he exacted retribution, he adds wryly, “He was National IPR Strategy; the Drake University definition of torture and the killing of Osama of the U.S. State Department, Crowther is community legal assistance programs,” he says. counseled that he had acted too quickly.” School of Law, Intellectual Property Scholars Professor Knouse Bin Laden. He continued his multi-year work a senior rule-of-law adviser embedded with Roundtable; The Association for the Study of published an article titled Afghans who seek his help are steeped in a He laughs while offering a message for with Human Rights First on the drafting of Law, Culture and the Humanities 2011 Annual “Restructuring the Labor a multinational force of Australians, Dutch far older legal culture, one Crowther still strives Western law students. “They should never its Accountability Report, work with Vincent Conference; and The Third National People of Market to Democratize and Americans. “People often forget that Bugliosi on state prosecution of a former to understand fully. “Modern systems of laws complain about any American courthouse. Color Legal Scholarship Conference. Finally, the Public Forum” in the the Afghan conflict is a NATO operation,” president, and work on his book on the citizen’s are not readily accepted here,” he explains. “It’s Here, they conduct trials in buildings heated by Professor Gibbons successfully concluded his Stetson Law Review. She Jeff notes. Via e-mail and Skype, he shares role in state compliance with international law. part of the environment you operate in; you pot-bellied stoves fashioned from 50-gallon steel year as chair of the Association of American placed an article titled the passion he’s developed for a mission as have to be aware of it as you work with judges, drums.” Law Schools Section on Minority Groups. “Civil Marriage: Threat rewarding as it is dangerous. prosecutors and police.” Though his own student status is decades Beth Eisler to Democracy” in the Professor Michigan Journal of Gender & Law. Knouse The danger is obvious: Crowther never Part of his job is making a record of the past, he says, “I do think of my UT Law Rick Goheen gave presentations at the 2010 Annual Meeting travels without three or four armed bodyguards. decisions handed down by the jirga — the College days many, many times. They are In April, Professor Assistant Professor of the Law and Society Association in Chicago, The rewards take longer to fathom, though Eisler presented a and Director of the Pashtun council of tribal elders — that’s always times you know you had a good education, and Illinois; the Case Western Reserve University Crowther began reaping them from the moment program on the Ohio Law Library resolving disputes the old-fashioned way just at UT, I understood the concept of law and School of Law; the Loyola University he plotted a course for the rest of his life. rules of privilege miles from the city court. jurisprudence, and developed a range that’s Professor Goheen will Chicago School of Law’s Constitutional at the 2011 Spring “I looked at all the things I had done in carried me a long way.” be serving another Law Colloquium (“How Democratic is the He explains the complexity: “There’s a blend Conference of the my life: Vietnam veteran, criminal justice and two-year term as Constitution?”); the Toledo Bar Association’s of statutory law, their constitutional law, Shari’a At least 6,900 miles, by any estimation. 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Federal Courts Section Meeting; and The in a row he has won this award. He was also Garrick Pursley Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation. Conference in Columbus, Ohio, and he and Public Sectors: Cases and Materials University of Toledo’s Constitution Day involved with or on various committees, Assistant Professor His current work examines whether this presented on legal issues facing school districts (with Seth Harris, David Gregory, and Anne Celebration. Within the College of Law, she such as the Dean Search Committee and the new law lives up to its potential. In 2011, he and administrators at an Education Leadership Lofaso) (LEXIS, forthcoming 2012). Recent Professor Pursley’s was a presenter in the Faculty Roundtable Series Strategic Planning Committee. Finally, he was testified in hearings of the U.S. House of Association seminar in Toledo. He continues controversies over public sector labor laws have article, “Preemption and a participant in the annual Supreme Court elected a member of the Faculty Senate for the Representatives, Committee on Financial to provide anti-bullying trainings to area school given him the opportunity to make multiple in Congress,” was Preview Panel Discussion. She also organized upcoming academic year. Services, Subcommittee on Capital Markets districts. media appearances, including interviews on published in the Spring the June 2010 Ohio Legal Scholarship and Government Sponsored Enterprises. The NPR’s “Morning Edition,” MSNBC.com, 2010 issue of Ohio State Salem and his students are actively involved Workshop, which was attended by faculty from hearings covered “Legislative Proposals to Reuters and Fortune; op-eds and interviews Dan Nathan Law Journal. He also in the Northwest Ohio Prisoner Re-Entry law schools across Ohio. She gave presentations Address Negative Consequences of the Dodd- in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cincinnati Clinical Professor published two shorter Coalition, a network of legal professionals at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Law and Frank Whistleblower Provisions.” Enquirer, and Toledo Blade; and appearances pieces in 2010: “Penal and social service agencies working to ease Society Association in San Francisco, and the Professor Nathan was on local TV. He was recently selected to be part Deference and Other During the year, Professor Rapp published the transition from prison to the public in an Michigan State University College of Law’s hired in January 2011 of the Employment Policy Research Network, Oddities in United States v. Comstock” in Torts 2.0 in a symposium issue of the William effort to reduce recidivism rates. He presented Midwest Family Law Consortium, and for the and teaches the Juvenile a group of labor and employment scholars Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and Mitchell Law Review. Professor Rapp also on his work with the coalition at the 25th Toledo Women’s Bar Association’s CLE. Law and Domestic affiliated with the Labor and Employment Public Policy and Preemption, “Deference wrote an essay on the Ohio State University Midwest Clinical Law Teachers Conference Violence Clinic. Relations Association. and Constitutional Doubt” in Administrative football scandal, “Tattoo Regrets and Extra at Northwestern University School of Law in Susan Martyn Professor Nathan is Benefits: Does Free Ink Justify an NCAA Chicago. He also gave a presentation on the on the board of Court and Regulatory Law News. His review essay, Stoepler Professor of Law and Values Suspension of OSU’s Terrelle Pryor?,” in the gay rights movement in the Middle East at the Lee J. Strang Appointed Special “Federalism Compatibilists,” appeared in the Spring 2011 issue of Texas Law Review; Journal of NCAA Compliance. Professor National Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s annual Professor Professor Martyn has Advocates (CASA) and Rapp presented “Regulating Steroids” at Creating Change Conference in Minneapolis. been named a Fellow of on the legal committee of the ACLU. During and “Local Energy,” (written with Tulsa Professor Strang Depaul University, “Lend Long and Proper: Salem serves on the executive board of the the American Bar As- spring semester, Professor Nathan presented Professor Hannah Wiseman), his article placed his most What’s New, Old and Worrisome About On- National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, sociation. Membership a workshop on domestic violence at Maumee examining legal mechanisms that may promote recent publication, Line Peer-to-Peer Lending,” in Columbus at the board of trustees for the Toledo Bar in the fellows is an honor Valley Country Day School’s Issue Day, and renewable energy use, appeared in the Spring “Originalism as Popular the Ohio Securities Conference (co-sponsored Association, the board of Equality Toledo, limited to one-third of he presented to Mountain Mentors on factors 2011 issue of Emory Law Journal. His most Constitutionalism: by the state Division of Securities and the the advisory board of Planned Parenthood 1 percent of the lawyers promoting resiliency in neglected and abused recent articles — “Dormancy,” which was Theoretical Possibilities College of Law), “Meddling Reasonableness: of Northwestern Ohio, and the board of the in America. She also co- children. accepted for publication in the Georgetown and Practical Disability, Care, Access and Obligation in Toledo Legal Aid Society Public Defenders chaired the annual ALI- Law Journal, and “Instrumental Federalism,” Differences,” in the the Law of Tort” at the Annual Meeting of Office. ABA Developments in Legal Ethics CLE at the an invited contribution to Alabama Law Notre Dame Law Nicole Porter Review — will appear in spring 2012. the Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting of the American Law Institute Associate Dean and “You’ve Got Tenure: Now What?” at Review. The article contends that, despite the in San Francisco in May. She and co-author Professor Pursley presented “Dormancy,” a Joseph Slater theoretical compatibility of originalism and constitutional theory piece, at the 2010 Ohio the Annual Conference of the Southeast Lawrence J. Fox recently filed an amicus curiae Professor Porter was Association of Law Schools. Professor popular constitutionalism, they have diverged granted tenure and Legal Scholarship Conference, the Toledo Law brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Maples v. Since last spring, in practice. promoted to full Faculty Roundtable, the Wayne State Faculty Professor Rapp also began writing a monthly Thomas on behalf of 90 legal ethics professors Professor Slater has Additionally, Strang placed “The Road Not professor in June 2010. Colloquium, and at a constitutional theory “Diary of a Dad” column for the Toledo Area and practitioners and The Ethics Bureau at had two publications Taken: Catholic Legal Education at the Middle In July 2010, she began colloquium at Duke Law School. Parent Magazine. Yale. The brief evaluates a myriad of profession- come out in print: the of the Twentieth Century” (with John M. al responsibility issues raised in a habeas corpus serving as the associate casebook Public Sector Breen), in the Loyola Chicago Law Journal. proceeding. The court will hear oral arguments dean for Academic Geoffrey Rapp Rob Salem Employment: Cases and This is the first law review article from what in the case this fall. Affairs. Her article (co- Professor Clinical Professor Materials (2nd West will be a book on the history of Catholic legal authored by graduate Professor Salem was 2010) (with Marty education. Strang also continued editing a Jessica Vartanian ’10), “Debunking the Professor Rapp Kelly Moore selected as an expert Malin and Ann Hodges) constitutional law casebook for LexisNexis. Market Myth in Pay Discrimination Cases,” was named one panel member for a and an essay, “Public Sector Labor in 2010: Strang also participated in a symposium on Assistant Professor is forthcoming in the Georgetown Journal of of the university’s U.S. Department of View of a Legal Historian,” in the Labor and Justice Clarence Thomas’ jurisprudence. Gender and the Law. This article was selected Outstanding Junior Professor Moore placed Education study on Working Class History Association Newsletter His symposium essay, “The Most Faithful for presentation at the Annual Meeting of Faculty, one of nine two articles,“Home Run state bullying laws (Spring 2010). Two more of his articles will be Originalist?: Justice Thomas, Justice Scalia, and the American Association of Law Schools professors recognized Balls and Taxation, a and school policies. published soon, both based on papers he gave the Future of Originalism” will appear in the in January 2011, and Porter also presented it by President Jacobs New Stance: How a in his 2011 Annual Salem was one of seven at symposia: “Public Sector Labor in the Age University of Detroit Mercy Law Review. H.R. Can Be I.R.D.” at the Annual Labor and Employment Law Address (Professor experts from around of Obama,” at the Indiana University Law Strang presented papers at numerous (co-authored with Adam Colloquium in Saint Louis, Mo. Lee Strang was also recognized). Professor the country chosen by the Department School Conference, “Labor and Employment conferences and workshops, including the J. Poe) and “Will the Porter also presented a CLE lecture at the Rapp was also named one of Toledo’s “20 of Education to work on the study. Salem Law Under the Obama Administration: A Midwest Political Science Association annual Applicable Exclusion Toledo Women’s Bar Association in May. Under 40,” a leadership award sponsored gave a presentation titled “Innovative Ways Time for Hope and Change,” and “Employee conference, the Central States Law School Amount Tame Section by Fifth Third Bank, Columbia Gas, The for Lawyers to Impact the Safe School Voice: Lessons from the Public Sector,” at the Association annual conference, Indiana 2057, Again?” in the Texas Tech University Toledo Business Journal and other groups. Movement” at the Lavender Law Conference Marquette Law School Symposium on Labor University School of Law-Indianapolis, School of Law Estate Planning & Community Professor Rapp is currently at work on in Miami, Fla. He conducted training for the and Employment Law in September. In March, Northern Kentucky University Chase College Property Law Journal (winter 2011). In a follow-up to his 2007 article, “Beyond Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) he gave the paper, “Public Sector Impasse of Law, Detroit Mercy School of Law, St. Mary’s addition, he contributed an essay, “Contextual Protection: Invigorating Incentives for program at the Lucas County Juvenile Court Procedures as ADR: From Wisconsin to University School of Law, Duquesne University Tethers to Greater Understanding,” to the Sarbanes-Oxley Corporate and Securities on legal issues facing lesbian, gay, bisexual, Ohio,” at St. John’s University School of Law. School of Law, and the Ohio Legal Scholars newsletter of the Institute for Law Teaching Fraud Whistleblowers,” in which Professor and transgender youth. He also gave a He continues to work on another casebook Workshop. and Learning (fall 2010). He was honored to Rapp argued for the payment of “bounties” to presentation on the connection between the covering both private sector and public sector be voted Outstanding Professor of the Year Strang frequently debated and spoke securities fraud whistleblowers. In July 2010, law and bullying-related suicides at the 7th labor law, Modern Labor Law in the Private on constitutional interpretation at law by the 2011 graduating class, the second year Congress enacted such a policy as part of the Annual Ohio Suicide Prevention Foundation

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schools across the country. His debates Rebecca E. Zietlow Heather Karns Jessica Mehl and presentations took place at St. Mary’s Professor Assistant Dean Assistant Dean, Law Admissions University School of Law, the University of Law Alumni & Career Services Former faculty members: what Professor Zietlow was Assistant Dean Mehl North Dakota School of Law, the University a visiting professor at Assistant Dean Karns co-presented a session on of Pittsburgh School of Law, Michigan State are they doing now? the University of Iowa continues to oversee Applying to Law School University College of Law, Loyola University, College of Law this career services and at the Mercer Langston New Orleans School of Law, the University of Alumni often ask about those professors who spent past year. She published alumni affairs in the Bar Association Nebraska College of Law, Akron University “Progressive Popular Office of Professional (JLMBA) Conference so much time educating them. We were able to School of Law, and The Ohio State University Constitutionalism Development. Karns for African American Moritz College of Law. catch up with a few retired professors for a quick and the 2010 Patient co-presented on Aspiring Attorneys in update, and we found out none are resting! As faculty adviser to the Federalist Society, Protection and “Alumni Engagement Columbus. She presented Strang assisted with organizing speakers and Affordable Care Act” in the Ohio State Through Career with Robert Solomon, the Assistant Dean for debates including a panel discussion, “The Law Journal, and “Patterns of Inequality – Services and Professional Development” at the Admissions & Financial Aid and Director of Rhoda L. Berkowitz If you would like to contact Professor Rhoda Upcoming Supreme Court Term,” with College Paradigms for Equality” (book review) in the 2011 National Association for Legal Career Minority Affairs at OSU Law. Professor Berkowitz, you can e-mail her at of Law faculty. Professor Strang also regularly Tulsa Law Review. She also gave a number Professionals with Cheryl Kitchen, Director of [email protected] commented in the media. of talks and presentations, including at the Career Services at Ohio Northern’s University Professor Berkowitz Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, Pettit College of Law and Christine Corral, retired from The Drake University Law School, the University Executive Director of the Career Planning University of Toledo Howard Friedman of Maryland College of Law, the Annual Labor Center at The Valparaiso University School of in 2003. Since Professor and Employment Colloquium, and at the 2010 Law. Karns has also been elected to serve as a then, she has been Professor Friedman Law and Society Annual Meeting. Regional Coordinator for NALP during the enjoying her time retired from The 2011-12 year. as a resident of a University of Toledo in small town south of 2006. He continued to Chapel Hill, N.C. teach part-time at UT Professor Berkowitz and her husband, until a year ago, when Roger, chose North Carolina because he moved to Atlanta to Four outstanding new faculty members join the of the temperate weather, and selected spend more time with his that particular area of North Carolina daughter, son-in-law and College of Law in 2011 for its proximity to museums and several grandchildren. Since the move, that enjoyable universities, including Duke and UNC, time has been augmented with the many allowing many cultural opportunities. attractions of Atlanta itself. “I’m exploring all Shelley Cavalieri Jelani Jefferson Exum Gregory Gilchrist Dan Nathan Since retiring, Professor Berkowitz has sorts of things: There’s a great arts community Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Clinical Professor stayed busy. She has become active in and the great climate for being outdoors,” he Professor Cavalieri Professor Exum has Professor Gilchrist has Professor Nathan joined the local public library, where she is says, adding that he enjoys being able to grill received her both her undergraduate degrees from Stanford the College of Law president of the Friends of the Library, a most of the year. undergraduate degree and law degrees from University and Columbia faculty in January 2011 700-member advocacy and fundraising On the professional side, Professor Friedman from the University of Harvard. Upon Law School. He began as a clinical professor group. Professor Berkowitz also serves spends his time blogging about constitutional Virginia and her J.D. graduating from law his post-law school teaching in the Domestic on the county and state library boards. law. The blog, which Professor Friedman from the University of school, she clerked at career clerking for Judge Violence & Juvenile In addition, she and Roger have enjoyed started soon after he retired, can be accessed at traveling and have recently visited India, California, Berkeley. the U.S. District Court, Robert H. Henry, U.S. Law Clinic. Nathan religionclause.blogspot.com. It now has 20,000 After law school she Eastern District of Court of Appeals for the is a graduate of The Egypt, Turkey, Japan, and Finland. visitors per month. In addition to blogging, clerked for Judge Martha Louisiana for Judge Tenth Circuit. Following University of Toledo Professor Berkowitz says the field of Professor Friedman spends his time working on Craig Daughtrey at the U.S. Court of Appeals Eldon Fallon, then for Judge James Dennis his clerkship, he worked at Arnold & Porter, College of Law (J.D. 2004), where he was the law will always be a part of her life, but his book, Publicly Held Corporations Lawyers for the Sixth Circuit and then for Judge Thelton at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth then as an assistant federal public defender in class valedictorian. He also graduated from the she is no longer a professionally active Guide, coming out in August. Henderson at the U.S. District Court Northern Circuit. Following her judicial clerkships, she the District of Maryland. He later returned to University of Chicago (master’s in teaching), participant other than through her In addition to writing, Professor Friedman District of California. Following her clerkships, was a Forrester Fellow and legal research and Arnold & Porter and practiced in the area of white and the University of Michigan (B.A.). continuing enthusiasm for politics and stays connected to the legal field by e-mail she began her teaching career at the West writing instructor at Tulane Law School, an collar criminal defense. Professor Gilchrist will Prior to joining the faculty, Nathan was in civic life. In her library work she often subscription to issues through The University Virginia University College of Law as a visiting associate professor of law at the University of teach criminal law/criminal procedure courses private practice for six years, focusing in the finds herself telling volunteers to move of Toledo law library. assistant professor. Professor Cavalieri will Kansas School of Law, and a visiting associate beginning this fall. books out of the way to keep people from areas of juvenile and appellate law. His fondest UT memory of his time on the teach property courses beginning this fall. professor of law at the University of Michigan tripping over them, speaking as a former Before entering the field of law, Nathan was a faculty was of the first dean he worked under, School of Law. Among her research interests are Torts professor. high school English teacher and an investigator Karl Krastin. “He was a great mentor as a federal sentencing, comparative criminal law and caseworker for Lucas County Children During her time at UT, Professor dean,” says Professor Friedman. He adds, “I and procedure. Professor Exum will be teaching Services. Berkowitz especially enjoyed the contact remember fondly all my students over the criminal law, criminal procedure, and race and she had with students. One message she many years I taught at UT. I learned a lot from the law courses beginning this fall. has for alumni and current students is them and I hope they learned a fair amount “Support your law school.” Also, she says, from me.” “Faculty love to hear from past students.” continued on Page 38

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criminal defense practitioner county prosecuting attorney, The College of Law extends eondolences to the families of recently deceased graduates. who, during his career, has assistant prosecutor and worked to advance the working in private practice. Former faculty members continued principles of criminal justice by representing clients with In integrity, excellence, and Memoriam professionalism. 1977 Considering those recollections, Professor About four years after he retired, Professor Kadens’ fondest memory of his time at William R. Kennedy ’51 Myron Harkacz ’78 Jack G. Fynes of Shumaker, Friedman concludes, “The law school has been Kadens moved to Chapel Hill, N.C. Since then, Toledo Law is of Dean John Stoepler. “He Thomas Wochok is Michael E. Judge ’56 Thomas L. Farquer ’78 Loop & Kendrick, LLP’s a wonderful place and I hope all the alumni he has continued his relationship with UT by helped me to thrive. He was a great credit working as counsel in the John A. McWilliam ’56 Gerard Vancavage ’78 law firm of Sands Anderson Toledo office has been appreciate the great institution that they returning to teach short “flex” courses each to the Toledo community, law school, and Frederick J. Fadell ’59 Neil H. Light ’79 in McLean, Va. He was also selected for inclusion in the attended.” year. Outside of teaching, he enjoys spending the University,” recalls Kadens. Beyond his Gene W. Graves ’59 Thomas F. Zachman ’79 invited to be a Fellow in 2011 edition of Ohio Super If you would like to contact Professor Howard time around the Raleigh area, which includes mentorship with Dean Stoepler, “I had a Joe Stack ’59 Bobby Lane Daniel ’80 an organization known as Lawyers. UNC and Duke. “We enjoy the music scene wonderful career at the College of Law. It Friedman, e-mail him at Howard.Friedman@ William J. Moore ’62 John P. Donahue ’81 Litigation Counsel of America, Joseph A. Humpolick most. Between the Raleigh, UNC, and Duke was a privilege and I’m proud to have been utoledo.edu Donald Rothschild ’65 Grant E. Gabriel ’83 a trial lawyer honorary society ran the ING New York City programs, you could go to one concert a week if at the institution,” says Kadens. Malcolm M. Limongelli ’72 Larry A. Kaczala ’83 based in New York. The Marathon on November 7, you wanted,” Kadens adds. When asked if he had a message for alumni, John T. Landwehr ’73 Keith J. Winterhalter ’85 society accepts Fellows who 2010. Humpolick is a public Michael Kadens have distinguished themselves Kadens also enjoys playing tennis. “I play a lot Kadens responds, “Be proud to be a lawyer Richard J. Szczepaniak, Jr. ’76 Joseph H. Loeffler ’87 defender in Ashtabula, Ohio. Professor of tennis. I actually play better tennis today and be a consummate professional at all in the areas of trial and Michael L. Zaremsky ’77 Joseph Charles Bania ’91 John Husband is chairman than I ever have,” he says. Playing tennis helps times. A legal education can never be appellate law. Professor Kadens retired Gary L. Wamer ’78 Keith A. Keisser ’93 of Denver-based Holland & from The University him keep in good health, but one benefit he anything but beneficial.” James E. Goranson ’78 Hart LLP, the largest law firm of Toledo in 2000, but enjoys while living in the Chapel Hill area is If you would like to contact Professor in the Mountain West. He was he continues to teach the medical facilities provided by Duke Michael Kadens, e-mail him at mkadens@ 1975 also named one of the Top and UNC. 50 Lawyers in Colorado by for Toledo Law, the earthlink.net Judge Roderick Kennedy Colorado Super Lawyers. University of North When he’s not teaching, playing tennis Award and will be recognized of the New Mexico Court Carolina and Campbell or attending concerts, Kadens spends his at the 2011 UT College of Law of Appeals taught forensic Scott S. Schwab was University. “I spend time participating with the American Bar 1969 Recognition and Reunion and scientific evidence as selected by the UT Law more time in the Association, and he enjoys taking advantage Judge Jim Jensen of Gala. Mr. Casey practices adjunct at University of New Alumni Affiliate to receive the classroom now that I’m retired than I did before of the committees and materials provided by the Lucas County Court in Toledo with Eastman and Mexico Law. In addition, he 2011 Commitment Award for retirement,” says Kadens. the ABA. of Common Pleas was Smith. was awarded the American his role as a member of The elected to a three-year term Board of Trial Advocacy Kirbys and will be recognized on the Ohio State Board of (NM Chapter) Outstanding at the UT College of Law Governors beginning in June Appellate Jurist of the Year Recognition and Reunion 2011. The 24-member board 1974 for 2011 as well as serving Gala on September 24, 2011. is the governing body for the Judge Michael L. Burkett on the Board of Advisors Laura Walker teaches Ohio State Bar Association. retired from the Fremont for the University of North Scholarship fund in memory of Col. Jacqueline R. undergraduate legal studies Judge Jensen was formerly Municipal Court. Judge Texas’ Center for Human at George Mason University a member of the Ohio State Burkett, who has been on the Identification. in the School of Government Little ’84 Bar Association Council of bench since 1991, also served Linda L. Smith, associate and International Affairs. Her Delegates. as the city’s prosecutor in dean of the UT Honors courses include The Law & 1981. Classmates she was buried with full military honors with a demonstrated financial need College, graduated in August Civil Liberties, Family Law and of Col. at Arlington National Cemetery. combined with a strong academic Stephen K. Haller, Greene with a master’s degree in The Judicial Process. Jackie Little record. Because Jackie participated County prosecuting attorney, counselor education and Jackie is survived by her husband, 1971 Michael J. Walker, adjunct was recently appointed by a concentration in clinical ’84 have Juan Rivera; their 11-year-old daughter in ROTC during her undergraduate Thomas G. Pletz, a partner professor at The University the Ohio Attorney General, mental health counseling. established a Diana; her parents, Geoffrey W. and studies at Bowling Green State in the Toledo office of of Toledo College of Law, R. Michael DeWine, to chair scholarship University, students sharing those Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, was selected as a 2011 Margaret Little; and her twin sister, the State Victim Assistance in her experiences will be given preference. LLP, was presented with Distinguished Alumnus and Colonel Cheryl A. Little, M.D., USAR. Advisory Commission. He has memory at the Distinguished Toledo will be recognized at the While at UT, Jackie was a member We invite others who knew Jackie or been a resident of Bellbrook 1976 Lawyer Award from The 2011 UT College of Law UT College of who would like to contribute to this and has been with the Greene Judge Keith P. Muehlfeld and editor of the Law Review and University of Toledo’s Law Recognition and Reunion Law. fund to make gifts to the Col. Jackie County Prosecutor’s Office recently retired after serving graduated third in her class. Jackie’s Alumni Affiliate at the Toledo Gala. Walker is also the for 36 years. He also serves 16 years as Common Pleas Col. Jackie Little, age 48, died on May UT classmates remember her as a kind Little Scholarship Fund. Donors’ Bar Association’s Law Day director of the National on the foundation board of Judge in Henry County, Ohio. 8, 2008, at her home in Springfield, student with a great laugh, quick wit names will be added to the scholarship luncheon on April 29, 2011. Enforcement Training Institute Michael’s House, Greene Keith and his wife, Karen, plan Va., from cancer. At the time of her fund. Please make checks payable to at the U.S. Environmental and willingness to help others. Among County’s Child Advocacy to move to North Augusta, the UT Foundation and mail to the UT Protection Agency in death, she was serving as the chief of her many gifts, Jackie was a devoted Center. S.C. the Legal Assistance Policy Division, wife and mother, a passionate reader Foundation 2800 W. Bancroft Street Washington, D.C. 19 Judge Craig Roth, who has Office of The Judge Advocate General. and beloved friend to many. Toledo, OH 43606 or gifts may be 73 Michael L. Piccarreta served in the Williams County made online at www.utfoundation.org Peter R. Casey III was has been selected as the Jackie’s service was held at the The scholarship will provide (Ohio) Court of Common and click on Make a Gift. selected to receive the recipient of the 2011 State Memorial Chapel on Fort Myer, Va., and financial support for law students Pleas since 2006, retired from Law Alumni Affiliate’s 2011 Bar of Arizona’s Tom Karas a career that also included Distinguished Alumnus Criminal Justice Award. The award recognizes a more than two decades as

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women who have a passion from the U.S. Army Judge counsel for the company’s the David DeCarlo Memorial and commitment to empower Advocate General’s School commercial operations, and Scholarship Fund. 1978 1980 women and eliminate racism. and Learning Center, and Texas regional operations and Federal Magistrate Judge the other in government Midwest regional operations Judge R. Marc Kantrowitz Gregory L. Arnold was William E. Grande contracts from George leadership teams. Garber authors a monthly column, reappointed for a three-year Virginia Morgan retires after celebrated the 25th Washington University. is also a Certified Public 1995 Law ’n History, for Lawyers term (2011-2013) to the Ohio anniversary of his admission David is now a member Accountant. Garber, his wife, Weekly. Judge Kantrowitz, Jenifer A. Belt of the Toledo Supreme Court Board of 26 years of service to the bar. He is a sole of the legal department Kathleen, and their three boys who also sits on the office of Shumaker, Loop Commissioners on Character practitioner labor attorney of KBR. an international live in Columbus. Massachusetts Appeals by Frank Weir ’86, Detroit Legal News & Kendrick, LLP, has been and Fitness. in Kenmore, N.Y., and was services, construction and Court, is writing a book on provides selected for inclusion in the admitted to the practice of law hydrocarbons company, as a Robin Hunziker the history of the Supreme Howard Gerry Anderson intellectual property counsel 2011 edition of Ohio Judge Morgan spent the majority of in New York State in 1986. He senior legal counsel. Judicial Court. is now senior director and Rising Stars. her 26 years with the court in Detroit, established The Law Office of and supporting southeast labor relations counsel for William E. Grande in 1995. Asia operations for Marathon Michael J. Schlifka is a but during the past two years she Thomas B. Elliott is lead Southwest Airlines. Oil Company, Houston, Texas. licensed attorney in Georgia has been based in Ann Arbor. She Patricia Wise joined Niehaus analyst for professional tax and New York. He resides in Dean Mandros was elected retired April 29, 2011, after 26 years of service on the and Associates, Ltd. in 1990 software development at to Common Pleas Court in Thomson Reuters in Dexter, a suburb of Atlanta and has bench. Judge Morgan cites Camp Newaygo, a camp April 2010 and was named Linda Ulinski is licensed Lucas County, Ohio. Mich. Since 1997, Elliott has maintained a solo practice she attended as a girl, her college sorority, and an to the Board of Trustees in the State of Ohio since 1992 worked with federal, state, focused on family law. Michael Mike Zugelder has been early teaching experience on a Navajo reservation as for Advocates for Basic Legal 1991. She has been actively and local agency officials and his wife, Debbie, have promoted to professor the foundation for her desire to “try to make the world Equality, Inc. involved in the Akron Bar Cindy Kirby will be co- on compliance issues been married for more than of business law in the a better place.” Morgan earned her bachelor’s degree Association and served as presenting at the 48th annual and modernizing tax filing 25 years and have a 23-year- College of Business and from the University of Michigan, with multiple areas secretary/treasurer, vice conference of the Association processes. old son who is a graduate Public Administration at of concentration. She then made her way to a Navajo president and president of the of Family and Conciliation reservation in New Mexico to teach high school math. Courts in Orlando, Fla. student in San Juan, Puerto Old Dominion University in 1986 Probate Section of the Akron Judge Michael R. Goulding After two years on the reservation, she left to teach math The topic of the workshop Rico. Schlifka has completed Norfolk, Va. He retired in 1995 Darryl Thomas works at Bar Association (2005-2008) was selected by the judges in California, then taught math back in Toledo. While is “Same-Sex Marriage: five marathons and 17 half- as partner in the Norfolk firm ProAssurance, which offers among other positions. She is of Toledo Municipal Court teaching in Toledo, she began attending and graduated Addressing the Challenges for marathons; this summer will of Breeden MacMillan and professional liability insurance a solo practitioner in will and to serve as its presiding and from the evening program in 1975. After passing the the Courts and the Parties.” be his third consecutive year Green. and related products/ trust-based estate planning, administrative judge. He and bar exam, she became Washtenaw County Prosecutor of marathon coaching. services. probate and trust estate Robert P. McArdle joined his wife, Amy (nee McQuillen) William Delhey’s first female assistant prosecutor. She administration, guardianships the Michigan law firm of (Education ’97), welcomed moved to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern and tax matters. Linda has Zausmer, Kaufman, August, their third child, Peter Michael, District of Michigan in 1979 and became a magistrate 1981 five children. Caldwell & Tayler, P.C. this past June, joining big 19 judge in 1985. 79 Connie Zemmelman, Lucas 1988 sisters Abby and Madeline. Denise Adams McNulty Paul T. Belazis of Toledo County Juvenile Court Judge, Craig Rappel of Rappel was selected for the 2011 became an administrative presented at a symposium Health Law Group, P.L., law judge for the State of Access to Justice Award. titled “Developmental 1991 in Vero Beach, Fla., has Paul practices law in areas and as associate staff on Michigan in August 2010. She Forensics of Children become a solicitor of the Joe Garber has been hears unemployment benefit of business litigation and Adjudicated by Courts” at the the House Appropriations Senior Courts of England named the state of Ohio Law alumni trip employment litigation. Committee. 19 cases and issue decisions ASTAR (Advanced Science 84 and Wales, and a member of Insurance Department’s regarding whether individuals to Cuba? Howard M. Levine, and Technical Adjudication Judge Michael D. Kirby the Law Society of England chief legal counsel, advising are qualified and/or eligible for partner at the Portland, Resource Center) conference was selected by the Law and Wales. Additionally, the department in legal benefits. Oregon, law firm of Sussman in Chapel Hill, N.C. Judge 19 Alumni Affiliate to receive the Craig was recently appointed matters and recommending Zemmelman addressed 83 to the Client Security Fund courses of action in Shank LLP, has been 2011 Commitment Award for t the present time, individual recognized for the sixth approximately 100 judges Joan R. Bullock, Professor his role as a member of The Committee by the president of legal and administrative AAmerican tourists cannot consecutive year in the from across the nation on the of Law at Florida A & M Kirbys musical group and will the Florida Bar. proceedings involving the 1993 travel to Cuba. It’s been suggested topic of human trafficking of University College of Law, be recognized at the 2011 UT agency. He directs the Oregon Super Lawyers® Leslie Diels Carr received that the College of Law organize juveniles. recently traveled as a legal College of Law Recognition Office of Legal Services listing, and is included for the the Monroe County Pro Bono an educational trip. We’re gauging specialist to Dubai, UAE, and and Reunion Gala. and serves as a liaison with third year in a row in Oregon’s Award from Legal Services interest in a seven-day, eight-night Top 50 Super Lawyers. Doha, Qatar, on behalf of the 1989 other state agencies and of Southeastern Michigan trip to Cuba that may also offer Levine was recognized by ABA Rule of Law Initiative. the Ohio Attorney General’s David Newsome Jr. and the Monroe County Bar CLE.* The tentative dates will be his peers in the bankruptcy 1982 She was the sole presenter, Office. Prior to joining the joined the U.S. Army Judge department, Garber worked Association at Law Day 2011. sometime during the College of and creditor/debtor rights William H. Boger III joined giving four presentations over 1985 Advocate General’s Corp five days in the two countries. at Nationwide Mutual Law spring break—approximately areas of law. Only 5 percent the American Bankers Judson DiVincenzo is and retired June 2010. He Insurance Company, serving March 3-11, 2012 and price/ of Oregon lawyers will Association as senior married to Heather and has practiced criminal law, labor Lawrence Muscarella has as managing counsel, person would likely be in the receive the honor as an legislative counsel. A veteran three children: Carter, 10; law, administrative law, taxes, moved back in-house as responsible for analyzing and 1994 Oregon Super Lawyer. of numerous Washington law Jackson, 8; and Juliana, 4 and family law. During the range of $1,700-$2,200, not assistant general Counsel for consulting on statutory and Michael A. Mayer has firms, Boger arrives at ABA months. last 10 years of his career including airfare. If you may be Neil H. Light, who died this MTD Products Inc. in the regulatory issues affecting after serving as a partner he practiced government been the Fairborn, Ohio, city interested, please e-mail year, was chosen by the Law Cleveland, Ohio area, and the Material Damage, solicitor since 1999. Mayer at Perkins, Smith Cohen & Patricia S. Eshman was contract law. David served [email protected] by Alumni Affiliate to receive the will manage the corporation’s Casualty and Property Claim’s owns his own law office Crowe, LLP. Boger previously recognized as a 2011 Woman eight years overseas: five in November 1, 2011. Commitment Award for his litigation caseload. teams. During his time with and has been active in the worked as a legislative of Achievement by the YWCA Germany, one in Kosovo and role in The Kirbys. He will be Nationwide, he served as lead Miami Valley Military Affairs *If it would make a difference in assistant to Congressman of Columbus. This recognition one in Kuwait. He earned recognized at the 2011 UT counsel for the Texas Regional Association, the YMCA and your interest if there was CLE Robert L. Livingston (R-La.) is given to a select group of two LLMs, one in military law College of Law Recognition Operations, and was senior involved, please mention that, too. and Reunion Gala.

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She is also finishing a term Milton E. Pommeranz of Emily W. Nathan Higley passed the Tom Persinger accepted a as president of the Oakland Malone, Ault and Farell, was Newman Nevada bar exam and is now job as a hazardous materials 1996 County Bar Association. 2001 named a Rising Star by Ohio practices in 2007 working as a law clerk to the investigation specialist I with She is the youngest woman Super Lawyers magazine. Honorable Michael P. Villani in the State of Ohio in the Public Jason R. Aslinger was Jeanetta Brown was Reminger Co., Stephanie to serve in this role and L.P. A .’s the 8th Judicial District Court Utilities Commission in the appointed by Gov. John awarded an MBA from the Buck Ingram only the sixth woman in the Louisville of Nevada. He assists the Transportation Division. Kasich to serve as judge University of Florida on April joins association’s 76-year history. office. She judge on both criminal and in Darke County Probate/ 17. She also received a Reminger’s Emily Plocki graduated from 2003 concentrates civil matters. Juvenile Court. He replaces Tricia Sherick of Honigman promotion to assistant general Columbus Georgetown Law Center with on defending clients in the Judge Michael D. McClurg Sr. Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP counsel and chief compliance Brad Mantel is an attorney office. Her John McSweeny retired from an LL.M in taxation and a areas of professional liability, who retired Jan. 31. Aslinger was honored in Crain’s Detroit officer for Walter Investment in the Office of Legal Counsel legal practice the UT College of Medicine in certificate in estate planning. employment practices liability, earned his bachelor’s degree Business as a 2010 “40 Under Management Corp. in Tampa, at the U.S. Department of areas include 2010, returning as Professor She has accepted a position mortgage banking litigation, in business administration 40” Award winner. Fla. Labor, where he advises government liability, Emeritus in September. He as an associate with the medical malpractice, and from Bowling Green State the Secretary of Labor and employment law and medical co-chaired a committee Washington, D.C., office of Stacey J. Vetter is a major Curtis L. nursing home negligence. University in 1993 and is other senior officials on policy malpractice. composed of College of Law Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan. the owner of the Law Office in the U.S. Air Force Judge Fisher was and legislative matters. He Newman’s litigation expertise and College of Medicine of Jason Aslinger, LLC, a Advocate General’s Corps elected to and his wife, Colleen, reside spans Ohio and Michigan, Kurt Bruderly faculty members, studying Brooke Stokke is the private law practice located in and is the deputy staff membership at in McLean, Va., with their and she has been listed in the and his wife, interdisciplinary educational Westlaw academic account Greenville. He was previously judge advocate at the Air Bass, Berry & 15-month-old daughter, Ohio Super Lawyers Rising Robin, programs, including a JD/ manager for Michigan, Wayne a partner at Amick, Breaden Expeditionary Center, Joint Sims, PLC in Samantha. Stars Edition for 2010. welcomed MD joint degree, as well as State and Toledo law schools. Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, Nashville, Camryn Sue & Aslinger in Greenville and Stephen T. Persia of Roetzel continuing his teaching and New Jersey. Stacey is married Tenn. Sarah (Hedman) O’Leary on May 27, Amy Tremonti was hired as an associate attorney at & Andress was named in clinical activities. In November, to Richard V. Stevens III, and and her husband, Mike, are 2010. assistant general counsel for the firm of Dynes & Garbig Ted Greene recently won parents of a daughter, Molly Ohio’s Rising Star for 2010 he was admitted to the bar. the New York Hotel & Motel in Arcanum. Aslinger is a they have two daughters: John made presentations Grace, 6; and Anna, 4. two appeals in front of the Elizabeth, born August 4, and 2011 for civil litigation Trades Council in New York volunteer attorney for the Florida Supreme Court and 2010. by Law and Politics and on Assessment of Civil City. Cancer Association of Darke Florida’s Fourth District Court Cincinnati Magazine. Competence and Capacity to County and is a current board Said M. Orra was selected 2008 Jessica R. Vartanian began of Appeals. They are Mady v. the OSBA Elder Law Institute Karen P. Wu was nominated member of the Darke County DaimlerChrysler Corporation, as 2011 Outstanding New Kyle Gee, his wife, Kristen, in March and the TBA Probate her clerkship with Justice Chamber of Commerce. He 1999 Exemplar Award by Law to participate in Ohio State and 2 ½-year-old daughter, Brian K. Zahra of the Michigan — So.3d —, 2011 WL Committee in February. Bar Association’s 2011 lives in Greenville with his wife, Chad R. Baker of the Toledo 1045598 (Fla. 2011) (reversing Alumni Affiliate and will be Brooklyn, announce the birth Supreme Court in May 2011. Leadership Academy. Class Karin, and their three children. office of Shumaker, Loop appellate court and trial court, recognized at the UT College of Mazie Ruth Gee, born on size for academy programs & Kendrick, LLP, has been and holding consumer entitled of Law Recognition and January 15, 2011. Myron Duhart was is limited to 24 lawyers, and selected for inclusion in the to attorney fees and costs Reunion Gala on September appointed by then-Ohio- invitation to the Leadership Stephanie R. Hanna 2011 edition of Ohio Rising as the prevailing party where 24, 2011. He was also the Governor Ted Strickland to Academy is made by the accepted a position as a staff Stars. consumer accepts settlement recipient of the Toledo Bar fill the vacancy on the Lucas Association’s Trustees Award. president of the association. attorney for Judge Geer in County Common Pleas Court Bernadette Restivo offer which leaves issue the Franklin County Court of created by the December 17 announced the opening of of statutory attorney fees Jennifer A. Common Pleas. Give to Toledo Law and resignation of Judge Charles law offices of Restivo & Reilly, unresolved), and Rastaedt v. Watkins (Bus J. Doneghy. Duhart, a general LLC, which has offices in Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC, — ’99) was 2005 practice attorney and a small Key Largo and Orlando. The So.3d —, 2011 WL 1661179 named a qualify for favorable Dr. Gretchen Carroll earned business owner, began his law firm focuses in the areas (Fla. 4th DCA 2011) (trial partner with 2009 an Ed.D. in leadership and term January 7, 2011. of family and criminal law. court reversed after granting Michigan tax treatment in 2011 policy studies from Bowling Joshua Boggioni and Laura Restivo is a former attorney defendant’s motion for corporate law Maara Fink and husband Green State University in Monroe Bogginoi welcomed for the Department of Children judgment on the pleadings). firm Warner Chris Hamilton welcomed 2011. She is now serving their son, Brandeis James Giving to your College Transferring the funds and Families and the State Norcross & Judd LLP, their fourth child, Sophie as the dean of the School Boggioni, on March 21, 2011. of Law helps improve counts toward your required Guardian Ad Litem Program. headquartered in Grand Kate Hamilton, on November of Business at Owens the college for today minimum distribution Rapids. She concentrates her Matthew B. Bryant moved 14, 2011. Sophie joins big 2002 Community College. from LexisNexis to the firm of and tomorrow. Your for 2011. practice in employee benefits brothers Adam and Noah and philanthropy benefits both Mark E. Mercer has been law. Barr, Jones & Associates in Thank you for building sister Sara. 2000 named a partner in the Columbus, Ohio. our programs and our excellence and investing in Toledo firm of Shumaker students. The University of Toledo Michael Hadley of Oil Jennifer Calacob opened 2006 Jordan J. Grant was City, Penn., was appointed her law firm, Calacob Law Loop and Kendrick, with Now you can use a one- and the College of Law. You Corey and Kelly Tomlinson recently hired as an assistant as special assistant to the Group, on the north side of environmental law and civil 2004 prosecutor for Allen County, step, simple method to make make the difference! and big sister, Norah, Venango County Board of Columbus, Ohio. Her practice litigation as his principal Michael D. Adelman was an immediate impact at the welcomed their daughter/ Ohio. Education for the year 2011. focuses on the representation areas of practice. Mark is named president of the West College of Law. Anyone age sister Elizabeth (Eliza) Sabine of debtors in consumer co-chair of Shumaker, Loop Virginia School of Osteopathic 70½ or older may authorize on April 20, 2011. To learn more, bankruptcy. & Kendrick’s “Leadership Medicine. a distribution from an IRA Shumaker Toledo” program, please contact: 2010 directly to The University Jeff Wilson is the author of 1997 which involves the firm’s David M. Beller was named Nancy L. Koerner, J.D. Life’s Cheat Sheet: Crucial attorneys and staff members a partner of Recht Kornfeld in Dan Benoit became an of Toledo Foundation by Jennifer Grieco of Neuman Director of Planned Giving Success Habits Schools in various civic and fundraising Denver in July. assistant prosecutor with transferring up to $100,000 Anderson, PC in Southfield, Phone: 419.530.5412 Never Taught You. events that benefit not-for- the Richland County (Ohio) on or before December 31, Mich., was recognized by the profit charitable and arts Prosecutor’s Office, splitting 2011 to qualify for favorable [email protected] Crains’ Detroit Business as a organizations in the Toledo his time between juvenile tax treatment in 2011. “40 Under 40” Award winner. area. court and appellate work.

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Distinguished Alumnus Awards Peter R. Casey, III, ’67 Arts & Sciences, ’73 Law Michael J. Walker, ’77 Law Commitment Award The Kirbys The Hon. Michael D. Kirby, ’84 Law, ’86 Business Scott S. Schwab, ’77 Law Neil H. Light, ’79 Law (posthumously) Outstanding New Exemplar Award Said M. Orra, ’03 Law

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