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College of Law Administration Gregory H. Williams Dean In Memoriam Barbara R. Snyder Associate Dean for Academic Former Dean Affairs Rutledge dies in Connecticut. Bruce S. Johnson Associate Dean for Information Services 4 ° Kathy S. Northern Alumni News Associate Dean for Admissions and Financial Aid From coast to coast, College o f Law Thomas G. Hoffman II alumni report Director of Development Photo: Chicago Scene {Credit: Peter j. Schutz/Ctty of Chicago}; their promotions, Pamela H. Lombardi law graduates (Credit: Liz Cutier Gates} marriages, and Assistant Dean for Alumni Relations other activities. Sheila Kapur '88 Assistant Dean for Student Affairs 6 1 6 4 8 and Public Programs From the Dean Punishing Alumni Award Class of 2000 Addressing the racial Disability-Related Amee McKim '94 Recipients Steps into and ethnic disparity W orkplace Director of Placement The “best o f the Professional World in the legal Misconduct: best” are honored. U.S. Solicitor General Liz Cutler Gales profession. Discrimination or Director of Communications new Sound Employment graduates. Practice? 1 8 College of Law Alumni Discovering the Development Society Officers City of Big relationships between Campaign giving Elizabeth J. Watters '90 Shoulders Attracts fables, Hamlet, outdistances goals. President O S U La w Tourette’s Syndrome, Send address changes and alumni news to: Jeffrey S. Sutton '90 Graduates and disability law. 2 1 The Law Record President-Elect More than 150 Ohio OSU College of Law State law graduates H o n o r R oll John Deaver Drinko Hall 8 o f D ono rs 55 West 12th Avenue National Council Officers have chosen the Columbus, OH 43210-1391 Faculty News Thank you for your Phone: (614) 292-2631 Carla D. Moore '77 Chicago area to The activities, FAX: (614) 247-7079 Chair live and work. gifts over the past e-mail: [email protected] scholarly and fiscal year. state.edu Charles C. Warner '70 otherwise, The Law Record is published ViceChair o f our faculty. for the alumni and friends of The Ohio State University Pamela H. Lombardi College of Law Secretary Liz Cutler Gates Editor Kevin Burke Student Intern Kevin Keiser ©2000, College of Law, Design The Ohio State University Making the First Move T here are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right,” Marian Anderson said in 1956. “But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move — and he, in turn, waits for you. The minute a person whose word means a great deal dares to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.” The Ohio State University College of Law is leading the way to address the disparity between the racial and ethnic composition of the legal profession and the country. The profession itself is more than 90 percent white and enrollment in the nations law schools is about 80 percent 1. Ensure the full and equal participation of racial and Dean Gregory H. Williams white. At Ohio State, minority students comprise 20 ethnic minorities in the legal profession. is surrounded by College o f percent of the Class of 2002. 2. Ensure that elementary, secondary school, and Law students following his In February, I had the honor of participating in the college-level minority students are exposed to the recognition as the 1999 Ohio State Bar Associations conference, “Open Doors: law as a positive social force and a possible career Outstanding Dean o f the Increasing Diversity in the Profession.” This statewide Year by the National path. effort builds on the Report of the Ohio Commission on Association for Public 3. Increase the number of minority students who apply Racial Fairness. Interest Law. He was to law school. Leaders from the bar, law schools, judiciary, and honored for his leadership, 4. Increase the number of minority students who communities throughout the state gathered for a day of dedicated service to legal attend law school. education, and his efforts to discussion, and most important, of looking forward to the 5. Increase the number of minority students who instill an ethic for public future. Many alumni of the College of Law are leading the graduate from law school. interest work in the many effort to increase the diversity of the legal profession. The 6. Increase the number of minority students who pass students with whom he has guidance of Reginald Jackson Jr. ’71, president of the Ohio the bar exam. come into contact during State Bar Association, has been critical, and I know that his career. To the Deans left 7. Increase the recruitment of minority lawyers. Reg will continue these efforts throughout his term. He is is Assistant Dean Vicki 8. Increase the retention and advancement of minority building on a strong foundation established by outgoing Eastus, who oversaw public lawyers. OSBA President Thomas Bonasera, Columbus Bar interest programs at the Each of these goals is critical for the legal academy. We Association President Carl Smallwood ’80, Alex Shumate, College o f Law until she must concern ourselves with the diversity and strength of Bill Weisenberg, and others. assumed the position o f our applicant pool, the experiences our students have while Director o f Public Programs Four key issues were the focus of the conference: they are in law school, and the opportunities our graduates at New York University’s • increasing the pipeline of students who ultimately have in the profession. law school in June. apply to law school; The tremendous energy and intellect that the Ohio • improving the climate in law schools for minority State Bar Association and the American Bar Association are students; focusing on diversity issues encourage me. I am very proud • improving the success rate of minority applicants on that The Ohio State University College of Law is at the the Ohio bar examination; forefront of these discussions and plans for the future. Join • and increasing the recruitment, retention, and me, the College of Law, the Ohio State Bar Association, and advancement of minority lawyers. the American Bar Association, in leading the way to ensure These echo the goals enunciated at American Bar that the doors of our profession are truly open to all. Association President William Paul’s Colloquium on Diversity in the Legal Profession, in which I took part last October. The objective of the Colloquium was to “develop Sincerely, one-year action plans and lay a foundation for longer-term programs to increase diversity.” Approximately 90 persons representing law firms, bar associations, and corporate counsel, and legal educators met to “address the disparity between the racial and ethnic composition of our profession and that of our country.” The Colloquium Gregory H. Williams centered its discussion on eight goals for the legal Dean and Carter C. Kissell Professor of Law profession: C it y o f BIG SH O U LD ERS Attracts O SU Law Graduates I ts hard not to think about Carl Sandburgs poem, Come and show me another city with lifted head singing B y L iz “Chicago,” when one approaches its namesake city so proud, to be alive and coarse and strong and from the air. Skyscrapers rise from the shores of Lake Cutler Gates Michigan like the shoulders of a lumbering giant. Busding cunning. highways and railroads snake their way into the city. Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on Airplanes and helicopters hover and land like honeybees job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the above a field of wildflowers. Even on a cloudy morning, little soft cities there is an air of anticipation and on a clear day, the lake shimmers like a strand of diamonds around a lady’s neck. Anastasia Markakis Nye ’87 headed for Chicago while the ink on her diploma was barely dry. “It’s a very exciting Hog Butcher for the World, city,” she says. “There are lots of opportunities for lawyers,” Tool Maker, Stacker o f Wheat, she adds, pointing to the large legal community. In 1998, Player with Railroads and the Nation’s Freight the last year for which figures are available, 37,971 attorneys* were registered in Cook County. Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City o f the Big Shoulders It’s also not hard to understand why more than 150 graduates of the College of Law have chosen this metropolitan area, the third largest in the country, to live "Chicago is a and work. For several years, the Windy City has led the list as the most popular destination outside of Ohio for very exciting members of the graduating classes of the College of Law. Fifteen members of the Class of 1999 are currently living business city. and working in the metropolitan area. With all of the They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I trading here, have seen your painted women under the gas lamps this city lives." luring the farm boys. And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it is trust I have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill Harrison F. again. Tempest '62 And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of the women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger. And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: | Ü 1 Those opportunities, plus the low cost of living and the Midwestern location, make the city attractive for many Anastasia College of Law graduates. “I think most are attracted because it is a big city, which will allow them to have a Markakis Nye '87 sophisticated practice,” says Amee McKim ’94, Placement Director at the College of Law.

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