Gonzaga School of Law Welcomes New Faculty
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ǯ The Curley Chair in ǡ Commercial Law was Ǥ established thanks to the generosity and dedication Ǥ of the late Frederick N. ǯ and Barbara T. Curley. ǡ Ǥ Frederick N. Curley retired from the United States Department of Justice ϐ in 1967 as a senior trial Scott Burnham ȋDz attorney after more than dzȌ two decades of service. Ǥ He subsequently taught Dz Ǥdz Dz ǡdzǤ commercial law subjects at Dz the University of Memphis Ȃǯ School of Law and ǯϐ Ǥǡ ϐ Ǥ Ǥ Gonzaga University School ǡ of Law. The Curleys Ǥdz generously established the Ǥ ǦͳͻͲǡǯ chair to fund a professor ǡ ǡ of “outstanding ability and ǡ ǡ legal knowledge” in the Ǥ field of commercial law. Ǥ ǡ ǡ ǡǦ ǡ ǡ Ǥ ǡ Dz Ǥdz ϐ ǯͺͲǡ ǡ Ǥ Ǥ
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John J. Hemmingson Scott Burnham continued A generous endowment gift created the John J. Hemmingson Chair in Civil Liberties at the Ǥ School of Law. Dz Hemmingson currently ǡdz serves on the University’s ǡ Board of Regents. His ǤDz ǯ involvement with Gonzaga Jason Gillmer began several years ago Ǥdz through the Rev. Bob ʹͺ Spitzer, Gonzaga’s former ǡǯ president, and Fritz H. Ǥ Wolff, a Gonzaga alumnus ǡ Ǥ and fellow regent. Dzǯǡdzǡ ǦͳͻͻͲǡ Ǥ “The civil liberties we enjoy in this country are Ǥ ͳͻͻͺǡ precious and unique,” ϐǤDz said Hemmingson. ǤǤ Ǧ “They distinguish us from ǡ ǡ many other nations, are ϐ ϐǡdzǤ a foundation for America’s entrepreneurial nature, Ǥ and nurture our robust ǡ middle class. In short, Dz our civil liberties make ǡdz ǡ͵Φ America what it is.” ǡ ǡ Ǧ ǤDz Hemmingson intends to ǡ Ǥ Ǥdz support other areas of the ǡͶǡ Ǥ ǯ University, including the ǡ ǡ ǡ School of Business. He is ǤDz ǡ ǡ currently collaborating with ǡǡ ǡdzǤ ͳͻʹͲ Spitzer to create a web- ǡǡǡ Ǥ based delivery system for ǯ Spitzer’s ethics curriculum. ǡǤ Ǥ
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Professor Christopher Lynch is no stranger to Gonzaga University. His ties to the school dates back almost 20 years, when Gonzaga Law School Ǥ ǣ hired him as the first intellectual Dz property professor in its history. ǫdz Lynch served as an adjunct Ǥ professor for nearly 20 years while working at three major ǡǡ firms, most recently at Foster ǡ Pepper, PLLC, where he Ǥ ͷ ǡ continues to be of counsel to ǡǤ the technology/ intellectual property department. For many years, Lynch was also the ǡ Ǥǡ faculty adviser to the Gonzaga Ǧ IP Law Association and the INGA N. LAURENT Ǥ coach to the school’s Saul Lefkowitz Trademark Moot Court ǡ Competition and Giles Rich Patent ǡ Moot Court Competition. ǯ Ǥ ǡ Ǧǯ This fall, Lynch was appointed to Ȃ Ǥ ǯ fulltime faculty. ϐ ǡ ϐǤ Teaching all these years at Gonzaga made him a better Dz Ǥ lawyer because it forced him to ϐ remain on the cutting edge of ǡdzǤ ǡ the field, he said. It also enabled him to mentor future attorneys. Ǥ “I cherish the relationships with the students, many of whom ǯ Dz ǡ I have also worked with, or Ǥ ǡdzǤDz Ȃ been against, or had referral ǡ relationship with.” ǡ Ǥdz In fact, one of his highest profile cases was a referral from a ǯ Ǥ former student, who drafted a ǡ patent that he enforced for a Ǥ client. Another client was so ǯ ǡ inspired by his experience with Ǥ ϐ Lynch that he ended up enrolling at Gonzaga Law School. Ǥ
His students at Gonzaga have been 8 Christopher Lynch continued a source of pride for Lynch. “My old joke was that I had a long list of former students who were Dz ϐ more successful in IP than I – some have started their own firms that Ǥdz are hiring our graduates,” he said. As an attorney, one of his most ǡǤ memorable cases involved a local publisher that produced a high-quality, glossy monthly Ǥ magazine about Barbie Dz collections. The magazine ǡ sometimes reported some of the idiosyncrasies and mistakes ǡdzǤ made by Mattel, the toy company Kim Hai Pearson that produces Barbie. These ǡǤ articles caused enough ire Dz that Mattel ended up suing the Ǥ ǯ magazine for trademark and ǯ ǡ ǡdz Ǥ copyright infringement. ϐ Dz Ȃ “Due to their unparalleled Ǥdz knowledge of the history of the Ǥ ǡǤ doll, my clients were terrific advocates for their own cause – ǡ Ǥ between us, we discovered that Barbie had a few dark copyright ǡ ǯ secrets, which we exposed in ǡ the litigation and which drove a ͺǡ Ǧ ǯǤ favorable settlement allowing Ǧ the magazine to continue Ǥȋ ǣ Dz ǡ publishing,” Lynch said. ǤȌ ǡ Lynch also was one of nine attorneys on the global Bluetooth Ǧ Consortium legal group, serving ǡ ǡ Ȃ as the lead outside counsel to ǡ ǡ ǡ ǡ Microsoft in 2002. For three ͺ Ǥ ǡ ǡ ǫdz years, the legal group drafted and approved all of the organizational Dz governing documents as well as ͺ ǡ the membership agreements and ǡdzǤDz related licenses used to proliferate Dz ǡdzǤ the Bluetooth standard. Ǥ ǡ ǯ In addition to his teaching experience at Gonzaga, Lynch Ǥdz Ǥ has served as a visiting professor Ǥ at Universidad Autonoma de ǡ Ǥ Guadalajara in Mexico. ǡ ǡ ϐǡ Lynch has visited all 50 states Ǥ and enjoys traveling. He owns Ǥ two motorcycles and a Vespa. ǡ He is also an avid skier, finishing ǡ 13th out of 250 competitors in the Ǥ ǡ ǡ inaugural 24 Hours of Schweitzer Ȃ ǡǤ in 2009. During the event, Lynch skied a total of more than 131,000 vertical feet. 9