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SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2018 LAW BRIEF Message from Dean J. Rich Leonard The 188 As you may recall, the first-year 10-year celebration coincides law with our 40-year anniversary students as a law school. Working with who a design group that included entered the 2018 academic Campbell’s First Lady, Kathy year at Campbell Law School Creed, the artist Thomas in August represent a sig- Sayre—whom you may know nificant milestone. And it’s created the Shimmer Wall not just the fact they are the at the Raleigh Convention second-largest class the law Center, among many other school has welcomed. This famous works around the group of young legal minds world—has designed a represents something special new sculpture to adorn the to me because they are the entrance to the law school’s 10th new class of 1L students parking lot off Hillsborough since the school moved from Street to mark the occasion. Buies Creek to its downtown His current plan is to make Raleigh campus. This class the bases out of earthcastings represents the journey not he does on main campus, only our school has made which can be imprinted with from the Creek to the symbols of the law school. We Capital, but the decade-long can hardly wait to see what transformation this city has he imagines. Stay tuned, PERMIT NO. 607 NO. PERMIT realized in becoming one of Raleigh, North Carolina 27603 Carolina North Raleigh, RALEIGH, NC RALEIGH, the fastest-growing and most U.S. POSTAGE PAID PAID POSTAGE U.S. 225 Hillsborough Street, Suite 101 Suite Street, Hillsborough 225 FIRST-CLASS MAIL FIRST-CLASS vibrant in America. Campbell Law School Law Campbell PRESORTED The first version of the app was used on Oct. 13, when expunction clinics were Students partner with Neota Logic on held throughout the state. After some additional tweaking, the students intend criminal records expunction app to share the app with providers throughout the state, Campbell added. Neota Logic partners with other law schools, including Georgetown, Cornell Campbell Law students are working with Neota Logic to develop an and University of Melbourne, to enable the schools to teach programming skills app specifically for the Blanchard Community Law Clinic to aid in to students and improve access to justice through applications. the recent increase in criminal record expunction requests — more evidence the law school is blazing trails in legal technology. Interested? Participants can go to www.expungenc.com for all of the information and to sign up to attend. For more information about the clinic, In December 2017, North Carolina implemented drastic changes in its contact [email protected]. For more information about Neota Logic, visit expunction law, to include reducing the misdemeanor convictions wait https://www.neotalogic.com/pro-bono/law-schools/ period from 15 years to five years; the felony convictions wait period from 15 years to 10 years; and eliminating a limit on the number of dismissals that can be expunged. This change has resulted in a significant increase in the number of resi- dents seeking help through the clinic and other providers such as Legal Aid of North Carolina (LANC), explained Ashley Campbell, director of the law school’s Blanchard Community Law Clinic. The new application is the brainchild of Adjunct Professor Tom Brooke, who saw the opportunity to marry technology with this growing legal need with the help of some creative law students. A partner in Brooke & Brooke Law in China Grove, North Carolina, Brooke is a 1980 Campbell Law graduate and current chair of the North Carolina Bar Association (NCBA)’s Committee on the Future of Law. Brooke teaches “Coding for Lawyers” and asked his students to develop an application to do two things: 1) Screen participants for potential expunction eligibility; and 2) create the form filing from the information. Brooke and his students used Neota Logic, a software development tool set for automating expertise, to create the app, which asks a series of questions and applies rules to evaluate the user’s eligibility for expunction under the new North Carolina laws. Paul West (back), Adjunct Professor Tom Brooke ’80, Logan Shipman and Gregory Davis; Connor Purks (front) and Taylor Langley. CampbellLawSchool @CampbellLawNow law.campbell.edu Where great lawyers are made @campbell_law CampbellLawSchool ALUMNI NEWS & NOTES Erin Taylor was named 2019 Best Lawyers in CLASS OF 1980 America. Randell C. Stoney Jr. was named 2019 Best Lawyers in America. CLASS OF 2002 Steve Weeks and his firm Wheatly Wheatly Weeks Sara Harrington has joined Averett Family Law in Lupton & Massie, P.A. opened up their doors to Jeff Chapel Hill. Newton ‘83 and his staff when their Morehead City office suffered major hurricane damage that left it uninhabitable. CLASS OF 2003 Lynn Wilson McNally was named 2019 Best Lawyers CLASS OF 1985 in America. Buck Copeland was named 2019 Best Lawyers in Stephanie Poley was named 2019 Best Lawyers in America. America. John Martin was named 2019 Best Lawyers in America. CLASS OF 2004 CLASS OF 1987 Katie Hartzog was named 2019 Best Lawyers in America. Jeff D. Rogers was named 2019 Best Lawyers in America. CLASS OF 1990 CLASS OF 2005 Jennifer Morris Jones was named 2019 Best Robin Hayes Terry has been Lawyers in America. honored with the 2018 Leaders in the Law Award from North Carolina Lawyers Weekly. She also was named 2019 Best Lawyers in CLASS OF 2007 America. Alicia Jurney was named 2019 Best Lawyers in America. Kathleen Sumner has been honored with the Workers’ Injury Law & Advocacy Group (WILG) N. Michael CLASS OF 2011 Rucka Lifetime Achievement Award. Clayton Byrd has joined Adams and Reese in Nashville, Tennessee. SCOTUS has granted certiorari CLASS OF 1997 in one of his cases with oral argu- ments set for in mid-January 2019. Chris Hinnant was named 2019 Best Lawyers in America. Colleen Shea was named 2019 Best Lawyers in America. CLASS OF 1999 CLASS OF 2012 Marshall Wall has become a Certified Information North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has appointed Privacy Professional/U.S. private-sector (CIPP) Dominic Totman of Matthews to the State Board of through the International Association of Privacy Dental Examiners. Professionals (IAPP). He also was named 2019 Best Lawyers in America. CLASS OF 2013 We are saddened to share the passing of Scarlett VanStory Levinson. CONNECT WITH US! CLASS OF 2016 Our alumni serve a vital role within the Campbell Evin Grant is now the Director of Student Life and Law community, and are frequently called upon to Pro Bono Opportunities at Campbell Law. assist with volunteer opportunities, recruiting, as- sisting with mock interviews, informing us of market CLASS OF 2018 opportunities, hosting events, or partnering with a Terrie L. Nelson has joined Cranfill student organization. Sumner & Hartzog LLP as an associate attorney. If you are interested in connecting, please contact Assistant Dean of External Relations Megan West Sherron at 919.865.5875 or by email at [email protected]. 2 We welcome professional and personal updates from our alumni, and we encourage you to send photos. For more information, contact: Lisa Snedeker, Director of Communications & Marketing | [email protected] | 919.865.5978 CAMPBELL LAW BRIEF New Faculty Announcements New Legal Writing Faculty Shawn Fields joined the Campbell Tom Patrick joined Campbell Law faculty in the fall of 2018 to Law as a Professor of Legal teach immigration law, criminal pro- Research & Writing at the begin- cedure and trial advocacy. He taught ning of the 2018-19 academic at the University of San Diego law year. He served on the faculty school and worked as a civil litigator of the West Virginia University in California, taking several high- College of Law for more than profile securities and fiduciary duties two decades. At WVU, he taught cases to trial. Fields also represented alternative dispute resolution; numerous asylum seekers in im- interviewing, counseling, and migration courts in San Francisco negotiation; and legal analysis and spent one year as the Country and reasoning. He also trained Director for a refugee rights legal Shawn Fields students as mediators for service aid nonprofit in rural Tanzania. His in West Virginia’s small claims scholarly interests include evolving conceptions of immigrants’ rights, courts. the extraterritorial application of the U.S. Constitution and the federal immigration power, among others. Kennedy Rizzuto joined Campbell Law as a Professor Chris Ogolla, who joined of Legal Research & Writing at Campbell Law as a Visiting Profes- the beginning of the 2018-19 sor for the 2018-19 academic year, academic year. Rizzuto is an taught at Savannah Law School from experienced Prosecutor who has 2013-18 leading courses in civil conducted many jury trials over and criminal procedure, evidence, her distinguished career, including health law, immigration law and cases charging sale of narcotics, torts. His scholarly interests cover homicide, and domestic violence. the intersection of public health, pol- She was honored to be voted icy, bioethics and law. He explores Attorney of the Year for that various ways in which public health office in 2009. Before becom- activities are constrained by statutes ing a Prosecutor, Rizzuto served and the U.S. Constitution, and how the California State Senate as a Chris Ogolla courts have traditionally handled Consultant on environmental legislation. public health disputes. Ogolla has worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and for the New York State Depart- Michael Tripp joined Camp- ment of Health. bell Law as a Professor of Legal Research & Writing at the begin- Ciara L. Rogers, who practices in ning of the 2018-19 academic the Raleigh office of the boutique year. He comes to Campbell Law bankruptcy firm Oliver & Cheek, having practiced at Smith Lewis, PLLC, joined Campbell Law as an LLP in Columbia, Missouri, since adjunct Clinical Professor and the 1997, being named partner in director of the Stubbs Bankruptcy 2004.