CURRICULUM VITAE LYNN FOSTER
William H. Bowen School of Law University of Arkansas at Little Rock 1201 McMath Ave. Little Rock, AR 72202 501-324-9945 [email protected]
EXPERIENCE
University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law
Professor of Law 2002-present; Arkansas Bar Foundation Professor of Law 2005-present. Current courses: American Legal History (taught six times since 1998), Decedents’ Estates and Trusts (taught nineteen times since 1999), Land Use (taught twice since 2012), Neighborhood Development (taught three times since 2010), and Real Property I & II (taught fifteen times since 2001).
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Jan. - Aug. 2007 and 1997-2000. Duties: Supervised Office of Student Records; scheduled all law school classes; distributed faculty summer assignments; hired and supervised adjunct professors; responsible for handling student dismissals, honor code violations, complaints and some academic advising; served ex officio on Curriculum and Faculty Development committees. Courses: Property II (2007); Decedents’ Estates and Trusts, Legal Research I and II (1997-2000).
Associate Dean for External Relations and Professor of Law 2000-02. Duties: Special projects, responsible for establishing Law School website, production of Law School catalog. Courses: American Legal History, Decedents’ Estates and Trusts, Property I and II. Taught three-quarter time.
Law Library Director and Professor of Law 1987-97; Associate Professor of Law 1986-87. Directed only dual academic/county law library in the United States. Supervised staff of 4 librarians and 8.5 nonprofessional employees. Responsible for management of 240,000- volume and equivalent library containing sizable depository documents collection. Spent annual budget of $ 1 million. Between 1989 and 1992, responsible for portions of interior design and all furniture bids and purchases ($900,000) for new law school building; responsible for Law Library move. Courses: Legal Research I and II (to all first year students). Ohio Northern University College of Law
Law Library Director and Associate Professor of Law 1983-86.
Southern Illinois University School of Law Library
Reference/Instructional Services Librarian and Assistant Professor 1982-83.
University of Idaho School of Law Library
Associate Law Librarian and Assistant Professor 1981-82.
University of Illinois Law Library
Documents/Reference Librarian and Assistant Professor 1976-79 Circulation Librarian and Instructor 1975-76.
EDUCATION
J.D., Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Ill., 1982.
M.S. in Library Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill., 1975.
A.B. in Social Studies Education, minor in Russian, University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill., 1973, cum laude.
PUBLICATIONS BOOKS AND CHAPTERS
Coauthored with G.S. BRANT PERKINS AND S. RENEE BRIDA, ARKANSAS PROBATE LAW AND ESTATE ADMINISTRATION (West 2010). Updated annually.
“Benjamin Johnson,” in Frances Ross, ed., UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURTS AND JUDGES OF ARKANSAS, 1836-1960, Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press (2016).
REVOCABLE TRUST HANDBOOK FOR ARKANSAS PRACTITIONERS: WITH ARKANSAS TRUST CODE AND COMMENTARY, Little Rock: Arkansas Bar Association (2007), updated 2014. Chapters on creditors’ rights and ethics.
“Courts and Lawyers on the Arkansas Frontier,” in PATRICK G. WILLIAMS ET AL., EDS. A WHOLE COUNTRY IN COMMOTION: THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE AND THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST, Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press (2005).
Page 2 of 15 AMERICAN ASS’N OF LAW LIBRARIES COMMITTEE ON CITATION FORMATS, UNIVERSAL CITATION GUIDE, Madison, WI: State Bar of Wisconsin (1999). Drafted the statutory section (1/3 of the book) and was a member of the committee that wrote the entire book.
th Co-authored with NANCY JOHNSON & ELIZABETH KELLY, LEGAL RESEARCH EXERCISES, (Rev. 4 , 4th, 3d, 2d and 1st eds.) St. Paul: West Publishing Co. (1995, 1992 1989, 1986 and 1983). Student workbook and instructor's manual. Each edition was rewritten using different source books; also many substantive changes were made with each new edition.
ARKANSAS LEGAL BIBLIOGRAPHY: DOCUMENTS AND SELECTED COMMERCIAL TITLES. Chicago: American Association of Law Libraries, 1988.
Co-authored with CAROL BOAST, SUBJECT COMPILATIONS OF STATE LAWS: RESEARCH GUIDE AND ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press (1981). This book was awarded the Joseph L. Andrews Bibliographical Award by the American Association of Law Libraries, a prestigious award for the best legal bibliography of the year. In some years, no awards are given. Successive editions of this book are still being published today and it is available as an online database.
WEBSITE
Arkansas Territorial Records and Briefs, In 2001, records and briefs from territorial courts of Arkansas (1809-1836) were discovered in the basement of the Law Library. Publicized this discovery and obtained a $50,000 grant from the Donaghey Foundation to put images of these documents, along with extensive explanatory abstracts, indexes etc. on the Internet. So far the first 100 cases (out of 300) are “live” at http://arcourts.ualr.edu/index.htm. In order to post transcripts and abstracts, it is necessary to research history in several fields, including common law pleading, and local Arkansas and native American history. In 2009 the site had over 12,000 unique visitors.
MAJOR ARTICLES
Arkansas’s Trust Code and Trust Planning: A Ten-Year Perspective, 38 U. ARK. LITTLE ROCK L. REV. ___ (forthcoming 2016).
In the Hands of the State: Residential Tenants’ Rights in Arkansas, 36 U. ARK. LITTLE ROCK L. REV. 1 (2013), available at http://onlinedigeditions.com/publication/?i=217812.
Statutory Foreclosures in Arkansas: The Law and Recent Developments, 66 ARK. LAW REV. 112 (2013).
Page 3 of 15 With J. Cliff McKinney, Deed Covenants of Title and the Preparation of Deeds: Theory, Law and Practice in Arkansas, 34 U. ARK. LITTLE ROCK L. REV. 53 (2011).
With J. Cliff McKinney, Adverse Possession and Boundary by Acquiescence in Arkansas: Some Suggestions for Reform, 33 U. ARK. LITTLE ROCK L. REV. 199 (2011).
Fifty-One Flowers: Post-Perpetuities War Law and Arkansas’s Adoption of USRAP, 29 U. ARK. LITTLE ROCK L. REV. 411 (2007). An abridged version of this article was also published in PROB. & PROP., July/August 2008, at 30, and online at www.onlineaus.com/, in the Advanced Underwriting Service.
The Uniform Trust Code: Good Law for Arkansas, 27 U. ARK. LITTLE ROCK L. REV. 191 (2005).
Courts and Lawyers on the Arkansas Frontier, 26 U. ARK. LITTLE ROCK L. REV. 543 (2004).
Courts and Lawyers on the Arkansas Frontier: The First Years of American Justice, 42 ARK. HIST. Q. 289 (2003).
With Bruce Kennedy, Technological Developments in Legal Research, 2 J. APP. PRAC. & PROCESS 275 (2000).
Their Pride and Ornament: Judge Benjamin Johnson and the Federal Courts in Early Arkansas, 22 U. ARK. LITTLE ROCK L. REV. 21 (1999).
American Ass’n of Law Libraries Committee on Citation Formats, User Guide to the AALL Universal Statutory Citation, 90 L. LIB. J. 91 (1998). Served as drafter of this portion of the user guide.
Electronic Legal Research, Access to the Law, and Citation Form for Case Law: Comparison, Contrasts,and Suggestions for Arkansas Practitioners, 16 U. ARK. LITTLE ROCK L.J. 233 (1994).
Access to Academic Law Library Services: A Survey, 84 LAW LIBR. J. 741 (1992).
With Phyllis Self, “Legal and Medical Reference: A Dilemma for Public Libraries,” 60 ILL. LIBRARIES 243 (1978).
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Report from the 2015 National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, ARK. LAW., Fall 2015, at 44.
Report from the 2014 National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, ARK. LAW., Fall 2014, at 34.
Page 4 of 15 With John Ahlen, Uniform Residential Landlord-Tenant Law: Changes on the Way, PROBATE & PROPERTY, July/August 2014, at 20.
Report from the 2013 National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, ARK. LAW., Fall 2013, at 34.
Book Review, FAMILIES IN CRISIS IN THE OLD SOUTH: DIVORCE, SLAVERY, AND THE LAW (2012), 72 ARK. HIST. Q. 176 (2013).
Report from the 2012 National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, ARK. LAW., Fall 2012, at 34.
With Dan Young, The New Uniform Power of Attorney Act: What You Need to Know, ARK. LAW., Winter 2012, at 20.
Report from the 2011 National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, ARK. LAW., Fall 2011, at 26.
Uniform Laws, Legislation and the Arkansas Bar Association: A History and Report, ARK. LAW., Winter 2011, at 10.
Editor-in-Chief, ARKANSAS PROBATE AND TRUST LAW REVIEW, published online annually and available to members of the Arkansas Bar Association Probate and Trust Law Section, 2009-present.
Editor-in-Chief, ARKANSAS REAL ESTATE REVIEW, published online semiannually and available to members of the Arkansas Bar Association Real Estate Section, 2008-present.
“Aaron v. Cooper,” “Chester Ashley,” “Landlord-Tenant Laws,” “State of Arkansas v. Artoria Smith,” and “University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law,” in The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture, online at http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?search=1&entryID=741.
Book Review, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF W.H. ARNOLD, 65 ARK. HIST. Q. 305 (2006).
Book Review, ISAAC C. PARKER: FEDERAL JUSTICE ON THE FRONTIER, 63 ARK. HIST. Q. 330 (2004).
Lawyers Battle Addictions, Depression and Other Impairments with ARLAP, ARK. LAW., Spring 2002, at 8.
Obstacles to Citation Reform, J. INFO., L. & TECH. (2000 issue 3), http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/elj/jilt/2000_3/.
Page 5 of 15 Universal Citation Form: Hoffman v. Shell Oil Co., 1951 OK 198 & 11, JUDGES’ J., Fall 2000, at 42.
Medium-Neutral Citation Form: It’s Here, ARK. LAW., Winter 1997, at 6.
With Howard B. Eisenberg. Appellate brief of Hobbs v. Lockhart, to the 8th Circuit, 1993. Hobbs v. Lockhart, 46 F.3d 864 (1995).
AMERICAN ASS’N OF LAW LIBRARIES TASK FORCE ON CITATION FORMATS, REPORT, Chicago: AALL, 1995. Chaired the task force and drafted the report.
MAJOR PRESENTATIONS AND CLEs
“Uniform Laws of Interest,” presented at the Arkansas Bar Association Midyear Meeting (January 2016) and Best of CLE (June 2016).
“Arkansas Landlord-Tenant Law,” presented at the Arkansas Fair Housing Commission Conference (April 2016).
“Arkansas Law Update,” presented to the Arkansas meeting of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (February 2016).
“Arkansas Landlord-Tenant Law,” presented to the Fayetteville League of Women Voters (April 2015).
“Ethics in Estate Planning,” presented at the Arkansas Bar Association Mid-Year Meeting (February 2015).
“Recent Arkansas Probate and Trust Cases,” presented to the Arkansas meeting of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (February 2015).
“Arkansas Landlord-Tenant Law,” presented to the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville School of Law faculty (March 2014), the Arkansas district court judges (April 2014) and the Arkansas Fair Housing Commission Conference (April 2014).
“Uniform Laws of Interest,” presented to the Central Arkansas Estate Council (February 2014). Also presented to the Arkansas meeting of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (February 2014).
“The Report of the Arkansas Non-Legislative Committee to Study Landlord-Tenant Law,” presented at the UALR Symposium on landlord-tenant law, Feb. 1, 2013.
“Current Status of Foreclosure Law in Arkansas,” presented at the University of Arkansas Law Review Symposium on the foreclosure crisis, Nov. 9, 2012.
Page 6 of 15 “Ethics in Estate Planning,” with Brant Perkins, one ethics hour, presented for the Arkansas Bar Association at Lake DeGray, Oct. 2012. Also presented with Dick Hatfield at Best of CLE in June, 2013.
“The New Uniform Power of Attorney Act,” with Dan Young, presented at the Arkansas Bar Association Midyear Meeting, Memphis, Jan. 2012. Also presented alone for alumni CLE, Little Rock, Feb. 2012.
“Ethics in Estate Planning,” with Dick Hatfield and Brant Perkins, one ethics hour, presented for the Arkansas Bar Association as a “webinar,” Nov. 30, 2011.
“Real Estate Review 2011,” with Cliff McKinney, presented at the Arkansas Bar Association’s Best of CLE, June 21, 2011.
“Ethics in Estate Planning, with Dick Hatfield and Brant Perkins, one ethics hour, presented at the Arkansas Bar Association Best of CLE, June 20, 2011.
“Ethics in Estate Planning, and Choosing the Right Trustee” with Dick Hatfield and Brant Perkins, two hours total including one ethics hour, presented at the Arkansas Bar Association Midyear Meeting, Memphis, Jan. 18, 2011.
“Real Estate Review 2010,” with Cliff McKinney, presented at the Arkansas Bar Association’s Best of CLE on June 22, 2010.
“Real Situations/Real Solutions II,” an ethics hour with Renee Brida and Dick Hatfield, presented at the Arkansas Bar Association Midyear Meeting, Memphis, Jan. 22, 2010.
“The Arkansas Probate and Trust Law Review, Proposed Legislation and Finley v. Astrue,” presented at the Central Arkansas Estate Council, Little Rock, Nov. 19, 2009.
“Real Estate Review 2009,” with Cliff McKinney, presented at the Arkansas Bar Association’s Best of CLE on June 25, 2009, and as a webinar on June 30.
“Real Situations/Real Solutions,” an ethics hour with Renee Brida and Dick Hatfield, and “Advising Your Client/Trustee,” presented at the Arkansas Bar Association Midyear Meeting, Memphis, Jan. 9, 2009. The ethics hour was also presented at the UALR Bowen School of Law’s Alumni Day on May 2, and at the Arkansas Bar Association’s Best of CLE on June 22.
“Law and Justice on the Arkansas Frontier,” at the Annual Meeting of the Mid-America Association of Law Libraries, Fayetteville, AR, October 18, 2008.
Page 7 of 15 “An Overview of the American Legal System,” at the Center for Healing Hearts Crime Summit, in North Little Rock, August 14, 2008. Approved for CLE credit.
“Real Estate Review 2008,” with Cliff McKinney, presented at the Arkansas Bar Association’s Best of CLE in June 2008.
“The Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities: What You Need to Know,” at the Arkansas Bar Association Annual Meeting, in Hot Springs, June 12, 2008.
“The Arkansas Trust Code Revisited,” to the Faulkner County Bar Association, in Conway, Arkansas, April 4, 2008.
“Arkansas Supreme Court Civil Case Law Update,” speaker with Justice Annabelle Clinton Imber, at a teleseminar of the Arkansas Bar Association, in Little Rock, February 20, 2008.
“Arkansas Revocable Trust Law,” speaker on “The Office of the Trustee,” “Ethical Considerations” and “Funding the Trust” at Arkansas Bar Association CLE in Fayetteville, Nov. 9, 2007; speaker on “The Office of the Trustee” at the Arkansas Bar Association Mid-Year Meeting in Memphis, January 24, 2008.
“The Arkansas Trust Code,” sole presenter, to the Faulkner County Bar Association, June 24, 2005; speaker on “An Overview,” at Arkansas Bar Association CLEs in Fayetteville, Memphis and Little Rock in November 2005 and January and June (Best of CLE) 2006; at a CLE provided by the University of Arkansas at Ft. Smith, May 2006.
“The Attempt to Impeach Benjamin Johnson,” presented to the Pulaski County Historical Association, Feb. 2005.
Arkansas Territorial Briefs and Records, PowerPoint presentation, presented to the Arkansas Bar Association during 2003 (approved for CLE hours); and the Arkansas Debtor-Creditor Bar Association, the Arkansas Library Association, and the Pulaski County Bar Association during 2002.
“The Louisiana Purchase and the Middle Mississippi River: Peoples and Cultures in Transition,” panelist and presenter, 24th Annual Mid-America Conference on History, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, Sept. 2002. . “Globalization of Legal Information,” panelist and presenter, American Bar Association annual meeting, Washington, DC, Aug. 2002.
“Universal Citation Form,” presenter, British and Irish Legal Technology Association annual meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland, March 2000.
Page 8 of 15 “Broadening the Horizon: The Use of For-Profit, Web-Based Legal Information Databases,” presenter, American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, July 1998.
“Introduction to the Internet,” presenter, National Business Institute CLE “The Law of the Internet in Arkansas,” Oct. 1998. Approved for 1 credit hour.
“Research on the Internet,” presenter, Arkansas Association of Defense Counsel, Aug. 1998. Approved for 1 CLE credit hour.
“Computerized Legal Research,” presenter, Faulkner County Bar Association, Aug. 1997.
Three presentations on the Internet at the Arkansas Bar Association’s Annual Meetings in Hot Springs in 1997, 1996, and 1995, at the request of the Bar Association. Approved for CLE credit hours.
“Introduction to the American Legal System and Sources of American Law,” instructor, 1.5 hour session of Emporia State University’s Graduate School of Library and Information Management, Topeka, KS, Oct. 1995.
“LOIS CLE Seminar,” instructor, with Paul Leopoulos of LOIS, Oct. 1994. Approved for 2 CLE credit hours.
“CD ROM Research in Arkansas Law,” instructor, with Kyle Parker, inventor of CaseBase and LOIS, July 1994. Approved for 3.25 CLE credit hours.
“CALR and Electronic Legal Research: Choices for Arkansas Practitioners,” presented to attorneys, librarians and students, Oct. 1993. Approved for 1.5 CLE credit hours.
“European Communities 1993: Issues and Information in a Changing World,” presentation on legal resources, Mar. 1993.
“Legal Research Workshop,” instructor for presentation varying from one-half to one full day. Presented to University of Central Arkansas librarians (May 1992); Arkansas Association of Legal Secretaries (Sept. 1992); and Henderson State University librarians (Sept. 1992).
“Legal Resources,” presenter, Arkansas Library Association, Oct. 1992.
“Hub Libraries: UALR/Pulaski County Law Library,” presenter, 85th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries, July 1992.
“Federal Legal Information Policy and Access,” presenter, annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, Jan. 1992.
Page 9 of 15 Organizer and leader, “Management Workshop on Creativity,” sponsored by Fred B. Rothman & Co., Littleton CO, June 1990.
“Improving County Law Libraries,” presenter at Bar Leaders Conference sponsored by Arkansas Bar Association, Oct. 1988.
“Teaching Research Skills: How Successful Are We?” presenter, 79th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries, June 1986.
“Waning Access to Government Documents? Regulation, Format, Cost,” presenter, University of Indiana Library School, April 1985, and also at the 76th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries, June 1983.
OFFICES AND CHAIRS HELD IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Chair, Arkansas Bar Association Editorial Board for Handbooks Committee, 2010-2012.
President, Mid-America Association of Law Libraries, 1995-96.
Chair, AALL Task Force on Citation Formats, 1994-95.
Organizer and Chair of Arkansas Association of Law Libraries, 1988-94.
Co-Chair, Mid America Association of Law Libraries (MAALL) Local Arrangements Committee, 1992-93.
Chair, MAALL Constitution and Bylaws Committee, 1988-92.
Chair, AALL Academic Law Libraries Special Interest Section, 1988-89.
Organized and ran first meeting of academic law library directors at AALL, June 1989. (Still an annual meeting.)
Organized and ran first meeting of new academic law library directors at AALS, Jan. 1986.
Chair, AALL Government Documents Special Interest Section, 1985-86.
Chair, AALL Awards Committee, 1985-87.
UNIVERSITY COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS
Faculty Senator, 2007-2009, 2013-14, 2015-16.
Page 10 of 15 Tenure Committee, 2012-15; 2016-present.
Committee on Committees, 1999-present.
Planning & Finance, 2006-2007, 2015-present.
Strategic Planning Steering Committee, 2003-2004.
Provost/Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Search Committee, 2003.
UALR Administrative Vice Chancellor Search Committee, 1993.
UALR Library Committee, 1988-94.
UALR Assistant Vice Chancellor Search Committee, 1991.
North Central Institutional Data Task Force, 1989-90.
UALR Library Director Search Committee, 1986-88.
LAW SCHOOL COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS
Ad Hoc Bar Passage Committee, chair 2001-02, member 2002-03, 2010-12.
Ad Hoc Post Tenure Review Procedures, 1998-99.
Ad Hoc Sanctions for Late Grades, chair, 2004-05.
Ad Hoc Standards for Faculty Performance, chair 2003-04.
Ad Hoc Website Committee, chair 2007-08.
Admissions Committee 2004-2010, chair 2005-07.
Alumni Affairs, 1986-90.
Curriculum Committee chair 1998-2000, member 1993-94, spring 2007, 2012-2015.
Dean Search Committee, 1989-90, 1994-95, 2008-09.
Faculty Co-Adviser to the Law Review, 2014-present.
Faculty Appointments 1990-97, 1999-2001, 2003-04, 2009-present (chair 2000-01, 2003- 04).
Page 11 of 15 Law Library, member 1986-91.
Long Range Planning/Self Study Committee, member 1986-94, 2000-01, 2003-04, chair 1994-96, 2001-03 (compiled/drafted self studies for 1995 and 2003 ABA site visits).
Publications Committee, chair, 2012-13; co-chair, 2013-14.
Readmissions Committee 2001-03, 2004-06.
Self Study Committee, 2008-10 (chair spring and summer 2009); co-chair, 2015-present (compiled and drafted Self Study for 2010 and 2017 site visits).
Student Legal Research and Writing, 1986-87, chair 1987-91.
OTHER SERVICE
Associate Editor of Probate and Property, the magazine of the American Bar Association Real Property, Trust and Estates section, 2012-14.
Vice Chair, Arkansas Landlord-Tenant Law Study Commission (gubernatorial appointment), 2012-present. Drafted 36-page report of the Commission.
Member, Arkansas Commission on Uniform Laws (gubernatorial appointment), May 2009- present.
Arkansas Commissioner, Uniform Laws Commission, 2009-present. Attended the Annual National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, July 2016, Stowe, Vermont; July 2015, Williamsburg; July 2014, Seattle; July 2013, Boston; July 2012, Nashville; July 2011, Vail; July 2010, Chicago; July 2009, Santa Fe.
Member, Drafting Committee on Revised Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, 2011 - present. Member, Study Committee on Revised Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, 2010- 11. Member, Study Committee on Mortgage Subrogation Act, 2009-2010.
Faculty Advisor to Student Bar Association, 2009-10.
Member, ABA/AALS Site Visitation Teams for John Marshall Law School; the University of North Dakota (2014); Cleveland State University (2013); University of Baltimore (2011); Creighton University (2010); University of Oklahoma (2008); Florida State University (1994); and Mississippi College (1988). AALS Reporter for John Marshall, Cleveland State, University of Baltimore, and Creighton University. Chair, Site Visitation Team for University of Mississippi, Feb. 2012.
Page 12 of 15 Member, Arkansas Bar Association Handbooks Editorial Board, 2008-present (chair, 2010- 2012).
Member, Arkansas Bar Association Uniform Laws Committee, 2008-present.
Member, Arkansas Bar Association CLE Committee, 2007-present.
Member, Arkansas Bar Association Legal Forms Committee, 2011-present.
Member, Arkansas Bar Association Probate Section Legislation Committee, 2009-present.
Member, Arkansas Bar Association Real Estate Section Legislation Committee, 2008- present.
Member, Arkansas Bar Association Real Estate Section Committee to Revise Real Estate Title Standards, 2009-present.
Member, Arkansas Bar Association Trust Handbook Subcommittee, 2006-present. . Member, Advisory Committee on Old State House Museum Exhibit on the History of Law & Justice in Arkansas, 2005-06.
Speaker for Lifequest, April and May 2005.
Created “Legal Exchange” website with Moscow State University, fall 2004.
Member, Arkansas Bar Association Internet Presence Task Force, 2000-2002.
Member, Arkansas Bar Association Lawyers Assistance Committee, 1999-2002. As part of committee service, wrote article on lawyer addiction cited above.
Chair, Information Network of Arkansas Commission (gubernatorial appointment), 1995-96.
Member, Arkansas Supreme Court Appellate Records Retention Committee, 1993.
HONORS
Law School Charles W. Goldner Teaching Award, 2016.
Law School Faculty Excellence Award for Service, 2014, 2009, and 2003.
Law School Award for Outstanding Public Service, 2014 and 2009.
Arkansas Bar Association Presidential Excellence Award, 2013.
Page 13 of 15 Academic Fellow, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, 2013-present.
Arkansas Bar Association CLE Award, 2010.
Fellow, Arkansas Bar Foundation, 2008-present.
First Year Class Teacher of the Year Award, 2004.
SBA Excellence in Teaching Award, 2004.
American Association of Law Libraries Presidential Certificate of Merit, for exceptional achievement in initiating a national debate on public domain and universal citation format and establishing AALL as a recognized leader in the area of citation reform, 1997.
Joseph L. Andrews Bibliographic Award for Subject Compilations of State Laws, 1982. The Joseph L. Andrews Bibliographical Award honors significant contributions to legal bibliographic literature. Each nominated work is measured primarily by its creative and evaluative elements and the extent to which judgment was a factor in the formation of the work.
Dean's List, Southern Illinois University School of Law, spring and fall semesters of 1980.
James Scholar, University of Illinois, 1969-70.
OTHER
Reviewed MEE exam question for the National Conference of Bar Examiners, spring 2015 and fall 2016.
Testified before Arkansas House Committees for and against various bills, spring 2011, 2013 and 2015.
Barbri lecturer for Arkansas on Real Property law, 2011-13.
Attendee, Second Annual UALR Service Learning Academy, June 1-4, 2009.
Testified before the Arkansas House and Senate Judiciary Committees in favor of the Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities, spring 2007 and Uniform Power of Attorney Act, spring 2009, both of which were enacted.
Completed off-campus duty assignment fall semesters, 2004 and 2011.
Page 14 of 15 On leave from the law school, spring of 1997, employed by LOIS, Inc. as Director of Law School Programs.
Testified on the Wisconsin Bar’s citation proposal to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, on behalf of the American Association of Law Libraries, March 21, 1995.
Consulted for the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville Law School, June 1991.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Exalt Academy of Southwest Little Rock Charter School Board Member, 2014-present.
University District Development Corporation Board Member, 2011-present.
Taught Neighborhood Development, a service learning course benefitting the University District Development Corporation, 2010-2012.
UALR History Institute Board of Directors, 2009-2014.
Arkansas Choral Society Board of Directors, 2007-2012; secretary, 2008-10. Coauthored successful grant proposals for $7,000 awarded by the Arkansas Arts Council, 2010, $8,000, 2011, and $7,000, 2012.
Member, Little Rock Land Bank Working Group, 2005-06.
Arkansas Bach Chorus Board of Directors, 2002-04.
Founder and Director, Holy Souls Neighborhood Watch Group, 2002-06.
BAR ADMISSIONS
Illinois, active, since 1983. Registration Number 6185481.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 1993.
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