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When I joined the College of Law last year, I was excited to become part of such a great institution. I’m even more excited now than I was then. The faculty and staff here are truly outstanding, and I enjoy working with them every day. (You can read about a number of awards given to the faculty this year on page 33). The students are wonderful, and I’m energized by their enthusiasm. The alumni community has been incredibly supportive and welcoming. I’ve had an opportunity to meet many of you over the past year, and I look forward to meeting many more of you in the coming months.

The new academic year got off to a great start as we welcomed our new, first-year class. As many of you know, enrollment has declined at the College of Law for the past several years, following national trends. Although law school enrollment was flat this year, we were able to get our trend line pointing up, increasing our JD enrollment by 12 percent. At the same time, we were able to increase the credentials of our incoming students. Our median undergraduate GPA increased to 3.39, the highest it has been for at least 10 years. Our median LSAT increased one point to 152, and our 25th percentile LSAT increased two points to 149. These improvements were the result of a team effort, but special acknowledgment should go to Jessica Mehl ’05, who has done a fantastic job since rejoining us last fall as assistant dean for admissions.

2-point increase in 1-point increase in Fall 2016 class by 12% increase in 3.39 GPA – highest 25th percentile LSAT median LSAT score the numbers: enrollment in 10+ years score (149) (152)

Fundraising continues to be an important goal. Alumni contributions allow us to tangibly improve the experience of our students. This summer we were able to renovate the fourth floor of the LaValley Law Library with a generous gift from the estate of Charles F. Buck ’51. As you probably remember, the fourth floor housed the library’s collection of law reviews. Because all of this material is now available online, we removed the paper copies. This space is now an open study and reading room, with new lighting and comfortable furniture. We also were able to use donor funds to renovate one of our classrooms and hope to renovate others in coming years. Our graduate employment numbers improved last year, and the College of Law was recently recognized by the National Jurist as one of the top 35 schools in the nation for improvement in graduate employment rates during the past five years. We still have a ways to go, however, to get where we want to be on graduate employment. The outstanding staff of our Office of Professional Development has been developing innovative programs to help our students use their time in law school to put themselves in the best positions to get jobs after graduation. We’re looking forward to another great year at the College of Law. If you’re in the area, please stop by and visit. If you have any thoughts or suggestions you’d like to share, please get in touch. I’d be delighted to hear from you! Sincerely,

D. Benjamin Barros Dean and Professor of Law

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Transcript is published once a year by the College of Law Office of Communications.

Dean D. Benjamin Barros

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Geoffrey C. Rapp 7 10 Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development Eric C. Chaffee

Assistant Dean for Student Affairs Katherine Raup O’Connell

Assistant Dean for Law Career Services and Alumni Affairs Heather S. Karns 12 28

Assistant Dean for Admissions Jessica Mehl ’05 FALL 2016 Assistant Dean for the LaValley Law Library Letter from the Dean ______1 Rick Goheen Toledo Law News______3 Editor Kirsten Winek Year in Review______14

Writers Commencement ______16 Rachel Phipps ’07 Nancy Magginis ’18 Alumni Lead from the C-Suite______18 Kirsten Winek Heather S. Karns Public Interest Law Fellowship Benefit Auction______26 Graphic Designer Stephanie Delo Dan Steinbock Retires after 31 Years on Faculty______30 Photographers Daniel Miller Anthony Tscherne Faculty News______33

Project Manager Alumni News ______40 Paula Ashley

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NEW 3+3 PROGRAMS “We are pleased to offer this option to “Watching an appellate argument before WITH LOCAL UNIVERSITIES highly qualified students at our partner a federal court in our building is a rare institutions to provide not only cost learning opportunity for our students savings, but savings of time,” said Jessica and members of the community,” said Mehl, assistant dean for law admissions. D. Benjamin Barros, dean of the College of Law. With four different 3+3 programs, Toledo Law now boasts more 3+3 options than “This event also has special meaning any of Ohio’s eight other law schools. Such because of the importance of veterans’ programs were authorized by a rule change issues in current policy discussions,” said approved by the Ohio Supreme Court in Barros. “This court provides a necessary July 2014, and The University of Toledo avenue for our nation’s veterans, including Over the past year, The University and Capital University Law School were 2.5 million veterans of the wars in Iraq and of Toledo College of Law has signed the first law schools to launch programs in Afghanistan, to ensure they receive all the agreements with four local colleges April 2015. benefits they are due.” and universities establishing The U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans 3+3 admissions programs. “We are pleased to offer this Claims is a federal court with exclusive These programs allow promising option to highly qualified jurisdiction over final decisions by the undergraduate students the opportunity students at our partner Board of Veterans’ Appeals, an entity to complete bachelor’s degrees from within the Department of Veterans participating institutions and Juris Doctor institutions to provide Affairs. The court provides veterans an degrees from the College of Law in six not only cost savings, but impartial judicial forum for review of years instead of the normal seven years. administrative decisions by the Board of Participating schools include Adrian savings of time.” Veterans’ Appeals that are adverse to the College in Adrian, Mich.; University veteran-appellant’s claim of entitlement to of Findlay in Findlay, Ohio; Lourdes – Jessica Mehl benefits for service-connected disabilities, University in Sylvania, Ohio; and the survivor benefits and other benefits, including education payments and waiver College of Arts & Letters at The University U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR of indebtedness. of Toledo. VETERANS CLAIMS VISITS TOLEDO LAW Students will complete three years of Three of the court’s seven judges, Chief undergraduate coursework at one of the Judge Lawrence B. Hagel, Judge Alan G. four named institutions and three years of Lance, Sr., and Judge Mary J. Schoelen, legal coursework at Toledo Law. The first presided over oral argument at the College year of law school will take the place of the of Law in the matter of Noah v. McDonald, senior year of college, and an undergraduate which concerned an application by a degree will be awarded after the successful Vietnam veteran for a finding that PTSD completion of the first-year legal curriculum. was “service connected.” Judge Alan G. Lance, Sr. ’73, a University of Toledo The main advantages of 3+3 admissions College of Law alumnus, was nominated programs are the reduction in time and to the court by President George W. Bush expense needed to earn both a bachelor’s The U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans in 2004. degree and a law degree. Claims, based in Washington, D.C., held a public session in the McQuade Law Auditorium at The University of Toledo College of Law on Feb. 24, 2016, as part of the court’s Off-Site Court Program.

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PROF. EXUM PRESENTS ON The Cross-Border Institute for Legal Barros joined the College of Law as dean CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM IN Studies was developed by Arizona Summit in July 2015. He teaches and writes in MEXICO CITY Law School to create new opportunities for the areas of property law and theory, both American and Mexican students and regulatory takings, property law reform, practitioners seeking to develop specialized and the philosophy of science. He is the knowledge and experience to enhance founding editor of the Journal of Law, their practices. Property, and Society, and in 2015 he released a casebook on property law with DEAN BARROS RECOGNIZED Aspen/Wolters Kluwer. Barros was one AMONG TOP PROPERTY LAW of the youngest educators to serve on the PROFESSORS executive committee of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) and has served as chair of the AALS Property Jelani Jefferson Exum, professor of law at Section, as well as president of the The University of Toledo College of Law, Association for Law, Property, and Society. traveled to Mexico City as a guest lecturer at the Cross-Border Institute for Legal “As a faculty, we were pleased when we Studies. recruited Ben Barros to be our dean,” said Eric Chaffee, associate dean for faculty On Jan. 11, 2016, she delivered a research and development. “He is both presentation titled “International an outstanding leader and an outstanding Perspectives on Criminal Justice Reform.” A recent ranking by the PropertyProf Blog scholar. He fits well with Toledo’s tradition Exum’s lecture explored the ways in which listed Dean D. Benjamin Barros as one of of being a community of scholars.” current criminal justice reform efforts in 15 top property law professors under the PROF. LLEWELLYN GIBBONS the U.S. fit into the changes being made in age of 50. criminal justice systems in other countries. QUOTED IN FEDERAL CIRCUIT OPINION “The faculty at Toledo Law impacts the “He is both an outstanding study and practice of law at all levels: local, leader and an outstanding state, national, and international,” said Eric Chaffee, associate dean for faculty scholar. He fits well with research and development at the College Toledo’s tradition of being of Law. “Professor Exum’s invitation to present in Mexico is yet another example a community of scholars.” of our scholars having a global impact.” – Eric Chaffee

Exum writes mainly in the area of Barros appeared on a list titled “Most sentencing law and policy, but her research Cited Property Scholars Under 50, 2011- Llewellyn Joseph Gibbons, professor of interests also include comparative criminal 2015” with colleagues from Chicago, law, was recently quoted in an opinion by law and procedure, as well as the impact of Fordham, Cornell, and Duke law schools, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal race on criminal justice. among others. Circuit. The decision in In re Tam held that the Lanham Act’s bar on registering “disparaging marks” violates the First Amendment.

4 Toledo Law TRANSCRIPT Gibbons’ scholarship is at the intersection TOLEDO LAW ONE OF PRINCETON “At Toledo Law, we provide legal education of law, contract, and technology. A REVIEW’S BEST LAW SCHOOLS; on a personal scale,” said D. Benjamin pioneering professor in the area of PROFESSORS RANKED MOST Barros, dean of the College of Law. “Our cyberlaw, he penned one of the first law ACCESSIBLE AMONG NINE OHIO goal is student success, and our faculty review articles to review the theoretical LAW SCHOOLS take the time to get to know their students. legal principles on which the Internet The University of Toledo College of Law No one is just a number here.” could be governed. His recent scholarship is one of the nation’s top law schools, The school profiles in “Best 173 Law focuses on the response of law to according to The Princeton Review®’s list Schools” factor in data from The breakthrough technologies, as well as of “Best 173 Law Schools,” which appears Princeton Review®’s surveys of law students the role of the international intellectual as a book and on the The Princeton Review® completed during the 2014-15, 2013-14, property regime in promoting global website. economic development. and 2012-13 school years. Based on student surveys, The Princeton “One of the benefits of being at Toledo Review® also provides numerical rankings LAW STUDENTS ADVANCE Law is a rich tradition of professors on a variety of factors. One of those TO FINAL FOUR IN HERBERT influencing and impacting the practice of identified is the accessibility of professors WECHSLER NATIONAL CRIMINAL law,” said Eric Chaffee, associate dean for – judged based on how students rate MOOT COURT COMPETITION faculty research and development. “The the accessibility of their teachers. Scores citation of Professor Gibbons’ work is range from 60 to 99. Toledo Law had the evidence that this tradition continues.” top ranking on this measure (92) among Ohio’s nine law schools. Over his career to date, Gibbons has published over 25 law review articles, three book chapters, and “Every aspect of the school one encyclopedia entry. He also has strikes the perfect balance co-authored a treatise, “Mastering Trademark Law and Unfair Competition between professionalism Law” (Carolina Academic Press, 2013), and personal attention.” with Lars S. Smith. His articles have been republished in India and translated into – Princeton Review The University of Toledo College of Law Chinese and Japanese. The People’s Court students advanced to the semifinals of Publication House, the publishing arm In Toledo Law’s profile, The Princeton the Herbert Wechsler National Criminal of the Supreme People’s Court of China, Review® editors said, “Students speak Moot Court Competition held April 9, is translating and publishing Gibbons’ overwhelmingly of the school’s obvious 2016, at SUNY Buffalo School of Law in book, “Mastering Trademark and Unfair care and concern for their future.” The Buffalo, N.Y. Competition Law,” for the Chinese profile also quotes current Toledo Law Lindsey Cavese ’16 and Thomas Walsh market. students who were surveyed by The Princeton Review®. Among the student ’16 were among the best four teams in comments were, “Every aspect of the the competition to argue before lawyers school strikes the perfect balance between and judges on the question of whether professionalism and personal attention.” a sentence of life without parole for a Another student noted that professors juvenile violates the U.S. Constitution. “go out of their way to make themselves Walsh and Cavese argued both sides of the available to students.” question, consistently winning until theirs was one of only four teams remaining of the 23 teams from across the country that competed.

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“This is one of the strongest teams that I PROF. ZOLDAN SELECTED FOR Zoldan’s paper, “The Equal Protection can recall in any moot court competition YALE/STANFORD/HARVARD Component of Legislative Generality,” anywhere in the country,” said Associate JUNIOR FACULTY FORUM describes an under-explored aspect of Professor Gregory Gilchrist, who served constitutional law and theory. as the team’s faculty advisor. “Moot court competitions require the students “Our commitment to equality is to research a complex legal issue, write compromised by the ability of Congress a formal appellate brief, structure a and state legislatures to target named persuasive argument, [and] hone their individuals for special treatment that is oral advocacy. And, on top of all this, the not applied to the population generally,” students need to think on their feet in a writes Zoldan. “This Article describes high-pressure situation. This year, Tommy how the Equal Protection Clause can and Lindsey excelled in all these roles and be read to contribute to a constitutional value of legislative generality – that made UT proud.” Evan Zoldan, an associate professor at is – a value that suggests that targeted The University of Toledo College of Law, Walsh received the Ryan J. Mullins legislation should be disfavored simply was selected to participate in the Yale/ Memorial Award, which is given to because of its particularized effect.” Stanford/Harvard Junior Faculty Forum the competitor who best embodies June 28-29, 2016 at Yale Law School in the spirit, passion, and enthusiasm HUCKABY ’17 RECEIVES New Haven, Conn. He is the first faculty of the competition. BANKRUPTCY LAW STUDENT member from Toledo Law to be selected AWARD for this prestigious event. “The competition was a great experience,” Nicholas Huckaby Cavese said. “It helped develop a practical “I am delighted that Professor Zoldan’s ’17 received the set of skills I can take with me into the paper was selected for the Yale/Stanford/ Distinguished future as an attorney.” Harvard Junior Faculty Forum,” said Bankruptcy Law Student Award from The team was coached by Katrin Toledo Law Dean D. Benjamin Barros. “This is a great honor for Professor Zoldan the Midwest McBroom ’16. “After watching my Regional colleagues practice so many times before and is a reflection of the quality of his writing and his ideas.” Bankruptcy attending the competition, it was thrilling Seminar. Students to see them shine among 23 other teams,” According to organizers of the forum, from 14 law schools in Ohio, Indiana, she said. “Every time we advanced to the the goal is to “encourage the work of and Kentucky were eligible for this next round, we all shared an immense scholars recently appointed to a tenure- award; Huckaby was one of just four amount of excitement and pride for track position by providing experience in students selected to receive it. The Toledo Law.” the pursuit of scholarship and the nature student winners were chosen based on of the scholarly exchange.” Between 12 the student’s letter of intent and a “The competition was a and 20 young scholars – all with seven or faculty member’s nomination. fewer years of teaching law – are selected great experience ... It to present their papers at this annual The two-day Midwest Regional helped develop a practical event. Senior scholars provide comments Bankruptcy Seminar took place in set of skills I can take with on the selected papers, and one of the Cincinnati, Ohio, on August 18- forum’s aims is to help connect newer and 19, 2016. It featured panels and me into the future as an more seasoned legal scholars. presentations by professors, lawyers, and judges skilled in bankruptcy law. attorney.” As a result of this award, Huckaby – Lindsey Cavese

6 Toledo Law TRANSCRIPT received an expense-paid trip to the PROF. MCCUSKEY SELECTED McCuskey’s article is entitled “Affordable 2016 seminar, which allowed him AS HEALTH LAW SCHOLAR BY Care Preemption.” The work “examines to network with leading bankruptcy ASLME AND SLU LAW preemption doctrine in the light of practitioners. health reform, focusing on the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance provisions,” Huckaby’s faculty nomination was explained McCuskey. “This project submitted by Kara Bruce, professor of illuminates the novel ways that the ACA law at The University of Toledo College deploys preemption and scrutinizes of Law. “Nick is a fantastic student its implications for the development with a real aptitude for bankruptcy law,” of preemption doctrine and the said Bruce. “I am thrilled that he had implementation of health reform.” the opportunity to meet and learn from bankruptcy judges and practitioners at “It is an honor to be named a 2016 Health the seminar.” Elizabeth McCuskey, an associate Law Scholar,” McCuskey continued. “I am professor at The University of Toledo thrilled that the nominating committee “I am honored to receive the College of Law, was selected as one of four found ‘Affordable Care Preemption’ so Distinguished Bankruptcy Law Student 2016 Health Law Scholars by the promising, and I look forward to sharing Award from the Midwest Regional American Society of Law, Medicine & my work with this esteemed group.” Bankruptcy Seminar,” said Huckaby. Ethics (ASLME) and Saint Louis “I have to give immense thanks to “Health law is an extremely hot topic in University Law School’s Center for Health Professor Kara Bruce for not only being legal education,” said Associate Dean for Law Studies. a great teacher, but also an involved Academic Affairs Geoffrey Rapp. “Legal mentor and staunch advocate for UT and compliance jobs in the health field law students.” The work “examines represent a major growth area, and we’re preemption doctrine in the lucky to have a rising star in the field Additionally, Huckaby was chosen by like Professor McCuskey leading our the editors of the American Bankruptcy light of health reform, focusing interdisciplinary efforts in the area.” Institute Journal to have an article on the Affordable Care Act’s published in its Student Gallery in TOLEDO LAW OFFERS JANUARY the October 2016 issue. He is one of health insurance provisions.” AND MAY START DATES six students selected to publish in the gallery this year. He also will publish – Elizabeth McCuskey his law review note entitled “Patient Care Ombudsman: Toward a Workable ASLME’s Health Law Scholars are Standard for Appointing a Patient Care chosen using blind selection by a Ombudsman” in a forthcoming issue of nominating committee of nine health law The University of Toledo Law Review. and bioethics scholars from across the country. Scholars are selected based on the originality of their articles and likelihood of making significant contributions to health law scholarship. McCuskey participated in Scholars Weekend in September 2016, presenting her work to New for 2016, incoming students at Toledo an audience of distinguished health law Law have the opportunity to choose when professors. they begin their law school coursework. January and May start dates are now available, in addition to the traditional August start.

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The alternative start program launched to Poland. The course covered the features there in planning continuing education rave reviews. Fifteen students began their of the adversarial system, the conduct of for experienced lawyers in practical skills legal studies at Toledo Law in January 2016, trials, the role of juries, and the basics of such as oral advocacy, negotiation, and and 11 started in May. the Federal Rules of Evidence. law office management. “These students will continue with their “The Eastern European participants were STUDENTS ARGUE FIRST studies this fall and represent nearly one- especially interested in our jury system AMENDMENT QUESTION AT third of our 2016 entering class,” said Jessica and how it operates,” said Steinbock. 44TH ANNUAL CHARLES W. Mehl, assistant dean for law admissions. While in Hungary, he accepted an FORNOFF APPELLATE ADVOCACY “The alternative start dates were a success.” honorary degree from the University of COMPETITION The January- and May-start students Szeged. attended their own section of the Lawyering Between teaching stints in Hungary and Skills class and then sequenced into other Poland, Steinbock spent more than two courses with 1L students. An expedited months in Cairo, Egypt, volunteering law school orientation, enhanced academic with the American Bar Association Rule support options, and the College’s generous, of Law Initiative. merit-based scholarship program were made available to the new students. “This was a fascinating experience all around,” he said. “The ABA in Cairo has After completing their first semesters in the a very capable local and expatriate staff January- and May-start programs, students that conducts training for prosecutors, have the option of taking classes year-round judges, and academics. I was pleased to and may choose a traditional, three-year join them for a couple of months.” Does the free speech test of Tinker v. schedule or schedule coursework at their Des Moines Independent Community own part-time paces. Steinbock’s main task was to lead School District apply when a public The College plans to again offer January workshops in interactive teaching school disciplines a student for speech and May starts in 2017. for Egyptian law school instructors. that originates off-campus in a Facebook “Most law students in Egypt are post? Second- and third-year students PROF. STEINBOCK WORKS undergraduates taking a degree in law. It tackled this issue during the 44th AND TEACHES ABROAD AFTER is not unusual for a class to have 1,000 Annual Charles W. Fornoff Appellate STEPPING DOWN AS DEAN students,” said Steinbock. “Instruction Advocacy Competition. is by lecture and is highly theoretical. There is little practical training, and In the final round on October 22, 2015, examinations call for rote memorization. Lindsey Cavese ’16 and Brian Morrissey In this environment, making education ’17 represented the school, and Patrick more interactive and practical is a Charest ’18 and Nathan Van Den daunting task, but those who attended Berghe ’18 represented the student. the workshops were enthusiastic.” The four finalists emerged victorious While in Egypt, he also taught an online from the double-elimination tournament, course on the American Adversary and where Cavese was named Barrister. They Jury System – his first foray into online were given the opportunity to argue Since stepping down as dean in June teaching. the case in front of a distinguished 2015, Daniel Steinbock has been busy. panel of judges. Edward C. Prado of Last fall he taught the American Steinbock returned to the Middle East the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Adversary System in a “flex course” on assignment for the ABA in March Circuit, Judith E. Levy of the U.S. format at the University of Szeged in 2016, this time to Bahrain on the District Court for the Eastern District of Hungary and the University of Silesia in Persian Gulf. He assisted the ABA office

8 Toledo Law TRANSCRIPT there in planning continuing education Michigan, and James R. Knepp II ’92 of Elizabeth McCuskey, co-director of the 16 STUDENTS RECEIVE PUBLIC for experienced lawyers in practical skills the U.S. District Court for the Northern program. “The JD/MPH joint-degree SERVICE COMMENDATIONS FOR such as oral advocacy, negotiation, and District of Ohio heard oral argument in program marshals the University’s PRO BONO WORK law office management. the McQuade Law Auditorium packed strengths in the health sciences and law Toledo Law awarded Public Service with faculty, students, and family and to train the next generation of health Commendations to 16 students for STUDENTS ARGUE FIRST friends of the finalists. policy problem-solvers.” their pro bono work during the 2015-16 AMENDMENT QUESTION AT academic year. These recipients logged All four finalists capably handled The combination of Juris Doctor and 44TH ANNUAL CHARLES W. more than 1,100 hours of public questions from the bench. At the Master in Public Health degrees offers FORNOFF APPELLATE ADVOCACY service work! COMPETITION argument’s conclusion, Cavese was graduates a unique, interdisciplinary named Best Oralist, and Cavese and perspective on law and its role in “The pro bono work students participate Morrissey were named Best Team. promoting public health. When done in in through our Public Service this joint-degree format, students can Commendation Program instills in The Fornoff Competition is organized complete both degrees in 3.5-4 years. them the importance of community each year by the Moot Court Board. service and provides them with firsthand Chair Jonathan Walbom ’16, Vice-Chair “The law and public health insight into the role that lawyers play in Lisa Davis ’16, and Fornoff Competition providing access to justice,” said Kelly coordinators Paige Albjerg ’16 and joint degree program will Tomlinson, director of the Office of Michael Allen ’16 led the Board’s efforts. prepare our students for Professional Development at the College of Law. Professors Eric Chaffee and Bryan leadership positions in these Toledo Law launched the Public Lammon served as Fornoff faculty related fields.” advisors and helped prepare the finalists Service Commendation Program Does the free speech test of Tinker v. in the weeks between the tournament in 2007 to recognize and encourage Des Moines Independent Community – D. Benjamin Barros and the final argument. student pro bono engagement in the School District apply when a public local community and region. A student school disciplines a student for speech “The University of Toledo is one of NEW JD/MPH JOINT-DEGREE receives a Public Service Commendation that originates off-campus in a Facebook 27 comprehensive public research PROGRAM for each semester in which the student post? Second- and third-year students universities in the United States, and performs 30 or more documented hours tackled this issue during the 44th This fall The University of Toledo this new joint degree is just one example of unpaid, law-related public service Annual Charles W. Fornoff Appellate College of Law launched its JD/MPH of the wide range of interdisciplinary work. Since the start of the program, Advocacy Competition. joint-degree program with the College programs that our students can pursue,” Toledo Law students have donated more of Health and Human Services School said D. Benjamin Barros, dean of the than 22,000 hours of service. In the final round on October 22, 2015, of Population Health and the Northwest College of Law. Lindsey Cavese ’16 and Brian Morrissey Ohio Consortium for Public Health. The College of Law helps students find ’17 represented the school, and Patrick The JD/MPH program will add to Careers particularly suited to the joint- volunteer opportunities with public Charest ’18 and Nathan Van Den the College of Law’s interdisciplinary degree training include government service agencies and other nonprofit Berghe ’18 represented the student. curriculum in health law and health and environmental agencies, organizations engaged in pro bono work. environmental law, while adding policy private law firms and health care entities, Tomlinson works with community The four finalists emerged victorious perspectives to the University’s health and public hospitals. stakeholders to coordinate placements. from the double-elimination tournament, science curriculum. where Cavese was named Barrister. They “Law shapes our public health system, were given the opportunity to argue “Many of the most pressing issues and public health impacts many legal the case in front of a distinguished facing governments and private entities issues. The law and public health panel of judges. Edward C. Prado of today merge law and public health – joint degree program will prepare our the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth from the Affordable Care Act to the students for leadership positions in these Circuit, Judith E. Levy of the U.S. Flint water crisis to the Zika virus,” related fields,” noted Barros. District Court for the Eastern District of said Toledo Law Associate Professor

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TOLEDO LAW ADDS TWO NEW CLINICS by Rachel Phipps

The College of Law recently added two new clinics – the Tax Controversy Clinic and the Criminal Appeals Clinic – to its lineup of clinical offerings, which brings the number of clinics housed at Toledo Law and serving the local community to seven.

The new clinics are designed to accommodate evening students, allowing them to gain practical experience while studying part-time. Day students also may enroll in both clinics.

Students in the Criminal Appeals Clinic handle criminal appeals on behalf of persons convicted in Ohio free representation to taxpayers involved law,” said Geoffrey Rapp, associate dean state courts. The classroom component in IRS audits, appeals, and collection for academic affairs. “These two new offers instruction on direct and post- matters. Students will negotiate and clinics have diversified our experiential conviction appeals. The clinic aims resolve contested matters with the IRS. learning opportunities and are a real to provide students with practical In certain cases, the Tax Controversy asset to Toledo Law.” experience and enhanced research, Clinic will represent taxpayers before the writing, analytical, and interview skills. United States Tax Court. The Tax Controversy Clinic is taught by attorney Christopher Bourell, and the To provide students with valuable “We want our students to graduate Criminal Appeals Clinic is taught by experience in handling actual tax cases, not just ready to practice law, but also attorney Deborah Rump. the new Tax Controversy Clinic offers confident that they are ready to practice

“Our clinics provide a vital service to the community, since most of our clients otherwise would be forced to represent themselves in court.” – Dan Nathan

10 Toledo Law TRANSCRIPT Toledo Law has long valued experiential learning; opportunities to develop CIVIL ADVOCACY CLINIC INITIATIVES MAKE A practical lawyering skills DIFFERENCE OUTSIDE THE COURTROOM have been a part of the curriculum for nearly Students in the Civil Advocacy Clinic (CAC) under the supervision of Professor Robert 50 years. Salem ’90, represent clients in a variety of matters, including domestic relations, immigration/political asylum, probate, contract disputes, consumer protection, The Civil Advocacy Clinic nonprofit law, and tort defense, among others. However, the CAC also strives to (formerly known as the impact the community through a variety of policy projects and collaboration with Legal Clinic), Domestic other organizations. Violence and Juvenile Law Clinic, Dispute Resolution Recent partnerships and projects include: Clinic, and the Criminal The Public Defender Project Law Practice Program have CAC students teamed up with Sean McNulty ’94, Toledo’s Chief Public Defender (PD), formed the core clinical to develop a model of holistic service to PD clients. Students helped McNulty’s office offerings at Toledo Law conduct a review of other PD offices with desirable service models around the country for many years. The Public Service Externship Clinic, and brainstorm ideas for reform in Toledo. The partnership now includes The University which places students with of Toledo Department of Social Work, which will place social work interns in the PD government or nonprofit office to assist in developing assessment tools and a referral system. organizations where they Certificate of Qualification of Employment Project perform legal work under the The CAC partnered with the University of Akron School of Law and the Northwest supervision of an attorney, Ohio Re-entry Coalition to develop Certificate of Qualification of Employment (CQE) was added in 2000. Clinics for ex-inmates eligible to receive the certifications. The CQE mitigates the Through Toledo Law’s collateral sanctions related to criminal sentences by certifying that the ex-inmate is seven clinical programs, law qualified for employment or licensure that may have been previously barred by virtue of students hone their skills the conviction. while providing high- Advance Directives Project quality legal services to CAC students regularly visit assisted care facilities in the Toledo area to conduct individuals and groups in the community. Clinic students workshops on advance health care directives. Students develop the workshop content, are placed in supervised present the information, and help residents execute living wills and durable powers of settings where they learn attorney for health care. practical and professional Same-Sex Marriage Project skills as they explore the Anticipating the legalization of same-sex marriage nationwide, the CAC partnered roles of practicing lawyer, with the Lucas County Domestic Relations Court to adequately prepare. The CAC was prosecutor, judge, and instrumental in helping the court develop forms and policies that addressed the needs mediator. of same-sex couples going through divorces and parental rights cases. Students also Emily M. Morrison ’17 assisted in developing training material on LGBTQA families for court personnel. participated in the Domestic Friendly Center Partnership Violence and Juvenile Law The CAC recently created a partnership with the Friendly Center, a neighborhood Clinic with Professor Dan organization in Toledo’s Old North End. The first workshop, which was conducted last Nathan ’04 last spring. spring, focused on the community’s interaction with police and an individual’s rights “Working in the clinic was one of the most rewarding if stopped or arrested. experiences of my legal

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education,” said Morrison. “The clinic is that they are learning in other courses. especially exciting because it is usually I find it personally rewarding to be able the first time students serve as anyone’s to share this experience with students.” TOLEDO LAW CLINICS legal representative, and I was so BY THE NUMBERS grateful to have the opportunity to do Each clinic provides individualized so under the guidance of such skilled and small-group instruction in legal SEVEN clinics: and experienced professors!” institutions and the lawyering process, • Civil Advocacy Clinic as well as practical, hands-on, real-life • Criminal Appeals Clinic “Participating in the Domestic Violence experience in carefully-selected legal • Criminal Law Practice Program and Juvenile Law Clinic was one of the environments. • Dispute Resolution Clinic best decisions I made during law school,” • Domestic Violence & Juvenile said Eric Simpson ’17, who conducted “Providing our students with this type Law Clinic two trials, prepared discovery requests, of exposure and experience in a wide • Public Service Externship Clinic and drafted several briefs during his variety of legal settings gives them an • Tax Controversy Clinic semester in the clinic. “The experiences unparalleled educational opportunity, which allows them to leave law school the legal clinic afforded me do not occur Students must take at least SIX inside a classroom, but are necessary to better prepared for the actual practice of credits of experiential courses successfully practice law.” law,” said Professor Maara Fink ’96, who teaches the Dispute Resolution Clinic at Toledo Law, of which at least “Our clinics provide a vital service to the and the Public Service Externship Clinic. FOUR credits must be in clinic or community, since most of our clients externship courses. otherwise would be forced to represent Students at Toledo Law are required themselves in court,” said Nathan. to take at least six credits of The Domestic Violence & “In addition, the clinics present an experiential courses, of which at Juvenile Law Clinic has had five invaluable opportunity for our students least four credits must be in clinic or consecutive appellate victories to put into practice the legal concepts externship courses. n since 2013.

The Dispute Resolution Clinic handles approximately 100 mediation cases per year.

The Civil Advocacy Clinic helps hundreds of people each year “Providing our students with this type with brief services, advice, and of exposure and experience in a wide representation. variety of legal settings gives them an unparalleled educational opportunity, which allows them to leave law school better prepared for the actual practice of law.” – Maara Fink

12 Toledo Law TRANSCRIPT COLLEGE LAUNCHES THREE NEW GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN COMPLIANCE To help train new professionals and accelerate THREE GRADUATE CERTIFICATES careers, Toledo Law now offers three graduate IN COMPLIANCE certificate programs in compliance. Certificate in Health Care Compliance Compliance is a burgeoning area for lawyers and Building on the College of Law’s strong tradition in health non-lawyers alike. “A foundation in compliance is law, the Graduate Certificate in Health Care Compliance applicable to many heavily-regulated career fields, prepares students to work in for-profit and nonprofit health including health care, education, and human care organizations, including hospitals and managed care resources,” said Dean D. Benjamin Barros. organizations. Students learn the foundations of compliance — ethics; privacy and data security; and auditing, investigating, and “Coursework in areas such as policy and reporting — as well as the basics of health care law. procedure creation, ethics, privacy and data security, reporting, and investigations will allow Certificate in Higher Education Compliance graduates of the certificate program to be more Federal statutes like Title IX, the Clery Act, and FERPA, competitive in the job market and better prepared accrediting body regulations, and NCAA sports rules are creating to lead compliance programs,” said Barros. a need for compliance professionals with specialized knowledge. Through a mix of courses in higher education law and skills- The concentration of health care organizations and institutions of higher education in northwest based courses in compliance, this program aims to prepare Ohio and southeast Michigan makes Toledo Law students to serve as compliance professionals in colleges, a great place to begin a career in compliance. universities, and educational organizations. Building on its strong faculty expertise in this Certificate in Compliance area, Toledo Law began admitting students to the new programs in August 2016. Through skills-based courses in statutory and regulatory interpretation; policy and procedure creation; education and Interested students have three graduate certificate training; ethics; and auditing, investigating, and reporting, along options: a specialized certificate in healthcare with faculty-supervised research projects, this program positions compliance, a specialized certificate in higher students for entry-level positions in a variety of settings. education compliance, and a general certificate in compliance that is applicable to a variety of fields and industries.

Each program is designed for completion by part- time students in a 10-month period with a mix of online and in-person courses. Classes are held in the evenings to accommodate working students. “A foundation in compliance

Students also can pursue the new compliance is applicable to many heavily- course tracks as part of a Master of Studies in Law degree. Juris Doctor students may take regulated career fields, including compliance courses as electives. n health care, education, and For more information, visit utoledo.edu/law/ human resources.” admissions/compliance.html. – D. Benjamin Barros

TRANSCRIPT Toledo Law 13 2015-2016 YEAR IN REVIEW

Welcome, Toledo Law Class of 2018!

Masha Gessen, a journalist and author, speaks about The Tsarnaev Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy for the fall 2015 Cannon Lecture.

(left to right) James Carlisle ’85, Hon. William Gerald Hutcheson ’82, Hon. C. Allen McConnell ’72, Hon. Myron Duhart ’96, Professor Ben Davis, and Hon. Ian English ’00 at the Law Career Symposium.

Professor Nicole Porter with students at U.S. Representative Marcy Kaptur and Professor Ken the 2016 Public Interest Law Fellowship Kilbert attend and speak at the November 2015 Great Benefit Auction. Lakes Water Conference.

14 Toledo Law TRANSCRIPT Professor Lee Strang delivers the Stoepler Professor of Law and Values Installation Lecture.

Blanca Wheeler ’16, Kyle Jazwiecki ’17, Bernadette Delgado ’17, Kara Maruszak ’16, and Steven Steel ’17 traveled to China for an Intellectual Property Moot Court Competition.

A panel including Justice Judith Ann Dean D. Benjamin Barros (shown left) and Toledo Lanzinger ’77 discusses the Ohio Law alumni at the annual Stoepler Golf Outing. Constitution and possible changes.

Jim Thomas ’85 leads a two-day leadership training course for students.

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Congratulations, Class of 2016

The University of Toledo College of Law contribution to Toledo Law. Buenavides celebrated its annual commencement served as president of the International exercises on May 8, 2016. A total of 88 Law Society and chief justice of Toledo Juris Doctor degrees and three Master of Law’s Phi Alpha Delta law fraternity. Studies in Law degrees were awarded in Two faculty members were honored at front of a near-capacity crowd of family, the ceremony, as well. Professor Gregory friends, and the Toledo Law community Gilchrist received the inaugural Faculty in the Student Union Auditorium. Scholarship Award for his article, “Trial Cheers from the crowd could be heard Bargaining.” Published in the Iowa throughout the ceremony. Law Review in January 2016, it has This year’s student speakers were received positive mention from scholars, Arnold Finkbine, the 2015-16 Student practitioners, judges, and legal Web Bar Association president, and Trisha sites. Professor Eric Chafee received Krewson, class valedictorian. Michelle the Outstanding Professor Award for Kranz ’93, a partner at Zoll & Kranz, Dedication to Legal Education from the LLC in Toledo, presented the annual graduating class, as well as the Beth commencement address reflecting on Eisler First-Year Teaching Award from what she wished she would have known the first-year class. as a new attorney. After the ceremony, students and their Graduate Kolet Buenavides received families posed for photographs on a the Dean’s Award, an honor given to a beautiful spring afternoon and enjoyed a graduate who has made a significant reception at the Law Center.

16 Toledo Law TRANSCRIPT TRANSCRIPT Toledo Law 17 COVER ALUMNI LEAD FROM THE C-SUITE BY RACHEL PHIPPS

For A. Louis Denton ’83, president and CEO at Borer Denton & Associates, Inc. and senior vice president at Petersen Investments, a law degree is like fluency in a second language – it’s such a part of him that he easily and seamlessly shifts to thinking like an attorney when it is required.

A. Louis Denton ’83 Denton, who has worked in the securities industry since graduating from President and CEO at Borer Denton & Toledo Law, stresses the intangibles that law school provides its graduates: Associates, Inc. and Senior Vice President “Law school training makes you battle-hardened and confident. It helps you at Petersen Investments to translate things into layman’s terms, to ask the right questions, and to truncate discussions to get the information you need.”

Toledo Law alumni can be found working for companies big and small across the country and around the world – and many, like Denton, have climbed the corporate ladder to the C-suite.

“Law school provides an outstanding background for people who want to pursue business careers,” says Dean D. Benjamin Barros. “The success of our alumni in diverse business fields illustrates the breadth and strength of a legal education.”

The reasons companies place lawyers at the helm are many and include the realities of increased, complex regulation at the state and federal levels, as well as the proliferation of international deals – but there may be something even more obvious at work.

“More employers are recognizing the value of a JD in the C-suite because legal training tends to produce critical thinkers and thought leaders,” says John Starcher ’00, president and CEO of Mercy Health, the largest health care system in Ohio.

Starcher While employed as the director of labor and employee relations at the Medical College of Ohio, Starcher attended law school as an evening student at the recommendation of his boss – and because a JD has proven so valuable in his own career, he now gives the young professionals he mentors the same advice.

18 Toledo Law TRANSCRIPT “It’s the critical thinking skills developed as an attorney that “One theme that ran consistently through our findings was have proven so vital to my career,” he says. Law school trained that requirements for all the C-level jobs have shifted toward Starcher to quickly spot the key issues, ask the right questions, business acumen and ‘softer’ leadership skills,” the authors determine a course of action, and execute – “all skills that still continue. “Technical skills are merely a starting point, the serve me well today,” he says. bare minimum. To thrive as a C-level executive, an individual needs to be a good communicator, a collaborator, and a “The success of our alumni in strategic thinker and we think the trend toward a general business orientation over a functional orientation will diverse business fields illustrates continue.” the breadth and strength of a For our grads in the C-suite, law school and practice have been an important training ground for these skills. We profile legal education.” Arturo Polizzi ’97 (p. 22), James Nusbaum ’95 (p. 24), and – Dean D. Benjamin Barros Sharon Speyer ’85 (p. 20) in the pages that follow.

Jim Barone ’94, senior vice president From the perspective of our current students interested in at Ameritas Life in Lincoln, Neb., also careers in business, right now is a great time to be at Toledo believes his JD meaningfully expanded Law. “We are meeting the demand of our students and of his career opportunities and makes him a employers by providing even more depth in the business- better leader. related training we offer at the College of Law,” says Dean Barros. Three graduate certificates in compliance were added “My law degree has enhanced my Barone to the curriculum this fall (see p. 13 for details), and the credibility at the negotiating table, College has had a strong joint JD/MBA program with UT’s making me a far more effective business leader and negotiator,” College of Business and Innovation for many years. says Barone, who earned a law degree as a night student after three years in sales and marketing for Anthem Blue Cross and Heather Karns, the College’s assistant dean for career services Blue Shield. and alumni affairs, has observed that when making hiring decisions businesses are paying attention to the value a “More than making me a better negotiator, it taught me that potential employee’s legal training can add to the organization. asking probing questions is preferable to issuing declarations Karns and her team in the Office of Professional Development as I guide and lead my business teams,” he says. “I believe the help students identify their interests and guide them as they JD has made me a more thoughtful exec.” draft resumes targeting business employers. Barone adds that while it is rare for him to run into colleagues “Each year, we have a percentage of new graduates go to work with law degrees outside the general counsel’s office, “when I in the business sector,” says Karns. “We hear how valuable the do, it gives me a tremendous lift. I enjoy working with other legal skills are to the jobs they are hired to do.” business leaders having similar education and training. It’s very motivating.” The alumni profiled in this issue should serve as inspiration to the next generation of Toledo Law graduates. Though there is Barone’s, Starcher’s, and Denton’s comments gel with a trend no one road to the C-suite, the alumni we talked to had many identified by the Harvard Business Review a few years ago in things in common, including an extraordinary work ethic, a an article titled “The New Path To the C-Suite,” in which the true passion for their work, and a belief that their law degrees authors indicate that “softer” leadership skills are becoming had helped them on their way. n increasingly important. “Once people reach the C-suite,” say the authors, “technical and functional expertise matters less than leadership skills and a strong grasp of business fundamentals.”

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Serving as a part of the leadership team for a bank with $73 billion in assets is challenging, demanding, around-the-clock work that many would guess had to be in Sharon Speyer’s sights since at least her law school days – but not so, according to Speyer. Sharon Speyer ’85 “Frankly, I thought that I wanted to litigate President, Huntington Bank, Northwest Ohio Region and started my career practicing in the area of insurance defense litigation,” says Speyer, the president of Huntington Bank’s northwest Ohio region. “It was only once I was exposed to business law that I realized my passion.”

Speyer advanced to leadership roles through the legal department of Huntington Bank and its predecessor banks, where she has worked since 1992. She became Huntington’s regional president in 2007 following the bank’s merger with Sky Bank. She was general counsel at Sky Bank at the time of the merger.

Immediately following law school, Speyer worked as a staff attorney at the Eighth District Court of Appeals in Cleveland, Ohio. When she decided to return to her hometown of Toledo, a friend told her that a local bank was looking for an in-house lawyer to do mostly collection work.

20 Toledo Law TRANSCRIPT “While it didn’t sound very exciting, I knew that it would give Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Athena Award, and me an opportunity to practice law with one client but handle she serves on numerous boards and committees, including many areas of law,” she says. “I didn’t have any preconceived Aspire Toledo, the Regional Growth Partnership Board, the notions about banking. I had great mentors, both from the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority Board, and the Toledo legal department and from the business lines, who provided Symphony Board of Trustees. a strong platform to learn about banking. Very soon into it, I Speyer was appointed to The University of Toledo Board of learned that I enjoyed this field and wanted to grow.” Trustees in 2009 and now serves as chair. As such she spends a Speyer liked lawyering but says she found her stride when she lot of time thinking about the value of a college degree – and was asked to serve as regional president and lead the northwest the value of a law degree, in particular. Ohio team. “The hardest adjustment was moving from an “Thirty years ago, I had neither the vision nor the desire to advisory capacity to a decision-making capacity. Having said concentrate in a specific area of law,” she says. that, I have always been very collaborative and have had great people working with me to help me adjust to the change of “Today, law students who have an identified interest or passion roles,” says Speyer. can pursue a law degree or a joint degree, such as a JD/MBA,” says Speyer. “Combining an engineering and law degree might provide an opportunity in the area of patent law. With the “I encourage all of our UT ongoing changes in regulations, there is high demand in the undergraduate students to financial industry sector for compliance and risk professionals with strong acumen. There are a myriad of examples that, explore how law school candidly, are available at The University of Toledo.

might help them achieve the “I encourage all of our UT undergraduate students to explore goals they have, or frankly how law school might help them achieve the goals they have, or frankly the ones that they haven’t even thought of yet,” the ones that they haven’t even said Speyer. n thought of yet.” – Sharon Speyer

She most enjoys the interaction with people – colleagues, customers, and the community – that her current role affords. “The opportunity to help others, both personally and professionally, is one of the most rewarding parts of this job,” she says.

Though Speyer would have us believe her career to date has been a happy accident or a bit of luck, she cannot dispute the many accolades her passion and hard work have delivered. Two years ago, she was named the recipient of the Toledo

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“IF you pass the bar, give me a call.” This was what G. Opie Rollison ’80, then general counsel for ProMedica, a large health care network of hospitals, physicians, researchers, and specialty clinics serving northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan, told Arturo Polizzi ’97 when Polizzi Arturo Polizzi ’97 was a 3L at Toledo Law. President, Metro Region, Acute Care, After passing the bar exam as directed, Polizzi spent the next three months ProMedica Health System patiently hounding Rollison with a weekly phone call until he was invited to ProMedica for a face-to-face interview. Polizzi showed up at Rollison’s office on a Monday morning and was hired on the spot.

“No specific reason was given, but I expect my patience was a big part of it,” says Polizzi.

Almost 18 years later, Polizzi is now president of acute care for ProMedica’s metro region. He manages 5,000 people, including more than 1,000 primary care and specialty physicians. Toledo Hospital is a level one trauma facility and was recently named one of the Top 100 hospitals in the country, according to a 2016 ranking by Healthgrades.

“I use my law degree every day in my current role,” Polizzi says. “My JD was incredibly helpful in training me to think.” He also credits law school for teaching him to communicate effectively and to actively listen – two skills he finds essential in his current role. Polizzi also negotiates constantly with vendors, with physicians for services, and within the ProMedica system for resources. His training as an attorney helps him here, too.

22 Toledo Law TRANSCRIPT Polizzi began his career at ProMedica as an associate legal Polizzi is the son of Italian immigrants who moved to counsel and was quickly promoted to associate general Cleveland, Ohio, right before his birth. With a bachelor’s counsel. As a lawyer for a huge, complex health care system, degree from Miami University, he is the first in his family he was involved in a broad array of legal issues, from labor to graduate from college. He also earned an MBA from the and employment to real estate, patient care, and end-of-life University of Michigan. decisions to corporate mergers and acquisitions. Polizzi has wanted to be an attorney for as long as he can And he loved lawyering. “I thought I would be a lawyer for the remember. While at Toledo Law, he devoured business law rest of my life,” Polizzi says. courses (and met his wife, Kristen Connelly ’98 – the pair have three children, ages 14, 13, and 8). He hoped to work Then ProMedica’s new CEO, Randy Oostra, asked him to as in-house counsel for a big company after graduation move to the chief human resources role, a natural move for and had in mind an employer that would provide plenty of Polizzi and many in-house attorneys who spend a significant opportunities for professional growth and advancement. chunk of their days poring over employment laws and He found such an organization in ProMedica and has spent regulations. He accepted immediately. the last 18 years there. “It was an opportunity that I couldn’t pass up,” he says. Polizzi Is Rollison, the former ProMedica general counsel who hired enjoyed being in a leadership role from the very start. From him, surprised that Polizzi is where he is? Nope. chief human resources officer, he moved to chief operating officer and then president of ProMedica’s Toledo and Toledo “Arturo is instantly likable and immediately credible,” says Children’s Hospitals, advancing to president of acute care for Rollison, who is now a member at Marshall & Melhorn, ProMedica’s metro region in October of 2016. LLC in Toledo. “I hired him immediately knowing his job as in-house counsel was just a first step in what would be an “I hired him immediately immensely successful career.” n knowing his job as in-house counsel was just a first step in what would be an immensely successful career.” – G. Opie Rollsion

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James Nusbaum’s first job at age 15 was at the Barry Bagels on Holland-Sylvania Road in Toledo, Ohio. The year was 1985 and Nusbaum spent his shifts cutting onions, washing pans, and sweeping the store’s floors.

Flash-forward 30 years and Nusbaum is now in charge of franchising for the James Nusbaum ’95 iconic Toledo-area deli and bagel shop as CEO of Barry Bagels Franchise CEO, Barry Bagels Franchise Holdings Holdings (BBFH). As of July 2016, there are nine stores in northwest Ohio, southeast Michigan, and the Columbus and Cleveland areas, and 13 new stores in development.

When asked how often he uses skills learned in law school and practice, Nusbaum doesn’t hesitate. “Every day, every hour,” he says. “Being a lawyer is such a part of who I am, I don’t even think about it.”

To be sure, his job is steeped in contracts – franchise and vendor agreements, leases – and BBFH works with outside counsel often, but Nusbaum cites the critical thinking skills introduced at Toledo Law and honed in practice as the skills he turns to most often.

“The critical thinking skills I learned in law school are vital to the ability to determine the risk and rewards involved in everyday issues that arise in my business,” Nusbaum says.

I meet Nusbaum at the Holland-Sylvania store, which was the first Barry Bagels location opened by owner and founder Barry Greenblatt in 1972. Nusbaum introduces me to employees and gives me a tour of the freezer and kitchen. I see row after row of frozen bagels ready to be boiled in the kitchen’s huge vat of water, then baked in its massive oven. Everything smells delicious.

“I love, love, love this,” Nusbaum says of his current role. And it’s clear that he’s telling the truth. He chats about employees who have been with the company for decades and those who are just learning the shop’s many bagel and cream cheese flavors. It is evident that Nusbaum is proud of the company’s people and their philanthropic efforts – he tells me that they just provided more than 12,000 pink bagels to this year’s Komen Race for the

24 Toledo Law TRANSCRIPT Cure, topping their own pink bagel donation record from the “Law school served me well,” he says. “Thinking like a lawyer year before. is a really good approach to the business world.” Nusbaum is grateful for his Toledo Law experience and for his time as “The critical thinking skills I a practicing attorney, where he had great mentors in Jerome Phillips, Sheldon Wittenberg, Bobby Kaplan, and his father, learned in law school are vital but he finds his current role challenging and exciting. to the ability to determine the Nusbaum doesn’t spend many days at a desk. He can often be found behind the counter at Barry Bagels during the lunch risk and rewards involved in hour. He works at a store three or four days a week, usually at everyday issues that arise in the Lambertville location. Learning the food operation allows my business.” him to better assist the company’s franchisees. n – James Nusbaum “Plus,” he says, smiling, “I can make a really great sandwich.”

After graduating from Toledo Law, Nusbaum practiced with the Toledo law firm of Wittenberg, Phillips, Levy and Nusbaum for more than a decade – “doing lots of litigation.” He was elected to the Sylvania Schools Board of Education in 2003 and has served since then. In 2008, he joined Corner Dental as general counsel, where, among other things, he helped standardize the dental practice management company’s contracts and internal policies, and reviewed deeds and leases – all tasks that share some similarities with franchising work. As a friend of the Greenblatts, Nusbaum, along with founder Barry Greenblatt and his son, Mark Greenblatt, started discussing turning Barry Bagels into a franchising operation. Since the first Barry Bagels store opened its doors in 1972, all locations had been company-owned. It was decided that Nusbaum would join Barry Bagels in 2012 as CEO and co-owner of BBFH, which also operates a restaurant in Lambertville, Mich., and a manufacturing plant in southeast Michigan that provides dough to Barry Bagels and other stores. The first Barry Bagels franchise opened near Columbus, Ohio, in 2014. Several more in Columbus and Cleveland quickly followed.

“I am proud to be associated with a wonderful company,” Nusbaum says. “Barry and Mark and their employees have built a great brand, and I am very fortunate to be a part of it.”

Nusbaum’s undergraduate degree is from Indiana University, but he always knew he would return home to attend law school and follow in the footsteps of his father, Mel Nusbaum, a Toledo attorney with a 50-year career.

TRANSCRIPT Toledo Law 25 PILA AUCTION PILA

PUBLIC INTEREST LAW FELLOWSHIP BENEFIT AUCTION BY RACHEL PHIPPS

PILA HELPS FUND FELLOWSHIPS FOR FOUR YOUNG PUBLIC ADVOCATES

Daniel Carroll ’17 at his fellowship in Anchorage, Alaska.

PASSIONATE LAW STUDENTS burdened, relative to the rest of the Three students in addition to Carroll MAKE PASSIONATE LAWYERS, country, with the ravages of substance received the Toledo Law/PILA Public AND PASSIONATE LAWYERS abuse, particularly among its Native Interest Summer Fellowship in 2016. MAKE CHANGE population.” Carroll was keen to observe Brooke Baker ’17 spent the summer Law student Daniel Carroll ’17 feels first-hand the alternative means Alaska in the Saginaw County prosecutor’s certain that the criminal justice system has developed to address substance abuse office in Michigan; Daniel Gumtow can do better for defendants suffering issues in its criminal justice system – ’18 worked for the Washtenaw County from drug addiction. His interest and specifically, the Coordinated Resources public defender in Ann Arbor, Mich.; passion for the topic took him far from Program and Therapeutic Courts in and Shari Hampton ’16 joined Toledo last summer – to Anchorage, Anchorage and Juneau. Advocates for Basic Legal Equality/ Alaska, where he worked for the Office Legal Aid of Western Ohio in Toledo. He was the recipient of a College of Law/ of Public Advocacy. Hampton’s position also was funded, in PILA Public Interest Summer Fellowship, part, by the Bruce Comly French Public “I felt that I would have a proportionately as well as the Jacobs Excellence Award. Interest Fellowship and the Cooper & greater chance of making a meaningful Each included a cash award that, in part, Kowalski Public Interest Fellowship. n difference [in Alaska],” Carroll funded Carroll’s summer experience. said. “Alaska is tremendously

26 Toledo Law TRANSCRIPT SUMMER FELLOWS: THEN & NOW

The summer fellowship program has served as the starting point for many graduates’ public interest careers. We checked in with three former summer fellows. Miranda Vollmer ’12 NOW: Human Resources Manager, City of Columbus, Division of Police, Columbus, Ohio THEN: Summer 2010 fellow at City of Toledo, Department of Law, Toledo, Ohio “The Public Interest Law Fellowship afforded me the opportunity to begin my career in the field of public service. Through the fellowship, I was able to gain a lifelong mentor and career in public service. My experience with the City of Toledo Law Department sparked my interest in the labor and employment field. This interest has become my career as I gained employment in a nontraditional legal setting in human resources, where I now provide executive level human resources leadership to the Columbus Division of Police.”

Tracy Beighley ’10 NOW: Supervisory Asylum Officer, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Arlington Asylum Office, Arlington, Va. THEN: Summer 2009 Fellow at International Institute of Metropolitan Detroit and Freedom House, Detroit, Mich. “As a law student with a deep commitment to public service, I knew that I wanted to devote my legal career to helping society’s most marginalized ... As a PILA fellowship recipient, I gained invaluable immigration law experience at the International Institute of Metropolitan Detroit, a nonprofit organization that provides legal assistance to impoverished people. Additionally, the fellowship funds freed me up so that I could concurrently do a volunteer internship at Freedom House, a nonprofit organization providing legal representation for asylum seekers. While at Freedom House, I represented a client at the Chicago Asylum Office, which was later to become the locus of my first position with the federal government. I can honestly say that without the PILA fellowship, I would not be where I am today: A supervisory asylum officer at the Arlington Asylum Office.”

Niyah Walters ’15 NOW: Attorney, Ohio Legislative Service Commission, Columbus, Ohio THEN: Summer 2014 Fellow at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Sustainable Community Development Group, Washington, D.C. “The University of Toledo Public Interest Fellowship allowed me to explore my options and public interest law. That opportunity led to a public interest career, and I can’t imagine doing any other kind of work. Working in public service has allowed me to live out my dream of being an attorney while serving the community.”

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PUBLIC INTEREST LAW a condo rental in Mexico, Detroit Tigers “In addition to raising funds for our FELLOWSHIP BENEFIT AUCTION baseball tickets, naming rights to seats in summer fellowships, the auction The Public Interest Summer Fellowship the McQuade Law Auditorium, dinner provides a wonderful opportunity for Program has been part of the Toledo Law with Dean D. Benjamin Barros, and a students to interact with practicing experience for quite some time. What vintage Grateful Dead t-shirt, among attorneys and judges in a light-hearted is unique is that law students help raise others. Law student bidding became atmosphere,” said Kelly Tomlinson ’06, many of the needed funds. especially competitive for dinners and director of the Office of Professional a trivia night with professors, including Development at the College of Law. During the past 10 years, the Public a Chipotle dinner for six students with Tomlinson assists with the auction every Interest Law Association (PILA), a Professor Eric Chaffee. year and is PILA’s faculty advisor. student organization, has held the Public Interest Law Fellowship Benefit Auction, “In addition to “It has been great to see former PILA with all proceeds benefiting Toledo Law’s members and fellowship recipients return summer fellowship program. The funds raising funds for our to the law school to support the event,” raised by PILA have allowed the College summer fellowships, she added. of Law to expand its fellowship program, MARK YOUR CALENDARS! permitting more students to benefit from the auction provides summers working in the public interest The 11th Annual Public Interest sphere. Alexis Gipson-Goodnough ’17, a wonderful Fellowship Benefit Auction is scheduled current PILA president, in cooperation opportunity for for Friday, Feb. 17, 2017, in the Law with Alea Grimes ’16, past PILA Center Forum. Information about president, led the organization’s efforts students to interact tickets will be forthcoming. If you in planning the event and auction. with practicing live out of the area and would like to support the Public Interest Summer In February 2016, the 10th Annual attorneys and judges Fellowship Program, consider donating Public Interest Law Fellowship Benefit a unique item to the auction or serving Auction raised more than $9,000 to in a light-hearted as an auction sponsor. To get involved, support the program. Nearly 100 atmosphere.” please contact Kelly Tomlinson at kelly. students, alumni, faculty, staff, and [email protected] or Heather members of the community – a new – Kelly Tomlinson Karns at [email protected]. n record! – attended the auction in the Law Center Forum. Silent auction items included autographed baseballs, wine and beer The fun-filled evening included two baskets, a Kindle Fire, and a Toledo silent auctions and a live auction Law patchwork blanket, among others. featuring Professor Ken Kilbert as the Between auctions, guests mingled and auctioneer. Participants attempted to talked over appetizers and drinks. outbid each other for items, including Save the date! The 11th Annual Public Interest Law Fellowship Benefit Auction is Friday, Feb. 17, 2017! Visit our Web site or email [email protected] for details!

28 Toledo Law TRANSCRIPT TRANSCRIPT Toledo Law 29 RETIREMENT FACULTY RETIREMENT DAN STEINBOCK RETIRES BY RACHEL PHIPPS AFTER 31 YEARS ON FACULTY “Dan Steinbock’s legacy will be a very positive, long-lasting one,” said Joseph Slater, the Eugene N. Balk Professor of Law and Values. “He was a skilled, mature, and effective leader for the school during a tough time to be a law school dean in this country. He made smart decisions for our school, and did so while maintaining the highest standards of dignity and ethics, and while paying close attention to faculty and student concerns.”

“Dan demonstrated many important leadership attributes as dean, but two stand out for me,” said Kenneth Kilbert, who served as associate dean for academic affairs under Steinbock. “One, he was willing to make hard decisions. Two, he treated everyone with respect.”

“Dan successfully guided the College of Law through five of the most challenging years in legal education,” said Dean D. Benjamin Barros. “Since I joined the College of Law last summer, I have been tremendously impressed with the strength of the institution. The faculty and staff are outstanding.”

One of Steinbock’s lasting legacies will surely be the College’s fantastic faculty. During his five-year tenure as dean, the College hired 10 new, full- time faculty members. Daniel J. Steinbock, “The new faculty members hired during Dan’s tenure as dean are remarkable,” said Barros. “They put us in a great position to be successful the College’s 12th dean for years to come.”

(2011-2015), retired in May “Our graduates know what good teachers this faculty has,” said Steinbock. after 31 years on the Toledo “I went to one law school and have taught at two others, and this by far is the best teaching faculty I have been a part of. The faculty also are terrific Law faculty. During his scholars, who are involved in shaping the law and leading the profession on local, regional, national, and international levels. They are regularly sought career at Toledo Law, he out for testimony before national and state legislatures, for service on served as dean, professor, and national committees, and by the media for their opinions on current legal issues. I am proud to have played a role in hiring just about all of them.” associate dean for academic During his time as dean, Steinbock also renovated the Richard and Jane affairs. Additionally, he has McQuade Law Auditorium, the Forum, and other areas of the Law Center. held the position of Harold He accomplished all of this while remaining accessible to and engaged with faculty, students, and staff. A. Anderson Professor of Law “As dean, Dan truly had an open door policy,” said Katherine Raup and Values since 2004. O’Connell, who served as assistant dean for student affairs during Steinbock’s tenure. “Being in an office with two doors in the administrative suite – truly a room with a view – I observed and overheard bits of conversations Dan had with numerous faculty, students, staff, and alumni. I also stood beside him at numerous law school, Toledo Bar Association,

30 Toledo Law TRANSCRIPT “Faculty and staff, alumni, and other members of the UT community will remember Dan for his intellect, friendly demeanor, and for how much he cared about this institution.” – Nicole Porter

and alumni events. I am impressed with the intellectual and professional growth other matters. He displayed genuine how good-natured and even-tempered of so many of our graduates, and seeing enthusiasm and empathy for all things he is. He is consistent and fair with one how their education here has opened international,” said Collins. “He was an and all.” the door to rewarding careers,” said engaging, outstanding instructor.” Steinbock. “Getting to know our This sentiment is echoed by Rebecca graduates first as students and later as Another former student, James Knepp House ’14. “A true students’ dean, friends has been one of the best parts ’92, a magistrate for the U.S. District Dan greeted us in the halls by name, of my career.” attended functions to support student organizations, and asked for our input Steinbock received the in making the College of Law a better College of Law Outstanding place,” said House, an attorney at Professor Award, voted on Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP. by the graduating class, six times! While at Toledo “As a teacher, Dan brought personal Law, he taught Criminal experiences and anecdotes to the table Procedure, Evidence, that invigorated class discussion and Administrative Law, deepened our understanding of complex Immigration Law, and Trial topics,” she continued. “He truly cared Practice, touching the lives about students and their lives inside of thousands of students and outside of his classroom. I consider who passed through the myself very fortunate not only to have Law Center’s doors. attended the College of Law during his tenure as dean, but also to have been M. Charles Collins ’95, a member at Court for the Northern District of his student.” Eastman & Smith Ltd., was one of those Ohio, said he encounters issues from students. Collins entered law school Steinbock’s Criminal Procedure, Indeed, the school couldn’t keep in 1992 after completing an MBA and Evidence, and Administrative Law Steinbock out of the classroom. Even working overseas for several years at a classes daily in his current role. as dean, Steinbock taught several large computer services provider. “Probably the greatest compliment I can night courses. pay Dan is that, once in a while, I hear “When I met Dan, I was immediately his voice in my head as I work through a “One of the deepest and most enduring impressed with his diverse, international tough issue,” said Knepp. satisfactions of my job as both a background in assisting others with professor and dean has been observing refugee, immigration, citizenship, and

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Steinbock has taught in the American Law Program at the University of Szeged in Hungary since its inception. Before joining UT, he taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo and Seattle University.

He earned undergraduate and law degrees from Yale University. Before becoming an educator, he was a law clerk to U.S. District Judge Constance Baker Motley of the Southern District of New York, a public defender with the Legal Aid Society in state and federal courts in New York City, and associate and executive director of book chapters about refugee children, Nicole Porter, who served as Steinbock’s Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York. refugee law, search and seizure, identity associate dean for academic affairs He served as education coordinator in documentation, and data mining. for two years, calls Steinbock the best Cambodian refugee camps in Thailand boss she ever had. “Faculty and staff, for the International Rescue Committee. Steinbock also has received numerous alumni, and other members of the UT He also co-authored “Unaccompanied awards, including the Arabella Babb community will remember Dan for his Children: Care and Protection in Mansfield Award from the Toledo intellect, friendly demeanor, and for how Wars, Natural Disasters and Refugee Women’s Bar Association and The much he cared about this institution,” Movements” (Oxford University Press, University of Toledo Law Alumni she said. 1987), and its recommendations were Affiliate Outstanding Faculty Award. adopted by United Nations agencies. “I am proud and grateful for my long He has written law review articles and association with this law school,” said Steinbock. “I am thankful to all the wonderful students, staff, and faculty colleagues who I worked with along the “As a teacher, Dan brought personal way. It was a great 31 years, though it experiences and anecdotes to the seems to have gone by very quickly.” table that invigorated class discussion This summer, Steinbock assumed the rank of dean emeritus and Harold A. and deepened our understanding of Anderson Professor of Law and Values Emeritus. He is teaching Criminal complex topics.” Procedure I this fall. n – Rebecca House

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COLLEGE OF LAW FACULTY RECEIVE UNIVERSITY-LEVEL AWARDS Each year The University of Toledo honors outstanding faculty members with a variety of University awards. In April 2016, six College of Law faculty were honored with University- level awards for their teaching, scholarly work, and cross-campus involvement. Two faculty members won the University’s Outstanding Teacher Award: Shelley Cavalieri, an associate professor of law, and Benjamin Davis, a professor of law. This distinguished award has a 41-year history and honors full-time faculty members who inspire, Law and Values, and Geoffrey Rapp, Kara Bruce, a professor of law, received motivate, and challenge their students. who also serves as Harold A. Anderson the Provost’s Shining Star Award. This The most recent law faculty recipients Professor of Law and Values. This award award seeks “…to recognize and honor were Professor Joseph Slater in 2008 is designed to recognize not just research those who continuously demonstrate and Professor Beth Eisler in 2013 and scholarship, but also creativity. their commitment to excellence in teaching, challenging, and inspiring (posthumously). Rapp teaches Torts, Business our students.” This marks the first time Cavalieri teaches Property I, Property Associations, Sports Law, and Securities a law faculty member has received the II, and Land Use Planning, while Davis Regulation. Slater teaches Torts, award in its four-year history. Professor teaches Contracts, Alternative Dispute Labor Law, Employment Law, and Bruce teaches in the areas of Business Resolution, Public International Law, Employment Discrimination. Bankruptcy, Secured Transactions, and and International Business Transactions. “The awards conferred this Commercial Paper. Professors Cavalieri and Davis were “The awards conferred this year reflect among only three tenure-track year reflect that the faculty that the faculty is composed of high- professors and six faculty members to is composed of high-quality quality academics who are focused be recognized this year. “Both Professor academics who are focused on on the student experience. It makes Davis and Professor Cavalieri bring the student experience.” the College of Law a vibrant place to distinctive passion and intensity to work and a wonderful place to study the classroom,” said Associate Dean — Eric Chaffee and explore the law,” said Eric Chaffee, for Academic Affairs Geoffrey Rapp. associate dean of faculty research and “Their students have long praised their Nicole Porter, a professor of law, was development and professor of law. n individualized attention and compassion, selected as one of this year’s Dr. Alice and it is no surprise that they were Skeens Outstanding University Women. nominated for the Outstanding Teacher Selection criteria include “exceptional Award.” contribution, achievement, and involvement with the UT community; Two law professors also were among the positive attitude toward responsibilities; three faculty members honored with and active support of women’s issues the University’s Outstanding Faculty longevity…” During the award’s 19-year Research and Scholarship Award: Joseph history, Porter is the first law faculty Slater, Eugene N. Balk Professor of member to win the award. She teaches Disability Law, Criminal Law, Contracts, and Feminist Legal Theory.

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FACULTY NOTES Institutional Review Board. Cavalieri was elected vice-chair of the American Kara Bruce was was interviewed by local news Bar Association Section of Dispute awarded tenure organizations on refugee and land use Resolution and was appointed by the and promoted to the law. She also was a 2016 recipient of ABA president as a member of its rank of professor. The University of Toledo’s Outstanding Standing Committee on Law and She has joined the Teacher Award. National Security in its African Law Bankruptcy Law Initiative. He continued his service as a Eric C. Chaffee, Letter as a board member of the Society of professor of law, contributing editor, American Law Teachers, where he published and her essay, “Debt Buyers Beware: participated in the preparation of an “Collaboration Filing Proofs of Claim for Time-Barred amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court Theory: A Theory of Debt in the Eleventh Circuit and in the Fisher v. Texas II case. Davis the Charitable Tax Beyond,” appeared in the June 2016 continued his shadow reporting to the Exempt Nonprofit issue. Her most recent article, United Nations Committee Against Corporation” in the “Vindicating Bankruptcy Rights,” was Torture and the Guantanamo Bay U.C. Davis Law Review; and published in the Maryland Law Review. Military Commission Human Rights “Confounding Ockham’s Razor: Bruce received the Eastman & Smith Observer Program. He again organized a Minilateralism and International Faculty Achievement Award and was Law Career Symposium for junior high, Economic Regulation” in Brooklyn named a University of Toledo “Shining high school, and college students. Davis Journal of Corporate, Financial & Star” for her commitment to teaching. presented at UT’s Youth Nations Commercial Law. Chaffee presented at She also has been elected treasurer of the program as a country expert on France; the Association of American Law Central States Law School Association. at a Constitutional Law Refresher at the Schools Annual Meeting, the Central Bruce has continued to provide bar Spring Conference of the Ohio States Law School Association lectures on secured transactions, Association of Magistrates; and on Conference, the Ohio Securities suretyship, and other topics to Themis current arbitration issues at Penn State Conference, and the National Business Bar Review. As of spring, her lectures are Dickinson School of Law. He also Law Scholars Conference. He also now shown in 18 states nationwide. She testified on House Bill 476 (anti-BDS presented at several universities in China. and her husband welcomed their legislation) before the Ohio House He was elected chair of the Association daughter, Greta, to the world in Government Accountability and of American Law Schools Section on November 2015. Oversight Committee. He was awarded Scholarship and served as president of the University Outstanding Teacher Shelley Cavalieri, the Central States Law School Award and the Eastman & Smith associate professor of Association. He helped organize the Faculty Achievement Award. law, presented her Central States Law School Association work-in-progress Conference, the Ohio Securities Clinical Professor titled “What Can Conference, and the National Business Maara Fink served Feminists Make of Law Scholars Conference. as co-presenter with the Capabilities Professor Rob Salem Benjamin G. Davis, Approach?” during at the Association professor of law, the LatCrit annual meeting and at a of Family and published “A workshop at the Capital University Conciliation Courts Hungarian School of Law. She presented a conference in E-Learning Initiative forthcoming article on land banking at Columbus on the topic of “Mediating and Its Implications” the Annual Meeting of the Association Bullying Conflicts: Resolution or 2 IJODR (with Peter of Law, Property, and Society. She was Re-Victimization?” She and her students R. Mezei, 2015) and awarded a University of Toledo Summer continue to provide mediation services a tribute to Professor Susan Martyn in Research Award to fund her research on to community members in collaboration The University of Toledo Law Review. He land banking. She continues to serve as a with the Lucas County Juvenile and taught the Common Law of Contracts member of The University of Toledo’s Toledo Municipal Courts through the in Szeged, Hungary. Additionally, Davis Social, Behavioral, and Education

34 Toledo Law TRANSCRIPT College of Law Dispute Resolution Llewellyn Joseph 808 F.3d 1321 (Fed. Circuit 2015) Clinic. She also is responsible for linking Gibbons, professor (en banc). He had a busy year serving law students with various nonprofit of law, published on several University committees and organizations and agencies in order to “Mastering completed his term as chair of the board provide them with expanded Trademark Law” of the University of Toledo Confucius opportunities for experiential learning (People’s Court Press, Institute. Gibbons led his last Educator- through the Public Service Externship with Lars S. Smith to-Educator group (as board chair), Clinic. She is a member of the Notary and translated by consisting of a community college and Grievance Investigation Committees Zhang Nan, 2016), which was selected president, Toledo Public Schools of the Toledo Bar Association, Chair of for “Reference Books to Judges – China’s principals, and other educators who the Planned Parenthood Community and Foreign Judicial Studies Series” traveled to China. While speaking at the Leadership Council of Northwest Ohio, collection. He also wrote a book chapter China University of Political Science and and currently serves on the boards of the titled “Non-Conventional Trademarks Law, he met with students to discuss Ohio Mediation Association, Temple Under United States Law: An law school opportunities in the U.S. Shomer Emunim, the University of Unbounded New Frontier of Branding” Furthermore, he worked with the Center Toledo Law Alumni Affiliate, and the in “Global Governance of Intellectual for International Studies and Programs Adrian College Law Advisory Board. Property in the 21st Century: Reflecting to negotiate university-wide student Policy Through Change” (Springer exchange programs with Rikkyo Jelani Jefferson International Publishing, edited by Mark University (Tokyo, Japan) and Yanshan Exum, professor of Perry, 2016). Gibbons made several University (Qinhuangdao, China). law, published “The presentations: at Yeditepe University Gibbons also has spearheaded the Death Penalty on Faculty of Law in Istanbul, Turkey, on College of Law’s effort to recruit The Streets: What “Intellectual Property and Ecommerce”; international students and increase The Eighth at Zhongnan University of Economics global diversity by working to establish a Amendment Can and Law in Wuhan, China; at the long-term, cooperative relationship with Teach About Intellectual Property Rights Center for various schools. Toledo Law now has Regulating Police Use of Force” in the the International Conference on Cooperative Memorandums (CMOU) Missouri Law Review. Her article, Intellectual Property Rights Protection with Northwest University of Political “Purpose-Focused Sentencing: How and Building a Powerful IPR Country, Science and Law (Xi’an, China), Reforming Punishment Can Transform where he presented “Everything Old is Yanshan University (Qinhuangdao, Policing,” was accepted for publication New Again: Termination of Copyright China), Yeditepe University (Istanbul, in the St. John’s University School of Law Transfer Rights in the USA.” He Turkey), and Zhongnan University of Journal of Civil Rights and Economic moderated a panel and was a discussant Economics and Law (Wuhan, China). Development. Exum served as the at the International Association for Gibbons also traveled to Beijing, China, co-editor of the Federal Sentencing the Advancement and Teaching of to support the UT College of Law Moot Reporter issue on “Sentencing a Decade Intellectual Property (ATRIP) in Court Team. after Booker,” in which she also wrote Cape Town, South Africa. He also several essays. She presented two CLE gave two presentations at the Frontier lectures for the Toledo Bar Association, International IP Seminar, which was and also served as a speaker and panelist held by the IP Law Research Institute, for the Toledo Bar Association Kiroff and at the China University of Political Bench Bar Conference. Exum was a Science and Law (ranked by the Chinese guest lecturer at Adrian College in government as the country’s best law Adrian, Mich., and for the Cross Border school). Gibbons was flattered to be Institute in Mexico City. cited by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in the case In re Tam,

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Gregory M. Sherrod Brown of Ohio at a press Review. In addition, Martyn published a Gilchrist, associate conference to encourage the Senate new book chapter titled “Can Luther professor of law, Judiciary Committee to act on Judge Help Modern Lawyers Understand published “Trial Merrick Garland’s nomination to the Fiduciary Duty?” in “On Secular Bargaining” in the U.S. Supreme Court. Additionally, she Governance: Lutheran Perspectives on Iowa Law Review. taught several LSAT prep sessions at the Contemporary Legal Issues.” Gilchrist received the College of Law, and served as faculty inaugural Faculty advisor to the Constitutional Law Moot Elizabeth Scholarship Award for this article. He Court Team, the Family and Juvenile McCuskey, associate also published “Reviewing the Law Society, and OUTLaw. professor of law, was Prosecution” in the Florida Law Review named a 2016 Health as part of the Voices on Innocence Kenneth Kilbert, Law Scholar by the mini-symposium and “Bargaining for professor of law and American Society for More Trials” in The Champion (January/ director of the Legal Law, Medicine, and February 2016). Gilchrist presented at Institute of the Great Ethics. She placed the Southeastern Association of Law Lakes, organized the her forthcoming article, “Body of Schools (SEALS) Conference in Florida, 15th Annual Great Preemption: Health Law Traditions and testified on grand juries before the Ohio Lakes Water the Presumption Against Preemption,” Constitutional Modernization Conference Nov. 6, in the Temple Law Review. “Body of Commission in Columbus, Ohio, and 2015. Titled “Algae, Pipelines and More,” Preemption” was selected for moderated many panels at the College of the conference once again attracted a presentation at the American Association Law. He is presently working on an capacity crowd to McQuade Law of Law Schools 2016 Annual Meeting article regarding the procedural and Auditorium. Also, Toledo Law was program by the Section on Law and substantive challenges to individual named one of the top environmental law Medicine, and for the 39th Annual prosecutions in corporate criminal cases, programs in the nation by PreLaw Health Law Professors Conference in and has accepted an offer from the magazine (Winter 2016), the only law Boston, Mass. She also presented her University of Pennsylvania Law Review school in Ohio or Michigan so scholarship to law faculty at Indiana Online to publish his essay, “Corruption recognized. University, the University of Law After McDonnell: Not Dead Yet.” Massachusetts, and the Central States Bryan Lammon, Law Schools Association Annual Jessica Knouse, associate professor of Scholarship Conference. In addition, professor of law, law, placed his article, McCuskey was instrumental in presented a work-in- “Dizzying Gillespie: launching Toledo Law’s new JD/MPH progress titled The Exaggerated (Master in Public Health) program, “Mandatory Death of the which she co-directs. As a member of Ultrasounds and the Balancing Approach the U.S. District Court for the Northern Precession of and the Inescapable District of Ohio’s Futures Committee, Simulacra” at the Allure of Discretion in Appellate McCuskey designed and implemented a Law and Society Association’s 2015 Jurisdiction,” in the University of technology survey of all CM/ECF users, Annual Meeting in Seattle, Wash., the Richmond Law Review. the results of which have contributed to Seventh Annual Constitutional Law court policy changes. In May 2016, she Susan R. Martyn Colloquium in Chicago, and the Central , presented to the court’s Advisory Group States Law School Association Annual Distinguished regarding the ABA Futures report. Conference in Toledo, Ohio. She spoke University Professor McCuskey’s article on district court about abortion litigation with a focus on and John W. Stoepler precedent, “Submerged Precedent,” Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt at a Professor of Law & received featured reviews on the Jotwell Supreme Court Preview Panel at the Values Emeritus, Courts Law blog. College of Law, a Federalist Society placed her article, event at the College of Law, and a “Monroe Freedman’s Toledo Bar Association Federal Courts Contributions to Lawyers: Engagement, Committee Meeting. She joined Sen. Energy, and Ethics,” in the Hofstra Law

36 Toledo Law TRANSCRIPT Agnieszka McPeak, Dan Nathan, Geoffrey C. Rapp, assistant professor of clinical professor associate dean for law, published her of law, continued academic affairs article, “Social as a member of the and a Harold A. Media, Smartphones, boards of directors Anderson Professor and Proportional of three local entities: of Law and Values, Privacy in Civil Food for Thought, was one of three Discovery,” in the a nonprofit that professors across Kansas Law Review. She also placed her operates a mobile food pantry in the the University to receive the 2016 article, “Sharing Tort Liability in the Toledo area; Student Legal Services, Inc., Outstanding Faculty Research and New Sharing Economy,” in the which provides free legal services to Scholarship Award. He serves as a Connecticut Law Review. McPeak University of Toledo students; and the member of the Planning Committee presented at the Cleveland State Law Medical-Legal Partnership for Children, for the Association of American Law Review Symposium on “Regulation of an organization that addresses legal Schools Section on Associate Deans Big Data” and was invited to publish her issues that impact children’s health. In for the 2017 Annual Meeting. He related piece, “Social Data Discovery addition, Nathan served as a volunteer contributed a chapter on Tort Law to and Proportional Privacy,” in its CASA, advocating for the best interest the Oxford University Press titled special symposium issue. In September of children involved in Lucas County “Handbook of American Sports Law,” 2015, she presented at the 43rd Juvenile Court. He also volunteered for and articles on sports antitrust law in TPRC Research Conference on Children’s Rights Collaborative the Mississippi Sports Law Journal and Communications, Information, and monitoring visits for parents who are Washington and Lee Law Review Online. Internet Policy in Arlington, Va. She required by court order to be supervised He was quoted in the Financial Times, also presented her work at the Third around their children. Bleacher Report, Crain’s Cleveland Annual Junior Scholars Virtual Business, The Blade, Talk of Fame Sports Nicole Buonocore Colloquium, the Faculty Workshop Network, Court News Ohio, and Porter Series at the University of Akron School , professor of FiercePharma, and interviewed on of Law, the Central States Law School law, continues to KPCC 89.3 (a Southern California Association Conference, and the Law & publish important NPR affiliate). Society Annual Meeting in New Orleans. scholarship regarding In addition to her scholarly presentations, disability law. This Robert S. Salem McPeak taught continuing legal past year, she conducted a education programs on ethics in the published “Special workshop entitled digital age for the Toledo Bar Treatment Stigma” in the Pepperdine “The Impact of Association, Ohio Northern Petit Law Review and “The Difficulty Same-Sex Marriage College of Law, and the Henry L. Accommodating Healthcare Workers” in on Ohio’s Domestic Hartman Symposium on Law, a symposium volume of the St. Louis Relations Courts” Psychiatry, and Behavioral Science at University Journal of Health Law & Policy. (Nov. 5, 2015) for the The University of Toledo. She also accepted an offer of publication Ohio Supreme Court Judicial College in of her article, “Accommodating Columbus, Ohio. He co-presented with Kelly A. Moore Everyone,” in the Seton Hall Law Review. Professor Maara Fink at the Association has been on loan Finally, she co-authored (with Steve of Family and Conciliation Courts to central Befort, Minnesota) a disability law conference in Columbus on Nov. 7. The administration for casebook that will be published topic was “Mediating Bullying Conflicts: the past two years, by West Academic in the fall. She Resolution or Re-Victimization?” He with one year as a presented during three sessions at the also participated as a commentator for vice provost and one Southeastern Association of Law Schools’ Capital Law School’s Annual John E. as interim dean of annual conference in August 2015 in Sullivan Lecture on Nov. 12, 2015. The the Jesup Scott Honors College. He Florida. Porter also was nominated and topic of the lecture, given by Professor returns to the law faculty in fall 2016. selected for The University of Toledo Dorothy Roberts of the University of Women’s Commission Outstanding Pennsylvania Law School, was Woman Award.

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“Interracial Marriage and Racial Joseph E. Slater, The Labor & Employment Law Moot Court Equality: The Role of Residential Eugene N. Balk Team, which advanced in its competition Segregation.” Salem’s commentary was a Professor of Law and this year. He made various media comparison of the legal and social Values, saw new appearances regarding matters barriers for interracial couples post- editions of both his concerning labor and employment law, Loving v. Virginia and same-sex couples casebooks published and will be on sabbatical in the fall of post – Obergefell v. Hodges. He also in 2016: “Public 2016. In his spare time, he enjoys offered an analysis of the Obergefell Sector Employment: watching his son Isaac perform in plays decision at the Toledo Bar Association Cases and Materials” (West Publishing, and musicals. Domestic Relations Seminar on Nov. 13, 3rd ed., 2016, with Marty Malin, Ann 2015. Salem spoke to all second-year Hodges, and Jeffrey Hirsch); and Lee J. Strang was medical students at The University of “Modern Labor Law in the Private and named the John W. Toledo Medical Center about patient Public Sectors: Cases and Materials” Stoepler Professor privacy and disclosure of patient records (Carolina Academic Press, 2nd ed., 2016, of Law & Values, Nov. 16. On March 28, 2016, he in with Seth Harris, Anne Lofaso, and and delivered an presented to the Lucas County Bar Charlotte Garden). He also published a installation lecture, Association regarding the legal review essay, “Jeffrey Kahana, The “Public Universities as challenges facing the LGBTQA Unfolding of Labor Law: Judges, Places of Constrained community after the legalization of Workers and Public Policy Across Two Debate: A Home for People of Good same-sex marriage, focusing primarily Political Generations, 1790-1850” (2014), Will, Including Religious People,” at the on Religious Freedom Restoration Acts. 10 NYU Journal of Law & Liberty 404 College of Law. He was a Visiting Salem was invited by the Maumee Valley (2016). He continues to contribute to the Scholar at the Georgetown Center for Country Day School Board of Directors online journal Jotwell (Journal of Things the Constitution during the fall semester, to consult on accommodations for We Like a Lot), recommending labor where he completed a draft of his book, transgender students. He also presented and employment law articles from junior “Aretaic Originalism: Originalism’s on the social justice mission of law scholars. In the spring, he received the Promise and Limits.” Strang published schools to undergraduate students at Outstanding Faculty Research and “Originalism’s Subject Matter: Why the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Scholarship Award (chosen from the Declaration of Independence is Not Part Salem was interviewed July 8, 2016, by entire University faculty). He has spoken of the Constitution” in the Southern 13ABC news discussing LGBTQA at a variety of conferences during the California Law Review, and “State Court anti-discrimination laws. He past year. He presented the paper, “The Judges Are Not Bound by U.S. Supreme collaborated with the Toledo Public History of Public-Sector Labor and the Court Nonoriginalist Interpretations” in Defender’s Office and The University of Friedrichs Case,” at the City University a symposium issue of the Florida Toledo Department of Social Work to of New York “Public Sector Unions on International University Law Review. develop a new service model for criminal the Line”; was a senior commentator on Strang also placed his article, “How defendants. Currently, he serves on the the panel “New and Emerging Voices in Big Data Increases Originalism’s boards of the Toledo Bar Association, Workplace Law” at the AALS Annual Methodological Rigor: Using Corpus Toledo Fair Housing Center, Toledo Conference; gave a talk at the Case Linguistics to Recover Original Public Defender’s Office, Equality Western Reserve University Law School’s Language Conventions,” with the U.C. Toledo, the Ohio Advisory Committee American Constitution Society program Davis Law Review, and contributed for the U.S. Department of Civil Rights, on Friedrichs v. California Teachers’ Ass’n; “The Incorporation Doctrine’s Costs and and the Development Advisory Council was a panelist in a discussion of “Joint Benefits: A Cautionary Note for the for Advocates for Basic Legal Equality. Employer Status, Franchisors & European Union” to a symposium issue Franchisees – Paying the Cost to be the of the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Boss?” at the Bernard Gottfried Studies, which he also presented at an Memorial Labor Law Symposium; and international conference in Budapest, gave the keynote address at the New Hungary. Strang presented at 19 lectures, England Consortium of State Labor debates and symposia in the course of Relations Agencies 15th Annual the year, including at the Georgetown Conference. He continues to coach the

38 Toledo Law TRANSCRIPT Law Center. He also presented at Society and The Conservative will be published in the Yale Law & numerous civic events. Strang served as Counterrevolution” appeared in Law & Policy Review Inter Alia this year, and faculty advisor to the Christian Legal Society Review. She also presented at the “The Equal Protection Component of Society, the Law Review, and the Annual Meeting of Law and Society Legislative Generality” will be published Federalist Society. Association, at the Second Annual in the Richmond Law Review in early Salmon P. Chase Lecture and 2017. “The Equal Protection Component” Daniel J. Steinbock Colloquium at Georgetown Law School, was selected for presentation at the retired from the at the Loyola University Constitutional Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty College of Law Law Colloquium, and at the Annual Forum at Yale Law School. In addition faculty in June, but Meeting of the Labor and Employment to presenting his work at the Junior will teach Criminal Law Colloquium. Zietlow was featured Faculty Forum, Zoldan presented his Procedure during fall in an AALS monthly newsletter current research, which relates to semester (see story regarding the Section on Constitutional legislation and constitutional law, at a p. 30). While on Law and will be featured in a future number of academic conferences and leave during the 2015-16 academic year, article about the AALS Section on workshops, including the AALS Annual he taught at the University of Szeged Women in Law. She is chair of the Meeting, the Legislation Roundtable at (Hungary) and the University of Silesia AALS’s Section on Women in Legal Cardozo Law School, The Ohio State (Poland), and volunteered with the Education, chair-elect of the AALS University Moritz College of Law, American Bar Association Rule of Law Section on Constitutional Law, and was Northeastern University’s Legal Initiative in Egypt and Bahrain (see appointed by Sen. Sherrod Brown of Scholarship 4.0 workshop, the Loyola story p. 8). Ohio to the Judicial Commission for the Chicago Constitutional Law Selection of the Next Judge in the Colloquium, and the Central States Rebecca E. Zietlow, Southern District of Ohio. Annual Scholarship Conference. Zoldan the Charles W. also served as moderator of the AALS Fornoff Professor of Evan C. Zoldan, Annual Meeting Section on Legislation Law and Values, associate professor of & Law of the Political Process, New placed several articles law, published two Voices Panel. Zoldan’s scholarship was for publication. Her articles in 2016. “The cited in a number of scholarly journals article, “James Civil Ex Post Facto and in Wright & Miller’s Federal Ashley, the Great Clause” was Practice & Procedure. His professional Strategist,” will appear in the published in the activities include serving as treasurer of Georgetown University Journal of Law Wisconsin Law Review the AALS Section on Legal History and and Policy; “The Constitutional Right to and “Congressional Dysfunction, Public as an executive committee member of Organize” will appear in “Vulnerability, Opinion, and the Battle Over the the AALS Section on Legislation & Law Employment and Labor (Gender in Law, Keystone XL Pipeline” was published in of the Political Process. He also taught a Culture, and Society)” (Martha and the Loyola University Chicago Law short course on Civil Procedure at the Jonathan Fineman, forthcoming 2016); Journal. He also placed two pieces University of Szeged, Hungary. Finally, “A Positive Right to Free Labor” appeared this year. “Bank Markazi and the he served as interim faculty advisor for in the Seattle University Law Review; and Undervaluation of Legislative Generality” the Toledo Law Review. a review of “Amanda Hollis-Brusky, Ideas with Consequences: The Federalist

TRANSCRIPT Toledo Law 39 ALUMNI ALUMNI NEWS LAVALLEY LAW LIBRARY AND BUSSERT CLASSROOM RENOVATIONS COMPLETED

Rick Goheen, assistant dean for the LaValley Law Library, may need an additional title – assistant dean for facilities and construction. Dean Goheen supervised not one, but two College of Law renovations last summer.

The renovations occurred in the LaValley Law Library’s fourth floor mezzanine and the Christopher and Peggy Bussert Classroom on the main floor of the Law Center.

Previously, the LaValley Law Library’s mezzanine housed the Library’s law review collection. With so many law reviews now available online, the bound volumes were removed to create a larger study space. The new space features 48 individual study carrels, including 12 carrels that can be raised and Funding for the mezzanine renovations filled podium and two 75-inch Smart ™ lowered to accommodate students in came from the estate of Charles Buck, a Boards – the largest in the building. A wheelchairs or students wishing to 1951 alumnus of the College of Law. nearly floor-to-ceiling whiteboard will be ™ stand. There also will be clusters of between the two Smart Boards . The Christopher and Peggy Bussert arm chairs arriving later this fall for Classroom (Room 1002) was redesigned “The library has always been in the students who prefer to study in to create a more intimate classroom business of connecting people with this setting. space with top-notch technology. information, and it seems that every The mezzanine now has an airy Named for the couple, Chris ’83 and his day there are new and different ways to feeling. There are a few low wife, Peggy ’82, the room now seats 54 acquire or deliver that information,” said bookshelves that house bar journals students with plentiful power outlets Goheen. “So we’re putting less emphasis and other periodicals, which now for laptops, tablets, and smartphones. It on the package the information comes expose the previously-hidden also benefits from new desks, chairs, and in and focusing more on creating skylights in the roof. There also is UT-emblazoned carpet. Like the library comfortable and effective spaces where soft lighting, which is controlled mezzanine, the room also features soft, our students can access that information by motion sensors to conserve energy-efficient lighting. and learn how to use it.” energy. Carrels and seating areas Additionally, faculty will benefit from a “We think the new Bussert classroom are thoughtfully spaced so no number of high-tech teaching tools that and the new Law Loft are outstanding one feels crowded. will be installed during fall semester. examples of those kinds of spaces, and They can utilize both a technology- we look forward to creating more of them,” Goheen said. n

40 Toledo Law TRANSCRIPT FORE! THE 17TH ANNUAL STOEPLER MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP GOLF OUTING

Each summer Toledo Law alumni and friends share an afternoon of golf and camaraderie to honor the late Dean John W. Stoepler and support the memorial scholarship in his name.

This year was no different. On June 13, the 17th Annual John W. Stoepler Memorial Scholarship Golf Outing took place on a lovely summer day at Belmont Country Club in Perrysburg. Foursomes competed in an 18-hole scramble, and awards were presented not just to the winning team, but also for the longest drive and the shot closest to the pin. The winning foursome this year was comprised of Kurt Bruderly ’07, Steve Hartman ’01, Karl Strauss ’06, and Adam Nightingale ’05. Their final score was 63, so the competition – while friendly – was stiff.

A dinner reception attended by golfers, alumni, friends of Toledo Law, and members of the Stoepler family followed the afternoon on the green. During the reception, William G. Meyer ’76 received the Henry B. Herschel Commitment Award, which recognizes a Toledo Law alumnus or alumna who espouses professional integrity and community involvement. Formerly known as the Commitment Award, it was renamed the Henry B. Herschel Commitment Award in memory of share some remarks about how the college. Additionally, Rebecca Shope Hank Herschel ’67, a close friend of scholarship made an impact. Elizabeth ’08 attended the dinner and shared a Stoepler who gave his time to public Ellison ’17, recipient of the 2015-16 personal story about how much the service and mentoring prior to his Stoepler Memorial Scholarship, sent a scholarship meant to her both when she death in 2013. statement conveying her gratitude. received it and now, a number of years “This scholarship has helped me shift my after graduation. Stoepler Scholarship proceeds help worries from paying for my education Toledo Law students manage the costs to focus 100 percent on advancing my Save the date and plan to attend the next of their legal educations. It has been the legal education,” wrote Ellison. She is a Stoepler golf outing on June 9, 2017! n practice to invite a scholarship recipient full-time law student from Detroit and to the dinner and ask the recipient to the first member of her family to attend

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TOLEDO LAW HONORS JAMES THOMAS ’87 WITH 2015 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD

The University of Toledo College of Law and the Law Alumni Affiliate recognized James D. Thomas ’87, a partner in the Columbus and Cleveland offices of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, with the Distinguished Alumni Award during the University’s Homecoming Gala Friday, Oct. 9, 2015.

Thomas has more than 25 years of experience as a trial attorney and previously served as a U.S. Magistrate Judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Before joining Vorys, he was a partner with Squire Patton Boggs in Miami, Fla., where he led the global litigation practice group for many years. He currently focuses on complex civil, business restructuring, internal investigations, ERISA, and construction litigation.

Thomas has a passion for teaching and mentoring. In September 2015, Thomas facilitated a two-day, non-credit bearing leadership program for nominated students at the College of Law. The program covered topics including conceptual leadership principles, along with specific “hands-on” topics and used case studies for analysis and discussion. Students found the course so valuable that it was offered as a for-credit flex course in fall 2016.

Thomas graduated from Toledo Law, where he was editor-in-chief of The University of Toledo Law Review, in 1987. He also earned a To submit a nomination for the 2017 Distinguished bachelor’s degree from Adrian College. Alumni Award, please email Heather Karns at Sharon Speyer ’85 recently received the 2016 Distinguished Alumni [email protected]. Award. She will be recognized in next year’s edition of the Transcript. n

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ANTHONY D. SICILIANO (’00) added that he was fortunate to have had recalled, Tony was a very easy-going passed away Feb. 16, 2016, at age 43 Tony as a supervisor and friend. After person. He was the person everyone from complications resulting from cystic graduating from the College of Law, noticed and wanted to be around. He fibrosis. The loves of Tony’s life were his Tony went to work for the Department thought work should be more fun, and wife Debi and daughter Quin. They lived of Commerce, most recently as a this sentiment was evident in the work in Columbus. While the Toledo native chief counsel for the Ohio Division of he did – and the way he made others struggled with CF his entire life, Financial Institutions. Matt joined the feel about coming to work. His smile, it did not define him. People remember Department of Commerce in 2011 and approachability, and humor will be his sense of humor and positive worked as Tony’s right-hand man, with greatly missed. approach to absolutely everything, the two becoming good friends. When noted Matthew Walker (’04), who he first began working with Tony, Matt

42 Toledo Law TRANSCRIPT BOB JAMESON by Lynn Ingram, ’96 Some lawyers are so much more than just contagious. In fact, many of my best defender and operated a popular and lawyers. Nobody exemplified this more memories of law school involve Bob’s successful private practice. As we all than my friend, Bob Jameson. huge smile and great laugh, the way he expected, the judges loved him, the would slap his knee, and how he wiped lawyers loved him, his clients loved him, I met Bob during orientation week at tears from his eyes when something was and the community at large loved him. The University of Toledo College of Law extremely funny. His ability and reputation as an attorney nearly 25 years ago (August 1993). And, were matched only by his ability and as anyone who knew him understands, But more importantly, Bob made me reputation as a husband, father, son, and my life was instantly better. and everyone around him feel like we friend. Bob accomplished everything he were special. He was larger than life Bob was one of those guys who was a had dreamed of, and all of us were the already, lighting up every room. He lawyer from the first day of law school. beneficiaries. had an enthusiastic handshake and a He may not have had his license yet, but magnetic personality, not to mention a Last month, Bob passed away. When I he was a lawyer. Law school was just a knack for making you feel like you were heard the news, it took my breath away. formality. the only person in the room when he was It hurt. I can’t begin to imagine what it He came from a family of lawyers and talking to you. None of it was forced or feels like for his family and all those who judges, and he just “got it.” While the fake. That’s just who he was. He loved loved and continue to love him the most. rest of us were still acting like college everyone and would give you the shirt off But I know one thing – everyone who kids trying to find our way, Bob was his back if you needed it. Bob was, quite loved Bob was loved back deeply. Our carrying a briefcase, holding down a simply, a wonderful human being. lives are forever enriched. With Bob now job, and raising a family. It was hard for advocating for us in another capacity, we All this spilled into his practice after the rest of us to imagine, but he did it can rest assured we’re in good hands. we graduated. Again, while the rest of gracefully, never missing a beat. us were trying to find our way, Bob Thank you, Bob, for all the joy brought Of course, Bob also knew how to come hit the ground running. He blended to me and others. I love you, brother. down to our level when the moment seamlessly into the legal community in Rest in peace. called for it. He knew how to have his hometown of Adrian, Mich., where a good time and his zest for life was he became a Lenawee County public

COLLEGE OF LAW MOURNS PASSING OF RICHARD LAVALLEY ’53

Richard LaValley, Sr., a 1953 alumnus of the College of Law and a well- known Toledo attorney, tax expert, educator, and philanthropist, died Sept. 4, 2015. He was 86. LaValley was the founding partner at the LaValley, LaValley, Todak, and Schaeffer law firm in Sylvania, where he worked from 1971 until retiring in 2009. Before that, he worked for several Toledo-area accounting and law firms. He was active in the Toledo Law community. The LaValley Law Library at the College of Law is named after him in recognition of a generous donation. Early in his career, he taught federal income tax at the College of Law. He also served as president of The University of Toledo Alumni Association and in 1997 received the college’s Distinguished Alumnus Award.

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IN MEMORIAM Carlos A. Cordova ’49 8/27/12 Sara Elena Rios ’85 9/10/15 John Emil Cereso ’03 5/28/14 William Eldon Winson ’58 9/24/15 Wendell R. Jones ’85 6/17/14 Richard Godfrey Hyer ’72 10/01/15 Harold Scheer ’43 6/25/14 E. L. Jermann ’56 10/04/15 Bert Joyce Warrick ’64 6/27/14 Paul A. McCrory Jr. ’64 10/04/15 Walter Albert Hoff ’76 7/18/14 Marcia S. Gurecky ’86 10/11/15 Harry Michael Welsh ’66 7/18/14 Ronald David Goodman ’79 10/16/15 Frank Michael Carrozza Jr. ’71 7/21/14 Kenneth Thomas Kujawa ’71 10/17/15 Visalakshi R. Gembala ’05 8/07/14 John Blair Webster ’81 10/28/15 Matthew Charles Runkle ’07 8/19/14 Dominic Mario Bruno ’64 10/29/15 Gregory B. Siegel ’84 8/23/14 Michael Prephan Sr. ’68 11/09/15 Terrance Lee Ryan ’76 9/05/14 Ann D. Hamilton ’77 11/26/15 Paul Edward Accettola ’75 10/24/14 Renee Louise Potts ’89 1/05/16 Michael Theodore Young ’83 11/01/14 Alexander J. Conn ’08 1/06/16 Michael Jon Ellerbrock ’79 11/19/14 Anthony David Siciliano ’00 2/16/16 Roger Neil Clark ’67 12/17/14 John Daniel Baker Jr. ’81 2/18/16 Joseph Henry Shaw Jr. ’75 1/01/15 Ronald Lynn Langenderfer ’90 3/21/16 Carole Ann Kieffer ’87 1/01/15 Ronald Kotwica ’72 3/29/16 Roger Sobel Blair ’68 1/25/15 Morton E. Leveton ’55 4/19/16 William K. Bass ’89 2/09/15 William Wallace Erb ’57 4/21/16 David Frank Wiley ’63 3/07/15 Thomas R. Michalski ’63 5/01/16 Thomas E. Bunch ’80 3/12/15 Russell Irving Sturgill ’53 5/09/16 John Marshall Ford ’75 3/21/15 Eugene R. Alexander ’66 5/13/16 William E. Pfau III ’78 5/11/15 David Richard Taylor III ’74 5/15/16 Kent David Nord ’93 6/23/15 Travis Brett Robertson ’08 5/25/16 Richard Arnold Heuerman ’56 6/27/15 Frank P. Barker III ’71 5/30/16 Nicholas Dreher Batt ’76 7/04/15 Larry Prescott Farnham ’76 6/04/16 Charles H. Ellerbrock ’86 7/11/15 Dennis F. Keller ’74 6/12/16 David James Fickel ’78 7/21/15 William Joseph Brenner ’76 6/17/16 William Harry Mikesell ’50 7/21/15 Louis M. Zavac ’68 7/12/16 Thomas Michael Connolly ’77 7/24/15 Michael Gerald Sanderson ’81 7/19/16 William Fred Bates ’69 8/18/15 Robert E. Jameson ’96 7/27/16 Edward Francis Zoltanski ’58 8/21/15 Edwin J. Klag ’41 8/16/16 Peter Henry Barber ’78 8/22/15 Louis Joseph Yoppolo ’80 8/23/16 Richard Gerard LaValley, Sr. ’53 9/04/15 Thomas Edward McGrail ’76 9/01/16

44 Toledo Law TRANSCRIPT CLASS NOTES – FALL 2016

It has been a few years since we have included Class Notes in the Transcript, but we plan for you to see more of these updates in issues to come. Updates also will be made quarterly online at utoledo.edu/law/alumni/news.html.

Lynne N. Clark started life. He has supported the 1973 1976 her own law firm, Lynne land conservancy for the past N. Clark, PC, in 1991. Her decade and more recently Gary Farmer, Sr. William Meyer with the received practice is limited to estate served on its board and firm Farmer, Jaffe, Weissing, the Jack Schlageter Award planning and administration. executive committee. Edwards, Fistos & Lehrman, from the Roman Catholic PL, was recognized in the Diocese of Toledo in 2014, Roderick 2017 edition of Best Lawyers recognizing his volunteer 19 Kennedy was in America© for his work work on behalf of those in 79 sworn in as the in appellate practice. Also need. In June 2016, Bill Robert Eddy has joined the new chief a previous Best Lawyers® received the Henry Herschel law firm of Shumaker, Loop judge of the designee, Farmer, Sr. served Commitment Award from & Kendrick, LLP in New Mexico as an Appellate judge from The University of Toledo Toledo, Ohio. Court of Appeals in 2013. 1991 to 2010 in the Fourth College of Law Alumni Darryl Hines He is currently the second- District Court of Appeals. Affiliate. is pursuing a most senior judge in the state full-time art of New Mexico and will career and retire from his position as 1974 1978 has been judge on the New Mexico Court of Appeals in Thomas M. Wochok was Paul D. Hancock is the represented by November 2016 after also awarded an Executive recipient of the Ohio Legal the Besharat Gallery, the serving as chief judge from Certificate in Negotiation in Assistance Foundation’s 2016 Lona Gallery, and an artists’ 2013-15. While in Washington July 2016 after completing Presidential Award for Pro co-op fittingly named the for a forensic meeting in a three-course program on Bono Service. The award Dizzy Gypsy. His work has 2013, he was sworn in before negotiation and conflict was presented at the Duke been shown as part of a juried the U.S. Supreme Court bar, management at the University Energy Convention Center group show at the Edison- moved by then-Assistant of Notre Dame’s Mendoza in Cincinnati during the Pepco Gallery in Washington, Secretary of the Interior College of Business. Ohio State Bar Association’s D.C. He also has been invited for Indian Affairs Kevin All-Ohio Legal Forum to participate in various artist Washburn. Last year he in April. The Presidential residencies abroad. completed a term on the Award is presented annually 1975 Board of Directors for the to individuals, law firms, or John F. Gillespie is an American Academy of organizations that have made 19 attorney and chief financial 80 Forensic Sciences and now outstanding contributions officer at Hollingsworth & Joe Engel serves on its ethics committee. to improving access to legal Zivitz, PC in Carmel, Ind. began work as He also serves on the board representation through pro the executive of the International Board of bono or volunteer service to director for Forensic Engineering Sciences, low-income Ohioans. the Land is currently re-writing a Michael A. Cline, partner Conservancy chapter on expert witnesses with Vorys, Sater, Seymour of West Michigan in July for a textbook on scientific and Pease LLP, has been 2016. He has been involved evidence, co-authored a included on the 2017 Best in numerous environ- chapter on scientific Lawyers in America© list in mental and conservation jurisprudence in the AAFS the specialty of corporate law. organizations throughout his book on forensic science, as

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well as an article on the U.S. Christopher J. by the National Trial Lawyers Business Excellence Hall of legal system in Elsevier’s Weber was Association. In addition to Fame in 2015. Sharon was Medical-Legal Encyclopedia, elected to this recognition, Mack has selected as The University and continues to work with succeed been chosen by the National of Toledo College of Law’s the New Mexico Supreme Michael E. Association of Distinguished Distinguished Alumna Court’s courthouse security Zatezalo as Counsel for its “Nation’s Top in 2016. committee. What are his managing director of Kegler Attorneys” recognition for plans after retiring? His first Brown Hill + Ritter, one of the second consecutive year. trip will be to the grave of the largest law firms in He was selected for the 1986 Judge Roy Bean in Del Rio, central Ohio. In addition to sixth consecutive year by Thomas P. Higginsis Texas. his new responsibilities, Pennsylvania Super Lawyers senior counsel of legal & Weber, a Litigation Counsel magazine for inclusion in Douglas M. Kennedy is compliance for the Great of America fellow and its Super Lawyers list. Mack a partner with the firm of American Insurance Group seasoned trial lawyer, will is owner and partner in the Roetzel and Andress. He was in Cincinnati, Ohio. He continue to focus on assisting Indiana-based law firm of recently named among The began in January 2016. clients in professional Marcus & Mack, PC. Best Lawyers in America© for Tom oversees the company’s responsibility and legal ethics 2017 in the areas of litigation life insurance and annuity issues, as well as civil – labor and employment. litigation; drafts agent, litigation matters. The Best 1984 agency, broker-dealer, and © Lawyers in America Denise M. Hasbrook is a vendor agreements; reviews 1981 identified him as its 2015 partner with the firm Roetzel and approves advertising Lawyer of the Year in and Andress. He was recently and marketing materials; William H. Hrabak, Jr. Columbus for professional named among the Best and facilitates intellectual recently celebrated his malpractice law and as its Lawyers in America© for 2017 property filings and special 25th year with the law firm 2014 Lawyer of the Year in the area of employment investigative unit actions. of Goldstine, Skrodzki, in Columbus for ethics law – management. Russian, Nemec and Hoff, and professional Brian Kerns is a shareholder Ltd., located in Burr Ridge, responsibility law. with the Cleveland civil Ill., where he is a partner defense firm of Bonezzi in commercial litigation, 1985 Switzer Polito and Hupp. specializing in a trial and 1983 Patty Wise will serve The firm has multiple appellate practice in Cook on a panel led by EEOC locations throughout Ohio. Kirk G. Warner is a partner County, Ill. Commissioner Chai He heads the Medina, with Smith Anderson and Feldblum at the ABA Section Ohio, office. He also will was selected for inclusion of Labor and Employment become president of the in the 2017 edition of the 19 Law Conference in Chicago Ohio Association of Civil 82 © Best Lawyers in America in November. Commissioner C. Ray Mullins was inducted Trial Attorneys (OACTA) in the areas of bet-the- Feldblum and four members into the Bowling Green in November 2016. He is company litigation, of the Select Task Force on Academy of Distinguished currently vice president of commercial litigation, and the Study of Harassment in Alumni during a ceremony the Medina County Bar product liability litigation – the Workplace will discuss at Bowling Green State Association. defendants. the task force report and ideas University in late September. Sheila Nolan Gartland, Jonathan for “rebooting” harassment partner with Vorys, Sater, Mack has been prevention efforts. Seymour and Pease LLP, has selected as one Sharon Speyer received the been included on the 2017 of the top 100 YWCA Milestones Award in Best Lawyers in America© trial lawyers in 2015 and also was awarded a list in the area of real Pennsylvania Lifetime Achievement Award estate law. by The Entrepreneurial &

46 Toledo Law TRANSCRIPT capacity, he is the national 1987 technical manager, auto 1991 1993 liability/general liability, Terrence S. Finn Gary Farmer, Colleen McGushin has is a partner for The Hanover Insurance Jr. joined McGuireWoods with the firm Roetzel and Group. , of Farmer, Andress. He was recently Jaffe, Weissing, LLP as senior manager of named among the Best Edwards, communications. The firm is Lawyers in America© for 19 Fistos & based in Charlotte, N.C. 2017 in the areas of 88 Lehrman, PL, environmental law and Anne Schoepfle practiced was recognized in the area of litigation – environmental. law for 25 years representing mass tort litigation/class 1996 plaintiffs in medical actions-plaintiffs. He has James D. Lori Olender is deputy chief malpractice actions and is been profiled in Best Thomas is a and the head of the juvenile now a legal nurse consultant Lawyers©. During the past partner in the division in the Lucas County with The Hanover Insurance decade, Farmer, Jr. has been litigation Prosecutor’s Office. She Group, Inc. in Michigan. at the forefront of high-profile group of Vorys, has been a Lucas County consumer litigation in Florida Sater, Seymour Carolyn M. Jereck, an prosecutor for 19 years. attorney with Plunkett and across the country. He and Pease LLP, with his Myron C. Duhart is Cooney, was recently named has served as lead counsel in principal office in Columbus, pursuing an LLM from Duke one of the 2016 Women in some of the largest qui tam Ohio. He also maintains and University School of Law the Law by Michigan Lawyers recoveries in U.S. history. works out of the firm’s in judicial studies and is a Weekly, a publication serving Cleveland office. His practice judge in the Lucas County the state’s legal industry. is focused on complex civil Common Pleas Court. litigation. In addition to Jereck is a member of 1992 his practice, he speaks to a Plunkett Cooney’s litigation Joseph E. Herbert is a variety of organizations about and labor and employment partner with the firm Roetzel practice groups. She is also 1997 leadership and professional and Andress. He was recently development and also a founding member of the named among the Best Kurmmell W. Knox is has focused a number of firm’s Women’s Leadership Lawyers in America© for CEO of New Dimension presentations on developing Committee. Jereck 2017 in the area of medical Logistics, LLC, (NDLX) women as leaders in the legal concentrates her practice malpractice law – defendants. which is an international in the areas of employment freight forwarding company. profession. This fall he was David Levin law, retail liability, premises is the managing Headquartered in Taylor, a presenter for the Ohio attorney of the Midwest office Women’s Bar Foundation liability, loss prevention Mich., NDLX provides litigation, liquor liability of the law offices of Todd logistics support for OEM Leadership Institute and M. Friedman. He handles taught a for-credit course on and product liability. automotive manufacturers consumer rights litigation, and their supplier base. leadership for the law school. Shane A. Farolino is a employment litigation and Jim was selected as The partner with the firm of class actions for plaintiffs Ann Erickson Gault started University of Toledo College Roetzel and Andress. He was in Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, her own practice in February of Law’s Distinguished recently named among the Michigan, Wisconsin, and 2016. She specializes in legal © Alumnus for 2015. Best Lawyers in America West Virginia. The firm also writing, appeals, overflow Patrick Hermesmann is for 2017 in the areas of has offices in California and work for other lawyers, and brigadier general in the environmental law and Pennsylvania. unbundled services. U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. litigation – environmental. He recently relinquished command of 4th Marine Logistics Group, New Orleans. In his civilian

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Andrea Prior to that time, he ran Toledo’s Law Department. arbitration, and licensure Kimball was the Michigan Attorney In addition to his post- hearings throughout recently named General Office’s criminal conviction responsibilities as Kentucky. Dzenitis Newman vice president appeals division and argued an appellate prosecutor, he also provides regulatory and & general a winning case in the United also is a member of the cold risk management services. counsel of States Supreme Court. case unit and works as lead Emily Wilcheck of Roetzel Sporting Kansas City. Before trial counsel for complex and and Andress has been joining Sporting Kansas City, high profile criminal cases. nominated to the Ohio she was a Dentons U.S. LLP Outside the legal profession, 2001 Women’s Bar Association partner at the Kansas City he has a second job as a high Kari Schlaff recently opened (OWBA) Board of Trustees. office for six years specializing school and collegiate football her own law firm to help Wilcheck, an associate in in complex commercial official and is currently individuals navigate family Roetzel’s Toledo office, was litigation and intellectual officiating NCAA Division law courts. She enjoys helping nominated as vice president property. Kimball was a II and Division III football people through difficult times of the Board of Trustees. This partner at Luce, Forward, games. in their lives. will be her third year as an Hamilton & Scripps in San officer of the OWBA Board Diego, Calif., from 1999- of Trustees. 2010 after serving a two-year 2002 2004 judicial clerkship in the Gregory S. Reichenbach is a United States District Court. Gerald L. Trepkowski is senior associate general trial attorney from Bluffton, 2005 Ohio, who represents poor Kimball resides in the counsel at The Johns Timothy Lusch spent 10 and working class Ohio Northland area of Kansas Hopkins University Applied years as a prosecutor in consumers. He focuses City and is actively involved Physics Laboratory, which Michigan and is now a on litigation of collection in the local community is a university-affiliated full-time writer. His work defense cases and bringing through coaching youth research center for the U.S. has appeared in Saint Austin individual and class action sports. She is an advisory Department of Defense. Review, New Oxford Review, claims against debt collectors, board member at WIN for He works on government New English Review, and used automobile dealers, KC, an affiliate of the Kansas contract issues in areas Crisis. He is working on financial institutions, and City Sports Commission such as national security science fiction and mystery other businesses who engage and has been on the KC and emerging technology short stories. He blogs at in unfair and deceptive acts. Legal Board of Directors and exploration, including pityitspithy.com. since 2011. Kimball also is NASA’s upcoming mission to Greg and his family are Charles Herman of Charles a member of the Women the sun, Solar Probe Plus. moving to Wood County, Athletes Business Network Ohio, near Perrysburg in Herman Law opened an and the Central Exchange of December. office in Toledo, Ohio. His main area of concentration Kansas City. 20 Emily W. Newman 03 is labor and employment started her own law firm, Frank Spryszak is in his law on behalf of employees, Dzenitis Newman, PLLC in ninth year of employment including discrimination 1999 Louisville, Ky., in January in the Lucas County claims, civil rights claims, Joel McGormley has spent 2016. Dzenitis Newman, (Toledo, Ohio) Prosecutor’s severance agreement the last four years as the PLLC is a five-lawyer, full Office and is assigned to negotiation, and wrongful first managing director of service, health care law the appellate division. termination. the NCAA’s Office of the Prior to his employment firm representing hospitals, Committees on Infractions, in Lucas County, he was doctors, long-term care managing the NCAA’s an assistant prosecuting facilities, and other health internal infractions process. attorney for the City of care providers in litigation,

48 Toledo Law TRANSCRIPT Jessica Wilson 2007 2008 2010 joined Skarlatos- Jennifer Swiech Brent Bondy Liz (Lefond) Todd is vice is patent and Zonarich LLC Seney president, chief compliance counsel for Magna married in 2013 and in Harrisburg, officer at Genoa Bank. She International Inc., a global live in Ann Arbor, Mich., Pa., as a also serves on the Board of automotive supplier. He with their one-year-old member of the law firm’s Directors for Sylvania Area works in the company’s son, Ryan. Liz is a senior estate planning and Family Services, as an agency corporate office in investigator and deputy administration group. representative for Northwest Troy, Mich. Title IX coordinator at the Ohio Community Shares, as University of Michigan, Suzette Fronk is serving a member of the United Way and Todd works in human as vice president of finance 20 Women’s Initiative, and as a resources at XPO Logistics. 13 and business affairs at Lees- mentor for the BGSU Women Arline (Laurer) Hanna McRae College in Banner in Business Leadership recently accepted a position Elk, N.C. Lees-McRae is Program. practicing criminal defense as a four-year, coeducational, 2012 an assistant public defender Nicolas A. Linares Kurt Bruderly is practicing in residential college offering recently at the Wayne County Toledo, Ohio, and focusing diverse baccalaureate degrees, joined Spengler Nathanson Public Defender’s Office in primarily in criminal defense. strong athletic programs, and PLL and will continue Lyons, N.Y. She lives in the He was elected to a three- outstanding faculty. to practice in the areas Rochester, N.Y., area with her year term on the Toledo of estate planning, estate Todd M. husband, Tim. Bar Association’s Board of administration, and elder law. Williams Directors in 2016 and joined Brittany is an associate Lauren Hase is employed the Board of Directors for the Asmus joined attorney at in the Medina County Northwest Ohio March of Reminger Co., Shindler Neff Prosecutor’s Office near Dimes in 2015. LPA’s Toledo LLP. He joined Cleveland, Ohio. She has office. She Jacqui Snyder completed a Lourdes University this fall served as the assistant county works with a master’s degree in forensic to teach Legal Environment prosecutor responsible for wide range of civil defense accounting and auditing of Business. the juvenile division since litigation, including medical services at Ohio Northern. November 2012, trying malpractice, professional She currently works in nearly 70 cases. She also has liability, D&O and Maryland as an analyst for 2009 assisted with appeals and employment practices, sat second chair on an adult the U.S. Trustee Program at David Puskar is a trucking and commercial felony jury trial in 2014. the Department of Justice. commercial litigator and was transportation, commercial elected an equity member of litigation, general casualty/ Braun Kendrick Finkbeiner excess surplus lines, and PLC in 2016. The firm’s main probate and trust litigation. office is in Saginaw, Mich., She is licensed to practice in with other offices in Midland Ohio and Michigan. and Mt. Pleasant, Mich. Charles Hatley recently accepted an associate attorney position at Cordell & Cordell, the largest domestic relations firm in the U.S.

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50 Toledo Law TRANSCRIPT GIVING OPPORTUNITIES The support from College of Law alumni Income from such funds is used each • Office of Professional Development and friends speaks volumes. It shows year, while the principal remains intact – career and networking events that The University of Toledo College of making these gifts that keep on giving. for students Law and the experience gained here are A donor may choose to name the fund to • Technology and furniture purchases important and valuable. Moreover, your honor a colleague, a professor, or a loved gift sends a message that you believe in one, or may allow us to name the fund PLANNED GIVING what we do and in what the College of for the donor. Did you know that you can make a Law and your legal education have done significant gift to the College of Law for you. Donations of any amount help Naming gifts provide another way to that won’t cost you a cent during your support current programs, as well as new leave a legacy and are available at a lifetime and can be changed down the initiatives. variety of giving levels. Examples of road? Bequests through a will or trust, naming gifts include classrooms, offices, or via a beneficiary designation in a life Various giving opportunities are outlined and courtyards, to name a few. insurance policy or IRA can benefit the below. If you have any questions or College of Law for generations to come. THE DEAN’S COUNCIL would like to make a gift, please contact Your gift can be designated to address a Brett Loney at [email protected] Donors of $1,000 and higher in a year purpose or program that you select and or 419.530.2408. Thank you for your will be recognized with membership in value at the College of Law. Planned support of the law school and current the Dean’s Council. Gifts in this amount giving offers an array of gift options students now and in years to come! make significant differences in students’ and tools to enable and empower you lives. Donations can be designated to accomplish charitable goals, provide THE FORNOFF SOCIETY for scholarships, public interest for your needs, and pass assets to Fornoff Society membership recognizes projects, faculty research, and student loved ones. those who contribute at least $10,000 organization support. Members are payable to the College of Law Annual invited to an annual donor appreciation Fund over five years. event and receive updates and special invitations from the College of Law. Fornoff Society pledges and gifts not only provide an important source of THE LAW ANNUAL DID YOU KNOW? revenue, but also provide a continuity UNRESTRICTED FUND When you make a gift to the of giving that will enable us to plan and Unrestricted gifts to the Law Annual support longer term programs. Fornoff College of Law, your entire gift Unrestricted Fund can be used goes to the college. Society members receive recognition immediately and support ongoing in addition to that which they receive programs and new initiatives. You may make a gift online at as Dean’s Council members, and they These gifts enable us to meet our most utoledo.edu/law/alumni/give.html or are automatically members of the pressing needs and to continue to offer send a check made payable to The University’s President’s Club. a high-quality educational program. University of Toledo Foundation to: ENDOWED AND NAMING GIFT The Law Unrestricted Fund supports: The University of Toledo Foundation OPPORTUNITIES • Scholarships for students who might P.O. Box 586 Gifts or pledges of $25,000 and higher not otherwise attend the College Toledo, Ohio 43697-0586 can be used to establish endowed funds of Law to support scholarships, graduation • Our legal clinics QUESTIONS? awards, endowed professorships, summer • Public Interest Summer Fellowships Please contact Assistant Dean public service fellowships, clinic • Moot court and trial Heather Karns at 419.530.2851 or activities, faculty research awards, library advocacy programs [email protected]. acquisitions, student organizations, and • Conferences, symposia, and the a wide range of other valuable activities. distinguished speakers series

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Your Toledo Law education provided a firm foundation for your career. Like you, current Toledo Law graduates possess the knowledge, skills, and personal traits that enabled you to advance professionally. If you or your organization is hiring law students or recent graduates, think Toledo Law first. You’ll benefit from the outstanding legal education for which Toledo Law is known, as well as services that simplify the hiring process for you. In addition to the clinical experience required of all Toledo Law graduates, you also may find candidates with academic concentration in areas specific to your needs: Required Clinical Experience • Civil Advocacy • Public Service • Domestic Violence & Juvenile Law • Criminal Appeals • Dispute Resolution • Tax Controversy • Criminal Law Certificates of Concentration • Criminal Law • Intellectual Property Law • Environmental Law • International Law • Health Law • Labor & Employment Law Joint Juris Doctor/Doctor of Medicine Joint Juris Doctor/Master’s Degrees • Criminal Justice • Engineering • Business Administration • Public Health Compliance • Skills-based coursework for compliance careers We assist employers with job postings, resume collections, and on-campus interviews for law students and recent law graduates. For more information, please contact the Office of Professional Development at 419.530.2851 or [email protected]. You also can post a job, request a resume collection, or reserve an on-campus interview session by visiting utoledo.edu/law/career-services/employers.html.

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Events to add to your calendars are listed below.

THURSDAY, JAN. 5, 2017 FRIDAY, JUNE 9-SUNDAY, JUNE 11, 2017 Continental Parlor 9, Ballroom Level REUNIONS ARE BACK!! Hilton San Francisco Union Square If 2017 is a reunion year for your class, (in conjunction with AALS) add this weekend to your calendar and San Francisco, Calif. contact [email protected] for more information. FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 2017 John W. Stoepler Memorial Scholarship Golf Outing at Belmont Country Club Perrysburg, Ohio

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