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THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO COLLEGE OF LAW TRANSCRIPT FALL 2016 ALUMNI LEAD FROM THE C-SUITE ARTURO POLIZZI ’97 President, Metro Region, Acute Care ProMedica Health System Back by popular demand! Toledo Law branded apparel by Land’s End HTTPS://BUSINESS.LANDSEND.COM/STORE/TOLEDOLAW OCTOBER 10, 2016 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 TRANSCRIPT Toledo Law 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS OF TABLE TABLE OF CONTENTS 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 2 Toledo Law TRANSCRIPT NEWS TOLEDO LAW NEWS 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. TRANSCRIPT Toledo Law 3 NEWS 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.

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