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Cleveland State University EngagedScholarship@CSU Law Notes School Publications Spring 2009 2009 Vol.18 Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Follow this and additional works at: https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/lawpublications_lawnotes How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! Recommended Citation Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, "2009 Vol.18" (2009). Law Notes. 67. https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/lawpublications_lawnotes/67 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the School Publications at EngagedScholarship@CSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Law Notes by an authorized administrator of EngagedScholarship@CSU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. WE HAVE STRONG ROOTS HERE IN CLEVELAND, ALLOWING US TO REMAIN GROUNDED - EVEN AS WE SERVE CLIENTS AROUND THE WORLD. In fact, that's what we do best: serve and manage the needs of litigators. 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RENNILLO DEPOSITION & DISCOVERY I 00 Erieview Tower 130 I East Ninth Street • Cleveland, Ohio 441 14 P 216-523-13 13 • F 216-263-7070 www.rennillo.com President's Letter • Letter from the President It has been an honor to lead a board that does more for its stakeholders than any board I have ever served. The Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association Board of Trustees is a cohesive, dedicated and productive group of men and women, whose involvement in their law alma mater has lasted far longer than their student years. As mentors, they have given our newest students encouragement and sound counsel. As adjuncts and Moot Court Team coaches, they bring a world of practical advice to their classrooms and teams. As volunteers for our law school, they are mod els of the profession's duty to serve the public interest. And in their personal generosity, they have demonstrated to all our students the importance of supporting the school that is preparing them for their future careers in law, business and public service. It has also been an honor to work together with Dean Geoffrey S. Mearns, CMLAA Executive Director Mary Walton McKenna, my fellow graduates, and our faculty and staff on our joint fund raising efforts. I wish to thank CMLAA President-Elect Stacey L. McKinley'97 for the splendid job she did in the November 2008 "Then and Now" benefit, which helped build our Life Member Scholarship Fund resources. And I would like to thank all of our alumni and the Cleveland legal community for their continuing support of the Association's Annual Recognition Luncheon, insur ing that each year it is the premier legal event in all of Ohio. In troubled times, it is good to remember how important our public law school is, and always will be, to the economy of Northeast Ohio. Despite devastating downturns and the loss of major talent, the legal profession in Cleveland remains a viable economic machine. And Cleveland-Marshall graduates in every law firm and in every major corporation are fueling the engine. As long as we continue to attract outstanding students and outstanding men and women to teach them, and as long as our alumni continue to support the law school that means so much to this region, we will remain a school of excellence and opportunity-not part of the region's brain-drain, but part of its brain-gain. I thank you for the opportunity to serve the Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association, and I thank you for your dedication to our law school and our city. Sincerely, Gary Adams '83 rj Law Notes Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association News Contents Academic Year 2009-2010 2 Dean's Column '· Our cover artist: Jennie Jones was born in Denver, Colorado. She 3 Annual Recognition Luncheon Honorees attended the Layton School of Art in Mi lwaukee, 8 Celebrating Success: We Thank Wisconsin, the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center and was graduated from Northwestern University Mrs. Iris Wolstein, Our Graduates and Friends with a BA in art history. She has lived and worked in Mi lwau kee, Chicago, Boston, and final ly Detroit 9 Looking Ahead: the Fund for Excellence where she established her own photographic stu and the Trial Courtroom dio in 1983. She published two books of her work on Cleveland in 1986 and 1991. Recent projects 10 Stand Up For Cleveland inc lude PARADISE IN THE CITY, CLEVELAND BOTANICAL 13 The Future of Forensics: GARDEN (2005), A PLACE APART, BRATENAHL. OHIO (2007) and SURGEON- CRAFTSMAN lAURENCE KNIGHT A Criminal Justice Symposium GROVES, M.D. (2008). Her images have appeared in World Architecture, Inland Architect, Forbes and 14 Life Members Fortune Magazine as well as local publ ications. 17 New Life Members She has participated in many group and one person shows and was juried into the 1993 May 17 Black History Month Show. Her work is in numerous private and cor porate col lections, including Progressive and The 18 Pipeline! Cleveland Clinic. In 2003 she received the Go lden Achievement Award for the Arts from the Go lden 23 Art Matters Age Centers; in 2006 she rece ived an honorary 24 Students in Israel Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Cleveland State University. Her current work includes black and 27 Leon Plevin wh ite si lver gelatin images of Cleveland at night and digital black and wh ite infrared photography. 28 Alumni Happenings In 2009 she will donate her entire col lection of !l Cleveland images to the Cleveland State Univer 35 Faculty in the News sity Library, Special Collections. Volume 18 Executive Ediror: Mary McKenna Edi tor: Louise F. Mooney Graphic Design: Szilagyi Communication Design Printer: Fi neline Litho Photo Credits: Mary McKenna and Bill Rieter We hope you enjoy this new issue of Law Notes and ask that you continue to contribute and re spond to information in this and future issues of Law Notes. Special thanks to Leon M. Plevin '57, Do nald F. Traci ' 55, Susan L. G ragel '80, Daniel R. McCar thy '54 and Sheldon Sager for their commitment in support of this publication. The CM LAA Board of Trustees is dedicated to serving the alumni, students, faculty and staff of the Coll ege of Law. For comments and suggesti ons, please contact the Law Alumni Association Office at 2 16-687-2368 or by email at [email protected] o.edu Law Notes , issued by the Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association 2 12 1 Eucl id Avenue, LB 12 1 Cleveland, Ohio 44115 I by Geoffrey S. Mearns many other new or enhanced programs, have increased the University's reputation and its <flevelan State University. Under his leader positive impact on our community. •-.;.;sh;.;..i&p'-1, this University and our law school have At our law school, President Schwartz was been ans 0rmed. also instrumental in starting the process that led . President Schwartz has transformed the phys to the development and implementation of our ical appearance of our campus. During his ten bar passage plan. This plan has helped many ure, the plaza outside of Rhodes Tower has been more of our law graduates pass the Ohio bar reconfigured, the main classroom building has examination on their first attempt. This suc been substantially renovated, Fenn Tower has cess bas generated great recognition for our been restored as a donnitory, a new recreation law school, enhancing our regional and national center has been built, and a new administration reputation. building complex has been constructed. On a personal note, President Schwartz has The master plan that President Schwartz changed my life. commissioned also includes two new buildings I first met him more than four years ago, that are presently under construction: a new stu when 1 was interviewing to be the dean. At that dent center and a new building for the College time,-l was a practicing lawyer. But the search of Education. committee seriously considered my application President Schwartz was also instrumental in because President Schwartz had encouraged the inspiring Mrs. Iris Wolstein to donate $5 mil committee to consider non-traditional candi lion to fund the renovations of our law building. dates - or, as he likes to say, "civilians." As a result of President Schwartz's persuasion When I interviewed with President Schwartz, and Mrs. Wolstein 's generosity, we now enjoy I was quickly impressed. He was warm and a faci li ty that includes excellent offices for our engaging, but modest and soft-spoken. law clinics, new offices for our student orga I was even more impressed by his capacity nizations, new seminar rooms, and a beautiful to understand what we lawyers value - service new entrance on the corner of East 18'h Street and justice. Though be is not a lawyer, President and Euc lid Avenue. Schwartz made it clear that he shared these fun President Schwartz has also led a program damental values.