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Check it out at: http:/ /www.uky.edu/Law ABOUT THIS ISSUE Dean's Corner The Kentucky Lawyer is published annually by the University of As this edition of The Kentucky Lawyer Kentucky College of Law for reaches you, some of the exuberant celebra­ alumni, students, friends and tion generated by UK's NCM Basketball faculty. Championship might have diminished. Even now, reminders of our championship Dean: David E. Shipley season still are everywhere in Lexington and around the Commonwealth. UK flags Editor: Deborah A. Wells fly from car windows, special magazines are Associate Dean for Development sold at bookstores, "UK#l" often is seen in and Alumni Affairs bold letters on signs in windows and painted on sidewalks, and sports writers worry about Our thanks to photographer, Dean David E. Shipley next year in column after column. Tim Collins, and also to the University of Kentucky This has been an exciting year for UK. Whether or not you are a Medical Center Photography basketball fan, there have been many reasons for celebration Department for its photographic including a very good year for the faculty, students, staff and contributions. alumni of your College of Law. Rick Pitino is proud of his "Un­ touchables" just as we should be very proud of the men and women Design & Production: featured in this edition of The Kentucky Lawyer. University of Kentucky Publishing Services When you read the features about Dennis Bricking '68, a champion to the poor in Kentucky, and Richard Burr III '73, a champion for Copyright© University of the rights of men and women on death row, you will see some of Kentucky the UK College of Law's impact in public service and in public All rights reserved. interest law. Another champion of the public good, Allison Connelly '83, was presented the first Henry R. Heyburn Alumni Cover: Public Service Award this year. The 1996 University of Kentucky The law school faculty is a true "championship team." You will be Wildcats NCM National able to read about their top quality scholarship, their involvement Championship Team by David in many projects throughout the state and beyond, and of the Coyle. honors bestowed by the University on two of my colleagues­ Professors Carolyn Bratt and Martin McMahon. All applicants meeting the appropriate requirements and The College of Law has a championship student body. Our stu­ technical standards shall be dents are studying to become the next generation of champions for considered equally for admission the legal profession. This magazine describes many of the activities to any academic program regard­ our students engage in as preparation to join you as members of less of race, color, religion, sex, the Bar. marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, age, beliefs or Finally, this issue celebrates the College's "Unforgettables"-our disability. alumni. Study the dozens of entries in Class Notes to see what many of your fellow alumni are reporting. Please join all of us at the Our special thanks to College of Law in congratulating the first six inductees into the Law Cinergy Corporation of Alumni Hall of Fame. They are wonderful examples of UK Law Cincinnati, OH and its alumni and some of our greatest champions. President and Chief Executive Officer,James Whether we have to wait for the 1997 March Madness or another E. Rogers '73, for their 18 years to celebrate UK's next national basketball championship, financial support of this you can be assured that not a day goes by when you ~annot cel­ publication. ebrate another championship performance by the faculty, students, staff and alumni at your UK College of Law. m 2 THE UNIVERSITY OF KE TUCKY COLLEGE OF LAW BRICKING IS 'HEART AND SOUL' OF LEGAL AID SOCIETY Like any attorney, Dennis Bricking ['68] has some clients who will never make his list of favorite people. "It's not my place to like them," he says. "It's not a question of whether you like them, but a question of whether you can help them." Bricking differs from his colleagues in private practice, however, in that he is precluded from representing people who can afford his services. In fact, he can take only cases from individuals whose annual income-$8,000 a year for an unmarried adult with no depen­ dents-puts them well below the poverty level. He also can represent social-services organizations set up to address the needs of the poor. Bricking, a 53-year old transplant from Northern Kentucky, is executive director of the Legal Aid Society, an organization founded 74 years ago to provide assistance to poor people involved in civil matters. He has been with Legal Aid, which serves 14 Central Kentucky counties from the Louisville headquarters, for 24 years. While he may not as yet set any records for longevity, Bricking's tenure has been unusual. Many young lawyers burn out and By: Rachael Kamuf move to other areas of law or other professions after only a few years. (Excerpts Reprinted with Permission from Business For Bricking-whose schedule also is jammed with commitments to other civic First,]une 26, 1995) groups and social-service programs sponsored by the inner-city Roman Catholic church he attends-those two-and-a-half decades have passed in a blink. "It seems like only five years. I have slipped into a role, even with its trials and tribulations, I am comfortable with." Robert Ewald, a Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs partner and member of Legal Aid's board of directors, describes Bricking as the "heart and soul of the program. He is a very dedicated guy." . .Intense and committed are words used again and again as friends, associates­ and sometimes adversaries-try to paint a verbal portrait of Bricking. Judge Anne Shake, for example, says: "He has a dedication for the poor people of this community unlike anyone I have seen. That commitment shows in the way he lives and the professional choices he has made." KE TUCKY LAWYER I 996 3 Alumni Feature Although he has mellowed some­ By then married and a father, he what with time, "Dennis has kept considered a position as a staff that idealism, that fire and vision attorney with an insurance that were a part of people who company in Ohio. His other came of age in the '60s," says choice was to join a law firm in attorney Charles Zimmerman, who Lexington. Then, however, he also serves on the Legal Aid board. learned about an opening in the new Jefferson CountyJu venile That makes him an outcast and Public Defender's office. target of mockery in some circles. "The idea of doing things that 'We (Legal Aid nationwide) are have an impact was certainly a target because of issues we talk stimulating and full of promise," about. We happen to be effective Bricking says. "I was really im­ advocates. Growers don't want us pressed with the people here. representing migrant workers. They were good advocates." Some landlord groups don't want us helping tenants," Bricking says. Financially, entering private "Equal access to justice is a redis­ practice would have been more tribution of power. If our people lucrative for Bricking. Yet the get into court with a lawyer, they challenges he faced during two may win. Some people get upset years in the juvenile program were about that." more than enough compensation. ...Bricking's social conscience was "There was always something new "Equal access to justice is a redistribu­ developed in a blue-collar Catholic to keep me going," he recalls. "It is tion ofpower. If our people get into neighborhood in Southgate, Ky. a very, very intense kind of work. court with a lawyer, they may win. His father, who worked at General You are dealing with so many kids Some people get upset about that. " Electric Co.'sjet engine plant from harsh backgrounds... kids across the river in Cincinnati, and with so little going for them. It homemaker mother raised their opened my eyes to a world I didn't children to do more with their know existed. I grew up in a house­ lives than chase money. hold that was average middle class. My life was normal. .I had none "He is a person of faith," says of the problems these kids had." David Richart, Kentucky Youth Advocates' executive director. "He Bricking began addressing some of does not proselytize. He acts on his the issues that brought him into religious beliefs." contact with youthful offenders in 1971 when he joined Legal Aid as ... Bricking's first step toward the an attorney and community legal profession began after his education director.