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Class Notes March 2009
If you have career or personal news to share with the Hamline Law community, please feel free to drop us a note at lawalum@hamline.edu.
Tifanne E. E. Wolter ‘02 has joined the St. Paul based family law firm of Butler, Huson & Allen, P.A.
Theresa Pomahatch Neo ‘01 works for Indian Legal Assistance Program in Duluth, Minnesota. It is a public defense corporation that provides criminal and civil legal services to low income clients. Also working there are Dori Smith ‘07, Jennifer Barry ‘07 and Christopher Sailors ‘07.
Kelly M. Wagner ‘01 has joined the firm of Baudler, Baudler, Maus and Blahnik, LLP, as an associate. She will focus her practice in probate, estates and trusts, real estate and municipal law.
Elizabeth Feyrer Bagley ‘97 was named a Wisconsin Rising Star 2008 by Super Lawyers Magazine. She is a partner at Flanner, Stack, Fahl & Bagley, LLP in Brookfield Wisconsin and her practice is exclusively family law.
Rosemary Kassekert ‘85 was recently reappointed to a four-year term as a public member to the Minnesota Board of Social Work by Governor Tim Pawlenty. She is a retired attorney and published author.
Kathryn Cooper Stahnke ('83) was recently honored as SCBA 2008 Attorney of the Year. Her law firm, Stahnke & Associates, Legal Services for Children, exclusively represents abused and neglected children who are placed under the Juvenile Court's protection. Over the years, she has served several community organizations and committees related to Solano's children, among them: Children's Network, CASA, Foster-A-Dream, Solano Family and Children's Services, Solano Adolescent Health Committee, Solano County Child Welfare Redesign, Solano Foster Parent Associations, and Solano Grandparents Raising Grandchildren. In 2003, the Solano County Child Abuse Prevention Council presented her with the Henry Bergh Award as Practitioner of the Year for "outstanding service and sensitivity to the needs of Solano County children." In 2006, she became one of only 80 attorneys in the nation who successfully passed the first examination offered to become certified as a specialist in child welfare law.
FAMILY
Mary Rose Orcutt ‘02 and husband Rob Orcutt ‘02 announce the birth of their son, William Geimer Orcutt, born on January 9, 2009. The family currently lives in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Rob is an attorney for the Oneida Tribe and Mary is in private practice focusing in elder law.
OBITUARIES
Christine A. Bosquez ‘05 passed away on March 5, 2009 at age 44. She was a loving wife, mother of four, daughter, sister, aunt, niece, cousin, and friend. Heaven has a new pitcher for their softball team!
Law Alumni Breakfast and DRI Training in Washington, D.C.
On Friday, April 3, 2009, Hamline University School of Law and Dean Donald M. Lewis will host an alumni breakfast at the DoubleTree Crystal City from 7:30 - 8:30 a.m. The DoubleTree is located at 300 Army Navy Drive, in Arlington, Virginia.
Key members of Hamline's Dispute Resolution Institute, currently ranked fourth in the nation by U.S. News & World Report among law school dispute resolution programs, will be in Arlington to present the "Negotiation at its Best" training seminar and CLE, which will take place on Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the DoubleTree.
The "Negotiation at its Best" training is a unique CLE opportunity will introduce alumni to the newest developments in the multi-disciplinary science of negotiation. Attendees will learn by doing through this highly interactive, skills-based program that will provide practical tools to resolve tough negotiation challenges, regardless of setting. Click here for more information on "Negotiation at its Best."
6 CLE credits have been requested, and training is FREE to Law Alumni. Register early, enrollment is limited to enhance the interactive nature of this training.
There is a special Hamline Law rate of $229.00 per night for hotel accommodations at the DoubleTree booked by March 26, 2009. To make a reservation please call 1-703-416-4100 by March 26 and reference "Hamline Law School."
Future "Negotiation at its Best" training opportunities will take place in the fall of 2009 in San Diego, California, San Fransisco, California, and the Twin Cities. Additional information and dates for these trainings have yet to be determined.
To RSVP for the alumni breakfast and/or register for the CLE on April 3, please contact Anne Markus amarkus01@hamline.edu or 651-523-2943; for more information about the "Negotiation at its Best" CLE programs, please contact Debra Berghoff dberghoff@hamline.edu or 651-523-2946 or visit http://law.hamline.edu/alumni/negotiation_its_best.html.
Where: The DoubleTree Crystal City, located at 300 Army Navy Drive, in Arlington, Virginia.
When: Apr. 3, 2009 - 7:30AM
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Legal Scholarship for Equal Justice
Hamline University School of Law will host the 2009 Legal Scholarship for Equal Justice (LSEJ) CLE program on April 24, 2009 from 1:00-5:00 p.m. LSEJ is a project of the Minnesota Justice Foundation (MJF) designed to address broad legal issues of current importance to equal justice. Each of the four Minnesota law schools takes a turn to host an annual LSJE CLE program.
This year, topics will include:
- Income Discrimination in Rejection of Section 8 Housing Tenants
- Providing Effective Assistance of Counsel? Public Defenders in the Midst of Budget Cuts
- Family Law Reform: Problems in the Adversarial System and Alternative Models
- Passport for Civil Gideon: International Approaches to Providing Legal Services to the Poor
- Making the Case for Improving the Juvenile Expunement Process
There will be two concurrent sessions of presentations between 1:00 and 5:00 p.m. Both will be held at Hamline's Law School, one in Room 105, and the other in Room 04.
4 CLE Credits will be requested for this program. There is no cost for the CLE opportunity, but if you plan to attend, please register with Sara at hamline@mnjustice.org.
Where: Hamline University School of Law, Room 105 and Room 04
When: Apr. 24, 2009 - 1:00PM
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Minnesota Court of Appeals Visit
NOTE: This is a date change from the orginal date of March 5, 2009
The Minnesota Court of Appeals will hear their oral arguments at Hamline. At this time we do not have the set schedule but will post the information as it becomes available.
Where: Annette K. Levine Moot Court Room
When: Apr. 28, 2009 - 9:00AM
Contact: Deb Lange at 651-523-2122 or dlange@hamline.edu Top
Intellectual Property Reception
Please join us at the Annual Intellectual Property Law Alumni & Legal Community Reception
Tuesday, May 5, 2009 from 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
At the Gray Plant Mooty Law Firm in Minneapolis
Please RSVP to Anne Markus at amarkus01@hamline.edu or 651-523-2943
We hope to see you there!
Where: Gray Plant Mooty Law Firm 500 IDS Center, 80 South Eighth Street, Minneapolis
When: May. 5, 2009 - 5:30PM
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13th Annual Alumni Golf Tournament
June is just around the corner and so is the 13th Annual Alumni Golf Tournament on June 2nd! It is sure to be another fun day with colleagues and friends at the beautiful Prestwick Golf Course in Woodbury.
1:00 p.m. Shotgun Start/Scramble Format
6:00 p.m. Dinner, prizes, and raffle drawings
We hope to see you there!
Where: Prestwick Golf Club, Woodbury, MN www.prestwick.com
When: Jun. 2, 2009 - 1:00PM
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Cruz Reynoso Inspires Jurist Fiesta Guests
Distinguished Jurist and University of California Davis School of Law Professor Emeritus Cruz Reynoso (shown here with Dean Lewis, left, and Professor Tom Romero, right) provided an inspiring presentation on the Struggle for Social Justice (audio here) as the Juris Fiesta keynote speaker on March 14, 2009.
Professor Cruz Reynoso was the first Latino person to serve on the California Supreme Court. He served as an Associate Justice from 1982 to 1987 and is credited with helping to extend additional protections for the environment, individual liberties and civil rights. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian honor, from President Clinton in 2000, the same year he received the Hispanic Heritage Foundation Award in Education. He served as the Vice Chair on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights from 1994-2004 and was a professor at the UCLA School of Law from 1991-2001. Professor Reynoso also is the inaugural holder of the UC Davis School of Law's Boochever and Bird Chair for the Study and Teaching of Freedom and Equality, which recognizes outstanding scholarship and teaching, along with a commitment to preserving and expanding the understanding of "the virtues necessary of a great republic."
Jurist Fiesta is a major annual event at Hamline, drawing more than 200 members of Minnesota's bench and bar and featuring prominent Latino legal educators, including Professor Elizabeth Iglesias from the University of Miami School of Law and Jose Roberto (Beto) Juarez, Jr., dean of the Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver. Funds raised at the event have led to the establishment of a scholarship for Latino law students at Hamline, which this year was presented to 3L student Dulce Mendoza (right).
CLE Celebrates SMRLS, Advocates for Low-Income Persons
"The economic downturn is an opportunity to build connections and bonds, and to break open the anti-poor grip that has strangled this nation for three decades," said long-time advocate for the poor and professor at Northeastern University School of Law Lucy A. Williams (above right with Associate Dean Marie Failinger) during her keynote address at the 2009 Hamline Law Alumni Spring CLE Symposium, which was co-presented with Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services (SMRLS) on the occasion of its centennial anniversary and the Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy.
Martha Eaves, SMRLS Senior Staff Attorney, commented on the special relationship that SMRLS has shared with Hamline University School of Law over the years. "Hamline wanted to be different," she said, noting the "shared desire to serve the disadvantaged, forgotten, unrepresented, and those populations frequently most in need."
The CLE, "Justice and the Administrative Process," featured three administrative law judges and attorneys from SMRLS and other practice settings who discussed "best practices" for administrative tribunal representation. Other speakers included Dr. Augustine Romero, Director of Student Equity at Tucson University School of Law; former SMRLS board member, the Honorable Tanya Bransford, District Court Judge, and Loretta Frederick, a leading international speaker on domestic violence issues and former SMRLS attorney.
Nearly 270 legal aid, private, corporate and government lawyers and community representatives attended and participated in the two-day program on March 12-13, 2009. Also in attendance were SMRLS CEO Jessie Nicholson; SMRLS Campaign for Legal Aid Chair Steve Kirsch ‘76, Dean Donald Lewis, Professors Angela McCaffrey, Jonathan Kahn and Tom Romero (all of whom participated in panels), Hamline alumni Patrick Kontz and Lindsay Davis, and Journal of Public Law and Policy student editors Ami Janda and Elizabeth Leahy, among many others.
The conference highlighted the important ways that staff and pro bono attorneys can help low-income persons receive the emergency assistance they need to survive the threatened loss of a job or home during the recession, or to remove welfare to work or other barriers to achieving economic self-sufficiency. The symposium also explored new "justice system" ideas to prevent domestic violence and preserve family safety, as well as laws and new programs designed to assure educational equity for low-income children.
During her keynote address, Professor Williams provided a brief overview of the development of welfare and other administrative programs that assist low-income families, remarking that the "early years saw highly discretionary programs based on individual worthiness" and that "from the beginning, administrative advocacy has been necessary to battle the misconception that poverty is based on individual fault." She challenged the participants to "find the openings" in the current system where administrative advocacy could be used to effect change.
During one of the Symposium sessions, Jon Geffen, Assistant Attorney General for the State of Minnesota in the Charities and Human Services Division and Hamline law Adjunct Professor, and SMRLS Attorney and alumna Lindsay Davis spoke of the barriers to employment faced by many individuals, frequently low-income and of color, who have had contact with the justice system at some point in their life. They noted that "in Minnesota, it is legal for employers to discriminate based on someone's criminal background." This means that even if someone has been arrested in error or never charged, he could still be denied employment based on the record of the arrest.
Geffen and Davis further explained the complicated and often misunderstood process of expungement. Because records are held by various agencies in different branches, a person may have her record expunged by one agency and believe it to be sealed, but the record could still appear within another agency's database during a background check.
SMRLS professional staff shown below from left: Bruce Beneke, Laura Melnick, Ken Gilchrist, Martha Eaves, (Lucy A. Williams), Leah Montgomery, Lindsay Davis, Charles Thomas.
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MN Lawyer Names Four Hamline Alumni Attorneys of the Year
Minnesota is home to 20,000 lawyers, four of whom--(from left to right) Patrick Sauter ’77, Bassford Remele; Robert Bauer ’92, Severson, Sheldon, Dougherty & Molenda; Philip Sieff ’85, Robins Kaplan Miller & Ciresi; Chris Messerly ’86, Robins Kaplan Miller & Ciresi--are Hamline alumni recently named “Attorneys of the Year” by Minnesota Lawyer. They were honored at a dinner on February 24 at the Hyatt Regency in
Hamline First at MIPLA Competition
Congratulations to students Katie Theuringer and Alisha Marie Scott on their first-place finish at the second annual Minnesota Intellectual Property Law Association (MIPLA) Cup Competition on March 14. Their coaches are Hamline law alumni Emeric Dwyer and Huong Nguyen.Teams from Hamline University School of Law, William Mitchell, University of Minnesota Law School and the University of St. Thomas Law School presented oral arguments using the Giles Rich Intellectual Property Moot Court Competition problem. The competition is sponsored by the MIPLA.
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Hamline University School of Law is once again the proud owners of the Res Ipsa Cup! On Saturday, March 14, Hamline Law Hockey defeated William Mitchell Law Hockey 8-4 at Drake Arena in St Paul. William Mitchell had 17 skaters to Hamline's 10, and the game was closely contested much of the way. But in the 3rd period, Hamline Law Hockey dug deep and pulled away, scoring four 3rd period goals! From our 1L players to our veteran 3L members, Hamline Law Hockey played as a team and demonstrated the camaraderie, teamwork and leadership for which Hamline University School of Law students are known. Most importantly, the event raised more than $700 for this year's charity, the St. Paul Public Schools Foundation. The ultimate goals of the Res Ipsa Cup game are to support charitable organizations within the community, increase school spirit, pageantry and unity, and strengthen inter-school relationships between law students, former players and alumni, and the broader legal community. The 2009 installment certainly achieved those goals. Hamline's winning roster included captain Joe Van Thomme, 3L; Ben Head, 3L; Tazio Lombardo, 3L; Frank McQuillan Jr., 3L; Mike Plante, 3L; Alex Rogosheske, 2L; Matt Kovacich, 2L; Doug Curella, 2L; Evan Zach, 2L; Chad Carr, 1L; Ben Hanson, 1L; Matt Thompson, 1L. |
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If you're on Facebook, become a fan of Hamline University School of Law. You can also follow law school happenings through "hamlinelaw" on Twitter and by joining the Hamline University School of Law group on LinkedIn. See you in cyberspace. TopRobert "Tim" Coulter will discuss "The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples"
Alumni are invited to an upcoming Anne Marie Fairbanks (Williams) Indigenous Law Forum at Hamline University School of Law on April 22 at 7 p.m., which will feature Robert "Tim" Coulter on the topic "The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: A Turning Point."
Coulter is an attorney who practices in the fields of Indian law and international human rights. He is the founder and Executive Director of the Indian Law Resource Center in Helena, Montana and Washington, DC. The Center provides legal assistance for indigenous peoples throughout the Americas. He is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and a Justice of the Supreme Court of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.
The Anne Marie Fairbanks (Williams) Indigenous Law Forum at Hamline University School of Law is established and supported by Marilyn and Ron Mitsch. The Forum focuses on legal issues facing indigenous peoples, and will include Tribal Court Arguments, International Indigenous Law presentations and Tribal Law Forums.
For more information, please contact Professor Mary Jo Hunter, Hamline University School of Law, at 651-523-2077 or mhunter@hamline.edu
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Looking for a good opportunity to get closer to your J.D. or earn CLE credits this summer while expanding your global horizons or learning more about dispute resolution or health law? Consider the following new courses being offered by Hamline University School of Law, or a plethora of summer classes offered by our Dispute Resolution Institute and Health Law Institute.
Islamic Law
35 MN CLE credits have been approved, Event Code 132533
July 13-July 30, 4:15 to 7:30 p.m.
This course will:
- Cover the origins, history and basic concepts of Islamic law.
- Provide a basic introduction to the classical schools of jurisprudence and Islamic legal institutions.
- Explore Islamic law in areas including family law, inheritance and finance law.
Qadi (judge) Ahmad Natour, the faculty for this course, is President of the High Shari'a Court of Appeal in Israel, which is the highest Islamic court in the State of Israel. Qadi Natour has taught in the Hamline-Hebrew University Program on Law, Religion and Ethics, and is currently on the faculties of Tel Aviv University and American University in Washington, D.C. Qadi Natour was the first Muslim to receive an Interfaith Gold Medallion Award from the International Council of Christians and Jews.
Please click HERE to view the Islamic Law CLE flier and here to download the registration form.
Canadian Law
June 24-July 9 (St. Paul); July 11-18 (Canada)
The course, to be taught by Hamline Law Professor Larry Bakken, is designed to introduce students to Canada's law and legal system and includes a trip to Canada. Specific attention will be given to how the Canadian system regulates individuals, corporations, and government. In addition, the course will:
- Examine how law in Canada influences standards of conduct and morality.
- Focus on the Canadian Constitution, case law, statutes and regulations.
Professor Bakken has been a consultant to the Minnesota House of Representatives, the Administrative Conference of the United States, and the Minnesota Private College Council. He has chaired the Federal Grants Committee of the Urban, State and Local Government section of the ABA and the Administrative Law Section, the Canadian-American Law Section, the Legislation Section of the Association of American Law Schools. He has been editor of several journals and newsletters, and authored Justice in the Wilderness: A Study of Frontier Courts in Canada and the United States, 1670-1870 (Rothman, 1986), articles on NAFTA and state and local government issues including government ethics, and Minnesota Administrative Procedure.
To register for the Canadian Law CLE, please contact Kari Richtsmeier at 651-523-2606.
Weekend Law Seminars
In July, weekend law seminars will include:
- "The Cinema and the Law: Are Lawyers Still Our Heroes?" instructed by The Honorable Louis Schiff '80, District Judge, Broward County, Florida
- 11.75 MN CLE credits have been approved, Event Code 130933.
- "Deposition Practice" and "Advanced Deposition Skills" instructed by Hamline Alumni Director and Adjunct Professor Susan Stephan '92.
- 11.75 MN CLE credits have been approved for both courses, Event Codes 130935 & 132527.
For more information, or to register, please visit www.law.hamline.edu/summerCLE or contact Deb Lange at 651-523-2122 or dlange@hamline.edu.
Institute Courses
In addition to our summer programs in Norway, Budapest, London and Rome, our Dispute Resolution Institute will be offering basic ADR courses in St. Paul such as Arbitration, Mediation, Negotiation, Theories of Conflict and Advanced Negotiation. More specialized offerings include Dispute Resolution Practices: ADR & Technology, Institutionalizing Peacemaking, Family Mediation, Restorative Justice, and Rethinking Zealousness. Our Health Law Institute will offer Industry Spotlight: Drugs, Devices and the False Claims Act, Patient's Rights, Medicare for Lawyers, Complementary and Alternative Medicine and the Law, and Health Care Mergers and Acquisitions.
For further information about non-Institute courses: http://law.hamline.edu/summer_2009.html
For further information about Institute courses;
http://law.hamline.edu/health/summer-course-offerings.html -or-
http://law.hamline.edu/adr/dispute-resolution-summer-institute.html
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Professor David Larson, School of Law, presented a three hour Continuing Legal Education (CLE) program for the Ramsey County Bar Association titled "ADR in the 21st Century: How Technology Can Assist & Improve Dispute Resolution.
Professor Sharon Sandeen presented at a Workshop on Trade Secrecy at New York University School of Law on February 20 and 21. She discussed her recent research concerning Article 39 of the TRIPS Agreement.