First-Time Bar Passage Rate is Highest in Hamline's History

An impressive 93.38 Percent of Hamline Graduates Passed test in July

The Minnesota First-Time Bar Passage rate for Hamline students is 93.38 percent, the highest rate since the law school began. The results are from the most recent Minnesota bar examination, which was administered in July 2007. The official Minnesota pass rate, which includes all Minnesotans who took the test in July, was 91.16 percent overall.

"This achievement is an appropriate recognition of Hamline University School of Law as an exceptional place to pursue legal education," said Hamline University President Linda Hanson. "We are proud of our law graduates and anticipate the impressive contributions they will make to the legal community in Minnesota and beyond."

Hamline University School of Law Dean Jon Garon said, "This is a tremendous achievement of our students and a reflection of the important, systemic efforts of our faculty, staff, academic support and the entire Hamline community to help make our students successful in this effort." Top

Dean’s Dinner Engages and Inspires Legal Community

More than 200 members of MN Bench and Bar Attend Gala at MIA featuring Pepperdine Law Dean Kenneth Starr and Dean Guy Charles from University of Minnesota (shown here from right to left with Dean Garon).

The annual Dean's Dinner, held November 12 at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, was an engaging, delightful evening of stimulating conversation, inspiring remarks by guest speakers and a moving tribute to Dean Garon, who has announced plans to resign as dean at the end of this academic year. The event drew more than 200 members of Minnesota's bench and bar, distinguished representatives of Minnesota's business communities, legal educators and scholars, including numerous members of Hamline's faculty (a complete photo slide show, a video, and an audio recording of all Dean's Dinner speakers, are available).

Hamline University School President Linda Hanson took the opportunity to pay a warm tribute to Dean Garon and his contributions to Hamline Law School since becoming dean five years ago.

Dean Garon then introduced the evening's key keynote speakers, Pepperdine Law School Dean Kenneth Starr and Guy-Uriel E. Charles, a co-Dean of the University of Minnesota Law School. Dean Charles graciously agreed to speak when a family emergency prevented Dean Veryl Miles from appearing as previously announced.

Dean Charles noted that lawyers "occupy an extremely important role in our society." He acknowledged the precarious and courageous stance being taken by lawyers in Pakistan as they protest the loss of the rule of law in their country. "They are the first and last line of defense between what is good and what is true," he said.

 

 

Dean Charles acknowledged the changing role of lawyers due to globalization but stressed that the fundamentals of legal education must remain strong. Dean Starr spoke about the importance of lawyers in taking moral positions and providing pro bono services, a position also advocated by Dean Veryl Miles in notes read by Dean Garon in her absence.  A full copy of Dean Miles' letter is available here.

Dean Starr also said "something must be done about the explosive growth of tuition costs" and the "arms race" going on among law firms hiring new associates. "These things are destabilizing our profession and leading to a decline in mentoring in the profession." He said the escalating salaries mean young lawyers must put too much emphasis on billable hours. "This is completely eating at the heart of who we are and the higher angels of our being," he said.

Starr, dean and professor at Pepperdine University School of Law, is admitted to practice in California, Virginia, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Supreme Court. In the 1970s, he clerked for The Honorable David W. Dyer of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, and for U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren E. Burger. While in private practice, he was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

Dean Charles, serves as Interim Co-Dean, along with Fred Morrison, at the University of Minnesota Law School. Dean Charles joined the University of Minnesota Law School in the Fall of 2000. He clerked for The Honorable Damon J. Keith of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. While at the University of Michigan, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Michigan Journal of Race & Law. From 1995-2000, he was a graduate student in political science at the University of Michigan. Prior to joining the Law School, he taught as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toledo School of Law.

Sponsors of the 2007 Dean's Dinner include Dwight Opperman, Key Investments, Inc. (emeritus); Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP (presidential); Briggs and Morgan, Faegre & Benson LLP, Fredrikson & Byron, P.A., Gilbert Mediation Center, Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc., Imation Corp., Larson King, LLP, Lindquist & Vennum PLLP, Maslon, Edelman Borman & Brand, LLP, Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly LLP, Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A. (supporting); Barna, Guzy & Steffen, LTD, and Moss & Barnett (contributing).

Hamline Law Faculty from left to right Marilynne
Roberts, Kenneth Salzberg, Kimberly Holtz,
and Mary Trevor

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Professors Coben and McAdoo Named “Distinguished Members” by ADR Institute

Hamline was well represented in all the ADR Institute activities of the ADR section of the MSBA in October

Professors Bobbi McAdoo and Jim Coben were among ten Minnesotans honored as "distinguished members" for their activities promoting ADR in Minnesota at a reception celebrating the 10th anniversary of the ADR Institute on October 18.

"This honor and recognition of Bobbi McAdoo and Jim Coben is well-deserved," noted Dean Jon Garon. "Their work in the area of alternative dispute resolution is respected on a national level and is a critical reason that Hamline's Dispute Resolution Institute is so highly ranked and regarded by scholars in the field."

In addition, Professor Coben, Professor McAdoo and Professor Ken Fox all were presenters at the Institute on October 19th: Coben for the Annual Mediation Case Law "Revue," Fox for a review of ADR in Popular Culture and McAdoo for moderating and speaking at the final session of the Institute on The Future of ADR. Professor Fox also was a planning committee member for the event.

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Symposium will result in Decision-Making Principles for Resolving Conflicts in Health Care

Symposium theme leaders from left: Mary Foarde, General Counsel, Allina Health System; Dr. James Thompson, Presiddent and CEO, Federation of State Medical Boards; Lucinda Jesson, Director, Hamline Health Law Institute.

Health care decisions are influenced by different and competing value systems: an increasingly diverse and aging population of patients; a growing universe of traditional and non-traditional health care providers; the ever-expanding role of third-party payors; suppliers promoting rapidly changing technologies and marketing directly to patients; policy-makers who promote increasingly divided ideologies and regulators caught in the middle. The result is an overwhelmingly complex set of challenges that provoke conflict at all levels.

Recognizing that the system cannot be easily "fixed" or the problem "solved," Hamline's Dispute Resolution and Health Law Institutes hosted the biennial symposium, "An Intentional Conversation about Conflict Resolution in Health Care," on November 8-10. Hamline's symposium brought together a carefully selected group of nationally recognized representatives of patients, health care providers, payors and regulators, and experienced conflict resolution professionals. The symposium explored how health care professionals and conflict resolvers can work together to identify essential guiding principles for addressing conflicts across the health care field.

Dianne Hoffman, Professor of Law and Director of the Law and Health Care Program at the University of Maryland Law School, served as one of symposium discussion team leaders. She called the symposium, "A wonderful opportunity to bring together people with expertise in health care, health care delivery, health law and conflict resolution to learn from each other."

Mary Foarde, General Counsel at Allina Health System, concurred. "I really enjoyed this symposium and am glad Hamline put it on," she said.

More than twenty post-symposium reflective essays written by symposium participants will be published in the Spring 2008 issue of the Hamline Journal of Law & Public Policy. In addition, the Hamline University School of Law Dispute Resolution and Health Law Institutes will co-publish "Principles for Responsible Decision-Making in Health Care Conflicts," a booklet intended for widespread dissemination in the health care industry. Top

Professor Biernat & Susan Koberstein ’95 Lauded by Alumni

The next alumni gathering is the Six-Minute Social on December 6 at Klas Center.

Representatives from the Hamline law classes of 1977, 1982, 1987, 1992, 1997, and 2002 gathered at the law school on October 11 for the third annual "On the Fives" reunion reception for alumni who graduated five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five and thirty years ago. It was a delightful evening of socializing, reconnecting with past classmates and catching up with many Hamline law faculty members.

A highlight of the evening came when Alumni Board President Don McNeil '89 presented the Distinguished Alumni Awards for 2007. Hamline University School of Law Professor Len Biernat ‘75 was recognized for his outstanding contribution to the Hamline law community and Susan Koberstein ‘95 for her exemplary community service. Professor Biernat, who teaches in the areas of family law, professional responsibility, remedies, property, children and the law and education law, has contributed to the law school since his days as a law student in the early 1970s. Susan Koberstein, currently the Immigration Coordinator at Minnesota Legal Services Coalition, has dedicated her professional life to providing legal services to low-income clients in Minnesota.

The next opportunity for alumni to gather will be the "Six-Minute Social" on December 6, which partners alumni with current students for timed (six minutes, of course!) networking conversations. This is always a fun event and delicious refreshments and heavy appetizers are served. Please let alumni director Susan Stephan know if you are interested in attending. Top

Mid-Winter Reception Planned for January 17

Professor Marie Failinger with Leo Brisbois '87 at the 2007 Mid-Winter Reception

Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi again will host annual law school reception

Don't forget the annual Mid-Winter Reception at Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, and LLP on Thursday, Jaunary 17, 2008, from 5-7:30 p.m. Please let us know that you plan to attend by calling Anne Markus at 651-523-2943 or emailing amarkus01@hamline.edu. We look forward to seeing you there!

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Hamline Student Article on NHL Salary Arbitration Published in Dispute Resolution Journal

Article resulted from a paper third-year student John Sprenzel prepared for a course on ADR and technology

When third-year student John Sprenzel wrote a paper exploring the salary arbitration process used by the NHL and how it would benefit from using online dispute resolution he didn't realize his paper would later appear as a scholarly article in the Dispute Resolution Journal. That's exactly what happened. The article, "Salary Arbitration in the National Hockey League: Taking the Next Step with Online Dispute Resolution," appeared in the August-October 2007 issue

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Plethora of New Conversations in Law Podcasts Feature Outstanding Fall Programs

A host of interesting and informative programs have been hosted at Hamline University School of Law this Fall. If you missed them (or would like to hear them again), please visit www.hamline.edu/law/conversations. Among the latest offerings:

Immigration Health Law Panel, which was held on Oct. 25, and featured panelists Frank Fernandez, Hamline alumnus and Vice President of Government Programs at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota; Laura Melnick, senior attorney, Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services; and Kathy McDonough, Minnesota Department of Human Services. The event was sponsored by the Latino Law Students Association, Law Students for Reproductive Justice, Immigration Section of the Public Interest Law Group and the Hamline University Health Law Institute.

Hamline University School of Law 2007 Dean's Dinner, featuring remarks by Hamline University President Linda Hanson, Hamline Law Dean Jon Garon, University of Minnesota Co-Dean Guy-Uriel E. Charles and Pepperdine School of Law Dean Ken Starr. Available as audio or video.

Dean Jon Garon discussing his book, "Own It - The Law & Business Guide to Launching a New Business through Innovation, Exclusivity and Relevance," on KZSU-FM radio. The book offers hands-on examples and explanations of how to build long-lasting value for businesses through the use of trademarks, copyright, patents and other legal techniques. It is intended to serve as a manual for making start-up businesses profitable, stable and built to last. Top

Slavery in Minnesota: Human Trafficking

Richard Wexler, an attorney with the Minnesota Department of Health, will talk about his pro bono work to stem the tide of human trafficking, especially sex trafficking. He will show a short video after his talk. Talk at 11:00 a.m. / Video at noon. Come for one or both. Refreshments will be served.
Where: Room 105
When: Nov. 27, 2007 - 12:00PM Top

Webcast: Designing a Wellness Plan - Legal and Practical Hurdles

Thursday, December 13, 2007, 9:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. CST |1.0 CLE credit |Tuition: $75

With health care costs increasing, the value of keeping people healthy with wellness plans is evident. In this installment, Prof. Jesson and the panel will discuss advanced topics related to the legal and practical hurdles when creating wellness plans.

Presented by A. Melinda Maher, Oppenheimer Wolff and Donnelly LLP, Minneapolis, and Kristyn M. W. Mullin, Director of Benefits, Allina Health System, Minneapolis; moderated by Prof. Lucinda E. Jesson, Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul.



Full registration link to copy and paste in your browser: http://www.minncle.org/AABuy0.asp?ITEMTYPE=S&ITEMNMBR=124990801
Where: To register for the webcasts visit Minnesota CLE
When: Dec. 13, 2007 - 10:00AM
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Law Alumni Breakfast New York City

New York City Alumni Breakfast- January 3, 2008 from 7:30 - 8:30 a.m.

Hamline University School of Law is hosting an alumni breakfast in New York City in conjunction with the annual Association of American Law Schools (AALS) conference.

Lincoln Suite, Fourth Floor, Hilton New York, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019

Where: Lincoln Suite, Fourth Floor, Hilton New York, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019
When: Jan. 3, 2008 - 8:30AM
Contact: Anne M. Markus, 651-523-2943 Top

Annual Midwinter Reception

Don't forget the annual Mid-Winter Reception at Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, and LLP on Thursday, Jaunary 17, 2008, from 5-7:30 p.m. Please let us know that you plan to attend by calling Anne Markus at 651-523-2943 or emailing amarkus01@hamline.edu. We look forward to seeing you there!
Where: Midwinter Reception at Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, LLP.
When: Jan. 17, 2008 - 6:00PM
Contact: Anne M. Markus, 651-523-2943 Top

2008 Spring CLE - Current Workplace Issues in Labor & Employment Law

Current Workplace Issues in Labor and Employment Law 6.0 CLE Credits Requested

Please join us as we examine key legal issues in the labor and employment arena through our annual Spring Alumni CLE Symposium. Topics will include an overview of the Labor and Employment Landscape in 2008, Key Employment Practice Issues, Key Labor Practice Issues, an Immigration Law Primer for Labor and Employment Lawyers and Ethical Implications of Employee Screening.

Registration (includes lunch):

$75 Hamline University School of Law alumna/us
$185 Non-alumni pre-registration
$200 Non-alumni on-site registration

To register, please click on the sign-up link below.

Symposium Schedule
Registration and continental breakfast begin at 8:00 a.m. on the 3^rd floor of Klas Center

8:30 – 8:45 a.m.

Welcome and Overview
Professor David A. Larson, Hamline University School of Law 

8:45 – 10:00 a.m.

The Labor and Employment Landscape in 2008: Ten Cutting-Edge Issues in Labor and Employment Law

1.25 CLE Credits Requested

 

A panel comprised of leading labor and employment law authorities from the local academic and legal community provide an overview of today’s top workplace issues for labor and employment attorneys, including insights into recent Supreme Court decisions in the employment arena as well as First Amendment protection for public employees, the scope of Title VII Retaliation Claims, and other issues in state and federal labor and employment law.

 

Panelists:
Professor Stephen F. Befort, University of Minnesota School of Law
Gregg Corwin, Esq,. Gregg M. Corwin & Associates Law Office, P.C.
Pamela R. Galanter, Esq., Frank Madden & Associates

10:15 – 11:30 a.m.
Key Employment Practice Issues: Communications in the Workplace: Immigration and Other Hot Topics in Employment Law

1.25 CLE Credits Requested

 

Local attorneys review common employment law issues including non-competes, privacy in the workplace, personnel evaluations, workplace communications and an introduction to an intersection with immigration law.

Presenters:

Salima Khakoo, Esq., Aronson & Associates, P.A

Phillip J. Trobaugh, Esq., Mansfield, Tanick & Cohen, P.A.

Moderator:
Kristen Ludgate, Esq., General Counsel, Hamline University School of Law 

LUNCH: 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

 

1:00 – 2:15 p.m.

Key Labor Practice Issues: The Workers' Compensation Debate and the New Law on Independent Contractor Status

1.25 CLE Credits Requested

 

Scott Brener, Former Commissioner of the Department of Labor and Industry and current Vice President and General Counsel for the state’s largest workers’ compensation carrier, will provide insights into the status of today's debate within the legal community and the community at large regarding Minnesota’s workers' compensation laws.   He will be joined by Nancy Leppink, the chief legal officer at the Department of Labor and Industry, who will discuss the state’s new independent contractor statute.

Presenters:
Scott Brener, Vice President and General Counsel, SFM Companies and former Commissioner of Minnesota's Department of Labor & Industry 

Nancy Leppink, Esq., Legal and Legislative Affairs Division, Labor and Industry Department, State of Minnesota

 

2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.

An Immigration Law Primer for Labor and Employment Lawyers

1.25 CLE Credits Requested

Attorneys with a focus on immigration law discuss the fundamental immigration issues for the employment lawyer, with a focus on corporate immigration compliance and enforcement defense.

 

Panel:
Mark A. Cangemi, Igbanugo Partners, PLLC

Katie A. DeGrio, Igbanugo Partners, PLLC

Herbert Igbanugo, Igbanugo Partners, PLLC

Kevin M. Mosher, Esq., Wessels & Pautsch, P.C.

3:45 – 4:45 p.m.
Should You or May You? Ethical Implications of Pre-Employment Screening

1 Ethics CLE Credit Requested

 

Through multi-media examples of hiring issues faced by employer/clients, a member of the employment screening industry will lead a discussion regarding practical pre-employment screening issues and the associated legal and ethical rules attorneys face in counseling employers in this arena.  The focus of the discussion will be on the language of Minnesota Rule of Professional Conduct 2.1 and an attorney’s role as “advisor.”

 

Presenter:

Mary Poquette, Verifications, Inc.

Where: Klas Center, Hamline's Campus
When: Mar. 7, 2008 - 9:30AM
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4th Annual Juris Fiesta Endowment Celebration & Dinner

In 2005, with the support of Dean Jon Garon and Professor Tom Romero, the Hamline Latino Law Student Association inaugurated the Juris Fiesta. The Juris Fiesta also recognizes the importance of LLSA's membership to the maintenance of a rigorous and inclusive 21st century legal education. Indeed, the Juris Fiesta brings Lationo/as, esteemed members of the bar and judiciary, professionals from the business sectors, and Hamline's community together to recognize the wide-ranging achievements of Hamline's Latino/a law students and alumni during the past year.

Our guest speaker this year will be Professor Elizabeth Iglesias from the University of Miami School of Law. Professor Iglesias holds a Bachelor of Arts (magna cum laude) from the University of Michigan and a Juris Doctor (with honors) from Yale Law School. She is the Co-Founder of Latina and Latino Critical Theory, Inc. (LatCrit, Inc.) which she incorporated in 1998 and co-directed until 2003. In 1997, she designed the Project for Legal Economic, Development, Justice and Equality (PLEDJE) an innovative clinical program to promote micro-business development, immigrant rights and the use of NAFTA labor and environmental side accords through workshops, community based study circles and outreach to underprivileged high school students.

Professor Iglesias has received numerous honors and awards as a scholar, activist, citizen and poet including the Most-Outstanding Faculty Award by the UM Public Interest Law Group, the Dean Thomas Lecture, Yale Law School, Women Who Make Difference. In 2003, Professor Iglesias Co-Founded LisaLeine Productions, a multimedia production company devoted to the advancement of human rights through the creation of exhibition and distribution of independent film and art. Her first documentary entitled Scaring Miami: Anarchists, RoboCops and Corporate Globalization explores the mass convergence of labor, environmental, peace and justice activists in Miami to protest the Free Trade Area of the Americas.

Professor Iglesias has been a licensed private pilot since 2003. She received her Instrument Flight Rules(IFR) Rating in 2006.

Where: Hamline University, Klas Center, 3rd Floor, Kay Fredericks Room
When: Mar. 8, 2008 - 7:00PM
Contact: Deb Lange, 651-523-2122 or dlange@hamline.edu Top

Dean’s Dinner Engages and Inspires Legal Community

More than 200 members of MN Bench and Bar Attend Gala at MIA featuring Pepperdine Law Dean Kenneth Starr and Dean Guy Charles from University of Minnesota (shown here from right to left with Dean Garon).

The annual Dean's Dinner, held November 12 at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, was an engaging, delightful evening of stimulating conversation, inspiring remarks by guest speakers and a moving tribute to Dean Garon, who has announced plans to resign as dean at the end of this academic year. The event drew more than 200 members of Minnesota's bench and bar, distinguished representatives of Minnesota's business communities, legal educators and scholars, including numerous members of Hamline's faculty (a complete photo slide show, a video, and an audio recording of all Dean's Dinner speakers, are available).

Hamline University School President Linda Hanson took the opportunity to pay a warm tribute to Dean Garon and his contributions to Hamline Law School since becoming dean five years ago.

Dean Garon then introduced the evening's key keynote speakers, Pepperdine Law School Dean Kenneth Starr and Guy-Uriel E. Charles, a co-Dean of the University of Minnesota Law School. Dean Charles graciously agreed to speak when a family emergency prevented Dean Veryl Miles from appearing as previously announced.

Dean Charles noted that lawyers "occupy an extremely important role in our society." He acknowledged the precarious and courageous stance being taken by lawyers in Pakistan as they protest the loss of the rule of law in their country. "They are the first and last line of defense between what is good and what is true," he said.

 

 

Dean Charles acknowledged the changing role of lawyers due to globalization but stressed that the fundamentals of legal education must remain strong. Dean Starr spoke about the importance of lawyers in taking moral positions and providing pro bono services, a position also advocated by Dean Veryl Miles in notes read by Dean Garon in her absence.  A full copy of Dean Miles' letter is available here.

Dean Starr also said "something must be done about the explosive growth of tuition costs" and the "arms race" going on among law firms hiring new associates. "These things are destabilizing our profession and leading to a decline in mentoring in the profession." He said the escalating salaries mean young lawyers must put too much emphasis on billable hours. "This is completely eating at the heart of who we are and the higher angels of our being," he said.

Starr, dean and professor at Pepperdine University School of Law, is admitted to practice in California, Virginia, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Supreme Court. In the 1970s, he clerked for The Honorable David W. Dyer of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, and for U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren E. Burger. While in private practice, he was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

Dean Charles, serves as Interim Co-Dean, along with Fred Morrison, at the University of Minnesota Law School. Dean Charles joined the University of Minnesota Law School in the Fall of 2000. He clerked for The Honorable Damon J. Keith of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. While at the University of Michigan, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Michigan Journal of Race & Law. From 1995-2000, he was a graduate student in political science at the University of Michigan. Prior to joining the Law School, he taught as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toledo School of Law.

Sponsors of the 2007 Dean's Dinner include Dwight Opperman, Key Investments, Inc. (emeritus); Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP (presidential); Briggs and Morgan, Faegre & Benson LLP, Fredrikson & Byron, P.A., Gilbert Mediation Center, Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc., Imation Corp., Larson King, LLP, Lindquist & Vennum PLLP, Maslon, Edelman Borman & Brand, LLP, Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly LLP, Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A. (supporting); Barna, Guzy & Steffen, LTD, and Moss & Barnett (contributing).

Hamline Law Faculty from left to right Marilynne
Roberts, Kenneth Salzberg, Kimberly Holtz,
and Mary Trevor

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November 2007 Faculty Notes

Dean Jon Garon's book, "Own It - The Law & Business Guide to Launching a New Business through Innovation, Exclusivity and Relevance," has been published by Carolina Academic Press (http://www.cap-press.com/books/1725).

 

 

 

Professor David Larson was one of the speakers at the 14th Annual Ethics Symposium hosted by the South Texas College of Law in Houston, Texas. Professor Larson's presentation was titled "Is There an Ethical Code for Cyberspace? Can an Ethical or Moral Code Be Enforced? Unique Concerns for Technology Mediated and Online Dispute Resolution (TMDR/ODR)."

 

 

Professor Jon Kahn was interviewed for a 30-minute radio documentary that recently aired on BBC Radio. The program, "Ethnic Medicines - A Magic Bullet?" can be found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/pip/tb68g/

 

 

 

Class Notes November 2007

Edward Kautzer '76 was presented with the Pro Bono Award by the Ramsey County Bar Association for his commitment to legal representation for low-income and disadvantaged clients.

Mary Schwind '96 has been honored by the Justice Foundation for her exemplary legal service to the public by a private practice attorney.

Brian Toder '86 received his "A" license from the United States Parachute Association in July after a year of skydiving.

James Mathis '79 has been named as an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Law, Department of International Law in September of 2007.

Christine E. Hlavac '07 is an associate attorney in Wessels & Pautsch, P.C.'s Minneapolis office.

Jennifer Daugherty '04 has joined the Minneapolis office of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P. as an associate practicing in the area of business litigation.

Christopher Anderson '07 has joined Hammarback, Murray, and Jacobson, S.C., in River Falls, Wisconsin, as an associate attorney. He will be practicing in the area of general litigation.

Family News

Kelly Sofio (Fisher) '98 and husband Greg Sofio '98 have had their third child, Martha Kay, on July 24, 2007. She joins her siblings Tina, four and Nicky, two.

Tara Ferguson Lopez '02 and Thomas Lopez '02 welcome their first child, a beautiful daughter named Quinne Ysabella, on March 19, 2007. The family resides in St. Cloud, MN. Tara works as an Assistant Mille Lacs County Attorney in the criminal division, and Tom works as an Assistant Mille Lacs County Attorney in the civil division.

Emily Fox Williams '99 and her husband Alan, welcomed their daughter Ashlyn on October 2, 2007. She joins her sister Riley 2 ½. Emily is a corporate and estate planning attorney with Severson, Sheldon, Dougherty, and Molenda, P.A. in Apple Valley.