2014 Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Yearbook by CSU Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

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2014

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ONTENTS Features

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Master of Legal Studies Program • Solo Practice Incubator Engaged Learning Day • Education Law Association

Thought Leaders

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Featured Presentations Transformative Dialogues

Students

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Civil Litigation Clinic • Journals • Pro Bono Program Moot Court Competition • Trial Advocacy Program Great Lakes Sports and Entertainment Law Academy

Faculty & Staff

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Faculty Promotions • Faculty Influen e Staff

dditions • Faculty Farewells

News

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New Website Launch Annual Recognition Luncheon • Commencement

DEANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MESSAGE This past May, I had the distinct privilege of welcoming 156 new graduates to the ranks of the over 10,000 Cleveland-Marshall College of Law alumni who serve as the foundation of our institution. In addition to acquiring an outstanding legal education, over the past few years these newest graduates developed networking, leadership and business skills by participating in student organizations and the law schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s journals, many of which are featured in the pages of this book. And despite rigorous academic demands, our graduates found time to donate thousands of hours to pro bono activities, and to serve the community through legal clinics and externship opportunities. Individually and collectively, the Class of 2014 worked hard and accomplished a great deal. Our most recent graduates, along with those who preceded them, are in possession of a valuable asset â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a legal education that equips them to pursue a variety of career paths. Some will be advocates with administrative agencies, courts, public policy organizations and non-profits. Others will spend their careers in the courtroom as litigators, while some will be drawn to transactional law in specialties including tax, intellectual property, real estate and corporate law. But an increasing number of our graduates and those from law schools across the country will use their educations in non-traditional and innovative positions, including those in emerging fields li e compliance and project management, and even in start-up businesses. In these positions, their legal training will provide our graduates with the foundation for making their own unique contributions to the evolving legal services industry.

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As our graduates are increasingly called upon to be innovators, Cleveland-Marshall is also adapting in order to provide the tools our students need for their careers. Our efforts begin before students matriculate, and they continue well after they have completed their last law school exam. Our new website, which some of you may have visited, helps prospective students who are considering Cleveland-Marshall to clarify how their skills and interests can be aligned with the right legal career for them. During their fir t week of classes, matriculated students attend actual court proceedings and visit a major local corporation in order to obtain real-world context for the substantive law they will learn in the classroom during their fir t year. All of our J.D. students receive the BARBRI bar preparation course at no charge so that after graduation they may effectively prepare for the bar exam. And even beyond the bar exam, we offer support to our graduates who want to establish solo practices through the solo practice incubator, which was completed in February

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and now is home to four new law practitioners.

Our most recent graduates, along with those who preceded them, are in possession of a valuable asset — a legal education that equips them to pursue a variety of career paths.” Cleveland-Marshall Dean Craig M. Boise

More broadly, our faculty have expanded their conception of legal education by emphasizing the “unbundled” J.D. degree; that is, creating specialized offerings such as the Great Lakes Sports and Entertainment Law Academy, our Health Care Compliance certific tion program and our new Master of Legal Studies program. These initiatives are designed to meet the needs of those who seek a legal education that does not lead to a J.D. degree. For over a century, Cleveland-Marshall has produced prominent business leaders, public servants, general counsel, judges and government officials. As the legal serv es field ontinues to evolve, we will also provide the training necessary to prepare our students to be leaders in emerging legal careers and non-traditional positions. Cleveland-Marshall will continue to be at the forefront of innovation in legal education as we deliver on our promise of an outstanding legal education for our students. Dean Craig M. Boise

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Master of Legal Studies PROGRAM

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I’m learning everything I thought I would, plus this program offers much more than I anticipated.” M.L.S. student Thomas Wood

In the fall of 2013, Cleveland-Marshall was one of the fir t law schools in the country to offer a graduate-level degree designed for individuals who do not want to practice law in the traditional sense but who need legal knowledge to enhance their chosen professions. The Master of Legal Studies program, now entering its second year, provides such an opportunity and is already giving students a greater understanding of the law. “I’m learning everything I thought I would, plus this program offers much more than I anticipated,” said current M.L.S. student Thomas Wood. The M.L.S. degree was created for working professionals who routinely interact with lawyers or deal with regulations, contracts or compliance issues in their current or future position. The program is designed to help graduates obtain leadership positions by being able to protect ideas and organizational assets, assess appropriate responses to rules and regulations, and understand legal terminology and statutory language in their fields In its fir t year, the program enrolled students representing a wide range of industries such as health care, compliance, business and law enforcement. Students choose from designated tracks including business and corporate law, corporate compliance, criminal law, elder law, health law and health care compliance, international law, litigation, and sports and entertainment law. They may also choose to work with a faculty advisor to build an individualized curriculum. M.L.S. students begin with an Introduction to American Law foundational class and must take two fir t-year law courses. After that, they are permitted to enroll in any fir t-year or upper-level course at Cleveland-Marshall — and a limited number of courses elsewhere in the University — to complete their 30-credit-hour degree.

Cleveland-Marshall Offers Risk-Free J.D. with ‘Convertible’ Degree Option This spring, Cleveland-Marshall alleviated some of the personal and financial risk a sociated with committing to a threeyear law degree. Now, if a J.D. student decides not to continue law school after completing the fir t year of studies, the student may apply the credits earned toward the Master of Legal Studies, and can generally complete an M.L.S. degree by taking only one additional course. “There are many good reasons why a law student may decide not to continue to pursue a J.D.,” said Craig M. Boise, Dean of Cleveland-Marshall. “They might have financial oncerns, family or personal issues, or they may realize that though they still have an interest in law, a career in traditional legal practice is not right for them. For these students, the fir t year of law school might have seemed like a waste and a hard-to-explain item on their resumes. Now, they can leave with a master’s degree that we believe will be attractive to employers.” “Cleveland-Marshall has historically been an institution that operates with a keen understanding of current guiding social and economic forces that affect our students and their opportunities,” Boise continued. “This new opportunity removes at least some of the financial and personal risk inhe ent in a major educational undertaking, and comes at a time when people appreciate more guarantees. It represents yet another positive innovation for our law school.” 4

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Thomas Wood For Thomas Wood, enrolling in the Master of Legal Studies program was part of a vision for the future. His future plan entails getting involved in government, and he sees the M.L.S. degree as a major asset toward achieving that goal. “I don’t think it is a coincidence that 95% of politicians are attorneys,” Wood said. “Getting an education like this and understanding the inner workings of the law and government make it so much easier to see how you can have an effect within the government.” His interest in government and being a part of meaningful change stems from an internship with Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge ’83. However, the fuel for that interest reaches back further — to a passion for the Cleveland area and a vision for its prosperous future. He believes that in the not too distant future Cleveland will be viewed as a place to be. “We have diamonds here in Cleveland and great things about this place, but people outside the area don’t know that,” Wood explained. “I want to cultivate the idea of Cleveland’s and this region’s success.” Wood has previously been involved in civic projects in a role as membership coordinator of the Beachwood Chamber of Commerce, and currently works full time as an administrative coordinator with the Cleveland Clinic. In both capacities, he recognizes the benefit of h ving a legal education. Wood is pursuing a concentration in business law, merging those skills with his degree in communications from Cleveland State University. Pursuing his master’s degree along with his working full time and raising two small children with his wife can be difficul at times, but Wood’s passion about his studies enables him to combat the challenges.

Katherine Slaughter A longtime healthcare professional, Katherine Slaughter was looking for a new challenge when she enrolled in the Master of Legal Studies program. Long ago, she had envisioned herself as the next Perry Mason. Now, Slaughter is experiencing what the legal field is eally about. While she always had an interest in the law, Slaughter fell in love with another profession where she could assist others. She became a registered nurse, and worked her way up to head nurse before transitioning to her current role as manager of patient safety and risk management. To complement her master’s degree in nursing, Slaughter is pursuing the health law track in the M.L.S. program. In her current position, she works with the attorneys in the claims and litigation department. In the area of risk management, legalities are especially important when patient care and documentation issues arise. “I’m now more informed and knowledgeable about the responses I’m able to give, and am able to help a lot more when approached with issues,” Slaughter said. Slaughter enrolled in the M.L.S. program to understand more about how the legal end of her position functions, and how it integrates with the clinical aspects of practice. However, she also believes that the unique skillset that comes with master’s degrees in both nursing and legal studies could open up a niche for her in the legal field d wn the road. Going back to school while raising a family, Slaughter is taking the M.L.S. program at a comfortable pace with one class a semester. She is now ready to get into the heart of the health care classes offered by Cleveland-Marshall’s Center for Health Law and Policy, but would eventually like to take a course in criminal law as well, to experience fi sthand just what life in the courtroom as the next Perry Mason would really be like.

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Operations are underway at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law’s recently opened solo practice incubator, and its fir t wave of occupants is excited to begin their careers as solo practitioners.

INCUBATOR

The fir t group of incubator tenants represents a wide array of practice areas including criminal law, immigration law and elder law. All of the attorneys expressed the importance of the resources the incubator is providing in the start-up phase of their new ventures. “Financially there are a lot of plusses to being in the incubator, and that takes a lot of pressure off of a n w attorney,” Matt Williams ’13 said. “You can actually focus on trying to grow the practice instead of just paying the bills.” “The things that other attorneys have to pay for, we have right here,” Joy Kennedy ’05 said. “We have a perfect office space and location at a perfect price. If I had to get my own office, my costs would be much greater and I would have to pass those costs on to my clients.” Now in the infancy of their practices, each of these attorneys has taken a unique path prior to joining the incubator — and each has a unique plan for the future.

Melissa Gawelek ’13 Melissa Gawelek ’13 has a passion for helping others. The Northeast Ohio native is a certified disa ter relief responder and tutors English as a second language. Entering law school, she hoped that passion would manifest itself in a career in immigration law. That pursuit is now possible thanks to the solo practice incubator. Gawelek’s desire to work in immigration law came from her experiences with a good friend from Rwanda, who in the 1990s escaped as a refugee from the genocide that occurred in that country. Gawelek was in attendance when her friend received U.S. citizenship, and it was at that point the future attorney knew her career choice. “That day was my ‘a-ha’ moment when I knew what I wanted to do,” Gawelek said. “It was riveting and eye opening, and I knew I wanted to help these people as much as I could.” During law school, Gawelek participated in experiences that prepared her for the profession. She had opportunities to work with clients as an active participant in legal aid clinics through the pro bono program, and was a member of the Civil Litigation Clinic during her final seme ter. She also spent a summer studying abroad in France, with a focus on international human rights. After passing the bar, entering solo practice interested Gawelek, but she was not sure if she had the resources necessary. When Cleveland-Marshall announced the opening of its incubator, her path towards success became much clearer. Gawelek’s practice is still in its infancy, but she is excited about working on something she believes in. She is going to be able to pass the savings on overhead directly to clients, a benefit o those in need and a competitive edge she hopes will help her grow her client base.

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Helps Cleveland-Marshall Graduates Launch Solo Practices Joy Kennedy ’05 Joy Kennedy ’05 experienced the need for her profession fi sthand. While caring for her aging grandmother in the final years of her life, Kennedy encountered many legal matters her family was unprepared for — wills, living wills, powers of attorney and trusts. Several years later, she is doing what she can to make sure others do not struggle with the same issues during an already trying time. A Cleveland native, Kennedy has plenty of experience helping those in need. She holds both undergraduate and graduate degrees in social work, and has worked as a social worker in the public defender’s office in Washington, D.C. After noticing that social workers did not seem to carry the same authority with judgers as lawyers did, she decided to return to her hometown to go to law school. While at Cleveland-Marshall, she externed with the public defender’s office in Cleveland. After passing the bar, she was hired as an attorney in the juvenile division, where she has been for the past nine years. Still, the experience with her grandmother weighed on Kennedy, and when the Cleveland-Marshall incubator was announced, she saw this as the opportunity to open a solo practice focused on estate planning and probate work. “Combining my social work background, clinical perspective and legal perspective, I feel it provides me the ability to give better answers to the families that I will work with,” Kennedy said. “Helping families prepare for the future is what I want to do, and why I wanted to open my own practice.” Kennedy believes in helping families prepare for the future at a reasonable cost, and she is very conscious of passing the cost savings provided through the incubator directly to her clients. She hopes one day “The Law Offices of Joy Kennedy” will provide affordable services to communities beyond the Cleveland area. In the meantime, while Kennedy assists local families, she and her husband are raising one of their own. Kennedy believes solo practice will offer her the fl xibility to spend time with her family and to make sure her two children have the best opportunities to seek the education she values.

Matthew Williams ’13 Matthew Williams ’13 is barely two months into his operations and already has a white board in his new incubator office lined with cases. The Cleveland Heights, Ohio native has no issue with the impending need to purchase a second white board. After passing the bar last summer, Williams took a position with the Eleventh District Court of Appeals. He thrives in the courtroom setting, and is specializing in criminal law. “The courtroom is a fast-paced and interesting work environment,” Williams said. “In law, there are plenty of tedious jobs, but arguing before juries is not one of them.” Williams also has an interest in immigration law and plenty of experience internationally. As an undergraduate in history at Ohio State University, he spent three summers studying abroad in France and Spain. While at Cleveland-Marshall, he participated in the Summer Law Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia, and traveled to the Seychelles, an island nation in the Indian Ocean, to work for a Seychelles Supreme Court judge on two Somalian pirate cases. While in law school, Williams knew that solo practice was a career path he would eventually like to pursue, but did not feel it would be financially easible so quickly after graduation. The opportunity provided by the incubator at Cleveland-Marshall changed that, and is allowing Williams to grow his base of clients – and his collection of dry erase markers.

Solo Practitioner Hall of Fame call for nominees Cleveland-Marshall would like to recognize alumni who have achieved personal success and enriched their communities through their practices. If there is a solo practice colleague, classmate or acquaintance you would like to nominate, or if you would like to submit your own name, please contact Megan McFadden, Manager, Alumni and Donor Relations, at 216.687.2476 or m.a.mcfadden87@ csuohio.edu

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Incoming Law Students Partake in Unique

Engaged Learning Experience Incoming students at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law had a unique opportunity to see the law in action fir thand during their fir t week of law school as part of Cleveland-Marshall’s “First Years’ First Week” orientation. For the fir t time, students participated in an innovative Engaged Learning Day. In the morning, students went to either the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio or the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Eighth Appellate District, and observed actual cases specifically selec ed by judges for the day. In the afternoon, students visited two local companies — Nextant Aerospace and Flight Options LLC — both based out of the Cuyahoga County Airport. The afternoon included a tour of the facilities and discussions with the president and corporate counsel of these companies. “Many students don’t see the inside of a courtroom until after their fir t year of law school, and that doesn’t make sense,” said Carole O. Heyward, Director of Engaged Learning at Cleveland-Marshall. “We don’t know of any other law schools that are doing something similar to our program. We feel it is very beneficial or our students to see judicial proceedings and learn about subjects such as contracts and business structure fir thand, before stepping into the classroom.” Cleveland-Marshall faculty played a critical role in the day as well, as they organized readings and led discussions before and after the field xperiences, to review what the students encountered, and to highlight critical takeaways that relate to upcoming coursework.

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Many students don’t see the inside of a courtroom until after their fir t year of law school, and that doesn’t make sense.” Carole O. Heyward, Director of Engaged Learning

“Students constantly tell us how beneficial it is o be able to put what they are learning in real-world context, and this was a great opportunity to expose them to the law in action from their very fir t week in law school,” explained Cleveland-Marshall Dean Craig M. Boise. “Having our faculty lead discussions throughout the day maximized their time in the field and helped tudents hone in on what they should be focusing on as they continue to partake in engaged learning experiences throughout their law school careers.”

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Education Law Association Moves to Cleveland-Marshall When the Education Law Association was searching for a new headquarters in 2012, Cleveland State University and Cleveland-Marshall College of Law acted quickly on the opportunity to form an exciting, collaborative relationship with the organization. The ELA opened its office at Cleveland-Marshall in the fall of 2013, with Cleveland Mayor Frank G. Jackson ’83 formally welcoming the association to its new home in a grand opening ceremony. “Our association is pleased to have established this new, collaborative relationship with ClevelandMarshall College of Law and the College of Education at Cleveland State,” said Cate K. Smith, executive director of the ELA and a 1995 graduate of ClevelandMarshall. “There are thriving legal and higher education Dean Craig M. Boise and Cleveland Mayor Frank G. Jackson ’83 (right) welcome Education Law communities in Cleveland and throughout Northeast Association Director Cate K. Smith ’95 (left) at the grand opening ceremony. Ohio, and we plan to leverage those to increase the profile of our o ganization, and to make information on legal issues for both K-12 and higher education available to a wider audience.”

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We are excited about the opportunities that hosting the ELA will bring to our students and the community.” Cleveland-Marshall Dean Craig M. Boise

The opportunity to form this collaboration presented itself in the early stages of the ELA’s search for a new headquarters, after a conversation with the then-President of ELA and the Deans of the College of Education and College of Law. Founded in 1954 with a purpose of improving education by promoting interest in and understanding of education law, the ELA specialized in an area of law that fell under Cleveland-Marshall’s commitment to expanding opportunities for students to put their law degrees to use. “We are excited about the opportunities that hosting the ELA will bring to our students and the community,” said Cleveland-Marshall Dean Craig M. Boise. “Education law offers an exciting potential career path that our students will have unique chances to explore with the proximity of the association and its membership network.” Cleveland-Marshall now offers a special education law course taught by Dr. Ralph Mawdsley, a past president of the ELA and a faculty member at CSU since 1991, in a new joint appointment with the College of Education. Smith is also working with professors at both schools on offering supplemental texts produced by the ELA to meet the needs of their curriculum. In 2015, Cleveland-Marshall students will have a special opportunity to learn the ins and outs of education law when the association hosts its annual conference in Cleveland for the fi st time. In the meantime, students have the opportunity to sit in on webinars and seminars and interact with association members. The ELA’s membership is made up primarily of school administrators, professors and attorneys who represent school districts, but also includes professional writers, educational consultants and policymakers. The association’s events offer a great opportunity for students to realize different ways they can use their legal education in a unique field “Coming to law school, students often have a very narrow vision of the law,” Smith said. “When I speak to people fi e or 10 years out of law school and ask them if they are working where they thought they’d be, they often say they didn’t even know the field th y are in existed, and now realize how applicable having a J.D. is in so many areas.” Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

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Presentations

F. M i c h a e l H i g g i n b o t h a m

Civil rights author F. Michael Higginbotham delivered a Constitution Day lecture at ClevelandMarshall, in a dialogue co-sponsored by The City Club of Cleveland. The lecture was part of daylong festivities throughout Cleveland State University, honoring the nation’s heritage and celebrating the adoption of the United States Constitution. Higginbotham discussed his recent book, Ghosts of Jim Crow: Ending Racism In Post-Racial America, which argues that America remains far from the imagined utopia hoped for when Barack Obama was elected as the fi st African-American president. In addition to the lecture, Higginbotham hosted a question and answer session where he fielded que tions pertaining to current topics in race relations. During his talk, Higginbotham touched on how America has maintained notions of white superiority and black inferiority, and how the United States remains separate and unequal. He discussed how far America has come with the narrowing of its racial divide, and offered remedies for the disparities which still exist. Higginbotham, a native Clevelander, is the Wilson H. Elkins Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore School of Law. He teaches courses on constitutional law and race, and has served as a guest on CNN and MSNBC discussing race and the law.

The Cleveland-Marshall Entertainment and Sports Law Association hosted several industry leaders at its annual symposium. Cosponsored by the Sports Lawyers Association and the Greater Cleveland Film Commission, the all-day event covered a variety of topics in the sports and entertainment industries.

E n t e r t a i n m e n t a n d S p o r t s L aw S y m p o s i u m : A panel featuring Cleveland Cavaliers general counsel Jason Hillman, Cleveland Browns defensive quality control coach and Harvard Law graduate Daron Roberts, retired National Football League player and former athletic director of Marquette University and University of Portland Larry Williams, Mid-American Conference commissioner Dr. Jon Steinbrecher and executive vice president of Shapiro Negotiations Institute Michael Blackstone touched on current issues in athletics, including unionization for college athletes and conference realignment. The Greater Cleveland Film Commission sponsored a pair of panels focusing on the legal side of the film indu try. Peter Kaufman, a Hollywood producer and owner of Kaufman Entertainment Legal Group, described his industry as “different than any other business.” Wilder Knight, a New York City film p oducer and legal counsel who has negotiated deals with Muhammad Ali, Pele and Helen Mirren, offered a piece of advice while speaking on the importance of future rights and project control in agreements. “The most important aspect of entertainment law is due diligence,” Knight said. GCFC President Ivan Schwarz also led a panel with Chris Blake and Rex Miller of Hahn Loeser, and Yasmine Abdel-Aal of the Kaufman Entertainment Legal Group, that covered filmmaking in the Cl veland area, among other industry subjects. “You have to understand the language of this (entertainment) industry, just like you would in fields li e space law or mergers and acquisitions,” Schwarz said. Furthermore, Jay Reisinger, Sam Reich, and Jim Juliano, counsel for the Lake County Captains, conducted an abbreviated mock Major League Baseball arbitration hearing for a Cleveland Indians player. Reisinger and Reich have both represented several MLB players in arbitration hearings, and Reisinger has also represented MLB stars Alex Rodriguez, Andy Pettitte and Sammy Sosa for their suspected use of performance-enhancing drugs. 10

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Leading up to the 50th anniversary of Title VII, Professor Suzanne Goldberg spoke on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) employment discrimination, and how it relates to the Civil Rights Act at the Littler Mendelson Employment and Labor Law Lecture. Goldberg, the Herbert and Doris Wechsler Clinical Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, discussed how Title VII fails to offer protection to LGBT individuals during her presentation, “21st Century Employment Discrimination: LGBT Employees and New Perspectives on Workplace Law.” There is no federal law explicitly prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation, but over the past 30 years several states have passed laws that protect LGBT individuals from employment discrimination. With many cities and companies offering additional protection from discrimination, the result is a complex set of laws and regulations to dissect. Independent of changes to the federal law, Goldberg does not see the issue of LGBT discrimination subsiding in the near future. “We live in a society that reinforces sex differences all the time,” Goldberg said. “At the root of much of the discomfort with LGBT individuals is our society’s discomfort with gender, fostering the need to reinforce gender roles and stereotypes.” Goldberg is a leading national expert in employment law related to sexuality and gender. At Columbia, Goldberg also co-directs the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law and founded and directs the Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic, the fi st clinic of its kind in the nation. Her co-authored book, Strangers to the Law: Gay People on Trial, has been hailed for capturing the cultural, political and legal context of the gay rights movement in the 1990s through the lens of the Romer v. Evans trial.

T i m Wu

Author and Professor Tim Wu spoke on the value of human attention in the 21st century at the Visiting Scholar Lecture at Cleveland-Marshall. During the event sponsored by the ClevelandMarshall Fund, “The Attention Merchants and Consumer Protection,” Wu suggested human attention should be valued as a scarce resource. Due to constantly advancing technologies and merchants becoming increasingly sophisticated at capturing people’s voluntary and involuntary attention with advertising, society is distracted as never before. “The bottom line is we have evolved to ignore almost everything,” Wu said. As consumers and businesses adapt to this modern-age concern, Wu feels that computers and other technological tools may begin to be redesigned in certain cases to limit capabilities and force concentration on a given task. As legal remediates adjust to time as a valuable resource, consumer protection laws may adjust to preserve individuals’ time. Wu feels some current laws — nuisance laws and noise ordinances for instance — inadvertently preserve the ability to think, and noted the effect the ban of cell phones on airplanes has on productivity during flig ts. A strong advocate against censorship, Wu suggests any movement should be consumer-driven. Wu is an author, policy advocate and professor at Columbia Law School, best known for his work on the development of net neutrality theory. His book, The Master Switch was named a best book of the year by the New Yorker, Amazon, Scribes, Publisher’s Weekly, and other publications. Wu has also written widely about private power, free speech, copyright and antitrust for media including Slate, the New Yorker, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

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Max Rodas, executive director of Proyecto Luz, and Magistrate Pablo Castro ’01: “Cultural Competency in the Legal Community,” presented by the Nueva Luz Urban Resource Center in partnership with the Ohio Hispanic Bar Association and Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

Criminal Justice Forum, Deborah Tuerkheimer, professor at DePaul University College of Law: “Rape Law for the Twenty-First Century”

Employment and Labor Law Lecture, Rick McHugh, senior staff attorney at the National Employment Law Project: “Unemployment Compensation: Is There Still Room for a New Deal Program in a Global Economy?”

The Friedman and Gilbert Criminal Justice Forum, Paul Wright, founder and executive director of the Human Rights Defense Center: “Prisons, Power, and Policy in the Twenty-First Century”

Center for Health Law and Policy: “Looking Ahead: Estate Planning for the New Senior Citizen” Featured Speakers: • Bradley Greene ’89, elder law attorney at Bartimole Greene Co., LPA,“Medicaid Planning” • Linda Rich ’77, elder law attorney, “Planning for Incapacity” • Maria Shinn ’97, elder law attorney, “Estate Planning for LGBT Seniors”

Journal of Law and Health Symposium: “Issues of Reproductive Rights: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Policy” Featured Speakers: • Michael DeBoer, associate professor of law at Thomas Goode Jones School of Law - Faulkner University • Carole Petersen, professor of law and director of the Matsunaga Institute for Peace at the University of Hawaii at Manoa • April Cherry, professor at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

Criminal Justice Forum, Jonathan Witmer-Rich, professor at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law: “The Rapid Rise of ‘Sneak and Peek’ Searches, and the Fourth Amendment ‘Rule Requiring Notice’,”

Center for Health Law and Policy: “Government Intervention: The ‘Free Market’ Health Care Industry and the Affordable Care Act” Featured Speakers: • Dr. Robert Field, Drexel University School of Law, “The ‘Free Market’ Health Care Industry” • Professor David Schweighoefer, Brouse McDowell, “Overview of the Affordable Care Act” • Professor Rachel Kabb-Eff on, Kabb Law Firm, “The Affordable Care Act and the Elderly” • Helen Rhynard, Rhynard Law, “The Affordable Care Act and the Effect on Workplace Wellness Programs” • Christel Best Turner Esq., AFAA, Rhynard Law, “The Affordable Care Act and the Effect on Workplace Wellness Programs”

Education Law Lecture, Joy Cumming, professor of education in the Faculty of Education and Arts at the Australian Catholic University: “Four Core Differences in US and Australian Law and Application to Schools, Teachers and Students”

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Spring 20 Criminal Justice Forum presented by the Forrest Weinberg Memorial Fund, Jelani Jefferson Exum, professor at the University of Toledo College of Law: “Incorporating Purpose into Sentencing: Obstacles and Opportunities for Reform”

Cleveland State Law Review Symposium co-sponsored by the Federalist Society: “History and the Meaning of the Constitution”

Featured Speakers: • Patrick Charles, historian, Air Force Special Operations Command 352nd Special Operations Group, “History as a Guidepost to Interpreting the Constitution” • Sheldon Gelman, professor of law at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, “Court-packing and the ‘Switch in Time’: Recent Developments” • Scott Gerber, professor at the Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law, “Liberal Originalism: The Declaration of Independence and Constitutional Interpretation” • Lee Strang, professor at the University of Toledo College of Law, “Originalism’s Promise and Limits”

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Global Business Law Review Symposium: “A Look at International Human Rights and Labor Law’s Influen e on Multinationals’ Corporate Responsibilities” Featured Speakers: • Donald C. Dowling, Jr., partner at White & Case, “International Equal Employment Opportunity: How a U.S. Multinational Can Enforce Discrimination, Harassment, and Diversity Policies Across Its Global Operations” • Barbara J. Fick, professor at Notre Dame Law School, “Corporate Social Responsibility for Enforcement of Labor Rights: Are There More Effective Alternatives?” • Marley Weiss, professor at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, “Duty of Care to Employees Sent Abroad”

Cleveland-Marshall Students Shine More than a year into its operation, the Civil Litigation Clinic at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law is achieving its goals. Cleveland-Marshall students are practicing real-life law, while helping individuals in need of quality legal assistance. Two of the students who gained invaluable experience from the clinic are Orlando Leon and Kate Southworth. Leon began working at the clinic in January 2013, initially working on a pair of appeals to the Board of Immigration Appeals in Washington, D.C., where he served both as a legal associate and a translator. Leon was able to expand his focus within the clinic, working on unemployment compensation and employee discrimination cases. Leon represented a client in a hearing before the Unemployment Compensation Review Commission, and based on testimony elicited in the cross examination of the employer’s witness, as well as the direct examination of the client, the hearing officer reversed a decision and found that the client was entitled to benefits. He also ser ed on a team that negotiated a settlement in a long-term case involving alleged employment discrimination and retaliation, after filing cha ge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. For Southworth, joining the Civil Litigation Clinic in August 2013 was a great way to get experience as a night student who works full time. At the time, she was not sure that civil litigation would be a future career path, but now is very interested in pursuing that area of law after a prolific enure with the clinic. Along with fellow student Amy Polomsky, Southworth helped draft an amicus brief featured by the Supreme Court of the United States blog. She received praise from the three-judge panel of the Eighth District Court of Appeals for exceptional advocacy while delivering an oral argument. Southworth was also successful as co-representation in a pair of unemployment commission hearings. Both Leon and Southworth stressed the importance of gaining experience working with clients, and how handling clients during their cases helped build upon the concepts of their classroom studies. “We’re in this law school universe where everybody understands legalese,” Southworth said. “It was interesting and helpful to sit down and have to translate that legal speak for the client, and put it into a language they can understand.” “Having my own cases was very eye opening for me,” Leon said. “You come to law school and spend your fir t year with your eyes glued to the book. When you actually have a client that depends on you to know the information and make an argument for them, it gives a new perspective on what you’ve learned.”

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in the Civil Litigation Clinic

Cleveland-Marshall Students’ Amicus Brief Featured on SCOTUSblog An amicus brief written by Cleveland-Marshall Civil Litigation Clinic students Amy Polomsky and Katherine Southworth was featured in a petition recognized as petition of the day by the Supreme Court of the United States blog. The SCOTUSblog petition of the day posts feature petitions that are likely to appear on the “petitions to watch” list when they are scheduled for consideration by the Justices. Petitions of the day are those identified as aising one or more questions that have a reasonable chance of being The clinic students also noted how they were able to find their individual writing tyles through their work, praising clinical professors Doron M. Kalir and Kenneth J. Kowalski for the freedom they allowed

granted in an appropriate case. The decision in question dates back to 2002, when four

while supervising the students as they developed

social workers in Cuyahoga County decided to remove a

arguments.

brother and a sister from their home for suspected abuse.

“Legal writing teaches basic principles, but when

Three days after the removal, a family court judge ruled that

you are preparing documents that will be read by

the suspicion was reasonable, and the kids were kept out

someone making a decision in a case, you learn all the intricacies of each court and how to put it all together with your writing style,” Leon said. As the students consider their future career plans,

of their home for nine month. Last year, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals refused to grant those social workers qualified immuni y, allowing them to be sued personally for

they believe their clinic experience has been as strong

their decision 12 years ago. That ruling was made despite a

as any a law student could have.

vigorous dissenting opinion.

“I’ve had the privilege of externing at a major law firm, working at a court and working at the clinic, and while

Jones Day Cleveland elected to take the case to the U.S.

they all were great experiences, the clinic was the only

Supreme Court, pro bono, and asked the Cleveland-Marshall

one where I was able to represent my own clients and

Civil Litigation Clinic to file an amicus brie . The civil

be in charge of an entire process,” Leon said. “That hands-on experience is invaluable, and that is the kind

litigation students, supervised by Clinical Professor Doron

of experience employers want.”

Kalir, filed this brief on behalf of the N tional Association of Social Workers.

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The Cleveland State

Law Review

Following the annual Summer Writing Competition, the Cleveland State Law Review welcomed 22 new associates and immediately began work on publishing a journal of significa t legal scholarship. This year’s board, under the leadership of Editor-in-Chief Terence Check, published four full issues of the Law Review, diligently soliciting distinguished articles from legal scholars, professors, renowned practitioners and judges.

The 2013-14 academic year saw the advent of several new initiatives designed to build on the successes of past editorial boards. The Law Review began accepting submissions on Scholastica, a new, cutting-edge online clearinghouse, doubling the number of annual submissions received. Additionally, the Review’s publications branch launched “digital subciting,” a process that enables associates to check rigorously the work of the scholars, while saving thousands of pages of paper every year. The Law Review also created an online companion, a new digital forum for shorter pieces of legal scholarship, designed for practitioners and scholars seeking to discuss emerging issues in the law. The year closed with the return of a Cleveland State Law Review sponsored symposium. This year’s symposium welcomed four scholars in the field of onstitutional law, who considered the “History and the Meaning of the Constitution.” The Law Review saw its ranking climb to 91st overall in the Washington & Lee University Law Library’s annual law journal rankings. This all-time high ranking for the Law Review is an increase from last year’s 94th ranking, and places the Cleveland State Law Review in the top half of student-edited law journals in the nation. The ranking reflects the contributions of law review members over the past eight years, and represents a tremendous amount of dedication and effort by past editorial boards. The Law Review plans to maintain its upward trajectory in 2014-15 under the leadership of Carrie Valdez, the incoming editor-in-chief.

ANNUAL AWARD WINNERS: Executive Editor of the Year: Kelly Voyles Editor of the Year: Sarah Cigic

Managing Editor of the Year: Steve Moore

Associate of the Year: Robert Pleines

Best Note: Robert McCaleb

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The Journal of

Law & Health

The Journal of Law and Health, founded in 1984, provides a forum for discussing issues important to both law and medicine, and is also one of the few publications that focuses on the complex and diverse field of health ca e law.

Lauren Orrico provided outstanding leadership as editor-in-chief, and was assisted by a staff of 15 edi ors and 13 associate editors. The 2013-14 staff published t o volumes (Vol. 27, Issues 1 and 2), each with intriguing and diverse articles about current issues in health law. The Journal of Law and Health also sponsored its annual symposium. This year’s symposium was titled “Issues of Reproductive Rights: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Policy.” The topic was chosen in response to the widespread interest expressed by symposium attendees last year, as well as its current national relevance. The Journal welcomed three scholars from across the country to discuss this topic and each, in turn, will provide an article to be featured in Volume 28, Issue 1, forthcoming in January 2015. This year, the Journal has been working to streamline the editorial process and increase communication through the use of new social media, an improved website and outreach to Cleveland-Marshall alumni. The Journal’s improved training model, including an intensive, two-day training session, led to more efficient subciting and be er quality notes. Incoming Editor-in-Chief Jeremy Gatta will look to build off of this inc eased efficie

y to publish a new, online-only

issue, and to implement an electronic subciting system to drastically decrease publishing costs and paper usage. Building off the su cesses of last year’s staff, the Journal used its new website to create the foundation for a more sustainable future — increasing the ability of readers to access easily all content online. An improved website, combined with Journal accounts on all major social networking sites, has led to increased communication with alumni, other health law organizations and attorneys in the Cleveland community.

ANNUAL AWARD WINNERS: Barbara J. Tyler Award for Best Note: Andrew Kane: Outstanding Editor: Amily Imbrogno

An Incomplete Pass: Inadequacies in Ohio’s Youth Concussion

Outstanding Associate: Max Julian

Legislation and the Ongoing Risk for Players.

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Global Business

Law Review

The Global Business Law Review concluded its fifth ear of publication in 2013-2014. The publication saw its largest increase in 2L membership, as the organization added 12 new associates, growing its total membership to 20 students.

The Global Business Law Review continues to publish innovative articles that tackle relevant and novel issues in the areas of international law and business law. In 2013, the Global Business Law Review launched a periodical feature titled In the Balance, a monthly feature written by associates. With In the Balance, the Review became the fir t journal at Cleveland-Marshall to provide an avenue for each of their associates to be published. In addition, Global Business Law Review publications will be featured on Engaged Scholarship, a website where all previous volumes and issues can be accessed online. These initiatives were executed by outgoing Editor-In-Chief Greg Ferrell. In April, the Global Business Law Review held its fifth annual ymposium, “A Look at International Human Rights and Labor Law’s Influen e on Multinationals’ Corporate Responsibilities.” The symposium was a great success, featuring notable experts from across the country. For the second year in a

Global Business Law Review forthcoming in the fall of 2014.

row, the symposium attracted over 100

With the rapid advancement of technology resulting in shrinking

area practitioners. Each speaker also

international borders, business law and international law continue to have

provided articles addressing important

a major presence in current affairs. As a result, the Global Business Law

issues in their areas of expertise, to be

Review looks forward to continuing to expand its presence within the

published in Volume 5, Issue 1, of the

global business and legal communities.

ANNUAL AWARD WINNERS: Editor of the Year: Tina Lattouf

Note of the Year: Michael Denicola

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PRO BONO

Program

During the 2013-14 school year, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law students donated more than 11,000 hours of pro bono service to those in need, giving students the unique opportunity to serve the community while learning the law. This past year, over 200 students and recent graduates participated in a service project organized by the oldest faculty-directed law school pro bono program in Ohio. Through the efforts of ongoing initiatives and one-day events, as well as Summer Public Interest Fellowships, Cleveland-Marshall students have again showed their commitment to “Live Justice.”

FEATURED PROJECTS FROM THE 2013-2014 ACADEMIC YEAR: Live Justice Day – At the beginning of each school year, students, faculty and staff particip te in a one-day event at one of a number of neighborhood organizations, including the Salvation Army, the 2100 Lakeside Shelter and the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland. Driving Under Suspension Project – A popular project where hundreds of community members receive legal assistance from volunteer lawyers and law students on driving issues including suspended licenses. Legal Aid Free Advice Clinics – Law students volunteer at weekly Free Advice Clinics sponsored by the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland. Taking place in a number of community centers in city neighborhoods, law students address housing issues, family law matters, immigration concerns and employment law.

Cleveland-Marshall Clinical Professor and Pro Bono Program Director Pamela Daiker-Middaugh ’89 was selected as the 2014 Justice for All Volunteer of the Year Award recipient by the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association. Daiker-Middaugh was honored for her dedication as a volunteer in CMBA’s pro bono and community programs, her leadership at the Bar, and for encouraging volunteer service among law students and graduates.

The Juvenile Court Child Support Project – Law students work with volunteer lawyers and meet with clients bi-weekly to address the child support issues of parents in Cuyahoga County under this partnership of the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court, Legal Aid and Cleveland-Marshall. Big Buddies Program with Harbor Light – Law students organize weekly educational and fun activities for families and children living in transitional housing at the Harbor Light Family Shelter. The Cosgrove Center - Law students handle intake at bi-monthly Legal Assistance Days sponsored by Catholic Charities. Students serve as important resources to low-income city residents dealing with legal matters. Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association’s 3Rs Program – Law students team-teach the United States Constitution in Cleveland high schools through this award-winning school/ court/bar partnership.

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MOOT Court Competition The Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Moot Court program had another successful season in 2013-14, with strong showings regionally and nationally under faculty advisors Carolyn BroeringJacobs and Kelly K. Curtis.

The year started off with the eam of Emily Gehring, Lauren Orrico and Gordon Gantt competing in the Burton D. Wechsler First Amendment Moot Court Competition at American University. The team, coached by Stanley Ball ’11 from Baker Hostetler, made it to the second elimination round and finished in the op 10 out of 32 teams. Also in the fall, the Cleveland-Marshall team competed at Ohio State University in the regional competition of the New York City Bar Association National Moot Court Competition, where Mike Pelagalli, Ciera Parish and Grayson Sieg advanced to the quarterfinals.

he team, coached by Dean Williams ’05 of Jones Day, went undefeated in oral

arguments. Spring semester kicked off with the 4

Annual Moot Court Night. The evening featured the William E. McGee

National Civil Rights Moot Court Competition 3L team, coached by Alex Reich ’09 from Calfee Halter, arguing in front of the Honorable Patricia A. Blackmon ’75 of the Eighth District Court of Appeals, along with the Honorable Dan A. Polster and the Honorable Benita Y. Pearson ’95, from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. In competition, the team of Moot Court Chair Caitlin Hill, Amanda Martin and Justin Stevenson advanced to the semifinals, and Hill ook fifth pla e for her oral argument. At the American Bar Association’s National Appellate Advocacy Competition in Boston, the team of Max Julian, Lydia Chiro and Erick Nevin, led by coaches Alana Jochum ’10, Amanda Hoffman ’12 and erry Billups ’05 from Squire Sanders, earned the fifth be t brief out of 42 teams, while advancing to the quarterfinals. Also ompeting at the John J. Gibbons Criminal Procedure Moot Court Competition hosted by Seton Hall University were Rob McCaleb, Joe Mittica and Kevin Kerr, coached by Sara Tackett ’13 and Kelsey Taylor ’13. In the last competition of the year, the team of Emily Gehring and Lauren Orrico competed in the August A. Rendigs National Products Liability Moot Court Competition in Cincinnati. The team, led by by Ryan Winkler ’12 from Thompson Hine, advanced to the quarterfinal ound of the competition.

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Program Trial Advocacy

Under the leadership of coaches Adam Davis â&#x20AC;&#x2122;08 and Julian Emerson of Reminger, the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law trial advocacy teams performed admirably in 2013-14. At the regional Texas Young Lawyers Association (TYLA) Trial Competition, Cleveland-Marshall was the only school out of the 20-team field o have both of its teams advance to the semifinals, with one of the teams earning a spot in the championship round. The team of Gillian Steiger and Brendan Heil reached the semifinals af er defeating teams from Case Western Reserve University and Wayne State University. The duo of Katie Farrell and Daren Niemi defeated entries from Thomas M. Cooley Law School and the University of Michigan. Farrell and Niemi went on to defeat the top entry from the University of Michigan to earn a spot in the championship round, where they lost by a single point to the eventual champion from Michigan State University. At the regional American Association for Justice (AAJ) Trial Competition, Danielle LeBlanc, David Cupp, Bailey Simkoff and eslie Stanard teamed to defeat squads from Ohio Northern University and Capital University, while the team of Adam Prufer, Kathryn Andrachik, Hannah Smith and Amy Polomsky performed admirably against formidable competition.

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Great Lakes Sports and Entertainment

Lake County Captains General Manager Brad Seymour details the team sponsorship agreements to academy students.

For the third straight year, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law hosted the Great Lakes Sports and Entertainment Law Academy, as a joint venture with Case Western Reserve University School of Law. In the three-week immersion program, students select a concentration of either sports or entertainment law and participate in corresponding courses as well as electives from the other concentration. Four courses were offered during the 2014 academy: Entertainment Law: Film and Television, Law of the Music Industry: The Artist’s Perspective, Representing the Professional Athlete, and Negotiation Strategies in Sports Management. In addition to learning from a world-class faculty and academy co-directors Peter A. Carfagna and Craig Nard, students were able to go on-site to several Cleveland-area attractions to learn fir t-hand about the agreements and legal regulations that affect their operations. Academy students took trips to Playhouse Square, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Greater Cleveland Sports Commission, Progressive Field and Classic Park. At Classic Park, home of the Cleveland Indians affil te Lake County Captains, students had the rare opportunity to see behind the scenes of professional baseball. As part of the hands-on experience, the class watched the game from the owner’s suite while gaining perspective from Carfagna, one of the club’s owners, conducted a post-game interview with highly touted Major League Baseball prospect Clint Frazier, and took a private tour of the ballpark while learning about the team’s operations and agreements from the Captains’ general manager Brad Seymour. The academy’s Representing the Professional Athlete class sat down with Frazier, who discussed how he selected an agency to represent him, the process leading up to his selection as the fifth verall pick in the 2013 MLB Draft, and the negotiations that led to agreeing to a $3.5 million signing bonus with the Indians. Seymour shifted focus to the Negotiation Strategies in Sports Management course, giving insight into the club’s numerous business agreements

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LAW ACADEMY pertaining to the ballpark lease, naming rights, concerts and special events, vendors, insurance, security, food and beverage, fi eworks and the club’s affil tion. Students received a behind-the-scenes tour of the stadium, and saw how portions of those agreements were implemented. “Overall it was a good experience,” said GLSELA student Bret Vaselaney. “In our textbook, we read about how signage is distributed throughout a venue and how an exclusivity clause affects that signage. However, it is difficult o visualize those elements from the text. My understanding of those two elements improved from the explanation and visual examples at the Captains’ stadium.” Cleveland State University Head Men’s Basketball Coach Gary Waters and Judge Dan A. Polster of the United States District Court, Northern District of Ohio,

Captains outfielder Cli t Frazier and GLSELA Co-Director Peter A. Carfagna

spoke as part of the academy’s end-of-session luncheon and certific te ceremony. Waters emphasized to students the importance of enjoying their careers and stated “go to work every day feeling good about what you do.” He spoke on dealings with his agents, as well as the agent selection process for former-CSU honorable mention All-America and current NBA guard Norris Cole. Judge Polster, a federal justice for the past 16 years, talked to academy students about the importance of arbitration and mediation in the sports and entertainment industries. Waters’ and Judge Polster’s appearances concluded an impressive list of guest speakers to present at the 2014 academy.

2014 Great Lakes Sports and Entertainment Law Academy Guest Speakers: Rick Chryst, Senior Vice President/Of Counsel at Dietz Trott Sports & Entertainment Management

John Palguta, Managing Director of Sports at MAI Wealth Investors

Jim Convertino, Director of Athletes and Entertainers at Britton Gallagher

Gary Pillar, Executive Director, Major Gifts, and Assistant Athletic Director for Development at Case Western Reserve University

Gavin Forbes, Senior Vice President of IMG Tennis

Judge Dan Polster, Federal Justice at the United States District Court, Northern District of Ohio

Clint Frazier, Fifth overall selection of the 2013 MLB Draft by the Cleveland Indians

John Parry, Athletic Director of Cleveland State University

John Raleigh, General Counsel of IMG

Jeff G wirtz, General Counsel of the Brooklyn Nets

Ivan Schwarz, President of the Cleveland Film Commission

Chris Harrington, Manager of Legal Services of the Brooklyn Nets

Brad Seymour, Vice President and General Manager of the Lake County Captains

Jason Hillman, General Counsel of the Cleveland Cavaliers Virnette House-Browning, Senior Associate Athletic Director and Senior Woman Administrator at Cleveland State University Dave Lightner, Principal of FSM Capital Management

Gary Waters, Head Men’s Basketball Coach at Cleveland State University Kristin Williams ’12, Director of Compliance at the Mid-American Conference

Brandon Longmeier, Assistant Athletic Director for Marketing at Cleveland State University

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FACULTY promotions

In March, fi e Cleveland-Marshall College of Law professors received promotions from the Cleveland State University Board of Trustees effective beginning with the 2014-15 academic year. Browne C. Lewis, Mark J. Sundahl and Alan C. Weinstein were promoted to the rank of Professor, while Gwendolyn R. Majette and Jonathan Witmer-Rich earned the status of Associate Professor with tenure.

Browne C. Lewis

Mark J. Sundahl

Alan C. Weinstein

Professor Browne C. Lewis, the Leon and Gloria Plevin Professor of Law and director of the Center for Health Law & Policy, is a nationally recognized expert on health care law.

Professor and Associate Dean for Administration Mark J. Sundahl has lectured around the world on the law of outer space and focuses primarily on the business, legal and policy issues arising from the recent increase in private space activity.

Professor Alan C. Weinstein holds a joint faculty appointment with the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs and the College of Law, where he serves as director of the JD/MPA and JD/MUPDD Dual Degree Programs, Law & Public Policy Program, and Master of Legal Studies Program.

Lewis writes in the areas of bioethics, environmental, family and inheritance law. In July 2012, New York University Press published Lewis’ book, Papa’s Baby: Paternity and Artificial Insemination. Lewis’ next book, Arrogance, Avarice and Anguish: Addressing the Ethical and Legal Consequences of Posthumous Reproduction, will be published by Routledge Press. Lewis’ work has been included in several law reviews and national publications. The past two summers, Lewis served as a visiting researcher at the foundation Brocher in Geneva, Switzerland, and visiting scholar at the Institute for Medical Humanities - University of Texas Medical Branch and The Hasting Center at Yale University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics. In December 2013, Lewis was awarded a Senior Fulbright Specialist Grant to lecture and conduct research at Haifa University and Hebrew University in Israel. Prior to joining the faculty at ClevelandMarshall, Lewis was an associate professor at University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, a summer visiting professor at Seattle University School of Law and a legal writing instructor at Hamline University School of Law. Lewis earned a J.D. from the University of Minnesota School of Law, and an LL.M from University of Houston School of Law.

In 2012, the U.S. Secretary of Transportation appointed Sundahl to the Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC), that advises the Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation regarding new regulations for private space activity. Sundahl has served as assistant secretary of the International Institute of Space Law, headquartered in Paris, and was a member of the working group charged with drafting a new international treaty on the finan e of satellites and other space assets: the UNIDROIT Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment. In 2012, he coordinated the 55th annual Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space in Naples, Italy. Sundahl has lectured around the world on space law, and his writings on the subject have appeared in leading academic journals. He also has made numerous media appearances in the New York Times and other outlets. Sundahl holds a J.D. from University of California, Hastings College of the Law, and a Ph.D. in classics from Brown University. Prior to joining the faculty at Cleveland-Marshall, he was an associate in the International Transactions Group at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP in San Francisco.

Weinstein is a nationally recognized expert on planning law who writes and lectures extensively in this field. He is a pa t-chair of the Planning & Law Division of the American Planning Association, one of the 28 planning law experts who serve as reporters for APA’s monthly journal, Planning & Environmental Law, and previously served as chair of the subcommittee for Land Use & the First Amendment in the American Bar Association’s Section of State & Local Government Law. Weinstein’s areas of expertise include adult entertainment regulation, affir tive action government contracting, city planning, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, fi st amendment, land use regulation, local and state government, historic preservation law, property, torts, urban planning and zoning. Weinstein holds a J.D. from University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s of city planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Gwendolyn R. Majette

Jonathan Witmer-Rich

Associate Professor Gwendolyn R. Majette has significa t experience working on health care issues on Capitol Hill and frequently consults on health care matters for the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

Associate Professor Jonthan Witmer-Rich is a leading authority on criminal procedure and criminal law theory. He teaches courses in criminal law, criminal procedure and law and terrorism.

Majette was a legislative fellow with a senator on the Health Subcommittee of the Senate Finance Committee, where she worked on Medicare, Medicaid, and health care reform policy. She also analyzed and reviewed Medicare policy as a fellow with the Health Subcommittee of the Ways and Means Committee of the United States House of Representatives. Internationally, she has spoken with South African academicians and government officials egarding the strengths and weakness of their health care delivery system. Majette teaches health law as part of Cleveland-Marshall’s Center for Health Law and Policy. Her scholarly work focuses on patients’ rights, delivery system reform and health care reform. Her article, “Access to Health Care: What a Difference Shades of Color Makes,” has been relied on by the United States Commission for Civil Rights, the Department of Health and Human Services, and is cited as a leading health law text.

Witmer-Rich’s most recent work, “The Rapid Rise of ‘Sneak and Peek’ Searches, and the Fourth Amendment ‘Rule Requiring Notice’,” will be published in a 2014 volume of the Pepperdine Law Review. His previous articles have appeared in journals such as Florida Law Review and Criminal Law and Philosophy. Before joining the Cleveland-Marshall faculty, Witmer-Rich practiced at the Federal Public Defender’s Office, where he represented defendants charged with a wide range of federal crimes. He also represented several detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in habeas corpus proceedings. Witmer-Rich earned his J.D. degree from University of Michigan.

Majette earned her J.D. degree from George Washington University School of Law, and her LL. M in Global Health, with distinction, from Georgetown University Law Center.

Sterio Named Associate Dean for Academic Enrichment Associate Professor Milena Sterio, a leading expert on international law, has been promoted to the position of Associate Dean for Academic Enrichment. Sterio, Charles R. Emrick Jr. - Calfee Halter & Griswold Professor of Law, has been a faculty member at Cleveland-Marshall since 2006, and is nationally known for her work on maritime piracy. “Professor Sterio brings a set of competencies that are particularly well-suited to this position as it has evolved over the last few years,” said Cleveland-Marshall Dean Craig M. Boise. “I look forward to her working with our faculty to enrich both the internal and external intellectual life of Cleveland-Marshall.” As a maritime piracy law expert, Sterio has participated in meetings of the United Nations Contact Group on Piracy off the oast of Somalia. She is a member of the Piracy Expert Group, an academic think tank functioning within the auspices of the Public International Law and Policy Group, and is one of six permanent editors of the prestigious IntLawGrrls blog. Sterio has presented her paper on the legality of the United States’ use of drones in the war on terror to groups throughout the country, including at the International Criminal Law Interest Group Annual Workshop. In the spring of 2013, Sterio was selected as a Fulbright Scholar, spending the semester at Baku State University in Azerbaijan. While in Baku, she had the opportunity to teach and conduct research on secession under international law as it related to the province of Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh. Sterio is a graduate of Cornell Law School and was an associate in the New York City firm of Clear , Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton before beginning her academic career. Sterio replaces Professor Heidi Gorovitz Robertson, who stepped down from the position as Associate Dean after fi e years to focus on teaching at Cleveland-Marshall and her ongoing scholarship in environmental and land use law. Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

FACULTY

INFLUENCE

Dean and Professor Craig M. Boise Craig M. Boise was appointed to serve on the Standards Review Committee of the ABA Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar. Professor Susan J. Becker Susan J. Becker presented “Marriage Equality in the U.S. Before and After Windsor and Perry” at the Cleveland American Civil Liberties Union, Columbus Urban League and the Clifton Cultural Art Center. Professor Michael J. Borden

Professor Patricia J. Falk Patricia J. Falk published an essay, Not Logic, but Experience: Drawing on Lessons from the Real World in Thinking About the Riddle of Rapeby-Fraud in the Yale Law Journal Online. Falk was cited in a decision by The Supreme Court of Canada from her article Rape by Fraud and Rape by Coercion. Falk presented “Is VAWA Enough?: The Epidemics of Rape on College Campuses and in the Military” at a conference tackling violence against women, presented by Dusquesne Law School.

Michael J. Borden published Of Outside Monitors and Inside Monitors: The Role of Journalists in Caremark Litigation in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law.

Falk was appointed to serve on Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty’s new Conviction Integrity Unit.

Professor Phyllis L. Crocker

David F. Forte joined an amicus brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in NLRB v. Noel Canning. The case is the appeal from the D.C. Circuit striking down President Obama’s recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board.

Phyllis L. Crocker was quoted in the article “Interim law school deans at Akron, Case face leadership challenges in critical era” in Crain’s Cleveland Business. Professor Michael H. Davis Michael H. Davis presented “Copyright and Fair Use” at the Society of American Travel Writers annual conference in Cleveland.

Professor David F. Forte

Forte presented “The Natural Law Bridge between Religion and the Constitutional State” to the International Conference of Catholic Jurists in Frascati, Italy, followed by an audience with Pope Francis. Forte was featured as a commentator in Brazil’s largest daily newspaper, Corrieo Braziliense, regarding homegrown terrorism in the United States. Forte participated in hearings on the problem of human trafficking as a member of the Ohi Advisory Committee to the United States Civil Rights Commission.

Forte presented several lectures in Southern California, including at Chapman Law School, University of California at Irvine Law School and University of Southern California Law School. Forte presented a lecture at Southern Illinois University Law School entitled “Isn’t it Time We Stopped Trusting Judges?” Forte delivered a presentation, “Satan, Religious Freedom, and the Natural Law,” to the Wilson Seminar of the Natural Law Center of Claremont University. Forte delivered a presentation, “Why is Freedom of Religion under Attack across the World?” at University of Toledo Law School. Professor Matthew W. Green Matthew W. Green and Susan J. Becker spoke at a CLE program entitled “A Legal Overview of LGBT Rights in Ohio,” presented in conjunction with a free legal clinic set up to assist LGBT community members. Clinical Professor Doron M. Kalir Doron M. Kalir presented his work on “Same-Sex Marriage and Jewish Law: A Contemporary Perspective” at Michigan State Law School. Kalir, together with Civil Litigation Clinic students Amy Polomsky and Kate Southworth, filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court on behalf of the National Association of Social Workers. The brief argues that social workers are entitled to qualified immunity whenever they make a reasonable decision to remove an abused child, even in the absence of a prior judicial hearing.

Leon and Gloria Plevin Professor of Law Browne C. Lewis Browne C. Lewis served as a visiting scholar at the Hastings Center for Bioethics and the Institute for Medical Humanities of University of Texas Medical Branch. She also traveled to Israel for two weeks as a Fulbright Specialist at Haifa University, where she assisted the university in the areas of global and community health.

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INFLUENCE

Kalir presented “The U.S. & Israeli Legal Systems: How Similar Are We?” to the International Law Section of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association. Kalir participated in a panel discussion on human trafficking t the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program in Beachwood, Ohio. Legal Writing Professor Sandra J. Kerber Sandra J. Kerber served as a board of editorial advisor for Bryan Garner’s The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style, Third Edition, published by West Academic Publishing. Kerber participated in Judge4Yourself.com’s interviews of judicial candidates prior to election season. Professor Stephen R. Lazarus Stephen R. Lazarus was highlighted in the Harvard University Press book, What the Best Law Teachers Do! Leon and Gloria Plevin Professor of Law Browne C. Lewis Browne C. Lewis spoke at the annual meeting of the National Association of Female Judges to an audience consisting of female judges from the United States and several other countries. Her talk focused upon the need for legislatures to change the intestacy system to accommodate nontraditional families.

Lewis published Linking the Certainty of Death and Taxes in the trusts and estates edition of Jotwell. Lewis was quoted in Crain’s Cleveland Business in the article “Nurse-lawyers bring rare skill, perspective to legal field-O ganizations value knowledge of health system, patient care issues.” Lewis spoke on “Pain Matures: Terminally Ill Minors and Physician-Monitored Suicide” at a Michigan State University School of Law symposium. Legal Writing Professor Claire C. Robinson-May Claire C. Robinson-May presented “Enhancing Understanding by Inviting Student Creativity into the Legal Writing Classroom,” at the Southeastern Legal Writing Conference held at Stetson University College of Law. Professor Gwendolyn Roberts Majette Gwendolyn Roberts Majette and Heidi Gorovitz Robertson participated in the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association’s Medical-Legal Summit at Cleveland’s Global Center for Health Innovation. Majette was interviewed by WEWS News Channel 5 Cleveland for fi e segments concerning the ongoing health care reform process and its implications.

Lewis presented “Arrogance, Avarice and Anguish: Addressing the Ethical and Legal Consequences of Posthumous Reproduction” at the Law & Society Annual Meeting in Boston.

Majette served as a panelist for a program entitled “The ACA, the Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth” at the annual symposium of the Washington Bar Association’s Judicial Council.

Lewis was elected to the Association of American Law Schools’ Women in Legal Education Archives Subcommittee.

Majette joined a discussion on the benefits of the Affordable Care Act during a live broadcast of “The Madison Show” on Sirius XM radio.

Majette serves as an at-large member of the Association of American Law Schools’ Law, Medicine and Health Care executive team. Majette moderated for a panel entitled “Health Care Disparities: The role of Title VI Past, Present and Future” at “Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Putting an End to Separate and Unequal Health Care in the United States 50 Years After the Civil Rights Act of 1964,” hosted at Case Western Reserve University Law School. Professor Ralph D. Mawdsley Ralph D. Mawdsley was appointed as a Professor Extraordinary by the University of the Free State in South Africa. Legal Writing Professor Karin Mika Karin Mika and Legal Writing Professor Emerita Barbara Tyler participated on a panel entitled “Love Me Now or Thank Me Later” at the Association of Legal Writing Directors conference in Milwaukee. Mika published Visual clarity in contract drafting in Clarity, a journal published by Clarity-international, an international association promoting plain legal language. Mika presented “Flipping the Assignment and the Theory of Desirable Difficu y” at the Rocky Mountain Regional Legal Writing Conference and the Southeast Regional Legal Writing Conference. Mika presented “Angst, Technology, and Innovation” at a legal writing workshop at the University of Oregon School of Law.

James A. Thomas Distinguished Professor Christopher L. Sagers Christopher L. Sagers was quoted in the New York Times andthe Wall Street Journal , and appeared on the National Public Radio show “On Point with Tom Ashbrook” concerning the merger proposal between U.S. Airways and American Airlines. He was also quoted by several press outlets concerning the Justice Department’s antitrust case against Apple, including Publisher’s Weekly, Bloomberg News and the Wall Street Journal’s online blog. Sagers wrote a blog on the Apple case, “The Fate of Apple and Antitrust: Overcoming Confusion About the eBooks Case,” posted on the Huffin on Post.

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Mika has published “A Third Semester of LRW: Why Teaching Transactional Skills and Problems is Now Essential to the Legal Writing Curriculum” in an edition of The Second Draft. Mika was appointed a deputy editor for the ABA Section of International Law’s “Year in Review.” Professor Kevin F. O’Neill Kevin F. O’Neill was quoted at length in an article, 1st Amendment at issue in ban on gay-conversion therapy for minors in an issue of the ABA Journal. Professor John T. Plecnik John T. Plecnik published Reckless Means Reckless: Understanding the EITC Ban in an edition of Tax Notes Today. Plecnik published an article, The New Flat Tax: A Modest Proposal for a Constitutionally Apportioned Wealth Tax, in the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly. Plecnik was quoted in Tax Notes Today on two cases in U.S. Tax Court that he supported pro bono as cocounsel with Cleveland Legal Aid, and on reducing the error rate for the earned income tax credit. Plecnik was elected to the Willoughby Hills City Council.

Joseph C. Hostetler-Baker & Hostetler Professor Brian E. Ray Brian E. Ray published Courts, capacity and engagement: Lessons from Hlophe v City of Johannesburg in the Economic and Social Rights Review, a publication of the Social and Economic Rights Project at the University of the Western Cape’s Community Law Centre in South Africa. Ray published a blog post entitled South African Informal Traders Forum and Others v The City of Johannesburg and Others: A Promising Start by the South African Constitutional Court, on Oxford Human Rights Hub. Ray helped organize and will serve as one of the editors of a new SSRN Legal Scholarship Subject Matter eJournal — African Law eJournal — cosponsored by Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. Professor Heidi Gorovitz Robertson Heidi Gorovitz Robertson was selected to serve as the United States reporter for a new project of the Common Core of European Private Law examining aspects of European private law through the lens of carefully created case studies. Robertson was a regular contributor to the Shale Report published by Crain’s Cleveland Business. She also spoke on a panel entitled “The Most from a Lease” at Crain’s Shale Summit

James A. Thomas Distinguished Professor Christopher L. Sagers Christopher L. Sagers was featured in the New York Times’ weekly legal affairs for his work on the naming of federal statutes, and what evolving trends in statute names say about the growing malaise in federal Congress. Sagers published posts on the Huffin on Post entitled “The ‘Reverse Payment’ Drugs Case: The Most Important Economic Issue You Never Heard of –And Why There Might Still Be Some Hope for Antitrust” and “Righting Donald Sterling’s Racial Wrongs and... Um, Antitrust?” Sagers discussed his work on the Justice Department’s price-fixing l wsuit against Apple, United States v. Apple, Inc., before the Antitrust Section of the New York State Bar Association. Sagers wrote an essay on naming traditions in federal legislation, A Statute by any Other (Non-acronomial) Name Might Smell Less Like S.P.A.M., or, The Congress of the United States Grows Increasingly D.U.M.B., accepted for publication in the Georgetown Law Journal. Dean Emeritus Steven H. Steinglass Steven H. Steinglass has been appointed senior policy advisor to the Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission. He made several presentations on Ohio constitutional history and revision as part of his position.

Robertson published Awaiting the court’s word on validity of local zoning control of well locations, in Crain’s Cleveland Business’ Energy Report.

Associate Dean and Charles R. Emrick Jr. -Calfee Halter & Griswold Professor Milena Sterio Milena Sterio will serve as one of three editors and write two chapters for an edited piracy volume published by Cambridge University Press. Her previous article on piracy, The Somali Piracy Problem: A Global Puzzle Necessitating A Global Solution, 59 Am. U. L. Rev. 1449 (2010), was cited by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in U.S. v. Ali. She also visited Serbia where she spoke to students and faculty at Novi Sad University on an “Introduction to American Law.”

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Associate Dean and Charles R. Emrick Jr. Calfee Halter & Griswold Professor Milena Sterio Milena Sterio presented at the International Law Weekend in New York City, on a panel entitled “Debating the Concept of Grotian Moment.” Sterio participated in a panel discussion entitled “The Future of the International Criminal Court” at the American Society of International Law Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. Sterio was named an editor-in-chief of piracy-law. com, a blog dedicated to maritime piracy. Sterio was a regular participant on “Talking Foreign Policy,” a quarterly radio special broadcast on WCPN. Sterio was elected Secretary of the International Human Rights section and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Law section of the Association of American Law Schools. Sterio spoke on a panel entitled “The Future of International Criminal Prosecutions” at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting in Palm Beach, Fla. Sterio participated in a conference at Case Western Reserve Law School, addressing the international war on piracy. Sterio posted On Crimean Secession, Fairness, and Self-Determination on IntLawGrrls.com, a blog on international law, policy and practice. Sterio participated in the International Affairs Symposium at Lewis and Clark College on a panel entitled “Militarized Humanitarian Intervention: Guns for Good?”

Associate Dean Mark J. Sundahl Mark J. Sundahl spoke on a panel entitled “Regulating and Incentivizing Commercial Space Markets” at the International Law Weekend in St. Louis. Sundahl participated in a panel at the annual Galloway Symposium on Critical Issues in Space Law, a conference organized by the University of Mississippi and the International Institute of Space Law. Sundahl was selected as chair of the International Law Section of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association. Sundahl published an article in The Air & Space Lawyer, entitled The Space Assets Protocol One Year Later: An Update and Reassessment. Sundahl participated in a roundtable discussion on liability issues connected with the commercial human spaceflig t industry at the University of Nebraska’s Annual Space and Cyber Law Conference in Washington, D.C. Sundahl was quoted in Crain’s Cleveland Business in an article regarding the decision to make permanent the commercial docket at the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas. Sundahl was quoted in SpaceNews regarding new proposed safety practices for commercial orbital and suborbital human spaceflig t companies.

Professor Alan C. Weinstein Alan C. Weinstein co-authored the 2013 edition of Federal Land Use Law & Litigation, a one-volume treatise published by West-Thomson Reuters. The book examines federal, constitutional, and statutory limitations on local land use controls, discussing cases, regulations, defense strategies, doctrines and antitrust restrictions Weinstein organized and served as a participant on a panel entitled “The Content-Neutrality Issue in Sign Regulation” at the American Planning Association national conference in Atlanta, Ga. Weinstein presented a CLE session entitled “Legal and Practical Issues in Regulating Signs & Billboards” to the Northeast Ohio Law Directors Association. Professor Jonathan Witmer-Rich Jonathan Witmer-Rich was interviewed by Fox 8 News in Cleveland regarding the reenactment organized by Cuyahoga County prosecutors of a fatal 2012 police shooting. Witmer-Rich posted guest blogs concerning sneak and peek searches on the PrawfsBlawg website.

Sundahl moderated a CLE webinar through the West LegalEdcenter entitled Space Tourism: What Lawyers Need to Know to Service this New Industry.

Associate Dean Mark J. Sundahl Mark J. Sundahl, a member of the Federal Aviation Administration’s Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee, was appointed chair of the International Space Policy Working Group. Sundahl also published The Cape Town Convention: Its Application to Space Assets and Relation to the Law of Outer Space. The book examines the recently adopted UNIDROIT Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and its Space Assets Protocol, which together create a new international regime of secured finan e applicable to satellites, launch vehicles and other types of space equipment.

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Sarah Beznoska – Assistant Director of Career Planning Sarah Beznoska joined Cleveland-Marshall in November 2013, after six years in various capacities at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Previously, she worked for the state legislature in Washington State and practiced law in Washington, DC. Sarah is a graduate of Duke University School of Law and earned her B.A. in American studies and Spanish at the University of Notre Dame. Katie Brickner – Manager of Annual Giving & Special Projects Katie Brickner joined Cleveland-Marshall in August 2013, after working in annual giving at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. She received her B.A. at Hiram College, and is currently working on a master’s in nonprofit admini tration and leadership from the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs. Jo Ann Carpenter – Purchasing Agent/Administrative Secretary Jo Ann Carpenter joined Cleveland-Marshall in June 2013, after six years at the Oklahoma City VA Medical Center and the National Weather Service in Norman, Okla. She holds a B.A. in liberal studies from the University of Oklahoma. Brian Cassidy – Electronic Services Librarian Brian Cassidy joined Cleveland-Marshall in October of 2013, after working for the West Virginia State Law Library and LexisNexis. Brian received his law degree from University of Dayton and has a master’s degree in library and information science from Kent State University. Lauren Collins – Director of Law Library and Associate Professor Lauren Collins joined Cleveland-Marshall in August 2013, after serving as director of the law library at North Carolina Central University School of Law. She is a graduate of University of North Carolina School of Law and earned a Master of Science in information from University of Michigan. Heather DiFranco – Director of Career Planning Heather DiFranco joined Cleveland-Marshall in July 2013, after more than fi e years in the career development office at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. She is a graduate of Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and earned her B.A. in political science at Baldwin-Wallace College. Patricia Donovan – Administrative Secretary Patricia Donovan joined Cleveland-Marshall in December, 2013, after working for three years at CSU’s of Engineering. She is a graduate of Kent State University with a B.S. in education, and is currently working in the post-baccalaureate program in Urban Planning at CSU.

Nancy Erhardt – Coordinator, Career Planning Nancy Erhardt joined Cleveland-Marshall in July 2013, after fi e years working in CSU’s Bursar’s Office. Previously, she spent 10 years working at CSU’s West Center.

Clifford Maslovsky – Technology Support Specialist Clifford Maslovsky joined Cleveland-Marshall in March 2014, after working for 10 years at the Ashtabula County Technical & Career Campus. He is a graduate of Youngstown State University with a degree in general studies with concentrations in education and history. Margo Mathis – Library Media Technical Assistant Margo Mathis joined Cleveland-Marshall in October 2013 as a library media technical assistant.

Dalina Mayes – Secretary Dalina Mayes joined Cleveland-Marshall in February 2014 as a secretary. She is a native of Scottsdale, Ariz., and studied psychology and corporate communication at University of Arizona, as well as Ohio State University.

Jill McDonnell – Administrative Coordinator Jill McDonnell joined Cleveland-Marshall in April 2014, after 10 years as assistant director of the Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association. She is a graduate of Miami University where she earned her B.A. in English, with a focus in professional writing.

Lisa Smilnak – Library Media Tech Assistant Lisa Smilnak joined Cleveland-Marshall in June 2013, after working in various library settings. She earned her B.A. degree from Kenyon College and a Master of Library and Information Science degree from Kent State University.

Steve Antol is now an Administrative & Recruitment Assistant Matthew Bruckner, Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor Matthew Bruckner joined the engaged learning program at ClevelandMarshall as a visiting assistant clinical professor in the Transactional Law Clinic for the 2013-14 academic year. Bruckner was previously at St. John’s University School of Law, where he was a research professor of law and fellow in the bankruptcy program. Prior to that, he served as a law clerk to the Hon. Allan L. Gropper in the bankruptcy court for the Southern District of New York, and practiced law for three years in the New York office of Allen & Overy, LLP. His research focuses on bankruptcy and commercial law issues. Bruckner is a graduate of NYU School of Law.

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Susan J. Becker is retiring after 24 years as a member

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of the Cleveland-Marshall faculty. Becker is an alumnus of the

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on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit for Judge Robert

school, having graduated magna cum laude in 1983. After clerking

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Krupansky, Becker spent fi e years in litigation practice at Jones

of Law

has since served stints as associate dean and as the Charles R.

Day. Becker joined the Cleveland-Marshall faculty in 1990 and

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Emrick, Jr. - Calfee Halter and Griswold Professor of Law. In 2010,

departing the

Becker has worked tirelessly on many critical projects at the law

she received the CSU Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching. school, including the broad curricular reform implemented in 2012.

law school after

Becker plans to continue her long-time work in support of the

decades of

American Civil Liberties Union in retirement.

valued service.

Stephen W. Gard is retiring after 37 years as a member of the Cleveland-Marshall faculty. Gard joined the faculty in 1977, after having spent two years as an assistant professor at Gonzaga

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University School of Law. Prior to that, he worked as an associate at the law firm of Murp y, McAtee, Murphy & Costanza. Gard is a graduate of DePauw University, Indiana University (J.D.) and the University of Chicago (LL.M). From 2007-2011, Gard served as advisor to the moot court team, leading the teams to a number of regional and national honors, and earning a top 20 national ranking for the program. He has written widely in the area of fir t amendment rights, including briefs in cases before the United States Supreme Court.

Phyllis L. Crocker is leaving Cleveland-Marshall after 20 years to serve as dean of the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law. A graduate of Yale University and Northeastern University School of Law, she clerked for Judge Warren J. Ferguson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit before joining a Chicago law firm specializing in omplex federal civil litigation. Immediately before coming to Cleveland-Marshall, Crocker served as a staff attorney at the Texas Resource Center in Austin, representing death-sentenced inmates in state and federal post-conviction litigation. During her tenure at Cleveland-Marshall, Crocker served as associate dean for academic affairs (2006-10) and as interim dean (2010-11). She twice won the CSU Administrative Merit Recognition Award (2008 and 2009) and was honored with the CSU Faculty Merit Recognition Award in 2004.

Everyone at Cleveland-Marshall would like to wish these three outstanding individuals well in their future endeavors.

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Cleveland-Marshall Launches Strategically Designed Website As part of a response to the changing landscape of legal education, Cleveland-Marshall launched a new, strategically designed website this spring. The website homepage, at www.law.csuohio.edu, acts as a campaign-based microsite, inspired by University Admissionsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Engage CSU page. The main thrust for this redesign is to present up front the information that is most important to the high-quality prospective students that Cleveland-Marshall will continue to attract. This includes a focus on practice areas, with several recent alumni featured in stories and videos to support the campaign. While the look and feel of the website has changed significantl , the information important to alumni is still easily accessible. The Alumni tab on the top right of the navigation bar hosts essential information on giving, CLE programs and the alumni association. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;moreâ&#x20AC;? drop-down menu is where the News & Events page is located. This page hosts information on the latest happenings

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CMLAA Annual Recognition Luncheon In May, the Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association honored its alumni of the year, the Honorable Terrence O’Donnell ’71 and Terry H. Gilbert ’73, at its annual recognition luncheon hosted in the grand ballroom of the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel. The event drew nearly 700 attendees, with all proceeds raised to benefit scholarship funds or Cleveland-Marshall students.

Other award recipients recognized at the event include: Dean Wilson G. Stapleton Award For Faculty Excellence: Christopher L. Sagers James A. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Law Dean’s Professional Achievement Award: Edward A. FitzGerald ’93 Judge Richard Markus Adjunct Faculty Award: Gordon S. Friedman Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association President’s Award: Jill M. McDonnell

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Commencement Cuyahoga County Executive and Ohio gubernatorial candidate Ed FitzGerald ’93 returned to Cleveland-Marshall College of Law this May to deliver the 2014 commencement address to 156 graduates at the Bert L. and Iris S. Wolstein Center. Building on Cleveland-Marshall’s slogan of “Learn Law. Live Justice.,” a central theme of FitzGerald’s address was the responsibility law graduates have to contribute to the betterment of society. “As graduates, you are in possession of a rare gift. You get to decide how to use it, not for yourself, but for others,” FitzGerald said. “The legal education you have received has equipped you to do a thousand different things, but whatever you do my suggestion is you reserve a portion of your legal skill to act on behalf of those who have not shared fully in the benefits of our societ .” FitzGerald expanded upon the thousands of different things graduates can do with a law degree, explaining why a legal education proves critical in a broad spectrum of fields “During your journey through law school, you didn’t just learn about the law — you also gained insight into American history, economics, business, civil rights, social movements, politics, the environment and technology,” said FitzGerald, who also received the Dean’s Professional Achievement Award during the ceremony. “It is not so much the course materials you mastered, but the approach to analysis and problem solving that will serve you well in this ever-shifting environment.” Also addressing the graduating class during the commencement ceremony were Cleveland-Marshall Dean Craig M. Boise, CSU President Ronald M. Berkman, National Advisory Council Chair Richard P. Stovsky ’83, Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association President Gregory S. Scott ’96, Student Bar Association President David J. Carter ’14, and Dean’s Learn Law Live Justice Award Recipient Nevin E. Johnson ’14.

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Bow Ties & BBQ Graduating and current students, along with alumni, family and friends were given the chance to socialize with their classmates and professors one last time the evening prior to graduation. Sponsored by the 2014 Class Challenge Committee, students put on their best bow ties and enjoyed food, drinks and music provided by DJ Wolfe, a current ClevelandMarshall student, as they celebrated their impending graduation.

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