Gonzaga Lawyer Summer 2011

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LAWYER SCHOOL OF LAW

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New curriculum designed to produce pr actice-ready lawyers

Curriculum Ahead of the Curve

Law School Today Not like the old days

GONZAGA

LAWYER SUMMER 2011

Table of Contents

Interim Dean George Critchlow

Message from the Dean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Managing Editor Nancy Fike

Features Lead feature - Curriculum overhauled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Contributing Writers Virginia deLeon Brooke Ellis Stephen Faust Nancy Fike Jeff Geldien Ailey Kato Linda McLane Owen Mooney Gary Randall Graphics Editor Shelly Croswhite Senior Copy Editor Juli Bergstrom Copy Editor Marny Lombard Photographers Rajah Bose Brooke Ellis Nancy Fike Jeff Geldien Corrections: Please note we incorrectly spelled a 2006 alumnae’s name in the Class Action section of the Winter 2011 Lawyer.

Correct spelling is Lisa Kallestad Kelley.

The Gonzaga Lawyer is published biannually for alumni, faculty, staff and friends of Gonzaga University School of Law. Please contact the Office of Alumni Relations at (509) 313-3605 or nfike@ lawschool.gonzaga.edu if you have comments or suggestions.

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100-year stories by Gary Randall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Departments In the News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 U.S. Attorney Mike Ormsby Sworn In.. ............................................................................ 10 Washington State Supreme Court Visit........................................................................... 10 William O. Douglas Lecture.. ........................................................................................ 11 Mentoring Program.. .................................................................................................. 12 December Graduation.. ............................................................................................... 12 Indian Law Lecture.................................................................................................... 13 Luvera Lecture Series................................................................................................. 14 Professor Upendra Acharya Addresses Beirut Conference.. .................................................. 14 Professor Amy Kelley Addresses Korean Peace Conference.. ................................................ 15 Life in the Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Clinic News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Thomas More Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Summations: Student News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 2011 LRAP Recipients...........................................................................................................................19 Student Debt Relief Update..................................................................................................................21 Sidebar for LRAP...................................................................................................................................21 2011 Moot Court Report........................................................................................................................22 Lukins & Annis Diversity Event.............................................................................................................23 Scholarship Endowment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Lin Sun Wins AAC Scholarship.............................................................................................................24 Barney, Nelson Win IP Scholarships.....................................................................................................24 McKenna Wins AAML Scholarship.......................................................................................................25 Faculty Scholarship and awards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Class Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 In Memoriam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Alumni Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

On the Cover: From their indoctrination into the School of Law, students are exposed to the culture and legal complexities outside the classroom. They will obtain the skills and professional values they need to practice law. Professor Gerry Hess co-chaired the Curriculum Reform Committee.

M ess age from the Dea n George Critchlow Interim Dean

Stage Set After two years as interim dean,

I will be leaving this office at the end of June when the law school and university community welcome our new dean, Jane Korn, who comes to us by the way of the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona. Dean designate Korn is an accomplished law school teacher, scholar and administrator. She is committed to the law school’s mission of educating students to be skillful problem solvers who care about ethics, justice and public service. She was selected from a talented pool of candidates after a very competitive search process. Dean Korn will be the first female dean in the law school’s history. We have great confidence that her perspective and leadership skills will serve us well as the law school meets the many challenges and opportunities of the next several years.

In addition to a successful dean search, the following important accomplishments have been achieved in the last two years. We have substantially implemented a new curriculum emphasizing skills and professionalism; we have had great success with our moot court teams at both regional and national levels; we have hired six talented new faculty members, including recently hired Chair in Legal Ethics Professor Kevin Michaels; our students performed extraordinarily well on last summer’s bar exam, passing at a rate of 81.9 percent; and our faculty continues to contribute to a broad range of professional activities and produces

published scholarship at an impressive rate.

I take special pride in initiatives that have recently been advanced through the dean’s office. These include the establishment and funding of a full-time staff position to support public service educational and career opportunities for students; establishment of a faculty mentoring program to help new faculty in teaching and professional development; the launching of a new study abroad program in China; and the creation of extracurricular reading groups that give students opportunities to meet with professors and study subjects outside the normal curriculum.

Our Alumni Relations and Development Office has been increasingly active throughout the country. Many of you have had the opportunity to meet Nancy Fike, Jeff Geldien and Brooke Ellis. They have effectively promoted our local and nationwide mentorship program that engages alumni in supporting students’ professional development and career goals. They are planning the Law School’s Centennial Celebration and Centennial Campaign for 2012-13, in addition to conducting alumni reunions and regional events from Washington, D.C., and New York City to Sacramento, Reno and Pasco.

The development team has increased donor gifts by 10 percent in the past

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year. It goes without saying that alumni annual giving and major gifts are the single most important means by which the law school can relieve pressure on tuition and student debt.

There are challenges facing legal education today that will touch Gonzaga and most other law schools. Law school applications are down nationally and regionally; there are limits to how much debt students can tolerate; the profession is evolving toward more efficient and competitive means of delivering legal services; jobs may not be as plentiful as they once were. Law schools, like higher education in general, will need to be creative, thoughtful and disciplined in their efforts to reconcile the cost of excellence and missions with the needs to keep costs down. Among the questions needed to be asked is whether we should be the best law school we can be in terms of our own values, traditions, demographics, geography and mission, or whether we will be controlled by the powerful and almost irresistible desire to impress the folks at U.S. News and World Report who rank the nation’s schools and whose mission is to sell advertising?

I am grateful to all who have helped me lead the law school these past two years. I am especially grateful for the opportunities I have had to interact with our wonderful, interesting and generous alumni around the country. I am proud to be a law school alum, proud to teach at the law school, and proud to have been your dean.

Mark Melter, Kathleen Manning, Owen Mooney, Colleen Durkin and Bil Childress have been immersed in law, both inside and outside the classroom, since they arrived.

Curriculum Ahead of the Curve

by Virginia deLeon

STRIVING FOR EXCELLENCE

INTRODUCTION Graduation is three years away for beginning law students, but at Gonzaga University School of Law, these future attorneys are trained from the get-go to achieve a lofty goal: to be ready for practice in the real world.

From the moment they embark on their journey into legal education, first-year students at Gonzaga are exposed to the culture and complexities of the legal world outside the classroom. They also learn to identify and attain the skills and professional values they need to practice law.

This doesn’t happen at every law school. Nor was it always the case at Gonzaga. It all began in 2008, when the law faculty adopted a revised curriculum that included this unprecedented change in the way first-year students approach the law. It proved to be a bold and innovative move – one that would

raise standards for all students as well as ensure Gonzaga’s continued excellence in legal education.

“What we were attempting to do was to more fully prepare students to both pass the bar exam and to actually enter the practice of law as people with a set of knowledge, skills and values that prepare them for that first step into practice,” said Gonzaga Law Professor Gerald Hess, chair of the University’s curriculum review committee and the co-director of the Institute of Law Teaching and Learning.

“Right away, they get an implicit message that what’s important in law school goes beyond learning doctrine and legal analysis,” Hess said.

“They’re not just sitting in class after class. … Our students are immersed in law from the very beginning.”

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Gonzaga already had a long history of preparing students to excel in theory, research and legal writing, Hess acknowledged. But to remain competitive, Gonzaga couldn’t stick with the status quo. So the law faculty, in 2007, engaged in a yearlong strategic planning process designed to develop new programs and to enhance the University’s curriculum.

Only a few law schools have undertaken such an extensive curriculum review and reform. Those that have modified their curricula have focused on the final year of law school. Gonzaga, on the other hand, took a more holistic approach.

Traditional legal education concentrates on doctrine, Hess noted. Some schools, like Gonzaga, also excel in imparting to students a set of professional skills including legal writing and analysis. But future

lawyers need proficiency in other arenas such as negotiation, counseling, litigation and collaboration.

“It was quite easy for students to graduate knowing a lot about legal research and analysis,” said Hess, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin School of Law. “That was true for me. … I graduated and was prepared to clerk for a judge, but I wasn’t prepared to work for a private law firm.”

Gonzaga’s revised first-year curriculum still includes most of the traditional courses in the classroom.

However, it also includes a Litigation Skills and Professionalism Lab during the fall semester and a Transactional Skills and Professionalism Lab in the spring. Students also are required to take a three-credit course known as “Perspectives on the Law.”

The new curriculum also responds to the current reality among law offices, according to Hess. Ten or 20 years ago, most firms provided training programs and mentored the recent graduates they hired. But as the practice of law became more competitive in recent years, clients no longer wanted “trainees” to represent them at the same price they would pay an experienced lawyer.

This change “reinforces the fact that law schools have an obligation to teach a wider range of knowledge, skills and values,” Hess said.

Gonzaga is doing this at every level, he stressed. Students not only learn about the professional skills and values required to become an attorney; they also work on real-life cases with actual clients by taking a required threecredit course in the clinic or through the externship program.

“Our curriculum sends a message,” Hess said. “Real law school is about learning doctrine and a set of skills.

It’s also about learning to be a professional.”

TAKING THE LEAD

In the arena of curriculum reform, Gonzaga was well ahead of the curve.

While some law schools regularly examine their curricula and practices, others didn’t begin school-wide discussions on the issue until 2007, when the prestigious Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching released its groundbreaking report, Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law.

The study concluded that “law schools need to do a better job integrating the teaching of legal doctrine with a much stronger focus on helping students develop practical ‘lawyering’ skills and understandings of ethical and moral considerations.”

The report noted that traditional legal education excels in teaching students academic knowledge (reasoning, research and analytical thinking). Its weaknesses, however, includes a lack of direct training, ineffective assessment of student learning and little support for developing the “ethical and social dimensions of the profession.”

The law faculty at Gonzaga was already wrestling with these issues long before most schools considered the need to enhance their curricula.

Strategic planning at Gonzaga began in the fall of 2005 with the revision of the school’s mission statement.

The once seven-paragraph-long statement was transformed into one sentence: To provide an excellent

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legal education informed by our humanistic, Jesuit and Catholic traditions and values.

From there, a nine-member committee was created and the law faculty at Gonzaga began a lengthy process of thoroughly examining the school’s curriculum in context of its humanistic, Jesuit and Catholic traditions and values.

In May 2008, the new curriculum was adopted with the most significant changes taking place during the first year of the program.

“The first-year curriculum, often the hardest part of any law school program to change, was revised in ways that changed decades of practice at the school,” Hess wrote in “Developing a Skills and Professionalism Curriculum – Process and Product,” an article he co-wrote with Gonzaga Executive Vice President Earl Martin for The University of Toledo Law Review.

THE CURRICULUM IN ACTION

When the new curriculum came into being in the fall of 2008, it affected only the newest students.

Second- and third-year students that year were still operating under the guidelines of the old curriculum.

It was a difficult transition, Hess acknowledged, but he was heartened by the fact that many of the secondand third-year students expressed their admiration for the changes and how much they wished they had experienced the new program.

The new curriculum doesn’t abandon the requirements of traditional legal education, according to second-year law students – the first cohort to experience the change. Instead, it builds upon a foundation in order to prepare students for the real-world of law.

Judge Rosanna Peterson works with GU externs.

“Overall, I've been extremely impressed with the faculty and institution of Gonzaga Law, especially the professors,” said Mark Melter, a second-year law student from Tempe, Ariz. “Not only are they skilled professionals, well-versed in the legal field, they genuinely care about people and our roles as lawyers in modern society.”

The new curriculum is a reflection of the faculty’s desire to support students as much as possible, he said, and to prepare them to be competent and ethical advocates.

“I'd describe the new curriculum as one that focuses on necessary and traditional American legal courses but emphasizes policy and practical lawyering skills such as document drafting, transactional work, and pre-trial litigation skills,” said Melter, who plans to specialize in business law and also earn a master’s degree in business administration through the University’s JD-MBA program.

“I think one of the dirty little secrets about law school is that most students emerge with law degrees, debt, and no real clue how to be a lawyer,” he added. Gonzaga “is obviously trying to change that with this new curriculum.”

Colleen Durkin, another secondyear law student, describes the new

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curriculum as both “comprehensive” and “cutting-edge.”

The new skills labs supplement the required courses, she noted. This change gives Gonzaga students an advantage because the labs enable them to apply abstract concepts into practical, everyday use. Students are taught how to think like attorneys while also performing tasks that experienced lawyers have to do every day, she said.

“We now know not only what a complaint is, but what the rules are regarding filing of complaints, and what information has to go into a complaint,” said Durkin, the daughter of John J. Durkin, a Tacoma, Wash., attorney who earned his law degree from Gonzaga in 1980.

“We know the rules for discovery, and have practiced drafting interrogatories, rfp’s and subpoenas. We have taken mock depositions, drafted commercial leases, and argued motions before professors and attorneys.

These experiences give us a leg up over students who strictly learn from the book,” Durkin said.

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Durkin also appreciates the way that many of the skills labs are taught by practicing attorneys. “They are able to tell us how things are currently done in their areas of law, share recent stories, and dive deeper into topics with us,” she said.

Throughout the region, the new curriculum is held in high regard by practicing attorneys and others who are familiar with the changes.

“I honestly believe that any of these students who will graduate in two years – the first crop benefiting from the revised curriculum – are going to be able to walk into any firm they’re interviewing with and bring a portfolio of performance that’s equivalent to the work of a first- or second-year associate,” said Matt Andersen, a longtime partner at Winston-Cashatt in Spokane.

A 1976 graduate of Gonzaga Law School, Andersen served on one of the advisory committees that helped shape Gonzaga’s revised curriculum. He also has been an adjunct faculty member for the past 20 years.

His education at Gonzaga certainly prepared him for the courtroom, said Andersen, who has tried cases throughout the country. But with less than 1 percent of federal court cases actually going to trial, courtroom work has become a

Professor Gerry Hess is passionate about teaching and learning.

diminishing portion of the practice of law, he noted. Lawyers must now be prepared to hone their expertise in other areas including commercial transactions, patent law, as well as wills, trust and probate.

As a noted attorney in the field of commercial and business-related litigation, Andersen knows from experience that the newest graduates from his alma mater have to acquire practical new skills in addition to learning the theory and doctrine that have been emphasized in traditional legal education.

While teaching a transactional skills and professionalism lab at Gonzaga last spring, Andersen said he witnessed firsthand the effectiveness of the new curriculum.

“The concept of having (first-year law) students just jump in with both feet in document drafting” was virtually unheard of, he said.

“But putting students in the role of a practicing attorney and requiring them to do the work of drafting a commercial document was brilliant. … I became a huge believer.”

MEASURING PROGRESS

In addition to student evaluations, bar passage rates and reporting of student employment after graduation and other tools already in place,

Professor VIckie Williams in classroom.

Gonzaga Law School is in the process of developing a list of specific skills that students are expected to master by the time they graduate, said Associate Dean Vickie J. Williams.

The school also will measure each course’s effectiveness in teaching those skills.

Known as “student learning outcomes,” these lawyering skills and whether or not universities are teaching them might soon become part of the American Bar Association’s accreditation standards.

“We believe that we are ahead of the curve on this issue,” Williams said.

So far, most of the feedback she and other administrators have received on the new curriculum has been generally positive, Williams said.

Students and faculty are especially pleased with the skills laboratory classes as well as the addition of the required externship or clinic experience.

Based on student feedback, some changes have been made since the curriculum was adopted in May 2008, Williams noted. Instead of requiring students to take “Perspectives on the Law” during the fall of their first year, they now wait until spring “after they have had a full semester of law school under their belts,” she explained. The focus of the class also

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has been slightly modified, allowing the professors teaching the course to focus on their individual areas of expertise while delivering the required content.

“We are waiting to see how much student interest there is in clinical experiences versus externship experiences for next fall, so we will know how much fine-tuning we will have to do to accommodate the students’ desires to the extent possible,” Williams said.

THE FUTURE

The new curriculum remains a work in progress – “as it should be,” Williams stressed.

In the past, law school curricula have been criticized for failing to respond to the expectations and demands of the legal market as well as employers.

“We hope that by continually evaluating the relevance and success of the new curriculum we will remain responsive to those changes and the needs of our students, employers and society at large,” Williams added.

Stories of 100 Years

by Gary Randall

Gonzaga Law School has been part of the Gonzaga community since 1912 as a very successful night law school, producing exceptional lawyers. Its world changed in 1970 with the start of a law school day program, but most things remained the same until the final night school class of 1985.

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The modern Gonzaga is not much like

the “old” Gonzaga law school. From the time of the day school’s first entering class in the fall of 1970 to the present, rules and regulations replaced “ad hoc” procedures.

My hiring as a full-time teacher in the fall of 1973 included an interview with Dean Frank Conklin, an offer, and an acceptance.

No faculty interviews, no check on my background. That was good. I grew up in Wallace, Idaho, and graduated from the University of Idaho College of Law. Neither would have been likely to be acceptable credentials today.

The Day School class that entered in 1970, and the night class that was part of the mix that year, consisted of 90 day and 26 night students. Tuition was $600 per semester, $1,200 a year. The 2010-11 academic year tuition for two semesters was $32,640.

In the fall of 1970, adjunct teachers were paid $300 to teach a course. Many donated their time, as many adjuncts still do. Fulltime faculty necessarily cost more than adjuncts, and a modern law library costs more than the adequate, but small, law library of the past.

Bill Davis (‘72) recalls there were no required courses in the night school. There also were no electives. Students were sold a packet of books at the bookstore. All of the packets were the same. Night students

who could not afford all of the books had the “excess” retained until they could be paid for.

Admission in the earlier years was not governed by strict academic considerations, but almost all of the law graduates from those years had very successful careers.

Their teachers were practicing lawyers who had real life experiences to bring to the classroom. Admission standards have strengthened throughout the years with more focus on undergraduate grades and LSAT scores. The law school now has a national presence and competes for accomplished students throughout the country. Things are different and I sometimes miss the good old days.

The next article will address some of the really fun things of the 1970s – the creation of a program of clinical education outside of the law school, the great tuition strike of 1975, an exorcism, and the infamous Heidelberg of 1977.

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Gonzaga Law School will celebrate its 100-year anniversary in the year 2012-2013.

Gary Randall will be writing stories about Gonzaga Law School leading up to our centennial celebration.

IN the NEWS U.S. Attorney Mike Ormsby Sworn In

Michael C. Ormsby was sworn in recently as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington. Ormsby was nominated

by President Barrack Obama and confirmed by the Senate on Sept. 29, 2010. A formal ceremony was held at Gonzaga Law School on Jan. 14.

Ormsby has been a partner at K&L Gates, LLP since 1988. He advised public entities and governmental institutions on municipal finance and other legal matters. He also has served on the Spokane Public School Board and the Eastern Washington University Board of Trustees. He started his legal career as an associate attorney at Lukins & Annis P.S., where he worked from 1981 to 1988. He graduated from Gonzaga University in 1979 and the Gonzaga School of Law in 1981.

U.S. Attorney Mike Ormsby

Washington State Supreme Court Visit

The nine justices of the Washington State Supreme Court traveled to Gonzaga University on Oct. 20 and 21, 2010, to interact with Gonzaga students and the public at forums as well as to hear arguments on three cases.

The state’s highest court interacted with Gonzaga undergraduate and law students by participating in classes, hosting forums on law as a vocation and during informal lunches.

Washington Supreme Court Justices

The State Supreme Court is based in the Temple of Justice in Olympia. For more than a decade, the court has heard cases “on the road” three times a year in an effort to reach out to citizens and invite them to see the court in action within the local communities. Three of the court’s justices are Gonzaga Law School alumnae: Chief Justice Barbara Madsen (’77), and Justices Mary E. Fairhurst (’79) and Debra L. Stephens (’93).

Justice Tom Chambers

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William. O. Douglas Lecture: First Amendment in Transition

Adam Liptak, U.S. Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times, told a Gonzaga Law School audience that cultural and technological shifts are undermining old assumptions about the First Amendment.

Liptak writes the Times’ “Sidebar” column and was a 2009 Pulitzer Prize finalist in the category of Explanatory Reporting. He spoke at Gonzaga on Feb. 14 as the 2011 William O. Douglas Series lecturer.

Two recent Supreme Court cases - the Citizens United and Wikileaks cases - have altered the First Amendment landscape, Liptak said.

Moreover, upcoming decisions dealing with cameras in the courtroom and hate speech will further refine its contemporary meaning.

At issue, said Liptak, are several key free speech concerns: Does the First Amendment protect both oral and written speech? Does it protect non-political speech? Does the press enjoy special First Amendment privileges? How is the press defined in the age of the Internet?

In Citizens United, the court loosened restrictions on corporate and union political speech, he said, supporting the notion that established media do not enjoy exclusive rights to political speech.

With the advent of new media outlets, including cable news and the Internet, the “prestige, profitability and power of the press has fragmented,” he said. The recent uprising in Egypt “shows that people are doing what the press does, which is collecting and disseminating information.”

The Wikileaks case embodies what he calls the “game theory” of the First Amendment: “The government has the right to try to protect

its secrets and the press has the right to publish the information it obtains through traditional investigative practices.”

Though the government has the right and obligation to punish an employee for disclosing classified information, he said, citizens - including the press - have the right to make public what they learn through non-coercive methods.

“Both sides have the responsibility to act maturely,” he said.

About the William O. Douglas Lecture Series The William O. Douglas Lecture Series Committee exists with the purpose of promoting a strong commitment to the freedoms of speech, religion and assembly by featuring lectures by nationally distinguished figures who share this strong commitment.

The lecture series began in 1972 with Justice Douglas as the initial speaker.

William O. Douglas was raised in Washington State, attended Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash., and graduated from Columbia Law School. At the age of 40, William O. Douglas was one of the youngest people appointed to the United States Supreme Court.

Justice Douglas held a strong commitment to the freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. He was a supporter, in particular, of those freedoms enunciated in the First Amendment. He retired from the court in 1975 due to poor health after serving on the court longer than any other justice (36 years and seven months).

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“The government has the right to try to protect its secrets and the press has the right to publish the information it obtains through traditional investigative practices.”

Adam Liptak

I N the NE WS Mentoring Program

This winter the Alumni Mentoring Program, sponsored by the Law School Alumni Association in conjunction with the assistant dean of students, celebrated its second year.

More than 150 first-year students and alumni met in the Barbieri Courtroom to kick off the local 1L Mentoring Program for the Class of 2013. The 1L program has been a great success and has doubled in participants since last year.

Local alumni have been thoroughly engaged in the school and the lives of students.

The second phase of the Alumni Mentoring Program, E-Mentoring, also was launched this winter. E-Mentoring linked more than 50 second-and third-year students with mentors nationwide in their geographical area(s) of interest. Both these programs have engaged alumni in supporting students’ professional development and career goals.

December Graduation

Thirteen Gonzaga Law School students received their J.D.s at a ceremony in the Barbieri Courtroom on Dec, 17, 2010. Family, friends and faculty filled the courtroom to share in the special time as students accepted their degrees.

December graduates were Matthew Brass, Alison Brown, Laurel Carr, Nathan Carroll, Xavier Corrick, Julia Davis, Cathy Helman, Kelly Hollingworth, Nicole Kalakau, Brieanne Kitchen, Matthew Mower, Kristina Ralls and Blake Voorhees.

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Indian Law Lecture

Author, attorney and Indian rights activist Walter Echo-Hawk spoke March 3 in the Barbieri Courtroom. His speech was titled "In the Courts of the Conqueror: The Native American Legal Experience."

His presentation coincided with the Second Annual Indian Law CLE the following day at the Northern Quest Casino in Airway Heights, Wash. He and co-presenter D.R. Michel, executive director of the Upper Columbia United Tribes, addressed: "The Role of Culture and Tradition in Practicing Law in Indian Country."

Echo-Hawk’s cases include Native American religious freedom, prisoner rights, water rights, treaty rights and reburial\repatriation rights. He is admitted to practice law before the U.S. Supreme Court, Colorado Supreme Court, Oklahoma Supreme Court, U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 8th, 9th, District of Columbia, and 10th Circuits, and a host of federal district courts.

Echo-Hawk currently wears four hats: justice, Supreme Court of the Pawnee Nation; vice-chairman, board of directors, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation; of counsel, Crowe & Dunlevy, Oklahoma’s oldest and largest law firm; adjunct professor, Tulsa University School of Law (2010).

From 1973 to 2008, Echo-Hawk was a staff attorney of the Native American Rights Fund, where he represented Indian tribes, Alaska Natives, and native Hawaiians on significant legal issues during the modern era of federal Indian law.

On Sept. 22, 2010, Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry honored Echo-Hawk with a Governor’s Commendation. It reads in part: “For more than three decades, Walter EchoHawk has shown an uncommon devotion to preserving and strengthening tribal sovereignty and the civil liberties of Native Americans.

His unprecedented personal and professional standards have helped build bridges between cultures, generations and government.”

He is a Pawnee Indian, with a B.A. in Political Science from Oklahoma State University (1970) and J.D. from the University of New Mexico (1973). His presentation was sponsored by Gonzaga University School of Law; Spokane County Bar Association, Indian Law Section; Kalispel Tribe of Indians and Northern Quest Resort & Casino; and the Washington State Bar Association, Indian Law Section.

Walter Echo-Hawk

“His unprecedented personal and professional standards build bridges between cultures, generations and government.”

Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry

Looking for Law School Stor ies and Pictur es Gonzaga School of Law will publish a commemorative hard-bound book in fall 2012 on the 100 th anniversary of the law school. Filled with pictures and stories that bring the vitality and lore of the law school to life over the past century, this book will be a beautiful, full-color keepsake.

Project managers are looking for pictures and story ideas from those who have lived the law school life.

Please e-mail your pictures and story ideas to: nfike@lawschool.gonzaga.edu Or mail them to: Nancy Fike, P.O. Box 3528 Spokane, WA 99220-3528 All print pictures will be scanned and returned to sender, upon request.

I N the NE WS Luvera Lecture – 2011

The annual Luvera Lecture was held on March 14 in the Barbieri Courtroom at Gonzaga Law School with guest lecturer Major General William Suter (Ret.), Clerk of the U.S. Supreme Court. His topic was “Some Observations about the New United States Supreme Court.”

Bill Suter has been the clerk of the U.S. Supreme Court since 1991. He is the 19th person to serve in the position. Previously, he was a career U.S. Army judge advocate and retired as a major general.

The Luvera Lecture Series is made possible by generous support from Gonzaga Law graduates Paul and Lita Luvera.

Intrim Dean George Critchlow, William Suter, Lita and Paul Luvera

Professor Acharya addresses Beirut conference, Evaluates Actions of International Court of Justice

Gonzaga Professor Upendra D. Acharya represented Gonzaga Law at an international conference in Beirut, Lebanon, on international justice and international peace and security in December 2010. The conference was sponsored by Beirut’s Antonine University.

Acharya titled his presentation, “ICJ’s (International Court of Justice) Advisory Opinion on Kosovo: Is It a Cogent Legal Analysis or a Judicial Endorsement of Political Might?” In it, he addressed matters of international law arising from the disputed status of the self-declared state of Kosovo.

Kosovo claimed its independence from Serbia following the Kosovo War and the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.

In July of 2010, the ICJ determined that Kosovo’s declaration of independence did not violate international law.

Professor Acharya

In his paper, Prof. Acharya questioned

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whether the ICJ’s advisory opinion considered applicable international laws and their ramifications, including the right to self-determination, the law of territorial integrity, the law of statehood, the law of remedial secession, and legal impact of recognitions of Kosovo by other countries.

The conference covered the roles of the International Court of Justice, International Criminal Court, ad hoc international criminal tribunals, special international hybrid courts (Sierra Leone Special Court and Special Tribunal for Lebanon) in maintaining international peace and security.

Among other countries, conference speakers represented the United States, Canada, Belgium, France, and Lebanon. Also taking part were the justice minister and social affairs minister of Lebanon, a French senator, and ambassadors representing France, Great Britain, the Czech Republic, Belgium and Canada.

Amy Kelley Addresses Korean Peace Conference.

Gonzaga Professor One of 16 Presenters

Violence on the Korean Peninsula seized the world’s attention in November 2010, when North Korea shelled Yeonpyeong Island, a territory held by the Republic of Korea, otherwise known as South Korea.

Three weeks later, Professor Amy Kelley traveled to Incheon, Korea, to address the 2010 International Conference on the Legal Issues of a Peace Regime in the Korean Peninsula.

Professors from Korea, Japan, China, Vietnam and the United States attended the conference, which also served as the official commemoration of the opening of the Inha University Law School.

“It was a most incredible experience,” said Kelley, who was one of 16 presenters. “I was overwhelmed by how gracious and welcoming the organizers were.”

Though the conference’s main track addressed concerns about a nuclear North Korea, other threads examined barriers to, and opportunities for, establishing a stable peace throughout East Asia.

As part of a track called “War, Peace and Women,” Kelley, who among other subjects teaches comparative constitutional law at Gonzaga, spoke on “Conquest, Occupation and Ethnic Cleansing.”

She devoted a portion of her presentation to a discussion of the sexual exploitation of

East Asian women - the so-called “comfort women” - by the Japanese military during World War II. “My position is that there’s too much emphasis on doctrine, and that there should be a greater focus on remedies,” she said.

Despite the gravity of the event, Kelley said her Korean hosts treated their guests to a series of festive events, including a traditional, multi-course dinner, a presentation of traditional music and dance, and a tour of Seoul, South Korea’s capital city.

“Although I was only there for four days, I got a great introduction to Korea and would love to go back as soon as possible,” Kelley said.

Throughout her stay, she was assisted by a personal interpreter, legal studies student Jin Yeong Oh.

Kelley and Oh

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The invitation to present at the conference was extended to Gonzaga pursuant to a memorandum of understanding signed in 2008 by former Gonzaga Law School Dean Earl Martin and Inha University officials.

During her visit, Kelley met with school administrators to discuss the possibility of ongoing collaboration, particularly in the form of faculty exchange programs.

“They’re very enthusiastic about future interactions between our schools,” she said, noting that no formal agreement yet exists.

“I was overwhelmed by how gracious and welcoming the organizers were.”

Amy Kelley

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LIFE

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The Chastek Library is preparing to hire a new reference/research librarian this spring. In preparation, we have identified the needs and expectations of our primary patrons, the responsibilities of this position, and the skills that the successful candidate should possess. Law libraries exist in a place where legal information, legal education, and technology intersect; thus the environment is one of rapid and constant change. Law libraries must be poised to meet those changes by cultivating innovation and a willingness to learn new skills, adopt new technologies, and offer new services to meet the demands of this increasingly complex environment.

Our new librarian will provide reference assistance to all library users, teach legal research to law students, research substantive legal issues for faculty, participate in collection development activities, serve on faculty committees, write research guides and content for the library’s Web site, and serve the evolving information needs of the law school community.

A strong service orientation is essential because the library often serves as the public face of the law school. Each transaction at the reference desk – whether helping law students and faculty, pro se patrons, Gonzaga undergraduate students, or members of the local bar – serves both the immediate goal of helping people locate and use legal information, and the broader goal of contributing to the mission of the law school and the university by providing a positive experience for each library user.

Chastek librarians play an active role in teaching research skills to law students, so the ability to teach in an effective and engaging way is important. Last year, in addition to teaching advanced legal research courses, we offered more than 50 research sessions to various groups, including using LexisNexis, Westlaw and

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other databases to students in the legal research and writing programs, subjectspecific research methods to doctrinal classes and clinics, and training for faculty research assistants and members of the Gonzaga Law Review and the Gonzaga Journal of International Law. Our goal is to reach more students, because research is a fundamental component of almost every type of legal career.

Intellectual curiosity is essential to all aspects of law librarianship – reference, teaching, research, and collection development. Librarians sort through a flood of information in order to connect faculty and students with resources that are relevant to their work. Members of the law school faculty teach and write on a wide variety of subjects – from securities litigation to the impact of race in the criminal justice system, so we are always looking for information that supports their interests. Teaching also requires keeping up with developments in substantive law, technology, and new methods for presenting material. For example, I’ve used ideas from such diverse sources as the President’s State of the Union Address (federal agency regulations regarding freshwater salmon v. saltwater salmon) and a segment from The Colbert Report discussing the difference between “chicken wings” (defined in 9 C.F.R. 381.170(b)(7)) and “wyngz” (“a product that is in the shape of a wing or a bitesize appetizer type product”) in teaching administrative law research. Research also demands tenacity and problem-solving skills to track down elusive answers to challenging reference questions.

In short, we are looking for a librarian with the initiative, enthusiasm and ability to serve the law school community in a multitude of ways. In return, we offer an opportunity to develop professionally while working with some incredibly intelligent and wonderful colleagues and students.

CLINIC NEWS by Stephen Faust Establishing a new business can be difficult. The successful entrepreneur must meet a variety of challenges simultaneously and often with very limited resources. Legal representation is a crucial element in establishing a strong foundation for success, yet many find it difficult to afford such help during the early stages of their business start-up.

The Business Law Clinic provides such business ventures with critical earlystage legal assistance, thus allowing the entrepreneurs to allocate scarce resources to develop products and services, identify and enter markets, and build capacity to achieve their missions. At the same time, students are afforded hands-on experience with a broad variety of business clients under the supervision of experienced practitioners in the clinical setting.

The Business Law Clinic assists forprofit clients referred through partner organizations like the University’s Hogan Entrepreneurial Leadership Program and New Venture Lab, the Avista Center for Entrepreneurship at Spokane Community College, and the IP/Biznet program at SIRTI. While most clients are developing “hightech” businesses involving software applications, medical technology, complex machinery, or innovative consumer products, students also work with traditional small business clients such as a custom furniture maker, a pedal-cab service, or a small engine repair shop.

Students assist business clients with analysis of choice of entity, draft foundational documents such as

articles of incorporation, bylaws, LLC operating agreements, and shareholder agreements, review and draft vendor and employment contracts, leases, and licensing agreements, and provide research and counsel on other issues of business and intellectual property law.

The Business Law Clinic also assists nonprofit entrepreneurs seeking to improve the lives of area residents by providing a range of services, supplying necessities to babies and school children, wigs to cancer patients, work apparel to job hunters, and counseling to seniors.

Others are developing organizations to promote sustainability or pursue cultural or fine art projects that will benefit the whole community.

Most non-profit entrepreneurs seek assistance with incorporation and application to the Internal Revenue Service for recognition as federal taxexempt organizations. Students also advise non-profit boards on the mechanics of corporate governance, review and draft conflict-of-interest and other board policies, and brief non-profit boards regarding director and officer responsibilities and corporate risk management.

The Business Law Clinic was first established in 2005 by Professor and Interim Dean George Critchlow, and is now directed by Stephen Faust, an adjunct professor of law and practicing attorney with 25 years of business law experience. Faust says one of the clinic’s goals is to promote economic development among underserved residents of our community, such as

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the Native American population, by supporting emerging minority-owned and veteran-owned small businesses, while continuing to support the efforts of SIRTI and others to incubate successful high-technology firms in the area.

Students in the Business Law Clinic typically represent five or six clients per semester. All work is performed under the supervision of Professor Faust or a volunteer practitioner in residence. As noted by Susan Amstadter, a volunteer practitioner with the Business Clinic, “Supervision is intensely individual and includes oversight of all client interviews and review of all correspondence, agreements, and other documents sent to clients.”

Students receive training in the clinic’s electronic case system, and use the system to enter time and make notes regarding case status. A weekly seminar gives students the opportunity to share case developments with the group and receive instruction in matters that regularly arise in corporate practice, including the discussion of professional responsibility issues in the context of business transactions.

Corporate and transactional services account for about half the market for legal services in the United States, and are a key component in long-term growth and success of any business.

Through the Business Law Clinic, Gonzaga serves the community by providing critical support to emerging firms and non-profit organizations, while providing law students with real world experience as they prepare for careers in transactional law.

Thomas More program

street law: Teaching Law While Learning

by Ailey Kato and Owen Mooney

John Morse, a third-year law student, had never taught before joining the Street Law program at Gonzaga University School of Law. After teaching a lesson that introduced students in 11th grade to the concept of interpreting and applying the law, Morse said, “That was by far the best thing I have done in law school.”

Street Law is a national program that was started in 1972. The program teaches practical law to community groups using interactive teaching methodologies. In 2009, the Thomas More Scholar Program led by Nate Peterson, graduate of the class of 2010, revitalized the Street Law program at Gonzaga.

As Thomas More Scholars, we are part of the central committee that has shaped the Street Law program with the help of Professor Lynn M. Daggett, who teaches education law and also has a Ph.D in education.

Both of us are former high school teachers and Teach for America corps members, and we have enjoyed using our knowledge of lesson planning, curriculum design, and teaching in the effort to serve the Spokane community through service and legal education.

This year we have almost 50 law student volunteers who teach one lesson a month at Rogers High School located in the Hillyard district of Spokane, which is one of the most economically depressed urban areas in the region.

Morse said he believes that Rogers students are gaining confidence by participating in the Street Law program, and he hopes that this confidence will lead students to consider going to college and pursuing their career goals.

“I think Street Law can have a greater impact on students at Rogers than if we were teaching at a more affluent school,” Morse said.

Law students teach seven lessons throughout the school year, which focus on the topics of student speech, discrimination, and search and seizure. Law students teach each of these topics in a two-lesson cycle. The first lesson focuses on teaching the basic concepts through games and interactive lectures. The second lesson allows students to apply their newfound knowledge in mock trial activities.

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Megan Mignella, a first-year law student, said her favorite lesson of the year was when students wrote and presented closing arguments for a mock trial focused on the issue of student speech. One of the students representing the principal in the case really stood out during this activity.

She said the student walked around the classroom and said “your honor” and “I object.”

“I felt like I was watching Law & Order, but in a high school classroom.”

– Megan Mignella

Street Law has grown and improved during the last two years. The number of law student volunteers nearly doubled in the second year.

The Thomas More Program has set the goal of making Street Law a permanent and sustainable student organization on the law school’s campus. Next year we will be electing officers and developing a five-year plan. We hope to continue making Street Law one of the law students’ favorite extracurricular activities.

student news

SUM M ATIONS Loan Repayment Assistance Program The Gonzaga Loan Repayment Assistance Program, created in 2007, recently awarded repayment assistance to six outstanding alumni.

The LRAP provides loan repayment assistance (up to $4,000 per person per year) to a select number of graduates who are pursuing careers in public service. The program reflects Gonzaga University’s humanistic, Jesuit and Catholic mission by supporting those serving in the public interest work sector.

Generally, careers in public service pay less than those in the private sector of law. The program was developed as financial assistance to encourage students to work and remain in public interest law. Applicants with outstanding law school student loans, both federal and private, are eligible to apply for the LRAP.

The following students have received the 2011 LRAP awards:

Joseph Kuhlman (’09)

Kelsie Davis (’08)

Lee and Associates – Yakima, Wash.

Union County District Attorney’s Office– LaGrande, Ore.

Kuhlman works for a firm in the Yakima area that was formed solely to handle the city of Yakima’s public defense needs. Kuhlman spends his time working with clients, many indigent, who need defense representation.

He also contributes a large amount of time handling pro-bono civil cases for clients who have the same level of need.

An undergraduate of East Tennessee State University, he interned at public defenders and assigned council offices across the state of Washington during his summers as a law student. Kuhlman credits his grandfather for helping him to better have compassion.

“Compassion for the human condition, with all of our flaws, is the only way to succeed in public interest work because without it, an attorney won’t last.” As a student, Kuhlman received a C.A.L.I. Award for Professional Responsibility, and was a finalist for the Gonzaga Negotiations Competition.

Davis is the deputy district attorney for the Union County D.A.’s office in LaGrande, Ore. She became interested in becoming a prosecutor as far back as her middle school days when she followed the news about a local high profile domestic violence case. “I realized that if I were a prosecutor, I could help others like them. To this day, working with victims is the most rewarding type of case I handle, regardless of how ugly the crime.” An undergraduate of the University of Washington, Davis was very involved with the University Legal Assistance Program while studying law at Gonzaga. She says she hopes to continue her career as a prosecutor, with the possibility of someday pursuing a seat on the bench. As a student, Davis was involved with several different student bar groups including the Women’s Law Caucus.

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Joseph Kuhlman

Kelsie Davis

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Stephanie Cotton

Rosemary Villarreal

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Stephanie Cotton (’08)

M. Abbas Rizvi (’07)

Colorado Public Defender’s Office – Trinidad, Colo.

Northwest Justice Project – Seattle, Wash.

Rosemary Villarreal (’09)

Maria Garcia (’07)

Unemployment Law Project – Spokane, Wash.

Columbia Legal Services – Kennewick, Wash.

Cotton, a Whitworth University undergraduate alumnae works as a deputy public defender in Colorado. She handles all types of work for indigent clients, many who are incarcerated or charged with felony crimes. She also works with a local Trinidad homeless shelter, while serving on the Crossroads Drug and Alcohol Board.

Cotton became interested in law school while volunteering with the Lutheran Volunteer Corps at the Seattle Public Defender’s office.

During law school at Gonzaga she was a member of the National Moot Court Honors Council – National Trial Team. Cotton also interned for the Spokane County Prosecutor’s office and the Federal Public Defender’s office.

Stephanie holds true to the belief “To treat all people with love and respect. I feel as though if you do that, you will have a happy life.”

Villarreal is a staff attorney for the Unemployment Law Project, located in Spokane. Her primary duties include providing clients with direct representation in unemployment appeals up through the Superior Court level, as well as advising individuals about their procedural rights, legal arguments and their self-representation strategies. A Gonzaga University undergraduate, Villarreal always knew she wanted to help people in her career. She credits her parents for her “strong sense of responsibility to help those less fortunate than myself. A career in public service seemed like the most logical way to help those people in our society who are most disadvantaged and have problems navigating our justice system.” While studying law at Gonzaga, Villarreal was vice president of the Labor and Employment Law Caucus, as well as a semi-finalist in the annual Linden Cup competition.

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Rizvi, a University of Washington undergraduate, spends his days at the Northwest Justice Project helping underprivileged clients with issues such as domestic violence, termination of public benefits, and with a wide range of consumer law issues. “Public service was my way to do social justice work. I was drawn to the toolkit available to a public interest lawyer in advocating for his client. I enjoy using argument and persuasive writing to seek justice for my clients.”

While in law school, Rizvi participated in the University Legal Assistance Program as well as the Multi-Cultural Law Caucus. He also gained valuable experience when he interned for the Department of Justice – Immigration and Custom’s Enforcement.

Garcia is a staff attorney for the Columbia Legal Services group in Kennewick, Wash.

She works with clients, primarily farm workers, helping them with their many legal issues. Fluent in Spanish, Garcia is able to help provide a language bridge for many of the group’s Hispanic clients. Garcia, a University of Washington undergraduate, is the first person in her family to graduate high school and college. She was inspired to become a public interest attorney because, “I knew having a career in public service that I could help my community, especially the farm worker population.” While studying law at Gonzaga, Garcia participated in the University Legal Assistance Program and eventually served an externship for the Honorable Robert Whaley – U.S. District Court Eastern District of Washington. Garcia was also an associate editor for the Gonzaga Law Review.

How Can You Get Your Student Loans Paid For? S UM M AT ION S s t u de n t n e w s

Student Debt Relief Update - Knowing Your Options Income-Based Repayment and Public Loan Forgiveness Programs Each May approximately 175 students receive their J.D.s from Gonzaga Law School.

For most students, graduating law school brings a sense of relief. The intense academic stress is over; however, the stress of loan and debt repayment looms. One major concern in the legal education sector is that graduates will forgo a chance to work in much needed public service jobs for often higher-paying, private sector jobs in order to pay their debts.

Gonzaga has been committed to helping alumni as much as possible with programs like the Loan Repayment Assistance Program (featured in this edition). As well, there are more options available outside of Gonzaga.

For those alumni who work in public service jobs, there are options that can help reduce overall loan indebtedness. In addition to Gonzaga’s Loan Repayment Assistance Program, which is available for both private and federal student loans, programs such as the John R. Justice and the College Cost Reduction Act are available to help provide relief. The federal government has also made progress in recent years to help people manage their monthly debt loads more efficiently. The newly created Income-Based Repayment plan is an option for federal student loans. This program is available to anyone with federal loans, regardless of their practice areas. The program is designed to help borrowers keep their loan payments affordable with payment caps based on their income and family size. For most eligible borrowers, IBR loan payments will be less than 10 percent of their income – and even smaller for borrowers with low earnings. IBR will also forgive remaining debt, if any, after 25 years of qualifying payments.

Joan Henning, who has been a senior financial aid counselor at the law school for

16 years, says, “The federal government is now offering some of the best repayment options for students and loan forgiveness for public service attorneys since I have been in the business.” In addition, Henning says, “It may take a little research to find what option is best for each person; however, if any of our alums need help or have questions they can call or email me, and I will do my best to help them.”

The law school recently hosted a webinar which was focused on helping students understand their options upon graduation.

To view the Student Debt Relief Presentation, please visit our financial aid website at www. law.gonzaga.edu/Admissions/financial_aid_ and_scholarships/default.asp

Joan Henning can be reached at 509.313.3859 or jhenning@lawschool.gonzaga.edu

(Up to $4,000 per year in assistance)

Gonzaga’s Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP) As an example of Gonzaga University School of Law’s humanistic, Jesuit, and Catholic nature, the LRAP program reflects the extraordinary value that the school places on attorneys pursuing careers in public service. The purpose of this program is to provide loan repayment assistance to a select number of our graduates who are pursuing careers in public interest law. Applicants with outstanding law school student loans, both federal and commercial, are invited to apply to the LRAP program.

Do you Practice in one of the following areas? Is so, you may be eligible for the Loan Repayment Assistance Program.

- A public interest or community service organization, - An international human rights organization,

Loan Repayment and Debt Relief Options Gonzaga University School of Law LRAP (for federal and private loans) http://www. law.gonzaga.edu/students/lrap

Income Based Repayment (for federal student loans) www.ibr.org

For Public Service Forgiveness (for federal student loans) http://studentaid.ed.gov/ students/attachments/siteresources/ LoanForgivenessv4.pdf

John R. Justice Program (for federal student

loans) http://www.equaljusticeworks. org/resources/student-debt-relief/John-RJustice-Student-Loan-Repayment-Program

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- A legal aid office or clinic, - A prosecutor’s office, - A public defender’s office, or - A state, local, or federal government office.

All alumni who are currently practicing in the public interest field, regardless of their graduation year, are eligible to apply.

Please visit the website below to download application materials and to view additional information on the program, including eligibility requirements. www.law.gonzaga.edu/ students/lrap

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Saul Lefkowitz Near right: Taylor Shumway, Rhett Barney, John Nelson, Reid Johnson, Genna Hibbs, Tatiana David, Joshua Green, Prof. Chris Lynch and Christopher Barrus

National Far right: Co-coach Bryan Harnetiaux, Brian Cameron, Elizabeth Lambert, Steve Roberts and co-coach Lynn Robinson.

2011 Moot Court Report Saul Lefkowitz National Trademark Moot Court Competition Gonzaga finished second in the nation at the 20th annual Saul Lefkowitz National Trademark Moot Court Competition finals held recently in Washington, D.C.

The four finalists were Gonzaga, Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire, Louisville and Wisconsin. Gonzaga also placed second for National Best Brief.

The team of Christopher Barrus, Reid Johnson, Tatiana David and John Nelson won the Western Regional competition and represented Gonzaga in the national finals. Rhett Barney, Joshua Green, Genna Hibbs and Taylor Shumway placed third in the Western Regional at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco in February.

Mugel National Moot Court Competition

National Moot Court Competition

In early March, three Gonzaga Tax Moot Court teams competed in the Mugel National Moot Court Competition at the University of Buffalo School of Law in Buffalo, New York.

At the National Moot Court Competition held in New York City on Feb. 3, Gonzaga made the semi-final round, placing among the top four teams in the nation.

Two emerged as the third – and fourth – place teams in the nation – and two took home Best Brief and second Best Brief.

“Four teams advanced to the semi-finals and we were two of those teams,” said Professor Ann Murphy, co-coach. “We were the only teams from west of the MIssissippi.”

Adjunct Professor Chris Crago, an associate at Paine Hamblen, LLP, was co-coach.

Gonzaga’s teams comprised students Vitaliy Mkrtchyan and Tacy Gillespie, Bil Childress and Joe Fortunato, and Maximilian Held and Nick Martin. The Mkrtchyan/Gillespie and Childress/ Fortunato teams won third and fourth place in the competition, though the exact order is not specified.

This is the 15th year in a row that Gonzaga has competed. “In ‘08, Gonzaga placed second and won best brief in the region, but this is the first time a Gonzaga team has won the region and advanced In the Best Brief competition Held and to the ‘final four’,” Professor Chris Lynch, Martin placed first, with Mkrtchyan and coach of the Saul Lefkowitz team, said.

Gillespie garnering second place.

Saul Lefkowitz is sponsored by the International Trademark Association.

“Chris and I are so proud of our teams,” Murphy said.

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The Gonzaga team – Brian Cameron, Elizabeth Lambert, and Steve Roberts – also tied with a team from St. Louis University for Runner Up Best Brief honors.

The field of 28 that competed in the nationals had been winnowed from a slate of 179 teams from 124 law schools.

At the regionals, which were held in Missoula, Mont., Cameron, Lambert and Roberts competed in four preliminary rounds before qualifying for the nationals by placing second. The University of Montana, team that defeated them went out in an early round in New York.

The event is sponsored by the Young Lawyers section of the New York City Bar Association, and the finals are held in its august Manhattan courtroom.

“It’s a grueling competition,” said co-coach Professor Bryan Harnetiaux. “(The team) started working on it in August and it didn’t wrap up until February.”

Harnetiaux has advised the team for seven years. Lynn Robinson, clerk for the Hon. Robert H. Whaley, U.S. District Federal Court judge for Eastern Washington, was co-adviser.

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Mugel Tax Far left: Joseph Fortunato, Bil Childress, Maximilian Held, Nicholas Martin, Tacy Gillespie and Vitaliy Mkrtchyan.

National Trial Near left: Jon Yousling, Richard Hy, Elena Roberts, Iam Stamme, Danielle Purcell, Robert Colbert and Prof. Brooks Holland.

National Trial Moot Court Competition At the regional competition held in Portland, Ore., two Gonzaga Law teams competed in a field of 22 teams representing about a dozen Northwest regional law schools, said Professor Brooks Holland, who coached the team with Professor Heidi Holland.

“We fielded two teams of students, with Elena Roberts, Jon Yousling and Danielle Purcell comprising one team, and Robert Colbert, Richard Hy and Courtney Baasch comprising the other team,” Brooks Holland said.

Iam Stamme and Patrick Rooks served as alternate student lawyers. In the competition’s initial round, each team tried three complete criminal trials over the course of two days, alternating between prosecution and defense.

“Both of our teams were outstanding,” Holland said. “The two teams lost only one of their combined six trials, and the team of Colbert, Hy and Baasch advanced to the semi-final round as one of the top eight teams in the region.”

“The team tried a great case in the semifinal round against a strong Montana team,” he said, “and missed a chance to compete in the regional finals only by what the judges’ comments made clear was a very close contest.”

Annie Chau, Marty Weber, Lorie Mallari

2010 Building Bridges Week – Lukins & Annis Welcome Reception As part of Gonzaga University School of Law’s commitment to diversity, the law firm of Lukins & Annis hosted a reception during Building Bridges Week at their firm to welcome Gonzaga law school students of color and returning students of color. The reception served as an opportunity for first-year law students to interact with returning students and attorneys in the Spokane community.

Building Bridges week is a commitment by Gonzaga University School of Law to share the importance of diversity as an integral part of the institution’s Vision Statement.

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Lin Sun wins AAC scholarship

Barney, Nelson win

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“I believe now there is a huge opportunity for anyone who is able to build a bridge between China and the world.”

-Lin Sun

Second-year law student Lin Sun recently was awarded a scholarship from the Washington Chapter of the American Association of Corporate Counsel.

Originally from Wuhan, China, Lin hopes to work as an international business transaction attorney. As an undergraduate, she studied political science at China’s Wuhan University.

Lin has been interested in business and corporate law for most of the past decade. Her interest was formed when China entered the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001.

“Although China has implemented the policy of reform and has been opening up for more than 20 years, I believe the WTO will have significant and farreaching influence not only on the Chinese economy, but on politics, the rule of law and the culture,” she said.

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Lin chose Gonzaga for its strong writing program and its reputation for offering an education based on humanistic and Jesuit values. Lin is the first Chinese student to be enrolled full-time at Gonzaga Law in pursuit of a J.D. degree.

The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) is the world’s largest organization serving the professional and business interests of attorneys who practice in the legal departments of corporations, associations and other private-sector organizations around the globe.

Rhett Barney and John Nelson recently were awarded WSBA Intellectual Property Section Scholarships.

Barney, a third-year law student from Shelley, Idaho, says the WSBA IP scholarship “serves as a motivation

IP Scholarships

McKenna wins AAML scholarship

to continue my pursuit in the field of IP … I have worked hard to create opportunities for myself in the field of IP, and I am glad that IP practitioners are looking at those experiences positively.”

this will open up some networking opportunities across the state.”

Barney studied business communications at Brigham Young University-Idaho in Rexburg, Idaho, and was drawn to Gonzaga by the school’s reputation and its up-and-coming IP program. He says law school has taught him “how to learn the law - and that I still love IP.”

The WSBA IP Section focuses on patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and related matters in the intellectual property arena.

The IP section has been a consistent supporter of the students at Gonzaga University School of Law and the school’s IP programs.

She says law school has taught her “that the law is pervasive in all aspects of life.”

Sarah McKenna, a third-year law student, was recently awarded a scholarship by the Washington Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.

The AAML was founded in 1962 with a mission to “encourage the study, improve the practice, elevate the standards and advance the cause of matrimonial law to the end that the welfare of the family and society be preserved.”

Second-year law student John Nelson studied chemistry at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash. A native of North Pole, Alaska, Nelson says Gonzaga’s intellectual property curriculum drew him here. He says his studies at Gonzaga Law have helped him improve his writing skills and taught him how to work “harder than I ever have before.”

Nelson says the WSBA IP scholarship gives him a chance to “meet and potentially learn from some of the best IP attorneys in the area; hopefully,

Nelson hopes to practice patent prosecution or litigation.

The Yakima, Wash., native hopes to work in a small firm that focuses in the areas of family law and estate planning.

Family law has held her interest for several years, she says, adding: “Family

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law combines my love of the law with my psychology background and strong interest in family interactions.”

McKenna double-majored in psychology and law and justice at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Wash. She says her love for the Pacific Northwest and Gonzaga’s reputation for preparing students to be skilled attorneys drew her to Gonzaga.

AAML is an association of the nation’s top matrimonial lawyers, from all 50 states, who specialize in all issues relating to marriage, divorce, annulment, custody, child visitation, property valuation, property distribution, alimony and child support.

Faculty scholarship and awards Professor Upendra Acharya

Professor Upendra Acharya Professor Upendra Acharya accepted an offer to serve as a national legal expert in Nepal and India for the Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking for the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs.

He also was involved in the constitution-making process through formal and informal dialogues between different actors in Nepal and has formed a committee to conduct round-table conferences/discussions and to make recommendations to the Constitution Assembly on different prospects of Nepal’s constitution, which is being reviewed as part of a two-year mandate to create a new constitution for the Republic of Nepal.

Professor Megan Ballard

Acharya was invited to Athens, Greece, in June 2010 to present “Defining Terrorism and Lingering International Politics: International Law as a Quiet Observer” at the 8th Annual International Conference on Politics and International Affairs. At the conference, he introduced a new concept: “Interlocking Theory of International Policies and International Law.” As well, he served as a pro tem judge on the Santa Rosa Rancheria Tachi Yokut Tribal Appeals Court to hear and decide a case concerning employment issues in July 2010.

Professor Cheryl Beckett

Professor Lisa Bradley

In September 2010, Acharya completed a solicited review of a book draft, “International Law; Examples and Explanations,” for Aspen Publishers. He also peer reviewed an article for the Asian Journal International Law (Cambridge Press).

In December 2010, he presented a paper in Beirut, Lebanon, at a conference on International Justice: Maintaining International Peace and Security. The topic of his paper was “ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Kosovo: Is It A Cogent Legal Analysis or A Judicial Endorsement of Political Might?” The paper also has been accepted to be published.

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of Common Law Trusts,” at the Georgian Institute for Public Affairs, School of Law and Politics, and at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, both in December 2010.

In 2011, Acharya presented at a CLE program sponsored by the World Peace Through Law Section of the Washington State Bar Association. His presentation was entitled: “From Needs to Rights: Implementation of the Conventions of the Rights of the Child in South Asia.”

She also received a grant from the Gonzaga University Research Council for research on Colombian property restitution.

Professor Megan Ballard

Professor Cheryl Beckett

Professor Megan Ballard published “Post Conflict Property Restitution: Flawed Legal and Theoretical Foundations,” 28 Berkeley Journal of International Law 462 (2010). Also published was her article titled “Estate Planning for Clients with Pets, Real Prop., Prob. and Trust” for the Winter 20102011 issue for the Washington Bar Association.

Professor Cheryl Beckett presented on “Ethical Considerations in Employment Law” in December 2010 at the Hotel Lusso in Spokane at a CLE sponsored by The Seminar Group.

In 2011, Apsen Publishers requested Beckett to review the books “Legal Research” and “Legal Writing” by Diana R. Donahoe.

Ballard also presented a paper on post-conflict property restitution in March of 2010 at the annual meeting of the Association for Law, Property and Society, at Georgetown Law School.

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She presented for Gonzaga’s Center for Law in Public Service as a panelist for the session on “The Ivory Tower and the Legal Community: A New Paradigm for Access” at the Washington State Bar Association’s Access to Justice conference in Wenatchee, Wash., in June 2010.

Professors Lisa Bradley and Kevin Shelley participated in a panel presentation at the 10th Annual Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference, sponsored by the James E. Rogers College of Law of the University of Arizona, in Tucson. The presentation was entitled “Of Rubrics and Margin Notes: Assessing Students Over Time (A Roundtable Discussion of Uses and Expectations),” in March 2010.

Ballard was on sabbatical for the 2010/2011 academic year. She received a grant from the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board to lecture and research in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia. During the fall of 2010, Professor Ballard taught “An Introduction to the American Legal System” at the Tbilisi State University and researched Georgia’s steps to prepare for post-conflict property restitution.

Bradley traveled to Honolulu in December 2010 to speak at the SALT Conference on her article, “Putting Theory into Practice: Re-Structuring the Legal Writing Curriculum to Reflect the Realities of the Law Firm Collaborative Writing Model.” Her article, based on her presentation materials at the SALT Conference, was accepted for publication in the spring 2011 edition of Perspectives, a legal research and writing publication.

In Georgia, she presented: “Post-Conflict Property Restitution in Georgia: Political Pragmatism or Humanitarianism?” at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University American Studies Center in December of 2010, and at the Center for Social Sciences, also in December 2010.

Bradley has been appointed to the Legal Writing Institute’s ABA Standards Implementation Committee for the 20102012 term.

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Professor Scott Burnham made two presentations at the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction Conference in June 2010: “Using Distance Learning Techniques in the Regular Classroom” and “Creating a Lesson Using CALI Author.” Burnham is currently the president of CALI. At the ABA annual meeting in August 2010, he gave a presentation on “Miscellaneous Terms: Modification” as part of a Joint UCC-Consumer Finance Program and chaired a panel on “Variation by Agreement” for the General Provisions Subcommittee. In November, he participated in the training of judges of courts of lower jurisdiction for the Montana Supreme Court.

His piece, “Let’s Restore Freedom of Contract to the Montana Code,” was published in The Montana Lawyer, and his article, “Blood Does Not a Contract Make: A Reply to Professor Nancy Kim,” was published in Wake Forest Law Review Forum. His article, “The Language of Article 9,” was published in the Gonzaga Law Review. His paper titled “Thoughts on Enacting Amended Article 2,” was presented at an Article 2 Symposium at South Texas College of Law and will be published in the South Texas Law Review.

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Professor Patrick Charles

In 2010, Professor Patrick Charles published his article, “Brutal Choices in Curricular Design - West Topic and Key Numbers: Focusing on the Basic Structure” in Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing. The Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction has accepted his proposal to write a legal research CALI exercise for the CALI Legal Research Community Authoring Project. The CALI exercise will be about updating the Code of Federal Regulations using electronic resources.

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In October 2010, Charles presented “Connecting and Collaborating Across the Law School: How Can We Get Out Professor Lynn Daggett

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of Our Silos and Work with Our Colleagues to Better Educate Our Students?” at the Northwest Clinical Conference.

He presented at the December 2010 Issues in Solo and Small Practice CLE sponsored by the Spokane County Bar Association on “Cost-Effective Legal Research Techniques Using Modern Technology.”

She presented a paper in November 2010 on “School District Tort Liability for Injuries to Special Education Students” at the Education Law Association annual conference in Vancouver, B.C. At the same conference, she also presented the Joseph Award for excellence in student writing in the area of education law.

Interim Dean George Critchlow presented in April 2010 his article “Legal Strategies for Fighting Hate Crimes in Washington Sate” at the Annual Senior Lawyers Conference, which was sponsored by the WSBA Senior Lawyers Section in Seattle.

In 2010, Professor Mark Deforrest was appointed to be the assistant editor of Legal Writing: The Journal of Legal Writing Institute. He also completed an internal book review and edit for Wolters Kluwer legal publishers for its forthcoming textbook “Legal Writing: Examples & Explanations,” by Neumann, Pollman, Stinson, and Pollman.

Professor Mark Deforrest

Interim Dean George Critchlow

In May 2010, he spoke about “Attorneys’ Criticism of Judges: Professional Misconduct or Protected Speech?” at the Federal Civil Trial Practice Seminar sponsored by the Benton-Franklin County Bar Association in Richland, Wash.

Professor Jason Gillmer

Professor Jason Gillmer traveled to Hurst, Texas, in February 2010 to present “Freedom in a Slave Country” for the Black History Month Speaker Series at Tarrant County Community College. Then in March 2010, he went to Dallas and spoke on another topic, “The Intriguing Tale of John and Sobrina: A True Story of a Slave Owner and a Slave Who Became His Wife,” at the annual meeting of the Texas State Historical Association.

Also in 2010, Critchlow attended a conference co-sponsored

by New York Law School and Harvard Law School on “Future Ed: New Business Models for U.S. and Global Legal Education.” He will be part of a newly organized working group tasked with investigating and disseminating information about law schools that seek to innovate by securing variances from the ABA with respect to applicable accreditation standards.

In October 2010, Gillmer presented a work-in-progress entitled, “Slave Lawyers,” as part of a panel on “Race and Lawyering” at the annual LaCrit Conference in Denver. He presented on a related topic, “Her Champion and Her Friend: Lawyers, Slaves, and the Politics of Freedom in Galveston, Texas,” at a meeting of the Dallas Bar Association’s Legal History Group in February. In March, Gillmer received an offer to publish an article associated with his work.

The piece, “Lawyers and Slaves: A Remarkable Case of Representation in the Antebellum South,” will be published in a special symposium issue of the University of Miami Race and Social Justice Law Review.

Professor Lynn Daggett

Professor Lynn Daggett published an article entitled “Evidentiary Arguments in Proceedings that are Not Governed by the Rules of Evidence” for the WSBA Litigation Section newsletter for Spring 2010.

In October 2010, she presented three workshops on effective student evaluations to the faculty at New England Law School.

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In the fall of 2010, Gillmer published his essay, “Race, Blood, and What the Alligator Knows: A Review of Ariela Gross, What Blood Won’t Tell,” in the Southern California Law Review. In the winter of 2010, he published a traditional book review of Gross’ work in the Law and History Review, a leading peer-review journal for legal history. And in the spring of 2011, Professor Gillmer’s article “Shades of Gray: The Life and Times of a Free Family of Color on the Texas Frontier” was published in the Minnesota Journal of Law and Inequality.

Professor Mark Deforrest

He also presented to the Washington Supreme Court as a member of the Task Force on Race and the Criminal Justice System in March 2011. The presentation focused on the general problem of racial bias in the criminal justice system, and Professor Gillmer’s talk highlighted the nation’s long history of associating race with criminality.

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Professor Gail Hammer

During the summer of 2010, Professors Gail Hammer and Larry Weiser spent two weeks in Sao Paulo, Brazil, training faculty in clinical teaching methods at the Direito GV Law School.

In October 2010, Hammer gave her “Ethics and Cultural Competency” presentation at training for Guardians Ad Litem. In November 2010, Hammer presented “International Child Custody Disputes: Some Legal and Practical Considerations” at the Mission Possible CLE at Gonzaga Law School.

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Professor Brooks Holland

In 2010, Professor Gerry Hess’ new book, “Teaching Law by Design for Adjuncts,” co-authored with Michael Schwartz and Sophie Sparrow, was published by Carolina Academic Press.

In the last year, Professor Brooks Holland published several legal articles. He published his research and thesis on racial profiling, “Racial Profiling and a Punitive Exclusionary Rule,” in volume 20 of the Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review. This article can be downloaded at ssrn.com/abstract=1803598

Also in 2010, Hess’ article, “Developing a Skills and Professionalism Curriculum,” co-authored with then-Dean Earl Martin, appeared in the Leadership in Legal Education symposium of the University of Toledo Law Review.

Holland also published several articles analyzing pending Supreme Court cases for the American Bar Association’s Supreme Court Preview Journal: “May the State Require the Defense to Produce a Prosecution Witness for CrossExamination?” (vol. 37, p. 165); “When Are Defendants Exempt from A Minimum Consecutive Firearm Sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)?” (vol. 38, p. 24); “Does the Speedy Trial Act Exclude from Its Deadline the Time During Which a District Court Resolves Any Pretrial Motions, Even When the Motions Do Not Delay Trial?” (vol. 38, p. 220); and “Does the Federal Witness-Protection Murder Statute Require Proof That the Victim Would Have Communicated with a Federal Officer?” (vol. 38, p.

261). Several of these articles were cross-posted on the Supreme Court website SCOTUSBlog. The American Bar Association invited Holland to publish another article for the 2010 term, previewing United States v. McNeill, No. 10528. In July 2010, he published an article in the National Law Journal analyzing the Supreme Court’s most recent Miranda decisions, “How the Court Retooled Miranda,” available at www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ. jsp?id=1202463488362.

In 2011, Hess and co-authors Steve Friedland, Schwartz, and Sparrow, submitted the final manuscript of a new book, “Techniques for Teaching Law 2, to Carolina Academic Press.

Also in 2011, his article “Value of Variety: An Organizing Principle to Enhance Teaching and Learning” will be published in the Elon Law Review.

During 2010 and 2011, Hess made the following presentations: “Teaching Law for Engaged Learning,” Elon University School of Law, April 2010; “Engaging Students, Assessing Learning, and Developing Teachers,” Southern University School of Law, May 2010; “Teaching Law Practice Across the Curriculum,” Institute for Law Teaching and Learning, June 2010; “Designing and Presenting Programs Effectively,” The National Judicial College, June 2010; “Designing and Presenting Programs Effectively,” U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Review, June 2010; “Aspiring to be a Velvet Hammer: Creating a Supportive and Challenging Learning Environment,” AALS Annual Meeting, Teaching Methods Section, January 2011; “Teaching Excellence: Integrating Knowledge, Skills, Values, and Assessment,” AALS Annual Meeting, Presidential Program, January 2011; “Course (Re)Design,” Northern Kentucky University, Salmon P. Chase College of Law, March 2011.

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Holland maintained an online and media presence during 2010. SCOTUSBlog invited him to recap and analyze the Supreme Court oral argument in United States v.

Tinklenberg, No. 09-1948, available at www.scotusblog. com/?p=114204. He also analyzed the Supreme Court’s opinion in Abbott v. United States, No. 09-479, available at www.scotusblog.com/?p=108890. In June, he blogged at PrawfsBlawg, where law professors post on a variety of academic and other subjects. Holland’s blog post, “Was Justice Scalia Disrespectful to Justice Stevens on

Stevens’ Last Day?,” resulted in him being interviewed by Robert Barnes for an article in The Washington Post, “As Stevens Retires from the Court, One Last Duel with Scalia,” available at www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ article/2010/07/25/AR2010072502314.html. Also in 2010, Holland was interviewed for the American Bar Association’s Supreme Court Preview website about the Supreme Court case of Briscoe v. Virginia, available at www.americanbar. org/publications/preview_home/publiced_preview_ QandABriscoe.html.

Professor Brooks Holland

Holland presented at several academic programs in 2010. In May 2010, he chaired a panel, “Race and the Criminal Law,” at the Law and Society annual conference in Chicago. He also presented his own paper on that panel, “Racial Profiling and a Punitive Exclusionary Rule.” In July, he participated in the Junior CrimProf Conference at John Marshall Law School, and was the assigned discussant for the paper, “Retribution and the Experience of Punishment,” 98 Cal. L. Rev. 1463 (2010), presented by Professors John Bronsteen, Christopher Buccafusco and Jonathan Masur. In September, Professor Holland traveled to Texas Weslyan Law School in Fort Worth to present his work-in-progress, “Kickin’ Ass & Taking Names: Zealous Advocacy and the Virtuous Lawyer.”

In March, he presented “Teaching Virtuous Lawyering in a Post-9/11 World” as part of a conference hosted by the Gonzaga Journal of International Law, “The War on Terror: from Guantanamo Bay to the Shores of Australia.” In July, he presented to the ACLU-WA board of directors and executive staff on “Civil Liberties and the Right to Bear Arms.” Holland also presented his work to his colleagues at Gonzaga during faculty roundtables, including “Zealous Advocacy and Virtuous Lawyering” in March, and “Kick-Ass Lawyering” in January 2011.

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In November, he chaired a panel on “Ethics in Criminal Law” as part of the Washington State Bar Association’s annual Law of Lawyering seminar. In October, Holland contributed to a video CLE on ethics for the WSBA’s new Moderate Means program. Also in October, he presented at the annual TriCities Legal Aid CLE, previewing the Supreme Court’s 2010 Term. In July, he presented on ethical issues in representing

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In June 2010, he and Professor Linda Rusch hosted the inaugural session of the Alaska Demonstration Project for the Institute for the Development of Economic Policy for Indigenous People in Anchorage. Representatives of several Alaskan Native corporations and affiliated traditional governments attended and participated in discussions concerning how the Institute can contribute as a public policy think tank to the self-government of Native peoples.

street performers at a CLE program at Gonzaga. In June, he lectured on “Confidentiality, Candor, and Zeal in the Eastern District of Washington” to the Federal Defender Office for the Eastern District of Washington, and in March he presented on “Confidentiality, Candor, and Zeal under the Washington RPC” to the Seattle Public Defender Office. In February he participated in a panel discussion on Atticus Finch and ethics in a Gonzaga CLE program that coordinated with the Spokane Public Library’s “Big Read” program.

The chair of the ABA’s Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section named Kanassatega as vice chair of the section’s Native American Concerns Committee for the 2010-2011 year.

Holland has continued to practice as appointed counsel for indigent criminal defendants on appeal before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In 2010, the court decided his client’s case in United States v. ValenciaReuvelta, 380 Fed.Appx. 684 (9th Cir. 2010). Recent Gonzaga Law graduate Michelle Trombley, now a practicing attorney in the Tri-Cities area, assisted Holland on this appeal.

Kanassatega’s first law review article, “The Discovery Immunity Exception in Indian Country – Promoting American Indian Sovereignty By Fostering the Rule of Law,” 31 Whittier L. Rev. 199 (2009) was cited with favor in an order filed by U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey L. Viken in February 2011. The court agreed with Kanassatega’s “analysis and logic” on enforcement of federal civil process under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rules 26(b)(1) and 45 in quashing third-party process directed to Indian tribes and tribal corporations and tribal government and tribal corporate officials and employees based on tribal immunity. The import of Judge Viken’s ruling treats Indian tribes the same as the United States and the states concerning access to testimony and documents.

During 2010, the Washington State Bar Association appointed Holland to the Council on Public Defense.

He subsequently participated on a Council committee examining the proposed Uniform Collateral Consequences Act. He also was re-elected to the board of directors and executive committee for the ACLU-WA. He serves as secretary of the board. He also was appointed to chair a committee for the ACLU-WA on the right to bear arms under federal and Washington state law.

Professor Jay Kanassatega

Professor Amy Kelley

In February 2010, Professor Jay Kanassatega presented at the University of Washington School of Law’s “Professionalism in Practice: Ethics in Action CLE.” He addressed two issues: (1) the authority of the Washington State Bar Association to regulate the “practice of law” and to enforce rules governing lawyer conduct in courts, tribunals and administrative agencies created under the law of a federally recognized Indian tribe and (2) new ethical considerations for qualified law students who engage in conduct that could be construed to be the “practice of law” in those same courts, tribunals and administrative agencies.

In 2010, Professor Amy Kelley spoke on “Emerging Issues in Constitutional Law – State and Federal” at the spring Appellate Judges’ Conference in Lake Chelan, Wash., and on “Conquest, Occupation and Ethnic Cleansing” at the 2010 International Conference on the Legal Issues of a Peace Regime in the Korean Peninsula at Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea (South Korea). An article will be published in the conference proceedings.

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Professor Inga N. Laurent co-authored with Dean Alyson Alber: “Promoting Opportunities for Students Through Pipeline Programs,” which was published by the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Journal in February 2010.

Professor Chris Lynch

Professor Chris Lynch was invited to speak to the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington in June 2010 and again in June 2011. The presentations, entitled “Protect your valuable work – patent, trademark, copyright and trade secrets,” were part of the Bill and Melinda Gates Seminar Series on “The Future of Computing.”

Professor Chris Lynch

In July 2010, he completed his role as one of three attorneys appointed by U.S. District Court Judge Edward Shea to a Patent Local Rules Committee to review rules of other districts regarding patent litigation and to make recommendations as to local patent rules for the Eastern District of Washington.

In August 2010, he attended the 2010 9th Circuit Judicial Conference as a lawyer representative appointed by the U.S. District Court Judges for the Eastern District of Washington. At the conference, he moderated a “Breakfast with the Bench” table of federal judges and practitioners on federal court procedure.

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Lynch was elevated to the Lawyer Representative Coordinating Committee for the 2011 9th Circuit Judicial Conference to be held in August 2011.

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In February 2011, Lynch coached Gonzaga Law School’s two Saul Lefkowitz National Trademark Moot Court teams to first and third places in the U.S. Western Regional Competition at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Gonzaga’s first-place team moved onto the finals at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., against Wisconsin, Louisville and New Hampshire in March 2011.

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topic was “Financial Reform After the Meltdown.” He also presented to the Spokane County Bar Association and to the Gonzaga University Florence faculty on the current financial crisis.

Professor Jim McCurdy submitted manuscripts for seventh edition of “Sports Law: Cases & Materials” to Lexis-Nexis for publication in 2011. His chapter titled “Thunder on the Road from Seattle to Oklahoma City: Moving from NOPA to ZOPA in the NBA” was published in the book “Legal Issues in Professional Basketball,” Kurlantzick, ed. 2011 Academica Press.

Professor Ann Murphy

Professor Ann Murphy completed the teacher’s manual for her Phil Spector evidence book entitled “People of the State of California v. Phillip Spector, Case File,” published by Wolters Kluwer/Aspen Publishers in 2010.

McCurdy presented a work in progress “Specific Performance in Sports Venue Leases, Equity and Economic Efficiency” at the sixth Annual International Contracts Conference held at Stetson University College of Law, in February 2011.

She also completed the 2010 update for the “Tax Aspects of Divorce” section of the Washington State Bar Association Family Law Deskbook, as well as an update on the taxation section of the Washington State Bar Association Community Property Deskbook.

Gonzaga bestowed the title professor emeritus on McCurdy in April. He received a 2011 Spirit Award from Prime Magazine as one of six Spokane community individuals who are 60 years and older who continue to make a difference through their acts of kindness and contributions.

Her law review article entitled “Federal Rule of Evidence 502: Inadvertent Disclosure – The ‘Get-Out-of-Jail-Free’ Provision – or Is It?” will be published in the 41st volume of the University of New Mexico Law Review.

Professor Dan Morrissey

Her article, “Gender Reassignment Surgery and Hormone Therapy: Section 213 Medical Expense Deduction Upheld,” was posted on the LexisNexis Tax Law Community website in February 2010. Also in February 2010, she posted an article and podcast for the LexisNexis Emerging Issues Analysis. The topic was ”New Tax Court Rules and Practices.”

Professor Dan Morrissey’s “After the Meltdown” was published in the Spring 2010 Vol. 45 #3 issue of the Tulsa Law Review. He presented in March 2010 at the 30th Annual Northwest Securities Institute in Seattle. The title of his talk was “Renewing the Case for a Robust Registration Requirement.”

Murphy published an article entitled “The Attorney-Client Privilege and Inadvertent Disclosure” for the spring 2010 WSBA Litigation Section newsletter.

In August 2010, Morrissey’s article, “Reining in Wall Street,” was published in the National Law Journal. The piece described how the Dodd-Frank bill provides a needed mechanism to bridle the animal spirits that drive the financial community. The National Law Journal also published his article “Wall Street Needs this Beast” in February of 2011.

Morrissey spoke at the WSU Business Law and Ethics Symposium in November 2010 in Moscow, Idaho. His

In May 2010 Murphy and Professor Mary Pat Treuthart showed the film “An Inconvenient Tax” – a new documentary about the U.S. tax system. Academics from main campus were invited as well as students and the community at large. Treuthart provided critical commentary and Murphy provided tax background.

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In May 2010, Murphy published “Tax Court Rejects the Geithner Defense: Lam and Chang v. Commissioner” for the

LexisNexis Emerging Issues Analysis Tax Law Community website. In the Lam and Chang case, taxpayers claimed the “Geithner Defense” against the application of tax penalties. For that defense, ultimately rejected by the court, the taxpayers blamed their failure to pay taxes on TurboTax software. The same website also published in June 2010, her article “FRE 502: The Lawyer-Saving Provision for Inadvertent Waivers of Privileges” – an analysis of Rule 502 in the tax context.

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Murphy also spoke at the 58th Annual Tax Law Institute at the University of Montana in Missoula in October 2010. Her topic was “Protecting Yourself and Your Client in the Digital Age – New Tax Court Rules and Federal Evidence Rules for our Changing World.”

Murphy agreed to take on the duties of the listserv coordinator for the “Aging and the Law” Section of the American Association of Law Schools.

Professor Kim Pearson

She completed her annual update to a book on Tax Procedure for Lexis. This is a co-authored, 18-chapter Federal Tax Practice and Procedure treatise that she updates annually.

Professor Kim Pearson

In 2010, Professor Kim Pearson presented “Absent and Unnatural Fathers: The False Competition Between Black Dads and Gay Dads” at Hofstra University School of Law in January, UCLA Law Review Symposium Sexuality and Gender Law Assessing the Field, Envisioning the Future and Williams Institute Annual Update in March; at the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University in April; and at the Law and Society Association in May.

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Pearson article “Mimetic Reproduction in Child Custody Decisions” was published in Volume 22 of the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism Summer 2010 edition.

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In November 2010, she participated in the Mission Possible CLE at Gonzaga Law School. She presented “Ethical Issues in Representing LGBT Families.

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She presented “Is a bridge really a bridge if it doesn’t touch either side?”at the SALT conference in December 2010.

Study Committee on Payments Issues, during the course of 2010 and early 2011, she attended several meetings with interested participants, including the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and drafted several memoranda regarding payments issues for discussions by the study committee and interested participants. She also attended the 2010 payments conference in Seattle hosted by NACHA, as part of her work as reporter for the study committee.

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In 2010, Professor Linda J. Rusch published several items: Hawkland’s Uniform Commercial Code Series, UCC Article 7 Volume (Revised Volume June 2010); Hawkland’s Uniform Commercial Code Series, Revised UCC Article 7 (Revised Volume June 2010); Hawkland’s Uniform Commercial Code Series, UCC Article 2 Volume (Annual Supplement for 2010); Thomson/West, Selected Commercial Statutes (2010); and Teacher’s Update to Teacher’s Manual for Payment Systems: Problems Materials and Cases (3d ed. West 2007). In addition, she and Professor Stephen L. Sepinuck published Problems and Materials on Secured Transactions (2d ed. Thompson/West 2010) (with teacher’s manual). This teaching book broke new ground by incorporating within its electronic version, electronic exercises with answers that the students could use to enhance their understanding of the material. Rusch and Sepinuck currently are working on the fourth edition of Payment Systems, with delivery to West Publishing in September 2011.

Rusch in April 2010 completed her one-year term as president of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers, and served an additional year (through April 2011) as a member of the College’s Executive Committee.

She has been an officer (secretary, then vice-chair) of the American Bar Association Section of Business Law, serving until August 2010 as vice-chair. During her term as vicechair, she was editor-in-chief of The Business Lawyer, published by the ABA Business Law Section four times a year. In August 2010, she was elected chair-elect of the ABA Business Law Section, and in September 2010 was designated representative of the chair-elect class of the ABA Section’s Officer Conference and serves on the executive committee of the ABA’s Section’s Officer Conference. As chair-elect of the ABA Business Law Section, she chairs the Section’s Council Committee on Planning. She will become chair of the ABA Business Law Section in August 2011 for a one-year term. In her capacity as an officer of the section, she participates in all sections meetings, including the January Midwinter Leadership Meeting, the Section’s Spring Meeting, and the Section’s Fall Meeting, and the ABA Annual Meeting.

In addition, she participates in the ABA’s Midyear Meeting and the Section Officers’ Conference meetings. As part of her heavy involvement in ABA activities, she also participated in stakeholder’s meetings concerning ABA publishing and ABA CLE and their respective future activities.

Rusch also spoke at the following presentations: ABA Business Law Section Joint Subcommittees on Secured Transactions, Work of the Article 9 Review Committee (April 2010); ABA Business Law Section Joint Subcommittees on Payments Meeting, Payments Law Reform (April 2010); Institute for Institute for the Development of Economic Policy for Indigenous People, Alaska Demonstration Project, Anchorage, Alaska (June 2010), and 2010 Commercial Law Developments, Spokane and Seattle, sponsored by Lane Powell in December 2010.

She also continued her participation in the work of two major law reform efforts regarding the Uniform Commercial Code. She attended the March 2010 drafting committee meeting of the UCC Article 9 Review Committee and prepared a 30-page report on the meeting for the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers. In addition, as the reporter for the Uniform Law Commission

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Rusch also participates in the activities of the American Law Institute as an elected member, and attended the ALI Annual Meeting to participate in the discussion of amendments to UCC Article 9 and the final approval of the Restatement of Restitution. She has been a member of the Members

Consultative Group for the Restatement of Restitution project since its inception more than a decade ago. She was reappointed as an American Law Institute representative to the Permanent Editorial Board for the Uniform Commercial Code and will continue to serve as a member of the PEB executive committee.

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Professor Terry Sawyer

In July 2010, Professor Terry Sawyer organized and moderated the Buskers Symposium/CLE: An Examination of 1st Amendment Rights of Street Performers held at Gonzaga Law School.

Professor Stephen L. Sepinuck

Professor Stephen L. Sepinuck

In 2010, Professors Stephen L. Sepinuck and Linda J. Rusch published “Problems and Materials on Secured Transactions” (2nd ed. Thompson/West 2010) (with Teacher’s Manual).

This teaching book breaks new ground by incorporating within its electronic version, electronic exercises for students to use to enhance their understanding of the material. Sepinuck and Rusch currently are working on the fourth edition of “Payment Systems,” with delivery to West Publishing in September 2011.

Sepinuck published nine articles in the Clark’s Secured Transaction Monthly in 2010 and two more in the first months of 2011. They are as following: “Reg. Z Requires Extra Effort to Enforce Security Interest in Consumer Deposit Account;” “Seventh Circuit Strikes Down Indiana Law Aimed a Car Title Pawns;” “Vague Terms in Collateral Description Bring Partial, Pyrrhic Victory to Secured Party;” “Perfecting Statutory Liens in Interstate Transactions;” “Debtor’s Negotiation of Foreclosure Sale Might Ease Secured Creditor’s Burden in Complying with Article 9;” “Searches Beware: Court Validates Notice of Tax Lien Against Debtor’s Former Name;” “Ninth Circuit Impairs Secured Creditor’s Right to Collect from Account Debtor;” “Assignments of Financing Statements & Floating Secured Parties,” “Isn’t

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Professor Sandra Simpson

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Legal Writing Conference, sponsored by the James E. Rogers College of Law of the University of Arizona, in Tucson. The presentation was entitled “Of Rubrics and Margin Notes: Assessing Students Over Time (A Roundtable Discussion of Uses and Expectations)” during March 2010.

that Special? New York Court Rejects Secured Party’s Right to Exercise Setoff Against $500 Million Deposit;” “Maine Supreme Judicial Court Rules That Control Is a Condition of Foreclosing on a Deposit Account,” and “Caveat Emptor: Buying in Ordinary Course of Business Does Not Necessarily Mean You Get Unencumbered Goods.”

In December 2010, he traveled to Honolulu to present “Putting Theory into Practice: Re-Structuring the Legal Writing Curriculum to Reflect the Realities of the Law Firm Collaborative Model” at the 2010 SALT Bi-annual Teaching Conference.

He gave a one-hour CLE presentation entitled “Article 9 Update” at the Eastern District Bankruptcy Conference in June 2010.

In December 2010, he and Rusch conducted a three-hour CLE program on “2010 Commercial Law Developments” at both Gonzaga Law School and the Washington Athletic Club in Seattle.

Professor Sandra Simpson

In March 2010, Professor Sandra Simpson presented, “There Must be a Better Way to Grade; the Key to Creating Effective Rubrics” at the Rocky Mountain Legal Research and Writing Conference sponsored by the James E. Rogers College of Law of the University of Arizona, in Tucson. In June 2010, she taught a one-day seminar on teaching at the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning Conference in Topeka, Kan.

His article, “Drafting for a Commercially Reasonable Disposition of Collateral,” was published in February 2011 in The Transactional Lawyer.

Throughout 2010, Sepinuck continued to serve as reporter for the Uniform Certificate of Title Act for Vessels. As reporter, he produced numerous drafts of the act for the Drafting Committee to consider. The Uniform Law Commission is expected to give final approval to the Act in the summer of 2011.

Her article, “Riding the Carousel: Changing Assessment by Creating and Using Grading Rubrics Throughout the Semester Making Assessment a Learning Loop,” was accepted for publication in the spring 2011 edition of the Canadian Legal Education Annual Review, a peer-edited journal that focuses on innovative teaching methods.

Sepinuck completed his service as ABA adviser to the Joint Review Committee for Article 9 of the UCC. The committee completed its proposed amendments in the spring and the two sponsors – the ULC and the ALI – approved the amendments in the summer.

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Professor Kevin Shelley

The Washington State Bar News published an article by Professor Buck Sterling in its July 2010 edition entitled “Return of the Diploma Privilege,” which details the history of allowing graduates of Washington law schools to be admitted to the bar without having to sit for the bar exam.

Professor Kevin Shelley’s “Notes from a Legal Writing Lifer: A Celebration and A Concern,” was accepted for publication in The Second Draft for the spring 2010 issue.

Sterling was part of the panel discussion on “Atticus Finch: The Archetypal Good Lawyer” at the Ethics CLE sponsored

by Gonzaga School of Law in February 2010.

Shelley and Professor Lisa Bradley participated in a panel presentation at the 10th Annual Rocky Mountain

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His book review on “An Election for the Ages: Rossi vs.

Gregoire” written by Trova Heffernan was published in the spring 2011 edition of the Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History. In 2011, his book review on “Launching the War on Poverty: An Oral History” written by Michael L. Gillette is scheduled to be published in the Legal History & Rare Book Newsletter.

Professor Buck Sterling

Professor Larry Weiser

During the summer of 2010, Professor Larry Weiser spent two weeks in Sao Paulo, Brazil, training faculty in clinical teaching methods at the Direito GV Law School.

On September 2010, he served as co-counsel with NAACP Legal Defense Fund for en banc argument in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in the Farrakhan v. Locke voting rights case.

Professor Larry Weiser

Professor Vickie Williams

Professor Vickie Williams was a peer reviewer for the American Journal of Law and Medicine. She reviewed an article entitled “Healing Medicare Hospital Recidivism: Causes and Cures.”

She presented “The Conscience of For-Profit Health Care” at the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics’ 33rd Annual Health Law Professors’ Conference in Austin, Texas, in June 2010.

Professor Vickie Williams

In October of 2010, she participated in an online symposium on the law blog, Concurring Opinions, discussing the book “The Fragmentation of U.S. Health Care: Causes and Solutions” (Einer Elhauge, ed., 2010).

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1977 Richard Greenstone

Stephen Piucci

1977 The National Governors Association announced in November 2010 that Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire was selected by her peers to take on the role of NGA chair. She becomes the second woman to chair the association.

1981 Robert L. Berlin was named vice president and associate general counsel for URS Corporation. He continues to be responsible for compliance and ethics, and employment and labor law. URS is a Fortune 500 engineering and construction firm with offices and projects worldwide.

Iowa Insurance Commissioner Susan E. Voss was elected president during the 2011 officer elections for the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

She received her appointment as Iowa insurance commissioner in 2005 following her appointment as Iowa’s first deputy commissioner.

Richard Greenstone featured his photography at a show in San Francisco.

The show was called “Reflective Eye.” It ran from October 2010 to January 2011.

You can find his artwork on Facebook by searching his name or Reflected Eye. Greenstone also practices IP and entertainment law in San Francisco.

Stephen Piucci has been named president of the Oregon State Bar Association. A plaintiff’s personal injury lawyer from Portland, he was formerly president of the Oregon Trial Lawyers (2001). He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocacy and is rated a Super Lawyer. Piucci has been a leader in the training and mentorship of new lawyers throughout his career.

David Torres

Mark Kamitomo

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1986

The Hon. Peter G. Wales was certified by the Supreme Court of Virginia as a magistrate in 2009 and currently works as a judicial officer in the Supreme Court’s City of Northfolk District.

David Torres, who practices state and federal criminal defense in the Bakersfield, Calif., area, recently received the Bench and Bar Award from the Kern County Bar Association. The award recognizes outstanding services to the administration of justice and the legal profession. Torres, also a lieutenant colonel in the Judge Advocate General Corps, has received numerous awards for his involvement with his community and his commitment to pro-bono work.

1983 Tim Fennessy moved his practice and is pleased to be associated with Layman Law Firm, PLLP. After more than 27 years of experience, Fennessy will continue his litigation work on behalf of the firm in the areas of personal injury, product liability, business and complex commercial disputes. He also will be available to serve as a mediator or arbitrator.

Lawrence Ream, shareholder in the law firm of Bullivant Houser Bailey PC, a West Coast business and complex litigation law firm, was listed in the inaugural publication of U.S. News Media Group and Best Lawyers 2010 Best Law Firms Rankings.

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1989 The Hon. James Triplet was appointed Superior Court Judge in November 2010 by Washington Gov. Chris Gregorie.

Mark Kamitomo was announced the 2010 Trial Lawyer of the Year from Washington State Association for Justice. The recipient of this award is a lawyer who advances the art and skill of advocacy, either in trial or by training others so as to benefit humankind. In 2011, he was selected WSAJ president (formerly Washington State Trial Lawyers Association).

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James D. Senescu

Annette Hillman

1999 Governor Ted Kulongoski announced the appointment of Annette Hillman to the Crook and Jefferson County Circuit Court in Oregon. Judge Hillman will fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge George Neilson, effective Jan. 1, 2011. Hillman is the first woman judge to serve this court.

Ben White

1990 Jack Stone recently published a book entitled, “Every Man Dies, Not Every Man Lives.” Stone, a former chairman of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission, practices law in Montana and Texas.

1993 Governor Gary Herbert appointed Amanda Smith to serve as his energy advisor in addition to serving as executive director of the Utah Department of Environmental Quality. Amanda was the legislative director and rural adviser to Governor Huntsman. She worked on natural resource, energy, water and economic development issues.

1997 Spokane County Superior Court announced the appointment of Rachelle E. Anderson to the position of court commissioner. Anderson is a 1994 graduate of Eastern Washington University. Anderson currently serves as an administrative law judge for the Washington Office of Administrative

Les Balsiger

2000

Hearings, where she has working for 13 years as a lawyer specializing in family law cases. She has also served as a commissioner pro tem for several years.

James D. Senescu is a founding partner of the Vancouver, Wash., law firm of Dimitrov & Senescu, PLLC, established in 2006, which focuses solely on the legal protection of vulnerable adults/elders from abuse, neglect and financial exploitation.

His practice follows a 10-year career as a deputy prosecuting attorney in Spokane and Clark counties. Senescu recently received the 2010 recipient of the Donald Simpson Professionalism Award from the Clark County Bar Association.

1998 Frederic Vimeux joined the law firm of Shatz Law Group PLLC. Vimeux will focus his practice on commercial business transactions, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and global compliance and competition. Vimeux has more than 10 years of transactional experience, helping large and small companies develop strategies for domestic and international expansion.

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James D. Hauer accepted the position as senior trust administrator in the Wealth Management division at Mechanics Bank in San Francisco. Mechanics Bank acts as trustee for high net-worth clients who require the services of a professional fiduciary. In January of this year, Hauer and his wife, Melissa, welcomed daughter Genevieve Madeline.

2002 In October 2010, Shane P. Coleman opened his own law practice in Spokane. His legal services are in the areas of banking, bankruptcy, collections, creditor’s rights, estate planning (including wills, trust, and powers of attorney) and personal injury.

His website is www.spokane-lawyer.net.

2003 Ben White recently joined the University of California, San Diego, as director of student conduct after six years in the Judicial Affairs office at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

He serves as the senior conduct officer for the campus. He and his wife, Karie, were expecting their first child, a boy, in March 2011.

2004

class action Christopher S. Crago

Hunter M. Abell

Elizabeth A. Tellessen

Delian P. Deltchev

2004 Les Balsiger has accepted the director’s position at the Center for Learning Technologies at Laramie County Community College in Cheyenne, Wyo. Balsiger is a past member of the La Grande, Ore., City Council and chair of the Union-Baker Education Service District Board.

Geana M. Van Dessel recently become a shareholder of the firm of Witherspoon Kelley. Van Dessel has been an associate attorney practicing at Witherspoon Kelley for the past four years. Prior to that, she clerked for the Honorable Fred Van Sickle in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington. Van Dessel’s practice focuses on complex commercial and business litigation, including securities, banking, contract claims and business torts.

2005 Christopher S. Crago joined Paine Hamblen LLP as an associate attorney in its Spokane office. Crago’s practice emphasis includes business transactions, taxation, estate planning, probates and trusts. He earned his LL.M taxation from the University of Washington School of Law. Crago also earned a B.G.S. in Theater and Film Communications from University of Kansas.

Hunter M. Abell joined the law firm of Williams Kastner as a senior associate in the Seattle office. Abell’s legal practice emphasizes Indian law and civil litigation and will help fortify one of the region’s leading practices dedicated to serving Indian Country. Prior to joining Williams Kastner, Abell served in the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps where he obtained extensive trial experience in criminal defense and as a prosecuting attorney.

Winston & Cashatt Lawyers announced the promotion of Elizabeth A. Tellessen to principal. Tellessen’s practice focuses on real property litigation and private and public land use issues, dealing primarily with real estate transactional and adversarial matters. She assists clients in decision making and issues arising from boundary lines, easements, building and zoning codes, covenants, water and other matters related to use and development of land.

Ewing Anderson, P.S. announced that Delian P. Deltchev, previously an associate attorney with the firm, has joined the other principals as a shareholder. His practice will continue to center on civil litigation and commercial and business law, including creditor-debtor relation and bankruptcy.

He is licensed to practice in Washington and Idaho.

2006 Christina Estes-Werther has been named deputy general counsel to the governor of Arizona. She joined the Governor’s Office in December 2009, serving as policy adviser for human services.

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Christina Estes-Werther

‘05 ‘06

Amy Johnson

2004 Brandon Roché and Eldy Quintanilla

Maxwell Huffman

Amy D’Amato

Monica Smith

Jennifer Sachs

2007

2008

2010

Amy Johnson was promoted to chief operating officer at Institute for Systems Medicine (ISM). In her new role, she will manage the daily operations of the ISM as well as the project development of the three lines of ISM business. The three lines of business include: the Spokane Community Clinical Date Repository, the Spokane Bio-specimen Repository and the Evidence Based Practice tool for assisting medical researchers and health care practitioners.

Brandon Roché and Eldy Quintanilla married, surrounded by family and friends, in Roatan, Honduras, on May 29, 2010. They are living in Washington, D.C., and work together on international environmental matters in Latin America.

Amy D’Amato, a magna cum laude Gonzaga Law School graduate, has been hired as a litigation associate for Foster Pepper PLLC’s Spokane office. She previously served as an extern for former Washington State Supreme Court Chief Justice Gerry Alexander.

2009

Jennifer Sachs joined Dunn and Black, P.S., as an associate with a focus on employment and construction law, business disputes and litigation. She received a bachelor of science degree from Tufts University prior to obtaining her law degree from Gonzaga.

Steven Giaier has accepted a counsel position on the House Committee on Homeland Security. He worked previously for two years with Congressman Pete Olson.

Monica Smith, a cum laude Gonzaga Law School graduate, is the assistant city prosecutor for Kansas City, Mo. She has had two articles published, “Goodbye Forfeiture, Hello Waiver: The Effect of Giles v. California,” 13 Barry L. Rev. 137 (2009) and “Incorporating Animal Law Into Your Practice,” The Link, September 2010, at 8 (Ass’n for Women Lawyers of Greater Kansas City).

‘08

Maxwell Huffman recently joined the Law Office of Seth L. Hanson in the Sacramento area. Huffman represents individuals and families in consumer bankruptcy petitions.

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in memoriam The Gonzaga University School of Law extends its deepest condolences to the families and friends of the following alumni and friends.

Frederick ”Fred” Earle Porter, J.D. 1966 Henry Savage, J.D. 1942 James R. Beisel, Jr, J.D. 1980 Philip H. Stanton, J.D. 1956 John R. Clark, J.D. 1980 Isabella M. Jarbi, J.D. 2003

Frances L. Scott, J.D. 1978

John R. Fox, J.D. 1957

Thomas P. Rowland, J.D. 2001

Stephen Patrick Ryder, J.D. 1966

Arnold William “Arnie” Hartgrave, J.D. 1982

George Goerig, J.D. 1971

John E. McGill, J.D. 1976

Carl G. Sonderman, J.D. 1967

The Hon. John Maynard, J.D. 1952

Eva Lassman, Honorary J.D. 2002

Paul H. Richter, J.D. 1951

Storrs Clough, J.D. 1950

Michael, Barron, J.D. 1983

Charles R. Nelson, J.D. 1950

Philip Dolan, J.D. 1947

Diehl Randall Rettig, 66, loving family man, respected attorney and community leader of the Tri-Cities, unexpectedly passed away May 12, 2010. Diehl received his undergraduate degree in accounting from Seattle University. He graduated with honors from Gonzaga University School of Law, receiving his juris doctorate in 1969. He served both as a bailiff and as clerk for the Honorable Judge Powell, United States District Court, Eastern District Division. His successful law practice began in the Tri-Cities in 1969. He was preceded in death by his daughter Carolyn Ann and his parents Robert and Dorothea Rettig. Diehl is survived by his wife of 34 years, Anne Rettig; his four children, Jeffrey

Rettig of Everett, Kimberly Rettig of Bellevue, Dr. Robert Rettig of Kennewick, and Jonathan Rettig of Richland. He is also survived by his six grandchildren: Robert, Lelia, Diehl, Caitlyn, Ian and Daxton. He was lovingly known as Big Papa to his grandbabies. Additional survivors include his brother, Dr. Gary Rettig and his wife (Shawn) and their six children; his sister Linda Digby and her husband (Cliff) and her two children; In-laws of Burlington, Ontario, Canada, Lloyd and Peggy Williamson; brother in-law Bob Williamson and his wife (Patsy) and their three children also from Burlington; sister-in-law Barbara and (Brett) Wright and their three children of Dundas, Ontario, Canada.

Emmett Michael Corrigan of Meridian, Idaho, died on March 11, near his home in Meridian.

Born on Aug. 30, 1980, he was the son of Radeane Blackwell and Mike Corrigan, and later he was fortunate to have Denise Corrigan and Jim Blackwell as stepparents. Emmett married Ashlee Harmon on March 6, 2004, in the Mount Timpanogus, Utah, L.D.S. Temple, and they were blessed with five children, twin girls Bostyn

and Bailey, Teage, Kaleeya, and Tytus. Emmett graduated from Centennial High School in the Boise area and later received his B.S. from Utah State University. A hard-working and ambitious young man, he completed his Gonzaga law degree in 2010, then joined a firm in downtown Boise and specialized in bankruptcy and criminal defense law.

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William Donahue, J.D. 1974 Benjamin Brunner, J.D. 1961 Sharon Kay Whitesel, J.D. 1990 Robert Odom, J.D. 1949

alumni

events 10.19.10 –

Doubling Your Opportunities: The Holistic Entrepreneur GU law, M.B.A., and M.Acc. alumni, faculty and students gathered to hear Paul Pennington (J.D. ’92) speak about his entrepreneurial ventures.

This event was co-sponsored by the School of Law and the Graduate School of Business.

11.10.10 –

Paul Pennington

Denver Alumni Reception The firm of Isaacson Rosenbaum, P.C. welcomed local Denver area Gonzaga law grads for a reception with Interim Dean George Critchlow.

11.11.10 –

Anchorage Alumni Luncheon Executive Vice President and former Dean Earl Martin traveled to Alaska to share the latest law school happenings at the Glacier BrewHouse.

Denver Alumni Reception

12.1.10 –

Phoenix Young Alumni Reception Young alumni gathered at Rosie McCaffrey’s Irish Pub to enjoy appetizers/drinks and to hear about the latest happenings at Gonzaga Law. 1.29.11 –

San Diego Pre-Game Social Season ticket holders and friends rallied for GU basketball at pre-game social in the faculty/ staff lounge of the law school.

Critchlow at Denver Alumni Reception

2.5.11 –

Ronald McDonald House Charities Classic Young alumni and current law students cheered on the Zags at the Spokane Arena for the Ronald McDonald House Charities Classic.

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St. Louis Alumni Reception

Regional Alumni Association Luncheons Gonzaga Law alumni gathered regionally to show their support of GU Law and to hear about the latest happenings from Interim Dean George Critchlow.

10.15.10 Tri Cities Alumni Luncheon | Pasco Red Lion

10.28.10 Yakima Alumni Luncheon | Gasperetti’s

11.11.10 Colorado Springs Alumni Luncheon | Marigold Café & Bakery

11.22.10 St. Louis Alumni Luncheon | Lucca Restaurant & Bar Reno Alumni Reception

11.23.10 Kansas City Alumni Luncheon | Bristol Seafood Grill

1.20.11 San Francisco Bay Area Alumni Luncheon | Palomino Restaurant & Bar

1.21.11 Sacramento Area Alumni Luncheon | Lucca Restaurant & Bar

3.4.11 Reno Alumni Luncheon hosted by the law firm of Holland & Hart

3.7.11 Las Vegas Alumni Luncheon | Brio Tuscan Grille

Las Vegas Alumni Reception

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