Tributes RAYMOND BOGUCKI ’52, LONGTIME PATENT ATTORNEY
Patent attorney Raymond Bogucki ’52 died on January 4, 2022, at the age of 99. Bogucki’s first job as an attorney was in the patent department at RCA in New Jersey. In 1956, he moved to Los Angeles to become senior patent attorney at Hughes Aircraft. In 1958, he co-founded the firm of Fraser and Bogucki, later joining Merchant & Gould to establish its Los Angeles office. He eventually established a solo practice and worked until his semi-retirement in 2015, at the age of 93.
Law Clinic and the IP and Entrepreneurial Clinic. She served as an editor on the Minnesota Journal of International Law and worked as judicial extern for Chief Judge John R. Tunheim ’80 at the U.S. District Court for the District Court of Minnesota. After graduating from Minnesota Law, Graff joined the Chicago office of McGuireWoods, where she had worked as a paralegal before law school and where she had spent her first- and second-year summers.
as a JAG officer. Duffy retired from the U.S. Army Reserves in 2004 after attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel. For the last 11 years, Duffy was a shareholder and, more recently, counsel at Monroe Moxness Berg in Bloomington, Minnesota.
GALE MELLUM ’68, CORPORATE LAWYER
LAUREN GRAFF ’19, ATTORNEY
Gale Mellum ’68 died on September
GERALD S. “GERRY” DUFFY ’69, ATTORNEY AND FORMER JAG RESERVIST Gerald S. “Gerry” Duffy ’69
died on January 29, 2022, at the age of 77. A native of St. Paul, Minnesota, Duffy served on active duty in the U.S. Army, Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps, after graduating from the Law School. He was stationed at Fort Riley in Kansas. After active duty, he returned to Minnesota, where he entered the private practice of law and continued his military service in the reserves
Lauren Graff ’19 died on October 30, 2021, at the age of 32, after suffering a pulmonary embolism while pregnant. Prior to her passing, she delivered a healthy baby boy, James. Her surviving spouse is Mitchell Ness ’18. During law school, Graff was a student attorney with the Business
18, 2021, at the age of 79. Mellum practiced in Faegre & Benson’s corporate group for more than 30 years. He concentrated his practice in the representation of developing businesses, including general corporate counseling, various types of debt financings, private and public securities offerings, and mergers and acquisitions. He later formed his own law firm, Mellum & Welsh, with his daughter, Wendy Welsh ’96. In 2002, Mellum established a scholarship fund in his name at the Law School. The fund has made 18 awards and supported 10 different students since its creation.
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