U NI V ERSITY OF MISSOURI
Vol. 32 No. 2 Fall 2008
School of Law
of It All!
Energetic MU Lawyers
Take the Corporate Ride
News for Alumni and Friends of the University of Missouri School of Law
Law School Foundation
Board of Trustees
President
Ann K. Covington, ’77
First Vice President
Robert L. Langdon, ’72
Second Vice President
Walter H. Bley Jr., ’80
Secretary/Treasurer
Kenneth D. Dean, ’76
Jack L. Campbell, ’70
Morry S. Cole, ’97
Rebecca McDowell Cook, ’75
William M. Corrigan Jr., ’85
Cathy J. Dean, ’82
Elvin S. Douglas Jr., ’57
Roger C. Geary, ’83
Stephen L. Hill Jr., ’86
Nancy E. Kenner, ’83
Gustav J. Lehr, ’59
Rodney E. Loomer, ’74
Mary E. Nelson, ’81
Dean and Ex-Officio Trustee
R. Lawrence Dessem
For All We Call Mizzou Campaign
Steering Committee
William L. Allinder, ’79
George E. Ashley, ’48
Jean Paul Bradshaw, ’81
Newton C. Brill, ’64
Jeffrey A. Burns, ’83
Eugene C. Bushmann, ’60
Edward D. Chapin, ’72
Ann K. Covington, ’77
Dale C. Doerhoff, ’71
James D. Ellis, ’68
Anne W. Elsberry, ’75
Chair Maurice B. Graham, ’62
Eric C. Harris, ’76
Robert L. Hawkins Jr., ’48
Honorary Member John K.
Hulston, ’41
Mark T. Kempton, ’76
Robert L. Langdon, ’72
Linda S. Legg
Rodney E. Loomer, ’74
University Campaign Co-Chair
Larry L. McMullen, ’59
Walter D. McQuie Jr., ’53
John R. Musgrave, ’68
Ronald A. Norwood, ’86
William S. Ohlemeyer, ’84
Thomas L. Patten, ’69
Richard G. Steele, ’68
Gayle G. Stratmann, ’87
Kenneth H. Suelthaus, ’69
Michael A. Williams, ’98
Law Alumni Relations Committee
Matthew A. Clement, ’95
Ashley T. Dean, ’00
Keith F. Fuller, ’91
Heather S. Heidelbaugh, ’84
Daniel B. Johnson, ’94
Aaron D. Jones, ’98
James C. Morrow, ’83
Ray E. Williams, ’95
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Message from the Dean
To Every Thing There Is A Season
Alumni and Friends Continue to Energize the Law School
I
write in the heat of summer, with
today’s predicted temperature in
the high 90s and back to school
flyers in our Columbia newspapers. My hope is that you will read this
on a crisp fall day, after a productive
and restful summer (not necessarily in
that order!), and that the Tigers already
will be on the way to another successful football season and post-season.
One of the wonderful aspects of teaching is the cycle of our educational system.
Every August we begin again with another
great class of first-year students. Secondyear students, who looked so tentative
and uncertain just one year ago, return as
wise veterans of the law school experience.
Third-year students return for their final
year of law school, usually having spent a
summer at a law firm or with another legal
employer. These returning students even
sometimes admit, “You know that time we
spent in civil procedure studying pleading?
I drafted some petitions and complaints this
summer, and that’s really important stuff!”
As you’ll see from this issue of
Tr anscript, this fall brings to the Law
School several new and visiting faculty
members. Rafael Gely joins us as the James
E. Campbell Missouri Endowed Professor of Law, coming from the University
of Cincinnati College of Law where he
has built a national reputation in the area
of labor law and labor arbitration. We also
have three outstanding younger faculty visiting with us this year: Jennifer Reynolds,
who served in law school on the Harvard
Law Review and as a Harvard Negotiation Research Project fellow; Marc Roark,
who comes to us from the University of
Tulsa College of Law; and Erika Fadel,
who has taught as an adjunct professor at
the Law School for the last few years.
During the past summer, students and
faculty alike have had experiences different from those of the prior academic year.
Our most recent graduates have spent June
and July studying for the bar examination.
The Class of 2008 will have to truly stretch
to surpass the success of our students on
the July 2007 Missouri Bar Examination.
Over the last four summers first-time Mizzou takers of the Missouri Bar Examination have passed it at the following rates:
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88.3 percent (2004); 89.5 percent (2005);
91.2 percent (2006); and 96.5 percent
(2007). As I’ve told our most recent graduates, they will have to pass the 2008 Missouri Bar Examination at a rate of about 99
percent to continue this wonderful trend.
Our faculty, too, have spent the past
summer in many and varied activities. Most
faculty turned their attention to writing the law review articles and books that
contribute to the development of the law
and boost their reputations and that of the
Law School across the nation and around
the world. The Law School’s reputation
also was spread by the many faculty who
talked at conferences this summer, while
other faculty taught in our summer school
programs here in Columbia and in South
Africa. In this issue of Tr anscript you’ll
read about another way in which our faculty contribute to the ongoing analysis
and development of the law — through
the legal blogging for which several of
our faculty have become so well known.
The stories that follow highlight a few of
the many Law School activities last winter and spring. A slate of similarly exciting events already has been planned for
the coming year, including a February 27
Missouri Law Review symposium on judicial selection and retention that will feature Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.
Your own activities as alumni and
friends also energize us at the Law School.
This issue’s cover story focuses on those
who serve as general counsel to major
corporations and use their legal skills and
business judgment to move those corporations forward. The leadership of
these lawyers is representative of the varied ways in which outstanding Mizzou lawyers are setting a standard for the
legal profession and many others both
in Missouri and around the world.
As we know from Ecclesiastes, “To
every thing there is a season.” I wish you a
season of learning and renewal just as exciting as that we experience each fall here at
the University of Missouri School of Law.
Very truly yours,
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New Faces This fall, the School of Law welcomes four new faculty members and
two new staff members to its ranks.
Cassandra R.
Brooks joined
the Office of
Development
as administrative assistant.
She replaces
Katie Carollo,
who moved to
the School of
Law’s Admissions Office.
Some law school alumni may remember
her from her work for the Boone County
Circuit Clerk and various circuit and
associate judges in the early ’90s. She is
married to David Brooks, whom some
may also remember as a private process
server, and has has two children, Wesley (15) and Madeline (11). When her
schedule allows for free time she enjoys
remodeling and decorating her turn
of the century home and helping others come up with decorating ideas.
ERICA FADEL
joined the faculty in 2005
as an adjunct
associate professor of law
and currently
serves as a
visiting associate professor of legal
research and writing. She also serves
as an associate adjunct professor at the
University of Missouri’s Robert J. Trulaske, Sr. College of Business, where she
teaches business law and business ethics.
Previously Fadel served as a corporate associate at Clark, Thomas and
Winters, PC in Austin, Texas, and in
the Dallas offices of Munsch Hardt
Kopf & Harr PC and K&L Gates LLP.
She holds a master of divinity degree
from Boston University and served as
an associate minister at Highland Park
United Methodist Church in Dallas before moving to Columbia. She
received her bachelor’s degree in liberal
studies from Emory University and her
law degree in 1998 from Southern Methodist University School of Law.
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At the School of Law, Fadel teaches client interviewing and counseling, legal
research and writing, and advocacy and
research. She is married to Paul J. Fadel
Jr., with whom she has three children.
Rafael Gely,
James E.
Campbell Missouri Endowed
Professor of
Law, joins the
faculty after 18
years of teaching, including academic
positions at the Mays Business School at
Texas A&M University, Chicago-Kent
College of Law and most recently at the
University of Cincinnati, where he served
as the Judge Joseph P. Kinneary Professor of Law.
Gely’s scholarship reflects his interdisciplinary academic training. His
research, which focuses primarily on the
regulation of labor markets, incorporates a variety of theoretical paradigms
and methodological approaches, drawing from the expertise of co-authors in a
wide range of disciplines.
Gely has published more than 40
articles in nationally and internationally
recognized academic journals, including
the Rand Journal of Economics, the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization,
the Texas Law Review, and the Southern
California Law Review. He has received
various scholarly awards, including the
American Academy of Appellate Lawyers’ Eisenberg Prize for his recent article in the Wisconsin Law Review, “The
Supreme Court and DIGs: An Empirical
and Institutional Analysis,” co-authored
with Professor Michael Solimine. At
MU, Gely teaches contracts, employment
law, labor arbitration and labor law.
Gely was born in Puerto Rico. His
wife, Yoko, is a substitute teacher specializing in children with special needs.
He and his wife have three children:
Sebastian (17), Yumiko (13) and Pablo
(9). In his free time, he enjoys playing
flute and listening to music.
Tracy Z.
Gonzalez
joined the
School of
Law’s Office
of Admissions,
Career Development and
Student Services in 2008
as assistant
dean. Previously she was an assistant professor of criminal justice at Lincoln
University in Jefferson City, Mo.
From 2002–2006, Gonzalez was the
director of the School of Law’s Child
Protection Clinic and has since served as
an adjunct professor of pretrial litigation
at the School of Law. From 1995–2002
she served as an assistant prosecuting
attorney in Boone County. In this capacity, Gonzalez was responsible for all child
abuse and neglect prosecutions, including both physical and sexual abuse.
Gonzalez also assisted in the creation and implantation of the Court
Services Drug Court Program in
West Palm Beach, Fla. After graduation from law school, she served as an
assistant public defender in St. Louis
from 1986–1990. Gonzalez lives in
Columbia with her husband and son.
Jennifer
Reynolds ,
visiting associate professor
of law, teaches
negotiation and
conflict theory.
Before joining the law
faculty, she
served as a
consultant for Wenska Communication
Works, researcher for The Paulist Center,
research and teaching assistant at Harvard Law School and associate director of
Information Technology Services at the
University of Texas. Her research focuses
on commitments doctrine in negotiation,
auction theory, valuation, organizational
decision-making and consensus, rhetoric/persuasion in information economy,
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Marc L. Roark ,
visiting associate professor of
law, teaches torts,
secured transactions and sales
at the School
of Law. Previously he served
as a visiting
assistant professor of law at the University of Tulsa Col-
Photo courtesy of Chappell Graduation Images
Douglas E. Abrams has published two new
book chapters. “Bullying’s Effects on Equal
Educational Opportunity” appears in Our
Promise: Achieving Educational Equality For
America’s Children (Carolina Academic Press
2008). “Achieving Equal Opportunity in Youth
Sports” appears in Learning Culture Through
Sports: Exploring the Role of Sports in Society
(vol. 2 — Rowman & Littlefield Educ. 2008).
Abrams has been named to the Missouri
Juvenile Justice Association’s board of directors
and Policy Leadership Team. The MJJA has a
long record of collaborating with the governor,
Missouri General Assembly and state agencies
to promote justice for children, youth and
families.
Gov. Blunt signed into law a bill drafted by
the Governor’s Internet Harassment Task Force,
on which Abrams served. The bill amends
Missouri’s criminal harassment and stalking
statutes to reach Internet use. Abrams testified
twice before a state House of Representatives
committee on the bill’s constitutionality.
Abrams also testified before a state Senate
committee in opposition to a joint resolution that advocated amending the Missouri
Constitution’s judiciary article. He wrote a
Kansas City Star op-ed article criticizing the
resolution.
He also continues publishing an article
about legal writing in each issue of Precedent,
The Missouri Bar’s quarterly magazine. His latest articles are a two-part examination of role
of editors in lawyers’ expository writing and
drafting of legal instruments.
Abrams was a panelist at a Missouri Bar
continuing legal education seminar, “United
States Supreme Court Highlights: The 2007–
2008 Term and Its Implications.” He was also
renamed chair of the editorial board of the
Journal of the Missouri Bar, a position he has
held since 2000.
policy creation and corporate personality.
Reynolds’ recent publications include
“Selling Neiman Marcus,” 12 Harvard
Negotiation Law Review 235 (2007); “The
Supreme Court, 2005 Term — Criminal
Law and Procedure — Fourth Amendment
— Suspicionless Search of Parolees,” 120
Harvard Law Review 183 (2006) and “Fifth
Circuit Holds that Louisiana Can Prevent
Non-Immigrant Aliens from Sitting for the
Bar,” 119 Harvard Law Review 669 (2005).
Reynolds holds a BA from the University of Chicago, an MA from the University of Texas at Austin and a JD from
Harvard Law School. She lives in Columbia with her husband and three children.
lege of Law. His research focuses on the
interaction of commercial law and property, particularly the description of wealth
through the law; the historical and economic development of fixtures as a legal
category of property; the role of slavery and
agriculture in the 19th Century Southern
United States; and the role of language,
norms and rhetoric in the legal process.
Roark’s most recent publications
include “Reading Mohammed in Charleston: Understanding U.S. Jurisprudential Approaches to Law, Language and
Norms,” 14 Widener Law Review (2007);
“The CONSTITUTION as IDEA: Defining — Describing — Deciding in Kelo,”
43 California Western Law Review (2007);
“Opening the Barbarians’ Gate or Watching the Barbarians from the Coliseum: A
Requiem on the Nomos of the Louisiana Civil Law,” 67 Louisiana Law Review
(2006); and “All in the Family: The
Apocalyptic Legal Tradition as Crit Theory,” 75 UMKC Law Review (2006).
Roark holds a BA from Louisiana State
University, a JD from Loyola University
School of Law and an LLM from Duke
University School of Law. He lives in
Columbia with his wife, Carla, and ther
children, Madison (4) and Cameron (1).
The School of Law was pleased
to welcome Judge Patricia A.
Breckenridge, ’78, of the Supreme
Court of Missouri, as the featured speaker
at May commencement.
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[ by Lindsey R. Laws, 2L ]
The use of computers and technology is growing in society, and the legal
world is no different. While law professors still utilize traditional print publications, many are now turning to web logs, commonly known as blogs. These
online journals allow people to post anything — caselaw, opinions, ideas or
other commentary.
Used in an academic setting, blogs can provide benefits that may not be
offered by print publication, such as the ability to post daily regarding current events or the opportunity to discuss an idea informally before putting it
to paper.
Here you’ll meet three faculty members who maintain or contribute to blogs
that are related to their fields of expertise in law, and you’ll learn how their
involvement with their respective blogs affects both their scholarship and
their teaching.
Professor Dennis D. Crouch is author and editor of Patently-O, a popular patent law blog. The Patently-O site is visited about 14,000 times per weekday, and
the daily e-mail goes out to approximately 12,000 subscribers per weekday.
Crouch was inspired to start Patently-O in April 2004, after reading a law blog. At the
time, he was an associate at an intellectual property law firm in Chicago, where he kept
the firm’s attorneys abreast of appellate court decisions and changes in the law. This
task made it easier for Crouch to begin Patently-O. Regarding the blog’s effects, Crouch
explains, “I had some inkling that the site could have a positive marketing impact, but
Dennis D. Crouch
Associate Professor of Law
www.patentlyo.com
I really had no idea. It took about three months before the first client walked through
the door. He had read my discussion of his case and wanted us to handle the appeal.”
Crouch’s goal is at least four short articles per week, with each article taking about an
hour to write and edit. Over the last four years, however, his actual posts have exceeded
this goal — about nine posts per week have been published. A large part of PatentlyO is Crouch’s discussion of patent appeals cases; since beginning his blog, Crouch has
covered every precedential patent appeal. Aside from patent appeals, Crouch also
blogs on many other topics, including in part academic studies (“A First Look at Who
Files Provisional Patent Applications,” June 3, 2008), book reviews (Patent Appeals: The
Elements of Effective Advocacy in the Federal Circuit by Mark Davies, July 20, 2008)
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and design patents (“Design Patents: Controlling Pendency,” Dec. 28, 2007).
The time invested in Patently-O does not go unrewarded. Crouch, who genuinely enjoys interacting with patent law issues, credits his work on PatentlyO with providing him with a broader understanding of the issues. Additionally,
some of Crouch’s blog articles have served as bases from which longer articles are produced. Due to the fact that Patently-O is now read by most U.S. pat-
“The blog is
a free lifeline
to continued
learning.”
ent attorneys, the blog also allows Crouch to receive feedback on his ideas.
Crouch is not the only person to benefit from Patently-O. Several thousand patent attorneys and patent agents operate as solo practitioners. For these individuals, Crouch explains, “The blog is a free lifeline to continued learning.” Additionally,
Crouch includes Patently-O in his courses. In his electronic commerce course,
his students analyze his blog’s terms of use and privacy policies from a contractual point of view, and also examine how the site has been affected by issues such
as typosquatting (URL hijacking) and trademark infringement. In his patent law
course, he has his students write sample posts, with the best being published.
Crouch received his bachelor’s degree from Princeton University, where he
also earned a certificate in engineering management systems. He received his
law degree from the University of Chicago, where he was a Microsoft, Merk &
Pfizer scholar, as well as a member of the Olin program in law and economics. Prior to attending law school, he was a technical consultant for manufacturing firms, a research fellow at NASA’s Glenn Research Center, a software developer
at the Mayo Clinic’s Department of Biomedical Imagining and a volunteer in the
Peace Corps in Ghana, West Africa. Before joining the School of Law, he was a
patent attorney at the Chicago law firm of McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff, LLP, and a visiting assistant professor at Boston University School of Law.
Dean Thomas A. Lambert is a busy man. In addition to teaching courses in contracts, business organizations, antitrust law and environmental law and serving as the faculty advisor of the Missouri Environmental Law & Policy Review,
he is also the associate dean for faculty research and development. His focus
on academics, however, does not end once he leaves Hulston Hall. Lambert is a co-founder of and contributor to Truth on the Market, a group blog
which provides “commentary on law, business, economics and more.”
Truth on the Market was started in January 2006 with the goals of publicizing the authors’ ideas and promoting their scholarship. Lambert contribThomas A. Lambert
Associate Dean for Faculty
Research and Development
Associate Professor of Law
www.truthonthe
market.com
utes about one post per week and spends approximately three hours on each
post. He says part of the “beauty of the blog” is that he can include anything he wants. His posts certainly reflect this freedom, exploring issues that
range from the importance of a free market with respect to products from
cloned animals (“Free to Choose (and Market) Clone-Free,” Jan. 31, 2008)
to trying to explain the popularity of Britney Spears by examining “network
effects” (“Is Britney the Qwerty Keyboard of Pop Culture?,” Feb. 5, 2008).
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Lambert finds that writing for Truth on the Market provides both enjoyment
and benefits. Contributing to the blog helps him test ideas and allows feed-
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back from readers. Additionally, the informal style of the blog facilitates scholarship by allowing him to put ideas to paper more easily than if he initially tried
to write in an academic format. This benefit is demonstrated by the transformation of a post, “FTC to Dr. Miles: ‘I wish I knew how to quit you’” into a law
review article. This post discusses Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v.
Psks, a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court which overruled Dr. Miles Medical
Co. v. John D. Parks & Sons, Co., a long-standing precedent holding that minimum resale price maintenance agreements are per se illegal. This summer,
Lambert wrote a law review article based on ideas explored in the blog. Lambert also enjoys that the blog allows him to collaborate with others outside MU.
In addition to personal benefits, Lambert seeks to benefit others through
Truth on the Market. Noting that this blog is more policy oriented and theoretical than others, Lambert explains that it is aimed at academics, and
“The informal
style of the
blog facilitates
scholarship by
allowing him to
put ideas to paper
more easily.”
most of the readers are professors of law and economics. By this, he seeks
to better the legal community by contributing to the world of ideas.
The benefits of Truth on the Market go beyond just establishing and spreading ideas, however. Lambert incorporates the blog into his courses and views
it as a supplement to his lessons. He has blogged about class discussions
and assigned blog posts for students to read in preparation for class discussions. In this way, he seeks to benefit his students by allowing them to go
deeper into ideas and providing them with a summary of policy issues.
Lambert received his bachelor’s degree at Wheaton College and his law degree
from the University of Chicago. Before entering law school, he was an environmental policy analyst at the Center for the Study of American Business at
Washington University in St. Louis. Before joining the School of Law faculty, he
clerked for Judge Jerry E. Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, then spent a year as the John M. Olin Fellow at Northwestern University Law
School. He practiced antitrust litigation at the Chicago law firm of Sidley Austin LLP from 2000 to 2003. He has worked at the School of Law since 2003.
Professor Margaret E. McGuinness writes and teaches in the area of international law. She is also a co-founder of and contributor to Opinio Juris, a blog
“dedicated to reports, commentary and debate on current developments and
scholarship in the fields of international law and politics.” Opinio Juris was started
in 2005 by McGuinness and two other law professors, Christopher J. Borgen of St.
John’s University School of Law and Julian Ku of Hofstra Law School. Collectively,
the founders of Opinio Juris wanted to facilitate discussion about international law.
For McGuinness herself, Opinio Juris was not only a way to benefit her teaching
and scholarship, but also to keep in contact with other international law scholars.
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Associate Professor of Law
www.opiniojuris.org
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To further “vigorous intellectual engagement” in international law, the authors
of Opinio Juris strive to provide information and to be thought provoking. McGuinness’ posts tend to explore events and respond to articles and books written by
others, as well as discuss her own ideas and scholarship. Some of her more recent
posts have discussed the prohibition upon U.S. personnel overseas engaging in
partisan activities in conjunction with Barack Obama’s visit to Germany (“Who
“An unintended
consequence of
Opinio Juris is
the degree to
which the blog
becomes a means
to educate the
general public
beyond our
students or other
international
law students.”
Attended Obama’s Speech in Berlin? (Hint: Not U.S. Diplomats!)”, July 24, 2008),
voiced her agreement with journalist Nicholas Kristof’s condemnation of the lack
of collective response to Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe’s actions (“Kristof:
‘If Only Mugabe Were White,’” July 7, 2008), and discussed U.S. foreign aid in
the area of fistula care (“How $300 Can Save Women’s Lives,” May 21, 2008).
McGuinness enjoys writing for Opinio Juris and her participation with the blog
has positively influenced her scholarship. Posting allows her to think out loud
about ideas that later are developed into articles. An example of this is her article “Medellin, Norm Portals and the Horizontal Integration of Human Rights,”
which began as a blog conversation and was ultimately published in the Notre
Dame Law Review in 2006. Additionally, her participation in Opinio Juris allows
her to be connected with the virtual community of international law scholars.
McGuinness’ involvement in Opinio Juris benefits government lawyers, private lawyers and scholars who use the blog as a resource. It also helps her students, to whom she recommends reading the blog daily, and law students all over
the world who are daily readers. Students everywhere can take advantage of the
up-to-date discussions regarding events in international law. Further, the authors
of Opinio Juris have hosted discussions of cases and have partnered with the
Yale Journal of International Law and the Virginia Journal of International Law to
encourage student editors to contribute content and comments to Opinio Juris.
The benefits of Opinio Juris go beyond those involved in law and reach
into the general public. As McGuiness explains, “An unintended consequence
of Opinio Juris is the degree to which the blog becomes a means to educate the general public beyond our students or other international law students.” All readers of the blog are benefited by the blog’s dynamic nature.
Since its creation, six more co-bloggers have joined: Roger P. Alford (Pepperdine University School of Law), Kevin Jon Heller (University of Auckland Faculty of Law), Duncan B. Hollis (Temple University Beasley School of Law), Peter
J. Spiro (Temple University Beasley School of Law), Kenneth Anderson (American University Washington College of Law), and Deborah Pearlstein (Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs).
Recently, the blog has moved to a new Web platform, received sponsorship
from Oxford University and formed a book club with Oxford University Press.
In 2007, the legal advisor to the State Department was a guest blogger.
McGuinness joined the School of Law faculty in 2003 after a career
as a corporate litigator in New York City. Prior to becoming an attorney, she was a foreign service officer for the U.S. Department of State.
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by Judith A. Willis, 2L
Energetic MU Lawyers Take the Corporate Ride
T
hese companies’ products and services range
from insurance policies to
baby bottles to windfarms.
Their corporate counsels have
two things in common — a
love of business and Mizzou.
Some of those profiled in
this article enjoy being able
to follow business goals from
inception to fruition, others
appreciate the satisfaction of
being able to prevent legal problems instead of fixing them.
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They all love the law, but they
also relish the thrill of the deal.
The corporate counsel often
handles every type of legal
issue that confronts a company, putting these lawyers in
positions that require a wide
spectrum of legal and business
knowledge and an awareness
of the forest of ever-changing
national and international regulations. This is a challenge,
but also keeps things interesting, and they are stimulated
by the constant novelty this
sort of position can entail.
These energetic counsels
also find time to contribute to
their communities in a variety of ways, from pro bono
work to educational programs.
The following profiles manage to show only a fraction of
what these individuals do for
their companies, their communities and their families.
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Prevention of problems and
community outreach are vital
parts of her work—Alonzo
herself manages one of
Unigroup’s special programs—
MoveRescue™
JAN ROBEY ALONZO, ’82
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, GENERAL COUNSEL AND COMPLIANCE OFFICER, UNIGROUP, INC., ST. LOUIS
Jan Robey Alonzo, ’82, works for UniGroup, a worldwide transportation company with annual revenues of $2 billion.
The trucks of United Van Lines and
Mayflower have been familiar sights on
American roads for decades and belong
to the largest household goods moving companies in the world, just two of
the subsidiaries of Unigroup, which also
include an insurance company, a finance
company and a container company.
Alonzo is part of UniGroup’s senior
management team and is responsible for managing the company’s law
department. She supervises 20 lawyers and a nationwide network of outside attorneys. Together they handle
all legal issues for the company, and
keep the company abreast of possible legal risks and opportunities.
Prevention of problems and community
outreach are vital parts of the department’s
work. UniGroup’s compliance program, Integrity First ™, was designed to
keep legal compliance issues in the forefront of its business. Alonzo herself manages one of Unigroup’s special programs,
MoveRescue™. “This is a pro bono program to assist victims of crimes involving household goods moves,” she says.
Alonzo enjoys the variety of the legal
issues with which she is involved — corporate, transactional, litigation and legislative. She likes the fact that she is
often involved in the development of
company projects at an early stage and
helps shape the final form of those proj-
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ects. She also appreciates being able to
work side by side with her business clients over long periods, getting to know
them well and seeing long-term results
of her work. Alonzo says that one of
the best parts of her job is that she has
repeatedly been able to go to Washington to work on legislation dealing
with her industry. She has helped draft
consumer protection legislation that
was enacted into federal law, conferred
with members of Congress and chosen the company’s lobbyists. These are
things she believes she would not have
been able to do in private practice.
Before law school, Alonzo taught
U.S. history for a year in a high school
in California, but even then she knew
she wanted to be a lawyer, and began law
school the following fall. Upon graduation she went to work for Thompson
Coburn in St. Louis and remained there
for 22 years. During her days there she
represented UniGroup several times,
and when its general counsel retired, the
company was happy to hire Alonzo for
the position, which she has held since
2004. While she was very happy in private practice, she feels that her in-house
position has given her a much wider variety of issues to work on and learn about.
As for her views on the School of
Law, Alonzo says, “The longer I have
been in practice, the more I appreciate the education I received at the law
school.” Two areas of training in particular stand out in her mind: ethics and
problem-solving. “The ethical obligations we have as attorneys are what sets
us apart from all other professions and
puts us in a position to guide our clients
in issues of business ethics and compliance,” she explains. And the training
in advocacy, analysis, dispute resolution and approaches to problem solving has been invaluable in facing the
many challenges brought to her.
No one doubts for a minute that
Alonzo and her family appreciate Mizzou. Her husband Ray, to whom she
has been married for 30 years, has three
degrees from the university (BES ’81,
BSEd ’81, MEd ’82). Their oldest, son
Joe, received two bachelor’s degrees from
The Alonzo family is on its way to sporting its
ninth degree from Mizzou!
MU, and was born while Alonzo was in
law school. He is an attorney himself.
Daughter Jen graduates from Mizzou’s
College of Education this December, and
youngest son Ken entered Mizzou as a
freshman in August. His arrival marks
the beginning of the family’s ninth
degree from the University of Missouri!
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Energetic MU Lawyers Take the Corporate Ride
Linda Legg , a dynamic force in the legal
profession, is senior vice president, general counsel and secretary of AT&T’s
Advertising and Publishing division,
headquartered in St. Louis. The division is the largest Yellow Pages and
local search marketing company in the
world in terms of revenue, publishing
1,250 AT&T directories in 22 states.
The company provides a complete
suite of print and online advertising
search solutions for small and medium
businesses through AT&T Real Yellow Pages and yellowpages.com.
Legg’s current position involves supervising about 30 attorneys, paralegals and
support staff who provide a variety of
legal and external affairs support services
for the business, as well as managing
all litigation and labor arbitrations and
providing legal advice and counsel on a
wide ranging number of issues, including
employment, intellectual property, commercial issues, competition, legal compliance and public policy. In addition,
Legg and her team play a key advisory
role on the company’s environmental
issues and sustainability, which she considers essential to American business.
Legg has been with AT&T
for 33 years, coming to the company straight from law school.
She has watched the company grow
through many mergers and acquisitions from a regional telecommunications service provider — Southwestern
Bell Telephone Company — to now
being AT&T, one of the largest enterprises in the world. When she started,
the company employed 35 lawyers in a
five-state regional area; now AT&T has
almost 500 lawyers located worldwide.
Legg has great respect for the company, its ethics and corporate culture.
She says that throughout her time there,
she has felt valued and appreciated and
has had a fascinating career with the
opportunity to delve into many different
areas of the law. “I haven’t had a chance
to be burned out!” she says. In particular, Legg values being able to help shape
business plans and educate about the law.
“It’s always better to identify and stop a
potential problem before it happens than
to later litigate a solution,” she said.
Although she is a proud graduate
of the University of Kansas School of
Law, Legg, a member of the School of
Law’s For All We Call Mizzou Campaign Steering Committee, is also a
very devoted MU supporter. She and
her late husband, Judge Lawrence G.
Crahan, ’77, shared ardent beliefs in
the value of quality state education and
in giving back to the educational systems that nurtured their careers. And
she doesn’t see this support as just
generously donating money — she
expends a great deal of her personal
time and energy promoting education.
“I believe that new law students must
understand they are not just getting a
degree — they are entering a profession,” Legg says. “That brings with it
requirements and standards for everything from capability to integrity.” To
foster this knowledge, she has appeared
at 1L orientations, spoken on professionalism and has helped introduce professionalism programs into the curriculum.
With Dean Dessem’s help, she recently
established the Judge Lawrence G. Crahan Judicial Fellowship, which gives
MU law students the opportunity to
clerk at the Missouri Court of Appeals
and enables participants to experience
many facets of the legal profession.
Legg loves her career and works
vigorously to strengthen the legal
community and ensure that future
colleagues are ready to meet the
opportunities that await them.
“It’s always better to
identify and stop a potential
problem before it happens
than to later litigate a
solution.”
Linda S. Legg
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, AT&T Advertising and Publishing, St. Louis
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“I wouldn’t work
for a company that
didn’t do the right
thing.”
RANDA RAWLINS, ’82
GENERAL COUNSEL, SHELTER INSURANCE COMPANIES, COLUMBIA
Randa Rawlins, ’82 , is general counsel at Shelter Insurance Companies,
headquartered in Columbia. A Missouri native, she attended Truman State
University, where she later completed
two terms of service on the board of
trustees, and graduated with a degree
in political science. After obtaining her
law degree, she spent 19 years in private practice in Kansas City, largely
as a trial attorney working in insurance defense and medical malpractice.
Shelter Insurance Companies is
comprised of 11 entities — 10 insurance companies and a charitable foundation. The original company started
in Missouri, and the group now covers 14 Midwestern states and Nevada.
Its reinsurance division is worldwide.
Rawlins has worked at Shelter for
six years. She was acquainted with the
former general counsel for the company, and when he decided to retire,
he called to tell her the job would soon
be open. Her extensive experience in
major litigation and working in front
of juries helped convince her employers she was the right fit for the position.
Rawlins’ duties cover a very wide
range of activity. She is the general
supervisor of the law department, overseeing five attorneys, three staff members
and a part-time law clerk. The depart-
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ment is like the companies’ own law firm
— taking care of as many legal issues inhouse as possible. Rawlins and her staff
keep the companies apprised of regulatory and legislative rules and changes in
relevant states, help write policies and
work on issues of employment, contracts,
banking and advertisement. They
assist the companies in legal decisions of every stripe, keeping the other departments
informed as to what
they may and may not
do under the law.
Although she
sometimes misses
the rush of being in
front of a jury, she
appreciates the benefits of an in-house
position. She has more
control over her schedule, the hours are
not as gruelling, the tasks are diverse and
she is able to participate in the business
as a whole, not just in its legal aspects.
This involvement in the business
side of the enterprise is one of Rawlins’ favorite things about her position.
She is able to participate in both business and law, using her knowledge of the
applicable law to help ensure the companies are in compliance and to apprise
them of the nature and weight of the
risks involved in various decisions. With
her guidance, the business leaders are
able to make decisions that are legally
responsible and economically sound.
Defending insurance companies can
be a struggle — juries and the public
tend to have an automatic negative perception of them.
Rawlins takes the philosophical view that it
is an issue that exists,
and that sometimes
you overcome it, and
sometimes you don’t.
She derives satisfaction
from the knowledge
that her employer provides a necessary beneficial
service, and that with her help
the companies can do so within
the law. She believes in her employer,
and says, “I wouldn’t work for a company that didn’t do the right thing.”
Rawlins values the education she
received in Missouri at both the undergraduate and professional levels and notes
that getting a law degree from MU is
especially beneficial to those considering
working in Missouri and is also affordable. She is still in contact with many
of her former classmates, and recently
attended her 25-year law class reunion.
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Energetic MU Lawyers Take the Corporate Ride
Robert E. Stemmons, ’86 ,
as he says,
has “travelled some way from home
port.” As general counsel of Citi Global
Wealth Management EMEA (Europe,
Middle East and Africa), he must keep
up with legal and financial systems in
more than 60 countries. Home port is
much closer to Mizzou, in his hometown of Mount Vernon, Mo., and at
the law firm of Stemmons and Stemmons, which his grandfather, W. Robert Stemmons, started in 1918.
It was at this law firm that Stemmons
began his legal career after graduation,
practicing with his father, Robert L.
Stemmons, ’51, and sister, Randee
S. Stemmons, ’83, for two years. He
then moved to a large New York firm,
doing corporate work — mergers and
acquisitions, banking, private equity
and securities. The hours were grinding, but it was at this firm that he made
the contacts that took him to London.
Stemmons went there with another
New York firm, handling banking, private equity and investment funds. When
he wasn’t setting up fund structures,
he still stayed busy — getting an MBA
from London Business School and marrying his English girlfriend, Shirel, with
whom he now has four children. He
then went to work for Coutts & Company, a UK and European bank, as its
general counsel. This bank is quintessentially English; it dates from 1670 and
is known as “the Queen’s bank.” Stemmons was custom-fitted with a frock coat
while there! But he and the new Ameri-
can CEO successfully helped transform
the bank into a modern investment
house. He then worked for an American mutual fund house as its European
general counsel before settling at Citi.
Citi Global Wealth Management
includes Citi Private Bank, Smith Barney and Quilter, a UK investment
manager. He calls himself “a manager
of legal issues and risk,” advising the
senior management and boards of the
legal entities. He also works on regulatory issues and corporate governance.
While Stemmons is a member of several states’ bars, and is admitted to U.S.
federal and bankruptcy courts, his current position does not involve appearing
before courts; he advises the company on
legal issues, engaging lawyers in various countries as the need arises. Being
an advisor requires extensive knowledge
of other countries’ judicial and banking systems and conditions — whether
certain contracts are enforceable there,
what needs to be done to ensure that
his company can operate there, whether
there is stability in the country’s judicial
system and what political considerations
exist. He has learned a great deal about
these subjects, and teaches solicitors in
his group how other countries’ banking
systems work. Constant change keeps the
work interesting. “It is a highly transactional business and I enjoy rolling up
my sleeves and doing the deals,” he says.
All this international financial adventure has not made Stemmons forget
home. He recently returned to Mount
Vernon for a visit and talked with his
sister about her legal and community
work in the area. He has fond memories
of Mizzou, and credits the broad exposure to legal thinking he received at the
school with helping him along his career
path. He especially enjoyed evidence
and trial practice, which he says sharpened his trial skills, making him a better corporate lawyer. The following class
exercise he heard about from his sister,
who was three years ahead of him, and
participated in when the time came for
him to have the same evidence course:
Professor Ed Hunvald:
“Mr. Stemmons, give me a fact.”
Stemmons:
“You have on a tie.”
Hunvald:
“That’s your opinion. Now, Mr.
Stemmons, give me an opinion.”
Stemmons:
“You have on an ugly tie.”
Hunvald:
“Is that a fact?”
Hunvald was actually quite amused,
realizing Stemmons had been anticipating the questions. Hearing such a story
suggests that no matter how tough Mizzou law classes seem at the time, years
later and far from home port, it will
be the challenges, inspiration and ugly
tie stories that are remembered most.
ROBERT E. STEMMONS, ’86
general counsel, CITI GLOBAL WEALTH MANAGEMENT EMEA, london
“It is a highly transactional
business and I enjoy rolling
up my sleeves and doing
the deals.”
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No bunny jokes!
(Okay — maybe
a few.)
Gayle Grissum
Stratmann, ’87,
is vice president
and general counsel of Energizer
Energizer Bunny® Hot
Hare Balloon—the world’s Holdings, Inc.,
largest hot air balloon.
headquartered
Photo courtesy
in St. Louis. The
www.energizer.com
company operates in about 125 countries around the
globe. Its businesses include Energizer
products, Schick Wilkinson Sword shaving products, and Playtex infant care,
feminine care and sun care products,
generating about $4 billion in annual
sales. Stratmann manages the entire legal
department and is ultimately responsible
for all legal matters of the company.
This position is a major shift from her
early career. She taught special education
for five years in the Columbia area. She
then went to law school and worked for
a St. Louis law firm practicing commercial litigation for three years before going
to work for Energizer. When she started
with the company, it manufactured only
batteries and lighting products and she
worked on only the U.S. legal issues.
Energizer has grown a great deal in
the last 10 years, acquiring (among others) Schick and Playtex. Stratmann’s role
in the company has grown as well; she
took over as general counsel in 2003.
Stratmann just keeps going and
going and going!
GAYLE GRISSUM STRATMANN, ’87
VICE PRESIDENT AND GENERAL COUNSEL,
ENERGIZER HOLDINGS, INC., ST. LOUIS
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She supervises about 50 people, including 20 attorneys. The legal matters they
take care of involve the whole spectrum of issues, but she says the things she
becomes most involved with are matters of major litigation, corporate governance and mergers and acquisitions.
Stratmann is happy with her in-house
position. One of her favorite aspects
of the job is the opportunity to be
intensely involved in the business side
of the enterprise. She likes partnering
with her business colleagues and learning about the company’s new businesses
and product lines, and finds the international aspects of the businesses especially
interesting. “I really can’t think of any
disadvantages,” she says. She does recommend working at a good law firm
for a while before attempting
such a position, because of the
background training involved
and the fact that large companies often prefer to hire attorneys with such experience.
Stratmann speaks very highly
of her MU Law education: that the
school prepared her very well for her
present career, that the atmosphere was
collegial and that she remains in contact with a good network of colleagues
from her Mizzou days. For cases, her
company sometimes uses outside attorneys who come from firms all over
the country, and she compliments the Mizzou grads as
being some of the best outside attorneys she works
with. She has another reason for having fond memories of the school — she met
her husband, David A.
Stratmann, ’86, there!
About that bunny…
Stratmann says that he’s a
very important figure in the
company and gets involved
in quite a few legal issues
of his own. As for Gayle
Stratmann — we can’t resist
— she just keeps going and
going and going and going.
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Energetic MU Lawyers Take the Corporate Ride
“The answers
are rarely
black and
white. If it
were that
easy, lawyers
wouldn’t be
necessary.”
CAROLYN BENTON AIMAN, ’92
SENIOR CORPORATE COUNSEL, SHELL OIL COMPANY, HOUSTON
At Shell, it’s not just about oil .
Carolyn Benton Aiman, ’92, has
done work for Shell’s hydrogen and biofuels businesses, and now she has moved
into another renewable area and turned
her attention to the wind. As the primary
business lawyer for Shell Wind Energy,
Aiman is supporting the company in its
efforts to find a path that includes renewable energy sources. Shell’s wind energy
subsidiary concentrates on large-scale
wind farm projects around the country.
Aiman advises the business concerning the
multiple issues surrounding the prospecting, development, construction, execution
and operation of wind farms. “There are
lots of places with strong winds for development purposes,” she says.
The legal issues Aiman handles are
varied and interesting and generally concern property access, infrastructure issues
like access to the grid and construction
matters, and environmental issues. “It is
not uncommon for the best wind to be
in areas without major transmission lines
or access to the grid,” Aiman explains.
“Wind projects also deal with a wide variety of wildlife, viewshed and regulatory
issues that vary from region to region.”
Among others, she is involved in projects under development in the Texas Panhandle and in West Virginia, which are
expected to be operational before the end
of the year.
Aiman grew up in the Rio Grande
Valley of deep South Texas and earned
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an undergraduate degree in mathematics
before coming to Mizzou. Following law
school, she clerked for a federal judge in
Houston, worked in commercial litigation
at a downtown St. Louis firm, and then
worked for a labor, employment and commercial litigation boutique in Houston.
While there, she handled the defense of
class action suits brought by private parties
as well as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and tried several cases
related to employment, the Americans
with Disabilities Act, Title VII and related
litigation. Ultimately, one of her in-house
clients convinced her to join the in-house
department, and through mergers and
business changes, she ultimately landed
in the Shell legal department, where she
has been for almost seven years. She is
very happy to have found a place at Shell
where she can support the development
and advancement of a business with her
legal skills.
The conjunction of business and the
law is one of the things that particularly
excites Aiman about her position. She
enjoyed being a litigation attorney, but
she says, “This is better.” She believes that
being a former litigator helps her better
advise her clients on the front end of the
deal. “I get to have a real, direct impact
on bringing about the success of these
projects,” she explains. “I am involved
with the ongoing decisions and creation
of practical solutions to the multitude of
issues that come up.”
When asked if the work was easier
in-house than trial work at a boutique,
Aiman answered with an emphatic “no.”
She explains that the work and deadlines
can be every bit as intense and the pace is
very fast. Still, Aiman enjoys the continuity of getting to know the business and
clientele while making formative contributions to assist them in realizing their
business goals.
The professors at the School of Law
consistently reminded Aiman and her
classmates to do more than understand
the black letter law. “They gave me a
great foundation for practicing law,” she
explains. Aiman recalls that her professors observed that it’s not enough to know
rules and regulations; one must understand the policy and issues that shape them
and must know how to approach current matters with an understanding of
those policies and issues. “The answers are
rarely black and white. If it were that easy,
lawyers wouldn’t be necessary,” she says.
Her professors taught with enthusiasm and
sincerity and helped give her the tools to
think about the profession analytically and
creatively.
So while Aiman does have to endure
a lot of gentle teasing about “wind”
(some of which she says is not printable in a polite publication), Aiman is
sailing confidently into the future.
Aiman is married to Kevin C.
Aiman, ’92, and they have two children.
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H O N O R S
&
AWA R D S
F A C U LT Y N O T E
Law School Leaders
Honored at the 10th Annual
Women’s Justice Awards
Robert G. Bailey conducted baseball salary
arbitrations during February, including the
Ryan Howard salary arbitration.
Bailey continues to be active in the
National Academy of Arbitrators and has
been elected to the Board of Governors.
He serves on the academy’s Nominating
Committee and its Audit Committee, and
has been appointed the academy’s parliamentarian, only the third parliamentarian
in the group’s 61-year history.
Bailey continues to serve as a commissioner on the National Conference of
Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and is
a member of the Collaborative Law Drafting
Committee, which presented its first draft of
the Uniform Collaborative Law in July at its
annual meeting.
In April, Bailey made a presentation
about the business of arbitration for the
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.
In June, he served on a panel discussing
arbitration in transportation cases at the
Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys’
annual meeting. He has been re-appointed
to the United States Postal Service and
National Rural Letter Carriers arbitration
panel.
Bailey chaired the MU Athletics
Department’s Strategic Planning Committee,
which produced a three-year strategic plan
to be implemented this year, continues to
serve as the chair of the MU Health Sciences
Institutional Review Board, has been reelected chair of the Boone County Family
Resources and serves on the MU Conflict of
Interest Committee.
Four School of Law alumni , faculty and friends were recognized at the St. Louis Daily Record’s awards banquet at
the Four Seasons Hotel in St. Louis on April 10.
Legal Scholar Award
Presented to women faculty
members or administrators at
area law schools who demonstrate
leadership through their own
work with the justice system, their
research or scholarship, or through
teaching and inspiring others.
Enterprise Award
Presented to women
in a business setting
who contribute to the
improvement of the
justice system.
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Professor Mary M. Beck, ’88
Linda S. Legg
Member, School of Law For All We Call
Mizzou Campaign Steering Committee
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F A C U LT Y N O T E
Leaders of Tomorrow Award
Presented to women law
students at area law schools
who demonstrate leadership,
professionalism and a passion
for making a difference
in the justice system or
the legal profession.
Kaitlin A. Bridges, ’08
Mary L. Rhodes Russell, ’83
PublicOfficial Award
Awarded to women
judges and other public officials whose public service improves the
quality of justice.
Mary Rhodes Russell, ’83
John Lande published his study of “cooperative” lawyers, “Practical Insights from
an Empirical Study of Cooperative Lawyers
in Wisconsin,” in 2008 Journal of Dispute
Resolution 203, the symposium issue. He
also published the introduction to the
symposium, “Developing Better Lawyers
and Lawyering Practices: Introduction
to the Symposium on Innovative Models
of Lawyering,” 2008 Journal of Dispute
Resolution 1.
Lande wrote a six-part guest blog titled
“Adding Cooperative Practice to the ADR
Toolkit” on the Engaging Conflicts blog
(www.engagingconflicts.com).
He published two articles arising from
his work on the Task Force on Improving
Mediation Quality of the American Bar
Association’s Section of Dispute Resolution:
“Improving Mediation Quality: You, Too,
Can Do This in Your Area,” in 26 Alternatives
to the High Cost of Litigation 89 (2008),
and “Doing the Best Mediation You Can,”
13 Dispute Resolution Magazine 43 (SpringSummer 2008).
Lande made a presentation at the
Harvard Program on Negotiation, was a
guest lecturer in two classes at Harvard Law
School and was a panelist at a symposium
on second generation issues of dispute
system design at Ohio State University
College of Law. He also made presentations
at the annual conferences of the ABA Section
of Dispute Resolution, Association of Family
and Conciliation Courts and Connecticut Bar
Foundation / Quinnipiac University School
of Law.
Lande recently made two teleconference
CLE presentations to a joint committee of the
Elder Law, Trusts and Estates and Alternative
Dispute Resolution Sections of the Colorado
Bar Association, and at the McKinley Irvin
law firm in Seattle.
Photos courtesy of Karen Elshout and Missouri Lawyers Media
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Former Missouri
Governor Tried for
Outlaw’s Murder
F A C U LT Y N O T E
by Jay Atkins, ’08
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Photos courtesy of Scott Braudis
Carl H. Esbeck has three forthcoming
articles. The Supreme Court’s recent treatment of taxpayer standing is the subject of
“What the Hein Decision Can Tell Us about
the Roberts Court and the Establishment
Clause,” in 78 Mississippi Law Journal
(fall 2008). “The Application of RFRA to
Override Employment Nondiscrimination
Clauses Embedded in Federal Social Service
Programs,” in 9 Engage (summer 2008),
concerns the use of the Religious Freedom
Restoration Act of 1993 to permit federal
grantees who are faith-based charities to
continue to employ those of likeminded
faith. The focus of “Protestant Dissent and
the Virginia Disestablishment, 1776 —
1786,” 7 Georgetown Journal of Law & Public
Policy (winter 2009), is that the modern
Supreme Court has elevated the Virginia
experience as the relevant history giving
meaning to the Establishment Clause.
In late May, Esbeck attended the board
of directors meeting of the Christian Legal
Society in Washington, D.C. He is a director
of the society and presented a report on
the work of the Center for Law & Religious
Freedom, the public interest law firm that
litigates on behalf of the society.
An article Esbeck first completed more
than a decade ago was recently selected
for republication in a classroom reader
on church-state relations. The article,
“The Establishment Clause as a Structural
Restraint on Governmental Power,” in
84 Iowa Law Review 1 (1998), appears in
Ravitch’s Law and Religion, A Reader: Cases,
Concepts, and Theory (Thomson West 2008).
otorious outlaw Jesse James was killed by Robert Ford 126 years
ago. On April 3, School of Law students brought to justice the
man responsible, former Missouri governor Thomas Crittenden.
The School of Law’s Historical and Theatrical Trials Society
(HATTS) presented a historical mock trial of Gov. Crittenden for his role in
the murder of Jesse James. In 1881, Gov. Crittenden began strenuous efforts to
rid Missouri of James’ gang of criminals and, as part of his efforts, allied with
railroad companies to circulate a $5,000 reward poster for James’ apprehension
“dead or alive.” Robert Ford infiltrated James’ gang and killed him on April 3,
1882. HATTS presented the trial of Gov. Crittenden for solicitation of murder
through the reward poster and an alleged meeting with Ford.
As part of the trial, MU law students and
members of the Columbia community portrayed
characters involved with the James murder, with
Prof. Greg Scott portraying Gov. Crittenden.
The case was tried by two teams comprised of
one MU law student
and one experienced
attorney each. The
State of Missouri was
represented by Professor Frank Bowman and Carrie C.
Moreland, ’08,
while the defense was
represented by Christopher A. Slusher,
’91, and Joshua M. Jones, 3L.
Jay Atkins, ’08, former
president of HATTS, says that
one of the most important
elements of the event was its
historical accuracy. “All participants dressed in period costumes
and acted in ways appropriate
for the time period, which made
the trial both realistic and very
entertaining,” he says.
Prof. Steve Easton, HATTS’ faculty advisor, says that the trial was meant to
appeal to more than just legal scholars. “The way we put together this event, we
involved not just the School of Law, but also the greater university and Columbia communities,” he explains. “We had local high school students and members of the state archives involved this year, so it was really a community event.”
The Crittenden jury ended up hung, seven to two in favor of conviction.
HATTS is a group of students and faculty dedicated to exploring the intersection of law, history and theatre. Each year the society selects an event from
history that represents a potential cause of action but was never tried in its own
time. Members then research the event and stage a mock trial in which they
apply modern law to the historical facts.
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S TA F F
N E W S
F A C U LT Y N O T E
Katherine L. “Katie”
Carollo joined the Office
of Admissions and Career
Development as the admissions evaluator in July. Previously she worked as an
administrative assistant in
the School of Law’s Office of Development.
Andrea Mazza Follett,
coordinator of professional
development, co-presented
a telephone CLE, “Managing Your Legal Career,”
for The Missouri Bar. Her
co-presenter was Tammy
King, director of career development for
Washington University in St. Louis. Follett
was appointed to the Professionalism Committee of the American Bar Association’s
Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar for a term to end in 2010.
Michelle L. Heck was promoted from admissions
representative to coordinator of admissions and
recruitment at the School
of Law. She has worked
at the law school for two
years. Previously she was a center manager
for Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions.
FAC U LT Y
Paul H. Ladehoff, director of Campus Mediation
Services and training coordinator for the Center for
the Study of Dispute Resolution, presented “Difficult
Faculty Conversations”
and “Facilitating Classroom Dialogues on
Immigration” at the Wakonse Conference on College Teaching in May. This
fall, Ladehoff teaches two alternative dispute resolution courses at the University of
Nebraska College of Law two days a week.
Amy B. Monahan presented her current research, Defining Health Insurance,
at Washington University School of Law,
Saint Louis University School of Law and
the annual meeting of the Southeastern
Association of Law Schools. In addition, she
served as a commentator at Northwestern
University’s Conference on Insurance Markets
and Regulation. She currently serves as the
chair of the American Association of Law
Schools’ Section on Employee Benefits.
Judy Tayloe , executive staff assistant
II, announces the arrival of her second
grandchild, Caroline Raye Schrader,
born on May 18 in Iowa City, Iowa.
Caroline joins very proud big sister,
Madeline Rebecca, who is 3 ½. Their
mother is Tayloe’s daughter Marnie.
N E W S
Assistant
Dean Bob
Bailey and
his wife,
Sharon,
announce
the birth
of their
grandsons. Their eldest daughter, Tara, and her husband, Ryan, welcomed Bryson Lynn
Rehmeier on June 25. At the time of his birth, Bryson weighed 8 pounds, 10 ounces. He
joins big brother Caden. Their youngest daughter, Jessica, and her husband, Jake, welcomed
Nathan Graham Dodson on July 9. At the time of his birth, he weighed 6 pounds, 8 ounces.
Stephen D. Easton is in the final editing stages of his book, Attacking Adverse
Experts: How to Expose Opinions that are
Flawed, Misleading or Just Plain Bogus, to be
published by the American Bar Association’s
Litigation Section. It is available from the
American Bar Association and other internet
booksellers.
This summer, Easton volunteered to
try sexually violent predator cases for the
Missouri Attorney General’s Office.
and her
husband, Michael, an assistant public defender in Boone County,
announce the birth of Griffin Patrick
Byrne on March 25. At the time of his
birth, Griffin weighed 7 pounds, 10
ounces and was 19 ¾ inches long.
Professor Rigel C. Oliveri
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L AW
L I B R A RY
F A C U LT Y N O T E
Harry Tate: Same Old Friend, Brand New Adventure
Martha Dragich conducted a session,
“Writing for Tenure,” at the Association of
American Law Schools Mid-Year Workshop
for Law Librarians in June.
Dragich delivered the June 2008 commencement address for graduates of the
GED program of Columbia’s Adult Education
& Literacy Program.
In February, she served on the American
Bar Association site visit team for the
University of Maine Law School.
Dragich serves on the board of the
Central Missouri Food Bank.
James R. Devine, published “The Duke
Lacrosse Matter as a Case Study of the Right
to Reply to Prejudicial Pretrial Extrajudicial
Publicity Under Rule 3.6(C),” in 15 Villanova
Sports and Entertainment Law Journal 175
(2008).
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Each year when the cohort of 1st year
law students begins its training, the hallowed halls of the Law Library fill with
new faces, questions and challenges.
Here new legal minds grapple with the
strange and sometimes intimidating world
of legal terminology and jurisprudential concepts. Thankfully, a friendly face
awaits them in the Law Library. Centrally located in their new home for the
next three years is the kind, wise and
unshakable personage of Harry Tate.
According to The Law Barn: A Brief
History of the School of Law, University of
Missouri-Columbia by William F. Fratcher,
the “real” Lee Harry Tate graduated from
the School of Law in 1913 and died young
after honorable service in the Navy in
World War I. In 1926, his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Frank R. Tate, undertook to
pay half the cost of a new law building,
which was subsequently named in their
son’s honor. Lee Harry’s sculpture, fondly
called “Harry,” serves as a memorial to his
life and is still in the Law Library today.
While our Harry has always been available to students for consultation and consolation in the Law Library and as a source of
fashion inspiration, he can now be found in
the virtual world as well. Harry has joined
the throng of law students online and created a page for himself on Facebook.
Facebook is an internet social networking Web site, much like MySpace, which
began at Harvard University. It allows
users to publish information about themselves and to see what their friends near
and far are up to, sometimes minute by
minute. Facebook users connect with
others by adding contacts or “friends”
and sending them messages. In this way,
students can keep up with each other in
a way that has not been possible before.
Although not everyone may be
familiar with the Facebook phenomenon, it is an intrinsic part of daily life
and friendships for today’s law student.
Librarians at the Law Library noticed
that the majority of law students are
on Facebook, and saw it as an opportunity to connect with students in a
friendly and non-threatening way. Thus,
Harry’s Facebook page was born.
On Facebook, Harry keeps the students updated with what is happening
in the Law Library and at the School
of Law. He is really enjoying hearing student updates about their summer internships and he was thrilled to
find himself tagged in a photo with
another student. Harry currently has
76 friends in Facebook and looks forward to making more as students return
from their summer respite to hit the
books again in the fall semester!
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At the annual celebration of The Law Society, new members
receive commemorative personalized medallions in honor of their
commitment to the School of Law. (l-r) P. Starke, P. Bledsoe, J.
Dade, J. Young, M. Rhodes Russell, M. Atchison, J. Hoel and D.
Pettus. Not pictured: J. Conway and K. James Sharp.
the School of Law
celebrated The Law Society
and its members with a reception and dinner held at The
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
in Kansas City, Mo. The evening’s highlight was the recognition of new and newly-elevated members, shown at right
with their areas of support.
The invitation for membership in The Law Society is
extended to donors who make
gifts of $25,000 or more, payable over five years. Since its
creation in 1984, 239 law school
alumni and friends have joined.
We thank all members for their generous support of the School of Law.
The 25th annual celebration of The Law Society will
be held on Thursday, April 1,
2009, at the Forest Park Visitors Center in St. Louis.
On April 17,
New Members of The Law Society
Michael W. Atchison, ’93
Class of 1993 Endowed Scholarship and
the Timothy J. Heinsz Scholarship
Philip W. Bledsoe, ’84
Shughart, Thomson & Kilroy
Appellate Advocacy Endowment
James E. Conway, ’53
James E. Conway Scholarship
Jay M. Dade, ’93
Shughart, Thomson & Kilroy
Appellate Advocacy Endowment
John Hoel, ’90
Donald K. Hoel Memorial Fund
Don K. Pettus, ’63
Don K. Pettus Scholarship
Mary L. Rhodes Russell, ’83
Judge Mary Rhodes Russell Scholarship
Katherine James Sharp
A. Lamkin James Memorial Scholarship
New Dean’s Council Members
lifetime gifts of $50,000 or more
Jack L. Campbell, ’70
Shughart, Thomson & Kilroy
Appellate Advocacy Endowment
Nancy E. Kenner, ’83
Kenner & Kavanaugh Scholarship
New Dean’s Circle Members
lifetime gifts of $100,000 or more
Lawrence G. Crahan, ’77
Judge Lawrence G. Crahan Judicial Fellowship
Thomas E. Deacy Jr., ’40
Thomas E. Deacy Jr. Trial
Practice Endowment
Linda S. Legg
Judge Lawrence G. Crahan Judicial Fellowship
Gustav J. Lehr Jr., ’59
Gus Lehr Law Library Endowment
Patrick B. Starke, ’79
Greatest Need
James H. Young, ’89
Faculty Support
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Your Gift
is
Your Vote
P R I VAT E
F A C U LT Y N O T E
Philip G. Peters Jr. was interviewed on
Columbia’s KOMU-TV for the opening of
First Chance for Children’s Lend and Learn
Toy Library. This program, based at the
Columbia Housing Authority, helps parents
foster healthy child development with
books, developmentally appropriate toys
and parent mentoring. He was also featured
on KOMU-TV and in the Columbia Tribune
for the opening of the Listo PreK Summer
School, a project funded by the MU Cambio
Center to teach English to Hispanic students
who are entering kindergarten. Both programs seek to reduce the achievement gap
that now separates children by economic
class, race and ethnicity. Peters has taken
a leave of absence from the School of Law
during 2008 to serve as executive director of
First Chance for Children, a local nonprofit
organization that creates accessible high
quality early education for underprivileged
children.
S U P P O R T
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Making A Gift to the
School of Law
Cash gifts may be mailed to:
Office of Development
MU School of Law
205 Hulston Hall
Columbia, MO 65211
Checks should be
made payable to:
MU School of Law
or the Law School Foundation
Credit card gifts or other gifts:
Please call our office at
573-882-4374
Melody Richardson Daily taught law and
literature and educational law and policy in
the London Law Program during the spring
2008 semester. This study-abroad program
for American law students is offered through
a consortium of seven law schools, including
the MU School of Law.
Last October, Daily presented “Why
Appearance Matters: How to Make Your
Documents Visually Persuasive” for The
Missouri Bar CLE “Effective Legal Writing:
Issues and Challenges for Attorneys,” which
was held in St. Louis and Kansas City.
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Online gifts:
»donatetomu.missouri.edu
Contact us!
If you would like more
information about including
the School of Law in your
estate plan or about making a
gift or pledge, please contact
us at 205 Hulston Hall,
Columbia, MO 65211.
Developments
Vote!
by Janie Ausburn Harmon
senior director of development
we hear plenty
about voting.
We learn at an early age to voice our
opinions in the form of casting a vote.
Voting is an expression of personal preference traditionally related to elections
— but why not view voting symbolically in fundraising campaigns?
During an election year the campaign
season stretches long for those who tire
of candidate commercials but passes too
During election years
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F A C U LT Y N O T E
Be counted and recognized for
your generosity by giving to the
School of Law before July 1.
The fall issue of Tr anscript will include
the Honor Roll of Contributors to
recognize supporters to the School of
Law for the preceding fiscal year —
July 1, 2007, to June 30, 2008.
If you aren’t sure if you’ve made a gift to the
law school in the 2007-2008 fiscal year, or
if you would like to know your total giving
for the year, please contact our office at
573-882-4374 or carollok@missouri.edu.
quickly for candidates who wish to
reach voters. Likewise, in the School of
Law our campaign is quickly drawing
to a close while we missed asking many
alumni and friends to exhibit their
personal preference by voting — that
is, financially supporting the school.
The School of Law will likely reach
its campaign goal of $17 million so
the question is by what margin will it
exceed the goal? Your vote in the form
of financial support toward the For All
We Call Mizzou campaign on November 4 or any other day this year elevates
the School of Law toward stronger programs. We aspire to provide additional
scholarships to fine students, increase
faculty support and promote programs with enhanced private funding.
Students seek your vote because
they wish to complete law degrees
without high debt. A gift that is only
a portion of your charitable giving could make a substantial difference for these students. In-state fees
are slightly less than $16,000 while
out of state fees are approximately
double that figure. Alumni of ear-
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lier eras share how employment during law school summers paid fees and
many graduated without debt. Alumni
sometimes assume that current students follow suit but today it is impossible over the summer to earn a sum
equal to fees. Students need your vote
to decrease the average law school
debt load at graduation of $60,000.
As we approach the completion of
the For All We Call Mizzou campaign
we are honored that alumni and friends
have generously established new
endowment funds supporting students,
faculty and programs. If you wish to
be counted in the law school portion of MU’s historic $1 billion total,
make a gift by the end of this year.
Please call us or go to donatetomu.
missouri.edu to make an online gift.
Much like political campaigns,
the School of Law requests your
vote in the form of financial support. A vote for the School of Law
means that everyone wins!
I’m Janie Harmon and I approved this
message.
Larry Dessem chaired a site review team
for the American Bar Association at the
University of Dayton in March and inspected
a summer law program for the ABA in
Budapest, Hungary, in June.
Dessem published “Maybe Deaning is
Not for You” in 39 University of Toledo Law
Review 261 (2008) in conjunction with the
“Leadership in Legal Education Symposium.”
In May, Dessem moderated a program
at the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar
Association’s Annual Bench-Bar Conference.
This summer he spoke at the National
Association of State Universities and Land
Grant Colleges’ Commission on International
Programs about the School of Law’s summer
program in South Africa, and also moderated a panel on law school self-studies at
the annual meeting of the Southeastern
Association of Law Schools.
Stacie I. Strong’s casebook on English tort
law, Complete Tort Law: Text, Cases, and
Materials (co-authored by Liz Williams),
was published by Oxford University Press
in March. In April, her article, “Due Process
and Public Policy in the International
Enforcement of Class Arbitration Awards,”
was shortlisted for the 2008 Prize for
International Arbitration, administered by
the Centre for International Arbitration,
Mediation and Negotiation in Madrid, Spain.
This spring, Strong spoke on the benefits
of non-profit board membership at the Arts
& Business Council’s OnBOARD training
program in Chicago.
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HONOR ROLL CONTRIBUTORS
The School of Law recognizes
the following individuals who
provided financial support
during the fiscal year beginning
July 1, 2007, and ending
June 30, 2008. This year’s
alumni participation rate was
9.5 percent.
Class of 1931
Roger T. Hurwitz
Stephen Nathaniel
Limbaugh Sr.
James F. Menefee
Welzie W. Webb
Class of 1952
Dollars....................... $2,650
Participation................. 26%
Lane D. Bauer
Erwin M. Blant
H. Edison Kaderly
William H. Leedy
Richard H. Spencer
Montgomery L. Wilson
Estate of Walter L. Mulvania
Class of 1940
Participation................. 20%
Thomas E. Deacy Jr.
Leo J. Rozier
Class of 1953
Class of 1941
Participation................. 50%
Dollars....................... $3,975
Participation................. 18%
Walter D. McQuie Jr.
Judge James R. Reinhard
Norman M. Tempel
John E. Young
Estate of John K. Hulston
Fred J. Young Jr.
Class of 1942
Participation................. 50%
Cecil C. Orear Jr.
Class of 1954
Participation................. 17%
Don Chapman Jr.
Ross W. Lillard
Class of 1944
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2007–2008
Stewart W. Smith Jr.
John Rogers Whitmore
Class of 1959
Class of 1964
Dollars......................$27,864
Participation................. 26%
Dollars......................$11,950
Participation................. 10%
Bob F. Griffin
Arthur Z. Guller
Sam F. Hamra
E. Mitchell Hough
Gustav J. Lehr Jr.
Robert Wade Maupin
Lowell R. McCuskey
Larry L. McMullen
James Wm Roberts
William E. Rulon
Herbert C. Willbrand
Class of 1960
Dollars..................... $48,485
Participation................. 21%
Donald E. Chaney
Ralph Edwards
Charles B. Erickson
Bernard N. Frank
Carl D. Gum Jr.
John D. Rahoy
John W. Ringer
Julius F. Wall
Participation................. 50%
Edith D. Wright
Class of 1948
Class of 1955
Class of 1961
Dollars..........................$700
Participation................. 23%
Dollars....................... $8,150
Participation................. 17%
H. Murray Claycomb
Robert F. Devoy
David L. Hilton
Bruce Normile
Thomas W. Wehrle
Dollars.................... $263,700
Participation................. 13%
George E. Ashley
Charles E. Dapron
Robert L. Hawkins Jr.
James J. Wheeler
Class of 1956
Participation................. 14%
Class of 1949
Frank Conley
William E. Farris
Dollars......................$17,500
Participation................. 11%
David M. Beckerman
Frank D. Connett Jr.
Thaddeus C. McCanse
Robert C. Smith
Class of 1957
Participation...................7%
Theodore C. Beckett
Elvin S. Douglas Jr.
Class of 1950
Participation...................7%
W. Thomas Coghill Jr.
Robert E. Crist
Class of 1958
Dollars......................$14,506
Participation................. 21%
Class of 1951
Dollars....................... $3,767
Participation................. 19%
Melvin E. Griffin
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David Perry Anderson
Lynden N. Goodwin
Fred L. Hall Jr.
Keith E. Mattern
Bernard C. Rice
Don K. Pettus
Leo W. Schrader
John Fox Arnold
Alex Bartlett
Darwin A. Hindman Jr.
Joseph H. Johns
Frank M. Masters
B. Kent Snapp
Richard K. Wilson
Stanford A. Zeldin
Class of 1962
Dollars.................... $744,118
Participation................. 21%
James T. Ausmus
Maurice B. Graham
Floyd E. Lawson Jr.
James H. McLarney
Estate of Lyle H. Petit
Paul Jackson Rice
Donald L. Wolff
Class of 1963
Dollars....................... $6,075
Participation...................8%
Roger J. Modersbach
C. H. Parsons Jr.
Alfred C. Sikes II
Dennis W. Smith
Thomas A. Vetter
Class of 1965
Dollars....................... $8,150
Participation................. 15%
Lewis M. Blanton
Robert M. Clayton II
William L. Davis
John M. Gibson
Ray Klinginsmith
Harold L. Lowenstein
Stanley J. Murphy
John K. Pruellage
Karolyn Ehrmann Voigt
Class of 1966
Dollars....................... $2,204
Participation...................8%
Stephen F. Hanlon
Maynard R. Johnson
Philip K. Marblestone
Edwin Scott Orr
N. William Phillips
William H. Walker
Class of 1967
Dollars....................... $4,100
Participation................. 14%
Donald R. Carmody
Thomas F. Fisher
Michael D. Garrett
David K. Hardy
James A. McDowell
H. Fred Northcraft
David E. Rosenbaum
E. Richard Webber
Class of 1968
Dollars..................... $51,500
Participation................. 18%
James M. Beck
Louis B. Eckelkamp Jr.
James D. Ellis
David A. Fischer
James V. Glascock
Harvey L. Kaplan
Richard D. Kinder
David L. McCoid
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C. Patrick McLarney
John R. Musgrave
Robert E. Northrip
Joyce M. Otten
J. Richard Owensby
George Lane Roberts Jr.
David W. Russell
Wallace J. Turnage Jr.
Class of 1969
Dollars..................... $26,436
Participation................. 14%
Clifford H. Ahrens
Paul E. Kovacs
James Bryan Mason
Thomas L. Patten
Edward H. Sheppard III
James Madison Smart Jr.
B. Jill Steps
Richard A. Stockenberg
Kenneth H. Suelthaus
J. Edward Sweeney
Class of 1970
Dollars....................$156,245
Participation................. 13%
Howard M. Bushman
Jack L. Campbell
John W. Cowden
Thomas E. Cummings
Bernard Edelman
Dennis D. Palmer
John B. Renick
Charles J. Schmelzer III
Thomas N. Sterchi
Charles R. Wall
Class of 1971
Dollars......................$19,575
Participation................. 12%
Kenneth L. Cage
Thomas R. Corbett
K. Preston Dean II
Dale C. Doerhoff
Glen A. Glass
Stephen D. Hoyne
David M. Nissenholtz
John R. Phillips
William J. Roberts
Michael J. Thompson
Paul L. Wickens
Class of 1972
Dollars......................$33,658
Participation................. 12%
Ted D. Ayres
Thomas J. Frawley
Douglas N. Ghertner
Douglas S. Lang
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Robert L. Langdon
Louis N. Lee III
John B. Lewis
Bruce McCurry
Warren L. McElwain
John L. McMullin III
Nelson B. Rich
Richard J. Scheff ler Jr.
Stephen L. Taylor
Gary G. Wallace
James F. Waltz
Class of 1973
Dollars....................... $5,650
Participation................. 11%
Robert E. Almirall
William F. Arnet
Sanborn N. Ball
Allan D. Barton
Larry Clay Barton
James E. Crowe Jr.
Elton W. Fay
John B. Montgomery
Terrence J. O’Toole
John J. Pollard III
W. Patrick Resen
Jack L. Simmons
R James Stilley Jr.
W.H. Thomas Jr.
Joe F. Willerth
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2007–2008
J. Michael Vaughan
John R. Weisenfels
Richard D. Woods
Class of 1976
Dollars......................$14,360
Participation................. 17%
Dwain A. Akins
Roger M. Baron
Thomas B. Becker
Bruce Harty Beckett
Gary R. Cunningham
Kenneth D. Dean
James W. Erwin
Steven E. Faber
Eric C. Harris
Wallace L. Head
Robert D. Higginbotham
Amy Rehm Hinderer
H. Martin Jayne
Thomas R. Jayne
John W. Kurtz
Gary R. Long
Dennis E. McIntosh
Jeffrey O. Parshall
R. J. Robertson Jr.
Terrence T. Schoeninger
James M. Tobin
Stephen Edward Walsh
Robert E. Young
William L. Allinder
Robert G. Bailey
L. James Bandy Jr.
Thomas V. Bender
Jeffrey A. Brimer
Edward L. Campbell
Susan Gum Crigler
Stephen E. Cupples
Douglas Y. Curran
Alan Harvey Deright
Daniel E. Hamann
Mark P. Mantovani
Charles F. Miller
Richard Brooks Pitchie
Mark A. Shank
Patrick B. Starke
Harold A. Walther
Class of 1980
Dollars....................... $7,342
Participation................. 14%
Class of 1977
Dollars...................... $17,550
Participation...................8%
Dollars....................... $3,275
Participation...................9%
Ann K. Covington
Deborah Daniels
Diane M. Garber
Charles Walter German
William L. Hall
Paul V. Herbers
J. Kent Lowry
Gregory Luzecky
Gary Wayne Lynch
Teresa H. Martin
Class of 1975
Class of 1978
Dollars......................$20,975
Participation................. 17%
Dollars....................... $7,770
Participation................. 15%
Joseph A. Cambiano
Robert E. Cowherd
F. Joe DeLong III
Anne W. Elsberry
Buford L. Farrington
Michael E. Godar
H. William Hinderer
William F. Koenigsdorf
Elizabeth Lang-Miers
Nanette K. Laughrey
W. Dudley McCarter
M. Day Miller
Lyndel H. Porterfield
Bill L. Thompson
Jane L. Adam
Dan H. Ball
Merritt M. Beck III
Craig S. Biesterfeld
Allen W. Blair
Michael W. Bradley
Kevin P. Buchanan
C. K. Casteel Jr.
Edward A. Chod
William J. Daily
Steven Logan Finerty
Kandice K. Johnson
Class of 1979
Dollars......................$20,125
Participation................. 15%
Class of 1974
Richard Lloyd Adams
John Thomas Clark
David L. Forbes
Byron Edward Francis
Allan M. Goodloe Jr.
James H. Kelly
Ron E. Mitchell
Abe R. Paul
Laura E. Skaer
Donald C. Tiemeyer
Andrew B. Leonard
Sherrill L. Rosen
Mark Z. Schraier
Andrew B. See
Karen M. See
David Taylor Welch
Eric Kendall Banks
Charles Curtis Cantrell
Clark H. Cole
Daniel T. Engle
Milton B. Garber
David H. Gibbons
William K. Haas
JoAnne Spears Jackson
Louise L. Lucas
Randall B. Palmer
Michael J. Patton
Robert E. Pinnell
Edward M. Pultz
Johnny K. Richardson
Mark R. Rudoff
Paul J. Seele
Joseph L. Stokely
Michael L. Yates
Class of 1981
Dollars....................... $7,325
Participation................. 13%
Jerome S. Antel III
Lee Mills Baty
J. Michael Conway
Jean E. Goldstein
Ronald L. Hack
Susan Pinion Holliday
Al W. Johnson
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HONOR ROLL CONTRIBUTORS
Beverly Jean Figg
Keith P. Gray
Steven W. Lambson
James M. McClellan
Bradley E. Meyen
William S. Ohlemeyer
Laura L. Ozenberger
Larry M. Schumaker
Gary W. Tappana
Janet M. Thompson
Eugene J. Twellman
Kristi Lynne Kenney
Gary D. McConnell
Holly D McCoy
James C. Owen
R. David Ray
Kevin C. Roberts
Neil E. Sprague
H. Scott Summers
Alexander D. Tomaszczuk
James R. Turner
Class of 1982
Dollars..................... $15,600
Participation................. 10%
Gena Jo Awerkamp
Jeffrey J. Brinker
Cathy J. Dean
Don M. Downing
Paul M. Macon
David W. Ransin
Carl E. Schaeperkoetter
James M. Selle
Daniel W. Shinn
Charles E. Smarr
Mary-Michael Sterchi
Kevin R. Sweeney
John Warshawsky
Class of 1985
Dollars....................... $9,700
Participation................. 11%
Jane Bridgewater Byers
Keith Alan Cary
William M. Corrigan Jr.
John Alan Cowherd
Kendall R. Garten
Rodney D. Gray
Janice A. Harder
William Charles Love Jr.
Kimberly J. Norwood
John Lance Roark
Robert J. Selsor
Andrew M. Solomon
Class of 1983
Class of 1986
Dollars......................$57,998
Participation................. 13%
Dollars....................... $8,349
Participation...................8%
Robert R. Barton
Mark V. Berndtson
Deanna Apperson Burns
Jeffrey A. Burns
Jeffrey J. Comotto
E. Sidney Douglas III
Cynthia A. Dude
Dean L. Franklin Jr.
Roger C. Geary
Arthur C. Harris
Nancy E. Kenner
James Christian Morrow
Donna I. Raney
Mary L. Rhodes Russell
Mareta J. Smith
Fred Richard Van Pelt
Kay Willenbrink Van Pelt
Edwin L. Walker
Mark Steven Wasinger
Mark D. Baines
Melody Richardson Daily
Anita R. Estell
Patrick Leroy King
Ronald A. Norwood
Diane L. Rubenstein
Stephen Joseph Stark
David A. Stratmann
Sarah E. Terrace
John Thomas Walsh
Class of 1987
Dollars....................... $8,575
Participation................. 10%
Class of 1984
Dollars..................... $66,540
Participation................. 12%
Christopher E. Atteberry
Philip W. Bledsoe
Frank C. Brown
Sharon M. Busch
Brian D. Callihan
John L. Crenshaw
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Robert T. Adams
Mark R. Dunn
Robert T. Ebert Jr.
Mark D. Grimm
Elizabeth Healey
Sara E. Kotthoff
Christopher J. Molzen
Philip J. Morgan
James Gerard Sansone
Joshua L. Schonfeld
Gayle Grissum Stratmann
Scott L. Templeton
T. John Wise
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2007–2008
Class of 1988
Class of 1993
Dollars....................... $4,406
Participation................. 10%
Dollars....................... $8,167
Participation................... 7%
Lewis D. Barr
Mike W. Bartolacci
Bruce H. Bates
Mary M. Beck
Kurt F. James
Daniel F. Kellogg
Denise E. Powell
Laura Thielmeier Roy
Gregory J. Scott
Shannon A. Shy
Michael W. Silvey
Lee J. Viorel III
David R. Weaver
Chris N. Weiss
Class of 1989
Participation...................2%
Billie A. Waite
James H. Young
Class of 1990
Dollars......................$11,893
Participation................... 5%
Eva M. Auman
Alana M. Barragan-Scott
John Hoel
Mark A. Langworthy
Scott M. Mann
Gregory J. Minana
Robert M. Thompson
Class of 1991
Dollars....................... $1,252
Participation...................4%
J. Bradley Funk
Jennifer K. Huckfeldt
James D. Maher
Betty I. Masters
James A. Rodenberg
Neal Michael Tasch
Class of 1992
Dollars....................... $2,755
Participation...................4%
Jennifer Clifton Ferguson
Warren E. Harris
Joel Philip Kidwell
Kevin P. McDowell
Nicholas A. Mirkay III
Elizabeth A. Phillips
James Mitchell Crabtree
Jay Michael Dade
David Allen Dick
Brian Scott Franciskato
Kevin Lee Fritz
Charles William Hatfield
Shana Jerene Long
Paul Scott Penticuff
Steven David Soden
Anthony Michael Totta
Class of 1994
Dollars....................... $7,246
Participation................... 5%
Randy C. Alberhasky
James Edward Berger
Michael Anthony Bickhaus
Michael K. Hamra
Richard Brent Hankins
Daniel B. Johnson
Michael Craig Nathanson
Class of 1995
Dollars....................... $2,566
Participation...................9%
Robert S. Bruer
Michael Nelson Chandler
Matthew A. Clement
Michael L. DeCamp
Carol Jo Dick
Daniel Walter Follett
Thomas Gary Glick
Timothy M. Huskey
Richard Monroe Paul III
Stephen Gerard Strauss
Timothy W. Van Ronzelen
T. Christopher Watkins
Raymond E. Williams
Class of 1996
Dollars....................... $3,610
Participation...................8%
Eric Michael Anielak
Todd Henry Bartels
Susan Wharton Bell
Marsha Blakemore Fischer
Kim K. Gibbens
Terry Milton Jarrett
Scott Andrew Robbins
Erick John Roeder
Stephanie Elizabeth Russell
Mark L. Stoneman
Maureen Mannion Vogel
Erin A. Webber
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Class of 1997
Dollars......................$11,466
Participation...................9%
Reachel Ann Beichley
Jason Lee Bush
Elizabeth Brown Cole
Morry Sean Cole
Shelly C. Dreyer
John Lawrence Ellis
Douglas Blair Harris
Scott Alan Hunter
Dylan L. Murray
Michelle Boehm O’Neal
Douglas Michael Worley
Class of 1998
Dollars......................$12,192
Participation...................8%
Chantel Lorraine Alberhasky
Jennifer L. Atterbury
Patrick Nathaniel Fanning
Aaron D. Jones
Brian Timothy McCartney
Winfred O. Nickens
John Leachman Oliver III
Edward S. Stevens
Matthew Duff Turner
Scott Andrew Wilson
Rachel Ann Wilson
Class of 1999
Dollars..........................$555
Participation...................2%
Andrea Mazza Follett
Mondi Lee Ghasedi
Jennifer J. Kingston
Molly M. Nail
Class of 2000
Dollars....................... $3,615
Participation...................6%
Ann Ahrens Beck
Jesse J. Camacho
Courtney Erin GoddardHawkinson
Tyson Hollis Ketchum
Fredrick J. Ludwig
Mary Ellen Reimund
Michael Joseph Schmid
Elena Maria Vega
Jeffrey Brent Williams
Kimberly A. Yates
Class of 2001
Dollars....................... $1,871
Participation...................4%
Joshua R. Bullock
Nicholas M. Burkemper
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Thurston Kennamer
Cromwell
Jean M. Dickman
James E. Meadows
Todd C. Werts
Charles R. Wooten
Class of 2002
Dollars....................... $3,837
Participation...................2%
Matthew J. Landwehr
James Kyle McCurry
William F. Northrip
Class of 2003
Dollars....................... $1,880
Participation...................4%
Melissa Ann Faurot
Adam W. Graves
Bryan M. Kaemmerer
Jeffrey John Koch
Natalya Y. Northrip
Jason Caturia Rahoy
Brian Daniel Rogers
Bryant Matthew Struble
Class of 2004
Dollars..........................$975
Participation...................6%
Thomas Louis Azar
Alyson M. Carrel
Brandon Franklin Greer
Joseph Chandler Gregg
Jason C. Grill
Julie Ann Haverly
Mary L. Kottmeyer
Martin Anthony Miller
Christopher Lee Neudecker
Lise A. Nyrop
JR Swanegan
Class of 2005
Dollars....................... $1,653
Participation................. 10%
Walter Louis Barnes II
John Frederick Crawford
Jeffrey Lee Hilbrenner
James Robert Howard
Frank Custer Koranda
Michael Stephen Kruse
Kourtney Elizabeth Lamb
Andrew Stephan Lyskowski
Jason Robert Mudd
Christopher Richard Pieper
Kari Ann Schulte
Clare Murphy Shaw
Marissa Lynn Todd
Adam Lee Warren
Jayne Tiana Woods
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2007–2008
Class of 2006
Dollars....................... $4,299
Participation................. 16%
John C. Ayres
Kathleen M. Birkhofer
Natalie Lynn Brinkley
Amanda Elizabeth Dysart
Alison L. Esbeck
James Patrick Faul
John Robert Griffith
Jay D. Hastings
Crystal Hermann Fieber
Jon W. Jordan
Kathryn Joy Lanius
Fredrick Albert Lutz
Kristin Renee Morin
Kathryn Nichole Nolen
Jason Dale Sapp
Timothy Daniel Steffens
Courtney Cullen Stirrat
Scott Timothy Summers
Jason Kenneth Turk
Colin David Uhrick
R. Adam Vickery
Bryan Turner White
Jennifer Dawn Wilson
Abigail Justine Woodward
Sapp
Class of 2007
Dollars....................... $3,358
Participation................. 12%
Kathryn Ann Busch
Christina E. Devine
Joshua C. Devine
Thomas Reuben Benson Ellis
Jessica R. Gunder
Mitchell Edward Kempker
Richard Lee Kroeger
Alfred John Ludwig
Samuel Benjamin Reed
Joshua Adam Roesch
Kevin Louis Seltzer
Stephanie Sloggett-O’Dell
Antwaun L. Smith
Erin Christine Stubblefield
Brad Kenneth Thoenen
Margaret Eleanor Thompson
Stephanie D. White Thorn
Marcus Christopher Wilbers
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HONOR ROLL CONTRIBUTORS
Leadership Gifts
$250,000 or more
George E. Ashley
Estate of Lyle H. Petit
$100,000 to $249,999
Thomas E. Deacy Jr.
Charles R. Wall
$50,000 to $99,999
Hulston Family Foundation
John Sublett Logan Foundation
Estate of Earl F. Nelson
William S. Ohlemeyer
$25,000 to $49,999
FEW/JAW Foundation
LuAnn Conway
Pat Holtmeier
Robert L. Langdon
Linda S. Legg
$10,000 to $24,999
David M. Beckerman
John W. Cowden
James D. Ellis
David L. Forbes
Roger C. Geary
Maurice B. Graham
John Hoel
John L. Hulston
Nancy E. Kenner
Richard D. Kinder
Microsoft Corporation
Estate of Walter L. Mulvania
Jack L. Oliver
C. H. Parsons Jr.
Thomas L. Patten
Thompson Coburn
Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan
Suelthaus PC
Shook Hardy & Bacon
Shughart Thomson & Kilroy
Van Matre, Harrison, and
Volkert, P.C.
Thomson West
Herbert C. Willbrand
$5000 to $9999
William L. Allinder
John Fox Arnold
James M. Beck
Frank C. Brown
Kenneth L. Cage
Morry Sean Cole
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William M. Corrigan Jr.
Larry & Beth Dessem
E. Sidney Douglas III
Louis B. Eckelkamp Jr.
Anne W. Elsberry
Anita R. Estell
Buford L. Farrington
Glen A. Glass
Fred L. Hall Jr.
Susan F. Heinsz
John Hoel
Daniel Bruce Johnson
John D. Landwehr
Gustav J. Lehr Jr.
Gary R. Long
Lowell R. McCuskey
C. Patrick McLarney
Geoffrey A. Oelsner Jr.
Don K. Pettus
John K. Pruellage
Mary L. Rhodes Russell
Sonnenschein Scholars
Foundation
Stinson Morrison Hecker
Richard A. Stockenberg
Kevin R. Sweeney
Julius F. Wall
William & Geneva Williams
Family Trust
Donald L. Wolff
James H. Young
$1000 to $4999
Jane L. Adam
Robert T. Adams
Robert E. Almirall
William F. Arnet
Jennifer Lee Atterbury
Mike W. Bartolacci
Larry Clay Barton
Lee Mills Baty
Bruce Harty Beckett
Michael Anthony Bickhaus
Craig S. Biesterfeld
Black Law Students Association
Estate of H. Henley Blair
Philip W. Bledsoe
Deanna Apperson Burns
Jeffrey A. Burns
Edward L. Campbell
Jack L. Campbell
Estate of James E. Campbell
C. K. Casteel Jr.
W. Thomas Coghill Jr.
Jeffrey J. Comotto
Frank Conley
Robert R. Conway
Thomas R. Corbett
Robert E. Crist
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2007–2008
Jay Michael Dade
Melody Richardson Daily
Peter N. Davis
K. Preston Dean II
F. Joe DeLong III
Dale C. Doerhoff
Don M. Downing
Daniel T. Engle
James W. Erwin
David E. Everson
Jennifer Clifton Ferguson
William B. Fisch
David A. Fischer
Byron Edward Francis
Laurence M. Frazen
General Federation of Women’s
Clubs of Missouri, Inc.
Kim K. Gibbens
Allan M. Goodloe Jr.
Sam F. Hamra
David K. Hardy
Douglas Blair Harris
Robert L. Hawkins Jr.
Elizabeth Healey
Susan Pinion Holliday
Estate of John K. Hulston
Edward H. Hunvald Jr.
Roger T. Hurwitz
Husch Blackwell Sanders, LLP
Jenner & Block, LLP
Joseph H. Johns
Al W. Johnson
Harvey L. Kaplan
Mark A. Kille
Sara E. Kotthoff
Paul E. Kovacs
John M. Lande
Nanette K. Laughrey
M. Jeanne Lewis
Stephen Nathaniel Limbaugh Sr.
Henry T. Lowe
Harold L. Lowenstein
J. Kent Lowry
Paul M. Macon
Philip K. Marblestone
Keith E. Mattern
Robert Wade Maupin
W. Dudley McCarter
David L. McCoid
Larry L. McMullen
Walter D. McQuie Jr.
James F. Menefee
Missouri Association of Trial
Attorneys
James Christian Morrow
Dylan Lager Murray
John R. Musgrave
Grant S. Nelson
Robert E. Northrip
William F. Northrip
Dennis D. Palmer
Michael J. Patton
John R. Phillips
Judge James R. Reinhard
Bernard C. Rice
Paul Jackson Rice
Gary & Anita Robb Foundation
Estate of Dorothy Anne Roberts
Kevin C. Roberts
Robert A. Ryan Jr.
James Gerard Sansone
Larry M. Schumaker
Andrew B. See
Senniger Powers
Katherine A. Sharp
Edward H. Sheppard III
Daniel W. Shinn
Alfred C. Sikes II
Laura E. Skaer
Mareta J. Smith
Stewart W. Smith Jr.
Steven David Soden
Richard H. Spencer
B. Jill Steps
Mary-Michael Sterchi
Thomas N. Sterchi
Gayle Grissum Stratmann
Kenneth H. Suelthaus
Bill L. Thompson
E. Richard Webber
John R. Weisenfels
Dale A. Whitman
John Rogers Whitmore
Jeffrey Brent Williams
Montgomery L. Wilson
Richard K. Wilson
T. John Wise
Women’s Law Association
Charles R. Wooten
John Wright
Fred J. Young Jr.
$500 to $999
Blanchard, Robertson, Mitchell
& Carter
Meyerkord, Rineberg &
Graham, LLC
Missouri Chapter American
Academy of Matrimonial
Lawyers
L. James Bandy Jr.
Roger M. Baron
Robert R. Barton
Bruce H. Bates
Carl M. Bender II
James Edward Berger
John G. Boyle
Jeffrey J. Brinker
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HONOR ROLL CONTRIBUTORS
Daniel R. Brown
Donald R. Carmody
Gregory Cecil & Michelle
Arnopol Cecil
Michael Nelson Chandler
Don Chapman Jr.
Robert M. Clayton II
James Mitchell Crabtree
Thomas E. Cummings
Stephen E. Cupples
Charles E. Dapron
Carl H. Esbeck
Hubert Arnold & Sue Eversull
Steven E. Faber
Steven Logan Finerty
Thomas F. Fisher
R. Wilson Freyermuth
Charles Walter German
John M. Gibson
Michael E. Godar
Mark D. Grimm
Arthur Z. Guller
Stephen F. Hanlon
Janie Ausburn Harmon
Amy Rehm Hinderer
H. William Hinderer
H. Martin Jayne
James H. Kelly
Mark A. Langworthy
Kathryn Joy Lanius
Louis N. Lee III
Shana Jerene Long
Teresa H. Martin
James Bryan Mason
Charles F. Miller
Gregory J. Minana
Ron E. Mitchell
Ronald A. Norwood
James C. Owen
Randall B. Palmer
Mark E. Parrish
Jeffrey O. Parshall
Walter Ray Phillips
R. David Ray
Johnny K. Richardson
Leonard L. Riskin
George Lane Roberts Jr.
R. J. Robertson Jr.
James A. Rodenberg
Erick John Roeder
Sherrill L. Rosen
Carl E. Schaeperkoetter
Paul J. Seele
Shannon A. Shy
Stephanie Sloggett-O’Dell
Antwaun Lewis Smith
Dennis W. Smith
Stephen L. Taylor
W.H. Thomas Jr.
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Janet M. Thompson
Michael J. Thompson
Alexander D. Tomaszczuk
J. Michael Vaughan
Welzie W. Webb
James E. Westbrook
Paul L. Wickens
Joe F. Willerth
Raymond Earl Williams
Rachel Ann Wilson
Brian Daniel Winget
Damon D. Zimmer
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2007–2008
2008 Class Fund Drive
During the May commencement ceremony, Dean Larry Dessem
announced the total amount raised by the graduating law students
during the 2008 Class Fund Drive — $9,945.
In keeping with tradition, the members of the Class Fund
Steering Committee asked each of their classmates to make a gift
or pledge to the School of Law. Classmates could choose any area
of support, with gift designations including scholarships, faculty
research and student organizations.
Since 1989, third-year students have raised more than $166,000
during their last semester of law school to support a variety of
initiatives at the School of Law.
The following members of the Class of 2008 have made gifts
or pledges to the campaign. Names with asterisks indicate those
who served on the 2008 Class Fund Steering Committee, led by
James S. “Jay” Atkins and Kaitlin A. Bridges.
Taavi Annus
*James S. “Jay” Atkins
*Sundance B. Banks
Michael A. Bridges
*Kaitlin A. Bridges
Chase L. Bunger
Jessica L. Conlon
Brock H. Cooper
*Elizabeth C. Ellison
*Laura E. Elsbury
Stephanie L. Engelhardt
*Nichole E. Frankenberg
Amy L. Gleghorn
*Alexandra M. Goblet
*John H.A. Griesedieck
McGregor K. Johnson
*John H. Kilper
Zachariah A. Maggi
Michael G. Merkle
Kevin M. Muesenfechter
Mark A. Mulchek
*Nikki A. Mullins
*Jennae M. Neustadt
Daniel J. Nolan
*Kate E. Noland
Michael G. Page
R. Scott Pecher
Vernan L. Pierce
Tyler C. Schaeffer
Rachel L. Schrautemeier
Michael D. Schwade
Carla A. Schwendemann
Michael S. Smith
*Alison K. Spinden
*Lauren A. Standlee
Tyler Strodtman
Megan R. Stumph
Jennifer K. Turner
*Ryan C. Westhoff
Brian D. Winget
*Richard D. Worth
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HONOR ROLL CONTRIBUTORS
Faculty and Staff
Friends
Robert G. Bailey
Casey D. Baker
Mary M. Beck
Michelle Arnopol Cecil
Laura J. Coleman
Melody Richardson Daily
Peter N. Davis
Kenneth D. Dean
Larry Dessem
James R. Devine
Randy J. Diamond
Stephen D. Easton
Carl H. Esbeck
William B. Fisch
Andrea Mazza Follett
R. Wilson Freyermuth
Janie Ausburn Harmon
Edward H. Hunvald Jr.
Needra L. Jackson
Darrell Jaeger
Kandice K. Johnson
Thomas A. Lambert
Steven W. Lambson
John M. Lande
Mark A. Langworthy
James H. Levin
Paul J. Litton
Elaine D. Litwiller
Henry T. Lowe
Amy Monahan
Grant S. Nelson
Robin K. Nichols
Philip G. Peters Jr.
Walter Ray Phillips
Cheryl R. Poelling
Richard C. Reuben
Leonard L. Riskin
Alisha Rychnovsky
Gregory J. Scott
Kathy Smith
Judith Tayloe
James E. Westbrook.
Dale A. Whitman
Eugene & Lilliece Albes
Carl M. Bender II
John T. Boese
Stephen R. Bough
John G. Boyle
Daniel R. Brown
Elna M. Brown
Gregory Cecil
Marilyn Clark
LuAnn Conway
Robert R. Conway
William H. Crandall Jr.
Charles L. & Kimberly R. Crist
Robert E. Defield
Albert & Alice Delmez
Beth Dessem
Mr. & Mrs. Charles
W. Digges Sr.
Marilyn Dymer
Patricia M. Epple
David E. Everson
Hubert Arnold & Sue Eversull
Beverly L. Faber
Carol Ann Fichtelman
Laurence M. Frazen
William and Sarah Frederick
Mr. & Mrs. Jerry L. French
Max Goolsby
Steven L. Groves
Elbert Haenssler
Earlyn F. Hart
William E. Harvey
Susan F. Heinsz
Pat Holtmeier
Craig & Joann Hosmer
John L. Hulston
James D. Humphrey
Robert H. Jerry II
Mr. & Mrs. Kary L. Kabler
Mary M. Kempf
Linda J. Keown
Mark A. Kille
Christopher Leach
Linda S. Legg
M. Jeanne Lewis
Roberta J. Light
Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr.
Judy Sappington Lynch
Don & Gloria McCubbin
Nicki Moore
Kathleen M. Neu
Geoffrey A. Oelsner Jr.
Michael & Cynthia O’Toole
Henry W. Pilgram
Mary Lou Porter
Albert M. Price
Robert Pushaw
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2007–2008
Robert W. Reid
Jim & Carol Reynolds
Estate of Dorothy Anne Roberts
Robert A. Ryan Jr.
Helen & John Shackelford
Katherine A. Sharp
Carl & Helene Sherman
Russell G. Smith II
Stacy E. Smith
William A. Stauffer
Hugh E. Stephenson Jr.
Joseph G. Stewart
Joseph B. Stulberg
Tommy W. Taylor
Heidi Crist Templeton
Mary Beth Tripp
Deborah Vesco
Carl & Judy Ward
William R. Welborn
Ruth R. Welliver
William & Geneva Williams
Family Trust
John Wright
Mark C. Young
Damon D. Zimmer
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HONOR ROLL CONTRIBUTORS
Organization Contributors
Altria Group, Inc.
American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers
AT&T Foundation
Black Law Students Association
Blanchard, Robertson, Mitchell & Carter
Chaney & McCurry LLP
Cook, Vetter, Doerhoff & Landwehr
Davis, Ketchmark & McCreight, PC
FEW/JAW Foundation
Fogel & Bronnenkant
General Federation of Women’s Clubs of Missouri, Inc.
Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
Greater St. Louis Community Foundation
Holtsclaw & Kendall, LC
Hulston Family Foundation
Husch Blackwell Sanders, LLP
Innovative Managemnt and Investments
Jenner & Block, LLP
John Sublett Logan Foundation
Kirksey Law Firm, LLC
Lorman Education Services
Meyerkord, Rineberg & Graham, LLC
Meyers Law Firm, LC
Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys
Missouri Chapter American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers
Missouri Citizen Government
Palmer Oliver, PC
Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus
Quintiles
Randy W. James & Associates, PC
Senniger Powers
Shelter Insurance Companies,
Benefits Management
Shook Hardy & Bacon
Shughart Thomson & Kilroy
Sonnenschein Scholars Foundation
St. Charles County Chapter,
Mizzou Alumni Association
Stinson Morrison Hecker
The Healy Law Firm, LLC
The Stanley Law Firm
Thompson Coburn
Thomson West
U.S. Charitable Gift Trust
Van Matre, Harrison, & Volkert, PC
Wahl Clipperson Corporation
Williams Family Revocable Trust
Women’s Law Association
law.missouri.edu
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2007–2008
Matching Organizations
Altria Group, Inc.
Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.
Anheuser-Busch Foundation
AT&T Foundation
Freddie Mac Foundation
IBM Corp.
KPMG Foundation
KSM Business Services, Inc.
Merril Lynch
Monsanto Fund
Nationwide Insurance Foundation
Pricewaterhouse Coopers Foundation
Shelter Insurance Companies Foundation
Shook Hardy & Bacon
Shughart Thomson & Kilroy
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News
L L M
P R O G R A M
F A C U LT Y N O T E
Three Pairs of Alumnae
Have Unique Bond
in the LLM in Dispute Resolution degree program is that
the classes are small, creating a close
community among the faculty and
students. This bond enables the students to network and collaborate long
after they have left Hulston Hall.
Three pair of LLM alumnae have taken
that bonding experience beyond the
usual e-mail listserv discussions and dinners at annual conferences to work
together in the dispute resolution field.
A point of pride
Rigel C. Oliveri published an article, “Is
Acquisition Everything? Protecting the Rights
of Occupants Under the Fair Housing Act”
in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law
Review. In the article, she argues that recent
court decisions which construe a key portion
of the Fair Housing Act as applying only to
the acquisition of housing and not to the
retention or enjoyment of that housing have
undermined both the spirit and the letter of
an important civil rights statute.
In February, a portion of an article that
Oliveri previously published in the Yale
Journal of Law and Feminism, “Crossing the
Line: The Political and Moral Debate Over
Late-Term Abortion,” was reprinted in The
Reproductive Rights Reader. The Reader is
intended for use in undergraduate and graduate study and is published by NYU Press.
Alkon
Young
Their shared experience gives
short-hand understanding
Cynthia J. Alkon, LLM ’02, and
Paula M. Young, ’03, were classmates
in the LLM Program. After graduation,
Alkon moved to Poland, where she was the
head of the Rule of Law Unit of the Organization for Security and Co-operation
in Europe Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. Young moved to
Virginia to join the faculty of the Appalachian School of Law (ASL), the only law
school in the United States founded with
a focus on alternative dispute resolution.
In August 2006, their paths crossed
again when Alkon joined the ASL faculty as a professor to support its Lawyer
as Problem Solver certificate program.
“We have found that her criminal law
background and my civil litigation background provide curriculum niches that
appeal to a broad cross-section of our
students,” Young says. “Last year, 20 percent of the graduating class earned the
Lawyer as Problem Solver certificate .
Also, I tend to focus on training students
interested in becoming neutrals, while
she provides lawyer practice skills.”
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Malley and Braeutigam
An ease as co-trainers that is
rare and enjoyable
“Because we attended the LLM
program at the same time and took
many of the same classes, that experience frames our conversations,” Young
explains. “That shared experience often
gives us a short-hand understanding of
the issues or topics we are discussing.”
Andrea Braeutigam, LLM ’05, and
Lynn Dillard Malley, ’84, LLM ’03,
work together at the Institute for Dispute
Resolution (IDR) at Oklahoma State University. The institute provides mediation
in agricultural cases in Oklahoma and is
the state-certified program for agricultural
mediation. Current IDR projects concentrate on special education and include
a pilot program providing facilitation for
special education resolution sessions as well
as four three-day basic mediation trainings for special education personnel.
Braeutigam and Malley, who never met
each other during their respective times in
the LLM program, met only because of the
program’s efforts to connect LLM alumni.
“What ties us together is the common
grounding in alternative dispute resolution practice and principles that we took
from the program,” says Braeutigam.
“It gives us an ease as co-trainers that is
rare and very enjoyable.” They encourage continued networking within and
across the cohorts and thank John Lande,
director of the LLM program, for introducing them when they were presenting
papers at the same conference in 2006.
Two recent graduates met while in the
LLM program as classmates. Stephanie Sloggett-O’Dell, LLM ’07, and
Martha Halvordson, LLM ’08, have
joined forces at Civil Alternatives Inc., a
full-service alternative dispute resolution
firm offering mediation, arbitration and
facilitation services with offices in Kansas City and Los Angeles. Halvordson,
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Sloggett-O’dell
Halvordson
Achieving synergy together
ence as an attorney and dispute resolution
professional, co-founded Civil Alternatives in 2007 and focuses her practice
on labor and employment disputes and
complex commercial cases. SloggettO’Dell, who has more than 30 years of
experience in labor relations, representing both unions and management in the
health care and transportation industries,
joined the group in the spring of 2008.
“When I received Martha’s announcement about Civil Alternatives I called
her,” Sloggett-O’Dell recalls. “We started
discussing the synergies that we could
achieve together and decided to pool our
efforts and expertise. It’s been great!”
“We hope that these are just the first
of many collaborations among LLM students and alumni,” says John Lande, professor and director of the LLM Program.
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Alumni Sworn-In at Highest Court
On March 17,
a group of 10 alumni and
their guests gathered at The Hay-Adams
in Washington, D.C., to begin one of
the most memorable trips of their lifetimes. These alumni came from across
Missouri to be sworn in at the Supreme
Court of the United States. Dean Dessem moved the admission of the group
in front of a full spectators gallery — and
a bench of 9 very important justices.
The swearing-in was the highlight of a trip which included meals at
some of Washington’s power restaurants
and a tour of the U.S. Capitol that was
organized by the office of Congressman J. Russell Carnahan, ’84.
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The distinguished group included the
following:
David V. Brydon, ’63, with guest Sara
Lou Brydon
Amy Rehm Hinderer, ’76
H. William “Bill” Hinderer, ’76
Roger T. Hurwitz, ’51, with guest John
Hurwitz
Aaron D. Jones, ’98
Paul E. Kovacs, ’69, with guest Susan
Kovacs
Steven T. Kuenzel, ’76, with guests Susan
Kuenzel and Steven Kuenzel Jr.
Robert C. Smith, ’49, who was previously
admitted to the court
Craig A. Van Matre, ’70, with guests
Laura Van Matre, Ed Ailor and Susan
Ailor
Harold A. “Skip” Walther, ’79, with
guest Kathy Walther
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Symposium Explores State and
Federal Power to Regulate
International Relations
Judith Resnik Delivers Keynote on the Internationalism of
American Federalism
Missouri Law Review
hosted its annual symposium at the School
of Law, which brought preeminent
constitutional and international law scholars
from around the country to address the
theme, “Return to Missouri v. Holland:
Federalism and International Law.”
In the 1920 case Missouri v. Holland,
the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a
Missouri hunting law as preempted by a
federal migratory bird statute. The Court
held that the Tenth Amendment did not
apply because the statute in question was
passed to implement the obligations of the
United States under a treaty. In holding
that the federal government could regulate
through exercise of the treaty power
activity that otherwise would be reserved
to the states, Chief Justice Oliver Wendell
Holmes famously intoned, “We must
consider what this country has become in
considering what [the Tenth] Amendment
has reserved.”
The case was decided during the era
prior to the Court’s adoption of a more
expansive view of Congress’ ability to
regulate through the interstate commerce
clause of the Constitution. During the
era when broad federal regulation was
consistently upheld on the basis of the
commerce clause, the import of Missouri
v. Holland receded. In recent years, the
Court has placed limits on the scope of the
commerce clause. At the same time, issues
that in the United States have traditionally
been viewed as within the police powers of
the states — for example, the death penalty,
environmental emissions and access to
medical care — have become the subject
of multilateral treaty regimes. The ability
In February, the
The 2008
Earl F. Nelson Lecture
The Internationalism of
American Federalism
presented by
Judith Resnik
Arthur Liman Professor of
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of the federal government to invoke the
treaty power in regulating the states has
once again become central to discussions
of federalism and the application of
international law in the United States.
The scholars participating in the
symposium panels approached the topic
from three perspectives: the scope of the
treaty power and the power of Congress
to legislate pursuant to treaty; the role of
U.S. states as international law makers; and
lawmaking and governance across multiple
legal systems. The lively exchange of
ideas, which can be watched in its entirety
on School of Law’s Web site at www.
law.missouri.edu/faculty/symposium/
symposium08/webcast, included discussion
of whether increased global regulation has
altered the relationship between the states
and the federal government in such a way
as to require a fundamental reconsideration
of Missouri v. Holland, and whether the
doctrine of dual sovereignty inherent in
our federalism provides any limitations
on the federal government’s foreign
affairs powers. Participants addressed how
states currently participate — directly
and through organizations such as the
National Conference of Commissioners on
Uniform State Laws — in the international
law-making system of dual sovereignty,
and what are the limitations on state
participation in international law-making.
“It’s kind of magic that in the now,
the snowy winter, we’re all here more or
less uneventfully and very glad to be so,”
Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor
of Law at Yale Law School, told a group
of more than 100 scholars, law students,
practitioners and judicial guests, including
Hollis
Ku
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“We must consider what this country has
become in considering what [the Tenth]
Amendment has reserved.”
Judge Mary L. Russell Rhodes, ’83,
and Judge Patricia A. Breckenridge,
’78, of the Supreme Court of Missouri
and Judge Duane Benton of the U.S.
Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit. In the
keynote Earl F. Nelson Lecture, “The
Internationalism of American Federalism,”
Resnik recounted that the State of Missouri
argued in Missouri v. Holland that “‘The
federal government is disabled, has no
constitutional power to touch migratory
birds.’ So they [the Missouri Attorney
General and the plaintiffs] go to the
court to say, ‘stop the feds.’” In today’s
environment, Resnik noted, the roles are
reversed, as local and state governments
are moving, for example, to divest and end
contracts with businesses that work with
groups or governments linked to genocide
in Darfur and Burma. “What we are
watching today is mostly manufacturers,
groups of manufacturers, going to the court
to say, ‘stop the locals.’” It is no longer the
federal states contesting national treaty
powers, Resnik explained, rather it is
private interests suing to prevent states from
making decisions based on international
considerations.
Resnik is a teacher and scholar of
federalism, adjudication, procedure,
citizenship, equality and subordination.
A well known figure in the federal and
state judiciaries, she is considered one of
the leading scholars of federal courts and
adjudication in the United States and has
been elected to the American Academy of
Arts and Science. Her commentary will
be published, along with the other papers
presented at the symposium, in the fall
2008 issue of the Missouri Law Review.
School of Law Professor Peggy
McGuinness, who convened the
symposium and provided commentary to
the final panel of the day, noted that the
scholars in attendance represented a range
of ideological and doctrinal perspectives
on the topic. “This subject creates strange
bedfellows — politically and ideologically.
We typically associate states’ rights with
conservative politics, and support for
national regulation with liberal politics.
But the local and state governments are
increasingly operating to fill the vacuum
when the national government fails to act
in an area of transnational regulation. The
New York-California agreement to meet
international greenhouse gas standards is a
great example.”
Local practitioner William J. Powell,
’81, attended the entire proceedings,
and observed that the symposium was “a
nice mix of academic, purely intellectual,
and real-world analysis of federalism,
sovereignty, and separation of powers
issues.” He added that, among the
presenters he detected “strong motivations
not just to study and describe international
law, but to help it develop.”
THE PRESENTERS
Panel: The Scope of the Treaty
Power and Congressional Power to
Legislate Pursuant to Treaty
Carlos Manuel Vasquez, Georgetown
University Law Center
Edward T. Swaine, The George
Washington Law School
Michael D. Ramsey, University of San
Diego School of Law
Commentators
David Golove, New York University
School of Law
Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz, Georgetown
University Law Center
Panel: States as International
Law Makers
Paul B. Stephan, University of Virginia
School of Law
Duncan B. Hollis, Temple University
Beasley School of Law
Julian Ku, Hofstra University School of
Law
Commentators
Janet Koven Levit, University of Tulsa
College of Law
David P. Stewart, U.S. State Department,
Office of the Legal Advisor
Panel: International Law and
Inter-Systemic Governance
Robert B. Ahdieh, Emory University
School of Law and Princeton University
Program in Law and Public Affairs
Paul Schiff Berman, University of
Connecticut School of Law
Ilya Somin, George Mason University
School of Law
Commentators
Margaret E. McGuinness, MU School of
Law
Peter J. Spiro, Temple University Beasley
School of Law
The Presenters
McGuinness
Ramsey
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1960s
John Fox Arnold, ’61, was appointed by
Gov. Matt Blunt as chairman of the St.
Louis County Board of Election Commissioners for a term ending on Jan. 10,
2009. Arnold was chairman of the St. Louis
Board of Election Commissioners from
1981–1985. He is chairman of Lashly &
Baer in St. Louis.
William L. Davis, ’65, was awarded the 2008
Ben Ely Jr. Outstanding Defense Lawyer Award by the Missouri Organization
of Defense Lawyers (MODL). This award
is given to a member of MODL who demonstrates the high moral, ethical and professional standards exemplified by Ben Ely
Jr. It is also given to recognize the achievement of and contribution to the goals of
both the legal profession and MODL. Davis
is of counsel at Moser and Marsalek in St.
Louis. He specializes in defending health
care providers and institutions.
Harvey L. Kaplan,
’68, has been
selected as Product Liability Lawyer of the Year by
the Who’s Who
Legal Awards. He
chairs the Pharmaceutical and MedHarvey L. Kaplan, ’68
ical Device Litigation Division at
Shook Hardy & Bacon in Kansas City, Mo.
He concentrates his practice in defending
pharmaceutical and medical device companies in product liability litigation.
1970s
Paul L. Wickens, ’71, has been elected by his
peers to the 2007 and 2008 editions of Best
Lawyers in America. He has also been recognized as a Super Lawyer in Missouri and
Kansas and as one of the Best of the Bar in
the Kansas City Business Journal. He concentrates his practice in civil and commercial
litigation with the firm of Foland, Wickens, Eisfelder, Roper & Hofer in Kansas
City, Mo.
Elizabeth K. “Betty” Wilson, ’74, was rec-
ognized for her unique path to the legal
profession in “Columbia’s Finest Female
Attorneys Take Unusual Journeys to Juris
Doctorate,” in the June 13, 2008, issue of
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the Columbia Business Times. Wilson worked
in social work for 14 years before entering law school. When she began law school,
fewer than 10 percent of law students in the
nation were women, and when she graduated in 1974, there were only two women in
private practice in Columbia. She was hired
by Warren D. Welliver, ’48, at what would
eventually become Oliver Walker Wilson,
where she still practices. Wilson concentrates
her practice in the areas of domestic relations
and family law, as well as providing mediation services.
Rebecca McDowell Cook, ’75, was honored
at the second annual Spirit of Martha Award
Banquet by the MU Griffiths Leadership
Society for Women. The award is presented
annually to someone who has distinguished
herself in her chosen field and has shown
leadership, particularly regarding women’s
issues. Cook practices with Cook and Fort in
Cape Girardeau, Mo.
of mediation, business organizations and
transactions, business and commercial law,
creditors rights, bankruptcy, banking law,
insurance coverage and real estate law.
Mark A. Shank, ’79, was elected chair of
the Texas Bar Foundation Board of Trustees. The foundation is a charitably-funded
bar that assists the public and improves
the profession of law. Shank has also been
elected as a fellow of the College of Labor
and Employment Lawyers, which recognizes those who have distinguished themselves by long and outstanding service as
leaders in the field of labor and employment. Shank is a partner at K & L Gates’
Dallas office. His areas of emphasis are
labor and employment litigation, commercial and business litigation, investigations
and arbitrations.
1980s
Michael K. Whitehead, ’75, was appointed to
the Jackson County Board Election Commissioners by Gov. Matt Blunt. Whitehead
practices at the Whitehead Law Firm in
Kansas City, Mo.
Mary E. Nelson,
’81, has joined the
Roger M. Baron, ’76,
was the 2008 recipient of the University of South Dakota
School of Law’s
John Wesley Jackson
Outstanding Faculty
Award. Recipients
are selected based
Roger M. Baron, ’76
on excellence in
teaching, efforts to
improve legal education, research and writing, public service which contributes to the
legal community, and contributions to the
law school’s academic environment. Baron
also received the Jackson award in 1995. He
teaches courses at USD in civil procedure,
family law and insurance.
Terrence T. Schoeninger, ’76, is chairman and
chief executive of Safety National Casualty
Corporation in St. Louis. Safety National is
an excess workers’ compensation insurer.
James M. Paul, ’78, is a shareholder at Ogle-
tree Deakins in St. Louis. He concentrates
his practice in the areas of labor and employment and litigation.
Duane E. Schreimann, ’78, has been
appointed by Gov. Matt Blunt to the Coordinating Board for Higher Education. Schreimann is a partner with Schreimann, Rackers, Francka and Blunt in Jefferson City,
Mo. He concentrates his practice in the areas
Mary E. Nelson, ’81
Corporate Practice
Group of Greensfelder, Hemker &
Gale in St. Louis
as an officer of
the firm. She was
previously general counsel at The
Kwame Building
Group in St. Louis.
Heather S. Heidelbaugh, ’84, was chosen as
one of the top lawyers in Pennsylvania for
2008 by Pennsylvania Super Lawyers magazine. Heidelbaugh practices at Babst, Calland, Clements and Zomnir in Pittsburgh.
Charles M. Key, ’84, has joined Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs in the firm’s Memphis,
Tenn., office. He concentrates his practice
in general health law, including regulation
of provider conduct, Medicare reimbursement, antitrust, insurance, privacy health
information, medical peer review, managed
care and licensing.
Thomas P. Hohenstein, ’85, is a member of
Gallop, Johnson & Neuman’s Green Business Practice in St. Louis. The Green Business Practice addresses environmental sustainability issues and related business,
governmental, regulatory and judicial matters for clients.
Lorri Kline, ’89, LLM ’01, is a name partner
at Clay, Kline & Faurot in Columbia.
Anna K. Lingo, ’89, was recognized for
her unique path to the legal profession in
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“Columbia’s Finest Female Attorneys Take
Unusual Journeys to Juris Doctorate,”
in the June 13, 2008, issue of the Columbia Business Times. After earning an art
degree at Stephens College, Lingo took a
year off and worked. Although she had not
planned on going to law school, she did so
and graduated in 1989. She has worked in
private practice since she received her law
degree. She practices family law, including mediation, at the Law Offices of Anna
Lingo in Columbia.
Michael K. Mullen, ’89, has been appointed
to the Office of Circuit Judge of the 22nd
Judicial Circuit by Gov. Matt Blunt. Mullen was formerly an associate circuit judge
for the 22nd Judicial Circuit Court.
1990s
James R. Tweedy, ’90, was appointed to the
Missouri Ethics Commission by Gov. Matt
Blunt. Tweedy practices with the Tweedy
Law Office in Bloomfield, Mo.
Donald L. O’Keefe, ’91, received the top
defense verdict for 2007 as compiled by
Missouri Lawyers Weekly in their yearly
“Top Verdicts & Settlements” edition. The
verdict involved a plaintiff who suffered a
traumatic brain injury and sought $18 million in damages at trial following a severe
motor vehicle collision with a refuse truck.
Steven T. Knuppel, ’91, has returned to the
San Francisco Bay Area after having spent
approximately two years in Buenos Aires,
Argentina.
Carolyn Benton Aiman, ’92 , was recognized
for her efforts at increasing the diversity of
law firms used by Shell Oil Company in
“Corporate Efforts to Enhance the Business Case for Diversity” which appeared in
the March/April 2008 issue of Diversity &
The Bar. Aiman is senior counsel for Shell
in Houston.
Mary E. Carnahan, ’92, was recognized
for her unique path to the legal profession
in “Columbia’s Finest Female Attorneys
Take Unusual Journeys to Juris Doctorate,” in the June 13 issue of the Columbia Business Times. After being told by her
father in 1964 that “[g]irls aren’t lawyers,”
Carnahan earned a two-year degree and
became a secretary. In 1989, Carnahan
finally attended law school while her husband agreed to “hold the home together.”
She graduated in 1992, and currently practices with Brown, Willbrand, Simon, Powell & Lewis in Columbia. She concentrates
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her practice in the areas family law, estate
planning and real estate law.
Grant T. Williams, ’92 , has a solo practice
at P.O. Box 257, Eureka, MO 63025. He
focuses on civil litigation.
Art Hinshaw, ’93, LLM ’00, has been awarded
tenure at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University in
Tempe, Ariz, and was promoted to clinical professor of law. Hinshaw is the director of the Lodestar Dispute Resolution Program and has been the acting director of
the Clinical Program at ASU.
intellectual property and technology litigation, and transportation law. He will continue representing plaintiffs in contingent
fee litigation.
Steven C. Fenner, ’96, has returned from
a 10-month deployment with the Navy
Reserve in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. He
was a vehicle commander for Convoy
Security Team “Dozer” with Naval Mobile
Construction Battalion 15. He also completed more than 180 Security Escort Missions “Outside the Wire” in Iraq. He continues his law practice in Springfield, Mo.,
practicing criminal law and handling real
estate related matters.
Paul L. Vogel, ’93, is president and chief
executive officer of Argos Partners in Clayton, Mo. Argos Partners is a private multifamily office which serves its clients by
synchronizing their business, financial,
investment, tax and lifestyle management
needs.
Peri Collins, ’94, is a U.S. administrative
law judge in Dallas. She hears cases
appealed from adverse decisions of the
Social Security Administration. She was
formerly a staff attorney for the Social
Security Administration, the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Missouri
Department of Social Services.
Marsha Fischer, ’96, was recognized for
her unique path to the legal profession in
“Columbia’s Finest Female Attorneys Take
Unusual Journeys to Juris Doctorate,” in
the June 13, 2008, issue of the Columbia
Business Times. Throughout college, Fischer
debated whether to become an attorney or
an elementary school teacher. After graduating from law school in 1996, she clerked
for a federal judge, then joined what is
now Walther Antel Stamper & Fischer in
Columbia, where she is currently the firm’s
only female partner. She concentrates her
practice in the areas of sexual harassment,
Family Medical Leave Act, employment
discrimination and personal injury.
Michael K. Hamra, ’94, has been pro-
moted to president and chief operations
officer of Hamra Enterprises and continues as president of Hamra Enterprises’ Panera Bread holdings. Hamra Enterprises has
holdings in Wendy’s of Missouri, Boston
Bread, Chicago Bread, SJH Hotels and Jade
Properties.
Thomas G. Glick,
’95, was elected
vice president of
the Bar Association
of Metropolitan
St. Louis and vice
president of Legal
Services of Eastern
Missouri (LSEM)
Thomas G. Glick, ’95
for the 2008–2009
term. He also participates in LSEM’s St. Louis Volunteer
Lawyer Program, which provides legal aid
to elderly and low-income residents of eastern Missouri. In 2002, Glick received the
Volunteer Lawyer Award. He is a principal
at Danna McKitrick in St. Louis.
Richard M. Paul III, ’95, has joined Stueve Siegel Hanson in Kansas City, Mo.
He concentrates his practice in the areas
of appellate practice, business litigation,
class actions, creditors rights & bankruptcy,
Michael B. Hunter,
’96, presented
“Suit’s Filed —
Current Trends
in Grade Crossing
Litigation,” at the
15th Annual Railroad Claims and
Liability Seminar
Michael B. Hunter, ’96 in July. Hunter is a
partner of William
Venker & Sanders in St. Louis. He concentrates his practice in the areas of highexposure personal injury and commercial
cases.
Terry M.
Jarrett, ’96, has
been appointed by
Gov. Matt Blunt
to a four-year term
to the Committee on 911 Service
Oversight. The
committee has a
Terry M. Jarrett, ’96
variety of responsibilities, including aiding in collecting and disseminating
information relating to use of a universal
emergency telephone number, reviewing
existing and proposed legislation, and pro-
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viding recommendations for model systems
considered in preparing a model 911 service plan. Jarrett was appointed to the Missouri Public Service Commission in 2007.
He serves as secretary to the Missouri Universal Service Board and is a member of
the National Association of Regulatory
Commissioners.
Columbia. The firm practices in the areas
of business and real estate, estate planning,
probate, family and juvenile law, immigration, personal injury and criminal/DWI
defense.
Maren E.H. Mellem, ’01, is an associate at
the Bassett Law Firm in Columbia.
Joseph H. Knittig, ’96, is chief executive officer of C3 Missions International, a
charity organization which assists orphans
around the world by providing homes
and education in partnership with local
churches. C3 is currently developing an
orphan village in Malawi which will provide 40 homes for 400 children, a medical clinic, a birthing center and a primary
school. Knittig is also a member of Seyferth
Blumenthal & Harris in Kansas City, Mo.
Jacqueline Hamra Mesa, ’98, was quoted
in “CFTC in Talks to Plug ‘London Loophole’” in the London Financial Times on June
10. Mesa is the director of the Office of
International Affairs of The Commodity
Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in
Washington, D.C.
Tyrone J. Flowers, ’98, was recognized for
his work with high-risk youths in “Flowers
Works to Cushion the Impact from HighRisk Youths” in the Kansas City Business
Journal. Flowers is the founder of Higher
M-Pact in Kansas City, Mo., an organization that provides mentors and extra curricular activities to troubled youths and
educates other organizations that are interested in helping high-risk youths.
The Northrips with Natalya’s daughter, Emily
Johnson, on their wedding day.
William F. “Bill” Northrip, ’02 , and Natalya “Natasha” Northrip, ’03, were married
on April 19, at St. Agnes Catholic Church
in Roeland Park, Kan. Several law school
graduates were in attendance, including
father of the groom Robert E. Northrip,
’68, and usher Blake J. Pryor, ’02. The
Northrips reside in Overland Park, Kan.,
and both practice at Shook, Hardy and
Bacon in Kansas City, Mo..
Brian D. Rogers, ’03, is an associate at Gal-
lop, Johnson & Neuman in St. Louis. He
concentrates his practice in the areas of
business services, commercial transactions,
mergers and acquisitions, securities and
communications law.
Edward S. Stevens, ’98, is the president and
chief operating officer of Pulse NeedleFree
Systems in Lenexa, Kan. He is also a diplomat of the American College of Healthcare Executives and serves on the boards of
TVAX Biomedical and Probiotic Holdings.
Ryan S. Fehling, ’99, is senior counsel of
operations at Solutia Inc. in St. Louis.
Kirk J. Morales, ’99, recently joined TRM
Corporation (doing business as Superior
Tile & Stone) as assistant general counsel.
TRM Corporation is a construction company located in the San Francisco Bay Area.
to a three-year term on the board of directors of the Clayton Chamber of Commerce. Schmitt is also co-chair for Leadership Clayton, a Chamber of Commerce
program dedicated to the training and
development of leaders. He is a member of
Danna McKitrick’s litigation team in St.
Louis. He concentrates his practice in commercial and general civil litigation, including bankruptcy, construction and real estate
law, and also provides general legal consultation for small to mid-size businesses.
Nathaniel A. Dulle, ’04, and Alexia L. Norris, ’06, were married on Nov. 17, 2007, in
2000s
Matthew B. Uhrig, ’00, announces the
opening of his practice, the Law Office of
Matt Uhrig, in Ashland, Mo.
Karla Klinger Diaz, ’01, is a principal
in Simon, Diaz & Ellis Law Offices in
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Kansas City, Mo. She is an associate at King
Hershey in Kansas City, Mo. He practices
at Wallace Saunders Austin Brown Enochs
in Overland Park, Kan.
Brett S. Meeker, ’04, and her husband,
Scott, announce the birth of their son,
Henry Scott, on Jan. 24, 2008. At the time
of his birth, he weighed 8 pounds, 6 ounces
and was 22 ¼ inches long. He joins a sister,
Megan, who is 2 years old.
Ryan G. Vacca, ’04, earned an LLM in trade
regulations/intellectual property at New
York University School of Law. He is a visiting professor at the University of Oregon School of Law for the 2008–2009 academic year and teaches trademarks, the
intellectual property survey and professional responsibility. Vacca’s article, “Viewing Virtual Property Ownership Through
the Lens in Innovation,” was published in
the Tennessee Law Review.
Helen L. Wade, ’04, was recognized for
her unique path to the legal profession in
“Columbia’s Finest Female Attorneys Take
Unusual Journeys to Juris Doctorate,” in
the June 13 issue of the Columbia Business Times. Before attending law school,
Wade earned a degree in psychology while
working full time. Although she initially
planned on getting a PhD in psychology,
she attended law school. After graduating
in 2004, she joined what is now Harper,
Evans, Wade & Netemeyer in Columbia.
She concentrates her practice on domestic cases, including paternity, divorce, child
support, custody and maintenance awards.
Nineveh Alkhas, ’05, has joined the labor &
employment law group at Neal, Gerber &
Eisenberg in Chicago. She previously practiced law at Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal in Kansas City, Mo.
Alexia L. Norris, ’06, and Nathaniel A.
Dulle, ’04, were married on Nov. 17, 2007,
in Kansas City, Mo. She is an associate
at King Hershey in Kansas City, Mo. He
practices at Wallace Saunders Austin Brown
Enochs in Overland Park, Kan.
Erik G. Holland,
’07, and his wife,
Trinity Maye Holland,
daughter of
Erik G. Holland, ’07
Karen, announce
the birth of their
daughter, Trinity Maye, on April
21. At the time
of her birth, she
weighed 4 pounds,
8 ounces.
Antwaun L. Smith, ’07, was the focus of an
article, “If These are the ‘Elite’, our Nation
Needs More of Them,” which appeared in
the Kansas City Business Journal. The article highlighted some of Smith’s accomplishments, including studying Chinese
in China, being awarded a Rhodes Schollaw.missouri.edu
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arship to study at Oxford University and
helping initiate and coordinate Gary Hart’s
2004 presidential candidacy. He has also
worked in China for E.J. MacKay & Co.,
and has received a number of fellowships.
Smith is an associate in Shook Hardy &
Bacon’s General Litigation Division in
Kansas City, Mo, and concentrates his
practice in the areas of insurance litigation
and complex commercial litigation.
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Art Hinshaw, ’93, LLM ’00, was awarded tenure at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of
Law at Arizona State University in Tempe,
Ariz., and was promoted to clinical professor of law. Hinshaw is the director of
the Lodestar Dispute Resolution Program
and has served as the acting director of the
Clinical Program at ASU.
Brian Jarrett, LLM ’01, presented a paper to
the Law and Society Annual Conference
in Montreal about integrating mediation
approaches. In April, he presented a workshop on the various uses of mediation at
the Pacific Sociological Association Annual
Conference. Jarrett is an assistant professor of sociology at Salisbury University in
Maryland.
Lorri Kline, ’89, LLM ’01, is a name partner
at Clay, Kline & Faurot in Columbia.
Paula M. Young, LLM ’03, has been awarded
tenure at the Appalachian School of Law
in Grundy, Va. Her article, “A Connecticut Mediator in a Kangaroo Court? Successfully Communicating the ‘Authorized Practice of Mediation’ Paradigm to
‘Unauthorized Practice of Law’ Disciplinary Bodies” in the South Texas Law Review.
Young is an associate professor at the Appalachian School of Law, where she teaches
negotiation, mediation, arbitration and dispute resolution system design.
Flavia Fragale Martins Pepino, LLM ’05, and
her husband, Rafael, announce the birth
of their daughter, Carolina, on July 11. She
joins a brother, Daniel.
Govinda Jayasinghe, LLM ’08, is an inter-
national case manager at the International
Centre for Dispute Resolution, a division
of the American Arbitration Association.
As You Were Back Then
When you graduated from the University of
Missouri School of Law, you joined an impressive
and accomplished group of alumni. We are your
alumni office and we are proud to keep you
informed and connected to the School of
Law. Please help us do that by visiting our Web
site: law.missouri.edu/alumni/update-form and
providing your most current contact information.
At the bottom of the Web form is a place where
you can enter notes for the alumni magazine,
Transcript, to let your classmates and
other alumni know what you’re up to.
Janie Harmon | Casey Baker | Cassandra Brooks | Mark Langworthy
School of Law
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boards of VISA USA and VISA International, representing First National’s
early contributions to developing the
credit card business. After retiring from
his executive position at First National,
he continued serving as a director and
as chairman emeritus, eventually retiring altogether in 2005. His civic interests included First Presbyterian Church
of Omaha, the Omaha Industrial Foundation, the Mental Health Association of
Nebraska, Clarkson Hospital, the Greater
Omaha Chamber of Commerce, the
Swanson Center for Nutrition, Children’s
Square U.S.A. and the Knights of AkSar-Ben. Giltner also trained bird dogs
and enjoyed hunting and fishing, as well
as tennis and golf.
Reprinted with permission from The Omaha
World-Herald.
Margery L. Morris, ’47, of Jefferson City,
Mo., died on June 19 at age 85. The only
woman in her class, Morris graduated
in 1947 and worked as a legal researcher
in Missouri State Legislative Research.
While there, she collaborated with legislators to compose education bills. In
1997 she became senior counselor with
The Missouri Bar. After her retirement
in the 1980s, she volunteered with the
Jefferson City Charter Commission,
the First United Presbyterian Church
of Jefferson City, Meals on Wheels
and St. Mary’s and Memorial Hospital
Auxiliaries.
F. Phillips Giltner Jr., ’50, of Pauma Valley, Cal., died on May 23 at age 83. A
native of Joplin, Mo., Giltner earned a
Purple Heart and a Bronze Start during World War II and served in a unit
that liberated the concentration camp
at Dachau. He earned finance and law
degrees from MU and worked at a law
firm in Kansas City, Mo. A third-generation banker, he joined City National
Bank, now part of UMB Financial in
Kansas City, in 1995, moving to Omaha’s First National in 1964. He rose to
president and chairman of the bank and
served on the board of its holding company, as well as serving as president of
Farmers State Bank of Avoca, Neb.,
now Heartland Community Bank. He
was also a director of the Omaha branch
of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and in 1986 was appointed to
an advisory committee to the governors
of the Federal Reserve System. Giltner served more than 30 years on the
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Henry C. Copeland, ’51, of Overland Park,
Kan., died on June 10 at age 81. He practiced law in Rock Port, Mo., for 54 years,
and served as an associate judge in Atchison County, Mo. He retired at age 70 and
became a senior judge, serving mostly
in Jackson County, Mo. Copeland also
sserved in the U.S. Navy in World War II.
Richard D. Jones, ’51, of Overland Park,
Kan., died on March 1 at age 81.
Wayne Franklin Ricketts, ’51, of Kansas
City, Mo., died April 30 at age 81. He
served in the Philippines during World
War II. He had a private practice in Kansas City, Mo., for many years.
William Y. Fricks, ’52, of Houston, Tex.,
died on March 12 at age 81.
Sidney H. Chaffin, ’59, of Caruthers-
ville, Mo., died June 22 at age 73. Before
entering law school, Chaffin was a second
lieutenant in the U.S. Army. After graduating from law school in 1959, he entered
private practice briefly. He then spent
42 years in public service, first as prosecuting attorney of Pemiscot County,
Mo., then as a judge. At his retirement in
2002, he was the longest serving active
judge in Missouri.
James R. Willard, ’60, of Kansas City,
Mo., died Aug. 26, 2007, at age 73. As
an undergraduate at MU, he co-founded
the Maneater student newspaper and was
its first business manager. He also cofounded and was president of the Residence Hall Association. After receiving
his undergraduate degree, he served as
a lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force from
1955 to 1957. After graduating from law
school in 1960, he joined Spencer Fane
Britt and Brown and became a partner in
1966. He retired from the firm in 2002.
Willard served on the first Missouri House
Reapportionment Commission in 1966,
the Jackson County Republican Committee from 1996 to 1970, and the Jackson
County Character Commission in 1970,
and was the chairman of the Kansas City
Election Board from 1989 to 1993.
Jerry C. Stillman, ’62, of Kennett, Mo.,
died Jan. 5 at age 68. He was an associate
circuit court judge in Dunklin County,
Mo., from 1980 to 1994, and practiced law
for approximately 20 years. He was interested in the American Civil War, was an
Elvis Presley fan and had an appreciation for beautiful cars. One such car was
a 1970 blue Pontiac GTO convertible he
purchased the year the car was released.
More than 30 years later, he was contacted regarding the car by singer/songwriter Sheryl Crow, daughter of Wendell W. Crow, ’59, who practiced law with
Stillman. Crow wanted to buy the car
and have it “tricked out” through TLC’s
“Overhauling” television show as a gift
to her then-boyfriend Lance Armstrong,
to celebrate his victory in the Tour de
France. Stillman agreed, and the episode
of the show aired on Nov. 30, 2004.
Bernard Edelman, ’70, of Sunset Hills,
Mo., died March 18 at age 63. He served
in the Army and Army reserves in the
1960s. After graduating from law school,
he worked as an assistant prosecuting attorney and as a public defender in
St. Louis County. In the mid-1970’s, he
entered private practice and worked as a
defense lawyer for 30 years. From 2000
until his death, he was in practice with his
son, Steven C. Edelman, ’00. Throughout
his career, he was a mentor to many criminal defense lawyers.
Curtis Crow, ’91, of Portage Des Sioux,
Mo., died on May 2 at age 47.
Friends
Frances Price Clayton, of Hannibal, Mo.,
died June 21, at age 64. She was the wife
of Robert M. Clayton, ’65.
Linda Lou (Rumfelt) Jones, of Springfield, Mo., died July 17, at age 62. She was
the wife of Donald W. Jones, ’64, and the
mother of Aaron D. Jones, ’98.
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Gary D. Forsee, President,
University of Missouri System
Randy J. Diamond, BA, JD, MLS,
Director of Library and Technology
Resources and Associate Professor
of Legal Research
Brady J. Deaton, BS, MA, PhD,
Chancellor, University of Missouri
Martha Dragich, BA, MA, JD,
James S. Rollins Professor of Law
Brian L. Foster, BA, AM, PhD,
Provost, University of Missouri
Stephen D. Easton, AA, BA, JD,
C.A. Leedy Professor of Law and
Curators Teaching Professor
R. Lawrence Dessem, BA, JD,
Dean and Professor of Law
James R. Devine, BA, JD,
Associate Dean for Academic
Affairs and David Ross Hardy
Professor of Law and Trial Practice
Thomas A. Lambert, BA,
JD, Associate Dean for Faculty
Research and Development and
Associate Professor of Law
Robert G. Bailey, BA, JD, Director
of the Center for the Study of
Dispute Resolution and Assistant
Dean
Tracy Z. Gonzalez, BS, JD,
Assistant Dean for Admissions,
Career Development and Student
Services Randy J. Diamond, BA, JD, MLS,
Director of Library and Technology
Resources and Associate Professor
of Legal Research
Janie Ausburn Harmon, BA,
Senior Director of Development
The Faculty
Douglas E. Abrams, BA, JD,
Associate Professor of Law
Robert G. Bailey, BA, JD, Director
of the Center for the Study of
Dispute Resolution and Assistant
Dean
Royce de R. Barondes, SB, SM,
JD, Associate Professor of Law
Mary M. Beck, BSN, MSN, JD,
Director of the Domestic Violence
Clinic and Clinical Professor of Law
Frank O. Bowman III, BA, JD,
Floyd R. Gibson Missouri Endowed
Professor of Law
Michelle Arnopol Cecil, BA,
JD, William H. Pittman Professor
of Law and Curators Teaching
Professor
Dennis D. Crouch, BSE, JD,
Associate Professor of Law
Melody Richardson Daily, BA,
MA, JD, Director of Legal Research
and Writing and Clinical Professor
of Law
Kenneth D. Dean, BA, MA,
JD, Deputy Provost, Director
of Professional Programs and
Associate Professor of Law
R. Lawrence Dessem, BA, JD,
Dean and Professor of Law
James R. Devine, BA, JD,
Associate Dean for Academic
Affairs and David Ross Hardy
Professor of Law and Trial Practice
Stacie I. Strong, BA, MPW, JD,
PhD, DPhil, Associate Professor
of Law
Rodney J. Uphoff, BA, MS,
JD, Elwood L. Thomas Missouri
Endowed Professor of Law and
Director of the University of
Missouri South Africa Educational
Program
The Adjunct Faculty
Alana M. Barragan-Scott, BA, JD,
Adjunct Associate Professor of Law
Hon. Duane Benton, BA, JD, MA,
LLM, CPA, Adjunct Professor of Law
Deborah Daniels, AB, BS, JD,
Adjunct Professor of Law
David M. English, BA, JD,
William Franklin Fratcher Missouri
Endowed Professor of Law
Christina E. Wells, BA, JD, Enoch
H. Crowder Professor of Law
Sandra Davidson, BA, MA, JD,
PhD, Professor of Journalism and
Adjunct Professor of Law
Carl H. Esbeck, BS, JD, Isabelle
Wade & Paul C. Lyda Professor of
Law and R.B. Price Professor of Law
The Emeritus Faculty
Deborah J. Doxsee, BSN, JD, MA,
PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor
of Law
Erika S. Fadel, BA, MDiv, JD,
Visiting Associate Professor of Legal
Research and Writing
R. Wilson Freyermuth, BS, JD,
John D. Lawson Professor of Law
Rafael Gely, BA, AM, JD, PhD,
James E. Campbell Missouri
Endowed Professor of Law
Philip J. Harter, AB, MA, JD, Earl
F. Nelson Professor of Law
Kandice Johnson, BS, JD, Director
of Clinical Programs, Director of
the Criminal Prosecution Clinic and
Clinical Professor of Law
Thomas A. Lambert, BA, JD,
Associate Dean for Faculty
Research and Development and
Associate Professor of Law
John Lande, AB, JD, MS, PhD,
Director of LLM in Dispute
Resolution and Isidor Loeb
Professor of Law
Ilhyung Lee, BA, MA, JD, Edward
W. Hinton Professor of Law
James Levin, BA, JD, Associate
Director of the Center for the Study
of Dispute Resolution and Adjunct
Professor of Law
Paul J. Litton, BA, JD, PhD,
Associate Professor of Law
Margaret E. McGuinness, BA, JD,
Associate Professor of Law
Michael A. Middleton, BA, JD,
Deputy Chancellor and Professor
of Law
S. David Mitchell, BA, MA, JD,
Associate Professor of Law
Amy B. Monahan, BA, JD,
Associate Professor of Law
Rigel C. Oliveri, BA, JD, Associate
Professor of Law
Philip G. Peters Jr., BA, JD, Ruth
L. Hulston Professor of Law
Richard C. Reuben, BA, BA,
JD, JSM, JSD, James Lewis Parks
Professor of Law
Jennifer Reynolds, BA, MA, JD,
Visiting Associate Professor of Law
Marc L. Roark, BA, JD, LLM,
Visiting Associate Professor of Law
Gregory Scott, BA, JD, Professor
of Legal Research and Writing
Pamela Smith, BS, MBA, JD,
Associate Professor of Law
Frederick Davis, AB, LLB, LLM,
Edward W. Hinton Professor
Emeritus of Law
Peter N. Davis, BA, LLB, SJD,
Isidor Loeb Professor Emeritus of
Law
William B. Fisch, AB, LLB, MCL,
Dr Jur, Isidor Loeb Professor
Emeritus of Law
David A. Fischer, BA, JD, James
Lewis Parks and Isidor Loeb
Professor Emeritus of Law
Patricia Brumfield Fry, JD,
MA, Edward W. Hinton Professor
Emerita of Law
William H. Henning, BA, JD, LLM,
R.B. Price Professor Emeritus of
Law
Edward H. Hunvald Jr., AB, JD,
Earl F. Nelson and John D. Lawson
Professor Emeritus of Law
Henry T. Lowe, AB, JD, C.A.
Leedy and Earl F. Nelson Professor
Emeritus of Law
Alfred S. Neely IV, AB, LLB,
Edward W. Hinton Professor
Emeritus of Law
Grant S. Nelson, BA, JD, Earl
F. Nelson and Enoch H. Crowder
Professor Emeritus of Law
Leonard L. Riskin, BS, JD,
LLM, C.A. Leedy and Isidor Loeb
Professor Emeritus of Law
James E. Westbrook, BA, JD,
LLM, Earl F. Nelson and James S.
Rollins Professor Emeritus of Law
Dale A. Whitman, BES, LLB, Dean
Emeritus and James E. Campbell
Missouri Endowed Professor
Emeritus of Law
Andrea Mazza Follett, BA, JD,
Lecturer in Law
Roger C. Geary, BS, JD, Adjunct
Associate Professor of Law
Bruce Harry, AB, MD, Adjunct
Associate Professor of Law
Missouri Solicitor General Jim
Layton, BS, JD, Adjunct Professor
of Law
Lori J. Levine, BS, JD, Adjunct
Associate Professor of Law
Amy L. McFarland, AB, JD,
Adjunct Associate Professor of Law
Jennifer McGarr, BA, MA, JD,
Adjunct Associate Professor of Law
Walter Ray Phillips, BA, JD, LLM,
Adjunct Professor of Law
Karrén Prasifka, BA, JD, LLM,
Adjunct Associate Professor of Law
Leslie A. Schneider, BA, JD,
Adjunct Associate Professor of Law
Ronald E. Smull, BA, JD, Adjunct
Professor of Law
Bill Thompson, BS, JD, Adjunct
Professor of Law
Jayne T. Woods, BS, JD, Adjunct
Associate Professor of Law
❋ October 15, 2008
❋ September 19, 2008
Annual Alumni Luncheon
in conjunction with
The Missouri Bar Annual Meeting
The Westin Crown Center
1 East Pershing Road, Kansas City, Mo.
12:30–2 p.m.
❋ September 20, 2008
Family Day at the School of Law
For law students and their families
John K. Hulston Hall
❋ September 24, 2008
Dean’s Tour Luncheon in
Jefferson City
Capital City Steakhouse
127 East High Street
12–1:30 p.m.
Dean’s Tour Luncheon in Joplin
Hosted by Daniel D. Whitworth, ’80
Sportsmans Park
1729 East 7th Street
12–1:30 p.m.
Dean’s Tour Reception in Branson
Hosted by Eric A. Farris, ’94, and the
Farris Law Group
1014 State Highway 248, Suite K
6–8 p.m.
❋ October 23, 2008
Dean’s Tour Breakfast in Sikeston
Susie’s Restaurant
112 East Center Street
8–9 a.m.
Dean’s Tour Reception in
Ste. Genevieve
Hosted by Eric C. “Ric” Harris, ’76
Crown Valley Winery
23589 State Route WW
5:30–7 p.m.
❋ November 12, 2008
Dean’s Tour Reception in St. Louis
Hosted by Bob Selsor, ’85, of the
Polsinelli firm
Home of Bob Selsor
39 Berkshire Drive, Richmond Heights
5:30–7 p.m.
❋ November 13, 2008
Reception in Chicago
Hosted by Jenner & Block LLP
Jenner & Block Conference Center
330 North Wabash Avenue
5:30–7 p.m.
❋ April 1, 2009
Annual Celebration of
The Law Society
Forest Park Visitor’s Center at the
Lindell Pavillion
5595 Grand Drive, St. Louis
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