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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
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William M. Corrigan Jr., ’85
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Richard G. Steele, ’68
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Five New Faces:
Branching Out:
Living Greatly
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Fine Legal
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The School of Law
Welcomes New Faculty
and Staff
Alumni Take
The Law Along
16 CLEO
18 Inn of Court
20 Faculty in the News
21 Fellowship Program
Recognizes Crahan
22 Developments
23 The Law Society
24 Office of Admissions
and Student Services
Honor Roll 2006-2007
25 Office of Career
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31 Class Contributors
36 Leadership Gifts
37 Organizations
LLM Program
38 Matching Organizations
27 South Africa Program
38 Faculty and Staff
28 Freyermuth Receives
Prestigious Kemper
Fellowship
Alumni
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39 Alumni Notes
30 Symposium Celebrates
Whitman’s Career
44 Alumni Memoriam
25 Center for the Study of
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MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN
I
t seems hard to believe that we already
are well into the fall semester as I
write this note to you, our alumni and
friends. Our students are working hard
in their classes, on our three legal journals,
in our clinics and in various extracurricular
activities.
The objective credentials of this year’s
entering class are the best that we have seen at
the Law School, with our 146 new first-year
students having achieved a median undergraduate grade point average of 3.56 and LSAT
scores that place them in the top 22 percent
of students in the nation. The Law School’s
reputation continues to grow. We were one of
only 20 law schools in the nation that this fall
experienced an increase of 10 percent or more
in applications for our JD program. Another
wonderful group of students have joined our
LLM program, coming to us from Missouri,
the nation and, increasingly, from around the
world to study in our internationally recognized alternative dispute program.
Our most recent graduates were quite successful on the July Missouri Bar Examination,
with 96.5 percent of MU graduates passing
the exam on their first attempt. For the last
four years, the first-time pass rates for our
graduates on the July exam have been: 88.3
percent (2004); 89.5 percent (2005); 91.2
percent (2006) and 96.5 percent (2007).
This fall we welcomed some wonderful new faculty and staff to the Law School.
Not only will you meet them in this issue
of Tr anscript, but you’ll also read about
two faculty members who have served their
students and the Law School for many years
—Professors Mary Beck and Phil Peters —
and learn how their careers touch not only law
students but the legal profession and the world
beyond Mizzou.
We also were thrilled that for the second
year in a row a Law School professor was one
of only five MU recipients of the William T.
Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence.
Professor Wilson Freyermuth was surprised in
the classroom this spring by Chancellor Brady
Deaton, who presented him with this award
in front of his students. Last year Professor
Steve Easton was a Kemper recipient, following Professors Michelle Cecil, Bob Pushaw,
Jim Westbrook, Nanette Laughrey and Bill
Henning as Law School recipients of this
prestigious award.
I thank all of you who have contributed
to the Law School’s For All We Call Mizzou
campaign, which has raised $15.9 of its $17
million goal. These private investments allow
us to provide the excellent education for
today’s students that alumni experienced when
they were at the Law School. Missouri ranks
47th in the nation in per capita spending on
higher education, spending only 1.2 percent
of its total state revenues on higher education.
As a result, today’s average student graduates
from the Law School with about $60,000
in law school debt, making private support
essential to all that we do.
This issue of Tr anscript spotlights
alumni who have used their legal educations
in nontraditional ways, but these lawyers
share with all our alumni a true commitment
to service. It therefore has been great to have
one of our alumni, Ron Baird, ’74, serve as
president of The Missouri Bar this past year
and to have another, Skip Walther, ’79,
elected as bar vice-president. Alumni also
should be proud that another Law School
graduate, Judge Patricia Breckenridge,
’78, recently was appointed to the Supreme
Court of Missouri.
We were privileged to have Congressman
Ike Skelton Jr., ’56, at the Law School just
a few days after he presided over the congressional hearings concerning Iraq in the
second week of September. Our students got
the rare opportunity not only to hear from
Congressman Skelton, but to ask him questions. The first student questioner introduced
himself by saying that he had served for six
years in the Air Force, including a tour of
duty in Iraq. In his response to our student,
Congressman Skelton said, “I thank you for
your service.”
Similarly, I thank each and every one of
you for your own service — to your clients, to
your communities, to the legal profession and
to the Law School. May such service always
remain a hallmark of Mizzou lawyers and
judges.
Very truly yours,
Faculty Feature
Mary M. Beck: Living Greatly in the Law
“Her work, and the work of her students, extends well
beyond the law school and has made the world a better
place for her clients and us all.” —Dean Dessem
M
ary M. Beck has been a presence at the School of Law
since 1993 as director of the
Family Violence Clinic. Her
passion for assisting victims of domestic violence started when she was a family nurse
practitioner, assigned to examining children
who had been abused or raped. After she
graduated from the School of Law in 1988,
the clinic directorship became available and
she applied — a good fit, she says, because
helping an abused child is like helping an
abused adult. Now Beck helps seek clemency for battered women, works to expedite
permanency for children while protecting
the parental rights of unwed fathers and the
safety of relinquishing mothers, and teaches
clinic students the application of the law.
Argument at the Supreme Court
Nearly a decade ago, Beck became interested in representing women who were convicted of killing their abusive husbands at a
time when evidence of domestic abuse was
not admitted at trial. Their sentences were
harsh. The legislature changed the laws for
battered women in the late 1980s — too
late for the women who were already convicted and serving lengthy prison sentences.
Through the Missouri Battered Women’s Coalition, a partnership between Project Hope, the Missouri Coalition Against
Domestic Violence and Missouri’s four law
schools, Beck obtained the applications of
women who had been so sentenced and
selected her first clients, including Lynda
Branch, who had been sentenced to life
in prison without the possibility of parole
in 1986. Branch says she suffered years of
abuse at the hands of her husband, including being beaten, burned, raped and shot at.
Beck, with then-students Amy J. Lorenz
Moser, ’00, and Amy L. (Patton) Young,
’00, filed a petition for clemency to Gov. Mel
Carnahan, ’59, asking that Branch’s sentence
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be commuted. But Carnahan died suddenly,
before reviewing the petition. His successor, Roger B. Wilson, took no action on
the petition. Missouri’s next governor, Bob
Holden, reviewed videotapes of interviews of
the women and subsequently granted clemency to Branch, as well as to Shirley Lute,
who was represented by the Washington
University School of Law. After a year and
a half, Branch had not been released. Beck
and then-students Jaime R. Hoog, ’07,
and Kelly L. King, ’07, filed an extraordinary writ, asking for her immediate release.
As the writ wound its way through
the judicial system, Beck guided her students through the process — through the
trial court, appellate court and finally the
Supreme Court of Missouri. Then-student
Richard L. Kroeger, ’07, volunteered to
join Beck in arguing to the Supreme Court,
the first law student ever to do so. The courtroom was overflowing with members of
the domestic violence community, students
and faculty of the School of Law. The court
ruled that the state parole board should conduct a new parole hearing on the release of
Branch and Lute, honoring Gov. Holden’s
intent. The women were promptly released.
Branch now works in a hotel as a desk clerk.
Beck, who had worked on Branch’s
release for nearly nine years, was thrilled at
the outcome and impressed by the students’
dedication and hard work. “I loved watching the students throw themselves into work
for those less fortunate,” she says. “They
worked tirelessly, sometimes staying up all
night or calling in over the summer break.”
Another satisfying outcome of Beck’s
work on this case is that she testified
before the Missouri Senate Judiciary Committee on a bill written by the coalition
that would provide relief for imprisoned
battered women. The law was passed
and Beck will use it to help other battered women seek release from prison.
Putative Father Registry
After Beck graduated from the School of
Law, physician friends called her for help
with adoptions involving unmarried young
women. She saw one main impediment
to completing such adoptions — resolving the rights of the birth father. This
prompted her thinking about putative
father registries to give earnest birth fathers
the opportunity to preserve the rights to
their child, while expediting stable placements for children in adoption and protecting the safety of relinquishing mothers.
Putative father registries allow unmarried fathers to claim paternity for an outof-wedlock child. In Missouri, fathers
have the length of pregnancy plus 15
days after the birth of their child to file
a readily available, pre-printed postcard assuring them of notice of adoption or dependency actions for a child.
Putative father registries are currently
housed only in state governments. They
exist in some 30 states and are proposed
in others, as well as at the federal level by
Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana. Beck was
instrumental in drafting bills for Virginia,
Louisiana, Kentucky, Texas and Missouri,
and is currently drafting bills with her students for North Dakota and Alaska. Widely
regarded as an expert on putative father registries, Beck wrote an article for the Harvard
Journal of Law and Public Policy and is finishing another for the law review at Capital University, which houses the National
Center for Adoption Law and Policy.
Family Violence Clinic
Beck juggles her work with battered women’s
clemency and putative father registries with
the School of Law’s Family Violence Clinic.
The clinic pursues civil and criminal work
on behalf of family violence victims in 24
Missouri counties. She supervises eight stu-
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FACULT Y NOTE
Rodney J. Uphoff presented “Inside the
Oklahoma City Bombing Case: The Real
Story Behind the Headlines” to federal public defenders. He was the keynote speaker
and panelist at the Teaching Effective Trial
Advocacy seminar at Ritsumeikan University
School of Law in Kyoto, Japan. While in
Japan, he also presented “Defense Activities
in the Death Penalty Case in the United
States” to the Japan Federation of Bar
Associations in Tokyo; and “Convicting the
Innocent: Aberration or Systemic Problem”
and “The Role of Lawyers and Legal Ethics
Education” to the Hitotsubashi University
School of Law in Tokyo.
Uphoff served as a speaker on
“Convicting the Innocent: Why It Isn’t Just
an Isolated Occurrence” at the Miscarriages
of Justice: Current Perspectives Academic
Conference.
dents per semester as well as a family violence fellow who is housed in the clinic.
Broadening the clinic’s impact, Beck
paired with the MU School of Journalism and School of Medicine to study
the justice system responses to domestic violence in every county in Missouri. Clinic students collected the data,
while medical students analyzed it and
ranked the counties based on their levels of response. Journalism students traveled to the counties with either excessively
good or poor response rates to domestic violence and turned these trips into
investigative television reports. The
results of the project, funded for three
years by the Missouri Department of
Public Safety’s STOP Violence Against
Women Act, was summarized in a recent
issue of the Journal of the Missouri Bar and
has been presented to Missouri judges
and members of law enforcement.
National Recognition
Beck’s work has not gone unnoticed. In
2007, she received the Law School Foundation’s Sustained Outstanding Achievement Award. In 2006, she was honored
with a Mizzou Alumni Association Faculty-Alumni Award, which was created
in 1968 to recognize the achievements
of faculty and alumni at the University.
Previous awards included the Tribute to
MU Women: MU Chancellor’s Committee of the Status of Women Award (2004),
Loyd E. Roberts Memorial Prize in the
Administration of Justice (1999), Gold
Chalk Award from the MU Graduate Professional Council (1996) and the Carey
Mae Carrol Achievement Award from the
Women’s Law Association for outstanding
commitment to women (1995 and 2007).
“Mary Beck not only teaches her students how to effectively advocate on
behalf of their clients, but her career
inspires us all to — in the words of Oliver Wendell Holmes — seek to ‘live
greatly in the law,’” Dean Larry Dessem says. “Her work, and the work of her
students, extends well beyond the law
school and has made the world a better place for her clients and us all.”
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diversity programs, at 573-882-0940
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Witness Testimony
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share his memory of law school.
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“I started law school in February 1957.
My class schedule was out of sync. This
resulted in my first contact with William
Pittman, ‘The Fox,’ being in the summer
session class of domestic relations. The
Fox and I had several discussions during
that class.
The following fall, I was enrolled in
contracts. The Fox entered the large classroom (we all stood in those days), and as
he passed me, standing at my aisle seat, we
exchanged eye contact. As he sat down at
the desk, he said, ‘Mr. Hines, tell us about
X vs. Y.’ He was looking down the aisle
directly at me, as I remained silent.
The other ‘Mr. Hines’ in the class rose
and began reciting. The Fox hadn’t realized that another Hines was in the large
class. I think I detected a look of amusement on The Fox’s face.
The Fox had been ‘foxed.’”
—Roger D. Hines, ’59
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Facult y Feature
Philip G. Peters Jr.: Fine Legal Scholarship
“Phil Peters writes on issues of great national importance and his
research has attracted wide attention within legal education, the legal
and medical professions, and — through the national media — in
society more generally.”—Dean Dessem
P
hilip G. Peters Jr. joined the faculty
at the School of Law in 1986 and is
now the Ruth L. Hulston Professor
of Law. Before arriving in Columbia, he had served as a trial attorney in the
Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and in private practice, specializing in medical malpractice and product
liability defense. Since coming to MU, he has
become a leading expert on wide range of
topics in health law, ranging from reproductive technology to medical malpractice. His
most recent research has synthesized three
decades of empirical studies casting light on
how well the civil justice system performs in
its resolution of medical malpractice claims.
That project has led to the recent publication
of two widely noted articles summarizing
what we know about the fairness (or not) of
both jury verdicts and negotiated settlements.
Malpractice Crises
Peters started teaching at Mizzou in 1986.
That was right in the middle of the second
of the three modern malpractice crises. The
first occurred in the mid-1970s and led to
the enactment of malpractice reform legislation in many states, including Missouri.
When he arrived at MU, the second medical
malpractice crisis was at its peak and a second round of Missouri malpractice reform
legislation was enacted. Aware of this history, he was not surprised when the cycle
repeated itself in 2001 and years immediately
thereafter. Once again, malpractice insurance premiums climbed sharply and doctors
complained loudly. In 2005, a third round
of reform legislation made its way through
the legislative chambers in Jefferson City.
With each successive crisis, Peters felt
that the spin of the lobbyists on both sides
of the debate had become less and less connected to facts. Instead, folklore and myths
were becoming an accepted substitute, taking on an air of credibility simply from years
of repetition. Frustrated by the absence of
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rigorous factual inquiry to prove or disprove
the claims being made about malpractice
litigation, Peters decided to do it himself.
up what he has learned about unwarranted
claims. For the moment, he is busy preparing for the first presentation of his jury data
to an audience of practicing medical doctors.
A Facts and Myths Lecture
As a long-time teacher of health law, Peters
knew that the system had flaws, but he also
knew that the some of the most important
shortcomings were not the ones receiving most attention from the press. At the
same time, many of the complaints routinely repeated by the media did not seem
to be substantiated by the facts. To help his
students sort this out, he created a facts and
myths lecture for his health law students.
Then Peters took the lecture across town
to the Boone County Bar Association, the
School of Journalism, and the School of
Medicine. Each audience had a different
reason to be interested. Each raised questions and made suggestions that improved
the presentation. And each reinforced his
sense that a definitive study of the empirical
data would justify the time needed to do it.
For the next two years, he read everything he could on the subject. He found
that doctors and social scientists had been
studying the disposition of medical malpractice cases since the very first malpractice
crisis in the 1970s. He read three decades
of medical and social science research. For
Peters, the task was like exciting detective
work. “I enjoy searching for the answers
to important policy questions,” he says.
He divides the data on medical malpractice adjudication into three subsets, each
reflecting an important stage in the litigation process — jury verdicts, the outcomes of
settlements and the incidence and outcome
of “frivolous” claims. Two of the three parts
have now been published. His conclusions
about the fairness of jury verdicts appeared in
the Michigan Law Review in May. His analysis of settlement fairness was published in
the Iowa Law Review and the journal Regulation this fall. Next summer, he will write
The Jury Has Reached a Verdict
The results of Peters’ research on malpractice jury verdicts surprised him. The studies
repeatedly find that juries side with doctors far more often than predicted. Patients
who sued their doctors won jury verdicts
in only half of the cases that researchers thought they should win, while physicians won nearly all of the cases that the
researchers thought they should win. Doctors also won two-thirds of the cases rated
as toss-ups. Overall, these findings reveal a
much more consistent bias in favor of defendants than Peters had expected to find.
He offers several possible explanations for the success that physicians have
in front of juries. Studies have shown
that members of the jury pool are skeptical of litigants who sue their physicians
and are determined not to be manipulated
by the plaintiffs’ lawyers they have heard
so much about. In addition, malpractice
defendants usually have both more financial resources to use in preparation for trial
and wider access to top expert witnesses.
Finally, jurors may simply take the burden of proof very seriously. When credible
experts testify for both sides, juries believe
they cannot award a plaintiff ’s verdict.
Doctors in the Legal System
“Doctors are deeply frightened by the prospect of being forced into the legal system,”
Peters says. Given the reassuring data on the
outcomes of the civil justice system, Peters
believes this fear and anger is disproportionate to the danger actually posed of unfair
outcomes. Simple unwillingness to accept
the fairness of the relatively rare plaintiff ’s
verdict seems unlikely to explain it all. As a
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Facult y Feature
FACULT Y NOTE
Philip G. Peters Jr.: Fine Legal Scholarship
John Lande published “Principles for
Policymaking about Collaborative Law
and Other ADR Processes,” in 22 Ohio State
Journal on Dispute Resolution619 (2007). He
also co-wrote (with Rachel Wohl) “Listening
to Experienced Users: Improving Quality
and Use of Commercial Mediation,” in 13
Dispute Resolution Magazine18 (Spring
2007). This article is based on his service
as the reporter for the American Bar
Association Section of Dispute Resolution
Task Force on Improving Mediation Quality.
At the annual conference of the ABA
Section of Dispute Resolution, he was on
three panels — A Cry for Help by Mediation
Program Administrators: Grappling with
Problems When Developing Quality
Mediation Programs; You Want WHAT?:
Changing Expectations in the Commercial
Market for Mediators; and Summit on the
Future of Court ADR.
Earlier in the year, Lande gave a presentation at the Quinnipiac-Yale Dispute
Resolution Workshop titled “Principles
for Policymaking about Collaborative Law
and ADR Generally.” He was the keynote
speaker at the semiannual institute of
the Department of Conflict Analysis
and Resolution in Nova Southeastern
University’s School of Humanities and Social
Sciences.
Lande was re-elected to the council of
the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution.
He is also an official observer of the
Uniform Collaborative Law Act Drafting
Committee of the National Conference of
Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.
result, he believes that their deep dread
of malpractice litigation has a number of
additional causes. Unlike product liability
claims or even slip and fall actions against
retail stores, the target defendants in malpractice actions are typically individuals. For an individual, a 1-in-7 chance of
being sued each year is horrific. Aggravating that pain is the fact that the status of
being a physician is a crucial part of the
personal identify and self-esteem of most
doctors. Each malpractice claim is seen
as a direct assault on that core identity
and self-worth. Each must be reported to
regulators, insurers and hospitals for the
rest of their professional lives. As a result,
being charged with negligence is a painful event. So, too, is enduring the process
of exoneration. From this perspective,
being drawn into the process constitutes a
punishment. As nearly half of all malpractice claims turn out to be without merit,
this is the place where innovative, evenhanded improvements are badly needed.
National Recognition
Peters’ research on jury verdicts has generated a national buzz. Media outlets from
Chicago to Baltimore to Washington,
D.C., called attention to his findings. For
Peters himself, the most important benefit
of this publicity has been the dissemination of his findings in several medical
association journals. He hopes the reassuring findings will allay some of the doubts
that physicians feel about the rationality and fairness of the judicial process.
“Phil Peters writes on issues of great
national importance and his research
has attracted wide attention within legal
education, the legal and medical professions, and – through the national media
– in society more generally,” Dean Larry
Dessem says. “His research in the area
of medical malpractice has caused other
professors at both law and medical schools
and policymakers to look at these issues in
a different light, which is what we expect
from the very finest legal scholarship.”
Teaching and Research
Peters’ research is not limited to the
malpractice puzzle. He is an expert on
reproductive technology and spoke at a
variety of forums in Missouri during the
run up to the 2006 state referendum on
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stem cell research. His book and articles
on reproductive technology are read
around the word. The most recent evidence of this came in a request from a
university press in Hyderabad, India, to
include an article by Peters on the scientific, ethical and legal ambiguities surrounding the idea of human conception.
In his 20 years of teaching, Peters has
found that health law is constantly changing. Scientific advances have forced the
evolution of laws governing the beginning and end of life. Economic and
organization changes have driven the
changes in laws governing medical malpractice responsibility and organization
staff affiliations. As a result, one of his
primary goals in the classroom is to prepare his students for still further change.
He wants his students to learn not merely
the law as it is today, but the path on
which the law has been traveling and
the likely direction of future change.
Peters is changing, too. Prompted
by eroding public support for affirmative action programs in higher education, he is returning to the area of law
in which his career began. Early in his
career he thought that affirmative action
was a temporary remedy for educational
inequalities that would soon be cured.
That cure never came. The racial test
score gap is nearly as wide today as it was
then. His new research focuses on ways
to shrink the gap, with a special emphasis on very early education. “Until those
strategies are put in place, reliance on
‘color-blind’ test scores will produce law
schools that are lily-white,” he says.
Peters argues that law schools and
higher education need to lead the campaign to eliminate the difference in test
scores and to educate the public about
the direct connection between poor
educational opportunity when children are young and affirmative action
programs when they become young
adults. Changing the latter requires fixing the former. To explore the many legal
issues raised by proposal like this (and
by the Supreme Court’s ongoing tightening of these rules), he will be teaching a new course on the past and present
law governing race-conscious government decision-making. As in his health
law work, an emphasis will be placed
on the dynamics of legal change and the
social forces that drive those currents.
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Feature
Five New Faces
Crouch
Sokol
Faculty
Dennis D. Crouch is an associate professor at the School of Law. Before joining the faculty, he was a patent attorney
at McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP in Chicago and taught at Boston
University School of Law. He has worked
on cases involving various technologies
including computer memory and hardware, circuit design, software, networking, mobile and internet telephony, automotive technologies, lens design, bearings,
HVAC systems and business methods. He
is also the editor of the popular patent law
blog, Patently-O (www.patentlyo.com).
Crouch received his bachelor’s degree
in mechanical engineering cum laude
from Princeton University, where he also
earned a certificate in engineering management systems. He then earned his law
degree cum laude from the University of
Chicago Law School. While at the University of Chicago, he was a Microsoft,
Merck, & Pfizer scholar and a member of
the Olin program in law and economics.
Before attending law school, Crouch
worked as a technical consultant for
manufacturing firms in New England, a research fellow at NASA’s Glenn
Research Center, a software developer
at the Mayo Clinic’s biomedical imaging department and a Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana, West Africa. He grew
up on a farm near Pittsburg, Kan.
D. Daniel Sokol is a visiting associate professor at the School of Law. Before
his arriving in Missouri, he served as a
William H. Hastie Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Law School. His
research interests focus on antitrust,
commercial law, corporate law, and
law.missouri.edu
Strong
Bassett
Cook
nia; a law degree from Duke University
School of Law; a doctorate in law from
the University of Cambridge; and a doctorate from the University of Oxford.
While at Duke, she served as editor in
chief of the Duke Journal of Comparative &
International Law. She is admitted to practice in state and federal courts in both
Stacie I. Strong is an associate professor New York and Illinois, as well as the U.S.
Supreme Court, and as a solicitor in the
at the School of Law, having previously
taught jurisprudence and British constitu- Supreme Court of England and Wales.
Strong serves on the board of Chicago
tional, contract and tort law at the UniverTap Theatre, one of the country’s most
sity of Cambridge and the University of
exciting and innovative tap dance ensemOxford in the United Kingdom. Strong’s
bles, and is herself an avid student of the
primary teaching assignments at MU are
international commercial arbitration, law- art form. She has written several articles
on tap dance for leading magazines and
yering and wills and trusts. Her research
has edited a book titled Top Tap Tips.
lies in the areas of international dispute
resolution, English law, comparative constitutional law and jurisprudence. Her
Staff
scholarly work has received recognition
Cynthia W. Bassett joined the School of
in both the United States and the United
Law in July as electronic resources librarKingdom, with her doctoral dissertation
winning the prestigious Yorke Prize from ian. She previously served as a librarian
in the Missouri State Library’s Reference
the University of Cambridge in 2003.
Services Division and at the St. Louis
In addition to her work as a legal acaCounty Library, where she was branch
demic, Strong has extensive experience
supervisor. She has a master’s degree in
as a practicing lawyer qualified in New
library and information science from MU
York and Illinois and as a solicitor in
and a bachelor’s degree in English educaEngland and Wales. Before joining the
tion from Louisiana Tech University.
faculty at MU, she was a litigator in the
New York and London offices of Weil,
Jeremy A. Cook joined the School of
Gotshal & Manges LLP and counsel speLaw in July as a user support analyst in the
cializing in international commercial
school’s information technology office.
litigation and arbitration in the Chicago
Previously, Cook was a coordinator supoffice of Baker & McKenzie LLP. Strong
port for training and programming in
also acted as the executive director of the
the University’s information technolNational Association of Women Lawyers
ogy division. He is close to completand spent several years as a book editor.
ing a bachelor’s degree in computer sciStrong received a bachelor’s degree in
ence with a minor in English at MU.
English literature from the University
of California, Davis; a master’s degree
from the University of Southern Califorcomparative and international business
regulation. Before academia, Sokol was
in private practice in Washington and
Miami. He holds a law degree from the
University of Chicago, a master’s degree
from University of Oxford and a bachelor’s degree from Amherst College.
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Branching Out
Alumni Take the Law Along
by Miranda Fleschert and Casey Baker
While most School of Law alumni
enter practice after graduation,
some choose nontraditional
careers. Although they aren’t in
the courtroom every day, they
use the skills they learned in
law school to pursue successful
careers outside the law.
Here you’ll meet an author and
stay-at-home father, a minister of a
1,400-member church, a human
resources expert, a real estate
developer and a country music
manager. Enjoy their stories.
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Litigator
then Author
Michael W. Atchison, ’93
“when you have a piece of relatively complex litigation and
you’re writing briefs, you’re trying to tell a story. you find
information and compile it into a story just like a book.”
M
ichael W. Atchison, ’93,
of Parkville, Mo., has a
fairly traditional beginning to a story that ends
with a twist.
He went to MU
for his undergraduate degree and liked it so much
he stayed for law school. He knew he wanted to
do something professional and he had an affinity
for the law, but he had no particular area of practice in mind and had no direct experience with
lawyers. He enjoyed law school, finding it intellectually stimulating and interesting, taking advantage of the mentoring of faculty members like
Bob Bailey, Bill Henning and Grant Nelson.
During his second summer break from law school,
Atchison worked for the firm now known as Stinson
Morrison Hecker in Kansas City, Mo. He became
involved in the pro bono case of a developmentally
disabled young man who had been wrongfully convicted of murder and imprisoned for life. Atchison
knew he wanted to follow the case through after law
school and took a position at the firm, feeling that
it was a good fit. His decision was reinforced when
the man was pardoned in 1995 by the late Gov. Mel
Carnahan, ’59, providing Atchison with what he
felt was “a great To Kill a Mockingbird moment.”
Atchison enjoyed his time at Stinson. During his
seven years with the firm, he liked his work and
made good friends. But he was coming up on partnership time, with a decided lack of enthusiasm.
“There is something inherent in the nature of litigation that is not consistent with my personality,” he
says. Armed with the sense that this was not what he
wanted to do for the rest of his life, he left the firm.
It wasn’t long before his path became clear.
Atchison’s wife, Sherri, and a partner had started
a consumer research business. When it became
apparent that the company was growing faster
than anticipated and that the pressure was off of
him to provide the family’s primary income, he
began working in the business, reviewing contracts and helping with support work. At the
same time, he was trying to figure out what his
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next step would be. The couple soon learned
that they were expecting their first child.
Then Atchison had what he calls a “lightening
bolt moment” about writing a book about the history of the MU basketball program. He had been
a fan of the program for a long time and knew that
he, and others, would enjoy a solid history going
back to its inception. He had never known anyone
who knew about the old teams whose banners dotted the Hearnes Center. “The deliberative process
was three to five seconds,” he says. “I wanted to
read the book. It didn’t exist. I decided to write it.”
As his wife’s business took off, Atchison turned
his attention to the book, using his legal background
as the foundation for his work. “Law school education and the practice of law was a great education on
how to write a nonfiction book,” he notes. “When
you have a piece of relatively complex litigation and
you’re writing briefs, you’re trying to tell a story.
You find information and compile it into a story just
like a book.” That served as his primary training.
In the fall of 2000, he began writing while raising a young family. He worked on the book as he
could and True Sons, A Century of Missouri Tigers
Basketball was released in fall 2006. He spent time
with general historical references, basketball histories and university histories. He searched for a publisher. He completed the detail-oriented research
before his second child was born. After the baby
was born, he juggled two children while he completed the book, writing in his head even while
he was busy caring for them. “Books are written on scraps of paper and in the kitchen and
in the car and all over the place,” he says.
Now Atchison has his next book in his mind,
ready to research and write as he cares for Grace,
6, and Evan, 3. He’s also active in the Kansas City United Way campaign, grant writing
for the parent-teacher association at his daughter’s school and serving on the board of directors
of ArtsTech, a local nonprofit organization. He
is still available to lend a hand in his wife’s business, but says that the business now has a staff of
about 10 people and his involvement is infrequent.
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“sometimes I
feel like my
life has chosen
me as much as
I’ve chosen it,”
Atchison says.
“i’ve been lucky
in that I’ve been
free to embrace
opportunities
that have
interested me,
and that has
been immensely
satisfying.”
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Lawyer and Minister
Donald R ay McNeal , ’86
“a pastor seeks to absolve you of guilt,
relieve the burden of your guilt and
save you from the pollution of sin. but
an attorney is a different science.”
D
McNeal with his wife Deborah
onald Ray McNeal, ’86,
is the pastor of the 1,400
member Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church of
Saint Louis. He couples
this with a legal practice in
Texas, usually representing Christians. He does
not actively exclude other clients, but, just like
any group, there are plenty of Christians who find
themselves in need of criminal defense. In fact,
McNeal has never needed to advertise his services.
Originally from Texas, McNeal represents
pastors and congregants in the Houston/Harris County and Texarkana/Bowie County areas
in criminal and discrimination cases, including police misconduct and racial and mental
health discrimination. He won two major discrimination and police misconduct cases against
the U.S. Army and The City of Texarkana.
McNeal’s successful trials range from aggravated sexual assault (his first trial as a lawyer
in 1988) to murder. As a trial lawyer in 1994,
McNeal was victorious under the police misconduct statute, where a police officer shot and killed
a woman during a routine traffic stop in Texarkana. And when McNeal represented a young
woman who shot her abusive lover, it was the first
time in Harris County a jury sentenced a convicted murderer to probation. “Humans do not
do truthful things in sequential order,” explains
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McNeal. “In her panic, she went and got a gun.”
Throughout his 34 years of ministry service,
McNeal has served in eight pastorates in three
regions of the country. But how does he reconcile
the defense of purported criminals with his ministry? McNeal says both professions are about helping,
teaching and doing what is right. But the parallels
stop there. “A pastor seeks to absolve you of guilt,
relieve the burden of your guilt and save you from
the pollution of sin. But an attorney is a different
science.” As a pastor, McNeal is primarily concerned
about counseling his congregants, and that usually
involves full disclosure. But, as an attorney, “you can
never ask them to disclose their guilt and purport to
the court their status as not guilty, it is unethical.”
As an attorney, McNeal says he has a duty
to make sure the state doesn’t become a vigilante in trying to solve crime, a phenomenon
he sees as particularly pervasive in the African-American community. “The state has a
burden to prove beyond a reasonable doubt.
Even if you do a crime, you have rights.”
McNeal has been concerned about ensuring civil rights since his early high school years.
While working for Don Yarborough’s Texas
gubernatorial campaign as a teen, McNeal’s typing skills and quick wit garnered attention
from the famous civil rights attorney W.J. Durham. Durham soon became McNeal’s mentor and encouraged him to go to law school.
Despite Durham’s support, McNeal put off law
school when he graduated with a BA from The
University of Texas at Austin, opting instead to
answer the call to the ministry he says he’s felt since
age four. After earning his MA in New Testament
theology at Eden Theological Seminary in Saint
Louis in 1983, McNeal accepted the call of Second Missionary Baptist Church of Columbia, Mo.
McNeal says he became a lawyer by default.
He wanted to pursue a doctorate degree in ministry, but there was no seminary in Columbia. The
wishes of his mentor W.J. Durham (who had since
passed away) were foremost in his mind when
McNeal spoke with Dean Bob Bailey about pursuing a law degree at MU instead. “He talked
me into it,” McNeal says of Bailey. “He’s a great
guy, a wonderful judge. I love him greatly.”
Though he starts his day with prayer and scripture, McNeal says his favorite part of each morning is the private moment he shares with his wife
over coffee. In 1973 McNeal married Deborah
Jackson, and together the couple has three daughters: Syreeta LaShawn McNeal, ’07, Janel
McNeal Lewis and Dion McNeal Lucas. The couple will celebrate their 34th anniversary this year.
Today, McNeal says that he only needs four hours
of sleep each night. He doesn’t have time for much
more. In addition to his regular pastoral duties,
which include preaching, Bible study, counseling
and conducting funerals, McNeal teaches a weekly
rabbi class for those clergy in ministry at Hopewell.
During his 34-year pastorate, McNeal has licensed
171 clergy, including 161 males and 10 females, of
which many are ordained. In 2007, McNeal joined
the faculty of Eden Theological Seminary as an
adjunct professor of congregational studies. His
teaching and scholarship focus on biblical interpretation, “engaging a theological, canonical, sociological and historical approach to empowerment.”
McNeal continues to seek social justice with
advocacy through the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and
is currently the secretary for the St. Louis City
branch, as well as the state education chair for state
conference of branches. In 2002, McNeal worked
on the national NAACP office in Baltimore, Md.,
as Missouri’s voter empowerment program director. He is also busy pursuing the doctor of ministry degree he wanted since before attending law
school. Currently, McNeal is a doctoral candidate at Virginia Union University’s Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology in Richmond,
Va., with an expected graduation of May 2008.
With all he has going on in his life, McNeal
admits he struggles to maintain the “right sense of
balance.” Still, he says seeing God working through
both his law practice and his ministry on a daily
basis makes it all worthwhile. He advises today’s law
students to simply “be who you are, keep a good
balance of yourself and what you are meant to be.”
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“be who you
are, keep a
good balance
of yourself
and what you
are meant
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Theater, Human Resources & Law
Lisa A. Nyrop, ’04
“a law degree is an enhancement in human resources. there is more and more
work in employment law and it makes you more marketable.”
A
of a foreign
service officer, Lise A.
Nyrop, ’04,
knows a lot about diplomacy in
dealing with diverse constituencies. Born in Kiel, Germany, Nyrop
attended an international school
in Indonesia, a Department of
Defense School in Oslo, Norway,
and spent 11th and 12th grades with
the children of many celebrities at
the famous English boarding school Millfield.
Now the human resources manager for the
Office of State Courts Administrator in Missouri, Nyrop provides human resources support to
210 employees in five divisions. She is responsible
for writing OSCA personnel policies, conducting training, researching salary compensation and
handling employee relations. Nyrop says her job is
about ‘finding a workable solution and making it
as positive and forward-moving as can be. It’s all
about problem-solving, not ‘problem-listening.’”
When she graduated from The College of William and Mary in 1982, Nyrop had no plans for law
school. Instead, she pursued a career in theater as a
stage manager and production manager, following in
the footsteps of six generations of theater professionals on her father’s side. Her work to date includes
management for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival,
the New Mexico Repertory Theatre, the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, The Whole Theatre, the
Dorset Theatre Festival, the Virginia Stage Company and the National Theatre of the Deaf. After
marrying and moving to Missouri for her thenhusband to attend veterinary school, Nyrop took
a position with MU’s Human Resource Services.
All her life, Nyrop says people always told her
she should go to law school because she is argumentative and verbal. While walking on campus
one day, she passed the law school and decided to
apply because she “felt like doing something different.” When she found out that MU would pick
up 75 percent of her tuition because she was a university employee, the idea made even more sense.
Nyrop attended law school as a part-time
“L aw school is like
life. You just can’t
take it too seriously.
Not to say you
shouldn’t try hard,
but the more you
can relate to other
people, the more
effective you will
be as an attorney.”
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student, which isn’t often encouraged.
Nyrop, 47, was not a regular student. “I was
older than some of my professors, so I had different kinds of conversations with them than I
think other students did,” she says. Nyrop’s mentor was Tim Heinsz, though she says Bob Bailey,
Ilhyung Lee, Rod Uphoff and Wilson Freyermuth influenced her as well, making law school a
positive experience. “I really enjoyed the process.
I’m one of those sick weird people,” she jokes.
Because of her familiarity with union work
from her theater career, human resources law
is a perfect fit for Nyrop. “A law degree is an
enhancement in human resources. There is
more and more work in employment law and
it makes you more marketable,” she says.
Part of that marketability comes from the strong
problem-solving and analytical abilities Nyrop
developed while in law school. “The skills that
you learn are applicable, no matter what you’re
dealing with,” she says. “There is a lot to be done
with the degree, and it’s instant credentialing.”
Nyrop believes that being a well-rounded
person with the ability to find commonalities among people is crucial to success. “Be
open to all of life’s possibilities,” she advises
current law students and new lawyers.
As Nyrop points out, a person needs interests outside of the practice of law. She has several.
People know Nyrop as “the lady with all the cattle.” She owns a 40-acre farm north of Columbia
and recently had 50 head of Texas longhorn cattle
on her land. She also has horses, dogs and cats.
Because she craves intellectual stimulation,
Nyrop recently applied and was accepted to the
LLM program at MU. But she has deferred a year
in order to focus on training 15 hours a week for
the June 2008 Coeur D’Alene Ironman triathlon, where she will compete in a 2.4 mile swim,
a 26.2 mile marathon and 112 mile bike race.
Though it took her six years to finish the law
school curriculum, Nyrop ranked three classes
and graduated near the top third of her class,
all while working full time and managing her
farm. While she didn’t take the traditional path
through law school, Nyrop’s experiences have created in her the well-roundedness she so values. It’s
what makes her such a strong problem-solver.
Law and Family
James G. Sansone , ’87
“if you can show your purpose (for
going to law school) is to gain a
better understanding of law and its
application in the workplace, and to
be comfortable when those issues,
the laws and regulations, arise, the
education will help you advance in the
business world. it’s of great value in all
industry.”
J
ames Sansone’s father , Anthony San-
sone Sr., encourages all of the members
of their family-owned real estate development firm to have a different professional degree. It helps provide clients
with the broadest range of expertise
possible. The Sansone Group in St. Louis boasts
MBAs, CPMs, a host of finance and real estate
degrees and even some engineers. But James G.
Sansone, ’87, has a particular fondness for law
degrees. He says a company can’t have too many
attorneys. In property development, a law degree
is a tremendous advantage. “With all the various
laws and regulations, it is great benefit. The analytical skills learned in law school are applied daily.”
Founded in 1957, the firm provides service in
the fields of property management, leasing, brokerage, tenant representation, development and market
research. Jim Sansone is responsible for all zoning, rezoning, entitlement and permitting activities
in addition to all corporate general counsel duties.
He currently manages more than 20 million square
feet of property worth in excess of $2 billion.
As the father of 10 children — seven boys and
three girls who range in ages from 2 to 19 — Sansone and his wife Kathryn, also have their hands full
at home. He stresses the importance that family and
faith have in shaping every aspect of his life. Sansone
recently was named to the Order of St. Louis King,
the highest honor that a layperson can receive in the
Catholic Church. The award is particularly meaningful because his father received it 10 years earlier.
Sansone admires the kind of man his father
is and wanted to follow him in business because
he respects how he conducts himself, but he also
says his mother is a wonderful example who
strongly encouraged him to become an attorney. The grandmother of 40 recently went
back to school to earn her college degree.
Sansone didn’t start out wanting to go to law
school. When he graduated with a bachelor’s degree
from St. Louis University in 1983, he couldn’t wait
to begin his career in business and began working for a large company right away. While it was
a good experience, Sansone quickly realized that
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“in my discussions
with neighborhood
groups and
government
officials, or
while negotiating
on real estate
contracts or
leases, the ability
to think beyond
what is right in
front of me has
been an advantage
in my career.”
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a professional degree could provide even greater
opportunities. After attending a major real estate
convention with his parents and meeting several
nonpracticing attorneys in the business, Sansone
knew law school was the right choice for him.
Sansone chose MU because of its statewide
network of professionals and strong reputation.
“From a business standpoint, it’s one of best decisions I’ve ever made,” he says. Sansone is looking forward to his 20-year law school reunion
this November. He still keeps in touch with
Dean Bob Bailey, whom he says is a “great mentor and personal friend.” Bailey taught him that
“everything is not black and white,” and forced
him to recognize a whole new way of thinking.
With all that’s on his plate, Sansone says the
unique thought process he learned in law school
helps him on a daily basis. “In my discussions with
neighborhood groups and government officials,
or while negotiating on real estate contracts or
leases, the ability to think beyond what is right in
front of me has been an advantage in my career.”
Sansone wants current law students to know that
if they decide a law firm job is not for them, it is not
something they should feel the need to explain or
justify. “If you can show your purpose (for going to
law school) is to gain a better understanding of law
and its application in the workplace, and to be comfortable when those issues, the laws and regulations,
arise, the education will help you advance in the
business world. It’s of great value in all industry.”
Even if students don’t plan to practice law, Sansone advises them to go ahead
and become licensed. “It establishes credibility in a way that nothing else can,” he says.
With the oldest two of his 10 children now in
college, Sansone is encouraging all of his kids to
pursue law degrees. “It’s one degree that can be
applied to all areas of commerce, finance, medicine…it’s universally beneficial. Whether you
practice law or not you utilize the skills learned
in law school.” Sansone hopes to pass this wisdom on to his children in much the same way
his own father and mother did for him.
Sansone and his wife reside in St. Louis with their
10 children. She has been featured on Oprah as a role
model for motherhood and a poster woman of fitness. She is the author of Woman First, Family Always.
Artists Need
Lawyers Too
Scott F. Siman, ’79
“not a day goes by that i don’t draw
on my legal background.”
T
here’s no argument that
Scott F. Siman, ’79, has a
cool job. He regularly sees
famous faces, attends awards
shows the rest of us can only
watch on television and travels around the world with a well-known country
music multimedia superstar. All in a day’s work.
After completing his undergraduate degree at
Vanderbilt University, Siman entered law school
at MU with a desire to work in the entertainment industry. Inspired by his father, Si Siman,
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who founded and produced the first country
music network television show originating from
his hometown of Springfield, Mo., he moved to
Nashville and began 14 years of work as an entertainment lawyer, representing artists like Alan
Jackson, Brooks & Dunn, Charlie Daniels, Little Texas, John Berry and Deanna Carter.
At the invitation of a record producer client, he
then moved to Sony Music Entertainment, where
he served as senior vice president for Sony’s Nashville record division. His responsibilities included
signing acts (including the Dixie Chicks), press and
Siman, on right, celebrated graduation
with what have become lifelong
friends – Daniel E. Hamann, ’79,
Gary A. Powell, ’79, and Walter B.
McCormick Jr., ’79.
public relations, and managing finances – in general, the opportunity to be involved in all phases
of label operations. Three years later, he was looking to move to another label when an opportunity
arose to leave Sony to manage the career of popular country singer Tim McGraw, and he took it.
Siman says he never intended to move into artist management, but was inspired to meet the challenge because McGraw was at a crossroads in his
career. He was newly married to country singer
Faith Hill and they were expecting their first child.
McGraw’s second album had sold 6 million copies, but his third, although still a major success,
was hovering around 2 million in sales. Siman
liked the idea of looking forward with McGraw,
whose focus and talent he respected. All of the
proverbial eggs were in one basket, but Siman had
heard the music that would become McGraw’s
album everywhere and thought it was amazing.
“In the music industry,” he says,” you have
to rely on your ears and trust your instincts.”
Siman’s instincts were right – everywhere sold more
than 4 million copies, won the Country Music
Awards’ prestigious album of the year title and
spawned back-to-back records of the year with
“It’s Your Love” and “Just to See You Smile.”
Now Siman is the co-owner and president of
rpm management — in a partnership with industry
mogul Irving Azoff, manager of the Eagles — and
rpm music group, his music publishing operation.
The management side of the business oversees four
musicians, including McGraw, while the publishing division represents 10 to 12 songwriters. Siman
resides primarily on the management side. His job
is to oversee the day-to-day operations of every
aspect of McGraw’s career. He handles the strategic planning and marketing of his career, from
album marketing to support for McGraw’s new
acting career. He’s also involved with McGraw’s
newly formed record label, StyleSonic Records. “It’s
like being the CEO of a major industry,” he says.
It’s obvious that Siman is enthusiastic about his
career. That he finds meeting famous folks exciting is no surprise, but the enjoyment of his job
runs deeper than that. He finds it rewarding to
put a marketing plan together and watch it happen the way the artist envisioned it. To him, this
is a measure of professional success in the music
industry. He also enjoys the unique challenges
and opportunities that his position offers, such as
traveling with McGraw and Hill on their Soul2Soul II tour, the largest grossing tour in the history of country music, and helping them accomplish
what they want from a creative perspective.
Despite the thrills of meeting President Bill
Clinton, watching McGraw perform a duet of
the Hank Williams Sr. song “Cold, Cold Heart”
with Tony Bennett in Madison Square Garden and having lunch with Emeril Lagasse
while in New Orleans assisting with a charity concert for Hurricane Katrina relief, Siman
has not forgotten his roots in the law.
“Not a day goes by that I don’t draw on my legal
background,” Siman notes. He points to the School
of Law as the foundation for his lawyering skills.
He chose MU for law school because of its reputation for developing the students’ basic skills as lawyers and for its consistently strong bar passage rate.
His fondest memories at the School of Law involve
participation in Moot Court with Daniel E. Hamman, ’79, and Walter B. McCormick, ’79, and
the creation of the student chapter of the Order of
Barristers. He also notes that he was the first to graduate in 1979 – because he completed his exams first
and greeted the other students while sitting on the
steps of Tate Hall sipping a drink with a parasol in it.
“Scott brings a great musical and business background to our team,” said McGraw.
“It’s critical in this business for artists to have
experienced management who can help bring
to life your vision as an artist — and his law
degree is a huge asset,” McGraw says.
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siman notes he was
the first to graduate
in
1979—because he
completed his exams
first and greeted
the other students
while sitting on the
steps of tate hall
sipping a drink with
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CLEO Students Have Taste of Law School
FACULT Y NOTE
Richard C. Reuben published two law
review articles recently. One built on his
expertise in the confidentiality of dispute
resolution processes and focused on the
question of whether arbitration communications can be discovered and admitted
in later legal proceedings. This article,
“Confidentiality in Arbitration: Beyond the
Myth,” appeared in 54 Kansas Law Review
1255 (2007). The second article introduced a
Journal of Dispute Resolutionsymposium he
organized last year on the impact of news
coverage on conflict. “News Reporting and
Its Impact on Conflict” appeared in 2007
Journal of Dispute Resolution143.
Reuben serves as principal investigator
of a National Science Foundation grant to
develop a tool to assess the news media’s
impact on conflict. This grant, which is
expected to be submitted in February 2008,
has co-principals from the Missouri School
of Journalism, the MU School of Medicine
and the University of the Western Cape in
South Africa.
During the summer, Reuben taught
arbitration at Johannes Kepler University in
Linz, Austria, and the social psychology of
conflict at Pepperdine University School of
Law in California.
Reuben’s recent presentations include
serving as a panelist on the Roundtable
on Teaching of Negotiation for the
Southeastern Association of Law Schools
Annual Meeting and the ADR in the New
Workplace: Raising the Bar on Employment
Dispute Resolution session for the American
Bar Association Section of Dispute
Resolution’s spring meeting; as keynote
speaker for the International Ombuds
Association with his paper “Democracy and
Dispute Resolution;” and as presenter on
corporate governance disputes for the World
Bank Group, International Finance Corp.,
and at a symposium at UNLV Boyd School of
Law’s Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution
with his paper “The Supreme Court’s
Federal Arbitration Act Jurisprudence: A
Legal Process Disaster.”
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After years of hard work ,
writing personal statements and studying
for the LSAT, the dream of getting into
law school can be one of the most competitive tasks a new graduate can undertake. With help from the Council on
Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO)
and the School of Law, 39 minority and disadvantaged students are one
step closer to pursuing their dreams.
CLEO, a nonprofit project to enhance
diversity within American law schools
and the legal profession, and the School
of Law collaborated to provide a six-week
pre-law summer institute. Designed to
evaluate the students’ capacity for learning and acclimate them to the law school
process, the curriculum was taught by
faculty members and simulates the rigors of the first year of law school. “For those students who may not
have been admitted to law school
because of their academic indicators,
their GPA and LSAT test scores, the
program will evaluate them and hopefully show that numbers are not always
an accurate predictor of students’ ability,” said Donna Pavlick, assistant dean
for admissions and student services.
Students from around the county were
selected based on a personal statement and
application process. During their time at
MU, the participants attended pre-law
classes, guest lectures and community
Students in the CLEO program learned the
importance of community service to the
legal profession by volunteering to line the
Parade of Athletes route for the Missouri
Special Olympics (joined by Elvis!).
service projects and received faculty feedback. Over the program’s 39-year history, more then 90 percent of the students
who attend the institute enter law school.
“I’m confident that this program will prepare me for law school
due to the dedication of the faculty and the dean,” CLEO participant
Shameka Simmons said. “Everyone
has extended themselves beyond compare and has been a great deal of help.”
Pavlick is hopeful that the students will not only leave ready for
the tough coursework of law school,
but also will get something out of the
program they had not intended.
“My main goal is to prepare these students academically and help get them
into law school, but I also hope they will
leave as ‘goodwill’ ambassadors to Missouri and MU,” Pavlick said. “Many of
these students come from very urban
areas; hopefully coming here will get
them out of their comfort zones and
experience something different.”
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Our oldest alumni tradition
FACULT Y NOTE
A ND Cl ass R eunions
Sept. 12–13, 2008
Make your plans now to celebrate in 2008!
David M. English has been appointed by
Bill Neukom, president of the American Bar
Association (ABA), to serve as a member
of the ABA’s Commission on Mental and
Physical Disability Law. English has also
been appointed by Laurel Bellows, the chair
of the ABA House of Delegates, to serve on
that body’s Committee on Emerging Issues
for the Profession.
The Uniform Adult Guardianship and
Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act,
for which English served as reporter and
principal drafter, was approved by the
Uniform Law Commission at its 2007
annual meeting.
Over the past several months, English has
spoken to numerous national professional
organizations on a variety of uniform law
topics, including the National Guardianship
Association, the American College of Trust
and Estate Counsel, the ABA’s Section on
Real Property, Trust and Estate Law and
Section on Torts and Insurance Practice,
American Law Institute-American Bar
Association (ALI-ABA) and the National
College of Probate Judges. The Uniform
Trust Code, for which English was the
reporter and principal drafter, was enacted
in North Dakota in 2007, bringing the total
number of enactments to 20.
Reunion weekend will feature the classes of ’48, ’53, ’58, ’63, ’68, ’73,
’78, ’83, ’88, ’93, ’98, and ’03. Contact your classmates to make party
plans! Volunteer to be on your class reunion planning committee by
calling 573-884-7833.
WEEKEND EVENTS
• Distinguished Alumni Luncheon
• Complimentary CLE
• The Dean’s All-Class Reunion Reception
• Individual Class Reunions for Featured Classes
• Law Day Breakfast
• Law Day Awards Ceremony
• Law Day Picnic
• Mizzou Football Game
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For more information
about these or other
School of Law alumni events,
contact the School of Law
Office of Development at
573-884-7833 or
» mulawevents@missouri.edu,
or visit our Web site at
» law.missouri.edu.
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Elwood L. Thomas Inn of Court
Holds Inaugural Demonstration
By Miranda Fleschert
A group of experienced attorneys ,
judges and
law school professors formed the new Elwood L.
Thomas Inn of Court this spring in Boone and Cole
counties, with the goal of promoting professionalism, ethics and the development of litigation skills
among younger attorneys and law students.
The first program for the new Inn was a fictional historic
trial based upon actual events. The trial of U.S. v. Meriwether Lewis and Silas Goodrich, complete with period
costumes and a real life-size replica canoe in the courtroom, took place roughly 200 years after the Lewis and
Clark Expedition. Actual journal entries from the expedition and historical documents revealed that Lewis and
crewmember Goodrich stole a canoe from the Clatsop
Indian tribe in Oregon. Though they were never prosecuted, the historic trial proceeded as if this were the case.
The defense argued that necessity and emergency circumstances left Goodrich and Lewis no choice but to steal
the canoe. Without it, they would have starved because
they couldn’t make the journey back up the coast. However, the prosecution asserted that they could have traded
a rifle or asked the Clatsop tribe for help. Witnesses
included Thomas Jefferson, Sacagawea, Captain William
Clark and Chief Comowoll. Ultimately, the jury deliberated on the question of whether or not the circumstances
were so dire that they justified conduct which would
otherwise be a crime. The trial ended in a hung jury.
Professor Stephen D. Easton, who organized and conceived the idea for the historic trial, said the lack of a
verdict showed how well both sides presented their arguments. Students, professors and alumni worked together
in an equal partnership as members of the prosecution
and defense teams, as well as witnesses. “The one thing
I heard over and over again was how impressed people were at how well the students did going up against
professors and experienced attorneys,” said Easton.
Professors, graduates, and even some Missouri
Supreme Court justices attended the trial. Some students participated by purchasing seats on the jury
at the Women’s Law Association auction.
Easton hopes the Inn of Court historic trial will become
a regular event on the law school calendar each spring,
since it provides students with an opportunity that is different from traditional mock trials. “What I like about
the idea of a historical trial is there’s an element of reality that we don’t always get when the stuff is purely fictional,” he said. For this coming year, he’s thinking of
trying Thomas T. Crittenden, the then-governor of
Missouri, for soliciting the 1882 murder of Jesse James
when he posted “Wanted: Dead or Alive” notices.
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Spring 2007 Commencement
In keeping with tradition, graduates could elect to have their MU Law alumni and
faculty parents hood them at graduation. (l-r)Craig S. Biesterfeld, ’78, with his
daughter, Lindsay V. Biesterfeld, ’07; Associate Dean and Professor James R. Devine
with his son, Joshua C. Devine, ’07; and Deputy Chancellor and ProfessorMichael
A. Middleton, ’71, with his son, Marc N. Middleton, ’07.
At May commencement, the featured speaker
was Michael A. Middleton, ’71, who serves as
deputy chancellor and professor of law at MU.
Donald R. McNeal, ’87 hooded his
daughter, Syreeta L. McNeal, ’07.
Photos courtesy of Chappell Graduation Images
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M E D I A
Faculty in the News
MU School of Law faculty are regularly called upon by news outlets around the state and the country to
provide expert opinion on a variety of topics. Here is a sample:
Douglas E. Abrams
“Do You Like Interesting Debates? Try Ranking Sports Movies”
Chicago Daily Herald
“Judicial Activists? There’s No Sign” St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Little League Goes to Pitch Limits to Save Young Arms” San
Jose, (Calif.) Mercury News
S. David Mitchell
Re: restoration of rights to ex-felons KJTX Radio (Jefferson,
Texas), KMOX Radio (St. Louis)
Amy B. Monahan
Robert G. Bailey
“Black Seat? White’s Retirement Prompts Questions about
Replacement” Missouri Lawyers Weekly
“Infighting Revealed in Landis Doping Case” Los Angeles
Times
Mary M. Beck
“Mo. to Free 2 Who Killed Abusive Mates” and “2 Women Who
Killed Abusive Mates Win Parole” Alabama News Leader,
Atlanta Journal Constitution, Black Hills (S.D.) Pioneer, Boston
Globe, Boston Herald, Bradenton (Fla.) Herald, Daily Sentinel
(Nacogdoches, Texas), Dayton (Ohio) Daily News, Grand
Junction (Colo.) Daily Sentinel, Greenville (N.C.) Daily Reflector
, Houston Chronicle, Las Vegas Sun, Metro Philadelphia, Metro
New York, Monterey (Calif.) County Herald, Oregonian, Rocky
Mount (N.C.) Telegram, San Francisco Chronicle, Sioux Falls
(N.D.) Argus Leader, Tri-County Herald (Columbia, Wash.), The
Waterbury (Conn.) Republic American, Wichita Falls (Texas)
Times Record News, Wilmington Star News (N.C.), Forbes,
(cnn.com, foxnews.com, msnbc.com, Yahoo! News), AM New
York, [WCIV-TV (Charleston, S.C.), WJXX-TV (Jacksonville,
Fla.), WRAL-TV (Raleigh, N.C.)]
Frank O. Bowman III
“The American Prison Nightmare” New York Review of Books
“Double Standard: Bush’s Leniency for Libby Doesn’t Jibe with
Administration’s Push to Enforce Mandatory Minimum
Sentences” San Francisco Chronicle
“Evaluating Senator’s Plan to Alter His Plea” The New York
Times
“He’s Impeachable, You Know” The New York Times (op-ed)
“The Icing is Iglesias” slate.com (op-ed)
Re: disparities in legal standards, the restoration of the death
penalty in Missouri and federal sentencing guidelines
“Justice for All” radio program on KMOX Radio (St. Louis)
Re: publishing informants’ names on Web sites The Today
Show on NBC
Re: Scooter Libby pardon WHYY Radio (Philadelphia)
Re: U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales KPFK Radio (Los
Angeles), WBUR Radio (Boston), Ian Masters Background
Briefing Radio Program
“Scooter Libby’s Fate Hinges upon Several Factors” U.S. News
& World Report
“Senator Craig’s Legal Options” The New York Times
“Web Sites Listing Informants Concern Justice Dept.” The New
York Times
Dennis D. Crouch
“How a Patent Ruling is Changing Court Cases” The Wall
Street Journal
“The Journal Report: Technology Recommended Reading”
The Wall Street Journal
“Appeals Panel Rules Employers Need Not Pay for
Contraceptives” St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Rigel C. Oliveri
“Justice Dept. Reshapes its Civil Rights Mission” The New York
Times
“Valley Park Needs to Shut Down its War on Immigrants”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (op-ed)
Philip G. Peters Jr.
“Diagnosis: Impartial” National Center for State Courts’ Jur-E
Bulletin
“Fla. Below National Average in Amount of Paid Medical
Malpractice Claims” Naples (Fla.) News
“Juries More Likely to Favor Defendants in Malpractice
Lawsuits, Study Finds” The Henry J. Kaiser Family
Foundation’s kaisernetwork.org
“Juries More Often Sympathize with Doctors” United Press
International
“Juries Overwhelmingly Side with Doctors in Malpractice
Cases” livescience.com
“Juries Tend to Favor Physicians in Liability Litigation”
American Academy of Family Physicians’ AAFP News Now
“Juries Usually Side with Doctors in Trial” The Baltimore Sun
“Legal Analysis Finds Patients Fare Poorly in Court”
Bradenton (Fla.) Herald
“Malpractice Juries Tend to Side More with Doctors,
Researcher Finds” The National Law Journal
“Malpractice Juries Usually Side with Physicians” Reuters
Health
“Malpractice Study — Juries Sympathize More with Doctors”
medicalnewstoday.com
Re: malpractice study WCBS Radio (New York), KMOX Radio
(St. Louis), Physician’s News Digest, news-medical.net
(Australia), cybermed.it (Italy), personalinjuryfocus.com,
medscape.com, marylandinjurylawyerblog.
com, atlantainjurylawyerblog.com,
newyorkpersonalinjuryattorneyblog.com,
orlandoinjurylawyerblog.com, kentuckyinjurylawyerblog.
com, massachusettspersonalinjuryblog.com, jurylaw.com
“The Real Winner in Malpractice Cases” Chicago Tribune, The
Wichita Eagle
“Study: Malpractice Juries Back Doctors More Often”
usatoday.com
“That Malpractice ‘Epidemic’? Legal Analysis Finds That
Patients Fare Poorly in Court” The Washington Post
“Tort System Treats Doctors Better Than Most People Think”
tortdeform.com
Carl H. Esbeck
“Court OKs Help for Faith Groups” Springfield News-Leader
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H O N O R S
&
A W A R D S
FACULT Y NOTE
Fellowship Program Recognizes Crahan
The Judge Lawrence G. Crahan
Memorial Judicial Fellowship gave two deserving MU
law students the opportunity to work as judicial clerks.
The fellowship provides awards for MU law students
who have completed the first year of law school to
serve as clerks for a judge of the Missouri Court of
Appeals, Eastern District. The 2007 Crahan Fellows,
2L Matthew Feldhaus and 2L Zachary C. Howenstine,
served under the direction of Judge Glenn A.
Norton, ’85.
This fellowship honors the late Judge Lawrence G.
Crahan, ’77, who served on the Court of Appeals
with distinction until his death in 2005. Attorneys
across Missouri recognized Crahan as a man of great
intellect and respect for the rule of law, and the law
school community knew him for his love of learning
and his desire to instill the same love in students. This
fellowship was made possible by the generosity of
Crahan’s widow, Linda S. Legg, senior vice president,
general counsel and secretary of AT&T Yellow Pages,
and member of the School of Law’s For All We Call
Mizzou campaign committee.
This summer,
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On June 21, participants
in the Crahan Fellowship
program met with Judge
Glenn Norton, Linda Legg
and Dean Larry Dessem
in the judge’s chambers.
(l-r) Zachary Howenstine,
Glenn Norton, Linda
Legg, Larry Dessem and
Matthew Feldhaus.
Douglas E. Abrams has written three new
works on juvenile justice and child advocacy. “A
Coordinated Public Response to School Bullying”
will appear as a chapter in Our Promise: Achieving
Educational Equity for America’s Children (Carolina
Academic Press, forthcoming 2008). “Rehabilitative
Services For Youth” will appear in The Chicago
Companion to the Child (University of Chicago Press,
forthcoming 2008). “Child Abuse and Neglect Law”
appears as chapter 6 in Missouri Juvenile Law (3d
ed.), The Missouri Bar’s reference book for courts
and lawyers.
Abrams also continues to publish his regular
column about legal writing in Precedent, The
Missouri Bar’s quarterly magazine. In his spring
column, titled “The Writer’s Theater,” he says that
lawyers “appear on stage whenever we pick up a
pen or turn on the computer to write something we
hope other people will read…. The theater is virtual
because we sit in our offices, but the audience
— the readers who digest our written words —
remains as central to the performance as an audience that hears spoken words from the orchestra or
balcony.” Abrams’ summer and autumn columns,
titled “Those Pesky Footnotes — Parts I and II,”
explore the use and misuse of footnotes in briefs,
judicial opinions, law review articles and books.
With former Missouri Supreme Court Judge Ann
K. Covington, ’77, and Missouri Bar President C.
Ronald Baird, ’74, Abrams spoke at a press conference conducted by the bar to support the Missouri
Non-Partisan Court Plan.
Abrams was also a panelist at a Missouri Bar
continuing legal education program, “United States
Supreme Court Highlights: The 2007 Term and Its
Implications.” He was renamed chair of the editorial
board of the Journal of the Missouri Bar, a position
he has held since 2000.
Abrams serves as the law school’s representative
on the MU Faculty Council on University Policy.
The council recently elected him to the executive
committee.
Abrams serves on the expert panel of the Center
For Sports Parenting, which is administered by the
Institute For International Sport at the University of
Rhode Island. He is interviewed regularly on radio
programs concerning sportsmanship and youth
sports issues. This winter will be his 40th season as
a youth-league ice hockey coach.
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P R I V A T E
S U P P O R T
FACULT Y NOTE
Developments:
It’s All In The Numbers
by Janie Ausburn Harmon
senior director of development
Rigel C. Oliveri published an editorial in
the St. Louis Post-Dispatch titled “Valley Park
Needs to Shut Down its War on Immigrants”
on April 2. In the editorial, she argued that
Valley Park’s recently-enacted anti-immigrant ordinances, which would penalize
landlords for renting to undocumented
immigrants, conflict with federal fair housing laws and will likely result in increased
discrimination against ethnic minorities
who are American citizens or otherwise
legally present in the United States.
On April 7, Oliveri presented a paper,
“Is Acquisition Everything? Protecting the
Rights of Occupants Under the Fair Housing
Act” at the School of Law’s symposium in
honor of Professor Dale Whitman. She previously presented the paper as part of faculty
colloquia at Villanova School of Law and
Washington University School of Law.
On July 9, Oliveri gave a presentation
for the NAACP continuing legal education
conference, which was held as part of the
NAACP’s 98th Annual Convention in Detroit.
She spoke on the topic of “Unconscious Bias
in Employment Discrimination Litigation.”
visited the
School of Law to thank faculty, staff and retirees for their financial support of MU and the
School of Law. He presented Dean Larry Dessem with an award commemorating a 58 percent
giving participation rate, the highest rate among
all schools, colleges and non-academic units for
the second year in a row and since calculations
began. The award represents a strong community and belief in higher education by faculty, staff
and retirees. The overall For All We Call Mizzou campaign total giving rate for law faculty, staff
and retirees is 85 percent, which is an outstanding accomplishment and salute to the law school.
When calculating giving rates, members
of the School of Law Campaign Committee recently requested alumni giving participation rates. A report shows that 12.6 percent of
MU Law alumni gave to the Law School last fiscal year. This compares to 17 percent of MU
alumni across campus who gave to the University.
Please note names of alumni and friends who
gave last year listed from pages 31 to 38. The classes
of 1940, 1942, 1947, 1951, 1952, 1958, 1959, 1960,
1961, 1969, 1970, 1975 and 2006 achieved a rate of
20 percent or better. Thank you to each one of you
who support the School of Law. Please contact me
if you wish to make a gift or make a comment.
Recently Chancellor Brady Deaton
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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 the MU School
of Law or the Law School
Foundation.
Credit card gifts or other gifts
may be made by calling
our office at 573-882-4374.
Online gifts may be made at
donatetomu.missouri.edu.
Thanksgiving
Contact us!
Stephen D. Easton organized the new
Elwood L. Thomas Inn of Court’s trial of
Meriwether Lewis and prosecuted the
case with Elizabeth E. Ahsmuhs, ’07. He
spoke to a conference of Kentucky appellate judges about evidence, to groups
of attorneys in Minnesota, Georgia and
Virginia about trial practice, and to Mizzou’s
Teaching Renewal Conference about creating video case files for classroom use.
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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,
or as shown below:
Janie Ausburn Harmon
573-882-3052
harmonj@missouri.edu
Mark A. Langworthy
573-884-3083
langworthym@missouri.edu
For All We Call Mizzou campaign fundraising for
the Law School has strength in numbers – we’ve
reached 93 percent of our goal – and also carries
real faces representing real private support. Already
students who benefited from early campaign
funds have graduated and joined the legal profession. Already faculty have published outstanding articles and completed research due to private
support. Already the Law Library has purchased
new books, subscriptions and study furniture.
When you visit Hulston Hall, you may meet
one or more recipients of private support without knowing it. This is indeed a time of Thanksgiving and we want to share it with you.
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The Law Society
the School of Law celebrated The Law Society and its
members with a dinner in Eckles Hall on the MU campus.
During the 23rd annual event,
guests enjoyed a meal conceived, prepared and served by students in the
Hotel and Restaurant Management Program, which is housed in Eckles Hall
and is part of the MU College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources.
This year’s program highlighted two
third-year law students, Andrew W.
Funk, ’07, and Jessica R. Gunder,
’07, both of whom received privatelyfunded scholarships at the School of
Law. The program also celebrated The
Law Society’s newest members, shown
below with their areas of support.
Membership in The Law Society is
extended to donors who make gifts of
$25,000 or more, payable over five years.
Elevated members were also recognized at The Law Society Dinner.
On April 20,
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)
Stephen L. Hill Jr., ’86, representing the
late Carolyn M. Hill; Susan Heinsz and Rod
Loomer. Not pictured: E. Sidney Douglas and
Gayle Stratmann
Sam F. Hamra, ’59, was honored for
gifts befitting the Dean’s Circle, while
Charles R. Wall, ’70, became a Law
Society Advocate. Members of the Dean’s
Circle have made gifts of $100,000 or
more in their lifetimes. Members of Law
Society Advocates have made gifts of
$250,000 or more in their lifetimes.
We thank all of these alumni and
friends for their generous support of the
School of Law.
Next year’s Law Society event will be
held on April 17 at the Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art in Kansas City, a move
made in response to member suggestions.
N ew M embers of the L aw S ociety
E. Sidney Douglas III, ’83
T.H. and Elvin S. Douglas Family Scholarship
Carolyn M. Hill
Judge Stephen Hill Scholarship
Susan F. Heinsz
Timothy J. Heinsz Memorial Scholarship
Rodney E. Loomer, ’74
Funds honoring three favorite professors
Gayle Grissum Stratmann, ’87
Edward H. Hunvald Jr. Scholarship
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Frank O. Bowman III’s recent publications include “‘The Question Is Which Is
to Be Master — That’s All’: Cunningham,
Claiborne, Rita, and the Sixth Amendment
Muddle,” in 19 Federal Sentencing Reporter
155 (2007) and “A Tribute to Roger Groot” in
64 Washington & Lee Law Review 3 (2007).
Bowman has served as a speaker for
numerous seminars. In May, he presented
“Sentencing Post Blakely/Booker/Fanfan:
New Trends, Issues and Strategies” at the
CJA Panel Attorney Seminar for the U.S.
District Court for the Eastern District of
Missouri. In April, he presented “Recent
Developments Including the U.S. Supreme
Court Cases of Cunningham v. California;
Claiborne v. U.S.; Rita v. U.S.; and Burton
v. Waddington,” at the Federal Criminal
Practice Institute at the University of
Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. In
March, he served as a panelist for PostBooker Sentencing in the Fourth Circuit, at
the Workshop for Judges of the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. In February,
he presented “Sentencing in the Post-Booker
World,” at the Phase II Orientation for Newly
Appointed Federal District Judges.
Amy B. Monahan
was named
chair-elect of
the American
Association of Law
Schools Section on Employee Benefits.
In February, she presented her article,
“Federalism, Federal Regulation, or Free
Market? An Examination of Mandated
Health Benefit Reform,” at the University of
St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis.
The article will be published later this year
in the University of Illinois Law Review.
In addition, she published “The Case for
Federalizing Mandated Health Benefits” in
Administrative & Regulatory Law News.
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FACULT Y NOTE
Office of Admissions and
Student Services
Donna L. Pavlick
Assistant Dean
Melody Richardson Daily, with Professor
Greg Scott and former MU Law Professor
John Mollenkamp, presented “Doing What
We Teach: Demonstrating Trial Argument
Techniques,” at the Rocky Mountain
Regional Legal Writing Conference in March.
During the summer, Daily taught torts to
the 39 students selected to participate in
the Council on Legal Education Opportunity
(CLEO) pre-law summer institute, hosted by
the School of Law.
Christina E. Wells presented her paper,
“Funeral Protests,” at the University of
Georgia School of Law Faculty Colloquium
Series in February. She also published two
articles — “CIA v. Sims: Mosaic Theory &
Government Attitude,” in 58 Administrative
Law Review 845 (2006), which was recently
cited in Wright & Miller’s Federal Practice
and Procedure, and “Katrina & the Rhetoric
of Federalism,” in 26 Mississippi College Law
Review 127 (2006). Both articles were published as part of larger symposia at which
Wells presented her work.
Michelle L. Heck
Admissions
Representative
sity, Missouri State University, Northwestern
University, Notre Dame University, VanderWith a total of 980 applications this past
bilt University, Washington University in St.
year, School of Law applications diverged
Louis and the U.S. Air Force Academy. The
from the national trend. While the national
backgrounds of a few of our entering students
applicant pool has declined for the third year
include an Army Spanish linguist, a boxer,
in a row, MU was one of only 20 law schools
an intern for the Eritrean Supreme Court,
in the nation that experienced an increase
a Peace Corps volunteer, Iraq veterans, an
of 10 percent or more in applications. The
Olympic swimmer, a governor’s pastry chef,
students in our applicant pool were fantastic,
journalists, teachers, financial analysts and
as evidenced by the fact that on the first day
a congressional staffer. We are very excited
of orientation, 86 students participated in
about this year’s 1L class!
a community service project at the Central
Attracting and enrolling such a talented
Missouri Food Bank and repacked 14,283
group of students required a consolidated efpounds of food!
fort by the admissions staff, faculty, current
The entering class is geographically and
students and alumni. Alumni support of our
ethnically diverse, reports a rich mixture of
recruiting efforts is crucial, while alumni
backgrounds and experiences, and has the
contributions allow us to offer bright stuhighest academic credentials to date. Our
dents scholarships to secure their places at the
Missouri residents represent the entire state
School of Law.
and include one student who immigrated
The Admissions Office staff sincerely
from Romania, and our out-of-state students
thanks the many alumni who have helped
hail from 13 states.
to make this another successful year. We are
Academically, these
looking forward to working
students include majors
Snapshot of the Class of 2010
with you again as we recruit
from 50 different fields
Total applications
980
the class of 2011.
of study, with 36 stuTotal enrolled
146
We send a special thanks to
dents double majoring
Median LSAT (78th percentile)
159
Thompson Coburn (St. Louis)
and 11 holding master’s
Median GPA
3.56
and Shughart, Thomson, &
degrees. Fifty-six public
Total women
37%
Kilroy (Springfield) for hostand private colleges and
Total minorities
10%
ing our winter 2007 accepteduniversities are repreState residents
81%
student receptions.
sented, including MU,
Statistics are current as of Oct. 1, 2007.
Truman State UniverMeet the Class of 2010
Nearly half the incoming 1L class participated in the
service project for the Central Missouri Food Bank
held during orientation, coordinated by the Office
of Admissions and Student Services. According to 1L
Shameka Simmons, shown at front, “The Food Bank
volunteer project was just an introduction of what my
law school career would be at Mizzou. It was a great
way to begin orientation week, setting the tone that
volunteer/pro bono work is important in all areas of
professionalism — especially law.”
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Office of Career and Professional Development
MU Law Legal Connections Network
Network
was recently created as a means to offer a
system of support and guidance to current
law students. This network consists of Mizzou alumni and other lawyers who interact
with law students by telephone or e-mail,
and discuss their practice areas, geographic
locations and experiences as attorneys. Its
focus is not job placement, but rather professional development for new attorneys
and attorneys-to-be.
You may join the network regardless of
your firm’s or agency’s hiring needs. Please
call the Office of Career and Professional
Development at 573-882-7386 to volunteer.
The MU Law Legal Connections
2nd Annual Small Firm and
Public Interest Expo
In March, the Office of Career Professional
Development hosted the 2nd Annual Small
Firm and Public Interest Expo, an event
designed to expose law students to attorneys who practice in firms of less than 25
lawyers; practice with state, local, or federal government; or work with non-profit
agencies. The event started with a complimentary CLE presentation on negotiation
tips and ethics by Paul Ladehoff of the
Center of the Study for Dispute Resolu-
tion, followed by a reception at which attorneys
and students mingled.
Both attorneys and
students reported that
they enjoyed meeting
a variety of people and
learning about the variety
Tamra Wilson Setser
of work that lawyers do.
Tamra Wilson Setser,
assistant dean for career
development, and Andrea
Mazza Follett, coordinator of professional development, were pleased that
approximately 100 people
Andrea Mazza Follett
attended the event.
The 3rd Annual Small Firm and Public
Interest Expo is scheduled for March 8,
2008, in Hulston Hall. A complimentary
afternoon CLE will be offered, followed
by a networking reception with fellow attorneys and law students. The expo allows
judges and judicial clerks, government
and public interest attorneys and attorneys
practicing in firms of 25 or fewer lawyers
a great chance to interact with each other
and talk to law students seeking similar
career paths. Formal announcements will
be mailed in January, but please mark your
calendars now for this popular event.
Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution
In addition to regular
Basic Civil Mediation
trainings, the School
of Law’s Center for the
Study of Dispute Resolution (CSDR) provided
advanced mediation
training for federal
Paul Ladehoff
agriculture mediators in
Oklahoma and Illinois, mediation and arbitration training for The Missouri Bar’s Fee
Dispute Resolution program, a workshop
on public policy facilitation at the Heartland Mediators Conference and workshops
on negotiation at various locations across
the state for the Missouri Department of
Health and Farmers Insurance.
CSDR Training Coordinator Paul
Ladehoff was given the Seven Seals Award
law.missouri.edu
by the Missouri Committee of the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve
(ESGR) for his work in support of the
ESGR ombudsman program. Ombudsmen mediate between returning service
members and their civilian employers when
conflict arises under the Uniformed Service
Members Employment and Reemployment
Rights Act. Ladehoff also served as one of
the leaders and trainers for the Difficult
Dialogues project, which seeks to stimulate rigorous intellectual inquiry and to
empower students to engage in dialogue
about opposing views on challenging topics
— such as stem cell research — respectfully
and in the spirit of open-mindedness, and
to develop communication skills essential
to democratic citizenship in an increasingly
diverse society.
Larry Dessem spoke in May at the annual
meeting of the Law School Admissions
Council on “Ten Thoughts Concerning
Transfer Students.” In July he spoke at
the annual meeting of the Southeastern
Association of Law Schools on “The Best
Accreditation System in the Country.”
Last winter Dessem testified before the
Senate Judiciary Committee and the House
General Laws Committee of the Missouri
General Assembly in support of the Missouri
Non-Partisan Court Plan.
D. Daniel Sokol presented “Why is This
Chapter Different from All the Others?
An Examination of Why Countries Enter
into Non-Enforceable Competition Policy
Chapters in Free Trade Agreements” to
the Conference on Latin American Law
and Development, hosted by the Chicago
Kent College of Law, in April. In March,
he presented “Technical Assistance for
Law & Economics: An Empirical Analysis
in Antitrust/Competition Policy” to the
World Bank and to the Inter-American
Development Bank/OECD Mini-Conference
on Competition Policy.
He published “Monopolists Without
Borders: The Institutional Challenge of
International Antitrust in a Global Gilded
Age,” in 4 Berkeley Business Law Journal 37
(2007).
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P R O G R A M S
FACULT Y NOTE
LLM Program
Patricia Brumfield Fry wrote “Coming
to a Screen Near You — ‘eMortgages’
— Starring Good Laws and Prudent
Standards — Rated ‘XML,’” with Newell
and Gordon, in 62 Business Law 295
(2006); “Learning from a Life in Academe,”
in 15 Perspectives, no. 4, pg. 3 (2007);
and “Report of the Study Committee on
Revision of the Law on Notarial Acts”
(2007), available at
www.nccusl.org/update/committees.
Fry made several presentations recently, including “Electronic
Recording: Statutory Solutions” at the
eRecording Stakeholders’ Meeting and
to the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar
Association’s Commercial Law Section,
Florida Association of County Clerks and
Oregon Association of County Clerks; and
“Revision of the Law on Notaries Public”
to the National Association of Secretaries
of State and the International Association
of Clerks, Recorders, Election Officials and
Treasurers.
Fry also chaired the National
Conference of Commissioners on Uniform
State Laws’ (NCCUSL) stakeholders’ meeting regarding the revision of the Law on
Notarial Acts. She attended the spring
meeting of the American Bar Association’s
Business Law Section, the American Law
Institute’s annual meeting and the NCCUSL
annual meeting.
The LLM in Dispute Resolution
degree program has 22 students this
year, including 13 new students and
nine continuing students. This is
another very experienced, talented,
exciting and diverse group. Again we
have students from around the world,
including new students from Nigeria,
Rwanda, South Africa, South Korea,
Sri Lanka and Taiwan. Biographies
of this year’s class are posted at law.
missouri.edu/llm/current-students/.
Pictured above, front row from left:
Jacqueline D. Shipma, ’88; Zain Satardien;
Ho Yoon Hwang; Kemi Gefu and Szu-Liang
“Caillou” Chen. Back row, from left: Hank
Schwetye; Susan Rouse; Robert Thompson;
Ivan Rugema; Richard D. Moore III, ’69;
Brian Pappas and Govinda Jayasinghe. Not
pictured: John Blankenship; Roger Brown;
Angel Dimov; Martha Halvordson; Barbara
Johnson; Aaron D. Jones, ’98; Jiaqi Liang;
Peggy McNeive; Karrén M. Prasifka, ’85; and
Stephanie Sloggett-O’Dell.
Tell Us What You
Want to Read!
If you have an idea for a regular feature you believe should be
included or an alum you’d like to see recognized, let us know!
Send suggestions to the editor:
Casey Baker
Director of External Relations
MU School of Law
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Columbia, MO 65211
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South Africa Summer Study Abroad Program
joined by 10
students from other American law schools,
journeyed to Cape Town, South Africa, this
summer as participants in the law school’s
Summer Study Abroad Program. The sixweek program allows students to take three
two-credit comparative law classes in dispute
resolution, constitutional law and criminal law
at the University of the Western Cape (UWC).
As part of the program, students attended
a session of Parliament, watched preliminary
criminal hearings at the Municipal Court
in the Khyalisha Township and toured the
Goodwood Prison. Professor Jim Levin directed
the program and taught the dispute resolution
course and Professor Kandice Johnson taught
the criminal law course. Three UWC professors
and 20 South African law students also
participated in the program.
The South Africa Summer Study Abroad
Program began in 2004 as a component of
MU’s 21-year relationship with UWC. The law
school also has developed a scholarship fund
that allows one or two UWC students to come
to Columbia each year to participate in the
LLM in Dispute Resolution program.
Fourteen MU Law students,
Students from across the country
participate in the School of Law’s
South Africa Program. At the Cape
of Good Hope, MU Law students
Grant J. Ankrom, 2L (in back);
Melissa E. Denton, 2L (second from
left); and Jonathan W. Bertz, 2L
(third from left), join students from
the University of Denver and the
University of Buffalo.
Carl H. Esbeck has an article forthcoming
this fall in the Journal of Law and Religion
titled “The 60th Anniversary of the Everson
Decision and America’s Church-State
Proposition.”
In April Esbeck presented a paper at the
West Virginia College of Law at the Religion
Clauses in the 21st Century symposium. His
forthcoming article in the West Virginia Law
Review is titled “When Accommodations for
Religion Violate the Establishment Clause:
Regularizing the Supreme Court’s Analysis.”
The Adventist Lawyer Web site (www.
adventistlawyer.com) has reprinted Esbeck’s
article “‘Play in the Joints Between The
Religion Clauses’ and Other Supreme Court
Catachreses,” which first appeared in 34
Hofstra Law Review 1331 (2006).
On May 30 Esbeck was interviewed
on radio station KBIA concerning the
“Evangelical Declaration Against Torture”
and his role on the drafting committee. The
statement has been the subject of stories in
The New York Times and Washington Post.
In June, Esbeck attended the board of
directors meeting of the Christian Legal
Society in St. Louis. He 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.
Earlier that month, Esbeck was asked
to chair the search committee to fill the
James E. Campbell Missouri Endowed
Professorship at the School of Law. Also on
the committee are Professors John Lande
and Amy Monahan.
» For more information about the South Africa Summer
Study Abroad Program, please visit
law.missouri.edu/jd/study-abroad/africa/
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H O N O R S
&
A W A R D S
FACULT Y NOTE
Freyermuth Receives Prestigious
Kemper Fellowship
John D.
Lawson Professor of Law, was honored with a William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence in
April during a surprise visit to his
classroom by MU Chancellor Brady
Deaton and Chairman Jim Schatz of
Commerce Bank.
Freyermuth joined the law faculty
in 1992 and teaches in the areas of
property, real estate, secured transactions and local government. He
currently serves as the executive
director of the Joint Editorial Board
for Uniform Real Property Acts, and
served as the Reporter for the Uniform Assignment of Rents Act and
the Uniform Residential Mortgage
Satisfaction Act. He has co-written
widely used texts in both property
and secured transactions.
Freyermuth clerked for the late
Judge John D. Butzner Jr. of the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and also worked with the North
Carolina firm of Womble, Carlyle,
R. Wilson Freyermuth,
Wilson Freyermuth, with former MU
Law Professor Grant Nelson, hosted the
2007 Missouri Law Review Symposium, A
Festschrift in Honor of Dale A. Whitman,
where he delivered a presentation titled
“Why Mortgagors Can’t Get No Satisfaction.”
In this paper, Freyermuth, who was the
Reporter for the 2004 Uniform Residential
Mortgage Satisfaction Act, addressed the
disconnect between 19th century state
mortgage satisfaction laws and modern
residential mortgage transactions, as well as
the structural obstacles to legislative efforts
to reform mortgage satisfaction laws.
In April, Freyermuth was one of four law
professors on a panel that addressed recent
notable property cases as part of the program at the American Bar Association Real
Property, Probate and Trust Law Section’s
semi-annual meeting.
During the fall, Freyermuth prepared a
paper for, and is serving as a faculty member
for, the Tribal Judicial Institute, a conference to provide training for tribal judges
regarding the provisions of the Model Tribal
Secured Transactions Act, a variation of UCC
Article 9, adapted for the purpose of governing secured transactions taking place within
the jurisdiction of Indian tribes.
Sandridge and Rice in its commercial
real estate and bankruptcy practice
areas. He served as the managing editor of the Duke Law Journal and was
elected to the Order of the Coif. He
has served as a visiting professor at
Duke University School of Law, the
University of North Carolina-Chapel
Hill School of Law, Washington University School of Law in St. Louis,
and the University of Denver Sturm
College of Law.
“Wilson Freyermuth is someone
who cares deeply about his teaching
and his students,” Dean Larry Dessem
says. “Whether it is in the classroom,
when counseling students in his office
or advising former students on career
choices, Professor Freyermuth is always there for his students.”
Fellowships are awarded to only
five professors at MU each year and
come with a $10,000 award. They
were established by William T. Kemper, a 1926 graduate of MU and civic
leader in Kansas City, Mo.
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Dale A. Whitman retired at the end of
the summer. He is teaching property and
real estate transactions at Washington
University in St. Louis this fall. His latest
article, “Deconstructing Lingle: Implications
for Takings Doctrine,” appeared in the winter
2007 issue of the John Marshall Law Review.
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N O T E S
FACULT Y NOTE
Kathy Smith Celebrates 20 Years at the School of Law
Kathy Smith
celebrated her
20th anniversary
at the School of
Law and her 25th
anniversary at MU
this year. In 1982,
she started at MU
in the Division of
Rheumatology/
Immunology in
the Department of Medicine. Five years
later, she transferred to the Law Library.
Currently she works for the director of
the Law Library and is the building coordinator for Hulston Hall.
“Working here at the Law Library is
very challenging and never dull,” Smith
says. “ I manage a vast array of administrative details for the Law Library, but
find it very rewarding. I have very much
enjoyed being a part of the law school
family for the past 20 years.”
Smith and her husband live in a log
home on a 14-acre ranch in New Bloomfield, Mo. One of her many hobbies is
playing bluegrass music with her husband
and friends in Hartsburg, Mo., on the
banks of the Missouri River, and in their
barn, which is set up as a music studio.
She also enjoys sewing, counted crossstitch, golfing and camping at her favorite
bluegrass festival.
Staff Recognition
Each month, staff at the School of
Law are recognized for their contributions to the school. Awardees
are selected based on their nominations from other law school staff or
faculty.
The Law Library staff recognition program honors staff who
demonstrate exemplary performance of high quality work that
is organized, accurate and timely;
have an excellent knowledge base
and continuous skills development;
offer outstanding service to external and internal customers and
colleagues; or demonstrate innovation, creativity and leadership in
furthering the library’s mission.
The School of Law staff recognition program honors staff who
demonstrate a high quality performance that goes above and beyond
the call of duty, including, but not
limited to, providing excellent
service to internal and external
customers, identifying and sharing
new ideas and ways to support the
mission of the School of Law and
demonstrating cooperation and
communication with colleagues to
further the goals of the school.
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Recent Law Library Awardees
Diane Collins, interlibrary loan specialist
Tamara Guilford Davis, circulation specialist
Jessica Longaker, bibliographic specialist
Kathy Smith, administrative associate
Scott Weiser, multimedia support specialist
Alan Whitman, internet administrator
Recent Law School Awardees
Casey Baker, director of external relations,
Office of Development
Michelle Heck, admissions representative,
Office of Admissions and Student Services
Heather Kalb, office support staff,
administrative office
Elaine Litwiller, administrative associate,
fiscal office
Joy Naeger, administrative associate, fiscal
office
Robin Nichols, administrative assistant,
Office of the Dean
Lesley Nilges, administrative assistant, Office
of Career and Professional Development
Monique Prince, administrative assistant,
Clinical Programs
Alisha Rychnovsky, manager of business and
fiscal operations, fiscal office
Philip J. Harter participated in the
International Forum on Mediation in
Administrative Litigation, held at Suzhou
University in China in April. In June, he
taught an intensive course in environmental dispute resolution at Vermont Law
School, as he has done for the past 18 years.
At the American Bar Association’s Section
of Dispute Resolution annual meeting,
he participated on a panel titled Whither
Public Policy Mediation, which reviewed
the current use of mediation by federal
agencies and made recommendations for
improvement.
Harter continues his participation in
a joint effort by the Federal Interagency
Working Group on ADR and the Sections of
Administrative Law and Dispute Resolution
that explores the differences between
collaborative processes that are designed
to provide advice to an agency and those in
which the goal is a consensus.
He lectured on public participation
in the regulatory process on behalf of
American University’s Center for the Study
of Rulemaking, focusing on developing
the rules that will govern appeals from
Medicare decisions.
Harter proposed a committee for
the Section of Administrative Law of the
American Bar Association to focus on collaborative governance and was appointed
its founding chair. The committee addresses
non-traditional regulatory schemes, such
as collaboration between the government
and private players, agreements between
agencies and regulated entities, harmonization of international requirements and
private sector actions that are taken in lieu
of binding arbitration.
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C E L E B R A T I O N
FACULT Y NOTE
Symposium Celebrates
Whitman’s Career
as a scholar,
teacher, colleague, dean, president of the Association of
American Law Schools and reporter for the Restatement
of Property (Third) — Mortgages, Dale A. Whitman has
made immeasurable contributions to law teaching, the legal professor and law reform.
In April, the School of Law hosted a symposium to celebrate Whitman’s career, bringing together property scholars and experts from around
the country. “Dale Whitman has made lasting and significant contributions not only
to our own law school, but to American legal education and the field of property
law,” Dean Larry Dessem says. “It was wonderful to see Dale and his scholarship celebrated in this fashion — by both leading scholars from across the country and our
own faculty.”
The presentations made at the symposium will be available in the fall 2007 edition
of the Missouri Law Review.
In his long and distinguished career
Robert G. Bailey was elected to the board
of governors of the National Academy of
Arbitrators at its annual meeting in San
Francisco. He also serves on the academy’s
Audit Committee. Bailey participated as a
panelist in an advocates training session
during the meeting.
Bailey attended the National Conference
of Commissioners on Uniformed State
Laws (NCCUSL) annual meeting in July. He
is a member of the Uniformed Volunteer
Emergency Health Care Drafting Committee.
The conference approved the text of the
Emergency Health Care Act drafted by
the committee. Bailey also serves on the
Collaborative Law Drafting Committee.
He is on the NCAA Accreditation Team for
the Pennsylvania State University athletic
department accreditation review.
On campus, Bailey has been reappointed
to the University’s Conflict of Interest
Committee. He is teaching the Freshman
Interest Group (FIG) on law and society.
T h e P re s e n ter s
BERMAN
BURKHART
Professor Andrew R. Berman
New York Law School
“The Hazards of Mezzanine
Loans and Preferred Equity
Investments: What Your
Lawyer Is Not Telling You”
Professor Ann M. Burkhart
University of Minnesota Law
School
“The Twenty-First Century Real
Estate Lawyer”
Professor Richard A. Epstein
Earl F. Nelson Lecturer
University of Chicago Law
School
“How to Solve (or Avoid) the
Exactions Problem”
Royce deR. Barondes published “Fiduciary
Duties in Distressed Corporations:
Second-Generation Issues,” in the Journal
of Business & Technology Law. He also
co-wrote a second article, “Underwriters’
Counsel as Gatekeeper or Turnstile: An
Empirical Analysis of Law Firm Prestige and
Performance in IPOs,” in the Capital Markets
Law Journal.
Professor Julie Forrester
Southern Methodist University
Dedman School of Law
“Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac:
The Benefits to Homeowners”
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EPSTEIN
FORRESTER
Professor Paula A. Franzese
Seton Hall University School
of Law
“Communitarian and
Contractarian Solutions to the
Dilemma of Common Interest
Communities”
Professor R. Wilson
Freyermuth
MU School of Law
“Why Mortgagors Can’t Get No
Satisfaction”
Professor John A. Lovett
Loyola University New Orleans
College of Law
“Doctrines of Waste in a
Landscape of Waste”
Professor Grant S. Nelson
UCLA School of Law
“Foreclosure Purchase by
the Holder of the Equity of
Redemption or Other Junior
Interests: When Should
Principles of Fairness and
Morality Trump Normal
Priority Rules?”
OLIVERI
PHILLIPS
FRANZESE
FREYERMUTH
Professor Rigel C. Oliveri
MU School of Law
“The Erosion of PostAcquisition Discrimination
and Harassment Claims Under
the Fair Housing Act”
Professor Georgette
Chapman Phillips
University of Pennsylvania
Wharton School of Business
and School of Law
“Boundaries of Exclusion”
Professor Gregory M. Stein
University of Tennessee
College of Law
“Mortgage Law in China:
Comparing Theory and
Practice”
Professor Dale A. Whitman
MU School of Law
“The Legal Education
Committee’s Property
Curriculum Study”
STEIN
WHITMAN
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HONOR ROLL
✽
Contributors
2006–2007
The School of Law recognizes the following individuals who provided financial support during
the 2007 fiscal year, which began July 1, 2006, and ended June 30, 2007. Gifts and pledges for
the fiscal year totaled $2.6 million.
Class of 1940
Dollars....................... $1,700
Participation................. 30%
John R. Bailey
Thomas E. Deacy Jr.
Leo J. Rozier
Class of 1941
Participation................. 17%
Estate of John K. Hulston
Class of 1942
Participation................. 50%
Cecil C. Orear Jr.
James F. Menefee
Jerome W. Seigfreid
Welzie W. Webb
Bernard C. Rice
Stewart W. Smith Jr.
John Rogers Whitmore
Floyd E. Lawson Jr.
James H. McLarney
Brick P. Storts III
Class of 1952
Class of 1959
Class of 1963
Dollars....................... $2,450
Participation................. 21%
Lane D. Bauer
Erwin M. Blant
William H. Leedy
Austin F. Shute
Richard H. Spencer
Montgomery L. Wilson
Dollars.................... $116,040
Participation................. 30%
Charles E. Brown
Bob F. Griffin
Stanley A. Grimm
Arthur Z. Guller
Sam F. Hamra
Gustav J. Lehr Jr.
Albert C. Lowes
Robert W. Maupin
Lowell R. McCuskey
Larry L. McMullen
James Wm. Roberts
William E. Rulon
Herbert C. Willbrand
Dollars....................... $1,325
Participation................. 10%
James T. Buckley
Roger J. Modersbach
Don K. Pettus
Leo W. Schrader
Class of 1953
Participation................. 20%
Ninian M. Edwards Jr.
Estate of Eugene M. Sackin
Dollars......................$13,650
Participation................. 13%
Walter D. McQuie Jr.
James R. Reinhard
Walter L. Walker
Class of 1948
Class of 1954
Participation...................7%
Charles E. Dapron
Robert L. Hawkins Jr.
Participation...................8%
Don Chapman Jr.
Class of 1947
Class of 1949
Dollars.......................$6,800
Participation................. 15%
David M. Beckerman
Frank D. Connett Jr.
Thaddeus C. McCanse
Nedwyn R. Nelkin
Wade D. Rubick
Robert C. Smith
Class of 1950
Dollars....................... $3,600
Participation................. 10%
W. Thomas Coghill Jr.
Robert E. Crist
George A. Henry
Class of 1951
Dollars....................... $3,300
Participation................. 29%
J. David Collins
Henry C. Copeland
Bruce K. Denebeim
Donal D. Guffey
Roger T. Hurwitz
Stephen N. Limbaugh Sr.
Class of 1955
Dollars..........................$435
Participation................. 14%
H. Murray Claycomb
Robert F. Devoy
Bruce Normile
Class of 1956
Dollars....................... $1,325
Participation................. 19%
Bill D. Burlison
Frank Conley
William E. Farris
Class of 1957
Participation...................7%
Theodore Beckett
Ronald M. Bushman
Class of 1958
Dollars....................... $5,225
Participation................. 24%
David Perry Anderson
William Andy Dalton
Lynden N. Goodwin
Fred L. Hall Jr.
Keith E. Mattern
Class of 1960
Dollars......................$15,750
Participation................. 25%
Eugene G. Bushmann
Donald E. Chaney
Ralph Edwards
Charles B. Faulkner
Bernard N. Frank
Carl D. Gum Jr.
Franklin D. Holder
John D. Rahoy
James E. Spain
Julius F. Wall
Class of 1961
Dollars....................... $7,200
Participation................. 20%
John Fox Arnold
Alex Bartlett
Richard J. Blanck
Thomas J. Conway
Darwin A. Hindman Jr.
Frank M. Masters
B. Kent Snapp
Richard K. Wilson
Stanford A. Zeldin
Class of 1962
Dollars......................$10,650
Participation................. 14%
James T. Ausmus
Maurice B. Graham
Class of 1964
Dollars....................... $1,610
Participation................. 14%
Francis Cullen Cline Jr.
Wade Hampton Ford Jr.
Alfred C. Sikes II
Leon L. Stelling
Marvin E. Wright
William E. Zleit
Class of 1965
Dollars....................... $6,350
Participation................. 13%
Lewis M. Blanton
Robert M. Clayton II
William L. Davis
John M. Gibson
Harold L. Lowenstein
Lawrence H. Pelofsky
John K. Pruellage
H. Dee Wampler III
Class of 1966
Dollars................... $4,765.03
Participation................. 11%
Earl E. Boyd
Glen F. Hackmann
Stephen F. Hanlon
Robert L. Jackson Jr.
Maynard R. Johnson
Philip K. Marblestone
Edwin Scott Orr
N. William Phillips
Class of 1967
Dollars....................... $5,325
Participation................. 14%
Thomas F. Fisher
Gene Hamilton
David K. Hardy
Daniel H. LeGear Jr.
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James A. McDowell
H. Fred Northcraft
David E. Rosenbaum
E. Richard Webber
Class of 1968
HONOR ROLL
John B. Renick
Charles J. Schmelzer III
Thomas N. Sterchi
Craig A. Van Matre
Charles R. Wall
Class of 1971
Dollars......................$71,250
Participation................. 18%
Terrence Ahern
James M. Beck
James D. Ellis
David A. Fischer
James V. Glascock
Harvey L. Kaplan
Paul T. Lyon
David L. McCoid
C. Patrick McLarney
John R. Musgrave
Robert E. Northrip
Joyce M. Otten
J. Richard Owensby
George Lane Roberts Jr.
Wallace J. Turnage Jr.
J. David Wharton
Dollars......................$17,540
Participation................. 17%
Daniel K. Atwill
A. Howard Chamberlin
Thomas R. Corbett
K. Preston Dean II
Dale C. Doerhoff
Nick Dunagan
Glen A. Glass
Gregory F. Hoffmann
Stephen D. Hoyne
Michael A. Middleton
John R. Phillips
William J. Roberts
Michael J. Thompson
John L. Walker Jr.
Paul L. Wickens
Class of 1969
Class of 1972
Dollars......................$37,506
Participation................. 21%
Clifford H. Ahrens
Alan L. Atterbury
Bob L. Bruer
Paul E. Kovacs
Richard N. Nixon
David D. Noce
Gerry D. Osterland
Thomas L. Patten
Claude H. Potts III
Edward H. Sheppard III
John R. Sims
James Madison Smart Jr.
B. Jill Steps
Kenneth H. Suelthaus
J. Edward Sweeney
Dollars......................$34,950
Participation................. 17%
Ted D. Ayres
Robert T. Beezley
Donald G. Cheever
David C. Christian
Rachel R. Eidelman
Thomas J. Frawley
Douglas N. Ghertner
Douglas S. Lang
Robert L. Langdon
Louis N. Lee III
John B. Lewis
John P. Lichtenegger
William G. Mays II
Bruce McCurry
Warren L. McElwain
John L. McMullin III
Meredith L. Ratcliff
Robert S. Rosenthal
Edwin J. Spiegel III
Stephen L. Taylor
Class of 1970
Dollars.................... $167,815
Participation................. 22%
Nolen W. Berry
Irwin E. Blond
Howard M. Bushman
Jack L. Campbell
John W. Cowden
Thomas E. Cummings
Albert W Dieffenbach Jr.
Robert H. Grant
John C. Holstein
John C. Monica
Morris J. Nunn
Dennis D. Palmer
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Class of 1973
Dollars......................$47,100
Participation................. 15%
Robert E. Almirall
David W. Ansley
William F. Arnet
Sanborn N. Ball
Allan D. Barton
L. Clay Barton
James R. Bickel
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2006–2007
Robert J. Blackwell
Mark I. Bronson
James E. Crowe Jr.
Webb R. Gilmore
Paul W. King
John B. Montgomery
Terrence J. O’Toole
Gary Oxenhandler
W. Patrick Resen
Patrick K. Roberts
Jack L. Simmons
R James Stilley Jr.
Rhonda C. Thomas
W.H. Thomas Jr.
Class of 1974
Dollars......................$21,785
Participation...................7%
C. Ronald Baird
Edward C. Bruntrager
John M. Carnahan III
Frank M. Evans III
David L. Forbes
Allan M. Goodloe Jr.
Rodney E. Loomer
Abe R. Paul
Charles R. Stamp Jr.
Class of 1975
Dollars..................... $38,050
Participation................. 21%
Bruce E. Anderson
Joseph A. Cambiano
John L. Cook
W. Mitchell Elliott
Anne W. Elsberry
Buford L. Farrington
Michael E. Godar
William F. Koenigsdorf
Elizabeth Lang-Miers
Nanette K. Laughrey
Edward M. Manring
William T. Marks
W. Dudley McCarter
Gene C. Napier
Steven C. Parrish
Lyndel H. Porterfield
Bill L. Thompson
J. Michael Vaughan
John R. Weisenfels
Patricia L. Wilson
Richard D. Woods
Class of 1976
Dollars......................$16,945
Participation................. 17%
Roger M. Baron
Thomas B. Becker
Bruce H. Beckett
Kenneth D. Dean
James W. Erwin
Steven E. Faber
Eric C. Harris
Robert Michael Heller
Robert D. Higginbotham
Amy Rehm Hinderer
H. William Hinderer
H. Martin Jayne
Thomas R. Jayne
Michael E. Kaemmerer
Gary R. Long
Peggy Stevens McGraw
Jeffrey O. Parshall
W. Gregory Plumb
R. J. Robertson Jr.
Terrence T. Schoeninger
Jerry W. Venters
Robert E. Young
Class of 1977
Dollars....................... $5,925
Participation................. 18%
Robert S. Bogard
Richard Patrick Bumb
Linda M. Castleman
Ann K. Covington
J. David Croessmann
Michael A. Dallmeyer
Deborah Daniels
William W. Francis Jr.
Diane M. Garber
Charles Walter German
William L. Hall
Randall Louis Head
Paul V. Herbers
Timothy Kevin Kellett
Lenzie L. Leftridge Jr.
Terence G. Lord
J. Kent Lowry
Gregory Luzecky
Teresa H. Martin
Terry Daley Schwartze
Class of 1978
Dollars..................... $20,566
Participation................. 18%
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
Michael K. Cully
William J. Daily
Steven Logan Finerty
HONOR ROLL
Michael W. Hanna
Kandice K. Johnson
Andrew B. Leonard
Sherrill L. Rosen
Mark Z. Schraier
Andrew B. See
Karen M. See
Craig A. Smith
Stephen D. Smith
Brian C. Underwood
David Taylor Welch
Dennis P. Wilson
Class of 1979
Dollars....................... $8,905
Participation................. 11%
William L. Allinder
Robert G. Bailey
L. James Bandy Jr.
H. Riley Bock
Kristin K. Bryant
Edward L. Campbell
Susan Gum Crigler
Stephen E. Cupples
Douglas Y. Curran
Mark P. Mantovani
Walter B. McCormick Jr.
Charles F. Miller
Class of 1980
Dollars....................... $8,896
Participation................. 17%
Michael Roy Baker
Eric Kendall Banks
Robert E. Childress
Clark H. Cole
Daniel T. Engle
Milton B. Garber
David H. Gibbons
William K. Haas
JoAnne Spears Jackson
Stephen G. Newman
Randall B. Palmer
Michael J. Patton
Robert E. Pinnell
Edward M. Pultz
Johnny K. Richardson
Mark R. Rudoff
Paul J. Seele
Jane A. Smith
Joseph L. Stokely
H. Morley Swingle
David L. Wieland
Michael L. Yates
Class of 1981
Dollars....................... $6,605
Participation................. 11%
Jerome S. Antel III
Suzanne Modlin Flanegin
Edward J. Grewach
Susan Pinion Holliday
Kristi Lynne Kenney
Brent J. Mayberry
Mary E. Nelson
Phillip S. Page
R. David Ray
Kevin C. Roberts
Stephen H. Snead
H. Scott Summers
Alexander D. Tomaszczuk
Kenneth D. Whiteside
Tamra L. Wilson Setser
Class of 1982
Dollars......................$17,545
Participation................. 14%
Gena Jo Awerkamp
Jeffrey J. Brinker
Cathy J. Dean
Don M. Downing
George T. Floros
Robin Van Winkle Foster
Mary E. W. Harris
Paul M. Macon
John R. Mencl
Robert M. N. Palmer
David W. Ransin
Randa Rawlins
Carl E. Schaeperkoetter
Daniel W. Shinn
Deirdre O’Meara Smith
Mary-Michael Sterchi
Kevin R. Sweeney
John Warshawsky
Class of 1983
Dollars......................$18,050
Participation................. 15%
Robert R. Barton
David E. Bell
Mark V. Berndtson
Jeffrey A. Burns
Deanna Apperson Burns
James A. Burt
Jeffrey J. Comotto
E. Sidney Douglas III
Dennis Carl Eckold
Lisa Moen Eckold
Dean L. Franklin Jr.
Roger C. Geary
J. Brian Griffith
Philip M. Hess
John R. LePage
James C. Morrow
Donna I. Raney
Mary L. Rhodes Russell
Nancy L. Shelledy
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Contributors
2006–2007
Mareta J. Smith
Randee S. Stemmons
Edwin L. Walker
Class of 1984
Dollars..................... $86,270
Participation................. 15%
Philip W. Bledsoe
Frank C. Brown
Nancy L. Hatley Browne
Sharon M. Busch
Anthony G. Bush
Teresa L. Clark
Maurice D. Early
Cynthia G. Edwards
Heather S. Heidelbaugh
Steven W. Lambson
James M. McClellan
Michael E. Melton
John Jackson Miller
Gretchen H. Myers
William S. Ohlemeyer
Larry M. Schumaker
Gary W. Tappana
Janet M. Thompson
Robert W. Wheeler
Lois M. Zerrer
Class of 1985
Dollars......................$11,550
Participation................. 14%
Lynn Newsum Bock
Jane Bridgewater Byers
Keith Alan Cary
William M. Corrigan Jr.
John Alan Cowherd
Glen Ray Ehrhardt
Karl Frederick Findorff
Lorna Louise Frahm
Kendall R. Garten
Daniel R.E. Jordan LLM ‘01
William Charles Love Jr.
Kathy L. Mead
Kimberly J. Norwood
Robert J. Selsor
Andrew M. Solomon
Class of 1986
Dollars......................$19,584
Participation...................8%
Melody Richardson Daily
Carole Lewis Iles
Rhona S. Lyons
Ronald A. Norwood
W. Edward Reeves
James F. Ritzen
Diane L. Rubenstein
David A. Stratmann
Sarah E. Terrace
Kimberly Shell Zellmer
Class of 1987
Dollars..................... $21,828
Participation................. 13%
Robert T. Adams
Mary Butts Bruntrager
Robert T. Ebert Jr.
Richard W. Engel Jr.
Mark D. Grimm
Elizabeth Healey
Sara E. Kotthoff
Christopher J. Molzen
Philip J. Morgan
Michael David Regan
Brian Rosenthal
Joshua L. Schonfeld
Gayle Grissum Stratmann
Scott L. Templeton
Elizabeth Ann Urbance
T. John Wise
Daniel Roy Young
Class of 1988
Dollars....................... $5,442
Participation................. 12%
Brett D. Anders
Lewis D. Barr
Mike W. Bartolacci
Bruce H. Bates
Mary M. Beck
Lisa Capshaw Cushing
Kurt F. James
Daniel F. Kellogg
Pamela S. Lucken
Laura Thielmeier Roy
Gregory J. Scott
Shannon A. Shy
Price A. Sloan
Ann E. Thompson
Lee J. Viorel III
Chris N. Weiss
Class of 1989
Dollars......................$11,250
Participation................... 5%
J. Ronald Carrier
Herbert E. Hardwick
Thomas M Harrison
Mark S. Samila
Richard L. Saville Jr.
James H. Young
Class of 1990
Dollars....................... $7,526
Participation................. 10%
Eva M. Auman
Alana M. Barragan-Scott
Paul I. J. Fleischut
Rebecca Millan Glenn
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Contributors
John P. Hoel
Mark A. Jess
Joseph M. Krutzsch
Mark A. Langworthy
Gregory J. Minana
Michael L. Murray
Louis W. Riggs
Robert M. Thompson
Mary Doerhoff Winter
Gary D. Witt
Class of 1991
Dollars....................... $1,511
Participation...................6%
Philip J. Boeckman
Shari Weinman Crespy
J. Bradley Funk
Jennifer K. Huckfeldt
Dianna Coy Long
James D. Maher
Jeanne Morrison Hann
James A. Rodenberg
Neal Michael Tasch
Class of 1992
Dollars....................... $4,950
Participation...................9%
Scott E. Blair
Jennifer Clifton Ferguson
April Ann Fredlund
Daryanani
Jacob Y. Garrett
Cara L. Harris
Sherry A. Mariea
Kevin P. McDowell
Daniel C. Nelson
Mark Everett Parrish
Mark D. Pfeiffer
Elizabeth A. Phillips
Stuart K. Shaw
Class of 1993
Dollars......................$14,069
Participation................. 10%
Michael W. Atchison
James Mitchell Crabtree
Jay M. Dade
David Allen Dick
Brian S. Franciskato
Art Hinshaw
David M. Israelite
Shana Jerene Long
James Michael Niemann
Harold B. Oakley
Victoria Lee Smith
Steven D. Soden
Anthony Michael Totta
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2006–2007
Class of 1994
Class of 1998
Class of 2002
Dollars....................... $8,133
Participation...................6%
James Edward Berger
Michael Anthony Bickhaus
Eric A. Farris
Michael K. Hamra
Daniel B. Johnson
Lisa Lee Jordan
John Daniel Moore
Chris P. Sweeny
Dollars....................... $3,042
Participation................. 10%
Jennifer L. Atterbury
Elizabeth Tenorio Davis
Daniel Patrick Devers
Joseph L. Hensley
Aaron D. Jones
Brian Timothy McCartney
Lea Catherine St. John-Ritzen
Edward S. Stevens
Matthew Duff Turner
Michael A. Williams
Scott Andrew Wilson
Jennifer Lea Woods
Dollars....................... $4,748
Participation................... 7%
Cynthia Jane Alkon
Ashley C. Baine
Jamica Dowell
Brett Ashley Emison
Matthew J. Landwehr
James Kyle McCurry
William F. Northrip
Angel J. Pagan Cordero
Tonya D. Page
Blake J. Pryor
Marc W. Vander Tuig
Class of 1995
Dollars....................... $3,103
Participation...................7%
Robert S. Bruer
Michael Nelson Chandler
Daniel W. Follett
Thomas G. Glick
Christopher M. Hohn
Timothy M. Huskey
Christopher W. Jensen
Richard Monroe Paul III
Stephen Gerard Strauss
Thomas Christopher Watkins
Raymond E. Williams
Class of 1996
Dollars....................... $3,935
Participation...................9%
Eric Michael Anielak
Todd Henry Bartels
Susan Jennings Bell
Kim K. Gibbens
Terry M. Jarrett
Erick John Roeder
Stephanie Elizabeth Russell
Paula Rene Hicks Schaefer
Mark Lamar Stoneman
Robyn R. Strange
Maureen Mannion Vogel
Erin A. Webber
Class of 1997
Dollars........................$7,961
Participation................. 10%
Thomas C. Albus
Reachel A. Beichley
Jason Lee Bush
Catherine Baker Chatman
Matthew Scott Darrough
Shelly C. Buff Dreyer
John Lawrence Ellis
Douglas Blair Harris
Angela K. Hatley Garms
Dylan L. Murray
Michelle Boehm O’Neal
Megan E. Phillips
Beth S. Riggert
Class of 1999
Dollars..........................$325
Participation...................3%
Randy L. Canis
Sean Patrick Clancy
Andrea Mazza Follett
Mondi Lee Ghasedi
Michael Richard Leamer
Class of 2000
Dollars....................... $3,558
Participation...................7%
Ann Ahrens Beck
Jesse J. Camacho
Tyson H. Ketchum
Fredrick J. Ludwig
Donna L. Pavlick LLM
Mary Ellen Reimund
Michael Joseph Schmid
Elena Maria Vega
Jeffrey Brent Williams
Brett Andrew Williams
Kimberly A. Yates
Class of 2001
Dollars........................$1,414
Participation...................9%
Carolyn M. Allen
Nicholas M. Burkemper
Lindsay E. Cohen
Omar D. Davis
Jean M. Dickman
Daphne Rae Halderman
Douglas R. Lawlyes
Bradford B. Lear
James E. Meadows
Margaret P. Murphy
Natalie Holden Riley
Mark Milam Stevenson
Todd C. Werts
Class of 2003
Dollars....................... $2,073
Participation...................9%
Mitchell Dean Berry
Raymond P. Bozarth
Melissa Ann Faurot
Natalya Yakovlevna Johnson
Bryan Michael Kaemmerer
Jeffrey John Koch
Joe Richard Kuhl
Jason B. Moore
Kelly Renee Moyich
Mary Hoemann Newell
Kara Deonne Paulding
Monty C. Platz
Jason Caturia Rahoy
Dustin Cole Read
Brian Daniel Rogers
Julia C. Walker
Class of 2004
Dollars....................... $1,592
Participation................. 11%
Thomas L. Azar
Alyson M. Carrel
Jennifer Ann Chierek
J. Chandler Gregg
Jason C. Grill
G. Nicole Hininger
Royetta M. Jones
Martin Anthony Miller
Christopher Lee Neudecker
Lise A. Nyrop
Robert Lee Ortbals Jr.
Joshua Michael Raaz
Bridget Birkby Romero
Nevada M. Smith
JR Swanegan
Jennifer L. Thompson
Jennifer Ann Visintine
Ryan Jacob Wartick
Allen Todd Zugelter
HONOR ROLL
Class of 2005
Dollars....................... $1,512
Participation................. 13%
Walter L. Barnes II
Lorraine C. Buck
John Frederick Crawford
Jennifer Anita Foster
Jeffrey Lee Hilbrenner
J. Andrew Hirth
James Robert Howard
Frank Custer Koranda
Michael Stephen Kruse
Caroline A. LaVallee
Betsy K. Loomer
Jason Robert Mudd
Clare Noel Murphy
Jason Elwyn Newton
Christopher Richard Pieper
Ryan Edward Shaw
Marissa Lynn Todd
Adam Lee Warren
Jayne Tiana Woods
Class of 2006
Dollars....................... $5,173
Participation................. 27%
Leslie Faye Ashbrook
John C. Ayres
Sarah E. Baron Houy
Kathleen M. Birkhofer
Eric Edmund Bohl
Natalie L. Brinkley
Kristen Lea Ellis
Alison L. Esbeck
James Patrick Faul
Rex Patrick Fennessey
John Robert Griffith
Mary Jane Groff
Christopher Michael Harper
Jay D. Hastings
Crystal Hermann Fieber
Jacob Gordon Jackson
Jon W. Jordan
Michael James Judy
Daniel R. Kocab
Jacki J. Langum
Fredrick Albert Lutz
Joshua Lee Mareschal
Kristin R. Morin
Kameron Wade Murphy
Natalie Jeanne Nichols
Kathryn Nichole Nolen
Abigail Justine Woodward
Sapp
Jason D. Sapp
Marty Wayne Seaton
Timothy Daniel Steffens
Scott Timothy Summers
Jason Kenneth Turk
Colin D. Uhrick
R. Adam Vickery
Tamara Ann Wallace
Stephanie L. Wan
Jesse E. Weisshaar
Katherine Ashley Welch
Bryan Turner White
Jennifer Dawn Wilson
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2006–2007
Contributors
2007 Class Fund Drive Supports Law School Projects
During the May commencement ceremony, Dean Larry Dessem announced the total amount raised by the graduating
law students during the 2007 Class Fund drive — $11,800.
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
$156,000 during their last semester of law school to support a variety of initiatives at the School of Law.
The following 2007 graduates have made gifts or pledges
to the campaign. Names with asterisks indicate those
who served on the 2007 Class Fund Steering Committee, led by Joshua C. Devine and Jessica R. Gunder.
Erin C. Bartley
*Natalee M. Binkholder
*Kathryn A. Busch
Alicia M. Cornish
Amber L. Davis
*Joshua C. Devine
*Christina K. Eberhard
*Thomas R.B. Ellis
Evan F.F. Fitts
*Andrew W. Funk
*Jessica R. Gunder
Benjamin C. Hassebrock
*Erik G. Holland
*Jason A. Kempf
*Mitchell E. Kempker
Kelly L. King
*Fibbens A. Koranteng
Caroline S. Kornelis
Richard L. Koreger
*Alfred J. Ludwig
Jocelynne P. McAdory
*Marc N. Middleton
Theodore A. Norwood
Daniel P. O’Hearn
Megan B. Pittman
Dianna R. Reed
Antwaun L. Smith
*Brad K. Thoenen
Margaret E. Thompson
Stephanie D. White Thorn
*Marcus C. Wilbers
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Leadership Gifts
$100,000 or more
Estate of Herbert Henley Blair
Sam F. Hamra
Charles R. Wall
$50,000 to $99,999
Estate of Marcia R. Shortridge
Hulston Family Foundation
John Sublett Logan Foundation
Microsoft Corporation
Estate of Earl F. Nelson
William S. Ohlemeyer
$25,000 to $49,999
AT&T
James D. Ellis
Webb R. Gilmore
Estate of Carolyn M. Hill
Estate of Helen Louise
Kassebaum
Robert L. Langdon
Kenneth H. Suelthaus
$10,000 to $24,999
William M. Corrigan Jr.
John W. Cowden
Maurice B. Graham
KWAME Foundation
Linda S. Legg
Walter D. McQuie Jr.
Steven C. Parrish
Shook Hardy & Bacon
Shughart Thomson & Kilroy
Gayle Grissum Stratmann
David A. Stratmann
Student Bar Association
Van Matre, Harrison &
Volkert, PC
$5000 to $9999
William L. Allinder
John Fox Arnold
James M. Beck
David M. Beckerman
Blackwell Sanders Peper
Martin LLP
Frank C. Brown
John M. Carnahan III
Grant Davis
Larry & Beth Dessem
E. Sidney Douglas III
Anne W. Elsberry
Buford L. Farrington
David L. Forbes
Glen A. Glass
Susan F. Heinsz
John P. Hoel
Daniel B. Johnson
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HONOR ROLL
Robert M. Lande
Gustav J. Lehr Jr.
Gary R. Long
Rodney E. Loomer
C. Patrick McLarney
Robert E. Northrip
Thomas L. Patten
Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan
Suelthaus
John K. Pruellage
Marjorie Sackin
Katherine A. Sharp
Sonnenschein Scholars
Foundation
St. Louis Bar Foundation
Brian C. Underwood
$1000 to $4999
A.T. Still University of Health
Sciences, Inc.
Accurso Law Firm
Jane L. Adam
Robert T. Adams
Robert E. Almirall
Bruce E. Anderson
William F. Arnet
Michael William Atchison
Alan L. Atterbury
Bartimus Frickleton Robertson
& Gorny, PC
Mike W. Bartolacci
L. Clay Barton
Bruce H. Beckett
Michael Anthony Bickhaus
Craig S. Biesterfeld
Black Law Students Association
Philip W. Bledsoe
Deanna Apperson Burns
Jeffrey A. Burns
Eugene G. Bushmann
Estate of James E. Campbell
Jack L. Campbell
W. Thomas Coghill Jr.
Frank Conley
Thomas R. Corbett
Robert E. Crist
Jay M. Dade
Melody Richardson Daily
William J. Daily
Hendrine K. Daniels
Charles E. Dapron
Peter N. Davis
Thomas E. Deacy Jr.
Cathy J. Dean
K. Preston Dean II
Albert W Dieffenbach Jr.
Dale C. Doerhoff
Don M. Downing
Richard W. Engel Jr.
Daniel T. Engle
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2006–2007
James W. Erwin
Jennifer Clifton Ferguson
William B. Fisch
David A. Fischer
William W. Francis Jr.
Roger C. Geary
General Federation of Women’s
Clubs of Missouri, Inc.
Allan M. Goodloe Jr.
Fred L. Hall Jr.
Stephen F. Hanlon
Herbert E. Hardwick
David K. Hardy
Douglas Blair Harris
Robert L. Hawkins Jr.
Elizabeth Healey
Robert Michael Heller
Susan Pinion Holliday
Estate of John K. Hulston
Edward H. Hunvald Jr.
Roger T. Hurwitz
Carole Lewis Iles
Robert L. Jackson Jr.
Harvey L. Kaplan
Kempton and Russell, P.C.
Paul W. King
Sara E. Kotthoff
Paul E. Kovacs
John M. Lande
Langdon & Emison, Attorneys
at Law
Nanette K. Laughrey
Law Offices of Tim Dollar, LC
M. Jeanne Lewis
Shana Jerene Long
Henry T. Lowe
Paul M. Macon
Philip K. Marblestone
Keith E. Mattern
Robert Wade Maupin
William G. Mays II
W. Dudley McCarter
David L. McCoid
Larry L. McMullen
James F. Menefee
James C. Morrow
Estate of Ann Mullen
Dylan L. Murray
John R. Musgrave
Grant S. Nelson
James Michael Niemann
William F. Northrip
O’Brien Law Firm
Dennis D. Palmer
Palmer Oliver, PC
Mark Everett Parrish
Don K. Pettus
John R. Phillips
William H. Pittman
Randa Rawlins
James R. Reinhard
Bernard C. Rice
Robert & Edith Young Family
Foundation
Kevin C. Roberts
Estate of Dorothy Anne Roberts
R. J. Robertson Jr.
Robert A. Ryan Jr.
Larry M. Schumaker
Andrew B. See
Senniger Powers
Shelter Insurance Companies
Edward H. Sheppard III
Daniel W. Shinn
Shannon A. Shy
Alfred C. Sikes II
Victoria Lee Smith
Stewart W. Smith Jr.
Stephen D. Smith
Mareta J. Smith
Steven D. Soden
Richard H. Spencer
Charles R. Stamp Jr.
B. Jill Steps
Thomas N. Sterchi
Mary-Michael Sterchi
E. Thomas Sullivan
Kevin R. Sweeney
Sarah E. Terrace
Bill L. Thompson
Jerry W. Venters
Craig W. Virden
Julius F. Wall
E. Richard Webber
John R. Weisenfels
Dale A. Whitman
Jeffrey Brent Williams
Richard K. Wilson
T. John Wise
Women’s Law Association
John Wright
$500 to $999
Jennifer Lee Atterbury
Gena Jo Awerkamp
C. Ronald Baird
Eric Kendall Banks
Roger M. Baron
Robert R. Barton
Bruce H. Bates
Carl M. Bender II
Benson Law Firm, LLC
James Edward Berger
John G. Boyle
Marcia J. Brackman
Jeffrey J. Brinker
Mark I. Bronson
Frederick W. Bryant
Ronald M. Bushman
Edward L. Campbell
HONOR ROLL
C. K. Casteel Jr.
Michael Nelson Chandler
Don Chapman Jr.
Class of 1959
Cook, Vetter, Doerhoff &
Landwehr
Henry C. Copeland
James Mitchell Crabtree
Thomas E. Cummings
Stephen E. Cupples
Matthew Scott Darrough
Defoe Law Firm, PC
Dempsey & Kingsland
James R. Devine
Dobson, Goldberg, Moreland &
Berns
Carl H. Esbeck
Frank M. Evans III
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Janie Ausburn Harmon
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Larsen, Feist & Hess, PC
William H. Leedy
Lowenbaum Partnership, LLC
J. Kent Lowry
Teresa H. Martin
McDonald Hosmer King &
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Stephen F. Meyerkord
Missouri Chapter American
Academy of Matrimonial
Lawyers
Ronald A. Norwood
Randall B. Palmer
Jeffrey O. Parshall
Michael J. Patton
Walter Ray Phillips
Randy W. James & Associates,
PC
R. David Ray
W. Edward Reeves
Johnny K. Richardson
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Leonard L. Riskin
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Erick John Roeder
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Wade D. Rubick
William E. Rulon
Carl E. Schaeperkoetter
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Charles J. Schmelzer III
Paul J. Seele
Jack L. Simmons
Simon Passanante, PC
Jane A. Smith
Robert C. Smith
Stephen H. Snead
Steelman, Gaunt & Horsefield
Hugh E. Stephenson Jr.
Edward Scott Stevens
Chris P. Sweeny
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Janet M. Thompson
Michael J. Thompson
Alexander D. Tomaszczuk
J. Michael Vaughan
Dorrie Virden
James E. Westbrook
J. David Wharton
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Herbert C. Willbrand
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Scott Andrew Wilson
Gary D. Witt
Philip B. Wright
Roger P. Wright
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Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin
LLP
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Chaney & McCurry LLP
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Dempsey & Kingsland
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Edgar Law Firm, LLC
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Fogel & Bronnnenkant
Fox, Goldblatt & Singer, PC
Fox, Heller, Gallagher &
Finley, LLP
Frank, Dolan & Mueller, LLC
General Federation of Women’s
Clubs of Missouri, Inc.
Henning Law Firm, PC
Henry, Henry, Engelbrecht &
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Hershewe Law Firm, PC
Holtsclaw & Kendall, LC
Hulston Family Foundation
James R. Shetlar Law
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& Royce
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Academy of Matrimonial
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& Amick
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Foundation
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Schlueter, Mandel & Mandel
Senniger Powers
Shook Hardy & Bacon
Shughart Thomson & Kilroy
Simon Passanante, PC
Siro & Moyer
Sly James Firm
Sonnenschein Scholars
Foundation
Spooner & Spooner, PC
St. Charles County Chapter,
Mizzou Alumni Assoication
St. Louis Bar Foundation
Steelman, Gaunt & Horsefield
Steve Sanders, LC, Law
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Student Bar Association
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Inc.
AT&T Foundation
Freddie Mac Foundation
General Electric Foundation
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Foundation
Monsanto Fund
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Charitable Trust
Pricewaterhouse Coopers
Foundation
SBC Foundation
Shelter Insurance Companies
Foundation
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Mary M. Kempf
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Faculty and Staff
As part of the For All We Call Mizzou campaign, faculty, staff
and retirees from across campus are asked to contribute to the
university priorities of their choice. School of Law faculty, staff
and retirees boast the highest giving percentage rate of any
school or college at MU. Proudly, we lead campus with an 85
percent participation rate since the inception of the campaign.
Robert G. Bailey
Casey D. Baker
Royce D. Barondes
Mary M. Beck
Michelle Arnopol Cecil
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Kenneth D. Dean
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Stephen D. Easton
Carl H. Esbeck
William B. Fisch
David A. Fischer
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James H. Levin
Elaine D. Litwiller
Henry T. Lowe
Michael A. Middleton
Grant S. Nelson
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Donna L. Pavlick
Philip G. Peters Jr.
Walter Ray Phillips
Cheryl R. Poelling
Richard C. Reuben
Leonard L. Riskin
Alisha Rychnovsky
Gregory J. Scott
Tamra Wilson Setser
JR Swanegan
Rodney J. Uphoff
James E. Westbrook
Dale A. Whitman
William A. Knox
Dorothy Kruel
Robert M. Lande
Linda S. Legg
M. Jeanne Lewis
Stephen Nathaniel Limbaugh Jr.
Sidney Lindley
Joan Lockwood
Philip & Sheila Long
F. James Marston
Lou Matteson
Mary E. Mechlin
Stephen F. Meyerkord
Martin Meyers
Gerald & Camilla Miner
Allen Moore III
Ann Mullen
James B. Nutter Sr.
Stephen J. Owens
Bess W. Paris
William H. Pittman
Larry J. Pitts
Robert T. Ritter
Patrick Robb
Estate of Dorothy Anne Roberts
Glee Knight Rollins
Robert A. Ryan Jr.
Stephen G. Sanders
Mrs. Kenneth Sanford
Gene A. Schillie
Sara J. Schuett
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Estate of Marcia Shortridge
Charles E. Spencer
Hugh E. Stephenson Jr.
Joseph B. Stulberg
E. Thomas Sullivan
Robert C. Sullivan
Esther Tabor
Jean & Warren Taylor
Tommy W. Taylor
Robert M. Thompson
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Dorrie Virden
Kenneth K. Vuylsteke
Richard Wallace
William Scott Ward
Carolyn C. Whittington
Brian Winget
Sue Ann Wood Poor
John Wooddell
Janella Worland
John Wright
Philip B. Wright
Roger P. Wright
Shannon O. Wright
James R. Wyrsch
David A. Zeeck
Alumni Notes
1940s
1970s
Karl W. Blanchard Sr., ’40, received the Ben
Nick Dunagan, ’71, retired as chancellor of
James S. Haines Jr., ’75 , retired as CEO and
director of Westar Energy Inc., the largest
electric utility in Kansas.
Ely Jr. Defense Lawyer Award from the Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers. The
award is presented to a member who has
been in the active practice of law for at least
10 years and has an honorable record of service to the defense bar. The recipient must
also demonstrate unusual proficiency in the
art of civil defense trial and appellate advocacy. Blanchard is a partner with Blanchard,
Robertson, Mitchell & Carter in Joplin, Mo.
(Editor’s Note: To read Mr. Blanchard’s
obituary, please see page 44).
the University of Tennessee-Martin in June.
Robert Wm. Bosslet Jr., ’76 , was selected as
Michael G. Goldstein, ’71, was featured on
a 2007 Illinois Super Lawyer. He practices
with the Law Offices of Bosslet & O’Leary
in Granite City, Ill.
Douglas S. Lang,
’72 , received the
1960s
Darwin A. Hindman Jr., ’61, was awarded the
Columbia Metro Rotary Club Public Sector Service Award, which recognizes a person from the public sector who adheres to
the highest ethical standards in his or her
work and uses his or her talents for the problems and needs of society. Hindman serves as
mayor of Columbia.
Maurice B.
Graham, ’62 , was
elected chair of the
Sheldon Arts Foundation, which provides funding for
musical concerts,
gallery exhibits and
educational proMaurice B. Graham, ’62
grams conducted at
the non profit Shelton Concert Hall and Art Galleries, as well
as the preservation of the Sheldon facilities.
He was also listed in the 2008 edition of Best
Lawyers in America in the areas of commercial litigation, medial malpractice, personal
injury and bet-the-company recognition.
Graham is president of Gray, Ritter & Graham in St. Louis.
Phillip R. Garrison, ’66 , retired from the
Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, after nearly 15 years of judicial service.
He was appointed to the court in December 1992 and was retained twice by voters
for 12-year terms. Following his retirement,
Garrison became a partner in Shughart
Thomson & Kilroy, practicing civil litigation
in the firm’s Springfield, Mo., office.
Joe T. Buerkle, ’68 , is a shareholder in The
Limbaugh Firm, Attorneys at Law, in Cape
Girardeau, Mo.
Harvey L. Kaplan, ’68 , was named in Who’s
Who Legal as an outstanding product liability
lawyer. He is a partner with Shook, Hardy &
Bacon in Kansas City, Mo.
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the cover of the August issue of Employee
Benefit Adviser magazine. In the article, he
shares The Newport Group’s view on why
the need for non qualified plans will continue to grow as participants “are going
to need more than just a 401(k) and Social
Security.” Goldstein is senior vice president and counsel of The Newport Group in
Newport Beach, Calif.
Lola Wright Foundation Award from
the Texas Bar Foundation. The award
is presented in recognition for outstanding public serDouglas S. Lang, ’72
vice in advancing
and enhancing legal
ethics in Texas. Lang is a justice on the Fifth
District of the Texas Court of Appeals.
James C. Morton Jr., ’72 , retired on April 1
from Nissan North America. He continues
to serve the company as senior advisor for
government affairs on a contract basis. Previously Morton served as senior vice president
of administration and finance.
John S.
Sandberg, ’72 , was
John S. Sandberg, ’72
named one of the
best trial attorneys in
the country by Best
Lawyers in America
for 2008 in the area
of personal injury
litigation.
Gary R. Long, ’76 , was named in Who’s Who
Legal as an outstanding product liability lawyer. He is a partner with Shook, Hardy &
Bacon in Kansas City, Mo.
Edwin H. Smith, ’77, retired from the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District,
effective July 6. He was appointed to the
court in 1995 and served as its chief judge
from July 1, 2004, to June 30, 2006. Following his retirement, Smith became a partner
at Shughart Thomson & Kilroy in St. Joseph,
Mo., where he practices corporate law.
Law Alumna
Named to
Supreme Court
On Sept. 7, Gov.
Matt Blunt named
Judge Patricia A. Breckenridge, ’78,
Judge
to the Supreme
Patricia A. Breckenridge, ’78
Court of Missouri. Previously she served as a judge
of the Western District of the Missouri
Court of Appeals. Breckenridge began
her judicial career in 1982 as an associate
circuit judge in Vernon County, Mo.
Lawrence J. Gordon, ’78 , is senior vice president and regional counsel for Vesta Strategies, a national Section 1031 tax deferred
exchange company based in San Jose, Calif.
Carol J. Miller, ’78 , received the 2007
Karl W. Blanchard Jr., ’73 , was elected to
serve as president of the Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers. He practices with
Blanchard, Robertson, Mitchell & Carter in
Joplin, Mo.
Richard C. Bresnahan, ’73 , was re-elected to
a two-year term on the board of governors
of The Missouri Bar.
Ellen S. Roper, ’73 , founded Civil Media-
tion Services to provide mediation in nondomestic civil cases. She is a former Boone
County, Mo., circuit court judge.
Kenton G. Askren, ’74 , announces the opening of his new office, specializing in civil,
domestic and probate mediation and private
trial services. His office is located at 14801
Chelcy Lane, Boonville, MO 65233. Previously he served as a trial judge for 32 years.
national Excellence in Research Award from
the Academy of Legal Studies in Business.
She was recognized for “Law-Based Degree
Programs in Business and Their Departments (A Comprehensive Study of Undergraduate Law-Based Degree Programs in
AACSB-Accredited Universities),” an article
she co-wrote that appeared in the Journal of
Legal Studies Education. Miller serves as a distinguished professor of business at Missouri
State University in Springfield, Mo.
Duane E. Schreimann, ’78 , joined the National
Arbitration Forum’s national panel of independent and neutral arbitrators and mediators. He practices with Schreimann, Rackers,
Francka & Blunt in Jefferson City, Mo.
James P. Valbracht, ’78 , is an associate pro-
bate judge in Livingston County, Mo. He
was elected to the 43rd Circuit in November
2006 and assumed office Jan. 1.
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Jeffrey A. Brimer, ’79, was named a 2007
Legal Eagle by Franchise Times magazine. He
practices with Snell & Wilmer in Denver.
LuAnn (Vollenweider) Madsen,
’79, received the
President’s Award
from the Missouri Association
of Trial Attorneys
(MATA). She was
honored for “going
LuAnn (Vollenweider)
above and beyond
Madsen, ’79
the call of duty to
assist MATA and its members.” She has lobbied for MATA in the capital for more than
two decades. Madsen is a principal in the
lobbying firm of Madsen & Wright Inc. in
Jefferson City, Mo.
Harold A. “ Skip” Walther, ’79, was elected
vice-president of the board of governors of
The Missouri Bar.
1980s
Eric Kendall Banks, ’80 , received the Rever-
end Arnold and Mildred Bringewatt Social
Justice Award from Lutheran and Family
Children’s Services of Missouri. This award
honors individuals who have made a significant commitment to social justice.
Jane A. Smith, ’80, LLM ’02 , was elected to
the Jefferson City (Mo.) City Council. She
practices with Blitz, Bardgett and Deutsch in
Jefferson City.
Richard C. Miller, ’81, received the Congenial
Counselor Award posthumously from the
Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association at
the 34th Annual Bench-Bar & Boardroom
Conference in May.
Don M. Downing,
’82 , was listed in the
Don M. Downing, ’82
Southwest Super Lawyer for 2007. He practices with Stinson Morrison Hecker in
Phoenix.
James Robert “ Bob” Penninger Jr., ’82 , is
counsel in the Tax & Estate Planning Practice Group of Husch & Eppenberger in St.
Louis.
Kevin R. Sweeney, ’82 , is chair of the multi-
disciplinary Life Science Group and a senior
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Dean L. Franklin Jr.,
’83 , received a Bur-
ton Award for Legal
Achievement from
the Burton Foundation in association with the Library
of Congress. His
award-winning
Dean L. Franklin Jr., ’83
article, co-written with colleague
Tim Krieger, is titled “Liability of Computer
Maintenance Providers Under Copyright
Law: Storage Tech. Corp v. Custom Hardware Eng’g & Consulting, Inc.” The Burton Awards honor attorneys “who use plain,
clear and concise language and avoid archaic,
stilted legalese.” Franklin is a partner at
Thompson Coburn in St. Louis.
Heather S.
Heidelbaugh, ’84 ,
was named as a fellow of Litigation
Counsel of America,
a trial lawyer honor
society that includes
fellowship for less
than half of 1 perHeather S.
cent of American
Heidelbaugh, ’84
lawyers. She was also
named a 2007 Pennsylvania Super Lawyer,
a distinction only 5 percent of Pennsylvania lawyers achieve. Heidelbaugh is a shareholder at the Pittsburgh law firm of Babst,
Calland, Clements and Zomnir, where she
focuses her practice on complex litigation,
products liability, intellectual property and
election law.
Erik A. Bergmanis, ’85 , was re-elected to a
two-year term on the board of governors of
The Missouri Bar.
2008 edition of Best
Lawyers in America in
the area of commercial litigation practice. He practices
with Gray, Ritter &
Graham in St. Louis.
Michael L. Parrish, ’82 , was selected as a
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department, where
he focuses on health
care. Pursell joined
Blackwell Sanders after 18 years at
Shughart Thomson
& Kilroy.
member of the Corporate Finance Group
of Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus in
Kansas City, Mo.
Dennis M. Alt, ’86
Dennis M. Alt, ’86 ,
rejoined Bryan Cave
in Kansas City, Mo.,
as of counsel. Previously he served as
general counsel with
E3 Biofuels, a company specializing in
renewable fuel and
agriculture.
Denise E. Powell, ’88 , is a PhD candidate
in MU’s Human Development and Family Studies program. She hopes to develop a
more in-depth Focus on Kids program that
will better educate parents going through
divorce or custody proceedings in Missouri.
David B. Pursell, ’88 , is a partner with Black-
well Sanders Peper Martin in Kansas City,
Mo. He practices in the firm’s corporate
David B. Pursell, ’88
Eric J. Wulff, ’89, was re-elected to a two-
year term on the board of governors of The
Missouri Bar.
1990s
Scott M. Mann, ’90 , was selected as a fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Attorneys and elected as president-elect
of the Family Law Section of the Kansas
Bar Association for 2007-2008. He practices
with Evans & Mullinix in Shawnee, Kan.
Cynthia Dillard Parres, ’90 , is general counsel
of Houlihan’s Restaurants Inc.
Curtis O. Poore, ’90 , is a managing partner
and general counsel for RiverWest Partners,
a real estate development and investment
company in Cape Girardeau, Mo.
Timothy W. Burns, ’91, is a shareholder in
the Madison, Wis., office of Heller Ehrman,
where he practices in the firm’s Insurance
Recovery Practice Group. Previously he
practiced at the Chicago firm of Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg, where, as a partner, he
developed a nationally prominent directors’
and officers’ insurance practice.
Kennard L. Jones, ’91, is a regulatory law
judge with the Missouri Public Service
Commission in Jefferson City, Mo. He and
his wife, Bonita, have two daughters, Isla
Mari and Eden Loren.
Gregory W. Osterloth, ’92 , is a partner of
Holland & Hart in Denver. He specializes in patent and other intellectual property
matters.
Jay M. Dade, ’93 , was named a member of the
University of Missouri Presidential Search
Advisory Committee and a member of the
board of directors of MIZZOU PAC Inc.,
which is affiliated with the Mizzou Flagship Council. Dade practices with Shughart
Thomson & Kilroy in Springfield, Mo.
Rosario Iglesias, ’93 , is a hearings officer in
Texas.
Charles J. “Chuck” McPheeters, ’93 , was
elected to serve as treasurer of the Missouri
Organization of Defense Lawyers. He practices
with Carson & Coil in Jefferson City, Mo.
Thomas G. Glick, ’95 , is principal of Danna
McKitrick in Clayton, Mo. He serves clients
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Thomas G. Glick, ’95
in all aspects of probate and trust litigation and is skilled
in handling estate
administration,
guardianships and
conservatorships,
estate planning,
mental health matters and real estate
transaction needs.
Ian S. Topf, ’95 , announces the opening of
the Law Offices of Ian S. Topf in San Diego,
representing clients in the areas of family
law, estate planning, general civil litigation
and criminal defense.
Steven C. Fenner, ’96 , was mobilized to
active duty with the U.S. Navy on June 18.
He serves as a crewman on a convoy security
team. He is enlisted as a legalman 1st class in
the Navy Reserve.
Brian D. Waller, ’96 , is a claims litigation manager at Shelter Insurance Co. in
Columbia.
Morry S. Cole, ’97
Morry S. Cole, ’97,
was listed in the
2008 edition of Best
Lawyers in America in
the area of personal
injury litigation. He
practices with Gray,
Ritter & Graham in
St. Louis.
Daniel C. Mizell, ’97, announces the opening
of Deputy and Mizell, located at 120 E. Second St., Lebanon, Mo. The firm’s telephone
number is 877-532-2191. Mizell’s practice
continues to focus on personal injury, workers’ compensation and family law.
of The Law Office of Hensley & Nicholas.
Offices are located at 122 W. Fourth St. in
Carthage, Mo., and at 610 S. Pearl, Suite A,
in Joplin, Mo. Hensley continues his practice
in the areas of civil litigation, appeals and
trial practice, with an emphasis in construction law and family law including adoptions,
divorce and custody matters.
R. Travis Jacobs, ’98 , was elected to another
term on the Young Lawyers’ Section Council of The Missouri Bar.
Aaron D. Jones, ’98 , was elected to another
term on the Young Lawyers’ Section Council of The Missouri Bar.
Michael A. Williams, ’98 , received the Young
Lawyer of the Year award from the Kansas
City Metropolitan Bar Association at the 34th
Annual Bench-Bar & Boardroom Conference in May. He was also elected to another
term on the Young Lawyers’ Section Council
of The Missouri Bar. Williams practices with
Lathrop & Gage in Kansas City, Mo.
Scott E. Nutter, ’99, and his wife, Susie, of
Kansas City, Mo., announce the birth of
twins, Lilliana Kirby and Lukas Morton, on
Nov. 18, 2006. Nutter practices with Shamberg, Johnson & Bergman in Kansas City.
Matthew W. Potter, ’99, is deputy demo-
cratic director for the City of St. Louis board
of election commissioners. He was also
appointed by Gov. Matt Blunt to the board of
governors of his undergraduate alma mater,
Truman State University in Kirksville, Mo.
Jayme Salinardi, ’99, has been assistant
chief counsel for the Department of Homeland Security/Immigration and Customs Enforcement since February 2003. In
November 2006, he was transferred from
San Francisco to Kansas City, Mo.
ence in amputations, assaults/violent acts, fractures,
head injury, infectious disease, neck
injury, back injury,
permanent disability
and appeals.
Susan L. Brown, ’00
Courtney E. Goddard, ’00 , is assistant general
counsel at Park University in Parkville, Mo.
Previously she served as a senior associate at
Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin in Kansas
City, Mo.
Michele Thorburg Hammond, ’00 , supervises
the St. Charles County, Mo., office of Cordell & Cordell.
Harold E. Stearley, ’00 , is a regulatory
law judge at the Missouri Public Service
Commission.
Michael J. Sudekum, ’00 , is a new member of
the Young Lawyers’ Section Council of The
Missouri Bar.
Kimberly Cook,
’01, married Rob-
ert W. Davis Jr., on
April 21 in Runaway Bay, Jamaica.
She is general counsel for Clayco Inc.
in St. Louis, and her
husband is a general
Kimberly Cook Davis, ’01
manager for Cintas
in the development
management division in St. Louis.
Amanda Pennington Ketchum, ’01, was
elected to another term on the Young Lawyers’ Section Council of The Missouri Bar.
Todd C. Stanton, ’99,
was named by Missouri Lawyers Weekly
as one of the Up and
Coming Lawyers in
Missouri for 2007.
Michael G.
Munsell, ’97, is a
partner at Armstrong
Teasdale in St. Louis.
He practices in the
firm’s intellectual
property group.
Jason W. Phelps, ’01,
is an associate in the
Transactions Client Service Group of
Bryan Cave in Kansas City, Mo.
Todd C. Stanton, ’99
Michael G. Munsell, ’97
Jason W. Phelps, ’01
Patricia K. Susi, ’99, practices with the Clay-
ton, Mo., firm of Zerman and Mogerman.
David R. Vandeginste, ’97, is a member of the
Commercial Litigation Client Service Group
of Bryan Cave in Kansas City, Mo.
John W. Westmoreland, ’97, is a member of
the Business Transactions Practice Group of
Husch & Eppenberger in St. Louis. Previously he served as the legislative director to
Congressman Donald A. Manzullo of the
16th Congressional District of Illinois.
Joe Hensley, ’98 , announces the formation
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2000s
Lauren Perkins Allen, ’00 , was elected to
another term on the Young Lawyers’ Section
Council of The Missouri Bar.
Susan L. Brown, ’00 , is an associate in the
civil defense practice group of Evans &
Dixon in St. Louis. She has case experi-
Matthew C. Price, ’01, was elected to another
term on the Young Lawyers’ Section Council of The Missouri Bar.
Charles R. Wooten, ’01, is a partner in the
firm of Breeze, Roberts, Ponder-Bates and
Zimmer in St. Louis.
Bryan R. Berry, ’02 , joined Lathrop & Gage
in Springfield, Mo., as an associate in the
business disputes practice area. He focuses
his practice on various business disputes
including breach of contract matters, loan
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Bryan R. Berry, ’02
enforcement actions,
construction matters,
insurance disputes,
regulatory matters,
business torts and
professional liability matters. Befpre
joining the firm, he
served for three years
as an assistant prosecuting attorney in
Greene County, Mo.
Nicholas A. Kriegel, ’02 , is associate counsel
for Safety National Casualty Corporation in
St. Louis. He and his wife, Sally Schoeninger
Kriegel, ’02 , announce the birth of their son,
Henry Terrence Kriegel, on Aug. 8, 2006.
J.D. Luhning, ’02 , joined the products liabil-
ity group of Rabbitt, Pitzer & Snodgrass in
St. Louis. He focuses his practice in the areas
of general litigation defense and personal
injury defense.
Michele L. Mekel, ’02 , is a visiting assistant
professor of law at Drake Law School in Des
Moines, Iowa, where she teaches introduction to health law, administrative law and
bioethics.
Sarah Coleman Nichols, ’02 , is a senior tax
attorney for Emerson Electric Co. in St. Louis.
Matthew C. Wilson, ’02 , opened a solo practice
in Columbia focusing on consumer fraud.
Hollie R. Birkholz, ’03 , is an associate at Gal-
lop, Johnson & Neuman in St. Louis.
Nathaniel D. Dally, ’03 , was appointed city
attorney for the City of Carthage, Mo., on
January 1. On the same day, he opened a
private civil law practice with Justin Baucom, a University of Oklahoma College of
Law graduate. Dally continues to serve as
an assistant prosecutor for Jasper County,
Mo., and has served as an adjunct professor
for Missouri Southern State University and
Crowder College.
Whitney E. Deacon, ’03 , is a new member of
the Young Lawyers’ Section Council of The
Missouri Bar.
two years at Credit Suisse in the real estate
finance and securitization group.
Emily (Huitsing)
Laird, ’03 , and
her husband, Joe,
announce the birth
of their son, Elijah Joseph, on June
4. At the time of his
birth, he weighed
7 pounds, 4 ounces
Elijah Joseph, son of
and was 18.5 inches
Emily (Huitsing) Laird, ’03
long. Laird practices
in the Washington, D.C., office of Shook,
Hardy & Bacon.
Jason A.
Paulsmeyer, ’03 ,
and his wife, Kristen
(Gore) Paulsmeyer,
’04 , announce the
birth of their daughter, Regan ElizaRegan Elizabeth, daughter beth, on Jan. 25.
of Jason A. Paulsmeyer,
Jason is an associ’03, and Kristen (Gore)
ate with Andereck,
Paulsmeyer, ’04.
Evans, Milne, Widger & Johnson in Jefferson City, Mo., and is
a new member of the Young Lawyers’ Section Council of The Missouri Bar. Kristen
is an attorney in the Labor Division of the
Missouri Attorney General’s Office in Jefferson City, Mo.
Mark G. Boyko, ’04 ,
published “Who
Knew? Admissibility of Subsequent
Remedial Measures
When Defendants
are Without Knowledge of the Injuries”
in 38 McGeorge Law
Mark G. Boyko, ’04
Review 653 (2007),
written with Ryan
G. Vacca, ’04. A study he co-wrote with his
two brothers, “Referee Bias Contributes to
Home Advantage in English Premiership
Football,” will be published in an upcoming edition of the Journal of Sports Sciences.
Boyko is an associate at Schlichter, Bogard
& Denton in St. Louis, where he practices
Employee Retirement Income Security Act
(ERISA) class actions.
Timothy A. Garrison, ’03 , concluded his
active duty service with the U.S. Marine
Corps. His tour included service at Camp
Pendleton, Calif., and Al Anbar Province,
Iraq. Garrison, his wife, Traci, and their two
sons have returned to the Springfield, Mo.,
area, where he serves as a federal prosecutor with the United States Attorney for the
Western District of Missouri. He continues his affiliation with the Marine Corps as
a reservist.
Adam J. Hamilton, ’04 , is an associate in the
Litigation Practice Group of Greensfelder,
Hemker & Gale in St. Louis.
Brian G. Hulla, ’03 , joined JPMorgan Chase
James D. Hughes, ’04 , is an associate at Bryan
Real Estate in New York where he is an
associate in the large loan structuring group.
Before working at JPMorgan, Hulla spent
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Talmage E. Newton
IV, ’04 , joined the
civil defense practice group of Evans
& Dixon as an associate. He has experience in assaults, violent attacks and falls.
He is also experiTalmage E.
enced in contract litNewton IV, ’04
igation and commercial disputes, employment discrimination
litigation, appeals and criminal defense.
Robert L. Ortbals Jr., ’04 , was one of 10 Missouri lawyers selected for the 2007-2008
Missouri Bar Leadership Academy, which
trains young lawyers to become Missouri
Bar leaders. Ortbals is an attorney in the
Employment Litigation & Policy Group at
Shook, Hardy & Bacon, where he represents
corporate employers in employment-related
litigation exclusively.
Karlla S. Philpot, ’04 , is an associate at
Brown & James in St. Louis.
Lara M. Underwood, ’04 , is an associate at
Walker Crow Halcomb in Jefferson City,
Mo. Her practice focuses on family law, collections and criminal defense.
Ryan G. Vacca, ’04 ,
published “Expanding Preferential
Treatment Under
the Record Rental
Amendment Beyond
the Music Industry,” in 11 Lewis &
Clark Law Review
Ryan G. Vacca, ’04
605 (2007); “Who
Knew? Admissibility of Subsequent Remedial Measures When
Defendants are Without Knowledge of the
Injuries,” in 38 McGeorge Law Review 653
(2007), written with Mark G. Boyko, ’04 ;
and “Design Patents: An Alternative Option
When the Low Standards of Copyright are
Too High?” in 31 Southern Illinois University
Law Journal 325 (2007). He is pursuing his
LLM at New York University School of Law.
Previously he practiced with Stinson Morrison Hecker in St. Louis.
Shomari L.
Benton, ’05 , is an
Michael E. Gardner, ’04 , is a member of
Osburn, Hine, Kuntze, Yates & Murphy in
Cape Girardeau, Mo. He previously served
as an associate at the firm.
Shomari L. Benton, ’05
associate in the Litigation Department
of Blackwell Sanders
in Kansas City, Mo.
He practices in the
area of environment,
natural resources and
water.
Cave in Kansas City, Mo.
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Alumni Notes
Lori C. Buck, ’05
Lori C. Buck, ’05 , is
Cynthia Alkon, LLM ’02 , published “Women
an associate in the
corporate department of Blackwell
Sanders in Kansas
City, Mo. She and
her husband, Layne,
celebrated the birth
of their first child,
Avery Grace, in
March.
Labor Arbitrators: Women Members of the
National Academy of Arbitrators Speak
about the Barriers of Entry into the Field,”
in 6 Appalachian Journal of Law 195 (2007).
The article explores the barriers that women
face in entering the labor arbitration field.
She presented another paper, “Plea Bargaining: Are We Importing a Bad Idea to Troubled Criminal Justice Systems,” at the Law
and Society Conference in Berlin, Germany.
Cecily L. Daller, ’05 , is a Boone County, Mo.,
assistant prosecuting attorney.
Jessica J. Hulting, ’05 , is an associate at Gal-
lop, Johnson & Neuman in St. Louis.
John C. Ayres, ’06 , and his wife, Sara,
announce the birth of their first child,
Gabrielle Lauren Ayres, on May 26. At
the time of her birth, Gabrielle weighed 8
pounds, 6 ounces and was 21 ¼ inches long.
Ayres practices with Latham & Watkins in
Chicago.
Amy M. Byrne, ’06 , works in the chief counsel’s office at the Missouri Department of
Transportation.
Nathan J. Forck, ’06 , is an associate at the
Yungwirth Law Firm in Columbia. His
practice focuses on elder law, including
estate planning and Medicaid disputes.
Jonelda L. Fortney, ’06 , is a partner at
Deveny, Brown & Fortney in Edina, Mo.,
where she concentrates her practice on family law and real estate law. Fortney also
serves as Knox County (Mo.) assistant prosecuting attorney.
Jacob G. Jackson, ’06 , is a founding member of the law firm of Jackson Pummill LLC,
located in Lenexa, Kan. He is currently
licensed in both Missouri and Kansas.
Daniel R. Kocab, ’06 , and Jennifer K. Leon,
’06 , were married on March 10 in St. Louis.
They reside in Stafford, Va., while Kocab
completes infantry training at The Basic
School for the U.S. Marine Corps. Once his
training is complete, he will report to Navy
Judge Advocate School in Newport, R.I.
Jane A. Smith, ’80, LLM ’02 , was elected to
the Jefferson City (Mo.) City Council. She
practices with Blitz, Bardgett and Deutsch in
Jefferson City.
Christine Harris Taylor, LLM ’03 , opened
a private practice
dedicated to fulltime mediation and
arbitration in Glendale, Wisc. She is
the only attorney in
Wisconsin to hold an
Christine Harris Taylor,
advanced law degree
LLM ’03
in dispute resolution
and also holds appointments at Marquette
University as assistant director in the Center
for Dispute Resolution Education and assistant adjunct professor in the LLM program.
Paula M. Young, LLM ’03 , published “The
Where of Mediation: Choosing the Right
Location for a Facilitated Negotiation” on
mediate.com. She was invited by the Office
of Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court
of Virginia to join the ethics committee of
the Division of Dispute Resolution Services
for the purpose of revising the standards of
conduct that apply to all certified mediators
in Virginia. She also presented two programs
at the 16th Annual Conference for Mediators and Arbitrators hosted by the Florida
Dispute Resolution Center — “So Grieve
It, Just Grieve It: What Florida Mediators
Should Know about the Disciplinary Process” and “Party Self-Determination: Protecting It Procedurally and Substantively.”
Clayton J. Pummill, ’06 , is a founding member of the law firm of Jackson Pummill LLC,
located in Lenexa, Kan.
Amy Glaser, LLM ’04 , is the chair of the alternative dispute resolution committee for the
Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association.
She teaches negotiation as an adjunct professor at Washburn University School of Law in
Topeka, Kan.
LLM
Jeffrey H. Goldfien, LLM ’05 , published
Brian Jarrett, LLM ’01, accepted a tenure-
track teaching position in the alternative dispute resolution (ADR) program at Salisbury
University in Salisbury, Md. He continues
his research integrating ADR with major
theoretical developments in social science
and assists in the development of the ADR
graduate program at Salisbury University.
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“What If the Lawyers Have Their Way? An
Empirical Assessment of Conflict Strategies
and Attitudes Toward Mediation Styles,” in
22 Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution
277 (2007) with Jennifer K. Robbennolt, a
senior fellow of the Center for the Study of
Dispute Resolution. The article is based on a
survey of law students and finds that facilitative and evaluative (or elicitive and directive)
styles of mediation are conceptually distinct
and potentially compatible sets of behaviors
rather than opposite poles on a continuum.
Daxton R. “ Chip” Stewart, LLM ’07, was
named editor in chief of Dispute Resolution
Magazine, the quarterly publication of the
American Bar Association Section of Dispute
Resolution. He presented a paper, “Harry
Potter and the Exploitative Jackals: How do
J.K. Rowling’s Books About the Boy Wizard Impact the Salience of Media Credibility Attributes in Young Audiences?” at the
annual conference of the Association for
Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in August. The paper tied for second
place in the student paper competition in the
Mass Communication and Society Division.
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Alumni Memoriam
Walter L. Mulvania, ’31, of Rock Port, Mo.,
died July 24, at age 101. He practiced law in
Rock Port from 1931 until his 2005 retirement at the age of 100, and served in the Army
from 1943 to 1945 during World War II with
the 91st Regiment Infantry. He served as the
Rock Port attorney for many years, the Atchison County prosecuting attorney and as the
Rock Port Telephone Co. attorney. He also
served three terms with the Missouri board of
governors, was an active member of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and
the Community Hospital Board in Fairfax,
Mo. Mulvania was instrumental in establishing
the legal aspects of the Missouri Beef Packers
at Rock Port. He was a member of the Rock
Port Rotary Club since 1946, the Ralph Greer
American Legion Post No. 49 and the Rock
Port Baptist Church.
Robert I. Meagher, ’35, of Fredericktown, Mo.,
died April 24, at age 96. At 17 years old, he
started teaching grade school while taking college and correspondence courses during the
summer. In 1931, he sold his 1928 Model A
Ford to pay tuition at the School of Law. He
retired from the practice of law at age 80. In
addition to his private practice, he served nine
years as Fredericktown city attorney, three
terms as prosecuting attorney and 31 years as
Black River Electric Cooperative counsel. He
was active in civic, community and church
affairs, including president of the Fredericktown Chamber of Commerce, teaching Sunday school and president of Rotary Club.
John Hopkins Foard Sr., ’37, of Kansas City,
Mo., died June 15, at age 94. After graduating from law school, he moved to Kansas City
where he practiced law with the firms of Borders, Borders & Warrick and Warrick, Koontz
& Hazard. In 1941, he volunteered for the U.S.
Army, received his basic training at Camp
Koehler, Calif., and attended Officer Candidate School at Fort Monmouth, N.J. He was
honorably discharged in 1946 at the rank of
captain. After the war, he practiced with the
Kansas City law firm of Watson, Ess, Marshall,
Barnett & Whittaker. In 1950, he opened his
own downtown office and continued in private practice until his retirement in 1998. He
was a member of The Missouri Bar, the American Bar Association, the Lawyers Association
of Kansas City and the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association and was active in many
Kansas City religious and civic organizations.
Earl E. Wasserman, ’38, of Highland Park, Ill.,
died March 9, at age 91. He was co-owner of
Sax Arts and Crafts in Milwaukee, Wis., and
served on the board of directors of Music for
Youth in Milwaukee.
Karl W. Blanchard Sr., ’40, of Joplin, Mo., died
July 10, at age 91. Following the creation of
Seiler, Blanchard and Van Fleet in 1942, he
was called to serve as an operations officer of
the 2nd Engineer Special Brigade in the south-
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west Pacific during World War II, and later as
the brigade executive officer in the occupation
force. In 1945, Blanchard returned to Joplin
as a trial lawyer. At the time of his death, he
was the senior partner at his firm. His awards
included induction as a fellow of the American
College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL), a Lifetime
Achievement Award from ACTL and the Ben
Ely Jr. Award from the Missouri Organization
of Defense Lawyers. He was the father of Karl
W. Blanchard Jr., ’73 .
Charles J. McMullin, ’41, of Ballwin, Mo., died
March 24.
Alfred J. Hoffman, ’42, of Prairie Village, Kan.,
died March 27, at age 89. He was a naval aviator in World War II and received the Navy’s
Commendation Award. He was a founder
of Jones & Babson Inc., a mutual fund management company and was its president and
CEO until he retired in 1985. Before his service with Jones & Babson, Hoffman was an
attorney for the Prudential Insurance Co. and
the Kansas City Fire & Marine Insurance Co.
He served the Boy Scouts of America as a cub
master and a scout master and was the recipient of the Silver Beaver Award. An avid golfer,
Hoffman founded the Kansas City Golf Foundation, now known as the Junior Golf Foundation of Greater Kansas City. He was a former
United States Golf Association committeeman and rules official, director emeritus of the
Western Golf Association, member emeritus of
Mission Hills Country Club, and former member of Pauma Valley Country Club in Pauma
Valley, Calif., and Fox Acres Country Club in
Red Lakes, Colo.
Andrew H. McColloch, ’50, of St. Charles, Mo.,
died April 11, 2005, at age 82.
J. David Collins, ’51, of Macon, Mo., died June
24, at age 81. He declined a basketball scholarship to MU to enlist in the Army. He was
selected for the Army Specialized Training Program and was sent to the University of Kansas to study engineering. The program was disbanded in anticipation of D-Day
and all its members were enlisted in the infantry. Collins was wounded during the Battle of
the Bulge and was awarded the Purple Heart.
While at MU, he was a member and president
of Phi Delta Theta social fraternity, was president of QEBH and was a member of the Mystical Seven. Following graduation from law
school, he moved to Macon to practice. During his career, Collins was awarded the Lon O.
Hocker Memorial Trial Lawyer Award, was
a member of the American College of Trial
Lawyers, was president and a lifetime fellow
of the Missouri Bar Foundation, was nominated to the Supreme Court of Missouri twice,
was nominated to the U.S. District Court for
the Eastern District of Missouri and argued
before the United States Supreme Court. At
MU, he served on the Board of Curators for
the university system from 1992 to 1996. Col-
lins’ family suggests memorial contributions to
the Law School Foundation, 205 Hulston Hall,
Columbia, MO 65211, for a fund in his name.
Dorman L. Steelman, ’52, of Salem, Mo., died
March 1, at age 81. He served in active duty
during World War II as a member of the
United States Navy, Gunner’s Mate, from 1944
until the end of the war. From 1956 to 1957
he served as Salem city attorney. In 1957, he
was elected as a state representative from Dent
County, Mo. He was re-elected three times
and served until 1964, acting as minority floor
leader from 1960 to 1964. Steelman was state
chair of the Missouri Republican Party from
1966 to 1968. In 1976, he was appointed by
Missouri Gov. Christopher “Kit” Bond as circuit judge for Missouri Judicial Circuit 42,
where he was re-elected three times and served
until 1994.
Harry D. Pener, ’60, of Prairie Village, Kan.,
died April 2, at age 71. He was former legal
counsel in the court administrator’s office of
the Circuit Court of Jackson County and was
co-author and legal editor of four supplements
of Closely Held Corporations in Business and
Estate Planning (Little, Brown 1982).
Steven L. Rhodes, ’68, of Liberty, Mo., died
April 23, at age 62. Following graduation from
law school, he practiced corporate law until
purchasing Kearney Truck Plaza in Kearney,
Mo., in 1983. He operated the business until
January 2007. He was a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity and was a Friend of the Jesse
James Farm.
Alan D. Teitelbaum, ’72, of St. Louis, Mo., died
March 16, 2005, at age 61. He practiced law
for more than 30 years in the St. Louis area.
Blythe H. Crist, ’78, of Springfield, Mo., died
June 16, 2005, at age 59.
David G. Edwards, ’83, of California, Mo.,
died March 26, at age 54. He practiced law
throughout central Missouri over the past 22
years and had served as assistant attorney general for the state of Missouri. A veteran of the
U.S. Navy, he had attained the rank of lieutenant commander while serving as a frogman performing underwater demolition and
salvage.
Friends
Helen L. Kassebaum, of Sarasota, Fla., died
Sept. 12, 2006. She was the wife of the late
Vernon B. Kassebaum, ’29.
Elizabeth “Betty” Parrigin, of Columbia, died
July 16, at age 75. She graduated from Agnes
Scott College in Georgia, received her law
degree from the University of Virginia and
received her library degree from the University
of Texas. She was an associate professor and
librarian at the School of Law before opening
her law practice in Columbia.
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Gordon H. Lamb, BME, MM, PhD,
Interim President, University of
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Provost, University of MissouriColumbia
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
Donna L. Pavlick, BS, MA, JD,
LLM, Assistant Dean for Student
Affairs and Admissions and
Lecturer in Law
Tamra Wilson Setser, BS,
JD, Assistant Dean for Career
Development and Lecturer in Law
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
D. Daniel Sokol, BA, MSt, JD,
Visiting Associate Professor of Law
The Adjunct Faculty
Alana M. Barragan-Scott, BA, JD,
Adjunct Associate Professor of Law
Randy J. Diamond, BA, JD, MLS,
Director of Library and Technology
Resources and Associate Professor
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Martha Dragich, BA, MA, JD,
James S. Rollins Professor of Law
Christina E. Wells, BA, JD, Enoch
H. Crowder Professor of Law
Stephen D. Easton, AA, BA, JD,
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James R. Devine, BA, JD,
Associate Dean for Academic
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Professor of Law and Trial Practice
David M. English, BA, JD, William
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Carl H. Esbeck, BS, JD, Isabelle
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of Law and R.B. Price Professor
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R. Wilson Freyermuth, BS, JD,
John D. Lawson 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 Associate 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
Douglas E. Abrams, BA, JD,
Associate Professor of Law
Paul J. Litton, BA, JD, PhD,
Associate Professor of Law
Royce de R. Barondes, SB, SM,
JD, Associate Professor of Law
Margaret E. McGuinness, BA, JD,
Associate Professor of Law
Mary M. Beck, BSN, MSN, JD,
Director of the Domestic Violence
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Michael A. Middleton, BA, JD,
Deputy Chancellor and Professor
of Law
Frank O. Bowman III, BA, JD,
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S. David Mitchell, BA, MA, JD,
Associate Professor of Law
Michelle Arnopol Cecil, BA, JD,
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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
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
Gregory Scott, BA, JD, Associate
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
Hon. Duane Benton, BA, JD, MA,
LLM, CPA, Adjunct Professor of
Law
Deborah Daniels, AB, BS, JD,
Adjunct Professor of Law
Sandra Davidson, BS, MAD, JD,
PhD, Professor of Journalism and
Adjunct Professor of Law
Deborah J. Doxsee, BSN, JD, MA,
PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor
of Law
Erika S. Fadel, BA, MA, JD,
Adjunct Associate Professor of Law
Andrea Mazza Follett, BA, JD,
Lecturer in Law
Bruce Harry, AB, MD, Adjunct
Associate Professor of Law
David A. Fischer, BA, JD, James
Lewis Parks and Isidor Loeb
Professor Emeritus of Law
Missouri Solicitor General Jim
Layton, BS, JD, Adjunct Professor
of Law
Patricia Brumfield Fry, JD, MA,
Edward W. Hinton Professor
Emerita of Law
Lori J. Levine, BS, JD, Adjunct
Associate Professor 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,
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Emeritus of Law
Grant S. Nelson, BA, JD, Earl F.
Nelson and Enoch H. Crowder
Professor Emeritus of Law
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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
Walter Ray Phillips, BA, JD, LLM,
Adjunct Professor of Law
Leslie A. Schneider, BA, JD,
Adjunct Associate Professor of Law
Ronald E. Smull, BA, JD, Adjunct
Professor of Law
JR Swanegan, BA, JD, Lecturer
in Law
Bill Thompson, BS, JD, Adjunct
Professor of Law
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The Law Society
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street, Kansas City
5 p.m. Registration
5:30 p.m. Reception
6:30 p.m. Dinner
For more information, please call
573-882-4374
April 19, 2008
May 18, 2008
May Commencement
Speaker: Judge Patricia A.
Breckenridge, ’78
1:30 p.m.
Jesse Hall Auditorium
For more information, please contact
573-884-2276
June 4–6, 2008
Mediation Training for Civil Cases
John K. Hulston Hall
8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
21.7 MCLE hours, including 1.2 hours
of ethics.
For more information, please call
573-884-7813
September 12–13, 2008
Law Day and Class Reunions
Times and Locations TBA
Fourth Annual Tim Heinsz Memorial
5K Run/Walk
John K. Hulston Hall
9 a.m.
For more information, please visit
law.missouri.edu/sba/5k
For the most current listing of events, visit our online calendar at » law.missouri.edu/calendar. For information about CLE
programming or registration, visit our Web site at » law.missouri.edu/cle/general/upcoming or call 573-884-7813.
School of Law
University of Missouri–Columbia
John K. Hulston Hall
Columbia, MO 65211