VOLUME 1, NUMBER 3
GOVERNOR BREDESEN SUPPORTS LAW SCHOOL MOVE
The following is an excerpt from a recent article by Jackson Baker in the Memphis Flyer commenting on Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen's support for the law school's efforts to relocate to the stately and historic Post Office building on Front Street in Memphis.
"This project is going forward," said Governor Phil Bredesen to tumultuous applause recently. The subject was a proposal for state funding to begin the process of transplanting the law school of the University of Memphis to a downtown location, upgrading it in the process. The audience which heard this happy news at a fundraising event for Bredesen at the East Memphis residence of city councilman Jack Sammons included many representatives of the University of Memphis, who (began) the relocation project earlier this year in an effort to shore up the school's long-term accreditation. The American Bar Association had put the university on notice that its present law school facilities on Central Avenue were considered inadequate. The move into the landmark Post Office building on Front Street, which would be extensively renovated for the purpose, would ultimately cost some $41 million, said Law School dean Jim Smoot, one of several university officials to have lobbied the governor on the point.
"I think this is what you call a full-court press," said the governor about the university group's efforts.
ALUMNI EVENTS/NEWS
Law Reunion Weekend Planned!
Get in line for reunions for the classes of '70, '75, '80, 85, '90, '95, '00, '05 the weekend of November 4-6!
Here is the schedule:
Friday Night (11-4):
All-Class party at Leslie Ballin's home, 7-10pm, $30/person
"Down Home Southern" menu catered by Hog Wild BBQ.
Saturday Morning (11-5) CLE:
3-hour CLE event, 9am-12, $25
Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law (Continental Breakfast will be served.)
Saturday Evening Class Parties:
1) Classes of '70, '75, '05
At the home of Dean James Smoot, 7pm, $25 (for '70 & '75) -- FREE to '05!
2) Class of '80
Racquet Club of Memphis, Cocktails at 6:30pm, Dinner at 7:30pm ($50)
3) Class of '85
Rendezvous Restaurant, 6:30 pm ($45)
4) Class of '90
Home of Corey B. Trotz, 7pm ($40)
5) Classes of '95 & '00
Newby's on Highland, 7pm ($50)
For additional information contact:
Leah Prost, Coordinator, Alumni & Constituent Programs
University of Memphis Alumni Association
(901) 678-4299, (901) 678-3035 fax
University of Memphis Creates Nashville Law Alumni Club
Formation of the Nashville Law Alumni Club was recently approved by the Alumni Board of Directors of the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law. The club will give law school graduates in the Nashville area a professional and networking organization and allow them to stay connected with the U of M.
The first event on November 10 will be a reception for all Nashville area alumni at the law offices of Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis to honor those graduates who were recently admitted to the Bar. Six charter members will serve as the club's initial officers and board of directors. They include Greg Pease, president; Keenan Carter, vice president; Letitia Baldwin, secretary/treasurer; and Renee Stewart, Tim McIntire and Julie Boswell.
Alumni and friends who would like more information on activities of the Nashville Law Alumni Club may contact Leah Prost, Coordinator of Alumni and Constituent Programs, at 901-678-4299 or at lprost@memphis.edu
2005-2006 Law Alumni Board
The following are the officers and board members for the 2005-2006 University of Memphis Law Alumni Board:
Officers:
President: Hon. Diane K. Vescovo ('80)
President-Elect: Amy Amundsen ('87)
Secretary/Treasurer: Gary K. Smith ('73)
Past President: Robert L. Dinkelspiel ('75)
President, Nashville Law Alumni CLub: Gregory J. Pease ('04)
SBA President: Chuck Holliday
Board of Directors:
Leslie I. Ballin ('77)
Sam B. Blair, Jr. ('83)
John A. Bobango ('83)
R. Larry Brown ('75)
Richard M. Carter ('80)
Hon. Robert L. "Butch" Childers ('74)
Hon. Bernice B. Donald ('79)
R. Porter Field ('93)
William "Bill" Godbold ('76)
Mary Grusin ('72)
Stephen P. Hale ('82)
Tomeka Hart ('02)
R. Hunter Humphreys ('77)
Hon. David S. Kennedy ('70)
Jim Raines ('66)
Bruce M. Smith ('74)
Delaine R. Smith ('91)
Tanja Thompson ('97)
J. Lewis "Lew" Wardlaw ('93, '03)
William L. Zoccola ('86)
Alumni and Select Law School Events for 2005-2006
2005
November 4: Diversity Conference, Wilson Conference Center (see below)
November 7: Judicial Reception, 5pm to 7pm, President's Residence
November 10: Nashville Law Reception (see above)
2006
January 5: Law Alumni Executive Committee Meeting, 7:30 am, Alumni Center
January 19: 3rd Quarter Law Alumni Board Meeting, noon, Alumni Center
February: University Annual Fund Non-Donor Telephone Outreach begins on behalf of the law school
March: Board Nominating Committee meets
March 6: "Law School for Journalists"
April 6: Law Alumni Executive Committee Meeting, 7:30 am, Alumni Center
April 20: 4th Quarter Law Alumni Board Meeting, noon, Alumni Center
April: Spring CLE (TBA)
May: Graduating Seniors Luncheon at the law school
June 5: Spring Creek Golf Tournament
September:Scholarship Lunch for donors and recipients
(For further information contact Leah Prost at 901-678-4299)
CLASS NOTES
Ronald W. Eades ('73) recently received the Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville. After receiving his LL.M. at Harvard Law School he soon joined the law school faculty with teaching and research interests in torts, products liability, evidence, and legal history. He was praised as being an outstanding classroom teacher by current students and alumni and is recognized nationally for his work in developing computer-assisted learning programming on the subject of torts. He has a distinguished record of publication and service.
Coble Caperton ('79) has risen to the position of Of Counsel at the Memphis firm of Rice, Amundsen & Caperton, PLLC.
Herbert B. Wolf, Jr. ('82), an attorney with the Memphis office of Husch & Eppenberger, LLC, has been selected among The Best Lawyers in America in the area of Tax Law. The annual publication surveys thousands of attorneys throughout the United States to evaluate their peers. Husch is a nationally-ranked law firm with approximately 300 attorneys in eight cities across the Midwest and Mid-South with sophisticated litigation and business representation.
Amy J. Amundsen ('87), with the Memphis firm of Rice, Amundsen & Caperton, PLLC, serves as Chair of the Tennessee Bar Association's Family Law Section.
Kathryn E. Story ('87) is the Project Coordinator for the Leadership Institute in Judicial Education (LIJE) at The University of Memphis. LIJE has received a Congressionally-mandated grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance for nearly $370,000 to expand the work of this nationally-recognized continuing judicial education program. She is also the educational consultant for the Memphis Bar Association Leadership Forum, and she presented a program about LIJE at the a recent annual meeting of the National Association of Bar Executives.
Sid Scheinberg ('88) has joined the law firm of Glass Phillips & Murray, PC in Dallas, Texas.
Angela Dixon ('98) was recently appointed by Gov. Jeb Bush as Judge of the Duval County Court. She had been serving as an assistant state attorney in the State Attorney's Office in Florida's Fourth Judicial Circuit.
Daniel Lovett ('98) is assigned to the 209th Infantry Corps of the Afghan National Army in Deh Dadi, Afghanistan. Major Lovett is currently involved training infantry.
Erik Olson ('98) was selected by Atlanta Magazine as a 2005 Georgia Rising Star in the area of plaintiff's medical malpractice litigation.
Rebecca C. Davis ('00) has become a member of the firm of Tate, Lazarini & Beall, PLC.
Justin & Caroline Hunter ('00), who just celebrated the birth of their daughter, both practice in the Washington, DC area. Caroline is with the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and Justin is with firm of Powers Pyles Suiter & Verville.
Donald E. McCune ('00) has accepted an offer to clerk for the Hon. Alia Moses Ludlum of the Western District of Texas. The court handles criminal cases involving drugs and immigration, with a growing civil docket. She interviewed several prospects and picked the U of M grad. He comments, "That I was even considered for a Federal clerkship in light of my non-traditional demographic is a great credit to the law school and the career services staff. I would like to offer a sincere and heartfelt thank you. The work your office does opens doors that were previously closed, and I am living proof of that."
Michael R. McCusker ('00) has been called to active duty with the United States Army and is currently assigned as a combat advisor to the 209th Infantry Corps of the Afghan National Army in Deh Dadi, Afghanistan. He was recently promoted to the rank of Major. He will return to his position as an Assistant District Attorney in Memphis following his deployment.
John M. McDonald ('00) has joined Stites & Harbison in Nashville as an associate in the Trust and Estate Planning/Domestic Service Group. He comes to the firm from Watkins, McGugin, McNeilly & Rowan PLLC, of Nashville, where he served as an associate. Prior to that, he served as a law clerk with Brown, Todd & Heyburn PLLC of Nashville. McDonald was also a judicial extern for Hon. Frank G. Clement, Jr. of the Davidson County 7th Circuit Court in Nashville. He recently received his LL.M. in Taxation from the University of Florida College of Law as well as writing an article entitled "Inheritance Tax Changes Require More Planning, Flexibility" for the Nashville Business Journal. Stites & Harbison PLLC is a regional business and litigation firm with attorneys in multiple states and Washington, DC. The firm traces its origins to 1832.
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Robert B. Nelson ('00) has practiced on active duty with the Army Judge Advocate General's Corps since graduation. He spent 14 months in Germany, 4 months in Bosnia, 18 months in Iraq, and is now a Captain and stationed in Monterey, California.
Christopher M. "Beau" Fancher ('01) accepted a position in the Department of Agriculture working on the Presidential initiative to bring high-speed internet/broadband to rural America.
Jeffrey Fleishmann ('02) is an associate in the Commercial Finance Group of Goldberg Kohn in Chicago. He represents financial institutions in cash-flow and asset-based loans in both national and international settings.
Steven E. Barlow ('04) has joined the Memphis office of Bass, Berry & Sims PLC as an Associate in the Commercial Transactions and Real Estate practice area.
Brian S. Shelton ('04) has joined the Tax team at the Nashville firm of Boult Cummings Conners & Berry, PLC after earning an advanced degree in taxation from the University of Florida in 2005, where he served as an editor of the Florida Tax Review and also received the book award for his scholarship in the area of Income Taxation of Trusts and Estates.
Boult, Cummings, Conners & Berry, PLC is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee with 102 attorneys providing legal services to privately held and publicly traded companies across the United States.
J. Vincent Perryman ('05) is currently in an LL.M. in Taxation program at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Dustin Stubbs ('05) has accepted an offer with Monge & Associates in Lexington, South Carolina. He will be practicing Immigration Law.
LAW SCHOOL NEWS
Law School Welcomes Class of 2008
The Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law welcomed 145 first year students this fall. The entering class has maintained the law school academic credentials. The reported LSAT median for the entering class was a 156 (69%) and the median undergraduate grade point average was 3.34, a slight increase over last year's median of 3.26.
The majority (84%) of the new students call Tennessee home. Other states represented were Alabama, Ohio, New York, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Arkansas, and Georgia. The average age of the entering class was 25. The University of Memphis remains the number one undergraduate feeder institution, followed closely by the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Nearly all of the state-assisted universities in Tennessee were represented. Seven of Tennessee's private colleges and universities had representation including Christian Brothers University, Freed-Hardeman University, Lambuth University, Rhodes College, Vanderbilt University, David Lipscomb University, & the University of the South. Three historically black universities, Alabama State University, Clark Atlanta University, and Tennessee State University, were also represented. Some students came from as far away as Syracuse University and University of Southern California, and three of our students were educated in France, Argentina and China. In total, 58 different colleges and universities were represented in the entering class.
Females represented 46% of the entering class (an increase of 5% over last year), while the student of color enrollment was 21% (a 3% increase over last year).
Our students' academic training varied. The three most popular undergraduate majors were Political Science, Business, and English. In addition to the diverse majors, our students had various career and life experiences prior to enrolling in law school. Some were teachers, government employees, a lobbyist, University professor, a professional basketball player, scientist, a police officer, artists, and musicians. Additionally, several students had international work experience in Asia, China and Japan. One student is a World Trade Center survivor.
At a time when many law schools are beginning to experience a decline in applications, the law school has maintained a healthy application pool--approximately 1,200 applications were received for the first time law program. Due to the volume and competitiveness of the applicant pool, gaining admission to the University of Memphis School of Law has become increasingly more difficult. with admission being offered to only 24% of the applicant pool.
LAW SCHOOL FEATURED IN THE PRINCETON REVIEW'S
"BEST 159 LAW SCHOOLS: 2006 EDITION"
The University of Memphis School of Law is one of the nation's most outstanding law schools, according to The Princeton Review. The New York-based education services company profiles the school in the new 2006 edition of its "Best 159 Law Schools"
Says Robert Franek, Princeton Review VP-Publishing, "Every school we profile in this book offers a terrific law school education, yet each one is distinctive in its academic programs, school offerings and campus culture. We don't name and don't think it's useful to name one best law school overall. The key question for applicants is 'What is the best law school for me?' To help them decide this, we survey students attending the schools and report what they say about their experiences at them. Our profiles and ranking lists of top schools in various categories are based on straight-from-the-campus data we collected from school administrators and students at the schools."
The two-page profiles in "Best 159 Schools" have sections on the school's academics, student life and admissions, plus ratings for academics, selectivity and career placement. The survey asked students over 50 questions about themselves, their career plans, and their schools' academics, student body and campus life.
FACULTY NEWS
Michele Alexandre recently made presentations at DePaul's Writing Conference held in Chicago, at The Oxford Roundtable held in Oxford, England, and at The Conference on The Power of Stories and the Law held at Gloucester, England. DePaul University sponsored a writing conference where she presented two articles entitled "So Long A Letter: Is There Room for a Women-centric system of Polygamy in Islamic Law?" and "There is an Elephant in the Room: De Facto Polygamy in The United States and Legal Protections for Women." At The Oxford Round Table she presented an article entitled: "Individual Rights and Civil Liberties in Post 911 American Immigration Practices: Do Human Rights Still Matter?" This article discussed the recent and proposed immigration policies and their global repercussions for people of color around the world. At The Conference on the Power of Stories she presented the aforementioned article entitled "So Long A Letter: Is There Room for a Women-centric system of Polygamy in Islamic Law?" She says, "I am thankful to the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law and the University of Memphis in general for enabling my participation at these scholarly meetings."
Donna Harkness, associate professor of clinical law, published a second National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA) case file and set of problems, entitled "Wendy Carmichael, Conservator of Abigail Armistead v. Fortune Fidelity Bank" in April 2005. Prof. Harkness spoke on "Ethical Considerations When Representing the Elderly Client" as part of the Tennessee Elder Care Planning Seminar sponsored by the National Business Institute in May. In June, she traveled to Nashville to participate in the Statewide Public Guardianship for the Elderly Training program, sponsored by the Tennessee Commission on Aging and Disability, speaking on the "Pros and Cons of Alternatives to Guardianship/Conservatorship."
Lee A. Harris organized and co-moderated a roundtable discussion at the law school on the Katrina response, "Wake of the Storm: The Legal Community Assesses Katrina's Havoc." The roundtable brought to the law school several panelists, including the Mayor of Shelby County, the Executive Director of the Central United States Earthquake Consortium, and Professor Michele Alexandre of the law school (among others) to discuss the federal response to Katrina and related issues.
Steven J. Mulroy recently placed an article with the University of San Diego Law Review. The article, "The Duress Defense's Uncharted Terrain," stems from his pro bono work in a recent Sixth Circuit case, in which he filed a brief and participated in oral argument on behalf of the amicus Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Like that case, the article addresses two questions of first impression in the federal courts: whether duress is a defense to a charge of felony murder, and whether evidence of a defendant's mental retardation is relevant to a duress defense.
Thaddeus Mason Pope made a presentation: "Your Right to Unilaterally Write a DNAR under the Health Care Decisions Act," during the Bioethics Grand Rounds, Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center in Memphis. His article, "Monstrous Impersonation: A Critique of Consent-Based Justifications for Hard Paternalism," was printed in the UMKC Law Review. During the summer of 2005 he was also awarded the Honorable Benjamin Aranda III Outstanding Public Service Award by the Los Angeles County Bar Association for his pro bono work.
Janet L. Richards has completed 2005 supplements to the second edition of Richards on Tennessee Family Law and to The Law of Equitable Distribution and Community Property A Fifty State Guide (with Gregory). She moderated the Alternative Dispute Resolution panel at the U of M Alumni Association CLE event last spring and also serves on the Merit Selection Panel on Bankruptcy Judgeships for the Western District of Tennessee.
David Romantz spoke on proposed changes to the ABA accreditation by-laws related to legal writing at a recent Association of Legal Writing Director's meeting at the AALS Conference. He was also an invited speaker at the Rocky Mountailn LWR Conference at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and was elected to a three-year term on the Board of Directors for the Association of Legal Writing Directors. He published the lead article in a recent edition of the Indiana Law Review entitled "You Have the Right to Remain Silent: A Case for the Use of Silence as Substantive Evidence of a Criminal Defendant's Guilt."
Irma Russell is visiting at Pace University School of Law for the 2005-06 academic year, teaching Environmental Justice, Advanced Professional Responsibility, and Administrative Law. Her article, "A Common Tragedy: Promises to Benefit the Public Interest and the Enforceability Problem," appeared in the Texas Wesleyan Law Review. During the summer she taught International Environmental Law in the St. Mary's Law School Innsbruck Institute in Innsbruck, Austria. She is serving on the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility (2004-07), and also is a member of the TBA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility and one of four reporters for the Tennessee Revision of the Rules of Professional Conduct.
Daniel E. Wanat returned to teaching Copyright and Torts last spring after a serving for six months as the law school's interim dean. He continues to teach in these areas this fall. This past spring, Professor Wanat was named a Finalist for the University's prestigious Distinguished Teacher Award. He also received the Excellence in Legal Education Award at the annual Law Alumni Dinner in August. The law school faculty honored him as well at commencement by recognizing his contributions to the law school as interim dean. In addition to his teaching assignments, Professor Wanat recently completed a law review article on the negligent infliction of mental injury tort in Tennessee which subscribers to our Law Review can look forward to reading this spring. He, of course, continues to work with a number of law student organizations. On a personal note, Professor Wanat extends his appreciation to all alumni and friends with whom he worked while interim dean. In his words, "I thoroughly enjoyed meeting alums whom I did not teach, getting reacquainted with those I did teach, and rekindling a number of friendships. Thank you all for this opportunity."
WORKPLACE DIVERSITY ISSUES CONFERENCE SCHEDULED
A comprehensive, national-level Conference on "Diversity in the Workplace" will be held November 4, 2005. The conference is sponsored jointly by Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, and the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law.
The invitation-only event will feature as keynote speaker the Honorable Naomi C. Earp, vice-chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Also on the dais will be the Honorable Tu Pham, U. S. Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court in Memphis, as well as high-level representatives from Sara Lee Foods, FedEx, and International Paper.
The conference will convene at the Shelby Ballroom in the Holiday Inn on the University of Memphis campus. There will be five separate panels and a keynote luncheon address. Guest list participants include an array of executive-level officers and decision-makers from throughout the Mid-South. Some subjects to be discussed include: how diversity differs from affirmative action, designing a meaningful policy and plan, its role in employment sectors, building a business case for diversity, and sharing best practices.
"Our community is remarkably diverse and will grow even more so as time passes," said Herman Morris, Baker Donelson shareholder, who serves as a co-chair of the conference. "Ensuring diversity in the workplace is essential to securing the most productive and inclusive results attainable amid a culture founded upon the doctrine of equality and opportunity." He added that placing this value prominently in hiring and decision-making helps bring more creative ideas to the table and helps to sustain companies and organizations for the future.
"The dynamic demographics of our local and national communities that reflect the diversity of our people must be taken into account by public and private enterprise in order to secure our nation's multi-cultural treasure and its economic future," said Maurice Wexler, also a shareholder with Baker Donelson and an event co-chair. "Our diversity conference will discuss these issues and other topics of great local and national consequence."
The importance of the conference topic was also addressed by James R. Smoot, dean and professor of law at the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law and a member of the conference panel. "Our law school's historic concerns about maintaining a properly diverse student body have been supplemented more recently by the increasing attention we have been paying to the equally important matter of workplace diversity in a more traditional sense: in our faculty and administrative staff," said Smoot. "Diversity in our teaching and administrative workforce is not only a matter of simple justice. Experience has shown that it also makes a significant contribution to the success of the educational mission by creating the appropriate environment for providing the quality legal education for our increasingly diverse law student population that we strive always to offer."
Supporting companies for the event include International Paper and Hilton Hotels Corporation.
STUDENT FOCUS: Stu Grimson, NHL's "Grim Reaper"
(Excerpts from an article by Paul Friesen in the Winnipeg Sun)
Who would have thought it -- the Grim Reaper trading in his scythe for a cap and gown. But you know what? The new outfit looked good on him.
Stu Grimson, (currently a 3L at the law school) long one of the most feared and respected fighters in the NHL, is a veteran of 12 NHL seasons and 792 career games, with eight different teams. Grimson's career was cut short by a frightening concussion that still affects him long after it happened.
The time he lost as a player, however, he put to good use as a student, picking up enough courses to complete a Bachelor of Arts with a major in economics. His next stop was law school at the University of Memphis.
"I knew I wanted to finish this off," Grimson said. He couldn't have done it without the "Life After Hockey" program, a players union initiative that allowed Grimson to combine classroom work at a college in Nashville with correspondence credits from an Alberta school and the U of M.
And while his Bison teammates from the mid-1980s might be long gone, Grimson got to graduate with his four kids in the crowd.
"They've seen me up late (studying)," he said. "They've seen me pulling my hair out when stuff was confusing."
Most people will remember Grimson as a guy who'd stop at nothing -- short of pulling their hair, perhaps -- to intimidate an opponent. He threw his weight around at the U of M from 1985-87, spent three years in the minors, then became one of the NHL's true heavyweights, at 6-foot-4, 240 pounds. But as the degree in his massive hands suggests, there's always been more to Grimson than right hooks and uppercuts.
You may have seen him singing "Itsy-bitsy spider" to a make-believe daughter in a TV spot promoting family values a while back. That one went over real well, and not only with his teammates.
"I caught a lot of flack at home," he said. "Because that wasn't my daughter."
He has also been known to drag his knuckles into church on a regular basis. A marriage of faith and fists, you might say. The work with his fists is what ended his career, when his brain was rattled, while playing with the Nashville Predators, in a fight with Edmonton's Georges Laraque in December 2001.
"Live by it, die by it," Grimson said. "It's almost poetic."
There was nothing poetic about his recovery. For months, Grimson couldn't go for a 15-minute walk at the mall near his Nashville home without getting headaches or feeling sick. A year and a half later he had worked his way up to a short workout on the StairMaster.
"It puts things in perspective for you," Grimson said. "You get the sense that you're indestructible. But seeing your body respond that way sure gets your attention."
Grimson says he has no regrets about his career. And he's never had any trouble dealing with the apparent conflict between his personal and professional lives.
"When I look around my locker-room, I see there are guys that are (small), there are guys that shouldn't be worried about contending with a physical element on the other side. Why can't a guy like me, a guy of faith, come to defend these other guys? I see that as a natural extension of who I am, really."
The locker-room is where Grimson drew rave reviews as the consummate team player. He'd love to stay close to the game, perhaps as an agent or with the players union.
But first, it was law school, which had him feeling like a nervous rookie again.
"I can't employ any of the tactics I used to use," he said, grinning. "I don't think that'll fly at law school, from what I understand."
Husband and Wife 3Ls Secure Judicial Clerkships
It's a family thing. 3L Tom Nesbitt has accepted a position as clerk for Justice Cynthia Kinser of the Supreme Court of Virginia. He will be working in Pennington Gap, VA (Pop. 1700), about 75 minutes away from where his wife, Virginia, our Law Review Articles Editor, will serve as judicial clerk for the United States 4th Circuit Court of Appeals under Hon. H. Emory Widener, Jr. "We're both really glad things have turned out so well," he said, "And we both acknowledge that we couldn't have done it without all the help we got from the kind souls at the law school and the career services office."
BLSA Hosts Conference
BLSA recently hosted a regional academic enrichment conference that provided insight into academic performance and employment searches while in law school. The sessions were held at the FedEx Institute of Technology on campus. Several law school personnel were among the panelists and speakers, including Associate Dean Barbara Kritchevshy and Assistant Deans Charles deWitt and Yolanda Ingram.
GIVING TO THE SCHOOL OF LAW
Gifts to the School of Law support quality academic programs, scholarships, student activities and faculty scholarship. Both participation and dollars are very important. You may be able to make a generous donation, but your participation in any amount is critically important to the demonstration of alumni support of the law school.
Four Easy Ways to Give to the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law
1) Gifts of Cash
2) Credit Card
3) Online: Make a gift online with the university's secure web site:http://www.memphis.edu/giving. Make sure to designate your gift to the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law.
4) Telephone: Call the annual fund office at 901-678-4376 to make your credit card gift by phone.
Check
Make your check payable to "The University of Memphis Foundation." Designate your gift to the school of law. The law alumni scholarship fund is #691.
Mail your check to: Department 238, The University of Memphis Foundation, P.O. Box 1000, Memphis, TN 38101
Or personally deliver your check to the development office in the Humphreys School of Law or The Alumni Center at 635 Normal Street. Office hours are Monday Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Automatic Bank Draft
Each month on the 5th or 20th a gift is debited directly from your checking or savings account. To enroll, mail a voided check from the account to be debited. Include the amount you want deducted each month. Mail the information to: Department 238, The University of Memphis Foundation, P.O. Box 1000, Memphis, TN 38101.
Appreciated Securities
If your investments in the financial markets have grown, you can use these assets without losing a substantial portion of your earnings to the capital gains tax by making your gift with appreciated stock. A gift of stock held more than one year may quality for a charitable income tax deduction equal to the securities' full-market value. For additional information, please contact 901-678-4376.
In-Kind Contributions
The university accepts donations of goods and services from individuals and corporations. For further information, please contact 901-678-4376.
Planned Gifts
You can leave a lasting legacy for the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law through a will, living trust or retirement plan. The gift benefits the law school for generations to come. For information about planned gifts, please call 901-678-4376.
Employer Matching Gifts
Many companies encourage their employees to make charitable contributions by matching their philanthropic support. At the university, donors receive credit for their employers' matching gifts. Hundreds of companies have matching-gift programs. To find out if you work for one of them, visit COMPANY SEARCH 2.0 to find out. You can also call the annual fund office 901-678-4376 or consult your human resources office, to receive a matching gift form. Mail this matching gift form with your check.
For further information contact:
Alleen Deutsch, Ph.D. or Kelly Erb
Senior Development Director/ Development Director
Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law
The University of Memphis The University of Memphis
Memphis, TN 38152 Memphis, TN 38152
901-678-2425 901-678-2425
adeutsch@memphis.edu klnelson@memphis.edu
BrainFreezers
Whitney Nelson was the first to get all of the answers correct in the last BrainFreezer, and she now has a great law school Cross pen. There were several other correct submissions, and we sent each of them a law school mouse pad for their effort, as well.
This time see if you can be the first to correctly answer the following questions related to the Silver Screen. (The winner will receive another law school Cross pen.) E-mail your answers to Assistant Dean Charles deWitt at cdewitt@memphis.edu.
1) What James Bond film took the super-agent to the Great Pyramid?
2) What NFL team drafted Burt Reynolds?
3) What did Woody Allen describe as being "as big as a Buick" in Annie Hall?
4) What film appeared on the theater marquee in the opening shootout scene in Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry?
5) What actor lost the role of the Wizard in The Wizard of Oz over a salary dispute?
6) What film featured the line, "I got brown sandwiches and green sandwiches."
7) Who did Barbara Marx, ex-wife of Zeppo, marry in 1976?
8) What James Arness sci-fi movie was inspired by a story called "Who Goes There?"?
9) Who sang the theme song for Thunderball?
10) What is the term for the day's shooting that returns to the lab for viewing by the powers that be?
THE NEXT ISSUE WILL BE SENT IN JANUARY 2006.
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