LaWanda Ward, '03, director of the law school's Pro Bono Program and Public Interest, nominated Little for the honor. McKinney students take an active role in the work of the IU Student Outreach Clinic (SOC).
Thomas Sullivan, ‘73
Alumni Heed the Call to Higher Education
During law school, Sullivan was an editor of the Indiana Law Review and interned with William Steckler, Chief Justice of the United States. I'm a firm believer in being strategic and executing the plan, but my career didn't happen that way," Sullivan says.
Donald Polden, ‘75
Ellen Podgor, ‘76
I feel like I'm making a difference, first with the students and second with the progress of the law. She has also taught at other law schools, as visiting professor at the University of Georgia School of Law and the George Washington University School of Law.
John Pistole, ‘81
In law school you learn to recognize the issue and argue a point succinctly and convincingly, he says. We have a new generation of students who almost all seem to be interested in international legal issues and have the expectation that this will be part of their legal education,” he says.
Emily Benfer, ‘05
As a law student, he wrote an article for an early issue of the Indiana International & Comparative Law Review about a new law called the North American Free Trade Act (NAFTA). During law school, she served as editor of the Indiana International & Comparative Law Review and as president of both local and national Equal Justice Works.
David Nguyen, ‘06
He served as pro bono director of the American Bar Association's Disaster Legal Services program. She was elevated to the British Columbia Court of Appeal in December 1985, and in September 1988 she was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
IU McKinney Students Honored for Pro Bono ,
Baldwin was honored in recognition of the 1,013 hours of pro bono service she contributed during her law school career. Baldwin was honored in recognition of the 1,013 hours of pro bono service she contributed during her law school career.
Pomp and Circumstance
Commencement 2015
Tarah Baldwin was the student speaker for the J.D. evening portion. ABOVE) Professor Florence Wagman Roisman poses with students after commencement. Kreuscher, '84, was honored by the IU McKinney Alumnae Network as the 2015 Outstanding Alumna of the Year at a luncheon in her honor at the Woodstock Club on June 12.
Alumna of the Year
Kreuscher, a summa cum laude graduate of the law school, was chief government litigation attorney at the Attorney General's Office when Carter took office. It's a bad time for workers, but workers have been here before,” Professor Quigley said, pointing to the rise of the trade union movement in the early 20th century.
IU McKinney Event Examines the
IU McKinney Program on Law and State Government Fellows Heather Kinser and Marcus McGhee shared their research on the problems and possible solutions regarding the school-to-prison pipeline during the PLSG Symposium on September 25. Titled “Rupturing the School-to-Prison Pipeline: State Government Efforts at Deletion Reform,” the daylong event featured scholars and practitioners who shared their expertise on the topic.
School-to-Prison Pipeline and Means
Panelists included Clinical Associate Professor of Law Carolyn Frazier of Northwestern University School of Law; Associate Professor of Law Kevin Lapp of Loyola Law School in Los Angeles; and Deputy Prosecutor Jordan Stover, 10, of the Marion County Prosecutor's Office. The final panel of the day discussed "Indiana's Efforts to End the School-to-Prison Pipeline."
Nancy Fortenberry Delivers Fourth Annual
She is a National Security Crisis Law Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center and has more than 25 years of national security experience. ABOVE) National security expert Nancy Fortenberry delivered the fourth annual Birch Bayh Lecture and spoke on the topic: “National Security, Local Impact: It's Something Outside the Beltway.”
Examines Medical Myths
HALL CENTER FOR LAW AND HEALTH
Considers Social Determinants of Health
The New IU Health Law Scholars Program at IU McKinney
Being an IU Health Law Scholar is not only an incredible opportunity to learn and network, but it also greatly helps alleviate the financial burden of graduate school. “I now happily call Indiana home, even though most of my family lives across the United States, including Florida and Georgia,” she said. As of now, I would like to possibly do an administrative fellowship when I graduate, and later possibly work as a consultant in a hospital,” she said.
Sargent, a sophomore from Carmel, Indiana, is secretary of the IU McKinney Health Law Society, a legal clinic manager at the IU Student Outreach Clinic and an intern in the Office of Legal Affairs of the Indiana State Department of Health. After graduation, I plan to work in health policy analysis and development and in public health management,” she said. Although students in the inaugural class of IU Health Law Scholars must first complete their academic programs, they will be well positioned to embody the aspirations of the IU Health Law Scholars Program while advancing their personal academic and professional goals.
Legal Frontiers in Health Law: IP,
Information, Ethics, and Business Practice”
OPPOSITE) Speakers at the annual fall CLE program included Ann Grayson, Stephen Reynolds, Jonathan Jennings, Professor Gerard Magliocca (moderator), Nicholas Merker, Dean Andrew Klein (moderator) Mike Witte, '82, and Drs. Jennings of Pattishall McAuliffe in Chicago spoke on "Understanding Identity Rights to Avoid Pitfalls in Pharmacy Advertising."
CENTER FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW AND INNOVATION
The Center's first luncheon speaker event for the fall 2015 semester took place on September 8 and was designed to introduce students and faculty. Professor Jeffrey Maine, pictured on the left with Professor Nguyen, is an expert in tax law. His research focuses on the intersection of federal taxation and intellectual property. Professor Maine, from the University of Maine School of Law, gave a talk with Professor Nguyen entitled “From Victoria's Secret to Apple: The Uses and Abuses of the Intellectual Property Holding Company.”
Tragesser, right with Professor Nguyen, offered a luncheon lecture for students Sept. 29 in Inlow Hall. Connie Lindman, (right) Chair of Smith Amundsen's Intellectual Property Practice Group, was the guest of Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen (left) on September 22nd at a lecture entitled "Intellectual Property Issues in the Medical Cannabis Industry." .
INTERNATIONAL
The fourth annual Summer Program in American Law for students from Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, was held at IU McKinney from July 20 to August 1. From left to right are McKinney LL.M. student Ryan Johnson, IU McKinney professor Tom Wilson and Danielle Angela Reyes of Boston College Law School. In the front row from left is Wang Huixia, a future visiting scholar at IU McKinney; Liu Hua, LL.M.
07 and a former McKinney Visiting Professor; Han Zhuang, a former McKinney visiting professor; Li Wenhua, a prospective visiting scholar at IU McKinney; Zheng Ming, LL.M. Guo Liqing, left, and IU McKinney professor Tom Wilson, visiting a Taoist monastery on Laoshan Mountain. The IU McKinney Graduate Studies Lecture Series offered a panel discussion on this topic on September 17 in Inlow Hall.
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- Scott Chinn, ‘94 Secretary
- Tobin McClamroch, ‘80 Managing Partner
- Steven Miller, ‘73 Indianapolis, IN
- Anthony Figg, ‘73 Partner
- Steven “Spike” Karalekas, ‘70 Boston, MA
The core of the law school's excellence is a faculty of dedicated teachers and dedicated scholars. She also attended the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Chicago from August 22 to 25. George Edwards was elected (by the IU McKinney faculty in October 2015) as a member of the House of Representatives of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) to represent the faculty of the IU McKinney School of Law for.
Jim White conducted an evaluation of the University of Mississippi Law School Program at the University of Cambridge in July. The theme of the 2015 Forum was The relationship between government and markets in the perspective of law. IU McKinney Dean Andy Klein served as vice chair of the planning committee for the 2015 conclave.
Harrison Society
Legacy Society
Bayh Annual Lecture Endowment to support an annual lecture at the law school in honor of the former U.S. Income from this gift is used to purchase art for display at the law school. Center for Law and Health in 2011 for general support of the Hall Center for Law and Health at the law school.
Kalsi, a retired Krieg DeVault senior counsel and longtime adjunct professor at the law school. The fund helps support the National Professional Responsibility Moot Court Competition hosted by the law school. Roesler, '82, and Stacey Whitmore-Roesler for supporting the efforts of the law school's Center for Intellectual Property Law and Innovation.
Previous Law School Spirit of Philanthropy Award Recipients
Linda graduated from the IU School of Arts and Sciences in 1971 and from the IU McKinney School of Law in 1974. Pence Scholarship, have helped countless IU McKinney Law students pursue a legal education. Linda is a member of the Law School Board of Visitors and co-chaired the IMPACT campaign.
The stories her father and grandfather told her about Professor Jegen confirm "that he is truly a man of wit with a great sense of humor," she said. Meghan told Professor Jegen that she was not the first "Walter" student he had taught, and said he was delighted with the news. Meghan's grandfather, Philip, was so gifted with tax law that he enrolled in New York University Law's Graduate Tax Program.
Honoring a Tax Legend
Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen
Paul E. Beam Professor of Law
Gerald L. Bepko Professor of Law
Carl M. Gray Professor of Law
John S. Grimes Professor of Law
Samuel R. Rosen Professors of Law
Thomas F. Sheehan Professor of Tax Law and Policy
Harold R. Woodard Professor of Law
Hall Render Professor of Law
William F. Harvey Professor of Law
Lawrence A. Jegen III Professorship
Dale Palmer Professor of Law
The McKinney School of Law would like to thank the 38 law firms and corporations and nearly 430 alumni who participated in the 2014-2015 Law Firm and Corporate Campaign. Below are the top firms and corporations based on percentage of alumni participation and total dollars received. Gift totals include gifts, pledge payments and matching gifts received by the IU Foundation between July 1, 2014 and June 30, 2015.
Special thanks go to the following alumni and friends who made a contribution to the Law School between July 1, 2014 and June 30, 2015 in honor or memory of an alumnus or friend.
Includes all gift amounts
Barbara Abrams Scholarship
Lloyd G. Balfour Scholarship
Banta Scholarship
Judge Betty Barteau Scholarship
Mollie E. Bennett Fellowship
Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP Tax Award
Patrick J. Burns Excellence in Tax Award
Charles C. Carey Memorial Scholarship
Cohen & Malad Scholarship
John J. Dillon Memorial Scholarship
Velma Dobbins Scholarship
Donadio Scholarship
Equal Justice Works Professor Florence Wagman Roisman Summer Scholarship
Patrick and Eleanor L
Endsley Scholarship
Eli Lilly Law Alumni Scholarship
Sidney D. Eskenazi Scholarship
Kent Frandsen Scholarship
Michael and Nancie Freeborn Civil and Human Rights Fellowship
Mary Jane Vincent Frisby Memorial Scholarship
Professor Dr. Leonidas N
Georgakopoulos Scholarship
Hall, Render, Killian, Heath
Judge Ralph Hamill Memorial Award
William F. Harvey Endowed Scholarship
Hendrickson Scholarship
Cale J. Holder Scholarship
John and Barbara Holt Scholarship
John E. Hurt and
Mary Doswell Hurt Scholarship
IBA Taxation Section Scholarship
Indiana State Bar Association Health Law Section Distinguished Writing Award
Indiana State Bar Association Taxation Section Award
Indianapolis Bar Foundation Rosalie F. Felton Scholarship
Indianapolis Bar Foundation Neil E
Shook Scholarship
Professor Jegen’s Scholarship for Law Students
Lacy M. Johnson Scholarship
Katz & Korin Estate and Business Tax Award
Stephen W. Kellams Memorial Scholarship
Clara Lee Kittle Scholarship
Klineman Scholarship
Jon D. Krahulik Memorial Scholarship
Krieg DeVault Excellence in Editing Award
Lefstein Legacy Scholarship
Lloyd Littell Memorial Scholarship
Christopher M. Maine Advocacy Award
Christopher M. Maine Memorial Scholarship
Martha Snoddy Marshall Memorial Scholarship
Mitzi H. Martin Moot Court Award
John E. Marynell Endowed Scholarship
Professor Mary Harter Mitchell Memorial Scholarship
S. Ober Endowed Scholarship
Charles R. Oehrle Scholarship
The Papke Prize
The award is given annually to the student who has written the best note in the Indiana Law Review.
Woodrow W. Pence Memorial Scholarship
Ronald W. Polston Scholarship
Dan and Marilyn Quayle Scholarship
Joan M. Ruhtenberg Scholarship for Achievement in Life and Legal Writing
Judge John Ryan Scholarship
Michael J. Sacopulos Tax Awards
Thomas M. Scanlon Memorial Scholarship
Shirley A. Shideler Scholarship
Curtis E. Shirley Tax Awards
Ben F. Small Memorial Fellowship
Benjamin F. Small Scholarship
Robert S. Smith Memorial Scholarship
Harold W. Starr Scholarship
The Honorable Robert H. Staton
Best Brief” Scholarship
Wagner Trial Advocacy Diversity Scholarship is shown here with Robert Wagner, '67, and Nabeela Virjee, '13, of the firm LewisWagner.
Larry W. Suciu Windfall Award
Harold R. Woodard Scholarship
Drew Young Fellowship
Tuchman Bobrick Scholarship
Robert F. Wagner Trial
Advocacy-Diversity Scholarship
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