Leonard Amari (right), president of the John Marshall Board of Trustees, presents Harriet Hausman with an honorary degree at the May commencement. They are joined by Associate Dean Ralph Ruebner (left) and Dean John E. Corkery.

Harriet Seceley Hausman, an outstanding woman who has dedicated herself to working for the betterment of those less fortunate, received an honorary degree from The John Marshall Law School at the May 18 commencement ceremonies.

Hausman, 90, came to know of the law school through her husband, Marty, a 1937 graduate.  But the diploma the law school presented her recognized her outstanding efforts as a trailblazer throughout her life.

A person of great courage and strong convictions, Hausman has stood alongside the downtrodden in our society. Whether it was marching in Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement, feeding breakfast to hungry inner-city children, or reading for the blind, Hausman has demonstrated how one person’s actions can strengthen the fabric of society.

She was elected to three terms to the River Forest Township board. She received the River Forest Outstanding Citizen Award, and wrote “Reflections: A History of River Forest” which is included in the Library of Congress collection for local history.

Hausman, through her career as a social worker, touched many lives. Throughout her life she has been a staunch supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union and its numerous efforts to protect the rights of all and received the ACLU-Illinois Chapter Lifetime Achievement Award.

Hausman worked side by side with her husband, Martin, who founded Power Parts, Inc. When he died in 1988, she ran the business for several more years and received the U.S. Department of Transportation Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

The Hausmans attended John Marshall events and supported the law school throughout Martin’s life, and she continued her husband’s legacy by establishing the Martin C. Hausman Scholarship in 1988. Her support is now given through the Martin C. Hausman Award. Thanks to her generosity, 33 graduates from the Class of 2013 received financial assistance to prepare for the bar exam.

Marcos Resendiz was working on the free legal advice desk at Chicago’s Daley Center, through the Pro Bono Program at The John Marshall Law School. One man called, as many did, seeking help as he faced losing his home to foreclosure. Chicago native Resendiz did his best to answer the man’s questions.

“At the end, he told me that he was very grateful for the help I’d given him, because his alternative was to kill himself,” Resendiz said. “That’s when I realized: this is what I want to do.”

Resendiz attended John Marshall because he was interested in social justice, which became the focus of his studies. But the assurance that law school was the right place for him came outside of the classroom, in the law school’s multiple venues for hands-on work.

Resendiz was a clinical student not only in John Marshall’s Pro Bono Program, but also its Domestic Violence Legal Clinic, the Fair Housing Legal Clinic and the Veterans Legal Support Center & Clinic. Through the law school’s Restorative Justice course, he became an intern at the United States District Court of the Northern District of Illinois’s reentry program for ex-offenders, Second C.H.A.N.C.E.

The son of Mexican immigrants, Resendiz grew up in Pilsen, a predominantly Latino neighborhood on Chicago’s Lower West Side. At an early age, he became aware of discrimination and unequal justice, and his desire to help the frequently underserved members of his community guided him towards law school. It wasn’t a straight path, and Marcos is typical of many John Marshall students who have acquired significant life experience before enrolling, as well as holding a job while attending classes.

Resendiz calls John Marshall Professor Michael Seng, founder and co-executive director of the Fair Housing Legal Support Center & Clinic, a mentor. Seng has been teaching for almost 40 years, and describes Resendiz as “one of the most enthusiastic students I’ve ever had. He takes the initiative and has a real sense of giving back to the community. I admire him. He’s an example of what a John Marshall student can do. We have a lot of opportunities for students here, and he has certainly taken advantage of them.”

Resendiz plans to provide legal help to those in need within the Spanish-speaking community. “I want to do work – not to leave a mark, but to be effective,” he said. “I’m confident I’ll be fine with whatever I choose. I get that confidence from John Marshall.”

The John Marshall Law School has elected three new members to its Board of Trustees. Roger Zamparo, a veteran litigator; Christine Castellano, a Fortune 500 corporate general counsel; and J. Timothy Eaton, recent past president of the Chicago Bar Association (CBA), bring respected and wide-ranging experience to the law school’s board.

“It is my pleasure to welcome these three exceptional attorneys to our board,” said Leonard Amari, president of the Board of Trustees. “I’m sure they will add much to our discussions and offer important insights to our decision-making. In the history of legal education, there has never been a more critical time. The John Marshall Law School and law schools across the country are making serious decisions and need talented people on their boards. Fortunately, especially with these three outstanding new board members, John Marshall’s Board of Trustees has the talent to address the serious issues head on.”

Roger Zamparo received a B.A. from Ohio University and his J.D. from The John Marshall Law School. In his litigation practice Zamparo has represented individuals and corporations in state and federal courts. He has concentrated on several areas, including family law, personal injury, legal malpractice, probate, product liability and other consumer law areas. He is a member of the CBA and the Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA), the National Association of Consumer Advocates and the Justinian Society of Lawyers. He also serves as an arbitrator for the Mandatory Arbitration Program of Cook County.

Zamparo has been active with several legal organizations, as well as those assisting the underserved, including Chicago Volunteer Legal Services, Five Hospital Homebound Elderly Program and Committee to Abolish Incivility.

“Roger is an experienced trial attorney who brings a broad base of experience in multiple aspects of the law to the Board of Trustees. Roger has represented individuals and corporations in a variety of business-related transactions and civil litigation matters and in the area of consumer law,” said Joseph Gagliardo, a fellow Board of Trustees member. “Roger’s extensive experience gives him a unique perspective which will assist the Board in conducting its business activities.  We are happy to have Roger as a member of the board.”

Christine Castellano received a B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of Colorado, and her J.D., cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School. She is a member of the American Bar Association, the Conference Board Council of Senior International Attorneys and the Corporate Counsel Association.  In 2011, Castellano received the Outstanding International Corporate Counsel Award from the International Law Section of the American Bar Association.

"Christine Castellano is a corporate general counsel of distinction. I am proud to have worked with her and know her talents firsthand,” said fellow board member Mary Ann Hynes. “In addition to her numerous corporate achievements, she is a council member and communications officer of the ABA International Law Section, a member of the Association of Corporate Counsel, The Conference Board Council of Chief Legal Officers and the North Shore General Counsel Association.”

Castellano serves with numerous organizations, including the Women’s Board of the Chicago Zoological Society and the Executive Leadership Team for the Metro Chicago American Heart Association Heart Walk. She also is a member of the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Access to Justice Corporate Counsel Advisory Committee.

“Christine is the whole package and we are lucky to have her on our Board of Trustees," Hynes added.

J. Timothy Eaton received a B.A. from Miami University of Ohio, his J.D. from Southern Illinois University School of Law, and an LL.M. degree from Washington University School of Law. He is a partner at Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP where he focuses his practice on commercial and appellate litigation, arbitration and mediation and educational institutions. His peers have selected him numerous times as a “leading lawyer in civil appellate law and commercial litigation” and Eaton has been honored as “best lawyer in America” and “best Chicago appellate lawyer.”

Active in bar activities, Eaton served as president of the CBA for the 2013-14 term. Ten years earlier he served as president of the ISBA. He is a past president of Illinois Lawyers Trust Fund and Appellate Lawyers Association of Illinois. He served three years on the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates.

“Tim Eaton exemplifies what it means to be not only a great lawyer but a great person,” said Daniel Cotter (John Marshall J.D. ’95), who serves with him on the CBA Board. “He has been a leader in the appellate practice area as well as in the bar associations. He has had a phenomenal year as CBA president and will add his wisdom and leadership to the John Marshall Board of Trustees.”

For more information about The John Marshall Law School Board of Trustees, or to request high-res photos of its new members, please contact Christine Kraly at ckraly@jmls.edu .

The renovation project that greatly expanded facilities and student space at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago has been awarded the 2014 Urban Land Institute Chicago Vision Award.

John Marshall’s extensive renovation – which expanded the school by 50,000 square feet – won top accolades in the project category.

In order for a project to qualify for a Vision Award, the project must be located within the nine-county Chicago region and must achieve a high standard of excellence in all areas: design, construction, economics, marketing and management. Award nominations are then reviewed by a jury composed of Urban Land Institute Chicago members who are recognized leaders in their field.

“We are honored that this prestigious group has acknowledged our school and, therein, our dedication to the Chicago legal community,” Dean John E. Corkery said. “Our administration worked, and continues to work hard with our architects and contractors to create inviting, innovative spaces in which our students can learn and succeed.”

John Marshall’s campus expansion began in 2011. The project converted more than 3,600 square feet of first-floor retail space into a new student commons, cafeteria and main entrance onto Chicago’s iconic State Street. The new entrance is set off by a glass canopy and students walk into an expansive entryway. A specially designed glass and steel staircase off the lobby gives students access to the renovated student lounge area on the second floor.

General contractor Bulley & Andrews LLC performed the renovation work designed by architectural firm Griskelis Young Harrell Architects, both of Chicago.

“Our expansion not only provides needed space but gives the law school the image and presence it deserves, right in the middle of State Street’s South Loop Education Corridor,” said Jordan H. Peters, a partner in Freeborn & Peters LLP and the chairman of the building committee of John Marshall’s Board of Trustees.

The renovation included the creation of the clinical and classroom space for the school’s Veterans Legal Support Center & Clinic (VLSC). After meticulous research, that space was designed specifically to meet the needs of veterans who might be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.

“When we design using PTSD as a filter, you can see the areas that you have to alter because they might create a sense of discomfort and stress,” said Chad Harrell of Griskelis Young Harrell. In designing the space, his firm researched on PTSD-accessible designs, and “endeavored to design an environment that eliminated potential PTSD stimuli and aspired to create a calming, safe, secure place.”

The Urban Land Institute began the Awards for Excellence program in 1979 with the objective of recognizing truly superior development efforts. The criteria for the awards include factors that go beyond good design, including leadership, contribution to the community, innovations, public/private partnership, environmental protection and enhancement, and response to societal needs. Winning projects represent the highest standards of achievement set by members of the Urban Land Institute.

Jewett Award Winner

Mary Ann Leukam St. Marie received the John N. Jewett Award for achieving the highest rank in her first year.

Student Ambassador

Samantha Lynn Cain was honored as the Student Ambassador for the May 2014 class. She was recognized for her dedicated service to the Office of Admission and to the law school. She conducted tours, assisted at open houses and served as an advisor to first-year students.

Morrissey Scholars

Mary Ann Leukam St. Marie and Michael Robinson received the Francis D. and Corinne S. Morrissey Award in Professional Responsibility at the May 2014 commencement. Brian Tierney (not pictured) also received the honor.

Scribes Honors

Sarah Wang and Jared Schneider were named to the National Order of Scribes by the American Society of Legal Writers in recognition of their outstanding work in legal writing.  Other recipients (not pictured) were Sarah Hess, Paul Kossof and Elizabeth Winkowski.

Waterman Award Winner

Sarah Wang received the Arba N. Waterman Award for maintaining the highest rank in the second year.

Congratulations to John Marshall’s Library and Technical Services (LTS) staff on receiving the Chicago Area Law Libraries award for publications. Staff members who work on the project are (from left) Ibukun Fasoranti, office manager; Ramsey Donnell, LTS director; Whitney Ward, LTS Publications & Communications specialist; Claire Toomey Durkin, associate director, Research and Instruction; and Philip Johnson, Instructional & Students Services librarian.

The Library and  Technology Services Department at The John Marshall Law School was presented the Award for Outstanding In-House Publication by the Chicago Association of Law Libraries (CALL) for its JMLS Library & Technology Times for Faculty newsletter and “Library & Technology Guide for Students.”

CALL made the presentation to Ramsey Donnell, John Marshall’s director of Library and Technology Services, at its May business meeting.

The newsletter is written for faculty to keep them updated on events, library services and materials, technology services, and distance education news. Topics have included news of the John Marshall Institutional Repository, the first annual John Marshall Technology Month, online J.D. courses, and on-demand ebooks.

CALL also recognized the easy-to-use guide to Library & Technology Services that gives information on materials and services on each of the five floors of the library, including reference, circulation, and Help Desk services, equipment available for check-out, and instructions for first-time visitors.

Both publications are distributed in print and electronic formats.

Professor Benjamin Liu

He is spending the summer in Japan as a guest of Japan’s Institute of Intellectual Property and the 2014-15 Researcher Invitation Program. Liu is studying comparative patent law under the Industrial Property Research Promotion Project entrusted by the Japan Patent Office.

Professor Ann Lousin

Her guest column, "Four who believed in the Illinois Constitution," which appeared in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, received a certificate of merit from the Illinois State Historical Society in the law related history category. The award was presented in April.

Professor Lousin also made two television appearances.  She was a guest on the program “Women in Politics” on WYCC on May 16, 2014. And, she appeared on CLTV’s "Politics Tonight" May 21, 2014, addressing constitutional law issues from People v. Keating, the stoplight camera case, and on the petitions filed by the Fair Map group regarding redistricting.

On June 12, Professor Lousin was a panelist for the "Women in Politics," program on WYCC-TV, part of the station’s "In the loop" series. The topic was how women fare when they run for public office today.

Professor Mark Wojcik

He is being honored on June 20, 2014, with the Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA) Community Leadership Award presented by ISBA's Standing Committee on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. The award honors Wojcik who "by individual example and education, works to eliminate discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, and who has worked towards fostering an understanding of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons and the legal issues of concern to them.”

Professor Hugh Mundy

He was interviewed by a reporter for ABC7-TV on how a new chemical can be used to determine DNA in crime scenes. The segment aired June 17.

Director Michael Schlesinger

Business Enterprise Law Clinic

He was a presenter at the 2014 Transactional Clinical Conference on April 26, 2014, in Chicago.  His presentation was  “Working with Outside Counsel: A Common Nontraditional Model.”

Schlesinger addressed the Chicago Area Region of SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives) about the Business Enterprise Law Clinic, its mission and impact. The program was June 19, 2014.

Adjunct Professor Robin B. Murphy

His article “Silence as Self-Incrimination after Salinas v. Texas,” an article appears in the April 2014 issue of the Illinois Bar Journal. After the Salinas decision, non-custodial suspects must expressly invoke the right to remain silent or their silence can be held against them. In the article, Murphy reviews the case and Illinois state law that provides some evidentiary protection for defendants.

Adjunct Professor Angelique Palmer

She was selected as one of 14 Fellows for the prestigious and highly competitive 2014 American Arbitration Association A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. Fellows Program. For the next year she will participate in immersion in neutral and alternative dispute resolution training.  Palmer was selected for the honor as an exceptional arbitrator and someone who shows promise as a future ADR leader.

John Marshall Law School Professor Timothy O’Neill will research how technology affects which searches and seizures are reasonable under the Fourth Amendment, during his yearlong tenure as the 2014-2015 Edward T. and Noble W. Lee Chair in Constitutional Law.

“How courts deal with subjects such as Internet privacy, searches of smartphones, and the increased use of cameras in public will be of great importance in the coming decade,” O’Neill said. “The Lee Chair will provide a wonderful opportunity to do work in this area.” He will have a reduced teaching load.

Edward T. Lee and his son, Noble W. Lee, collectively served The John Marshall Law School for 90 years, leading the school as deans for 65 of those years. The Lee Chair in Constitutional Law was established in 2010 to honor their contributions to the law school and the legal profession, and their shared interest in constitutional law.

A respected faculty member, O’Neill has been voted Favorite Professor numerous times, and was selected one of the “10 Best Law Professors in Illinois” by Chicago Magazine. He has been a member of the faculty for more than 30 years. The law school recognized his outstanding work with the Scholarly Achievement Award presented in 2009.

For the last 20 years, he has published a monthly column on criminal law in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. For this work, the Chicago Bar Association in 2012 presented O’Neill with its Herman Kogan Meritorious Achievement Award in the category of print journalism. The Chicago Society of Professional Journalists also named him a Finalist for the 2010 Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism in the area of Commentary.

O'Neill has published more than 25 law review articles in the areas of constitutional and criminal law. His scholarship has been cited in more than 50 federal and state appellate court decisions. A law review article he wrote on the Supreme Court appointment process was discussed in a front-page story in The New York Times in 2009.

His scholarship was instrumental in the Illinois Legislature’s decision to introduce degrees of murder in the state. He co-authored the revision to the Illinois Supreme Court Rules that first mandated the use of standards of review in all appellate briefs. At the request of the Illinois Supreme Court, he served for 10 years as the Reporter to the Illinois Committee on Pattern Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases. His pro bono work in state and federal appellate courts has included obtaining clemency for a woman on Illinois’ Death Row, as well as writing amicus briefs for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and for the Illinois Attorneys for Criminal Justice.

O'Neill is a regular commentator on state and national legal affairs. His opinion pieces have appeared in The New York Times, Chicago Tribune and CNN.com. He has provided commentary for articles appearing in The New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times. He has been interviewed on NPR’s “All Things Considered.”

Professor Daryl Lim (left) accepts congratulates from Associate Dean Ralph Ruebner on receiving the Faculty Scholarship Award.

Two outstanding faculty members were given special recognition at the May 2014 commencement ceremony for their efforts in academia and with John Marshall students.

Professor Daryl Lim received the Faculty Scholarship Award, and Professor David Sorkin received the Dedicated Service Award.

In addition, Adjunct Professor Lester Finkle received the Adjunct Teaching Award honoring his more than 15 years of service.

Lim’s book, Patent Misuse and Antitrust: Empirical, Doctrinal and Policy Perspectives, was recently published by Edward Elgar Publishing. Lawyers for both sides in Kimble v. Marvel Enterprises, a case under consideration by the United States Supreme Court have cited the book. Lim is working on the patent and antitrust sections of Intellectual Property: Law, Policy and New Perspectives, a casebook by West Publishing.

His articles have been published in leading intellectual property law reviews and books in the United States, Europe and Asia, including the Stanford Technology Law Review, the Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal and the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal. He was cited in a 2013 World Intellectual Property Organization Report on patents and the public domain.

Associate Dean Ralph Ruebner (right) prepares to hand Professor David Sorkin the Dedicated Service Award.

In 2013 Lim was appointed a peer reviewer for the Max Planck Institute’s International Review of IP and Competition Law (IIC), one of about 30 reviewers worldwide, in recognition of his "knowledge and skill in the field."  He is also a peer reviewer for The Yale Law Journal.

Lim was a co-consultant on an amicus brief filed by the American Antitrust Institute with the United States Supreme Court regarding Bowman v. Monsanto Co., a 2013 case that involved patented genetic traits, raising issues involving post-sale rights of patent owners.

He has contributed to practitioner-focused publications for the American Bar Association and delivers presentations to judges, government officials and attorneys both in the United States and abroad.

Sorkin has spent more than two decades enriching the curriculum and programs for John Marshall Students. He came to John Marshall as a Lawyering Skills faculty member, but he is best known for helping John Marshall embrace changes in technology and is credited with launching the law school’s first website 20 years ago. He began teaching Cyberspace Law, and also created the country’s first law school course on spam email. He teaches an online course in Consumer Law and is developing a Cyberspace Law online course for fall 2014.

He worked on a team that helped design the curriculum for the LL.M. and M.S. programs in Information Technology and Privacy Law,  and has mentored students working on the Journal of Information Technology and Privacy Law, the international law journal focusing on current, relevant legal analysis of information technology and privacy law issues.

Professor Ardath Hamann, chair of the Adjunct Faculty Committee, presents the Adjunct Teaching Award to Lester Finkle.

He chaired the 2012 Braun Lecture, “The Development of Privacy Law from Brandeis to Today” and welcomed privacy experts from across the country for the two-day celebration that marked the 25^th anniversary of the journal, as well as the 30^th anniversary of the Center for Information Technology & Privacy Law. The Braun Lecture culminated with the dedication of the Arthur J. Goldberg Memorial Courtroom.

This year, the law school will host the 33rd annual International Moot Court Competition in Information Technology & Privacy Law welcoming students from the United States and around the world. Sorkin has served as the competition advisor for more than 15 years, and has helped write many of the competition problems.

He also has spent a tremendous amount of time on committee work that has led to benefits for the law school, its students, his fellow faculty and staff.

Finkle was honored  for his outstanding work in the classroom, and his efforts to give students hands-on experience through his direction of John Marshall’s Post-Conviction and Innocence Claims Clinic.

Finkle shares with John Marshall students his 30 years of experience with the Cook County Public Defender’s Office representing indigent defendants. Today he serves as director of the Legal Resources Division.

Finkle first joined the adjunct faculty as a legal writing professor in 1997. He agreed to expand his role to include teaching appellate advocacy, and then helped organize the clinic as part of the externship program for the Center for Trial Advocacy and Dispute Resolution. Finkle teaches the classroom portion and then has students partner with assistant public defenders on post-conviction work for defendants who raise issues challenging the reliability of their convictions and/or sentences. Students communicate with clients, work out in the field investigating witnesses, examine files, past transcripts and records, conduct legal research, attend court and may visit defendants in Illinois prisons.

Professor Mark Wojcik’s continuous work on behalf of those in the LGBT community has won him the 2014 Community Leadership Award from the Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA).

The presentation was made at the June 20, 2014, annual meeting of the ISBA in recognition of his efforts to foster understanding of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and their issues of concern.

A former member of the ISBA Board of Governors, Wojcik has been a longtime force in the fight to achieve understanding of and equity for those in the LGBT community through his participation in local, state and national organizations.

He founded the first gay rights organization at The John Marshall Law School and the first gay rights committee of the Chicago Bar Association. He served on the ISBA Standing Committee on Sexual Orientation Law; he was a commissioner of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity; he chaired the Association of American Law Schools Section on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issue; and he is a past president of the Lesbian and Gay Bar Association of Chicago. He was also inducted into the City of Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame.

Wojcik has worked on legal reforms that include marriage equality and ending employment discrimination and hate crimes based on sexual orientation or gender identity. He has published numerous scholarly articles and books, including the first casebook on the rights of persons affected by HIV. He has spoken out often on legal issues affecting the LGBT community and has taught a seminar class at John Marshall on sexual orientation and gender identity.

International Economic Development Law students outside the UN Foundation, one of their stops during a four-day excursion to Washington, are (from left) Pamela Szelung, Akemi Malone, Steven Bison, Cintya Larios-Guzman, Adjunct Professor Sabine Schlemmer-Schulte, Allison Mintz, Michael Duhn and Marcus Mason.

Students in the International Economic Development Law course gained new perspectives when Adjunct Professor Sabine Schlemmer-Schulte arranged meetings in Washington with top representatives of major international institutions, non-profits and US government agencies.

Schlemmer-Schulte, a Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, has taught the class since 2000, but this was the first time she added the field trip to the class. The course is part of the curriculum for the LL.M. in International Business and Trade Law Program. Staff in the Center for International Law helped Schlemmer-Schulte make this trip a reality.

“Professor Schlemmer-Schulte was so informative and really made the trip a great learning experience!  She is an exquisite scholar and brought a lot of information to the table regarding the various agencies and the economic landscape in general,” said Pamela Szelung (J.D. ’14), an LL.M. student.

During the four-day visit in early June, the students were in morning and afternoon meetings with presenters at World Bank Group; the International Monetary Fund; Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; Freedom House, the non-profit promoting freedom and democracy in young nations; the Inter-American Development Bank; the U.S. branch of Transparency International; Millennium Challenge Corp., a bilateral U.S. foreign aid agency; the Center for Global Development; and the UN Foundation.

The field trip for the eight students provided a unique opportunity for the students to meet with policymakers and others in government and the private sector. Through their meetings, the students got a better understanding of the many issues underlying the intersection of trade, finance and development.

“Being part of such a small group allowed us to ask questions openly and have a dynamic discussion of the issues that each agency was particularly concerned about,” Szelung said. “Each agency that we visited had such a distinct mission from the other agencies that we never heard the same information twice.”

“I found connecting academia with this field experience was worth every penny,” said third-year Allison Mintz. “Programs like this give you the good, the bad and the reality of a career in this field” through presentations given by experienced experts, as well as the professor and fellow students.

Overall, the summer semester course set out to review international calls for global economic development and public and private efforts to meet those calls. Within the context of the North-South debate, students consider the approaches to international contracting and regulation of foreign involvement in economic development sectors, as well as development initiatives in the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade Organization (GATT/WTO).

Sue Trubow (right), widow of the late Professor George Trubow, with Ken Michaels, a John Marshall alumnus and former Trubow student, developed the Trubow Scholarship. They the presented the scholarship in April to Margaret Domanski, the first recipient.

Over the past year, The John Marshall Law School in Chicago has introduced four new scholarships in an effort to help relieve student debt. Among their first recipients is a mother earning her law degree while bravely fighting cancer, as well as law students providing legal help to U.S. veterans.

“We need scholarships like these to provide an excellent legal education that prepares our graduates to practice law, to promote and embrace diversity and to create a community that shares the values and vision of our founders,” John Marshall Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Ralph Ruebner said.

Dr. Eugene T. Leonard III Scholarship: The Dr. Eugene T. Leonard Scholarship was established by brothers and John Marshall alums, Joseph, Andrew and Matthew, in honor of their late father who encouraged and supported them. Mary Ellen Swee was the first student selected to receive the award.

Swee enrolled at John Marshall in 2010 but shortly after was diagnosed with stage 4 breast and bone cancer. She combined treatment with a minimal class schedule and was able to begin full-time course work in the summer of 2013. Swee isn’t the only member of her family attending law school, either. Her son, Joe Swee, enrolled at John Marshall a year after she did, and plans to graduate in January 2015.

William E. Rodriquez Memorial Scholarship: Nancy Piña-Campos, a first-generation American with a passion for real estate law, was the first recipient of this scholarship honoring John Marshall’s first Hispanic graduate. The scholarship was established by the law school in honor of William E. Rodriguez, who was a house painter when he enrolled at John Marshall, and was one of 57 graduates of the class of 1912. He went on to serve as an alderman in the Chicago City Council, and also helped found the Chicago chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Scholarship recipient Piña-Campos was the first in her family to graduate from college. Piña-Campos graduated with a bachelor’s degree in real estate investment and finance from DePaul and worked for several years at a law firm that focused primarily on foreclosures. The work piqued her interest in real estate law and its curriculum offered at John Marshall. Before earning her law degree this month, Piña-Campos served as president of John Marshall’s Real Estate Law Student Chapter of Lambda Alpha International.

George Trubow Memorial Scholarship: The inaugural George Trubow Memorial Scholarship honoring long-time professor George Trubow, was presented to Margaret Domanski, a third-year student. Trubow, who founded John Marshall Law School’s Center for Information Technology & Privacy Law, was a member of the faculty for 25 years. Under his direction, the law school established the Journal of Information Technology & Privacy Law (previously the Journal of Computer and Information Law), and the International Moot Court Competition in Privacy Law.

Domanski, who graduated this month, served as the lead articles editor for the journal, and was a member of the Moot Court Honors Council. She represented John Marshall at the Duberstein National Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition, and would like to practice bankruptcy law in the future. During her career at John Marshall, Domanski has served as a legal intern at the West Cook Homeownership Center in Oak Park, and as a judicial extern for Circuit Court of Cook County Judge Margaret Ann Brennan. She also worked at Pierce and Associates PC as a foreclosure litigation assistant, and as a law clerk at the Law Offices of David J. Roe.

Veterans’ Assistance Book Scholarship in Honor of Mr. Gerald Schur: This scholarship honors Gerald Schur, who received his J.D. from John Marshall in 1963 and his LL.M. in 1968. Schur is an avid supporter of John Marshall’s military veteran students, as well as the school’s Veterans Legal Support Center & Clinic (VLSC). Students Benjamin Abrams, Breanna Zima and Melissa Peterson were the first students to be awarded the scholarship. This book award provides assistance to students working in the VLSC who often are too busy between their work at the clinic and their studies to take on paid employment. The scholarship was established to help those students who are serving those who served.

Before she’s even taken the bar exam, Julia Funke has begun her career of fighting for immigrant causes. A client with a complicated case, whom The John Marshall Law School student had been helping gain U.S. citizenship, recently took the official oath.

“We help people on their path to the American Dream, and every day I’m reminded of how lucky I am,” Funke said. “I never imagined I’d feel so passionate about something.”

Before attending John Marshall, she studied Spanish and international politics at Northern Illinois University. After taking a course about issues facing immigrants, everything seemed to click for her. “I finally felt like I had a direction, that this was all going to fit together for me,” she said. “I really fell in love with the immigrant cause.”

Although she was accepted to several Chicago law schools, Funke chose John Marshall for its emphasis on hands-on learning. “What drew me to John Marshall is that it is a very practice-based, experiential-focused school. It’s not just theoretical. I’ve always believed that education extends beyond the classroom, and I wanted to be at a school that fosters that.”

Her education outside of the classroom began after her first year in law school, when she interned with the Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project, working with undocumented immigrants in disputes over wages and working conditions. “Your first summer, you think you’ll be working somewhere in a suit every day, but instead I was in jeans and a T-shirt doing community outreach and educating people about their rights,” she said.

When fall classes resumed, Funke continued her work through an immigration legal internship at the International Business and Legal Services Group. Among the cases she worked on at the firm – whose issues include business immigration and asylum cases – was that of a client who is deaf, mute and cognitively low-functioning. He could not take the Naturalization Oath because he literally could not speak. Funke was charged with helping the client secure accommodations for the oath.

John Marshall Professor Hugh Mundy helped Funke research the accommodations, connecting her with a professor colleague who had litigated the issue in the 1980s, before Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act. The colleague supported Funke’s proposed legal path, and her client is now a proud U.S. citizen.

Funke’s internship proved so successful, that she was offered a full-time position at the International Legal and Business Services Group after graduation. “I’m so thrilled to have a job where I can make a real difference,” she said. “I feel so lucky to have found work that I love.”

Justice Joy Cunningham stood at the podium of the Marriott Hotel on May 18 recalled her own John Marshall graduation.

“Never in a million years did I think I would deliver this address,” she told the 329 graduates.  It would have seemed preposterous to her in 1979 when she started law school—the only African-American student in her class.

Throughout her career, as a practicing attorney, a hospital administrator, a circuit court judge and now on the Illinois Appellate Court, Cunningham has found the law to be a most valuable tool. “The possibilities on how you use your degree are endless,” she said.

Along the way, Cunningham said she has had time to reflect on her work and career.  She offered graduates three pieces of advice:

“First, practicality and passion.  You need to find a balance between practicality and passion.  I know you all have loans due, but I argue that there has to be passion for how you’ll use your degree,” Cunningham said.  She still is passionate about the law and the legal profession, but it’s not all been work.  “It’s been fun, too.”

Second, do good. Pro bono work and her years of service with organizations, including the presidency of the Chicago Bar Association, have been important to Cunningham.

“Use your degree for the good of the community. It is important to make a real and lasting difference in peoples’ lives. As a young lawyer, I did many pro bono cases.  I helped others and I learned as well.” The justice reminded them that a law degree “can be a very powerful tool.”

Third, network.  Although social media is the latest communication tool, networking and meeting one-on-one are still the best means to collegially interact and learn from other attorneys, Cunningham argued.

“To be a really successful lawyer, you’re going to need help. In-person networking is still the life blood of this profession,” she emphasized.

Lee Sprague joins with Dean John E. Corkery in presenting Aruj Chaudhry with the Lee Sprague Public Service Award.

Aruj Chaudhry had finally made the breakthrough she had been hoping for. The quiet, reluctant young Iraqi refugee girl grabbed the youth leader’s hand and joined her on the children’s playground.

It had taken patience and respect, but Chaudhry, of Bartlett, Ill., felt like she had made even the slightest difference in the young life.

The experience helped earn Chaudhry a perspective on those in need, as well as the 2014 Lucy Sprague Public Service Award. Chaudhry received the $25,000 Sprague award at the May 18, 2014, commencement at The John Marshall Law School.

The award was established in the memory of Lucy Sprague, who was a second-year student at John Marshall when she was murdered in December 1996. Her parents, Lee and the Hon. George R. Sprague (ret.), her sister, Cynthia, and brother, Alexander, established the scholarship to assist another student interested in a career in public service, as Lucy was. The award will help Chaudhry pay down her law school debt.

“This opportunity really has been a gift for me, the epitome of everything,” Chaudhry said. “I feel blessed because as an immigrant, we didn’t come here with lots of financial stability in tow. We left a lot of things behind. There’s always the uncertainty around you.”

She added, “Never did I think that everything I’ve done since I was 16, 17, that I would get some kind of recognition for it – in law school of all places.”

What she’s done since she was a teen is follow the example of service her parents instilled in her and her sister as young girls growing up in Pakistan. Their mother would regularly have the girls gather toys and other household items to donate to a local orphanage for abandoned children, Chaudhry said.

“I had grown up with a sense of being compassionate and giving back, and knowing that it’s part of my responsibility,” she said.

When she was 12, Chaudhry’s family moved to Chicago’s Albany Park neighborhood. Her experience later working as a youth leader while attending the University of Chicago would further shape her desire to help people in need pursue just lives.

“Though … I couldn’t possibly appreciate the gravity of what I was observing at the age of 12, I did upon immigrating to the United States and finding, much to my disbelief, the same injustices without borders, of circumstance or of incidents, without consideration of race, culture, religion, gender or sex,” she wrote in her appeal for the Sprague award.

In fall 2007, as a college student, she founded the Partnership for the Advancement of Refugee Rights (PARR), a human rights nonprofit that helped build a post-conflict school in Southern Sudan. Chaudhry now is remotely involved with PARR, but the school still thrives today.

After graduating from the University of Chicago in 2009, she decided, “Law will be the vehicle of change for me,” and enrolled at John Marshall.

While at John Marshall, Chaudhry lived a busy life outside of the classroom. She served as a law clerk in the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, as well worked in John Marshall’s restorative justice externship and human rights and fair housing clinics.

As a Cook County clerk, she recalled the narratives and talks with victims and their families. Those interactions “reminded me of my responsibility to be the best people’s lawyer I can be so that I can fight for justice on behalf of victims and serve my community.”

Before attending John Marshall, Chaudhry worked as a paralegal at Chicago’s Edelman, Combs, Latturner & Goodwin, LLC, and interned at, among others, Human Rights First in New York City.

Chaudhry graduated cum laude with a bachelor of arts in public policy studies and a minor in human rights from the University of Chicago in 2009.

More than 150,000 downloads of works by faculty, students, and attorneys have been made from The John Marshall Institutional Repository since it launched in 2013.

“The repository allows us to share with the world the outstanding work of our faculty, staff attorneys, and students through their law review articles and white papers. It is also a forward thinking platform to share John Marshall’s journals,” explained Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Ralph Ruebner.

Launched in March 2013 and conceived and developed by the Office of the Dean for Academic Affairs and the Louis L. Biro Law Library staff, The John Marshall Institutional Repository has become an important hub for scholarship discovery. The repository houses a variety of scholarly materials, including the three John Marshall journals and faculty authored law review articles, produced under the auspices of The John Marshall Law School.

To date, the repository has more than 2,250 articles or citations to John Marshall-related articles.

“By using the Bepress platform for our repository, we allow readers, at no charge worldwide, to discover and view research produced at John Marshall that interests them. Work created at John Marshall is highlighted alongside other law-related work at over 200 other institutions through the Digital Commons Network --and John Marshall consistently appears in the monthly top 10 popular institutions based on specialty, including intellectual property,” explained Library Director Ramsey Donnell.

The John Marshall faculty have written more than 450 articles posted as full-text PDFs or cited in the repository, including law review articles by John Marshall faculty dating back to 1957.

All past issues of The John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law and The John Marshall Journal of Information Technology and Privacy Law (formerly the Journal of Computer and Information Law) are available on the repository.  Issues of The John Marshall Law Review have been uploaded back to 1995.

“Through social media buttons, our alumni and faculty have over 250 ways to share their scholarship from the repository,” explained Donnell.

Work on the repository continues by Raizel Liebler, head of Faculty Scholarship Initiatives and manager of the repository, and John Marshall library staff. Their work includes uploading the remaining 28 volumes of The John Marshall Law Review and keeping up with ongoing publishing of works by faculty and by journals.

Liebler said the law school soon will be launching a storefront to allow print versions of John Marshall journal volumes and articles to be purchased by the public.

Access to the John Marshall Institutional Repository is at http://repository.jmls.edu/

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