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Saint Louis University School of Law Spring 2008

The Class of 2008

Law Careers

Public Interest Law Auction

Alumni Profile

Celebrating the First 100 Years of Women at Saint Louis University School of Law

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Dear Alumni and Friends,

When visiting alumni, I am frequently asked, “How is the law school doing?” I have many responses, of course. The theme of each response is one of progress; the subject of the response varies.

If the subject is our students, then I can say with confidence that the law school is doing very well. The law school exists for the students, for the future of the legal profession. Let me take a moment to give you a sense of the talent our faculty enjoys in the classroom every day.

The Fall 2008 entering class of 290 students was chosen from an applicant pool of more than 2,200. There were 7.5 applicants for each seat in the entering class, as compared with the applicant pool from nine years ago when we had only four applicants for each seat in the entering class.

Although the numbers are still preliminary, we can be fairly certain that the average full-time student beginning her law school classes next Fall will have earned a 3.5 grade point average as an undergraduate;

she will have scored at the 72nd percentile on the Law School Admissions Test. The entering class will have equal numbers of men and women, and will have been drawn from more than 130 undergraduate institutions and 30 states. Our top undergraduate feeder schools will once again be Saint Louis University, the University of Missouri at Columbia, Washington University and the University of Illinois.

Of course, the numbers tell only part of the story. In my nine years at Saint Louis University, I have had the privilege to get to know many of our students. Many have been in my Evidence and Remedies classes. Many have been the student leaders in the law journals, student government, moot courts and the like. Suffice it to say, our students continue a long SLU Law tradition. They come to us as very well-rounded citizens on their way to being fine lawyers. As undergraduates they were academic stars, varsity athletes and campus leaders; they were involved in their community and were caring sons and daughters, brothers and sisters. As they build on these qualities in law school, the entire law school community prospers, and so, too, will the legal profession and the public which it serves.

We have wonderful students. I would like to introduce you to the valedictorian of our May graduating class. Elizabeth Millard, ’08, grew up in Denver and graduated from Kenyon College, summa cum laude, with a B.A. in Molecular Biology. She earned a Ph.D. in Molecular Cell Biology from Washington University in 2003. She is a registered patent agent. At Saint Louis University Elizabeth has earned the top grade in numerous courses, served as managing editor of the Saint Louis University Law Journal, received the Best Student Note or Comment Award, and served as a teaching assistant in Legal Research and Writing. After the bar examination, she

and her husband will travel to Uganda and Rwanda for a change of scenery before Elizabeth starts at Senniger Powers this Fall.

As I write, the Spring semester is drawing to a close, examinations are upon us, and graduation for 282 SLU law students is just around the corner. Soon they will be working for law firms and companies large and small; they will be working for local, state and national government; they will be working as public defenders, prosecutors and judicial clerks. And as their careers develop they will have opportunities galore; legal education is the most enabling of all educational opportunities. You, our alumni, are perfect evidence of this fact!

We have much more to accomplish in the years ahead. The support of alumni and friends of the School of Law will continue to be key. One of the distinguishing characteristics of great American law schools is the presence of strong alumni involvement. Please keep sending outstanding students to your law school. Please keep hiring the graduates of your law school. And please continue your financial support — for it is your generosity that makes it possible for us to fully support our students and their teachers. In a real and measurable way, your contributions provide that margin of excellence which is so important for the continued progress of your law school.

And now, with the advent of summer I offer my wish that each of us will find time for some good restorative recreation and relaxation with family and friends.

Take care,

Jeffrey E. LewisDean and Professor of Law

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On the Cover:100: Celebrating the First 100 Years

of Women at Saint Louis University

Dean and Professor of LawJeffrey E. Lewis

Assistant Dean for Communications

Kathleen Carroll Parvis

EditorCatherine Dmuchovsky

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Media Relations SpecialistMelody Walker

Contributors Constance Wagner, Molly Walker Wilson, Megan Davoren, ’09

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Steve Dolan, Jay Fram, Fleishman-Hillard

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Elizabeth Bolen, Karen Budde, Maura Connors, Jeff Cooper, ’95, Cheryl Cooper, Danielle Jacoby,

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The Class of 2008

Law Careers

Public Interest Law Auction

Alumni Profile

Celebrating the First 100 Years of Women at Saint Louis University School of Law

The Class of 2008 Congratulations to the 2008 School of Law graduates! There was no end to the smiles on the faces of the graduates.

Alumni ProfileGet to know your fellow alumni better in this new feature, and find out what they accomplished after law school. This issue’s featured alumnus is Jeff Cooper, ’95.

Law CareersThe initials “J.D.” can be translated into myriad careers, even some far outside the mainstream of law practice. Whether one’s career path is the result of careful planning or following changing personal interests, being a lawyer can mean much more than writing briefs.

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Health Law Program Voted Number One for Fifth Consecutive Year

For the fifth year in a row, U.S.News & World Report has named Saint Louis University’s health law program the best in the nation. Since health law rankings began more than a decade ago, the School’s Center for Health Law Studies has ranked in the top three programs. The Center features some of the nation’s most respected faculty and offers dual-degree programs with Saint Louis University’s School of Public Health and Center for Health Care

Ethics. Graduates of the School’s health law program are employed in the nation’s leading health law practices and top health care companies, as well as federal and state agencies. Professor Thomas J. Greaney, co-director of the School of Law’s Center for Health Law Studies, welcomed the No. 1 honor from U.S. News. “The ranking is really a tribute to the outstanding and diverse faculty members we have teaching health law subjects and to the outstanding students we’ve been able to attract to the program,” Greaney said. The specialty rankings are based on voting by academic peers in the same field.

1908The first women admitted to Saint Louis University are five law students: Bertha M. Bruening, Adele M. Doyle, Mary A. Maguire, Rosie O’Boyle and Anna L. Ross.

Conference on the “Use and Misuse of History in U.S. Foreign Relations Law” >Are lessons learned from the Civil War applicable to today’s thorny foreign relations issues? Does scholarship actually have an effect on policy?

These are just a couple of the questions raised during the conference that took place on March 7. This symposium brought together a group of leading legal historians and foreign relations law scholars to examine the use and misuse of history in framing legal arguments related to the conduct of U.S. foreign policy. It was a full day of passionate scholars engaged in robust but still civil debates, exchanging ideas and learning from each other.

By the way, attendance at this conference was worth 7.2 CLE credits. For more credit-earning opportunities, check the law school’s Web site for upcoming conferences and symposia.

Moot Court WinnersCongratulations to Laura Spencer (left), ’09, and Elizabeth Grana (right), ’09, who won the Moot Court Competition Final Argument on March 28. Eric Johnson, ’09, and Kate Hummel, ’09, won second place. The teams argued before Judge Dorothy Robinson, ’67, and Judge Kathianne Knaup Crane, ’71.

Women Law Students’ Association “100 Years of Women” Panel Discussion >In celebration of the 100th year that women have been accepted to Saint Louis University and the School of Law, WLSA hosted the “100 Years of Women at Saint Louis University” panel discussion on February 27. The panel included three distinguished St. Louis female attorneys: Schulamith Simon (top right), the first female partner at any St. Louis law firm; Tessa Rolufs Trelz (center right), ’87, of Armstrong Teasdale, LLP, and the firm’s Director of Professional Advancement of Women; and Amy Gunn (bottom right), ’96, of Simon Passanante, PC, and a board member of the Women Lawyers’ Association of Greater St. Louis.

The three attorneys discussed how they navigated their careers from green law school grads to accomplished legal professionals, and how they dealt with the challenges that career women traditionally face. Schulamith Simon’s perspective was especially enlightening, as she was blazing trails when these students’ parents were mere youths. “I tried to be the best lawyer I could as opposed to the best ‘female’ lawyer.” Simon was the Daily Record Woman of the Year in 2006.

They also offered advice to the young women (and a few men) in the audience. Of particular concern to some students was how to balance their careers with family life, and even how to broach the topic with potential employers. Amy Gunn advised the students to view their career “as a work in progress.” Tessa Trelz talked about her work to “stem the tide of women leaving large law farms” through the professional development program for women at her firm. She began the program 10 years ago and is still devoted to empowering female associates.

Jurist-in-Residence the Honorable Judge Dorothy Robinson, ’67 >On March 28, SLU law alumna Judge Dorothy Robinson (right), ’67, gave the annual Adler-Rosecan lecture. Her topic was “The Moral and Ethical Decline of Society and Its Impact on (1) the Justice System; (2) the Practice of Law; and (3) the Search for Truth.” Her talk focused on the changes in society she has observed during her 36 years on the bench, and those observations prompted her to address more philosophical issues. “Laws are the minimum standards of conduct, but morals and ethics require more,” she said. She gave the audience a lot to think about, such as what defines a

“successful” life in our society, the importance of searching for the truth in law and in life, and whether the courts should take on “the teaching of proper conduct.”

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Women’s Justice AwardsFour alumnae were among the honorees at the 10th Annual Women’s Justice Awards Program held April 10 in St. Louis. Mary Coffey, ’80, received a “Lawyer’s Lawyer” award in recognition of private practitioners who demonstrate leadership, integrity and other ideals in improving the quality of justice or contributing to

the betterment of the legal profession. Joan Lockwood, ’93, and Heather Hays, ’98, were recognized as “Rising Stars” who have made a difference in the justice system or the profession in their first 10 years of practice and who are on a path toward even greater accomplishment. Latieke Lyles (above), ’08, was recognized as a “Leader of Tomorrow,” an honor which is awarded to a law student who demonstrates leadership, professionalism and a passion for making a difference in the justice system. The Justice Awards are sponsored by the St. Louis Daily Record.

Videos and podcasts are available on the conference Web site at http://law.slu.edu/conf/history/schedule.html.

Student Writing CompetitionThomas B. Harvey (right), ’09, was the recipient of the 2008 Writing Excellence Award sponsored by the Student Legal Writers’ Association during the first all-law student Symposium on April 18. Harvey’s paper was titled, “Preventing Private Military Contractors from Wrapping Themselves in the American Flag: The Role the Alien Tort Statute Can Play in Increasing Contractor Accountability and Improving U.S. Foreign Relations.” Kim Novak Morse (left), assistant director of writing services, organized the first-time event.

Video and podcast of this lecture are available at http://law.slu.edu/multimedia/index.html.

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BLSA Moot CourtThe team of Cora Drew (right), ’10, and Jittaun Dill (left), ’09, advanced to the quarterfinal round of the National Moot Court Competition, sponsored by the National Black Law Students’ Association, held in Detroit at the end of March. More than 100 briefs were submitted to the annual competition.

Cora Drew, who is a second year law student from Tuskegee, Al., said the months of preparation for the competition were worth it. “Moot Court was an absolutely amazing experience. I enjoyed the challenge of competing against some of the best and brightest

law students from around the country and being grilled by former moot court champions, attorneys and even judges.” Their coach was Robert S. Kenney (center), ’98.

Professor Bloom is Teacher of the Year and Wins Thompson Coburn Award for Faculty Writing

Professor Frederic M. Bloom was honored again this year when students voted him Teacher of the Year for the second year in a row. He addressed the graduating class at the hooding ceremony.

In addition, Prof. Bloom also received the 2005 Thompson Coburn Faculty Writing Award. The award honored Prof. Bloom’s article, “Unconstitutional Courses,” which was published in the Washington University Law Review.

School of Law Visiting Professors

Growing up in Nigeria with six sisters and parents who were teachers, Oluyemisi Bamgbose (above left) remembers the important role education played in their lives. “We all went to college and were encouraged to have careers.” Yemisi was drawn to the law early on and is a member of the law faculty at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, where she teaches Criminal Law, Criminology and Comparative Criminal Law and Procedure. Prof. Bamgbose’s interest in women’s and children’s issues was evident in a public lecture she gave this Spring semester on child trafficking. She also taught a seminar on Juvenile Justice Systems in Nigeria.

Professor Joël Monéger (above right), returned for his annual visit this Spring semester to teach Comparative Contract Law. Prof. Monéger is a Professor of Law at the Université de Paris-Dauphine and Director of the Institut de Droit Dauphine.

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The first five females graduate from the School of Law.

Rosie O’Boyle is admitted to practice by St. Louis Circuit Court.

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< Health Law Distinguished Speaker SeriesThis spring, the Center for Health Law Studies welcomed Wendy K. Mariner (left) as part of the Center’s Distinguished Speaker Series. Mariner is a Professor of Health Law and Director of Patient Rights Program at Boston University School of Public Health and Professor of Socio-Medical Sciences and Community Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine. The topic of her talk was, “Is There a Duty to Be Healthy? Social Solidarity and Personal Responsibility for Health.” She spoke about the

current health care climate—“relentless” increases in cost, the alarming rise in chronic diseases and limited government oversight—and how social attitudes about health and personal responsibility are affecting insurance providers and even public health entities. She also posed some interesting questions about the financial benefits of maintaining one’s health: “What costs are saved? Who saves which costs?” And why are there now “exceptions and provisions” to HIPAA’s prohibition of discrimination based on health care factors? For students and professors alike, the lecture was an insightful look into current issues in health law.

Public Law Review Symposium >

On April 4, the Center for International and Comparative Law

and the American Branch of the International Law Association co-sponsored this year’s symposium,

“The Changing Tide of Trade,” which examined the social, political

and environmental implications of regional trade agreements. The

symposium brought together leading scholars to discuss various facets

of regional trade agreements, from human rights and social justice issues to their legal, economic and political

contexts. One of the highlights of the day was the presentation by keynote

speaker Irving A. Williamson, commissioner of the United States International Trade Commission.

Health Law Annual SymposiumThe difficult issues confronting people with disabilities, their reproductive rights and the public policies and laws that affect their lives were the topics at the 20th Annual Saint Louis University Health Law Symposium on April 4.

The symposium featured seven speakers and panels of experts, including:

• Adrienne Asch: Parenting, Disability and Meeting Children’s Needs

• Judith F. Daar: Rethinking the Meaning of Health in an Era of Reproductive Technologies

• Clare M. Dunsford: Mutants and Wild Types: Our Sequence, Ourselves

• Paul A. Lombardo: Eugenics History and the Culture Wars: Sterilization and Reproductive Rights

• Janet Malek: Disability and the Duties of Potential Parents

• Elizabeth A. Pendo: Ensuring Equal Access to Reproductive Health Care for Women with Disabilities

• Susan Stefan: Accommodating Families: Disability Policy and Law in Family Support and Stabilization Services

Symposium proceedings will be published in the Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy.

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World War I begins.Business Women’s Suffrage League founded by School of Law graduate Mary McGuire.

School of Law moves to the new building at 3642 Lindell.

Caroline Thummel co-founds Women’s Bar Association of St. Louis with 19 women lawyers.

The women’s suffrage parade in Washington, D.C., draws more than 5,000 marchers.

Georgia O’Keeffe’s first one-person show is held in New York City.

Twinkies are introduced.

Prohibition ends with the passage of the 21st Amendment.

Women earn the right to vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment.

Bar Association of St. Louis admits first woman, Bonita Shramm.

Symposium participants (above). Professor Doug Williams (far left) and Public Law Review executive editor and symposium coordinator, Falon Wrigley, (left) ’08.

Video and podcast of this lecture are available at http://law.slu.edu/multimedia/index.html.

Videos and podcasts are available on the conference site at http://law.slu.edu/conf/parenting/schedule.html.

Students Accept Leadership Positions in New National Organization Megan Davoren, ’09, and Stessie Bill, ’09, co-presidents of the Women Law Students’ Association, were elected to national leadership positions in the newly formed National Women Law Students’ Organization. Out of 90 delegates from 70 schools, Davoren was selected to serve as the Regional Midwestern Student Liaison Co-Chair. Stessie Bill was selected to serve as the Regional Midwestern Outreach Coordinator Vice-Chair responsible for reaching out to professionals in the Midwest and helping to organize events at the regional level.

From left to right: Thompson Coburn’s Cherie Stephens Bock, ’99, Detmar, Krissa and Fred Bloom.

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Jurist-in-Residence

Judge Myron H. Thompson, United States District Court Judge for the Middle District of Alabama, is well-known for his 2002 ruling that

a stone monument depicting the Ten Commandments installed in the Alabama State Judicial building was an unconstitutional state endorsement of religion. Students and faculty were given the opportunity to discuss that case and

many others with the judge during his February visit to the law school. Exuding a passion for the law and Southern charm, Judge Thompson strongly encouraged members of the Black Law Students’ Association to apply for clerkships. One of Judge Thompson’s past clerks, Professor Eric Miller, also endorsed the clerkship experience and was proud to host his former boss and mentor as the Spring semester jurist-in-residence. Judge Thompson is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School, he served as assistant attorney general of Alabama, and he worked in private practice before being nominated to the district court by President Carter in 1980.

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Missouri Court of Appeals & Honors for Judge SimeoneWhen the Missouri Court of Appeals set up shop in the law school’s courtroom in March, there were three cases on the docket, two alumni on the bench and Professor Emeritus Judge Joseph Simeone on duty to hear the arguments. Chief Judge Patricia Cohen presided over the court’s visit with Judges Nannette Baker,’94, and Kurt Odenwald,’79.

At a luncheon following the Court’s session, Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice Laura Denvir Stith presented an engraved plaque to Judge Simeone in recognition of his 60 years of service to the

law profession and the judiciary.Judge Simeone was appointed to the

Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District in 1972 and served until his resignation in 1978 when he was appointed to the Missouri Supreme Court. Simeone joined the law school faculty in 1947. He officially retired in 1972, but can still be found in his office every Tuesday and most Saturdays.

Award Winning Students This spring our students were winning awards faster than we could keep count of them all. The following is a list of students who received honors for their writing, leadership skills and mock trial performances. Congratulations to all of the students whose excellence shines a bright light on the School of Law!

• Laura Schwarz won the 2008 ABA Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development Writing Contest.

• Elizabeth Millard, the class of 2008 valedictorian, won the American Intellectual Property Association Award.

• The ALI-ABA Scholarship and Leadership Award went to Annie Hendrickson.

• Thomas W. Banning and Sarah E. Mullen received the 19th Annual David Grant Clinic Student Attorney Awards.

• Raumesh Akbari, Ryan Turnage and Justin Mason advanced to the semifinal round at the Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial Competition, and Raven Akram and Latieke Lyles tied for the Best Advocate Award at the same competition.

• Michael Brockland, Sarah K. Molina, Catriona Nally, Kristen Ratcliff and David A. Weder were honored with the 2008 National Order of the Scribes for Excellence in Legal Writing.

• Amanda Sher won the Jaime Ramirez Student of the Year Award.

Spring Break in New OrleansFive law students and four faculty members spent their spring break in New Orleans assisting victims of Hurricane Katrina with their legal issues. Students Christine Brown, Caleb Peterson, Michael Harrison, Sarah Lawton and Robert Plunker participated in the trip, which was organized by Plunker.

Professors Sue McGraugh, Patricia Harrison, John Ammann and Eric Miller accompanied the students along with Marie Kenyon, directing attorney of Catholic Legal Assistance Ministry. CLAM and the law school provided financial support.

Students and faculty worked with law students from other law schools and the New Orleans Pro Bono Project on two main projects. Some students worked on family law cases, including cases where custodial parents were trying to regain custody they lost when they lost their homes to the flood and children were sent to live with non-custodial parents. The other group worked to clear title of land so that families could get access to Road Home grants from the federal government to repair their homes.

Timothy P. Blanchard, Practitioner in Residence

Timothy P. Blanchard, ’86, is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the firm’s Los Angeles office. A member of the firm’s Health Department, Blanchard focuses on health care regulatory issues, including Medicare

and Medicaid coverage, billing and payment; fraud and abuse audits and investigations and health care compliance programs; clinical trials billing and compliance; HIPAA privacy, certification and licensing; and utilization review.

Blanchard gave several informal talks to students on practical issues faced by health law attorneys during his two-week visit to the law school.

Journal of Health Law & PolicyVolume 1, Issue 1 of the Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy features articles from the 2007 Health Law Symposium, “Medicare after the Medicare Modernization Act.” After many years successfully working with the American Health Lawyers Association in the publication of the

Journal of Health Law, the Center for Health Law Studies decided to create an independent journal dedicated solely to scholarship and symposia at the law school. The next issue will contain articles from the 20th Annual Health Law Symposium, “Disability, Reproduction and Parenting.”

< BLSA Service AwardReuben Shelton(left), ’81, senior counsel for Monsanto Company, is the 2008 recipient of the the McMillian Award, named in honor of the Honorable Theodore McMillian, ’49, presented on April 18 by the Black Law Students’ Association.

Shelton was honored for his many contributions to the legal profession as well as service in many civic and professional organizations. He was the first African American elected to the position of president of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis and the St. Louis Bar Association. He currently serves as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Antioch Baptist Church and president of Legal Services of Eastern Missouri Board of Directors.

Life magazine debuts.

1936 1937 1943 1945 1946 1948 1950 1952Women are allowed to serve on juries in Missouri.

Margaret Mitchell wins the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, Gone with the Wind.

School of Law closes down during World War II.

Winston Churchill gives his “iron curtain” speech.

The first Law School Admissions Test is given.

Brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald start the famous chain of burger joints.

Modern credit card is introduced.

First “Peanuts” cartoon is published.

From left: Judge Richard B. Teitelman, Judge Mary Rhodes Russell, Judge Joseph Simeone, Chief Justice Laura Denvir Stith, Judge Michael A. Wolff.

Presidential Management FellowsThe law school is very pleased to report that six of our graduating third years have been selected as finalists for the Presidential Management Fellows Program.

Our fellows are: • Alfred Caniglia• Courtney Goodwin• Natalie Kean• Katherine Pull• Kristen Ratcliff• Anthony Smith

Eileen Searls (left) begins 48-year tenure as director of the Omer Poos Law Library. She was the first woman promoted to full professor and to receive tenure at the School of Law.


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This year’s proud graduates were hooded in the new Chaifetz Arena on Thursday, May 15. Hooding speaker Chief Justice Laura Denvir Stith gave the graduates their final law school lesson.

“This September, when you come to our Supreme Court building in Jefferson City to be sworn in as members of the Missouri bar, look at the inscription above the front door. It says: THE LAW: IT HAS HONORED US, MAY WE HONOR IT.

American statesman and abolitionist Daniel Webster offered that thought as a toast to the members of the Charleston, S.C., bar in 1847, and I think that every member of our profession should take it to heart.

Certainly, this is a high-sounding phrase, but what does it really mean, as a practical matter for new lawyers, to ‘honor the law’? If you were still law students, I might call on one of you to answer this question. But now that you are graduates, your days of being subject to the Socratic method are over. Instead of asking you all to answer this philosophical question, I’ll share with you my thoughts on how lawyers best bring honor to the law.

How do you honor the law? You can honor the people that you meet in your professional capacity by treating them all with civility, dignity and respect. You have the ability to impact the lives of many people throughout your career, and those impacts will be significant. It is when people meet you as a lawyer — be they prospective clients, opposing counsel, trial and appellate judges, or jurors – that they form their impressions of the law, and of lawyers. I hope and expect that you all will help create a legacy that restores and maintains the public’s trust in our profession.”


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It’s 1908. Teddy Roosevelt is in the White House. Henry Ford’s new Model T is selling like hotcakes; oil has been discovered in southwest Iran; and it’s an election year: Taft vs. Bryant for president.

In St. Louis, Lindell Boulevard is bustling with activity around construction of the new cathedral. In October, tens of thousands of people lined the boulevard for a procession from the College Church on Grand to the cathedral site where a special papal envoy laid the cornerstone with great pomp and circumstance befitting the occasion and the presence of three archbishops.

Another historical event was taking place that fall several blocks east of the cathedral at the corner of Locust and Leffingwell. Saint Louis University was re-opening its law school after a 60-year hiatus. And for the first time in the University’s history, women would be allowed in the classrooms.

With little fanfare, Bertha M. Bruening, Adele M. Doyle, Mary A. Maguire, Rosie O’Boyle and Anna L. Ross registered as the first female students at the Saint Louis University Institute of Law. Only one local newspaper, the St. Louis Times, reported on the event under the headline, “Staid Old Institution Has Not Become Coeducational, but its New Law Department Is Opened to Both Sexes.”

The First FiveLittle is known about our first women students, and photos of only four of the five remain in the archives. Bertha Bruening, who hailed from Louisville, Ky., went on to be one of the first women to receive a degree from the business school — known then as the School of Commerce and Finance — in 1920. Rosie O’Boyle, who at 19 was the youngest member of the original five female students, was admitted to practice by the St. Louis Circuit Court in 1911. Adele Doyle was 31 when she entered law school and is listed in the University’s yearbook, Fleur de Lis, as the secretary of the freshman class in 1908. The 1909 yearbook reports on Mock Trial activities and mentions that “Miss Adele Doyle lost her suit against the Transit Co. ...the fact that there were three ladies in the jury box makes the finding all the more incomprehensible.” Even more “incomprehensible” when you realize women were not allowed to serve on real Missouri juries until 1945.

The Fleur de Lis reports on another “practice court” arson trial that ended in a not-guilty verdict. “The case was an interesting one from start to finish, especially at the finish, when the verdict was read by the foreman, Miss Anna Ross.” We know the least about Mary Maguire, with the exception of a brief mention in Lucile Wiley Ring’s Breaking the Barriers: The St. Louis

Legacy of Women in the Law 1869-1969, that reports she founded the Business Women’s Suffrage League in 1912.

Opening the doors of the law school to women was a limited but risky experiment for the Jesuits who ran the University. Coeducation was frowned upon by the Catholic church and forbidden by the Jesuit Order’s headquarters in Rome. Eileen Searls, who was the law school’s librarian from 1952-2000, says the American Jesuits received a questionnaire each year from Rome asking if there were any women at the college. The clergy could answer truthfully that there were not because women were not admitted to the undergraduate College of Arts and Sciences until 1949.

By 1908, Saint Louis University President William Banks Rogers, S.J., had laid the groundwork for the modern university, and the progressive educators among the clergy favored the inclusion of women students. Over the next 40 years, more doors would open to women at SLU, but it was a slow process met with much resistance from the Church and critics in the clergy who deemed coeducation “harmful” and part of “the woman problem.” The “problem” was that women were beginning to demand more rights and independence.

Women wouldn’t get the right to vote until 1920, but they were practicing law in

surprisingly large numbers by the turn of

the last century. The Census records 1,010 women lawyers in the U.S. in 1900. When our first five women students graduated in 1911, there were fewer than 20 women lawyers in St. Louis. By the next year, 1912, the St. Louis Women Lawyers Club was formed, which would evolve into the Women’s Bar Association of St. Louis.

“Law School Drops Co-Eds Who Blush at Lectures”Like all trailblazers, the first women students were challenged and confronted by nay-sayers as they navigated the male-dominated legal academy. And it appears some spectators were eager to see them fail. A report in the May 20, 1910, St. Louis Times claimed that the University would rather bar women students than change the curriculum after some female law students complained about a lecture in family law. Father William B. Faherty relates in his history of the University that the report on the demise of women at SLU was unfounded: “Three of the seven young women protested to the Dean when a professor of domestic relations discussed too graphically various pleas that could be used as grounds for divorce. The case became the subject of public discussion….But there is no extant record of an official

policy of exclusion.” Nevertheless, the number of women students at the law school did not increase significantly until mid-century.

Roaring TwentiesWomen made further strides in their education

at Saint Louis University in the 1920s. The law school graduated more women in that decade than any other before World War II. Shedding their corsets, stiff high-necked collars and full-length wool skirts, liberated women of the ’20s were admitted to the Business School (1920) and the School of Nursing (1925). According to Mary Elizabeth Hogan’s 1998 doctoral dissertation, Women and Jesuit Higher Education at Saint Louis University: An Emerging Paradigm, most of the women entering law school in the ’20s were teachers preparing for a second career. Geraldine Collum,’24, became an influential leader of the St. Louis Teachers Association, and Jean Gass Volkerding,’24, became the law school’s first full-time librarian and first female professor. The first year class in 1923 registered eight women, an enrollment record that would not be attained again until 1966.

Post-War RevivalWorld War II depleted the ranks of faculty and students and forced the School to close from August 1943 to January 1946. The first post-war class had 23 students, and all but two were veterans. Librarian Eileen Searls, who was hired in 1952, recalls discovering with regret and dismay that hundreds of volumes from the library “were pitched in the trash” along with many records documenting the first 40 years of

the School. When Searls arrived, fresh from her first job at Yale University after graduating with degrees in law and library science from the University of Wisconsin, Searls began the painstaking task of rebuilding the library collection.

Books weren’t the only things missing after the war. The School needed a faculty and a new curriculum. The daunting task of reviving the law school was given to Paul Fitzsimmons, a 29-year-old Harvard Law graduate who had been an assistant U.S. circuit attorney before the war and then served as a liaison officer for Gen. Eisenhower. In the fall of 1946, 202 students enrolled, tuition was $150 per semester, and there were no women students.

1950-1960While the post-war years were ones of growth for the School, women did not play a major role. There were only 16 women graduates between 1950 and 1960. Wives of law students, however, had formed the Law Dames Club in 1949 to organize social events, and it evolved into a fund-raising and community service group. The Law Dames initiated the Barrister’s Ball in 1966, raising $75 for the scholarship fund. Quite a feat considering tickets were $4 per couple and drinks cost 50 cents.

Vincent C. Immel became dean in 1962 and would make a long-lasting impression on students and the School. He embarked on a campaign to recruit a more diverse student body from beyond St. Louis, increase financial aid, expand the faculty and raise money for a new building. By 1965, enrollment was at an all-time high of 300, and students hailed from 82 different colleges and universities

in 25 states and three foreign countries. But it was still a male stronghold and would remain that way until the women’s movement and social revolutions of the late ’60s.

1970sA graph indicating the number of women at the School of Law in the ’70s would start at zero and gradually start to climb by the middle of the decade, never to decline again. By the end of the decade, women equaled nearly one-third of the class.

Kathianne Knaup Crane, ’71, entered the law school in 1968. “I was surprised when I started law school and saw few other women at the School. There were so few of us that, even in my second and

third years, all of the women in

the School easily fit in Eileen Searls’ living room for her annual dinner party for the women students. We experienced some complaints that we were taking a place that should go to a man, or that practicing law was not suitable for a woman, but the law school administration and faculty were extremely supportive of having women in the School. I never met a professor I didn’t feel was 100% behind women studying law. And, I

by Melody Walker

President Eisenhower raises the minimum wage to $1 an hour.

1955 1961 1962 1968 1973 1975 1979 1980There are 100 women lawyers in St. Louis; 26 are members of the St. Louis Bar Association.

Berlin Wall is erected.

Peace Corps is founded.

SLU Law Dames Club learns about the law at a mock trial.

Omer Poos Library building dedicated.

U.S. pulls out of Vietnam.

Morrissey Hall building is dedicated.

Brochure encourages women to pursue a law degree at Saint Louis University.

Margaret Thatcher is the first female prime minister of Great Britain.

Manolo Blahnik opens first New York City store.

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developed friendships among the men in the law school that continue to this day.” Crane is a judge with the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District.

In 1973, Ettie Lee Collier ,’73, and classmates Elbert Dorsey and Charles Bussy were involved in organizing a new national organization, the Black American Law Student Association, and they established the first BLSA chapter at the law school. The same year, the Women’s Law Coalition was founded “as a loosely structured association interested in women’s issues… [that] provides support to its sisters during the rigorous law school experience.”

A 1975 brochure designed to recruit women to the law school addresses those rigors and encourages women to pursue law in order to obtain “Knowledge, Power and Independence.” The brochure provides lengthy quotes from students about dealing with the “ménage a trois” – wife, husband and the law – combination that apparently posed one of the biggest challenges to women entering law school. Thirty years later, work-life balance remains an issue for women juggling career, family, community involvement and caregiving for aging parents. Women of every generation grapple with these conflicting demands.

Doreen Dodson, ’74, remembers how she juggled motherhood in addition to the “ménage a trois”: “Saint Louis University School of Law was wonderfully accommodating, allowing me to take half of my first year classes with one section and half with the other, so I could cram the classes into as short a time as possible and get home to my 1-, 2 1/2-, and 4-year-old children. I went full time, taking summers off with the children and struggling to find childcare (there was no real day care then). I was able to attend law school because of a half scholarship and a student loan and the continuing care of Pete Salsich and others.”

Newly minted women lawyers in the ’70s and early ’80s did not find such an accommodating world beyond the confines of law school. There were few role models in law firms, courtrooms or on the bench. Mary K. Hoff ,’78, was determined to change the male-dominated judiciary. “I joined the Women Lawyers Association shortly after becoming a lawyer. I found the companionship and camaraderie extremely supportive and beneficial. I served as president of that organization from 1986-1987. During that year, our organization worked on getting women appointed to the judiciary. In the spring of 1987, the president of the Kansas City Women Lawyers Association and I met in Jefferson City to encourage the chief judge of the Supreme Court and the governor to consider appointing a woman to the appellate court for the first time in Missouri history. We were delighted when Judge Ann Covington was appointed to the Western District Court of Appeals in 1987 and Judge Jean Hamilton was appointed to the Eastern District Court of Appeals in 1989. We were especially pleased when Judge Covington became the first female Missouri Supreme Court judge in 1988.” Hoff is a judge on the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District.

Today, thanks in part to the diligence, mentoring and role modeling of our alumnae, there are women at every level of the state and federal judicial system. The first five female law students from 1908 probably had no idea of the doors they opened for future generations. One hundred years later, more than half of the student body at the School of Law is female; 105 women received J.D. degrees this May and are on their way to careers in law firms, corporations, government and academia. And this is just the first century of women at Saint Louis University. Wait until you see what our alumnae accomplish in the next 100 years.

“It is in dreaming the greatest dreams, seeking the highest goals, that we build the brightest tomorrows.” In law school, this simple Hallmark quote takes on a whole new meaning. What are the highest goals that women law students in 2008 can aspire to? How have the women lawyers since 1908

strengthened and broadened these goals? I was under the misconception that after women entered

law school they would have a degree that would automatically open doors to law firms, as well as to academic and judicial paths. Call it idealistic, but I soon learned from the Women Law Students’ Association’s (WLSA) various spring events that women have faced a very different road.

This February, in conjunction with the WLSA Judges Reception honoring the inspirational women on the Missouri Supreme Court, WLSA hosted a panel to discuss the ways in which the legal profession has changed over the years. In some ways, it was alarming to see how much it has stayed the same. Women are still encouraged to wear skirts versus pantsuits. Shockingly, some of SLU’s recent graduates discussed obstacles they still face in the legal profession, such as clients who prefer a male lawyer to represent a case. This is a national reality. The Honorable Dorothy Robinson, SLU’s Adler-Rosecan lecturer, became the first woman to serve as a judge of a court of record in Georgia in 1972. That was not very long ago. What makes society hold on to gender discrimination?

Another struggle consistently highlighted among women lawyers is the attempt to find a work-life balance. Many of

the women lawyers and judges who have spoken at events throughout this year speak candidly about their journey of finding a balance. This is a problem that current law students worry about, too. At the end of the day, it appears to be a path that each person must navigate. There is no “one size fits all.” Each female attorney must find her own balance that brings her joy. Firms appear to be more cognizant of this balance as they attempt to retain women partners. Ultimately, countless individuals aim to have a successful career while still remaining close to their children, spouses, parents and extended family.

Despite these obstacles, women in the legal profession are blazing new trails. There are plenty of bright lights already shining in the legal field. On the Missouri Supreme Court, three out of seven judges are women and Laura Denvir Stith is currently the chief justice. Women law professors are making substantial contributions to law schools around the country and are on the cutting edge of developments in the law. These women inspire those of us preparing to enter the legal field.

The SLU women since 1908 have left a wonderful legacy. They have opened numerous avenues to the legal profession. Their sacrifices and struggles have taught me never to be complacent. Women should continue to pursue an even larger role in the legal profession.

Influential women lawyers, judges, and community advocates — many of them SLU alumnae — who have shared their experiences with us are a tremendously valuable resource to law students at the beginning of their own legal path. Thanks to the dedication of the pioneering women who have come before us, legal students today at SLU have a bright future filled with diverse career prospects. The road ahead is not without obstacles and additional barriers to break through, but the opportunities are there.

Legacies Past, Present and Future

Sandra Day O’Connor is the first woman to be appointed to the United States Supreme Court.

1997 1998 2000 2008Janet Reno is appointed Attorney General.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is appointed to the United States Supreme Court.

Sally Ride is the first American woman in space.

In the School of Law entering class, the ratio of female to male students is 1:1.

Scientists clone sheep. Saint Louis University School of Law celebrates the first 100 years of women.

Vincent C. Immel Atrium added to the School of Law and Queen’s Daughters Hall renovated and dedicated.

Women are the majority (52.9%) of the entering School of Law class for the first time.

By Megan Davoren

198119831988 1993

We asked Megan Davoren, co-president of the Women Law Students’ Association, what the issue of women’s history in the law means to her and her contemporaries. What follows is her contribution to the evolving story of women and the law.

Speakers Series 2008–2009Join us for discussions of the issues facing women in the legal profession.

Work-Life Balance and Its ChallengesThursday, September 25, 20085 p.m. in theWilliam H. Kniep Courtroom

Reception to follow in Queen’s Daughters Hall

Speaker Nicole Porter, Assistant Professor, University of Toledo College of Law

Faculty Moderator Susan A. FitzGibbon

Alumnae Panel Christi L. Flaherty ’01, Doster Guin James Ullom Benson & Mundorf, LLC, Mary Anne Sedey, ’75, Sedey Harper, P.C. and Joan M. Swartz ’87, Joan M. Swartz Law Offices

R.S.V.P. to http://law.slu.edu/conf/women/registration.

For more information, call Kathleen Carroll Parvis at 314-977-7248.

Do you recognize any of these aspiring lawyers? E-mail us at [email protected]

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alternative legal careersThe process of change begins so simply, often in the midst of the most mundane activities. Perhaps this has happened to you: You’re writing the date on a check, when it suddenly hits you what year it is. 2008? How did so much time pass without your realizing it? Maybe somewhere in the back

of your mind you had the vague notion that time was holding steady at around 2005 rather than hurtling toward the close of the first decade of the 21st century, and that there’s still plenty of time before your kids start college.

Then the real questions begin. “What have I been doing while the days turned to years, and is it what I want to be doing? Is this the career I envisioned for myself when I

started law school?” For those who are so inclined, these questions can prompt a re-examination of one’s career path and reawaken forgotten career goals and interests.

The routines and obligations of everyday life can exert a powerful influence over the decisions people make, but as time goes by those obligations and pressures change, and then it might be time to evaluate professional goals again. Perhaps one’s skills are needed elsewhere, or the marketplace has changed, or networking among one’s peers

has unearthed an exciting opportunity. Luckily, a law degree is highly versatile and affords graduates mobility among a wide range of professions in a way that other degrees do not. Not only is there a vast array of specialties within the practice of law, but the degree also opens doors to other professions as well.

Anne Hensley, who is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Missouri and has worked as a career counselor in the Career Services Office at the law school for 17 years, says that any career is open to someone with a J.D. degree. That fact can be somewhat overwhelming to someone considering a job change, but usually that person already has an idea of what he or she would like to do next. In her chapter for the book Perspectives on Career Services, she writes, “My experience has been that many people may know intuitively what it is they want to do, but for a variety of reasons are fearful of pursuing their interests or dreams.”

The “what” of changing jobs or careers is not nearly as important as the “who.” Hensley says that someone considering a new career path must address these three questions: Who am I? What is out there that will fit my needs? And, how do I market myself? Unfortunately, “people skip the first two questions and go straight to the third without taking time out to ask the first two, even after several job changes.” Most people already realize the importance of networking, creating a flawless and professional resume, and rehearsing the interview questions. According to Hensley, however, few of them “give any thought to what really will make them satisfied in the workplace.”

In order to improve the chances of career satisfaction, one must first undertake the process of self-examination. Lawyers are trained to analyze complex issues, so they can use those same

Grant Chapman, ’92Associate VP Academic

Affairs, Webster University

Abdul Hakim Shabazz, ’03Radio host, Professor

Christine Durbin, ’93Director of Community

Nursing Services, Professor

Jackie Johnson, ’80Winery Owner

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analytical skills to consider the next step in their careers.

Frequently, lawyers exploring their many career options find that their law degree can be combined with a passion that predates their time in law school. Abdul Hakim Shabazz, ’03, said that he “always loved doing things that involve having an audience—theater, stand-up comedy, broadcasting.” He has been in broadcasting in various capacities since 1991, and he is now the morning show host on WXNT-AM and does editorials and commentary for WRTV-TV, both in Indianapolis, in addition to teaching at the University of Indianapolis and Ivy Tech Community College and being of counsel at John, Lewis And Wilkins LLP. It is safe to say, however, that broadcasting—or more specifically, communicating with the public—is his true calling.

His career is an example of how flexible a law degree is, enabling the graduate to enter fields that he or she wouldn’t immediately associate with the law. “I have never been a big fan of sitting behind a desk going through boxes of discovery. Doing talk radio and teaching give me a chance to reach and impact people in a way that ‘traditional’ lawyering never could. I also get a chance to have more immediate influence in my community.” Local issues are typically the topic of discussion on his radio show, and thanks to his law school training, he has also knows how to “figure out legislative proposals, dissect legal opinions and understand court matters.”

Grant Chapman, ’92, is another alumnus who used the J.D. degree to further his career goals rather than have it

determine them. Chapman is the associate vice president of academic affairs and director for international programs at Webster University and was just recently awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to visit Japan and learn about its higher education institutions. As a result of having grown up overseas and having been educated internationally, he says he has always been “fascinated with the role study abroad and international studies play with regard to international education.” He pursued a dual degree while at SLU, combining an M.A. in Public Administration with the J.D. He was a legal intern with the Legal Clinics and with a real estate title company during law school, and after graduation he eventually returned to his first love: academia. “I really enjoy the atmosphere and environment of higher educational institutions, particularly those involved with global educational initiatives.”

One of the most important aspects of a legal education—and the reason is it such a strong foundation for a successful career—is the set of transferable skills that graduates

can use throughout their professional lives, wherever they may lead. Shabazz agrees, saying, “the skills that make you a good lawyer make you good at other things. It’s your analytical ability, communication skills and ability to connect the dots in a way non-lawyers can’t that make lawyers valuable to an employer.” Chapman echoes this belief as well. “Law school is a wonderful preparation for all sorts of careers. I use skills developed at law school every day in my current profession. The research, written and oral argumentation and advocacy skills I learned prepared me for grant writing, administrative decision-making, negotiating and forming international academic partnerships, and evaluating the risks of international programs.”

Sometimes those skills are put to use in unexpected ways far from a mainstream practice. After a successful 25-year career in employment benefits and ERISA practice at private firms and at Anheuser-Busch, Jackie Johnson, ’80, says she was pulled in another direction. Seventeen years ago, she and her husband bought 300 acres of land in St. Genevieve to use for camping. What began with her husband’s planting of a few grapevines as a fun experiment is now Chaumette Winery, Johnson’s second career. They produced their first bottle of wine in 1997. The vineyard and surrounding acreage now feature a chapel, restaurant, a full-service spa, private label chocolates and a vacation home development.

Her experience is not that unusual; many lawyers become highly successful entrepreneurs. Though she truly enjoyed her legal career, Johnson said she has “always liked being more entrepreneurial

and creative.” While in corporate practice, she satisfied this need for creativity by participating in the decision-making process and presenting ideas and proposals to senior management. Now, the winery gives her myriad opportunities to use her imagination and satisfy the creative urge, from picking the towel colors for the spa to designing the layout of the vacation villas. This is not to say, however, that she no longer uses her legal training—far from it.

“I understand the regulations that affect our industry, I can write our own contracts, figure the payroll taxes and set up all the bookkeeping, I know how to create the right documents,” she explains. Her background in employment law and understanding of real estate law also benefit the rapidly expanding business. Like the other alumni we spoke to, she believes that a law degree is “a wonderful preparation for any type of business career because you understand the legal frameworks and regulatory bodies of your business, even if you never practice.”

“Remember, most people will switch careers several times before they retire. The law profession is not different,” says Chapman. Christine Durbin, ’93, echoes that statement. “I think one’s personal career path materializes and evolves over time into the best fit.” She should know: She began with an undergraduate degree in nursing and later earned her J.D. and finished her Ph.D. in nursing in December 2007. “Working out the mechanisms to function in both disciplines has been a challenge. Luckily, I’ve found a job teaching nursing and health law, and I do some pro bono law work on the side.” She currently is a nursing faculty member at Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville and the Director of Community Nursing Services.

As the experiences of these alumni illustrate, a legal career can be molded to fit the demands and aspirations of each individual. Whether your dream is becoming partner, entering politics, teaching law students or starting your own business, the foundation of the dream is your degree. With a law degree, you’re already halfway to your next professional destination.

A law degree is “a wonderful preparation for any type of business career because you

understand the legal frameworks and regulatory bodies of your business,

even if you never practice.” – Jackie Johnson, ’80

“The research, written and oral argumentation and advocacy skills I learned prepared me for grant writing, administrative decision-making, negotiating and forming international academic partnerships.” – Grant Chapman, ’92

In the beginning there is law school, and a host of choices for students to consider as they start their law careers. Fortunately, the Career Services Office staff and law school faculty are there to help.

To assist students—and alumni who come back to her for guidance—with realizing their ideal work situation, Hensley administers the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and/or the Strong Interest Inventory, which are assessments of personal preferences and styles of thinking and decision-making. The key to the success of these assessment tools is how honest the taker is when responding to the questionnaire. Hensley says that sometimes people “are afraid the assessments will show they’re not supposed to be a lawyer, so they will skew answers.”

Fortunately, that fear is usually unfounded. These assessments to do not explicitly state what career someone should or should not pursue. For example, if a lawyer is dissatisfied practicing the law even though when she was a law student she thought she would love it, the reason may be that she simply is in the wrong area of practice for her particular personality type. This is where self-assessment and the knowledge of one’s preferences are invaluable. For instance, if the Myers-Briggs results reveal that a person prefers to work with logical, concrete facts and likes tasks with definite closure, then long-range planning and having several open-ended cases on one’s plate may not be the right fit professionally. “If we work against our grain,” Hensley says, “we won’t be happy.”

One of the benefits of having Hensley interpret the results of the Myers-Briggs inventory and the Strong Interest Inventory is that, using the latest research into job satisfaction among lawyers, she can explain how different personality types translate into areas of practice and even adaptive strategies for overcoming work environments that aren’t compatible with a particular personality type.

The law school offers various programs that give current students the best possible chance for a fulfilling law career. The “Thursdays at Noon” series sponsored by Career Services allows students to hear from practitioners in different areas of the law. In addition, Professors Amany Hacking, Barbara Gilchrist and John Ammann bring together a diverse panel of practicing lawyers every semester so that their students can gain insight into the many different types of law careers. The most recent panel featured Kenneth Fleischmann, senior associate general counsel at SLU, Judge Mary Kay Hoff, ’78, of the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District, and Dustin Dechamp, ’04, who is now the director of human resources at the Saint Louis Zoo. Professor Hacking says “students love the exposure” to these varied perspectives on the legal profession. “The students see that a legal career is not linear.” This is an especially important lesson for the students to learn because for most of them, their educational progress up to this point in their lives has been linear. But, more important, the students see the wealth of opportunities in the practice of law—there is room for everyone’s unique talents and personalities.

The professors encourage their students to ask important questions—both of the panelists and of themselves. The students find out whether the lawyers are happy and whether they have challenging work. “It takes time and energy to explore the other areas of law, and the students won’t have time later,” Prof. Hacking says. When it comes to deciding on a career path, she says, “we tell the students that they’re entitled to ask what you bring to it and what you’ll get out of it.” These considerations don’t apply just to students, however; they are appropriate questions for a lawyer at any stage of his or her career wanting to make the best choice among different options and opportunities.

If you would like to speak with any of the Career Services staff, just call 314-977-7100.

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sNothing feels as good as doing good—and doing good feels even better when you’re the winning bidder.

On March 28, students, staff, faculty and friends of the law school gathered at the Randall Gallery for the annual Public Interest Fellowship Auction to raise money to help support the Dagen Fellowships. The gallery walls were lined with large-scale paintings and tables filled with this year’s offerings for the silent auction. Everything from Cardinals baseball tickets to dinners at professors’ homes to trips to museums and the Missouri Botanical Garden tempted students to part with their scarce cash for the opportunity of spending quality time with their professors (and to marvel at how strange it is to see professors in their natural habitat).

Forget any notion you might have of a Sotheby’s auction that takes place in library-like hushed silence, where the bidders communicate their bids with understated nods and paddle raises. In the case of the PILG auction, nothing could be further from the truth. The live auction this year was nothing less than a raucous, high-energy dance that had Professor Alan Howard running up and down the center aisle trying to keep up with the frenzy of bidding in the packed gallery. Some of the more interesting items offered at the live auction this year were the life-size cut-out of Professor Eric Miller dressed in his native Scottish kilt; a trip for four with Professor Anders Walker to exercise the Second Amendment right to shoot the handgun of the winner’s choosing at a local shooting range; a day at the horse races at Fairmount Park with Professors John Ammann, Barbara Gilchrist, Sue McGraugh

and Patricia Harrison; and a trip for 10 to Missouri wine country (including limo!) with Dean Christine Rollins.

The auction is not really about what the bidders win, though, or who triumphs in the bidding. It’s about the students, faculty and guests knowing their money is going to a cause they can support philosophically as well as financially. Those who participate, whether they win an item or donate baseball tickets or help organize the event, can see the results of their contribution. That trip to the shooting range or dinner with a favorite professor has a real, positive impact on society in the

form of enabling a student to advocate for the underprivileged, or work in environmental law or with the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

It’s an interesting journey from an evening of laughing and socializing and waiters passing through with hors d’oeuvres—for a few hours everyone free of the pressures of law school—to the serious work of serving the public interest in various offices throughout the country. The evening passes quickly, but the effect of everyone’s efforts is lasting. And that’s a fine way to live the law school’s mission of service.

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resumé • Assistant Professor of Law, Saint Louis University

• Summer Associate, 2003, Cozen O’Connor, Philadelphia

• Seminar Conductor, 1997-2001, University of Virginia

• Wesleyan University, B.A. (Psychology and English), May 1995

• University of Virginia School of Arts and Sciences, Masters in Psychology (Law), May 2001, Ph.D. in Psychology (Law), January 2004

• University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., May 2004

Personal Reflections The most exciting thing to me about being a member of the faculty is the opportunity it affords me to research, write and teach about the intersection of law and social science.

The past 10 years have seen a tremendous surge in the number of scholarly law articles incorporating behavioral findings and psychological theory. As many have argued, creating laws that incentivize socially desirable behavior requires an understanding of how human beings relate to one another, process information and make decisions.

One area of legal scholarship that has become particularly relevant to this end is Behavioral Law and Economics (BLE). BLE is a response to the law and economics movement, which is one of the most influential movements in recent legal history. BLE uses behavioral science data to argue that people are not, contrary to law and economic theory, perfectly rational, and offers proposals for how legal institutions should be structured to account for human beings’ irrational tendencies. The success of the BLE movement illustrates the increasing emphasis on taking a multidimensional approach to law.

Although BLE has been tremendously influential in the legal academy, BLE is only one of a number of bodies of research and theory applying social science findings to legal questions. Areas of behavioral science that are relevant to the law include forensic psychology, social psychology, cognitive psychology, criminology, community psychology and abnormal psychology. It is hard to overstate the importance of behavioral science to the development and practice

of law. Many students can easily see the connection between psychology and jury decision-making or criminal behavior, but may not appreciate the implications of psychological research for markets, tax, insurance, reproductive technology, campaign finance reform, environmental regulation, contract formation, securities regulation, the legislative process, employment discrimination, trade, immigration and intellectual property. I really enjoy introducing my students to psychological theory and showing them how it applies to legal principles and practice. Frequently, a student will arrive for class eager to share an example of how a theory we discussed in a prior class was perfectly illustrated in a case, a rule of law, or in his or her personal or professional life.

When I first entered the Ph.D. program in social psychology at the University of Virginia, I knew that I wanted to do applied work, but I thought I would end up at a business school. With multiple members of my family practicing law, it was probably inevitable that I would end up focusing my research on questions related to the legal system. In my fourth year as a graduate student, I came to the realization that if I wanted to make meaningful contributions related to the legal system, I would have to go to law school. After all, I could conduct groundbreaking research, but who would take me seriously if I didn’t have an insider’s understanding of the issues? The University of Virginia did not offer a joint degree, so I entered my first year of law school while still a full-time psychology graduate student. Being a student in two graduate schools simultaneously was an eye-opening experience. I can recall sitting in a psychology department meeting listening to social psychologists complain about trial procedures. I remember thinking, “They have no understanding of the practical constraints, the role of precedent or due process, the policy issues or even the goals of the system.” My experience taught me that finding a comfortable place between two disciplines is far from easy. As law becomes increasingly interdisciplinary, divergent philosophical and normative perspectives will clash, and methodological differences will need to be resolved. However, the innovations resulting from the combined efforts of scholars and practitioners in these separate fields will be well worth the effort. It’s an exciting time for anyone doing interdisciplinary work. I’m very grateful to have the opportunity I do to bring knowledge from two disciplines to bear on current legal problems.

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Professor John Ammann’s commentary, “The Double Standard in Housing Subsidies: Why Should Criminals Be Allowed to Take the Mortgage Interest Deduction,” was published in volume 16 of the ABA’s Journal of Affordable Housing and Development Law.

Professor Oluyemisi Bamgbose’s article, “Towards a Global Abolition of the Death Penalty: The Criminal Law in the United States and Nigeria,” was published in volume 13, issue 1 of the East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights.

Professor Mark Bernstein’s essay, “The Social Audit: What is Your Library’s Impact on Society?,” from the AALL Spectrum (November 2007) was published in the Perspective column of the American Association of Law Libraries magazine. He will receive the Article of the Year Award for his article, “One Size Fits All No More: The Impact of Law Specialization on Library Services,” which was published in the March 2007 issue of Spectrum. The award will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries in July.

Professor Frederic Bloom’s article, “State Courts Unbound,” was published earlier this year in the Cornell Law Review.

Professor Matthew Bodie is co-editor (with Samuel Estreicher) of a book, Workplace Discrimination, Privacy and Security in an Age of Terrorism, published

in 2007 by Kluwer Law International. His article, “Workers, Information, and Corporate Combinations: The Case for Non-Binding Employee Referenda in Transformative Transactions,” was accepted by the Washington University Law Review for publication in March 2008. His paper, “Mother Jones Meets Gordon Gekko: The Complicated Relationship Between Labor and Private Equity,” was selected for publication by the University of Colorado Law Review. His article, “Information and the Market for Union Representation,” was published in Virginia Law Review 94 (2008), and was featured on the review’s Web site “In Brief ” with responses from three professors. Go to http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/04/virginia_law_re_3.html.

Professor Brad Fogel’s article, “The Completely Insane Law of Partial Insanity: The Impact of Monomania on Testamentary Capacity,” will be included in the “Best of the ABA Sections” issue of the General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Division magazine.

Professor Joel K. Goldstein co-authored, with Norman Redlich and John Attanasio, six chapters in the 5th edition of Constitutional Law, which will be published in 2008. His article, “Assuming Responsibility: Thomas F. Eagleton, the Senate and the Bombing of Cambodia,” was published in the Fall 2007 symposium issue of the Saint Louis University Law Journal in memory of Senator Eagleton.

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He also wrote the Foreword for the issue. His essays on “Presidential Immunity” and “Admiralty Jurisdiction” will be published in The Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States, as will his articles, “Presidential Responses to Supreme Court Decisions” and “The Unitary Executive.” His book review of “He Almost Changed the World: The Life and Times of Thomas Riley Marshall” by David Bennett will be published in the Indiana Magazine of History.

Professor Thomas L. Greaney’s article, “Thirty Years of Solicitude: Antitrust Law and Physician Cartels,” was published in volume 7, issue 2 of the Houston Journal of Health Law and Policy in 2007. The 6th edition of the casebook Health Law, which is the leading health law casebook in the country, is in press and will be published in May. Professor Sandra Johnson is a co-author.

Professor Sandra H. Johnson co-edited Legal Perspectives in Bioethics (with Dr. Ana Iltis and Barbara Hinze), a book published simultaneously in September in the U.S. and the U.K. by Routledge as part of the Annals of Bioethics series. The volume also contains chapters by Jesse Goldner, Nicolas Terry and Deirdre Madden. She and Dr. Iltis also co-authored a chapter on “Risk, Responsibility and Litigation,” which will be included in Innovation and the Pharmaceutical Industry, edited by Tristram Engelhardt and Jeremy Garrett (M&M Scrivener, 2008). Her article, “Polluting Medical Judgment? False Assumptions in the Pursuit of False Claims Regarding Off-Label Prescribing,” was published in the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology in Spring 2008. Her article, “New CDC Guidelines for HIV Screening: Ethical Implications for Health Care Providers,” appeared in the Winter 2007 issue of Health Care Ethics USA. Her editorial, “Legal and Ethical Perspectives on Pain Management,” was published

in the July 2007 issue of Anesthesia and Analgesia. The 6th edition of Health Law – Cases, Materials and Problems (with Barry R. Furrow et al.) is in press with Thomas West; this is the 20th anniversary edition of this casebook. Johnson also co-authored “Chronic Pain and Healthy Communities: Legal, Ethical and Policy Issues in Improving the Public’s Health” (with K. Todd and B. Moulton), which appeared in the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics in 2007 in proceedings of a conference with the CDC.

Professor Michael Korybut’s article, “Using an Online Auction to Sell Article 9 Collateral,” was published in the Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report in 2007.

In December, Professor Eric Miller’s forthcoming article in the Houston Law Review, “Judicial Preferences,” was named “download of the week” on Lawrence Slolum’s Legal Theory blog.

Professor Carol A. Needham’s article, “Practicing Non-U.S. Law in the United States: Multijurisdictional Practice, Foreign Legal Consultants and Other Aspects of Cross-Border Legal Practice,” appeared in volume 15 of the Michigan State Journal of International Law in 2007. She also wrote “Introduction to the Symposium Issue on Teaching Professional Responsibility and Legal Ethics,” which was published in volume 51 of the Saint Louis University Law Journal.

Professor Camille A. Nelson’s article, “Animal Husbandry: Legal Norms Impacting the Production of (Re)Productivity,” was published in the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism (2007). Her article, “Lyrical Assault: Dancehall versus the Cultural Imperialism of the North-West,” has been accepted for publication in the Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal. Her article, “Lovin’ the Man: Examining the Nexus of Irony, Hypocrisy and Curiosity,” was published by the Wisconsin Law Review.

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In this installment of Faculty Scholarship Alan M. Weinberger, associate dean for faculty, highlights the latest scholarly achievements of the School’s faculty.

CAroL A. needhAmProfessor of Law

CAmILLe A. neLSonProfessor of Law

ThomAS L. greAneyChester A. myers Professor of Law and Co-director of the Center for health Law Studies

SAndrA h. JohnSonProfessor of Law, Tenet endowed Chair in health Law and ethics

JoeL k. goLdSTeInVincent C. Immel Professor of Law

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PeTer W. SALSIChmcdonnell Professor of Justice

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Professor Henry M. Ordower’s article, “Demystifying Hedge Funds: A Design Primer,” was published in the Working Paper Series No. 9, Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2007).

Professor Elizabeth A. Pendo’s article, “The Health Care Choice Act: The Individual Insurance Market and the Politics of ‘Choice,’” appeared in volume 29 of the Western New England Law Review in 2007. Her book review of Susan Starr Sered and Rushike Fernandopulle’s Uninsured in America was published in the Journal of Legal Medicine (2008).

Christine Rollins’ lecture presentation, “Effective and Efficient Electronic Commenting,” has been accepted for publication at the 13th Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute in Summer 2008. Her article, “Using the VARK: A Writing Department’s Commitment to ‘Turning the Light Bulbs On,’” was published in the Second Draft Journal of the Legal Writing Institute, Spring 2008 issue.

Professor Peter Salsich is a signatory to a November 2007 report, “Residential Segregation and Housing Discrimination in the United States,” examining U.S. performance of its obligations under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. His article, “Toward a Policy of Heterogeneity: Overcoming a Long History of Socioeconomic Segregation in Housing,” was placed in volume 42 of the Wake Forest Law Review. He also is a co-author of a comment, “Affordable Workforce Housing — An Agenda for the Show Me State: A Report from an Interactive Forum on Housing Issues in Missouri,” which will be published in the next issue of Saint Louis University’s Public Law Review.

Emeritus Professor Joseph Simeone’s article, “The Trial of the Pirate Captain

William Kidd: ‘The Wizard of the Seas,’” was published in the Whittier Law Review.

Professor David L. Sloss is co-editor, with Derek Jinks, of The Role of Domestic Courts in Treaty Enforcement: A Comparative Study, Cambridge University Press (publication expected in 2008). His article, “Schizophrenic Treaty Law,” was published in the Texas International Law Journal in 2007. Another article, “Judicial Deference to Executive Branch Treaty Interpretations: A Historical Perspective,” was published in volume 62 of the New York University Annual Survey of American Law (2007). His article, “Judicial Foreign Policy: Lessons from the 1790s,” has been accepted for publication in the Saint Louis University Law Journal. He co-authored a research study, “Life and Death Decisions: Prosecutorial Discretion and Capital Punishment in Missouri,” with Katherine Barnes and Professor Stephen Thaman, which was published in April 2008.

Professor Stephen C. Thaman has three entries in the Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives (edited by David S. Clark , 2007): “Consensual Penal Resolution,” volume I; “Legality and Discretion,” volume II; and “Penal Court Procedures: Doctrinal Issues,” volume III. His article, “The Nullification of the Russian Jury: Lessons for Jury-Inspired Reform in Eurasia and Beyond,” was published last year in the Cornell International Law Journal. Another of his articles, “The Good, the Bad, or the Indifferent: ‘12 Angry Men’ in Russia,” was part of Symposium: The 50th Anniversary of “12 Angry Men” in volume 82 of the Chicago-Kent Law Review (2007). His book, Comparative Criminal Procedure: A Casebook Approach, 2nd ed. (Carolina Academic Press), will be published this year. His chapter, “Jury Trial and Adversary Procedure in Russia: Reform of Soviet Inquisitorial Procedure or Democratic Window-Dressing?” was published in Russia and Its Constitution, edited by Gordon B. Smith and Robert Sharlet

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JoSePh SImeoneemeritus Professor of Law

ChrISTIne roLLInSdirector, Legal research

and Writing

STePhen C. ThAmAnProfessor of Law and Co-director

of the Center for International and Comparative Law

eLIZABeTh A. PendoVisiting Professor of Law

dAVId L. SLoSSProfessor of Law

(Martinus Nijhoff, Leiden, Boston, 2008).

Professor Constance Wagner’s chapter, “Gender Dimensions of Biotechnology Policy and Trade,” was published in Genetic Engineering and the World Trade System, edited by Daniel Wüger and Thomas Cottier (Cambridge University Press, 2007). She also wrote, “Corporate Social Responsibility of Multinational Enterprises and the International Business Law Curriculum,” which will be published in 2008 by Hart Publishing as a chapter in the book, International Economic Law — The State and Future of the Discipline, under the auspices of the American Society of International Law, International Economic Law Group.

Professor Sidney D. Watson recently returned from Japan where she presented a paper on U.S. health care for the elderly, titled “When Wealth, Welfare and Markets Collide,” at the Annual Symposium of the Japanese Society for American Legal Studies held at Kobe University, and it was published in the Journal of the Japanese Society for American Legal Studies. Her opinion piece, “Does America Have Two Health Care Systems,” appeared in the November 7 issue of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She also co-authored an article with SLU faculty members Timothy McBride, Heather Bednarek and Muhammed Islam, “The Road from Massachusetts to Missouri: What it Will Take for Other States to Replicate Massachusetts Health Reform,” which was recently published in the Kansas

Law Review. Her review essay of Jonathon Engel’s “Poor People’s Medicine: Medicaid and American Charity Care since 1965” and of “Poor Families in America’s Health Care Crisis” by Ronald J. Angel, Laura Lein and Jane Henrici was published in volume 32 of the Journal of Politics, Policy and Law. A law review article, “The View from the Bottom: Consumer-Directed Medicaid and Cost-Shifting to Patients,” was published in volume 51 of the Saint Louis University Law Journal. Watson co-authored Living in the Red, Medical Debt and Housing Security in Missouri, Survey Findings and Profiles of Working Families, which was published by the The Access Project. Margarida Jorge, Andrew Cohen and Robert Seifert were co-authors.

Professor Alan Weinberger’s essay, “Some Further Observations on Using the Pervasive Method of Teaching Legal Ethics in Property Courses,” was published in the Summer 2007 issue of the Saint Louis University Law Journal. His column, “Cases in Brief,” appears in the Appraisal Journal, the quarterly publication of the Appraisal Institute.

A portion of Professor Molly Wilson’s article, “An Evolutionary Perspective on Male Domestic Violence: Practical and Policy Implications,” which was originally published in the American Journal of Criminal Law, will be included in a casebook by Elizabeth M. Schneider, et al., Domestic Violence and the Law: Theory and Practice (2nd ed.), to be published in 2008.

faculty bookshelfComparative Criminal Procedure

A Casebook Approach Second Edition

by Stephen C. ThamanProfessor of Law

This book presents a topical approach to comparative criminal procedure, focusing on the roles of public prosecutor, police, victims and defense counsel in the investigation and trial of criminal cases. Separate chapters are dedicated to the investigation of general, search and seizure, wiretapping and other privacy invasions, police interrogation, exclusionary rules, hearsay and the right to confrontation, plea-bargaining and other methods of simplifying the trial, the presumption of innocence, and the roles of professional judges, juries, lay assessors and magistrates in decisions relating to guilt and sentencing.

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ALAn WeInBergerProfessor of Law and Associate dean for faculty

moLLy WALker WILSonAssistant Professor of Law

henry m. ordoWerProfessor of Law and Co-director

of the Center for International and Comparative Law

ConSTAnCe Z. WAgnerAssociate Professor of Law

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The Saint Louis University Public Law Review hosted its annual spring symposium this year on Friday, April 4. This symposium, “The Changing Tide of Trade: The Social, Political and Environmental Implications of Regional Trade Agreements,” was co-sponsored by the School of Law’s Center for International and Comparative Law and the American Branch of the International Law Association. Symposium papers will be published in an upcoming special issue of the Public Law Review.

Regional economic integration is an important topic in international trade these days. Regional trade agreements (RTAs) are not a new phenomenon, but there has been an acceleration in the number of such arrangements in recent years, notably since the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995. The WTO predicts that this trend will continue and that 400 RTAs will be in place by 2010. At present, all members of the WTO, some 150 countries, are members of at least one RTA, with the exception of Mongolia.

The term RTA encompasses several different types of trading arrangements, including free trade agreements (FTAs), such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), in which member countries have agreed to reduce or eliminate trade barriers among themselves, and customs unions, such as the European Union, a deeper form of economic integration in which members also maintain common external tariffs and trade policies. The vast majority of the RTAs currently in force are FTAs.

There is some friction between the WTO regime and RTAs because RTAs discriminate against countries outside the regional arrangement, and this is inconsistent with the most-favored nation principle, one of the conceptual pillars of the WTO. Nevertheless, the WTO rules permit the establishment of RTAs, which many view as complementary to the WTO’s goal of promoting global economic

welfare through trade liberalization. However, the effects of RTAs on global trade flows and economic growth are not clearly understood, nor is their impact on regional economies. RTAs are subject to regulation by the WTO and, increasingly, are being scrutinized by the WTO to determine whether they are consistent with the WTO treaties and are serving as “building blocks” rather than “stumbling blocks” to achieving the WTO’s mission of global economic welfare.

Regional trade agreements vary in their scope. Many modern RTAs concern matters other than tariff-cutting for trade in goods, including trade in services, product standards, customs administration and trade policy measures such as safeguards. Some go beyond trade policy matters to encompass rules on investment, environmental protection and core labor standards. Some of these new agreements have generated controversy and criticism, as evidenced by the recent debates regarding NAFTA among U.S. presidential candidates.

National governments enter into RTAs for both economic and political reasons, in order to increase trade and investment opportunities across national borders, but also to strengthen political ties with allies. These twin goals are evident in recent U.S. trade policy. Although the United States was a leader in the multilateral trade negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade that eventually led to the establishment of the WTO, U.S. trade policy is increasingly being dominated by bilateral and regional FTAs. The FTAs currently in force to which the United States is a party include NAFTA, the Dominican Republic - Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA), and bilateral FTAs with Israel, Jordan, Singapore, Chile, Australia, Morocco and Bahrain. Bilateral FTAs have also been concluded with Peru, Colombia, Oman, Panama and South Korea. Other negotiations have been undertaken but

by Constance Z. WagnerAssociate

Professor of Law

After earning her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law,

Professor Wagner worked as an associate with the New York City law firm of Seward & Kissel. She

represented domestic and foreign clients in connection with corporate, banking and securities law matters. She handled international work for

U.S. commercial banks that included Latin American debt restructurings

and loan syndications. Professor Wagner is director of the School of Law’s LL.M. program in American Law for Foreign Lawyers. She is

on the faculty of the Center for International and Comparative Law

and is on the advisory committee for the Women’s Studies program at

Saint Louis University.

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have either failed or are currently dormant, including the effort to establish a Free Trade Area of the Americas and to conclude bilateral agreements with Malaysia, Thailand, the South African Customs Union and the United Arab Emirates.

This year’s Public Law Review symposium was planned as a forum in which leading scholars in the area of international trade law could address the social, political and environmental implications of the proliferation of RTAs, with a special emphasis on the FTAs that the United States has entered into in recent years. The conference was organized around three thematic panels and also included a keynote speaker, Commissioner Irving A. Williamson of the United States International Trade Commission, who

addressed the role of the Trade Commission in FTA negotiations and the process by which the U.S. government determines the relevance of its national economic interests, including its development concerns, in such negotiations.

The first panel, which I moderated, focused on “Recent RTAs in a Legal, Economic and Political Context.” Professor Armand de Mestral, Jean Monnet Chair in the Law of International Economic Integration and Co-Director of the Institute of International Studies, McGill-Université de Montreal, presented an overview of the global development of RTAs, including historical, economic and legal analyses of the process that has resulted in a so-called “spaghetti bowl” of trade agreements. Professor David A.

Gantz, who is the Samuel F. Fegtly Professor of Law and Director of International Trade and Business Law at the Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona, spoke about the Bipartisan Trade Deal concluded in May 2007 between the Bush administration and Democratic congressional leaders to resolve long-standing differences over U.S. trade policy relating to the negotiation of FTAs. Professor Chi C. Carmody, Associate Professor and Canadian Director, Canada-United States Law Institute, University of Western Ontario School of Law, addressed the use of the WTO transparency mechanism for RTAs as a means to examine the accommodation of such trade arrangements within the global trading system. Finally, Professor Jorge Perez, Professor of Law and International Studies at the Universidad

Central de Venezuela, examined three RTAs involving South American countries: the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) and the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA). These represent three different models of trade liberalization within the region, with varying environmental, social and political consequences.

The second panel discussion, moderated by Professor David L. Sloss, was “Implications of RTAs: Issues of Social Justice, Development and Human Rights.” Professor Raj Bhala, Rice Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas School of Law, spoke about issues of social justice within FTAs and suggested that a paradigm shift from economics to human

dignity might be in order and would result in greater accommodation for human, labor and environmental rights than currently exists. Professor Cherie O. Taylor, Professor of Law from the South Texas College of Law, discussed bilateral FTAs as a “second best option” for developing countries, focusing on the asymmetries between developed and developing countries in negotiating and implementing such agreements. I examined gender analysis of international trade agreements as a tool to redress the gender-differentiated effects of recent FTAs entered into by the United States, with a particular emphasis on investment and labor rights issues.

The third panel, moderated by Professor Douglas R. Williams, concerned the “Implications of RTAs: Environmental, Labor and Other Social Issues.” Professor Karen E. Bravo, Assistant Professor of Law, Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis, spoke about the treatment of labor liberalization, namely the free movement of persons across national borders, in four regional trade agreements: the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM), MERCOSUR, NAFTA and DR-CAFTA. Professor Sanford E. Gaines, Professor of Law and Director of The Utton Transboundary Resource Center at the University of New Mexico School of Law, analyzed the potential for strengthening environmental protection programs and environmental cooperation through RTA negotiations, focusing on the examples of the European Union, NAFTA, DR-CAFTA and other U.S. RTAs. Professor Chris Wold, Associate Professor of Law and Director of the International Environmental Law Project at Lewis & Clark Law School, critiqued the use of the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC), the NAFTA environmental side agreement, as a model for the environmental component of more recent FTAs that the United States has concluded.

The conference drew a large audience of academics, practitioners and students, and there was lively discussion during the question and answer sessions following each panel presentation. We look forward to the publication later this year of the conference papers written by this outstanding group of scholars.

Governments enter into RTAs for both economic and political reasons, in order to increase trade and investment opportunities accross national borders, but also to strengthen political ties with allies.

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Clayton, Missouri 04.03.08 ~ Cardwell’s

Each year the Office of Development and

Alumni Relations hosts several alumni

gatherings throughout the country. Alumni

events have been held in downtown

St. Louis, Clayton, and Washington, D.C., and more

events are planned for Jefferson City,

Chicago and Kansas City. These events serve to reconnect

School of Law alumni with former classmates, faculty

and friends.

For more information about alumni events, contact

Elizabeth Bolen at 314-977-3978, or check the back cover for the

calendar of events.

ALUmnI eVenTS alumni events

Downtown St. Louis 05.07.08 ~ Carmine’s Steak House

Law Reunion Class Years Ending in 3s & 8s

Friday, September 26Happy Hour & Trivia Night

ASaturday, September 27

Homecoming ParadeP.I.L.G. 5K Ambulance ChaseFamily Fun Area on CampusSchool of Law Family Day

Cocktail Party and Dinner at the Four Seasons

ASunday, September 28

Mass at St. Francis Xavier College ChurchGolden Billiken Brunch

School of Law Reunion Day at Busch StadiumLast regular-season home game at Busch Stadium Cincinnati Reds vs. St. Louis Cardinals, 1:15 p.m.

AFor more information, contact the Alumni Relations Office at

314-977-3978 or visit law.slu.edu/alumni/reunion.

September 26–28, 2008

What is your family’s SLU Law Legacy? If your family has a tradition at the law school, we want to hear from you.

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Top row, left to right: Jim Rhodes, ’84, John Lally, ’87, Alice Dickherber, ’05, Nicole Lewer, ’07Bottom row, left to right: Stephen Kling, ’81, Margo Green, ’81, Katie Walsh, ’87, Mary Pat McInnis, ’87

Top row, left to right: Judge Joseph Simeone, Joseph Birk, ’60, Lou Riethmann, ’57, Alison Durphy, ’01, Thomas Durphy, ’01, Marcellus Chase, ’06Bottom row, left to right: Christine Burghoff, ’83, Joe Porter, ’79, Sunny Sims, ’05, Prof. Pete Salsich, ’65, Mike Ward, ’85, Mark Berry,


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What made you want to go to law school? Initially when I went to law school I thought it was because I wanted to enter public office, and I thought that was the best way to do it. I ran for Congress in the 2000 election cycle, and I like to say I came in second as opposed to saying I lost terribly. I found out it wasn’t what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. I loved trial advocacy. The advocacy part of the practice of law is what drew me to it and kept me going upon graduation.

What was your first job out of law school? My first job was working for a firm called Jones and Granger in Chicago. They practiced a combination of labor law and railroad law. It was great experience. I worked with a guy who enabled me to try cases on my own and get in the courtroom a lot, so right out of law school I was kind of thrown into the fire.

What is your fondest memory of law school? My fondest memory is all of the friends I made there, so it’s sort of a collection of memories from all the different times, most of them revolving around getting done with finals.

What is one of your scariest memories from law school? My scariest memory was my first day in Professor Immel’s class. You heard all the horror stories about Professor Immel and what he could do to you during class and what he was absolutely going to do to you once grades came out, so my first day

of class was certainly the most frightening. If you weren’t prepared, it was just outright humiliation—in a very funny way for everyone else, but for you it always felt terrible.

What were some of the professional challenges you faced? The most daunting thing is that we [SimmonsCooper] took a law firm that started with eight people in 1999 and grew it to about 550-600 people globally at this point. There are a lot of business issues that have nothing to do with practicing the law, and those issues were tough to deal with. Law school curricula across the country could really do with a class in how to do business, how you set up a payroll, how you go about getting your employees insurance. Because if you don’t teach lawyers how to be businesspeople, then new law firms don’t crop up and existing law firms don’t grow. Law school also doesn’t prepare you for ways to grow your legal business. You can be the best lawyer in the world, but if you don’t worry about the business of being a lawyer, you’re still going to work hand-to-mouth.

Talk a little about your current interests. I’m really concentrating on bringing a Major League Soccer team and a Women’s Professional Soccer team to St. Louis through our organization, St. Louis Soccer United. The women’s team will start in April 2009, and hopefully the MLS team will start in 2010, and so we’re just trying to put together the stadium deal and all the property development going around it.

What will be the benefits of bringing a soccer franchise to St. Louis? Obviously, it’s a huge amount of recognition first of

all. Anytime you can add a professional franchise it adds to the allure of the city. The second thing is that it adds a great deal economically. We’ll be adding over 3,000 brand new full-time jobs and about 7,500 part-time jobs. The merchants in the area will see a huge boom in their business because in addition to the pro soccer business and the other things that will go on at the stadium [which will be located in Collinsville, Ill.], we also have merged a significant portion of the St. Louis youth soccer market into one club, and the money that the youth soccer families spend will be pumped back into the community as well.

I believe that with the MLS project that St. Louis, in particular the soccer community, is really my client. I’m arguing on their behalf as to why we should have a Major League Soccer team.

Will you leave the practice of law entirely? No. I enjoy it first of all, and I’ve got too many friends here at SimmonsCooper that I really enjoy working with, and so I’m looking forward to becoming of counsel. Becoming of counsel is a little like becoming a grandparent—you can do the things you enjoy at the law firm, but you don’t have to take care of it on a day-to-day basis.

What is your favorite lawyer movie? My favorite lawyer movie is probably “Erin Brockovich” just because Tom Girardi is my friend.

Who’s your favorite soccer player? As a kid in St. Louis you gotta love Slobo. He was phenomenal. My favorite player in the past 20 years is David Beckham. The best player today is Christiano Ronaldo of Manchester United. There’s nobody that’s close to him right now.

jeffcooperClass of 1995Partner, SimmonsCooper “Soccer Junkie”

1962John M. Bray, senior partner of King & Spalding in Washington, D.C., was listed in the Top 100 lawyers in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area in Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers.

1964Thomas Walsh has been named one of St. Louis Magazine’s “2008 Best Lawyers” in appellate law and bet-the-company litigation.

1967David J. Hensler, senior partner of Hogan & Hartson, was listed in the Top 100 lawyers in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area inWashington, D.C. Super Lawyers.

1968Michael Gunn was named to the 10th Annual Women’s Justice Awards selection committee.

1970Joseph Conran has been named one of St. Louis Magazine’s “2008 Best Lawyers” in commercial litigation.

John Inkley has been named one of St. Louis Magazine’s “2008 Best Lawyers” in banking law.

1971Jerome Diekemper has been named one of St. Louis

Magazine’s “2008 Best Lawyers” in alternative dispute resolution.

1973Family Court Commissioner Anne-Marie Clarke has been named a candidate to replace retired St. Louis Circuit Judge Joan Burger, ’76.

George Nostrand was recently appointed chair of the Professional Responsibility Board of the Vermont Supreme Court.

1974Paul Berens has been named one of St. Louis Magazine’s “2008 Best Lawyers” in bankruptcy and creditor-debtor rights law.

Doreen Davis Dodson was named to the 10th Annual Women’s Justice Awards selection committee.

Robert Wells was again designated as one of two “Super Lawyers” in the field of Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution. He continues to serve on the Illinois State Bar Association Section Council on Alternative Dispute Resolution, which he chaired in 2004-05.

1975Susan Ehrenwerth Block was named to the 10th Annual Women’s Justice Awards selection committee.

Judson Calkins now manages residential and commercial properties he and his wife Pilar own.

Gerard Carmody has been named one of St. Louis Magazine’s “2008 Best Lawyers” in commercial litigation.

John Meehan was selected to be recognized for having made Significant Contributions to the Quality of Life in St. Louis and to the Cause of Justice by the St. Louis Argus. He is a member of Mound City Bar Association, Missouri Asian Bar Association and a board member for Better Family Life.

Mary Anne Olwell Sedey, along with Donna Harper, ’79, announced the formation of employment law firm Sedey Harper in St. Louis.

1976Karen Tokarz has been awarded a professorship at Washington University School of Law.

Michael Zpevak was recently named partner at Gallop, Johnson & Neuman in St. Louis, where he specializes in regulatory and administrative law.

1977Joseph A. McCormick Jr. recently became the 82nd president of the Camden County (Penn.) Bar Association.

1978Thomas Q. Keefe Jr. has won the Hon. Richard A. Hudlin IV Memorial Award in recognition of his work on behalf of educational and

charitable groups in southern Illinois.

Fredric Knapp was re-elected as a trustee of the Morris County Bar Association in New Jersey.

Donald R. McGarrah was recently selected to sit on the board of directors for the United Service Organizations of Illinois. He is with the law firm of Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard in Chicago.

Thomas Weaver has been named one of St. Louis Magazine’s “2008 Best Lawyers” in appellate law.

1979Donna Dorey Harper, along with Mary Anne Sedey, ’75, announced the formation of employment law firm Sedey Harper in St. Louis.

Joseph Porter has been named one of St. Louis Magazine’s “2008 Best Lawyers” in banking law.

Elaine Spearman was the luncheon chair for the St. Louis Argus second annual “Lunch with the Legends” in celebration of Black History Month. The lunch recognizes attorneys and organizations that have made significant contributions to the quality of life in St. Louis and to the cause of justice.

1980John Boyle has been named one of St. Louis Magazine’s “2008 Best Lawyers” in banking law.

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Edward Sullivan has been promoted to vice president and assistant general counsel for Peabody Energy. Sullivan will provide legal counsel for Peabody’s domestic commercial transactions and operational matters.

1981Reuben Shelton has been elected to the Board of Governors of the Missouri Bar for the Eastern District.

Erwin Switzer has been named one of St. Louis Magazine’s “2008 Best Lawyers” in appellate law.

1982Charles Reis has left Brown & James to become a shareholder in Littler Mendelson’s labor and employment law firm.

1985Patrick Hagerty was named in the 2008 Best Lawyers in America and a 2007 “Top 50 St. Louis Super Lawyer.”

Mary Elizabeth Ott was appointed an associate circuit judge in St. Louis County.

1986Caroline Luepke Hermeling was named to the 10th Annual Women’s Justice Awards selection committee.

Jeffrey Jacoby joined The Commerce Trust Company as vice president, wealth management consultant.

Marie Kenyon, managing attorney of the Catholic Legal Assistance Ministry, received

the Generosity of Joseph honors from the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet.

Dennis Ruth was reappointed by the governor of Illinois as chairman of the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission. The term will run through January 2011. In addition to overseeing the administration of approximately 100,000 workers’ compensation claims, in 2005 he helped negotiate and write workers’ compensation reform legislation.

Stephen Woodley was named in the 2008 Best Lawyers in America and in Missouri and Kansas Super Lawyers, 2007.

1988Stuart Kurlander, (below right) a partner at Latham & Watkins in Washington, D.C., received the American Jewish Committee’s prestigious Judge Learned Hand Award for his outstanding leadership in the legal profession, especially in the field of health care law, and for his extraordinary leadership and devotion to the Jewish community and beyond.

1989Kathy Wisniewski has rejoined Thompson Coburn LLP as a partner. Her practice has focused on class action and general commercial litigation.

1990Anne Marie Bruneel was recently named partner at Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP, where she specializes in land use development and financing.

Ann Callis was reappointed for a second two-year term as the circuit’s chief judge of Madison County, Illinois.

Special education attorney Teri Goldman has joined education attorney Tom Mickes at the firm Mickes established. The firm is now called Mickes Goldman and has 10 attorneys, including the two named partners.

Karen McCarthy was named to the 10th Annual Women’s Justice Awards selection committee.

1991Mary Frontczak was promoted to vice president and assistant general counsel for Peabody Energy. She will provide legal counsel for Peabody’s southwest and Colorado operations and will serve as litigation counsel for the company.

1992David Fedder has joined Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP as a partner in its litigation practice group. Fedder was a partner at Bryan Cave LLP.

Tyrus Ulmer was elected 2008 president of the St. Louis chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel.

1993Anthony DeWitt was recently named partner at Bartimus, Frickleton, Robertson & Gorny.

Joan Galli Lockwood was named in the Top 50 Women in Missouri and Kansas Super Lawyers, 2007.

Meg Marshall Thomas has joined Carmody MacDonald P.C. as an associate. She focuses on trust administration, domestic relations and trademark law.

1994Nannette Baker was named to the 10th Annual Women’s Justice Awards selection committee.

1995Terri Breneman is the author of murder-mystery thrillers whose heroine, Toni Barston, is a prosecuting attorney.

Julia Pusateri Lasater has been named a candidate to fill the newly created governor seat in the Eastern District of Missouri, reserved for diverse members of the bar.

Jennifer Stockton Griffin has been named partner (member) at Lathrop & Gage L.C., where she specializes in administrative and regulatory law.

1996Nicole Colbert-Bothway has been named a candidate to fill the newly created governor seat in the Eastern District of Missouri, reserved for diverse members of the bar.

Kevin Gunn has been nominated to the state Public Service Commission by Governor Matt Blunt.

Rebecca Magruder has been named one of St. Louis Magazine’s “2008 Best Lawyers” in family law.

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1997David Jennings has been named one of St. Louis Magazine’s “2008 Best Lawyers” in biotechnology law.

1998Mitchell Gibson has been named partner at Gallop, Johnson & Neuman in St. Louis, where he specializes in tax and employee benefits.

Robert Kenney was named partner at Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus PC, where he specializes in commercial litigation.

Barbara Micheels has been named special counsel at Rabbitt, Pitzer & Snodgrass, P.C.

Steven Ritchey was recently named partner at Thompson Coburn LLP, where he specializes in intellectual property.

1999Michael Barth has been promoted to partner at Williams Venker & Sanders LLC, where he concentrates in defending medical malpractice suits. He also practices in the areas of health and hospital law.

Cherie Stephens Bock was recently named partner at Thompson Coburn LLP, where she specializes in banking and commercial finance.

Kimberly Inman Eilerts was recently named partner at Thompson Coburn LLP, where she specializes in corporate finance and securities.

Michael Kielty defended Michael Devlin, the man who was arrested for the kidnappings of Shawn Hornbeck and William “Ben” Ownby.

Jessica Liss has been named a partner at Rabbitt, Pitzer & Snodgrass, P.C. and specializes in civil defense litigation.

Patrick McLaughlin was recently named partner at Spencer Fane Britt & Browne LLP, where he specializes in litigation.

Harry Murray was recently named a partner at Armstrong Teasdale LLP, where he specializes in public finance and real estate.

Genevieve Nichols was named to the 10th Annual Women’s Justice Awards selection committee.

William O’Neill was recently named partner at Senniger Powers LLP, where he specializes in intellectual property.

Richard Schuth was recently named partner at Senniger Powers LLP, where he specializes in intellectual property.

Gayle Smith-Jones was recently named partner at Thompson Coburn LLP, where she specializes in real estate.

2000Sarah Hellmann has been named partner at Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP, concentrating in business litigation.

Bobbie Moon was recently named partner at Sandberg, Phoenix & von Gontard, P.C., where she focuses on health law.

Brandan Mueller has been named a partner at Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP, in St. Louis, where he concentrates in business litigation.

Nathan Orr was recently named partner at Spencer Fane Britt & Browne LLP, where he

specializes in environmental law and litigation.

2001 Jamie Boock received the St. Louis County Bar Association’s Roy F. Essen Outstanding Young Lawyer Award. The award honors a young lawyer for excellence in the profession, distinguished service to the bar and outstanding service to the community.

Aaron Zigler is an attorney with Korein Tillery and a three-time pick for the National Law Journal ’s Plaintiff ’s Hot List Hall of Fame.

2002Lisa Tapia is currently a judge working for the Illinois Commerce Commission.

2003Rashonda Moore serves as director of women’s health at the Governor’s Office of Children’s Care Coordination in Tennessee.

2005Ryan D. McAlvey was named assistant director for athletic compliance for St. John’s University in September 2007.

Ryan E. Mohr has joined the Fox Galvin LLC firm as an associate attorney. Mohr focuses his practice in the area of environmental litigation.

2007John E. Campbell of Simon Passanante has been appointed the Missouri coordinator of

the Public Justice Foundation, which is a network of more than 3,000 attorneys and public advocates dedicated to advancing consumer rights.

Meghan Chesley was named an associate at Carmody MacDonald P.C., where she concentrates in general litigation.

Narcisa Przulj has left Brown & James to become an associate at Littler Mendelson’s labor and employment law firm.

Tricia Workman has joined Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP as an associate in the government solutions group.

2008Andrew J. Voss has joined Armstrong Teasdale LLP. He will concentrate in the areas of corporate and health care law.

in memoriamClaude Bakewell, 1935August Griesedieck, 1937William Moffitt, 1948George Ashen, 1948Elton French, 1951Larry Parks, 1951John O. Harris, 1955The Hon. Kenneth Martin Weinstock, 1956John Gaebe, 1960June Hoya, 1965Allan Fudim, 1969David Depker, 1972Matthew Maloney, 1973Stephen Pernoud, 1974James Gonedes, 1977Mary Cosgrove Cosentino, 1978Elbert Luh, 1988Lashon Rhodes, 1998

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August 13–15 New Student Orientation

20 School of Law Classes Begin

September 19 School of Law Alumni Luncheon, Missouri Bar Conference, Kansas City, Missouri

25 100 Years of Women Speaker Series: Work-Life Balance and Its Challenges

26-28 Reunion Weekend and SLU Homecoming

26 School of Law Trivia Night (open to all alumni)

27 Family Day

Class Dinners at the Four Seasons Hotel

28 Golden Billiken Brunch

St. Louis Cardinals Baseball Game

October 17 Annual Childress Lecture: Professor Sandra H. Johnson

December 12 School of Law Alumni Reception, Illinois Bar Conference, Chicago, Illinois

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