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Featured Honorees
Each of the
2018 Honorees will be featured in an issue of the C|M|LAW newsletter leading up to the
Induction Celebration on Friday, October 26.
See below for three profiles.
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Kenneth B. Liffman
Class of 1979
President and Chairman of the Board, McCarthy, Lebit, Crystal & Liffman Co., LPA
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What C|M|LAW Means to Me?
I am a child of the Holocaust and a first-generation American. Had my parents not believed in education, my journey to this point would have been twice as tough. I was proud to join McCarthy, Lebit, a firm that continues to have such a great connection with C|M|LAW. Today, 39 years later, I continue to believe in the power of higher education and am proud to support the efforts of C|M|LAW.
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Dean Emeritus
Steven H. Steinglass
Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law Emeritus, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
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What C|M|LAW Means to Me?
Having spent most of my professional life at Cleveland-Marshall, I have come to realize that this law school is truly the foundation of our legal community. It has given me great pride and satisfaction to have been able to interact with successive waves of students as a professor and as law school dean as our students move forward in their careers and in their lives.
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Leonard D. Young
Class of 1974
Founder & President, Leonard D. Young Co., LLC
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What C|M|LAW Means to Me?
My life changed on the day I walked into my first law class at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. I could not begin to imagine the trajectory my career would take, the legal challenges I would become involved with, the countries I would visit nor the people I would meet along the way but the seeds of every aspect of my career started in those classrooms and with the remarkable faculty who challenged me to believe in myself and to reach to the future.
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Civil Litigation Clinic Secures Major Victory with Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
The
C|M|LAW Civil Litigation Clinic secured an important victory with the United States Court of Appeals
for the Sixth Circuit in early October, reversing a lower court decision and reviving a Cuban immigrant's claim to vacate his sentence i
n Rodriguez-Penton v. United States. C|M|LAW Professor Doron Kalir supervised the clinical work, served as the Attorney of Record and argued the case before the Sixth Circuit.
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Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient Video: Sunny Nixon '11
Unify Project Chief Administrative Officer and Senior Counsel Sunny Nixon '11 was honored during Homecoming as the law school's annual recipient of the
CSU Distinguished Alumni Award. Watch Nixon discuss her time at CSU and her career in law in her honoree video.
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Professor Jonathan Witmer-Rich recently presented to the Cuyahoga County Criminal Justice Council on the findings of the Cuyahoga County Bail Task Force Report. His address was covered by Cleveland.com.
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Professor Emeritus William Tabac is set to publish a book,
The Rise and Fall of a Nashville Lawyer Tommy Osborn: Kennedy Convictions, with Arcadia Publishers on October 22. The book chronicles Tommy Osborn, was hired as a lawyer by Jimmy Hoffa to take on Bobby Kennedy. Tabac will speak about his other book, The Insanity Defense: The Mad Murderess of Shaker Heights: Examining the Trial of Mariann Colby, at a free event on November 7, sponsored by the Western Reserve Historical Society.
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Announcing the 2019 Alumni of the Year Honorees
The Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association is proud to announce it will honor a pair of 1992 C|M|LAW graduates -- Calfee, Halter & Griswold Partner Teresa Metcalf Beasley and Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Administrative and Presiding Judge John J. Russo -- as its 2019 Alumni of the Year. The pair of honorees with be recognized at the 2019 CMLAA Annual Recognition Luncheon on Thursday May 23, 2019 at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel Grand Ballroom. For more information and to register, visit:csulaw.org/arl.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20 | 9:00 A.M.
A View from the Bench:
How to Navigate a Specialized Docket
The seminar aims to help attendees develop best practices in their advocacy work before any of Cuyahoga County's various specialty-docket courts, including the mental health, veterans, drug and re-entry courts, and more. Led by the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court John J. Russo '92, distinguished judges and speakers from the special-docket courts will cover a wide range of topics pertinent to their respective programs, including eligibility, local rules, practice fundamentals and pointers, roles and responsibilities of attorneys, participants, staff and third parties, and more.
Organizer and Moderator:
- Judge John J. Russo | Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court
Co-Presenters:
- Judge Hollie L. Gallagher | Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Court, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court
- Molly Leckler | Drug Court & Recovery Court Coordinator, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court
- Judge Nancy Margaret Russo | Re-Entry Court, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court
- Amanda Wozniak | Veterans Treatment Court Coordinator, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court
Paid Registration Required
3.0 CLE Credits
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24
5:30 P.M.
Life Member Celebration and Networking Event
Cloak Factory Lofts
635 W Lakeside Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44113
This event is exclusive to CMLAA Life Members and anyone interested in learning more about
how a Life Membership commitment provides scholarships to our students.
Free to attend. Complimentary cocktails and appetizers will be provided.
RSVP
or request more information on Life Membership
by October 17 at [email protected].
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2 | 8:30 A.M
SPECIAL ALL-DAY CLE EVENT
Learn Law, Live Justice: From Cleveland to the U.S. Supreme Court
The CMLAA's annual, special continuing legal education
event
will focus on United States Supreme Court cases and ties to Northeast Ohio and, in some cases, to Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. Speakers will discuss the history of the cases and how these landmark rulings are relevant to and significantly impact today's practice of law.
Topics:
Mapp v. Ohio and Terry v. Ohio
Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty
Moore v. East Cleveland
Cleveland Board of Education v. LeFleur
Organizers and Moderators:
- Kevin M. Butler | Attorney, Law Offices of Kevin M. Butler Law Director, City of Lakewood, Ohio and Law Director, City of Brooklyn, Ohio
- Kenneth J. Kowalski | C|M|LAW Clinical Professor and Director, Employment Law Clinic
- Stacey L. McKinley | Director, Gift Planning, Cleveland Clinic Philanthropy Institute and C|M|LAW Adjunct Professor
- Milena Sterio | C|M|LAW Associate Dean for Academic Enrichment Professor of Law
Co-Presenters:
- Sean C. Gallagher | Judge, Court of Appeals of Ohio, Eighth Appellate District
- Henry Hilow | Partner, McGinty Hilow & Spellacy Co LPA
- Kenneth J. Kowalski | C|M|LAW Clinical Professor and Director, Employment Law Clinic
- Robert Meader | Commander, Columbus Police Department
- John W. Monroe | Attorney, Mansour Gavin LLP
- Jo Carol Nesset-Sale | Mediator and Attorney, Mediation and Law Office of
Jo Carol Nesset-Sale
- Jane M. Picker | C|M|LAW Professor Emerita
- Robert Tobik | Attorney at Law
- Alan Weinstein | Professor of Law & Urban Studies and Director, Law & Public Policy Program, C|M|LAW/Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University
- Jonathan Witmer-Rich | C|M|LAW Joseph C. Hostetler-Baker Hostetler Professor of Law
Paid Registration Required
6.25 CLE Credits - Full Day (pending approval)
3.0 CLE Credits - Half Day (pending approval)
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Additional CMLAA Fall CLE Events
- Saturday, November 3, 2018 | 9:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
2018 Ethics Symposium
- Saturday, November 10, 2018 | 9:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Real Estate Purchase Agreements - Commercial and Residential Transactions and a Review of the Title Work Associated with Both
- Saturday, November 17, 2018 | 9:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
New Perspectives on Old Issues in Landlord-Tenant Law: Updates and Best Practices in Leasing, Evictions and Agency Actions
- Saturday, December 1, 2018 | 9:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Debt Collection & Bankruptcy
- Saturday, December 15, 2018 | 9:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
2018 Ethics Symposium (video replay)
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If you have news or a story you would like included in this newsletter, please send an email to
Lee Fisher, C|M|LAW Dean.
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