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CHASE NORTHERN KENTUCK Y UNIVERSIT Y SALMON P. CHASE COLLEGE OF L AW | SPRING / SUMMER 2018 ALSO Student-Designed Apps | Winning Appellate Arguments
THIS IS MORE THAN A DIPLOMA
IT’S A
CHASE DIPLOMA
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FROM THE INTERIM DEAN
The Lawyer’s School is also the
leadership school
A CHASE EDUCATION Names are important to an identity, and the “Structurally, I believe I was prepared for my
INVOLVES MORE THAN name of Salmon P. Chase College of Law clearly argument, and intellectually I believe I was
THE OBVIOUS FOR identifies what students are learning here, but prepared, and that was because of my class-
PRACTICING LAW they are also learning about more than law. By room experience,” she wrote.
nurturing an environment that emphasizes legal
Preparing students through classroom and
knowledge and experiences outside the
other activities to be leaders permeates a
classroom, Chase is preparing students to
Chase education. Each student completes fifty
become lawyers and leaders – leaders in
hours of pro bono work – such as writing wills
practices, the profession, business, govern-
for police officers or teaching at-risk youth
ment, communities, and anywhere people have
about legal rights – all designed to enhance
a common goal.
legal skills and develop self-confidence.
Some of our lessons for leadership are in Students in experiential learning programs
black-letter law, to be sure. They are in the complete additional, non-law-related volunteer
cases cited by names of appellants and work to expand awareness and social-interac-
appellees and in the names of judges who tion skills. They do it in activities such as
decided them. Outside of Nunn Hall, the volunteering at an underserved kindergarten,
lessons are identified with names of students working with recovering drug abusers, or
who immerse themselves in opportunities to helping with a youth basketball team.
develop both lawyering skills and strategies to
Through the combination of classroom
work cooperatively with people of varied
preparation, pro bono work, and experiential
backgrounds and interests. From those
learning, Salmon P. Chase College of Law is
combined experiences, students learn to
more than the name of a law school. It is a law
understand their strengths, their development
school from which we are proud to graduate
paths, and their perspectives that guide their
lawyers and leaders.
leadership.
This past spring, for example, graduating 3L
Brittany Grigery was second-chair in a murder
Michael Whiteman
INTERIM DEAN AND PROFESSOR OF LAW
trial with the San Diego County (California)
Public Defender. She participated in trial
preparation, directed client communications,
and examined witnesses as an extern through
our experiential learning program. The rigors of
the Chase classroom, she tells people, pre-
pared her to experience the type of courtroom
leadership she will utilize in the public defend-
er’s office after graduation.
Sabre Price, another graduating 3L, this past
summer stood before a three-judge panel of
the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth
Circuit and argued the case of a prisoner she
represented through the Chase Constitutional
Litigation Clinic. Like Brittany, her classroom
preparation was her foundation for a ca-
reer-building opportunity in leadership.
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CONTENTS
In this issue
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The Interim Dean’s Cover Story
Message
Chase alumni are using
Chase is preparing students
to be lawyers and leaders their experience to run
through experiences in and
out of the classroom
for elected offices
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Chase offers its expertise Two alumni receive
News from Chase in a national continuing
Education Northern Kentucky
Michael Whiteman is legal education program Alumni who are adjunct University awards
serving as interim dean professors learned their
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3 lessons at Chase
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——— A law review symposium
18 CLASS ACTION
The law library goes explores racial profiling ——— Professional and personal
retro for a movie cameo Developing law-related
7 accomplishments
3 computer apps takes its
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A 3L student plays a key Anniversaries 20 Alumni stay connected
role in a murder defense A fortieth: The first ——— to Chase
4 graduation class of day Intense preparation
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and evening students steels students for appel-
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builds on four decades late court appearances ---------------------
Chase stages a pre-ABA
Techshow seminar of experience that began 22 Faculty
at Chase
5 --------------------- FACULTY NEWS
13 Publications and
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Alumni presentations
Barbara Wagner steps
Alumni make notable gifts
away from clinic role The 125th: A memoir recalls 31
how Chase came to be – 25
5 ———
and almost didn’t
Professor Ursula Doyle
16 receives tenure
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CHASE is published by Salmon P. Chase College of Law, through the Office of University, 100 Nunn Drive, Highland Heights, KY 41099 or by email to brunj1@nku.edu.
Communications in the Office of the Dean. Please send change of mailing address and CHASE is edited by Kerry Klumpe, Chase director of communications, and designed
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2 C H A S E M A G A Z I NE
Briefs
LEADERSHIP
Michael Whiteman
will be Interim Dean
Michael Whiteman, who has been upcoming 2018-19 academic year.
Chase College of Law co-acting dean
“We can be confident of the future for
since November, will serve as interim
Chase because of how involved our
dean, effective June 1.
faculty and alumni are in helping to
In announcing his appointment, shape it,” Dean Whiteman says. “Their
Northern Kentucky University Provost dedication helps ensure that the next
Sue Ott Rowlands said, “I believe that academic year will be another year of
with Mike in the role of interim dean achievement for students and the
Chase will benefit from a continuity of college.”
stable leadership and forward-facing
Dean Whiteman has spoken at national
energy.”
and regional conferences on topics
Michael Whiteman
Dean Whiteman, who has taught involving law libraries and legal
criminal law and legal research and is research, and has published law review
University. He was admitted to practice
associate dean for law library services articles in the Northwestern Journal of
in Massachusetts.
and information technology, has been a Technology and Intellectual Property
faculty member since July 2002. His and the UCLA Law Review Discourse. A committee of Chase and Northern
range of experiences – teaching, He holds a Juris Doctor from the Kentucky University professors and
chairing committees, and overseeing University of Louisville, a Master of administrators, a Chase graduate, and a
aspects of day-to-day operations – will Science in Library and Information Chase student will conduct the search for
allow him to have immediate impact in Science from Simmons College, and a a dean. An appointment is expected to be
guiding the college through the Bachelor of Arts from Concordia made for the 2019-20 academic year.
FACILITIES
Library Takes on Retro Look for Movie Role
The Chase College of Law library will Other scenes shot at Northern hillside. Filming has been completed,
make a cameo appearance in a movie, Kentucky University used the exterior but no release date has been set.
starring Zac Efron and Lily Collins, of Steely Library and a snow-covered Bundy was executed in 1989 in Florida.
which was filmed this past winter in
Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati.
A section of the library was staged to
stand in for a 1970s law school library –
cue the bulky microfilm reader – for a
scene in the movie about serial killer
Ted Bundy, told from the perspective
of his girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer.
Efron, best known for the “High School
Musical” franchise, portrays Bundy in
“Extremely Wicked: Shockingly Evil
and Vile.” Collins, who was Snow White
in “Mirror Mirror,” is Kloepfer.
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filming with a microfilm reader and
desk lamps.
Briefs
Extern has Key Role
in Murder Trial Defense
EDUCATION The public defender’s office selected
Brittany for the trial through a compet-
Experiential learning does not get itive process involving other externs
much more real than this: 3L Brittany from other law schools. “At Chase, I
Grigery this past March sat sec- gained the mental endurance that is
ond-chair in a murder trial, working necessary not only to gain a Juris
with the lead lawyer from the San Doctor, but also apparently to finish a
Diego County (California) Public month-long trial,” she says. “Staying
focused, organized, and diligent for Brittany Grigery
Defender. She examined witnesses,
managed client communication, and such a long period of time was key to
assisted with trial strategy and our success. Chase prepared me well The trial ended in a hung jury, with ten
preparation. for this experience.” jurors voting for acquittal.
STUDENTS
Student Bar Association The 2018-19 officers, and their The 2017-18
upcoming class years, will be: Tarah Chase enroll-
Leadership Achieves a First Rémy, 3L, president; Sarah Hall, 3L, ment of 397
With a predominantly female vice-president/full-time student; students was
enrollment this past academic year, Sheree Weichold, 4L, vice-presi- composed of
Chase College of Law students dent/part-time student; Emily 201 women, or
elected women to all of the Student Robbins, 2L, secretary; Kati Massey, 51 percent, and
Bar Association offices for the 2L, treasurer; and Hope LeMaster, 196 men, or 49
upcoming year, apparently a first in 2L, ABA representative. percent. Tarah Rémy,
the college’s history. 2018-19 Student Bar
Association president
COMPETITIONS
Client Counseling Competition. They 3Ls Michael Bromell, Tory Finley, and
Student Teams Rise reached the championships at Durham,
North Carolina, by finishing second in
Alex McKenzie, and one team was
made up of 2Ls Molly Bramble, Demi
in Regional, National regional competition in February. A team
of 4L Rich Lom and 3L Tina Keller placed
Messer, and Tanner Duncan. Professor
Jack Harrison coached the teams, with
Contests third in the regional, giving Chase
back-to-back finishes. Ryan Wheeler, who
additional coaching by adjunct
professors Zac Anderson, Melissa
Chase College of Law students tested was graduated from Chase in 2017 and is Bodner, Ken Foisy, Mark Gerano, Ian
their emerging lawyering skills this past an associate in the Cincinnati firm of Mitchell, Tim Spille, Carrie Masters
winter against students from other law Thompson Hine, coached the teams. Starts, Jesse Taylor, and Del Weldon.
schools in regional competitions and a
Both teams in the National Trial A team of 3Ls Bill Wilson and Jason
national championship:
Competition advanced to the regional Rainey won the in-person negotiating
A team of 3L Alex Cardosi and 1L semifinal round at Knoxville, Tennessee. sessions of the regional Transactional
Katelynn McDaniel placed in the top Each dominated preliminary rounds LawMeets competition in Chicago.
twelve among more than 110 teams from with teams from law schools in Barbara Wagner, former director of the
more than sixty law schools in the Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Chase Small Business and Nonprofit
national championships of the ABA Missouri. One team was composed of Law Clinic, coached the team.
4 C H A S E M A G A Z I NE
FACULTY basics, and taught courses in ethics for at Chiquita, she was also a vice
transactional lawyers. president, associate general counsel,
Small Business Clinic assistant secretary, and chief
“I talked with students a lot about
Director Turns to New Role client service, and how the 24-hour
compliance officer.
rule [to respond] is evolving into a She has been succeeded as clinic
Barbara Wagner, who was director of 24-minute rule,” she says. “Students director by Robert Furnier, who is also
the Small Business and Nonprofit Law needed to learn how to manage client director of the W. Bruce Lunsford
Clinic and an assistant professor of law expectations and to keep clients Academy for Law, Business +
for five and a half years, has resigned informed about the status of their Technology.
from the full-time faculty to teach as an work. I tried to impress that slow
adjunct professor and to work with the service when they are in practice
Pro Bono Partnership of Ohio to would not lead to a lot of repeat
provide free legal advice to nonprofit business. The students who managed
organizations. to turn drafts quickly (often those with
full-time jobs and other law school
The clinic enrolled about ninety courses) always impressed me.”
students during her time as director
and provided more than 7,000 hours of Prior to joining the faculty in 2012, she
legal work to about 200 small practiced for more than thirty years as
businesses, nonprofits, or start-ups. a corporate and securities lawyer,
She also oversaw the Transactional including ten years in private practice
Law Practice Center, directed the and more than twenty years as an
Barbara Wagner and 2014 clinic students
Business Boot Camp program to give in-house lawyer with Chiquita Brands
Lauren Van Sickle ’15 and Joseph Schwamb ’15.
students an immersion in business International, in Cincinnati. While
Chase Professor Professor David Singleton has been thoroughly for appellate oral arguments
recognized with the Northern Ken- that judges rarely ask them questions
is Outstanding tucky University outstanding professor they had not anticipated. In the
University Professor award for his work that reflects the classroom – this past year he taught
university’s mission. Voir Dire Strategies and Criminal
Procedure – he is known for engaging
His selection for the Frank Sinton
students with examples from contem-
Milburn Outstanding Professor Award
porary, high-profile cases.
for 2018 spotlights his accomplishments
as a law clinic mentor and a classroom The university award was created in
professor. As director of the Chase 1970 and later endowed by Dr. Carol
Constitutional Litigation Clinic, in Swarts Milburn, a Northern Kentucky
which students gain courtroom oncologist, and renamed the Frank
experience by representing prisoners Sinton Milburn Outstanding Professor
and former prisoners in claims of civil Award to honor the life of her husband,
David Singleton
rights abuses, he prepares students so an entrepreneur and inventor.
TECHNOLOGY Technology at Chase College of Law counsel, innovators, private-practice
organized a companion program to lawyers, and educators, including Chase
Lunsford Academy Takes Stage the ABA Techshow this past March in Adjunct Professor Helen Bukulmez –
with ABA Techshow Chicago to help women become was straightforward: Develop mentors,
developers of law-related computer build a team, do not be intimidated. For
Like the corporate glass ceiling, female
applications and lawyers for technolo- men who want to help women break
lawyers and entrepreneurs are facing a
gy companies. through the ceiling, the advice was to
silicon ceiling in law-related technolo-
believe the experiences of women and
gy. To help crack it, the W. Bruce The advice from nine speakers – includ-
to invite their opinions.
Lunsford Academy for Law, Business + ing technology-related in-house
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College of Law News
Chase Offers its Expertise A continuing legal education
program in Florida provides
to Lawyers Nationwide training for practice, business,
and technology
The lessons of the W. Bruce Lunsford Academy for Law, Business Just as the academy’s name defines its focus on law, business,
+ Technology at Chase College of Law are as important for and technology, the CLE sessions concentrated on related
lawyers as they are for law students. The academy, which topics such as legal ethics in a digital age, understanding
emphasizes multidisciplinary training for problem-solving, took financial statements, working with in-house lawyers,
some of its core subject matter to St. Pete Beach, Florida, this online client development, and efficiently using law-related
past winter to offer lawyers from throughout the nation three technology. Here is some of the ground Chase faculty
days of continuing legal education. covered in various sessions:
____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________
Business Basics Ethics for Online Marketing Effective Use of
Professor Chris Gulinello Transactional Essentials | Ethics Technology
Lawyers and business Lawyers | Working Adjunct Professor Helen Adjunct Professor William
clients must utilize the same Bukulmez Lunceford
business terms and
with In-House
Even though the screens on Being a lawyer in the digital
fundamental skills. For Counsel devices potential clients age involves gathering
lawyers, that may mean Adjunct Professor might use to view information, managing
knowing what a balance Barbara Wagner information about a lawyer information, and presenting
sheet shows about a Lawyers with a corporate are often small, it is information. Knowing how
business, and where to look client represent the important to remember the to use common
in it for information such as corporation, but interact big picture of client information-processing
assets, liabilities, and with employees, officers, development online: software can simplify those
equity. Other good-to-have or directors. That means provide helpful information tasks and complete them
knowledge: how to issues of confidentiality on a website, utilize social more efficiently. In the
understand a company’s and of an individual’s role media, and pay attention to evolution of technology,
valuation, what present in a corporation can arise. online reviews. That big computing power is
value and future value For an effective working picture might need increasing dramatically –
mean, and how to read a relationship between fine-tuning to comply with there is more in a
graphic representation of a outside counsel and ethics rules. In Kentucky, for smartphone than in early
general ledger account, in-house counsel, outside example, a lawyer may not manned space missions –
known as a T account. counsel must understand solicit professional and is costing less.
the client’s business employment by real-time
environment, pay attention electronic means.
to the budget for legal
services, and maintain
regular and timely
communication.
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College of Law News
Symposium on Racial Profiling
Explores Far-Reaching Impact
The ramifications can ALEXANDRIA LUBANS-OTTO,
A SOLO PRACTITIONER, ON
divide families and PROFILING OF IMMIGRANTS
strain perceptions “It affects people born outside
the United States in every-
Racial profiling has a lot of thing from access to basic
faces. It is faces of people of needs to their ability to
color. It is faces of immi- maintain custody of their
grants and people who look children. Too many Ameri-
like they might be immi- cans rely on the ‘sound bite’
grants. It is a face of regarding immigrants in this
technology that can help country and overlook the
constrain it. contributions of, and
necessity of, immigrants.
The Chase College of Law
Northern Kentucky Law Review let people look at those faces “Taxpayer monies are directed to detaining, processing, and
during a symposium in early March at Northern Kentucky removing noncriminal immigrants at a time when our
University. Symposium panels brought together eight lawyers economy feels strained, and there are more useful and
from law schools, private practice, and a nonprofit law center. compassionate ways to direct these funds.”
Among them were Chase alumna Janaya Trotter Bratton, ______________________________________________
Northern Kentucky immigration lawyer Alexandria
ROBERT FURNIER, ACADEMY DIRECTOR, ON TECHNOLOGY
Lubans-Otto, and Robert Furnier, director of the W. Bruce
AND RACIAL PROFILING
Lunsford Academy for Law, Business + Technology at Chase.
Here are the faces each put on aspects of racial profiling: “Polls show that a significant percentage of African Americans
______________________________________________ believe that racial profiling is real and, worse, that explicit
racism is behind police decision-making. Although police
JANAYA TROTTER BRATTON ’08, ASSOCIATE IN THE CINCINNATI target African Americans disproportionately during traffic
FIRM OF GERHARDSTEIN & BRANCH, ON RACIAL PROFILING OF stops, they do not believe that racism drives their decisions to
BLACK CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS pull drivers over.
“The immediate impact of ‘growing up a suspect’ through
“Technology like Hello, Officer – a virtual traffic stop app that
racial profiling of black youth is a society that sees and treats
permits officers and drivers to use smartphone video commu-
black children as adults at a very early age. This translates into
nication to conduct traffic stops without police or citizens
a juvenile justice system in which black children are overrep-
leaving their vehicles – has a greater chance of decreasing the
resented. The profiling of black children not only impacts
use of racial profiling during policing than non-technological
whether they go through the system, what they are charged
means because videoconferencing captures interactions in real
with, and their sentences, but it has dire consequences for
time and gives citizens and police the ability to preserve
their health. The suicide rate among black children has
interactions. This allows for the real-time collection of data so
increased as rates for children of other races have declined or
that individual police officers, or their departments, can better
remained steady.
understand whether African Americans are being dispropor-
“We all have implicit biases that can cause us to treat people tionately targeted and, if so, under what circumstances.
differently, even if consciously we would never discriminate Because profiling is likely the product of implicit bias – by its
against another person. Everyone who has the opportunity to nature, an unconscious process – police officers will not
impact a child’s life has to be cognizant of his or her uncon- appreciate, or correct, their behavior without a tool to help
scious decision-making. Treating black children like adults them appreciate when implicit biases have translated into
and second-class citizens has long-term consequences.” conscious decision making.”
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Cover Story
STUDENT
LAWYER
CANDIDATE
8 C H A S E M A G A Z I NETHE CAMPAIGN TRAIL FOR ALUMNI ON BALLOTS THIS
YEAR BEGINS AT CHASE Now, in a year of surging political interest, more than
seventy alumni, most of them in Kentucky and Ohio,
Ten years after graduation from Chase College of Law, are seeking election as legislators, judges, or prosecutors.
Graham Trimble decided the time is right to run for Some are first-time candidates; many are incumbents.
elected office. He wants to become Commonwealth’s For each of them, the map for the campaign trail begins
Attorney for McCreary and Whitley counties, in at Chase.
southeast Kentucky.
Putting aside the obvious connection between having
Mr. Trimble, who was graduated in 2008, is approaching a personal interest in law and the legislation that
the campaign with perspective and purpose. “Elections creates it or law and the administration of it, law school
are costly, both financially and in time away from family in general and aspects of Chase in particular are ideal
and friends. If someone is going to step into the political preparation for elected service. There are experiences
arena, the desire to make an office better needs to be in identifying and communicating issues, understanding
the driving force,” he says. responsibility for a greater good, refining leadership
traits, and developing lawyering skills that also apply
Venturing into politics places him in the long history
to a political campaign.
of Chase alumni seeking and holding elected public
offices. Alumni serve, or have served, in the United From law school to Election Day, Chase professors
States House of Representatives, in state legislatures, and alumni with political involvement explain on the
on state supreme courts, appellate courts, and trial following pages how experiences at Chase prepare
courts, as prosecutors, and in just about any local alumni for the fast track of the campaign trail.
office for which citizens have a vote.
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THE CHASE POLITICAL ADVANTAGE
Civic engagement begins early
What Professor Jennifer Kinsley, director of experiential learning, says:
“Chase emphasizes civic engagement through its outstanding clinics, where law students
work on real cases, ranging from child victim protection to government accountability
to small business start-ups. In this way, Chase brings the community into its classrooms
and sends its students out into the community. Students are taught from day one
that lawyers exist to serve society, so by the time they graduate, the idea of public
leadership is deeply ingrained in who they are as professionals and as people.”
Leadership training runs Tensions between what the
throughout courses law is and ought to be help forge
Professor Kinsley: commitments to a cause
“Chase prepares students for participation in Professor John Bickers, who teaches
public life by providing diverse curricular offerings Constitutional Law:
that allow students to hone their leadership skills. “Successful law students are invariably both
For example, Chase offers a panoply of simulation smart and hard working. Some of them, though,
courses, ranging from trial advocacy to client have a passionate sense of ‘what the law ought to
counseling, that encourage students to hone be’ that you can hear when they participate in
their communication skills, to work with discussions about ‘what the law is.’ It is those
stakeholders from all walks of life, students who I often see moving into
and to build consensus through government, whether by running for office
persuasive advocacy.” themselves or helping those who do.”
Knowing how to connect with a jury works for voters, too
Professor Jack Harrison, trial team coordinator and previously a congressional staff member and campaign manager:
“One of the most important skills from law school, particularly for attorneys who have done trial work, is the ability to
connect with an audience through story. Attorneys must effectively communicate with clients and with juries in much the
same way a political candidate must connect with potential voters. These are skills that are developed throughout law
school, from first-year oral arguments through trial advocacy classes through competing as a member of a moot court or
mock trial team. One pitfall that law students and lawyers in practice and lawyers in politics always struggle to avoid is
‘sounding like a lawyer.’ Luckily, law school professors, law school classmates, clients, judges, and constituents are always
present to remind us to talk like a normal human being – something lawyers are not always good at doing.”
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Attention to nuance
helps avoid policy Networking lessons pay off in a campaign
and issue pitfalls Joe Cunningham ’14, candidate for the U.S. House of
Representatives in South Carolina:
Professor Michael
Mannheimer, author of “Through different cases and clients, practicing
numerous law review attorneys build extensive networks throughout the Clinic
articles on constitutional community and various fields of employment. These experiences
make public
interpretation: relationships allow attorneys to ask for advice from
professionals that, if not for the law field, would not
“Criminal Law – for most be available. This has benefited my campaign greatly. service second-
nature
law students, their first It has allowed me to gain new perspectives on
encounter with the art of community issues, as well as seek guidance on
reading and drafting Professor Amy
how to better serve my future constituents.”
statutes – is largely about Halbrook, director
statutory interpretation. of the Children’s Law
One of my main goals for Center Clinic:
the class is having students
“Students who gain
discover how minor
changes in the language, Training in scholarship and decision- real-life experience
with clients and the
syntax, or punctuation of a making carries forward for judges public – whether in
statute can have tremen-
Judge Karen Thomas ’85, clinics or in pro
dous real-world conse-
Campbell County (Kentucky) District Court: bono positions –
quences. Some of my
begin to develop
favorite moments in “There is more to becoming a judge than running for
their lawyering skills,
criminal law come from election. To be a good judge not only do you have to be
their professional
having students try to willing to be a constant student of the law and strong
identities and their
re-draft statutory lan- enough to make the hard decisions, but to a large
commitment to
guage. Hopefully, those degree temperament plays a huge part in what makes
justice. Students
who end up in legislatures a good judge. A judge must be able to represent the
become, as one
carry this skill with them.” fair and impartial nature of justice while tempering
clinic student noted,
that justice with compassion and respect for each
‘public service
individual who appears before her.”
minded.’ Their
preparation and
their abilities to
think practically and
critically will help
The rigors of law school are preparation for handling them serve as
a campaign and a career competent and
ethical elected
Wil Schroder II ’08, Kentucky state senator and practicing lawyer:
officials.”
“Law school helped prepare me for being able to manage my time. As a third-year law
student, I was president of the Student Bar Association and Christian Legal Society, and
was also a member of the trial advocacy team. Learning how to balance the demands
of a hectic and often stressful schedule has benefited me greatly in my career.
Running for office is a major commitment, not only for the candidate, but also
those around him or her. When deciding to run for office, the most important Alumni seeking
and first vote you need to get is from your spouse, if you have one. A close federal or state
second is that of your firm or colleagues. Having the support back
home and at the office is crucial to being able to have the flexibility
offices
to campaign and hold an elected position.”
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ALUMNI ON THE BALLOT
These Chase alumni who filed to seek federal or state offices in 2018 were identified in Kentucky
through an online database of candidate filings made with the Kentucky Secretary of State, in southwest
Ohio through filings with boards of elections in Butler, Clermont, Hamilton, Montgomery, and Warren
counties, and elsewhere through an online politics database, in which candidates could be identified as
Chase graduates, and through news reports in which a candidate was identified as a Chase graduate. The list
is not exhaustive, and does not include candidates for municipal or county offices for which candidates filed with
a county clerk or board of elections in any of the 120 counties in Kentucky or 88 counties in Ohio or elsewhere.
An (i) following a name in the list indicates an incumbent and a (j) indicates a judge seeking a different judgeship.
U.S. House Adam Cart ’10, District Kentucky Circuit Court, Douglas J. Grothaus ’87, Karen A. Thomas ’85,
Steve Chabot ’78, 46 (Breckinridge, Family District 16 (Kenton) (i) District 17 (Campbell) (i)
Grayson, Meade)
Cincinnati (i) Dawn Gentry ’86, W. “Skip” Hammons Marcia Thomas ’93,
J. Kelly Clarke ’94, District 16 (Kenton) (i) ’91, District 27 (Knox, District 54 (Boone,
Joe Cunningham ’14,
District 19 (Bracken, Laurel) (i) Gallatin)
Charleston, South Pete Roush ’02, District
Fleming, Mason) (i)
Carolina 16 (Kenton) Charles W. “Chuck” Don Thompson Jr. ’87,
Sean Fitzgerald ’06, Hardin ’96, District 25 District 51 (Henderson)
Kentucky legislature District 16 (Kenton) (i) Terri King Schoborg ’85, (Clark, Madison) (i)
District 16 (Kenton) H. Rupert Wilhoit III
Abigail Barnes ’09, John Gardner ’04, Jarrod Jackson ’05, ’91, District 37 (Carter,
House District 4 District 43 (Barren, Kentucky District Court District 56 (Caldwell, Elliott, Morgan) (i)
(Western Kentucky) Metcalfe) Livingston, Lyon, Trigg)
Howe Baker ’89, District Robert F. Wright ’95,
Greg Coulson ’10, Samuel Herald ’99, 24 (Johnson, Lawrence, Luke Lawless ’10, District 35 (Pike)
House District 78 District 39 (Breathitt, Martin) District 11 (Green,
(Northern Kentucky) Powell, Wolfe) Marion, Taylor, Robert “Robby” Yoakum
Don Blair ’75, District ’99 District 44 (Bell) (i)
Chris Harris ’96, Melvin Leonhart ’00, 21 (Bath, Menifee, Washington)
House District 93 District 20 (Lincoln, Montgomery, Rowan) (i) James M. Lawson ’82, Ohio Court of Appeals
(Eastern Kentucky) Pulaski, Rockcastle) District 40 (Clinton,
John Chafin ’81, District Robert C. Winkler ’87,
C. Ed Massey ’92, Louis Kelly ’07, District 24 (Johnson, Lawrence, Russell, Wayne) (i) Hamilton County (j)
House District 66 54 (Boone, Gallatin) Martin) (i) William “Bo” Leach ’03, Ohio Court of Common
(Northern Kentucky) Rob Sanders ’98, District 23 (Estill, Lee, Pleas
Elizabeth Chandler ’96,
Diane St. Onge ’01, District 16 (Kenton) (i) Owsley) (i)
District 15 (Carroll, Richard P. Ferenc ’77,
House District 63 Michelle Snodgrass- Grant, Owen) (i) Keith McMain ’89, Clermont County (i)
(Northern Kentucky) (i) Deimling ’98, District District 54 (Boone,
Brian Crick ’04, J. Gregory Howard ’87,
Wil Schroder II ’08, 17 (Campbell) (i) Gallatin)
District 45 (McLean, Butler County (i)
Senate District 24 Jackie Steele ’01, District Muhlenberg) (i) Bill Oliver ’88, District
(Northern Kentucky) (i) 27 (Knox, Laurel) (i) 13 (Garrard, Jessamine, Donald E. Oda II ’95,
Deborah Hawkins Lincoln) (i) Warren County (i)
Robin Webb ’86, Senate Graham Trimble ’08, Crooks ’85, District 52
District 18 (Eastern District 34 (McCreary, (Graves) (i) Billy L. Oliver ’87, Ohio Area Court
Kentucky) (i) Whitley) District 39 (Breathitt,
David Curlin ’08, Robert H. Lyons ’80,
Powell, Wolfe) Butler County Area I (i)
Ohio legislature Judicial District 51 (Henderson)
Sam C. Potter ’84, Ohio Juvenile Court
Adrienne Buckler ’15, Kentucky Court of Tracy Davis ’12, District District 8 (Warren) (i)
House District 90 Appeals 30 (Jefferson) E. Gerald Parker ’07,
(Southern Ohio) Dennis B. Prater ’00, Montgomery County
Kevin Sinnette ’88, Kenneth L. Easterling ’88, District 36 (Knott,
Matthew Robinson ’00, District 7 (Eastern District 16 (Kenton) (i) Magoffin) (i) Colorado County Court
House District 28 Kentucky)
Joe Friend ’81, District William “Willie” Julie Huffman ’07,
(Northeast Hamilton Larry E. Thompson ’87,
County) 35 (Pike) Roberts ’84, District 21 west-central Colorado (i)
District 7 (Eastern (Bath, Menifee,
Kentucky) (j) Thomas M. Funk ’81, Indiana Superior Court
Kentucky District 15 (Carroll, Montgomery, Rowan) (i)
Kentucky Circuit Court Sally A. McLaughlin ’90,
Commonwealth’s Grant, Owen) (i) Ann Ruttle ’84, District
Dearborn County (i)
Attorney Derek R. Durbin ’03, Kenneth Goff II ’88, 16 (Kenton) (i)
Circuit 17 (Campbell) Missouri Circuit Court
Ronnie Bowling ’12, District 46 Jeff Schumacher ’92,
District 34 (McCreary, Daniel Zalla ’74, Circuit (Breckinridge, District 19 (Bracken, Thomas Swindle ’81,
Whitley) 17 (Campbell) (i) Grayson, Meade) (i) Fleming, Mason) (i) southeast Missouri (i)
1 2 C H A S E M A G A Z INEAnniversaries
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The Class of 1978 Reaches a Milestone
The fortieth anniversary of the first graduation class of day and evening students is a time
for some of its members to reflect on how Chase prepared them for the future
The year was 1978.
Gary Cohen
Diane Keaton was the Academy Awards’ Best Actress, with
Now: Producer and investor in
the Annie Hall-look that forty years later still influences street
theatrical productions, following
fashion.
retirement as chief administrative
The Eagles’ “Hotel California” was Record of the Year, with officer of Finish Line, an athletic
lyrics such as “check out any time you like / but you can never shoe and apparel retailer; after
leave” cited decades later in reflections on issues such as graduation as an evening student:
politics and economics. deputy prosecutor in Indianapolis.
And in the Supreme Court of the United States, Regents of the “Probably the most important aspect of my Chase
University of California v. Bakke allowed race as a factor in experience was the practical legal training I received. I
college admissions, and immediately became a landmark was able to leave law school and immediately handle
decision for law school students the next forty years. legal matters with full confidence. In the later years of
my career, especially when I transitioned from general
Now the year is 2018, the fortieth anniversary of the first
counsel in a billion-dollar, publicly traded company to
Chase College of Law graduation class of both part-time
the business side, as chief administrative officer, I was
evening students and full-time day students. The evening
able to apply the strong legal analysis I learned at
students had enrolled in 1974; the first day students in 1975.
Chase as a member of the business team of the
Together, they were the Class of 1978, and the start of a new
company. I am now on my third career, as a Broadway
era for Chase.
producer, and I am using my strong legal and business
In the forty years since graduation, the Class of 1978 has sense to determine which production opportunities
become partners in regional law firms, successful solo will make good strategic and business sense in the
practitioners, corporate officers, judges, elected officials, and very risky theatrical world. I feel that I am one step
has affected the lives of countless individuals and institutions. ahead of others who do not have a practical legal
For some of its members, these are the memories of how background dealing with these theatrical business
Chase laid the foundation for their success: transactions.”
SP RING/ SUMMER 2 0 1 8 1 3Anniversaries
Daniel Legal Writing and Research class. His combined not only to encourage us to
Stratton admonition to write in a clear, concise, spend the time and effort needed, but
and precise manner will always stay also to instill confidence in our abilities
Now: Partner in
with me. Professor Eugene Youngs and once we graduated. The excellent legal
the Stratton Law
Professor Ovid Lewis exhibited their education provided by those professors
Firm, Pikeville,
love of the law during every class and Chase was the foundation for
Kentucky; after
session, and you had to remain anything I accomplished in my career
graduation as a
prepared and on your toes. Professor Ed thereafter.”
day student: associate in the Pikeville
Goggin was a friend and trusted adviser
firm of Stratton, May & Hays, founded
to every student, regardless of whether
by his grandfather, in which his father
or not you were a student in his class. Alan
also practiced.
Lastly, the admiralty class taught by Hartman
“The day Class of 1978 had no juniors Adjunct Professor Bill Schroeder Now: Corporate
or seniors to look up to, or to assist us in opened doors to the career path that I practice focused
anything when we entered. According- have followed for nearly forty years. He on information
ly, the freshman day Class of 1978 exemplified, in many ways, the selfless technology and
became very supportive of each other. dedication of the Chase faculty.” intellectual property law at Ulmer &
Because we were mostly on our own, we Berne, Cincinnati; after graduation as a
learned to solve our own problems. I day student: solo practice.
think this part of the experience taught Bea Wolper
“At Chase, I learned how to critically
us to be more self-reliant, which better Now: President of
analyze legal problems and develop
prepared us to begin practice. The Emens & Wolper
creative solutions for those problems.
school had made a strategic decision to Law Firm, which
I’ve gone from solo practice to a small
recruit students from all across the concentrates in
firm to general counsel of two software
commonwealth, so the first class family-owned
companies to practicing in a large
represented students from Pikeville to business and energy law, in Columbus,
regional law firm. All along that path,
Paducah, and all points in between. Ohio; after graduation as an evening
my education at Chase has served me
This started the Kentucky base of student: associate in a small firm.
well. That education was the foundation
alumni we enjoy today.”
“Dean Jack Grosse was an incredible that enabled me to become an excellent
mentor, as well as a great professor. business attorney contributing to my
Stephen My contracts class experiences, clients’ success. I will always be grateful
Little working as his assistant, and applying for my Chase experience.”
Now: President what he taught me enabled me to
and chief execu- succeed in my career by thinking
tive officer of rationally and striving to find Mary Healy
Grouse Corp., solutions to problems. Now: Partner in
privately held the Cincinnati
operator of towboats and barges, based firm of Dinsmore
in Paducah, Kentucky; after graduation Jeffrey & Shohl, concen-
as a day student: counsel to the Raines trating in estate
Merchant Marine and Fisheries Now: Of counsel, planning and business succession
Committee of the United States House Raines, Dusing & planning; after graduation as an evening
of Representatives. Sutton, Florence, student: associate with the Cincinnati
Kentucky; after firm of Paxton & Seasongood, where she
“The faculty of full-time professors was
graduation as a day student: practiced had worked as a student and which later
very dedicated and always accessible. In
with William P. McEvoy, Burlington, merged with Thompson Hine, where she
addition, the adjunct professors were
Kentucky. was a partner.
practicing attorneys with substantial
experience. As a result, we had a great “The quality, skills, and commitment of “Working while attending Chase led to
mix of the scholarly as well as the the professors at Chase, along with the a full-time position at a firm which,
practical side of the law. I benefited fear they instilled by suggesting that a forty years ago, had not typically hired
greatly from Professor Edward Ziegler’s third of the class would not graduate, Chase graduates. I am very pleased to
1 4 C H A S E M A G A Z INEnote that Cincinnati law firms, large ployed by the Hamilton County Public
and small, now welcome Chase grads. Defender and started in private
With the ability to work full-time while practice. After two years, I left and
attending evening classes I quickly fell focused on my practice.”
in love with estate planning, tax, and
trust work, to which after forty years I
still devote the majority of my practice.” Fred Stine
Now: Retired
Bernie judge of the
Robinson Campbell County
(Kentucky) Circuit
Now: Partner and
Court; after
co-owner of The
graduation as an evening student:
Livingston Group, Professor Edward Goggin
private practice for eighteen months, taught the Class of 1978
a bipartisan
followed by twenty-three years as an
lobbying firm in
Assistant United States Attorney for the
Washington, D.C.; after graduation as
Eastern District of Kentucky.
an evening student: director of govern-
ment relations for Philip Morris USA. “I was very fortunate during my career
to be in the right place at the right time
“While I never practiced law, learning
at least twice. Being an evening student
during law school how to find the law
required that I had the ability to
and to more fully understand key legal
maintain a tough schedule, since I
provisions substantially enhanced my
worked full-time. The work day would
ability to successfully navigate chal-
start early in the morning and wouldn’t
lenging decisions and situations later in
be over until late at night, usually
life. Fortunately, friendships and
somewhere between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m.
working relationships during law
A few hours later it would start again.”
school continue, and these valuable
resources help achieve personal and
professional objectives and often add Fran
value to the result.” Niehaus Chase occupied Hankins Hall
1972-1981
Now: Practices
Steve with two other
Schuh lawyers in the
Now: Partner in Niehaus Law
the Cincinnati Office, Cincinnati,
firm of Schuh & and owns Niehaus Financial Services,
Goldberg, and Niehaus Tax Services; after
concentrating in transactional law; after graduation as an evening student: solo
graduation as an evening student: practice.
lawyer in the Office of the Hamilton
“Because I hung out my shingle from
County Public Defender.
day one, the practical education I
“Chase facilitated my career as an received at Chase was vital to my
attorney. As I was married and career-start in law. Some of my
working full-time in support of my professors practiced during the day and
family, the opportunity to become a taught in the evening, and their
Dean W. Jack Grosse oversa
lawyer was not otherwise available. At recounting of their experiences in creation of day classes
w
Chase, I had access to lawyers as practice were beneficial and gave me
teachers, and met some of the finest confidence. Several of them became role
people I’ve had the pleasure to know. models and post-graduation mentors,
Fresh out of law school, I was em- as did some of my fellow students.”
SP RING/ SUMMER 2 0 1 8 1 5Anniversaries
In the Words of the Founder
Robert M. Ochiltree, who After my graduation from the Cincinnati Law School in 1892, I returned to
my father’s farm in [southeast] Indiana to harvest a field of wheat I had
in 1893 founded the law sown, and to teach school to pay an indebtedness incurred in my law school
school that would later be course. I returned to Cincinnati in May 1893, and followed what I thought
named Salmon P. Chase was the usual procedure of recent law graduates, going from office to office
in an endeavor to locate.
College of Law, tells in an
In one of the offices, the lawyer’s
excerpt from his memoir son was reading law, and on
the story of a college that learning that I was a recent
almost did not come to graduate, the lawyer inquired
about the [Cincinnati Law
be, but for a chance School] course and whether I
meeting on a Cincinnati knew about a Virginia law school
street. Here are the words which he said had a summer
term; and that he was considering
of Dean Ochiltree, having his son attend it to prepare
published in 1943 in The for advanced standing in the
Y.M.C.A Night Law Cincinnati Law School. Later, it
occurred to me that perhaps I
School, Cincinnati, that could form a class with his son
recount his founding of and others as students in a
Chase 125 years ago. summer course that would
prepare them for the examination
for advanced standing.
I called on the Hon. Jacob D. Cox
(his students called him “Governor”), dean of the Cincinnati Law School,
and he gave me a letter of recommendation and the names of those who had
inquired about advanced standing in his school. [Cox had been an Ohio
governor and a United States Secretary of the Interior. The Cincinnati Law
School was a private program from its founding in 1833 until its merger
with the University of Cincinnati in 1897.]
— What happened at Chase while
Robert M. Ochiltree was dean,
from late 1893 to mid-1916:
October 17, 1893 Seventeen
students attend the first class,
conducted by Dean Ochiltree in
May 1895 First class, of five
students, is graduated.
The early
Autumn 1895 With 106
the tower room of the YMCA
------------------------ students enrolled in three class
building at Seventh and Walnut
years, Dean Ochiltree enlists
September 18, 1893 Plans for streets, downtown Cincinnati.
years
teaching help from a Hamilton
the Night Law School as an [The site is now an office building.]
County Common Pleas Court
education program of the
October 1893 through judge and from a graduate who
Cincinnati and Hamilton
— County YMCA are reported in a
daily newspaper.
mid-1895 Dean Ochiltree
teaches all courses.
had been admitted to the Ohio
bar.
1 6 C H A S E M A G A Z INEWithin a few days, I had canvassed the board. … Shortly afterwards, a learned [legal] writers on the common
Cincinnati prospective students and newspaper item with large headlines law of England and America, and some
written to the non-residents with the appeared, announcing “A NIGHT LAW leading cases, and laid the foundation
result that I procured a number of SCHOOL. One to Be Established as a of a course of study to be extended to
students. The resident students met Branch Adjunct to the Y.M.C.A. It Will include all the subjects taught in
daily and the non-residents received a Be on Popular [Streetcar] Lines and Is standard law schools. …
weekly letter, until the [Cincinnati] law Deserving of Success.” … Information
Thus began work that was to amuse
school opened in October. regarding the proposed night law
and exercise many hours of my life
course had been given out at the Associ-
I liked the work, and it seemed to be during the succeeding twenty-three
ation office, and whether the course
satisfactory to the students. I realized, years. A work that was to enroll
would be on commercial law or the
however, that when they entered the law hundreds of law students; in a few years
more pretentious one described in the
school in the fall my work would end. to engage the service and cooperation
news item was left open. …
This led me to consider the possibility of more than a score of lawyers and
of a night law course for young men Seventeen prospective students were judges and to become an institution
employed during the daytime; but the present the first night, October 17, 1893. known and honored as the pioneer
question presented itself, how to get the In my opening talk, I outlined two night law school.
students and a meeting place for the courses, in which I felt they might be
class. … In a general way, I knew the interested; one to consist of lectures or Robert M. Ochiltree was dean of the Y.M.C.A
Y.M.C.A. had night classes for young talks on commercial law, the other to be Night Law School, renamed Salmon P. Chase
men, and that its building was the modeled as nearly as possible after the College of Law in 1943, from his founding of
meeting place for its members during course then pursued in the Cincinnati it in 1893 until 1916. He subsequently
the evening … Law School. They expressed a willing- practiced law in Cincinnati, where he lived
ness to undertake the latter course … until his death in 1948.
I called on Mr. George T. Howser, then
[My experience teaching
general secretary [of the Y.M.C.A.], and
public school in Indiana,
offered to conduct a night course in the
teaching the summer law
study of law. He referred my offer to the
course in Cincinnati, and
[Y.M.C.A.] board, who said to him that
access to the Cincinnati
probably no one would attend, except
Law School library] led me
those who would be attending other
to feel or hope that a three
classes conducted by the Association,
years’ or longer night
and that the small tuition the students
course, with admission to
paid was needed to pay the teachers of
the Bar as the goal, was
the other classes.
possible. …
Apparently Mr. Howser felt that ended
Thanks to the interest and
the matter, and only by chance meeting
enthusiasm of the class, we
him on the street, did I learn the result
stuck strictly to the study
of his [favorable] conference with the
and discussion of …
1900 Ohio approves the YMCA 1906 The library contains 1,000
as a degree-granting institution. volumes. By 1916 it has 2,000.
June 28, 1900 Sixty-five 1916 Dean Ochiltree leaves the
Bachelor of Law degrees are law school, with annual
awarded, twenty-two to enrollment having averaged 126
students in the graduating students and thirteen lawyers
Class of 1900 and forty-three to on the faculty.
graduates in the classes of 1895
through 1899.
The former YMCA building at Seventh
and Walnut streets, downtown
SP RING/ SUMMER 2 0 1 8 1 7Education
Applying the Law Students in the W. Bruce Lunsford Academy
for Law, Business + Technology are putting
high-tech spins on legal fundamentals
Think of it as Old School versus New device, and two websites. Previous landlord and others will accept. All of
School. students had created other apps. To this involves legal issues.”
be sure, the students are not doing
Briefing a case? Old School. The domestic violence app, named ID
computer programming, although
Redo, was being created for Legal Aid
Designing a law-related computer app some of them have technology
of the Bluegrass to help domestic
or website? New School. Or more backgrounds. Code-writing gets
violence victims who have to flee
specifically, part of the new frontier in turned over to Northern Kentucky
without identification or documents. A
legal education being taught in the W. University computer students or
website accessibility project was
Bruce Lunsford Academy for Law, outside coders. What the Chase
Business + Technology at Chase initially conceived of as an app to be
students do is utilize their law school
College of Law. called AccessiBuilder, for lawyers and
experience to identify what an app or
others with disabilities to evaluate the
Other courses help students develop website needs to accomplish, what
accessibility of law-related websites. It
the fundamental skill of briefing a case. information or functions it needs to
was recast to be a pair of websites. An
But Law, Business & Entrepreneurship contain, and how users can best
app students previously created for
is the academy course that teaches sequentially access or employ
Legal Aid of the Bluegrass – now in
them how to translate their knowledge information or functions.
field testing and called Startover
of legal doctrines and procedures into “The first thing they have to do is Kentucky – helps lawyers and others
computer applications to be used by identify the legal issues that go along expedite expungement proceedings.
lawyers and non-lawyers. with the app,” Professor Furnier says. Another app was designed to help
Students in the course, taught by “For example, for a disability access Legal Aid of the Bluegrass recruit
academy director Robert Furnier, app that was being planned, they had volunteer lawyers.
this spring were to understand the current state of the
While every lawyer understands the type
developing an law for accessibility, and the same for a
of thinking that goes into briefing a case,
app, or domestic violence app that is being
creating a law-related app or website
software that developed. That understanding, in the
requires a much broader approach.
performs case of the domestic violence app,
specific tasks could involve how to get a birth A first step is to identify the legal
on a computer certificate with minimal or no informa- issues or process the technology will
or mobile tion, and how to create an identity a address:
1 8 C H A S E M A G A Z INErank websites based on accessibility. For students who now know not only
The idea is to encourage organizations how to brief a case, but also how to
with lower rankings to update their design a law-related app or website,
sites. The major legal issue we foresaw the combined skills are the profession-
was protecting the identity of a person al advantage the Lunsford Academy
doing the rating, because he or she was created to provide:
would likely need to disclose his or her
Doug Rebok, ID
disability.”
Redo: “The process
For Startover Kentucky, the of brainstorming a
expungement app: “There are technical solution
multiple examples of legal issues we to a real-world
had to identify,” says Charlotte problem allows us
Spencer, a 2017 graduate who worked to analyze the law
on the app. “Was it a drug-based to identify both
crime? These sometimes have special where technology helps us to accom-
For ID Redo, the domestic violence rules for expungement. Was it a sex plish our goal and how it hinders the
app: “A primary objective is to solve crime or crime against a child? We solution. Thinking like a lawyer means
the problem some abuse victims face can’t help people with those. How identifying the many different areas
by not having access to their identify- recently was the person in trouble with that are affected under one set of
ing documents, such as a birth the law, for any reason? How long ago circumstances.”
certificate and driver’s license,” says 2L was the specific offense? Was the
Joe Sgro, Accessi-
Doug Rebok, who is involved in person convicted as a result of being a
Builder: “This
development of the app. “We are victim of human trafficking? Was the
project was an exer-
looking at the legal requirements for crime a felony or a misdemeanor? Has
cise in critical
obtaining those documents, as well as the person ever gotten an expunge-
thinking and issue
the potential for some alternatively ment before?”
spotting from an
acceptable identification during a
After identifying legal issues, a attorney’s perspec-
period of waiting for replacement
subsequent step is to explain to tive rather than a
identifying documents. We also have
computer code-writers the task an app law student’s perspective.”
to consider the risks of [digitally]
needs to accomplish and how individu-
accepting and storing sensitive Charlotte Spencer,
als will use it:
personally identifying information.” Startover Ken-
ID Redo: “A chief concern for us is tucky: “After
For AccessiBuilder, the disability
designing an app that does not finishing the class, I
access app redirected as websites:
compromise the safety of its users,” graduated, passed
“The issues are two-fold,” says 2L Joe
Mr. Rebok says. “We are exploring the bar, and
Sgro. “One is a call to action for
solutions to eliminate the ability for the entered a web
organizations to invest in developing
app or use of the app to be discov- development
or changing their websites so individu-
ered. This might include an automatic school, where I learned to create web
als with hearing, vision, or physical
uninstall, installation outside of normal pages and apps from the coding side.
disabilities can navigate the sites with
channels of online app stores, and The Lunsford Academy class exposed
ease. We briefly entertained the idea
mis-directive functionality that hides me to an area with a lot of opportunity.
of creating an app, but it wouldn’t
the true function of the app.” I have found that my legal background
work to solve the issue we are trying to
and new tech skills are a good
address. Right now, we are developing Startover Kentucky: “We came up
combination that can help open the
a website to help create awareness of with flow charts, based on possible
door to both law jobs and JD-advan-
website accessibility. The goal is to get app-users’ answers, to give to the code
tage jobs.”
businesses to pledge to develop writers. Then we had to provide the
accessible websites. A second website, correct legal forms and filing instruc- Old School versus New School? Just
with an initial focus on law-related tions,” Ms. Spencer says. “We also ran think of it as the Chase College of Law
sites, will be similar to a Yelp or Angie’s through the app with hypothetical new-ideas school of preparing for the
List site to allow users who have a users’ stories and got back to the future.
physical, visual, or hearing disability to coders about what needed adjusting.”
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