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Michelle Rigual, law library director and
associate professor of law
and serves as director of the Dee J. Kelly
Law Library. This is her first directorship;
however, she came to Texas Wesleyan
with nine years of professional law library
experience gained at the University of
New Mexico, Arizona State University
and Capital University. At the University
of New Mexico, Rigual worked her way
through every facet of library operations,
holding the positions of reference
librarian; co-interim director; head of
technical services; assistant director for
technical services, electronic resources and
collections; and finally associate director
and associate professor. Before turning to
law librarianship, she worked in the area
of environmental policy and regulatory
enforcement for the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers in the U.S., Italy and Turkey.
Rigual has taught Legal Research I and
Legal Research II, Specialized Legal
Research in Indian Law, and Critical
Thinking. Her scholarship is related to
her managerial and teaching role in law
libraries, and in that capacity she has
developed a scholarship agenda that
seeks to move law libraries toward new
and innovative practices in order to adapt
to the changing environment of legal
information resources.
Rigual earned her B.A. in government
from the University of Texas at Austin and
her J.D. and M.S. from the University of
Illinois. Rigual is a member of both the
American Association of Law Libraries
and the Southwestern Chapter of the
American Association of Law Libraries
(SWALL). Her participation in these
professional organizations has included
holding several elected offices and serving
on committees. She is SWALL’s current
vice president/president-elect.
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Professor Wade J. Savoy joined the
Texas Wesleyan School of Law faculty
as a visiting associate professor for the
fall of 2009, having previously served as
practitioner-in-residence for the school in
the spring of 2009.
Before joining the law school, Savoy was
assistant general counsel of intellectual
property for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., where
he served as the head of Wal-Mart’s
intellectual property practice group. He
was the first in-house intellectual property
attorney hired by Wal-Mart and helped
to grow the group to include more than
a dozen attorneys, paralegals and staff.
In addition to overseeing Wal-Mart’s
domestic and international trademark
portfolio, including many brands annually
grossing over a billion dollars each,
handling multimillion dollar transactions,
and contending with the myriad of issues
the world’s largest retailer generated
on a daily basis, Savoy developed and
conducted the first mandatory intellectual
property training program for thousands
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Wade J. Savoy, visiting associate professor of law
of Wal-Mart’s buyers and product
development employees and traveled
to China and back to create programs to
review thousands of products to avoid
intellectual property issues. Before joining
Wal-Mart, Savoy was with the intellectual
property group of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart
(now K&L Gates), where he formed and
headed an internet enforcement team
and had a varied practice of intellectual
property litigation, prosecution and
corporate transactions.
Savoy holds a J.D. and Certificate of
Intellectual Property from Chicago-Kent
College of Law, with high honors, and
election to The Order of the Coif. He
also holds a B.A. from Louisiana State
University, summa cum laude, with
election to Phi Beta Kappa.
Savoy will teach classes in Copyrights
& New Media; Intellectual Property
Licensing; and Adventures in Intellectual
Property Group Practice. z