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TRIBONE CENTER DU Dedicates New Center for Clinical Legal Education By Colleen C. Derda, A’83 Duquesne and the School of Law hosted a special ceremony in September to dedicate the new Tribone Center for Clinical Legal Education, located on Fifth Avenue in the heart of the Uptown neighborhood. Through the new center, the School of Law provides free legal services to those who need but cannot afford legal representation, including veterans, low-income individuals and families, and non-profit organizations. Clients are helped with civil rights, family law, unemployment compensation and other specific legal matters. “The School of Law is deeply committed to serving the community while, at the same time, giving our students hands-on skills training so that they can perform at the highest level when they enter the practice of law,” says Law Dean Ken Gormley. “Our new clinic, just blocks from the courthouses Downtown, opens up remarkable opportunities to help underserved clients and families while allowing Duquesne law students to tackle real-life legal problems that will give them unmatched experience.” Three years ago, as the new dean of the School of Law, Gormley outlined plans for a freestanding clinic and the hiring of a nationally recognized clinician to direct the program. Alumni quickly stepped up to champion the project with community leaders and public funders. Alumnus Tom Tribone, a 1985 graduate of the School of Law and a 1981 graduate of the Palumbo•Donahue School of Business, played a key role in developing the new center for clinical legal education that now bears his family name. He noted Duquesne’s influence on both his family and the family of his wife, Michele Mrozek-Tribone. “Duquesne has had a significant impact on three generations of our family on both sides,” says Tribone. “My father, the first person in the family to attend college, developed a strong respect for education at Duquesne, and he imparted that to us.” Tribone is chief executive officer of Franklin Park Investments, which owns and operates energy and infrastructure businesses globally, and is chairman of the board of directors of a public investment fund, Infrastructure India PLC. Throughout his career, he has owned and managed large energy concerns in the U.S. and 35 other countries. In making his gift, Tribone says he was impressed with the work of Duquesne’s community-based legal initiatives and the impact on area residents. “The law school’s clinical program provides important services to citizens who otherwise wouldn’t be able to get legal help,” says Tribone. Local firms and Duquesne law alumni are stepping up to name individual rooms in the Tribone Center for Clinical Legal Education. A student work room on the first floor is now named for Dickie McCamey & Chilcote, PC, and moot courtroom and technology lab space on the second floor for August C. Damian, a 1960 law alumnus. The Tribone Center also features client meeting rooms, conference rooms for consultations with judges and attorneys, and classrooms. The building doubles the size of the previous clinic space in Fisher Hall and makes the programs more accessible for clients from throughout the region. All clinical legal education programs are now based here, including the school’s community-focused clinics, externship programs and site placements, pro bono initiative and summer public interest fellowship program. During the dedication, Gormley credited Professor Laurie Serafino, hired by the School of Law in 2012 to direct the expanding clinical legal education program, Professor Tracey McCants Lewis, assistant director, and Professor Joseph Sabino Mistick, clinic founder, with bringing “vision, passion and a deep commitment to justice” to all of the work happening inside the Tribone Center. “We are now delivering, in a big way, on twin obligations: to use the talent and resources of the law school to serve those who are less fortunate, and to prepare our students for employment by providing unmatched experience with real-life legal issues,” Gormley remarked. Additional funding for the Tribone Center for Clinical Legal Education was provided in part through a $500,000 grant from the state’s Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program and a $250,000 grant from the Redevelopment Authority of Allegheny County. 6 DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Winter ‘14
TRIBONE CENTER Duquesne Opens Family Law Clinic Experiential learning is an essential part of legal education at the School of Law. This semester, students can participate in a new live-client clinic dedicated to family law. Working under the supervision of a family law expert, Duquesne students are now assisting victims of domestic abuse and individuals with family law disputes, including child custody cases, at all stages of representation. “We are pleased to be able to serve a new population of local residents in need of legal assistance,” says Laurie Serafino, director of clinical legal education. “The supervising attorney brings with her years of experience in private practice and in clinical education. Both our students and our clients will benefit.” From left: Alumnus Thomas Tribone, Michele Mrozek-Tribone, Governor Tom Corbett, Duquesne University President Charles Dougherty, and School of Law Dean Ken Gormley at the dedication in September 2013. Katherine L. W. Norton, Esq., the supervising attorney, is also co-chair of the Allegheny County Bar Association’s public service committee. At Duquesne, Norton is teaching law students the skills of interviewing, counseling, negotiation, drafting pleadings and advocating before the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County. Facilities at the Tribone Center for Clinical Legal Education include a moot courtroom and technology lab, meeting rooms, student work spaces, and classrooms. Alumnus August C. Damian, L’60, (above left) is shown in the moot courtroom, named for him, with Professors Tracey McCants Lewis and Laurie Serafino and Dean Ken Gormley. Professor Joseph Sabino Mistick (above) teaches his Urban Development Clinic class in a second-floor classroom. www.duq.edu 7
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