Women on the Rise - Levin College of Law - University of Florida

NEWS
For 21 years, the Dunwody Distinguished
Lecture in Law series has secured nationally
noted legal academicans and experts for
the annual spring series coordinated
by the Florida Law Review…Professor
Lawrence O. Gostin, Georgetown Law
professor and Johns Hopkins University
public health program co-director, spoke on
“When Terrorism Threatens Health: How Far
are Limitations on Personal and Economic
Liberties Justified?”…The Dunwody series is
made possible by Mershon Sawyer
Johnston Dunwody & Cole, Dunwody White
& Landon P.A., and U.S. Sugar Corporation
in honor of Elliot Atwood Dunwody ‘33…
Thanks in part to natural leadership
abilities, and in part his experiences –
including eight years with the Gainesville
Police Department and an internship with the
Commercial Litigation Section / National Bar
Association – Christopher O’Neal, Fall 3L,
brings a new honor to UFLaw – being a student
named as one of two executive directors
of the National Black Law Students
Association…He served as a
special assistant to the NBLSA board in
2002-03, is new president of the campus
BLSA chapter, winner of the Clifford Crandall
Memorial Scholarship, named to UFLaw’s
Trial Team in February,and voted
in the spring BLSA’s Male Student of Year…
O’Neal has also been awarded a $3,000
National Bar Institute African American Law
Student Fellowship. NBI awards are given
annually to a maximum of three students –
all who must be carrying a full class load,
have at least two consecutive years as a fulltime
law student, and intend to return to the
Black community to practice law once legal
training is completed.
Officials of Black Law Students Association
report its 2002-03 Student of the Year is
Edrene Johnson, Fall 3L, BLSA vice president
from Tallahassee…
Named BLSA Alumna of the Year was
Desta Meghoo-Peddie ’01, Associate
Director the last year of the law school’s
Center for the Study of Race and Race
Relations and named this summer
as inaugural Director, Diversity and
Community Development for the
law school…
Three deans from major U.S. colleges
plus three law professors and a partner
in the Birmingham-based firm of Bradley
Arant Rose & White were on campus this
spring conducting a periodic site visit for
the American Bar Association and the
Association of American Law Schools…
Led by W. H. Knight, University of
Washington law school dean, teams
members were David S. Watt, University
of Kentucky med school dean; Nell Jessup
Newton, University of Connecticut law
dean; law professors Marian Parker,
Wake Forest, Bryan Fair, Alabama, and
James A. Cohen, Fordham and A. H.
Gaede Jr., Duke law grad and partner in
the BARW firm.
West Palm Beach’s Kimberly Rothenburg,
Fall 3L, was named this summer by The
Florida Bar Standing Committee on
Professionalism as winner of the Lion of
Justice trophy (to be housed at UFLaw for
one year) for her winning entry in the
annual law student Professionalism Essay
contest… Entitled “Professionalism:
No Laughing Matter,” Rothenburg’s essay
was praised by Florida Supreme Court
Justice Raoul Cantero III, who noted, “it
not only identified problems but also identified
solutions,” and praised Rothenburg
for “precocious and conscientious
thought”… The essay, selected by
Professor Amy Mashburn as the best to
submit, earns Rothenburg $1,000 as the
winning entry.
Meghoo-Peddie
Rothenberg
Gostin
Johnson
O’Neal
W.C. Gentry ’71
(left), Building
Campaign
chair, discusses
UFLaw library
expansion
with ABA site
accreditation
members.
FEBRUARY INSIGHT INVITED
WHY IP LAW? What about Environmental? Sports Law? Health? Elder Law?
Thanks to expected participation of more than 20 Florida law firms and
their representatives, UFLaw students will hear next February about
the realities of practicing law. Occasion will be the third annual Career
Development Conference where students get opportunity to network with
leading practitioners and learn more about practice of law in
particular fields.
Following formats of previous conferences, attorneys will discuss
estates and trusts, environmental and land use law, intellectual
property, bankruptcy, litigation, real estate, alternative careers, corporations,
criminal law, international law, labor and employment law, tax,
government and public law and family law. The event ends with a
Career Networking Reception.
Alumni interested in speaking at the conference:
Contact Mary-Ellen Cross, Assistant Director of Career Services
352.392.0499 or eMail: crossm@law.ufl.edu.
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