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school newsGerald Fisher,Associate ProfessorSelected, by his peers, forinclusion in 2007 Best Lawyersin America.Spoke, at the NationalBusiness Institute Seminar onEminent Domain on Aug. 28,2006, in Southfield, Mich. Topic: The Debate onGovernmental Authority and Private PropertyRights Under the Takings Clause.Spoke, at an Institute for Continuing LegalEducation seminar on Land Use and Developmenton Sept. 7, 2006, in Troy, Mich. Topic: Use of theCommunity Master Plan to the Fullest Advantageby Both Public and Private Interests.Anthony Flores,Associate ProfessorTaught, at Widener LawSchool in Wilmington, Del.,an Intensive Trial AdvocacyProgram May 18-23, 2006.Interviewed, for article inthe Ingham County LegalNews, on “Technology from the Attorney’sDesk.” (May 2006).Conducted, training for the State of MichiganOffice of Training and Staff Development, ChildWelfare Institute, Protective Services and FosterCare Training, on testifying in court, June 1,2006, and Aug. 10, 2006, in Detroit, Mich.Attended, AALS Workshop for New LawTeachers, in Washington, D.C., June 22-24, 2006.Attended, AALS Workshop for New ClinicalTeachers, in Washington, D.C., June 24-25, 2006.Interviewed, for an article in the St. JosephHerald-Palladium, for the story “Registry UnderFire; Critics say requirements should be changedfor sex offender list,” September 2006.Christopher G. Hastings,Visiting ProfessorAppointed, to theWestern District of Michigan’sProject Safe Childhood TaskForce, which is charged aspart of the BushAdministration’s nationalinitiative with the development and implementationof a local plan for combating Internet predationupon children.Elected, Second Vice President of the Girl Scoutsof Michigan Trails.Reappointed, to the Standing Committee onthe Unauthorized Practice of Law of the State Barof Michigan.Joseph Kimble,ProfessorPresented, a writingseminar at the annualmeeting of the State Bar ofMichigan. Kimble was afeatured speaker.Spoke, at the annualmeeting of the Law and Society Conference, inBaltimore, Md. His presentation, called RevisingHallowed Text: Lessons from the Federal Rules ofCivil Procedure, was about his work in redraftingthose rules. They have now been approved bythree federal committees and are in the hands ofthe U.S. Supreme Court.Interviewed, in depth, by three publicationsabout his views on legal writing. The interviewsappeared in The Editorial Eye, Issues in Writing,and the Bimonthly Review of Law Books.Received, positive reviews of his book Liftingthe Fog of Legalese: Essays on Plain Language, inPerspectives:Teaching Legal Research and Writing,the Student Lawyer, the Chicago Bar AssociationRecord,Trial, the Law Institute Journal, the Journalof the Law Society of Scotland, and the AustralianLaw Journal (in a review by a Justice of the HighCourt of Australia).Dorean Koenig,ProfessorServed, as vice-chair ofthe drafting committeeresponsible for creating anIRR resolution establishingprotections from the deathpenalty for severely mentallyill defendants that was passed by the AmericanBar Association House of Delegates.Daniel W. Matthews,Assistant ProfessorAccepted, for publication,an article, “A Fight to theDeath: Slaying the EstateTax Repeal Hydra,” in theWhittier Law Review.Appointed, as Vice Chairof the Tax Committee of the Oakland CountyBar Association.Raised, over $1,300 for the MuscularDystrophy Association.Cited, with approval by the Supreme Court ofSouth Carolina, his article “Should The Doctrineof Lost Volume Seller Be Retained? A Responseto Professor Breen,” in Collins EntertainmentCorp. v. Coats and Coats Rental Amusement,629 S.E.2d 635 (S.C. 2006).Nelson P. Miller,AssistantDean/AssociateProfessorCo-authored, withAssociate Professor andAssistant Dean Joan Vestrand,“Of Shining Knights andCunning Pettifoggers: The Symbolic World of theModel Rules of Professional Conduct,” in 110Penn St. L. Rev. 855 (2006).Elected, as President of the Board of Trusteesof the Legal Assistance Center, serving over10,000 patrons per year at the Kent County(Michigan) Courthouse.Marla Mitchell,ProfessorPublished, “One WeekLater at 8:58,” a poemreflecting on the events ofSept. 11, Cooley Journal ofPractical and Legal Scholarship,2006. This poem receivedHonorable Mention in the 1992 Clinical LegalEducation’s Annual Creative Writing Contest.Guest speaker, on The Blessings of Our Labor,Sept. 3, 2006. Discussed the rewards of her worklife, particularly as it relates to the CooleyInnocence Project, for Labor Day service atFellowship for Today.Attended, the National Association of CriminalDefense Lawyers' conference, Tools and StrategiesFor Making Criminal Justice Reform a Reality, July27-28, 2006, in Miami, Fla.Attended, a workshop: Yearning and Justice,Writing the Unlived Life, Aug. 17-21, 2006, atThe Leaven Center, in Lyons, Mich.Appointed, Co-Director, Australia and NewZealand Study Abroad Program for 2007.Martha Moore,Associate ProfessorAppointed, by theMichigan Supreme Courtto serve on the MichiganAttorney GrievanceCommission, Sept. 30, 2006,for a three-year term. TheSupreme Court appoints six lawyers and threenon-lawyers to supervise the GrievanceAdministrator and the staff, propose court ruleamendments, and decide the disposition of theinvestigations completed by the GrievanceAdministrator —whether to dismiss the investigation,privately admonish, or institute formalpublic proceedings before a hearing panel of theAttorney Discipline Board against attorneyssuspected of misconduct.22 BENCHMARK TRINITY 2006