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Law School News & Events:

• Law Alumni Society Celebrates Season in Style
  • Alumni and friends attended the Pulaski County Law Alumni Society Holiday Reception Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007 at Trapnall Hall in Little Rock.
• Alumni Meet in Memphis
  • The School of Law hosted an annual reception in Memphis Thursday, Jan. 21, at the Peabody Hotel.
• School of Law Packs the House at UA Rally
  • Nearly 20 School of Law alumni and friends joined other University of Arkansas graduates at the Northwest Arkansas Alumni Chapter Rally Saturday, Feb. 23, at the Janelle Young Hembree Alumni House.
• Artist Talks About Vision for Courtyard Memorializing Dean Atkinson
  • World-renowned artist and sculptor Jesús Moroles shared his insights and vision for the Richard B. Atkinson Memorial Courtyard Friday, Nov. 30, 2007, in the E.J. Ball Courtroom.
• School of Law to Recognize Integration Anniversary, Celebrate Six Decades of Success
  • Silas Hunt, the first African American student admitted to a Southern public university without litigation in the modern era, registered to attend the University of Arkansas School of Law Feb. 2, 1948.

Alumni Accomplishments:

• Bill Bowen (’49) was inducted into the Arkansas Business Hall of Fame during a reception Friday, Feb. 8, 2008, at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock. The Business Hall of Fame is designed to honor, preserve and perpetuate the names and outstanding accomplishments of business leaders who have brought lasting fame to Arkansas.
• Tiffany L. Burnett (’07) joined the Slinkard Law Firm in Rogers, Ark., as an associate attorney.
• J. Robert Dean (’88) was promoted to partner at the law firm of Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle in Stamford, Conn. Dean joined the firm in 2000 as a patent attorney.
• Dr. G. David Gearhart (’77) was unanimously approved to become the next University of Arkansas Chancellor. Gearhart, who has served as vice chancellor for university advancement since 1998, will begin his new role July 1, 2008.
• Kathryn R. Hake (’07) joined the law firm of Hood & Stacy, P.A. in Bentonville, Ark., as an associate attorney. Her practice is focused on estate planning, contract law and commercial litigation.
• Robert L. Jones III (’69) joined the law firm of Conner & Winters in its Fayetteville office as a partner and trial attorney. In his nearly 40 years of practice, he has concentrated on motor carrier defense, products liability, professional liability and commercial litigation.
• Maj. Gen. Hugh Overholt, retired, (’57) of New Bern, N.C., was reappointed to the North Carolina Advisory Commission on Military Affairs by Gov. Mike Easley.
• Amber Prince (’07) joined the law firm of Conner & Winters in its Fayetteville office as an associate attorney.

Faculty & Staff Briefs:

• Stafford Joins School of Law Staff
  • Teresa Stafford has been hired as the director of development and external relations for the School of Law.
• Guzman to Retire
  • Rafael Guzman, a criminal law and evidence professor, will retire at the end of the spring 2008 semester.
• Supreme Court Cites Leflar
  • Professor Rob Leflar’s Tennessee Law Review article "The Preemption Pentad" (1997, with Bob Adler) was cited twice in Riegel v. Medtronic, Inc., a Supreme Court decision released Tuesday, Feb. 20.
• Foster Published Twice
  • Professor Sharon Foster's article, “Prelude to Compatibility Between Human Rights and Intellectual Property,” has been accepted for publication in the Chicago Journal of International Law.

Student Spotlight:

• Maxwell Receives Michelle Lee Bartlett Endowed Award
  • Diana Maxwell, a second year law student from Monticello, has been awarded the Michelle Lee Bartlett Award for writing the top paper in the fall semester criminal procedure class.

Upcoming Events:

• Craighead County Bar Meeting
  Thursday, March 20, 2008
  Jonesboro, Ark.
  Speaker: Dean Cynthia Nance – “Law School Update”


• Ben J. Altheimer Moot Court Competition
  Final Round – Friday, March 28, 2008, 3:30 p.m.
  E.J. Ball Courtroom
  U of A School of Law


• Union County Bar Meeting – Law Day
  Tuesday, April 29, 2008
  El Dorado, Ark.
  Speaker: Dean Cynthia Nance – “Rule of Law”


• Universityof Arkansas School of Law 2008 Graduation
  Saturday, May 17, 2008, 2:00 p.m.
  Fayetteville Town Center
  Fayetteville, Ark.


• Law Alumni Society Joint Reception
  Arkansas Bar Association Annual Meeting
  Friday, June 13, 2008, 4:30-6:00 p.m.
  Arlington Hotel and Spa
  Hot Springs, Ark.


• 50th Anniversary Celebration
  Honoring those who graduated from the School of Law in 1958 and before
  Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008, 6:30 p.m.
  Fayetteville Town Center
  Fayetteville, Ark.


• Leflar Law Center Building Dedication
  Friday, October 3, 2008, 2:00 p.m.
  Union Mall South of Leflar Law Center
  Speaker:  The Honorable Sandra Day O’Connor
  Reception and tours to follow – Leflar Law Center


• Law Alumni Society Rally
  Saturday, October 25, 2008, 2 ½ hours prior to game
  Janelle Young Hembree Alumni House
  Fayetteville, Ark.


• Annual Pulaski County Law Alumni Society Reception
  Wednesday, December 3, 2008
  Place – TBA
  Little Rock, Ark.

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