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Stetson’s student life office is growing

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Gulfport, Fla. – Stetson University College of Law has promoted Michael Farley to assistant dean of student life. Stetson has hired Nicole Snelling as associate director and Morgan Battrell as assistant director of the department.

Farley joined the law school in 2005 as associate director of student life. Before coming to Stetson, he was assistant dean of student services at the University of Florida, director of alumni services at Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity headquarters and coordinator of student affairs at the University of South Florida.

Nicole Snelling, a native of Kentucky who received her law degree from the University of Arkansas and her Master of Laws in international law from Stetson, is the new associate director of student life.

Morgan Battrell, also a native of Kentucky, received his master’s degree in higher education administration from the University of South Florida.

Aldon Knight joins Stetson Law as associate vice president for college relations

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Gulfport, Fla. – Aldon Knight is the new associate vice president for college relations at Stetson University College of Law.

In his new role at Stetson, Knight is responsible for fundraising efforts and alumni relations for the law school. Knight has worked in the field of fundraising for 16 years.

He replaces former Associate Vice President Dotti Bressi, who died in July 2006 following a battle with leukemia.

Knight was the former director of development for the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tenn. He has managed alumni affairs, annual funds and major gift programs, and directed successful capital campaigns at three institutions.

Knight received his Master of Public Administration degree from the University of South Carolina/Clemson University in 1997.

Stetson creates new institute to build relationships with Caribbean legal community

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Gulfport, Fla. – Stetson University College of Law has created the Institute on Caribbean Law and Policy to foster academic, scholarly and professional exchanges with the Caribbean legal community.

Stetson professors Dorothea Beane and Darryl Wilson will co-direct the new institute.

Stetson created the new institute to help build meaningful partnerships with law schools and professional legal organizations throughout the Caribbean, including the Caribbean Council on Legal Education and the Caribbean bar associations.

The institute’s mission is to provide a scholarly, professional foundation that will help coordinate beneficial activities for law students, faculty and the bar associations in the U.S. and throughout the Caribbean. The institute also will seek to develop new programs for law students at Stetson and at Caribbean law schools.

Planned activities include educational exchanges, training, development, certifications and employment opportunities. Stetson also is planning to offer a two-week intersession program each January in the Caribbean.

The institute will oversee Stetson’s participation in the American Caribbean Law Initiative, a consortium of schools from the U.S. and the West Indies that Stetson hosted in the fall of 2007. Both Beane and Wilson are board members of the American Caribbean Law Initiative.

Stetson Law names military law scholar new advocacy center director

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Gulfport, Fla. – Professor Charles H. Rose, military law scholar and former judge’s advocate, has been named as the new director of Stetson University College of Law’s nationally recognized Center for Excellence in Advocacy.

Rose’s new duties include sponsoring national advocacy programs for attorneys, law professors and law students, and coordinating the activities of Stetson’s award-winning advocacy competition teams.

Rose, a former U.S. Army major, teaches professionalism, trial advocacy, criminal procedure and evidence. He is the author of Fundamental Trial Advocacy and a co-author of Military Crimes and Defenses and Fundamental Pretrial Advocacy.

Rose, who previously served as the center’s associate director, replaces professor Roberta Kemp Flowers, who holds the Wm. Reece Smith Distinguished Professorship and has served as the center’s director since 2000.

Professor Flowers, who teaches trial advocacy, evidence and criminal procedure at Stetson, will focus on a variety of professionalism and student leadership projects.

Stetson Law names business ethics expert new Tampa Law Center leader

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Tampa, Fla. – Stetson University College of Law has named professor Clark Furlow, an expert in corporate governance and business ethics, as the associate dean of its Tampa Law Center.

Furlow will manage the Tampa Law Center and work with the 2nd District Court of Appeal and the Hillsborough County legal community. Furlow joined Stetson in 2002 as an adjunct professor. Before joining the law school, he was a partner with Smith, Katzenstein & Furlow in Wilmington, Del., where he litigated stockholder class and derivative actions. An expert in the field of takeovers, Furlow co-authored a guide to Delaware takeover law.

Furlow replaces professor Stephanie Vaughan at the helm of the Tampa Law Center. Vaughan has been named associate director of international programs. Vaughan also teaches research and writing at Stetson.

Stetson hosts 32nd annual bankruptcy law and practice seminar

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Gulfport, Fla. – Stetson University College of Law will host the 32nd Annual Alexander L. Paskay Seminar on Bankruptcy Law and Practice Dec. 7-8 at the Sheraton Sand Key Resort, Clearwater, Fla.

The seminar, designed for experts in the field as well as general practitioners who handle bankruptcy issues, has attracted a national faculty, including top bankruptcy lawyers, judges and officials.

Seminar speakers include Lou Phillips of Gordon, Arata, McCollam, Duplantis and Eagan LLP; U.S. Bankruptcy Judge J. Vincent Aug Jr.; U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Margaret Mahoney; Roberta DeAngelis of the Executive Office for U.S. Trustees; Dennis J. Connolly of Alston and Bird LLP; Frank J. Santoro of Marcus, Santoro and Kozak P.C.; and Rob Charles of Lewis and Roca.

Topics include ethics and recent developments; dischargeability, sovereign immunity and litigation issues; Chapter 11 cases and small business cases; exceptions and extensions to the automatic stay; domestic support obligations; litigation issues; adequate protection payments; trustee’s voiding powers and case administration.

The conference is named for its chair, Alexander L. Paskay, chief bankruptcy judge emeritus of the Middle District of Florida. Judge Paskay is an adjunct professor of law at Stetson.

To register, call the Office of Conferences and Events at 813-228-0226, e-mail [email protected] or visit http://www.law.stetson.edu/conferences for more information.

Stetson presents part-time law school information session on Aug. 22

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Gulfport, Fla. – Stetson University College of Law will present an information session for prospective part-time law students Aug. 22 at 6:30 p.m. in the Great Hall at the Gulfport campus, 1401 61st St. S.

Registration begins at 6:15 p.m.

“The part-time program at Stetson is the first and only program of its kind in Tampa Bay,” said Director of Admissions Laura Zuppo. “It allows non-traditional students to attend evening classes in the fall, spring and summer to finish the law degree in four years.”

The information session will explain the law school admission and financial aid processes, Stetson’s curriculum, legal careers, and will provide insights from part-time law students.

To RSVP and for more information and directions, visit http://justice.law.stetson.edu/admissions/PTinformationsessions.asp.

Stetson University College of Law honors William Reece Smith Jr. Public Service Award winners

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Gulfport, Fla. – Stetson University College of Law presented this year’s William Reece Smith Jr. Public Service Award to Richard C. Milstein and William L. Penrose on May 11.

    • Milstein, a shareholder at Akerman Senterfitt in Miami, focuses his practice on the private client services, including trusts, estates and guardianship litigation, and family and marital law. Milstein was recently appointed guardian ad litem to Anna Nicole Smith’s five-month-old baby Dannielynn, in the highly publicized case surrounding Smith’s burial.

 

  • Penrose ’66, a Florida Bar certified family law mediator and certified matrimonial arbitrator, has practiced in St. Petersburg for more than 40 years. A past guest lecturer at Stetson College of Law, Penrose was on the founding board of the Little Harlem Council and served on the board of Pinellas United Way. He has served on the legal panel of the Pinellas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union since 1975.

 
Last year’s award honored the outstanding public service efforts of Louis N. Adcock, Jr. and Murray B. Silverstein.

The William Reece Smith Jr. Award, established in 1990, honors the award’s namesake and first recipient, William Reece Smith Jr., who is past president of the American, International and Florida Bar associations.

Stetson Law begins new student exchange programs with law schools in Spain and Mexico

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Gulfport, Fla. – Stetson University College of Law will add semester and year-long foreign exchange programs in Spain and Mexico starting in the fall of 2007.

Students enrolled at Stetson College of Law will have an opportunity to study abroad at either the Universidad de Granada in Granada, Spain or at one of several TEC de Monterrey campuses in Mexico City, Mexico State, Monterrey, Puebla, Chihuahua, Guadalajara, Saltillo, San Luis de Potosi or Toluca, Mexico.

Likewise, students enrolled at law schools in Spain or Mexico will have an opportunity to study law at Stetson. These exchange programs have specific language proficiency requirements.

For more information, contact Patricia Gomez in the Graduate and International Programs Office at [email protected].

Fox News Greta Van Susteren at June 1 Media Law Conference at Stetson’s Tampa Campus

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Tampa Bay, Fla. – Fox News host Greta Van Susteren is the keynote speaker at this year’s media law conference, sponsored by the Florida Bar and Stetson College of Law on June 1 at the Tampa Law Center, 1700 N. Tampa St.

Van Susteren, Bob Butterworth and an extraordinary group of journalists, judges, attorneys and academics will examine the changing relationship between law and the media.

Topics for the conference include:

  • Suing for Spin? – Florida’s False Light Doctrine
  • Media in the Hot Seat – When Reporters Become News
  • Update on Florida Sunshine Laws and Electronic Records
  • What’s Happening to the News Business? – The Changing Relationship Between Law and Media, from O.J. to Today
  • Without a Trace – Super-Sealed Court Records

For information about tuition pricing, and to register for What’s Happening to the News Business? The Changing Relationship Between Law and Media, from O.J. to Today, please call (813) 228-0226 or register online at http://justice.law.stetson.edu/conferences/MediaLaw/.

Stetson Law helps develop lecture series- Biodiversity and Climate Change May 22 at the Mahaffey Theater

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Gulfport, Fla. – Nobel Prize nominee and Inuit leader Sheila Watt-Cloutier speaks on “Biodiversity and Climate Change” May 22 at 7 p.m. at the Mahaffey Theatre in St. Petersburg. The lecture is part of a series developed by Stetson University College of Law’s Institute for Biodiversity Law and Policy, Friends of the United Nations, the WHALE Center Global Healing Initiative and the Mahaffey Theater at Progress Energy for the Arts.

Watt-Cloutier filed a petition before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights alleging that the United States’ failure to regulate greenhouse gas emissions violated Inuit cultural and environmental human rights. Her lecture will discuss the impact of global warming on Arctic culture and wildlife.

Professor Royal C. Gardner, who leads Stetson’s Institute for Biodiversity Law and Policy, will moderate a panel following the lecture.

The lecture is part of “Speak! St. Pete: A Celebration of United Nations International Days.”

Tickets are available for purchase at the Mahaffey Theater via the web at http://www.mahaffeytheater.com or by calling the box office at 727-892-5767.

Follow this link to join the free online discussion: http://www.care2.com/campaigns/whalecenter/?z00m=9419348

Governor Crist, Stetson Law and the FDLE sponsor program for law enforcement and social services providers May 21 in Gulfport

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Gulfport, Fla. – Governor Charlie Crist, Stetson University College of Law and the Florida Dept. of Law Enforcement will sponsor “Investigating and Prosecuting Financial Exploitation of an Elderly Victim” on May 21 in the elder-friendly Eleazer Courtroom on Stetson’s Gulfport campus, 1401 61st St. S.
Lt. Governor Jeff Kottkamp will introduce the program, which provides training for law enforcement and social services providers using case examples involving financial scams of elder consumer victims.

“Stetson is proud to host this important program on our campus,” said Boston Asset Management Faculty Chair in Elder Law Rebecca Morgan, who heads Stetson’s Center for Excellence in Elder Law. “It will provide crucial training about how to best help elder victims of fraud.”

Registration begins at 10 a.m. and the program runs until approximately 4:30 p.m. Panel members include representatives from the Area Agency on Aging, Seniors v. Crime, Department of Children and Families Adult Services and the Department of Financial Services.

Additional programs will be held at Stetson University at 800 Celebration Ave., Celebration, on May 22 and at the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Election Complex, 240 S. Military Trail, West Palm Beach, on May 23.

For more information about registration, contact Special Agent Nita Ashley at 850-410-7568 or e-mail [email protected].

Stetson is a national leader in the field of elder law and has partnered with the Florida Attorney General’s Office, AARP and the legal community to increase public awareness of consumer fraud against senior citizens.