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In the spotlight: Dilley

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 01 Apr 2002 19:51:31 +0000

Associate Professor Pat Dilley’s previously published article, “Breaking the Glass Slipper: Reflections on the Self-Employment Tax” has been republished in GP Solo’s issue featuring “The Best Articles Published by the ABA.”

In the spotlight: McMahon

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 01 Apr 2002 19:43:33 +0000

Clarence J. TeSelle Professor of Law Martin McMahon’s article, “A Whirlwind Tour of the Internal Revenue Code’s At-Risk and Passive Activity Loss Rules,” coauthored with Boris I. Bittker (Yale) and Lawrence A. Zelenak (Columbia), was published in 36 Real Property Probate & Trust Journal 673 (2002).

Trial Team Takes Third in ATLA Nationals

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 01 Apr 2002 19:41:07 +0000

A UF Trial Team squad — advocates Fermin Lopez (standing) and Christopher Klemawesch (left), witnesses Kenneth Grace (right) and Stacey Gross — finished third at the American Trial Lawyers Association national championships in Chicago in late March. UF was one of 244 teams and 14 regional champions at the ATLA competition. The team was coached by Gainesville attorneys Denise Ferrero (J.D. ’92) and Brande Smith and student assistant coach Rashel Johnson. “We owe a lot to support we received from the team, faculty, and our friends and families,” said Klemawesch. “The preparation and competition were incredibly intense. We learned a lot and grew — not only as competitors but as future lawyers.” The team was undefeated in preliminary rounds, taking decisions over Brooklyn, Capitol (Ohio) and defending national champion Temple University. UF then eliminated Brooklyn in the quarter-finals before falling to Pepperdine. Harvard topped Pepperdine to win the championship. Trial Team Coach Robert Rush’s squad is next to compete, at the American Bar Association national championship in April.

Latin American Leaders, UF Faculty Featured at CGR Conference

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 01 Apr 2002 19:32:20 +0000

Annual ‘Legal & Policy Issues in the Americas’ Set for April 22

Officials and academicians from Brazil, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Argentina, Mexico and Cuba will be among participants at the third annual Legal & Policy Issues in the Americas conference April 22. Two panels on Cuban issues also are scheduled for the event, organized by the law school’s Center for Governmental Responsibility (CGR). A number of law school faculty also will participate. Keynote address will be by Adrian Makuc, Argentina’s director of foreign trade policy and secretariat of industry and ministry of economy, who will speak on “Argentina’s Efforts at Financial Recovery.” All sessions will be held at the Sheraton Hotel. Discussion topics include “Organized Crime, Terrorism and Money Laundering in the Americas,” “Environmental Damages and Crimes,” and “Legal Education in the Americas.” According to JoAnn Klein, CGR development director and conference coordinator, among law school officials and faculty making presentations will be Chesterfield Smith Professor of Law Fletcher N. Baldwin Jr., director of the Center for International Financial Crimes Studies; Jeffry Wade, CGR’s director of the Environmental Division; Stephen Powell, CGR’s International Trade Law Program director; Chesterfield Smith Professor of Law Michael Gordon; Levin Mabie Levin Professor of Law Berta Hernandez-Truyol; Dean Jon Mills, and law student Jessica Parker, president of the International Law Society. Additional details and registration available through Lenny Kennedy of CGR (392.2237 or LKennedy@law.ufl.edu).