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Greetings,
Last
week I shared with you a summary of the newest members
of the Arizona Law community.
This
week, I would like to share with you two exciting
program developments and a preview of our upcoming
events.
Until
the footnotes,
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Quarles
& Brady Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship
Clinic
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The Quarles & Brady Intellectual Property
Clinic has a new director this year. Allan Sternstein,
also assistant division chair of the intellectual
property division at Lathrop & Gage, will be spending
the academic year in Tucson helping our students acquire
high-level experience representing clients. With
almost four decades in patent, trademark, copyright, and
trade secrets litigation and counseling,
Allan is also a veteran law instructor. We are thrilled
to welcome him to the Arizona Law
community, and know he will be a valuable resource for
our students.
Allan joins Professor Derek Bambauer, who leads our
intellectual property program.
Professor Bambauer was integral in creating this
innovative new clinic and has served as its
faculty director for its first
year.
The clinic is a collaboration between the College
of Law and Quarles & Brady, LLP, a national
leader in intellectual property law.
Students in the clinic, under the supervision of
practicing lawyers from Quarles & Brady and UA
faculty, provide legal advice to startup companies, with
an emphasis on protecting intellectual property assets
in early-stage ventures.
The clinic provides a unique opportunity for law
students to gain real-world experience in intellectual
property. It also serves to support the growing Arizona
startup community, and is connected to Tech Launch Arizona and other efforts
to
encourage
the growth of the innovation economy in
Arizona.
The Quarles & Brady Clinic is part of a larger
intellectual property curriculum and program. Among the
new leaders in that program is Senior Associate to the
President and Secretary of the University Jon Dudas,
who previously was under secretary of commerce for
intellectual property and director of the U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office.
In order for
the University of Arizona to continue supporting a
growing tech economy and for innovative companies to
thrive in Southern Arizona, the state needs lawyers to
help create, nurture, and serve such ventures.
Our IP program and the Quarles & Brady Clinic work
together with Tech Launch Arizona, the McGuire Center
for Entrepreneurship, and innovation-based colleges,
departments, faculty, and staff throughout the
University of Arizona to turn ideas into
ventures.
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Our new speaker series focuses on the changing
legal profession.
The series, aptly named
Law.Change, explores the business side of law with the
goal of educating our students about the realities and
challenges of today's legal practice, including legal
technology, globalization, outsourcing, and practice
management. We have a technology show planned for the
spring and we are dedicating a week in February to
e-discovery.
The
Friday sessions are from 12-2 p.m. at the college in
Room 118. They are open to the public, and CLE is
offered. RSVPs are not required. The fall speakers and
topics are:
Sept. 11 - Pankaj Raval,
"How I Built a Thriving Practice Using Yelp"
Sept. 25 - Alex Lane,
"Technology Skills for All Lawyers"
Oct. 9 - Brian Chase,
"Understanding Practice Management"
Oct. 30 - Roberta
Tepper, "Apps for Lawyers"
Nov. 6 - Speaker TBA, on
business development for lawyers and law students
For updates on Law.Change and news about the
changing legal profession, follow @lawchangeuofaz on Twitter. And, watch
future newsletters for a link to the Law.Change blog
that is under development.
For more information about this series please
contact Jonelle
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Centennial
Snapshot -- From the Early Alumni Files, Fred Fickett
('22)
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Tucsonan Fred Wildon Fickett, Jr. (below, right)
was part of the fifth class to graduate with a law
degree from the University of Arizona in 1922. That
class contained only six graduates, four receiving LLBs
and Fickett and one other receiving JDs, the less common
degree at the time.
According to the Arizona Historical Society,
Fickett was born in 1895 and received an undergraduate
degree in social science from the University of Arizona
in 1917.
Fickett served in World War I, and then returned to
Tucson. Appointed assistant city attorney in 1925, he
later became a Pima County Superior Court judge and was
on Tucson's school board from 1935-53.
TUSD's Booth-Fickett K-8 Math and Science Magnet
School is named in honor of Fickett's contributions to
education in Tucson.
In 1916, Fickett and his teammate scored a
victory in the University of Arizona's very first
intercollegiate debate competition, against the
University of Southern California College of Law
(featured in the yearbook, below). Fickett was an
undergraduate at the time, but his debating skills were
already bringing him recognition, and bringing
recognition to the budding UA law program.
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From 1916 Desert
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Do you have photos or memories
from your time at Arizona Law? We would love to
hear from you. Please contact Emily McGovern,
Centennial Coordinator, to share your images and
stories.
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Alumni
Happy Hour in Las Vegas
Join Arizona Law and fellow Wildcats at an
Arizona Law Alumni Happy Hour in Las Vegas. Learn
about what's new at the college and catch up with other
alumni in the "Law Vegas" area. Register here.
Date: Friday, Sept. 4,
2015
Time: 4 - 6
p.m.
Where: Yard
House in Town Square, 6593 Las Vegas Blvd
S., Las Vegas, NV
89119
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Kimble
v. Marvel Entertainment
The Arizona Law
Review and the business law program will host a
discussion with Stephen Kimble ('83) of Kimble v.
Marvel Entertainment, recently decided by the U.S.
Supreme Court.
Date: Wednesday, Sept.
9, 2015
Time: 12 - 1:15 p.m. Lunch will be
served.
Where: Faculty Lounge, James E. Rogers
College of Law, 1201 E. Speedway Blvd.
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Arizona
Law Career Mixer
Please join us at the
2015 Arizona Law Career Mixer! The Arizona Law Career
Mixer will be held on Thursday, September 17, 2015, from
5 to 7 p.m. at the College of Law. Arizona
Law's Career Development Office (CDO) will bring
together Arizona's finest lawyers, judges, law firms,
government agencies, non-profit organizations, alumni,
faculty, and students for an evening of conversation,
connections, and camaraderie. The event will be catered
with locally sourced food by Feast and beer from
Tucson's own Dragoon Brewery. We invite you to join us
for great food and even greater company. RSVP here. We'd love to see
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Revisit
Notable Supreme Court Cases at UA Constitution Day
Program
The Affordable Care
Act, same-sex marriage, property rights, and
congressional redistricting are some of the high-profile
issues from the 2014 Supreme Court term to be reviewed
by legal experts during the University of Arizona's
17th annual Constitution Day
program. Read more here.
Date: Monday, Sept. 21,
2015
Time: 1 - 4:30
p.m.
Where: Ares
Auditorium (Room 164), James E. Rogers College of Law,
1201 E. Speedway Blvd.
Who may attend: The
event is free and open to the public.
Space is limited, and registration is recommended. CLE credit
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Homecoming-Centennial
Week, October 18-25
Make
plans to return to Tucson and connect with other alumni
during this year's special Homecoming-Centennial Week! Highlights
will include:
- McCormick
Society Lecture, United States Supreme Court Associate
Justice Elena Kagan, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 5:30
p.m.
- Arizona
Law Lifetime Achievement Awards Ceremony and
Reception, Thursday, Oct. 22, 4 p.m.
- All-alumni
Centennial Reception on the patio, Friday, Oct. 23,
6:30 p.m.
- All-alumni
Red and Blue Barbecue, prior to football game,
Saturday, Oct. 24
- Arizona
Law seating at Arizona v. Washington State, Saturday,
Oct. 24
- All-alumni
Brunch with former deans, hosted by Dean Miller,
Sunday, Oct. 25
- Reunion-year
events (Classes of 1965, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990,
1995, 2000, 2005, and 2010)
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Alumni
Directory
Our alumni directory is fully up and running. This
tool is meant to be a resource for all Arizona Law
alumni. If you run into classmates or colleagues who do
not know about the directory, please help us spread the
word.
All alumni have now been invited to join the
directory. If you did not receive an invite or if you
have had any trouble logging in, please let us
know.
TIP
To browse or search directory entries, click
on "Directory" under the "People" tab. Interested in
finding all alumni from specific years? Click on the
calendar icon in the "Search" panel on the left-hand
side. Indicate the beginning range by using
the double arrow («, ») buttons to select the
desired year. Use the single-arrow (', ') buttons to
select the month. For faster searching, hold
the mouse button after clicking on the arrows. Next,
select the day. Repeat the steps for the end
range.
If you are looking for graduates from a
specific year, we recommend that you search from January
1 to December 31 in order to capture
those students who may have graduated in
months other than May (more common with
earlier classes).
Classes are in full swing, football
is on the horizon, and -- despite the current
temperatures in Tucson -- it is almost fall. We have a
great lineup of events and hope you will return to
campus to participate.
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A striking mixture of storm clouds and
blue skies set the September
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Warmly,
Dean
& Ralph W. Bilby Professor of Law
Shaping
the next century of legal
education
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