Weekly Faculty in the News, 3/13/14

A roundup of faculty appearances in news sources and media from the last week, 3/6/14 to 3/13/14.

3/7 – Todd Haugh was quoted in a Law360 article on recent indictments that accuse former attorneys at Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP of accounting fraud (“Ex-Dewey Execs Face Tough Choices In Criminal Case Ahead”). According to the article, the indictment “marks the first time the leadership of a major American law firm [has been] accused of such a conspiracy.”

3/7 – Heather Harper was featured in a Chicago Daily Law Bulletin story on Chicago-Kent’s Entrepreneurial Law Clinic (“IIT Chicago-Kent mixing legal smarts with startup skills,” behind paywall). Harper is the supervising attorney for the clinic, which provides students with real-world, practical experience in the law of entrepreneurship.

3/11 – Richard Gonzalez was inducted as a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, which honors leading lawyers in the practice of labor and employment law. Gonzalez, a clinical professor at Chicago-Kent’s Law Offices, represents employees and employers in a wide range of employment-related cases at the federal and state level. Read more about his induction here.

3/12 – Martin Malin was interviewed by WBBM Radio about regulations guaranteeing overtime pay for workers (“Local Labor Expert Wants More Changes To Go Along With Obama’s Overtime Guarantee”). Listen here.

3/13 – Jerry Goldman, Nancy Marder, and Sheldon Nahmod will take part in post-show discussions with Elevator Repair Service (ERS) theater company director John Collins and the audience after ERS’s performances of the play Arguendo this weekend. The play is a unique staging of oral arguments in Barnes v. Glen Theatre, a 1991 U.S. Supreme Court case in which go-go dancers challenged an Indiana law banning totally nude dancing on First Amendment grounds. The production is an 80-minute verbatim performance of oral arguments in the case and was inspired by Oyez, the multimedia Supreme Court archive founded by Goldman.

For more information, including show times and ticket prices, click here.

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3/13 – Sheldon Nahmod has recently co-authored a Law Professors’ amicus brief in support of the petitioner in the upcoming Supreme Court case Lane v. Franks. Read more about the brief at Nahmod’s blog, Nahmod Law.

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