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February, 2005

Alec Wightman '75, Steve Kestner '79: Balancing Act Impresarios

Running one of the nation's 100 largest law firms and maintaining a healthy and fulfilling life away from work can be an incredible balancing act. It helps to have friends - certainly that's the case for Alec Wightman '75 and Steven Kestner '79, two master jugglers who manage to lead Baker & Hostetler when they are not organizing concerts, fly-fishing America 's streams for trout, or watching scholastic hockey games. (learn more)

Harvard's Charles Ogletree to Keynote Future of Affirmative Action Symposium

Nationally-acclaimed civil rights attorney and Harvard educator Charles Ogletree will keynote "Meeting the Challenge of Grutter: Affirmative Action in 25 Years" to be held at Moritz February 24 and 25. Sponsored by the Ohio State Law Journal; the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity; and the Moritz Center for Law, Policy, and Social Science, the symposium will bring together an interdisciplinary panel of experts from across the nation to discuss the future of race as a factor in university admissions decisions. Up to seven hours of CLE credit may be earned by symposium participants. (learn more)

Meet Kristin Watt '89, Voice of the Lady Buckeyes and So Much More

Kristin Watt '89 jokes that her defining characteristic as a law student was crutches. As a 1L and then as a second-year summer associate, she blew out first one and then the other knee in pick-up basketball games. Hobbled no more, she is a color commentator for OSU's Women's Basketball Team, respected environmental attorney with Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease, Opera Columbus board member, and loyal alumna whose current defining characteristic is openness to new opportunities. (learn more)

John W. Garland '74: The Driving Force Behind Central State University's Turnaround

John W. Garland '74, president of Central State University, has little interest in dwelling on the past - little interest in the story of a high school dropout and Vietnam veteran working his way toward his law degree, little interest in a man who worked tirelessly to improve veteran and minority rights, little interest in how a paperwork snafu helped lead to the resuscitation of a college on the brink of extinction.
There is too much to do today. (learn more)

Save March 2 for the PILF Auction

What do a Texas Hold'em poker tournament and a massage therapist have in common? Both will be available at Moritz Law's Public Interest Law Foundation's (PILF) March 2, 2005 annual auction. Created in 1984, PILF is a non-partisan, nonprofit student organization committed to reducing the financial barriers to working in public interest law, both by offering public-sector summer fellowships and by educating students about the rewards of pursuing public interest careers. (learn more)

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