Moritz College of Law - Alumni Relations: This Month @ Moritz (May, 2007)

Issue 55: May, 2007
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We are pleased to present the May issue of This Month @ Moritz, featuring alumni who have used their personal passion and their law degrees to carve out distinctive, unusual careers that fit them to a tee. Also featured are three Moritz parents, looking for balance between family life and work life. We hope these articles will inspire you to share your own stories—personal and professional—with the college.

Finding Happiness in Helping Others: Moritz Alumni as Spiritual Leaders

The phrase "lawyers as leaders" typically invokes images of managing partners, elected officials, judges, or chief executive officers. Less common is the image of a lawyer as the leader of a religious organization. Inspired by a special calling, Todd McKenney '89, Sylvia "Becky" Robbins-Penniman '79, and Richard "Rich" Nathan '80 represent a sample of Moritz alumni engaged in leadership positions within the ministry. (Read More)

Halle Butler Hara ’98, Liza Larky ’99 & Tracy Kozicki Stratford ’98:
Finding a Balance Between Career and Family

Every attorney who becomes a parent has probably wrestled, from time to time, about how best to balance cultivating a career and raising children. For every parent, there is a slightly different, very personal, answer to that question. Halle Butler Hara (left) has one child and another on the way; her part-time job as a law clerk allows her to spend time at home while keeping her foot in the door of the legal world. Liza Larky (center) decided to put her law career on hold to stay home with her kids. For Tracy Kozicki Stratford (right), a mother of two and a full-time associate in the litigation group at Jones Day, strategizing each week’s plan with her husband is much like strategizing the work-up of a large case with her colleagues. Balancing parenthood and a career means something different for every person. This is how three moms strike that balance in their lives. (Read More)

The Moritz Alumni Relations Department is pleased to announce a new program: the Moritz Moms & Dads Lunch Series. Our first lunch, Strategies for Balancing Career and Family: Tips from the Trenches, featuring an alumni panel and “networking dessert,” will be Wednesday, June 20, 2007. (Learn more and register)

Living with Light and Shadow: Lawyer and Artist Mark Sotak ’90

Mark Sotak ’90 still has dreams about law school: “I’m being questioned about the applicability of the Erie Doctrine. I still don’t have the answers!” Today, however, Mark studies “light, shadow and color, instead of interpretations of statutes and legislative histories.” Mark has embarked on a career in painting, instead of practicing law. His path in getting there is as remarkable as is his artwork—and his method. (Read More)

Sandra Cox ’62: Going Where the Day Takes Her

Sometimes it is easy to forget how many doors a law degree can open. Sandra Cox ’62 reminds us of the possibilities. She has worked in such far-ranging jobs as mediator, as regional counsel for Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc., and, most recently, as co-owner of Art Odyssey, an art gallery dedicated to selling and exhibiting art from around the world. (Read More)

OSBA Alumni Reception May 17 Features Supreme Court of Ohio Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer ’64

Join us Thursday, May 17 at 5:30 p.m. for a reception for alumni attending the annual meeting of the Ohio State Bar Association. Held at the Hilton Netherland Plaza in Cincinnati, the reception will follow the second day of the convention. We’ll gather for food and conversation, and have the privilege of offering our congratulations to this year’s winner of the OSBA Friend of Legal Education Award, Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer ’64. (Read More)

Registration Deadline Approaches for June 9 Barton Memorial Cup

The 2007 Barton Memorial Cup will be held on June 9 at the Golf Club of Dublin. It will be a modified Ryder Cup match-play format where alumni and faculty will face off against students to determine which side will gain possession of the Barton Memorial Cup. This year’s tournament will feature special guest and legendary two-time Heisman Trophy winner Archie Griffin. All alumni, students, faculty, and friends of OSU Moritz College of Law are welcome to participate. Registrations must be received by May 10. Proceeds will benefit the Robert K. Barton Memorial Scholarship Fund. (Learn more and register)

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