In the Community

Pacific McGeorge faculty engage in the community through service, advocacy, and training of legal educators and lawyers around the world.

• Melissa Brown, Katherine Roe '12, and clinical education staff organized an Elder Health & Financial Safety Fair, a community event held on-campus on April 6, 2013.
• Raymond Coletta spoke about "New Developments in California Property Law" at the California State Bar's 32nd Annual Real Property Retreat on April 27, 2013.
• Michele Finerty coordinated a program on water law with David Sandino, Senior Staff Counsel of the Department of Water Resources, for the Northern California Association of Law Libraries (NOCALL) Institute on April 13, 2013.
  • Finerty also moderated a panel discussion on leadership development in a changing law school environment for the American Association of the Law Libraries Webinar Series on April 18, 2013.
• Lawrence Levine appeared on a panel at UC Davis School of Law, "The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Marriage Equality: Reading the Tea Leaves," on April 4, 2013.
• John Sims, Leslie Gielow Jacobs, and Lawrence Levine spoke at an on-campus forum about the two same-sex marriage case oral arguments heard before the Supreme Court and predictions on what the future holds on April 15, 2013.
• Lawrence Levine spoke to a crowd of law students at George Washington University School of Law about the Supreme Court same-sex marriage cases on March 26.
• John E.B. Myers organized a free on-campus workshop to help individuals take the first steps toward getting a divorce in Sacramento County on March 1, 2013. The workshops are held the first Friday of every month.
• Blake Nordahl and Raquel Aldana organized Pacific McGeorge's collaboration with the UC Davis School of Law and La Raza Law Students Association's Cesar Chavez Day of Service immigration service events. Other collaborators were California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, Immigrant Legal Resource Center, and University of the Pacific in Stockton. The first of two naturalization workshops to assist eligible lawful permanent residents to apply for United States Citizenship was held on March 30 at the SIEU Local 1000 office in Sacramento. The second will be held on April 13 at University of the Pacific in Stockton. More than 100 applicants were served at the March 30 workshop by dozens of volunteer attorneys and law students, including at least 10 Pacific McGeorge students ranging from first year to LL.M., and several alumni.
• Linda Carter and John Sims spoke on "Equal Protection in Public Education: From Mendez v. Westminster to U.S. v. Alabama," on Feb. 8, 2013, at the Operation Protect & Defend Annual MCLE Luncheon in Sacramento.
• Michael Colatrella spoke at University of the Pacific, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry about negotiation on Feb. 6 and again about conflict resolution on Feb. 13, 2013 during the school's one-hour selective.
• Brian Landsberg and Mary-Beth Moylan spoke at an on-campus forum, "The Attack on Voting Rights in America," sponsored by the student American Constitution Society on Feb. 27, 2013. Landsberg was one of the signers of an amicus curiae brief filed in the Shelby County voting rights case in the Supreme Court on behalf of some former officials of the Department of Justice.
• Larry Levine was an organizer and panel speaker at an on-campus forum, "Prop 8, the Defense of Marriage Act, and the Supreme Court," which was sponsored by the McGeorge Lambda Law Students, SacLEGAL, the Stonewall Democratic Club of Sacramento and the UC Davis Lambda Law Students.
• Mary-Beth Moylan was elected to the Board of Directors for the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, N.Y in January 2013.
• Mike Mireles was the key organizer of Pacific McGeorge's 2nd Annual IP Week, which featured a variety of presentations including panelist appearances Amy Landers, John Sprankling and adjunct professors Thomas Brierton and Joshua Golka, '05, on Feb. 4, 2013, discussing "An Academic Perspective on IP."
• Francis J. Mootz III was the keynote speaker on Feb. 6, 2013, at the San Joaquin County Bar Association Annual New Layers Reception in Stockton. He welcomed recent California bar passers, including several Pacific McGeorge graduates, into the profession.
• Fred Galves spoke on "Why Civility & Ethics Matter" on Jan. 30, 2013 at an MCLE luncheon program sponsored by the Saint Thomas More Society of Sacramento and the La Raza Lawyers Foundation in Sacramento.
• Robert Hawley lectured on "Professional Responsibility Traps for the Unwary" on Jan. 12, 2013, and on Jan. 26 at MCLE programs sponsored by the McGeorge Alumni Association in Long Beach and Sacramento, respectively.
• John Sims spoke on "Trading for a New 'Model'? — The Unfinished Effort to Harmonize California's Rules of Professional Conduct with the ABA Model Rules" on Jan. 12, 2013 at the McGeorge Alumni Association's Southern California MCLE program in Long Beach.
• Kojo Yelpaala and Omar Dajani served on a dissertation defense panel on April 16 with retired World Bank lawyer Salman M.A. Salman, which approved a J.S.D. in International Water Resources for Rodrigo Rondon.
• Greg Weber and Michael Colatrella conducted a three-day (April 27-29), on-campus Advanced Negotiation Workshop for attorneys and other professionals.
• Raquel Aldana directed Pacific McGeorge's 4th Annual Summer Inter-America Program, which was held from May 26 to June 16 in Antigua, Guatemala. She also co-taught Legal Spanish for Lawyers at the program, which is co-sponsored by the Seattle University School of Law and the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.
• Jerry Caplan accepted an appointment to the board of the Children's Law Center, which is responsible for representation of dependent children in Los Angeles and Sacramento.
• Brian Landsberg and Dorothy Landsberg conducted a two-day (May 14-15) training, sponsored by the U.S. Russia Foundation, at the University of Arizona School of Law. The training was part of the foundation's Siberian Federal University Legal Education Project, introducing experiential legal education methods to SFU.
• Steve McCaffrey served as the external examiner on a PhD. dissertation defense panel on June 6 at the University of Dundee.
• Michael Malloy was appointed an executive member of the Athens Institute for Education and Research, an interdisciplinary research organization based in Athens, Greece, on June 23.
• Leslie Jacobs was a speaker at a rally on June 13 on the steps of the Gordon D. Schaber Courthouse to call attention to the adverse effects of deep funding cuts to the state judicial system that are included in the governor's proposed budgets.
• Fred Galves taught "Comparative Litigation in the Americas" from May 26 to June 16 in the Summer Inter-America Program in Antigua, Guatemala.
• Dorothy Landsberg's 90-minute video was added to the Richard Nixon Presidential Library oral history collection on June 28. In 1974, she was a researcher for the House Judiciary Committee's impeachment investigation into the Watergate scandal.
• Cary Bricker, Matt Downs and Brian Landsberg traveled to China in early June to complete an evaluation of the rollout of the law school's USAID project at eight different Chinese law schools. Cary was in China from June 2-9 while Matt and Brian worked on the wrap-up of the five-year long experiential learning program from June 2-16. They also participated in three different conferences in three different cities.
• Kimberly Buchholz and Mariam Elmenshawi organized an on-campus workshop, "The ABC's of Representing Victims of Crime," which was held on June 22. They are the new director and assistant director, respectively, of the Victims of Crime Resource Center.
• Mary-Beth Moylan was elected to a three-year term on the Association of Legal Writing Directors governing board on April 1.