The morning began with the Council meeting at 9:00 a.m. There was a long agenda. The central focus was the upcoming Labor and Employment Law Conference put on by the section in Denver, Colorado. It’s our 2nd annual CLE Conference and it will be held from September 10-13, 2008. It is [...]
It was great to awaken in the morning and look out the balcony window. Sometimes, because I travel so much I wake up and I don’t know where I am and it wasn’t any different on Friday. But once I became oriented and looked out the window at the beautiful multi-blue and green [...]
The week began with a lovely dinner hosted by Jane and Dave Gearhart and Mary Ann and Reed Greenwood at the Greenwood residence. A number of University administrators and supporters were there, including several of our alums: Jim and Nancy Blair, Stanley and Charlene Reed, Lewis Epley and Charles Scharlau. All the Deans and [...]
Thursday morning began with a jolt – the phone rang at 5:30 a.m. I am always anxious about phone calls between say, midnight and 6:00 in the morning worried that they’re bringing bad news. Startled, I reached over for the phone and hit the light to see who was calling. It [...]
Wednesday started with a meeting with Teri Stafford and Mark Powers to review Teri’s six months here at the law school. That was a good meeting. It was also our May birthday celebration and in addition a very sad occasion.
We said goodbye to Macey Panach who has been a wonderful Communications Director for [...]
Today got off to a delightful start (joking, joking). Actually it was time to go back to see Dr. Henderson. I’ve been seeing him a lot. If you read the blog, you should have noticed that I’ve had a lot of dental work this year. All this work would come the year that I forget [...]
Thursday, May 23
Thursday, I returned from the ALI meeting in Washington, DC, checked in with the office and learned everything was quiet.
Friday, May 24
It was a fantastic Friday. Mike Mullane came in first thing in the morning with a beautiful carved statue from Haiti – a wonderful full figured woman who sits on the [...]
Wednesday morning began with a discussion of the restatement of employment law. It’s very controversial and there were a number of motions – some to table the work on it, another to reach out to a group of law professors who have a very strong interest and to make sure that they have a [...]
Tuesday at 9:00 a.m., the ALI meeting began with a report on the principles of the law of non-profit organizations. As you might imagine there was a great deal of interest among the membership on this topic. If you’re an academic your institution is generally a non-profit institution, plus many attorneys serve on [...]
Today was the first day of the American Law Institute (ALI) 85th Annual Meeting. According to the certificate of incorporation of the ALI (www.ali.org), the particular business and objects of the society are educational and to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs; to secure the [...]