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• Washburn Law alumus, Bradley Haddock, ’80, was inducted as the Law School’s 2012 Alumni Fellow. Haddock spent his career as in-house counsel at Koch Industries in Wichita, Kan. He was actively involved in business division development, with a focus on acquisitions and transactional work during his career there. Haddock recently retired from Koch and has opened his own business and transactional firm. • e Center, along with the Washburn Law Journal, sponsored the “Employment and Labor Law in the 21st Century - Changes in the Arenas of Conflict” symposium on February 28, 2013, at the Bradbury ompson Alumni Center at Washburn University. e event began with a keynote address featuring Peter Schaumber of Schaumber Consultants, LLC and former chairman and member of the National Labor Relations Board. e Symposium invited a dozen recognized expert academics and practitioners in the areas of Labor and Employment law and featured panel 2012-13 BUSINESS and TRANSACTIONAL Law Center washburnlaw.edu/transactional BTLC’s Notable Events D I R E C T O R ’ S M E S S A G E AMY DEEN WESTBROOK The Business and Transactional Law Center at Washburn University School of Law prepares students to be effective transactional lawyers able to operate in today’s dynamic business law environment. presentations with a discussion/debate following for each of the three areas: Technology, Social Media, and Privacy Issues in Employment and Labor Law; e Landscape of Private Sector Labor Law in the 21st Century; and e Landscape of Public Sector Labor Law in the 21st Century. • e Center expanded the well- received lunch presentation learning format this past year by asking expert alumni practitioners to provide a two-hour training session with a small group of focused business and transactional law students over lunch at Washburn Law. is format presented a hypothetical problem or exercise based on real-world case work in which the expert engaged the students in all steps of solving the problem scenario. e first “Transactional Lunch” on March 27, 2013, focused on “e Formation and Development of Limited Liability Companies” and was presented by our 2013 Alumni Fellow, Bradley Haddock, ’80. at successful learning experience was followed on April 18, 2013, by John Dietrick, ’76, general counsel, and Christina Dietrick, CEO of Creative Business Solutions, a local business consulting and management services provider, presenting our Employment Law Transactional Lunch. John and Christina worked with students to develop an employ- ment contract and a termination agreement and walked them through the finer points of both with real life examples of pitfalls and problems that tend to arise in both scenarios. • In January 2013, Washburn Law awarded five endowed positions to professors. e director of the Business and Transactional Law Center, Professor Amy Deen Westbrook, whose area of focus includes international finance and transactions, was named the Kurt M. Sager Memorial Distinguished Professor of International and Commercial Law. e former director of the Business and Transactional Law Center, Professor David Pierce, who is now
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• Washburn Law alumus, Bradley Haddock, ’80, was inducted as the Law School’s 2012 Alumni Fellow. Haddock spent his career as in-house counsel at Koch Industries in Wichita, Kan. He was actively involved in business division development, with a focus on acquisitions and transactional work during his career there. Haddock recently retired from Koch and has opened his own business and transactional firm.
• The Center, along with the Washburn Law Journal, sponsored the “Employment and Labor Law in the 21st Century - Changes in the Arenas of Conflict” symposium on February 28, 2013, at the Bradbury Thompson Alumni Center at Washburn University. The event began with a keynote address featuring Peter Schaumber of Schaumber Consultants, LLC and former chairman and member of the National Labor Relations Board. The Symposium invited a dozen recognized expert academics and practitioners in the areas of Labor and Employment law and featured panel
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AMY DEENWESTBROOK
The Business and Transactional Law Center at Washburn University School of Law prepares students to be effective transactional lawyers able to operate in today’s dynamic business law environment.
presentations with a discussion/debate following for each of the three areas: Technology, Social Media, and Privacy Issues in Employment and Labor Law; The Landscape of Private Sector Labor Law in the 21st Century; and The Landscape of Public Sector Labor Law in the 21st Century.
• The Center expanded the well-received lunch presentation learning format this past year by asking expert alumni practitioners to provide a two-hour training session with a small group of focused business and transactional law students over lunch at Washburn Law. This format presented a hypothetical problem or exercise based on real-world case work in which the expert engaged the students in all steps of solving the problem scenario.
The first “Transactional Lunch” on March 27, 2013, focused on “The Formation and Development of Limited Liability Companies” and was presented by our 2013 Alumni Fellow, Bradley Haddock, ’80.
That successful learning experience was followed on April 18, 2013, by John Dietrick, ’76, general counsel, and Christina Dietrick, CEO of Creative Business Solutions, a local business consulting and management services provider, presenting our Employment Law Transactional Lunch. John and Christina worked with students to develop an employ-ment contract and a termination agreement and walked them through the finer points of both with real life examples of pitfalls and problems that tend to arise in both scenarios.
• In January 2013, Washburn Law awarded five endowed positions to professors. The director of the Business and Transactional Law Center, Professor Amy Deen Westbrook, whose area of focus includes international finance and transactions, was named the Kurt M. Sager Memorial Distinguished Professor of International and Commercial Law.
The former director of the Business and Transactional Law Center, Professor David Pierce, who is now
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Four student organizations affiliated with the Center:
Washburn Business Law Society
Intellectual Property
Society
Real Estate Law Society
Tax and Estate Planning Association
At the Small Business &
Non-profit Transactional Law Clinic, upper-level law students provide business
and legal assistance.
Steve Ramirez, BTLC’s first director and current professor of law at Loyola University School of Law, spoke to students about lawless capitalism.
Chris Biggs, former Kansas Secretary of State and Kansas Securities commissioner, presented the Wild West World case.
director of the new Oil and Gas Law Center and whose expertise includes oil and gas law, was named Norman R. Pozez Chair in Business and Transactional Law.
• In fall 2012, then Kansas Securities Commissioner Aaron Jack, ’09, along with the General Counsel Jeff Kruske, ’00, of the Kansas Securities Commission, spoke to the Washburn Law Students during a Lunch & Learn presentation about the operations of the office and Kansas securities regulation in general.
In March 2013, Commissioner Jack resigned the post and another recent Washburn Law alumus, Joshua Ney, ’09, was initially appointed interim Kansas Securities Commissioner and then ultimately appointed permanently to the post.
COLLOQUIUM GATHERS TAX SCHOLARS On April 26, 2013, the Business and Transactional Law Center hosted the Washburn University School of Law Tax Law Colloquium. The colloquium provides the opportunity for tax scholars from around the country to meet and discuss scholarly projects on which they are working. In an informal setting, the participants share ideas, provide feedback regarding scholarly works-in-progress, and enjoy the company of other tax scholars.
The day-long event, organized by Professor Lori McMillan, featured the following guest speakers:
• Zsuzsana Ka’dar, Senior Manager, Ernst & Young, New York
• Art Cockfield, Professor, Queen’s University Faculty of Law, Kingston, Ontario
• Leandra Lederman, William W. Oliver Professor of Tax Law and Director of the Tax Program, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Bloomington, Ind.
• Shu-Yi Oei, Associate Professor of Law, Tulane University Law School, New Orleans, La.
• Will Foster, Professor of Law, Washburn Law, Topeka
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2012-13 CENTER EVENTS • 9/27/12: Third Annual Business and Transactional Law Student Reception
• 10/11/12: Lunch & Learn: Securities Regulation with Commissioner Aaron Jack, ’09, and Jeff Kruske, ’00
• 11/15/12: Lunch & Learn: Transactional Drafting, presented by David Pierce
• 1/24/13: Lunch & Learn and CLE: Lawless Capitalism, presented by Steve Ramirez
• 1/31/13: Lunch & Learn: Hanging a Shingle: Important Things to Know About Starting a Solo Practice, presented by Shawn Juergensen, ’08, and Linda McMurray, ’03
• 2/14/13: Lunch & Learn: Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Intellectual Property: Rights to Culture in Aotearoa/New Zealand, presented by Prof. Graeme Austin, University of Wellington, New Zealand
• 2/15/13: Faculty Development: Copyright’s Private Domain: Authorial Creativity at the Boundaries of Privacy and Copyright Law presented by Prof. Graeme Austin, University of Wellington, New Zealand
• 2/21/13: Lunch & Learn: Diverse Uses of a JD, presented by Jordan Schuetzle
• 2/28/13: Employment and Labor Law in the 21st Century Symposium
• 3/12/13: Practicing Agricultural Law, hosted by the Agricultural Law Society, in partnership with the Business and Transactional Law Center
• 3/14/13: Lunch & Learn: Wild West World Case, presented by Chris Biggs
• 3/27/13: Small-Group Presentation and Skills Training: Limited Liability Companies, presented by Bradley Haddock, ’80
• 4/18/13: Kristina and John Dietrick,’76, of Creative Business Solutions presented the Employment Law Transactional Lunch
• 4/26/13: Washburn University School of Law Tax Law Colloquium
Bradley Haddock, ’80, conversed with a small group of students about LLCs.
A guest panel discussed the practice of agricultural law.
Alumni and law students attended a social hosted by the Business and Transactional Law Center.
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Amy Deen WestbrookDirector, Business and Transactional Law Center, and Kurt M. Sager Memorial Distinguished Professor of International and Commercial Law
[email protected] 785.670.1541 Room 332
Andrea J. BoyackAssistant Director, Business and Transactional Law Center, and Associate Professor of Law
About UsWashburn Law’s Business and Transactional Law Center brings together faculty, alumni, business leaders, and government officials to provide Washburn’s students with the opportunity to fully develop their professional skills. Led by a talented and innovative faculty and a distinguished, visionary Board of Advisors, the Center offers programs that enhance students’ traditional legal education. Center-sponsored programs include many types of specialized educational and training opportunities designed to teach students the professional skills they must develop to be effective lawyers. Center faculty advises to students wishing to obtain one of the four certificates related to the Center.
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In the summer of 2012, Washburn Law welcomed Andrea Boyack as assistant director of the Business and Transactional Law Center. Her teaching responsibilities include Contracts I and II, Debtor/Creditor Relations, Property, and Real Estate Transactions. She has an extensive background practicing, teaching, and writing about legal topics at the nexus of contract and property law.
Boyack has written and presented on issues relating to the housing crisis, the secondary mortgage market, and common interest community governance. She is working on projects exploring transactional freedom and individual liberties in the context of real property development and control.
Professor Boyack is involved in the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning as well as other joint pedagogical projects focused on improving teaching in law schools. She has participated in Washburn Law’s commercial law project in the Republic of Georgia, and was a featured presenter at Free University’s 2013 Commercial Law Symposium in Tbilisi.
Boyack has been invited to present on teaching business and transactional law and skills to law students at AALS’s mid-year meeting in Washington, DC., in 2014.
Prior to joining the faculty at Washburn University School of
Law, Boyack taught Contracts, Property, Real Estate Transactions, Professional Responsibility, and Public International Law as a visiting professor at Fordham University School of Law, George Washington University School of Law, and Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law. She also taught Real Estate Finance as an adjunct professor at George Mason University School of Law.
After graduating from University of Virginia School of Law in 1995, Boyack practiced corporate finance and real estate law for 13 years in New York City and the Washington, D.C., area.
Business and Transactional Law Center Welcomes Andrea Boyack
