Apr

29

An Interview with David Richardson, Ombudsperson at Kaiser Permanente

Posted by: | April 29, 2011 | 2 Comments

When I arrived at my hospital in California, I immediately hit it off with the ombudsperson here. Kaiser Permanente, as it turns out, has a very unique ombuds programs for the health care system. As a conflict resolution nerd, I was very interested in learning more. Going back to my theme about looking outside traditional [...]

Apr

28

Ethics and Quality and Potential

Posted by: | April 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment

One thing I am watching in my field is the tie-in to Quality (with a capital Q). Several years ago, a mentor of mine made this connection evident for me. There is a clear link between a mindful environment, with ethical and moral space, and Quality Improvement (yes, that sentence was 90% buzz-word). This is [...]

Apr

20

Springtime for Daubert: Insights From the EDWBA Panel

Posted by: | April 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment

In late January the “tort reform” package imposed the staid Daubert rules on the Wisconsin Rules of Evidence. Now it’s spring, although the weather feels a lot like January, and we must get serious about what to do with this gift that the judiciary did not want. The new rules require that expert testimony be [...]

Apr

20

Drugs and Long-Term Care

Posted by: | April 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Video is now available here from the Elder’s Advisor‘s fine conference last month on drugs and long-term care.  Here is the description of the conference: For this symposium, we bring together a variety of practitioners and academics to speak on current topics about the use of pharmaceuticals for residents of long-term care facilities. Our speakers [...]

Apr

19

DeGuire Award Winner Explores Copyright Remedies

Posted by: | April 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Congratulations to 3L Andy Spillane, the winner of this year’s DeGuire Award for best student comment published in the Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review.  Andy’s paper discusses the availability of injunctive relief for copyright violations.  Recently, some courts have abandoned the presumption of irreparable harm that traditionally benefitted copyright plaintiffs seeking injunctive relief.  In the face [...]

Apr

19

Investiture of Hon. James A. Wynn, Jr.

Posted by: | April 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment

It was my great pleasure to attend the investiture of Jim Wynn (L’79) as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. The ceremony at the federal courthouse in Raleigh, North Carolina, drew an enormous crowd, well into the hundreds, requiring that the large majority of those in attendance view [...]

Apr

19

Israel Reflections–Closing Thoughts

Posted by: | April 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment

This will be the last post regarding the trip from Israel (at least for now!) and I wanted to close with some of the students’ last reflections and humorous comments about the trip: Most people said I was a little crazy for heading to Israel in my first trip out of the country but what [...]

Apr

18

Respecting Others’ Positions

Posted by: | April 18, 2011 | 2 Comments

Professor Calboli made an interesting point in her comment to one of my previous posts, where she used the phrase “respecting others’ positions.” This gave me an idea for another post. What does it mean to respect others’ positions? Values-based disputes are often very hard to negotiate and accordingly, mediators are introduced to help bridge [...]

Apr

17

The Marquette Law School Graduate Who Coached in the NBA Finals

Posted by: | April 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Several former Marquette University law students achieved fame on the athletic playing fields after their time at Marquette—world class sprinter Ralph Metcalfe and Packer star Laavie Dilweg come immediately to mind—but only one former student ever coached a team to the championship finals of the nation’s leading professional basketball league. Francis “Frank” Zummach was born [...]

Apr

16

Lawyers: Play Nice

Posted by: | April 16, 2011 | 3 Comments

As you may have already seen, the blawgs have been discussing this recent order by United States District Court Judge Eric Melgren. Judge Melgren issued the order granting a motion for a continuance of a trial scheduled for June 14, 2011, in Kansas, after the defendant, a Dallas attorney,  sought the continuance on the grounds [...]

Apr

14

Eckstein Hall Named Project of the Year

Posted by: | April 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Eckstein Hall, our new home, was today named Project of the Year in The Business Journal’s 2011 Real Estate Awards program. The announcement was made at a luncheon program at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Milwaukee: although various awards were announced in advance, this top award was shrouded in secrecy until near the end of [...]

Apr

14

National Health Care Decisions Day, Jehovah’s Witnesses & Mature Minors

Posted by: | April 14, 2011 | 8 Comments

April 16th is the 4th Annual National Health Care Decisions Day, a day when health-care practitioners reach out and express the importance of having discussions about personal values and treatment preferences, especially in the event of loss of function and end-of-life circumstances. I encourage every adult to complete an advance directive because any adult can [...]

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