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Eckstein Hall Opened One Year Ago

Post author:J. Gordon Hylton
Post published:July 7, 2011
Post category:Marquette Law School Marquette Law School History

Yesterday (July 6) marked the one-year anniversary of the opening of Eckstein Hall. The very first class in the new building was American Legal History which first met in Room 257 at 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, July 6, 2010. To reach the classroom in the not-quite-finished building, the 17 students and their instructor had to dodge rolls of carpet and electrical wire, cans of paint, and assorted construction debris. Everyone was also required to immediately leave the building immediately after the conclusion of the class.

The class was taught by me. Its members included April Ashby, Margaret Bach, Heather Berlinski, Carolyn Carrico, Nicholas Deml, Jeremy Hager, Stephanie Kebler, Matt Lien, Anthony Meyer, Andrew Mongin, Christina Putman, Francisco Saa, Jon Seaman, Timothy Shortess, Richard Sienkewicz, Charles Szafir, and Ian Thomson.

For two of the students, it was their final class in law school.

Random Thoughts on Approaching Reunion

Post author:Greg Weyandt
Post published:May 31, 2011
Post category:Legal Education Marquette Law School Marquette Law School History

Later this week, we will drive down to Milwaukee for my thirty-fifth law school reunion. I look forward to the event for a number of reasons. Those three years of incredibly hard work could not have been survived without the friendships that truly were forged in the foreign territory of Civil Procedure, Property, Torts, and Contracts. Today all of these topics and many more – no one taught health law back then – are part of my fiber and who I am.

I am a lawyer and neither apologize nor think twice about the fact that I think like a lawyer. We hope that means a rational review of facts, marshalling those facts, and then advocating for one’s client. Would that there were more today who were lawyer-like, concerning themselves with the facts before advocating for their issue or cause.

Law School’s Lavvie Dilweg Added to the Marquette “M” Club

Post author:J. Gordon Hylton
Post published:May 20, 2011
Post category:Marquette Law School History

Lavern “Lavvie” Dilweg, Marquette Law School Class of 1927, has finally been added to the membership of the M Club, Marquette University’s Athletic Hall of Fame. Earlier this week, the University announced that Dilweg is one of seven members of this year’s class who will officially be inducted into the M Club on Saturday, May 20.

Dilweg enrolled at Marquette in the fall of 1922, and starred in football, basketball, and track during his time as a Marquette athlete. Among other honors, he was the first Hilltopper (as the school’s teams were known in his era) to be named a first-team All-American football player. In 1924, after two years in the college, he enrolled in the law school where he continued to participate in varsity athletics. During his third year of law school, having exhausted his collegiate eligibility, he played for the Milwaukee Badgers of the National Football League.

The Badgers folded after the 1926 season, and Dilweg joined the Green Bay Packers, for whom he starred through the 1934 season. During his years with the Packers he played on three NFL championship teams and was named a first-team All-NFL End five times. After his career with the Packers, he practiced law in Brown County, Wisconsin and served in the United States Congress.

There is nothing new about Dilweg being overlooked for a hall-of-fame. Many historians of the early NFL view Dilweg as the best player from the league’s formative era not yet inducted into the National Football League Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.

A more detailed examination of Dilweg’s career in sports, law, and politics can be found at http://law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/2009/11/09/lavvie-dilweg-27-mu-laws-contribution-to-the-nfl-and-to-congress/.