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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/.

Tierney to Deliver Memorial Address

Post author:Joseph D. Kearney
Post published:May 2, 2011
Post category:Legal Practice Marquette Law School History Milwaukee Public

I hope that many folks reading this post will elect to attend the Milwaukee Bar Association’s annual Memorial Service: it will be held this Friday, May 6, at 10:45 a.m., in the Ceremonial Courtroom (Room 500) of the Milwaukee County Courthouse. It is an event that a number of us have come rarely to miss—largely because we enjoy it, as I explained in a 2009 blog post noting the remembrance by Tom Cannon of his father, Judge Robert C. Cannon, L’41, and in a post last year anticipating Mike Brennan’s remembrance of his own father, James P. Brennan, L’60. The Memorial Service is an opportunity to remember attorneys who died with the past year, after serving the profession and thus the larger society: some names and careers will be familiar to a particular attendee, whereas others will be unknown to him or her—but in this context the latter are not much less meaningful. I see that this year’s Memorial Address will be delivered by Joseph E. Tierney, III, L’66. That is certainly a longstanding name in this region’s legal profession, as discussed previously in posts on this blog, including Gordon Hylton’s description of the legal education of the first Joseph E. Tierney, L’11 (that’s 1911), and my own account of Joe III’s remarks, at a law school event, concerning his late mother and father, Bernice Young Tierney and Joseph E. Tierney, Jr., L’41. I much look forward to Mr. Tierney’s remarks (no doubt remembering among others his late partner, Paul Meissner, who died within the past year) and to the rest of the special session of court, which is the form that the Memorial Service takes.