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“Happy Anniversary! On to the dedication”

Post author:Joseph D. Kearney
Post published:May 22, 2009
Post category:Legal Education Marquette Law School

So read the sign this morning on my front lawn, surrounded by some 14 shovels. The reference, of course, is to Ray and Kay Eckstein Hall, the $85 million new law facility on which Marquette University broke ground a year ago today and which is scheduled to open in summer 2010. The groundbreaking was a memorable event, with more than 800 individuals attending and each being given a shovel to help dig. We intended by this democratic gesture—not just the president, dean, and major donors, but everyone wielding a shovel—to signify that Eckstein Hall will be a resource for the entire community. The speeches by Chief Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson, Seventh Circuit Chief Judge Frank H. Easterbrook, and Trustee Natalie A. Black, along with Father Wild as president, added to the occasion, not least because of their crispness. While the groundbreaking event is preserved in a sense in the pages of the Marquette Law Review, the focus over the past year has been on the construction and the coming building. Professor Michael McChrystal’s interview in Marquette Lawyer and April blog post concerning the building should give some sense as to why we expect that this will be the best law school building in the country. The Law School’s webpage devoted to the building project contains further information, including a time-lapse video that shows the progress over the past 365 days. All is well, except for the fact that I do not know who put those things on my front lawn this morning.

Congratulations . . .

Post author:Michael M. O'Hear
Post published:May 17, 2009
Post category:Marquette Law School

to the freshly graduated Marquette University Law School Class of 2009. Best wishes for success in all of your future endeavors. As our late Dean Howard Eisenberg was fond of saying, “Do well and do good!”

Eastern District of Wisconsin Bar Association Presents Awards to Michael O’Hear and Tom Shriner

Post author:Jessica E. Slavin
Post published:May 17, 2009
Post category:Criminal Law & Process Eastern District of Wisconsin Federal Civil Litigation Federal Criminal Law & Process Federal Law & Legal System Marquette Law School Milwaukee

Warm congratulations to our colleague, Professor Michael M. O’Hear, who recently received the Judge Robert W. Warren Public Service Award, at a ceremony during the Eastern District of Wisconsin Bar Association’s annual meeting. It was a pleasure for a number of us to attend and see Michael receive well-deserved recognition for his service. As Nathan Fishbach, of Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek, noted in making the presentation, Michael is “a distinguished academician whose mission is to analyze and explain the dynamics of the sentencing process.” Indeed, Michael has become a national leader in the study and discussions concerning sentencing, and he has been active in this community as well.

At the same ceremony, the Eastern District presented its Judge Myron L. Gordon Lifetime Achievement Award to Foley & Lardner’s Thomas L. Shriner, Jr., an Indiana University law graduate and well-known Milwaukee litigator (and adjunct professor of law here at Marquette). The citation accompanying the award, written by Bill Mulligan, L’60, and Dean Joseph D. Kearney, concluded with the observation that Tom is “respected and admired for his prodigious knowledge of the law, great wit, smile, and willingness to help others.” Congratulations as well to Tom.

The full citations can be found here concerning Michael and here concerning Tom.