JULY NEWSLETTER
In June Charlie Faruki participated in the New Lawyer Training CLE program, a seminar that is mandatory for newly-admitted lawyers in Ohio. Charlie taught in Columbus on the topic of the basics of civil litigation. That program was sponsored by the Ohio State Bar Association. He also chaired a panel on the subject of Discovery and Evidentiary Issues in Dealing With Electronic Evidence, at the 13th Annual Seminar, Advanced Computer and Cyberspace Law, that is part of the Program in Law and Technology at the University of Dayton School of Law. In May, Charlie's book review of the Internet and E-Commerce Legal Handbook was published in The Federal Lawyer, the national magazine of the Federal Bar Association. (Charlie is a past-president of the Dayton Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, and co-teaches an annual CLE seminar on Internet and E-Commerce Litigation).
Jeff Cox has been chosen as President of the Parish/Pastoral Council to lead the Church of the Holy Angels in Dayton for 2002-2003. Holy Angels is a 1,250--family Catholic parish and school community whose campus sits adjacent to the University of Dayton, and serves Oakwood, and Dayton's Patterson Park, South Park and Rubicon Park neighborhoods. Jeff and his wife Jenny, are also divisional co-chairs for major gifts for Holy Angels ongoing $2.2 million Development and Capital Campaign. Jeff is beginning the second year of his term as President of the Carl D. Kessler Inn of Court, and recently accepted the Dayton Bar Association's request to serve as a member of the Dayton Bar Association's Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee.
In May 2002, Tom Kraemer traveled to Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina as part of a Dayton Sister City delegation. Dayton and Sarajevo are linked by the fact the end to the bloody war in Bosnia that raged from 1992 to 1995 was negotiated here, and the cities formally became Sister Cities in 1999. Tom was appointed to the Sister City Committee by the Dayton City Commission in 1998. The purposes of the delegation's trip were to set the framework for future cultural, educational and economic exchanges between the cities, and to see first-hand the progress that Sarajevo has made toward rebuilding after years of war. The highlights of the trip included meetings with the Mayor of Sarajevo and other City officials, as well as a reception at the residence of Clifford Bond, the United States Ambassador to Bosnia. Other official meetings were held with Sarajevo's Minister of Culture and Sport, the head of the Chamber of Commerce, the Rector of the University of Sarajevo and the head of the Bosnian Bar Association. The delegation also got a close look at the horrors of war, frequently passing uncleared minefields, craters and the remains of buildings that were destroyed in the fighting. This was Tom's second opportunity to join a Sister City delegation. In June 2000, Tom led a delegation that included three Dayton City Commissioners, the City Manager and other City officials to visit Oiso, Japan, another of Dayton's five Sister Cities.
As reported in the June 2002 newsletter update, Mary Wiseman has been selected to serve on the Board of Trustees for The Entrepreneur's Center in Dayton. Mary was quoted extensively in a June 7, 2002 Dayton Business Journal article: "Legal Lessons Entrepreneurs get crash course in intellectual property law," discussing the kinds of legal issues faced by technology business owners.
FG&I associate Caroline Gentry is commencing her second year as Chair of The Dayton Bar Association's Federal Practice Committee. On June 8, 2002, Caroline teamed with Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Jeff Froelich and others to teach the DBA's Civil Protection Order/Anti-Stalking Law seminar.
