DECEMBER NEWSLETTER

Faruki Ireland & Cox P.L.L. was one of the principal sponsors for the Dayton Business Journal's 2003 Business of the Year Awards Program.  The Dayton Business Journal annually conducts the award competition to recognize those businesses and business leaders in the Dayton community viewed as outstanding in their fields of endeavor.  FI&C is pleased to have presented this year's Community Supporter of the Year Award to the Dayton Dragons Professional Baseball Club.  The other finalists for that award included Clear Channel Radio and Excellence in Motivation, Inc.  The awards were announced at a black-tie awards ceremony on December 4 at the Dayton Art Institute.  FI&C partners Charlie Faruki, Jeff Ireland, Jeff Cox, and Tom Kraemer attended on behalf of the firm, with Jeff Cox making the award presentation.

FI&C partner Mary Wiseman was recognized as the December 2003 Barrister of the Month by the Dayton Bar Association in its monthly publication, Bar Briefs.  Mary joined FI&C in 1990.  She is a former Dayton City Commissioner and an honors graduate of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock) School of Law. 

Along with Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Barbara Gorman, FI&C associates Julie Zink and John Fischer are serving as volunteer advisors to the mock trial team at Chaminade-Julienne Catholic High School in Dayton.  John is a 1986 Chaminade-Julienne graduate.  Julie and John are assisting with trial preparation and presentation and will work through evidentiary issues to ready the students for their mock trial experience.  The Ohio Mock Trial Competition is sponsored by the Ohio Center for Law-Related Education and pits teams from dozens of local high schools against one another, with the winner advancing to the State Competition in the spring of 2004.  John and FI&C associate Lisa Parilo assisted the C-J Mock Trial team during the 2002-03 school year.  That team placed second in the regional finals, advancing to the State Competition held in Columbus last March.

FI&C was recently featured in a special profile "Outlook:  Dayton Business Profiles" in the November 10, 2003 edition of Forbes magazine.  Copies of the Forbes piece are available by contacting FI&C at (937) 227-3700 or by e-mail at jkendall@ficlaw.com.

FI&C hosted a holiday reception for clients, Judges and friends on Thursday, December 18, 2003 to showcase the recently-completed expansion of its offices on Courthouse Square in downtown Dayton.  FI&C occupies floors 5, 6 and 7 of the Courthouse Plaza, S.W. building. 

FI&C has completed its fall 2003 recruiting season with offers to several outstanding law students.  Second-year law students receiving summer clerkships for 2004 include:  Adam Sadlowski (Case Western Reserve University School of Law); Rebecca Owen (The Ohio State University College of Law); and Robert Gurry (The University of Dayton School of Law).  Offers were also extended to and accepted by seven third-year law students to join the firm as associates upon graduation and completion of the Bar Examination in the summer of 2004.  Accepting associate offers with the firm are:  Erin Bair (The Ohio State University College of Law); Jacqueline Brown (The Indiana University School of Law); Chad Burton (Case Western Reserve University School of Law); Holt Hedrick (The Indiana University School of Law); Tonya Noldon (The University of Virginia School of Law); Lynn Preston (The University of Dayton School of Law); and Erin Stefanec (The University of Dayton School of Law).  FI&C congratulates all of these individuals on their offers and extends its appreciation and best wishes to all of the many law students competing for positions with the firm.  In the fall of 2003 FI&C recruited at 12 law school campuses and interviewed over 150 students for positions with the firm.

In November and December, Charlie Faruki spoke at several CLE programs.  He talked to the Dayton Intellectual Property Law Association on the subject of Markman hearings in patent cases, and used some of the demonstrative evidence from the recent Markman hearing in one of our patent cases to illustrate the points of the presentation.  He taught the litigation component of a seminar on Intellectual Property for the General and Corporate Practitioner, sponsored by the Dayton Bar Association; that course covered patents, trademarks and domain names, trade secrets, and copyrights.  He was one of the three speakers (again, dealing with the litigation of cases) in a Dayton Bar Association CLE program titled Legal Issues Involving the Internet.  Finally, Charlie again taught the Federal Court Practice & Procedure component of the Dayton Bar Association's year-end CLE Roundup; as in the past, Charlie reviewed in that session the 2003 developments pertinent to federal court trial practice.