| Heath Abshure – Lawyering Skills Workshop: Transaction 501.372.0800 (office) e-mail: habshure@williamsanderson.com Biographical Information |
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| John T. Adams – Corporate Taxation 501.377.0305 (office) e-mail: jadams@roselawfirm.com Biographical Information |
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| Edward R. Armstrong-Rial Statutory Interpretation Seminar 501.212.1318 (office) e-mail: earmstrong@wlj.com Biographical Information |
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| Joseph R. Bell — Law & Entrepreneurship 501.868.3142 e-mail: jrbell@ualr.edu Joseph R. Bell received a B.A. from Bloomsburg University, an M.B.A. from Michigan State University, and a J.D. from Thomas M. Cooley Law School. He has worked as a securities attorney for the Michigan Department of Commerce, consulted for startup and turnaround ventures, headed entrepreneurship centers at the University of Colorado at Denver and the University of Northern Colorado, and is currently an assistant professor in the UALR College of Business. |
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| Stanley Jack Bell — Alternative Dispute Resolution 501.907.7412 (office) e-mail: jack1bell@aol.com Biographical Information |
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| Tad Bohannon — Real Estate Transactions, Local Government 501.212.1362 e-mail: ctbohannon@wlj.com Biographical Information |
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| Christopher Brockett — Advanced Taxation, Partnership Tax 501.375.1122 (office) e-mail: cbrockett@jacknelsonjones.com Christopher D. Brockett received a B.S. from Arkansas Tech University in 2001, a J.D. from UALR in 2004, and an LL.M. in taxation from the University of Miami in 2005. He is an associate at Jack Nelson Jones Fink Jiles & Gregory, P.A., where he practices in the areas of corporate, tax, probate, commercial and business law, and estate planning. |
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| Tiffany Milligan Brown — Supreme Court Litigation
501.912.6393 (cell) 501.847.8418 (home) 501.324.7331 (office) e-mail: Tiffany_Brown@ca8.uscourts.gov or TMill720@aol.com Tiffany Milligan Brown received a B.A. in political science from UALR in 2002 and a J.D. from UALR in 2005, where she served as the Research Editor of the UALR Law Review. After graduating from law school, she served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Lavenski R. Smith of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit from 2005 to 2007. In August 2007, she became a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Richard D. Taylor of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas. In August 2008, Mrs. Brown returned to the chambers of the Honorable Lavenski Smith, where she now serves as a career judicial law clerk. |
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| John L. Burnett – Lawyering Skills Workshop: Litigation 501.376.2269 (office) e-mail: Burnett@laveyandburnett.com Biographical Information |
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| Jonann Chiles — Products Liability, Federal Courts
501.247.8801 (office) e-mail: jecchiles@aol.com Biographical Information |
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| Julie Cullen — Judicial Clerkship Practicum
501.682.7492 (office) e-mail: julie.cullen@arkansas.gov Julie Cullen received a B.S. from Texas A&M and a J.D. and M.P.A. from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. She serves as a law clerk to the Honorable Larry Vaught, Chief Judge of the Arkansas Court of Appeals. Her prior work includes serving as a clerk for the Honorable Lavenski Smith of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, serving as a policy advisor to former Governor of the State of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee, serving as a lobbyist for the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, serving as a staff member to the State of Affairs committee of Texas Senate, and serving in the administration of former President of the United States, George Herbert Walker Bush. Cullen also teaches as a guest lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Cullen serves as a Barrister in the Henry Wood Inn of Court and a Director for the Bar Association of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. |
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| Beth M. Deere Lawyering Skills Workshop: Litigation
501.372.0800 (office) e-mail: bdeere@williamsanderson.com Biographical Information |
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| Joel DiPippa — Moot Court Competition
501.682.2029 (office) e-mail: joel_dipippa@yahoo.com
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| Pam Dixon Lawyering Skills Workshop: Transaction
501.666.3802 (home) 501.324.5065 (work) e-mail: pamela.dixon@eeoc.gov |
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| Rick Donovan Lawyering Skills Workshop: Litigation 501.375.9131 e-mail: rdonovan@roselawfirm.com Biographical Information |
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| Byron Eiseman — Estate & Gift Taxation; Estate Planning
501.376.2011 (office) e-mail: eiseman@fec.net Biographical Information |
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| Charlene Fleetwood — Juvenile Law 501.833.8117 e-mail: charlenefleetwood@sbcglobal.net Charlene Fleetwood received a B.A. from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff in 1995 and a J.D. from UALR in 2001. She has served as an attorney for the Office of Child Support Enforcement for the Searcy Regional Office and is currently serving in that capacity for the Little Rock OCSE, where she represents the state in circuit, federal district and bankruptcy courts. |
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| The Honorable Vic Fleming — Law & Literature
501.351.6214 (office) e-mail: vfleming@littlerock.org judgevic@comcast.net Judge Vic Fleming holds a B.A. from Davidson College and a J.D. from the UALR Bowen School of Law. After graduation he practiced law for 18 years and served for 10 years on the Arkansas Educational Television Commission. He has been Little Rock's traffic judge, formally known as Little Rock District Judge, Second Department, since 1997. In addition to his legal work, Judge Fleming is a humor columnist and author, a writer of crossword puzzles (several of which have appeared in the New York Times), and a member of the Arkansas Writers Hall of Fame. |
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| Allan Gates Environmental Law
501.688.8816 (office) e-mail: agates@mwsgw.com Biographical Information |
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| Melissa Glover Lawyering Skills Workshop: Transaction
501.252.1000 (office) e-mail: melissa.glover@acxiom.com |
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| Jim Goodhart Land Use
501.223.6327 (office) e-mail: jfgoodhart@agfc.state.ar.us James F. Goodhart has served as General Counsel for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission since 1997. While originally a native of Little Rock, Mr. Goodhart obtained his undergraduate degree in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering from Vanderbilt University in 1981. He later received his J.D. degree, with honors, from Loyola University (1986) and his Masters of Law degree, with honors, in Environmental and Energy Law from Tulane University (1991). He subsequently served as a judicial clerk with the United States District Court (Honorable Nauman S. Scott) in Alexandria, Louisiana and then followed in private practice with firms in Alexandria and New Orleans. Upon returning to Little Rock in 1991, he engaged in private practice concentrating in environmental law. |
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| Mark Hagemeier Lawyering Skills Workshop: Litigation
501.686.7608 (office) e-mail: MHagemeier@uams.edu Mark Hagemeier received a B.A. from Baylor University in 1986 and a J.D. from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1994. Previously, he served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Stephen M. Reasoner, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and as a litigator with the Arkansas Attorney General's Office and the Arkansas Municipal League. Currently, he is Associate General Counsel with the University of Arkansas System and works at UAMS. |
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| Dennis Hansen — Legal Profession
/ Administrative Law 501.682.2081 (office) e-mail: dennis.hansen@ag.state.ar.us Biographical Information |
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| Tom Hardin — Business Associations; Lawyering Skills Workshops - Transaction
501.375.9131 (office) e-mail: jthardin@roselawfirm.com Biographical Information |
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| Patricia Harris — Advanced Litigation Skills
501.212.1323 Biographical Information |
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| Lauren E. Heil Moot Court Competition
501.758.9764 e-mail: lauren.heil@arkansasag.gov |
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| Denise Hoggard Lawyering Skills Workshop: Litigation
501.372.5800 (office) e-mail: dhoggard@cnjlaw.com Biographical Information |
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| Michael Johnson — Evidence 501.340.2614 e-mail: mdjohnson453@hotmail.com Michael Johnson received a B.A. from Washington State University in 1970, and a J.D. from the University of Washington in 1973. Since that time he has been employed in the U.S. Department of Justice, originally in the Civil Rights Division and since 1984 in the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Eastern District of Arkansas, where he has served at various times as First Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney and currently serves as Senior Litigation Counsel. He has taught at UALR numerous times as an adjunct, mostly in the Lawyering Skills II course. |
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| Phyllis McKenzie Jones — Bankruptcy Law
501.376.6565 (office) e-mail: pmckenzie@lvfm.net Biographical Information |
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| Craig S. Lair Lawyering Skills Workshop: Transaction
501.375.9131 (office) e-mail: clair@roselawfirm.com Biographical Information |
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| Josh Lee Criminal Procedure: Sentencing
501.324.6114 (office) e-mail: josh.lee@fd.org Josh Lee received his B.A. from Texas A&M University in 2002 and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 2005. After graduating from law school, he served as a law clerk for the Honorable Fortunato Benavides of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Austin, Texas. Since 2006, Mr. Lee has been an Assistant Federal Defender at the Arkansas Federal Public Defenders Office, where he specializes in death penalty litigation. |
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| Kevin M. Lemley — Intellectual Property
501.374.7100 (office) e-mail: kmlemley@allenlawfirmpc.com Biographical Information |
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| Jeremy B. Lowrey — Law & Literature 870.942.4957 e-mail: mycroft@centerlane.org Jeremy B. Lowrey received a B.A. from the University of Tulsa in 1987 and a J.D. from the College of William and Mary in 1991. He has served as appellate defense counsel and the deputy chief of the Capital Post-Conviction Division of the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System, as well as maintaining a private practice of law. Currently he practices in the areas of federal appellate practice and habeas corpus, criminal trial practice and general litigation. |
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| Patrick W. McAlpine — Patent Law
501.221.4265 (office) e-mail: patrick.mcalpine@staffmark.com Patrick W. McAlpine is Assistant General Counsel in the corporate legal department of Staffmark, where he concentrates his practice in the areas of contract law, intellectual property and trade secret law, employment law, immigration law, and commercial litigation. He received his B.A. degree from the University of Arkansas summa cum laude (1996) and his J.D. degree, with high honors, from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (1999), where he was Editor-in-Chief of the UALR Law Review. Prior to joining Staffmark, Mr. McAlpine practiced with the Little Rock firm of Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow PLLC and was a member of the corporate legal department of Stephens Inc. |
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| Cliff McKinney, II — Real Estate Finance 501.379.1725 e-mail: cmckinney@ggtb.com Biographical Information |
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| William L. Owen Lawyering Skills Workshop: Litigation
501.372.1655 e-mail: wlowen@swbell.net Biographical Information |
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| John Peiserich Oil & Gas Law
501.603.9000 (office) e-mail: jpeiserich@perkinstrotter.com Biographical Information |
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| G. Alan Perkins Oil & Gas Law
501.603.9000 (office) e-mail: aperkins@perkinstrotter.com Biographical Information |
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| Sam Perroni — White Collar Crime
501.372.2070 (office) e-mail: (Sherry Joyce): sperroni@perronilaw.com Sam Perroni received a B.A. from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1970 and a J.D. from the University of Arkansas School of Law, Little Rock Division, in 1974. While in law school, he clerked for William R. Wilson Jr., United States District Judge, while Judge Wilson was in private practice, as well as for the late Henry Woods, United States District Court Judge. After graduation he served as an assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas. Following this employment, he entered private practice with Jack Holt, Jr., former Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, before starting his own firm, practicing primarily in the area of white collar crime defense. He taught trial advocacy at UALR for many years between 1977 and 1998. |
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| Connie Brown Phillips — Insurance
501.378.3306 (office) e-mail: cbphillips@usablelife.com Biographical Information |
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| Austin Porter Lawyering Skills Workshop: Litigation
501.244.8200 e-mail: aporte5640@aol.com Biographical Information |
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| The Honorable Willard Proctor, Jr. Race and the Criminal Justice System Seminar
501.340.8550 (office) e-mail: wproctor@co.pulaski.ar.us Biographical Information |
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| Janet Pulliam Lawyering Skills Workshop: Litigation
501.280.0100 (office) e-mail: Jpulliam@williamsanderson.com Biographical Information |
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| James D. Rankin III Oil & Gas Law
501.603.9000 (office) e-mail: jrankin@perkinstrotter.com Biographical Information |
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| Debra J. Reece - Reasoning, Writing, and Advocacy I & II; Criminal Procedure: Post-Trial
501.580.7026 (office) e-mail: djreecelawfirm@yahoo.com Biographical Information |
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| Gwendolyn Rucker — Criminal Procedure Pre-Trial; Legal Profession 501.309.1141 (office) e-mail: gwendolynrucker@sbcglobal.net Gwendolyn Rucker received a BA from Spelman College in 1997 and a joint JD/MPA from UALR in 2001 and 2002, respectively. She previously served as a law clerk for the Arkansas Court of Appeals and a staff attorney for the Arkansas Supreme Court Office of Professional Conduct. She is currently a law clerk to Magistrate Judge Henry L. Jones, Jr., of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. |
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| Blake Spencer Rutherford Law and Film
501.837.6108 (office) e-mail: rutherford.blake@gmail.com Biographical Information |
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| Amy Stewart Lawyering Skills Workshop: Litigation
501.375.9131 (office) e-mail: astewart@roselawfirm.com Biographical Information |
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| Grif Stockley — Law & History of Race Relations in Ar 501.376.1281 Griffin J. Stockley received a B.A. from Rhodes College in 1965, and a J.D. from the University of Arkansas in 1972. He served as staff attorney for the Center for Arkansas Legal Services for three decades, during which time he argued numerous landmark cases before the Arkansas Supreme Court. He also served as staff attorney for the Disability Rights Center and the ACLU of Arkansas. Currently he is the Dee Brown Fellow at the Central Arkansas Library System Butler Center for Arkansas Studies. Besides being the author of a series of legal novels, he has written two award-winning non-fiction histories: Blood in Their Eyes: The Elaine Race Massacres of 1919, and Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas. |
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| Hon. Richard D. Taylor — Chapters 11 & 13 Reorganization 501.918.5620 e-mail: rick_taylor@areb.uscourts.gov Born in Louisiana, attended Centenary College and the University of Arkansas School of Law. Practiced bankruptcy and commercial litigation at Friday, Eldredge and Clark before taking the bench in January, 2003. Was recognized in The Best Lawyers in America and the Arkansas Times for expertise in bankruptcy. Taught undergraduate real property law at UALR and bankruptcy law at the University of Arkansas School of Law. |
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| Robert S. Tschiemer — Workers’ Comp
501.951.3303 (office) e-mail: legalbriefing@sbcglobal.net Biographical Information |
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| Everett Clarke Tucker — Law & Politics Seminar 501.247.8363 e-mail: clarketucker@gmail.com Everett Clarke Tucker received a B.A. from Harvard University in 2003 and a J.D. from the University of Arkansas in 2006. He served as editor-in-chief of the Arkansas Law Review. He is currently a law clerk to Chief Judge J. Leon Holmes of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. |
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| Brian A. Vandiver — Disability Law, Employment Law, Employment Discrimination Law 501.371.9999 e-mail: bvandiver@cgwg.com Biographical Information |
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| David Paul Waddilove — Advanced Torts 734.846.8157 e-mail: dpwadds@gmail.com David Waddilove received a B.A. from Cambridge University in 2001, an M.A.R. from Yale University Divinity School in 2004, and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 2007. He is currently law clerk to the Honorable Morris S. Arnold, at the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. |
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| Pamela D. Walker, P.A. Lawyering Skills Workshop: Litigation
501.372.3363 e-mail: pamelawalker@aristotle.net Biographical Information |
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| Che' Williamson — Advanced Civil Procedure
501.372.3053 (office) e-mail: chedatty@aol.com Biographical Information |
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| Odette Woods Family Law
501.376.1366 (office) e-mail: odette_woods@hotmail.com
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