Dean's Message

Accomplishment, dedication, and service are traits that I have come to associate with Capital University Law School and its alumni. I invite you to join me and your Law Alumni Association at the Alumni Awards Lunch on May 2 at the Hyatt on Capitol Square. We will celebrate and honor this year’s award recipients: Robert J. Weiler, L’83, H’05, chairman of The Robert Weiler Company; David E. Freel, L’77, executive director of the Ohio Ethics Commission; Judge Matthew W. McFarland, ’89, L’92, of the Ohio Fourth District Court of Appeals; and Jennifer A. Adair, L’05 from the Ohio Attorney General’s Office.

Our Alumni Awards Lunch is also an opportunity to recognize and congratulate all of our outstanding alumni for their commitment to service and the profession. The Law School was founded in 1903 as a part-time evening program, providing access and opportunity to a legal education for dedicated individuals who had the desire and the will to practice law, but not the means to go full-time. This mission of access and opportunity continues today.

Our nearly 7,000 law alumni practice with distinction in big and small firms, in government and public interest fields, in the nonprofit sector and in corporations. Our law alumni make an incredible impact on their communities and profession and without them, our justice system would be greatly diminished. Each and every day as I meet more of our outstanding alumni, I am reminded of the incredible contribution you make to our society through your practice, leadership, service and volunteerism. Thank you!

This year’s Alumni Awards Lunch also gives us the opportunity to recognize our student scholars and our dedicated faculty. We have had a number of recent faculty accomplishments this year as well to celebrate, including Professor Stanton G. Darling II who will be honored with the 2008 Ohio State Bar Association Legal Education Committee Award on May 15. The award is given to a law teacher who has contributed the most to Ohio law and the Ohio bar. Also, this past fall the Law School faculty was ranked sixth among peer institutions in a scholarly productivity study conducted by Roger Williams University.

I look forward to seeing you soon at Alumni Weekend!

Jack A. Guttenberg
Dean and Professor of Law

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