Events
WIDENER LAW HOSTS DISTINGUISHED LECTURE IN HEALTH LAW More than 100 people heard New Jersey attorney George W. Conk, Esq., deliver the second annual Raynes McCarty Distinguished Lecture in Health Law on Widener’s Delaware campus and at the Union League in Philadelphia. The lecture, delivered at both of the locations on Oct. 11, was titled “Will the post 9/11 world be a post-tort world?” Conk is managing partner at Tulipan and Conk, PC, in South Orange, NJ, and is an adjunct faculty member at Fordham Law School.
At the McCarty lecture, seated from left, Regina M. Foley ‘92, David F. Binder, and Martina W. McLaughlin, all of Raynes McCarty. Standing from left, Eugene D. McGurk Jr. ’78, chairman of the Widener Law Board of Overseers and an attorney with Raynes McCarty; Martin K. Brigham of Raynes McCarty; George W. Conk, of Tulipan and Conk, PC, the attorney who delivered the 2006 Raynes McCarty Distinguished Lecture in Health Law; Gerald A. McHugh Jr. of Raynes McCarty; Widener Law Dean Linda L. Ammons; Dr. Andrew Newman, associate director of Widener’s Health Law Institute; and Raynes McCarty attorneys Timothy R. Lawn ’89, Stephen E. Raynes, Dr. Daniel M. Finelli, Lois DeAntonio, and Daniel Bencivenga.
The event was made possible through the generosity of the Raynes McCarty law firm, based in Philadelphia. Raynes McCarty attorneys represent the catastrophically injured. It is one of the country’s most philanthropic and civicminded firms.
DEAN’S WELCOME RECEPTION, WILMINGTON Well-wishers, including, front row from left, Mrs. Mary Wagner (Dean Ammons’ mother), Widener University President James T. Harris III, Delaware Supreme Court Chief Justice Myron T. Steele, New Castle County Executive Chris Coons, Wilmington Mayor James M. Baker, Dean of Ohio State University-Moritz College of Law Nancy H. Rogers, and Widener University Provost Jo Allen, congratulated Dean Linda L. Ammons at a welcome reception on the Wilmington campus on Sept. 26.
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Dean Linda L. Ammons shows off a key to the city of Wilmington given to her by Mayor James M. Baker at the Dean’s Welcome Reception, Wilmington.