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KEVIN SMITH Professor Kevin Smith published his article “25 années de problem-solving courts aux Etats-Unis” in the French publication Cahiers de la sécurité intérieure (Journal of Safety). Professor Smith also continues his service on the Tennessee Access to Justice Commission – Education Advisory Committee and the Tennessee Access to Justice Commission – Pro Bono Committee. JODI WILSON During the Legal Writing Institute’s 2014 Biennial Conference, Professor Wilson gave a poster presentation entitled “Wikipedia on the Rise: Teaching Legal Writers to Assess Non-Traditional Sources.” In June 2014, Professor Wilson gave a joint presentation with Robert B. Vandiver, Jr., entitled “Joint Representation in Bankruptcy - Ethical Considerations” at the American Bankruptcy Institute’s 2014 Memphis Consumer Bankruptcy Conference. Professor Wilson has been appointed to serve as the chair of the Listserv Committee of the Legal Writing Institute and the co-chair of the Survey Committee of the Association of Legal Writing Directors. CHRIS ZAWISZA In April 2014, Professor Zawisza presented a seminar on “Hot Topics in Education Law” to over 100 student teachers in the University of Memphis Department of Education student teaching seminar. In June 2014, she presented a CLE on “Ethics and Professionalism: Integrity in the Courtroom” in Nashville on behalf of the Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts Dependency Court Improvement Program (AOC). The session has been videotaped for viewing on the AOC website. During the past year, Professor Zawisza served on the Supreme Court Dependency Court Improvement Project Workgroup, which undertook a complete revision of the Tennessee Rules of Juvenile Practice and Procedure. She was responsible for drafting the rule on “Children as Witnesses.” In June 2014, the Supreme Court Law Committee, on which she serves, reviewed and approved the draft rules and submitted them to the Supreme Court Rules Commission. In July 2014, Professor Zawisza represented two children as Guardian ad Litem in a highly contested termination of parental rights trial, which took place over three days and involved 16 hours of testimony. The issue in the case was abandonment by failure to visit and pay child support and abandonment by wanton disregard of the children’s welfare. The children are in local pre-adoptive homes. The Shelby County Chancery Court granted the termination petition.
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GRAYING FIGHTING ELDER FINANCIAL EXPLOITATION By: Andrew Jay McClurg Professor McClurg holds the Herff Chair of Excellence in Law and teaches in the areas of tort law, privacy law, and gun violence. His recent article in the Hastings Law Journal proposed a statute creating a presumption of elder financial exploitation under specified circumstances. The statute was introduced in the Florida legislature as part of H.B. 409, passed through the House and Senate unanimously, and was signed into law in June 2014. McClurg is the author of numerous books and articles, including the bestselling law school prep book “1L of a Ride: A Well-Traveled Professor’s Roadmap to Success in the First Year of Law School.”
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Professor McClurg was a featured speaker at numerous events in 2014. He was the keynote speaker at the Tennessee Vulnerable Adult Coalition Annual Meeting, Memphis, March 2014; the keynote speaker at the Open House for Admitted Students and Families, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, March 2014; and panelist on “The Silent Epidemic: Elder Maltreatment and Victimization—A Community Response,” for Plough Foundation, Memphis, Tenn., January 2014.