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Britney Spears May Be Losing Her Way Again,” in The Sunday Times of London, regarding Britney Spears’ conservatorship, published on February 26, 2023. He was also interviewed regarding “Client-Centered Counseling: Reappraisal and Refinement and Supported Decision Making” on February 20, 2023. He was a facilitator of Group 13 at Law and Disabilities, Clinical Law Review Writers’ Workshop held at NYU School of Law, New York, New York, on October 8, 2022.
Jeremi Duru was elected to the Sport Lawyers
Association Board of Directors where he helps direct the
organization’s visions and operations. He was a presenter to the Bar Association of Montgomery County: “The Intersection of Sports, Race, and Law in the NFL.” Jeremi co-authored a book with Tim Davis titled Understanding Sports Law, published by Carolina Academic Press. He was a presenter at Rutgers Law School on The Future of the Rooney Rule: Lessons Learned on March 2, 2023. Jeremi was quoted in several articles, including an article in Sportico: “Flores Case, Rooney Rule Flaws Put Pressure on NFL Hiring Practices” (February 8, 2023). He was quoted in “Oſten Interviewed, Never Hired: How Hot-shot Minority NFL Head Coaching Candidates Go Cold,” USA Today (January 12, 2023) and “This NFL Coordinator Has Been on the Rise for Years. But Why Hasn’t He Been Made a Head Coach Yet?,” USA Today (January 12, 2023). He was also quoted in “Baker at the Barricades: Outgoing Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker Takes the Helm at
the NCAA Just in Time for the College Athletes’ Revolution,” The American Prospect (December 22, 2022). He was quoted in an article published in The New York Times titled “Colts Owner Defends Hiring Coach with No NFL Experience” (November 8, 2022). He was quoted in “English Clubs Failing to Meet Ethnic Diversity Targets, Missing Six of Eight Metrics,” Sky Sports (October 28, 2022). He was quoted in two articles by Jason Reid, “Steelers’ Brian Flores, Dolphins’ Chris Grier Were Once a Rare Black Power Duo in the NFL,” ESPN Andscape (October 21, 2022) and Steve Wilks’ “Second Chance as an NFL Head Coach Comes with Caveats,” ESPN Andscape (October 13, 2022). He was also quoted in an article in The Washington Post, “The Failed NFL Diversity ‘Rule’ that Corporate America Loves” (October 4, 2022). Additionally, Jeremi was selected as the AUWCL representative for, and was highlighted in, The American University Change Can’t Wait Campaign.
Walter Effross published Keeping Your Own Counsel: Simple Strategies and Secrets for Success in Law
School (Aspen Publishing) on March 9, 2023. He published the article “John Osborn’s Enduring Words on Law & Learning” in the Washington Lawyer in March 2023. The article discusses the practical lessons of the book and movie The Paper Chase and the example set by the author.
Roger A. Fairfax Jr. published “For Grand Juries” in the California Law Review Online. He moderated a panel
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“Public Safety for Tomorrow: Role of Mental Health Clinicians in Responding to People in Crisis” at the American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section Fall Institute and delivered the firmwide Black History Month lecture at White & Case LLP. He spoke on a panel of local law school deans at the Maryland State Bar Association’s 125th Anniversary Thought Leadership Initiative event and addressed the justices and judges of the Maryland Supreme Court and Maryland Appellate Court about the Trends in Legal Education at the 2023 Maryland Judicial Conference. He participated in the Harvard Law School-Yale Law School Conference on Best Practices in Law School Data. Dean Fairfax moderated a national virtual panel of leaders on careers at the U.S. Department of Justice and spoke on a panel of law school deans at the Harvard Law School reunion weekend. He was featured in a minidocumentary on the 50th anniversary of DC home rule and he moderated the keynote fireside chat “Conversation with Local Legends, former Mayor Sharon Pratt and Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist Colby King,” at the 2023 DC Bar Judicial and Bar Conference, the theme of which was Home Rule in DC at 50: Looking Back and Looking Forward. Dean Fairfax was named by Lawyers of Color magazine to the 2023 Power List of the nation’s most influential attorneys.
Christine Farley presented a paper titled “Design Authenticity” at the 2023 Works in Progress in
Intellectual Property Conference at Suffolk University Law School
on February 22, 2023. Her report titled “Report on Unfair Competition Protection under U.S. and Canadian Law” was published in “Status Report on the Protection against Unfair Competition” by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in November 2022. She was quoted in Dwell Magazine’s article titled, “How E-Commerce Changed the Knockoff Furniture Game.” She was also quoted in the
Law.com article titled “100% That Firm; These New Jersey Lawyers Just Helped Lizzo Win a Major Legal Victory.”
Paul Figley presented at “The Camp Lejeune Justice Act—What Happens Next” webinar sponsored
by the Federalist Society Litigation Practice Group on March 13, 2023.
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson published the article “Why Digital Policing Is Different” in The
Ohio State Law Journal, which was revised in February 2023. He has a forthcoming article “Digital Rummaging,” in the Washington University Law Review.
Llezlie Green was invited to the Labor Law Group Conference where she participated in a panel entitled
“Workers Centers at the Intersection” at the University of San Diego Law School on December 9, 2022. In January 2023, she was elected to the Labor Law Group, an invitation- only organization of law professors dedicated to
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