Accomplishments: William S. Boyd School of Law
Professor Mary LaFrance (Law) presented at the State Bar of Nevada Intellectual Property Law Section's Intellectual Property Law Conference. Her presentation was titled "Recent Developments in Trademarks and the First Amendment."
Professor Joe Regalia (Law) presented at the State Bar of Nevada Intellectual Property Law Section's Intellectual Property Law Conference. He participated in a panel discussion titled "Artificial Intelligence Use of AI in the Legal Profession: Professional, Ethical and Security Concerns."
Professor Nachman Gutowski (Law) presented at the Association of Academic Support Educators, Diversity Conference, at the American University Washington College of Law. His talk was on “Leveraging Partnerships and Relationships to Maximize Support for Students."
Professor Lori Johnson (Law) published an article for the October edition of Nevada Lawyer titled "Challenges and Rewards of Educating First-Generation Law Students."
Professor Joe Regalia (Law) published a short article in the October edition Nevada Lawyer titled "Generative AI and the Future of Legal Education."
Congratulations to professor Kathy Stanchi (Law) on the publication of her new paper, The Rhetoric of Rape Through the Lens of Commonwealth v. Berkowitz, which will be published in the forthcoming International Journal for the Semiotics of Law.
Professor Mary Beth Beazley (Law) gave a day-long presentation to attorneys for the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) Union on effective legal writing, at their annual staff meeting in Baltimore, Maryland.
Professor Nancy Rapoport (Law) presented at the Fall 2023 American Bar Association (ABA) Standing Committee on Professional Lawyers' Liability's National Legal Malpractice Conference in Chicago, Illinois, on Cutting Edge Data Analytics – Claims Prediction and more.
Professor Ruben J. Garcia (Law) gave a lecture to the employees of the National Labor Relations Board (up to 1200 invited) online during the agency's commemoration of Hispanic Heritage Month on Sept. 26, 2023. Garcia followed remarks by board chairman Lauren McFerran, appointed by President Biden in 2020, and NLRB General Counsel Jennifer…
Professors Benjamin Edwards and Rachel Anderson presented on panels at the 2023 Summit for Corporate Governance. Dean Leah Chan Grinvald and Edwards gave opening remarks at the summit.
Edwards was on a panel entitled, "A Board Situation - Bringing the Team Together to Address a Corporate Crisis." Anderson was part of a panel entitled, "…
Professor Marketa Trimble (Law) will participate in a panel discussion on September 22, 2023, as part of the Ethics in Engineering Workshop organized by the UNLV University Libraries and Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering. Trimble will discuss Intellectual Property on the panel (copyright law, patent law, and…
Professor Joe Regalia is delivering a talk to the California Lawyer's Association titled, "Unleashing the Power of Generative AI Smartly and Ethically." Regalia's talk explores the practical and ethical challenges posed by generative AI in legal practice — as well as the exciting new possibilities.