Course:
Writing for Judges

Judge Jennifer Dorsey was nominated by President Obama in September 2012 and was confirmed by the Senate in July 2013 as a U. S. District Court Judge for the District of Nevada. Judge Dorsey spent her entire lawyer life at the law firm of Kemp, Jones & Coulthard LLP, where she practiced in state and federal courts and litigated a wide variety of cases including complex commercial litigation and class actions. She particularly enjoyed her appellate practice, briefing and arguing matters in the Nevada Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. While in private practice, Judge Dorsey was selected to serve on the Nevada Supreme Court’s Committee on Professionalism, was listed among the Top Women in Litigation and Nevada’s Legal Elite, and held Martindale-Hubbell’s highest AV rating for competency and ethics. A native Nevadan, Judge Dorsey received her BA cum laude from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and she is a member of the UNLV Foundation’s Advisory Board. She received her law degree from Pepperdine University School of Law and is a member of its Board of Visitors. A grammarphile and Life Member of Scribes—the American Society of Legal Writers—Judge Dorsey is dedicated to improving the writing skills of young lawyers, eradicating rogue apostrophes, and preserving the serial comma.

Courses:
International Commercial Arbitration
International Negotiations & Mediation

John Garman’s background and experience are in the areas of international commercial transactions and alternate dispute resolution. He is an arbitrator/neutral and has conducted educational programs in Europe and the US, addressing issues concerning Diversity, ADR and the international practice of law. Mr. Garman currently teaches as a part time Professor at University of Southern California Law School teaching International Negotiation/Mediation and International Commercial Arbitration and an adjunct Professor at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, and University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Boyd Law School, teaching International Commercial Arbitration.

Mr. Garman is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and currently serves as the Vice Chair- Chapters, of the North American Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is a Certified Mediator with the International Mediation Institute and a Neutral on the American Arbitration Association Commercial Arbitration and Mediation Panel as well as a Member of the United States Council for International Business Arbitration Committee, Sole Practitioners Subcommittee. He is also on the Attorney Settlement Officer Panel of the United States District Court, Central District of California and a Neutral with the California Court of Appeals, Second Appellate District.

Mr. Garman previously served on the Executive Committee of the International Law section of the California Bar and the International Bar Association Task Force to study and evaluate the text of the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Conciliation.

He is “Of Counsel” to Hasch & Partners, an Austrian law firm and has offices in Vienna, Austria and Manhattan Beach, California. Mr. Garman is admitted in California, the District of Columbia and as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales.

Course:
Privacy, Publicity and Defamation

Richard F. Jost is a Director in the Las Vegas office of Fennemore Craig Jones Vargas. He has practiced law in Nevada for more than thirty-five years, primarily in the areas of administrative law, regulatory law, and municipal finance, project development and related tax and securities law. Mr. Jost has represented state and local government entities, non-profit corporations, private developers and commercial and investment bankers in tax-exempt project financings and redevelopment financings. He is the industry practice group leader for Fennemore Craig's Aviation, Aerospace and Autonomous Aerial Vehicles team. He is also actively engaged in the firm's Emerging Businesses and Technologies industry practice group. Mr. Jost holds a Juris Doctor degree from Syracuse University College of Law and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dickinson College and is admitted to practice in Nevada and New York.

Course:
Legislative Policy

Erin McMullen is an attorney specializing in government affairs with R & R Partners in Las Vegas, where she oversees the development and execution of legislative agendas for the company’s Nevada clients. Prior to joining R&R, she was an associate attorney with the government affairs group of Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P. in Las Vegas, where she specialized in governmental affairs; political lobbying; and administrative and regulatory law for clients in the insurance, health care, energy, banking, taxation and general business arenas. From 2003 to 2005, she worked a legislative correspondent for U.S. Senator Harry Reid in his Washington, D.C., office, assisting Nevada residents with a wide variety of policy issues and legislation ranging from taxes and budget, to labor and housing. She earned her B.S. in linguistics from Georgetown University in 2003, and her J.D. from California Western School of Law in 2008, and is a member of the State Bar of Nevada.

Course:
Education Clinic

Dr. Leslie Strasser Murdock is the owner of ELM Educational Consulting, where she represents children and families looking to obtain necessary school services. She also acts as the educational liaison between the Clark County Department of Family Services and the Clark County School District.

Dr. Murdock serves on several community advisory boards including the Clark County School District, Women’s Research Institute of Nevada, Anti-Defamation League of Nevada, UNLV’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Fellowship, Jewish Federation of Southern Nevada, and Jewish Community Center. She obtained a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and a J.D. from the Boyd School of Law, a Master of Arts in Learning Disabilities from Columbia University, a BA in Sociology, and an Elementary Teaching Certification from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Courses:
Antitrust
Civil Discovery
Pretrial Litigation

Stanford B. Owen earned his law degree from Stanford University where he was a member of the Stanford Law Review. He was a litigator with the Salt Lake City, Utah law firm Fabian & Clendenin for nearly 35 years, but now teaches at the Boyd School of Law (Antitrust, Civil Discovery and Pretrial Litigation), the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University (Antitrust, Pretrial Litigation, Trial Advocacy) and the University of Utah Law School (Pretrial Litigation). He has taught Pretrial Litigation for over 30 years. He has substantial experience litigating large civil cases.

Course:
Environment Quality Law

David Sandino served as Chief Counsel for the California Department of Water Resources from 2006-2010 under an appointment by Government Arnold Schwarzenegger and currently serves as senior staff counsel. He has worked on significant water, environmental, tribal, and energy issues during his twenty-year career with the Department. The Department operates the largest state water system in the United States, the State Water Project, which delivers water to 25 million Californians and 750,000 acres of farmland. He has taught water law, environmental law, energy resources law, and local government law at Texas Tech University School of Law, Santa Clara University School of Law, University of San Francisco School of Law, and Golden Gate University School of Law. He also has created and teaches courses at the UC Davis Extension for environmental professionals on California water law and policy, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, and Tribal water law. He received a distinguished teaching award from the UC Davis for his contribution to natural science education. He received a 1999 Fulbright Fellowship to teach in Russia, where he taught international environmental law at the Moscow State Academy. He is a graduate of the Santa Clara University School of Law, King's College London, and UC Davis.

Course:
Legal Drafting: Transactional Drafting

After graduating law school in 2008, Cassie joined the Las Vegas office of Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. as an associate in the commercial litigation practice group.  While there, she was able to develop her skills as a new attorney while under the guidance of the firm’s extremely skilled and well-respected attorneys.  Since 2012, Cassie has worked for Boyd Gaming Corporation, currently as Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, where she assists in a wide variety of matters for the publicly traded, multi-state casino owner and operator.  Cassie describes working for the company co-funded by William S. Boyd, the law school’s namesake, as “a unique honor as an alumna of the Boyd School of Law.”
 

Course:
Pretrial Litigation

Rene Valladares works as the Federal Public Defender, District of Nevada. He earned his JD in 1987 from the University of Florida School of Law and his LL.M. in 1993 from the University of Miami School of Law.

Course:
Law Practice Management

Sean Claggett graduated from University of Nevada Las Vegas (2000) with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. Thereafter, Sean graduated cum laude from Boyd School of Law (2003). After graduating from Boyd School of Law, Sean was employed at a high profile criminal defense law firm. After working for this firm for over two and a half years, Sean made the decision to start his own firm. On January 1, 2005, Sean opened his law firm with a single client and one employee. Today Claggett & Sykes Law Firm has eleven employees, including three attorneys, who are all Boyd School of Law Alumni. Since 2005, Sean has resolved numerous multi-million dollar real estate disputes. Sean has also successfully settled millions of dollars in personal injury claims. Most impressive is the fact that Sean has obtained well over $30,000,000.00 in judgments for his clients through litigation. Since 2012, Sean has been an arbitrator through the Nevada Supreme Court Annexed Arbitration Program.

Sean has achieved an AV Preeminent rating with Martindale-Hubbell. The Martindale-Hubbell® PEER REVIEW RATINGS™ are an objective indicator of a lawyer's high ethical standards and professional ability, generated from evaluations of lawyers by other members of the bar and the judiciary in the United States and Canada. Martindale-Hubbell® PEER REVIEW RATINGS™ reflect a combination of achieving a Very High General Ethical Standards rating and a Legal Ability numerical rating. A threshold number of responses is required to achieve a rating. AV Preeminent is the highest possible ranking, and is a significant rating accomplishment - a testament to the fact that a lawyer's peers rank him or her at the highest level of professional excellence.

Course:
Criminal Evidence

Dominic Gentile is a founding partner in Gentile Cristalli Miller Armeni Savarese PLLC and has been a practicing criminal defense attorney for 44 years. He has represented many public officials, business persons and professionals in disciplinary proceedings and has been defense counsel in numerous high profile cases, among them the successful defense of Kathy Augustine in the only impeachment proceedings in Nevada history, the acquittal of Jesus Vega on murder charges which was internationally televised on Sundance Channel, and the acquittal of Grady Sanders on RICO charges.  The United States Supreme Court overturned a reprimand which he received from the Nevada Supreme Court as a result of a press conference he held in the Sanders matter at which he professed his client’s innocence and accused two Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department detectives of the crime. He has served as Associate Dean of the National Criminal Defense College,  Chairman of the American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section RICO Cases Committee and Vice Chairman of its Defense Function Committee, a member of the Board of Governors of the State Bar of Nevada and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.  In addition to teaching Trial Advocacy at the William S. Boyd School of Law, where he has been an adjunct professor for fifteen years, he has been a faculty member at Intensive Trial Advocacy programs at Harvard Law School and the Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University.  He is a founding member of the Nevada Attorneys for Criminal Justice and is a charter and current member of the prestigious Nevada Supreme Court Bench-Bar Committee. He has been included in Woodward & White’s Best Lawyers in America from its inception in 1983 to the present and has held a Martindale Hubbell AV rating since 1980.  

Course:
Trial Advocacy

Thomas Pitaro has practiced law in Las Vegas, Nevada for over 28 years. He has successfully tried every type of case from misdemeanors to capital murder. Although his practice is primarily in the area of criminal law, Mr. Pitaro also practices in the area of personal injury and civil litigation. He is one of only a handful of attorneys in Nevada who has successfully won both a jury verdict of "not guilty" in a capital murder case as well as winning a multi-million dollar jury verdict in a civil trial.

Course:
The Law & Business of the Music Industry

Howard Siegel was senior partner in Pryor Cashman's Entertainment Group until his retirement in 2016. He has more than 40 years’ experience in representing clients in all aspects of the entertainment business, with a particular emphasis on the music industry, during which time he has served as counsel to many of the industry’s most prominent recording artists, songwriters, producers, managers, and executives. He gained a national reputation representing artists such as Aerosmith, the Rolling Stones’ Bill Wyman, Carly Simon, the Backstreet Boys, Steven VanZandt, Todd Rundgren, Jim Steinman and many others.  As counsel to several American Idol finalists and winners, Mr. Siegel negotiated a number of significant licensing, publishing and other media-related entertainment agreements.

Mr. Siegel has also been involved in a number of music publishing company sales and acquisitions, as well as having advised on a variety of transactions involving the sale and purchase of master recordings and other entertainment-related assets.

Mr. Siegel is the current Chair of the Nevada State Bar Entertainment Law Section, former Chair and current member of the Nevada State Bar Publications Committee and adjunct Professor of Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law.  He is the former Chair of the Section on Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law of the New York State Bar Association, former Chair of the New York State Bar Association Committee on the Music and Recording Industry, and an Associate Member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

Mr. Siegel is a frequent lecturer for the Practicing Law Institute and served for nearly 20 years as Co-Chair of PLI’s Counseling Clients in the Entertainment Industry program. Mr. Siegel served as judicial clerk at the New York State Court of Appeals from 1970 to 1972. He was an adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham Law School for 24 years and is a member of the Editorial Board of Entertainment Law and Finance and of Multimedia Web Strategist, as well as the Editor-in-Chief of the nationally distributed book Siegel on Entertainment Law, currently in its fifth edition. Howard Siegel is author of several published articles dealing with the entertainment, music and copyright practice

Every year since 2007, Mr. Siegel has been designated as one of the “Super Lawyers” – a ranking of the top 5% of all attorneys in the New York Metropolitan area. He also has been recognized by The Hollywood Reporter as one of the top 100 “Power Lawyers” in the entertainment industry as well as being named one of the "Top Media and Entertainment Lawyers" by Chambers USA for several years.

Mr. Siegel is a member of the Nevada, New York, and California Bars and a summa cum laude graduate of Syracuse University College of Law where he was Order of the Coif, Editor-in-Chief of the Syracuse Law Review (1970) and a member of the Moot Court Board (1969-70).

Course:
Gaming Equipment Manufacturers - Law and Policy

Lerner, who earned his undergraduate degree from Michigan State University and his law degree from American University’s Washington College of Law, got his first taste of gaming law when he joined the Nevada attorney general’s office in 1983. He was assigned to the gaming division and spent four years representing the Gaming Control Board and Nevada Gaming Commission.

After stints with a statewide law firm and a casino operator, he joined Bally Technologies. The company’s changing nature let Lerner become the longest-tenured general counsel at a gaming manufacturer.  Bally’s has been at the forefront of gaming industry technology changes.

The company was awarded Nevada’s first interactive gaming license in July 2012, and Lerner oversaw the licensing process. He participated in what was then a surreal moment at a Gaming Control Board hearing when he used an iPad to play a free game of Internet poker to demonstrate the company’s technology for regulators.

Lerner was one of the authors of a 2011 white paper from the American Gaming Association that detailed 10 broad-based nationwide regulatory reforms.

Course:
Legal Drafting - General Practice, Real Estate Transactions

Richard A. Rawson, a founding partner at Ballard Rawson, Chartered, practices primarily in the areas of business and real estate transactions. He graduated Cum Laude from the William S. Boyd School of Law, where he was an Articles Editor for the Nevada Law Journal. He earned an LL.M. Magna Cum Laude with Concentration in Business Transactions from the University of Alabama School of Law.  Prior to practicing law, Mr. Rawson was a financial systems consultant and responsible for the implementation of financial systems for Mission Research Corporation, Bechtel SAIC Company, and TRW Environmental Safety Systems.

Course:
Mediation Essentials

A highly experienced conflict management professional, Selina has spent the last nineteen years, serving as a Mediator, Conflict Coach, Trainer, Arbitrator and Designer of In-House Mediation/Dispute Resolution Programs.

Selina’s recognized strength is managing conflict and mediating cases with ongoing relationship dynamics, whether between business partners, co-workers, board members or a divorcing couple. She is equally adept at providing mediation services to individuals in civil and divorce disputes, as she is at providing trainings, conflict culture interventions, and in-house mediation programs to corporations, which are struggling with conflict.

Selina began her mediation career in 1997 as one of the original mediators for the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas' Generations Program, where she worked for thirteen years as she developed her successful private practice. She is a founding partner of the Pittsburgh based firm of Bunde Gillotti Mulroy & Shultz, P.C. and manages it Alternative Dispute Resolution practice group, The Alternative Group. Selina is on the panel of mediators for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (Contract Mediator), the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, and has served as a mediator for Home Depot’s In-House Mediation Program.

Through conducting workplace mediations, Selina’s practice developed into the organizational conflict area. For her business and organizational clients, she developed “Conflict Culture Interventions” which are a customized plan for each client which may include conflict coaching, dispute resolution training, team building, and simple advice on structural and policy changes that can help to eliminate conflict.

Selina is a popular lecturer and trainer in the area of dispute resolution and works with individuals and organizations to provide trainings in mediation and conflict resolution skills. She has provided trainings both locally and nationally for organizations and corporations such as FedEx, AMG Research and Nevada OSHA. She is currently an adjunct professor at the Straus Institute at the Pepperdine University School of Law and also at Duquesne University School of Law where she co-teaches Judgment and Decision Making for Lawyers with Robert A. Creo. She has also taught for the Saltman Center at the UNLV School of Law both as a guest lecturer and Professor for the Mediation Essentials Course.

Selina is passionate about developing young mediators and promoting the continued thoughtful development of the mediation field. To this end, she has served on the Board of the Pennsylvania Council of Mediators and is the current President of the Mediation Council of Western Pennsylvania, and was instrumental in developing the Prisoner Civil Rights Mediation Program for the Western District of Pennsylvania. She is also an active member of the Allegheny County Bar Association's Alternative Dispute Committee and the Association for Conflict Resolution.

Selina graduated in 1990 from the University of Nebraska with a BA in Political Science and obtained her JD in 1993 from the University of Pittsburgh. She graduated in the Spring of 2015 with an LLM in Dispute Resolution with an emphasis in Mediation from The Straus Institute at The Pepperdine University School of Law.

Course:
Health Care Organization and Finance

Cynthia Asher, JD, MPH, serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law. Trained in both law and public health, Ms. Asher practiced law in the Corporate Litigation Department at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and in the National Health Law Practice of Epstein Becker & Green before joining the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as Special Assistant to the Administrator. At Esptein Becker & Green, Ms. Asher counseled clients on federal and state health care fraud and abuse, licensing, reimbursement, and other regulatory health care issues. At CMS, Ms. Asher helped to implement new Medicare statutes and regulations. Ms. Asher also has served as the Director of Career Services at the William S. Boyd School of Law, where she developed and implemented programs for law students and alumni, including recruitment programs, educational programs and workshops, networking receptions, and mentoring programs. Ms. Asher will be teaching Health Care Organization and Finance during the spring 2017 semester.

Course: Appellate Advocacy.

John Lambrose has been an attorney in Nevada for 35 years and has practiced law throughout the entire state.  From 1981-1988 he was in private practice in Carson City NV primarily handling indigent criminal defense cases there and throughout rural Nevada.  In 1988 he became the Chief Assistant Nevada State Public Defender and handled that office's appellate cases while mentoring and supervising the assistant trial attorneys in Carson City and the neighboring rural counties.   During that time he participated as counsel in numerous state court appeals and appeared before the court in oral argument many times.  Several of those cases resulted in published opinions. From 1990 until his retirement in 2013 he was the Chief Assistant Federal Public Defender and went on to become the lawyer in charge of that office's appellate and non-capital habeas corpus units.  During that time he personally handled hundreds of appellate cases and presented over one hundred oral arguments in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.  Over forty of those cases resulted in published opinions.  He supervised many appellate and habeas attorneys throughout that period and created an atmosphere conducive to a team approach to criminal appellate practice.  Over the last 35 years he has served as a member of the Board of Governors for the state bar, a member of many Nevada Supreme Court and Ninth Circuit Committees related to appellate practice and has taught a number of Continuing Legal Education courses on appellate practice and procedure.  He currently is a member of the Nevada Supreme Court Indigent Defense Study Commission and serves as the Chairman of the Rural Counties sub-Committee.  He is also a member of the Nevada federal court panel lawyer selection committee for lawyers taking on criminal indigent defense cases at both the trial, appellate, and habeas corpus level.

Course:
JD Externship

Kristine Kuzemka is Managing Partner and Owner of Kuzemka Law Group. Ms. Kuzemka practices criminal defense and personal injury, representing clients in all phases of litigation. She has more than a decade of experience, including aggressive representation of clients accused of serious crimes.

Ms. Kuzemka received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington in Seattle. After graduating from Seattle University School of Law, Ms. Kuzemka served as an appellate law clerk for the Clark County District Attorney’s Office and was a law clerk to the Honorable David. T. Wall (Retired) in the Eighth Judicial District Court. She was also a Senior Deputy Attorney General at the State of Nevada Office of the Attorney General in the Bureau of Consumer Protection – Civil Litigation Unit, a Senior Attorney at the Clark County Public Defender’s Office, and an Attorney at Marquis Aurbach where she practiced general civil litigation. 

Currently, Ms. Kuzemka is also a Neutral with Advanced Resolution Management and was recently appointed to serve as a Settlement Judge by the Nevada Supreme Court.

Course:
Business Law & Ethics

Thomas E. Gallagher is an honors graduate of Harvard Law School. He was for twenty years a partner in the law firm of Gibson Dunn and Crutcher, serving in the firm's Los Angeles and New York offices, and as managing partner of its London and Riyadh offices. During a leave from the firm, he was chief counsel for a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, handling nominations for Attorney General and Supreme Court. He was Merv Griffin's lawyer in the fight between Griffin and Donald Trump over Resorts International, later serving as CEO of The Griffin Group and of Resorts. After the merger of Resorts with Sun International, he joined Hilton Hotels Corporation as its Executive Vice President and General Counsel, leading the spinoff of its gaming businesses into a new NYSE company Park Place Entertainment. He subsequently became CEO of Park Place (renamed Caesars Entertainment), then the world's largest casino resort company. Gallagher now serves on the board of several non-profit organizations including the Guinn Center for Policy Priorities (a co-founder), the Black Mountain Institute, and Vegas PBS and is a trustee of the UNLV Foundation and the Desert Research Institute Foundation.

Courses:
Administrative Law

Linda L. Ammons is dean emeritus at Widener University. She served as counsel to the president of Widener for legal education, after retiring as associate provost and dean of the law school in 2014.  She was the first woman and the first African American to lead the two-campus, two-state, Widener University School of Law, and was the senior African American female dean in the nation when she stepped down after serving eight years.  Ammons came to Widener in 2006 from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in Cleveland, Ohio, where she was associate dean and professor of law.  During her 15 years at Cleveland-Marshall, she chaired and served on a number of university committees and taught Administrative Law, Legislation, Mass Communications Law, and Women and the Law.  In 2006, the Cleveland-Marshall Alumni Association chose her as their Stapleton Award recipient.  In addition, Ammons has been on the faculty of the National Judicial College in Reno, Nevada, since 1993.  In 2007, she was named a Senior Scholar in the Department of Health Policy at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, PA, and that same year was appointed by Pennsylvania State Treasurer Robin Weissmann to the e-Treasury Blue Ribbon Advisory Commission on Productivity Management.   In 2010, she was named to the Legal Education Development Committee of the American Bar Association, and she served three years as the Chair of the Curriculum Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section of Legal Education & Admissions to the Bar.  Ammons also served a three-year term on the Government Relations Committee of the Association of American Law Schools, and is a Life Member of the American Bar Foundation.

Ammons’s awards are numerous including the December, 2014, Top Woman in Business Award by Delaware Today Magazine, the March, 2013 Community Leadership Award from Best Buddies Delaware, the October 2013, Pennsylvania Multi-Cultural Leadership Award, the November, 2012, “Excellence in Education Award” from the Delaware Barristers Association, and from February 2012 to February, 2014, she has been included among “The Power 100” African American attorneys in the U.S.  In October of 2011, she was honored with the Service to Children Award at the Christopher W. White Distinguished Access to Justice Awards program presented by the Delaware State Bar Association. Ammons has also received the Delaware Leadership Award from the American Council on Education, Office of Women in Higher Education. In August 2010, Senator Tom Carper forwarded Ammons’ name to the Department of Justice for consideration by the White House for a seat on the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.  In January 2010, Ammons was appointed by Governor Jack Markell of Delaware to be the special investigator in the case of the alleged child molestations by pediatrician Earl Bradley.  Her work resulted in a package of twelve legislative reforms, nine of which were passed unanimously by the Delaware General Assembly.  In August 2009, she was named among the 14 Most Influential People in Delaware by Delaware Today magazine.  Her Board memberships include the Delaware State Chamber of Commerce serving as the chair of its ethics committee, WHYY TV and Radio of Philadelphia, Vegas PBS, and she is a Trustee of Christiana Hospital.

Prior to joining the faculty at Cleveland-Marshall, Ammons served as executive assistant to former Ohio Governor Richard F. Celeste, from 1988 to 1991, advising him on legal and policy matters in the criminal justice, regulatory and administrative areas.  A 1974 graduate of Oakwood College, and a 1997 alumna of the year, she was a TV anchor-person in Huntsville, Alabama, in the 1970’s, and worked for several media outlets.    
A 1987 Ohio State University Moritz College of Law graduate, Ammons was selected out of 8,000 of her peers to be the recipient of the 2004-05 Moritz Alumni Society’s Community Service Award.  She also holds emeritus status on the Moritz National Advisory Council, and is listed among Ohio State’s Distinguished Alumni.
 

Courses:
Community Law Practicum - Family Mediation

Jae Barrick is the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution Graduate Fellow.  Working alongside Professor Lydia Nussbaum (the Assistant Director of the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution), Barrick provides supervision and mentorship to the law students in the mediation clinic and leads a mediation practicum for law students taking Professor Nussbaum’s family law class.  Barrick works closely with students and other faculty in organizing and running ADR competitions at the law school and serves as the coach for teams preparing for regional and national ADR competitions such as the ABA Client Counseling competition and the ABA Negotiation competition.  Barrick provides oversight and supervision in UNLV’s Parking Arbitration program where law students are trained and serve as arbitrators in disputes over parking tickets issued on the UNLV campus.

Barrick is a graduate of the William S. Boyd School of Law and a practicing attorney in the law firm of Gallian Welker & Beckstrom LC.  Barrick serves on the Outsource Mediation Committee and the CIP Panel of Mediators for dependency actions in the Eighth Judicial District Court.

Barrick believes in empowering the individual through the use of alternative methods for resolving issues and advocates for the use of mediation to empower individuals whenever conflicts arise.  Barrick provides pro bono services to foster children, victims of domestic violence and military veterans through the Pro Bono project of Legal Aid of Southern Nevada.  Barrick also represents transgendered clients for Nevada Legal Services in obtaining name changes and gender marker changes for new birth certificates. Barrick serves as an Honorary Director to NV CURE, an inmate rights and reentry advocacy organization.