For more information,
please contact:
Gwen Osborne,
director of public affairs, (312) 906-5251
ADVISORY TO PRODUCERS, COLUMNISTS AND ASSIGNMENT,
LEGAL, PLANNING, BUSINESS, AND DAYBOOK EDITORS
CHICAGO-- March 8, 2004--Chicago-Kent
College of Law, the Stuart Graduate School of Business
and the Center for Law and Financial Markets have
experts available to discuss current issues. To reach
any of our experts, call Gwen
Osborne, director of public affairs, at (312)
906-5251. Copies of press releases and earlier advisories
are available on our Web site: http://www.kentlaw.edu/news/
Martha Stewart faces jail time and fines of up to
$1 million. A federal jury last week convicted
her of conspiracy, making false statements and obstruction
of justice. Stewart resigned last June as chief executive
and chairman of the board of Martha Stewart Living
Omnimedia after she was indicted in June of last year.
Her sentencing is scheduled for June 17. Legal experts
are available to discuss the case.
Shares of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSO)
continue to fall after her conviction on federal
charges. Stewart will have to relinquish her position
as chief creative officer of her company. Martha Stewart
Living Omnimedia, which is traded on the New York
Stock Exchange, includes Stewart's television and
radio programs, publishing interests and several joint
venture agreements. The syndicated television show
is being removed from Viacom-owned CBS, UPN and independent
stations across the country. Stewart is expected to
resign from the board of Revlon after serving eight
years as a director and a civil lawsuit brought by
an MSO shareholder is continuing. Stuart Graduate
School of Business professor Joel
Goldhar is available to discuss personal branding
issues and what Martha Stewart's conviction means
for her personal brand. Professor Goldhar can also
talk about corporate ethics and professional responsibility
issues.
Corporate executives are under federal order to
certify their companies' financial statements.
CEOs and CFOs of companies covered by recent changes
in the Securities and Exchange Commission's requirements
face civil and criminal penalties and fines for filing
false or inaccurate statements. How can executives
verify the integrity of information they receive and
disseminate? Stuart Graduate School of Business professor
Paul
R. Prabhaker, who is working with organizations
on information integrity issues, is available for
interviews.
"Baseball, with its expanding crop of steroid
victims, is a class action waiting to happen,"
says sports attorney and adjunct professor Eldon
L. Ham. Professor Ham, an expert on athlete drug
testing and related private sector due process issues,
is available for interviews. He has written a 650-word
op-ed on Major League Baseball's failure to address
the steroid issue called, Juice the Ball, Not the
Players. For copies of the commentary, contact
Gwen Osborne, (312) 906-5251.
Donald Trump is the star of TV's newest reality
show. "The Apprentice" gives sixteen
would-be entrepreneurs a shot at a year-long, $250,000
job with the real estate mogul -- or at being fired
at the end of an episode. Does art imitate life? Stuart
Graduate School of Business professor George
Kalidonis is the Coleman Clinical Professor
of Management and academic director of the Entrepreneurship
MBA program. Professor Kalidonis is available for
interviews about "The Apprentice" and Stuart's
Entrepreneurship program.
Chicago-Kent's Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic is
seeking taxpayers who have disputes with the IRS.
Those who meet certain income criteria may qualify
for free assistance with their tax disputes, including
collection matters, audits, appeals and litigation
before the Internal Revenue Service, United States
Tax Court, and United States District Court. Students
work under the supervision of professor Jonathan
Decatorsmith. The program Web site at www.kentlaw.edu/academics/clinic/tax
has information about the program, and Professor Decatorsmith
is available for interviews.
American law students are invited to apply for Chicago-Kent's
summer abroad program in Mexico with Tec de Monterrey,
one of Mexico's leading private universities. The
program, which runs from June 14 through July 28,
2004, will give U.S. law students an opportunity to
study Mexican law and U.S./Mexican legal issues. May
10 is the deadline for applications, which are available
on the program's Web site at www.kentlaw.edu/glpi/mexico.
At the Downtown Campus:
March 18-19: 21st annual conference on Section 1983
Civil Rights Litigation. This two-day seminar
provides a comprehensive update, presented by leading
practitioners and legal scholars, on liability arising
out of Section 1983 and other civil rights statutes.
Sexual harassment, municipal liability, individual
immunities and procedural defenses and recent cases
before the U.S. Supreme Court are among the topics
to be explored. For more information, call (312) 906-5090
or visit www.kentlaw.edu/depts/cle/.
April 16-17: "Final Status for Kosovo: Untying
the Gordian Knot." Distinguished academics
and policymakers will gather at this two-day program
to explore legal and policy issues that should shape
Kosovo's movement from its current status as a "political
trusteeship" under the authority of the United
Nations to a political status in which the entity
has more conventional relationships with the international
community and states in the region. The symposium
is designed to provide intellectual and policy capital
for discussions that already have begun at the technical
level and which are expected to continue during the
final status negotiations mandated by U.N. Security
Council Resolution 1244, which authorized U.N. intervention
in Kosovo. For more information, call (312) 906-5128
or visit the Web site http://operationkosovo.kentlaw.edu/symposium/symp-top-level.htm.
April 20: 26th annual Kenneth M. Piper Lecture.
Professor Catherine L. Fisk of the University of Southern
California Law School will address the topic, "Knowledge
Workers in the New Economy: From Cliché to
Contract." Presenters include: Greg W. Castle,
president, Castle and Associates and Julia A. Clark,
general counsel, International Federation of Professional
and Technical Engineers, AFL-CIO & CLC. The program
is free and open to the public. For more information,
call (312) 906-5090 or visit www.kentlaw.edu/depts/cle/piper/
on the Web.
April 29-30: 23rd annual Federal Tax Institute.
IRS Commissioner Mark W. Everson will be the Tax Institute's
luncheon speaker on April 29. The two-day program
will review recent developments in case law and rulings
in the federal income, estate and gift tax areas;
mergers and acquisitions; partnerships; and executive
compensation issues. For more information, call (312)
906-5090 or visit www.kentlaw.edu/depts/cle/fedtax/
on the Web.
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