Issue: Winter 2024-2025
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Class Note Winter 2024-2025
Emily Rutkowski, ’16: Transforming a Legal Career into a Mission of Global Support
While working at Morrison and Foerster’s corporate department in Palo Alto, California, Emily Rutkowski, ’16, discovered her passion for advocacy when she had the opportunity to work on a number of pro bono cases. In the years since, Rutkowski has followed that instinct to help others through a number of pivots in her career and personal life—including a move to Ukraine to support fundraising and other aid efforts related to the ongoing war.
Class Note Winter 2024-2025
Judith Conway, ’14: Representing David in a World of Goliaths
Conway, an associate at Cooney & Conway, a midsize plaintiff’s law firm in Chicago, represents victims of serious personal injury and wrongful death, specializing in cases involving asbestos-related diseases. For her efforts, she won the 2024 Young Lawyer of the Year award from the Illinois State Bar Association and Forbes named her one of Chicago’s Best Wrongful Death Lawyers of 2024.
Class Note Winter 2024-2025
Charles Lowery, ’79: Connecting the Dots at the DC Bar
When Charles Lowery assumed the role of president of the DC Bar, he brought a simple mantra with him: Connect the dots. The legal community in Washington, DC, offers a wealth of associations and other groups dedicated to the profession, but Lowery says there are additional opportunities for beneficial collaborations.
In Memoriam Winter 2024-2025
Robert L. Knauss, ’57
Robert “Bob” Lynn Knauss, ’57, an educator and academic leader who served on the Michigan Law faculty from 1960 to 1972, died in Saugatuck, Michigan, on October 16, 2024. He was 93.
Briefs Winter 2024-2025
Alumni Reconnect in the Quad
Law School alumni celebrating milestone anniversaries returned for Reunion this fall to share class dinners, catch up with old friends and make new connections in the Law Quad, and take in some football at Michigan Stadium.
Cover Story
Beyond the Stacks: The Modern Evolution of Law Libraries
Trends in legal education and the profession, as well as new technologies, have led to changes in collections management, research-based curriculum, scholarship, the student experience, and other aspects of how law libraries support their institutions. In this article, three directors of Michigan Law’s library, as well as alumni who have served in leadership roles at the law libraries at Boston University and the University of Notre Dame, discuss these trends; their impact on students, faculty, and society; and the enduring value of law libraries.
Features Winter 2024-2025
Empirical Legal Research Becoming More Popular Among Faculty in Effort to Address Real-world Issues
Recent years have seen a new development in the legal academy: the rise of empirical, data-driven, and collaborative research. Scholars, including a number of Michigan Law faculty members, often hope to use such work to study the real-time effects of the law on people and institutions.
Features Winter 2024-2025
Flawed Facial Recognition Technology Leads to Wrongful Arrest and Historic Settlement
The Law School’s Civil Rights Litigation Initiative worked on behalf of a Michigan man falsely arrested for a crime based on flawed facial recognition technology. A first-of-its-kind settlement achieves the nation’s strongest police department policies and practices constraining law enforcement’s use of the technology.