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2008 Legal Services Staff Section 

2008 Legal Services Staff Professional Development Seminar
Presentations and Handouts

Columbus Renaissance
Columbus, Ohio
September 10-13

Policy Responses to The Mortgage Disaster in Ohio: 

  • Kermit J. Lind, Clinical Professor of Law and Assistant Director of Urban Development Law Clinic at Cleveland State University [Adobe PDF Handout]

The Legislative Drafter as Problem Solver:

  • Bruce Feustel, Senior Fellow, NCSL [Adobe PDF Handout]
  • Jeff Archer, Chief Legislative Counsel, Texas Legislative Council [Adobe PDF Handout]

Fight Blight:  How Cities Are Dealing with Property Abandoned in Subprime Foreclosures:

  • Joe Maskovyak, Ohio State Legal Services Association [ Handout] [Adobe PDF Handout]
    [Adobe PDF Handout]
  • Linda Cook, Ohio State Legal Services Association
  • Richard C. Pfeiffer, Jr., Columbus City Attorney
  • Creola Johnson, Professor, Michael E. Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University
    [Adobe PDF Handout]

Ethics for Legislative Lawyers

  • Bruce Feustel, Senior Fellow, NCSL [Adobe PDF Handout] [Adobe PDF Handout]
  • Richard A. Whitehouse, Executive Director, State Medical Board of Ohio

 Resolving Contested Legislative Elections: Case Studies

  • Matthew Miller, Staff Attorney, Bureau of Legislative Research, Arkansas General Assembly
  • Steve Cook, Senate Chief Counsel, Arkansas General Assembly [Adobe PDF Handout]
  • Peter S. Wattson, Senate Counsel, Minnesota Legislature [Adobe PDF Handout]

Legislative Challenges Concerning DNA Evidence

  • Professor Dan Krane, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio [Handout]
  • Mark Godsey, Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Lois and Richard Rosenthal Institute for Justice/Ohio Innocence Project, University of Cincinnati College of Law [Handout]
  • Ron O’Brien, Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney

Drafting Criminal Law

  • Tom Kerbs, Deputy Legislative Counsel, Legislative Counsel Bureau, California Legislature [Handout]

A State's Obligation When a Foreign Citizen is Arrested

  • John B. Quigley, President's Club Professor of Law, Michael E. Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University [Adobe PDFHandout]

LSSS 2008 Distinguished Scholar:  Electronic Democracy:  Challenges for Legislators and Legislation


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