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10/27/2026

HERE’S A CHANCE TO “TEST DRIVE” being a student at Chase.
• Attend our open house for everyone interested in (or even just curious about) becoming a student, 9 a.m.-12 noon Saturday, Nov. 14.
• It will be an opportunity to hear from and talk with students and professors, and to tour our home in Nunn Hall, on the Northern Kentucky University campus in Highland Heights, Ky., just off I-275.
• You can sign up at chaselaw.nku.edu/prospective/visit and scroll to the lower right of the page.

10/26/2026

SURE, THE CLASS OF 2029 still has three years of law school ahead, but members had an early start on professional connections in a Meet and Greet with Chase alumni (and each other).
• Class members and alumni utilized the Chase Student Center space, and its glass study rooms, to connect on student experiences and career opportunities.

10/24/2026

CHASE WAS WELL-REPRESENTED among recipients of pro bono service awards presented recently by Northern Kentucky Volunteer Lawyers, which connects lawyers to pro bono volunteer opportunities:
• Law Student of the Year: Adam LeMaster.
• Nick of Time Award: Schaffner Family Law and Mediation, where alumna Allison Moore is a firm lawyer, Professor Amy Halbrook is of-counsel and student Hannah Fite is a law clerk.
• Kenton County Legal Help Center Outstanding Volunteers: Alumni M. Erin Wilkins, Timothy Theissen and Samantha Schiffman.
• Pro Bono Attorney of the Year: Alumnus P.C. Edward Burcham.
• Justice for All Award: Alumnus John Fortner.

10/22/2026

ONE ADVANTAGE for a law school being seven miles from an NFL stadium is that the team’s general counsel can easily stop by to talk with students in a Sports Law class. That was the “home field advantage” Professor Tan Boston’s class had when Cincinnati Bengals general counsel Emma Compton (she is in front of the class) visited to discuss sports law issues and career opportunities.

10/19/2026

FIRSTHAND ADVICE brought out a crowd when the Family Law Association student organization assembled a panel of lawyers who practice in the field to share their best advice and tips with students interested in similar careers. The crowd photo, plus panelists with organizers, is our supporting evidence.

10/15/2026

THE SUPREME COURT OF KENTUCKY just concluded two days of hearing oral arguments by lawyers in the Chase College Foundation Courtroom in Nunn Hall at Chase.
• For the justices, it was part of their outreach program to make the public workings of the court more accessible by convening in locations throughout the commonwealth, in addition to the Supreme Court Courtroom in Frankfort. (For two of the seven – Deputy Chief Justice Robert B. Conley and Justice Michelle M. Keller – it was also a return to their law school alma mater.)
• For Chase students who attended any of the four arguments, it was a real-time experience in how mentally nimble lawyers must be in presenting arguments and simultaneously answering justices’ questions.

10/12/2026

THE SERIOUS SIDE of this is that the Student Bar Association (it’s similar to student government) received a small grant from Northern Kentucky University to organize and host an event to promote personal wellbeing among Chase students. The fun side is what the association will do with it:
• “A Brief Break: Sweets & Games” will transform the third floor of Nunn Hall into a “game night” for one night in November.
• The idea behind it is to take some pressure off law school to allow students to hang out with classmates, without having to worry about “briefing” cases.
• “The event will feature a large cookie bar with tons of possible cookie and topping combinations, allowing students to create their own dessert,” Emma Gutman, SBA secretary and one of the organizers, explains. (The cookies are the sweet part of the event name.)
• (For the game part), “Each room on the third floor will host a different game. Rules and instructions will be displayed on a whiteboard so students can easily join without needing to know how to play.”
Like the name says: a brief break, and then back to remaining weeks of the semester.

10/05/2026

SOMETIMES, professors take more to classes than casebooks with memorable years in them – think, Brown v. Board of Education (1954) – for students to encounter. Professor Michelle Browning Coughlin recently took doughnuts and muffins for students to share in her memorable year of a birthday. And, to remember 2026, there is a photograph, with Professor Browning Coughlin fourth from left in front.

10/03/2026

CHASE RECOGNIZED four alumni by awarding its Distinguished Alumni Award to alumni who reflect the spirit of Chase in professional or community service. These are a few scenes from the Oct. 2 Chase Alumni Luncheon that honored:
• Janaya Trotter Bratton, a judge of Hamilton County Municipal Court and a former president of the Cincinnati Bar Association.
• Sandra Eismann-Harpen, a board member of the Chase College Foundation and a current or former member of numerous community boards.
• James Kruer, who has provided extensive pro bono legal work and served on numerous community boards through the years.
• Todd McMurtry, immediate past president of the Kentucky Bar Association and a former president of the Northern Kentucky Bar Association.

10/01/2026

IT’S AN OLD SONG (like 1974 old) but the title “Everything Old is New Again” would apply today to a law review article Professor John Bickers published 20 years ago, when he joined the Chase faculty in 2006.
• The article, “The Power to Do What Manifestly Must Be Done: Congress, the Freedmen’s Bureau, and Constitutional Imagination,” obviously has stood the test of time to have been excerpted recently in a book on administrative law that was published 10 months ago, at the end of 2025, to be exact.

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http://chaselaw.nku.edu/

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