John K. Kleinheksel Prize for Excellence in Appellate Advocacy is awarded to the top ranked team representing Washburn in an interschool moot court competition. Receiving awards of $350 each are Kris Ailslieger, Robin Graham and Lynelle Homolka who received the second place Best Brief Award in the John J. Gibbons Criminal Procedure Moot Court Competition at Seton Hall Law School in February. This award is made from an endowment created by a Washburn graduate who served as Chief Counsel of the central staff of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Tom Beall is the first recipient of the Richard M. Sangster Memorial Scholarship, presented by the American Board of Trial Advocates Foundation to the student completing the second year of law school who best demonstrates potential for excellence as a trial lawyer, as selected by the trial advocacy faculty. The $500 award recognizes the distinguished career of a 1955 Washburn graduate and leading trial lawyer in San Francisco who served as national president of ABOTA.
Lynette Goines will receive $250 as the spring semester recipient of the Max Rowinsky Memorial Trial AdvocacyAward, given to the top student in the trial advocacy class each semester. The award is given in memory of a former adjunct faculty member who taught trial advocacy and was endowed by his former student, Frank Carrano, '82, who now is a successful trial lawyer in North Haven, Connecticut.
Each year the American College of Trial Lawyers of Kansas provides an award of $250 to the student selected as the most outstanding member of Washburn's team that competes in the National Trial Competition. This year's recipient is Michael Gayoso.
Third year student Eric Kraft is a member of the program team of Topeka's Sam A. Crow American Inn of Court that will receive the first place award in the 1999 National Program Awards of the American Inns of Court. Judge Marla Luckert, who was chair of the program team will accept the award on behalf of the Sam A. Crow Inn at the A.I.C. National Conference in San Diego May 15.
Each year 12-14 third year students at Washburn Law School participate as Pupils in the Sam A. Crow Inn. The Inn's 76 members include senior lawyers and judges and 24 recent law schools graduates. At each monthly dinner meeting, a pupillage team of Inn members presents a program on ethics, professionalism and litigation techniques. The award winning program was entitled "Lawyers in Love, Or The Ethics of Lawyering When Related to or Involved with a Lawyer, Client or Adverse Party."