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Foundation Facts
June 2010
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Nebraska State Bar Foundation
635 S. 14th Street, Suite 120
Lincoln, Nebraska 68508
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Dear Foundation Fellows:
Summer is here! We hope that your golf games, baseball games,
vacations and BBQ's are memorable.
Cordially,
Doris
Doris Huffman
Executive Director
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Law Day Essay Contest Winners Announced
Students are Honored at Luncheon on May 4
McGrath North lawyer Kris Covi draws scholarship winner's name  |
Drum roll please. The winners of
the 2010 Law Day Essay contest are
8th Grade Norfolk Junior High
Arria Lakha Dorothy
Fuller - teacher
9th Grade Lincoln
North Star
Austin Horan Lisa Hansen - teacher
10th Grade Perkins County, Grant
Ashley
Kemling Anita Burge - teacher
10th Grade Blair Hannah Opfer Jamie
Nuss - teacher
11th Grade St. Patrick's, North Platte
Nicole
Stadler Sheila Boerner -
teacher
12th Grade Westside, Omaha
Alex Zhu Diana Schergin - teacher
The winners and their guests
enjoyed the Law Day luncheon on May 4 at the Governor's Residence. Governor Dave Heineman began the luncheon by giving his Law Day Proclamation.
Each
winner was able to sit with a distinguished guest, including Judge C. Arlen Beam, Justice Kenneth Stephan, Judge William Cassel, and Judge Richard Sievers.
The Foundation is grateful to
the McGrath North Mullin and Kratz law firm for most generously providing one high
school student a scholarship to attend the National Student Leadership
Conference this summer. Nicole Stadler
from St. Patrick's High School in North Platte is extremely excited to attend
the "Education and the Classroom" session in Chicago.
After the Law Day luncheon, Professor
Raymond Nimmer from the University of Houston Law Center spoke on democracy and
technology. Nimmer presented
"Star Wars: Clash of Law, Digital Technology, and the Internet." The Bar
Foundation is appreciative of the financial support given by West, a Thomson Reuters business, to sponsor
the presentation.
Read the winning essays and
see more photos from the Law Day Essay Contest, cosponsored by the Bar Foundation and the Nebraska Supreme Court for 11 years, on the Foundation's web site.
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Fifth Graders Shadow Lawyers and Judges on Law Day
Students Learn About Additional Careers
in the Law
Judge Curtis Maschman swears in witness in Pawnee City  |
Fifth graders surveyed after Law Day Job
Shadowing are always eager to tell their stories about the courthouse, drug
dogs and of course the jail! One fifth
grader wrote on his survey that he was very surprised that you have to be
really nice when you answer the phones!
We could all learn a little from the Law Day Job Shadowing. Students throughout Nebraska spent a morning
with judges, clerks, bailiffs and police officers to learn about some of the
careers in the legal profession.
View pictures from the ninth annual Law Day Job Shadowing activity, cosponsored by the Bar Foundation and the Nebraska Supreme Court, on the Foundation's web site.
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Committee Writes New Criminal Case
Mock Trial Case to Be Posted on Web in Late August
The Case Committee is immersed in creating an
original case for Nebraska's High School Mock Trial teams. The process is an enormous undertaking, and
the Foundation values how much time and effort the case committee gives to make
Mock Trial such a huge success. This
year's State Championships will be held in Lincoln on December 6
and 7.
You may find historic cases and more information about the Mock Trial program on the Foundation's web site. |
We the People Teachers' Summer Institute Upcoming in July
To Include Study of Native American Tribal Sovereignty
The Foundation and State Coordinator Sarah Peetz are busy planning the Teachers' Summer Institute for 60
elementary, middle and high school teachers throughout the state of
Nebraska. Each will earn three hours of
credit toward a Master of Arts in Historical Studies through Nebraska Wesleyan
University in Lincoln.
Participants will be studying five units of
the We The People text.
Constitutional scholars will present lectures on each chapter of the We The People textbook. Teaching strategy sessions and hearing
preparation will be conducted in small groups, and participants will engage in
simulated congressional hearings.
This Institute will
also focus on American Indian sovereign authority and its reconciliation with Federal
law.
You may read more about the We the People
program on the Bar Foundation's web site.
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Revised Reaching the Age of Majority Booklet Ready for the Press
Become a Sponsor of This Road Map for Teens
If you act quickly, you can include the name of your law firm or local bar association as a sponsor of this one-of-a-kind booklet, published by the Bar Foundation for Nebraska high school seniors.
Since 1994, the Foundation has distributed more than 150,000 copies of the booklet, free of charge, to young people who are near their 19th birthday, the age of majority in Nebraska.
Teachers and leaders of organizations serving Nebraska youth are able to request complimentary copies of the booklet to use in classroom study or other group settings. They are also able to request a related presentation by a lawyer or judge volunteer who may visit the classroom and answer questions the students have about the law.
For about the same cost as one day's newspaper, Nebraska bar members can place one of these booklets in the hands of a teenager whose rights and responsibilities will soon be expanding. Won't you consider helping these young people as they work their way through the maze of legal complexities they will soon be facing.
I encourage you to please contact me to arrange a contribution for printing and distributing copies of this legal road map for Nebraska young people. Contributors of $500 and more by July 30 will be recognized on the inside cover of the booklet that has an annual circulation of 10,000 copies.
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About the Foundation's Programs
If you have questions
about the Foundation's Law-Related Education programs for the public, please
contact me at doris@nebarfnd.org, 1-800-773-5396 or
475-1042.
Nebraska State Bar Foundation
635 S. 14th Street, Suite 120
Lincoln, Nebraska 68508
Nebraska State Bar Foundation
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Quotations from Fifth Grade Job "Shadowers"
(I am learning) "how drugs and alcohol can hurt your life."
(I was surprised by) "what percent of kids my age have already 'sexted." (25%)
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Testimonial
on Reaching the Age of Majority Booklet
"The students engaged in a lively discussion, and to see the lights come on as they comprehend the subject matter of this booklet makes me want to become a teacher."
-Nebraska lawyer
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Donate to the Foundation!
Contribute quickly and easily through the Bar Foundation's web site. Give a general gift, a Legacy of Liberty gift, or leave a bequest. |
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