Faculty Engagement

Richard Bales
  • Volunteer Lawyer, Northern Kentucky Volunteer Lawyers Association.
  • Secretary, Kentucky Bar Association Sections on Alternative Dispute Resolution and Employment and Labor Law.
  • Editor, Workplace Prof Blog, http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/laborprof_blog/.
  • Scholar-in-Residence, ABA Section of Labor & Employment Law, ADR in Labor & Employment Law Committee (2009).
John M. Bickers
  • Coach, high school debate team; active in organizing high school debate at the statewide level.
David Elder
  • Member, Thompson/West Key Authors program to provide commentary to the media on defamation and privacy topics.
  • Peer reviewer, South Carolina Law Review pilot project.
  • Pro bono consultant on defamation, privacy, and other research projects.
Nancy Firak
  • Member, Board of Directors, Northern Kentucky Volunteer Lawyers.
Jennifer Kreder
  • Pro bono volunteer on matters related to art law. For example:
    • Filed a motion and brief in case pending before Second Circuit. In February 2009 to appear on behalf of amici to correct errors in the trial court.
    • Preparing comments for a June 2009 diplomatic conference in Prague about looted art and immoveable property never restituted after World War II.
    • Consulted with attorney seeking restitution of watercolors painted by Holocaust survivor from Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland July 2008.
Sharlene Lassiter Boltz
  • Member, Northern Kentucky Human Trafficking Task Force.
  • Volunteer hospital advocate, Northern Kentucky Women's Crisis Center.
  • Presenter on domestic abuse issues to community organizations in the Greater Cincinnati area and on-campus student groups at NKU.
Michael J.Z. Mannheimer
  • Executive Committee of the Criminal Justice Section of the Association of American Law Schools.
  • Volunteer attorney, Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.
  • Contributing Editor, CrimProf Blog, http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/crimprof_blog/
  • Co-counsel on petition for writ of certiorari in Leon v. New York, 128 S.Ct. 2976 (2008) (pro bono).
Adrienne Noble Nacev
  • Co-founder, with Molly Tami, Chase Street Law Juvenile Diversion Program.
  • Hotline Attorney, ProSeniors legal hotline, providing free legal advice to older Ohioans.
Lawrence Rosenthal
  • Board Secretary and Boone County representative, Telecommunications Board of Northern Kentucky.
Caryl Yzenbaard
  • Chair, Real Property Drafting Committee, The National Conference of Bar Examiners (responsible for the property section of the multi-state bar examination).
  • Volunteer, Wills Clinic.