LSD CIRCUIT BOARD

In the 1st Circuit, Suffolk University held a holiday drive to benefit Toys for Tots. Northeastern University also collected clothes for charity. The Boston College Public Interest Law Foundation hosted Ralph Nader, founder of the Consumer Project on Technology, who spoke on the changing character of corporations. Congratulations to Gwendolyn Joyner, a 3L at Franklin Pierce Law Center, who was selected by the American Intellectual Property Law Association and the ABA's Intellectual Property Law Section as winner of the 1999 Jan Jancin Award for "outstanding contributions of a law student to the intellectual property profession."

In the 2nd Circuit, the student bar associations of New York University, Columbia University, New York Law School, and Touro College teamed up to sponsor a Work-A-Day to benefit the AIDS Family Volunteer Program. About 30 students pitched in on an October Sunday morning to make cheer packages for the program's clients.

The 7th Circuit reports that Northwestern University law students learned about opportunities in public interest law during the school's Public Interest Law Fair. An auction also raised more than $40,000 for students working in the public interest over the summer. The Loyola University Chicago Hunger Week charity fund-raiser in November culminated in the annual (No) Talent Show, featuring the JV Mock Trial Cheerleaders and a Legal Writing Glam-Rock musical. Proceeds benefited local Chicago charities. Chicago-Kent's student bar association presented a wide variety of programming, including a successful film series, as well as hosting a program on gun control litigation. Students also volunteered at a local soup kitchen.

From the 8th Circuit: Work is being done to create a history of the circuit, including membership from each school going back to 1979, past governors, past involved schools, and past national officers.

In the 9th Circuit, the Loyola Law School ABA chapter co-sponsored an alumni event at the City Club in Downtown L.A. This was the first student-alumni mixer for Loyola and was a prelude to the mentor/mentee program, where students get assigned a Loyola alumni as mentors. Congratulations to second-year Mollie Burks at Western State University, who won a $5,000 scholarship from the California State Bar Foundation for her work in promoting the rights of abused children.

13th Circuit governor Gabriel Acevedo was selected along with Natasha Joseph and Melinda Ramos to represent Texas Wesleyan University in the Hispanic National Bar Association Law Student Division moot court competition in March. The competition will be held at Georgetown University in Washington. Students at South Texas College of Law donated more than 20,000 packages of food and dry goods to the Houston Food Bank for the holidays.

The 14th Circuit is planning a circuit-wide Habitat for Humanity project this spring. The University of California-Hastings is proud to announce the return of its once-defunct law student newspaper. Several circuit schools are working with a local mentoring program to get kids thinking about college.

What Circuit Are You In?

Circuit governors are responsible to all of the American Bar Association-accredited law schools in their circuit. The circuits are:
First Circuit: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont
Second Circuit: New York
Third Circuit: Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania
Fourth Circuit: North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia-except George Mason University-and West Virginia
Fifth Circuit: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Puerto Rico, and Tennessee
Sixth Circuit: Kentucky, Michigan, and Ohio
Seventh Circuit: Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin
Eighth Circuit: Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota
Ninth Circuit: Southern California and Hawaii
Tenth Circuit: Arkansas, Kansas, and Oklahoma
Eleventh Circuit: District of Columbia and George Mason University
Twelfth Circuit: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington
Thirteenth Circuit: Louisiana and Texas
Fourteenth Circuit: Northern California and Nevada
Fifteenth Circuit: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming
Note: LSDcircuits do not exactly parallel the circuits of the U.S. Court of Appeals.