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March 3, 2004
CONTACT:
Gordon Ovenshine (724) 738-4854; e-mail: gordon.ovenshine@sru.edu
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of Mark Yochum: CLICK
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DUQUESNE LAW
PROFESSOR TO LECTURE ON MONEY, MORALITY AND THE LAW
MARCH 25
AT SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY; PUBLIC INVITED
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – As a lawyer, Abraham Lincoln often used
humor to make a point, even poking fun at himself. Duquesne
School of Law Professor Mark Yochum comes to Slippery Rock
University March 25 to give a public lecture “The Bonehead
Play” that promises to be as entertaining as
informative.
Taking his title from a baseball analogy for an error, Yochum will
discuss what lawyers do right and what lawyers do wrong in the
high-profile arena of corporate law, a field that has grabbed
headlines with the Enron and Martha Stewart
cases.
Students
and the public are invited to the free lecture 12:30 p.m. in Strain
Behavioral Science Building Auditorium. SRU’s philosophy
department and Student Government Association will sponsor his
visit.
Yochum
is chairman of the Professional Ethics Program at the Duquesne
School of Law.
“This
talk is especially geared for non-lawyers, which means it addresses
ethical issues that span many professions,” SRU’s Dr.
William Oman, professor of philosophy says. “On top of his
years in the teaching and practice of law, Yochum has 20 years of
experience in legitimate theater. He mixes humor, plain
examples and even dramatic to bring ethical issues in the law into
focus.”
Yochum
is faculty adviser to the Duquesne School of Law’s National
Tax Moot Court team, which competes every spring in a contest
sponsored by the Florida Bar Association. For nearly 15
years, he has traveled to St. Petersburg Beach, Fla. with student
litigators hoping to win the prize.
Yochum is the law school’s leading specialist on tax law. He
also has written articles – which he modestly describes as
“both short and long” – on legal ethics in
general and on specific problems in tax law, accounting and
bankruptcy.
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