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New Instructor and Litigator Applies
Real-life Learning to
Guide Future Lawyers
Jalae A. Ulicki, the Rental Housing Clinic’s newest instructor and staff attorney, has led a unique life full of change.
The child of an Iranian-American marriage, Ulicki spent her early years in Iran before settling with her family in the northern Michigan town of Harrison, her mother’s childhood home. Ironically, years later she and her husband moved back to Iran, where they witnessed the 1979 revolution and subsequently were evacuated.
Experiences marked by variety, joy and harsh reality brought Ulicki to her current career. Widowed early in life, she set about reinventing herself—opening a law practice in Harrison with her attorney son-in-law and her daughter, establishing a title company and teaching at a local community college. For 10 years she handled litigation, criminal defense, real estate and commercial law.
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“It’s exciting to watch the students solve problems and to see the light bulb come on when they find their own answers.”
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When the MSU-DCL position became available, Ulicki turned over the law practice to her daughter and son-in-law, left behind her plush Victorian office and headed for the spartan surroundings of the law college clinics in downtown East Lansing.
“Coming to the college was the perfect opportunity to use my teaching skills and my practical litigation experience,” she points out. “It gave me a chance to work with students on actual cases and to teach the practical trial skills that move cases from the table to the courtroom.”
Openly showing her enthusiasm, she exclaims: “It’s exciting to watch the students solve problems and to see the light bulb come on when they find their own answers. Here, they are getting real courtroom experience, arguing real motions and handling real trials.”
Ulicki has been a student of reality her entire life. Today she is putting that experience to work each day as she guides her own students through the realities of preparing cases and presenting them in court.
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Michael Lawrence Assumes Academic Affairs Role
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Michael A. Lawrence
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Michael A. Lawrence, professor of law, was appointed MSU-DCL’s new associate dean for academic affairs prior to the start of the Fall 2001 term.
Lawrence, who joined MSU-DCL in 1994, practiced international trade law with Baker & McKenzie in Washington, D.C. While in law school, he was editor-in-chief of the Wisconsin Law Review, participated on the Moot Court Board and was named by the law faculty as the outstanding graduating student.
Before attending law school, he was a high school science teacher. He is published in the areas of international trade law, constitutional law and property law. Lawrence is chair of MSU-DCL’s trial practice certificate program and teaches Property, Constitutional Law and Comparative Law.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Indiana University-Bloomington, a Master of Biological Science degree from the University of Colorado, and Master of Science and Juris Doctor degrees from the University of Wisconsin.
In his new role, Lawrence is at the forefront of curriculum enhancements and new programs designed to keep MSU-DCL students in step with the social, technological, environmental, economic and political changes of today’s world.
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MSU-DCL declared ‘13th most wired’ by national news magazine
MSU-DCL has placed 13th on a list of “most wired” law schools in the country. The list is published annually by the National Jurist, a news magazine distributed to law students around the U.S.
In a letter to the college, Editor-in-Chief Tom Stabile stated that MSU-DCL’s grade on the survey “would place you in a tie for 13th with Florida State.” Each year the magazine surveys law schools regarding their deployment of technology for students and faculty.
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Students gather during the law college’s student leader retreat, held at the Kellogg Center on the MSU campus. During the event, students heard presentations on event planning, marketing, leadership and team building.
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Pictured front left to right are: Christina Powell, president of Amnesty International; James Liggins, president of the Wolverine Student Bar Association and the Black Law Students Association; Danielle Bozich, president of the Family Law Society; John Clady, editor-in-chief of the Journal of International Law; and Curtis Warner, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Medicine and Law. Center left to right are: Ben Manson, president of the Jewish Legal Society; Jason Seifert, communications coordinator of the Entertainment and Sports Law Society; Carter Hodgson, president of the Tax Club; and Lindsey Wilson, executive director of the Moot Court. Back left to right are: Jason Atkins, president of the Student Bar Association; Kristine Lapinski, editor-in-chief of the Law Review; and Theresa Quackenbush, president of the Christian Legal Society.
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