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NLJ editor joins UC-Irvine's law school as director of communications

By Jason Siegel

Rex Bossert, the editor-in-chief of The National Law Journal, joined UC-Irvine's new law school as the director of communications.

"What truly excites me about joining the UC Irvine School of Law is the prospect of helping [law dean Erwin Chemerinsky] and his handpicked team build an innovative and influential law school from the ground up," Bossert writes.

"Rarely do you get a chance to start with a clean slate and completely remake an educational institution such as a law school. And we have the backing of the University of California, the greatest state university system in the country if not the world, which makes the law school?s prospects especially bright."

Bossert was previously a staff writer at the Los Angeles Daily Journal and San Francisco Daily Journal before joining Incisive Media* in 1997 as an associate editor of The National Law Journal. He became managing editor of the New York Law Journal in 1999 and was named editor-in-chief of The National Law Journal in 2004, Bossert's favorite project in his career.

Bossert also was an English instructor at Stanford University, where he earned a doctorate in English literature.

Press release: UC Irvine Law School Names Founding Faculty, Staff 'Dream Team'

*formerly known as American Lawyer Media

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New California law school announces founding faculty

University of California, Irvine Donald Bren School of Law, set to open in 2009, has announced some of its founding faculty members and administrators.

In addition to Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, former professor at Duke University School of Law, founding faculty members of Irvine's self-described 'dream team' include Dan L. Burk, Linda R. Cohen, Joseph F.C. DiMento, Catherine Fisk, Carrie Hempel, Trina Jones, Elizabeth Loftus, Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Rachel Moran, Ann Southworth, Beatrice A. Tice, Grace C. Tonner, Kerry Vandell and Henry Weinstein.

Founding administrators include Victoria Ortiz, assistant dean of student services and director of admissions; Charles Cannon, assistant dean of development and external affairs; Rebecca Avila, assistant dean of administration and finance; and Rex Bossert, director of communications and public affairs.

-- Leigh Jones

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on July 10, 2008 (boomark / email).