Pre-Law at BGSU

Careers in the Legal Profession Panel

Alumni will share their insights about law school, summer internships, clerkships, and the day-to-day routine of a successful practicing attorney.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013
3:00-5:00 p.m.
Bowen-Thompson Student Union 207

The event is free and refreshments will be provided. No reservation required to attend.

Sponsored through generous support from...
Bernard Mann Pre-Law Education Fund,
Colleges of Arts & Sciences and Business Administration,
Law Society,
Department of Political Science.

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Speaker Bios:

Lauren Biksacky ’10 (BA in Political Science) is currently a second year law student at Yale Law School.  Her passion for law began as a member of the BGSU Mock Trial Team, and she has continued to develop her skills in litigation while in law school.  Since beginning law school, she has been active on teams and programs involving mock trial, moot court, and alternative dispute resolution, as well as a coach for high school mock trial students.  Lauren currently interns at the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut, working primarily with criminal matters, and will spend this upcoming summer at a litigation-focused law firm in Los Angeles, California.

Kathleen Hale ’01 (BA in Political Science) is a civil litigator representing plaintiffs who have been physically injured, had their intellectual property stolen, or been victims of fraud or other commercial misconduct.  Ms. Hale began her career clerking on the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.  She then gained significant litigation experience handling dozens of personal injury, wrongful death, and products liability cases in a prominent, plaintiffs-side law firm in Arizona.  After relocating to Washington, D.C., Ms. Hale broadened her practice areas to include insurance recovery and intellectual property.  In 2010, she was the third-chair attorney representing a victim of intellectual property theft in a trial that resulted in a $26 million verdict for the client. Shortly thereafter, she was invited to join a start-up litigation boutique as a founding partner.  She represents individuals and businesses in all stages of litigation, from the initial investigation and filing of the lawsuit through trial and appeal.   

Michael Meuti ‘00 (BS in Business Administration, Industrial and Labor Relations) is a commercial litigator at BakerHostetler’s Cleveland Office whose practice focuses on class-action and appellate litigation.  Before joining BakerHostetler, Michael clerked at both the trial- and appellate-court levels and served for a year in state government as the Simon Karas Fellow in the Ohio Attorney General’s Office.  Michael is a 2000 BGSU graduate, and a 2003 graduate of Stanford Law School.   

Carrie Williamson ’98 (BA in Psychology) is a partner in the Patent Litigation group in the Silicon Valley office of DLA Piper LLP (US).  Her clients have ranged from Fortune 100 and 500 companies such as Toshiba, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and Samsung, as well as small startup companies.  She has participated in seven patent infringement trials and practices before the International Trade Commission as well as district courts in California, Texas, Wisconsin, Delaware, Oregon, Washington and New York.  Carrie received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology summa cum laude and with University Honors from BGSU in 1998 and a J.D. from University of California – Berkeley School of Law in 2003.