Belsky Dean of Tulsa Law School

Journal Record, The (Oklahoma City), Feb 11, 1995

Martin H. Belsky has been named dean of the University of Tulsa College of Law.

He is a specialist in constitutional law, ethics, international and environmental law and policy.

Belsky was dean of the Albany Law School. He joined the Albany Law School as president and dean in 1986 and returned to teaching in 1991.

During his tenure, the school completed a capital campaign, established a national alumni council and developed new clinical and interdisciplinary programs in law and medicine, environmental and land use policy, disabilities law and government decision making.

"Martin Belsky brings to TU a strong background in academic administration and strategic planning, as well as legal scholarship," said Lewis M. Duncan, TU provost and vice president for academic affairs. "His prestigious record of consistent academic publishing matched by community involvement and leadership in the legal profession will benefit not only our law students and faculty but the Tulsa community as well."

Belsky was associate professor and director of the Center for Government Responsibility at the University of Florida College of Law, where he directed a public policy research institute with programs ranging from energy, environmental and water law to criminal and juvenile justice. He also has been a faculty member at Georgetown University Law Center and Temple University Law School.

He will assume his position in July. His wife, Kathleen Waits, will join the TU College of Law faculty as an associate professor.

M. Thomas Arnold has been the acting dean of the TU College of Law since June . . . Laura L. Cross of Miller, Dollarhide, Dawson Shaw will present "End of Life Treatment Decisions" Tuesday at a provider services program for Hospice Care of Oklahoma.

She will discuss "Legal Issues in Nursing" at the University of Oklahoma College of Nursing on Wednesday and Thursday.

Cross will be moderator at an Oklahoma Bar Association program _ "What Every Health Care Provider's and Patient's Attorney Should Know," _on Friday in Oklahoma City. Her presentation for the program will be "Patients' Right to Self-Determination."

Cross was a registered nurse for 20 years prior to attending law school. She is chairman of the Mental Health Committee of the OBA . . . Leonard Court, Peggy L. Clay and Dana M. Tacker, attorneys with Crowe Dunlevy, will be speakers at a seminar on "Wage and Hour Issues for Health Care Employers" on Thursday at The Waterford Hotel. The seminar will be sponsored by Medical Educational Services Inc.

Court will present "General Overview," "Exempt and Non-Exempt Employees," and "Handling Wage and Hour Litigation."

Clay will present "Comparing Federal Wage and Hour Statute to Oklahoma Wage and Hour Statute" and "Record Keeping."

Tacker will present "Determining Hours Worked," "Regular Rate of Pay," and "Independent Contractors."

Court and Tacker also are scheduled speakers at the Personal Law Update 1995 sponsored by the Council on Education in Management at the Marriott Hotel on Feb. 23-24.

Court, moderator of the conference, also will present "Recent Developments in Oklahoma and Federal Law," "The EEOC's New ADA Interview Guide," and "Happy Birthday, You're Fired."

Tacker will present "FMLA: Mastering the New DOL Regulations."

Court is a director of Crowe Dunlevy, the largest law firm in Oklahoma with 102 lawyers in offices in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and Norman. Court is co-chairman of the firm's Labor and Employment Law Section and Tacker and Clay are members of the section. . . Bana Blasdel, United State magistrate judge for the Western District of Oklahoma, will be the guest speaker at the Oklahoma City Federal Bar Association luncheon at noon Thursday at the Petroleum Club, 100 N. Broadway. She has served as Oklahoma County District Judge and president of the Oklahoma Bar Association.

Reservations can be made by calling Joyce Thedford at 235-9621 by noon Wednesday. Cost of the luncheon is $10.