- University News Archive - 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock /news-archive/tag/business-law/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Tue, 22 Jan 2019 22:24:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 From Colonel to Counsel: Air Force veteran starts second career in law /news-archive/2019/01/22/colonel-to-counsel/ Tue, 22 Jan 2019 22:24:08 +0000 /news/?p=73167 ... From Colonel to Counsel: Air Force veteran starts second career in law]]> Lawyering runs in William 鈥淕oose鈥 Changose鈥檚 family. His grandfather was an attorney, and his father went to law school. Changose liked law too, but law school would have to wait a few years. 鈥淎fter high school, I wanted to fly planes,鈥 he said. In 1983 he graduated from the Air Force Academy, was commissioned as an officer, and then went to pilot training. For the next 23 years, he moved 16 times to bases across the U.S. and overseas. He spent lots of time in Little Rock, Japan, and the Philippines as well as Saudi Arabia and Iraq. He retired in 2006 as a colonel and commander of Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu, Hawaii. Along the way, he earned a Bachelor of Science in economics from the U.S. Air Force Academy, an MBA from Golden Gate University, and a Master of Science in strategic planning from the Air War College. While law school still intrigued him, it was never the right time or place. 鈥淚 was always in places where either the tuition was too high or the scheduling was impossible,鈥 he said. 鈥淚n 2005, my daughter started eighth grade in Hawaii. It was her sixth school, and she asked if she could go to the same high school for four years in a row.鈥 聽 He told her 鈥淵es,鈥 and knew it was time to retire from the military. The New York native was fortunate to get a job at Alltel Wireless and moved his family to Little Rock, where he discovered the William H. Bowen School of Law. Bowen has the state鈥檚 only part-time Juris Doctor program, which allows students to attend evening classes Monday through Thursday.  

William “Goose” Changose, Jennifer Glover, and Jarred Kibbey were classmates in William H. Bowen School of Law’s part-time program, and now they work together at Natural State Law in Little Rock.

Changose enrolled in fall 2011, attending classes at night and working during the day as chief executive officer of Westrock Coffee Roasting. 鈥淲hile I was working for Westrock Coffee, tidbits of law would show up,鈥 he said. 鈥淎s CEO, I looked at contracts. My legal education was handy long before I even became a full-fledged lawyer.鈥 Changose completed his law degree in 2015. 鈥淏owen was a great experience for me,鈥 he said. 鈥淔rom the first day I walked in, I liked it.鈥 After law school, he continued working at Westrock, and fellow Bowen grad Jarred Kibbey was there too. 鈥淚n the summer of 2017, we were working long days and producing a lot of coffee,鈥 Changose recalled. 鈥淚t was rewarding, but it didn鈥檛 fit with my long-term plan. One night I said to Jarred, 鈥榃e have law degrees. Why don鈥檛 we open up a law firm?鈥 And Jarred said 鈥極k.鈥欌 That was the start of , which opened on May 1, 2018, with offices at 900 S. Shackleford Road in Little Rock. Changose and Kibbey were friends with Jennifer Glover, another Bowen classmate. She was already working at another law firm, but they convinced her to join them. As non-traditional students, each of the three attorneys had significant professional experience in diverse areas and have developed expertise in diverse areas of law. Changose focuses his practice on business law, veterans鈥 benefits, real estate zoning, aviation, and firearms law. Kibbey鈥檚 practice areas also include business law, veterans鈥 benefits, and firearms law as well as insurance, employment law, and HIPAA-related issues. Before law school, Kibbey had served as the senior policy advisor to the Arkansas Department of Health and as senior healthcare advisor to Gov. Asa Hutchinson. He has a Bachelor of Science in political science from UCA, a certificate in bioethics and health policy from Loyola University Chicago, and a Master of Public Health from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Glover had worked eight years as a paralegal for a family law firm before law school. She also had been a caseworker for the Division of Children and Family Services, where she experienced firsthand the value of competent legal representation for children and families. Her practice areas include family law, probate, adoption, guardianship, estate planning, and small business-related issues. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in criminal justice from 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock before attending Bowen School of Law. All three attorneys are members of the Arkansas Bar Association and the Pulaski County Bar Association. The team is already putting into practice one of Bowen鈥檚 core values of creating access to justice. Most of the state鈥檚 lawyers work in Pulaski County and in Washington County in northwest Arkansas while rural state residents often lack convenient access to a lawyer. Kibbey applied for and was accepted into Bowen鈥檚 Rural Practice Incubator Project, which provides support to Bowen alumni who start law practices in rural, underserved Arkansas communities. Kibbey had grown up in Glenwood, a small town of about 2,500 residents south of Hot Springs. Natural State Law now has an office in Glenwood, and the three attorneys take turns staffing the office two days a week. 鈥淲e鈥檙e getting more and more clients,鈥 Changose said. 鈥淧eople come to us with problems, and we鈥檙e finding that we鈥檙e able to do a lot of good.鈥 For Changose, the timing was perfect for the new venture. 鈥淭he coffee business was running smoothly with record revenue and profits, and both of my daughters had graduated from college,鈥 he said. 鈥淭here are very few times in life when you get a chance to make a big change without the risk of ruin. This was a chance to do something I鈥檇 always wanted to do.鈥 Top photo right: William “Goose” Changose found a second career as an attorney after his 23-year military career. Photos by Benjamin Krain]]> 糖心Vlog传媒LR law school receives $1 million grant for Business Innovation Center /news-archive/2016/10/07/business-innovation-center/ Fri, 07 Oct 2016 14:43:28 +0000 /news/?p=65393 ... 糖心Vlog传媒LR law school receives $1 million grant for Business Innovation Center]]> The has given a $1 million grant to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law to create a Business Innovation Clinic. The new clinic will be the first in the state to focus on providing business law advice and services to small businesses, innovators, and nonprofit organizations. 鈥淚 am proud to play a part in helping to create the Business Innovation Clinic at the Bowen School of Law,鈥 said Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, a 糖心Vlog传媒LR law school graduate. 鈥淪mall businesses are the backbone of our economy, and this clinic will allow students at Bowen the opportunity to directly help businesses grow and create more, better-paying jobs for Arkansans while protecting consumers.鈥 Bowen law students, under the supervision of an experienced business law attorney, will work with entrepreneurs in launching and building their businesses, negotiating their contracts with business partners, and protecting their ideas and innovations. In addition, the clinic will offer educational programs for small business owners and potential entrepreneurs. Programming will focus on ways to navigate the many issues that challenge new enterprises. 鈥淭his is an excellent opportunity for Bowen students who are pursuing business law careers,鈥 said Bowen Dean Michael Hunter Schwartz. 鈥淭hey will have the chance to counsel real clients and will have the satisfaction of seeing those clients thrive.鈥 The clinic will also forge partnerships with community organizations that already serve small business owners鈥 nonlegal needs. Volunteer attorneys throughout the state will collaborate with the clinic. In this way, Bowen can support the efforts of Arkansas small business owners to bring their ideas to market, enjoy innovative successes, and create more jobs for their fellow Arkansans. 鈥淭his innovative clinic is a great demonstration of how a university can serve the needs of the private sector and support economic development,鈥 said 糖心Vlog传媒LR Chancellor Andrew Rogerson. 鈥淏y working directly with new entrepreneurs when they need expert help the most, this clinic will help strengthen Arkansas鈥 small business sector, which in turn will create Arkansas jobs and expand the state鈥檚 economic base,鈥 Rogerson said. Legal Clinic Director Kelly Browe Olson and Bowen Assistant Dean for External Relations Wanda Hoover worked closely with the Attorney General鈥檚 office to secure this grant. The Business Innovation Clinic will be the law school鈥檚 sixth legal clinic. Other Bowen clinics include a mediation clinic, a clinic focusing on family law matters for clients based in Arkansas鈥 Delta region, a low-income taxpayer clinic funded by the IRS, a consumer protection clinic, and a general litigation clinic.]]>