- University News Archive - 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock /news-archive/tag/pulaski-county-bar-association/ 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]]> $1.1 million donation to 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Bowen Law School聽will create a wider pathway for future lawyers /news-archive/2017/11/30/1-1-million-donation-bowen/ Thu, 30 Nov 2017 16:29:16 +0000 /news/?p=68706 ... $1.1 million donation to 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Bowen Law School聽will create a wider pathway for future lawyers]]> The University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law has received more than $1 million that will create a more affordable pathway to a law degree for Pulaski County residents and future law students who want to practice law in the county.聽 The money is part of the charitable component left over in a $45 million cigarette settlement fund. The charitable distribution ends a 14-year false advertising lawsuit against Marlboro Lights manufacturer Philip Morris USA. The funds will be split evenly between the Dean R. Morley Pulaski County Bar Foundation Scholarship Fund at the Bowen Law School and the Public Interest Litigation Scholarship Program Fund at the University of Arkansas Law School. 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥檚 donation of $1,091,148 is expected to generate around $40,000 annually for the Morley Scholarship endowment, said John DiPippa, interim dean of Bowen Law School. The additional funds for the Morley endowment make this one of the largest scholarship funds at Bowen and will help many more students achieve a law school education. 鈥淭he Morley Scholarship is a need-based award available to students who want to practice in Pulaski County,鈥 DiPippa said. 鈥淣eed-based scholarships have dwindled at many law schools, but the Morley Scholarship will allow us to reduce costs to our students, many of whom come from central Arkansas and want to practice here. Our goal is to use it in a way that makes law school affordable for as many people as possible.鈥 Approximately 10 percent of the 2016-17 applicants to Bowen Law School were from the central Arkansas area, including Little Rock, North Little Rock, Jacksonville, Sherwood and Maumelle. Graduating with a high student loan debt is often a barrier to lawyers who wish to serve in the public sector. In May, Bowen was named to U.S. News and World Report鈥檚. The scholarship will allow its recipients to graduate with low debt so they can pursue legal careers in public-service fields that will help Arkansas residents, DiPippa said. 鈥淪tudents who graduate with less debt have more job choices,鈥 he said. 鈥淭his lets students opt for lower-paying law jobs that serve the public, like prosecuting attorneys, public defenders, and legal aid.鈥 The average salary for someone who does legal aid work is around $40,000, he said, while the average starting salary in private firms is considerably higher. 鈥淚f students have a lot of debt, public jobs might not be economically feasible, even though that is where they would love to practice.,鈥 DiPippa said. 鈥淭here is always a need for well-educated lawyers to fill in gaps in public sectors to ensure that the rule of law is followed.鈥 鈥淚f you have good attorneys in prosecutors and public defenders, the public benefits from having the law fairly enforced and having the rule of law upheld,鈥 DiPippa said.

More about the Dean R. Morley Scholarship

The Dean R. Morley Pulaski County Bar Foundation Scholarship is awarded every year to a 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Bowen Law student in good standing who is a resident of Pulaski County and/or demonstrates a commitment to practicing law in Pulaski County upon graduation. Financial need is strongly considered. Brothers Judge Randy Morley and Steve Morley established this scholarship in 2007 to honor their father鈥檚 legacy of serving others. Dean Morley served as a North Little Rock district judge during his career and was also the president of the Pulaski County Bar Association. Steve Morley earned his Juris Doctor from Bowen in 1978 and held the same judgeship as his father during the 1990s. Randy Morley, who earned his undergraduate and law degrees from 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock in 1979 and 1982, currently sits on the bench where both his father and brother served. 鈥淚 know my dad is looking down from heaven with a smile,鈥 said Steve Morley, who now runs his own law firm in North Little Rock. 鈥淗e would love to know that the Bowen School of Law received such a wonderful gift. When my brother and I set up the scholarship several years ago, we hoped we could build it into something that would be beneficial to our alma mater. With this gift, we have far exceeded anything we ever dreamed of. We are grateful to all the people who have put in work on the Morley Scholarship.鈥 The Pulaski County Bar Foundation has made the Morley Scholarship one of its principal goals. The organization sponsors an annual fish fry and auction to benefit the scholarship fund that is attended and supported by hundreds of lawyers, judges, and lay people affiliated with the legal field in Pulaski County.]]>