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Stephen B. 耶格尔
Assistant Dean for 学生事务 & 教师 Supervisor, Corporate Counsel Externship Program
Stephen B. 耶格尔 is the Assistant Dean for 学生事务 at SMU 戴德曼法学院. 在这个角色中, he assists law students with personal and academic issues and works closely with the Student Bar Association and over 60 other student groups. 除了, he presents programs on a number of issues, 包括法学院的成功, 金融教育, 健康, 学术诚信.
Dean 耶格尔 was instrumental in launching the law school’s Haynes & Boone 律师事务所项目, which provides students with a source of relationships and support. 穿越客栈, students connect with fellow classmates, 教师, 学生领袖, 职业顾问, and alumni for a community experience that extends throughout their time at the law school and beyond graduation.
He is the creator and 教师 Supervisor of the SMU Dedman Law Corporate Counsel Externship Program, an innovative academic program for third-year and international law students that combines a corporate counsel course with externships in corporate legal departments. 现在是第11个年头, this program has grown into the premier corporate externship program in the nation. 过去的一年, approximately 120 students worked with different companies where they were placed based on their practice area or industry interests.
Dean 耶格尔 serves on the 教师 Advisory Committee for the R财大B. 罗琳商业法中心 & 领导. Outside the law school, he sits on the board of the SMU 教师 Club, where he serves as treasurer. He also serves as an SMU Deputy Title IX Coordinator.
迪恩·耶格尔是 Inside Counsel – Practices, Strategies and Insights 2d版(West 2020))， Marc I. Steinberg, the Rupert and Lillian Radford Professor of Law.
在来新大之前, Dean 耶格尔 was in private practice for 16 years, first at Jones Day and then as general counsel of a private financial services company. He received his undergraduate and law degrees at Southern Methodist University. His wife Amy, also an SMU Dedman Law alum, is Executive Vice President & Chief Legal Officer of Children's Health. Their son Carson and daughter Alexandra both graduated from SMU.
卡拉·德莱昂·斯塔福德
学生事务主任
卡拉·德莱昂·斯塔福德 joined SMU 戴德曼法学院 as the 学生事务主任 and will be working with Dean Steve 耶格尔 to champion for the students. 卡拉 graduated from our own SMU 戴德曼法学院 in 2010 and rejoins us after having practiced in a national firm as a trial lawyer and litigation attorney. 卡拉 is a dual-licensed attorney capable of reaching cost-effective results for clients doing business and evaluating risks in the United States and throughout Latin America. 卡拉 served as a versatile, experienced bilingual lawyer in the global market. She represented clients in catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases. Her legal experience in 墨西哥 and Texas covers transactional, 违反合同, 建设, 酒店, 零售, 个人受伤, 前提责任, dram商店, 商业运输, vehicular negligence and work-related injuries. 除了, 卡拉 was also involved in immigration law and has assisted clients in obtaining work permits, 签证, legal permanent residency (green cards) and citizenship.
卡拉, 出生在蒙特雷, 墨西哥, earned her first law degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, 在蒙特雷, 墨西哥, and worked at one of the oldest and largest Mexican law firms where she represented U.S. corporations doing business in the northern states of 墨西哥.
通过美国的代表.S. companies and their Mexican subsidiaries (maquiladoras), 卡拉 identified the need for an attorney who could practice law on both sides of the border and serve corporate clients developing business in Latin America while measuring and controlling risks. 卡拉 continued her legal education and licensures to practice law in Texas and attended the SMU Dedman Law School evening program while working a fulltime job as a public school teacher. 卡拉’s law practice led her to participate in a popular Spanish-speaking morning radio program on CBS educating audiences about laws and policies affecting their communities. 卡拉 is excited to meet all students and her office is on Storey Hall.