In August, Professor John Lenich completed a three-year term on the University Student Conduct Board. He is now working half-time in Student Affairs as a Special Assistant to the Interim Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs. His responsibilities include, among others, identifying needed improvements in the student code of conduct and the procedures used in conduct cases, advising the professional staff on conduct matters, procedures, and student rights, and preparing forms and reference materials for the professional staff.
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Professor Lenich served as the reporter for a bar committee that proposed revamping Nebraska’s subpoena statutes. The committee’s proposal became LB 509 which, after being amended, was passed by the Legislature and approved by the Governor. Professor Lenich wrote about the statutes in an article, “The New Subpoena Statutes: Making Things Clear & Easier," 20 Neb. Lawyer 37 (July/August 2017).
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Professor Lenich spoke about appealable orders at the Nebraska Appellate Judges’ Spring Education Meeting in April 2017. In 2001, he wrote an article on appealable orders in which, among other things, he pointed out that there is no statutory authorization for the collateral order doctrine that the Nebraska Supreme Court had created. The Supreme Court quoted from his article earlier this year when it decided Heckman v. Marchio, 296 Neb. 458, 894 N.W.2d 296 (2017), a case in which the court abolished the collateral order doctrine because it lacked statutory authorization.