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Liberty valedictorianpasses bar examination
Hayley Safier Weimer, daughter of Carole S. and William A. Weimer of Youngstown, has passed the Virginia bar examination.
Weimer received her juris doctoral degree from Duke University School of Law in May 2005, where she was a case note editor of the Alaska Law Journal, one of the three law review publications at Duke's School of Law.
A 1997 valedictorian at Liberty High School, Weimer is a 2001 magna cum laude graduate of the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan with a degree in industrial and operations engineering.
She served in the undergraduate cooperative education program with American Airlines in Dallas, worked as a summer intern in the Washington office of Ohio Sen. Mike DeWine and taught LSAT classes for Kaplan Test Prep and Admission Services.
She is employed as an associate lawyer with the Washington, D.C., intellectual property law firm of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & amp; Dunner.
Weimer continues a multigenerational tradition of practicing law in her family. She joins her first cousin, Robert M. Spiegel, a private practitioner in Boston, as the fourth generation of practicing lawyers in the family. Her great-grandfather, Joseph Friedman, was founder of the Youngstown law firm of Friedman & amp; Rummell. Her grandfather, Robert B. Weimer, and her great-uncle, Arthur N.K. Friedman, were both partners in the firm.
Her father, William A. Weimer, is vice president and general counsel for B.J. Alan Co., and his first cousin, Richard I. Friedman, is deputy general counsel to Time-Life in New York.
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Mooney graduate earnsdoctorate, pursues M.D.
Michael C. Sweeney of Canfield recently received his doctorate degree in biochemistry from Ohio State University.
Dr. Sweeney, a Cardinal Mooney High School graduate, earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry cum laude from OSU, where he earned several awards, including induction into Phi Beta Kappa his junior year.
He is pursuing a medical degree from OSU's medical college, where he is a third-year student.
He is the son of Dr. William and Marjorie Sweeney of Canfield.
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