ANNA S. ROMINGER, J.D., ATTORNEY AT LAW

Curriculum Vitae

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: ACADEMIC

INDIANA UNIVERSITY NORTHWEST (1992 - present)

• Associate Dean, Division of Business and Economics (1998 -)
• Associate Professor (1998 - ), Division of Business and Economics
• Assistant Professor, Division of Business and Economics
• Promoted to Associate Professor in May 1998
• Courses: Legal Environment of Business, Commercial Law and Legal Aspects of Business (Graduate course in M.B.A. Program)

Adjunct Professor, Department of Supervision
Courses: Human Relations in Organizations, Applied Creativity

INDIANA UNIVERSITY NORTHWEST (1986-1987)

Adjunct Professor (1986-1987)
Division of Business and Economics
Courses: Legal Environment of Business

GOVERNOR'S STATE UNIVERSITY (1981-1989)

Community Professor,
Courses: Juvenile Delinquency, Criminal Procedure

SENDAK, SENDAK, NEFF & ROMINGER (now SENDAK, NEFF, ROMINGER & STANKO) (1984 - 1992, Partner in 1987; of counsel from 1992 - present)

Computer Law, General Business Law, Business Organizations, Commercial Code, Contracts, Real Estate, Torts, Domestic, Wills and Estate Planning, Litigation.

Rated B by Martindale-Hubbel

Certified Domestic and Civil Mediator

Representative clients: Luke's Market Basket, Oil Exchange, Inc., Lake County Community Economic Development Department
 

LAKE COUNTY PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE (1980-1986)

Chief Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for Juvenile Court Office

Reported to the Chief Deputy of the Prosecutor's Office. Was one of six trial supervisors. Responsible for all aspects of law office management and operations.

Handled 2600 juvenile cases in State's second largest county. Taught juvenile procedure to area police departments and mall security officers on regular bimonthly basis.
 

INDIANA STATE WELFARE DEPARTMENT

General Counsel and Assistant Administrator (1978-1979)

One of four Assistant Administrators reporting directly to the Administrator of the Welfare Department, an appointed state official. As first general counsel supervised nine lawyers and two other divisions in the agency (approximately 300 people). Responsible for $6 Million budget.
 

Director, Child Support Division ((1976-1978)

One of seven division directors reporting to the Assistant Administrator of Programs. Responsibilities included program creation and implementation on a tight time frame to avoid $2 Million penalty. Managed $1 Million budget with a staff of 106 employees. Professional staff included lawyers, accountants, system analysts and programmers. Oversaw the implementation of a $2 Million software procurement to automate state child support collection. Negotiated with every Indiana County Council and Prosecuting Attorney to secure their agreement to participate in the collection system.
 

Attorney for Public Assistant Division (1975-1976)

In house counsel for the division of public assistance reporting to the Division Director.

ATTORNEY GENERAL OF INDIANA

Deputy Attorney General (1972-1975)

Litigation counsel for the Department of Corrections, the Department of Public Welfare and Assistant Director of the Consumer Protection Division.

Teaching Awards:

Recipient of the 1998 Teaching Excellence Recognition Award

Recipient of the 1997 Teaching Excellence Recognition Award
 

Nominated for the IUN Founder's Day Teaching Award 1993

1994

1996

1997

Research Grants:
 

Indiana University Northwest 1994 Summer Faculty Fellowship $5000

Grants (Continued) 1997 Summer Faculty Fellowship $5000

1998 Writing Across the Curriculum

Minigrant for $1000.00

PUBLICATIONS: REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
 

Rominger, Anna S. and Sandoval, Pamela, "Employee Testing: Reconciling the Twin Goals of productivity and Fairness," DEPAUL BUSINESS LAW JOURNAL, Spring/Summer 1998, pps. 299-347.
 

Rominger, Anna S., "Rethinking the Paradigm: Can the Wagner Act and Labor-Management Cooperation Coexist?, DEPAUL BUSINESS LAW JOURNAL, Spring/Summer 1996, pps. 159-198.
 

Gupta, Omprakash and Rominger, Anna S., "Blind Man's Bluff: The Ethics of Quantity Surcharges," JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS, Volume 15, 1996, pps. 1299-1312.
 

Rominger, Anna S., "The Mutual Interests Approach: Legislative Attempts to Legititamize Cooperative Labor-Management Relations," MIDWEST LAW REVIEW, Spring 1995, pps. 68-91.
 

Hobson, Charles J., Malec, Kathryn, Rominger, Anna S., Hobson, Colleen L., and Evans Kathy, "Volunteer-Friendliness of Nonprofit Agencies: Definition, Conceptual Model and

Applications," NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP, Volume, 4, Number 4, 1996, pps. 27-41.
 

Rominger, Anna S., "Negotiation: An Idea Whose Time Has Come," Journal of Legal Studies in Business, Winter/Spring 1995, pps. 103-120.
 

PUBLICATIONS : REFEREED PROCEEDINGS
 

Rominger, Anna S. and Scott, Curthbert L. III, "Enhancing Student Mastery and Employability: Using Portfolios in Business Instruction," National Annual Conference of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, August 18-22, 1998.
 

Rominger, Anna S., "Nationwide Pricing: A Responsive Legislative Approach to Price Accuracy," National Annual Conference of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, August 14, 1997, pps. 336-349.
 

Rominger, Anna S. And Sandeval, Pamela, "Employment Testing: The Narrow Gates of Performance Assessment, " National Annual Conference of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, August 10, 1996, pps. 250-271.
 

Rominger, Anna S., "The Legacy of Electromation; A Mutual Interests Approach," National Annual Conference of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, August 12, 1995, pps. 172-188.
 

Rominger, Anna S., "The Mutual Interests Approach: Legislative Attempts to Legitimatize Cooperative Labor-Management Relations, " National Annual Conference of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, August 11, 1994, pps. 455-469.
 

Rominger, Anna S., "Sharing the Power: The Lesson of Electromation, " Annual Meeting of the Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business, March 16, 1994, pps. 98-113.
 

Rominger, Anna S., "Negotiation: an Experiment in Cooperative Learning, " National Annual Conference of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, August 21, 1993, pps. 205-210.
 

PUBLICATIONS: REFEREED PAPERS PRESENTED

Rominger, Anna S., "Nationwide Pricing: A Responsive Legislative Approach to Price Accuracy," National Annual Conference of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, August 14, 1997.
 

Rominger, Anna S. And Sandeval, Pamela, "Employment Testing: The Narrow Gates of Performance Assessment, " National Annual Conference of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, August 10, 1996.
 

Rominger, Anna S., "The Legacy of Electromation; A Mutual Interests Approach," National Annual Conference of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, August 12, 1995.
 

Rominger, Anna S., "The Mutual Interests Approach: Legislative Attempts to Legitimatize Cooperative Labor-Management Relations, " National Annual Conference of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, August 11, 1994.
 

Rominger, Anna S., "Sharing the Power: The Lesson of Electromation, " Annual Meeting of the Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business, March 16, 1994.
 

Rominger, Anna S., "Negotiation: an Experiment in Cooperative Learning, " National Annual Conference of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, August 21, 1993.
 

APPLIED SCHOLARSHIP

PUBLICATIONS: PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS

Rominger, Anna S, "Accountants' Third Party Liability," RES GESTAE, Indiana State Bar Association Magazines, (May, 1994).
 

Rominger, Anna S., "Employee Involvement: Are There No Safe Harbors?, " NORTHWEST INDIANA BUSINESS CONDITIONS, (November, 1993).
 

Rominger, Anna S., "New Age Justice," NORTHWEST INDIANA BUSINESS CONDITIONS, (February , 1993).
 

PUBLICATIONS: PROFESSIONAL PAPERS

Rominger, Anna S., " Once More with Feeling: Another Legislative Proposal to Legitimatize Labor-Management Cooperation, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Academy of Business, March 13, 1997.
 

Rominger, Anna S. and Sandeval, Pamela, "Truth in Testing: Bias in Standardized Exams,"

presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Academy of Business, March 14, 1996.
 

Rominger, Anna S., "The Totality of the Circumstances: Electromation Revisited , " presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Academy of Business, March 30 , 1995.
 

Hobson, Charles J., Malec, Kathryn, Rominger, Anna S., Hobson, Colleen L., and Evans Kathy, "Volunteer-Friendliness of Nonprofit Agencies: Definition, Conceptual Model and

Applications," NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP, presented at the Business Research Conference, Indiana University Northwest (1994). (A Copy of the Article is included in with Refereed Publications.)
 

Rominger, Anna S., "Teamwork: The Future of Employee Involvement, "Business Research Conference, Indiana University Northwest (October 29, 1993).
 

Rominger, Anna S., "Truth or Consequences: Insuring Good Faith in the Mediation of Disputes," Business Research Conference, Indiana University Northwest (October 30, 1992).
 

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

Rominger, Anna S., "Internationalizing Your Curriculum," Panel Discussion, Business Research Conference, Indiana University Northwest (October 27, 1995).
 

Rominger, Anna S., "Teaching Effective Dispute Resolution: A Collaborative Model," National Conference of Women in Education (March 4, 1994).
 

Rominger, Anna S., "A Model of Conflict Resolution," Midwest Association for the Education of Young Children (1993).
 

PUBLICATIONS: INSTRUCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Rominger, Anna S. and Scott, Curthbert L. III, "Enhancing Student Mastery and Employability: Using Portfolios in Business Instruction," National Annual Conference of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, August 18-22, 1998.( Also appears under Refereed Proceedings.
 

Rominger, Anna S., "Negotiation: An Idea Whose Time Has Come," Journal of Legal Studies in Business, Winter/Spring 1995. (This paper is also listed under refereed journals.)
 

PUBLICATIONS: WORK IN PROGRESS

Rominger, Anna S., "Pricing Legislation: Is it Coming?, " this is a sequel to Nationwide Pricing: A Responsive Legislative Approach to Price Accuracy (published in the Proceedings of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business).
 

Gupta, Omprakash and Rominger, Anna S., "The Principle of Equivalence: an Ethical Approach to Package Downsizing," needs to be reworked.
 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AFFILIATIONS
 

Professional Scholarly Service:

Reviewer, Proceedings, Annual Meeting of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, August 8-12, 1995.
 

Staff Editor, LEGAL STUDIES IN BUSINESS (1994- ).
 

Session chair (August 8-12, 1995) : Commercial Law, Annual Meeting of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business.
 

Session Chair (August 10-13, 1994): Commercial Law, Annual Meeting of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business.
 
 
 

University Service
 

Indiana University Northwest, Chairman, Constitutional Revision Committee.
 

Member, Chancellor's Summerfest Committee, April to August, 1998.
 

Member, Chancellor's Summerfest Committee, March to July, 1997.
 

Indiana University Northwest, Program Chairperson, Indiana University Northwest: Business Research Conference, October 27, 1995.
 

Indiana University Northwest, Presenter, The Nineteenth Annual Arts and Sciences Seminar, April 7, 1995.
 

Indiana University Northwest, Writing Across the Curriculum Committee, Faculty Development Committee, Affirmative Action Committee, Constitutional Revision Committee, Ad hoc Committee on Faculty Disciplinary Procedures.
 

Division of Public and Environmental Affairs, Search Committee.
 

Division of Business and Economics, Mistress of Ceremonies, Honors and Awards Reception, April 10, 1996.
 

Division of Business and Economics, Sergeant-at-Arms, Beta Gamma Sigma Dinner, April 19, 1996.
 

Division of Business and Economics, Ethics Coordinator.
 

Division of Business and Economics, presentation on "Teaching Business Ethics, " to Business Faculty, February 1997.
 

Division of Business and Economics, served on Ad Hoc Committee on Registration, Faculty Development Committee, Curriculum Committee, Graduate-Undergraduate Committee and Search Committee.
 

Division of Business and Economics, served as Press Liaison with the IUN News & Publications for the first International Business Conference, May 1995.
 

PUBLIC SERVICE

Advisory Board, Northwest Indiana Youth Chorus..
 

Legal Consultant, "We the People" program sponsored by the Lake County Bar Association.

Prepared Peifer Elementary School, Fifth Grade Team, for a Mock Constitutional Hearing Competition (1995 - present).
 

Moot Court Judge, Valparaiso School of Law (1992- 1993).
 

ACE consultant for the Service Core of Retired Executives (SCORE).
 

Art Appreciation Presenter, "With Open Eyes," program sponsored by the Art Institute of Chicago. Presented art appreciation classes for fourth grade classes at Peifer Elementary School.
 

Bylaws Committee - Indiana Northwest Symphony (1996).
 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
 

Academy of Legal Studies in Business, Lake County Bar Association, Indiana State Bar Association