David E. Pierce (LL.M. ’82) was recently named the Norman R. Pozez Chair in Business and Transactional Law at the Washburn University School of Law in Topeka, Kansas. The Pozez Chair was endowed by Norman R. Pozez, who graduated from Washburn Law in 1980, and is awarded to a faculty member who has made extraordinary contributions to the law school primarily in the areas of teaching and who is a traditional academic and/or an individual with prominence in the chosen field of study, with preference given to a professor in the area of Business and Transactional Law.