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Baron admits to being blindsided on his third win this spring. “I was really surprised, because I didn’t know I’d been nominated,” he said. Baron’s selection was made by a committee and based on criteria demonstrating excellence in the teaching of law, including effectiveness in the classroom, efforts to improve legal education in ways that serve the needs of the profession and of South Dakota and contributions to the profession through public service. “Professor Baron is an entrepreneur of student experience, and events he has started here are now traditions,” Dean Tom Geu said in a press release. “He is a marvelous teacher and scholar who cares deeply for students and colleagues on a personal basis. USD Law is a better place because Roger is here.” Baron said “a huge part” of his work at USD – where he has been on staff since 1990 – is teaching first-year students. “One of the courses they have to take is Civil Procedure, and I teach that. It’s three hours in the fall, three hours in the spring. So every firstyear student is stuck with me for (that time),” he said. “That’s a real important part of what I do, and I value that. “Teaching in the firstyear curriculum is good and bad, because if you’re not doing well, it shows up,” he said. “You can get adverse comments on your evaluations and run into problems, so I strive to do well there.” Baron also teaches two upper-level courses, Family Law and Insurance. “Those are electives, so students don’t have to take those courses, but I usually get pretty good enrollments in those courses, too,” he said. “Those are important courses. They’re not courses where, ‘Oh, by the way, you might need this when you go out and practice.’ You’re probably going to need this, and you really should take it, even though they’re not required.” Prior to arriving in Vermillion, Baron taught for an extended period in Houston, TX. 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There’s really a feeling of warmth.” When he’s not at the university, Baron has become involved with the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, doing pro bono work “and trying to help people who are on the wrong end of an insurance situation.” In 2006, he helped a team of lawyers prepare briefs and oral arguments in the case of Sereboff v. Mamsi, which was argued before the Supreme Court of the United States in 2006. Another high-profile case involvement was that of Wal-Mart v. Shank, which saw the store sue an employee to recoup medical costs from an employee who used its insurance plan. “Even tough we lost in the Supreme Court and all the way through, there was a lot of publicity caused to be placed on Wal-Mart … and they let this lady keep all the money, which she needed,” Baron said. 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