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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Winter 1988 Volume XXIII Number 2
~ ...... JOHN W. NIELDS, JR. '67 Chief Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives' Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran p. 7
THE IRVING R. SEGAL ·LECTURESHIP-----· IN TRIAL ADVOCACY: Hon. Simon H. Rifkind p. 13
THE RELIGION CLAUSES- ·THE-----· PAST AND THE FUTURE Roberts Lecture Hon. Arlin M. Adams'47 p. 9
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Contents Wide publicity has been FROM THE DEAN 1 given to a US. News and SYMPOSIUM 3 World &port poll of Law FEATURED EVENTS 7 John W Nields, Jr. '67 School deans which ranked Hon. Frank Easterbrook Visit this Law School 1Oth. Only "THE RELIGION CLAUSES 9 half of the deans questioned, THE PAST AND THE FUTURE" answered the questionnaire. Excerpts from the Hon. Arlin Adams' '47 Lecture In addition, I doubt that ALUMNI PROFILE 12 many deans, if any, know Featuring Howard L. Shecter '68 enough facts about other law THE IRVING R. SEGAL 13 schools to evaluate one against LECTURESHIP IN TRIAL the other. Nevertheless, the ADVOCACY Excerpts from the Hon. Simon H. poll has raised questions about the strength of our Law A Rifkind's Lecture THE PUBLIC INTEREST 16 School. To put it simply: Are SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM we slipping? AND THIS YEAR'S RECIPIENTS THE FACULTY 17 ALUMNI BRIEFS 18 IN MEMORIAM 22 RESPONSE Editor: Joanna Charnes TO U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT Design: The Graphics Guild Assistant Editor: John J Pease, III Editorial Assistants: Mario Mestichelli, Thomas J. Pease Faculty & Alumni Briefs Editor: John J. Pease, III Photography Credits: John Sanger, Joanna Charnes, Jay Brodsky Dean and Faculty Photographs: Burton Blender
Robert H. Mundheim, Dean, The University of Pennsylvania Law School
The Office of Development and Alumni Relations Sally Carroll, Office Coordinator Joanna Charnes, Editor, The Law Alumni Journal/Director of Alumni Affairs Margaret S. DiPuppo, Director of Annual Giving John S. Manotti, Assistant Director of Annual Giving Donald G. Myers, Director of Development Carol G. Weener, Assistant Director of Development
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A second important weakness relates to My answer is a clear "no." To the our building. The ABA-MLS Evaluation contrary, in the last issue of the Journal, I Report concluded that "the physical facili reviewed the record over the last six years ties [of the Law School] are inadequate to and pointed out the many areas in which support the educational program of the Law we can take pride in the progress of the ''lan assure you School and are not in compliance with Law School. that the present faculty is [applicable] Standards." These last years have been a time of intellectually vibrant, hard Since the 1968 renovation of Lewis Hall, transition. For example, the academic world working, and committed to student population at the Law School has knows that during this time many of our grown by slightly more than a hundred, the best known faculty have retired or pursued teaching. Its strengths do number of course offerings has grown from other paths. However, within the last year not pale in comparison to 69 to 96, and the number of organized two of our stars (Leo Levin and Howard any law school faculty with student activities, such as law journals, Lesnick) have returned; we have added a which I am familiar ...our aca public interest projects, and moot court number of tenured faculty from other law demic program reflects the competitions have mushroomed. In addi schools (Hank Gutman, Fritz Kubler, Eliza tion, our library space has become exceed beth Warren, Bruce Mann, and Mark Roe) best in current thinking. Our ingly cramped for the growing collections, and our younger faculty was characterized first year program, includ the new electronic methods of accessing and in a recent evaluation report of an ABA ing our innovative and transmitting information, and the increased MLS team as "competitive with virtually nationally praised, required, number of students who actively use the any other law school in the country." intensive course in Profes library. Although we have not finished the task of To meet similar pressures almost all of building the faculty, I can assure you that sional Responsibility and our peer schools have undertaken substan the present faculty is intellectually vibrant, the Legal Profession, is tial building projects. Since 1980, 14 of the hard-working, and committed to teaching. widely admired. Our clinical top 18 law schools in the country have Its strengths do not pale in comparison to program has been singled completed or have begun the process of any law school faculty with which I am out in a recent report by building significant additions. Many of these familiar. new building efforts include new classroom, In the last week of November John former Chief Justice Warren office, and student activity space. Each Nields, '67, the Chief Counsel to the House Burger as worthy of special project has included substantial new library Committee in the Iran Contra hearings, mention particularly for our space. As a result of this activity, Chicago, spent two days at the Law School. He spent path breaking small busi Cornell, Iowa, Northwestern, Yale, Geor much of that time with groups of students ness clinic." getown, Michigan, and Columbia will boast answering questions. Toward the end of his libraries whose physical space is between visit, John particularly commented on the 73 ,000 and 98,000 net square feet. That depth of interest displayed by the students, compares with the 35,000 square feet occu their perceptive questions, and their open pied by the Biddle Law Library. It is time In spelling out the achievements of the ness and friendliness. Recruiters for law we begin the building which is to house our Law School - and there are many - I do not firms have also told me that the candidates future. want to overlook the problems we have not they have interviewed from this Law School Late last summer the Law School re yet fully solved. have never seemed stronger. Both of those tained the architectural firm of Davis Brody sets of comments confirm my own opinion In a 1981 survey of law library operating & Associates to begin the process of deve l of the talent, diversity, and overall strength budgets, Biddle Law Library ranked 44th oping a master plan for Law School expan of our student body. out of 173 schools. Law School spending sion. We have now completed our inventory The carefully considered study by Profes on Biddle Law Library jumped from $715,000 of needs and are beginning to assess the sor Robert Gorman on our curriculum and in 1980-81 to $1,685,000 in the current resources we expect to have available to the implementation of its recommendations year. With the help of a rejuvenated Friends undertake an appropriate building program. by the Educational Program Committee of Biddle Law Library, we have headed the I expect that this summer we will have in under the chairmanship of Professor Mooney book budget in the right direction and hand the initial architectural response to makes me confident that our academic boosted spending and other acquisitions meeting our needs, consistent with our program reflects the best in current think from $268,000 in 1980-81 to $446,000 last resources. ing. Our first year program, including our year. But the effort to push Biddle Law Although I believe that polls such as the innovative and nationally praised, required, Library back into the forefront is far from one conducted by U.S. News and World intensive course in Professional Responsibil finished. In terms of volumes in the library report do a disservice by purporting to ity and the Legal Profession, is widely collection, square feet of space devoted to evaluate complex institutions by producing admired. Our clinical program has been the library, and money spent annually on a single number (is X Law School in the singled out in a recent report by former the library, we are below the average of the Top Ten), I think we should take the poll Chief Justice Warren Burger as worthy of major law schools with comparably sized as a spur for meeting the two major special mention, particularly for our path student bodies. Similar library statistics are challenges facing us: providing a building breaking small business clinic. one easily obtained set of figures for evalu and a library which reflects our sense of this ating strengths of law schools. Our record Law School's stature in the Law School is not as strong as it could be, and we must world. work together to rebuild our position. 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FROM THE LAW LIBRARIAN'S response to the lower dollar would be to set comparative approaches to copyright, to WINDOW about, cheerfully, to trim fat, defer pur sentencing, to human rights, to environ by Elizabeth S. Kelly chases where possible, and to cancel some mental law, and, finally, the publication at Director, subscriptions. Unfortunately, despite remark the Law School of two respected journals Biddle Law Library able progress over the last three years, with a comparative focus: The University Biddle Library's overall budget this year is of Pennsylvania Journal of International still $122,000 less than the average law Business Law and The Comparative Labor The trade deficit may be easing. More library budget for five of our peer schools Law journal. Biddle's foreign and interna people seem to be buying American. But, (Columbia, Cornell, Northwestern, Stanford tional collection gets substantial use by the libraries, such as Biddle, which buy legal and Yale). There is no fat to trim. If we students and faculty of the law school, by materials published outside the United States cancel or do not place orders, we will be the practicing bar, and by faculty and are in real trouble; they are feeling an giving up some of the ground we gained students from the University as a whole. adverse impact of the relative change in the with your help over the past three years. As we seek creative solutions to this value of the dollar. One quarter of Biddle's I alert you to this particular Biddle need budget problem, contributions to Friends $520,000 acquisition budget is spent on because the foreign and international titles of Biddle grow in importance. Our goal is international or foreign law books and jour the Law School buys are so important to $100,000 in gift support by June 30, 1988. nals. We expect that the $130,000 budgeted parts of our educational program. Specifi This $100,000 is part of the $520,000 for these essential items this year will need cally, Biddle's foreign and international col acquisition budget referred to earlier. Re to be augmented by $30,000 to $45,000 lection provides crucial support for the ceiving gifts in excess of the $100,000 because of the downward slide of the dollar courses offered in public and private inter already anticipated will help address our against foreign currencies. national law, the clusters of courses which current and significant need for funds to If the Library were operating with an relate to comparative securities law, the purchase foreign materials. adequate information budget, my instinctive research interests of our faculty concerning
NEWS FROM THE INSTITUTE Bonds: Reassessing Corporate Reorganiza BOARD OF VISITORS DAY FOR LAW AND ECONOMICS tion." Underwritten by a gift to the Insti The Law School's first Board of Visitors Olin Speaker Series tute from Leon G. Holt, Jr. '51, the Day took place on December 2. Approxi The john M. Olin Foundation Law Alumni roundtable featured competing plans for mately 50 alumni and alumnae returned to Society Luncheon Forum featured the Hon. corporate reorganization by Penn Law Pro the Law School for a full day of activities Frank H. Easterbrook, who addressed an fessor Mark Roe and Harvard Law Professor beginning with breakfast in the Goat area audience of law alumni on October 15, 1987. Lucian Bebchuk. and ending with the annual Keedy Cup In the afternoon, Judge Easterbrook spoke Participants included Finance Professors Competition and dinner at the University to law students on "The Constitution of Richard Kihlstrom, Leonard Rosen of Wach Museum. During the course of the day Business." tell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz, Michael Temin participants attended classes and a panel john H. Schafer, Esquire, led a seminar '57 of Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen, discussion presented by Dean Mundheim, entitled "The Impact of Economic Think Alan W Armstrong of First Pennsylvania Hon. Edmund B. Spaeth and Professor ing on Antitrust Law" on October 29 at the Bank, and Leon S. Forman '39 of Blank, Curtis Reitz, '56 on Professionalism. Eliza Law School. Mr. Schafer, a senior partner Rome, Comisky and McCauley. beth Kelly, Director of The Biddle Law at Covington & Burling in Washington, DC, The Institute is planning their spring Library, met with the Board to discuss the has argued a number of major predatory program which will include a roundtable on Biddle Library, its progress and needs. Dean pricing cases before the Supreme Court and the impact of corporate taxation on capital Mundheim and The Honorable Arlin Adams, the Federal Trade Commission. The semi markets transactions and a seminar by '47 presented long range goals and plans for nar was sponsored by a grant from the John Institute board member Eugene Rotberg the Law School. The Board of Visitors met M. Olin Foundation. on the world debt crisis based on his with faculty and students at lunch and were Douglas L. Leslie discussed "Multi experience as Vice President and Treasurer later given a tour of the Law School's Employer Bargaining Rules" at a John M. of the World Bank. facilities. The interaction between the Board Olin Foundation Seminar at the Law School CENTER FOR of Visitors and the Law School community on November 19. Prof. Leslie is the Charles PROFESSIONALISM was excellent, and as hoped, the group 0. Gregory Professor of Law and Director The newly-created Center for Pro provided valuable input and commentary of the john M. Olin Program on Law and fessionalism held a panel discussion on on the ideas presented by Dean Mundheim Economics at the University of Virginia Law October 19, 1987 at the Annenberg School and the faculty. School. of Communications. Dean Robert H. Mund Roundtable heim, Hon. Edmund B. Spaeth, Jr., and KEEDY CUP MOOT COURT The Institute's annual board meeting was Professors Curtis Reitz '56 and Douglas COMPETITION held on Friday, November 6, and was Frenkel '72 comprised the panel which The annual Edwin R. Keedy Moot Court followed by an afternoon roundtable discus presented real-life legal dilemmas at the Competition drew to a close as the Final sion entitled "The Implications of Junk Law Alumni Society Program. The Center Round was argued on December 2 at the for Professionalism, headed by judge Spaeth, University Museum. The Court was com a Senior Law Fellow, is intended to develop posed of The Honorable William D. Hutch courses, teaching materials and continuing inson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the education programs for practicing attorneys Third Circuit, The Honorable Pierre N. on matters of professional responsibility. Leva! of the U.S. District Court for the https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/plj/vol23/iss2/1 4
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Southern District of New York, and The were excellent. You did a fine job on a very NEWS OF THE LAW ALUMNI Honorable Norma L. Shapiro, '51, of the difficult project." Judge Norma L. Shapiro SOCIETY U.S. District Court for the Eastern District '51 added, "As the only graduate on this Law Alumni Society Award of Pennsylvania. The Keedy Cup Finalists panel from the Law School, I want to say Gilbert F. Casellas '77, the First Vice were Gary Deutch, Abbe F. Fletman, Lester that you do your school proud .. .l remember President of the Law Alumni Society and C. Houtz and Raymond C. Ortman, Jr., all that great Professor Keedy. He was a great Chair of the Young Lawyer's Section of the class of '88. purist and would have been proud." Philadelphia Bar Association, was honored The participants argued the case of by the Law Alumni Society at the 29th DeBartolo v. Florida Gulf Coast Building LAW SCHOOL PERSONNEL annual Philadelphia Bar Association Bench and Construction Trades Council, a building NEWS Bar Conference in Atlantic City, NJ on contractor retained by the petitioner, Ed Four new administrators have joined the Law October 17, 1987. David Marion, '63 pre ward J. DeBartolo Corp. The union distrib School Community: sented the award to Mr. Casellas. Both uted handbills to consumers at the peti Sally Carroll is the Law School Develop Messrs. Marion and Casellas are partners tioner's shopping center. The handbills urged ment Office's new Office Coordinator. Sally with the firm Montgomery, McCracken, consumers not to patronize the stores until replaces Sue Flom who is now a compensa Walker and Rhoads. the petitioner agreed to guarantee that all tion analyst for the University's Department Four of the five new members of the construction done at the center would be of Pathology. Ms. Carroll comes to Penn Philadelphia Bar Association's Board of Gov by contractors who paid the wages and from Haverford College where she was a ernors are alumni of this Law School: benefits requested by the union. Section faculty secretary for the Biology Depart Gilbert F. Casellas, '77, is a partner at 8(b)(4) of the National Labor Relations Act ment. She has two children in college and Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads. prohibits secondary boycotts. The Act con one in high school. Paul C. Heintz, '65, is a partner at tains a so-called "publicity proviso" that Joanna Charnes is the new Editor of Obermayer, Rebmann, Maxwell & Hippe!. exempts from this prohibition publicity the Law Alumni Journal and Director of Alexander Kerr, '70, is a founding partner advising the public that a product is pro Alumni Mfairs, replacing Libby Harwitz and at Hoyle, Morris & Kerr. duced by an employer with whom a union Stephanie Kallen, respectively. Ms. Harwitz Roslyn G . Pollack, '73, is a partner at has a dispute and is distributed by a third is now Director of Editorial Services and Cohen, Shapiro, Polisher, Shiekman & party. In the case at hand, the NLRB held Research at the University's Medical Cohen that the handbilling was exempted from the Center, and Ms. Kallen is now Director of secondary boycott prohibition by the "pub Development at Penn's Graduate School of BENEFACTORS DINNER 1987 licity proviso," and the Court of Appeals Education. The annual Benefactors Dinner was held agreed. The U.S. Supreme Court vacated Ms. Charnes has a B.S. in Communica at the Horticultural Center in Fairmount and remanded, holding that: (1) the hand tions from the University of Illinois, Cham Park on October 20, 1987. The evening billing did not fall within the "publicity paign-Urbana, and an M.A. in Urban Policy began with cocktails and hors d'oeuvres in proviso" ; and (2) neither the NLRB nor the and Planning from the University of Chi the spacious greenhouse of the Honicultural Court of Appeals ever considered whether cago. She has planned numerous fundraising Center. The sit-down dinner was in the the handbilling actually violated the Na events as President of Thresholds Lincoln main area and was followed by a delightful tional Labor Relations Act. Park Auxiliary Board, a non-profit psychiat performance of the Law School 's Light On remand, the Board issued an order ric rehabilitative center in Chicago, and has Opera Works, an acapella group of singers instructing the union to cease and desist organized other events as a fundraiser for and soloists. Dean Robert H. Mundheim distribution of the handbills. The union the Illinois Congressional Advisory Board. thanked James Crawford, '62, last year's petitioned the Court of Appeals to set aside Ms. Charnes most recently was an Occu National Fundraising Campaign Chairman, the decision and the Board petitioned for pancy Planner/Staff Officer for First Na and introduced Lawrence J. Fox, '68, the enforcement of its order. The Court of tional Bank of Chicago. new Chairman for 1987-88. Appeals held that Congress did not intend Paul Glanton is the new Admissions to proscribe handbilling in its prohibition Officer for the Law School. A native of of secondary boycotts. The Supreme Court Knoxville, Tennessee, Mr. Glanton attended granted certiorari and the following ques the University of Minnesota and majored tions are presented: ( 1) whether the secon in vocal music with a minor in theater. He dary boycott prohibition encompasses only is a former member of the Kansas City picketing and excludes handbilling and other Chiefs and comes to Penn from Providence, forms of labor publicity; and (2) whether Rhode Island, where he was Associate Di the secondary boycott prohibition contra rector of Admissions at Brown University. venes the First Amendment to the U.S. Martha Keon has joined the Institute Constitution if the prohibition does encom for Law and Economics as Program Direc pass handbilling and other forms of labor tor, replacing Nancy Zurich. Ms. Keon holds publicity. a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Both teams were well-prepared and pre the University of Pennsylvania, and comes sented their arguments quite effectively. to the Institute from the World Mfairs The victors were Petitioners Abbe F. Council of Philadelphia where she was the Dean Robert H. Mundheim, June and Leon C. Holt, Fletman and Lester C. Houtz. Judge Leva! Development Coordinator. 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"Theatrics for Lawyers" Delaware Alumni Reception alumni, University of Pennsylvania Law On October 26, 1987, Arnold Zenker, '62 On November 17, 1987, 0. Francis School Faculty, alumni in teaching at other presented a seminar at the Law School Biondi, '58, hosted an elegant cocktail institutions, and former colleagues of the entitled "Theatrics for Lawyers." Mr. Zenker reception in Wilmington for Delaware alumni Law School. is a former labor relations administrator for at the Rodney Square Club. Dean Robert ABA Midyear Meeting ABC, former manager of News Production H. Mundheim addressed the group and The Great Hall was the setting for the at CBS, author of Mastering the Public Spot Professor Frank Goodman spoke to the ABA Midyear Meeting cocktail reception light, and the current Managing Director of alumni on the timely subject of Constitu on Friday, February 5. The party, hosted Arnold Zenker Associates, Inc., a public tional Law; specifically, the impact which by the Law Alumni Society, was an elegant communications and media ski ll s consulting appointed Supreme Court justices have on reception for local alumni, out-of-town alumni firm located in Boston, MA. Mr. Zenker the court and his opinion of the three most here for the ABA Meeting, and alumni from addressed a law student audience of about recent appointees under consideration: Bork, other law schools interested in seeing the 50 on the topic "How the Corporate Ginsburg, and Kennedy. Executive Reacts to the Media When Under Law School. Philadelphia style Hors d'ouevres Scrutiny." He enlightened the students as Alumnae Workshop were served courtesy of these Sansom St. to the ways to quickly field and respond to Thirty-four alumnae gathered for an enlight Restaurants: Le Bus, La Terrasse, New troublesome questions, and emphasized the ening lunch/workshop at the Locust Club Deck Tavern & White Dog Cafe. The Broad importance of maintaining composure and on December 3. The purpose was to estab St. String quartet, Philadelphia Mummers, a relaxed appearance in public situations. lish a support group focusing on "Lifestyles performed. On display was the Biddle Law Library's Exhibit on Lawyer-Signers of the Law students were surprised to learn the and Life Choices Mter Law School," and is extent to which "18 seconds" of press time part of a continuing commitment of the Constitution and their libraries. Dean Robert can affect and alter public image, and were Law Alumni Society to help today's female H. Mundheim welcomed all attendees and reminded of the importance of being con attorney to cope with the increasing de discussed new plans for the Law School. scious of presentation in addition to con mands of juggling a career and a personal tent. life. Nancy Bregstein, '76, and Vicki Kramer, UPCOMING EVENTS the Co-Founder of Options, Inc., organized QUINQUENNIAL REUNIONS! Parents and Partners Day the workshop. Based on the enthusiastic May 14, 1988 The third annual Law Alumni Society participants sharing similar perspectives but Eleven alumni classes will hold their sponsored Parents and Partners Day con often differing priorities, it was evident that quinquennial class reunions on Saturday, vened on November 13th, 1987. First year continuing to meet to focus on a more May 14, 1988. The festivities will begin in students and their families attended classes, specific range of issues will be constructive the afternoon with Dean Robert H. Mund gathered in the Goat Area for coffee and and proactive. A follow-up seminar will take heim leading alumni on a champagne tour snacks, and then were given the opportunity place in the Spring of 1988 and will of the Law School from 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. In to hear Dean Robert H. Mundheim, Profes concentrate on such issues as networking the evening, alumni classes will celebrate sor A. Leo Levin, '42, three law school and gender status equalization. The ulti their reunions at the following locations: alumni, and three law students present their mate goal of these seminars is to provide a Event viewpoints on law school and how it has forum which offers an exchange of ideas and Class Location Chairman affected their lives. Law Alumni Society information, and then builds upon the 1933 The Moot Court Room R. Callaghan 1938 Union League judge Grifo President Howard L. Shecter, '68, of the exchange through group participation and 1943 Seacrest Club (6/88) M. Dittmann Philadelphia firm Morgan, Lewis and Bockius, reinforcement. 1948 Hershey Pocono Resort judge Huyett Mansfield C. Neal, Jr., '64, Counsel for the (5/28/88) General Electric Company, and Arlene Fick AALS Meeting 1953 lo Be Determined L. Barkan Miami was the location of the 1988 1958 Palace Hotel j. Harkins ler, '74, of Hoyle, Morris & Kerr, invigo Brunch, Sunday, May 15 rated the audience of first years and their Association of American Law Schools Annual Locust Club families with reflections on the difficulties Meeting. The Law Alumni Society hosted 1963 Harry's Bar and Grill j. Ledwith of the first year of law school, but with a cocktail reception there at the Fontaine 1968 Barclay Hotel C. Swain bleau Hotel on Saturday evening, January 1973 To Be Determined C. Mager energizing perspectives on their careers at 1978 Palladium G. Shotzbarger present. The event culminated with a fes 9. Professor Stephen Burbank addressed 1983 Gold Standard D. Markind tive and informal lunch in the Goat area. the group which was comprised of Florida Regional Law Alumni Society Receptions Washington, DC - The annual Alumni Luncheon will be held at the Willard Hotel, Wednesday, April 27, 1988, at noon. Hershey, PA -The Law Alumni Society's Pennsylvania Bar Association reception will take place Thursday, May 19, 1988 at 6:00 p.m. at the Hershey Motor Inn. New York, NY- The annual Spring Alumni Reception & Dinner will take place Wednes day, May 25, 1988 at 5:00 p.m. at the Princeton Club.
Additional Notes The Alumni Society will host a party honoring the graduating class of 1988 at the Reading Terminal Market on Saturday eve Parents & Partners Day panelists: A. Leo Levin '42, Howard L. Sheeler '68, Mansfield C. Neal Jr. '64, Arlene Fickler '74, ning, April 30. Dean Robert H. Mundheim, Glenn Dumont '88, Henry C. Klehm '88, Andrea Ward '89. https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/plj/vol23/iss2/1 6 5 et al.: Law Alumni Journal: John W. Nields, Jr. '67
The next Board of Managers Meeting of the Law Alumni Society will be Thursday, THE CALENDAR 1988 June 9, at 5:00 p.m. in the Moot Court Room at the Law School. FEBRUARY MAY EDITOR'S NOTE Friday, February 5 Friday, May 6 It is a great pleasure for me to assume Law Alumni Society reception for the New York Benjamin Franklin Society the role of editor of such a fine and American Bar Association at the Law School. Reception. professional publication as the Law Alumm Journal I hope to maintain and further MARCH Saturday, May 14 enhance the sense of quality, thought and Tuesday, March 22 Law Alumni Quinquennial Class Parties integrity advanced by my predecessor and Chief Justice Warren Burger speaks at the and Open House at the Law School for exemplified in past issues. I am challenged Law School. reunion classes. by the opportunity presented, and look forward to working within the dynamic Monday, May 16 community of the University of Pennsylva APRIL Commencement nia Law School. {!f.,~ Wednesday, April 6 r. Law Alumni Day Board Meeting and Law Thursday, May 19 Please Accept Our Apologies ... Alumni Society's Annual Meeting. Cocktail Law School's Pennsylvania Bar Associa To those Alumni and Friends of the Law Reception and Dinner. tion Reception at Hershey, PA., at the School who were not recognized or who Annual Giving Evaluation Meeting at the Hershey Motor Inn. were incorrectly recognized in the 38th Faculty Club. Annual Report of Giving, we extend our Wednesday, May 25 sincere apologies. Wednesday, April 27 New York Alumni Annual Spring Recep We thank you for your generosity to the Washington, DC Alumni Annual Lunch tion and Dinner at the Princeton Club, New Law School during the 1987-88 fiscal year. eon at the Willard Hotel. York City Your generosity and support have enabled the Law School to raise over $5 million in Saturday, April 30 JUNE restricted and unrestricted gifts. Your con Law Alumni Society Hosts Party at Thursday, June 9 tinued support is vital to the future of the Reading Terminal Market for Graduating Law Alumni Society Board of Managers School. Once again, we apologize for our Class of '88. Meeting at the Law School oversight. Kenneth A. Gelburd, L'80 Gave to Clinic. Gave to Sparer fund. J. Pennington Straus, L'35 should have been listed as a member of the Benjamin Franklin Society. YALE ACCEPTS THE Herman Kerner, L'37 should have been listed as a donor in the class of 193 7. Terri M. Solomon, L'79 should have been included as a donor in the Class of PENN LAW 1979. Edward L. Peck, L'69: his memorial gift was in memory of Jay Baer, L'69. The firm of Galfand, Berger, Senesky, Lurie, and March was spelled incorrectly. CHALLENGE We apologize for the error. Lawrence J. Fox, '68, National Campaign Fox believes that the reason Penn's law Chairman for the Law School, has the alumni participate so actively is gratitude: distinction of masterminding a unique "They are saying thank you to an institu fund-raising concept. Fox has challenged tion that has benefitted them in a very Yale Law School to a fund-raising race. Yale positive way." Penn's goal for 1988's alumni LAW ANNUAL GIVING is number one nationwide in annual giving giving campaign is $1.5 million, $250,000 FIRM ·soLICITATION PROGRAM 1986-1987 participation, with 54% as compared with more than that which was raised last fiscal 46% for Penn. Penn is second only to Yale year. The University of Pennsylvania Law School recogni~es the following participating law firms in annual giving percentage participation. whose annual alumni support has reached 100 percent
Blank. Rome, Comisky & McCauley Cozen & O'Connor O;,JVis. Polk & Wardwell Ouane, Morris & Heckscher Galfand, Barger. Senesky, Lur~e & Marsh Hangley. Connolly, Epstein, Chicco. Foxman & Ewing Kleinbard, Bell & Brecker Proskauer, Rose. Goetz & Mendelsohn Sills. Beck. Cumm1s, Zuckerman. Radin, Trschman & Ep!>te•n
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what the administration was doing with JOHN W. NIELDS, JR. '67 One of the highlights of this Autumn was respect to the contras, they were lied to and the presence at the Law School of John W. so were the American people. National Nields, Jr. '67, Chief Counsel to the U.S. Security Advisor Robert McFarlane told House of Representatives' Select Commit Congress that the administration was abid tee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions ing by the letter and spirit of the Boland with Iran. On Monday, November 23, John Amendment and that the administration Nields addressed an audience of law stu was not facilitating the provision of military dents and professors in Room 100 and support for the contras. Poindexter and discussed his role in the Iran-Contra hear North gave Congress similar assurances in ings. A wine and cheese reception followed face-to-face meetings. It is fair to say that in the Goat Area. That evening, Nields and the facts support the Committee's conclu twenty law students gathered at the Dean's sion that the Iran-Contra affair was charac house for an informal "coffee and discus terized by secrecy, deception, and disdain sions." for law ... With respect to the diversion of On Tuesday, November 24, Nields met funds and the arms sales to Iran, it is clear with students in the Moot Court Room for that Congress was not informed .. .ln fact, breakfast. At noon, he addressed an audi the President had approved the Israeli sales ence of 80 alumni and guests at a Law that had taken place prior to his find- Alumni Society Luncheon at the Four Sea ing ... The Israeli sales of arms to Iran by our sons Hotel. The following paragraphs are consent violated the Export Control Act. excerpts from Nields' fascinating discourse When information began to leak out regard on the events leading up to the Hearings: ing the covert operation, government offi He began by thanking the Dean for asking cials began a cover-up story. North, Casey, him to address the Law School community Poindexter and Meese all met and agreed and said "It is a distinct pleasure to be to say that the United States knew nothing amongst fellow graduates of the Law School." about the Israeli shipment of arms. They He then drew a chronological chart of agreed to say that Israel had said that oil events leading up to the sale of arms to Iran drilling equipment, not arms, were being and the division of funds to the Nicaraguan sent out." Nields continued his incisive contras, and later explained in detail the account of what took place and concluded attempts of federal officials to cover up the the following: scheme. "I can't finish without saying a word or In his address to the alumni, Nields two about secrecy. It's very difficult for stated that the Iran-Contra affair was in secrecy to coexist with truth .. .There is one violation of the Constitution. He explained check on unbridled executive action which that the Boland Amendment, passed in dwarfs all others and that is the check October of 1984, banned both direct and proposed by the people through their power indirect support to the contras, and that to vote. It operates not just at election therefore, the diverted funds and other time. It operates all year round. We saw forms of help given to the contras after over and over again, during the hearings the October were in violation of the Amend tension that exists between a belief in ment. secrecy and the desire to get at the truth. Nields explained that Congress by law There are people in the government who should be notified about all covert opera believe in secrecy ... as the strongest value is one check tions. In the case of the arms sales to Iran that guides them. The [secrecy] intelli ''lere and the diversion of funds to the contras, gence mentality got to very high policy on unbridled executive "[Congress] didn't know." making places in government. That provides action which dwarfs all In speculating that money was a possible as important an explanation for what went others and that is the motive for the arms sales, he pointed to the wrong here as anything." Jll profits that were made from these sales. check proposed by the "From notes that were presented to us people through their during the hearings, we know that North power to vote." jacked up the price when selling to Iran so there would be a substantial surplus. North told the Israelis that the United States Government planned to use the profits from future sales in Nicaragua. Under our law, the administration has the obligation to notify Congress of any covert operation conducted by the United States. When Congress made specific inquiries into https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/plj/vol23/iss2/1 8 7 et al.: Law Alumni Journal: John W. Nields, Jr. '67
pleasant reception in the Goat Area. The A case for last Term offers a splendid following text is excerpted from Judge illustration. Keystone Bituminous Coal Assn 'n v. Easterbrook's lecture: DeBenedictis dealt with a statute forbidding "The Constitution contains two clauses underground coal operators to remove so designed to restrict the ability of govern much coal that the land subsides. The coal ment to regulate business. One is the operators had sold the surface to the house Takings Clause and the other the Contracts holders about 70 years ago, with deeds Clause. The former applies only to the expressly reserving not only minerals but federal government, the latter only to the also the right to cause subsidence. The states. The old court, the Court of !JJchner, surface owners got a bargain - though the did not rely much on these, for good reason. discount was slight, considering that subsi The Contracts Clause does not apply to dence lay more than 50 years away. When prospective laws. subsidence appeared to be a threat, the Any contract must comply with laws surface owners got the legislature to pass a predating its signing, and states may be able law against subsidence. They could vote; to make certain classes of existing contracts the coal companies could not. This changed unlawful. Contracts with effects on strang the entitlements under the contracts of ers (for example, contracts cartelizing a sale. The only way to avoid subsidence is market or causing pollution) and contracts to leave large pillars of coal in place, to sell noxious substances or commit mur foregoing as much as half of the minable der come to mind. The Supreme Court had coal. The only other option is to buy back no trouble holding that a prohibition on the the surface land at a price reflecting the sale of liquor was neither a taking nor a greater value of firm ground, thus paying a violation of the Contracts Clause. There is second time for the privilege to cause a good argument that the Contracts Clause subsidence. forbids only transfers of entitlements among Sixty years ago, in the Mahon case, Justice parties to existing contracts. This is an Holmes declared such a statute a taking. important office, one slighted too often, but Not because it was unwise, but simply FRANK H. EASTERBROOK not the kind of thing to stop the welfare because it transferred a valuable privilege state in its tracks. It could at most slow a from one owner to another. This time the U.S. Court of Appeals program down a little, letting it take effect Court chose a different path, saying the as existing contracts expired. As for the statute was OK and neither taking nor an Takings Clause, the Court had held over interference with contract. This was not and over that government could regulate as because the law did not interfere; it did. It Honorable Frank H. Easterbrook of The long as it did not extinguish the important was not because the law did not transfer the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh elements of value. These were the doctrines rights from mineral owners to surface own Circuit visited the University of Pennsylva that impelled the Court to turn to "liberty" ers; it did. It was powerfully redistributive. nia on October 14 & 15, 1987 to deliver and substantive due process to obstruct No, the Court said, this law is fine because lectures at the Wharton School and the Law economic regulation. it is fine. That is, the Court examined the School. A Senior Lecturer and Professor of The Contracts and Takings clauses were purposes of the law, thought the protection Law at the University of Chicago, Judge not toothless, however; within their limited of surface interests more compelling than Easterbrook is a noted legal scholar, and has domain they were absolutes. If regulation either the mining of coal or the honoring published extensively in various fields such went "too far" or if the state wanted to of musty bargains, and gave the law its as Antitrust Law, Criminal Procedure, Secu interfere with existing contracts, it simply blessing. rities Regulation and the judicial Process. had to pay up. It did not matter whether Now it may be that the law is a great On Wednesday, October 14, Judge Eas the regulation was wise; it only mattered advance. After all, with so much coal near terbrook delivered an open lecture to under whether the state wanted to pay the piper. the surface in the west, there is less need graduates at the Wharton School. An infor Beginning in 1934 with the Blaisdell case, to destroy houses in the east by collapsing mal, joint Wharton and Law School dinner however, the Court added a reasonable the land. But the Court got to this result was held in his honor at the Four Seasons regulation exception to the Contracts Clause. not by reexamining doctrine or looking at Hotel later that evening. On October 15, The Takings Clause always had some the law of excuses to break contracts, such judge Easterbrook delivered the John M. reasonableness inquiry. Developments in as unanticipated developments. It engaged Olin Foundation Luncheon Forum Lecture the last few years have fused the Contract in an unabashed substantive review. The entitled "The Constitution of Business". and Takings issues with the reasonableness implication: if we liked the law less, it The lecture was cosponsored by the Penn of the law. As a result a court cannot would be unconstitutional." Jll Law Alumni Society and the Institute for evaluate even what was once a straightfor Law and Economics, and took place at the ward question without examining whether Barclay Hotel. Later that afternoon, Judge it has a "good law" on its hands. For "good Easterbrook spoke at the Law School Moot reason" the legislature can interfere with Court Room on the topic "Why Economic contract, so the SOP inquiry becomes Analysis of Law is Inevitable". The lecture inevitable. was well-attended and was followed by a
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OWEN J. ROBERTS LECTURE by Arlin M. Adams '4 7 University of Pennsylvania November 19, 1987
depended in part on the principle of federal ism, denoting the boundaries between fed he First Amendment of the eral and state authority. Believing that the Constitution declares that + centralization of power would lead to tyr "Congress shall make no law Editor's Note: The Honorable Arlin M anny, the Founders divided political author respecting an establishment Mams, retired Judge of the U.S. Court of ity both at the federal level and between of religion, or Prohibiting the Appeals for the third Circuit and Counsel to the the federal and state governments They free exercise thereof.." These sixteen Philadelphia firm of Schnader, Harrison, Segal further sought to assure a free society by words, known as the Religion Clauses, so & Lewis, presented the 29th Annual Owen J. providing constitutional protection for non simple yet capable of so many different Roberts Memorial Ucture entitled "The Religion governmental mediating structures, such as interpretations, have sparked intense Clauses-a Past and the Future," on November the family, churches, the press, business contemporary debate. 19, 1987 at the University Museum. Judge Mams and voluntary associations. Many shared Although history does not supply a de '47, has numerous honorary degrees and received Hamilton's view that the state governments tailed blueprint, it does provide an informa the Law School's Distinguished Service Award provided a buffer "against invasions of the tive context for resolving modern questions. in 1981. Mams discussed the history of the public liberty by the national authorities." In interpreting the Constitution, one must division between state and religion by scrutinizing The clauses, at least originally, embodied look to the ideas underlying it and identify the founding fathers' attitudes toward religion, this concept of federalism, and were to the Founders' basic principles. These princi and by interpreting the first two clauses of the prevent Congress from interfering with ples insure that judges do not read their First Amendment. The audience of 200 people, religion on the state level. According to own ideological views into our fundamental consisting of law faculty, alumni, students, and Jefferson, the "power to prescribe any law, yet they are not so outmoded as to friends of Judge Mams were privileged to hear religious exercise, or to assume authority in prevent the enlighted resolution of twenti the lecture which is reprinted on the following religious discipline" rested not with the eth century problems. 'What, then, are the pages. An edited version of Judge Mams' general government but with the states, "as animating principles?' presentation will be published in the November far as it [could] be." In short, one of the Religious Liberty. In addressing this 1987 issue of the Volume 137 Law Review. purposes of the clauses, at least initially, question, I begin with what may be a rather was to leave the resolution of religious obvious proposition - that the Founders difficulty is illustrated by present litigation, issues to the states. intended the establishment and free exer which invariably places the clauses in oppo Separation of Church and State. Sepa cise guaranteed to be a complementary sition to one another. For example, in ration of Church and State is a means to means of promoting a single end. As Justice accommodation cases, attempts to secure achieve religious liberty, but it is essential Goldberg Stated in Schempp, the "single exemptions from governmental burdens af to clarify what the Founders meant by end" of the clauses is "to promote and fecting religion practice often are opposed separation. Two major traditions informed assure the fullest possible scope of religious as an establishment of religion. the meaning of separation, and Constitu liberty and tolerance for all and to nurture Fearing centralized power, the founders tional interpretation must reckon with both. the conditions which secure the best hope believed that a national church, patterned The clauses embody, to an extent, both the of attainment of that end." Although this after the European model, posed the great Enlightenment and Pietistic traditions of may appear manifest, some scholars assert est threat to religious freedom. They re Separation. They look in two directions: to that the main purpose of the clauses is to garded an establishment of religion pri Protect the church from governmental effect strict separation, as if building Jeffer marily as governmental preference for a interference, and to prevent governmental son's wall of separation is an end in itself. single church. To allow the federal govern alliances with organized religion. By empha The Separation concept, however, is really ment to establish such a church and enforce sizing the Enlightenment tradition, the a servant of an even greater goal - it is a its dogma would not only invade the preroga Supreme Court may have given the Estab means, with other concepts such as accom tive of the states, but would undermine the lishment Clause an overly broad construc modation and voluntarism, to achieve the freedom of dissenters. Thus, Madison's tion that causes necessary tension with free ideal of religious liberty in a free society. proposed amendment read "nor shall any exercise values. In this respect, I believe the Supreme NATIONAL religion be established," and The Founders conceived of separation in Court's jurisprudential dichotomy between the Senate proposal was, Congress shall institutional, not cultural, terms. The cen the establishment and free exercise clauses make no law establishing articles of faith trist position that predominated among the is questionable historically. It generates or a mode of worship. Founders recognized that religion was a unnecessary tension between the clauses, Federalism. The preservataion of the and fosters inconsistent precedent. This religious liberty in a pluralistic society Continued on page 11... https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/plj/vol23/iss2/1 10 9 et al.: Law Alumni Journal: John W. Nields, Jr. '67
''laring centralized power, the founders believed that a national church, patterned after the European model, posed the greatest threat to religious freedom . They regarded an establishment of religion primarily as governmental preference for a single church. To allow the federal govern ment to establish such a church and enforce its dogma would not only invade the prerogative of the states, but would undermine the freedom of dissenters. Thus , Madison's proposed amendment read "nor shall any NATIONAL religion be established," and the Senate proposal was, Congress shall make no law establishing articles of faith or a mode of worship."
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((The process of defining religion by analogy is a difficult one. If bias does creep in, we run the risk that unorthodox religions may be excluded. "
great teacher of morality and "an essential affirmed, employing a definition-by-analogy some claims may be "So bizarre" as to be pillar of civil society." This view is Summa approach using three indicia: "First, a "clearly non-religious." rized in the Northwest Ordinance, which religion addresses fundamental and ultimate Constitutional analysis in this area is still stated that "Religion and knowledge [are] questions having to do with deep and developing. Critics of Africa, for example, necessary for good government and man's imponderable matters. Second, a religion is maintain that the court was biased towards happiness." There is no evidence that the comprehensive in nature, consisting of a Western models of religion, and that MOVE Founders desired a completely secular soci belief-system as opposed to an isolated in fact functioned as a religion in Frank ety. Thus, while government may not com teaching. Third, a religion often can be Africa's life. They also argue that the court pel or sponsor religious activity, it may recognized by the presence of certain formal failed to recognize the resemblance acknowledge that such activity is of crucial and external signs." between MOVE and familiar religions. Sev importance to citizens. As the Supreme In examining MOVE's beliefs, the court, eral observations may guide endeavors in Court correctly recognized in Zorach: "We in an opinion written by me, noted that the this thorny area. are a religious people whose institutions group rejected contemporary society and First, courts must continue to distinguish presuppose a Supreme Being. " was committed to a natural, unadulterated religion from non-religion The task is com In Marsh, which in 1985 sustained legisla lifestyle. Central to this lifestyle is a relig pelled by our fundamental law, for special tive chaplains, the Supreme Court recog ious diet prohibiting the consumption of protection is granted religion in the consti nized that the Founders did not intend the processed or cooked food . Failure to follow tutional text. The Framers did not define clauses to eradicate all manner of religious the diet would result in "confusion and the term, probably wisely so, but they did observance. The First Congress elected a disease." earmark "religiously motivated practices for chaplain to open sessions with prayer and In applying the three-step definitional protection not accorded other conduct. Not the practice has continued ever since. The test, the court found that MOVE's tenets every idea, belief, moral code, or Philosophy Framers had a far more intrusive kind of did not satisfy the "ultimate" ideas crite is a religion. If it were otherwise, all deeply religious sponsorship in mind when they rion. Unlike recognized religions, MOVE held beliefs that conflicted with govern Provided for non-establishment. does not address matters of morality, mor ment would be entitled to constitutional Second, separation of church and state tality, or the meaning of life. Its rejection protection. does not necessarily mean separation of of society appeared to be a product of a The process of defining religion by anal religion and politics. In this respect, it may secular philosophy rather than of religious ogy is a difficult one. If bias does creep in, be a mistake, both as a matter of history conviction. In this, the members of MOVE we run the risk that unorthodox religions and of constitutional principle, to assert resembled Thoreau, whose isolation at Wal may be excluded. That is why the analysis that the clauses command "mutual absten den resulted from philosophical choices, does not inquire whether a belief system tion" - that is, "keeping politics out of rather than religious belief. As construed includes a God, a messiah, an afterworld, religion and religion out of politics." From by the Supreme Court, the clauses do not or a concept of sin. The analogy is drawn politically active ministers such as Samuel protect all deeply held beliefs, however at the much deeper level of whether the Davies and Witherspoon, in the Revolution, "ultimate" their ends or all-consuming their belief System addresses "ultimate con to the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., means. cerns," the meaning of life, and humanity's American history is replete with samples of Second, MOVE espoused a single govern place belief systems like Communism, which religious leaders entering the political arena ing idea, best described as philosophical arguably may resemble a religion in its and influencing social policy. naturalism, rather than a comprehensive scope, but certainly does not constitute a During the last half-century, the clauses world view. It resembled single-faceted religion. attained wide application, and generated ideologies such as economic determinism numerous cases. or social Darwinism more than recognized A short epilogue. The expanded interaction of religion and religions. Third, MOVE did not exhibit the As a native of Pennsylvania, I take pride government is illustrated by current issues. structural characteristics of a religion. There in this state's long tradition of religious Just last month, in the wake of the PTL was no clergy, no services, no holidays, and liberty. William Penn understood well the scandal, Congress held hearings on the no scripture. While the absence of these consequences of living under a government financial operations of religious broadcast signs is not controlling, it strengthened the insensitive to the religious needs of its ers. The Supreme Court this term heard conclusion that MOVE was not a religion. citizens. During his early years as a Quaker oral arguments on an emotionally charged Supreme Court precedent illustrates the activist, the English authorities jailed him case involving New Jersey's moment of steady expansion of the term "religion" to on at least four occasions for doing nothing silence legislation. And recently federal courts meet needs arising in an increasingly com more than practicing his religion. Writing have addressed such issues as public school plex society. By 1970, the Court had signifi from crowded Newgate prison in 1671, the teachers holding devotional exercises; pa cantly broadened the definition in several young Penn espoused a broad understanding rental objections to the teaching of secular conscientious objector cases; stating in See of liberty of conscience that became part humanism in the schools; and accommoda ger that religious belief for draft exemption of our heritage. He declared: "By Liberty tion of -religion in the workplace. purposes connoted any sincere and mean of Conscience, we understand not only a The Third Circuit last addressed the task ingful belief which occupied "a place in the mere Liberty of the Mind, in believing or in Africa. A prisoner named Frank Africa life of its possessor parallel to that filled disbelieving, but the Exercise of ourselves maintained that he was a member of a by the orthodox belief in God of [a theist]." in a visible way of worship, upon our religion known as MOVE, which required a retreated. believing it to be indispensably required at Special diet of uncooked fruits and vegeta In Yoder, a 1972 decision partially ex our hands, that if we neglect it for fear or bles. He claimed that the prison violated empting the Amish from compulsory educa favour of any mortal man, we sin, and incur his free exercise rights by denying him this tion laws, the Court indicated that " relig divine wrath." diet. The district court held that MOVE ion" did not encompass purely secular value I fully subscribe to these sentiments. was not a religion. The Third Circuit systems, such as Thoreau's. And in 1982, the Court stated cryptically in Thomas that Jll https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/plj/vol23/iss2/1 12 11 et al.: Law Alumni Journal: John W. Nields, Jr. '67
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HOWARD L. SHECTER '68 wise come to a regional or local firm." Mr. Shecter has lectured frequently on t.he subject of law firm management and related T issues and has chaired a number of national seminars on the subject. When asked to compare his law practice and firm management duties, Mr. Shecter said, "The practice of law provides far more intellectual stimul ation and professional sat ow.ud Shw«, Editor's Note: As the guest lecturer for the Irving R Segal uctureship in Trial Advocacy, the Honorable Simon H. Rifkind spoke at the Law School on October 22, 1987. The text that follows contains excerpts from Judge Rifkind's lecture. Judge Rifkind was appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt as a federal judge in New York. As a partner in the New York law firm of Paul, Tfeiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, Judge Rifkind has served in important legislative, judi cial and advisory positions. He has also been active in New York city and state civic affairs, Jewish community leadership and corporate and foundation directorship. Professionally, Judge Rifkind has been an active member in various legal associations and has been a contributor to a number of legal journals. He is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, of which he was Regent and President. The IRVING R. SEGAL Lectureslnp In Tnal Advocacy GUEST LECTURER SIMON H. RIFKIND https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/plj/vol23/iss2/1 14 13 et al.: Law Alumni Journal: John W. Nields, Jr. '67 l;ng R. So.,l,'31, "";"' The mightiest resource of the arid west, life of the trial advocate, these devices are beyond the one hundreth meridian, is the temptingly displayed and seem ready for Colorado River, an abundant stream of you can absorb use. continental proportions. During the presi ''l Your evil genius whispers in your ear: dency of Herbert Hoover, Boulder Dam, the ecstasy of triumph "Who will ever find out?" The answer is later renamed Hoover Dam, was erected. as well as the dejection that surely you will know, and your self It harnessed the river and controlled its respect will suffer. And the chances are the floods. The allocation of the waters of the of defeat, then trial Judge and your adversary will find out and river among the southern group of states advocacy is in your your credibility in the courthouse, one of which abutted upon it created a controversy your greatest assets, will plummet. What of such intensity that at one time, during horoscope." ever the nature of the temptation, one the administration of President Roosevelt, needs to habituate oneself to resist it. Arizona had called out its military forces to After my long exposure to the calling of The principal tool in the lawyer's kit is aid in its dispute with California. a trial advocate, there are certain proposi the question. I have at times spent hours At long last, in 1952, the United States tions in which I place my faith. I have whittling a question, polishing it, waxing it Supreme Court took jurisdiction of the formulated them in a statement of nine until it had the weight, the shape, the point historic law suit of Arizona v. California et credos. I will conclude with that statement: I wanted. Later in the courtroom, when the al. Under the provision of the Constitution proper setting had been prepared by a few which confers original jurisdiction upon the preliminary inquiries, the question is dis A Lawyer's Credo Supreme Court in controversies between charged at the target. What ecstasy as it I believe with a perfect faith: the states. The Supreme Court does not drives home. You can almost hear the hiss conduct trials. 1. That such is the nature of the lawyer's as your adversary's case collapses like a So, in due course, on October 10, 1955, calling that its practitioners must be, and child's balloon touched by a hot cigarette. I was appointed Special Master to preside view themselves as, ladies and gentlemen Of course, that is a rare occurrence. Were at the trial and to recommend a decree. and, by virtue thereof, governed by the code such events not rare, they would be com This was in the truest sense of the word of honor and chivalry which is part of our monplace and cease to have any effect. an international tribunal trying a dispute millennia! tradition as appertaining to that An adroit questioner frames his question among sovereign litigants. The stakes were status. in such form that he maintains reasonable enormous. Water is the limiting factor on control over the answer and that is why so 2. That lawyers are members of a profes the viability, growth and development of many of the questions you hear in the sion and that by reason thereof self-interest these water-short states. courtroom are capable of an answer "yes" may not enter into their attorney-client In attendance at the trial was a flock of or "no". That is why most questions deal calculations. attorneys general and in addition, the most with what, when, where and how. reknowned water lawyers of the United 3. That the lawyer's calling is a noble one Because the question "why" is not ame States. The talents of the scientific commu and that its practitioners are subject to the nable to such control, experienced trial nity in all aspects of the water problem noblesse oblige. advocates avoid it. Let me give you a few -measurement, forecasting, evaporation were 4. That the lawyer's calling is a learned illustrations which I have used from time exploited for the uses of the trial. My report one and its practitioners are subject to the to time in the past in introducing young was filed on December 5, 1960. The Su necessity of continuing their acquisition of litigators to this demanding profession. preme Court's opinion is dated June 3, learning without end. The witness has testified, on direct ex 1963. amination, that the accused defendant had 5. That lawyers are licensed beneficiaries This was unquestionably the most ex bitten off the victim's ear. On cross exami of privileges and immunities received as hilirating experience in trial advocacy during nation, the questioner asks: gifts from the community in which they my entire journey in the profession. Perhaps practice and that they hold these gifts in Q: Did you see the defendant bite the victim's I used some advocacy myself, since the trust for the service of the community. Supreme Court substantially adopted my ear? 361 page report and entered a decree which A: No. 6. That lawyers are bound to have their today governs the allocation of the Waters The experienced lawyer would stop at work product not only characterized by the of the Colorado River among Colorado, that point. A jury argument can be built highest quality of which their talents are Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and New on that answer alone. In the story I tell, the capable but also informed by integrity, Mexico. In return for an experience of that questioner persists in asking the question loyalty to client, and devotion to justice. kind, who would not be willing to accept a that he should not ask: 7. That lawyers are burdened by an unflag good dc;:al of vexation, frustration and even Q:Why then did you testify that the ging obligation never knowingly to use their agony? defendant bit off the victim's ear? talents to perpetrate injustice. I have referred to the courtroom as a A: Because I saw him spit it out. 8. That lawyers are obligated to devote theatre. The triers of the facts, whether One of the indispensable ingredients of time and effort to elevate the law so as to judge or jury, are the theatre audience. good trial advocacy is integrity. In speaking approximate the highest ideals of the na They must be kept interested. If they are of integrity, I shall not refer to the common tion, to improve the administration of jus asleep, they must be aroused. They are not virtues, nor to the Ten Commandments. tice and to make access thereto available potted plants; they are to be converted to Sometimes, in the zealous desire to serve to all without invidious discrimination on your belief. Persuasion is the advocate's the client, a lawyer yields to temptation to account of origin, station or affiliation. goal. cross the line: a touch of misrepresentation In the actual courtroom setting for trial amounting to no more than overstating a 9. And, finally, that lawyers may never be, advocacy, there are of course, as there are fact, suppressing a document, dispersal of or give the appearance of being, licensed in the theatre, a number of traditional some dust to obscure an argument. In the predators; they must conduct themselves maneuvers. There is the voir dire, the as members of a ministry dedicated to the opening argument, the closing, and between service of justice . .Jil these two, the presentation of evidence. https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/plj/vol23/iss2/1 16 15 et al.: Law Alumni Journal: John W. Nields, Jr. '67 ·PUBLIC INTEREST· ~SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM· II by John Pease he University of Pennsyl The eligibility requirements for receipt in a program to construct a bakery near a vania Law School, its alumni of a Public Interest Scholarship encompass small mountain village 3 hours outside and friends recognize that many factors of the applicant's background Port-au-Prince, Haiti. This project led to public interest service is a and academic achievements. A demonstrated the creation of 200 jobs related to the vital link between law and commitment and desire to serve in the manufacturing and distribution of the bak society, and has established public interest is the key factor, and is ery's bread. Steve is interested in encourag the Public Interest Scholar judged on the basis of past and present ing corporate responsibility and increasing ship Program to aid stu public interest employment or service, em the quantity of public service activities by dents who possess the com ployer and other recommendations and the public interest/private law firms. mitment and desire neces applicant's personal statement. Jeffrey Cusic lives in Gary, Indiana and sary to succeed in this challenging field. Four members of the Class of 1990 have graduated from Wabash College in 1987. The Public Interest Scholarship Program received Public Interest Scholarships, and He received a Truman Scholarship in his provides full-tuition and fees for three years all have exemplary academic and public sophomore year, one of only one hundred of study at the Law School to four students service records. They are: Stephen L. Bal awarded nationwide. He served as president who are committed to obtaining lower lard, Jeffrey Cusic, Tracy D. Miller, and of the Malcolm X Institute Black Cultural paying, public interest employment upon Mark Quinlivan. Center and as vice president of the Wabash graduation. All entering first year law stu Steve Ballard is a resident of Palmyra, SANE Chapter. He has also served as a dents are eligible to apply for the scholar PA, and graduated Magna Cum Laude from tutor and counsellor in a program designed ships. The awards are not made on the basis the University of Pennsylvania in 1985 with to prepare inner city youth for college. He of financial need. Successful applicants are a B.A. in Political Science. He received a is strongly recommended by his professors expected to spend three of the first five Master's Degree in Public Policy from the and is praised for his superior scholarship, years after graduation in lower paying public Kennedy School of Government at Harvard leadership ability, and gentlemanly conduct. interest activity. This year's sponsors of the University in June, 1985. As part of his Tracy Miller is a native Philadelphian and program have pledged full-tuition for the involvement in Economic Development Pro graduated Magna Cum Laude from Temple four scholarship recipients. They are: How jects in Central America, Steve helped to University in 1987. Tracy has experience ard Gittis '58, Peggy Wachs '86 and her build 9 homes for displaced families in rural as a legal intern in the Philadelphia District husband Ellis, Sandra and Julius Newman, Honduras, just SO miles from the Nicara and Diane and Arthur G. Raynes. guan border. Last summer, he participated Continued on page 21 ... Stephen L. Ballard Jeffrey Cusic Tracy D. Miller Mark T. Quinlivan Palmyra, PA Gary, IN Philadelphia, PA Seattle, WA Univ. of Pennsylvania Wabash College Temple University Georgetown B.A. 1985; Harvard A.B. 1987 B.A. 1987 BSFS 1987 , Published by Penn Law: Legal Scholarship Repository, 2014 17 16 ------M--.P-.P-·-1-98-7------Penn Law Journal, Vol. 23, Iss. 2 [2014], Art. 1 THE FACULTY LEON MELTZER DEAN AND BERNARD G. SEGAL PROFESSOR PROFESSOR PROFESSOR OF LAW STEPHEN B. BURBANK A. LEO LEVIN '42 .... ROBERT H. MUNDHEIM Professor Stephen B. Bu rbank delivered a paper, P rofessor A. Leo Levin '42 has been elected Presi Dean and Bernard G. Segal P rofessor of Law "Alternative Career Resolution: An Essay on the dent of the American judicature Society (AJS) at its R obert H. Mundheim has been appointed to the New Removal of Federal Judges" at a symposium on im most recent meeting in San Francisco. Founded in York Stock Exchange Legal Adv isory Committee. He peachment and judicial discipline in Lexington, KY on 1913, the AJS addresses concerns related to the chaired a panel discussion along with Practice Professor October 12, 1987. The paper wi ll be publis hed in the selecti on and retention of judges, cou n management of Law and Clinical Director Douglas Frenkel '72, Apr il , 1988 iss ue of the Kentucky Law Joumol. His review and the public's understanding of the judicial system. Biddle Professor of Law C u rtis R eitz '56, and H on. essay, "The Costs of Complexity," appears in 85 He has been appointed to the 3rd Circ uit Tas k Force Edmund B. Spaeth , Jr. entitil ed "Right or Wrong? Michigan Law Review 1463 (1987). Professor Burbank was on Sanctions and has served on the 3rd Circuit j udicial Lega l Decisions, Ethical Dilemmas". The panel was a speaker at a conference on local court rules sponsored Conference Program Committee which celebrated the presented by the General Alumni Society and Law by the Judicial Conference of the Un ited States by bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution. Professor Levin Alumni Society of the Univeristy of Pennsylvania. Dean Boston College on November 12- 13 and a panelist at a is a member of the Court Committee reestablished by Mundheim submitted a paper which discussed Penn symposium on the federal courts sponsored by New the United States Court of Military Appeals to study Law School's Programs on Professional Responsibility York University on November 14-15. He served as issues and make recommendations concerning the for the Arden House Il l Conference on the Continuing commentator on presentations by j udge Jack We instein Court's statutory role and mandate, status, organization, Education of the Bar. On September 22, the Dean and Dean Paul Carrington at the meeting of the Section and operations. He also appeared on a program of the moderated a forum on nuclear arms control which was on Civil Procedure of the AALS in Miami on January 9. Canadian-United States Legal Exchange in Washington, sponsored by the Lawyers Alliance for Nuclear Arms DC in October and discussed the subject "Alternative Control and which featured as a guest speaker former Dispute Resolution." Professor Levin was the keynote U.S. Ambassador fo r SALT II Ra lph Ea rl e. He also speaker at the fi rst Alfred L. Luongo Lecture on presided over the meetings of the International Facu lty December I 0, 1987 in the Ceremonial Courtroom of for Corporate and Capital Market Law in To ronto, the U.S . Courthouse. He discussed the history of the Philadelphia and New Yor k from September 30-0ctober j ud icial Confe rence of the United States. 9, 1987. PROFESSOR HARRY GUTMAN Professor Harry Gutman led a discussion of the ABA Tax Section Task Force Report on Transfer Tax ALEGERNON SYD NEY BIDDLE Reform at the August meeting of the Teaching Taxa PROFESSOR OF LAW tion Committee of that Section. In earl y October, Professor Gutman discussed Lifetime Giving After the CURTIS REITZ '56 Tax Reform Act of 1986 at the University of PROFESSOR BRUCE H. MANN AND HON. EDMUND B. SPAETH, JR. Pennsylvania Tax Conference. At the Hawaii Tax P rofessor Bruce H. Mann's new book, Neighbors and Alegernon Sydney Biddle Professor of Law Curtis Institute he presented the same topic, as well as an Strangers: Law and Community in Early Connecticut, was Reitz '56 and Hon. E dmund B.Spaeth, Jr., a senior Estate Planner's Gu ide to T ime Va lue of Money and published by the Univers ity of North Caroli na Press. fellow at the Law School, have been appointed by Marital Deduction Planning. During the second week Professor Mann was recently named Editor of the Law Pennsylvania Governor Robert P. Casey tO a new State end in November, Professor Gutman served as the and History Review and he is a National Endowment for judicial Reform Commission. The comm iss ion has been reporter in an ALI/ABA-sponsored national conference the Humanities Constitutional Fellow fo r 1987-88. established to recommend changes which wou ld bo lster on continuing legal education which convened at the public confidence in the courts, and Professor Reitz Arden House in New York. The fina l report of the and Judge Spaeth are among 23 legal experts named Conference will be publi shed early next year. to the panel. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CHARLES W. MOONEY Associate Professor C harles W. Mooney was ap pointed by the Board of Governors of the ABA in ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR February, 1987 to a four year term as ABA Liaison/ RALPH SMITH Harriet N. Katz, Lecturer and C li nical Supervisor has Advisor to the Permanent Editorial Board for the Associate Professor Ralph Smith has been named joined the Board of Di rectors of Children's Services, Un ifo rm Commercial Code. In August, 19~7 he was Chief of Staff by Philadelphia School District Superin· Inc., an organization providing foster fam ily care and elected to the Counci l of the ABA Section of Corpora tendent Constance E. ClaytOn. Professor Smith created other services to children. tion, Banking and Bus iness Law after having served fo r the Philadelphia School District's desegregation pro five years as the Chair of the Section Committee on gram and has served as advisor to Superintendent the Uniform Commercial Code. Professor Mooney has Clayton for the past four years. His main job will been awarded a grant by the University of Pennsylva involve overseeing the implementation of a manage nia's Public Policy Initiation Fund for a study of the ment reorganization plan which he designed as a inter-governing cransfer of U.S. Government Securities, consultant. in addition, Professor Smith will coordinate was selected as a Visiting Scholar by the Bank of Japan the school' district's response ro the Philadelphia WH.LIAM A. SCHNADER and will spend the last four months of 1988 in Tokyo Human Relation Commission's evalua.tion Of ItS PROFESSOR EMERITUS doing research. desegregation program. NOYES LEECH '48 William A. Schnader Professor Emeritus Noyes Leech '48 taught a course in Public International Law at a summer session for Lou isiana State Univers ity in Aix-en-Provence, France from June 15 to July 31, 1987. Continued on page 21 .. https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/plj/vol23/iss2/1 18 17 et al.: Law Alumni Journal: John W. Nields, Jr. '67 ALUMNI BRIEFS '36 The Honorable Joseph S. Lord, III as a guest '50 Paul L. Jaffe gave the presentation "Techniques '53 The Honorable Robert N.C. Nix, Jr., Chief speaker at a symposium sponsored by the Historical for Profiling Candidate Firms and Sources of Potential justice of Pennsylvania, was honored September II by Society of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern Merger Candidates" at a mergers and acquisitions judicare, the national private court system. Chief District of Pennsylvania on October 15. The sympo seminar which was part of the American Bar Associa justice Nix was chosen a recipient of judicare's first si um discussed electrical equipment antitrust cases, tion's annual meeting and conference in San Francisco. judicial Achievement Award for his efforts in enhancing and judge Lord spoke on "The judicial Perspective." Mr. Jaffe is chairman of UNILAW, a national network the stature and role of the judiciary in society. Other guest speakers included Harold E. Kohn '37 of law firms representing different regions of the ("Treble the Damages"), Henry W. Sawyer, Ill '47 United States. '54 Jerome Apfel has been appointed vice-chair of the ("Constructing the Defense"), Edward W. Mullinix '49 American Bar Association's Section of Real Property, ("Nationwide Settlements") and john G. Harkins '58 '51 Harold Cramer is President of the jenkins Probate & Trust Law Committee on Special Problems ("The Aftermath"). Memorial Law Library Board of Directors. Located in of the Aged and Persons Under Disability. Mr. Apfel Philadelphia, Jenkins is the oldest law library in the is a resident of Gladwyne, PA and a partner in the '37 Edward I. Cutler has been selected as a member country and serves more than 70,000 visitors each year. Estates Department of the Philadelphia law firm Blank, of the National Conference of Commissioners on He and his wife, Geraldine, were honored in Philadel Rome, Comisky & McCauley. Uniform State Laws Executive Committee. Mr. Cutler phia on November 5 by the Hebrew University of practices law in Florida with the firm of Carlton, Fields, Jerusalem as outstanding leaders of the community and '54 The Honorable Berel Caesar of the Philadelphia Ward, Emmanuel, Smith, Cutler & Kent. for efforts on behalf of the university. Court of Common Pleas, was the guest speaker at naturalization ceremonies at the U.S. District Court. '38 Sylvan M. Cohen was honored by the Philadelphia '51 The Honorable Norma L. Shapiro of the U.S. judge Caesar also serves as chairman of the Mental Chapter of the American Friends of the Hebrew District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Health Committee and is a member of the Education University at its annual dinner on December 6. Mr. presided at naturalization ceremonies on October 7 in Committee of the Pennsylvania Conference of Stare Cohen served as President of the Philadelphia Chapter the Ceremonial Courtroom of the U.S. Courthouse. Trial judges. in 1972 and 1973 and is still an active member of the Board of Directors. '52 William Steerman has been honored as the 1987 '54 Jay G. Ochroch, a partner at Fox, Rothschild, Maccabi Sportsman of the Year by the United States O'Brien & Frankel in Philadelphia, spoke at the annual '38 Bernard Frank has been re-elected President of Committee Sports for Israel at its Maccabi USA convention of the Cemetery Association of Pennsylvania the International Ombudsman Institute based at the Tribute Dinner. Among his many accomplishments: in Hershey. Topics of discussion included: li e detec Law Centre, University of Alberta. He also has been officer, director and member of the Executive Commit tors, drugs, AIDS in the workplace and employers' elected Vice President of the Jewish Publication Soci tee, USCSFI; member, Maccabi World Union Execu rights. ety and a member of the Board of Directors of tive; member of the board of directors of the Interna Muhlenberg College, from which he has received the tional jewish Sports Hall of Fame. '55 David J Kaufman has been selected for the 1987 Honorary Doctoral Degree of Humane Letters. edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Mr. Kaufman '52 Robert E. Wachs has been chosen a Best Lawyer is chairman of the Estates Department at Wolf, Block, '40 Mitchell E. Panzer, a partner in the Philadelphia and his name will appear for the second time in the Schorr & Solis-Cohen and has served as Chairman of based firm of 'M:>If, Block, Schorr & Sol is-Cohen, has 1987 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Mr. the firm's Executive Committee and as managing been selected for the 1987 edition of The Best Lawyers Wachs is a member of the Philadelphia Bar Associa partner of the firm . in America. He concentrates his practice in morcgages, tion's Civil Rights Committee and a former Chairman construction loan s, foreclosures, and execution and of the Labor Law and Employee Relations Department '55 Mervin M. Wilf has been presented with the 1987 enforcement of judgments. at Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen. Francis Rawle Award for outstanding achievement in post-admission legal education. The presentation was '41 Michael C. Rainone, a Philadelphia attorney, '53 William F. Chester, Jr. has retired from Commer made this summer in San Francisco at the annual attended a joint meeting of the International Asso cial Union Insurance Companies, where he served the luncheon of the American Law Institute-American Bar ciation of jurists, Italy-USA, and the National Italian last three years as Senior Claim Counsel and Executive Association Committee on Continuing Professional Edu American Bar Association at the University of San Consultant in the Boston Office. He has bought a new cation held in conjunction with the ABA's annual Francisco. Mr. Rainone is the president of the Colum home, established a new office in Eugene, OR, and meeting. Mr. Wilf is a Fellow of the American Coll ege bus Civic Association of Pennsylvania. will pursue a claims-litigation management consu lting of Tax Counsel and of the American College of Probate practice. Counsel, and has recently published The REA Book. '43 Bernard M. Borish has been selected for the He is a member of the Board of Editors of The Practical Lawyer, the BNA Tax Management Advisory Board, the second time as a Best Lawyer and his name will appear '53 John P. Knox, a partner in the Ambler, PA firm ALI-ABA Program Advisory Committee, and the Ameri in the 1987 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. of Timoney, Knox, Hasson & Weand, has been elected can Law erwork Subcommittee of ALI-ABA. Mr. Borish is Chairman of the Litigation Department a fellow of the Pennsylvania Bar Foundation. Election at 'M:>If, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen and has been a as a fellow is reserved for two percent of lawyers Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers since admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and is based on '56 Richard F. Stevens was among several Penn Law 1968. activities in the organized bar. Mr. Knox is a member School alumni who participated in the seminar, "How of the Pennsylvania Bar Association House of Delegates to Try a jury Case," sponsored by the Eastern District '47 The Honorable Arlin M. Adams served as and Vice President of the Montgomery County Bar Continuing Legal Education Committee. Other alumni moderator of a luncheon debate sponsored by the Association. participating included David H. Marion '63, Robert Philadelphia Chapter of the Federalist Society. The C. Heim '72, Edward S.G. Dennis, Jr. '73, and topic of che debate was the constitutionality of inde Helen P. Pudlin '74 . . pendent prosecutor appointments. A special tribute was paid to judge Adams at the annual dinner and Fred C. Blume, '66 and Howard L. Sheeler '68 at the '57 Michael M. Dean has been named a Best Lawyer directors meeting of the Albert Einstein Medical Benefactors Dinner and is included in the 1987 edition of The Best Center, of which he was chairman. Lawyers in America. Mr. Dean was recently elected President of the Central Philadelphia Development '48 Mitchell W. Miller, a prominent Philadelphia Corporation, and is also an officer of the Council for bankruptcy attorney, appeared in a skit presented by Labor and Industry, the Food Distribution Center, and the American Bar Association Consumer Bankruptcy the University City Science Center. Committee at the ABA Annual Meeting in San Fran cisco. '57 Seymour Kurland, Chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association, panicipated in ceremonies honoring '49 Edward W. Mullinix, Seymour Kurland '57, the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution which in and Edward F. Mannino '66 were among the cluded the presence of U.S. Supreme Court Chief distinguished speakers at a commemorative court ses justice Rehnquist and Associate justices Brennan, sion sponsored by the Historical Society of the U.S. Day-O'Connor, and White. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The special session commemorated the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution. Published by Penn Law: Legal Scholarship Repository, 2014 19 18 Penn Law Journal, Vol. 23, Iss. 2 [2014], Art. 1 '57 Irving Morgenroth of Commonwealth Land Title '65 Professor Emeritus Martin J. Aronstein partici Insurance Company spoke at a program which discussed pated in the 21st Annual Conference of the German the standard s and requirements of land surveys. The National Committee of Comparative Law held at program was sponsored by the Real Property Section lnnsbruck, Austria during September, 1987. Professor of the Philadelphia Bar Association and took place Aronstein, who is the draftsman of the Investment October 31. Securities article of the Uniform Commercial Code, discussed recent legal and business developments in '57 Richard M. Rosenbleeth has been elected to the the process of senlement of U.S. securities transac Management Committee of Blank, Rome, Comisky & tions. McCauley in Philadelphia. Mr. Rosenbleeth concen trates in commercial litigation, is a member of the '65 Alan M. Lerner spoke at the 17th annual American Coll ege of Trial Lawyers and a fellow of the Employment Law Institute in Washington, D.C. on Ame ri can Bar Association . September 28 and 29. Mr. Lerner, a partner with Alan Margolis '58 & Florence Margolis, Allan Cohen, Shapiro, Polisher, Shiekman and Cohen in Schnierov '58 and Mimi Schnierov at the Benefactors Dinner '59 The Honorable Murray C. Goldman, of the Philadelphia, spoke on the topic "Employment Law Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, addressed a Issues in Mergers and Acquis itions and Reductions in group of lawyers, educators and administrators from the Force." Soviet Uni on in a discussion of comparative judicial processes and practices of law. '66 William T. Hangley, of the Philadelphia law firm '71 James S. Bryan is a partner in the Los Angeles, & of Hangley, Connolly, Epstein, Chicco, Foxman & CA law firm of Lawler, Felix Hall. '59 Jack A. Rounick has been chosen as President Ewing, has been elected a Fell ow of the American '71 Alan J. Davis, a partner with Wolf, Block, Schorr Elect of the Philadelphia Friends of the Hebrew College of Trial Lawyers, a select association of & Solis-Cohen, presented the 1987 Torch of Liberty Univers ity. Mr. Rounick, who wi ll assume the office of approximately 4,400 ski ll ed trial lawyers chosen from Award to the William Penn Foundation on behalf of the Chapter President in the Spring of 1988, is an the U.S. and Canada. the Society of Fell ows of the Anti-Defamation League established community leader who has served with of B'nai B'rith. distinction as vice president and board me mber of the '66 Edward F. Mannino participated in the 16th Chapter. annual Dickinson Forum during October, 1987. A senior principal with the firm Baskin, Flaherty, Elliott & '71 Steven L. Friedman, a partner with the Philadel phi a firm Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish & Kauffman, is '60 Charles G . Kopp has been selected for the 1987 Mannino, Mr. Mannino analyzed emerging theories of Co-Chair of the Constitution Program Committee edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Mr. Kopp is lender li ability and how banks can effectively respond which developed the seventh Annual Scholar Seminar Chairma n of the Tax Department at Wolf, Block, Schorr to them through preventive planning and effective Series at the National Museum of Natural History. & Solis-Cohen and concentrates his practice in real litigation responses. estate, corporate mergers and acquisitions. He pres e ntly serves as a Commissioner on the Delaware River '66 Joel H. Sachs was a guest speaker at the annual '71 Thomas R. Schmuhl, a partner in the Philadelphia Port Authority. meeting of the National Institute of Municipal Law firm of Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, presented Officers (NIMLO) in Salt Lake City during September, a seminar along with two other attorneys at the City University Business School in London, England. The '61 Bernard Glassman has been elected to the 1987. The topic of Mr. Sachs' presentation was "Devel seminar was entitled, "Understanding Business Aspects Management Committee of the Philadelphia law firm oping a Groundwater Protection Program for a Munici of the U.S. Legal Systems." Blank, Rome, Comisky & McCauley. His practice is pality." concentrated in estate ad ministrat ion, health care and corporate law. '67 Stephen Cabot and former President Gerald Ford '72 Lewis L. Maltby is Vice-President and General addressed the seventh annual labor relations update Counsel at Drexelbrook Engineering Co. in Horsham, PA. His recent article, "Why Drug Testing is a Bad '62 Kenneth M. Cushman of the Philadelphia firm seminar sponsored by the Philadelphia law firm Pech Idea," appeared in the June, 1987 issue of Inc. Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, was a member of the ner, Dorfman Wolffe, Rounick and Cabot. Mr. Cabot's Magazine. faculty for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute program article, "Employers Turning to EAP's and Wellness "Resolution of Construction Claims" held on Novem Programs to Help Troubled Employees" appeared in ber 19. the October issue of Lawyer's best. '72 E. Elsworth McMeen, III was interviewed and performed on guitar on the "Music from the Moun tains" program on West Virgin ia Public Radio. The '63 David C . Auten, Managing Partner with Reed, '67 Dennis Replansky is Co-Chairman of the Financial program was aired throughout West Virginia on Septem Smith, Shaw and McClay in Philadelphia, is the cou rse Services Department of Blank Rome, Comisky & ber 5. planner for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute's one-day McCau ley and Chai rm an of the Philadelphia Bar Asso course on mortgage foreclosures held in Phil adelphia, ciation's Consumer Financial Services Committee. Harrisburg and Pittsburgh this fall. '72 David L. Pollack is a member of the Phi ladelphia '67 William A. Rosoff has been selected a Best Lawyer Bar Association's Nominating Committee. Other mem bers of the Nominating Committee include Seymour '63 Arnold Machles has been elected a Fellow of the by the publication The Best Lawyers in America. Mr. Kurland '57, Peter Hearn '61, Joel Paul Fishbein '62, Pennsylvania Bar Foundation. Mr. Machles practices Rosoff is Chairman of the Executive Committee and a and David H. Ma ri on '63. law in Philadelphia, and is a member of the Pennsylva member of the Tax Department at Wolf, Block, Schorr nia Bar Association Professional Liability Insu ran ce & Sol is-Cohen in Philadelphia. Committee and the Philadelphia Bar Association Insur '72 Kenneth I. Rosenberg, a partner with the Phila ance Committee. '67 Wilbur Bourne Ruthrauff, a partner with the law delphia firm of Mesirov, Gelman, Jaffe, Cramer & firm Gratz, Tate, Spiegel, Ervin & Ruthrauff, has been Jamieson, has been elected Corresponding Secretary and member of the executive committee of the Jewish '63 David H. Marion was the course planner and elected Secretary of the American Cancer Society, Community Relations Council of Philadelphia (JCRC). moderator of the Pennsylvan ia Bar Institute-sponsored Philadelphia Division. He has been active in the society Mr. Rosenberg has been included among the real estate program "The First Amendment and Libel Litigation." since 1980, serving as past President of the Northwest Unit and as a member of the Division's Crusade lawyers in the 1987 edition of The Best Lawyers in Committee. America, and frequently lectures on real estate for the '63 Henry F. Miller, Chairman of the Real Estate Pennsylvania Bar Institute. Department of Wolf, Block, Schorr & Sol is-Cohen, has been chosen a Best Lawyer for the second time and his '70 Joseph C. Bright, Jr., a partner at Drinker, Biddle '72 The Honorable Edward Rosenwald was honored name will appear in the 1987 edition of The Best & Reath in Philadelphia, has published a treatise whi ch by the Philadelphia County Reporter at a special Lawyers in America. is a comprehensive overview of the field of taxation in luncheon September 10. Pennsylvania. The treatise gives in-depth analysis to general corporate taxes, the sales tax and the personal mcome tax. https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/plj/vol23/iss2/1 20 19 et al.: Law Alumni Journal: John W. Nields, Jr. '67 '72 Paul Tully has joined the presidential campaign of '77 Gilbert F. Casellas has been reappointed to the '81 Jean-Luc Herbez, LL.M. is a partner of the law Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis as the American Bar Association's Special Committee on De firm Froriep, Renggli and Partners located at 4 rue campaign's National Political Director. Mr. Tully is a livery of Legal Services by ABA President Robert Charles Bonnet, 1206 Geneva, Switzerland. The firm veteran of more than six presidential campaigns, and McCrate. Mr. Casellas has served on the Committee also has offices located in Zurich, Zoug & London. most recently served as the national campaign coordina since 1975. tor for Gary Hart. He first entered presidential politics '81 Jeffrey D. Lobach has become a partner in the during Eugene McCarthy's campaign in 1967, and has '77 Daniel B. Evans, a partner in the Estates York, PA firm of Liverant, Senft and Cohen. Mr. Lobach since worked for presidential candidates Robert Ken Department of Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish & Kauffman has been associated with the firm since 1983 and he nedy, George McGovern, Morris Udall, Edward Ken in Philadelphia, has been appointed to serve as the practices law in the areas of real estate, corporate law, nedy and Walter Mondale. Chair of the Estate Planning and Administration Com banking, labor and employment law. He resides with puter User Group of the Economics of Law Practice his wife, Cindy, in York New Salem, PA. '73 Edward S.C. Dennis, Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Section of the American Bar Association. Eastern District of Pennsylvania, was the guest speaker '83 Beth Hirsch Berman has become associated with at the Federal Bar Association's annual fall luncheon '77 Frank M. Thomas, Jr. has become a partner in the Norfolk, VA law firm of Hofheimer, Nusbaum, on November 20. Mr. Dennis discussed the topic the Litigation Section of the Philadelphia law firm McPhaul & Brenner. "Professional and Legal Ethics, a Prosecutor's Perspec Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. Mr. Thomas has extensive tive." experience in environmental law and has published '84 Koji Nagao has worked at the Tokyo office of the numerous articles on the subject. He is currently a Sumitomo Bank for the past two years. His responsibili '74 Elizabeth J. Coleman is co-author of a new, director of the Preservation Coalition of Greater Phila ties included international credit and risk analysis. He comprehensive 3-volume guide entitled Commercial delphia, and resides in Haverford, PA. has recently been transferred to the Capital Markets and Consumer Warranties: Drafting, Performing and Business Promotion Department and will work at Litigating. The series is published by Matthew Bender, '78 Jeffrey L. Braff, a member of the Labor Law & \\\:bster & Sheffield in New York for one year as a legal and provides an in-depth analysis of warranry law, Employee Relations Department of Wolf, Block, Schorr uainee. strategies and suggested approaches for drafting and & Solis-Cohen since 1982, has been named a partner. negotiating contracts, and tactical advice for litigating Mr. Braff is a member of the Industrial Relations '85 Henry S. Hoberman practices law at Baker & warranty cases. Research Association and also served as the Executive Hostetler in Washington, DC and has recently pub Vice President of the Center Ciry Residents' Associa lished an article in the Pepperdine Law Review entitled '74 Paul A. Fischer has left his position as Assistant tion . "Copyright and the First Amendment: Freedom or Director of the Division of Enforcement at the Securi Monopoly of Expression?" ties and Exchange Commission. He was prominently '78 Brian P. Flaherty has been named a partner in mentioned in Levine & Co., the recently released the Philadelphia-based law firm of Wolf, Block, Schorr '85 Lawrence Walsh has been appointed Senior expose on the Dennis Levine insider trading scandal, & Sol is-Cohen. He joined the firm in 1978, is a member Journalist at Duke Universiry's Institute of Policy as one of the SEC staff members principally involved of the Litigation Department, and serves on the firm's Sciences and Public Affairs for the 1988 Spring Term. in the successful investigation leading to the prosecu Hiring Committee. tion of Mr. Levine. His three part series examining Mr. Walsh will complete work on a study of combatant insider trading appeared recently in the Washington motivation in seven armed insurgencies of the 1980s, '78 David H. Hudiak is the Dean of Faculry at the Business Journal Mr. Fischer is currently in private and has traveled extensively with resistance forces in PJA Paralegal School in Upper Darby, PA. Mr. Hudiak practice at the Washington, DC firm of Rosen & Afghanistan, the Phi lippines, Angola, Eritrea, Kampu has been chosen to be included in the 1987-88 edition DeMartino. chea, Nicaragua and Colombia. of Who's Who in American Law. '74 H. Ronald Klasko, a partner with the Philadelphia '86 Timothy F. Malloy has joined the Philadelphia law '79 Lillian Fernandez, Director of Trade Policy for based law firm of Abrahams & Loewenstein, addressed firm of Wolf, Block, Schorr & Sol is-Cohen and will Pfizer, Inc., has been appointed negotiator for the U.S. the American Bar Association at its Annual Meeting in serve his initial rotation in the Tax Department. Mr. Council for International Business on trade re lated San Francisco. The topic of the presentation was Malloy is a resident of Collingswood, NJ and a staff investment measures before the International Chamber "Employer Sanctions and Legalization: Liberty in the member of The Bridge, an enrichment center for youth of Commerce in Paris, France. Ms. Fernandez recently Bicentennial Year." in Camden, NJ. served as Staff Director and Chief Counsel of a Congressional subcommittee, and has been honored by '87 Dr. Jeffrey N. Hurwitz has recently joined the '74 Stuart Weisberg and his wife Beth are thrilled to recognition in Who's Who in American Law. announce the birth of their first child Andrew Jonathan Philadelphia-based law firm of Wolf, Block, Schorr & on October 19, 1987. Mr. Weisberg is currently the Solis-Cohen. He will be serving his initial rotation in '79 Robert I. Friedman has been named a partner at Staff Director and Counsel for the Employment and the Health Law Department. Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen in Philadelphia. He Housing Subcommittee in the U.S. House of Represen is a member of the Estates Department and concen tatives. '87 Jill Hyman has joined Wolf, Block, Schorr & trates his practice in estate planning and administra Solis-Cohen in Philadelphia and will be practicing in tion. '75 Anthony J. Hom is a recipient of the 1987 the Corporate Department. She resides in Center City Philadelphia Human Rights Award. He has served as Philadelphia. '79 Martha R. Hurt has become a partner in the the President of the Asian American Council of Greater Philadelphia firm of Saul, Ewing, Remick & Saul. Philadelphia, Vice President of the Asian American Bar '87 Karen A. Mulroy has joined the Philadelphia Association, member of the We The People Interfaith based firm of Wolf, Block, Schorr & Sol is-Cohen. She Bicentennial Committee, and a member of the District '79 Donald M. Millinger has been named a partner will be serving her initial rotation in the Litigation Attorney's Minoriry Advisory Council. in the Philadelphia law firm of Wolf, Block, Schorr & Department. Solis-Cohen. His practice is concentrated in communi cations, entertainment and spans law '76 Jack Delman has been appointed by the U.S. '87 Stephanie D. Present resides in Center City Philadelphia and has joined Wolf, Block, Schorr & Department of Defense to serve as an Administrative '79 Kenneth J. Warren has been named a partner at Judge on the Armed Forces Board of Contract Appeals, Solis-Cohen. Her initial position will be in the Litiga \\blf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen. Mr. Warren joined tion Department. an administrative tribunal which is responsible for the firm in 1980 and his practice is concentrated in adjudicating military contract disputes under the Con environmental, fidelity and commercial litigation. tract Disputes Act. '80 Stein C. Hexeberg, LL.M. is a partner in the law '76 Glenn F. Rosenblum has become a partner in the firm Robertsen, Ness & Hexeberg of Oslo, Norway. Philadelphia law firm of Korn, Kline & Kutner. '81 Carol Kanter Clarke has joined St. Paul Federal Bank for Savings in Chicago as Associate Resident Counsel and Assistant Vice President. Published by Penn Law: Legal Scholarship Repository, 2014 21 20 Penn Law Journal, Vol. 23, Iss. 2 [2014], Art. 1 HOWARD SHECTER PUBLIC INTEREST THE FACULTY Continued from page 12 Continued from page 16 Continued from page 17 our fine progress of the last two years in Attorney's Office, the Defender Association annual giving and hopefully, surpass Yale in of Philadelphia, and the United States achieving 54% participation. Thirdly, we Attorney's Office Collections Unit. Tracy will continue to broaden the scope of the chose to attend Penn, in part, because the Law Alumni Society in reaching and involv available clinics, courses and programs dem VISITWG PROFESSOR ing more Law School graduates across the onstrate "an overt concern in promoting S'IANISL.AW SOLTYSt4SKI country in its activities. Finally, we will public interest careers. Tracy would like to Visiting Professor Stanislaw Soltysinski spent continue to represent the Law School alumni work as a defense attorney with a public four weeks as a visiting scholar at the Max Planck in providing guidance to various Law School service organization such as the Public Institute for International and Cooperative Patent, programs, such as admissions and place Defender's Office or the Public Interest Copyright and Unfair Competition Law in Munich (May, 1987) where he presented a paper on the new ment." Law Center. Growing up in inner-city Phila Polish law on Combatting Monopolistic Practices. In Mr. Sheerer speaks with optimism about delphia and the influence of her mother july, he participated in a conference of the Interna his new role as President of the Law Alumni have motivated Tracy to use her skills "to tional Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Society, and based upon his prior accom help others who are disadvantaged." In Research in Intellectual Property at Cambridge University of England. At the conference, Professor plishments and commitment we can look Tracy's words, "I have been given so much Soltysinski presented a paper entitled "Do Developing forward to an active, stimulating and suc and would like to give back." Countries Need Unfair Competition Laws?" In 1987, cessful term. Mark Quinlivan is a resident of Seattle, he published inter alia, a study entitled "Choice of Howard Sheerer was born and raised in Washington, and graduated from Georgetown Law and Choice of Forum in Transnational Transfer of Technology Transaction", val. 196 of the Collected 'Boston, where he attended the Roxbury University in 1987. He has a very strong Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law. Latin School and Harvard College. He came academic record and has served as President The monograph is based on his lectures and seminars to Philadelphia to attend this Law School of the Georgetown University Chapter of offered at the Hague Academy during the Summer of and has remained ever since. He has no Amnesty International. He was also a mem 1986. trace of a Boston accent, but you might ber of the varsity track team and worked recognize his roots if you saw him at the with underprivileged youth and cancer pa Spectrum attending a 76ers-Celtics game! tients through the Community Action Coa Mr. Sheerer has two children: Jon, a lition of Georgetown. He is interested in a sophomore at Harvard College and Jane, a career in the area of civil and human rights, ninth grader at Friends Select School in with a concentration in the areas of capital SENIOR FELLOW Center City Philadelphia. Jon is very in punishment, victim's rights and children's HON. EDMUND B. SPAETH volved in music; he hosts a popular music rights. In Mark's words, "Penn Law allows Senior Fellow Hon. Edmund B. Spaeth, Jr. has established a Center for Professionalism which will show called "The Darker Side" on Har me to flesh out these rather generalized examine professional codes of behavior and create vard's radio station and writes and performs areas of interest into a practical recognition coursework on professional responsibility, not only for rap music. His first rap record is scheduled of which arenas provide the best fulcrum full time students but also for practicing attorneys in for release by a subsidiary of Warner Re from which to address them. Penn has "extended classroom." • cords in early 1988. Jane is an avid tennis always had a tradition in public interest player and has begun playing in U.S.T.A. law, and it will hopefully get much stronger." sanctioned tournaments in the Philadelphia The University of Pennsylvania Law area. Both children enjoy skiing with their School thanks its generous alumni and father, and Howard admits to being "the friends who have made this worthwhile slowest of the three down the mountain." program possible, and hopes continued sup port in the future will offer more and more Jll law students the opportunity to study law and serve the public interest. Jll https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/plj/vol23/iss2/1 22 21 et al.: Law Alumni Journal: John W. Nields, Jr. '67 IN MEMORIAM '14 Robert M. Bernstein '28 Abraham Hodes '38 Richard L. Freeman '40 George R. McClean, Jr. '55 William 0 Sweeney Elkins Park, PA North Miami Beach, FL Gladwyne, PA Wilkes Barre, PA New York, NY October 22, 1987 July 26, 1987 April 5, 1987 March 27, 1987 '62 Edwin F . Saltzberg '22 Leslie C. Krusen '36 James L. Price '39 William H. Egli '41 Edwyn H. 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