Page 4 THE HLSA CONNECTOR THE Advocate belief that government can help? from page 1 Shure also asked Chen about the Perfect Together HLSA CONNECTOR people do so is a belief that government unusual role of the department: The Public cannot help. Public attitudes towards Advocate, he noted, is the only cabinet On September 27, half a dozen HLSA-NJ Newsletter of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey government have changed in recent member who is not appointed to do what members traveled to Cambridge to serve decades, Shure noted. When the Public the governor tells him to do. In light of on a panel encouraging current students to Volume 3, Issue 1 Fall/WinterWinter 20072012 Advocate was first created, many believed this, and in light of the Public Advocate’s pursue legal careers in New Jersey. government potential role as a The panel, scheduled to coincide with would be able plaintiff in suits METROPOLITAN Still “Government Under Glass”? the beginning of the fall recruiting season, to help solve against other will include the Honorable Jack M. Chen Maps Public Advocate’s New Course TED WELLS WILL BE 51ST some of the departments, he Letter From The President CORPORATE COUNSEL Sabatino ’82, J.A.D.; Amy Winkel- VANDERBILT LE1CTURER more pressing social and economic issues of asked Chen what he hears from and how By Stephen Herbes ’01 one reason people may do INTERVIEW WITH man ’87, Criminal Chief in the Office of Ronald K. Chen, the New was as fascinating today as discussion of the day, but now, many people no longer he relates to other cabinet members. Theodore V. “Ted” Wells, Jr. ’76 will kick the U.S. Attorney in Newark; Lowenstein Jersey Public Advocate, was the the decision must have been in 1954. This HERVÉ GOURAIGE believe in or want government help. The Public Advocate acknowledged off HLSA-NJ’s second half-century of Sandler partners Nicole Albano ’97 and speaker and honored guest at newsletter contains an article on that Lecture. Shure moved on to pose this pair of that some cabinet members have Vanderbilt Lectures. Famous most recently Steve Hecht ’92; and Michael Last year, the Association provided approached him with the Association’s annual Spring for representing former Vice Presidential financial support for two Harvard Law Hervé GOURAIGE: A UNIQUE suggestions as to Passante ’03, an assistant municipal Symposium on June 19, 2007. Chief of Staff I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, who School students to work in New Jersey PERSPECTIVE MAKES FOR where the Advocate’s prosecutor in Newark and coordinator of Also at the event, which was charged with perjury and obstruction of attention could be New Jersey Young Lawyers for Obama. took place at the Law Center in during the summer as Public Interest Fellows. justiceInnovative in the investigation DEFENSE Softrategies the leaked focused in order to New Brunswick, the Reflections from those Fellows on their work identityThe Editorof an interviews undercover Hervé CIA Gouraige, operative, Member Summer help their own Association’s two 2007 experience are included in this Newsletter. of the firm, Sills Cummis & Gross P.C. from page 3 Summer Public Interest Fellows departments gain Please join me in welcoming the Editor: Congratulations on your election more resources. He were introduced and presented Association’s new officers and new trustees. outside the courtroom. with certificates recognizing as president of the Harvard Law School also denied ignoring Public AdvocateA photo Ronald and Chen short (l), bio Summer of each Fellowship are presented The attorneys I assisted placed an Association of New Jersey. Please tell the actions of other their achievements. Damon Program Coordinatorin this newsletter. Bob Holmes Please ’70 feel and free toHLSA-NJ reach out extraordinary amount of trust and President John Bartlett ’01 (r) congratulate Damon our readers about the areas of activity departments when King ’09 of Plainsboro spent a to any of us with your suggestions on how confidence in me. Throughout the King ’09 and Josh Kipnees ’09. promoted by the association. those actions were not ten-week summer at the New we can better serve you and the New Jersey summer, I was asked to compose in the public interest. Jersey Institute for Social Justice, and Josh Advocate, for example, is “in but not of” Gouraige: Thank you very much. The sentencing memos, as well as motion Greetings! Harvard Law School community. After Chen and Kipnees ’09 served the same period with the Public Advocate – it is treated a Association seeks to establish networking papers regarding the admissibility of As my first President’s letter to you, and We invite all nine hundred and ninety Shure completed their the Federal Public Defender. (The Fellows’ subsidiary of the department for opportunities for Harvard Law School evidence. Our supervisor also made it a at the suggestion of the editor, I take the seven HLS alumni who reside in New Jersey dialogue, they opened activities are described in their own words budgeting purposes, but the department graduates in New Jersey, strengthen their priority to regularly assemble panels of liberty of attaching a reprint of a Corporate to get involved in the Association, and as the discussion up to on page 3.) Kipnees’ father, Rob Kipnees does not have any supervisory power over ties to the law school, encourage recent attorneys in the office to present different ’80Counsel of Lowenstein interview Sandler, in which wasI share among my vision the ait. first Among step the in firstdoing issues so, toto completedraw Chen’s an on- questions from the Tedgraduates Wells ’76to come(r) with to clientlive and Lewis practice in viewpoints and some background on a morefor the than Association 50 alumni as in well attendance. as offer thoughts lineattention survey whileat https://www.surveymonkey. still “staffing up”: floor. For the next “Scooter”New Jersey, Libby, and former sponsor chief activities of that particular issue, be it the difference about some recent legal developments. I com/s/HLSANJ2011. A copy of the survey staff to Vice President Dick Cheney. A Family Affair: Rob KIPNEES ’80 with son Josh ’09, one of the half hour, alumni New Century, New Advocate eminent domain, voting rights, and the Association’s 2007 Summer Public Interest Fellows. between practice on the state and federal look forward to getting to know as many is also provided with this newsletter. We also provide the occasion for graduates in various asked the speakers Advocate Chen, a former Assistant de-institutionalization of people confined Wells has represented public figures in a level or the function of the Sentencing encourage you to pay your dues, because they leadership roles to address members of the questions: Has New Jersey entered an age in questions on issues ranging from the Deanof you of as Rutgers-Newark I can during my Law term School of office who and in mental institutions. host of other matters over the past three Guidelines. Moreover, I was encouraged to are what make programming like our Spring Association on important issues of public which the Department of Public Advocate Administrative Procedure Act and the wasto workingappointed with to youthe toposition continue of thePublic fine Jon Shure, President of the decades. sit in on trials at the Federal Courthouse interest. For example, recent past speakers is less relevant? Or, should the Department influence of political pressure groups to Advocatetradition byof theGovernor Association. Jon S. Corzine in Symposiumprogressive thinkand ourtank continuing New Jersey efforts Policy to Wells will deliver a talk titled next door to our office if I found the topic include U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena should be tasked with restoring people’s eminent domain and beach access. 2006, began the symposiumOn November with 8, 2011,an supportPerspective and andmentor a long-time current observerHLS students of “Reflections on U.S. v. 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