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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. Libby: Trying a at issue to be of interest. The varied and overview of his Departmentwe were and privileged a review ofto withstate Newgovernment, Jersey connections was the possible. evening’s If you PoliticallyKagan, andCharged this pastCase November in the Shadow we hosted of intriguing subject matter to which I was his first year in office.hear Thethe department,55th Annual haven’tdiscussant. paid yourShure dues expanded yet, please on mail Mr. them anHarvard Unpopular Law WarSchool.” TheDean 51 Marthast Vanderbilt Minow. exposed afforded me an unparalleled originally founded in Vanderbilt1974, was chargedLecture by beforeChen’s the historical end of this overview calendar yearof tothe our LectureEditor: will Whatbe held is at your The Manoragenda in forWest the hands-on experience that simply could not department, noting that Governor Orange on Wednesday, October 24, with Become a Trustee the Legislature with deliveredthe task of bywatching Dean treasurer, David S. Stone, at the address on the association? be replicated in a classroom. cocktails at 5:30pm and dinner at 7:00pm. the other departmentsMartha of state Minow, government whose formBrendan in this newsletter.Byrne, who created the The activities of HLSA-NJ are made possible by its volunteer By far the most rewarding moment of department, coined the phrase TheGouraige: cost will beI $95plan fotor alumnireach outadmitted to recent to and bringing suit againsttopic, other In Brown’s members Wake: of With all best wishes for your well-being my summer was when a defendant with a the executive cabinet when in the public “government under glass” and described thegraduates bar before to 2002,encourage and $70them for to alumnijoin the trustees. The Association is seeking new volunteers to participate in Legacies of America’s and continued success. borderline I.Q. was given a sentence at the interest. The department was eliminated in the Public Advocate’s role by reference to admittedAssociation, in 2002 and or later.to that end we plan to the governance of the association, to be formally elected as trustees bottom of his guideline range, largely on Educational Landmark, that phrase. When theHervé department Gouraige was (’77) If you have not received your Vanderbilt 1994 and re-established in 2005. In re- Gouraige Interview continued on next page at the Vanderbilt Lecture on October 24. Being a trustee is a great the strength of the memo I wrote on his creating it, the Legislature instructed the eliminated in 1994, Shure noted with a invitation, please e-mail [email protected] or way to stay involved and network with fellow HLS alumni in all behalf. Although this perhaps represented office to focus on certain constituencies sense of irony, the state created the call (201) 489-3737. only a minor victory for the defendant, I Asand newsletter issues, including editor, I asylumwould likeand tomental thank everyoneDepartment who contributed of the Business to this Advocate edition to of The HLSA Connector. Your participation and walks of life. The current leadership includes law faculty; public-, felt great pride in knowing that during the cooperationhealth advocacy, were invaluable. civil commitment We are trying toreplace enhance it. The Connector’s value by incorporating the following new features: (a) more private- and nonprofit-sector attorneys; and sitting and retired course of my internship this summer, in substantivehearings, rapecontent counseling, such as the andinterview elder with HLSA-NJHow Do PresidentYou Get People Hervé To Gouraige Care? and by adding some INSIDEfootnote references from her addition to learning so much, I was able to advocacy. Shure asked the audience to judges. In addition to our annual meeting, the Vanderbilt Lecture, book to Dean Minow’s Vanderbilt Lecture on In Brown’s Wake: Legacies of America’s EducationalRabner Landmark; Takes (b) aThe Distinguished Bench HLS help alter a client’s life for the better. AlumniDuring in New his Jersey first year,section, Chen focusing said, hein this issueconsider on ofwhy Governor people Brendanvote against T. Brynetheir and Merck CEO Ken Frazier; (c) an expanded the full board of trustees meets approximately 2-3 other times each I thank HLSA-NJ for providing me with Letters from our SPIFs socialhas focused media on and building multimedia up the section; department. (d) reflections economic on their interest. summer He hypothesizedwork experience that in New Jersey from the two HLS students that were that opportunity. Some offices have been brought into the Alumni Updates  and More year. For more information, e-mail [email protected]. selected as our Public Interest Fellows (e) a link to an on-line survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HLSANJ2011. Your comments, Josh Kipnees ’09 department. The Office of the Child See Advocate, page 4 reactions, as well as any news you may have are very welcome. We would especially welcome your suggestions for other distinguished alumni to recognize in future editions of The Connector. - Ron Brown email: [email protected] Page 2 THE HLSA CONNECTOR Page 3

Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 century. I am the first of these many others. As you look to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector.  ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of ‰ $75.00 ‰ $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: ‰ I am employed in the public sector. 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Gouraige Interview continued from previous page Our 2007 Public Interest sponsorLe ta tspringer symposiumFrom that T hwille be P gearedre stoi networkingdent for Editor: I understand youspending often andmeet our with income prosecutors this year. early in an Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! young law school alums. In addition, we may sponsor cultural events investigation. How has thisFor helped the first to forestall time in prosecutionsthree years, we and andDuring provide my some first of ouryear own of talentedlaw school members in a Septemberchance to showcase panel win dismissals? expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in their talents. We are also expanding our social media presence. For Gouraige: I can illustratefully withpay forone itself, example. thanks I torepresented a necessary the Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees example, we envision putting the Vanderbilt Lecture on YouTube, president of a company who had testified at the criminal trial of a I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the and we may seek to create a page for the Association on LinkedIn and vice president. During his testimony, the president stated that he Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch2 advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Facebook. had authorized the transaction for which the vice president had Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – This year, we contributed $3,400 I also worked on projects Johnbeen Bartlett indicted. ’01,After the vice president was convicted, the prosecutor providing funding for my first- University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and Editor: Please tell our readers about your educational HLSA-NJturned his attention to the president – who then asked me to year summer internship. background.assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunitiesrepresent abloom him. in Hethe was devastated.page 3.) The I reassured value of himtheir all experience, would work wake of the U.S. Supreme Gouraige: After attending Boston University from 1968 to ’72, out well. He then asked if I would call his wife and talk with her. Association’s dues-paying School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents I spent two wonderful years on a Rhodes scholarship at Oxford view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase Thethe oldnext saw,day, Iwith called hisdevelop wife and to reassuredNew Jersey’s her. legalWhile community, my client was intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. University, where I studied philosophy, politics and economics. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunitiesextremely come upset, great chances is are priceless. his wife wasWe’ll more have so. spentI told mynearly client Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I I thenSoviet went republics on to tothe declare Harvard independence, Law School. I haveresponsibility. had wonderful As recently that as mytwo first years goal ago, was to$1,000 keep himto supportand his travelfamily and structure lodging intact for so Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary teachersas the atend all ofthose the schools20 century and years and ofthe outstanding more than professional 110 of our state’sthat he950 could or so function. HLS Thenour Cambridge I could deal panelists with the inlegal September. problems. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st trainingbeginning from of very the good 21 . mentors. alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his I then asked him a simple question: was his testimony at trial, in fact, ways in which NJISJ combines Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are true? He thought for quite a while and then said, “You know, I’m not Editor:September I understand 11, 2001 that as prior the tocentenary entering privateunderwhelming practice, you — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 sure.” The vice president had been a loyal and trusted employee for servedturning as an point. assistant That U.S. fateful attorney day under came U.S. AttorneyAssociation Rudolph to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s many years, and my client had said something off the top of his head Giuliani.three monthsBesides afterhandling I completed criminal lawcases involvinga substantial tax giftand to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest businessschool fraud,and five you days were after the Ifirst started assistant my toend handle the yearhealthcare with as muchthat turnedmoney outin notthe to beof true. this I wasnewsletter able to establishand all that our he otherhad not Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. fraudfirst cases job as in a thelawyer. Southern There areDistrict a host of of New York.bank as In we this started area with.authorized This year, theonly transaction 46 mailings at issue, throughout and I was ablethe toyear prove – and this it to is the Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair youother earned places a Superior to draw theAchievement line, of course, Award fromalumni HHS. have Would paid their prosecutor,dues so far. who That decided our not tohope bring and any aim charges to makeagainst generous my client. effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the youand tell ourus about human one nature of the outstandingcompels us to cases you handled in this Had that case gone to indictment and trial, my client likely would prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past area? have been acquitted, but at tremendous costs – in terms of the returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. prosecutor’s time, my time, the cost to my client, the public cost of following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This Gouraige:walking theOne emotionalinvestigation lines I did early on was of ambulette As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at companiesbetween regretin New and York pride, City. fear New York State was spending in having the trial, the consequent impactthe on Association’shis family and businesslong- and, perhaps worst of all, the loss of reputation, which so often across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s excessand ofhope $400 – it’smillion part ofa yearwho towe reimburse ambulette companies to serving leaders like Albert target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. cannot be regained. 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Some defense lawyers thinkFitzgerald of prosecutors English, Marvinas people municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law However,first time, on athe majority flip side, of officers expenses for other items went up. who care far more about getting an indictmentFish ’55, andSteve conviction Roth ’67 than, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being Editor: Your career has been marked by an ability to bring they do about justice, while many prosecutors think of defense former inmates with pro bono See Summer, page 4 innovativeschool approachesin the twenty-first to solving client problems. lawyers as people whose goal is to obstructMarkowitz justice ’52 and, toand block so the many others. As you look century. I am the first of these prosecutor from finding the truth. I have been both a prosecutor and Gouraige:to be Apresident basic premise of ofthe my approach is that a legal system forward, ask yourself: What a defense lawyer, so I know that these stereotypical characterizations shouldAssociation, not be viewedand my as successor a way for individuals to exercise absolute do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you are neither entirely true nor entirely false. Many people on both sides rightsJason as Orlandoswords to ’00 demolish will be the others; second. life is morea complicatedhuge difference than in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of that. Generally,This marks when a hopefultwo or moremoment, business of personsand havefor the a dispute,Law School. care deeply about justice howand willfairness. you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 they’dcourse. prefer We’ll to resolvelaunch theirour problemssecond half- by talking itI can’tthrough put andit more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. negotiatingcentury of a satisfactoryVanderbilt Lecturesresolution. with It needn’tone beyour a zero-sum help. 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And trialswe’re are veryclasses costly; of theythe 1950s have and Gouraige:’60s – would Yes, more and in partfact ofone this major great endeavor.reason I joined Sills was 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni bothreaching direct andout toindirect current costs students as well with as unintended a than consequences.make up the thegap firm’sbetween combination our of excellent practicesJohn in W.healthcare Bartlett ’01and in admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. We’re fortunate to have a reliable judicial system in our country, litigation. We have an outstanding group of healthcare lawyers and  butA LtheU moreM weN useI On it, the The more Move pressures we put on it – and those anhis excellentalphabet groupsoup ofof degreessix former have assistant joined theU.S. tax attorneys. and trusts With and a I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey pressures can overwhelm the process. leadingestates practice litigation at practice,Riker Danzig we are in ableMorristown. to combine these resources to in the amount of ‰ $75.00 ‰ $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his conduct significant internal investigationsth in the healthcare industry. candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni Editor: Do you sometimes offer arbitration in those cases? Mycompany sense nextis that spring, despite if Republicanthe efforts Jayto bringWebber the ’00cost wins of healthcarehis race Name: Class: th Gouraige:HLSA-NJ secretary I do, but Stephen arbitration F. Herbes to me ’01is not, CPA, an alternative J.D., LL.M., forum and down,for Assembly for the inforeseeable the 26 District.future we Webber, will have of risingMorris costs, Plains, increasing won a Address: where you continue the techniques of litigation. Clients are beginning governmentcontested primary investigations in June. and enforcement, and major litigations in CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images the healthcare industry. Telephone: E-Mail: to fromfind the that 50 tharbitration annual Vanderbilt can get Lecture. just as Those protracted images were as litigation, provided by and it’s veryKeith costly Krebs/P.O.V. – which Imagemakes Service no sense.. The whole point of arbitration Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: ‰ I am employed in the public sector. is to use different techniques in a different forum to shorten the process and resolve problems so everyone can move on. Gouraige Interview continued on next page Page 2 THE HLSA CONNECTOR Page 3

Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 century. I am the first of these many others. As you look to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector.  ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of ‰ $75.00 ‰ $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: ‰ I am employed in the public sector. 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Gouraige Interview continued from previous page Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Editor: What are some of the key compliance issues facing Editor:Congratulations, Hasn’t the False Claims Mr.Act been Chief revised moreJustice! sharply so For the first time in three years, we directorsFellows and trustees In of healthcareTheir companies? Own Words that it’s much more draconian than it used to be? During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Gouraige: From my perspective, the notion of holding individuals Gouraige: Yes, it is being increasingly tightened, lowering the 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary eitherDear Memberson the board of HLSA-NJ, or in senior managementattorneys personally through accountablethe ReLeSe standard for the government and raising it for defendants. Difficult of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees is a majorI would trend. like In tomy thank view thatthe is a goodnetwork, thing. a Companiespartnership arebetween made and crucial policy decisions about healthcare are not being made, member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the upHarvard of a lot of individuals,Law School and I believeNJISJ individuals and Volunteer should Lawyersbe held and increasing enforcement is being used as a way to solve the ever- staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. for Justice. responsibleAssociation for of theirNew conduct. Jersey for My criticism about recent government increasing costs of healthcare. Criminal or civil FCA enforcement is a I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – This year, we contributed $3,400 I also worked on projects John Bartlett ’01, enforcementproviding funding efforts for in my this first- area is that it is appropriate to hold blunt instrument. We need to think of a different paradigm when we University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. want to control the costs of healthcare that focuses on compliance. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See individuals accountable only when theyeconomic are personally inequality. culpable In the or responsible;Thanks to the I’m generosity very troubled of the by the notion of holding someone Under existing law, your company may have a great compliance time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme accountable otherwise. program, but a few rogue people may commit a violation, and then School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents the government will prosecute or bring a civil FCA case against your view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, Evenintern more for troublingthe New is theJersey effort Involvedby regulators in Community from theSchools Office v. company. Your excellent compliance program will be considered by and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly ofInstitute Inspector for SocialGeneral Justice (OIG) in to excludeSeattle Schoolindividuals District from #1 , theI Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for governmentNewark. I took program part in when a variety such individualsprepared area memonot personally discussing in the prosecutor merely as a discretionary criterion mitigating against th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school indictment. st fact (as opposed to legally) culpable. If you are in the healthcare beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board industryways in whichand you NJISJ cannot combines participate assignment in Medicare, programs Medicaid, that or I believeChief thatJustice companies Stuart in J. those Rabner circumstances ’85 is sworn should in beby given his a Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year TRICARElegal advocacy, (the policymilitary’s analysis, healthcare consider program), race youand reallyproposing can’t passpredecessor, the first time James and thatR. theZazzal individualsi, in July. should Looking be held responsibleon are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to earnand adirect living. service Imagine programs the FDA to claimingpolicy that options a drug still your available company to forGovernor their conduct. Jon S. This Corzine would and encourage Rabner’s companies wife, Deborah. to build At robust 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have wasassist marketing New wasJersey's misbranded urban and schoolthat you, districts the chief committed compliance to complianceyears of age, programs, Rabner and– a formerit would federal reduce prosecutor, the enormous Governor’s resources three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution orcommunities. medical officer, should have putequal a stop educational to this misbranding opportunity. even weChief spend Counsel, in litigating and these state cases. Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other I researched various legal issues whenThrough you were NJISJ’snot aware Second of it. The FDA may charge you personally Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is affecting New Jersey’s Fair withChance a criminal Campaign, act despite a policy your having no mental state of culpability. Editor: Please tell our readers about your other community and other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public If you are convicted, the OIG will likely exclude you from all federal bar activities. and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the healthcare programs for as many as 20 years. If you’re a senior draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional Gouraige:HLSA-NJ forI have enabling been blessedme to by a wonderfulHarvard family Law and bySchool people management person in your mid-50s, that amounts to a professional backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, whohave havea summer gone experienceout of their that way toAssociation help me. Iof don’t New Jersey.believe This I’ve walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank deathresearched sentence. the efforts of cities which have been the subject of “madewill fundamentally it all on my own.” shape I trymy to repayaward the assistanceenabled me I have to workreceived at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the bylegal helping career. others, which I do by gettingthe Federalinvolved Public in public Defender’s interest and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert Editor:discrimination How are theagainst federal ex- and statetarget False of legal Claims challenges Acts used under in organizations,Sincerely, by teaching trial advocacyOffice to in younger Newark lawyers, this summer. and by Cohn ’51, David are and what we do as a theoffenders healthcare in municipal industry? hiring both state and federal law. being involved inDamon various King community ’09 Over activities. the Frankly,course I findof thatmy I species. Crabtree ’52, David Gouraige:and prepared Unfortunately, written materials in the past thoseNJISJ statutes provides have numerousbeen used gain from those experiences as much,internship, if not more, I thanwas I give.given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry essentiallyfor presentations to raise to an New enormous Jersey amountexamples of money of waysfrom healthcarein which chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin companies.municipalities Minor on policy errors reform have beenattorneys turned intocan potentialcommit Falsetheir DearPlease HLSA-NJ, email the interviewee at [email protected] the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, knowledge and skills to aid Claimsoptions. Act I alsoviolations helped where connect the company faces treble damages, civil I would likewith to questionsconvey my about process, this interview. both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so monetary penalties and legal fees. The sums are so astronomical that See Summer, page 4 century. I am the first of these many others. As you look the board and senior management are extremely reluctant to try those cases, which may be good neither for the company nor for healthcare. to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What 1 WeWe need toCan’t think about Do how we Until refine the Youuse of that Duestatute in the the©2011, spring The Metropolitan symposium Corporate and other Counsel, events All rights HLSA-NJ reserved. Reprintedoffers to with you Association, and my successor do you want the Association permission of the publisher and copyright holder. Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And futureIf you’ve to enforceread about healthcare it in the laws Connector against core, it wasfraudulent made possibleconduct and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of 2 This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? whileby members dealing with who less paid troubling their dues.conduct From with our a different summer paradigm. public ourJohn dues-paying Bartlett is developing members. a Facebook If you page haven’t for HLSA-NJ. paid your 2007-2008 course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School AssociationBECOME of N.J.” A to JeffreyHLSA-NJ Kantowitz, Esq., TRUSTEE Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector.  The activities of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey are made possible by its volunteer his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey ALUMNI On The Move trustees. The Association is seeking new volunteers to participate in the governance of the association, to estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of ‰ $75.00 ‰ $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th be formally elected as trustees at our annual meeting on the same evening as the Vanderbilt Lecture this candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Fall. Being a Trustee is a great way to stay involved and Class:network with fellow HLS alumni in all walks of life. th HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26 District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: The current leadership includes law faculty; public, private, and nonprofit-sector attorneys; and sitting and contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: retired judges from E-Mail: all across New Jersey. In addition to our annual meeting, the Vanderbilt Lecture, the th from the 50 annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by full Board of Trustees meets approximately 2-3 other times each year. For more information, e-mail Hervé Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: ‰ I am employed in the public sector. Gouraige at [email protected].

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Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 century. I am the first of these many others. As you look to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector.  ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of ‰ $75.00 ‰ $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: ‰ I am employed in the public sector. 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Remarks of Judge David Landau on the Occasion of his Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! Accepting The Irwin Markowitz Alumni Service ForAward the first time in three years, we During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe n November 8, 2011, Judge David Landau of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova,O a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between became the second recipient of the Irwin S. member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rightsMarkowitz whom Alumnithat make Service me feel Award old “for his rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professordecades at Brown of exemplary– like ’09service and to’10 HLSA/NJ – John Bartlett and ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlierthe –community was heard of Harvard from Lawhalf Schoola 2007 alumni President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg.in NewAt the Jersey, anddozen with of deepus about appreciation the for his extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvardwork to Law promote professional the strength opportunitiesand continuity abloom of the in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historiansAssociation”. would TheGarden first State.recipient, (See pagewas Albert4.) Cohn. and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the BerlinGerri Wall Markowitz, fell whoBut, was to married paraphrase to Irwin the forold 51 saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States becameyears, the presentedfirst thosethe award great to Judgeopportunities Landau. come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary asJudge the end Landau of the noted 20 thatcentury the andAward the is namedmore forthan Irwin 110 ofMarkowitz our state’s who 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st neverbeginning received of athe plaque 21 . but whose outstandingalumni service paidinspired dues its to institution the Association, a Our spending on food for Board assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Irwin Markowitz ’52 and Gerri Markowitz ways in which NJISJ combines and servesToday, as anwe annual might reminder instead of thatmark dedicated response service. rate Judge that Landau — while served in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are for Septembertwenty four 11, years 2001 in the as Appellatethe centenary Division, tenunderwhelming of which were — on still recall afterpermitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 formalturning retirement point. inThat 2000 fateful when heday turned came 70. HeAssociation stated that to as provide presiding programming, judges make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s are threeappointed months on a afterseniority I completed basis, he just law missed a such substantial appointment gift to although the Law heSchool, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest wouldschool have and been five next days in afterline, IJudge started Landau my hadend the the pleasure year withof serving as much with money a in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. numberfirst job of asgreat a lawyer. presiding There judges, are a hostand occasionallyof bank as weacting started presiding with. This judge year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair sinceother Appellate places tojudges draw on the recall line, cannotof course, serve asalumni presiding have judges. paid theirHe served dues soas far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public Supervisingand our Judgehuman of nature the Civil compels Appeal us Settlementto two-thirds program drop while in responseon recall, rate as is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the future as we have in past welldraw as served these lines.on panels Looking as needed. both He was also one of the two judge committee returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. charged with review and approval of trial judge opinions for publication. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank Judge Landau is a Master in the Brennan-Vanderbilt American Inn of Court3, researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- a member of the Justice Marie L. Garibaldi American Inn of Court for Alternative across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part4 of who we serving leaders like Albert target of legal challenges under Dispute Resolution , a member of The American Law Institute and of the New discrimination against ex- Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David both state and federal law. Over the course of my Jersey and Essex County Bar Associations. His legal experience includes serving offenders in municipal hiring Damon King ’09 species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the as a Deputy Attorney General to the N.J. Department of Banking and Insurance. The Association is at a Judge LandauLandau and Gerri ’53, MarkowitzJerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake After retiring from the bench he became Of Counsel to his former law firm, turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law now Hellring, Lindeman, Goldstein and Siegal, LLP. Judge Landau graduated first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and fromwere Rutgers graduated College from with the a B.A.law in Business Administration in 1950, and from the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being Harvardschool Law in School the withtwenty-first a J.D. in 1953. Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 century.In his remarksI am the acceptingfirst of these the award, Judge Landau commented on Dean Erwin N. Griswold, many others. As you look notingto thatbe thepresident Dean “was of conservative, the to be sure, as was most of the faculty, but not unfeeling. When forward, ask yourself: What We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you theAssociation, faculty wanted and tomy expel successor twin brothers who had taken the Fifth Amendment in some proceeding do you want the Association If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of thatJason typified Orlando the early ’00 willfifties, be the Deansecond. Griswold successfullya huge difference fought forin whatthem we and can later do traveled for you the tocountry look like in the years to come? And by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 to give Thisa great marks lecture a serieshopeful on themoment, importance of ofand the forFifth the LawAmendment.” School. 5 how will you be part of it? Dean Erwin N. Griswold interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. course.Judge LandauWe’ll launch noted thatour hissecond class, thehalf- fabled andI latercan’t much put publicizedit more plainly: class entering We need in 1950 andIf you’ve paid your dues, come out to century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I graduating in 1953, was the first to admit women. of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a According to the Harvard Law Record, there were thirteen women in the 500-person HLS class legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite of 19536. Here are their names: Frederica S. Brenneman, Carolyn MacTear Anderson, Mary Elizabeth Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni Schlosserreaching Jacques, out to Charlottecurrent students P. Horwood with a Armstrong,than make W. Louiseup the Florencourt, gap between Edith our Henderson, John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. Nicole E. Nay Kerno, Beverly S. Coleman, Helen O’Connor Cunningham, Sondra Markowitz Miller,  Roberta Good Brundage, Ann M. Pfohl Kirby, Mary Margaret O’Connell Truschel, and M. Elizabeth On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey Leuzinger-Irminger.ALUMNI Here is a portrait of those women and information aboutestates one practice of them at -Riker Charlotte Danzig in Morristown. 7 in the amount of ‰ $75.00 ‰ $ 50.00 P.State Hornwood Senate ArmstrongJudiciary Chairman - from the John Harvard Adler Law ’84 Bulletin has declared: “It wasn’t his easy for the first women students Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12th) may have some alumni atcandidacy Harvard for Law Congress School. in But New in aJersey’s way, the third women Congressional of that era district. were accustomed to that, said Charlotte Name: Class: Armstrong ’53. ‘It was a totally male world, but that was the world we companygrew up in,’next she spring, said duringif Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race th CelebrationHLSA-NJ secretary 45. Indeed, Stephen despite F. Herbes the difficulties ’01, CPA, ofJ.D., the LL.M., experience, and Armstrongfor Assembly became in theone 26of District.HLS’s Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: and Harvard University’s (she graduated from Radcliffe in 1949) mostcontested loyal and primary active in alumni. June. A CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: formerfrom thepresident 50th annual of Vanderbiltthe Harvard Lecture. University Those images Board were of provided Overseers, by Armstrong also served as president of Keiththe Harvard Krebs/P.O.V. Law Image School Service Association,. the second woman to hold that post,Have and vice news? president E-mail of [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: ‰ I am employed in the public sector. the Harvard Club of New York City. In her professional career, she worked as a litigator with the U.S. Landau Remarks continued on next page Charlotte P. Hornwood Armstrong Page 2 THE HLSA CONNECTOR Page 3

Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 century. I am the first of these many others. As you look to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector.  ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of ‰ $75.00 ‰ $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: ‰ I am employed in the public sector. 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Landau Remarks continued from previous page DepartmentOur of2007 Justice and in employeePublic compensation Interest and benefits in the private sector. When she Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we was a student, Armstrong said, she never realized the importance of breaking the gender barrier at During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to HLS:Fellows ‘You just put oneIn foot Their in front of another,Own and Words then it turns out that you are a trailblazer.’ Judge Landau noted that the Griswolds invited women law students to their home for tea, and 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary attorneys through the ReLeSe theDear Dean Members asked whyof HLSA-NJ, they were taking up a man’s spot at the law school! Judge Landau’s observation of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between that this “was not meant to be insulting, but merely realistic in light of law firm policies in those member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers days” is supported by the following comments by Judith Richards Hope (’64) from staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. Celebration who “recalled the annual “Griswold Dinners,” Soia Mentschikoff I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 45:providing The Alumnae funding offor Harvard my first- Law SchoolI alsoReturn worked To Cambridge on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two hosted by the late dean and Mrs. Griswoldtouching to welcome on theracial newest and tiny cadre of 11 women. Seated in a circle in HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See theThanks Griswold to the living generosity room, of each the womaneconomic in turn respondedinequality. toIn the the dean’s question of why they were taking the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, placeAssociation’s of a man. ‘It soundsdues-paying awful,’ Hopewake said, of‘but the I later U.S. received Supreme more than 100 rejections from law firms, all of School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them whichmembers, asked, I ‘Whyserved are as you a tryinglegal to takeCourt’s the placedecision of a man?’ in ErwinParents Griswold prepared us for those questions.” view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, Sheintern also formade the this Newobservation Jersey aboutInvolved HLS andin Community Dean Griswold: Schools v.“The overall impression that we were beat and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly upon,Institute kept for down, Social is notJustice true,” in the self-proclaimedSeattle School “old-timer”District #1 declared., I “And it’s not true that Harvard Law Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for SchoolNewark. kept I took women part inout a varietytill 1950; theprepared Harvard a Corporationmemo discussing kept women out,” said the Corporation’s first th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. womanof projects, member. learning The aboutdoor tothe HLS remainedthe decision’s closed effect to women on school until 1947, the year Erwin Griswold ’28 S.J.D. st beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ’29ways appointed in which the NJISJ first combines woman visiting assignment professor. “Soiaprograms Mentschikoff that 8 marchedChief into Justice the Faculty Stuart Club, J. sat Rabner at the ’85 is sworn in by his Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year mainlegal table,advocacy, and, voila!policy theanalysis, Faculty Clubconsider was integrated. race and The proposing classrooms of predecessor,HLS soon followed.” James 9 R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to September 11, 2001 as the centenary and Judgedirect Landauservice programsalso mentioned to hispolicy military options service still availableand Professor to MarkGovernor De Wolfe Jon Howe,S. Corzine stating: and “My Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have militaryassist Newservice Jersey'swas not heroic.urban I hadschool an ROTC districts commission committed and to served inyears the ofAir age, Force Rabner for two – a yearsformer after federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution Lawcommunities. School. My combat consisted onlyequal of educational negotiating opportunity. Air Force settlements Chief of Counsel, contract andterminations state Attorney and General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other priceThrough redeterminations NJISJ’s asSecond the war in IKorea researched wound various down. legal I also issues remember Chief Professor Justice Mark in the De modern Wolfe Howe, history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is affecting New Jersey’s Fair andChance I agree Campaign, with this statement a policy from the Harvard Crimson: “Mr. Justice Holmes once said that ‘as life is action other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public andeffort passion, to improve it is required the reentry of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the judged not to have lived.’ Mark Howe, who had been Holmes’ law clerk in 1933-34 and was his biographer, draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. stood in no peril. Howe combined meticulous scholarship in law and history with a life of political and social following incarceration,10 I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. 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Membership Eisenhower ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and is composedI encloseof the following my categories: check Mastersfor the of the 2007-2008 Bench—judges, duesexperienced to thlawyers,e Harvard and law professors; Law School Barristers—lawyers Association with of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. some experiencein the who amount do not meet of the minimum requirements ‰ $75.00 for Masters; Associates—lawyers‰ $ 50.00 who do not meet the minimum requirement State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his for Barristers; and Pupils—law students.) and http://www.innsofcourt.org/Content/InnContent.aspx?Id=2742 (“The Brennan-Vanderbilt Inn of Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12th) may have some alumni candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Court, basedName: in Essex County, New Jersey, was formed by the 2007 merger of the William J. Brennan Inn of Court Class: and the Arthur T. Vanderbilt company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Inn of Court. The Inn seeks to promote legal excellence in civil litigation and fidelity to the highest standards of professionalism. The Inn offers th HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26 District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a its pupils theAddress: guidance of its Masters in monthly presentations on specific areas of practice, supplemented by the opportunity to practice their contested primary in June. skills in smaller pupilage groups hosted by some of the pre-eminent firms in the area. Masters and Barristers enjoy the opportunity to discuss CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images issues in theTelephone: law in an informal setting with their peers as well E-Mail: as members of the Essex County Judiciary.) from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: ‰ I am employed in the public sector. Harry Truman Charlotte P. Hornwood Armstrong Landau Remarks continued on next page Page 2 THE HLSA CONNECTOR Page 3

Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 century. I am the first of these many others. As you look to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector.  ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of ‰ $75.00 ‰ $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: ‰ I am employed in the public sector. 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Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 century. I am the first of these many others. As you look to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector.  ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of ‰ $75.00 ‰ $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: ‰ I am employed in the public sector. 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Our 2007 Public InterestIn Memoriam Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community SchoolsAlbert v. L. Cohn and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly InstituteAlbert for L. Social Cohn, Justice ’51 of inWest Orange,Seattle NJSchool and Chilmark,District #1 MA,, I “HMS Pinafore” and “The Pirates of Penzance”. At Albert’s funeral Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing service his daughter Priscilla paid tribute to Albert’s unabashed fondness died December 27, 2011, peacefully at his home in West Orange. Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20th century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects,Albert was learning managing about partner the of Cohnthe Liflanddecision’s Pearlman effect onHerrmann school for Gilbert & Sullivan and his life’s work as an attorney by reciting the beginning of the 21st. alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his &ways Knopf in ofwhich Saddle NJISJ Brook, combines NJ and practicedassignment law until Novemberprograms when that he words from “When I was a Lad”, one of Albert’s favorite numbers from Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are waslegal diagnosed advocacy, with policy advanced analysis, metastatic consider melanoma. race Less and than proposingtwo weeks “HMS Pinafore,” in which the Admiral recounts his rise from office clerk September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 earlierand direct he had service attended programs his 60th to Harvard Law School Reunion and was to the ruler of the Queen’s “Navee”. turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s stillassist rising New at 6:14 Jersey'sa.m., in homageurban to June 14, 1959, the day he married his Devoted to his alma mater, Albert maintained active ties to HLS, three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest wife of 52 years, Sylvia. serving as a trustee of the Harvard Law School Association of New school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. Albert, one of New Jersey’s pre-eminent litigation attorneys, was Jersey since 1988, also serving as its treasurer, secretary and president. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair born in Paterson, New Jersey to a family of lawyers. He was a graduate In 2010 he became the first recipient of the Irwin Markowitz Award other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the ofprospects Georgetown of University, individuals cum laude, doctrine,and Harvard particularly Law School. Afterwith forgrateful “Decades to ofthe exemplary members service of to HLSA/NJInterest andFellowship the community by the of draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past servingreturning in theto theirUnited communities States Air Forcerespect from which tohe wasregional honorably HarvardHLSA-NJ Law for School enabling Alumni me into New HarvardJersey.” He andLaw his wife,School Sylvia, backward and forward, years. dischargedfollowing as aincarceration, First Lieutenant, Ihe joinedcontribution his father David agreements, Cohn, then hostedhave a thesummer first receptionexperience at thattheir homeAssociation on Martha’s of NewVineyard Jersey. this This past walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank oneresearched of New theJersey’s efforts most of renownedcities litigators,which have in beenthe practice the subject of law. of Augustwill fundamentally for Harvard Law shape School my alumni, award faculty, enabled staff andme students.to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- Albertacross remainedthe country with theto firm,reduce which vigorousunder his policy stewardship debates has and grown the legalIn career. his touching eulogy, Albert’s sonthe Joshua, Federal who Public has followed Defender’s in the and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert todiscrimination more than 20 lawyers, against for hisex- entire professionaltarget of legal career. challenges under footstepsSincerely, of his grandfather and fatherOffice at the infirm, Newark spoke this of summer.his father’s are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offendersIn his 57in years municipal of service hiring to the bar,both Albert state excelled and federal as a vigorous law. and humility and reprisedDamon a Kingpoem ’09 which OverAlbert hadthe writtencourse for ofhis ownmy species. Crabtree ’52, David dynamicand prepared litigator written both at thematerials trial and appellateNJISJ levels. provides During his numerous illustrious father which warrants reprinting here: internship, I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake career,for presentations Albert earned to Newmyriad Jersey professional accolades, including being Myriad stars inhabit the sky, turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin namedmunicipalities as one of onthe policy Best Lawyers reform in Americaattorneys and earningcan commit an “AV”-rating their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, Their glow illumines the night; first time, a majority of officers byoptions. the prestigious I also helped Martindale connect Hubbell knowledge law directory, and that skills publication’s to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin One’s rays burn with great intensity - highestformer ratinginmates both with for professionalpro bono skillunderrepresented and ethical standards. Heand was sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so Giving forth a radiantSee Summer light. , page 4 certified as a Civil Trial Attorney by the New Jersey Supreme Court and century. I am the first of these many others. As you look Thousands of trees line the forest deep, to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What was a member of the first group of attorneys so certified. WeIn addition, Can’t Albert wasDo a prolific Until author andYou his articles Due on litigation the spring symposiumMajestic, and unbowed other events and strong HLSA-NJ – offers to you Association, and my successor do you want the Association But one stands apart from all the rest; Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And haveIf you’ve appeared read in about numerous it in thepublications, Connector including:, it was made Medical possible Trial and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of For it, the birds give their song. This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? Techniqueby members Quarterly; who paidMedical their Malpractice dues. From Litigation our summerand Strategy; public the our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to Rutgersinterest Law fellowships Journal; the and New campus Jersey State programming Bar Journal; andfor thestudents American to dues yet, pleaseThe contribute waves crash today in fury by usingupon the the coast, form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I Bar Journal. He was also co-author of Professional Negligence: Law of Their voice a mighty roar; of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those MalpracticeTo become in an New active Jersey member 5th Ed. of, the the standard Harvard reference Law School book Associat for the ion of New Jersey, simplyThe fill crest out of the one form rides inbelow majesty and return it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be State’scheck law payable on professional to “Harvard negligence. Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg ToMufson be rival’d & Spar, never 200 more. Executive Drive, Suite part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more Despite his busy schedule as a trial lawyer, Albert also devoted Alas, the star is gone -- its light burnt low; than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. reaching out to current students with a countless hours to legal education as an adjunct professor at Rutgers Law The Heavens are not the same.  School (Newark) for 26 years. He also served as Chair of the New Jersey All the birds now are stilled for good; his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and On The Move Institute forI encloseContinuing my Legal check Education for the and 2007-2008was the first recipientdues to ofth e Harvard Law SchoolThe oceans Association subdued and of tame. New Jersey ALUMNI estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. the Alfred C. Clapp Award in legal education, presented annually to an in the amount of ‰ $75.00 ‰ $ 50.00 But in our hearts and our minds and souls State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th attorney or judge for excellence in legal education; he received a special Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. achievementName: award from NJ ICLE in 2007; he was a founder of the Class: Your luster will never pale; company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Upon our lips your song remains HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and th Morris Pashman Inn of Court, serving on its executive committee; and for Assembly in the 26 District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: And our love will never fail. contested primary in June. he was a member of the permanent faculty of the National Institute of CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Trial AdvocacyTelephone: in New Jersey. E-Mail: Albert is survived by his wife of 52 years, Sylvia; his children, Melissa from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Have news? E-mail [email protected] Albert was also a patron of the arts and he proudly served as a trustee Cohn, Joshua Cohn (wife Sharon Cohn), Priscilla Karnovsky (husband Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. of the NewDate Jersey of PerformingAdmission Arts to theCenter, Bar: and a trustee (and, more Dan Karnovsky), ‰ I am employed Liza Cohn (husbandin the public Bill Wallach) sector. and Tad Cohn and recently, trustee emeritus) of the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players- his 9 grandchildren; and his sister, Betty Ann Weintraub. -for whom he also appeared in three of its performances: “The Mikado”, Page 2 THE HLSA CONNECTOR Page 3

Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 century. I am the first of these many others. As you look to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector.  ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of ‰ $75.00 ‰ $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: ‰ I am employed in the public sector. 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Our 2007 Public Interest Letter FromSOCIAL The P MEDIAreside n&t MULTIMEDIA FROMspending HLS and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we During myHLS first hasyear several of law multimediaschool in videosSeptember on topics panelthat may be of interest to membersexpect this of theyear’s Association. Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a womanBelow who had are been some a ofmentor those topics.discussion Just copy thein hyperlink into a web browserfully pay to viewfor itself, the video.thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Videos Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. for Justice. Harvard University is celebrating its 375th year. Here is a link to a video about the celebration. Association of New Jersey for I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – This year, we contributed $3,400 I also worked on projects http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/multimedia/harvards-375th-anniversary-celebrationJohn Bartlett ’01, and here is providing funding for my first- University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two year summer internship. touching on racial and a photo of HLS students donning powderedHLSA-NJ wigs and red boas before going to the celebration in Harvard Yard. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly HarvardThis termLaw the professionalUnited States opportunitiesSupreme Court abloom will hear in arguments the pageon the 3.) AffordableThe value Careof their Act. experience, HLS has already Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historiansheld would a stimulating Garden debate State. on the (See topic: page 4.)‘Is the Obama Health Careand Reform the Constitutional?’connection it helpedA debate them at HLS. members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the BerlinThis Wall fellwas “ an eventBut, co-sponsored to paraphrase by the the HLS old Federalist saw, with Society developand the toPetrie-Flom New Jersey’s Center legal for community, Health Law intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly and the Baltic States becamePolicy, the first Biotechnology, those andgreat Bioethics, opportunities HLS Professors come Charlesgreat Fried, Laurence Tribe ’66, and Georgetown Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing

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Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest Environmental Law experts review cases before the Court (video) school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2011/10/04_environmental-law-supreme-court-review-preview.html first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous other places to draw the line, Leadershipof course, in the 21st Century is the focus of the 3rd Black Alumni reunion (video) effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. 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Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the The Association is at a You Tube Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake Fitzgerald English, Marvin turning point as well. For the U.S.-Muslim Relations: Where Are We Going? municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, http://www.youtube.com/user/HarvardLawSchool#p/a/1053CFBA1FB5184C/2/S8dqxrd7m6U options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first The SEC And SIPC: Investing At Your Own Peril Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 century. 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House adviser unveils counterterrorismhow will policy you be (video) part of it? interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. course. We’ll launch our secondhttp://www.youtube.com/user/HarvardLawSchool#grid/user/DB23FC1B1BB9FFC9 half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I of the brightest starts in the ClinicalAmerican Voices: from Harvard those Sports alumni Law graduatedClinic after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s http://www.youtube.com/user/HarvardLawSchool#p/a/u/1/zmyZ7blp9EAown Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni Lawrence Lessig on the role of a Constitutional Convention reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. 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Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. 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Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 century. I am the first of these many others. As you look to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector.  ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of ‰ $75.00 ‰ $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: ‰ I am employed in the public sector. 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Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Photos from The 2011 VanderbiltCongratulations, Lecture Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we & Association Annual Meeting During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing Lauren Michaels ’08, David LaMorte, as the end of the 20th century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary of projects, learningPaula about Tuffin the ’88 the decision’s effectAlbert on school Cohn ’51, Sylvia Cohn, Jenna Statfeld ’10 beginning of the 21st. alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his ways in whichand Geraldine NJISJ combines Reed Brown assignment’71 Deanprograms Martha Minow,that and Paula Tuffin ‘88 Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, AnneOffice E. Hoskins in Newark ’94, this summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipalKen Oettle hiring ’69 both state and federal law. Damon Kingand ’09 CongressmanOver the Herb course Klein ’53of my species. Crabtree ’52, David and preparedand Kaushal written “Ken” materials Majmudar ’94NJISJ provides numerous David Stone ’84 (right) internship, I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 century. I am the first of these many others. As you look to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those ToU.S. become Attorney an activefor New member Jersey Paul of the Fishman Harvard ’82 Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fillCarla out the Gouraige form below and Hervé and returnGouraige it wi ’77th a Stephen Roth ’67 and Amy Winkelman ’87 legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payableand to Ken “Harvard Zimmerman Law School ’88 Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector.  ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of ‰ $75.00 ‰ $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: ‰ I am employed in the public sector. Stephen Roth ’67, Bruce D. Shoulson ’64, Robert Gerrard, Jr. ’77 Xiaolin Zhon LLM ’82, SJD ’90, and Mr. Stuart L. Pachman ’61 and Mrs. Paula Landau and David Landau ’53 Page 2 THE HLSA CONNECTOR Page 3

Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 century. I am the first of these many others. As you look to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector.  ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of ‰ $75.00 ‰ $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: ‰ I am employed in the public sector. 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Distinguished HLS AlumniOur in2007 New JersePublicy Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we Fellows In Their Own Words During my first year of lawBrendan school in T. ByrneSeptember17 panel The Governor also restructuredexpect this the year’sState’s Vanderbiltemergency responseLecture tounits, 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in consolidating civil defensefully and otherpay for functions itself, thanks under theto aState necessary Police. HLS ’51 Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where Other controversies duringincrease the Byrne in Administrationwhat we charge included attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian ParliamentGovernor and a ofmembers New Jersey of classes • the legal proceedings (includingchallenging our the youngestmurder conviction alumni). But of formerthe Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom rest of our program requires your help. 1974 - 1982that make me feel old boxing champion Ruben “Hurricane” Carter; Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John• the Bartlett Karen Ann ’01, Quinlan caseThis establishing year, we national contributed precedents $3,400 relating providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two Prior to his electionheard as fromgovernor half in a to family rights in “right to die” situations; and the efforts by the widow year summer internship. touching on racial and assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the HLSA-NJ extraordinary young law students. (See November 1973, Brendan T. Byrne of Bruno Hauptmann, who had been executed in the Trenton State Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, served on the staff of Governor Prison on April 3, 1936 for the kidnap and murder of the infant son of Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them Robert B. Meyner, who subsequently famed aviator Charles Lindbergh, to reopen the case. members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, appointed him as Essex County intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities Brendancome Byrnegreat graduatedis priceless. from WestWe’ll Orange have Highspent Schoolnearly in Seattle School District #1, I prosecutor. He would later be named Institute for Social Justice in Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently1942, as two where years he ago, served as$1,000 president to support of the debatingtravel and club lodging and forsenior Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th by Governor Richard J. Hughes as Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’sclass 950president. or so HLS He brieflyour attended Cambridge Seton panelists Hall Universityin September. in South of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st president of the Public Utilities Commission beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to Orangethe Association, before leaving a in MarchOur spending1943 to enlist on infood the Armyfor AirBoard Corps. ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his and by Governor William T. Cahill as a Superior Court judge. The Today, we might instead mark response rate that — whileThe inyoungest one sense squadron meetings,navigator inat lesshis thanbomb $400group, for he the earned year the legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are Administration of Governor Brendan T. Byrne was marked by a series of September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — stillDistinguished permitted Flyingthe Medalto date, and fouris modest. Air Medals, We made attaining no giftthe torank and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 landmarkturning measurespoint. That that have fateful had continuingday came impact Association on New Jersey. to provide programming,of lieutenant withmake the 414ththe LawBomb School Squadron this year.of the Still, 15th they Air have Force . assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution Selected initiatives of the Byrne Administration: Subsequently, he served in the U.S. Air Force Reserve. communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other • adopting a long-term program for protecting the resources of the When he was discharged from the Army in September 1945, he Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with.proceeded This year, to only pursue 46 a planmailings that would throughout eventually the secure year – his and long-time it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair otherNew places Jersey toPinelands draw the involving line, of nearly course, a third ofalumni the state’s have land paid area; their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous • implementing fiscal reform in the financing and oversight of public goal of enrolling at Harvard Law School. Advised by Harvard Law’s effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in responseveterans rate counselor is making that undergraduatecontributions workto the at Williamslaw school or inPrinceton the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draweducation, these lines. including Looking enacting both the state’s first income tax and the first future as we have in past would best set him on a path to admission, he chose Princeton because returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backwardmandatory capsand on governmentforward, spending; years. it had a semester starting in November, and the GI Bill paid his tuition following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This • walking approving the the emotional commencement lines of casino gambling in Atlantic City As you look back, thank — $600 a semester — along with a stipend for living expenses. Majoring researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at betweenand overseeing regret and the City’spride, redevelopment;fear the Association’s long- in its School of Public and International Affairs , he graduated in 1949 across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s • and creating hope –the it’s Department part of who ofwe the Public Advocate, the State’s first serving leaders like Albert target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. from Princeton after two years, with enough GI Bill credit left to pay discrimination against ex- areagency and protectingwhat we thedo publicas a interest in consumer issues, housing Cohn ’51, David both state and federal law. Over the course of my for his first two years at Harvard Law. He received his law degree from offenders in municipal hiring Damon King ’09 species.and access to beaches and other natural resources; Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the Harvard University and was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1951. • establishingThe Association New Jersey is atTransit, a the first statewide public transit Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake After serving his legal clerkship with Judge Joseph Weintraub—who turningagency point in the as nation; well. enactingFor the the Spill Compensation and Control Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law firstAct, time, the a modelmajority for of the officers national Superfund program to protect later became Chief Justice of New Jersey—GovernorFish ’55, Steve Byrne Roth practiced ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and wereagainst graduated toxic spills from and the finance law the cleanup of hazardous sites; law with the Newark firm of John W. theMcGeehan Jr..late He later joinedIrwin the underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being former inmates with pro bono See Summer, page 4 • school developing in the financingtwenty-first program supporting the construction firm of Teltser and Greenberg in East MarkowitzOrange. ’52, and so century.of Giants I am Stadiumthe first ofand these subsequently the indoor sports and After he left office in January 1982,many Governorothers. ByrneAs you became look a senior to entertainmentbe president arena inof thethe Meadowlands; modernizing the State’s partner with the law firm currently knownforward, as Carella, ask Byrne,yourself: Bain, What Gilfillan, do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Association,criminal code and and my sentencing successor guidelines; Cecchi, Stewart & Olstein in Roseland, which includes Charles Carella, Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of • restoring the Hudson waterfront, including the opening of Liberty who had served as the Governor’s executive secretary and executive director This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 State Park, the most visited State park; authorizing the nation’s first of the New Jersey Lottery Commission during his Administration. course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. program for the public financing of gubernatorial elections; Governor Byrne also has served on the boards of directors of several century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especiallycorporations need and help nonprofit our events,organizations, or been includingactive on theThe board, Prudential I • developing the State’s first water supply plan and constructing To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduatedLife Insurance after 1970, Company ofthank America; you. ChelseaIf you GA;haven’t Carvel done Foundation; those legalreservoirs firmament, and other New infrastructure; Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Elizabethtown Water Company; Jamesway Corporation; Mack-Cali • Wells expanding ’76. (publicSee page access 1.) to governmentAnd we’re and theclasses political of the processes 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni Realty Company; New Jersey Chamber of Commerce; and the editorial reachingthrough out the toso-called current “Sunshine students Law”; with creatinga than the State make Economic up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. board of the New Jersey Law Journal. Development Authority to attract business investment and jobs to  the state;and establishing a process for the independent review and Governor Byrne also has taught courses in political leadership and his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey ALappealUM of NadministrativeI On The actions Move by State agencies. New Jersey government at Princeton University and Rutgers University estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. ‰ ‰ • Introduced the first public pick-it lottery in the world. and lectured at several other universities and colleges.” in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni While in office, Governor Byrne’s Administration also confronted company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: 17 HLSA-NJsuch emergencies secretary as Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and forThis Assembly partial profile in theof Governor26th District. Bryne is fromWebber, Rutgers of University,Morris Plains,The Center won on thea American Governor, an initiative of the Eagleton Institute of Politics that “ seeks to Address: • the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in neighboring Pennsylvania; contestedpromote research primary and in discussion June. on the role of the governor in the United States… • CORRECTION: the energy crisis The springprovoked issue failed by the to include Arab photooil embargo credits for requiring images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by with particular initial emphasis on the administrations of recent governors in New compulsory restrictions on energy use; Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Jersey.”Have Here news?is a link to E-mail the full profile. [email protected] http://governors.rutgers.edu/njgov/byrne/ Date of Admission to the Bar: ‰ I am employed in the public sector. • the failure of the Trenton water supply plant requiring emergency byrne_bio.php construction of a temporary pipeline to restore water distribution to the City; and several natural disasters, including hurricanes and floods. Page 2 THE HLSA CONNECTOR Page 3

Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 century. I am the first of these many others. As you look to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector.  ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of ‰ $75.00 ‰ $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: ‰ I am employed in the public sector. 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Distinguished HLS AlumniOur in2007 New JersePublicy Interest well about how to deal with a culture and a set of values that were foreign to my Letter From The President spending and our income this year. own,Congratulations, I would not have been able to be successful,”Mr. Chief Frazier said. Justice! For the first time in three years, we “He also credits senior partners, whose backgrounds could not have During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In TheirKenneth Own C. Frazier Words been more different from his, with honing his skills in becoming a trial lawyer. 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, HLS ’78attorneys through the ReLeSe Most important for his career, they drew him into work on matters for one of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between of the firm’s major clients, a company called Merck, from the very first day he member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law SchoolMerck NJISJ CE andO Volunteer Lawyers practiced law. Among his cases, he frequently defended Merck against suits staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for2011 for- present Justice. involving vaccines, which led him to join the pharmaceutical company in I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects 1992. But what he has called the high point of his legal career did not involve University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and Merck or the corporate litigation he practiced at Drinker Biddle & Reath. HLSA-NJ year summer internship.Ken Frazier shared these thoughts with the assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of theeditor ofeconomic The Connection. inequality. “I neverIn thehad It began with a trip to death row in an Alabama penitentiary, prompted by time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-payingthe privilegewake of ofpracticing the U.S.law in NJSupreme (I don’t a request from his friend Esther Lardent18, the head of the Death Penalty School Record that future historians would Garden State. 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I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing 19 th HLS: I can truly say that HLS changed my published in the Spring 2004 Toledo Law Review , James “Bo” Cochran,Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st life in fundamental ways--by sending me off into trajectories a black man convicted of killing a white store manager “despite evidence beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. 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He was ‘railroaded’ in turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s was simply this: I developed a much broader conception of the world in which I the classic sense.” More than five years after first visiting Cochran, Frazier and three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest lived and the belief and confidence that as a lawyer I could make a difference in that his defense team won his release after 21 years on death row.”20 school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is world.Chance My HLSCampaign, degree has beena policy a ticket to greataffecting adventures New across multipleJersey’s arenas.”Fair “He had an orientation to the challenges of dealing with people who other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. 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And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. navigate355, West the social Orange, complexities NJ 07052. of an Or old-line include law firm.your “If separate I had not du beenes check coached with yourthe AmericanRSVP to theLaw Vanderbilt Institute and lecture the American. Dues are Bar $75Association. for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. 18 http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/migrated/DeathPenalty/RepresentationProject/PublicDocuments/toledo05.authcheckdam.pdf at 504 (“I first learned of Bo Cochran’s cause through a phone call from a friend and colleague, Esther Lardent. I was a litigation partner in a large Philadelphia law firm, consumed with the daily responsibilities of law firm life: providing quality ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and representationI toenclose my clients, businessmy check development, for billablethe hours,2007-2008 and administrative dues duties. to Estherthe wasHarvard heading upLaw the Death School Penalty RepresentationAssociation Project of ofNew the American Jersey Bar Association estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. and was preoccupiedin the withamount her own challenges:of securing ‰ representation $75.00 for scores ‰ of indigent $ 50.00 death row inmates, fighting for justice, and trying to keep men and women alive in the process. State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his Esther, in her highly persuasive style, asked if my firm would represent an Alabama death row inmate, an inmate whose direct state court appeals had been completely exhausted, whose only Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12th) may have some alumni candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. remaining avenueName: for redress was the institution of federal habeas proceedings, and who was facing the imminent issuance Class: of a writ of execution. In all honesty, I was not immediately moved to company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race act on Esther’s impassioned plea for help. Fortunately, two junior associates in our firm, Michael Holston and Seamus Duffy, recognized the opportunity to promote justice and urged the firm to HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a accept the representation.Address: They asked me to serve as the ‘partner’ on the case, and, with more encouragement from Esther, I agreed. Still, feelings of trepidation lingered--- I had been trained contested primary in June. to be a corporate litigator, not a criminal trial attorney. How, I asked Esther, could a lawyer like me responsibly undertake representation of such gravity and complexity so far outside my area of CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images expertise? Esther’sTelephone: answer was simple: either we were Bo’s lawyers E-Mail: or he was his own lawyer. And so began one of the most challenging and rewarding cases I have ever handled.”) th from the 50 annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by 19 Have news? E-mail [email protected] Ibid. Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. 20 Date of Admission to the Bar: ‰ I am employed in the public sector. http://www.witnesstoinnocence.org/view_stories.php?Bo-Cochran-3. See also http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/migrated/DeathPenalty/RepresentationProject/PublicDocuments/toledo05. authcheckdam.pdf at 533. (“Bo’s story ends well. A man who spent the better part of two decades on Death Row is now free. He has a family. He works in his church. His refusal to look back in recrimination is an inspiration to many. I firmly believe the privilege of having been Bo’s lawyer represents the high point of my legal career. I can only hope this lawyer’s tale will inspire other lawyers to volunteer to represent Page 2 THE HLSA CONNECTOR indigent death row inmates. In any event, I wholeheartedly encourage them to do so because, in the words of Bryan Stevenson, ‘people are literally dying for effective representation.’ “) Page 3

Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 century. I am the first of these many others. As you look to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector.  ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of ‰ $75.00 ‰ $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: ‰ I am employed in the public sector. 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New Trustees & New Officers of the HLSA-NJ Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we During my first year ofC OlawNGRATULATI school in SeptemberONS T O THEpanel FOLLOWING NEWexpect TRUSTEES this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between Jacob T. Elberg, Esq., ’03 member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rightsJake whom is an Assistantthat makeU.S. Attorney me feel old in the District of New Jersey.rest He of is our Deputy program Chief requires of the your Health help. Care Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – This year, we contributed $3,400 I also worked on projects and Government Fraud Unit, which isJohn responsible Bartlett for ’01, the prosecution of both criminal and civil health providing funding for my first- University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two year summer internship. touching on racial and care fraud matters. Jake joined the U.S.HLSA-NJ Attorney’s Office in 2007, where he has prosecuted violent crimes, assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. 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Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. Lauren is an Assistant Deputy Public Defender for the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender, Through NJISJ’s Second first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, ofAppellate course, Section.alumni She haverecently paid completed their dues a sotwo-year far. That Equal Justiceour Workshope and Fellowship aim to atmake Education generous Law effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. 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And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector.  ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of ‰ $75.00 ‰ $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: ‰ I am employed in the public sector.

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Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 century. I am the first of these many others. As you look to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector.  ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of ‰ $75.00 ‰ $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: ‰ I am employed in the public sector. 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Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In TheirCONGRATULATI Own OWordsNS TO THE FOLLOWING NEW OFFICERS 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st 13 14 15 16 beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board waysPresident in which Hervé NJISJ Gouraige combines Viceassignment President programsNicole Bearce that ChiefTreasurer Justice David Stuart S. Stone J. Rabner Secretary’85 is sworn Ronald in W. Brownby his Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are to date, is modest. We made no gift to September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the 13and Hervé direct Gouraige service is a Member programs of the to Sills Cummispolicy & Grossoptions Litigation still Practiceavailable Group. to http://www.sillscummis.com/about/Governor Jon S. Corzine Mr. Gouraige and Rabner’s practices in wife,the areas Deborah. of health careAt 47fraud turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assistlitigation New(False ClaimsJersey's Act cases),urban general commercialschool districts litigation, whitecommitted collar criminal to defenseyears and internal of age, corporate Rabner investigations. – a former He federal has represented prosecutor, corporate Governor’s and individual three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities.clients in civil and criminal matters in federal andequal state educational courts throughout opportunity. the country. Mr. GouraigeChief is known Counsel, for using andhis skills, state experience Attorney and legalGeneral knowledge – is to the develop youngest innovative school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other approachesThrough to solveNJISJ’s client problemsSecond without havingI researched to go to trial.various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is 14Chance Nicole Bearce Campaign, Albano is a membera policy of the firmaffecting at Lowenstein New Sandler. Jersey’s http://www.lowenstein.com/ Fair She is a dynamic and hard-driving litigator at both the trial and appellate levels. other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effortNicole toworks improve with clients the in thereentry pharmaceutical, Housing cosmetics, Act consumerand the goods,Mt. Laurel financial services,underserved utility, and populations. higher education I am sectors. Nicolehonored handles with a broada Summer range of Public matters, and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospectsincluding pharmaceutical of individuals and mass tort litigation;doctrine, contract particularlyclaims and partnership with disputes;grateful as well asto shareholderthe members derivative of and ERISAInterest class actions.Fellowship Nicole alsoby counsels the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returningbusiness owners to their who communities face the unfortunate circumstancerespect of navigatingto regional business divorce -- HLSA-NJmatters that oftenfor enablinginvolve claims me of fiduciaryto Harvardbreach as well asLaw corporate School governance backward and forward, years. followingconflicts, oppression incarceration, claims, business I tort contributionactions, valuation disputes, agreements, nuanced contract interpretation,have a summer dissolution experience defenses, that real estateAssociation matters and ofemergent/injunctive New Jersey. This relief. As you look back, thank walking the emotional lines researchedNicole co-chairs the Lowenstein efforts of Sandler’s cities Appellatewhich Practice have Group been and the has subject successfully of prosecutedwill fundamentally and defended a variety shape of appealsmy overaward the course enabled of more me than toa dozenwork years at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- acrosssince herthe tenure country as a judicial to clerkreduce to the Hon.vigorous Marie L. Garibaldipolicy debates on the New and Jersey the Supremelegal Court. career. Nicole has appeared in the federal andthe state Federal courts ofPublic New Jersey Defender’s and New and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discriminationYork, as well as the Chanceryagainst courts ex- of New targetJersey andof legalDelaware. challenges Nicole is underwell versed in electronicSincerely, discovery issues, as she co-leads theOffice Litigation in Department’sNewark this Task summer. Force on are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offendersElectronic Discoveryin municipal and also hiringserves on theboth E-Discovery state and Committee federal for law. the International Institute for ConflictDamon Prevention King and ’09 Resolution Over (CPR). theNicole’s course work as a litigatorof my has species. Crabtree ’52, David andearned prepared her several written honors, materials including both the 2010NJISJ New Jerseyprovides Law Journalnumerous “40 Under 40” and NJBIZ “Forty Under 40” awards for professionalinternship, excellence I was and commitmentgiven the to The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry forcommunity, presentations as well asto recognition New Jersey as a “Risingexamples Star” by Superof Lawyersways infor thewhich past six consecutive years. She has been appointed to bothchance the Class to witnessAction Committee and partake and the turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalitiesSpecial Committee on on policy Higher reform Education of theattorneys New Jersey can State commitBar Association, their serves asDear a firm HLSA-NJ, liaison to the Network of Trial Law Firms,in theand is federalalso an activecriminal member lawof the first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options.National AssociationI also helped of College connect & University Attorneys.knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin 15 underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being formerAs Managing inmates Partner, with David Stonepro bono oversees all activities at Stone & Magnanini, LLC. http://www.stonemagnalaw.com Mr. Stone has been awardedSee anSummer AV rating from, page Martindale-Hubbell, 4 school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so the highest possible rating that can be achieved. Mr. Stone has litigated False Claims Act cases that have led to some of the largest recoveries in history on behalf of the U.S. Government century. I am the first of these many others. As you look and client Relators, including Medco ($165 million), Bristol Myers Squibb ($425 million) and Cephalon ($350 million). Currently, he is handling numerous False Claims Act cases venued to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Wethroughout Can’t the country, both Dosealed and Until unsealed. In addition,You Mr. Stone Due recently concluded thethe successful spring defensesymposium of a number and of otherwell-known events New JerseyHLSA-NJ companies offers in a civilto youprice- Association, and my successor do you want the Association fixing class action and related criminal investigation. He is defending several Fortune 500 companies in ongoing securities litigations, as well as in intellectual property litigations. He is also If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And currently representing various corporations and high net worth individuals in complex commercial litigations pending throughout the United States. Prior to joining Stone & Magnanini, by members who paid their dues. From our summer public This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? Mr. Stone headed up the New Jersey Office of Boies Schiller and Flexner, leading its False Claimsour dues-payingAct Practice Area members.between 2002 If and you 2008. haven’t Previously, paid Mr. Stoneyour served 2007-2008 for 3 years course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interestas outside fellowships General Counsel and of YankeeNets, campus programmingLLC where he was co-trialfor students counsel with to David Boiesdues in ayet, successful please suit contribute to recover the today New York by Yankees’ using televisionthe form rights below. from Madison century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I Square Garden Network .Before that, he was a founding name partner of the firm Freedman & Stone and a founding partner of the firm Stern & Greenberg with the former U.S. Attorney of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those Toand become Federal District an active Judge Herbertmember J. Stern. of the Mr. StoneHarvard has also Law been School involved Associatin numerousion complex of New trials Jersey, and appeals simply in both fill federal out andthe state form court. below He has and participated return in itmatters with such a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be checkas litigation payable against to AIG “Harvard and its former Law Directors, School representingAssociation clients of N.J.” in FTC to actions Jeffrey and Kantowitz, patent infringement Esq., cases,Goldberg representing Mufson the &Yes Spar, Network 200 in litigation Executive against Drive, Cablevision Suite and Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355,Comcast West Corporation. Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 16admitted Ron Brown tois Legal the barOfficer for providing over 5 yearsadvice asand ofcounsel July to1, the 2007, Chief andTechnology $50 forOfficer alumni for the admitted State of New for Jersey less and5 fiveto the years Senior and Management those in team the at pubthe licNew sector. Jersey Office of Information Technology. He has served as the Chief Technology Officer’s representative on the Procurement Committee, and the Intellectual Property sub-committees of The ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and National AssociationI enclose of Statemy Chiefcheck Information for theOfficers 2007-2008 (“NASCIO”). Hedues also chairedto th thee stateHarvard wide ad-hoc Law working School group onAssociation E-discovery. Ron of is NewPresident Jersey and CEO of Ronald estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. W. Brownin & Associates,the amount LLC, aof management consulting ‰ $75.00 and business advisory ‰ $ 50.00services firm. http://ronaldwbrownassociates.intuitwebsites.com/index.html He is also Director, State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his Business Advisory Services at The Efficiency Xperts. http://www.efficiencyxperts.com/.His prior positions include the following: The Reed-Brown Consulting Group, Executive Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12th) may have some alumni candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Vice PresidentName: and Chief Operating Officer; W. Frye & Associates Certified Public Accountants/Consultants Class: (Newark, New Jersey), Director of Management Consulting; BRS&W company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Productions Inc. (New York, New York) President and Chief Operating Officer, co-founder, and shareholder; Sammy Davis, Jr., National Liver Institute, Inc. at the University of th HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26 District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Medicine Address:and Dentistry of New Jersey (Newark New Jersey) Executive Vice President for Administration and Chief Operating Officer; Motion Picture Association Of America, contested primary in June. Director of North American and Commonwealth Operations (Anti-piracy); ITT Legal Department. Ron earned his B.A. with Distinction in History from Rutgers, The State University CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: th of New Jersey. He was in the Honors History Program, on the Dean’s List, and was a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship nominee. His senior thesis was published in Rutgers Review. from the 50 annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Ron next attendedDate of Harvard Admission Law School, to where the Bar:he earned his Juris Doctor, was a member of the Board ‰ ofI amEditors employed and Articles inEditor the of thepublic Harvard sector. Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. He also was the first Resident Tutor and Pre-Law Advisor at Currier House, Radcliffe College. Ron then attended Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration where he earned his Master in Business Administration and was a Goldman Sachs Fellow. He also attended Columbia University’s Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law, Summer Program. Page 2 THE HLSA CONNECTOR Page 3

Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 century. I am the first of these many others. As you look to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector.  ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of ‰ $75.00 ‰ $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: ‰ I am employed in the public sector. 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Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his meetings, at less than $400 for the year her coursesToday, have we included might civilinstead procedure, mark response“May it please rate thethat Court, — while I think in if oneappellants’ sense dealing with extradition; and to the issues of legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to constitutional law, family law, international construction of the Fourteenth Amendment children’s rights and voting redistricting…. and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have criminal justice, jurisprudence, law and should prevail here, there is no doubt in my Brown’s influence extends beyond the United assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution education, nonprofit organizations, and the mind that it would catch the Indian within its States and can be seem in the work of advocates communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other I researched various legal issues public law workshop. An expert in human grasp as much as the Negro. Should it prevail, for equality in schools in Northern Ireland, Through NJISJ’s Second Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is affecting New Jersey’s Fair rights and advocacy for members of racial I am unable to see why a state would have South Africa, and Eastern Europe. Brown Chance Campaign, a policy other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make27 generous Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and religious minorities and for women, any further right to segregate its pupils on the now belongs to the world.” Martha Minow, effort to improve the reentry and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making Vanderbiltcontributions Lecture, to the 2011. law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the children,draw these and lines.persons Looking with disabilities,both she ground of sex or on the ground of age or on the future as we have in past These quotes from distinguished lawyers returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School alsobackward writes and teachesand aboutforward, privatization, ground of mental capacity” -John W. Davis, years. represent three perspectives of : one at following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This militarywalking justice, the emotionaland ethnic linesand religious at Oral Argument, U.S. Supreme Court, As you look back,Brown thank the Court, one after the decision, and one researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at conflict.between regret and pride, fear representing South Carolina, Brown v. Board the Association’s long- 24 more than fifty years later. At the November across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s andBesides hope –her it’s partmany of whoscholarly we articles of Education. serving leaders like Albert target of legal challenges under 8, 2011 Vanderbilt Lecture, Dean Martha discrimination against ex- Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. publishedare and in whatjournals we ofdo law, as history,a and Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my Minow talked about applications of Brown philosophy,species. her books include In Brown’s Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the in the United States and in other countries Wake: TheLegacies Association of America’s is at Educationala Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake that would probably have amazed both John Landmarkturning point(2010); as well. Government For the by Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law Contractfirst time, (co-edited, a majority 2009); of officers Just Schools: Davis and ThurgoodFish ’55, SteveMarshall Rothand the’67 , new options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law contexts in whichthe their latefifty year Irwinold quotes underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being Pursuing Equality in Societies of former inmates with pro bono See Summer, page 4 Differenceschool in(co-edited, the twenty-first 2008); Breaking might find contemporaryMarkowitz ’52 application., and Inso fact, many others. As you look thecentury. Cycles I amof theHatred: first of Memory,these Law Thurgood Marshall if John Davis and Thurgood Marshall had to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What and Repair (edited by Nancy Rosenblum “People at the [post-Brown decision] party been seated together at this year’s Vanderbilt Association, and my successor Lecture, eachdo could you havewant turned the Association to the other We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you with commentary by other authors, 2003); began by saying the NAACP work was done If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. anda huge it was difference just a matter in what of wetime can before do for all you the atto thelook conclusion like in the of yearsDean to Minow’s come? Andlecture Partners,This Not marks Rivals: a Privatizationhopeful moment, and the of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 nation’s schools were integrated. Marshall, who and said “Who could have imagined such Publiccourse. Good We’ll (2002); launch Engaging our second Cultural half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. Differences: The Multicultural Challenge shifted into a more pensive mood as the clock a legacy?” or, referring to their respective century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help quotesour events, above, or said:been “Iactive told on you the so, board, and I Iwas in Liberal Democracies (co-edited 2002); passed midnight, made a prophetic remark:’ I To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, right!”thank you. If you haven’t done those Betweenlegal firmament, Vengeance New and Jersey’s Forgiveness: own Ted don’twhose want dues any – ifof paidyou toat fool the yourselves, same rate it’sas thejust things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite 25 Thurgood Dean Minow shared why she wrote FacingWells History ’76. ( SeeAfter page Genocide 1.) And and we’reMass begun,classes theof thefight 1950s has andjust ’60sbegun’.” – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni 26 In Brown’s Wake: Legacies of America’s Violencereaching (1998); out to Notcurrent Only students for Myself: with a Marshallthan makeat anup N.A.A.C.P the gap party between celebrating our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. Educational Landmark and Identity, Politics and Law (1997); Law the decision in Brown.  offered several fascinating Stories (co-edited 1996); Narrative, his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and On The Move additional perspectives I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey ViolenceALU MandN theI Law: The Essays of estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. 28 in the amount of ‰ $75.00 ‰ $ 50.00 RobertState Senate M. Cover Judiciary (co-edited Chairman 1992); John andAdler ’84 has declared his on Brown. Noting that Mike Panter ’95 th Makingcandidacy All for Congressthe Difference: in New Jersey’s Inclusion, third Congressional district. Assemblyman (D-12 Brown) may v.have Board some of Education alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: Exclusion, and American Law (1990). She was decided the same HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a is the co-editor of two law school casebooks, year she was born, Dean Minow said that Address: contested primary in June.understanding what Brown did and did not CivilCORRECTION: Procedure: TheDoctrine, spring issue Practice failed to includeand photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: Contextfrom the (3rd. 50th annual edition Vanderbilt 2008) Lecture. and Women Those images were provided Deanby Martha Minow achieve had occupied her since she could Have news? E-mail [email protected] andKeith the Krebs/P.O.V. Law (4th Imageedition Service 2007),. and a “Despite efforts by some to reduce the case to remember. She commented that “when the Date of Admission to the Bar: ‰ I am employed in the public sector. reader, Family Matters: Readings in Family concern for individual psychological injuries fiftieth anniversary of the ruling arrived, Lives and the Law (1993).”21 Minow Lecture continued on next page Page 2 THE HLSA CONNECTOR Page 3

Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 century. I am the first of these many others. As you look to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector.  ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of ‰ $75.00 ‰ $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: ‰ I am employed in the public sector. 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Minow Lecture continued from previous page Our 2007 Public Interest 40 Letter From The President spending and our income this year. scholars and media pundits debated whether (a) that the “uses Congratulations,and limitations life.” She Mr. asked Chief the thought-provoking Justice! For the first time in three years, we the case deserved its landmark status and of Brown for these students reflect question, if we had the opportunity to start During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to whetherFellows it had delivered In inTheir any meaningful Own Wordsdistinctive legal and political contexts from scratch, “should a school district, or while raising questions of group rights 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary wayDear on Members the promise of HLSA-NJ, of racial equalityattorneys for through the ReLeSe state, or nation promote or restrict special- of mine – Galina V. 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But the ineffectualHarvard andLaw counterproductive.” School NJISJ While and Volunteer(b) a “complex Lawyers case involving education very question that is seldom discussed yet is staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. thoseAssociation are ofimportant New Jersey questions, for forDean Justice. for children with directly presented by the emergence of school I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 Minowproviding observed funding that for “largely my first- missing fromI also worked on projects special needs in choice initiatives as public magnet schools, University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two the public discussions was the enormoustouching on racial and a village founded charter schools, and vouchers enabling HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See influenceThanks to theof Brown generosity in ofschools the beyondeconomic inequality. In the by and composed private school choice multiply around time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, race.”Association’s She insightfully dues-paying commented thatwake the of the U.S. Supreme largely of Satmar the country.”41 She also touched on the School Record that future historians would Garden State. 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Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s Dean Minow summarized seven major advocates, business leaders, and school along lines of gender, disability, language, three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest engaging topics she considered in her book: reformers” and “ways school choice immigration, socioeconomic class, religion, school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. invites new forms of self-segregation and sexual orientation—and secured federal first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. 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She cautioned Class: of different races and backgrounds”, and that th that “because of its association with state- she was “struck by the symbolic influence HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26 District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a • “The Address:educational treatments of American contested primary in June. Indians and Native Hawaiians” noting backed discrimination, any governmental of Brown in inspiring social movements for CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: educationalE-Mail: policy that separates students school reforms and in inspiring litigation th from the 50 annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by by identity, even when it is in some sense efforts to reform school in other countries Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: ‘voluntary’, should be scoured ‰for I evidenceam employed that in don’t the have public our sector.constitutional provisions”. that it actually promotes equal opportunity for each individual to have real success in Minow Lecture continued on next page Page 2 THE HLSA CONNECTOR Page 3

Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 century. I am the first of these many others. As you look to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector.  ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of ‰ $75.00 ‰ $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: ‰ I am employed in the public sector. 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Minow Lecture continued from previous page Our 2007 Public Interest ANL EXCERPTetter F FRroOmM IN T he Presexualsid eorientationnt remain ambiguous and “twospending adults and who, our with income full and this mutual year. consent Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! 50 For the first time in three years, we BROWN’S WAKE subject to local rules, although federal courts from each other, [engage] in sexual practices During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words “The New York City have read Title IX of the federal Education common to the homosexual life-style…[enjoy] a 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary public school system, in Amendments of 1972 to encompass right to liberty under the Due Process Clause… Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. 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But the NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers organization established Although some academic theorists question the of the government.” An amicus curiae brief Harvard Law School staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. for Justice. to support gay and lesbian analogy between race and sexual orientation had analogized contemporary prejudices Association of New Jersey for I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 I also worked on projects youth, founded the for purposes of antidiscrimination law, legal about sexual orientation with racial prejudices providing funding for my first- University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two year summer internship. touching on racial and Harvey Milk High School advocacy organizations HLSA-NJhave followed the prevalent in the 1950s and 1960s. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the in 1985 for gay and path carved out by the NAACP in advocating Shortly after the decision time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme for legal protections for gays, lesbians, and in Lawrence v. Texas51, School Record thatlesbian future teenagers.historians Its would goal Garden State. 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Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest of this newsletter and all our other school and fiveor days transgendered. after I started my end the year with Theas much majority money opinion,in the Party chairman Mike Long attacked the Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is The legal protections for written by Justice Anthony school’s existence, he echoed critics of racial Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous students on the basis of Kennedy, explained that segregation: “Is there a different way to teach effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This 21 Here is a link to a full bio of Dean Minow: http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/index.html?id=45 walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at 22 Allbetween graphics regret and footnotes and pride, were added fear by The Connector’s editor. the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s 23 http://www.law.columbia.edu/focusareas/brownvboard/bvbfactsand hope – it’s part of who we (“John W. Davis, a former U.S. solicitor general, represented the state servingof South Carolinaleaders inlike Harry Albert Briggs, Jr., discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. etare al. v.and R.W. Elliott,what etwe al. anddo was as the a lead counsel for the defendants. Seventy-nine years old at the time, he had made 140 appearancesCohn before ’51 the, U.S. SupremeDavid Court and offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my wasspecies. considered a brilliant orator. Among his clients were Eugene Debs and Robert Oppenheimer. His last Supreme Court appearanceCrabtree was for Brown ’52, v. Board, forDavid which he and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the receivedThe no Associationfee, though the isstate at did a send him a silver tea service, which was placed in the library of his firm, Davis, Polk & Wardwell.Landau Mr. Davis ’53 died, nine monthsJerry after the for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake Brownturning decision point was as handed well. Fordown.”) the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, 24 In Brown’s Wake at 33. options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin 25 former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being Thurgoodschool Marshall:in the An Americantwenty-first Revolutionary, by Juan Williams, at 1129. Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 26 http://www.npr.org/2003/12/08/1535826/thurgood-marshall-and-brown-v-board-of-edcentury. I am the first of these (“Marshall had seen segregation his entire life. manyHis mother others. taught As kindergarten you look in all- blackto schools,be president where she earnedof farthe less by law than white teachers. After college, Marshall wanted to attend law school at the Universityforward, of Maryland ask yourself:but the school What did not acceptAssociation, blacks. Two and years my after successor graduating from the law school at historically black Howard University, Marshall, with help from Howard doLaw you School want dean the and Association mentor Charles We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you HamiltonJason Orlando Houston, won’00 awill lawsuit be theforcing second. the University of Marylanda huge differenceto integrate its in law what school). we Onecan ofdo the for outstanding you Institutesto look at likeHarvard in Lawthe School years isto the come? Charles AndHamilton If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of InstituteThis for Racemarks and a Justice. hopeful http://charleshamiltonhouston.org/Home.aspx moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 27 Incourse. Brown’s We’llWake, atlaunch 187-188 our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. 28 century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I For a video interview with Dean Minow talking about In Brown’s Wake, Justice Thurgood Marshall, her then student Barack Obama, about public service, about her former To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a studentof the and brightest immediate starts predecessor in the Elena American Kagan, see http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2011/04/11/martha-minowfrom those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite 29 In Brown’s Wake, at 112. (When she used the phrase “school choice”, Dean Minow was referring to ‘initiatives authorizing the use of government resources to enable parents Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni and school-aged children to select a school rather than simply be assigned to one by the government, although choice over schooling of a fundamental sort exists for parents reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. with sufficient resources to pay for private school, to move to a district with desirable public schools, or to home school their children. Magnet and pilot schools within public  systems, school transfers, charter schools, and vouchers for private school tuition offer choices’. ”) his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and 30 On The Move I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey A Id.L atU 2. MNI estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. 31 in the amount of ‰ $75.00 ‰ $ 50.00 State Id. Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12th) may have some alumni 32candidacy Id. at 3. for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: 33 HLSA-NJ Id. secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: 34 Id. contested primary in June. 35 CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: fromId. the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by 36 Have news? E-mail [email protected] KeithId at 4. Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Date of Admission to the Bar: ‰ I am employed in the public sector.

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Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 century. I am the first of these many others. As you look to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector.  ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of ‰ $75.00 ‰ $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: ‰ I am employed in the public sector. 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Minow Lecture continued from previous page spending and our income this year. Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President homosexuals? Is there gay math? This is wrong…. transgendered are much moreCongratulations, likely to drop out policies of Mr. zero tolerance Chief for Justice!harassment and For the first time in three years, we There’s no reason these children should be treated or attempt suicide than other students—and violence in any school. This task is challenging During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words separately.” hence need a special school. Given evidence that legally, normatively, and practically, given 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary attorneys through the ReLeSe DearCritics Members also ofinclude HLSA-NJ, gay rights supporters calling someone “gay” remains a common insult that some students and parents claim that of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees network, a partnership between who Iwarn would that like the to separate thank schoolingthe fails to among teens, sorting out how best to address freedoms of expression and religion lie behind member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers equipHarvard these schools’ Law students School for the real world their critiques of homosexuality—even as other staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. for Justice. prejudice and cruelty aimed at lesbian and gay andAssociation fails to dismantleof New Jersey discrimination. for One students will undoubtedly pose challenges for students claim they face harassment for being I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects critic said: “Through long, painful years we some time to come. gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered or for University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two year summer internship. touching on racial and HLSA-NJ reached a consensus that we couldn’t allow A voluntary, separate school along the lines supporting such students. Abusive treatment assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the segregation. This is a short-term gain and we of any fellow student should not be tolerated time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of theof the U.S. Harvey Supreme Milk High School may seem more School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them needmembers, to look I atserved the long-term, as a legal larger Court’sissues.” decisionacceptable in in Parentsa large system, like New York’s, within a school setting. One court agreed with a view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, Aintern Michigan for newspaperthe New that Jersey took up theInvolved issue in Communitythat includes Schools citywide v. special schools in science, student who claimed protection under Title IX and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly opposedInstitute the for separate Social school Justice as well:in “AdvocatesSeattle Schoolfashion, District and #1other, I topics. Perhaps a special after being harassed for advocating tolerance of Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for sayNewark. that by I tookhaving part their in aown variety school, gaysprepared will a schoolmemo for discussinggay and lesbian students could be gays and lesbians. New issues arise as younger th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. feelof projects,more comfortable learning andabout won’t the be subjectedthe decision’s viewed effect as onpart school of the city’s project of developing students come out in middle schools that have st beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board toways the inintimidation which NJISJ that combines many of themassignment now excellent programs magnet that school withChief special themes.Justice YetStuart not J. anticipated Rabner ’85 how isto ensuresworn theirin safetyby his and Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year facelegal in advocacy, public schools. policy That analysis, argument consider comes raceit remains and proposing troubling to conceivepredecessor, as “voluntary” James R.well-being. Zazzal i,Although in July. some Looking people object on toare any September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to uncomfortablyand direct service close toprograms racial segregationists to policy in options the stilltransfer available of a student to to Governora special school Jon S.in Corzinepublic and school Rabner’s acknowledgment wife, Deborah. of the At sexual 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have theassist 1950s New and 1960sJersey's who urbaninsisted thatschool black districtsorder committedto escape harassment to atyears the regular of age, school. Rabner –orientations a former federal of students, prosecutor, the commitment Governor’s to provided us the printing and distribution three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and studentscommunities. did best when they were ‘amongequal their educational Whether opportunity. separate instruction Chief can Counsel, be equal and stateequal Attorney opportunity General for gay –and is thelesbian youngest students school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other own.’”Through Yet advocates NJISJ’s point Second out that becauseI researched seems various less legalurgent issues than determiningChief howJustice to make in the modernanimates history most of of the the arguments state’s high on both Court. sides of first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is ofChance harassment Campaign, and aviolence, policy adolescentsaffecting Newintegrated Jersey’s education Fair safe. The very existence this issue.” other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous whoeffort identify to improve as gay, the lesbian, reentry bisexual,Housing or Actof and the theseparate Mt. Laurel school mayunderserved reduce pressure populations. for I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This 37 Id. at 45.(“In 2009, a school district in New Jersey made plans to become one of the first in the nation to create a Hebrew-language immersion program in a public school. walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at researchedProposed asthe a Hebrew-language efforts of cities charter school, the idea drew both from the long-standing bilingual education debates and the room created by charter schools and school between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s acrossvouchers the for country special-mission to reduce schools. Changing legal attitudes about religion in schooling and the use of multiculturalism to recast religious and ethnic claims on schools have and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David also created a climate conducive to Hebrew-language and Arabic-language schools, with examples not only in New Jersey but also in New York, Florida, and Minnesota.”) 38offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. Crabtree ’52, David and Id. atprepared 40. (“In Castaneda written materialsv. Pickard…Mexican AmericanNJISJ providesplaintiffs launched numerous a class action lawsuit…[and] charged that the Raymondville,internship, Texas, Independent I was Schoolgiven Districtthe unlawfully discriminated against them by failing to adopt bilingual education adequate to enable their equal participation in the education offered by the district. The district The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake offered no formal bilingual instruction after the third grade and instead offered only ESL instruction and access to the center dealing with remedial instruction in English and turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law other subjects.”) first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and 39 were graduated from the law the late Irwin former Id. at 49. inmates (“Critics attackedwith proeducational bono regimesunderrepresented using gender to divide students and as echoessincere of Plessy appreciation with ‘separate forbut equal’being classrooms or schools. Surprising, paradoxical, school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so and sometimes painful coalitions and debates emerged over single-sex educational initiatives for poor African-American boys, whichSee foundered Summer legally, against page 4 the template century. I am the first of these many others. As you look of gender neutrality pursued by women’s rights advocates; single-sex initiatives for girls had an easier time bridging an older sex-segregated practice with newer ideas of to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What equalizing options because of the continued popularity and apparent success of elite private and parochial schools for girls. Ultimately, single-sex schools and single-sex Association, and my successor do you want the Association Weclasses haveCan’t gained federal Do approval Until (and both public You and private Duesupport) under the frameworkthe spring of diversifying symposium educational and options other to enhanceevents opportunity,HLSA-NJ even offers as they to renewyou Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If scholarlyyou’ve andread popular about concerns it in aboutthe Connector sex stereotyping.”), it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? 40by Id. members at 108. who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to 41interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. course. We’ll launch our second half- Id. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I 42 of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those ToId. become at 25. (“The an numberactive ofmember U.S. residents of the who Harvard speak a language Law School other thanAssociat Englishion at homeof New increased Jersey, by simply47 percent fill during out the 1990s form reaching below 17and percent return of households it with a in legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be checkPortland, payable Oregon, to 47.6“Harvard percent Lawof households School Associationin New York City, of 57.8N.J.” percent to Jeffrey in Los Kantowitz, Angeles by theEsq., year Goldberg 2000. In New Mufson York City, & school-aged Spar, 200 childrenExecutive speak Drive, 190 languages; Suite in Los Angeles, 90 languages.”) Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni 43 reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted Id. at 44-45, to discussingthe bar for the overU.S. Supreme 5 years Courtas of decisionJuly 1, in2007, Hornes and v. Flores, $50 forand alumniespecially admitted Justice Breyer’s for less dissent. 5 five http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/08-289.ZD.html years and those in the public sector. (The case concerns the rights of Spanish-speaking students, attending public school near the Mexican border, to learn English in order to live their lives in a country where English is the predominant language. In a Nation where nearly 47 million people (18% of the population) speak a language other than English at home, U. S. Dept. of On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey ALUMNI estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. Commerce, Economics and Statistics Admin., Census Bureau, Census 2000 Brief: Language Use and English-Speaking Ability 2 (Oct. 2003), it is important to ensure that those children,in the without amount losing theof cultural heritage ‰ embodied $75.00 in the language ‰ of$ their50.00 birth, nonetheless receive the English-language tools they need to participate in a society State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni where that second language “serves as the fundamental medium of social interaction” and democratic participation. Rodrguez, Language and Participation, 94 Cal. L. Rev. company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race 687, 693Name: (2006). In that way linguistic diversity can complement and support, rather than undermine, ourClass: democratic institutions….Three decades ago, Congress put this HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a statutoryAddress: provision in place to ensure that our Nation’s school systems will help non-English-speaking schoolchildren overcome the language barriers that might hinder their contested primary in June. participation in our country’s schools, workplaces, and the institutions of everyday politics and government, i.e., the “arenas through which most citizens live their daily lives.” CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Rodrguez,Telephone: supra, at 694. I fear that the Court’s decision will E-Mail: increase the difficulty of overcoming barriers that threaten to divide us.) from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: ‰ I am employed in the public sector.

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Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 century. I am the first of these many others. As you look to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector.  ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of ‰ $75.00 ‰ $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: ‰ I am employed in the public sector. 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Minow Lecture continued from previous page Our 2007 Public Interest 44 Id.L ate 25(“Publictter schools Fr ino them United T States…arehe P growingres moreid separatedent by race and ethnicity at the same time thatspending the school andpopulation our income grows more this diverse.”) year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we 45 Id.During at 44. (“Besidesmy first legal year and ofpolitical law disputesschool overin formsSeptember of instruction and testingpanel rules for students learning English,expect additional this controversy year’s Vanderbilt has centered Lecture on selecting to the Fellows In Their Own Words ultimate1998, alocation woman of decision-making. who had been Choices a mentor include federaldiscussion versus state, legislaturein versus courts. In a case emphasizingfully federalpay for deference itself, thanksto state-level to adecision-making, necessary the U.S. Supreme Court in 2009 reversed a decision requiring incremental funding for programs for English-language learners and allowed the state to fulfill its federal statutory Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees equal education obligation through ‘structured immersion’ essentially permitting no special assistance to students learning English.”) I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers 46 Harvard Law School Harvardstaunch Law advocate School is of launching human a newrights program whom in social entrepreneurship:that make me feel“Beginning old in 2013, Harvard Law School’s newrest Publicof our Service program Venture requires Fund will your provide help. $1 million for Justice. per year in grants to support new and recent graduates who will be working for public service employers, and also to support those who want to start their own organizations. Association of New Jersey for I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 I also worked on projects With this commitment, the School is enhancing its focus on entrepreneurship in general and social entrepreneurship specifically—to encourage current students to pursue providing funding for my first- University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and their own ideas and to prepare students who might want to apply for support from theHLSA-NJ fund and other sources of assistance for public service enterprises. http://www.law. year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See economic inequality. In the harvard.edu/news/2010/11/23_social.html Thanks to the generosity of the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme 47 In Brown’s Wake, at 175. (“Education in Northern Ireland has long been divided between ‘controlled’ schools---which are2x government run, have Protestant roots, and serve School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents about 50 percent of the students---and ‘managed schools, which are maintained by Catholic organizations and education about 45 percent of the children. Historically, these view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. separate school systems have taught contrasting versions of regional history and as a result have not reduced but instead contributed to the tensions and violence of ‘the and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Troubles’, which began in the 1960’s and have continued even after the Belfast agreement of 1988.”) Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing 48 th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary Id.as Atthe 171. end (“Brown of andthe its20 surrounding century social and and the legal movementmore than have 110supplied of our authority state’s for the950 broad or so judicial HLS remedial our power Cambridge used to reject panelists the South inAfrican September. government’s of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st failurebeginning to distribute of the the 21 drug. nevirapine to HIV-positive pregnantalumni women paid and duesto create to a processthe Association, to develop housing a forOur the homeless. spending The caseon has food also beenfor used Board to bolster ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. 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Lawyersof this and newsletterothers working and on behalf all ofour Roma other students Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. explicitlyfirst job discussed as a lawyer. Brown andThere the movementare a host surrounding of it.bank They asinitiated we started a case known with. as This D.H andyear, Other only v. Czech 46 Republicmailings as the throughoutcenterpiece of the Roma year rights– and movement’s it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair litigationother places strategy, to which draw was the designed line, to of pursue course, cases that alumnicould change have existing paid practices…Although their dues so far. styled That as a complaint our by eighteenhope and students, aim D.H. to ---like make the casesgenerous combined effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. 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Theyears. legislature eventually approved the act following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This over the president’s veto. Observers and advocates predict the case will have influence will beyond the Czech Republic. The government of Slovakia adopted a five-year program walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at intended to improve living standards and education for the Roma minority, with a goal of compulsory nursery school for all five-year olds by 2013 and tighter limits on the placement between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s of Roma children in special schools. 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Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the 51 http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/02-102.ZS.htmlThe Association is at a (“Responding to a reported weapons disturbance in a private residence, HoustonLandau police entered ’53, petitioner Lawrence’sJerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake apartmentturning pointand saw as him well. and Foranother the adult man, petitioner Garner, engaging in a private, consensual sexual act. Petitioners were arrestedFitzgerald and convicted English of, deviateMarvin sexual municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law intercoursefirst time, in a violationmajority of aof Texas officers statute forbidding two persons of the same sex to engage in certain intimate sexual conduct. In affirming,Fish ’55 the, StateSteve Court Rothof Appeals ’67 , held, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and interwere alia, graduated that the statute from was the not lawunconstitutional under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The court consideredthe Bowers v. lateHardwick, 478Irwin U.S. 186, underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being former inmates with pro bono See Summer, page 4 controllingschool onin thatthe point. twenty-firstHeld: The Texas statute making it a crime for two persons of the same sex to engage in certain intimate sexualMarkowitz conduct violates ’52, theand Due Processso Clause.”century. Lawrence I am the et al.first v. Texas of these - 539 U.S. 558 (2003). Lawrence vs. Texas is also of note because of the following reference: “Of evenmany more others.importance, As almostyou fivelook years beforeto beBowers president was decided ofthe Europeanthe Court of Human Rights considered a case with parallels to Bowers and to today’s case. 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Authoritative in all countries thathow are will members you be of part the Council of it? of Europe (21 nations by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 then,course. 45 nations We’ll now), launch the decision our secondis at odds half-with the premiseI in can’t Bowers put that itthe more claim putplainly: forward Wewas insubstantialneed in ourIf Western you’ve civilization.” paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. 52 Johncentury Lawrence, of Vanderbilt left, and Tryon Lectures Garner, right,with charged one withyour conduct help. violating And the Texaswe especially sodomy law. need help our events, or been active on the board, I of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector.  ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of ‰ $75.00 ‰ $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: ‰ I am employed in the public sector.

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Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 century. I am the first of these many others. As you look to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector.  ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of ‰ $75.00 ‰ $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: ‰ I am employed in the public sector. 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OurLOO K2007ING BAC PublicK . . . HLSA-NJInterest PUBLIC INTEREST FELLOWS REFLECT Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we ON THEIR SUMMER 2011 WORK EXPERIENCE IN NEW JERSEY During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ,This past summer,attorneys the Associationthrough the provided ReLeSe financial support to two Harvard Law School Public of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to Interestthank the Fellows, network, Joel Edman a partnership and Dorothy between Ruolan Du, who are candidates for the J.D. in 2013. member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issuesJoel Edman Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. 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I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and opportunity to sure that the summer consisted of more than the Institute was the were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so research and write memos on issues that were research and writing. The Institute shared a See Summerpeople., page 4I had the Attorney General century. I am the first of these many others. As you look both substantively interesting and of real series of brown-bag lunches with other socially chance to interact Nicholas Katzenbach to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What importance to the people oriented legal organizations in Newark, and with most of the We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Association, and my successor do you want the Association the Institute serves. I attended several of those with my fellow staff on a regular basis, and truly enjoyed the If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And Those issues ranged interns. The Institute itself organized many friendly and relaxed atmosphere in the office. by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? from credit checks in events for the entire staff and group of interns, It was certainly a pleasure to work with such course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. employment screening the most exciting of which was nearly two talented, devoted, and entertaining people.” century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be 53 http://www.ehow.com/info_8036807_hiring-exoffenders-state-new-jersey.html (“As of July, 2010, 25,263 people were incarcerated in the state of New Jersey. Almost two- Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355,thirds West of them Orange, will return NJ to07052. jail within Or five include years yourafter their separate release, du esmany check of them with for yourparole RSVP violations. to theOften, Vanderbilt a condition lectureof parole. Duesis finding are $75employment. for alumni But New Jersey’s reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admittedunemployment to the rate bar is higher for over than 5the years national as average,of July 1,so these2007, ex-offenders and $50 havefor alumni a great deal admitted of competition for less in the 5 fivejob market years and and they those often inface the re-entry public with sector. limited job skills….New Jersey passed a new law in 2010 allowing one-time offenders to have their records expunged, or erased, from criminal background databases after five years ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and rather thanI 10enclose years under my certain check circumstances….Finding for the 2007-2008 employment dues upon to release the fromHarvard prison is oftenLaw a prerequisiteSchool Association of parole. Even whenof anNew ex-offender Jersey can secure a estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. job, he oftenin thefaces amount other issues of afterward. He may ‰ be juggling$75.00 court-ordered ‰ appointments $ 50.00 with his parole officer and possible counseling requirements, trying to balance those State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his responsibilities with his work schedule. In response, many ex-cons enter low-paying, low-skilled jobs such as the food service, housekeeping and construction industries by Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12th) may have some alumni candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. “undercutting”Name: other potential employees. They’ll agree to work for less if an employer will allow them the Class: flexibility to meet parole requirements, or take a less desirable shift company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race that will leave them free during the day to meet those obligations.”) HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: contested primary in June. Looking Back continued on next page CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: ‰ I am employed in the public sector.

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Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 century. I am the first of these many others. As you look to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector.  ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of ‰ $75.00 ‰ $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: ‰ I am employed in the public sector. 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Looking Back continued from previous page Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110Dorothy of our Ruolan state’s Du950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Today, we mightDorothy instead worked mark in Deputyresponse Attorneys rate that General — while in thein Divisionone sense of alsomeetings, able toat draftless than two $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001Trenton as the in thecentenary Office Lawunderwhelming to counsel and — represent still thepermitted Department the briefsto date, and is modest.a position We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. 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There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is experience: “I want internship, I obtained extensive I had plenty to work on throughout the Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous to thank the HLSA experience performing legal summer. I really enjoyed being back in New effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the of New Jersey for research and writing memos Jersey, and I couldn’t have asked for a better prospects of individuals draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School their generous public interesting funding. on a wide variety of health experience.” backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. 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Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers DUES NOTICE Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 century.To become I am an the active first of member these of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out manythe form others. below As andyou returnlook toit withbe a checkpresident payable of tothe “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” Mail your payment to our Treasurer,forward, David ask S. yourself: Stone, atWhat the We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Association,following address: and my Stonesuccessor & Magnanini, 150 JFK Parkway, Short Hills, NJ 07078. do you want the Association Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 Annual dues for the Association year are $75 for alumni admitted to the bar for six to 49 years. Annual dues are $50 for alumni course. 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Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector.  Name: ______ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey Class:______estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of ‰ $75.00 ‰ $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacyAddress: for______Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJTelephone: secretary ______Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: contested primary in June. 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Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 century. I am the first of these many others. As you look to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector.  ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of ‰ $75.00 ‰ $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: ‰ I am employed in the public sector.