BARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Fall 1999 Volume LII Number 2 Dennis O. Lynch Is Law School’s New Dean ezuela, a program officer with the Ford Foundation in Colombia, and a con- sultant for the U.S. Agency for International Development on con- stitutional reform in Colombia, legal reform in Nicaragua, and the admin- istration of criminal justice in Central America. In 1973–1977, he held an International Legal Center Research Grant to study the Colombian legal profession. Lynch’s teaching specialties are civil procedure, employment law, and labor law. A well-known lecturer on current is- sues in labor arbitration, he also has been a consultant to the Federal Trade Commission on labor antitrust issues and a member of the boards of directors of the International Third World Legal Studies Association and the Inter- American Legal Services Association. A 1965 graduate of the University of Oregon, Lynch holds a JD degree from ennis O. Lynch, professor and dean D Harvard Law School and J.S.D. and emeritus at the University of Denver LL.M. degrees from Yale Law School. College of Law and prominent expert He was admitted to the bar in the Dis- on Latin American law, is the new dean trict of Columbia in 1969. of the University of Miami School of Law Library’s Everglades Law. His selection to head the University of Miami School of Law was the culmi- He succeeds Mary Doyle, who had nation of an intensive nationwide been interim dean since the May 1998 search. The search committee, headed Collection Is Rare, resignation of Samuel C. Thompson, Jr. by Bernard Fogel, dean emeritus of the Doyle, who also served as dean in 1986– University of Miami School of Medi- 1994, rejoined the faculty as professor cine, and co-chaired by Robert Valuable Resource of law. Waters, professor of law, included four By Alberto Montero-Valdes “Dennis L ynch has had a close asso- other law professors, Law School ciation with this law school since 1974. alumni and student representatives, Curator, Everglades Litigation Collection He loves this institution, and he will and a professor from the UM Depart- he Everglades litigation collection ern District of Florida following a bid- bring his considerable talent and expe- ment of Management. T rience to bear as dean,” she pointed out. housed in the School of Law Library’s ding process that included Florida “I look forward to this opportunity “Our school will be in very good hands.” Special Collections and Archives De- International University and Florida to work with the University of partment is the largest collection Atlantic University. Lynch, who joined the Miami faculty Miami’s talented faculty, students, assembled anywhere of legal docu- Based primarily on documents pro- in 1974 and served as associate dean in and administration,” Lynch said. “I ments and multimedia materials duced from years of complex litigation 1983–86, moved to Colorado in 1990 am especially eager to meet with the regarding the Everglades. over water quality degradation and to become dean of the University of Law School’s alumni, to become re- The collection was awarded to the water quantity disruption in the Ever- Denver’s law school. acquainted with many of my former Law Library in 1994 by the United glades, the collection includes a Fluent in Spanish, he has been a students and learn first hand about States Attorney’s Office for the South- (Continued on page 4) Fulbright Scholar in economics in Ven- their professional careers.” Law School Reflects City’s ‘Gateway to Americas’ Role The University of Miami School of Hispanic-Americans and students from Law—located in Coral Gables, just 10 foreign countries enrolled in its minutes from downtown Miami—has three-year JD program. capitalized on its “Gateway to the At the graduate level, approximately Americas” location by developing one 25 Hispanic-Americans and students of the most extensive arrays of interna- from Spanish-speaking countries are tional expertise and course offerings to enrolled in the Law School’s seven be found in any of the nation’s law LL.M. programs, the majority of them schools. in the International Law program. The international (especially His- Among them are many lawyers who panic) focus is evident in the make-up have received degrees from foreign law of the student body. Over the last two schools. years, UM Law has conferred 133 JD In spring 1999, the Law School added degrees on Hispanic students—the most a course based on the Spanish civil code of any U.S. law school outside of Pu- and taught entirely in Spanish. It was one of the first courses to be taught in erto Rico. This year, the School has 241 Members of UM Law’s Hispanic Law Students Association. (Continued on page 5) www.law.miami.edu. 1 BARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Fall 1999 Volume LII Number 2 Loyalty, Challenge, Former UM Law Dean Mary Doyle Accepts Potential Bring Interior Department Post New Dean to UM Law the vital issues and mission of the De- partment of the Interior . Mary has In early August, soon after he officially participating with moot court activi- shown this high level of dedication to became UM Law’s dean, Dennis Lynch ties, and helping students find jobs. We talked with The Barrister about his de- need to take even more advantage of the environment for many decades and cision to accept the position and about their eagerness to be involved in those has made a sizeable contribution throughout her distinguished career.” his expectations for the Law School. ways. Also, we need our alumni to have Most recently, Doyle has specialized Barrister: Why did you decide to in research on the legal, political and confidence in our educational mission. accept the University of Miami scientific issues surrounding the resto- School of Law’s offer to return as It is important that they understand ration of the Everglades ecosystem in dean? how much our faculty cares about edu- cating students. Alumni should take South Florida. Following her initial ser vice as dean of the School of Law, Lynch: There were a number of pride in the quality of our faculty and she took a leave of absence to be dean- reasons. their commitment to teaching. On a personal level, the University in-residence at the Association of Alumni have strong views. They American Law Schools in Washington, of Miami is the school that gave me care about the school, and we must lis- the opportunity to be a legal scholar D.C. for one year . Her expertise in- ten to them and to the rest of the legal volved legal education and the and educator. It was very good to me community and take their suggestions and gave me plenty of support, both development of an environmental law to heart. What our alumni have to say curriculum in Russia and the Ukraine. professional and personal. It is an in- is very important. The fact that our During the 1980s, Doyle served as a stitution for which I have a lot of alumni population is so large—ap- professional loyalty, so the opportu- WASHINGTON, D.C.–Secretary of professor of law at the University of proximately 14,000 altogether—and the Interior Bruce Babbitt has an- nity to come back and lead the school Arizona College of Law, specializing in successful is a real asset for us. nounced the appointment of UM Law is very gratifying. water, land use, local government and Professor Mary Doyle as Counselor to Moreover, it’s exciting to lead a Barrister: What do you think are property law and subsequently served as other strong assets of UM Law? the Secretary, a position recently va- school with such potential. We have both a professor of law and the associ- cated by David Hayes, who is now ate dean for academic affairs. one of the most pro ductive and Lynch: The most obvious is our fac- Acting Deputy Secretary of the Interior. scholarly law faculties in the coun- ulty. We have one of the top faculties From 1979 until 1981, she served as Doyle, who is on leave from her posi- try, and we’re located in the most in the country, as measured by the vol- an attorney at the Department of En- tion as tenured professor of law, was dean dynamic, international city in the ergy, as associate general counsel, then ume of their publishing and the of the Law School in 1986–94 and U.S. The faculty, the city, a strong frequency with which their articles and deputy general counsel at the U.S. En- served as interim dean in 1998–99. legal community, a carefully se- books are cited by others. The faculty vironmental Protection Agency. lected and culturally diverse student has an incredible range of interests and “I am delighted that someone with the Doyle is a graduate of Radcliffe Col- bo dy, a superb library—they’re all expertise, and they are especially talent and legal stature of Mary Doyle lege and attended Boston Law School here. The potential has never been strong in the areas of international law has agreed to serve in the important and Columbia Law School, where she fully realized, which presents us and social justice. Moreover, they are position of Counselor to the Secretary,” received her law degree. While attend- with a wonderful opportunity. an excellent teaching faculty. Secretary Babbitt said. ing Boston College Law School, she was “It requires a person with a proven Barrister: How do you think that Our distinctiveness is a major asset, elected to the Boston College Law track record and great commitment to potential can be realized? particularly in regard to our multicul- Review. tural location, student-body, and fac- Lynch: We need to build on the ulty. This is the place to come to study quality of our educational programs— transnational law, and we are one of get the message out to the local and the main educators of bilingual law national bars of just how goo d they graduates. Moreover, not only are we are. at the main point of contact between We should make more use of a va- the U.S. and Latin America, our South riety of ways for presenting or Florida location also brings us consid- 1980–99 Yearbooks marketing our message to potential erable legal interaction with Europe. students, as well as to members of the legal and international communities. Barrister: What are the primary challenges facing the Law School? Available These will include not just brochures, media releases, and other written ma- Lynch: At this point, the most im- The Amicus Curiae office has a limited supply of unclaimed copies of the terials, but also more face-to-face minent challenges are probably Law School’s yearbook, dating back to 1980. meetings. financial—taking the School through Amicus this period of student body downsizing, While they last, any alumnus who never received a complimentary copy Barrister: Do alumni play a major for his or her 3L year can get one by contacting editor-in-chief Catherine role in your plans? with its accompanying drop in revenue from tuition. It is crucial that we be Than at [email protected] or executive editor Kira Willig at kw4214@law. Lynch: Absolutely. Alumni are our able to maintain a good student- miami.edu, or by calling the Amicus Curiae office at (305) 284-1860. ambassadors to the world—to poten- faculty ratio to ensure that students Yearbooks for other years are available at $10 per copy. tial students, to the legal community, can have the interaction they need to other alumni. It’s very important with faculty members. that we keep them informed, in- Curiae We need to generate strong finan- volved with students, and proud of cial support from sources other than their school. tuition to maintain and build on the FALL 1999 ALUMNI NEWSP APER V OLUME LII NUMBER 2 Barrister: It may be too early in your strength of our programs. This requires tenure to be asking this question, but convincing alumni and other members how healthy do you think the Law of the legal and business communities BARRISTER School’s relationship is with its of the importance of our goals. alumni at this time? Other challenges are to take greater DEAN Dennis O. Lynch advantage of our faculty’s wide-rang- Lynch: In terms of financial support, ASSO CIATE DEAN Richard L. Williamson, Jr. ing legal expertise and to ensure that it’s obvious that we’re not at the level ASSISTANT DEAN, ALUMNI & DEVELOPMENT Stephen K. Halpert our students and graduates have ex- ASSO CIATE DEAN OF STUDENTS William VanderWyden we need to be. Private law schools cellent job opportunities. PRESIDENT, LAW ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Det H. Joks that are reaching their potential are receiving greater financial support The challenges are significant, but DIRECTO R, LAW PUBLICATIONS & COMMUNICATIONS John Burch from their alumni. they pale in comparison to our poten- DIRECTO R, LAW ALUMNI RELATIONS Cynthia Sikorski tial. As the world moves rapidly However, we do have good support BARRISTER is published by the Office of Law Development and Alumni Relations of the Univer- toward a truly global economy, we are from our alumni in terms of involve- sity of Miami School of Law. Address correspondence to Barrister, School of Law, University of Miami, ment in school activities. They are in a far better position than most law P.O. Box 248087, Coral Gables, Florida 33124-8087. Telephone: 305-284-3470. E-Mail: involved with our students in a num- schools in our ability to capitalize on [email protected], Web site: www.law.miami.edu. Copyright 1999 University of Miami School of ber of ways, such as mentoring, that evolution. Law. All rights reserved. 2 www.law.miami.edu. BARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Fall 1999 Volume LII Number 2 As Florida Bar President, Osman Aims to Improve Lawyers’ Image

As the new president of the Florida Bar In 1998, she said, Florida’s lawyers A third educational tool is the cre- Association, Edith Osman, Class of contributed nearly one million hours in ation of media teams of local lawyers, 1983, is a woman with a mission: to pro- pro bono work and nearly $2 million in who will write op-ed pieces for their tect the nation’s legal system by helping legal aid funding. In addition, nearly hometown newspapers and respond to restore what it needs most to survive— 15,000 Florida lawyers provided more letters to the editor. Team members also the confidence of the people. than 1.5 million hours to local boards, will sit down with editors and broadcast- “Our legal system survives only be- schools, churches, synagogues, charities, ers to discuss coverage of legal issues. cause the people let it. If we lose the civic groups and other organizations. Moreover, the nearly 800 lawyers who confidence of our citizens, we run the “Do you know another profession that have volunteered for the Bar’s speakers risk that lawlessness and self-help will has shown that kind of community com- bureau also will help carry the message slowly erode the rule of law,” she mitment,” she asked. “I don’t. I also to civic groups and into the public warned. don’t know of another profession that schools. In a speech to UM Law’s first-year stu- more effectively speaks for those who Another important Bar initiative is Edith Osman dents during orientation in August, cannot speak for themselves. . . .We the recently-established Commission on Asked whether her Bar activities pre- Osman pointed out that “our profession must let the public know it. the Legal Needs of Children, which will clude carrying a full caseload at her law has faced much ridicule in last two de- “Studies find that the key to turning study how the justice system treats chil- cades. The Florida Bar is working very around destructive cynicism lies in dren. Chaired by Circuit Judge Sandy firm, she said, “With speaking engage- ments, writing projects, meetings and hard on many fronts to re-educate the education—encouraging a better un- Karlan, the commission has 28 mem- general Bar involvement, being presi- public about who lawyers are and what derstanding of both the system and the bers, including Bernard Perlmutter, dent of the Bar is really a full-time job; we are committed to, and to restore to people who toil in it. We need to bridge director of UM Law’s Children and our profession the respect it deserves.” this information gap with the truth Youth Law Clinic. however, with a lot of help from my partners and associates, I’m also able to about our profession.” Asked what issues the Florida Bar will Osman was installed as president of maintain my practice.” She added that Osman said implementation of a be dealing with this year, Osman replied, the 65,325-member bar in June, after her workdays typically last 12–14 hours. serving a year as president-elect. She is communications program developed “The multi-disciplinary practice ques- However, long hours are nothing new the second woman to hold the position. by the Florida Bar’s board of governors tion is the biggest issue on the horizon. for her. She has been working double- (The first was Patricia Seitz in 1993.) over the past two years is one of her top The ABA has proposed a rule change priorities. The program centers on a time for two decades, since the day she “As attorneys, we are the guardians to allow professionals to share fees with new theme and logo: “The Florida entered UM Law as a full-time student of the laws that define our society,” she non-lawyers (such as accounting firms). Bar: Protecting Rights, Pursuing Jus- with two small children. said at her swearing-in ceremony. “But, This raises some ethics questions and tice, Promoting Professionalism.” The “I’ve been able to work like this be- conventional wisdom tells us that, in the could have a major effect on the way words will appear on all Bar materials, cause I love it,” she said. “I love the legal eyes of the public, we have gone from we practice law. The Florida Bar has letterhead, and brochures and on radio profession—with its countless opportu- being a source of pride to a source of proposed keeping the status quo until and television announcements. nities to do good—and I really like punch lines.” the issue has been more fully explored. A second major educational goal is We have a committee in place to study lawyers.” According to Osman, surveys show to expand the Bar’s professionalism ini- the issue before deciding whether to sup- In her August 14 orientation remarks, that 80 percent of the public perceives tiative. “We must acknowledge and port the ABA’s proposal or any other the U.S. legal system to be the best in she told 1Ls they were “blessed to be respect the diversity within our com- potential rule change.” able to attend the University of Miami the world. Furthermore, she said, the munity,” she emphasized. “We must School of Law. It’s a great learning in- people who claim to dislike lawyers most A shareholder of Carlton, Fields, recognize that fundamental fairness is stitution, with a stellar faculty.” have had the least contact with the le- Ward, Emmanuel, Smith & Cutler, P.A., at the core of our judicial system, and gal system. “Put another way,” she said, Osman practices commercial litigation She urged students to not “let mon- we must treat all people with courtesy those who know us best, like us best, and family law in the firm’s Miami of- etary considerations sway you. W ork and respect.” and for good reason.” fice. She joined the firm in 1998, after for justice, serve your clients, and fol- running her own practice for five years. low your conscience, and the rewards will come.” Four Other UM Law Alumni Have Headed Florida Bar

In addition to Edith Osman, the current president of the Florida Bar Association, four other UM Law alumni have headed the organization, including: Burton Young, Class of 1950; Edward J. Atkins, ’51; H. Russell Troutman, ’58; and Samuel S. Smith, ’60.

Burton Young Samuel S. Smith A partner in the North Miami President of the Florida Bar Asso- Beach law firm Young, Berman & ciation in 1981–82, Smith also was Karpf, Y oung was president of the president of the Florida Bar Founda- Florida Bar Association in 1970–71 tion in 1989 and secretary of the and served as president of the Florida American Bar Association from 1993– Bar Foundation from 1975 to 1977. 96. Prior to assuming the presidency He also has chaired the 1977 Chief Edward J. Atkins H. Russell Troutman of the Florida Bar, he served on the Justice’s Advisory Committee of the President of the Florida Bar Associa- When Troutman was president of the association’s board of governors for Florida Supreme Court, the Florida tion in 1976–77, Atkins had served as Florida Bar (1977–78), the American eight years. A partner in the Miami Supreme Court’s Select Committee to a member of the association’s board of Bar Association conferred its Project Ex- law firm Ruden, Barnett, McClosky, Study the Florida Board of Bar Exam- governors for the 10 preceding years. He cellence Award upon the organization Smith, Schuster & Russell, Smith was iners, and the Florida Bar’s Family Law presided over the Dade County Bar for its creation of the first interest on a nationally known probate litigator Rules Committee. In June 1985, an Association in 1965–66 and was a trust account program for the funding and law office management expert. He article in Town & Country magazine member of the Federal and American of legal services to the poor. In 1968– was instrumental in establishing Dade included him in its article on “The bar associations as well as the Inter- 69, when he was president of the Orange County’s model guardianship program Best Lawyers in the U.S.” Similarly, national Association of Insurance County Bar Association, the Florida Bar and devoted countless hours of com- The Best Lawyers in America, 1993– Counsel and the Judge Advocates As- Association named it the Outstanding munity service, usually benefiting 94 , an annual reference guide polling sociation. In 1978, he was president Local Bar Association. He also has been programs helping children. He also lawyers nationwide on the top prac- of the University of Miami’s Law on the board of governors of the Florida served as an adjunct faculty member titioners in their field, named him one Alumni Association. Atkins was as- Bar and chaired the Florida Supreme at UM Law. Shortly before his death of the best divorce and family lawyers. sociated with the Miami firm Walton, Court Nominating Commission. He is from cancer early this year, the Florida In 1998, at the Florida Bar’s annual Lantaff, Schroeder & Carson. Nearly a founding partner of Troutman, Will- Bar Foundation recognized his many meeting, he was honored with the nine years after his death in 1979, his iams, Irvin, Green & Helms in Winter contributions when it bestowed upon Florida Bar Foundation Medal of son, Michael, died in an automobile Park and Oviedo, Florida. him its annual Medal of Honor, the Honor for his service and dedication accident just before receiving his JD Foundation’s highest award for service to the public and for his administra- from UM Law. to the public and profession. tion of justice. www.law.miami.edu. 3 BARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Fall 1999 Volume LII Number 2 Law Library’s Everglades Collection Is Rare,Valuable Resource Web site visitors tend to be more ments from recent litigation, along with diverse than in-person visitors. A rep- new legislation and links to news ar- resentative sample of site visitors ticles. Researchers can request hard would include: law firms involved in copies of materials not available online complex environmental actions, scien- but listed in indices. Indices and biblio- tists seeking documents related to graphic databases cover a large remote sensing and economic impacts percentage of the collection’s holdings. of legislation, environmentalists, and The Law Library’s goal is to preserve graduate students writing reports on and make accessible a balanced repre- Everglades hydrology. The site has got- sentation of the issues and arguments ten “hits” from as far away as Taiwan. underlying the positions of diverse in- While it may not be possible to put terests in important battles over the all of the collection’s materials online, stewardship and preservation of one of staff members are identifying pleadings, nature’ s most unique and endangered depositions, hearings, exhibits, and ecosytems. other materials that will provide re- Researchers can visit the collection searchers and the general public with at http://www.law.miami.edu/library/ an understanding of the issues involved everglades /. Anyone who prefers to re- in the long line of Everglades water qual- view the collection in person, should (Continued from page 1) detail the steps the State of Florida ity litigation. call 305-284-4093 at least 24 hours be- million pages of documents and a mil- would take over the next 10 years to Aside from presenting as much of the fore he or she intends to visit. restore and preserve water quality in the lion frames of microfilm, along with collection’s contents online as possible, To communicate with curator Alberto several hundred megabytes of scientific Everglades. It was founded on the the staff intends to gather and make Montero-Valdes by e-mail, the address data, deposition transcripts and database Marjorie Stoneman Douglas Act, Ch. available pleadings and other docu- is: amontero@law .miami.edu information. Interspersed among for- 91-80, Laws of Florida, developed with mal legal documents such as pleadings, the involvement and consent of agri- consent decrees, and hearing and depo- cultural interests. sition transcripts are maps, photographs, The settlement agreement, however, 3 UM Law Alumni Lead and reports, providing insight into the allowed affected non-signatories to nature of the Everglades and its inte- pur sue state administrative remedies. gral place in Florida’s history and Agricultural interests filed several such Fight to Save Everglades development. challenges, alleging that they were sub- One of nature’s unique and most var- stantially affected by the agreement’s pute when the federal government ied ecosystems, the Everglades has been remedial program, i.e., the final SWIM had already settled with the state recognized worldwide for its haunting (Surface Water Improvement) Plan by agencies and was facing the sugar beauty. The largest federal wilderness the district and DER. These SWIM and agricultural industries head on. area in the east, Everglades National challenges were later consolidated into Today, he is chief of USAO’s En- Park is also of international significance, one action, Cooperative vs. SFWMD, vironmental Crimes Section. DOAH 92-3038. The United States having been designated as a World Bio- Maureen Donlan, ’80, was one of sphere Reserve in 1976, a World intervened on the district’s side. the earliest litigation attorneys who Heritage Site in 1979, and a Wetland Thirty-six collateral lawsuits were represented the federal government of International Importance. It is the filed in different fora by the agricultural through the USAO, joining Ponzoli companies. only wetland in the Western Hemi- in early efforts to get the State of sphere to receive these multiple Settlement discussions between the Florida to acknowledge the pollution designations. district, the United States, and the ag- problems. Donlan continues to be a Decades of governmental and private ricultural interests eventually led to new civil litigator for the USAO. intervention in the form of drainage state legislation, the Everglades Forever From left: Maureen Donlan, According to Ponzoli, the UM Law projects for flood control and agricul- Act, Fla. Statute 373.4592, which re- Suzan Hill Ponzoli, and Tom Library’s Everglades Collection is an moved the underlying basis for the Watts-Fitzgerald tural development and increased invaluable resource for researchers urbanization, however, have diminished SWIM challenges, and most of the law- because of its wealth of historical and the primeval everglades to half its size. suits were dropped. By 1994, the last of Three assistant U.S. attorneys who scientific documents. “It contains the these actions was withdrawn. Today the Everglades is one of the graduated from the University of scientific, historical and political nation’s most fragile and threatened eco- In August 1994, the United States Miami School of Law were leaders documents produced by each party to systems. Human intervention in this Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Cir- in the Everglades litigation. the litigation,” she pointed out. century has also disrupted the quality, cuit affirmed the 1992 Consent Decree Suzan Hill Ponzoli, ’78, was the “For the state and federal govern- timing, and path of the vital water flow- and remanded the original federal law lead litigation attorney from 1988, ments, this meant that agencies that ing through its remnants. suit to district court for further consid- when she and a team of attorneys, sci- had studied the flora and fauna of the eration in light of the Everglades The collection’s materials come pri- entists, and resource managers Everglades for decades had to produce Forever Act (28 F.3rd 1563 (11th Cir. marily from documents filed and drafted the first complaint aimed at all documents reflecting those stud- 1994). produced in a landmark civil action filed restoring the Everglades, until 1994, ies. For the industry litigants, their by the United States in 1988 and from New litigation, however, arose when when the litigation was settled in the expert witnesses were compelled to subsequent litigation spawned by that the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida Legislature through the Ev- share years of research. Sometimes, lawsuit, some of which continues to this Florida filed several lawsuits against the erglades Forever Act. She led a team the industry research was only rep- day. In the original lawsuit, the United federal and state governments over pro- of U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO) etitious water quality data, but States government sued the South visions of the Everglades Forever Act. and Department of Justice lawyers sometimes, it included, for example, Florida Water Management District and Generally, the most frequent in-per- that included as many as eight attor- a search of all the newspaper articles the State of Florida Department of En- son users of the collection have been neys at one point. The large-scale ever written on the Everglades—a vironmental Regulation, alleging that University of Miami undergraduate and efforts at restoration that are going fascinating compilation of clippings they had violated state water quality law students. The Law Library is work- on today are a direct outgrowth of available just for the taking.” laws and contributed to the degradation that long, difficult litigation. ing with law faculty and faculty in other Also important, from Ponzoli’s per- of the Everglades National Park and the University departments to integrate the For her leadership, Ponzoli was spective, is evidence of the impact a Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee Na- collection’s contents into environmen- recognized with numerous awards, powerful industry can have on the tional Wildlife Refuge. tal and political science courses. including a 1994 Department of formation of policy regarding the use The Everglades case spawned thou- Providing access to the collection’s Justice Director’s Award, a 1992 Ev- and preservation of a publicly held sands of pleadings, hundreds of contents through the internet has be- erglades Coalition Public Service resource. “The sugar and agricultural depositions, and over a million pages of come a major focus of the Law Library’s Award, a 1991 Florida Audubon So- industries have dominated the pub- documents. goal of reaching as wide an audience as ciety Conservationist of the Year lic policy decisions that have been After four years of bitter litigation, the possible. The collection’s Web site de- Award, and a 1989 Florida Wildlife made in regard to the Everglades from case was settled in 1992, when Judge buted in April 1997 after a conference Federation Award of Recognition. the very beginning,” she observed. William Hoeveler entered a settlement on Everglades litigation was held in the Currently, she is deputy chief of the “The impact of that influence is un- agreement between the federal and state Law Library. Since then the site has USAO’s Appellate Division. deniable when examining the parties, recognizing the severe harm the broadened the scope of its holdings on Tom Watts-FitzGerald, ’79, was documents in the collection.” Park and Refuge had suffered and would the internet making available hundreds a key litigator in the Everglades dis- continue to suffer if remedial steps were of pleadings and deposition and hear - not taken. The agreement set out in ing transcripts. 4 www.law.miami.edu. B ARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Fall 1999 Volume LII Number 2 New Generation of Lawyers School Reflects City’s ‘Gateway Role’ (Continued from page 1) Associate Dean Williamson is an ex- Spanish at any U.S. law school outside pert on disarmament and international of Puerto Rico. environmental law. “Our goal is to give students a mean- Prof. Keith S. Rosenn, the School’s ingful legal vocabulary in a real senior expert in comparative law and historical and cultural context. We one of America’s leading experts on want them to learn the words and learn Latin American law, holds the Inter- the system, from an international com- American Jurisprudence Prize from the parative point of view,” said Prof. Inter-American Bar Association for his Enrique Fernández-Barros—a former “distinguished contribution to the devel- professor of law at the Catholic Uni- opment and clarification of law” in the versity St. Thomas Villanova in Americas. Havana and professor emeritus of Span- Prof. Bernard H. Oxman, the Law ish at the University of Iowa—who School’s senior expert on public inter- teaches the course. national law, is the director of the Law “Not only do our students see this of the Sea Institute and frequently ad- area of study as an exciting intellectual vises the U.S. State Department and challenge, they also know that it is very foreign governments on international practical—especially here in Miami, law issues. one of the world’ s most international Prof. Irwin P. Stotzky has been an ad- cities and a city with a massive and visor to elected Haitian Presidents growing need for attorneys who under- Aristide and Preval and to Argentine stand a foreign system,” he said. President Alfonsin. He is one of the Because of the popularity of the world’s leading experts on the transition course in civil co de, Fernández-Barros from dictatorship to democracy. The Law School’s Spring 1999 Hooding Ceremony saw the beginning will teach it again next spring. This fall, Prof. Alan C. Swan is UM Law’s se- of a new tradition, as several alumni who had children in the graduating he is teaching a course on the Spanish nior expert on private international law class hooded them themselves. commercial code, also in Spanish. and international trade and the author In the photo above, Caroline Soret receives her hood from her mother, Moreover, in the spring semester, Prof. of the most widely used text on interna- Assistant Dean for External Affairs Carol Cope, JD ’80. Other hooding Edgardo Rotman—a world-renowned tional business transactions. parents and their graduating children included: Nathan P. Diamond, JD figure in international penology and Prof. Elizabeth M. Iglesias and Prof. ’72 and Peter Diamond; Gary Carman, JD ’74, and Jennifer Carman; crime policy and one of 10 individuals Francisco Valdes are driving figures in Sandor F. Genet, JD ’73, and Sol Genet; and Paul T. Dee, JD ’77, and Tad selected to help prepare an upcoming the “LatCrit” movement and co-direc- Dee. U.N. conference on the subject—will tors of UM Law’s Center for Latin teach a Spanish-language course in Altogether, UM Law conferred 400 JD and 87 LL.M. degrees at the May American and Caribbean Law and of the comparative criminal law. 16 ceremony at the Knight Center in downtown Miami. School’s highly popular Summer in According to Associate Dean Rich- Spain program. Major B. Harding, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Florida, was the ard Williamson, the Law School is The Law School also attracts visiting keynote speaker. considering several other courses to be faculty from around the world, as well taught in Spanish in the near future. as adjunct faculty with experience in Much of the School’s growing repu- international transactions, adding even tation as one of the nation’ s best places greater depth to the international and to study international law can be cred- foreign programs. UM Law Students Offer ited to its highly regarded faculty, many A frequent visitor is Prof. Hugo of whom have extensive international Caminos, a judge at the International legal experience. In fact, of the School’s Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, in Ham- Day of H.O.P.E. 48 faculty members, 26 have published burg, Germany. He is professor of law articles or books or taught courses in emeritus at the University of Buenos University of Miami School of Law and his beach patrol cleaned up the international law, comparative and for- Aires, former Argentine ambassador to students started the new school year by beach from 1st to 6th streets on South eign law, or maritime law within the Brazil, and former general counsel of the offering a day of community service Beach. Alicia Hughes led a group of en- past five years. Organization of American States. to six different Miami-Dade County thusiastic volunteers to the Ronald The School’s Dean Dennis O. With the international expertise and agencies. McDonald House, where they treated Lynch—who was a Fulbright Scholar involvement of its faculty, its location H.O.P.E. (Helping Others through families of hospitalized children to a day in economics in Venezuela and served at the Gateway to Latin America, and Pro Bono Efforts) is a UM Law School of food and fun. as a legal and constitutional reform its multi-cultural student body, the Uni- program that offers opportunities for law Mendez, DiLorenzo, Goldsmith, consultant for the U.S. Agency for In- versity of Miami School of Law has students, faculty, staff and alumni to par- Arango, Rice, and Hughes all are sec- ternational Development in Colombia become known as one of the nation’s ticipate in a myriad of community ond- and third-year law students. Many and Nicaragua—is a recognized author- best places to study international and outreach and legal advocacy projects. of the volunteers were first-year law ity on Latin American law, employ- foreign law. ment law, and labor arbitration. On Saturday, August 28, approxi- students. mately 45 H.O.P.E. volunteers spent the In addition to its volunteer activities, day brightening the lives of individuals H.O.P.E. is raising funds to establish a in the Miami-Dade community. Groups fellows program that will allow stu- of volunteers went to the Esperanza dents to continue their efforts in legal Center, Jackson Memorial Hospital, advocacy and community outreach Ronald McDonald House, Miami throughout the school year. Bridge, Camillus House and South H.O.P.E. invited members of the Law Beach to do various service projects, School and South Florida communities from a beach clean-up to visiting resi- to support the fellows program by dents and providing cheer with games, participating in a September 30 food and fun. fundraising auction at the University Vikky Mendez led a group of enthusi- of Miami Faculty Club. Local busi- astic volunteers to the Esperanza Center nesses and individuals donated a large where they entertained children and number of attractive items for auction, presented them with coloring books, ranging from BAR/BRI bar review markers and crayons. Project leader Ami courses to theatre and concert tickets, DiLorenzo and friends brightened the rounds of golf, meals at various restau- day for patients at Jackson Memorial rants, weekends in resorts, museum Hospital by sharing magazines, books passes, health club memberships, car and stories, while Betsy Goldsmith and rentals, and software. friends played sports and ate pizza with Individuals who would like to make residents of Miami Bridge, a youth ser- monetary donations to the H.O.P.E. vices center that provides safe shelter fellowship fund can do so by calling Following a June 7 luncheon in his honor, former Dean Mary Doyle to runaway and homeless teens. Ivette Dean Marni Lennon at 305-284-2599. thanks James H. “Booty” Nance, ’56, for his $100,000 gift to the Arango’s crew, including her grand- Naming opportunities are available to School of Law. In gratitude for his generosity, the Law School has mother, served lunch to more than 150 donors interested in sponsoring specific dedicated its courtyard fountain to him. people at Camillus House, and Rob Rice fellowships. www.law.miami.edu. 5 BARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Fall 1999 Volume LII Number 2 UM Law’s Faculty in the News Prof. Rose Heads NITA’s As an expert on cyber law, Prof. Jim Lehrer (July 8). On CNN, he said, * * * Michael Froomkin continues to be “This is going to be the largest expo- News that the Florida Supreme quoted in article after article on the sure the tobacco companies have ever Court Commission on Profession- Education topic. faced, and that’s going to mean lots of alism had honored Prof. Anthony For instance, the Washington Post money—lots of money coming out of Alfieri with its 1999 Professional- Program (August 21), Cyber-Times Today the shareholders of tobacco companies, ism Award received coverage in the (July 21) and the South Florida and it’s also going to mean, probably, Coral Gables Gazette and The Sun-Sentinel (July 11) all sought his lots of claims in other states.” Mi ami Herald. (See article below.) opinion for major features on encryp- On September 4 The Miami Herald, tion issues. following a court ruling that the tobacco * * * companies could deal with damage On the controversy surrounding The South Florida Sun-Sentinel’s claims of each member of the landmark the new regulatory powers assumed July 19 article on Broward County’s class-action suit on an individual basis, by the Internet Corporation for plan to improve the education of quoted Freshman as saying, “Big To- Assigned Names and Numbers foster children quoted Bernard bacco will not have to write one big (ICANN), the Washington Post (July Perlmutter, director of UM Law’s check for billions of dollars, but they will 22), the New York Times (online ver- Children and Youth Law Clinic, as have to write hundreds of thousand of sion, June 7), and The Industry Standard saying that the school district needs small checks for several million dollars (July 9) turned to him. to refine its definition of surrogate over many years.” Articles in IntellectualCapital.com parents. “My pet peeve is their fail- (June 10) and InternetNews.com (June * * * ure to acknowledge that every child Prof. Laurence M. (Lonny) Rose has ac- 22) on “cybersquatting” (buying up who is a ward of the state is en- cepted the position of vice president and various versions of domain names that In a July 1 New York Times article on titled to a surrogate parent,” he executive director of education for the Na- someone else might be willing to pay the outrage expressed by Miami’s Cu- said. tional Institute for Trial Advocacy a premium for at a later date) quoted ban-American community after a (NITA), effective July 1. him. well-publicized attempt by the U.S. * * * Responsible for the quality of NITA’s Coast Guard to turn back a boatload of faculty and for all of the organization’s And, both the Wall Street Journal In its “Professions” column, The Cubans, Prof. David Abraham said, education initiatives, he will recruit and (front page, June 21) and the Wall Miami Herald noted that UM Law Street Journal Interactive Edition (Au- “The outcry is a function of the power coordinate teachers who meet NITA’s now offers a course based on the of Cuban-American politicians in high standards for teaching trial advocacy. gust 31) published articles about a Spanish civil code and taught en- South Florida and the spectacle of see- NITA has more than 1,000 faculty mem- paper (“The Next Economy”) that he tirely in Spanish. It quoted Prof. ing the incident live [on television].” bers and more than 50 program directors. co-wrote with economic historian J. Enrique Fernández-Barros as say- Bradford DeLong of the University of Last year, Rose was the winner of the * * * ing that expertise in a foreign legal California at Berkeley. The article in 1998 Richard S. Jacobson Award for Ex- system is especially important in cellence in Teaching Trial Advocacy. the Interactive Edition called it “some Another New York Times article (July Miami. Presented by the Roscoe Pound Founda- of the most provocative thinking I’ve 21) on the ongoing attempts of Cubans tion, an affiliate of the Association of Trial yet seen about the ways in which the * * * to illegally immigrate to the U.S. quoted Lawyers of America, it is based upon the Internet is going to change the world.” Prof. Stephen Schnably as saying that candidate’s contributions to professional [“The Next Economy” can be accessed An article in the August 9 Miami another mass exodus from Cuba could literature, student evaluations, demon- on Froomkin’s Web site at http:// come only with Fidel Castro’s blessing, Herald on Florida’s grand juries over the past 52 years, quoted Prof. strated excellence in the trial advocacy www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin.] that “If he makes it clear at any time Bruce Winick as saying that, while program, teaching style, and interaction that people can just leave the island, * * * grand juries across the country is- with students. then you will have an exodus.” sue indictments on a range of His affiliation with NITA is long-stand- After a Florida jury ruled against the criminal cases, in Florida, they gen- ing, dating back to 1975, when he was a tobacco industry in the first class- * * * erally hear only capital crimes. In student at the organization’s National Ses- ac tion lawsuit by ailing smokers to A September 6 column in the Miami the Herald’s June 4 Broward edi- sion. He has been a member of NITA’s come to trial, the media turned to Prof. teaching faculty since 1978. He founded Herald carried the headline “UM Re- tion, columnist Sue Reisinger cited Clark Freshman for commentary. NITA’s Mid-America Regional program opens JFK Case” and focused on Winick’s “therapeutic jurispru- in Lawrence, Kansas, in 1981, and has He was featured in articles in USA “Evidentiary Inference and Advocacy: dence” metho d as a means for law been program director of both the Hanley Today (July 8), Time magazine (July the Assassination of President John F. to play a role in healing society’s Advanced Advocates program and the 19), The Miami Herald (July 9 and Sep- Kennedy,” a course being taught this drug- and alcohol-related crime National Session since 1985. tember 4), the South Florida Sun-Sentinel semester by Prof. John Hart Ely. The problems. (July 7), the International Herald Tri- columnist, Joan Fleischman, noted that, Rose, who was vice dean of the Univer- bune (July 9), and the Washington Post 35 years ago, Ely served as one of 17 staff sity of Miami School of Law from (July 8), and on CNN’s The World To- lawyers on the Warren Commission. 1995–98, will continue his responsibili- day (July 7), and The NewsHour with ties as professor of law and director of the School’s Litigation Skills Program. Fla. Supreme Court Professionalism Award Goes to Alfieri

the award is a tribute to Alfieri’s work servicing and seeking to serve in the participates in an ethics orientation pro- in developing the Center for Ethics system.”] gram for first-year students, and presents and Public Service at UM Law and to Last year, the Center for Ethics and continuing legal education courses. the Center’s work in providing training Public Service received the American Workshops sponsored by the Center to law students, the business and legal Bar Association’s prestigious E. have included: Criminal Defense Ethics; communities, and the general public. Smythe Gambrell Professionalism Women in the Legal Profession; Race and “This program is truly one to be proud Award. the Legal Profession; Balancing a Fam- of and one that we hope can be dupli- The Center is an interdisciplinary ily and a Legal Career; Ethical cated in or expanded to other parts of project focused on teaching the val- Dilemmas in International Lawyering; the State,” Justice Harry Lee Anstead ues of ethical judgment, professional Media, Law and Politics; Prosecutorial said in a letter informing Alfieri of his responsibility, and public service in Ethics; Hiring and Promotion Ethics; selection. the practice of law. Staffed by Law Women Rainmakers; Sports Law Ethics; The commission created the annual School student fellows and interns and In-House Counsel Ethics. award recently to recognize a faculty performing under Alfieri’s supervi- Symposia have included: Hate in member in one of Florida’s law schools sion, it provides training in ethics and America; Town Meeting—Crisis in the The Florida Supreme Court Commis- who, through teaching, scholarship, professionalism to the Law School and Legal Profession; Hate on the Internet; sion on Professionalism has selected and service to the profession, best sup- to the University as well as to Florida’s and Lawyer Professionalism. University of Miami School of Law Pro- ports and exemplifies the organization’s business, civic, educational and legal The Center recently accepted an ap- fessor Anthony Alfieri as the winner of mission. communities. Since its founding in pointment as legal ethics advisor to The its 1999 Professionalism Award. [The mission is: “To promote the fun- 1996, the Center has reached out to Alliance for Ethical Government, a Presented at the Judicial Luncheon held damental ideals and values of the justice help educate nearly 2,000 people. countywide consortium of public and pri- during the Florida Bar Association’s an- system and the legal profession, and At the Law School, the Center vate leaders from selected business, civic, nual meeting in Boca Raton June 24, to instill those ideals in those persons sponsors workshops and symposia, educational, and legal communities. 6 www.law.miami.edu. B ARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Fall 1999 Volume LII Number 2 Author, Company Founder– She’s Off to Fast Start

February 8, 1999, issue of the New York Law Journal and “Raising Capital on the Internet—A Realistic Examination of DPOs” in the February 1999 issue of eSecurities. The new company and the magazine articles had their genesis less than two years ago, when she was working part- time for a Fort Lauderdale law firm (Atlas, Pearlman, Trop and Borkson), where she was responsible for research- ing how to offer securities over the Internet. Through her research, she met Leo Feldman, president of IPOnet, a company that does Internet security of- After many years in the workforce, ferings. In 1998, she joined IPOnet as From left, Kozyak, Tropin & Throckmorton partners John Kozyak and most people would be proud to state that director of business relations. She and Kenneth Hartmann with scholarship-holder Val Shealey. they had formed a company and pub- Feldman formed Rule 506.com as a sub- lished articles in three journals. Renae sidiary of IPOnet to complement the Meltzer had done that even before she parent company’s security offering pro- finished law school. gram; they are awaiting final SEC Kozyak,Tropin,Throckmorton approval to conduct business. The co-founder of a company called “Rule 506.com,” she published an article Her work with those two companies Strong Supporter of UM Law on “The Expansion of the General was the basis for the three articles. Solicitation Rules of the 1933 Act” in “The articles explored a very timely It’s good to have friends, and UM Law bankruptcy moot court competition, the June 1999 issue of the Florida Bar issue—the offering of securities over the has been fortunate to have the friend- arranging a local competition, raising Journal. Internet—that is relevant to a cross sec- ship of the Miami law firm of Kozyak, funds, and accompanying students to tion of legal concerns and specialties,” Other articles by Meltzer—who re- Tropin and Throckmorton. New York City for the national event. she commented. ceived her JD from UM Law in Each year, for the past five years, the Last fall, the firm gave UM Law May—include “Raising Capital with Meltzer has accepted an associate po- firm has presented a full-tuition schol- $50,000 as the lead gift for the Friends Regulation D’s Three Exceptions” in the sition in the Miami office of Gunster, arship to a third-year student who is of the Litigation Skills Program’s en- Yoakley, Valdes-Fauli, and Stewart. both an African American and has an hancement fund. In recognition of that outstanding record in trial advocacy. gift, the litigation skills center is now The current holder of the Kozyak, known as the Kozyak, Tropin and In Memoriam Tropin and Throckmorton Scholarship Throckmorton Office Suite. For many years, firm members Harley Tropin, Paul he dean, faculty, students, and alumni of the University of Miami School is Val Shealey, who, as a second-year T Huck, and Ken Hartmann have been of Law honor the following alumni and friends of the School of Law who student, distinguished himself in last active instructors in the Litigation Skills have died during 1999. spring’s Litigation Skills I class. Program. We are grateful for their participation in the development of UM Law, The firm also awards the John Kozyak In addition, Laurel M. Isicoff (part- and we extend condolences to their family members and friends as they Bankruptcy Prize of $5,000 each year to ner) and Detra Shaw-Wilder (associate) mourn their loss. While these friends will always be a part of the School of the student who performed best in the serve on the board of the Law Alumni Law, we will miss their presence among us. previous year’s bankruptcy classes. Kozyak has contributed a considerable Association, and members of the firm Angelo Anthony Ali, JD ’52 Jesse A. Kimmel, JD ’55 amount of time and effort to help UM volunteer to help in student recruitment Rafael C. Benitez, LL.M. ’66 Donald Francis March, Sr., JD ’54 Law students compete in a national and serve as mentors to minority students. Meyer M. Brilliant, JD ’66 Richard T. O’Connell, JD ’54 S. James Cohen, JD ’52 Vincent F. O’Reilly, JD ’55 Charles Louis De Carlo, JD ’51 David Popper, Sr., JD ’52 Leonard R. Fels, JD ’60, LL.M. ’72 Theodore Riley, JD ’57 Jose A. Fernandez, JD ’91 Andrew S. Rubin, JD ’80 91% of 1998 UM Law Grads Arthur J. Franza, JD ’54 Debra I. Orenstein Rubin, JD ’80 Albert Alton Gordon, JD ’69 Theodore J. Sakowitz, JD ’46 Found Jobs Within 9 Months George Griffith Graham, JD ’54 Martin S. Saxon, JD ’56 inety-one percent of the Law School’s Circuit. Another has joined Justice Fred Carl David Grimaldi, JD ’52 Kenneth B. Sherouse, JD ’49 N spring 1998 graduates found jobs within Lewis, ’72, as a judicial law clerk with Moses Joseph Grundwerg, JD ’54 Phillip W. Smith, JD ’58 nine months of graduation. This hiring the Supreme Court of Florida. Other Jane R. Hoade, JD ’53 Samuel S. Smith, Esq., ’60 graduates have secured judicial clerk- Scott Hunter, JD ’86 Sharon Leslie Wolfe, JD ’76 level is a sharp increase over that reported to the National Association for Law ships stretching from the U.S. District Edward S. Kelly, JD ’53 Placement for the previous year’s UM Court for the Southern District of Law graduates. Florida to the State Court of Appeal in Hawaii. The current 91 percent hiring figure reflects improvement in both the na- In addition to prestigious judicial Judge Popper Was Admired tional and South Florida legal markets clerkship opportunities, many 1999 and the high-quality work of UM Law’s graduates have been offered positions By Peers Career Planning Center, headed by with some of the best firms in the na- Marcy Cox. tion, including Baker & McKenzie; David Popper, During his judicial tenure, Popper had Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft; Class of ’52, pass- the distinction of not only sitting as a “The Center has developed job-place- Dewey Ballantine; Dorsey & Whitney; ed away May 19 circuit court judge, but also of sitting ment strategies that are yielding Greenberg, Traurig, Hoffman, Lipoff, excellent results for our graduates,” Cox at age 73. on several district courts of appeal as an Rosen & Quentel; Holland & Knight; stated. “In addition, the Career Plan- Popper was a associate judge or visiting judge, as well Howrey & Simon; Kirkpatrick & ning Center now has much better ability Lockhart; Lord, Bissel & Brook; lawyer for 15 as sitting on many occasions as a visit- to keep in touch with students after McKenna & Cuneo; Morgan, Lewis & years before be- ing judge on the Florida Supreme Court. graduation and to know when they have Bockius; Proskauer Rose; and White & ing appointed Admired by his judicial peers, he was accepted employment. Our statistics on Case. by Gov. Claude honored by a Resolution Memoriam the classes of ’98 and ’99 are much more Kirk to the Dade from the Florida Conference of Circuit accurate than for previous years.” Along with courts and private law firms, government and public interest Circuit Court Judges stating: “. . . his sterling years on There also are encouraging reports groups (such as the Legal Assistance bench, where he served for 11 years be- the Circuit Bench, in Dade County, from students who graduated last spring, Foundation of Chicago and the offices fore returning to private practice. Florida, were evidenced by his steadfast many of whom already have secured le- of the Dade County Public Defender adherence to the rule of law, combined gal positions around the country. As a Dade Circuit Court judge, in and the Miami-Dade State Attorney) with his compassion and understanding 1971, he was among the first to rule in Increasingly, UM Law graduates are have extended employment offers to for the need of the people who came to favor of a patient’s right to die, deter- moving on to judicial clerkships. One this year’s graduates, as have such the Court seeking fairness and justice mining that Carmen Martinez, a Cuban 1999 graduate has joined the Hon. Peter cor porate employers as Chase Manhat- at his hand. . . .” refugee with a terminal blood disease, T. Fay as a judicial law clerk with the tan Mergers & Acquisitions and should not have to live in pain. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Pricewaterhouse Coopers. www.law.miami.edu. 7 B ARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Fall 1999 Volume LII Number 2 Message from President, 51st Annual LAA Law Alumni Association Homecoming Breakfast The 51st Annual Law Alumni Asso- ginning at 8:00 a.m. with everyone’s fa- Greetings to My 14,000 Fellow Alumni: ciation Homecoming Breakfast—the vorite happy hour, “Morning Spirits,” last such breakfast to occur this century on the Law School Courtyard (the Yes, believe it or not there are more than 14,000 —will take place on Saturday, Novem- Slab). The Homecoming “power” alumni of the University of Miami School Of Law. ber 20, on the Coral Gables campus. breakfast will be served at 9:30 a.m. in I sometimes wonder what all of you are up to in The Hon. R. Fred Lewis, JD ’72, who the newly renovated Whitten Univer- your careers and in your lives. I recently spoke to was recently appointed to the Supreme sity Center Foo d Court (the old “Ibis the incoming 1L’s at the Dean’s Welcome Dinner, Court of the State of Florida, will be Cafeteria”), a short stroll away. and it was fun reporting some of the successes of the keynote speaker. New UM Law Don’t miss the Law Alumni members of my class, the Class of 1972. Of course dean, Dennis O. Lynch, will address the Association’s preeminent event of every graduating class has it’s own honor role of audience during the program. This the year and the opportunity to re- alumni who have had wonderful careers and who year’s master of ceremonies will be Ted new you r support for the University of have had special achievements in their lives. Klein, JD ’64, who will delight and Miami School of Law. Homecoming is The Law Alumni Association is putting together a plan to recognize amuse the crowd with his lively sense a good time to recognize this great in- our most distinguished graduates, celebrating the achievements of UM of humor. stitution we are all affiliated with and Law alumni from our School’s founding 71 years ago to the present. What Plan to join fellow alumni, friends, to acknowledge the valuable contribu- we have in mind is evidence of high achievement, such as landmark legal and members of the South Florida tions UM Law has made to the South victories, election to high public office, appointment or election to the judiciary and School of Law faculty be- Florida community. judiciary, leadership in major corporations, awards recognizing outstand- ing professionalism or public service, etc. However, our plan is still in the formative stage, and we welcome your ideas for what criteria we should use and who should be honored. For the project to be a success, we will need help from a large number of people, from every class that has ever graduated from UM Law. Along Continuing Legal Education with your ideas, we need to hear from you about your successes and those of your classmates and alumni friends. Please send your comments to me 1999–2000 Schedule by e-mail at [email protected]. A new and excellent communication tool is the 1999 Law Alumni Di- Litigation Skills Series: rectory, published this summer by the School of Law. Listing all 14,000 A Day on Trial—Advocacy for the New Millennium alumni by name, class, geographic location and areas of specialty, it is a September 17, 1999 wonderful book (or CD Rom) that can help us locate and reconnect with Sheraton Biscayne Bay, Miami, FL one another. In case you forgot to order one, a limited number is still available by calling the publishing company at 1-800-982-1590. What Jurors Are Saying Behind Closed Doors Along with the e-mail addresses listed in the directory, we continue to October 14, 1999 collect new e-mail addresses and update others. If you would like to be Sheraton Biscayne Bay, Miami, FL added to an e-mail list to receive Law Alumni event information or to Alumni Luncheon Series* participate in Law Alumni e-mail discussion forums, please let us know “Ethical Government . . . an Oxymoron? Can Attorneys Help? by contacting me at the e-mail address above or the Office of Law Devel- opment and Alumni Relations at any of the addresses listed in the Speaker: Gerald Kogan, JD ’55 masthead on page 2. President, Alliance for Ethical Government Former Chief Justice, Florida Supreme Court A great opportunity for rekindling our relationships with the School of September 16, 1999 Law will be our 51st Annual Homecoming Breakfast, on Saturday, November 20, preceded by the ever-popular “Morning Spirits” party on Faculty Club, Coral Gables, FL The Bricks. It is a wonderful tradition and a tremendous amount of fun. “Preparing Tomorrow’s Lawyers—The Challenges of Legal Education” I look forward to seeing you there. Dennis O. Lynch The Law Alumni Association is pleased to welcome Dennis Lynch as Dean, University of Miami School of Law our new Dean of the Law School. He is an outstanding choice, selected October 21, 1999 from well over 100 highly qualified candidates. It is a new beginning, and Faculty Club, Coral Gables, FL it looks like a very promising one at that. Dean Lynch has expressed a strong interest in forging a solid relationship with alumni and hopes to Ralph E. Boyer Institutes: meet many of you in the near future and welcome you back on campus Twelfth Institute on Real Property Law for a visit. The Law Alumni Association will build a new unity with Twenty-Fourth Institute on Condominium and Cluster Developments Dean Lynch and the faculty to give the students the best legal education November 3–5, 1999 possible and to help the University of Miami School of Law reach new Miami Airport Hilton, Miami, FL heights. Annual Institute on Law, Psychiatry and Psychology November 12–13, 1999 Det H. Joks Shelborne Hotel, Miami Beach, FL President, Law Alumni Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Philip E. Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning January 10–14, 2000 Fontainebleau Hilton Resort and Towers, Miami Beach, FL Fourth Annual Institute on Mergers & Acquisitions February 10–11, 2000 Sonesta Beach Resort, Key Biscayne, FL Third Annual Institute on Tax Considerations in Mergers & Acquisitions February 24–25, 2000 Sonesta Beach Resort, Key Biscayne, FL

*The Alumni Luncheon Series provides UM Law Alumni with the opportunity to enjoy lunch with classmates and colleagues, hear a fascinating speaker, and earn one free CLE ethics credit hour—all for the cost of lunch ($15.00). This ongoing series is monthly. NEWLY INSTALLED—Among the executive board members installed For information contact: at the Law Alumni Association’s Installation Ceremony were, from left, Todd Payne, ’89; Elizabeth Katzen, ’88; Hon. Carroll Kelly, ’89; Alvin The Center for Continuing Legal Education at 305- 284-6276 Lindsay, ’91; David Hope, ’96; Michael Blynn, ’77; and president Det Joks, ’72. The event was held June 3 in Fort Lauderdale during UM Law’s Third Annual Broward Judicial Reception. For complete list of officers, see page 15. 8 www.law.miami.edu. B ARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Fall 1999 Volume LII Number 2 Dean’s Circle Members Tops Among UM Law Benefactors

Membership in the University of Miami School of Law Dean’s Circle reflects a high level of commitment to the School and a shared vision for ensuring excel- lence in legal education. Party for Donors— By making annual gifts of $1,000 or more to the Law Annual Fund, members place themselves at the head of a partnership of alumni, parents, and friends who, The Law School’ s with the dean, students, faculty, and administrations, are dedicated to ensuring Annual Dean’s Circle that the School takes its place among the nation’s leading law schools. Each year, reception was June 9 at the Law School holds several events especially for Dean’ s Circle members. the Miami Beach home of Marjorie Baron, ’92. Current members include: In the first photo, she Emerson L. Allsworth, Esq., ’52 Ivor Massey, Jr., Esq., ’79 chats with Robert Terence J. Anderson Patrick McGrotty, Esq., ’57 Panoff, ’76, and his Susan H. Aprill, Esq., ’82 *Thomas R. McGuigan, Esq., ’74 wife, Jeanne. In the Arthur Andersen Foundation Victor H. Mendelson, Esq, ’92 second photo are, from David T. Berg, Sr., Esq., ’63 Stuart A. Miller, Esq., ’82 left, Rene and Luisa William J. Berger, Esq., ’75 *Richard C. Milstein, Esq. ’74 Murai with Pamela Richard A. Berkowitz, Esq., ’81 Joshua J. Mintz, Esq. ’81 Perry, ’84. Elly Cristol, Howard J. Berlin, Esq., ’79 *Steven Mishan, Esq. ’72 wife of Judge A. Jay Mark Bidner, Esq., ’86 *Edward A. Moss, Esq. ’61 Cristol, ’59, and Robert *Roy Black, Esq., ’70 *Rene V. Murai, Esq. Stok, ’90, converse in Donna R. Blaustein, Esq., ’95 Daniel E. Murray, Esq., ’49 the third photo. Ian Barry Blaxberg, Esq., ’77 Michael Nachwalter, Esq., ’67 Hon. Beth Bloom, ’88 James H. Nance, ’56 Gary M. Carman, Esq., ’74 *Andrew Needle, Esq., ’77 *Sue M. Cobb, Esq., ’78 Northern Trust Bank Charitable *Albert N. Cohen, Esq., ’53 Foundation David L. Cohen, Esq., ’81 Bernard H. Oxman Richard P. Cole, Esq. Sheldon B. Palley, Esq., ’57 Marc Cooper, Esq., ’75 Michael J. Parenti III, Esq., ’74 Carol Soret Cope, Esq., ’80 *Robert Paul, Esq. Hon. A. Jay Cristol, ’59 John W. Perloff, Esq., ’86 Ernesto and Sonia de Cruz, ’87 Pamela I. Perry, Esq., ’84 Richard T. Dalton, Esq., ’58 Alfredo P. Piccini, Esq., ’56 Robert E. Dooley, Esq., ’53 Francis M. Pohlig, Esq., ’64 Mary Doyle Steven Bart Posner, Esq., ’76 Ira J. Druckman, Esq., ’57 Mark Raymond, Esq., ’83 Marc Egort, CPA, CVA Richard J. Razook, Esq., ’75 David R. Elder, Esq., ’78 Patricia Redmond, Esq., ’79 Fredrica B. Elder, Esq., ’88 Luis Reiter, Esq., ’80 *Ira M. Elegant, Esq., ’66 Dennis A. Richard, Esq., ’72 Marsha Barbanel Elser, Esq., ’75 *Jack S. Ring, Esq., ’57 Richard J. Essen, Esq., ’63 Frank M. Robbins, Esq., ’52 Exxon Education Foundation Harvey E. Robins, Esq., ’58 Lynda Wolfson Fadel, Esq., ’86 Raquel Rodriguez, Esq., ’85 Glenn Phillip Falk, Esq., ’73 Neil S. Rollnick, Esq., ’68 Martin Fine, Esq., ’49 Charles L. Ruffner., Esq., ’64 Edwin J. 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CLASS OF 1949 ally rose to the rank of captain. Founded in 1916 by Thomas RICHARD N. FRIEDMAN J. MICHAEL KELLY has a He was on the board of directors Flannery, Sr., the company is now spearheaded the successful fight successful family practice, Kelly The Class of 1949 will hold its of Goodwill Industries and a under its third generation of against a proposed 1 percent & Hammers, the Divorce Firm, 50th Reunion Celebration this lifetime member of Kiwanis. He family ownership and manage- increase in the sales tax for in Santa Monica, Calif., where fall. Members of the class who are is survived by his wife and sons, ment. Flannery joined White Miami-Dade County, to be used he preaches the gospel of “posi- interested in helping plan the Don Jr. and William, daughter Way as a corporate attorney and to expand the Metrorail system. tive divorce.” He also teaches event for their class should Patti, eight grandchildren and served as president for 20 years The special referendum vote on courses in the business of law at contact Julian Benjamin, ’49, on five great-grandchildren. before assuming his present July 29, 1999, turned out 28 the University of Southern 305-670-9994 or Cynthia position. He is active in area civic percent of the registered voters, California. Sikorski, director of alumni who rejected the mayor’s Penny CLASS OF 1957 and service organizations and was relations, 305-284-4935, with Tax Plan by a 68 percent to 32 honored with the Weizmann percent margin. CLASS OF 1969 their ideas and suggestions. TALA ENGEL practiced Institute’s 1994 Man of the Year In 1976, in 1990 and in 1991, immigration law in Chicago and award and the 1991 Mother The Class of 1969 will hold its Friedman also successfully led CLASS OF 1952 now resides in Washington, D.C. Cabrini award. 30th Reunion Celebration this She is written up in Who’s Who in overwhelming voter opposition fall. Members of the class who are BURTON A. LANDY received the World, 2nd edition, and had to proposed 1 percent sales tax interested in helping plan CLASS OF 1962 increases in Miami-Dade County the Lifetime Membership Award her own A/V rating from the event for their class should from the Dade County Bar Martindale Hubbell. Engel has EDWARD P. for Metrorail. Also, in 1987, he contact Thomas Roy Spencer Jr., led the successful statewide fight Association for his many years of traveled in 55 countries and was AHRENS, JR., ’69, on 305-374-7700 or Cynthia active practice as a member of the to repeal the services sales tax married to James A. Colias, now retired in 1993 statute, which became effective Sikorski, director of alumni association. Landy practices at deceased. She would love to hear from Florida relations, 305-284-4935, with the Miami office of Akerman July 1, 1987. After a ferocious from her classmates from the Power & Light political battle, the governor and their ideas and suggestions. Senterfitt. School of Law: TalaEngel@aol.com. Company as its the legislature repealed the tax on senior and December 11, 1987. SONIA PRESSMAN FUENTES CLASS OF 1970 CLASS OF 1953 managing Friedman co-chairs the Florida has written her memoirs, Eat PHYLLIS DOUGLAS retired attorney and its assistant corpo- Bar Sports Committee for a JACK ACERMAN was awarded First—You Don’t Know What rate secretary. He now devotes his after 28 years as leader of the legal the Palm Beach County Bar second year, while continuing to They’ll Give You: The Adventures time to circuit mediation and team for Dade County Public Association Professionalism serve his professional athlete of an Immigrant Family and Their freelance writing. He is especially clients as CEO of All-Star Sports Schools with plans to relocate Award on May 27, 1999, for Feminist Daughter.Written with interested in instructing and Agents, Inc. Friedman is also with her husband, Grail Douglas, “Excellence in Practicing warmth and humor, her memoirs helping attorneys to instruct non- known as “The Singing Attor- a sculptor, to Ashland, Ore., a Professionalism in Palm Beach reveal how she went from being a attorneys on avoiding the legal ney” and is a songwriter and place they discovered while County.” He lives and practices five-year-old immigrant from dangers of imprudent writing. record producer. On July 4, 1996, attending the city’s year-round in West Palm Beach. Germany in 1934 to become the Ahrens has just published the All-Star Music Corporation Shakespearean festival. Douglas first woman attorney in the Office AL PALMER and his wife, second edition of his popular released a music album in CD and had worked for seven superinten- of the General Counsel at the Connie, spend most of the year at book, The Perils of Imprudent cassette formats, For Love of dents; she advised school officials Equal Opportunity Commission Writing—How to Watch What You Country, consisting of 15 of on how to handle the large their new home in Robbinsville, (EEO C) in 1965, one of the N.C., where they are closer to Write and Stay Out of Court. America’s greatest patriotic songs number of immigrant children founders of the National Organi- performed by Friedman, and a their children and families who and navigated the first labor zation for Women (NOW) in 28-page booklet written by him live in Knoxville, Atlanta and agreement that gave public- 1966, the highest paid woman at CLASS OF 1964 containing the history and lyrics school teachers collective Highlands. Al and Connie return the headquarters of two multina- of each song. A portion of the often to Miami, where he is still DAVID N. NISSENBERG bargaining powers in the early tional corporations, GTE and proceeds from the sale of the associated with Palmer, Palmer & introduced the second edition of 1970s. TRW, and an international album is donated to the Ameri- Mangiero, P.A., on South Dixie his book, The Law of Commercial Trucking: Damages to Persons and can Legion, the Veterans of speaker on women’s rights for the CLASS OF 1972 Highway and continues his United States Information Foreign Wars, the American Red volunteer work with the Archdio- Property, published by Lexis Agency. The book will be Cross, Boy Scouts of America, ROBERT A. DULBERG is a cese of Miami. Publishing last year . It is widely published soon; information is and Girl Scouts of America. Two diplomate with the Florida used throughout the country by new music albums performed IRA H. WEXLER is a New York available from http://www. attorneys involved in truck Academy of Professional Media- erraticimpulse.com/~feminism/html/ by Friedman are currently in tors and is celebrating his 10th Supreme Court justice in accident litigation. In the past production. Mineola, N.Y., where he has sonia_pressman_ fuentes.htm and three years, Nissenberg has year as a certified mediator. He served as supervising judge of the can be ordered in paperback from presented CLE seminars on this maintains mediation suites CLASS OF 1967 district court and county court of bookstores. subject matter in 40 states. He is throughout Miami-Dade and Nassau County since 1995. a partner in Truck Injury Lawyers, The Honorable Broward counties, and he has a www.mediate.com/ CLASS OF 1959 LLP, a national firm based in San EUGENE J. website at Diego that represents victims of FIERRO received rdulberg. CLASS OF 1954 The Class of 1959 will hold its catastrophic truck crashes. He the American Bar 40th Reunion Celebration this The Class of 1954 will hold its can be reached at 800-292-5855. Association CLASS OF 1973 45th Reunion Celebration this fall. Members of the class who are interested in helping plan Section of Family SAMUEL B. HORNSTEIN fall. Members of the class who are Law Pro Bono the event for their class should CLASS OF 1965 serves as secretary of the Bucks interested in helping plan the Award for his contact the Hon. A. Jay Cristol, County (Pa.) Bar Association and event for their class should BENNETT H. efforts in providing pro bono legal contact Ainslee Ferdi, ’54, on ’59, on 305-536-3058, Alvin BRUMMER, treasurer of the Big Brothers/Big Malnik, ’59, on 561-482-1010 or assistance to the poor and to Sisters of Bucks County. He 305-445-3557 or Cynthia public defender victims of abuse. Judge Fierro is Cynthia Sikorski, director of formerly served on the national Sikorski, director of alumni for Miami-Dade administrator of “Put Something alumni relations, 305-284-4935, board of directors for Big Brothers/ relations, 305-284-4935, with County, received Back” and has authored several their ideas and suggestions. with their ideas and suggestions. the prestigious Big Sisters. Hornstein is widowed legal publications, including “The and has a daughter attending the Criminal Justice Lawyer’s Trial Book—A Guide to DONALD F. MARCH, SR. died University of Miami in her CLASS OF 1961 Award of the the 1977 Amendments to the on July 15, 1999. He was a sole Dade County Bar Association, sophomore year. JAMES FLANNERY is chairman Rules of Florida Civil Procedure.” practitioner in Miami who presented annually to an indi- worked with his wife of 55 years, of the board of the White Way vidual who has made an BRUCE E. RAPEE is married to CLASS OF 1974 Lillie May, who was his secretary. Sign Company, a pro ducer of outstanding contribution to the LeAnne Moore of San Francisco. The Class of 1974 will hold its In 1945 he joined the Miami custom electronic signage and criminal justice system in Miami- They live in Miami with their scoreboards, located in Chicago. 25th Reunion Celebration this Police Department and eventu- Dade County . During Law Week daughter, Brieanne. Following a 1999, Brummer also spoke to very brief career in law, Bruce has fall. Members of the class who are interested in helping plan the students at Miami Senior High been an investor in commercial event for their class should School about the criminal justice real estate for the past 30 years contact Lewis B. Freeman, ’74, system and how his office and administers the investments functions within it. In June, the of several employee retirement on 305-443-6622 or Cynthia Sikorski, director of alumni National Association of Drug trusts, when he and the family are relations, 305-284-4935, with Court Professionals presented not traveling. their ideas and suggestions. Brummer with its Founders Award in recognition of his CLASS OF 1968 GARY CARMAN, a senior support of the country’s first drug litigation partner and head of the The Honorable STANLEY M. court, established in Miami a litigation group of the Miami GOLDSTEIN was elected judge decade ago. The Miami Drug office of Broad and Cassel, is in 1983 and became the nation’s IMPROMPTU REUNION—At Wolf Laurel Country Club Court became a model for more president-elect of the University than 600 drug courts in operation first “drug court” judge in 1989. of Miami School of Law Alumni in North Carolina last July, several members of the Class There are now approximately 600 or in the planning stages. The Association for the current of 1951 took advantage of an opportunity to become such courts in the United States. reacquainted. From left are: Marie Rose; Carl Rose, ’51; award was presented in Miami academic year, and will be Beach at the association’s annual Judge Goldstein retired in Lloyd Stover, ’51; Prof. M. Minnette Massey, ’51; Shirley president in 2000–2001. Carman conference. December 1998. Kaiser; and Julius H. Kaiser, ’51. practices in the areas of civil 10 www.law.miami.edu. B ARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Fall 1999 Volume LII Number 2 trials, arbitrations and lobbying Wolfe and plaintiff’s lawyer CLASS OF 1978 and an administrative judge for wife, Andrea, and their daughters, and negotiation of corporate Charles Lipcon were successful the juvenile division, will focus Jeri, Carly and Ali. Certilman transactions. He lobbies before before the United States Court The Honorable MICHAEL E. her work during the two-year Balin Adler & Hyman, known Miami-Dade County and the City of Appeal for the 11th Circuit in JONES authored the book, Sports fellowship on developing also as “The Personal Lawyers of Miami Commission for various expanding the seamen’s entitle- Law, published in 1999 under the assessments and interventions in with the Firm Commitment,” has corporations regarding zoning, ment to sick wages to include Prentice-Hall imprint of Simon dependency court settings that grown into one of Long Island’s retail space issues at Miami tips. She is survived by her & Schuster . Judge Jones is also a are sensitive to child develop- largest full-service law firms, with International Airport, and other husband, STEPHEN T. MAHER, tenured full professor of legal ment and parent-child more than 60 attorneys. matters. JD ’75, and two daughters, studies and economics at the attachment issues. Zero to Three University of Massachusetts— Meaghan Wolfe Maher and is a national nonprofit organiza- CLASS OF 1981 RICHARD C. MILSTEIN was Caitlin Wolfe Maher. Lowell, where he teaches sports tion founded by leading recently honored by the Dade law. He sits on the Salem District pediatricians and child develop- BRUCE A. County Bar Association and “Put Court in Salem, N.H. ment specialists to share new BLITMAN, Something Back” pro bono CLASS OF 1977 president of the ELIZABETH K. knowledge on how children program for his continued WILLIAM RICHARD BLOOM develop in the early years. Judge Florida Academy dedication to public service. His has the same first name, middle RUSSO has been of Professional appointed chair Lederman is a member of the name is attached to one of the initial and last name as WILLIAM National Council of Juvenile and Mediators, service awards, the Richard C. ROBERT BLOOM, JD ’77, who of the Board of represented the Legal Specializa- Family Court Judges, the U.S. Milstein Excellence Award, practices in Miami. William Advisory Council on Violence academy in presented at the 11th annual Richard Bloom moved to tion and Educa- Boston at the ABA Section of tion of the Florida Against Women, and the Florida awards luncheon. Milstein is a Portland Ore., immediately Supreme Court Dependency Dispute Resolution’s first annual former recipient of the Tobias Bar. The board following his graduation from Court Improvement Committee. conference, “Breaking Down the Simon Award presented by the oversees board certification of UM Law, where he practiced In June, Judge Lederman was Barriers: ADR in the New Florida Supreme Court, and he family law until earlier this year, attorneys and the bar’s continuing Millennium.” Blitman partici- legal education program. She invited to speak at the plenary practices at the Miami office of when he hung up his briefcase. session of “Safe from the Start: pated in a panel discussion Akerman Senterfitt. practices at the Russo Appellate He is now back in school full- the National Summit on Chil- entitled “State Regulation of time in pursuit of a master’s Firm, which handles a full Ethics and Professional Responsi- DON RUSSO is dren Exposed to Violence.” She degree in computer science and spectrum of civil appeals before bility in Court-Connected ADR a principal in the state and federal courts and works spoke about the effects of firm of Russo & an MBA. He expects to learn the violence on maltreated children, Programs.” He recently published skills necessary to engage in an with trial firms on cases involving the first issue of his mediation Heffernan, P.A., discussed recommendations for interesting and challenging class actions and other complex newsletter, “Bruce’s Mediation in Miami, which changes in public policy and second career in the high-tech commercial cases. Russo is a News.” He is a certified county, has a statewide board-certified appellate lawyer practice, released preliminary reputation in the industry. His studies should be data on the co-occurrence of family circuit civil and federal completed prior to the class in Florida and is admitted to mediator with offices in Miami, field of medical child maltreatment and violence reunion in 2002, at which time practice before the United States Pembroke Pines, Fort Lauderdale, negligence and catastrophic tort from the Dependency Court he expects to renew friendships Supreme Court, a number of Boca Raton, and Palm Beach claims. Russo recently presented federal circuit and district courts, Intervention Program for Family with his law school classmates. County. several CLE-approved seminars the Florida Supreme Court and Violence and discussed how that on a variety of timely trial-related The Honorable JOHN A. all Florida district courts of program has improved child BRIAN L. DAVIDOFF (LL.M.) issues. He presented his tech- HOUSTON serves as a federal appeal. welfare outcomes in Miami-Dade specializes in bankruptcy at niques for skilled jury selection magistrate in the U.S. District County. Rutter Hobbs & Davidoff, a and dynamic opening statements In August, Judge Lederman Court for the Southern District CLASS OF 1979 general practice firm in the and closing arguments at the of California, where the court’s received the 1999 William E. Century Park area of Los Angeles, Florida Bar Trial Lawyers Section busy docket is largely driven by The Class of 1979 will be the Gladstone Award at a gathering where he is a partner. The firm seminar in Miami, then followed immigration cases. Before his honored class at Homecoming in Orlando of nearly 1000 judicial offers a full range of legal services, with a Dade County Trial Lawyers appointment last year, Judge 1999, holding its 20th Reunion leaders and those involved in with special emphasis on aircraft Association seminar on commer- Houston served for 17 years in Celebration. Members of the class children’s cases statewide. Florida finance, banking and financial cial trial skills in a “David versus the U.S. Attorney’s office in San who are interested in helping Supreme Court Justice Major B. transactions, bankruptcy and Goliath” commercial trial. Russo Diego. plan the event for their class Harding and Governor Jeb Bush, insolvency, business litigation, also addressed lawyers and should contact Alan Atlas, ’79, in presenting the award, noted commercial transactions, corpo- students at the Florida Bar’s Trial BENEDICT P. on 305-374-6762, Joseph Lowe, Judge Lederman’s vast experience rate transactions, business Lawyers Section in its week-long KUEHNE has just ’79, on 305-670-3700, Gail Serota and her reputation in leading the entities, employment, entertain- Advanced Trial Advocacy completed an on 305-854-0800 or Cynthia efforts to address and solve the ment, environmental matters, Seminar in Gainesville. He outstanding year Sikorski, director of alumni growing needs and impact of estate planning and probate, recently presented an update and as president of the relations, 305-284-4935, with children in the courts. family matters, intellectual summary of legislative and case Dade County Bar their ideas and suggestions. property and technology transfer, law changes in the area of Association, the ANNETTE STAR LUSTGARTEN and her husband and real estate. medical malpractice litigation at fourth largest RUDY M. BRO WN practices in a small office in Brooklyn, N.Y., relocated five years ago to a seminar sponsored annually by local bar association in the THOMAS S. MAHR practices with one other attorney, where beautiful Sedona, Ariz., from the Academy of Florida Trial United States. He is now focusing commercial litigation and Lawyers. his voluntary contributions on he is mainly involved with civil Mount Dora, Fla. She commutes entertainment litigation at the the Metro Miami Action Plan rights litigation. His current case daily to Flagstaff, where she firm of Katten Muchin & Zavis Trust, a Miami-Dade County of greatest significance is a federal practices family law and govern- in the Century Park area of Los CLASS OF 1975 department organized to help lawsuit against the New York ment law at Mangum, Wall, Angeles. The firm also has offices THOMAS stimulate economic development State Psychiatric Institute, Stoops & Warden. The couple in Chicago, New York, Washing- NEWCOMB in disadvantaged areas of the Columbia University and doctors, have their first grandchild, Joshua ton and Irvine. HYDE was county. He was appointed to the for using minority children ages Alexander Book. 6–10 as human guinea pigs to test CARL C. RADOM recently recently named MMAP Trust by the Board of ABIGAIL WATTS- the drug fenfluramine. became of counsel to the Kansas national director County Commissioners. FITZGERALD left the law firm of training for the City law firm of Polsinelli, White, The Honorable ERNEST G. CHARLES W. EDGAR III, of Steel Hector & Davis, LLP, to Vardeman & Shalton, P.C. For legal department Currently serves as president of start a corporate practice for the of Liberty Mutual MAYO was appointed judge of more than 20 years, he has the Gulf Stream Council of the new Miami office of Hunton & Insurance Company. The the municipal court of Warren, concentrated his practice in the Boy Scouts of America and is a Williams, a Richmond, Va., firm. department now has over 700 R.I., on April 12, 1999. He is also area of estate planning, and he is assistant professor of legal studies shareholder at the West Palm The Miami office of the firm has admitted to practice in New York, attorneys in more than 70 offices Beach firm of Nason, Yaeger, 12 lawyers. Watts-Fitzgerald has throughout the United States and at Johnson & Wales University in Indiana, Florida, Kansas, and Gerson, White & Liose, P.A., done much work for the National in Canada and offers four training Providence. Virginia. He is director of where he practices real estate law. Football League on their stadium education for the American programs in trial advocacy, GEO RGE D. PERLMAN joined agreements and represented the advanced trial advocacy, attorney HOWARD A. KUSNICK, LL.M. Academy of Estate Planning the Miami office of Holland & NFL in local negotiations for Attorneys in La Jolla, Calif., management training, and Knight LLP as of counsel, where ’79, has been selected to serve as Super Bowl XXXIII in Miami last deposition and discovery training. chair of the Consumer Protection and he is the author of several he will practice tax law with a January. publications on estate planning, He resides in Tampa. focus on complex international Committee of the Florida Bar for 1999–2000. BRIAN probate and property, small transactions and foreign trusts. business taxation, and individual CLASS OF 1976 He was formerly a sole practi- ZIEGLER was The Honorable CINDY S. recently elected taxation. With more than 90 tioner, with offices in both Miami LEDERMAN has been chosen as attorneys, Polsinelli, White, SHARON WOLFE, an appellate and London. He is a member of justice for the specialist in the Miami firm of one of only 30 fellows for Zero to Vardeman & Shalton has offices the tax section of the Florida Bar, village of Cooper & Wolfe, died July 15 Three’s prestigious Leaders for the in Kansas City, St. Louis, as well as the American Bar Woodsburgh, after a long battle with lung 21st Century program, a new N.Y., for a two- Jefferson City, Overland Park Association, International Fiscal leadership development initiative and Topeka. cancer. In her career of 22 years, Association, and the New York year term. He is she handled more than 300 state that provides each participant Bar. a corporate partner at the East JOSE ROJAS is a partner in the and federal appeals. Her brief for with an opportunity to collabo- Meadow law firm of Certilman Miami office of Broad and Cassel, partner MARC COOPER, JD ’75, MICHAEL SALES is vice rate with top leaders from many Balin Adler & Hyman, LLP, disciplines as well as receive where he chairs the firm’s in Stahl v. Metropolitan Dade president, associate general where he provides counsel to intellectual property and technol- County led to a much cited 1983 assistance for an innovative counsel and general patent corporations, partnerships and ogy practice groups. At an ruling by the Third District Court project aimed at improving the counsel at Hughes Electronics limited liability companies in all engagement sponsored in Miami of Appeal concerning causation, in El Segundo, Calif. lives of very young children. areas of law. A lifelong resident Judge Lederman, a circuit court last spring by Worldtalk Corpora- a basic element of negligence. of the five towns area, Ziegler tion, a Silicon Valley-based judge for Florida’s 11th Circuit resides in Woodsburgh with his www.law.miami.edu. 11 BARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Fall 1999 Volume LII Number 2 internet security solution provider, his wife, Tammy, and their two MARK REEVES left his practice therapeutic Jurisprudence experienced litigator represent- Rojas spoke about employee use of boys, Adam and Luke, closer to in the Miami office of Steel Atrocity” in 41 Arizona Law ing airlines, manufacturers, e-mail and access to the internet. their extended family and a Hector & Davis to begin his Review (1999). maintenance facilities, fixed base He is past chairperson of the family farm. Beasley continues to studies for the Roman Catholic operations, general commercial Computer Law Committee of the practice civil litigation. priesthood at the North Ameri- CLASS OF 1986 businesses and individuals in Florida Bar. can College in Vatican City; it personal injury, wrongful death IAN COMISKY is is a vocation he has wanted to BRIAN SCOTT HUNTER, and commercial claims. scheduled to formerly a partner in the Miami CLASS OF 1982 pursue since graduating from participate in the UM Law. law firm of Angones, Hunter, RICHARD SHEEHY is currently LANG 12th annual McClure, Lynch & Williams, in the last year of his Ph.D. BAUMGARTEN Professional DIANA SANTA died April 7, 1999. He was 38. program in counseling psychol- was recently Liability Under - MARIA was re- Hunter was board-certified in ogy at Arizona State University elected to the writing Society elected to the trial practice, and he taught in Tempe, Ariz. Sheehy is board of trustees International board of directors tennis at Coral Oaks in Pinecrest presently completing his disserta- of the Miami Art Conference on November 10–12 of the Academy and tennis summer camp at UM. tion, in which he looked at the Museum. He is in New York City. He is a panelist of Florida Trial He is survived by his wife, Sherida efficacy of a stress/anxiety managing director for the session on “Director’s and Lawyers at its Chin-A-Kiem, and a daughter, management intervention on for Miami-based Aztec Group, Officer’s Liability Beyond the annual conven- Kelly. stress levels of first-year law Inc., where he focuses on Year 2000: Reporting and tion in Aventura. At that time, students. In his spare time, he is arranging commercial mortgage Enforcement Issues Affecting she also received the Academy’s CRANE A. JOHNSTONE, a also the assistant director of the financing. Financial Institutions.” Comisky “Above and Beyond the Call of partner in the Fort Lauderdale Career Planning and Placement is a partner in the law firm of Duty” award for her service as a office of George, Hartz, Lundeen, Office at the Arizona State ANA LANDA-GOLDBERG is Blank Rome Comisky & director of the Coalition for Flagg & Fulmer, has been elected University College of Law. He in-house counsel for Aerolease McCauley, LLP, where he Family Safety. She is a trial to membership in the Fort hopes to continue his work International, Inc., an aircraft concentrates his practice in the lawyer who specializes in all areas Lauderdale chapter of the counseling law students and leasing and sales corporation in area of white collar criminal of personal injury and wrongful American Board of Trial Advo- attorneys, as well as pursue his Aspen, Colo. defense of corporations and death. She is founder and cates. This honorary organization interest in forensic psychology. individuals, including criminal encourages respect for the law, JEREMY A. managing partner of the Law He lives in Phoenix. and civil tax litigation. Comisky Offices of Diana Santa Maria, the courts and the jury system. SPECTOR, of is a former assistant U.S. Attorney P.A., in Davie. Blank Rome for the Southern District of MICHAEL PERSE, a litigation CLASS OF 1988 Comisky & Florida and practices in the JOSE (TONY) SANTOS has associate with Kluger, Peretz, MICHAEL CHESAL, a partner McCauley, LLP, Philadelphia and Boca Raton joined Greenberg Traurig as a Kaplan & Berlin’s Miami office, in the intellectual property was appointed offices of the firm. He is co-author shareholder in the Miami office. was elected to the board of group of the Miami law firm of chair of the of Tax Fraud & Evasion, Santos is the former chairman of directors of the University of Kluger, Peretz, Kaplan & Berlin, Subcommittee on a two-volume treatise, and is a Broad & Cassel’s international Miami Law Alumni Association. has been appointed to serve Important Developments of the member of the American College practice group. His three-year term begins as chair of the Intellectual Tax-Exempt Financing Commit- of Tax Counsel. immediately. Perse practices HARVEY SEPLER, JD ’84, has Property Law Committee of the tee of the Section on Taxation of primarily in the area of general Business Law Section of the PERRY CONE is general counsel served as the advisor to UM Law the American Bar Association for commercial litigation at both the Florida Bar. He had served as and vice president for regulatory teams for many years. a two-year term. Spector heads trial and appellate levels, with vice-chair of the same commit- Blank Rome’s public finance tax and public affairs, AIB Insurance particular emphasis on insurance Group, Inc., Miami, and its tee for the past two terms. He practice and counsels clients in CLASS OF 1985 disputes, insurance coverage has extensive experience in property and casualty insurance all areas of tax law relating to issues, and aviation-related trademark, copyright and trade municipal bonds, including subsidiaries. For the 1998–99 MICHAEL J. matters. He resides in Kendall. HIGER chaired secret matters, as well as general governmental, utility, transporta- term, he served as chair of the Automobile Committee of the the Business Law BARBARA STEINER WALTON commercial litigation at both tion, housing, health care, the trial and appellate levels. Florida Insurance Council, Section of the has a book being published this industrial and infrastructure Chesal also serves as president of development obligations. The Florida’s largest insurance Florida Bar’s fall, “101 Little Instructions for seminar entitled, Surviving Your Divorce,” by Impact the Bais Medrash of South firm is a full-service law firm of company trade association, whose member companies hold “Hot Topics in Publishers of San Luis Obispo, Florida and as a member of the more than 280 attorneys head- board of directors of Aish more than 90 percent of Florida’s Commercial Calif. She reports that it is sure to quartered in Philadelphia, with HaTorah of South Florida and offices in Media, Allentown, market in residential and private Litigation,” where he was the be a best seller! Walton practices featured speaker on copyright family law in Meadville, Pa. Young Israel of Hollywood. Cherry Hill, Trenton, Wilming- passenger automobile coverage. ton, Baltimore, Washington, and During 1998, Cone served as an law. He has also been appointed KENNETH Boca Raton. alternate to the board of directors secretary for the South Florida CLASS OF 1987 ALLAN of the Florida Windstorm Patent Law Association and is a GOTTLIEB was Underwriting Association, partner at the North Miami firm KAREN H. BROMBERG CLASS OF 1983 practiced commercial litigation elected to the a state-mandated association of Ress, Mintz & Truppman, P.A., Florida House of LISA C. BERRY is general counsel providing wind coverage to where his practice is devoted to with an emphasis on intellectual property disputes for 10 years Representatives at Juniper Networks, Inc., a Florida uninsureds who are litigation in all aspects of in 1998. He has Mountainview, Calif., firm unable to obtain it in the intellectual property law, with the firm of Parker, Duryee, Rosoff & Haft, in New York City. been instrumen- engaged in internet infrastructure marketplace. For 1999, Cone including patents, copyrights and tal in the passage of the Foster She recently joined AdvantEdge solutions. She resides in Saratoga. was a director, vice president, trademarks. Care Bill of Rights (1999) and and treasurer of Florida Property Television Advertising as general STEVEN C. MARKS has been the Holocaust Insurance Act TAMMY FOX-ISICOFF has and Casualty Association, whose counsel and senior vice president. elected chair of the Aviation Law (1998). Gottlieb is a partner in been re-elected to the board of members are Florida domestic AdvantEdge is a privately held Section of the Association of the Hollywood law firm of governors of the American auto carriers. company that syndicates televi- Immigration Lawyer’s Associa- Trial Lawyers of America sion commercials around the Gottlieb & Gottlieb. tion. She practices with Bander, ADALBERTO JORDAN became (ATLA). Marks practices at the world. Bromberg resides in Fox-Isicoff & Associates, in a federal judge September 8, Miami office of Podhurst Orseck Scarsdale. CLASS OF 1989 Miami. when the U.S. Senate confirmed Josefsberg Eaton Meadow Olin & Perwin, P.A., and specializes in KEVIN A. DORSE practices The Class of 1989 will hold its him by a vote of 93 to 1. He has 10th Reunion Celebration this MOHAMED A. aviation, commercial, personal business litigation at the Los been a clerk for Supreme Court fall. Members of the class who TUMI (LL.M. in injury and wrongful death Angeles office of Jones Day, a Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and are interested in helping plan the Comparative headed the appellate division of litigation as well as product multinational law firm with more Law) is an liability. than 1,200 lawyers in 20 loca- event for their class should the U.S. attorney’s office in contact Todd S. Payne, ’89, on attorney and legal Miami. In recommending Jordan tions. Offices in the United States consultant with JAVIER PEREZ-ABREU and are in Atlanta, Chicago, Cleve- 954-989-6333 or Cynthia to President Clinton, U.S. Sen. Sikorski, director of alumni the firm of Moh’d Bob Graham (D-Fla.) said, ANA MARTIN-LAVIELLE land, Columbus, Dallas, Irvine, have achieved board certification relations, 305-284-4935, with Tumi & Partners “Florida will benefit from his Los Angeles, New York, Pitts- in marital and family law from the their ideas and suggestions. in Tripoli, Libya. After leaving outstanding legal skills, broad burgh and Washington. There are Florida Bar. They practice UM Law, Tumi received an LL.M. experience, and commitment to 10 other offices around the world. The Honorable with highest honors from George public service.” in the Coral Gables firm of Perez- The Los Angles office is organized Abreu & Martin-Lavielle, P.A., CARROLL J. Washington University. into four major practice groups— KELLY serves as which deals exclusively in the LAURIN D. QUAIT was elected business practice, government county court partner in the Denver office of area of marital and family law CLASS OF 1984 regulation, litigation, and tax. judge in Miami- Baker & Hostetler, LLP, where he and alternative dispute resolu- DANIEL F. tion, including mediation and DONALD B. MITCHELL joined Dade County, concentrates his practice in the presiding over BEASLEY arbitration. the firm of Schnader Harrison areas of construction litigation, domestic vio- recently moved including suretyship matters and Segal & Lewis, LLP, as counsel AMY D. lence, criminal and traffic cases. from Miami, after commercial and domestic resident in the Atlanta office. RONNER, law Before her election, Judge Kelly 14 years with litigation. Baker & Hostetler is Mitchell was formerly at Delta Fowler, White, professor at St. Air Lines where he was the practiced business and general among the nation’s largest law civil litigation, antitrust cases and Burnett, Hurley, firms, with more than 500 Thomas Univer- general manager for aircraft Banick & sity School of employment discrimination attorneys in offices in Beverly acquisition and sales and a senior Strictroot, P.A., to Law, has a new litigation at the Miami firm of Hills, Cincinnati, Cleveland, attorney. He has experience in join the firm of Lanier Ford article, “Punish- fleet management, procurement, Richman Greer Weil Brumbaugh Shaver & Payne, P.C., in Hunts- Columbus, Denver, Houston, Mirabito & Christensen. Kelly Long Beach, Los Angeles, ment Meted operations and general commer- ville, Ala. This move places him, Out For Acquittals: An Anti- said that it was her ambition to Orlando, and Washington. cial matters, and he is an 12 www.law.miami.edu. B ARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Fall 1999 Volume LII Number 2 perform public service that led her administrative matters, and Atlantic Coast Title, Inc., which children, Patrick, Tina and organizations, and individual first to become a lawyer and then supervises four staff attorneys. handles residential and commer- Mathew. On January 29, 1999, clients. seek election as a judge. He also volunteers as an cial closings. The primary practice Brenda gave birth to Alexander adjunct professor with the in the law firm consists of Joshua Brook. In 2002, Brook JON PALADINI left full-time LORING N. municipal government practice College of Micronesia’s Trial residential and commercial real plans to run for the Florida state SPOLTER has his earlier this year for private Counselor Certificate Program, estate, including development, house. He welcomes e-mail own firm in Fort which he helped found as the construction and closings. The from his classmates: practice as a partner with the firm Lauderdale and first formal legal education firm also handles wills, collections, [email protected]. of Spector/Shumway, PLLC. The practices in the firm has offices in Scottsdale and available in the nation’s 20-year construction lien notices and areas of criminal ERIC BRUCE and LISBETH Sedona, Ariz. Paladini manages existence. He taught torts last entertainment law. defense and semester, teaches civil proce- PERUCKI BRUCE, JD ’92, have the Sedona office and continues plaintiffs’ dure this fall, and will teach ADAM M. NEJINA and his wife, been married since 1991 and have to practice in the areas of land employment litigation issues Tiffany, announce the birth of two wonderful children: Steven use/zoning, municipal law, evidence next spring. including sexual harassment, their first child, Zoe Marlena, born Joseph, born Nov. 29, 1996, and administrative law, civil litigation Sipos came to the court in whistle blower claims, defamation April 20, 1999. Nejina practices Valerie Ann, born April 3, 1999. and appellate practice. He has 1998 on leave of absence from and discrimination based upon the Santa Monica, Calif., law commercial litigation Lisbeth has been employed as a argued two cases before the race, gender, age and disability. at Camner, Litsitz and Poller, P.A. real estate attorney for the Arizona Court of Appeals on office of Haight, Brown and Three of his articles on employ- He and his family reside in Bradenton firm of Blalock, behalf of the City of Sedona, both Bonesteel LLP, where he ment law themes have appeared Aventura. Landers, Waters & Vogler, P.A., for involving issues arising from the practiced as a trial attorney in the Wall Street Journal’s specializing in products liability. six years. Bruce is a child support state constitution. He was also “National Business Employment SPENCER ROSE is associated enforcement attorney with Legal named by the bishop of the with the Coral Gables firm of Weekly.” The Chicago Tribune ROBIN R. WEINER was Services of Manatee County. Catholic Diocese of Phoenix to published a feature story on appointed standing Chapter 13 Nicklaus & Wicks, where he Prior to taking this position, he the school board, which oversees Spolter’s litigation work on behalf trustee for the Southern District specializes in insurance defense. maintained his own practice for policies and operations of all Rose also announces his engage- of employees, which was reprinted of Florida by the Department of five years. Catholic schools in the northern ment to Elaine Walker, a writer for in the Fort Lauderdale Sun- Justice in 1993. Since her half of Arizona. Sentinel and more than one appointment, Robin has the Miami Herald. A spring ALAN D. DANZ recently In November he was profiled in founded the firm of Kronengold & hundred other newspapers. After administered approximately wedding is anticipated. the Arizona Business Gazette, and Danz in Weston, Fla. Danz focuses gaining courtroom experience as 15,000 cases and is presently he returned to South Florida for KENNETH SCHWARTZ has his practice in the areas a prosecutor in the Brooklyn developing and conducting a been elected a partner in the New the first time since graduation to District Attorney’s Office, Spolter pilot debtor education program of employment-related litigation attend the International Munici- York-based international law firm and probate litigation. returned to Florida in 1991. for the southeast region of the Grant, Herrmann, Schwartz & pal Lawyers Association United States. She lectures Conference in Miami Beach. LYNN M. STOPPY recently Klinger LLP. He will continue to WILLIAM S. GALVANO is extensively for bankruptcy and concentrate on private equity partner at Grimes Goebel Grimes While there, he had the opportu- joined the Cass County non-bankruptcy associations nity to meet with Interim Dean prosecutor’s office in investments, mergers and Hawkins & Gladfelter, P.A., in and has just recently coordi- Mary Doyle and take a tour of the Harrisonville, Mo. She and her acquisitions, and securities Bradenton, Fla. He resides in nated and moderated a panel remodeled Law School. “Impres- husband, David Brackin, SSGT transactions involving emerging Bradenton with his wife, Julie, and discussion regarding attorneys and established Latin American sons, Michael Saint and William sive is the first word that comes to USAF, have a daughter, Kayla, fees and ethics for the National mind!” Paladini was named to born in July 1995, and a son, Kyle, companies. Sterling. Association of Chapter 13 the Arizona Conservation born in May 1998. Lynn Prior to joining Grant, trustees in New York City. Herrmann, he was a foreign KEITH SINGER is a registered Acquisition Board, which makes is admitted to the Bar in Florida, representative with Northwestern Robin is one of 21 Chapter 13 associate at the Mexican law recommendations to the gover- Arkansas and Missouri. The trustees trained to mediate Mutual Investment Services on nor and the State Parks Board couple resides at Whiteman firm Bryan, González Vargas y budget disputes between Brickell Avenue in Miami, where regarding the acquisition AFB, Mo. González Baz, in Mexico City Chapter 13 trustees and United and Ciudad Juárez, where he he specializes in pension, real of land and property rights for estate and insurance planning. He RUSSELL WHITTLE is a partner States trustees across the concentrated on strategic conservation purposes. and his wife, Lauren, reside in in the Ft. Myers office of Conroy, country. One of her major investments by U.S. multinational Finally, he and his wife, Jo, keep Simberg & Ganon, P.A., where he concerns is the elimination of corporations in Mexican telecom- Hollywood with their son, Jacob, busy finishing the building of specializes in worker’s compensa- the unauthorized practice of law munications and cable television who was born Dec. 28, 1998. their house and out-buildings and managing a growing cattle and tion defense. He and his wife, in bankruptcy. She has investi- companies. He met his wife, JEFF SPIGEL was married to Laura, have lived in Ft. Myers for gated and successfully moved Maryela, while working in horse ranch on about 17 acres of Chrissy Havens on June 26, 1999, land in Sedona. All this is in two years with their sons, Jamie the court to prohibit and Mexico. Last year, the couple in Nashville, Tenn., and they addition to raising their beautiful and Douglas. Conroy, Simberg & sanction numerous non- back-packed to Macchu-Pichu on traveled through France for their identical twin girls, Tyler Rae and Ganon is a full service insurance attorney petition preparers. the Inca Trail in the Andes and honeymoon. Spigel practices at defense firm with more than 75 then traveled by canoe to a Nicole, who turned three years the Washington, D.C., office of old last August. attorneys and offices in Holly- CLASS OF 1991 remote ecological station in the Atlanta’s King & Spalding and wood, West Palm Beach, Orlando, Peruvian Amazon jungle. JOE GARCIA specializes in the area of antitrust Coral Gables, and Pensacola, in Schwartz recently addressed the CLASS OF 1994 was elected law. He recently won, along with addition to Ft. Myers. Associação Brasileira de Analistas chairman of the several other plaintiffs’ attorneys, The Class of 1994 will hold its do Mercado de Capitais a $28 million antitrust verdict Florida Public 5th Reunion Celebration this CLASS OF 1990 Service Commis- (Abamec) in São Paulo, Brazil, on against a national heating fall. Members of the class who private equity investments in sion in January company. are interested in helping plan ALBERT A. A. CARTENUTO Brazil. He is fluent in Spanish and 1999. He and his the event for their class should has his own firm in Kendall, where Portuguese and has published ANDRE J. ZAMORANO joined he practices civil, criminal, family wife, AILEEN the Miami office of the Washing- contact Steven Levine on 954- UGALDE, JD ’91, have a several articles and spoken at 922-9100, Andrew Rier on law, and civil and family media- conferences on private equity, ton, D.C., firm of Verner Liipfert daughter, Gabriela Maria, and 305-899-1212 or Cynthia tion. He resides in Kendall with Latin American law and NAFTA. Bernhard McPherson and Hand as his wife, Beverly, and sons Albert reside on Miami Beach. an associate in the firm’s litigation Sikorski, director of alumni Anthony IV and Quentin Xavier. KIMBERLY NOWORYTA relations, 305-284-4935, with DAVID L. GLAZER was recently department. He was formerly an SUNNER has been named share- their ideas and suggestions. nominated to the board of associate at Shutts & Bowen, LLP. THOMAS H. LOFFREDO, a holder of Gray, Harris & Robinson, partner with Holland & Knight, directors of the Alzheimer’s PETER J. BEDARD has joined Association of Greater Miami. P.A., in Orlando. She concentrates CLASS OF 1993 the Chicago office of Vedder, has moved his practice from in the areas of real estate transac- Miami to the Fort Lauderdale Glazer is also managing partner ANNETTE G. CIL serves as clerk Price, Kaufman & Kamholz in tions and financial institutions the firm’s general litigation office. of Behar, Gutt & Glazer, P.A., with to Judge Gerald B. Cope in the and lender representation. practice. Bedard handles all offices in Aventura and Boca Third District Court of Appeal, MICHAEL J. SIPOS is general Raton, which he founded in 1991 aspects of complex construc- EDWARD H. ZEBERSKY was Miami. counsel to the Supreme Court with classmate, IRA GUTT, recently elected to the board of tion and commercial litigation of the Federated States of JD ’91. Glazer heads the elder law, directors of the Academy of PAUL LIMMIATIS joined the including mechanic’s lien and Micronesia, a developing island trusts and estates and real estate Florida Trial Lawyers. He has been Syracuse, N.Y., law firm of Bond, surety claim enforcement. nation of about 210,000 persons departments in this six-attorney reappointed chairman of the Schoeneck & King, LLP, as an Prior to joining Vedder Price, in the western Pacific. FSM’s firm and manages the firm’s AFTL Insurance Task Force and associate in the firm’s labor and he was an associate with 1,600 islands (most of which are business affairs. Ira Gutt is has received the Legislative employment law department. Levinson, Murray & Jensen, uninhabited) are spread across national counsel to Dent Wizard Leadership “Shoe Leather Award” Limmiatis was previously em- P.C., in Chicago. Vedder Price 1,800 miles of ocean, midway International and heads the for his efforts throughout the past ployed as an ERISA litigation is a full-service law firm with between Hawaii and the Philip- firm’s commercial litigation year. His firm, Zebersky & Payne, associate with the Washington law approximately 180 attorneys pines. The FSM is funded by the department. LLP, concentrates its practice in firm of Feder & Associates. in Chicago and New York City. U.S. under a Compact of Free commercial matters and in the Founded in 1897, Bond, Association. For about $100 WILLIAM J. GROSS has been Schoeneck & King comprises BRIAN H. representation of corporate BIEBER has million annually, the U.S. retains named a director with Tripp Scott, 145 attorneys in Albany, Buffalo, clients regarding various issues. been an associ- exclusive military rights to the in Fort Lauderdale. He has been Oswego, Saratoga Springs, and area but currently has no active with the firm since 1993, concen- ate of Joel CLASS OF 1992 Syracuse, N.Y., and in Overland military presence there. trating his practice in finance and Park, Kan., and has an affiliate Hirschhorn, P.A., in Miami, As general counsel, Sipos general corporate law. SCOTT BROOK became partner with offices in Boca Raton, Bonita for the past five drafts appellate and trial court LINDA KNOERR HOBALES, in the Fort Lauderdale office of Springs, and Naples. opinions for official publication, years, concen- partner in the law office of the insurance defense firm of The firm serves small and large creates and revises court rules, businesses, educational and trating on federal and state DeCarlo & Knoerr, P.A., is now Peters, Robertson et al. in January consults with the justices on health care institutions, media, criminal defense as well as the president and owner of 1999. In December 1997, he married Brenda Post and her three municipalities, not-for-profit fraud and regulatory litigation. www.law.miami.edu. 13 BARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Fall 1999 Volume LII Number 2

On August 22, 1998, Bieber Vannoy, PLLC, in North CHRISTOPHER R. ECK was DAVE K. ROY recently expanded in Cupertino, Calif. She worked married his sweetheart of six Wilkesboro, N.C., practicing in the recently hired as director of the the Law Office of Dave K. Roy, most recently on preparing for years, Wendi, senior account areas of plaintiff’s litigation and Division of Historic Preservation P.A., with the addition of DAVID Portal’s initial public offering, manager at Avanti, Case & Hoyt domestic relations. Klinksoum for Miami-Dade County. Both M. SCOTT, JD ’97, formerly which took place in May. She in Miami. returned to North Carolina after prior to attending UM Law and associated with Hayden & Milliken, resides in Santa Clara. practicing for two years afterwards, he worked as an a maritime insurance defense firm KAREN BERG BRIGHAM is as an assistant public defender in archeologist and historian, and in Miami. The West Palm Beach KERI LYNDA returning to the practice of labor Cook County (Chicago), Ill. Before he now oversees the management firm is now known as Roy & HORVAT was and employment law with assuming his current position, and designation of countrywide Associates, P.A., handling general awarded the first Whelan, DeMaio & Kiszkiel, P.A., Klinkosum practiced with the historical and archeological sites, civil litigation, including real estate, Young Lawyer in Miami. She has lived North Carolina firm of Willardson, including the renowned “Miami commercial transactions, admiralty Professionalism in Paris, France, for the past five Lipscomb & Beal, LLP, in the areas Circle.” He recently donated and maritime, as well as criminal Award by the years and has many happy of insurance defense, subrogation, dozens of rare law and other defense and appellate work in all Dade County Bar memories from her sejour . Her Association and criminal defense. books from his personal collec- areas. daughter, Cassandra, is now tion to the UM Law and Otto Young Lawyers Section for perfectly bilingual. PAUL MARTIN is practicing Richter libraries. He resides ANNA SELDEN works for a personal and professional insurance defense and aviation law with his wife, Tracy, in Fort private firm in Washington, devotion to integrity and civility DARREN J. DEVLIN is associ- in Memphis, Tenn. He recently in the practice of law. Lauderdale. where she does automated ated with the firm of Mulvaney, published an article on legal litigation support for the Depart- Kahan & Barry in San Diego. liability in the August 1999 issue of JUSTIN B. ment of Justice. She resides in MICHAEL P. INDERBITZIN Plane and Pilot magazine. ELEGANT has Arlington. (LL.M. in Comparative Law) has ANDREW FROMAN, formerly joined the corporate finance with Kunkel Miller & Hament become associated BRIAN H. NELSON joined the with the law firm WILLIAM C. SMAIL has taken up department of Shearman & in Sarasota, Fla., is proud to Miami office of Akerman residence in the bustling Los Sterling in New York. announce the opening of the Law of William L. Senterfitt as an associate in the Petros, P.A., Angeles megalopolis and is Office of Andrew Froman, P.A., 27 corporate practice group, focusing currently a successful worker’s ROBERT F. LEWIS is an Fletcher Avenue, Sarasota 34237. located at 2937 associate in the Miami office on the dynamic field of informa- S.W. 27 Avenue, compensation defense attorney Telephone: 941-363-0132. Fax: tion technology, internet and new for the midsize office of Sanford of Ruden, McClosky, Smith, 941-364-9393. Froman practices Miami 33133. Telephone: 305-446- Schuster & Russell, P.A., where media law. Nelson represents 3699. Elegant, formerly of Shook, & Cognata in Los Angeles. labor and employment law and clients on technology transfer, he concentrates his practice in commercial litigation. Hardy & Bacon, LLP, will continue CARLOS TARRAGO is in the representation of alcoholic electronic commerce, joint to practice in the areas of commer- ventures, licensing and distribu- charge of contract compliance beverage and tobacco licenses, STEVEN R. LEVINE continues cial, personal injury, and wrongful and negotiation liaison for the alcoholic beverage licensing, teaching his ever-popular course at tion, Y2K liability and related death litigation. He lives on Miami corporate, corporate finance and outsourcing agreement for administrative litigation and UM Law—Violent Crime and Beach with his wife, Jennifer. information technology at Ryder zoning. Lewis was formerly Lawyering Workshop, and he commercial matters. He is a member of the executive council INGRID EULIN has just taken a System, Inc., in Miami. associated with Chadroff, practices at the Hollywood, Fla., Terminello & Terminello, P.A., of the Florida Bar International position with the United States law firm of Lekach Kutzner & in Miami. Ansel. Law Section and serves as co- Patent and Trademark office in CLASS OF 1997 chair of the Section’s Technology Washington, D.C. HENRIK ADAMSEN (LL.M. in PEDRO MENOCAL left his BEN NEWMAN and his wife, and Telecommunications Comparative Law) has begun as position at Steel Hector & Davis, Christina, announce the birth of ANDREW GUSSERT serves the Committee. He is general counsel an associate with the law firm of LLP, and is now associated with their first child, Zachary Lewis, born to the Miami Internet Alliance, senate majority leader in W iscon- Bertel Rasmussen & Fialin, a the Miami office of Kirkpatrick & April 15, 1999. a group dedicated to making sin as director of the Senate Democratic Caucus. Gussert says, member of the Advodan Society Lockhart, LLP. Florida the internet gateway to of law firms which is a loose ERIC ZIMMELMAN continues to “It’s the job I always dreamed of MARNIN MICHAELS (LL.M. in publish his guides to collegiate the Amercias and Caribbean. association of about 50 law firms Founded in 1920, Akerman having”; he coordinates all policy Estate Planning) has joined the cities (Boston, Miami, and and political activity for Wisconsin throughout Denmark. Adamsen’s international tax trust practice Senterfitt is one of Florida’s oldest main area of work is general Orlando), and he has begun a new Senate Democrats. He reports, “It’s group of Baker & McKenzie in its and largest law firms with more practice, including litigation, project: the dissemination of cold up here.” Zurich, Switzerland, office. He discount card mailers in residential than 230 lawyers offering a full corporate and private law, and range of legal services in corpo- continues his practice in cross- markets. He and Nicole were CHRISTOPHER J. KONICEK has also sports and international law. rate, banking, elder law, border estate planning and resides married in January and reside in moved to the Tampa firm of Butler, He resides in Svendborg, Denmark. employment/labor, environmen- in Zurich. Coconut Grove. Burnette & Pappas, where he tal, health care, insurance, practices insurance law. Konicek CHRISTINE L. AGNEW LARRY A. SCHWARTZ recently litigation, maritime and real recently joined the Houston formerly practiced at the Orlando moved to Los Angles CLASS OF 1995 estate law. office of Weil, Gotshal & office of Cameron Marriott Walsh and began working at Lewis, Manges, LLP, where she practices ROBERT S. M. GORMAN has SCOTT F. ROSENBERG is an Ho dges & Coleman, P.A. D’Amato, Brisbois & Bisgaard, joined the New York office of the in the tax department, focusing LLP, a full-service law firm with attorney in private practice and GARY LEIBOWITZ is an associate on corporate and partnership tax international law firm of Fulbright & more than 200 attorneys in six a bank consultant in Miami. He in the Baltimore office of Saul, issues. Jaworski, LLP, where he practices in was previously a national bank offices throughout California, all areas of intellectual property Ewing, Weinberg & Green, where examiner with the O.C.C. and he practices in the litigation DIAMELA DEL CASTILLO has where he practices in the areas law, with a primary emphasis on a bank executive officer. joined the Miami office of of construction defense and high technology patents, particu- department, focusing Rosenberg is currently awaiting on commercial litigation. The Holland & Knight, LLP, as an professional liability defense. larly regarding electrical and the approval of Beach Bank, a associate in the commercial Prior to joining the firm, Schwartz computer-related inventions. Prior longtime Baltimore firm of new bank he is forming on Miami Weinberg & Green recently litigation section. Prior to joining was an associate at Allison & to joining the firm, Gorman was Beach, where he will be a director Holland & Knight, she was an Roberts, P.A., in Miami. He is associated with the law firm of merged with Saul, Ewing, Remick at the South Beach location. & Saul in order to form the new associate with Herzfeld & Rubin licensed to practice in both Hedman, Gibson & Costigan, P.C., in Miami. Holland & Knight is a Florida and California. in New York. Fulbright & Jaworski BENJAMIN P. SHENKMAN mid-Atlantic regional firm, consisting of more than 225 full-service commercial law firm DAVID M. was established in Houston in 1919 (LL.M. in Estate Planning) is with more than 850 attorneys attorneys, with offices in Balti- SCOTT is now and has more than 670 attorneys in pleased to announce the opening practicing throughout 19 offices of his new law office in Boca more, Philadelphia, New York, associated with its Austin, Dallas, Houston, Los in the United States, Mexico and Angeles, New York, San Antonio, Raton, Fla. His practice is Princeton, Wilmington, Harris- DAVE ROY, JD burg and Berwyn. Leibowitz lives Israel. The firm is among the 20 ’96, in the West Washington, Hong Kong and concentrated in the areas of largest law firms in the world, in Baltimore. Palm Beach firm, London offices. wills, trusts, estate planning and providing global representation probate. Roy & Associ- ELIZABETH NEVINS practices in more than 85 areas of law. CARY B. HALL is ates, handling doing plaintiff ’s SHERRY D. WILLIAMS, criminal defense at Bridgeman, Morkin & Shapiro in Fountain ROBERT S. general civil litigation, including work, criminal associated with the Miami office DONALDSON real estate, commercial transac- defense and of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, has Valley (Orange County), Calif. left the business tions, admiralty and maritime, as general business been elected by the Law Alumni ANDREW L. PATTEN practices world in January well as criminal defense and litigation with Association as the vice president insurance law at the Tampa firm 1999 after 25 appellate work in all areas. Scott Margolis, Pritzker for placement. of Butler, Burnette & Pappas. years to pursue a was formerly with Hayden & & Epstein, PA, in Patten formerly practiced at Kass long-term goal of Milliken, P.A., a maritime Towson, Md. following stints as a CLASS OF 1996 Ho dges, P.A., in Sarasota. becoming an insurance defense firm in Miami. judicial law clerk in Baltimore attorney. He practices corporate WILLIAM J. DENIUS is an JEFFREY T. ROBERTS practices County, Md. and as a solo practitio- law, municipal law, and civil and ner. He and his wife, Jennifer associate with Gray, Harris & both criminal defense and civil CLASS OF 1998 Robinson, P.A., in the firm’s litigation in the Jeff Roberts Law criminal defense in the Girone (whom he met Hollidaysburg, Pa., law firm of STEPHEN R. ASTLEY is a JAGC Melbourne, Fla., office. The firm Firm in Newport Beach, Calif. in the 1993 London Summer Evey, Routch, Black, Dorezas, attorney with the United States also has offices in Orlando and He maintains contact with many Program), have two children: Magee & Levine, LLP. Navy. He currently lives in Luke, 2, and Tess, who was born last Tallahassee. He previously served UM Law alumni in southern Honolulu, where he specializes in April. He would love to hear from as a public defender for the 18th California. SABIHA GHOGHAWALA is criminal defense. classmates in his area and beyond. E- judicial circuit of Florida. primarily involved in drafting and Mail: [email protected]. negotiating licensing agreements J. ANTHONY BRADLEY (LL.M. and other corporate contractual in Taxation) is an associate with MAITRI “MIKE ” KLINKOSUM is matters as an in-house contracts Glankler Brown, PLLC, in Mem- an associate with the law firm of attorney at Portal Software, Inc., phis, Tenn., where he practices in Vannoy, Colvard, Triplett & the areas of corporate and estate tax. 14 www.law.miami.edu. B ARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Fall 1999 Volume LII Number 2

CARLOS I. CARDELLE is an with concentrations in medical ANDREA EWART, who is VICTORIA MENDEZ found her associate with the Miami law malpractice defense, medical staff interested in public and interna- summer 1999 employment in the UM Law firm of Hardeman & Suarez, P.A., litigation, antitrust, health care law, tional law, spent the summer Dade State Attorney’s office which specializes in general civil product liability and general working for Holland & Knight in through the Litigation Skills litigation with major emphasis liability. Washington, D.C. She said her Clinical Placement Program. “The Alumni on products liability defense, most interesting projects included: experience I gained was terrific,” ELLEN V ON GEYSO (JD ’98, insurance defense, medical research on a public land use issue she said. “I represented the State on malpractice and legal malpractice LL.M. ’96 in Comparative Law) involving right of way for the D.C. the circuit and county level. In the Association married Max Andres Widmer, a defense. government to build a bridge; circuit level, I participated in Baker 1999–2000 Board of Directors portfolio manager at ABN/AMRO interpretation of D.C. environmen- Acts and Marchman Acts. I also NATALIE J. CARLOS is an Bank in Miami. Ellen is a transac- EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE tal regulations to determine performed research, attended associate with Adorno & Zeder, tional attorney practicing business, President possible penalties for failure to depositions, and attended court on Det H. Joks, ’72 P.A., in Miami, where she real estate and immigration law at disclose underground storage tanks a daily basis. I strongly encourage practices in the areas of commer- Friedman & Heydasch, P.A. in President-Elect on property that has been put up students to participate in the cial litigation and appellate law. Miami. The couple resides on Key Gary M. Carman, ’74 for sale; involvement in various clinical program.” She and her husband, Efrain Biscayne. lobbying efforts; and research on Vice Presidents Carlos, who is currently clerking international arbitration law under KATHLEEN PHANG was pre- Alumni Relations for magistrate judge Stephen T. CLASS OF 1999 NAFTA. sented the Thomas Ewald award Lewis B. Freeman, ’74 Brown in the Southern District of during the Spring 1999 semester. Class Agents Florida, reside in Coral Gables. BARBARA DIAMOND has The award is given every semester joined the Miami office of STEVE HELFAND and JASON David S. Hope, ’96 to the law student in the Litigation Elizabeth Katzen, ’88 AMANDA JASON has joined the Hinshaw & Culbertson as an WEISS each received the Florida Skills program who best exemplifies Fund Raising Miami office of Hinshaw & associate. Hinshaw & Culbertson is Association of Criminal Defense the devotion to high standards and Lawyers award through the Michael J. Higer, ’85 Culbertson. Prior to joining the a national law firm founded in 1934 ethical conduct followed by Tom Litigation Skills program as the Todd S. Payne, ’89 firm, she served as a clerk for the and headquartered in Chicago. The Ewald. Coral Gables firm of High, Stack, firm has more than 400 attorneys in top two second-year law students Placement Lazenby & Palahach. Hinshaw & 32 offices in Illinois, Arizona, who show great promise in the VALDOSTON SHEALEY Carroll J. Kelly, ’89 Culbertson is a national law firm California, Florida, Indiana, practice of criminal litigation. received the Kozyak Tropin & Sherry D. Williams, ’95 founded in 1934 and headquar- Minnesota, Missouri and Wisconsin. Throckmorton scholarship from Regional Programs BROOKS HOLCOMB was a tered in Chicago. The firm has The firm practices in the corporate, the Litigation Skills program. Guy A. Rasco, ’87 more than 400 attorneys in offices 1999 summer associate in the tax Established in 1995 by one of litigation, and transactional areas and estate planning department Secretary located in Illinois, Arizona, Miami’s leading law firms, the and provides service to a range of of O’Connor, Cavanagh, Ander - Alvin F. Lindsay, ’91 California, Indiana, Minnesota, clients in the banking, health third-year full scholarship is Treasurer Missouri and Wisconsin. The firm son, Killingsworth & Beshears, awarded to a second-year minority care, insurance, manufacturing, Michael Blynn, ’77 practices in the corporate, P.A., a full service firm of law student with an interest in real estate and other industries. approximately 150 attorneys in litigation and transactional areas trial advocacy. PAT DRAY is working with the Phoenix, Ariz. He researched and Administrative Liaison and provides service to a range of Associate Dean William P. clients in banking, health care, office of the state attorney for drafted memoranda of law on the DON WEST spent the summer as VanderWyden, JD ’84 insurance, manufacturing, real Miami-Dade County. following projects: Estate tax an intern for sports agent Leigh valuation discounts for LLC estate and other industries. Steinberg in Newport Beach, SUSAN ESCALERA-GREEN operating agreement restrictions Calif. West performed a wide Faculty Liaison AMY A. KLEIN completed her is published in the August 1999 in lieu of I.R.C. Chapter 14, range of duties, including devising Assistant Dean and Professor LL.M. in Real Property Develop- issue of Glamour magazine with double step-up in basis for and managing an agent registra- Stephen K. Halpert ment at the University of Miami her touching story, “Siblings, Arizona community property tion program to comply with School of Law in 1999. Separated for Life,” that refers to with right of survivorship, and tax regulations in 20 states, and he Immediate Past President the 35,000 siblings nationwide aspects of using CRUTs as often attended dinners with Harlan M. Gladstein, ’86 ELIZABETH A. LEFFERT was who are split up by foster-care and beneficiaries of IRAs and other Steinberg’s clients and learned engaged to Mark J. Heise on adoption authorities. Green is qualified plans. “I had a fantastic much of what industry insiders Judicial Directors Christmas Eve 1998. The couple working in the office of the public experience,” he said. “My already knew. West serves as the The Hon. Stanford Blake, JD ’73 will wed amongst family and defender for the 17th judicial interviewers were cognizant of president of the Student Bar The Hon. Beth F. Bloom, JD ’88 friends this fall in Venice, Italy, at circuit in Broward County. Miami’s strong reputation in tax Association, as vice-president The Hon. Stephen T. Brown, JD ’72 the Hotel Cipriani. The bride is and estate planning, and that The Hon. Philip Cook, JD ’52 JOHN TRAVIS GODWIN is of Iron Arrow Society and as an an associate with the litigation helped me get the job.” The Hon. A. Jay Cristol, JD ’59 associated with the firm of Shear, active member of the Society of department of Gunster Yoakley Bar and Gavel. The Hon. Martin R. Dishowitz, JD ’75 Valdes-Fauli & Stewart, P.A., Newman, Rosenkrantz, Burton & ADAM HO ROWITZ was a The Hon. Pedro Echarte, JD ’79 Miami, and the bridegroom is a Lamb, in downtown Tampa. judicial intern with the Bank- KELLY L. WRIGHT spent the The Hon. Margarita G. Esquiroz, JD ’74 partner with the firm of ruptcy Court of the Southern summer of 1998 as an intern for a The Hon. Alejandro E. Ferrer, JD ’86 WALT MATHEWS is associated The Hon. Eugene J. Fierro, JD ’67 Hanzman, Criden, Chaykin, with the Miami admiralty firm of District of New York during the state criminal court judge through summer of 1998. He said the job The Hon. Ronald M. Friedman, JD ’67 Ponce & Heise, P.A., concentrat- Keller & Houck. the law school’s Eleventh Judicial ing in securities class actions. was exciting because the district Circuit program for 1Ls. “I made The Hon. Norman S. Gerstein, JD ’73 The couple resides in Coral TORRENCE R. PHILLIPS is the venue for some of the valuable contacts, which led to The Hon. Carroll J. Kelly, JD ’89 Gables. received the American Board of largest bankruptcy proceedings in me being recommended to newly The Hon. Alan Kornblum, JD ’54 The Hon. Jeffrey Rosinek, JD ’74 Trial Advocates award through the country. He was responsible appointed U.S. Magistrate Judge ANAMARIE MARLOW The Hon. Michael Jay Samuels, JD ’72 the Litigation Skills program for for researching diverse bank- Andrea M. Simonton for a MALTZMAN is a federal judicial being the top third-year minority ruptcy law issues and drafting summer internship this year,” Directors clerk for the Honorable Ursula law student who is interested in memoranda. He also prepared she said. Her responsibilities for Three-year term Ungaro-Benages in the Southern becoming a civil trial lawyer. reports detailing facts and legal Judge Simonton included drafting District of Florida. She resides in Robin J. King, JD ’84 Phillips also served the UM Law issues of particular cases. proposed judicial orders, and Coral Gables. community as its Student Bar preparing the judge for hearings David A. Kobrin, JD ’75 NELDA LAWRENCE, KIM Bruce M. Lyons, JD ’67 REINCE R. PRIEBUS is an Association president during his by researching the law and LEARY, JORDAN LEWIN AND Carlos J. Martinez, JD ’88 associate at Michael Best & third year. reviewing the submitted motions, DAN ROGERS represented UM Michael S. Perse, JD ’86 Friedrich in Milwaukee, where he as well as the entire file. Wright ANDREA Y. WANG will join a Law at the state moot court hopes her experience will lead to Detra P. Shaw, JD ’94 works in the business/corporate competition held at the annual non-profit human rights and civil a federal clerkship following litigation practice area. The firm meeting marking the 50th Two-Year Term rights organization in Patterson, graduation. has more than 230 attorneys in N.Y. She can be reached at 914- anniversary of the Florida Bar in Angela Alvero-Cartolano, JD ’90 offices in Milwaukee, Chicago, 306-0700. Boca Raton in June 1999. AMY Marjorie Baron, JD ’92 and Madison, practicing as a full- BUDOW was the alternate who Fred Harrison, JD ’67 service business/corporate law Edward R. Shohat, JD ’72 CLASS OF 2000 prepared with the team members firm. He and his wife, Sally, live Aimee D. Stein, JD ’78 THIRD-YEAR S TUDENTS each step of the way. in Racine, Wisc. Marva L. Wiley, JD ’95 CHRISTIE CEBALLOS spent GUILLERMO LEVY worked as GINA ROMANIK has joined the a judicial intern in the chambers One-Year Term Keyes Company Realtors, in the summer after her first year as an intern for Judge Alan Gold, a of Judge Gerald Cope, a judge for Spencer M. Aronfeld, JD ’91 Miami, as an associate attorney, U.S. district judge for the Florida’s Third District Court of Richard M. Bezold, JD ’81 where she handles commercial Albert A. Cartenuto III, ’90 Southern District of Florida, and Appeals, during the summer and real estate litigation. Lewis J. Levey, JD ’86 continued to work for him during following his first year of law Gerardo M. Simms, JD ’82 JOEL ROSE serves as an assistant the fall semester of her second school. Following his second year, general counsel to the Edison year. Following graduation, she he worked as a summer associate Anthony N. Upshaw, JD ’90 Project, the nation’s largest plans to return to work for him as in the Miami office of Steel, Presidential Appointments private manager of public schools, a judicial law clerk. Through the Hector, and Davis, where he David I. Gilbert, JD ’72 located in New York City. On-Campus Interview Program, completed assignments from several Gennivieve O. Henriques, JD ’92 she has been employed by the of the firm’s practice areas, Rick H. Strul, JD ’98 BRIAN L. SMITH has joined including real estate, corporate, and Miami-based law firm of Kenny, Erica N. Wright, JD’97 the Orlando office of Adams, Hill, Nachwalter, Seymour, Arnold, bankruptcy. He also had the Reis, Adams, Hall & Shieffelin as Critchlow & Spector, with whom opportunity to work in the firm’s an associate. The firm is a general she is working during the fall Venezuela office for two weeks. litigation law firm involved in semester of her third year. virtually all areas of civil litigation, www.law.miami.edu. 15 BARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Fall 1999 Volume LII Number 2 Law Alumni Association Miami Law Alumni Calendar of Events Want to Know From all reports, the most avidly-read section of the Barrister (for both the printed and the Web site versions) is “Class Notes.” The Law School’s more than 14,000 OCTOBER ’99 alumni want to know what their classmates have been doing—about the awards Tues., 10/5 Alumni breakfast at the 54th Annual Florida Bar Worker’s they’ve received, high-profile cases they’ve won, law firms or cities they have moved Compensation Conference; Dean Dennis Lynch, Guest speaker to, pro bono activities they have undertaken, spouses they have married, etc. 8:30 – 9:30 a.m., Clarion Plaza Hotel, Salon 11, Orlando, FL It’s easy to ensure that your news gets into the communications network: Just fill Thurs., 10/21 Alumni CLE Luncheon Series II out the form below and send it (along with a photograph of yourself, if you like) to Dean Dennis Lynch, Guest Speaker John Burch, Director of Law Publications and Communications, School of Law, 12:00 noon, Faculty Club, UM Campus University of Miami, P.O. Box 248087, Coral Gables, FL 33124-8087. Thurs., 10/28 Friends of the Law School Luncheon 12:00 noon, Miami-Dade County Courthouse If you would like to comment on a Barrister article or on an issue of importance to other UM Law grads through a letter to the editor, please send that submission N OVEMBER ’99 to John Burch, as well. Tues., 11/9 Law Alumni Association Full Board Meeting 5:30 p.m., Downtown Miami location TBA Thurs., 11/18 Homecoming/Reunion 1999 Weekend Name: ______Class Year: ______Class of 1949 50th Reunion Luncheon 12:00 noon, School of Law, Faculty Meeting Room, Coral Gables Home Address:______Fri., 11/19 Class of 1954 45th Reunion Event — TBA Class of 1959 40th Reunion Dinner The Forge, Miami Beach City: ______State: ______ZIP: ______Class of 1969 30th Reunion Event — TBA Class of 1974 25th Reunion Party Home Phone: ______Home FAX: ______Home of Jeff and Elaine Berkowitz Class of 1979 20th Reunion Party Job Title: ______7:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. at the home of Gail & Joe Serota Class of 1989 10th Reunion Event 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor Law Library Type of Business: ______Class of 1994 5th Reunion Party 7:00 to 11:00 p.m., location TBA Employer/ Firm: ______Sat., 11/20 51st Annual Homecoming Breakfast 8:00 a.m., Morning Spirits, Law School Courtyard Business Address: ______9:30 a.m., Breakfast, Whitten University Center/Food Court

DECEMBER ’99 City: ______State: ______ZIP: ______Sun., 12/5 Law Alumni Association Annual Holiday Party, 6:00 p.m., (location TBA) Business Phone: ______Business FAX: ______Sun., 12/19 Hooding Ceremony 2:00 p.m., location TBA E-mail Address: ______J ANUARY ’00 Thurs., 1/6 Alumni/Faculty Reception Would you like your e-mail address included in a directory available on 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Washington, DC UM Law’s Web site? Yes ❏ No ❏ Wed., 1/12 Annual Alumni Luncheon at the 34th Annual Philip E. Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning 12:30 p.m., Fontainebleau Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida Information for “Class Notes”:

MARCH ’00 Thurs., 3/16 Law Alumni Association Full Board Meeting ______5:30 p.m. 4th Floor Law Library Faculty Conference Room ______

MAY ’00 ______Sun., 5/21 Hooding Ceremony ______2:00 p.m., James L. Knight Center, Hyatt Regency, Miami ______JUNE ’00 ______Thurs., 6/1 Fourth Annual Broward Judicial Reception/ LAA Installation Ceremony ______Alumni Association NON-PROFIT Needs Class Agents ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE The Law Alumni Association is ex- Contacting companies about spon- PAID panding its class agent program and soring School of Law events; M IAMI, F LORIDA P.O. Box 248087 needs representatives from each class Collecting information from class- PERMIT NO. 438 year and from all areas of the country mates on careers, marriages, births, Coral Gables, Florida 33124-8087 to help strengthen ties between class- etc., to use in the “Class Notes” sec- mates and the School. tion of the Barrister. Among the ways class agents can help Alumni interested in serving as class are: agents should contact Elizabeth Katzen Calling and/or writing to classmates or David Hope, co-vice presidents/ to encourage participation in upcom- clas s agents in care of the Law School’s ing events such as reunions, Alumni and Development Office at: homecoming, and special receptions; 305-284-3470 (telephone); 305-284- Calling and/or writing to classmates 3968 (fax); or alumni@law. miami .edu to encourage their support for (e-mail). fundraising; Hosting events in their homes or of- fices for local classmates and other alumni; 16 www.law.miami.edu. www.law.miami.edu.