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Nathan McMurray ‘06, senior legal counsel at Samsung Electronics in Seoul, South Korea.

The Enterprise Issue STUDENTS, FACULTY, Plus: AND ALUMNI ON Groundbreaking THE CUTTING EDGE scholarship / OF TECH The tech boom in UC Hastings’ backyard / Cycling Club takes off / SPRING 2014 Donor recognition { CONTENTS }

02 | FROM THE DEAN

03 | FOR THE RECORD

Channeling Abraham Lincoln at the UC Hastings 2013 Swearing-In Ceremony.

04 | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

We welcome your thoughts and comments about UC Hastings magazine.

06 | IN BRIEF

News and notes from the UC Hastings community, including new programs, honors and awards, faculty achievements, and more. 14 | SCHOLARSHIP Upfront Cutting-edge legal research and analyses from Professors Brian Gray, David Takacs, Ben Depoorter, and Jeffrey Lefstin. Cover photo by Dylan Goldby

59 | COMMUNITY Departments Three generations of accomplished alumni. 60 | ADVANCEMENT

A gift from philanthropist Marvin Sussman ’50, scenes from UC Hastings’ inaugural Honors Gala, and more. Plus: UC Hastings celebrates Reunion Donors and UC Hastings Challenge Teams.

68 | THEN AND NOW

With the arrival of tech companies such as Twitter and Zendesk, San Francisco’s Mid-Market area is undergoing a radical transformation.

72 | STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS 68 UC Hastings’ Cycling Club takes off. THE LAW OF HUSTLE UC Hastings is at the beating heart of the can-do, driven, and wildly creative world of tech law. This issue Enterprise looks at how student entrepreneurs, faculty trailblazers, and alumni leaders around the world are shaping everything from privacy policies to startup strategies. 18

Illustration by Michael Wertz

“When you watch people work as hard as entrepreneurs work, and you work alongside them the whole way, and the vision comes to fruition, and the lives of the people at a company are positively altered, it’s like having a hand in helping a group of people win the lottery.” —Jon Gavenman ’91

44 | Your Class Notes WHAT’S NEW WITH YOUR UC HASTINGS COLLEAGUES AND CLASSMATES. 42 POINT OF VIEW > [email protected] Josh Horowitz ’10, general counsel for Crowdtilt, shares his insights into the booming startup culture. { FROM THE DEAN }

UC Hastings College of the Law

Chancellor & Dean | Frank H. Wu welcome Assistant Dean for Institutional Advancement | Shino Nomiya

Director of Communications & Public Dear Alumni and Friends, Affairs | Alex A. G. Shapiro

The best lawyers have always been more than lawyers. Editorial Director | Susan Kostal They must know how to analyze cases and statutes. Senior Communications Writer | They need to be able to argue. Ami Dodson Yet the ones who are hired again and again by the Photography | Jim Block same clients and referred to others are the individuals Design and Production | DCP who solve problems; they offer more than technical Board of Directors expertise. Their counsel is valuable because it is based Marci Dragun ’86, Chair on an understanding of their clients’ ultimate goals. Carin T. Fujisaki ’85, Vice Chair The lawyers who lead are people who share the spirit Donald Bradley ’68 that makes the Bay Area the home of innovation. They Tina Combs ’88 look at the situation that others have been staring at Maureen Corcoran ’79 Thomas Gede ’81 without making progress and see a pattern, which, as Claes H. Lewenhaupt ’89 soon as they describe it, becomes apparent as if it had Mary Noel Pepys ’78 been there all along. Carl W. “Chip” Robertson Jr. ’98 That is why a great law school dedicates itself to Bruce L. Simon ’80 more than theory and doctrine. It develops skills, encourages creativity, and fosters Sandra Thompson ’01 collaboration. Contact Us There is no place in the world like our home. San Francisco is the technological Alumni Center capital of the United States. All around us, no more than a few blocks away, our engi- University of California Hastings College of the Law neering colleagues are inventing what could hardly have been predicted. Every new 200 McAllister Street development in how we conduct commerce and interact as a community demands San Francisco, CA 94102 corresponding responses through law and policy. Our new reality calls for adaptation 415.565.4615

of intellectual property, privacy, and taxation. We practice law, and train others in it, [email protected] using techniques that were unknown a generation ago. www.uchastings.edu

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On December 13, 2013, U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey S. White gave the federal District Court oath at UC Hastings’ annual Swearing-In Ceremony. Judge White’s stirring remarks to the class of 2013 included a paraphrased reference to one of Abraham Lincoln’s most famous quotes: “Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser—in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker, the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.”

UC HASTINGS 3 • • Thank you for your reporting on faculty scholarship and alumni giving in the fall 2013 edition of UC Hastings magazine. I read with interest Professor Osagie K. Obasogie’s interview regarding his recently published book, Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind (Stanford Univ. Press). Being “colorblind” has somehow become an excuse for being blind to racism—even in recent opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court—and I am glad to see that Professor Obasogie has taken up this important and timely topic. Likewise, big kudos to the Lawrence M. Nagin ’65 Faculty Enrichment Fund for funding Professor Obasogie’s book. — Yelda Bartlett ’06 Bartlett Law Firm, Oakland

• • Thank you for highlighting widely inform social perceptions, Obasogie’s book. I was struck engaged scholarship in the fall power relations, social policy, and by the statement “If blind people issue of UC Hastings magazine. the law. Professor Obasogie’s work aren’t colorblind, who can be?” I You powerfully acknowledge the reminds us all that we have a duty am still baffled that after our cel- profoundly important contribu- to engage in dialogue about how ebration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s tions of law professors to research these perceptions translate in our “I Have a Dream” speech 50 years agendas that break down barriers various systems and continue ago, we are still being judged by between practice and the “ivory to disadvantage certain groups. the color of our skin. tower,” scholarship that seeks to Furthermore, his work challenges Skin color continues to be amplify the direct impact of legal our prevailing “colorblind” legal an obstacle for many minority issues on ordinary people’s lives. narrative explaining inequality attorneys. The general public still Specifically, I’d like to commend and calls on policymakers and imagines a judge or prosecutor you on the piece highlighting courts to better reflect the social as a gray-haired old white man. Professor Osagie K. Obasogie’s reality of race. Legal scholarship Generally, people do not picture book Blinded by Sight: Seeing at UC Hastings and across the California Supreme Court Chief Race Through the Eyes of the country has great potential to Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Blind, an important study of the make an impact on our systems California Attorney General persistence of racial thinking and and advance critical questions Kamala Harris, Los Angeles socialization in American society, for society. I hope to see thought- District Attorney Jackie Lacey, and the deleterious consequences provoking dialogues such as this San Francisco District Attorney on justice and equity. Professor one continue. George Gascon, or U.S. Attorney Obasogie takes a unique approach — Paul Henderson General Eric Holder. Yet lawyers of to studying race and examining Deputy Chief of Staff/Public color occupy the highest positions the claim that we have become a Safety, Office of Mayor in government. “colorblind” society, exposing the Edwin M. Lee, San Francisco The private sector is another doctrinal fallacy of the purported story. There is a distinct lack of need for “colorblind” equal protec- • • I am writing to comment diversity among law partners at tion jurisprudence. on the article in the fall 2013 large law firms. The obstacles for As demonstrated in the arti- UC Hastings alumni magazine minority attorneys seeking part- cle’s interview, race continues to regarding Professor Osagie K. nership remain.

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These law firms need to I had little understanding of acknowledge the demographic the potential ahead. For $100 change in our world and provide per semester, I joined a class of greater opportunities for partner- students and received what I still ship for people of color. Give us a consider an extraordinary educa- chance by being colorblind. tion at “no frills” UC Hastings. — Eddie Angeles ’90 UC Hastings transformed Los Angeles Department me. Distinguished students. UC Hastings magazine of Water and Power Outstanding faculty. Clinical programs in the heart of San won two awards • • The fall 2013 issue of UC Francisco. Jerome “Jerry” Sack recently. It won a Gold Hastings magazine, which ’48 [“One Alumnus’s Generosity Pearl Award from the focused on recent faculty schol- Begets Another’s”] was just the arship, was filled with striking cherry on the sundae for me as a Custom Publishing examples of the influence wielded first-year student. The “offeree” Council for its cover by UC Hastings’ instructors. and “offeror” in contracts class Especially impressive is the con- became “the screwee” and “the feature, in spring 2013, sistent impact that research has screwer.” All of a sudden, it of California Attorney on regulatory best practices and started making sense to me. General Kamala Harris legislative initiatives. Professor Keep up the good work. Robin Feldman’s publications on — Peter Arth Jr. ’71 ’89. It also won a Silver patent trolls are of particular inter- Dunsmuir, Calif. Award from the CASE est to IP-focused practitioners such as myself because of the way • • UC Hastings magazine has District VII, the Council they have informed dialogues tak- followed me from San Francisco for the Advancement ing place within the U.S. Patent to Los Angeles, New York, Berlin, and Support of and Trademark Office and Federal and Paris. With each of my moves, Trade Commission. Thank you the magazine seems to look bet- Education, for its fall for highlighting some of the many ter. Congratulations on a smart 2013 cover feature exciting accomplishments of our product. distinguished faculty. — Anne Dorfman ’85 on the scholarship of — Daniel Turner ’10 San Miguel de Allende, Professor Osagie K. Gagnier Margossian, Mexico Obasogie. San Francisco

• • I came from a farming family in Southern California. The idea that I would someday pass the California bar and become an attorney (or much of anything) was a far-fetched notion when I left Redlands for college in Oregon in 1963. When I entered UC Hastings,

UC HASTINGS 5 From left: 1Ls Randall Coard, Jeanette Acosta, Chris Ballard, and Nancy Arévalo.

DEDICATED TO SERVICE Four Bar Foundation Scholarship winners represent extraordinary commitment to public advocacy

rom homeless services to immigrant rights, about as a law school,” says Mark Aaronson, F public service advocacy is paramount to emeritus professor and founder of the Civil each of UC Hastings’ four first-year California Justice Clinic. “Especially because we have { Bar Foundation Diversity Scholarship award a diverse student body, we view as central to winners. Twenty-two first-year law students our educational mission preparing them to statewide received the award in 2013, and UC become responsive, high-quality, problem- Hastings is honored by its students’ commit- solving lawyers who make pro bono service ment to championing the underprivileged. and striving for social justice a continuing and “Having students like this year’s California Bar integral part of a lifetime in law.” Foundation fellows is what UC Hastings is all

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Jeanette Acosta “Honestly, I am just trying to contribute,” he Immigration and education reform are impor- says. “Trying to contribute something mean- tant to Acosta, whose grandparents left Mexico ingful to UC Hastings and the broader legal for the United States and instilled in her a deep community so that one day the doors that have appreciation for education. been opened for me will be opened for others.” After interning for former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and leading a university- Randall Coard wide scholarship fund for low-income students Coard’s life took a dramatic turn nearly 20 at USC, Acosta founded a learning center for years ago when he slipped while sitting on a mostly immigrant families in Hollister through window ledge and fell seven stories, breaking the Cesar Chavez Foundation and AmeriCorps. his neck. “I lost my job, my insurance, every- She later received a Fulbright research grant to thing. I got to experience—like many people study education policy and developmental pro- in the Tenderloin—what it is to have nothing,” grams in Zacatecas, Mexico. Acosta received he says. a master’s in public policy from the Harvard Coard began volunteering for organizations Kennedy School. After law school, Acosta that assist people in need and is a founding hopes to continue advocating on behalf of member of the San Francisco Reentry Council, immigrants and students. “My family worked so which coordinates support efforts for newly hard to get to this point; I feel a responsibility released prisoners. “This is what I wanted to do to make sure others have the same opportuni- with my life,” he says. “And getting a legal edu- ties,” she says. cation is central to my goals. Passing the bar is very important to me. I want to become an Nancy Arévalo attorney so I can return the favor to those who Arévalo’s experience as an immigrant and have helped me, and especially to those who farmworker has also shaped her view on the have the least access to the legal system.” law. As a high school student in Patterson, Arévalo worked sorting apricots and tomatoes alongside her parents, who fled El Salvador’s civil war in the 1980s. “I saw the things they went through,” she says. “So I’m grateful for the opportunities I’ve had, and now I have an opportunity to help others in similar situations.” Arévalo spent six years working for the National Senior Citizens Law Center in Oakland before law school. She has degrees in sociology and Spanish literature from UC Berkeley.

Chris Ballard Despite growing up poor in the San Joaquin Valley, Ballard turned down a lucrative job offer after college in favor of returning home to work for a nonprofit as a community organizer. At 23, he was appointed to the city of Wasco’s Planning Commission, becoming the youngest commissioner in California state history and his city’s first African-American chairman oversee- ing city development. Ballard saw that earning a law degree would help him better understand the legal complexities that govern the world we live in.

UC HASTINGS 7 FOR A DEEPER DIVE New opportunities for students and professionals to pursue relevant and career-enhancing legal studies

UC Hastings is partnering with Germany’s Bucerius Law School to create a summer program in transnational law and IP licensing that will offer students, as well as practicing lawyers, advanced training. The program will give participants an inten- sive overview of IP law, with an emphasis on the comparative legal systems of the European Union and the United States. “It is a unique program that will give students hands-on transnational and transactional IP experience,” says Professor in Residence Dana Beldiman, who will teach at the program along with Professor Jeffrey Lefstin. “These are some of the skills most needed by today’s lawyers in order to design effective global IP strategies.”

Above and below: Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany. UC Hastings students will earn five units of course credit. The program runs July 22–August 8, 2014, in Hamburg, Germany. For more information, contact Professor Jeffrey Lefstin at 415.565.4658 or [email protected].

Last year, UC Hastings introduced its Master of Studies of Law for Business and Technology Professionals, a one-year program for people looking to pursue legal studies—without the time or need for a full three-year JD commitment. “There is a real need for business professionals who regularly interact with lawyers to learn the language of law,” explains Professor Jeffrey Lefstin, the program’s faculty adviser. “This gives them a competitive edge, helps them foresee legal problems, and enables them to use their legal resources more effectively.” MSL students must take Legal Writing and Research as well as Introduction to Law; apart from those requirements, students are free to enroll in the same courses as JD students and tailor their education to their needs. “One reason it works so well is the amount of individualized attention we give to each student,” says June Sakamoto, assistant dean of the Graduate Division. “MSL students benefit from having a close-knit cohort, as well as ready access to their professors and advisers.” To learn more about the MSL for Business and Technology

Professionals, email [email protected], or call 415.581.8854. TOP: KONSTANTIN KLEINE; BOTTOM (2): RONALD FROMMANN { IN BRIEF }

THE ADJUNCT ADVANTAGE Leading tech attorneys add firepower to UC Hastings’ faculty roster

tudents tend to remember Charles Tait students a cutting-edge IP legal education. S Graves ’98 very well. They contact him years “Lawsuits involving trade secrets claims and after they’ve studied California trade secret law related IP have been growing over the years, in his class to say that they’ve been thinking of and law schools have been slow to address this him—because an issue he taught them has just issue,” says Graves, a partner at Wilson Sonsini come up on the job. Goodrich & Rosati. “What we do at UC Hastings { That’s exactly what Graves wants to hear. is different from what a lot of law schools offer.” Along with other UC Hastings adjunct profes- UC Hastings has long turned to adjunct professors—who teach everything from business law sors in IP practice areas to prepare students for for startups to cyberlaw—he aims to give his the worlds of high tech, mergers and acquisitions, and patents. These instructors, from some of the Bay Area’s most influential firms, have a Charles Tait Graves ‘98 wealth of hands-on experience advising local inventors, founders, and investors. “I love how engaged the students are,” says Chris Mammen, a partner at Hogan Lovells who teaches a seminar on patent law. “And they’re motivated to do things independently, like write an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court,” he says, which they did in connection with a software patent case, Alice Corporation v. CLS Bank. Joseph Gratz, a partner at Durie Tangri, describes his cyberlaw course as “a tour of everything you need to know to be competent in-house counsel at an Internet company.” Since he first taught the seminar in 2010, Gratz has overhauled the syllabus to reflect rapid-fire changes in the field. “At least once a year, a case blows away everything that came before it or re-encapsulates it with the most current thinking on the law,” says Gratz. “We are definitely at the leading edge of these types of classes.” Adjuncts who teach startup classes ground students in legal theory while immersing them in issues affecting tech enterprises. “I treat them like first-year associates,” says Glen Van Ligten ’90, a Gunderson Dettmer partner. “So they have a jump on most folks who join a corporate law firm.” Van Ligten has been impressed by his students’ practical bent. “Early on, they’re already thinking about solving real-world problems,” he says. “They’re right more often than I’d expect.”

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INTERDISCIPLINARY PURSUITS UC Hastings is attracting more law students with hard science backgrounds

irst-year student Asha Pandya came to Silicon F Valley in the early 1980s after finishing her master’s degree in aerospace engineering at the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology and a second master’s at Penn State in computational fluid dynamics. After working for a computer hardware company, Pandya embarked on a second career teaching AP high school cal- culus and physics. At the age of 60, Pandya decided her true calling was motivating more girls and minority students to get involved in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), and to help restore the United States’ international standing in K-12 math and science education—and she decided she needed a law degree to do it. “I thought if I got a law degree, I’d be able to make a difference at the policy level,” she says. UC Hastings’ location and reputation made it an easy From left: 1Ls Asha Pandya choice, she adds. and Zachary Flood. Whether it’s the school’s

10 SPRING 2014 proximity to the city’s startup was published in the journal courses in disability and elder world, or its specialized offer- Neuroscience. Flood then law, food and drug law, plus ings in health care and patent worked for three years in a lab bioethics and public health law. law and its affiliation with at MIT, investigating genetic The school’s science-to-law UCSF, UC Hastings is becoming risk factors for psychiatric disor- writing program offers help in a magnet for law students who ders. As a JD candidate, Flood the area where science students have backgrounds in science is interested in the intersection often need it the most: learning and engineering. of criminal law and behavioral to write for a legal audience. In fact, just under 10 percent psychology. “I always knew Professor David Faigman, of incoming students over the UC Hastings was a good who co-directs the Consortium, past three years hold some kind school,” Flood says, “and observes that UC Hastings of science degree, according the Consortium is really has “become a leader where to Greg Canada, UC Hastings’ interesting.” law and science meet.” He says, assistant dean of admissions. For 2L Foram Dave, who “Whether students are inter- “We’ve definitely seen a bump,” has also been published in a ested in intellectual property, he says. “A number of things medical journal, UC Hastings’ neuroscience, forensic psychia- contribute to that: One is our patent law program was the try, or any other specialty area, intellectual property and health primary draw. After working for they have the opportunity to law programs, certainly, in a medical device company after work with premier researchers addition to all the tech firms in college, she decided to pur- blazing new paths in interdisci- this area with a growing inter- sue a JD, having already seen plinary understanding.” It is, he est in biotech.” just how complicated—and says, “a very dynamic time to Zachary Flood, another crucial—patent law is to the be working in law and science, first-year student, points to science world. and, in particular, it is very the school’s location as one of In addition to patent law, UC exciting to be doing this work at the biggest reasons he applied Hastings also offers a health UC Hastings.” here. He was also attracted to law concentration that includes its strong patent law program and the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science, and Health Policy, which pairs Students have the opportunity to work with law and medical students in “ premier researchers blazing new paths in joint research, training, and service programs at the two interdisciplinary understanding. It is a very campuses. Flood graduated from UC dynamic time to be working in law and Santa Barbara with a degree in science, and, in particular, it is exciting to biopsychology. As an under- graduate, he led a study on be doing this work at UC Hastings. brain growth dynamics that —PROFESSOR DAVID FAIGMAN ”

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IMPLICIT BIAS AT WORK Professor Joan C. Williams offers strategies to help women Feldman Testifies in Congress confront workplace challenges In November 2013, Professor Robin Feldman testified before the Women are stalling out in their advance to House Committee on Energy & Commerce about the effects of the highest levels of the workplace because patent monetization entities, known as trolls. She returned to “implicit bias is still pervasive,” says Professor Washington, D.C., to brief Senate staffers working on patent reform Joan C. Williams, director of UC Hastings’ Center for WorkLife Law. “I decided to give legislation. Earlier this year, Feldman filed an amicus brief inAlice women concrete strategies for navigating Corporation v. CLS Bank. It was the third amicus brief Feldman filed workplaces—not as we wish they were but as with the U.S. Supreme Court in recent months. This year, the high we find them.” court has the most active patent docket it has had for decades. Williams does just that in What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know (NYU Press 2014), “It is an extraordinary moment in patent law co-authored with Rachel Dempsey, her history, with all three branches of government daughter. The book draws on outcomes of hundreds of studies and insights from new focusing on patent reform.” —PROFESSOR ROBIN FELDMAN research—127 interviews with women at the top of their fields. Williams and Dempsey offer a guide for managing on-the-job challenges: constant demands to prove yourself, the tightrope between being too masculine and too feminine, the wall in promotions when motherhood beckons, and conflicts among female co-workers. The advice is intergenerational, humorous, candid—and doable. Booklist said, “What Works for Women at Work is filled with street-smart advice and plain old savvy about the way life works in corporate America.” As Anne-Marie Slaughter observes in the book’s foreword, “Men should read this book to understand; women should read this book to act.” JAY MALLIN JAY

12 SPRING 2014 Julia Jackson, director of educational technologies.

BOOTING UP ONLINE LEARNING

Hybrid courses deliver the optimal blend of resource utilization and improved learning

e can’t know whether Socrates UC Hastings Chief Information consultants train faculty to use W would have been enthusiastic Officer Jake Hornsby and Jackson, the latest digital tools, including about how his method of instruction who is spearheading the online learn- Blackboard, a learning management has evolved. But there is definitely ing initiative, are working to create system that establishes a virtual excitement among the tech-savvy that vibrant virtual environment. “home” for course communications generation at UC Hastings for The school debuted its first online and resources, such as the syllabus, changing the way that law is taught classes in fall 2013: Professor Jaime class assignments, course readings, here—namely, by embracing new King’s Introduction to Bioethics and and video lectures, as well as reflec- digital tools and online curricula. Professor Robert Schwartz’s Basic tive interactive tools like discussion “We’re in new territory,” says Julia Medical Malpractice and Informed boards, wikis, journals, and more. Jackson, UC Hastings’ director of edu- Consent course. Adjunct Professor Already half of UC Hastings’ faculty cational technologies. “The research Rochelle Shapell is unveiling her use Blackboard actively. Adobe shows that online courses can be not online California Civil Procedure Connect, which convenes real-time only equal to, but even better than, course this spring. Shapell uses online meetings, provides a platform traditional classroom instruction.” a “flipped classroom” approach: for webinars, virtual classes, and The tools built into today’s learning Lectures take place online, and class virtual office hours. management systems provide an time is reserved solely for discussion. “This is the forefront of technol- experience that surpasses traditional The library also plays an important ogy and education,” Jackson says. face-to-face instruction, especially role. Shapell uses an “embedded “It’s important to have educational in terms of flexibility, Jackson says. librarian” concept that places library technology services that address “Lectures are available anytime, services directly within her online the evolving teaching and learning anywhere. Online discussion boards course, making the librarian a power- needs of faculty and students. Agile foster increased student-teacher ful partner in instruction. learning technologies accelerate interaction outside the classroom. Adapting curriculum for the student learning, empower produc- Polls and quizzes give immediate Web isn’t always easy for profes- tivity, and lead to more meaningful feedback to help students focus on sors who have relied for years on a engagement, on- and off-line.” comprehension gaps.” whiteboard. Jackson and outside

UC HASTINGS 13 From left: Eco-experts Brian Gray and David Takacs.

LAW PROFESSORS BRIAN GRAY AND DAVID ON THE TAKACS ’08 PRODUCE GROUNDBREAKING SCHOLARSHIP ON TWO FUNDAMENTAL FRONT LINES OF SUBJECTS: WATER AND TREES ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

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BRIAN GRAY: BRINGING Circuit, he was hired by made to accommodate “Who owns the land? Who INTEGRATIVE THINKING UC Hastings and has been the competing interests of owns the trees? Who owns TO WATER LAW teaching water resources, water supply, population the right to carbon credits environmental law, and growth … and restoration from those trees? Ten to 15 Professor Brian Gray has related subjects ever since. and protection of our rivers years ago, no one thought his fingerprints all over Gray’s scholarship and aquatic ecosystems.” of carbon as a property, the complex system that has focused on property This kind of multidi- something people could delivers water to most rights and environmental mensional thinking is at own. Now, we have to think Californians. The scenario regulation, the Endangered the very heart of Gray’s of carbon rights.” goes something like this: Species Act, water work. “This field is end- Takacs, who has Snow falls on the Sierra resources management, lessly interesting,” he says, published widely on this Nevada and Coast Ranges climate change, and the “because it is this fascinat- subject, has a PhD in and is then channeled to use of market incentives to ing convergence of science, science and technology the farms and cities of the encourage more efficient economics, law, history, studies from Cornell and Central Valley, Bay Area, use and allocation of water. public policy, and politics.” was a professor of earth and Southern California. The California Legislature systems science before En route, it builds political has enacted into law several DAVID TAKACS: turning to law. He has been and financial empires, and of his recommendations DEFINING NEW LEGAL in the vanguard of scholars provokes conflicts among on in-stream water rights CONCEPTS TO PROTECT attempting to ground these environmental, farming, and water transfers. He also OUR PLANET complex transactions in a recreation, and develop- has advised Congress on legal foundation. In a recent ment interests—all of which constitutional issues related If Brian Gray has found paper for the Vermont Law make it a rich legal subject. to federal water policy and legal riches in water, his Review, for example, he Gray began his career argued other environmen- former student and cur- took on the thorny mat- in the early ’80s, working tal cases before the state rent collaborator on UC ter of how principles of with the Howard Rice law Supreme Court and the Hastings’ environmental international law can be firm in San Francisco. By Ninth Circuit. track, David Takacs ’08, has adapted to a climate pro- chance, he was assigned In recent years, Gray found it in another primal tocol that requires intrusive to two cases involving San has co-authored a series element—trees. Takacs has measurement and verifica- Francisco’s Hetch Hetchy of books and monographs been involved in articulat- tion practices—confirming, project, which supplies on California water policy ing an entirely new set of say, that a forest is indeed water from the Tuolumne in collaboration with the legal principles prompted being preserved as prom- River to the Bay Area. Public Policy Institute by the global effort to ised—that cross traditional Though he knew noth- of California (PPIC)—a reduce greenhouse gases. boundaries of national ing about water law, Gray research institution known To offset their emissions, sovereignty. quickly learned its impor- for its engagement with polluters may purchase the “This is where climate tance in the American state environmental rights to preserve the car- policy and science meet the West. policies. His analyses of the bon embedded in trees in law,” Takacs says. “It repre- Then, Gray was assigned often controversial efforts distant rain forests. These sents a new legal frontier.” to another legendary case: to align public policy with trade-offs, or carbon off- And this frontier is He defended the Carter environmental goals are of sets, are part of the funding exactly where many law administration’s desig- particular relevance now, for a comprehensive inter- students want to be these nation of five Northern with California experienc- national strategy known as days. “If you want an intel- California rivers as “wild ing an extreme drought. REDD+, reducing emissions lectually stimulating and and scenic” against the Gray and his colleagues from deforestation and for- ethically based career, Reagan administration’s from PPIC, UC Davis, and est degradation. environmental law is it,” efforts to repeal the protec- Stanford have written: “In But commodifying the Takacs says. “New jobs and tions it provides. Shortly the long term, hydrologic right to preserve carbon in professional titles we hadn’t after successfully argu- changes may impel us to living organisms carries with even thought about before ing the case in the United reconsider the tenuous it a bundle of legal chal- are taking shape right now.” States Court of the Ninth compromises we have lenges. As Takacs puts it,

UC HASTINGS 15 FALSE POSITIVES, WINNING LOSERS, AND BROKEN SYSTEMS

PROFESSOR BEN DEPOORTER OFFERS ORIGINAL AND TIMELY ANALYSES OF COPYRIGHT LAW

n a recent article titled I“The Upside of Losing,” Professor Ben Depoorter— an expert on copyright enforcement and litigation theory—takes a position even prompt legislative The result is a growing provisions of the Copyright that might seem coun- initiatives that reverse the number of “false posi- Act to discourage lawsuits terintuitive. Published in unfavorable judicial deci- tives,” which lead to actions based on false positives. In the Columbia Law Review sions or induce broader against uses that are not fact, Depoorter says, the in April 2013, the article reform.” actual infringements. entire U.S. Copyright Act challenges the idea that In another recent paper False positives, Depoorter of 1976 needs reform. “The litigation is pursued only for the Notre Dame Law says, “inflict significant consumption and distribu- when favorable outcomes Review, Depoorter returns social harm in the form of tion of content is entirely can be achieved. Depoorter to the subject of litigation, increased litigation and different now, and courts argues that losing battles especially as it pertains transaction costs, distor- are trying to fit old laws are often the ones that lead to copyrights. The article, tions of licensing markets into new circumstances,” to social change. “Copyright False Positives,” through rent-seeking he says. He writes: “Unfavorable co-authored with Robert behavior, increased piracy “My research shows litigation outcomes can Kirk Walker ’13, explores due to diminished public there is a misalignment be uniquely salient and how copyright holders adherence with copyright between the law and powerful in highlighting deploy new technologies to law, and the systemic ero- the realities of copyright the misfortunes of individu- search for alleged infringe- sion of free speech rights infringement and enforce- als under prevailing law, ments online. While such and the public domain.” ment,” Depoorter says. And while presenting a broader automated enforcement There’s no easy fix, he unless the litigation system narrative about the current technologies reduce costs says, but a good place is fixed and the Copyright failure of the legal status for copyright holders, they to start is by heighten- Act rethought, he warns, quo. The resulting public fail to factor in the nuances ing copyright registration the law will continue to be backlash may slow down of copyright law or the requirements and revis- broken on a regular and legislative trends and can tenets of fair use. ing the statutory damage uncontrolled basis.

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“The restrictions on patents that the Supreme Court is now imposing are t’s conventional wisdom Court’s 2013 decision modern developments. If we look into the historical precedents on which today’s Iamong scholars that laws Association for Molecular court relies, a very different picture begins remain trapped in amber, Pathology v. Myriad to emerge.” —Professor Jeffrey Lefstin but our interpretations Genetics, which established evolve over time. Yet to a that isolated human genes surprising degree, we keep can’t be patented. Lefstin grappling with the same filed an amicus brief in conundrums that preoc- support of Myriad’s argu- cupied our forebears. In the ment that gene patents patent system, for example, should be valid, based on lawmakers have debated a long lineage of patent SEARCHING THE for more than a century the jurisprudence. distinction between a dis- But, Lefstin says, the SOUL OF IP LAW covery and an invention—or question of genes is less between what exists and important than how we what is man-made. distinguish inventions and PROFESSOR JEFFREY LEFSTIN EXAMINES This question is so fun- discoveries. “The restric- THE HISTORY OF PATENTABILITY damental, according to UC tions on patents that the Hastings Professor Jeffrey Supreme Court is now Lefstin, it borders on meta- imposing are modern physical. “What should be developments,” he says. “If eligible for exclusive rights, we look into the historical and what do we regard as precedents on which today’s part of mankind’s common court relies, a very different heritage?” Lefstin asks. picture begins to emerge.” Lefstin, who earned a Lefstin continues, PhD in biochemistry before “American patent law getting a law degree, says reached the conclusion that his scientific background an inventor might patent helps him “see the under- any practical application of lying issues” that inform a new discovery, and that discussions of ownership, standard served us well especially as they relate to through far more radical biotechnology. technological transforma- No matter what patent tions than the ones we question is on the legal experience today.” battlefront—be it software The Supreme Court will or human genes—Lefstin next address these issues believes a historical in the context of software analysis can shed light on and other computer-imple- the debate. He traces the mented inventions, where history of patentability the lower courts have been in a forthcoming article, deeply divided. Lefstin says because, he says, “these are the key question in Alice not new questions. We need Corporation v. CLS Bank, to pay attention to how to be decided this year and people have been strug- for which he filed an amicus gling for the past 160 years brief, will be whether the to distinguish between an court adopts the approach invention and a discovery.” it has taken with scientific This question was at discoveries to judge the pat- the heart of the Supreme entability of abstract ideas.

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The Law of Hustle

It’s impossible to dismiss the energy of Mid-Market. Cranes tower overhead, raising up housing and office space for innovative companies. There’s a viral excitement that’s transforming the city, and UC Hastings is accelerating it. Our alumni helped forge Silicon Valley. And now a new wave of attorneys is playing an integral role in San Francisco’s latest tech boom. We train advocates to be “more than just the lawyer in the room.” They are partners in enterprise, driving value and having a hell of a good time in the process. In the pages ahead, you’ll see how.

Illustration by Michael Wertz

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The Startup Legal Garage An innovative program matches law students with tech entrepreneurs—with win-win results.

ack in 2012, a couple of thousand “It was the perfect Aditya Mohan dollars” to pay a lawyer, test case,” Belle recalls. was in the early he says. “I was not even “The founder was trying stages of form- paying myself.” to follow the rules and ing his startup, After consulting legal needed a lot of work. He a social mobile and online resources, he was overwhelmed, but platform. Called was able to incorporate hiring lawyers was too Skive it, the company Skive it himself, but the expensive.” provides consumers a way real leap forward didn’t to preview nightclubs, happen until he attended Tech Trailblazer beaches, hotel rooms, and a workshop put on by The program is the brain- shops before spending the UC Hastings’ Privacy child of Professor Robin time and money to actu- and Technology Project. Feldman, director of the ally go there. The platform There, he says, “I had that Institute for Innovation offers real-time video kind of change-your-life Law, which was named by reviews with personalized good fortune” to meet PreLaw magazine as one rankings based on user Charles Belle ’10, the of the 25 most innovative taste. The idea, Mohan executive director of UC programs in the country. believed, would give users Hastings’ Institute for She’d been talking with “I learned the a virtual way to deter- Innovation Law. At the law firms about what skills nature of client mine a place’s vibe, a time, Belle was expand- students needed after sort of try-before-you-buy ing the institute’s new graduation and realized service—that approach. Startup Legal Garage, that students with first- you have to get Mohan knew a lot about a program that matched hand tech-law experience it right and be contracts and licensing, needy startup founders would be at a competitive having once worked in with eager tech-lawyers- advantage in this booming responsive. It business development at to-be. In chatting with sector. was the most Oracle, where he closely Mohan, Belle determined “We’re in the middle observed lawyers dur- that Skive it met all of of the tech and biotech applicable work ing acquisitions. But the program’s potential mecca of the universe,” I did in law he lacked some crucial client requirements: a she says. “Students should knowledge to get his consumer-based startup know how to serve this school. ” business off the ground. with little to no funding community. With Startup —Christopher He needed legal advice, that had critical legal Legal Garage, we’re giv- Masterson ’13 but he didn’t have “even problems. ing them the resources to

20 SPRING 2014 From left: Jose Campos ’13, Christopher Masterson ’13, and Skive it’s Aditya Mohan at Runway, a tech incubator in San Francisco.

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understand California’s population and promote Bridging the economy and job “ [The program] growth.” was everything ’ The program gives Tech s Gender students the chance to I wish I’d had in provide corporate assis- law school.” and Racial Gap tance to early-stage tech and biotech companies —Justin Hovey, Pillsbury UC Hastings’ social mission informs every program at under the supervision Winthrop Shaw Pittman the law school, and Startup Legal Garage is no excep- of leading attorneys tion. Senior fellow Nnena Ukuku—a Bay Area attorney throughout the Bay Area. strategies, and privacy. who provides legal counsel to both startups and In a very real sense, it’s a In the seminar portion corporate clients—is charged with finding women and minority founders who can gain access to the tech sec- win-win-win for all three of the program, students tor through the program’s services. parties involved: The share what they’re work- To do so, Ukuku works closely with incubators and students get hands-on ing on—with confidential community groups that are “organized around a par- training, the client gets information removed— ticular affinity,” including Women 2.0, Black Founders, pro bono legal advice, and which helps bring doctrine and Girls in Tech, as well as trade organizations like the the participating lawyers alive. “Hypos are not from Silicon Valley Leadership Group. Those groups vet the companies, giving program administrators assurance get to be part of a bold casebooks but from real that they’re not fly-by-night operations. new approach to teaching. clients,” Feldman says. “The incubators sort and make sure the inventors are “Firms see themselves as “Students are studying law product ready, and have the kind of matters we want shaping law school educa- as it evolves, not decades- students to do,” Professor Robin Feldman explains. In tion,” Feldman says. old cases.” addition to pure legal advice, many startups need regu- Before reaching the One of the Startup Legal latory guidance, particularly in the areas of immigration and privacy. Startup Legal Garage, Garage’s first participants, The goal, according to Ukuku, is to provide services companies from across Christopher Masterson ’13, to people who don’t already have power or connec- industries—including worked with Skive it. (He’s tions. “This actually moves the needle and helps the mobile, payments, now an associate at Sidley community rise up,” says Ukuku, who in 2012 was gaming, hardware, and Austin in Palo Alto.) The named one of Forbes’ Women Changing the World for identity protection—are program, which he partic- her work with Black Founders Startup Ventures. “Legal work is a huge cost center for a lot of companies, and vetted by incubators ipated in during his third we want to give women and minority founders a level such as the California year of law school, began playing field.” Institute for Quantitative with weekly lectures The gap between blacks and whites is directly Biosciences, Hackers/ by entrepreneurs and connected to technology, Ukuku adds. Assisting Founders, Mozilla tech company in-house minority-owned companies “helps the whole commu- WebFWD, Black Founders, counselors. nity,” she says. “Other minorities begin to think, ‘I can be like Mark Zuckerberg.’” and Girls in Tech. Guided “We learned the jar- by their lawyer-mentors, gon and got used to the “ This actually moves the needle the students help clients startup space,” Masterson deal with the issues that explains, “and we heard and helps the community drive tech businesses, varying perspectives on such as entity forma- the industry—not just rise up.” —Nnena Ukuku tion and structuring, IP legal but economic and

22 SPRING 2014 From left: Shaherose Charania, Sepi Nasiri, and Nnena Ukuku, at their offices at Hatch Today in San Francisco.

business standpoints as Real-World Classroom worked with Heuga on the in the normal way, through well.” Masterson appre- Masterson and class- IP and licensing matters. case law. It had zero con- ciated the program’s mate Jose Campos ’13 Hovey was excited about nection to the real world. practicality. “I got to see were assigned to Skive Startup Legal Garage from I always wanted to know, what a vesting schedule it and paired with attor- the minute he heard about what does a stock certifi- and a founding purchase neys Justin Hovey and it. “‘This is incredible,’ I cate look like?” agreement looked like,” he Michael Heuga of Pillsbury thought,” Hovey says. “It This on-the-ground says. “It was an oppor- Winthrop Shaw Pittman. was everything I wish I’d learning requires students tunity to do hands-on Masterson handled the had in law school. I took to take a more proactive work with an actual client corporate documents M&A, corporations, and approach to their educa- while in law school.” with Hovey while Campos tax, and it was all taught tion. “They’re taught not to

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just tell clients what to do, students an assignment how documents get particularly in light of but to get in the trenches and said, ‘We want to see signed. All this is exactly recent pronouncements and work directly with drafts next week.’ Then, what a first-year associate and actions of the Federal them,” Belle says. we gave them our com- would do.” Trade Commission and In fact, according to ments and instructed From Mohan’s perspec- California’s attorney Hovey, the students them to send the docu- tive, the survival of the general. Masterson and are treated exactly like ments to the client. The company depended on Campos “did a phe- first-year associates. “We client had some questions, getting Skive it’s corpo- nomenal job,” Mohan all met with the client,” which the students dealt rate, privacy, and terms says. “They were smart, he says. “We gave the with, and they watched of use documents right, comprehensive, and

From left: Justin Hovey and Michael Heuga of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman worked closely with students in the Startup Legal Garage.

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understood the nuances and 100 percent of their Expanding in the difference between attention is devoted to California and Delaware the startup,” he says. “It law, which was important can be a challenging task Innovation since we incorporated in for lawyers, who aim to California, and most of the be responsive. There’s available legal corporate an element of managing James Gunderson ’81 agreement templates were expectations.” Campos spearheads efforts to support the for Delaware law.” also learned that client Institute for Innovation Law The students also service extends not just immersed themselves in to companies but to the

James Gunderson ’81 first heard about UC Hastings’ Skive it’s mission. “We’re senior associates super- Institute for Innovation Law at a conference on partner- a very technology-driven vising him. “Having that ships between universities and corporate research and company, and our tech- real-world experience development departments. He was impressed, and nology is not that easy prepared me for my job,” after discussing the project further with the institute’s to understand,” Mohan Campos says. “I wasn’t director, Professor Robin Feldman, he was sold. explains. “We have a jumping in cold as a new Now, he’s trying to sell others on it, too. As the institute has grown to incorporate the school’s Law and unique business model associate.” Bioscience (LAB) Project, the Privacy and Technology and complex licens- Because of help from Project, and programs relating to bio-entrepreneurship ing needs. The students the Startup Legal Garage, and business law, a need for a full-time senior fellow has understood it.” Skive it has grown from emerged. Together, Gunderson and alumni, includ- three co-founders to a staff ing Ron Dolin ’09 and Frank Busch ’00, have already of eight and has launched raised more than half of the money needed to fund the On-the-Job Training, position, and Gunderson is reaching out to others in Before the Job its Web portal with mobile an effort to secure the rest. Support for this program is Now that he’s a practicing applications and platform also provided by the Blackstone Charitable Foundation lawyer, Masterson realizes in beta. Today, Skive it and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. how close the Skive it work is ready for funding from Students in the Institute for Innovation Law have was to actual practice. angel investors and ven- the opportunity to work with UCSF scientists and tech “We did cutting- ture capital firms. startups to evaluate the potential of various intellectual property cases. “This sort of practical experience for edge work with heavy Feldman credits UC law students can help confirm their interest in the field,” demands,” he says. “I Hastings’ “nimble admin- Gunderson says, “and it informs their studies with the learned the nature of istration” for allowing the comprehension that helps them develop as effective client service—that you Startup Legal Garage to IP lawyers.” have to get it right and get off the ground quickly. be responsive. It was the Not surprisingly, she’s “ This sort of practical most applicable work I did received calls from other experience for law students in law school.” law schools wanting to For Campos, who is now learn about the program. can help confirm their an associate at DLA Piper Currently, 25 students interest in the field.” in Palo Alto, the Startup work there, with four times Legal Garage taught him as many applying. To that —James Gunderson ’81 critical soft skills as well. end, Feldman is looking for “Startup founders live and resources to expand the breathe the work they do, program.

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Lawyering in the High-Tech Ecosystem In Silicon Valley, tech attorneys play increasingly creative, entrepreneurial, and indispensable roles.

hen people think facilitators, as opposed place to practice law today. of Silicon Valley, to folks just dotting the Whether they’re corporate the images that i’s and crossing the t’s,” attorneys, IP specialists, or come to mind are Van Ligten says. “The tax practitioners, lawyers kids coding day top lawyers in town can have become an integral and night on their bring more of a variety of part of every technology computers and value than any other par- company’s life cycle. They deep-pocketed investors ticipant in the technology are involved in everything looking to cash in on what ecosystem. Lawyers are from incorporation, public Michael Lewis called generally the first person offerings, and mergers and “the new new thing.” But an entrepreneur calls to acquisitions, to protecting beneath the circuitry and get started.” and enforcing intellectual pitches lies a network of Van Ligten’s firm, property; they also often some of the nation’s smart- Gunderson Dettmer, one craft the most advanta- est lawyers, part of a legal of Silicon Valley’s top law geous corporate structures ecosystem that has fueled firms focusing on emerg- and tax strategies. and sustained Silicon ing growth companies, has Jon Gavenman ’91, a Valley’s innovation engine. been behind some of the partner in Cooley’s emerg- They include tech most successful startups ing companies practice, veteran Glen Van Ligten in the country, including agrees. Gavenman, a ’90, who is also an adjunct Tumblr, the microblogging veteran Valley corporate professor at UC Hastings site that was acquired by lawyer, says that the “vast (see page 9). After nearly Yahoo! for $1.1 billion in bulk” of the business “Lawyers in the 22 years of practicing law July 2013. The complex world does not work the tech sector in the Valley, Van Ligten role that he and other way the startup sector is part of an elite group of Valley lawyers play, Van does. “In emerging com- are creators legal professionals who Ligten notes, “is part legal panies, you can assume and facilitators, have built their careers adviser, part therapist, and that when it’s two guys, a as opposed to shepherding the technol- part business adviser.” dog, and a garage, the first ogy startups and global Those embedded in the person on the scene will folks just dot- high-tech companies that tech sector say that if you be a lawyer,” Gavenman ting the i’s and have sprouted in the fertile can think like an entrepre- says. “We are there not ground of Silicon Valley. neur, embrace technology, just on the ground floor crossing the t’s. ” “Lawyers in the tech tolerate risk, and be cre- but when it’s still a patch —Glen Van Ligten ’90 sector are creators and ative, there is no better of dirt.”

26 SPRING 2014 undisclosed amount but a lot of money,” Gavenman relates. The career notoriety and money his client received had a “life-changing” impact on the people involved. “When you watch people work as hard as entrepreneurs work, and you work alongside them the whole way, and the vision comes to fruition, and the lives of the people at a company are positively altered, it’s like having a hand in helping a group of people win a lottery. It is a tremendously rewarding moment,” Gavenman says. Patents play a key role in courting investors. “Usually, early-stage companies have no products. Glen Van Ligten ’90 has worked on some of the most successful startups All they have is intellec- in the country, including Tumblr. tual property, so we need to be strategic in helping them file the right patents, which often create interest in investors,” says James Nachtwey ’12, an associate at Carr & Ferrell. Outside the Box I email a VC, I’m put- trying to gain traction for Intellectual property In the startup envi- ting myself out there,” their business ideas and rights can mean the life ronment, lawyers like Gavenman says. “In the failing to get funding. He or death of an enterprise Gavenman and Van Ligten tech universe, your name remembers encourag- or product. Claude Stern play a key role as match- distinguishes you based ing one frustrated client ’80, co-chair of Quinn makers. They spend their on the quality of referrals to try for another few Emanuel’s IP litigation time not just giving legal you make.” weeks before giving up. practice, has made a advice but also helping Gavenman has many “Within a week and a half, career of protecting the companies refine their stories to tell about the company got a term IP rights of companies, business plans to make founders nearly “throw- sheet for its first round of ranging from modest them more attractive to ing in the towel” after financing, and we sold it venture-backed startups investors. “Every time months, if not years, of a few years later for an to leading multinationals.

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And, according to Stern, greeting cards, calendars, puts me in the center of are still playing catch-up this was not part of some and stationery. A larger the IP and technology with tech companies. “In grand career design: He and more established com- world,” he says. Stern’s the older economy, you says he is the “luckiest pany started selling a clone advice for new IP or tech have products and build- man” he knows for being of the same program for lawyers: “Be on the look- ings, and people working at the right place at the PCs. Stern was hired by the out for the unexpected in those buildings,” he right time when he was startup to file a copyright opportunity to learn and explains. “With technol- starting out as a litigator, suit against the bigger expand your professional ogy, you have intellectual and IP litigation was not company. “I couldn’t even horizons. When it appears, property, and your role as the billion-dollar business spell the word copyright, exploit it to the max.” a tax attorney is to help it is today. and a year later I had my exploit that IP in the most In the ’80s, Stern was first solo copyright trial, Vital Players in a efficient way possible. In working for a small San and I won,” Stern says. New Economy most industries, issues Francisco law firm when a The case, Brøderbund Even lawyers like Armin relating to tax code and senior partner asked him Software v. Unison World, Eberhard ’03, who prac- regulations are more set- to handle a copyright case made international head- tice in the traditionally tled, but with technology for a venture-backed video lines as the first copyright behind-the-scenes area of companies, the rules and game company. The com- case to cover a utility pro- tax law, say that working regulations are constantly pany was worth only gram’s user interface and for a technology company changing as the tax code $5 million, but it had a launched Stern’s career as is nothing like working catches up with them.” prize-winning software an IP litigator. “I have the for companies based on As a result, tax depart- program for Macs that best practice, and being “older” economies. Tax ments in tech companies allowed users to print located in Silicon Valley codes and regulations are much more integrated in the business operations than in other industries. “Most business execu- tives will make decisions and then tell or ask the tax department afterward,” Eberhard says. But not at technology companies. “We are seen as support- ing the operational goal of the company,” he adds. 1L Sean Hanley enrolled at UC Hastings after spending nearly five years as director of compliance at Zynga, maker of the social media game Farmville. The former Silicon Valley executive 1L Sean Hanley, a former had been toying with the Silicon Valley executive. idea of going to law school

28 SPRING 2014 for years, but it wasn’t until he started working at Zynga that he realized being a lawyer could be a creative profession. “I was concerned that I wouldn’t find a practice I’d enjoy,” Hanley says. But after working at Zynga, he saw the value of having a law degree and how lawyers are vital team members. He says many entrepreneurs have a laserlike focus and passion for their core product but may not be able to prioritize things that help a business grow Jean Batman ’90 has her and thrive. “They would own practice working sometimes abdicate a lot with entrepreneurs. of the roles to the business folks, and I found myself advising the company on products, marketing

“No matter how promotions, and putting founded a successful continue rebuilding your successful you everything together to brokerage firm after earn- practice and evolve as are at what you make it more effective,” ing her MBA), Batman fast as your clients evolve. Hanley says. has represented dozens There’s constant change. do, you have Jean Batman ’90 is one of entrepreneurs, includ- You have clients that get to constantly of those lawyers who was ing high-tech and biotech bought out, do a success- rebuild and inspired by her startup companies, as well as ful IPO, or fail and start clients to quit her part- real estate, financial, and another venture, and remake your nership at a big firm and professional firms. their needs change. So practice and found her own firm in San “What attracted me to you have to be out there Francisco, Legal Venture this practice is the fact networking, marketing evolve as fast Counsel, which caters that it is transitory and yourself, and constantly as your clients to entrepreneurs, ven- forces you to be entre- looking for new business. ture investors, and small preneurial,” she notes. You never get to a point evolve. ” businesses. A former “No matter how success- where you can rest easy, —Jean Batman ’90 entrepreneur herself (she ful you are, you have to and you are never bored.”

UC HASTINGS 29 Nathan McMurray ’06, senior legal counsel at Samsung’s headquarters in Seoul, South Korea.

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Global Opportunities Graduates parlay their tech savvy into dynamic international careers.

or lawyers working multiple places,” he says. sophisticated in China, in the interna- “If you’re willing to be so do the clients,” says tional technology mobile, and you’re willing Liu, who has worked with sector, life is on to learn the language, the companies involved in fast-forward, with opportunities are endless.” the Internet, telecommu- rapid-fire changes Michael Wong ’85, prin- nications, software, and in the business cipal at Baker & McKenzie, semiconductors, to name landscape—and describes similar impres- just a few of her clients’ boundless opportunity. sions of his experience specialties. “When I first Take Nathan McMurray in his firm’s Taipei office, started to represent found- ’06, senior legal counsel where he has worked on ers and entrepreneurs in at Samsung Electronics, a multibillion-dollar merg- venture capital financ- multinational conglomer- ers. “The most interesting ing transactions, I had ate with annual revenues thing about the interna- to explain every line of a that account for some 17 tional tech sector is how term sheet to help them percent of South Korea’s quickly it moves,” says understand the deal. Now, gross domestic product. Wong, “from the hardware the founders and entrepre- “If you look at the tra- area that I worked in 10 neurs I meet are far more “If you look at jectory of Samsung and or 15 years ago to the experienced and no longer where it’s going, you want software and e-commerce need their attorneys to the trajectory to be a part of that,” says space we deal with today.” explain every clause.” of Samsung McMurray, who is the only Jenny Liu ’00 is a partner Liu says the range of and where attorney in the company’s in Squire Sanders’ corpo- international opportunities Seoul headquarters who rate transactions, finance, for lawyers specializing in it’s going, you is not of Korean descent. and governance group in technology is enormous. want to be a “Riding that rocket is just Beijing. Raised partly in E-commerce is exploding an amazing experience.” Guangzhou, China, and in China, with 500 million part of that. Two years on a Mormon partly in San Francisco, Internet users and 200 Riding that mission in South Korea she always thought that million-plus e-shoppers, allowed McMurray to Asia would be a good raising regulation, intel- rocket is just begin learning the lan- market for her. lectual property, labor, an amazing guage, which led to his Liu found the dynamism and taxation issues. “The experience. ” moving to Asia in 2006. of her practice and her challenge is keeping up “I think we live in a time clients fascinating. “As with industry knowledge, —Nathan McMurray ’06 when you can live in technology becomes more which is ever-evolving,” DYLAN GOLDBY

UC HASTINGS 31 Edward Dhong ’96, regional counsel for IBM in Seoul, South Korea.

she says. “The reward is international firms have demand for U.S. lawyers Morrison & Foerster’s to see the rapid growth in started to “organically in Asia,” Takahashi says. Tokyo office last year. these clients—and grow grow” teams of young “There are a lot of mergers After spending 10 weeks with them.” associates right out of and acquisitions taking in the firm’s corporate law school, despite the place, for instance, in department, he was asked Organic Growth conventional belief that the technology sector in to come back as an asso- Overseas graduates should get particular.” ciate in September 2014, Wanting U.S. lawyers “on experience in the United Takahashi, who grew after he graduates from the ground” in Asia, says States before working in up in Japan, worked as UC Hastings and takes 3L Digo Takahashi

, some Asia. “There is a growing a summer associate at the bar exam. DYLAN GOLDBY

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solve nuanced problems And as Edward Dhong that require a varied tool ’96, regional counsel for kit. International issues “There is no IBM in Seoul, explains, a demand that you wrap technology background the tact of a diplomat over better place puts job candidates the tactics of a strate- [than UC ahead, even for positions gist,” he says. “And when Hastings] to that are not exclusively technology is at the core, in the tech area. “If I had you should also apply launch a legal two otherwise equal the heart of an entrepre- career in the candidates, technology neur and the vision of a exposure would be one of futurist.” international the factors I would con- UC Hastings alumni technology sider,” Dhong says, adding working in the interna- that what fuels his own tional tech sector give sector. ” interest in technology is their alma mater high —Dean Fealk ’00 its inherent innovation. marks for the preparation “I didn’t know a com- they received. Fealk says pany this large could UC Hastings is an ideal “What I mean by that move so quickly and be springboard. “As the lead- is learn the language and so innovative,” he says. ing law school in the city the culture of another Referring to his legal that is both at the heart of country if you don’t know training at UC Hastings the technology revolution them already, so when as “solid,” Dhong says he and at the gateway to the you work with your has made introductions Asia-Pacific economy,” he international colleagues, for other UC Hastings says, “there is no better you can build bridges graduates to meet the place to launch a legal of trust. I have seen “ample opportunities for career in the international extremely smart people good lawyers” that exist technology sector.” fail internationally abroad, both in-house Alumni report that because they did not do and at international legal learning the language these basic human things firms. of the country a student to deepen trust.” According to McMurray, would like to work in is “If I were a student the international tech crucial. “If you want to starting right now,” says sector has a great need for Certainly, special skills develop an international McMurray at Samsung, lawyers who understand are required to work in practice, the best advice “I would immediately pick the technology world. “I’m technology internation- I have is to go do it,” says a language and make a a guy who understands ally. Dean Fealk ’00, Matthew Hult ’98, who commitment to learning the technology guys,” he head of global equity represented technol- it. Then a UC Hastings says. “I can help them for DLA Piper, reveals ogy clients for Orrick, degree will multiply that bridge the gap, commu- his passion for his work Herrington & Sutcliffe extra talent by a thousand nicate their ideas, and when he describes those in Taipei for more than a times. Taken together, protect their interests. skills. “It’s both reward- decade before going in- it’s a way to differentiate It’s fun to be part of that.” ing and challenging to house at Intel. yourself.”

UC HASTINGS 33 3L Taylor Cashwell will join Fenwick & West this fall as a first-year associate.

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Generation Tech UC Hastings students with hustle turn summer gigs into top jobs at Valley tech firms.

rom the moment giants in the industry like to end up in the video 3L Matt Kovac Apple and Yahoo! to start- game industry,” True started his sum- ups launching new apps says. “There was no better mer externship and mid-tiers contemplat- experience than work- at Apple, he was ing initial public offerings. ing in-house for Sony pulled into the Students also get invalu- PlayStation during one company’s exhila- able hands-on experience of the most important rating go-go tempo. working with startups product launches in its After his 1L year, he through UC Hastings’ recent history.” worked in Apple’s trans- Startup Legal Garage and During his externship actions group, helping build connections that with eBay, Tom Hadid attorneys with licenses lead to Valley gigs. ’13 gained litigation and co-development deals, 3L Jacob True was experience defending the and assisting on a large an extern with Sony’s company against small acquisition. “The pace entertainment arm this claims. He was victori- at Apple is unlike any past summer as the ous every time he went to other company I’ve worked company prepared to court. “It’s a confidence at,” Kovac says. “It’s a launch its PlayStation 4 booster,” says Hadid, now Fortune 500 company, game console. True, an associate in the Palo but it moves as fast and who hopes to work in Alto office of Cooley. “I nimbly as a startup.” the video game industry got to see how in-house Kovac’s experience after graduation, spent lawyers work and what working in the high-speed the summer researching they want from outside “We get to be tech world is becoming legal issues related to the counsel.” so much more far more common for UC device’s “share” feature, In her 1L summer, 2L Hastings students. With specifically determin- Katherine Stepanova than ‘just its proximity to Silicon ing potential litigation researched infringe- lawyers’ to our Valley and close ties to threats from copyright ment and antitrust law leading lawyers through- holders and possible revi- for SanDisk and attended clients; we’re out the Bay Area, the sions to Sony’s licensing witness preparations their business school places students in agreements. and depositions. 2L externships and summer “The Sony experience Kyle Gertridge worked partners, too. ” associate positions with meant the world to me in Yahoo!’s global legal —3L Katherine Webb exciting tech firms, from because I want my career operations department,

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researching European For some students, their He starts there this fall regulations and compli- 2L summer gigs were as a first-year associate. ance, while 3L Katherine transformative and con- “ This is the 3L Sasha Hahn spent Webb focused on privacy firmed their career paths. two summers at Wilson research at Autodesk. “Sitting with Cooley’s world’s Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Subsequently, Webb clean-tech partner Gordon dominant tech working on IPOs, venture spent a summer at Cooley, Ho and vetting energy ecosystem. financings, and software where she will return as startups at client intake license agreements, and an associate after gradu- meetings was incredibly It’s where the will return to the firm as an ation. “Being a lawyer in validating for me,” says action is.” associate after graduation. the Valley is unlike being 3L Edward “Eddy” Mata. Ali Alemozafar ’10 also —3L Taylor Cashwell a lawyer anywhere else,” “I was able to use my spent his 1L and 2L sum- Webb says. “We get to be engineering background mers at Wilson Sonsini. He so much more than ‘just to really connect with the decision-making process continued to work at the lawyers’ to our clients; entrepreneurs and their and learning how a board firm on patent prosecution we’re their business part- ideas, and then call upon meeting runs,” Gavenman and strategic patent coun- ners, too. We’re not only my legal training at UC says. seling during his second solving legal problems, Hastings to help set them Other firms offer similar and third years, joining the we’re helping them build up for success. It was opportunities. 3L Kaitlin firm as an associate after their businesses. That’s then that I realized I was Keohane assisted with graduation. incredibly exciting, and exactly where I was sup- a deposition and did For students hoping something I can’t wait to posed to be.” research for a summary to work in tech, the law be a part of.” UC Hastings alumni judgment motion during school’s location is a have been instrumental her stint as a summer boon. “This is the world’s in helping current stu- associate at Quinn dominant tech ecosystem,” dents enter the tech world. Emanuel. The firm rep- Cashwell says. “It’s where “ I was able to Jon Gavenman ’91, a resented the Russian the action is.” call upon my partner in Cooley’s emerg- search engine Yandex in ing companies practice, a copyright infringement legal training says the firm’s summer suit. The case settled after at UC Hastings associate program gives Yandex obtained summary students the chance to judgment on the majority to help set do actual client work like of its claims. 3L Michael [entrepreneurs] drafting deal documents LaFond also interned with up for success. for venture financing and Quinn, working on a case public filings, and even for a client being sued It was then attending company board by the patent aggregator I realized I was meetings. Gavenman has Acacia Research. taken summer associ- 3L Taylor Cashwell exactly where I ates to board meetings spent two summers at was supposed at Agari Data, Silver Tail Fenwick & West working Systems, and Jaspersoft. on startups and venture to be.” “They get the experi- capital, mergers and —3L Edward Mata ence of being part of the acquisitions, and IPOs.

36 SPRING 2014 3L Sasha Hahn and Ali Alemozafar ’10 gained valuable experience at Wilson Sonsini.

UC HASTINGS 37 Former Privacy and Technology Project fellow Alea Garbagnati ’11 now works in cyber risk services at Deloitte.

Leading the Way in Privacy Law

The Privacy and Technology Project helps stakeholders navigate the complex new privacy protection laws.

iven the Bay Area’s policies to consumers and and financial data of status as a hotbed companies must report millions of consumers, of technological data breaches to their and subjecting companies innovation, it’s clients and the state. to regulatory enforcement no surprise that California Attorney and liabilities into the bil- California leads General Kamala Harris ’89 lions of dollars. the country in championed many of these Yet this ever-evolving digital privacy protections. initiatives. Promising to area of the law can be To keep the collection of prosecute companies for confusing to the tech increasingly vast amounts failing to protect con- companies themselves, of consumer information sumer data, she formed especially startups, which by businesses in check, a Department of Justice want to follow the rules California has many privacy enforcement unit but may not entirely statutes requiring trans- in 2012. Recently, high- understand them. parency. For example, profile security breaches Enter UC Hastings, websites and mobile apps have hit companies, com- whose prime location in must disclose privacy promising the personal the hub of San Francisco’s

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tech boom positions it interning with Electronic as it is about compliance to offer forward legal Frontier Foundation, a San with the law,” he says. “In guidance. The school’s “ Technology Francisco–based digital many cases, if consumers tech-savvy faculty, rights nonprofit. While understand the trade-off, alumni, and students is evolving so there, she helped research they’ll agree to it. For are helping companies rapidly that it’s privacy-related issues, example, with a GPS app, navigate the increasingly such as the potential they’re OK with giving complex minefield of a challenge to privacy concerns in using their location informa- using and protecting con- educate people smart meters to measure tion if it means they’ll get sumer data, and shaping on what data is hourly household energy timely traffic information the evolution of the law in usage. (For example, a and the fastest routes. But real time. collected and regular surge of energy technology is evolving so how it’s used.” demand at 2:30 in the rapidly that it’s a challenge The Privacy and morning could indicate to educate people on what — Jim Snell ’94 Technology Project a heavy drinker coming data is collected and how In 2011, Charles Belle ’10 home after bars close, it’s used.” secured seed funding to The Privacy and information potentially Snell—who success- launch the UC Hastings Technology Project valuable to an insurance fully defended a client Privacy and Technology reaches technologists company.) in the first lawsuit under Project—now part of where they’re at: It “What fascinates me the 2003 federal CAN- the school’s Institute hosted a hackathon at UC is finding the balance SPAM Act, which requires for Innovation Law—a Hastings and co-hosted a between letting infor- companies to allow con- research program focused daylong seminar in April mation flow freely and sumers a way to opt out of on issues of privacy 2013 with AG Harris for completely restricting marketing emails—brings that result from emerg- app developers in the information,” Garbagnati his real-world experience ing technology. One of Twitter building, just says. Now working in the back to UC Hastings as an the program’s initiatives blocks from the law school. cyber risk services prac- adviser to the Privacy and includes educating small The project also launched tice at Deloitte & Touche, Technology Project. “One app developers about a Bay Area Privacy Garbagnati advises com- of the things UC Hastings privacy law. “Early-stage Professionals speaker panies on handling client has done well is to marry companies often lack the series for law and tech and employee data. the lawyer’s and the tech- legal resources for proper professionals, presenting nologist’s perspectives,” compliance,” says Belle. speakers such as the com- A Complex Trade-Off says Snell. “But they are just as puter security specialist The incentive for compa- That symbiosis creates vulnerable to the regula- at Twitter and the general nies to protect information new career opportunities tions as larger companies. counsel for Splunk, a big is not just a legal one, in a growing legal sector. They want to stay on the data analytics company. says Jim Snell ’94, who is “I was always fascinated good side of privacy but Alea Garbagnati ’11 was co-chair of the privacy and by the battle between don’t always know how. one of the first Privacy security group at Bingham technology and the law,” And in this hypercompeti- and Technology Project McCutchen in Palo Alto. A says Deloitte’s Garbagnati. tive environment, they can fellows. She had an inter- lot of the incentive is pre- “Working at the Privacy make avoidable mistakes est in digital privacy serving consumer trust. Project prepared me for that may expose them to issues since taking the “To me, privacy is as much the privacy work I do now. liability.” school’s privacy class and about customer relations One thing led to another.”

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A New Clinic in Social Enterprise & Economic Empowerment UC Hastings offers students an opportunity to gain transactional experience while advancing social justice.

to create an incentive plan also gain experience as ocial Imprints that would allow employ- business attorneys and has a catchy ees to reap the profits from develop transactional corporate tagline: the company’s $2 million legal skills, including “Printing With in revenues. With this goal strategic planning, project Purpose.” The in mind, they turned to UC management, client company hires Hastings’ Social Enterprise interviewing and counsel- those in recovery from & Economic Empowerment ing, legal research and substance abuse, individu- Clinic, which launched in analysis, contract draft- als who have been released January 2013. ing, and cross-cultural recently from incarcera- competencies. tion, those without GEDs, Serving the And they expand their and returning veterans. Greater Good horizons. “Beyond prepar- Founded in 2008, the com- The clinic, directed by ing students for a career in pany prints T-shirts and Professor Alina Ball, pro- corporate law,” Ball says, “UC Hastings’ other corporate apparel for vides pro bono services to “the clinic gives them an new clinic is some of the hottest techs entrepreneurs and small opportunity to explore how around, including the organizations that have transactional lawyering can tapping into the Maker Faire, SXSW, and a social impact as part of advance issues of social creative energy TechCrunch’s Crunchies their business plan. UC and economic justice.” we’re seeing (and UC Hastings). Hastings students work to “UC Hastings’ new clinic CEO Jeff Sheinbein pays understand each client’s is tapping into the creative in the city. his employees “compet- specific organizational energy we’re seeing in the It’s a unique itive-plus wages.” The model, industry, and social city,” says Amy B. Cohen, industry standard for the impact goals. They then director of neighbor- step into the printing sector is $18, but provide counsel accord- hood and small business community for that is barely a living wage ing to those individual development in the Mayor’s in San Francisco. For that needs, advising clients Office of Economic and a law school. ” reason, Sheinbein and on a variety of corporate Workforce Development. — Amy B. Cohen, Mayor’s COO Kevin McCracken governance, compli- “It’s a unique step into Office of Economic and wanted to do more for their ance, transactional, and the community for a law Workforce Development employees. They wanted operational matters. They school.”

40 SPRING 2014 to provide incentives and rewards for employees.” Students troubleshoot and help Sheinbein and his team think through the legal issues. “The students are doing the heavy lifting,” Ball says. “They do the research, lead the meetings, come up with drafts. The client is working with our student team to make sure language makes sense in both the legal documents and the information he presents to employees.” “Working in the clinic, and with Social Imprints in particular, has been an exciting opportunity to tackle a meaningful project from start to finish,” says Ghiasi. “It has been the most valuable opportunity

Social Imprints’ of my legal education.” Jeff Sheinbein, Ball says there may also 3L Neema Ghiasi, be follow-on projects, and Professor such as reviewing ven- Alina Ball. dor contracts. Students receive six hours of credit for the clinic. And, Ball notes, it’s also and legal structure for untapped talent, and train Prerequisites include a reflection of UC Hastings’ Social Imprints’ employee them for a job they have Business Associations and continued expansion, incentive plan. “This is not probably never been given a demonstrated interest diversification, and com- just an internship or train- the opportunity for.” in transactional law. They mitment to social and ing program,” Sheinbein Ball says Social Imprints also receive, as a side economic inclusion. says. “We provide them is an “ideal client” for the bonus, some terrific swag, with a career in a profes- clinic. “They are struc- and pride in knowing they Social Imprints: sion that has the power tured as an LLC, so there have helped local residents A Success Story to break cycles of poverty is a lot of flexibility. We remain in San Francisco 3L Sasha Hahn and 3L that lead to activities such created a phantom equity by providing the jobs and Neema Ghiasi worked with as recidivism and sub- plan that mimics employee compensation that city Ball to create the corporate stance abuse. We look for ownership and continue living requires.

UC HASTINGS 41 Josh Horowitz ‘10 TALKING STARTUPS, THE ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT, AND FLIP-FLOPS

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Josh Horowitz ’10 works as general counsel for San Francisco startup Crowdtilt, which provides online fundraising solutions for everything from a camping trip, to a mayoral campaign, to reward-based crowdfunding. After becoming an attorney in the Bay Area’s booming tech scene, Horowitz worked on a startup of his own and also began giving back to UC Hastings by helping create the Institute for Innovation Law. We asked him about working in the startup scene and where UC Hastings fits into that world.

❱ How did you start out on something similar with life ❱ How is the startup culture management authority this path? science companies. After different? over it all. In a traditional I came into law school want- sharing notes, we decided When I worked as a sum- corporate law firm, the type ing to be a private attorney to work together to build mer associate at a large of work assigned to a new servicing international trans- out a transactional program firm, I wore a button-down associate is sometimes actions. It wasn’t until I heard for UC Hastings students. shirt and slacks. I had a nice important, but it can be that UC Hastings started an Our effort with the Law and office, and I ate lunch at my repetitive. intellectual property con- Bioscience (LAB) Project desk. My colleagues were centration that a longtime grew into what is now the all attorneys, and you could ❱ What skills are important interest of mine around Institute for Innovation Law. ask them for help for free. to the new breed of startup innovation and the startup The culture couldn’t be more attorney? industry was rekindled. I ❱ Tell us how you started different at a startup. Relevant skills include changed my plans immedi- working at Crowdtilt and At Crowdtilt, none of my management, negotiation, ately; I mean that second. I what you do for it. colleagues is an attorney. judgment, and financial then completed the concen- After my first attempt at a When I have a legal ques- literacy skills. Having a back- tration in my third year, and startup failed, I launched my tion, I either research it on ground relevant to the took a number of venture own legal practice, called my own, refer to summariz- industry in which you are capital law, corporate law, EmCom Law. It stands for ing publications from firms, working can be seen as and entrepreneurship- Emerging Company Law. talk to colleagues, or pay for required or merely helpful, related courses. Over time, I serviced a outside counsel. In terms depending on your role on number of Y Combinator of attire, I sit right next to the legal team. Lastly, a criti- ❱ What inspired you to companies. Through a our growth team, and I’m in cal factor involves attitude help start UC Hastings’ chance encounter, I met jeans, a T-shirt, and some- and character. Fundamentals Institute for Innovation Crowdtilt. After working with times flip-flops, just like include integrity, being Law? both co-founders and vari- them. I report to our CEO, positive, a problem-solving UC Hastings has a reputa- ous employees there, I was who is in his 20s, like me, but mentality, and being pas- tion for training attorneys offered an in-house position, work directly with all leaders sionate about what you and who graduate ready to hit a seat on the rocket ship. at the company. your client do. the ground running. But I view my role as the school hadn’t devel- enabling the company to ❱ Do you think working oped real-world experience grow as quickly as pos- in the startup world has opportunities for transac- sible, while informing allowed you to advance tional law or startups. So in management of the legal your career faster? my third year of law school, and operational risks People who work at a startup I invested roughly 150 hours involved with their deci- early in their career will get researching how to start sions. As we launch new or more exposure and experi- and operate a transactional improved products, and ence than they would in a legal clinic for startups. enter new markets, I help traditional corporate law Along the way, I crossed keep the organization run- firm. A startup exposes paths with Professor Robin ning compliantly and evolve you to everything that is Feldman, who was doing its legal approaches. happening and gives you

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’13 Alexandra was part of a ’11 team of observers sent Monica Ault is an Abascal Portland attorney Tim by the National Institute fellow with the Drug Policy Crawley has announced he’ll for Military Justice, the Alliance in Santa Fe, N.M. / run as a Republican for the ACLU, and other NGOs to Clinton Chen has joined the U.S. Senate seat currently watch pretrial hearings of Federal Reserve Board in held by Sen. Jeff Merkley, Abd al-Nashiri, the senior Washington, D.C., as an D-Ore. He most recently al-Qaeda lieutenant alleged attorney in the Monetary and served as a volunteer law to be the mastermind behind Consumer Affairs section. clerk for Magistrate Judge the deadly suicide bombing / Chris Petroni married his Thomas Coffin in the U.S. of the USS Cole in Yemen bride, Wendy, at Disney District Court of Oregon. / Kate Walsham in 2000. / Jeremy Hesler World, her “happiest place on started Tim Crawley ’11 has been awarded the Tom earth.” / Alexandra Stupple work in September 2013 Steel fellowship from the served as an independent as a DOJ honors attorney co-president of the Southern Pride Law Fund to work observer of the military in the Environmental and California chapter of the on transgender and LGBT commission proceedings. Natural Resources Division. Hispanic National Bar issues in New Mexico, / Randy Omid has been Association. / Hani Ganji left starting a legal arm for named firmwide co-chair Clyde & Co, a London-based the Transgender Resource of Morrison & Foerster’s firm, to join Hanson Bridgett Center of New Mexico, in 3-D printing group. / Torch as a general litigation Albuquerque. Sathienmars is an associate associate. / Matt Haulk is a ’12 at Dannis Woliver Kelley construction and real estate in San Francisco. / Amanda attorney at Ragghianti Andrew Rakestraw has joined Stein joined the firm of Freitas in Marin County. He the U.S. State Department as Richard, Watson & Gershon. enjoys a very short commute a climate negotiator, working from the Presidio. with Special Envoy Todd ’10 Stern. “If you had asked me Carlos Becerra, an attorney ’09 to describe my dream job, at Tredway Lumsdaine & Nicolas Martin has been Alexandra Stupple ’13 this would be it.” Doyle, was elected deputy named a partner at Hake

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Jus Post Bellum: Mapping the Normative Foundations, published by Oxford University Press. / Jordan Koplowicz writes: “I have switched careers and am now an application engineer at San Francisco International Airport. Although I am still a licensed attorney, I am no longer practicing law and am much happier as a Web Nicolas Martin ’09 Ollie Benn ’06 Micah Schwartbach ’06 developer.” / Megan Lucchesi is a partner at Parker, Kern, Law in San Francisco. Nard & Wenzel. diagnosis. Our technology, serve on the board of the Nicolas handles product CaviFind, helps for parts Barristers Club. / Jonathan liability, toxic torts, premises ’06 of the teeth where dentists T. Runyan was made a partner liability, construction Ollie Benn writes: “I am currently have no clinically at Goodwin Procter. He is defect, and other complex happy to share that Firefly useful way to identify in the firm’s business law and catastrophic litigation Health Innovations, the cavities.” / Joseph Ferrucci department and a member matters, including trials and medical diagnostics company celebrated the two-year of its technology companies civil appeals. I co-founded two years ago, anniversary of his solo trusts group, where he focuses has received $1.15 million and estates law practice in on the representation of ’08 in grants, including a very November 2013. His offices emerging growth companies Jerome Pandell attended the selective NIH award—a are located in San Francisco’s and venture capital firms, White House Youth Summit Phase II STTR grant. Financial District. / Diana in San Francisco. / Micah on health care law and the These funds will enable Kruze was named Barrister Schwartbach writes: “In Patient Protection and us to finalize a technology of the Year by the Bar 2013, I went to work for Affordable Care Act. Jerome to massively improve the Association of San Francisco. Nolo as an editor. Among has worked for President accuracy of tooth decay She was recently elected to the highlights of the job is Obama as a volunteer and fundraiser since 2008, raising $250,000 for the president’s re-election campaign in Back to the East Bay 2012. Teddy Ky-Nam Kwon Miller ’08 writes: “After five ’07 years in Washington, D.C., where I worked as a legislative aide for Congresswoman Barbara Lee, I S. Ashar Ahmed of Nossaman got married to Bonnie Kwon. We had a baby boy in was named to the inaugural 2013 and moved back to the Bay Area this fall. I’m Lawyers of Color “Hot an associate at the public law and education firm List.” He is an associate in Nossaman’s litigation Lozano Smith in Walnut Creek, joining fellow Viet- department, focusing on the namese American and former ASUCH President financial services industry. Steve Ngo ’04 and a number of other UC Hastings / Jens Iverson co-edited and alums. Thrilled to be back in the East Bay!” co-authored a book called

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We reside in San Francisco.” / Monique Ngo-Bonnici Promoting Environmental Equity was Vien Truong ’06, environmental equity director made partner at Winston & at the Greenlining Institute, was featured in the Strawn, where she practices labor and employment law. San Francisco Chronicle as one of its “Top Women / Kristi Walton was elected Leaders in San Francisco.” She spoke about grow- to the partnership of Davis ing up in a Southeast Asian family, the youngest of Graham & Stubbs in Denver. 11, and the only one to go to college. “When I first She specializes in labor and started as a lawyer, I didn’t trust myself enough. employment law. I thought I had to look and sound a certain way. Now I know there’s strength in me being exactly ’04 who I am.” Erin Belka and her husband, Keith Sendziak, welcomed their third child, River, in May 2013. Erin is an the opportunity to author a City. I am running a small and Phoebe met at the San associate at Hamberger commentary on crime and expansion capital fund that Francisco District Attorney’s and Weiss in Buffalo, N.Y. society. I feel fortunate to makes investments in early Office on Mike’s first day / After remarrying in write and edit for a living, stage companies.” / Matt of work in September 2010. November 2012, Ory Sandel and to have the chance to Goldberg is a deputy city Mike and Phoebe live in the and his wife, Tamar Brown, make the law more accessible attorney for the city of San Marina neighborhood in San as well as daughters Talya for everyday people.” Francisco. He litigates on Francisco. / Gunter Mihaescu and Gaby, are thrilled to behalf of San Francisco writes: “In 2013, my wife, announce the arrival of a ’05 consumers and workers on Tina, and I welcomed our baby boy, Eytan Sandel! Darien Covelens writes: “I the affirmative and complex daughter, Lucia, into this Ory is still practicing in San moved into a new position litigation team. / Christian world. I’ve been working as a Francisco with Idell & Seitel, in January 2013 as director, Kemos has been elevated trial attorney at the Scranton a boutique entertainment law private equity, at MainLine to partner at his North Bay Law Firm in Concord since firm, focusing on litigation Investment Partners in firm, Freitas McCarthy 2011, representing plaintiffs and intellectual property Philadelphia and New York MacMahon & Keating. in personal injury actions. matters. / Katie Scott was He continues to practice promoted to partner at as a litigation counselor Dickstein Shapiro. She is for individuals and mid- to in the firm’s intellectual small-size businesses dealing property group, handling with commercial litigation, patent and IP litigation in ADA defense, employment the biotech, medical device, defense, and commercial and semiconductor fields. / lease disputes, as well as David Spector has joined the representing trustees and Office of Colorado Governor beneficiaries in trust contests. John W. Hickenlooper / Mike Maffei married a as senior deputy legal fellow assistant district counsel. Prior to joining attorney, Phoebe Eustis, in the Governor’s Office of Gunter Mihaescu ’05 with his San Francisco at the Marines’ Christian Kemos ’05 Legal Counsel, David was a wife, Tina, and daughter, Lucia Memorial Hotel. Mike partner at Kaplan Kirsch &

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IN MEMORIAM

Tamara Lynn Loughre ’03 passed away on Feb. 18, 2013. She was a civil rights attorney representing children with special needs.

Grace Hoppin ’98 died on Sept. 28, 2013, at age 45, after a cou- rageous fight with cancer. Grace was an immigration attorney at Jackson & Hertogs and Berry Appleman & Leiden, among others.

Bradley MacMillin ’94 passed away on Oct. 4, 2013, after a 12-year battle with melanoma. Brad was a CPA, attorney, and CFO of a private equity firm. In addition to family, his loves were the Dodgers, the Brendan A. McShane ’03 UCLA Bruins, and poker.

Ben Aliza ’81 passed away on Jan. 1, 2013, after a battle with brain Rockwell in Denver. David cancer. He retired from the Federal Trade Commission in 1998. lives in Denver with his wife and two sons. / Carolyn Arleigh Curtis Sawyer Jr. ’81 passed away on Aug. 19, 2013, Toto was elected partner at after a brief illness. He worked as a civil litigation attorney for 32 Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw years. Pittman. She practices John Joseph Giovannone ’75 died on Sept. 26, 2013, at age 63. He intellectual property law in was a founding father, captain, and charter member of the Hastings Los Angeles. Rugby Football Club. He practiced corporate and securities law for ’03 more than 30 years, most recently with Greenberg Traurig in Irvine. Mark Madnick has joined Richard P. Bronson Jr. ’74 died on Sept. 26, 2013. He attended Prospect Medical Holdings Town School, Hebron Academy, and Occidental College before com- as corporate counsel. ing to UC Hastings. / Bradley R. Marsh writes: “I changed firms to become a Thomas R. Curry ’70, city attorney for the city of Piedmont, died shareholder in Greenberg on Oct. 12, 2013. He was described as a “quiet voice of reason” in Traurig’s San Francisco land use, municipal law, litigation, and state Environmental Quality office and lead the West Act issues. He was with Burke, Williams & Sorensen in Oakland. Coast’s state and local tax Robert D. Marshall ’69 died on April 6, 2013, after a valiant battle group. I retired from the with cancer. He began his career in the California Attorney General’s Larkspur City Council on Office and excelled as a prosecutor. A highlight was watching his December 11, 2013. The eldest son, Todd, argue before the U.S. Supreme Court. council named December 12, 2013, ‘Brad Marsh Day’ in Charles Stone ’57, a former Stanislaus County Superior Court the city of Larkspur to honor judge, died in December 2013 following complications from open- / Brendan A. the service.” heart surgery. “Charlie was a prince of a man, a great judge,” Mike McShane was made a partner Tozzi, retired executive officer of Stanislaus Superior Court, told the at Latham & Watkins. Modesto Bee. “He could pick a jury faster than most judges, and he Brendan is a member of was very proud of that.” the litigation department and specializes in antitrust, Mario Barsotti ’55, a retired Alameda County Superior Court unfair competition, and judge, died on Sept. 6, 2013.

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’02 Pete Clancy of Clancy & Diaz, an Oakland personal injury law firm, became a member of The National Trial Lawyers: Top 100 Trial Lawyers. / Brian Eldridge was included in the 2013 edition of 40 Illinois Attorneys Under Forty to Watch, published by the Stephanie Sperber ’03, Sy Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. Minh T. Nguyen ’02 David Lim ’99 Nazif ‘03, and their son, Henry / Justin Mayo writes: “After six years as a labor / He also serves on the UC / complex litigation. In June negotiator and employee PDI has appointed Josh Mintz Hastings Board of Governors 2013, joined relations officer with the molecular diagnostics and is president of the Los John M. Dwell Media as its director Human Resources office of industry veteran Angeles Trial Lawyers’ Climaco of merchandising. Based the Administrative Office of to its board of Charities. in its New York office, he the Courts (AOC), I have directors. John co-founded is helping to develop and accepted a position as an ’01 Axial Biotech, a venture- execute its new e-commerce education attorney with the backed molecular diagnostics Ray Mueller strategy as part of a larger AOC’s Center for Judiciary was selected company specializing in digital transformation. Prior Education and Research. as the new mayor of Menlo spine disorders, in 2003, and to this, Josh served in key I’ll be assisting California’s Park by the Menlo Park served as the president, chief merchandising roles for judicial officers in developing City Council. He previously executive officer, and board Design Within Reach and courses and continuing served as vice mayor and was member until 2012. He UncommonGoods, after education opportunities for elected to the city council in currently serves as a director starting his career in public their peers statewide.” / Minh 2012. on the boards of Digirad and finance law with Stradling T. Nguyen was re-elected to Perma-Fix Environmental ’00 / Jon Lycett Yocca and Pillsbury. the Board of Governors for Services. joined Gina Bertolini, an attorney “During my five years in San the Consumer Attorneys Paladin Law Group as senior with roots in Michigan and Francisco—surrounded by Association of Los Angeles. counsel. great retail and remarkable experience at integrated creatives, innovators, and health care systems, has ’99 thought leaders—I got an been approved by the Board Tara Deukmedjian-Couture itch.” In 2008, he changed of Regents to be the next practices civil litigation in industries while drawing head of the University of Melbourne, Fla., with her inspiration and hope from Michigan’s Health System husband and partner, Brent the success of Richard Legal Office. Gina is a U-M Couture. / David Lim was Thalheimer ’74 as an esquired associate vice president and re-elected to the San Mateo product-centric merchant. deputy general counsel, a City Council in November / Stephanie Sperber and Sy position reporting to the 2013. / Laurel Thompson Nazif are eager for the arrival university’s top attorney, Paul has worked as a judicial of their second child (a with responsibility for research attorney at the daughter this time) in 2014. advising the leaders of California Court of Appeal Brian Eldridge ’02 UMHS on legal matters. for the past 10 years. She

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consumer protection claims ’97 and veterans’ benefit claims Scott Castro is a partner against the Department of with Jeffer Mangels Butler Veterans Affairs. San Diego & Mitchell in San Francisco, remains my home base, but specializing in land use and the firm’s veterans’ benefits environmental law. practice will be nationwide. / Emi Gusukuma writes: “I Oh, and I climbed Mount got engaged to the love of Whitney this summer with my life, Rakesh Singh, VP of classmates Nathan Ballard communications at the Kaiser and Gregg Adam.” Family Foundation, in June Laurel Thompson Paul ’99 ’98 2013.” Sunil R. Kulkami ’96 Steve Kasher writes: “I have ’96 currently is assigned to owned a sightseeing tour financial fraud. Steve was Jeannie Branham writes: Justice Jim Humes. Laurel business in Los Angeles selected in both 2012 and “2014 marks my 10th year is happily married to Grant for the past three years 2013 as one of 10 “Top as in-house counsel for Paul, the man she married called LA Insider Tours. Attorneys” in the area of Starwood Hotels & Resorts over winter break when she We have five tour guides business litigation by the San Worldwide (and 16 years was a 2L. They live in San and provide private tours of Diego Daily Transcript, and overall as in-house counsel Francisco, where they are Los Angeles, Hollywood, was selected as a business in the hospitality industry), raising two boys, Quincy Beverly Hills, and Santa litigation Super Lawyer managing regulatory and (2003) and Archie (2006). Monica. We are ranked for 2014. / Rachel Erhlich legal compliance for global In her spare time, Laurel No. 3 on TripAdvisor of all hotel and vacation ownership was named vice president enjoys running, baking, and tour companies in L.A.” / marketing and promotions, and chief claims officer for taking her family to locations Melissa Krum married John including social media and CAMICO, the nation’s featured in Sunset magazine Dooher in Belize this past emerging digital/mobile largest CPA-focused (aka “Sunset outings”). July. The couple met in the program of insurance and platforms.” / Ruth Burdick, / James Robertson writes: “I criminal courts of Alameda risk management. / Andrew former editor-in-chief of started a new firm in 2012, County—“a real-life Law & Herman has joined Miller the Hastings Constitutional The Bravo Law Group, Order D.A./law enforcement & Chevalier as counsel. In Law Quarterly, continues specializing in plaintiff couple.” 2005, he represented Major to work in the Appellate League Baseball before the and Supreme Court House Government Reform Litigation Branch at the Committee during inquiries National Labor Relations into steroid use by baseball Board in Washington, players. / Sunil R. Kulkami D.C., where she briefs and writes: “On Aug. 29, 2013, argues cases before the I was appointed by Gov. U.S. Court of Appeals. / Brown as a Superior Court Steve Coopersmith runs the judge in Santa Clara County. Coopersmith Law Firm, a Apparently I am the first business litigation boutique South Asian American state in San Diego focusing on court judge in Northern partnership and corporate California. I currently handle disputes, executive-level James Robertson ’99 Melissa Krum ’98 misdemeanor cases in San employment matters, and

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Jose.” / Carina M. Tan has business (mediation, conflict and risk managers, claims joined Sheppard Mullin coaching, and training), I am professionals, and attorneys. as a partner in the firm’s now creating retreats.” / Ann Grimaldi writes: “I intellectual property group, am pleased to announce the based in the firm’s Palo Alto ’93 opening of my San Francisco office. Susanne Aronowitz was law firm, Grimaldi Law on the faculty of NALP’s Offices. I will continue ’95 Newer Professionals Forum my established chemical Bradley Crawford joined in February in Long and product law practice, Chicago-based Vedder Price Beach. She also spoke on providing strategic legal as a founding shareholder of a panel, From Vet to Law services to businesses the firm’s new San Francisco Student to Lawyer: How facing diverse regulatory Mario Andrews ’92 office. He continues his to Recruit, Counsel, and challenges.” / Steve Pearl practice focusing on Employ Military Veterans, was recognized as one of 10 private placement, bank, at the NALP Annual of civil liberties at the Rising Stars in the Daily and mezzanine financing Education Conference in Stanford Center for Internet Journal’s annual list of top transactions, including new Seattle in April. / Maria and Society, is writing a neutrals in California. He deals and restructurings. Ayerdi-Kaplan, executive book on the NSA. / Steven is a full-time mediator with / Corey E. Taylor has director of the Transbay Hamilton was elected partner ADR Services. his own firm in Orange Joint Powers Authority, at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw County, where he represents was inducted into the Pittmann. He practices real ’91 developers, property Lambda Alpha International estate law in San Diego. Pamela Fulmer of Novak managers, and business Honorary Society for the Druce Connolly Bove & owners in real estate and Advancement of Land ’92 Quigg was recently named business disputes. He and his Economics. She was honored John M. Andersen, a certified among the “Top 250 wife, Suzanne, are parents for her accomplishment specialist in estate planning, Women in IP” by Managing of two busy, wonderful boys: in securing more than probate, and trust law, has Intellectual Property Caden, 7, and Griffin, 3. / $2 billion in funding to joined Ferguson Case Orr magazine. She serves on the Joanna Madison Valencia has bring the Transbay Transit Paterson as a partner. board of directors of the Bar been named general counsel Center Project, now under / Mario Andrews has been in Association of San Francisco. of Local Infusions, producer construction, to fruition. private practice in Oakland / John D. Harkrider was of Brenne Whisky. / Jennifer Granick, director for eight years, after eight lead global antitrust counsel years in public service as an for Thermo Fisher in its ’94 assistant district attorney in $13.5 billion acquisition of Garo Hovannisian, a San Francisco. He previously Life Technologies, which partner at the Los Angeles was a police officer for the required filings and approval insurance coverage law firm city of Berkeley and later before the FTC, the EC, and of Nelsen, Thompson, Pegue served on Oakland’s Citizens’ China. He also negotiated & Thornton, is entering Police Review Board. / Aaron the Standard Essential his 18th year at the firm. Booth was invited to join the Patent decree between He and his wife, Arsineh, prestigious Claims Litigation Google and the FTC, have three children: Vahan, and Management Alliance for which he was named 12; Sose, 9; and Mara, (CLM), a nonpartisan Litigator of the Week by the 4. / Meredith Richardson alliance of insurance American Lawyer. writes: “In addition to companies, corporations, / Theresa Muley took first my conflict management Susanne Aronowitz ’93 corporate counsel, litigation place at the 2013 Bench and

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/ Shannon Underwood ’86 continues to work as a President Obama has private commercial real nominated San Diego estate developer in western Superior Court Judge Washington, specializing Cynthia A. Bashant to the in industrial manufacturing U.S. District Court for and warehousing facilities. the Southern District of “It is more interesting than it California. Cynthia has sounds.” served on the San Diego ’89 Superior Court since 2000. / Mark Coon has been Todd Calvin has joined Shannon Underwood ’90 George Kuney ’89 appointed city attorney for Nickelodeon/Viacom as the Concord, Calif. He works vice president of business with senior assistant city Bar Art Show, sponsored by and legal affairs, where he ’87 attorneys Susanne Brown ’97 the California Bar Annual oversees the development Juan J. Dominguez was and Margaret Kotzebue ’90. Meeting, in the division and production of live- named 2013 Latino Lawyer / In August 2013, President of representational oil and action programming for of the Year by the Hispanic Obama appointed Beth acrylic paintings, as well the network. Prior to this National Bar Association. McGarry to the position as honorable mention in move, he held positions with / Karen Frank of Coblentz, of chief of staff and senior the same category. / Ann the Walt Disney Company, Patch, Duffy & Bass was counsel to the assistant Park has been a deputy Walt Disney Television named among the “Top 250 attorney general for the district attorney for the Animation, and the Disney Women in IP” by Managing U.S. Department of Justice, past 20 years. She recently / George Kuney Channel. Intellectual Property Office of Justice Programs. announced her intention is a professor of law at the magazine. Previously, she served as to run for judgeship in Los University of Tennessee an assistant U.S. attorney Angeles County Superior College of Law, where Court in June 2014. / Greg he directs the Center for Zlotnick writes: “In 2013, I Entrepreneurial Law, the moved to Carmichael, near business law program. He Sacramento, and started a and his wife, Donna Looper, new gig with the San Luis have recently published a SEND US YOUR & Delta-Mendota Water new book, A Civil Matter: A Authority. So, still doing the Guide to Civil Procedure and CLASS NOTES water stuff and running into Litigation, his 16th title since Please let us know your latest news Professor Brian Gray every joining the faculty in 2000. or information about fellow alumni. / Eve Felitti Lynch so often.” writes: You can submit your class notes and “After practicing law for nine photographs (300 dpi) online at ’90 years, I took time off before [email protected]. Send us Eduardo Angeles, a senior changing gears entirely your stories! assistant city attorney in and entering the world of Los Angeles, was named food publishing. I am now to the California Board of a freelance proofreader and Vocational Nursing and copy editor of cookbooks, as > [email protected] Psychiatric Technicians by well as a recipe tester.” Gov. Jerry Brown.

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has been elected the chair of Adviser Par Excellence the California Commission Nanci Clarence ‘85, former BASF president and on Judicial Performance. a partner at Clarence Dyer & Cohen, has been She was appointed to the CJP, an independent state selected to represent the Ninth Circuit as a voting agency, in December 2010 member of the Practitioners Advisory Group of the by the California Supreme U.S. Sentencing Commission. Nanci was also reap- Court. The CJP investigates pointed as chair of the American College of Trial complaints against Lawyers’ Federal Criminal Procedure Committee California bench officers and for 2013–14. She has served on Sen. Barbara Box- disciplines bench officers for er’s Judicial Selection Committee as well as advi- misconduct. sory councils for three United States attorneys. ’84 After 22 years at Baker & McKenzie, 17 of those years and first assistant at the Francisco board of directors. not a household name, in its Tokyo office, then six U.S. Attorney’s Office for / In November 2013, David Dassault Systemes is the years as general counsel at the Northern District of Frank received the Attorney leader in 3-D design software GE Capital Japan, AXA Life California and a deputy General’s Award for for the aero and automotive Japan, and AXA Rosenberg, assistant attorney general. Distinguished Service for his industries, and among the John Kakinuki is back in / Bob Yates retired from the work in the U.S. Department top 15 or so largest software the Bay Area, where he has practice of law on his 50th of Justice’s investigation of companies globally. Chances formed Kakinuki Law Office, birthday to dedicate all of his GlaxoSmithKline, which are the car you own and any in San Rafael. The firm time to community service resulted in a $3 billion airplane you’ve flown in were focuses on Asian intellectual in Boulder, Colo. He leads a criminal and civil resolution, designed using our software, property and commercial number of civic and nonprofit the largest health care fraud not to mention a whole matters, with a balance boards, and his current settlement in U.S. history. range of other industrial and of American and other principal project is building / Barbara Rowland has joined consumer products.” / Wendy non-Asian clients having a new history, science, and Post & Schell as a principal Tucker was recognized as a matters in Asia, and Asian children’s museum for the in its internal investigations Woman of Achievement by clients having matters in the Boulder community. and white-collar defense California Women Lawyers. United States. He also is a practice group. / Marc Wendy was honored during captain in the State Military ’85 Rubinstein has been group the association’s 39th Annual Reserve and serves as officer San Francisco Public general counsel at Asia Dinner and Silent Auction in charge of Team Alpha of Defender Jeff Adachi was Pacific Land since 2011. Asia at the Fairmont Hotel in San its Trial Defense Service, honored with the annual Pacific Land is a privately Jose on Oct. 10, 2013. / Fram the Northern California Access to Justice award from held Asia-based real estate Virjee retired this year from appellate defense unit for the the Lawyers’ Club of San investor and asset manager the partnership of O’Melveny California Army National Francisco on Oct. 29, 2013, with primary operations in & Myers, where he had been Guard, focusing on appeals at the group’s 66th Annual Japan, China, and Taiwan. a labor and employment from courts-martial. California Supreme Court / Thomas Ruthenberg lawyer since 1985. In January / Judge Carla McMichael is Luncheon. / Teresa M. writes: “I am in Tokyo for 2014, he joined California a federal administrative law Caffese of the Law Office of the second time, this time State University as executive judge for the Social Security Teresa Caffese was elected to as Asia counsel for a French vice chancellor and general Administration, Office of the Bar Association of San software company. Though counsel. / Judge Erica Yew Disability Adjudication and

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Review, in Augusta, Ga. Internet as director of recognizing the promise, and She enjoys spending time legal affairs. Artemis is an raising the influence of APA with her two daughters Internet security company lawyers. Founding partner and traveling. / Scott Sobel in San Francisco that will John Lim accepted the award. writes: “I’ve been in Los be offering a new top-level / Lee Pliscou writes: “After Angeles since 1989, raising domain, called .secure. Larry many years with California a family and still practicing. had previously been in the Rural Legal Assistance, I am My wife, Julianne, is a Apple law department for now with Micronesian Legal neuropsychologist. Our kids more than 17 years. / Ellen Services, based in Saipan.” / are 23, 21 (in local colleges), McKissock was named to the Neal Robb writes: “Thirty- and 15. I’ve had a solo civil Executive Committee for one years at the same firm, litigation practice since the Trusts & Estates Section Keesal, Young & Logan Lee Pliscou ’82 2000. I serve as a judge pro of the State Bar, effective in Los Angeles, defending tem for the Los Angeles October 2013. On Dec. 11, brokerage firms, investment Superior Court, as well as a 2013, she was also installed and Super Lawyers for advisers, and other financial board member at Beth Jacob as the president of the board Northern California. institutions. But every day Congregation of Beverly of trustees of the Silicon / Paul Herbert was appointed brings something new.” Hills, and a Boy Scout leader Valley Bar Association, by Gov. Jerry Brown to the in Troop 360. My 15-year- the local bar association Alameda County Superior ’81 old is working toward Eagle that serves estate and trust Court. / The National ALRP immigration attorney Scout.” attorneys. Asian Pacific American Bar Ana Montano received the Association (NAPABA) 2013 Crisálida Award in El ’83 ’82 honored Lim Ruger with its Salvador from that nation’s Bernard Knapp retired from William “Bill” Hancock is the 2013 Law Firm Diversity Attorney General for the the Contra Costa County principal of the California Award at its 25th Anniversary Defense of Human Rights, Office of the County Counsel Appellate Law Group, a Convention Gala in Kansas LGBTI Division. This in 2009 and is now pursuing boutique firm specializing in City, Mo., on Nov. 9, 2013, award is in recognition of his lifelong interests in California and Ninth Circuit before 1,200 attendees. Lim her extensive pro bono work music and painting. / Larry civil appeals. He has been Ruger received this award on behalf of the LGBTI Lowe has joined Artemis named to both Best Lawyers for its activism in promoting, population in El Salvador.

Wheels of Justice Debra Bogaards ’81 writes: “My daughter, Danielle Bogaards, is in her first year at UC Hastings and made the UC Hastings Negotiation Team. She sat at counsel’s table with me, running the PowerPoint, during a two-week trial in Marin before she started law school. That was an incredible mother-daughter experience! We moved our Bogaards Davis office to the beautiful and historic Jackson Square district. I have a trial practice that includes plaintiff’s personal injury and elder abuse. I am expanding to include bicycle law, as I am an avid weekend cyclist. This past year, I participated in two century rides in Big Sur. With my new Bianchi racing bike, I hope to do more rides. My family just surprised me with a UC Hastings cycling kit, so if any alums want to ride on the weekend, just call me.”

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/ Mark Steiner is co-chair of State Bar Breakthrough the trademark and copyright As counsel for the State Bar of California, James practice group at Duane Wagstaffe ’80 was successful in persuading the Morris in San Francisco. California Supreme Court to admit undocumented ’78 immigrant Sergio Garcia as a member of the state William Cahill, president bar. James writes: “Becoming a lawyer should be of Calfox, was recently based on the content of one’s character and not by named to the board of characteristics of race, religion, national ancestry, trustees of University of or immigration status.” Redlands in Redlands, Calif. / Jennifer L. Keller of Keller Rackauckas has been associated as co-counsel with Mark Geragos of Geragos & Geragos for the / Matt Thompson was of the American Legal manager with the Office of retrial of Ischemia Research named in Variety’s annual System at the University of the Governor. Foundation v. Pfizer in Santa “Dealmakers Impact Report” Denver. / Sally Marsh was Clara County. The jury trial for 2013. He represented honored by the Society of ’79 commences on April 28. / Relativity Media in its Corporate Compliance and Julie Fox Bradshaw was Gail Mitchell continues her Ultimates facility with One Ethics for her efforts in appointed to the Los Angeles solo family law litigation West Bank. helping the group develop Superior Court in May 2013. and mediation practice in internationally. She is a / Craig Diamond writes: Berkeley and was honored ’80 director at Drummond “Diamond Baker Mitchell, to be a 2013 Super Lawyer. John Lande, the Isidor Loeb March & Co. in London. nestled in the Sierra Spouse Kenn Kovitz is the Professor at the University of / Tom Matsuda was named foothills, continues to senior vice president of sales Missouri School of Law, was interim executive director of provide litigation services and business development named a fellow of Educating Hawaii Health Connector. in California, Washington, at World Trade Press in Tomorrow’s Lawyers, a Prior to joining Hawaii and New York. Still working Petaluma. While maintaining project of the Institute Health Connector, Matsuda waaay too much and way past a home in Marin County, for the Advancement was ACA implementation my anticipated retirement they look forward to date. But when I’m not, six acres, four horses, and three dogs keep us busy.” / David Humiston, a partner with Sedgwick, was named co-chair of the firm’s Inclusion and Diversity Committee. David is based in Los Angeles and co-chairs the firm’s health care practice group. / R. Steven Lapham was appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown to the Superior Court Sally Marsh ’80 David Humiston ’79 bench in Sacramento County. Cathy Moran ’78

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spending more time sipping Community Action Agency. newest lawyer in the family. Malbec and enjoying the Richard has served on She had worked as an extern view of the spectacular the Ventura City Council for SF Superior Court Judge Andes from the veranda of and served two years as Robertson her last semester, their vacation/rental home Ventura’s mayor. / Judge who did the honors.” in Mendoza, Argentina. / George Hernandez has been Cathy Moran writes: “My assigned to preside over ’74 blog for new bankruptcy one of the two complex Former Piedmont Mayor lawyers, BankruptcyMastery. litigation departments in Michael Bruck was inducted com, was selected as one of Alameda Superior Court. / as the 105th president of the the top 100 blogs for 2013 W. Robert “Bob” Lesh was Rotary Club of Oakland. An by the ABA. I continue awarded the Norby Award attorney and longtime civic Michael Tucevich ’74 and his to practice bankruptcy in for 2013, given by the daughter, Morgan leader, he has been a member Mountain View and co-edit Family Law Judges of San of the Oakland service club a personal finance site, Diego County annually to a was published in January. for 32 years. / Rick Derevan ConsumerLedger.com. I’m family law attorney who has / Justice James R. Lambden, was awarded the Orange enjoying an empty nest and a significantly contributed to retired from the California County Bar Association’s copious kitchen garden.” the family law community. Court of Appeal, First Presiding Justice David G. / Bill Richardson retired He is only the fourth family Appellate District, received Sills Award for Appellate from the practice of federal law attorney to receive both the Benjamin Aranda III Excellence. The award is income tax law and is now a the Norby and the Mike Access to Justice Award given annually to a lawyer professor of the practice of Shea Chair awards since the from the State Bar of or an appellate justice. Rick, law at William & Mary Law Norby’s inception 27 years California, the California who practices appellate law School. ago. Judges Association, the at the Costa Mesa office of California Commission Snell & Wilmer, is the first ’77 ’75 on Access to Justice, and lawyer to receive the award. Harrison Karr, who has Ida Abbott continues her the Judicial Counsel. / / Ann Ravel was elected vice been working for the U.S. consulting practice. Her new Basil Plastiras writes: “My chair of the Federal Election EPA for more than 20 book, Sponsoring Women: daughter, Selene Plastiras Commission for 2014. She years, has taken a one-year What Men Need to Know, ’13, was sworn in as the was nominated by President assignment working for the Navajo Nation Department of Justice in Window Rock, Ariz. He is assigned to Publishing and Pedaling enforce environmental Jim Cox ’69 writes: “I am still teaching full-time laws for the cleanup of at Duke and just published the seventh edition of contamination from past Securities Regulations (with Langevoort and Hill- uranium mining and man), and forthcoming is the 11th edition of Cor- processing in Navajo Indian porations and Other Business Associations (with Country. Eisenberg). Bonnie and I gathered 23 friends last ’76 summer for a one-week bike trip along the Mosel. Oxnard attorney Richard It was a blast, and the wine and beer weren’t bad, L. Francis was named to either.” the 15-member governing board of Ventura County’s

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Obama and confirmed by ADR neutral, and do a little father, Chester, and the the U.S. Senate in 2013. / public service.” firm now continues with Jeff U.S. Administrative Law S. Shepard, E.E.’s great- Judge Michael Tucevich ’71 grandson, and Paulette writes from Phoenix: “My James R. “Jim” Arnold was Janian ’71. 18-year-old daughter is off appointed as a contributing to college in the fall. The editor of Trends, the ’70 dreaded empty nest looms. newsletter of the ABA Deborah Judith Wiener Otherwise, life is good.” Section of Environment, writes: “You may remember Energy, and Resources. Jim me as Deborah Peyton. ’73 was re-elected a member of I retired as a shareholder Christine Helwick, most the Executive Committee from San Francisco law James R. “Jim” Arnold ’71 recently general counsel and of the Environmental firm Trucker Huss. There secretary for the California Law Section of the I worked with union- State University system and Bar Association of San Greenwood Village, Colo. related health and pension former managing university Francisco and as secretary Mike and his wife, Rita, plans along with classmate counsel for the University and treasurer of CORE live in Highlands Ranch, Charlie Storke and other of California system, has Environmental, a nonprofit Colo. / The Fresno County UC Hastings alumni. Early joined Hirschfeld Kraemer that promotes funding Bar Bulletin recognized in my career, I was an as of counsel and a member for cleanups for clean the 130th anniversary of attorney with the United of its higher education law water for Californians. the Shepard, Shepard, Farmworkers of America, practice. / Dennis Coupe writes and Janian law firm in its AFL-CIO. I look back at that he is “still working December 2013 issue. E.E. my work developing what ’72 on a mediocre version Shepard hung his shingle for is now called the Legal JohnMichael O’Connor of the Great American the practice of law in Selma, Education Opportunity has been appointed to the novel.” / Mike DeSilva is Calif., on Dec. 4, 1883, Program (LEOP) as my 2013–14 Santa Clara County associate general counsel, following his graduation most fulfilling time while at Civil Grand Jury. “After 40 legal and commercial from UC Hastings. His UC Hastings.” years of civil litigation, it’s services, for Newmont grandson, John E. Shepard time to step back, serve as an Mining Corporation in ’48, practiced with his

Bruce D. Varner ’62 Chairs UC Regents Board Bruce D. Varner ’62 was named chairman of the board of the UC Regents. He is the founding partner of Varner & Brandt, practicing in the areas of general business, corporate, and transactional law. Bruce is active in many civic and volunteer associations, including the President’s Advancement Council, California State University, San Bernardino; member of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Council; past member and chairman of the board of directors of the Inland Empire Economic Partner- ship; and member of the University of California, Riverside Foundation board of trustees. Bruce was appointed in 2006 by then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to a 12-year term on the Board of Regents.

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Special Recognition for Honorary Alumna Cecilia Blackfield Educator and philanthropist Cecilia Blackfield, who served on the UC Hastings Board of Directors, was honored by Palama Settlement at the community center’s inaugural gala on Nov. 9, 2013. Cecilia, the widow of William Blackfield ’38, who also served on the UC Hastings board, is beloved for her dedication to Hawaii’s parks. She and her husband founded numerous scholarships for high school and college students in honor of their son, Leland, as well as the William Blackfield Scholarship fund at UC Hastings. She was named an honorary alumna in 1999. She is an avid swimmer, can be found at her local YMCA five days a week, and is well known for her interest in orchids and her beautiful greenhouse.

’67 Rutherford writes: “I have convention in Orlando, ’62 been retired from the Butte Fla., and afterward visited William “Bill” J. Cruzen writes: Terry Dempsey writes: “Still Superior Court since January my son, Robert (U.S. “After 46 years of practice living in New Ulm, Minn. 2001. I have been sitting Naval Academy ’11), who is with the law firm of Karr Waiting for the reunion on assignment part-time. stationed at Kings Bay Tuttle Campbell (Seattle), I for UC Hastings grads in In June 2010, I married Naval Submarine Base am cutting back to of counsel Minnesota to have a meeting Justice Norman Epstein, PJ in Georgia, in between status and resigning as the and review good times at UC of Div. 4 of the 2nd DCA. deployments on the chair of the tax, trusts, and Hastings. Working part-time My permanent residence is Wyoming, a nuclear estates department of the as a District Court judge and in Chico, but I am in LA submarine. He commutes firm. With my new status, I serving on the MMA (state most of the time. Well, that from Fernandina Beach, will work remotely from our boxing board) and Minnesota is where my love is! Life is Fla.” / Joseph Cotchett homes in Palm Springs and won Legislative Society as a board good!” Idyllwild, Calif.” / Gordon a $1.1 billion award against member.” three paint companies liable McClintock reports he is “fully ’66 for exposing children to retired and enjoying life in ’58 Guy O. Kornblum has merged lead. The funds will be used Fort Collins, Colo.” / Ann The state Senate gave his San Francisco–based to remove lead in California final legislative approval civil litigation firm, Guy homes. He also represents to a resolution renaming Kornblum & Associates, the city of San Jose in its the western span of the with Santa Rosa’s Cochran & bid to lure the Oakland Bay Bridge in honor of Erickson to form Kornblum, Athletics to San Jose. / Fritz former San Francisco Cochran, Erickson & Duda served on the board Mayor and State Assembly Harbison. The new firm will of trustees at the University Speaker Willie L. Brown Jr. maintain its present offices of Notre Dame and chaired

in San Francisco and Santa its Campus Planning Rosa. Committee. He recently was named a trustee emeritus. ’64 Fritz continues in the real Paul Alvarado writes: estate development business Guy O. Kornblum ’66 “I recently attended a in Dallas.

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here’s pride in her voice when Nancy Miller ’78 says, THREE GENERATIONS T “I always wanted to be a lawyer, and I always wanted to go OF STELLAR GRADUATES to UC Hastings.” Her late father, George Scott HAVE UC HASTINGS Miller ’49, had a private practice in Whittier, Calif., and planted the IN THEIR GENES seeds of her ambition when she was just a young girl. At a time when women were the exception among law students, he told her she “would be a great lawyer” and inspired her with tales of how he had landed at UC Hastings after World War II, and fallen happily under the positive influence of Dean David E. Snodgrass, founder of the legendary 65 Club.

Snodgrass made his mark in Nancy Miller ’78 bringing that eminent group and her son and of scholars and jurists to UC co-worker, Stuart Thompson ’12. Hastings, but Miller knows of another of the dean’s effective recruiting efforts: encouraging Miller worked with faculty and the each side wants and what makes ex-service members to apply to his career office to help place women the most sense, thinking critically, law school. Miller’s father, the son and minority graduates. She has being articulate on your feet.” of a Canadian provincial Supreme gone on to enjoy a successful Which is precisely the sort of Court justice, had served in the private practice, as principal in her expertise she now has the plea- Canadian navy, attended UCLA on Sacramento firm of Miller & Owen, sure of passing along to her son, an ice hockey scholarship, married which focuses on public agency Stuart Thompson ’12, who, after her Californian mom, and become law. She also serves as chair of earning his UC Hastings degree, a U.S. citizen. Says Miller, “My Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s panel joined her firm as an associate dad always felt that coming to UC to select federal judges for the and has since worked with her on Hastings was a real opportunity.” Northern District. several cases. Three decades later, Miller had “UC Hastings gave me a great Like his mother and grandfather the good fortune to be among the start,” Miller says, pinpointing before him, Thompson values his students studying under 65 Club skills she learned in law school UC Hastings training and his fami- faculty. She also recalls that UC that have easily translated to ly’s deep connections to their alma Hastings was on the forefront of policy issues, which are her spe- mater. “We love UC Hastings,” accepting women and minority cialty—“breaking down a problem Thompson says. “It really is special students. While at UC Hastings, to its essence, figuring out what to be part of that legacy.”

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Investing in Communities

A GENEROUS GIFT FROM MARVIN SUSSMAN ’50 HELPS STUDENTS LIKE 3L CHAU TRUONG REALIZE THEIR DREAMS

hen Marvin Sussman ’50 came to UC Hastings in W 1948, a fresh veteran of World War II, classes were held at a building on the corner of Van Ness 3L Chau Truong: Avenue and McAllister. “The campus Paying it forward. was the corner bar,” Sussman recalls. It was a time of great promise, for Her parents emigrated from Vietnam diversity outreach efforts through the the college, the country, and Sussman. and settled in Orange County, which Vietnamese American Law Society After graduation, he finished his stud- has the largest concentration of and other groups. ies at UC Berkeley and then got a job Vietnamese Americans in the country. “I know what I’m getting into,” she practicing corporate law with a Wall Truong’s family struggled to assim- says. “All my experiences here have Street firm. Decades later, he transi- ilate, as did others. “Growing up, I confirmed my path. I appreciate that tioned into trusts and estates, retiring thought I was one of the luckier ones. someone is investing in me and my just three years ago, at the age of 83. I made it. Not everyone did. I want to community.” A longtime UC Hastings Foundation help by being a public defender, and if Sussman and Truong express the board member and now an honor- I can do that in my own community, I same appreciation for their legal train- ary trustee, Sussman has always can pay it forward.” ing. “I really appreciate the education supported the college. In 2007, he Truong has already worked at the I received at UC Hastings, particularly increased his commitment, donat- California Appellate Project and in from the 65 Club. It gave me the back- ing an IRA that funds the Marvin the Alameda and Orange County ground to enjoy my legal practice for Sussman Scholarship Fund, to which public defender offices. She also many years,” Sussman says. “I’m glad his niece and nephew, Barbara completed externships with Justice to know this scholarship helps those O’Donnell and Donald Berhang, have Nathan Mihara ’75 of the Sixth who might not otherwise be able to also contributed. His family also District Court of Appeal and the Hall continue their legal education.” funded the first UC Hastings seminar of Justice in Santa Clara County. To discuss how to donate an IRA room and a study room in the library. She is finishing her education with a or other retirement funds to UC Since then, Sussman’s gift has stint in the Criminal Practice Clinic. Hastings, contact Laura Jackson at supported four students at UC She has also served as an editor on [email protected], or call Hastings, including 3L Chau Truong. two law journals and is active in 415.565.4621.

60 SPRING 2014 UC HASTINGS HONORS WILLIE L. BROWN JR. ’58

“ UC Hastings was frankly my salvation. When I graduated from San Francisco State, there were no

Willie L. Brown Jr. ’58 (above) receives an award at the 2013 black police officers or firefighters. Honors Gala. Below, from left: Honorees Professor Roger C. Park and Simona Agnolucci ’06, Chancellor & Dean Frank H. San Francisco had not yet welcomed Wu, and Brown. racial minorities to be full participants. But UC Hastings was a place that gave everybody the opportunity. So it was the people’s law school.”

— Willie L. Brown Jr. ’58, 2013 Alumnus of the Year, UC Hastings Honors Gala

Brown was honored at the 2013 Honors Gala, Oct. 11, 2013, at the St. Regis Hotel. More than 400 alumni and members of the legal community attended.

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Student Volunteers Forge Connections With Alumni

Whether it’s writing thank-you notes or helping plant vegetables in the Tenderloin People’s Garden, UC Hastings’ newest alumni program gives students an opportunity to become further connected with the community and do good in the wider world. Participants in UC Hastings’ Student Alumni Ambassador Program are encouraged to volunteer in the community and take a proactive role in raising funds for the programs they care most about at the school. According to Annual Giving Manager Robin Drysdale, these alumni ambassadors “want to do good things.” One of their first efforts came on National Philanthropy Day, Nov. 11, 2013. To help UC Hastings express its gratitude to its donors, students wrote personalized notes to donors to thank them for their support. “The students give back, yes, but they are Students also volunteered in the Tenderloin People’s Garden. So far, the also building a network of connections. And program has enlisted about 100 volunteer ambassadors. who knows what great opportunities these “Our program’s goal is to create a strong community between students connections could turn into.” and alumni,” Drysdale says. “The students give back, yes, but they are also —Annual Giving Manager Robin Drysdale building a network of connections. And who knows what great opportunities these connections could turn into.”

EASING BAR EXAM STRESS UC Hastings alumni prove that there is such a thing as a free lunch

For many students, studying for and taking the bar exam are the most stressful parts of finishing law school. Thanks to a new program, at least those students have one less thing to worry about: their lunch.

UC Hastings now provides free lunches to its students taking the bar exam. “The box lunch program clearly demonstrates how UC Hastings is taking care of its students, even after they have graduated,” says Felix Woo ’99, who has supported the program financially. “Of course your school wants you to do well, but providing lunch conveys that the school is looking out for you on one of the most stressful days of your professional career.”

The first free meals were offered in 2013 to 130 former students at the test site in Oakland. Rupa Bhandari, director of student services, hopes to expand the program to more Bay Area locations. Expansion will depend on additional gifts from alumni, faculty, and staff. To learn how you can support this program, contact Laura Jackson at [email protected].

62 SPRING 2014 HELP KEEP UC HASTINGS’ CUTTING-EDGE LEGAL EDUCATION POSSIBLE THROUGH PLANNED GIVING.

Planned giving involves providing a future gift through your personal financial and estate plans. This can be anything from a simple bequest to a charitable gift annuity to naming UC Hastings as the beneficiary of your retirement savings. Your gift will truly make a difference to the future of this great law school. If you would like assistance planning your donation, contact Laura Jackson at 415.565.4621 or visit uchastings.plannedgiving.org.

A PLANNED GIFT MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE

Planned giving is a way for people to “ make the gift they wish they could. — Aviva Shiff Bodecker ’78, planned giving consultant ” { DONORS }

2013 REUNION Karis Daggs Allison Arnell Zeidler Scholar Ivan Delventhal Alaleh Azarkhish Esther Lee DONORS BY Mark Diperna Brian Bayati Glenn Von Tersch CLASS YEAR Jamie Dolkas David Beach Associate Scott Dommes Rhys Cheung Jason Bartlett More than 300 alumni Eric Eastman Konstantina Chilingirova Stephen Erickson and came together on Saturday, Marcus Eichenberg Theresa Deloach Elizabeth Erickson Oct. 12, 2013, to celebrate Justin Fields Michael Dundas Shawn Hansen their reunions. We thank Alexis Ford Brenda Entzminger John Wehrli Courtney Gardner Genevieve Evarts the alumni listed below Fellow Stephen Glade Marcie Fitzsimmons for donating to their class Anonymous (3) Phil Haack and Lisa Freitas campaigns. Robert Burlingame Vanessa Siino Haack Diana Hardy Trina Chatterjee Maria Jones Christine Hoburg Founder Kate Cutler Susan Joo Rebekah Jackson Sapirstein $1,000,000 and above Melissa Dooher Saori Kaji Nami Kang Deanna Dudley Chancellor’s Council Kaitlin Kalna Darwal Jeff Kiburtz Jennifer Dunn $500,000–$999,999 Aileen Kim Christian Kim Shannon Dunne Dean’s Circle Vlad Kroll Karl Klassen Ruben Duran Kassandra Kuehl Alison Krumbein $100,000–$499,999 Jared Eigerman Jennifer Lavarias Erin Loback Leader Wade Estey Nicholas Leonard H. David Lunas $50,000–$99,999 Emilio Gonzalez Karina Lleva Camarin Madigan Heidi Hudson Partner Jennifer Luczkowiak Bradley Marsh Max Kimura $10,000–$49,999 Suliana Lutin Philip Marx Christina Kotowski Eli Mark Deborah McCrimmon Esquire Dana M. Landrum Claudine Montecillo Gregory Mouroux $5,000–$9,999 Catherine Lee Lindsey Moore Erika Muhl Schwarz Nelson Lee Scholar Michael Nguyen Sied Nazif Michael McVicker $2,500–$4,999 Erik Olson Sara Noel Elisa Nadeau Associate David Palmer Christopher O’Connor Ciaran O’Sullivan Paul Peterson Sarah Peterman $1,000–$2,499 Natasha Patel Dylan Price Siegfried Ruppert Fellow Joshua Perttula Robert Rathmell Payam Shahian Kai Peters Up to $999 Natasha Saggar Stephanie Sperber Philip Pogledich Rachel Saunders Peter Spoerl Class of 2008 Greg Sato Emily Stratton Kent Sprinkle Kathleen Scanlan Associate Oscar Teran Chiemi Suzuki David Schneck Jerome Pandell Mary Webster Krulic Lisa Tan Hildegarde Senseney Pilar Stillwater Emily Wood Christina Terplan Anne Senti-Willis David Takacs Christopher Yamaoka Ronald Van Ronald Shea Lisa Veasman Erica Yen Sean and Brooke Welch Erik Swanholt Fellow Florence Yu Nicholas Wellington Vivian Tsoi Anonymous (3) Jessica Woelfel Dana Young Desiree Almendral Class of 2003 Kurt Worley Timothy Young Katie Annand Esquire Aric Wu Cyril Yu Rana Ansari-Jaberi Douglas Bria April Wurster Ricardo Aranda Constance Kim Li Zhang Class of 1993 Daniel Callaway Scholar Scholar Nathan Cardozo Class of 1998 Eric J. Wersching Paul Salvaty Susanna Chenette Partner Associate John Zecca Amber Chrystal Brian Coleman Gianna Pranata Nell Clement Chip W. Robertson Associate Irene Condella Fellow Anonymous (2) Anonymous (3) Kathleen Cattani

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Joseph Floren Esquire Class of 1983 Kim Savage Paul Jahn Cynthia Rowland Joseph Schilling Leader Dylan Lawrence Scholar Curtis Scott Susan J. Harriman Tony Ratner Charles Cardall Sara Spero Partner Jill Simeone John Fiero Shelley Tarnoff Alan Torres Phillip Davis Cynthia Thornton Associate Kenneth Van Vleck Deborah Lopez Rachel Ullman Anonymous Peter Wong Esquire Stephen Watson Denise Amato-Spinoglio James O’Sulllivan Anne-Marie Weller Fellow Linda R. Beck Mark Petersen William Weller Anonymous (2) Tina Combs Robert Westerfield Susanne Aronowitz Dion Cominos Fellow Joseph Wynne Thomas Cary Steven Gee Nancy Alvarez Theodore Zayner Frank Cassidy Theresa Gee Curt Barwick Randall Chamberlain Gary Green Cynthia Becker Class of 1978 John Corey Paul Laurin Kathryn Bergenholtz Dean’s Circle Kevin Daley Mark Porter Alice Bray Carol Federighi Barbara Banke Fellow Neil Brown Reiko Furuta Robin Buxton Jennifer Keller Anonymous Adam Gillman Ariel Calonne Partner Daniel Bailey III Tutti Hacking Marie-Louise Caro Robert Sall John Beckley Lyn Hinegardner Susan and Steven Derian Jeffrey R. Williams Catherine Bump Curt Holbreich Kathleen DeSantis Robyn Chew Esquire Serena Hong Jeffrey Ebstein John Condrey Kenneth Drost Joshua King Nancy Eisenschiml Michael Conneran David H. Kremer Elise Lau Nakatsukasa Robert Falsetti Daniel and Maria Connolly Leo Martinez Brian B.A. McAllister David Farrington Anne Creasey Nancy Miller Bryan McBurney Philip Feldman Gary Downs Barbara Morgen and Sean McEneaney Darrel Gardner Dakin Ferris Eric Hemel Gioconda Molinari Jonathan Gertler Christine Fitzpatrick Scholar David Nagy Larry M. Golub Lynn Garney J. George Hetherington Moona Nandi Howard Herman and Carol Hee Marilyn Klinger John Nemoy Claudia Bernard ’86 Jennifer Matkin Robert Perun Wendy Herzog Associate Andrew McCullough Kelvin Quan Brad Hill Elizabeth England Mary Merz Julie Reagin John Hollingsworth William Faulkner Laura Meyer Emily Rich Vanessa Holton John Feder Guy Parvex Jr. Robert Rich Mary Kay Kennedy Donald Franson Jr. Thomas Perea Lisa Ross Thomas Kintner John and Nell McBeth Vicki Perlmutter Dansky Robin Rounaghi Nate Kraut Mary Noel Pepys Roxane Polidora Peter Saltzman David Leichenger David Rivera Jeffrey Rosichan John Schlotterbeck Rebecca Litteneker Sandra Serrano Manuel Saldana Dawn Silberstein Ellen Lussier Robert Tafoya Patrice Scatena John Wadsworth Ann MacLeod Fellow Laura Smith Mary Anne Wagner Richard Maggio Richard Song-Uk Kim David Bargman Rhonda Woo Martha Mangold Thomas Stoddard James Bell Gideon Mark Class of 1988 Breck Tostevin Thomas Berliner Ellen McKissock Fairey Sheryl Traum Elizabeth Bird Leader Michael Millea Leah Tuffanelli-Blofeld James Bubar and Gregory Lanier Gerald Mohun Jr. Gregory Ursich Elaine Wolff ’79 Lisa Mondori Partner Thomas Wootton Sylvia Bufanda-Courtney Howard Chung Alaine Parry Brandt Lynne Carberry Gail Flesher and Dave Salvin Peter Pullen Daniel Carl Scott Wilsdon Kyle Sakumoto Donald Cary Paul Yong Sara Sanderson Roberto De La Rosa

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Teresa De La Rosa Associate Partner Donald Malone Guity Deyhimy Douglas Davidson Donald Bradley Calvin Moorad John Doyle Norbert Dickman Edward A. Melia L.C. Nunley Jill Draffin William F. Kenefick Jr. Associate John O’Rourke D. Greg Durbin Parker Kennedy Lawrence Alessio Crocker Price Jeanne Durbin Jerry Kindinger William Weir Ellis Reiter Jr. John Feeney Grant Kolling Hugh Rose III Fellow Randall Firestone Don Lynn Bruce Schwab Andrew Averill Lillian Fujii Terry Rakow Richard Bobier Cindy Gilman Gary Samson Terrence Boren Marc Goldstein Brenton Ver Ploeg 2013 Peter Bulens Donald Gottesman UC HASTINGS Fellow Howard Chang Robert Hawley Anonymous Harold DeGraw CHALLENGE Steger Johnson Kenton Alm Michael Downey Michael Joseph DONORS BY Don Atkins William Esselstein Fredric Kessler James Barber Norman Gatzert TEAM James Kraus Richard Bennett Harvey Henderson Jr. Howard Lind The UC Hastings John Cammack Richard Huff Paula Mahan Challenge brings together Carol Carrier Ronald Jarvis Edward Mastrangelo diverse groups of alumni Donald Cook Stanley Kanetake William McDonnell Jr. who collaborate by mak- Angelo Costanza Cecilia Lannon Patrice McElroy ing gifts or pledges that Leon Fox Jr. John Lynch Cathleen Moran support the law school Gary Gershon Karin Martin Carole Morita and its students. Any law James Graham Richard McAdams Paula Nakayama firm, corporate sector, or Alan Grossman Willis McComas III Arthur Page public sector law depart- James Hassan Harvey Mittler Seth Paprin ment with five or more UC Dennis Holahan Richard Moran Kurt Peterson Hastings graduates is eli- Larry Holman John Murcko Stephen Pulido gible to participate. Teams Robert Jones Philip Nelson William Richardson get special recognition John Kaheny Brian Pendleton Robin Russell when the percentage of Michael Klingler Paul Sax Jeanette Salkin alumni who donate reaches Philip Laird Jr. George J. Silvestri Jr. Peggy Schmidt platinum (100%), gold John Lejnieks Greg Tolson Brad Seligman (75%), or silver (50%). Michael Mason Jon Unger Marcia Settel Retired UC Hastings is grateful to Bruce McCrea Robert Wheatley Peter Sherwood the following teams and Martin Milas James Wurschmidt Nancy Stewart alumni for their generous Anthony Muir P. Zacher Garrett Sutton Kathleen Murray support in 2013. Martin Tangeman Terrence Ranahan Class of 1963 Platinum Susan Willey Michael Read Esquire / Allen Matkins Leck Gene Wong Gregory Ryken The Honorable Richard F. Gamble Mallory & Lawrence Yee Robert Scribner Charvat Natsis Victoria Bleiberg Zatkin Michael Shepherd James Hagedorn Anonymous William Smith Class of 1973 Frederick Allen ’66 Philip Sugar Associate Scott Dommes ’08 Partner George Thomas Jr. Richard Bryan Alexis Ford ’08 Thomas Miller William Thomas Donald Meyer K. Eric Friess ’90 Kristian Whitten Martha Whittaker Fellow Ivan Gold ’85 Carl Williams Herbert Barker Jr. Esquire William Harmsen ’71 Stanley Witkow James Cutright Thomas Fallgatter Anton Hasenkampf ’09 Michael Dufficy Clement Glynn Kamran Javandel ’10 Class of 1968 William Gibbs Scholar Tim McDonnell ’79 Charles Harrington Steven Felderstein Leader Sandi and Paul Nichols ’81 Thomas Hendricks Guy and Lenore Rounsaville Manfred Perera ’07

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Mark Seifert ’01 Rebecca Wardell Monroe ’10 Sarah Peterman ’03 / Pillsbury Winthrop David Zaro ’86 Michael Wilson, Jr. ’04 Mark Petersen ’83 Shaw Pittman / Bartko Zankel Tarrant P. Zacher ’68 Cynthia Rowland ’88 Anonymous & Miller / Haynes & Boone Eric Tausend ’10 Robert Burlingame ’98 Michael Abraham ’86 Mark Erickson ’82 Roderick and Deborah Timothy Burns ’89 Robert Bunzel ’81 Steven Koch ’84 Thompson ’80 Terrence Callan ’64 Stephen Cox ’66 Inchan Kwon ’06 Kelly Woodruff ’92 Mark Elliott ’91 Kerry Duffy ’04 Irina Marinescu ’12 / Glaser Weil Fink Jacobs Steven Hamilton ’99 Simon Goodfellow ’06 William O’Neill ’07 Howard Avchen John Heisse II ’80 Gerry Hinkley ’75 Carol Hee ’88 / K & L Gates & Shapiro Jeff Kiburtz ’03 Hildegarde Senseney ’98 Matthew Ball ’97 James Karagianides ’06 Andrew Lanphere ’97 Charles Towle ’89 Shane Brun ’95 Paul Salvaty ’93 Daniel McLeod ’12 Martin Zankel ’74 Christopher Carletti ’80 Jeffrey Soza ’87 Roxane Polidora ’88 / Duane Morris Tyler Cesar ’12 Jessica Wood ’09 Glenn Snyder ’84 Anonymous Megan Cesare-Eastman ’07 Silver Scott Sommer ’76 Marianne Adriatico ’99 Saleem Erakat ’04 / Coblentz Patch Duffy Carolyn Toto ’04 Jolie-Anne Ansley ’02 Hector Espinosa ’02 & Bass Kim Tung ’97 Thomas Berliner ’78 Curt Holbreich ’93 Jeremiah Burke ’07 James Young ’69 James Brengle ’76 Mark Klein ’71 Paul Escobosa ’75 Justin Fields ’08 Ed Sangster ’85 / Wendel Rosen Black Philip Feldman ’83 & Dean Suzanne Fogarty ’91 Mark Schmidt ’05 Robert Hodil ’02 Carl Ciochon ’92 Richard Hoffman ’77 Peter E. Soskin ’11 Jeffrey Knowles ’87 David Goldman ’77 Eun Kim ’06 Lisa Tucker ’91 James Mitchell ’87 Beth Koh ’07 John Loveman ’02 / Keker & Van Nest Richard Patch ’79 Howard Lind ’78 Philip Matthews ’77 Anonymous Daniel Vermillion ’09 Stephen McKae ’75 George D. Niespolo ’76 Simona Agnolucci ’06 / Cooley Christine Noma ’82 Siegfried Ruppert ’03 Jesse Basbaum ’10 Anonymous (3) Jonathan Redding ’87 Richard Seabolt ’75 Susan J. Harriman ’83 Peter Burns ’00 Jennifer Tang ’11 Mark Steiner ’79 Sharif Jacob ’07 Wainwright Fishburn Jr. ’81 Judith Tang ’95 / Gordon & Rees David Silbert ’94 Kathleen Goodhart ’91 Anonymous (4) / Musick Peeler & Garrett Andrea Irvin ’01 This donor listing includes the Alyson Cabrera ’02 Nathan Clark ’07 Jeff Kaban ’04 2013 Reunion and UC Hastings Richard Clampitt ’81 Steven and Stephanie Elie ’87 Ronald Lemieux ’85 Challenge only. Donors who Dion Cominos ’88 James Hassan ’73 Amy McCowan ’12 make gifts to UC Hastings John Condrey ’88 Catherine Lee ’98 Timothy Patterson ’81 between July 1, 2013, and June Marcie Fitzsimmons ’03 Alyce Rubinfeld Fox and Kathlyn Querubin ’10 30, 2014, will be acknowledged Heather Irwin ’99 James H. Fox ’82 Lauren Treadwell ’07 in our 2013–2014 Donor Roll. Allison Jones ’92 Gold Kara Wilson ’09 UC Hastings makes every Daniel Kubasak ’02 Summer Wynn ’05 effort to ensure the accuracy Margie Lariviere ’94 / Farella Braun + Martel Christopher Yamaoka ’08 of our donor lists. Sometimes Gary Lorch ’85 Anonymous / Goldfarb & Lipman unintentional errors do occur. Michael Lucey ’81 Diego Acevedo ’06 James Diamond Jr. ’87 Please call the Alumni Center Jennifer Lynch ’10 Deborah Ballati ’75 Dianne Jackson McLean ’89 at 415.565.4615 or email Bryan McBurney ’93 Ashley Breakfield ’11 Robert Mills ’91 [email protected] to Jack McCowan Jr. ’74 Amber Chrystal ’08 report any errors or corrections. Molly McKay ’96 Nell Clement ’08 / Holland & Knight Thank you for your generosity. Thomas Packer ’82 Ilene Dick ’90 Lynn Cadwalader ’85 Kai Peters ’98 Unnati Gandhi ’11 Stacie Goeddel ’00 Alexander Saksen ’00 Amanda Hairston ’07 Kyong Kim ’10 Manuel Saldana ’88 Morgan Jackson ’07 Jerome Levine ’65 Erica Sanchez ’12 William Keane ’86 Chelsea Maclean ’05 Laura Smith ’88 Karen Kimmey ’94 Kenji Tatsugi ’87 Thomas Stoddard ’88 Christoffer Lee ’11 Kenneth Strong ’79 Ann Padian ’07

UC HASTINGS 67 Twitter’s relocation to Mid-Market helped to catalyze the area’s revitalization.

MID-MARKET’S As tech companies and housing high-rises flood the once-neglected corridor, UC Hastings’ neighborhood is seeing a long-awaited renaissance Makeover

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n 1953, when UC Hastings moved to its current McAllister Street location, the surrounding Tenderloin and Mid-Market areas were home to thousands of middle-class workers. The neighbor- Ihood’s single-resident-occupancy housing also served a large population of retired seamen and naval per- sonnel attracted by San Francisco’s maritime legacy. But subsequent decades of neglect, drug and alcohol abuse, and social tumult turned the neighborhood into a bleak, crime-ridden pocket surrounded by wealth and development. Its blight and squalor seemed irreversible. Today, however, the skyline above the Mid-Market corridor is crowded with signs of change. Cranes loom over sleek new office towers and apartment buildings that will soon house tech workers and others drawn to central Market Street. “After many false starts, this area is poised for revitalization, and UC Above: Hip shops like Huckleberry Bicycles serve the many Market Hastings is in the middle of it,” says Street workers who commute by bike. Below: Market Street Place, a multilevel retail center on Market Street between Fifth and Sixth streets, the college’s CFO, David Seward, is slated to open in 2015. who serves on the boards of several neighborhood organizations. While UC Hastings has always been active with Tenderloin nonprofits and social enterprises, the college has a new neighborhood focus: As tech startups flood the area, students and faculty are doing work central to the success of some of these new enterprises through the college’s Startup Legal Garage. “UC Hastings is committed to public service, and we will continue to support the underserved in this neighborhood,” Seward adds. “As the area becomes more attractive to business, there are also huge opportunities for our students to get real-life experience helping companies, large and small, thrive. Our location, which has at times been a challenge, positions us at the heart of the burgeoning tech renaissance in San Francisco. The implications are profound. UC Hastings can now complement advantages derived from our proximity to the state and federal courts with those achievable from the adjacent technology sector.” Perhaps the single most important event in the transformation of Mid-Market came in 2011, when the city passed the so-called Twitter tax break—a new- employee payroll tax exemption for companies operating in some parts of Mid-Market and the

UC HASTINGS 69 Left: The Heart of the City Farmers Market is held three times a week in the Civic Center.

Right: Machine Coffee is one of many new cafes in the area.

Left: Mid-Market is being revived as an artistic hub.

Tenderloin—which intended to draw companies into To take advantage of the tax break, firms are required areas of the city that had been left behind. to develop community benefit agreements detailing The tax break came in response to threats that San how they’ll invest some of their savings in the neigh- Francisco–based Twitter was considering relocat- borhood. Employees of social networking company ing out of the city. Lured by the exemption, Twitter Yammer take part in anti-litter sweeps. Zendesk moved its 1,000 employees into a new headquarters invests at least a third of its annual payroll tax savings in the renovated Furniture Mart building at 10th and in the community, according to Tiffany Apczynski, Market streets, leased from the Shorenstein Company, the firm’s community relations manager. In 2013, under the leadership of Douglas Shorenstein ’79. More she says, Zendesk gave $80,000 in cash grants and than a dozen other tech and social media companies sponsorships to local theaters, arts organizations, and followed, including Zendesk, Yammer, Zoosk, Spotify, community gardens. and Square, where Chancellor & Dean Frank H. Wu “We’re located on the most notorious corner in San recently spoke to its in-house counsel. Incubators for Francisco,” she says. “But the good is slowly pushing startups have also settled in, such as Runway, located out the bad.” Zendesk has renewed its lease and plans in the Twitter building. to expand its footprint by leasing an adjoining building. “These companies are bringing young professionals These corporate tenants, combined with the foot traffic who want to live and work in a dynamic urban core,” from local theaters, are turning Market Street into the Seward says. “They bring a new energy to the neigh- grand walkable boulevard it was intended to be. borhood. Restaurants and coffee shops are opening, and the arts and entertainment are regaining their Meeting New Challenges prominence in a part of the city that was historically According to Hatty Lee, community organizing man- an entertainment district. These activities all support ager for the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development small businesses and enhance the urban experi- Corporation (TNDC), the influx of businesses is helping ence. Many of these small businesses are owned and improve conditions—but perhaps at the expense of operated by first- and second-generation immigrants the people living in the neighborhood. They still need seeking their version of the American Dream.” affordable housing, jobs, and social services, she says. The tech companies are working with local resi- “For decades, there has been almost no city or dents and nonprofits to improve conditions in the area. public investment in this area, while the community

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has struggled to keep what’s left of its rent-controlled, “We need to balance the success of the city’s nonprofit-operated housing and important neigh- revitalization efforts with a commitment to protect- borhood services,” she says. “As a result, we have ing residents, small businesses, and nonprofits,” says deteriorating infrastructure, not enough open space, Supervisor Jane Kim, who represents the area. “It’s and a lack of employment opportunities.” also important to provide spaces for generating cre- Residents are seeing an increase in Ellis Act evic- ativity as the neighborhood changes.” tions. Some, Lee says, have been harassed to move out Arts groups, Seward agrees, are crucial to the of rent-controlled units. Nonprofits including the TNDC, area’s transformation. “Both the reality and per- Tenderloin Housing Clinic, and Mercy Housing lease ception of safety,” Seward says, “is about having much of the area’s affordable housing, which protects positive pedestrian activity in the neighborhood.” The tenants from eviction and rent increases, to a degree. American Conservatory Theater’s recent restoration of However, it doesn’t mean community resources like the derelict Strand Theater, he notes, will encourage senior centers and food banks are safe from displace- the influx of restaurants and cultural venues that will ment. “Residents rely on these services to thrive and help revitalize the district, block by block. build communities,” Lee says. “As the area becomes a vibrant new hub of arts, Also at risk are arts organizations that first brought technology, and social media,” he adds, “we’ll share life to the area. As development surges, artists have in the exciting transformation, right on our doorstep, been threatened by skyrocketing rents and the sale of and our students will have extraordinary access to all their spaces to private investors. it offers.”

Right: Gourmet food trucks sell a wide range of delicacies outside City Hall.

Left: Mid-Market is one of the city’s most pedestrian- and cyclist-friendly areas.

Right: The neighborhood is becoming known for its vibrant street art.

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committed train about 15 hours RIDING INTO HISTORY a week, in addition to all their classwork. “Cycling’s an endur- UC HASTINGS’ CYCLING ance sport, and to compete, you’re really putting in a varsity-level CLUB TAKES OFF effort,” says 2L Clifton Smoot, co-president of the club. “But it’s a nice counterbalance to the stress eginning this spring, UC “For me, my equilibrium with of law school. There are parallels Hastings will field its first work, sports, and exercise is to law school: You have to put the Bintercollegiate sports team essential and potentially fruitful in work in to get anything out.” of the modern era, a cycling club the long run,” she says. Apart from the thrill of com- that doubles as both a social and The spring 2014 schedule petition, members say the club recreational club for law students, includes competitions throughout serves another purpose: Bringing and a competitive squad facing off California, where club members students together through cycling against traditional sports power- will have the opportunity to race and other activities that are house schools. against students from UCLA, UC “alternatives to the typical ‘drink- 3L Kim Fong started the club Santa Cruz, Stanford, UC Davis, and-mingle’ events,” Smoot says. as a first-year student, organiz- and Humboldt State. The club The team plans to raise funds to ing informal biking outings with participated in its first competition participate in a Tour de Cure ride, fellow students. UC Hastings’ on Feb. 1, in San Diego. benefiting the American Diabetes general counsel approved the club Members train by riding Association. For more informa- in spring 2013. Now in its first year throughout the city and across tion or to order a cycling jersey, as an official student organization, the Golden Gate Bridge, and visit http://hastingscycling. the club has attracted around 40 through Marin County. The most wordpress.com. members. Of those, about a dozen plan to compete in races governed by the Western Collegiate Cycling Conference, the intercollegiate cycling association for schools across California, Nevada, and Hawaii. Vice President Ashley Dymond, a second-year student who has competed in Europe as part of the USA Cycling national team, calls it “a great outlet—a way to have a goal and do target training.

From left: 3L Rob Saka, 2L Nancy Schneider, 2L Clifton Smoot, 3L Adam WiIson, 2L Ashley Dymond, and 2L Mario Lopez.

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