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PENN STATE DICKINSON ALUMNI MAGAZINE SUMMER 2008 CHANGE OF VENUE A LETTER FROM THE DEAN

In January, many of you joined us for a groundbreaking ceremony in Carlisle to celebrate the start of construction on our Carlisle building project. If you’ve driven by Trickett Hall lately, you can’t help but notice the extensive work that has been done since that cold January morning. I am pleased to note that our investment of more than $120 million in new facilities in University Park and Carlisle is on schedule and mov- ing forward (expected occupancy December 2008 in University Park and December 2009 in Carlisle). For regular updates on our building project and to view live construction video from Carlisle and University Park, please visit our Web site at www.dsl.psu.edu. We are pleased to welcome several distinguished scholars/teachers to our faculty this year: Jamison Colburn, a leading environmental law scholar and former assistant regional counsel for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; David Flatto, a scholar of legal history who also happens to be an ordained Rabbinical Scholar, who will hold joint appointments in Penn State’s Jewish Studies and History departments; Michael Foreman, immediate past deputy director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in Washington, D.C., who will direct the Law School’s new Appellate Civil Rights Advocacy Clinic; Zachary Kramer, an employment and civil rights scholar and former Teaching Fellow at UCLA School of Law; Randall Robinson, the internationally acclaimed founder of TransAfrica and the Free South Africa Movement whose books and scholarly interests focus on U.S. foreign policy towards the Caribbean and Africa, and who will join us as a Distin- guished Scholar in Residence (with a joint appointment in Penn State’s new School of International Affairs); Catherine Rogers, formerly the Richard C. Cadwallader Professor of Law at Louisiana State University Law Center and professor of law at Universita Commerciale Luigi Boc- coni in Milan, Italy, a leading scholar of international arbitration and professional ethics; and Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, former deputy director for legal affairs of the National Immigration Forum in Washing- ton, D.C., who will direct our new Center for Immigrants’ Rights, which will continue and expand upon the work of our Refugee Clinic. We have also announced several faculty appointments to Penn State’s new School of International Affairs, which is directed by DSL Profes- sor Tiya Maluwa, our H. Laddie Montague Chair in Law. These new faculty will office in the Law School’s new Lewis Katz Building and teach several classes available for enrollment by upper-level law students. They include former ambassadors to Peru, Thailand, Mozambique, and the United Nations; former directors of Middle Eastern and African Affairs at the U.S. National Security Council; and leading scholars of diplomacy, security, China and other topics who are joining us after serving on such faculties as MIT, Tufts, and the University of Florida. Beginning in the spring of 2009, we will kick off a year-long celebra- tion to commemorate the 175th anniversary of The Dickinson School of Law. If you have suggestions for this celebration, or would like to help plan an alumni event in your area, please e-mail our alumni office at [email protected]. Thank you, as always, for your ongoing support. MANAGING EDITOR TheDICKINSON Kelly R. Rimmer

EDITOR LAWYER Pam Knowlton

CONTRIBUTORS Crystal L. Stryker ’04 Dyanna Stupar Melissa Tanguay ’09 I N T HIS I SSUE

PHOTOS Ian Bradshaw Photography 2 IN BRIEF Chappell Studio Harvey Feldman now Semi-Retired • Mission Accomplished • Ned L. Siegel ’76 Pam Knowlton Appointed Ambassador to the Bahamas • Judge Rambo ’62 Honored with Dyanna Stupar Penn State’s Alumni Fellow Award • Legal Services Advocate Receives 2008 Jupiter Images Rambo Award • New Master’s Program Tackles International Policy, Public Service Cover: Getty Images Illustrator - John Labbe 8 COMMENCEMENT

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By Crystal L. Stryker ’04

IN BRIEF If Harvey Feldman is gazing into the sunset, it’s only because the owner of neighboring Blackacre is bound by a restrictive covenant not to interfere with his view of the setting sun. The well-loved professor of property, real estate transac- tions, and appellate practice concluded his full-time teaching with Dickinson in June 2007 and is now semi- retired. As associate dean of the Law School for twenty- six years, Feldman enjoyed one of the longest administra- tive tenures in Law School history. His leadership spanned the tenures of five Law School deans and the merger with Penn State University. He is scheduled to continue teaching on a part-time basis until June 2010. To students, Feldman was a teacher, an academic coun- selor, a friend, an advocate, and a source of encouragement. “Dean Feldman helped reschedule my classes so that I had time to work in the Family Law Clinic,” said Lara M. Mammana ’04. “He told me that he applauded law students’ involvement in public service. My clinical expe- rience was my favorite part of law school, and I am thankful that he made it possible.” He has oriented dozens of classes to the honor code and shaken thousands of hands on the graduation stage, influencing generations of lawyers with his passion for the the conclusion of law school. He accepted Dickinson’s offer law and sense of humor. of admission and a full scholarship, never having visited the “I have a tremendous respect for Professor Feldman. He campus, and graduated as a member of the class of 1969. took boring classes and made them the most interesting in Feldman joined the Law School faculty in 1970 after law school,” said Ron S. Chima ’98. earning an LL.M. at George Washington University and Feldman stood near the helm through an era of profound became associate dean for academic affairs in 1978. He has change in legal education. From his stately office on the taught Property, Appellate Practice, Remedies, Land Use ground floor of Trickett Hall, he witnessed the dawn of per- Controls, Environmental Law, State and Local Government sonal computing, the Internet, mobile phones, and electronic Law, Real Estate Transactions, Professional Responsibility, legal research. Of course, he has also witnessed the changes and Gender and the Law. He served eight years on the Uni- in professional communication standards that accompanied form Laws Commission. He coached appellate moot court e-mail. Ever the stickler for quality writing, he treated e-mail teams and, perhaps most famously, pitched for the Law School’s from students as professional correspondence and judged it UVA Tournament softball team (which won the champi- accordingly. onship in 2001). Dickinson’s General Alumni Association Most alumni know Feldman as an academic administrator, awarded Feldman its Distinguished Service Award in 2005. but fewer people know that his rigorous academic career began The summer of 2007 was Feldman’s first summer away at the age of six when his mother sent him to Philadelphia’s from work since he was 13 years old. He imagines that prestigious Girard College, which was, at that time, an all- retirement will involve solitude and leisure. Although his wife, boys boarding school for orphans. (Feldman explained that Carol Kosik ’94, is a few years away from retirement, his most students were, like him, fatherless, not parentless.) Weimaraner, Phantom, keeps him company during the day. After graduating from Girard, he enrolled at the Universi- Feldman described one summer day last year in which he ty of Pennsylvania in 1962 for what he identified as the best rose before sunrise, teed off around 6:00 a.m., was home four years of his life. Immersion in a community of brilliant before 10:00 a.m. after playing eighteen holes, and read an people encouraged him to better himself, he explained. entire novel in one day. “That’s what I think retirement is Feldman then scored well enough on a government place- going to be like,” he said. ment exam to obtain a deferment of military service until

2 • THE DICKINSON LAWYER HARVEY FELDMAN IN A “NUTSHELL”

At Alumni Weekend in October 2007, the Law School com- count on him, whether he was running me to and from munity hosted a picnic to celebrate Professor Feldman’s career. gymnastics lessons every day or whether he was taking me Flanked by family, friends, and colleagues, he accepted a book on trips across the country or to visit colleges. It’s hard to pick just one instance that would sum up how much of an bearing the memories and well-wishes of former students. impact he’s had on my life, but if I had to choose, I’d pick The Law School assures Feldman that he is free to enjoy the one of the evenings that my family went out to dinner. I entire bundle of property rights with respect to the book and was probably about 10 years old. My family was sitting that it is absolutely free of hidden attributes such as antique around a table, eating dinner, and we kept noticing a little stamps, 1793 Lady Liberty pennies, or Mickey Mantle signa- boy sitting at another table with his parents. The little boy tures. kept pointing at Harvey and whispering to his parents. Finally, towards the end of our dinner, one of the boy’s par- Excerpts from the memory book follow. ents walked over to our table and said something like—‘our “I played softball with Harvey on the Penn State Dickin- little boy thinks that you look like Superman... are you?’ son team from 1999-2001, and continued to play on alum- Harvey said no, and the parent walked back to the table ni teams with Harvey after graduating. All of the tourna- and the little kid looked heartbroken after he heard the ments that we played were great fun, but an incident from news. But then, after Harvey paid our bill, he took off his the first game of the first tournament that I played with glasses, looked at the little boy, reached his arms out flat in Harvey was especially memorable. front of himself, and pretended to fly out of the restaurant. It was early Saturday morning and we were playing the At the time, I had never been so embarrassed in my life, team from the University of Alabama and getting slaugh- but now, when I think of that evening, I can see the red cape.” tered (I believe they went on to win the tournament). Har- — Kara (Messner) Gendron ’01 vey was pitching and I was playing left-center field. There was a runner on second, and the ball was hit hard to me, so “For a law student, it takes only one meeting to remem- I tried to throw out the runner trying to score. I made a ber Harvey Feldman forever. After three years of law school, good, hard throw. Harvey was between me and home plate every vein-popping, jacket-flapping, spectacles-stabbing, as the cut-off man, and (he later said) he wasn’t sure finger-dueling, voice-booming lecture he gave is in our whether to cut-off the ball or not. In his indecision, he blood. His outward passion for the law, for teaching, for moved his glove out of the way but not his head, and the wanting us to be just as passionate, were matched by a ball hit him in the forehead and ricocheted about fifty feet quiet compassion for our struggle to become lawyers. He out of play! Harvey staggered briefly before going down to pushed us, forced us, and pried the best from us—pray a knee. Obviously concerned, the team ran to check on though we might for deliverance. He is a genuinely great him. While a little dazed, Harvey stayed in the game and teacher, and we—his students, the Law School, and the kept pitching that game and several more that day, albeit profession—are better because of him.” with a headache. Of course, after that game, I was moved — Michael Pates ’97 to the infield and never again played outfield for Dickinson. Congratulations on your retirement, Harvey! I cannot “Professor Feldman has practical advice as well, ‘While thank you enough for your guidance through law school preparing for exams, shower! It kept me wide awake and and the incredible memories from those softball tournaments.” made me the cleanest student of the Law School.’” — Phil Curtin ’01 — Ulrich Blumenröder ’92

“I was fortunate to travel with Dean Feldman and a Harvey A. Feldman in a “Nutshell”: Just the facts number of classmates to a few regional law school softball Humble — Knows his place in the animal kingdom — tournaments. He has a real passion for sports and it was beneath his beloved canine companions, Phantom, the late evident during these road trips. Rusty, and the late Grendel, for whom he nearly sacrificed The tourney one spring at the University of Virginia was his arm. memorable in that we played two games the first day in six Inquisitive — Obvious to those of us who have heard inches of snow. On these trips, he was not a law school him repeatedly say, “I would kill for a Riesen!” dean—he was happy just to be one of the guys. Professional — When accused by a former Dickinson Dickinson will always be a special place for me, and Board of Trustees member as being underdressed for the Dean Feldman is a large part of that. The school has been occasion, Harvey showed up at the next Trustees meeting enriched by his influence, and he will be missed.” “dressed to the nines” sporting a tuxedo. — Jim Fields ’90 Sweet — How could he not be with the amount of Swedish Fish he consumes from community candy dishes? “Harvey was not only one of my favorite professors, but I Talented — The only law professor I know who can also had the great experience of having him as a stepfather stand on his head and clap his hands at the same time. during the most formative period of my life. I could always — Pam Knowlton

SUMMER 2008 • 3 MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: But New Orleans has a Long Road Home

By Melissa Tanguay ’09 funding and devise plans to “I am coming home! I will rebuild! I am New Orleans!” rebuild the Pon- read a familiar sign lining the deserted streets of the Eighth tilly community Ward in New Orleans. in the years to Nearly two-and-a-half years have passed since Hurricane come. Katrina and its aftermath ravaged the neighborhoods and Our experi- flooded the streets of the Big Easy in September 2005. The ences in Gentilly familiar tourist attractions and higher grounds of Greater Woods through- New Orleans are alive and well; but in a sad contrast, the out the week lower-lying communities stand as vacant and ravaged as a were interesting, war zone. Gutted homes, broken-down cars, and weed-filled to say the least. lawns have taken the place of once bustling neighborhoods, Some residents community centers, parks, and schools. If I hadn’t known were wary of better, I would have thought the dirty waters had receded sharing their sto- only last week. ries with strangers Sign on a street of Gentilly Woods From January 6-12, 2008, fellow second-year law student and others Andrea Miller and I led a group of twelve Penn State Dick- refused to speak inson students from both campuses and all classes of our to us at all, but most of the residents we spoke to could not school to volunteer in New Orleans on an alternative winter convey enough of their hope for the future. A number of break trip. I first experimented with the endeavor of an residents in the Pontilly area were fortunate enough to raise alternative break in New Orleans last March. This time, our the necessary funds to rebuild their homes. Some are hun- trip was made possible by generous donations from the Law dreds of thousands of dollars in debt; others had the fore- School and surrounding community, and student interest in sight to insure their homes against flood damage. Most joining the trip was overwhelming. We worked for the Stu- obtained at least a small portion from the federal and state dent Hurricane Network, a student-run collaborative that governments. However, everyone we talked to had spent since 2005 has placed thousands of law students on academ- every dime of savings on their homes. ic breaks with volunteer projects in hurricane-damaged areas One of the questions we asked each resident was, “Will of Louisiana and Mississippi. you stay in New Orleans for the foreseeable future?” This Our assignment for the week was with the Pontilly Disas- question was usually answered with a resounding yes — ter Relief Collaborative, a nonprofit neighborhood associa- despite the city’s foreboding economy and crime rate, short- tion in the heart of the Eighth Ward—where up to ten feet age of schools and jobs, increasing rents, and decreasing of water swallowed a once vibrant community just across population. Nevertheless, New Orleans was, still is, and will the canal from the Ninth Ward. Pre-Katrina, the neighbor- be home for these people and their families. hood boasted 2,000 single-family homes, a golf course, a In addition to the work, our group was able to see a lot of large park, a senior center, and several schools. The Pontilly New Orleans from the windows of our rental vans: the mas- residents were forced to evacuate and relocate as electricity sive crowds around the Superdome for the LSU-OSU bowl was just restored in the area last fall. To date, only about a game; the “circus” that is Bourbon Street; the historic land- quarter of the residents have returned home; to most, marks along the river that were deeply contrasted by the “home” at the moment is a small FEMA trailer in the front symbolic pink tents marking Brad Pitt’s fundraising and yard of a house-in-progress. rebuilding efforts along the levees in the washed-away Lower Team Penn State Dickinson Law worked with a few dozen Ninth Ward; the all-too-familiar FEMA trailers dotting other law students from across the country to conduct a every free inch of Greater New Orleans; and the tent cities two-part housing survey in the Gentilly Woods neighbor- of homeless people that have risen under the freeways. The hood over the course of the week. Half of the group assessed lagging recovery process on the federal, state, and local levels property damage and took pictures to accompany the sur- of government have now been supplemented with small vey; the rest conducted personal interviews gauging resi- steps taken by churches, neighborhood associations, and dents’ hurricane experience and subsequent efforts to rebuild thousands of volunteers from across the globe. their homes, thoughts on the recovery process, and personal I hope that Penn State Dickinson School of Law can con- views regarding the current state of Greater New Orleans. The tinue its involvement in assisting New Orleans down the data we collected will be compiled, analyzed, and used to gain long road home. As students, we are the ideal volunteers—

4 • THE DICKINSON LAWYER regular breaks from the rigorous aca- demic schedule and freedom from the stresses of the “real world” allow us to truly take a time out to help others in need. New Orleans will need all the man power—and brain power, too— that it can summon in the years to come as the rebuilding process contin- ues. As we departed New Orleans to head back to the Law School for the spring semester, I realized that I’d like to raise my own signs here: “They are still coming home! They need help to rebuild! Don’t forget New Orleans!”

Team Penn State Dickinson Law in front of the Pontilly Disaster Relief Collaborative. L to R: Melissa Diaz, Joe Palmerson, Melissa Tanguay, Bianca Oden, Andrea Miller, Valerie Beaston, Troy Reyes, Matt Allen, Rob Kleiner, Michelle Iseman, Phil Taw and Mike Kovalsky

and investment firm active in all aspects of residential, NED L. SIEGEL ’76 commercial, and realty management, and investment devel- opment. APPOINTED AMBASSADOR Active in many business and civic organizations, Siegel was appointed by Governor Jeb Bush to Enterprise Florida’s TO THE BAHAMAS Board of Directors and to the Space Research and Com- merce Park Planning and Development Committee at the Ned L. Siegel ’76 was appointed by President George W. John F. Kennedy Space Center. He was also a trustee of the Bush to be the twelfth U.S. Ambassador to The Bahamas. Governor’s Mansion Foundation, The Greater Boca Raton He presented his credentials to the governor general of The Chamber of Commerce Bahamas on November 14, 2007. President Bush honored Siegel in 2003 with a presiden- Since 1977, Siegel has built a very successful career in tial appointment to the Board of Directors of the Overseas real estate and business while volunteering time to person- Private Investment Corporation. In 2006, President Bush ally important civic, Jewish, educational, and political caus- appointed Siegel to serve as a representative of the United es. States to the United Nations. Prior to beginning his career in real estate, Siegel served Siegel has a close personal interest and is active in many as a law clerk to Chief Justice Mitchell H. Cohen in the Jewish causes. He served as a member of the national Board Federal District Court in Camden, New Jersey, before mov- of Directors of the Republican Jewish Coalition in Wash- ing on to join the New Jersey law firm of Kimmelman, ington, D.C., as well as chairman of the Republican Jewish Wolff & Samson. Coalition of Florida. He also served on the Board of the In 1977, Siegel left law behind to pursue his love of busi- American Jewish Committee, South Central Florida Chap- ness by joining The Howard Siegel Companies. By 1980, ter, and as co-president of the Board of the Jewish National he had expanded the company into one of the largest resi- Fund’s South Palm Beach County Region. He is active in dential developers in the nation and was named president the Israeli Bonds program, Temple B’nai Torah in Boca and managing partner of the Weingarten-Siegel Group, Inc., Raton, and Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Boynton, where where he was primarily responsible for the operations, over- he served as executive chairman of the Executive Committee. all development, and marketing of residential communities, Siegel graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of office parks, and retail centers throughout New Jersey. Connecticut in 1973. A long-time resident of Boca Raton, In 1984, Siegel expanded The Weingarten-Siegel Group’s Florida, Siegel is married to Stephanie Moak Siegel and is real estate operations into Florida and California and the father of Justin, Joshua, and Jillian Siegel. moved his permanent base of operations to Boca Raton, Florida. Siegel is currently a partner in Paramount Residen- tial, L.L.C, a leader in master plan residential communities, custom homes, and special needs communities for Florida’s diverse Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods. He also served as chairman of The Siegel Group, a real estate development

SUMMER 2008 • 5 the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Task Force on Legal Ser- vices to the Needy, in addition to teaching classes at The Dickinson School of Law as an adjunct professor. Rambo is a member of The Dickinson School of Law’s Board of Counselors and was a member of its former Board of Governors. She has served on the Law School’s General Alumni Association and received the school’s Alumni of the Year Award in 1981. In 1993, she was honored by the Law School’s Women’s Law Caucus as the first recipient of the Sylvia H. Rambo Award. Rambo also holds an honorary doctor of laws degree from Penn State. She is a member of the Penn State Alumni Association and was married to the late George F. Douglas Jr.

LEGAL SERVICES ADVOCATE RECEIVES 2008 RAMBO AWARD

Judge Sylvia Rambo On February 28, the Women’s Law Caucus hon- ored Maureen P. Kelly, an JUDGE RAMBO ’62 HONORED experienced litigator and lead- ing advocate of legal services WITH PENN STATE’S for the indigent, as the four- teenth recipient of The Sylvia ALUMNI FELLOW AWARD H. Rambo Award. Kelly, who is a shareholder The Honorable Sylvia H. Rambo ’62 was honored as an in the Employment and Alumni Fellow Award recipient during the October 10 Labor Services Group of Alumni Fellow ceremony at The Nittany Lion Inn at Uni- Babst, Calland, Clements and versity Park, Pennsylvania. Zomnir, P.C. in Pittsburgh, Maureen P. Kelly The Alumni Fellow Award is the most prestigious award Pennsylvania, received the given by the Penn State Alumni Association. Since 1973, award in recognition of her exemplary contributions to the the Alumni Fellow Award has been given to select alumni legal profession and society. She was recently appointed by who, as leaders in their professional fields, are nominated the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to serve as chair of the by an academic college and accept an invitation from the Interest on Lawyers Trust Account (IOLTA) Board. She has President of the University to return to campus to share also served as an appointed member of the Lawyers Adviso- their expertise with students, faculty, and administrators. ry Committee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Rambo is a senior judge for the U.S. District Court for Circuit. the Middle District of Pennsylvania. Appointed to the U.S. Kelly’s lifelong friend Hubert X. Gilroy ’79 introduced District Court by President Jimmy Carter, Rambo served as Kelly, highlighting her outstanding contributions to the judge from 1976 until 1992, when she was named chief IOLTA Board. “Maureen has led the way to creative oppor- judge. She served as chief judge through 1999 then earned tunities to increase the amount of money that the IOLTA senior judge status in 2001. Rambo is the first female to serve Board has to give out to various legal entities who are repre- as a judge and the chief judge on the Middle District senting the indigent,” said Gilroy. “Her success on the IOLTA bench. Board is not the only feather in her cap. She has a long list Prior to becoming a U.S. district judge, Rambo served on of successes in her distinguished career as an attorney.” the Court of Common Pleas of Cumberland County (PA). Kelly has received numerous awards and honors for her Earlier in her career, Rambo was the chief public defender professional achievements and service. She has been recog- in Cumberland County and was in private practice. nized as one of Pennsylvania’s Best Lawyers since 2005 and In 1996, Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehn- was listed as one of Pennsylvania’s Top 50 Female Lawyers quist selected Rambo to serve a six-year term with the and Pittsburgh’s Top 50 Lawyers in 2007. In 2007, the Committee on Administration of the Magistrate Judge Sys- Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network presented her with the tem of the Judicial Conference. Rambo has also served on Outstanding Leadership in Support of Legal Services award for her commitment to delivering legal services to the poor 6 • THE DICKINSON LAWYER in Pennsylvania, and in 2006, the Neighborhood Legal Ser- macy, quantitative analysis, international politics and gov- vices Association honored her with the Dorothy Ann ernment including legal and institutional frameworks, glob- Richardson Award in recognition of her commitment to al culture, and leadership. Then, students will design the advocating for equal justice for all. rest of their program around a selected theme, which ranges Kelly received a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame from diplomacy and law to international science and tech- in 1983 and a J.D. from Duquesne University School of nology policy or international environmental affairs. Law in 1987. The program, which requires one-and-one-half to two The Rambo Award was established in 1993 by the years of study, is open to candidates with a wide variety of Women’s Law Caucus to honor its first recipient, the degrees and backgrounds, ranging from recent graduates to Honorable Sylvia H. Rambo, a 1962 graduate of the Law mid-career professionals. School and the first woman to serve as chief judge of the “The global problems that we face today require under- U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. standing across multiple levels—local to global—energetic An invited speaker for the event, Rambo talked about the teamwork across disciplines and leadership with vision,” said position that women in the legal profession currently occu- Jill Findeis, distinguished professor of agricultural, environ- py. “...[A]t the highest levels, women are still few in num- mental and regional economics and demography, and a ber and somewhat isolated. In law school, however, women member of the school’s faculty governing council. “Without are more than fifty percent of all law school graduates. Our vision, we are rats in a maze when it comes to solving the challenge, now, is to ensure that the growing number of difficult and pervasive global problems that we face.” women’s voices are recognized and heeded in the profes- Fariborz Ghadar, director of the Center for Global Busi- sion. This is an endeavor for all of us to undertake, sea- ness Studies in the Smeal College of Business, noted that soned veterans, senior associates, new lawyers, and law stu- the individual who plays a major role in society and in the dents, alike.” governance of our country is someone with broad experience. Judge Rambo concluded her comments with the follow- “Someone who understands business, understands non- ing message: “…we all have the capacity to foster the government organizations and is able to operate in that careers of young lawyers, particularly by mentoring; and to kind of environment,” Ghadar said. “Our School of Inter- the young lawyers, play to your strengths or challenge national Affairs is targeting people who will have that abili- yourself with something new—don’t just sit idly by. Be ty in the marketplace.” proactive in furthering your career.” The School of International Affairs is an independent academic unit that will share resources and NEW MASTER’S PROGRAM space with The Dickinson TACKLES INTERNATIONAL School of Law in its new POLICY,PUBLIC SERVICE building set to open In today’s global society, successful college graduates December know that understanding global systems and cultivating an 2008. international perspective are critical skills for their future careers. Penn State now offers a new master’s degree in international affairs that will prepare students to assume leadership roles in public service, government, trade, and nonprofit agencies to help find solutions to global problems. “Tremendous forces of change are creating a growing need for professionals who can function effectively in the realm of international affairs,” said Tiyanjana Maluwa, the inaugural director of Penn State’s School of International Affairs and the H. Laddie Montague Chair in Law at the Penn State Dickinson School of Law. “Our students will undertake in-depth analyses of international economic, political, and scientific issues and the cultural, historical, and legal factors that shape them.” Graduate students in the program, approved by the Board of Trustees during the March meeting, will take core courses in topics including international economics, diplo-

SUMMER 2008 • 7 2007 The Law School awarded 167 juris doctor degrees and nine master of laws degrees at its 2007 Commencement Ceremony held May 12, 2007, in Carlisle. Class of 1963 alumnus H. Laddie Montague, Jr. was the keynote speaker for the event. Montague, a prominent Philadel- phia trial attorney, is the chair of the Law School’s Board of Counselors. In recognition of Montague’s outstanding service to the school

COMMENCEMENT and his recent $4 million pledge to its building efforts, Penn State is naming the Law School’s unified library the H. Laddie Montague, Jr. Law Library. Ryan Becker, a member of the class of 2007 who served as president of the Student Bar Association, also spoke at the ceremony. Michael Apfelbaum ’85 was the featured speaker at the 2008 Commencement Ceremo- ny, which took place May 10, 2008, in Carlisle. Apfelbaum is a partner in the law firm of Apfelbaum, Apfelbaum & Apfelbaum in Sun- bury, Pennsylvania, and co-trustee (along with his father, Sidney, and brother, Jeffrey ’77) of the Charles B. Degenstein Foundation, which provides funding for charitable initiatives in the northeast region of the United States and primarily within central Pennsylvania. The 2008 ceremony honored 192 juris doc- tor graduates and thirteen master of laws gradu- ates. Jose Fanjul, a member of the class of 2008 and the outgoing Student Bar Association presi- dent, also addressed the crowd of graduates, family, and friends. H. Laddie Montague, Jr. ’63 Ryan Becker ’07

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Michael Apfelbaum ’85 Jose Fanjul ’08

SUMMER 2008 • 9 In September 2007, at the request of the national Court of Commercial Arbitration Austrian Science Foundation, Professor William (Moscow) contains his essay on the fate of the Barker joined an interdisciplinary, international 1972 Moscow Convention on Arbitration. A team in Vienna to assess the accomplishments double issue of Sudebnik dedicated to the 100th and recommend future funding for a research anniversary of G. I. Tunkin appeared under his project that involves a grant of more than five editorship and contained his article on Tunkin’s FACULTY FOCUS million Euros. The project’s objective was a career in the eyes of foreign legal scholars. comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of international tax coordination from the per- Visiting Assistant Professor Karen Bysiewicz pre- spectives of law, economics, political science, sented “Neutrality in Bowen Family Systems William Barker history, and psychology. The research is being Theory and the Law: A Comparative Perspec- conducted by a team of more than sixty Euro- tive” at the Bowen Center for the Study of the pean researchers hosted by the Institute for Family in Washington, D.C., in December. She Austrian and International Tax Law, School of is co-authoring a chapter about rules of origin Law, Vienna University of Economics and under U.S. international trade laws with Amy Business Administration. Johanassen, Esq. for a book due in late 2008.

On December 4, 2007, Professor William Butler Professor Thomas Carbonneau recently submitted participated in a live panel discussion with two solicited manuscripts to law reviews. “The leading Russian commentators on the require- Revolution in Law through Arbitration” was ments for political office in Russia and the submitted to the Cleveland State Law Review. United States broadcast on the BBC World The paper was presented as part of a distin- Service program “You Have the Floor.” guished speaker series. He also submitted His essay on DSL founder Judge John Reed “Commercial Peace and Political Competition William Butler as an international lawyer appeared in an 80th in the Crosshairs of International Arbitration” birthday Festschrift honoring the St. Petersburg to the Duke Journal of International Law. He law professor L. Galenskaia who supervised presented the piece at a symposium at Duke in President Putin’s diploma thesis when he was a February. Professor Carbonneau is also com- law student. pleting the book manuscript of his Teacher’s Juris Publishing has issued the twelfth Manual. installment of Professor Butler’s loose-leaf serv- ice Russia & The Republics: Legal Materials and In November, Professor Ellen Dannin was inter- installment 118 of his loose-leaf service on viewed on the Houston-area FM radio pro- Central and Eastern Europe. Wildy, Simmonds gram “Voices at Work.” Dannin’s work was & Hill published his translation of the Civil cited in the article “Toll Roads? Maybe, but Code of Kazakhstan in January 2008. His trans- Public Ones appeared in the Alabama Times on lation of the Civil Code of the Russian Federa- October 26, 2007. In November 2007, she tion, all four parts, has been published in Russ- presented “No-bodies Were There: Privatiza- Karen Bysiewicz ian/English parallel texts in 3000 copies at tion, People with Disabilities, and Low-Wage Moscow. Notes have been accepted for publi- Work” at the University of Minnesota Law cation by the American Journal of International School conference on the “Low-Wage Worker: Law (“Treaty Capacity and the Russian State Legal Rights—Legal Realities.” Corporation”) and the International Journal of Banking Law Review (“Quasi-Monetary Units In October as part of an invited delegation and Russian Law”). of U.S. legal educators, Professor Louis Del Duca Professor Butler’s bibliographic notes and participated in a conference sponsored by the annotations are included in a volume (issued International Association of Law Schools at the by Zertsalo Publishers in Moscow) containing Soochow University Kenneth Wang School of all foreign language texts of Catherine the Law in Suzhou, China. The U.S. delegation Great’s famed “Instruction.”A volume com- joined sixty-five delegates from thirty-nine memorating the 75th anniversary of the Inter- countries around the world for the conference Thomas Carbonneau

10 • THE DICKINSON LAWYER “Learning from Each Other: Enriching the in December 2007, with co-panelists James Law School Curriculum in an Increasingly Langenfeld, Linda Nussbaum, and James Interrelated World.” As a sequel to the Soochow Schmidtein. University China conference, Professor Del Professor Farmer has been appointed as the Duca organized the symposium “Achieving liaison to the National Association of Attor- Optimal Use of Diverse Legal Education neys General of the ABA Section of Adminis- Methodologies” for the January 2008 AALS trative Law and Regulatory Practice. This Annual Meeting in New York City. Professor position is one of a number of liaison officers Del Duca also participated in the conference who report to and advise the Section Council. Ellen Dannin “Experiential Education in China: Curricular She will also serve as vice chair of the Pro Reform, the Role of the Lawyer and the Rule Bono Committee of the ABA Section of of Law” at the University of the Pacific McGe- Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice. orge School of Law in Sacramento, California, Additionally, she has been appointed as vice in January. Professor Del Duca presented chair of the China Committee of the ABA “Absence of A Jury System in Civil Law International Law Section. Finally, she served Countries—Impact on the Convention on on an ABA working group that analyzed and International Sale of Goods and Legal Educa- submitted comments on behalf of the tion” at the Fourth International Conference Antitrust and International sections on the on Contracts sponsored by the Pacific McGe- new Guidelines on Antitrust Filings for Merg- orge Center for Global Business and Develop- ers and Acquisitions of Domestic Enterprises ment in cooporation with the Texas Wesleyan by Foreign Investors of the Ministry of Com- University School of Law held in February at merce of the People’s Republic of China. the University of the Pacific McGeorge School Louis Del Duca of Law. In November 2007, Professor Preston Green III Organized by Professor Del Duca, the 41st was elected to the Board of Directors for the Annual Uniform Commercial Code Institute Education Law Association. His soon-to-be titled “The UCC, Technology, and E-Com- published articles include: “Charter Schools: merce” took place April 17-19 at the Park Racial Balancing Provisions and Parents Hyatt Washington Hotel in Washington, D.C. Involved,” with Joseph Oluwole, will be pub- He and Professor Patrick Del Duca have been lished in the Arkansas Law Review; “Achieving invited by the International Academy of Com- Racial Equal Educational Opportunity through parative Law to serve as national reporters on School Finance Litigation,” with Bruce Baker National Unification in Federal States to and Joseph Oluwole, will appear in the Stanford address the subject of “Federal Governmental Journal for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties; and Trends in Italy for the Congress on the Unifi- “Parents Involved and Race-Conscious Mea- cation of Law” to be held in Mexico City sures: A Cause for Optimism,” with Joseph November 13-15, 2008. Oluwole, will be published in the Buffalo Pub- Preston Green III lic Interest Law Journal. In the fall of 2007, Professor Beth Farmer’s book Competition Poli- Professor Green’s article, “Charter Schools cy and Merger Analysis in Deregulated and under the NCLB: Choice and Equal Educa- Newly Competitive Industries, co-edited with tional Opportunity,” with Joseph Oluwole, Professor Peter Carstensen, University of Wis- was published by Buffalo Public Interest Law consin, will be published by Edward Elgar. Journal. She also wrote a chapter in the book The Professor Green presented “Financing European Experience with Mergers and Deregula- Schools to Meet Educational Needs” at the tion, forthcoming 2008. National Title I Conference on February 2 in Professor Farmer presented “Elevated Stan- Nashville, Tennessee, with Bruce Baker of the dards of Proof and Pleading: Implications of University of Kansas. Twombley and Daubert” at the American Antitrust Conference on the “Future of Private Steve Hinckley Antitrust Enforcement” in Washington, D.C.,

SUMMER 2008 • 11 Associate Dean Steve Hinckley’s article “Redefin- Visiting Professor Jeffrey McCausland has been ing Academic Law Library Excellence in a appointed a Senior Fellow at the Stockdale Technological Age: From Evolution to Revolu- Center for Ethical Leadership at the U.S. tion” was recently published in Trends in Law Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. As a Library Management and Technology. Dean military analyst for CBS, Professor McCaus- Hinckley recently served as the law librarian land is a regular commentator for CBS radio member on the accreditation site visit team and television broadcasts. He appeared on the chosen by the ABA Section on Legal Education CBS Morning Show to discuss the confronta- to evaluate Elon University’s newly established tion in international waters between vessels of law school in Greensboro, North Carolina. the United States and Iran, and he participated Jeffrey Kahn in more than a dozen radio interviews across Professor Jeffrey Kahn’s book Taxation of S Cor- the United States on the first anniversary of porations in a Nutshell, co-authored with Pro- President George W. Bush’s “surge” speech. In fessor Douglas Kahn of the University of October, Professor McCausland was asked by Michigan Law School and Terrence Perris, part- the Pentagon to observe the military commis- ner at Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, was pub- sions for the first detainees at Guantánamo lished by Thomson West in December 2007. Bay, Cuba. In February, when the Convening Professor Kahn’s article “Tax Consequences when Authority for Military Commissions received a New Employer Bears the Cost of the Employ- sworn charges against six individuals alleged to ee’s Terminating a Prior Employment Relation- be responsible for the planning and execution ship,” co-authored with Professor Douglas Kahn, of the 9/11 attacks, Professor McCausland will be published by the Florida Tax Review. conducted a series of interviews for CBS sta- tions. Professor Kit Kinports is working on new edi- At the end of January, Professor McCausland Kit Kinports tions of her co-authored criminal law casebook chaired a panel at the annual conference of the and her co-authored constitutional litigation International Society of Military Ethicists in casebook. Both new editions will be published San Diego, California. In February, he partici- in fall 2008. pated in a conference on the Role of the Law in State Recovery sponsored by the Peacekeep- Associate Dean Tiyanjana Maluwa recently co- ing and Stability Operations Institute at the authored (with four other experts appointed by U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylva- the Office of the United Nations High Com- nia, and U.S. Central Command in Tampa, missioner for Human Rights) the study The Florida. Also in February, Professor McCaus- Content and Scope of Substantive Gaps in the land attended a conference hosted by the Existing International Instruments to Combat National Defense University on NATO and Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Afghanistan and lectured on jus in bellum and Related Intolerance. He participated in the fifth jus ad bellum at Wittenberg University in session of the UN Intergovernmental Working Springfield, Ohio, and his monograph Educat- Tiyanjana Maluwa Group on the effective implementation of the ing Strategic Leaders for the 21st Century was Durban Declaration and Programme of Action published by the Strategic Studies Institute at held in Geneva, Switzerland, in September the U.S. Army War College. In March, he lec- 2007, at which the study was presented. His tured at the George C. Marshall Center in article “From the Organization of African Garmisch, Germany, and spoke at an arms Unity to the African Union: Rethinking the control seminar organized by the German For- Framework for Inter-State Cooperation in eign Ministry in Berlin. Africa in the Era of Globalization” has been published in the June 2007 issue of the Uni- Selected portions of Dean Philip McConnaughay’s versity of Botswana Law Journal. He participat- article “The Risks of Lawlessness: A ‘Second ed in the Expert Review Meeting for the Hand- Look’ at International Commercial Arbitra- book on Criminal Justice Responses to Countering tion” will be reprinted in Economics of Com- Terrorism organized by the UN Office on mercial Arbitration and Dispute Resolution, part Drugs and Crime, held in Vienna, Austria, in of the Economic Approaches to Law series Jeffrey McCausland October 2007. edited by Richard A. Posner and Frencesco Parisi.

12 • THE DICKINSON LAWYER Visiting Assistant Professor Gregory McNeal was Professor Tom Place’s article entitled “Ineffec- selected as an Academic Fellow by the Foun- tiveness of Counsel and Short-Term Sentences dation for the Defense of Democracies in Pennsylvania: A Claim in Search of a Rem- (FDD), a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank edy” was published in the fall 2007 issue of that seeks to educate Americans about the ter- the Temple Political and Civil Rights Law rorist threat to democracies worldwide. As an Review. The sixth edition of his book Pennsyl- FDD Fellow, he recently participated in an vania Post-Conviction Relief Act—Practice and intensive ten-day counter-terrorism education- Procedure was published in February 2008. al seminar in Israel, which focused on the Gregory McNeal threat of terrorism to democracy. Associate Law Librarian Mark Podvia was named On October 7, Professor McNeal was quoted as a member of the Morris L. Cohen Student in the New York Times regarding the effort to Essay Contest Committee. The contest is begin war-crimes trials of Guantánamo detainees. sponsored by the Legal History and Rare Books Special Interest Section of the American Visiting Professor Richard Mendales’ article Association of Law Libraries. He has also been “Intensive Care for the Public Corporation: named as editor of the section’s new online Securities Law, Corporate Governance and the journal Unbound: An Annual Review of Legal Reorganization Process,” has been accepted for History and Rare Books. publication and will appear in the summer issue of the Marquette Law Review. Willow Crossing Press recently published True Tales of Trying Times: Legal Fables for Assistant Law Librarian Richard Paone’s article Today, by Professor Robert Rains. In November, titled “Fishy Classification: Organization of he visited Harvard Law School where he read Richard Mendales aquarium literature in the Cumberland Coun- a sampling of fables from the book. Rains’ ty Library System” was published in the Penn- fables have appeared in the last two issues of sylvania Library Association Bulletin in 2007. The Complete Lawyer, as well as the December 2007 issue of Pennsylvania Family Lawyer. This semester, Professor Katherine Pearson has Last November, Professor Rains participated been reporting on her research into emerging in a statewide training for the Department of financial and self-governance issues for older Public Welfare Disability Advocacy Program adults residing in “continuing care retirement” on the Social Security Administrative Law or “life care” communities (collectively known Judge Process. as CCRCs). In February, she presented her On February 18, the National Law Journal findings to the Maryland Bar and at the Sixth published a letter from Professor Rains titled Annual Pennsylvania Elder and Estate Law “Abandon proposed rules,” in which he urged Symposium. Drawing upon experiences from the Social Security Administration not to Penn State Dickinson’s Elder Law and Con- adopt procedural rule changes for adjudication Katherine Pearson sumer Protection Clinic, she spoke at the of Social Security benefits. His commentary 32nd Annual Gerontology Conference hosted titled “Three Parents?” will appear in the 2008 by Oregon State University in April and dis- Denning Law Journal (United Kingdom). cussed identification and response to elder exploitation. CCRCs and filial and spousal Professor Victor Romero appeared at the Feder- support obligations will be the subject of two alist Society-sponsored forum, “Immigration new chapters for the third edition of the trea- Law—Should It Be Controlled at the State or tise Elder Law in Pennsylvania, which Profes- Federal Level?” opposite Dr. James Carafano sor Pearson will co-author with Jeffrey Mar- of the Heritage Foundation, held on the Uni- shall, Esq. versity Park campus in October. Professor Through a grant from the U.S. Administra- Romero was quoted in the Los Angeles Times on tion on Aging, Professor Pearson and Clinical a Georgia law requiring state police officers to Fellow Trisha Cowart, Esq. are working with the investigate the citizenship status of certain SeniorLAW Center in Philadelphia to coordinate arrestees. Professor Romero’s invited contribu- Thomas Place outreach and enhance the delivery of legal assis- tion to the Howard University Law School’s tance on consumer issues to older Pennsylvani- symposium on the 40th anniversary of Loving ans. v. Virginia was published in the winter 2007 issue of the Howard Law Journal.

SUMMER 2008 • 13 Professor Stephen Ross’ paper “The Concept of The Penn State Dickinson School of Law is the Residual Claimant and Sports League Gov- pleased to welcome the following new mem- ernance,” originally presented at a conference bers to its full-time faculty: sponsored by the University of Oviedo in Gijon, Spain, has been published as a chapter in a collection titled League Governance, edited Jamison Colburn, a noted scholar of environ- by three prominent European sports econo- mental law at Western New England School of mists. Professor Ross and his oft-collaborator, Law, has joined our faculty as a professor of English sports economist Stefan Szymanski, law. Professor Colburn is a graduate of Rutgers published an article entitled “Governance and University School of Law, where he was editor Vertical Integration in Team Sports” in the in chief of the Rutgers Law Journal, and he journal Contemporary Economic Policy. Professor holds advanced law degrees from Harvard Law Ross presented the findings from both these School (LL.M.) and Columbia University papers at “The Increasing Globalization of Sports: (J.S.D.). His many publications on public Olympic, International and Comparative Law lands management, wildlife habitat, and other & Business Issues” at Marquette University. environmental topics appear in the Alabama Apart from his sports-related scholarship, Pro- Law Review, Arizona State Law Journal, Ecology fessor Ross’ essay “Statutory Interpretation as a Law Quarterly, Environmental Law Reporter, Parasitic Endeavor” was published by the Uni- Florida State Law Review, and Natural Resources & versity of San Diego Law Review as part of a Environment, among other publications. He is symposium discussing an article co-authored a trustee of the Connecticut River Watershed by the school’s departing dean, Daniel Rodriguez. Council and a member of the American Insti- The essay discusses how courts and commenta- tute of Biological Sciences and the Society for tors can improve the analysis and interpretation of Conservation Biology. Professor Colburn will statutes by transparently borrowing from the teach Environmental Law, Natural Resources disciplines of linguistics and communication Law, Property, and Administrative Law. Prior science, political science, and political theory. to teaching, Professor Colburn was assistant regional counsel for the U.S. Environmental Professor Geoffrey Scott’s article “Spoliation, Protection Agency. Cultural Property and Japan” will be published in 2008 in the Journal of International Law of David Flatto is joining our faculty as an assis- the University of Pennsylvania Law School. tant professor of law, with joint appointments in Penn State’s Jewish Studies and History During the 2008 Annual Meeting of the departments. Professor Flatto received his law Association of American Law Schools, Professor degree from Columbia University School of Laurel Terry was elected chair of the AALS Section Law and a doctorate in Near Eastern languages on Professional Responsibility and served as the and civilization from Harvard University. keynote speaker at a program on North Ameri- While obtaining his doctorate, he was a visit- can Cross-Border Practice and the Law Schools. ing researcher at Yale Law School and the In January, Professor Terry was a speaker at the Gruss Scholar in Residence at New York Uni- New York State Bar Association Presidential versity School of Law. Professor Flatto is an Summit Session titled “Providing Legal Services in ordained Rabbi and Rabbinical Scholar with a Globalized World: Radical Change, Opportunity Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in New York. or Both?” Professor Terry recently submitted an He will teach Legal History, Constitutional article on EU competition law and professional Law, and a joint Law/Jewish Studies/History services to the Northwestern University School seminar. His publications appear in Yale Law of Law Symposium on Global Legal Practice. Journal Pocket Part, Yale Journal of Law and Humanities, NYU Law Global Hauser Series, Professor Nancy Welsh’s article “What’s It All Hebraic Political Studies, and other publications. About?: ‘The Problem’ in Court-Oriented Mediation,” co-authored with Leonard Riskin, Chesterfield Smith Professor of Law at the Levin College of Law, University of Florida, has been accepted for publication in the George Mason Law Review.

14 • THE DICKINSON LAWYER Michael Foreman has joined the Law School as the director of our new Appellate Civil Rights THREE FACULTY MEMBERS Advocacy Clinic. He previously served as deputy director for legal programs of the NAMED FACULTY SCHOLARS Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in Washington, D.C., and directed the The Law School is pleased to announce the appointment committee’s Employment Discrimination Pro- of two-year named faculty scholar positions to professors ject. The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Ellen Dannin, Steve Ross, and Laurel Terry in recognition of represents parties and amici in many of the their sustained exceptional scholarship and other significant most important civil rights cases before U.S. Courts of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme contributions to the profession and to the Law School. Court. The Lawyers’ Committee typically involves teams of lawyers from many of the Ellen Dannin is our first Fannie Weiss Distinguished Fac- nation’s top law firms on a pro bono basis in ulty Scholar. Professor Dannin’s contributions to the scholar- these representations. Professor Foreman previ- ously supervised an appellate civil rights advo- ship of labor law and privatization offer important and often cacy clinic for Harvard Law School in which novel perspectives that advance scholarly inquiry in both of law students work with teams of lawyers on these fields and bring positive recognition from throughout the Lawyers’ Committee’s appellate civil rights the academy to her and to the Law School. Her efforts to cases. Professor Foreman has joined the Penn State Dickinson School of Law to re-create the establish and cultivate interdisciplinary connections within same clinic here, in cooperation with the the University promise further innovation in her scholarship. Lawyers’ Committee, and to teach an upper- level class in Employment Discrimination. Stephen Ross is our first Lewis H. Vavakis Distinguished Professor Foreman is a graduate of Duquesne University School of Law. Faculty Scholar. Professor Ross’ scholarship consistently con- tributes an important perspective to issues of competition in Zachary Kramer, previously an assistant profes- sports and other industries, to the rules and methods of sor of law at the University of Arkansas statutory interpretation, and increasingly, to issues of com- William H. Bowan School of Law, has joined our faculty as an assistant professor of law. Pro- parative law in the context of common law nations. His fessor Kramer is a graduate of the University of innovative and highly successful efforts to build multidisci- Illinois College of Law, where he was editor in plinary programs with the Colleges of Business, Communi- chief of the University of Illinois Law Review. cations, Health and Human Development, and the Athletic He has been a visiting professor at the Univer- sity of Illinois College of Law and a Charles R. Department have created significant opportunities for our Williams Teaching Fellow at UCLA School of students and serve as models for the wealth of interdiscipli- Law. His recent publications appear in the Cal- nary relationships now open to the Law School. ifornia Law Review and the Northwestern Uni- versity Law Review. Professor Kramer will be teaching Property, Law and Sexuality, and Laurel Terry is our first Harvey A. Feldman Distinguished Trusts and Estates. Faculty Scholar. This award has dual significance because it simultaneously honors the colleague and friend in whose Ross Pifer joined our law school in March as name the award is made. Professor Terry’s scholarship has the new director of the Agricultural Law Resource and Reference Center, a joint enter- established her as one of the leading academic voices on prise of the Law School, the College of Agri- questions of professional ethics, inter-jurisdictional regula- cultural Sciences, and the Pennsylvania tion of the legal profession, and international trade in servic- Department of Agriculture. Mr. Pifer holds es. Her work with the International Bar Association and degrees from Penn State University and The Dickinson School of Law, as well as an LL.M. American Bar Association on these issues provides a signifi- in agricultural law from the University of cant service to our profession and to the public. Arkansas, home of the National Agricultural Law Center. Prior to joining the Law School,

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Mr. Pifer was with the Office of General forums and receipt of the CPR Professional Counsel of the U.S. Department of Agricul- Article Award. Professor Rogers is a graduate ture. Mr. Pifer will be broadening the scope of the University of California, Hastings Col- and range of activities of the center consider- lege of Law, and holds an LL.M. from Yale ably, exploring new synergies with the College Law School. Before teaching, she practiced of Agricultural Sciences and new projects and international litigation and arbitration in San initiatives involving intellectual property, land Francisco, New York, and Hong Kong. She use regulation, economic development, envi- will be teaching International Arbitration and ronmental issues, and local government. Professional Responsibility (and maintaining her professorship at Bocconi in Italy). Randall Robinson, an internationally acclaimed author whose books and scholarly interests Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia has joined the Law focus on U.S. foreign policy towards the School to direct the new Center for Immi- Caribbean and Africa, the use of foreign policy grants’ Rights, which will continue and expand to achieve social goals, and racial equity, has upon the work of our Refugee Clinic. Professor joined the Law School’s faculty as a Distin- Wadhia is the former deputy director for legal guished Scholar in Residence (with a joint affairs of the National Immigration Forum in appointment in Penn State’s new School of Washington, D.C., where her work included International Affairs). Professor Robinson is a providing legal and policy analysis pertaining graduate of Virginia Union University and to immigration policy to members of Congress Harvard University Law School. In 1977, Pro- and executive agencies (including the U.S. fessor Robinson founded TransAfrica, which Department of Homeland Security), state and seeks to influence U.S. foreign policy towards local governments, and the public. She has Africa and the Caribbean, and the Free South been an adjunct professor at Howard Universi- Africa Movement, which pushed successfully ty and American University, Washington Col- for the imposition of U.S. sanctions against lege of Law, where she taught Immigration South Africa and was instrumental in ending Law and Policy and Asylum and Refugee Law. apartheid. Professor Robinson is the recipient Prior to joining the National Immigration of numerous humanitarian awards, including Forum, Professor Wadhia was an attorney with from the Congressional Black Caucus, UNICEF, Maggio Kattar, P.C. in Washington, D.C., the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, where her work included extensive litigation and the Martin Luther King Jr. Center. Henry pertaining to asylum and immigration matters. Louis Gates calls Randall “one of the world’s Professor Wadhia is a graduate of Georgetown foremost advocates for freedom and justice;” University Law Center. Cornell West calls him “a towering freedom fighter in the world of ideas and actions.”

Catherine Rogers, formerly the Richard C. Cadwallader Professor of Law at Louisiana State University Law Center and professor of law at Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi in Milan, Italy, has joined our faculty as a pro- fessor of law. Professor Rogers is a leading scholar of international arbitration and profes- sional ethics. She is an associate reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law of International Commercial Arbitration; her scholarship has appeared in numerous aca- demic journals including Oxford University Press, the international law journals of Stan- ford, Michigan, and Berkeley, and several law reviews; and her awards include two presenta- tions at the Stanford-Yale Junior Faculty

16 • THE DICKINSON LAWYER STAFF NOTES Barbara Guillaume Janice Austin Kate CramerKate Lawrence Tom Dennis Trisha Cowart nical ServicesCoordinatorTomDennis. Annual Minority AlumniBanquet inMarch. received thehonoratorganization’s Sixth Penn State’s Dickinson SchoolofLaw.” Austin dedication todiversity andminoritycausesat Award forher“notable achievements inand McConnaughay Outstanding Achievement Law Students AssociationwiththePhilip J. Cramer Lawrence the Staff CouncilatPenn Advisory State. Recognition andAppreciation Award from year, healsoearnedtheprestigious Staff the coordinator services. ofinstructional This an informationsystemsspecialistandisnow years,” Dennis said.“She wasafinelady.” was specialtobenominated,”saidGuillaume. Pat.knew She wasdedicatedtotheschool.It became director ofadmissionsservices. Career Planning andPlacement Office, she asactingdirector ofthe 1985. Afterserving Director ofAdmissionsBarbaraGuillaume Janice Austin devotion andgoodcheer, waspresented to with theschool School staffmemberwhoserved ofaLaw established tohonorthememory nia Bar Institute inPittsburgh, Philadelphia. In July, Cowart willspeakforthePennsylva- land County(PA) publichousingdevelopment. will provide on-sitelegalassistanceattheCumber- Law andConsumerProtection Clinicstudents Law Day, clinicaloutreach anew inwhichElder the University of Wisconsin inMarch. and pro bono work tothePrelaw Society at was invitedtospeak aboutpublicinterest law lawstudents.She recruiting and supervising resources fornonprofit organizationson other lawschoolstodevelop informational allowed hertowork withrepresentatives from vice Committee.Her role inNALPhas tion forLawPlacement (NALP) Public Ser- Adoption Project andtheNational Associa- Committee fortheABAChildCustody and Dauphin County(PA) Bar Association’s and nationalcommitteesincludingthe Public InterestandClinicalTeachingFellowKate Dennis joinedtheLawSchoolin1985as “I worked withPat Amadure formany Her co-honoree hadsimilar thoughts. I award waspretty“The specialtomebecause Guillaume’s career atDickinson beganin Clinical FellowTrishaCowart Assistant DeanforAdmissionsandFinancialAid This year thePatricia Amadure Award, was honored by theMinority has served onmultiplelocal has served is leadingSenior and Tech- www.ohr.psu.edu/sac/. visit theStaff Council Advisory Web siteat more informationonnominating astaffmember, the University maynominateastaffmember. For anyone, includingfaculty, staff, andstudents, at Ackerman added. successful operationofourtwo-campusprogram,” Tom’s have beenintegraltothe unstintingefforts around him.Iteveryone isnounderstatementthat tressed can-dodemeanorthatuplifts by acheerful, enthusiasm anddevotion. His competenceisbut- technology.new Andhehasdonesowithgreat lems thatinevitablyariseintheemployment of creative andresponsive totheneedsofothers. their normalroutines orwhohave beenexceptionally University staffmemberswhogoabove andbeyond classrooms are operatingwiththeproper connection.” our buildingbefore eachclasstomakesure all needs offaculty, staff, andstudents,racingaround been invaluable. He hasbeenmostattentive tothe tion withourtwo-campusoperation, Tom has have introduced interactive technologyinconnec- accommodating memberofourstaff. …[A]swe “Tom Dennis hasalwaysbeenamosthelpful and award, explains hisreason forthenomination: ulty memberswhonominatedDennis forthe supervisor. dayinhiscapacityasaudiovisualdents every he provides to Law Schoolfaculty, staff, andstu- appreciation award that fortheexceptional service honored Dennis withastaffrecognition and about whenPenn State’s Staff Council Advisory School.” Well, onJuly 30,2007,thatdaycame the “hardest working employees attheLaw should getsomekindofaward forbeingoneof have beenoverheard commentingthat Tom totheLawSchool,numerous students service nology. Law’s two-campusoperationviainteractive tech- sibilities linkingtogether The Dickinson Schoolof Thomas P. Dennis Sr. carriesouthisdailyrespon- to University Park inasinglebounddescribeshow than alocomotive, andabletoleapfrom Carlisle By Pam Knowlton H L All Penn State staffemployees are eligible,and “Tom hasgonetheextramileinresolving prob- The purposeoftheaward istoacknowledge Professor Robert Ackerman, oneofseveral fac- Throughout histwenty-four years ofdedicated Faster thanaspeedingbullet,more powerful ONG NRDFOR ONORED -T IME S TAFF H UMR2008 • 17 SUMMER IS M S ERVICE EMBER COLLEEN TOOMEY LIEBERMAN SELECTED PENN STATE DICKINSON SCHOOL OF LAW FOR ADMINISTRATIVE CENTER FOR THE STUDY FELLOWSHIP POSITION OF MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS STAFF NOTES Colleen Toomey with Lieberman, assistant dean for policy and Professor Samuel C. Thompson Jr. planning, was select- Director of the Center and the ed for a 2008-2009 Arthur Weiss Distinguished Faculty Scholar University Adminis- trative Fellowship presents the Position. She will spend the upcoming academic year working FIFTH ANNUAL with Penn State’s executive vice president and provost, Rodney A. Erickson. Toomey Lieberman has participated in rene- INSTITUTE gotiating the Law School’s merger agreement ON CORPORATE, SECURITIES, with Penn State, establishing a law school presence in University Park, planning the Uni- AND RELATED ASPECTS OF versity’s $120 million capital investment in new law school buildings, and creating a new MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS ABA regime to accommodate the Law School’s unique distance learning program and unified two-location operation. September 24-26, 2008 “Colleen’s selection is a high compliment to her contributions to the Law School and the Held at New York City Bar University and to her potential as a leader in 42 West 44th Street higher education,” said Dean Philip New York, New York McConnaughay in an e-mail. Toomey Lieberman was one of three fellow- ship recipients chosen through a University- Co-Sponsored by wide competition. “I consider my fellowship with Dr. Erickson THE CITY BAR CENTER FOR CLE to be a unique opportunity to learn from one of the nation’s leading chief academic officers NEW YORK CITY BAR as he manages the complex challenges and tremendous opportunities characteristic of Penn Co-Chairs State University,” Toomey Lieberman said. Professor Samuel C. Thompson Jr. and “I have had the privilege of working with Dr. Erickson in the past on the task of helping H. Rodgin Cohen, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP the Law School realize all of the benefits of its merger with the University, and I am well aware of his outstanding leadership capabili- For more information on registration, ties. I am very excited about my fellowship featured speakers, and the program with him next year." Toomey Lieberman received her law degree agenda, please visit our Web site from Villanova University School of Law and www.dsl.psu.edu her bachelor’s degree from Loyola University in Maryland.

18 • THE DICKINSON LAWYER CHANGE OF VENUE

EXPLORING ALTERNATIVE CAREERS By Crystal L. Stryker ’04

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth... ELED — Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken” AV R For a host of different reasons, lawyers regularly find themselves facing an intersection in their careers about what they can do with T their law degrees besides practice law. This dilemma not only affects S attorneys who have been practicing law for many years, but also recent law school graduates. Numerous lawyers have switched gears and found happiness ES down different career paths. The professional opportunities avail- L able to a person with a law degree are limited only by one’s imagi- nation. Profiled in this issue of The Dickinson Lawyer are only a few of D the many talented and engaged alumni who make livings outside of the traditional practice of law. They inspire youth, build non- OA profits, shape public policy, and build a better society. Read about Pamela Stead, who teaches U.S. and ancient history R to middle school students, and Brad Wolf, who is now an academ- ic dean of a community college. Other alumni like Amy Kaunas and Zella Anderson are in the business of saving animals. John Domurad wrapped up a Supreme Court Fellowship this year, and Mischelle Van Brakle recently finished a U.S. Congressional Fellow- HE ship. These alumni have taken “the road less traveled” and enjoyed the T scenery along the way. FROM PERSONAL INJURY LAW FROM THE STUDY OF LAW TO TO MIDDLE SCHOOL THE STUDY OF PEOPLE — PAMELA STEAD ’93 — MISCHELLE VAN BRAKLE ’01

By Crystal L. Stryker ’04 By Crystal L. Stryker ’04

After several years of family law and personal injury work, Mischelle Van Brakle ’01 entered law school intending to CHANGE OF VENUE Pamela Stead ’93 left behind a litigation career for a career be a sociologist. So while her Penn State Dickinson peers sat in which the paperwork and the stakeholders are just a little for the bar exam, she accepted an invitation to join the different—a middle school classroom in New Jersey. Ph.D. program at the University of Maryland, where she has After law school, Stead clerked for an appellate judge in been studying ever since. New Jersey before joining a small firm handling divorces. Van Brakle was recently selected by the American Socio- She then moved into a personal injury firm to work on logical Association to participate in the Sydney S. Spivack hemophilia and AIDS cases. At the conclusion of that expe- Program in Applied Social Research and Social Policy, which rience, she took stock of her stress level, revisited her career funded her work as a Congressional Research Fellow in the options, and decided to pursue teaching, which had always office of Senator Ted Kennedy. Initially the fellowship was a interested her. six to nine month commitment; however, in February 2007, New Jersey’s Alternate Route Program allowed Stead to the senator’s office arranged for an extension through Febru- begin teaching while pursuing certification. Giving up ary 2008. lawyerly wages was not easy at first; she initially earned $7.25 Van Brakle is “A.B.D.,” meaning “all but dissertationed.” per hour to teach 4- and 5-year-old children. After teaching She has passed all of her exams for the Ph.D. program and preschool for a year, she moved on to teach in a private expects to graduate in September upon defense of her thesis. kindergarten and then to a permanent teaching job in a public As a sociology Fellow, she explained that her job was to school, which was her “the light at the end of the tunnel.” “provide established social science research for whatever poli- Stead completed New Jersey’s Alternate Route Program cy issue (the Senate) is looking at.” The experience reveals and is now a certified social studies and French teacher. the intricacies of the policy-making process to the sociologi- While it can be difficult to find a public school teaching cal Fellow and shows the usefulness of sociological data and position in one’s home town, Stead did so by initially teach- concepts to policy issues. Van Brakle has evaluated the social ing one French class in the district. When the need for a science research on hate crime legislation, prisoner reentry social studies teacher arose, she was in the right place at the support, and juvenile justice issues, including disproportion- right time. ate minority representation of juveniles in the criminal system. As someone who enjoyed the law school experience and “A lot of times there’s a disconnect between policy and her time as a clerk, she tells her students about the view evidence-based practices,” she said. “I think it is changing from the front seat of the judicial system as she covers because more staff realize how important social science American history and ancient history with sixth and seventh research is whenever you’re trying to implement a policy.” graders (respectively). She notes that her legal perspective Van Brakle holds a part-time position at the University of helps her explain the Roman system of governance and that Maryland START Center, which funded her dissertation her students think it’s “cool” to have a lawyer as a teacher. work. The START Center operates under the direction of “They like to ask about cases, how to argue in court,” she the U.S. Department for Homeland Security and maintains said. a database of thousands of terrorist acts from around the Stead enjoys the frequent turnover of students from peri- world. od to period and year to year, which maximizes the number She uses that database to further her dissertation, which of students whom she may inspire over her career. She asks whether political measures are as effective as counterter- encourages her students to consider law school. rorism efforts in curbing grievance-based terror. She chose to “The education is worth it, whether or not you ever examine the terrorism landscape in South Africa after decide to practice law,” she said. apartheid came to an end, in part, to fill a sociological Stead appreciates the flexibility afforded by her current research void in the area. career and reports that she is more satisfied as a teacher. “I Once her dissertation is finished, she will hunt for a was a good lawyer, but I am even better at teaching,” she said. tenure-track faculty post. “It was the right choice for me. I’m glad I made the choice.” “I had always planned on getting a Ph.D.,” she said. “If everything goes as planned, I should be on the market this year.”

20 • THE DICKINSON LAWYER NEW JOINT DEGREE PROGRAM PREPARES LAW STUDENTS FOR CAREERS IN EDUCATION

Thanks to a new collaboration between the Law School and Penn State’s College of Education, law students may now pursue joint graduate degrees in college student affairs, edu- cational leadership, higher education, and educational theory and policy. Professor Preston Green III, who holds a dual appointment with the Law School and the College of Education, was instrumental in developing the joint degree programs. As a Brad Wolf lawyer and doctor of education, he understands the need for interdisciplinary study of these fields. CREATIVE WRITING LEADS “Innovation in the school environment is so often stifled ALUM TO THE DEAN’S by a fear of being sued,” he explained. Green predicts that graduates of Penn State’s joint degree RAD OLF OFFICE — B W ’89 program in law and education will view lawyers as partners in creative policymaking—not as mere troubleshooters. By Crystal L. Stryker ’04 One future joint degree holder, Richard Naughton ’10, agrees As an assistant district attorney with a maturing career, that the interdisciplinary perspective will be helpful. “I have Brad Wolf ’89 sensed that his choices were becoming clear: found my education classes to be a good complement to my enter private practice or be a lifelong prosecutor. Saying no thank you to both options, he pursued a master of fine arts law school classes, and they certainly add a different perspec- degree in literature and creative writing at Bennington Col- tive to my understanding of important issues in law and edu- lege in Vermont. He wanted to find his way into teaching. cation,” he said. Earning the advanced degree opened the first academic door for Wolf, who originally landed a teaching position at Naughton, who is president of the new student organiza- Central Pennsylvania College where he taught Evidence, tion Law and Education Alliance at Penn State (LEAP), plans Criminal Procedure, and English Literature. In 2001, he to pursue a Ph.D. in educational leadership. He will be in joined the administration of Harrisburg Area Community College as associate dean and, in 2004, was promoted to good company; U.S. News and World Report ranks Penn dean of academic affairs of the college’s Lancaster campus. State’s educational leadership graduate program as sixth in the Wolf now supervises all faculty and academic programs, nation and the College’s graduate programs as thirty-first out addresses student academic issues, and engineers course cal- endars and budgets, often while thinking as a lawyer. According of 277 colleges and universities in the United States. to Wolf, creative thinking and lawyering go hand-in-hand. In June, the Law School, in conjunction with the College “In an administrative position there is always an element of Education, presented the “Summer Education Law Insti- of creativity involved. [Legal education] taught me to think in a creative way, to see the many sides of an issue,” he said. tute” for professionals in education and the law. The program Wolf values his legal education and encourages his two was approved for Act 45 credits for administrators and Act 48 children, Dylan and Emma, to consider a law degree—call- credits for teachers, and 26 CLE credits for lawyers. ing a J.D. an excellent education that opens doors. “To have that understanding of what makes a society function, what holds it together, and to have that way of thinking…is valuable. The education itself, whether you ever step into a courtroom or not, is a great benefit to have,” Wolf said. (continued on page 22) SUMMER 2008 • 21 (continued from page 21)

Every year, Wolf fields a few phone calls from local attor- traveled to London where she joined the Family Support Team neys seeking advice on making a career switch. His advice of the Borough of Hillingdon. The agency provides services for transitioning into higher education is to have an similar to the child welfare system in the United States. Her advanced academic degree in addition to a law degree. unit worked primarily toward family preservation, removal “It is very difficult to plan a future. Follow your interest. of children when necessary, residential and foster home It is surprising where it will take you,” he said. placements, and provision of support services to families in Even as a dean, he continued to pursue his interest in creative preparation of reunification. While the experience provided writing. This year he won second place in the 2008 Central professional growth, it also strengthened her inner resolve. PA Magazine Creative Writing Contest. His nonfiction piece “Living and working in London, I experienced a plethora about the Amish school shootings in Lancaster County (PA) of invigorating moments, and rather lonely ones, too. How- was published online by Central PA Magazine. ever, after the loneliness and strangeness wore off, living in A successful lawyer, administrator, and teacher, he found London was not dissimilar to moving to California as a true that success as a creative writer brings its own joy. East Coaster. I learned a great deal about my strengths, deter- “This recognition was as rewarding, if not more so, than mination, and character from living overseas, things not gleaned passing the bar exam,” he said. from a textbook, which are invaluable to me,” said Foti. Living on the East Coast once again, Foti works as a med- ical social worker in the Emergency Department at Schneider Children’s Hospital in New York. “Medical social work is absolutely incredible,” said Foti. FINDING HER NICHE Each day she helps people who are in various states of crises. She helps patients and families through the shock of learn- —JO-ELLEN FOTI ’97 ing of new medical diagnoses and assists children who are victims of physical and mental abuse. She encounters psy- chiatric patients who require emergency evaluation and By Dyanna Stupar placement in facilities as well as homeless patients or fami- lies at risk of losing housing. She assists families who lack As much as Jo-Ellen Foti ’97 loved being a student at The support services and survivors of domestic violence. In the Dickinson School of Law, she had a difficult time imagining emergency room, she counsels individuals and families who herself as an attorney. As graduation neared, she questioned are losing or have lost loved ones. whether practicing law was truly what she was meant to do. “I truly relish the fast pace of hospital social work, the The year following graduation, Foti decided to move to energy and the direct contact with clients and their families California. Her journey west also became an inner journey; in times of crises,” said Foti. a quest to discover exactly what she could, and should, offer The hospital affords Foti the freedom to be on her feet the world. Her family and closest friends extended both and directly advocate, educate, and empower clients in the counsel and leeway. Emergency Department. “Working in a trauma center, you “They gave me the freedom and courage to explore other never know what the day will bring, and no two days are options,” said Foti. “This began an in-depth look into ever alike. Each day varies, and I know that is one of the myself and my honest goals in life.” things I love the most.” What ensued was a great deal of introspection and soul She credits her legal training for augmenting her skills as a searching that led Foti to embrace social work. social worker. “Situations present themselves rapidly that As a child, Foti was fascinated by the stories of grassroots require critical analysis and assessment in order to best assist advocacy that her mother, a social worker, would share with and equip families and their loved ones through a difficult her. She decided to follow in her mother’s footsteps and pur- and traumatic time. Law school taught me how to best sue a master’s degree in social work, which would allow her break down a series of events and get to the core issue so as to not only advocate for clients and their families, but also to best assess what critical needs are emergent and must be empower them to change their own lives. addressed while in the hospital. Although being an attorney “One of the things that initially attracted me to the law was is not what I ultimately have become, I firmly believe my the ability to advocate for a client. However, I became aware law school education has made me a more adept and better that I had a desire to work more closely with the clients and equipped social worker.” their families but on a much more basic level,” Foti explained. While Foti is not a counselor at law, she is well on her “From the first day of classes for social work, I felt I was way to being a counselor in her own right. She is pursuing home,” said Foti. her license in clinical social work (LCSW), which will allow She graduated from the master’s in social work program at her to work as a therapist in private practice. She hopes to the California State University, Long Beach in 2003 and one day provide individual therapy, group therapy, and mar- began working as a social worker in the emergency room of ital counseling. the Los Angeles County Trauma Center. One year later, Foti

22 • THE DICKINSON LAWYER WASTE NOT,WANT NOT: Dickinson Alum Expands Rent Validation Program as Supreme Court Fellow — JOHN DOMURAD ’93

By Crystal L. Stryker ’04

If you have ever wanted to question a jaw-dropping bill III Judges Division of the Administrative Office of the U.S. from the federal government, you might want to shake the Courts, wrote in an e-mail. hand of John Domurad ’93. By asking the General Services Applauding the success of the program, Irving explained, Administration (GSA) to quantify rent assessments of fed- “… as a result of the Judiciary’s rent validation effort, GSA eral judicial space, he kicked off a national effort that saved implemented nationwide reforms that strengthen manage- millions of taxpayer dollars and landed him in the halls of ment controls and put standards into place to ensure rent the Supreme Court. bill integrity.” His efforts were local at first. As chief deputy of the Domurad enjoyed the vantage point from the center of Northern District of New York, he asked GSA to quantify national government. He had access to White House Fel- its rent assessments of the district’s federal judicial space, lows and reported that he met every member of the which, according to the Third Branch (the newsletter of the Supreme Court except Justice Kennedy. “I found them all federal courts), squeezed the court’s budget so hard in 2006 to be interesting and incredibly intelligent,” he said. that staff layoffs were considered. The team discovered that When Canadian Supreme Court justices visited the capi- GSA had assessed a 15,000-foot attic accessible by ladder as tol, Domurad helped entertain. When judges-in-training “common space.” (Federal courts pay rent to GSA, which from the Republic of South Korea arrived in Washington, assigns a market value for each occupied building.) Accord- D.C., to learn about the U.S. legal system and another Fel- ing to the Third Branch, GSA reduced the district’s rent by low was unavailable to make a presentation, Domurad filled $1 million that year and reduced the rent assessment for in to give a thumbnail sketch of the entire legal system the Southern District of New York by $30 million over sev- before the judicial guests moved on to the World Bank, a eral years. private law firm, and a U.S. circuit court. Seeking to expand the rent validation project, Domurad True to his plan, Domurad managed to hold his “day applied for a Supreme Court Fellowship to nationalize the job” and his fellowship simultaneously. The logistics were program. His application was somewhat unusual, he taxing. “I [would] fly down to Washington one week a explained, because he sought to maintain his administrative month and then across the country one week for the valida- position in New York while completing the fellowship in tion effort. Then I would work some of the time in Albany Washington, D.C. on the fellowship,” he said. As one of eight finalists for the program, he was invited The most difficult part of the fellowship, he noted, was to perhaps the ultimate “stress interview”—a two-day meet- the separation from his wife and then 4-year-old son, Jack- ing followed by dinner with members of the Supreme son. Court, the Fellowship Commission, and outgoing Supreme Domurad’s fellowship culminated in a personal presenta- Court Fellows. The following week, he learned that he was tion on his work to the chief justice of the United States. one of four people selected for a 2006-2007 fellowship. Having interacted with the highest levels of U.S. govern- Domurad used his Supreme Court fellowship to teach ment and its guests, Domurad wrapped up his work at the court administrators across the country to scrutinize GSA Supreme Court and returned to his day job in Albany. assessments. The National Rent Validation Program trains As chief deputy, Domurad is involved in all parts of court personnel to check that the space actually occupied court administration including court security, construction, matches that assigned to the court by GSA and to check operations, and, according to him, everything there is to whether the rent paid per square foot complies with GSA keeping judges happy. One has no doubt he succeeds. regulations. “John has spearheaded a nationwide program to validate the costs of space that the judiciary rents. This effort has resulted in savings of over $50 million to date, with addi- tional savings expected,” Peggy Irving, chief of the Article

SUMMER 2008 • 23 A NEW BREED OF LAWYER

By Pam Knowlton

“If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.”

— Albert Einstein Animal law is a combination of statutory and case law in which the nature – legal, social or biological – of nonhuman Make no bones about it, the pet industry is huge. And, although everyone is not an animal lover, billions are. Own- animals is an important factor. Animal law encompasses ers pamper pets with premium pet foods, organic treats, and companion animals, wildlife, animals used in entertainment high-end services like pet spas and doggie day care. According to the American Pet Products Manufacturers and animals raised for food and used in research. Animal law Association, Americans this year will likely spend more than permeates and affects most traditional areas of the law – $10.5 billion on pet supplies and over-the-counter medica- tions. Pet parents are also starting to treat their pets’ health including tort, contract, criminal, and constitutional law. care as they do their own and demanding the same treat- — Animal Legal Defense Fund ment options that they get for themselves. Technology from the human world continues to make its way into veterinary medicine, and sophisticated diagnostics, such as MRIs, are becoming more accessible for Fido. nine states have enacted felony-level penalties for certain acts Not only is human technology spilling over into the ani- of animal cruelty, bringing the total number of states with mal kingdom, but the animal kingdom is spilling over into such penalties up to forty-three, reports the Humane Society the area of law. Animal law, defined as the body of statutory of the United States. In the last six years, thirty-two states and case law related to non-human animals, is an ever- have adopted laws that allow pet owners to establish trusts expanding field of study and practice in the United States. for their animals to ensure they are cared for after the deaths Ten years ago only a handful of U.S. law schools taught ani- of the owners. ALDF reports that the number of student mal law. According to the Animal Legal Defense Fund chapters of its organization (known as SALDF) has risen (ALDF), today more than ninety schools teach an overview from twelve to 112 over the last seven years (or one dog year). course on the subject. Students at Penn State Dickinson were initially exposed to Beginning in spring 2007, Penn State Dickinson began animal law in 2002 when Amy Kaunas ’03, then a law stu- offering such a course, which is taught by Adjunct Professor dent, worked with ALDF to establish a student chapter at Patti Bednarik, the driving force behind the establishment of Penn State Dickinson. (See page 25 for Kaunas’ profile.) the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Animal Law Committee. With the help of travel grants provided by the Law School, During an introductory meeting for students interested in Krista Klett ’08, treasurer of SALDF, participated in two the course, Bednarik explained that animal law is not a national animal law conferences with Professor Bednarik. course on animal rights; it encompasses companion animals, Of her experience at the conferences Klett said, “Many wildlife, animals used in entertainment, animals raised for leading animal advocates spoke on emerging topics from food, and those used in research. around the world. It was a wonderful networking experience “We are pioneers in a new era. Animal law is where envi- to meet leaders in the field and discuss animal advocacy ronmental law was thirty years ago,” Bednarik said. strategies in an informal setting. Patti and her dedication to This relatively new field of law is tethered to more tradi- animal advocacy is inspiring.” tional areas of the law—including tort, contract, criminal, While interest in the animal law discipline continues to constitutional, and trust law. Examples of this intersection grow, there are still relatively few full-time legal employment include animal custody disputes in divorce; veterinary mal- opportunities available. Bednarik noted that she knows of practice cases; housing disputes involving “no pet” policies about twenty attorneys nationwide who are trying to make a and discrimination laws; damages for the killing or injury of living at it. However, for all those animal loving lawyers out companion animals; trusts established for the care of pets there who would like to gain some experience in the field, after their owners’ deaths; and criminal statutes addressing there are countless pro bono activities available with non- cruelty to animals. profit organizations like the Humane Society of the United The concept of animal law has been gaining recognition States. in the U.S. legal community. In the last ten years, twenty-

24 • THE DICKINSON LAWYER TRACKING A PASSION — AMY KAUNAS ’03

By Pam Knowlton

Only three years after graduating from law school, Amy Kaunas ’03 had what many young attorneys hope to one day achieve—clear sailing on the path to partnership at one of the largest firms in the country. So why give it all up to become the executive director of a financially unstable non- profit organization? For an opportunity to combine her legal training with a lifelong passion. What started in child- hood as a love of animals matured into a lifelong passion for helping them. As a student at Penn State Dickinson, Kaunas worked with the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) to establish a student chapter at Penn State Dickinson. After graduating from law school, Kaunas began her legal career as an associate with Shumaker Williams, working in the Corporate Law Department. While at Shumaker Williams, Kaunas also provided pro bono legal services to many local animal welfare organizations. In the summer of 2005, Kaunas volunteered for Best Friends and the own life. Events only have significance when we choose to Louisiana Humane Society, traveling twice to southern do significant things because of them. I really felt this job Mississippi to assist the animal victims of hurricane Katri- opportunity represented one of those significant things,” na. In May 2006, she joined Ballard Spahr working in the Kaunas said. areas of corporate, mergers and acquisitions, and securities “This is your chance to do something you really love in law out of the firm’s Baltimore, Maryland office. life—something that is truly your passion,” Kaunas remem- Before joining Ballard, she had discussions about how to bers thinking. “Do you want to take a shot at it or let it go?” become partner. “It was very clear that becoming a partner Kaunas’ job at Ballard was financially rewarding. She had was the path that I was going to pursue,” she said. a beautiful office overlooking the harbor, with a view of the Although Kaunas was required to bill long hours on her setting sun and passing sailboats. “I worked with some phe- path to partnership, she still found time to follow her pas- nomenal attorneys. And, it occurred to me that if I were sion of helping animals by serving as solicitor on the Board going to stay in the legal profession that it wasn’t going to of Directors of the Humane Society of Harrisburg Area get any better than this,” she said. (HSHA), a position that she assumed in April 2006. “I had to do a lot of soul searching, but I decided to go As solicitor, Kaunas continued providing pro bono legal for it,” she said. “I liked the idea of not completely leaving services by reviewing trust and estate documents, contracts, my profession…of being able to combine my legal skills and cruelty matters as well as assisting HSHA with corpo- and training with my passion.” rate governance matters. As board solicitor, Kaunas had a working knowledge of When the former executive director of the Humane Soci- the HSHA and its financial trouble. During her final pres- ety unexpectedly resigned just five months later, Kaunas, by entation to the executive committee, Kaunas outlined a virtue of her position as solicitor, became a member of the business plan for the HSHA to follow in an effort to turn it executive committee charged with overseeing the search for around, which she credits as giving her the edge over the a new executive director. other three finalists and ultimately landing her the job. “While flipping through the resumes, I started to notice Kaunas finds her current position as challenging as prac- that a number of resumes came from attorneys, and, I ticing law, but much more fulfilling. “I work just as many thought, wow, attorneys do this,” Kaunas said. “From a hours, attend a lot of after-hours events, and answer to a lot career development perspective, it was like an epiphany for of people,” she said. On an average day, she is responsible me when I saw all the attorneys who run nonprofits. for approximately 550 animals, thirty employees, a board of Kaunas then began considering the possibility of throw- directors, and over half-a million citizens in the communi- ing her name into the pool of applicants. ties in which the society functions—Cumberland, “I believe that everything happens for a reason, but it is Dauphin, Perry, and Northern York counties. up to us to define that reason within the context of our (continued on page 26)

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“To work here, you have to believe in the concept of the uidations, rehabilitations, greater good—that you are making a difference on a bigger and special funds. She cur- level, or you will get emotionally bogged down,” Kaunas rently is senior litigation explained. and appellate counsel to the “We make a lot of tough decisions here...some of them Medical Care Availability are life and death,” Kaunas stated. and Reduction of Error When faced with balancing the scales of justice to make Fund (Mcare), a statutory the “right” decision in a difficult situation, Kaunas says that fund under the auspice of her legal training is invaluable. the department. But, there’s Her advice to graduates who might want to explore work- more… ing in an alternative career is this: “There are ways to com- Anderson had a friend, bine your passion with a legal career, but it may require you Cynthia Magaro, who had to think outside the box and be willing to take some risks. I an idea. It was Magaro’s would also strongly advise seeking a mentor,” she said. “If vision to bring all the ani- you have a desire to work for a specific nonprofit, try to get mal shelters and rescue on their board. I did it not knowing. But looking back on groups together to work as a it, it’s a great way to get to know the organization and to see united front to make central if it’s a good fit for you.” Pennsylvania a no-kill com- While Kaunas is no longer logging hours as a law firm munity, which is a commu- associate, she’s been known to bring her work home with nity where animals are no her: Kaunas and her family live in Wellsville, Pennsylvania, longer put to sleep because with their five dogs and two cats—all of which have been shelters are overcrowded or rescued from a shelter. because the animals are old or sick. It is a community where euthanasia is reserved only for animals that are extremely sick or injured FOLLOWING THROUGH and have no quality of life. — ZELLA ANDERSON ’86 In early 2001, Magaro began to put her idea into action. She had several By Dyanna Stupar meetings with the shelters and rescue groups in the central “I looked at the caged animal in the shelter— Pennsylvania area to talk about working together. Then, the cast-offs of human society. I saw in their eyes unexpectedly, she was diagnosed with cancer. Magaro passed love and hope, fear and dread, sadness and betrayal, away six months later. and I was angry. I said ‘God, this is terrible! Why Anderson thought that someone would take Magaro’s idea don’t you do something?’ God was silent for a and run with it. She waited and waited, but nothing hap- pened. She knew virtually nothing about what Magaro had moment then spoke softly, ‘I have done something,’ done previously, but she knew how important it was to her was the reply, ‘I created you.’” to bring all the animal welfare organizations together. So, in — Jim Willis March 2002, Anderson picked up where Magaro left off and Animal Rescuer became founder and director of the Central Pennsylvania Animal Alliance (CPAA). “I never envisioned founding a nonprofit and serving as Never in a million years did Zella Anderson ’86 imagine its director,” said Anderson. “I felt compelled to continue her career would involve homeless, furry, four-legged crea- Cynthia’s idea because it made sense, and I could not let her tures. For as long as she can remember, she always saw her- vision die with her.” self as a litigation attorney. CPAA is committed to ending the killing of dogs and cats After graduation, Anderson worked for a medical mal- as a means of animal population control and is working to practice defense firm for a year, then as in-house claims create a no-kill community in central Pennsylvania. CPAA is counsel for a major insurance company. In 1988, she was composed of individuals and more than fifty rescues, shel- hired by the Governor’s Office of General Counsel and ters, and other animal welfare organizations all working assigned as counsel for the Regulatory Division and for liq- toward the goal of ending the killing through aggressive

26 • THE DICKINSON LAWYER mals to vets for treatments and foster care; editing press releases; interacting with the media; writing articles for the CPAA newsletter; writing grants seeking funding for CPAA’s “DeSex in the City” spay/neuter program; assisting with the budget; and handling speaking engagements. “One huge hurdle is the general public’s perception that animals are disposable property and not a lifetime responsi- bility,” said Anderson. “I get at least one call every day from someone who is moving and can’t take their dog or cat with them because they are moving somewhere that does not allow pets. The majority of the public feels that when an animal becomes inconvenient, or if they simply don’t want it anymore, they can dump the animal at a shelter or rescue to make the animal someone else’s responsibility. People don’t treat their children that way, so why do they think it is acceptable to treat a living, breathing animal that way? I will never understand that mindset. “Another major hurdle we face is the public’s acceptance of the killing of animals as the way to control their num- bers. For the past 150 years, shelters all across this country have been killing animals to control their numbers, and that killing has gained acceptance by the public. It is our challenge to change the mindset and get the word out that there is a proven, better way to control animal overpopula- tion—through spaying and neutering. If we can prevent the animals from being born, we can prevent them from being killed. It’s that simple. That is why CPAA’s focus is to pro- vide aggressive, accessible spay/neuter programs throughout central PA.” Anderson is a true believer in finding personal fulfillment in life. Her advice is simple: “Don’t be afraid to pursue your passions, whether it be through your volunteer work spay-neuter programs and resources, increasing adoption or occupation. You may just find that it will not only make rates for homeless animals, and educating the community your life more fulfilling, but you also may make a real dif- on the importance of spaying and neutering. CPAA believes ference in the lives of others.” that by working together, pooling resources, and network- Anderson is married to Joe Anderson and has a stepson, ing, we can more effectively create a better community for Neil. Joe and Zella live in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, the animals. CPAA is an all-volunteer, 501(c)(3) organiza- with their six dogs, which were all adopted from rescues or tion that receives no government funding. shelters. “Those of us in animal welfare can do so much more to The CPAA is always in need of volunteers. To learn more help the animals if we work together as a group to pool our about CPAA and/or for volunteer opportunities, please visit resources than if we work as individuals or individual www.cpaa.info. groups. That’s why CPAA was founded,” Anderson explained. Anderson is responsible for conducting the day-to-day activities of the organization; ensuring all programs are operating properly and efficiently; presiding over monthly general meetings and board meetings; planning, coordinat- ing, and staffing all fundraising events; soliciting donations and sponsors for CPAA’s events and programs; meeting with veterinarians to seek their donation of time to perform spay/neuter surgeries and vaccine clinics; transporting ani-

SUMMER 2008 • 27 North side rendering of Lewis Katz Hall addition and Trickett Hall GROUND January 23, 2008 •

Dignitaries participate in the traditional groundbreaking ceremony LeRoy Zimmerman ’59, H. Laddie Montague, Jr. ’63, and Lewis Katz ’66

Guests included a number of state and local officials Hon. Cynthia A. Baldwin Governor Edward G. Rendell Courtyard view at dusk View of entrance into Lewis Katz Hall BREAKING Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Sculptors prepare blocks of ice for sculpting Sculptor carves Trickett clock tower

H. Laddie Montague, Jr. ’63, Dean Philip McConnaughay, and Lewis Katz ’66 Professor Del Duca, Nate Waters ’72, and Carmen Minora ’77 School of Law in Carlisle and in University Park now enjoys the potential of another 175 years as remarkable as the past,” said McConnaughay.

A CLEANER SLATE IN CARLISLE For several weeks in the winter and spring, South Street in http://www.dsl.psu.edu/two_facility/omicron.cfm Carlisle echoed the sounds of demolition. The Curtilage went first, carefully dismantled to salvage recyclables and manage asbestos. The interconnected hut-like structures that held dorm rooms, Dean Hitchler’s one-time quarters, and offices were reduced to rubble and recycled. Penn State University President Graham B. Spanier addresses the crowd Then demolition efforts moved on to the 1963 and 1978 additions, eliminating the structures that held the “Star Wars Doors,” rooms 132 and 133, faculty offices, and por- GROUND BROKEN ON tions of the library. During this time, construction crews worked to remove most interior elements of Trickett Hall to CARLISLE RENOVATIONS prepare the building for its renovations. The Law School community gathered on January 23 to Pared down to its structural elements, Trickett Hall is celebrate the start of construction on renovations and addi- chilly and drafty and smells like old wood and diesel (from tions to Trickett Hall. Penn State University President Graham the equipment nearby). Light streams in through its majestic B. Spanier, Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell, the windows, at long last uncluttered by office dividers, walls, Honorable Cynthia A. Baldwin, the Honorable LeRoy S. Zim- and stairwells that had blocked the light for so many years. merman ’59, H. Laddie Montague, Jr. ’63, Lewis Katz ’66, One can see straight up to the elegant wooden roof trusses and Dean Philip J. McConnaughay addressed the crowd of that haven’t been exposed in ninety years—they still hold more than 300 people. old dormer windows that had been stored in the makeshift “Today we reaffirm Judge Reed’s vision of a balanced legal storage space. education while enhancing it with opportunities for inter- “We found a few slate shingles here, too,” noted Scott disciplinary study, stronger connections to practice, clinical Nobel, the Gilbane project manager in Carlisle, referring to experience, and global connections. The scope of Penn the “storage” space above the roof trusses. State’s Dickinson School of Law is unprecedented in con- A few square feet of blue flowered wallpaper survives in what temporary legal education. It is on the leading edge of the had been the second-floor hallway for faculty offices. (Crews future direction of law schools,” said President Spanier. have spray painted “NO” in orange paint so that no one Scheduled for completion in December 2009, the $50 knocks them down in error.) The columns and lobby ceiling million project will feature a new signature Lewis Katz Hall, are sealed from the rest of construction and will be restored by named in honor of the principal donor to the project, phi- professionals. lanthropist and businessman Katz, whose $15 million gift to For the next few weeks, one can see what Trickett Hall the Law School ranks among the largest gifts in the history looked like to someone walking down the street in 1918. of Penn State University. With the 1978 and 1963 additions gone, Trickett Hall now The building plans also call for the extensive renovation appears much taller than it did when joined to the prior of Trickett Hall, the Law School’s home in Carlisle since additions. 1918. The renovation will preserve the Georgian beauty of Not all important information made it from one point in Trickett Hall and fond memories for alumni. the Law School’s history to today’s administrators. The Trickett Hall will house the Law School’s unified H. Lad- Carlisle demolition crews were surprised by several grade die Montague, Jr. Law Library, named in honor of Mon- beams under what had been the 1978 addition (the one closer tague, a prominent Philadelphia lawyer and trial attorney and parallel to South Street). The concrete beams’ existence, who has committed $4 million to the school. more than six feet deep, had not been passed down to cur- The renovation and construction project is part of Penn rent Law School administrators. Therefore construction crews State University’s $120 million plan for new, completely chipped apart the concrete beams to prepare the way for interconnected Law School facilities in Carlisle and Univer- foundation work for the new structure. Despite this rather sity Park, which McConnaughay emphasized in his remarks. laborious surprise, Nobel noted, the project is on schedule. It is the “connection between Carlisle and University Park Meanwhile, the boxy 1985 addition that held library that gives us cause to celebrate the Law School’s future as space on the second floor and a few classrooms was stripped well as its past and reason to know that The Dickinson to its steel supports in preparation for extensive renovations. (continued on page 32) 30 • THE DICKINSON LAWYER Debris from 1978, 1963 additions Worker scraping fireproofing material from 1985 addition

Rafters of Trickett Hall Second floor of Trickett Hall

The 21-foot cupola from the Curtilage Rear view of Trickett Hall (continued from page 30)

Gone are the volumes of library books, the flooring, and the walls. The roof has also been removed for this phase of construction, allowing rain to drench the facility. As a practical matter, noted Nobel, even buildings erected from scratch get soaked by the elements before they are sealed. The stairwells of the 1985 addition are fully functional and still have their railings, tile, and safety stripping, despite their immersion in water and gobs of mud. Upon

http://www.dsl.psu.edu/two_facility/omicron.cfm completion of the construction project in Carlisle, the 1985 addition will house faculty and administrative offices, several of which will overlook the green roof on Lewis Katz Hall.

BORING FOR BEDROCK The foundation to Lewis Katz Hall will rest atop about 100 concrete pylons pressing into solid rock. Finding that solid rock in central Pennsylvania, famous for its sinkholes and soft limestone, can be a bit tricky. Drilling for these hard rock deposits are two crews with drilling rigs, explained Dwayne Rush, senior project engi- neer at Gilbane Building Company. The drill bit is sent down with sections of seven-inch pipe. The bit finds dirt and loose limestone first; beneath that is the solid lime- stone that will support a foundation. Of the few pylons that have been drilled, most have gone at least fifty feet into the earth before finding rock solid enough to support a foundation. Once the hard rock is found, the crew pulls up the drill bit and uses the seven-inch pipe in place as a form for concrete, which is poured into the hole left by the drill. Within seven days the concrete reaches its design strength; BALUSTRADES WILL in twenty-eight days it is set completely, according to RETURN TO CLOCK TOWER Rush. Concrete can be poured and set into a pylon At one time the clock tower on Trickett Hall looked despite the rain, which means that the drilling crews more Georgian than Spartan. Its original design featured worked through the heavy showers that pelted Cumber- three levels of wooden balustrades. An ornamental ring of land County in mid-May. oak leaves surrounded the clock face and draped as a “rib- Once the pylons are complete, Lewis Katz Hall will rest bon” from the bottom of the clock. Time, it seems, has on a foundation of about two feet of concrete, according taken its toll on the clock tower. to Rush. Before pouring that concrete, however, a few “We were missing a lot of balustrades over the years due pylons will be tested to determine whether they hold a to wood deterioration,” said Nancy LaMont ’76, assistant load as designed. Rush explained that a steel girder and dean for administration, who lives in the same neighbor- lumber will be placed atop one isolated pylon with a hood as Trickett Hall and harbors an interest in old hydraulic jack to create a “false load.” homes and restoration. “If the pylon doesn’t move, fail, or give, we know that LaMont explained that the clock tower will be restored the pylon works as designed,” he said. He estimated that to its original beauty this year when the wooden the pylons will be completed in three to four weeks. balustrades will be rebuilt. The clock itself will be spirited off site, partly to protect it from construction debris. The clock will be cleaned and restored to its original beauty before the ribbon cutting scheduled for 2009.

32 • THE DICKINSON LAWYER Wall uncovered during work on the interior of Trickett Hall IF WALLS COULD TALK If the walls of Trickett Hall could talk, what would they tell us? Was it something I said? Paint us, please. Anything but the slippery slope argument again…

Law School staff were left scratching their heads at the discovery of a wall painted with the words “Dean’s Kitchen” View of green roof atop Lewis Katz Building in the basement of Trickett Hall. The royal blue, high-gloss paint job appears well-designed and carefully planned. “This renovation and addition to the historic Dickinson Nearby, in what looks to be matching paint, are the names School of Law will incorporate the best practices in sustain- of several individuals. This creates a bit of an evidentiary able design…I’m proud that this building will continue question as to whether the names on the wall are those of these efforts toward our good stewardship of resources,” the artists. Alumni who may remember the Dean’s Kitchen said Penn State University President Graham Spanier at the (and whether any dean has fried an egg on-site) are encour- celebration of groundbreaking in Carlisle on January 23. aged to contact the Alumni Office. Spanier was referring to Penn State’s longstanding com- While walls cannot talk, a time capsule from 1951 is the mitment to environmental sustainability. Since 2004, the next best thing. Removed from the cornerstone of the Cur- University has pursued Leadership in Energy and Environ- tilage, the capsule will remain sealed until the Law School mental Design (LEED) certification from the U.S. Green community opens it together, possibly at Alumni Weekend Building Council for all new building and renovation proj- in the fall. Encapsulated in a copper box within a foot-high ects. The council’s point system grades a project’s site devel- block, it presented quite an effort to workers who were opment, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selec- tasked with removing it from the demolition site. tion, and indoor environmental quality. “It took two people just to unload it from the dock,” said Penn State’s efforts to “go green” have garnered national Nancy LaMont, who is charged with the care and keeping attention. Sierra Magazine recently named Penn State of the capsule for the time being. among the top ten “coolest schools” in the United States for its efforts to stop global warming by building sustainably, reducing carbon emissions 17.5 percent by 2012, and investing in retrofitting facilities to maximize efficiency. In PENN STATE DICKINSON July 2007, Penn State’s Medlar Field at Lubrano Park became the first stadium in the United States to receive “LEEDs” THE WAY IN LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. BUILDING GREEN Penn State’s Stuckeman Family Building for the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at University Park The new and renovated Law School facilities will benefit was one of the first buildings on any college campus to earn not only generations of students for years to come, but also a Gold Rating from the U.S. Green Building Council’s any living thing that benefits from cleaner air, green space, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green and cleaner water. Penn State is building one of the green- Building Rating System in 2006. est law schools in the country.

SUMMER 2008 • 33 CREATIVE DESIGN ALLOWS LAW SCHOOL TO USE LESS ENERGY Both the new Lewis Katz Building in University Park and the Lewis Katz Hall addition in Carlisle are designed to encourage efficient use of energy. Covered bicycle racks in both locations will encourage occupants to combine http://www.dsl.psu.edu/two_facility/omicron.cfm exercise with a morning commute and reduce consump- tion of gasoline. Abundant natural light in the unified H. Laddie Montague, Jr. Law Library will cut down on the need to artificially light the area. The new Law School buildings will have green roofs, i.e., vegetation planted in soil on a specially designed rooftop. The vegetation will create a habitat for birds and animals, reduce the building’s storm water runoff, absorb air pollution, and reduce the structures’ “heat island” effects. By insulating the underlying roof structures from UV rays and extremes in temperature, the green roofs will extend the buildings’ useful lives and reduce the Law School’s use of heating and cooling energy. The benefits of green roofing are so pronounced that they are expected to contribute to the Penn State’s pursuit of LEED Certifi- cation for both building projects. The green roof in Carlisle will be visible from the street level and create striking views from the classrooms and the upstairs reading room in Trickett Hall. Pedestrians in University Park will not be able to see the roof of the Lewis Katz Building, but aircraft covering Penn State football just may catch a glimpse of its rooftop foliage.

BOTANIC GIFT WILL BLOSSOM

FOR COMPLETION OF KATZ The Hosler Oak was transplanted to the Arboretum in 2005 by BUILDING George Biemesderfer, a Penn State alumnus, to honor Charles L. Hosler, his cousin and mentor. This is the first official tree in the Law students in University Park will be able to study Arboretum's botanic gardens. outdoors on a sprawling green campus amid native flow- ers and shrubbery, thanks to the generosity of Penn State alumnus and central Pennsylvania resident Charles H. “Skip” Smith. Smith’s recent $10 million gift will enable the building of the H.O. Smith Botanic Gardens adjoining the Lewis Katz Building. The first stage of the multi-phase project The H.O. Smith Botanic Gardens will be one compo- will include an overlook pavilion, a conservatory terrace, nent of the vast Penn State Arboretum, which will eventu- and an event lawn, as well as a rose and fragrance garden. ally span more than 400 acres. The western side of Lewis The gift honors the donor’s father, the late H.O. Smith, Katz Building will abut the fifty-six-acre botanic gardens, an alumnus of Penn State’s class of 1920 and landscape creating one of the most unique green spaces in legal edu- engineer who enjoyed hiking in the area that will now cation. For more information on the Arboretum, visit bear his name. www.arboretum.psu.edu.

34 • THE DICKINSON LAWYER The librarians’ research shows that most people shy away UNIFIED LIBRARY from isolated study. “Studies have shown that even people who study individ- To Grow and Glow ually still want to study where other people are studying,” Just as law schools evolve, so do law libraries. Designed said Partin. to reflect the interdisciplinary nature of modern legal study Striking aesthetics will likely attract students to the study and meet student demand for community-focused study area. Patrons of the second-floor reading room in Carlisle space, the unified H. Laddie Montague, Jr. Law Library will enjoy views of the green roof over Lewis Katz Hall, will be a center of collaboration, technology, and aesthetics. while patrons of the first-floor reading area will see the “We will have a digital knowledge commons and several entry to Katz Hall and the trees and community entrance technology collaboration centers that will allow for instruc- below. The Carlisle location will make use of the abundant tion, study, and collaboration using a variety of technology natural light coming through the picturesque windows of and communication tools,” said Professor Gail A. Partin, Trickett Hall, reducing the cost to artificially light the study member of the Law School’s library design committee and space. associate director of law libraries. Also attractive to readers will be the wrap-around, waist- Partin emphasized that the library is designed to grow high table and work space in the University Park library. with emerging technology. Patrons will be able to study on the perimeter of the room “Both facilities have been designed with the flexibility to or snag a book from the stacks and read nearby. The read- accommodate technology upgrades, allowing the Law ing ramp and third-floor reading room feature views of the Libraries to keep abreast of future developments,” she said. Arboretum, Mount Nittany, and the interior of the Katz For now, the library will be a wireless access point for Building below. patrons and offer data and power hookups at every seat— The night renderings of the Lewis Katz Building portray even the soft chairs. a warm glow from the building’s interior. Interior light The soft seating, group study rooms, and individual car- reflecting off the wooden slat ceiling in the third floor read- rels will be arranged to enhance the library’s sense of com- ing room will create this effect. To walkers, commuters, and munity and provide a range of study spaces. Patrons will be passersby on Park Avenue at night, the Lewis Katz Building able to choose sound-proof group study rooms or quiet will be a lantern on a dark, nighttime landscape. reading rooms away from main hallways and thoroughfares.

SUMMER 2008 • 35 TRICKETT HALL: The Beginning A LOOK BACK By Mark W. Podvia ’86

“This building has been erected in a suitable place,

in a suitable manner, and has promise of use in con-

tinued good service. It will aid in developing and

broadening other men, who in turn will go forth to

leave their impress in the state, as you have done,

and in after years you will be happy in the conscious-

ness that you have had your part in the training of

the coming members of that profession, of which we are

all so proud.”

The Honorable S.B. Sadler Class of 1898 Address delivered August 15, 1918

Had the decision been left to Dean William Trickett, the building that bears his name would have been constructed Trickett Hall was to be crowned by a 112-foot tower, the some ten years earlier. The Dickinson School of Law had design of which was similar to the bell tower of Indepen- outgrown Emory Hall, the college-owned building that it dence Hall. The jewel in this crown was to be a tower clock, had occupied since 1890, and a new facility was needed. manufactured by the E. Howard Clock Company, with four Efforts were made over the years to obtain funds from the illuminated dials. alumni for the erection of a new building. However, it was The first floor of Trickett Hall was designed to house six not until 1916 that a fund drive headed by the Honorable lecture rooms, a cloak room, the dean’s office, and two fac- Wilber F. Sadler and Horace B. King, a 1910 graduate, ulty offices. A library room and an assembly room capable of raised sufficient money to proceed with the project. seating 450 persons were planned for the second floor, while It was decided to name the new building “Trickett Hall” in the basement would contain a large smoking room as well as honor of the Law School’s dean, although Dean Trickett— toilet, heating and storage rooms. a very modest man—was somewhat embarrassed by this On October 24, 1916, the site at the corner of College decision. The colonial-style building, designed by R.R. Markley and South streets was purchased. Construction started of Harrisburg, was to have a frontage of 132 feet and a depth shortly thereafter, however completion of the building was of 62 feet. Building ornamentation was to be kept to a minimum. delayed because of wartime shortages. The first classes were

36 • THE DICKINSON LAWYER of the class of 1898, directed the singing of many old col- lege songs, while J. Harvey Line, also an 1898 alumnus, led several cheers “peculiar to [The] Dickinson School of Law.” August 16, 1918, began with an organizational meeting of The Dickinson School of Law Alumni Association. The Honorable John W. Kephart, was elected president of the organization, Robert H. Smith vice president, and Joseph P. McKeehan secretary and treasurer. The formal dedication of Trickett Hall took place at 2 p.m. that afternoon. Following the singing of “Noble Dick- insonia,” Anthony T. Walsh, a member of the class of 1903, presented the school with a service flag honoring the 143 Dickinson Law students and alumni then serving in the U.S. armed forces. The flag was accepted “on behalf of the dean, the faculty, and the alumni” by “Dick” Gilbert, a 1911 graduate and a former sergeant of the Sheridan Troop, First Pennsylvania Cavalry. The first dedication speaker was Justice Edward J. Fox of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, who discussed the preju- dice that exists against lawyers in the community at large. In concluding his address, he paid tribute to Dean Trickett: “I am very glad to participate in the ceremonies attend- ing upon the dedication of this Hall to Dean Trickett, and I think that it is fitting that the Hall should be so named. Dean Trickett can well exclaim ‘exegi monumentum aere perennius.’ He has indeed erected a monument more last- ing than bronze in the hearts of men who have gone out from this splendid school of law....If we wish to keep the lustre of our profession untarnished, may all of us, both you and I, mould our professional lives upon this life of the great teacher here who is so eminent and so justly distinguished in the world of legal education as a master in the profession.” The Rev. Dr. George Edward Reed, former president of Dickinson College and The Dickinson School of Law—no relation to 1834 Law School founder John Reed—next addressed the assembly. He spoke of the Law School’s beginnings and went on to set forth his vision of its future: “In recent years, many have speculated upon what would be likely to happen, should Dean Trickett pass away, or be compelled by the infirmities of years to cease from his useful labors. These speculations are now matters of the past. This not held in the building until January 1918, and the build- building, erected largely through the generosity of its young ing was not dedicated until the summer of 1918. alumni, guarantees the future of the School. The men who Trickett Hall was completed for a cost of $57,026.88. All erected this structure will never allow the school to fail. but $3,660 of this amount was provided for at the time the Dr. Trickett may in time go the way of all the earth, but building was dedicated. the school will go on....In time it will be amply endowed. The The dedication festivities began on Thursday, August 15, alumni will not suffer it to want for the necessary resources. 1918. The building, decorated with American flags and the Trickett Hall will never fail, never close its doors. Alumni flags of Allied nations, was open throughout the day to and friends will see to that. Long live Trickett Hall!” alumni and citizens of the community. According to the Dr. Reed’s prediction, made more than seventy-five years Carlisle Evening Herald, “the building was thronged all day ago, has thus far been fulfilled. Despite additions, renova- by the many visitors.” tions, and modernization, Trickett Hall today remains the That evening nearly 150 graduates of the school gathered heart of The Dickinson School of Law. in the building’s smoking room for a “get-to-gether” meet- ing. While smoking hundreds of cigars and cigarettes that Editor’s note: This article is a reprint of the story written by Mark had been provided for the occasion, the alumni shared sto- Podvia ’86 for the Spring/Summer 1994 issue of The Dickinson Lawyer. ries about their law school days. Hugh R. Miller, a member Podvia is an associate law librarian and archivist at the Law School. SUMMER 2008 • 37 ALUMNI & REUNION WEEKEND In Review

More than 250 alumni, students, staff, faculty, and friends gathered in Carlisle October 19-21 to celebrate the annual Dickinson School of Law Alumni Weekend. Rain couldn’t stop the clubs from swinging on Friday as the annual golf tournament at Mayapple Golf Links opened up the weekend’s activities. Students joined alumni on the rain-soaked course for some friendly competition, with the team of George Faller ’87, Professor Harvey Feldman ’69, Seth Moseby ’06, and Charles Fehlinger ’09 finishing eight shots under par to capture the tournament win. The second place team of Tom Gould ’82, Stephen Hogg ’82, George Joseph ’82, and Wayne Mowery ’97 finished six under par. Mark Bracken ’08 and Ryan Starr ’10 earned “Closest to the Pin” honors for their shots on 2 and 13, respectively, and Ethan Nelson nailed the “Longest Drive” with his shot on the 12th hole. On Saturday, alumni picked up some CLE credits with pro- grams presented by Lucy Johnston-Walsh ’97, a clinic supervis- ing attorney at the Law School; Schaun Henry ’97, a member of McKees Wallace & Nurick in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Ken Hagreen, Esq., the executive director of Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania; and Dean Philip J. McConnaughay. Later that afternoon, students, alumni, faculty, staff, and friends convened for the annual Scholarship Luncheon, spon- sored by Yelen Law Offices, to recognize the school’s scholar- ship donors and honor student scholarship recipients. The event featured special remarks from scholarship recipients Ali- son Kilmartin ’09 and Melissa Tanguay ’09 A highlight of the weekend was a Saturday afternoon picnic celebrating the career of Professor Harvey Feldman, who retired from full-time teaching in June 2007 after thirty-seven years of service to the Law School. (See page 2 for full story.) During the picnic, Feldman was presented with a commemora- tive book filled with memories and sentiments from his peers and former students. On Saturday evening, attendees convened in the Advantica Building for a reception and awards ceremony honoring recipi- ents of the 2007 General Alumni Association (GAA) awards. Following the cere- mony, attendees headed off to the Cal- ifornia Café for more fellowship and dinner. The weekend con- cluded Sunday morn- ing with a Farewell Brunch. L: Alison Kilmartin ’09; R: Melissa Tanquay ’09

38 • THE DICKINSON LAWYER 2007 GAA AWARD RECIPIENTS

OUTSTANDING ALUMNI AWARD cial litigation, criminal law, and domestic law. R. Burke McLemore Jr. ’77 He is a certified mediator for the Federal Mid- McLemore is a partner at Thomas, Thomas dle District Court, serves as a custody concilia- and Hafer LLP in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, tor for Cumberland County, and is routinely where he is chair of the firm’s Workers’ Com- retained as a mediator by counsel in central pensation Section. McLemore’s practice Pennsylvania. R. Burke McClemore Jr. encompasses both trial and appellate represen- In 2001, Gilroy was elected as an alumni tation of employers and carriers from the member of the Board of Governors (now the Maryland line to New York. McLemore provides Board of Counselors) of Penn State University’s risk reduction and management advice to Dickinson School of Law, and he currently clients facing workers’ compensation and serves as an appointed member of the Dickin- employment law claims. His twenty-nine years son Law Association. Gilroy has served for of insurance defense experience is applied to many years as the advisor to the DSL Trial complex cases bridging workers’ compensation, Moot Court team, which has won two of the subrogation, and employment torts. McLemore past three regional championships. has been recognized as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer and has been cited in Best Lawyers in CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD America. He has been a member of the GAA James W. Durham ’65 since 1979 and has served the association and Durham is a mediator and arbitrator with the Law School in a variety of roles, including his private practice, Durham Mediation & James Fox as president of the GAA. He received the Arbitration Services, in Media, Pennsylvania. GAA’s Distinguished Service Award in 1990. He specializes in commercial and public policy disputes and was recently selected by one of HONORARY ALUMNI AWARD the world’s largest law firms to be one of five Professor James R. Fox arbitrators to resolve intra firm disputes. Fox has been a professor at The Dickinson Durham is a member of the American Arbi- School of Law for thirty-one years and served tration Association’s Large Complex Case Panel as the director of the Law Library for twenty- and its National Energy Panel. He has been eight of those years. He oversaw the develop- active with various CRP Institute for Dispute ment of the library from a collection of 60,000 Resolution committees and is a member of its volumes at the beginning of his tenure to more National Energy Panel and its Philadelphia than 300,000 volumes by 1993. Fox is an expert Panel. Durham has served in leadership roles on legal research techniques and teaches Advanced with numerous community service organiza- Legal Research. He also teaches a course in leg- tions in Oregon and Pennsylvania. He was the Hubert X. Gilroy islation and serves as advisor to the Jessup 2006-07 National Chairman of the Law International Moot Court Team. Fox’s primary School’s Class and Reunion Giving Program interest is aviation and space law, and he is the and was recently named the DSL chair for the author of the two-volume work The Regulation next University-wide Capital Campaign, For of International Commercial Aviation and the the Future: The Campaign for Penn State Stu- Dictionary of International and Comparative Law dents. A long-time supporter of the Law School and co-author of the casebook Aviation Law. and its programs, Durham established the Jim Durham Endowment to support dispute reso- DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD lution programs and serves on the school’s Hubert X. Gilroy ’79 Board of Counselors. Gilroy is a shareholder at Martson Deardorff Williams Otto Gilroy & Faller and has prac- ticed law in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, for more than twenty-seven years. His varied practice James Durham focuses on land use, personal injury, commer-

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gave several lectures to attor- Lawyers in America 2007. A resi- The Somerville, PA, law firm WE WANT TO HEAR neys and legal assistants: “Will dent of Basking Ridge, NJ, Mar- Norris McLaughlin & Marcus, is FROM YOU! Drafting;” “Examining and cus is chairman of the firm’s pleased to announce that mem- resolving real estate title issues;” Management Committee. He ber Walter G. The Alumni Office welcomes “Preparing and analyzing real concentrates his practice on cor- Reinhard has news for class notes that is estate descriptions for use on porate transactions and tax matters. been selected less than a year old. Please deeds;” “Protection of the con- for inclusion in Barry Nace has recently been include your name, class sumer public from those the Energy named one of the top 100 Super year and contact information engaged in the unauthorized Law Section of practice of law.” William also Lawyers in the Metropolitan The Best with all submissions. 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Gary is cer- ter practices administrative, erd A. Buzgon, of the Buzgon tified as a civil trial attorney by Davis Law Offices, has been the NJ Supreme Court Board on environmental and regulatory law involving public utilities and 1943 designated as a Pennsylvania Trial Certification (1987 to pres- Super Lawyer in the area of per- ent). His primary area of practice other regulated industries such Sanford S. Marateck retired from sonal injury practice. Bernard is defense of civil rights and as water, sewer, electric and gas, the practice of law on April 16, also recently accepted the Com- employment discrimination liti- telecommunications, cable tele- 2007. munity of Lebanon Association’s gation involving police depart- vision, and solid waste. Business Person of the Year ments and governmental entities. 1956 Award during the organization’s 1972 Sandor Yelen was recognized for 75th anniversary dinner. 1970 Niles S. Benn co-authored an arti- fifty years of service as a mem- Maryland State Bar Association cle which was published in the ber of the Wilkes-Barre Law and 1963 (MSBA) Executive Director Paul December 30, 2005 edition of the MediaLawLetter, a publica- Library Association. Richard M. Goldberg, a partner in V. Carlin returned to his home- the Kingston, PA, based law firm town of McKeesport, PA, to be tion of the Media Law Resource 1958 of Hourigan, Kluger & Quinn, inducted into the McKeesport Center located in New York, NY. The article addressed the issue Neil Hurowitz was listed in the P.C., was recently awarded the High School Hall of Fame. Paul, of the First Ammendment 25th anniversary edition of The prestigious Presidents Award by who was honored in 2005 for Reporters’ Priviledge as related Best Lawyers in America in the the Luzerne County (PA) Bar twenty years of exemplary serv- to the Trial of Kitzmiller, et al. v. specialty of Family Law. Neil Association. The award was pre- ice as MSBA’s executive director, Dover Area School District per- was also chosen as one of the sented at the annual Luzerne was recognized for dedicating his taining to “Intelligent Design.” Top Pennsylvania Super County Bench Bar Conference, life to the law, furthering the Also, the second floor of the Lawyers for 2007. with more than three hundred goals and the reach of the legal lawyers, judges, and officials in profession, and making legal Ortenzio Heart Center at Holy 1959 attendance. services more widely available to Spirit Hospital in Camp Hill, all segments of the population. PA, has been named “The Niles The Honorable LeRoy S. Zimmerman, S. Benn, Esq. Cardiac Surgical former Pennsylvania attorney 1968 Kathleen P. Galop co-authored Services” in honor of Niles S. general, has been elected chair- Larry Gesoff retired from the “Branch Brook Park,” a tribute Benn who has served as chair- man of the Hershey Entertain- Pennsylvania Public Utility to America’s first county park, man of the Board of the Holy ment & Resorts Company Commission after thirty-two which was established in 1985 in Sprit Health System for the past Board. LeRoy began his duties years of service, twenty-three of Newark, NJ. seven years. January 1, 2007. He is senior which were as an administrative Bruce I. Kogan celebrated twenty- counsel and former chairman of law judge. Superior Court Judge Correale F. five years as a full-time law pro- the Board of Directors and Stevens delivered the principal fessor by recently starting a Executive Committee for the address during the Italian Amer- 1969 mediation clinic at Roger firm Eckert Seamans. He is also ican Association of Luzerne The Somerville, PA, law firm Williams University School of chairman of the Board of Direc- County’s (PA) ceremony, which Norris McLaughlin & Marcus, Law in Bristol, RI, in which tors of the Hershey Trust Com- honored Christopher Columbus announced third-year law students mediate pany and the Board of Managers on Friday, October 5. Correale that member small claims and family court of the Milton Hershey School. was elected to the statewide G. Robert Mar- matters under his supervision. appellate Superior Court in cus has been 1961 Bruce regularly teaches Proper- 1997. He is a former member of selected for ty, Trusts and Estates and Medi- the Pennsylvania House of Rep- William F. Hoffmeyer, senior part- inclusion in ation, as well as actively mediat- resentatives, and Luzerne Coun- ner in the law firm of Hoffmeyer the Corporate ing labor and education related ty (PA) district attorney and trial & Semmelman, LLP, recently Laws section disputes. judge. of The Best SUMMER 2008 • 41 1973 Group. Samuel 1977 1978 focuses his Daniel K. Deardorff, a shareholder in After a twenty-seven-year career, Barbara L. Hollenbach, an attorney broad practice the Carlisle law firm Martson as deputy chief counsel and chief with the Lehigh Valley law firm in the areas of Deardorff operating officer of the Pennsylva- Tallman, Hudders & Sorrentino municipal Williams Otto nia Turnpike Commission, Kevin F. was named an Athena honoree by finance, real Gilroy & Fall- Longenbach has retired and joined the Executive Women’s Council estate, land er, has been Transurban (USA) Development of the Greater Lehigh Valley use, municipal elected presi- Inc., Australia’s largest toll road Chamber of Commerce at its Cel- government dent of the developer, owner and operator, as ebration of Women event on June and business law, and estates. Cumberland a development manager in its 22, 2007. County (PA) Washington, D.C., Regional Office. Bar Associa- 1976 Jeffrey P. Lewis joined Eckert Sea- tion. William J. Althaus, former mayor of The Board of Directors of mans Cherin & Mellott, LLC. Jef- the City of York and an interna- Michael Baker Corporation has frey is located in the West The Chester County (PA) Bar tional consultant on democracy appointed Bradley L. Mallory chief Chester, PA, office and focuses his Association presented the 2006 and local government, was the operating officer of the company, practice on the defense of tort Honorable Juan R. Sanchez Pro commencement speaker for the effective October 15, 2007. In this claims, including product liability Bono Award to John B. (Jock) Hannum 37th annual spring Penn State position, Bradley will have respon- and professional negligence. Jr. Jock won the award for his York commencement on May 18, sibility for the day-to-day manage- many volunteer representations of 2007. William is an international ment of the company’s engineer- 1979 pro bono clients and also for writ- ing operations, as well as the consultant on democracy and local Philip Consentino was honored by ing articles in the local bar associa- government specializing on devel- development and execution of the the Rotary Club of Chambersburg tion newsletter. Jock continues to opment assistance to emerging business’ strategic plan. this past June as the winner of the practice with Gollatz, Griffin & democracies in Eastern Europe. club’s 2007 Rotary Excel Award. Ewing in general practice, equine, Leslie Anne Miller, former general He has most recently served as counsel to Governor Ed Rendell and environmental law. The law Hubert X. Gilroy has joined Martson director of the Decentralization and the first female president of firm has offices in West Chester, Project of the U.S. Agency for Deardorff Williams & Otto as part- Chester County, Philadelphia and the Pennsylva- ner. The firm has officially changed International Development in the nia Bar Associa- Wilmington, DE. Furthermore, he Republic of Macedonia. its name to Martson Deardorff finished second in the Legal Aid tion, has been Williams Otto Gilroy & Faller. Charity Run in the category 60 Joseph J. Peters has become a appointed to Hubert has practiced law in Carlisle and above. (It is interesting to shareholder and director of the the Board of for more than twenty-seven years. note that only two people partici- New Jersey firm Mandelbaum Managers of His varied practice focuses on land pated in that category.) Salsburg, Attorneys at Law. the Philadel- use, personal injury, commercial lit- phia Founda- igation, criminal law, and domestic John F. Stoviak, a partner in Saul tion, the $325 law. He is a certified mediator for 1974 Ewing’s Litigation and Environ- million commu- the U. S. District Court for the William K. Stewart, a partner in the mental departments, has been nity foundation that works to Middle District of Pennsylvania, Business Transactions Depart- appointed to the firm’s Executive make philanthropy more effective serves as a custody conciliator for ment of Kaplin Stewart in Blue Committee. He concentrates his in Southeastern Pennsylvania. Cumberland County (PA), and is Bell, PA, was recently nominated practice in complex commercial routinely retained as a mediator by and approved to be on the Board litigation and environmental cases. William Z. Scott Jr. of Marshall, of Directors of Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & counsel in central Pennsylvania. The Pennsyl- The Pittsburgh law firm of Meyer, Goggin, has been elected presi- vania Prison Unkovic & Scott LLP announced dent of the Pennsylvania Bar 1980 Society. that Jane Lewis Volk has joined the Institute’s (PBI) Board of Direc- The Honorable John C. Mott, judge of Founded in firm’s Employment Law and tors for a one-year term which the Court of Common Pleas of 1787, The Employee Benefits Group. Jane’s started June 19, Bradford County (PA) announced Pennsylvania practice focuses primarily on advis- 2007. PBI, the that he will seek retention to a Prison Society ing clients and litigating disputes continuing third ten-year term in the Novem- is a social jus- in the areas of employment dis- legal education- ber 6 Municipal Election. Before tice organiza- crimination, employment contracts, al arm of the taking the bench, John practiced tion that advocates on behalf of and labor-management relations. Pennsylvania law in Canton and Troy, PA. He Bar Association, prisoners, formerly incarcerated As of January 1, 2007, John “Jack” was a partner in the law firm of develops and individuals, and their families. F. Wilson started an assignment in Vineski, Brann, Williams, Caldwell sponsors more Members of The Pennsylvania Kosice, Slovakia, working for the & Mott. than 1,000 Prison Society are committed to European operations of United CLE programs and publishes social change and the promotion States Steel Corporation. Jack has 1981 of equal justice for all members of numerous books on Pennsylvania now been employed by the Unit- Ronald L. Hershner was recently law and practice every year. society. ed States Steel Corporation for elected chairman of the Board of William joined the law firm of thirty years. Jack, his wife, Marian, Directors of the York County Her- Marshall, Dennehey, Warner Cole- 1975 and two children, Emily and itage Trust, the largest non-gov- man and Goggin in 1996, and now Matthew, joined him in Kosice in ernmental historical museum Dilworth Paxson announced that heads the Workers’ Compensation Samuel T. Cooper III mid-January and are enjoying the organization between Philadelphia has joined the Department for the Bethlehem, experience of living in Central and Pittsburgh. Ronald is a part- firm’s Harrisburg, PA, office as a PA, office. partner in its Public Finance Europe. ner with the York law firm of

42 • THE DICKINSON LAWYER Stock and Travis Kendall announced his can- Andrew C. David C. Smith was recently Leader, LLP. didacy on the Republican ticket Topping has appointed an adjunct instructor He has writ- for the office of Fulton County been elected of legal studies at California ten three (PA) district attorney. Travis has as a member University of Pennsylvania. books on top- practiced general law in Fulton of the Board ics of local County since 1990 and has six- of Trustees 1990 history and teen years of experience practic- of the Con- Matthew J. Holden has been pro- temporary frequently ing criminal law. moted to vice president and Museum. speaks on assistant general counsel at The Contemporary Museum subjects of York County and 1985 Lowe’s Companies, Inc., a For- promotes the art and culture of American history. On April 10 during a ceremony tune 50 company headquartered our time by producing and pre- held at the West Shore Country in Mooresville, NC. senting new works, new think- 1984 Club, the Saint Thomas More ing, and new practices that are Stephen Kulla and his wife Robert A. Badman, a partner at Society awarded its Annual immediately relevant. Andrew is Curtin & Heefner, LLP, has Board of Governor’s Award to became grandparents for the vice president, deputy general second time on December 14, received the Bucks County (PA) Robert J. DeSousa. Robert is the counsel of Comcast Cable Com- Bar Association’s highest honor CEO of the Vartan Group in 2005. munications, LLC. He previous- for community service, the Mark Harrisburg and a major in the ly served on the boards of direc- E. Goldberg Award, for his dedi- Pennsylvania Army National 1992 tors of the Friends School of cated volunteer service to the Guard. His Unit, the 213th Area Peter W. Cook is a partner in a Baltimore Alumni Association, Bucks County Opportunity Support Group out of Allen- public relations and marketing Friends of the Family Inc., and Council (BCOC). The annual town, PA, was called to active firm, Direct Design Communi- the Print and Drawing Society award recognizes a member who duty to deploy overseas. Robert cations, LLC, with offices in of the Baltimore Museum of Art. demonstrates a continuing com- reported April 23, 2007. Washington, D.C., and mitment to community service Harleysville, PA. Part of DDC’s outside the legal profession and 1986 1989 practice involves helping Brian W. Bisignani, a former busi- does so with legal competence, Bausch & Lomb has named lawyers and law firms attract honor, trust, service, and respect ness reorganization and bank- new clients via radio, print and James Nortz director of compli- ruptcy partner at Duane Morris for the administration of justice. ance. Based at world headquarters television exposure, among LLP, is the newest partner at Robert has served as a member in Rochester, NY, James is other means. Pete resides in Post & Schell, P.C. Brian, who of BCOC’s Board of Directors responsible for advancing Montgomery County (PA) with prior to entering private practice for six years, including two as Bausch & Lomb’s global compli- his wife, Francie, and their two was an attorney with the Penn- president, and at various times, ance and ethics program. James children, William and Alexandra. sylvania Department of Com- on all of the Board’s committees. joins Bausch & Lomb from Kra- merce, concentrates his practice Jeanine De Bor became director ton Polymers where he served as on complex business reorganiza- of law alumni relations at chief compliance officer. He has tions and restructurings, bank- Duquesne Law School last July. significant experience in the ruptcy law and litigation (credi- She previously practiced com- compliance and ethics field, hav- tor representations), creditors’ mercial litigation at Rothman ing worked in that area at Adec- rights, loan restructurings and Gordon, PC. co Management & Consulting documentation, and business and and Crompton Corporation. Benjamin C. Dunlap Jr., a partner corporate law. in the Harrisburg law firm Nau- man, Smith, Shissler and Hall, 1988 William M. Lafferty, a partner at Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, presented a seminar enti- Catherine A. Christian was recently tled “Legalistics: Dealing with inducted into the New York LLP, has been named a Delaware Super Lawyer by the Copyrights and Insurance,” on County Lawyers’ Association Tuesday, February 27, 2007 in (NYCLA). Catherine is of coun- publication Law and Business Media. William is well regarded Harrisburg, PA. Benjamin is a sel for special projects for the former Board of Directors mem- Sheila S. for his work in complex corpo- New York County District Attor- ber and counsel for the Art Asso- Gallucci-Davis, rate and commercial litigation. ney’s Office, and 55th president ciation of Harrisburg. vice presi- of the Office of the Special Nar- John J. Miravich joined the dent, general cotics Prosecutor. She is the first Exton, PA, firm Fox Rothschild, Martin, Banks, Pond, Lehocky counsel, and African American to be inducted LLP, as partner. He practices in & Wilson attorney Joseph C. Hut- secretary of as NYCLA’s president and the the area of complex litigation, temann has been elected the Subaru of second woman president of the including commercial, antitrust, chairman of the Board of Sereni- America, Inc., association. trademark, copyright, and con- ty House and Hospice Support recently struction. He also concentrates of Doylestown, received the 2007 Women of Jin Park and six other former his practice in municipal law, Inc. Serenity Outstanding Achievement partners of Wilson Elser government affairs, and advising House is a Award honoring women who Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker local governments and school nonprofit, have distinguished themselves LLP have formed a new firm, districts on legal and financial charitably professionally and in service to Littleton Joyce Ughetta & Park issues. John represents clients in funded hos- their community by the Girl LLP.The firm specializes in contract negotiations and advises pice care Scouts of Camden County New complex litigation and will oper- them on litigation avoidance and group. A part- Jersey. ate out of offices in New York insurance coverage issues. ner with the City and Purchase, NY. firm, Joseph SUMMER 2008 • 43 has limited his practice to Penn- 1995 Gregory S. Skibitsky Jr. and his wife, the future of sylvania workers’ compensation Christine, are proud to announce central Penn- White and since 1992. He also recently the birth of their daughter, Taylor sylvania. He is a Williams LLP served as a speaker for the Bucks Elyssa, on March 20, 2007. Taylor shareholder announced County (PA) Bar Association’s joins her big sister, Paige. with CGA Law that Bruce A. seminar entitled “Workers’ Com- Firm in York, Bell has been pensation: Burdens of Proof.” PA, where he is named counsel 1997 a member of to the firm. David Farsiou and his wife, Wendy, the conflict 1993 Bruce is a welcomed their first child, committee and chair of the mar- Daniel E. Cummins, a partner in the member of the Andrew, in August 2006. David is keting committees. Scranton, PA, civil litigation firm of Business Department. He concen- a partner in the intellectual prop- Foley, Cognetti, Comerford, Cimi- trates his practice on mergers and erty firm Woodcock Washburn Dean E. Reynosa ni & Cummins and a columnist on acquisitions, general corporate and LLP in the Philadelphia office. has joined the civil litigation matters for Pennsyl- business law, commercial transac- David has been named a 2006 central Pennsyl- vania Law Weekly was recently tions and agreements, securities Pennsylvania Super Lawyer – Ris- vania, firm awarded, for the second year in a law, and antitrust and tax matters. ing Star by Philadelphia Magazine. Saidis Flower & row, first place in the weekly He focuses his practice on patent Lindsay, a firm L. Todd Kelly opened The Kelly newspapers category of the 28th procurement and client counsel- representing Law Firm, P.C. in Houston, TX, in Annual William A. Schnader Print ing, particularly in the chemical individual and November of 2006. Todd practices Media Awards for his article “Dead arts. business clients. in the areas of medical malprac- or Alive? The Assumption of Risk Dean concentrates his practice in tice, personal injury, plaintiff’s Redner’s Mar- Doctrine in Pennsylvania.” Spon- criminal justice and civil litigation. sored by the Pennsylvania Bar attorney, product liability, and pro- kets has Association and the national law fessional malpractice. announced the Eric B. Smith of High, Swartz, firm of Schnader Harrison, the hiring of Jason Roberts and Seidel LLP, has been Joanna Papazekos was named a B. Hopp as its award recognizes print journalism named a 2006 Pennsylvania Super 2006 Pennsylvania Super Lawyer new vice presi- that fosters greater public under- Lawyer – Rising Star by Philadel- – Rising Star. Joanna is an attor- dent and gener- standing of the legal system. phia Magazine and Law and Politics ney with the Pittsburgh law firm al counsel. Daniel also recently published magazine. Eric’s practice focuses Caroselli Beachler McTiernan & Jason has been an article in The Pennsylvania Law on real estate and commercial liti- Conboy, LLC. She currently a board member since 2006. He Weekly entitled “Time to Unbuck- gation, as well as municipal and focuses her practice in the area of will provide advice and counsel on le the Seat Belt Defense?” In that land use law. social security disability. all legal matters pertaining to article, he wrote that the legisla- Jennifer (Feitelberg) Turk joined the Barbara Rittinger Rigo and her hus- Redner’s Markets and its entities. tive provision barring the seat belt Los Angeles County District band, Stephen, announced the Responsibilities will also include defense in motor vehicle accident Attorney’s Office in July, 2006 birth of their daughter Grace Ann the coordination and supervision matters may no longer comport after four and a half years with the on February 15, 2007. Grace joins of the risk management and secu- with the reality of the safety pro- Los Angeles City Attorney’s big brother Alex and big sister rity/loss preventions departments. vided by seat belt restraint sys- Office. tems. Keira. Barbara is a shareholder in John W. Jones Jr. became partner the Philadelphia office of Littler with the Philadelphia firm Pepper David Zambito joined the law firm James F. Fitzsimmons is currently a Mendelson, PC. of Reger Rizzo Kavulich & Dar- shareholder in the Corporate and Hamilton LLP. John concentrates his practice in corporate and nall as partner for their new office Business Law Department of 1996 in Harrisburg. David practices in Budd Larner, Short Hills, NJ. health care matters. He also coun- Robert J. Bein joined the legal sels health care companies on the fields of utility and state regu- Robert Smith was named a share- department at Select Medical company formation, organization, latory law including rate proceed- holder of the regional defense liti- Corporation on October 10, 2007. governance and risk management ings, compliance, litigation, profes- gation firm Marshall, Dennehey, He will primarily be focused on issues. sional licensure, environmental Warner, Coleman & Goggin. the development of new inpatient permitting, and infrastructure Stephen Metz was named share- Robert is a member of the firm’s hospital facilities. development. Casualty Department and works holder in the Rockville, MD, firm in the firm’s Scranton, PA, office. Michael D. Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy 1998 O’Mara was & Ecker, PA. Michelle (Koontz) Carson has recent- recently named 1994 Thomas J. Moore began his new ly become associated with the law a 2006 Pennsyl- position as trust officer with Mer- firm of Stradley Ronon Stevens & The Pennsylvania Bar Associa- vania Super rill Lynch in November, 2006. Young in Philadelphia, PA. As a tion’s Children’s Rights Commit- Lawyer – Ris- Thomas works with nonprofit member of the firm’s Litigation tee presented its 2006 Child ing Star by organization clients. Practice Group, Michelle focuses Advocate of the Year Award to Philadelphia her practice on insurance coverage attorney Jason P. Kutulakis, who Magazine and Jeffrey L. Rehmeyer II has been matters, banking and lending, con- serves as the solicitor for Dauphin Pennsylvania Super Lawyer Maga- named a Pennsylvania Super struction litigation, commercial lit- County Social Services for Chil- zine. Michael is a partner in the Lawyer – Rising Star. Jeff has also igation, and products liability. dren and Youth. Jason is a partner Litigation Practice Group at the been honored by the Central Penn- Prior to joining Stradley Ronon, in the Carlisle law firm of Abom Philadelphia firm Stradley Ronon sylvania Business Journal as one of Michelle was an insurance & Kutulakis LLP. Stevens & Young. the region’s top, young, dynamic defense litigation associate at business leaders under the age of McKissock & Hoffman, P.C.Also, forty who are working to shape

44 • THE DICKINSON LAWYER Michelle and her husband, William H. Platt II was named a risburg Area Community Col- make it out to Oregon, please Michael Carson ’97, are pleased to shareholder of Flamm Boroff & lege. look us up!” announce the recent addition to Bacine, PC. William is the their family, Henry Matthew supervising shareholder of the Alan W. Flenner, P.E., an associate Craig S. Sharnetzka has been Carson, born on June 12, 2006. firm’s Lehigh Valley office in with High, Swartz, Roberts and named a Pennsylvania Super Henry is Michelle and Michael’s Allentown, PA. He lives in Seidel LLP in Norristown, PA, Lawyer – third son. Allentown with his wife Susan, has been named a 2006 Pennsyl- Rising Star. and daughters Sydney Marilyn vania Super Lawyer – Rising Craig is a Francis N. Ciprero joined the law and Mackenzie Maureen. Star by Philadelphia Magazine. shareholder firm of Martin, Banks, Pond, Alan’s practice focuses on with CGA Lehocky & Wilson on Novem- Brian C. Ralston has become part- municipal, land use, and envi- Law Firm in ber 1, 2006. ner in the Wilmington, DE, firm ronmental law. York, PA, of Potter Anderson & Corroon. where he is a Jennifer (Myron) Donohue was Brian was previously an associ- Shawn Long became a partner member of the elected partner at Arent Fox ate at the firm. He practices in with Barley Snyder, LLC. marketing LLP in Washington, D.C., corporate and commercial litiga- Shawn practices out of the firm’s committee. where she practices intellectual tion. Lancaster, PA, office in the areas property and entertainment law. of creditors’ rights, bankruptcy, Jarrod Tranguch married Bonnie Also, on December 2, 2006, she Rachel (Castillo) Rosser and hus- and litigation. He recently was DaGrosa on September 22, married Mark Donohue in a band, Andrew, welcomed their appointed vice president of the 2007. Groomsmen included barefoot-on-the-beach ceremony third child, Maddox Andrew, on Board of Directors of United classmates Leo J. Leo III ’99, Todd at sunset in the Turks and Halloween 2006. Their daughter Disabilities Services. Shawn E. Brown ’99, and Richard T. Bobbe Caicos Islands. Among the Sophia turned four (4) on Janu- and his wife, Jessica, live in III ’99. Other DSL alumni attend- guests in attendance were Alison ary 12, 2007 and son Kai turned Lititz with their four children, ing were Shelley Centini ’00, Paula (Carpenter) Johansen ’98, Leah two (2) on January 5, 2007. In Kelly, Ryan, Claire, and Grace. Radick ’96 and Kevin Grebas ’02. (Wood) Pilconis ’98, Suzanne Sporri 2006, Rachel was named a Penn- Joshua R. Lorenz of the Pitts- RTI International Metals, Inc., ’98, and Scott Freeland ’89. Mark is sylvania Super Lawyer – Rising burgh, PA, law firm Meyer, announced that it has elected an assistant director at the U.S. Star. She has been an associate Unkovic & Scott LLP, was Chad Whalen as vice president Securities and Exchange Com- with Eckert Seamans since Sep- named in the 2007 Lawyers on the and general counsel. Since 1999, mission in Washington, D.C. tember 2000, concentrating on Fast Track, a magazine that rec- Chad has been a practicing commercial litigation. The York law ognizes the state’s most talented attorney in the Pittsburgh (PA) firm of Stock young lawyers. office of Buchanan Ingersoll & and Leader 1999 Rooney PC, one of the nation’s announced Mark Q. Emick Jr. recently made Donald Lynn and his wife, Amy, largest law firms. are proud to announce the birth that David A. partner at the firm of Cranwell of their son, Cooper Mont- Adam L. Young has accepted a posi- Jones II has & Moore, P.L.C., in Vinton, VA. been named The new firm name became gomery Lynn, who was born on tion as senior counsel with a partner. As Cranwell, Moore & Emick, July 5, 2007. Munich Reinsurance America in P.L.C. Princeton, NJ. a member of Emily Nazarov and husband, Allan, the firm’s Sean Fields and his wife, Anne, announced the birth of their 2000 Municipal, Real Estate and celebrated the birth of twin son, Yazly Robert Nazarov on School Law Practice Groups, boys, Lucas and Noah, on March May 27, 2006. They are current- Jessica Brewbaker was elected David concentrates his practice 26, 2005. Sean is associate coun- ly living in Portland, Oregon. “I magisterial district judge for the in the areas of municipal repre- sel for the Pennsylvania School left private practice to clerk for a Carlisle Borough. sentation, school construction, judge and Allan is working for Boards Association and adjunct Laura (Parke) Carson has been and real estate. Farmer’s Insurance. If you ever professor of business law at Har- appointed to the position of associate general counsel of Centro Watt, a privately held commercial real estate company with over 250 properties encom- passing nearly 49 million square feet of leasable space in thirty- one states. Centro Watt is the ninth largest commercial real estate company in the United States and is based in Plymouth Meeting, PA.

Shanon Carson has been elected shareholder by Berger & Mon- tague, P.C., a national class action law firm based in Philadelphia, PA, where he has practiced since graduating from Dickinson Law School. Shanon founded and is a member of

Myron/Donohue wedding SUMMER 2008 • 45 Berger & Montague, P.C.’s and general corporate matters. William Scott became the new eral Title & Escrow Company in Employment Group, which prose- Prior to joining Eckert Seamans, president of the Pennsylvania Bar Arlington, VA. cutes class actions, collective Ryan served as department coun- Institute’s Board of Directors. actions, and multiple or group sel for the Pennsylvania Insurance William is an attorney in Carbon Jonathan K. Moore has joined the plaintiff litigation on behalf of Department. County (PA), who joined the firm Philadelphia, PA, law firm Pelino employees across the United of Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, & Lentz, P.C. Jonathan works in States whose rights have been vio- Christopher Conrad and his wife, Coleman & Goggin in 1996. He the firm’s Business Group, which lated by their employers. Jennifer, are proud to announce heads the Workers’ Compensation encompasses a number of practice the birth of their son, Andrew Department for the firm’s Bethle- areas, including health care, tax, Amy J. Phillips, a senior associate Michael, who was born on May hem, PA, office. bankruptcy, real estate, pension with Hoffmeyer & Semmelman, 11, 2007. Christopher, Jennifer, and benefits and business law. LLP, has been selected as a 2006 Lindsay, their daugther, and Andrew C. Spears joined the York, Pennsylvania Rising Star. Andrew live in Mechanicsburg, PA, firm Stock and Leader. Richard Younts and his wife, Eliza- PA. Christopher is an associate Andrew practices civil litigation. beth, recently announced the Rachel Robbins with Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, He was previously associated with birth of their daughter, Felicity was named a Coleman & Goggin, Harrisburg, Wolpoff & Abramson, LLP, where Emmalene Younts, born on April 2006 Pennsyl- PA, and is a member of the firm’s he handled creditors’ rights and 25, 2007. Richard is currently a vania Rising Professional Liability Practice collection work. Additionally, captain for the U.S. Air Force JAG Star by Law & Group. Andrew handled insurance Core. Politics. Also, defense, family law, and personal- Rachel and her Nikolaus & Hohenadel LLP has ly injury cases at Metzger, Wicker- Robert S. Cronin Jr. as an asso- husband, hired sham, Knauss & Erb, P.C. Jonathan Moore ciate attorney. Robert previously ’02, welcomed son Logan Robert worked at Dell Homsher of Lan- Mischelle Van Brakle accepted a on October 14, 2006. He joined caster, PA. He practices family law congressional fellow position from big sister Lexi. Rachel was recent- and civil litigation. the American Sociological Associa- ly named a member of the law tion (ASA) to work on criminal Carolyn J. Flannery joined Mannion firm Cozen O’Connor. Jonathan justice issues on the staff of the 2003 has recently joined the law firm Prior, LLP, a fiduciary litigation Senate Judiciary Committee. Mis- Pelino & Lentz, P.C. as an attor- firm in King of Prussia, PA, as an chelle is also currently a graduate Gwenn (McCollum) Cujdik and hus- ney practicing in its Business and associate in March 2007. From student at the University of Mary- band, Richard welcomed daughter Real Estate departments. The October 2003 to March 2007, she land, pursing a doctorate degree in Layla Grace on January 26, 2007. family lives in Huntingdon Valley, was an assistant district attorney Criminology and Criminal Justice. Gwenn is currently an assistant PA. in Montgomery County (PA), (See feature on page 20.) district attorney in Philadelphia, assigned to the Major Crimes Unit PA, and was recently promoted to William E. Vinsko Jr., managing and the Narcotics Unit. Following Michelle (Monk) Vereckey and hus- the Family Violence and Sexual principal of Vinsko & Associates, graduation, Carolyn served a two- band, Michael, announced the Assault Major Trial Unit. She spe- has also been named vice presi- year clerkship for the Honorable birth of their baby boy Blaze cializes in child abuse and sexual dent and general counsel for Key- Maureen Lally-Green, judge of Vereckey. Michelle continues to assault. stone Professional Pharmacy, a the Superior Court of Pennsylvania. maintain her own real estate law national pharmaceutical distribu- Carolyn’s father, Richard E. Flan- practice just outside of Charlotte, tion company based in Wilkes- nery, and uncle, John W. Flannery, NC. Barre, PA, and Wilmington, DE. graduated from the Law School in 1967 and are principals in the 2002 John W. Weiss has joined Green- New Castle, PA, firm of Balph, berg Traurig LLP as a shareholder Zachary R. Gates, an associate in the Nicolls, Mitsos, Flannery & Clark, Brattleboro, VT, office of Downs in the Business Reorganization P.C. and Bankruptcy Practice. John Rachlin Martin PLLC, has been will focus on representing debtors, The American Board of Certifica- admitted to official and unofficial committees, tion announced that Kara K. (Mess- practice before secured creditors, unsecured cred- ner) Gendron, an attorney with the the U.S. Patent itors, lessors and lessees of both Harrisburg Law Office of Dorothy and Trademark real and personal property, and L. Mott, completed the require- Office. A mem- other parties in interest in bank- ments for national certification in ber of the ruptcy proceedings. He will be consumer bankruptcy law. firm’s Litiga- Nicole W. Lobaugh joined the firm located in the firm’s New York tion Group Dickie, Mcamey & Chilcote, P.C. office. In October 2005, Chris Scalia since 2005, as an associate in their Pittsburgh, accepted a position as an in-house Zachary focus- PA, office. 2001 attorney with The Hershey Com- es on intellectual property litiga- pany, formerly Hershey Foods tion, environmental and toxic tort James Nelson is now with the Fed- Ryan Caboot recently joined the Corporation. Chris has responsibil- litigation, and insurance coverage eral Bureau of Investigation. He is Harrisburg, PA, law firm of Eckert ity for the labor and employment litigation. stationed in the Philadelphia Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC, matters impacting Hershey’s glob- Division’s Harrisburg Resident as an associate in the Insurance al manufacturing network. Chris Jaclyn (Smith) Kurz married Major Agency. Coverage and Business Compli- joined Hershey after four years as Karl R. Kurz on October 9, 2005 at ance Practice Group. He concen- an associate at Morgan, Lewis & the U.S. Army War College, 2004 trates his practice in the areas of Bockius LLP. Carlisle, PA. She is now working T. Matthew Creech joined Smith insurance regulatory compliance as a settlement attorney with Fed- Moore, LLP as an associate.

46 • THE DICKINSON LAWYER Matthew will serve as a member Josiah R. Wolcott has joined the Law Hilary Mack has accepted a posi- DSL ALUMS VOLUNTEER TIME of the firm’s Litigation Practice Offices of Connolly Bove Lodge tion as assistant prosecutor to TO EDUCATE 6th GRADERS Group in its Greensboro, NC, & Hutz LLP, as an associate. Luzerne County (PA) District ABOUT THE OUTDOORS office. Attorney David W. Lupas. Jennifer Young completed an MSc Since 1994 when his daughter Michael Joseph Heaton is now at the London School of Eco- Seth T. Mose- was a sixth grader, R. Burke serving as legislative director for nomics and Political Science in bey has joined McLemore ’77 has been helping to Congressman Michael R. Turner London, England, and was one Martson educate 6th grade students in (OH-3). of two recipients of the inaugural Deardorff the Camp Hill School District Timothy J. Hauser Presidential Williams Otto (PA) about the great outdoors. Martin, Banks, Pond, Lehocky & Management Fellowship at the Gilroy & But, Burke and his wife, Barbara Wilson has expanded its workers’ U.S. Department of Commerce’s Faller as an ’78, are just two of six Dickinson compensation practice with the International Trade Administra- associate. He alums who spent a few days last addition of Amit J. Shah as an tion. In that capacity, Jennifer focuses his summer teaching students about associate. Prior to joining the helped lead the largest trade del- practice in civil litigation and the environment and the role firm, Amit was an associate with a egation in the Department of transactional matters. that they play in it. When the boutique defense firm, handling Commerce’s history to India last McLemores arrived, they were workers’ compensation defense fall, where she counseled Indian J. Grant pleasantly surprised to discover litigation in Pennsylvania. Amit Moubry has businesses, government officials, fellow alumni Jeff Boswell ’77, joins the firm to work exclusively joined the and the press in Mumbai and Randy Gale ’77, Dick McCoy ’76, and on protecting the rights of law firm of Chennai on U.S.-India trade rela- Mollie McCurdy ’79 were also vol- injured workers in Pennsylvania. tions. Most recently, Jennifer Armstrong unteering with the outdoor edu- accepted an offer to join the Teasdale cation program. 2005 Office of Intellectual Property LLP as an The intense three-day, two- associate. Jennifer L. Denchak married Brian Rights at the U.S. Department of night adventure is part of a year- M. Wetzel (PSU ’02) on June 9, Commerce in Washington, D.C., Grant is a long educational program that 2007. Jennifer is an associate at where she focuses on intellectual member of the firm’s Intellectual exposes students to hands-on the Harrisburg law firm of Mette, property and trade policy matters Property Practice Group. He learning activities at Camp Evans & Woodside, PC. She and in China and Northeast Asia. focuses his practice primarily on Canadenis, a thousand-acre plot Brian reside in Liverpool, PA. patent prosecution matters. Prior to of woodland in the Pocono 2006 joining the firm, Grant served in Mountains of Pennsylvania. Ariel (Caris) Lager is currently the U.S. Air Force for five years The entire experience serves practicing energy law with the Jamie Anzalone married Mary as an aerospace engineer. Anne David on Saturday, Octo- as a bonding exercise for the Philadelphia-based consulting kids, many of whom are shy or group, Customized Energy Solu- ber 7, 2006, at St. Casimir’s The American Arbitration Associ- Church in Baltimore, MD. ation (AAA), the world’s leading not as socially advanced as their tions. Ariel and her husband, peers,” McLemore explained. Alex, welcomed their first child, provider of conflict management Lindi Barton-Brobst recently joined “I’ve been doing it for thirteen Aviva Grace Lager, on April 9, 2007. and dispute resolution services, Auntie Anne’s, Inc. as a staff recently announced the appoint- years now, and it’s one of the Mike Reynold was recently attorney in their legal depart- ment of Sandra Partridge to the most worthwhile actives in which appointed to be the executive ment. She will focus on contract position of vice president, busi- I have been engaged,” he said. director of McDonnell for Vir- and international franchise law. ness development for the AAA’s ginia, the Political Action Com- New York regional office. Sandra Melissa Bitting is currently an in- mittee for Virginia Attorney Gen- house patent attorney for PPC, a has over twenty-five years of eral Bob McDonnell. Mike lives Division of John Mezzalingua experience in retailing, including with his wife in Richmond, VA. Associates, Inc. in Syracuse, NY. executive positions and consult- ing. Harrisburg Area Community Col- Kristin (Greene) Bryant has accept- lege elected Nailah I. Rogers to its ed an offer from the Office of the board. She is an associate with Commonwealth’s Attorney for the Business Department of Saul the City of Fredericksburg in IN MEMORIAM Ewing. Virginia. Beginning in August, John R. Miller Jr. Tara L. Trees married Mitchell E. she will be one of their new Morrill on September 2, 2006. assistant commonwealth attorneys. John Hannum Wedding guests included Jennifer Jason Buhi recently departed for Harold Garber ’67 Russell ’05, Elizabeth Scoblick ’05, Hong Kong and Macau as a Erin Cearfoss ’05, Neely Glass ’05, Rotary International Ambassado- Christine Margaret McDermott Kristen Baun ’05, Lauren Sassani ’05 rial Scholar sponsored by the Elizabeth Saylor ’05 William B. LeCates ’71 and . Tara Rotary Club of Carroll Creek. works for the PA Department of Jason will conduct comparative Revenue specializing in tax law. legal research and earn an LL.M. She also works as a realtor for degree from the University of Lawyers Realty, LLC. Tara and Hong Kong. Mitch welcomed their first child (a girl) in May 2006.

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