VOLUME 50 | FALL 2010–WINTER 2011 L­awyer Year in review

Justice Clarence Thomas and eight other high court jurists participate in Stetson programs in 2009–2010

BP Oil Spill Analysis | Changing Face of Trial Advocacy | Alumni Entrepreneurs | Hand Library Dedication FROM DeanTHE

2010: A year of remarkable achievement

Greetings!

The year 2010 marked Stetson’s 110th anniversary as Florida’s first law school. As significant as that milestone is, I also would like to share several other noteworthy achievements with you. Dolly & Homer Hand Law Library: In October, we celebrated the naming of our magnificent library in Gulfport after two special members of the Stetson family: Dolly and Homer Hand. A 1949 graduate of the College of Law, Dolly and her husband Homer have created a tremendous legacy through their integrity, passion for higher education, support of students, and love of Stetson. The library continues to serve as the academic heart of the law school, and I can think of no finer name to adorn this building that represents the College of Law’s stature as Florida’s first law school and its long tradition of academic excellence. Justice Clarence Thomas Visit: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas visited Stetson for two days last February as Stetson’s Distinguished Jurist in Residence. He spoke to hundreds of Stetson law and undergraduate students, and I’m pleased to announce that he plans to visit us again in the next academic year. New College Relations Team: Several new and old faces have joined our Office of College Relations, including four Stetson alumni. Ed Kominowski, who most recently served as director of development and major gifts at Edison State College, is the new associate vice president. He is joined by Robin Hoyle JD ’91, Casey Stoutamire JD ’09 and Michael Stewart JD ’09. Stephanie Vaughan JD ’91 also now serves as my special assistant for alumni and development, in addition to her teaching responsibilities. We hope that many of you will support us by volunteering in one of the new alumni chapters, attending a regional event, making a gift, or including the College of Law in your estate plan. One Stetson: In March, Stetson officially inaugurated Dr. Wendy B. Libby during the University’s 2010 Homecoming celebration at the DeLand campus. Many faculty, staff, students and alumni from the law school attended the event. Under President Libby’s leadership, we are continuing to strengthen our connections and find synergies with other divisions of Stetson University, including a new Pre-Law Institute program and other interdisciplinary activities. This issue of the Stetson Lawyer features many other stories of success and innovation throughout our community. I am so proud of our many accomplishments over the past year, which could not have happened without the hard work and support of our dedicated faculty, students, staff, alumni and friends. Thanks for all you do for Stetson!

Darby Dickerson Vice President and Dean ContentsTABLE OF

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Features

L­awyer Supreme Speakers 15 Murky Waters: BP Oil Spill Litigation 18 Dolly & Homer Hand Law Library 22 From Law to Business 25 The Changing Face of Trial Advocacy 28 Meet the 2010 Hall of Fame Inductees 32

Departments

From the Dean Inside front cover Year in Review 2 Faculty Forum 7 College Relations 31 Alumni News 34 Donor Report 40

Stetson University College of Law

Wendy B. Libby, Stetson University President Darby Dickerson, Vice President and Dean Kristen David Adams, Associate Dean for Academics John F. Cooper, Associate Dean for International Programs James W. Fox Jr., Associate Dean for Faculty Development Michael A. Farley, Assistant Dean for Student Life

Frank P. Klim, Executive Director of Communications Davina Y. Gould, Director of Publications and Online Communications

Contributors/Photographers: Trudy Futch, Matt May, Jeff Gage, Robin Hoyle JD ’91, Brandi Palmer, C.J. Sagorski, Chris Stickney, Casey Stoutamire JD ’09, Shannon Tan, Patricia Toups BBA ’09, Brian Vandervliet, Brenda Wayne, Leslie Weaver, Lisa Yetter

The Stetson Lawyer is published annually by the Offices of Communications and College Relations for alumni and friends of Stetson University College of Law. Founded in 1900 as Florida’s first law school, Stetson Law is located in the Gulfport/St. Petersburg area with a satellite campus in downtown Tampa. Stetson University’s historic campus, founded in 1883 in DeLand, is home to the College of Arts and Sciences, School of Business Administration and School of Music, and has a satellite center in Celebration offering advanced degrees.

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Stetson University’s ninth four locations: the historic president, Dr. Wendy B. Libby, was campus in DeLand, the inaugurated March 20, 2010, in a law campus in Gulfport/ ceremony marked by the colorful St. Petersburg, the Tampa traditions of academia and the Law Center, and the promise of a bright future for Stetson Stetson University Center as “a university of significance.” at Celebration in the In her inaugural address, Libby metropolitan Orlando area. celebrated Stetson’s 126-year-old “I challenge and invite commitment to integrating the each of you to join me in pursuit of education and truth with embracing this vision for the search for meaning in one’s Stetson University that is Around 170 faculty and delegates processed through personal faith quest and spiritual enriched and informed by downtown DeLand from the university gates to the life. She vowed that Stetson would history and tradition, but Edmunds Center, site of the inauguration ceremony. not rest on its laurels in challenging requires our courage and times, but would embrace a broad determination to always members of the community lined the vision to assure the university seek the higher good, the deeper roadway, some with congratulatory emerges stronger and well-positioned commitment, the brighter future — banners. for the future. to be a university of significance,” Libby became Stetson’s ninth Libby issued a challenge to a she said. president in July 2009, succeeding “greater purpose” to the hundreds of Inauguration morning started Dr. H. Douglas Lee, who has alumni, students, faculty, staff and with a procession of about since passed away. Libby has had supporters at the inauguration in the 130 Stetson faculty members, a broad career in higher education university’s Edmunds Center. Faculty administrators and trustees, and and private industry, most recently represented each of the university’s about 40 delegates representing serving as president of Stephens colleges and schools — the College colleges and universities across the College in Columbia, Mo., from of Arts and Sciences, the School United States, led by a bagpiper, 2003 to 2009. A native of Brooklyn, of Business Administration, the from Stetson’s main gates north N.Y., she earned her doctorate in College of Law, and the School of on Woodland Boulevard to the educational administration from the Music — and each of the university’s Edmunds Center. Students and University of Connecticut.

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Stetson ranked first for advocacy (again), third for legal writing

U.S. News & World Report has communicate well both orally and honor celebrates Stetson’s deep again ranked Stetson University in writing are almost always at the commitment to academic excellence College of Law first in the top of the list,” said law dean Darby and integrity. The university nation among law schools for its Dickerson. “This is one reason I am community takes great pride in the outstanding trial advocacy program proud that Stetson emphasizes skills personalized and rigorous learning for 2011. U.S. News also ranked training and has been recognized for experience afforded to each and every Stetson Law third out of 200 law excellence in that area.” student.” schools for legal writing. In August, the publication also The U.S. News rankings are based Stetson has consistently ranked ranked Stetson University third on several measures, including peer at the top for its trial advocacy among the South’s top regional assessment, graduation and retention program since the publication’s universities for academic quality in rates, faculty resources, student rankings began in 1995. Since the its 2011 “America’s Best Colleges” selectivity, financial resources and legal writing ranking started, Stetson issue. alumni giving. has always placed among the top six “We are proud of Stetson Stetson was featured in two other programs in the country. University’s continued recognition sections of the 2011 “America’s Best “When you ask attorneys what as one of the top three universities in Colleges” guide — in the “Great they value in law graduates — and the South,” said Dr. Elizabeth “Beth” Schools, Great Prices” and the what skills attorneys need to serve Paul, provost and vice president for “A-Plus Schools for B Students” clients effectively — the ability to academic affairs at Stetson. “This sections.

Colbert ascends to ABA House of Community honors Dean Dickerson Darby Dickerson, vice president and dean, received two Delegates community recognitions last spring: the 2010 Business Woman of the Year from the St. Petersburg Area Chamber of At the annual Commerce, and the 2009 Chief Judge’s Award from Florida’s American Bar 13th Judicial Circuit. Dean Dickerson was selected in March as Business Association meeting Woman of the Year for demonstrating outstanding in San Francisco professional accomplishments in either the private or public sector, and this August, student serving as role models and mentors for younger women. A panel of Tiffany Colbert community leaders chose the finalists. was elected to serve as ABA Law Chief Judge Manuel Menendez Jr. of Florida’s 13th Judicial Circuit Student Division Delegate for presented Dean Dickerson with the Chief Judge’s Award in January. She 2010–2011. received the award for her outstanding efforts and commitment to the court, “I am thrilled and honored to and in recognition of Stetson Law’s contribution to the legal community. continue Stetson’s long-standing “I was extremely honored to receive this award,” said Dean Dickerson. “We are proud to partner with the court on a variety of projects that serve the tradition of national leadership in legal profession and improve our community.” the American Bar Association Law Under Dean Dickerson’s leadership, Stetson Law has increased nationally Student Division,” said Colbert. recognized academic offerings and student diversity, expanded student As a delegate, Colbert is one of community service and pro bono work, and opened Stetson’s Tampa Law three law students representing the Center. interests of approximately 40,000 Dean Dickerson has served the greater Tampa Bay community in law student members to the ABA’s countless ways. She is a board member and past chair of the Tampa Bay governing body. chapter of the American Red Cross and has served on the boards of both Colbert was elected 5th circuit the Tampa Chamber of Commerce and the St. Petersburg Area Chamber of Commerce. She was also recently elected vice president of Scribes — The governor of the ABA Law Student American Society for Legal Writers, appointed to the American Association Division, which represents Ala- of Law Schools’ prestigious Membership Review Committee, and named co- bama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, chair elect for the AALS Section for the Law School Dean. Puerto Rico and Tennessee.

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Princeton Review, preLaw magazine recognize “green” efforts

The latest issue of preLaw cooperation with the Ramsar Rinker Environmental Learning magazine listed Stetson University Secretariat, assisting the Center, which features a rainwater College of Law among the top international group collection system, recycled metal “green” law schools in the nation. that works to protect roofing and a geothermal heating The magazine used information wetlands. Two system, received LEED’s gold about curriculum, campus recent Stetson Law certification, in December. environment and building trends to graduates worked The guide touted develop its Honor Roll highlighting with the National Stetson’s Environmental the “best and brightest.” PreLaw also Audubon Society Responsibility Council and considered “green” academic offerings on the application six-point plan to achieving including faculty, classes, externships, for the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary the council’s mission “to function legal journals and summer programs. in Naples, Fla., to be designated as a as a university in ways that will “This is a wonderful affirmation Wetland of International Importance not compromise the lives of future of the great work that Stetson last October. human generations nor diminish students, faculty and staff are Stetson University was also the health of planetary ecosystems.” engaged in, from the local to the recognized in The Princeton Review’s It highlighted the university’s global level,” said Professor Royal Guide to 286 Green Colleges in April. commitment to environmental Gardner, who directs Stetson’s The guide, based on a survey of education, environmentally Institute for Biodiversity Law and hundreds of colleges nationwide, responsible purchasing, efficient Policy. looked at institutional commitments use and conservation of resources, In February 2010, Stetson to building certification using the minimization of solid waste and became the first law school in the U.S. Green Building Council’s hazardous materials, and promotion world to sign a memorandum of LEED green-building certification of a green campus design that program, environmental includes a native Florida landscaping literacy programs, formal policy. sustainability committees, “By landscaping exclusively use of renewable energy with native plants, Stetson not only resources, recycling and reinforces its natural heritage, but conservation programs, it cuts down on its use of fertilizers and more. and pesticides, since indigenous Stetson, one of six plants require less maintenance when Florida universities compared to traditional landscaping named to the list, had the plants,” the guide said. first LEED-certified green The Princeton Review released the In February, Stetson became the first law school in building in Florida, the guidebook in partnership with the the world to sign a memorandum of cooperation with the Ramsar Secretariat, assisting the Lynn Business Center. U.S. Green Building Council. international group that works to protect wetlands. The university’s new

This fall, Stetson and universities in seven 70 part-time entering JD Meet the admitted 360 full-time and countries. Forty-four students had a median part-time JD students, 17 students had earned LSAT of 154 and a median LLM in Elder Law students, advanced degrees, GPA of 3.26. Stetson’s 2010 and 17 LLM in International including LLM, MA, MAcc, median LSAT scores have Law students. MBA, MD, MEd, MFA, MHS, steadily increased a point Just over half (51%) of MLaw, MS and PhD. The annually since 2001. Entering the entering JD class was ages range from 19–57. For more information female and 20% were The 290 full-time about the demographics Class minority students. These entering JD students had of the student body, visit students represented 29 a median LSAT of 156 and www.law.stetson.edu/ states and 120 colleges median GPA of 3.44. The profile.

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COMMENCEMENT CEREMONIES Stetson Law commencement ceremonies have featured three noted legal speakers: Florida Supreme Court Justice James E.C. Perry in Fall 2009, legal writing expert Bryan A. Garner in Spring 2010, and journalist and civil rights advocate John Seigenthaler Sr. in Fall 2010. Garner serves as editor in chief of Black’s Law Dictionary and has authored many leading works on legal style, including A Dictionary of Through a creative challenge to the law faculty, the Fall 2009 class raised $70,266; half of the funds were pledged by students and half Modern Legal Usage, The Elements of by Stetson professors. Legal Style, The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style, The Winning Brief, and The Winning Oral Argument. Number of Graduates Fall 2009 Spring 2010 Fall 2010 His latest books are Making Your Juris Doctor 72 265 81 Case: The Art of Persuading Judges, Part-time program 9 25 22 co-written with U.S. Supreme Court J.D./M.B.A. 11 23 5 Justice Antonin Scalia, and Garner LL.M. in Elder Law 8 7 7 on Language and Writing. LL.M. in International Law 3 13 1 Justice Perry is only the fourth Total Graduates 83 285 89 African-American justice to serve on Florida’s high court. In 2000, he was the first African-American Vanderbilt University, was the honorary degree in Fall 2010. judge appointed to Florida’s 18th founding editorial director of USA Inclement weather led to the Judicial Circuit. As founder of the Today and long-time editor of The relocation of the Fall 2010 ceremony Jackie Robinson Sports Association, Tennessean. His civil rights work led to Pasadena Community Church. Justice Perry built the nation’s largest to his service as chief negotiator with In Spring 2010, Professor Royal baseball league for at-risk youth. the governor of Alabama during the Gardner safely wrangled a black racer Seigenthaler, who founded Freedom Rides. Freedom Rider Ernest snake that ran through the faculty the First Amendment Center at “Rip” Patton Jr. also was awarded an tent during the ceremony. Fall 2010–Winter 2011 5 YEAR IN Review

New semester-exchange programs in Nuevo Leon, Toulouse

Stetson has established formal and two faculty agreements with universities in members for one Nuevo Leon, Mexico, and Toulouse, or two semesters. France, to broaden international Nuevo Leon opportunities for students and University law school faculty. was established in On Aug. 24, Dean Darby 1933. Dickerson and Don Jose Luis Stetson has Prado Maillard, dean of University also arranged for a of Nuevo Leon Law School in semester-exchange Monterrey, Mexico, signed a student program with Representatives of both schools look on as Darby Dickerson and faculty exchange agreement. the law school and Don Jose Luis Prado Maillard prepare to sign an The agreement will bring the two at University of international exchange agreement. schools together for joint research in Toulouse, France, oral advocacy, national security law which will take and criminology, and for the creation effect in Fall 2011. Students in Stetson continues to offer a of joint certificates of Legal Spanish the Toulouse program will be able foreign-exchange program with the and Legal English. The exchange to take courses in English while University of Granada, Spain, where program begins immediately and experiencing the culture of southwest select students may also pursue the calls for the exchange of two students France. J.D./Grado dual-degree.

CHAMPIONS IN ADVOCACY 2010 champion, ABA National Trial Competition 2009 and 2010 champions, 2010 best brief and 2010 best oralist, Earl Zehmer Workers’ Compensation Moot Court Competition 2010 champion, Legal Ethics and Professionalism Moot Court Competition 2010 champion, best brief and best oralist, Robert Orseck Memorial Moot Court Competition 2009 and 2010 regional dual-champions, ABA Law Student Division Arbitration Competition 2009 champion and best advocate, National Civil Trial Competition 2009 and 2010 champions, 2009 and 2010 best oralist, and 2009 best respondent’s brief, Veterans Law Appellate Advocacy Competition 2009 champion, John Marshall Law School International Moot Court Competition in Information Technology and Privacy 2009 champion and 2010 best brief, Navy JAG Corps National Moot Court Competition 2009 champion, AAJ National Student Trial Advocacy Competition

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2009–10 faculty publications, presentations, awards and activities

Kristen David Adams Linda S. Anderson the Charleston Law Review’s “Law Associate Dean for Academics Associate Professor of Legal Skills and & Society Symposium on Crime Professor of Law Associate Director of Legal Research and Punishment.” Professor Batey Dean Adams co-authored the and Writing served on the executive committee book Global Issues in Commercial Professor Anderson spoke of the Criminal Justice Section of Law. She served as moderator on “Crowd Pleasers: How to the Association of American Law on a panel for the business law Propose, Submit, and Deliver Schools. section meeting of the American Stellar Presentations” at the Bar Association, and served as Legal Writing Institute Biennial Mark D. Bauer vice chair for the ABA’s Uniform Conference; “Redefining Parent” Professor of Law Commercial Code Committee. She at the International Society of Professor Bauer published served as a member of the American Family Law/Midwest Family Law “Department Stores on Sale: Law Institute’s consultative groups Consortium and at the Florida Legal An Antitrust Quandary” in on the Principles of the Law of Scholars Forum; and “Increasing Georgia State University Law Software Contracts, the Restatement Learning by Decreasing Teaching: Review, and presented on the (Third) of the Law of Restitution Developing a Three-Dimensional topic at the Association for Law, and Unjust Enrichment, and for Legal Education” at the Association Property and Society annual the Restatement (Third) of the of American Law Schools. Professor meeting. He presented “A Global United States Law of International Anderson serves as secretary of Response to the Financial Crisis” Commercial Arbitration. Dean the Part-Time Division Programs at the Teaching Consumer Law Adams is also a member of the Section of the Association of conference at the University of Call for Papers committee for the American Law Schools and is Houston, and organized and Southeastern Association of Law a member of the Legal Writing moderated a panel, “Five Years After Schools. Institute Professional Development Katrina: Access to Education,” Committee and the LWI ABA at the American Association of Michael P. Allen Standards Implementation Law Schools annual conference. Professor of Law Committee. Professor Bauer delivered the Professor Allen published “The keynote speech “Renewing Our Law of Veterans’ Benefits 2008- Robert Batey Commitment to Seniors” at 2010: Significant Developments, Professor of Law the Nevada Attorney General’s Trends, and a Glimpse into the Professor Batey published Conference on Senior Protection. Future” in the Veterans Law Review. “Moll Flanders: A (Cautionary) He served on the executive He served on a panel discussing the Handbook of Criminal Advocacy” committee of the Education Law U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans in Charleston Law Review; Section of the Association of Claims at the Judicial Conference “Introduction to Symposium on American Law Schools. He also of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Criminal Defense, Ethics, and the served on the mentor committee, Federal Circuit, and he presented Client Who Plans to Lie” in the the programming committee and his paper on veterans benefits to Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law; the steering committee for the the Judicial Conference of the U.S. “Introduction to Law Literature and Southeastern Association of Law Court of Appeals for Veterans Film Symposium” in the Stetson Schools, and is on the advisory Claims. Professor Allen also served Law Review; and “Reflections board for the Loyola University of as keynote speaker at a celebration on the Needle: Poe, Baze, Dead Chicago Consumer Law Review. marking the 20th anniversary of the Man Walking” in the Valparaiso first convening of the U.S. Court University Law Review. He was Robert D. Bickel of Appeals for Veterans Claims. a panelist for a program on “The Professor of Law Professor Allen is the immediate Future of Sentencing, Corrections Professor Bickel completed past chair of the American and Crime Reduction in Florida: A development of an oral history Association of Law Schools Section Conversation Between Journalists website that contains two on Remedies and was a trustee for and Policy Makers” sponsored by documentary films and seven the Southeastern Association of Law the Poynter Institute, the John Jay selected video histories related to his Schools. College of Criminal Justice, and the experiential course on Civil Rights Pew Center on the States, and for History. The site will be made Fall 2010–Winter 2011 7 FACULTY Forum

available to law schools nationwide quire Congress to Explicitly Indicate Darby Dickerson to allow students to watch first an Intent to Exempt Records from Vice President, Dean and person-accounts of historical events. FOIA in New Legislation” in the Professor of Law Quinnipiac Law Review. She co- Dean Dickerson published the Joan Catherine Bohl presented “Paradigm Shift: Ef- 4th edition of ALWD Citation Professor of Legal Skills fectively Transitioning Students Manual: A Professional Citation Professor Bohl co-authored Between Professors During the System. She also published “Signed Children and the Law: The Compet- First-Year Writing Curriculum, or and Release? Using Waivers and ing Rights, Privileges and Interests of Let’s Talk about Switching it Up” Releases as Risk-Management Children, Parents, and the State. with Professors Lance Long and Ja- Tools” in Campus Activities son Palmer at the Rocky Mountain Programming; “Law and Campus Paul Boudreaux Legal Writing Conference. Violence,” a chapter in the book Professor of Law Violence Goes to Campus; and Professor Boudreaux published John F. Cooper the co-authored paper “From “Time Machine: Emma’s Legal Associate Dean for International Competition to Collaboration: Education, 2025” in the Journal Programs and Professor of Law College Alcohol Prevention in an of Legal Education. Professor Dean Cooper served as chair- Era of Competing Risks” in the Boudreaux gave a talk on lessons elect for the Committee of Interna- U.S. Department of Education to be learned from wildlife and tional Legal Exchange of the Asso- publication Catalyst. Dean wetlands law at the DELTAS2010 ciation of American Law Schools. Dickerson presented “Revisiting Conference at the Embassy of Student-at-Risk Response Teams” at the Royal Netherlands. He also Kirsten K. Davis Tufts University, “Professionalism presented on land use law and Associate Professor of Law and Legal Writing” as part of a immigration, which is a chapter of Director of Legal Research and Scribes presentation at Chicago- his forthcoming book. Writing Kent College of Law, and “Bullies Professor Davis published on Campus” and “Risks in the Brooke J. Bowman ’02 “Extending the Vision: An Admissions Process” at the National Professor of Legal Skills Empowerment Identity Approach Conference on Law and Higher Professor Bowman co-authored to Work-Family Regulation as Education. She also co-presented a The ALWD Companion: A Citation Applied to School Involvement national webinar, “Cyberbullying Practice Book and the accompanying Leave Statutes” in the William and on Campus” for the American teacher’s manual. She moderated Mary Journal of Women and the Association of Fraternity/Sorority panels on “Program Design” and Law. She served as a panelist on Advisors. Dean Dickerson received “Crowd Pleasers: How to Propose, “Redefining Superwoman” at the the Business Woman of the Year Submit, and Deliver Stellar Motherhood Conference at the Award by the St. Petersburg Presentations” at Legal Writing University of Denver, and “Reflect, Chamber of Commerce and the Institute conferences, presented “The Reconnect, Re-Energize ­— Retreat! Chief Judge’s Award from the 13th Judicial Footnote” at the ALWD How A Program Retreat Can Move Judicial Circuit. Dean Dickerson Scholars’ Forum, and co-presented You Forward” at the Legal Writing was re-elected to the executive “Team Teaching: A Combination Institute Biennial Conference. committee of the Part-Time of Good Parenting and Good Cop/ Professor Davis serves on the board Division Programs Section and Bad Cop?” at the Southeastern of directors of the Association elected to the executive committee Regional Legal Writing Conference. of Legal Writing Directors, the of the Section for the Law School Professor Bowman served as chair of editorial board of Legal Writing: The Dean for the Association of the archives committee for the Legal Journal of the Legal Writing Institute, American Law Schools. She also Writing Institute and is Assistant and the panel planning committee serves on the Members Consultative Editor in Chief of Legal Writing: The for the AALS Section on Women in Group for the Restatement (Third) Journal of the Legal Writing Institute. Legal Education. Torts: Economic Torts and Related Wrongs of the American Law Catherine J. Cameron Cynthia H. DeBose Institute, is on the editorial board of Professor of Legal Skills Professor of Law the Journal of College and University Professor Cameron published Professor DeBose co-authored Law, and has been selected to serve “Fixing FOIA: Pushing Congress to Mastering Property, which is being on the AALS Membership Review Amend FOIA Section b(3) to Re- published in 2010. Committee.

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Kelly M. Feeley ’95 Attorney: Not Just an Advocate” in Mitigation Sites” in the National Associate Professor of Legal Skills the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Wetlands Newsletter, which was Professor Feeley presented “The Law. She and Professor Judith selected as the publication’s best Pedagogy of Interviewing and Scully founded and now supervise work in the last year and republished Counseling II” at a conference the Innocence Initiative at Stetson, in the Environmental Forum. sponsored by UCLA and Brigham which reviews facts in cases where He also co-authored “Official Young University. She co-presented individuals claim to be innocent of Development Assistance: Toward “Negotiating and Mediating in the crimes for which they have been Funding for Sustainability” in a Global Community” at the convicted. She is co-chair of the Agenda for a Sustainable America, Global Legal Skills conference at Professionalism subcommittee of and delivered multiple presentations Georgetown University in June. the ABA Litigation Section’s Ethics at the Beijing Wetland Legislation Committee. International Workshop in China. Michael S. Finch He presented “The Ramsar Professor of Law James W. Fox Jr. Convention: Wetlands in a Global Professor Finch published Professor of Law Context” at Louisiana State “Choice of Law and Enforcement of Associate Dean for Faculty University; “Climate Change: Judgments,” a chapter in Overview Development Post-Kyoto Challenges” at Stetson of U.S. Law. Professor Finch also Dean Fox published “Fourteenth University’s DeLand campus; and serves as editor of the law section Amendment Citizenship and the “A Brief History of No Net Loss of the Association for the Scientific Reconstruction-Era Black Public of Wetlands: Origins, Challenges, Advancement of Psychological Sphere” in the Akron Law Review. and Opportunities” at the Ramsar Injury and Law. He was lead counsel He was a moderator and panelist Scientific and Technical Review in a recent appellate case, Rotell v. on “Forming Contracts and Similar Panel Mid-Term Workshop in Kuehnle, in which the children’s Relationships” at the International Gland, Switzerland. He was an guardian alleges that the treating Conference on Contracts at the instructor at the National Training psychologist negligently failed to University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Course for Canadian Ramsar Site discover that her child-patients Managers in British Columbia, were being abused by their mother, Royal C. Gardner Canada. Professor Gardner served resulting in the death of one child. Professor of Law as co-chair of the International Director of the Institute for Environmental Law Committee Peter L. Fitzgerald Biodiversity Law and Policy of the American Bar Association’s Professor of Law Professor Gardner co-authored, Section of International Law and Professor Fitzgerald received with Professor Theresa Radwan, Practice and is an invited expert to Stetson’s Homer and Dolly Hand “Corporate Shell Games: LLPs, the Ramsar Scientific and Technical Award for Excellence in Faculty LLCs, and Responsibility for Review Panel. Scholarship in Spring 2010. He presented “E.U.-Canada Seal Hunt Ban Dispute” at the 12th Interna- Nagle Appointed to International Bar tional Wildlife Law Conference, moderated a panel on the Obama Association Council for Four-Year Term Administration’s Trade Policy at the On Oct. 7, Professor Luz Nagle was elected by ABA Section of International Law acclamation to the International Bar Association Legal Meeting, and presented “‘Pawsibili- Practice Division Council for a four-year term starting in ties’ in Witness Testimony” at the January 2011. Barney Masterson Inn of Court. He “As a member of the LPD Council, I am thrilled to have published opinion pieces on Michael an opportunity to contribute substantively to one of Vick and the NFL in the Citizens the world’s leading legal organizations,” Nagle said. Her Voice and the Tampa Tribune. election caps prior appointments as secretary, vice-chair, and co-chair of the IBA’s criminal law committee, and serving on several IBA task forces on the rule of law and counter-terrorism. Roberta K. Flowers Deeply involved in the international fight against human trafficking Wm. Reece Smith Jr. Distinguished and modern-day slavery, she serves on the Florida Governor’s Task Force Professor of Law on Human Trafficking, and was honored with the Florida Coalition against Professor Flowers published Human Trafficking’s 2009 Freedom Award. “The Role of the Criminal Defense

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Carol Henderson Coexist with Global Governance of as well as the 2009 cumulative Professor of Law and Director of the Forests” in the Journal of Natural supplement to The Law of Higher National Clearinghouse for Science, Resources Policy Research, and Education: Student Version. He also Technology and the Law wrote “The Public and Wildlife wrote “Expanding Student Access to Professor Henderson co-authored Trust Doctrines and the Untold and Success in Higher Education: The Future of Evidence for the Story of the Lucas Remand” in the Confronting Systemic Inequities,” ABA Science and Technology Law Columbia Journal of Environmental available on the Social Science Section, “Legal Issues Concerning Law. He presented his forthcoming Research Network. Expert Evidence and Testimony” in paper “Climate Change, Forests The Forensic Laboratory Handbook: and Federalism: Seeing the Treaty Timothy S. Kaye Procedures and Practices, and an for the Trees” at Duke University; Professor of Law annual update to Scientific Evidence “Revisiting Lucas: What the Professor Kaye published in Civil and Criminal Cases. She Remand Tells Us About Lost “Rights Gone Wrong: The Failure wrote forewords for Italian Forensic Opportunities and the Tragedy of of Fundamentalist Tort Theory” Encyclopedia: Introduction on the Unargued Legal Arguments” at in the Mississippi Law Journal Future of Forensic Sciences and The the University of South Carolina; and presented “Fundamentals of Real World of a Forensic Scientist: “Carbon Markets and Climate Campus Risk Management” at the Renowned Experts Reveal What it Finance” at Clemson University; 31st National Conference on Law Takes to Solve Crimes. She presented and “Seeing the Global Forest for and Higher Education. on “The CSI Effect in Jury Trials” at the Trees: How U.S. Federalism can the University of Florida; on Expert Coexist with Global Governance of Peter F. Lake Evidence at the Hong Kong Forensic Forests” at Yale University. Charles A. Dana Chair Science Society in Hong Kong, Director of the Center for Excellence China; and “International Issues Bruce R. Jacob ’59 in Higher Education Law and Policy Facing Digital and Multimedia Dean Emeritus Professor Lake presented Sciences” at the IFIP International Professor of Law “Building Strong Foundations to Conference on Digital Forensics Dean Jacob was the keynote Combat High Risk Alcohol Use” in Hong Kong, China. Professor speaker at the conference “The at the University of Tennessee — Henderson served as co-chair of Future of Sentencing, Corrections Chattanooga; “What Prevention the Future of Evidence Committee and Crime Reduction in Florida: A and Counseling Staff Should Know of the American Bar Association’s Conversation Between Journalists about CARE/Threat Assessment Science & Technology Law Section, and Policy Makers,” co-sponsored Teams” at the NASPA Substance as well as vice chair of the Scientific by the Poynter Institute, the John Abuse Conference; “Beyond Evidence Committee. She serves Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Discipline — Reducing Legalisms on the editorial boards of Forensic the Pew Center on the States. to Improve Our Educational Science, Medicine and Pathology; Environments” at the ASCA annual the Journal of Clinical Forensic Marco J. Jimenez conference; and “Are Our Campuses Medicine, and the Journal of Forensic Associate Professor of Law Too Legalistic?” at the 10th annual Sciences, as well as several working Professor Jimenez published “The Meeting of the Minds Conference. groups on Forensic Issues for the Many Faces of Promissory Estoppel: Professor Lake also gave an address National Institute of Justice and An Empirical Analysis under the at Wake Forest University and was a the International Association of Restatement (Second) of Contracts” panelist at The Network’s National Chiefs of Police (IACP) Forensics in the UCLA Law Review. An edited Forum for Senior Administrators. Committee. The Clearinghouse version of his 2008 article on “The Professor Lake served on the received the IACP August Vullmer Value of a Promise: A Utilitarian editorial board of the Journal of Excellence in Forensic Science Approach to Contract Law College and University Law and Award for Innovation in Forensic Remedies” appeared in Perspectives the review board for the Higher Technology. on Contract Law. Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention. R. Blake Hudson William A. Kaplin Assistant Professor of Law Distinguished Professorial Lecturer Lance N. Long Professor Hudson co-authored Professor Kaplin co-authored Associate Professor of Legal Skills “Seeing the Global Forest for the the second edition of A Legal Guide Professor Long presented “Does Trees: How U.S. Federalism Can for Student Affairs Professionals, Good Appellate Brief Writing Make

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a Difference?” at the Northwest of Law and at the Florida Legal Florida Bar Elder Law Section Pub- Legal Writing Conference and Scholars Forum; “Pre- and Post- lic Benefits Program, the Spokane co-presented “Paradigm Shift: Testing: An Effective Instructional County Guardian Ad Litem Pro- Effectively Transitioning Students Tool for Professors and Students” gram, and at the National College of Between Professors During the First- at the University of Denver; and Probate Judges fall meeting. Year Legal Writing Curriculum” at “Creating Dual Degree Agreements the Rocky Mountain Legal Writing with Law Faculties Outside the Joseph F. Morrissey Conference. He served as program United States” at the Global Legal Associate Professor of Law co-director for the Southeast Skills Conference in Monterrey, Professor Morrissey published “A Regional Legal Writing Conference, Mexico. Professor Minneti served Contractarian Defense of Corporate where he presented “Using Media on the executive committee of Regulation” in Transactions: Clips to Enhance Student Learning the Academic Support Section of Tennessee Journal of Business Law. and Student Evaluations.” the Association of American Law He presented “Lochner, Lawrence, Schools. and Liberty” at the 4th annual Janice K. McClendon Critical Race Studies Symposium Professor of Law Rebecca Morgan ’80 at UCLA, and “Law, Economics & Professor McClendon Boston Asset Management Chair in Gay Rights” at Mercer University. published “The Perfect Storm: Elder Law and Director of the Center He served as chair of the New Law How Mortgage-Backed Securities, for Excellence in Elder Law Professors Section of the Association Federal Deregulation, and Professor Morgan co-authored of American Law Schools and Corporate Greed Provide A Wake- Planning for Disability, annual organized and moderated a panel on Up Call For Reforming Executive updates to Planning for the Elderly the “Transformative Power of Law” Compensation” in the University in Florida; Tax, Estate & Financial at the AALS annual conference. of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Planning for the Elderly and its Law. She presented on “Executive companion form book, and Funda- Luz Estella Nagle Compensation Reform and the mentals of Special Needs Trusts. She Professor of Law 2009/2010 Proxy Season” at the published “The New Importance of Professor Nagle published Tampa Bay Pension Council, Advance Directives” in Estate Plan- “Corruption Among Politicians, “Financial Industry Crisis and ning & Community Property Law Law Enforcement, and the Executive Compensation Reform” Journal and co-authored “Today’s Judiciary” in Narcos over the Border: at the Association of American Elderly in Bankruptcy and Predic- Gangs, Cartels and Mercenaries; Law Schools conference, and “The tions for the Elderly of Tomorrow” “Should Terrorism Be Subject to Wall Street Reform Act of 2010” in the NAELA Journal. Professor Universal Jurisdiction?” in Santa at the Southeastern Association of Morgan presented on “The New Clara Journal of International Law; Law Schools conference. She was Importance of Advance Directives” and “U.S. International Criminal co-chair of the Employee Benefits at the Texas Tech Law School and Law” in the ABA Criminal Justice Section of the Association of spoke frequently at national and Section’s State of Criminal Justice American Law Schools. state conferences, including at the 2009 publication. She presented NAELA 2010 Symposium, the a paper at the 2010 International Jeffrey J. Minneti Associate Professor of Legal Skills Director of Academic Success NACDL awards highest honor to Podgor Professor Minneti published “Is It Too Easy Being Green? A Professor Ellen S. Podgor was awarded the 30th Behavioral Economics Approach to annual Robert C. Heeney Memorial Award, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers’ Determining Whether to Regulate most prestigious honor, on Aug. 14 at its 52nd Annual Environmental Marketing Claims” Meeting in Toronto. This award is given annually to the in the Loyola Law Review. Professor one criminal defense lawyer who best exemplifies the Minneti presented “Constructing goals and values of the NACDL and the legal profession. a Behavioral Economics Model Founded in 1958, the NACDL has more than 10,000 to Assess Whether and to What direct members in 28 countries and more than 40,000 Extent Environmental Marketing attorneys through its 90 state, provincial and local Claims Ought to Be Regulated” affiliate organizations. at Washburn University School

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Congress on Human Trafficking or Let’s Talk About Switching sultative Group for the Model Penal at the University of Minnesota it Up” at the Rocky Mountain Code: Sentencing of the American and was a keynote speaker at a Legal Writing Conference. He Law Institute, the Lexis Law School University of Florida conference was a panelist at the 2009 ABA Advisory Board, and the board of on globalization and human fall meeting on “Associates Boot directors of the International Society trafficking and the Tallahassee Camp: Nuts and Bolts of Drafting for the Reform of Criminal Law. Women Lawyers Association for Clients.” Professor Palmer serves Empowerment Series. She spoke at on the executive committee of the Theresa J. Pulley Radwan the International Bar Association AALS New Law Professors Section. Professor of Law annual conference in Madrid, Spain, Professor Palmer is a corresponding Professor Radwan co-authored and the ABA Standing Committee editor for the American Society of “Today’s Elderly in Bankruptcy on Law and National Security in International Law’s International and Predictions for the Elderly of Washington, D.C. She co-chaired Legal Materials, and was a deputy Tomorrow” in the NAELA Journal the IBA 13th Transnational Crime editor of The International Lawyer’s and “Corporate Shell Games: Conference in Paris in June 2010 International Legal Developments in LLPs, LLCs, and Responsibility for and chaired a session on “Seeking Review: 2009 and an assistant editor Mitigation Sites” in the National justice worldwide: an examination for the Legal Writing Institute’s Wetlands Newsletter. She presented of whether criminal defendants Journal of Legal Writing. “Confirmation Issues in Chapter across the globe can receive a fair 13: Modification, Conversion, trial.” Professor Nagle presently Ann M. Piccard Discharge by Declaration and serves on the Florida Governor’s Professor of Legal Skills More” at the Judge Alexander L. Taskforce on Human Trafficking, Professor Piccard published Paskay Seminar on Bankruptcy Law the ABA Criminal Justice Council, “U.S. Ratification of CEDAW: and Practice. Professor Radwan is is co-chair of the ABA International From Bad to Worse?” in Law and president of the Ferguson-White Criminal Law Committee, and is a Inequality. She also wrote an article American Inn of Court, and member of the ABA Task Force on for the The Scholar: St. Mary’s Law served on the advisory board of the International Child Abduction, and Review on Minority Issues, which was American Bankruptcy Institute Law the IBA Special Task Force on the published in November. Review. International Criminal Court. Ellen S. Podgor Charles H. Rose III Jason Palmer LeRoy Highbaugh Sr. Research Chair Professor of Excellence in Trial Assistant Professor of Legal Skills Professor of Law Advocacy and Director of the Center Professor Palmer published Professor Podgor co-authored for Excellence in Advocacy “Transnational Mass Claims Mastering Criminal Procedure, Professor Rose published the Processes in International Law Volume I: The Investigative Stage and second edition of Fundamental and Practice” in the Berkeley published third editions of Inter- Trial Advocacy this fall. Professor Journal of International Law and national Criminal Law: Cases and Rose also published two case “Remedying Mistakes in Mass Materials and White Collar Crime: files (one civil and one criminal), Claims without Compounding Law and Practice. She authored with accompanying materials and Errors — Lessons from the “Intangible Rights —­ A Déjà Vu” in the book Evidence in Context: Palestinian Late Claims Program” the Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc, Evidentiary Problems and Exercises in Designing Compensation after “White Collar Innocence: Irrelevant this fall. Professor Rose was the Upheaval: Insights for the Experience in the High Stakes Risk Game” keynote speaker at the U.S. Army of the United Nations Compensation in Chicago-Kent Law Review, and Trial Defense Service 2009 annual Commission. He presented his “Educating Compliance” in Ameri- conference and at the U.S. Air Force paper “The Convention on the can Criminal Law Review. She was a Trial and Defense Counsel Course. Rights of Persons with Disabilities: panelist at the 19th Annual National He also presented at the Externships A Human Rights Approach to Seminar on the Federal Sentencing 5 Conference at the University of Post-Secondary Education” at the Guidelines and an ABA Business Miami College of Law. Cumberland School of Law; and Law Section meeting. She spoke at co-presented “Paradigm Shift: the University of Texas, Washington Effectively Transitioning Students and Lee, University of Chicago, and Between Professors During the Southwestern Law School. Professor First-Year Writing Curriculum, Podgor serves on the Members Con-

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Susan Rozelle Rebecca Trammell Golden Raspberries?” in the Florida Professor of Law Professor of Law, Director of Electronic A&M University Law Review, and Professor Rozelle published “The Education, Dolly & Homer Hand Law the annual ACLI case notes in Type of Possession is Nine-Tenths of Library Director the American & Caribbean Law the Law: Criminal Responsibility for Professor Trammell published News. He served as Stetson’s legal Acts Performed Under the Influence “The Orphan Trained Legend — A reference point for the RAMSAR of Hypnosis or Bewitchment” in Legal Reality” in the journal Modern Convention Inaugural Caribbean Law and Magic; four chapters for the America. She presented “Innovative Wetlands Initiative in the Dominican book Criminal Law Conversations; Strategies and Tools for Tough Republic and participated as a and “Pure Insanity” in the Texas Economic Times” at the Innovative U.S. Representative for ADR Tech Law Review. Professor Rozelle Interfaces Inc. Academic Library Introduction and Training in Haiti. was a panelist at the Law and Society Director’s Meeting in San Francisco. He also chaired the ACLI summer annual meeting and is chair for conference on International ADR the Criminal Justice Section of Stephanie Vaughan ’91 in Trinidad. He continued his work the Association of American Law Professor of Legal Skills and Special as Commissioner and Vice Chair of Schools and the New Law Professors Assistant to the Dean for Alumni and the St. Petersburg Code Enforcement Teaching Materials Network. Development Board and as member of the Council Professor Vaughan was honored of Neighborhood Associations and St. Judith Scully for her 10 years of service advising Petersburg’s Civilian Police Review Professor of Law Stetson’s Moot Court Board, which Commission. Professor Scully served on a panel won 17 championships, 47 oralist that discussed police violence at the awards and 47 brief/memorial Candace Zierdt 2009 Black Leadership Conference awards, among other accolades Professor of Law held in New Orleans. She also under her leadership. She was named Professor Zierdt co-authored presented on “Police Violence and Special Assistant to the Dean for a book in the Lexis Nexis Skills International Human Rights Law” Alumni and Development in August. and Values series on Contracts. at Florida A&M School of Law. She presented “Analysis of Recent She served on the panel “A Walk Louis J. Virelli III Federal and State Cases Dealing in the Shoes of the Prosecution Associate Professor of Law with the Intersection of Magnuson- and Defense” at a conference co- Professor Virelli published Moss Federal Warranty Act and sponsored by the Poynter Institute, “Scientific Peer Review and The Warranties in UCC Article the John Jay College of Criminal Administrative Legitimacy” in the Two” at an ABA Business Law Justice, and the Pew Center. She Administrative Law Review and Section meeting, “The Anti- presented her paper on “The Human “Evolutionary Due Process” in Disclaimer Statutes: A Review of Rights Implications of Quinacrine the Northwestern University Law Non-Uniformity in UCC § 2-316” Sterilizations of Women” at the 1st Review Colloquy. In December, at the ABA Annual meeting, and Congress on Women’s Health and Professor Virelli presented a paper served on the Members Consultative Abortion in Bangkok, Thailand. on “Traditionalism in the Roberts Groups on the Principles of the Professor Scully and Professor Court” at Florida International Law of Software Contracts and the Flowers co-founded and serve as co- University College of Law. He also Restatement (Third) of Restitution directors of the Innocence Initiative served on the planning committee for and Unjust Enrichment for the at Stetson Law, where she supervises the Southeastern Association of Law American Law Institute. She serves students investigating cases of Schools annual meeting. as a commissioner for the National individuals claiming to be wrongfully Conference of Commissioners convicted and working on research Darryl C. Wilson on Uniform State Laws and on projects for the Florida Innocence Attorneys’ Title Insurance Fund numerous NCCUSL committees. She Commission. She also serves on the Professor of Law and Co-Director, also is chair of the Study Committee steering committee of the Criminal Institute for Caribbean Law and Policy for Tribal Legislation on Child Justice Section of the Association Professor Wilson co-authored Custody and Domestic Issues. of American Law Schools and is Mastering Property Law. He an active member of the National published “The Thing, The Invasion, Conference of Black Lawyers. The Tax Patent; Great Sci-Fi or

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Faculty Appointment News

Kristen David Tishia Dunham John Lenich, James Sheehan Adams is joins Stetson as visiting professor JD ’77, visiting Stetson’s new Assistant Professor of law, joined assistant professor Associate Dean of Legal Skills and Stetson for Fall of law, has been for Academics. Director of Bar 2010 from the a civil litigation She is a member of Phi Beta Preparation Services. University of Nebraska. attorney for more than 30 Kappa, Order of the Coif, and She has spent the past seven Professor Lenich has taught years. Professor Sheehan has the American Law Institute. years practicing with Bush in the areas of antitrust, published two works of legal She authored Commercial Ross in Tampa, specializing appellate advocacy, civil fiction, The Mayor of Lexington Transactions: A Survey of United in commercial litigation, procedure and remedies. Avenue and The Law of States Law with International employment law and real Second Chances. Recently, he Perspective, as well as several property, with an emphasis Theodore completed writing his third other co-authored books. on community associations. Parnall, visiting novel, The Alligator Man. professor of Ellen S. Podgor Patricia law, is from the Bradley Areheart, has been Brumfield Fry, University of Bruce R. Jacob appointed to visiting professor New Mexico, where he is an Fellow, practiced Stetson’s LeRoy of law, is a emeritus professor and former law with DLA Highbaugh Sr. member of the law dean. He has served Piper in Austin. Research Chair. Editor of American Law Institute and as an instructor or resident His teaching and research the popular White Collar the National Conference of legal advisor in 11 overseas interests include contracts, Crime Prof blog, Podgor Commissioners on Uniform posts. He is widely published cyber law, disability and has co-authored several State Laws, where she chaired in the areas of international health law, employment criminal law books, including the drafting committees and comparative law and discrimination, and Understanding International which produced the Uniform corporate/securities law. intellectual property. Criminal Law and Mastering Electronic Transactions Act Criminal Law, and she has and Revised Uniform Law on Nancy Shurtz, Monu Bedi, published more than 50 Notarial Acts. Professor Fry visiting professor Bruce R. Jacob academic articles and papers. has published widely in the of law, is the Fellow, was fields of commercial law and Bernard Kliks senior editor Charles H. Rose electronic commerce. Professor of of the Harvard III has been Law at the University of Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law named Stetson’s Edward J. Oregon. She previously Review. He served in the Navy first Professor Kionka, visiting taught at the University of JAG Corps, then worked for of Excellence in professor of Pennsylvania Wharton School Ropes & Gray in Boston. Trial Advocacy. This endowed law, served on of Business and practiced position was made possible the Southern law in Washington, D.C. She Christine through the generosity of Illinois University faculty has authored the treatise Cerniglia, visiting S. Sammy Cacciatore Jr., BA, for 30 years and has been Education Planning: Taxes, assistant professor JD ’66 and Michael C. Maher, a visiting professor at law Trusts and Techniques and of legal skills, is a JD ’65, who funded the schools across the country. co-authored another treatise, member of both endowed position to honor He authored Torts in a Nutshell Corporate Tax. the Louisiana and Florida retired Professor William and Torts Black Letter, and bars. Before joining Stetson McKinley Smiley Jr. co-authored two additional James Maxeiner, as a visiting professor in 2009, Professor Rose directs books. visiting associate she practiced maritime law Stetson’s Center for professor of law, in New Orleans and served Excellence in Advocacy Diane Klein, joined Stetson for as a staff attorney for Florida’s and has authored and co- visiting professor Fall 2010 from the Sixth Judicial Circuit. authored books in the areas of law, joins University of Baltimore, where of advocacy, evidence and Stetson from the he is a tenured associate military law. He served in University of La professor. He earned his the U.S. Army in a variety of Verne, Calif. She has taught at LL.M. from Georgetown intelligence and legal roles Thurgood Marshall School of University, and his doctor for 20 years, retiring to join Law and Albany Law School, of juridical science degree Stetson’s faculty. and has visited at three other from the Ludwig Maximilians law schools. Universität in Munich.

14 Stetson Lawyer “I am an ordinary person, to whom extraordinary things have happened.” — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas

Supreme Speakers 2009-2010 Fall 2010–Winter 2011 15 Supreme Speakers

Nine supreme court justices from to Irish Law course, where Stetson “Education is never wasted. You around the world participated in students traveled to Ireland during Stetson programs in 2009-2010. spring break. cannot be better prepared in Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Adrian this anemic job market. It is Supreme Court of the United States, Saunders, Caribbean those unpredictable avenues visited for two days in February 2010 Court of Justice, as Stetson’s Distinguished Jurist in participated in Stetson’s that you take along life’s Residence. During the visit, he made Winter Break Cayman journey that can offer you the several presentations before Stetson Islands Course in January 2010. law and undergraduate students, The female chief justices of three greatest reward.” including a campus-wide question- state supreme courts, Chief Justice — Justice James E.C. Perry and-answer session. Carol Hunstein ’76 of Georgia, Chief Supreme Court of Florida Rt. Hon. Beverley Justice Peggy Quince of Florida McLachlin, Chief and Chief Justice Janice Holder of Justice of Supreme Tennessee, presented Stetson’s Wm. Justice Andrew Court of Canada, Reece Smith Jr. Distinguished Lecture G.T. Moore, Supreme continued to serve in January 2010 as part of the annual Court of Delaware as one of Stetson’s Distinguished Inns of Court banquet at Mirror Lake (ret.), taught a course in International Fellows, a position she Lyceum. March 2010 as one of will hold through 2011. Justice James Stetson’s Distinguished Professorial Justice Susan E.C. Perry, Supreme Lecturers. Justice Moore also donated Gageby Denham of Court of Florida, his judicial papers to the Stetson the Supreme Court of served as Stetson’s Fall University College of Law, and they Ireland, participated Commencement Speaker are housed in the Dolly & Homer in the Introduction in December 2009. Hand Law Library.

Justice Thomas: From Pin Point to the Highest Court

On Feb. 2., U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas secretary of education for the Office of Civil Rights in the U.S. visited to talk with a crowd of students gathered in the Great Dept. of Education and from 1982-1990, was chairman of Hall at Stetson University College of Law. the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Justice Thomas talked about the importance of the He served on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals before law and of the courts and then engaged in a lively topical being nominated to fill a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. discussion with students. “You have to be honest, conscientious and thorough,” “It’s a humbling job,” Justice Thomas said of his role on Justice Thomas said of being a good lawyer. the Supreme Court. In 2007, Justice Thomas published My Grandfather’s “Do not give up,” he urged the law students gathered Son: A Memoir. The book spans Thomas’s life from early to hear him talk on Tuesday morning. He said of his own childhood through the present, focusing on his upbringing, experience as a law student, “One day, years later, everything struggles against racism, intellectual evolution, self-reliance clicked.” and conviction, and ultimate confirmation to the Supreme Born in the tiny impoverished town of Pin Point, Ga., Court. Justice Thomas succeeds Thurgood Marshall as only Justice Thomas grew up in Savannah, Ga., and ultimately the second African-American to serve on the high court. His graduated with a law degree from Yale. book was number one on the New York Times non-fiction From 1981-1982, Justice Thomas served as assistant best-seller list.

16 Stetson Lawyer “Don’t let anyone define who you are or what you can or cannot do.” — Chief Justice Janice Holder Supreme Court of Tennessee

“Be proud of who you are and what you do. Keep true to yourself.” — Chief Justice Carol Hunstein ’76 Supreme Court of Georgia

Fall 2010–Winter 201117 Cover and article photographs courtesy of BP on Flickr

by Brandi Palmer BP has spent millions of dollars in legal experts should be talking about cleanup efforts and says the company now to prevent this type of disaster On April 20, an explosion takes full responsibility and will pay from happening again in the future. erupted and the Deepwater Horizon all legitimate claims and the cost Dr. Tim Kaye is originally from drilling platform sank off the coast of of the cleanup. A $20 billion BP the U.K. and teaches torts and Louisiana. Eleven workers were killed, compensation fund has been set up product liability. He addressed and 17 sustained injuries. A damaged to cover damage claims from gulf oil the first question to the faculty well on the ocean floor began gushing disaster victims, to be administered roundtable regarding BP’s liability. oil into the Gulf of Mexico. by 9/11 fund administrator Ken “BP in principle is liable for, at the An Aug. 23 Associated Press Feinberg. An investigative panel moment, an indefinite amount,” said article reports 206 million gallons including the U.S. Coast Guard- Kaye. “But however it’s sliced, the law of oil leaked into the gulf. NOAA Bureau of Energy Management won’t allow that to be an indefinite reported that hundreds of thousands is looking into what caused the amount and won’t allow an indefinite of gallons of dispersants were used explosion and how to improve number of people to make a claim.” to break down the oil. In mid-July, a regulation, safety and oversight to He explained that there are claims temporary cap stopped the leak. avoid another drilling disaster. for myriad people: the families of The oil has stopped flowing into Four months after the oil well people killed on the oil rig, people the gulf, but the lawsuits have only blowout in the gulf, we gathered a injured in or around the oil rigs, just begun to surface. People, animals, roundtable of legal experts at Stetson people whose livelihoods have been industries and the environment in Law on the Gulfport campus to damaged, and people who have lost four states along the Gulf coast all discuss how the law has responded to property value because tourists don’t face the possibility of lasting impacts similar disasters in the past, what we want to visit the Gulf Coast. Kaye from the offshore accident. can expect to see this time, and what said people with purely economic

18 Stetson Lawyer Stetson professors discuss the potential legal impact of the Deepwater Horizon disaster

losses, like loss of property value or spill as precedent, we might see some BP in principle is liable loss of business, may be out of luck in use of money to set up local clinics, “ the law of torts. According to Kaye, etc., that do not necessarily respond for, at the moment, an the fund set up to be administered directly to the oil spill,” said Professor indefinite amount. But by Ken Feinberg may ultimately be Paul Boudreaux. Boudreaux, who more generous than the law would be. teaches environmental law, natural however it’s sliced, the “What this fund is, is simply ring- resources law, property and land use law won’t allow that to be fenced money,” Kaye explained. Even law, was away from campus during if BP went bankrupt or ran out of the roundtable, but shared some ideas an indefinite amount and money, the fund would be in place to during a separate interview. won’t allow an indefinite pay people. Professor Ellen Podgor is a former The roundtable examined another deputy prosecutor and criminal number of people to make a historic incident, the Exxon Valdez defense attorney who teaches white claim. oil spill, for some parallels to the collar crime, criminal law and ” — Timothy S. Kaye gulf spill. “It is likely that some of international criminal law, and Professor of Law the money from BP will be used edits the White Collar Crime Blog. to perform health assessments. It She dissected some of the charges Act,” Professor Podgor said. “All of is notoriously tricky, however, for resulting from Exxon Valdez. “The these carried criminal penalties with someone who has gotten sick to sue initial Exxon Valdez oil spill produced them. However, they pled guilty to or recover from a polluter, considering charges under the Clean Water Act, violations of the Clean Water Act, the multiplicity of different potential the Refuse Act, the Migratory Bird the Refuse Act, the Migratory Bird causes of illnesses. Using the Treaty Act, the Ports and Waterways Treaty Act, and the company itself, experience of the 1989 Alaska oil Act, and the Dangerous Cargo Exxon Corporation, only pled guilty

Fall 2010–Winter 2011 19 to violating the Migratory Bird Treaty that remains to be determined. BP States have the tools Act. The other violations were Exxon has already spoken of spending $20 “ Shipping company.” As a result of billion. This would be apportioned available to them to the spill, Exxon paid a $25 million among direct cleanup efforts and take the environment fine and Exxon Shipping paid a $125 indirect lost profits for people such as million fine. fishermen, food processors and beach and natural resource U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder motel owners.” management more has opened a criminal investigation The Ocean Pollution Act, or into the gulf oil blowout, and in past OPA, which was a result of the Exxon seriously, but they don’t spills the government has investigated Valdez spill, defines the responsible really show concern until a and often pursued criminal charges, party as the person who leases the Podgor explained. “No one has well, and BP leased the well that disaster occurs.” charged BP with any criminal blew in April in the gulf. Visiting violations yet,” Podgor told the group. professor Christine Cerniglia began — Blake Hudson “If, in fact, there are charges that her legal career in New Orleans Assistant Professor of Law come against BP, I think that Holder’s practicing maritime law, specifically office will probably look at some of offshore drilling personal injury short run,” said Professor Boudreaux. these same statutes,” Podgor said. defense, where she became skilled in “The MMS has already been replaced “The government cannot, of both state and federal litigation. She by a new bureau of the U.S. Interior course, put a corporation in jail. But explained that BP does not drill for Department, called the Bureau of it can impose very large fines on a oil by itself. “It’s truly a floating city Ocean Energy. A branch of this corporation found guilty of criminal out there,” Cerniglia said. Within the bureau will focus specifically on safety activity, beyond the amount that city, Cerniglia explained that there is and environmental enforcement. This might be imposed for a merely ’civil’ a contractual conglomerate of people. bureau will receive more funding that penalty,” said Professor Boudreaux. Looking beyond BP, she said that the MMS got for overseeing offshore “Criminal conviction also means, in there are other parties that might be drilling, and there will be far greater certain cases, that the corporation is held accountable and responsible for public scrutiny of drilling activities. disqualified from certain government the oil blowout in the gulf. “It’s a New regulations are likely to impose programs and benefits.” dissection of claims,” Cerniglia said. new and expensive safety measures, “Many parties will sue BP and “Long story short, it’s going to take such as additional safeguards against other corporations in connection a while to get through all of this and oil well blowouts, as happened at the with the spill, as well as suits try to figure out and sort through it to Deepwater Horizon rig. A less certain against the government,” Professor figure out what law applies, but right question is whether public attention Boudreaux said. “The Oil Pollution now, everyone is operating under and funding will last.” Act authorizes more than $75 million OPA.” Professor Podgor said that she in penalties if the polluter acted After the Exxon Valdez spill, OPA was hopeful about positive change with ’gross negligence’ — an issue was passed in 1990 as a legislative as a result of some careful analysis response in order to create a national and education. She referenced major If we vilify one entity, contingency plan and disaster fund. changes in the SEC after a Ponzi “ Professor Blake Hudson has a master’s scheme was unearthed and studied.“I BP, a gas and exploration degree in environmental science can see that happening here. I can see company, what makes in addition to a law degree, and there being some major changes in teaches property, natural resources the regulatory structure and the way it us think they won’t pick and environmental law. He said one operates as a result of this.” up and drill elsewhere, of the responses from Exxon Valdez “I do think there is one problem was to throw money at the problem. that we have not already mentioned,” somewhere else in the “But developing a comprehensive Dr. Kaye said. “No matter what world where they aren’t plan on addressing the problem regulations are introduced, companies itself or prevention of the problem will adjust their behavior accordingly.” vilified? The fact is we’re is something that we’ve not learned, The contractual matrix still exists, he dependent upon oil. I don’t think, from past experiences said. “The problem with bringing in ” with Exxon and Texas City Refinery.” new regulations is you’ve always got — Christine Cerniglia “Yes, environmental regulation to be aware that while you’ve changed Assistant Professor of Legal Skills will be strengthened, at least in the the ground rules, that doesn’t stop the

20 Stetson Lawyer than 100 resulted in heavy fines for Ken Feinberg to visit Stetson Law BP. Hudson worked in Houston at the Baker Botts law firm and closely Ken Feinberg, administrator of the oil spill escrow fund and past studied the 2005 case. He said OHSA administrator of compensation fined the Texas refinery for failing funds for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist to fix safety hazards revealed in the attacks and Virginia Tech victim 2005 explosion. “BP didn’t take any donations, has committed to speak steps to fix some of the problems at Stetson Law in 2011 as the Nichols that existed,” Hudson said. Ongoing Foundation Prominent Speakers problems and disasters like the one at Lecturer. Watch www.law.stetson.edu the oil refinery and in the gulf beg for for future details. change, Hudson explained. “I think that it will be an impetus for looking at how we assess process safety and health and safety standards in general players changing their behavior.” oil.” After a massive moratorium in for corporations that are operating “Things like Exxon Valdez, 9/11 the gulf subsequent to the blowout, within the United States.” and this blowout show that the many rigs pulled out of the gulf and While differing in their approach traditional legal mechanisms often moved elsewhere, impacting the local to the tangle of legal issues surfacing don’t work,” Kaye said, adding that economies of Louisiana and Texas, in the wake of the oil blowout in the without the fund, we might have Cerniglia said. gulf, in one matter, the roundtable 20 years of litigation. “We need “States have the tools available agreed. A proactive, educational something quite a lot more radical,” to them to take the environment approach, they concluded, is better he said, pointing to some models and natural resource management than taking the traditionally reactive around the globe with better safety more seriously, but they don’t really stance. While accidents always records. “I would like to see some sort show concern until a disaster occurs, happen, Dr. Kaye said, “I think that of creation of corporate manslaughter and I would like to see more of a trying to prevent them — regulating or corporate homicide statutes.” comprehensive focus and studies of and educating to prevent them — is “If we vilify one entity, BP, a ways in which these types of things definitely the way to go, rather than gas and exploration company, what can be avoided ahead of time instead saying well, it’s likely to happen and makes us think they won’t pick up of just suing for the money after it we’ll try to fire-fight it as best we can and drill elsewhere, somewhere happens,” said Hudson. after the event because we can never else in the world where they aren’t Back in 2005, the Texas City do it as well.” vilified?” Professor Cerniglia asked. Refinery explosion in Houston that “The fact is, we’re dependent upon killed 15 people and injured more

WATCH ONLINE @YOUTUBE.COM/STETSONLAW Fall 2010–Winter 2011 21 22 Stetson Lawyer Giving Hands

On a warm day last October, the Dolly and Homer Hand have nourished academic excellence at College of Law celebrated 110 years “ of legal education by naming the Stetson University for more than 50 years. Their generosity has library on its Gulfport campus after created educational opportunities for literally thousands of philanthropists Dolly ‘49 and Homer students at Stetson and across Florida. We are grateful for their Hand. A crowd of alumni, students, faculty and university leadership philanthropy.” gathered in the sunny Mediterranean- — Darby Dickerson style library courtyard to honor the Vice President and Dean Hands’ generosity and to witness a historic day. remarkable people, Dolly and Homer school from a handful of students in “It really does seem like just a few Hand,” President Wendy Libby DeLand to more than 1,000 enrolled short years ago that I was a student remarked at the naming ceremony. today at two campuses in Tampa Bay. in the law school back when it was “They have unselfishly dedicated “Despite the many changes, a few located in DeLand,” Dolly Hand their lives to creating educational things have remained constant over said at the naming ceremony. Truly a opportunities for young people. the past 100 years, and one of those is pioneer, Dolly was the only woman in Today, as we celebrate precisely 110 the law library,” said Dean Dickerson. her graduating class and the youngest years of outstanding legal education at “Opened in 1998, this law library is student, at age 20, to ever graduate Stetson University College of Law, it a tribute to so much that is good and from Stetson Law. is fitting that we name this library for special about Stetson.” Dolly Hand has since dedicated Dolly and Homer Hand.” Dean Dickerson credited Dean decades to serving Stetson University. The Hands are long-time Emeritus Lizabeth Moody and She is a 16-year Stetson University supporters of education and the arts Library Director Emeritus Lamar trustee and a member of the College throughout the state of Florida. In Woodard with the vision for the new of Law Hall of Fame. Homer received 1996, they were presented with the library, a hub of scholarly activity at Stetson Law’s Distinguished Service Champion of Higher Independent the law school. “In short, our library Award and numerous civic awards. Education in Florida Award. represents the heart and soul of the “This library serves as a testament Dean Darby Dickerson described College of Law,” Dean Dickerson to the courage and generosity of two the 110-year evolution of the law said.

Stetson and civic leaders spoke at the ceremony honoring the Hands upon the dedication of the library and celebrating the law school’s 110th anniversary on Oct. 2. Pictured left (L to R): Gulfport Vice Mayor Michele King, SBA President Evan Raymond, Congressman Gus Bilirakis JD ’89, Overseer Chair Joshua Magidson JD ’80, Library Director Rebecca Trammell, Homer and Dolly (LLB ’49) Hand, President Wendy Libby, Dean Darby Dickerson, and Trustee Chair Harlan “Butch” Paul BA ’76.

Fall 2010–Winter 2011 23 Dolly Hand thanked her entire Stetson family, with campuses stretching from the east to the west coast of Florida. She applauded the partnership between President Wendy Libby and Dean Darby Dickerson. She credited the late Chancellor H. Douglas Lee with forging the strong bond between the historic DeLand campus and the law school in Gulfport during his 22-year tenure as university president. Dolly tearfully gestured to the entrance to the law library at the conclusion of her speech. “The greatest honor I have received on this day is to look up on that wall and see my name next to Homer’s,” Dolly said. “For that is the way it has always been and that is the way it will always be … Homer and Dolly, side by side.” Dedicated in 1998 by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the 59,100-square-foot Dolly and Homer Hand Law Library has a collection of nearly 400,000 volumes. The collection includes rare materials from the Nuremburg Doctors Trials, archives from the law school’s 110-year history, and a new collection of judicial papers from a former chief justice of the Delaware Supreme Court. The generosity of Dolly and Homer Hand is evident across Stetson University’s four campuses. The Hands endowed an annual award for excellence in faculty research, provided principal funding for the Homer and Dolly Hand Art Center, and made the lead gift for the Doug and Margaret Lee Scholarship.

24 Stetson Lawyer From Law to Business Many Stetson lawyers by Brian Vandervliet high-profile clients. Prior to creating Blue Giraffe Sports in 2004, he was choose to apply their co-owner and executive vice president education to fields Controlling His Own Destiny of Wilhelmina Models where he ran When Stuart the artist management division and outside the practice Appleby sank a 10’ 10” oversaw endorsements and marketing putt for a final round for celebrities like Beyonce, Usher, of law. Meet three 59 and a dramatic and Jessica Simpson, and helped alumni who are using one-stroke victory at execute multimillion dollar contracts the Greenbrier Classic with L’Oreal, Covergirl, Hugo Boss, their legal skills to in August, you can be certain that Levis, and others. successfully grow their Bobby Kreusler ’91 was cheering What led Kreusler into business him on. It’s a part of his job. was not the bright lights or green businesses. Far from the courtrooms where he fairways associated with representing was once a litigator, Kreusler is now and marketing well-known athletes the CEO of Blue Giraffe Sports – an and entertainers, but the chance to be Atlanta-based talent management in greater control of his own destiny. and marketing agency that promotes “If you want to do things a a stable of 20 professional golfers certain way, and you have a certain such as Appleby, Paul Goydos, Arjun vision and plan you’d like to follow, Atwal, Mathew Goggin, and other then the only way you’re ever going PGA stars from around the world. to be able to do that is by embarking Kreusler is well at ease with on your own,” said Kreusler.

Fall 2010–Winter 2011 25 Kreusler described his clients, and his company, with energetic fondness. He said that he appreciated that he could use both his creative and analytical talents to “build something Did you know? up.” In addition, he also liked the Stetson University has the largest certain “surreality or nervousness” JD/MBA dual-degree program in that occurs as a CEO when making the United States. decisions of consequence. “I think it makes you feel more alive,” said An Orientation to Business to working with clients, about 40 at Kreusler. On his first day any given time. At Blue Giraffe Sports, Kreusler’s of orientation at “I think having a legal responsibilities are legion. While Stetson Law, Nathan background provides a good bit of working to improve a client’s DeVault ’01 lined comfort to the clients I work with,” brand, he said that his eight- up in alphabetical said DeVault, 34. “They know that member company will advise order behind Megan while I’m not representing them from clients, coordinate events, negotiate Costa, also a first-year a legal standpoint, I can recognize contracts, work with media outlets, student. For DeVault, this fateful when there’s a potential issue and can or frequently take late-night calls 1L introduction in 1999 would lead raise a concern if I need to.” from clients, whom he described as to two successful partnerships — His legal education, DeVault said, “family,” to discuss business, or even in marriage with Megan, and in had helped open doors profession- personal, matters. business with Linda Costa, his future ally and had served as a “jump-start” Kreusler, who has also served as mother-in-law. into the more difficult areas of public general counsel for other premier Just weeks after graduating, relations. A few of his first clients were talent management companies, DeVault joined Linda Costa’s public real estate developers, and he said that said that legal work now comprised relations firm, which provides his Stetson Law courses in property less than 20 percent of his daily strategy development, media law had been particularly helpful. responsibilities and focus. But his relations, design services, and crisis “Having an understanding from legal skills, he said, factor into many management to clients ranging from law school of what it is they were aspects of his decision-making. start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. trying to do and what the strategy “Make no mistake about the fact He has been at the Orlando firm ever was behind the real estate deals that being a lawyer is what makes me since, later becoming partner and made it easier for me to make good a good businessman,” said Kreusler, vice president of “Costa DeVault.” decisions and advise them about 46. “It’s my legal training that allows “I had started to gravitate towards when we should do certain things me to be a better businessman than I an interest in business, and that led and when we shouldn’t.” would be, by far, without it.” me to what I was going to do best,” DeVault said that he had also Kreusler, who also has an MBA said DeVault, who married Megan found his prior study of mediation es- from Florida State University, while at Stetson. “The opportunity pecially useful in the business world. said that having earned a J.D. has arose with Linda, and it was a perfect “It made a lot of sense to me to try significantly helped during business fit. The timing was perfect.” to work with somebody to deal with negotiations. Since joining Costa nearly 10 a problem versus trying to fight with “It has given me confidence to years ago, DeVault said that he had them,” said DeVault. “That’s what know that when I am sitting at a helped the firm double its revenue, in I do a lot of now is really just try to bargaining table, negotiation table, or part by helping to enlist new business make sure everybody is on the same maybe a discussion, that the person from law firms, real estate developers, page, communicating as effectively as sitting across from me, who might transit companies and other clients we can. It’s as fundamental a concept be a lawyer or with a lawyer, doesn’t with complex needs. or practice in business as anything. have something over me or have an While in school, DeVault said he That’s really what it’s about, experience or knowledge base that realized he did not want to practice negotiating back and forth, coming they could use against me,” said law. Despite the change of heart, up with terms or scenarios that will Kreusler. he said that his legal education be beneficial to everyone.” had still served to prepare him DeVault appears to often use his for responsibilities ranging from legal knowledge. But when asked if managing staff to analyzing strategies he’d ever like to formally practice law 26 Stetson Lawyer and leave public relations, he dryly For Carrillo, it’s not easy to he suggested that unforeseen events answered “Not at all.” answer the question as to whether would always occur. “I anticipate doing this and being he is a businessman or a lawyer first. “You can’t be 100 percent ready here until I don’t work anymore, until That’s because, in his estimation, and prepared for everything. If we the day I retire,” said DeVault. “I love the two skill sets often coincide. had waited until we were absolutely this. I love doing this.” At his shoe store, he has often used sure everything would work out his legal expertise to renegotiate and be okay, then we would have Man on the Run contracts with vendors or to examine never started the business. You’re not As a self-described “runner geek,” issues. And at a small family firm always going to be ready, but you still Matt Carrillo ’08 likes to stay in such as Carrillo and Carrillo P.A., have to go forward.” motion. So perhaps it’s no surprise his business acumen is equally Carrillo said that sales revenue at that only months before graduating essential. Gainesville Running and Walking from Stetson Law, he began drafting Although Carrillo noted had grown more than 30 percent plans with his brother to open a specific Stetson Law courses such as each year, despite the poor economy. specialty shoe store in his hometown Contracts, Commercial Transactions, He credited having discovered a of Gainesville. and Business Entities as being marketable niche and having a “I don’t really limit myself on particularly relevant to business, knowledgeable staff that can discuss what I want to do, and I think he said that it has been his legal the details of running gear and because of that, I was able to jump education, on the whole, that has biomechanics with customers. so quickly with my brother into this been most beneficial. Although he described feeling a idea,” said Carrillo, 25. “I’ve always “Even if I hadn’t taken those sense of accomplishment in having wanted to try new things. That’s the specific classes, I think that just the created a business, Carrillo added type of person I am.” way law school teaches you how that he plans to keep moving After passing the bar exam in July to think analytically lends itself to forward. In addition to continuing 2008, Carrillo, along with his brother preparing you to take apart difficult his law practice, he said that perhaps Mike, launched their new business, situations and deal with them one day he would open another retail Gainesville Running and Walking, appropriately.” store or maybe a restaurant. just a month later. Impressively, Law school, Carrillo added, had “It’s been a dream to own a Carrillo has been able to co-manage taught him to adequately prepare business, but it’s never been that I the new business while also joining for challenges, but also not to want this one business and that’ll be his father’s legal practice as a full- hesitate when immediate action is it for me. I don’t think this is the end time partner. required. Using the random nature of by any means.” courtroom arguments as an example,

“ I think that the way law school teaches you how to think analytically lends itself well to preparing you to take apart difficult situations and deal with them appropriately.” — Matt Carrillo ’08 Co-owner, Gainesville Running and Walking

Fall 2010–Winter 201127 28 Stetson Lawyer Up-and-coming attorneys share their perspectives on how shifts in technology, competition and gender are influencing the practice of trial law by Shannon Tan JD ’08 “Trial lawyers have always used less time worrying about running a demonstrative aids, and they will business. These days, that is a recipe When Todd A. Romano ’99 went always be essential to proving a case. for disaster.” on family vacations in the 1980s, the However, I believe that too much Eric Romano said that law firms only way his father — a trial attorney technology can be an impediment must now focus on marketing, — could check on his cases was to to effective communication with the cash flow, employees, case selection call his office from a pay phone. Now, jury.” and firm structure in order to be thanks to an onslaught of technology, Judge says she is excited about successful. “Implementing efficient it is virtually impossible to completely the new iJuror application for the systems and new technologies, and leave the office. Skype, remote iPad. The application allows attorneys keeping them current, is an essential access, video-conferencing, iPhones, to electronically track individual part of managing a law firm in and iPads have made younger trial juror trends and patterns through today’s climate,” he said. lawyers more efficient and productive. icons. “Jury selection is probably the Odom, who has seen talented “Many of the more seasoned most difficult part of the trial for a lawyers suffer financially, agrees. “To trial lawyers have not embraced plaintiff’s lawyer, who has moments have the freedom to practice and the available technology that is out to assimilate the juror data and adequately represent your clients, you there,” said Romano, a partner at immediately begin asking questions,” have to have a solid business model The Romano Law Group in Lake she said. “If this app does what that allows for the uncertainties that Worth. “The downside is you can it touts, it will be priceless in the are inherent within our practice.” never get away from work, unlike our courtroom. I immediately went to the Another change that young trial predecessors.” patriarch of our firm and shared this lawyers have noticed is the rising Jodi Leisure ’99, managing new technology with him.” number of women in the courtroom. partner at Carey & Leisure in Chinwe O. Fossett ’00, an Jill Thomas ’97 was a JAG lawyer Clearwater, agrees that young trial attorney at Cohen, Foster & Romine for nine years in the U.S. Air Force lawyers are more technologically P.A. in Tampa, said that potential before becoming an assistant U.S. savvy. She sees older lawyers using jurors will visit a law firm’s website attorney for the Northern District hardboards in the courtroom, while and even search for the firm’s of California. She estimates that she younger lawyers rely on PowerPoint attorneys on Facebook. As a result, has handled more than 40 jury trials, for their presentations. she will question potential jurors to including a few public corruption and “Jurors almost expect to see ferret out any biases they might have drug trafficking cases. the latest electronics in use,” said against her, her firm or her client. “It seems that more female Tammy J. Judge ’99, an attorney at “Jurors can read or find out things lawyers are in the profession these the Yerrid Law Firm P.A in Tampa. you do not want them to find out,” days when compared to when I first “We recently started using a trial she said. started in law,” she said. “Male trial consultant group that has every Eric Romano ’97, a partner at lawyers likely still outnumber female exhibit and video deposition scanned the Romano Law Group, says that trial lawyers, but the gap appears to in, and we merely make mention of the use of technology is not the only be closing.” what we need and it instantly appears thing that differentiates seasoned Leisure says she thinks women on the screen.” lawyers from younger attorneys. bring something different to the While Gene Odom ’00 of the “With increased competition for courtroom. “I think women generally Martinez-Odom Law Group also legal work, there has become a much approach conflict resolution a little incorporates technology in his greater need to focus on the business differently then men do. I notice a big courtroom presentations, he warns side of practicing law,” he said. “More difference between the way men and attorneys not to use it as a “crutch” experienced trial lawyers were able to women litigate. Sometimes, depending or substitute for effective advocacy. spend more time practicing law and on the case, it can be an advantage.”

Fall 2010–Winter 2011 29 Todd Romano sees another “With increased competition for legal work, there is a much difference in the way younger trial lawyers approach litigation: They greater need to focus on the business side of practicing law. are more patient. “Trial dockets are More experienced trial lawyers were able to spend more time more log-jammed than they used to practicing law and less time worrying about running a business. be. There are fewer judges and court resources due to budget cuts, and These days, that is a recipe for disaster.” it is much tougher to get hearings — Eric Romano ’97 set. I see many of the more seasoned Partner, The Romano Law Group trial lawyers who have been around for a while get incredibly frustrated Fossett, a former assistant state by these factors, and it causes them attorney with more than 70 jury trials Rising Stars in to completely lose focus and get under her belt, says that the best way Trial Advocacy wrapped around the axle.” to learn trial work is to work for the Even though the courtroom and State Attorney’s Office or the Public Gene Odom ’00 trial practices are evolving, these Defender’s Office. The Martinez-Odom young trial lawyers recognize that That’s what Rachel May Zysk Law Group many things remain the same. ’04 did. During her internship at Tampa “The fundamentals of good the Office of the Federal Public trial practice are the same,” said Defender for the Middle District of Todd Romano ’99 Robert J. Sniffen ’93, the founder Florida, Zysk became involved in a The Romano Law Group and managing partner of Sniffen major terrorism case involving Hatem Lake Worth & Spellman P.A. in Tallahassee. Fariz, one of Dr. Sami Al-Arian’s “A good trial lawyer is a good codefendants. After passing the bar, she was given a permanent position. storyteller and someone who can take Jodi Leisure ’99 a large amount of information and The trial lasted approximately six Carey & Leisure synthesize it into a format that the months. jury can understand. I do not believe “The jury failed to return a single Clearwater much has changed in this regard.” guilty verdict,” said Zysk, who is now Sniffen advises trial lawyers to a criminal litigator at Carlton Fields. find their own style and embrace “It was an incredible experience.” Chinwe Fossett ’00 it. “Juries can smell a phony a mile Fossett and Zysk credit Stetson Cohen, Foster & Romine away.” with giving them a headstart against Tampa Eric Romano agrees. “If you don’t other litigators. Fossett said that have an intense passion for each when she first started practicing, she client and each case, then you cannot was surprised to find that experienced Eric Romano ’97 succeed as a trial lawyer. Judges and lawyers on the opposing side would The Romano Law Group jurors can tell when an attorney not have the same grasp of the rules Lake Worth believes in her client and in her case, of evidence as she did. “The trial and they will see right through an team program was just amazing. I attorney who isn’t sincere.” didn’t realize how amazing it was Rachel May Zysk ’04 And the best way to become a until I came into the real world.” Carlton Fields successful trial lawyer is still to try as Zysk said she learned how to be Tampa many cases as you can. a litigator at Stetson. “While I do “When I got into the courtroom, not believe that anything can truly I was terrified because I felt I was prepare you for the responsibility Tammy J. Judge ’99 of another person’s life, Stetson’s not as well-armed as an experienced The Yerrid Law Firm lawyer, but it is a completely even emphasis on practical skills provided Tampa playing field,” Leisure said. She me with the know-how when I took advises lawyers to not be afraid to on that responsibility for the first take on “ugly” cases. “You can learn time.” more from your losses than your Writer Shannon Tan ’08 is a staff wins.” attorney with Florida’s Second District Court of Appeal in Lakeland. 30 Stetson Lawyer COLLEGE Relations

New alumni, development leaders

Ed Kominowski Robin Hoyle ’91 Casey Stoutamire ’09 Michael Stewart JD ’09

Several new staff have joined Stetson the broader issues in higher education alumni events, planned giving and class- University College of Law to lead alumni as a past assistant to the president at gift campaigns. As a Stetson law student, relations and fundraising efforts. Indiana University. she served as an Ambassador and Ed Kominowski joined Stetson Robin Hoyle JD ’91 joined Stetson student leader, and after her graduation in September as the Associate Vice in August as executive director of she continued to work with Stetson’s President for College Relations. the Tampa Law Center. In addition to Center for Excellence in Elder Law with Kominowski most recently served as practicing law, Robin has an extensive Stetson Trustee Leo Govoni and John director of development and major background in fundraising and external Staunton ’97. gifts at Edison State College in Fort relations. She has developed strategies Michael Stewart JD ’09 is the new Myers. Before that, he served as to research, increase and solicit funds assistant director of alumni services. He Executive Director of Development for an endowment to advance cancer is responsible for developing alumni for the University of South Florida’s research; cultivated relationships with chapters throughout the country, College of Engineering, and director biotechnology and pharmaceutical planning special alumni events, and of development for the University companies; and executed securing a creating and maintaining online alumni of Florida’s College of Engineering. variety of gifts from corporations and communities. He previously worked He also has 10 years’ experience in individuals. As part of her duties at with Stetson’s office of admissions and various development positions at Stetson, Hoyle will support alumni and financial planning. Indiana University, where he earned his development activities. Professor Stephanie Vaughan JD ’91 bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Casey Stoutamire JD ’09 joined has added the role of special assistant to Kominowski specializes in strategic Stetson in July as assistant director for the dean for alumni and development to fundraising, planned giving and securing alumni relations. Stoutamire has been her teaching responsibilities as professor major gifts. He also gained insights into working on several projects related to of legal skills.

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Fall 2010–Winter 2011 31 Honoring Lifetime Achievement Eight new members were inducted into the Stetson University College of Law Hall of Fame in October 2010. Now in its seventh year, Hall of Fame inductees have had a profound impact on the legal profession and on Stetson University College of Law.

“All of these individuals have reached the pinnacle of their professions and have made a profound positive influence on Stetson University College of Law,” said Dean Darby Dickerson.

Dan Warren ’52 Firestone Family Thirteen years after his son’s death, Dan Warren has Harvey Firestone III Harvey Firestone Jr., gave $150,000 served as a Daytona began law school in Fall to rebuild and expand the law school’s Beach municipal judge, 1955 at Stetson with recreation facilities. This included justice of the peace, the encouragement and the building of new tennis courts, a and city commissioner. support of his father, basketball court and a workout area, In the early 1960s, Harvey Firestone Jr., and the swimming pool was renamed Florida Governor Ferris Bryant then president and CEO of the in honor of the late Firestone son. named Warren to serve as special Firestone Rubber Company of Akron, counsel and state attorney to resolve Ohio. The younger Firestone had Professor Ruthann Robson ’79 the St. Augustine civil rights crisis. cerebral palsy, and despite his physical Ruthann Robson has Warren’s book, If It Takes All Summer: challenges, he earned his law degree in taught at City Univer- Martin Luther King, the KKK, and 1959, graduating third in his class. sity of New York School State’s Rights in St. Augustine, 1964, Since his physical condition left of Law since 1990 in chronicles his experience. him unable to use his hands, Harvey the areas of constitu- Warren ordered the desegregation Firestone III dictated his Florida bar tional law and sexuality of St. Augustine public beaches and examination answers to the exam and the law. She has authorized the Florida Highway questions to then-Assistant Dean made presentations throughout the Patrol to arrest anyone who attempted Richard Dillon, who was familiar United States, Australia, U.K., Africa to infringe on the rights of others to with Harvey’s speech patterns and and New Zealand. access the beaches. He had members recorded Firestone’s every word. He Robson has been called a of the KKK arrested and prosecuted passed the bar exam, but did not live pioneering legal theorist in the field for violence. He met privately to know it. In 1960, he tragically fell of lesbian jurisprudence, and is an with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from a hotel balcony and died while award-winning novelist, accomplished in an attempt to reach a peaceful vacationing with friends. poet, experimental essayist, and settlement, and empaneled a grand Harvey Firestone Jr. was a major dedicated mentor and teacher. In jury to have a biracial committee benefactor to Stetson Law. Prior to 2007, she was named a distinguished appointed to ease the violence. Since his son’s death, Harvey Firestone Jr. professor in recognition of her 1968, Warren has spent the remainder gave $42,000, which transformed the significant scholarly accomplishments. of his legal career defending the campus with a new classroom, two Professor Robson received her constitutional rights of others, faculty offices, a modern courtroom LL.M. from the University of Califor- especially minorities. and a suite for guests to the college. nia at Berkeley. She clerked for U.S. 32 Stetson Lawyer Honoring Lifetime Achievement

District Judge William J. Castagna their legacy of love be silenced. She and educational organizations. He of the Middle District of Florida and memorialized her soul mate in May served as president of Stetson Lawyers U.S. Circuit Judge Peter T. Fay, of 2004 with the Edward D. Foreman Association and was a member of the the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. Most Distinguished Student Award, College of Law Board of Overseers. In She then worked as an attorney with the most prestigious recognition July 2004, Gary received the Paul M. Florida Rural Legal Services. given at each graduation. It honors May Meritorious Service Award for the “best all-around student” who his continued support of the College Kay Eddy has demonstrated a passion for the of Law. He was a major contributor Kay Eddy served as legal profession and commitment to the law school’s “Cornerstone assistant to the dean, to community service. Over the Campaign,” which raised more than registrar, and director years, these graduates have become $30 million. of admissions over part of the Foreman family and two decades after the have committed to “pay it forward.” Jim Shore BA ’76, JD ’80 College of Law’s move to Bonnie has served on the College of Jim Shore was born Gulfport. Law Board of Overseers and on the blind in one eye and lost Many students of that era University Board of Trustees. Her his vision completely confirmed Kay Eddy’s capabilities. philanthropic work includes other in a 1970 car accident, She helped lay the foundation for academic scholarships and a new but that didn’t stop him our present law school. She was the SPCA Adoption Center, which bears from becoming the first person anyone could go to with a Ed’s name and honors his love of attorney in the Seminole Tribe in problem, and she would do anything animals and wildlife. 1981. she could to be helpful. Students Upon graduation, Shore worked adored her. Gary Trombley ’73 for the 3,000-member Seminole Tribe Prior to her work at Stetson Law, Gary Trombley is of Florida as deputy counsel, and a Eddy owned and operated a business the principal attorney year later became general counsel, a and secretarial college. of Trombley & Hanes role he has had ever since. He helped P.A. and for the past 35 form the Seminole Police Department Edward D. (BA ’67, JD ’71) and years has concentrated and effectively advocated in a number Bonnie B. Foreman (BA ’68) his practice in the of land and water use challenges Bonnie Brown and areas of federal and state criminal with state and federal governments. Edward Foreman investigations, trials and complex Shore’s successful negotiations experienced love civil litigation. He is a highly awarded enabled the Seminole Tribe’s 2007 at first sight at a attorney who has been named among gaming agreement with the State of festival on Stetson Florida Trend’s Legal Elite and the Best Florida, which was approved by the University’s DeLand Lawyers of America. U.S. Department of the Interior and campus, and they While attending Stetson, he was allows Vegas-style gaming at each of married in October a member of the Stetson Law Review the Tribe’s seven Florida casinos. He 1967. This incredible and Phi Delta Phi. From 1973 to negotiated the Tribe’s acquisition of partnership continued 1977 he served as an assistant U.S. the Hard Rock hotel, restaurant and through Ed’s time at attorney in the Middle District of casino operations, with 168 venues in Stetson Law and his Florida, where he was responsible for 52 countries. brilliant legal career the prosecution of complex criminal When not serving as the tribe’s while Bonnie guided young people cases and received the attorney general counsel, Shore dedicates his as a school teacher. Four decades of general’s “Outstanding Performance time to a variety of non-profit civic community contributions continued in Trial Practice Award.” In 1977, he organizations. until Ed’s passing in 2004. However, entered private practice. Bonnie Foreman refused to let Trombley is active in community

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International Academy of Trial Lawyers names Searcy president

Christian Searcy ’73 has recently character, integrity and which is a quest for justice to protect been inducted into the International trial record. standards of fairness on behalf of Academy of Trial Lawyers as Searcy previously people whose rights have been president. The announcement took served as vice president violated.” place at the IATL’s annual meeting in of the IATL. He is Searcy is a past president of the Phoenix, Ariz. named in the Best Florida Justice Association, diplomat The International Academy of Lawyers in America, Florida Super of the American Association Trial Lawyers is an invitation-only Lawyers and among the top lawyers for Justice, and member of the organization limited to just 500 in the South Florida Legal Guide. International Society of Barristers, attorneys in the United States and “My induction into the American Board of Trial Advocates, 100 fellows from the rest of the International Academy of Trial foundation board of directors of the world. Inductees must undergo a Lawyers is quite an honor,” said University of Virginia, and Florida rigorous membership evaluation Searcy. “The organization exemplifies Supreme Court Historical Society process that encompasses legal skills, my personal philosophy of advocacy, board of trustees.

Bass receives Burton Award for Three alumni lead National Academy Legal Writing of Elder Law Attorneys Three Stetson graduates were elected to leadership Forrest Bass ’09 positions at the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys was one of only 15 during its annual meeting in May. recent law graduates Edwin Boyer ’77 became NAELA’s president-elect on June 1. Also a Stetson adjunct professor, Boyer is a partner nationwide to receive in the firm of Boyer and Jackson, which specializes in a national Burton elder law with an emphasis on guardianship, estate Boyer Award for student planning and administration, advance directives, end legal writing on June 14 at the of life issues, nursing home residents’ rights, and elder Library of Congress in Washington, exploitation. D.C. This is the second consecutive Catherine Seal LLM ’08 and Amos Goodall LLM year a Stetson graduate was honored ’09 were sworn in as members of the NAELA board of with a Burton Award. directors. In 2008, Seal earned Stetson’s first LL.M. degree Bass was honored for his article in elder law. She is a senior partner in the Colorado firm of Seal Kirtland & Seal, specializing in elder law, estate planning, “Calming the Storm: Public Access and probate and real estate law. Seal authored Colorado to Florida’s Beaches in the Wake Elder Law in the Thomson-West Colorado Practice Series. of Hurricane-Related Sand Loss,” The National Elder Law Foundation certified her as an which was published in the Stetson elder law attorney in 2003, and she received a graduate Law Review’s spring 2009 issue. certificate in gerontology in 2004. Bass also received the St. Petersburg Amos Goodall is president and partner of the law Times Award for his writing on the firm of Goodall & Yurchak PC in State College, Penn. Goodall Stetson Law Review. His practice emphasizes elder law matters, business On June 17, the U.S. Supreme organization, litigation and planning, as well as real estate litigation. He was certified as an elder law attorney in 2000. He is a fellow of Court issued its opinion in the case the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. His community service Bass analyzed in his article. Bass awards include the Pennsylvania Bar Association Pro Bono Service Award, now practices estate planning and Centre County Youth Service Bureau R. Paul Campbell Award, IOLTA Board tax law with the Punta Gorda law Recognition Award, and the Clearwater Conservancy Award for Thompson firm of Farr, Farr, Emerich, Hackett Wood Project. & Carr P.A.

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ALUMNI & FRIENDS HONORS The Stetson Lawyers Association Award for his generous contribution complex tort cases. His law firm honored alumni and friends in Boca of time and gifts to the College established an award for the top Raton on June 23 during the Florida of Law and alumni association. student in each first-year Torts class Bar annual convention. Sternberg owns a firm in Boca at Stetson. Pruitt, executive director Fred R. Dudley ’68 received Raton that concentrates on workers’ of the Hillsborough Bar Association, the Ben C. Willard Award for compensation. He supports various supports Stetson Law student humanitarian achievements of projects at the College of Law and is scholarships and many collaborations distinction. A member of the College an active member of the College of between the bar and Stetson. Arturo of Law Board of Overseers, Dudley Law Board of Overseers. Rios, an immigration attorney in is senior counsel with Holland & Judge Gail A. Adams ’80 and St. Petersburg, and his wife Myrna, Knight and is a board certified Donald A. Pumphrey ’96 both manager of the Rios Law Firm, construction lawyer. He served 16 received Outstanding Alumni regularly host several Stetson events, years in the Florida Legislature, Representative Awards for dedication including the annual moot court retiring from the Florida Senate in and service to the Stetson Lawyers party, as well as alumni receptions in 1998, where he chaired the Senate Association. Judge Adams, a circuit Puerto Rico. Judiciary Committee. court judge in Orange County, Lori Y. Baggett JD ’02 received Judge Simone Marstiller hosts the annual alumni gathering the Stetson Lawyers Association BBA ’88, JD ’96 received the in her home. Pumphrey, a criminal President’s Award for service and Distinguished Alumna Award for defender and member of the Stetson dedication as immediate past- extraordinary service to Stetson Law Lawyers Association, also regularly president of the SLA. Baggett, who and to the legal profession. Judge hosts alumni events in his home and dedicated substantial time to helping Marstiller of Florida’s First District reaches out to alumni. to advance the SLA as president, Court of Appeal in Tallahassee has Thomas W. Carey, Connie received the presidential gavel from served the state of Florida in a variety Pruitt, Arturo M. Rios and Myrna incoming SLA president Barbara of ways. Before becoming a judge, Rios each received Distinguished Cowherd JD ’00. she was the state’s chief information Service Awards for significant, The Stetson Lawyers Association officer and deputy attorney general, meritorious and continuing is comprised of more than 8,000 as well as executive director for the contributions benefiting the College graduates of Stetson University Florida Elections Commission. of Law. Carey, a partner in the College of Law. Scott J. Sternberg ’98 received Carey & Leisure law firm, represents the Paul M. May Meritorious Service plaintiffs in personal injury and

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Alumni honor retiring professor J.J. Brown with roast, scholarship

Around 200 alumni and friends gathered to celebrate Professor Brown began teaching law in Professor James Jay Brown with a roast upon his 1970, following five years of practice in retirement from full-time teaching in spring 2010. Cleveland, Ohio. The event featured a video presentation, remarks and To support the J.J. Brown recordings from the students he mentored and colleagues scholarship fund, call he befriended over his 29 years at Stetson. Many guests, (727) 562-7818. as well as alumni who could not attend, made gifts to the Professor J.J. Brown Merit Retention Scholarship Fund in his honor. Professor Brown has authored and edited several treatises and publications on real property, environmental law and land use planning. He has served on several committees for The Florida Bar and the State of Florida and is a past president of Scribes, the American Society of Writers on Legal Subjects.

Stetson lawyers rank highly on national, state lists

A total of 238 Stetson Law alumni were recognized in this year’s Florida Super Lawyers list, and 134 alumni were listed in the 2010 IN MEMORIAM “Florida Rising Stars” list. Super Clarence Boswell ’63 Hon. Robert E. Lee Jr. ’49 Lawyers is a list of outstanding Nov. 9, 2009, Bartow May 13, 2010, Daytona Beach lawyers from more than 70 practice John L. Burns Jr. ’55 Steven R. Loewenthal ’99 areas, and “Rising Stars” is a list of Sept. 18, 2009, Atlantis Jan. 16, 2010, Tampa the top up-and-coming attorneys in Maureen Sullivan Christine ’83 J. Carter Perkins Sr. ’47 the state — those who are 40 years April 16, 2010, St. Augustine Aug. 19, 2010, Leesburg old or younger, or who have been practicing for 10 years or less. Louis Cianfrogna ’71 Hon. Melvin Orfinger ’49 Oct. 17, 2009, Titusville Nov. 11, 2009, Port Orange Stetson University College of Law also placed 69th out of 180 Hon. Mack Cleveland BA ’49 JD ’51 Hon. Robert E. Pyle ’62 law schools in the Super Lawyers Oct. 17, 2010, Longwood Oct. 6, 2009, Lake Alfred magazine’s first-ever rankings of the Charles Corces, Jr. ’58 Thomas E. Reynolds ’75 nation’s ABA-approved law schools June 22, 2009, Tampa July 13, 2010, St. Petersburg in Fall 2009. William F. Cowart ’55 G. Don Ritter ’62 The rankings are based on the July 28, 2010, Tallahassee Nov. 19, 2010, Lakeland number of law school graduates who Michael Crotty ’94 Hon. John M. Scheb LLD ’83 were selected for the 2009 Super Oct. 7, 2010, Ormond Beach Nov. 17, 2010, Sarasota Lawyers list. Super Lawyers polls Charles W. Ehrlich ’71 Dean M. Sears ’60 practicing attorneys and conducts June 20, 2010, St. Petersburg Nov. 27, 2008, Bloomington, Ill. research to determine the top Katherine Emerson ’03 Douglas Stenstrom ’48 lawyers in each state. This is the first Nov. 4, 2009, Safety Harbor June 24, 2010, Lake Mary ranking system that focuses on the success of law school graduates. Robert M. Jockers ’97 Hon. Peter J.T. Taylor ’58 March 27, 2010, St. Petersburg July 3, 2010, Tampa

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New awards established to recognize top students

First-year Stetson Law students having the highest grades in Stetson’s for Corporate/M&A in Florida Chelsea C. Harrison, Christian Delaware Influence on Corporate and recognized by The Legal 500 M. Leger, Ming J. Lin, Patrick Law course, taught by Professor within the National-Middle Market S. McArdle and Haley R. Meher Clark Furlow and Justice Andrew category. received the inaugural Carey & G.T. Moore, a retired justice of the In May, the first Marc L. Levine Leisure Torts Book Award on Feb. 5 Delaware Supreme Court. Akerman Award was presented to Jessica in St. Petersburg. Senterfitt created the award to Lynn Crown, a Stetson Law student The award was created this recognize students who have excelled who has demonstrated significant academic year by the Clearwater in an advanced corporate law course. professional growth and leadership law firm of Carey & Leisure, which While on the bench, Justice during her time at Stetson. specializes in plaintiff’s personal Moore, who serves as a distinguished The award was established by injury work. The five student professorial lecturer at Stetson, Marc’s parents, Dr. and Mrs. Paul winners, who all started law school authored many notable corporate law A. Levine, to honor a graduating at Stetson in Fall 2009, were opinions, including Unocal Corp. v. student who, like Marc, emerged as a selected for the award based on their Mesa Petroleum Co. and Revlon Inc. v. campus leader at Stetson. outstanding final exam grades in MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc., “I am deeply honored that my torts, a first-semester law course. which are considered to be among parents decided to create an award The students also attended a the 10 most important cases in the in my name at Stetson Law,” said dinner hosted by partners in the last 100 years. He has been described Levine, the award’s namesake. law firm. The Carey & Leisure law as one of the most influential persons “However, I believe that the award firm, now in its 25th year, has been in corporate law during the 20th is more of an acknowledgement a leader in jury verdicts, legislative century. of the amazing experience and efforts and charitable endeavors, Before joining Stetson’s faculty, education that Stetson Law provides particularly in the fight against Furlow practiced corporate law and its students than of my individual drunk driving, setting the jury argued many cases in the Delaware accomplishments while in law verdict record multiple times in Supreme Court and the Delaware school.” Pinellas County. Partner Thomas Court of Chancery. Levine, an Orlando attorney W. Carey has served as an instructor With more than 500 attorneys with GrayRobinson P.A., graduated at Stetson, and partners Jodi Leisure and government affairs professionals, cum laude in 2006 from Stetson JD/MBA ’99 and Katherine C. Neal Akerman Senterfitt is one of the Law; he received the Walter Mann JD ’04 serve on the Stetson Lawyers largest firms in Florida and is ranked Award for professional leadership Association Advisory Council. Five among the top 100 firms in the and the William F. Blews Pro Bono of the firm’s six attorneys are Stetson U.S. by The National Law Journal Award for community service. While Law graduates. in 2009. The firm practices in the a student, he interned for Judge The Akerman Senterfitt law areas of antitrust, banking and Elizabeth A. Kovachevich of the firm has honored two Stetson Law finance, bankruptcy, construction, U.S. District Court for the Middle students with the new Corporate corporate, labor and employment, District of Florida, and Judge Law Award. health care, immigration, insurance, Ralph C. Stoddard of Florida’s 13th Monique Hannah Baros and commercial litigation, real estate, Judicial Circuit. Levine is a member Nicholas G. Popp received their tax and transportation. It is ranked of the Stetson Lawyers Association awards on April 26 in Tampa for number one by Chambers USA Advisory Council.

Left: Carey & Leisure Torts Book Award presentation; middle: Akerman Senterfitt presents its Corporate Law Award; right: Marc Levine ’06.

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Alumni news available online

Looking for news updates about your favorite classmates? Visit www. law.stetson.edu/alumni/news to find news about alumni promotions, service, awards and other achievements. Deaths, marriages and new additions are also included on the site. The new Stetson Law alumni news site will be updated quarterly, and submissions will be posted for two years (or for as long as we know the information is accurate, whichever comes first). To submit your news or update Select alumni accomplishments Alumni may also visit your contact information, e-mail and other Stetson news items www.law.stetson.edu/alumni to [email protected] or send in may also be posted to the Stetson join Stetson’s Hatternet, a searchable the Alumni News Update Form on Law Twitter feed at twitter.com/ online network tailored to graduates page 25 of this magazine. StetsonLaw. of the entire university. Alumni Marriages and New Additions Erin Barnett ’02 married Diana Lawson on May 24, 2010. of Zachary on May David Fiorenza on Oct. 9, 2009, in Aimee Nocero ’96 and husband Michelle Pitman-Gellis ’03 and Harrodsburg, Ky. Rodney announce the birth of husband David welcomed Rowan Travis Coy ’02 and Theresa Jean- Hunter Alexander on July Olivia Gellis on Dec. Pierre ’04 married on April 18, 2009. Gayle Conner ’04 and The couple resides in Tampa. James McGee III ’97 and wife husband Nathan announce the birth Kimberly Matot ’03 married Ty Megan announce their second child, of Caralee Brielle, born Feb. Wymore on May 17, 2009 in Justine Elizabeth Cassidy McGee, Katherine Neal ’04 and St. Pete Beach. born Sept. husband Chris welcomed daughter Kathryn Block ’05 and Justin Jennifer Schellenberg ’97 and Ella on June Faires ’05 married in Islamorada on husband Drew welcomed their second Rachel Zysk ’04 and husband June 6, 2009. child, Avery Grace, on March Nicholas welcomed Pela May on Dec. Robert Kunkel ’73 married Carol Cedric Hall ’00 and wife Deadra Ann on June 20, 2010. welcomed twin daughters Camille and Garrett Pendleton ’04 and wife Mary L. Wakeman ’86 and partner Cydney on Dec. Daria announce Mason Rush, born Dixon announce the adoption of Kevin ’00 and Jenay Iurato ’00 April Alexandra on Nov. 24, 2009. announce the birth of Dario Giordan Sarah Wesley ’08 and husband James Vickaryous ’93 and wife Jen Iurato, born Feb. Dan welcomed Daniel on announce their second child, Shawn Brown ’02 and wife Ashley Feb. Irelyn Gabrielle, born Aug. announce the birth of Hunter Jack, Rhiannon Funke ’10 and Heidi Lawson ’96 and husband born March husband Michael announce the birth David Philpott announce the adop- Angel Caracciolo ’03 of daughter Maggie, born July tion of Elizaveta Lynn and Eliana and husband Rory announce the birth

38 Stetson Lawyer ALUMNI News Back in the game

More than a few professional the team. His team won a conference football players have chosen to championship and made it to the attend law school after their playing NCAA Division I-AA national days were over. Playing pro ball after semifinals, and he tied the college’s graduating from law school is a rarer record for most PATs in a single feat. season. He was offered a football While most of Stetson’s May scholarship to supplement his 2010 juris doctor graduates spent academic one, and by the time he ample time to experience the their summer studying for the earned his bachelor’s degree, he set a local culture and travel. He and bar exam, Nick Robinson JD ’10 new college record for career PATs. the other American players have was playing professional football When Nick came to Stetson, volunteered in the coaches’ grade in Germany for the Schwaebisch football took a back seat to law school classes, teaching football, Unicorns. Days after receiving his school. He played intramurals and making appearances in uniform, and law school diploma, Robinson was practiced kicking and punting on speaking with students in English on a flight to southern Germany his own, and he kept in touch with classes. to play as a kicker in the German his former Wofford teammate and In August, the Unicorns had Football League. roommate Kyle Horne. Horne, nearly cinched a spot in the GFL Robinson’s football career has who played football in Germany, playoffs and were in contention never taken a traditional path. He encouraged his coaches to recruit for their division championship. only played soccer through his Nick as a kicker. The season ended with the German senior year of high school. His “This was an awesome Bowl in October, when Robinson soccer experience earned him an opportunity that timed out perfectly returned to the states to prepare for invitation to walk onto Wofford with my graduation,” said Robinson. the February bar exam and seek legal College’s football team as a kicker, His part-time commitment employment. and he won a place as a starter on with the Unicorns afforded him

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Fall 2010–Winter 2011 39 DONOR Report

e would like to thank the following individuals and organizations for their continued support of Stetson Law during the 2009-2010 Wacademic year, running from July 1 through June 30. Your gifts make the critical difference in the life of the College of Law and our students by helping us to maintain Stetson’s well-deserved reputation for superior teaching, scholarship and service to the profession. If we have overlooked anyone, please forgive us and allow us a chance to correct our records by contacting the Office of College Relations at (727) 562-7818 or [email protected].

THE JUSTICE SOCIETY Gregory W. Coleman BBA ’85, JD ’89 Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick $50,000 OR MORE Assoc. Dean John F. Cooper F Wm. Reece Smith Jr. O F Anonymous Foundation Hon. Robert N. Davis St. Petersburg Bar Foundation Inc. Charles A. Dana Law Center Foundation Lawrence P. Ingram ’90 O Times Publishing Company Leo J. Govoni O Frederick B. Karl ’49 Anne L. Weintraub ’03 O Dr. Dolly ’49 T and Homer Hand Marc T. Millian ’91 A John W. Staunton ’97 Phelps Dunbar LLP DEAN’S CIRCLE The Florida Bar Foundation Scott J. Sternberg ’98 O A $1,000 – 2,499 William H. Weller ’04 Lawrence C. Adams FOUNDER SOCIETY C. Steven Yerrid Karla C. Allen ’08 A $25,000 – $49,999 Roger W. Yoerges ’85 Allen Dell S. Sammy ’66 T O and Carolyn Michels Jan Majewski and Karen Altieri Cacciatore BA ’63 PRESIDENT’S SOCIETY Dennis M. Askins S Florin Roebig P.A. $2,500 – $4,999 Attorneys’ Title Insurance Fund Inc. Wilfried H. Florin ’80 Assoc. Dean Kristen D. Adams F Lori Y. Baggett ’02 O A Bonnie Brown Foreman BA ’68 T O Akerman Senterfitt Richard L. ’04 A and Cindy Barbara ’04 Pinellas County Community Foundation Banker, Lopez & Gassler P.A. Barney Masterson Inn of Court Joseph J. Reiter ’68 Boston Asset Management Prof. Mark D. Bauer F Thomas D. Roebig Jr. ’86 Prof. James J. Brown F Pamela C. Bell BA ’79, JD ’82 Thomas R. Brown ’67 Skip Berg ’71 COUNSELOR SOCIETY Capitano & Garcia LLC Prof. Robert D. F and Marilyn S. Bickel $15,000 – $24,999 Carlton Fields P.A. MS ’82 Anonymous Alumnus Alexander M. Clem ’90 O Robin A. Blanton BA ’73, JD ’77 Hon. Raphael Steinhardt ’63 O Deeb & Durkin P.A. William F. Blews ’66 O The Joy McCann Foundation Fred R. Dudley ’68 O Prof. Brooke J. Bowman ’02 F Thomas D. Graves ’60O Vincent A. Branton ’99 BARRISTER SOCIETY Richard A. Harrison BA ’83, JD ’86 O Deborah C. Brown ’87 S $10,000 – $14,999 Benjamin H. Hill IV ’97 A Burton Real Estate, LLC Hon. James C. Dauksch Jr. ’64 Hill Ward Henderson John W. Bussey III ’68 Dean Darby Dickerson F O Kass, Shuler, Solomon Butler Pappas Wehmuller Katz Craig LLP Martinez & Odom Prakash I. Khatri BA ’81, JD ’83 O Joey Hoffmeier Cacciatore BBA ’90 Ralph E. “Gene” Odom ’00 Dr. Adam S. Levine ’09 A Sammy M. Cacciatore BA ’90, JD ’95 Allen R. Samuels ’56 Wendy S. Loquasto ’88 O Hon. Donald F. Castor ’56 Gary R. Trombley ’73 O Richard Lorenzo J. Daniel Clark ’96 A and Sandra Levi Trombley & Hanes Joshua Magidson ’80 T O Clark ’97 Carol Masio McGuire ’85 O James W. Clark ’72 ADVOCATE SOCIETY Prof. Rebecca C. Morgan ’80 F Hon. Angela J. Cowden ’93 A $5,000 - $9,999 Carl R. Nelson ’77 Barbara M. Cowherd ’00 O A Prof. Robert D. Batey F Luis BA ’78, JD ’81 T O and Catherine C. Hon. Clinton A. Curtis ’58 Anthony and Elizabeth D Bressi Prats ’83 de la Parte & Gilbert P.A. Broad and Cassel Donald A. Pumphrey Jr. ’96 A Robert J. Deak ’08 A Steven G. Burton ’88 O John H. Rains III ’79 Prof. Cynthia Hawkins DeBose F Bush Ross P.A. Raymond James Financial Robert K. Downs ’65 Thomas W. Carey Robert G. Riegel BA ’78, JD ’81 O Robert E. Doyle Jr. ’75 O Carey & Leisure Arturo R. Rios Jr. ’06 O Prof. William R. Eleazer F

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Employees of NSI Insurance Group Hon. Irene H. Sullivan ’77 A Hon. Thomas B. McCoun III Adelaide G. Few ’85 Prof. G. J. “Rod” Sullivan Jr. ’82 Hon. Catherine Peek McEwen ’82 Prof. Peter L. Fitzgerald F The Florida Bar Foundation Karen Vaughan McManus ’97 Joseph W. Fleece Jr. ’56 Thomas A. & Mary S. James Foundation Cynthia A. Mikos ’93 Florida Defense Lawyers Association Prof. Ruth Fleet Thurman ’63F Thomas R. Mooney ’61 Prof. Roberta Kemp Flowers F Prof. Rebecca S. Trammell F Peter J. Munson ’72 William J. Flynn Melvyn Trute ’66 Michael S. Murray ’93 Fowler, White, Boggs P.A. J. Ben Watkins ’49 O William R. Nunno ’71 William G. Giltinan ’06 Robert G. Wellon Sr. ’74 O Matthew R. ’91 and Hon. Julie H. O’Kane Walker S. Green BA ’44, JD ’51 John F. Wendel ’63 ’91 Anthony J. Grezik ’53 F. Mark and Pamela L. Whittaker EdS ’90 J. Stephen BBA ’72, MBA ’73, Gerard W. Harlan Ann J. Wild ’93 JD ’76 and Marybeth L. Pullum ’76 Michael L. Hastings ’69 Gary E. Williams ’05 Michael J. Quesada MBA ’03, JD ’03 Meenakshi A. Hirani ’98 Clyde H. Wilson Jr. ’65 Jerome D. Quinn ’68 Richard P. Hirtreiter ’90 A Sema Yildirim ’03 A Raquel R. Ramirez St Beth A. Houghton ’80 Samuel Rashid Robin L. Hoyle ’91 S PARTNER Hon. Charles J. Roberts ’81 Bernard J. Iacovangelo ’73 $500 – $999 Prof. Charles H. Rose III F Jack C. Inman BS ’47, JD ’49 and Caroline K. Black ’84 A Frederick L. Schaub ’84 Alda W. Inman BA ’51 James L. Bowdish ’69 Wayne Sigmon ’76 Italian American War Veterans A. Craig Cameron ’73 Joseph F. Smith Thomas A. James ’69 Richard G. Canina ’85 George A. ’51 and Audrey B. Speer BA ’49 Jefferson Lee Ford III Memorial Lisa Carrasco ’03 Charles R. Stepter ’73 Foundation Inc. J. Frazier ’88 and Claire Bailey Carraway Brian O. Sutter ’82 Theodore E. Karatinos ’93 ’85 Robert and Marsha Titus Hon. Thomas Kirkland ’68 Hon. Walter S. Crumbley Bill S. Tong ’90 Hon. Elizabeth A. Kovachevich ’61 O Gerard J. Curley Jr. ’85 Tamara L. Trimble ’77 Marlyss R. Kuenzel Kirsten K. Davis F John P. Warren ’72 Gregory D. Lee MBA ’96, JD ’99 Hon. David A. BA ’68, JD ’72 and Susan Alison M. Yurko Lara Thompson Lee MBA ’98 Smotherman Demers BA ’71 Prof. Candace M. Zierdt F Dr. Paul and Susan Levine Jason E. Dimitris ’98 A Dr. Wendy B. Libby S T O and John W. Dommerich ’76 AMBASSADOR Dr. Richard Libby Andew J. Doyle ’96 $250 – $499 Harley K. Look Jr. ’78 Charles W. Ehrlich ’71 D Richard A. Adamy Mark T. Luttier ’79 Lawrence E. Fuentes ’73 Bruce S. Albright ’77 Stuart C. Markman Prof. Clark Furlow F Allen Law Richard J. McKay ’84 Seymour A. Gordon ’60 Lisa A. Anderson ’99 A Prof. Jeffrey J. MinnetiF Dr. Karen A. Griffin Bank of America Hon. Andrew G.T. Moore F Hon. Karl B. Grube ’70 Jeptha F. BBA ’79, JD ’82 and Carol H. Lee E. Muschott ’74 John A. Guyton Jr. ’59 Barbour BA ’81 George and Clara Nenezian Martin L. Haines ’71 Paul Barnard ’58 Francis A. Orszulak ’77 John D. Haines BA ’55, LLB ’59 Edward H. Bergstrom ’57 Mike J. ’80 and Hon. Emily Geer Peacock Frank L. Hearne Hon. Arthur B. Bleecher ’57 ’80 Richard A. Hirsch ’66 Brasfield, Fuller & Freeman Hon. Thomas E. Penick, Jr. ’72 Clifford G. Hoffman ’69 Browning, Meyer & Ball Co. LPA Hon. J. Carter Perkins ’47 D W. Langston Holland ’60 David P. Carter ’72 Tyler K. Pitchford ’07 Justin ’03 A and Lauren M. Hosie ’04 Edwin C. Coolidge Jr. BA ’90, JD ’93 Stanley W. Plappert ’09 Prof. R. Blake Hudson F Clifton C. Curry Jr. ’81 Prof. Ellen S. Podgor F Kevin M. Iurato ’00 and E. Jenay Curry Law Group Anthony I. Provitola ’66 Iurato MBA ’00, JD ’00 A Hugo H. de Beaubien ’73 Hon. Frank Quesada ’74 Patricia R. Johnson S Harry V. Delzer ’58 Amy R. Rigdon BA ’05, JD ’08 Susan G. Johnson ’97 John G. “Chip” Dicks III ’77 Andrew L. Ringers Sr. ’69 John A. Jones Fuentes & Kreischer, P.A. William J. Roberts BA ’53, MA ’57, Ricki P. Kanter ’81 Prof. Royal C. Gardner F LLB ’58 Prof. Timothy S. Kaye F Sally I. Gillespie MA ’65 DONOR CODES Fred N. Roberts Sr. ’64 Frank P. Klim S Glenn & Blenner A: SLA Advisory Council Hon. Dale Ross ’73 Tracy E. Leduc ’97 Jennifer A. Gonzalez ’05 D: Deceased Steven C. Ruth ’76 Hon. Robert E. Jr. ’49 D and Shirley Hud- Diane J. Harrison ’00 T: Trustee Hon. Susan F. Schaeffer ’71O son Lee MEd ’73 Hennessy Construction Services O: Overseer Shell Oil Company Foundation Stuart L. Lipshutz ’93 Corporation S: Staff Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP Stewart A. Marshall ’73 Brig. Gen. W.S. Hollis St: Student Gregory K. Showers ’92 O Bernard J. BA ’69, JD ’72 O and Denise Pfilip G. Hunt ’66 F: Faculty Robert G. Stokes LLB ’61 Poulos McCabe BA ’68 Jack P. James, III ’96 J. Cameron Story III ’77 Lisa D. McCartney ’09 Gina F. Jung ’92 John M. Strickland ’71 Prof. Janice McClendon F Earlene G. Kuester S

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Chelsie M. Lamie ’07 Jerry E. Aron ’77 Theodore A. Doremus ’69 Mindi Lasley Lauren J. Bacalis MBA ’09, JD ’09 Hon. William D. Douglas ’67 Roxane M. Latoza S Gene T. Badolato DSM.net Inc. Robert M. Lipshutz ’88 Stephen E. Bailey ’93 Pamela M. Dubov ’01 Jeffrey A. Luhrsen ’93 Baker & Baker P.L. Courtney M. Dunn ’07 James W. BS ’71, JD ’74 and Catherine B. William C. Baker BA ’61, JD ’83 Thomas C. Dunn Martin MBA ’08 Andrew Barnes Homer Duvall III ’88 Donna Massaro Nancy Barnes Sacha Dyson ’01 Marian P. McCulloch ’79 David W. Barrow BSB ’61, LLB ’66 Thomas S. Edwards ’83 Cynthia A. McGirk ’09 Barrow Medical Foundation Edwards & Ragatz P.A. Hon. Robert F. Michael Jr. ’64 David M. Becker John L. Ehrler Peter S. Miller ’74 Martin Bedrock ’83 Sherry F. Ellis ’98 John A. Miller ’60 Jill Kazmierzak Bell ’09 Joseph A. Eustace Jr. ’82 Lori T. Milvain ’97 John R. Bello ’86 H. Stephen Evans ’75 Kelli L. Mitchell ’10 Jesse J. Bennett Jr. ’81 Ralph L. Evans ’75 Kimberly Isner Monticello ’08 A James L. Bennett ’87 Connie P. Evans Prof. Joseph F. Morrissey F Kristi L. Bergemann ’02 Harry A. Evertz III BS ’54, JD ’60 Matthew S. Nugent ’81 A.C. Bergman William C. Falkner ’84 Erik C. MBA ’03, JD ’03 and Meredith Gerald S. Berkell ’52 Nancy G. Farage ’81 Phipps Nutter ’04 A F.L. Blankenhorn ’64 Assistant Dean Michael A. Farley S Phil D. O’Connell ’68 Samuel A. Block ’73 Ann W. Fiddler ’07 Nancy S. Paikoff ’90 Dorothea T. Bogert Michael W. Fisher ’67 Prof. Jason Palmer F Garvin B. Bowden ’98 Catherine K. Fitch S Hon. Alexander L. Paskay O Kira L. Braillier Doyle MBA ’02, JD ’02 Horace J. Fite ’62 Dr. David W. Persky ’88 Jack P. Brandon ’69 Hon. Marion L. Fleming ’83 Mercedes M. Pino ’02 Diane H. Brannon Christa D’Urso Folkers ’03 Marilyn M. Polson ’87 J. Christopher Bristow ’09 Mary Kestenbaum Fortson ’97 Cassandra N. Ponder ’03 Tae K. Bronner ’94 Hon. Florence W. Foster ’85 Hon. Anthony E. BA ’93, JD ’98 and Jacqueline L. Brown ’92 Hon. Matthew M. Foxman ’98 Julie Plocar Porcelli BS ’93 Jane H. Brown ’77 Martin S. Friedman ’75 Prof. Theresa J. Pulley RadwanF Kevin R. Bruning ’00 Andrew I. Friedrich ’70 William E. Reischmann ’59 Hon. Seaborn J. Jr. ’49 and Marcy H. Gardner, Wadsworth, Duggar Todd Council Richardson BA ’84, JD ’86 Buckalew BA ’48 Holly K. Ghelfi ’06 Irene M. Rodriguez ’84 Pamela J. Buha ’07 Chet Giordano Whitney B. Scott ’08 Nancy Noble Burton ’83 Richard D. Gish ’87 Lisa Finaldi Simmons ’01 Robert P. Byelick ’76 Miriam Gomez Donald A. Smith ’78 E. Gentry Byrnes BA ’90, JD ’93 Barry J. Goodman ’77 Smith, Tozian & Hinkle P.A. Nancy Canniff Jay M. Gottlieb ’76 Robert J. Sniffen ’93 Klarika J. Caplano ’07 Davina Y. Gould BA ’97 S Rev. Lynnette Stallworth Hon. Charles S. Carrere ’61 John B. Grandoff III ’85 A. Bronwyn Stanford ’03 Nancy L. Carter ’76 Tamara L. Graysay ’02 Scott I. Steady ’86 John W. Cash ’65 William S. Greiner ’07 S George R. ’53 and Barbara Martin Ste- Michael A. Catalano ’83 Linda E. Griffin ’91 dronsky BS ’54 Albert Cazin ’59 Curtis A. Griffin ’07 Sarah R. Straley ’80 Brian S. BBA ’02, JD ’05 and Cynthia N. John M. Grosso ’76 William C. Strode ’58 Chambers BBA ’03, JD ’08 Kristen C. Gunter ’77 Nina M. Sumilang ’10 Neil C. Chamelin ’68 Robert L. Hamilton BSB ’64, JD ’67 Hon. Lynn Tepper ’77 Stephen C. Chumbris ’76 Kim R. Helper ’93 Prof. Stephanie A. Vaughan ’91 F Susan H. Churuti Joseph M. Hendry II ’89 David A. Veenstra ’10 Michele L. Cline ’10 Cristin M. Herendeen Prof. Kathryn Webber Alfred A. Colby ’93 James P. Hewitt III ’75 George A. Weller ’74 Betty R. Cole BA ’55 Alicia M. Hill S Irving W. Wheeler ’59 Beverly C. Cole John R. Hixenbaugh ’08 James L. Whitten ’69 Douglas S. Connor ’82 Peter T. Hofstra ’77 Richard D. Connor Jr. ’86 Hon. Michael J. Hogan ’73 DIPLOMAT William G. Crawford Jr. ’75 Cheryl L. Hogue S $100 - $249 Beth A. Cronin ’95 Patice L. Holland ’07 Anonymous Friend Dennis E. Dabroski ’76 Hon. Donald E. Horrox ’82 Harvey J. Abel ’59 M. Eleanor Davidov Donald W. Howard S Prof. Michael P. Allen F Angela L. Dazzio MBA ’05, JD ’05 Robert C. Hulcher Ann M. Allison ’04 Lana Larson Dean ’99 Homer H. Humphries ’61 Gene J. Andre Jr. David L. Dees ’78 Dean Emeritus Bruce R. Jacob ’59 F Hon. Horace A. Andrews ’70 J. Allison DeFoor II ’79 Charles E. Jacobson III ’74 Hon. Henry J. Andringa ’74 Lawrence J. Disparti ’02 Aleksandra I. Jagiella ’04 Keith T. Appleby MBA ’04, JD ’04 A Celeste R. Donovan ’92 William R. Jenkins ’65

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Jimbo’s Pit Bar B.Q. of Tampa Donald A. Pickworth ’73 Williams, Parker, Harrison, Dietz & Getzen Gary R. Jodat ’93 Genellen S. Pike ’02 Lavern J. Wilson ’06 A Rita Al Goding Jones Yunior Pineiro ’00 A Jack Windt ’59 Vera June ’04 Pinellas County Chapter ACLU Stephanie E. Wnetrzak ’98 Bernard Kanner ’74 Janet S. Porges ’93 Carol G. Wolf ’89 Prof. William A. Kaplin F John M. Potter ’59 Laura M. Zuppo S Karen S. Keaton ’83 Katherine C. (Poux) Neal ’04 A Rare Earth Sciences Inc. Douglas Kemp ’02 Hon. Rom W. Powell ’63 Lawrence E. Keough ’60 James N. Powell ’73 DONOR Frank Kreski Connie R. Pruitt $99 and under Kevin ’91 and Mary Beth C. Kuenzel ’93 Russell L. Querry ’94 Andrew Abramovich ’07 Herbert L. Kurras ’59 Matthew S. Ransdell ’09 Jeffrey M. ’84 and Angela M. Adams ’85 Prof. Peter F. Lake F Timothy Reilly ’58 Ashley P. Allen Rollinson ’08 Jan E. Langford ’81 Louis W. Ricker Prof. Linda S. Anderson F Megan W. Lattz ’07 Kimberly L. Rodgers ’88 A Arnold A. Argintar Hon. John C. Lenderman ’69 Rachel V. Rose ’10 Lyda L. Astrove ’84 Michael Lenehan ’75 Robert P. Rosin ’59 Tami L. Augen ’98 Meredith E. Level ’94 James J. Rowan ’66 William A. Backer ’02 Norma Lewis Prof. Susan Rozelle F Anne K. Banford ’07 Lewis, Longman & Walker Pamela J. Rush ’96 Prof. Dorothea Beane F Michele L. Lieberman ’97 Stephen B. Russell ’75 Richard E. Bender ’79 Prof. Lance N. Long F Adrian Rust ’95 Nancy J. Besore ’05 Eunice A. Luke ’66 Debra M. Salisbury ’92 Peter Betzer Kristina G. Macys S Dr. Gail E. Sasnett Stauffer ’89 Nichole M. Bibicoff ’08 Jessica P. Mahoney ’01 Sheila F. Scarlett Joanna J. Bilgutay ’07 Marcia & Harvey Abel Family Schakolad Chocolate Prof. Megan L. Bittakis ’99 Foundation Inc. Paul C. Scherer ’73 Jennifer Kimberger Booth ’02 Bruce Marger J. Peter Schultes Andrew R. Boyer ’06 Prof. Thomas C. Marks ’63F Matthew M. Setley ’09 Hon. Earl C. Branning ’52 Hon. Kenneth A. ’77 and Deborah L. Susan Heath Sharp ’03 James F. Brantley ’09 Marra ’76 Laura Simic Hon. Stephen M. Brown ’73 Elvin L. Martinez ’62 Peter M. Sipples ’75 Thomas R. Bruckman ’64 William T. McKinley ’07 James S. Slater ’04 Buell & Elligett Nicola J. Melby ’92 Mary K. Sloan ’87 Frank Busa Larry K. Meyer ’66 John S. Slye ’64 Deborah A. Bushnell ’80 Harlow C. Middleton ’67 Leslie R. Stein ’76 O Prof. Catherine J. Cameron F David C. Miller ’98 Gary N. Strohauer ’72 Prof. Bruce Carolan Joe M. Mitchell Jr. ’68 John E. Sullivan ’87 P. Lynn Cash ’83 John W. Monroe, Jr. ’78 Brett L. Swigert ’90 Wynne M. Casteel ’58 Hon. Ashley B. Moody LLM ’10 Beverly H. Switz John C. BBA ’79 and Cynthia K. Cavana- Hon. James S. Moody Prof. Michael I. Swygert F ugh ’86 Richard A. Morgan Tampa Bay Trane Prof. Christine Cerniglia F William McG. Morrison Jr. ’50 Suzy Tate MBA ’05, JD ’05 Joseph W. Chambers MRI Associates of Palm Harbor Inc. Hon. Peter J.T. Taylor ’58 D Brandon R. BA ’02, JD ’05 and Kathryn H. Karen L. Mulcahy ’03 Josephine W. Thomas ’06 Christian BA ’02, JD ’06 Lawrence J. Najem ’87 John R. Thomas ’90 Dudley J. Clapp III ’76 Michael D. Neben Patricia S. Toups BBA ’09 S Debra R. Cohen Richard W. Neiser ’63 Patricia A. Trent ’77 Marcia S. Cohen ’84 Daniel A. Noble Richard L. Truitt ’02 Hon. John N. Conrad BA ’78, JD ’80 Mary Ann Noud ’04 Alfred E. Underberg ’59 Leanne C. Constantine ’09 William W. O’Dell Lawrence C. Updike ’74 Robin M. Cornell ’94 Barbara Olsen Verizon Foundation Kevin A. Cranman William A. Ottinger ’62 Maria D. Vesperi Yate K. Cutliff ’89 Stephen C. Page ’77 Veterinary Center at Fishhawk Marisa J. Davies ’04 Jo Ann Palchak ’05 Hon. Craig C. Villanti ’77 Dennis M. Dayton ’75 DONOR CODES Clinton Paris MBA ’00, JD ’00 A Prof. Louis J. Virelli F Jarett A. de Paula MBA ’07, JD ’07 A: SLA Advisory Council Pamela J. Pautler ’09 J. Brent Walker ’76 Vanessa A. De Rosa ’07 A D: Deceased Dominique Heller Pearlman ’07 Philip S. Wartenberg ’94 James E. Deakyne ’73 T: Trustee Mark E. Pena ’93 Carleton L. Weidemeyer ’61 Dennis R. DeLoach Jr. ’63 O: Overseer Garrett L. Pendleton MBA ’04, JD ’04 Deborah L. Werner ’83 Luis Y. Diaz S: Staff Elizabeth C. Pennewill ’98 Brianna J. Wetherwax S Wesley C. Dicus ’06 St: Student Donald A. Pensiero Cynthia D. Wiles Dr. G. Robertson Dilg ’82 F: Faculty Samuel L. Perry BBA ’70 Jeffery M. Wilkins Patti N. Dilg BA ’64 Victoria H. Erquiaga ’86 Thomas H. Williams Jr. ’96 Karen R. Donnell Prof. Ann M. Piccard ’85 F Thomas R. Williams ’79 John Dosher

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Sean P. Dunham ’08 Harley K. Look ’07 Peter W. Rotella ’72 Scott N. Dunn ’90 Ezequiel Lugo ’07 Alyssa A. Ruge ’03 Jean M. Dwyer ’90 Michela Magenheim-Morganti Charmaine Rushing S Shannon Mullins Edgar S Sally Malena Dayton D. Russell Charles G. Edwards ’64 Joe T. Martin ’54 Bonnie E. Russell ’84 R. Thomas “Tom” Elligett Vilma Martinez ’09 Keith W. Rutter Carlos A. Enriquez ’83 Rose M. Maschal Juan A. Salazar ’00 Prof. Stephen M. Everhart F Karen J. Mawhinney ’82 Aisha A. Sanchez ’09 Kathryn L. Everlove-Stone ’06 Richard McAlpin ’84 John E. Schaefer ’81 Kristen M. Fiato S Stacey W. McConnell ’80 Ann Schoenacher Robert T. Fitch ’80 Peggy J. McCord ’90 Gerard K. Short Michael B. Ganson ’78 Robert C. McCurdy ’73 Wendy Short ’04 John Paul Getting MBA ’09, JD ’09 Kelly A. McKnight ’04 Jason A. Shrive ’09 Jonathan T. Gilbert ’08 J. Richard McMillin BA ’69 and Denise O. Simpson ’93 Susan Glazier S Hon. Gail A. Adams ’80 Caitlin Sirico ’08 Joann K. Grages ’08 A Harold L. McNeill BS ’56, LLB ’60 Pam D. Skoularakos S Anthony P. Granese ’72 Dr. Sheila F. McNeill ’90 W. Lawrence Smith ’82 Hon. Oliver L. Green ’58 Thomas O. Michaels ’78 Sarah M. Sorgie ’08 Louis R. Grieco Katherine Hurst Miller ’06 A Jason P. Stearns ’08 William G. Grigsby Robert B. Miller ’62 Anne G. Stinnett ’65 Douglas W. ’89 and Susan H. Grissinger David J. Miller ’09 Susan A. Stinson S ’89 Thomas S. Miller ’57 Stephen D. Stone ’96 A J. Kelsey Grodzicki ’09 Elise A. Minkoff ’94 Casey A. Stoutamire ’09 S Ronald M. Gruesbeck ’65 Kenneth A. Mirkin ’08 Elizabeth L. Strawn ’95 Scarlett R. Guy ’02 Kristen R. Moore ’09 Mort Stupp Frank F. Haak Emily E. Morgan ’07 Anthony Tamburello ’87 James A. Hellickson ’74 Carol C. Murphy ’78 Jennifer L. Terrana ’09 Prof. Carol E. Henderson F Joseph T. Murray III ’08 Angela M. Thompson David T. Henniger ’65 Joe Muscato J. Harley (Chivers) Toufanian ’05 Hugh D. Higgins ’07 Nicholas Narushko Douglas I. BBA ’83 and Deborah A. Corey K. Holthaus ’05 Hon. G. Carey Nelson ’77 Tozier BA ’83, JD ’86 Home-Based Business Centers Inc. Russell J. Newman MBA ’08, JD ’08 Joseph J. Tschida ’84 William J. Hornbeck ’79 Glenn L. Nye ’79 Sarah B. Van Schoyck ’09 Melony F. Howard ’04 Thomas D. Oates ’03 Jerry M. Wade II ’87 W. Jay ’76 and Jane Hunston ’76 Kelly A. Overfield ’94 Adron H. Walker BBA ’77, JD ’80 Rita Husmann Dana Panza ’01 Brian A. Watson ’07 Ronald G. Ingham ’67 John H. Pecarek ’71 Leslie J. Weaver S Italian American War Veterans Ladies Pecarek & Herman Joshua P. Welsh Auxillary Shirley D. Pellarchy ’97 Leah L. Whelan Gerald S. James ’63 Krista L. Pendino ’09 Patrick G. White Melody B. James MBA ’07, JD ’07 A David V. Pennella Vicki Wiggins ’94 Adam T. Jameson ’09 Anita Devi Persaud Misir BA ’06, JD ’09 G. Barry Wilkinson ’87 Lyndy C. Jennings ’04 Dorothy M. Pessillo ’83 Shirley A. Wimpfen Arlene D. Jensen Thelma A. Peters Yummoi Woerner Prof. Marco J. Jimenez F Louise J. Petren S John C. Wolfe ’73 Hon. Anthony H. Johnson ’80 Brett B. Pettigrew ’09 Suzanne Wright Christopher Ryan Jones ’06 Erica G. Pless ’08 Thomas R. Yaegers MBA ’05, JD ’05 Gertrude H. Kaplan St Patricia A. Powers Katherine Hope Earle Yanes ’97 Peter Keating ’73 Principal Financial Group Doris T. Kennedy Daniel S. Propp Clifford R. Klaus ’02 Francine L. Rackoff ’83 Risa W. Klemans ’88 Charles E. Ray ’80 Edward B. Knauer ’84 Casey G. Reeder BA ’05, JD ’07 Asher E. Knipe ’08 John H. Rhodes ’60 Christopher R. Koehler MBA ’03, JD ’03 Tracy Rich S Stephanie Kwan BBA ’05, MBA ’09, Kenneth W. Richman ’76 JD ’09 G. Don Ritter ’62 Brooke M. Lacy BA ’02, JD ’07 John Rivera ’81 DONOR CODES Amy L. Lazzaroni ’08 William M. Roberts III BA ’66 A: SLA Advisory Council Lesley P. Lentz ’06 Mary A. Robinson D: Deceased William R. Leonard ’77 Col. Jorge E. Rodriguez Sr., BA ’73 T: Trustee Marc L. Levine ’06 A Jason R. Rodriguez ’07 O: Overseer Carlos A. Leyva ’07 Maritza Rodriguez S: Staff Robert P. Lithman ’76 Lindy Howell Rogers St: Student Karen E. Lloyd ’85 George D. Root ’09 F: Faculty 44 Stetson Lawyer Find out the latest news and reconnect with classmates via Stetson Law channels, feeds and groups on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and LinkedIn. Subscribe to our news feed at www.law.stetson.edu/rss.

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