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SPRING HAS ARRIVEDIN SOUTH BEND.After the dreary winter, the warm sunshine and the chirping song- birds and the playful squirrels - which, at times, seem 2000 CALENDAR OFEVENTS more plentiful on campus than students - bring forth a certain sense of optimism about the future. As we prepare to graduate another class next month April 27, 2000 September 16, 2000 and welcome a new group of students in just four months, Indiana State Bar Association Home Football: ND vs. Purdue we at NDLS have much about which to be optimistic. As I Notre Dame LawAssociation Reception Continuing Legal Education Program hope you will see from the articles in this issue, our gradu- Grand Wayne Center/Hilton Hotel 8 to 10 a.m. ates are moving increasingly toward a greater emphasis on Fort Wayne, Indiana service in an ever-growing number of ways. We have alumni 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. October 6, 2000 working at the highest levels of the nation's government, and Notre Dame LawAssociation Fall Meeting many, many more Notre Dame lawyers working in local and April 27·28,2000 state governments, illustrating their commitment to the Notre Dame LawAssociation Spring October 7, 2000 common good. Our Law Association has dedicated itself to Meeting Home Football: ND vs. Stanford providing service opportunities for students who come to Notre Dame Alumni Association Class of 1970: 30th Reunion law school dreaming of a career in public service. And our Senate Class of 1975: 25th Reunion students, in growing numbers, look for ways to give back to their community. April 29,2000 October 14·22, 2000 The alumni stories in this issue will inspire certain of Blue-Gold Game (Spring Scrimmage) University Fall Semester Break our students and alumni to consider carefully career paths in government service. And I know that we have a great many May 18,2000 October 15, 2000 other stories among our NDLS family that can inspire oth- Ohio State Bar Association Deadline for submissions for Notre Dame ers to pursue their own dreams of contributing to a fairer Notre Dame LawAssociation Reception Lawyer, FalllWinter 2000 issue and more just world. In an age in which general consensus Seagate Center, Toledo, Ohio seems to be that law as a profession makes lawyers unhappy, I know that there are a great number of Notre Dame 6 to 7 p.m. October 26·27,2000 lawyers who engage in their practice of law - whether in Law School Advisory Council Annual the government, in private practice or in the business world May 19·21,2000 Meeting - and find ways to make their profession personally Commencement Weekend rewarding. I welcome your stories, and ask that you write or October 28, 2000 e-mail me at the address below to share with others whar June 8.11,2000 Home Football: ND vs. Air Force inspires and motivates you. University Reunion 2000 Continuing Legal Education Program 8 to 10 a.m. Yours in Notre Dame, June 15,2000 Deadline for submissions for Notre Dame November II, 2000 Lawyer, Summer 2000 issue Home Football: ND vs. Boston College Continuing Legal Education Program June 16.18,2000 8 to 10 a.m. Class of 1960:40th Reunion November 23·26, 2000 Cathy Pieronek, Editor July 9,2000 Thanksgiving Holiday 102 Law School American Bar Association Annual Meeting University and Law School Offices Closed Norre Dame, IN 46556 Notre Dame LawAssociation Reception phone: (219) 631-6891 Mickey Mantle's December 23, 2000, fax: (219) 631-4499 59th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues through January 14, 200 I e-rnail: [email protected] New York, New York Christmas Holiday 6 to 8 p.m. University and Law School Offices Closed September 2, 2000 from December 23,2000, through Home Football: ND vs.Texas A&M January I, 200 I

September 9, 2000 Home Football: ND vs. Nebraska For more information on Law School or University events, please contact Cathy Pieronek at the Law School Relations Office. N o li R IE ID A M\ L A w y IE R

Spring 2 000 LAW SCHOO FOCUS

Committed to the Common Good 4

Two Paths Toward Justice -Ann Claire Williams 75 J.D., '97 LL.D.and Charles Wilson 76,79 J.D. Leading By Example - Gary Hall '96 J.D. Honorable Kenneth F.Ripple - A Distinguished Teacher

3 FROMTHE DEAN 36 r~SHLAWSPORTSREPORT 14 FACULTY NOTES 38 - Debate Director Inspires Success 20 ALUMNI NOTES - Third-year Student Campaigns for 20 In Memoriam Indiana House 21 Pope John Paul II Honors NDLS Alumnus - Law Students Commemorate Juvenile 23 New Additions Court Anniversary Editor: Cathy Pieronek 24 Alumni Augment Faculty in Spring 2000 - London LL.M. Candidate Appointed Contributing Authors: Semester Palestinian Spokesperson Dwight King, Cathy Pieronek, 27 Margaret Ryan Collins '95J.D., US. Supreme 39 LAW SCHOOL B~EFS Don Strumtllo Court Clerk .- Law School Participates in Carnegie 29 Class Web Sites and E-Mail Listservs Foundarion Study Principal Photographer: NDLS Alumni and Friends Listserv -Social Justice Forum's "Immunity Matt Cashore 30 BOOKS OF INTEREST Days"Help Feed the Community NDLA in New York City 40 - Distinguished Speakers at NDLS Supplemental Photography: 31 Notre Dame Law Association News - NDonTV Kevin Burke, THE TAMPA TRIBUNE -Elections 2000 - Results - Curriculum Changes to Affect - Thank You to Retiring Board Members Class of 2003 Notre Dame Lawyer is -Do We Know Where YouAre! - New Classes Challenge Students published for the alumni and 31 LAW ALUMNIREUNIONS 41 - St. Nicholas Party Entertains friends of the University of - Class Reunions for 2000 NDLS Children Notre Dame Law School, 32 Father Mike McCafferty Talent Show News from the Legal Aid Clinic Notre Dame, Indiana. 34 STUDENT NOTES 42 News from the Admissions Office - 50th Annual Moot Court Showcase 43 News from the Center for Civil and Address correspondence to: Argument Human Rights Notre Dame Lawyer -Students Display Winning Ways 44 News from Law School Relations 102 Law School Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 in Competitions 45 News from the Career Services Office Telephone (219) 631-6891 35 - Minority Student Organizations 46 Legislative History Research on the Fax (219) 631-4499 Focus on Education Internet Using THOMAS and GPO - Student Organizations Host Access Spring 2000 Distinguished Speakers 48 News from Law School Advancement

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F R o M TH E ID E A N

n the last issue of this magazine, I wrote of our seeing ourselves as a community "called to har- ness our gifts to the service of others." This issue focuses on several of our most recent graduates who have answered that calling through service at the national level. As those of you who are regular readers will know, this national service is but the tip of an enormous iceberg. The class notes are regularly filled with reports of service by our graduates in their own communities, from the broad base in local communities to the peak of national service. Most recently, several alum- ni have worked with public interest groups to provide summer internships for our students. I know from the enthusiastic student response that the internships have tapped a deep interest. In these and so many other instances, the work of Notre Dame lawyers has made us enormously proud, while at the same time challenging those of us who remain at the Law School to do all that we can to enhance the tradition of public service. Also in this issue you will see the announcement of the appointment of two new members to our fac- ulty - A.J. and Tricia Bellia. As many of you know, A.J. will be returning"home."An undergraduate at Canisius College, A.J. served as editor-in-chief for the NOTRE DAME LAW REVIEW in 1993-94. Following clerkships at the federal district and appellate court levels, he clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. He joins the faculty after two years of practice with Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin in Washington, D.C. Tricia Bellia earned her undergraduate degree at Harvard, and had a distin- guished record at Yale Law School where she served as editor-in-chief of the YALELAWJOURNAL. After a federal appellate clerkship, she clerked for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the United States Supreme Court. Tricia has worked for the last three years for the Office of Legal Counsel in the United States Department of Justice.Together, A.J. and Tricia continue our recent string of successes in adding faculty members whose distinguished records promise significant contributions to our already strong faculty. As I write this letter, we continue to search for other faculty, especially in the business and commercial fields. We are also in the midst of a search for a director of admissions. There is one other homecoming that I am delighted to announce. Glenn Rosswurm '90 J.D. has been named the new director for Law School advancement. Following graduation,Glenn cle'rked for a federal magistrate judge in South Bend. After a few years in private practice, he joined the University's Department of Development in the Office of Planned Giving. Most recently, Glenn served as director of development research. With Glenn's help, I will be in a better position to concentrate my efforts on securing the addi- tional funding that is needed to keep the Law School moving toward the next level of excellence. I continue to be tremendously grateful for the outpouring of support for the Law School that I have received during this first year of my deanship.

Patricia A. O'Hara Dean and Matson Professor of Law LAW SCHOOL FOCUS

BY CATHY PIERONEK '84, '95 J.D., DIRECTOR OF LAW SCHOOL RELATIONS

THE PATH TOWARD A POSITION ONTHE NATION'S SECOND-

HIGHEST COURT DOESN'T ALWAYSSEEM STRAIGHT AND

SMOOTH.FIRST, THERE'S THE PROBLEM OF GETTING

NOTICED. WHICH PARTICULAR CAREER PATH AND WHICH

POLITICAL OR PERSONAL IDEOLOGIES MIGHT ATTRACT THE

ATTENTION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES?

THEN, THERE'S THE POLITICAL SIDE OF THE APPOINTMENT

PROCESS, INCLUDING CONFIRMATION BYTHE U.S. SENATE,

WHICH MAYBE HOSTILE TOWARD A SITTING PRESIDENT.

BUT THE LIVES OF TWO NDLS GRADUATES RECENTLY

SWORN-INTO THE FEDERALAPPELLATE BENCH SHOWTHAT

CAREER PATHS AND IDEOLOGIES, WHILE CERTAINLYRELE-

VANT TO THE PROCESS, DON'TOUTWEIGH THEIMPORTANCE

OF PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL LIVES LIVED WITH HONOR

AND DIGNITY AND A STRONG COMMITMENT TO SERVICE.

HONORABLE CHARLES R. WILSON '76, '79 J.D.

WAS SWORN IN TO THE U.S.COURT OF ApPEALS FOR

THE ELEVENTHCIRCUIT IN NOVEMBER 1999. HESITS IN

TAMPA, WITH OCCASIONAL TRIPS TO ATLANTA, TOINTER-

PRET FEDERALLAW IN CASES ARISING IN ALABAMA,FLORIDA

AND GEORGIA. HONORABLE ANN CLAIRE WILLIAMS

'75 J.D., '97 LL.D. WAS SWORN IN TO THE U.S. COURT

OF ApPEALS FOR THE SEVENTHCIRCUIT IN JANUARY 2000.

SHESITS IN CHICAGO AND HAS RESPONSIBILITY FOR

FEDERAL CASES IN ILLINOIS,INDIANA ANDWISCONSIN.

ARTWORK BY JUDE MACEREN/SIS Two Paths Toward Justice

ANN CLAIRE WILLIAMS '75 J.D., '97 LL.D. AND CHARLES WILSON '76, '79 J.D. • 5

Much in their backgrounds is similar. Judge Williams began her own profes- Both come from strong families committed sionallife as a teacher after earning her to education and to justice, and have com- B.S. from Wayne State University in 1970. mitted to raising their own young families She worked as a music and third-grade with these same values. Both experienced teacher at an inner-city Detroit public the effects of discrimination against school while earning her M.A. in guidance African-Americans in the early years of the and counseling at the University of civil-rights movement which motivated Michigan in 1972. them to pursue their careers in law. Both native of Detroit, She hadn't considered a career as a clerked for federal appellate judges, and Michigan,Ann lawyer until a friend talked her into sitting both spent some part of their professional Claire Williams saw for the LSAT. She had worked toward a A how segregation career as a teacher and counselor, but then lives as U.S. attorneys. Both love Notre Dame and have remained active members affected professional opportunities for her realized that lawyers who do their jobs of the campus community since gradua- parents, both of whom were college gradu- properly can be teachers and counselors as tion. Both have worked hard to establish ates from historically black institutions. well. "Lawyers are teachers because they themselves among their colleagues as per- Dorothy Williams, educated as a teacher, have to teach lawyers and they have to sons of intelligence and integrity, known could find only substitute-teaching jobs in teach judges;' she notes. "And lawyers have for being articulate and judicious as well as Detroit in the 1950s. Eventually, she to be counselors because they counsel scrupulously fair and honest. secured a full-time teaching position in a clients:' She also admits to enjoying the Given these credentials, their differ- home for delinquent teens and, after 10 art of advocacy inherent in trial practice. ences may seem unimportant. Her parents years, was finally allowed to teach in the After graduating from NDLS in 1975, were teachers; his father was a lawyer. She first and second grades in the Detroit pub- she clerked for the late Honorable Robert watched her parents work through and lic schools. Joshua Williams, who had A. Sprecher of the Seventh Circuit in past the effects of segregation in the north; earned a bachelor's degree in psychology, Chicago before accepting a position as he watched his father struggle to desegre- drove a bus for Detroit Streets and assistant U.S. attorney in Chicago, where gate schools in the south, enduring threats Railways for 20 years. When he retired she prosecuted major felonies and domi- of violence along the way. She will not and began drawing a pension, he returned nated courtrooms with what colleagues say whether she is a Republican or a to school, sharing some classes with his refer to as "spellbinding arguments:' Early Democrat; he is a registered Democrat. daughter, who was attending graduate in her career, she had to prosecute welfare She admires the late Justice Thurgood school. He earned his teaching certificate mothers who were accused of defrauding Marshall for his pioneering leadership as and, late in life, started a second career as the government by not reporting income an African-American attorney and jurist; a third- and fourth-grade teacher. Judge from other jobs. She carefully made the he admires the late Justice Lewis Powell Williams credits her parents with showing difficult decisions about which cases to for his centrist and moderate approach to her how to carry herself with dignity, how prosecute, considering mitigating factors in deciding each case on its individual merits. to persevere in the face of barriers like gen- each instance. During her nine years as a She is outgoing and vivacious; he is calm der and race, and how to be reasonable in federal prosecutor, she served for two years and reserved. She loves to sing in public her professional life. as deputy chief of the office's Criminal and watch movies - even the bad ones; Division, and for three years as the first he runs and loves watching Notre Dame chief of a regional Organized Drug football games - even the bad ones. Enforcement Task Force that encompassed But it is precisely those differences drug-enforcement activities in five states. that have formed them into unique individ- uals with different gifts they bring to their new jobs. And it is also these differences that inspired each of them in their work toward justice. Both have worked hard to establish themselves among their colleagues as persons of intelligence and integrity, known for being articulate and judicious as well as scrupulously fair and honest. • 6

Judge Williams credits her parents with showing her In 1985, President Ronald W. Reagan students, significant experience, mature nominated her to the federal district court how to carry herself with judgment and the kind of quiet fortitude for the Northern District of Illinois, mak- that has been noticed, since then, by the ing her, at age 35, one of the youngest dignity, how to persevere lawyers and judges with whom she has judges ever appointed to the federal bench in the face of barriers like worked in Chicago:' and only the ninth African-American She has carried her early commitment woman ever named to the federal judiciary. gender and race, and how to service into her practice of law. She As a district court judge, she presided over founded Minority Legal Education an eclectic mix of cases, from the racketeer- to be reasonable in her Resources, Inc., in 1977 to help Chicago- ing trial of a mob boss to the "Austin area minorities become aware of profes- Seven" police corruption case to a suit chal- professional life. sional opportunities available through law lenging whether the declaration of Good school, study for the bar and network. She Friday as a public-school holiday violated jurists. She is the first African-American gives personal attention to school groups the Constitution. Along the way, she also woman to have chaired a committee of the that visit her courtroom. One afternoon tackled high-profile and complex civil cases Judicial Conference of the United States, last year, she spent more than an hour with such as the Ohio Sealy antitrust case and having been appointed in 1993 to the con- a group of elementary-school girls who the Olympia Brewing case, as well as a ference's Court Administration and Case observed a trial with a group of women large number of consolidated securities Management Committee. In that capacity, attorneys who serve as mentors to the cases. Throughout her 15 years on the dis- she testified before Congress to advocate inner-city schoolchildren. Judge Williams trict court, she developed a reputation for voluntary mediation in the courts and to took every opportunity during their time oppose legislative initiatives together to instill in the girls the value of a that would have required good education, the virtue of staying on judges to share courtrooms. the right path, and the personal and profes- This year, she is serving as the sional benefits of being a lawyer. first African-American woman The University continues to find new president of the Federal ways to honor this pioneer - lawyer, Judges Association, through judge, wife to banker David Stewart, and which she has worked to mother of Jonathan, age 17, and Claire, improve pay and other age 15. After a term on the Law School benefits for federal judges. Advisory Council, she was named a As a student at NDLS, University Trustee in 1988. The Notre Judge Williams actively partic- Dame Alumni Association honored her as ipated in the Notre Dame the Law School's representative for the Legal Aid and Defender association's Women of Achievement Association, the student-run Awards in 1997, on the 25th anniversary of precursor to today's Legal Aid coeducation in the University's undergrad- Clinic. She and other associa- uate programs. The Black Alumni of tion members supplied the Notre Dame named her an Alumni Indiana State Prison in Exemplar representing African-American Judge Williams receives an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the Michigan City with a legal graduates of the 1970s. And the University 1997 commencement exercises from University President library and supervised instruc- awarded her an honorary Doctor of Laws Reverend Edward A. Malloy, C.S.c., and Andrew J. McKenna, tion of the inmates in legal (LL.D.) degree at commencement in 1997. chair of the University's Board of Trustees. research and brief writing. She still finds ways to pursue her She worked as a staff assistant early love of teaching. She has been an being tough but fair. Even criminal defense at the Law School's newly established instructor in the NDLS-based National attorneys admit that she treats everyone in Center for Civil Rights, as it was then Institute for Trial Advocacy, and has taught her court - including convicted criminal called, and as an assistant rector in Farley at Northwestern University Law School. defendants - "with the utmost respect and Hall. Her dean, Professor Emeritus During her visits to campus, she often dignity:' She brings a human touch to her Thomas L. Shaffer '61 ].D., remembers speaks to student groups at the University court as well, often considering the circum- that "without being the least bit imperious, and in the Law School about a wide variety stances of a convicted defendant's life she soon became a leader - first in the of topics that she finds personally relevant before imposing a sentence. summer Council for Legal Education including women in the law and challenges While on the district court bench, Opportunities (CLEO) program and then faced by minorities in the professions. She her leadership skills enabled her to achieve in her class. In both situations, she is a constant source of encouragement and even moreTirsts" for African-American brought to the faculty, and to her fellow inspiration for minorities and women. • 7

harles Wilson '76, Despite having experience with city office ranks 10th in size among the nations '79 J.D. has followed government as well as the prestigious clerk- 93 federal districts, eighth in total number a career parh that has ship credential, Judge Wilson found pri- of cases, and fourth in number of civil c returned him to his vate-practice employment opportunities cases. roots. He has come full circle, back to an slim for African-American attorneys in He engaged the office in a number of early childhood dream inspired by his Tampa in the early 1980s. Consequently, high-profile prosecutions including an father, and back to the court where he he opened his own office and, inspired by investigation into the allegedly fraudulent began his professional life. his parents' dedication, worked hard to activities of the Reverend Henry J. Lyons, Growing up in Florida, Judge Wilson build up a successful practice. He notes pastor of a St. Petersburg, Florida, church always wanted to be a lawyer like his that his participation in the young lawyers' and head of the Nashville, Tennessee-based father, the late Charles F. Wilson, who was section of his local bar association afforded National Baptist Convention USA, Inc., one of few African-American lawyers in him the opportunity to develop both as a the nations largest African-American northern Florida during the early days of professional and as a public servant. church group. The case concluded late last the civil-rights movement. Judge Wilson In 1986, then-Governor Bob Graham year with Reverend Lyons being sentenced saw how his father's efforts to desegregate appointed him as a judge in the state's to concurrent state and federal prison Florida schools in the wake of the Supreme Thirteenth Judicial District in terms for financial fraud. The case evoked Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Hillsborough County. And in 1990, he some serious racial overtones and had an Education drew fire - quite literally - was selected by federal district court judges inescapable seaminess about it, but Judge from those opposed to his efforts."People in the Middle District of Florida to serve Wilson handled the investigation and pros- would shoot through plate glass windows as a U.S. magistrate. During his eight years ecution with his characteristic calm reserve. in the home;' he recalled. "We'd wake up as judge and magistrate, he in the morning and all the tires in the car developed a reputation for his were fiat. I know it took a lot of courage scholarly approach to deci- for him to bring those types of cases:' sion-making. Attorneys who Judge Wilson's mother worked hard for the appeared before him have family as well, first as a secretary to the commented that he always mayor of Tampa, then as a real-estate bro- took the time to explain a ker and also in her own greeting-card busi- decision if asked, and they ness. She expected her children to excel, appreciated the reasoned man- and ensured that they received the benefits ner with which he decided a of the Catholic education that she and her case. His low-key disposition husband both received. complements his thoughtful Judge Wilson graduated from Jesuit consideration of the issues in High School in Tampa, before attending a case. Notre Dame to earn his bachelor's degree In 1994, Attorney in government and international studies as General Janet Reno tapped well as his J.D. He came north to Notre Judge Wilson for the position Dame "to see a little more of the world;' of U.S. attorney for the and became an avid football fan and devot- Middle District of Florida, to ed alumnus. In 1995, he was appointed to replace an attorney who had Honorable Charles Wilson '76, '79 J.D. is sworn in as a judge on the the Law School Advisory Council, in been embroiled in a number Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. recognition of his professional leadership of scandalous controversies and his love for the University. including an episode in which Upon his return to Florida, he worked he had grabbed a television first for the Hillsborough County attorney reporter by the throat. Judge Wilson, the He is deservedly proud of the office's in Tampa, handling typical municipal mat- low-key former sole practirioner, soon efforts over the last five years to combat ters such as water and road problems. The found himself responsible for an office of health-care fraud. He formed a health-care following year, he clerked for Honorable more than 100 assistant U.S. attorneys who fraud unit, bringing together 12 criminal Joseph Hatchett, chief judge of the covered a territory of 35 counties from and five civil attorneys to tackle a number Eleventh Circuit in Tallahassee, who was Jacksonville in the northeast part of the of high profile health-care fraud cases, a the first African-American attorney on state to Fort Myers in the southwest, with number of which involved Medicare. He both the Florida Supreme Court and the unique histories of crime, drug problems has aggressively tackled environmental Eleventh Circuit. While developing an and law enforcement from one end of the crimes including ocean dumping and toxic expertise in crafting well-reasoned judicial district to the other. During his tenure, it waste matters, prosecuted cases involving opinions, Judge Wilson also met his wife, was one of the fastest-growing law-enforce- local-government corruption, and stepped Belinda. ment districts in the country. Today the up federal prosecution of drug dealers. • 8

In endorsing his candidacy

for the position, the TAMPA Inspired by his father's efforts to day after he received confirmation of his achieve equality of educational opportuni- TRIBUNE gave Judge Wilson appointment, he called the Law School to ties for Florida's youth, Judge Wilson has find out who among current law students engaged in his own efforts to heighten high praise as "a man of and recent graduates might be interested in awareness of quality-of-life issues affecting clerking for his court, and has since hired young people. As a senior undergraduate convictions whom we can three students who will clerk for him at Notre Dame in 1976, he formed the trust to act fairly and through at least 2002. In October, through Black Caucus to participate in the student- the Law School's Judicial Clerkship run Mock Democratic Convention that wisely." Committee and in conjunction with the year. As one of two caucus delegates to the Black Law Students Association, he spoke convention, he was responsible for generat- with interested students abour the respon- ing input to the party's platform, which sibilities of judicial clerks and on the best He served as president of the Young covered topics such as greater equality for way to secure the prestigious positions. blacks in labor relations and standards, Lawyers Section of the Hillsborough And in February, he returned to the Law national economic policy, housing and County Bar Association, and of the School as part of a three-judge panel that health care. His proposed addirions passed Ferguson-White Inn of the American Inns presided over the Moot Court Annual of Court, appreciating the opportunities to and he received high praise from the plat- Showcase Argument (please see P: 34). form committee for framing the issues in serve that come through such organiza- Now he has come full-circle in his an informative and realistic, rather than tions. In 1990, the Young Lawyers Section legal career. The position he fills on the emotional and radical, manner. honored him for his service and profession- Eleventh Circuit is the one vacated by the al accomplishments with its "Most More recently, this father of two judge for whom he clerked 20 years ago, Productive Young Lawyer Award:' In 1995, daughters - Courtney, age 14, and now-retired Chief Judge Hatchett. Judge Kendall, age 10 - has begun to address Stetson honored him with its "J. Ben Hatchett has high praise for his former Watkins Award for Professional Excellence issues beyond the educational system that clerk, who is now the second African- in the Practice of Law:' In 1997, he and affect the quality of life for young people American appointed to the Eleventh other lawyers founded the Tampa Bay today. In a 1995 speech at Stetson Circuit."He was one of the best clerks I Catholic Lawyers Guild and inaugurated University College of Law in Clearwater, ever had. I'm very happy he's replacing the annual Red Mass. This past year, the Florida, he commented to the law profes- me:' In endorsing his candidacy for the organization named him its "Catholic sors and students present that "one major position, the TAMPATRIBUNE gave Judge Person of the Year" for 1999. issue facing our society that cries our for Wilson high praise as "a man of convictions leadership, creativity, ideas, and solutions In his new position on the Eleventh whom we can trust to act fairly and wisely;' [is] meeting our society's commitment to Circuit, Judge Wilson has found time to and urged the hometown attorney to open remain active at NDLS, to ensure that his the needs of our young people:' He noted a branch circuit office in Tampa, which he message of service reaches as many bright that, although crime generally has has since done. Judge Wilson accepts the decreased, violent crime by children is on and talented people as possible. The very compliments with quiet grace. "This is a the increase. He urged new lawyers to great honor. It reflects a level of confidence commit themselves "to investing in the in my ability. It has really been a long- development of Americas young people .... standing dream of mine to serve on that [T] he strength of our society is tied to the court" - the court before which his father well being of our children. We have a col- fought segregation in Florida's schools, and lective responsibility to address the needs at which he began his own professional of the child in our society:' career. t'JSJ.o.. Although most of his professional life '97LLD. and Honorable Charles R.Wilson has encompassed direct public service as a '76, '79 J.D., joinfiveother Notre Dame government official, he notes thar tsome of THEY FOLLOWED DIFFERENT the most rewarding years of my career in graduates on the federal appellate bench: PROFESSIONAL PATHS, BUT SHARE A the private practice of law [happened] Fourth Circuit: Paul V. Niemeyer '66 J.D, when I was involved in public service proj- appointed in 1990 COMMITMENT TO SERVICE. AND ects, many of which were sponsored by FJfth Circuit: Emilio M. Garza, '69, '70 M.A., THROUGH THEIR DEDICATION TO (local] bar associations:' He urges young and member of the Law School Advisory JUSTICE, BOTH OF NOTRE DAME'S lawyers to use their "dedication, vigor, Council, appointed in 1991 ideas, and energy to provide legal assistance Seventh Circuit: Daniel A. Manion '64 J.D., NEWEST FEDERAL APPELLATEJUDGES to those in need;' and believes that lawyers son of former NDLS Dean Clarence Manion, ARE DESTINED TO CONTINUE TO BRING should be over-represented in "civic and appointed in 1986 GREAT HONOR TO OUR NOTRE DAME charitable organizations that provide Ninth Circuit Edward Leavy '53 J.D, appointed service to the community:' in 1987,currently on senior status FAMILY. Tenth Circuit: Paul J. Kelly Jr. '63, appointed in 1992 • 9

GARY HALL '96 J.D. IS A

NATURAL LEADER. HIS LIFE

PROVES THAT HARD WORK,

DETERMINATION AND THE STRONG

SUPPORT OF FAMILYAND COMMUNITY

CAN HELP OVERCOME CHALLENGES

CREATED BYCIRCUMSTANCES OF

BIRTH. HE HAS SHOWN THAT A

GOOD EDUCATION CAN OPEN

DOORS TO CAREERS IN HIGH-PROFILE

GOVERNMENT OFFICES AS WELL AS

PRESTIGIOUS LAW FIRMS. HE HAS

SHOWN THAT A LAWYER WITH A

DEMANDING PRACTICE DOESN'T

HAVE TO SELL HIS SOUL TO SUCCEED.

HE HAS SHOWN THAT COMMUNITY

SERVICE CAN BE INTEGRATED INTO A

CHALLENGING WORK LIFE. AND HE'S

SHOWN THAT A KID FROM CABRINI

GREEN CAN GROW UP TO WORK IN

THE WHITE HOUSE.

ary Hall began life in formative years as a teenager in that envi- transferring to Howard University in the Cabrini Green ronment:' He knows first-hand the feeling Washington, D.C. At the historically black housing project in of true despair. But this knowledge has institution, Mr. Hall developed a strong I G Chicago. Fortunately caused him to rededicate himself over and sense of self-esteem. "I felt very comfort- for him, his mother Jerrilyn Ryans knew over again to helping the disadvantaged in able and welcome at Howard. It was very that life in government housing could not any way he can. motivating to be in an environment of .j be a permanent situation for her young He worked hard in school, under- people who looked like me. It helped me family: Gary and his younger brother and standing through his mother's influence develop a sort of inner confidence that sister. He describes her as "a very strong that education was the only way to escape I could succeed, because the people I woman. She worked hard to move us out poverty permanently. After graduating surrounding me succeeded:' of that environment and into a home on from Chicago's Whitney Young High After graduating from Howard in I Chicago's South Side by the time I was 11. School, Mr. Hall attended Alcorn State 1989, Mr. Hall joined the staff of Chicago I can't imagine how different my life would University in Mississippi on an academic Mayor Richard Daley, first as a senior I be now if I had been forced to spend my scholarship for two years before budget analyst in the city's Office of Budget I I Leading By Example

GARY HALL '96 J.D. • 10

and Management, and later as a financial how to interact with people who are differ- Black Law Students Association in 1995- officer in the Department of General ent from me in some ways. But I learned 96, served as a mentor and tutor in a South Services. Among his achievements during that you can really count on people at Bend high school, and taught in the Law his four years in city government, he led a Notre Dame - faculty, classmates and School's Street Law program. "The Street task force that significantly improved the other alumni. It's a tremendous network Law program contributed immeasurably to city's collections of water and sewer-usage of support:' my growth as a lawyer and as a person;' he fees, served on a strategy committee to Although he's not Catholic, Mr. Hall recalls."Teaching the law to high-school streamline city services, and was the found the religious nature of the Law kids made me realize just how much I youngest person ever selected to participate School to be an important part of his for- actually knew about the law. And it made in the City's Intergovernmental Executive mation as a lawyer. "My mother is a me more attuned to my responsibility to do Development Program. woman of strong moral fiber. She instilled something positive with that knowledge:' And he still found time to give back those values in me. At Notre Dame, I Shortly after graduation, he married to his community, to work toward ensuring learned how to integrate those values into Elna, a management consultant for Hewitt that others had help in meeting the chal- the professional setting. I learned how to Associates whom he met while working on lenges that faced him so very early in life. be a lawyer and to be a kind person at the Mayor Daley's staff. "Our relationship sur- He founded Imani, a nonprofit organiza- same time:' A deeply spiritual person him- vived my law-school years, including my tion that raises funds and public awareness self, he also appreciated that the Law second year abroad in London, which was for causes such as famine relief in Somalia School environment gave him the chance great preparation for this year apart. I and HIV / AIDS care in minority commu- to be publicly spiritual without having to think it's important to mention that Elna nities. His idea behind the organization apologize for it. has not only contributed to my overall was "to sensitize others to the blight of As a second-year law student, Mr. happiness, but has made an immeasurable the less fortunate given the abundance we Hall participated in the year-long study difference in my leadership development. enjoy and sometimes take for granted in abroad program at the Notre Dame Growing up as the eldest of three siblings this country:' He also led the first fund- London Law Centre, during which he had in a household headed by my mother, I was raising campaign for the Chicago chapter the opportunity to work as an extern at the thrust into a leadership role at a very young of 100 Black Men to expand the organiza- London office of Mayer, Brown & Platt. age. Elna, however, has taught me the tion's mentoring and tutoring programs "Studying and working in London provided value of sometimes being a good follower and to endow scholarships for young peo- me with tremendous experiences, which and of the benefits accorded through defer- ple in impoverished Chicago neighbor- enabled me to secure a position in a great ence. She is undoubtedly my most trusted hoods. "I know first-hand how an law firm after graduation:' advisor and coach:' education can make a difference in a per- Among his other activities at Notre son's life;' he comments. His efforts to Dame, Mr. Hall served as president of the raise money for the organization gave him a way to afford others the opportunities he had been given. He entered Notre Dame Law School in 1993, believing that a law degree would present him with more professional HOuse Mows. opportunities and Established by PreskIent lJDCIon B.johnson II 19M.die White House Fellowship would challenge him program is designed to provide gifted and highly motivated Americans in the early in new ways. He stages of their chosen careers with first-hand experience in governing the nation, as acknowledges that well as a sense of personal involvement in the leadership of society. Each year, II to his Notre Dame experience was quite 19 fellows are selected to serve the president of the United States as full-time. paid different, culturally special assistants to Cabinet members and senior White House staff. Fellows also and socially, from participate in an education program that includes off-the-record meetings with high- his experience at ranking government officials,scholars, journalists and private-sector leaders, as well as Howard, but recog- domestic and international travel to explore U.S.policy in action. Individuals selected nized that he experi- for the program demonstrate a record of remarkable achievement early in their enced tremendous careers, the skills required to serve at the highest levels of government, the potential growth and trans- to be leaders in their professions, and a proven commitment to public service. formation while The program is open to all U.S.citizens, although employees of the federal govern- here."It was a chal- ment are not eligible unless they are career military personnel. For more information, lenge to get to know write: people. Coming from a predominately White House Fellows Program black undergraduate institution to predom- 712 Jackson Place, NW inately white Notre Dame helped me learn Washington, DC 20503 • II

That summer of 1996 proved to be He worked hard, reapplied and, in the Seattle, they toured the Port of Seattle and quite busy. In addition to getting married, summer of 1999, was selected as one of 16 met with senior officials at Microsoft to he studied for and passed the Illinois bar fellows for the 1999-2000 program. He discuss the high-tech revolution, with the and began his legal career in the Chicago jokes that the application process - which city's mayor to discuss the riots at last office of Gardner, Carton & Douglas. And involved questions on subjects such as year's World Trade Organization meetings, if he thought he was going to have time to recent elections in Israel and South Africa, and with corporate leaders at Amazon.com. adjust to his new life as a husband and as the Taliban in Afghanistan and the devalu- On that same trip, in the Silicon Valley an associate with a demanding corporate ation of the peso - as well as securing a they met with leaders of venture capital finance practice that included work with year-long leave from his law firm as a third- and high-tech companies to increase their securities, mergers and acquisitions, and year associate, were easy, "compared to try- understanding of the business side of tech- equity and debt public offerings, he was ing to convince my wife to let me be away nology development. Later this year, the wrong. "Almost immediately after I started from Chicago for a year:' But once Elna fellows will travel to Nigeria, Kenya and working, I ran into (Judge] Ann Williams agreed, Gary accepted the most prestigious South Africa to study international health ['75 J.D.] at a bar association event. I had public fellowship offered in the country, issues, debt relief and burgeoning taken advantage of a Chicago-area program which brought with it the opportunity to democracies. she helped found, Minority Legal work at the Department of Treasury for The program certainly has provided Education Resources, Inc., that helps mem- the year. him with direct personal benefits as well. bers of minority groups prepare for and So far, he's been involved with finan- "It's really an intensive leadership program;' pass the bar. She told me it was time to cial and economic policy development, par- he notes. "There is a strong sense of true give back to that program. There's just no ticularly with an analysis of the Financial 'fellowship' among the fellows, both past way to say 'no' to her:' So he found time Services Modernization Bill that repealed and present. It has made me part of a to give back by raising money and other the Glass-Steagall Act and helped U.S. tremendous network not unlike the Notre in-kind contributions for the organization. banks become more competitive globally. Dame alumni network - people who will He also found time to carve out a He notes that a "real treat" of the fellow- be a part of my life for many years to significant pro bono work schedule even ship program is a weekly educational come:' though the demands of his corporate prac- opportunity through which he and the But the most important aspect of the tice require billing well over 2,000 hours other fellows discuss significant issues of program is the practical knowledge he's annually. "I don't think that an attorney the day. The variety of professions repre- gained during his year at the Treasury has to put aside an interest in community sented among the fellows contributes to a Department, Although the fellowship has service just because of a demanding, large- lively discussion, with the fellows sharing opened up a world of opportunities to him, firm practice:' But he does acknowledge views that arise out of a wide variety of he's sure that he will return to Chicago to that he had to modify his service goals personal perspectives. Mr. Hall calls it "a use what he's learned to help narrow the somewhat, to fit with his practice. "It's an true American experience:' gulf between the rich and the poor in artful dance and, of course, you have to On travels across the country, he and roday's economy. "Social service initiatives make choices. But I was able to convince the other fellows have the opportunity to are fine as far as they go;' he comments, the partners at my firm that our involve- meet community leaders and learn how "but the real problem with bridging the ment in certain community-service activi- communities work. On a recent trip to gap is providing access to capital. In my ties would benefit our firm in tangible as year at the Treasury Department, I've well as intangible ways. I worked hard to learned how money moves through the convey these ideas, and my work paid off. economy, and I think I can use that knowl- The firm has been very supportive of my The variety of professions edge to stimulate economic growth in service efforts:' represented among the disadvantaged communities:' He finds He first heard about the White promise in the current administration's House Fellowship program while spending fellows contributes to a New Market Initiative, in which the gov- his second year of law school in London. ernment, through tax subsidies, would "My roommate [Mark Cole '96 J.D.] and lively discussion, with the minimize economic risks to encourage I got a copy of Colin Powell's then-newly companies to do business in disadvantaged published autobiography. In the book, fellows sharing views that areas. "This may be just the tool I need to General Powell talked about his experi- arise out of a wide variety truly make a difference:' ences as a White House fellow in the Mr. Hall believes that he has been 1970s:' The program captivated him of personal perspectives. tremendously blessed - with his health, immediately. "I applied as a second-year with a wonderful family, with a good edu- law student, and actually made it to the Mr. Hall calls it "a true cation and with exciting professional expe- riences. He believes that giving back to his regional finals. At that point, however, I American experience." was told that I needed to get some more community is really just giving thanks for experience before I could be a successful these blessings. And as a natural leader, his candidate, but I was also encouraged to work inspires others to find their own ways reapply:' to give back and give thanks. • 12

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teaches today, focus on subjects of interest Honorable Kenneth Ripple to appellate judges and appellate practi- tioners. He made constitutional law, con- stitutional lirigation and conflict of laws A DISTINGUISHED TEACHER issues accessible to his students. His teach- ing style so captivated his appreciative stu- dents that they voted him the recipient of the Law School's Distinguished Teaching For most Notre Dame Law School faculty Although he spent the first year after law Award in 1978, his very first year on the members, an "after hours" article would school in the office of the general counsel faculty. He became the only faculty mem- focus on the professor's life outside the at IBM Corporation, for three decades he ber to earn the honor three consecutive classroom - whether volunteer service, has successfully combined professional years when the Classes of 1979 and 1980 ho hies or family life. But for Honorable work in the judicial system and in the similarly expressed their appreciation for Kenneth F. Ripple, his "after hours" activity classroom. In nearly a decade of govern- his tremendous impact on their education. is teaching. From his position as a judge on ment service, he served in several positions According to Professor Tex Durile the United States Court of Appeals for the that involved judicial practice, including '65 J.D., Judge Ripple's "immediate and Seventh Circuit, certainly, Judge Ripple branch head for the Judge Advocate immense popularity with students teaches practicing attorneys about the law. General of the Navy (1968-72), legal stemmed from his deep love of the law, But from his position as a professor on the officer of the United States Supreme Court his commitment to justice and a consistent NDLS faculty for more than 20 years, he (1972-73), and special assistant to the chief viewpoint unfettered by untoward ideology. conveys the intricacies of federal court justice of the United States (1973-77). His enthusiasm for our constitutional practice and the qualities of responsible He joined the NDLS faculty in 1977 as system is infectious:' practitioners to classes full of students an associate professor of law, but quickly During his tenure as a full-time pro- eager ro learn from this teacher of unparal- achieved the rank of full professor in 1980, fessor at NDLS, Judge Ripple continued as leled talent. a position in which he continues today an active member of the bar, maintaining A graduate of Fordham University even though he has been an active member an appellate practice on a consulting basis. (A.B., summa cum laude, 1965), the of the Seventh Circuit since 1985. He also kept close ties with the judiciary University of Virginia (J.D., 1968) and the To Judge Ripple, his professional as a consultant on judicial administration George Washington University National worlds have a synergistic effect on each activities and as the reporter for the Law Center (LL.M., summa cum laude, other. In an article he wrote for the OHIO Advisory Committee on Federal Appellate 1972), Judge Ripple has moved seamlessly STATELAWJOURNALin 1989, he comment- Rules. His experiences helped him develop between the judicial and academic worlds ed that "the daily duties of judging afford a deep appreciation for the federal judici- for most of his 32 years in professional life. the judge little opportunity or time to ary, which he has called "a rare flower of integrate his experience or to engage in human achievement:' intellectual self-criticism. The classroom He helped his students develop a provides an opportunity for both:' At the similar appreciation, and paid particular same time, he believes that "[rjeaching also attention to the students who, as judicial provides the judge with an opportunity to clerks, would help jurists shape the law. fulfill effectively another obligation of judi- Each year, he gathered together the stu- cial office - moral leadership within the dents who had secured appellate clerkships profession .... The classroom is the per- and would teach them about the role of a fect environment for suggesting to those clerk in the federal appellate court. NDLS who will soon enter into full membership Associate Professor Matt Barrett '82, in our profession that they ought to evalu- '85 J.D., who had earned a clerkship on the ate critically the vectors of professional life Sixth Circuit after graduation, remembers that have become the 'givens' for those who how much time Judge Ripple spent with preceded them .... [I)f being a lawyer is those students, even opening his home to once again to mean the acceptance of a them for informal, but nonetheless impor- special responsibility for the course of tant, discussions on their responsibilities as public affairs, the change must take place clerks. Professor Barrett remembers how in the classroom and continue into the important that experience was to him. courtroom:' He believes that"[t)he judge- "Here was this busy professor who took on professor can bridge that gap:' an additional responsibility to make sure The courses he taught in his early we understood our responsibilities as years on the faculty, like the courses he clerks:' • 13

Professor Barrett and his classmates the ALMANACOFTHE FEDERALJUDICIARY individual - remains the animating phi- considered Judge Ripple ro be an "amazing" indicate that he is respected as courteous, losophy of higher education, the rewards teacher, revered by his students for his collegial and gentlemanly in his demeanor, of teaching are especially great. In our "ability to bring complex material down to and is considered hard-working, conscien- students, we can see the future not only of a level where law students could under- tious and academically oriented. He is our profession, but also of our country:' stand it:' Professor Barrett remembers known for reading everything submitted Judge Ripple has not confined his most Judge Ripple's gentlemanly manner by the parties to an appeal, and at times teaching to law students and appellate and respect for his students. "He started also reads the background cases for him- attorneys, either. He firmly believes in pro- every class precisely on time. He was never self. When questioning attorneys, he viding meaningful opportunities for judges late. He always started class by saying, makes certain to understand the dispositive to continue to learn - from each other, 'Good morning (or good afternoon), ladies issues and central facts of each case, much from practicing atrorneys and from aca- and gentlemen.'" like a professor dissects a case ro present it demics. In 1980, while he was a full-time And then one day in 1985,Judge to students. Attorneys regard his opinions professor at NDLS, he participated in an Ripple was uncharacteristically late for as thorough and well reasoned. And Anglo-American Judicial Exchange pro- class. Professor Barrett remembers his through his official writings, he uses the gram through which American and British classmates looking at one another, wonder- opportunity to teach practicing atrorneys judges and lawyers studied, observed and ing what was going on. After a few min- about the law - taking a decision through evaluated each other's approaches to the utes, Judge Ripple's secretary came in to tell its logical steps and ensuring that the opin- judicial process. And this past fall, he the students that he'd be right down to ion shows how the case, as decided, affects served as one of the principal organizers of starr class. When he finally arrived, about existing law. a conference held at NDLS on "The Craft 15 minutes late, he began with an embar- Fortunately, Judge Ripple has contin- of Judging:' The 26 federal appellate judges rassed apology for his tardiness. He then ued to teach at NDLS, although only one in attendance learned about more than just explained the reason. As Professor Barrett class each semester. His demanding"day the mechanics of the law through presenta- remembers it,"He told us that he had been job" forces him ro teach his classes - this tions on subjects such as the history of the on the phone with the president of the year, "Judicial Process" in the fall and American appellate judicial tradition, the United States. President Reagan had in "Federal Courts: Contemporary Problems process of judging, judicial scholarship and front of him Judge Ripple's nomination to in Practice and Policy" in the spring - at the comparative judicial process. the Seventh Circuit. The president had night and on some weekends. His teaching His own words published in the called just to make sure that everything still earns high praise from his students. OHIO STATELAWJOURNALbest describe suited Judge Ripple before he signed the Mike Schrenk '95 J.D., who rook Judge his approach to his professional life - a form:' The class gave him a standing Ripple's class on Saturday mornings during life spent integrating education into the ovation, after which Judge Ripple returned one football season, remembers that Judge judiciary and knowledge of the judiciary to teaching his class. Ripple "had a very relaxed way of convers- into legal education. "The academic lawyer The moment was bittersweet, to be ing with students that, for some reason, and the judge play different roles in the sure, for the Seventh Circuit's gain would surprised me given his position:' However, intellectual life of the profession - roles be Notre Dame's loss in some way. The Mr. Schrenk was "most impressed by Judge that require, paradoxically, both collabora- students that year again voted Judge Ripple Ripple's devotion to the court and ro his tion and a certain amount of'breathing the recipient of the Distinguished Teaching judicial ethics. I recall him talking about space: However, the ultimate responsibili- Award for a second consecutive year and not being able to talk about cases or ty is a shared one. We must keep alive and the fifth time in his eight years as a full- express political opinions, and the roll that nurture a professional tradition of scholar- time faculty member. No faculty member takes on friendships and family. I couldn't ship transformed into service to the com- before or since has earned that kind of imagine not talking to my wife or my monwealth - and to the dignity of the consistent recognition from the students friends about my opinions. Now that I've individual person:' By all accounts, Judge in the 29 years the award has been given. been practicing law for five years, I doubt Ripple himself excels in nurturing this As Professor Barrett remembers it,"If we there are many judges who adhere to the professional tradition, one of Notre Dame's could have retired the award right then, rules closely as Judge Ripple does, and I core animating traditions, by living the we would have. He was a phenomenal admire him even more for doing so:' JudRe professional life he values so deeplv, teacher:' Ripple believes that teaching is part of a His work on the Seventh Circuit has judge's responsibility. "By teaching, I am earned him high praise from lawyers who continuing a tradition as old as the appear before him. In many ways, he Republic. Federal judges long have consid- The quotes.in this article from the OHIO exhibits the same demeanor he does in the ered the education of the newest members STATELAWJOURNALare taken from classroom, prizing collegiality in court and of the profession as a special responsibility. Kenneth F. Ripple, The Judge and the using a scholarly approach to reason ro At Notre Dame, where the tradition of cum Academic Community, 50 Ohio State L.J. decisions in a case. Attorney comments in personalis - development of the whole 1237,1242-43 (1989). • 14

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• JOSEPH P. BAUER has been appoint- November by Towers Productions for an ed a member of the advisory board of the Arts & Entertainment television (A&E) FACULTY ON LEAVE FOR American Antitrust Institute. program tentatively tided "The Mob in THE SPRING 2000 Chicago after Capone:' SEMESTER • G. ROBERT BLAKEY '57, '60 J.D. He was also included in an article was featured in an article tided The Great tided Ave Maria: A "Seriously Catholic" Law G, Robert Blakey '57, '60 J.D., at the Smoke Out: The Untouchables, Part II in the School in the February 18, 2000, edition of University of Michigan Law School substituting October 28, 1999, edition of SCHOLASTIC, the CHRONICLEOF HIGHER EDUCATION. for Professor Yale Kamisar, who suffered a heart Notre Dame's student magazine, for his The article explored the reasons behind the attack earlier this year. work in connection with the recent lawsuit establishment of Ave Maria Law School filed by the Department of Justice against in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and quoted Fernand N. "Tex" Dutile '65 J.D., on the tobacco industry. He was also featured Professor Blakey on his work as a curricu- research leave at the Florida Coastal School of in an article tided ND Professor Helping on lum advisor for the new law school. Law in Jacksonville, Florida, where he has been Tobacco Suit in the November 19, 1999, reunited with Frank Beytagh, who taught at edition of the SOUTH BENDTRIBUNE. • GERARD V. BRADLEY published NDLS in the I970s and now teaches at FCSL. His efforts to seek relief against the The Fantasy Life ofJustices in a recent edition tobacco industry on behalf of Taft-Hartley of the NATIONAL REVIEW. Barbara Fick, a visiting professor in the fac- Act Funds, which were created to assure ulty of law at Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven, health benefits for millions of blue-collar • EILEEN DORAN '86 J.D., co-director Belgium,teaching courses in the American legal workers, have not met with the success of of the Notre Dame Legal Aid Clinic, has system and American labor law. some of his other efforts against the indus- been named the 1999 recipient of the try. The Third, Second and Ninth Circuits Honorable Viola Taliaferro Award, con- • J. Eric Smith bum, in England at Oxford - in that order - rejected suits filed by ferred annually by the Indiana State Bar University as a visiting scholar of Wolfson various Taft-Hartley Act Funds to recover Association's Committee on the Civil College and visiting fellow of the Centre for costs for medical care attributable to tobac- Rights of children on an Indiana attorney Scdo-Legal Studies of Wolfson College. co-related illnesses, although by varying who exemplifies Judge Taliaferro's leader- and inconsistent rationales. Professor ship in addressing unmet legal needs of Blakey also reports that he received a "chilly children. Ms. Doran received the award reception" when he argued one appeal on at a meeting of the House of Delegates this issue before the Fifth Circuit in of the Indiana State Bar Association in November. Hope remains, however, as Indianapolis in September. International Labor Solidarity in appeals are pending in the Seventh and Washington, D.C. Tenth Circuits. • FERN ANDN."TEX" DUTILE '65 Professor Blakey had two entries, J.D. spoke on "Law Schools and Careers in • NICOLE GARNETT spoke at the "Mafia" and "RICO and the First Law" at Saint Mary's College in November. "Law and Liberty" conference sponsored Amendment;' accepted for publication in, by the Institute for Humane Studies in respectively, the ENCYCLOPEDIAOF • BARBARA FICK was selected as a Chicago in February. Also in February, she CHICAGO HISTORY and the SUPPLEMENT member of the Editorial Advisory Board debated Nadine Strassen, president of the TO THE ENCYCLOPEDIAOF THE UNITED for the University of Pennsylvania's American Civil Liberties Union, on the STATESCONSTITUTION. JOURNALOF LABORAND EMPLOYMENT topic of the Establishment Clause and pub- His involvement in historical televi- LAW. In December, she gave a two-and- lic education at a program sponsored by sion programs continues as well. He was a-half day workshop on "Collective the University of Kansas. interviewed for a program tided "The Bargaining: Substance and Procedure" for Warren Commission;' which appeared on Bosnian trade-union leaders in Brcko, • RICHARD W. GARNETT spoke on November 22, 1999, on the History Bosnia-Herzegovina. The workshop was "Recent Developments in Death Penalty Channel, and was interviewed in sponsored by the American Center for Law" to the Rotary Club of Niles, • 15

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Michigan, in November 1999. Also in library in light of current technological The highlight of this week of human rights November, the NATIONAL CATHOLIC change. He also served as a member of the observances was a meeting of Foreign REGISTER interviewed him on the implica- ABA team conducting the sabbatical Ministers of the Americas to discuss the tions of Southworth v. Board of Regents, the inspection of the University of future of the system of protection. As a student-fees case involving the University Pennsylvania Law School in February. member of the board of the Inter- of Wisconsin that is before the Supreme American Institute on Human Rights, he Court in the 1999 term. The paper also • M. CATHLEEN KAVENY provided attended a conference held jointly by the published his editorial on the Supreme commentary for an article in the November IIHR and Madame Mary Robinson, Court. 13,1999, edition of THE Los ANGELES United Nations high commissioner for He spoke on "Religion, Liberalism TIMES on a new program by the human rights and former president of and Harm to Children" at the meeting of Archdiocese of Los Angeles to open and Ireland, to launch a campaign for the AALS Law and Religion Section in operate nine for-profit mortuaries in ceme- January in Washington, D.C., and teries owned by the archdiocese. addressed the Institute for Humane Studies on "Law and Liberty" in Chicago • DONALD P. KOMMERS delivered a FACULTY RESOURCE: in February. series of lectures in Croatia in May: IMMIGRATION LAW He also published The Justice of School "Constitutional Review in Comparative Choice: A Brookings Publication Embraces Perspective" and "Judicial Activism and Commenting on a case that continues to capture School Vouchers in THE WEEKLYSTANDARD. Self-Restraint in Europe and America;' media attention, Barbara Szweda, co-director The piece reviews Joseph P. Viteritti's book, May 17 and 19, 1999, at Zagreb University; of the Notre Dame LegalAid Clinic and director CHOOSING EQUALITY:SCHOOL CHOICE, "The Right to Life: AGerman-American of the Notre Dame Immigration Clinic,provided THE CONSTITUTION, AND CIVIL SOCIETY, Comparison" at the Croatian Law Center, a statement to the press through the Notre which Professor Garnett calls "a compelling May 18; and "The Uses and Misuses of Dame ReSource program expressing her belief cry for meaningful school choice:' Comparative Constitutional Law" at Rijeka that six-year-old ElianGonzalez should be University, May 21. He also gave the open- returned to his father in Cuba. • WILLIAM P. HOYE, associate vice ing address titled"The Basic Law: An "From the standpoint of immi- president and counsel and concurrent asso- Assessment After 50 Years" at a German- gration law,it is pretty clear that the ciate professor of law, presented "Legal American conference celebrating the 50th child should be returned to Cuba;' Liability and Risk Management Issues in anniversary of the German Constitution, International Programs" at the National also known as Germany's Basic Law, in said Ms.Szweda."The only grounds Conference of the University Risk Warrenton, Virginia, June 1999. for his remaining in the United Management and Insurance Association in States would be that he was seeking Albuquerque, New Mexico, in September. • JUAN MENDEZ, director of the asylum,which requires that he make He also presented "If I Did That I'd Be Center for Civil and Human Rights, a showing that he was persecuted Disbarred! Resolving Dilemmas in Legal attended a "contributors conference" at the or that he feared persecution based Ethics" to the national meeting of the United Nations in New York in November on his political opinion, religion, American Council of Life Insurance in 1999.The meeting, which was convened nationality,ethnicity or social group. San Antonio, Texas, in February. by the Office of the Human Development He can't meet that burden." In January, he made a presentation to Report, provided those in attendance with Familylaw also dictates that the Associated Mennonite Seminary in an opportunity to discuss earlier drafts of young Elianshould be returned to his father, Goshen, Indiana, concerning the work of several thematic and regional papers that according to Ms.Szweda. the University's Task Force on Anti- will be published by the United Nations in "His father had an ongoing relationship with Sweatshop Initiatives, which he chairs. a volume called BACKGROUNDPAPERSthat the boy prior to his leaving Cuba, and his He served as discussion-group leader will accompany the office's HUMA parental rights have never been terminated:' she for a program on "Legal Liability Issues and DEVELOPMENTREPORT 2000. Professor said. "Furthermore, there has been no proof International Study-Abroad Programs" at Mendez contributed a paper, co-authored offered that the father in any way mistreated or the 21st Annual Conference on Law and with Javier Mariezcurrena, on the state of abused the child. Distant relatives have no right Higher Education at Stetson University in human rights and democracy in Latin under the law to speak for the child. Clearwater Beach, Florida, in February. America. "In my opinion, the child belongs with his Later in November, he attended a father." • ROGER F. JACOBS, director of the series of events in San Jose, Costa Rica, Kresge Law Library, participated in day- that commemorated the 30th anniversary long discussions in January with the of the American Convention on Human For more information, Ms. Szweda may be reached Valparaiso University Law School faculty Rights and the 20th anniversary of the bye-mail at [email protected]. and administration on the future of the law Inter-American Court on Human Rights. • 16

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ratification of the Inter-American He was nominated to an international Convention to Eliminate Discrimination advisory board of the International Center against Persons with Disabilities. The for Human Rights and Democratic FACULTY RESOURCE: First Lady of Costa Rica presided over the Development, a Canadian governmental BANKING LAW conference. At a two-day seminar organ- body. Following consultations with ized by the Inter-American Court, Parliament, the Foreign Ministry Commenting on the Community Reinvestment Professor Mendez presented a paper confirmed his appointment. He began his Act signed into law by President BillClinton, on the abilities of the Inter-American term with a meeting in Montreal in early NDLS Associate Dean and Associate Professor Commission on Human Rights to conduct March 2000. of LawVincent D. Rougeau says he general~ on-site visits and to publish country favors the legislation to overhaul banking laws, reports on the situation of human rights. • DANIEL MURRAY '67, adjunct asso- but has concerns about several issues. A volume containing the proceedings of ciate professor of law and a member of the "Financial services modernization is long this seminar will be published in 2000. Chicago office of Jenner & Block, published overdue and it's to everyone's benefit that the Professor Mendez also lectured on the the 1999 supplement to volumes 4 and 5 of president has signed this legislation;' said Dean Inter-American Commission and its UNIFORM LAWSANNOTATED- UNIFORM Rougeau. "Nevertheless, I think there is a ten- jurisprudence at a training seminar for pro- COMMERCIALCODEFORMSAND dency to trivialize the concerns that motivated tection officers of the Office of the United MATERIALS,co-authored with Donald Congress to separate banking, insurance and Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Cassling and Carter Klein (West securities activities in the first place - namely, co-teaching the class with the Chief Justice Publishing Group). In October, he served the fear of unduly concentrated economic of the Inter-American Court, Antonio as moderator of a program on the 1999 power. There is plenty of evidence to suggest Cancado Trindade, who presented the case text of UCC Article 9 presented in Chicago that wealth is becoming increasingly concentrat- law of that court. through the joint sponsorship of the In January, he spoke on international Chicago Clearing House (representing ed in this country, and huge finan- cooperation to promote democracy and major banks in the Chicago area) and the rial-services conglomerates may human rights at a Donors Conference National Conference of Commissioners on exacerbate this trend." organized by The Open Society Institute Uniform State Laws. Dean Rougeau cautioned that (Soros Foundations), the World In November, he testified before the there are also important issues that Organization Against Torture and the Judiciary Committee of the State of Illinois remain concerning the Community International Cooperation Ministry of Senate in support of the adoption of the Reinvestment Act. Austria. Deliberations on the subject took 1999 text of UCC Article 9 - Secured "Although a compromise on place in the European Parliament where Transactions in Illinois, in his capacity CRA has been reached that will Professor Mendez delivered a paper on as the Midwest coordinator for a special allow the modernization legislation trends and tactics of international develop- task force of the American College of to move forward, I think we can ment agencies and foundations with an Commercial Finance Lawyers and the expect to see continued debate on emphasis on Latin America. Commercial Financial Services/Uniform the issue of how the fnandal- Later in January, he participated in a Commercial Code Committees of the services industry should deal with the under- seminar on "Forgiveness and the Law" at ABKs Business Law Section, which advo- served communities;' he said."Smaller banks, in the Fordham University Law School. He cates the adoption of the 1999 revision particular, still have major problems with the delivered a paper, co-authored with the of Article 9 throughout the country. CRA. My own view is that the CRA is quite center's associate director, Garth Meintjes He lectured on "Protecting the important, but it must be revised to deal with '91 LL.M., on the policies of truth and rec- Record: Problems of Proof in the Brave the new realities in the financial·services market- onciliation that include some measures of New Paperless World of Commerce" at place. I don't think the passage of the financial clemency and their binding force beyond the 33rd Annual Uniform Commercial modernization bill ends debate on the CRA." national borders. Code Institute in Washington, D.C., in In December 1999, he co-authored November, and at similar conferences with Gaston Chillier an article on the in San Francisco in February and Chicago For more information, Dean Rougeau can be reached Democracy Clause in international law in April. by e-mail at [email protected]. to be published in the law review of the School of Law of the Diego Portales • JOHN C. NAGLE spoke on University in Santiago, Chile. He also "Environmental, Cultural and Spiritual • LUCY SALSBURY PAYNE '88 J.D. submitted an entry on "Civil and Political Pollution" to a meeting of the Law spoke on "Understanding the Second Rights and Duties;' co-authored with Professors Christian Fellowship in Amendment" to the Elkhart (Indiana) Helena Olea, for a DICTIONARYON Washington, D.C., in January, and to the League of Women Voters in September, ELECTIONSAND POLITICALRIGHTS (2d current events class at Malta High School and gave a continuing legal education ed., Inter-American Institute on Human in Malta, Illinois, in December 1999. presentation on "Legal Research on the Rights). • 17

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Internet" to the St. Joseph County School of Law in March,He also taught a only woman on the court. He noted that (Indiana) Bar Association in December. session of a seminar on "Large Law Firms" the gender of a justice can make plenty of She served as a guest lecturer in an under- at the Northwestern University School of difference, more so at the supreme-court graduate economics class in September, Law in Chicago in February. level than in lower courts, because the state discussing research sources for labor law Professor Schiltz provided commen- supreme court, like a state legislature, is a .' issues, and in the Law School's Business tary for an Associated Press Newswire policy-making body that should have all Planning class in January, discussing release in November on the lack of women opinions represented. research sources for business planning. justices on the Indiana Supreme Court He presented a seminar on litigation In February, she visited the London Law after a man was appointed to replace the against religious organizations at a meeting Centre and gave presentations to the stu- of the newly elected bishops of the dents on using various Internet sources for Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in legal and career-related research. Chicago, Illinois, in January. He was also quoted in an article titled Churches Seeking • TERESA GODWIN PHELPS '73, KRESGE LAW LIBRARY Shield from Law Suits in a recent edition of '75 M.A. '80 PH.D. spoke on "Language, ADDS LIBRARIAN THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR which Violence and Retribution" at the faculty addressed a Colorado bill responding to the colloquium on February 11, 2000. Nancy M. Poehlmann joined the faculty of the increase of suits against religious bodies. Kresge Law Library in October 1999 as an assis- Professor Schiltz continues in his • JOHN H. ROBINSON '72 M.A., tant librarian with the responsibilities of a cata- efforts as chair of the NDLS Judicial '75 PH.D. was elected by his faculty col- loging librarian. She will work with Joe Thomas, Clerkship Committee to encourage more leagues to represent the Law School on the NDLS students to pursue judicial clerk- associate librarian and head of technical services, University's Faculty Senate for the 1999- ships. He spoke to the students on "The on cataloging and classifyingall library material. 2000 academic year. Nuts and Bolts of Applying for Judicial With the assistance of two experienced library Clerkships" in October. assistants and several students, Ms.Poehlmann • PATRICKJ.SCHILTZ has established His undergraduate alma mater, the a specialty in the legal-ethics debate ever will continue to organize the collection, applying College of St. Scholastic a, profiled him in since the VANDERBILTLAW REVIEW pub- the Library of Congress classification system the winter 2000 issue of its alumni maga- lished his article, On Being a Happy, Healthy using the library's Innovative Interface integrated zine in an article titled The "First Principles" and Ethical Member of an Unhappy, Unhealthy system. of Patrick Schiltz. The article explored his and Unethical Profession. The piece has gen- Ms.Poehlmann earned a BA in Englishand philosophy of education and recalled how erated considerable controversy in numer- French at Agnes Scott College in Georgia, and certain faculty members at the college ous outlets from the symposium in the earned an MA in comparative literature and an influenced his development as a teacher. Vanderbilt publication to M.L.S.from Indiana University. the excerpted article pub- She gained cataloging experi- • DINAH SHELTON published lished in the autumn 1999 ence at the University of REMEDIESIN INTERNATIONALHUMAN NOTRE DAME magazine. Chicago and at Indiana RIGHTS LAW in December. The publisher, It has been cited by THE University,where she spent Oxford University Press, has nominated SYNFAXWEEKLYREpORT as several months working in the book for the book prize of the a potential "minor classic at the law library. For four American Society of International Law. law schools across the coun- years prior to joining the staff Professor Shelton was also elected a try:' As a result, Professor of the Kresge Law Library, member of the International Council for Schiltz has made a number she served as principal cata- Environmental Law based in Bonn, of presentations on large- loger at the University of Germany. law-firm ethics including: Washington Libraries. Along "Is Working at a Law Firm • STEVEN D. SMITH presented a paper with her professional creden- Unethical," at a conference titled "Is Toleration Impossible? American tials, she brings to the job her fluent reading on legal ethics sponsored by the Minnesota Pluralism and the Ultra-Protestant Turn" knowledge of French, Latin,Spanish,Old English State Bar Association in Minneapolis in at a faculty colloquium at the University November;"Protecting Small Town Ethics and Old French, and bibliographic knowledge of of San Diego in February. In March, he from Big Firm Influences" at a meeting of Italian and Portuguese. presented "Religion, Democracy and the Benjamin Harrison American Inn of Ms.Poehlmann and her husband, Christian, Auronomy: A Political Parable" at a con- Court in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in February; who is a library supervisor in the University's ference of the Bill of Rights Institute at the and "Can an Ethical Lawyer Practice in a College of Business Information Center, are the College of William and Mary. Large Firm," at a discussion and debate parents of four children. He was also quoted in an article titled sponsored by the Fordham University Churches Seeking Shield from Law Suits in a • 18

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recent edition of THE CHRlSTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, which addressed a Colorado bill responding to the increase of suits against religious bodies. Law School Leads the Way in • J. ERIC SMITHBURN served on the Interdisciplinary Discussions faculty of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy's Mid-Central Trial Advocacy Program held at the Indiana University ssociate Professor of Law Lisa Schiltz, together with Tom School of Law in Bloomington in March Cosimano, professor of finance in the University's Mendoza 2000. Later in March, he presented lec- College of Business, participated in the inaugural "Faculty Tea" tures on "Termination of Parental Rights: in October, speaking on "Are Banks Obsolete? Should They Issues for the New Millennium" and ABe?" The topic, timely because of significant financial reforms being con- "Rights of Same-Sex Couples" at the sidered by Congress including the recently enacted Community National Conference on Juvenile Justice, Reinvestment Act, considered the unique role banks have played in the sponsored by the National Council of nation's economy and the encroachment upon much of banking's tradi- Juvenile and Family Court Judges and the tional business by other industries that have not been burdened by the National District Attorneys Association in social responsibilities heaped upon banking since the early part of this March. century. The "Faculty Tea;' a new event, responds to a desire for more inter- • JAY TIDMARSH has been elected disciplinary discussion at the University. Each month, the tea will take chair-elect of the AALS Section on Civil place in a different college, offer snacks and beverages in a congenial set- Procedure at the association's annual meet- ting' and feature brief discussions by faculty from two colleges on a topic ing in Washington, D.C., in January. of current interest.

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Anthony J. Bellia Jr. '94 J.D. and Patricia Small Bellia have jeined employment cases and antitrust Mest recently, he had been appointed the Law School faculty as assistan professors of law beginning in the fall to the Law Scheel Advisery Ceuncilby University President Reverend 2000 semester. Edward A. Malley,C.S.C. A.J.Belliagraduated summa cum laude with a BA in economics and Tricia Belliagraduated summa cum laude with an A.B. in gevernment political science from Canisius Cellege in Buffale,New rork, in 1991,and from Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges in 1991,and from the Yale Law summa cum laude from NDLS in 1994. While a student at Notre Dame, Scheel in 1995. While at Yale,she served as editor-in-chief of the YALE he was a Kiley Fellew,served-as editor-in-chief .ofthe NOTREDAMELAw LAwJOURNALexecutive, editor .ofthe YALEJOURNALOFINTERNATIONAL REVIEWand was awarded the Dean joseph A. O'Meara Award. After grad- LAwand student director .ofYale's Immigratien Legal Services. After uation, he clerked fer Honorable William M.Skretny .ofthe United States graduatien, she clerked fer Honorable Jese Cabranes .ofthe United District Court fer the Western District of New rork in Buffale from States Court .ofAppeals fer the Second Circuit from 1995 to 1996, and 1994 to 1996,fer Honorable Diarmuid F.O'Scannlain of the United fer Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of the United States Supreme States Court .ofAppeals fer the Ninth Circuit in Portland, Oregon, from Court from 1996 to 1997. Since 1997,she has worked at the United 1996 to 1997, and fer Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of the United States Department of Justice, Office of Legal Counsel, inWashingten, States Supreme Court from 1997 to 1998. He has been an associate at D.C., as an attorney-advisor; Her practice has invelved drafting memo- Miller,Cassidy, larroca & Lewin, LLP., inWashingten, D.C., since 1998;his randa and opinions en constitutional and statutory issues, including fer- practice has focused on appellate matters including federal- and state- eign relations and national-security law,separation of pewers, electronic court contract litigation, First Amendment issues, the death penalty, surveillance law and criminal precedure. • 19

Aubrey Diamond, Director of Notre Dame London Law Centre, Retires After 18Years of Service

Aubrey Diamond, a mainstay of our London Law Programme for almost two KRESGE LAW LIBRARY decades, has retired. This gentleman of impeccable speech and gentle wit joined the ADDS STAFF program as an adjunct faculty member in 1982 and co-directed the program from 1987 to 1998, during which time he lured many prominent academics to our faculty roster. • Sue Blasko joined the staff of the Professor Diamond brought to the program his own distinguished professional Kresge Law Library Access Services and academic career. Having served as a law commissioner for five years, he became a Department in January 2000 as a part- member of the Council of the Law Society in 1976, a position he held for 17 years. time library specialist. Her responsibili- He also directed the prestigious Institute of Advanced Legal ties include maintaining circulation and Studies at the University of London from 1976 to 1986. The reserve services, providing reference assistance, and general library clerical Society of Public Teachers of Law made him its president for work. 1985-86. Ms. Blasko earned a master's Born in 1923, Professor Diamond served in the Royal degree in administration from Notre Air Force from 1943 to 1947. He earned his LL.B. in 1950 Dame in 1995. She brings to her posi- and his LL.M. in 1956 at the University of London. He tion over 15 years of experience in began his career as a solicitor in 1951. His achievement in the corporate relations, marketing and exec- profession and in Great Britain found fitting support in his utive management, including numerous selection as Honorary Queen's CounseL promotions with the University's Sports On November 19, 1999, the Law School honored Marketing Department. Her many pro- Professor Diamond with a special dinner at the Oxford and fessional accomplishments include 12 Cambridge Club in London. He received a Notre Dame clock national marketing awards. to commemorate his service. At the dinner, he explained to those present - including Associate Deans Roger F.Jacobs and Jack Pratt and their wives, as well as other current and former members STAFF RECOGNIZED of the London faculty - how he came to study law: After his service during World FOR SERVICE War II, he realized that he needed a degree to enable him to advance his status. • Congratulations to: Ken Kinslow, During Tnforrnarion night" at the London School of Economics, he took a brochure for evening access services supervisor in the the degree in economics but noted almost immediately that it would take him five years Kresge Law Library, who celebrated 15 to earn the degree on a part-time basis. (Professor Diamond needed to continue work- years of service to Notre Dame in ing, and could attend classes only at night.) He asked whether any degree could be January 2000; and to Becky Carlton, earned in three years of part-time study. The school's representative answered, "the secretary in the Legal Aid Clinic, and LL.B.;' and the rest is history. Anne Hamilton, Law School Registrar, The NDLS community extends its sincerest thanks and appreciation to Professor who both celebrated 15 years of service Diamond for his countless and superb contributions to the development of a program to the University in February 2000. that is unlike any other offered by an American law school, and a program that has left its many participants with fond memories of London, the law and the man. DARLENE CARLSON RETIRES

• Faculty secretary Darlene Carlson, who had served almost every NDLS faculty member during her 20 years at the Law School - and most recently as the secretary for the Thomas J. White Center on Law and Government - officially retired at the end of 1999. At the Law School's Christmas party in December, Dean O'Hara thanked Ms. Carlson for her dedication and service, and presented her with a Notre Dame rocking chair as a gift of appreciation. • 20

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• Jon Krupnik, founder of Krupnick CLASS OF 1949 CLASS OF 1958 Campbell Malone in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was fearured recently in an article titled • Charles W. Ainlay, a founding partner of John Murray continues his efforts to compile an Florida's Most Feared Lawyers which appeared in Yoder, Ainlay, Ulmer & Buckingham in e-mail directory for the Class of '58. To be included FLORIDATREND:THE MAGAZINEOF FLORIDA Goshen, Indiana, received a "Golden Career on the list, please contact Mr. Murray at BUSINESS.The article referred to Mr. Krupnik Certificate" from the Indiana State Bar [email protected]. as "The King of Demonstrative Evidence;' Association at its annual meeting in • John F. Murray has embarked on what he described his penchant for making judges and Indianapolis this past fall commemorating call his "third career" - a certified mediator jurors feel like they are at the scene of an acci- his 50 years engaged in the practice of law. for the Virginia court system. After complet- dent by constructing full-scale re-creations of ing the necessary course work and mentoring, accident scenes in a 5,000 square foot ware- CLASS OF 1957 he has begun work on pro bono mediation house complete with an on-site courtroom, matters. and counted among his successes a $214 mil- • Karl F.Jorda, David Rines Professor of lion settlement against DuPont. Intellectual Property Law and Industrial Innovation and director of the Kenneth J. CLASS OF 1964 Germeshausen Center for the Law of CLASS OF 1966 • Charles P. Sacher, president of the Coral Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Gables, Florida, law firm of Walton, Lanraff • Stephen A. Seall has been re-elected to Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, New Schroeder and Carson, with his wife Dorothy, another two-year term as managing partner of Hampshire, has been appointed by the U.S. has endowed a library collection at the the South Bend office of Barnes & Thornburg, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency to the University, The Charles P. and Dorothy C. a position he has held since 1985. Mr. Seall Commission on the Settlement of Disputes Sacher Family Endowment in United States also serves as vice chair of the firm's Relating to Confidentiality of the Organization History and Culture. Management Committee for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons which has responsibility for implementing the

Chemical Weapons Convention. Professor CLASS OF 1965 CLASS OF 1967 Jorda is the only American among 20 members from around the world; he is eligible to serve a • John W. Beatty, senior partner in the • Gary H. Kaup, who has practiced law for total of three, two-year terms. His appoint- Cincinnati office of Dinsmore & Shohl, L.L.P., over 30 years in Middletown, Ohio, ran for a ment was noted in a recent edition of the has been appointed chairman of the board of four-year term on the city commission last NEW HAMPSHIREBARNEWS. the Cincinnati Art Museum. Mr. Beatty is a November. In February, he joined the Boston, trustee of the Cincinnati Art Academy and Massachusetts, office of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, previously served as board president of the Art Ferris, Glovsky and Pop eo, P.c., as of counsel. Academy. His practice focuses on litigation, CLASS OF 1969 Professor Jorda was also honored by his especially in the areas of antitrust, securities The Class of 1969 has established a listserv account undergraduate alma mater, the University of and general commercial work. with the Law School. To subscribe to the listserv Great Falls, Montana, with the university's and be able to access e-mail messages from class- 1998 "Distinguished Alumni Award:' He mates, please visit http://listserv.nd.edu/archives/ served as the university's commencement ndlaw-1969.html. You must provide your e·mail speaker that year. address and be verified as a member of the Class of 1969 in order to post messages to the listserv.

• Honorable Alexander D. Lehrer, superior IN MEMORIAM court judge in Monmouth County, New Jersey, was featured in the December 19, 1999, edition Please remember the following deceased alumni and their familiesin your prayers: of the ASBURYPARK(NEW JERSEY)PRESSfor his work mediating a dispute among compet- Joseph S.Angelino '29 J.D. ofTonawanda, New York,February II, 1999 (belated notice). ing builders and the state of New Jersey Martin P.Torborg '32, '34 J.D. of Fort Wayne, Indiana,September II, 1999. regarding redevelopment of the waterfront in Francis E. Bright '38, '40 J,D. of Newton, New Jersey,January 18,2000. Asbury Park. The article noted that Judge Adrian p, Hickey '48 J.D., '50 M.S. of Glenview,Illinois,November I, 1999. Lehrer "has built a career on a direct, hands- on, and often humorous approach to life:' James G. Sullivan '44, '48 J.D. of Montrose, NewYork,October 24, 1999. William F. Gorman '48, '49 J.D. of Meadville,Pennsylvania,September 10,1999. • James E. Mackin has been named chairman of the executive committee at Bond, Schoeneck James A. Simpson '49 J.D. of Fort Myers Beach,Florida,February 21,2000. & King in Syracuse, New York. Mr. Mackin's Honorable Gerald S. Murphy '49, '51 J.D. of Mount Prospect, Illinois,February 5,2000. practice focuses on estate and financial plan- Honorable Francis R. Quinn '50 J,D, ofVenice,Florida,February 2000. ning, trust and estate administration, and busi- William G. Soos '51,52 J,D, of Huron, Ohio,January 23,2000. ness succession planning. He is a fellow of the • 21

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American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. He is currently a member of the executive CLASS OF 1974 POPE JOHN PAUL II committee of the Central New York Chris Kule has volunteered to serve as the class sec- Community Foundation and a director of the HONORS NDLS retary for the Class of 1974. His responsibilities Boys and Girls Club of Syracuse and the ALUMNUS include preparing a class notes column for NOTRE Hiscock Legal Aid Society. DAME magazine. Please contact him at John H. Mowbray '76 J.D., a partner at Morse [email protected] or (212) 697-2700with any & Mowbray,P.c., in LasVegas,Nevada, received news or notes you'd like to share with classmates. CLASS OF 1971 the Pontifical Medal, "Pro Ecc/esia et Pontifice," at a • William BaughmanJr., a partner at • Nelson). Vogel Jr., a partner in the South Mass and conferral ceremony held at Guardian Weston, Hurd, Fallon & Paisley in Cleveland, Bend office of Barnes & Thornburg, has been Angel Cathedral in LasVegas on December 2, Ohio, has been confirmed as a U.S. magistrate elected to a one-year term on the firm's 1999. Bishop Daniel FWalsh of the LasVegas judge and took the oath of office in February. Management Committee. Diocese conferred the papal honor on Mr. • Christopher Kule continues as of counsel Mowbray,noting his long and spectacular service to Stairs Dillenbeck Finley & Merle in New for Catholic Charities, which includes serving as CLASS OF 1972 York City practicing private international law. chair of the organization's board for the last five • Russ E. Boltz, formerly of Cross Wrock, years. P.c., of Detroit, Michigan, retired from the CLASS OF 1975 Although Mr.Mowbray appears to be the first active practice of law in January 2000. His Nevadan to receive the honor, he is not the first plans for retirement include a "through hike" • Mary Joan Hoene, formerly vice president in his family. In 1951,his grandmother received of the Appalachian Trail from Springer and counsel at Equitable Life Assurance the same honor in Illinois. Mountain, Georgia, to Katahdin, Maine. As Society of the United States, has joined Carter, Mr. Boltz himself notes, "By the time this is Ledyard & Milburn in New York, New York, read, I will be tired, hungry and convinced that as counsel in the firm's Financial Institutions there really are things that are harder than Practice Group. Her practice focuses on the licensing rights for the Three Stooges, and Charlie Rice's classes at the Notre Dame Law mutual funds and the representation of as general counsel to a number of private busi- School:' investment advisors. ness concerns including Inter-Con Security, Pedus Service, Pinkerton, Inc., Clayton • Edward R. Schmidt, executive vice presi- • Honorable Willie G. Lipscomb was cited in Industries and Watson Land Co. dent, general counsel and secretary of USA the January 19, 2000, edition of the DETROIT Group, Inc., was honored as a"Distinguished FREEPRESSfor his highly successful Handgun • Jane M. Grote, a self-employed attorney in Fellow" by the Indianapolis Bar Foundation in Intervention Program, which was profiled in Cincinnati, Ohio, ran for mayor of Norwood, October 1999. Mr. Schmidt is active in several the spring 1997 edition of NOTREDAME Ohio, in the November 1999 election. She bar associations in Indiana and Pennsylvania, LAWYER.This most recent article relates how previously served as a member and president serves as a director of MetroBank Corporation Judge Lipscomb uses individuals who have of the city council of Norwood. in Indianapolis and Title Industry Assurance gone through the program as role models for • Guy P. Hoadley, formerly with Wise & Company in Washington, and is on the board current participants - adults and youths who Marsee in Detroit, Michigan, is now supervis- of directors of Crossroads Rehabilitation have been referred to the program by the court ing assistant corporation counsel in the City of Center and United Student Aid Funds, Inc. system as a condition of bond - and how he Detroit Law Department. uses graphic demonstrations of the conse- • Donald A. WichJr., a partner with Wich, quences of gun violence, including visits to the • Tim Hogan, executive director of the Wich & Wich, P.A., in Fort Lauderdale, county morgue, to convince participants to Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest Florida, has been selected as "Advocate of the look beyond weapons for solutions to their in Phoenix, was featured in an article titled Year"by the Legal Aid Society of Broward problems. Attorney Wants to Make a Difference in the County, Florida, for his commitment to mak- November 18, 1999, edition of the ARIZONA ingjustice available to the poor and disadvan- • Andrew C. Meko, formerly vice president BUSINESSGAZETTE. taged in the community. of Ashland, Inc., in Ashland, Kentucky, has become executive vice president of Associated • John H. Mowbray was one of five Industries of Kentucky in Louisville. "Community Heroes" honored at an awards CLASS OF 1973 banquet sponsored by the National Conference for Community and Justice - • Michael P. Barnes, currently of counsel at CLASS OF 1976 formerly the National Conference of Barnes & Thornburg in South Bend and for- Christians and Jews - in Las Vegas, Nevada, merly the St. Joseph County (Indiana) ptose- • Gerard S. Brown was named a judge on the in March. The NCCJ is a human-relations cutor, has been appointed to the Indiana Court San Bernardino County (California) Superior organization dedicated to fighting bias, bigotry of Appeals. Court in 1997, and was profiled in the and racism in America. Each year, the organi- November 9, 1999, edition of the Los • Mike Pohlmeyer is an investment counselor zation honors individuals who help further its ANGELESDAILYJOURNAL.Prior to his with Edward Jones and Co., and was recently goals of promoting understanding and respect appointment by California Governor Pete elected to the city council in Redding, among all races, religions and cultures through Wilson, Judge Brown served as a legal advisor California. advocacy, conflict resolution and education. to Comedy Three Productions, which controls • 22

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• Patricia Redington has been appointed CLASS OF 1977 CLASS OF 1980 county counselor for St. Louis, Missouri. She had served as deputy county counselor since • Mary Ann Jennings, formerly the manager • Michael Curreri, founder and formerly the fall of 1999, but has been part of the coun- of a large-claims department at CNA president of Richmond, Virginia-based ty counsel's office since 1985. Insurance Company, has joined Cyberserrle, TriaiNet, has joined Hartford, Connecticut- the first company to offer an on-line method based TyMetrix, a leading provider of web- for settling insurance disputes. Ms. Jennings based solutions for legal commerce, as senior CLASS OF 1982 has been appointed vice president of vice president. He will work with the compa- sales/insurance and is responsible for ny's team of technologists, programmers and • Frank Julian, tax counsel for Federated administering claim resolutions in the professional staff - gathered from the legal Department Stores in Cincinnati, Ohio, served insurance industry. and insurance industry - to help develop a as an invited expert witness at a meeting of the platform for collaboration between clients and Federal Advisory commission on Electronic • John T. VanGesseel has become of counsel counsel. Commerce held in San Francisco in December to Gunster, Yeakley,Valdes-Fauli & Stewart in 1999. He addressed a proposal put forth by Fort Lauderdale, Florida; his practice focuses • Hal Moore, project finance head at the National Governors' Association that on environmental law and on health and safety Skadden Arps in New York,New York, was would require e-cornrnerce vendors to collect matters. cited as a"corporate star" in the June 1999 issue state taxes on all sales - in-state and out-of- of LEGALBUSINESS. state. • Mollie Murphy, formerly on the faculty of CLASS OF 1978 • Michael Scanlon, formerly with McGlynn, the University of Detroit Mercy Law School McLorg & Ritchie in San Francisco, California, • Joe CariJr., managing partner at the and an attorney at the Thomas More Center has joined Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, Chicago office of Ungaretti & Harris, has been for Law and Justice, has joined the faculty of P.e., also in San Francisco. named one of three new finance chairs of the Ave Maria Law School in Ann Arbor, Democratic National Committee. In this role, Michigan. • Gregory Sobkowski, a partner in the Mr. Cari will be responsible for helping the Merrillville, Indiana, law firm of Hodges & • Richard Myers, formerly on the faculty of party take its message directly to voters, visit- Davis, P.e., has been elected a fellow of the the University of Detroit Mercy Law School ing cities and towns that the party has never American Bar Foundation, an honorary organi- and an attorney at the Thomas More Center before visited. zation of practicing attorneys, judges and law for Law and Justice, has joined the faculty of professors whose professional, public and pri- • MichaelJ. Wahoske, a member at Dorsey Ave Maria Law School in Ann Arbor, vate careers have demonstrated ourstanding & Whitney, L.L.P., in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Michigan. dedication to the welfare of their communities has been elected to membership in the • Sister Gaye Lynn Moorhead, a member of and to the highest principles of the legal pro- American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. The the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas based in fession. In addition to his practice, Mr. academy, which has 221 member attorneys in Rochester, New York, was featured in an article Hodges currently serves as the Portage the United States, recognizes outstanding in the December 5, 1999, edition of the Township School Board Attorney and the appellate lawyers and promotes the improve- HOUSTONCHRONICLEfor her work as founder Portage City Attorney in his hometown of ment of appellate advocacy and the administra- of a mobile school program for the children of Portage, Indiana, and is a member of the tion of appellate courts. migrant farmworker families. The school Indiana Municipal Lawyers Association and serves 54 children of migrant families, follow- the National School Board Association CLASS OF 1979 ing the families as they travel throughout three Council of School Attorneys. or four states each year to follow harvests. • Brian Steinke, formerly a deputy prosecu- • Anthony Earley Jr., chairman, president tor with the St. Joseph County (Indiana) and chief executive officer of DTE Energy Co. Prosecutor's Office and most recently an attor- and Detroit Edison Co. was profiled in the CLASS OF 1981 ney in the South Bend City Attorney's office, October 11, 1999, issue of CRAIN'SDETROIT • Bishop Harold Calvin Ray, a minister to has been named a magistrate in the St. Joseph BUSINESS. a congregation of 1,000 at the Redemptive County Superior Court where he will concen- • S. David Worhatch, a sole practitioner in Life Fellowship Church on Lake Mangonia, trate on small-claims cases and traffic court. Stow, Ohio, and a member of the Notre Dame Florida, was featured in the January 29, 2000, Law Association board of directors, is pursu- edition of THE PALMBEACHPOSTin an ing elected office for the 46th Ohio House article titled "Preacher Rallies Flock to 'Black CLASS OF 1983 District. His candidacy in the Democratic America, Inc." The article discussed Bishop • Mary Beth Beazley, director of legal writ- Parry's primary was examined in the Tuesday, Ray's plans for and activities leading to the ing at the College of Law at Ohio State February 8, 2000, edition of Cleveland's PLAIN development of a $5.4 million center to help University, last summer spoke at the DEALER. spur economic growth within African- Association of American Law Schools confer- American communities. ence for new teachers in Washington, D.e., at the Association of Legal Writing Directors meeting in Boston, and at the annual meeting of the American Bar Association in Atlanta. • 23

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• Alex Lengyel became chief regional devel- opment counsel for CMS Energy's operations in Asia in October; he continues to live in NEW ADDITIONS Singapore.

• Ken Poirier, formerly a policy advisor with Diane Rice '80, '83 J.D. and her husband Spence Hosie announce the birth of the Michigan State Senate and human services Katherine Spencer Hosie, October 21, 1999,in San Francisco, California. policy coordinator on the staff of Michigan Governor John Engler, has become an Michael Blakey '81, '84 J.D. and his wife Natalie announce the birth of Katya Michelle, administrative law judge in the Michigan November 19, 1999,in Center Moriches, New York. Katya is the fourth grandchild of Unemployment Agency Office of Appeals in NDLS Professor G. Robert Blakey '57, '60 J.D. Detroit. Robert Ryan '90 J.D. and Jennifer Hirschfeld Ryan '91 J.D. announce the birth of William, July 1999, in Framingham, Massachusetts. CLASS OF 1984 Christine Ireland McKee '91 J.D. and her husband Charles announce the birth of Kayleigh Marie, • Shelley K. Simcox has joined the Office of October 1999,in Kansas City, Missouri. the General Counsel at the Naval Facilities Thomas P. Keller '92 J.D. and Bridget Quinn '93 J.D. announce the birth of Kathryn Adrienne, Engineering Command in North Charleston, South Carolina, where she serves as real estate December 4, 1999,in South Bend, Indiana. and environmental counsel and focuses on Pam Mclean '92 J.D. and her husband Jon announce the birth of Georgia Elizabeth on May 14, 1999, environmental and natural-resources law in Princeton, New Jersey. issues. Marty Seifert '89, '92 J.D. and his wife Petra announce the birth of Denise Marie, February 6, 1999, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. CLASS OF 1985 Jeannette P.Macleod '93 J.D. and her husband Honorable Sanford M. Brook announce the Please visit the Class of 1985 web site, developed birth of RileyJeannette, July 1999,in Indianapolis,Indiana. and maintained by Tom Nessinger, at http://alumni.nd.edu/ -law85/. Jim Garvey '91, '94 J.D. and Jennifer (Dessoye) Garvey '95 J.D. announce the birth of Emma Nicole, May4, 1999,in Chicago, Illinois. • Jay Habas, managing attorney of the Erie, Pennsylvania, office of Philadelphia-based lance lawson '96 J.D. and his wife Karen announce the birth of Mark James, August 3, 1999, Marshall,Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & in Charlotte, North Carolina. Goggin, P.c., has been elected a shareholder of the firm. His practice focuses on defending Casey Ryan '93, '96 J.D. and her husband Kris Winningham '93, '94 M.BA announce the birth of workers' compensation matters. Jacob Ryan,June 13, 1999,in Sewickley,Pennsylvania.

• Tom Nessinger has moved to Washington, Chris Pardi '95 J.D. and his wife Mary announce the birth of Lauren Elisabeth, February 2,2000, D.C., where he works for the Mass Media in Berkeley,Michigan. Bureau of the Federal Communications Steven Kelso '97 J.D. and his wife Erin announce the birth of Alexander Brunell, October 31, 1999, Commission. in Minot, North Dakota. • John Roda, formerly general counsel at AMP Incorporated in Harrisburg, Todd Miller '97 J.D. and his wife Kathryn announce the birth ofTimothy Ives,December 28, 1999, Pennsylvania, has become managing director in Royal Oak, Michigan. of international development and general Melanie Rubocki '97 J.D. and her husband John announce the birth of Nikita Laine, counsel for Auntie Anne's Pretzels in October II, 1999,in Chicago, Illinois. Lancaster,Pennsylvania. Keith Bice '98 J.D. and his wife Heather announce the birth of Catherine Grace, September 25, 1999, • Ed Rolwes, formerly with Hinshaw & Culbertson in Chicago, Illinois, has formed in Indianapolis, Indiana. Rolwes and Platt, which maintains offices in Steve Boettinzsr '90.'99 I.D. >no hi, wi{~.lI"M._'M",,,,

• David C. Scheper, formerly with the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles, California, has become a member in the Los Angeles office of Winston & Strawn where his practice focus- es on criminal-law matters. • 24

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• Terrance P. Flynn has been named a part- • Gary J. Saalman has been elected to the CLASS OF 1986 ner at Gibson, McAskill and Crosby in Buffalo, partnership of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and New York;his practice focuses on corporate, Pease, L.L.P. His practice, in the firm's Please visit the Class of 1986 web site, developed civil and municipal litigation. He is also active Columbus, Ohio, office,focuses on litigation, and maintained by Don Passenger, at in community service and is a member of the including banking and insurance, commercial http://www.iserv.net/-dpasseng/ndlaw86.htm. American Red Cross Western New YorkTask employment discrimination, tax disputes and • Blake A. Bailey, formerly a partner at Vial Force, campaign coordinator for the Erie class actions. Hamilton Koch & Knox,L.L.P., in Dallas, County (New York) Bar Foundation, and on • John Schlinkler, a member of Foster, Swift, Texas, has joined Brown McCatroll & Oaks the board of directors of the Law School at Collins & Smith in Lansing, Michigan, is a Hartline, L.L.P., in Dallas as a partner. SUNY-Buffalo. He has also served as a mem- candidate for the Michigan House of ber of the board of directors of the Notre • Christopher Kramer, formerly on the Representatives. Dame Club of Western New York. municipal court bench in Phoenix, Arizona, • Debra Voltz-Miller, formerly with Fred R. has taken a position with the Arizona • Charles P. Rice, a sole practitioner in Sourh Haines and Associates in Sourh Bend, has Attorney General's office where he litigates Bend, served as part of a discussion team for a formed her own firm as a sole practitioner and condemnation cases on behalf of the Arizona program on "The Trial of a Sexual Harassment mediator in Sourh Bend. Department of Transportation. Case" sponsored by the Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum in November in

Indianapolis. CLASS OF 1990 CLASS OF 1987 • Stephen Safranek, formerly on the faculty • Christopher J.Alessandro, formerly with • Stancil E. Barton Jr. is of counsel to of the University of Detroit Mercy Law School Strock & Strock & Lavan, L.L.P., in Boston, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, L.L.P., in and an attorney at the Thomas More Center Massachusetts, has joined Mirick O'Connell in Houston, Texas; his practice focuses on insur- for Law and Justice, has joined the faculty of Worcester, Massachusetts as an associate in ance regulation and government relations. Ave Maria Law School in Ann Arbor, the firm's corporate and business-law Michigan. • MichaelJ. Bordallo, a partner in Phillips & department. Bordallo, P.c., in Hagarna, Guam, was • Kelly D. Talcott has been named a partner • David Cosgrove has become an assistant appointed judge by the governor of Guam in at Pennie & Edmonds in New York,New York; district attorney at the Suffolk District 1998. his practice focuses on intellectual-property, Attorney's Office in Boston, Massachusetts. electronic-commerce and Internet law. • Patricia McManmon Carlson, who former- ly practiced law in Waltham, Massachusetts, has joined the National Commercial Services CLASS OF 1988 - LL.M. division of Land America Financial Group in ALUMNI AUGMENT Fairfield, Connecticur, where she is a title • Miguel Arauz-Adames is working at the FACULTY IN SPRING attorney specializing in commercial real estate. World Trade Center in Panama City, Republic 2000 SEMESTER of Panama. • Michael A. Ross, has been promoted from general counsel to senior vice president at TIC Several NDLS alumni have joined the faculty as Holdings, Inc., in Steamboat Springs, CLASS OF 1989 adjunct assistant professors of law for the spring Colorado. • Henry A. LaBrun has been named a part- 2000 semester, including: • Kurt D. Weaver, formerly with Kelley ner at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in New Kari Anne Gallagher '90, '93 J.D., an McCann & Livingstone in Cleveland, Ohio, York,New York, where he has worked since associate in the South Bend office of Baker & has become of counsel at Womble, Carlyle, 1993. His practice focuses on representing Daniels who specializes in labor relations, Sandridge & Rice in Raleigh, North Carolina, issuers, underwriters and purchasers of mort- employment law and employment litigation,will where his practice focuses on public and gage- and asset-backed securities, and in the municipal law, litigation, labor and employ- teach a segment of Deposition Techniques. development and structuring of securitization ment law, and products liability. R. Paul Guerre '91 J.D., a member at and other innovative financial transactions. Warner, Norcross & Judd, L.L.P.,in Grand Rapids • Karl McDonald, who practices law in the Michigan,who specializes in corporate law,secu- CLASS OF 1988 Washington, D.C., area and currently serves as rities law,and mergers and acquisitions, will chair of the Sports and Entertainment Section • John F. Beatty, formerly deputy county teach Business Planning. of the National Bar Association, spoke at the attorney with the Maricopa County Attorney's Paul Peralta '79, '86 J.D., a member in the Law School on "Sports and Entertainment Office in Mesa, Arizona, has joined the novi- South Bend office of Baker & Daniels who spe- Law: Breaking into the Business,Making tiate of the Society of Jesus and is currently cializes in commercial litigation, employment law Contacts and Acquiring Clients" at a February studying at Santa Clara University in northern and products liability,will teach a new class in program coordinated by the NDLS Black Law California. Students Association. Business Torts. • 25

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• Patrick J. Fay has been named counsel to • Richard B. Evans is a trial attorney with the rions, with tax-exempt financing, counsels Kenyon & Kenyon of New York, New York. U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, in counties, cities, towns and school corporations An expert in the areas of automorive equip- Washington, D.C. on a variety of municipal-law issues, represents ment and medical devices, Mr. Fay's nine years business clients in real estate and zoning mat- • Wayne Hill is in his third year as assistant of patent-practice experience includes all areas ters, and assists business and governmental public defender for Monroe County in of patent prosecution, both domestic and for- clients on economic development projects. Rochester, New York, with a caseload of eign, including re-examination, reissue and approximately 560 open files. • GlennJ. Rosswurm II, formerly director of interference as related to mechanical and elec- development research at the University of trical technologies. • BrianJ. Hynes has been named vice presi- Notre Dame's Development Office, has been dent and associate general counsel of USA • Jacqueline Sells Homann has been named named the University's director of Law School Group, a firm headquartered in Indianapolis, a partner at Jones Obenchain, L.L.P., in advancement (please see p. 48). Indiana, that supports access to education by South Bend. providing educational-loan, financial and man- • Randall Royball has been elected to the • Joseph L. Novak is with the State agement products and services to those pursu- executive board of directors for New Mexico Department in Washington, D.C. He recently ing, providing and promoting education. Mr. AIDS Services, Inc., the state's largest returned from Islamabad, Pakistan, where he Hynes, who has worked at USA Group for HIV / AIDS service organization. He contin- was a political officer at the U.S. Embassy, and more than four years, played a key role in the ues to serve as deputy director and chief staff now works the NATO desk in the Bureau of formation of EDULINX Canada Corporation, attorney of the New Mexico Judicial Standards European Affairs. the company's venture with Canadian Imperial Commission where he serves primarily as the Bank of Commerce ro service Canadian stu- commission's prosecutor in matters of judicial • Michael Roberts has been made partner at dent loans.He supports the company's taxable misconduct, in addition to handling other Graydon Head & Ritchey in Cincinnati, Ohio, affiliates and the company's information tech- administrative responsibilities. where he is a member of the firm's commercial nology staff. litigation and dispute-resolution client service • Patricia A. Smith, formerly an associate at department with a practice focusing on com- • Marty Loesch, who earned an LL.M. at Carr, Goodson & Lee in Washington, D.C., rnercial lirigarion, employment litigation, NDLS in 1992 and works as an attorney on has joined the U.S. Department of Justice as a ERISA, health-care law and noncompetitive an Indian reservation north of Seattle, trial attorney in Washington, D.C. covenants. Washington, spent one month this past fall on a consulting appointment to help Catholic • Ann K. (Doyle) Smith has joined Atkinson, Relief Services assess its performance in CLASS OF 1992 Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo in Cerritos, response to the refugee crisis in Kosovo. As California; her practice focuses on employment • Albert P. Allen, formerly an attorney at part of his duties, he traveled to Macedonia and labor matters as well as litigation. Alston & Bird, L.L.P., in Charlotte, North and met with the people who run the largest Carolina, has joined the patent firm of Phil • Todd Stein, formerly with Brooks Fiber refugee camp, ventured along the route used by Summa Patent Attorney in Charlotte where he Communications in Grand Rapids, Michigan, refugees into and our of Kosovo, met with leads the firm's intellectual property litigation has joined the Grand Rapids office of MCI refugees and visited a refugee camp in Albania. practice. WorldCom. He presented his conclusions and recommen- dations at CRS headquarters in Baltimore in • Thomas P. BerraJr. has been named as a • Deanne M. Tomse, formerly with the late 1999. partner in the St. Louis, Missouri, officeof Amalgamated Bank of Chicago, has joined the Lewis, Rice & Fingersh,L.c., effective Chicago office of MCI WorldCom. • Chris Neronha, formerly with the Paul February 1, 2000. He joined the firm as an Revere Insurance Group in Worcester, associate after graduation in 1992. His prac- Massachusetts, has joined National Life tice focuses on general business and cornmer- CLASS OF 1991 Insurance Company in Montpelier, Vermont. ciallitigation, employment litigation, and • Christine S. Bulman is an attorney at • Fred Richards, formerly with Rooks, Pitts admiralty and maritime litigation. Dukes, Williams, Infinger & Ruff, P.A., a gen- & Poust in Chicago, Illinois, has joined • Patrick R. Bunnell has been made a name erallitigation firm in Beaufort, South Carolina. Arnstein & Lehr in Chicago as an associate; partner in the Leominster, Massachusetts, law his practice focuses on medical malpractice and • Timothy Bulman, a major in the U.S. firm of Campo Basso & Bunnell, P.c., where insurance defense. Marine Corps, is chief civil law officer at the his practice focuses on civil litigation. He also U.S. Marine Corps Recruit Depot at Parris • Randolph R. Rompola has been named a serves on the board of directors of Leominster Island, South Carolina. partner in the South Bend office of Baker & High School, where he works on strengthen- Daniels; his practice focuses on taxable and ing the alumni scholarship fund, and the • Carla Consoli has been made a partner in tax-exempt financing by governmental entities, North Worcester County (Massachusetts) the Phoenix, Arizona, office of Bryan Cave, Chapter of the American Red Cross. He is L.L.P.; she works in the firm's Environmental including general obligation and revenue bonds, special taxing-district bonds, tax incre- also a member of the school council for Johnny and Real Estate Development, Construction, ment financing and industrial-development Appleseed Elementary School in Leominster. and Project Finance Groups. bonds. He also assists not-for-profit clients, including health care and educational institu- • 26

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• Honorable Rosemary Higgins Burke has Association. An associate attorney with Biebel announced that she will seek another six-year & French, a Dayton firm concentrating on CLASS OF 1993 LL. M. term on the Fulton County (Indiana) Superior intellectual property law, Ms. Mihlbaugh holds • Annelise Bosman spent the last four years Court Bench. She was the first judge appoint- an LL.M. in intellectual property and focuses working as a legal advisor at the Iran-U.S. ed by then-governor Evan Bayh when the her practice on trademark and unfair competi- Claims Tribunal in The Hague, The Indiana General Assembly created the court in tion law and related litigation. She was also Netherlands, and now is a senior associate at 1992. In addition to her responsibilities with recently elected to the board of directors of the the Amsterdam office of Freshfields, a law firm the court, she has been appointed by the Northwest Ohio Literacy Council. based in London, England. She specializes in Indiana Supreme Court to serve on the state's • Sarah ], Pavlik works with Delano Law international commercial arbitration. Domestic Relations Committee and to hear Offices, P.c., in Springfield, Illinois, and as a disciplinary complaints filed against judges and • Ferdinando P. Cavese, a major in the sole practitioner in Dallas, Texas. lawyers. United States Air Force, has joined the Staff • Thomas C. Pavlik, formerly with Figari & Judge Advocate AEF Silver Team at Langley • Gerard T. Gallagher, formerly an associate Davenport in Dallas,Texas, has joined Delano Air Force Base in Virginia. in the South Bend oRice of Barnes & Law Offices, P.c., in Springfield, Illinois. Thornburg, has joined the intellectual property team in the South Bend office of Baker & • MichaelJ. Whitton has been made partner CLASS OF 1994 Daniels. His practice focuses on intellectual in the San Diego, California, office of Ross, property law, with an emphasis on obtaining Dixon & Bell, L.L.P. Mr. Whitton is a senior • AJ. Bellia Jr., currently an associate at intellectual property rights. He also works member of the firm's commercial transactional Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin, L.L.P., in with the firm's litigation team on patent and practice which is based in San Diego. His Washington, D.C., will join the Law School trademark infringement suits and related practice specializes in real estate acquisition, faculty this fall as an assistant professor of law. matters. development and finance, with special empha- • James Fisfis, formerly a parrner at Capitol sis on large-scale urban redevelopment and • Erik V. Huey, formerly with the legislative Campaign Strategies in Silver Spring, revitalization projects, and the development and regulatory division of BellSouth in Maryland, has relocated to Sacramento, and acquisition of golf courses, country clubs, Atlanta, has joined the Washington, D.C., California, and is press secretary to Scott hotels, marinas and other resort properties. office of Los Angeles-based Manart, Phelps & Baugh, representative to the 67th legislative Phillips, L.L.P., as an associate; his practice district and the Republican Leader in the focuses on telecommunications, the Internet CLASS OF 1993 California State Assembly. and emerging technologies. • Don Lohman, formerly an associate at • Henry S. Alford, formerly with • SukJin Hwang, formerly an attorney at Bryan Cave, L.L.P., in St. Louis, Missouri, has Greenebaum Doll & McDonald in Louisville, Yukong Limited in Seoul, Korea, has joined joined Mallinckrodt in St. Louis as in-house Kentucky, has been named a member of SK Corporation in Seoul. counsel; his responsibilities include mergers Middleton & Reutlinger, P.S.c., in Louisville; and acquisitions along with products liability • PatrickJ. Keating has been named a part- his practice focuses on corporate and general litigation. ner in the Chicago, Illinois, law firm of Kaplan, litigation as well as products liability. Begy & vonOhlen; his practice focuses on • Michelle Mancias, formerly with • John M. Dunn has been named an equity business and aviation litigation. Sonnenber.g Anderson in Chicago, Illinois, has partner in the Modesto, California, office of joined Prairie State Legal Services, Inc., in • Scott Kenney is an international environ- McCormick, Barstow, Sheppard, Wayre & Bloomington, Illinois, where she serves the mental law attorney with the Office of the Carruth. An associate at the firm since gradu- legal needs of the elderly and indigent in Judge Advocate General, International and ation,Mr. Dunn's practice concentrates on civil central Illinois. Operational Law, at the Pentagon. litigation. • Andrea Roberts has joined the • Brian P. Lennon, formerly with the U.S. • Paul B. McCarrhy, formerly with Rudnick Indianapolis, Indiana, oRice of Baker & Marine Corps Office of the Staff Judge & Wolfe in Chicago, Illinois, has opened his Daniels. Advocate in Quantico, Virginia, has become own firm, McCarthy & Bradford, P.c., in assistant U.S. attorney in the Western District • Susan Toth, strategy implementation Chicago. of Michigan in Grand Rapids. manager for the National Institute for Trial • Charles H. Rose III, a major in the United Advocacy in South Bend and a reserve officer • John H. Lloyd IV, formerly a partner at States Army, is studying for an LL.M. in in the United States Navy, has been appointed Galvin, Galvin & Leeney in Hammond, military law with a specialty in criminal law vice chair of the St. Joseph County (Indiana) Indiana, has joined Plews Shadier Racher & at the Judge Advocate General's School in Republican party. Braun, Indiana's largest environmental law Charlottesville, Virginia. firm, as of counsel in the firm's Mishawaka office. His practice focuses en litigation. • Mary Yu, formerly deputy chief of staff for the King County (Washington) Prosecuting • Leslie Batte Mihlbaugh recently presented Attorney's Office, has been named a judge on a lecture titled "1999 Trademark Update" to the the King County Superior Court by Governor Dayton (Ohio) Intellectual Property Law Gary Locke. • 27

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• Cathy Pieronek, direcror of law school CLASS OF 1995 relations at NDLS, published Discrimination CLASS OF 1996 Against Students in Higher Education, as part of Please visit the Class of 1995 web site, provided • Eleni Z. Angelopoulos is an associate at the annual "Higher Education and the Courts: through the Notre Dame Alumni Association, at Barrett & McNagny in Fort Wayne, Indiana; 1998 in Review" issue published by the http:// alumni.nd.edu/ -law95/. If you would like her practice focuses on health care, corporate JOURNALOFCOLLEGE& UNIVERSITYLAW. to help design and maintain this page, please volun- and business law matters. She was also elected ro a three-year term on teer via the link on the web page. the board of direcrors of the University Club • Kristen M. Fletcher has been appointed • Michael Collins is an associate at Groom of Notre Dame in November 1999. direcror of the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Law Group, Chartered, an ERISA bourique Legal Program at the University of Mississippi. • Stephanie (Shea) Schaeffer has become firm representing Fortune 500 companies, in She had served as research counsel for the permanent law clerk to Honorable Michael A. Washingron, D.e. In addition to his active program since earning her LL.M. in environ- Telesca of the United States District Court for practice, he has written or contribured sub- mental and natural-resources law at the the Western District of New York in stantially to numerous articles, including a Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark Rochester, New York. recent article in PREVIEWOFUNITEDSTATES College in 1997. She continues as editor of the SUPREMECOURTCASES. • David Winstead, formerly a captain in program's quarterly legal publication, WATER the United States Army stationed with the LOG. • John Dakoske has joined the Cincinnati Defense Contract Management Command in The Sea Grant Legal Program, now in its office of PricewaterhouseCoopers. St. Louis, Missouri, has left active duty to 30th year, provides research, ourreach and • Sheley DeGraw, formerly with Kitch, become assistant county atrorney in Anderson advisory services on ocean and coastal law and Drutchas, Wagner & Kenney, P.e., in Detroit, County, Tennessee, in November. He will policies. It is affiliated with the Mississippi- Michigan, has joined Special Counsel in work our of an office in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Alabama Sea Grant Consortium, an organiza- Berkley, Michigan, as placement direcror and will use his regulatory and administrative tion of eight Carnegie I and II research responsible for temporary placement of law experience ro concentrate abour half of his universities dedicated to the conservation and attorneys, paralegals and legal secretaries. time on Superfund and land-fill issues. sustainable development of coastal and marine resources in Mississippi and Alabama. It is part • Joseph Dunn, formerly an associate of a national network of 29 Sea Grant pro- with Black & Gerngross in Philadelphia, grams in coastal and Great Lakes states and Pennsylvania, has joined AAMCO MARGARET RYAN Puerto Rico, all supported by the National Transmissions, Inc., of Bala Cynwyd, COLLINS '95 J.D., Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Pennsylvania, as corporate counsel. U.S. SUPREME COURT the United States Department of Commerce. • Teresa Kibelstis, formerly an associate with CLERK • Matthew M. Hicks has completed his clerk- Ballard Spahr in Philadelphia, has returned to ship with Honorable Thomas F.Neville of the the Philadelphia District Attorney's office, Margaret Ryan Collins has accepted a clerk- Fourth District Court of Idaho and has joined where she worked immediately after gradua- ship on the United States Supreme Court with Hall,Farley, Oberrecht & Blanton, P.A., in tion, as an assistant district trial attorney. Associate Justice Clarence Thomas for the 200 I Boise, Idaho, as an associate specializing in • Nolan Koon, formerly with Haese, L.L.e., term. commercial and civil litigation. in Boston, Massachusetts, has joined Burns & After graduation, Ms.Collins served as a • William R.Jaquinde, formerly with Sr. Levinson, L.L.P., in Boston in the firm's profes- prosecutor for the u.s. Marine Corps in Joseph Title Co. in St. Joseph, Michigan, has sional practices group. Okinawa, Japan,and Quantico, Virginia,then was joined American Title Company ofWashtenaw • Jody Odell, an associate at Barnes & selected to serve as aide de camp for the com- in Ann Arbor, Michigan, as agency counsel. Thornburg in South Bend, has become an mandant of the Marine Corps. She later joined • Rick Siller has opened the Law Offices of adjunct assistant professor of accountancy at the appellate and trial firm of Cooper, Carvin Richard Barrera Siller in San Antonio, Texas; the University's Mendoza College of Business. and Rosenthal, P.L.L.c.,inWashington, D.C. his practice includes general criminal and civil • Scott O'Halloran, formerly with the InJuly,she will begin a one-year clerkship law matters. United States Army Judge Advocate General's with Honorable J. Michael Luttig of the U.S. • Fred Tiemann has become an assistant Office, has joined Williams, Kastner & Gibbs, Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and will federal public defender in McAllen, Texas. P.L.L.C., in Tacoma, Washingron, as an join the ranks of Supreme Court Clerks in the - JUJ...lUJ. ""UCld.J.l ..1...1...J1..~ UIC llU111dlllt:~UUlLt::::. rail or LUUI. manager for the Global Manufacturing & • Katie Pamenrer, formerly a clerk in the Ms.Collins - who earned the Law School's Technical Operations area at the Gillette U.S. Bankruptcy Court in South Bend, has highest academic honor, the Hoynes Prize - is Company in Boston,Massachusetts. joined the law firm of Goldberg, Kohn in the fourth NDLS graduate to clerk on the Chicago, Illinois, as an associate. nation's highest court in the last five years. She joins A.J.Bellia'94 J.D.,Amy Coney Barrett '97 J.D.and Rosemary Nixon Blaise'98 J.D.in this prestigious appointment. • 28

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• Jennifer Sroka has become a teacher in • Lillian Cheng is a law clerk to Honorable CLASS OF 1997 Buffalo, New York. She teaches American Joyce London Alexander, U.S. magistrate Literature to 11th graders and British judge, in Boston, Massachusetts. • Amy Coney Barrett has completed her Literature to 12th graders, coaches the school's clerkship with Associate Justice Antonin Scalia • Thomas J. Johnson, formerly with Deloitte mock-trial team, and is in the process of earn- of the United States Supreme Court and has & Touche in New York, New York, has joined ing her M.S. in education and her M.A. in joined Miller, Cassidy, Larroca and Lewin in Ravin Sarasohn in Roseland, New Jersey, as an English. Washington, D.C., as an associate. associate. • Scott Sroka, an associate in the trial depart- • Sean Elliott is a motion picture talent agent • Jenna (Falcone) MacLachlan is an associate ment at Phillips, Lytle, Hitchcock, Blaine & at Paradigm Talent Agency in Los Angeles, in the Law Offices of Thomas J. Lynch in Huber, L.L.P., in Buffalo, New York, has been California. Syracuse, New York, where her practice focus- elected vice president of operations of the New es on insurance defense for municipalities and • Ellen A. Feeney, formerly with Pitney, Millennium Group, an organization in western school districts. Hardin, Kipp & Szuch, L.L.P., in Morristown, New York formed to encourage young profes- New Jersey, has joined Connell Foley, L.L.P., in sionals in the area to use their optimism, vision • Kevin Patrick has joined the Equity Capital Roseland, New Jersey, as an associate; her and leadership skills to foster sustainable Markets Group of SG Cowen in New York, practice focuses on labor and employment growth and prosperity in the region. New York. matters. • Chris Turk, formerly with the U.S. Patent • Kristen Polovoy, a litigation associate with • Jeffrey Fitzgerald published Employee & Trademark Office in Washington, D.C., has Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, Interview Techniques for Healthcare Organizations joined the Intellectual Property Department of L.L.P., has relocated from the firm's main office Responding to a Fraud Investigation in THE Blank Rome Comisky & McCauley in in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to the firm's HEALTHLAWYER(vol. 12, no. 1, Oct. 1999). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where his practice office in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. will focus on trademark law. • Janette Forman, formerly with Fedota • Brendan Regan, formerly an associate at Childers & Rocca, P.c., in Chicago, Illinois, • Scott A. Whipple, formerly with Clark Faegre & Benson, L.L.P., in Minneapolis, has joined the Chicago office of Lord, Bissell Hill, L.L.P., in Detroit, Michigan, has opened Minnesota, has joined the U.S. Patent and and Brook. his own practice specializing in estate Trademark Office in Washington, D.C., as a planning. trademark attorney. • Steven Kelso is serving with the Judge Advocate General's Office of the U.S. Air Force • Anastasia Tonello has joined the Law in Minot, North Dakota. CLASS OF 1997 - LL.M. Offices of Richard S. Goldstein in London, England, as an associate attorney. • Jerri Ryan Kent is an associate attorney at • Phillip M. Sparkes, formerly with the New Butz, Dunn, DeSantis & Bingham in San • Jean M. Wilson has joined Seyfarth, Shaw, York State Department of State in Albany, Diego, California. Fairweather & Geraldson in Boston, New York, has been appointed assistant pro- Massachusetts, as an associate. • Matthew Kent is a captain in the United fessor of law and director of the Local States Marine Corps stationed at the Marine Government Law Center at the Chase College • Jennifer Zimmerman, formerly an associate Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, California. of Law at Northern Kentucky University in with Tuesley & Hall in South Bend, has Fort Thomas, Kentucky. become a full-time staff attorney for the City • Bradford U. Larson has moved from the of Mishawaka, Indiana. She had been working South Pacific to Germany with the U.S. Air part-time on city issues as an assistant city Force where he is chief of criminal litigation at CLASS OF 1998 attorney while employed at Tuesley & Hall. Ramstein Air Base. Her work will include a number of on-going Please visit the Class of 1998 web site, developed • WilliamJ. Lehman has moved from the issues in the city including a summary judg- and maintained by Heath Weaver, at Hartford, Connecticut, office of Bingham ment proceeding involving the city's sexually http:// alumni.nd.edu/ -law98/. Dana, L.L.P., to the firm's New York office. oriented business ordinance, pursuit of habitu- • Brian Blaney, formerly with O'Connor al code violators and other projects relevant to • Todd Miller, formerly an associate at Miller Cavanagh in Phoenix, Arizona, has joined the city government. Canfield, L.L.P., in Detroit, Michigan, has Phoenix office of Miami-based Greenberg joined Mayer, Brown & Platt in Chicago, Traurig as an associate. Illinois, as an associate in the firm's securitiza- CLASS OF 1998 L L. M. tion group. • Alexandra K. Bressler is an associate with Gary B. Friedman, Ltd., in Chicago, Illinois. • Kolawole T. Olaniyan is at the Center for • Ron Parisi has returned to the United Free Speech in Lagos, Nigeria. States after traveling through Central America • Nicole Byrd is a law clerk to Honorable for a few months and has opened his own law William J. Hibbler in the federal district court firm, Zeitz & Parisi, L.L.P., in New York, for the Northern District of Illinois in New York. Chicago. In September of 2001, when this clerkship ends, she will become a law clerk to Honorable Ann Claire Williams '75 J.D. in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. • 29

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• William B. Newton-Cornet is in England CLASS OF 1999 pursuing his interests in art, business and law. CLASS OF 1999 LL. M. He is pursuing a master's degree in art busi- Please visit the Class of 1999 web site, • Mary Margaret Penrose, who is completing ness through the University of Manchester as developed and maintained by Will Esser, at her J.S.D. in International Human Rights one of 20 students selected from a world-wide http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Trail!3096/. through the NDLS Center for Civil and applicant pool. He is also involved in a pro- Human Rights, has accepted a teaching posi- • Amber Achilles has joined Williams & gram on art law through Sorheby's in London. tion at the University of Oklahoma College of Montgomery,Ltd., in Chicago, Illinois, as a Through this joint program, he has the oppor- Law beginning in the fall 2000 semester. litigation associate. tunity to intern at Sorheby's and is planning on working in their legal department. • Paul N. Simo is an attorney with the Africa • Deanna Butler has joined Wilson Sonsini He lives in International Students House Programs office of the International Human Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto, California, as in central London, where he lived as a 2L in Rights Law Group headquartered in an associate. the London Law Programme. In October Washington, D.C. • Andrew J. DeFalco has joined McKissock & 1999, he was elected president of the 650- Hoffman, P.c., in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, member student body at the house, which is as an associate; his practice focuses on civil under the royal patronage of the Queen trial practice and commercial litigation. Mother. As president, he participates in numerous meetings and receptions, and had • Audra Esrey has joined Withrow, McQuade the opportunity to introduce the Croatian CLASS WEB SITES & Olson in Atlanta, Georgia, as an associate. ambassador to London, who spoke at the resi- AND E-MAIL LISTSERVS • Daniel Esrey has joined Brock, Clay, dence about the Balkan crisis. Mr. Newton- As should be evident from references con- Calhoun, Wilson & Rogers, P.c., in Marietta, Cornet also has responsibility for the physical tained in the class notes, a number of classes Georgia, as an associate. facility and oversight for the financial stability have created their own web sites or estab- of the residence. • Gwenn Girard has joined Winston & lished e-rnail listservs with the University. If Strawn in Chicago, Illinois, as an associate. • Marcus Payson has joined Reinhart, you would like to create and maintain a web Boerner, VanDeuren, Norris & Rieselbach, site or e-rnail listserv for your class, please • Edward Heath has joined Robinson & S.C., in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as an associate Cole, L.L.P., in Hartford, Connecticut, as an contact Cathy Pieronek in the Law School in the firm's health-care practice area. Relations Office at [email protected]. The associate. University's Alumni Association will provide • Brian Roof has joined Thompson, Hine • Travis Jackson has joined Thompson, Hine server space for class web pages, and the Law & Flory, L.L.P., in Cleveland,Ohio, as an & Flory, L.L.P., in Cleveland,Ohio, as an School will help create and maintain individ- associate. associate. ual class e-rnail lisrservs. • Patrick M. Ryan has joined Thelen Reid & • Gus Kallergis has joined Thompson, Hine Priest, L.L.P., in San Francisco, California, as & Flory, L.L.P., in Cleveland,Ohio, as an an associate. NDLS ALUMNI associate. AND FRIENDS LISTSERV • Angela Ryker has joined McKinsey and • Thomas v. Keough has joined Withrow, Company, a business consulting firm in In addition, the Law School is adding a law McQuade & Olson in Atlanta, Georgia, as an Chicago, Illinois. alumni and friends listserv that will allow us associate. to send important messages in a timely man- • Joseph F. Sawyer has joined the Briones • Jeffiey Matura has joined Lewis & Roca, ner. All alumni and friends with valid e-rnail Law Firm, P.A., in Farmington, New Mexico, L.L.P., in Phoenix, Arizona, as an associate; his addresses in the University's database will be as an associate. practice focuses on products liability, premises added to the listserv automatically. If you liability, catastrophic injury and insurance • Jim Swartz has joined the Atlanta, Georgia, wish to be included but aren't sure whether defense. office of Jones Day, L.L.P., as an associate; his the University knows your preferred e-rnail practice focuses on general litigation matters. address, please visit the lisrserv sign-up site at ., • Cynthia Morgan is an attorney with the http://listserv.nd.edu/ archives/ ndlaw-alumni.html League of California Cities in Sacramento. • Michael Tigue has joined the Louisville, and follow the instructions. Your request to Kentucky, office of Greenebaum, Doll & • Kevin F. Murphy has joined Riker, Danzig, join the listserv will be forwarded to the Law McDonald, P.L.L.c., as an associate in the Scherer, Hyland & Perretti in Morristown, School Relations Office to ensure that only firm's Real Estate and Finance Practice Group. New Jersey, as an associate in the firm's corpo- Law School alumni and friends subscribe to rate group. • Tracy Anne Warren has joined McGuire, the listserv. Woods, Battle & Booth in Baltimore, • Adriana (Rodriguez) Nakis has joined Maryland, as an associate in the firm's labor- Stairs Dillenbeck Finley & Merle in New York, and employment-law group. QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS? New York, as an associate practicing private international law. • Suzie Wasito has joined Shepard's in Please forward all questions regarding class Colorado Springs, Colorado. web pages and e-rnail listservs to Cathy Pieronek at [email protected]. • 30

Books of Interest

LEGAL HISTORY SECURITIES AND CYBERSPACE NOTRE DAME FUN

THESUPREMECOURTUNDERCHIEFJUSTICEEDWARD SECURITIESREGULATIONINCYBERSPACE,byHoward A Notre Dame mystery series by Professor DOUGLASWHS ITE,byWalter F.Pratt Jr. (University W Friedman (2d ed, Bowne Publishing Division, Ralph Mcinerny including: of South Carolina Press, 1999) 1998) ON THISROCKNE(St. Martin's Press, 1997) LACKOFTHEIRISH(St. Martin's Press, 1998) Associate dean, professor of law and noted HowardW. Friedman, former NDLS visit- IRISHTENURE(St Martin's Press, 1999) legal historian, Walter F."Jack" Pratt Jr. ing professor of law and professor of law at the chronicles a transformation in American jurispru- University ofToledo College of Law,has pub- Ralph Mcinerny, Michael P. Grace Professor dence that mirrored the widespread political, lished a completely new edition of his 1997 trea- of Philosophy and director of the Jacques economic and social upheavals of the early 20th tise that provides information on how to offer Maritain Center at the University, has released century - notably, a rapid shift from rural to securities in cyberspace, create an electronic the third of his series of mysteries set at the urban society, the emergence of the United trading market for stock, distribute proxy mate- University of Notre Dame. For those familiar States as a world power, and the enactment of rials and conduct shareholder votes over the with the campus, these mysteries are engaging, populist and progressive reforms. Internet, and how to limit liabilityfor investor light-hearted reading - terrific for airplane Dean Pratt recounts the Supreme Court's relations web pages. The 788-page book (294 travel. rulings of the time and draws particular attention pages plus appendices) also includes an in-depth The premise of each of these books is simple: to its struggle to redefine legal vocabulary. He discussion of securities fraud in cyberspace and Roger Knight,a chaired professor of Catholic shows that the Court found itself in the midst of extensive appendix materials. studies at the University, and his brother, Philip,a an era in which the meaning of legal words had The January/February 2000 edition of private investigator from New York City,become to shift in order to deal with fundamental BUSINESLSAwTODAYacknowledges the challenges involved in investigating the murder of someone changes in society and government involved in writing a book about the regulation with a connection to the University - a bene- Dean Pratt uses a chronological review of the of online securities."The ink is scarcely dry on factor, an administrator, a professor. On the sur- Court's rulings and draws upon the business the publisher's galleys when the careening pace face, the mystery is light,easy reading. For the within each term to document the evolution of of developments can render obsolete material Notre Dame fan, the references to campus land- the Court from strict deductive formalism to portions of what has been reported." marks, community icons and campus lore engage studied inductive reason to an accelerated rate Nevertheless, the reviewer finds that Professor the reader in the progression of the story. of word change after the 1916 appointment of Friedman's treatment of the material "displays Beneath the surface, Professor Mcinerny offers Justice Louis D. Brandeis. Dean Pratt finds that clarity,freshness and relevance on almost all of thinly veiled commentary, through the musings of the linguistic grappling in which the justices the important issues;' and "should be particularly his characters, on contemporary campus issues. engaged cut across generational lines, with senior useful to in-house counsel and others who want IRISHTENUREisavailable in hardcover and the justices Oliver Wendell Holmes and Joseph to find answers quickly." earlier books in paperback through the Hammes McKenna joining the younger Louis Brandeis in The reviewer comments favorably on Notre Dame Bookstore or online at forging fresh methods of analysis. Professor Friedman's writing style, his extensive http://www.omozon.com. Looking beyond the legal issues confronted use of cross-references within the text, and his by the Court, Dean Pratt also examines Chief ability to "get down to the mechanics (ifit can Justice White's efforts to maintain collegiality be called that) of cyberspace, citing actual docu- among justices, his refusal to use his office to ments and discussing actual procedures used." support needed changes in the Court's jurisdic- Another beneficial feature of the book is the fact tion, and his hesitant guidance of the institution that it is printed in looseleaf format to allow for into uncharted legal and constitutional territory. more rapid incorporation of new developments Ultimately, Dean Pratt concludes that Chief to make the treatise more useful to the NDLA in Justice White's style of leadership proved less practitioner. New York City than adequate to meet the challenges of the The book is available online, directly from the tumultuous era. publisher, at http://pubs.bowne.com. The Notre Dame Law Association will The book is part of a series titled "Chief host its annual reception for Notre Dame Justiceships of the United States Supreme lawyers at the time of the American Bar Court" edited by Herbert A.Johnson and pub- Association's annual meeting in July lished by the University of South Carolina Press. 2000 in New York City. Watch For more information on the book, check out your mail in early June for an invi- the University of South Carolina Press web site tation containing the details of at http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/. the reception which will be held at Mickey Mantle's on 59th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues from 6 to 8 p.m., Sunday,July 9, 2000. • 31

NEWS FROM THE NOTRE DAME LAW ASSOCIATION

Elections 2000 Results I CLASS REUNIONS FOR • 2000 Thanks to all those Notre Dame lawyers who voted in the Notre Dame Law If your class is eligible for a reunion in 2000 - Association's Elections 2000.Those elected to three-year terms as regional directors that is, if your class year ends in "5" or "0" - it's include: not too early to begin planning for the festivities, particularly if you'd like to schedule a special Region I:Alaska,Hawaii,Idaho,northern California,northern reunion weekend apart from the University's Nevada, Oregon,Washington Reunion 2000, the weekend of June 8-11, 2000. Diane Rice '80, '83 J.D. The law School Relations Office can facilitate Brobeck Phleger& Harrison, L.L.P Do We Know planning, but the best reunions result from San Francisco,California Where You strong involvement by volunteer class members Region 8: Indiana(excludingnorthwest Indiana),Kentucky who can take leadership roles in encouraging Honorable David Dreyer '77, '80 J.D. Are? classmates to attend and in organizing meaningful MarionSuperior Court activities. Indianapolis,Indiana he NDLA plans to publish Region9: Ohio, western PennsylvaniaWe, st Virginia the 20th edition of its Legal Classes that have begun planning include those S. David Worhatch '79 J.D. Directory within the next year listed below. If you'd like to help plan your class Sole Practitioner IIor so. This professional refer- reunion, please contact the classmate listed Stowe, Ohio ence is invaluable for finding Notre Dame below. If your class isn't listed and you'd like to lawyers around the country and for keeping help plan a memorable reunion for your class, __ ~-' Region 16: Chicago (Cook County) in touch with classmates. The 19th eclition Timothy J. Carey '73,'80 J.D. please contact Cathy Pieronek at (219) lists NDLS graduates through the Class of 631-6891. Chapman & Cutler 1996, and the 20th edition will include Chicago,Illinois NDLS graduates through the Class of Class of 1960 - Please contact Hugh Region 18: Northern New York eastern Canada (Toronto) 2000, plus Notre Dame undergraduates McGuire at (248) 740·2358. The class plans to Robert M. Greene '69 J.D. with law degrees from other institutions hold a reunion on the weekend of June 23·25, Blaine& Huber, LLP. who have joined the Law Association since 2000, which will include a golf outing and other Buffalo,New York 1997. get-togethers. To make the directory updating process run more smoothly - thus help- Class of 1970 - Please contact john ing us publish the updated edition in a THANK YOU TO Plumb at (716) 664-2346 or by e-mail at timely manner - we need to know your RETIRING BOARD current business address. If you've changed [email protected] with ideas or suggestions MEMBERS jobs or retired since 1996 and haven't yet for an informal reunion on the weekend of the notified the Law Association, or if you're in NO-Stanford football game, October 6-8, 2000. Due to extensive personal and professional c0m- the Classes of 1997,1998 or 1999 and mitments, Gregory Nasky '67 J.D. and Bishop aren't sure whether your correct business Class of 1975 - Please contact Dennis Harold Calvin Ray '81 J.D. have retired from address is on file, please contact Cathy Owens at (816) 474-3000. The class plans to active participation on the Notre Dame Law Pieronek in the Law School Relations hold a reunion on the weekend of the NO· Association board's Executive Advisory Office at (219) 631-6891, by fax at Stanford football game, October 6-8, 2000. Committee. Mr. Nasky, who remains of counsel (219) 631-4499 or bye-mail at Please contact Cathy Pieronek at the Law School to his law linn, plans to write a book about his [email protected] to update or verify Relations Office, (219) 631-6891, to indicate experiences ~ resorts. primarily in the your information. You can also check your whether or not you will attend and to reserve Us Vegas area. Bishop Ray is devoting his ener· address information yourself through the tickets for the game. gies to his Redemp1M life hIIowship ministry University's free Irish Online database inWest Palm Beach, Florida. Both of these a1um- (please see page 44). ni served the NDLA well for many years. and the board thanks them for their service.

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Wilda Wahpepah of South Bend argued the quality of the briefs met or exceeded for the respondent, the defendant who was the quality of the briefs he has seen so far 50th Annual Moot Court convicted in the district court of being an in his first few months on the appellate Showcase Argument accomplice to a robbery based on his own bench. Judge Springman closed the judges' admissions during FBI questioning and on remarks with her observations that the the taped confession of his co-defendant. students were terrific at humanizing their Associate Professor of Law William K. presentations using eye-contact and appro- our third-year students displayed Kelley coached the students in preparation priate humor, and that the students their oral argument talents in for this event. exhibited a strong ability to respond to the 50th Annual Moot Court The three judges - Honorable questions, which often interrupted the flow IF Showcase Argument held Carlos F. Lucero, of the U.S. Court of of the presentation, and then return to the Thursday, February 17,2000, in the Judge Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and a gradu- their arguments with seamless transitions. Norman C. Barry Courtroom in the Law ate of George Washington University Dean Patricia A. O'Hara '74 J.D. congrat- School. The facts of the criminal case School of Law, Honorable Charles R. ulated the students and thanked the judges revolved around the standards for deter- Wilson '76, '79 J.D., of the U.S. Court at the conclusion of the presentation. mining the voluntariness of a confession by of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and a one of the defendants and the admission of member of the Law School Advisory a hearsay statement by one of the defen- Council, and Honorable Teresa L. dants, who was deceased at the time of the Springmann '80 J.D., U.S. magistrate STUDENTS DISPLAY co-defendant's trial, under the Federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the WINNING WAYS IN Rules of Evidence. Christopher J. Regan Northern District of Indiana who sits in of Rochester, New York, and Valerie Anne Hammond - all commended the students COMPETITIONS Steer of Indialantic, Florida, argued for the on their efforts. Judge Lucero noted that petitioner, the United States, that the stan- he has judged a number of similar competi- • The NDLS National TrialTeam - also known dards set forth by Congress in 18 U.S.c. § tions across the country and found refresh- as the Barristers - captured first and second 3501, in response to the Court's 1968 ing the collegial atmosphere of the place in the Midwest regional competition spon- Miranda decision, should be used to deter- competition, in which the students them- sored by the American BarAssociation and held mine whether the defendant's confession selves chose not to have a winning team or in Chicago in mid-February. Both teams will rep- was voluntary and, further, that the hearsay first oralist selected. Judge Wilson com- resent the region at the national competition in confession was properly admitted under mented that he expected the high level of Dallas in March. This achievement marks the Federal Rule of Evidence 804(b )(3). John preparedness for the oral argument from first time in the history of the competition that J. Laxague of Gardnerville, Nevada, and students at his alma mater, and noted that two teams from one school will represent the Midwest region at nationals,and the first Notre Dame team to return to the finals since the 1993 team advanced and won the national competition. The "Gold Team" placed first overall with strong performances by its oralists, including third-year students Stone Grissom of South Bend and Scott Kellogg of Monmouth, Illinois, and second-year student Steve Pratico of Archbald, Pennsylvania.The "BlueTeam" placed second overall thanks to the skills of third-year students Shazzie Naseem of Chicago, Illinois, and team captain Tamara Walker of Memphis, Tennessee, and second-year students Kelly Murphy of South Bend,and Ryan Redmond of Vevay,Indiana. Honorable Jeanne Jourdan '75 J.D., adjunct professor of law at NDLS,and Wendell Walsh '77, '80 J.D., a partner at May,Oberfell and Lorber in South Bend,coached the team in • 35

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Minority Student by James A. Roemer '51,'55 attorneys Andre J.D., sponsored the third annual Gammage and Organizations Focus "Minority High School Legal Charles Walton '99 Profession Opportunities M.F.A., and NDLS on Education Program:' Racially and ethni- Professor Jimmy cally diverse students - mostly Gurule. IN NOVEMBER 1999, the Asian, Black, t African-American and Hispanic - from After the panel discussion and lunch, Hispanic and Native American Law six high schools in the South Bend the high-school students attended a mock Students Associations sponsored a Community School Corporation partici- trial presented by first-year BLSA mem- "Minority Recruitment Forum" to educate pated in a two-hour program, with local bers James Arrowwood of Mishawaka, area undergraduate students of racially attorneys and current NDLS faculty and Indiana, Tamona Bright of South Bend, diverse backgrounds about the Law School students as speakers. The program is Nadira Kirkland of Englewood, New and about the admissions process. designed to educate high-school students Jersey, Myra McKenzie of Slidell, about career options in the legal profes- Louisiana, Daniel Sattizahn of EI Paso, IN FEBRUARY 2000, the Black Law sion. Presenters at the panel discussion on Texas, and Jennifer Starman of Chicago, Students Association, the Hispanic Law careers in law included Division Chief of Illinois. Second-year student Elton Students Association and the University's the South Bend Police Department Lynn Johnson of South Bend served as the Office of Community Relations, directed Coleman, St. Joseph County (Indiana) bailiff, and head research librarian Dwight Assistant Prosecutor Chris Caturla, local King presided as judge.

• Montana Governor Marc Racicot, who preparation for the competition, which is is also the father of NDLS 3L Tim Racicot, designed for students interested in litigation. headlined the panel for a symposium on Student Organizations The preparation and the competition give stu- "States' Rights in the 21st Century;' organ- Host Distinguished dents in-depth experience in all aspects of court- ized by the Law School's JOURNALOF room practice, and allow students to learn the LEGISLATIONand co-sponsored by the Speakers subtleties of trial practice. Law School, the NDLS Federalist Society, and the University's Office of Student • The NDLS International Moot Court Team Government. Joining Governor Racicot on • Clark Forsythe, president of the oldest competed in the 2000 Philip Cjessup the panel were Honorable Robert Miller national pro-life public-interest law firm, Northwest Regional Competition in Chicago in Jr., of the federal district court for the Americans United for Life, spoke on "The mid-February. The world's largest and most Northern District of Indiana, and Michael End of the Affair? Abortion and Middle prestigious international moot court competi- Greve, executive director of the Center for America" in February. His talk was spon- tion, the Jessup competition features students Individual Rights, a Washington, D.C.- sored by NDLS Right to Life. from 300 law schools in almost 50 nations on six based think tank. Proceedings of the sym- continents. Notre Dame's five-member team posium will be published in an upcoming • Gary Hall '96 J.D., currently a White was selected on the basis of an interscholastic edition of the JOURNALOF LEGISLATION. House fellow working with the Treasury Department in Washington, D.C., spoke to competition among second-year students held in For a copy of the issue (quantities limited) or for subscription information, please call the students in February on his experiences the fallsemester. The team included the recipi- the journal office at (219) 631-5918. as a White House fellow, and on the ent of the competition's "Best Oralist" award, requirements and process for applying for Rachel Lisa-]o Baker of South Bend,and oral- • Karl McDonald '89 J.D., who practices the prestigious fellowship. His talk was ists Marc DeSantis of Notre Dame, Aaron law in the Washington, D.C., area and Cut- sponsored by the NDLSBlack Law Markowitz of Melville,New York,and Beth rently serves as chair of the Sports and Students Association. Steffes of Lilburn,Georgia. Bridget Hubing of Entertainment Section of the National Bar Belgium,Wisconsin, prepared the brief. The team Association, spoke on February 9, 2000, on • Eamann McMenamin, a human-rights competed a total of four times over the week- "Sports and Entertainment Law: Breaking lawyer from Belfast, Ireland, addressed end, arguing "The Case Concerning Vaccination into the Business, Making Contacts and "Justice in Northern Ireland: How Far Trials and the Countries of Kuraca and Senhava" Acquiring Clients:' His talk was sponsored Have We Come and How Far Must We in a rigorous competition. NDLSAssociate by the NDLS Black Law Students Travel?" in February. His talk was spon- Dean Vincent D. Rougeau and third-year Association. sored by the NDLS Irish Law Society. student James McCament of Mount Vernon, Ohio, prepared the team for the competition. • 36

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Macri's Preferred Stock SPORTS REPORT

It elicited great memories to read the story We played in the rain, snow and 35-mile an hour winds. We were heavi- The BDokstore Basketball retrospective series has by Joe Cooney ['72,'75 J.D.] about his ly supported by a small but steadily growing contingent of law students led by drawn considerable attention (rom past participants. Bookstore experiences and the thrill of win- waterboy Eric Diamond '80, '83 J.D. (now a prestigious South Bend attor- ning. I,too, was able to experience those ney), who removed their noses from their books long enough to cheer us on. This issue's special correspondent is Don Strumillo thrills eight years later. We attributed our success to our hard work, teamwork and mature '83 J.D., who practices law in Burr Ridge, Illinois, Having participated in the tournament leadership. After all,as organizers, Dan and I,the on~ third-years on the team, for two years in a friendly manner and getting knew that our experience and maturity were the main reason that the team and has tales to tell about Bookstore XII in 1983. to the round of 16,fellow student Dan did so well. In fact, we had many toasts to the proud legacy we left for the Law Absher '83 J.D. and I decided to "go for the School, and to the fact that once the two of us graduated it would be a long jugular" in our final year as domers. After all, time indeed before our beloved Law School could once again wear the proud Bookstore represented the highlight of our law-school year, second only to then-Professor Patty badge of victory for boasting the champions of the world-famous Notre Dame O'Hara's Business Entity projects. Bookstore Basketball tournament. We decided to assemble the biggest, strongest, best players the Law School had to offer. The Our pride was short-lived. The next year, Macri's Preferred Stock repeat- qualities necessary were experience, quickness, keen instinct and the ability to pick up a tab once in ed as champs after replacing Dan and me. a while at the post-game strategy sessions at Macri's Deli. I was probably the weakest on our team Oh well, that's not how my grand kids will hear the story. in the latter category. Dan and I would organize scrimmages at Moreau - Don Strumi/lo '83J.D. Seminary and invite potential members. Little did they know they were being scouted. We settled [Ed. note: In the interest of complete accuracy, it should be noted that an on the name Preferred Stock, in honor of OBSERVERarticlerecounting the 21-15 victory of sixth-seeded Macri's Preferred Professor O'Hara's tutelage, but changed it to Stock over fifth-seeded Tequila White Ughtning pegged the winds that day at 25 Macri's Preferred Stock when that fine insti- m.p.h. The OBSERVERalsonotes, for the record, that although Steve Toohill put tution agreed to buy the first round if we six points on the board to become the team's leading scorer, each member of came there after games. the team scored at least three points. The OBSERVEcreditedR the victory to The final team (in order from left to "1 --' the team's balance.] right in the accompanying photo) included ~ me, Dan Absher, Steve Toohill '84 J.D., Larry And a Bookstore IV update ... from Ron Hein '72, '75 J,D, who was Cuculic '84 J.D., and Joe Sweeney (an M.BA stu- mentioned along with his fellow Ducks in the Bookstore Basketball retrospec- dent who we thought could help us split the tabs at tive by special correspondent Joseph K. Cooney '72, '75 J.D. in the last issue Macri's). of this magazine: "Joe Cooney was too modest to tell you that he won Most We won nine exciting games in a row, including victories Valuable Player honors in Bookstore IV. I over heavily favored teams led by varsity basketball star Bill just want to set the record straight:' Varner '83, football player Stacy Toran '83 and Irish center Tim Andre '83. • 37

In major league Professional athletes inspiring success ... sports news ... Coquese Washington '93,'97 J.D., formerly a member Lawrence J. Dolan '56 of Notre Dame's women's basketball team, was featured in Battling it out in the ring for the missions ... J.D., president and manag- the Sports Section of the February 2,2000, edition of USA brought six budding Notre Dame lawyers to the 70th ing partner ofThrasher, TODAYas, one of seven women who play professional bas- Annual Bengal Bouts, the boxing tournament held each Dinsmore & Dolan in ketball in the WNBA who also coach at the college level. February to raise money for the Holy Cross Missions in Chardon, Ohio, together Ms.Washington is a member of the Houston Comets Bangladesh. This year, the program raised over $55,000. with several Dolan family WNBA franchise, which plays during the summer months. Coached by,among others, NDLS Professor of Law trusts, has purchased the She devotes the rest of the year Charles E.Rice, each of the students participated in an Cleveland Indians baseball team for $320 million. He is to assisting Notre Dame Head intensive training program that began after Christmas the 16th owner of the team since the franchise was Coach Muffet McGraw and the break. formed in 1900. The story reporting the purchase University's top-10 women's bas- First-year student John "Pride of the Parish" appeared on the front page of the November 5, 1999, edi- ketball squad. Comments in the Murphy of New York, New York, was defeated in the first tion of the CLEVELANPDLAINDEALER.According to the article by team member Danielle round of competition for the 170-pound class, and second- report, Mr. Dolan, an Indians fan since his childhood in Green credit Ms.Washington with year student Billy"Sweet Pea" McMurtrie of Bethesda, Cleveland Heights, has no plans to change the mascot, the the women's stepped-up defensive Maryland, lost in the quarter-final round of the 155-pound general manager or the name of Jacobs Field until at least play this season. class. 2006. In the I65-pound division, second-year students Joe "The Polish Tank" Czerniawski of Franklin Lakes, New Two chances of a lifetime and learning that lasts forever ... Through his extracurricular activity of coaching Jersey, and top-seeded Sean "The Erie Kid" Nowak of Erie, men's interhall football at the University, third-year student Jamie Bordas '97 of Wheeling, West Virginia, had two chances Pennsylvania, defeated their quarter-final opponents in of a lifetime this year - to be inspired by a legendary coach, and to be immortalized in the annals of football history. contests that had to be stopped in the first round. Mr. Men's interhall football for Notre Dame undergraduates is no picnic. It involves full contact, full pads, and three Czerniawski was defeated by unanimous decision after practices each week from the first week of school through the conclusion of the season just before Thanksgiving. As an three rounds in the semi-finals. Mr. Nowak advanced to undergraduate freshman and sophomore, Mr. Bordas played interhall football for Flanner Hall. During his second season, he the finals by unanimous decision in the semis, but lost by a suffered a major knee injury that required reconstructive surgery. His doctors told him that he could not play football ever split decision in the final round. again. So with the blessing of Flanner Hall rector Reverend Bill Seetch, C.S.c., Mr. Bordas did the next best thing and In the 200-pound division, the contest coached the Flanner Hall team during his last two years as an undergraduate. involving second-year student Steve "Lefty In 1997, Flanner Hall closed and some of the tower denizens moved to Siegfried Hall on the East (Mod) Quad. Guns" Pratico of Archbald, Pennsylvania, was Siegfried rector Reverend John Conley, C.S.c., graciously allowed Mr. Bordas to continue coaching the former Flannerites stopped in the second round. The throughout his law school career. Mr. Bordas appreciated the opportunity to stay close to friends he had made while an quarter-final-round opponent of undergraduate and appreciated the chance to remain part of the broader University community."I don't live in the dorm, classmate Dan "Let Me" Adam of but coaching allows me to still feel like an integral part of the undergraduate portion of this University. It also provides me Hales Corners, Wisconsin, was with a way to escape the academic part of being a law student, and allows me to lead a more balanced life." The Siegfried forced out of the competition Hall Ramblers made the playoffs each of the three years he coached, and last fall advanced to the semi-final round. because of a shoulder injury, Unfortunately, the team's first loss of the season occurred in the semi-final game, and the season came to a rather abrupt allowing Mr.Adam to advance end. to the semi-finals where he Coach Bordas' chance to become part of football history arrived when NFLFilms came to campus to do a story defeated his opponent by a about interhall football at Notre Dame. During an interview with the film crew, he was asked about the involvement of a knockout Unfortunately, Mr. legendary Notre Dame coach in an incident that occurred at the last regular-season game for the Ramblers. "Late in the Adam lost the finals of the first half with only two seconds remaining, we trailed Zahm Hall 7-0. We had the ball on fourth-and-goal at the Zahm one- heavyweight decision by a yard line:' Coach Bordas remembers. "I was trying to decide whether to kick a field goal for an easy three points or to go unanimous decision. for the touchdown. I had the kicking tee in my hand as I thought about sending out the field-goal unit All of a sudden, from behind me, I heard an older, raspy voice yell:'For gosh sakes, it's only a foot Just go for it" I turned around, looked at Seen suffering along with the football team ... the man, and saw it was [former Notre Dame Head Coach J Ara Parseghian. I said to myself, 'IfAra says to go for it, then was Pete Karlowicz '80 J.D. As a result of a running we're going for it.' I called an offensive play and, sure enough, our tailback ran into the end-zone untouched for the score. bet with a Michigan State University football fan, he had to It turned out to be a crucial play that may have saved our undefeated regular season, but more importantly, it is a memory carry an MSU flag and run through downtown Cassopolis, from Notre Dame that I will always have with me." Michigan, after the Spartans defeated the Irish on the After graduation, Mr. Bordas will return home to Wheeling to practice law with his parents at Bordas, Bordas and gridiron last September. Jividen. His father's practice focuses on products liability,bad-faith banking and toxic torts, while his mother specializes in medical malpractice and has never lost a case in 15 years of practice. "More importantly, I have seen the way they care about their clients and believe in the causes for which they are fighting. They strongly believe in standing up for people who are being picked on by those with more power and money. I have seen the courage that they have displayed so many times when doing this. I know that it is not easy, and that is why I am grateful that I have been able to attend a school like Notre Dame. I feel well-prepared to join them in their practice." He also hopes to continue his coaching in some way after he leaves Notre Dame."The experiences that I have had while coaching here have been tremendous in preparing me to pursue a coaching career. More importantly, they have helped me learn how to be a better leader, deal with different personalities and become even more comfortable speaking in front of people - skills that will serve me well not only in coaching, but also as a trial lawyer." • 38

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IrishLaw Sports Report, continued

Debate Director From the Irish gridiron to the classroom ... THIRD~YEAR STUDENT First-year student Phil Sicuso '99 spent the summer Inspires Success CAMPAIGNS FOR between graduating from the University and attending INDIANA HOUSE NDLS in an unusual and unforgettable way. The walk-on hird-year student Chris Huck, from Hopkinton, Massachusetts, was one of six Notre of Helena, Montana, has trans- Third-year law student James P. Ehrhard, orig- Dame graduates who participated in the Heisei Bowl in formed the University's under- inally from Longmeadow, Massachusetts, has filed Japan in July 1999. The Notre Dame players teamed with graduate debate team into an II for the Republication nomination for state repre- players from Ritsumeikan University and competed against aggressive and skilled parliamentarian sentative in the Indiana House district that has another Japanese team in Osaka, which benefited in the debate team that has recorded a number of been represented for 30 years by B. Patrick 13-10 victory from the assistance of six former Army play- successes throughout this academic year. ers. For his part, Mr. Sicuso played free safety and inter- Notre Dame had been a debating power- Bauer, D-South Bend. Mr. Ehrhard intends to cepted a pass. Despite the score, he had a lot of fun and house in the 1970s and 1980s, but hadn't wage an aggressive door-to-door campaign enjoyed the opportunity to appear before a Japanese done well throughout much of the 1990s. stressing the need for property tax relief, educa- crowd of 20,000. THE HOPKINTONCRIERfeatured its Beginning last year, Mr. Huck, as tion reforms and tougher penalties for drunk- hometown hero in its August 20, 1999, edition. director of debate for the University, driving repeat offenders. worked with interested undergraduates to In grad league soccer action ... The Law School's change the team's style of debate from a 3L soccer team, Law & Order, defeat- form known as "policy" into a team that LAW STUDENTS ed the team from the Department could compete in the fast-growing world of COMMEMORATE of Biology by a score of 3 to I parliamentary debate. The team has JUVENILE COURT in a shoot-out after over- finished in the top three in every competi- ANNIVERSARY time to win the tion this year, and has taken first place at Grad four out of the seven tournaments, includ- To mark the centennial of the founding of the League ing the prestigious Hatfield Invitational world's first juvenile court - in Chicago in July Debate Tournament at Willamette soccer 1899 - NDLS students presented a mock University and the Pi Kappa Delta championship for shoplifting trial at the St. Joseph County (Indiana) National Honorary Tournament at 1999. In the playoffs, the Juvenile Justice Center in October. Probate Webster University, both held in February. team blanked its competition - from the Judge Peter J. Nemeth, who has responsibility for Thanks in part to Mr. Huck's coach- Department ofTheology, the Master of most juvenile matters in the county, presided Business Administration Program and, in the ing skills, the team was honored with the over the trial. semi-final round, the Law School's 2L team. Law & Order opportunity to host the three champions of team members included: third-year students Ali Amin of the Irish Times Debate Tournament, which Lombard, Illinois, Mark Busby of Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia, participated in an exhibition debate pro- LONDON LL.M. David Dwyer of Portland, Oregon, Eric Hall of Notre gram at the University in March. CANDIDATE APPOINTED Dame,Jim Havers of Seattle,Washington, Matt Hoyt of PALESTINIAN Fenton, Michigan, P.D. Kuehl of Notre Dame, John Kuehn of Huntsville,Alabama, Marc Leduc of North SPOKESPERSON Smithfield, Rhode Island, Tom McDermott of Crown Point, Indiana, Jim Schueller of Plainfield, Illinois, Sean Wadi Muhaisen, an LL.M.candidate in interna- Scott of Brookfield, Wisconsin, and John Storino of tional and comparative law at the Notre Dame Inverness, Illinois;and second-year students Chris London Law Centre, has been appointed Adkinson of Shaker Heights, Ohio, and Tim Curran of spokesperson and legal counsel for the South Bend. Palestinian Authority in London. His initial activi- ties in the position have caught the attention of Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasir

IRISH SPORTS ON-LINE Arafat, who has since consulted Mr. Muhaisen on a number of matters. Fans of Notre Dame football, men's and women's basket- ball, and ice hockey can keep track of their favorite teams and players through Internet broadcasts of home and away games on www.und.com. The games are broadcast in Real Player format, versions of which can be downloaded free of charge at www.real.com. • 39

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higher education more generally by dissem- Law School inating the best practices across fields and between graduate and undergraduate Participates in SOCIAL JUSTICE education. The foundation also hopes to FORUM'S ~'I MUNITY improve the education provided through Carnegie Foundation DAYS" HEI.!P FEE1> THE J.D., M.B.A. and M.Div. programs, with an COMMUNITY Study ultimate goal of enhancing the impact of professionals on society. Once again this fall tbe ~LS S0C al J stice The law-school portion of the com- Forum, in conjunction witH willingfacu rt mem- prehensive study focuses on six fundamen- bers, sponsored "Immunirt Days" to augment DLS has accepted an invita- tal questions that lie at the core of teaching food collections for Thanksgiv'ng baskets for tion from the Carnegie and learning about the law: needy families in the Sou ~ BenJ area. On desig- Foundation to participate in 1) How is the study of law defined in nated days, students iVho brougQt in canned Na study of legal education. different legal education contexts? goods (or cash) were immun,e from questioning Two senior scholars at the Carnegie 2) How are core epistemologies, such as in class. For the second year in a row,Associate Foundation for the Advancement of thinking like a lawyer and problem solving, Professor Lisa Sc i h d 100 R r- en pa ticipa- Teaching - Judith Wegner, former dean transmitted? tion from the 31 s cents in Her BanKing w of the University of North Carolina Law 3) How are key performance abilities, class. Joining her with a perfect record this year School and author of LAWYERS,LEARNING, including conducting research and engaging in were Professor J. Eric Smithburn, who had 100 AND PROFESSIONALISM:MEDITATIONS "lawyering:' developed? percent participation in one of his classes and ON A THEME AND THROUGH THE 4) How is commitment to values, norms, LOOKING GLASS:THE FUTURE OF LEGAL roles and responsibilities created? Associate Professor Matt Barrett '82, '85 J.D., EDUCATION,and William Sullivan, profes- 5) How do key aspects of the context - who had 100 percent participation from the 25 sor of philosophy at LaSalle University and that is, law school as an institution, faculty, students in his Accounting for Lawyers class. author of WORK AND INTEGRITY:THE students, the university setting, the affiliated Honorable mentions go to Assistant Professor CRISIS AND PROMISE OF PROFESSIONALISM practice community - bear on the approaches Rick Garnett for 94 percent participation among IN AMERICA- visited the Law School at taken' the 47 first-year students in his Criminal Law I the end of February along with Carnegie 6) How and why has pedagogical innova- class, and also to Associate Professor Barrett for staff member Betsy Woody. tion developed, taken root, been spread and 90 percent participation from the 78 students in NDLS is one of 15 law schools sustained (or not)? his Business Associations class. As a result of nationwide invited to participate in the A growing body of scholarship within these efforts and a companion food drive at the program. The schools were selected for and about legal education has begun to Law School, the Social Justice Forum delivered their diverse institutional characteristics, touch on particular teaching techniques, Thanksgiving dinners to numerous area families. typical and exemplary academic programs the dynamic of student learning, curricular and initiatives, and potential for affording coverage and other related questions. enhanced insights through paired compar- However, there is currently no systematic isons across a variety of dimensions. effort under way to delve more deeply into of "best practices" in key areas, case studies The study of legal education is part of key assumptions and practices that often of faculty and students, and incorporation Carnegie's "Program on Preparation for the prove to be determinative factors that of international perspectives. Professions;' which encompasses studies affect proposals for change. The foundation plans to disseminate of law, engineering, ministry, social work, After the first phase of the study is its findings, information about best prac- medicine and teaching as part of an inte- completed, the foundation will engage in a tices and recommendations through a grated initiative that seeks to understand follow-up phase that will involve additional sophisticated web site, a variety of publica- professional education as a whole. The targeted research regarding the six core tions and ongoing conversations at meet- program's comparative approach is aimed at questions, drawing on findings and ings and gatherings of legal educators, fostering a deeper understanding of funda- hypotheses refined during the initial phase lawyers, policymakers, opinion leaders and mental aspects of teaching and learning in of the study. The follow-up phase will also members of the public in the United States \t\

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Distinguished Speakers CURRICULUM CHANGES TO AFFECT CLASS OF 2003 at NDLS The Law School's Curriculum Committee has announced changes to the curriculum that will take effect for

• The NDLS Natural Law Institute, the Class of 2003, which enters NDLS this fall. Designed to offer students the opportunity to take more through its Olin Distinguished Lecture courses in areas of personal and professional interest, the new curriculum pares required courses to 42 of the Series, sponsored two distinguished speak- 90 credits required for graduation, and reduces the course-load in the first year. The sequence of courses for ers late in the fall semester: Mary Ann first-year students is as follows: Glendon, Learned Hand Professor of Law First Semester Credits Second Semester Credits at Harvard, delivered a talk titled Civil Procedure I 2 Civil Procedure II 3 "Deconstruction and Dignity" on October Contracts I 3 Contracts II 2 14,1999; and Professor Leon Kass, Addie Criminal Law 3 Property 4 Clark Harding Professor in the College Torts and Committee on Social Thought at the 4 Ethics I I University of Chicago, spoke on "The Legal Research I Constitutional Law 3 Moral Meaning of Genetic Technology" LegalWriting 2 Legal ResearchlWriting 2 on December 6,1999. Total 15 Total 15 Second- and third-year students will still be required to take four-credit courses in Business Associations and • Carlos Vazquez, professor at the Federal Tax,a three-credit course in Jurisprudence, and a one-credit course in Ethics II. Georgetown University Law Center, kicked off the spring semester Faculty Colloquium speaker series with his paper titled "The Alden Trilogy and the Relationship New Classes Challenge Students Between Sovereign Immunity and Due Process" at NDLS in January 2000. Curt Bradley, professor of law at the University ssociate Dean and Associate commercial defamation, trade libel, decep- of Colorado and currently a visiting profes- Professor of Law Vincent D. tive advertising and fraudulent transfers, sor at the University of Chicago, participat- Rougeau offered a new course but the course focuses more on the ed in the series in February with his talk on A in the spring 2000 semester enforcement of and defense against "The U.S. Treatyrnakers, International titled "Catholic Social Thought:' The semi- Uniform Trade Secrets Act claims, claims Human Rights Law, and Conditional nar-style course introduces students to the concerning employment covenants-not-to- Consent:' Also in February, NDLS major documents that comprise the social compete and covenants-not-to-compete Professor of Law Teresa Godwin Phelps teachings of the Catholic Church. The ancillary to the sale of a business. '73, '75 M.A., '80 Ph.D. spoke on documents serve as a basis for a broader And through the Law School's part- "Language, Violence and Retribution:' discussion of whether the social teaching nership with Toronto-based Stitt, Feld, has anything relevant to say about current Handy &: Houston, a firm that pioneered trends in American law. Students consider "learning by doing" in the field of alterna- whether lawyers of faith are obliged to tive dispute resolution, NDLS students move the law in a direction that comports had the opportunity to take a one-week, ND ON TV with certain core religious values. The two-credit, intensive course in alternative seminar also explores questions such as: dispute resolution. The course focused on Fans of the NBC drama "West Wing" may have How can such movement be accomplished negotiation and mediation, and was taught noticed that Martin Sheen, who plays President in a pluralistic society' Does Catholic by members of the firm, which operates in Josiah Bartlett, frequently sports NO-insignia social teaching offer ideas and values that the United States under the name Trillium apparel when dressed casually. Apparently, the might find broad-based acceptance, What Group. In the week before the spring 2000 "back story" is that President Bartlett is a Notre happens if an individual lawyer determines semester officially began, students attended Dame graduate, and the University approved the that the legal profession and/ or society are day-long sessions involving lectures and hostile to the values presented in Catholic role-playing exercises designed to enhance use of the apparel last spring. We've been told, social teaching' their understanding of the processes further. that the naming of Vice President Hoynes Also in the spring 2000 semester, involved in negotiating and in mediating is just a coincidence, but with the number of NO Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law Paul disputes. Alumni interested in the subject references - such as to a Knute Rockne pep Peralta '79, '86 J.D. inaugurated a course should consult the calendar on the inside talk - throughout many episodes of the show, titled "Business Torts;' which covers a form front cover of this magazine and the Law who real~ knows for surel of litigation that is becoming increasingly School's web site for a schedule of pro- popular in federal and state courts. grams around the country and for Trillium Business torts invariably include Group contact information. • 41

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News from the Legal Aid Clinic

Legal Aid Offers CLE Program

he Notre Dame Legal Aid Clinic offered a two-hour con- tinuing legal education pro- ligram in February on "Model Court Practices in Abuse and Neglect Cases:' The program, a live national satel- lite broadcast, was presented by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in cooperation with the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, the Permanency Planning for Children Department, and the Children's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. . The program examined the prac- tices in several of the 20 model courts set up around the coun- try to find new ways to deal with the prob- lems of abused and neglected children and their families. The presentation featured judges, lawyers, social workers and other members of child protective services agen- cies discussing new ways in which the agencies can work with the family court system to ensure that children are put on the road to recovery as quickly as possible. Members of the "Law and Poverty: Children in Crisis" class taught by clinic co- director Eileen Doran '86 J.D. attended the program along with members of various South Bend-area family-services agencies and several local attorneys. • 42

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News from the Admissions Office

Fourth Annual Alumni Endorsements Fellowship Weekend ALUMNI-STUDENT Waive Application Fees CONTACT PROGRAM

Held in February SUPPORTS lthough we're still in the ADMISSIONS process of admitting the Class n the weekend of February EFFORT of 2003, the admissions cycle 17-19, the Admission Office for the Class of 2004 will be hosted 36 accepted srudents A Bythe end of March,this year's alumni- upon us soon. To attract an academically for the annual Fellowship O student contact program put alumni vol- superior class filled with students who Weekend.The weekend gives these stu- unteers across the country in contact exhibit leadership potential, we need the dents - considered to be among the top with over 300 applicants accepted into combined efforts of all members of the applicants to NDLS - an opportunity to the NDLS Class of 2003. Alumni who NDLS community - faculty, administra- interact with faculty, administration and participate in this program often report tion, staff, current students and, of course, staff, visit classes and sample the social life our alumni and friends. The personal of the Law School. that they enjoyed talking with these indi- attention we give to every admitted student Most of the guests arrived Thursday viduals,and were able to begin forming helps ensure that we enroll students who afternoon and attended the 50th Annual relationships with these future Notre will excel in our academic programs and Moot Court Showcase Argument by the Dame lawyers. who will contribute their time and talents top third-year stu- Studies conducted by the Law School to our community. dents in the Moot Advisory Council indicate that personal We invite you to bring top candidates Court program. contacts - with students, faculty,admin- to Out attention. If you would like to pro- Friday, the appli- istrators and alumni - have the greatest vide application materials to someone you cants had interviews influence on an individual's decision to believe can strengthen the Law School with faculty mem- attend a particular law school. For those and the profession, please contact Out bers, visited a vari- who participated in this year's program, Admissions Office at (219) 631-6626. ety of first-year please accept the heartfelt thanks of the We will send you an application booklet. classes, had lunch Law School. If you would like to volun- Simply sign and date the top of the front with faculty and teer for next year's program, please con- page of the application form before giving administrators, and tact either the Law School Relations it to your prospective applicant. In appre- dinner with stu- Office or the Admissions Office. ciation of your endorsement, we will waive dents. Saturday, the application fee for an individual of they attended pre- special interest to you. sentations on topics such as financial aid and career services, and capped the day FOR MORE INFORMATION by attending the Student Bar Association's annual Father Mike To find out how you can help recruit the next generation of Notre Dame lawyers, please contact us bye-mail McCafferty Talent Show. (preferred): Despite the characteristically snowy Rev.James E.McDonald, e.s.c., Associate Dean February weekend, the participants enjoyed Or write us at: their opportunity to learn about the Law e-mail:[email protected] Admissions Office School and the practice of law, and the or P.O.959 Law School became better acquainted with Heather Miller Moriconi, Assistant Director of Notre Dame Law School the top prospects for admission to the Admissions Notre Dame, IN 46556 Class of 2003. e-mail: moriconLI @nd.edu Or, we can be reached by phone at (219) 631-6626. • 43

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CCHR Co-hosts International Conference News from the Center for Civil and Human Rights

In March, the Center for Civil and Human Rights, in cooperation with the British Distinguished Lecturer Focuses on Federal Institute of International and Comparative Death Penalty Law, Redress and the Notre Dame London Law Centre, sponsored a two-day confer- Greg Wiercioch '86 gave a public lecture at the Law School on February 7, 2000, titled ence on "Human Rights Remedies: "Back in Business: The United States Prepares for the First Federal Execution in Nearly Implications of International and 40 Years;' which focused on the upcoming execution of Juan Garza, who is incarcerated Comparative Law for U.K. Practice:' at the Terre Haute (Indiana) Federal Penitentiary for murdering three people in a federal The conference, held at the London Law narcotics-related conspiracy. Centre, featured a After graduating from Washington & Lee Law School, Mr. Wiercioch worked at the number of speak- Texas Death Penalty Resource Center until Congress discontinued funding. He now ers from the works in a small private firm and handles death-penalty cases at trial, on appeal and on United Kingdom habeas review. He is counsel [or Mr. Garza, whose appeals have been exhausted, leaving and continental executive clemency as his only hope for avoiding execution. Europe, as well as NDLS professors Juan Mendez speaking on J.S.D. Fellowship "Remedies Established Available Before International Mary Margaret Penrose '99 LL.M. and Courts and current J.S.D. candidate at the center, with Tribunals;' Dinah her family, has established the Judith Shelton speaking Penrose Memorial Fellowship Fund in on "Monetary memory of her mother, who died on Remedies for January 29, 2000. The Penrose family left: H.E. Judge Rosalyn Higgins, DEE, QC, Infringement of Human Rights Standards;' intends that the fellowship fund assist a International Court of Justice, introducing the and Jay Tidmarsh speaking on J.~.D. student at the center who has finan- keynote address. "Determining the Quantum of cial need. Contributions can be sent to the Compensation:' above: Professor Juan Mendez, director of the cen- fund in care of the Center for Civil and ter, converses with the keynote speaker, Honorable Human Rights, Notre Dame Law School, Mr. Justice Carnwath, cva, chairman of the Law Notre Dame, IN 46556. Commission.

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CENTER LAUNCHES NEW WEB SITE Overview

Faculty and PwI'$Of\MI LLM. Program For more information on the Center for Civiland Human Rights,please visit the new CCHR web site which J.5.O. Program can be accessed through the Law School's home page at www.law.nd.edu.Click on "Academic and International Tuition and Housing

OisNrtaUons Programs" and then on "CCHR" for information on the center's programs, faculty and administrative person- Pubflcatk),. nel, as well as lists of dissertations by center alumni,a schedule of upcoming conferences and links to other Oecasfonal Papers human-rights research sites. Susan Good '85, technical support analyst/consultant in the Kresge Law library, worked with the center to create a site that is user-friendly and that provides a great deal of informa- tion about the important human-rights work being undertaken by center faculty and alumni. • 44

News from the Law School Relations Office

New Services Free to Alumni NDLS NETWORK Irish Online Alumni Database We're always looking for alumni to assist us in At its inception last year, Irish Online, a searchable alumni database managed by the Notre our admissions and career-services efforts, as Dame Alumni Association, charged alumni a nominal fee for access. Now, this service is well as to plan activities for alumni in their offered free of charge to all University alumni. To register, go to: hometowns. Ifyou would like to be a part of the "NDLS Network;' please contact the Law https://alumni.nd.edu/guest- IrishOnline/ infopage.html?orq:/ IrishOnline School Relations Office. and follow the directions under "Subscribe:' As you will note, your student identification number or Social Security number is required to establish an account to ensure that only Notre Dame alumni have access to the information in the database. Through Irish Online, you can update your address, receive e-rnail and search for Fall Home-Football addresses of classmates and friends. Weekend CLE Series For those of you without Internet access, Cathy Pieronek in the Law School Relations Office is happy to help you perform similar searches using the Law School's account. Continues

Transcripts his fall, the Law School will offer continuing legal educa~ The University Registrar's Office now offers transcripts free of charge and also allows non programs on the mornings alumni to request transcripts via fax at (219) 631-5872 or in writing at 105 Main Building, of select home-football IIweekends: Notre Dame, IN 46556. Faxed or written requests must include:

• the name under which you attended Notre Dame; September 16, 2000 • the dates you attended Notre Dame; ND vs. Purdue • your student identification or Social Security number; October 28, 2000 • the address to which you want your transcripts sent; and ND vs.Air Force • your signature. November 11, 2000 ND vs. Boston College Transcripts cannot be provided via fax. They are mailed to the address you specify in your request. For additional questions regarding transcripts, please call Veronica Primrose in Mark your calendars now and plan to the Registrar's Office at (219) 631-7273. attend one of these programs featuring NDLS faculty. Each program provides two hours of CLE credit, including at least one hour of ethics credit. The program regis- For More Information tration fee is $50 per program, and partici- pants can purchase up to two football If you need any information about Law School programs or activities either on campus or tickets to that day's game on a first-come, in your local area, if you have an address or job change announcement, or if you don't know first-served basis. All attorneys, and others exactly whom to call to help you with your particular needs, please contact: interested in th topics, are welcome to attend. Cathy Pieronek, Director If you've been on the CLE mailing list Law School Relations Office in the past, you will receive information 102 Law School about the program in late July;- If you'd like Notre Dame, IN 46556 your name added to the list, please contact phone: (219) 631-6891 the Law School Relations Office. fax: (219) 631-4499 e-rnail: [email protected]

Or visit us on the World Wide Web at http://www./aw.nd.edu, which provides an events calendar and other information relevant to alumni, and allows alumni to communicate directly with various Law School offices and faculty, administrators or staff. • 45

News from the Career Services Office Class of 1999 Graduates Re[?ort Record Salaries, Reflect CSO Successes

areer Services Director Lisa M. Patterson '96 J.D. once Breakdown by Practice Area again has reported ourstand- C ing employment statistics for the NDLS Class of 1999. The statistics, compiled this spring in accordance with guidelines from the National Association for Law Placement (NALP), indicate that with information on 97.4 percent of the 168-member class, 98 percent of the class is "placed" - that is, they have secured jobs, are pursuing advanced degrees or are not actively seeking jobs. This rate compares - Private Practice »> -67.1% favorably with recent years. Judicial Clerkships Average starting salaries continue to -12.0% climb. Based on salary reports from 126 members of the class, this year's overall mean of $65,318 represents an 8.3 percent

increase over last year's overall mean of The geographic spread ofNDLS graduates reflects the national population distribu- $60,307, and this year's overall median of tion of incoming classes, with most of the graduates remaining in the "East North Central" $65,500 represents a 9 percent increase region, defined by NALP to include Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin. The over last year's median. A most stunning largest increase in placements for the Class of 1999 occurred in the Sourh Atlantic region, statistic is the maximum salary command- defined by NALP to include the sourheastern coastal states, with a corresponding decrease ed for a first-year attorney, $130,000, a 28.7 in the Mid-Atlantic Region of New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Slight increases percent increase over last year's top salary also occurred in the Pacific and Mountain regions as well. of $101,000. Salaries for new attorneys continue to rise at an amazing pace, thanks largely to the astonishing growth of high- tech and "dot.corn" companies in the Silicon Breakdown by Geographic Region Valley and the ripple effect that growth has on the market for lawyers nationwide. The chart to the right identifies the types of placements secured by the Class of 1999. The number of graduates in private practice continues to increase - to 67 per- cent this year, compared with 64 percent last year. Most of the other categories are within one percentage point of last year's statistics, although the percentage of grad- uates who accepted government positions other than clerkships or in the military dropped from 6 percent last year to just South Atlantic -15.7% over 3 percent this year. West South Central -2.6% • 46

Legislative istory Research on the Internet Using THOMAS

Through the generous assistance of the library faculty,we are and GPO Access pleased to feature a continuing series of articles that address dif- ferent topics related to the grow- When teaching Notre legislative process: bills, hearings, reports ing area of legal research on the Dame law students and debates: Internet how to perform federal • Bills: Proposed legislation is usual- In keeping with the "govern- legislative history ly introduced as a bill. As the bill changes ment" theme of this issue, the research,I usually con- during the legislative process, it is reprint- following article provides infor- centrate on the print ed. Each printing contains new language, mation on researching the work- sources available in the and the various changes are evidence of ings of Congress. Kresge Law Library, deliberate thinking by the legislators. Be occasionally incorpo- aware of different versions of the same bill, rating relevant LEXIS and remember that you may also want to and Westlaw databases. Two U.S. compare companion bills - that is, other Government web sites are worth mention- bills on the same subject. ing, however, because they provide practic- • Hearings: These are transcripts of ing attorneys with fast, accurate and free testimony offered by invited experts on the access to legislative history information: subject of the proposed legislation. THOMAS and GPO Access. Hearings suggest what information the leg- You ordinarily have one of two pur- islature had when it enacted the statute. poses in mind when doing legislative histo- • Reports: These are the most useful ry research: Either you want to monitor of all the legislative documents for showing the progress of a bill as it moves through legislative intent. A report may include a Congress, or you want to figure Out the leg- detailed analysis of each section of the bill, islative intent behind an enacted statute to an explanation of the purpose of any com- resolve ambiguities in the law's language. mittee amendments, an indication of what Legislative history research for either the bill is designed to do and how it might purpose requires some familiarity with the change existing law, and the committee's four main types of legislative history docu- explanation of its recommendation for ments produced by Congress during the action on the bill.

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News from Law School Advancement

Anonymous Benefactor Honors GLENN ROSSWURM '91 J.D. NAMED DIRECTOR OF LAW SCHOOL ADVANCEMENT Professor Rice Glenn J. Rosswurm II '91 J.D. has been appointed to the newly created position of director of ith an anonymous gift Law School advancement at NDLS. The position, which is in the University's Office of Development, from a 1972 graduate of will focus on fund raising for LawSchool priorities and development of the Order of St.Thomas More. the Law School, NDLS The Law School is the first academic unit at the University to have a dedicated has established a fellow- advancement director. \shipX in honor of Professor of Law Charles Mr.Rosswurm earned his BA with honors in history from Indiana University E. Rice. The benefactor hopes that the in Bloomington in 1987. At NDLS,he served as book review editor of the fund will attract additional contributions NOTREDAMELAwREVIEWtau, ght in the legal writing program, and received both from classmates and other NDLS the KirbyAward for Excellence in Memorandum Writing and the A. Harold graduates. Weber Fellowship. A 1953 graduate of the College of Holy Cross, Professor Rice earned his J.D. Following law school, Mr.Rosswurm clerked for the late U.S.Magistrate Robin from Boston College in 1956, and his D. Pierce of the U.s. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana and LL.M. and J.S.D. from New York engaged in private practice in South Bend. He joined Notre Dame's Office of University in 1959 and 1962, respectively. Development as assistant director of planned givingin March 1995,and became After engaging in private practice in New director of development research in February 1999. York City, Professor Rice taught at C.W. Post College, ~"'~" New York University and ,,r:~.....•._.'J Fordham University before joining the NDLS faculty in 1969. He is a retired lieu- John and Kathlyn Hammes Mowbray Fellowship tenant colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve, and serves gift from Jerry H.Mowbray (Nevada) district court judge. Mrs. on the board of trustees of '75, '78 J.D. of Reno, Nevada, Mowbray is the daughter of the late Mr. Franciscan University in has established a new law fel- and Mrs. Romy Hammes, whose 1955 gift Steubenville, Ohio, and on the board of ~" lowship in honor of his par- to the University underwrote construction governors of Ave Maria School of Law in A of the University's first bookstore. ents, the late Justice John C. Mowbray and Ann Arbor, Michigan. Kathlyn Hammes Mowbray of Las Vegas. "The Mowbray family has a long and A staunch pro-life advocate, Professor The gift establishes the first of 10 new distinguished history at Notre Dame that Rice has co-authored numerous briefs full-tuition fellowships planned to assist dates back to the 1860s;' commented involving right-to-life and right-to-die NDLS students. A first-year student from University President Reverend Edward A. issues, and has published a number of New Jersey is the first recipient of the Malloy, C.S.c. "We are grateful to Jerry books on the natural law including: THE fellowship. Mowbray for creating a fellowship that WINNING SIDE: QUESTIONS ON LIVING The late Justice Mowbray '49 J.D., both honors the past by paying tribute to THE CULTUREOF LIFE(St. Brendan's who was profiled in the fall/winter 1999 his parents and supports the future by Institute, 1999); FIFTY QUESTIONS ON THE edition of NOTRE DAME LAWYER,served addressing the ongoing financial needs of NATURAL LAW:WHAT IT Is AND WHY WE for 25 years on the Nevada Supreme Court our students:' NEED IT(Ignatius Press, 1993); and No after serving eight years as a Clark County EXCEPTION, A PRo-LIFEIMPERATIVE (1990). J. ~------~ =.==-= GENERATIONS

GENERATIONS CAMPAIGN UPDATE

As of the end of january, the University's Generations campaign has raised over $852 million,achieving 111.1 percent of the campaign's original goal of $767 million ov~r the five.~~ar span of the campaign. As for individual components of the campaign,with less than a year remaining, the University has raised near~ $142 million of Its $178 million goal for undergraduate scholarships (80 percent), and $8.9 million of its $12 million goal for Law School fellowships (74.3 percent). n 1999, membership in the Order of St. 1922 I 1926 I Thomas More passed 1927 I 1929 I the 400 mark, 1930 I reaching a total of 1931 1932 • 428 individuals - 1933 • 1934 •I 377 NDLS graduates and 51 1935 I 1936 • Graduates Making a Gift to other friends of the Law 1937 • School - who made gifts of 1938 • 1939 • Order of St.Thomas More $1,000 or more to the Law 1940 • D 1941 School. 1942 • 1943 - 1944 •~ This represents an increase 1945 of almost 21 percent in total 1946 • 1947 • membership over 1998, and 1948 an increase of 185 percent in 1949 1950 - membership since Patrick F. 1951 1952 McCartan '56, '59 J.D., 1953 1954 managing partner of the 1955 international law firm of 1956 1957 Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, 1958 1959 became the inaugural chair of 1960 1961 the Order in September 1996. 1962 1963 The chart at right shows, by 1964 1965 Law School class year, giving 1966 1967 to the Law School in 1999. 1968 1969 Thank you - to our 1970 1971 benefactors and to 1972 1973 Mr. McCartan, for showing 1974 tremendous support for the 1975 1976 Notre Dame Law School. 1977 1978 1979 For more information on the 1980 Order of St.Thomas More, 1981 1982 please contact: 1983 1984 Order of St. Thomas More 1985 1986 Office of Law School 1987 1988 Advancement 1989 1990 llOO Grace Hall 1991 Notre Dame, IN 46556-5612 1992 1993 (219) 631-7609 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 0RDER. tH%iHAs -_Ih0Rg._-