UM Law Mourns Death of Prof. Richard Hausler for 52 Years, Prof

BARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Summer 2000 Volume LIII Number 1 UM Law Mourns Death of Prof. Richard Hausler For 52 years, Prof. Richard Hausler was a beloved, and sometimes intimidating, fixture at the University of Miami School of Law, inspiring legions of students to achieve the highest levels of excellence. His remarkable tenure and highly pro- ductive life came to an end Saturday, March 18, when he suddenly collapsed in the office of his wife, Jeannette Hausler, UM Law’s dean of students. Employing a classroom trial by fire known as “the Socratic Method,” pro- gressively questioning and probing students, Prof. Hausler taught genera- tions of students to appreciate the subtle beauty of promises and conditions em- bodied in the Uniform Commercial Code, contracts, commercial law, and conflict of laws. His former students fill the ranks of the nation’s distinguished jurists and corporate leaders. Prof. Hausler came to the University of Miami School of Law in 1948 to help establish a graduate curriculum in taxation. Driven by an urge to bring an ethical and moral content to the law, he believed the fields of taxation and estate planning held the most promise for reform in the post-war world. The School’s graduate program in taxation is now considered to be one of the top six in the country. In 1996, in recognition of Prof. Hausler’s contributions, the School of Law named its first endowed chair in his honor. “The Doctor’s” teaching style is remembered as dramatic, demanding, involving, and very effective. University of Miami President Edward T. Foote II, speaking at the March 24 well as from the mind, with a love for He noted that “It is impossible to Hauslers were among the first people he funeral mass, described Professor law and for his students that would not think of Richard without thinking of met when he was introduced to Uni- Hausler as “a gifted, powerful, inspiring allow him to expect less than the best Jeannie (Dean of Students Jeannette versity of Miami leaders before teacher who taught from the heart as from them.” Hausler), his wife.” Foote said the (Continued on page 4) Colombian Senate Bestows Order of Congress Award On Prof. Keith Rosenn

The Congress of Colombia has be- An internationally recognized author- stowed its Order of Congress award— ity on Latin American law, Rosenn is in the degree of “Caballero”—on the the author of numerous books, mono- University of Miami School of Law’s graphs, and law review articles and a Prof. Keith S. Rosenn in recognition of prolific lecturer at conferences through- “his accomplishments and professional out the Americas. He is especially conduct.” well-known for his books: Law and De- The Honorable Miguel Pinedo Vidal, velopment in Latin America, Law and president of the Senate of Colombia, Inflation, Foreign Investment in Brazil, A presented the award to Rosenn in a Panorama of Brazilian Law, and an an- ceremony at the School of Law Febru- notated translation of the Brazilian ary 11. constitution. His latest new book— [Editor’s Note: Immediately following Corruption and Political Reform in Brazil: The Significance of the Downfall of his visit to Miami, Pinedo Vidal traveled to Fernando Collor de Mello —which he co- Europe to join other delegates from Colombia’s government in meeting with a edited with Richard Downs of the University of Miami’s North-South group of senior members of the Revolution- The Honorable Miguel Pinedo Vidal, president of the Senate of Center, was published in 1999. ary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) Colombia (at right), congratulates Prof. Keith Rosenn after presenting to attempt to establish a framework for a He frequently is called upon to pro- him with Colombia’s Order of Congress Award. Also shown are a plan to end Colombia’s long-running war, vide expert testimony and to serve as a delegate from the Colombian delegation and Associate Dean Richard which has claimed more than 35,000 lives consultant on Latin American law. Williamson. in the past decade.] (Continued on page 3) www.law.miami.edu. 1 B ARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Summer 2000 Volume LIII Number 1 Message from the Dean To the Editor: Much has been said and written about “the Doctor,” the University of Miami School of Law’s legend- Dear Friends, ary and classic academic treasure. All who knew him and know of his accomplishments will agree that It was 52 years ago that Prof. Rich- few of the many techniques he used there may be little that remains ard A. Hausler joined the University to capture and retain the undivided unsaid about this truly exceptional of Miami Law faculty. He arrived in attention of his students. Everyone and inspirational individual: lawyer, Miami with a law degree from the was always alert and prepared for Pro- scholar, legal educator, coach. University of Minnesota and an fessor Hausler’s class. Part of that which, up to now, has LL.M. in taxation from New York While he constantly employed the University. He could have joined a been unwritten is an expression of Socratic method of teaching, he con- heartfelt gratitude and friendship by law firm and received a much higher veyed a concern and commitment to those of us who have been fortunate salary, but instead, he chose to join the success of his students. For Pro- the faculty at our Law School and to to be a part of our noble teacher’s fessor Hausler, it was pure joy to hear eternal legacy. The time to pay pursue a career that would make him his students expressing their own homage is at hand. a legend in his own time. ideas and thinking on their own. He If the value of a man is measured According to Professor Hausler: always sought to do much more in the by the quality of his heart, the depth “When I came here, the people were classroom than simply convey legal of his soul, and the caliber of his dreamers. They did fabulous things knowledge. Hausler was with us to witness the conscience, then Professor Hausler because they dreamed great dreams, Professor Hausler loved the class- outpouring of gratitude for his many fulfilled all criteria. He lived his life the right dreams.” Our many alumni room and his students, and in turn, contributions to our School’s educa- with tenderness, integrity, dignity, who had “the Doctor” as a professor they cherished him. The 35 “Hausler- tional mission. I have also been profound benevolence, and as he will be forever grateful that he de- ween” skits put on by students, sati- proud to see the many recent con- loved to say, “all that jazz.” He en- cided to be one of the School’s early rizing Professor Hausler’s classes, are tributions that have been made in couraged his students not only to dreamers. a memorial to the pride his students his memory to help establish the Pro- do justice, but more importantly, to At 25 years of age, Richard Hausler felt in being in his classroom. Profes- fessor Hausler Endowed Scholarship. do right. The Doctor was a living was both an expert on taxation and sor Hausler was always the main The chair and scholarship are fitting testament that morality and law can an idealist who believed strongly in character in Equity Playhouse. Al- memorials to a man who was a giant and must coexist. His mission was the law as a means to achieve just and most every alumnus with whom I among legal educators. to transform legal novices into fu- ethical results. He not only held to speak has a Hausler story. Many of Of course, in a very real sense, “the ture esquires of character and that belief throughout his long, pro- them also describe how he kept in Doctor” is still with us, and he al- substance. ductive career, he instilled it, along touch with them after graduation. ways will be. His legacy of personal Principle guided his every word, with a wealth of legal knowledge, in He was always eager for news about and professional standards will be the legions of UM Law students who the careers of his former students, action, and decision. Every day, in with our School and our alumni for- his law school lectures and office took his classes from 1948 until his and he would write them notes of ever. Through his legend, he remains meetings, he reminded many a dis- death on March 18 this year. congratulations. the heart and soul of our School. We heartened student that no obstacle Professor Hausler was still the heart These same students gave back to will miss him dearly, but we will al- is insurmountable and no fear is and soul of our Law School at 76 years Professor Hausler and to the School ways cherish his memory. unconquerable, with God on your of age. For him the classroom was his by making it possible for us to estab- side and the power of love to see stage. He carefully prepared and cho- lish the Law School’s first endowed Sincerely, you through. As for the Doctor’s reographed every class. He created a chair in his name. As one who was a extraordinary sense of humor, it mystique by quickly memorizing each colleague of Professor Hausler for was, in his words, “Abbott and student’s name and details about their many years, it makes me proud that Costello all over again.” backgrounds. He would pace the aisles the School, our graduates, and the and sit down between students while South Florida legal community estab- Dennis O. Lynch Yara Zakharia questioning them. These were just a lished the Chair while Professor Dean Class of 1999

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S UMMER 2000 ALUMNI NEWSPAPER VOLUME LIII NUMBER 1 BARRISTER DEAN Dennis O. Lynch ASSOCIATE DEAN Richard L. Williamson, Jr. ASSISTANT DEAN FOR EXTERNAL AFFAIRS Carol Cope ASSISTANT DEAN FOR DEVELOPMENT Kelly E. Toole DISTINGUISHED STATESMAN IN RESIDENCE ASSOCIATE DEAN OF STUDENTS William VanderWyden The Hon. George Mitchell, former majority leader of the U.S. Senate DIRECTOR OF LAW PUBLICATIONS & COMMUNICATIONS John Burch and chairman of a recent series of talks aimed at bringing peace to DIRECTOR OF LAW ALUMNI RELATIONS Cynthia Sikorski Northern Ireland, speaks with students in Prof. Patrick Gudridge’s PRESIDENT, LAW ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Det H. Joks Constitutional Law class. Mitchell spent April 10 at UM Law, meeting BARRISTER is published by the Office of Law Development and Alumni Relations of the Univer- with students and faculty. He was also at the Law School for three sity of Miami School of Law. Address correspondence to Barrister, University of Miami School of Law, events in March of last year, delivering the Cole Lecture (in the James P.O. Box 248087, Coral Gables, Florida 33124-8087. Telephone: 305-284-3470. E-Mail: L. Knight Center in downtown Miami) and meeting on campus with [email protected], Web site: www.law.miami.edu. Copyright 2000 University of Miami School of students and the Dean’s Circle. Law. All rights reserved. 2 www.law.miami.edu. B ARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Summer 2000 Volume LIII Number 1 Former Dean Mary Doyle Named to Two Major Posts

Prof. Mary Doyle—former dean, cur- glades and ensure a long-term water sup- Prior to her tenure at the University rently on leave of absence from UM ply for South Florida. of Miami School of Law, she was dean- Law—has been appointed acting assis- The South Florida Ecosystem Resto- in-residence at the Association of tant secretary of the interior for water ration Task Force, which includes American Law Schools in Washington, and science. representatives from federal, state, local D.C. Her expertise involved legal edu- “Mary Doyle is extremely qualified for and tribal governments, is charged with cation and the development of an this position, not only by her high legal securing the cooperation of nearly two environmental law curriculum in Rus- sia and the Ukraine. stature, but also by her high level of dozen government agencies. commitment to the Department of the Doyle’s late husband, Jim Webb, an During the 1980s, Doyle was a pro- Interior and to protection of the envi- environmental attorney, was a Wilder- fessor of law at the University of Arizona ronment,” Secretary of the Interior ness Society activist and well-known College of Law, specializing in water, Bruce Babbitt emphasized, as he an- champion of the Everglades restoration land use, local government and prop- nounced her appointment. “Mary Doyle effort. He died in 1997. erty law. She also was associate dean for academic affairs. has a proven track record in water Doyle, who took a leave of absence policy, science, law, conservation, and from the Law School last summer to From 1979 until 1981, she served as other areas critical to this position.” accept the position of counselor to Sec- an attorney at the Department of En- ergy, as associate general counsel, then In addition to her duties as acting as- retary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt, was dean of the Law School in 1986–94 and as deputy general counsel at the U.S. sistant secretary, Doyle also has been Environmental Protection Agency. named to head the intergovernmental served as interim dean in 1998–99. panel that is coordinating a new 20-year, As an academician, she has special- Doyle is a graduate of Radcliffe Col- $7.8 billion effort to restore the Ever- ized in property law and water law. lege and received her law degree from Columbia Law School. ?

Haiti’s first democratically elected president—Jean-Bertrand Aristide— discussed “Globalization and Democracy in Developing Countries” with students, faculty, and friends of UM Law April 7. Held in one of the large classrooms, the event was so popular that it had to be transmitted by video to overflow crowds in two other classrooms. In the photo at left, Prof. Irwin Stotzky, advisor to Aristide and current president Rene Preval, introduces the honored guest. In the other photo, Aristide speaks with Natasha Pierre, third year student.

Colombian Senate Fla. Supreme Court Justice Bestows Order Speaks at Spring Hooding Of Congress Award On Prof. Keith Rosenn Florida Supreme Court Justice Harry Continuing a popular University of (Continued from page 1) Lee Anstead delivered the keynote ad- Miami School of Law tradition, several dress at the University of Miami School alumni had the opportunity to hood Rosenn has studied inflation in Ar- of Law’s Spring 2000 Hooding Cer- their children who are members of the gentina, Brazil and Chile under a grant emony May 21 in the James L. Knight graduating class. The hooding parents from the Social Science Research Coun- Center in downtown Miami. and their graduating children include: cil and twice has been a Fulbright lecturer in Argentina. He is the recipi- Altogether, 432 candidates received Alan S. Becker, J.D. 1969, and Marni-Jo Becker-Avin; Jorge Sanchez-Galarraga, ent of Colombia’s Order of Democracy their hoods at the ceremony, including Award, the Bogota Bar Association’s 333 candidates for the Juris Doctor de- J.D. 1973, and Elena S. de la Vega; George R. Harper, J.D. 1970, and G. Order of Law Award, the University of gree and 99 for the various graduate Miami Inter-American Law Review’s LL.M. degrees. The graduate degrees in- Douglas Harper; and Kenneth Nelson Lawyer of the Americas Award and the cluded 30 in taxation, 23 in comparative Rekant, J.D. 1962, and Nicole Robin Inter-American Bar Association’s 1998 law, 20 in estate planning, 18 in real Rekant. Inter-American Jurisprudence Prize. property development, 7 in ocean and The May event is the larger of two coastal law, and 1 in inter-American hooding ceremonies the University of At UM Law, he chairs the Master of law. Miami School of Law holds each year. Laws in Comparative Law Program and the Master of Laws in Inter-American Associate Dean Richard Williamson In the December 1999 ceremony, Florida Supreme Court Justice and Associate Dean and Dean of Stu- the School awarded degrees to 71 Harry Lee Anstead Law Program and teaches courses in dents Jeannette F. Hausler presented the J.D. candidates and 7 candidates for constitutional law, comparative law, Latin American law, and doing business degree candidates, who then received LL.M. degrees. Newly appointed U.S. alumnus of UM Law, was the keynote in Latin America. ? their hoods from Dean Dennis Lynch. District Judge Adalberto Jordan, a 1987 speaker at that event. ? www.law.miami.edu. 3 B ARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Summer 2000 Volume LIII Number 1 UM Law School Mourns Death Of Professor Hausler (Continued from page 1) accepting the university’s top position 19 years ago. Henry King Stanford, president emeritus of the University of Miami, noted that “Richard combined a profound knowledge of the law with two profound teaching strategies: deep interest in his students and a surefire classroom methodology.” “No student of Professor Richard Hausler will ever forget the electricity in his class nor the anxiety when caught unprepared, all of which was mingled with the certainty that he really cared for us all,” said Carlos de la Cruz, Sr., a former Hausler student and member of the Class of 1979 who is chairman of the University of Miami’s Board of Trustees. Prof. Bernard Oxman described him as “an outstanding teacher who had a unique style, an unmatched memory for names and faces, and an extraordinary interest in the welfare of his students and former students. . . . He was one of those Speakers at the April 7 service celebrating the life and accomplishments of Professor Hausler included, rare individuals who was a defining per- from left, Dean Dennis Lynch; Don West, Class of 2000; Former Dean Mary Doyle; Provost Luis Glaser; Prof. sonality for the Law School. It’s John Hart Ely; University of Miami President Edward T. Foote; Dean C. Colson, Class of 1977; the Honorable extremely difficult to imagine the Law Lenore C. Nesbitt, Class of 1957; Joseph P. Klock Jr., Class of 1973; and the Rev. Tomas Marin, Archdiocese School without him.” of Miami. Professor Hausler’s family attending the celebration included from left, his granddaughter Madeleine Senior U.S. District Judge Lenore C. Hall, daughters Jennie Hausler and Ellen Hausler, son Donald Hausler, and widow Dean Jeannette Hausler. Nesbitt, Class of 1957, told the Miami Herald that “To this day, even though I’m a federal judge, I’ll still come across a method of approaching a case that he taught us. He inspired us not to go for the obvious, but to be imaginative and creative, to go further.” Prof. Jonathan Simon expressed awe at his colleague’s teaching ability. “What a sense of artistic craft Dr. Hausler brought to the classroom,” he said. “I always had the feeling from him that there couldn’t be a better position for him . . . the joy and enthusiasm for bringing out the best in students. “You understood that he felt it was an honor for him to be right here in Miami teaching our students, and he made you feel the same way. He saw the classroom as life in its most interesting and attrac- tive form. The kind of passion he brought to teaching encouraged students to bring the same passion to their work as lawyers. And, he kept that going for 52 years.” Prof. M. Minnette Massey was a freshman (as 1Ls were called in 1948) when she took one of the first classes that Prof. Hausler taught at UM Law. “He was an inquirer even then,” she said. She noted that Professor Hausler will be long remembered for “his enthusias- tic love for the Law School and the people herein—from staff to faculty to students. “There was not a soul on the faculty who did not know him from the mo- ment we arrived on campus. He was a role model—as a dedicated, caring col- On April 7, at a memorial service in Hausler and Clifford Alloway within a Hausler “was discerning, yet deeply lov- league—to all of us. He had a positive Gusman Hall celebrating Professor few months’ time had been a real loss ing,” and that he had an uncanny way attitude and a willingness to assist. It was Hausler’s life and accomplishments, for him personally and especially for the “of knowing people—listening and like losing a lifeline. John Hart Ely, the School of Law’s University of Miami School of Law. watching and delving to discover each “He is sorely missed. We expect at Richard A. Hausler Professor of Law, “These teachers were totally dedicated person’s hopes and dreams and draw- every turn to see him and speak with commented that “I don’t believe I’ve to the welfare and success of all their backs—not judging, but understanding him. And, it will be that way for a long ever in my life had someone become a students and to the success of the law the subtleties of each heart.” ? time.” friend so close so fast.” He joked of Pro- school,” he said in a letter read at the The March 24 funeral mass for Prof. fessor Hausler’s habit of calling everyone memorial service. Hausler was held at the Church of the “Doctor.” “I never expected Richard Another of the 11 speakers at the Epiphany in South Miami, followed by to die,” he said. “I never knew a man memorial service, Prof. Mary Doyle, the a reception for students, faculty, alumni, who knew so many doctors.” U.S. Department of the Interior’s new and friends in the School’s Student Professor Emeritus Daniel Murray Acting Assistant Secretary for Water Lounge. commented that the loss of professors and Science, pointed out that Professor 4 www.law.miami.edu. B ARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Summer 2000 Volume LIII Number 1 ’94 Alumna Fights Discrimination Against People with Mental Disabilities

Because civil war has cancelled commercial flights between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Judith Klein travels between the two countries on a United Nations World Food Program airplane.

to target the most progressive organizations and give them the hands-on support they need.” Since 1997, CEMDAP has forged partnerships with The Hamlet Trust, a UK-based organization; the United Na- tions Voluntary Fund on Disability; and the Toronto-based Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. “The support of local and national gov- Judith Klein with children at institution in Transcaucasia for children with mental disabilities. ernments is critical for the long-term sustainability of the pilot programs that Judith Klein knew from the time she and in 1995, she became the director of have been included in the program. “In we fund,” she emphasized. “We have con- entered law school that she wanted to the newly formed Central European the region, mental disability tends to sistently met with heads of ministries of practice public interest law, but it wasn’t Mental Disability Advocacy Project be defined much more broadly than in social care and welfare, and ministries of until her third year of law school (1993– (CEMDAP). As a project of the Open the West, and there is a culture of mas- health and labor at the national level.” 94) that she decided to focus her efforts Society Institute, CEMDAP identifies sive over-institutionalization,” Klein “After five years of supporting the first on making life better for some of the both governmental and non-govern- said. “People with a diagnosis of epi- projects in Hungary, we are really begin- world’s most vulnerable people. mental organizations that are helping lepsy could spend their entire lives in ning to see the fruits of our efforts and of “That was the year I was a research provide community-based alternatives institutions. . . . Doctors commonly tell the efforts of our grantees all over the assistant to Prof. Susan Stefan and also to institutionalizing people with men- parents they’ll never be able to care for region. In many countries both local and took her class in mental health law,” she tal disabilities. It then determines which a child and they should just send him national governments are adopting, as said. “Both the class and the opportu- organizations should receive funding or her away. Often the institution is so part of official policy, the alternative pro- nity to work closely with Susan, who is from the Open Society Institute. The far from home that the family loses con- grams that our grantees have developed. a leading expert on mental health and goal is to set up community-based model tact.” CEMDAP supports alternatives So while we began with support of grass disability law, opened my eyes to the projects that can be replicated within that enable people with mental disabili- roots efforts from the bottom up, policy possibilities for a truly fulfilling career.” countries and across Central Eastern ties to live in small group homes, in is now being changed in positive ways Europe and the former Soviet Union. supported apartments, or with their Fluent in Hungarian, Klein was asked from the top down.” families, and to attend school, obtain by Mental Disability Rights Interna- Successful pilot projects show both A first generation Hungarian-Ameri- jobs, and become active members of the tional to serve on two delegations sent communities and governments that can, Klein is fluent in Hungarian and community at large. to Hungary in March and September of people with mental disabilities can and French. Her parents escaped from Hun- 1994 to assess human rights conditions should live, work and participate in so- Klein’s job involves extensive travel gary during the 1956 revolution and and advocacy needs of people with men- ciety as equal citizens. Hungary, “Because of the expanded geographic moved to New Jersey, where she was tal disabilities. Following those visits, Romania and Croatia were the original spread of the program, I spend more born. She spent her pre-kindergarten she helped develop a national advocacy focus countries, but since 1997, Alba- than seven months of the year in the years in Libya, elementary and middle plan to challenge discrimination against nia, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Macedonia, region,” she said. “We have never given school in New Jersey, and high school people with mental disabilities in Hun- Moldova, Slovakia, Ukraine, the a ‘sight unseen’ grant to any organiza- and first year of college in London, En- gary, and she drafted a grant proposal to Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan and tion. I have met numerous times with gland. Prior to law school, she was a grass fund the project. Georgia), the Baltics (Estonia, Latvia all of our grantees and am familiar with roots organizer for the National Organi- and Lithuania), and the Central Asian the details of their projects. It is only The grant proposal was accepted by zation for Women in Washington, D.C. republics of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan by being in a country that we are able the Open Society Institute, New York, (1988–1990) and the co-owner and op- erator of a restaurant in Paris, France (1986–1987). While in Paris, she also enrolled in courses at the American Col- Hall Named Clerk of Fla. Supreme Court lege in Paris. She completed work on her bachelor’s degree at American Univer- The Florida Supreme Court has named that are helping steer the judicial sity in Washington, D.C. Thomas D. Hall, a 1980 graduate of UM branch’s long-range planning.” Klein graduated from the University Law, as its 20th clerk of court since the In his career as a lawyer and admin- of Miami School of Law cum laude in office first was created upon Florida’s istrator, Hall has served as an May 1994. While a law student, she was admission to the Union in 1845. independent consultant on appellate associate editor of the Inter-American Law Hall, who had been a staff attorney court operations to the National Cen- Review, and author of Comment: Consti- at the First District Court of Appeal, ter for State Courts, has taught at UM tutional Court or Pseudo Legislature: The assumed office May 1, succeeding Sid Law and St. Thomas University School Hungarian Constitutional Court as a Re- White, who retired from the post after of Law, and has served as staff to com- viewer of Abstract Norms (January 1993). more than 35 years. mittees working on long-range Klein earned first place in the spring 1992 Describing Hall’s wide-ranging expe- planning for the Florida state courts Moot Court Competition, and was se- rience, Chief Justice Major B. Harding system. lected for the Law School’s 1992 Summer said: “Tom not only knows the Florida He is editor of the 1999 and 2000 Honors Program and American Bar courts system well, but also has eight editions of the Florida Bar’s Reporter’s Foundation Public Interest Fellowship Award. During the Summer Honors Pro- years’ experience practicing law in com- Thomas D. Hall Legal Handbook, is active in many bar- plex matters in Miami and more than related committees, and has chaired the gram, she analyzed the application of U.S. immigration policy to children in 10 years’ experience as a staff attorney, state appellate court. He has been in- Bar’s Government Lawyer Section. ? administrator, and supervisor with a volved with many of the organizations the foster care system. ? www.law.miami.edu. 5 B ARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Summer 2000 Volume LIII Number 1 Civil (Comparative) Law Society Miami Team Draws High-Profile Speakers Reaches National Semifinals

A team from the University of Miami School of Law placed among the top four teams nationally in the American Bar Association’s first advocacy in mediation student competition. At the national competition in early April in San Francisco, the team of Shannon McKenna and Robert Hanreck lost by a split decision to a team from the University of Missouri that went on to take the championship. Eight teams competed at the national level. McKenna and Hanreck won their trip With speaker Salvador J. Juncadella (fifth from left) are the Civil (Comparative) Law Society’s 1999–2000 to the nationals by beating all other officers, from left: Douglas Hiller, secretary; Anita Rius, vice president, special events; Karyna Gonzales, teams (by a wide margin) at a regional president; Zel Saccani, vice president; Juncadella; Prof. Enrique Fernandez-Barros, advisor; Desiree Ortiz- competition in New York in March. Cruz, vice president, public relations; and Guillermo Cuadro, treasurer. The other UM Law team in the regional competition—Keith Nichols and Alex UM Law’s one-year-old Civil (Com- tional transactions and that concepts of has been able to reconcile and integrate Sirulnik—came in fourth out of ten parative) Law Society—which supports both civil and common law have been the two differing legal traditions. teams. students’ interest in comparative law introduced in the Convention, which Commenting on the value of the Civil “Winning the regional competition through meetings, panel discussions and thus far has been ratified in 16 countries. (Comparative) Law Society, Karyna was in itself a real accomplishment, not lectures—has brought two well-known At a Civil (Comparative) Law Soci- Gonzalez Rabagh, outgoing president, only because the region includes many speakers to campus this academic year. ety event on March 23, the Honorable remarked, “Aside from the obvious ben- top law schools but also because it in- In September, Salvador J. Juncadella, Carlos Romero Barcelo, resident com- efit to having contact with well-known cludes many that have strong, well- former president of the Inter-American missioner to the U.S. Congress and the international legal authorities, our known programs in alternative dispute Bar Association and currently an inter- former governor of Puerto Rico, ex- members gain a great deal from inter- resolution,” pointed out Prof. Clark national consultant for Morgan, Lewis plained the dual system of Puerto Rico acting with each other. Freshman, who coached the teams and & Bockius, discussed opportunities for and emphasized the value of a legal edu- “We’ve been especially intent on forg- accompanied them to the competitions. lawyers in comparative and interna- cation encompassing both the civil and ing relationships between students in Competitions were between two tional law. common law traditions. our foreign graduate programs who al- teams of two students each, negotiating He emphasized the importance of the He pointed out that Puerto Rico’s civil ready have received law degrees in their positions through use of a media- Summit of the Americas, held in Mi- law tradition—which has no concept of countries that follow the civil law system, tor. In each round, one student from ami in 1994, in which the heads of state using cases as persuasive legal prece- and J.D. students who are interested in each school played the client, and the of 34 nations set out a plan of action for dent—is based upon its heritage as a the civil law tradition. These relationships other student play the attorney. The stu- creating uniformity in inter-American former Spanish colony. However, when not only are good for exchanging infor- dents switched the roles of attorney and law by the year 2005. Juncadella noted the civil code does not have the answer, mation and ideas, they also are an client in different problems in different that the International Convention of lawyers on the island now refer to Pu- excellent basis for future ties.” ? rounds. International Arbitration will replace erto Rican or American case law. Thus, “Because mediators can use vastly dif- litigation in many aspects of interna- he said, the Puerto Rican legal system ferent styles, I set up practice sessions with four different mediators before tak- ing our teams to the competitions,” Freshman noted. Prof. Oxman Receives Provost’s Award “Mediation is becoming more and The winners were nominated by the by any other legal scholar. His work more an integral part of the American deans of their schools or departments regularly influences the way the United legal system,” he said. “It is especially and selected by a committee that in- Nations Convention on the Law of the important here in Florida, which has cluded previous winners. Sea is being interpreted and applied. I more mediation than any other state. Other states also have rules that require Oxman joined the University of Mi- can think of no other legal scholar who has had such a significant impact on the parties to try mediation, but Florida is ami School of Law in 1977 after having unique in actually enforcing those been Assistant Legal Advisor for development of international policies rules.” Oceans, Environment and Scientific designed to foster cooperation among Affairs in the U.S. Department of State. nations on a subject of such critical im- [Editor’s Note: Freshman, who teaches From 1973 to 1982, he served as U.S. portance. The Law School can be very introductory courses in alternative dispute Representative and Vice Chairman of proud of his accomplishments.” resolution (ADR) and advanced courses in the U.S. delegation to the Third United Immediately following the confer- ADR policy and in arbitration, has pub- Nations Conference on the Law of the ence, Oxman dealt extensively with lished widely in the field and has spoken to Prof. Bernard Oxman Sea. issues impacting ratification of the the ABA about teaching negotiation using methods from meditation and writer’s work- The School of Law’s senior expert on Convention by different nations. He shops.] UM Law’s Prof. Bernard Oxman has public international law, Professor later shifted his focus to analyzing the received the 1999–2000 Provost’s Oxman is the director of the Law of the development of a body of customary The two UM Law teams were selected Award for Scholarly Activity. He is the Sea Institute and of the LL.M. program international law norms embedded in for the regional competition by being first member of UM Law’s faculty to be in ocean and coastal law. He teaches decisions interpreting the Convention the top two teams in the Law School’s so honored. international law, law of the sea, civil and the institutional arrangement for negotiation competition organized by the settlement of disputes among the Moot Court Board last fall. University of Miami Executive Vice procedure, conflict of laws, and torts. na tions. President and Provost Luis Glaser pre- “Professor Oxman built on his expe- Following the regionals, Nichols and sented the award to Professor Oxman rience with the State Department and “Throughout the ’90s, he continued Sirulnik agreed to continue to practice and four recipients from other schools the U.S. delegation to become the fore- his contributions by examining the way with McKenna and Hanreck to help at a March 1 awards ceremony. most United States legal scholar in the the new international law norms apply them prepare for the nationals. “Their in specific contexts. His work is widely continued involvement—which meant This is the fourth year for the award, law of the sea,” Dean Dennis O. Lynch cited by all international law scholars four more mediated practices of more which recognizes excellence in schol- said when nominating him for the who write on the Law of the Sea,” than three hours each plus a great deal arship. Each recipient received a award. Lynch said. ? of preparatory research—was a major commemorative plaque, a $4,000 cash “The body of his scholarly productiv- factor in our success in San Francisco,” award and $2,000 in research support. ity in this field since 1972 is unmatched McKenna said. ? 6 www.law.miami.edu. B ARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Summer 2000 Volume LIII Number 1 UM Law Professor Selected For Soros Senior Justice Fellowship book and media information initiative aimed at shifting the national debate on crime control policies. “My central argument is that Ameri- can public opinion on crime policy is driven by fears and frustrations with government, not with crime, and that we need to shift the discussion from how to combat crime to how to govern,” he explained. Simon said the award will fund an unpaid leave of absence from his teaching responsibilities at the University of Miami School of Law for the Fall 2000 semester and that he plans to also take off the Spring 2001 semester in order to complete his book. During that time, he will continue to reside in Miami and Prof. Jonathan Simon take an active role in the intellectual, advising and administrative functions of the Law School. The Center on Crime, Community Among the 20 previous holders of the and Culture has selected UM Law’s Prof. Soros Justice Senior Fellowship GRADUATING STUDENT LEADER RECEPTION Jonathan Simon for a Soros Senior Jus- have been law professors David Cole of tice Fellowship, to be awarded in August Donald West, 1999–2000 president of the Student Bar Association, the Georgetown Law Center, Herman Sabrina G. Ferris, editor-in-chief of the University of Miami Law Review, 2000. Goldstein of the University of Wiscon- Carolyn Bugh, JD ’94, Prof. Terence Anderson and Dean Jeannette The fellowship program is designed to sin, James Liebman of Columbia Hausler enjoy themselves at the 4th Annual Graduating Student Leader “inspire talented individuals in law, pub- University, and Wesley Skogan of lic health, community development, Northwestern University. Other fellows Reception, held April 25, 2000, at Dean Lynch’s home in Coral Gables. and other professions to develop inno- have included social scientists, journal- vative responses to the problem of ists, and medical professionals who work crime; to strengthen or expand success- on a range of issues, including the epi- ful criminal justice programs within demiology of gun violence, police reform, existing organizations; and to promote violence and fear of violence, the impact substantive, nonpartisan debate on of welfare reform on children whose complex criminal justice issues.” mothers have been incarcerated, and race Simon, a nationally recognized expert and criminal justice. and author in the areas of criminal law The Center on Crime, Communities and penology, said he will use the and Culture is an arm of the Open $65,000 award to support turning some So ciety Institute, George Soros’ in- of his published and unpublished essays ternational foundation devoted to on “Governing Through Crime” into a democratization. ?

Alumnus J.B. Spence Makes National, Local News J.B. Spence, a 1951 graduate of UM entails investigating and resolving com- Law, has made news headlines several plaints; visiting each facility at least times over the past year: when the Dade annually to evaluate conditions; ensur- County Trial lawyers Association has ing that residents receive the legal, named him honorary president, when social, rehabilitative, and other services the American Research Corporation to which they are entitled; acting as selected him as one of America’s Lead- moderator between residents, family ing Attorneys in the area of plaintiff members and facility staff and educat- personal injury in medical and profes- ing them about residents’ rights; sional malpractice cases, and when Gov. providing information to the public Jeb Bush appointed him to Florida’s about long-term care facilities; assisting Long-Term Care Ombudsman Council. with the establishment of resident and Spence, who is of counsel at the Mi- family councils; and representing resi- ami law firm of Leeds & Colby, has won dents’ interests before state and federal more than 100 cases resulting in awards government by working to change laws, of a million dollars or more for clients regulations, and policies that affect in personal injury and malpractice them. throughout his career as a trial lawyer. In addition to a successful practice, In conferring the honorary presidency, Spence is active in the American Bar the Dade County Trial Lawyers Asso- Association, the Florida Bar, the Asso- ciation recognized his “tireless effort, ciation of Trial lawyers of America, the service and dedication in the pursuit of International Academy of Trial Lawyers, and the Law Science Academy, and he justice.” ANNUAL LAW REVIEW RECEPTION is a founding member of the prestigious As ombusdman, his role is to investi- Inner Circle of Advocates. He has Professor John Gaubatz presents the Daniel B. Gaubatz Memorial gate and resolve complaints made by, or served on the Nominating Commission Award to this year’s recipient, Santiago Gatto, at the Annual Law on behalf of, patients in long-term care of the Third District Court of Appeals Review Alumni Reception, April 13. Criteria for the award include facilities. The job, for which he receives as well as the Medical Malpractice “concern for others,” “sense of humor,” and a “substantial contribution no pay, is to ensure that residents receive Committee of the Association of Trial to the University of Miami Law Review.” fair treatment and high-quality care. It Lawyers of America. ? www.law.miami.edu. 7 B ARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Summer 2000 Volume LIII Number 1 Florida Bar Honors Center for Ethics, Public Service The School of Law’s Center for Ethics direction of the Florida Bar Profession- Bar Association’s E. Smythe Gambrell and Public Service and the Dade alism Committee, the candidate’s Professionalism Award. County Bar Association will be co- programs were judged on the basis of The Center is an interdisciplinary recipients of the seventh annual Florida overall quality, replicability by other project focused on teaching the values Bar professionalism award. interested groups, likelihood of continu- of ethical judgment, professional respon- The award—which comes with a ation, substantive strength in the area sibility, and public service in the practice $1,000 cash prize—will be presented to of professionalism, success, number of of law. Staffed by UM Law student fel- representatives of the two organizations attorneys involved or affected, and lows and interns performing under at the Florida Bar’s annual meeting, to uniqueness, creativity, or other distin- Alfieri’s supervision, it provides train- be held June 22 at the Boca Raton guishing features. ing in ethics and professionalism to the Hotel and Club. Alfieri was the winner of a 1999 Law School and to the University as Accepting the award for the Center Florida Supreme Court Faculty Pro- well as to Florida’s business, civic, edu- for Ethics and Public Service will be fessionalism Award that recognized cational and legal communities. Prof. Anthony Alfieri, the Center’s a faculty member in one of Florida’s Since its founding in 1996, the Cen- founder and director. law schools who, through teaching, ter has reached out to help educate more Competition for the award was open scholarship and service to the pro- than 2,000 people by sponsoring work- to federal, state and local bar associa- fession, best supported and exemplified shops and symposia and presenting tions, voluntary bar associations, inns the organization’s mission. continuing legal education courses. ? Prof. Anthony Alfieri of court, judicial organizations, and law In 1998, the Center for Ethics and school associations. Reviewed under the Public Service received the American 51st Annual Homecoming Breakfast—November 1999

Florida Supreme Court Justice R. Fred Lewis, J.D. ’72, addresses the J.B. Spence, J.D. ’51, Benedict Kuehne, J.D. ’77, Michael Blynn, J.D. ’77 crowd at the 51st Annual Homecoming Breakfast, held on campus in and Prof. Lonnie Rose are dressed for the occasion. the new Ibis Cafeteria.

Alumni, faculty, students and friends enjoy the traditional Morning Spirits reception. Besides enjoying the refreshments, guests viewed current faculty publications and bought recently published books by UM Law alumni including Roy Black, J.D. ’70, who signed his new book, Black’s Law. 8 www.law.miami.edu. B ARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Summer 2000 Volume LIII Number 1 Media Seek Faculty in the News Perspectives Although the Elian Gonzalez saga In February, in a special section on vestigated the 1963 assassination, Ely has generated an unprecedented num- “1999’s Most Noteworthy Cases” of is one of just a few professors nation- On Elian ber of quotes by UM Law’s faculty in the Supreme Court of Florida, the wide to teach an in-depth course on the news media in recent months, fac- Miami Daily Business Review quoted the topic. He told the Post reporter Situation ulty members made the news on many Prof. Donna Coker as saying that in that, although he enjoys teaching the other topics, as well. For instance: Weiand v. State, the Supreme Court course, he probably will not offer it ver since Thanksgiving Day, when had acknowledged that requiring a again because he does not like teach- E * * * * * six-year old Elian Gonzalez was found woman to leave an abusive spouse ing anything twice. floating on an inner tube in the At- Prof. Michael Froomkin has contin- “was completely out of step with all * * * * * lantic Ocean, the news media has ued to garner extensive coverage, current social science understanding been beating a path to the doors of generally in relation to his Internet law and legal understanding of the Carolyn Salisbury, associate direc- UM Law professors. expertise. In January, an article in The situation.” tor of the Children and Youth Law With well-known expertise in Chronicle of Higher Education was based Clinic, was quoted extensively in a many fields of law, UM Law’s faculty on his prediction that virtual law * * * * * * November South Florida Sun Sentinel ar- appear frequently in newspapers and schools will become common in the A feature by David Cay Johnston ticle about her client, a 15-year-old boy magazines and on radio and televi- future and that price competition will in the February 27 New York Times who was sent to a locked residential sion news programs to give legal force all but the best private law about the nation’s complicated in- treatment center after running away perspective to stories on immigration, schools to choose between becoming come tax system discussed Prof. Elliott from his foster homes. Pointing out crime, homelessness, discrimination, little better than extended bar prep Manning’s and former student that if the boy had been an adult he Internet law, and other subjects. courses, converting to an executive Lawrence M. Andress’s “exhaustive would have been entitled to a hearing However, since the story of the tiny education model, or risking extinc- study of how . . . phase-out rules, in which the state would have had to Cuban rafter grabbed the public’s at- tion. A week later, the same which critics call ‘clawbacks,’ increase prove that he needed commitment, tention in late November, media publication ran an article about him the real tax rates that people pay.” Salisbury said in the article, “The requests for expert opinion have been and four other law professors (from the whole thing is scary. I think where * * * * * nonstop. University of Montreal, Temple Uni- children are placed is not guided by The child was one of only three versity, and the University of The November 30 Miami Herald their needs but the state’s resources and persons to survive the capsizing of a Massachusetts at Amherst) forming carried “Affirmative Action Clears what placements they have available.” boat in which they were fleeing Cuba. one of the first organizations to arbi- Wall of Racism,” an article by Prof. The Supreme Court of Florida is re- His mother and 10 others drowned. trate disputes over Internet domain Donald Jones, in which he stated, viewing the case. Since then, he has been the center names entirely online. He has also “Affirmative action produced no un- * * * * * * of an international tug of war, with been quoted recently in The New York fairness to whites as a group; it only the leaders of Miami’s Cuban com- Times (at least three times), the Wash- gave blacks a ladder to get to a play- Prof. Mary Coombs was the author- munity insisting that he should stay ington Post (at least twice), the National ing field still tilted statistically toward ity cited in the Miami Herald’s “Action with his relatives in the U.S. and the Post (Canadian), MSBC News, the white males.” Line” in March in response to a reader’s Castro government demanding that question about how changes in child Toronto Star, the Houston Chronicle, the * * * * * he be returned to his father in Cuba. support amounts are determined. National Journal of Technology Daily, Prof. John Hart Ely’s class—“Evi- Many faculty members—including CNET News, the Electronic Commerce Coombs said Florida Statute Chapter professors Anthony Alfieri, Terence dentiary Inference and Advocacy: 61.30 provides a structure for deter- and Law Report, the Florida Lawyer and The Assassination of President John Anderson, Mary Coombs, Patrick the ABA Journal. mining the amount of child support a Gudridge, Bernard Oxman, Robert F. Kennedy”—was the topic of a fea- parent must pay, based on the incomes Rosen, Irwin Stotzky, and Bruce * * * * * ture article in The Palm Beach Post in of both parents and the needs of the February. A junior member of the Winick—have been featured in news child or children. ? articles on the topic. However, the Warren Commission staff, which in- bulk of the media requests for interviews have come to Professor David Abraham, an expert on immigration law, and Bernard Perlmutter, director of the Children and Youth Law Clinic. Both have become familiar to readers, listeners and viewers throughout the world as they state their opinions that U.S. immigration law points to returning the boy to his remaining parent—in Cuba. For instance, Abraham has appeared on or in National Public Radio’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered, NBC Nightly News, CNBC, CNN Crossfire, ABC Nightline, Minnesota Public Radio, Newsday, The New York Times, the New York Daily News, the Los Ange- les Times, the Chicago Tribune, The Miami Herald, the South Florida Sun- Sentinel, the Orlando Sentinel, the Boston Globe, the Dallas Morning News, the Washington Post, BBC World Services, the Australian Broadcasting Company, German TV Channel 1, the London Free Press, The Independent (London), the Canberra Times, the Ottawa Sun, the Edmonton Sun, the Toronto Star, the Evening Chronicle (Newscastle, UK), the Straits Times (Singapore), India Today, Bath Chronicle, and news media throughout the U.S. that are served by the Associated Press. Perlmutter has generated a similar stack of news clips. In one two-week period, he was asked to comment on the family law and immigration law aspects of the case by reporters from The Miami Herald, the Sun-Sentinel, the New York Times, the Washington Prof. Michael Froomkin and students from his Internet law class pose for a photographer from Post, the Christian Science Monitor, the U.S. News & World Report. (Continued on page 10) www.law.miami.edu. 9 B ARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Summer 2000 Volume LIII Number 1 Future Lawyers Reach Out to Help Local Community Pro bono service and community out- targeting a different school with chil- reach work are on the rise at the dren whose reading skills are below University of Miami School of Law. average. Most recently, a classroom of During the 1999–2000 academic year, 35 fourth-grade students at Tropical more than 300 students participated in Park Elementary benefited from the a myriad of public interest advocacy ef- program, which has been made possible forts and community outreach efforts by a donation o f books from Book Ho- impacting individuals and agencies rizons, a Coral Gables book store. throughout Miami-Dade County. On several occasions over the past “It is wonderful to see that this year, UM Law students worked with generation of future lawyers under- One Nation, an immigration project stands the obligation to the public that that provides assistance with natural- comes with the privilege of a legal edu- ization and application for permanent cation,” said Marni Lennon, assistant residency status. dean of students. During the 2000–2001 academic year, Many of the School’s student H.O.P.E.’s ongoing community service voluntarism activities are coordinated and advocacy projects will include through H.O.P.E. (Helping Others working with the Alliance for Justice Through Pro Bono Efforts). Under on the national First Monday program, Lennon’s direction, the project central- which targets gun violence. In addi- izes and maximizes student pro bono and tion to the traditional First Monday community outreach efforts. Since its program, H.O.P.E. intends to launch a inception in 1998, the project has legal education project geared toward launched more than a dozen commu- the prevention of gun crimes among nity outreach projects, including youths. recurring events such as the ’Canes Car- H.O.P.E. fellowships enable UM Law nival for children living in shelters in to support extraordinary alumni who are Miami-Dade, “Law-Related Education working to make a difference in the Projects” in area middle schools, and lives of others. For instance, Caryn UM Law students and staff help renovate a home for Habitat for the H.O.P.E. Day (a day of service each fall Vogel (J.D. ’96) has been assisted by Humanities, a H.O.P.E. outreach project. to encourage students to get involved several student volunteers each year in one of more then 10 simultaneously since she formed H.E.L.P. (HIV, Edu- occurring service projects). cation and Law Project) in 1996. One of the most popular programs Initially, H.E.L.P. was funded by an NAPIL (National Association of work he was able to do as a student vol- sponsored by H.O.P.E has been the echoing green fellowship, and recently, Public Interest Law) Fellowship Award unteer at UM Law. “Books and Buddies” program. Started it received a large grant from Miami- winner, Jack Wallace (J.D. 2000) is By partnering with existing efforts last summer, the program pairs elemen- Dade County to continue its extra- looking forward to receiving help from and supporting current students in their tary school students with students from ordinary efforts to help HIV-positive H.O.P.E. volunteers when he begins his drive to do public interest work, the UM Law for a six-week period. Bud- community members with their legal work on the Asylum Relief Action Net- H.O.P.E. Project supports students, dies are each given the same book to plights. H.E.L.P. volunteers enable work Association (ARANA) project, a alumni and the South Florida commu- read, and they exchange a series of let- Vogel to serve hundreds of clients even program he designed to identify and as- nity. “We hope to create a link from the ters about the book, thus encouraging though hers is essentially a one-woman sist the lost population of immigrants classroom to the community by increas- the elementary school student to not operation. Recently, the Florida Bar who are waiting in jails as they seek ing the opportunities for involvement only enjoy reading but also to improve Association Young Lawyers Division political asylum. This was the first time for our students, and we are proud of the his or her writing and analytic skills. recognized Ms. Vogel for her selfless ef- that a University of Miami student has dedication and public-mindedness we This program has been successfully re- fort in helping those in need. received a NAPIL fellowship, and much are seeing on our campus,” Lennon said. of his application was based upon the peated three times, with each session H.O.P.E. is fueled solely by volun- teerism and donations and has been growing quickly since its inception in 1998. Fundraising efforts, including the ‘Who’s Who’ Names Marlynn Jones H.O.P.E. Auction, scheduled for Thurs- day, September 21, support the H.O.P.E. Fellows Program. H.O.P.E., which 1999’s Outstanding Law Student awards fellowships to law students who work in public interest law positions for ho’s Who: American Law Students legal fraternity, Alpha Epsilon Lambda which they are not otherwise compen- W sated. By providing a stipend to has named Marlynn R. Jones, a 1999 national honor fraternity, and Omicron dedicated students who are performing Delta Kappa national leadership honor graduate of UM Law, its “1999 Out- work in the public interest, the School standing Law Student of the Year.” society, and participated in the Ameri- of Law is able to increase the number of Criteria for selection includes distinc- can Inn of Court Eugene Spelman students who are able to work in the tion in one or more of the following Chapter. She also maintained member- public sector. ship in the Black Coaches Association, areas: (1) the study of law, (2) service Anyone interested in learning more the Women’s Sports Foundation, Delta to the law school community, (3) ser- about the H.O.P.E. project or in suggest- Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., the Sports vice to the larger community, (4) pursuit ing ideas for H.O.P.E. programs should of a law career in spite of prohibiting Lawyers Association, and the ABA Fo- contact Assistant Dean Marni Lennon rum Committee on Communications factors, and (5) some other area worthy at 305-284-2599. ? of recognition. Law. The Outstanding Law Student of the As the ABA Law Student Division’s Year is differentiated from her peers liaison to the Forum Committee on Marlynn R. Jones Media Seek Perspectives listed in Who’s Who: American Law Stu- Entertainment and Sports Industries for dents in the extent and degree of her two years (1997–99), she served on the Student Recruiting; recruiting chair for On Elian Situation contributions in these areas. Jones was committee’s governing council and was the Black Law Students Association; (Continued from page 9) selected for inclusion in Who’s Who: the only student speaker at its annual student member of the Faculty Admis- meeting both years. She operated the sions, Scholarship and Financial Aid St. Petersburg Times, the Associated American Law Students in 1997, 1998, Press, Reuters, Der Spiegel, the New York and 1999. committee’s speakers bureau, assisting Committee; the Student Bar Associa- other law schools in obtaining speakers tion’s chair for 1999 orientation; and Post, El Nuevo Herald, USA Today, A leader of many student organiza- in the areas of entertainment and sports president of the Entertainment and Court TV Online, CNN Online, and numerous others. He has appeared on tions during her three years at UM Law, law. Additionally, she made presenta- Sports Law Society. she was awarded the 1999 Roger Serino the ABC Evening News, Good Morning tions on behalf of the committee at the Jones holds a bachelor’s degree from Award as the outstanding third-year law America, the CBS Evening News, the ABA Law Student Division’s 5th Cir- the University of North Carolina at Early Show with Bryant Gumbel, and on student and was inducted into Iron Ar- cuit meetings. Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism and row, the University of Miami’s highest National Public Radio’s All Things Con- Also at UM Law, Jones served as edi- a master’s degree from Virginia Com- sidered, NPR’s The Diane Rehm Show, honor, last spring. tor-in-chief of Amicus Curiae, the monwealth University’s School of Mass Dateline NBC, and others. While a law student, Jones was an School’s year book; vice chair of the Communications. She has been admit- Like Abraham, Perlmutter has been active member of the Society of Bar and Student Bar Association’s Speakers ted to the Florida Bar and is eligible for forced by time constraints to decline Gavel, the Black Law Students Asso- Committee; student recruiting ambas- membership in the Washington, D.C., some requests for appearances on ciation, Phi Delta Phi international sador for the Office of Admissions and Bar as well.?? broadcast programs. ? 10 www.law.miami.edu. B ARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Summer 2000 Volume LIII Number 1 UM Alumnus Champions Message from President, Franchisees Law Alumni Association Since earning his J.D. from the Uni- versity of Miami School of Law in 1985, Robert Zarco has established a reputa- Until 10 years ago, the extent of my involvement tion as a champion of franchisees with the Law School was to attend the Homecom- throughout the world, including the ing Breakfast with my dad each year. He was proud United States, Mexico, France, Hol- of his son, the lawyer, enjoyed talking to other law- land, Germany, Australia, New Zealand yers and judges and liked the guest speakers. and the Caribbean. One year he looked at the program and said “How “Despite the fact that franchising is a come your name isn’t listed here.” I said, “Well, I’m great method of doing business and has really not that active with the Law School.” Then many positive virtues, it also lends it- he said “Well here’s a list of all the class agents. self to allowing abuse by the franchisers Didn’t you graduate in 1972? There’s no class agent against the franchisees,” he said. listed for 1972, why don’t you get your name put on this list?” “This is more evident among the more Then I asked an attorney friend of mine, Blair Zimmet, where and when mature systems, which tend to have the Law Alumni Association met. I knew that he was on the board of contracts with terms and conditions directors and would be able to provide me with this information. He told that are overwhelmingly in favor of the me that the Law Alumni Association doesn’t have full membership meet- franchiser and presented to the franchi- ings but that I was welcome to come to a board meeting if I wanted to see on a ‘take it or leave it’ basis. become active. “Although as a matter of law all of Robert Zarco I went to my first meeting when Sam Smith was president and was sur- these contracts are required to be per- prised to discover that the association was actively involved with the activities at the Law School and often had functions where all local alumni formed in good faith by both parties (so Zarco also has provided expert testi- were invited. that each can reap and enjoy the fruits mony before various state legislatures of such contracts) that principle fre- and actively lobbies both state and fed- I signed up as a class agent, became a director and held several vice- quently is overlooked and disregarded eral legislators, representing franchisees’ presidential positions and started attending the Law Alumni functions. by the franchiser,” Zarco pointed out. interests and promoting enactment of These functions included Friends of the Law School luncheons; alumni- “It is my goal—and my cause—to help fair franchising legislation. sponsored CLE courses; university sporting events; student leadership level the playing field.” receptions at the Dean’s house; alumni-faculty receptions; dedications of While he primarily represents franchi- buildings; judicial receptions; student scholarship receptions; telephone He has represented franchisees in sees, he also represents new or fund-raising campaigns; banquets celebrating the chairs established in honor court against such major franchise sys- developing companies that wish to fran- of professors Hausler and Massey; graduations; the Cole Lecture Series; tems as McDonald’s, Burger King, chise their business concepts. Dunkin’ Donuts, 7-Eleven, Kentucky alumni reunions; funerals; holiday parties; Thursdays on the Bricks; Frequently cited by the media as an Fried Chicken, Tony Roma’s, Coca- fundraising auctions; memorials; interviews of candidates for Law School “international franchise expert,” he has Cola, Decorating Den, Miami Subs, dean; professionalism dinners with students, lawyers, judges and faculty appeared on numerous radio and tele- members; moot court competitions; and the list goes on and on. T.G.I. Friday’s, Manhattan Bagel, vision programs, including CNBC’s Blimpie’s, Pepsico, Kenny Rogers Roast- “Minding Your Business” and “How to What I have learned from this is that we are fortunate to be graduates of ers, Holiday Inn Hotels, Best Western Succeed in Business,” PBS’s “Your Fi- a fine law school, with one of the finest faculties in the nation, teaching Hotels, Quality Inn Hotels, Ramada nancial Future with Jonathan Pond” and very bright students to be the leaders of the legal and business world of Hotels, Johnny Rockets, T.C.B.Y., Little “The Judy Jarvis Show,” and CBS’s “Eye tomorrow. Dean Dennis Lynch, the administration, the faculty and many generous alumni have made the Law School an exciting and vibrant place. Caesars’ Pizza, and Hot N’ Now. to Eye with Connie Chung.” ? It has truly been an enjoyable experience to be actively involved with our alma mater. Every great law school in our nation has loyal, active and generous alumni who truly care about and cherish the institution that educated them and launched them into their careers. I encourage and invite all of you who are Law Alumni Association not currently active with the Law School and Law Alumni Association to come back into the fold and get involved. I assure you that it will be a Calendar of Events rewarding and enjoyable experience. Det H. Joks LAA President, 1999–2000 May 2000 Wed., 5/16 Law Alumni Association Executive Board Meeting 5:30 p.m., UM Law School Tues., 5/16 Law Alumni Association CLE Program by Atticus 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., UM Law School Sun., 5/21 Hooding Ceremony 2:00 p.m., James L. Knight Center, Hyatt Regency, Miami June 2000 Thurs., 6/1 Bankruptcy CLE Program UM Law School Thurs., 6/8 Fourth Annual Broward Judicial Reception 5:30 p.m., The Tower Club, Ft. Lauderdale Mon., 6/12 Dean’s Circle Annual Reception 6:00 p.m., Home of Dean Dennis and Carol Lynch Thurs., 6/22 Alumni Reception at the Annual Meeting of the Florida Bar 6:30 p.m., Boca Raton Resort, honoring Justice Gerald Kogan November 2000 Fri., 11/3 Class Reunion Parties and Events Classes of ’50, ’55, ’60, ’70, ’75, ’80, ’90, ’95 Contact the Alumni Office or your Class Director for more information. CELEBRATING JUDGE JORDAN’S INVESTITURE Sat., 11/4 52nd Annual Homecoming Breakfast Adalberto Jordan, J.D. ’87, speaks with two of his former law professors, 8:00 a.m., Morning Spirits, 9:00 a.m., Breakfast Mary Coombs and Tony Powers, at a November 16 luncheon celebrating his appointment to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. www.law.miami.edu. 11 B ARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Summer 2000 Volume LIII Number 1 Fond Memories Predominate at Class of ’49 Luncheon

interested in those fields when he returned to civilian life. Some of his friends from the service were planning to go to law school, and he followed their lead. In one class, where the professor had a strictly enforced no-talking rule, they found they could communi- cate with each other by blinking their eyes in Morse Code. Stamen joined the U.S. Civil Service Commission in 1951 and eventually became chairman of the Board of Appeals and Review. He retired in 1977. Frank Miles had an engineering degree and military service behind him when he came to UM Law. “I look forward to it every time we come back to the University of Miami,” he said. “I think of all the good times, and that’s a great feeling.” He noted that he had “enjoyed every minute” of his 50 years in the practice of law. During military service in Alaska, Julian Benjamin received a letter from a friend who was planning to go to law school, and he decided to do the same. The letter writer also told him which books were used in the law school, and Members of the Class of 1949 gather at their 50th Reunion luncheon held at the Law School on Nov. 18, 1999. Benjamin found them in the base li- From left to right: Stanley H. Spieler; Albert Barkin; Ralph Franklin Miles; Hon. Ray H. Pearson; Rear Adm. Julian Benjamin; Richard J. Thornton; Hon. Jack Block; Waldo Rothenberg; Martin Fine; Herman D. Staiman; brary. He finished the first two years Daniel E. Murray; Lloyd Bates worth of reading in six months and was admitted to UM Law on a probationary status. He later pursued his career in the U.S. Navy, becoming a rear admiral and A half-century after receiving their Ray Pearson recalled his days at UM even back then, Miami was a good law the Navy’s senior lawyer before his re- J.D.s from UM Law, 11 members of the Law as “the happiest three years of my school.” tirement in 1984. He said he now works Class of 1949 and their spouses and life.” Contrasting the School in 1949 Stanley Spieler, who has a law prac- “part-time (60 hours per week)” for his guests gathered for a luncheon at the to the present version, he observed that tice specializing in real estate finance son. Benjamin is a former member of Law School November 18 to reminisce “the greatest difference is that we had and condominium development, said he UM Law’s adjunct faculty. about the old days and catch up on each only two women in our class, and now I was unsure what he wanted to study Al Borkin dropped out of law school, others’ careers. see them all over the place. This looks when he went to college following his moved to Michigan, and got married, Despite the fact that the classmates a lot better.” On a sadder note, he said, discharge from military service. “There then returned to UM Law, finally have had substantial success in their ca- “It’s startling to me how many of our were two pretty young girls standing ready to study. An avid scuba diver reers, the memories of Law School classmates are gone. They were great near a School of Law sign. When I asked and photographer, he said that some predominated. lawyers and great friends.” Looking them ‘What do I have to do to get in,’ of his underwater photographs are on around the table, the former judge said, For instance, Jack Block, who served they replied, ‘Nothing. You’re admit- display at Epcot Center and that his “I’m grateful for the friendship and fel- eight terms as mayor of South Miami ted.’ If they had been in front of a photos have been published in major lowship of all of you here today.” and later sat on the bench, remembered veterinary medicine sign, I could just as magazines. how he, Tom Ferguson, Tom Wills and Lloyd Bates, who said he toured Eu- easily have become a veterinarian.” Daniel Murray, who is professor of an unnamed fourth used to hang out rope playing tennis and soccer following Richard Thornton, referred to by his law emeritus at UM Law, told how he behind the “Cardboard College” and World War II, noted that tennis was the classmates as “a heck of a trial lawyer,” began wearing his trademark bowties. play bridge between classes. reason he chose UM Law. “All of the pointed out that he began the study of “Dean Rasco had a rule that you had to best tennis players came here in the Martin Fine noted that he had been law at Indiana University before trans- have a tie in class. There was no air- winter, so I’d always be able to get a good Ray Pearson’s campaign manager when ferring to UM Law. He said he conditioning at the school in those days, match.” Following graduation, he took Pearson successfully ran for class presi- thoroughly enjoyed his legal practice and buttoned-up shirts with ties could the Connecticut bar exam, placing sec- dent. Still practicing law full time, Fine and had done a lot of work for the Bar be hot. I found that clip-on bowties of- ond out of 200, behind a graduate of the started the firm Fine, Jacobson & Block Association before his retirement 12 fered a way to comply with his rules and University of Chicago. “Considering before moving to his present firm, Hol- years ago. still be half-way comfortable. I’ve been that many of the exam-takers were from land & Knight. One of his ongoing pro Herman Staiman had been a science wearing them ever since.” Murray also Harvard and Yale, schools that I bono interests has been to secure afford- and math major before his military ser- emphasized, “I’ve never forgotten the couldn’t have gotten in to, it’s clear that able housing for the poor. vice, but he found he was no longer education I received here. It’s a damned good law school.” ? ACLU Honors Kogan With Nelson Poynter Award

The American Civil Liberties Union The ACLU chose him for the award Throughout his career—which has of Florida has presented its highest because he has been “courageous in de- included service as a circuit judge in award, the Nelson Poynter Award, to fending a wide range of individual Florida’s Eleventh Judicial Circuit and Gerald Kogan, former chief justice of the rights.” as administrative judge of the Criminal Florida Supreme Court and a member “Always the courageous judge, Justice Division—he has served as an adjunct of UM Law’s Class of 1955. Kogan used his years on the bench to faculty member of various law schools, Named for the former crusading edi- defend a wide range of individual including UM Law, teaching criminal tor and publisher of the St. Petersburg rights,” the ACLU of Florida pro- evidence, trial advocacy, and profes- Times, the Nelson Poynter Award is claimed. As examples, the organization sional responsibility. given annually to people who show cited his dissent from the majority de- Kogan also has served as chair of the commitment to the cause of civil liber- cision in Kirscher v. McIver, which held Florida Supreme Court’s Gender Bias ties in Florida. that a terminally ill patient had no right Study Commission and the Judicial Kogan, who retired from the Supreme to self-determination in the manner of Council and as vice chair of the Bench/ Court in December 1998, heads the new his own death, and a series of articles Bar Commission and chair of that body’s Alliance for Ethical Government, head- authored by Kogan calling for the state Implementation Commission. ? quartered at UM Law, which promotes to re-examine use of the death penalty. integrity in local government. 12 www.law.miami.edu. B ARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Summer 2000 Volume LIII Number 1 echoing green Enables Alum to Help Disadvantaged Teens In August, two years after he estab- “Probably, one of the most important lished Soul Builders with the help of a things I have been able to accomplish grant from the echoing green founda- is to make them see that an adult cares tion, David Daniel will close down his about them, will listen to them, and innovative public service organization. stick with them. These kids have a prob- “The project was designed to make a lem with trust and a feeling of difference in the lives of some of our impermanence.” most disadvantaged children and to call In court hearings, he has been able to attention to their plight,” Daniel com- help ensure that his clients get the full mented. “We have had a positive impact attention of attorneys and judges. “Of- on the lives of our clients, and we’ve ten, these kids are either angry or shy, played a role in making the legal com- and I’ve been able to help them shape munity and the public more aware of what they want to say and communi- the difficulties faced by children who cate their thoughts more effectively,” have been labeled ‘mentally disabled.’ Daniel noted. “Plus, the fact that they So, I do feel that we have accomplished have an attorney representing them what we set out to do.” gives added weight to their concerns.” A member of UM Law’s Class of 1998, In addition to educating his clients Daniel set up Soul Builders to provide about the legal system, he also educates legal representation for minors who the outside world about them. By par- were alleged to have mental disabilities, ticipating in seminars for teachers, social to educate those clients in legal mat- workers, mental health professionals, ters, and to encourage their self and the legal community, he has helped volved with a new project (‘Girl Speak’) [Editor’s Note: Daniel’s $30,000 grant expression. Primarily a one-person op- bring attention to the issues faced by his funded by the Women’s Fund of Miami- from the echoing green foundation, which eration, Soul Builders has been hosted clients. Dade County that will encourage girls received the maximum one-year renewal for by UM Law’s Children and Youth Law “These kids live in what is almost a to write about their experience in the a second year, was the fourth of the highly Clinic, which has provided office space secret world,” Daniel explained. “They juvenile justice system and will publish competitive fellowships that have gone to and some administrative support. are protected by confidentiality laws, the best of their efforts on the Internet.” recent UM Law graduates since 1995. A non-profit foundation, echoing green ap- “There is an excellent fit, a common- but that protection can be a mixed bless- Following his work with Soul Build- ality of purpose, between Soul Builders ing. People just don’t know what’s going plies a venture capital approach to ers, Daniel and his fiancé, Pamela philanthropy, providing seed money to so- and the Children and Youth Law on in these kid’s lives or understand the Entzel, who also is a 1998 graduate of cial entrepreneurs starting innovative public Clinic,” Daniel pointed out. “While we problems they face.” UM Law, plan to enter the Peace Corps service organizations. both represent poor children in South One of the goals of the Soul Builders and be assigned to a nation in the South Other UM Law recipients have included Florida (especially those caught up in project has been to encourage the chil- Pacific, where they will work in the area the foster care system), Soul Builders dren to express creatively—in writing of health education. Entzel is currently Virginia Coto in 1997, to fund LUCHA: A Women’s Legal Project, a program to focuses on children—generally ages 13– or through art—the way they feel about completing work on a master’s degree help low-income immigrant women over- 18—who have been labeled mentally Florida’s mental health system. “Al- in public health at the University of disabled.” Miami. come domestic abuse and empower them though we’ve had some success with to become active in the greater community; “At this time I have 12 clients. Eight this, it has been difficult,” he said. “Of- “I don’t think my law degree will come Caryn Vogel in 1996, to establish H.E.L.P. are foster kids, two fall under Florida’s ten their primary concerns are such into play very much in this next assign- (H.I.V. Education and Law Project), which CINS (Children in Need of Services) basic needs as getting something to eat ment,” Daniel noted. “However, my focuses on safeguarding access to the courts statute, three are special education cases and a place to stay, and creative expres- day-to-day Soul Builders work with the and providing equal and fair representation (and the only ones in which I have been sion is not foremost in their minds. children and the experience I gained in of the disenfranchised; and Carolyn able to work extensively with parents), However, there have been some notable dealing with public officials should Salisbury in 1995 to begin UM Law’s Chil- and one had been charged with delin- exceptions, and Soul Builders is in- translate well to the new environment.” dren and Youth Law Clinic.] ? quency,” he said.

Help Us Celebrate Alumni and friends of the University of Miami School of Law are invited to a reception to celebrate completion of the Gerald Kogan Endowed Schol- arship Fund, from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Thursday, June 22, during the annual meeting of the Florida Bar Association at the Boca Raton Resort and Club. Please RSVP no later than June 16 by calling 305-284-4945 or by send- ing a fax to 305-284-3968. ?

Kogan Scholarship To Help Recruit The Best Students UM Law is honoring Gerald Kogan, former chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court and member of the Class of 1955, with an endowed scholarship in his name. When fully funded at $50,000, the Gerald Kogan Scholarship will support the studies of law students who demonstrate the integrity, scholarship, and devotion to public service characterized by Justice Kogan’s exemplary career in the law. With tuition at UM Law and other high-quality private law schools at unprecedented heights, scholarships are an increasingly important factor in helping UM Law recruit the best students. BAR & GAVEL’S 50TH Alumni and friends who would like to contribute to the scholarship should mail their checks to the Office of Law Development and Alumni Relations, UM Law students and members of Bar & Gavel, Elba Martin, Abe Breslin, University of Miami School of Law, P.O. Box 248087, Coral Gables, FL and Mike Daly, pose at a March 9 reception in the Law School courtyard celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Society of Bar and Gavel. 33124-8087. ? www.law.miami.edu. 13 B ARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Summer 2000 Volume LIII Number 1 Harvey Sepler Wins U.S. Supreme Court Case

“According to that exception,” he continued, “an anonymous tip about the presence of a gun shifts the balance in a totality of circumstances analysis in favor of forcible intervention. This case raises an important constitutional concern: whether the reasonable suspicion standard should be tempered by the degree of danger alleged in an informant tip.” Urging that guns implicitly expose the public and the police to danger, the State of Florida petitioned the U.S. Su- preme Court for certiorari review and, on February 29, the Court heard the case. In his argument, Sepler cautioned that, absent a showing of actual and immediate danger, the mere allega- tion of a gun in an anonymous tip, coupled with the corroboration of inno- cent details (but lacking “meaningful Harvey Sepler corroboration”) does not constitute reasonable suspicion. “To hold otherwise would not only expose innumerable in- arvey Sepler, assistant public de- H nocent people to the humiliation of a fender for Miami-Dade County, argued CELEBRATION police search but would materially alter a case before the U.S. Supreme Court the fundamental relationship between Along with keynote speaker U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno (third this year and came away with a unani- police and citizens in our society,” he from left) at the Florida Bar’s May 25 gala dinner in Bal Harbour mous decision in favor of his position emphasized. celebrating Florida’s first 150 women lawyers, are, from left, Rosemary that an anonymous tip about a con- Barkett, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit; Barbara J. cealed gun is not reliable enough to Although a decision had not been Pariente, justice, Florida Supreme Court; Reno; Major B. Harding, chief authorize police to stop and search a expected until June, it arrived far justice, Florida Supreme Court; and Edith Osman (J.D. 1983), president, person. sooner—in late March. The quick decision plus the unanimity of the justices Florida Bar. Sepler, a 1984 graduate of UM Law indicate the importance the U.S. Su- and a member of the Law School’s ad- preme Court attached to the issue, junct faculty, argued the case—State of Sepler suggested. In an article about the Florida v. J.L.—in defense of his client, decision, the New York Times noted that, a teenage boy. The State of Florida of the 11 previous criminal cases Family Establishes sought review of a Florida Supreme brought before the U.S. Supreme Court Court decision that Miami-Dade police earlier in the session, all had gone officers acted unconstitutionally when against the defendant. Scholarship in Memory they searched and arrested a 15-year-old boy, identified as J.L., for carrying a con- Writing in support of the Florida Su- cealed weapon. preme Court’s position that a search Of Mariel Spencer based on an anonymous tip that firearms The arrest occurred in 1995 after are present would constitute an excep- Mariel Spencer passed away Dec. 8, Mariel Spencer’s family plans to be- Miami-Dade police received an anony- tion to established rules, Justice Ruth 1999, due to complications associated gin the scholarship with a gift of $2,500, mous telephone tip that several young Bader Ginsburg wrote that “such an with acute leukemia. She is deeply which will be awarded to a student for black males were standing by a bus stop exception would enable any person missed by her family and husband, who the 2000–2001 academic year, followed in front of a pawn shop and that one of seeking to harass another to set in mo- have established a scholarship fund in by similar contributions in each of the them, the one wearing a plaid-looking tion an intrusive, embarrassing police her name at UM Law. following four years. Either prior to or shirt, possessed a gun. The tipster de- search of the targeted person simply by Along with her husband, Kevin during the fifth year of the scholarship, scribed each of the males but gave no placing an anonymous call.” Spencer, she began law school in 1993. the family has pledged to make a gift indication of how he or she knew there A member of the Inter-American Law sufficient to endow the fund at the level was a gun. Other than describing the In a separate concurring opinion, Jus- Review, she graduated cum laude in of no less than $50,000, which will per- subjects and their location, the tip tice Anthony Kennedy wrote that an 1996, then returned to UM Law to work mit the School of Law to award at least provided no predictive or suspicion- anonymous tip might lead to a lawful on an LL.M. degree in taxation, which $2,500 annually in the future. generating details. search if there is supporting reliability, such as specific information that can she received in 1998. She began her ca- Classmates and friends of Mariel Six minutes after being dispatched, help an officer observe a suspect before reer working for PricewaterhouseCoopers Spencer are invited to help endow the two police officers arrived at the bus making a search. in Miami as a state and local tax scholarship; any amounts contributed to stop, found three black males matching consultant. the scholarship fund will be greatly Ginsburg also wrote that some situa- the description and immediately stopped appreciated. For information on how tions, such as a potential bomb, present The Mariel Melissa Saunderson them and frisked their outer clothing. to contribute, please call Kelly Toole, a greater threat to the public and may (Smith) Spencer Scholarship will be Under the plaid shirt, police found a assistant dean for development, on 305- allow the police more leeway for a awarded to a second- or third-year fe- gun. The officers testified that the tip 284-3506. Or, send checks to her search under the Fourth Amendment, male J.D. student or a female LL.M. was the sole basis for making the stop. attention at the Office of Law Devel- which forbids unreasonable searches and student who has at least a 3.0 grade opment and Alumni Relations; The Supreme Court of Florida held seizures. point average, has an interest in prac- that the police lacked reasonable suspi- ticing tax law, and demonstrates University of Miami School of Law; P.O. At UM Law, Sepler coaches the state cion to stop and frisk the subjects. Even financial need. Box 248087; Coral Gables, FL 33124- and national moot court teams and though the plaid-shirted male was later 8087. ? discovered to be a juvenile, police did teaches substantive and practicum appellate law courses. ? not indicate that they knew this at the time of the stop. The Court held that the corroboration of details of identifi- cation does not elevate an anonymous, Save This Date otherwise non-confirmed, tip to reasonable suspicion. Saturday, Nov. 4, 2000—UM Law’s 52nd Annual Homecoming Breakfast “In so holding, the Court elected not In addition to the Breakfast, reunions are being planned for the Classes of ’50, ’55, ’60, ’70, ’75, ’80, ’90 and ’95 to follow a growing trend in federal during Reunion 2000 Weekend, November 2–4. criminal law—and to a lesser extent, state criminal law—recognizing a fire- For more information, or to volunteer for a reunion planning committee, please call Cynthia Sikorski, arms exception to the Fourth director of alumni relations on 305-284-3470, send an e-mail to [email protected], or visit UM Law’s website Amendment,” Sepler pointed out. at www.law.miami.edu. 14 www.law.miami.edu. B ARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Summer 2000 Volume LIII Number 1 Obituaries Prof. Clifford C. Alloway, Homer L. Marlow, J.D. 1950 J.D. 1953

Clifford C. Alloway, who taught at UM Law from 1951 until he retired in Homer Marlow, a 1998 recipient of UM Law’s Alumnus of Distinction Award 1993, died in late October from kidney failure. for his support of the School, died April 12. A constitutional law scholar, he was the author of a text on U.S. constitu- Marlow founded and built into prominence the law firm of Marlow, Connell, tional law and a casebook and articles on Florida constitutional law. Along Valerius, Abrams, Adler & Newman. He specialized in insurance defense with U.S. and Florida constitutional law, he taught evidence and contracts to cases, including the representation of physicians, attorneys, architects and the approximately 14,000 students who took his classes at UM Law. other professional, and his clients included some of the nation’s leading law In 1962, graduating seniors and alumni voted him “Outstanding Teacher of firms. the School of Law,” and the Law Alumni Association honored him with a Throughout his career he was a mentor to many young lawyers. “Distinguished Faculty Member” citation in 1997. Marlow was past chairman of the Florida Bar’s Judicial Nominating Com- Along with his teaching responsibilities, Alloway chaired the School’s cur- mittee and its Grievance Committee. riculum committee for 25 years and was a member of the appointment and In 1942, at age 17, Marlow went to Aviation Mechanics School, joined the tenure, academic standards, and admissions committees. Marine Scout Bomber Squadron 243, and was soon deployed to the South He was faculty advisor to the University of Miami Law Review, faculty repre- Pacific, where he was first a plane captain of a dive bomber and later became sentative on the Board of Trustees, vice chair of the Faculty Senate, and a a rear seat aerial gunner. Among his decorations was the Asian Pacific Rib- member of the Faculty Charter Committee. bon with Three Battle Stars. ? Additionally, he was on the board of directors of the American Civil Liber- ties Union, the Florida Supreme Court Commission on Standards for Jury Instruction in Criminal Cases, and Legal Services of Greater Miami. He was also a consultant to the Commission on Florida Constitutional Law Review and to the Circuit Court Judges Association on Evidence. ? Law School Holds Alumni, Recruitment Events William R. Colson, In Latin America J.D. 1948

William “Bill” Colson, one of the nation’s most successful personal injury attorneys and one of Miami’s most honored citizens, died in October from a heart attack. A champion of justice for minorities, women, and immigrants as well as a highly successful litigator, he received nearly every honor that the nation’s trial lawyers and Miami’s business community could confer on him. In the mid-1960s, while still in his 30s, he was elected president of the 50,000-member American Trial Lawyers Association and, as leader of that organization, lectured in 150 cities, all 50 states and 30 universities. He was a fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, a member of the Inner Circle of Advocates, past president of the Young Lawyers Sec- tion of the Florida Bar Board of Governors, a fellow of the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, and a member of the American Bar Association. His civic involvements also were many, including being president of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce (in 1976–77), a trustee of the Uni- versity of Miami, a member of the Orange Bowl Committee, a member of Governor Askew’s Economic Development Advisory Council, and numerous others. In 1965, as it presented him with an award it has given only once, the American Trial Lawyers Association cited him as “that American lawyer who has made the most significant contribution to the cause of justice for Janet Stearns in Buenos Aires with (at left) Dr. Daniel Castro, from the the ordinary citizen of the United States of America.” law firm of Le Pera and Lessa, who was a visiting professor at UM Law Among his numerous other awards are Outstanding Young Man of Miami in 1986, and Dr. Alfredo Wilensky, a UM Law alumnus (MCL 1972). (1960), Outstanding Young Man of Florida (1961), the Florida Junior Bar’s “Award to the Most Outstanding Past or Present Member” (1966) (from the organization that the American Bar Association cited as the “Most Progres- Initiating a series of alumni and recruit- School, and Dean Horacio Spector of the sive Junior Bar in the U.S. for 1965, the year he was its president), the Leonard ment events to be held around the DiTella Law School, among others. Ring Champion of Justice Award (1995), and the Miami Herald’s Charles globe, Janet Stearns, director of inter- While in Santiago, she spoke with Whited Spirit of Excellence Award (1997). national and foreign law programs, was University of Chile Dean Antonio An enduring testament to his concern for social justice is the “Bill Colson in Argentina and Chile in April to meet Bascuñan and met with law students Scholarship” for African-American students at the University of Miami with UM Law alumni, friends, and po- interested in studying law in the United School of Law. Approximately 20 Colson Scholars already have graduated from tential LL.M. students. States. A reception in Santiago included UM Law and become members of the bar. ? Stearns, who became director in Oc- alumnus Bernardo Nun (MCL, 1971) tober of 1999, is a former visiting and approximately 30 other friends of professor at the University of Chile Law UM law. School. In both Buenos Aires and Santiago, In Buenos Aires, 40 alumni and other Stearns made presentations to major law Rita Peterson friends of the University of Miami gath- firms about UM Law and discussed op- ered for a reception at the Alvear Palace portunities for student and faculty Rita Peterson, former assistant dean for administration at UM Law, died Hotel, which featured a video with exchanges. March 3. She was 81. Dean Dennis Lynch discussing his glo- Alumni outreach and student recruit- bal vision for UM Law. Dean Peterson was the Law School’s first administrator to receive a decanal ment are the major priorities for Stearns appointment. The position was created in 1979 to reflect the responsibilities During her visit, Stearns had the op- in the next year. “UM alumni are our she had acquired over the preceding nine years and to take advantage of her portunity to meet with Mónica Pinto, ambassadors around the world. I look academic secretary of the University of forward to working with our global diplomatic, as well as her administrative, skills. She retired in 1985. ? Buenos Aires Law School, Dean Martín alumni community.” ? Bohmer of the University of Palermo Law www.law.miami.edu. 15 B ARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Summer 2000 Volume LIII Number 1 2000–2001 Officers Law Alumni Association

Youth Museum; Past President, Epilepsy MICHAEL J. HIGER, JD ’85, born District Court, Southern, Middle and President Foundation of So. Fla.; Iron Arrow; Miami Beach, Florida, November 24, Northern Districts of Florida; U.S. Dis- GARY M. CARMAN, JD ’74; Pri- Board, UM Hurricane Club; Founder, 1960; admitted to bar, 1985, Florida, trict Court of Appeals, Eleventh and vate Practice; Miami-Dade County, Friends of the Law School Program in U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. District Federal Circuits; Law Alumni Assn., Palm Beach County, Florida, District of 1992 (Free Law Luncheons in Court Court, Middle District of Florida, U.S. Secretary. Columbia, New York, American and House with Guest Speakers), Law District Court, Southern District of MICHAEL S. PERSE, JD ’96; cum Federal Bar Assns.; Miami Coalition, Alumni Assn., Director. Florida including Trial Bar and U.S. laude, associate, Kluger Peretz Kaplan Treatment, Rehabilitation, and Recov- Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit. & Berlin; practice areas include general ery Task Force; Director, Legal Services Education: University of Florida (BA, Vice President commercial litigation at trial and appel- of Miami-Dade County; Dade Heritage 1982); University of Miami (JD, cum late levels, insurance disputes, insurance Trust; Leadership Miami; Traffic Mag- For Alumni Relations laude, 1985). Executive Editor, Univer- coverage issues and aviation-related istrate, Miami-Dade County Court; sity of Miami Law Review, 1984–1985. TODD S. PAYNE, JD ’89; Zebersky, matters. B.B.A., University of Miami Florida Bar, Judicial Selection Commit- Payne & Kushner, LLP; U.S. District Co-Author: “Florida Provides Safe magna cum laude; editor, University of tee; Federal Bar Association; American Court for Southern and Middle District; Haven for Forum Shoppers,” The Florida Miami Law Review; Member, American, Bankruptcy Institute; Association of Bar Journal, October 1995. “Prejudg- ABA; Florida Bar; Iron Arrow; Past Florida and Miami-Dade County Bar Trial Lawyers of America; Florida Acad- President, UM Broward County ment Interest: Uncertainty and Inequity,” Assns.; United States District Court, emy of Trial Lawyers; Miami-Dade Alumni Association; UM Law Alumni The Florida Bar, Business Law Section, Southern District of Florida; U.S. Dis- County, Florida and New York Trial The Quarterly Report, March 1994; Assn. Director; Member, Board of Di- trict Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Lawyers Assns.; Bankruptcy Bar Asso- rectors UM Law Alumni; Member, “From the Mailroom to the Boardroom; Circuit; Founding Member and Direc- ciation, Southern District of Florida; Strategic Planning Committee; Chair- Reason and the Scope of the Attorney- tor, East Kendall Alliance; Member Director, Fellow, American Bar Foun- man, UM Baseball Golf Tournament, Client Privilege in the Corporate dation; V.P., Palace Condominium and Past President of the Parent’s 1999 and 2000. Context,” The Florida Bar Journal, Association; Law Alumni Assn. Officer Association, Canterbury School, Uni- January 1995. Participant, Leadership versity of Miami; Law Alumni and Director. Miami, 1996. Board of Directors, Uni- Association, Presidential Appointment. Co-Vice Presidents versity of Miami Law School Alumni President-Elect For Class Agents Association. Florida Liaison, Business Litigation Committee, Defense Re- Secretary CARROLL J. KELLY, JD ’89; DAVID STEPHEN HOPE, JD ’96; search Institute. Member: American Bar County Court Judge, Eleventh Judicial FRED HARRISON, JD ’67; Practic- cum laude, Assistant Miami-Dade Association (Member: Intellectual Circuit; Roger Sorino Award; Marshall ing attorney, 33 years experience in both County Attorney, practice areas encom- Property Section; Litigation Section; Award; Iron Arrow; Student Bar Assn. Plaintiff’s and Defendant’s trial practice pass litigation, finance and municipal Intellectual Property Committee); The Award; PAD Scholarship; FAWL Schol- in personal injury, insurance and com- bonds, housing, code enforcement, zon- Florida Bar (Member: Business Law Sec- arship; UM Law Service Scholarship; mercial litigation. Martindale & Hubbel ing and personnel; B.S.F., Princeton tion; Intellectual Property Committee; Moot Court Board; Bar & Gavel; Presi- “BV” rating. University of Miami, BA, University; M.B.A., The Wharton Chair, Business Litigation Committee, dent, Student Bar Assn.; Miami-Dade 1962; University of Miami School of School, University of Pennsylvania; 1997–1998); American Intellectual County Bar Association, Past-President, Law, JD ’67; post-graduate study, Suf- President, Society of Bar & Gavel; Vice Property Law Association; The Associa- Young Lawyers Section, Chair, Meetings folk University, National Academy of Chairperson, Orientation; Treasurer, tion of Trial Lawyers of America; and Programs; Law Week; Domestic Advocacy, 1977. Member, American Caribbean Law Students Association; Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers; Violence and Judicial Reception Com- Bar Association; International Medical Member, Moot Court Board, Business Florida Bankers Association. Fellow, mittees; Florida Assn. for Women Society of Paraplegia; Broward County Law Journal, Yearbook of International American Bar Foundation. Lawyers, Director; United Way of Mi- Guardianship Association; American Law and Student Life Committee; Judicature Society; Phi Delta Phi Legal ami-Dade County—Fund Allocation Member, Princeton University Alumni Committee; Put Something Back Pro Co-Vice Presidents Fraternity. Miami-Dade County Youth Council, 1994–1998; Law Alumni Fair, member and judge; Gold Coast Bono Project Steering Committee; Assn. Executive Board. For Placement AFTL; DCTLA; Leadership Miami; Railroad Museum, Vice President and Law Alumni Assn. Officer and Direc- ELIZABETH S. KATZEN, JD ’88; HON. STEPHEN BROWN, JD, Treasurer, 1986–89; Board of Directors, tor, 1989 to present. Katzen & Katzen, P.A.; Assistant Fed- ’72; U.S. Magistrate Judge, Southern 1986 to date. University of Miami Law eral Public Defender for the Southern District of Florida; admitted to U.S. Alumni Association, Class Agent 1985 Immediate District of Florida; Assistant Public De- Supreme Court; U.S. Court of Appeals; to date and Board of Directors, 1999 to fender, Law Offices of Bennett H. U.S. District Courts (Southern and date. Past President Brummer; former Director and current Middle Districts of Florida); Trial Bar— Member, Miami-Dade County Chapter, Southern District of Florida; Florida Treasurer DET H. JOKS, JD ’72; Law Office of Florida Association for Women Law- Supreme Court. Education: Florida Det H. Joks, P.A.; Florida Bar and South ALBERT A. CARTENUTO III, JD yers; Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers; State University (BS, 1968); Founder Miami-Kendall Bar Associations; Past ’90; Law Firm of Albert A. Cartenuto Miami-Dade County Bar Association; and President, AEPI Fraternity; Univer- President, South Dade Bar Association; III, P.A.; University of Miami, BA, Law Alumni Association, Vice Presi- sity of Miami (JD, 1972). UM Law Past-President Attorneys’ Real Estate 1982, received Regular Army commis- dent, Class Agents; former Florida Bar Review; President, Wig & Robe Honor Council of Miami-Dade County; Past- sion as an officer in the U.S. Army Grievance Committee member and Society; Vice President and Senator, President, Speaker of the Year and Transportation Corps; University of Vice Chair; Chair, Speakers Council, Student Bar Association; Delta Theta Advanced Designation. South Dade Miami School of Law, JD, 1990. Ad- Student Bar Association. Phi, Scholarship Key; Bar & Gavel. Toastmasters; Chamber South; Found- mitted to practice before the United Adjunct Professor, UM School of Law ing Trustee, German-American Trade States District Court, Southern District (1983–84); Chairman, Florida Bar Council; United States Supreme Court; Co-Vice Presidents of Florida; United States Court of Ap- Grievance Committee (4 years); Florida U.S. Court of Appeals; U.S. District peals, Eleventh Circuit; United States For Fundraising Bar Auto Insurance Committee, Vice Court; Recipient of “To Catch a Thief Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, Chairman; Miami-Dade County and Award”; Attorneys’ Title Insurance MICHAEL R. BLYNN, JD ’77, Law and the United States Supreme Court. Florida Bar Fee Arbitration Committee Fund, Inc.; Miami-Dade County Pro- Offices of Michael R. 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2000–2001 Board of Directors 1953 M. Sam Jennings CLASS OF 1950 pressman_fuentes. htm and can be ordered 1954 Douglas D. Batchelor in paperback from bookstores. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE The Class of 1950 will hold its 50th 1955 Richard E. Gerstein President Reunion Celebration this fall. Members CLASS OF 1960 Gary M. Carman, JD ’74 *1956 Raymond G. Nathan of the class who are interested in helping President-Elect *1957 Marco Loffredo plan the event for their class should The Class of 1960 will hold its 40th Hon. Carroll J. Kelly, JD ’89 1958 Arthur C. Massey, Jr. contact Cynthia Sikorski, director of Reunion Celebration this fall. Members Vice Presidents 1959 James H. Earnest alumni relations, 305-284-4935, with of the class who are interested in helping LAA Board Liaison 1960 Helen Tanos Hope their ideas and suggestions. plan the event for their class should Lewis B. Freeman, JD ’74 *1961 Karl J. Leib, Jr. contact Cynthia Sikorski, director of Alumni Relations 1962 Herbert P. Benn CLASS OF 1953 alumni relations, 305-284-4935, with their 1963 Armando Maraio ideas and suggestions. Todd S. Payne, JD ’89 IRA H. WEXLER is a New York Supreme Class Agent, Co-Chairs 1964 Robert L. Koeppel Court justice in Mineola, N.Y., where he CLASS OF 1963 David S. Hope, JD ’96 *1965 William T. Kruglak II has served as supervising judge of the Elizabeth S. Katzen, JD ’88 1966 Max M. Hagen district court and county court of Nassau ARDEN M. SIEGENDORF is the Fund Raising, Co-Chairs 1967 Lawrence V. Hastings County since 1995. recipient of this year’s seventh Excellence Michael Blynn, JD ’77 1968 Leland E. Stansell, Jr. in Conflict Resolution Award, presented Michael J. Higer, JD ’85 1969 Harold P. Barkas CLASS OF 1954 by the Florida Conflict Resolution Placement, Co-Chair 1970 Thomas E. Lee, Jr. Consortium. This award recognizes the Hon. Stephen Brown, JD ’72 DONALD D. ROWE contributions made by outstanding 1971 Arden M. Siegendorf served as a lecturer on the Regional Programs 1972 Charles J. Crowder mediators in resolving public disputes. Michael Perse, JD ’86 UM Law faculty from Siegendorf is recognized as one of the 1973 John Gale 1956–1960 and taught most accomplished circuit court mediators Alvin F. Lindsay, JD ’91 *1974 Thomas Davison III Secretary courses in legal method, and has developed a well-deserved 1975 Donald I. Bierman research and writing and Fred A. Harrison, Jr., JD ’67 reputation for helping to settle complex *1976 A. John Goshgarian brief writing and oral public disputes relating to growth, Treasurer argument. Heeding a call to Albert A. A. Cartenuto III, JD ’90 *1977 Sidney M. Weaver, Jr. development, transportation and environ- *1978 Edward J. Atkins full-time service, Rowe entered the mental issues. The Conflict Resolution Immediate Past President ministry in 1961, from which he retired in Det H. Joks, JD ’72 1979 Neal R. Sonnett Consortium also recognized Siegendorf’s 1985. He was involved in various minis- work as chair of the Mediation Grievance LAA Board Advisor 1980 Thomas R. Spencer, Jr. tries, including world missions 1981 Theodore Klein Committee of the Florida Bar. Based in Georgina A. Angones administration, fund raising and church Tallahassee, Siegendorf has served as an 1982 George R. Harper Administrative Liaisons academia. In the latter activity, Rowe was arbitrator and mediator since 1989. In Dean Jeannette F. Hausler, JD ’53 1983 Rhea P. Grossman associated for many years with Lee 1992, he founded and became president of Associate Dean William P. 1984 Charles Kantor University, assisting in developing an Tallahassee Mediation Center, Inc., after VanderWyden, JD ’84 1985 Hon. A. Jay Cristol accredited department of business, where serving in Miami-Dade County as both a Directors 1986 J.B. Spence he served as chairman. In 1976, he was circuit court and county court judge. Three-year term 1987 Joseph P. Klock, Jr. elected to serve as a delegate to the Tennessee State Constitutional Conven- 1988 Emerson Allsworth CLASS OF 1964 Esther Blynn, JD ’86 tion, where he served as chair of the style *1989 Samuel S. Smith Gayle Miller, JD ’82 and drafting committee and wrote a DAVID N. NISSENBERG introduced the Rick H. Strul, JD ’98 1990 Todd Aronovitz significant portion of that state’s constitu- second edition of his book, The Law of Theodore R. Walters, JD ’93 1991 Benedict P. Kuehne tion. Rowe resides in Lakeland, where he Commercial Trucking: Damages to Persons David A. Wolfson, JD ’72 1992 George T. Yoss enjoys reading the Class Notes section of and Property, published by Lexis Publishing Erica N. Wright, JD ’97 1993 Alan Atlas the Barrister. He reports, “It is marvelous last year. It is widely used throughout the Two-year term 1994 Ronald Ravikoff to observe the great contributions and country by attorneys involved in truck Spencer M. Aronfeld, JD ’91 1995 Joseph Lowe successes of my former colleagues and accident litigation. In the past three Robin J. King, JD ’84 1996 Jay Martus students.” years, Nissenberg has presented CLE David Kobrin, JD ’75 1997 Richard Milstein seminars on this subject matter in 40 Bruce Lyons, JD ’67 1998 Harlan Gladstein CLASS OF 1955 states. He is a partner in Truck Injury Lawyers, LLP, a national firm based in Carlos Martinez, JD ’88 1999 Det H. Joks Detra P. Shaw, JD ’94 The Class of 1955 will hold its 45th San Diego that represents victims of One-year term Reunion Celebration this fall. Members catastrophic truck crashes. He can be Marjorie Baron, JD ’92 * deceased (15) of the class who are interested in helping reached at 800-292-5855. plan the event for their class should Angela Cartolano, JD ’90 contact Cynthia Sikorski, director of CLASS OF 1965 Gennieve Henriques, JD ’92 alumni relations, 305-284-4935, with Lewis Levey, JD ’86 their ideas and suggestions. BENNETT H. Steven C. Marks, JD ’85 BRUMMER, public Marva L. Wiley, JD ’95 LAA Sets Up defender for Miami-Dade CLASS OF 1957 Presidential Appointment County, was honored by Marjorie Shoureas, JD ’93 STEVE LACHEEN celebrated 42 years of the Association of Judicial Directors System of practice with publication of Annals of Retarded Citizens of The Hon. Stanford Blake, JD ’73 Justice, relating some of his most interest- Florida for his long- The Hon. Beth F. Bloom, JD ’88 Class Directors ing cases, including two victories in the standing legal and social The Hon. Stephen T. Brown, JD ’72 United States Supreme Court. Lacheen advocacy for people with mental retarda- practices in Philadelphia. tion and development disabilities. On The Hon. Philip Cook, JD ’52 The Law Alumni Association has The Hon. A. Jay Cristol, JD ’59 SONIA PRESSMAN March 30—at a conference of more than created a system of “class directors” in 300 attorneys, judges, social workers and The Hon. Martin R. Dishowitz, JD ’75 which alumni can serve their classes FUENTES has written her memoirs, Eat First—You police officers from throughout Florida The Hon. Pedro Echarte, JD ’79 by acting as primary contact persons, The Hon. Margarita G. Esquiroz, JD ’74 Don’t Know What They’ll and the U.S.—Miami-Dade Mayor Alex overseeing the class agent volunteers, Penelas issued a proclamation honoring The Hon. Alejandro E. Ferrer, JD ’86 Give You: The Adventures of gathering current information about an Immigrant Family and him as a national leader in violence The Hon. Eugene J. Fierro, JD ’67 prevention. Last October, as part of The Hon. Ronald M. Friedman, JD ’67 classmates, and disseminating informa- Their Feminist Daughter. tion about the Law School. Written with warmth and National Crime Prevention Month, The Hon. Norman S. Gerstein, JD ’73 Brummer also addressed more than 300 The Hon. Carroll J. Kelly, JD ’89 Alumni interested in serving as class humor, her memoirs reveal how she went from being a five-year-old immigrant from educators and business leaders in Miami The Hon. Alan Kornblum, JD ’54 directors or class agents for their classes about his innovative Anti-Violence The Hon. Jeffrey Rosinek, JD ’74 should contact David Hope, J.D. ’96 at Germany in 1934 to becoming the first woman attorney in the Office of the Initiative (AVI). The AVI consists of The Hon. Michael Samuels, JD ’72 305-375-5623 or [email protected] General Counsel at the Equal Employ- numerous partnerships between the Public PAST PRESIDENTS or Elizabeth Katzen, J.D. ’88, at 305- ment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Defender’s Office and governmental and *1942 James E. Abras 596-2000 or [email protected]. in 1965, one of the founders of the community organizations that are directed toward identifying clients’ problems and 1943 Samuel I. Silver Class directors already appointed National Organization for Women addressing them effectively. 1944 Dixie H. Chastain include: (NOW) in 1966, the highest paid woman at the headquarters of two multinational *1945 Amos Benjamin RICHARD N. FRIEDMAN spearheaded Class of 2000 corporations, GTE and TRW, and an the successful fight in opposition to a *1948 Victor Levine Mario Garcia international speaker on women’s rights proposed 1 percent increase in the sales *1949 David P. Phillips 305-349-5830 for the United States Information Agency. tax for Miami-Dade County only, prima- *1950 John H. Boyer [email protected] The book will be published soon; informa- rily to be used to expand the Metrorail 1951 Louis M. Jepeway tion is available from http: www.err Class of 1999 system. The special referendum vote on *1952 Victor Levine aticimpuls.com/~feminismhtmlsonia_ Marilen Marnett July 29, 1999, turned out 28 percent of the (Continued on page 24) www.law.miami.edu. miami.edu. 17 B ARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Summer 2000 Volume LIII Number 1 registered voters, who voted their the University of Southern Panel of Arbitrators for Interna- climbed the Machame Route to MICHAEL SALES is vice landslide disapproval of the California. tional Centre for Settlement of Uhuru (Freedom) Peak, which president, associate general mayor’s Penny Tax Plan by a 68 Investment Disputes (ICSID) at 19,344 feet is the summit of counsel and general patent percent to 32 percent margin. CLASS OF 1970 arbitration, she is on the Ameri- Tanzania’s Mt. Kilimanjaro and counsel at Hughes Electronics in In 1976, in 1990 and in 1991, can Arbitration Association’s the “Roof of Africa.” Bagatti El Segundo, Calif. Friedman also successfully led The Class of 1970 will hold its international list of arbitrators was named “Photographer of overwhelming voter opposition 30th Reunion Celebration this and is a member of the Secretary the Year” for the fifth time by MARTIN W. WASSERMAN to proposed 1 percent sales tax fall. Members of the class who are of State’s committee on private Kendall Camera Club, and she is partner at the Miami law firm increases in Miami-Dade County interested in helping plan the international law. also won “Best Black & White of Zack Kosnitsky, where he for Metrorail. Also, in 1987, event for their class should Print of the Year” for her image practices real estate law. He was Friedman led the successful contact Cynthia Sikorski, HENRY “Grasshopper.” formerly a partner at the Miami statewide fight to repeal the director of alumni relations, 305- LATIMER, Beach law firm of Galbut Galbut 284-4935, with their ideas and managing partner Menin & Wasserman. infamous services sales tax CLASS OF 1976 statute, which became effective suggestions. of Eckert July 1, 1987. After a ferocious Seamans, has The Honorable BONNIE LANO CLASS OF 1978 been awarded the RIPPINGILLE was selected as a political battle, the governor and CLASS OF 1971 PAUL FAHRENKOPF joined the the legislature capitulated to Margaret Roach Woman of Impact by the Com- ROBERT A. SCHATZMAN is law firm of Barnes & Thornburg public opinion and repealed the Humanitarian munity Coalition for Women’s partner with the Miami law firm in the Washington, D.C., office tax on Dec. 11, 1987. Award by the Urban League of History for 1999 for making a of Adorno & Zeder, where he after 20 years with the U.S. Friedman serves his profes- Broward County for providing significant impact through specializes in bankruptcy and Patent and Trademark Office sional athlete clients as CEO of pro bono legal services for clients community service and profes- insolvency matters. He was (PTO). The firm has over 300 All-Star Sports Agents, Inc. who could not afford representa- sional activities that address formerly a shareholder at the attorneys, with offices in India- Friedman is also known as “The tion and for his contributions women’s issues and needs. She Miami firm of Schantz Schatzman napolis, Chicago, Washington, Singing Attorney” and is a toward enhancing race relations was honored at a reception at the Aaronson & Perlman. South Bend, Elkhart and Fort songwriter and record producer. in Broward County. Latimer is a Historical Museum of Southern fellow of the American College of Florida on Feb. 29, 2000. Her Wayne. While at the PTO, On July 4, 1996, All-Star Music Fahrenkopf was most recently Corporation released a music CLASS OF 1973 Trial Lawyers and a member of portrait and biography will the International Association of become part of the official records the trademark spokesperson, the album in CD and cassette STUART GROSSMAN’s name Defense Counsel. of the Historical Museum. administrator for communications formats, For Love of Country, was written into the script of and quality in the office of the consisting of 15 of America’s CBS’s “Jag,” on its May 2, 2000 ALAN assistant commissioner for CLASS OF 1974 greatest patriotic songs, per- episode. One of the show’s ROSENTHAL trademarks, and the trademarks formed by Friedman, and a writers, best selling novelist, JOHN BASTEK retired as joined the law curator of the Patent and 28-page booklet written by him PAUL LEVINE, JD ’73, wrote captain from the U.S. Coast firm of Adorno & Trademark Museum. Prior to containing the history and lyrics Grossman’s name into the script Guard after 30 years of service. Zeder, P.A., as a that, he was a trademark manag- of each song. A portion of the as an attorney who represents a He now works as vice president shareholder in the ing attorney for 12 years and the proceeds from the sale of the submarine salvage company. of the International Council of commercial trademark examining attorney for album is donated to the Ameri- Grossman and Levine are Cruise Lines in Washington, D.C. litigation depart- over three years. He and his wife, can Legion, the Veterans of longtime friends from UM Law. ment. He specializes in civil Terry Holtzman, now a judge with Foreign Wars, the American Red Grossman practices at Grossman GARY CARMAN, a senior litigation, intellectual property, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Cross, Boy Scouts of America, litigation partner and head of the and Roth, P.A., a firm with offices domestic relations, banking and Board, reside in Alexandria, Va. and Girl Scouts of America. Two litigation group of the Miami in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Boca lending issues, communications new music albums performed by Raton and Sarasota. The firm office of Broad and Cassel, will The Honorable MICHAEL E. Friedman are currently in serve as president of the Law law, libel, privacy and First concentrates in the areas of JONES authored the book, Sports production. Alumni Association in 2000– Amendment matters for broad- medical malpractice, vehicular Law, published in 1999 under the 2001. Carman practices in the cast and print media. He is also a negligence, admiralty and Prentice-Hall imprint of Simon areas of civil trials, arbitrations certified family mediator and has CLASS OF 1967 maritime, aviation products been an active volunteer for 30 & Schuster. Judge Jones is also a and lobbying and negotiation of tenured full professor of legal The Honorable liability law, as well as insurance years with the March of Dimes corporate transactions. He lobbies studies and economics at the EUGENE J. consumer rights litigation and Birth Defects Foundation and the before Miami-Dade County and University of Massachusetts— FIERRO received commercial litigation. Miami-Dade Public Health Trust. the City of Miami Commission Lowell, where he teaches sports the “Alumnus of He resides in Pinecrest. GEORGE KNOX was recently for various corporations regarding law. He sits on the Salem District Distinction named to the board of directors zoning, retail space issues at Court in Salem, N.H. Award” from the of the Trust for Public Land, a Miami International Airport, CLASS OF 1977 UM Law Alumni nonprofit land conservation JIM LANARD formed a partner- and other matters. WILLIAM RICHARD BLOOM Association at the organization that specializes in ship with former New Jersey has the same first name, middle 51st Annual Homecoming conservation real estate and RICHARD C. governor Jim Florio to assist initial and last name as Breakfast, which featured Justice applies its expertise in negotia- MILSTEIN was clients in the areas of government WILLIAM ROBERT BLOOM, R. Fred Lewis of the Supreme tions, public finance, and law to recently honored and community relations, JD’77, who practices in Miami. Court of Florida as its keynote protect land for public use and by the Miami- strategic planning and communi- William Richard Bloom moved speaker. Judge Fierro has served enjoyment. Headquartered in San Dade County Bar cations. The firm, FLG Strategies, to Portland Ore., immediately in the civil, criminal, family and Francisco and with 28 offices Association and LLC, and the Florio Group, LLC, following his graduation from appellate divisions of the 11th nationwide, including Tallahassee “Put Something have offices in Philadelphia. UM Law, where he practiced Judicial Circuit. He is administra- and Miami, the Trust has helped Back” pro bono Lanard resides in Cherry Hill, N.J. tor of “Put Something Back” and protect more than one million program for his continued family law until earlier this year, has authored several legal acres of land for public use. Knox dedication to public service. His when he hung up his briefcase. ELIZABETH K. RUSSO and publications, including The is currently of counsel to the name is attached to one of the He is now back in school full- Philip D. Parrish have formed the Lawyer’s Trial Book—A Guide to Miami firm of Adorno and Zeder, service awards, the Richard C. time in pursuit of a master’s Russo Parrish Appellate Firm in the 1977 Amendments to the Rules where he specializes in public Milstein Excellence Award, degree in computer science and Miami. Russo is managing of Florida Civil Procedure. finance, land use and local presented at the 11th annual an MBA. He expects to learn the partner, and Parish was formerly government law. He has been an awards luncheon. Milstein is a skills necessary to engage in an partner with Stephens, Lynn, BRUCE M. LYONS is the chair active volunteer in Miami for former recipient of the Tobias interesting and challenging Klein & McNichols. of the ABA Criminal Justice Simon Award presented by the second career in the high-tech many years, serving on the boards MARCELA Council. His practice, Lyons & Florida Supreme Court, and he industry. His studies should be of United Way of Miami-Dade “MARCY” B. Sanders, Chartered, is based in practices at the Miami office of completed prior to the class County, the Greater Miami STRAS joined Fort Lauderdale. Akerman Senterfitt. reunion in 2002, at which time Chamber of Commerce and the Washington, Florida Memorial College. he expects to renew friendships with his law school classmates. D.C., office of CLASS OF 1968 CLASS OF 1975 CAROLYN B. LAMM, partner Thompson THOMAS E. CHAMBERS in the Washington, D.C., law The Class of 1975 will hold its The Honorable JOHN A. Coburn, LLP, as recently retired from practice in firm of White & Case, was 25th Reunion Celebration this HOUSTON serves as a federal partner in the Miami-Dade County. He now elected to the council of the fall. Members of the class who are magistrate in the U.S. District firm’s immigration and interna- resides in Fall Branch, Tenn. American Law Institute (ALI) interested in helping plan the Court for the Southern District tional trade practice. Her of California, where the court’s background includes more than The Honorable STANLEY M. for an interim term until the event for their class should Institute’s 2000 annual meeting, busy docket is largely driven by 20 years in business immigration, GOLDSTEIN was elected judge contact Cynthia Sikorski, when her name will be submitted director of alumni relations, 305- immigration cases. Before his import-export international trade in 1983 and became the nation’s appointment last year, Judge issues and customs law. She has first “drug court” judge in 1989. with the recommendation that 284-4935, with their ideas and she be elected by the membership suggestions. Houston served for 17 years in lobbied and advised on trade There are now approximately 600 the U.S. Attorney’s office in San legislation and negotiated and such courts in the United States. to a regular term. Her practice concentrates in international, JUDE BAGATTI Diego. drafted international business Judge Goldstein retired in is a licensed agreements. Thompson Coburn commercial, arbitration and trade The Honorable ERNEST G. December 1998. massage therapist has 272 attorneys nationwide, matters, and she has substantial MAYO is judge of the municipal in Miami. In May with offices in St. Louis, Mo.; J. MICHAEL KELLY has a experience in federal court court of Warren, R.I., and is also 1999, she Washington, D.C.; Billings, Mt.; successful family practice, Kelly litigation, administrative law, and assistant professor of legal studies & Hammers, the Divorce Firm, government contracts. Lamm has completed a two- and Belleville, Ill. year certificate at Johnson & Wales University in in Santa Monica, Calif., where served as counsel in many Providence. JEFFREY A. TRINZ joined the he preaches the gospel of “posi- significant international arbitra- program in spiritual companionship at St. litigation practice group in the tive divorce.” He also teaches tions. She was appointed by Miami office of Akerman, courses in the business of law at President Clinton to the U.S. Thomas University in Miami, and in August of last year successfully Senterfitt & Eidson, P.A., after 18 www.law.miami.edu. B ARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Summer 2000 Volume LIII Number 1 over four years as associate ABIGAIL WATTS- CLASS OF 1981 Anaheim, Calif. She resides in alumnus, ROBERT C. MEYER, regional director of the American FITZGERALD left the law firm Marina del Rey. who handles bankruptcy and Israel Public Affairs Committee. of Steel Hector & Davis, LLP, to BRUCE A. taxation matters, to purchase the JAMES SILVER joined Feldman He resides in Pembroke Pines start a corporate practice for the BLITMAN is building located at 2223 Coral Gale & Weber as a partner in the with his wife, Marilyn, and their new Miami office of Hunton & president of the Way, where they have their Miami firm’s bankruptcy practice. son, Noah. Williams, a Richmond, Va., firm. Florida Academy separate law firms. Gregory took He was formerly a partner at The Miami office of the firm has of Professional over the handling of defending all Mediators, a McDermott, Will & Emery. CLASS OF 1979 12 lawyers. Watts-Fitzgerald has workers’ compensation cases in done much work for the National professional the State of Florida for AMS Staff HOWARD BERLIN, managing Football League on their stadium association CLASS OF 1983 Leasing out of Dallas, Tex., and shareholder of the law firm of organized to facilitate the agreements and represented the MICHAEL B. AXMAN is Pacesetter Adjustment Company, Kluger, Peretz, Kaplan & Berlin, exchange of knowledge, NFL in local negotiations for partner at the Miami firm of headquartered in Baton Rouge, P.A., and the chair of its bank- information and ideas among Super Bowl XXXIII in Miami last Adorno & Zeder, where he La. This has provided him with ruptcy and creditors’ rights professionals in the field of January. specializes in taxation. an opportunity to handle cases in department, has served as chair of mediation and alternative dispute many different jurisdictions and the 4000-member Business Law BRIAN ZIEGLER is justice for resolution, and to promote the LISA C. BERRY is general to appear before various judges Section of the Florida Bar. Berlin the village of Woodsburgh, N.Y. process of mediation as an counsel at Juniper Networks, Inc., within the workers’ compensation has concentrated his law practice He is a corporate partner at the effective and efficient tool for a Mountainview, Calif., firm system. If any classmates are in in the areas of bankruptcy and East Meadow law firm of dispute resolution. He is a engaged in Internet infrastructure the area, both Gregory and Meyer creditors’ rights since 1980 and Certilman Balin Adler & certified county, family circuit and solutions. She resides in Saratoga. invite them to stop by. has represented corporate debtors, Hyman, LLP, where he provides federal mediator with offices in secured lenders, creditors’ counsel to corporations, partner- Miami, Pembroke Pines, Fort MICHAEL DENNIS, after MOHAMED A. TUMI (LL.M. in committees and individual ships and limited liability Lauderdale, Boca Raton, and practicing law for 13 years, Comparative Law) is an attorney creditors in various proceedings as companies in all areas of law. Palm Beach County. fulfilled a life-long dream of and legal consultant with the firm well as out-of-court workouts and A lifelong resident of the five owning and operating a summer of Moh’d Tumi & Partners in debt restructuring negotiations. towns area, Ziegler resides in DENNIS C. KAINEN is president camp for children, Spring Tripoli, Libya. After leaving UM He has extensive experience in Woodsburgh with his wife, of the Miami-Dade County Bar Mountain Camp in Lower Law, Tumi received an LL.M. business reorganization proceed- Andrea, and their daughters, Jeri, Association. He practices at Gwynedd, Pa. with highest honors from George Carly and Ali. Certilman Balin Weisberg and Kainen in Miami, Washington University. ings and has successfully CAROL L. SCHOFFEL FABER Adler & Hyman, known also as concentrating in tax controversy reorganized several publicly is partner in the Miami office of “The Personal Lawyers with the and criminal defense. owned enterprises. He is a Akerman Senterfitt, where she CLASS OF 1984 Firm Commitment,” has grown resident of Bal Harbor. JEFFREY MARCUS was specializes in real estate law. She into one of Long Island’s largest DANIEL F. BEASLEY recently appointed assistant general was formerly a shareholder with ROBIN S. BUCKNER is partner full-service law firms, with more moved from Miami, after 14 years at Buckner & Shifrin, P.A., an counsel of Hay Group, Inc., a Perlman & Faber. with Fowler, White, Burnett, than 60 attorneys. management consulting firm AV-rated firm established in PATRICIA KIMBALL Hurley, Banick & Strictroot, P.A., 1991, focusing on insurance headquartered in Philadelphia to join the firm of Lanier Ford CLASS OF 1980 with offices worldwide. Marcus FLETCHER is partner in the coverage and defense litigation Miami firm of Zack Kosnitsky Shaver & Payne, P.C., in Hunts- and matrimonial law. She The Class of 1980 will be the is responsible for contracts and ville, Ala. This move places him, intellectual property, as well as where she specializes in real estate received the Ray H. Pearson honored class at Homecoming matters. his wife, Tammy, and their two Guardian Ad Litem Award from 2000, holding its 20th Reunion counseling the E-business unit. boys, Adam and Luke, closer to the family court bench of the Celebration. Members of the He is married with two sons, ages JEFFREY GILBERT, a share- their extended family and a 11th Judicial Circuit, and she has class who are interested in 4 and 2, and resides in Villanova, holder in the litigation family farm. Beasley continues to taught several seminars and helping plan the event for their Pa. department in the Fort Lauder- practice civil litigation. workshops in civil litigation and class should contact Cynthia dale office of Greenberg Traurig, pro bono guardian ad litem work. Sikorski, director of alumni CLASS OF 1982 P.A., was appointed to the board IAN COMISKY participated in relations, 305-284-4935, with MARK R. ANTONELLI was of trustees for the Jewish Commu- HOWARD A. KUSNICK (LL.M. their ideas and suggestions. nity Foundation of the Jewish several institutes elected 33rd president of the ’79) has been reelected to serve Federation of Broward County and professional on the board of directors and JOY A. BARTMON received the Florida Defense Lawyers Associa- meetings: the tion at their annual meeting last and reelected for a second year elected to the executive commit- Florida Bar President’s Pro Bono as vice president of the Jewish 16th annual September. He practices at the tee of the Broward Alliance. Service Award on February 4 in Museum of Florida. The mission National Institute Kusnick has his own firm in Fort a ceremony before the Florida law firm of Gaebe, Murphy, on Criminal Tax Mullen & Antonelli, with offices of the foundation is to build an Lauderdale. Supreme Court. After seven years endowment that helps establish Fraud last November in Washing- of practice in pension, tax and in Coral Gables and West Palm ton, and in December in San The Honorable CINDY S. Beach. a permanent emergency fund for administrative law, she became world Jewry and preserves Jewish Francisco and the Bankers’ LEDERMAN received the 1999 Palm Beach County’s first Hotline 6th annual Security William E. Gladstone Award at a JEFFREY S. BENJAMIN is culture and education. Gilbert guardian ad litem program partner in Roth, Rousso and practices commercial litigation, Officers Workshop in May. In gathering in Orlando of nearly attorney, providing representa- February, Comisky appeared and Benjamin, P.A., where he is head complex commercial foreclosures, 1000 judicial leaders and those tion to children in legal testified at a hearing regarding involved in children’s cases of the litigation division. The defense of lender liability claims, proceedings. Bartmon has firm has offices in South Miami receiverships, probate and estate proposed money laundering statewide. Florida Supreme recruited, trained and supervised legislation before the Subcommit- and Aventura and specializes in law and has represented invest- Court Justice Major B. Harding 50 pro bono attorneys and has tee on Crime of the House of and Governor Jeb Bush, in personal injury, commercial ment advisors in SEC volunteered many hours annually litigation, immigration, real estate enforcement actions and SEC Representatives Judiciary presenting the award, noted Judge to the Legal Aid Society of Palm Committee in February. Comisky and business law. JULIAN R. and NASD registered corpora- Lederman’s vast experience and Beach County. She practices is a partner in the law firm of her reputation in leading the BENJAMIN, JD ’49, Jeff’s father, tions in administrative and court family law with her husband, is of counsel to the firm. Jeff is proceedings. Blank Rome Comisky & efforts to address and solve the Richard, in Boca Raton. They McCauley, LLP, where he married to Donna and has three growing needs and impact of have two daughters, ages 10 The Hon. WENDELL GRAHAM concentrates his practice in the children in the courts. daughters, twins Hailey and and 14. Rachel, 5 ½, and Sarah, 2. was appointed in 1994 by area of white collar criminal ANNETTE STAR Governor Lawton Chiles as defense of corporations and ANDREW CAVERLY has ERIC BUERMANN was ap- county court judge for Miami- individuals, including criminal LUSTGARTEN and her husband opened a practice in Andover, relocated five years ago to pointed by the Republican Party Dade County. He has served in and civil tax litigation. Comisky Mass., specializing in antitrust of Florida as its first full-time the civil and criminal divisions, is a former assistant U.S. Attor- beautiful Sedona, Ariz., from and trade regulation. He had Mount Dora, Fla. She commutes general counsel. Buermann has as well as on temporary assign- ney for the Southern District of previously been head of the been active in Republican politics ment to the circuit court in the Florida and practices in the daily to Flagstaff, where she Federal Trade Commission’s New practices family law and govern- since 1975 on both the state and civil, criminal and juvenile Philadelphia and Boca Raton England regional office and a national levels, most recently courts. After leaving UM Law, offices of the firm. He is co- ment law at Mangum, Wall, trial attorney at the antitrust Stoops & Warden. The couple serving in the 1994 and 1998 he served in the State Attorney’s author of Tax Fraud & Evasion, a division of the Department of campaigns of Governor Jeb Bush. Office under Janet Reno from two-volume treatise, and is a have their first grandchild, Joshua Justice in Washington. Alexander Book. He previously served for six years 1983 to 1988, followed by solo member of the American College HOWARD S. MITCHELL is as commissioner and vice-chair of private practice until 1994. He of Tax Counsel. CHRISTINA M. O’NEILL the Florida Elections Commission married Janice Fields of Nassau, currently CEO of the Jamaica JEROLD P. DORNBUSH was resides in Laconia, N.H., where Lottery Company, Ltd., now one in Tallahassee, enforcing Florida’s Bahamas, in 1997, who teaches at she has served the surrounding elections and campaign finance the Cushman School in Miami. elected partner of Dornbush of the most successful lotteries in Mensch Mandelstam & Schaeffer, communities in the judiciary. the Caribbean. Mitchell prac- laws. He had also been in private She has a daughter from a former From 1987 to the present, she has practice in Miami, where he marriage, Kristen, age 10, and LLP, effective Jan.1, 2000, ticed as an attorney for 25 years specializing in real estate and served as probate judge in Belkrap and established the firm of remains on the boards of various Graham has two sons from a County, and since 1993 she has business, community, and former marriage, Robert Scott corporate law. The Manhattan Mitchell Henson & Co., to firm is a general practice firm been the presiding justice. She which he remains a consultant. charitable organizations. Graham, 13, and Kyle Foster has also served as acting justice in Graham, 11. specializing in corporate and He co-authored “Doing Business ANA LANDA-GOLDBERG is commercial matters. Dornbush the Rockingham County Probate in Jamaica” for the Centre for Court and as family court judge in in-house counsel for Aerolease WILLIAM E. GREGORY has resides in East Hills, N.Y. International Legal Studies in International, Inc., an aircraft Grafton County. “I would like to been practicing workers’ compen- Salzburg, Austria, and is chair of leasing and sales corporation in LAURIN D. QUAIT was elected publicly thank the Honorable sation law, representing both the St. Patrick’s Foundation, Aspen, Colo. partner in the Denver office of Catherine Pooler, who was my claimants and employer/carriers, which maintains centers for the since graduating from UM Law. Baker & Hostetler, LLP, where he inspiration throughout law upliftment of the poor. He resides SUSAN REISS is senior counsel concentrates his practice in the school,” she said. for the Walt Disney Company in Gregory recently got together in Kingston. with another Class of 1983 areas of construction litigation, www.law.miami.edu. 19 B ARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Summer 2000 Volume LIII Number 1 including suretyship matters and defense, as well as the prosecution She recently joined AdvantEdge office of Akerman injury, commercial litigation, commercial and domestic of False Claims Act matters. Television Advertising as general Senterfitt, corporate and transactional litigation. Baker & Hostetler is Virginia was recently elected to counsel and senior vice president. received honorary matters. among the nation’s largest law membership in the Miami AdvantEdge is a privately held recognition from firms, with more than 500 chapter of the American Board company that syndicates televi- the U.S. Equal ALAN J. PERLMAN is partner attorneys in offices in Beverly of Trial Advocates. sion commercials around the Employment at the law firm of Fowler White Hills, Cincinnati, Cleveland, world. Bromberg resides in Opportunity Burnett Hurley Banick & Columbus, Denver, Houston, ALAN L. KERSH has joined Scarsdale. Commission Strictroot, in Miami, where he Long Beach, Los Angeles, KeyBank’s recently formed Key (EEOC) for her contributions as specializes in corporate restructur- Orlando, and Washington. Business Advisory Services Group BRIAN D. ELIAS was elected an active participant in its ing and bankruptcy. He was (KBAS) as senior vice president managing partner of the Fowler technical assistance programs and formerly a shareholder at the in its New York office. In his new White law firm last September, Miami firm of Schantz Schatzman CLASS OF 1985 for her responsibilities as the co- position, KERSH is providing a where he is a senior member of chair of the EEOC advisory Aaronson & Perlman. MARSHALL I. FARKAS is a focused range of investment the firm’s securities litigation board. Lumpkin has represented SABRINA WEISS ROBINSON general master in the family law banking service, including department. management in employment is now partner at the Miami law division of the 13th Judicial mergers and acquisitions, JOHN J. FUMERO was recently matters in state and federal courts firm of Adorno & Zeder, where Circuit in Tampa. He resides in dispositions and private place- appointed general counsel of the and also assisted in developing she specializes in commercial Brandon. ments of debt and equity capital, South Florida Water Manage- training programs and employee litigation. She was formerly an to middle market companies. He policies. Lumpkin is an active ERVIN A. can be reached by e-mail at ment District and is responsible associate at the firm. GONZALEZ is for providing and managing legal community leader who does [email protected]. volunteer work for the Children’s partner in the support for the agency. He is a CLASS OF 1990 Miami law firm ALEXANDER PENELAS, member of the executive council Home Society, Miami-Dade of Robles & Miami-Dade County’s mayor, was of the Environmental and Land County’s guardian ad litem The Class of 1990 will hold its Gonzalez, P.A., named America’s “sexist politi- Use Law Section of the Florida program and the Junior League 10th Reunion Celebration this where his practice cian” in a article with a full-page Bar, where he is chair of continu- of Miami. fall. Members of the class who are interested in helping plan focuses on civil photo in the Nov. 15, 1999, issue ing legal education programs. ALIX MICHEL was elected trial law. Gonzalez is board of People magazine. In March, the He is a certified mediator and the event for their class should shareholder in the law firm of contact Cynthia Sikorski, certified as a specialist in civil Dade Heritage Trust presented frequent author/lecturer on water Fowler White Burnett Hurley trial law by the Florida Bar and Penelas with its “Building management and environmental director of alumni relations, 305- Banick & Strickroot in January 284-4935, with their ideas and the National Board of Trial Bridges” award for his role in issues. 1999. Advocacy, and he is also board saving the Miami Circle and his suggestions. DAVID M. HUTT is partner at certified as a specialist in business efforts to build bridges between the law firm of Hutt & CLASS OF 1989 WILLIAM A FOLEY III litigation law by the Florida Bar. cultures. Shimanowitz in Woodbridge, N.J. (LL.M.—Real Property Develop- He is president-elect of the BRIAN E. BOMSTEIN has been AMY D. The firm concentrates in areas of ment) was certified as a specialist Miami-Dade County Bar Associa- appointed vice president and RONNER, law real estate, land use and real in real property law—residential tion, past president of the assistant general counsel to professor at St. estate related litigation. He and transactions by the North Miami-Dade County Trial Bayview Financial Trading Thomas Univer- his wife, Sara, reside in Edison, Carolina State Bar Board of Lawyers Association, a sub- Group, a Miami-based company sity School of N.J., and are celebrating the birth Legal Specialization. committee chair in the Florida that provides investment banking Law, has a new of their first child, Daniel Ryan Bar’s Rules of Civil Procedure services to the mortgage industry CELESTE S. HIGGINS recently article, “Women Hutt. Committee, former director of and originates commercial loans became affiliated with UM Law Who Dance on the Academy of Florida Trial nationwide. Bayview provides as an adjunct professor teaching the Professional Track: Custody KIMBERLY TENDRICH has Lawyers, and a member of the portfolio valuation, hedging trial skills in the Litigation Skills and the Red Shoes,” which been named chief legal counsel Academy’s CLE Committee and strategies and merger/acquisition Program. In September, she appears in 23 Harvard Women’s to A.G. Holley State Hospital in Constitutional Challenge advice. Bayview also purchases received an invitation to partici- Law Journal (2000). She recently Lantana, Fla. A.G. Holley is the Committee. Gonzalez is an mortgage portfolios and under- pate in a program teaching moderated a panel, “Title VII and only freestanding tuberculosis adjunct professor at the Univer- takes its own servicing. Offices attorneys in Venezuela how to the First Amendment: A Colli- sanatorium in the United States, sity of Miami School of Law for are in Miami, New York, Wash- prepare, defend and present cases sion Course?” for the National treating the most difficult cases the trial skills civil litigation ington, Los Angeles and Chicago. in an adversarial system as part of Association of Women Judges of tuberculosis in Florida. Prior program. He wrote a chapter on revolutionary changes in their 21st annual conference. Another to joining A.G. Holley, Tendrich “Expert Testimony” in the AMANDA BERLOWE JAFFE constitution. Higgins works in recent article, “Punishment was chief legal counsel of the Lawyers Cooperative Practice practices in the field of employee the federal public defender’s office Meted Out For Acquittals: An Broward County Health Guide, and on “Evidence” in the benefits and executive compensa- in Miami. Antitherapeutic Jurisprudence Department. American Inns of Court Civil tion in the firm of Pitney, Hardin, Atrocity,” can be found in 41 KELLY ANNE LUTHER is now Procedure Series. Gonzalez has also Kipp & Szuch, with offices in Arizona Law Review (1999). CLASS OF 1988 partner at the Miami firm of written numerous articles on legal Florham Park, N.J., and Manhat- Clarke Silvergate Williams & issues and is a frequent lecturer BRIAN J. FELCOSKI, formerly tan. She is active in the local Montgomery, where she was for the Academy of Florida Trial CLASS OF 1986 of Steel Hector & Davis, LLP, has community of benefits profess- formerly an associate. She Lawyers, the Miami-Dade County formed Goldman & Felcoski, ionals and has authored or JOHN W. PERLOFF is partner specializes in product liability Bar Association and other bar P.A., with Robert W. Goldman. co-authored several articles on and department head in the Fort litigation. associations. Brian will continue his practice benefits issues, including a recent Lauderdale law firm of Doumar, article that appears in the Journal Allsworth, Curtis, Cross, in trusts and estate litigation and MICHAEL J. was recently elected a fellow in of Compensation and Benefits. She CLASS OF 1991 HIGER of the Laystrom, Perloff, Voigt, Wachs lives in Maplewood, N.J., with & MacIver, where his practice is the American College of Trust SPENCER North Miami firm and Estate Counsel. The firm is her husband, Mark, and her son, of Ress, Mintz & devoted to real estate law, real Ian. ARONFELD, estate transactions, real estate located in the Colonade Office who has his own Truppman, P.A., Tower, Coral Gables. was appointed to title and title insurance, mortgage The Honorable litigation firm in serve on the law and construction law. He is KENNETH ALLAN GOTTLIEB CARROLL J. Coral Gables, has Advisory Com- board certified in estate law. was elected to the Florida House KELLY serves as been seen mittee on Rules and Procedures of Along with fellow faculty NEIL P. of Representatives in 1998. He county court recently on many the United States District Court LINDEN, JD ’74, and DONALD has been instrumental in the judge in Miami- news and for the Southern District of J. MURRAY, JD ’69, he was a passage of the Foster Care Bill of Dade County, magazine programs with stories of Florida. Higer is a commercial presenter in “Mastering Real Rights (1999) and the Holocaust presiding over his clients’ struggles to obtain litigator who practices in both Estate Titles and Title Insurance Insurance Act (1998). Gottlieb is domestic vio- justice. Some of the more recent state and federal courts. in Florida, sponsored by the a partner in the Hollywood law lence, criminal and traffic cases. airings have been with the National Business Institute in firm of Gottlieb & Gottlieb. She is president-elect of the Law “Today” show, “Leeza,” “Dateline VIRGINIA October 1999. He and his wife, Alumni Association. NBC, “ Inside Edition,” “Extra,” EASLEY Cindy, live in Fort Lauderdale ROY KOBERT was elected Court TV, as well as Spanish JOHNSON, and are involved in local commu- president of the Central Florida MELISSA SMITH LEVINE and language programs, and Brazilian formerly partner nity organizations. Bankruptcy Law Association, GLENN LEVINE (JD ’89) and German television inter- and head of the which serves bankruptcy practi- announce the birth of their son, views. litigation depart- BARBARA STEINER tioners in Orange, Osceola, Charles, on October 9, 1999, in Aronfeld lectured in January ment in the WALTON published a book, Seminole, Lake and Brevard Washington, D.C. at the Academy of Florida Trial Miami office of “101 Little Instructions for Surviving counties. Kobert chairs the Lawyers seminar in Orlando, Your Divorce,” by Impact Publish- TODD S. PAYNE, along with Broad and Cassel, and MICHAEL bankruptcy practice management partner EDWARD ZEBERSKY, where he discussed the cross T. TOMLIN, JD ’89, formerly ers of San Luis Obispo, Calif. group for Broad and Cassel and is examination of biomechanical Walton practices family law in JD’91, merged with attorney Les partner with Otero, Tomlin & based in the firm’s Orlando office. Kushner and his staff to form engineers. An article he wrote, Tomlin, announce the formation Meadville, Pa. “Surviving Solo Practice without SYLVIA A. KRAININ is now Zebersky, Payne & Kushner, LLP. of Johnson & Tomlin, with offices Starving,” appeared in ATLA’s partner at Adorno & Zeder, in The firm will be located to new in Miami. TODD W. JOHNSON, CLASS OF 1987 February issue of Trial Magazine. Miami, where she was formerly offices in the Presidential JD ’85, will also be associated He will return to Gerry Spence’s KAREN H. BROMBERG an associate. She specializes in Building, 4000 Hollywood Blvd., with the firm. Johnson & Tomlin Trial Lawyers College as an practiced commercial litigation workers’ compensation law. Hollywood, Fla., 33021, and will will continue to concentrate its with an emphasis on intellectual encompass the areas of probate, instructor from June 14 through law practice in the area of property disputes for 10 years CAROL LUMPKIN, a share- wills, trusts, estate planning and July 1. product liability, professional with the firm of Parker, Duryee, holder in the employment tax matters, along with a contin- Two UM Law graduates liability and general liability Rosoff & Haft, in New York City. practice group in the Miami ued focus on plaintiff’s personal have recently joined his firm, 20 www.law.miami.edu. B ARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Summer 2000 Volume LIII Number 1

MICHELLE WARREN MINSKI, acquisitions, and securities STEVEN CALAMUSA was others. Malloy is a litigation D.C., office of McKenna & JD ’83, and CARRIE D. transactions involving emerging elected president of the Palm partner with the intellectual Cunco, LLP, recently earned an DAWSON, JD ’85. and established Latin American Beach County of Mothers property firm of Malloy & Malloy, LL.M. in trial advocacy at Temple companies. Against Drunk Driving P.A., in Miami. He and his wife, University School of Law. He BRIAN D. BOCK practices labor Prior to joining the firm, (MADD), the national organiza- Christina, are also pleased to concentrates in the area of and employment law at the firm Schwartz was a foreign associate tion dedicated to stopping drunk announce the birth of their commerce litigation and is of Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, at the Mexican law firm of Bryan driving, supporting victims of this second daughter, Katelyn currently representing policy- Ruud & Romo in its Riverside, Gonzalez Vargas y Gonzalez Baz violent crime, and preventing Christina, on Oct. 13, 1999. holders in Y2K insurance Calif., office. The firm also has in Mexico City and Ciudad underage drinking. Calamusa is a recovery cases. He resides in offices in Cerritos, Pleasanton, Juarez, where he concentrated on trial attorney with the West Palm GREGORY MAYBACK joined Silver Spring, Md. Sacramento, San Diego and strategic investments by U.S. Beach office of Davis, Gordon & the Hollywood, Fla., law firm of Solana Beach. multinational corporations in Doner, where he practices in the Lerner and Greenberg, P.A., HARRIS B. KATZ practices at specializing in patent, trademark the Miami Beach office of JOHN L. DiMASI practices at Mexican telecommunications and areas of personal injury and cable television companies. He wrongful death, medical negli- and copyright law and computer Grover, Weinstein & Trop, P.A. Miller, South & DiMasi, P.A., in law. He has recently been The firm also has an office in Winter Park, Fla. met his wife, Maryela, while gence, and product liability. working in Mexico. appointed as executive vice Naples. CHRISTOPHER N. FOUNTAS Last summer the couple back- TAMARA CARMICHAEL is president of the Patent Law now partner at the Miami office Association of South Florida. GARY M. MURPHREE is was elected in January 2000 to packed to Macchu-Pichu on the partner at the Miami law firm of partnership in the Orlando office Inca Trail in the Andes and of Broad and Cassel, where she was formerly an associate. She SCOT PATRICK O’BRIEN is Ferrell Schultz Carter & Fertel, of Baker & Hostetler, where he traveled by canoe to a remote partner in the Miami office of where he specializes in bank- specialized in corporate and ecological station in the Peruvian specializes in intellectual property, commercial litigation and Akerman Senterfitt, where he ruptcy law. He was formerly securities law since 1991. He also Amazon jungle. practices corporate and securities partner with Coll Davidson became one of the firm’s leading dispute resolution. KIMBERLY NOWORYTA law. He was formerly an associate Carter Smith Salter & Barkett. technology associates. In April JUAN A. FARACH and his wife with the firm’s corporate practice 2000, Fountas became general SUNNER is shareholder of Gray, RAYMOND M. RANELLUCCI Harris & Robinson, P.A., in became the proud parents of John group and an associate with the counsel for Military Commercial Lucas Farach, born April 19, Miami office of Broad and Cassel. is a financial advisor in the Technologies, Inc. (MILCOM), Orlando, where she concentrates Brickell office of Morgan Stanley in the areas of real estate transac- 1999. Since graduation, Farach headquartered in Maitland, Fla. has been with the firm of Hughes JOHN M. QUARANTA is Dean Witter. MILCOM is one of the largest tions and financial institutions partner at the Miami firm of and lender representation. Hubbard & Reed, in Miami, defense technology incubators in where he most recently has Rodriguez and Angelo, where CLASS OF 1994 the United States. It creates and he specializes in commercial EDWARD H. ZEBERSKY was concentrated on construction JEFFREY S. BAILEY became develops companies in the recently elected to the board of litigation matters. litigation. He was formerly a communications field based on senior associate at Tew Cardenas associate general counsel for Del directors of the Academy of Monte Fresh Produce Company, proven technology originating Florida Trial Lawyers. He has MARTIN MOSS FREEMAN Rebak Kellogg Demaria & Tague. from the defense industry. (LL.M.—Taxation) was awarded one of the world’s largest produc- been re-appointed chairman of JEFF SPIGEL was married to ers and marketers of fresh fruit. the AFTL Insurance Task Force the bronze medal by the National JOE GARCIA was elected Oceanic and Atmospheric Chrissy Havens on June 26, 1999, Prior to his recent move, he was a chairman of the Florida Public and has received the Legislative in Nashville, Tenn., and they senior associate at the law firm of Leadership “Shoe Leather Award” Administration (NOAA) for his Service Commission in January work on the President’s Lands traveled through France for their Akerman Senterfitt. 1999. He and his wife, AILEEN for his efforts throughout the past honeymoon. Spigel practices at year. His firm, Zebersky & Payne, Legacy Initiative and reauthoriza- PETER J. BEDARD has joined UGALDE, JD’91, have a daugh- tion of the Coastal Zone the Washington, D.C., office of ter, Gabriela Maria, and reside on LLP, merged with attorney Les Atlanta’s King & Spalding and the Chicago office of Vedder, Kushner and his staff in January Management Act. Freeman Price, Kaufman & Kamholz in the Miami Beach. serves as attorney advisor in the specializes in the area of antitrust to form Zebersky, Payne & law. He recently won, along with firm’s general litigation practice. DAVID L. GLAZER is managing Kushner, LLP. The new firm will NOAA’s Office of the General Bedard handles all aspects of Counsel and resides in Silver several other plaintiffs’ attorneys, partner of Behar, Gutt & Glazer, be located in the Presidential a $28 million antitrust verdict complex construction and P.A., with offices in Aventura and Building, 4000 Hollywood Blvd., Spring, Md. The bronze medal is commercial litigation, including the highest honorary award given against a national heating Boca Raton, which he founded in Hollywood, Fla., 33021, and will company. mechanic’s lien and surety claim 1991 with classmate, IRA GUTT, encompass the areas of probate, by the NOAA, an agency of the enforcement. Prior to joining JD ’91. Glazer heads the elder law, wills, trusts, estate planning and U. S. Department of Commerce. OLIVER Vedder Price, he was an associate trusts and estates and real estate tax matters, along with a contin- BROOKE FRIED is assistant WRAGG opened with Levinson, Murray & Jensen, departments in this six-attorney ued focus on plaintiff’s personal general counsel at the University his own trial and P.C., in Chicago. Vedder Price is firm and manages the firm’s injury, commercial litigation, of Miami. litigation practice a full-service law firm with business affairs. Ira Gutt is corporate and transactional in Miami last fall, approximately 180 attorneys in national counsel to Dent Wizard matters. ERIC S. KLEINMAN is partner where he special- Chicago and New York City. International and heads the in the Miami firm of Adorno & izes in personal firm’s commercial litigation Zeder, where he was formerly an injury, product BRIAN H. BIEBER specializes in CLASS OF 1992 department. associate. He specializes in liability, commercial litigation deceptive trade practices at the ROBERT commercial litigation. and the education of children firm of Joel Hirschhorn, P.A., in GARY S. KLEIN and his wife BIRCH, an with mental disabilities. Coral Gables, and has become a announce the birth of their associate at the TODD F. KOBRIN became a partner in the firm that is now second child, Noah Michael, Philadelphia law partner in the Orlando office ANDRE J. ZAMORANO joined known as Hirschhorn & Bieber, born on Dec. 26, 1999. Klein is firm of Mesirov of Holland & Knight, LLP, the Miami office of the Washing- P.A. a partner in the Stanford, Conn., Gelman Jaffe concentrating his practice in ton, D.C., firm of Verner Liipfert JONATHAN FRIEDLAND has law firm of Sandak Friedman Cramer & commercial, construction, and Bernhard McPherson and Hand been an associate for the last five Hennessey & Greco, LLP, and Jamieson, LLP, real property litigation. He and as an associate in the firm’s years in the Miami firm of Merl, he taught a course on law and has been elected to the board of his wife, Mary Beth, have two litigation department. He was Burstyn & Associates, P.A., a the environment to college Morris Animal Refuge, one the children, Joshua, born in Decem- formerly an associate at Shutts & plaintiff’s personal injury/ seniors last semester at Fairfield nation’s pioneers in animal ber 1996, and William, born in Bowen, LLP. medical malpractice law firm. University. welfare. The Refuge provides a October 1998. He and his wife, Nicole, a media full range of preventive, protec- CLASS OF 1993 TERESA J. MOORE is partner ANTHONY M. LAWHON relations consultant at the tive and adoption services for in the West Palm Beach office of recently became a shareholder in JULIE BRAMAN KANE is now University of Miami, reside in abused, neglected and abandoned Greenberg Traurig, where she the law firm of Parrish, White, partner at the Miami firm of Pinecrest. Friedland completed animals in Center City Philadel- specializes in environmental and Lawhon & Moore, P.A., where he Colson Hicks Eidson Colson the 1998 Ironman Triathlon (2.4 phia. Birch is a member of land use law. She was formerly continues to concentrate his Matthews Martinez Mendoza mile swim, 112 mile bike, 26.2 Mesirov Gelman’s wealth transfer compliance counsel to American practice in the areas of commer- Kalbac & Kane, where she was mile run). and tax department and concen- Bankers Insurance Group in cial litigation and appellate formerly an associate. She trates his practice in the areas of Miami. practice. The firm is in its new specializes in product liability, JOACHIM HOFMANN tax and estates. His experience office located in Naples, Fla. medical malpractice and general (LL.M.—Comparative Law) DEBORAH MORDECAI also includes tax planning and personal injury litigation. joined Novartis AG in Basel, EDWARDS practices at the compliance, as well as estate FLEUR J. LOBREE serves as an Switzerland, where he specializes Miami firm of Edwards & planning and administration. attorney with the Third District SARAH B. CLASBY is partner in trademark law. He resides in Carstarphen, P.A. Court of Appeal in Miami. in the Miami law firm of Hector Loerrach, Germany. JERRY P. BRODSKY was named & Harke, LLP. The firm special- KAREN A. MYATT joined the partner at Ruden McClosky JOHN CYRIL izes in commercial litigation, MARK firm of Young, Berman, Karpf & Smith Schuster & Russell, in Fort MALLOY, III product liability, securities, LIEBLICH, a real Gonzalez, in North Miami Beach, Lauderdale, where he was recently prevailed business torts, insurance defense estate attorney in as an associate. She was formerly formerly an associate at the firm. in a federal and general liability. the Orlando with the Fort Lauderdale firm of He specializes in construction, trademark case office of Baker & real estate, transportation and Heinrich, Gordon, Hargrove, that was followed ANNE MARIE ESTEVEZ is now Hostetler, LLP, commercial litigation. Weihe & James. by local and partner at the Miami office of has been elected national media. Steel Hector & Davis, LLP, where to the board of KENNETH L. SCHWARTZ has SCOTT BROOK is partner He successfully defended she was formerly an associate. directors of the Central Florida been elected partner in the New in the Fort Lauderdale office of the insurance defense firm of SeaEscape Casino Cruises’ use of She specializes in litigation, chapter of the National Associa- York-based international law firm Peters, Robertson et al. In 2002, the slogan, “SeaEscape to a Ship employment, labor and admiralty. tion of Industrial and Office of Grant, Herrmann, Schwartz & Brook plans to run for the Florida Full of Fun,” defeating Carnival Properties (NAIOP). Baker and Klinger LLP, where he concen- state house. He welcomes e-mail Cruise Lines and its broad claim DONALD O. JOHNSON, an Hostetler, with approximately trates on private equity from his classmates: SBrook@ of “Fun” trademark rights based associate in the litigation 500 lawyers, is among the nation’s investments, mergers and PetersRobertson.com. on the “Fun Ships” mark and department in the Washington, largest law firms, with offices in www.law.miami.edu. 21 B ARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Summer 2000 Volume LIII Number 1

Orlando, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, business and legal affairs for USA UM Law alumni in southern and other corporate contractual Columbus, Denver, Houston, New York, San Antonio, Wash- Broadcasting, where he runs the California. matters as an in-house contracts Beverly Hills, Long Beach, Los ington, Hong Kong and London west coast business and legal attorney at Portal Software, Inc., Angeles and Washington. offices. affairs department, overseeing ADAM M. SCHENCK co- in Cupertino, Calif. She resides production, programming and authored the “Pre-Mortem Estate in Santa Clara. STEVEN R. LEVINE continues ROBERT S. GROSSMAN broadcast operations legal and Planning Checklist,” published by teaching his ever-popular course recently opened his own firm at business concerns. He was the ALI-ABA Committee on JUDD A. GILEFSKY works as a at UM Law—Violent Crime and 666 Old Country Road, Garden formerly with Polygram/Universal Professional Education. This is a tax consultant at the Los Angeles Lawyering Workshop, and he City, N.Y., where he specializes in television, and he resides in single resource containing over office of Arthur Andersen, LLP, practices at the Hollywood, Fla., commercial litigation, real estate, Woodland Hills, Calif. 3,000 individual checklist items and he resides in Hermosa Beach. law firm of Lekach Kutzner & estate planning and estate and hundreds of citations to Ansel. administration. He would enjoy WILLIAM J. DENIUS is an cases, the Internal Revenue Code IAN HOCHMAN married hearing from his UM Law associate with Gray, Harris & sections and regulations, and Katherine Ardalan Hochman, DAVID E. LURIE joined Zurich, colleagues by telephone, 516- Robinson, P.A., in the firm’s secondary sources to help answer a 1999 UM Medical School US, a member of the Zurich 745-1700, fax, 516-745-1715, or Melbourne, Fla., office. The firm tough questions. The entire graduate, on May 29, 1999. After Financial Services Group, as e-mail, [email protected]. also has offices in Orlando and “Checklist” is also on CD-ROM, completing a judicial clerkship professional liability claims Tallahassee. He previously served which allows estate planners to with the Honorable Lacey A. counsel in the New York, N.Y., MAITRI “MIKE” KLINKOSUM as a public defender for the 18th search for key issues and terms Collier in the U.S. District Court specialties home office, where he is an associate with the law firm judicial circuit of Florida. and to adopt the “Checklist” to for the Northern District of concentrates in architects and of Vannoy, Colvard, Triplett & each client’s situation. Schenck Florida, he is now a third-year engineers professional liability. Vannoy, PLLC, in North CHRISTOPHER R. ECK is is an attorney in the Law Offices associate in the litigation He was previously associated with Wilkesboro, N.C., practicing in director of the Division of of Edward S. Schlesinger, P.C., in department at Willkie Farr & Bruce Somerstein & Associates in the areas of plaintiff’s litigation Historic Preservation for Miami- Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. Gallagher in New York City, New York, N.Y. He resides in and domestic relations. Dade County. Both prior to where the couple also resides. Forest Hills, N.Y. Klinkosum returned to North attending UM Law and after- ANNA SELDEN works for a Carolina after practicing for two wards, he worked as an private firm in Washington, MICHAEL P. INDERBITZIN LESTER J. PERLING was elected years as an assistant public archeologist and historian, and he where she does automated (LL.M. in Comparative Law) has partner, effective in January of defender in Cook County now oversees the management litigation support for the Depart- joined the corporate finance this year, at the Fort Lauderdale (Chicago), Ill. Before assuming and designation of countywide ment of Justice. She resides in department of Shearman & office of Broad and Cassel, where his current position, Klinkosum historical and archeological sites, Arlington. Sterling in New York. he practices health law, represent- practiced with the North including the renowned “Miami ing all types of health care TRACY L. SMITH, after three H. JOHN RIZVI Carolina firm of Willardson, Circle.” In the Spring 1999 practices patent, providers and concentrating in Lipscomb & Beal, LLP, in the semester, he taught a course at years as program planning health care fraud and abuse, attorney in the continuing legal trademark and areas of insurance defense, UM Law: Introduction to copyright law as a regulation and government subrogation, and criminal Historic Preservation Law, and he education department at reimbursement. He was formerly Georgetown University Law litigation associ- defense. recently authored an article in ate with Fish & an associate with the firm and a Preservation Today, “A Primer on Center has made a move. Still hospital administrator for 10 years PAUL MARTIN is practicing in Washington, D.C., she is now Neave in New Historic Preservation Incentives York City. before becoming an attorney. He insurance defense and aviation in Miami-Dade County.” He a grievance attorney at the resides in Hollywood. law in Memphis, Tenn. He American Foreign Service Founded in 1878, Fish & Neave resides with his wife, Tracy, in has 170 attorneys, who practice recently published an article on Fort Lauderdale. Association, the labor/manage- IAN M. SIROTA and his wife, legal liability in the August 1999 ment union for foreign service exclusively in the area of intellec- Stacy, became proud parents of a issue of Plane and Pilot magazine. DONNA K. KNAPTON recently employees. tual property. The firm’s history of baby boy, Randy Nathaniel published an article in The Young protecting innovative technology Sirota, born March 27, 1999. JASON S. MILLER is now includes patenting of the Wright Lawyer, a publication of the Bar CLASS OF 1997 Sirota practices at the Westmont, associated with the Miami firm of Association of the District of Brothers’ airplane, Thomas N.J., office of Margolis Edelstein, Josephs, Jack & Gaebe, P.A. Columbia, entitled, “Watch Your HENRIK ADAMSEN (LL.M.— Edison’s light bulb, and Henry and he resides in Mt. Laurel, N.J. Comparative Law) has begun as Ford’s Motel “T.” Rizvi was MARK D. PASSLER joined the Head: Practical Strategies for He would enjoy hearing from an associate with the law firm of recently married to Saba Zehra, West Palm Beach office of Working with and Responding to fellow UM Law alumni, by Bertel Rasmussen & Fialin, a a dentist with Bronx-Lebanon Quarles & Brady, LLP, where he Attorney Placement Services.” telephone, 856-869-6704, or member of the Advodan Society Hospital in New York, and he concentrates on patent, trade- Knapton is an enforcement e-mail: isirota@margolisedelstein of law firms which is a loose would love to hear from his mark, copyright and licensing law. attorney with the U.S. Securities .com. association of about 50 law firms classmates by telephone, 212- Before joining Quarles & Brady, & Exchange Commission in throughout Denmark. Adamsen’s 596-9012, or e-mail, Hrizvi@Fish SARAH STEINBAUM opened Passler worked as an attorney in Washington, D.C., and she main area of work is general Neave.com. John and Saba reside her own firm, Sarah Steinbaum, the U.S. Air Force’s Electronics resides in Arlington, Va. practice, including litigation, in Clifton, N.J. P.A., across from the Miami-Dade Systems Center in Boston and as GARY LEIBOWITZ is an corporate and private law, and County courthouse in Miami. a special assistant U.S. attorney BRANDON A. ROTBART associate in the Baltimore office also sports and international for the District of Massachusetts. practices at the Law Offices of of Saul, Ewing, Weinberg & law. He resides in Svendborg, ERIC ZIMMELMAN continues Quarles & Brady is a full-service Alan E. Weinstein, in Miami Green, where he practices in the Denmark. to publish his guides to collegiate law firm with 350 attorneys Beach. cities (Boston, Miami, and litigation department, focusing on practicing in West Palm Beach, CHRISTINE L. AGNEW Orlando), and he has begun a commercial litigation. The JOSE SAUD serves as trade Naples, Chicago, Milwaukee, recently joined the Houston new project: the dissemination of longtime Baltimore firm of developer with the Trade Mission Madison and Phoenix. office of Weil, Gotshal & discount card mailers in residen- Weinberg & Green recently Center of the Americas through Manges, LLP, where she practices tial markets. He and his wife, ROY L. merged with Saul, Ewing, Remick the office of the mayor of Miami- in the tax department, focusing Nicole, reside in Coconut Grove. WIENFELD & Saul in order to form the new Dade County. on corporate and partnership tax joined Philips & mid-Atlantic regional firm, issues. Folland, in Miami consisting of more than 225 LARRY A. SCHWARTZ CLASS OF 1995 recently moved to Los Angeles Beach, as litiga- attorneys, with offices in Balti- DONNA BOSTIC WARD is an and began working at Lewis, The Class of 1995 will hold its tion counsel, more, Philadelphia, New York, associate in the litigation D’Amato, Brisbois & Bisgaard, 5th Reunion Celebration this fall. where he concen- Princeton, Wilmington, Harris- department of Baker & Hostetler LLP, a full-service law firm with Members of the class who are trates in real burg and Berwyn. Leibowitz lives and resides in Missouri City, Tex. interested in helping plan the estate, commercial and creditors’ in Baltimore. more than 200 attorneys in six event for their class should STEPHEN L. COHEN joined the offices throughout California, rights litigation. The firm was STEVE MELOCOWSKY contact Cynthia Sikorski, established by UM Law alumni, U.S. Department of Justice as a where he practices in the areas director of alumni relations, 305- practices juvenile law outside of trial attorney in Washington, of construction defense and DAVID A. PHILIPS, JD ’98, and Hartford, Conn., and is the proud 284-4935, with their ideas and D.C., last year. He spent the professional liability defense. CHRISTIAN FOLLAND (LL.M. brother of MICHAEL suggestions. ’98—Real Property & Develop- previous year as a law clerk for Prior to joining the firm, MELOCOWSKY, graduating the Honorable Ursula Ungaro- Schwartz was an associate at ment), and concentrates in the with the Class of 2000. COREY B. COLLINS is associ- Benages in the Southern District Allison & Roberts, P.A., in ated with the Miami office of areas of real estate and corporate law. SPENCER G. MORGAN joined of Florida. Cohen resides in Miami. He is licensed to practice Carlton Fields. the Miami-based firm of Cohen Washington. in both Florida and California. ROBERT S. M. GORMAN has CLASS OF 1996 Berke Bernstein Brodie & ROBERT S. DONALDSON left DAVID M. SCOTT recently joined the New York office of Kondell as an associate, where he joined the law firm of McAlpin JOYCE ACKERBAUM COX is the business world in January the international law firm of will practice civil litigation. & Brais, P.A., in Miami, where he an associate in the Orlando office 1999 after 25 years to pursue a Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP, where continues to practice in the area of Akerman Senterfitt & Eidson. ELIZABETH NEVINS practices long-term goal of practicing as an he practices in all areas of of admiralty and maritime Since graduating from UM Law, criminal defense at Bridgeman, attorney. He practices corporate intellectual property law, with insurance defense. He is also she has practiced primarily in the Morkin & Shapiro in Fountain law, municipal law, and civil and a primary emphasis on high active in the guardian ad litem field of labor and employment Valley (Orange County), Calif. criminal defense in the technology patents, particularly program as an advocate for law, and she resides in Orlando Hollidaysburg, Pa., law firm of regarding electrical and TOMAS A. PILA has his own dependent children at the with her husband, Matt. Evey, Routch, Black, Dorezas, computer-related inventions. firm, Pila & Associates, located Magee & Levine, LLP. appellate level. David and his Prior to joining the firm, Gorman SHEILA L. CHAMBERLAIN in the Roads section of Miami. wife, Josephine, recently cel- was associated with the law firm serves as chief of staff for Monroe LISA FLETCHER KEMP has her ebrated their first wedding JEFFREY T. ROBERTS practices of Hedman, Gibson & Costigan, County for Florida Senator own practice in Coral Gables. anniversary. They live in South both criminal defense and civil P.C., in New York. Fulbright & DARYL L. JONES, JD ’87. Miami. Jaworski was established in litigation in the Jeff Roberts Law SABIHA GHOGHAWALA is Houston in 1919 and has more STEVEN COHEN lives in Los Firm in Newport Beach, Calif. primarily involved in drafting and than 670 attorneys in its Austin, Angeles and works as director of He maintains contact with many negotiating licensing agreements 22 www.law.miami.edu. B ARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Summer 2000 Volume LIII Number 1

CARL-CHRISTIAN THEIR resides in Boca Raton. McTague JEFFREY W. BUTCHER is an RENAE MELZER is an associate Ross, Ross & Santini, LLC, a (LL.M.—Comparative Law) was is also pursuing his doctorate of associate at the Coral Gables law in the Miami office of Gunster, general law practice concentrat- elected president of the German business administration in firm of Pearson & Mayer, P.A. Yoakley, Valdes Fauli & Stewart ing in torts, personal injury, American Commerce Council of finance at Nova Southeastern and resides on Miami Beach. She contracts, divorce and wills. He Central Florida. He is of counsel University. MICHAEL J. CIACCIO is an has published numerous articles lives in Cheyenne. Classmates with the law firm of Hendry, associate in the New York firm of in the Florida Bar Journal and the are encouraged to catch up on his Stoner, Sawicki & Brown, P.A., REINCE R. PRIEBUS is an Proskauer Rose, LLP, and he lives New York Law Journal. personal news at his website: in Orlando, where he specializes associate at Michael Best & in Mineola, N.Y. http://www.russellnet.com. in international business law. He Friedrich in Milwaukee, where ALISON SMALLOW MIRER he works in the business/ HAROLD “HAL” DAVIS joined and MICHAEL MIRER (JD’97) CLAIRE P. SUBRAN is working is licensed to practice in Ger- Arter & Hadden, LLP, as an many and in New York. corporate litigation practice area. were married on Oct.16, 1999, with issues involving insurance The firm has more than 230 associate in the firm’s Washing- and reside in Aventura. She defense with VIVIAN CHOU, SUSIE WEISENBERG is an attorneys in offices in Milwau- ton, D.C., office, where he practices in the areas of personal JD ’92, in Miami. associate in the environmental kee, Chicago, and Madison, practices in the labor and injury and workers’ compensa- litigation and regulatory practice practicing as a full-service employment group. Established tion in the Law Offices of George MARK ALAN group at Haight, Brown & business/corporate law firm. He in 1843, Arter & Hadden has Z. Goldberg in Miami. SYLVESTER is Bonesteel, LLP, in Santa Monica, and his wife, Sally, live in offices in Cleveland, Columbus an associate with Calif. She and JUDD GILEFSKY Racine, Wisc. and Dayton, Ohio; Austin, STEPHEN J. PADULA is an the Miami law (JD ’97) were recently engaged. Dallas and San Antonio, Tex.; associate in the Law Offices of firm of Leesfield, They live in Hermosa Beach. JOEL ROSE serves as an assistant Irvine, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Mark R. Osherow, P.A., in Boca Leighton, Rubio general counsel to the Edison San Diego, San Francisco and Raton, where he also resides. & Mahfood, P.A., AFSHIN YAZDIAN was named Project, the nation’s largest Woodland Hills, Calif.; and a civil litigation vice president of business private manager of public Washington, D.C. AMALIA PAPADIMITRIOU firm specializing in wrongful development, mergers and schools, located in New York is a legal associate at Interna- death, personal injury, medical acquisitions with eConception, City. EDUARDO de la CRUZ- tional Corporation in Fort malpractice, and class action a growing venture capital firm. MUNOZ is an associate in the Lauderdale. She also resides in litigation. He resides in Miami. Yazdian began his career with JOHN P. Miami civil litigation firm of Fort Lauderdale. Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, RUTLEDGE was Mario Tacher & Associates, P.A. THOMAS TEDESCO, JR. is an admitted to the CHRISTIAN PETRIC is a estate and financial specialist Nashville’s largest law firm, in MARLENE A. FERNANDEZ is litigation associate in the West the firm’s corporate, securities California Bar in with the Barrett Company, Inc., November 1999 an associate in the Miami office Palm Beach law firm of Conroy, in Pompano Beach. He resides in and e-business group. His new of White & Case, LLP. Simberg & Ganon. He resides in responsibilities at eConception and is chief Plantation. counsel to a Jupiter. include assisting with the DANA FOSTER is an associate JOHN L. URBAN joined the development of the incubated publishing firm, in the Miami office of White & ROBERT D. RIGHTMEYER is Dead End Street Publications, Miami office of Martens Dunaj companies and the coordination Case, LLP. an associate at Cole, White & Marlowe Davis & Marlowe as an of all acquisition activity relating LLC, based in Hoquiam, Wash. Billbrough, in Miami. He lives in RICHARD FOWLER practices associate attorney. The firm has to eConception and the incu- He negotiates author, distribu- Pembroke Pines. at the law firm of Behar, Gutt & offices in Miami and Tampa Bay bated companies. He resides in tion and advertising agreements Glazer, P.A., in Aventura. PATRICE ROBINET joined and practices in the commercial Nashville, Tenn. and secures the first round of external financing. He resides in Greenberg Traurig, P.A., in its litigation, corporate defense, LISA HALPERN is an associate Playa del Rey, Calif. Miami office, where she is an employment law, creditors’ rights, CLASS OF 1998 in the New York law firm of associate in the international construction law, and computer BRIAN L. SMITH has joined Spielman & Kassimir, P.C., and law areas. Urban resides in STEPHEN R. ASTLEY is a corporate group. the Orlando office of Adams, she also resides in Manhattan. Davie. JAGC attorney with the United Hill, Reis, Adams, Hall & THOMAS ROONEY and TAR States Navy. He currently lives in KEITH JARET is a conversion Shieffelin as an associate. The LOMBARDI (JD ’99) were ANDREA Y. WANG works as a Honolulu, where he specializes in administrator with Morgan firm is a general litigation law married on Sept. 11, 1999. Both staff attorney at Watchtower, a criminal defense. Stanley Dean Witter in Jersey firm involved in virtually all practice with the U.S. Army human rights and civil rights City, N.J. He resides in areas of civil litigation, with JAG Corps. organization based in Patterson, SHELDON BLUMLING is an Ronkonkoma, N.Y. concentrations in medical N.Y. associate with the Atlanta office AMY SALSBURG is a litigation malpractice defense, medical staff DAVID A. JOGOLINZER is an of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, associate in the Fort Lauderdale CLASS OF 2000— litigation, antitrust, health care practicing in the area of ERISA/ associate in the civil litigation office of Ruden McClosky. She law, product liability and general CURRENT GRADUATES employee benefits. firm of Ferraro & Associates, P.A. resides in Plantation. liability. He resides on Miami Beach. REY CASTELLANOS has been J. ANTHONY BRADLEY DANIEL S. SCHNEIDER, after RICHARD L. STEINBERG serving as legislative assistant to (LL.M.—Taxation) is an SAGI KFIR practices in the spending the last year in Seattle, continues to serve the people of Florida Senator Mario Diaz- associate with Glankler Brown, Miami law firm of Avania has moved to the Los Angeles South Florida as an attorney and Balart, District 37, in both the PLLC, in Memphis, Tenn., where Bondklayder, Blackwell & firm of Howarth and Smith, as a volunteer in the community. Miami and Tallahassee offices. he practices in the areas of Baumgarten, and he lives in concentrating in civil litigation, He is a member of the board of corporate and estate tax. Aventura. both plaintiff and defense work. BRIAN CHESLACK and his directors of the Miami-Dade wife announce the birth of their CARLOS I. CARDELLE is a County Bar Association, a JANET SANDRA KREDI is a THOMAS SCOLARO is an third child, Kai Gregory, born on staff attorney with Lan Chile, at member of the Mt. Sinai senior associate with Arthur associate at Leesfield, Leighton, May 3, 2000. its office located at Miami Hospital Young Presidents, and a Andersen, LLP, in Miami, which Rubio & Mahfood in Miami. International Airport. Big Brother with Big Brothers provides tax and legal advisory PETER J. IACONO will begin services. RUSSELL W. SINNETT is a SARAH (LANZETTI) COE was and Big Sisters of Greater Miami. work in August 2000 with the litigation attorney at the Naples office of Quarles & Brady. appointed to a position in the BERT E. UEBELE, IV is associ- RYAN KROIZ is an associate tax Cheyenne, Wyo., law firm of office of the general counsel at ated with Glick & Retamar in consultant with PriceWaterhouse the U.S. Department of Com- Boca Raton, Fla. Coopers in New York, and he merce in Washington, D.C. resides in Manhattan. GERALD S. DUTY is an CLASS OF 1999 RYAN KUHL is a deputy county associate with the Miami law JOHN ALBERT is assistant state attorney in the Maricopa County firm of Whisenand & Turney, attorney in the 18th Judicial Attorney’s Office in Phoenix, P.A., which specializes in Circuit in Viera, Fla., and he Ariz. international business transac- resides in Merritt Island. tions, finance and banking. He NIKKI B. LEWIS is practicing resides in Coral Gables. STEPHANIE L. with the media law group at the Miami office of Steel Hector & BANDY is an JULIAN T. KEMP is a legal associate at the Davis, LLP. She also practices specialist with the fair employ- Miami office of general commercial litigation. She resides in Miami and is a ment practices division in the Walton, Lantaff, office of the county manager for Schroeder & member of Glendale Missionary Miami-Dade County. Carson, P.A., Baptist Church in Richmond Heights. JORGE A. LOPEZ is a judicial and she resides law clerk for Justice Harry Lee also in Miami. MARILEN MARNETT practices Anstead at the Supreme Court of KRISTI J. BOMAR represents intellectual property law as an Florida. Upon completion of his domestic violence victims at Bay associate in the Miami law firm of Robert M. Schwartz, P.A. clerkship, he will join the Miami Area Legal Services, Inc., in New office of Akerman Senterfitt, Port Richey, Fla. She resides in SCOTT McKAY practices at the Three of the five attorneys in the law offices of Frederick P.A., practicing in the litigation Tampa. department. He currently resides Miami law firm of Campbell & C. Kramer, of Marco Island, Fla., are alumni of UM Law. Denes, where he was the senior in Tallahassee. STEVEN K. BRUMER is an From left, are Beth Woods, Class of 1998; Frederick associate at the Miami firm of law clerk for two years. McKay’s JOEL McTAGUE joined the firm areas of practice include class Kramer, 1977; and Ashley Lupo, 1998. The firm has a Hightower & Rudd, P.A., and he general practice, including trial work in state and federal of Hackney Miller, P.A., in Palm lives in Coral Gables. action litigation, commercial Beach Gardens, Fla., where he litigation, personal injury, court, with a specialty in employment law. It also handles practices corporate, securities, disability insurance and other transactional work, including real estate, estate planning, tax law and technology law. He forms of civil law at the trial and and probate. appellate level. www.law.miami.edu.www.law.miami.edu. 23 B ARRISTER Alumni Newspaper Summer 2000 Volume LIII Number 1

DANIEL W. MATLOW has accepted an judicial system is nothing short of incred- associate position at Vezina, Lawrence & ible. Anyone who is considering applying Miami Law Alumni Piscitelli, a Fort Lauderdale boutique firm for a federal judicial clerkship would be specializing in construction litigation. wise to take this course, as it allows one to ‘test-drive’ one’s intended employment Want to Know JEFF PIROOZSHAD is a national bowling goal before making a long-term commit- champion. On April 26, 2000, he comment. More than that, though, the best From all reports, the most avidly read section of the Barrister (for both the printed peted in the inner-collegiate bowling intangible of this seminar is the opportu- and the Web site versions) is “Class Notes.” The Law School’s more than 14,000 championship in Wichita, Kan., represent- nity to get to know a man who has alumni want to know what their classmates have been doing—about the awards ing the University of Miami. He was devoted his life to honoring our Constitu- named to the All American first team of they’ve received, high-profile cases they’ve won, law firms or cities they have moved tion and has distinguished himself both as to, pro bono activities they have undertaken, spouses they have married, etc. the National Collegiate Bowlers Coaches a person and as a professional.” Association. Pirozzshad also attained the It’s easy to ensure that your news gets into the communications network: Just fill highest point total for 1999–2000 and was EDWARD J. ROGERS is a retired college out the form below and send it (along with a photograph of yourself, if you like) to named a most valuable player. professor with his doctorate who is also John Burch, Director of Law Publications and Communications, School of Law, completing his Juris Doctor requirements University of Miami, P.O. Box 248087, Coral Gables, FL 33124-8087. BLANCA SORDO, a December 1999 with the assistance of a wheelchair. He graduate, practices with the Law Offices of would like to know how disabled graduates If you would like to comment on a Barrister article or on an issue of importance Stuart A. Goldstein, located in Kendall. are doing, and he welcomes calls on the to other UM Law grads through a letter to the editor, please send that submission weekends at 561-336-7250. to John Burch, as well. CLASS OF 2001—RISING THIRD-YEAR S TUDENTS BART WHITLEY, an evening division student, won the best oralist award in the DAVID BOLEN has been writing short lL moot court competition during the Name: ______Class Year: ______stories for seven years. His latest, “Radio,” Spring 1999 semester. is available through HotRead—quality literature for discerning readers—at http:// CLASS OF 2002—RISING Home Address: ______www.hotread.com. Bolen has lived in 14 SECOND -YEAR STUDENTS states in his 31 years and is currently a City: ______State: ______ZIP: ______second-year student at UM Law. Some of JULIO W. VALDIVIESO will be entering his poems and stories have been selected Officer Candidate School for the U.S. as final entries in literary contests, and he Marine Corps this summer. Upon comple- Home Phone: ______Home FAX: ______is awaiting judgment. tion of the intensive 10-week program, he will be commissioned as a second lieuten- EARLENE C. CROSSLEY has been ant in the Marines, under the Judge Job Title: ______awarded the Kozyak Tropin & Advocate General program. Throckmorton scholarship from the Litigation Skills program. Established in Type of Business: ______1995 by one of Miami’s leading law firms, the third-year full scholarship is awarded to a second-year minority student with a LAA Sets Up System Employer/ Firm: ______strong interest in trial advocacy. of Class Directors Business Address:______APRIL H. GROMNICKI has been (Continued from page 17) awarded professional recognition as senior program officer for the National Audubon Class of 1997 City: ______State: ______ZIP: ______Society for her work in the Everglades Kai Williams restoration projects. In January 1999, she 404-523-6034 Business Phone: ______Business FAX: ______was awarded the Everglades Coalition Class of 1996 Award for Dedication and Service, and T. Nicole Saunders in December 1998 she received the 305-859-8700 E-mail Address: ______Audubon Society ACE Award for Team Achievement. Class of 1995 Elizabeth Welch Would you like your e-mail address included in a directory available on BRANT HADAWAY received the Soia 954-262-6227 UM Law’s Web site? Yes ? No ? Mentschikoff Award for excellence in [email protected] scholarly writing bestowed by his fellow Class of 1988 law review members. Hadaway also was on Information for “Class Notes”: the winning team in the spring advanced Elizabeth Katzen moot court competition, winning the 305-596-2000 [email protected] award for best oralist. He will represent ______UM Law on the national moot court team Class of 1979 next fall. Allan Atlas ______305-374-6762 LEIGH MACDONALD interned during ______the summer for the Honorable Edward B. [email protected] Davis, chief district judge for the Southern Class of 1974 ______District of Florida. Lewis B. Freeman ______305-443-6622 DEMETRIO PEREZ reports: “One of the [email protected] best kept secrets at UM Law is the Judicial ______Class of 1972 Process Seminar taught by U.S. Senior ______District Court Judge William M. Hoeveler. Det H. Joks Besides covering the issues associated with 305-598-0100 ______the course’s title, students are treated to [email protected] listening to one of the most respected ______jurists in America. Judge Hoeveler’s treasure trove of anecdotes, both as a noted attorney and as a federal judge, NON-PROFIT make the class entertaining. However, it ORGANIZATION is the judge’s vast knowledge of our legal system and his more than half-century U.S. POSTAGE of experience that make the class discus- PAID sions lively and provide keen insights to P.O. Box 248087 MIAMI, FLORIDA the law. To top it all off, one may even get PERMIT NO. 438 to talk with Hugo Black, Jr., son of the late Coral Gables, Florida 33124-8087 Supreme Court justice, who sometimes fills in for Judge Hoeveler. Another invaluable aspect of the program is the ‘requirement’ that students accept being assigned to intern with a federal or state court judge during the spring semester. I was fortunate enough to spend this past spring semester working in Judge Hoeveler’s chambers. Working together with the judge, his clerks and with other judges and their clerks is an experience without parallel. 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