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AS CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL, KAMALA HARRIS ’89 TAKES ON THE STATE’S TOUGHEST CHALLENGES

Immigration Now - THE UC HASTINGS COMMUNITY LOOKS AT THIS SPRING 2013 TIMELY ISSUE FROM MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES { CONTENTS }

Upfront

02 | FROM THE DEAN 04 | IN BRIEF 14 | ADVANCEMENT News and notes from the UC Generous gifts from donors 03 | FOR THE RECORD Hastings community, including move UC Hastings forward in California Supreme Court student proﬁles, a stellar delivering a ﬁrst-rate education Justice Carol Corrigan ’75 mentorship program, a mother- and expanding opportunities administered oaths at the Class daughter immigration law for students. of 2012 Swearing-In Ceremony. practice, and more. Departments

18 | POINT OF VIEW ! |1:7<71A/<2 52 | THEN AND NOW Attorney and community leader 13

24BRIDGE-BUILDING ALUMNI UC Hastings has always been proud of its inclusive, multicultural heritage. In this issue, the law school honors six alumni who are forging connections among people and communities the world over.

ENGAGED SCHOLARSHIP UC Hastings welcomes ﬁve accomplished new faculty members. Plus, a selection of recent publications by the law school’s thought leaders.

36 | Your Class Notes WHAT’S NEW WITH YOUR UC HASTINGS COLLEAGUES AND CLASSMATES.

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UC Hastings College of the Law

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

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

Editorial Director for America has celebrated immigrants since it was Communications & Public Affairs | founded as “a city upon a hill.” Like almost all of us, Ami Dodson

and as shown so wonderfully by the subjects proﬁled in Senior Communications Writer | these pages, I would not be an American if my forebears Susan Kostal had not arrived on these shores from elsewhere. Photography | Jim Block

Design and Production | DCP My parents came a half century ago to pursue higher Board of Directors education. They arrived just before the 1965 Immigra- Donald Bradley ‘68 tion and Nationality Act abolished the remaining racial Tina Combs ‘88 restrictions on who could enter. Maureen Corcoran ‘79 Marci Dragun ‘86 Carin T. Fujisaki ‘85 I was born on this soil. I acquired citizenship thanks to Thomas Gede ’81 the Supreme Court decision in the Wong Kim Ark case. Claes H. Lewenhaupt ‘89 In 1898, the justices had held that an individual of Chi- Mary Noel Pepys ’78 nese descent born in San Francisco was a citizen because of the Fourteenth Amend- Carl W. “Chip” Robertson Jr. ‘98 Bruce L. Simon ‘80 ment to the Constitution. Sandra Thompson ‘01

My parents could not conceive of their children becoming advocates. English was their Contact Us Alumni Center second language. They spoke with accents, which meant that others did not always University of California respect what they had to say. They wrote with perfect grammar, which meant that Hastings College of the Law their words did not seem quite natural. 200 McAllister Street San Francisco, CA 94102 After doing public speaking and debate (forensics) in high school and college, I 415.565.4892 realized law was the right choice for me. This great nation was founded on unique [email protected] www.uchastings.edu principles. Lawyers are able to ensure, through rhetoric and analysis, that we live up to Send changes of address to those ideals. Among the most important of them is welcoming newcomers regardless [email protected]. of who they are. Please submit your class notes at [email protected]. Sincerely, UC Hastings is published by the University of California Hastings College of the Law. ©2013

Frank H. Wu Chancellor & Dean

2 SPRING 2013 { FOR THE RECORD }

Commencement 2012: “First Pursue Justice”

San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi ’85 delivered the keynote address at the law school’s commencement ceremony on May 13. In his inspiring speech, Adachi shared professional and personal insights, including his experience with the Legal Education Opportunity Program (LEOP) at UC Hastings, his goals as public defender, } and his transformative memories of working as a duck plucker after high school.

Swearing-In Ceremony

UC Hastings held its Swearing-In Ceremony for the Class of 2012 on December 14. Marci Dragun ’86, vice chair of the UC Hastings board of directors, gave the opening remarks. The oaths were administered by California Supreme Court Justice Carol Corrigan ’75; Judge Edward M. Chen of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California; and Judge William A. Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. A reception} took place in Mary Kay Kane Hall prior to the ceremony.

UC HASTINGS 3 The Road to Citizenship Student volunteers get practical training at AILA NorCal’s Citizenship Workshop

or Amanda Hamilton ’14, the opportunity because so many questions on the forms relate to Fto assist qualified immigrants with their the applicants’ backgrounds and life stories, you applications for U.S. citizenship was a profoundly inevitably form a bond with them.” gratifying experience. In April 2012, Hamilton For the past four years, UC Hastings has col- was one of some 20 student volunteers who par- laborated with AILA NorCal on this workshop, ticipated in a citizenship workshop cosponsored which takes place in the law school’s Louis B. by UC Hastings and the American Immigration Mayer Lounge. Associate Dean for Experiential Lawyers Association Northern California Chapter Learning Nancy Stuart ’94 recruits the student (AILA NorCal). At the daylong event, Hamilton, participants, whose volunteer hours count toward who speaks Mandarin and Spanish, helped appli- the pro bono program, and coordinates their train- cants complete forms, answered questions, and ing with AILA’s attorneys. gained hands-on experience in the process. “It’s a great networking opportunity for stu- “Unlike other areas of the law, where there dents,” says AILA attorney Erin Quinn, “because can be conflict and unhappiness, people who are everyone—students, lawyers, nonprofits—comes applying for citizenship are usually optimistic and together to help lawful permanent residents with full of excitement,” Hamilton says. “It’s reward- their applications. It’s a very meaningful event for ing to work in an atmosphere of optimism. And the entire immigration law community.”

4 SPRING 2013 { IN BRIEF }

MENTOR PROGRAM A STELLAR SUCCESS Students interested in learning the ropes from practitioners in the field will find UC Hastings’ Alumni Mentor Program—and its enthusiastic director, Phil Marshall ’92— an invaluable resource. With nearly 1,000 alumni mentors available in the United States, Asia, and Europe, the program is one of the largest of its kind in the country. The key, Marshall says, is finding the The mother-daughter team of Christina Chen ’78 (right) and right mentor-mentee match. “For example, Leah Price ’10—both UC Hastings graduates—brings when a student is interested in immigration experience and enthusiasm to their immigration law practice. law, I can send them to Dana Leigh Marks ’77, who is a leading immigration judge.” And students are not the only ones who benefit. “The students help me see things A DYNAMIC DUO through new perspectives,” says Marks. “Because we can offer each other so much, “You always think you’re the best person to train your children,” these mentorships are very successful.” One such success story was the pairing says Christina Chen ’78. “That’s also true in the law.” Her of Aaron Ghirardelli ’09 LLM with antitrust daughter, Leah Price ’10, works as her associate, handling attorney Fran Scarpulla ’67. “We clicked deportation defense and asylum cases from their office in Nob immediately,” says Ghirardelli. “He’s a top lawyer with a busy schedule, but he always Hill. “But the flip side,” Chen jokes, “is you can’t fire her.” found time to give me advice.” But Chen is more than just Price’s mom. “She’s my mentor,” And that’s not all he did. In 2010, when says Price. “I still sit in on her more complicated cases to learn Ghirardelli got married, Scarpulla offered to host the reception at his home. To this day, the tricks of the trade.” the two lawyers remain close friends. Chen has worked in immigration law for more than 30 years, “The Alumni Mentor Program was one of but her personal experience dates back much further. Born in the best things I ever did,” Ghirardelli adds. “But students should keep an open mind. China, Chen was just a girl when the Communist Revolution You can’t just think the program is about forced her family to flee to Macau. They waited for American leading to a job, because it can be so much visas for 12 years before finally being admitted as refugees. more than that.” After attending San Francisco State, she founded a women’s health clinic in Chinatown, before deciding to study law. “There were so few lawyers in the Chinese community back then; I thought it was necessary to add a voice,” she says. Chen remembers UC Hastings as dedicated to serving the community, not “producing lawyers for the sake of producing lawyers.” Three decades later, Price found that still rings true. She participated in the UC Hastings Refugee and Human Rights Clinic, helping win asylum for a Mongolian woman. From left: Aaron Ghirardelli ’09 LLM, Luca Pignata, The experience showed Price how much good she could do in Brenda Entzminger ’03, Fran Scarpulla ’67, and immigration law. And what’s more, she gets to work with her Simona Ghirardelli. beloved mother every day.

UC HASTINGS 5 “HOW YOU MERGE LAW, SCIENCE AND HEALTH POLICY IS VERY IN LINE WITH MY INTERESTS.”

—Hannah Lou

6 SPRING 2013 { IN BRIEF }

STUDENTS ENRICH CULTURAL { DIVERSITY AT UC HASTINGS

MEET THREE PASSIONATE STUDENTS WHOSE BACKGROUNDS INSPIRE THEIR GLOBAL FOCUS

HANNAH LOU ’15 she worked for a Palo Alto-based nonproﬁt that develops medical products for low-income people Hannah Lou long assumed she would become a around the world. doctor like her grandfather, who helped raise her in Lou learned about the regulatory, trade, and China while her parents studied abroad. cost barriers to sharing life-changing medical Those assumptions changed after Lou came technology with those populations. Becoming a to the United States at age nine to live with her lawyer would allow her to address those obstacles. parents. A different path revealed itself when she She chose to study at UC Hastings because of its attended Rice University. expertise in international law and its interdisciplin- As a biochemistry and English major, she real- ary collaboration with UCSF on law, science, and ized she was interested more in the human side health policy. of medicine than the clinical side. Two volunteer Lou, who became a U.S. citizen in high school, experiences introduced her to health care’s role is not sure if she wants to work for an international in diverse communities. Lou helped with a vac- nonproﬁt or a global health care start-up, but she cination program at a Houston homeless shelter knows UC Hastings is where she needs to be. “How and spent the summer of 2009 in southern China, you merge law, science, and health policy is very in teaching basic health education to the daughters line with my interests,” she says. of migrant workers. After graduating from Rice,

UC HASTINGS 7 “WE HAVE TO START DOING WHAT WORKS.” —Jorgio Castro

JORGIO CASTRO ’15 “I wasn’t in school, and I wasn’t working, so I didn’t have insurance,” he says. “It was pretty Growing up in San Francisco’s tough Tenderloin intense being sick and seeing how much of a chal- neighborhood gave Jorgio Castro a daily lesson in lenge it was to get health care.” how people’s lives are hurt by inequities in hous- That experience, coupled with extreme diffi- ing, education, and access to decent health care. culty coordinating his mother’s health care needs, His parents were immigrants—his father from motivated him to go to law school and find a way Bolivia and his mother from the Philippines—who to work in health care policy. struggled to survive on his father’s hotel bellman’s After internships with an Indiana congressional salary. Castro’s home for his first 16 years was a representative and California Assemblywoman rent-controlled studio apartment on Geary Street. Fiona Ma, Castro enrolled at UC Hastings. He Walking to school meant passing by prostitutes, looks forward to classes in the health sciences drug dealers, and drunks—and started him thinking concentration. His intention is to one day apply about the circumstances that landed them there. evidence-based methods to public health policy. As an undergraduate, he endured the stress of He wants to help people who live in low-income living without health insurance when a debilitating neighborhoods like the one he grew up in and muscle condition forced him to take two years’ ensure our health care system covers everyone. leave from college. “We have to start doing what works,” he says.

8 SPRING 2013 { IN BRIEF }

EDWARD MATA ’14 Now that he’s studying at UC Hastings, immersed in classes with “really talented faculty Edward Mata thinks a lot about the sacrifices and students,” he is determined to help Latino his mother made to ensure he would benefit immigrants and people in the Dominican Republic. from being a U.S. citizen. She traveled from the With business law, he hopes one day to repre- Dominican Republic in 1982 to give birth to him in sent minority-owned U.S. companies and advise the Bronx, New York. She and his father returned new technology start-ups looking to invest in to the United States in 1989, settling in Miami, and developing countries like the Dominican Republic. she worked to keep her children in America after He believes business can be a “powerful engine” Mata’s father returned to the Caribbean island for bringing about social change. nation. “I was blessed and lucky to be my mother’s Mata also worked hard. He helped support son,” Mata says. “She had the foresight to make his family throughout middle and high school. sure I was born here. Now, I’m in a great position. To finance college, he joined the Navy, serving I’m 30, and I’m going to be a lawyer in a couple of on a nuclear submarine. He earned his bachelor’s years. I feel I have this sense of duty because I was degree online while working as a data-center able to make it out. And it wasn’t just my doing but engineer in Silicon Valley. because of my mom.”

“I FEEL I HAVE THIS SENSE OF DUTY BECAUSE I WAS ABLE TO MAKE IT OUT.” —Edward Mata

UC HASTINGS 9 { FACULTY FOCUS }

Top Legal Educators Join UC Hastings’ Faculty

UC HASTINGS WELCOMED FIVE NEW PROFESSORS THIS YEAR, ADDING BREADTH TO AN ALREADY IMPRESSIVE ROSTER. THE NEW FACULTY MEMBERS ARE EXPERTS IN CIVIL PROCEDURE, ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION, BUSINESS REGULATION, AND ISSUES AFFECTING THE UNDERPRIVILEGED AND ELDERLY. THEY REINFORCE THE SCHOOL’S POSITION AS AN INNOVATIVE INSTITUTION FOR LEGAL STUDY.

SCOTT DODSON

[ Professor of Law ]

- BACKGROUND - Scott Dodson comes to UC Hastings from William & Mary Law School. He has held permanent or visiting appointments at Duke University School of Law and the University of Arkansas School of Law. Previously, he clerked for the Hon. Nicholas G. Garauﬁs on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. He graduated from Duke University School of Law, where he was an editor of the Duke Law Journal.

- SPECIALTY - Dodson specializes in civil procedure and federal courts. He has written more than 35 articles for varied publications, including Stanford Law Review and California Law Review. His second book, New Pleading in the Twenty- First Century, has just been published by Oxford University Press. His writings have been cited by the Fifth, Seventh, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh circuits. He has blogged for SCOTUSblog, Civil Procedure and Federal Courts Blog, and Prawfsblawg.

- COURSES TAUGHT - Civil procedure, federal “Procedure is power. It is one of the most courts, comparative civil procedure. important subjects a law student studies. I personally litigated many cases - FUN FACTS - Dodson trained as a bartender and makes a mean mint julep. in which procedure was the deﬁning moment in the case.” - Scott Dodson -

10 SPRING 2013 “CNDR has a great program that I look forward to growing and oﬀering both to our students and to the international community.” - Sheila Rose Purcell -

MORRIS A. RATNER

[ Associate Professor of Law ]

- BACKGROUND - Morris Ratner was a partner at the San Francisco-based plaintiffs’ ﬁrm Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, where he pros- ecuted product liability, mass personal injury, and consumer and human rights actions. He launched his teaching career in 2009 at his alma mater, Harvard Law School.

- SPECIALTY - Ratner specializes in civil procedure and legal ethics. His academic focus includes ethical, procedural, and organizational SHEILA ROSE PURCELL ’86 questions that arise in multiparty actions, including class actions and multidistrict litigation. [ Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Center for Negotiation and Dispute - COURSES TAUGHT - Civil procedure, legal Resolution ] ethics, law practice management.

- BACKGROUND - Sheila Rose Purcell ’86 is - FUN FACTS - Ratner survived his 1L section renowned as one of the nation’s thought leaders at Harvard Law with a now-famous classmate: in the ﬁeld of court-connected alternative dis- President Barack Obama. A fourth-generation pute resolution (ADR). She designed and led the San Franciscan, Ratner is a dog lover whose San Mateo County Superior Court Multi-Option Whippet has him “wrapped around his front paw.” ADR Project from 1996 to 2012. This program grew to include individually designed programs in family law, small claims, probate, juvenile delinquency, juvenile dependence, and complex civil divisions of the court. She codeveloped the UC Hastings Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution’s Court ADR Systems Design Institute for foreign judges and lawyers.

- SPECIALTY - Purcell specializes in court- connected ADR, building community/public/private partnerships, and working with international counterparts looking to develop ADR systems.

- COURSES TAUGHT - ADR policy and procedure, dispute systems design.

- FUN FACTS - By having the eight red-headed kids in her family drink powdered milk instead of whole milk for 17 years, Purcell’s dad saved enough money to put in a swimming pool.

“"e goal is to teach students to think as businesspeople, and to think strategically, rather than reactively, about their practices. "at’s the practical advantage.” - Morris A. Ratner -

UC HASTINGS 11 “Students are learning how to partner across disciplines, outside the typical legal framework. My hope is they will become more thoughtful and reﬂective as individuals, not only in their legal practice, but in every part of their lives.” - Yvonne Troya -

JODI SHORT

[ Associate Professor of Law ]

- BACKGROUND - Jodi Short comes to UC Hastings from Georgetown Law, where she was an associate professor and a senior policy scholar at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy, McDonough School of Business. She has a law degree from Georgetown and a YVONNE TROYA doctorate in sociology from UC Berkeley.

- SPECIALTY - Short’s interests include the [ Clinical Professor of Law and Legal Director regulation of business, speciﬁcally the intersec- of the Medical-Legal Partnership for Seniors ] tion of public and private regulatory regimes, and the theory and practice of regulatory reform. - BACKGROUND - Yvonne Troya has an extensive background developing legal ser- - COURSES TAUGHT - Administrative law, vices programs for underserved populations. government processes, introduction to legisla- Before becoming legal director of the Medical- tion and regulation, transnational enforcement of Legal Partnership for Seniors, a partnership labor standards in global supply chains, and the between UCSF and UC Hastings, she served private role in public governance. as clinical supervisor and staff attorney of the Health Practice of the East Bay Community Law - FUN FACTS - On her days off, she often goes Center, the community-based component of to the beach in the morning, hikes in the after- UC Berkeley Law’s Clinical Program. There, she noon, and makes a locally sourced dinner at night. served low-income adults with HIV/AIDS and low-income families. She also helped create a law school-based medical-legal partnership in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She earned her law degree from UC Berkeley in 2006.

- SPECIALTY - Troya specializes in elder law, medical-legal partnerships, health care decision making, public beneﬁts, and poverty law.

- COURSES TAUGHT - Medical-Legal Partnership for Seniors Clinic.

- FUN FACTS - Someday, Troya would love to pursue an alternate career as a guide in the Amazon rainforest.

“Regulation touches just about every aspect of our lives, both as citizens and as lawyers. My students learn to navigate the legal and political complexities of the modern regulatory state.” - Jodi Short -

12 SPRING 2013 FACULTY FOCUS Professors at UC Hastings are renowned for their contributions { } to cutting-edge legal thinking, research, and analysis. The following is a selection of recent noteworthy publications. For a complete lisit, visit www.uchastings.edu/scholarship. Engaged Scholarship

JOURNAL ARTICLES

BEN DEPOORTER - The Upside of SUSAN C. MORSE - A Corporate Losing, 113 Colum. L. Rev. (2013). Offshore Profits Transition Tax, 91 N.C. L. Rev. 549 (2012). SCOTT DODSON - Rethinking Extraordinary Circumstances, 106 OSAGIE K. OBASOGIE - Can the Blind Nw. U. L. Rev. 377 (2012). Lead the Blind? Rethinking Equal Protection Jurisprudence Through an DAVID L. FAIGMAN - Implicit Bias Empirical Examination of Blind People’s BOOKS in the Courtroom, 59 UCLA L. Rev. Understanding of Race, 15 U. Pa. J. 1124 (2012) (with others). Const. L. 705 (2012). William S. Dodge International Law in the ROBIN FELDMAN - The AIA 500: MORRIS A. RATNER - A New Model of U.S. Supreme Court: Effects of Patent Monetization Plaintiffs’ Class Action Attorneys, 31 Rev. Continuity and Change Entities on U.S. Litigation, 11 Duke L. Litig. 1 (2012). (Cambridge Univ. Press, & Tech. Rev. (2012) (with others). paperback edition 2012, DORIT RUBINSTEIN REISS - The Benefits hardback edition 2011) HEATHER M. FIELD - The Return- of Capture, 47 Wake Forest L. Rev. 569 (with David L. Sloss and Reducing Ripple Effects of the (2012). Michael D. Ramsey). “Carried Interest” Tax Proposals, 13 Fla. Tax Rev. 1 (2012). JODI L. SHORT - The Political Turn in Scott Dodson American Administrative Law: Power, New Pleading in the KEITH J. HAND - Understanding Rationality, and Reasons, 61 Duke L. J. Twenty-First Century: China’s System for Addressing 1811 (2012). Slamming the Federal Legislative Conflicts: Capacity Courthouse Doors? Challenges and the Search for GAIL E. SILVERSTEIN - All’s Well that (Oxford Univ. Press, Legislative Harmony, 25 Colum. J. Ends Well: The Importance of Full 2013). Asian L. (2013). and Effective Closure in Attorney- Client Relationships, 19 Clinical L. Rev. Joseph R. Grodin CHIMÈNE I. KEITNER - The (forthcoming 2013). The California State Forgotten History of Foreign Official Constitution: A Immunity, 87 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 704 (2012). DAVID TAKACS ’08 - Forest Carbon Reference Guide (REDD+), Repairing International Trust, (Oxford Univ. Press 2d JAIME S. KING - Not This Child: and Reciprocal Contractual Sovereignty, ed., 2013) (with Michael Constitutional Questions in 36 Vt. L. Rev. (2012). B. Salerno and Darien Regulating Non-Invasive Prenatal Shanske). Genetic Diagnosis and Selective FRANK H. WU - Becoming Asian Abortion, 60 UCLA L. Rev. 2 (2012). American: An Interview with Keith Aoki, Ugo Mattei 42 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1609 (2012). Cambridge Companion EVAN TSEN LEE - The Standing to Comparative Law Doctrine’s Dirty Little Secret, 107 (Cambridge Univ. Press, Nw. U. L. Rev. 169 (2012) (with 2012) (with Mauro Josephine Mason Ellis ’11). Bussani).

UC HASTINGS 13 { ADVANCEMENT }

The UC Hastings Challenge INSPIRES NEW GIFTS

rapping up its fourth year, the UC Hastings Challenge raised almost $200,000 in 2012. Twenty- five team captains inspired their UC Hastings colleagues to participate in this annual fundraising W campaign. Seven firms achieved the 100 percent goal, and five firms reached 50 percent. Alyce Rubinfeld Fox ’82 has served as chair of the Challenge for two years. “This was a momentous year for the Challenge,” Rubinfeld Fox says. “It is gratifying to work with so many enthusiastic alumni volunteers and donors, and I am looking forward to achieving even better results in 2013.” Funds raised are used to support scholarships, clinical programs, career services, and many other areas that benefit from the generosity of alumni. For information about the 2013 Challenge, contact Robin Drysdale, annual giving manager, at 415.565.4852 or [email protected].

PLATINUM LEVEL SILVER LEVEL (50 PERCENT PARTICIPATION) (100 PERCENT PARTICIPATION)

t Griff Towle ’89 t Sandi Nichols ’81 and Mark Seifert ’01

t Philip Matthews ’77 t Daniel Vermillion ’09

t Paul Salvaty ’93 t Kelly Woodruff ’92

t Skip McCowan ’74 and Mike Lucey ’81 t Gerry Hinkley ’75 and Jim Young ’69

t William O’Neill ’07 t Christine Noma ’82

2013 Challenge Cochairs Philip Matthews ’77 and t Simona Agnolucci ’06 Alyce Rubinfeld Fox ’82.

t Alyce Rubinfeld Fox ’82

14 SPRING 2013 { ADVANCEMENT }

UC Hastings Dean Emeritus Mary Kay Kane Gives $169,000 to Support Scholarships

hancellor and Dean Emeritus Mary Kay Kane has donated $169,000 in honor of John K. “Jack” Smith ’54, one of the college’s most Centhusiastic alumni and chair of the school’s board of directors during Kane’s tenure as chancellor and dean. Smith, who practiced real estate law with Haley, Purchio, Sakai & Smith, was appointed to the UC Hastings board of directors in 1999 and served as board chair from 2004 to 2008. In addition, he served as the ﬁrst elected mayor of Hayward and was vice chair of the Alameda County Coliseum board. Before Smith’s death in 2008, several friends created the Jack Smith scholarship endowment to honor his dedication to UC Hastings. Kane’s gift has more than doubled the size of the fund, now worth more than $250,000. “I believe that every generation should work to make things better for the next generation, and Jack would have wanted the next generation of students to have the same opportunities he had,” she says. “Through former Dean Kane’s generosity, UC Hastings will continue our efforts to reboot legal education,” says Chancellor & Dean Frank H. Wu. “This helps us achieve our No. 1 strategic goal to create outstanding professionals ready to solve twenty-ﬁrst century problems.” For more information about supporting scholarships, please contact Laura Jackson at 415.565.4612 or [email protected].

CY PRES AWARD OF $112,000 TO BENEFIT PRIVACY PROJECT Kenneth S. Gaines ’70, principal of Gaines & Gaines, facilitated the naming of UC Hastings as the beneficiary of a $112,000 cy pres award resulting from a class action against satellite radio giant Sirius XM. The lawsuit, which accused Sirius XM of illegally recording customers’ phone calls, resulted in a $9.5 million settlement in 2011. Gaines, who worked on the case with his son and law partner, Daniel, explains that UC Hastings, with its groundbreaking Privacy and Technology Project, is an ideal choice for this award. “UC Hastings is doing cutting-edge work with respect to individuals’ rights to protect their own information,” he says. “I wanted to support the school’s work in this field.” If you know of Kenneth S. Gaines ’70 cy pres awards for which UC Hastings would be an appropriate beneficiary, with Chancellor & Dean contact Beverly Parayno at 415.581.8820 or [email protected]. Frank H. Wu.

UC HASTINGS 15 { ADVANCEMENT }

UC Hastings Sees Dramatic Increase in Grant Awards

Grant awards at UC Hastings College of the Law grants totaling nearly $500,000 in support of have exceeded $1 million this ﬁscal year, a 48 the groundbreaking work conducted by the UC percent increase over the past year. Leading grant Hastings Center for Gender and Refugee Studies makers, including the MacArthur Foundation, the (to learn more about CGRS, please see page 32). Rockefeller Family Fund, and the Leon A. & Esther Private foundation support enables the College to F. Blum Foundation, recognize the impact of the thoroughly prepare its graduates for a profession College’s high-quality academic program based on with continuously changing demands and needs. scholarship, teaching, and research, and engage- For more information about grants at UC Hastings, ment with the legal and advocacy community. The please contact Beverly Parayno at 415.581.8820 or largest of these awards are MacArthur Foundation [email protected].

L. Richard Fischer ’70 Establishes $125,000 Endowed Scholarship Fund

Rick Fischer ’70 recently made a generous gift of $125,000 to create an endowed scholarship fund. The scholarship will help support a student who attended the University of San Francisco and who, after one year at UC Hastings, has placed in the top 10 percent of his or her class. “Scholarships play a vital role in helping to alleviate our students’ financial burden,” says Dean Frank H. Wu. “We are most grateful to Rick for his vision and generosity.” Fischer, who is a partner in Morrison Foerster’s Washington, D.C., office, specializes in retail financial services, privacy, and data security. “I found joy in the study of the law at UC Hastings and a successful practice as a result of that education,” says Fischer, who served on the editorial board of the Hastings Law Journal. “I am pleased to be able to create the scholarship fund to give others a similar educational opportunity.” For more information about creating an endowed scholarship, please contact Laura Jackson at 415.565.4621 or [email protected].

16 SPRING 2013 { ADVANCEMENT }

Inaugural Gala Honors Alumni and Faculty

he UC Hastings Foundation Board of Trustees will host the ﬁrst UC Hastings Honors Gala on Oct. 11, 2013, to celebrate two alumni and a faculty member who have had a signiﬁcant impact professionally T and in their communities. All alumni will receive invitations to the gala.

This year, UC Hastings will celebrate the following individuals:

t Willie L. Brown Jr. ’58 | Alumnus of the Year After serving two terms as mayor of the city and county of San Francisco and as the longest serving speaker of the California State Assembly, Willie Brown remains a political force both locally and nationally.

t Simona Agnolucci ’06 | Rising Alumna of the Year From litigating for major ﬁrms and cutting-edge tech companies in complex cases to her pro bono practice representing women ﬂeeing gender-based prosecution, Simona Agnolucci is making her mark.

t Roger C. Park | Distinguished Faculty of the Year Professor Roger C. Park is an internationally recognized scholar and award-winning teacher whose eight books and scores of articles use interdisciplinary methods to examine evidence law.

“We are excited to take our alumni recognition efforts to another level,” says Jim Mahoney ’66, who is cochairing the Honors Committee with Eric Wersching ’03. “A law school is best known for the alumni it produces and the faculty it attracts, and UC Hastings is exemplary in both areas.”

UC HASTINGS THANKS OUR GOLD-LEVEL SPONSORS:

The UC Hastings Foundation is currently seeking sponsors for the gala, which will be held at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco. For a full list of sponsorship opportunities, contact Laura Jackson at [email protected] or 415.565.4621. (Gold-level sponsors as of March 15, 2013.)

UC HASTINGS 17 “I believe that diversity is our society’s greatest strength, and I think immigrants are the very cornerstones of that diversity.”

John Lim ‘82

A TOP ATTORNEY, COMMUNITY LEADER, AND TIRELESS FORCE FOR CHANGE, THE PRINCIPAL OF THE LOS ANGELES-BASED FIRM LIM RUGER DISCUSSES HOW HIS EXPERIENCE AS A FIRST- GENERATION IMMIGRANT GALVANIZED HIS PASSION FOR CIVIL RIGHTS.

18 SPRING 2013 { POINT OF VIEW }

Born in Seoul, South Korea, John Lim ’82 immigrated to the Los Angeles area with his family in 1967. Lim’s experiences as an Asian American immigrant have helped to shape the law ﬁrm he cofounded, Lim Ruger, a multiethnic, multicultural law ﬁrm deeply committed to changing perceptions of minority lawyers and aiding minority communities.

that if I could offer compe- Lim Ruger recently Is your family proud tent legal representation by received the Builders of of your success? Q: What was it like lawyers who could communi- Peace Award from the Yes, but immigrant fami- growing up in Los Angeles cate in their native language Western Justice Center. lies’ expectations are often as an Asian American? and understand their cultural Was that in recognition of beyond what you can deliver. J.L.: I attended a public landscape, it would be an your pro bono work? When I came here at a young elementary school in the important contribution. And Yes, but I also believe it was age, we were told that if you part of Los Angeles called I thought that my back- in recognition of the scholar- work hard, you can achieve Koreatown. Upon gradua- ground in accounting and ships we give out every year your dreams. I believed tion, I was bused to a middle legal studies would equip to various bar organizations, that, but I would qualify that school in North Hollywood. me to be an effective leader including the State Bar knowing what I know today Going from a predominantly and business lawyer. Foundation. We see tremen- about how economically minority neighborhood to dous value in giving back to challenged immigrants need an almost all-white school What was your goal in the community and also by to make money to put food was shocking. To be viewed starting Lim Ruger? being an example among on the table. I’m the young- by the students and their We started with the hope of diverse law firms. est of four children, and all parents as an outsider was a building a minority-owned of us worked, even at a very daily struggle. There was tre- law firm that would represent In the time that you’ve young age. I’ve never ceased mendous resistance, racism, minority-owned businesses. been practicing law, have working. And I think that and constant name calling. We would also effectively you seen the situation for work ethic has been the plat- represent mainstream corpo- minority lawyers improve form for whatever success I What did you take away rations that would benefit significantly? have achieved. from this experience? from the strengths and capa- We’ve made huge improve- It taught me a lot about bilities of diverse attorneys. ments. When I joined a What are your goals as a being tough and staying A big part of our mission is major New York law firm as a member of UC Hastings’ focused. I think it made me to change commonly held recent UC Hastings gradu- Board of Trustees? more sensitive to civil rights perceptions of minority ate, I was one of two Asian When I was asked to serve issues, and it definitely lawyers and minority-owned American lawyers in the on the board, I gladly influenced my desire to have law firms. entire firm. If you go to any accepted because I wanted some positive impact on our major firm’s roster today, a meaningful platform to society. To me, law seemed What community activities you will see a fair number of raise money for the school. the most natural medium to are you involved in? Asian American lawyers. So Because of the hardships I make that impact. The one in which I spend yes, we’ve made huge prog- endured growing up, I know most of my energy away ress. But do we still have a what it means when I hear Why did you choose to from private practice is long way to go? Absolutely. stories about students not study accounting before the Asian Pacific American Except for a limited number being able to pay for books attending UC Hastings? Legal Center, based in Los of minority lawyers I know, or having to borrow tre- Growing up in a minor- Angeles. We are the nation’s most minority partners at mendously for their tuition. ity community, I saw many largest public interest law major firms have very little Thanks to UC Hastings, immigrant businesses group providing direct legal voice, are not active in firm I have been able to raise manipulated by unfair busi- services and civil rights management, and are often three children and put them ness “partners.” I sensed advocacy primarily for Asian regarded as backroom through school without them that somebody needed Americans. I was on the lawyers, or lawyers they put having to take out loans. to level the playing field a board for 20 years and have out for marketing purposes. With this tremendous bless- bit and help provide equal been the board chair for the These things need to ing, how else do I express access to justice. I thought past five years. change. that gratitude?

UC HASTINGS 19 { TRAILBLAZER }

Toward Justice for All [ In targeting perpetrators of human trafﬁcking and protecting ] foreclosure victims, California Attorney General Kamala Harris ’89 is shaking up the status quo. ]

mong the multitude before assuming her statewide of rising stars in post; standing up to big banks in California legal circles securing safeguards for California and national politics, foreclosure victims; addressing the AAttorney General Kamala D. Democratic National Convention Harris ’89 is capturing lots of and supporting the reelection of attention—and with good rea- President Barack Obama, with son. Pragmatic and photogenic, whom she has personal and politi- she is the first woman, the first cal ties. African American, and the first Even while media pundits South Asian to hold the post as the speculate that she may be a pos- state’s top prosecutor. sible candidate for governor or a At wide-ranging venues and post in the Obama administration, in challenging circumstances, Harris is decidedly keeping her Harris has made her mark as both attention focused on her current articulate and audacious—scoring office. Always committed and stunning electoral victories, first as conscientious, she doggedly district attorney in San Francisco defends the interests of the people

20 SPRING 2013 “We must counter the ruthlessness of human trafﬁckers with resolve and collaboration. Law enforcement must continue to train, gather data, and shut down the trafﬁcking opera- tions in our state.”

UC HASTINGS 21 “We need to be smart in the ways we are addressing immigration, and it needs to be based on what is in the best interests of our community, not driven by ideology and emotion.”

of California—protecting the rights social unrest and political activ- conversations had a tremendous of consumers, fighting to preserve ism of the 1960s and ‘70s and influence on me.” the state’s natural resources, and describes her divorced parents as supporting efforts to ensure mar- civil rights activists. Her father, a FROM COLLEGE ACTIVIST riage equality for all Californians Jamaican immigrant, went on to TO CAREER PROSECUTOR (her office recently filed an amicus teach economics at Stanford. Her Having grown up “surrounded by brief with the U.S. Supreme Court mother, who raised her, was Indian people who were always pas- opposing Prop. 8). and became a leading breast can- sionately fighting for this thing cer researcher. called ‘justice,’ ” Harris once told a BORN TO MAKE WAVES “My [maternal] grandfather was reporter, “I was ultimately inspired No matter the case, Harris is one of the original freedom fighters to make my own contribution to driven by the law’s power to right in India,” says Harris, recalling her this noble cause through public wrongs and balance the scales of earliest memories of her family’s service.” That sense of purpose justice. As she puts it, “Lawyers periodic trips there. She had the led her first to Howard University have a profound ability and honor of joining him and his friends, in Washington, D.C., America’s responsibility to be a voice for the all retired public servants, on daily oldest historically black univer- vulnerable and the voiceless.” walks on the beach. sity, then to UC Hastings, which It’s a point of view that’s “They would debate the role suited her aspirations and lifelong virtually in her DNA. An Oakland of government and the need to bent toward activism. She served native, Harris grew up amid the fight corruption,” she says. “Those as president of the Black Law

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Students Association (BLSA), in a In 2010, voters chose Harris a pure law enforcement issue, and regional post for BLSA’s national to be the state’s 32nd attorney we must address it,” says Harris. parent organization, and as an general. What has been called her “We’ve got to send victims the advocate for greater campus diver- “biggest test and success” came signal that we care.” sity as part of the Legal Education the next year, when she negoti- Other immigration-related Opportunity Program. ated an additional $12 billion in issues are also a focus of her office. After law school, Harris signed debt relief for Californians as part Harris made statewide headlines on with the Alameda County of the settlement of a 49-state suit reminding local law enforce- District Attorney’s Office as deputy against five major banks accused of ment that federal orders to turn district attorney. In 1998, she mortgage abuses. over noncriminal undocumented joined the San Francisco District immigrants aren’t mandatory. Attorney’s Office, where, among ON THE AG’S AGENDA She also recently filed two high- other posts, she led the Career Prosecuting human trafficking is profile amicus briefs: one with Criminal Unit. She was elected high on Harris’s list of priorities, as the California Supreme Court district attorney in 2003, defeat- it has been throughout her career. supporting the admission of ing two-term incumbent Terence According to statistics released by undocumented immigrant Sergio Hallinan; she held firm to her her office, California is one of the Garcia to the state bar, and stance against the death penalty nation’s top four destination states another with the U.S. Supreme while in that post, winning an for the multibillion-dollar, modern- Court in opposition to Arizona’s unopposed second term in 2007. day slave trade. “At its core, this is illegal immigration legislation. Taking a big-picture view of immigration reform, this immigrants’ daughter says she’s excited about what she sees as a con- vergence of political will, legal opinion, and public support for sweeping change. As with Brown v. Board of Education’s school desegregation, spearheaded gen- erations ago by her legal heroes Thurgood Marshall, Charles Hamilton Houston, and Constance Baker Motley, immigration reform may very well be the next civil rights issue to have its day in court. “I think history will also show this moment as a turning point,” she says. “It’s incumbent on everyone to consider the moment and decide what side of history they want to be on.”

UC HASTINGS 23 { THE IMMIGRATION ISSUE: ALUMNI }

With its long heritage of inclusiveness, UC Hastings has always taken a multicultural view of the law. Here, we celebrate six alumni who are building bridges among people and communities the world over.

Cris Ibarra ’79: American Dream Maker

ith work on two continents and expertise in After high school in San Francisco and a degree a multitude of legal arenas—immigration, from UC Berkeley, it was on to UC Hastings. That was W business, family, employment, and trademark during the turbulent 1970s, and Ibarra was part of a law—Cris Ibarra ’79’s San Francisco-based practice movement that closed down the school for a couple gives new meaning to the term eclectic. of weeks to protest limiting admission of women and Some of his immigration clients are talented aca- minorities. The movement started with the Asian Law demics, athletes, and artists seeking “extraordinary Caucus, of which Ibarra was a member. “We took it to ability” visas, such as the two Nigerian soccer players the Regents and won,” he recalls. who went on to play in the World Cup, or the Brazilian Ibarra still found time to get a great education. He artist whose work is at the Smithsonian Institution. But especially loved an immigration course that he took, the bulk of Ibarra’s immigration work helps ordinary as well as Rudolf Schlesinger’s conﬂicts of laws class. “I individuals from around the globe who want a shot at couldn’t get into Professor Schlesinger’s class, so I sat the American Dream. in on the lectures for the entire semester,” he says. “It That’s something Ibarra has ﬁrsthand experience really helped me later in one of my cases that lasted for with. At age 15, he came to San Francisco from the years and ended up in the Ninth Circuit.” Philippines with his mother and siblings, following his Today, Ibarra regularly travels to Southeast Asia, CPA father, who accurately predicted political turmoil where he provides consulting services to companies back home. Ibarra had it easier than many immigrants developing local infrastructure. And he’s collaborating do today. “Between 1965 and 1969, the United States with UC Hastings to create a visiting scholars program opened its doors to Asians,” he says. Ibarra already that would encourage law students, practicing attor- spoke English when he arrived, in addition to Filipino neys, and judges from overseas to take courses in San and Mandarin. Hard work came easy, thanks to a Francisco. With his multilingual abilities, Asian heritage, rigorous education at a Jesuit Chinese school in the and business expertise, Ibarra is the perfect person to Philippines. make it happen.

24 SPRING 2013 UC HASTINGS 25 Xochitl Carrion ’07: Unbreakable Spirit

ochitl Carrion ’07 calls herself a warrior. And with good cause. Having overcome a childhood X riddled with poverty, abuse, the death of her mother, and abandonment by her father, Carrion more than warrants that title. When Carrion was three, she and her sister awoke in their Los Angeles area home to discover their Puerto Rican mother and Mexican father missing. Their father returned a few days later only to flee to Mexico after police questioning. Her mother to this day remains a missing person. Carrion, raised by her grandmother, became known as the “poor orphan kid” in a neighborhood of struggling immigrants and working-class Latina/os. Despite this adversity, Carrion graduated early from high school and won admission to UCLA. Academia, for her, was therapeutic, as she connected her identity with her studies in Chicano, women’s, and labor/workplace issues, and the LGBT community. She decided to channel her life experience into advocacy work and a legal career. During her second year at UC Hastings, she learned that her father years earlier had admitted to a relative that he killed his wife. “I fell apart right after that,” she says. But the warrior in her told her to finish school and excel. The semester after learning this devastating information, Carrion received a CALI Excellence for the Future Award and organized the first Latina/o law symposium at UC Hastings in her capacity as La Raza Student Association cochair. She’s now an associate at Goldfarb & Lipman, a firm with locations in Oakland, Los Angeles, and San Diego that works in affordable housing, community economic development, employment law, land use, taxation, and litigation. Carrion focuses on helping public agencies and other organizations comply with affordable housing and employment law. Outside of work, she is the youngest chair of the California Law Review Commission; is Northern District vice president of the California La Raza Lawyers Association; and is copresident of Brava! For Women in the Arts, a women’s theater arts center in San Francisco. She also is working on an autobiogra- phy to help other people who have survived childhood trauma. “I have been blessed along the way with so many people who continue to believe in my potential and support me. I am dedicated to doing the same for others,” says Carrion. Having not just survived her past but persevered and continuing to excel as well, this warrior says she’s ready to face the challenges of the future.

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Elizabeth Aakhus ’11: Serving the Rural Poor

s a teenager growing up in Bakersfield, Elizabeth Project and Homeless Legal Services, and enrolled in Aakhus ’11 was determined to get as far away the Civil Justice Clinic. “In the clinic, I learned how to A from the Central Valley as possible. “I knew that work one-on-one with clients,” she says, “but more if I didn’t work hard, I wouldn’t get out,” she says. For the importantly, I learned how challenging it can be for majority of her friends and classmates, this was the case, people to gain access to lawyers, especially people who and it was nearly the case for her. In her senior year of are living below the poverty line.” high school, she was suspended; her offense was talking In 2011, she was awarded the Ralph Santiago back to a school police officer and refusing to follow Abascal Fellowship, a yearlong award given to a UC instructions. The way Aakhus sees it now, this experience Hastings student to pursue antipoverty and civil rights was the exception rather than the rule. work. Aakhus joined the Delano office of California Rural “I got the suspension removed from my record Legal Assistance (CRLA), an organization dedicated to because my parents advocated for me,” she says. “That improving the lives of the state’s rural poor, where she is was when I saw the gross disparities in how schools mete now a staff attorney. She focused her fellowship on edu- out punishment, especially to people who do not have cation equity issues, specifically on the disproportionate someone fighting for them. This experience was a key impact that school discipline has on students of color. factor in my decision to become a public interest lawyer.” “My challenge has been to make sure that parents Aakhus enrolled in NYU and went on to UC Hastings, and youth know their rights,” she says. “Education is where she took advantage of many hands-on opportuni- such an important way to counteract the effects of ties. She joined two student organizations that offered poverty, and it’s gratifying to help kids stay on track and direct client contact, the General Assistance Advocacy have opportunities to advance.”

Elizabeth Aakhus ‘11 (in yellow jacket), with members of the rural community she serves in the Central Valley.

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ucia Martel-Dow ‘12 LLM has a career that spans Lucia Martel-Dow ’12: three continents as well as fields from human L rights to financial investment, so it’s hard to imag- Cultivating the Big Picture ine a common thread connecting her first job in the Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Affairs to her current position as senior compliance consultant for Gordian her future husband. Together, they decided to live in Compliance Solutions. the Bay Area. There is, however, a consistent theme, the Despite her love of San Francisco, Martel-Dow Venezuelan native points out. “I’m still dealing with describes her first year in this country as being quite government, but instead of working within it, I work difficult. Her experience with government and inter- for the other side. But I’m constantly trying to figure national agencies did not have a likely extension on out what the government requires,” she says, adding the West Coast. Although she found she liked working that she often considers how her work fits into a bigger with the immigrant community at nonprofit organiza- picture. “What have we done as a society by regulating tions, she found she “wanted a bit more, to focus on certain things? What should we be regulating?” issues that were more macro. When Martel-Dow graduated from law school in “In the beginning,” she says, “it was difficult to find Venezuela, her dream was to be a diplomat. Working a niche where I could use my skills and be happy with at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she began train- what I was doing.” ing to become an ambassador, but in 2005, she says, Martel-Dow’s search led her to UC Hastings to earn the political situation in Venezuela had become so her LLM. Learning U.S. lawyers’ approach to problem polarized that she considered her position untenable. solving was invaluable, she says, as were the contacts “Working as a diplomat had become less profes- she made. sional,” she says, “and I was kind of forced to leave.” In fact, it was the people she met there, includ- Martel-Dow moved to Spain, her father’s ing her alumni mentor, Jed Clark ’10, that led her to birthplace, and worked as a consultant to the Ibero- secure her current position, Martel-Dow says. “It’s the American General Secretariat. It was during that time human capital, the network that UC Hastings offers,” that she took a trip to San Francisco, where she met she says. “For me it was vital.”

28 SPRING 2013 UC HASTINGS 29 From left: Julie Pearl ’87, Sameer Khedekar, and Christy Nguyen ’00.

Julie Pearl ’87 and Christy Nguyen ’00: Leveraging Intellectual Capital

hen the attorneys at Pearl Law Group get Like Pearl, both Nguyen and Khedekar have a per- behind an employer’s bid to hire exceptional sonal connection to immigration. Nguyen’s parents were W foreign talent, CEO and founder Julie Pearl refugees from Vietnam in the 1970s. Khedekar, who was ’87 expects fast-tracked results. Instead of waiting in born in India, maintained a green card for more than 30 long lines and enduring complicated procedures, the years, often “waiting in line in the dark and cold” to get firm makes a case for how the individual’s talents estab- his turn with an immigration officer. lish him or her as an “extraordinary ability alien.” For Nguyen and Pearl, UC Hastings provided critical “We’re essentially leveraging intellectual capital,” training and practical skills, which deepened their inter- Pearl says. The firm represents some of the Bay Area’s est in immigration law. Although Pearl also took classes most successful companies, helping them to attract, at other law schools—Harvard, Tufts, and Boalt—she hire, and retain highly educated foreign employees. says she would be less effective practicing at, let alone The granddaughter of four Eastern European immi- running, a large firm had she earned her degree else- grants, Pearl founded her firm in 1995, and it has grown where. “None of the other schools I went to would have steadily to 42 employees, with offices in San Francisco, prepared me as well as UC Hastings did,” she says. London, and Shanghai. In 2006, Pearl hired two part- All three attorneys say they achieve their greatest ners, Christy Nguyen ’00 and Sameer Khedekar, satisfaction when they can help a company secure the whose wife, Rupa Bhandari, is UC Hastings’ Director of best talent possible to get an innovative workforce in Student Services. This year, Pearl Law Group was named place—or when they successfully resolve one person’s Immigration Provider of the Year: Americas by represen- immigration dilemma. “We’re helping someone every tatives of top corporations that served as judges for the day,” says Nguyen. “It could be a professor or a CEO, or Forum for Expatriate Management. a scientist who is trying to find a cure for cancer.”

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Yuri Vanetik ’98: Dedicated to Giving Back

t should come as no surprise that Yuri Vanetik ’98 problem solver and made me more solutions-oriented.” brings an international perspective to his work as an After graduation, he practiced corporate law at I investor, philanthropist, and political coalition builder. Kirkpatrick and Lockhart and later was a founding part- Vanetik immigrated to California from Ukraine in 1976. ner of Iger, Koehler and Vanetik. He continually found Though he was only six years old at the time, the himself drawn to the deal-making side of business. experience had a lasting impact on his approach to life “I always looked at the legal profession as a set of and career. skills,” he says. “I wanted to do deals. For me, becoming “I think I take less for granted and feel greater a lawyer was a rite of passage.” responsibility,” he says. “I call it ‘the immigrant burden.’ Now, Vanetik runs a private equity firm, investing I owe it to my family because of the risks they took to in oil, mining, real estate, and technology. In addition, come here.” he is active in Republican politics and played a key role Vanetik, who had planned to pursue a career in in recent presidential and gubernatorial races. He is academia, graduated from UC Berkeley and studied also involved with a number of nonprofits, including political philosophy at Oxford. But he decided that Miracles for Kids, which provides aid to children with the pace of academic life wasn’t right for him, so he life-threatening illnesses and their families. switched tracks and matriculated at UC Hastings. “This work imbues my life with meaning,” he says. “UC Hastings provided amazing training for life, not “When I’m involved with philanthropy, I find like-minded just career,” he says. “It taught me how to be a practical people, and they become my lifelong friends.”

“UC Hastings provided amazing training for life, not just career. It taught me how to be a practical problem solver and made me more solutions-oriented.” - Yuri Vanetik -

UC HASTINGS 31 { CLINICS AND CENTERS }

Training Tomorrow’s Immigration Lawyers THROUGH ITS CLINICS AND CENTERS, UC HASTINGS PROVIDES STUDENTS WITH HANDS-ON OPPORTUNITIES TO GAIN VALUABLE SKILLS IN THE EVER-EVOLVING FIELD OF IMMIGRATION AND ASYLUM LAW.

This page, far left: Blaine Bookey ’09 and Aracely Bayona, consultant to the El Salvador Parliament; left: Professor Karen Musalo and Stewart Pollock ’14 (seated left) and Blaine Bookey and Elva Linares ’14 (seated right), with two consultants to the women’s congressional caucus in El Salvador. Opposite page: Stewart Pollock and Elva Linares.

UC Hastings offers several clinical opportunities in immigration law that allow students to tackle complex domestic and international issues. Both on campus and out in the community, students handle refugee cases and deferred action matters; they also travel to other continents for fact-ﬁnding missions related to human rights.

Immigrants’ Rights Clinic their devotion to teaching and and practical matters, including At the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic mentoring, Professor Richard fact investigation, case plan- (IRC), seven students a semester Boswell explains. “They’re inter- ning, working with interpreters, spend up to 20 hours a week work- ested in developing good, ethical and interviewing and counseling ing at local nonproﬁts, including the practitioners in this area, where, in clients. Before taking the clinic, Immigrant Legal Resource Center my opinion, clients are much more students must complete the upper- and the National Immigration vulnerable.” division course in immigration law. Law Center, and in select private The IRC is what Boswell practices. Earning six credits a calls a hybrid externship model. Refugee and Human Rights Clinic semester, students assist on a “Students gain a real sense of Though similar in mission to the range of immigration cases, such what immigration law practice is IRC, the Refugee and Human as acquiring permanent residency, like, and the clinic provides them Rights Clinic is run more like a citizenship, and deferred actions. with the fundamental skills,” he teaching hospital, says Professor The organizations and law ﬁrms says. Students also take a com- Karen Musalo. Each semester, eight hosting students are selected for panion course focused on ethical students represent individuals

32 SPRING 2013 rights. In addition to helping shape [ Case Study ] gender asylum law through appellate advocacy, CGRS serves as an expert consultant to attorneys, FACT-FINDING participates in trainings and confer- IN EL SALVADOR ences, and publishes studies and For the human rights component of the Refugee and Human Rights reports that influence policymakers. Clinic, Director Karen Musalo Some students find that the seeks out timely and important exposure they gain to these projects that will serve as “a challenging pedagogical experience who have fled persecution and are complicated issues while still in for students.” To that end, last seeking asylum in the United States law school directly informs the fall, Musalo; staff attorney Blaine or they engage in cutting-edge career paths they choose. Such is Bookey ’09; and two students, Elva Linares ’14 and Stewart human rights projects. The refugee the case with Blaine Bookey ’09, Pollock ’14, traveled to El Salvador cases, referred by local nonprofits, who joined CGRS as a staff attor- to evaluate the implementation of are those with compelling and ney in 2011. Bookey had worked two laws related to gender equality and violence against women. complex issues. Musalo and her at the clinic as a law student, and Before they left, Linares and clinical teaching fellow, Christine the experience fueled her desire Pollock did extensive research Lin, search for cases where the to become a social justice lawyer. on El Salvador’s history, politics, and legal system. They then resources the clinic offers can make At CGRS, Bookey handles appel- spent a week there interviewing the difference in outcome. late litigation and works on human experts—including members of El Working as counsel and attend- rights projects, such as investigat- Salvador’s Parliament and the judi- ciary, activists, and women in the ing a companion seminar, students ing and documenting human rights community—as to their evaluation acquire a range of skills, such as conditions for women, children, of the implementation of the laws. learning to gather facts using inter- and LGBT individuals. One of Preliminarily, the students learned that Salvadorans view the viewing techniques and, frequently, Bookey’s most successful results laws as positive developments, interpreters. They also research a centered on a case involving a though there was recognition that country’s conditions and develop young Albanian woman targeted compromises were necessary to obtain sufficient support for their legal theories regarding eligibility for by the mafia. The Second Circuit passage. “It required negotiation relief, draft requests for protection published an opinion upholding to reach a consensus,” Musalo says, and legal briefs, and prepare the the immigration agency’s denial of “but it didn’t result in polarization. That’s a great step forward.” client for an asylum interview. asylum. Following CGRS’s submis- Students also discovered that sion of an amicus brief in support the effective implementation of Center for Gender and of rehearing, the Second Circuit laws is a matter of not only political will but also resources. Experts Refugee Studies withdrew its published opinion. remarked that the many require- Related to the Refugee and Human November’s election made clear ments of the laws could not be Rights Clinic is the Center for that immigration issues are of great carried out unless the Parliament allocated a sufficient budget. Gender and Refugee Studies (CGRS), importance across the country, “Now, quite a bit of the advocacy is which was founded and is directed Musalo says. “We live in a trans- about allocation of funds,” Musalo by Musalo. The nation’s leading national world. Lawyers have a explains. Learning that the answer is organization supporting women asy- big role to play in policy and in the not a simple case of “judges must lum seekers fleeing gender-related individual representation of those apply the laws,” the students violence, CGRS has a long and suc- seeking remedies and relief. We’re gained “a nuanced and sophisti- cated understanding about how cessful track record of breaking new training students to engage in work laws are made and implemented,” ground in women’s and refugees’ that’s really important.” Musalo says.

UC HASTINGS 33 A Hero Remembered

AMBASSADOR TO LIBYA J. CHRISTOPHER STEVENS ’89, KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY LAST FALL, WAS EXEMPLARY IN HIS UNWAVERING DEDICATION TO HIS COUNTRY.

On September 11, 2012, the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, was attacked. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens ’89 and three other individuals were killed; 10 more were wounded. In the wake of this tragic event, UC Hastings remembers Stevens’s inspiring legacy of diplomatic accomplishments. He died, said UC Hastings Chancellor & Dean Frank H. Wu,

“performing the highest role that a lawyer is called upon to perform: public service.” CORBIS CORBIS

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“Ambassador Stevens and I were in the same class at UC Hastings. He was really a kind, gentle, wonderful person. Our class thought we were going to absolutely change the world. You come out of UC Hastings with not only knowledge of the law but the skills to actually be a ﬁghter, and he was one of those people.” - Kamala Harris ’89, California Attorney General, remembering former classmate Chris Stevens in 1986, Ambassador Chris Stevens - as a 1L at UC Hastings.

Called to Service THE AMBASSADOR J. Born in 1960 in Grass Valley, California, Stevens studied history at UC Berkeley CHRISTOPHER STEVENS and then spent several years in Morocco with the Peace Corps. Upon returning SYMPOSIUM FUND to the United States, he enrolled at UC Hastings, where he served as managing editor of the Hastings Law Journal. In collaboration with his family, Stevens made an indelible impression on both faculty and classmates. He became particularly close with his civil procedure professor, David Levine, who UC Hastings has established recalls Stevens as a natural fit for a career in diplomacy. “Some people catch a symposium fund to honor your eye, and Chris was one of those people,” says Levine. “He always went Ambassador J. Christopher above and beyond.” Stevens. The symposium will After graduating in 1989, Stevens moved to Washington, D.C., where he take place November 8, 2013, worked as an international trade lawyer. In 1991 he joined the Foreign Service and never looked back. He was posted as an officer to U.S. consulates in and will address law and Jerusalem, Damascus, Cairo, and Riyadh and had served in Libya twice prior public policy as mechanisms to his arrival as ambassador in 2012: first as deputy chief of mission from 2007 to advance global understand- to 2009 and later as special representative to the Libyan Transitional National ing and peace—the issues to Council in 2011. which the ambassador devoted Colleagues remember Stevens as tirelessly committed to public service. “Christopher Stevens stood out as extraordinary in an already extraordinary his career. group of people,” said former Secretary of State George P. Shultz at a memo- “Gathering experts to rial service for Stevens in San Francisco. “Democracy is not a spectator sport, discuss law and foreign policy and Chris was a full participant in his beloved democracy.” as it relates to legal practice Stevens won over his classmates with his warmth and modesty. “Chris in the promotion of global never tried to be someone special,” says classmate Mary Neumayr ’89, “but he was special. People were drawn to him.” Friend and classmate Chris Hilen understanding presents a fit- ’89 remarks, “Chris was the finest among us. More than his obvious brains and ting opportunity to further the charm, he was a man of substance and humility.” And classmate Rachel Van legacy of Chris’s style of diplo- Cleave ’89, currently the dean of Golden Gate Law School, reminisces, “Chris macy and his life’s work,” says was a generous and warm person who was truly open to anyone. It was impossi- Tom Stevens, Ambassador ble not to like him. His priorities, goals, and objectives weren’t about Chris; they were about his family and friends, and his country and the global community.” Stevens’s brother. “Chris loved UC Hastings, and we are Mourning a Fallen Hero grateful to the school for hold- Two months after his death, Stevens was honored with the Common Ground ing this event.” award for conflict resolution, negotiation, and peace building. “Our country mourns a fallen hero,” said then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who pre- For more information about sented Stevens’s award to his sister, Anne Stevens. Stevens “understood that making a gift in memory of there is no substitute for going beyond the embassy walls, building relation- Ambassador Stevens or to ships and finding common ground,” Clinton added. “Our diplomats cannot support the symposium fund, work in bunkers and do their jobs. We must accept a level of risk to protect this please contact Laura Jackson country we love and to advance our interests and values around the world.” at [email protected] or For Stevens, this dedication to his country always came first and foremost. “He was doing what he loved,” says Professor Levine. “Everything he did was 415.565.4621. for the United States.”

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’12 / for the !rm’s health plainti"-side employment husband, Adam, welcomed care clients. / Rachael and police misconduct their daughter, Madison, Irina Marinescu is an Maxwell-Jolly joined cases at the Law O#ce of into the world. / Katy attorney in the !nance Hanson Bridgett as an Joshua R. Williams. He Chase is an associate at practice group in the New associate in the health also represents an activist Weaver Schlenger Mazel, York o#ce of Haynes and section. Her practice in a criminal case related a women-owned business Boone. focuses on medical to an anti-foreclosure immigration !rm based in ’11 / professional advocacy. demonstration. / Arielle San Francisco. She enjoys Harris recently joined helping highly quali!ed Payam A. Saljoughian ’09 / Downey Brand, where foreign nationals and their joined Hanson Bridgett as Hillary Benham-Baker, she advises public and employers build the future an associate in the health along with partner, private clients on land of Silicon Valley. She also section. His practice Julia Campins, opened use and natural resource serves as media coordinator focuses on transactional Campins Benham-Baker matters. On October 12, for the 700-member and litigation matters in San Francisco. $e !rm 2012, Arielle and her Northern California focuses on plainti"-side chapter of AILA (the employment, civil rights, American Immigration and employee bene!ts Lawyers Association), matters. / Niki (Anderson) and last year coedited Roman and Matt Roman a book featuring local gave birth to a daughter, !fth-graders’ writings on Brooke Delaney Roman, on immigration. / Brad Ng October 16, 2012. writes: “On October 6, I got married to the former ’08 / Brittany Yang ’09, now Tim Phillips moved Brittany Ng, whom I met from San Francisco to when we both lived in the Payam A. Saljoughian ‘11 Brooke Roman, daughter of Niki Minneapolis. He litigates Tower during my 2L year Roman ’09 and Matt Roman ‘09

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legal education that is the practice in-house at Oracle in-house patent attorney foundation of our careers as global compliance and at Lawrence Berkeley but [because it] led us to ethics counsel focused on National Laboratory. His !nd one another, as well as internal investigations responsibilities include the many Hastings friends and anti-corruption. He assessment of invention who made it to the wedding also recently assumed a disclosure statements, (thank you to all of you vice chair position on the preparation and prosecution who made it!). / Joseph M. ABA International Anti- of patent applications in a Azam and Jennifer Pearce corruption Committee. wide range of technologies, were married in July 2012 / Stephen Glade assessment and revision of in Los Olivos, California. started a new position the intellectual property Brittany (Yang) Ng ’09 and Joe continues to build his in August 2012 as an terms in licenses and Brad Ng ‘08

and her 1L year. After a short honeymoon to Maui, we !nd ourselves setting down roots in Sacramento. I’m on a felony trial team at the Sacramento County District Attorney’s O"ce, trying interesting cases (predominately violent crime) that often result in double-digit prison sentences. Brittany is in private practice at Murphy Pearson Bradley & Feeney, where she works on professional liability defense and insurance defense, among other areas. She’s currently gearing up for a lengthy civil trial (which makes me happy Afghan Sojourn since she’s often in the Yuwynn E. Ho ’09 writes: “I successfully completed my first deployment in same courthouse I’m in Afghanistan, returning in September 2012. I served as a protocol officer for the every day, albeit in di#erent Joint Visitors Bureau at the NATO International Security Assistance Force head- courtrooms). We are in quarters in Kabul, coordinating the visits of VIPs to Afghanistan. I also worked the process of buying our with the U.S. Embassy’s interagency Rule of Law Office to assist the Afghans in a !rst home together, here in Sacramento, and we’re project developing the country’s commercial law. I have since returned to Twenty- both grateful to our alma nine Palms to assume duties as a defense counsel for the Marine Corps.” mater, not just for the

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had a baby this summer, ’04 / ’03 / Jack Forrest Welter. "ey Brian Malloy was selected Anne Hydorn was enjoyed long maternity to Northern California promoted to partner at and paternity leaves, and Rising Stars 2012 by Super Hanson Bridgett in the Lauren has returned to her Lawyers. He previously employee bene!ts section. job as a wills and trusts received this distinction She counsels both large and attorney at Botto Law in 2010 and 2011. He was small entities regarding Group. also listed in the Recorder’s ongoing administration ’05 / Top California Settlements and compliance issues of 2011. Brian is with the related to ERISA, tax Chad Gallagher was Brandi Law Firm in San compliance, compensation Joseph M. Azam ‘08 and made shareholder at Jennifer Pearce Francisco, where he lives and withholding issues, Miller Starr Regalia. / with his wife, Aimee. / plan amendments, internal Pejman “P. J.” Javaheri Steve Ngo was re-elected procedures, quali!cation of contracts, and management has been named to the to the San Francisco domestic relations orders, of outside counsel. Super Lawyers California Community College board. and determination letter Rising Stars list as a top / Kieron G. Johnson, applications. / Rebekah ’07 / up-and-coming attorney in LLM, from London, (Jackson) Sapirstein Sara Aminzadeh was California for 2012. Each England, married Karan Y. joined Wells Fargo Wealth appointed executive year, no more than 2.5 Vidal on the sunny island of Management in the fall of director of the California percent of the lawyers in Cyprus in May 2012. 2012 as a vice president and Coastkeeper Alliance, the state receive this honor. senior !duciary advisory promoted from her role as acting executive director. ’06 / Legal Virtuoso Steven Miller ’04 was promoted to partner at Tennille Christensen hung out her shingle as Tech Hanson Bridgett in the public agency section and Law Garden in 2010. Tech assists local government agencies, in particular Law Garden specializes in commuter rail operators and transit districts, with contract negotiation and a wide variety of legal issues. His areas of expertise advice and counseling for include all issues speciﬁc to commuter rail, public startups and individuals contracts and procurements, regulatory and inter- on all issues that relate to governmental agreements, constitutional issues, or arise out of technology. election law, and government ethics. Beyond the She’d love to catch up with other members of her class practice of law, Steven is also an accomplished if they !nd themselves in musician. He is a Grammy-award-winning violinist and served for many years on the Silicon Valley with time faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He has released more than 20 CDs / for lunch or co#ee/tea. and has appeared on both NPR and PBS. In addition to his classical performances, Yelda Bartlett was elected Steven can be heard performimg on soundtracks for ﬁlms such as Elmo in Grouchland. to the AC Transit Board. / Lauren Cappelloni and her husband, Keith Welter,

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Ryan Marton was elected Santa Clara Valley Health into the partnership of and Hospital System, will Fenwick & West e$ective provide general counsel January 1, 2013. / "e services and advice to Bar Association of San health care providers. / Francisco Barristers’ Mieke Malmberg has been board of directors has promoted to principal in honored David Reidy with the Los Angeles branch its 2012 Barrister of the of McKool Smith, where Year Award for his service she focuses on patent on the Judges Reception litigation. She represents Kieron G. Johnson ‘04, LLM, and Committee and Barristers both plainti$s and Alison Huber ‘99 Karan Y. Vidal board. David, a litigation defendants in disputes partner at Reed Smith, is involving a wide range of promoted to associate dean specialist working with a member of the !nancial technologies, including for graduate programs at high-net-worth individuals industry group. / NYC computer hardware and Capital University Law in the Wells Fargo Urban Debate League software, among others. School in Columbus, Ohio. Private Bank. / Arthur students, accompanied by / Dean Fealk, a partner In her new role, Regina B. Macomber of the !rm coach Erik Fogel, accepted at DLA Piper in San oversees all aspects of the Macomber Law has been a 2012 National Arts and Francisco, has been Master of Laws and Master accepted into the State Bar Humanities Youth Program appointed outside general of Taxation programs. In of Montana. He will begin Award at the White House. counsel to the Halifax addition, she continues to serving Montana customers First Lady Michelle International Security teach advanced business in his chosen areas of Obama congratulated the Forum, a leading nonpro!t law courses and to research real property, water, and citywide debate team, along organization devoted to corporate governance and / construction law in 2013. with 11 other community- meeting emerging threats securities law topics. David Lim Arthur now practices law in based after-school and promoting democratic has been elected the States of Washington, programs selected from values through its annual mayor of San Mateo and a Idaho, and Montana. 350 nominees, and she summit, which has been City Council member. handed each organization a called the “Davos of ’98 / ’02 / $10,000 cash prize. international security,” by Jared Eigerman "e U.S. Secretary of Time magazine and the writes: Transportation has ’00 / Atlantic Monthly. “I have been practicing appointed Mark J. Sundahl In March 2012, Gene law back home in to the Commercial Space Litvinoff joined Chevron ’99 / Massachusetts for the Transportation Advisory as senior counsel in Alyson Huber stepped past few years, but I still Committee (COMSTAC). San Ramon, where he down as the Lodi, do some things in San COMSTAC advises the manages some of Chevron’s California, area’s Francisco. "e campus O#ce of Commercial international litigation. assemblywoman on has never looked better.” / Christopher Mader Space Transportation / Jared Goldman has November 30, 2012. She is within the Federal Aviation joined Best Best & has been appointed to a a partner at Baldwin Law Administration regarding Krieger as a partner. Jared, judgeship in Sacramento Group in Menlo Park, new regulations governing who previously served as County Superior Court. where he specializes in private space activity. / in-house counsel to the / Regina Burch was securities litigation. His

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Remembering a Force of Nature Sarah Tigerman ’96 died on February 23, 2013, at age 51 after battling cancer. She worked as associate director for recruitment at UC Hastings since 2007. Colleagues and former students remember her as a tiger, a force of nature who thought constantly of others, even in her last weeks. Friends and colleagues describe her as smart, funny, and driven, and yet also a woman who handled adversity with grace and, ﬁnally, peace. “She was one of the most genuine people I have ever met,” says Caitlin Colman ’10, who worked with Sarah on numerous job searches. “There aren’t a lot of Sarahs, and to lose one is really sad.” Sarah leaves behind her partner of six years, Jenni Mork.

wife, Cindy, is also a Valley High School Law and startup community practicing attorney. !ey and Justice Academy. Gary, in China. / !e Legal have two children, Chase an Archer Norris partner Aid Society of San Mateo and Sloane. / Jennifer C. in Walnut Creek, focuses County has elected attorney Terry has been promoted to his practice on writs and and public policy analyst partner at the Los Angeles appeals to contest the Stacey Keare as president o#ce of Arent Fox, where outcome of cases in the of the board of directors. she will work with the lower courts. He has also Stacey had previously commercial litigation and been recently certi"ed as served as vice president. labor and employment an appellate law specialist. / Chandani Flynn has practices. Her practice / Mark Charles Hardie been the executive director includes acting as outside Gary Watt ‘97 recently published a book of a nonpro"t called general counsel to various titled !e Holy Bible: Hip STAR/PAL for the entities doing business Hop Version. / Kim Tung past eight years. STAR/ in California, where is based in Pillsbury’s PAL promotes safety and she provides guidance Shanghai o#ce and heads on matters relating to up Pillsbury’s technology consumer products and and emerging companies commercial transactions. practice in China. Kim deals with cross-border ’97 / business transactions Gary Watt was among and disputes, which those recognized and also encompass venture honored at the Contra capital and immigration Costa County Bar issues. Kim is also an angel Association Bar Fund investor with AngelVest Christopher Mader ‘98 with his Gala for his signi"cant in Shanghai and is active wife, Cindy, and children, Chase contribution to the Deer in the venture capital and Sloane Kim Tung ‘97

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violence prevention for District Court bench underserved youth in San by Nevada Gov. Brian Diego by engaging them Sandoval. with law enforcement program coordinators ’94 / and volunteers. Prior to Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, this position, she was a Smoak & Stewart has prosecutor with the San added Kevin Reese as Diego City Attorney’s a shareholder. Reese, O"ce for seven years, who was most recently where she was named at Hanson Bridgett, Prosecutor of the Year and Sherrill Corbett ‘95 represents management in Ruth V. Glick ‘91 Peacemaker of the Year wage-and-hour class action in 2004. / Craig Enochs, is an associate clinical cases, as well as matters for International an attorney with Jackson professor at Santa Clara involving employment Development’s mission Walker, was selected for University School of Law. discrimination, sexual director for Vietnam. He inclusion in the 2013 harassment, trade secrets, leads a program involving edition of Best Lawyers ’95 / the Family and Medical health, economic growth, in America. / Morrison & Judy Appell was Leave Act, unfair environment (including Foerster named James elected to the Berkeley, competition, and reasonable climate change and dioxin Mullen managing partner California, School Board. accommodation. / Eva remediation), disability, in San Diego. / Best Lawyers in America Guo’s book of poetry, higher education, and 2013 has named Sherrill Ramblings, is available on governance assistance at ’96 / Corbett, an attorney with amazon.com. / Edwin P. approximately $80 million Steven T. Coopersmith Tonkon Torp in Oregon, Antolin was named a annually to the Vietnamese continues to expand the as Portland Lawyer of State Tax Notes’ Lawyer people. Coopersmith Law Firm, the Year for Corporate of the Year as part of the the business litigation Compliance Law. / Mark Silverstein & Pomerantz ’91 / boutique #rm he founded Talamantes has been team litigating Gillette v. Ruth V. Glick has been more than four years ago. appointed to the Marin Franchise Tax Board. named chair-elect of Steven writes: “Our practice County Superior Court the Dispute Resolution focuses on partnership bench by Gov. Jerry Brown. ’93 / Section of the American and corporate disputes, / Lidia Stiglich has been Joakim Parker has Bar Association. !e executive-level employment appointed to the Washoe become the U.S. Agency 19,000-member section is disputes, and #nancial fraud matters, as well as general business litigation cases. I was selected as Congratulations to Our Distinguished Alumni a 2012 Top Attorney in UC Hastings alumni Nanci Clarence ’85, Joseph Cotchett ’64, Roger Dreyer ’80, the area of Corporate Lynne C. Hermle ’81, Jennifer Keller ’78, Kenneth Nissly ’77, Francis Scarpulla ’67, and Litigation by the San Diego Christopher Sullivan ’90 were recently named by the Daily Journal as among the Top Daily Transcript and carry 100 Lawyers in California. an AV Martindale-Hubbell rating.” / Stephen Smith

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role as lead counsel in the City of Sun Valley of San Francisco’s athletic the following matters: and general counsel department. / Rachel for Tyson in its antitrust to the Blaine County Van Cleave has been litigation with the DOJ, School District. / appointed dean of Golden for SunGard Data System George Kuney recently Gate University School of in its $1.6 billion sale published two books, Law. A Fulbright Scholar, of its Higher Education Bamboozled? Anatomy of a GGU law professor since division, and for Omnicare Bankruptcy—Baystate v. 2004, and associate dean in its attempted hostile Bowers and its Aftermath of Academic A!airs since acquisition of PharMerica. and !e Entrepreneurial 2008, Rachel brings Law Handbook. He and extensive experience as Rob Epstein ‘91 ’90 / his wife, Donna Looper, an international scholar, Alex Tse was named new are the authors of CEB’s professor, and law school the premier resource for chief of civil litigation California Law of Contracts, leader to her new role. information on all aspects in the U.S. Attorney’s updated annually, and of dispute resolution and O"ce by U.S. Attorney the soon to be published ’88 / enjoys strong support Melinda Haag. / Mary A Civil Action: Neely After more than 10 years from professionals Ellen Lemieux received v. Fox Dissected, a book with the California District both nationally and her Master of Social Work designed to introduce Attorneys Association in internationally. Ruth is from San Francisco State law students and other Sacramento, Tom Toller a full-time mediator and University in May 2012. legal novices to the has returned to working arbitrator in the Bay Area. mechanisms, procedures, as a prosecutor for the / Rob Epstein opened ’89 / and doctrine that underlie Shasta County District the Epstein Law Firm in Adam B. King continues the civil litigation process. Attorney’s O"ce. Tom January 2012, focusing to enjoy practicing law in George and Donna live in writes: “Leaving a cushy on trusts and estates Sun Valley, Idaho. His Knoxville, Tennessee, and gig as a lobbyist, trainer, litigation and real estate immigration practice teach at the University of and publisher for a life in litigation. Rob continues focuses on academic and Tennessee College of Law. the trenches as a deputy to serve as city attorney health care immigration. / Christopher Aguilar district attorney in the for several Marin County He is also city attorney for opened his own practice aftermath of realignment cities. / John D. Harkrider in December 2009 in and Proposition 36 evinces of Axinn, Veltrop & downtown San Francisco either masochism or the Harkrider was named and is helping local opera insanity for which [I] Competition Lawyer of the businesses as an outside was dubbed the Wild Year (worldwide) by Global general counsel. His Boar of Section 6.” / Competition Review for his daughter, Amalia, 18, is a Brad Frazer’s #rst novel, role as co-lead counsel for freshman at the University !e Cure, was recently Google in its $12.5 billion of Colorado, Boulder, and published by Diversion acquisition of Motorola his son, Zachary, 6, is in Books. / Judd Law Mobility and $700 million kindergarten at St. Vincent Group has added Dakin acquisition of ITA (both de Paul School. His wife, Ferris as a partner. Dakin, of which were investigated Regina, continues working who was previously in by the U.S. Department for the Oakland A’s and the private practice, focuses on Adam B. King ‘89 of Justice), as well as his Jewish Community Center software licensing, vendor/

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supplier contracts, and I am looking forward to Long & Aldridge’s three the Rampart scandal in trade secret protection. / the next quarter century in largest o!ces: Atlanta, the Los Angeles Police Paul Laurin is a partner practice! I continue to be Washington, D.C., and Los Department’s anti-gang with the Los Angeles an elected director on the Angeles. She was previously unit to the investigation on o!ce of Barnes & Inland Empire Utilities the partner in charge of behalf of the San Francisco "ornburg, helping Agency board of directors. the Los Angeles o!ce of Bay Area Rapid Transit to build the national #rm’s My wife, Stephanie, and Luce, Forward, Hamilton District regarding the California practice in I will be celebrating our & Scripps, which combined o!cer-involved shooting litigation and bankruptcy. 20th wedding anniversary with MLA on March 6, death of Oscar Grant. In He’s also proud to be in May 2013.” / Juan 2012. / Anne Dorfman 2009, she was named one serving his #rst term Dominguez of the Law is currently teaching legal of the top women lawyers on the alumni Board of Firm of Juan Dominguez English at the Université in California by the Daily Governors. has been named one of Paris II—Panthéon-Assas. Journal. the top personal injury ’87 / attorneys in 2012 by ’84 / ’83 / Lane Finch was named Pasadena magazine. On "e Alameda County Ellen McKissock was program chair of the DRI’s December 11, 2012, Juan Bar Association’s Women formally inducted as a Insurance Coverage and proudly celebrated 25 years Lawyers of Alameda fellow into the Litigation Practice Symposium. "e of dedicated service to the County elected Kim Counsel of America. She is symposium took place in legal industry. Colwell as president. a shareholder at Hopkins & New York in December Based in Oakland, Kim Carley in San Jose. / Lynda 2012 and was comprised of ’85 / handles high-pro#le Won-Chung has been distinguished law professors Lance Adair has become matters throughout practicing employment and authors, top insurance of counsel to Kring & the state, ranging from immigration law in Silicon coverage attorneys, Chung, with o!ces in lawsuits arising from Valley since graduating and insurance industry Irvine, San Diego, Los leaders, who provided Angeles, Sacramento, the insightful education and Inland Empire, and Las training on some of the Vegas. Lance handles real most important insurance estate, land use, and real Your Class Notes claims issues facing property matters for clients Please let us know your latest news coverage attorneys and the ranging from individuals or information about fellow alumni. insurance industry today. to Fortune 500 companies. You can submit your class notes / DRI is an international McKenna Long & and photographs (300 dpi) online organization of 22,000 Aldridge announced that at [email protected]. attorneys defending the Kathy Jorrie has been Send us your stories! interests of businesses appointed o!ce managing and individuals in civil Partner for the #rm’s o!ce litigation. / Steve Elie in Los Angeles. Kathy, writes: “I just completed my who has been with the 25th year at Musick Peeler #rm since 1998, is one of > [email protected] & Garrett—that’s right, three women who serve the same #rm I joined as an o!ce managing right after UC Hastings. partner for McKenna

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and recently joined the attorney, senior assistant mayor of one of the global immigration law city attorney, and interim county’s largest towns.” !rm of Fragomen, Del Rey, city attorney for the Bernsen & Loewy as of City of Sunnyvale from ’81 / counsel. She writes: “"is is 2000 to 2006. Joan has David Borgen made a fun area to practice; one also served the City of the Super Lawyers Top has the bene!t of working Hayward as assistant 100 list for Northern strategically with a variety city attorney, South San California. His Oakland- of companies and with Francisco Conference based public interest class- individuals to help them Center Authority as action boutique changed achieve their immigration general counsel, the State its name to Goldstein, goals.” Lynda recently Mark Windham ‘83 of California Court of Borgen, Dardarian & cofounded a company, Appeal as a senior research Ho. / Professor Anna M. BeUbiq, building business chapter of CEB’s Scienti!c attorney, the County of Han of Santa Clara intelligence information Evidence in California Ventura as assistant county University published her and retrieval application; Criminal Cases was counsel, the County of casebook, Doing Business the company’s !rst published in October 2012. Riverside O#ce of the in China: Problems, Cases product is for the stock He hears felony cases in the County Counsel as deputy and Materials, coauthored compensation market. She West District and serves county counsel, and the with Daniel Chow. has also joined Zaya as an on the court’s executive State of California Court of "ere is also an extensive / Joan A. advisory board member. committee. Appeal as a judicial clerk. statutory supplement and Borger Lynda is the mother of has been appointed teacher’s manual. / Abby three and just became a the new city attorney of ’82 / J. Leibman is president grandmother. / "e Hon. Sunnyvale. Joan has served Laurence W. Brown and CEO at MAZON: Mark Windham is judge of as the assistant city attorney writes: “Just elected A Jewish Response to the Los Angeles Superior for the City of Fremont president of our Hunger, a nonpro!t Court. His 2012 update since 2006. Prior to that, 7,000-resident homeowners working to end hunger of his “DNA Evidence” she was the assistant city association—like being among people of all faiths

Remembering Gordon Mathis Riley Gordon Mathis Riley, a ﬁrst-year law student at UC Hastings, died suddenly on December 14, 2012, at the age of 30. Gordon, of Park City, Utah, was a graduate of UC Santa Barbara, where he studied philosophy. Gordon graduated from Park City High School; previously he attended Scotch College in Melbourne, Australia, and the Hong Kong International School. He worked at Park City Mountain Resort for several winters and had been a weekend programmer for KPCW, Park City’s National Public Radio station. An avid surfer, Gordon had also written for various surf publications. He is survived by his father, Robert, and his wife Sue Wood; his mother, Shardel, and her husband, Pete DeSoto; his sister, Meredith Riley; and his brother, Mitchell Riley.

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and backgrounds in the IN MEMORIAM United States and Israel. / Patricia Jacqueline Christina Djernaes ’94 passed away on December 12, 2012. Cooper teaches special Christina was an employment law attorney, successfully bring- education at the elementary {ing class actions on behalf of technology company employees. school level in Maryland She remained active in statewide attorney organizations protect- and volunteers for the ing employees’ civil rights. She founded a charitable nonprofit, the Good Knight Child Djernaes Telos Foundation, whose mission is to enhance the com- Empowerment Network. munity by providing grants to single parents and others in need to She writes: “My daughter, eliminate the cycle of poverty. She is survived by her two children, Arianna, is a junior in Sophia and Torben, as well as their father, Marc Vraciu; her parents, high school in a science Niels and Beatriz; and three siblings, Chris, Caroline, and David. and tech program. She Donald Sanders ’94 passed away on April 30, 2012. He was living will be applying to colleges in Austin, Texas, at the time of this death. next year. If anyone visits Washington D.C., feel free James Hoey III ’81 passed away on December 22, 2012, after a to look us up.” battle with cancer. After graduating with honors from UC Hastings, Jim became a well-respected trial lawyer in San Diego. He worked for ’80 / several years as a defense attorney with Lillick, McHose & Charles, Kester K. So is listed in which he left in 1988 to start his own practice, the Hoey Law Firm. Best Lawyers in America He leaves behind his wife, Michelle Hubers-Hoey, a combined family for energy law, municipal of five children, and many friends and colleagues. law, public !nance law, Carol Smith ’81, a founding partner of San Rafael intellectual and utilities law. Kester is property boutique Hiaring & Smith, passed away at the age of 60 a member of Dickinson of pancreatic cancer. Over the course of her career, Carol served Wright’s o"ce in Lansing, in-house at Dolby Laboratories, Infoseek, and Intel, and was general Michigan. He focuses his counsel for the startup Listen.com. With law partner Anne Hiaring practice in the areas of Hocking, she cofounded Hiaring & Smith in 2009. At the time of her municipal law and !nance, death, Carol was also president of the Women’s Intellectual Property energy and sustainability, Lawyers Association. She is survived by two daughters. and administrative and regulatory law. He was one Mark Brownstein ’76, an owner of McDonalds restaurants, passed of 11 lawyers nationwide away on May 3, 2012. recently elected a fellow David John Blackburn ’73 passed away on August 20, 2012. of the American College David was an attorney in the JAG Corps of the U.S. Army and retired / Harry of Bond Counsel. from active service in 1987, with 20 years of dedication to his country. Chamberlain II has joined Martin L. Anderson ’69, an avid outdoorsman and state govern- Manatt, Phelps & Phillips ment lawyer, died on October 14, 2012. After graduating from UC as a partner in the litigation Hastings, Martin moved to Sacramento to join the state Office of division. Harry, who comes Legislative Counsel. He retired in 1996 and pursued many outdoor to the !rm from Buchalter activities. He suffered an accident in 2000, when an 80-foot-tall maple Nemer, is experienced in appellate and insurance work, focusing his practice (continued on page 46)

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IN MEMORIAM (CONTINUED) on appellate and regulatory law, complex litigation, / tree fell on him near his Sacramento home, paralyzing his lower body. and employment law. On After adapting to a wheelchair, Martin was able to return to many of October 2, 2012, West his activities. In addition to his wife, Kathy, he is survived by three } Palm Beach assistant U.S. Mark Lester children, five grandchildren, and a sister. attorneys and Rinku Tribuiani James P. Modisette ’69 passed away on October 18, 2012. Jim were awarded the 2011 practiced law in Los Angeles until 1997, when he and his family Homeland Security moved to Penobscot, Maine. In Maine he became a partner with Best Investigations Executive and Modisette. Jim was a keen sailor and committed to advancing Associate Director’s sailing education. At the time of his death, Jim was vice president Recognition for their work of the board of trustees for the Wilson Museum in Castine and a in prosecuting United member of the board of trustees for George Stevens Academy. He States v. Levy Crespo and is survived by his wife of 40 years, Ruth; his son, J. M.; and two Anyelina Cid Bonilla, brothers, Dan and Rob Modisette. 11-80112-Cr-Marra. Marshall P. Salzman ’68 passed away on August 7, 2012, after a Crespo and Bonilla !led 20-year struggle with multiple sclerosis. Marshall was an attorney more than 3,400 fraudulent for the U.S. Department of Labor for 28 years, first in Los Angeles and immigration applications then for 20 years in San Francisco. He was proud to champion the with the U.S. Citizenship wages, safety, and health of workers as a litigator. He is survived by and Immigration Service his wife, Martha, and two daughters, Rachel and Amanda. on behalf of illegal aliens. "e fraudulent applications Michael T. Wayland ’68 passed away on September 15, 2012. allowed the illegal aliens to Michael was a trial attorney and previously practiced law in California. He was also a competitive ice dancer and became smitten obtain valid Florida driver’s with his training partner, Barbara Jeanne McEvoy. Forty-three years licenses to which they were ago, he won her heart, and they continued to dance professionally for not otherwise entitled. "e many years. They represented the United States in the Ice Dancing investigation revealed that World Professionals Championship in Spain. He is survived by his Crespo and Bonilla netted wife, three children, two grandchildren, and two brothers. approximately $7 million from their fraud scheme. David St. Louis ’67 passed away on October 7, 2012. A fifth- / Craig Wood writes: generation Fresno native, David worked for various Fresno firms “As of September 15, and then formed his own firm, continuing to practice law until the 2012, I withdrew as a time of his death. In addition to being a dedicated father, grandfa- partner in the Los Angeles ther and attorney, David was a fixture in his community. He served o#ce of Foley & Lardner as President of the board for the Salvation Army, national president and began as a sole of the alumni Board of Governors for UC Hastings College of Law, practitioner at Craig P. president of the Fresno County Bar Association, and VIP chairman Wood, a Professional Law of United Cerebral Palsy. He was also past director of International Corporation. "e focus of Relations for the Rotary Club of Fresno. my practice remains real estate transactions.”

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’79 / Banducci, a new, high- County Superior Court stakes civil litigation Nancy Powers recently and the justice courts. practice based in Boise, / Randy Firestone has relocated her practice to Idaho. become a tenured, full- San Ramon. She writes: time philosophy professor “I’m using my three-decade ’78 / at El Camino College in career in estate planning, After a career in education Torrance. / Marc Garﬁnkle trust law, and !nancial in the East Bay, Lynne is happy to report that he services assisting families Carberry retired in and his wife, Eylana, are with con!dential mediation 2010 and moved back to grandparents. He writes: to prepare their heirs for San Francisco with her “Of less import is that the inevitable aging and Judith Schneider ‘79 husband. "ey give walking I have !nally become a loss of parents.” Nancy has tours for SFCityGuides. lawyer’s lawyer. Lately provided these services to Association ADR Section. org, a program of the San my practice’s focus has wealthy clients for much “For those of you who Francisco Library. "ey been on advising and of her career and is now remember my daughter also take care of their representing New Jersey bringing the concept of Ciarda roller skating in granddaughter, Anna lawyers who have ethics heir preparation to the the corridors, she married Pavitt, who was born last and disciplinary issues. middle class. Her most a lawyer who is a director summer. / Howard Gaines "ere are a few of those.” recently published article at Esurance, and they have has recently been appointed / Microsoft hired Nancy is “"e Best Estate Plan Is a very bright daughter. to the Financial Industry Tellem to !ll the role of No Match for Unprepared Ciarda has an illustrious Regulatory Authority the company’s president Heirs.” Nancy is a member career in the Internet world, (FINRA) Mediator Panel. of Entertainment and of the Contra Costa currently serving as senior Howard has served for Digital Media. She was County Elder Law Center UX designer at Con!rmit.” more than 20 years as formerly the president of Advisory Board and the / "e updated and an arbitrator for FINRA CBS Network Television Harry Bridges Foundation expanded second edition of securities cases. FINRA Entertainment Group. advisory board. She was Valerie Fontaine’s book, oversees disputes involving / Russ August & Kabat recently elected to the !e Right Moves: Job Search securities dealers and attorney and founding board of directors of the and Career Development their customers. He was partner Larry C. Russ Contra Costa County Bar Strategies for Lawyers, appointed to the FINRA is involved in both published by NALP, is due Mediator Panel by the representing apparel out this spring. / Judith National Arbitration and companies in copyright and Schneider has moved her Mediation Committee trademark infringement practice to Bali, where she and is quali!ed to mediate matters and representing advises ex-pats on U.S. complex securities cases. clients in the fashion tax questions. She also Howard has a diverse industry. Larry is a is a freelance writer for general law practice in co-owner of American Rag publications such as the Phoenix, Arizona. He also Cie, a Los Angeles-based, Wall Street Journal, Living mediates disputes involving fashion-forward chain of ETC, and Community real estate, personal injury retail stores, and Industrie / Bulletin, to name a few. matters, and divorce. He Denim, a denim specialty Thomas Banducci has has served as a pro tem retailer. Nancy Powers ‘79 helped cofound Andersen judge in the Maricopa

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’77 / ’76 / state. When not practicing Development: !e Legal law, I host a syndicated Employer’s Comprehensive After a happy and Melrose resident Alan TV show, Professor Fred’s Guide, 2nd edition. successful 35-year law M. Pampanin has been Movie Marvels, where I career, in early 2012 appointed by Massachusetts am a horror host wearing a ’74 / Campbell Killefer Bar Association President professor’s out"t, showing Greg Kafoury and his law established a new Robert L. Holloway the worst movies ever partner, Mark McDougal, mediation and arbitration as vice chair of the made. I’ve also taught a practice in Portland, practice, Campbell association’s Immigration community college adult Oregon, with Greg’s son, Killefer ADR Services. Law Section for 2012–13. education class called Jason. Mark and Greg were She concentrates her His appointment began Schlock Cinema for the key players in the successful ADR work in Maryland, September 1, 2012. / 10-year campaign to close Washington, D.C., and Patrick Hall writes: past six years, where we the Trojan Nuclear Power other Eastern states. / “When we were at UC examine and discuss the Plant. !ey were the chief Linda A. Cabatic has been Hastings, some of my best most meritless "lms ever architects of the Ralph appointed the director professors were members made. I’ve been playing Nader Super Rallies in and chief administrative of the 65 Club, and now rhythm guitar and singing 2000. Greg has been lead law judge for the O#ce I am one of them! I am in rock ’n’ roll bands since counsel in seven cases that of Administrative still practicing law in ’67 and got a chance to back have produced seven-"gure Hearings, subject to Senate San Mateo County and Pat Boone many years ago. verdicts. / Michael Ubaldi con"rmation. / Roger enjoying going to court. / I’m also a third-rate Elvis is still engaged defending Picquet retired from the Marcia Canning, former imitator. Life is fun.” hospitals and physicians in Superior Court of San UC Hastings general ’75 / medical negligence actions Luis Obispo County counsel, retired as chief Rick Seabolt, a partner throughout Northern in December 2009 and counsel of UCSF. / Fred in the San Francisco California. He attended joined the Assigned Judges Hopkins writes: “I’ve o#ce of Duane Morris, a the Strauss School for Program. He writes: “For practiced just about every 700-lawyer national "rm, Dispute Resolution at the past three years I have kind of law, but now I was recently reappointed Pepperdine University sat in Riverside, Placer, just represent people on by California’s chief to hone his skills as a Santa Barbara, Kern, Inyo, tra#c tickets in about four justice to the California mediator. Michael has also San Luis Obispo, and other counties in Washington Judicial Council’s Advisory counties hearing criminal, Committee on Civil Jury civil, and juvenile cases. Instructions for a three- It is a wonderful way to year term, ending on continue to learn and grow October 31, 2015. He has as a judge and explore other also been named the new parts of California. I had president of the Association the honor of swearing in of Business Trial Lawyers, my youngest daughter, Julie Northern California (Univ. of Penn., 2012), into Chapter, for 2013. Rick the California State Bar on will lead the chapter for November 23, 2012, in my a one-year term. / Ida former courtroom in San Abbott published a new Luis Obispo.” Patrick Hall ‘76 Greg Kafoury ‘74 book, Lawyers’ Professional

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been named a Northern IN MEMORIAM (CONTINUED) California Super Lawyer for the past three years. Ralph Pray ’67, a bankruptcy attorney in San Diego for nearly 40 / William C. Markley III years, died after a battle with cancer. Working for Gray, Cary, Ames retired in August 2012 {& Frye and DLA Piper, he served in numerous management roles and after a 31-year career as mentored dozens of lawyers. In addition to his wife of 24 years, Sandra senior vice president and Shaw Pray, Ralph is survived by his daughter, Kristen Pray, and brother, general counsel of Jacobs Thomson Pray. He was predeceased by his son, Matthew. Engineering Group, Retired Sacramento Superior Court Judge John R. Lewis ’66, a for- a Fortune 200 global mer professor at McGeorge School of Law, died on November 2, 2012, engineering, architecture, of cancer. John spent 18 years on the bench in Sacramento Municipal scienti!c services, and and Superior courts. He is survived by his wife, Lee Ann Lewis. construction company. / Rogelio Quesada writes: James Taggart ’66 passed away on October 7, 2012. Jim served as “I have been informed an intelligence officer with the U.S. Army in Vietnam and received an that an article on my Army Commendation medal for 168 combat mission hours. After his unpublished, winning military service, he practiced law in San Francisco for 43 years. Jim Guatemalan asylum is survived by his wife, Sue; mother, Barbara Taggart; and siblings, case regarding domestic Robert Taggart ’65 and Barbara (Taggart) Schultz. He is also violence before the survived by two children and five grandchildren. Board of Immigration James “Rod” Williams ’66 passed away on October 22, 2012. Appeals will by published Rod practiced law for more than 40 years in Kern and San Luis Obispo by the UC Hastings counties. Rod was a criminal defense attorney, and at the end of his Center for Gender and career, he worked as an attorney at Juvenile Services Center, where Refugee Studies in the he was dedicated to representing and mentoring youth. International Journal of Refugee Law. "e hope is Prominent businessman and attorney W. Gerald Brown ’59 died that it will shed light on on September 22, 2012. Jerry is survived by his wife, Beverly; daugh- the inconsistent decision- ter, Gail; sons, Eric and Kenneth; stepchildren, Cynthia Siebert, making in this area due Sandy Thigpen, and Chip Smith; five grandchildren, and three great- to the lack of uniform and grandchildren. binding standards and will Bruce Wagner ’55 died on September 1, 2012. Bruce started his advance advocacy e#orts legal career in private practice and as a San Mateo County deputy for the BIA to issue a district attorney. He then became a former name partner at the firm precedential opinion or for now known as Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley, where he spent 28 the government to !nalize years. He is survived by his wife and two children. regulations. I am now Raymond H. Levy ’49 passed away on September 22, 2012. classi!ed as an emeritus Raymond passed the California Bar in 1951 and commenced attorney from the State what would become a 61-year law practice, becoming one of San Bar of Texas.” / Gordon & Francisco’s premier probate and estate planning attorneys. He was Rees San Francisco partner the beloved husband of Shirley Levy for 48 years and had three sons Jack “Skip” McCowan has and five grandchildren. been elected as a national director and will serve a

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A Colorful Life Will Richmond ’68 (pictured at right) writes: “Following 30-plus years as a prosecutor, including 17 as the elected DA in two California counties and a short stay in the U.S. Attorneys Ofﬁce, peppered with two stints as a partner and associate in private practice, I’ve successfully changed course. My expanded career now includes a lost election for the bench and termination as an assistant district attorney. This has opened the door to relief from ﬁnancial bondage, by the con- sequent foreclosure of my home and loss of legal recourse for wrongful termination. The future continues to brighten as the injections of a chicken-comb substance have delayed knee replacements until next year, when my pacemaker and my glass eye will also be replaced. I will forward my new address in the Bahamas, where my numbered account resides, when I have completed my studies in all forms of mobility. Greetings to all classmates, particularly those in my section whose names begin with P, Q, R, and S, who tolerated my unlaundered sport coat for three years.”

three-year term on the notable achievements in the board of directors for the practice of municipal and Defense Research Institute, public law in California. / the largest international Richard Scheuler writes: association of attorneys “After graduation from defending the interests of Hastings, I took up a businesses and individuals general practice in Red in civil litigation. / Donald Blu#, California. I did Miles was reappointed contract public defense to the State Bar Court of for about $ve years. My California, where he has practice developed into served since 2007. Jack McCowan ‘74 an emphasis on business, Steve Meyers ‘73 contract, and real property ’73 / LexisNexis. He continues law, with attendant I have handled everything Congratulations to Ellen to teach torts, family litigation as required. It from tra!c charges to Chaitin for 20 years law, and insurance law is a small county, and I death penalty murder cases, on the San Francisco courses at the University of also practiced in family along with all manner of Superior Court bench. / Richmond Law School. / law and other disciplines. civil, probate, criminal, and Peter Swisher recently Steve Meyers, a principal I was elected to the bench juvenile work. I am married coauthored Principles with Meyers Nave, was 12 years ago and currently to Lana Scheuler, who is a of Insurance Law, 4th named a Top 25 Municipal serve as the judge of retired probation o!cer. I edition, 2011, and Family Lawyer in California for Department 1 and the have two daughters: Kelly, Law: Cases, Materials, 2012 by the Daily Journal. court presiding judge. who is an executive with and Problems, 3rd "e list honors lawyers Tehama is a small county; Williams Sonoma, and edition, 2012, both from who have accomplished all judges do all law. Hence, Rebecca, who manages

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a bank in Redding. My been a professional cook at visits from three of the practice, having achieved hobbies are biking (the kind a halfway house, and am students we hosted here most of my goals: taught at you pedal), computers, and presently employed by the in New Ulm, from Japan, JFK Law school for many reading, with an emphasis IRS as a "le clerk. #ailand, and Ecuador. We years, became certi"ed in on science.” are well and enjoy keeping both estate planning and ’64 / busy in our hometown of tax, and served pro tem as ’71 / Terrence Callan has been over 40 years.” a probate judge in Contra Steven Lowe retired in named the State Bar of Costa County. I have a 2006 as general counsel California’s Antitrust ’58 / daughter who is a paralegal for Sizzling Platter. He Lawyer of the Year for #e Hon. Richard T. in San Francisco. Still have lives in Salt Lake City and 2012. Ford recently retired as the same loving spouse, San Miguel de Allende, a U.S. bankruptcy judge Grete, after 58 years of Mexico. Steven writes: “All ’62 / for the Eastern District of marriage. Altogether a is well and most is good. I Terry Dempsey writes: California, after serving most satisfying life.” have only good memories “#e best and most Fresno and Sacramento of UC Hastings College of interesting event of the for the past 24 years. / the Law and the education last year was our 50th UC Ben Kayashima retired it provided.” / Harold R. Hastings class reunion. from the San Bernardino Shields has retired from We enjoyed getting to County bench and joins the practice of law. Harold San Francisco from New IVAMS, one of Southern writes: “In May 2000, Ulm, Minnesota, again California’s leading after 28 years of litigation, and had a wonderful Alternative Dispute I su!ered a minor stroke time seeing classmates. Resolution "rms. which was treated by I am still working as a surgery to the carotid part-time district court ’57 / artery. Since then I have judge. Janet and I spend Clifford Egan writes: “I owned and operated a bar a lot of time with our two "nally retired on May 1, and grill in Sparks, Nevada, grandchildren. We had 2011, after 54 years of

Honors for Ventura County Judge Ventura Superior Court Judge Frederick H. Bysshe ’62 has been elected to the executive board of the California Judges Association. He was sworn in by Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye on October 13, 2012. He is the ﬁrst Ventura County judge elected to serve in this capacity. Frederick will represent judges in the counties of Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, and Ventura. Frederick was selected as Ventura’s Citizen of the Year in 1990, the same year he was the recipient of the Nordman Award for his outstanding community, char- ity, professional, and schools work. In 2010, he was chosen as the Judge of the Year by the Ventura County Trial Lawyers Association.

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magine living in a country as it is torn apart by a prolonged and destructive war. After years of I bloodshed, you flee, becoming a refugee in a new country. You settle in one of this new country’s most famous and beautiful cities, but you have no job, no possessions, no understanding of the language or culture. And the only place you can afford to live is in the center of the city’s notoriously seedy underbelly. This was the experience of many Southeast Asians when they fled Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia in the years after the Vietnam War. Many of them came to San Francisco—the estimates of the current Southeast Asian population in the city range from 15,000 to 20,000—specifically to the Tenderloin, a neighborhood of SROs and flophouses known for drugs, prostitution, and violence. “It was the most affordable place, though not the most desirable,” says Judy Young, executive director of the Vietnamese Youth Development Center (VYDC). Young’s family left Laos in 1975 and arrived in San Francisco in 1981, when she was eight years old. “We lived on Turk and Leavenworth, right in the middle of things. It was pretty bad. There were parts of the street you couldn’t walk on.” Organizations popped up to help the nascent community take root in the United States, among them the VYDC, which Young began attending as a teenager, and the Southeast Asian Community Center

“We hope that Little Saigon can do the same thing as Chinatown and Japantown—bring in tourists and beneﬁt the community and the city.”

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(SEACC). These organizations helped immigrants acquire language skills, attain citizenship, ﬁnd jobs, further their education, and start businesses. “We are very comfortable saying that most of the [Southeast Asian-owned] businesses in the Tenderloin were established with our help,” says Philip Nguyen, executive director of SEACC, who came to the United States from a refugee camp in Indonesia in 1984 and has lived in the Tenderloin since 1997. Among these businesses are a number of Vietnamese restaurants notable for serving pho, spring rolls, and banh mi sandwiches (delicious dishes that are affordably priced, making them perfect for those on a tight budget—like many students at nearby UC Hastings). But as the immigrant community established itself, new problems arose, particularly for the second-generation kids born in the United States. The community’s focus shifted to keeping kids in school, and away from drugs and gangs, while also helping them get vocational training and jobs. “Now, you’re talking about a new generation who are integrated into American life natively,” says Steve Ngo ’04. “Their needs aren’t that different from any other urban American teen’s in a challenging environment.” Ngo’s parents met in a refugee camp. He Steve Ngo ’04 enjoys dining on classic Vietnamese dishes in Little Saigon. was born in Kentucky and raised in New Orleans and Southern California. During his years at UC Hastings, he was student body president and founded the Vietnamese American Law Society. He has also

Vietnamese Youth Development Center Upon settling in the Tenderloin, many youth who had ﬂed Southeast Asia faced multiple challenges, including assimilation, language barriers, isola- tion, and depression. In 1978, a group of Vietnamese refugees founded the Vietnamese Youth Development Center in the heart of Little Saigon to provide this population with much-needed support and practical assistance. Among the services that this vital and nationally recognized organization provides are vocational classes; translation services; English classes; and assistance with school enrollment, public beneﬁts, and housing. BOTTOM: COURTESYBOTTOM: VYDC.ORG OF

54 SPRING 2013 “Now, the new generation has integrated into American life natively. Their needs aren’t that different from any other urban American teen in a challenging environment.” —Steve Ngo ’04] served on the board of SEACC and been elected to the San Francisco Community College Board. Despite the challenges the Southeast Asian community continues to face, it has brought a welcome vibrancy and sense of renewal to the Tenderloin. In the past few years, the neighborhood has added parks, playgrounds, and an elementary school, making it more family-friendly. “The families and the young people and seniors bring diversity,” says Young, who has lived in and around the neighborhood for 31 years. “There are families who really like being here, and they make the neighborhood more positive.” In recognition of this impact, the city ofﬁcially designated a stretch of Larkin Street as “Little Saigon” in 2004. It was a moment of great pride for the community. “We think that’s our biggest achievement,” Nguyen says. “It doesn’t mean we’re looking at the past. We hope it’s the cultural center for Southeast Asians in San Francisco. We hope that Little Saigon can do the same thing as Chinatown and Japantown—bring in tourists and beneﬁt the community and the city.” And thus, Little Saigon, day by day, becomes a more integral part of the city, and its citizens a more integral part of America. “It’s what happens to every ethnic group that comes to America,” Ngo says. “You see a blend, not just Vietnamese or ethnic Chinese Vietnamese, but a beautiful amalgam.”

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HSIR plans to hold a series of workshops for members of the community. Once it is determined that the applicant meets the criteria, student volunteers will assist with the paperwork and submit the applications to attorneys who have offered to help on a pro bono basis. HSIR also plans to provide other community services, such as helping Altin Dastmalchi ’13, center, with members of UC Hastings immigrants who have been Students for Immigrants’ Rights. victims of domestic violence apply for visas. “Our hope is IN DEFENSE OF for students to gain hands-on experience as advocates,” adds IMMIGRANTS’ RIGHTS Dastmalchi, who was born in Iran and became a U.S. citizen in A new campus organization promotes direct engagement September 2012 at the age of 27. with the local immigrant community. HSIR also hosts a variety of functions and networking oppor- n June 2012, President Dastmalchi, “and to establish a tunities. At the group’s inaugural Barack Obama announced process by which we could give event, a panel on careers in I that his administration back to the community.” immigration law, the speakers would offer “deferred action” One of HSIR’s first projects were the Hon. Dana Marks ’77, to qualified immigrants who is to help immigrants complete an immigration judge; Kevin arrived in the United States as the new Deferred Action for Crabtree ’05, of the Law Office children. The initiative galva- Childhood Arrivals applica- of Robert L. Lewis; and Angie nized Altin Dastmalchi ’13. tions. In this program, eligible Junck ’04, a staff attorney with Long interested in immigra- immigrants—those who arrived the Immigrant Legal Resource tion law, Dastmalchi created in the United States before their Center. a new student organization 16th birthday, have continu- “We want to connect stu- called UC Hastings Students for ously resided here for the past dents with alumni in the field,” Immigrants’ Rights (HSIR). five years, and who meet several Dastmalchi adds. “These kinds “I envisioned creating an other criteria—may no longer of mentor-mentee opportuni- avenue for UC Hastings students be deemed deportable and may ties will help students transform to pursue their interest in receive authorization to work their interest in immigration law immigration law,” says legally in the United States. into a legal career.”

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