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I imagined that serving as a President of our Alumni Association might be compared to serving as President of the United States (though I hold no misconceptions of my "power"). During a tenure with no real crises, the President typically steers a steady, non-tumultuous course. In positive economic times (our Association is financially strong), with no wars or conflicts to address (our relations with the Law School are strong and, presently, we have no real disputes with the University), and with a strong administration (we have an outstanding group of Alumni Board Members and supporters who through their efforts, allow us to serve Alumni as an affirmative and active organization), there is not a significant amount to do. It would appear to be easy to serve my one-year tenure and pass on the Presidency in June of this year. Though our organization internally is strong, there is a continuing civil (or should I say "uncivil") war going on in our profession. The lack of civility among our peers has reached such a point that, as I look back over the past twenty-five years of my practice, I am often dismayed by the way the practice of law has taken on a win-at-all-cost flavor. Accordingly, I am proposing that the Board of our Alumni Association join with me in the formation of a new Committee, which, for the lack of a better name at the present time, I will call the Committee of Professional Development. Possibly through our efforts as Alumni of Cleveland-Marshall, we can develop programs in which collegiality and integrity among our members are the starting points from which we can influence others. So many private practi­ tioners, find themselves in a position of having to win at all costs from an economic as well as emotional standpoint so that programs developed to strengthen our mutual commitment to ethical considerations, while simultaneously assisting our membership in the development of their practices, will further serve us and our profession. Our efforts may include continu­ ing programs on office automation, referrals among our members, a database of information that may be accessed, and possibly even a mentor program so that new practitioners as well as those in practice for a number of years, will be able to call upon our members much like our continuing Student Mentor Program by which we provide advice to law students. I was recently invited to speak on professionalism on behalf of the American Arbitration Association (use of alternative dispute resolution may be another area of focus for our organi­ zation). In order to avoid the appearance that I was in any way attempting to impose my thoughts on professionalism to the attendees, I elected to consult the Internet and came upon a wonderful article about a symposium held at the Stetson College of Law. One quota­ tion seemed particularly relevant. I paraphrase as follows: When was it that lawyers first became aware that there were problems with profes­ sionalism in their community? Was it when the clients began complaining of their extraordi­ nary fees related to the attorneys bickering about every point? Was it when the news media began to regularly attack lawyers, publishing unflattering articles? Or was it when the lawyers began complaining about each other? I often speak with attorneys who are approaching retirement. Their comments to me are generally the same: "I sure am glad I'm getting out of this business. It is not any fun any­ more. I extend to you my condolences." Many of us who have practiced for more than a few years and who have more than a few years remaining in this profession literally dread those comments of those older practi­ tioners. It is my personal belief that we have to take the bull by the horns. I commit myself and our Alumni organization to attempt to move in that direction.

Of course, we will continue forward with our established, on-going services to our Alumni community and the legal community. By way of a partial report of our continuing activities, we expect to: 1. Establish an Alumni website with information about membership, activities, law school events, CLE programs and registration. Though our site is in its initial stages of develop- · ment, we anticipate our website will ultimately include additional features such as the abili­ ty to communicate directly with practitioners whose practices are concentrated in particular fields and to call upon Alumni for assistance or, possibly, seek referrals or co-counseling. Again, we are in the preliminary stages of development and, of course, would welcome any thoughts or comments you might have. 2. We will continue to serve the community by the presentation of CLE programs geared toward practical elements of practice. Please continue to look for our regularly mailed brochures announcing our excellent programs conducted in the spring and fall of each year. Might I add that we continue to receive high marks from the attendees on the quality and relevancy of our presentations? 3. We will continue forward with the expansion of our membership. Though each of you is a member by virtue of having graduated from Cleveland-Marshall, your annual commit­ ment of $50 (regular membership) is truly appreciated and benefits our organization. 4. We will expand upon our close work with the student body of Cleveland-Marshall through our Professional Opportunities Committee. Our mentoring program has proved successful in teaming up attorneys and law students, providing them with insight and advice as they plan for their legal careers. 5. We will continue to call upon our members to participate in the Alumni Association through committee membership. If you are interested in becoming a member of any of our committees, please let us know. Committee membership may lead to our Nominating Committee's recognition of your efforts and, possibly, ultimately to a seat on our Board of Trustees. We have accomplished much and can accomplish much more as we continue forward with our commitment to you and all other Alumni as well as the Northeastern Ohio legal community. I personally extend to you the opportunity to speak with me as to your involve­ ment in our Alumni Organization. Please feel free to contact me at my office, (216) 241-9990 or by email at [email protected].

:I Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association News-Spring 2001

On the cover: Omo Obatala Jose Santiago, our Latino cover artist, is representative of Cleveland's rich cultural and ethnic community. His N 0 T E S mural, located in the Student Services Center of the law school, CONTENTS depicts the history of the law school 3 through portraits of its earliest and Dean's Column most recent students and faculty. 7 The article, "Walls," beginning on CMLAA Honors Judge C. Ellen Connally page 26, identifies the persons pic­ and Judge Timothy E. McMonagle tured and the origin of the mural's 13 commission. Protecting Human Rights 14 CMLAA Honors Graduates of 14 Classes 17 Life Members 21 A Hero for These Times: Jane Picker 25 Bar Results Volume 9, Number 1 26 Spring 2001 Editor: Walls Mary McKenna Associate Editor: 30 Louise F. Mooney Housing Court Conference Graphic Design: Szilagyi Communication Design 32 Printer: Criminal Justice Forums Legal News Publishing Company Photo Credits: 33 Mary McKenna, Bill Rieter, Greg Hildebrandt, Nancy Hribar and Steve Zorc Let Us Now Praise Famous Women We hope you enjoy this new issue of Law Notes 39 and ask that you continue to contribute and respond to information in this and future issues Visiting Scholar Lecture: Alan]. Ryan of Law Notes. Special thanks to Leon M. Plevin 41 '57, Donald F. Traci '55, Susan L. Gragel '80, Daniel R. McCarthy '54 and Sheldon Sager for Community Advocacy Clinic their commitment in support of this publica­ 44 tion. Special thanks to Rosa M. DelVecchio for her assistance. Library Titles of Interest The CM LAA Board of Trustees is dedicated to serving the alumni, students, faculty and staff 45 of the College of Law. Hate Crimes Forum For comments and suggestions, please feel free to contact the Law Alumni Office 58 at 216-687-2368. Alumni Happenings Law Notes, issued by the Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association, 1801 Euclid Avenue, 67 Cleveland, Ohio 44115 Faculty and Staff Happenings

Spring 2001 1 Cleveland-Marshall Law Membership Benet its

1. Sl 0 discount on each CM LAA-CLE Seminar- $140 Value 2. 50 % Initiation Fee Reduction at the Cleveland Athletic Club, Cleveland 's Premier Downtown Business, Social, and Athletic Club cm a.a. 3. Subscription to Law Notes, the Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association Magazine 4. Use of the Law Library 5. CMLAA Window Decal with the New CMLAA Logo 6. 10 % discount at the CSU Barnes and Noble Bookstore (except on ADozen textbooks and discounted merchandise) 7. Reduced Rates in CSU 's Gym Dandy, a Recreation Program including Gym, Indoor track, Volleyball, Tennis, and Handball Courts Reasons Ticketing for Vikings Athletic Events held in the CSU 8. Priority Convocation Center 9. Law Alumni Association Membership Card-making you eligible Why You for all benefits 10. Professional Contacts in the Legal Community Should Join 11. Satisfaction of Supporting Educational Programs and the CMLAA 12. Many Social Events, including Annual Recognition Luncheon, Bar Results Parties and Much More SAVE THIS DATE! REUNION WEEKEND SEPT 28&29 Graduating Classes Ending in 116 1996, 1991, 1986, 1981, 1976, 1971, 1966, 1961, 1956, 1951, 1946, 1941, 1936, 1931 _,:.;·:. Dean's Column

The Law School and its Graduates: A Lasting Bond by Dean Steven H Steinglass

ince the earliest days of the work stations with attached printers must first access the Library web page Cleveland Law School and the and access to the Internet, Ohiolink, (www.law.csuohio.edu/la wlibrary /); SJohn Marshall School of Law, the Scholar, and word-processing soft­ then click on "Alumni" under relationship between the alumni and ware. Lexis and Westlaw are also "Services." This is a good way to gain the professorate has been close. Our accessible to those who have com­ an introduction into the many ser­ founder-Judges Willis Vickery, mercial IDs. In addition, Dean Slinger vices the Library provides our gradu­ David C. Meck, and Lee Skeel '12 has made an effort to inform alumni ates; the best entrance, however, is and legendary Dean Wilson about newly accessed titles: Each through the front door because no Stapleton '34 kept track of the issue of Law Notes now includes an electronic database can match the school's early graduates and were experience of spending an hour or often instrumental in helping them two in the architecturally grand, wel­ establish careers. And always their coming space that is the Cleveland­ former students were ready to aid the Marshall Law Library. law school in challenging times. Today's university-based law school Office of Career Planning is far more complicated than its pre­ Services to Alumni decessors; nevertheless, the personal The law school's Office of Career and professional ties of alumni to Planning, under the direction of Cleveland-Marshall remain strong. Jayne Hurst Geneva '87 and Through their generosity as donors Assistant Director Bernadette Salada and through their service as mentors, '86 has increased its services to alum­ as adjuncts and as members of the ni. In addition to the Current Job Visiting Committee, the National Binders, which can be reviewed by Advisory Committee, and the alumni in the Office of Career Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Planning and in the Law Library, the Association, our graduates continue law school has purchased eAttorney, to be involved in their law alma an on-line job search database with mater, helping us, in this era, to build job postings in Ohio and throughout the law school that our Strategic Plan the country. To find out how to access envisions. e-Attorney, consult the instructions at In this Law Notes column, how­ the end of my column. ever, I would like to focus not on the many contributions our graduates Networking make to the law school but on the article written by Reference Librarian A less formal route to a new job is services Cleveland-Marshall provides Schuyler Cook '87. Don't be misled "n etworking," and Cleveland­ them. into thinking this is a dry roster: Marshall certainly provides many Schuyler often brings his own wry wit opportunities for making new The New Law Library and keen insights to bear on many of friends, renewing old friendships and and Our Alumni these texts. Of great interest to practi­ meeting potential employers-not just The new Cleveland-Marshall Law tioners is the Ohio collection now in Cleveland but throughout the Library, with its vast print and elec­ assembled in one room; the Ohio country. Members of the faculty and tronic resources, was planned as a Room is located on the lower level of staff join Mary McKenna, Executive great research and learning facility the Library in room A066. The Director of the Cleveland-Marshall for our students and faculty, our col­ Library staff has put together a packet Law Alumni Association, and me at leagues in the University and the of information especially for alumni; several out-of-state trips each year. entire legal community; in the plan­ Assistant Director of Public Services We regularly visit alumni groups in ning, special care was taken to Librarian Ellen Quinn '96 will be Florida, California, Chicago, and the accommodate the needs of our alum­ pleased to send you one Washington, D.C., area. For me, these ni. Last year Law Library Director (E llen . Quinn@la w. csuo hio. ed u) . receptions are always rewarding gath­ Michael ]. Slinger, Professor of Law Finall y, the Library's Network erings, for they are often occasions and Associate Dean, opened the Administrator, Robert Rothrock, has for reconnecting with my former stu­ Library's Alumni Computer Room. created an alumni link to the Law dents and meeting many graduates I Room 124 has two individual PC Library web-page. To arrive at it, you know only by name. And they can be

Spring 2001 3 rewarding for others as well: Closer to Reliable Jury Verdicts? Law, home, we hold annual receptions in Today's university­ Technology, and Media Columbus and in other Ohio cities in Developments since the Three Trials conjunction with the Ohio State Bar based law school of Dr. Sam Sheppard" began on Association Convention. Moreover, is far more Friday, April 20, with an address by in recent years we have gone to the Honorable James Robertson of the Geauga and Medina Counties to visit complicated than United States District Court for the with area alumni, and we are plan­ District of Columbia and concluded ning visits to other Ohio counties in its predecessors; on Saturday, April 21, after a full day the future. Throughout the year the nevertheless, the of panels featuring representatives of Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni the media, defense attorneys, crimi­ Association sponsors several social personal and nologists, and forensic scientists. The events-bar-passage parties, mentor conference not only promises to be receptions, holiday celebrations and professional ties provocative, it also represents a coop­ the annual Al umni Recognition erative effort between the faculty and Luncheon-that may well become of alumni to our alumni. Terry Gilbert '73, plan­ venues for finding a new job. Cleveland-Marshall tiff's attorney in the most recent Sheppard trial, helped plan the con­ Keeping Up remain strong. ference and is its concluding speaker. The law, this learned profession, is A year's worth of courses, lec­ never static and continually demands tures, our Criminal Justice Forums, tures, seminars, and symposia orga­ much of all of us. Helping our alumni our Forrest B. Weinberg and our nized by an informed faculty and cre­ "keep up" is one of the things we do Joseph C. Hostetler-Baker & Hostetler ative students makes Cleveland­ best. Associate Dean Jack Guttenberg lectures. Moreover, in recent years Marshall an expansive and vibrant has prepared a list of fa ll 2001 and our faculty has grown increasingly community that is strongly commit­ spring 2002 evening courses that entrepreneurial and increasingly per­ ted to serving the larger community some of you might wish to consider suasive in attracting outstanding of alumni and friends. taking: Labor Law, Wealth Transfer speakers to the campus: Last fall, for Tax Law, Advanced Corporate Tax, instance, Professor Deborah Geier The Fun Part of Being a Cleveland­ Immigration and ationality Law, put together an impressive roster of Marshall Alumni and Admiralty will be taught in the economists and lawyers for her Our students are always eager to meet fall, and Tax on Business Enterprises, "Death of the 'Death Tax'?" confer­ and mingle with the alumni. On Patent Law and Practice, Information ence, and Clinical Professor Kermit Moot Court ight they are at their Technology and Law, Employment Lind '85 and Cleveland Municipal best, and the Moot Court Board Pension and Benefits Law (ERISA), Court-Housing Division Judge invites all alumni to watch our teams Mergers and Acquisitions, and Real Raymond Pianka ' 77 drew lawyers, prepare for their national competi­ Estate Law will be offered in the judges, public officials, and commu­ tions. On April 5th the law school spring semester. Ohio CLE is available nity development advocates from recognized our students' academic for all these courses. For information throughout Ohio for a conference on and community service accomplish­ about registering, please call Housing Code Enforcement. Our stu­ ments at the annual Awards Administrative Secretary Joan dents have been creative in develop­ Convocation, and alumni had an Shirockey at 216-523-7308 or e-mail ing symposia and sponsoring speak­ opportunity to meet the outstanding her at [email protected]. ers as well. A student-sponsored students who are their future col­ edu. "Hate Crimes Symposium" in leagues in the profession. And then The law school is also rich in October brought participants from there's the Barristers' Ball, which wel­ other opportunities to earn CLE cred­ community organizations, govern­ comes all our alumni and gives them its. In addition to the courses referred ment offices, and rights-groups an opportunity to relive the part of to above, the Cleveland-Marshall Law throughout the city to the law school; the law school experience that was Alumni Association has been a leader Lawrence Baca, the first American not dedicated to books and study. The in providing a comprehensive roster Indian attorney ever hired by the U.S. Student Bar Association is always suc­ of Continuing Legal Ed ucation cours­ Department of Justice, was the cessful in locating this annual event es, over 20 annually, taught by some keynote speaker. In April our criminal in a dazzling setting, and this year is of the city's most accomplished attor­ law faculty presented a two-day con­ no different: The 2001 Barristers' Ball neys. And each year the law school ference examining the lessons the was held on April 28th at the Grand offers multiple opportunities to earn Sam Sheppard trials have taught Ballroom of the Renaissance CLE credit through our Cleveland­ lawyers, criminologists, the media Cleveland Hotel. The SBA always Marshall Fund Visiting Scholar lee- and the public. "Toward More Continued on page 48

4 Law Notes L to R: Jack Staph, Dean Steinglass, James Thomas, Carmen Policy, Judge George Class White, Leonard Young, Sheryl of 2000 King Benford, William Powers

n May 20 approximately 200 men and women said goodbye to their lives as students and began new 0 lives as Cleveland-Marshall attorneys. The enthu­ siastic graduates received their diplomas from Dean Steven H. Steinglass and received wise counsel from their graduation speaker, Cleveland Browns President and Chief Executive Officer Carmen Policy. Policy, a graduate of Youngstown State University and Georgetown University Law Center, received an honorary doctor of laws from the University. His address touched on the obligations of lawyers to the public and the necessity of lawyers using their degrees wisely and well to the credit of their alma mater and themselves. Other speakers at the graduation included CSU President Dr. Claire Van Ummersen, CSU Board of Trustees member Michael L. Climaco '72, Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association President Laura A. Williams '82, Cleveland-Marshall National Advisory Committee Chair James A. Thomas '63, Cleveland-Marshall Visiting Committee Chair Leonard D. Young ' 74, and SBA Vice President of Programming William Dawson '00. LFM fudge Ann Dyke, Michael Climaco, Laurie Dyke

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C. Ellen Connally Class of 1970

hen I arrive at my station and tape-recorded by appointment to the presiding officer as he interview the reads the prisoner her Miranda W Honorable C. Ellen rights. The tape is being played Connally at the Justice Center, in court, and it is an appalling she is not in her own recording of a woman scream­ Cleveland Municipal Court­ ing and cursing, so full of the room but next door observing vocabulary of racial h atred that the proceedings in Judge it is painful to sit through and Ronald Adrine's '73 courtroom, where she asks me to join painful to watch the reaction of the black Americans in her. Judge Connally is listening intently to the sentencing the courtroom-police, officers of the zc;ourt, the Judges of a woman arrested for drunken driving and disorderly themselves. An unnerving experience that leaves one conduct; it is a far from routine case. The woman, a shrill wondering what else is locked up in the secret heart of middle-class white woman,has been taken to the police America.

Spring 2001 7 Judge Connally must have been 1958, he founded the Connally the Honorable Alvin I. Krenzler of the wondering too: As we leave the court­ Insurance Company and thus Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals room, she remarks, "A drunken man became one of the first black agents and then served as a General Trial speaks a sober man's mind." But she to represent major insurance compa­ Referee for the Probate Division of the is far more sanguine about this unset­ nys. Gwendolyn Connally, a graduate Cuyahoga County Court of Common tling spectacle than I. As her resume, of South Carolina State, was a house­ Pleas. In Probate Court one day, she one of the briefest, more modest I wife and later assisted her husband in learned of a two-year-old black and have ever seen, states, she has seen his business. Vietnamese orphan who had been and heard a lot in the more than two brought to Cleveland and needed a decades sh e has been on the home. In short order, the future Judge Cleveland Municipal Court: every All the Judge's vic­ became mother to a little boy her day for 21 years, this unfolding father called, "the luckiest child in human drama that she describes as tories have not been America." Today, Seth George "people at their worst." A teacher is Connally, a pianist, is 28 years old accused of beating a student, two gay at the polls, and teaches music at St. Dominic and men are assaulted for being gay, a St. Thomas Aquinas schools. In 19 79, man is accused of stalking a former however: Her Ellen Connally, ready for another girl friend-a parade of our fellow citi­ challenge, ousted an incumbent from zens answering charges of vehicular campaign against his seat on the Cleveland Municipal homicide, drug addiction, petty Court. She was 34 years old and had theft, domestic violence, parole viola­ breast cancer has never run for office; moreover, tion, prostitution, on and on, all though she had worked on the cam­ being heard by an African American been as triumphant paigns of ] udges Lloyd Brown, Frank woman judge Who does not seem to Celebrezze '56, and Carl Stokes '53, have lost an ounce of conviction that as her political she was a relative newcomer without the American legal system works and the kind of name recognition that who still believes that "99 percent of successes. plays so well in Cleveland. And yet, the lawyers appearing before me are Ellen Connally became the first black concerned about their clients and Ellen grew up in Glenville and woman in Ohio to win a judicial elec­ want to do the best they can for attended local Catholic schools. After tion without having been first them." And, strikingly, despite her her graduation from otre Dame appointed to a vacancy on the bench. status as a woman and black and High School, she earned an under­ It was a remarkable accomplishment. notwithstanding her commitment to graduate degree from Bowling Green Re-elected in 1985, 1991 and 1997, both minorities, Judge Connally State University; she graduated in she has served the citizens of seems to cleave to a notion that jus­ January 1967 and in the fall began Cuyahoga County with distinction tice will prevail, as justice has done law school in the first day class in the ever since. on this day in Judge Adrine's court. It history of the Cleveland-Marshall All the Judge's victories have not is a kind of old-fashioned American Law School. "I always wanted to be a been at the polls, however: Her cam­ optimism that makes me ask about its lawyer," she explains. "I wanted to do paign against breast cancer has been source. something that was not a nine-to-five as triumphant as her political suc­ Cecelia Ellen Connally and her job and that gave me a lot of inde­ cesses. sister Marjorie Connally Campbell pendence." ot only was she the A week before her first run for a are the daughters of Gwendolyn only woman in the class, she and seat on the Municipal Court, she Johnson Connally and the late Andy Butler, a Liberian, were the only found a lump under her arm; the day George Connally, Jr. Her family came black students. For Ellen, being the before the election, her doctor con­ to Ohio from Georgia and South only black in a class of all white stu­ firmed it was breast cancer, the same Carolina, and their story is not dents was hardly a novel experience, kind of cancer both her grandmoth­ untypical of black families leaving so adjusting to being the only ers had had. He wanted to operate the segregated south to settle in the woman was no problem at all. the next day. "You can't!" she integrated north in hopes of finding During law school she worked in explained, "I've got to go get elected better jobs. At first, George Connally, the law offices of Samuel S. Perry '54 tomorrow." A few days after the 1979 a graduate of Tuskegee Institute, did and Carl J. Character '61, who later election, she was operated on for can­ not fare much better in Cleveland in his career served on the Court of cer. She is now one of the most vocal than he had in the south. Worse, in Common Pleas. Over the years she of women crusaders against breast fact. In Aiken, South Carolina, he had has remained a close friend and pays cancer, often speaking to groups dur­ been a business manager and high frequent visits to Judge Character, ing ational Breast Cancer Awareness school football coach; in Cleveland who is now retired and disabled. Month and pointing out to minority he found work as a milk-man. But in As a new lawyer she clerked for women, in particular, that the

8 Law Notes decline in breast cancer among white investigations into the history of stylish Tiffany windows was a big women is not matched by a decline black funeral homes. Were black draw. Streetcar lines were laid out to among black women. funeral homes the result of post­ Lakeview, the cemetery sold passes to In truth, Judge Connally has mortem segregation? Did white the tomb for 10 cents each, and the many interests, among them an undertakers refuse to bury the bodies enterprise flourished. interest in American history. You can­ of African Americans? Out came the Not all the Judge's research pro­ not spend an hour with her without death records of the Probate Court, jects are necrological in origin. For knowing how profoundly grounded the burial records of Highland, many years, Ellen's grandmother had in history she is. The Judge cites as told her stories about her great uncle, her heroes W.E.B. Du Bois, Rosa Out came the death John Ladeveze, and a case he and two Parks, John F. Kennedy, and Judge other black men brought against a Leon A. Higginbotham, whom she records of the local Georgia board of education at especially reveres. This reverence for the turn of the century. Thus, one of the men and women who have Probate Court, the most arresting subjects she has almost singlehandedly changed the undertaken as a PhD student is a course of history is, I believe, the study of Jos eph W Cumming, fames S. source of her optimism: One human the burial records Harper and f ohn C. Ladeveze v. The can sometimes do what an army can­ Co unty Board of Education of Richmond not. of Highland, Co unty, State of Georgia. The Some people are baptized by Cumming case contested the Board immersion, some by sprinkling. Woodland, of Education's decision to close the Judge Connally's baptism into histo­ tax-supported Ware High School, the ry was by immersion. Early immer­ and Lakeview only black public high school in sion: "My father and my grandmoth­ Augusta, on the grounds that there er were great history buffs. We were Cemeteries. Once were other religiously-based high always talking about history in our schools for black children and that house," she recalls. Thus, in 1994, she more, the popular the resources that provided for the returned to the classroom, earning education of a mere 60 black sec­ her Master's degree in history in 199 7 myth proved, well, ondary school children were better from Cleveland State University. spent to educate 200 black primary Nowadays, she says, she spends most mythic. school children who had no school. evenings at "Kelvin's house," the The case, successful for the plaintiffs institution the rest of the world calls Woodland, and Lakeview Cemeteries. in the trial court and successful for the Kelvin Smith Library of Case Once more, the popular myth the Board of Education on appeal to Western Reserve University, where proved, well, mythic. Until 1920, she the Georgia Supreme Court, eventu­ she does research for her PhD in his­ found, white funeral homes routinely ally made its way to the United States tory from the University of Akron. buried black persons; moreover, iron­ Supreme Court in 1899, where the Her pursuit of the doctorate is a pas­ ically, the growth of segregated black state supreme court was upheld in a sionate pilgrimage: She is so there, as funeral homes thereafter fostered a unanimous decision written by if the line between the past and the middle class of black businessmen. Justice John Marshall Harlan. present had been effaced. The Judge's Lakeview research Ellen Connally's insightful essay, "I did my master's thesis on had led her straight to the tomb of "Justice Harlan's 'Great Betrayal'? A Garfield's funeral. I know more about Garfield. Garfield was not a native of Reconsideration of Cumming v. Garfield's funeral in Cleveland than Cleveland; he was a native of Mentor. Richmond County Board of Education," anyone alive today!" she tells me, Why then was he buried in was published in the Journal of and I don't doubt it. When the Judge Lakeview? she wondered and discov­ Supreme Court History's spring 2000 does research, she is admirably, ered: "It was a business promotion. issue. According to the Judge, the painstakingly thorough. "A neighbor The cemetery pressured the family. As Cumming case has always been told me when I was a little girl that the President lay sick and dying for something of an historical curiosity: there were no black people buried in most of the summer of 1881, the Three years before the case arrived at Lakeview Cemetery," she recalls. That Lakeview Trustees offered the family the Court, Justice Harlan had pro­ the world should see fit to carry seg­ the largest available plot in the ceme­ nounced the Constitution "color­ regation into the next life aroused tery. Lakeview had just opened and blind," and historians have puzzled her curiosity; it seemed an apt topic was eight miles from the city. Harlan's rr).otives for over a century. for a paper. Months later, stacks of Business was slow, and the addition Ultimately, Judge Connally under­ Lakeview records behind her, she of a President would bring prestige." stands Harlan's decision not as a fail­ concluded, "There were black people According to the Judge, the tomb of ure of his commitment to civil liber­ all over Lakeview!" Next came her the assassinated President with its ties but as a failure of the plaintiffs'

Spring 2001 9 la wyer to challenge convincingly the raising pit bulls as fi ghters, agreed to school board's arguments or to raise a felony charge rather than risk *** the proper issues or even to cite the appearing before her in Municipal In her research into her own fam il y separate but eq ual doctrine that Court on a misdemeanor. history, judge Connall y has discov­ might have prevailed o er the school In her dedication to her profes­ ered a number of "white" relati es closing. It is a charitable, face-saving sion and her community, Ellen who did not know part of their her­ analy is of justice Harlan and the onnally continues to ask much of itage was black. For a few, the news Court's action. "How ... do we think herself. For the pa t seven yea rs she was di concerting; for others it was a that the Supreme Court would have delight. Saddest though was the story ruled otherwise in 1899?" she asks Recently, she says, of her relative, the Cumming plain­ generously because she is so very tiff john Ladeveze. Frustrated by his adept at placing herself in the there of a man who was court losses and dishea rtened, he left a century ago. the south and took his family to The more Judge Connally dig Ca lifornia. Somewhere during that into the past, the more ardent raising pit bulls as cross-continental journey, he shed becomes her pursuit, so ardent that his black identity. Since both he and she ha announced her 1997 election fighters, agreed to a his wife were fair skinned, they will be her last. She hopes for a career moved into the white world, passing in teaching, but before that she must felony charge rather with ease as white. Born a black man finish her doctoral dissertation, and proud, john Ladeveze gave up which he plans to focus on changes than risk appearing his struggle fo r equality. His descen­ in the onstitution resulting from dant on the Cleveland Municipal the ivi l War. Currently, she is before her in Court has not. ot on equality or on resea rching the question of why anything else that is meaningful to Jefferson Davis never went to trial for Municipal Court on her. That is why her future as an his­ treason at the end of the Civil War. torian is as promising of success as This question interests her in part, a misdemeanor. her tenure on the bench has been . she says, because of the Ohio connec­ LFM tions: almon P. Chase, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court at has been Secretary/Treasurer of the Timothy E. McMonagle the do e of the Civil War, was an orthern Ohio Municipal judges Class of 1974 Ohioan and former go ernor of the ssociation and is a past Pre ident of state. The Judge que tions whether the organization. She is active in the he may have been responsible for the merican Judges Association, the cMonagle. In Cleveland, the failu re of the courts to proceed ational Judicial College, and the name is a familia r one, a again t Davis. But there are many Ohio Judicial ollege. She has also M good name fo r a judge. In hours of both hi storical and legal involved herself in organiza tions fact, the name of many good judges. research before she comes to a con­ active on behalf of youths: She has First there are two brothers, George J. McMonagle '29, who was clusion . And therein li e the interest been a former chair of the Youth and the allure-a tangle of legal and Violence Committee of the Task Judg o n the Cuyahoga County historica l puzzles to sort out and Force on Violent Crime and the Court of Common Pleas, and the late solve. Mayor's Advisory Committee fo r Richard E. McMonagle '38; then I do not think judge Connally Gang Violence. Moreover, she is an there are their three sons: George's would allow me to write about her exemplary alumna and has served as son Richard]. McMonagle is a judge on the Court of Common Pleas and unless I mentioned her dogs, six­ a past President of the Board of year-old Roscoe and 10-year-old Trustees of her undergraduate alma George' son James ) . McMonagle Jacob, both Vizlas, a breed, according mater and wa the fou nding member ' 70, General Coun el and Vice President of University Hospitals of to the BRITA 'ICA, brought by of the Bowling Green State Un ive rsity Magya rs to Hungary over 1000 years Black Alumni-C uya hoga County Cleveland, is a former Common Pleas ago. To say Ellen Connally is an ani­ Chapter. From 1994-95 she was judge. The late Richard E. mal lover does not adequately cap­ President of the Board and Chair of McMonagle's stepson Timothy E. McMonagle '74 is a Judge on the ture her passion. In fact, when I ask the Presidential Search Committee Ohio Eighth District Court of her if she considers herself a stern or that elected Bowling Green a lenient judge, she answers, University's eighth President. Fi nally, Appea ls, and his wife Christine T. "lenient. just don't kill a dog. Don't she is an Honorary Member of the McMonagle is a Court of Common hurt a dog or a cat or any other ani­ Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Pleas judge. So there are five living judges in one Cleveland family. In a mal and come into my court!" Association Board of Trustees and a Recently, she says, a man who was Life Member of the Association. family of mostly Irish descent, proba-

10 Law ates bly five judges are just about enough Vietnamese," he recalls, and there Cleveland as a law student; now a sol­ to keep the peace. was a great scampering and "great dier, he returned to his hometown, Timothy E. McMonagle, our confusion to explain who we were to wearing his military haircut and uni­ 2001 Cleveland-Marshall outstand­ our own allies." form, wearing them in the light of ing alumnus, has lived his entire life Did he want to be a soldier, I ask revelations that our country was in Cleveland. His birth father, him. "No, I wanted to be a lawyer, bombing Laos and Cambodia and Edward O'Connor, a lawyer as well, but I did what I had to," he replies. "I wearing them in the light of renewed died when his son was eight months questioned the righteousness of the anti-war hostility. In his opinion, old. Four years later Marjorie however, hostility toward the war at O'Connor married Richard E. So there are fi.ve home was not our country's greatest McMonagle. Raised in South Euclid, challenge: "What I learned about he had a thoroughly Catholic educa­ living judges in one America then was that hostility or tion, from St. Gregory the Great apathy towards returning soldiers Elementary School to Cathedral Latin Cleveland family. was a far greater concern for me than High School to the University of hostility toward the war." Dayton. And then, in 1967, on to In a family of What he learned about himself George, Richard E. and James was that he had grown up. "I came McMonagle's law school, Cleveland­ mostly Irish back a more mature man, a more seri­ Marshall, where he studied law at ous person," he recalls. "I knew I had night and worked as a claims adjuster always wanted to be a lawyer. I want­ for Travelers Insurance Company descent, probably ed to work for myself, and I liked during the day. A seamless progres­ what the law would allow me to sion, the path of the McMonagles: fi.ve judges are just accomplish, what it would allow me from one parochial school to another to do with my life. And if I had ever and then in 1967 to the law school about enough to doubted that I would love the law, that was becoming almost a family the war and my three years as a Bailiff tradition and from there to serve the keep the peace. in the Court of Common Pleas made people of Northeast Ohio with dis­ me understand even more why I tinction. war, of course. It was a duty that was wanted to be a lawyer." But before he could serve the imposed on me, but it was an appro­ As a student Tim McMonagle people of Northeast Ohio, he was priate duty, a patriotic duty. In the spent his remaining law school years called to serve his country in Army I was a combat medic. Since I in Judge George McMonagle's court­ Southeast Asia. In January 1968 dur­ had a couple of semesters of law room as his personal bailiff. George ing the Tet festival of the lunar new school, it would have been more sen­ McMonagle retired as a Senior Judge year, the North Vietnamese launched sible to make me a legal clerk. But of the Court of Common Pleas after a massive assault on 36 major South that's not the way the Army worked. almost 70 years in practice and on Vietnamese cities and towns. In the If I had been a medical student, I the bench. His reputation as a tireless wake of the guerilla attacks that would probably have been a legal lawyer and jurist is legendary; in the became known as the Tet Offensive, clerk." halls of the Justice Center and the General Westmoreland demanded Tim served in Vietnam from Old Courthouse, lawyers today still additional troops. Among the young 1969until1970, when he was granted swap stories about the Judge's work men and women swept up by the a leave to come home for his father's habits, and it never occurred to him tides of history was Timothy funeral. He left that beleaguered that his nephew might not be equal­ McMonagle. The call to escalate the country with the Combat Medic's ly driven. "Oh, I got no breaks," says war was a call to escalate the anti-war Badge, which signified that he had Tim. "He expected me to work the effort as well; when Tim McMonagle performed under fire, and the Army way he worked. Maybe harder. I left Ohio to join the US Army 25th Commendation Medal with First would be leaving his chambers in the Infantry Division, he left during Oakleaf Cluster, a medal awarded on Old Courthouse late in the afternoon some of the fiercest days of the war the recommendation of his comman­ to go across to the law school on and during some of the fiercest days der for multiple acts of meritorious Ontario, and he would ask me to of opposition. service; the Republic of Vietnam come back after class. I would explain He was a fit 24-year-old when he Services Award, and the 25th Infantry that the class didn't end till nine. was drafted and he had never crossed Tropic Lightning Award. Back in He'd say, 'Well, come by to see if I'm an ocean. His platoon did not enter Ohio on a compassionate assignment still here.' And he usually was." the war gracefully. "In my first night he served as an aide and legal clerk to In later years Tim has written, in Vietnam, we were pinned down by the Colonel overseeing the Nike mis­ "Vietnam was this country's most machine gun fire, attacked by sile sites in Bratenahl, Warrensville tragic mistake." In the wake of the 'friendly fire' from the South Heights, and Parma. He had left war, he says, his uncle's courtroom

Spring 2001 11 gave him a notion of the "more prac­ the victim of mistaken identity but have run against a sitting judge." And tical aspects of law", law as orderly also to identify the real culprit. And thus in 1983, yet another McMonagle and disciplined, unlike that disorder­ the prosecutor immediately dis­ was presiding over a Common Pleas ly conflict in Southeast Asia. "In missed the charges. Such is the work Court. · Vietnam," he remembers, "the lack of of a practicing idealist. "I did not have an opponent a real plan was obvious. You would Legal Aid, it turned out, had again until 1994," says the Judge. "He take a piece of land and abandon it. many attractions. There he met and, was far from a traditional candidate!" The next day the North Vietnamese in 1979, married Christine Jones, a My opponent was interviewed by a would take it back." In his uncle's Sun News editor and he said I was one courtroom he found a vision of law as of the five best judges on the bench, a maker and keeper of concord; there As a Vietnam so the Sun News, agreeing whole­ he saw law in its capacity to bring heartedly with my opponent's opposing sides together, to seek and veteran he has endorsement, also endorsed me." achieve peace. Months later, Governor Voinovich Tim graduated in 1974. Leaving been active in appointed Tim to the seat vacated by his uncle's courtroom behind, he Judge Donald C. Nugent '74, who immediately found two other men­ calling attention had been appointed to the United tors at the Legal Aid Society Public States District Court for the Northern Defender's Office: C. Lyonel Jones to the estrangement District of Ohio. In 1996 Judge '63, the Society's Director, and Roger McMonagle was elected to fill the S. Hurley, the Society's Criminal Law of the survivors unexpired term, and in 1998, he was Director. "I couldn't have worked for re-elected for a full six-year term. better people," he says. "Legal Aid of that unpopular The Court of Appeals, it seems to was great, a wonderful experience, me, is a hospitable setting for a per­ and I loved it, every part of it. You're and perhaps son of Judge McMonagle's inclina­ exposed to things you've never been tions, for a lawyer who brings honor exposed to before, depravity and misunderstood to the role of advocate. There plain­ hopelessness, and at the time you're tiffs and defendants are given a sec­ an idealist and you're surrounded by conflict. ond chance, there new life is idealists and you're without the con­ breathed into a point of law, and cerns of business or of offending young Case Western Reserve Law there the law proceeds incrementally other people. There's always some­ University School graduate who was toward a more just conclusion. The thing happening. There's humor and also working at Legal Aid. The Court thus often becomes the scene angst and pathos, and somehow McMonagles have two children, of dramatic, even sensational rever­ you're able to help the defendants, Ryan, a classical guitar student at the sals. Such was the case two years ago and somehow you maintain the ide­ University of Southern California, when Judge McMonagle and two col­ alism, the hope of making some part and Talley, a junior at Laurel School. leagues on the bench unanimously of the lives of others better, of right­ The public defender's office was concluded that the former Cleveland ing a wrong. then an arm of Legal Aid. According Browns may have breached their con­ "It was the pure practice of law," to Judge McMonagle, around 1977 tract with season ticket holders and he continues. And it was a job that "the Defender's Office was made part that their owner may have commit­ taught him to persist in the represen­ of the state bureaucracy, and things ted fraud. tation of his clients. changed." That same year, Tim left By 1997 Judge McMonagle had Even the least promising. For Legal Aid to become In House Trial been practicing law for 23 years. instance: "There was one case I'll Counsel at Buckeye Union/ During those years, he has been a never forget," he recalls. "A man was Continental Insurance Company. part of judgments that altered for bet­ convicted of aggravated burglary and Two years later he joined the law firm ter and for worse the lives of perhaps robbery. His conviction was upheld of Cronquist, Smith, Marshall & thousands of his fellow citizens. As a all the way to the Ohio Supreme Weaver, and in 1982 he ran and was judge his courtroom had been wit­ Court. But he had never had a crimi­ elected to a seat on the Cuyahoga ness to scenes of great rejoicing and nal conviction, and I believed he was County Court of Common Pleas, the scenes of bitter defeat. Then, in 1997 innocent; when new evidence was first Vietnam veteran to seek and Judge McMonagle had his own day of brought forth I petitioned the trial obtain that office. "Having worked reckoning when an unhealing court for permission to file a motion for my uncle in the Common Pleas swollen gland in his throat was diag­ for a new trial." Acting on an anony­ system, I knew I wanted one day to nosed as cancer, which required pro­ mous tip (he thinks it may have come be a judge, so when a place opened longed radiation and chemotherapy from the police department), he was up, I ran against an Independent and treatments and culminated in able not only to prove his client was a Democrat and won. I would not Continued on page 52

12 Law Notes _____ tegies for Protecting an Rights:

L to R: Professor David by Cleveland­ Bamhizer, Justice Richard Marshall Professor uman rights protection important to extract lessons as to Goldstone, Professor David of Law needs teeth. And those what works and what doesn't. This Goshien, Ambassador David Barnhizer H who work in the disparate assessment includes the need to David Rawson field of human rights need to see understand how the system can be the system more comprehensively and strategically. Far more effective in preventing human rights violations, how too often, political issues interfere with enforcement of to mitigate the worst effects if they cannot be prevented, human rights laws and allow violators to hide behind the and how to create the best strategies for sanctioning vio­ unwillingness of national governments to take action to lators. enforce existing laws against human rights violators. Lack Part of the analysis used in the meeting accepts that of commitment to human rights enforcement or timely we need to become much more sophisticated regarding preventative or intervention actions have led to violators context-specific strategies for protecting human rights. being left unpunished for torture, rape and genocide. This Implementation of human rights is central. But effective failure of governments means that there is a lack of deter­ implementation requires that human rights strategies take rent power sufficient to inhibit potential human rights the characteristics of cultures into account, as well as the violators who know they will not be legally pursued after strengths and weaknesses of rights violators and prospec­ a conflict has ended. tive national and international enforcers. No sound strat­ The April 2000 Human Rights Conference at egy for preventing or addressing violations of human Cleveland-Marshall that I coordinated brought together rights can succeed without considering the values, the experience of a diverse range of leading human rights strengths, and vulnerabilities of the specific nation or advocates and activists to explore more effective strategies leader being targeted. Obviously, dealing with China's for protecting human rights. Many of the strategies human rights violations is not the same as stopping against violators emphasize private action that does not human rights violations in Grenada. depend on the politicized policy decisions of national gov­ A prevention and enforcement regime must be built ernments, including the United States. The three-day that increasingly depends on the capabilities of national meeting also considered the uses and limitations of inter­ legal institutions, relying on action such as Spain and national fora to prosecute violations. Chile have taken in the Pinochet matter. This does not The driving premise of the conference was that we reject the importance of international institutions and the have had significant experience with human rights viola­ processes of international law but recognizes the political tions-and with the limitations inherent in our attempts and policy-driven limits of such institutions. Similarly, in to prevent violations and to inhibit actors from commit­ many instances powerful nations ignore serious human ting even worse atrocities. We have also sought to punish rights violations because the violator is an ally or impor­ those who cannot be otherwise controlled. From these tant trading partner. The use of national laws as a basis of wide ranging experiences we are at the point where it is Continued on page 56

Spring 2001 13 n September the Law Alumni Association held a gala reunion for alumni who grad­ I uated in the years ending in 5 or 0, beginning with the class of 1930 and concluding with the class of 1995. The weekend event began with a cocktail reception and dinner on Friday evening, September 9, at the law school. On Saturday, alumni and their guests were treated to a luncheon picnic at Jacobs Field followed by an exciting game between the Cleveland Indians and the Chicago White Sox. The Law Alumni Association thanks the wonderful Reunion Committee for making the weekend so memo­ rable.

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After graduat­ Ms. Sheehan is a partner at from Weston, Hurd, Fallon, Paisley & ing from Reminger and Reminger, where her Howley. Cleveland­ practice focuses on insurance cover­ Mr. Chamberlain is a member of Marshall age, employer liability, environmen­ the American Bar Association, College of Law tal and general litigation, and Cuyahoga County Bar Association, in 1978, Dale premises liability. Ms. Sheehan is a Cleveland Bar Association, E. Creech, Jr. member of the Cleveland Bar Association of Trial Lawyers of practiced in the Association, Ohio State Bar America, Ohio Academy of Trial Dayton law Association, Ohio Women's Bar Attorneys, Trial Lawyers for Public firm of Biesser, Association, and the Cleveland­ Justice, and serves as the Treasurer of Greer & Landis Marshall Law Alumni Association the Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Dale E. Creech, Jr. where his focus Board of Trustees. Association. He is admitted to prac­ was on medical Ms. Sheehan and her husband, tice in the United States District malpractice defense. In 1981 Mr. Brendan '93, live in Rocky River and Court, Northern District of Ohio, Creech became the first General are the parents of two children. Eastern and Western Division, and to Counsel to Kettering Medical Center, the United States Court of Appeals a position he held until 1986 when Honorable Timothy G. Cotner '68 for the Sixth Circuit. he joined Miami Valley Hospital, the graduated from Mr. Chamberlain is a partner in largest hospital in Dayton, as St. Ignatius the Cleveland law firm of Weisman, General Counsel. In 1995, Miami High School in Goldberg & Weisman and serves as a Valley Hospital and Good Samaritan 1948 and frequent lecturer throughout the Hospital created Premier Health received his legal community. He lives in Partners, an integrated health care B.S.S. from Westlake and is the father of two delivery system and named Mr. John Carroll children. Creech Chief Legal Officer. In this University in capacity, Mr. Creech oversees the 1952. He Terrell Menefee '99 is a graduate of legal affairs of all Premier-affiliated served as Grove City companies, including two hospitals Assistant College where with almost 1,200 beds, the state's Timothy G. Cotner County he received the largest nursing home, southwest Prosecutor Senior Man of Ohio's largest home health care com­ from 1968 - 1973 and then as the Year award pany, and over 100 employee/con­ Assistant Attorney General from and the tract physicians. He also serves as 1973 - 1986. Frederick Kring president of two captive insurance Judge Cotner was elected a judge Scholarship for companies located in Bermuda, of Juvenile Court in 1986. Although Outstanding which he developed to handle all of retired from the bench, he is still Leadership and the corporation's professional, gener­ active as a visiting judge. Judge Academics. al and other liability risks. Cotner is the son of Mercedes Terrell Menefee While at Mr. Creech is a member of the Cotner, who served as Clerk of Cleveland- American Health Lawyers Cleveland City Council for 23 years. Marshall College of Law, Mr. Association, the Captive Insurance Menefee received the Faculty Award Companies Association, the Henry W. (Hank) Chamberlain '90 for Second Highest Grade Point American Society of Law and graduated from Average and the Baker & Hostetler Medicine, and the Society of Ohio Vermilion High Scholarship for Highest Academic Health Care Attorneys, of which he School and Average in Final Year in Law School, is a past president. He and his wife, received his the William K. Gardner Award for Carolyn, are the parents of three B.S . in Business Outstanding Student in Civil children. Administration Procedure, and the Federal Bar from Ohio Association Award for Constitutional Michelle J. Sheehan '93, a graduate State University Law. He also served as the President of Miami University in Oxford, in 1987. While of the Christian Legal Society and as Ohio, served as the Articles Editor on studying at an associate member of the CSU Law the CSU Law Review while studying Cleveland­ Review. at Cleveland-Marshall. Following Henry W. Marshall, Mr. Mr. Menefee began his legal graduation Ms. Sheehan served an Chamberlain Chamberlain career as an associate with externship with the Honorable was a Nationals Team Member on Thompson Hine & Flory, where he Donald C. Nugent '74 of the Ohio the Moot Court Board of Governors 8th Appellate District. and was granted the Advocacy Award Continued on page 52

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1940 Hon. William T. Gillie Winifred A. Dunton James E. Melle 1941 Paul J. Hribar Leon G. Nagler James]. Komorowski 1942 Hon. August Pryatel Kevin B. Fergus Thomas P. Hayes ]. David Horsfall 1962 Clarence L. James, Jr. TlIDothy M. Bittel 1949 Richard]. Moriarty Lucien B. Karlovec William Thomas Plesec 1950 Bernard Mosesson Sheldon E. Rabb Joyce E. Barrett Charles Ipavec Stanley E. Stein BertTomon 1951 Dr. Bernice G. Miller Arthur R. FitzGerald M. Lee Graft Hon. Eugene M. Fellmeth 1963 Joseph A. Coviello Thomas L. Aries Francis E. Kane Lester T. Tolt 1972 Gary N. Holthus Hon. Lillian Burke Thomas]. Scanlon James A. Lowe George Nyerges Thomas W. Gray John V. Jackson II 1952 Hon. Thomas Lambros Robert W. Haskins Michael L. Climaco Hon. Edwin T. Hofstetter James A. Thomas William P. Farrall Hon. Joseph A. Zingales 1964 Harry L. Griffith William P. Gibbons Philip R. Brodsky Henry B. Fisher Joseph Gibson Arth ur Jacobs Howard M. Rossen Ronald H. Mills 1953 John]. Sutula Joseph T. Svete 1973 Mary Agnes Lentz William T. Momoe Raymond]. Schmidlin W. Frederick Fifner Walter L. Greene Donald Pokorny 1974 Hon. Lesley Brooks Wells Olga Tsiliacos 1965 David S. Lake Michael C. Hennenberg Phillip]. Braff June W. Wiener Stephen 0. Walker 1954 Daniel R. McCarthy 1966 Edward T. Haggins Thomas E. Downey Edward C. Hawkins 1967 Charles B. Donahue II TlIDothy G. Kasparek Howard·E. Egert Norman D. Tripp William R. Fifner John]. McCarthy Theodore R. Kowalski Barbara Stem Gold Russell T. Adrine Kenneth Montlack Leonard D. Young William F. Sweeney William M. Wohl David R. Knowles Marvin H. Hersch Stanley Morganstem ]. Michael Monteleone George]. Frantz Michael R. Gareau Oliver H. Claypool, Jr. 1955 Hon. George W. White 1968 Hon. John E. Corrigan 1975 Dr. Gregory]. Lake Hon. Robert E. Feighan Herbert Palkovitz B. Casey Yim Charles]. Gallo, Sr. James R. Kellam Dale H. Markowitz Donald P. Traci Richard Moroscak Gerald L. Steinberg Glenn]. Seeley Robert I. Zashin Richard S. Koblentz Peter W. Moizuk William E. Powers L. Richard Musat Carol Emerling Gerald Broski John M. Richilano Irene M. Kotulic Hon. Bohdan Futey William C. Hofstetter William D. Carle III Hon. Timothy G. Cotner Deborah Lewis Hiller Samuel Laderman Bernard Mandel John B. Gibbons 1957 Leon M. Plevin 1969 Wendel Willmann David]. Skrabec Maynerd Kimball Marc]. Bloch Michael E. Murman Richard T. Reminger William L. Summers James F. Szaller Thomas]. Brady Hon.John]. Donnelly Joseph Jerome Joseph C. Domiano 1970 Blaise C. Giusto Alan L. Zmija 1958 Charles R. Emrick, Jr. Joseph H. Weiss, Jr. Alan]. Ross James Patrick Conway Kenneth A. Bossin Steven M . Barkan Aaron]acobson Robert]. Sindyla 1976 Charles G. Deeb Julian Kahan William A. Wortzman David Ross 1960 Hon. Hans R. Veit Richard W. Sander Keith E. Belkin Don C. Iler Walter A. Rodgers Michael]. Nath Donald L. Guarnieri James H. Peak Steven H. Slive Don ald M. Colasurd Theodore R. KlarrlIDer Deborah R. Akers Norman T. Musial Leslie ]. Spisak Patrick Bianconi 1961 Hon. Anthony 0 . Calabrese, Jr. Lucian Rego Harold W. Fuson, Jr. Fred Lick Joseph A. Valore 1977 Charles T. Simon Paul S. Sanislo Robert M. Phillips Jack W. Bradley Richard J. Bogomolny Stephen]. Brown Lawrence ]. Cook Robert Wantz John C. Kikol Robert M. Wilson Esther S. Weissman Judge C. Ellen Connally RogerM.Synenberg Harry Greenfield Anne L. Kilbane 1971 Dh arminder L. Kampani Kathleen M. Carrick

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Spring 2001 19 Thank You to Our Good Friends Stephen J. Werber and Michael and Lynn Arko Kelley

In 1970 Professor Stephen J. Werber, a graduate of Adelphi University (BA), Cornell OD) and ew York University (LLM), left private practice to teach at Cleveland-Marshall. In 1980 he took over the Moot Court Program; 20 years later he has decided to step down from the Directorship to devote more time to legal research and Jewish studies. Though he would be the first to tell you that he always had wonderful stu­ dents, many of those former and present students attribute the law school's two decades of consistently winning Moot Court Teams to his leadership and coaching. He will be hard to replace. Fortunately, however, retirement is not in his plans and he will still be teaching for many years to come, so each of us will have ample opportunity to thank him in person. The law school is also grateful to Lynn Arko Kelley '80 and Michael V. Kelley '81, who met in law school and married thereafter. Recently the two Kelley & Ferraro LLP partners announced that they would make sure all the fi rm's Cleveland-Marshall alumni become Life Members of the Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association and would match every gift from alumni at the firm to the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Annual Fund. Many, many thanks to Michael and Lynn and to our new donors and new Life Members! •

Death of the Death Tax? A Conference Organized by Professor Deborah A. Geier

In 1999 President Clinton vetoed a bill eliminating the estate and gift tax; nevertheless, the "death tax" ques­ tion continues to haunt the halls of Congress and was among the issues fiercely debated by both national party presidential candidates. In October, Professor Deborah A. Geier organized a conference designed to settle the question of the death tax's viability. Among the conference presenters were lawyers and economic theorists of national renown. Keynote speaker Joel Slemrod, the Paul W. McCracken Collegiate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan Business School, began his address with the question, "Why Tax Dead People?" Other speakers included Professor Richard L. Schmalbeck of the Duke University School of Law, Associate Professor of Economics Kathleen McGarry of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Cleveland-Marshall Professor of Law James G. Wilson. "People do not learn very much when A Hero for they are surrounded only by the likes of themselves." These Times: Justice Powell in ane M. pi ckef ifornia Regents v Bakke

I have a 25-year-old pic­ ture of Professor Jane Picker standing in front of the US Supreme Court surrounded by students and lawyers. She is glow­ ing with self-confidence, and as Peggy McNally (Assistant Dean for Admissions) remarks, "Look at Jane! Look at her. She practically bristles with intelligence. 11

here is something else in the picture of the Dean Emerita of Stetson University College of Law), has woman with the glowing intelligence and in led a troop of students and lawyers to Washington where the faces surrounding her and that is pure Jane will argue the case of a beleaguered Cleveland school triumph. Because Jane, new to Cleveland­ teacher, JoCarol Lafleur, forced to take an unpaid leave of Marshall by only two years, has done some­ absence when she announced she was pregnant. It is the thing few others have done at her age: She, early 70s, and though Betty Friedan has made an indelible along with her husband, CWRU School of Law Professor impression on the n ational psyche and though the Sidney Picker Jr., and her distant cousin Lizabeth A. National Organization for Women is loudly asserting the Moody (former Cleveland-Marshall Professor of Law and equal rights of women to a career and a family, it is a con-

Spring 2001 21 tradictory era, and in Cleveland, raising has enriched the law school schoolteachers are dismissed if they by well over a million dollars. There's become pregnant. So it is a good no one like her! thing that Jane Picker and Liz Moody have arrived in Cleveland and found­ What Made Jane Jane? ed the Women's Law Fund, a non­ First of all, she had neither ordinary profit organization involved in the parents nor an ordinary childhood. representation of women and men Second, she was an only child and alleging sexual discrimination, and at only children are always interesting. Cleveland-Marshall Jane has institut­ Rarely is a person so Third, she had an extraordinary edu­ ed the first law school Sex cation and was at home in both the Discrimination Clinic in Ohio and consonant with her Old World and the New World. And, perhaps in the US. And, marvelously, fourth, she did not forget the lessons a desperate young schoolteacher has times as Jane has been of history. located Jane through an Ohio Bell with those she was Jane Moody was born in information operator. Middletown, Connecticut, where her Jane won her case, arguing before born into. Or perhaps father taught Romance Languages at the venerable Warren Court the Wesleyan University and her mother employment rights of Ms. Lafleur it is that she has been worked as a librarian and taught and of all women. Cleveland Board of mathematics in private schools. Education v. LqFleur has entered the entirely sensitive to When the Americans entered the annals of legal history, taking its history and to what Second World War, Professor Moody place among the benchmark cases left teaching to volunteer in the US that have transformed the workplace the age demanded. Office of War Information. But and the lives of women. Professor Moody did not spend the JoCarol Lafleur, now teaching French, Spanish and German, has war years at ease behind a desk. Sent law in Georgia, was among the first of involved herself increasingly with to Europe in 1943, he was stationed many women who have sought out international law and with the law first in London during the Blitz and Jane-women in this country and school's Russian program, which she then in Brussels during the Battle of women working in American compa­ initiated eight years ago, leaving the the Bulge. After the war, he remained nies all over the world: Turkey, Saudi work of her Clinic, now called the in Brussels, assigned to the American Arabia, England, Germany, and Employment Law Clinic, primarily in Embassy there, and Jane's mother Russia, for example. On their behalf, the han ds of Professors Kenneth determined to unite her family. she and her Clinic students and Kowalski and Gordon Beggs. "My mother was very aggressive. faculty have brought suit against In short, Jane's lifework has Basically, she went to Washington such global Goliaths as Boeing, responded to two of the past centu­ and sat on the steps of the State McDonald's, NCR, Procter & Gamble, ry's failings: first, its failure to recog­ Department for three months and and Radio Free Europe; closer to nize and compensate equitably the demanded passports," recalls Jane; home, in numerous suits against the gifts of half the world's population apparently the State Department was City of Cleveland and other munici­ and, second, its failure to recognize no match for Mrs. Moody, and both palities she has fought for the rights the interdependence of all nations. mother and daughter were given of women excluded from competing For Jane Picker has been an early passports and allowed to travel to fairly for police and firefighter jobs. leader in opening legal education Europe in October 1945. She is, indeed, bristling with both to gender and to global legal Surely nothing could have pre­ intelligence, but she has other graces issues. And on top of that, she has pared an American child for post-war as well. Rarely is a person so conso­ been the law school's champion Europe. The Germans had pillaged nant with her times as Jane has been money-raiser, soliciting funds from the Belgian countryside, thousands with those she was born into. Or per­ the federal government and private of Belgians had been sent to concen­ haps it is that she has been entirely and community foundations to sus­ tration camps for supporting the sensitive to history and to what the tain the Clinic in its early years and resistance, tens of thousands were age demanded. In recent years, for now to sustain the Russian studies deported to Germany for slave labor, example, Jane, speaker of Russian, program. Over the years her fund- food was scarce Gane remembers

22 Law Notes bread made from sawdust), and the would have to go to school that year geometry of moving parts, for entire country seemed in a mood of before I went to college," she says. "I instance." joyless recovery. saw myself drinking Pernod and read- "In school," she remembers, "my ing Sartre and Simone deBeauvoir in Why Jane Did Not Go to Radcliffe classmates were children who "I thought about Oberlin, had lived through the war; Middlebury, Radcliffe, and some had lost both their par­ Swarthmore," Jane recounts. ents; they were orphaned chil­ I decided I didn't want to go dren whose childhood the war to Oberlin because my moth­ had stolen. I think that experi­ er had gone there. My par­ ence was one of the most impor­ ents didn't want me to go to tant of my life." And then there Middlebury because they was her own isolation. "In thought I was more interest­ Brussels, in our circle of friends, ed in skiing than in the for­ there were two other American eign language program." And families with children," she why not Radcliffe? "I found relates, and that was cold com­ out the women at Radcliffe fort: "One was sent away to paid the same tuition as the boarding school, and one died boys at Harvard. At Harvard of a cerebral hemorrhage." they had maids, but at Moreover, Jane, with only a Radcliffe students had to smattering of grade-school clean their own rooms and French, was enrolled in a do two hours of a week of French-speaking school where 'latrine duty."' So salient an Flemish was taught as a second inequity did not sit well with language and Spanish was Liz Moody, Jane Picker, D an Craig Christensen, and Simone de Beauvoir's great taught as a foreign language. Chuck Guerrier on the ste{ls of the U.S. Supreme Court admirer. "Swarthmore, I Nevertheless, she prospered, for­ knew nothing about, so I tunate in an education emotionally the Cafe des Deux Maggots or wan­ chose it. I wanted to major in Soviet and academically enlightening. dering around Montmar.tn · ag· - Studies, but my father thought I Three years later, Jane's father ing I was an artist." Her parents' would go to the Soviet Union and get was transferred to Washington, and insights into those fabled streets were myself in trouble," (which is, years Jane, now 13, began junior high more practical, and they determined later, exactly what happened). school in Bethesda, Maryland, where to keep their daughter off them, Swarthmore was a happy choice. her junior and senior high schools enrolling her in the University of Majoring in political science and barred her from French classes Paris's Institute for Simultaneous minoring in philosophy and linguis­ because, as she tells me, "I knew too Interpretation, where the first thing tics, Jane enthuses, "I loved much French" and where "I learned she learned was that she did not Swarthmore." to throw spitballs like everyone else." speak English; she spoke American. Unlike her law school, which she At the end of her high school years, For speaking American, she was con­ did not love. "Discrimination in the Jane was back in Europe to spend a signed to a polyglot class for "miscel­ profession was so great that you'd year in Paris before going off to col­ laneous" students from many coun­ never get a job if you didn't go to lege. Her father was now working at tries, no two countries, no two lan­ Harvard or Yale, 11 she explains. the American Embassy in Paris, and guages alike. "I only stayed a semes­ Harvard was still unforgiven, and knowing too much French was at last ter. I was bitterly disappointed, partly that left Yale, which did not exactly not a handicap; knowing the because I had picked up an English fling wide its doors to women. As American language was, however. boyfriend who was placed in the Jane observes, "There were only a few Even before she arrived, post-war other class, the one for English speak­ women. Men weren't happy to have Paris, its fabled streets, dreamy with ers." She finished her year at the us there. I was constantly being left-bank intellectuals and struggling Lycee de Sevres, where, she recalls, "I reminded that I had taken a man's artists, had lodged themselves in learned all sorts of math I never place and that a woman's place was Jane's imagination. "I didn't think I would have learned otherwise, the in the home. In my class they sec-

Spring 2001 23 tioned us alphabetically, and I was end of the war, the number of mur­ the only woman in every course my dered Jews, Gypsies, Communists first semester. Some teachers treated and prisoners of war had swelled to me differently. Like my Con Law 100,000. The poem, with its dramatic teacher, Alexander Bickel. Professor opening, "No monument stands over Bickel gave me separate assignments. Babi Yar," had awakened the world to I felt it was to make fun of me, but an atrocity the Soviets had labored to supposedly it was to prevent me from hide. "In 1961 a dam had burst over being quizzed on some of the gory Jane found herself the valley and the remains of bodies details of, for instance, due process from the executions were exhumed. cases involving perhaps searches of being chased through Water rushed through the post-world genitalia. As a result, I had my own War II houses, drowning people liv­ assignments and got called on every the ravine by KGB ing there or walking to work," Jane day!" recalls. "There was a great deal of One man not unhappy to have agents and, in effect, fatalism on the part of the locals who Jane at Yale was Sidney Picker, a grad­ saw the flood as a kind of retribution uate of Stanford Law School, who was apprehended for for the killings. We had all read at Yale earning an LLM, and another Yevtushenko's poem, and while we not unhappy to have her there was doing nothing. were in Kiev, a few of us decided to her International Law Professor visit Babi Yar." But the eyes of the Myers McDougal, who prized Jane as munications law. But of all her recol­ KGB were upon the Americans, and a student. Moreover, among women lections of the time she spent at from somewhere in the labyrinthine students, there was a strong bond, Rand, perhaps the most memorable tunnels of the Soviet bureaucracy a none more lasting than the bond were the four months she was on diktat emerged demanding the arrest with Lizabeth Moody. All three were leave and working for the United of the foreigners. Jane found herself important to Jane's professional and States Information Agency. In 1962 being chased through the ravine by personal life: Myers McDougal in the midst of the Cold War, the KGB agents and, in effect, appre­ helped Jane find her first American USIA, in the hope of inspiring hended for doing nothing. "Why am job; Sidney and Jane kept up with detente, sent a delegation of I arresting you?" her bewildered cap­ one another, met again in the mid- Americans as exhibit guides on cul­ tor asked. 1960s and married; Liz began teach­ tural exchanges to the Soviet Union. "They sat me on a park bench ing at Cleveland-Marshall in 1967 Jane explains: "I was attached to a and gave me ice cream and beer, and and helped bring Jane to the law medical exhibit called Medicine USA, we waited until another message school. a big medical technology exhibit. came releasing us," Jane remembers. Since I spoke Russian, I was supposed "The American Embassy had us out Wall Street Loses Out; to stand in front of the exhibit and of there on the first plane to Moscow so Does the KGB answer questions. I thought there and then the first flight to the West." "After I graduated I interviewed at a would be lots of questions about drug Back in California at the Rand firm on Wall Street. I was told they regulation. Instead, everyone wanted Corporation, she gave a "little lec­ had to interview women but didn't to know what my salary was and how ture" on conditions in the Soviet have to hire them." So Jane packed many square feet were in my apart­ Union and the KGB's expanded her bags and joined her parents, now ment and what a pound of butter notions of cultural exchange. in Bangkok, and was working for an cost." American-owned Thai firm when a Eventually, the exhibit made its Enter John Johnson; letter came from her Yale mentor way to Kiev. In 1961 the Russian poet Re-enter Sidney Picker Professor McDougal suggesting she Yevgenyi Yevtushenko had published take a job in the Social Science "Babi Yar," his poem memorializing In 1964 John Johnson, a former Department of the Rand Corporation the killing ravine on the northern General Counsel at NASA, was in Santa Monica. The job had this edge of Kiev where, over a 36-hour appointed International Vice appealing component: It placed Jane period from September 29 to President of the Communications right in the middle of the expanding September 30, 1941, the Nazis had Satellite Corporation (Comsat) in world of international satellite com- gunned to death 34,000 Jews. By the Continued on page 49

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------Walls "My trouble is I get big ideas." "A good wall will paint itself." Gulley Jimson in Joyce Cary's The Horse's Mouth

County Court House by Masumi Hayas hi

uilt in the 1970s during a period of social recov­ imagination crowded with images; the images leapt from ery and bewildered vision, the law school with his brushes onto the wall. its windowless nooks and its dun brick walls Assistant Dean Peggy McNally is a writer; she under­ could turn the merriest heart dismal. Inside and stands the tug of an empty space on a creative disposition. out, a forlorn institutionalism clung haplessly to Students Zulma Zabala and Mary Dale told her about Bit. Was this the setting for the discipline that is, as our Omo Obatala Jose Santiago, an Afro-Latino muralist. Born spring 2000 Joseph C. Hostetler-Baker & Hostetler in Fort Bragg, orth Carolina, to Puerto Rican parents, he Professor Peter Fitzpatrick often reminded us, life affirm­ studied with Anthony Guadadiello, Amsel, and Bridgette ing? Rinaldi in ew York and wi th Ken evadomi, George Fortunately, our faculty, staff, and students get big Mauersberger, and Marvin Jones in Cleveland. Peggy and ideas. And it only took our Assistant Dean of Admissions, the students envisioned a mural on a north side of the Peggy McNally, and one faculty member, Professor reception area of the student services center. Jose's mural Patricia]. Falk, to begin transforming the 1970's portions would tell the history of the law school: of its 1897 found­ of the law school into an apt companion to the elegant ing, of the first women lawyers in Ohio, of its outstanding 1990's light-filled Law Library. minority alumni, of a diverse and accomplished student body, and of the law school's setting in middle America's The Color of Bougainvillea industrial heartland. Best yet, the mural would be paid for in the Student Services Center by students, fa culty, and staff: The International Law When the old library space was vacated and reconfigured Society, the Office of Minority Affairs and Community as the Student Services Center, great stretches of wall, once Relations, and the office of the Dean contributed to the hidden by m etal book stacks and carrels, were uncovered. project, and hundreds of students, fa culty, and staff who It was such a wall as Joyce Cary's anti-hero artist Gulley bought on e-dollar raffle tickets in hopes of having their Jimson would covet. For Gulley Jimson could not abide a names drawn and their portraits included on the mural. naked wall; a naked wall summoned his imagination; his But how would our Latino muralist translate a story so

26 Law otes patently North American­ Today almost 50 Cleveland­ Midwestern even? Marshall alumnae occupy seats on the local, state and federal A Champion Answer judiciary, but at the opening of With a five-panel, 30-foot the 20th century, women could long floor-to-ceiling mural, not vote, serve on juries, share Jose infused law school histo­ custody of their children, or ry with Caribbean enthusi­ often own property. Five asm. Island colors-gaudy women in the mural celebrate Bougainvillea colors, colors of the law school's role in educat­ the southern sky and earth­ ing the first women lawyers in I dominate the third and cen­ Ohio. Equal to their accom­ tral panel: The Ohio appellate plishments as attorneys were court judge who was the law their accomplishments as school's principal founder, ardent supporters of women's Willis Vickery, in a bold blue rights, and four of them-Mary suit looks more like a prosper- r Grossman, Lillian Westropp, ous cotton planter than the Genevieve Cline, and Marie scowling jurist who usually Remington Wing-were formi­ Upholding The Law, a quilt by Barbara Lind confronts us in antique pic- dable presences in Ohio's tures. Professor Linda suffrage movement. In the Ammons is there in brilliant purple, And the painting second panel, Mary Grossman '12, flanked by Ratna Kapur, the 1999 the daughter of Jewish immigrants Baker & Hostetler Professor, also in bespeaks Jose's own from Hungary and the first woman in purple. Recollections of Wilson political convictions, America elected to a municipal court Stapleton '34, the former Mayor of bench, administers the oath of office Shaker Heights and much-revered which are at home with to another early woman judge, Dean of the law school during the the egalitarian ideals Lillian Westropp '15, founder with 40s, 50s, and 60s, also captured Jose's her sister, Clara Westropp, of the imagination; the Dean peers through that have informed the Women's Federal Bank. The country's his spectacles at a law school he first woman appointed to a federal would no longer recognize. Below law school mission bench, U.S . Customs Court Judge him stands one of the law school's for 104 years Genevieve Cline '21, suffragist and most distinguished visitors: United prohibitionist, is the dominant States Supreme Court Justice Harry above him retired Congressman female figure in the third panel. Jean Blackmun, who spoke at the College Louis Stokes '53, the first black Murrell Capers '45, the first woman of Law in 1989 and for whom one of American to represent Ohio in the of color to be elected to the Cleveland the law school's scholarship endow­ U.S. House of Representatives, wears City Council and later a Cleveland ments is named. the intense concentration of the man Municipal Court Judge, appears to be And the painting bespeaks Jose's who denounced Oliver North for tra­ reading or preparing for class in the own political convictions, which are ducing the Constitution. Louis's fourth panel. Above her a pregnant at home with the egalitarian ideals brother, Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes woman writes on a chalkboard; she is that have informed the law school '56, the first black Mayor of a major a reference to a famous Cleveland mission for 104 years: its legacy as a American city (later City of Cleveland case Cleveland Board of Education v. law school of the people, the first law Judge and U.S. Ambassador), is Lafleur, a landmark case in the coun­ school in Ohio to admit women, one caught in shirt sleeves on the first try's history and a landmark event in of the first to admit minorities, and panel in a happy moment at his desk the law school's as well. Until JoCarol the area's principal legal educator of in City Hall. Ohio's five-time Lafleur, a pregnant Cleveland school­ immigrants and their children. Thus Governor and two-time U.S. Senator teacher, found Professor Picker, two students, Deanne Dominguez, a Frank Lausche '21, a central figure in Cleveland school teachers who first-year student who died in the the mural, was Jose's choice to repre­ became pregnant during the school spring of 1998 in a brutal collision sent the waves of Europeans who set­ year were forced to take an unpaid with a drunken driver, and Eva Xu, tled in Cleveland during the end of leave. Jane took Ms. LaF!eur's case all an Asian American, were chosen to the 19th and beginning of the 20th the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, represent our diverse student body. century, and to express, with the where she successfully argued the Legendary African American trial Stokes brothers and Mayor Stapleton, right of women to remain employed attorney Norman Minor '27 regards our graduates' record of public service while pregnant. us quizzically from the canvas, and achievements. In the final panel, Jose chose to

Spring 2001 27 .. I portray suffragist and ...k of curves and plains community activist and light and dark, a Marie Remington work so commanding Wing '26, one of the that even the cav­ first two women elect­ ernous atrium could ed to Cleveland City not overwhelm it. It Council and the first would stand out; it regional attorney for would create a focus the Cleveland Social in the huge room. Security office. She is And it was a work significant as well in whose subject befit­ that her father, U.S. ted a law school set­ District Court Judge F. ting. W. Wing, was one of Professor Hayashi is the founders of our a photographer of school. Lines from the international quintessential renown, whose works American poet Walt have been exhibited Whitman, chosen by Once Upon a Time by Linda Ammons in museums and gal­ Peggy McNall y, stream across the first leries in the United panel and lines from Pablo Neruda, States, Europe, and Japan and are the quintessential South American "This photograph included in the permanent collec­ poet, conclude the fifth panel. tions of the Los Angeles Museum of In writing about his art, Jose tells reminds us that Art, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum us that his father, a 25-year career of Photography, the Victoria and army man, "made sure that the sto­ under God all Albert Museum in London, the ries of our ancestors would not die .. International Museum of Photog­ .. Their stories were important to me. people are one and raphy at George Eastman House in They remind me that my history did Rochester, and the Cleveland not start here; it started in a very old one should not Museum of Art. She is the recipient of world." In many ways, the numerous grants and has had a num­ Cleveland-Marshall story also began enslave another." ber of one-person curated exhibi­ in a very old world, the world that Linda Ammons tions. To own a photograph by closed its doors on women and Masumi Hayashi is a privilege. minorities and often scorned this Services Area, Professor Patricia Falk Patti lobbied faculty and staff country's newest citizens. As he has decided something must be done to and, with generous help from the honored his own history, he has hon­ make the atrium more appealing to Dean's office, collected eno ugh ored ours : In the end, Jose's mural the eye. money to purchase and frame the celebrates our school, its gifts to the Fortunately, she has a well­ Courthouse piece. It now hangs on profession, and a few of American trained eye, one that can look at scat­ the second floor of the atrium hand­ legal education's finest moments. tered pieces of fabric and envision a somely defying the space around it. And it celebrates as well the Latino whole-a quilt, for instance. Patti is a Like Patti, Barbara Lind is a quil­ sensibility that created it, for in the quilter, so disparate forms do not ter. She learned to quilt as a way to center of the mural, in the time-hon­ unnerve her; neither does the know her Mennonite mother-in-law. ored custom of his artist forebears, is absence of light daunt her. Perhaps, While the fervor of the law school's Jose 's self-portrait. like Gulley Jimson, she harbors a Centennial was rising to a crescendo, conviction that no space is so she designed the whimsical Life in the Gloaming: the Atrium depraved it cannot be redeemed by Cleveland-Marshall Centennial Quilt, The huge law school atrium, with its art. This is the story of how her cam­ "Upholding the Law," which spare furnishings, steep brick walls, paign to bring art into the atrium appeared on the cover of the fall and cold stone floor, is, for all its began. 1999 issue of law ates. In its origins vastness, an area where light seems a quilt was a home-craft, a skill per­ unable to find a place to settle in for Let There Be Light fected among the poor, and in that long, an unlighted and unenlighten­ An eight-foot long panoramic photo­ regard Barbara's work suggests our ing space whose bare walls have graph of the interior of the Cuyahoga law school's proletarian origins-a begged for ornament for over three County Court House by our CSU col­ school that helped make ordinary decades. Inspired by what Peggy was league, Professor of Art Masumi lives extraordinary. Barbara's quilt, accomplishing in the Student Hayashi, seemed, with its interplay however, is not functional; it is a

28 Law Notes highly skilled work of art. received support from Mary McCoy "Upholding the Law" celebrates Waggoner, Beverly Vaugh, Wanda Cleveland and its dramatic down­ Porter, Susan Holman-James, Ifeoma town skyline; it celebrates as well the Kwesi, and Patti Falk. Law Notes fea ­ law school, whose presence is smartly tured "Getting Ready," one of Linda's announced by a Centennial banner photographs on the cover of its flying off the tail end of a circa 1930 spring-summer 1994 issue. airplane. Fish swim under a net in blue water lapping at the periphery of Last fall Linda gave the law school a the city, and the entire work is edged black and white photograph taken on with a Monopoly-pattern border. "I a trip to Africa. She titles it "Once wanted to make a light piece," Upon a Time-Goree Island, Senegal." Barbara told student Ann Vaughn '01 Goree Island was significant in the in a Gavel article, "something to make history of the slave trade as the port people smile." Her quilt is just such of departure for many slaves being an antic work, one that will keep shipped to America. In Linda's pic­ many smiling throughout the new ture, a local tour guide standing in century. "Upholding the Law" hangs handsome profile outside the Goree in the atrium on the wall outside the Island slave museum regards a chart faculty corridor. We are grateful to listing the years, country by country, Barbara and to the anonymous donor in which slavery was abolished. Linda who purchased it for Cleveland­ explained in a Gavel article, "I cap­ Marshall. tured a moment in time which pulls Path by Jeff Coryell We generally hear of Professor of together in one photograph so many Law Linda Ammons's accomplish­ diverse areas from art, history, and ments as a researcher and author law to politics and religion." Her pic­ addressing minority and women's "Path" is an ture hangs outside room 202 on the issues . But, in fact, she is also a pho­ second level of the atrium. For all tographer of growing renown whose autumnal scene of who view it, it recalls a shameless era works have been published in period­ in American history, though, more icals since the 1970s. She notes that such exquisite generously, Linda says, "This photo­ her interest in the still image was graph reminds us that under God all peaked during her girlhood by the detail and finely people are one and should not gift of a camera to take on a field trip. enslave another." Since then, she writes, "I have been in captured light Jeff Coryell combines a career in love with sculpting with light." And art with a career in law. Jeff is a grad­ she has been traveling the world and that each leaf fall­ uate of Northwestern University's capturing the play of lights and colors MFA program and of the New York striking her camera's lens. en to the forest University School of Law. He teaches Linda has been featured in a art at Youngstown State University number of photographic exhibitions, floor seems to and has taught a course in Art Law at most recently in "Gyration," an all­ Cleveland-Marshall. His painting, women juried exhibit sponsored by possess its own "Path," hangs on the second level of the CSU African American Cultural the law school, directly across the Center; in the Women's Invitational indelible instant. atrium from Masumi's photograph. Show at the CSU art gallery; in exhi­ "Path" describes a walk that Jeff has bitions at the Rush Gallery in New tied "Scenes of the Southwest" often taken on property that was York, and in a show at Bryn Mawr appears in Smithsonian Institute homesteaded by his grandfather on College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. curator Deborah Willis's REFLECTIONS the Les Cheneaux Islands, which are Linda's work was also included in two IN BLA CK: A HISTORY OF AFRIC AN at the southern-most point of shows at Salem College in Salem, AMERICAN PH OTOGRAPHERS 1840-1999, Michigan's northern peninsula. North Carolina, "Paradox" and "Food published by Norton. "Path" is an autumnal scene of such for the Soul"; in a competition in "My art has been enriched by exquisite detail and finely captured Columbus, Ohio, sponsored by the associations with other photogra­ light that each leaf fallen to the forest State Teachers Retirement System; phers and artists, including Brian floor seems to possess its own indeli­ and in the Mayfield Jewish Prentke, David McRoy, Chris McNair, ble instant in the course of passing Community Center's 29th Annual Mike "Nick" Nichols, Bill Hutson, from summer to fall, from life to Photography Show. A landscape enti- and Willie Longshore. I have also Continued on page 54

Spring 2001 29 Housing Court Conference: Enforcing Housing Code Violations

he emerging importance of Municipal Housing Courts in rebuilding urban Tneighborhoods plagued by chronic housing deterioration, environmental haz­ ards, unsafe maintenance of property and other nuisances was the subject of a two-day October conference at the law school. '-'-Enforcing Housin odes ·n unicipal Courts: Improving the Quality of Life in Our eighborhoods" was sponsored by the law school's Community Advocacy Clinic, the Sis ters of Charity, t he Anderson Publishing Company, and the George Gund Foundati on ; it was organized by Community Advocacy Clinic atto rn eys Kermit J. Lind '85 and Pamela Daiker­ Middaugh '88 and Cleveland Mun icipal Court-Housing Division Judge Raymond L. Pianka ' 77. The conference brought Assc. Dean Frederic White, Judge Pianka, fudge C. Allen together approximately 200 judges, municipal officers, McConnell, Judge Richard Pfeiffer, fr. and neighborhood advocates from all over Ohio to discuss ways in which communities, financial institutions, neigh­ and other environmental codes that are important to the borhood developm en t organizations and courts are deal­ vitality and quality of life in urban neigh borhoods. ing with the enfo rcement of h ousing, building, health, fi re Am ong the presen ters were Fran klin County Municipal Court-En vironmental Division Judge Richard C. Pfeiffer, Jr., and Toledo Municipal Court-Housing Division Judge C. Allen McConnell. In a luncheon panel the two judges, together with Judge Pianka and Associate Dean Frederic White, described the differences in their courts an d examined ways in which their courts' special jurisdiction has worked with neighborhood organizations to effect housing code compliance and to restore at-risk neighborhoods. Anthony Brancatelli, Executive Director of the Slavic Village Development Corporation; Linda Hudacek, Director of the Department of Community Development fo r the City of Cleveland, Joseph Sch illing, Directo r of the Economic Development ln ternation City/County Management Association in Washington, DC; Kate Monter Durban, Assistant Director of Cleveland Housing Network; Frank Fo rd, Vi ce President, Organizational Development, Neighborhood Progress Inc.; Hea ther Rudge, Technical Services Manager of the Cleveland Restoration Society; and Robert B. Jaquay '81, Associate Director of the George Gund Foundation, were Pamela Daiker-Middaugh, Kermit Lind, Judge Raymond also presenters. LFM Pianka

30 Law Notes Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association Honors Last Year's 2000 Distinguished Alumni

n May 25 a thousand friends, alumni and Cleveland-Marshall fac­ ulty and staff came to the Renaissance Cleveland to join with the Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association in its annual celebra­ 0 tion of the lives and careers of two of the law school's outstanding alumni. The year's honorees, Ohio Supreme Court Justice, the Honorable Francis E. Sweeney '63 and Cleveland Municipal Court Judge, the Honorable Ralph J. Perk, Jr. '83, number among the state's most selfless pub­ lic servants. Both men have brought honor to the judiciary and to their law alma mater. The Wilson Stapleton Award honors a faculty or staff member who exemplifies the personal and professional attributes of the late Wilson Stapleton '34, who taught and served as Cleveland-Marshall Dean for over 30 years. The 2000 Stapleton Award recipient was Frederic White, Professor and Associate Dean of the law school. Vincent T. Lombardo '81 received the Association's President's Award, given in recognition of his service to the Law Alumni Association. Justice Sweeney and Judge Perk and their record of achievements in the city and state inspired one of the largest audiences in years. For them and for all in attendance, the 2000 celebration of these two singular alumni was a day to remember.

fudge Leo Spellacy, f ustice Francis feny Walton Sweeney

Spring 2001 31 Criminal Justice Forums Bring Outstanding Speakers to the Law School

ast year the law school's criminal law faculty orga­ nized a senes of well-received Criminal Justice LForums to examine contemporary issues in crimi­ nal law. The Criminal Law Faculty, Professors Phyllis Prof Ilias Bantekas L. Crocker, Patricia ]. Falk, Joel J. Finer, Peter D. Garlock, Lolita Buckner Innis, Adam Thurschwell and Bantekas presented the first lecture of the 2000-2001 Associate Dean Jack Guttenberg, presented another Criminal Justice Forums. Professor Bantekas, Senior provocative series for this year as well. Lecturer and Director of the International La w Centre at The 1999-2000 series closed in Ap ril with an the University of Westminster School of Law in London, address by former Cleveland-Marshall faculty member England, earned his JD from the University of Athens and Lynne N. Henderson, now teaching at the William S. his LLM and PhD from the University of Liverpool. His Boyd School of La w at the University Nevada, La s Vegas. address, "Contemporary Forms of Individual Last year she was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Responsibility in International Law, " examined the post­ Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University, World War II evolution of the concept of "international her law alma mater, where she was working on a book on crimes" and the response of governments and government feminism, violence against women, and criminal law. agencies to procedures established under treaty law. As a researcher, teacher, and advocate, Professor Well-intentioned policies designed to protect vic­ Henderson has had a long involvement in women's and tims of domestic abuse against their oppressors may have children's issues and victims' right; she has published tragic consequences, according to ew York University widely on the law of rape, victims' rights, and feminist School of Law Clinical Professor Holly Maguigan, the sec­ juris prudence. In 1997 she testified before the Senate ond lecturer in this year's series of Criminal Justice Judiciary Committee on the proposed victims' rights Forums. In her provocative lecture, "Watch What You amendment to the US Constitution. Professor Henderson Wish For (Especially in Criminal Court): The Effect of spoke against the amendment, arguing that it would not Mandatory Arrest and No-Drop Prosecution Policies on serve the best interests of those who have already been the Rates of Domestic Violence Homicides," Professor traumatized by violent crime, that it might abrogate Maguigan demonstrated that those particular policies power to enforce criminal law, and that it might compro­ have often exposed victims of domestic abuse and their mise the rights of defendants to an impartial hearing. Her children to greater danger-even placing them at risk of Cleveland-Marshall Criminal]ustice Forum topic, "Gender murder. Professor Maguigan's JD is from the University of and Victims' Rights," also focused on her reluctance to Pennsylvania Law School. Her teaching, litigation and support a victims' rights amendment. research have concentrated on the obstacles to justice that In September, Visiting Professor of Law Bias members of the non-dominant culture often face. LFM

32 Law Notes Centennial Feature

fudge Jean Murrell Capers and admirer, Professor Tayyab Mahmud

he proud friends and family of the courageous Ms. Petersen, who had a career in TV news-casting women we identified as the first alumnae of the before coming to law school, interviewed several Cleveland Law School and the John Marshall Clevelanders who had known our early women graduates School of Law gathered on the 30th of March either as family members or as friends or simply as exem­ during Women's History Month to celebrate plary lawyers and citizens. Ms. Petersen's film captures an Ttheir lives and their gifts to the profession. The law school era in which women fought first for the vote and then, commemorated their accomplishments in a video docu­ gaining the vote, had to fight for the slightest amenities in mentary, "Remember the Ladies"; student members of the their professional lives-a proper court bench or a decent Women's Law Caucus created an historical time-line that office or mere recognition of their potential to become presented local events in the women's movement against outstanding attorneys and judges. the background of the larger national scene, and Dean On film Edith Garver reminisced about her aunt Mary Steven H. Steinglass and Cheryl Wiltshire '01, President Grossman '12, a leader in the suffrage movement and the of the Women's Law Caucus, unveiled a memorial plaque first woman in America elected to a municipal court judge­ listing the names of the first 100 alumnae. ship. Mrs. Garver noted that lawyers appearing befo re "Remember the Ladies" was written and narrated by Judge Grossman nicknamed her "Hard Boiled Mary," an Susan Yarb Petersen '97 and produced by Nathan Eatman epithet Judge Jean Murrell Capers '45, also interviewed and Allen A. Nozak of CSU's Instructional Media Services. for the film, disputed: "Oh, no, I knew Judge Grossman Law Notes writers Louise Mooney and Mary McKertna well! I practiced in front of her. She wasn't hard boiled; it's and Law Librarians Marie Rehmar and Laura Ray only that she was a serious student of the law." Judge researched the lives of the first 100 alumnae for the film. Capers described the prejudice against women lawyers as

Spring 2001 33 "part of the fabric of America. That's what made us great. helpful the law sorority, Kappa Beta Pi, had been in estab­ Because we had obstacles to overcome." She recalled that lishing bonds between veteran an d fl edgling women attor­ "The rest of the judges ignored Judge Grossman," when neys. "We were all proud of any woman wh o succeeded," she was first elected, giving the diminutive judge the sh e said. Several of the interviewees recalled Grace tallest bench and the small est chair. "In order to see over Doering McCord '25 as an especially inspiring national it, she had to sit on seven law books! And that was not leader in the profession. Another alumna remembered as unintentional; it was deliberate," added the redoubtable willing to assist younger women in their careers was Judge Judge Capers. Lillian Westropp '15, founder with her sister of the Judge Lillian W. Burke '51, Dr. Bernice Miller '51, Women's Federal Savings and Loan Bank. "Lillian was Edna Shalala '51, Professor Jane Picker, Richard Pogue, wonderful about helping and advising us," said Edna and U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio Shalala. Senior Judge and former Cleveland-Marshall Professor of The Cleveland Law School was not only the fi rst in Law Ann Aldrich were also interviewed for the film and Ohio to accept women, it was also one of the first to reminisced about practicing and teaching law in the days accept minorities. Though many of our early African when only a handful of women studied law, and even American alumni set up successful practices, few of our fewer taught. "I was the third woman tenure-track faculty African American alumnae actually practiced law. An member in the U.S.," said Judge Aldrich, who began teach­ exception was Louise Johnson Pridgeon '22, the first ing at Cleveland-Marshall in 1968. practicing black woman attorney in Cleveland and one of Dr. Miller characterized each victory in a legal setting the founding partners of Frey & Pridgeon. Two other by a woman as a victory fo r all women and recalled how women much revered in the community and praised on

Katheryn Chavers and Gloria Fergson (Ja ne Edna Hunter '25) Dean Steven Steinglass and Cheryl Wiltshire

Mary, Megan, Noreen Lucic with Mary Warren (Fran ces Sue Hall and Es ther Berger (Gra ce Berger '25) Tetlak '21 )

34 Law Notes fi lm by both Judges Burke and Capers were Hazel firms only as office managers or librarians; thus, according Mountain Walker '19, Cleveland's first black woman to Mrs. Shalala, many women began their professional school principal, and Jane Edna Hunter '25, founder of lives in small practices in the suburbs. Professor Picker, the Phillis Wheatley Association. Said Judge Burke, "Mrs. who bega n teaching at the law school in the 1970s, pro­ Walker was a very strong-willed woman, very knowledge­ vided a dramatic example of the regard with which able," and "Jane Edna Hun ter was energetic and demand­ women pursuing careers in law were received, even so me­ ing. She taugh t me perseverance." According to Judge times by their own fa mily members: According to Capers, "The reason Hazel Walker was so successful was Professor Picker, "Helen Slough '29 wanted to go to law because her background in law made her a fo rceful speak­ school, but her parents wa nted her to go to engineering er. During the (political) campaigns she was everywhere." school, so she went to both without telling them she was By 1928 Ohio was the only state to claim four women in law school." Eventually, Helen practiced patent law judges, and all but one, the Honorable Florence Allen, with her father. Ms. Slough confided in Professor Picker were Cleveland-Marshall graduates: Judge Grossman and that one of the biggest days in her life was when her father Judge Westropp were elected to the Cleveland Municipal began paying her more than his secretary! Court, and in 1928 President Coolidge appointed Jones Day Reavis and Pogue retired Managing Partner Genevieve Cline '22 to the U.S. Customs Court, the first Richard Pogue, now Senior Advisor at Dix & Ea ton, woman federal court judge in America. described his experience in elevating a Cleveland-Marshall Their careers were not the typical careers of most alumna to full partnership in the Jones Day fi rm . Naoma women attorneys, however. In the fi rst decades of the last Stewart '60 appli ed for a position as the fi rm's librarian. century women were accepted into the large down town "Why not apply as a lawyer?" asked Pogue. Ms. Stewart

-Susan Yarb Peterson Mr. And Mrs. Sanford Cone Pamela Brown and Marlene Rippner (Rose Co ne '16) Brown (E thel Kest Rippner '25) ·

Edmund Rothschild, Beryl Rothschild, Anna Benedict, George Jerry Wa lton, Cannen Farina Koch and H arriet More Benedict (Rachel Shapiro '17) (Elanore Farina '25)

Spring 2001 35 had reasoned that since there were no women practicing Employment Clinic, the second such free employment law as attorneys in the fi rm, women were not invi ted to join clinic in the country. in any capacity other than as librarians, but with Mr. The history of the first Cleveland-Marshall alumnae Pogue's encouragement, she applied and was accepted. and of our first Cleveland-Marshall women faculty mem­ Eventually, with considerable behind-the- cenes lobbying, bers is ultimately a victorious one that has left its indelible Mr. Pogue overcame the entrenched resistance of his col­ imprint on the practice of law throughout America. The leagues and our alumna aoma Stewart won the distinc­ daring and perseverance of these women helped create the tion of becoming the first woman partner in a major more accessible world that present-day women students, Cleveland law firm. faculty and alumnae inhabit, a world not yet quite perfect Professor Picker described a law fi rm experience that but perhaps with a greater possibility of becoming so. did not end so happily. She was the second woman lawyer hired in a primarily m ale firm; the other woman attorney •••••• sat in her office typing fo rms all da y. Professor Picker Many persons worked together to create this m emorable fo und that her prospects were dimmed by working co ndi­ event. The Honorable Patricia A. Hemann '80, United tions that, for exam ple, prohibited women from traveling States Magistrate Judge for the orthern District of Ohio, with the firm's partners because all the partners were male. and Sheryl King Benford ' 79, RTA General Fortunately for the law school, she left the firm and with Counsel/Deputy General Manager for Legal Affairs, co­ Cleveland-Marshall Professor Lizabeth A. Moody founded chaired a committee of alumnae, students and staff. the Women's Law Firm, began teaching at the law school, Alumnae planning the events included Linda Bluso and opened the law school's Sex Discrimination in Csanadi '82, Jennifer Braman '00, the Honorable C.

Elsie Voo rl1i es and Clemence Wright (Hazel M ountain Louise M ooney and fim Ma h e 1 ~ son of A nna Ryan Maher '23 Wa lker '19) in New Yo rk City

Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Batson and Frances Montgomery foe/ and Edith Garver (Mary Grossman '12) (Frances Smith '24)

36 Law Notes Alumnae f udges

Ellen Connally ' 70, the And m any law firms Honorable Ann K. Dyke '68, and individuals donated the Honorable Nancy Fuerst close to $20,000 in sup­ '88, Susan L. Gragel '80, Lola port of the even t. Three L. Johnson '94, Betty Klaric law firms, Baker & '84, the Honorable Patricia A. Hostetler LLP, Jones, Day Kleri '76, Dr. Bernice G. Reavis & Pogue and Miller '51, Susan Yarb Petersen '97, Dorothea M. Polster Reminger & Reminger Co. L.P.A., generously underwrote '88, Ann Vaughn '01, Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni the cost of the film. Other donor firms included Davis & Association President Laura A. Williams '82, and Cheryl Young; Denise Knecht and Associates; Duvin, Cahn & Wiltshire '01. Staff included Legal Writing Instructor Hutton; Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP; McCarthy, Lebit, Crystal Beverly Blair '85, Community Advocacy Clinic Staff & Haiman Co. L.P.A.; Rotatori , Gragel & Stoper Co. LPA; Attorney Pamela Daiker-Middaugh '88, Assistant Dean Roth, Rolf and Goffman Co. LPA; Spangenberg, Shibley & fo r External Affairs Louise P. Dempsey '81, Career Liber; Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, L.L.P., and Vorys, Sater, Planning Director Jayne Geneva '87, Cleveland-Marshall Seymour & Pease LLP. Individual donors included Jennifer Law Alumni Association Executive Director Mary Braman, Sheryl King Benfo rd, Linda Bluso Csanadi, Louise McKenna, Administrative Coordinator Sandra Natran, Dempsey, Judge Nancy Fuerst, Judge Patricia Hemann, Word Processing Specialist Rita Pawlik, Law Development Betty Klaric, Judge Patricia Kleri, Rita Pawlik, Nicolette Officer Nicolette I. PJottner, Head of Reference Services Plottner, Dorothea Polster, Steven H. Steinglass, and Judge and Law Librarian Marie Rehmar, and Law Libraria n Lesley Brooks Wells '74. Laura Ray.

Professor f oa n Baker and Betty Klaric f udge fan et Burney, Sandra English, Ruth Lamm and M ichael Lamm (A nna Kumin '20)

Edna Shala/a and Bernice M iller Jean Manary, Rita Thompson (Florence Dicker '25)

Spring 2001 37 Federal Bar Brings Distinguished Guests to Cleveland-Marshall

he Federal Bar Association held its annual meeting before the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals and the in Cleveland from September 20 through September United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. T 23. The College of Law was host to a day-long Judges from the Ohio court were the Honorable Diane J. Appellate Practice Program on the opening day. In the Karpinski '80, the Honorable Terrence O'Donnell '71, program's first morning session, students, faculty, mem­ and the Honorable James M. Porter; Judges from the fed­ bers of the Federal Bar, and the public gathered in the eral court were the Honorable Karen Nelson Moore and Joseph W. Bartunek III Moot Court Room to hear two ses­ the Honorable Nathaniel Jones Sr. from the United States sions of oral arguments on actual cases currently on appeal Court of Appeals and the Honorable Paul R. Matia, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern I District of Ohio. In the afternoon session, former United States Attorney General Richard L. Thornburg moderated an appellate practice panel that included United States Solicitor General Seth Waxman, Judge Moore, Judge Porter, Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas Moyer, Ohio Ninth District Court of Appeals Judge Lynn C. Slaby, and Professor Stephen J. Werber. The Solicitor General also delivered the keynote address at the luncheon. For bringing a portion of the Federal Bar proceedings to Cleveland-Marshall, the law school is indebted to Eaton Corp Senior Counsel Robert A. McNew, President of the Federal Bar; Brouse McDowell attorney Joseph Thomas Dattilo, who chaired the Cleveland Planning Committee, and Program Coordinators Frances Bulloff ' 75 and Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff attorney Mary Ann Butch. LFM Honorable Richard L. Thornbwg, Professor Stephen Werbe1; Judge Lynn Slaby, Justice Thomas Moye1; Honorable Seth Waxman, Judge James Porte1; Judge Karen N. Moore

38 Law Notes always and in principle violate THE SEVENTY-FIRST human rights" with a resounding "No." In fact, whether it is or isn't a CLEVELAND-MARSHALL FUND matter of human rights does not gen­ erally concern persons on either side VISITING SCHOLAR LECTURE of the argument, according to Professor Ryan; nevertheless, h e Alan Ryan, admits he continues to "chase this by J. particular hare ... partly because of the contrast between the lightheart­ Warden, New edness of Governor George Bush over the likelihood that the death penalty College, Oxford has been carried out on Texans who were not guilty of the crime for University which they were executed and the anxieties of Governor Ryan of Illinois, who declared a moratorium on executions as soon as he became unsure that everyone on death row lan J. Ryan, Warden of New was properly executed." Moreover, it College, Oxford University, intrigues Professor Ryan that our is a political theorist of inter­ country, which "takes rights serious­ Anational renown with a long ly," has failed to endorse certain roster of publications on the life and international declarations of human teachings of such 19th and 20th cen­ rights because they define the death tury philosophers as John Stuart Mill, penalty as a violation of those rights. John Dewey, Bertrand Russell and Hence, America remains the "outlier" others. Thus, in September when he among developed nations-all of discussed "The Right to Kill in Cold which no longer execute criminals­ Professor Alan f. Ryan Blood: does capital punishment vio­ in its persistent refusal to abolish the late human rights?" his approach was an enthusiast for the death penalty, death penalty. Ryan notes the grounded in the history of ideas. an opponent of capital punishment, national contrariness that, despite What most arrested this listener, or deeply ambivalent," Professor denunciations by 39 Christian however, were not the notions of Mill Ryan continues, "What you should churches including "churches not or Kant or Hegel or even Professor have no doubt about is .. . that what­ otherwise known for their cultural Ryan's fascinating account of the ever objections one might have to liberalism," many of the death penal­ abolition of the death penalty in the death penalty, they should not be ty's ardent proponents are motivated Europe-not these, but Professor objections to its compatibility in by "the conviction that it is a divine Ryan's insights into our own coun­ principle with any plausible account commandment to kill murderers." try's espousal of the death penalty. of human rights." And thus he Ryan finds in this incompatibility Beginning in the "hope that you answers the question he poses of with "Christ's gospel of forgiveness" a will be unable to detect whether I am "whether the death penalty must reflection of cultural pessimism, a

Professor David Goshien Judge Peter M. Sikora, Dean Steven Robert Glaser Steinglass

Spring 2001 39 belief in the "innate sinfulness of mankind, about the immovability of the stain of evil that wicked actions Conference Draws place upon us." In the end it is not a pretty pic­ Speakers from ture the Professor paints of either the insouciant former Governor of Texas Many Countries or of that rigorously religious segment of the 65 percent of the American cholars from many disciplines gathered together at the law school in population who support the death April to discuss the philosophical foundations upon which law is con­ penalty; in fact, those God-fearing Sstructed- those various territorial, humanitarian and other contexts in advocates are the philosophical bed­ which nations "ground" the law. "Law's Grounds" opened with an fell ows, according to Ryan, of crimi­ address, "Modernism and the Absent Grounds of La w," by Peter nals ". . . who are more inclined Fitzpatrick, the 2000 Joseph C. Hostetler-Baker & Hostetler Visiting towards a strongly retributive and Professor and Anniversary Professor, Birkbeck College, the University of generally more violent view of pun­ London. Other speakers included Europa-Universitat Viadrina Frankfurt ishment." Professor Ryan closes with a Professor Cornelia Vismann, University of Toronto Centre of Criminology chilling image of the executioner, Professor Renisa Mawani, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Professor of drawn from the work of an 18th-cen­ Geography Nick Blomley, and York University Osgoode Hall Law School tury "two-third's mad" French Professor Douglas Harris. Cleveland-Marshall Professors Tayyab Mahmud, philosopher, Jo eph de Maistre. De Adam Thurschwell, and Kunal Parker organized the symposium. Maistre's executioner kill s by stretch­ ing his victim across a wheel and then systematically shattering his bones, one by one. Yet, the executioner is "the agent of the state"; were he not so, he would be a mere butcher, a murderer. Did Professor Ryan, despite his wish not to do so, finally tip hi s hand in his evocation of the sanc­ tioned executioner as the guardian of the state? Fortunately, I believe he did. LFM

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When second-year law student Theresa Pluth, an emergency room nurse, suffered a stroke in November, law stu­ dents, headed by Ed Pekarek, Frank First row: Dean Steven Steinglass, John Gabel, Peter Fitzpatrick Cwiklinski, Megan Second row: Renisa Mawani, University of Toronto; Claud ia Mesch CSU Fraser, Beth Judge Department of Art; Rachel Camel, CSU Department of English; Cornilia and Paul Shearer, Vismann, Europa Universitat Viadrina; May Joseph, New York University; raised over S3,000 to Menarz Monnen, CSU graduate student help defray the cost of Third row: Howard Vogel, Hamline University; Dennis Keating, CSU Levin Theresa's rehabilitation College; Adam Thurschwell, Cleveland-Marshall; Nathaniel A. Berman, expenses. Northeastern University; Paul Passavant, Ho bart and Willia m Sm ith Colleges; Shubha Ghosh, Georgia State University; Douglas Harrish, Osgoode Hall, York University; Steve Salami, CSU graduate student; Tayyab Mahmud, Cleveland­ Marshall; Nick Blomley, Simon Fraser University.

40 Law otes Community Advocacy Clinic tion of Professor Alan Weinstein and the Clinic's staff attorneys Kermit Lind '85 and Pamela Daiker-Middaugh Teams with Judge Burke on '88, works with community development organizations on projects to help restore neighborhoods. Housing Law Project That meeting marked the beginning of a two-year endeavor that eventually involved the Cleveland Restoration Society and City of Cleveland Councilman Bill tired Municipal Patmon, who represents the area. The project ended hap­ Court Judge, the pily last year with the successful conversion of the co-op. Hon o rabl e Clinic students and faculty celebrated the conversion­ illian W. Burke accomplishment in June with a reception honoring Judge ru'51 is among the law Burke, the Cleveland Restoration Society Technical school's most prized Services Manager Heather Rudge, the Cleveland alumnae. She is also Restorati on Society Board President Bracey Lewis, and co­ among its most persua­ op residents. sive. So, it should come Judge Burke noted, "The law on conversion is ambigu­ as no surprise that three ous and complicat- years ago when she and ed. The students did her son, Washington, a wonderful job D.C., attorney Bruce researching the Burke, came to ask a statutes and explain­ favor of Dean Steven H. ing to the residents Steinglass, she got what of the building the she came for. benefits of conver- For the past 18 years, sion." Judge Burke has li ved in a Ms. Daiker- fudge Lillian W Burke cooperative apartment in Middaugh added, one of the city's most "In addition to beautiful older neighbor- developing their hoods, an area designated by the Cleveland Landmarks understanding of a Commission as the East Boulevard Historic District. Built complicated area of in 1914 and considered a gem of revival-style residential the law in which few architecture, the co-op building is listed on the ational attorneys have Register of Historic Buildings. For all its charm and his­ expertise, the stu­ toric significance, the building's status as a co-op had dents learned a lot drawbacks, according to the Judge. Co-op residents do not about lawyer/client own their units outright; the building is owned by a non­ relationships." LFM profit corporation, and the corporation holds the title to Kermit Lind the building. The absence of real ownership can create problems for a shareholder wishing to sell a co-op or bor­ row money on the property, and there may also be even­ tual disadvantages to heirs. Judge Burke thus conceived the notion of having the co-op converted into a condominium, but such a conver­ sion had never been accomplished before in Cleveland, and the legal technical­ ities were formidable. She and her son sought Dean Steinglass's advice on the project. The Dean thought such an undertaking was precisely the sort that befitted the law Dea n Steven Steinglass, Joyce Edwards, Ann Vaughn, school's Community Doug Zubricky, fudge Burke, Kermit Lind, Kimberly Advocacy Clinic. The Valenti, Pamela Daiker-Middaugh, Deneen LaMonica Community Advocacy Clinic, under the direc- Judge Burke and Dean Steven Steinglass

Spring 2001 41 Pedagogy" in 30 Arizona State Law Introducing Two Visiting Journal 397 (1998) and "Felix Frankfurter: The Architect of our Professors and One Legal Federalism" in 27 Georgia Law Review 69 7 (1993). Professor Writing Instructor McManamon has also served the pro­ fession as a member and former chair of the Executive Committee of the Complex Litigation Sub-committee of the AALS Section on Civil Procedure. In 1996 she appeared as a witness before the US Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs at the Hearing on the Tenth Amendment isiting Professor Katharine A. Enforcement Act of 1996. Professor Van Tassel holds an RN and a McManamon is an Ohio attorney, V BSN (1980) from Case Western licensed to practice before the US Reserve University's Frances Payne District Court for the Northern Bolton School of Nursing. From 1980 District of Ohio. until 1985 she was an advanced clin­ ical nurse at University Hospitals ******* Rainbow Babies and Children's Professor Mary Brigid McManamon Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Legal Writing Instructor Carolyn speaking at annual Baker & Hostetler Broering-Jacobs earned her 1991 BA Unit. In 1986 she earned her law lecture degree, cum laude, from CWRU's from the University of Notre Dame School of Law. Following her gradua­ and her 1994 summa cum laude JD tion, she clerked for the Honorable ******* from the Ohio State University Law William K. Thomas of the US District idener University School of School, where she was executive edi­ Court for the Northern District of W Law Associate Professor Mary tor of the Ohio State Law Journal and a Ohio. From 1987 until 1992 she was Brigid McManamon joined the fac­ member of the Order of the Coif. associated with the law firms of ulty in the spring semester as the After graduation she clerked for US Squire Sanders & Dempsey and Hahn 2001 Joseph C. Hostetler-Baker & District Court for the orthern Loeser & Parks. In 1992 she founded Hostetler Visiting Professor. Professor District of Ohio Judge, the Honorable and managed Van Tassel & McManamon teach civil procedure at Sam Bell. She joins the legal writing Associates. From 1997 until last year the law school and, in January, spoke faculty from Baker & Hostetler, where she was an Assistant Professor and to the law school and legal commu­ she was a litigation associate with a Director of Clinical Programs at Pettit nity on "Judicial Restraint and the focus on the defense of complex com­ College of Law of Ohio Northern Rehnquist Court." Her 1976 BA is m ercial disputes (1996-00). She is University. The author of several arti­ from Yale University and her 1980 JD involved in many community organi­ cles in scholarly journals and a fre­ is from Cornell Law School. In zations, including Youth Challenge of quent guest lecturer and panelist, she Cleveland she worked as an associate Fairview Park, a non-profit organiza­ serves on the executive board of the first at Thompson, Hine and Flory tion providing sports and recreation litigation section for the Association (1980-81) and then at Weston, Hurd, for physically disabled children. She of American Law Schools and former­ Fallon, Paisley & Howley (1982-84). is admitted to practice in the US ly served on the Board of Directors of She began her teaching career as an District Court for the Northern the Coalition of Food Industry instructor at Case Western Reserve District of Ohio and the US Court of Counsel, a national organization of University School of Law and joined Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. over 200 defense counsel and food the law faculty at Widener in 1985. manufacturers, which she helped Her teaching and research interests found. Professor Van Tassel is admit­ focus on civil procedure, complex lit­ ted to practice in Georgia and Ohio, igation, conflicts of law and federal the US District Courts for the courts. Since 1997 she and Professor Northern and Middle Districts of K.M. Clermont have co-authored the Georgia and the Northern Districts of venerable FIELD AN D KAPLANS MATERIALS Ohio and Colorado; and in the US FO R A BASIC CO URSE IN CIVIL PROCEDU RE. Courts of Appeals for the Sixth and Her journal articles include "The Tenth Circuit. At Cleveland-Marshall History of the Civil Procedure she teaches contracts. Course: A Study in Evolving

42 Law No tes NITA and the Law School are Partners in an Educational Program for Public Service Lawyers In late March, a Moot Court Team of second­ year students represented the Northeast In May 2000, the National Region in the National Final Rounds of this Institute for Trial Advocacy ABA-sponsored competition. Our team of (NITA), in partnership with the Nancy Berardinelli, Jacinda Richards and law school, offered Cleveland's Renni Zifferblatt defeated a strong team from public service attorneys a unique the University of Minnesota in the fifth and opportunity to participate in an final round to earn the privilege of going to intensive seven-day program designed to improve trial advo­ the National Final Rounds in Chicago. They cacy skills. Retired Ohio Court were one of sixteen finalist teams from over of Appeals Judge Richard M. 125 teams that entered this competition in the Markus, former Cleveland­ four regions. Their success is all the more Marshall Visiting Professor, orga­ remarkable in that most participants in this nized the program. competition were third year students. Nancy NITA was founded in 1971 Berardinelli was ranked as the sixth best advo­ by Judge Markus and 12 other cate from among those in the regional compe­ lawyers and judges from around tition (in excess of 80) and the team brief was the country; its mission is to improve the quality of trial ranked in the top ten. Our other team, com­ advocacy nationally through a prised of second year students Beth Judge, series of programs in which, as Jason Kelhoffer, and lldiko Szucs, also com­ the Judge explained, "You learn peted with elan and lost narrowly in the fourth by doing." The organization's round. national headquarters is at Notre Dame University Law School. also .. . NITA sponsors programs Black Law Students Association students com­ throughout the United States mended for their service during 1999-2000 to and several countries abroad. Veteran attorneys and judges the Junior Achievement of Greater Cleveland in serve as NITA faculty in a series its efforts to teach area school children the of workshops heavily reliant on value of free enterprise include Nicole simulated trial performance by Fletcher, Herman Garner, Lisa Johnson, "student" attorneys and critical Joseph Lewis '00, Anissa Patton, Lynette L. review by NITA faculty. Rodgers '00, Mona Scott, Sam Smith, According to Judge Markus, "It Christine Walsh, and Brandi J. Williams. is the finest, most rigorous trial­ practice training program in the and ... world with most law schools in this country now using its for­ The November-December 2000 edition of the mat and materials to teach stu­ magazine ranked the Cleveland-Marshall Law dents the skills necessary to rep­ Library 42nd among all 1 78 law school libraries. resent clients effectively." The Criteria used included number of volumes, law school was fortunate to be titles, serial subscriptions, hours with profession­ able to join with NITA in pre­ al staff on duty, square footage, number of senting for free a program that is computer workstations, and number of seats. generally costly. LFM

Spring 2001 43 LIBRARY TITLES OF INTEREST

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44 Law Notes HATE CRIMES

speech by stretching a chain across the front of the room the same length as the chain used by the men who FORUM dragged her cousin to his death in Jasper, Texas. In a quiet voice, Ms. Stewart asked each of us actively to pursue a solution. The most memorable moment for me however, came when I addressed several young men employing white by Renni Zifferblatt, second year law student supremacy rhetoric. As I stood before them, I remembered the famous passage from the Talmud: "Save one Life, Save n October 20, 2000, after many months of the World." In slow and measured words, I pointed out hard work, the first student-initiated Hate our similarities rather than our differences, asking them if Crimes Symposium was successfully brought it was possible that their hatred stemmed from a thirst for to Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. It the love they had never received. Suddenly, their faces remains a singular event in my experience, in softened, and I felt instantly connected with them in a 0which the community joined together in an emotional way that defies explanation. As I left the room, I observed and activist discussion to end the pervasive cycle of hate the young men in a deep conversation with one of the plaguing our communities. most vocal activists in the audience, laughing, smiling and After a full year of evaluating the racist underpinnings sharing stories. Although it is difficult to speculate about of American history and law as a student, I wanted to what they are doing today, for those of us present, the pur­ unite the community in hopes of educating and generat­ pose of the conference was served by that one precious ing an activist approach to end hate-motivated acts. As a moment when hate was forgotten. child of holocaust survivors, I had the painful experience Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and prolific writer, of learning of the extermination of my entire extended once said that apathy is the ultimate collaborator because family. It is difficult to communicate or relinquish the dis­ through our inaction, we become the perpetrator. On that appointment in humanity that comes with the knowledge one day, the Cleveland community united to seek that a whole generation of people stood by while neigh­ strength, truth and connection in an intimate setting. We bors and friends were massacred for their religious or cul­ are all grateful that the conference brought so many tural beliefs. More painful perhaps, is our seeming inabili­ together, and yet hatred requires each of us to stand up, ty to learn from history as is evidenced by the persisting speak out and, most important, reach our hands out far­ cultural war that wages in America today. ther to those who hate. It is our responsibility and can With that focus in mind and with the gracious and only be resolved through a collective effort. In other generous encouragement of Ann Vaughn, President of words, there is no resolution without you. APILSA; Jennifer Lukas-Jackson, President of SPILO; patience and counsel from Matt Rieger, President of CLS; Professor Karin Mika '89, Assistant Dean Louise P. Dempsey '81; the Administrative Staff, especially Israel Payton, numerous students, and Kevin Butler, Editor of the Gavel, the forum was a great success. Highlights included the hour-long presentation deliv­ ered by Senior United States Department of Justice Trial Attorney, Lawrence Baca. Mr. Baca shared his story as a Native American in a white world, including a description of the savage hate-motivated attack on his father that resulted in multiple stab wounds. Mr. Baca ended his talk through a stream of tears, imploring the audience to do everything possible to end hatred, one person at a time. Professor Karin Mika engaged the audience in a moving address about her family's experience as non-Jewish vic­ tirµs of the Nazi regime during WWII. Professor Mika elo­ quently shared her parents' feelings of isolation, numb­ ness and the generational effects of the Holocaust on the global community. At noon, during one of the most poignant moments of the day-long conference, Ms. Stewart, a 16-year-old relative of James Byrd, began her Lawrence Baca and Renni Zifferblatt

Spring 2001 45 at Cleveland-Marshall, the birthplace of the national stu­ dent legal fraternity movement, have maintained a strong presence. The first Delta Theta Phi Chancellor was our grad­ uate, fraternity-founder Eugene Quigley; its first Master of the Rolls was our graduate William H. Thomas '11, and A Century of Fraternity our graduate, fraternity-founder William Mackay, was one of the organization's first Supreme Court Justices. The ini­ and Three Decades of tiation ritual was written by Charles Schmick, William Generosity Mackay, and Eugene Quigley. Today the Delta Theta Phi International headquarters are in Rocky River, Ohio, where Law Notes thanks retired Associate Dean Carroll Sierk, Cleveland-Marshall alumna Cate Smith '95 serves as the Senior William H. Thomas Foundation Trustee, Fraternity's Executive Director, Karen Hamilton '95 is the and David Sierk for their help in writing this article. Supreme Senate's Master of the Rolls, and Cleveland­ Marshall student Brett Miller is one of the student mem­ n September 1900 our predecessor law school, the bers of the National Board. Judge Ralph J. Perk, Jr. '83 and Cleveland Law School of Baldwin-Wallace College, was Fred Lick, Jr. '61 are Associate Justices of the Fraternity's just beginning its third year of educating men and I Supreme Court. Fred Lick has served Delta Theta Phi as women for careers in law. When eight of its law students Deputy Chancellor to every Chancellor since 1973. transformed their study group into the Alpha chapter of Delta Phi Delta law fraternity, the Law School became home to the first legal fraternity in Ohio. Those early stu­ The William H. Thomas Foundation dents eventually became some of Cleveland's most respect­ In 1968 several members of the Ranney Senate, principally ed attorneys: Eugene Quigley '03, Julius L. Barrett '03, former National Chancellor William L. Richard '67 and E. Arthur W. Born '03, John H. Redhead '04, William F. Dana Brooks '26, urged the creation of a charitable foun­ Mackay '03, Frederick W. Sinram '03, John H. Orgill '03, dation in honor of Richard's law partner and long-time and Charles E. Schmick. Delta Theta Phi brother, William H. Thomas, who had been A century has passed since the study group met to dis­ involved with the organization since his student days at cuss forming a legal fraternity; 100 years later the world, the Cleveland-Marshall and had twice served as National law school and the fraternity have changed with the times Chancellor. According to retired Cleveland-Marshall and the movements of history. In 1913 Associate Dean and Delta Theta Phi Delta Phi Delta merged with three Brother Carroll Sierk, Thomas was a other national law school fraternities A century has passed "renowned trial attorney who represent­ to form one united organization: Delta ed national clients, argued before the US Theta Phi. In 1961 following a con­ since the study group Supreme Court, and had offices in tentious debate on the floor of the met to discuss farm­ Cleveland and Washington, D.C." In national convention in Atlanta, mem­ short he was the standard bearer for suc­ bers voted to amend the Constitution ing a legal fraternity; ceeding generations of the Fraternity. The in order to allow minorities into the Foundation's objectives, continues Dean Fraternity; in 1971 the Fraternity initi­ 100 years later the Sierk, were reflective of Thomas's dedica­ ated its first woman member, and in tion to "promoting legal education and 1973, with the installation of Snaevarr world, the law school; helping needy and worthy students of Senate at the University of Iceland, it the law." At a 1968 meeting of the alum­ became an international organization. and the fraternity ni of the Cleveland Senate, Dom Dottore Today over 125,000 men and women have changed with '54, Thomas Scanlon '68, and Bill are members, and there are over 100 Richard were appointed to draw up the chapters throughout the world. the times and the articles of the Foundation and secure its Among those 100 chapters the law non-profit tax status. In January 1969, school's Ranney Senate and its alumni movements Of history. Bill Thomas and 43 others signed the

46 Law Notes membership roster, and Bill Thomas ••• play of Delta Theta Phi historical made the first substantial donation to Though student assistance remains memorabilia as well as a plaque on the Foundation named after him. Of the main Foundation focus, the pre­ which will be recorded the names of the original 43 members, those still sent Trustees and Officers have com­ every individual whose donation active in the foundation include mitted themselves to raising funds exceeds $100." Contributions should Joseph Caterini '56, Thad Cooke '56, sufficient to create the Delta Theta Phi be made out to the CSU Foundation Dom Dottore, John Gill '62, Howard Founders' Room at the law school with Delta Theta Phi on the memo Hendershott, Edward Kovachy '29, where the Fraternity was born: line and sent to Nicolette Plattner, Fred Lick Jr., Judge John M. Manos Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. Cleveland-Marshall College of Law '50, Andrew Putka, and William According to the Fraternity's Spring Development Director 1801 Euclid, Richard. 2000 Paper Book, "The Founders' Cleveland, Ohio 44115. When changes in the tax code in Room will contain a permanent dis- 1969 threatened to compromise the Foundation, Carroll Sierk, and Bill Richard were effective in securing the Foundation's status as a private foun­ Bridget Brown dation. The Board's officers were Dean Financ ial Advisor Sierk, Edward F. Meyers '65 and Bill Richard with former Cleveland­ Marshall Adjunct Professor Ben Lewitt Prudential '51 eventually replacing Richard. In (f; 1977 Bill Thomas died and Ella Thomas, his widow, and afterwards Prudential Securities Incorporated Eleanor, his daughter, made substan­ 5915 Landerbrook Drive. Su ite 1DO tial contributions in his memory. Mayfield Heights OH 44124-4034 Throughout the years major gifts from Tel 440 684-4400 Ext 4360 Fred Lick Jr., Judge Thomas Lambros 800 327-1655 Fax 440 684-4380 '51, the late Franklin Polk '39, Jerry Dempsey, Ranney Senate alumni, and others in the national organization have helped to increase the Foundation's resources and its ability to grant student scholarships. The Foundation is headed today by Trustees Ralph Skonce '79, Thad Cooke, W. Andrew Hoffman '79, Mary Alice Zacharyez '99, Trustee Emeritus Dom G. Dottore, and Honorary Trustee Fred Lick, Jr. Officers for the year 2000-2001 are President Thad Cooke, Vice President Judge Ralph J. Perk, Jr., Secretary Treasurer Professor Louis Geneva, and Assistant Treasurer Gerald R. Walton '80. Many students have received awards and scholarships from the Foundation. In April 2000, Jennifer Braman '00 received the William H. Thomas Memorial Scholarship and the 30th Annual Thomas Foundation Deserving Students Awards went to Lisa M. Gano, John C. Kress, and Jeremy J. Ray. The 100-year-old Fraternity and the 31-year-old Foundation remain today among the law school's most effective and gener­ ous friends.

Spring 2001 47 Dean's column from page 4 invites our alumni and sincerely hopes they will come. The 2001 C-M Office of Career Planning Moot Court Banquet on April 20 at Alumni Instructions for eAttorney Landerhaven honored Professor Stephen J. Werber, who is stepping down as Director after his two-decade Cleveland-Marshall has invested in a new computer program to provide stewardship of this successful pro­ faster and more accessible service to students and alumni. The program, gram. Student organizers of the Law known as eAttorney, computerizes much of the Fall and Spring Interview Review banquet and the Journal of Law Programs, holds resumes, and provides many more free enhancements for & Health banquet are also eager to students and alumni conducting job searches or wanting to make housing, have alumni attend their annual firm, or regional comparisons. Judicial information, salary comparisons, and events. Finally, the Black Law thousands of job postings from eAttorney are available. Searches for and by Students' Association Banquet was employers are simplified through profile filters. C-M alumni may access the held at the Cleveland Marriott­ database by following the instructions below. To view the jobs posted Society Center on Friday, April 6, with specifically by our Office of Career Planning, an additional password is Visiting Committee Chair Leonard needed. This school-specific password may be obtained by contacting the Young '74 as the keynote speaker. Office of Career Planning (216-687-6871 or [email protected]). You must have t he following software on your computer: We Hope to See You Often at 18th and Euclid • Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher (we recommend 5.0): down- Cleveland-Marshall is fortunate in load from www.microsoft.com the dedication of its graduates and in • Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 or higher; download from www.adobe.com the many ways they enrich the law school environment. And I, as Dean, 1. Go to www.eAttorney.com and click on the Sign-Up button. am fortunate to be part of this won­ 2. Click on "attorney/employer"; check box "c". Create your personal derful coalition of students, faculty, Member ID and Password by using 6-12 letters or numbers in each. staff, and alumni. We will continue to eAttorney is case sensitive. Class of 2000 graduates should use the CSU seek new ways to strengthen the ID number. Completion of the form automatically logs you into your bonds between those of us who teach account. and work at the law school with those of you who, in private practice, gov­ 3. Fill out the personal data in the registration form. This form provides the ernmental service, business, non­ filters for employers who are searching for hires (not the resumes), there­ profit organizations, and in other fore, be as inclusive as possible. Note that Cleveland-Marshall appears as careers are demonstrating every day Cleveland State University in the scroll down. You may chose more than the value of a Cleveland-Marshall one of the scroll down options: hold down the Ctrl key as you click. education. 4. Click on the "Career" tab at the top of the page. To enter your resume My invitation to alumni and the (which must be in Word or Wordperfect) into the system click on invitations of our faculty and stu­ "Resume Central" and upload. Wait about 2 minutes to view your dents are sincere. We do hope to see resume to be sure it appears as desired. Update by re-uploading. you often at our Library, our CLE pro­ grams, our receptions, our student 5. Click on the "Job Bank" sub-tab under "Career" to view jobs. events, and our lectures, seminars 6. In the left hand menu, there are two sections for finding jobs: and symposia. Or, if you like, just *Alumni Job Search (all C-M postings) and *General Job Search come by for a visit! You'll always be welcome at Cleveland-Marshall. • 7. Click on Alumni Job Search. Enter the C-M Office of Career Planning password. E-mail us at [email protected] or call 216-687-6871. 8. Click "Continue". Enter criteria for your search in Employer Details and Job Details and click ''View Employers." All postings appear if no criteria are entered. 9. Select a job from the dropdown menu and click on "View Postings". The menu appears at the top of every page so you can easily move from job to job. 1O. The help line for eAttomey is 1-800-378-6101.

48 Law Notes Picker from page 24 When the Fulbright year ended, "They were embarrassed into hiring Washington, DC. He was a stranger Jane recalls, "We both could have me, and in February of 1970, I to Jane, but her supervisor at Rand returned to our jobs in Washington, became the first woman they had showed her a letter he had written to but by then Martin Luther King had ever hired as a genuine associate, not Johnson congratulating him on his been killed, Bobby Kennedy had been a librarian." Her union with the firm appointment. Among the new Vice killed, Johnson was gone, Nixon was was neither long nor happy. "I was President's responsibilities was the President," and Washington was no severely restricted in what I could do. creation of a staff to negotiate agree­ longer Picker territory. An offer for For instance, I was not allowed to ments with most of the countries of Sidney to teach at Case Western travel with male attorneys because it the world to build an international Reserve University's law school wouldn't look right, and the firm was satellite communications system. brought them both to Cleveland. sometimes displeased with the busi­ Jane thought that sounded like an ness I was bringing in." That business interesting job and promptly wrote "How All Occasions Do Conspire" was often gender-issue business, and him a letter suggesting he hire her. In 1845 Jane's branch of the Moody in 1971 when JoCarol Lafleur ap­ This Mr. Johnson was no fool; in the family left Boone, North Carolina, to peared on the scene with her suit early 1960s few persons had as much settle in California where her father against one of the firm's oldest experience in this area of law as Jane, clients, the Cleveland Board of and that is how she came to be involved, as she expresses it, in "fig­ ''They were embar­ uring out a rational system of distrib­ uting shares of the satellite network rassed into hiring me, to various countries based on their international telecommunications and in February of traffic." The Kennedy administration had 1970 I became the drawn Sidney Picker to Washington, where he worked on issues of interna­ first woman they had tional trade in the office of the Special Representative for Trade Negotiation, ever hired as a gen­ Executive Offices of the President (now USTR). Following the President's assas­ uine associate, sination, Sidney stayed with President Johnson for a year, but at the conclu­ not a librarian." sion of the then-current GATT negoti­ was born. Across the North Carolina ations, he took a job with the border in Johnson City, Tennessee, Education, Jane left the firm, to teach Eximbank of the US. Sidney and Jane Liz Moody's branch of the family set­ first at Case part time and then, in were married in 1965, and in 1968 tled and remained. The two cousins 1972, to teach full time at Cleveland­ both Pickers quit their jobs. According met at Yale for the first time and met Marshall. to Jane, Sidney had just finished nego­ again in Cleveland in 1969. Liz was tiating a big contract with Boeing and practicing law at Metzenbaum, Serendipity? was becoming something of a special­ Gaines, Finley & Sterns and teaching Good things happen to Jane: ist in big-time airplane sales, when he part time at Cleveland-Marshall. Jane Professor McDougal finds her in announced, "When you've sold one was looking for a job. Thailand with news of just the right airplane, you've sold them all," mean­ At a New Year's Eve party, Liz job; a supervisor casually shares a ing the world was bigger than even overheard a man employed by a pres­ congratulatory letter and that letter Boeing could imagine. "He always tigious Cleveland law firm complain­ leads her to yet another job; her wanted to see Australia and New ing that the firm was going to have to cousin overhears a conversation at a Zealand," Jane explains, "and he got a hire women because women were New Year's Eve party and Jane finds Fulbright to teach at the University of beginning to sue the firms that herself working in one of the city's Melbourne. I was invited to excluded them. Liz interrupted him most prestigious law firms; a frantic lecture-without pay-at various univer­ with, "Well, why don't you hire my school-teacher in search of a lawyer sities on the law of outer space." cousin Jane?" Thus, as Jane recalls, locates Jane through an anonymous

Spring 2001 49 telephone operator; and, finally, the program with few resources to back LLMs, and two are now completing Soviet Union does her the favor of them. Today, because of her, the re­ their work for the LLM. "They have collapsing just when she is consider­ named Employment Law Clinic and been like my children," says Jane, ing the possibility of developing a the Russian program are thriving law who keeps up with most of them. Russian program. One might think school initiatives. In June the law school will open serendipity is a regulating force in her Over the years the Employment its seventh annual month-long life; in truth, serendipity has little to Law Clinic has expanded the services Summer Institute for Law Students in do with any of it. Perseverance does. of the former Sex Discrimination St. Petersburg, Russia, at the St. I summon the image of Jane's Clinic to include representation of Petersburg State University, another mother demanding to be allowed to persons alleging discrimination based product of the Picker alliance. join her husband in Brussels after the on race, country of origin, religion, Students from Cleveland-Marshall and from law schools all over the Farty years ago Jane country, England, Canada and New Zealand have studied with the Moody left Yale with Pickers, with executives from the IMF and the World Bank, and with facul­ a keener sense of ty from St. Petersburg State University, CWRU, Cleveland­ what she must Marshall, and other American law schools. The Russian program and demand from a the summer school have been factors in attracting students to Cleveland­ profession dominated Marshall. Law and the teaching of law are by men. sometimes stodgy, conservative voca­ tions. When Jane Picker and Liz war and not giving up till she had age, disability as well as sex. Clinic Moody arrived at Cleveland-Marshall taken possession of two passports­ services are free and often sensitize in the 1960s with keys to the one for herself and one for Jane. Her students to the needs of especially Women's Law Fund and their dedica­ daughter has been able to do the vulnerable segments of the popula­ tion to women's rights intact, they things she's done because she has tion. Today, many of the finest attor­ were surely marvelous curiosities on a been taught not to give up. And she neys in Cleveland acknowledge their predominantly male faculty that out­ doesn't. indebtedness to the Clinic faculty numbered them eight to one. How Nowhere is this quality more and the Clinic experience. has Jane been able to integrate so apparent than in her success in estab­ The Russian program includes convincingly her own commitments lishing the Sex Discrimination Clinic courses in Russian Law, faculty and into the curriculum? "Well, for one and the Russian program at the law law student exchanges with Russian thing, I came with money from the school. universities (currently Novgorod EEOC and money the Ford In 1972 when Jane arrived at State University), and the Summer Foundation awarded the Women's Cleveland-Marshall, clinical legal Institute for Law Students in St. Law Fund. It was hard to turn me education was still something of a Petersburg, Russia. In the first years of down," she explains. novelty, and gender legal issues were the student exchanges, Russian stu­ The ability to raise money has hardly mainstream enthusiasms; dents enrolled at either Case or been an enduring component of moreover, the law school had been a Cleveland-Marshall; today, following Jane's contribution to Cleveland­ part of the University for only three Case's withdrawal of support for the Marshall's program of legal educa­ years and any money available for joint Russian program, they study tion. Few fund-granting organiza­ course development usually found its only at our law school. Many of the tions have been able to resist her, and way to underwriting standard cur­ 36 Russian students who have come in the past 30 years she has knocked riculum items. In the 1990s when to Cleveland since 1993 are now on the doors of the United States Glasnost and Peristroika were the two accomplished Russian lawyers prac­ Information Agency, the US Russian words every American knew, ticing in high-profile Russian and Department of Education, NAFSA: Jane and Sidney initiated the Russian American law firms; five have earned International Educators, the Gries

50 Law Notes Family Foundation, the Gund demand from a profession dominat­ scenes of bloodless revolution must Foundation, and the Cleveland ed by men-often by men yet to be have resonated in her recollection of Foundation. The doors have opened liberated by the women's movement. the aftermath of World War II, even wide. She did not leave dispirited; she left perhaps summoning that formative Moreover, the commitment of full of plans of how she must do her memory of the Belgian school chil­ both Pickers to bringing Russian stu­ part to transform the profession and dren who had no childhood. And, dents to study law in America has the workplace. And she did. while many sat mesmerized before found expression in the creation, In August 1991 Boris Yeltsin the TV, I imagine Jane beginning to through private donations, of a new jumped on a military tank in Red plan again-an even bigger plan this tax-exempt foundation: The Russia­ Square to prevent it from rolling over time: Citizens of the free world must United States Legal Education Russian civilians resisting an anti­ become involved in the recovery of Foundation. RUSLEF recently made Gorbachev coup and demanding an the totalitarian one, and the best way its first award to a St. Petersburg State end to the Soviet Union. His act Jane Picker, Professor of Law, could be University post-graduate student marked the symbolic and actual end a part of the recovery was to bring interning at the United Nations. of that unwieldy union of forced Russian teachers and their students to alliances and brought with it a an American law school. Because a "And fourth, she remembered greater hope of world peace. I think sound democracy must have sound the lessons of history." of Jane watching the statues of Lenin laws. And so she did that too. Forty years ago Jane Moody left Yale and Stalin toppled from their perches As I said: There's no one like her. LFM with a keener sense of what she must and of how those first invigorating

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Spring 2001 5 1 Outstanding Alumni from pg. 12 over, the names on a memorial of surgery. Then, midway through his those whom cancer has undone treatments, he suffered a heart attack. would surely outnumber the dead of Writing about the stress of his all this country's wars. Though the Law Notes would like to father's illness, Ryan McMonagle, a Judge's name is not on either tally, he add the following alumni composer, proclaimed in a poem, has not forgotten to pay tribute to "strength I is the harvest that you those whose names are. Nor has he to the list of graduates who reap." Now, fully recovered, Judge been embittered by his experiences: are now serving as general McMonagle is twice a veteran, a sur­ About this remarkable alumnus there counsel, which was pub­ vivor of both war and disease. And is a sense of something beyond mere strength is the harvest he has reaped. endurance, a sense of someone who lished in our last issue: As a Vietnam veteran he has been has twice passed through the refiner's active in calling attention to the fire and emerged uncompromised Matthew W. Alan '86 estrangement of the survivors of that and undiminished. He remains a Secretary & General Counsel unpopular and perhaps misunder­ compassionate steward of his profes­ Westinghouse Safety Management stood conflict: In 1982 he took part in sion and the resolute servant of the Solutions LLC a celebration on Cleveland's "Mall A" survivors of all wars. Aiken, SC honoring Vietnam veterans; in 1988 As for our own lists, those of the he helped organize and participated law school and the Law Alumni Jay S. Ehle '75 in the Vietnam veterans' "welcome Association, the name of the Vice President & General Counsel home" parade and was the Master of Honorable Timothy E. McMonagle is Invensys pie. Ceremony at the Reunion Banquet; proudly displayed on every roster. Foxboro, MA in 1989 he was the featured speaker at LFM the city's Veterans' Day ceremony on Robert Gandal '54 Public Square; in 1992 he was the Vice President, Corporate Counsel & keynote speaker at a Cuyahoga New Life Members from pg.17 Secretary Community College Veterans' Day completed a nine-month rotation, Management Recruiters celebration that featured a half-scale focusing on immigration and envi­ International, Inc. replica of the Maya Lin Vietnam ronmental law. He practiced briefly Cleveland, OH Veterans' Memorial Wall; and in with McDonald, Hopkins, Burke & 19,94, on the SOth Anniversary of the Haber prior to joining Frantz Ward Peter W. Klein '81 Allied landing at Normandy, he as an associate practicing immigra­ Partner & General Counsel returned to the Tri-C campus, once tion and nationality law. Brockway Moran & Partners, Inc. again on Veterans' Day, to dedicate a Mr. Menefee writes, "I am glad Boca Raton, FL permanent monument to the veter­ to be a member of the Cleveland­ ans of all wars. Thus, Judge Marshall Law Alumni Association. Monica Lercher '78 McMonagle has become perhaps the Cleveland-Marshall provided me General Counsel & Corporate region's most visible, most eloquent with a very good education and I Secretary advocate of our Vietnam yeterans; confidently practice law side by side Safra National Bank of New York ironically, he has also become one of with graduates of "top" law New York, NY the regions' most eloquent critics of schools." And the Cleveland­ the war: In 1992 he ended his Marshall Law Alumni Association is Jerald L. Moss '82 Veterans' Day speech with these proud to claim him as a life member. General Counsel words: "We must never let our sons Warwick Communications, Inc. and daughters be Cleveland, OH killed, or be missing in action, or even be William A. Schmidt '68 a veteran of that kind Corporate Officer & General Counsel of war ever again. Universities Research Association, Vietnam must never Inc. happen again." Washington, DC *** Fifty-eight thou­ sand names are Edward J. Hyland, Jr. etched into the President black granite slabs 5875 LANDERBROOK DRIVE, SUITE 120 CLEVELAND, OH. 44124-4069 of Maya Lin's 440 • 461 • 1101 FAX 440 • 446 • 0192 memorial; more-

52 Law Notes Russell T. Adrine 1917-2000

ussell T. Adrine was a were at that time, he explained, 1941 alumnus of a stable environment. Russell RWilberforce University, a had the advantage of an excel­ 1954 alumnus of Cleveland­ lent education at Central High Marshall Law School, a World School, the school from which War II veteran, an accom­ his literary hero, Langston plished lawyer, an ardent Hughes, was also graduated. advocate of the rights of Following his graduation from minorities, and a man who Central, Russell won a football brought to glowing life the scholarship to Wilberforce phrase: "devoted husband, University; following his col­ father, grandfather, and lege graduation he worked in friend." He died last year on Cleveland as a mailman. In June 2. 1943 he joined the U.S. Army In 1997 I went to Russell Medical Administrative Corps. Adrine's office to interview him In 1944 he married Ethel for Law Notes. That was my first contact with the man of Stratford, a librarian in the Shaker Heights school system, whom at his death the Call and Post wrote, "His life's work and returned to the postoffice when the war ended. He in the law was devoted to obtaining equality and justice credited his wife's influence in his decision to follow his for all." brother to study law at Cleveland-Marshall. At the time I met him I knew him only as our gradu­ For Cleveland that was a fortunate decision. Black cit­ ate, a Life Member of the Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni izens of Cleveland, led by African American lawyers like Association and a long-time member of the law school's Charles V. Carr '28 and Norman Minor '26, were posi­ Visiting Committee. I did not know that he had been tioning themselves to play a critical role in the struggle for president of the local NAACP and the Greater Cleveland racial equity. Two years after Russell's law school gradua­ Urban League; I did not know that he was at the helm of tion, Carl Stokes '56 graduated from Cleveland-Marshall. all of Congressman Louis Stokes's '53 14 successful cam­ Their two lives intersected in Stokes's first-and unsuccess­ paigns for the U.S. House of Representatives, and I did not ful-mayoral campaign. That unsuccessful campaign suc­ know that he had helped launch the federal court chal­ ceeded in energizing the entire black community, with the lenge to Congressional redistricting that created the 21st result that on his second try in 1967, Carl Stokes became Congressional district, the very district that sent Louis the first African American mayor of a major American city. Stokes to Congress as the first black U.S. Representative Russell characterized the campaign as "a crusade, a mis­ from Ohio. I did not know how importantly or with what sion." Behind the scenes, as advocate, counsel, and strate­ fine modesty he figured in the history of black people in gist, he was playing a potent role, making America, as this state and country. Hughes wrote, "be the America the dreamers dreamed." It is not easy to interview a modest man; nevertheless, Thereafter, throughout the next four decades in the interviewing Russell Adrine was a rewarding experience. continuing civil rights campaigns, Russell Adrine In addition to his career in politics and the law, he had remained a powerful force in a city that was often leading been in earlier days an accomplished actor, performing in the nation in advancing the political, social and econom­ major works at Karamu House. His interest in theater and ic rights of minorities. literature (he loved the poetry of Langston Hughes, for During the 46 years he practiced law, he was often instance) perhaps accounts for his narrative facility. partnered with some of the city's leading black attorneys. Speaking of his career, he had an almost literary apprecia­ Later in his career, he served as general counsel for the tion for how his own life had played out against the back­ Regional Transit Authority for 11 years and as a member of ground of the times, of how he had become part of a his­ the Ohio Board of Tax Appeals for nine years. He was 82 tory that was bigger than his personal history: the histo­ when he died and was still practicing law. ry of African Americans in the second half of the 20th cen­ In his ninth decade his story-telling gifts and his tury. memory were undiminished. I always enjoyed meeting Born in Rockmart, Georgia, in 1917, he moved in him and listening to him, and on any given day, it was a 1921 with his widowed mother and three other Adrine pleasure to find him visiting the law school. Now that he's children to Cleveland, where his uncle and two brothers gone, it seems his life was as well wrought as the stories he had already settled. The family moved often-from told, an entire history written by an author he would sure­ Scoville Avenue to Central Avenue and back and forth ly call the Author. Like everyone else, I will miss his pres­ among various streets of the inner city, until his mother ence in the law school and his influence in the city. LFM remarried, and the family moved into the projects, which

Spring 2001 53 Walls from page 29 Maxine Levin College of Urban death. Jeff's painting "Like Apples Affairs. It is now on temporary loan and Oranges" appeared on the fall to the law school, where it shares the 1995 cover of Law Notes. "Path" was foyer by the 18th Street entrance with donated anonymously to the law the Haberman work. Each of the pan­ school. els is the work of a single individual and depicts his/her witty and affec­ An Irresistible Lure tionate interpretation of the Terminal All four works were dedicated in Tower. Together assembled, the pan­ December of 1999. But there is never els' arrangement recreates the outline enough art to go around, and, as it of the Tower itself. turns out, the appreciation of art is Finally, third-year law student infectious. Since the December dedi­ Ann Vaughn, inspired by the trans­ cation, the law school has received formation of the atrium, spearheaded four other contributions. A portrait of a drive to raise funds to buy a two­ the Honorable Ann Aldrich, United dimensional painting by Hispanic States District Court for the orthern artist Hector Vega . The Ohio Hispanic District of Ohio Senior Judge and for­ Bar Association, the Asian Pacific mer Professor of Law at Cleveland­ Islanders' Law Student Association, Marshall, was donated to the law Ga vel, the Hispanic Law Students' school by a committee of Judge Association, the Student Bar Patricia A. Blackmon '75, Diane P. Association, the Women's Law Chapman '78, Stephen W. Funk, Cleveland Millennium Student Association and an anony­ Joyce Goldstein,· Daniel W. Hammer, by Hector Vega mous donor provided funds to pur­ Michael C. Hennenberg '74, Maura photographed many of the world's chase the Vega. "Cleveland L. Hughes, Irene Keyse-Walker, Judge celebrities, including Yoko Ono, Roy Millennium" celebrates in bold colors Una H.R. Keenon '75, Gale S. Lichtenstein, and Jack Lemmon and the city's rich cultural and recreation­ Messerman, Judge Shirley S. Saffold many others. "Aerial View/Cuyahoga al heritage, depicting such sites as the ' 76, Donald P. Screen, Ellen S. Simon, River ortheast to Skyline," one of a West Side Market, Jacobs Field, the Dean Steven Steinglass, Stephanie E. portfolio of pictures commissioned Art Museum, the BP Building, the Trudeau, and Margaret Wong. Judge by Peter B. Lewis for the Progressive lakefront, the Rock and Roll Hall of Aldrich's portrait is the creation of Insurance Compnay's annual report, Fame and Museum, Lake Erie, and John Troxell, a graduate of Case hangs on the second floor of the atri­ many other venues dear to the hearts Western Reserve University and the um, opposite Linda Ammons's pic­ of Clevelanders. Academy of Realist Art in Seattle. He ture. is the recipient of the Hudson Valley In the mid 1970s when the pre­ More to Come Art Association Award and the sent law school building was dedicat­ Professor Fitzpatrick will be pleased. William Grauer Award in Studio Art. ed, Cleveland Marshall received from We have taken to heart his reminder Among the collections that include Ohio funds a large abstract acrylic by that law, by its nature, must affirm his work are those of the Cleveland well-known Cleveland artist David A. life. The art we now have in the law Clinic, the Parker Hannifin Haberman, a graduate of the school is life affirming, enriching our Corporation, Thompson Hine and University of Iowa's MFA program in daily comings and goings, and other Flory, LLP, and others throughout the printmaking and painting, who has gifts from Professors Falk and Lloyd country. been heavily influenced by Jackson Snyder are on their way. "The Dean When Dean Steinglass was in Pollock and others of the Abstract has appointed a committee," we are Chicago a year ago, alumnus David Expressionist school. His ten-foot told (an ominous note, here). The Levin ' 72 presented him with a black long acrylic painting on mattress tick­ committee of Legal Writing Instructor and white aerial photograph of the ing, "Downtown Urban," originally Brian Glassman, Assistant Dean Ohio interstate during the 1970s by hung in the atrium; it is now a com­ Louise Dempsey '81, Patti Falk, internationally renowned photogra­ manding presence on the walls of the Peggy McNally and Professor Fred pher Abe Frajndlich. Frajndlich, a stu­ new foyer between 18th and 19th White will consider how to continue dent of Minor White, grew up in Streets. the good work that began with Peggy Cleveland and now lives in New York. Several years ago, students of McNally spontaneously in the sum­ His photographs have appeared CSU art education Professor Dr. mer of 1999. Among its first projects in Life, The New York Times, the Laurel Lampella and her students is restoring the Mark Matthews London Sunday Times, ArtNews, created a 13-foot high, 36-panel col­ mobile, which was broken years ago the American Photographer, and lage of the Terminal Tower. during an impromptu football game numerous other publications. He has Originally, "Homage" hung in the in the Atrium. LFM

54 Law Notes The Law School Remembers Max Ratner and Thanks the Ratner Family

men and one of its most generous philanthropists. Eventually, his phil­ anthropy and that of his family would embrace the country they left behind and the country that wel­ comed them. Moreover, the family was instrumental in helping build the economy of the new country that was their spiritual home: Israel. Max Ratner's generosity extended to his law alma mater as well. Sixty years after his law school graduation, he Chuck, Mark, Ron, Jim and Betty Ratner established the law school's largest scholarship fund. This fall Dean n 1929 Max Ratner (1906-94), the Steven H. Steinglass and a number 23-year-old son of Jewish immi­ of the 70 men and women whom the I grants from Bialystok, Russia, left Max Ratner Scholarship Fund helped the old Cleveland Law School in the through law school honored their Engineers building, law degree in benefactor and paid tribute to his hand, and set about becoming one of family at a reception and dinner. Betty Ratner, widow of Max Ratner and America's most successful business- LFM Fannye Shafran, sister of Max Ratner YOU KNOW. ..

Law Professor Elizabeth M. Iglesias, Director of the Center of Hispanic and Caribbean Studies at the University of Miami, discussed "Race, Social Justice and the Law: Building Identities, Coalitions, and Theories" at the law school.

United States Congressman john Lewis, in town in October to speak at the City Club, spoke informally at the law school. The Congressman rem inisced Elizabeth M. Iglesias about his youth in Alabama, his involvement in the Freedom Marches with Dr. King, and his years of service in the Congress. He was joined at the law school by his former colleague Louis Stokes '53 and by the law school's former colleague, Professor of Law and Associate Dean, the Honorable Solomon Oliver Jr., of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.

Professor Lolita Buckner Inniss, Former Congressman Louis Stokes, Hon. Solomon Oliver fr., Congressman Lewis, Dean Steven Steinglass

Spring 2001 SS Human Rights from page 13 affect them with relative impunity; of an idealistic New World bent on the responsibility is far greater in ending inhumanity, and so on in an the jurisdictional rights of nations to a functioning democracy than in a mil­ impressive torrent. At the very same protect their nationals from abuses in itary dictatorship, for example. The time," he stated, "the familiar silence other nations, as well as more gener­ second truism is that if profession of reigned as they continued to provide al claims to national jurisdiction high principles is to be taken serious­ their crucial support for comparable based on the right to prosecute those ly, these must be applied to oneself, or worse crimes. History suggests that who commit crimes against humani­ not only to official enemies or others nothing different should have been ty, creates a much greater chance of designated as unworthy in the pre­ expected. Moral truisms inform us "no safe haven" for violators. The vailing political culture." that the reactions should have been denial of any safe haven may inhibit He concluded that "It is, howev­ reversed, and that the self-image con­ at least some of the potential viola­ er, hard to miss the fact that through­ structed is less than impressive - and tors. , Slobodan Milosevic may never out history, and in virtually all soci­ with great import for the future, in want to leave Serbia or Saddam eties, they (e .g. principles) are com- the light of the distribution of global Hussein, Iraq, but many potential power." human rights violators might think Justice Goldstone suggested that twice if other countries and victims "One of the consequences of the hor­ became serious about taking the vio­ rors of the Holocaust was the recog­ lators' property and foreign bank nition that the way in which citizens accounts and denying them access to of any State are treated is the business comfortable safe havens where mon­ of other States and of the interna­ sters such as Idi Amin can live out tional community. There were two their lives in secluded luxury. important related developments Among the ·speakers at the con­ [derived from this recognition]. The ference were Noam Chomsky, first was that national sovereignty Institute Professor of Modern was no longer inviolable in the field Languages and Linguistics at the of human rights. The second was the Massachusetts Institute of Professor David Goshien, Eric Carlson birth of universal jurisdiction which Technology, and Justice Richard J. enables national courts and interna­ Goldstone of the Constitutional tional courts to prosecute the most Court of South Africa and the law egregious international crimes wher­ school's Seventieth Cleveland­ ever and by whomever they may Marshall Fund Visiting Scholar. have been committed. An illustration Professor Chomsky spoke to the issue of national courts exercising that of "Human Rights Priorities and jurisdiction is the Pinochet case; and Responsibilities for Citizens," while at the international level, the UN war Justice Goldstone, who also served as crimes tribunals and the movement chief prosecutor of the United towards establishing a permanent Nations war crimes tribunal for International Criminal Court." Bosnia, addressed the issue of The numerous other presenters "International Jurisdiction to offered an amazing array of insights Prosecute War Crimes." Ann Goldstein, Malini Mehra into ways to improve human rights Professor Chomsky argued that efforts to prevent violations as well as "There are some simple principles monly honored in the breach. We to sanction violators when human that enter into setting human rights have witnessed that familiar pattern rights crimes do occur. Kate priorities for citizens-meaning again in the terminal year of the Robertson, Research and Information members of a political community twentieth century. In a display of Specialist with the U.S. Commission that allows citizens a degree of partic­ exuberance with few historical prece­ on National Security/21st Century, ipation in policy formation. The dents, Western intellectuals and discussed the critical issue of principles I have in mind are virtual political figures lauded themselves "Protecting Civilians in Conflict and truisms, so a few introductory words for selflessly upholding 'principles Post-conflict Reconstruction." will suffice. The first is that people are and values' for the first time in histo­ Richard Wilson, Professor of Law and responsible for the anticipated conse­ ry, recognizing that no decent person Director International Human Rights quences of their actions (or inaction). can stand by and watch the systemat­ Clinic at American University, For citizens, that responsibility ic state-directed murder of other peo­ warned about the necessity of extends to the policy choices of their ple as their states bombed an official "Avoiding Vigilante Justice: own state, to the extent that they can enemy under the exalted leadership Strengthening the Right to Defense

56 Law Notes in International Criminal Tribunals." Rights Violations in Africa-the Brian Concannon, who works in Functions of Monitoring and Haiti with the Bureau des Avocats Investigation." Ann Cooper, Execu­ Internationaux, is part of a group of tive Director of the Committee to lawyers funded by the Haitian gov­ Protect Journalists, reported her ernment who assist the judiciary with efforts in resisting human rights vio­ human rights cases, mostly from lators who were "Targeting Haiti's 1991-94 ilictatorship. Richard Journalists to Prevent the Herz, Litigation Director for Earth Dissemination of Knowledge of Rights International, emphasized his Human Rights Violations." experience in the use of private law The presentations listed above aimed at "Holding Multinational are just a sampling of what was cov­ Corporations Accountable for ered in this rich three-day event. The Human and Environmental Rights speakers' insights were so vital and Abuses: Doe v. Unocal (Burma), Wiwa exciting that Ashgate Publishing, a v. Roya l Dutch Petroleum (Nigeria), UK-based publisher, has agreed to Bowoto v. Chevron (Nigeria) and Bano publish two books derived primarily v. Union Carbide (India)". Michael from the conference presentations. Ratner, Vice President of the Center The books will concentrate on the for Constitutional Rights, discussed principles and law involved in how he and others at the Center were human rights enforcement including "Using Domestic Courts to Prosecute private civil remedies and criminal Extra-territorial Human Rights prosecution; and on investigation, Justice Goldstone Violations." Peter Takirambudde, monitoring and education strategies who is Director of Human Rights that offer the greatest hope for signif­ Watch-Africa, concentrated on icant improvement in human rights "Building the Record of Human protection. •

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1940 Tim McCormack was named one of acquiring distressed businesses under Cleveland Magazine's "Most Section 363 at the William J. O'Neill The Columbus Recreation and Parks Interesting People of 2001." Bankruptcy Institute. Her paper was Commission announced that the published in the February issue of new senior center opening in early Raymond]. Rehor joined the Cleveland Bar Association Journal. 2001 will be named the "Gillie NaviSource, Ltd., a third party Senior Center" in honor of Judge administration Workers' NBC political analyst and moderator William Gillie, his wife Catherine, Compensation firm, as President and of "Meet the Press" Tim Russert and their son, Doug, who died last Chief Executive Officer. He also was delivered Harvard Law School's 2000 year. Judge Gillie is a Life Member of appointed to the Board of Trustees of Class Day address. Mr. Russert serves the Law Alumni Association. the Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry. as Senior Vice President and Washington Bureau Chief for NBC 1951 Keith A. Savidge spoke before a pub­ News. Stanley Tolliver was the recipient of lic employees group on issues and the NAACP Freedom Award, the conflicts that arise in the Workers' Deborah Sesed, a shareholder and organization's highest award. Compensation System, the Family member of the Workers' Compen­ Medical Leave Act and the sation group in the Akron firm of 1954 Americans with Disabilities Act. Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, was selected for inclusion in THE BEST Robert Gandal is Vice President, LAWYERS IN AMERICA 2001-2002. Corporate Counsel and Secretary of 1973 Management Recruiters Andrew D. Bemer, President of the International, Inc. in Cleveland, Rocky River Board of Education, was 1977 Ohio, a wholly~owned subsidiary of the commencement speaker for the Carey N. Gordon, a Foreign Service CDI Corporation in Philadelphia, Pa. Graduation Class of 2000. Officer with the U.S. Agency for (Law Notes previously reported Mr. International Development (USAID) Gandal as Vice President, Corporate David W. Whitehead, Regional Vice based in Cambodia, was given con­ Counsel and Secretary of CDI President of The Illuminating Co., tracting responsibilities for USAID Corporation.) was featured in Kaleidoscope's activities in Vietnam and Myanmar "African Americans Making an in addition to Thailand, Laos and 1968 Impact at FirstEnergy." Cambodia. Mr. Gordon was also elected a member of the Board and William A. Schmidt is Corporate 1974 Treasurer of the International School Officer and General Counsel of of Phnom Penh in Cambodia. Universities Research Association, Charles D. Castrigano was appoint­ ed Judge/Magistrate for the Berea Inc., a consortium of 89 research The Columbus Dispatch published an Municipal Court. universities in the United States, article about Larry H. James who is Canada, Japan and Italy. Mr. Schmidt the first black American to have his Former U.S. Congressman Dennis E. retired from federal service where he name included in the title of a major Eckart is the President and Chief served as a Board of Contract Columbus law firm. Crabbe, Brown, Executive Officer of the Greater Appeals Judge. Jones, Potts & Schmidt, founded 83 Cleveland Growth Association. years ago, will shorten its name to Nancy C. Schuster is a member of Crabbe, Brown & James. the Ohio State Bar Foundation's 1975 Fellows Class of 2000. Jose C. Feliciano was the recipient 1978 of the Federal Bar Association's Monica Lercher is General Counsel 1970 Elaine R. "Boots" Fisher Award and & Corporate Secretary at Safra the Hispanic Political Action Robert R. Hussey II is chair of the National Bank of New York. Ohio State Bar Association's Committee's Political and Civic Award. Mr. Feliciano is a partner in Intellectual Property Section. David M. Paris, a principal with the the national law firm of Baker & Cleveland law firm of Nurenberg, Hostetler and President of the Jeffry L. Weiler was appointed a Plevin, Heller & McCarthy, is the Cleveland Bar Association. Trustee of the Montefiore Vice President of the Cleveland Foundation. Academy of Trial Lawyers. 1976 1972 Colette Gibbons, a principal in the CMLAA Honorary Trustee and Cleveland firm of Kahn, Kleinman, Cuyahoga County Commissioner Yanowitz & Armon, spoke about

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1979 Hon. William M. O'Neill of the Masters Degree in Public 11th District Court of Appeals was Administration and a Certificate in Sheryl King Benford is the Deputy asked to sit as a judge on the Ohio Non-Profit Management from CSU's General Manager of the Legal Supreme Court in the case of Toledo Levin College of Urban Affairs. Judge Division of the Greater Cleveland Edison v. the City of Bryan after four Russo also received the William Regional Transit Authority, where judges recused themselves due to Rowlan Hopkins Award as she supervises a staff of 49 employ­ possible conflict of interest. Judge Outstanding Graduate. ees and an operating budget of $9.7 O'Neill was asked to sit in for million. Supreme Court Justice Alice Robie 1983 Resnick, who recused herself because Hon. Paul Brickner's "Kaufman's Peter Kirsanow, a lawyer in the her husband, Judge Melvin Resnick, labor and employment practice already sat on the case for the Court Cardozo: Judicial Biography as Legal group of the Cleveland firm of of Appeals. History" was published in the Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Geo1getown Law f ournal. Aronoff, was named to the firm's Beth A. Sebaugh is a shareholder in new affiliate formed to represent ath­ the Cleveland firm of Bonezzi, 1984 letes and coaches in all areas of pro­ Switzer, Murphy & Polito. Ms. Hunter S. Havens is an associate in fessional sports. Sebaugh is a trial lawyer who focuses the Cleveland office of Mazanec, on employment law, business litiga­ Raskin & Ryder. Mr. Havens focuses Charles E. Natkins, a partner in the tion, product liability, medical mal­ his practice in the area of insurance creditors' law firm of Javitch, Block, practice defense, insurance defense defense Eisen & Rathbone, is president-elect and medical malpractice defense. of The Debt Buyers Association, a Robert E. Kmiecik is an associate in California-based organization repre­ Hon. Joseph J. Zone is a judge of the the Cleveland firm of Kaman, Ott, & senting purchaser of debt and those Cleveland Municipal Court. Cusimano. associated with the industry. 1981 Anthony Lockhart, Director of 1980 Peter W. Klein is a Partner and National Sales for FirstEnergy, was CMLAA Board Member Gregory General Counsel to Brockway Moran featured in Kaleidoscope's "African Americans Making an Impact at Clifford was elected Chair of & Partners in Boca Raton, Florida. Catholic Charities Services FirstEnergy." Corporation and President of the Frederick N. Widen, a principal Board of Trustees of the East with the law firm of Kahn, Monica B. Williams joined the Independence-based law firm of Cleveland Public Library. Kleinman, Yanowitz & Arnson and Past President of the Cleveland­ Wegman, Hessler, Vanderburg & Ohio Governor Bob Taft appointed Marshall Law Alumni Association, O'Toole as associate in the firm's cor­ Jeff Dean a member of the Ohio spoke at the Real Estate Law Institute porate section. State Board of Education to fill the in October. vacancy for the unexpired term of 1985 District #5. 1982 Dennis P. Pisco is Mayor of the city ICI Paints named Mark McGinley of Mill Valley, California, a town of Senior Corporate Counsel. Mr. 14,000 located just north of San McGinley's responsibilities will Francisco. include legal matters of ICI's stores, Macco adhesives, packaging busi­ United States Magistrate Judge nesses and supply chain issues. Patricia A. Hemann was awarded the Ohio Women's Bar Association Jerald L. Moss serves as General Justice Alice Robie Resnick Award of Counsel to Warwick Communi­ Distinction. cations, Inc., in Cleveland. Roland Hornbostel CMLAA Life Member and Trustee Suzanne M. Nigro is Vice President of the Ohio Women's Bar Lynn Arko Kelley was named one of Roland Hornbostel was named Association. Cleveland Magazine's "Most Deputy Director of Policy at the Interesting People of 2001." Ohio Department of Aging. CM LAA Honorary Trustee Judge Nancy Margaret Russo earned her

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Patricia Fromson Feisberg is a part­ John Carroll University. She will Sandra M. Koenig is a partner in the ner with the Cleveland firm of retain J1er responsibilities as the Cleveland firm of Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Walter & Haverfield practicing in the University's legal counsel. Minnich & McKee practicing intel­ firm's employment law group. lectual property law.' Kevin 0. Kadlec is a shareholder in Lois Robinson is the Executive the Cleveland firm of Bonezzi, Life Member Mary D. Maloney was Director of the Civic Orchestra of Switzer, Murphy & Polito where he named a partner in the Cleveland Chicago. heads the asbestos and environmen­ office of Jones Day Reavis & Pogue, tal litigation practice. where she practices in the areas of Craig S. Vrabec joined the deferred compensation and employ­ Cleveland firm of Collins & Scanlon Kathleen M. Kordeleski is a partner ee benefits. where he practices in the areas of in the Cleveland office of Duvin, commercial litigation, business plan­ Cahn & Hutton practicing labor rela­ Eric M. Simon is of counsel with the ning and estate administration. tions law and litigation. law firm of Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs. Charles Lawrie was appointed Chief Magistrate of the Medina Municipal Court. 1987 Mark R. Bandsuch was ordained as a Jesuit priest in a ceremony at Loyola University Chicago's Madonna Della Strada Chapel. Father Bandsuch joined the faculty of the University of Detroit Mercy to f ohn C. Weisensell teach in the School of Business and Thomas M. Wilson serve as a campus minister in the John C. Weisensell became board Athletic Department. certified in civil trial law by the CMLAA Life Member Thomas M. National Board of Trial Advocacy. Wilson was named a partner in the Mr. Weisensell is a shareholder with Cleveland law firm of Kelley & the Akron law firm of Amer Ferraro. Mr. Wilson represents clients Cunningham where he practices civil against the asbestos and tobacco litigation and appellate practice, industries in state, federal and bank­ products and professional liability ruptcy courts. and personal injury. 1988 Richard G. Witkowski is of counsel with the law firm of Nicola, Allan G. Churchmack is a member of the Cleveland law firm of Gudbranson & Cooper in Cleveland. Nischwitz, Pembridge & Chriszt Brian M. O'Neill where he practices employment and 1986 real estate law. Mr. Churchmack is Matthew W. Alan is Secretary and Brian O'Neill joined Ulmer & Berne also an adjunct faculty member at General Counsel to Westinghouse as a partner in the firm's Cleveland Ursuline College. Safety Management Solutions LLC in office where his practice is concen­ Aiken, S. Carolina. trated in mergers and acquisitions, 1989 joint ventures, commercial lending, Deanna M. DiPetta practices in the corporate finance, venture capital Life Member Anthony A. Logue opened the first of a number of pizza family law section of the Cleveland and real estate finance, construction firm of Zashin & Rich. and development. franchises known as "Big Tony's Illegal Size Pizza (Too Good and Too Cathryn R. Ensign is a shareholder Ronald J. Chernek is a new associ­ Big To Be Legal)." Each pizza shop based in the Cleveland office of ate in the foreclosure/real estate will have a legal theme that is gener­ Brouse McDowell. department of the Cleveland firm of ic to the franchised city. Mr. Logue plans to open 30 franchises within Weltman, Weinberg & Reis. Sr. Joanne Gross, OSU, was named the state of Pennsylvania by the end Secretary to the Board of Trustees at of this year.

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CMLAA Past President and Life 1991 Member Scott Spero was a partici­ Joseph N. Gross, a lawyer in the pant in the 104th running of the Boston Marathon. labor and employment practice group of the Cleveland firm of Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & 1990 Aronoff, was named to the firm's David J. Chernosky is an associate new affiliate formed to represent ath­ with the Cleveland law firm of Kahn letes and coaches in all areas of pro­ & Associates, where he represents fessional sports. consumers in warranty disputes and automotive lemon law cases. Kirk R. Henrickson is a partner in the Cleveland firm of Rademaker, Ronald f. Ziehm Carol A. Childs is Treasurer of the Matty, McClelland & Greve where Ronald J. Ziehm joined the litiga­ his practice focuses on workers' com­ Ohio Women's Bar Association. tion practice group in the Cleveland pensation law. office of Buckingham, Doolittle & Vincent G. Farris joined Burroughs practicing Of Counsel. Commonwealth/Lawyers Deborah Lawrence-Auten is Vice Title/LandAmerica as a real estate President and Manager of the com­ Scott E. Swartz is an associate with attorney responsible for commercial mercial and industrial division of the Westlake law firm of Waldheger, escrow. LandAmerica National Commercial Coyne & Associates, where he prac­ Services. tices estate and tax planning. Jude A. Fry is a partner in the Cleveland firm of Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Matthew J. Maloney is a partner in Minnich & McKee, where she prac­ the Cleveland office of the certified 1992 tices in the area of intellectual prop­ public accounting firm of Hausser & The U.S. Department of Education's erty litigation and counseling. Taylor. Office for Civil Rights named Meena Morey Chandra "Employee of the Year Lili Christine Kaczmarek married for 1999-2000." Ms. Chandra's award John G. Reitz at the Cathedral of St. cited her accomplishment of numerous John the Evangelist in June. special projects and performance of responsibilities to an "outstanding John D. Latchney is a partner with degree." She was also named to the the Cleveland law firm of Reminger Board of Trustees of the Cleveland Bar & Reminger. Association and was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Indian Ellen M. McCarthy, a principal with American Leadership Center in the Cleveland law firm of Nurenberg, Washington, D.C. Plevin, Heller & McCarthy and a CMLAA Trustee, was apppointed to Dirk E. Riemenschneider Marilyn M. Crisafi joined Arter & the Board of Directors of the Hadden's Cleveland office as an asso­ Cleveland Academy of Trial Lawyers. Dirk E. Riemenschneider is a share­ ciate in the professional and product holder in the Akron law firm of liability group. Ms. Crisafi will con­ Patrick J. Rhoa is an associate in the Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs. centrate her practice on medical mal­ commercial litigation department of Mr. Riemenschneider practices in the practice defense. the Cleveland law firm of Weltman, medical malpractice group providing Weinberg & Reis. hospital and physician defense in Laura M. Faust is the Ninth District the firm's Cleveland office. Trustee of the Ohio Women's Bar Greg Temel, CEO of Beyond The Association. Bull, Inc., developed Steven M. Moss addressed a joint BeyondTheBull.com, a website for session of the Cleveland Society for Michael J. Holleran is a partner in the stock market investors. Human Resource Management and Cleveland firm of Frantz Ward, where the Employers Resource Council. Mr. his practice focuses on litigation. CMLAA Life Member Sonia Winner Moss is an associate in the firm's is associate dean for development labor and employment group and a John J. Kelley is an associate at and public affairs at the Case member of the Cleveland-Marshall McDonald, Hopkins, Burke & Haber Western Reserve University School of Law Alumni Association's Board of in the firm's employee benefits prac­ Law. Trustees. Mr. Moss was also recently tice group in the business depart­ named to the Board of Trustees of ment. the Positive Education Program.

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The Landskroner Foundation for Pennsylvania Transportation Children, founded by trial attorney Authprity's Director of Equal Jack Landskroner, distributed 200 Employment Opportunity/ Affirmative free gun trigger locks in an effort to Action. increase children's safety in the home. Cheryl A. Handy is in private prac­ tice in Savoy, Illinois, practicing Ellen K. Meehan is an associate in immigration, naturalization and the Cleveland office of Squire, employment law. Sanders & Dempsey. Christopher B. Janezic was appointed Laura Mimura is an account execu­ to the Cleveland Board of Trustees of Wendy N. Weigand tive with Dix & Eaton. the Communidad Oscar Arnulfo Romero Children's Village located in Wendy N. Weigand joined the liti­ gation section of the Phoenix, Tamara A. O'Brien is a partner in Zaragoza, El Salvador. COAR provides Arizona firm of Gust Rosenfeld as an the Akron law firm of Roderick housing, education, medical care and associate practicing in the areas of Linton, where she practices in the an environment of hope for more complex civil litigation and insur­ areas of civil litigation and business than 900 children. ance defense. law. Thomas W. Ostrowski is a partner Daniel F. Petticord is a partner in in the Cleveland office of Benesch, 1994 the Cleveland firm of Brzytwa, Quick Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff. His Cynthia A. Binns joined the ICI & Mccrystal. Mr. Petticord practices practice focuses on commercial loan Paints North America Cleveland cor­ in the areas of product liability, med­ and financing transactions, corporate porate headquarters as senior corpo­ ical negligence, business litigation finance and bank and lender repre­ rate counsel. Her responsibilities will and managed-care liability. sentation. include handling product claims and litigation and providing legal sup­ James L. Tierney is General Counsel Asst. Cuyahoga County Prosecutor port to the purchasing and interna­ for Tremco Incorporated in Brendan J. Sheehan received the tional functions. Beachwood, Ohio. "National Financial Aid Student Success Story Award" from the Jennifer A. Corso is a Trustee-at­ 1993 National Association of Student Large for the Ohio Women's Bar Financial Aid Administrators in Association. Steven M. Auvil is a partner in the Washington, D.C. Cleveland firm of Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & McKee, where his prac­ tice is focused on patent, trademark and copyright litigation.

Mark W. Buxton is senior vice presi­ dent of the Northcoast Private Client Group of National City Bank.

Christopher J. Carney is a share­ holder in Brouse McDowell, where he is a member of the litigation and labor and employment practices Michell f. Sheehan David H. Gunning II groups in the firm's Cleveland office. David H. Gunning II joined the Michelle J. Sheehan is a Trustee-at­ Cleveland firm of Hahn Loeser & Parks Donald G. Drinko is an associate Large for the Ohio Women's Bar as an associate concentrating in con­ with the Cleveland firm of Association. str·uction law and commercial litigation. Gallagher, Sharp, Fulton & Norman. Margaret P. Vanbuskirk is a Director Bill Flannigan was in Cleveland in John J. Dyer III and Cynthia J. Burr of the Cleveland-based executive November for the Ohio premier of '92 opened Competitive Title, a title search firm of Markt & Markworth, his short film "Jimmy Ritz" at the insurance company in Beachwood. where her primary responsibility is Ohio Independent Film Festival. The assisting law firms and corporations Carla E. Elliott is the Southeastern in their legal recruiting efforts.

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film was also screened as part of the addition to coordinating all legal Malibu Film Festival. He is writing activity for the company, he advises two other feature-length screenplays its management team in the areas of and editing two short films. mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property, litigation, employment, Michael J. Haas joined the and immigration issues. Cleveland law office of Roetzel & Andress as an associate in the busi­ 1995 ness services group focusing on real Cheryl D' Amico joined the estate and finance. Cleveland office of Calfee, Halter & Richard W. Jablonski is an attorney Edward f. Stoll, Jr. Griswold as an associate practicing estate and trust planning. in the corporate legal department of Edward J. Stoll, Jr. is an associate in Progressive Insurance Corporation. the Cleveland office of Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff where Jacqueline Svete Janke and her hus­ his practice is focused on insurance band are the proud parents of twin coverage matters, commercial and girls, Jorday Ashley and Taylor contract disputes, insurance defense Lauren, who were born in April. and product liability. Jacqui is the daughter of CMLAA life member Joseph Svete '64.

Rebecca L. Lasky is an associate in the tax practice group of the Cleveland firm of Thompson Hine & Catherine Kurela Smith Flory. Karen E. Hamilton Karen E. Hamilton, a sole practi­ tioner in Columbus, was sworn in as a member of the Bar of the United States Supreme Court.

Jennifer Sammon Amy J. Malloy, Assistant Vice President and Corporate Counsel at Jennifer Sammon joined the Premier Farnell Corporation, and her Cleveland law firm of Reminger & husband Sean are the proud parents Reminger. of a daughter, Kelly Anne, born in November 1999.

John D. Latchney K. Maura Mueller is an account supervisor with Stern Advertising and Public Relations in Pepper Pike. John D. Latchney is a partner in the Cleveland firm of Reminger & Reminger where he focuses his prac­ Ann Ramsey is an associate in the tice on government, municipal and Cleveland firm of Gallagher, Sharp, Fulton & Norman. employment law. Catherine Kurela Smith, Executive Jim Melle is a sole practitioner in Director of the Delta Theta Phi Law Fremont, Ohio practicing in the Beverly A. Sandacz areas of juvenile and criminal law. Fraternity, International, was sworn Mr. Melle is also a member of in as a member of the Bar of the Beverly A. Sandacz is a partner in United States Supreme Court. Fremont's city council. the Cleveland law firm of Reminger & Reminger. William B. Morris is an associate in Frank Spade published his first novel, SHADES OF GRAY, which tells the story of the Cleveland law firm of Nurenberg, Durin B. Rogers is the Director of a black criminal defense attorney who Heller & McCarthy. Legal Affairs for NetSetGo Inc., an undertakes the defense of a former internet professional services firm KKK member accused of murder. based in Rochester, New York. In During the course of the representa-

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tion, the attorney has an affair with Joshua M. Marks joined the intellec­ his client's wife. The two plots con­ tual property group at the Cleveland verge into an explosive ending. office of Arter & Hadden. '

1996 Jane C. Murphy joined the Cleveland Janice Aitken joined the Akron law office of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey as a legal recruiting specialist. office of Roetzel & Andress as an associate in the firm's risk-manage­ ment group. 1997 Eileen M. Bitterman is the compli­ Selena R. Castle serves as law clerk ance officer at the Cleveland firm of Stacey McKinley to the Honorable John P. Smith of Weitman, Weinberg & Reis. the District Court of Minnesota, Ninth Judicial District, in Walker, Phillip A. Ciano and Andrew S. CMLAA Life Member Stacey Minnesota. Goldwasser are partners in the new McKinley joined the Cleveland law firm of Ciano & Goldwasser located firm of Kahn, Kleinman, Yanowitz & in Beachwood, Ohio. Arnson as an associate in the corpo­ rate and securities group. Ms. Gwendolyn A. Ciolek is an associate McKinley's practice is focused on with the employment benefits and mergers and acquisitions, venture general tax groups in the Cleveland capital, private and public securities firm of Walter & Haverfield. offerings, and general business law.

John C. Coyne is an Assistant State Linda G. Silakoski, a sole practition­ Attorney for the Cook County State er in Painesville, was sworn in as a Attorney Office in Chicago, Illinois member of the Bar of the United assigned to the Narcotics Prosecution States Supreme Court. John f. Reagan Bureau in the Night Trial Division. Jeffrey M. Whitesell joined the John J. Reagan joined the Cleveland Kevin P. Elbert is an associate in the Cleveland office of Arter & Hadden firm of Reminger & Reminger as an Cleveland office of Mazanec, Raskin as an associate in the professional associate practicing general insur­ & Ryder practicing in the areas of and product liability group. ance defense and commercial corporate law, taxation and business premise liability. litigation. Susan Yarb Petersen is an associate in the Cleveland firm of Herbert Hotchkiss is an associate in Sean Gregor joined the Cleveland Spangenberg, Shibley & Liber. the Cleveland office of Calfee Halter civil litigation law firm of Krantz, & Griswold where he practices cor­ Powers & Friedman. porate and tax law. 1998 George H. Carr is an associate with Darryl E. Gormley joined the law the Cleveland firm of Gallagher, firm of Javitch, Block, Eisen & Sharp, Fulton & Norman. Rathbone as an associate. Thomas]. Connick is an associate Anitra L. Handley, an artist in New with the Cleveland law firm of Davis York, had a photo of one of her & Young. paintings published in the New York Times Art Section. Ms. Handley plans Christopher P. Conomy is an associ­ to hold her first solo show this year. ate with the Cleveland firm of Levin & Associates. William R. Hanna is a11 associate in the public law and telecommunica­ Shawn Cormier and her husband, tions groups with the Cleveland law Brad, are the proud parents of their firm of Walter & Haverfield. Aaron J. Reber, an attorney in the second child, Connor Wilson, who joins big sister, Heather Kathleen. Columbus office of Thompson, Hine Leslye M. Huff is a Trustee-at-Large & Flory, was appointed a member of for the Ohio Women's Bar Kevin P. Elbert is an associate with Leadership Ohio. Association. the Cleveland firm of Mazanec,

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Raskin & Ryder where his practice is Barbara J. Aquilla is an associate in focused in the areas of corporate law, the litigation department in the taxation and business litigation. Cleveland office of Weitman, Weinberg & Reis. David M. Goodrich joined the Philadelphia firm of Akin, Gump, Ryan Callender is a staff attorney Strauss, Hauer & Feld as an associate. with a concentration on public finance law at the Cleveland firm of Corinne M. Jernejcic joined the Calfee Halter & Griswold. Cleveland firm of Arter & Hadden as an associate focusing on pensions, Robert C. Hicks joined the benefits and compensations. Cleveland firm of Zashin & Rich, f ulie M. Price where he practices in employment­ Julie M. Price is an associate in the related matters and litigation. Chip Joseph was named one of General Practice Group at the Cleveland Magazine's "Most Cleveland firm of Benesch Interesting People of 2001." Pamela D. Houston is the Eleventh Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff. District Trustee of the Ohio Women's "Ten tips for Shopping Online," by Bar Association. Nicole S. Quathamer is an associate Christopher L. Parmelee, a patent in the litigation department at the attorney with the Medina firm of Michele L. Jakubs is an associate Cleveland office of Porter, Wright, Walker & Jocke, was printed on the practicing insurance law with the Morris & Arthur. cover of the Ohio State Bar Association law firm of Williams, Sennett & Intellectual Property News, Volume 8, Scully in the Twinsburg office. Jennifer Whitney is an associate Issue 3, Summer 2000 newsletter. with the Cleveland firm of Spangenberg, Shibley & Liber. James H. Prendergast organized a disaster relief for Ft. Worth, Texas, tornado victims on behalf of Philip 2000 Morris where he is employed. He and his wife, the former Susan Mosbrook, are the parents of a daughter, Sarah, who was born in October of 1999.

Robert A. Sidoti joined the Cleveland firm of Joseph B. Jerome Dean M. Valore & Associates as an associate concen­ trating his practice in litigation and Dean M. Valore joined the business transactional law, particularly enterprise section of the Cleveland employment, construction and com­ firm of Seeley, Savidge & Ebert. mercial law. Shawn M. Acton Bridey Matheney is an associate George S. Sutcliffe is the author of attorney in the litigation, labor and Shawn M. Acton joined the E-COMMERCE INSURANCE AND RISK employment groups of the Cleveland Cleveland firm of Kelley & Ferraro as MANAGEMENT. firm of Walter & Haverfield. Ms. an associate focusing on asbestos liti­ Matheney's practice is focused on gation and workers' compensation. Michael A. Wahlster joined the labor and employment law, includ­ national law firm of Luce, Forward, ing sexual harassment and race dis­ Jennifer K. Braman is an associate Hamilton & Scripps as an associate crimination. practicing business and real estate in the firm's San Diego office. Mr. law with the Cleveland firm of Hahn Wahlster is a member of the business Lillian Ortiz was selected by Loeser & Parks. practice group. Governor Robert Taft to be a delegate to the 2000 Republican Convention in Joy Zeiler Courtright is an attorney 1999 Philadelphia. Ms. Ortiz was also in the Cleveland office of Zashin & appointed by the Governor to a three­ Rich practicing in the areas of Terese Adomaites-Coreno practices year term on the Ohio Commission domestic relations, business law and insurance defense at Reid, Berry, on Hispanic/Latino Affairs. She serves civil litigation. Marshall & Wargo. as Vice-President of the Ohio Hispanic Bar Association as well.

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William L. Dawson joined the related advocacy matters. Cleveland office of Arter & Hadden as an associate in the professional Angela M. Plona is an associate in and product liability group. the Cleveland firm of Weitman, Weinberg & Reis, practicing in the L. William Erb joined Porter Wright collection department. Morris & Arthur as an associate in the firm's Cleveland office. Jeremy J. Ray joined the Cleveland law firm of Turner & Knezevic as an Allison E. Hamby joined the associate with a concentration on Cleveland law firm of Walter & closely held businesses, estate plan­ Haverfield as an associate with the Halle Landis ning, tax and probate law. international practice and business Halle Landis is an associate in the services group. Akron law firm of Oldham & Aaron Ried is an associate with the Dowling, where she practices in the Cleveland firm of Weitman, Stacee M. Kulick is an associate in areas of insurance defense, estate Weinberg & Reis. the business law department of the planning and adoption law. Cleveland firm of McDonald, Brian P. Riley is an associate practic­ Hopkins, Burke & Haber. ing insurance defense, civil litigation and probate law in the Cleveland firm of Smith, Marshall, Weaver & Vergon.

Carrie Saylor is an associate in the litigation group at the Cleveland firm of Calfee Halter & Griswold.

Jeffrey J. Sokolowski is an associate with the Cleveland firm of Joseph W. Lori Ann Luka Diemert, Jr. & Associates.

Gregory /. Gawlik Lori Ann Luka joined the Cleveland Gregory]. Gawlik is an associate in firm of Kelley & Ferraro as an associ­ the Cleveland office of Thompson ate where she will focus on asbesto Hine & Flory. litigation. Wallace J. Lanci is an associate in the corporate/securities and litiga­ tion practice group in the Cleveland law firm of Kohrman Jackson & Krantz. His focus is on mergers and acquisitions and business litigation. Arthi K. Tirey

Arthi K. Tirey is an associate con­ Joseph R. Leonti joined the corpo­ centrating on patent and trademark rate and securities practice of Arter & applications in the Cleveland law Hadden's Cleveland office as an asso­ firm of Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan ciate. Jennifer D. Mingus & Aronoff.

Douglas B. McKnight is an associate Jennifer D. Mingus is an associate Darlene E. White is an associate in in the intellectual property group at in the Cleveland office of Thompson the Cleveland law firm of Gallagher, the Cleveland firm of Calfee Halter Hine & Flory. Sharp, Fulton & orman. & Griswold . Ronald M. McMillan joined the Deborah D. Zielinski joined the Cleveland office of Squire Sanders & Cleveland firm of Hahn Loeser & Dempsey as an associate with a con­ Parks as an associate practicing in centration on general litigation and the business and corporate areas.

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by Rosa M. De/Vecchio David Forte was appointed to the Lolita Buckner Inniss's criminal law Joint Civilian Orientati on we bsite was selected as a displ ay Errol A. Ashby wa s profiled in Committee of the U.S. Defense website fo r Lexis at the AALS Grain 's Cleveland Business among the De partment. Professor Forte deli v­ Conference in San Francisco. an nual "40 Under 40" who have ered several lectures including made their marks in ortheast Ohio " atural Law and Judicial Review" at Priscilla Jackson, formerly of the and "are representative of the many the Society of atholic Social law school Office of the Dean, young leaders emerging in our com­ Scientists at Franciscan University in accepted the position of munity." teubenville Ohio; "The Commerce Admini trati e Secretary to the lause Lives (For ow)" at the Lewis Director of the Center for David R. Barnhizer presented ISA & Clark Law School Federalist eighborhood Development at the et and GOs' Concern about ociety in Portland, Oregon; CSU Urban Center. Shrimp Agriculture in Brisbane at a " atural Law and Ha rd Cases" at the World Bank/U.N. Food and Will amette School of Law Federali st Kenneth Kowalski was in terviewed Agri culture Organization Expe rts' Society, the Uni versity of Oregon by Plain Dealer reporter Chris Consultati on on Effective Legal and School of La w Federalist Society, and Johnsto n about the Employment Institutional Arrangements fo r the Po rtland Oregon Federalist Law Clinic. Regulating Coastal Zone Lawyers Chapter; "What Does the Aquaculture. Supreme Court Owe to Framer ?" Kermit Lind was quoted extensively at the Robert E. Henderson in Angela Chatman's Plain Dealer Dena S. Davis published a book, Constitution Day Lecture at the article on the Community dvocacy GE ETI DI LLEMAS : REPRODUCTI E Ashbrook Institute of shland Clinic's work in Ohio City. TECH 10LOGY, PARDffAL CHOI ES, A D University; "The upreme Court's CHILDRE 's FUTURES, with Routledge. Latest Term" on WOSU Radio in Tayyab Mahmud published Professor Davis also published Columbus; "The upreme Court as "Colonial Migrations and Post­ "Informed Consent fo r Stem Cell Administrative Agency" at the Colonial Identiti es in South Asia" in Research in the Public Sector" in Sa lva tori Con ference on the South Asia: Journal of South Asian Journal of the America n Medical American Founding of the Heritage Studies and also "Race, Reason, and Women's Association and "G roups, Fo undation in Washington, D.C., Representation" in Uni versity of Communities, and Contested and at the Join t ivilian Orientati on Ca li forn ia Davis Law Review. Professor Identities in Genetic Research" in onference of the U.S. Department Mahmud presented "Law and the Hastings Center Report. Professor of Defense; "John XXIII and the Colonialism" at the law school's Davis agreed to be a consultant for a ocial Teaching of the Catholic Faculty peaker Series organized by three-year project on "the ethical, Church" at the Roman Forum of St. Associate Dean and Law Library legal, and social implications of Ro e Church in leveland; " If Only Director Michael J. Slinger. genetic research with Indian and Catholics Could Vote: Politics and Profe or Mahmud received a seed­ ative people" organized by the the Family" at the First Friday lub money grant of $10,000 from the Univer ity of Colorado Health of Cleveland. Globalization Resea rch Center, Sciences Center. University of Hawaii, for the first Professor Deborah A. Geier pub­ phase of Globalization as Everyday Michael Davis published "Extending li shed "Only Congress Can Create Lived Ex peri ence, a research project Copyri ght and the Constitution : Deductions" in the ABA Section of aimed at exa mining the impact of 'Have I Stayed Too Long?"' in Florida Taxation Newsletter (Point/Coun ter­ globaliza tion on the li ves of immi­ Law Review. This article was listed point Column). As chair of the AALS grant communities in the U.S.; the among the top ten articles most fre­ Tax Section, Professor Geier orga­ first phase of the project will focus quently downloaded for the topic nized and hosted a Tax Section on South sian communities in the "Constitutional Law" on two on-line lunch and meeting in San Francisco Metropolitan Los Angeles area. journals-Socia/ Science Re ource with the theme "Reflections on the etwork and Jurisprudence and Legal 1999 ALI Reporters' Study on the Patricia . McCoy published her Philosophy. A draft of his article in Taxation of Private Business 2000 Update to BA KING LAW progress entitled "Legitimacy Enterprises. " She presented MANUAL, 2d ed. with Matthew Globall y" was also listed on SSRN's "Replacing the Internal Revenue Bender and "Technology Shifts and Top Te n download list fo r the topic Code with a Pure onsumption Tax" the Law: Yea r 2000 Readiness for "International Law and Trade." at the law school's Faculty Spea ker Banks and Thrifts" in Annual Review Series organized by Associate Dean of Banking Law. Patricia Falk was interviewed by TV and Law Library Director Michael J. Channel 5 ews on the defense of Slinger. Kevin O' eill was interviewed on the alleged murderer of a Cleveland WCP 's " fter ine" program about police officer.

Spring 2001 67 Faculty & Staff Happenings the "Hate Crimes Symposium: Union Cleveland Chapter. Professor Arresting the Psyche of Hate" held at Snyder lectured on "Judicial the law school. Profe ssor O'Neill Selection" at a faculty forum at Case ' IN MEMORIAM published "A First Amendment Western Reserve University. Compass: Navigating the Speech Nat Lefton '28 Clause with a Five-Step Analytical Already among WHO 'S WHO IN Framework" in the Southwestern AMERICA and WHO'S WHO I AMERICA E. H. Hagerty '29 Un iversity Law Review. LAW, Stephen J. Werber was also list­ Thomas J. Grant '3S ed in WHO'S WHO AMO NG STUDENTS IN Ellen Quinn was appointed the AMERICAN UNIVERSITI ES AN D COLLEGES Haskell Titchell '38 2001-2002 President of the Ohio for being a candidate for the Master Robert E. Dorfmeyer '44 Regional Association of Law of Judaic Studies degree at the Libraries. Cleveland Coll ege of Jewish Studies. Robert A. Sturges '48 Professor Werber's proudest accom­ Alex C. Groner 'SO Heidi Gorovitz Robertson co­ plishment, h owever, was in having authored wi th A. K. Reichert attained the status of Samuel J. Krasney 'SO "Environmental and Brownfield Grandfatherhood with the birth of Sanford Schwimmer 'SO Liability: Relative Influence on Rachel Tess, his first grandchild. Corporate Expansion and Professor Werber spoke on "Ohio: A Nicholas A. Bucur, Jr. 'Sl Relocation" published in Journal of Microcosm of Tort Reform versus Francis V. May 'S 1 Corporate Real Es tate. State Constitutional Law Mandates" at Rutgers Law School's Tort Reform Thomas J. Keenan 'S2 Alan Miles Ruben presented "The and State Constitutional Law Robert J. Rebic 'S2 Unreasonableness.of Employers' Conference. Workplace Rules" at the Labor William Boyko 'S3 Arbitration Institute's Annual Frederic White accepted an appoint­ Richard G. Stahr 'S4 Conference of Management and ment as Visiting Professor at Union Representatives at the California Western Sch ool of Law. David E. Beasley 'SS Cleveland Convention Center. Associate Dean (now Professor) Charles E. Rehor 'SS White co-authored "Decanal and David Snyder accepted an appoint­ Administrative Opportunities in the John F. Lenard 'S6 ment as Visiting Assistant Professor New Millennium" in the Widener Thomas Hess 'S8 at William and Mary School of Law. Law Symposium Journal. Th e 2001 edition of his book on OH IO Robert J. Koepke Lloyd Snyder was elected president LANDLORD TENANT LAW was published Robert P. Kavulla 'S9 of the American Civil Liberties by West Group. Charles F. Dean, Jr. '60 Jack H. Hudson '61 Jerry B. Kraig '63 Herman J. Strnisha '63 Gerald P. Wadkowski '63 Richard Szilagyi '68 . . . Eight Cleveland-Marshall students were chosen to Franklin Wearn '68 participate in the American Trial Lawyers Association regional law school mock trial competition in early Patrick J. Morgan '70 March. The Cleveland-Marshall team, coached by vol­ John J. Owens '76 unteers Kenneth P. Abbarno '92 and Daniel R. Haude of the law firm of Reminger &Reminger, which spon­ Ronald R. Benford '79 sors the Cleveland-Marshall team include:Kathleen Matthew G. Harris '81 Atkinson, Jennifer Brown, Kristi Hilbisch, Erin Hess, Bret Miller, Al Vondra, Rob Yallech, and Brian Zaber. C. Fred Jenkins '82 Gerard Bowen '96 YOU DO NOW!

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