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Advocate belief that government can help? from page 1 Shure also asked Chen about the Perfect Together HLSA CONNECTOR people do so is a belief that government unusual role of the department: The Public cannot help. Public attitudes towards Advocate, he noted, is the only cabinet On September 27, half a dozen HLSA-NJ Newsletter of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey government have changed in recent member who is not appointed to do what members traveled to Cambridge to serve decades, Shure noted. When the Public the governor tells him to do. In light of on a panel encouraging current students to Winter/SpringVolume 3, Issue 2009 1 - Spring/Summer Fall/Winter 20072011 Advocate was first created, many believed this, and in light of the Public Advocate’s pursue legal careers in New Jersey. government potential role as a The panel, scheduled to coincide with would be able plaintiff in suits Still “Government Under Glass”? the beginning of the fall recruiting season, to help solve against other will include the Honorable Jack M. ChenLetter Maps From Public The Advocate’s President New Course TED WInE LMemoriamLS WILL BE 51ST some of the departments, he Sabatino ’82, J.A.D.; Amy Winkel- more pressing social and economic issues of asked Chen what he hears from and how By Stephen Herbes ’01 one reason people may do VANDERBILT LECTURER man ’87, Criminal Chief in the Office of Ronald K. Chen, the New the day, but now, many people no longer he relates to other cabinet members. Theodore V. “Ted” Wells,John Jr. Adler’76 will graduated kick the U.S. Attorney in Newark; Lowenstein Jersey Public Advocate, was the Earlier in this eventful year, our Spring believe in or want government help. The Public Advocate acknowledged off HLSA-NJ’s second fromhalf-century Harvard Collegeof Sandler partners Nicole Albano ’97 and speaker and honored guest at Symposium, Leaving The Law: Finding Your Shure moved on to pose this pair of that some cabinet members have Vanderbilt Lectures. Famous(cum most laude) recently in 1981. Steve Hecht ’92; and Michael the Association’s annual Spring Path and Making the Leap of Faith, featured approached him with for representing former HeVice was Presidential as National Passante ’03, an assistant municipal Symposium on June 19, 2007. a distinguished panel of former attorneys. suggestions as to Chief of Staff I. Lewis “Scooter”Merit Scholar Libby, andwho a prosecutor in Newark and coordinator of Also at the event, which Hosted by Genova, Burns & Giantomasi in where the Advocate’s was charged with perjury andJohn obstruction Harvard Scholar. of New Jersey Young Lawyers for Obama. took place at the Law Center in Newark, this free event was well-attended attention could be justice in the investigationJohn of graduated the leaked from focused in order to New Brunswick, the and the audience engaged the panel with identity of an undercover CIA operative, Summer Harvard Law School in help their own Association’s two 2007 probing questions about their career choices from page 3 1984. At the law school departments gain Summer Public Interest Fellows and how their individual identity led them he was Managing Editor more resources. He were introduced and presented to, and then away from, the practice of law. outside the courtroom. with certificates recognizing of the Harvard Civil also denied ignoring Public AdvocateEveryone Ronald enjoyed Chen (l), the Summer lively discussionFellowship and The attorneys I assisted placed an Rights-Civil Liberties the actions of other their achievements. Damon Program Coordinatorthe opportunity Bob Holmes to meet ’70 other and HLSA-NJHLS grads extraordinary amount of trust and President John Bartlett ’01 (r) congratulate Damon John Adler ’84 departments when King ’09 of Plainsboro spent a and current students. Trustee John Bartlett Law Review. confidence in me. Throughout the King ’09 and Josh Kipnees ’09. those actions were not ten-week summer at the New ’01 organized a fantastic event! According to his Greenberg Traurig firm summer, I was asked to compose in the public interest. Jersey Institute for Social Justice, and Josh Advocate, for example, is “in but not of” biography, “John H. Adler advised clients on sentencing memos, as well as motion Greetings! We also encourage you to pay your dues, After Chen and Kipnees ’09 served the same period with the Public Advocate – it is treated a corporate, commercial and real estate litigation papers regarding the admissibility of As hard as it is to believe that 2010 because they are what make programming like Shure completed their the Federal Public Defender. (The Fellows’ subsidiary of the department for matters as well as employment litigation. John evidence. Our supervisor also made it a has come and gone, we can look back on our Spring Symposium and our continuing dialogue, they opened activities are described in their own words budgeting purposes, but the department further assists clients with aspects of Dodd-Frank priority to regularly assemble panels of another year of exciting events for the efforts to support and mentor current HLS the discussion up to on page 3.) Kipnees’ father, Rob Kipnees does not have any supervisory power over compliance and other governmental concerns. attorneys in the office to present different Harvard Law School Association of New students with New Jersey connections questions from the ’80 of Lowenstein Sandler, was among the it. Among the first issues to draw Chen’s TedPrior Wells to ’76joining (r) with Greenberg client LewisTraurig, John viewpoints and some background on a Jersey. In November, we enjoyed the 54th possible. If you haven’t paid your dues yet, floor. For the next more than 50 alumni in attendance. attention while still “staffing up”: “Scooter”represented Libby, New formerJersey’s Thirdchief ofCongressional particular issue, be it the difference Annual Vanderbilt Lecture and the much- please mail them before the end of this staff to Vice President Dick Cheney. A Family Affair: Rob KIPNEES ’80 with son Josh ’09, one of the half hour, alumni New Century, New Advocate eminent domain, voting rights, and the District in the U.S. House of Representatives. He Association’s 2007 Summer Public Interest Fellows. between practice on the state and federal anticipatedAdvocate remarks Chen, ofa formerJustice AssistantJohn E. calendarde-institutionalization year to our treasurer, of people Steven confined Roth, asked the speakers Wellsserved has on represented the House publicCommittee figures on inFinancial a level or the function of the Sentencing DeanWallace, of Rutgers-NewarkJr. ’67 on one of Law the SchoolLaw School’s who atin the mental address institutions. on the form in this newsletter. questions: Has New Jersey entered an age in questions on issues ranging from the hostServices, of other with matters legislative over jurisdiction the past overthree capital Guidelines. Moreover, I was encouraged to wasproudest appointed legacies: to Thethe positionservice ofof so Publicmany of Finally,Jon Shure,please joinPresident me in thankingof the the which the Department of Public Advocate Administrative Procedure Act and the decades.markets, domestic and international monetary sit in on trials at the Federal Courthouse Advocateits alumni by on Governor the U.S. Supreme Jon S. Court.Corzine in Boardprogressive of Trusteesthink tank for New their Jersey enthusiasm, Policy is less relevant? Or, should the Department influence of political pressure groups to policy,Wells housing,will deliverbanking, insurance,a talk titledcredit and next door to our office if I found the topic 2006, Atbegan this theyear’s symposium Vanderbilt, withwe analso willingnessPerspective toand work a long-timeand wonderfully observer creative of “Reflections on U.S. v. Libby: Trying a should be tasked with restoring people’s eminent domain and beach access. various other financial related matters. John led at issue to be of interest. The varied and overviewinaugurated of his a Department new tradition, and a thereview Irwin of ideasstate ongovernment, how to add wasto the the vibrancy evening’s of our Politically Charged Case in the Shadow of reform of Sarbanes-Oxley provisionsst to require intriguing subject matter to which I was hisMarkowitz first year ’52in office.Alumni The Service department, Award. organization.discussant. ShureThe Boardexpanded is alwayson Mr.in the an Unpopular War.” The 51 Vanderbilt exposed afforded me an unparalleled the Securities and Exchange Commission to originallyThe Board founded of inTrustees 1974, was was charged proud by to processChen’s ofhistorical considering overview new eventsof the and Lecture will be held at The Manor in West hands-on experience that simply could not study audit exemption for mid-cap companies. Become a Trustee therecognize Legislature long-time with the trustee task ofand watching stalwart memberdepartment, services noting designed that to enhanceGovernor your Orange on Wednesday, October 24, with be replicated in a classroom. cocktailsHe also at 5:30pmnegotiated and reformdinner atand 7:00pm. resolutions theHLSA-NJ other departments advocate Albert of state L. governmentCohn ’51 of experienceBrendan asByrne, a member. who Wecreated welcome the your The activities of HLSA-NJ are made possible by its volunteer By far the most rewarding moment of Theon cost various will beother $95 fopiecesr alumni of financialadmitted toservices andCohn, bringing Lifland suit against& Pearlman other as members its inaugural of inputdepartment, and participation coined in thisthe process,phrase and my summer was when a defendant with a “government under glass” and described thelegislation. bar before John 2002, served and as a$70 member for alumni of the New trustees. The Association is seeking new volunteers to participate in therecipient. executive After cabinet the whendecades in ofthe Irwin’s public able encourage alumni at all stages of their legal borderline I.Q. was given a sentence at the interest. The department was eliminated in the Public Advocate’s role by reference to admittedJersey Statein 2002 Senate or later. from 1992-2009. He was the governance of the association, to be formally elected as trustees leadership of the Vanderbilt came to an careers to get involved in the Association. bottom of his guideline range, largely on 1994 and re-established in 2005. In re- that phrase. When the department was chairIf you of thehave Judiciary not received Committee, your Vanderbilt responsible for end with his death in 2007, we have been Finally, I would like to thank the Board of at the Vanderbilt Lecture on October 24. Being a trustee is a great the strength of the memo I wrote on his creating it, the Legislature instructed the eliminated in 1994, Shure noted with a invitation,overseeing please advice e-mail and [email protected] consent of all gubernatorial or fortunate to have Steven Roth ’67, assisted Trustees. Heartfelt thanks are also due to the behalf. Although this perhaps represented office to focus on certain constituencies sense of irony, the state created the callnominees (201) 489-3737. as well as shepherding all legislation way to stay involved and network with fellow HLS alumni in all only a minor victory for the defendant, I by his sergeant-at-arms Patty Smith, as our extraordinary efforts of our past presidents, and issues, including asylum and mental Department of the Business Advocate to involving the State Judiciary and constitutional walks of life. The current leadership includes law faculty; public-, felt great pride in knowing that during the primary organizer of the Vanderbilt each who continue to provide sage advice and health advocacy, civil commitment replace it. issues.” John is survived by his wife Shelley who course of my internship this summer, in year. Check out this newsletter for more support long after mere mortals would have private- and nonprofit-sector attorneys; and sitting and retired hearings, rape counseling, and elder How Do You Get People To Care? he met at HarvardINSIDE Law School, and by his sons addition to learning so much, I was able to advocacy.information on this wonderful evening in soughtShure out the askedback bench.the Thankaudience you. to judges. In addition to our annual meeting, the Vanderbilt Lecture, Jeffrey,Rabner Alex, TakesAndrew Theand BenchOliver. help alter a client’s life for the better. WestDuring Orange. his first year, Chen said, he consider why people vote Paulaagainst Tuffin their ’88 the full board of trustees meets approximately 2-3 other times each I thank HLSA-NJ for providing me with has focused on building up the department. economic interest. He hypothesized that Letters from our SPIFs year. For more information, e-mail [email protected]. that opportunity. SomeAs theoffices new have editor been of thebrought newsletter, into theI wanted to point out that it (a) is longer than usual becauseAlumni it covers Updates a longer periodand More than Josh Kipnees ’09 department.usual; (b) Theis in aOffice new format of the which Child attempts See toAdvocate keep all of the, page text 4 of an article together; (c) contains more photos; (d) contains a new social media and multimedia section. Your comments, suggestions, reactions, as well as any news you may have are very Page 2 THE HLSA CONNECTOR welcome. - Ron Brown email: [email protected] 3

Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 century. I am the first of these many others. As you look to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector. 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Remarks of Albert L. Cohn on the Occasion of his Accepting The Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! Irwin Markowitz Alumni Service Award For the first time in three years, we During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words hank you, Geri (Brown), for those very generous remarks. You 1998,T a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary attorneys through the ReLeSe flatter me beyond any measure I deserve. And sincere thanks as well to Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between the officers and trustees of this Harvard Law School Association for member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers selecting me for this award. staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I am thrilled and delighted to receive this award and am most I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects honoredUniversity by it andfour the years spirit inearlier which – it waswas given.heard Irwin fromMarkowitz, half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. for assassinatedwhom the award in St. is named,Petersburg. was a long-timeAt the frienddozen of ofmine us about and of the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the thistime, Association. I wrote Hein theserved weekly the causeHarvard of Harvard Law Lawprofessional School for opportunities many abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme years.School It is Recordonly fitting that future that hehistorians be recognized would in a wayGarden that hisState. name (See will page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents be long-remembered.view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. andWhatever the Baltic modest States success became I have the been first able tothose achieve great at the opportunities Bar come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I is dueSoviet directly republics to the to education declare independence, and training I receivedresponsibility. and the friends As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950The or solate HLS Irwin Markowitzour Cambridge ’52 with panelists his wife inGeri September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are I made at the Harvard Law School. For that I hold that venerable September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 institution in Cambridge in profound respect, deep admiration and turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s great affection. I am, indeed, indebted to Harvard for all that it has three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as muchgiven moneyand for in all the that it ofhas thismeant newsletter to me. Theand time,all ourthe effort,other the Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with.energy This year, and dedicationonly 46 whichmailings I have throughout gladly given the to yearthis Association,– and it is is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their butdues a tokenso far. repayment That ofour that hopeobligation. and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response Itrate is myis makinghope and mycontributions fervent wish thatto theI will law be ableschool to contributein the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both to the Harvard Law School Associationfuture of New as Jerseywe have for manyin past years returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, to come in the thought that my effortsyears. may enable others to reap the following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines rewards and enjoy the successes which AsI was you fortunatelook back, enough thank to researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear receive. the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we Thank you very much. serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. areJohn and Wallace what ’67, we President do as Paulaa Tuffin ’88, and Albert Cohn ’51 Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake Deanturning pointMartha as well. For Minow the to Give 2011 Vanderbilt LectureFitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow will deliver the 2011 Vanderbilt Lecture on November 8. options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first As usual, the Vanderbilt Lecture will be held at The Manor, 111 ProspectMarkowitz Avenue, ’52 ,West andOrange. so The See Summer, page 4 century. I am the first of these program, which is also the Association’s annual meeting, begins with a cocktailsmany others.and d’oeuvres As you reception look to be president of the from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. The dinner will begin at 7:00 p.m. The Lecture isforward, usually askgiven yourself: at the Whatconclusion Association, and my successor of the main course and before dessert and coffee. The evening usually concludesdo you want by 9 thep.m. Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second.A Brief Bio -a “Marthahuge difference Minow, in the what Dean we andcan doJeremiah for you Smith, to Jr. look Professor like in of theLaw, years has taughtto come? at HarvardAnd by members who paid their dues. From our summer public This marks a hopeful moment,Law Schoolof andsince for 1981, the Law where School. her courses have included civilhow procedure, will you beconstitutional part of it? law, family law, our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 interest fellowships and campus programming for students to course. We’ll launch our secondinternational half- criminalI can’t justice, put it jurisprudence,more plainly: lawWe and need education, Ifnonprofit you’ve paid organizations, your dues, come and theout topublic dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures withlaw oneworkshop. your An help.expert And in human we especially rights and need advocacy help for membersour events, of racial or been and active religious on theminorities board, Iand To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a of the brightest starts in the Americanfor women, children,from those and alumnipersons graduatedwith disabilities, after 1970,she also writesthank and you. teaches If youabout haven’t privatization, done thosemilitary check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite legal firmament, New Jersey’s ownjustice, Ted and ethnicwhose and dues religious – if paid conflict. at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reachingBesides herout many to current scholarly students articles withpublished a inthan journals make of law, up history, the andgap philosophy,between herour books include In Brown’s Wake:John Legacies W. Bartlett of America’s ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. Educational Landmark (2010); Government by Contract (co-edited, 2009); Just Schools: Pursuing Equality in Societies of Difference (co-edited, 2008); Breaking the Cycles of Hatred: Memory, Law and Repair (edited by Nancy hisRosenblum alphabet with soup commentary of degrees byhave other joined authors, the 2003);tax and Partners, trusts and Not I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey Rivals:AL UPrivatizationMNI andOn the The Public Move Good (2002); Engaging Cultural Differences: The Multicultural Challenge in Liberal Democracies (co-edited 2002); estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 BetweenState Senate Vengeance Judiciary and Forgiveness: Chairman FacingJohn AdlerHistory ’84 After has Genocidedeclared andhis Mass Violence (1998); Not Only for Myself: Identity, Politics and Law (1997); Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12th) may have some alumni Lawcandidacy Stories for (co-edited Congress 1996); in New Narrative, Jersey’s third Violence Congressional and the Law: district. The Essays of Robert M. Cover (co-edited 1992); and Making All the Difference: company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: Inclusion, Exclusion, and American Law (1990). She is the co-editor of two law school casebooks, Civil Procedure: Doctrine, Practice and Context (3rd. HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a edition 2008) and Women and the Law (4th edition 2007), and a reader, Family Matters: Readings in Family Lives and the Law (1993). Address: contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: She servedth on the Independent International Commission Kosovo and helped to launch Imagine Co-existence, a program of the U.N. High Commissionerfrom the 50 annual for Refugees, Vanderbilt to Lecture. promote Those peaceful images developmentwere provided by in post-conflict societies. Her five-year partnership with the federal Department of Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector. Education and the Center for Applied Special Technology worked to increase access to the curriculum for students with disabilities and resulted in both legislative initiatives and a voluntary national standard opening access to curricular materials for individuals with disabilities. She currently works on the Divided Cities initiative which is building an alliance of global cities dealing with ethnic, religious or political divisions. Page 2 THE HLSA CONNECTOR Page 3

Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Photos from The 2010 VanderbiltCongratulations, Lecture Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we & Association Annual Meeting During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing as the end of the 20th century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary of projects,Paula Tuffin(far learning aboutleft), the Mrs. Barbarathe decision’sRob effect Kipnees on school ’80; Hon. Stephen Skillman, Associate Justice Roberto A. Rivera-Soto beginning of the 21st. alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his waysWallace in which (Center), NJISJ Bobcombines Fall assignment JAD;programs Hon. Barry that Albin NJ Sup. Ct.; Hon. and Hon. Deanne M. Wilson, PJ Ch Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider raceJack and Sabatino, proposing JAD. September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offendersHon. Peter in municipalBuschbaum hiring ’71 and Fredboth Kessler state and federal law. Damon JohnKing Bartlett’09 ’01,Over Robert the C. courseHolmes ’70of my species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ providesPhillip Markowitznumerous ’97, Hervé Gouraige ’77 internship, I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 century. I am the first of these many others. As you look to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To Johnbecome Bartlett an active (left) member and Jerryof the Fitzgerald Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fillRonald out the Brown form ’71, below John and Wallace return ’67, it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be checkEnglish payable (Center) to “Harvard Law School AssociationJoan of RoseN.J.” andto Jeffrey Arthur Kantowitz, Rose ’56 Esq., Goldberg GeraldineMufson & ReedSpar, Brown 200 Executive ’71 Drive, Suite Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector. Edna Baugh (left), Andrew Turner (center) On the right, Xiaolin Zhou LLM ’82, Hon. Deanne M. Wilson, Presiding Judge, SJD ’90 Chancery Division and Hon. Jack Sabbatino Page 2 THE HLSA CONNECTOR Page 3

Wallace ’67 Delivers 2010 Vanderbilt Lecture: Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! 19th and Early 20th CenturyFor Justices the first time in fromthree years, we During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor Harvarddiscussion Lawin School on thefully payUnited for itself, thanks States to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. 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We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 years. If a governor decides to keep the “Oliver earned the nickname ’Leany’ for restraint, he became something of a darling of turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s justice on after that term has expired, the his slender frame. Like his father, Dr. Oliver the Progressives and civil libertarians, most three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest Wendell Holmes, Sr., Oliver, Jr. attended notably for his contention that government reappointmentschool and isfive good days until after the I justice started turns my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. 2 Harvard College where he was elected class poet. should not abridge the right to free speech in 70, firstand mustjob as retire”. a lawyer. When There Justice are Wallace’sa host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair After graduating in 1861, rather than 6 firstother term places expired to drawin 2010, the line,Governor of course, Chris alumni have paid their dues so far. 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For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin sitting judges, but I believe that others are far “Holmes decided to study law at Harvard. 91, he was the oldest Supreme Court Justice municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, In his third term, having exhausted the school’s in American history. He died three years later. options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and betterwere suited graduated to address from that the topic.” law the late Irwin offering, he did not bother to finish his courses. In the end, Justice Holmes, who declared that former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the Justicetwenty-first Wallace’s lecture Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 At that time, graduating from law school was century. 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If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a to legalthese firmament,five: Oliver New Wendell Jersey’s Holmes,own Ted Jr.; whose dues – ifLaw’ paid for at which the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite LouisWells Brandeis; ’76. ( SeeFelix page Frankfurter; 1.) And William we’re classes of the 1950she received and ’60s a – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni J. reachingBrennan, outJr.; to andcurrent Harry students Blackmun. with a feethan of $3,000make forup the the two gapyear between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. Justice Wallace observed that at the time assignment and supplemented Louis Brandeis ofA hisL Uremarks,MN HarvardI On TheLaw MoveSchool had his income by lecturing hisat alphabet soup of degrees “Brandeis have joined was bornthe Novembertax and trusts 13, 1856, and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey the highest number of persons who had Harvard Law School.” estates practice at Riker Danzigin Louisville, in Morristown. Kentucky. He spent part of his in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman4 John Adler ’84 has declared his attended or graduated from HLS and who “In 1882, Holmes accepted a full time formative years inth Germany where he mastered candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni have served or are serving on the Court, teaching position at Harvardcompany Law next School. spring, if severalRepublican languages Jay Webberas well as ’00physics, wins chemistry, his race Name: Class: However, the Harvard administration did thand mathematics. He returned to the States in followedHLSA-NJ by secretary persons whoStephen have F.served Herbes or who ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26 District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: are serving on the Court who had attended not think well of him becausecontested in primary his first in June.1875 and, although he did not have a college or CORRECTION:graduated from TheYale spring Law issueSchool. failed5 to include photoyear, credits he forabandoned images academic life to accept degree, he enrolled at Harvard Law School Telephone: E-Mail: th from the 50 annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images werean appointment provided by as an Associate Justice of the at the age of 18. Oh, the things you could do Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] In italics, are selected highlights from Justice Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, in those days. After two outstanding years at Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector. Wallace’s remarks. where he became Chief Justice in 1889.” Harvard, Brandeis deemed himself fit to enter private practice and took the bar.” Page 2 THE HLSA CONNECTOR Page 3

“In 1907. Brandeis appeared before formally apologized to Brandeis. The two men a snob. Moreover, he was not shy about theOur United States2007 Supreme CourtPublic to defend thenInterest shook hands and went their separate expressing his distaste for them. For example, Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we an Oregon law that limited the work day for ways.” he accused Chief Justice Fred During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to womenFellows to ten hours. HeIn supported Their his case withOwn Words“The brilliant Brandeis spent as little Vinson of being an intellectual a brief containing two pages of legal precedent, time as necessary in his Supreme Court office, lightweight. 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On the eve of one important staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. born,Association which ofchanged New Jerseythe way for manyfor issues Justice. from his chair during a I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 wouldproviding be presented funding to for the my Supreme first- Court.” I also workedcase, Brandeis on projects was criticized for having taken conference and nearly punched University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two “In January touching1916, timeon off.racial He counteredand by saying, ‘I need the Frankfurter in the nose. HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to thePresident generosity Woodrowof the economicWilson inequality.rest. 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This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair campaign against him. Leading the charge United States at the age of twelve and grew up other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public was ex-president, and future chief justice, on New York’s Lower East Side. In his younger and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the William Howard Taft , who days, Frankfurter was a gambler who loved to draw these lines. 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Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you government. Those reformers called themselves Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’veWhy readsuch aboutstrong it inopposition? the Connector Anti-, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’tIn 1949, existwhen without the Republican the support governor of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? Semitismby members may havewho playedpaid theira part. dues. Brandeis, From our‘Happy summer Hot Dogs’public in Frankfurter’sour dues-paying honor. members.offered If you him haven’t a Superior paid your Court 2007-2008 judgeship, course. 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If you haven’t done those oppositionTo become to thean confirmationactive member of ofMr. the Brandeis Harvard LawAlthough School Frankfurter Association voted of New to Jersey,uphold simply the fillappointed out the formto the below New andJersey return Supreme it wi Court.th a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be arecheck that, payable he is considered to “Harvard a radical Law andSchool is a Jew.’AssociationNew of DealN.J.” issues,to Jeffrey in Kantowitz,most other Esq.,legal Goldberg areas, MufsonBrennan & wouldSpar, 200not Executivecomplete a Drive, full seven Suite year Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355,“During West Orange, his twenty-three NJ 07052. Oryears include on the your separatehis views du esmoved check withto the your more RSVP conservative to the Vanderbilt lecture. Duesterm are on $75 our forSupreme alumni Court. As reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 Court,admitted Brandeis to the earned bar for the over respect, 5 years if not as ofthe July 1,side. 2007, For and example, $50 for in alumni the Minersville admitted School for less 5 five years and thoseluck would in the have pub it,lic in sector. 1956 he affection—of many of his detractors….Although District case, Frankfurter wrote the majority replaced the ailing New Jersey his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and William TaftI enclose had opposedmy check Brandeis for onthe the 2007-2008 decision upholdingdues to tha e PennsylvaniaHarvard Law school School AssociationSupreme of New Court Jersey Chief Justice ALUMNI On The Move board’s requirement that all students recite the estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. Court, Taftin thewould amount surface ofagain in Brandeis’ $75.00 $ 50.00 Vanderbilt at a Washington State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his life when in 1921, Taft was nominated as Pledge of Allegiance, even if doing so violated D.C. legal conference, where Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12th) may have some alumni candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Chief Justice. Brandeis could not believe it. their religious beliefs. Frankfurter’s declaration he delivered an inspirational address on company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: th He later described Taft as resembling a ‘good- that ‘National unity is the basis for national administration of the Court system. President HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26 District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: security’ dismayed his ACLU cohorts. …Three contested primary in June. natured’ liquor salesman, who possessed ‘a first- Eisenhower’s attorney general CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images rate second-rateTelephone: mind’….” yearsE-Mail: later, when the Court addressed the same was in the audience, and was from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by issue and overturned the Minersville decision, Have news? E-mail [email protected] “For this part, Taft came to regret his public quite impressed by Brennan’s Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. opposition Dateto Brandeis’of Admission nomination. to the Bar:One Frankfurter was the lone dissenter.” I am employed in the publicspeech. sector. 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Wallace continued from previous page Our 2007 Public Interest SupremeLe Court,tte rthe FAttorneyrom General, Th recallinge P resident spending“At first and ourBlackmun income thisvoted year. with Burger Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! 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Wade, it is reported that Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – This year, we contributed $3,400 votes, you can do anything around here.” John Bartlett ’01, Chief Justice Burger joined the providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and “Brennan’s best friend on the Court was Harry BlackmunHLSA-NJ majority to keep the opinion year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See economic inequality. In the Chief Justice Earl Warren. “Blackmun was born November 12, away from Justice Douglas, Thanks to the generosity of the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, wake of the U.S. Supreme The two shared a passion for 1908. He met and grew up in Minnesota who would otherwise have Association’s dues-paying School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them Court’s decision in Parents baseball. In fact, shortly after he with Warren Burger, who would later become been the senior justice in the members, I served as a legal view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, Involved in Community Schools v. was sworn in on October 1956, Chief Justice of the Court. Blackmun attended majority. Burger feared that Douglas would intern for the New Jersey and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Brennan and Warren spent Harvard University on a scholarship, and write a broad, sweeping opinion. To prevent Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing the afternoonth in the conference continued on to Harvard Law School. In that, Burger joined the majority and retained Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st roombeginning watching of the the 1956 21 .World Series between 1933,alumni Blackmun paid dues served to as the best Association,man at Warren a theOur privilege spending to assign on the food opinion. for He Board asked his ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his the BrooklynToday, Dodgerswe might and theinstead New markYork Burger’sresponse wedding.” rate that — while in one sense oldmeetings, Minnesota at less chum than Harry $400 Blackmun for the toyear write legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are Yankees.September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming“Years — later,still President permitted Eisenhower the theto date,opinion. is modest. As a friend We madeof mine no on gift our to New and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turningUnfortunately, point. ThatBrennan’s fateful relationshipday came Association to appointedprovide programming, Blackmun to make the Jerseythe Law Court School says, this ‘be carefulyear. Still, what they you have ask for.’ assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s withthree Justice months Frankfurter after wasI completedquite different. law a substantial giftUnited to Statesthe Law Court School, of Appeals, and Well,provided Blackmun us the respondedprinting and to his distribution assignment by communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest Frankfurterschool and had five been days one after of Brennan’s I started lawmy end the year withwhere as he much carved moneyout a relatively in the travelingof this tonewsletter the Mayo andClinic all library, our whereother he Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. professorsfirst job at as Harvard,a lawyer. Thereand of are course, a host theof bank as we startedconservative with. This record. year, That only record 46 foundmailings ‘privacy throughout rights’ thoughtthe year to – be and ‘oozing it is out Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair professorother wouldplaces neverto draw concede the line,to the of younger- course, alumni have paidcaught their the dues eye soof far.President That ofour the hope Constitution.’ and aim In tofact, make Blackmun generous viewed effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public formerand student.”our human nature compels us to two-thirds dropNixon in response in 1970, rate when is making he was thecontributions Roe decision to as the his lawbig chanceschool toin separate the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw“Brennan these lines.used hisLooking nose for both votes and his looking for a successor to replace himself from futurehis Minnesota as we twin,have inChief past Justice returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School years. considerablebackward schmoozingand skillsforward, to wrangle the Abe Fortas. In fact, Blackmun Burger, and to establish his own judicial legacy. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank necessary majorities for some of the Court’s was number three on Nixon’s He succeeded, but at considerable personal researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- most progressive decisions. Even up to the end list, but after expense to himself because he and Burger across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert of his tenure on the Court, when a stroke at Nixon’s first would never be close friends again.” discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David the age of 84 forced him to retire in July 1990, two nominees “Blackmun was a plainspoken eccentric offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. Crabtree ’52, David NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the Brennan was still cobbling together majorities went down in flames, the man, who ate the same breakfast every day and prepared written materials The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake to his viewpoint.” newly appointed Chief Justice for decades—one egg, toast, and coffee—and for presentations to New Jersey turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law In June 2010, a statue of Warren Burger interceded drove the same blue Volkswagen Beetle he had first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and Justice Brennan was dedicated on behalf of his childhood first driven to Washington, D.C. in 1970. were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in nextthe totwenty-first the Essex County friend and recommended Blackmun. Nixon Blackmun diedMarkowitz in March ’521999., Atand his funeralso See Summer, page 4 century. I amCourthouse the first of in these Newark, New followed that recommendation and appointed procession, hismany ashes wereothers. carried As youto Arlington look to be presidentJersey. of the Blackmun to the Court in June 1970.” National Cemeteryforward, in anask urn yourself: on the frontWhat seat Association, and my successor of his blue Volkswagendo you want Beetle, the the Association only blue bug We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you into alook long likeline ofin dark the limos.”years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. 1 Thecourse. photos We’ll in this launchpresentation our as secondwell as thehalf- footnotes wereI can’tprovided put by it HLSANJmore plainly: Board memberWe need Ron Brown. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I 2 The New York Times, May 3, 2010. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/nyregion/04christie.html?_r=1 of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a 3 Id.legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite 4 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_law_schools_by_United_States_Supreme_Court_Justices_trained)Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more partAnthony of this Kennedy; great endeavor. Antonin Scalia; David 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni Hackettreaching Souter; out Edward to current Terry studentsSanford; Elenawith Kagan;a Felixthan Frankfurter; make up Harold the Hitzgap Burton; between Harry our Blackmun; John Roberts - Chief Justice;John W. Lewis Bartlett Franklin ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. Powell, Jr.; Louis Brandeis; Melville Fuller - did not graduate; Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.; Ruth Bader Ginsburg — graduated from Columbia Law School; Stephen Breyer; William Henry Moody - did not graduate; William J. Brennan, Jr.. his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and 5 A (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_law_schools_by_United_States_Supreme_Court_Justices_trained)LUMNI On The Move Abe Fortas; Byron White; Clarence Thomas; I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 StateDavid SenateDavis; GeorgeJudiciary Shiras, Chairman Jr.; Henry John Baldwin; Adler Potter ’84 Stewart;has declared Samuel his Alito; Sonia Sotomayor; William Strong. 6 Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12th) may have some alumni candidacySchenck v. United for Congress States http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/comm/free_speech/schenck.html in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. (“We admit that, in many places and in ordinary times, Name: Class: the defendants, in saying all that was said in the circular, would have been within theircompany constitutional next spring, rights. ifBut Republican the character Jay of everyWebber act depends ’00 wins upon his the race HLSA-NJcircumstances secretary in which Stephen it is done. F. Aikens Herbes v. Wisconsin, ’01, CPA, 195 J.D., U.S. LL.M.,194, 205, and 206. Thefor most Assembly stringent in protection the 26th ofDistrict. free speech Webber, would ofnot Morrisprotect Plains,a man in wonfalsely a Address: shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic. It does not even protect a man from contestedan injunction primary against in uttering June. words that may have all the effect of force. GompersCORRECTION: v. Bucks Stove The &spring Range issue Co. failed, 221 to U.S. include 418, photo439. The credits question for images in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evilsHave that Congressnews? hasE-mail a right [email protected] to prevent. It is a question of proximity andKeith degree.”) Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector.

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Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. ALUMNI - In The News/On The MoveCongratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we Fellows In Their Own Words During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to After 13 years as Assemblyman John Bartlett ’01 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ,a United States attorneys throughand New the Jersey ReLeSe was elected chairman of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thankDistrict the Judge, thenetwork, a partnershipRepublican betweenparty of the board of the member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law HonorableSchool JosephNJISJ and chairmanVolunteer Jay Lawyers Friends of Passaic staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. for Justice. Association of New JerseyA. Greenaway for Jr. Webber ’00 was County Parks, a I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – This year, we contributed $3,400 I also worked on projects John Bartlett ’01, providing funding for’81 my wasfirst- unanimously named to Time foundation created University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship.confirmed by the U.S. to raise funds to assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See economic inequality.magazine’s listIn the Thanks to the generositySenate of the to a seat on of “40 Under support the public time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme the Third Circuit 40” civic park system of School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents Court of Appeals. leaders, and was Passaic County. view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle Schoola Republican District #1 member, I of the New Jersey Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a legislativememo discussingredistricting commission. th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school The Honorable st beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board Afterways ineight which years NJISJ of combines assignment programs that Chief Justice StuartDavid J. Rabner Landau ’85 ’53 is sworn in by his Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year servicelegal advocacy, as a Judge ofpolicy the analysis, consider raceHLSA-NJ and proposing Trustees Nicole predecessor,Bearce Albano James R.retired Zazzal fromi, thein July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to Appellateand direct Division, service programs to policy options’97 still and available John Bartlett to ’01 Governor Jon S. CorzineAppellate and Rabner’sDivision wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have theassist Honorable New Jersey's urban school districtswere namedcommitted to to years of age, Rabner –and a former returned federal to prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution Harveycommunities. Weissbard equal educationalthe New opportunity. Jersey Chief Counsel, and stateHellring Attorney Lindeman General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other ’63 joinedThrough the NJISJ’s Second I researchedLaw various Journal’s legal issues Chief Justice in the modernGoldstein history & Siegal of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is ComplexChance CommercialCampaign, a policy affecting New“Forty Jersey’s Under 40”Fair LLP, where he will our hope and aim to make generous other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That Litigationeffort to Groupimprove the reentry Housing Actlist and of thepromising Mt. Laurel underserved populations.provide I am serviceshonored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the atprospects Genova, Burns of individuals doctrine, youngparticularly attorneys. with grateful to the membersin alternative of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past &returning Gianotmasi to their in communities respect Nicoleto wasregional also HLSA-NJ for enabling disputeme to resolutionHarvard and case Law School backward and forward, years. Newark.following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experienceconsultation that Associationand be available of New to serve Jersey. as aThis walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank named among researched the efforts of cities which have NJBIZbeen the magazine’s subject of will fundamentally shapespecial my master. award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s across the country to reduce “Forty Under 40” and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. discrimination against Johnex- J. Gibbons for 2010. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my ’50, founder of U.S. Attorney species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the Gibbons PC Paul Fishman ’82 The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake and former was appointed in turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connectChief Judgeknowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, bothOctober within 2009 and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bonoof the Unitedunderrepresented and sincere appreciation for being to the Attorney school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so States Court of See Summer,General’s page 4 century. I am the first of these many others. As you look Appeals for the Advisory to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Third Circuit Committee, We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Association, and my successor do you want the Association (1970-1990), which was If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And was awarded created by by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? the President’s Award at a gala event on the Justice interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to October 14, 2010 at The Newark Club to Ronald W. Brown ’71, and Department in 1973 to advise our events, or been active on the board, I century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help benefit the city’s Christ the King Preparatory Geraldine Reed Brown ’71, co-authored, the U.S. Attorney General on policy, of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a School. Gibbons serves on the Board of the ”Some Business and Legal Thoughts About management and operational issues. legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite school, and Gibbons PC is one of several Strategic Alliances” an article published Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni Newark law firms that supports the school in the 2011 on-line inaugural edition reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. by employing students in their corporate of the Garden State Bar Association internship program. The innovative corporate his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and Law Journal. In addition, Ron has been ALUMNI On The Move work-studyI programenclose enables my check students for to the 2007-2008selected bydues The toAmerican the Harvard Association Law for School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his finance the majority of their educational Affirmative Action to present a workshop Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12th) may have some alumni candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. costs throughName: their own efforts, while gaining on “Recent Legal Developments: The Class: company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race valuable exposure to the professional world. Genetic Information Non-Discrimination th HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26 District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: Act” at the Association’s Access, Equity contested primary in June. and Diversity Summit, to be held in the CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Atlantic City Convention Center, June 30, Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: 2011. In addition, Geri is now listed I amon the employed in the public sector. Superior Court of New Jersey, Roster of Civil Mediators. Page 2 THE HLSA CONNECTOR Page 3

Vanderbilt Lecture 2009 Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! Eliot Spitzer ’84 Offers RegulatoryFor the Vision first time in three years, we During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had beenFor a mentor Post-Recession discussion in Financial Marketsfully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights Iwhomn October that 2009, make the me Association feel old welcomed former New Yorkrest of Attorney our program General requires and Governoryour help. Eliot Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – This year, we contributed $3,400 Spitzer ’84 to deliver the Vanderbilt LectureJohn at Bartlett The Manor ’01, in West Orange. providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two year summer internship. touching on racial and Spitzer, dubbed the “Sheriff of WallHLSA-NJ Street” by 60 Minutes, offered an unvarnished and sometimes troubling assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvardlook at Lawthe state ofprofessional affairs in theopportunities U.S. financial abloom markets in andthe proposed page principles 3.) The valueto put of Wall their Street experience, back on track Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them Court’s decision in Parents and prevent another great recession. members, I served as a legal view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became theSpitzer first beganthose by explaining great opportunities the dramatic shiftcome in thinkinggreat thatis hadpriceless. resulted fromWe’ll the have financial spent meltdownnearly of Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th 2008: “We’ve gone from an Ayn Rand world, where the free market … did not permit government impose any Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st limits on the private sector, to a Ken Feinberg world where we now have somebody in Washington determining beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Today, we might insteadwhat CEOsmark will getresponse paid.” rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 This “remarkable traverse,” Spitzer said, “suggests to me that our ideology is no longer moored to rational and direct service programs to turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completedthinking, law but wea aresubstantial reacting emotionally,gift to the Lawand School,the faux andlibertarianism provided of Aynus the Rand printing and Allenand distribution Greenspan is communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other matched right now by an angry populism that is itself just as reckless and just as treacherous.” Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous When Should Government Intervene? effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the To “construct something in between,” Spitzer offered reflections actors in the marketplace” – must be addressed in the financial prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School basedbackward upon his anddecades forward,as a de facto regulator of Wall Street. context just as in the environmentalyears. context. He began by proposing “three principled bases for government “‘Systemic risk,’ which is excess debt, is to financial markets following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at intervention in the marketplace:” what CO2 is to global warming,” Spitzer explained. “Individual researched the efforts of cities between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s “If you ask, ‘Should we intervene in a certain way?’, then ask transactions may make sense. The individual debt of any particular across the country to reduce and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. whether government action fits into one of these categories,” he said. transaction in isolation doesn’t look excessive, but when you are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my “If it doesn’t, I’m not convinced we should be doing it. If it does, aggregate the entirety of the debt that is facing the entire economy, species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the that doesn’tThe meanAssociation we should is atdo it,a but at least we have a principled suddenly you realize there’s too muchLandau leverage, ’53, and we areJerry all at for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake basisturning for doing point it.” as First, well. only For governmentthe can set ethical standards risk.” Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law andfirst ensure time, real a majoritycompetition. of officers Because no individual corporateFish decision-maker ’55, Steve Roth will ’67see, or options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and wereSpitzer graduated described from his the experiencelaw prosecuting Wall Street grasp the externality, Spitzer concluded,the “we lateneed a governmentIrwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being analystsschool who in would the mis-describetwenty-first the value of a stock because their entity to see it” and to incorporate itsMarkowitz cost into ’52the, system.and so See Summer, page 4 compensationcentury. I am structure the first causedof these them to encourage buying even Third, Spitzer said, “there aremany certain others. thing Aswe simplyyou look won’t whento notbe warranted president by a ofstock’s the true value. “After we filed the case permit that market itself will not forward,prohibit.” ask Onlyyourself: government What We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you [againstAssociation, Merrill andLynch],” my successor Spitzer said, the company’s lawyers came can enforce these “core values.” Spitzerdo you gave want two the examples:Association the If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of to him.Jason “They Orlando said, ’00 ‘Eliot, will be you the aresecond. correct, but awe’re huge not difference as bad asin what minimumwe can do forwage you and discrimination.to look like in the years to come? And by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 our competitors.’This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. With respect to discrimination,how will you be Spitzer part of confrontedit? head-on If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. course. “What We’ll they werelaunch really our saying second is, ‘Wehalf- will not sacrificeI can’t putmarket it more plainly:the notion We that need there is a market solution. “Free marketers,” he said, century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I share even though we know that we are violating ethical principles “argue against statutes that prohibit discrimination by saying, ‘It of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a that are critical to the integrity of the marketplace. We know what is inefficient to discriminate.’” “That theory is wonderful, but it is legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite our analysts are doing is wrong, but because everybody is doing it, completely ahistorical,” Spitzer said. “There are certain prejudices Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni we can’treaching not doout it.’” to current students with a than make up the gapthat between are so socially our ingrained that the marketJohn cannot W. Bartlett overwhelm ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. The inevitable conclusion, Spitzer argued, is that “self- them. That is why we did not begin to confront discrimination in regulation of something that is central to the business model” will histhis alphabet country soup in a meaningfulof degrees haveway untiljoined we the passed tax civiland rightstrusts lawsand notA LoccurU Min theN Iabsence On The of government Move intervention to compel with remedies that we as lawyers can enforce.” I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 ethicalState Senatebehavior. Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his Without minimum wage and anti-discrimination statutes, Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12th) may have some alumni candidacyIn the forsame Congress way, he in added, New Jersey’s only government third Congressional can ensure district. real Spitzer concluded, “there simply was no way to overcome and Name: Class: competition: “We all want to be monopolists, and I think you companyvindicate next these spring, core values.” if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a misunderstand human nature if you think otherwise. Vanderbilt Lecture continued on next page Address: “We know we perform better when there’s competition,” contested primary in June. 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Vanderbilt Lecture continued from previous page Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. The Current Crisis CorporateCongratulations, Governance Reform Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we Spitzer went on to discuss the current crisis, lamenting that “we Spitzer also opined that “we have not focused enough on” reforms During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to areFellows failing” to address In the crisisTheir because “we Own are doing Wordswhat is easy and to corporate governance. He explained: “Whatever metaphor you use, you have the corporate officials, the facilitators (lawyers, accountants), 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary obvious,Dear Members but we’re of doingHLSA-NJ, nothing more.”attorneys through the ReLeSe and you have shareholders. If any one of these links fails, probably you of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees IFirst, would he like said, to Presidentthank the Bush’snetwork, Treasury a partnership Secretary, between Henry member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Paulsen,Harvard had mis-handledLaw School the bailout NJISJof major and banks, Volunteer structuring Lawyers the can survive. But when all fail simultaneously, you have a problem. staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. government’sAssociation ofasset New purchases Jersey infor ways thatfor “notJustice. in a million years would “Over the past several years, every one of those links failed. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 Warrenproviding Buffett funding do.” for my first- I also worked on projects CEOs became overwhelmed with their power, boards became entirely University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two With respect to Wall Street reform,touching Spitzer added,on racial “‘too bigand to passive, lawyers and accountants decided to do what they were being HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See fail’Thanks is the to root the of generosity the problem, of the and nothingeconomic is being inequality. done about In it. theWe paid to do instead of ‘pushing back’ as it is our obligation to do, and time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, areAssociation’s not redefining dues-payingwhat banking is supposedwake ofto be.the “Banking U.S. Supremeshould be passive institutional shareholders stopped intervening at all.” School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them boring.members, … Capital I served that isas guaranteed a legal [byCourt’s the federal decision government] in Parentsshould Institutional investors like mutual funds, Spitzer noted, “derive view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, notintern be used for for the proprietary New Jersey trading or Involvedprivate equityin Community investments. Schools v. their fees from the quantum of assets under management” which is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great InstituteThat for is Socialnot the Justice purpose in for Seattlewhich Schoolwe provide District the #1 federal, I in turn “derives to a certain extent from whether or not they are Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing designated by management of companies to be recipients of 401(k) guarantee. The federal guarantee is designed to ensure the flow of Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20th century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. capitalof projects, into sectors learning that about actually the create thejobs, decision’s mortgages, effect and respondon school to funds.” beginning of the 21st. alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his otherways businessin which needs.” NJISJ combines assignment programs that As a result, “mutual funds will almost never vote adverse to Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are legalSpitzer advocacy, also policycriticized analysis, the “regulatory charade,” where after each management because they don’t want management to strike them off September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 crisis,and directregulators service come programs to Washington to asking for more authority. the 401(k) list, because then they lose their revenue stream.” Spitzer turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s assist“The New dirty Jersey'slittle secret,” urban Spitzer said, is that “none of them needs concluded by returning to his opening metaphor of Ayn Rand and three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest additional power, they just need the will to use the power they already Ken Feinberg. school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. have. They were failed regulators.” “I don’t want Ken Feinberg deciding what CEOs get paid. That first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair doesn’t work any better than Alan Greenspan’s view of libertarianism other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effortSpitzer to improve noted that the whenreentry he was HousingAttorney Act General and the ,many Mt. ofLaurel the underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public where you have absolutely no government intervention,” he said. and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the federalprospects regulators of nowindividuals asking for moredoctrine, power “foughtparticularly us when with we grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past tried”returning to enforce to their existing communities laws. respect to regional “WhatHLSA-NJ we forneed enabling is to make me the to capitalistHarvard system work,Law which School means backward and forward, years. followingTalking aboutincarceration, additional regulatoryI contribution powers, Spitzer said,agreements, “distracts competition,have a summer making experience the supplythat andAssociation demand ofcurves New Jersey.intersect This at walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank usresearched from the the two efforts questions of cities we shouldwhich focus have on: been What the subjectwere the of thewill rightfundamentally place when shape there myare externalities,award enabled which me means to work getting at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- malefactionsacross the incountry the boardroom? to reduce And whatvigorous were policythe malefactions debates and in the shareholderslegal career. to stand up and do whatthe they Federal need to Publicdo to be Defender’s heard. and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert regulatorydiscrimination system? Whyagainst didn’t ex- they usetarget the power of legal they challenges already had?” under Sincerely,“One way or another, we need toOffice figure in outNewark how tothis reinvigorate summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offendersSpitzer in was municipal pessimistic hiring with respectboth to state current and effortsfederal law.at reform. corporate governance,Damon because King ’09 if we don’t,Over we thewon’t courseget the leadershipof my species. Crabtree ’52, David Heand said prepared he has concludedwritten materials “that we are rebuildingNJISJ providesthe same edifice,numerous and we need to rebuild our economy.” internship, I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry somefor presentations number of years to Newfrom Jersey now we willexamples face the sameof wayssort ofin cataclysm which chance to witness and partake Fitzgerald English, Marvin turning point as well. For the we’remunicipalities seeing now, on except policy next reform time we mayattorneys not be ablecan to commitgo to the Asiantheir Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, marketsoptions. to I fund also ourhelped debt, connect so I worry thatknowledge the next timeand will skills be worse.” to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 century. I am the first of these many others. As you look SOCIAL MEDIA & MULTIMEDIA to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you If you’ve read aboutHLS it has in severalthe Connector multimedia, it was videos made on possibletopics that mayand be allof interestour members, to members it wouldn’t of the Association. exist without the support of Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And Below are four of those topics. Just copy the hyperlink into a web browser to view the video. This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 interest fellowships and campus programming for students to course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to An Interview With Dean Martha Minnow dues yet,‘Is theplease Obama contribute Health todayCare Reformby using Constitutional?’ the form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I “Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow recently appeared on A debate at HLS. “In an event co-sponsored by the HLS Federalist thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, WTTW’s ‘Chicago Tonight,’ discussing her experience working as Society and the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite a clerk for Justice Thurgood Marshall, her first impression of former Biotechnology, and Bioethics, HLS Professors Charles Fried, Laurence Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni student and mentee, President Barack Obama, and the lasting impact of Tribe ’66, and Georgetown University Law Center Professor Randy reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Barnett ’77—a former student of both Fried and Tribe—debated the In her most recent book, “In Brown’s Wake: Legacies of America’s constitutionality of the individual mandate portion of the Affordable his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and On The Move I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the CareHarvard Act (ACA) Law School Association of New Jersey ALUMNI estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. Educational Landmark,” Minow examines the effect of the decision in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 http://www.youtube.com/harvardlawschool#pau/1/4ZvaSrztrY8 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his on issues of racial equality, as well as issues facing religious minorities, Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12th) may have some alumni ” candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. women, children,Name: and persons with disabilities. Class: company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race http://www.wttw.com/maintaf ?p=42,8,80,32&pid=bNRf6UoN “Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley and Connecticut th HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26 District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a UeJsbFh96XQKES9WvFNWbcuAddress: Attorney General George Jepsen ’80 sat down with Harvard Law contested primary in June. School students to discuss challenges they face in office.” CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by At Harvard Law School, Ellsberg draws parallels between http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2011/04/01_coakley-jepsen- Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] PentagonDate Papers of and Admission WikiLeaks to the Bar: challenges-facing-attorneys-gen.html I am employed in the public sector. http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2011/03/pentagon-papers_ wikileaks.html Page 2 THE HLSA CONNECTOR Page 3

Our 2007 Public Interest PublicLetter InterestFrom T hFellowse Pres i2011dent spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we TDuringhis summer, my first the yearAssociation of law willschool be providing in September financial supportpanel to two Harvard Law School Publicexpect Interest this year’s Fellows. Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words The1998, Fellows a woman are whoDorothy had Ruolanbeen a mentorDu and Joel Edman,discussion candidates forin the J.D. in 2013. fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have Dorothy Ruolan Du Joel Edman assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest Dorothyschool isand working five daysin Trenton after Iin startedthe Office my of theend Attorney the year General. with as muchJoel money is working in the in Newarkof this with newsletter The Institute and for all Social our Justice.other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David http://www.state.nj.us/lps/ offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the Dorothy’s activities at HLS include Journal of Law & Technology, http://njisj.org/ The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake Subciter,turning Digestpoint as Submissions well. For the Editor; Harvard Asia Law Society, Joel’s activities at HLS include HarvardFitzgerald Law and English Policy, MarvinReview; municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law Asiafirst Business time, a majority Conference of officers 2011 Marketing Director I; and Asian Prison Legal Assistance Project; andFish Tenant ’55, AdvocacySteve Roth Project. ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and Pacificwere graduated American fromLaw Studentsthe law Association. Fluent in Mandarin Fluent in Spanish, Joel graduated summathe cum laudelate from ArizonaIrwin underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being former inmates with pro bono See Summer, page 4 Chineseschool andin proficientthe twenty-first in Spanish, Dorothy graduated Phi Beta State University with a B.S. in PoliticalMarkowitz Science, ’52a B.A., inand History, so century. I am the first of these many others. As you look Kappa from Cornell University with a B.A. in Biology and Society, and a Certificate in Philosophy, Politics, and Law. to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What withAssociation, Minors in and East my Asian successor Studies and in Law and Society. do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I of the brightest starts in the AmericanBECOME from those A alumni HLSA-NJ graduated after TRUSTEE 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. The activities of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey are made possible by its volunteer On The Movetrustees. The Association is seeking newhis alphabetvolunteers soup to participate of degrees in havethe governancejoined the oftax the and association, trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey ALUMNI estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. to be formally elected as trustees at our annual meeting on the same evening as the Vanderbilt Lecture in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’sthis third Fall. CongressionalBeing a Trustee district. is a great wayAssemblyman to stay involved Mike and networkPanter with’95 fellow(D-12 HLS) may alumni have insome all walks alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbesof life. ’01 The, CPA, current J.D., leadershipLL.M., and includes for law Assembly faculty; inpublic, the 26 privateth District. ,and Webber,nonprofit-sector of Morris attorneys; Plains, won and a Address: sitting and retired judges from all acrosscontested New Jersey. primary In additionin June. to our annual meeting, the Vanderbilt CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Lecture,Those images the werefull Boardprovided of by Trustees meets approximately 2-3 other times each year. For more information, Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] e-mail Albert Cohn at [email protected]. Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector.

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SpringOur 2007 Event 2010Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we A group of Harvard Law alumni Law Firm to working in human resources for a hours a week making rich people richer wasn’t During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to gatheredFellows in June to Inhear aboutTheir an unusual Own major Words retailer, “I was totally not introspective.” necessarily living my core values.” After an 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary topicDear for Members lawyers: of leaving HLSA-NJ, the law. Four attorneysalumni through “I’ve the come ReLeSe to where I am through lots unsuccessful run for mayor of his hometown, of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees fromI variouswould likewalks to ofthank life thedescribed network, their a partnershipof things that between were not in my control, by Aronovich “sat down and did some soul- member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the ownHarvard paths from Law big-firm School lawyers toNJISJ careers and takingVolunteer advantage Lawyers of misfortune and making searching, thought about what I liked. staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. inAssociation real estate, ofwriting New andJersey consulting, for forcollege Justice. it into good fortune,” he added. After making “When I was in law school, I paid about I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 admissionsproviding coaching,funding for and my the first- clergy. I also workedpartner aton a projectsmajor employment law firm, the half my tuition by teaching LSAT classes University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year“We’ve summer all heard internship. stories of ‘recovering firm fell on hard times due to the departure 30 to 60 hours per week. I loved teaching, I assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See lawyers,’”Thanks tosaid the moderator generosity John of the Bartlett economic ’01 as inequality.of a key rainmaker, In the and transferred Miller was always unnaturally good at standardized time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, heAssociation’s introduced the panel.dues-paying “And in the currentwake of the“to Chicago…U.S. Supreme in January.” Six weeks later, he tests, and was interested in business and School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them economy,members, traditional I served lawyerlyas a legal positions Court’s may decisionreturned into theParents east coast and made the jump entrepreneurship. So by combining that, by view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, notintern be availablefor the to allNew alumni. Jersey For thoseInvolved who in Communityto the labor Schools relations v. department of a former starting a company that does SAT coaching, and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly doInstitute leave the for law, Social how should Justice it bein done?Seattle What Schoolclient. District Over the#1, fifteen I years that followed, he LSAT coaching, and college admissions Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th are the promises and where are the pitfalls of moved through the human resources offices coaching, I could help and mentor and teachLinda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st going from lawyers to something else?’ of three other major national companies, but not be confined to the same class 180 days beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his waysPanelists in which began NJISJ by combines describing what led shepherding each through tough economic per year,” he said. Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are themlegal awayadvocacy, from thepolicy law. analysis, times and even bankruptcy. September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 Despite having recently become a partner Miller now writes a column for the Star Get Ready… turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a formerLeaving federal the prosecutor, law involves Governor’s many at a premier New York Intellectual Property Ledger, trains and coaches business executives, three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and stateconsiderations, Attorney notGeneral least of– whichis the relateyoungest to the end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other teaches business at Seton Hall University, school and five days after I started my Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modernpersonal history and emotional of the state’s experiences high Court. that come first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is consults with business and a social media Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair from the change. other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous company. He also co-authored a book with effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I amA transitionhonored like with this, a Summerno matter Public how and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the his daughter Jessica Miller, a media and prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the membersmuch of you feelInterest you’re Fellowshipfollowing yourby bliss,the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past respect communicationsto regional specialist: A Woman’s returning to their communities HLSA-NJ for enabling there’sme to loss involved.Harvard Loss Lawof colleagues, School loss backward and forward, years. contributionGuide agreements, to Successful Negotiating:have a summer How experienceTo that Association of New Jersey. This following incarceration, I of status,” said Uhrbach. “My ego took a hit, walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have Convince,been the subject Collaborate of &will Create fundamentally Your Way shape my award enabled me to work at from going to a partner at a law firm with a between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policyto Agreement. debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s secretary and a mailroom to a pre-rabbinic and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challengesSotheby’s underGuy ’90 (a pseudonym)Sincerely, also Office in Newark this summer. year. It was hard.” are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipal hiring both state andmoved federal from law. law firm practice to a positionDamon King ’09 Over the course of my Uhrbach credited her strong personal species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provideswith a client, numerous Sotheby’s International Realty. internship, I was given the Landau ’53, Jerry network for helping her deal with the The Association is at a for presentations to New Jersey examples ofAt waysthe time, in hewhich explained, the realty business chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin transition. Aronovich offered two pieces of municipalities on policy reform attorneys canwas a commitsmall corner their of the Sotheby’sDear HLSA-NJ, empire, and in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, advice for attorneys thinking of leaving the options. I also helped connect knowledge inand that skills relative to obscurity, aid “the ICEO, would the like CFO to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin underrepresented and sincere appreciation forlaw. being First, “start out by relaxing whatever boutique,former inmates now-Rabbi with Jan pro Uhrbach bono ’88, said and I were the team that grew the company … See Summer, page 4 school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so assumptions you may have. I assumed I’d she had come to realize that the practice of from 4 offices to 50, from $10 million to $400 century. I am the first of these many others. As you look stay in Chicago forever. Once I relaxed that, law “wasn’t consonant with the values I held. million in sales.” to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What it opened up coming back to New Jersey. I TooWe much Can’t of who I was Do had no Until place in my You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Association, and my successor do you want the Association assumed I’d stay in law practice forever. Once I lawIf you’vepractice. read It aboutwas great it in intellectually, the Connector but , it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And relaxed that assumption, it opened up a whole and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? inby terms members of my emotionalwho paid and their spiritual dues. side, From I our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 This marks a hopeful moment, of lot of options.” course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to neededinterest more.” fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. Second, says Aronovich, “insist on what century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I you really want for yourself. You always hear of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufsonthe expression, & Spar, 200‘don’t Executive let the Drive,perfect Suite be the Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbiltenemy lecture of the. Dues good.’ are But $75 at the for same alumni time, don’t reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 fivelet the years okay and be thethose enemy in the of the pub great.lic sector. If you’re ‘okay’ with how things are, but not really his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and happy, don’t let that stop you from looking for ALUMNI On The Move I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law Schoolopportunities Association and ofpossibilities.” New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th Get Set… candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: Laying the groundwork for a departure HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: from the practice of law, says Aronovich, contested primary in June. Josh Aronovich ’03 spent time as a means “being honest with yourself about what CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: litigatorE-Mail: at Jenner & Block and Pepper th your needs are, financially and emotionally. from the 50 annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Hamilton. Of his career in law, he said, “I Optimism is good, but you can’t count on Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector. By contrast, Lee Miller ’76 admitted that, liked it, but I didn’t love it.” optimism to pay the mortgage. If I had it to do when he transitioned from partner at a leading Ultimately, he concluded, “spending 90 all over again, I would spend a lot more time

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SPRING EVENT continued from previous page Our 2007 Public Interest actuallyLe planningtter and F mappingrom out T marketinghe P rethemsid upe andn tramping them down, as long as donespending things and thatour incomeare quite this amazing,year. but Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! and building up some money to start with.” most of the things you’re doing most of the nothingFor theimpresses first time people in threeas much years, as thatwe I DuringAs a practical my first matter, year Aronovichof law school said, “Iin timeSeptember are things youpanel like doing, and are good graduatedexpect this Harvardyear’s Vanderbilt Law School. Lecture Nothing to Fellows In Their Own Words for people, there’s nothing wrong with that.” matters – bestsellers, head of this, head of that would1998, underestimate a woman who financially had been what a mentorI would discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe Sotheby, who had joined Sotheby’s as in- – as much as the fact that I went to HLS. Of make;of minedon’t –anticipate Galina V.best-case Starovoitova, scenarios, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between anticipatemember worst-case of the Russian scenarios Parliament and make and sure a housemembers counsel of then classes transitioned into a business all(including the credentials our youngest I have, alumni).it is by far But the the most Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers thatstaunch you can advocate manage them.of human Count rights on thingswhom role,that makeagreed. me Under feel old normal circumstances, important.”rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. takingI got longer to know to accomplish.” as my professor at Brown he– cautioned,like ’09 and in-house ’10 – attorneysJohn Bartlett can’t expect ’01, ThisSotheby year, agreed. we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects UniversityAt the same four time, years added earlier Uhrbach, – was “I toheard be permitted from half to take a on2007 non-legal President roles. of In toward“If yousummer were to fellowshipsgo to get a businessfor two loan, touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. foundassassinated I needed inmuch St. Petersburg.less money, Atpartly the retrospect,dozen of us Sotheby about thenoted, he was very lucky andextraordinary you walk intoyoung a bank law withstudents. your business (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the becausetime, I Iwas wrote happier, in the and weekly I was spendingHarvard Lawless toprofessional have “joined opportunities an organization abloom that in wasthe plan,page and3.) youThe say,value ‘Oh, of and their by theexperience, way, I went Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme moneySchool to compensateRecord that futuremyself historiansfor working would such completelyGarden State. open (See to pageusing 4.) whatever skills you toand Harvard the connection Law School,’ it thathelped will themmatter,” members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents longview hours. 1989, My the expenses year the went Berlin down, Wall and fell I had, But,and wouldto paraphrase not be constrainedthe old saw, by withyour addeddevelop Sotheby. to New “You’veJersey’s legalstill got community, to open the intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. neverand felt the a loss.” Baltic States became the first title.those Manygreat of ouropportunities managers werecome local great real doors,is priceless. but it greases We’ll the have hinges spent a little nearly bit.” Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, estateresponsibility. attorneys, As so recentlythe organization as two years was ago,very $1,000For toUhrbach, support hertravel elite and legal lodging background for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th our Cambridge panelists in September. Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary Go!as the end of the 20 century and the openmore to than lawyers 110 having of our business state’s 950 roles.” or so HLS also helps her carry out the role of spiritual of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school beginning of the 21st. alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Once outside the law, Miller advises, Commenting on his own experience and counselor. “It helps my congregants think that ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are one must be flexible and be ready to roll with Sotheby’s, Miller quipped, “Get friendly with I may be able to relate to their professional legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 adversity. the CEO, because then there are no rules.” lives, in addition to their spiritual lives – that and direct service programs to policy options still available to turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s In the law, he noted, “specialization is of I know something about what it’s like to be in assist New Jersey's urban three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest great value. Unfortunately, most young people Drop The ‘H-Bomb’ the real world.” communities. school and five days after I started my endIn the the year end, withnone asof themuch panelists money regretted in the of this newsletter and all our other I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. use it to make more money. But if you want to For Aronovich, the value of the education Through NJISJ’s Second managefirst yourjob as career, a lawyer. you’ve There got to are trade a onhost that of goingbank toas lawwe school.started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair alumni have paid their dues so far. That alsoour includedhope and “learning aim to amake way ofgenerous engaging specializationother places to getto peopledraw the to sayline, ‘okay, of course,you do “A law degree says ‘I’m good enough, I’m effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making withcontributions information to andthe problem-solving,”law school in the and that for me, and I’ll teach you to do these other smart enough, and I can read and write well,’” prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both gaining accessfuture to “the realas we strength have ofin Harvard: past things.’” remarked Aronovich. The skill sets the degree returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, its alumni network.”years. Also, says Miller, “Have lots of things represents are those needed to succeed in a following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines If you thought As thisyou article look wasback, interesting, thank which have been the subject of going on. When the economy goes bad, I’m variety of areas. researched the efforts of cities will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear imagine how themuch Association’syou would have long-enjoyed vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s glad I teach and I write books, because that’s Miller said the Harvard pedigree had across the country to reduce and hope – it’s part of who we attending theserving symposium! leaders Join like us Albertnext year discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. always there. Doing lots of things, ramping “opened doors” throughout his career. “I’ve are and what we do as a for another fascinatingCohn ’51 discussion., David offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the DUES NOTICE Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being schoolTo become in anthe active twenty-first member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill outMarkowitz the form ’52below, andand so See Summer, page 4 century.return it Iwith am thea check first of payable these to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Stephen Roth, Esq., 62many Summit others. Avenue, As you look toHackensack, be president NJ 07601. of the forward, ask yourself: What Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Annual dues for the Association year are $75 for alumni admitted to the bar for six to 49 years. Annual dues are $50 for If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of Jasonalumni Orlando admitted ’00 forwill fewer be the thansecond. five or morea huge than difference 50 years inand what those we canin the do forpublic you sector.to lookThe annuallike in yearthe yearsfor the to come?Association And how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 beginsThis onmarks July 1st.a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. centuryI ofenclose Vanderbilt my check Lectures for thewith 2010-2011 one your dues help. to the And Harvard we especially Law School need Association help our of Newevents, Jersey or been in theactive amount on the of board, I of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose rdues $75.00 – if paid at the rsame $50.00 rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reachingName: ______out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. Class:______ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey Address:______estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni Telephone: ______company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: E-Mail:______contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: fromYear the of 50 Admissionth annual Vanderbilt to the Lecture.Bar:______Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector. r I am employed in the public sector.

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