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Boston College Law School Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School Boston College Law School Magazine Summer 7-1-2020 BC Law Magazine Summer 2020 Boston College Law School Follow this and additional works at: https://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/bclsm Part of the Legal Education Commons Recommended Citation Boston College Law School, "BC Law Magazine Summer 2020" (2020). Boston College Law School Magazine. 56. https://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/bclsm/56 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Boston College Law School Magazine by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School. For more information, please contact [email protected]. PLUS GREAT CASE: Jay Gould ’06 Wins Historic $1 Billion Verdict for Sony PROFILE: Therese Pritchard ’78 BRAINSTORM: Dean Vincent Rougeau and Michael Gehrardt BOSTON COLLEGE Debate the Impeachment LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE GIVING: The 2019-2020 Report SUMMER 2020 BC.EDU/BCLAWMAGAZINE THE VISION PROJECT The BC Law faculty discuss where the Covid-19 pandemic may lead us. There are warnings, but there are also farsighted ideas and strategies for crafting a better future, a more just society, and a world in which each and every human being is equal under the law. P. 16 BC Law Magazine CAUTIONARY TALES In public and private sectors, ethics have been wanting. Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Profesor Renee Jones questions how American business and American govern- ment have cooperated during the coronavirus pandemic. The Vision Project, page 16 Photograph by DANA SMITH Contents SUMMER 2020 VOLUME 28 / NUMBER 2 Features Clockwise, from top left, Brandon Shemtob ’14 and his wife Alaina “Lainey” Sullivan ’15; Michael Gerhardt talks with Dean THE Vincent Rougeau; Jane Swift launched her Jerome Lyle Rap- N paport Visiting Professorship at BC Law; global connections that VISIO 44 are about flourishing together, rather than surviving apart. PROJECT 12 16 How the Pandemic Will Change Us The Boston College Law School faculty discuss where the Covid-19 pandemic and its medical, economic, racial, political, and legal consequences 68 may lead us. 6 34 The Chair In a long career that brought down corporate defrauders and eventually landed her among the small cohort of women to chair a top global law firm, Therese Pritchard ’78 has remained true to herself: a lawyer who eschewed a cutthroat professional trajectory for Foremost 8 Faculty Scholarship Esquire the simple pleasure of find- 2 In Limine From the Editor. Professor Alfred C. Yen 44 Generations Brandon ing what was interesting offers nuanced look Shemtob ’14 and Alaina right in front of her. It was 3 For the Record into copyright law; notable “Lainey” Sullivan ’15. the secret to her success. Updates and contributors. faculty milestones and By Jeri Zeder publications. 45 Class Notes 4 Behind the Columns The Vision Project: 10 In the Field 50 Alumni News 38 If we stay united, racism Yolanda Courtney Lyle Albert Sebag’s professional The Land of Music may yield. ’01, Michael “Saph” network spans the globe. and Piracy By Dean Vincent Rougeau Sapherstein ’97, and four In a copyright showdown other alumni on the job. 52 Advancing Excellence between the music indus- try’s Big Three record labels Docket 12 Brainstorm 55 The 2019-2020 and a major broadband 6 In Brief Rappaport hews Dean Vincent Rougeau Giving Report internet company, Jeff to policy as a means to fix and Michael Gerhardt Gould ’06 kept the beat for what ails us; Professor discuss the Impeachment. 68 In Closing the plaintiffs while artists Catharine Wells defends The Vision Project: won the day to the tune of Holmes’s moral convictions 14 Evidence A Drug’s Selecting for better global a $1 billion jury verdict. in insightful new study; Journey: How lawyers relationships. By Chad Konecky new faculty hires. make cures happen. By Professor Frank Garcia Photographs, clockwise from top left, JORDAN CASSWAY; DIANA LEVINE; REBA SALDANHA; illustration, BRIAN STAUFFER Summer 2020 BC LAW MAGAZINE 1 IN LIMINE Foremost There can be little doubt today that we are In the midst of this global reckoning, it is Beware the paying those debts, many of them of our own heartening to read stories of moments when Ides of March making and long overdue. As the Covid-19 right prevails over wrong and the rule of law pandemic has opened our eyes to social, shows its muscle. That happened last De- We are all shook up. Nothing has political, and cultural failures, we have cember when Jeff Gould ’06 and colleagues been the same since the Ides of discovered fault lines seemingly everywhere: at a small, boutique firm in Washington, DC, March delivered the virus that in our hospitals, school rooms, prisons, sup- won a staggering $1 billion jury verdict for brought the world to a near standstill. Beware, ply chains, courthouses, government seats, their client Sony in a copyright infringement we’ve been told, of the Ides. In Shakespeare’s financial markets, business centers, under- case against internet service provider Cox day, a soothsayer warned the protagonist in served communities, police stations—the list Communications. How did they do it? The Julius Caesar to be cautious. In Roman times, goes on and on. answer may surprise you, but you can wager the Ides were a time for settling debts. Where to turn for guidance, for the comfort that music played the best hand. Read more of bona fide ideas, for the tickle of hope that (“The Land of Music and Piracy”) on page 38. there may be ways to fix the mess we’re in? Just to ensure that there were other Being at a law school, BC Law Magazine interesting distractions in the magazine to naturally looked to its brain trust, the faculty, amuse you, we elicited a story from Therese for answers. Surveyed for explanations of Pritchard ’78 about how she made it to the top how Covid-19 could have laid us so low and of big law driven not by ambition so much as for how the law and its ethical underpinnings pure fascination with the cases in front of her could lift us back up, the professors articu- (“The Chair,” page 34). And we explain how lated a vision for the future and identified ac- Jim Champy ’68 applied his business re-engi- tions that could help the body politic achieve neering knowhow to philanthropy on behalf new levels of honesty and equality. The result of Boston College Law School. It’s some story is The Vision Project, a collection of inter- (“The One-Man Brain Trust,” page 52). views that begins on page 16 and expands VICKI SANDERS, Editor online at lawmagazine.bc.edu. [email protected] CONNECT Update your contact information See what colleagues are doing profes- Reunion Committees The most Judging Oral Advocacy Com- fund provide immediate financial to stay in touch with BC Law. To sionally, read about the latest events, successful reunions result when petitions Hundreds of students support for many of BC Law’s most learn of ways to help build our build your network, track classmates’ engaged volunteers serve on their participate in four in-house competi- important needs. Key funding priorities community, volunteer, or support achievements, and publish your own. Reunion Committee. 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