Moritz College of Law Alumni Society • Spring/Summer 2002

1908-2001

M ichael E. M oritz 1934-2002 U CONTENTS

College of Law Administration

Nancy H. Rogers Dean

Alan C. Michaels Associate Dean for Faculty

Gregory M. Travalio Associate Dean for Professional Relations

Kathy S. Northern Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs

Bruce S. Johnson Associate Dean for Information Services

Pamela H. Lombardi Assistant Dean for Alumni Relations

Sheila Kapur '88 Assistant Dean for Student Affairs and Public Programs Third-year students at their hooding ceremony on May 10. Pictured, left to right, are (front), Allison Lynn Browns, Twana Nakeya Burris, (back) Louis W. Camp TV, Samuel A. Campbell, and Kreg Timothy Allison. Amee McKim ’94 Assistant Dean for Placement Liz Cutter Gates 1 Director of Communications 9 20 From the Dean Faculty News Interactive Day College of Law Alumni Society Catch up on the Designed for Officers latest activities o f Judges 2 f our professors Send address changes Jeffrey S. Sutton ’90 Frank R. Strong, and alumni news to: President 1908-2001 22 Law Record Unswerving 16 In Memoriam Keith Shumate ’91 Michael E. Moritz College of Law President-Elect Devotion to Honor Roll of Farewell to our at The Ohio State University College, Collegial Volunteers friends John Deaver Drinko Hall 55 West 12th Avenue National Council Officers Atmosphere Recognizing the Columbus, OH 43210-1391 Marked Dean generosity of our Phone: (614) 292-2631 Charles C. Warner ’70 Strongs Tenure alum ni and 24 Facsimile: (614) 247-7079 Chair friends Alumni News Spanning more Also see the change of address card in the center of the magazine. Sally Bloomfield ’69 6 than 6 0 years o f Vice-Chair Michael E. 18 graduates The Law Record is published for the alumni and friends of the Pamela H. Lombardi Moritz, Development 1934-2002 News Michael E. Moritz College of Law Secretary at The Ohio State University Love o f fam ily J. Gilbert Reese ©2002, College of Law, The Ohio State University generosity to donates $1.5 Liz Cutler Gates university, million Managing Editor colleagues, friends fo r chair in Clary Communications is M oritz legacy contract law Design FROM THE DEAN

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A lot of people want to be you. Applications for and Gamble, I will soon be able to award a designated professorship admission exceed openings in the first-year class by more named for Robert J. Watkins ’53 and Procter and Gamble. The than 2,000. This climb significantly outpaces the national trend and momentum continues as alumni have participated in the planning applications at the Moritz College of Law surpass those of two years for the next key steps for the college and have helped to counsel ago by about two-thirds. prospective and current students. They are serving as mentors to the new Moritz Scholars, who enjoy full in-state tuition plus This is just one measure of the move toward excellence at the stipend scholarships. Moritz College. Another is the school’s ability to attract outstanding professors. Joshua Dressier, one of the nation’s most respected In the meantime, the excitement has encouraged a number of new criminal law faculty, joined us last fall and is the first recipient of initiatives. The college will launch an administrative law study and the Frank R. Strong Chair in Law, which was presented by Michael internship program in Washington, D.C. in the summer of 2003, E. Moritz in honor of Dean Strong, whose lifetime contributions are taught by Peter Swire. Professor Swire has returned to the faculty noted in this issue. (See page 2.) A celebrated teacher who has after two years in the White House and a visit at George Washington taught at the University of Michigan, University of Califomia- Law School. A new program to promote placement in judicial clerk­ Berkeley, McGeorge, and elsewhere, Professor Dressier has written a ships was launched just as RonNell Jones ’00 accepted a clerkship text on criminal law used by law students throughout the nation, with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. (See related john a. powell, who does not capitalize his name, is a chaired story on page 31.) professor at the University of Minnesota Law School and joins the faculty next year as the first holder of the Gregory H. Williams Chair You continue to be the greatest measure of the Moritz College’s in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. The recipient of the new Robert success. We take pride in your accomplishments and like to stay in J. Lynn Chair in Law is Martha Chamallas, an employment expert touch. We hope that you will consider coming in person to see the who comes from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Ed changes. Mark your calendar for alumni return and reunions for Lee, an innovative intellectual property instructor at Stanford Law classes ending in 2 and 7 on October 25 and 26. As you have ideas School, will join the Moritz law faculty as an assistant professor this and suggestions to improve your alma mater, send me an e-mail at fall. You’ll learn more about these outstanding educators in the fall [email protected]. And be issue of the Law Record. certain to let us know the devel­ opments in your life and career We are working to permit you to take part in some of the programs by completing the form includ­ that create a challenging exchange on the issues of the day. To see ed in this magazine or sending an example, go to the college website, http://www.osu.edu/units/ an e-mail to law/ and scroll down and click on “The Enron Scandal.” That [email protected]. archived faculty-student symposium was the first of many that we Please take a moment to note anticipate will be broadcast on the web in the months to come. the contributions made by your former professors in the faculty Amid the momentum toward excellence at the college, the commu­ section. They enjoy hearing nity paused to mourn the death of Mike Moritz ’61. Mike had a from you as well. vision for the school that led him to endow the scholarships that have helped attract more applications, create the endowed faculty Warm wishes, chairs, and provide a dean’s fund to enhance existing programs. Less than a year after his astonishing gift, his dream has become his legacy - a law school that will grow in excellence every year. Nancy H. Raiders A number of you called or e-mailed me to say that this is a moment to seize, a time to rally alumni to build a truly great law school. Dean Nancy H. Rogers Several graduates have made signal gifts to maintain that momen­ tum. J. Gilbert Reese ’52 provided $1.5 million to endow a chair in contract law that we will name in his honor, and William B. Saxbe ’45 made a $500,000 gift that will help bring technology to the classrooms of Drinko Hall. Thanks to a group of alumni at Procter

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| Frank R. Strong? 1908-1 Unswerving Devotion to College, Collegial Atmosphere Marked Dean Strong’s Tenure COVER STORY

rank R. Strong left a visible mark on Ohio States College of editor-in-chief of the Yale L aw Journal and having been elected to F Law. From his early years as a young professor until his retire­ membership in the Order of the Coif, the legal honorary. ment in 1965, he guided the school to national prominence, fought for a new building on the corner of 12th and High, and His lifetime career in legal education began when he accepted a became a recognized leader in legal education. position at the University of Iowa. Later he moved to The Ohio State University where, except for a period as a civilian lawyer for Strong died Friday, October 12, 2001, at Somerset Nursing Center the Department for the Navy, he served for more than 25 years. in Prairie Village, Kansas. The final 13 of those years he was dean of the College of Law.

He came to Ohio State in 1937. Ted Boehm ’38, a member of his In 1965, Strong retired as dean at Ohio State and accepted first class, later described him as a “lanky kid.” That early class appointment as the Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Law at enjoyed a camaraderie with the young professor that then-Dean the University of North Carolina. He served in that position until Herschel W. Arant didn’t appreciate. He “let Frank know that his final retirement in 1976. pitching pennies with us on the front porch of Page Hall did not fit the job description,” noted Boehm in a tribute to Strong in the During his career, he authored a number of books and more than Spring 1979 Law Record. 25 articles, most of which concerned constitutional law, his special­ ty. In addition to his permanent faculty positions, he also taught as But his relationship with that early class perhaps set the pace for a visiting professor at other leading law schools, including the how he treated the faculty and staff in the following years. In his University of Michigan, Duke University, Northwestern University, tribute to the departing dean in 1965, Professor Roland Stanger the University of Kansas, Cornell University, the University of noted how he respected the faculty and trusted their competence. Texas, Brigham Young University, and Willamette University. Others have noted the close and collegial atmosphere he promoted at the school. (See tributes, pages 4 and 5.) He served as president of the Association of American Law Schools in 1957 and as national secretary-treasurer of the Order of Coif “In a time when students tended to be apprehensive about law from 1970 to 1980. He was honored by former students who cre­ teachers, he was well liked,” recalls Professor Emeritus Robert J. ated the Frank R. Strong Faculty Library at the University of North Lynn ’49. “He had a good sense of humor and the students Carolina and by enjoyed his class. He was tolerant with respect to answering Michael E. Moritz ’61 questions and never ridiculed a student,” he added. who funded the Frank R. Strong Distinguished At his retirement in 1965, Dean Strong was praised for being the Chair in Law at The driving force behind the curriculum, for developing the alumni Ohio State University. annual giving program, and for shepherding the construction of the new law building on North High Street. He was known not for Dean Strong was pre­ his personal ambition, but for his unswerving devotion to the ceded in death by his law school. wife of 69 years, Gertrude Way Strong, “He was deeply interested in improving the school,” notes in November 1998. Professor Lynn. “He made an effort to bring very good teachers to the law school. He succeeded in enlarging the faculty,” the He is survived by his professor added. “The number of faculty was not very large son, John W. Strong when I began,” he said. and daughter-in-law, Marty, of Tucson, Ariz.; Dean Strong was born April 4, 1908, in Lawrence, Kansas, to daughter, Mary then-University of Kansas Chancellor Frank Strong and Mary Elizabeth Brennan and Ransom Strong. son-in-law, Lawrence of Overland Park, Kansas; He attended Yale University, where he was elected to Phi Beta grandsons, Frank Strong Kappa as a junior and graduated summa cum laude in the spring II and his wife, Genie; of 1929. Benjamin Strong and his wife Chrissie and As a young professor, Frank Strong had a good That August, Dean Strong married his high school sweetheart, Mark Brennan and his camaraderie with his students (1939). Gertrude Elizabeth Way. After teaching economics at the wife, Pattie; and granddaughter, Laura Brennan Rooney and her University of Delaware for two years, he returned to Yale to attend husband, John. Frank is also survived by three great-granddaugh­ law school and was graduated in 1934, after having served as ters, Skylar, Riley, and Gillian Brennan, who brought him great joy. COVER STORY

T ributes to D ean F rank R . Strong uring my thirty-four years at The Ohio in New York on Association business, but that by what was happening to our judiciary. D State University College of Law, he had taken time to attend the final argument. Legislation was for the duly elected legislators. I worked under many deans but When the argument was over and the judges Any of you who did not know or receive Frank R. Strong was my first! had left the bench to decide the case, Frank said, instruction from Dean Strong missed being edu­ “That Oklahoma team was very good. I think cated by a very learned man and a really good Frank and Gertrude Strong treated the college we may be in trouble.” guy. I was not so much aggrieved to read of his community as if we were members of their own death, as I was happy to find that he lived so family. At our baby and wedding showers, “They were very good forensically,” I said, “but long giving him more time to touch the lives Gertrude was present and involved. During Ohio State was much better substantively. of others. many an illness over the years, they would arrive If the judges understand the law, Ohio State at our homes with a casserole in hand. should win.” Ralph A. Henderson ’53 Fairfield, Ohio A few years after they moved to Chapel Hill, And the judges did understand the law, and N.C., my family planned a trip to Florida. I Ohio State did win, to Franks evident pleasure. wrote informing them of the date we would be After he had congratulated the Ohio State stu­ will forever be grateful to Dean Strong for a arriving in their area and said I would call them dents, Frank and I chatted amiably for a few number of reasons, principally two: to just say hello. A few days later, Dean Strong minutes. Little did' I know that ten months later, I was on the phone with details of the exit we he and I would be colleagues at Ohio State. should take and the name of the restaurant at 1. For permitting me to enter law school while which he would meet us. He said the sheets remaining a member of the football team on the Winston Churchill is supposed to have described would be clean and soup would be on. He condition that school took precedence over foot­ an acquaintance as “a modest man who has would not hear of our not staying the night with ball if both couldn’t be handled. much to be modest about.” In a profession that them, stating they wanted to show us their new unfortunately does not place a high value on campus, city, and home. They both seemed so It went well in both 1953 and 1954. Only in modesty, Frank Strong was modest and gende, excited to have us visit them. my final year of law school, following two years but very accomplished. An outstanding scholar in the service, I was not engaged in both. himself (who can forget the chapter in his con­ To this day, I enjoy the memory of that 24-hour stitutional law casebook that was entided visit with Dean and Mrs. Strong. What a joy it 2. For adding the word “nexus” “Multiple Juridical Constitutionalism”?), he has been for me to know two such to my vocabulary. encouraged, by example, scholarship in others. special people. At the same time, he recognized and rewarded The Ohio State University was very fortunate in competence in teaching and in public Patricia Johnson Howard having on faculty and in administration Dean service activities. Former staffmember Frank R. Strong, an outstanding scholar with Groveport, Ohio wide interests. I missed him when he left Ohio State. I miss him now. Robert Thornton ’58 y first conversation with Frank Strong Lawrence Herman Willard, Ohio occurred not in Columbus but in New Presidents Club Professor o f Law Emeritus MYork. An assistant professor at Western Columbus, Ohio Reserve Law School, I had accompanied the Western Reserve moot court team to the final s a College of Law graduate, Class of rounds of the National Moot Court 1953,1 studied constitutional law under Competition. We had been ousted in the Frank Strong, using of course his text that national semi-finals by Ohio State, and now I he often referred to as the “Eight Pound Tome.” waited for the final round that pitted Ohio State Indeed, it did weigh at least that much. against Oklahoma, then a perennial moot court power. Dean Strong had his own unique approach of teaching an area of the law which at time was in Shortly after the argument began, Frank entered the early stages of becoming so much influenced the room. I recognized him from an earlier by political events and what the Supreme Court meeting and pointed to a vacant chair next to thought was an “overriding” public opinion. His me. He sat down, and we listened to the argu­ text was organized in a way that reflected what ment together. I knew that Frank was president he recognized was a coming of judicial raping of of the Association of American Law Schools and the Constitution. Those were his words, not I guessed, correctly as it turned out, that he was mine. I sensed that he was politically liberal, but as a lawyer I think he was somewhat saddened Dean Strong and Professor Ervin Pollack discuss plans for the new law building. COVER STORY

had the pleasure of knowing the Strong opening — everyone stayed for years. He assem­ law section at Ohio State, but when I found family as a youngster (12 years) when John bled a faculty which read like a who’s who of the myself setting off to teach at North Carolina, I Strong and I were members of the legal profession — professors Callahan, Ball, several of my classmates who had taken Dean Columbus Boychoir and attended that school Stanger, Fulda, Wills, Vanneman, Pollack, Strong’s course found a copy of his casebook for full-time for four years. John and I were good Nordstrom, Mathews, and Lattin among others. me to take to North Carolina and told me I friends and Professor Strong was in the process What better testimony to a school and its leader. would have to master it in order to understand of writing his book on constitutional law, which If one strayed, Frank Strong felt compelled to what Frank Strong was saying. Fortunately, I I was to study some years later as one of his stu­ try and bring them back to the fold. found that was unnecessary. I was somewhat sur­ dents. On numerous occasions I was his guest at prised to find that a “retired” dean was the most the Ohio State stadium to watch the Buckeyes I recall after 23 years at Ohio State, my dad active person on the faculty. He was a great help march toward victory, although not always get­ decided to break ranks to teach at Case Western to a new teacher. He was a good advisor and a ting there. Now the good professor was profes­ Reserve. Dean Strong tried every way possible to daunting example. I finally took a course from sional and serious, polite and friendly. He was change the decision, but in the end we went. him during his final semester of teaching along always in control, never particularly excited. Never one to give up on a member of the family, with two other young professors. We sat in on he made sure that letters and law reviews, foot­ his Legal Process course. It was a wonderful Sometime during our first game together it ball schedules, and faculty announcements were experience. became very tough on the field and there was an forthcoming — anything to do with Ohio State — eruption in our section. The professor jumped and six years later we did return. The home we I can only remember one occasion when his rare to his feet barking orders to our team to destroy were to live in was not completed that combination of qualities confused rather than the other team and, specifically, for our boys to September so the Strongs moved us in with educated me. That was the first time I ever saw “rock ’em and sock ’em.” I could not believe them. Three months later we finally packed up him, which was at the orientation for the first- what I had seen but this is what made the game and moved into our own home. We were back year law students in 1964. Dean Strong gave the fun and energized John and I and many around and back we stayed for 10 more years. Talk sort of welcoming speech that deans do, but us. I now think of the “Dean” and how much he about inconvenience, generosity, and friendship. when he got to the place where he wanted to tell enjoyed letting go, at least on certain Saturdays us how much work we would have to expect to at the Ohio Stadium. He was a great teacher and It was through his gentle determination, his have to do then and thereafter, his strict Kansas good friend and much more calm in vision for a great College of Law and a world upbringing led him to censure the phrases he the classroom. class staff that the initial stages of the new law used so that “the Law is a jealous mistress” came building were started. His vision continues to be out “the Law is a demanding woman.” I have no The Honorable George C. Smith ’59 realized today. idea how my female classmates reacted to that, U.S. District Court, Southern District o f Ohio but I was left wondering just what I had gotten Columbus, Ohio Even after he went to Chapel Hill and the myself into. I soon discovered that what I had tenured professors retired or moved on to other gotten into was a wonderful education at a fine assignments, the Strongs always stayed in touch. law school. In later years I have realized just how rank Strong was a giant among men. much of that fine law school was due to the We were all fortunate to have him in our lives. work of Frank Strong. FAs a mentor, friend, father figure, and my dad’s boss, he personified the ideal executive, the Every time a student or professor, staff or Walker Blakey ’67 consummate family man. administrator walks through the Moritz College Professor, of Law, they need to remember if it were not for University o f North Carolina School o f Law His gentle guidance, his warm sense of humor, Dean Frank Strong, they still might be in Chapel Hill, North Carolina his generosity of time and his knowledge of the Page Hall. law were reflected in his ability to deal with any challenge. Phil N. Lattin son o f the late Norman D. Lattin Most of all he loved the law school. He believed (professor 1924-1947, 1953-1963) that with a staff of professors well recognized for Studio City, California their expertise in their chosen fields and a build­ ing equal to those at Harvard, Columbia, or UCLA, world class lawyers would be born. rank Strong was an outstanding man and a Obviously, he was right. great legal educator. He was my dean dur­ Fing my first year of law school at Ohio There was a family atmosphere among the law State, 1964-1965, and my colleague on the fac­ school staff that was pervasive and when ulty at the University of North Carolina School Professor Strong became Dean Strong, it only of Law from 1971 to 1978, and an emeritus col­ In 1990, Dean Strong returned strengthened the bond. Rarely was there any league thereafter. I wasn’t in his constitutional to Columbus to present the Distinguished Alumnus Award to Professor Robert J. Lynn ’49. COVER STORY 4

careers. He was an unassuming man who found joy in contributing to the lives of oth­ ers. His example and his legacy will inspire future lawyers for decades to come.”

w Moritzs law school gift created a scholarship fund, which offers full in-state tuition and a stipend for 30 Ohio State law students each I V#L. year; financed leadership awards to three stu­ dents each year; and established four endowed faculty chairs. The gift also established the Gregory H. Williams Dean’s Fund for Excellence, named for the college’s former dean.

Moritz had been a partner at Baker and Hostetler since 1980, when it merged with his t i l l pHBP’* mMüm firm, Moritz, McClure, Hughes, and Kerscher. In addition to Cardinal Health, he was a direc­ M ichael E. M oritz, 1934-2Û0Î tor for Pharmacy Systems Inc., and the Pickett Hotel Co. He was a past president of the Love of family, generosity to Capital City Young Republicans Club, trustee of the Kenyon Festival Theatre, and commis­ university, colleagues, friends sioner of the Ohio Elections Commission. is Moritz legacy At Ohio State, he served as a director of The Ohio State University Foundation since 1990 and, since 1994, on the Campaign Committee ichael E. Moritz ’61, for whom The friend, an exceedingly generous and caring of the Max M. Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University College of Law M person who made the gift of his time and tal­ where he established the Moritz Family was named last summer, died March 5, 2002 ents to serve others and his extraordinary phi­ Scholarship Fund. of complications following a car accident lanthropy an important priority in his life. He February 23 in Naples, Florida. He was 68. is a man who always stood for integrity, quali­ He was a member of St. Brigid of Kildare ty, and excellence. I will always remember him Parish in Dublin, Ohio, and had served as The Columbus attorney was a partner in the for his great intellect, the principled manner chairman of its fund-raising campaign to build Columbus law firm of Baker and Hostetler by which he lived his life, and the warmth and a parish educational center. and a former director of Cardinal Health Inc. humility that characterized his daily interac­ He was a dual Ohio State graduate, earning a tions with people. He truly was an inspiration He is survived by his wife, Lou Ann, four chil­ B.S. in business administration in 1958 and a to all who were privileged to be his friend. The dren: Cathy (Dave) Presper of Columbus; Jeff law degree in 1961, graduating at the top of legacy of his gift to Ohio State will touch the (Pam) Moritz of Lakewood, Ohio; Molly his class. He also was a 1951 graduate of lives of people for as long as this university (Doug) Tyger of Mason, Ohio; and Ann Columbus North High School. exists,” Kirwan said. (Philip) Airey of Winnetka, 111; and eleven grandchildren. Moritz made the single largest gift to the uni­ The law school’s dean, Nancy H. Rogers, said versity in June 2001, a $30 million contribu­ Moritz “lived the values that we seek to instill Many members of his family are alumni, tion to the College of Law, according to Jerry in our students. including two of his brothers: C. Roger May, vice president for development. (Suzan) of Dayton; and Timothy (Antoinette) “He cared deeply for his family. As a lawyer, of Las Vegas, Nev. A third brother, Jeffrey A. Ohio State President William E. Kirwan he had high standards of excellence and (Sandy), lives in Rohnert Park, Calif. expressed his “profound sadness” at Moritzs unshakable integrity. He sought to mentor and passing. “We have lost a truly exceptional support those who followed him in legal COYER STORY

Rem em bering M ichael E. M oritz Ivor Young ’58, a long-time friend, presented this tribute at Moritzs funeral on March 11. Mike and I met just over 50 years ago. I loved my Mike was a brilliant student as an undergraduate and in friend, Mike Moritz. We were freshman Phi Gam pledge law school, where he received brothers at Ohio State. only one B and the rest As and finished in the top of his class. Mike had been a swimmer at North High and had a stocky build. I was 6 feet tall and just 120 pounds. (I am Mike was, of course, my attor­ actually 50 pounds heavier now.) Mike considered me ney. Because of my legal educa­ somewhat of a novelty and he made sure all our new tion, it was inspiring to observe brothers got the way his mind worked. He to meet the was a wonderful teacher, as well kid from as the best lawyer with whom Arlington one could have worked. Many who was of us here deserve a part of our The delight is obvious as six feet tall, success to his wise counsel. Moritz listens to one o fthe 120 pounds. Moritz Scholars, Keyomah We all know about Michael Shakoor, speak about what the Mike liked Everett Moritzs many accom­ scholarship means to her. to challenge plishments, honesty, and his himself and generosity to the community. I know Lou Ann, Ann, sometimes Jeff, Molly, and Cathy and his grandchildren gave him Former Dean Gregory H. Williams (center) con­ he would the proudest moments of his life. It was his love for Lou gratulates Moritz on the naming o fthe Moritz Law challenge his Ann that sustained him throughout his life and who Library in 1999. Associate Dean for Technology, Bruce Johnson, looks on. friends. After helped him turn tragedy into triumph. several months of pledge training, we were experiencing our last Most of us remember that Mike sustained a life threat­ week as pledges which was accurately called “hell week.” ening injury seven years ago. His strong character and I made the mistake of hiding out with Mike. When the his never-give-up persistent efforts to recover enabled president of the fraternity dis­ him to progress beyond what covered us, we each had to eat the medical experts ever antic­ a raw egg, shell included. ipated. Lou Ann shared with Mike then said, “Ivor and I us this week that Mike was always have more than one very happy with his life at the egg for breakfast. For this, time of the accident in Naples. I was rewarded with more raw eggs.” I treasure the fact that the Lord Jesus Christ is a presence It was great for us to enjoy in my life. I feel that Mike’s the relatively carefree impact on my life has been a and fun loving times at gift from God. college together. Thank you, Mike, and thank During that time, Mike had Dean Nancy H. Rogers reads a declaration recognizing you all for coming here today his eye on the lovely Lou Ann Moritz prior to the college naming celebration on October to celebrate his remarkable Yardley. Carol and I were 26. Moritz Scholars look on. life. We will miss him. privileged to introduce them to one another. Eventually, Mike and I were in each other’s weddings. FACULTY RESEARCH

The Post-Garrett World: Insufficient State Protection Against Disability Discrimination

In Board of Trustees of the University of discrimination. These states clearly allow for Alabama v. Garrett, the United States Supreme a private right of action to enforce its disability Court held in a 5-4 decision that the Eleventh laws, but there is either ambiguity in the scope Amendment barred suits in federal court by state of those statutes’ coverage or limitations on employees to recover monetary damages for the compensatory damages or attorneys’ fees. state’s failure to comply with Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The Finally, eleven states have very limited protection Court did not rule on the broader question of against disability discrimination because there are whether private parties can use ADA Title II to few enforcement mechanisms available for what recover monetary damages from states for is often a narrowly drafted disability discrimina­ Ruth Colker disability discrimination outside the employment tion statute. Nine states have no enforcement Grace Fern Heck Faust context. mechanism at all against the state for public Chair in Constitutional Law access discrimination. Maryland permits no The Supreme Court suggested in Garrett that its private enforcement actions; only the state civil holding that ADA Title I claims against the rights commission can enforce its public accom­ states for monetary damages were barred in fed­ modation statute. Florida limits damages to eral courts would have little effect if extended to $100,000 per plaintiff (Fla. Stat. Ann. § ADA Tide II because “state laws protecting the 768.28). That limit, however, was much higher rights of persons with disabilities in employment than the limit found in other states with limits and other aspects of life provide independent and is probably higher than nearly all plaintiffs avenues of redress.” It also acknowledged, how­ would obtain for such actions. The same is true ever, that “[a] number of these provisions. . . of Nevada’s $50,000 limit (Nev. Rev. Stat. Ann. did not go as far as the ADA did in § 41.031(1)). South Carolina allows injured per­ requiring accommodation.” sons to seek injunctive relief or civil damages but caps damages at $5,000 (S.C. Code § 43-33- Adam Milani, a professor at Mercer College of 540). Similarly, Kansas limits damages for pain, Law in Georgia, and I decided to investigate the suffering and humiliation to $2,000 in orders by level of protection against disability discrimina­ the Civil Rights Commission (Kan. Stat. Ann. § tion provided at the state level. What would be 44-1005). We did not consider these limits to the level of protection if the Garrett holding reflect a significant enforcement problem. Ohio were extended to ADA Title II? More specifical­ has case law that specifically holds that “services” ly, are there state statutes barring state govern­ are not covered under its public accommodation ments from discriminating in public access and statute and that suggests that attorneys’ fees are services and, if so, do they offer remedies similar not available to enforce the public accommoda­ to those found in ADA Title II? We have con­ tions rule. These states need a major legislative cluded that only a minority of states actually overhaul. We recommend that they use language have statutory protection against disability dis­ found in the Michigan statute as a model for crimination in “other aspects of life” similar to new legislation. that found in ADA Title H. In sum, if the Supreme Court were to extend the Only 24 of 51 states have disability discrimina­ Garrett decision to ADA Title II, the effect tion statutes that appear to be comparable to would be significant, especially in the state of ADA Title II. Thus, about half of the states pro­ Ohio. Our research reflects why broad, national vide less protection than ADA Title II. If Garrett coverage is still needed in the disability area. were to be extended to ADA Title II, the effect It should not be acceptable for disability discrim­ would be profound. Another sixteen states offer ination to go unremedied in Ohio but strongly moderate protection from state disability enforced in Michigan. FACULTY NEWS

oritz College of Law faculty Sarah Rudolph Cole, Associate Nancy H. Rogers Receives ABA M members are widely sought Professor D’Alem berte/Raven Dispute for their expertise in a multitude of • spoke on “Civil Justice Reform: Resolution Award areas. Topics vary from death penalty Fair, Affordable and Accessible issues to land use planning. Here is a Arbitration,” at the ABA Section on Nancy H. Rogers, dean of the Moritz College of Law, sampling of some of the professors’ Dispute has received the D’Alemberte/Raven Award from the activities in the past months. Resolution’s American Bar Association annual meet­ Section of Dispute Resolution. Mary Beth Beazley, Director o f Legal ing, Seattle, Writing an d Associate Professor April 6, 2002 The award, which was pre­ • her textbook, A Practical Guide to • wrote an arti­ sented at the section’s spring Appellate Advocacy, was released by cle for the conference on April 5 In Aspen in early April. Dispute Seattle, was created to recog­ Resolution nize outstanding service in dis­ Doug Berman, Associate Professor M agazine (to pute resolution and is named Sarah Rudolph Cole • wrote “Appreciating Apprendi: be published in honor of former ABA presi­ Developing Sentencing Procedure this summer) entided, “The Revised Dean Nancy H. Rogers dents Robert D. Raven and in the Shadow of the Constitution,” Uniform Arbitration Act: The Talbot S. (“Sandy”) an article on sentencing procedures Wrong Cure?” D'Alemberte. in the wake of the Supreme Court s • is publishing (with Dean Nancy H. decision in Apprendi v. New Jersey, Rogers and Frank E.A. Sander) the Dean Rogers has been an active proponent of medi­ Criminal Law Bulletin, Fall 2001. 2002 supplement to their casebook, ation. She recently served as conference reporter for • has been named managing editor of Dispute Resolution: Negotiation, the Uniform Mediation Act, and was the faculty coor­ the Federal Sentencing Reporter, M ediation an d Other Processes dinator for the research and drafting support of the with primary responsibility for each (Aspen 1999). ABA Section on Dispute Resolution when the section issue of the publication. met jointly with the National Conference Drafting Ruth Colker, Grace Fern Heck Faust Committee. Rogers has also served on several dis­ Michael Braunstein, Professor Chair in Constitutional Law pute resolution committees, including the ABA • presented CLE courses in • was quoted in the November 20, Standing Committee on Dispute Resolution. Columbus and Cleveland on land 2001 edition of the N ew York use planning. Times in a story about employers Currently, Rogers serves on the Board of Directors facing disability-based bias cases; of the Legal Services Corporation, which distributes Douglas R. Cole, Assistant Professor also quoted on the same topic in the federal funding to provide civil legal services to low • was quoted in an Associated Press November 20 issues of American income persons. She is also on the Executive story in The Columbus Dispatch on Health Line and Bloomberg News. Committee of the American Association of Law March 6 about • was cited in a United Press Schools, and just completed a term as president of a suit aimed at International story on November 15 the Columbus Bar Foundation. enhancing the regarding her study of Americans $5.9 billion with Disabilities (ADA) cases in the A graduate of the University of Kansas and Yale Law hostile bid by federal appellate courts. School, Rogers was a law clerk for U.S. District Northrop • was quoted (along with Professor Court Judge Thomas D. Lambros and a legal ser­ Grumman to Douglas Whaley) in a Columbus vices lawyer before entering teaching. take over Dispatch story on February 28, Cleveland- 2002 regarding benefits for domes­ based TRW tic partners of Columbus Corp.; also Douglas R. Cole city employees. quoted on the same topic in the • was published in Ohio Trial. “ADA: March 7 edition of the Cleveland A Decade of Enforcement” was Plain Dealer. Professor Colker s University Distinguished Lecture on October 17, 2001. FACULTY NEWS

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• will speak about the ADA at the Tenth Circuit’s Continuing Edward B. “Ned” Foley, Professor Legal Education Program in Santa Fe, New Mexico in July 2002 • has been asked by the State of Arizona and 15 other states to and about her empirical research at the annual AALS meeting in appear on their behalf at the oral argument of an important January 2003. campaign finance case. (This follows an amicus brief he wrote on • her article, “Dissing Congress,” was published in the Michigan their behalf.) Law Review. • presented a paper, “Judging Voucher Programs One at a Time,” • has forthcoming articles in the Cincinnati Law Review and as part of the Gilvary Symposium at the University of Dayton. Michigan Journal o f Law Reform. • moderated a panel on “The National Emergency and the Law” for a CLE at the Ohio State Bar Association. Associate Dean Sharon L. Davies, Associate Professor Gregory Travalio and professors Stanley Laughlin and Mary • presented a work-in-progress on February 15 Ellen O’Connell participated in the panel. to a group of Ohio State professors on • assisted the Brennan Center for Justice, the American “Ethnic Profiling in the Wake of 9/11: The Judicature Society, and several other organizations in an amicus Use of Race and Ethnicity in Criminal brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in Republican Party v. Kelly, an Investigations.” important case involving state judicial elections and canons of • served as the chairperson of the Columbus ethics that maintain due process and judicial fairness to litigants. Bar Associations Racial Profiling Task Force. Thomas P. Gallanis, Associate Professor Joshua Dressier, Frank R. Strong Chair in Law • was named the chair of the Section on • wrote “Why Keep the Provocation Defense?: Aging and the Law at the annual meeting of Some Reflections on a Difficult Subject,” the Association of American Law Schools in the Minnesota Law Review. (AALS) in January 2002 in New Orleans. • wrote a chapter in Crim inal Law Theory: • chaired a panel at the AALS meeting on Doctrines O f The General Part 259 (Oxford “Elders in the Criminal Justice System,” University Press, 2002), “Battered Women where one of the speakers was Professor Who Kill Their Sleeping Tormenters: Joshua Dressier. Professor Dressier Reflections on Whether We Can Maintain addressed the topic of “Reflections and Respect for Human Life While Killing Musings About Elders in the Criminal ThomaS P' Gallanis Joshua Dressier Moral Monsters.” Justice System: Theories of Punishment and the Elderly.”

Katherine Hunt Federle, Director o f Justice for Children Project and Arthur F. Greenbaum, Professor Associate Professor • saw the release of the new edition of Fink, Wilson, and • spoke about reconceptualizing violent children, “Children’s Greenbaum, Guide to the Ohio Rules o f Civil Procedure in Experiences of Crime and Punishment,” in December 2001 at the January 2002. “Defending Childhood: Developing a Child-Centered Agenda for • has his on-going co-authored work (with the Jones, Day, Reavis, Children and Youth” conference, the University of Florida Levin and Pogue law firm) on Ohio legal ethics available on-line as part College of Law, Gainesville. of the American Legal Ethics Library (www.law.cornell.edu/ethics). • was quoted in the February 15, 2002 edition of the Cleveland • presented a work in progress, “The Lawyer’s Duty to Plain Dealer regarding a case that was to be argued before the Report Professional Misconduct,” at a faculty workshop at the Kentucky Supreme Court that day. Professor Federle and the Moritz College in May. Justice for Children Project have closely watched the nationally- publicized adoption battle between an Ohio couple and a David Goldberger, Director o f Clinical Programs and Isador and Ida Kentucky couple. Topper Professor o f Law • participated as a panelist at the Ethics and Professionalism • addressed critics of the recent Ohio Supreme Court rulings on Roundtable during the Dave Thomas Center for Adoption Law’s school funding, tort reform, and workers’ compensation in an Fourth Annual Symposium on “Making Permanent Placements op ed piece in The Columbus Dispatch on October 13, 2001. Succeed” at the Columbus Convention Center on March 4, 2002. • was quoted in the October 19, 2001 edition of The Columbus Dispatch in a story about three travelers who were arrested illegally on September 11 because they reportedly wore “Arabian garb” and “masks.” FACULTY NEWS

Gardners paper “The Criminal Sanction and Latter-Day Saint Thought.” The BYU law review will be publishing conference papers in an upcoming issue.

Louis Jacobs, Professor • participated (with Professor Chris Fairman) in the 38th Annual Labor and Employment Law Seminar sponsored by the Ohio State Bar Association on October 25 and 26 in Columbus.

Professor Arthur Greenbaum (center) makes a point during a panel discus­ sion for newly-admitted students. Greenbaum, along with Professors L. Camille Hébert, Katherine Hunt Federle, andJames Brudney gave the students a behind-the-scenes look at law school.

Sheldon W. Halpern, C. William O ’Neill Professor o f Law • released his casebook, Copyright Law: Protection o f Original Expression (Carolina Academic Press). • is making arrangements for the Third Interdisciplinary Conference on Intellectual Property and Technology, to be During a Center for Law, Policy, and Social Science Workshop, held in London, England on March 6-8, 2003, with the joint Professor Steven F. H uefner responds to a question about his research about term limits and campaign finance reform. sponsorship of the Moritz College of Law, Santa Clara University School of Law, and Birkbeck College of the University of London. Creola Johnson, Assistant Professor • wrote “The Digital Threat to the Normative Role of Copyright • wrote an article in the February 27, 2002 Law,” which was published in the Ohio State Law Journal. Daily Reporter (Columbus) outlining the • spoke on copyright issues to the Columbus Federal Bar bait-and-switch sales technique. Association in February, 2002. • spoke at the Ohio State Legal Aid • chaired a discussion of International Intellectual Property Issues Association in Columbus on February 22, at the Santa Clara High Tech Law Institute Intellectual Property 2002 about “Payday Loans: Shrewd Week program. Business or Predatory Lending.” • served as a panelist at the National Lawrence R. Herman, Professor Emeritus Endowment for Financial Education and • will direct and teach in Moritz Colleges Oxford, England, Consumer Federation of America, Summer Pre-Law Program in July and will teach Criminal Law at Washington, D.C., on February 28, 2002, Creola Johnson Ohio State during the autumn semester. discussing “The Debt Cycle: Using Payday • consulted on civil liberties matters with the ACLU of Ohio and Loans to Make Ends Meet.” the ACLU of Hawaii. Sheila Kapur ’88, Assistant Dean for Student Affairs and Steven F. Huefner, Assistant Professor an d Director o f the Public Programs Legislation Clinic • served as the chair of the awards committee and as a member of • participated in a symposium at the J. Rueben Clark Law School the executive committee for the American Association of Law at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah on October 19, Schools Pro Bono and Public Service Opportunities Section 2001. The symposium, “Latter-Day Saint Perspectives on Law,” during 2001. brought together scholars from around the country to address a variety of legal topics from the perspectives of the faith community of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Professor Huefner s comments responded to Professor Martin FACULTY NEWS

James E. Meeks, Jacob E. Davis Professor o f Law • was recognized for his lifetime achievement in the field of law by the Student Bar Association at the Moritz College of Law’s Barrister’s Ball on March 11, 2002.

Kathy S. Northern, Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs and Associate Pr°fessort , , James E. Meeks • served as a facilitator at the 2002 Ohio Bench Bar Conference in March 2002. The Legislation Clinic at the Moritz College ofLaw hosted its first conference Nancy H. Rogers, Dean and Michael E. Moritz Chair in Alternative in downtown Columbus on February 21. Centered around the term limits o f Dispute Resolution legislators. It drew attendees from around the country. The Honorable • was elected to the Executive Committee during the meeting of Charles Perricone, former speaker o fthe Michigan House o f Representatives, the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). was a speaker. • made a presentation on the Uniform Mediation Act for the Ohio Supreme Court Office of Dispute Resolution in October 2001. • was the keynote speaker at the 6th Annual Alabama Conference • serves on the advisory panel, Council of State Governments on Dispute Resolution in Montgomery, Ala. in February 2002. Project on Internet Privacy in the States. • served as a panelist, “Privacy and On-Line Politics,” Democracy Marc S. Spindelman, Assistant Professor Online Project, Washington, D.C., December, 2001. • presented the Harvey M. Meyerhoff Lecture • spoke on “Privacy and Security After September 11,” University on Ethics and End of-Life Care at Johns of Michigan University Lecture Series; American Society of Access Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, Md., Professionals; Ann Arbor and Washington, D.C., November, March 20, 2002. He discussed states’ rights 2001. and federal regulation of physician-assisted • spoke on “Privacy and the Internet,” Democratic Forum and suicide in “The Death of ‘Death with Dignity ?” Institute for Policy Innovation, Dallas, November, 2001. • wrote “Legislating Privilege,” which was • was a panelist, “Civil Liberties in the Internet Age,” Yale Law published in the spring 2002 issue of School, New Haven, Conn., November, 2001. the Journal o f Law, Medicine and Ethics. e______• spoke on “What Should be Hidden and Open in Computer .f , ,, . „ , Marc S. Spindelman • was quoted in the March 27, 2002 Columbus Security: Lessons from Deception, the Art of War, Law, and Dispatch article “City Appeals Ruling by Own Commission” Economic Theory,” Telecommunications Policy Research regarding domestic partner benefits. Conference; Brookings Institution Program on Cyber-Security; and George Washington University Law School Works in Peter Swire, Professor Progress, October-November, 2001. • wrote “If Surveillance Expands, Safeguard Civil Liberties,” • spoke on “Security and Privacy after September 11 - the Atlanta Journal Constitution, October 21, 2001. Implications for Healthcare,” Third National HIPAA Summit; • wrote “Administration Wiretap Proposal Hits the Right Issues and Glasser Legalworks Privacy Conference, both in Washington, But Goes Too Far,” Brookings Terrorism Project Website, D.C., November, 2001. October 3, 2001. • spoke on “Key New Surveillance Provisions,” Privacy 2001 • is the reporter for the Committee on Technology and Privacy, Conference, Cleveland, October, 2001. The Constitution Project: The Liberty and Security Initiative. • spoke on “Telecommunications, Privacy, and Security after • is the editor of Cyberspace Law Abstracts o f the Social Science September 11,” Ohio Telecommunications Associations, Research Network, www.ssrn.com. Cincinnati, October, 2001. • is chair, Experts Group of the Center for Democracy and Technology, to analyze policy and legal issues concerning Internet privacy. • is consulting expert, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, on project for assessing fair information practice for genetic information. FACULTY NEWS

New Staff Members Help With Day-to-Day Operation

rary staff Susan Gamer Eisenman '74, chair o f the Ohio Adoption Law Roundtable, : a 1985 era f the Mori shares her experience as an adoption lawyer during the Special Needs Adoption Seminar at the Moritz College o f Law on March 1. More than 50 attorneys, social workers, and prospective parents attended the sessions in Drinko Hall. Professor Katherine Hunt Federle directed the seminar. ppeais, a

Donald Tobin, Assistant Professor • has signed on as a co-author (with Daniel Posin of Tulane) of Federal Income Taxation o f Individuals, a hornbook published by West. The new edition (the 6th) is expected out in the spring of 2003.

Gregory Travalio, Associate Dean for Professional Relations and Lawrence D. Stanley Professor o f Law • was re-appointed to chair the Legal Education Committee of the Ohio State Bar Association. • was invited to become a Fellow of the Ohio State Bar Foundation, Class of 2002.

Vincene Verdun, Associate Professor • was quoted in the November 8, 2001 issue of Black Issues in Higher Education in an article on reparations. • spoke at a conference on reparations at Denison University in November 2001. • was interviewed about reparations on WOSUs Black Studies Broadcast Journal in February 2002. • authored an article on reparations in the March Ohio Lawyer. • served as the keynote speaker at Annual Black History Month Colloquium for The Ohio State University Department of African and African American Studies on February 20. • spoke on reparations at the Black Law Student Association Colloquium, University of Dayton Law School on February 27 • was a speaker for Black History Month for the Department of World Studies, Ohio Wesleyan University on February 28. • was the keynote speaker at the National Reparations Conference, Georgia State University on March 1. The Honorable Jo A nn Davidson, former speaker o f the Ohio House o f Representatives, was the keynote speaker for the Term Limits Conference at the Ohio Statehouse Atrium. She is pictured (from left) with Professor James Brudney, Michael E. Colley ’61, and Professor Steven F. Huefner, director of the Legislation Clinic. STUDENT NEWS

Experiencing Ohio State - As a Student Trustee By Liz Cutler Gates

Most students experience Ohio State from noted, “because we are seen, as much the classroom. They attend lectures, take as possible, by the other members (of exams, write papers, and, in their spare the board) as their peers. They listen time, socialize with their friends. But for to us and they respect us. And as stu­ Kevin Filiatraut, 25, of Upper Arlington, dent trustees, a vote in the meeting is Ohio, his Ohio State experience was very not how you are going to be most different. He saw it from the vantage of effective. You are going to be most administration - as a student member of effective if you are able to relate to the university Board of Trustees. people, gain their respect, and then they want to hear what you are going He was the second law student to serve in to say.” this capacity since student members were added in 1989. Thomas C. Smith ’96 was He is proud of his work on the board. appointed to a two-year term in 1994 while a student at the law school. “The best thing that I have done as a student trustee is that I was a good “I felt it was something that would help me member and served Ohio State well,” get connected to Ohio State,” Filiatraut he said. When asked what he did for recalled, reflecting on his two-year term as a the students of Ohio State, he had a trustee, which expired May 13. Appointed standard answer. by Governor Bob Taft in 2000, Filiatraut, like other student board members, had no “While I am a graduate/professional voting power and could not attend execu­ student representative on the board, tive sessions, which are closed to the public. my job is not to represent their par­ ticular interests to the board. Trustees Filiatraut had served as the student govern­ have to do what they think is best for ment president in his senior year at John Ohio State, not just certain con­ Kevin Filiatraut ’02 Carroll University in Cleveland. “I really stituencies of Ohio State, and it is no differ­ As his term on the board wound down, felt I was doing something for the school,” ent for student trustees.” he focused on graduation and a career he remembered. He sought the same kind in law. “I’d like to get a job,” he said with a of experience at Ohio State and he wasn’t Filiatraut said his legal training helped as laugh. He’d like to work with a law firm or disappointed. He said that his term on the the board considered the many issues that be involved government opportunities, such board was a highlight of his years in impacted Ohio State students. He had as a prosecutor’s office. Somewhere down law school. input into increases in tuition and made the road, he may run for public office. But recommendations to the university student the for time being, “I’d like to be a lawyer,” “I’ve learned so much about how universi­ Code of Conduct. He numbered university he said. “I want to be in the courtroom and ties function and about decision-making at administrators and community leaders as exercise those skills.” the highest level in any organization,” he his friends, but he was low key about his said. “I’ve also learned to carry myself in involvement as a trustee. those situations and how to interact with people who are, for one, much older than “The majority of professors I have know me, and two, who have had so many expe­ I’m on the board,” he says. “It’s not some­ riences that are so different from mine.” thing that I go up and tell them about, unless I’m going to be missing class quite a Other students have questioned the lack of few times,” he added. voting rights, something that Filiatraut downplays. “A vote is not necessary,” he STUDENT NEWS

Students Recognized Students Make Recommendations with Writing Awards to Task Force Students in the Justice for Children Practicum, in conjunction Three Moritz College students, have with the Justice for Children Project, have submitted recommen­ received national honors for their dations to the Guardian Ad Litem Standards Task Force. legal writing skills. The Task Force, appointed by Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Alyssa H. Shenk, a recent graduate Thomas Moyer ’64, has been charged with developing uniform from Bexley, received the Student standards for guardians ad litem in the state of Ohio. Guernsey Articles Prize given by the CPR County Common Pleas Judge David Ellwood (chair of the task Institute for Dispute Resolution. The award, for “Victim-Offender force) also asked the project to provide recommendations for stan­ dards governing lay and attorney guardians ad litem and Court Alyssa H. Shenk ’02 Mediation: The Road to Repairing Hate Crimes Injustice,” (17 Ohio St. Appointed Special Advocates (CASAs), and to develop a rule per­ J on Disp. Resol. 185, 2001), was announced in late mitting legal interns to assist attorney guardians ad litem. January at a dinner held at New York’s Plaza Hotel. Thé students involved with the project were Michael Bray, Michael The CPR Awards Program honors outstanding use and Deemer, Melissa Jamison, Miranda Sturm, Christian Spears, scholarship in the field of alternative dispute resolution Angela Sullivan, and Ricky Windom. (ADR).

Jared Gross, a second-year student from Cleveland, received second place in the Louis Jackson Memorial Student Auction Funds Summer Fellowships Writing Competition in Labor and Employment Law with his paper, “Recognition of Labor Union in a Comparative Context: Has the United Kingdom Entered a New Era?” The paper was written as an assignment in Professor James Brudney s Comparative Labor and Employment Law Seminar.

Sponsored by the national labor and employment law firm Jackson Lewis, in honor and memory of one of the firms founders, the competition is administered by Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Institute for Law and the Workplace. Jared Gross ’03 Rheeshaun Brown bids on one o ftwo bar review programs that were donated As a 3L, René L. Rimelspach ’01 to the annual Public Interest Law foundation auction on February 2 7 in the won first prize in the James B. Ohio Union. Boskey Essay Contest sponsored by the ABA Section of Dispute The auction, which is the primary funding source for summer fellowships that Resolution. (She was also the first are awarded to Moritz College students for unpaid or low-paying public inter­ recipient of this prize that was estab­ est employment, raised a record $13,762. With a contribution from Dean lished in James Boskey’s name.) The Nancy H. Rogers, the group will have $18,762 to awardfor fellowships. award for her essay, “Mediating Family Disputes in a World with Over the past 10 years, the group has funded 55 summer fellowships, totaling Domestic Violence: How to Devise nearly $80,000. The individuals grants have ranged from $500 to $2,500for René L. Rimelspach a safe an(j Effective Court- students to work at organizations like the Nature Conservancy, the Ohio State ’1)1 Connected Mediation Program,” was Legal Services Association, and the Legal Aid Society o f Columbus. presented at the International Conference of the Association for Conflict Resolution in Toronto, Canada in October 2001. H onor Roll of Volunteers Volunteers are an important part of the life of the Moritz College of This list is as complete as possib though given the number of Law. Without them, events like h loot Court competition and class people who are involved in the : hool on a regular basis, we realize reunions would not take place. St udents would learn less about “real that some volunteers may have 1 :ên inadvertendy omitted. If that world” experiences, if individuals did not give their time to speak to is the case, please accept our dee est apologies and be assured that classes, and contribute to the Col lege in many other ways. any oversight is not intentional.

In this issue, we recognize those ] >eople who have provided in-kind gifts of their time ana talent duri ng the past year.

George Albu Walter Boyuk ’68, Raymond P. (Ray) Cunningham ’50 Howard H. Harcha, Jr. ’51, Alejandro Almaguer ’97, Walter C. Boyuk Co. Laurie Wayt Danis ’82, Harcha and Harcha Bricker and Eckler, LLP David H. Braff ’84, Claire DeLeigh Corp. Kristine Hayes ’98, Linda L. Ammons ’87, Sullivan and Cromwell Peter Danis ’81, Carlile, Patchen, and Murphy Cleveland-Marshail College of Law Kenneth A. Bravo ’67, Claire DeLeigh Corp. Bill Hedrick ’96, Daniel Anderson, Ulmer and Berne Michelle Darvishi ’99, Columbus City Attorney’s Office Schottenstein, Zox, and Dunn, LPA Michael M. Briley ’69, Shayne and Greenwald Matt Heilman, Dianna Anelli, Shumaker, Loop, and Kendrick, LLP Kristin Davidson Ohio Attorney General’s Office Office of Disciplinary Counsel Kristen Brown ’96, Lisa Donato, Marianne Hemmeter ’97 Laurie Arsenault ’00, Squire, Sanders, and Dempsey, LLP Ohio Attorney General’s Office John Herbert 75, Delaware County Prosecutor’s Office John T. Brown ’58, Sandra Drabik ’80, Blagrund, Herbert, and Martin, Inc. Penny Babin ’01, Brown, Bemiller, Murray, and University of Toledo John J. Heron ’65, Judge Sargus’ Chambers, U.S. District McIntyre The Honorable Robert M. Duncan ’52 Porter, Wright, Morris, and Court, Southern District of Ohio Yvette McGee Brown ’85, Peter G. Eikenberry ’64 Arthur, LLP Thomas Bainbridge ’67, The Center for Child and Family Aaron Evenchik ’01, Doug Holthus, Ward, Kaps, Bainbridge, Maurer Advocacy, Children’s Hospital Bank One Law Department Reminger and Reminger Kathryn Bamberger ’90, The Honorable Peggy L Bryant ’76, Mary Ellen Fairfield ’72, Jeff Hutson, Private Practice 10 th District Court of Appeals, Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and Pease, LLP Lane, Atman, and Hutson John Barron, State of Ohio James Foley ’98, The Honorable Fred Inderlied, Supreme Court of Ohio Brian Bums ’97, Ohio Public Defender’s Office Court of Common Pleas, The Honorable William G. (Bill) Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. Ralph K. Frasier, Geauga County Batchelder III ’67, Tony Buscemi Porter, Wright, Morris, and William M. Isaac ’69, 9th District Court of Appeals, Jolynn Barry Butler ’76, Arthur, LLP Secura Group State of Ohio Ameritech Indiana Leon Friedberg, Duane L Isham ’53, Frank £. Bazler ’53, Danielle Carter, Carlile, Patchen, and Murphy Rotzel and Andress Dungan and LeFevre Isaac Brant The Honorable Gregory L Frost, J. B. Jasiunas ’01, Sondra Bell John F. Casey ’65, Court of Common Pleas, Arter and Hadden. The Honorable John Bender ’71, John F. Casey, A Legal Licking County Steven W. Jemison ’75, Department of Commerce, Professional Association Michael Gallagher ’01 The Procter and Gamble Company State of Ohio Anthony J. (Tony) Celebreeze, Jr., Ken Galonka ’86 Sharon Jennings ’91, Paul A. Bernardini ’66, Kegler, Brown, Hill, and Ritter John W. Garland '74, Ohio Attorney General’s Office Law Office of Paul Bernardini John J. Chester, Central State University Larry Johnson ’67 Ronald A. Bell ’94, Chester, Willcox, and Saxbe, LLP Charles F. Glander ’59, Daniel Jones, Taft, Stettinius, and Hollister Toki Clark ’87, Ohio University Office of Legal Aflairs Ohio Attorney General’s Office Peg Bettendorf’97, Clark Law Office Amy Goldstein Jeffrey Jones, Schottenstein, Zox, and Dunn, LPA William Clark ’60, David Gormley, Jones, Day, Reavis, and Pogue Britney Bigner William S. Clark, Esq. Ohio Attorney General’s Office Shawn Judge ’98, Paul Bittner ’93, Robert H. Cohen, Clay P. Graham ’80, Supreme Court of Ohio Schottenstein, Zox, and Dunn, LPA Porter, Wright, Morris, and Arthur, LLP Graham, McClelland, McCann, Steven R. Kestner ’79, Sally W. Bloomfield ’69, Michael F. Colley ’61, and Ransbottom Baker and Hosteder Bricker and Eckler, LPA Michael F. Colley Co., LPA The Honorable James L. Graham ’62, The Honorable David A. Katz ’57, Marc Blubaugh ’97, Cheryl Collins U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio U.S. District Court, Northern Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan, James P. Conroy ’74, The Honorable James E. Green ’84, District of Ohio and Aronoff Walter and Haverfield Municipal Court, Franklin County Chuck Kettlewell ’71 James Blumensteil ’67 Edwin (Ed) Cooperman ’67 Tracy Greuel, Joelle Khouzam, The Honorable William Melanie Cornelius, Ohio Attorney General’s Office Carlile, Patchen, and Murphy T. Bodoh ’64, Ohio Attorney General George W. Hairston ’68, Kenneth J. Kies’77, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern Catherine Cunningham ’83, Baker and Hostetler Price WaterhouseCoopers, LLP District of Ohio Shuler, Plank, Morgan, and Brahm Washington National Tax Service HONOR ROLL OF VOLUNTEERS

William I. Kohn ’76, John T. Mills '73, Michael D. Saad ’66, The Honorable G. Gary Tyack ’75, Sachnoff and Weaver Marathon Oil Company Squire, Sanders, and Dempsey, LLP 10th District Court of Appeals, Beth Lagana ’80, Roberta Mitchell, Dan D. Sandman ’73, State of Ohio Defense Logistics Agency Office of Capital University Law School USS Corporation Charles J. Tyburski ’64, Counsel, Columbus Region Maria Mone ’87, Karen J. Sarjeant ’75 Black, McCuskey, Souers, and Monique Lampke ’97, Center for Dispute Resolution Charles Saunders, Jr. ’72, Arbaugh Porter, Wright, Morris, and Arthur, LLP Jennifer Monty Ashland Inc. George V. Voinovich ’61, Mark Landes ’82, The Honorable Carla D. Moore ’77, Rocky Saxbe 75, U.S. Senate Isaac, Brant, Ledman, and Tetor Akron Municipal Court Chester, Willcox, and Saxbe, LLP Arthur Vorys ’49, Anne Larkin, Michael E. Moritz ’61 Barbara Sentz ’83, Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and Pease, LLP Carlile, Patchen, and Murphy Lou Ann Mortiz Barbara A. 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Structuring Charitable Gifts Among Topics Seminar

How to structure a charitable gift using closely held business assets Mote is the executive director of the Ohio Lawyers Assistance will be among the topics discussed at the 4th Annual Charitable Program, Inc. (OLAP), which was formed by the Lawyers Estate Planning Seminar at the Jerome Schottenstein Center on Assistance Committee of the Ohio State Bar Association. He is a the campus of The Ohio State University on Friday, September 27, partner at Harris, McClellan, Binau, and Cox PLL with a general 2002. practice and is a frequent speaker on substance abuse issues.

Laura H. Peebles, CPA will provide tips on structuring gifts during Stern was disciplinary counsel for the Supreme Court of Ohio the morning session on charitable estate planning. A director at from 1993-1997. He has given more than 300 presentations inter­ Deloitte and Touche in Washington D.C., she has more than 22 nationally, nationally, and throughout the State of Ohio on profes­ years of experience in public accounting with extensive experience sional liability/responsibility, appellate, and litigation management serving the charitable, tax and estate planning needs of high net issues. He is a partner at Kegler, Brown, Hill, and Ritter and is a worth individuals. She is a frequent speaker and has written for frequent speaker on professionalism. The Journal o f Gift Planning. By attending this program, one may earn up to 5.5 hours of The afternoon session will include a two and a half-hour presenta­ continuing legal education credit including the requisite 2.5 hours tion on ethics, substance abuse, and professionalism. of ethics, substance abuse and professionalism.

Other speakers for the day are Jonathan Coughlan, Scott Mote, The Charitable Estate Planning Seminar is sponsored by Office of and Geoffrey Stern ’68, according to Joseph O. Bull ’85, Director Planned Giving at The Ohio State University. It has traditionally of Planned Giving at Ohio State. attracted professional advisors, attorneys, accountants, and finan­ cial planners from around the State of Ohio. Coughlan is disciplinary counsel for the Supreme Court of Ohio. He is a frequent speaker around the State of Ohio on ethics issues, Please contact the Office of Planned Giving at 614-292-2183 or is a lecturer for the OSBA-CLE Institute, and teaches at the 1-800-327-7907 or by email at [email protected] for additional National District Attorney’s Advocacy Center in South Carolina. information about the seminar.

Ernest Karem, C incinnatiand his friend, Barbara Parks, visited the law school on March 1 to present Black’s Law Dictionaries to the top members o f last year’s first-year class. It’s a program he does in three Ohio law schools (Akron and Cincinnati in addition to Moritz College) and one in Kentucky. Pictured are (front, left to right), Kalli Jones, Dean Nancy Rogers, Karam, Mrs. Parks, Emily Root, (back, left to right), Lee Ann Rabe, Brandon Kepple, Ryan Kilkenny, Kerstin Sjoberg-Witt, Brent Williams, Christopher Murray, and Anne French.

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Reese donates $1,5 million for chair in Development contract law Director Resigns

A Newark attorney, J. Gilbert (Gib) Reese, has donated $1.5 million to the Thomas G. Hoffman II, Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University to enable the college to director of development at attract, hire, and retain a professor with a national reputation for excellence. The the Michael E. Moritz gift, which was approved by the university board of trustees on February 1, 2002, College of Law since 1995, creates the J. Gilbert Reese Chair in Contract Law. has resigned. In July, he Reese, a 1952 graduate of the Moritz College of Law, has practiced law in Thomas G. Hoffman II began work as vice presi­ Newark since graduating. He is a partner with Reese, Pyle, Drake, and Meyer dent for advancement at and resides in Granville with his wife, Lou. They have five grown children. Ohio Dominican, a small Roman Catholic college on the north side of Columbus. “It is important to the State of Ohio to have a very outstanding college of law at The Ohio State University,” said Reese. “ If we are going to have a top 10 public university in the country, we have to have a top 10 pubhc law school in the While at Ohio State, Hoffman oversaw the launch­ country.” ing of the law school's capital campaign, which raised $23 million and played a role in securing Reese wants to build on the gift of Michael E. Moritz Ohio State’s largest single gift: $30 million from to encourage others to support the school in its goals. alumnus Michael E. Moritz ’61. (Moritz gave $30 million last year to be used toward student scholarships and faculty excellence. At the same time, the College of Law was named for him in "Though we will miss Tom’s wonderful contribu­ recognition of his support.) tions to our development efforts at the Moritz College,” said Dean Nancy H. Rogers, “we celebrate Reese designated an expert in contract law because it is the recognition of his talents that this opportunity a subject that every law student studies. “They must have an education in it and must understand it,” he J. Gilbert Reese represents. We are grateful for Tom’s important role said. “It is one of the most important areas of law.” in the major opportunities created for the college as the result of his development work during his years “Gib Reese’s generosity will add excellence to the education of generations of law at Ohio State.” students. The chaired position allows the College to recruit one of the nations distinguished contracts scholars,” said law Dean Nancy H. Rogers. “Gib’s gift, especially coming on the heels of the gift by Mike Moritz, increases the momen­ tum toward making the College great.”

This gift is part of ongoing fund-raising efforts in support of The Ohio State University Academic Plan, following the success of the university’s $1.23 billion “Affirm Thy Friendship” Campaign.

The Moritz College of Law and The Ohio State University are conducting a national * . (5>0ile/T„ -v search for the Director of Development for the Moritz College. The Moritz College wants to maintain the momentum it has established in the past few years and is seeking a talented individual who can direct our development efforts. Previous fund-raising or related experience is highly desirable. If you know of a highly motivated, energetic person who might be qualified for this important position,/ or are interested in the position yourself, please call John Meyer, Vice-President of University Development, at 614-688-3250, or e-mail him at [email protected]. You can also contact Gregory Travalio, Associate Dean foi Professional Relations at 614-292-2689, or at [email protected]. At-A-Glance Interactive Day Judges’ Day and the Frank R. Strong Law Forum Thursday, November 14, 2002 Designed For Junges Featuring Linda Greenhouse, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the 1 ^ elieving a law school can be New York Times. John Deaver Drinko Hall MJ3 improved by the company ititJ 55 West 12th Avenue, Columbus keeps, the Moritz College of Law held its first Judges’ Day on February 26. Judges and their clerks from federal, state and local courts throughout the Ohio and contiguous states were invited to spend a day at the Moritz College to interact with faculty, inspire stu P rofessor N e d Foley was one o f several dents, and expand classroom dis­ faculty members who led CLE seminars cussion. Faculty offered a variety of especially for the judges. courses for CLE credit, opened their classrooms to visitors, and Judge Boggs’ lecture “The Record participated in lively exchanges to the Appellate Judge: Straitjacket with judges over lunch and a late or Springboard?” outlined the afternoon reception. A highlight of advantages and disadvantages of the day was the Order of the Coif being costrained by a trial record lecture delivered by the Honorable made by others, along with the Danny J. Boggs of the U. S. Sixth duty to remain faithful to that Circuit Court of Appeals. More record. In addition to faculty and than 50 judges and their clerks fellow judges, Moritz Order of the participated. Coif alumni from the 1930’s through the present, attended. Judges’ Day began with a panel Faculty provided a variety of CLE designed to encourage students to programming tailored to the inter­ consider judicial clerkships upon ests of visiting judges. Professors graduation. Judges from local, Edward B. “Ned” Foley and Alan state, and federal courts shared Michaels, both Columbia law information about the application graduates and clerks to the late process, the responsibilities of judi­ Justice Harry A. Blackmun, cial clerks and the long-term sub­ reviewed and commented on the stantive value of clerkships to an leading cases decided by the auditorium filled to capacity with Supreme Court in 2001. Professor interested students. Deborah Jones Merritt, the John Deaver Drinko-Baker and Hostetler Chair in Law, discussed marine environment from oil her research (conducted with ability and discrimination, dis­ spills, radioactive waste dumping Professor James J. Brudney, cussed the availability of relief for and the killing of marine mam­ Newton D. Baker/Baker and victims of disability discrimination mals. Funding for the event was Hostetler Chair in Law) identify- by state actors in the wake of the made possible through the gen­ | ing factors that distinguish pub- Supreme Courts decision in erosity of the late Michael E. | lished from unpublished opinions - University of Alabama v. Garrett. Moritz ‘61. - research that uncovered a surpris­ ing degree of partisan disagreement Professors Christopher M. Response to the inaugural event in unpublished opinions. Joshua Fairman and Mary Ellen exceeded all expectations and it Dressier, the Frank R. Strong O’Connell opened their class­ will be held again on November Chair in Law, used selected 2000- rooms to visiting judges. Fairman 14. Linda Greenhouse, Pulitzer 2001 Supreme Court cases to sug­ explored settlement issues and the Prize-winning journalist for the gest possible trends in often per­ intersection of lawyer compensa­ New York Times, will deliver the plexing and seemingly conflicting tion and plaintiff class recovery Frank R. Strong Law Forum lec­ Fourth Amendment case law. with students and the judges who ture, new CLE courses will be Professor Ruth Colker, Grace Fern chose to participate in the offered, and classrooms will again Heck Faust Memorial Chair in discussion. Professor O’Connell’s be open to visiting judges. Constitutional Law and nationally- class explored the international recognized expert in the law of dis­ regulation necessary to protect the

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. fudges Day began with a panel designed to encourage students to consider judicial clerkships upon graduation, fudge William T. Bodoh ‘64 o f the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District o f Ohio moderated a panel that included Judge Carole Squire (Franklin County Domestic Relations Court); Judge Alice Batchelder (6th Circuit U.S. Court o fAppeals); Judge William Batchelder (9th District, Ohio Court o fAppeals); Judge William Wolff (10th District, Ohio Court o fAppeals); Judge Nodine Miller (Franklin County Courtoj Common Pleas); Judge Edmund Sargus, Jr. (U.S. District Court, Southern District o f Ohio); and Judge Charles Caldwell (U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District o f Ohio). ______IN MEMORIAM

The M oritz College o f Law Carter C. Kissell ’27 died March 2, 2002, at his Outstanding Alumnus along with the Honorable has received word o f the home. He was William B. Saxbe ’45. In private practice, he deaths o f these alumni. 100. Always rec­ specialized in labor ognizing the bene­ and personal injury We express our sympathy to fits of his educa­ law. In 1968, he was relatives and loved ones. tion at the Moritz named to the Ohio College of Law, he 8th District Court of supported the Appeals. He left the school financially bench in 1984 to chair throughout his the new Ohio State life. In 1993, he Employment Relations created a scholar­ Board for four years. ship in memory of Throughout his career, the law professor he was an educator, Carter C. Kissell '27 who most impact­ teaching history ed his life - Alonzo H. Tuttle. In 1999, he and government at donated funds to create the Carter C. Kissell Denison University and political science and law Professorship of Law, which was first held by (as an adjunct professor) at Case Western then-dean Gregory H. Williams and is now held Reserve University. He is survived by his wife, by Professor L. Camille Hébert. His lifetime gifts Ruth; three sons, John G., Thomas D., and to the college exceed $ 1 million. William S.; two daughters, Judith and Kathleen; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. He was recognized by the Moritz College of Law in 1998 with the Outstanding Alumnus Award. Frank C. Beane ’40 died January 1, 2002, in Canton. He was 99. A long-time attorney in Kissell is survived by his daughters, Sarah Canton, he retired in 1995. His son, Frank L. Mitchell of Springfield, Mass., Sollace Hotze of Beane, Massillon, and two grandsons Russell, Ohio, and Judith Brainerd of Eastham, survive him. Mass., ten grandchildren, and 12 great-grand­ children. Richard D. Meek ’49 died June 25, 2001, in Greensboro, N.C. at the age of 79. Before retir­ Margaret L. Daehler ’33 died September 27, ing to Greensboro, he was the executive vice 2001, in Columbus. She was 93. She had served president of the Connecticut Automobile Trades as associate director of the Legal Aid Clinic at Association for 25 years, serving his last year as the College of Law. president of the country’s Automotive Trade Association. He is survived by his wife, Peggy; J. Donald Kincaid ’35 died November 28, 2001, children, Richard, of Greensboro, Sherry Munro, in Vero Beach, Fla. at the age of 93. He is sur­ of Summerfield, N.C., William, of Salisbury, vived by his wife of 32 years, Julianne; a son, N.C.; and eight grandchildren. Hal “Pete” Kincaid, Zanesville; a stepson, Eric Johnson, Wilmington, N.C.; a stepdaughter, John G. McCune, Sr. ’50 died July 20, 2001, in Christina Cassley, Zanesville; a brother, Robert Windcrest, Tex. He was 79. A Columbus native, Kincaid, Columbus; two sisters, Jean Maxwell, he practiced law there until his retirement in San Diego, Calif., and Lois King, Crooksville; 1985. He is survived by his wife of 57 years, seven grandchildren; and three great-grandchil­ Margaret “Peggy” Seymour McCune; two daugh­ dren. ters, Carrol M. Link, of Titusville, Fla. and Nancy E. Moore, of Windcrest; one son, John Jack G. Day ’38 died September 25, 2001, at his G. McCune, Jr., of Selma, Ala.; six grandchil­ home in Shaker Heights. He was 88. A lawyer, dren; and one great granddaughter. professor, and former judge, he was recognized by the Moritz College of Law in 1999 as IN MEMORIAM

John D. Lyter ’53, Westerville, died November 21, 2001. He was Garry Allen Beckett ’59 died in October 2001 at the age of 70. A 76. Retired as a clerk of the U.S. District Court, Southern District lifelong Columbus resident, he most recently had a law office at of Ohio, he is survived by his wife of 52 years, Barbara S. Lyter, Whittier and High. His sons, Mark, Matt, Chris, and Michael; his and children, John B. Lyter, Indianapolis; Richard S. Lyter, former wife, Donna Bryant; six grandchildren; and two aunts Parkersburg, W. Va.; and Anne Bates, Westerville; and six grand­ survive him. children. Brian A. Freeman ’65 died February 23 at the Arthur James Donald W. Bennett ’56 died July 23, 2001, in Arlington Heights, Cancer Hospital at The Ohio State University. He was 61. He was 111. He was an attorney at Firemans Fund Insurance Co. in a veteran of the U.S. Air Force where he received the Air Force Chicago and an on-call chaplain at Good Shepherd Hospital in Commendation Medal for Meritorious Service, and was a member Barrington, Illinois. He was appointed by President Richard Nixon of the Ohio Air National Guard. He served as Assistant Attorney to serve as chief counsel for the U.S. Federal Railroad General under William Saxbe from 1966-67 and was a Judge Administration in Washington, D.C., a position he also held dur­ Advocate in the United States Air Force where he obtained the ing Gerald Ford’s presidency. He is survived by his wife, Joan; a rank of Captain. He was a dedicated teacher, scholar, and adminis­ daughter, Susan; sons, Stephen and David; a stepmother, June; and trator. He joined the Capital University Law School faculty in six grandchildren. 1967, served as interim dean in the 1980s, and as associate dean for nine years. He won the Teacher of the Year in 2001, awarded by the Association of American Law Schools. He is survived by his raduates who were students at the Moritz College of Law wife and best friend, Mabel; children, Kevin of Madison, Wis. and in the 1960s and early 1970s will remember John Burke, Kirsten of Washington D.C.; and brothers, Scott Freeman of the proprietor of the State Restaurant on High Street, across the Eureka, Calif., and Douglas Freeman of Knoxville, Tenn. street from the school. Howard Vernon Gardner III ’00, 33, died February 8 following an Burke died August 8, 2001, in Columbus. automobile accident in Beavercreek, Ohio. He was an attorney-at- law with Faruki, Gilliam, and Ireland PLL in Dayton. He is sur­ Professor Earl Finbar Murphy remembers that during the years vived by his wife, Jennifer Cheney Gardner; daughters, Braden that Burke owned the restaurant, it was an “annex” of the col­ Sabastian Gardner (6) and Lacey Tristan Gardner (2); his parents, lege. “It was favored by both faculty and students,” he recalls. Pat Pearl and Howard V Gardner Jr.; brothers, Jon Howard Gardner, Paul W. Gardner, and James E. Gardner; sisters, Tammy Gardner H R ' “John was an advisor, mentor, sympathizer, and friend to count­ Harding, Shelbie Gardner Coutlee, and ■ ^ R f H R j ^ R less patrons, not the least being the law students who frequented Leah Gardner Dozier; and numerous the State,” he adds. nieces and nephews. I f you would like to contribute to the Professor Murphy remembers a group of students who decided Gardner Scholarship Fund, established for I that Burke was so important to the school, that his picture the benefit o f Braden and Lacey Gardner, should be among the faculty photos for the graduation compos­ please mail your donation to Faruki, ite photo. “A number of copies still exist,” says Murphy, Gilliam, and Ireland PLL, c/o John K “although Dean Frank Strong did his best to erase this election of Kendall, Executive Director, 500 an additional professor.” Courthouse Plaza, S.W, 10 North Ludlow Street, Dayton, OH 45402. Please make checks payable to The Regrets were great when Burke sold the State in 1972, according Howard Vernon Gardner Scholarship Fund. Gardner III ’00 to Murphy. “John had a sense of humor and knew more about the college than anyone else,” he recalls. Other deaths include: Wendell Theodore Griffith ’37, Fort Myers, Fla., April 7, 2001 Burke is survived by his wife of many years, Ann, two daughters, Martha E. Wheeler ’48, Black Mountain, N.C., February 18, 2001 Beverly and Patricia; a brother, Raymond; sisters-in-law, Annalee, Richard C. Neal ’49, Aptos, Calif., April 7, 2000 Sue, and Peg; and four grandchildren. ALUMNI NEWS

An article in 1930s Thomas C. Coady ’64 of the Ohio State Bar TheDeal.com on The Ohio State Bar has been appointed Foundation. October 11, 2001, Association recognized chair of the reported that the Robert B. Gosline ’36, Corporation Law Beatrice K. Sowald Honorable Toledo, for having been Committee of the Ohio ’66, an attorney in the William T. Bodoh in the practice of law State Bar Association. Columbus firm, ’64 has become a for 65 years. He heads the Public Sowald, Sowald, and magnet for many Finance Group at the Clouse, has been re­ Columbus office of large bankruptcy 1960s appointed to chair the Porter, Wright, Morris, Legal Ethics and cases. The lone E. Bruce Hadden ’60 and Arthur LLP. Professional Conduct judge in the has been appointed chair of the Aviation Committee of the Ohio Youngstown, Ohio Law Committee of the Theresa Doss ’64 has State Bar Association. division of the Ohio State Bar received Honorable William T. Bodoh ’64 U S' BankruPtcy Association. He previ­ the Robert W “Rob” Court for the ously served in this Scroll Briggs ’66 is chairman Northern District of Ohio, he had seen six large com­ capacity from 1989 to of of the board and share­ panies file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in his court in 1992 and from 1995 to Disting­ holder at Buckingham, the last year. The reasons for his popularity? He is 1997. He is a principal uished Doolitde and always well prepared, hearing dates are timely, and of Hadden Co., LPA in Theresa Doss Women Burroughs, LLP in he knows how to handle a large restructuring, Columbus. ’B4 Lawyers Akron. His practice according to attorneys who appear before him. Award focuses on corporate, Robert N. Wistner ’61, from the National Bar business, and founda­ a private practitioner Association at the tion matters. and OSBA-certified group’s 76th conven­ specialist in family rela­ tion in Dallas, Tex. She Stephen L. Hebenstreit tions law, has been re­ is a judge in the 36th ’67 has joined the liti­ appointed to chair the District Court in gation department at Family Law Committee Detroit, Mich. Bricker and Eckler, of the Ohio State Bar Columbus. Previously, Association. He and his Howard R. Besser ’66, he worked as in-house wife, Vivian, reside in Cleveland, is among counsel to Columbia Dublin, and have two the members of the Gas, how NiSource. grown children. Fellows Class of ¿001

Benjamin L. Zox, after serving 12 years as pres­ ident and chief execu­ tive officer of the Columbus law firm of Schottenstein, Zox, and Dunn, has become the chairman of the board. He will continue to practice real estate and business law and to pursue his interests in John Heron ’65 braved the early morning chill to serving as a mediator carry the Olympic Torch in Dayton, Ohio on January and arbitrator of signif­ 3. Photo courtesy - Times Community Newspaper icant commercial Springboro Sun by Cindy Eisen disputes. ALUMNI NEWS I

Jack C. Rubenstein ’67 oversees congressional Michael H. Mearan Maj. Gen. has been listed in the issues related to Wall ’71, Portsmouth, is Thom as J. 2001-2002 edition of Street, banks, and the among the members of Fiscus '75 was Best Lawyers in America, insurance industry. the Fellows Class of named the U.S. Criminal Law Section. 2001 of the Ohio State Air Force Judge He is member of the Thomas Eldon Bar Foundation. Cincinnati firm of Workman ’69 is presi­ Advocate General Rubenstein and dent and CEO of the William J. Conroy ’71 during an investi­ Thurman. Life Insurance Council has been elected man­ ture ceremony at of New York. He and aging director of the the Pentagon on Ron Percy ’68 was list­ his wife, Pamela Trust Department of February 25. ed in Mulbarger Workman, the Marine Bank and Wash­ reside in New York Trust in Vero Beach, FI. As the Air Force’s ington City. senior uniformed Law and Clair M. Carlin ’72 is attorney, he Politics board certified as a trial M aj. Gen. Thomas J. Fiscus ’75 1970s provides legal as a advocate by the Joseph L. Cain ’70 has advice, opinions, and assistance to the chairman of Ron Perey ’68 Wash­ retired as a judge in the National Board of Trial the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Chief of Staff of the Air ington Gallia County Advocacy (NBTA). He Force, Air Staff, and Air Force commanders and Super Lawyer,” one of Common Pleas Court recently presented a agencies worldwide. Before becoming the Judge the top 50 lawyers in in Gallipolis, Ohio. He paper on nursing home the state. He was also now lives in Davis, liability at the National Advocate General for the Air Force, Fiscus served as listed in the Best Calif. Crime Victim Bar a staff judge advocate at various levels. He has twice Lawyers in America for Association’s national served at the Pentagon, including a tour of duty as the 10th year in the John Nemeth ’70, a CLE conference held in the executive to the Judge Advocate General. area of personal injury civil trial advocate, was Arlington, Va. The In 1995, he deployed to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and medical malprac­ welcomed to the paper focused on the where he served as staff judge advocate and chief tice trial law. He was National Board of Trial legal requirements for of staff to the commander of Joint Task Force - president of Damage Advocacy board of an expert witness in a Southwest Asia. Attorneys Round Table directors at the annual nursing home case. (DART) for 2000-2001 meeting in Montreal. and president of the Stephen C. Fitch ’73, Washington Chapter of Charles C. Warner ’70, Worthington, has been the American Board of Worthington, was fea­ elected secretary/trea­ Trial Advocates (2001). tured in the October surer of the Columbus He and his wife, Janice, 2001 issue of ABA Bar Foundation, the reside in Seatde. Journal. He was quoted charitable affiliate of in an article about the Columbus Bar Michael G. Oxley ’69 employment arbitra­ Association. He is a opened the day of trad­ tion. He is the chair of partner with Chester, ing of the Nasdaq the Equal Employment Willcox, and Saxbe, Stock Market at the Opportunity LLP, Columbus, where Nasdaq MarketSite in Committee for the his practice concen­ New York City’s Times ABA Labor and trates in the areas of Square on February 4. Employment Law civil trial and appellate He is serving his 10 th Section and is a partner litigation in all state term as the congress­ with Porter, Wright, and federal courts. man for Ohio’s fourth Morris, and Arthur in district. He serves as Columbus. chair of the House Committee of Financial Services, on which he ALUMNI NEWS

Ohio Supreme Richard A. Frye ’73 has Ronald B. Noga ’74 health care, energy, Court Justice become a fellow of the has joined the litigation bankruptcy, and com­ Evelyn American College of department of mercial law. Lundberg Trial Lawyers. He is Weltman, Weinberg, Stratton ’78 has also serving his second and Reis, Columbus. William I. Kohn ’76 term on the board of He previously worked received the has joined the law firm directors of the Legal for the Ohio Attorney of Sachnoff and Weaver “Adoption Aid Society of General’s Office in the in Chicago. He recently Excellence Columbus. He is a taxation section. created a scholarship at Award.” She is partner in the the Moritz College of one of 14 individ­ Columbus law firm of Frederick M. Gittes Law in honor of John P. uals to be recog­ Chester, Willcox, and ’75, a founding partner “Jack” Henderson, asso­ nized by U.S. Saxbe LLP. of the Columbus firm ciate dean emeritus. Department of of Spater, Gittes, . Health and Dan D. Sandman ’73, Schulte, and Kolman, Thomas L. Long ’76 Justice Evelyn Lundberg Stratton 78 , Human Services Pittsburgh, has been has been re-appointed has been elected to a Secretary Tommy G. Thompson. Her ongoing efforts named chair of the to chair the Labor and two-year term as chair to bring attention to adoption law issues, dating back Ohio State Alumni Employment Law of the Columbus Associations board of Section of the Ohio to her private practice prior to joining the court, gar­ Cancer Clinic board of directors. His two-year State Bar Association. directors. He. is partner nered her the award. She has also provided national term began in October with the law firm of leadership to bring greater efficiency to the adoption 2001. Karen M. Moore ’75 Baker and Hostetler, process through service as the Expedited Adoption has been Columbus. Committee, a project of the National Center for Susan Barnes de elected State Courts. Resendiz ’74, Houston, to the Andrew J. Sonderman ’76 has Col­ Gahanna, joined umbus is general the Sym- counsel Chicago Karen M. phony at Ni- office of Moore ’75 Orche­ Source, Dykema stra’s Inc. Gossett board of trustees. Karen Susan Barnes Andrew J. de Resendiz '74 LLC. is chair of the tax, Sonderman ’76 She con­ trusts, and estates tribution centrates her practice department at Bricker Group, Columbus. He on bankruptcy, con­ and Eckler, Columbus. is also currendy sumer financial services, president of the board banking, and commer­ Alec Wightman ’75 has of Opera Columbus cial law. been appointed to the and vice chairman policy committee at the of Catholic Social Robert E. Hickey Jr. law firm of Baker and Services of Central ’74 is assistant vice Hostetler. The policy Ohio. Lee McCorkle ’72 kicked o ff the Business Law Society’s “The president at Wright committee, composed Sectret o fMy Success” speaker series on March 12. Lee is execu­ State University, of 14 lawyers, is the Robert C. Tucker ’76 tive vice president, general counsel and secreatry o f Wendy’s Dayton. He and his governing body of the has been nominated for International, Inc. wife, Loralynnn M. firm. Alec is the firm’s inclusion in Inside Hickey, recently wel­ legal services partner, Business’ Leading comed a daughter, coordinating the firm’s Lawyers 2001. The list Cahalan Claire, who national system of legal features the brightest was born December 27, practice. He concen­ and best attorneys in 2000. trates his practice in Northeast Ohio as sug- ALUMNI NEWS I

gested by their peers. tice, concentrating in the the firm’s real estate he has practiced school and Hostetler. The poli­ Tucker is a trial lawyer areas of complex litiga­ practice group. law exclusively cy committee, composed whose practice focuses tion, dispute resolution, Martin Frantz ’78 is for 20 years. of 14 lawyers, is the gov­ on product liability, and appeals. board certified as a trial erning body of the firm. pharmaceutical litiga­ advocate by the National Daniel O. Conkle ’79 is Kestner is group chair tion, and medical mal­ Kenneth J. Kies ’77 was Board of Trial Advocacy the Robert H. of the firm’s national practice. recognized by the Ohio (NBTA). McKinney Professor of business practice and is University Alumni Law at the Indiana responsible for strategic Deborah A. Ballam ’77 Association last fall with Robert J. Gilker ’78 is University School of planning and implemen­ has been named one of its Medal of Merit. general counsel for Law, Bloomington. tation, practice develop­ the Columbus YWCA’s Nextel in Reston, Va. He ment, quality assurance, 2002 Women of W. Charles Curley ’78 is and his wife, Karen Thomas C. Fenton ’79 and oversight of each Achievement. The hon­ among 10 attorneys Shoupe ’78, reside in has become a sharehold­ office’s business practice orées were selected by a selected by Ohio Lawyers Ashburn, Va. er in the firm Morgan coordinators. He con­ panel of community Weekly as 2001 Lawyers and Pottinger, PSC, centrates his practice in leaders and join nearly of the Year. The individ­ David Karmol ’78 is the Louisville, Ky. and has the areas of domestic 200 others who have uals were selected by director been elected to the firm’s and foreign mergers and been inducted into the winning important deci­ of public executive committee. acquisitions, private Academy of Women of sions, leading the way in policy Formerly vice president equity transactions, and Achievement. She is a complex groundbreaking and gov­ and counsel for National securities law matters. professor of legal envi­ issues within the legal ernment City Bank of Kentucky, ronments at The Ohio community, and other­ affairs at he practices in the areas Ronald S. Kopp ’79 has State University. wise contributing to the the of commercial banking become development of the law. Amer­ and employment law. He Robert J. Behai ’77, a Curley represented ican was also recently elected partner with Connor Motorists Mutual in an National Standards chairman of the board of and Behai, has been appearance before the Institute (ANSI), a pri­ trustees of St. Matthews elected secretary of the Ohio Supreme Court vate non-profit organiza­ United Methodist Church. Central Ohio Breathing and argued that some tion that administers and Ronald S. Kopp Association. insurers were being coordinates the U.S. vol­ Michael E. Flowers ’79, ’79 forced to pay out on untary standardization a partner in the and Andress. Kopp, who Steve Chappelear ’77, uninsured/underinsured and conformity assess­ Columbus firm of became board certified Pataskala, motorist claims despite ment system located in Bricker and Eckler LLP, two years ago as a spe­ the courts’ recognition Washington, D.C. has been appointed to cialist in civil litigation, that such policies were Previously he was general Ohio Governor Bob has chaired his law firm’s as presi­ never intended to cover counsel and director of Taft’s newly-established business litigation group dent of licensed motor vehicles. public affairs at the Minority Business since 1988. A current the Curley is a partner at National Spa and Pool Council. The 22-mem­ member of the Ohio P i- Metro­ Keener, Doucher, Institute (NSPI), a posi­ ber council was created State Bar Association’s Steve politan Curley, and Patterson. tion he held for more Chappelear '77 to provide fair economic Council of Delegates, he Bar than ten years. opportunities for minor­ has practiced with Caucus at the organiza­ Robert M. Curry ’78 ity businesses in Ohio. Roetzel and Andress tion’s annual meeting in has been Kimball H. Carey ’79 since 1979. Chicago. In May, he was named has authored the R. Steven Kestner ’79 also sworn in as presi­ partner- 2001-2002 edition of has been dent of the Ohio State in-charge the Handbook o f Ohio appoint­ Bar Association. He has of the School Law, published by ed to the joined the law firm of Dayton Anderson Publishing policy Xt J Hahn, Loeser + Parks, Robert M. office of Company. An o f counsel commit­ LLP as a partner. He will Curry ‘78 Thomp­ member of the tee at the head the Columbus son Hine Columbus law firm of R. Steven law firm office’s litigation prac­ LLP. He is a partner in Bricker and Eckler, LLP, K estn er’79 of Baker ALUMNI NEWS

Steven Magas 1980s ’82 started a new James E. Davidson ’80 law firm, Olivas has been and Magas, in named July 2001. He the presi­ continues his liti­ dent and gation and per­ chief sonal Injury prac­ executive . _------officer at tice, while his James E. partner, Adolf Davidson '80 tJie umbus Olivas, concen­ law firm of Schotten- trates on domes- stein, Zox, and Dunn. A Steven Magas-82 tic and juvenile partner with the firm relations, and since 1989, he practices social security matters. The firm has offices in commercial and employ­ Magistrate Denise Herman McColley ’80, N apoleon, Hamilton, Ohio and Cincinnati, Ohio, although ment litigatioh. David­ right, receives the Ohio State Bar Foundations Public or Steve’s practice takes him all over southern Ohio. son also is among 10 Government Service Awardfrom OSBF President Reginald W. Jackson. The award recognizes her contributions to the legal His “bicycle law” practice continues to garner attorneys selected by profession, the justice system, and the community. recognition. He published an article about han­ Ohio Lawyers Weekly as 2001 Lawyers of the dling bike cases in 1995 in Ohio Trial, the OATL’s Michael D. Juhola ’80 wise contributing to the Year. The individuals journal and spoke to the OATL 2001 Convention and his wife, Denise development of the law. were selected by winning on bicycle products liability cases. Howes Juhola, welcomed He was recognized for important decisions, He continues to write for several local bike publi­ a daughter, Abigail his quiet, determined leading the way in com­ Sarah, on March 11, approach to seeking cations and handles pro bono bike matters. Steve plex groundbreaking 2001. The family resides racial diversity in the was featured in a 1998 Cincinnati Post article and issues within the legal in West Worthington, practice of law. He was had his “niche” bike law practice featured in community, and other­ Ohio. sworn in as the first Lawyer’s Weekly USA in June, 2001. A profile of wise contributing to the African-American presi­ Steve and his “bike law practice” was published in development of the law. Dale K. Perdue ’80 is dent of the Columbus the May 2002 issue of C incinnati magazine. Davidson persuaded a board certified as a trial Bar Association in 2000. 6th Circuit panel to advocate by the National decide in favor of his Board of Trial Advocacy C. Eileen Pruett ’81, client — the owner of a (NBTA). Col­ furniture store — when umbus, is he was sued for demot­ Carl Smallwood ’80 is among ing an employee, the among the mem­ same employee the 10 attor­ bers of owner had hired and neys the promoted in the past. selected C. Eileen Fellows by Ohio Pruett '81 Class of Sandra A. Drabik ’80 Lawyers 2001 of has been elected to a sec­ Can Weekly as the Ohio State Bar ond term as treasurer of Smallwood ’80 ^001 Foundation. Eileen has The Ohio State Lawyers also been appointed University Alumni of the Year. The individ­ chair of the Dispute Association. She is vice uals were selected by Resolution Committee president for administra­ winning important deci­ of the Ohio State Bar tive services and chief sions, leading the way in Association. She is an general counsel at The complex groundbreaking attorney with the University of Toledo. issues within the legal Supreme Court of Ohio. community, and other­ 1 ALUMNI NEWS

Michael R. Thomas ’81 Joseph M. Diangelo ’84 trates her practice in the Robert S. Gilmore ’86, disclosure and the role of is board-certified as a and his wife, Sharmin area of health care law a partner at Kohrman, government in balancing trial advocate by the Sadaghiani Diangelo, and recently started her Jackson, and Krantz such interests in adopt­ National Board of Trial Dublin, welcomed a son, own firm, Kinney Kasha PLL, Cleveland, has ing realistic standards. Advocacy (NBTA). Michael Amir, on May and Buthod, LLP. been named manage­ 5, 2000. ment co-chair of the Paul W. McCartney ’88, Mark Landes ’82, of the Yvette McGee Brown traditional labor sub­ Cincinnati, is among the Columbus firm of Isaac, Catherine T. Dunlay ’85 was recognized last committee of the tech­ members of the Fellows Brant, Ledman and ’84, a principal in the fall by the Ohio nology committee of the Class of 2001 of the Teetor, LLP, has been Columbus firm, University Alumni ABA’s Equal Employ­ Ohio State Bar appointed chair of the Schottenstein, Zox, and Association with its ment Opportunity Foundation. Federal Courts and Dunn LPA, has been re­ Medal of Merit. She is Section. Practice Committee of appointed to the chair of the president of the Betsey A. Swift ’88 has the Ohio State Bar the Heath Care Center for Child and Photographic work by been named chair of the Association. Committee for the Ohio Family Advocacy Linda Ammons ’87 was employment law depart­ State Bar Association. in Columbus. on exhibit at the ment at the Columbus Gary R. Martz ’82 has Northwest Reno Library law firm of Bricker and been Michael W. Gleespen Barbara Andelman ’86 Gallery in Reno, Nev. Eckler LLP, where she is named ’84 is secretary and gen­ is associate dean for stu­ last fall. Scenes from also a partner. senior eral counsel for Century dent services, enrollment “City Streets and vice pres­ Business Services in management, and special Country Roads” were Michael A. Rambert ’89 ident and Cleveland. projects at Case featured at the gallery is senior advisor for H general Western Reserve from September 10 to Venture Finance and ■ counsel Quintín F. Lindsmith GaryR. University School of November 2, 2001. Technology of Greif ’84 has been named Martz ’82 Law, Cleveland. Linda is a professor of Development for the Bros. chair of the litigation law at Cleveland New Jersey Commerce Corporation, a world department at the W. Craig Bashein ’86 is Marshall College of Law. and Economic Growth leader in production of Columbus law firm of among 10 attorneys Commission. industrial shipping con­ Bricker and Eckler LLP, selected by Ohio Lawyers Gregory Gehlmann ’88 tainers located in where he is also a Weekly as 2001 Lawyers recently participated as a Delaware, Ohio. In this 1990s partner. of the Year. The individ­ member of an interna­ position, he is leading Marc A. Baker ’90 is the uals were selected by tional panel in New the company’s new legal assistant director of the Brent D. Rosenthal ’84, winning important deci­ Delhi, India. The ses­ department, which pro­ Pittsburgh, Pa. a shareholder in the firm sions, leading the way in sion, “Economic vides legal services to Mediation Center. of Buckingham, complex groundbreaking Information and the 185 domestic and inter­ Doolittle, and issues within the legal Role of the Business Eric S. Bravo ’90 has national operating loca­ Burroughs, LLP, is serv­ community, and other­ Community,” was part joined the Columbus tions. ing as president of the wise contributing to the of a three-day Freedom law firm of Roetzel and Rotary Club of development of the law. of Information for Good Arthur L. (Tim) Andress as an associate Westerville, Ohio, where Bashein and Paul W. Government workshop Clements III ’84 is one in the medical defense he resides with his Flowers ’90, both of sponsored by the Asian of the managing partners law group. wife, Sylvia. Cleveland, convinced the Center for Democratic of the re-named Ohio Supreme Court to Governance and the Paul W Flowers ’90 is Cleveland law firm, Kristin Ives ’85 has recognize a claim for loss Center for International among 10 attorneys Chriszt McGarry Co., joined the Philadelphia of parental consortium Private Enterprise. Greg, selected by Ohio Lawyers LPA. (The firm was pre­ firm of Stradley Ronon. brought by the adult who practices corporate Weekly as 2001 Lawyers viously Nischwitz, emancipated children of and securities law in of the Year. The individ­ Pembridge and Chriszt Rebecca Kasha ’85 is a man who sustained Washington, D.C., Co. LPA.) Tim has been uals were selected by president of the permanent, disabling spoke on the competing a member of the firm winning important' deci­ Evansville (Ind.) Bar injuries in an interests of the various since 1998. sions, leading the way in Association. She concen­ automobile accident. stakeholders in corporate ALUMNI NEWS

complex groundbreaking Robert W. Horner ’91 ally available for pay­ attorney in the Northern areas of tax, probate, and issues within the legal has ment to each insured’s District of Ohio. The estate planning. community, and other­ joined own uninsured Johnsons reside in wise contributing to the Kegler, motorist’s policy. Bay Village. Mary Frances “Mimi” development of the law. Brown, Geswein ’94 has joined Flowers and W. Craig Hill, and Paul L. Bittner ’93, Thomas Pampush ’93 the firm of Schotten­ Bashein ’86, both of Ritter as Schottenstein, Zox, and has joined the firm of stein, Zox, and Dunn, Cleveland, convinced the Robert IV. director Dunn, has been elected Schottenstein, Zox, and Columbus. She practices Ohio Supreme Court to Horner '91 and will to the board of trustees Dunn, Columbus. His in the firm’s construction recognize a claim for loss lead the of FIRSTLINK of practice focuses on and litigation areas, of parental consortium health care practice in Central Ohio, a non­ mergers and acquisitions, where she focuses her brought by the adult the Columbus-based law profit resource manage­ family and closely-knit practice on competitive emancipated children of firm. Most recently, he ment agency that pro­ businesses licensing, bidding issues, contrac­ a man who sustained has served as senior vice vides information, joint ventures and strate­ tor claims, and general permanent, disabling president, general coun­ resources, and training gic alliances, high tech­ construction issues. injuries in an automobile sel, and chief compliance to individuals and nology, and venture accident. office at Advance PCS in families in need. capital. T. Earl LeVere ’94 has Dallas, Tex., where he been elected partner at Jan Neiger ’90 received oversaw all legal and cor­ Ohio Governor Bob Taft Kimberly M. Skaggs the Columbus firm of the 2001 Award for porate governance has appointed Kim A. ’93, Columbus, is Bricker and Eckler, LLP. Professionalism from the matters. Browne ’93 as a judge in among the members of He practices with the Ohio Attorney Generals the Franklin County the Fellows Class of firm’s litigation depart­ office. Christine Marie Geers Domestic Relations and 2001 of the Ohio State ment, specializing in ’91 married Roland Juvenile Court. She Bar Foundation. intellectual property and Michael Diener ’91 has Rodriguez of Lake replaces Judge Yvette information technology Jackson, Tex. on March McGee Brown ’85, who Michael A. Womack ’93 litigation as well as com­ 22, 2001. left the bench to become has been mercial litigation and president of the Center elected entertainment law. Margaret McCollum for Child and Family share­ ’92, of Middletown, is Advocacy. holder of Mary Catherine Pelini among 10 attorneys Littler Grillo ’94 has been lMichael Diener Boston selected by Ohio Lawyers Tom Fernald ’93 is per­ Mendel- elected to partnership in ’91 law firm Weekly as 2001 Lawyers sonal trust manager for . . . . , . son, PC the firm of Baker and of Hale of the Year. The individ­ Michael A. Fifth Third Bank, Womack ’93 Located Hostetler. Located in the and Dorr LLP. His prac­ uals were selected by Columbus. He resides in in the firm’s Columbus office, tice includes obtaining, winning important deci­ Bexley, Ohio. Columbus office, he rep­ she is a member of the protecting, and enforc­ sions, leading the way in resents clients in all areas business group and con­ ing intellectual property complex groundbreaking Stephen Intihar ’93 has of employment law and centrates her practice in rights. He and his wife, issues within the legal been elected to partner has extensive experience the areas of corporate Elizabeth, reside in community, and other­ at the Columbus firm of in litigating employment law, commercial law, and Needham, Mass., with wise contributing to the Bricker and Eckler. He harassment, discrimina­ mergers and acquisitions. their children, Elizabeth development of the law. practices in the area of tion, and wrongful dis­ and Alexandra. As counsel for surviving commercial real estate charge cases in federal family members and the law. and state court. Breaden M. Douthett estates of plaintiffs killed ’91 has joined the in a motor vehicle acci­ Lisa Hammond Johnson Ronald A. Bell ’94 has Cleveland office of Arter dent, she convinced the ’93 and her husband, been named a partner, in and Hadden LLP as an Ohio Supreme Court to David, welcomed a the Cincinnati firm of associate in the firm’s interpret a state statute daughter, Amelia Anne, Taft, Stettinius, and intellectual property to permit comparison of on August 12, 2001. Hollister, LLP. He focus­ group. the entire amounts actu­ Lisa is an assistant U.S. es his practice in the

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Eric Stephens ’94 has Todd G. Guttman, Craig H. Smith ’96 RonNell Jones been M.D. ’96 has been is a ’00 will be serving promot­ appointed assistant vice member as a law clerk to ed to president and regula­ of the U.S. Supreme the posi­ tory counsel in the health Court Justice tion of Office of Research at law Deputy The Ohio State practice Sandra Day Eric Stephens Counsel University. He has O ’Connor during Craig H. Smith §rouP ’94 at the served as associate legal ’96 Hogan the 2003 Term. Ohio Consumers’ counsel in the Office of and Hartson LLP, She’ll begin work Counsel, Columbus. Legal Affairs since Miami, Fla. He repre­ in July 2003, and 1998. sents hospitals, long­ will be there for a Laura Anthony ’95, term care providers, full calendar year. Columbus, is among Andrew Wecker ’96 has ambulatory surgical After law school, the members of Fellows joined Tide First centers, and other Jones worked for a year at Jones, Day, Reavis, and Class of 2001 of the Agency, Columbus, as health care providers Pogue, doing appellate work with Jeff Sutton ’90 (also Ohio State Bar counsel to the commer­ and suppliers. Foundation. cial division. a former U.S. Supreme Court clerk). She is currently clerk for the Honorable William A. Fletcher on the T. Christopher Brown Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. James E. “Beau” Thomas J. Wybenga ’97 has Grimes ’95 has joined ’96 and his wife, joined the civil division at the Sharia, have welcomed the U.S. Department of their first child, a son Cleve- Justice after six years named Mitchell land active duty in the U.S. Ferdinand, on January firm of Navy Judge Advocate 2, 2002. The Wybengas General’s Corps. Fie T. Christopher ®en' live in Adanta where Brown ’97 esch, also ran his first (and Thomas practices labor Fried- only) marathon in and employment law lander, Coplan, and Baltimore in October. with Seyfarth Shaw. Arnoff.

Heath Monesmith ’95 Matthew A. LaBuhn Brian E. Burns ’97 and and his wife, Kim, wel­ ’96 has joined Ricketts his wife, Kelli, and comed a son, Cameron and Onda Co., daughter, Shannika, Heath, on November Columbus, as a share­ welcomed twins 29, 2001. The holder. He focuses his Chelsea Jessica and Monesmiths reside in practice in the areas of Lexie Riley Burns on Warrendale, Pa. real estate, commercial April 18. In February, development, land Brian departed the Wall Katherine Goldsmith use/zoning, 1031 like- Street firm of Cleary, ’96 and her husband, kind exchanges, and Gottlieb, Steen, and Eric, have a son, general corporate law. Hamilton to become William Douglas, who vice president and was born on April 25, Heather B. Robinson deputy general counsel 2001. The family lives Lindsey ’96 and Scott of Martha Stewart in Cincinnati. Thomas Lindsey ’96, Living Omnimedia, Columbus, welcomed a Inc. The family resides son, Evan Scott, on in Hoboken, March 12, 2001. New Jersey. ALUMNI NEWS

Alison M. Day ’97 and the Mexican Foreign Sanders, and Dempsey Kristin Frost ’01 has Saytam Talati ’01 has Stephen K. Hall ’97 Ministry’s program for as an associate. She pro­ joined the Cleveland joined were married on Mexican Communities vides counsel pertaining office of Calfee, Halter, the litiga­ October 20, 2001 in Abroad. He can be to general labor and and Griswold, LLP to tion prac­ Columbus. Steve is assis­ reached via e-mail at employment matters. work in the intellectual tice tant counsel to Ohio Tax [email protected]. property area. group at Commissioner Tom MX. Richard J. LaCivita ’00 I Dykema Zaire ’87 and Alison is is an associate with the Dawn-Rae Gräuel ’01 „ Gossett an associate at the Jonathan David Mester law firm of Burman and has J * " " PLLC Columbus office of the ’98 was named to the Robinson, Columbus. joined in its law firm, Littler board of directors of the He practices in the areas the Col- Lansing, Mich, office. Mendelson. Ohio Academy of Trial of business and creditors’ ■ umbus His practice focuses on Lawyers. He practices rights litigation. ■ S H | office of general litigation law Jeffrey B. Hartranft ’97 with the firm of Hahn matters. has joined the Columbus Nurenberg, Plevin, Melanie E. Meyer ’00 Dawn-Rae Loeser firm of Schottenstein, Heller, and McCarthy, has joined the Cleveland Gräuel '01 + Parks, Aaron M. VanderKaay Zox, and Dunn as an Cleveland, focusing pre­ office of Baker and LLP. She ’01 has joined the associate in the litigation dominantly on plaintiffs’ Hostetler as an associate. focuses her practice in Cleveland office of Baker practice group. medical malpractice, labor and employment and Hostetler. products liability, work­ John P. Carney ’01 and law. Allen R. Killworth ’97 place intentional torts, . Robert J. Amie L. Vanover ’01 has has and personal injury/ I Morgan J. Banning Jasiunas’01 joined the Grand joined insurance law. He is ’01 have has Rapids, Mich, firm of Bricker married to Rachel Corn joined joined Warner, Norcross, and and Mester ’98. The couple the Col­ the Col- Judd, LLP. Eckler as has one daughter, Anna, umbus |gf§§yP umbus an attor­ and resides in University office of office of ney in Heights. John P. Carney Porter, Arter and •01 § 1 Ü i Hadden the firm’s Wright, J. Banning health Michael B. Kass ’99 has I Morris, Jasiunas '01 LLP as care department. joined the law firm of an associ­ Previously, he served Armstrong Teasdale LLP, ate. He is working in the four years as in-house St. Louis, Mo. firm’s director and officer counsel to an Ohio hos­ liability group. pital and its parent, a Gale A. Evans ’99 is the multi-hospital health staff attorney for Judge Robert J. Jennifer Naumoff ’01 system. Jennifer L. Brunner, Morgan '01 has Franklin County (Ohio) and tax department. joined David A. Mollicone ’97 Common Pleas Court. the law has joined the firm of Brian Cunningham ’01 firm of Dawda, Mann, Mulcahy, William M. Harter ’99 has joined the law firm Vorys, and Sadler, PLC in is an associate attorney of McCarter and English Sater, Bloomfield Hills, Mich. with the Columbus firm in Newark, N.J. Jennifer Seymour, He is an associate in the of Lane, Alton, and Naumoff ’01 and Pease corporate litigation Horst. He resides in Sean Patrick Flynn ’01 LLP as department. Lewis Center, Ohio. has joined the firm of an associate in the firm’s Baker and Hostetler as Columbus office. Salvador Cicero ’98 has 2000s an associate in its Columbus office. moved to Mexico City, Aneca E. Lasley ’00, where he is the director Columbus, has joined for Political and the firm of Squire, Community Affairs of UPCOMING EVENTS

A ugust 1 October 7-11 Noon Fall Break After the Bar Party, John Deaver Drinko Hall O ctober 25 A ugust 19 Noon: Faculty Workshop, Stephen Bainbridge, UCLA First Day o f Classes Annual Alumni Return (please note change of date) The Ohio State University Alumni Association Awards A ugust 30 at the Hyatt Regency, Columbus Ohio State Summer Quarter Commencement, George Hairston ’68 to be honored O ctober 26 Annual Alumni Return Tailgate. Call 614-292-8809 for details. Septem ber 2 Football: Ohio State vs. Penn State Labor Day Observed - No Classes November 7 September 19 Journal on Dispute Resolution Symposium, “The Americanization of 4:00 p.m. Schwartz Lecture, Christine Mary Chinkin, London School of International Dispute Resolution.” Economics, “Gender, Human Rights and Peace Agreements.” November 14 Septem ber 26 Judges’ Day. Call 614-292-8809. Noon: Faculty Workshop, Henry E. Smith, “The Language of Property: Frank R. Strong Law forum , Linda Greenhouse, Pulitzer Prize winning Form, Context, and Audience” journalist for the New York Times. Call 614-292-8809 for details. Public Service Opportunity Forum. Call 614-292-0087 for details. Reception Honoring William B. Saxbe ’45 For more information about these and other events at the Moritz College of Law, see our Website at http:://www.osu.edu/units/law/index.htm or call 614-292-2631, September 27 unless otherwise noted. Fall National Council Meeting 5 p.m. Unveiling of portait of former dean Gregory H. Williams

A nnual Alum ni Return O ctober 25 & 26, 2002

He pitched pennies at Page Hall.

R em em ber the good tim es.

They offered support when you struggled, m ade you laugh when you He was the star of the show. wanted to cry. H ere’s your chance to thank them.

Mark your calendar for Moritz College of Law Annual Alumni Return, October 25 & 26, 2002.

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren (center) visited Ohio State in 1960 to help dedicate the new law building. Also pictured are law Dean Frank Strong (left) and university president Novice G. Fawcett (right).