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Parents in Law The art of balancing studies & children

Inside Capitol Connection Maine Law’s D.C. links run deep Clinical Practice One student’s story

THE UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SCHOOL OF LAW / FALL 2014 OPENING ARGUMENTS

John Veroneau Partner, Covington & Burling LLP

John Veroneau, a 1989 graduate of Maine Law, is co-chair of the International Trade and Finance group at Covington & Burling in Washington D.C. He served as Deputy U.S. Trade Representative (2007-2009) and previously as USTR’s general counsel, as Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Clinton Administration, as Chief of Staff to Senator , and as Legislative Director, respectively, for Senators Bill Cohen and Bill Frist.

What lessons do you recall best from your law What have you found most satisfying about your school education? wide-ranging career? I long ago forgot the Rule against Perpetuities Probably the variety of experiences and the people but will forever remember Mel Zarr’s brilliant I’ve worked with. I shudder when I think back on characterization of certain decisions as how many things I did not understand when I came “concessions to the shortness of life.” to Washington 25 years ago. I’ve benefited greatly from being around smart and interesting people What was your path to appointment as Deputy and traveling a good amount. U.S. Trade Representative? It was a happy confluence of events. I handled You are a partner at Covington & Burling in D.C. trade issues for Bill Cohen when he was in the and work around the world? Do you miss Maine? Senate. During my time at the Pentagon, I saw I definitely miss Maine. I have lots of family here still so how governments interact at senior levels. As we come up regularly. My wife and I bought a house USTR General Counsel, I worked the details of here a few years ago so we can visit more often. U.S. trade law and policy. Fortunately, these experiences were seen as useful preparation for What is it about your roots in Maine that gives the Deputy USTR position. I can’t say I planned you an advantage in the world of international any of this but am grateful for how it turned trade and finance? out. My Maine roots and upbringing taught me to focus on listening more than talking. I suppose that has Do people still call you Ambassador Veroneau? helped me better understand the person sitting My teenage sons when they want the car. across the table from me.

You worked in Congress, in the Executive Branch, What advice would you give to an aspiring and in private practice. What has been your most international lawyer? memorable work experience? Many practice areas now have an international Probably a trip to Cambodia in 2007 when I was component. My colleagues handling antitrust Deputy USTR. In 1980, I had taken a college “gap matters spend a good deal of time advising clients year” to work in refugee camps with Cambodians on competition issues in Europe, Brazil, and China. who had fled to escape Pol Pot’s genocide. So the opportunities for practicing “international Being there some 27 years later, representing my law” are expanding to many areas of law. A second government in trade discussions, was a memorable language and experience living abroad are useful book-end to my gap-year experience. for lawyers interested in a global practice.

2 MAINE LAW MAGAZINE FALL 2014 Maine Law Magazine CONTENTS Fall 2014 Dean Peter Pitegoff Magazine committee Peter Pitegoff Trevor Maxwell Alexandra Moras

Managing editor & design Peter Weed 12 14 19 Writer Trevor Maxwell FEATURES Photography Derek Davis, Nadra Edgerly, Justice for Women Nathan Eldridge, Aaron Flacke, Sima Samar on the situation in Afghanistan René Minnis, Brian Wedge 8 Kerry Wyler Clinical practice Special thanks A life-changing event helping a young immigrant Tina Simonetta Samuels, Julie Welch 10

Published by Tackling bankruptcy The University of Maine School of Law 12 Professor Lois R. Lupica’s groundbreaking research 246 Deering Ave., Portland, Maine 04102-2898 (207) 780-4442 D.C. connection [email protected] 14 Maine Law’s deep Washington roots www.mainelaw.maine.edu Parents in Law Copyright © 2014, University of Maine School 19 Students balance studies and children of Law. All rights reserved. The University of Maine School of Law is Student spotlight committed to diversity in the Law School and Why Maine Law? Two students tell their stories does not discriminate on the grounds of race, 22 color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship status, age, disability, or veteran status.

Staying connected with Maine Law COVER PHOTO facebook.com/umainelaw Maine Law student Bill Adams at a Parents in Law event. Maine Law has a Facebook page featuring Story: Page 19. (Derek Davis photo) news, upcoming events, photos and information for alumni from all years, as well as current and prospective students. We encourage you to DEPARTMENTS “like” the page and join in the conversation. You can also stay up to date by following us on 4 From the Dean Twitter, twitter.com/umainelaw, and visiting our web page, mainelaw.maine.edu. 6 News 24 Maine Law Bookshelf 25 Faculty Accomplishments 29 Alumni News 31 Philanthropy Report FROM THE DEAN

Celebrating tradition while looking to the future

Dear Friends, Foundation board, following David Evans (’78) and his excel- lent work during the Foundation’s formative years. Both orga- radition and transition. These themes intertwine for the nizations continue to provide critical support, energizing our 2014-15 academic year, at a dynamic moment for the Uni- annual fund and building our endowment funds. Tversity of Maine School of Law. In a time of change, both On a personal note, I look forward to a new relationship here at Maine Law and in the broader world of legal educa- with the Maine Law community and particularly with our dis- tion, we draw strength from a solid foundation of core values. tinctive students. Earlier this year, I announced my retirement The Law School’s commitment as dean as of July 2015. This to Maine is unwavering. Our ex- is a transition, not a farewell. cellence in research, in sustain- After ten years as dean, I will ing a collaborative law school remain at Maine Law as profes- community, and in promoting sor – to resume my teaching and justice are valued traditions. research with enthusiasm, and And our longstanding commit- to widen my public service and ment to quality teaching and policy efforts. A search com- practical skills resonates more mittee, chaired by Maine Law than ever with the needs of to- Professor Jeffrey Maine, is day’s legal profession. conducting a vigorous national These core values are a search for the new dean. touchstone for our path ahead, Change in leadership can even as we continue to adapt to be healthy for any institution. changing legal and economic I believe the timing is right for environments, and as valued the University of Maine School professors retire and hand the of Law to begin a new chapter torch to the next generation of after my decade as dean. Maine Maine Law faculty. Law is well positioned to thrive In the life of a law school, in the coming years. We have some transitions cannot pass recruited top-notch faculty and by without marking the occa- staff; expanded collaboration sion and expressing a collec- with Maine’s judiciary, orga- tive thanks. On April 10, 2015, nized bar, and public and private the Maine Law community will institutions; and seen numerous come together to honor six se- enhancements to the school’s nior faculty members in tran- program of legal education. We sition. Professors Tom Ward, will continue to train the next Nancy Wanderer, and Jim Fried- generation of lawyers and lead- man retired in the past year, ers, building on the traditions and Professors Mel Zarr, David of academic excellence, civic Cluchey, and Marty Rogoff, are engagement, and public service in the process of phased retirement. Together, these profes- that have long been at the core of Maine Law. I am grateful to sors represent 215 years of teaching at Maine Law. They have numerous colleagues – faculty, staff, students, alumni, volun- helped shape Maine Law’s identity and standards of excellence teers, university leaders, and supporters – who share credit for in teaching, research, and public service in Maine. I hope you Maine Law’s recent progress and success. will join us in April for this celebration and opportunity to honor our colleagues. Strong alumni leadership is in transition as well. Frank Bishop (’07) is the new president of the Maine Law Alumni Association, building upon the successful leadership of his predecessor, Peter DeTroy (’72). Craig Nelson (’69) has taken Peter Pitegoff the lead as President of the University of Maine School of Law Dean, University of Maine School of Law

4 MAINE LAW MAGAZINE FALL 2014 DEAN’S Q&A

4 questions for the Dean

You have been Maine Law dean for a decade. and nonprofit enterprises. The realignment Q: What are some notable developments at the potentially will build on the natural synergies Law School during this time? between law and business, contribute to economic Maine Law has expanded experiential learning development in Maine, widen the universe of A: opportunities, including the creation of the potential philanthropic support, lead eventually to Juvenile Justice Clinic a new facility, and return to closer collaboration and the Refugee and with Maine’s land grant Human Rights Clinic, university. a successful seven- year run with the What subjects will Intellectual Property you teach? Clinic, and growth Q: in externships and Forty years ago, I summer fellowships. A:was certified as a We have increased secondary school social scholarship aid studies teacher after and maintained a studying education at vital student body, Brown University, and despite declining I later practiced law in applications to law economic development. schools nationwide. For thirty years, I have New post-professional been involved with legal LL.M. (Master of Laws) education, as a professor and J.S.D. (Doctor of and (for the last 17 years) the Science of Law) an administrator. I look degrees complement the core J.D. program. Most forward to returning to my role as teacher. My notably, Maine Law has reclaimed its autonomy core teaching will be in Corporation Law and in the of years past. The Law School has realigned its Legal Profession and Ethics. I hope to teach smaller position within the University of Maine System, courses in nonprofit organizations and in policy gaining greater responsibility and control over topics such as education, welfare and employment, its public identity and its tuition, budget, and and urban and rural revitalization. I am sure to position management. The next step, we trust, will teach about community development finance, be further progress toward a new interdisciplinary which will be the initial focus of my research. center for graduate and professional education.

Can you say more about the possible new How will you keep busy after stepping down Q: graduate and professional center? Q: as dean? Law schools today, including Maine Law, must Teaching and related research will demand A: develop new models for delivery of legal A:much of my attention. Public service has education and for sustainability. An intensive study always been important to me, personally and is underway, led by the University of Maine System professionally. I will continue to serve on the board Chancellor, to determine the feasibility of a new of directors of the community development finance graduate and professional center. The initiative institution Coastal Enterprises Inc. (CEI), and I will would consist initially of an interdisciplinary look for other volunteer opportunities as well. At collaboration between the Law School and the Maine Law, I will be active in faculty governance graduate business programs at the University of and hope to be a resource for the administration Southern Maine and the University of Maine and and the new dean. And, of course, I look forward to with the wider community of Maine businesses quality time with my wife and our two adult sons.

MAINE LAW MAGAZINE FALL 2014 5 MAINE LAW NEWS

In Brief

Judge James Haines named Godfrey Professor The University of Maine Law School is honored to welcome the Hon. James B. Haines, Jr. as the Edward S. Godfrey Distinguished Visiting Professor for the 2014-2015 academic year. He retired in January 2014 as Chief Judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maine. Judge Haines graduated from Willa- mette University College of Law, summa 2014 Commencement: 96 graduates cum laude. He clerked for the Hon. Eu- gene A. Wright of the U.S. Court of Ap- The University of Maine School of Law awarded J.D. degrees to 96 students, and peals for the Ninth Circuit. Haines worked post-professional LL.M. degrees to six students on May 17, 2014. in private practice in Washington state The Hon. , Jr., United States Senator and former , was and in Maine between 1977 and 1990, the keynote speaker. King offered the Maine Law graduates several pieces of advice. except for 1980-1983, when he served as “Take more risks. It’s OK to fail,” King advised. “We are most constrained not by a professor at West Virginia University other people, not by rules, not by government, but by the little man that sits on our College of Law. He was appointed to the shoulder and says you can’t do that, you can’t try that.” bankruptcy bench in August of 1990. Eleanor Baker, co-founder and managing principal at the accounting firm Baker New- man Noyes, received the 2014 L. Kinvin Wroth Award for distinguished service as an alum. WLA honors Professor Graduating student Stanley R. Tupper III of Jefferson, Maine, was the student speaker. Deirdre Smith (’94) The Women’s Law Association at the University of Maine School of Law Judge John Nivison named Judge Nancy Gertner selected Maine Law Professor Deirdre federal magistrate judge delivers Coffin Lecture Smith as the recipient of its annual Out- standing Alumna Award. She was hon- John Nivison (’85) was appointed in Judge Nancy Gertner, a Professor of ored at a reception in November 2013. 2014 as federal magistrate judge for the Practice at Harvard Law School and a re- Professor Smith is a 1994 graduate U.S. District Court in Maine. tired federal judge, delivered the 21st An- of Maine Law. She is an accomplished Nivison started the job in January, nual Frank M. Coffin Lecture on Law and scholar, an excellent teacher, and, since replacing a fellow Maine Law alum, Public Service on Oct. 21, 2013. She spoke 2004, Director of the Cumberland Le- Magistrate Judge Margaret Kravchuk, at the Abromson Community Education gal Aid Clinic. Through the Clinic, stu- who retired from the bench. Center in Portland. The disconnect be- dent attorneys are specially licensed to Judge Nivison presides primarily tween the aspirations of the law, and what practice law and provide free represen- in U.S. District Court in the Margaret it actually delivers in real life, was a cen- tation to low-income individuals and Chase Smith Federal Building in Ban- tral theme of Gertner’s talk. Judge Gert- families. gor. He practiced with the law firm ner served as U.S. District Court Judge in Under the leadership of Professor of Pierce Atwood from 1985 to 1999, Massachusetts from 1994 to 2011. Smith, the Clinic has expanded since when he was appointed by Gov. Angus The lecture series, sponsored by the 2004 to include clinical courses in the ar- King as a judge on the Maine District University of Maine School of Law, eas of Juvenile Justice and Refugee and Court. honors the late Judge Frank M. Coffin, Human Rights, in addition to programs He was Chief Judge of the Maine longtime federal judge on the U.S. Court in general practice for clients in need, for District Court from 2005 to 2007. Judge of Appeals for the First Circuit, former prisoners, and for victims of domestic Nivison was then appointed to the Maine member of Congress, and renowned lead- violence. Superior Court by Gov. . er and mentor in public service.

6 MAINE LAW MAGAZINE FALL 2014 MAINE LAW NEWS

Maine Law students excel in Maine Law publishes Asylum: How to moot court competition Apply for Asylum in the United States University of Maine School of Law students Joseph Mendes and Rob Connel- In early 2014, the University of Maine School of Law and the nonprofit Immigrant ly knocked off several highly renowned Legal Advocacy Project (ILAP) published an online guide for immigrants seeking asy- law schools en route to a 2nd place fin- lum in the U.S. from persecution, , rape and other threats in their home countries. ish in February at the Tulane Mardi Gras Asylum: How to Apply for Asylum in the United States is the first comprehensive Sports Law Invitational. guide of its kind for asylum seekers in Maine who are not represented by lawyers. The duo of Mendes and Connelly “This manual is not a substitute for the help of an experienced immigration lawyer,” made it all the way to the seventh and final said Maine Law Professor Anna Welch, who runs the law school’s Refugee and Hu- round of the moot court competition, los- man Rights Clinic. “Unfortu- ing narrowly in the finals to Cardozo Law. nately, thousands of refugees The event was held Feb. 26-28, 2014, in cannot afford a lawyer, and New Orleans. The annual event is one of there are not nearly enough the longest running appellate competi- lawyers accepting these cases tions, and the only sports law competition for low or no fee. This guide in the nation. is intended to help bridge the Another moot court team, John Moran gap. For unrepresented asy- and Henry Murphy-Beck, made it to the final lum seekers, the guide pro- 8 out of 24 teams at the Charleston School of vides the tools they need to Law National Moot Court Competition. navigate a daunting and com- plex system.” Welch said the guide was Tina Schneider receives a response to a sharp uptick Thomas P. Downing Award in the refugee population in Southern Maine. ILAP has Tina Schneider, an adjunct professor seen more than a 400 percent and clinical supervisor at the University increase in asylum seekers of Maine School of Law, was named the since 2009. They are from 2013 recipient of the Thomas P. Downing countries including Afghani- Award, which honors individuals in the stan, Iraq, Syria, and African legal aid field for their dedication to poor nations such as Burundi, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. ILAP matches and vulnerable Maine residents. asylum seekers with attorneys willing to take their cases, but the organization is forced Since 2006, Schneider has been the to turn away about half of the people seeking assistance. Students at Maine Law also faculty supervisor of the Protection from represent a limited number of immigrants, free of charge, under Welch’s supervision at Abuse Program in Lewiston District the Refugee and Human Rights Clinic. Court. The program is part of Maine Contributors from the Refugee and Human Rights Clinic include Dominika Blok, Law’s Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic. Braden Clement, Jennifer Gillies and Katherine Power; and Bowdoin College student The award was established by the Hannah Wurgaft. Contributors from ILAP include Susan Roche, executive director, and family of Tom Downing, a staff attorney Noel Young, asylum coordinator. Claude Rwaganje, executive director of Community at Pine Tree Legal Assistance who died of Financial Literacy, also provided invaluable input into the creation of the manual. The brain cancer in 1985 at the age of 43. At manual has been translated into Arabic, French and Spanish. a ceremony in December 2013, Schneider received the award from Diana Scully, Tom’s widow, who is the executive direc- tice and for children in the legal system, parental rights actions where care of a tor of the Maine Bar Foundation. Wilshusen had served for several years as child is in dispute. She is also a ros- Executive Coordinator of the Justice Ac- tered mediator for the courts in domes- New director of admissions: tion Group in Maine. tic relations matters. Caroline Wilshusen She has been in private practice Wilshusen is a former law clerk for since 2008, focusing on the represen- Justices Roland Cole and G. Arthur Bren- Caroline Wilshusen ’07 joined Maine tation of adolescents in juvenile court; nan of the . Prior to Law this summer as Director of Admis- the provision of services as a guardian practicing law, she was a performing art- sions. An advocate for equal access to jus- ad litem; and representing parents in ist in New York City.

MAINE LAW MAGAZINE FALL 2014 7 MAINE LAW NEWS: Justice for Women Lecture Sima Samar: The world cannot forget us again

merging from more than three de- “We lost a lot in Afghanistan, in the the public. People in her country do not cades of war, oppression and isola- past 35 years,” said Dr. Samar, whose want to be ruled by outsiders, she said, Etion, the women of Afghanistan are husband was kidnapped and killed in but they also do not want to be isolated, speaking up and fighting for their rights 1979 because of his resistance against So- opening the door to another civil war, or and future, Dr. Sima Samar said during her viet rule. “We lost our educated people. the resurgence of the Taliban. visit to Maine this year. When I go anywhere, including Bangla- During her visit to Maine, Dr. Samar But they need the support of the inter- desh and the Philippines, I see Afghans.” spoke at Deering High School to an as- national community to prevent them from The Taliban regime, which rose to sembly of students from all three of the being forgotten again, said Dr. Samar, a power in the 1990s, “closed everything city’s high schools. Portland Mayor Mi- prominent champion of women’s rights in down for women,” Dr. Samar said. Wom- chael Brennan presented her with a key Afghanistan. en were routinely beaten in public, and lo- to the city. She spoke to other local high “We have achieved a lot in the past cal leaders ordered families to keep their school students, college students and com- 13 years, with a lot of sacrifice munity members at CIEE in by the people of Afghanistan and Portland. At the Law School, the international community,” Dr. Dr. Samar was the featured Samar said, referring to the pe- speaker at a lunchtime panel riod since U.S. and allied troops titled “Afghanistan Futures: arrived in the country. She said Local and Global.” more than 3 million Afghan girls The University of Maine are now in school, and women School of Law is committed make up 25 percent of the Af- to promoting social justice in ghan Parliament, but the move- Maine and around the world. ment “still has a long way to go.” The Law School established Dr. Samar visited Maine on the Justice for Women Lec- March 17-19, 2014, as the lec- ture series in 2010 with turer for the Justice for Women leadership and support from Lecture Series, hosted by the attorney and civic leader University of Maine School of Catherine Lee. The Lecture Law. She participated in a num- Series is supported in part by ber of community events, as well the generosity of community as delivering the lecture on the partners, including CIEE, evening of March 18, to a diverse and other donors. and enthusiastic crowd of about Previous lecturers were 500 people at the Abromson the Hon. Unity Dow (2012), Community Education Center in the first woman to serve as Portland. Dr. Sima Samar spoke about the challenges faced a judge on Botswana’s High Since 2004, Dr. Samar has by women in Afghanistan. Court; and Leymah Gbowee served as chair of the Afghanistan (2013), an activist and wom- Independent Human Rights Commission. windows covered, so women would not en’s rights advocate who won a Nobel She is also founder of the Shuhada Or- be seen. This past decade has witnessed Peace Prize for helping to end civil war ganization, dedicated to the welfare and a gradual restoration of women’s rights, in Liberia. progress of Afghan citizens, with a prima- particularly in education. There are shel- The Justice for Women Lecturer in ry focus on the empowerment of women ters in the cities, to safeguard abused 2015 will be Ruchira Gupta, founder and and children. The organization operates women and children. A new law passed in president of Apne Aap Women World- 55 schools and 15 clinics and hospitals. 2009 criminalized acts of violence against wide. Based in India, Gupta’s organi- Dr. Samar served in the Interim Adminis- women, yet it is rarely implemented. zation works to end sex trafficking by tration of Afghanistan and established the That momentum remains fragile, increasing choices for at-risk girls and first-ever Ministry of Women’s Affairs. however. As the United States continues women. The Lecture will be held on She is a recipient of the John F. Kennedy to draw down its military presence, Dr. March 19, 2015, at the Abromson Com- Library Foundation’s Profile of Courage Samar has urged American and interna- munity Education Center. Award, and is one of the central subjects tional leaders to remain invested in Af- For information about supporting the of the 2004 documentary, Daughters of ghanistan, while the nascent government, series, please email the Law School at Afghanistan. army and police forces earn the trust of [email protected].

8 MAINE LAW MAGAZINE FALL 2014 MAINE LAW NEWS: Selected conferences & speakers

Maine Law thanks everyone who participated in the following 2013-14 events: Selected Speakers of Elder Law: Using Scholarship Drummond Woodsum. Hosted by the to Shape Pedagogy. November 22, Women’s Law Association, Co-chairs Prof. Alex Kreit, Thomas Jefferson 2013. Ali Tozier (’15) and Julie Healy (’15). School of Law. Drug Truce? The War on Drugs and Mandatory Minimum Paul Greene (’07), Global Sports Who’s Governing Privacy? – Maine Sentencing. September 6, 2013. Advocates, LLC. Sports Arbitration Law Review Symposium. February and the Olympics. January 27, 2014. 21, 2014. Dennis Hirsch, Capital Prof. Amna Akbar, Ohio State University Law School; Christopher Tom Marlow, Former Director of University, Moritz College of Law. Wolf, Hogan Lovell; Adam Thierer, Patents and IP Protection at Fairchild National Security’s Broken Windows. George Mason University; J. Trevor Semiconductor. IP Portfolio September 13, 2013. Hughes, International Association Management. February 27, 2014. Prof. Abbe Smith, Georgetown of Privacy Professionals (IAPP); University Law Center. Annual Dr. Sima Samar, Chair of the Omer Tene, IAPP and College of Constitution Day Lecture, How Afghanistan Independent Human Management School of Law, Rishon Can You Not Defend Those People? Rights Commission. 3rd Annual Le Zion, Israel; Ira Rubenstein, New September 17, 2013. Justice for Women Lecture, Women’s York University School of Law; Joris Rights in Afghanistan. March 18, van Hoboken, New York University Prof. Dennis Hirsch, Capital University 2014. School of Law; Bryce Clayton Law School. Going Dutch? Newell, University of Washington. Collaborative Dutch Privacy Prof. Malick Ghachem, Massachusetts Regulation and the Lessons for U.S. Institute of Technology and University Afghanistan Futures: Local and Privacy Law. September 27, 2013. of Maine School of Law. Religious Global. March 19, 2014. Dr. Sima Liberty and the Financial War on Samar, 3rd Annual Justice for Prof. John Nagle, University of Notre Terror. March 21, 2014. Women Lecturer and Chair of the Dame School of Law. October 4, 2013. America the Beautiful: The Hon. Jon D. Levy, Associate Justice, Afghanistan Independent Human Role of Law in Protecting Scenic Maine Supreme Judicial Court. Access Rights Commission; Thomas Barfield, Landscapes. to Justice in Maine. March 31, 2014. Boston University; Bill Nemitz, ; Charles Prof. Sophie Sparrow, University of Prof. Matt Parlow, Marquette University Norchi, University of Maine School New Hampshire School of Law. What Law School. Lessons from the NBA of Law. the Best Law Teachers Do. October Lockout: Union Democracy, Public 10, 2013. Support, and the Folly of the National The Challenges of Electronic Evidence Basketball Players Associations. April – Symposium of the Federal Hon. Nancy Gertner, Professor of 3, 2014. Advisory Committee on the Rules of Practice at Harvard Law School and Evidence. April 4, 2014. Chief U.S. Former U.S. District Judge. 21st David Evans (’78), Clifford Chance US District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater Annual Frank M. Coffin Lecture on LLP. US Shale Hydrocarbons-A New (N.D. Tex.); U.S. District Judge Lee Law and Public Service, When the Global Framework. April 10, 2014. Rosenthal (S.D. Tex.); U.S. District Courthouse Doors are Shutting. Prof. Mel Zarr, University of Maine Judge Paul Grimm (D. Md.); Chief October 21, 2013. School of Law. Reflections on My U.S. District Judge John A. Woodcock Hon. Albie Sachs, former judge on the Role as Legal Advisor to Dr. Martin (’76), (D. Me.); John Haried Esq., Constitutional Court of . Luther King, Jr. April 23, 2014. Department of Justice; Prof. Jeffrey 50 Years with : Bellin, William and Mary Law From Law Breaking to Law Making. School; Paul Shechtman, Zuckerman October 24, 2013. Selected Conferences & Panels Spaeder LLP; Prof. Deirdre Smith, University of Maine School of Prof. William Marshall, University of Maine Trial Lawyers Association Law; U.S. District Judge Shira A. (October 29, North Carolina School of Law. The Panels: Criminal Law Scheindlin (S.D.N.Y.); David Shonka School Prayer Decisions: or Why 2013) and (November 5, Civil Law (’72), Federal Trade Commission; Engel May Have Had it Right All 2013). Daniel Gelb, Gelb and Gelb; Andrew Along. November 1, 2013. Human Trafficking and Transgender Goldsmith, Department of Justice; Prof. Nina Kohn, Syracuse University Rights. November 5, 2013. Courtney Justin Murphy, Crowell & Moring; College of Law (Visiting Prof. at Beer (’07), Pine Tree Legal George Paul, Lewis and Roca; Paul Maine Law). The Next Generation Assistance; Melissa Hewey (’87), Lippe, Legal OnRamp.

MAINE LAW MAGAZINE FALL 2014 9 CUMBERLAND LEGAL AID CLINIC Clinical practice: One student’s story Helping a young immigrant was a life-changing event

By Michael O’Brien ’14 us for help. ily law as an adjunct professor at the Law After the lunch hour ended, my class- School during Spring 2014), to see if she efore graduating from the Univer- mate relayed the story from the young knew any individuals in the Portland area sity of Maine School of Law in May man she had just met. Moved by his who would potentially be interested in B2014, I spent a full year working as a positive attitude during such tumultuous serving as the teenager’s legal guardian. student attorney at the Cumberland Legal times, Professor Northrop agreed to let me Stout provided me with a list of people Aid Clinic. Initially, I served as the Cush- meet with the teenager in order to see what who had, in the past, expressed interest in man D. Anthony Summer Fel- opening up their home to chil- low and engaged primarily in dren in need. Needless to say, juvenile policy work. these weren’t easy phone calls After completing the sum- to make. The individuals on mer fellowship, I enrolled for the list did not know me or the two semesters in the Juvenile child I was calling on behalf Justice Clinic, under the su- of. Despite this, one family pervision of Professor Chris agreed to think it over and get Northrop. Throughout this ex- back to me. perience, I learned valuable After a few days passed, skills that I will carry with me I received a phone call at the throughout my career, as well Clinic from the family that as the importance of serving had agreed to think it over, ex- individuals within our commu- pressing a willingness to meet nity who lack access to afford- with me to learn more about able representation. the process and the Clinic’s One of the most rewarding expectations. After meeting experiences during my tenure with the family in the Clinic’s at the Clinic involved a juvenile conference room, they agreed who had recently arrived unac- to meet the young man. I fa- companied in America. cilitated the first meeting be- Every Tuesday at lunch- tween the Portland family and time, the Clinic sends a student the boy. They hit it off imme- and a professor to the Preble diately. Street Teen Center for a pro- Eventually, I accompanied gram called “Preble Street the young man to the family’s Law.” This program provides home for a Sunday dinner in an opportunity for the children the fall. Before dinner, we met at the Teen Center to seek free at the Teen Center and stopped advice related to legal troubles Michael O’Brien, left, and his former client taken for flowers at the market on in June 2014 outside of the U.S. Citizenship and they may be having. On one our walk to their home. Din- Immigration Services Portland Field Office. Tuesday last summer, a young ner was a success, and after a man from southeast Africa ap- few more meetings the family peared at our table and told his story to a I could do to help him obtain a steady bed eventually expressed willingness to peti- classmate of mine. to sleep in at night. tion for legal guardianship. Arriving in the United States only a After meeting with the young man at Inspired by their generosity and will- few weeks earlier, he spoke of the tragic the Preble Street Teen Center, I wanted ingness to help a child in need, the Clinic circumstances that led to his arrival in to do everything that I could to help him began formally representing the family in America – without any family, resources, get settled permanently in Maine. Profes- their Petition for Guardianship of a Minor. or shelter. Now homeless and fending for sor Northrop connected me with attorney Our goals were twofold – to help connect himself, this young man reached out to Elizabeth Stout ’90 (who also taught fam- this young man with a family who could

10 MAINE LAW MAGAZINE FALL 2014 provide him with a loving home and to allowed me to collaborate with Professor Department of Homeland Security. We give him the opportunity to remain long- Anna Welch at the Refugee and Human received notice that the interview would term in the United States (and obtain his Rights Clinic to complete the immigration occur in June, after my law school gradu- green card). portion of the process. ation. Therefore, I would no longer be The best path to accomplishing both of Professor Welch and I worked dili- eligible to serve as his Student Attorney. these goals was to ultimately petition for gently to complete the various forms and Knowing that this was a possibility, I had Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (known obtain the documentation necessary to pe- been working with Laura Shaw, a col- as SIJS), which is a special pathway to citi- tition for SIJS. The young man was not in league at the Refugee and Human Rights zenship for unmarried children under the possession of his birth certificate, which Clinic, in the anticipation of her complet- age of 18 who are present in the United was required to apply for a green card, so ing the process after I graduated. States, who have been abused, abandoned, we communicated with friends and ex- As the interview day approached, I or neglected by one or both parents, and for tended family from his home country to received an email from my former client whom it is determined that it is not in the obtain the proper documentation. This was asking if I would join him at his interview child’s best interest to be returned to his or no easy task – and threatened to sabotage even though I was no longer officially his her home country. These factual findings our entire effort, because our client had a attorney of record. He said that he was al- must be made by a state court judge who fast-approaching birthday. Fortunately, lowed to bring one friend along, and want- possesses valid jurisdiction over juveniles. we received the document in time to file. ed that friend to be me. I was honored at Therefore, the guardianship hearing in Meanwhile, another Student Attorney the request, and accepted his invitation. state Probate Court would be an appropri- volunteered to complete our client’s Fee On the morning of his big interview, I ate forum to establish the requisite factual Waiver, to help speed the process along. took time to reflect upon how far we had findings needed to accomplish our fu- come together. En route to the office of ture immigration objectives. the Department of Homeland Security, I To add an extra level of excite- realized that this young man had given ment to this incredible process, the me as much as I had given him. Togeth- federal immigration petition needed er, we had persevered and grown. to be filed before the young man’s As I sat alongside the young man 18th birthday or else he would age- during his interview, it became clear out of eligibility. We needed to act to me that he was being approved. fast, as only a few short months re- The young man has become a long- mained before the deadline. term permanent resident of the United After drafting and filing the Pe- States, with a loving and supportive tition for Guardianship, we even- family. In addition, he has established tually received a hearing date in a new program at the Teen Center Probate Court. I served as counsel called New Mainers, with the mission at this proceeding – and although I of helping other young new arrivals had appeared before various judges get settled in Portland. I feel honored in Maine District Court dozens of to have had the opportunity to help times, this was my first appearance him along the way. in state Probate Court. The probate During his tenure at the Cumberland Legal When I enrolled as a first-year stu- judge brought us back into his cham- Aid Clinic, Michael O’Brien also worked part- dent at Maine Law, I never dreamed bers and reviewed the Petition, ask- time as a stern man on a commercial lobster that I would engage in such meaning- ing questions of the young man and boat out of Portland Harbor. ful work before graduation. Profes- the family petitioning for guardian- sors Northrop and Welch provided me ship. At the end of our discussion, the with the practical skills, legal knowl- judge agreed to grant legal guardianship The level of teamwork at the Clinic is edge, and encouragement that I needed to to the family. Additionally, he signed the inspiring, and I learned something from be successful, and I am forever grateful factual findings that we had drafted for use my peers everyday. After triple checking for all that they have taught me inside the in our future immigration petition. to ensure that our paperwork was in order, classroom and the courtroom. After the hearing, the homeless young we filed his immigration petition the week I encourage everyone who attends man who we met at the Teen Center now prior to his birthday. Maine Law to participate in the clinical had a warm bed to sleep in and a loving, Now, we had to wait for a response. experiences, and those in the community supportive family. But our mission was far Receiving notice back that the petition to support the Clinic’s incredible mission. from complete. was accepted for processing was incred- With very little time until the young ible news for us, as it meant that he could Michael O’Brien graduated from Maine man’s 18th birthday, we had only one shot no longer age-out of eligibility. The only Law in May 2014. He began work this fall to successfully complete his petition for steps that remained were a biometrics as a Legislative Analyst in the Maine State SIJS. Although I was enrolled in the Ju- appointment, which I accompanied our Legislature’s Office of Policy and Legal venile Justice Clinic, Professor Northrop client to, and the final interview with the Analysis. ML

MAINE LAW MAGAZINE FALL 2014 11 Taking Aim at Debt

Professor Lois R. Lupica is leading a ground-breaking study designed to find the best ways to help people mired in crippling debt

Maine Law Magazine

he recent recession has taken a toll on low-income Americans. Low, stag- Tnant and declining wages, coupled with a lack of savings has meant that many consumers have used credit cards to bridge the gap between income and expenses. Credit card issuers know this, and, not surprisingly, target the customers they feel will be the most profitable – those that are unable to pay their balance in full every month. This means that hundreds of thou- sands of Americans are one life-interrupt- ing event (e.g., job loss, divorce, health crisis) away from default. Currently, over 30 million consumers have at least one de- linquent item on their credit reports listed as “in collection.” Such widespread financial distress has had “a profound affect upon the low- Professor Lois R. Lupica in the classroom. income population in Maine” says Maine Law Foundation Professor Lois R. Lupica. “And where there are financial problems, Funded, in part, by the National Science other legal problems follow, such as di- Foundation, the Study, designed to find out vorce, evictions, and an increased need for government benefits.” how and when legal aid is most effective, is But what is the best way to assist the mil- a kind of triage framework to determine how lions of people with legal issues stemming from serious credit and financial-related to best deploy limited legal services. problems? Legal Services Organizations such as Pine Tree Legal Services are under- funded, and thus do not have the resources to provide help to all who need it. Typically, of three academics who include Profes- into four groups that will receive different lawyers who provide pro bono representa- sor Lupica, Professor Jim Greiner at the types and levels of legal aid and financial tion are “putting out fires” – seeking protec- Harvard Law School and Professor Dalié counseling. Lupica, Greiner, Jiménez and tion from abuse orders, or arguing criminal Jiménez at the University of Connecti- their students will then analyze the data appeals. Few pro bono lawyers have devot- cut School of Law. The Study is a unique and compare outcomes by measuring ed much attention to helping clients sort out partnership with the three law schools, the their credit scores and credit reports sev- their financial obligations, and it is clear that Maine Judiciary, Pine Tree Legal Services, eral years later, to learn which approaches there will “never be enough lawyers to as- the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office, a were most effective. As a randomized con- sist everyone who needs help repairing their major financial counseling company, and a trol trial, or RCT, this approach is the gold credit, negotiating with debtors, litigating national credit-reporting agency. standard for a clinical trial, similar to the debt collection, and, when necessary, filing The Study, designed to find out how type of highly rigorous trials used to test for bankruptcy,” Lupica notes. and when legal aid is most effective, is new pharmaceuticals or medical devices, How best to assist people in financial a kind of triage framework to determine but is still quite rare in the law, Lupica trouble is the focus of a groundbreaking how to best deploy limited legal services. notes. Says Lupica, “The Study will enable new study, the Consumer Financial Dis- The Study will radomize hundreds of low- us to answer definitively, the very basic tress Project, designed and led by a team income clients with financial problems question, ‘where should we be spending

12 MAINE LAW MAGAZINE FALL 2014 our finite legal services dollars?’ We cur- rently do not know what type of assistance Current Maine Law students working on the Study is most effective, and when it should be Together with their Harvard Law counterparts, Maine Law students are provided. For example, do you most need working on various aspects of the Study. a lawyer at the stage where you are forced Katie Foster ’16 spent the summer researching and developing the “medical to negotiate with creditors? Or when it’s debt” pro se assistance packet. She has also functioned as the Maine Law time to speak in open court? Or is profes- student volunteer team coordinator, familiarizing team members with the sional help most needed at the credit report overarching goals of the project and the objectives for the materials that are repair stage? We want to know the pres- being produced. sure points when people are most likely to Betsy Boardman ’15 and Ari Solotoff ’15 have been developing a comprehensive fail – so we know exactly where and when outline describing the requirements and functions of the bankruptcy system’s to deploy scarce resources.” required 341 Meeting with creditors, and preparing pro se assistance materials Since the Study’s inception two and that walk a pro se consumer bankruptcy debtor through the process, step by step. a half years ago, about 50 Maine Law, Micah Smart ’16 is currently working on pro se materials focusing on the Harvard Law and UConn Law students use of utilities, tips on reducing heating costs, as well as information on have been involved as research assis- negotiating utility payment plans and signing up for assistance programs. tants. In 2012-2013, Maine Law students Kaitlyn Husar ’15 is a member of the “student loan” team, working to develop enrolled in the Consumer Credit Seminar pro se materials outlining how to discharge a student loan in bankruptcy by worked with Harvard Law and UConn bringing an adversary proceeding based on the “undue hardship” standard. Law students to research the civil law in Maine on debt collection, the small ect progress and to have the opportunity or not to dismiss the creditor/plaintiff’s claims process, evidentiary require- to work through a concept to the testing claim.” ments and inter-disciplinary learning on stage. It is especially rewarding to watch The study will also examine allegations how best to present complex instructions as an unrepresented defendant at small of widespread abuse in the debt-collection in a way that is accessible and compre- claims court is shown the materials for industry. Many owners of the original hensible. The students were assigned to the first time and is able to understand the debt, such as credit card companies, sell one of four teams: Civil Procedure, Debt concept and feel empowered after reading the debt; the new debt collectors, however, Collection Law, Evidence, and Access the draft. It further proves the validity and often have no supporting data to show how to Justice. Sarah Hodges ’14 enrolled in usefulness of the materials and the need for much is owed, the interest rate, and who the Consumer Credit Seminar for two se- a project like this in order to better educate owes the debt. Debtors often are afraid to mesters, was a member of the “Access to consumers.” Since 2012, dozens of Maine go to court, and so the debt buyer may re- Justice” team charged with transforming Law students have worked on the Study, ceive default judgments—perhaps for in- legal research memorandum into self- logging with their Harvard and UConn co- accurate amounts—and go on to garnish help materials. horts, over 2500 hours. the debtor’s wages or seize their assets. “Being involved in Professor Lupica’s The self-help materials the Study re- Lupica’s study wants to examine whether Consumer Credit Seminar … allowed me searchers are developing and testing are these abuses are happening, and on what to work with the group that created inno- innovative and surprisingly simple. They scale. Rachel Deschuytner ’14, a student vative pro se materials that unrepresented feature a genderless, raceless and relatable volunteer research assistant noted the im- defendants can use to defend themselves cartoon figure, designated “Blob,” who is portance of committing “time and legal against creditors’ claims,” Hodges says. shown being empowered with information expertise in this area of the law, because During the academic year, the students met as he/she navigates the small claims court credit is such an important part of every- weekly with their teams, either in-person debt collection process. One set of car- day life.” or telephonically, learning as much from toons shows the meaning of the statute of The Harvard Center for the Legal Pro- each other, as they did from their three limitations (by using an egg timer running fession (CLP), where Lupica, Greiner and Professors. out of sand). Another explains the evi- Jiménez are affiliated faculty members, Laura Shortill ’13 notes, “it was a plea- dence needed to sue on a credit card debt, supports this research project. CLP’s cen- sure to be a part of a talented group of so- and how a consumer can assert their rights tral mission is to conduct groundbreaking, phisticated legal minds working together with debt collectors and their attorneys, empirical research on the rapidly chang- to develop the research bank.” as well as before a judge. “Research on ing structures, norms and dynamics of the Katie Foster ’16 was the Study’s re- conceptual and procedural knowledge has global legal profession, of which questions search assistant this past summer. Joining taught us that a pro se defendant does not of access to justice and the availability of the team two years into the project, Fos- have to understand the business records legal counsel are central. The Study is ter was quickly oriented, and tasked with exception, for example,” observes Lupica. also supported by grants from the Ameri- the job of developing and testing, through “They just have to say the right words at can Bankruptcy Institute Anthony H.N. cognitive interviews of potential Study the right time. If we can direct pro se liti- Schnelling Endowment, the National Con- subjects, self-help materials for people gants to ask, ‘has the case been proved?,’ ference of Bankruptcy Judges Endowment burdened by medical-related debt. As the judge can then assess the evidence for Education and the National Science Foster notes, “It is exciting to see the proj- before him or her, and determine whether Foundation. ML

MAINE LAW MAGAZINE FALL 2014 13 Maine Law’s D.C. Connection

For a small school, By Trevor Maxwell Maine Law packs oming out of one of the nation’s smallest law schools, Tim McCormack ’01 didn’t quite a punch in Cexpect to run across too many of his fel- low Maine Law alums when he went to work the nation’s in Washington, D.C. in the early 2000s, first as a policy advisor to Sen. Susan Collins, and then capital. as a lawyer in private practice. Yet there they were. John Bean ’03, Amanda Wood ’01, Matt Walker ’01 and, later, Justin Weiss ’06, were just some of McCormack’s con- temporaries whose careers had also led them to Washington, D.C. Once there, they became part of a larger network of Maine Law alumni from earlier years, a group that includes Martha Casey ’82, David Evans ’78, Frank O’Toole ’70, Charlie Cragin ’70, Mary Bell ’74 and Ron Battocchi ’74. McCormack recalls his wife coming home one day from her job at the U.S. Department of Labor, and asking whether he knew a guy named Richard Ewell, who happened to work in the same office. “I know Richard,” McCormack said. “He was in my class at Maine Law.” For a small school, Maine Law packs quite a punch in the nation’s capital. Alumni are thriv- ing in a wide variety of fields in Washington, including private practice, politics, government agencies, public policy, and business. More than 150 alums live, work, or are retired in the Wash- ington metropolitan area. Only Massachusetts and, of course, Maine itself boast a higher con- centration of Maine Law graduates. The Law School has hosted an annual alumni reception in Washington for many years, and the administration is taking full advantage of the connections and job op- portunities in the city. Beginning in the spring of 2015, Maine Law will launch its Semester in D.C. Externship Program, matching students with positions in fed- eral agencies of their choice. Externs earn academic credit while working alongside seasoned attorneys. As more Maine Law graduates make D.C. Connection their way to Washington, there are more connections to leverage in networking, which can be critical for interview oppor- tunities and long-term success. “I really encourage people to look at D.C. There is good work down here, and a great alumni network of Maine Law folks,” said McCormack, 45, who recent- ly joined the Board of Directors for the Martha Casey Maine Law Alumni Association. At the Phillips and Cohen law firm, a job on Capitol Hill. earned a spot on the House Ways and McCormack specializes in the represen- A Massachusetts native and Demo- Means Committee. Casey worked as leg- tation of whistleblowers who work to re- crat, Casey had always been interested islative counsel to Donnelly until 1987. cover money from companies that have in politics and public policy. She worked “I was there for tax reform, Medicare defrauded the government. as a Congressional aide before coming to and Medicaid. I became a healthcare ex- “Maine is a small place, and a lot of Maine Law, and she imagined returning pert without really intending to,” Casey people want to live in the Portland area. to the city after graduation, possibly to recalled. For that reason alone, the competition is work in the Justice Department. That expertise propelled Casey into less intense in Washington. There is also “I remember sitting in the law library her next career move as a prominent lob- a lot of appreciation for people who have the night that Ronald Reagan became byist for hospitals and other clients in the the kind of solid, nuts and bolts education president,” Casey said. “I thought to my- healthcare industry. As a consultant with you get at Maine Law.” self, I guess I won’t be working in that O’Neill, Athy & Casey, she represents department.” Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston The lure of the Hill Her boyfriend at the time took a clerk- Medical Center, and Massachusetts Gen- ship in Washington, and after many phone eral Hospital, among others. From her In the early 1980s, the Maine Law calls in the spring of 1982, Casey land- firm’s headquarters on the historic Du- alumni network in Washington, D.C. was ed a job in the office of Massachusetts pont Circle, Casey has been a leading ad- small but lively when Martha Casey took Congressman Brian Donnelly, who soon vocate for hospitals in every budget battle

Maine Law’s 2014 Washington Alumni Reception

MAINE LAW MAGAZINE FALL 2014 15 since the Reagan era. Casey has also a lot less bias than people face at big East spective. Washington’s economy, driven expanded into education, with clients in- Coast firms,” Evans said. “To the people largely by growth in government agen- cluding Harvard College and Northeast- making hiring decisions in the govern- cies and contractors, has flourished over ern University. She volunteers her time ment, the only question that matters is the past decade and a half, while other on the board of directors of the University – Can you do the job? It doesn’t matter cities were stagnant. Since 2001, Wash- of Maine School of Law Foundation. if you went to Maine Law or Harvard or ington has enjoyed the lowest unemploy- While the Maine Law contingent in Yale.” ment rate among the largest 10 metro- Washington was not as large in the 1980s Both Casey and Evans have encour- politan areas in the nation. For overall as it is today, Casey made time to get to- aged Maine Law graduates to seek em- job growth between 2001 and 2012, gether with fellow alumni in the city, in- ployment in Washington, and they have Washington ranked second, adding more cluding David Evans, John Veroneau ’89, been delighted as the numbers of alumni than 150,000 jobs. Only Houston fared and Jane Earley ’74. in the metropolitan area have gone up. better. Evans, a member of the Maine Law “For years we always asked each other: The terrorist attacks of 2001 motivat- class of 1978, also fondly recalls those Why can’t we get more Maine Law gradu- ed Brian Tomney, class of 2006, toward gatherings. They met once at a Chinese ates to Washington?” Casey said. “Then, a career change and a move to Washing- restaurant, and other times at apartments gradually, more people started com- ton. A 13-year veteran paramedic for the or townhomes. ing down. We City of Portland, Tomney was at work “It was a lot of fun. We’d share sto- started getting on 9/11 when the FBI located the car of ries about Maine, talk about family and more calls from Mohammed Atta at the Portland Jetport jobs,” Evans said. “This was long before people looking shortly after the attacks. He traveled it became more organized, with Maine to make connec- with other paramedics and firefighters to Law receptions and the Dean coming to tions, which was two FDNY funerals in New York City, town, bringing people and updates from great.” and visited Ground Zero about a month the school. Those events are huge now.” “It has really after the attacks, when the wreckage was taken off in the last still burning. The steady growth of 15 years. The gov- “I woke up on New Year’s Day 2002 ernment response and said, I’m going to law school and a lawyers’ town after 9/11 created then I’m going to work for the Justice Evans is a partner at Clifford Chance whole new swaths Department,” Tomney recalled. US LLP, the American headquarters of the David Evans of the D.C. econo- It was an ambitious path from which multinational law firm based in . my, and those jobs Tomney never wavered. He enrolled at He specializes in project finance, utility are going to young professionals. My neighbor- Maine Law in 2003, interned at the U.S. regulation, and commercial contracts. hood in Arlington has developed entirely in the Attorney’s Office in Portland as a rising Evans has been involved in energy and last 15 years, and almost all new residents are 2L, and then in the U.S. DOJ’s Counter- finance matters his entire career, includ- under 35.” terrorism Section as a rising 3L. Tomney ing positions as Staff Counsel to the U.S. The statistics support Casey’s per- was selected for the DOJ Honors Program Nuclear Regulatory Commission investi- gating the accident at Three Mile Island, as Chevron’s chief natural gas lawyer, as Vice President and General Counsel of an independent power developer, and as a partner in two major law firms. He has also remained deeply engaged with Maine Law. Evans was president of the Univer- sity of Maine School of Law Foundation for a number of years, taking a leadership role in fundraising and advocacy from 2007 to 2013. His first opportunity in Washington was as a participant in an honors law grad- uate program run by the Nuclear Regula- tory Commission. Evans describes it as a classic path for an aspiring lawyer. Work for a federal agency. Get experience. Earn a reputation for high quality work. Move on to the next step in your career. “That is one thing that always struck me about government agencies. There is Brian Tomney, center

16 MAINE LAW MAGAZINE FALL 2014 Staying connected: Outreach builds Washington relationships

hy is Washington, D.C. Maine Law’s virtual home April 30 at the AGC Townhouse on Capitol Hill. away from home? More Maine Law alumni live The Law School has a faculty and student exchange Wand work in the nation’s capital than anywhere agreement with Howard University Law School, and else outside of Maine and Massachusetts. faculty members maintain active relationships with the “Our talented and generous network of D.C. alumni, other law schools in Washington. in both the private and public sectors, provides advice, Faculty also engage with the federal government encouragement, and jobs to our students and recent with respect to policy development and funding graduates,” said Peter Pitegoff, Dean at Maine Law. opportunities, including support for domestic violence “Additionally, many opportunities in D.C. involve public prevention work done by our Cumberland Legal Aid service, which is a signature attribute of Maine Law Clinic, and for Professor Lois R. Lupica’s wide-ranging and a powerful draw for our graduates.” Consumer Financial Distress Project. For many years, leaders at Maine Law have paid Maine Law’s Semester in D.C. Externship Program close attention to D.C. and have nurtured those launches in the spring semester of 2015. The program important connections to the city. is designed to assist law students in identifying and Maine Law’s annual alumni reception in Washington securing full-time, semester long externships with brings together a large and enthusiastic crowd of a federal agency of their choice. To complement alumni and friends. It is one of the most anticipated their field placement experience, students will enroll events of the year for friends who often don’t have in a seminar on government practice taught by extra time throughout the year to catch up with their Washington lawyer Jane Earley ’74, who is working former classmates. The 2014 reception was held on with Maine Law to launch this pilot program.

following his graduation. He was among “What has helped me most is that I After his year as an advisor to Col- five individuals picked to work in the knew exactly what I wanted to do,” Tom- lins, McCormack decided he wanted to Criminal Division, out of several hundred ney said. “When I cross Pennsylvania Av- be more of a “nuts and bolts” lawyer. His applicants. enue to work every day, I look around, I next career step was away from Capitol After three years as a prosecutor in the look at the Capitol, and I think about how Hill and into private practice. He joined Criminal Division’s Narcotic and Dan- fortunate I am, and why I came here.” Goodwin Procter LLP, specializing in gerous Drug Section, in 2009 Tomney complex commercial litigation. While was promoted to a job involving the high- ‘The Maine connections are real’ there, he met his wife, Lisa Wilson. Mc- est levels of national security. As Counsel McCormack, the qui tam lawyer with Cormack then moved on to Phillips and for Rule of Law to the Deputy Attorney Phillips and Cohen, took his own unique Cohen, where he has played key roles in General, Tomney oversees U.S. prosecu- path to D.C., as part of the youth move- successful whistleblower cases involv- tors who work hand in hand with pros- ment to the city in the early 2000s. He ing hospitals, a medical device company, ecutors in Afghanistan and Iraq. The mis- arrived in Washington in 2003 after government contractors and pharmaceuti- sion is to build clerking for federal judges in Maine and cal companies. the capacity of Vermont. “I’ve been very fortunate. I met my those countries Like many Maine Law alumni who wife and started a family here, and I have to successfully now call D.C. home, McCormack thought a job that is challenging and tremendous- prosecute drug he would work in the city for a few years ly rewarding,” said McCormack, father to trafficking, ter- and then look for a job back in Maine. youngsters Natalie and Ben. “It is a really rorism, and oth- “I was actually planning to go to work cool combination of working with clients er crimes. for a firm in Portland, but one of my who are at a place in life where they need “I’ve enjoyed co-clerks convinced me to think about help, and at the same time they are trying living and work- Washington. She had worked on the Hill to do the right thing.” ing in D.C. My for many years, and said, ‘Go down to McCormack, Casey, and Evans all experience is that D.C. Maine will always be there,’ ” Mc- agreed that the Maine Law alumni net- people either re- Cormack said. work is an expanding and effective tool Tim McCormack ally love it here With help from Maine Law alumni for job-hunting, and for those simply test- and thrive in working in the office of Sen. Susan Col- ing the waters in Washington. this environment, or they get chewed up,” lins, McCormack interviewed for a job, “The Maine connections are real,” he said. “Compared to Maine, the biggest and the timing could not have been better. Casey said. “We love it when we can drawback for me is that the beach is at least McCormack had studied forestry at the show a job seeker around or answer ques- three hours away, and it can be five hours University of Maine, and Collins needed tions. We are going to go out of our way away, depending on traffic.” an advisor on forestry and agriculture. to help those people.”

MAINE LAW MAGAZINE FALL 2014 17 A livable yet truly a 2001 Maine Law grad. At the time, “You can have a virtual U.N. sitting Wood was working for the Senate Home- together for dinner. It is truly an interna- international city land Security and Government Affairs tional city,” Evans said. He loves to run Kate Shorr ’10, who grew up in Port- Committee and offered Kate advice on and bike along the Canal. Evans also en- land, has seen the results of the Maine networking and gave her names of other joys the weather in Washington, although Law alumni network first-hand. Shorr alumni in the area to contact. he loves returning to Maine, where he was selected as a Congressional intern Ultimately, Shorr joined powerhouse now spends much of his summer. His in Senator Susan Collin’s office during law firm Foley & Lardner’s government mother lives in Maine, and he has a sister her last semester as an undergrad at the affairs practice group in its Washington nearby in Massachusetts. University of Maine in Orono, where she office. She worked at the firm for two McCormack lives in D.C. proper. The majored in Political Science. The intern- years before making her next Maine con- neighborhood has a cohesive and friendly ship sent her to Washington in the spring nection in the summer of 2012 when she vibe, with the Metro only three blocks of 2004, and she immediately fell in love attended a Washington reception for An- away, he said. with the city. gus King, who was running as an inde- “I definitely miss Maine, the size, the During her internship, Shorr worked pendent to replace retiring Senator Olym- collegiality. But D.C. has so many op- closely with Maine Law alumnus Steve pia Snowe. portunities. My wife and I both have jobs Abbott ’91, the Senator’s Chief of Staff. Shorr kept in touch with the King that are not available in other places. If Following the internship, Abbott you are going to live in the offered Shorr a permanent posi- city, this is a pretty good tion in the office, first as a staff one,” he said. assistant and then as the Sena- Attending Washington tor’s State Scheduler and Ex- National baseball games at ecutive Assistant. Shorr says that Nationals Park is a favor- Abbott and other lawyers she ite activity for Shorr, her worked with urged her to pursue boyfriend, who also works her law degree, and in 2007 she on Capitol Hill, and their decided to return to her native friends, including Wood, city of Portland for law school. who now works as the Di- “On the Hill, you are just sur- rector of Employment Pol- rounded by lawyers. Everywhere icy at the National Associa- you turn there are lawyers doing tion of Manufacturers. Shorr really cool things with their de- has also stayed close friends grees,” said Shorr, who was part Kate Shorr with fellow 2010 Maine of the pre-law program at the Law graduates, Mike An- University of Maine. derson and Nick Lund, who “Steve Abbott and the other lawyers in campaign that fall and after King was also both live in Washington. Anderson Sen. Collins’ office were great mentors. elected, he hired her to join his new of- most recently worked for BAE Systems, Tim McCormack was there at the time, fice as a member of his senior staff. Shorr and is now pursuing his LL.M. this year at and he sort of took me under his wing currently serves as Senator King’s Direc- George Washington University. Lund is a when I was an intern. Being surround- tor of Scheduling, and also assumes the nature writer and lawyer with the National ed by so many lawyers, the idea of law title of Legislative Counsel when neces- Parks Conservation Association. school never left my thought process.” sary to handle various legal issues and “It’s pretty amazing to have so many After graduating from Maine Law in analysis as they arise. Maine friends in D.C. Nick was the first 2010 – with the nation mired in a historic “It has been quite a ride, and I’ve classmate that I met at Maine Law. Mike recession following the financial crisis of enjoyed all of it. I see myself staying in was the Vice President of the Student Bar 2008 – Shorr was anxious to move back Washington for a very long time,” Shorr Association, and I was President. Amanda to Washington, despite not having a job said. “I do love it here. There is so much has become one of my really good friends lined up. She moved to D.C. and slept going on, but it’s not overwhelming. I go here. It is fun to live in a city like Wash- on a friend’s couch, waited tables and up to New York and I get overwhelmed. ington but have friends here that you have joined a temp agency. All the while, she Washington is a very livable city with a that history with, you know?” Shorr said. worked the phones and email, reaching ton to do.” “There are so many Mainers here that out to Maine Law alumni in the area to Evans agreed. He especially likes it gets to the point where my D.C. friends seek advice, grab a cup of coffee, or ask the variety of opportunities, such as the joke about it. They’ll say, ‘jeez, Kate, you to help make a connection for a potential chance to mingle with and learn from Mainers are everywhere.’ It’s true, we job. That is how she met Amanda Wood, people who come from around the world. are.” ML

18 MAINE LAW MAGAZINE FALL 2014 PARENTS in LAW Maine Law students balance studies with children

aw school is rigorous. The demands are mentally and physically draining, and you must be able to think on your Lfeet at all times. Some Maine Law students share a background that makes them uniquely suited for the challenge: They’re parents. They have to find the balance between legal research and lunch packing, oral arguments and doctor’s appointments, networking events and Little League games. They could all use extra support. That was the idea behind Parents in Law. Created in 2013 by Betsy Wakefield ’16 and other members of her first-year class, the organization connects students who also happen to be parents. Participants lean on each other for social and academic support, and they also sponsor events for the entire Maine Law community, including a toy drive, a spring scavenger hunt, a regular coffee series, and a cookout this September at Fort Williams in Cape Elizabeth. The group has been an instant success at Maine Law, which has a national reputation for being welcoming to older students and students from diverse backgrounds. We asked Parents in Law members to share some of the joys and challenges of their dual roles.

Jamie Bryant alancing parenting and law “Bschool has been an interesting challenge, but my kids are learning the value of hard work and the possibility of dream fulfillment at any age. The biggest challenge, by far, is spending so much time away from them while working to ensure they don’t resent my choice to seek a new career. The Parents in Law group put on a scavenger hunt last spring that provided my kids the opportunity to explore the law school where I was spending all of my free time, while meeting other kids whose parents were doing the same thing. It was a fantastic opportunity that really put the school in a positive light for them.” Jamie Bryant is a second year law student who moved to Maine with her family in 2008. She is married with a son, 10, and a daughter, 6. Before enrolling at Maine Law in 2013, Jamie had been an Arabic Linguist in the Army and then a stay-at-home mom.

MAINE LAW MAGAZINE FALL 2014 19 PARENTS in LAW Ryan Woodward was prepared to begin Law School with two “Ichildren as much as I could be. I was not expecting to have my third child born in the middle of my 1L year. After my child was born, I was grateful to receive food, clothing and support from people I met thanks to Parents in Law. This is what makes Parents in Law great. Being a parent and student can be stressful, but it’s a testament of good time management and a great support team, if you don’t want to feel overwhelmed. I’m blessed to have a great wife and kids to support me at home. I’m also very thankful to know that I’m not alone at the Law School. In a very competitive environment, there is a group of people who understand when a child is sick, and I have to go to the doctor, or when my wife is working and I have to watch the children. They don’t judge me or question me. They understand and are there to help, because tomorrow it may be one of them with the sick kid and Parents in Law will be there.” Ryan Woodward is a 2L student at the University of Maine School of Law. He is married with three children, ages 4, 2, and 8 months. He is a graduate of Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky. Before moving his family to Maine to attend school in 2013, Ryan was a police detective in Georgia.

Betsy Wakefield nce I decided that I was going to be heading “Oto law school with a toddler, I began shoring up as much support as I could. I started Parents in Law with the idea of creating a group that would, at the very least, let students with children know they are not alone. Having to study at home has been challenging and I’ve worked hard to try to include my daughter with whatever I’m learning. My Property book became her companion for stroller rides around the neighborhood. Negotiations in my household have also taken on an entirely new tone. But the balance is never perfect. The most challenging times have been when my daughter clings to me, saying she doesn’t want me to go to school or the library. It has also been difficult watching classmates attend social and alumni gatherings where they are building their networks. But it just makes me work harder to network when I get the chance. When I am exhausted to my core, I think about the example I’m setting for my daughter – that at any age you can pursue your dream. When she looks back at this time in her life, I hope it is with pride and understanding.” Born and raised in Maine, Betsy Wakefield graduated from Brandeis University and spent over 10 years in the insurance industry as an underwriter. She is married with a vivacious 3-year-old daughter. Betsy enjoys poker, plays a weak game of golf, and in the summer she prefers to sleep in a tent and hike. Maine Law students balance studies with children Star Bergh y experience as a parent in Law School has “Mbeen multi-faceted. I’m a single mother who is constantly juggling two lives: mine and my 8-year- old daughter’s. She has school, dance, gymnastics, homework, playdates and doctor’s appointments that must be fit in with my classes, work, homework and housework. The stress and exhaustion has had me placing the milk in the cupboard and the cereal in the fridge, sending my daughter to school with my laptop cord in her lunchbox and looking for my phone all over the house while talking on it. There is no doubt the law school journey is made crazier because I am a single mother, but I couldn’t imagine going through it without my kiddo. Her presence is a daily reminder of the big picture, and she is the first one to make fun of me when I put the ice cube tray in the microwave instead of the freezer. The creation of Parents in Law has brought a sense of solidarity to my experience. The group is a source of academic and emotional support that I have come to rely on. How do I approach the precarious balance between parenting and law school? One day at a time.” Star M. Bergh is a second year law student with a focus on Criminal Law. Star and her 8-year-old daughter have fallen in love with Portland and intend on staying after graduation. She is a graduate of Husson University where she majored in Criminal Justice.

Bill Adams have gone from the grueling shift work of an “I industrial setting to taking on the tough work of learning the law, most of the time from behind a desk. I have learned a new kind of tired, and I find myself mentally exhausted at times. But this is the biggest joy, as well as the biggest challenge of this adventure. Other noteworthy joys are building a foundation of knowledge that I will use for the rest of my life and watching my 10-year old son learn and practice the law (of our house) alongside me. His reasoning and arguing skills have improved dramatically in the last year. Balancing everything is a challenge, but my wife, a third-year medical student, keeps us incredibly organized with calendars and charts. We are not missing a beat. Quality time is the key; we have to schedule it in, and we make sure to do it. Whether it is coaching my son’s soccer team, a trip to the beach, or a family game.” Bill Adams, a 2L at Maine Law, describes himself as an old and graying father in a blended family made up of his lovely wife, seven-month-old son, 10-year-old son, and 17-year-old daughter. After graduating from Maine Maritime Academy, Bill spent five years sailing as an engineer before taking a shore-side position. Eight years later he decided, with the support and encouragement of his wife, to change careers. STUDENT SPOTLIGHT Kasey Boucher: “I really liked the idea of having a small school where I could form personal relationships with the professors and a large percentage of the student body, rather than just being another number in a larger school.”

2L (Class of 2016) Why did you choose to attend Maine Law? Hometown: Lewiston, Maine It definitely helped that Maine Law was close to home, but that Undergrad: Boston University was not the only factor in my decision. All the feedback I received about the school was great. The small size also definitely helped. Major: B.S. in Business Administration; dual concentration Although I loved how big Boston University is, law school is a in finance and law greater step toward my career. I really liked the idea of having a small school where I could form What did you do prior to personal relationships with the coming to the University of professors and a large percentage Maine School of Law? of the student body, rather than I worked for State Street as a just being another number in a portfolio accountant and played larger school. women’s professional hockey for the Boston Blades. What has been most helpful to you in making the adjustment to the life You have been a standout ice of a Maine Law Student? hockey player. Can you tell us a It was actually a lot easier of an little bit about your journey as adjustment than I was expecting. I an athlete, beginning with high knew it was going to be a lot of work, school? Do you still play? but it is certainly manageable. I think I certainly had a different the availability and approachability high school experience than of staff and other students has been most people. I went to North an enormous help for me. American Hockey Academy (NAHA) in Stowe, Vermont, When you are not at school, how which was only during the do you like to spend your time? hockey season. The classes consisted of one-on-one tutoring and I am certainly a coffee addict, so I often do my school work either at were based on the classes that I was enrolled in back at Lewiston a coffee shop or next to my coffee pot at home. When I’m not doing High School. Going to NAHA opened up the opportunity for me work, even though Portland is not huge in size, there are so many to reach personal dreams, including playing hockey in college for options for anyone. The entire city has a warm and friendly vibe. I Boston University. also have started to enjoy running now that I am done playing hockey competitively. The drive from my hometown is less than an hour, and I also received the opportunity to play for the U-18 Team USA I still am constantly learning about new restaurants or places to go. national team in 2008, with whom I won a gold medal at the IIHF world championships. I also was fortunate enough to represent If you could tell a prospective student one thing about Maine Law, the country at both the U-22 and senior team levels for various what would it be? international tournaments. I played for the Boston Blades, which is When I was a prospective student, I knew Maine Law had a reputation the only American team in the Canadian women’s hockey league. I of being a great school, but I didn’t realize how great it was until classes am extremely grateful for the experience I had with hockey, and it began. The faculty and students are always willing to help one another. has had a huge impact on the person I am today. Unfortunately, I All of my professors are approachable and truly want their students to have not been playing recently, but I would like to start again soon succeed. Lastly, the camaraderie among the small group of students at a much less competitive level and play just for fun. really makes a great learning environment for everyone.

22 MAINE LAW MAGAZINE FALL 2014 STUDENT SPOTLIGHT Chris Monroe: “I chose Maine Law based upon the caliber of the faculty, the collegiality of the student population, and the school’s emphasis on clinical exposure and the practical application of the law.”

2L (Class of 2016) Why did you choose to attend Maine Law? Hometown: Whitefield, Maine I chose Maine Law based upon the caliber of the faculty, the collegiality Undergrad: Illinois Institute of Technology of the student population, and the school’s emphasis on clinical exposure and the practical application of the law. Despite national Major: Political Science trends in post-law school employment, the demographics of the Maine Grad School: MBA, Kellogg Graduate School of bench and bar signal potential opportunities in the legal profession. Management Having traveled extensively throughout the world and relocated over a Grad School: MA, United States Naval War College dozen times during my military career, I cannot think of anywhere else that I would rather practice law than What did you do prior to coming to in my home state of Maine. Maine Law? I served as a senior officer in the What has been most helpful to you United States Navy. in making the adjustment to the life of a Maine Law Student? What were some of your A supportive group of student assignments during your 20 years colleagues is immensely important of service for the Navy? How many for acclimating to any law school, countries and continents did you no matter how extensive your visit? background or prior life experience. I was the Commanding Officer of a guided missile destroyer When you are not at school, how based in Japan. With a crew of do you like to spend your time? nearly 300, the ship conducted I enjoy skiing, sailing, hiking, operations throughout the Asia- kayaking, and various other outdoor Pacific region. Ashore, I served as adventure activities. a Special Assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations in the Pentagon Do you have specific career goals and as the Maritime Branch Chief in at this point? the current operations directorate of United States Central Command As a 2L, all facets of the legal profession excite me. I am currently in Tampa, Fla. In this capacity, I planned and monitored maritime considering a career in corporate litigation, with a particular focus in operations throughout the Middle East. During my 20+ years on active business or maritime law. duty, I visited 37 countries on five continents. If you could tell a prospective student one thing about Maine Law, What are some of your best memories as the Commanding Officer aboard what would it be? the USS Curtis Wilbur, and what were the biggest challenges in that job? I would tell prospective students to look beyond the four walls of the The most poignant time in command was in March 2011 when the institution and consider the judicial temperament of the bench and Tohoku earthquake and tsunami hit Japan. The ship was at sea, and collegiality of the bar where the school is located. As the only law we immediately proceeded to the epicenter to search for survivors. As school in the state, Maine Law is uniquely positioned to maintain close the first U.S. Navy ship to arrive, we patrolled the massive debris fields relationships with the attorneys, the state and federal judiciary, and and catalogued photos of vessels adrift. Shortly after one of our photos all levels of government. For aspiring law students, this presents an appeared on a Navy website, a 14-year-old Japanese girl recognized opportunity to build a professional support network not only after her family’s fishing vessel, and she contacted U.S. Navy officials. The graduation, but immediately upon matriculation. Japanese Coast Guard located the vessel based upon our coordinates, and our combined efforts helped safeguard at least one Japanese family.

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The Law of Energy Underground: Understanding Off and Running: A Practical Guide to Legal New Developments in Subsurface Production, Research, Analysis, and Writing Transmission and Storage Authors: Professors Angela C. Arey & Nancy Edited by: Prof. Donald N. Zillman, Aileen McHarg, Wanderer Adrian Bradbrook, and Lila Barrera-Hernandez Publisher: Wolders Kluwer (2014) Publisher: Oxford University Press (2014) Professor Angela Arey, director of the Legal Research and The laws and environmental impacts related to “fracking” for Writing Program at Maine Law, and Professor Emerita Nancy oil and gas, storage of nuclear waste, and other pressing energy Wanderer, the founder of the program, have published a new questions of our time are the subject of a new book that was edited legal writing textbook for law students in Maine and around the by a University of Maine School of Law professor. nation. Professor Don Zillman was the lead editor and a contributing Off and Running: A Practical Guide to Legal Research, Anal- author to The Law of Energy Underground: Understanding New ysis, and Writing, was released in early 2014 by Wolters Kluwer Developments in Subsurface Production, Transmission and Stor- Law and Business (Aspen Coursebook Series). It is available for age. The book was published in spring 2014 by Oxford University adoption in legal writing and practice skills courses. Press, the world’s leading academic publisher. Here is the summary of the book: The Law of Energy Underground explores the rapid develop- “Off and Running is a unique text for the first semester of ment of new technologies for extracting energy from beneath the the 1L legal writing and research course, designed to guide stu- earth’s surface, and for the underground storage or disposal of dents through their development of the essential skills needed hazardous byproducts such as to practice law. Using a spent nuclear fuel. The book single, classroom-tested examines different regulatory fact pattern, the authors responses to these develop- demonstrate in concrete ments, both here in the U.S., steps how a first-year as- and around the world. Zill- sociate might approach a man and his fellow authors legal problem. Students also assess the environmental practice these steps and impact of energy extraction skills on other fact pat- technologies such as “frack- terns, as they read about ing.” this fictional associate. “The book considers a “Using this fresh ap- wide range of issues from the proach and a plain-Eng- new technologies for oil and lish writing style, the au- gas production to reduction of thors introduce essential climate change through car- concepts and skills relat- bon capture and storage to permanent storage of nuclear waste and ed to objective legal writing and legal research, with a particu- spent nuclear fuel,” Zillman said. lar emphasis on the professional and ethical representation of “Who owns extraction or storage rights? Who is responsible clients. Students learn how to think like a lawyer.” for protection against environmental harms, or the settlement of Prof. Wanderer, the founder and longtime former director international disputes? These are some of the complex legal issues of the Legal Research and Writing Program at Maine Law, de- that we tackle in the book.” scribes the book as the culmination of her 19 years of teaching Professor Zillman wrote the chapter on nuclear waste disposal and program development. Because of the book’s practical and in the United States and other nuclear nations. As lead editor, he straightforward approach, she and Prof. Arey hope it will help was also responsible for the gathering of 23 chapters by 35 authors both new and experienced legal writing professors get their stu- from 22 nations, as well as preparing the Introduction and Conclu- dents “off and running” as skilled legal researchers and writers sion for the book. as quickly as possible. Professor Zillman is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Maine Law. He previously served as Dean of the Law School, from 1991 to 1998, and more recently as President of the University of Maine at Presque Isle. He specializes in energy law and military law and has written over 50 law review articles and been author or editor on 12 books in those areas. At Maine Law, he also has also taught Property, Constitutional Law, Torts, and Legal Writing.

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Legal Writing other cultural norms comprehensible to Former Judge, and now Professor Angela our courts, and to make our court culture Edward S. Godfrey Arey’s book Off and understandable to other cultures. In June, Visiting Professor, the Running: A Practical he was part of a panel presentation at Honorable James B. Guide to Legal a Pine Tree Legal Assistance retreat, Haines, Jr. retired from Research, Writing, and discussing the questions and problems the bench after twenty- Analysis for Aspiring of the “difficult client,” including clients five years as a federal Lawyers, co-authored with serious mental illness. bankruptcy judge. with Professor Emerita He will be teaching Nancy Wanderer, was published by Professor David Bankruptcy, Federal Courts, Pre-Trial Wolters/Kluwer in 2014. Professor Arey Cluchey has entered Practice, and Secured Transactions. Since directs the legal writing program and phased retirement but retirement, he has continued to appear continues to provide faculty support to has remained active as a faculty member for programs of the Maine Law’s moot court program. in the life of the law Federal Judicial Center and the National school. This fall, he Conference of Bankruptcy Judges. In Professor Dmitry is teaching Business addition, he is currently helping write bench Bam’s forthcoming Associations and books on criminal and civil procedure for article “The International Finance, the Republic of Kosovo. Constitutionality of chairs the Curriculum American Recusal Committee, serves on the Dean Search Former Interim Law Procedure” will Committee, and is the law school’s faculty Library Director be published in representative on the Working Group of Christine Iaconeta has Mississippi Law the University of Maine System Business/ shed the “interim” from Journal. The article Law Initiative. He also serves on the her title and is now the argues that recusal procedures used Board of the Russian-United States Legal director of the Donald L. by many American courts, including Education Foundation (RUSLEF), and Garbrecht Law Library. the United States Supreme Court, are through RUSLEF, Maine Law has hosted In that capacity, she unconstitutional. Professor Bam has Russian exchange students each of the last will continue steering presented the article at Marquette Law four years. the library through its transition from the School, to the International Legal Ethics hardcover past into the digital future. She Conference in London, and to the Maine Professor Christine also is working on a forthcoming book, Judicial Council. A previous article, Davik’s article, “We Maine Legal Research, which will be “Voter Ignorance and Judicial Elections,” Know Who You published by Carolina Academic Press. was published in the Kentucky Law Are and What You Journal. He is currently researching Are Made of: The Professor Lois R. the relationship between Alexander Illusion of Internet Lupica had another Hamilton’s ideas about the judiciary Anonymity and its busy year. Along and the modern practice of judicial Impact on Protection with two law school elections. He also continues to work from Genetic professor colleagues with the Maine Board of Bar Overseers ,” was published by (one from Harvard on revisions to Maine’s ethical rules for the Case Western Law Review. That Law and the other lawyers. article reflects her broader research from UConn Law), interests involving the intersection many student research Clinical Professor between technological innovation assistants, and in collaboration with James Burke continues and the control of information. Her Pine Tree Legal Services, she has been to work with students current research project addresses working on the Consumer Financial at the Cumberland attempts by website owners to limit Distress Research Study, a large Legal Aid Clinic, the use of non-copyrightable data empirical study of the effectiveness of and helped organize on publicly accessible websites. different ways of solving the problem Maine’s 2014 Access Recently, Professor Davik was of financial distress. The project draws to Justice Symposium. invited to present the Constitution upon Professor Lupica’s longstanding He also chaired a Day Lecture at the University of New interests in consumer credit, bankruptcy presentation on ethics and malpractice . Her talk, entitled “A Bad and poverty law. The project has already and on stress management at the Maine Connection: Deficiencies in Protection produced one published article, “Access State Bar Association’s Bridging the From Genetic Discrimination and its to Justice: A Randomized Control Trial of Gap Program. In May, Professor Burke Negative Impact on Public Health,” Credit Counseling, Legal Representation, presented at the closing session at the identified and evaluated current and Debt Collection Processes,” in MSBA Family Law CLE on the topic gaps in protection under the Genetic the Georgetown Journal on Poverty of representing clients from different Information Nondiscrimination Act Law and Policy, and one article about cultures in family court. A key focus of of 2008 wrought by advances in data to be published, “Lay Deployment that presentation was on ways to make gathering technology. of Professional Legal Knowledge.”

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Professor Lupica has presented her work presentations at the Professor and at the National Legal Aid and Defender New England Region’s Associate Dean for Association’s Annual Conference, Juvenile Justice Reform Research Dave Owen the American Bankruptcy Institute’s Conference, the Maine is currently completing Winter Leadership Conference, the Association of Criminal an article addressing National Conference of Bankruptcy Defense Lawyers, potential lessons from Judges’ Annual Meeting, and the and the New England Maine’s Penobscot Edward Thaxter Gignoux Inns of Court Juvenile Defense Center. River Restoration in Portland, Maine, as well as several This fall, he’ll give talks Project for dam policy other venues. Professor Lupica and her in New Hampshire and Louisville. He and law. That article, “Trading Dams” (co- fellow researchers recently secured a also serves as the President of the Maine authored with The Nature Conservancy major additional grant from the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, scientist Colin Apse), will be published in Science Foundation, and the project the co-president of the New England the UC Davis Law Review, and was one will continue to unfold for several more Juvenile Defense Center, an advisory board of two environmental law articles selected years. Professor Lupica’s other major member of the National Juvenile Defender for presentation at the 2014 Harvard- research project addresses unsecured Center, and a member of the Maine Justice Stanford-Yale Junior Faculty Forum. The creditor distributions in consumer for Children Task Force. In May, Professor other article selected for presentation cases filed under the Bankruptcy Abuse Northrop received the Maine Youth at that forum was “Interdisciplinary Prevention and Consumer Protection Transition Coalition Collaborative Annual Research and Environmental Law,” Act of 2005. Like the access to justice Award for work with children aging out of which Professor Owen co-authored project, this study has produced a state custody. with University of Maine economist series of publications. The most recent, Professor and Caroline Noblet. Professor Owen also “Unsecured Creditor Distributions under published “Taking Groundwater” in the BAPCPA” (with economist Michael Director of the Center for Oceans & Washington University Law Review, and Donihue of Colby College) is undergoing he is currently researching the roles of an economics journal peer review Coastal Law Charles Norchi continues regional offices within the United States process. Professor Lupica is on sabbatical federal government. Professor Owen during the 2014-15 academic year. She is to lead the faculty gave research presentations at Berkeley, spending the Fall as Scholar-in-Residence in the variety of his Denver, and San Diego law schools, Bates at the American Bankruptcy Institute. writings and the extent of his travels. This College, to the National Association of 2013-14 Professor past year, he has published book Attorneys General, and at the Maine of the Year (by chapters on ocean law (“The Extended Stormwater Conference. In the classroom, student vote) Jeffrey Continental Shelf of the United States he is currently piloting (with Legal Writing Maine spent part of and International Law,” in Technical Professor Angela Arey) a new upper level his year updating and Legal Aspects of the Regimes of the writing workshop course, serving on his two casebooks: Continental Shelf and the Area [Zhiguo the board of directors of the Maine Bar The Fundamentals Gao, ed.]), human rights (“Human Foundation, and trying, with very little of Federal Taxation: Rights in Afghanistan: A Continuing success, to improve his performance at the Problems and Materials Struggle for Dignity,” in Afghanistan: MAPIL Auction karaoke night. (with John A. Miller) and Intellectual Essential Guide [Edward Girardet & Property Taxation: Problems and William Dowell, eds.]), and articles on Dean Peter Pitegoff Materials (with Xuan-Thao Nguyen). international law (“Penser sous l’Etat,” served as moderator for He and Professor Miller also wrote in Review de Droit Public), pirates two panel discussions “Wealth Transfer Tax Planning for 2013 (“Maritime Piracy and the Public at the American and Beyond,” which was published in Order of the Oceans,” in HUFS Global Bar Association’s the BYU Law Review, and he continues Law Review), and, of course, eels annual mid-year to work on multiple publications in the (“Sustaining American Eels: A Slippery Deans Workshop in field of intellectual property taxation. Species for Science and Governance” Atlanta, Georgia, Meanwhile, he also continues to convince (with Cecilia Engler-Palma et al.), in in February 2014. scores of students, despite their initial the Journal of International Wildlife One session addressed the issue of law expectations, that what they really want to Law and Policy). He is currently schools navigating wider institutional do in life is become a tax lawyer. working on several research projects realities, and the other addressed relating to maritime boundary particular challenges for small public law Clinical Professor Chris Northrop delimitation. Those projects, and his schools. Also that month, he presented continues to teach in the Juvenile Justice work promoting Maine Law’s new a talk to the Maine Investors Group Clinic and to serve as a leader in the LL.M. and J.S.D. programs, have taken in Portland, discussing the trajectory national community of juvenile defenders. him to presentations and conferences of legal education and Maine Law’s He is an annual speaker at the Juvenile in China, South Korea, Qatar, Geneva, role in economic development. He and Defender Leadership Summit, which New York City, and, on multiple Professor Deirdre Smith presented a he also helps organize, and he also gave occasions, downtown Portland. talk on “The Changing Legal Academy”

26 MAINE LAW MAGAZINE FALL 2014 FACULTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS at the Edward Thaxter Gignoux Inns examines the dark side of turfgrass, and Maine Law hosted in April. In addition of Court in Portland in November argues that lawn bans (already a reality to managing the Clinic and teaching, 2013. Dean Pitegoff served on a panel in Las Vegas) are worthy of serious Professor Smith continues to research on “The Future of Legal Education” consideration. That article appears in the intersection of mental health and at the New England Bar Association the George Washington Law Review. evidence law. Her article, “Dangerous Annual Meeting in Portsmouth, New Another recent article, “Of Backyard Diagnoses, Risky Assumptions, and Hampshire, and also participated in a Chickens and Front Yard Gardens: The the Failed Experiment of ‘Sexually panel presentation on the “Landscape Conflict Between Local Governments Violent Predator’ Commitment” will be of the Profession” at the Maine Federal/ and Locavores,” 87 Tulane L. Rev. 231 published in the Oklahoma Law Review. State Judicial Conference in Bangor, (2012) was selected for publication in She presented the article at the AALS both in October 2013. He joined the the Land Use and Environmental Law Annual Conference on Clinical Legal Executive and Finance Committee of Review as one of the five best land use Education in Chicago. Another article, Coastal Enterprises Inc. (CEI), a Maine- law articles of its year, and a followup co-authored with psychologist Bruce based national leader in community essay was recently published in the Borkosky, Ph.D, “The Risks and Benefits development finance, where he has been Wisconsin Law Review. She currently of Disclosing Psychotherapy Records to a director and chair of the Governance is pursuing two research projects, the Legal System: What Psychologists Committee for a number of years. Dean one concerning pop-up restaurants and Patients Need to Know for Informed Pitegoff continues to serve on the Justice and the sharing economy for the Consent” will be published in The Action Group board, a coalition in University of Chicago Law Review’s International Journal of Law and support of access to justice for Mainers online symposium, and the other on Psychiatry early this winter. in need. legal management of private urban spaces dedicated to public use. Her Visiting Professor While Professor recent presentations have included Jeff Thaler continues Martin Rogoff talks at Columbia Law School, the to write articles and has entered phased University of British Columbia, the teach courses that draw retirement, he continues University of Washington, and the upon his experience to write, teach, and, University of Wisconsin, in addition to as a renewable energy with Professor Norchi, a fall presentation at TEDxDirigo on lawyer, as well as maintain Maine’s laws, norms, and guerrilla gardening. serving as legal counsel connections to the Professor Schindler was also selected for the University world beyond the as Pace Environmental Law Center’s of Maine’s energy and environmental United States’ borders. His current Distinguished Young Scholar for 2013. projects. He is currently piloting a new research focuses on direct democracy in Her interest in local land use law extends “Administrative Law Practicum” course, France, and an article (“La democrazia to her teaching and her community which is designed to simulate experiences diretta in Francia,” in Diritto Pubblico advocacy, and she has helped organize associated with practice before Maine and Comparato ed Europeo) and book several events designed to promote federal regulatory agencies. He also has chapter (“La Democrazia Diretto” pedestrian and bicycle use within written “The Seas Are Changing: It’s Time (with Elisabetta Palici di Suni Prat & Portland. to Use Ocean-Based Renewable Energy, Eloy Garcia Lopez), in Le Frontiere del The Public Trust Doctrine, and a Green Diritto [G. Giappichelli, ed.]) are both Professor and Thumb to Protect the Seas from Climate forthcoming. Professor Rogoff continues Cumberland Legal Change” (with 3L Patrick Lyons), in the to teach comparative law, and he also both Aid Clinic Director Spring 2014 Ocean and Coastal Law teaches and serves as an informal mentor Deirdre Smith is one Journal; “In the Public Trust: Climate for Maine’s LL.M. and foreign exchange of Maine’s leaders Changed Sea Levels and Ocean Wind students. in bringing new Power,” published in 31 Delaware Lawyer technologies into 20 (2014); a book review entitled “Hubris Associate Professor the classroom, and Games: Analyzing Success and Failure of Sarah Schindler she has given her Large-Scale Energy Projects,” in Energy continues to work on colleagues multiple presentations on Research and Social Science, and two a series of research technologically-enhanced teaching. white papers: “Roadmap for Permitting projects at the She continues her work as Chair of the and Leasing for Maine Offshore Wind intersection of land Maine Supreme Judicial Court’s Rules Energy Projects” and “Roadmap for use, environmental, of Evidence Advisory Committee, and Permitting and Leasing for Maine Marine and local government she participated in a panel discussion, Hydrokinetic (MHK) Power Projects.” law. Her most recent “Judicial Notice and Other Under-Used He recently has given presentations at article, “Architectural Exclusion,” was Evidentiary Measures” at the Maine Cornell Law School, Williams College just accepted for publication in the Yale State Bar Association Summer Meeting. and, on several occasions, in Maine. He Law Journal. The article considers legal She presented on “Electronic Evidence also has continued to direct the program responses to the use of architecture and and the Right to Confrontation,” at the “Resettling Refugees and Immigrants in urban design for exclusionary purposes. Federal Rules of Evidence Advisory Maine” in Portland for Williams College Her previous article, “Banning Lawns,” Committee’s Annual Symposium, which students.

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Longtime Legal about some of their innovative classroom project which is ongoing. Also, she gave Writing Professor initiatives. Aside from her clinical a presentation to the Maine Attorney Nancy Wanderer has practice, teaching, and community General’s summer 2014 CLE program retired, and is now outreach, her research focuses on on recent developments in same-sex Professor Emerita problematic evidentiary rules governing marriage law. She chaired the AALS Nancy Wanderer. Her immigration hearings. Torts and Compensation Systems section book (with co-author and organized a joint panel with the Angela Arey) Off and Associate Professor AALS Insurance Law Section on the Running: A Guide to of Legal Writing intersection of tort and insurance law. Legal Research, Writing, and Analysis Sara Wolff is the for Aspiring Lawyers, has now been newest addition to the Professor Mel Zarr is published and is in classroom use. The Maine Law faculty. teaching Criminal Law legal writing program she built is a Professor Wolff joins and Civil Procedure strong and increasingly important part the Law School from concurrently this fall, of the Maine Law Curriculum, and she the Maine Supreme and is enjoying the leaves it in good hands. Judicial Court, where opportunity to integrate she served as a long-term clerk. Before the curricula of the two Associate Clinical clerking, Professor Wolff worked for courses. He also has Professor Anna Welch many years in Washington, D.C. as a spoken several times continues to build law firm associate and then in the Chief about his experiences representing the Maine Law’s new Counsel’s Office to the IRS. She also NAACP Legal Defense Fund during the Refugee and Human taught legal writing, to rave reviews, as 1960s, including a lecture at Maine Law Rights Clinic, where an adjunct at Maine Law. to commemorate the 50th anniversary students represent of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, an clients seeking asylum Professor Jennifer interview on Senator Angus King’s or other humanitarian- Wriggins used her radio show, and a talk at the Federal Bar based immigration status and also 2013-14 sabbatical Association’s September meeting. engage in broader immigrants’ rights to pursue a series of advocacy projects. Under her guidance, research and service Edward S. Godfrey student attorneys (assisted by a Bowdoin projects. Her primary Professor and College fellow) produced and circulated research focus has Associate Dean a comprehensive brochure summarizing been flood insurance, Donald Zillman’s book, immigration relief available to and her article The Law of Energy unaccompanied minor children who “Flood Money: The Challenges of U.S. Underground, was have fled abuse or persecution in their Flood Policy Reform in a Warming published by Oxford home countries and are seeking refuge World,” is forthcoming in the Penn University Press. in Maine. The clinic also published a State Law Review. Another article, Professor Zillman series of “Know Your Rights” fact sheets “In Deep: Dilemmas of Federal Flood co-edited the book, was the lead author for Maine’s immigrant workers; and Insurance Governance and Reform,” for the introduction and conclusion, a pamphlet, “A Guide for Immigrant will be published in a symposium issue and wrote a chapter on siting nuclear Victims of Domestic Violence,” which of the UC Irvine Law Review. She waste repositories. Another publication, aims to provide Maine’s domestic has presented her work at New York “Breaking (NotSo) Bad: A Look at the violence victims with information University Law School, American World’s Energy Prospects as of July about their rights. She presented at University Law School, U.C. Irvine Law 2014” (with Alistair Lucas) appeared the National Immigration Professors’ School, and at the Annual Mid-Atlantic in the July 2014 proceedings of the biennial conference at UC Irvine, the People of Color Conference. Her current Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute. AALS Clinical Conference in Chicago research projects focus on flood insurance Another forthcoming publication, “Never and at numerous CLE events across policy, inclusion of race and racism into a Dull Moment: Stability and Change in Maine, including the Maine State Bar law schools’ first year torts curriculum, United States Energy Law and Policy” Association’s Family Law CLE event, and the intersection of tort law and (with Mary Walta) will appear in the the Maine State Bar Association’s racism following President Lyndon forthcoming National Metropolitan Legal Year in Review, and CLE events B. Johnson’s Great Society reforms. Autonomous University of Mexico energy coordinated by the Portland-based She also authored an op-ed on flood law symposium. On a different front, Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project. insurance reform which was published Professor Zillman is also writing a book She also teaches immigration law, and in Talking Points Memo. During her on the United States’ entry into the First she and coauthor Jennifer Lee Koh sabbatical, she served on a working World War. He has presented his work have written an article, “Teaching group for the Family Law Section of at the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Immigration Law: Integrating Skills the Maine State Bar Association, which Foundation conference in Denver and in and Collaborating across Law Schools,” reviewed the Uniform Parentage Act, a Mexico City.

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1970 Robert A. Laskoff authored a section in the IN MEMORIAM book, Representing Plaintiffs in Workplace Wakine G. Tanous (Class of 1955) passed away on November 7, 2013 at the age of 82. He Injury Cases. The section authored by was born in 1931 in Van Buren and was a graduate of the Van Buren Boys High School and Laskoff is titled, “Special Considerations Boston College. Upon graduation from what was then the Portland University School of Law, and Challenges Associated with Practicing he was the youngest lawyer in the state of Maine in 1955. He and his wife Anna moved to Workers’ Compensation Law in the State of East Millinocket where he established his law firm. He served in the from 1968 Maine.” to 1974 where he chaired the Judiciary and Labor committees. 1974 Richard E. Valentino (Class of 1960) passed away on January 22, 2013 at the age of 83. He is The Hon. George N. Bowden was honored survived by his wife Lucette. He was born in Portland in 1929 and was a graduate of Portland as the drug court Judge of the Year for the High School and Portland University. He was an avid businessman, owning and operating State of Washington for 2013. several motor vehicle dealerships and a construction company. 1976 The Hon. Margaret J. “Peggy” Kravchuk William B. Troubh (Class of 1962) passed away on November 8, 2013 at the age of 78. He is retired in January after serving for nearly survived by his wife, Nancy. He was born in 1935 in Portland and was a graduate of Portland 30 years on the state and federal bench in High School and the University of Maine. He was a founding partner of the law firm Troubh Maine. Judge Kravchuk served as a state Heisler, and served multiple terms as Portland City Councilor and two terms as the city’s prosecutor, as District Attorney for Penobscot mayor. and Piscataquis counties, as judge of the Alexander A. MacNichol (Class of 1964) passed away on May 15, 2013 at the age of 78. Maine District Court, and as a justice of the He is survived by his wife, Loreen. He was born in Eastport in 1935, and was a graduate Maine Superior Court before her appointment of St. Francis College in Biddeford. After graduating from law school, he was one of the as U.S. Magistrate Judge in 2000. She was first attorneys to volunteer for Pine Tree Legal Assistance. He also formed two law firms, the first woman to be named to the federal and served as assistant prosecutor with the Cumberland County District Attorney’s Office. judiciary in Maine. Governor Joseph Brennan appointed him to the District Court bench in 1985. Ira Waldman was named among the top 10 Jonathan W. Reitman (Class of 1978) passed away June 7, 2014 at the age of 65. He is survived most highly regarded lawyers in the world for real estate law in 2013, by Who’s Who by his wife Lilliana. He was born in New York City in 1948 and was a graduate of West Legal. Waldman is a partner at Cox Castle Orange High School, N.J. and Lafayette College. Following graduation from Maine Law, he Nicholson in Los Angeles. worked at McTeague Higbee. He served on the board of Pine Tree Legal Assistance for over thirty years and was a founding partner of Gosline & Reitman. 1977 James M. Bowie received the Distinguished Paul F. Macri (Class of 1976) passed away on April 9, 2014 at the age of 65. He is survived by Service Award from the Maine Law Alumni his wife, Joan. He was born in 1948 in Montour Falls, N.Y. and was a graduate of Wesleyan Association. The award recognizes Bowie’s University. In 2005, he was the third Maine lawyer to be inducted into the American Academy contributions to the legal profession and his of Appellate Attorneys. support of the University of Maine School of Theresa S. Ketchum (Class of 1983) passed away on January 25, 2013 at the age of 77. She was Law. A founding partner in the Portland law born in Bath in 1935. Prior to law school, Ketchum went to nursing school in Portland. After firm of Thompson & Bowie, LLP, Bowie is a graduating from Maine Law, she was appointed as an assistant attorney general. member of the University of Maine School of Law Foundation Board, and formerly served on the Board of the Alumni Association. 1978 the management of the firm for more than the first and only Fellow inducted into the Eleanor Baker received the 2014 L. 20 years. College from Maine. Her practice focuses Kinvin Wroth Award at the Maine Law primarily on defending claims brought commencement ceremony on May 17. Baker 1987 against Maine employers. is co-founder and managing principal at the Andrew Landry was recently named partner accounting firm Baker Newman Noyes, and at Preti Flaherty. Working from the firm’s 1994 is a respected civic leader in Maine. The Augusta office, Landry practices with the Professor Deirdre Smith, Director of award honors a Maine Law graduate who has firm’s Energy and Telecommunications the Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic at the achieved distinction in his or her career by Group and Climate Strategy Group. He has University of Maine School of Law, was contributing as a leader, locally, nationally or a broad background in energy and utility law named Outstanding Alumna for 2013 by the and corporate law. globally, and who has helped advance his or law school’s Women’s Law Association. An her alma mater. 1991 accomplished scholar and teacher, Professor 1983 Judith Berry announced that her son, Smith has been Director of the Cumberland Elisabeth Belmont, MaineHealth Corporate Christopher Berry, has become a full partner Legal Aid Clinic since 2004. Counsel, received the 2014 David J. at her firm, which is now known as Berry Greenburg Service Award, awarded annually Law P.A. The firm is located in Gorham. 1996 by the American Health Lawyers Association Judith Berry is a fellow in the American Dan Mitchell was recently selected as co- (AHLA). The award honors an individual Academy of Adoption Attorneys and the chair of the Litigation Practice Group at who has made significant contributions to the American Academy of Assisted Reproductive Bernstein Shur. Mitchell also serves as co- growth and life of AHLA through his or her Technology Attorneys. chair of the firm’s Data Security Team and is a member of the Business Law Practice leadership, vision and service. 1992 Group. 1984 Elizabeth Connellan Smith, an attorney Pat Scully was named CEO at Bernstein with Verrill Dana, was inducted into the Ronald W. Schneider, Jr. was named co- Shur in Portland. Scully has represented American Bar Association College of chair of the Labor and Employment Practice energy clients and has been involved with Workers’ Compensation Lawyers. Smith is Group at Bernstein Shur.

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1997 7-year-old Madeline, hiked the 2,185-mile Alison Beyea joined the ACLU of Maine New job? Written a book? Appalachian Trail, from Georgia to Maine. as Executive Director. Beyea has been Received an honor or award? What Kallin, who graduated first in his class at admissions director for Maine Law; Senior Maine Law, is an attorney with Drummond Attorney for the Justice Policy Group at the about moves, marriages, kids and Woodsum in Portland. His practice focuses Muskie School of Public Service; and staff other personal milestones? Let on land conservation, land use and natural attorney at Pine Tree Legal Assistance. In your classmates and the Maine Law resource law. 2003 she co-founded KIDS Legal, a legal Nicholas R. Loukes has joined Monaghan assistance program that helps low-income community hear about your latest Leahy LLP in Portland as an associate. children in Maine. news. Send an email to Loukes focuses on commercial lending, real Mark Fischler, chairman of Plymouth [email protected]. estate, and corporate law. State University’s Criminal Justice program, Molly Watson Shukie has been elected received the university’s 2014 Distinguished partner at Linnell, Choate & Webber, LLP, Teacher Award. 2004 in Auburn. Shukie concentrates her practice 2000 Kate Knox was elected to the board of in the areas of family law and workers’ Katherine “Kate” Murray accepted a directors at Bernstein Shur. She is a member compensation, and she also serves as a position with the U.S. Army, Civilian Human of the Legislative and Political Law Practice guardian ad litem. Resources Agency, in Germany, where she Group, where she focuses on lobbying, campaign compliance and election law. Alyssa Tibbetts recently joined the expects to live for the next three to five years. municipal practice at Jensen Baird Gardner 2002 Letha Sgritta McDowell was named a & Henry in Portland. Tibbetts previously Mikell Reed Carroll works for the Rising Star in Elder Care Law by North was assistant town manager for the town of Department of State at the U.S. Consulate Carolina Super Lawyers magazine. She is a Cumberland. General in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. She partner with Walker Lambe Rhudy Costley & Gill, PLLC in Raleigh, N.C. 2010 was awarded a Meritorious Honor Award Stephanie Green recently joined the from the Department of State for her work Philip R. Saucier has been elected commercial practice group of Curtis Thaxter during the 2013 visit of Secretary of State shareholder at Bernstein Shur. Saucier LLC. Green practices in the areas of John Kerry to Vietnam. is a member of the firm’s Municipal commercial loan transactions, real estate and Sandra “Sandy” L. Guay is a partner and Regulatory Practice Group and the asset purchases, landlord and tenant disputes at Woodman Edmands Danylik Austin Legislative and Political Law Practice and corporate law. Smith & Jacques, and serves as an adjunct Group. He is chair of the Maine State Bar Association, Municipal Section. David Morse recently launched a solo faculty member at the Muskie School practice, Morse Law, in Westbrook. Morse of Public Service. Guay co-authored an 2007 focuses on family law, bankruptcy, debtor article, “Changing Times: Shifting Rural Paul Greene launched his sports law firm, rights, and landlord tenant law. Landscapes,” published by the Vermont Global Sports Advocates, in Portland in Journal of Environmental Law. Her co- February 2014. A former sportscaster, Greene Adam Shub, an attorney with Preti Flaherty, author was Professor Mark. B. Lapping, has represented athletes in more than 20 was recently elected Vice Chairman of the Distinguished University Professor, USM sports worldwide. He handles a wide range Real Estate Commission for the State of and Muskie School of Public Service. of matters including Olympic eligibility, Maine. The Commission is responsible for contract disputes and Title IX violations. licensing real estate agencies and brokers, Sarah C. Mitchell rejoined Skelton, adjudicating alleged broker misconduct Taintor & Abbott as a shareholder. Mitchell Amy T. Robidas opened her own firm, and imposing sanctions, and for setting represents family law clients throughout Robidas Law, LLC, in Portland in March curriculum for continuing real estate southern, central and mid-coast Maine, and 2014. The focus is on family law and education requirements. is a Fellow in the American Academy of criminal defense. Matrimonial Attorneys. 2012 Megan Sanders was appointed Chief of Justin Costa, accountant and former 2003 Staff in the Office of the President at the McKusick Fellow at Maine Law, was elected Anna Astvatsaturian Turcotte, the author University of Maine. She also maintains her to the Portland City Council in November. He of Nowhere: A Story of Exile and survivor of previous role, serving as Vice President for served for the past six years on the Portland the 1990 Baku pogroms against Armenians, Human Resources at the University of Maine. School Board, including the past two years as continues to address issues of conflict 2009 chair of that board’s finance committee. resolution and peace for the Armenian Travis Brennan joined Berman & Simmons, people. She recently presented her book at Alison Meyers is working for Kristine Hanly a statewide law firm based in Lewiston. He the European Parliament in Brussels and ’09, at Hanly Law in Portland. Meyers’ focus will handle a wide range of personal injury spoke to parliamentarians on the Nagorno- is on criminal defense and family law. cases. Karabakh humanitarian situation as well. 2013 Turcotte went back to Armenia in September Nicolas T. Carter has joined Jones, Kuriloff Danielle Anne B. Cardona is employed as a for the first time in 23 years for official visits, & Sargent, LLC, in Ellsworth. Carter most Compliance Officer and Legal Consultant at book presentations, and to visit where she recently served as the statewide bankruptcy JPMorgan Chase in New York. lived as a refugee. expert for the Massachusetts Office of the 2014 Natasha Baker, a partner at Hirschfeld Attorney General’s HomeCorps initiative. Elisa Paylor started her own practice, E. Kraemer LLP in San Francisco, was He was also the owner of Carter Legal Paylor Law, LLC, in May 2014. Her office elected as member of the board of Services in Portland, a business that provided is located in Augusta. Paylor, who holds a directors of the National Association of consumer protection and bankruptcy counsel. Master of Business Administration degree College and University Attorneys, for a David Kallin, along with his wife Emily, and has 10 years experience in business three-year term. and their children, 9-year-old Nathan and insurance, is focusing on business law.

30 MAINE LAW MAGAZINE FALL 2014 Annual Philanthropy Report 2013-2014 University of Maine School of Law Supporting University of Maine School of Law Foundation the Maine Law Board of Directors

Annual Fund Officers Bernard M. Devine, Jr. ’87 Ex Officio To make a gift to the Craig H. Nelson ’69 Dr. Sandra Featherman Peter Pitegoff Annual Fund, go to President Steven A. Hammond ’77 Dean www.mainelawalum.org, Jean M. Deighan ’76 James A. Houle ’81 Frank H. Bishop, Jr. ’07 send your gift to the Vice-President President, Maine Law Alumni Samuel A. Ladd III Maine Law Annual Eleanor M. Baker ’78 Association Robert A. Laskoff ’70 Fund, 246 Deering Ave., Treasurer Hon. Vendean V. Vafiades ’85 Peter C. McKenney ’77 Portland, ME 04102, or Martha L. Casey ’82 Director of Advancement & Paula D. Silsby ’76 External Affairs contact Deborah Lorenzen, Secretary George R. Spann (through September 30, 2014) Administrative Specialist, Directors Kenneth S. Spirer Tina L. Simonetta Samuels Advancement and Interim Director of Rosalyne Bernstein ’86 Ira J. Waldman ’76 External Affairs by email Advancement and External at deborah.lorenzen@ James M. Bowie ’77 Affairs maine.edu, or by phone at Michael R. Currie ’80 Deborah N. Lorensen (207) 228-8411. Peter J. DeTroy III ’72 Aministrative Specialist Maine Law Alumni Association Board of Directors

Officers Madeline Kenney Malisa ’09 Ex Officio Frank H. Bishop, Jr. ’07 Jordan McColman ’08 Peter Pitegoff President Timothy P. McCormack ’01 Dean Sarah E. Ashby ’02 Russell B. Pierce ’91 Hon. Vendean V. Vafiades ’85 Vice-President Director of Advancement & Mackenzie P. Simpson ’12 Donna M. Ryan ’88 External Affairs Wil Smith ’06 Treasurer (through September 30, 2014) Ilse Teeters-Trumpy ’06 Victoria J. Silver ’12 Tina L. Simonetta Samuels Secretary Interim Director of Advancement and External Affairs Directors Sarah Schindler, Associate Michael T. Bigos ’03 Professor Joseph W. Corrigan ’00 Faculty Representative Peter J. DeTroy III ’72 Elizabeth Boardman ’15 Paul J. Greene ’07 President, Student Bar Association Beth Harris Hoffman ’08 Deborah N. Lorenzen Kelly M. Hoffman ’08 Administrative Specialist Malcolm L. Lyons ’70

32 MAINE LAW MAGAZINE FALL 2014 University of Maine School of Law Supporting and Maine Law Foundation Funds the Maine Law Foundation Endowed Funds To make a gift to the Maine Law American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL) Libra Professorship Fund Foundation, go to Trial Advocacy Fund Gov. James B. Longley Memorial Scholarship www.mainelawalum.org, Kenneth and Marjorie C. Baird Memorial Fund or send your gift to the Scholarship Merle W. Loper Fund for International Programs Maine Law Foundation, Dudley Baldwin Book Fund Macdonald Family Scholarship Fund 246 Deering Avenue, Laurie L. Balmuth Scholarship Fund Maine Law Foundation Professorship Fund Portland, ME 04102. Israel and Sumner Bernstein Memorial Maine Law Foundation Scholarship Fund For more information Scholarship Fund Maine State Bar Legal Education & contact Tina Simonetta Sumner T. Bernstein Professorship of Law Trust Fund Samuels, Interim Director Bernstein District Court Fellowship Fund Vincent L. McKusick Diversity Fellowship of Advancement and William Bingham Scholarship Fund David Santee Miller Memorial External Affairs by email Bride Family Fund for Business, Entrepreneurship Scholarship Fund at tina.samuels@maine. and the Law New Hampshire Scholarship Fund edu or by phone at Class of 1971 Memorial Scholarship Fund Osher Scholarship Fund (207) 780-4342. Class of 1973 Glassman Faculty Research Pierce Atwood Scholarship Fund Scholar Fund Roger A. Putnam Fellowship Fund Class of 1976 David D. Gregory Library Justice Harold J. Rubin Scholarship Fund Acquisition Fund Justice Abraham M. Rudman Class of 1979 David D. Gregory Scholarship Fund Scholarship Fund Frank M. and Ruth Coffin Fund for Law and Shur Frinsko Award for Municipal Law and Public Service Local Governance Philip M. Dusini Scholarship Fund Charles W. Smith Memorial Fund Elliott Family Scholarship Fund Levi M. Stewart Fund Richard H. Fay Memorial Scholarship Fund TD Banknorth Scholarship Fund Donald L. Garbrecht Law Library Endowment Thompson Fund Fund Justice Harry P. Glassman Memorial Scholarship Vafiades Northern Lights Scholarship Fund Fund Verrill Dana Public Service Fellowship Edward S. Godfrey Fund Justice Elmer H. Violette Fund for International Morris and Sylvia Greenberg Programs Scholarship Fund Violette/Lombard Scholarship Fund Charles A. Harvey Jr. Fellowship Daniel E. Wathen Writing Prize Arlana K. and Pierce B. Hasler Wernick Legal Writing Prize Memorial Fund Betsy and Peter Wiley Scholarship Fund Justice for Women Lecture Fund Woodcock Family Scholarship Fund Horace S. Libby Memorial Fund

Non-Endowed Funds Alumni Association Scholarship Fund Edward T. Gignoux Memorial Fund Richard H. Armstrong Scholarship Edward S. Godfrey Loan Fund Henry N. Berry III Law Student Loan Fund Merle W. Loper Loan Fund Cumberland Bar Association Fellowship Norwood Loan Fund George P. Davenport Loan Fund Maine Public Interest Fellowship Fund Mary Smith Dyer Fellowship Fund Simmons Emergency Loan Fund Gignoux Special Collection Library Fund

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This Annual Philanthropy Report is a testament to the enthusiasm and loyalty of the University of Maine School of Law’s alumni and friends. Every gift matters, and this report demonstrates how our collective philanthropic synergy impacts the people and programs that define the Maine Law experience. Thank you for your generous support this past year!

Gifts/Pledges Donations

Unrestricted $177,909.21 Unrestricted gifts primarily provide scholarship aid and fellowships for students. Program Grants $224,719.64 Grants provide support for clinical experiences for students. Restricted Gifts $187,118.63 Restricted gifts support the many named endowed scholarship, fellowship and professorship funds of the Law School, and support programs that keep student life vital and vibrant. Total Annual Fund Giving: $589,747.48

Annual Fund Allocation Loyal Supporters of the University of Resources of Maine School of Law include

Donors No. Donations % Breakdown by Donations Purpose Alumni 629 $160,875.98 27 Scholarships/ $216,124.21 Friends 157 $140,240.00 24 Fellowships/Student Support Foundations 12 $157,975.00 27 Legal Aid Clinic and other Law $298,434.52 Law Firms 24 $18,550.00 3 School Programs Other Organizations 23 $112,106.50 19 Library $9,050.00 Totals 845 $589,747.48 100 Alumni Relations/ $66,138.75 Administration Total $589,747.48

Purpose of Allocations by percentage ■ Scholarships/ Fellowships/ Student Support ■ Legal Aid Clinic and other Law School Programs ■ Library ■ Alumni Relations/ Administration

34 MAINE LAW MAGAZINE FALL 2014 2013-2014 Annual Fund Donors

Dean’s Circle Jensen, Baird, Gardner & Henry Baker, Newman & Noyes Hon. John H. Pursel ’70 $10,000 and above Julia G. Kahrl Ph.D. Laurie L. Balmuth ’80 Robert B. Ravenelle ’87 Estate of Herbert T. Silsby II Prof. Colleen A. Khoury and Ronald S. Battocchi ’74 and Kathryn A. Reid ’92 Catherine A. Lee David Karraker Mary T. Bell ’74 William E. Saufley ’80 and Maine Bar Foundation Robert A. Laskoff ’70 Ritchie E. Berger ’81 Hon. Leigh Ingalls Saufley ’80 Maine Civil Legal Svcs Fund Margaret Cushing Lavoie ’87 Monica M. Bigley ’91 and Andrew Erica Schair-Cardona and Maine Community Foundation Law Office of Joe Bornstein L. Black ’94 Ivan Cardona Sam L. Cohen Foundation Beth M. Lee Benjamin M. Birney ’13 Wilbur Smith, Jr. ’06 Ira J. Waldman ’76 Annmarie Levins ’83 Melvin L. Bloomenthal ’69 Joanne B. Steneck ’87 Mary Allen Lindemann Andre D. Bouffard ’86 The Unum Group Leadership Circle Leslie E. Lowry III ’83 Rutherford B. Campbell, Jr. Gary F. Thorne ’73 $5,000 – $9,999 Malcolm L. Lyons ’70 in honor Janis Cohen ’80 and James E. Tierney ’74 Madeleine G. Corson of James M. Bowie Hon. David M. Cohen Marsha Weeks Traill ’80 William P. Creighton Machias Savings Bank Anne H. Cressey ’88 Hon. Vendean V. Vafiades ’85 Emanuel and Pauline A. Lerner Timothy P. McCormack ’01 Richard L. Currier ’80 Verrill Dana LLP Foundation in honor of Prof. Mel Zarr Edward F. Day, Jr. ’73 Christine C. Vito Ph.D. ’93 Mr. and Mrs. James H. Gambrill Peter C. McKenney ’77 Jean M. Deighan ’76 and David Wainberg ’08 Steven A. Hammond ’77 Hon. John R. McKernan Jr. ’74 Glen L. Porter ’78 Bing Wang ’94 in memory of JSL Foundation, Inc. Margot Milliken Josephine H. Detmer Merle Loper and David Gregory Adam Lee Robert A. Nagy ’72 Hon. Beth Dobson ’80 and Arlyn H. Weeks ’81 Sara E. Lewis and Jennifer Craig H. Nelson ’69 Paul F. Driscoll ’81 Justin B. Weiss ’06 Goldman Robert V. O’Brien Jr. ’79 Diane Dusini ’87 Judith A. Fletcher Woodbury ’80 Maine Women’s Policy Center Dennis J. O’Donovan ’91 and Robert G. Frazier ’78 Prof. Melvyn Zarr Prof. Christopher M. Northrop Anne E. O’Donovan ’91 Hon. Paul A. Fritzsche ’75 Barry Zimmerman ’70 Pierce Atwood LLP Francis J. O’Toole ’70 Leonard Giambalvo Dean Peter R. Pitegoff Maine Law Advocates Bonnie Porta Up to $499 Hon. John K. Veroneau ’89 Sherry L. Abbott ’04 Steven W. Abbott ’91 Justice Society Amanda Q. Adams ’10 $1,000 – $4,999 Leonard Agneta Aroostook County Bar Association Beth N. Ahearn ’88 Dollie E. Ash in memory of Kathryn Monahan Ainsworth ’76 Dr. Homer L. Ash and Thomas G. Ainsworth ’74 Sarah E. Ashby ’02 Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Aldrich Eleanor M. Baker ’78 Barbara Reid Alexander ’76 BARBRI Inc. Jill P. Allen ’89 in honor of Rosalyne S. Bernstein ’86 Diane Dusini Bidu Sayao Memorial Daniel Amory Children’s Trust Anthony R. Anaman ’93 Hon. Daniel Billings ’03 Charles S. Andrews ’69 James M. Bowie ’77 and John B. Andrews ’71 Sarah Downs ’77 Andrucki & Associates John W. Bride ’64 Gerald F. Petruccelli in honor of Thomas R. Gibbon ’74 in memory Judith Winter Andrucki ’79 Stearns J. Bryant Jr. ’68 the 50th Anniversary of Dean Edward S. Godfrey Anonymous Martha L. Casey ’82 in honor Gregory W. Powell ’80 Mr. and Mrs. John C. Gundersdorf Anonymous in memory of of James M. Bowie Hon. Paul L. Rudman John A. Hobson ’83 Stuart Wilson CIEE Donna M. Ryan ’88 Geoffrey H. Hole ’72 Anonymous Daniel Crewe Kaighn Smith Jr. ’86 J. Trevor Hughes ’95 Cushman D. Anthony Cumberland County Bar Association Kenneth S. Spirer and IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. Elyse Apantaku ’12 Peter J. DeTroy III ’72 and Mary R. Joan Leitzer, M.D. Carly S. Joyce ’04 Louise Arkel ’94 Roy in honor of James M. Bowie Ryan K. Stafford ’94 Hon. William J. Kayatta Jr. James P. Aucoin ’91 Bernard M. Devine Jr. ’87 William T. Stewart ’74 Norman S. Kominsky ’94 Robert H. Avaunt ’73 Douglas, Denham, Buccina & Ernst James S. Stolley Jr. ’93 Michelle Jodoin LaFond ’86 Babette Bryan Bach ’80 Drummond Woodsum Joseph P. Sudbay ’92 Robert A. Levine ’88 and Madge Baker ’75 Theresa R. Ford ’02 Jay F. Theise ’70 Vilean Taggersell ’87 Col. John E. Baker ’79 in memory Robert S. Frank Hon. Jill E. Tompkins ’89 Gene R. Libby ’78 of David Gregory Barbara E. Gauditz ’87 Unum Matching Gifts Program Faye E. Luppi ’85 John R. Bass II ’78 in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Gignoux Jr. Kurt E. Vragel Jr. ’73 Macy’s Foundation James M. Bowie Peggy Greenhut Golden Peter and Cora Weiss Prof. Jeffrey A. Maine Hannah L. Bass ’06 Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Gruber Hon. John A. Woodcock Jr. ’76 Pasquale F. Maiorino ’73 Capt. James W. Bass ’06 in honor of Ira Waldman’s Kristen Majeska Heidi A. Bean’89 recognition as outstanding real Maine Law Partners Michael K. Martin ’89 John G. Bean ’03 estate lawyer of 2014 $500 – $999 John A. McCauley ’87 Edmond J. Bearor ’88 and Jonathan S. Handelman ’05 Karin Anderson Marcia Metcalf ’92 Jane E. Skelton ’88 Erik J. Heels ’95 Jennifer A. Archer ’00 and Miles F. Microsoft Matching Gifts Program Dean A. Beaupain ’76 Tory Dietel Hopps Archer ’00 Jason B. Onacki ’00 and Vickie Caron Bell ’91 Sherry F. Huber in honor of the Arthur J. Gallagher Foundation Melissa Condon Onacki ’00 in Eric Bendetson ’94 and 50th anniversary Hope Hall Augustini ’94 and memory of David Gregory Lisa Fitzgibbon Bendetson ’94 Francis M. Jackson ’77 Michael C. Augustini ’95 Anne Bowen Poulin ’73 David R. Beneman ’85

MAINE LAW MAGAZINE FALL 2014 35 Henri A. Benoit II ’85 Stephanie Perkins Clifford ’92 and Morse W. Doane ’97 Mark S. Foss ’92 Timothy P. Benoit ’85 Peter Clifford ’91 Gregory J. Domareki Jr. ’02 Gregory L. Foster ’73 Margaret A. Bensinger ’84 James F. Cloutier ’79 Donnelly S. Douglas ’78 Jeanne A. Foy ’90 and Louise A. Berlin ’95 Mark A. Cloutier ’81 Hon. Wayne R. Douglas ’79 William B. Scarpelli ’91 Michael G. Bernier’87 J. Bradford Coffey ’92 and Thomas R. Downing ’78 and Tamlyn Margaret Frederick ’13 Andrew J. Bernstein ’80 in memory Elizabeth R. McKee Coffey ’94 Margaret R. Downing ’78 Martha E. Freeman ’80 of Sumner Bernstein Hon. Roland A. Cole ’68 Robert G. Driscoll ’76 Cornelia Fuchs ’90 Bernstein Shur Joanne F. Cole ’81 Hon. Daniel F. Driscoll ’91 Sara B. Gagne-Holmes ’01 in honor Richard N. Berry Stephen H. Collier ’78 and Stephen F. Dubord ’73 of Prof. Deirdre Smith Ellen S. Best ’81 Sandra Hylander Collier ’77 R. Terrance Duddy ’80 M. Elizabeth Gallie ’87 Alison Beyea ’97 Amber R. Collins ’11 Neale A. Duffett ’80 Terrence D. Garmey Michael T. Bigos ’03 Joanne Dugan Colvin ’89 James M. Dunleavy ’96 Terry Garmey & Associates Frank H. Bishop, Jr. ’07 Bodie Colwell ’11 Patricia McDonough Dunn ’76 N. Paul Gauvreau ’75 Ronald L. Bissonnette ’81 Gerard P. Conley, Jr. ’79 William R. Dunn ’79 Tracey L. Geary ’92 Roger F. Blake ’59 J. Michael Conley III ’70 Lori Londis Dwyer ’05 Sidney H. Geller ’63 Robert J. Bocko ’85 William H. Coogan Ph.D. ’88 and Mary Lou Dyer ’80 Genworth Foundation Emma E. Bond ’12 Kim Matthews ’75 Matthew C. Dyer ’93 Germani, Martemucci, Riggle & Hill L. Clinton Boothby ’99 Carol A. Copeland ’07 Thomas A. Dyhrberg ’83 Prof. Malick Ghachem Sarah McCready Boston ’03 Garrett H. Corbin ’08 Jane Campana Earley ’74 Domna Giatas ’88 Rachel L. Bouchard ’96 Susan Corrente ’89 Hon. E. Paul Eggert ’78 Ralph J. Gillis ’72 Daniel W. Boutin ’80 Joseph W. Corrigan ’00 David J. Ekelund, Jr. ’00 Rosalind P. Gilman ’90 George N. Bowden ’74 Claire Adami Ginder ’91 and Robert W. Bower Jr. ’85 Kenneth F. Ginder ’91 Peter B. Bowman in honor of Donna M. Gingerella ’84 Peter Mills, Esq. Phyllis G. Givertz ’74 Elizabeth L. Boynton ’74 Jenna M. Glenn ’13 Carl O. Bradford ’62 Jonathan L. Goldberg ’97 Thomas C. Bradley ’92 David A. Goldman ’06 Christina Valar Breen ’91 Mary Jane Good ’99 David A. Brenningmeyer ’93 and Glen S. Goodnough ’86 Caryn Graham ’93 Hon. Peter J. Goranites ’73 in Robert S. Briggs ’73 memory of Hon. Caroline Duby Laura L. Briggs ’77 Glassman Andrew L. Broaddus ’80 Martha A. Grant ’81 Hon. William S. Brodrick ’72 Jennifer Burns Gray ’96 Lynn Bromley Katherine Greason ’79 David A. Bronson ’74 Paul J. Greene ’07 William R. Brooks ’74 Katherine Griffin ’08 Hon. William S. Brownell ’71 Michael H. Griffin ’73 Christine A. Bruenn ’87 Henry W. Griffin ’91 and Virgilia W. Bryant ’00 Elizabeth Eddy Griffin ’92 Deborah A. Buccina ’81 in honor of Margaret Reid Guerrette ’10 James M. Bowie John W. Gulliver Brenda M. Buchanan ’90 James W. Gunson ’95 Paul S. Bulger ’85 David J. Halperin in memory of Prof. E. James Burke Dean Edward S. Godfrey Christine F. Burke ’93 Neal C. Corson ’79 Richard W. Elliott ’65 Clarke C. Hambley Jr. ’74 Parke A. Burmeister ’10 Carmen L. Coulombe ’77 in honor Robert L. Ellis, Jr. ’86 Harold C. Hamilton II ’76 and Natalie L. Burns ’87 of James M. Bowie Lauren H. Epstein ’04 Hon. Margaret J. Kravchuk ’76 Paul W. Cadigan ’90 Theodore S. Coxe Jr. ’92 Eileen M. L. Epstein ’78 and John L. Hammond ’75 Rita N. Calamari ’80 Dan Coyne ’05 and Ronald A. Epstein ’77 Evan M. Hansen ’84 Hon. Susan W. Calkins ’70 Stephanie Williams ’05 Elliott L. Epstein ’78 William H. Hanson ’82 James M. Callahan ’85 Kevin T. Crilly ’88 John C. Everett Jr. ’76 Lorna J. Harmuth ’91 Matthew E. Campbell ’91 Rachel Criscitiello ’09 Rose M. Everitt ’98 Heidi J. Hart ’07 Hon. Michael P. Cantara ’81 Philip D. Cross ’86 Richard T. Ewell ’01 David B. Hawkes ’69 Nicolle Graham Carbone ’05 and Peter W. Culley Genevieve Watson Faherty ’04 Matthew C. Hayden ’01 Bradley James Graham ’04 Geoffrey K. Cummings ’82 Katherine J. Faragher S. Warren Heaton, Jr. ’10 Bruce A. Carrier ’82 Michael R. Currie ’80 Houghton ’97 Charles C. Hedrick ’98 Everett B. Carson ’77 Alicia F. Curtis ’06 Katharine M. Faust ’05 Prof. Rita Heimes E. Anne Carton ’82 Cheryl J. Cutliffe ’12 Edward F. Feibel ’82 Bruce W. Hepler ’94 David J. Casavant ’93 Lynne Davies ’08 Peter C. Felmly ’03 Peter C. Herbst ’73 Edgar S. Catlin III ’81 Stephanie F. Davis ’04 Debra Ferguson ’85 Eric R. Herlan ’87 Alexandra E. Caulfield ’91 Armanda Beal Day ’96 Hon. Joseph H. Field ’76 David L. Herzer Jr. ’92 and Joceline D. Champagne ’99 Thaddeus V. Day ’97 Julia A. Finn ’90 and Dana Gillespie Herzer ’00 Janet Chan ’12 Dead River Company A. Robert Ruesch ’90 Stephen Hessert ’77 Christian T. Chandler ’89 Dorcas H. Deans ’82 Geoffrey M. FitzGerald ’85 Timothy H. Hiebert ’84 Peter L. Chandler ’76 John P. DeGrinney ’95 Louis D. Flori ’98 High Tower Holding, LLC Robert Checkoway ’76 Hon. Thomas E. Delahanty II ’70 Martin J. Foley ’78 Michael H. Hill ’88 E. Michael Chiaparas ’79 Prof. Orlando E. Delogu Lauren C. Folsom ’84 and Paul J. Hirsch ’68 Cynthia T. Churchill ’84 Deloitte & Touche Edmund R. Folsom ’84 Michael S. Hirshberg ’69 Jeffery J. Clark ’80 Lori A. Desjardins ’93 Fore Street Gallery Heidi Hoefler ’97 Roger A. Clement, Jr. ’91 and David A. DiMuzio ’73 Fortin, Howgate & Harmon in Elizabeth Harris Hoffman ’08 and Amy K. Tchao ’93 Arthur R. Dingley D.O. ’77 memory of Caroline Duby Kelly M. Hoffman ’08 Hon. Robert W. Clifford Michael P. Dixon ’11 Glassman Kenneth T. Hoffman ’78

36 MAINE LAW MAGAZINE FALL 2014 Paul D. Hoffman ’93 Constance O’Neil Lundquist ’79 Sally L. Mitchell Allison M. Ouellet ’13 Mary L. Holm ’84 Lisa C. Lunn ’88 Mittel Asen LLC James H. Ouimette ’77 Pamela S. Holmes ’99 Prof. Lois Lupica Ann H. Mohnkern ’79 Uma Outka ’05 Hon. and Mrs. D. Brock Hornby Mary Ann Lynch ’84 Peter J. Monahan ’92 Prof. David Owen James A. Houle ’81 Kyle T. MacDonald ’09 John H. Montgomery III ’77 Marc C. Owen ’73 Martha W. Howell ’74 Andrew B. MacLean ’91 Richard G. Moon Oxford Hills Law William H. Howison ’75 Ignatius MacLellan ’85 Clifford J. Moore, Jr. ’84 Kimberly Pacelli ’11 Andre J. Hungerford ’02 Mr. and Mrs. Hugh G.E. MacMahon Robert A. Moore ’74 Harold C. Pachios Susan E. Hunter ’76 John P. Maley ’68 Alexandra M. Moras Alexander A. Padis, Jr. ’78 Anne LaCombe Huntington ’86 and Madeline K. Malisa ’09 Stephen W. Moriarty ’78 Wendy J. Paradis Jonathan B. Huntington ’87 Thomas F. Malone, Jr. ’74 Stephen G. Morrell ’78 Jeffrey B. Parsons ’02 Christine Iaconetta ’96 Karin F. Marchetti-Ponte ’78 in Allison C. Morrill Ph.D. ’74 Brice C. Paul ’98 Jason M. Jabar ’00 honor of the class of 1978 Aaron Wilcox Mosher ’13 Roger O. Pederson ’98 John James ’84 Benjamin E. Marcus Lawrence J. Mullen ’81 Richard M. Peirce ’71 Neil D. Jamieson, Jr. ’88 Nancy V. Savage Marcus ’91 Marcy A. Muller ’06 John D. Pelletier ’85 Dina A. Jellison ’92 and Thomas P. Marczak ’08 Sarah S. Murdough ’94 Leila Jane Percy John J. Wall III ’92 Thomas S. Marjerison ’93 Daniel J. Murphy ’02 Susan A. Pereira ’97 Rupert J. Jennings III ’80 Daniel W. Marra ’02 Michael W. Murphy ’88 Petruccelli, Martin & Haddow LLP Michelle Bushey Jensen ’93 Carol A. Martel ’92 Hon. Ann M. Murray ’82 Pfizer Foundation Bruce M. Jervis ’77 in honor of Simone D. Masse ’84 Carolyn B. Murray Russell B. Pierce, Jr. ’91 James M. Bowie Hon. Paul T. Pierson ’72 Norine C. Jewell ’87 Agnieszka Anna Pinette ’13 Rendle A. Jones ’67 Jonathan S. Piper ’76 Robert E.P. Jones ’91 Ruth E. Plagenhoef ’80 Robert A. Jutras ’88 Bronson Platner ’76 Janet K. Kantz ’91 James D. Poliquin ’81 and Stanley W. Karod ’72 Beth Anne Poliquin ’82 Donna M. Katsiaficas ’84 and Thomas J. Poulin ’88 James N. Katsiaficas ’84 Hon. Keith A. Powers ’73 Deborah A. Keefe ’77 and Victoria Powers ’89 John E. Sedgewick ’77 in honor Harvey Prager ’94 of James M. Bowie Roger P. Prince ’85 Mary N. Kellett ’92 Pamela Prodan ’92 John N. Kelly Nathaniel S. Putnam ’95 and Thomas R. Kelly ’92 Virginia Kozak Putnam ’91 Kelly Family Jane Surran Pyne ’85 Kelly, Remmel & Zimmerman Maureen P. Quinlan Hon. Mary Gay Kennedy ’80 Katherine M. Ralston ’89 Katherine A. Kerkam ’06 in honor Kayla Ramsay of Nancy Wanderer, upon her Frederic C. Rand ’01 and retirement Katharine I. Rand ’03 Phillip M. Kilmister ’63 Alistair Y. Raymond ’06 Karen G. Kingsley ’79 Rachel L. Reeves ’01 Edward W. Klein ’79 Ann R. Robinson ’88 Ronald A. Kreisman and Roderick R. Rovzar ’73 Ms. Roberta L. de Araujo Hon. G. Steven Rowe ’87 William O. LaCasse ’83 Patrick C. Maxcy ’99 Katherine M. Murray ’00 Mary R. Roy David J. Lakari ’84 Nancy W. McBrady ’07 Hon. Robert E. Murray Jr. ’88 Ellsworth T. Rundlett III ’73 Leonard W. Langer ’78 Christopher McCabe ’12 in honor Garison K. Murrell in memory of Geoffrey A. Rushlau ’79 Wendell G. Large and memory of Nelson Mandela Caroline Duby Glassman Hon. Ronald D. Russell ’72 Laskoff & Associates Louise Marie McCarthy ’92 Steven D. Najarian ’90 Thomas A. Russell ’79 Law Office of George D. Hepner III M. Jean McDevitt ’01 Jeffrey A. Nathanson ’87 James Saffian ’91 Mark W. Lawrence ’90 Duncan A. McEachern ’68 Mr. and Mrs. Leonard M. Nelson Cushing Pagon Samp ’77 and Thomas G. Leahy ’74 Peggy L. McGehee-Horton ’80 Hon. Mary P. Nelson and Mr. Frederick S. Samp ’75 Sarah Hooke Lee ’82 Justina A. McGettigan ’91 Kenneth Nelson Andrew R. Sarapas ’98 Lisa Morang Leighton ’98 Bruce A. McGlauflin ’96 Patricia A. Nelson-Reade ’88 Joanne S. Sataloff ’77 John G. 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MAINE LAW MAGAZINE FALL 2014 37 Bruce N. Shibles ’87 Michael B. Trainor ’79 Richard A. Shinay ’80 Michael D. Traister ’95 Thomas L. Shupp ’82 and Hon. Ralph L. Tucker, Jr. ’74 Justice Abraham M. Rudman Scholarship Fund Nancy L. Thomas ’81 Colleen P. Tucker ’84 Kirk G. Siegel ’97 Jill Kaplan Tupper ’94 stablished in 1971, the Justice David P. Silk ’85 Thomas G. Van Houten EAbraham M. Rudman Scholar- David S. Silsby ’58 Anne W. Van Lonkhuyzen ’73 ship Fund honors a great Maine citizen, Hon. Paula D. Silsby ’76 Derek Van Volkenburgh lawyer, graduate of the University of Joshua T. Silver ’05 Edwinna C. Vanderzanden ’84 Maine Law School, Maine Supreme Victoria J. Silver ’12 Vincent P. Veroneau ’06 Court Justice, and gentle, dedicated MacKenzie P. Simpson ’12 AlexandraVerrigni ’92 in memory family man who made a lasting im- Hon. George Z. Singal of Alfred E. and Mary J. Verrigni pression on the lives of all whom he Paula N. Singer ’78 Nicole Vinal Harvie encountered. As one of the largest and John W. Sitarz ’72 Heather Seasonwein Walker ’01 most important scholarship funds at the Chadbourn H. Smith ’70 Helen D. Walker ’93 University of Maine School of Law, Charles Walter Smith, Jr. ’73 Prof. Nancy A. Wanderer ’90 and the Rudman Scholarship Fund honors Prof. Deirdre M. Smith ’94 Susan A. Sanders the Justice’s keen legal mind, his dedi- Douglas M. Smith ’74 Joseph A. Wannemacher ’77 cation to honesty, integrity and helping others, and his devotion to the Gregory H. Smith ’73 Prof. Thomas M. Ward State of Maine. Irene Sidor Smith ’83 Daniel R. Warren ’83 Over the years, the Fund has grown to its present market value of Steven R. Smith ’81 Warren, Currier & Buchanan, $418,228, and has provided many, many scholarships to students from Timothy D. Smith ’95 LLC, P.A. the State of Maine who demonstrated academic promise as well as Terry N. Snow ’73 Helen Wasserman financial need. Solman & Hunter, P.A. Hon. Daniel E. Wathen ’65 In 2013, the Rudmans mourned the loss of two of their beloved Hon. Susan A. Sparaco ’87 Molly Watson Shukie ’09 family members: Gerald E. Rudman, Abraham’s son, on July 18, 2013, Kristin St. Peter ’00 Peter B. Webster in honor of and Inez Rudman on August 1, 2013, wife of the Hon. Paul Rudman, Mark Standen ’87 Roger A. Putnam one of Abraham’s three sons. Like his father, Gerald was a lawyer, and Hon. ’85 Johanna Julie Welch joined his father’s practice, forming what today is the 30 plus person Wendy Moulton Starkey ’03 John D. Welch ’90 Bangor firm of Rudman Winchell. Inez (Kolonel) Rudman was Paul’s Hon. Marilyn E. Stavros ’80 John G. Wheatley ’07 wife of 44 years. Abraham and Paul are the only father and son to have Emily Stein ’05 Sharon M. Wheeler ’98 served on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. The following individuals Daniel J. Stevens ’88 Rachel Anne White ’14 and entities honored the lives of Gerald and/or Inez Rudman in 2013-14 Graydon G. Stevens ’77 David R. Whittier ’76 with a gift to the Justice Abraham M. Rudman Scholarship Fund. Stewart R. Mott Foundation Lisa W. D. Whittier ’05 Elizabeth F. Stout ’90 Lynn M. Wilcox Andrew Strongin ’92 Martin C. Womer ’97 Contributors Joan Sturmthal ’86 Gary C. Wood ’75 Laongdao Suppasettawat Elizabeth C. Woodcock ’88 Thatcher M. Adams Marilyn B. Melton Nathan S. Szanton ’90 John A. Woodcock III ’06 Hiram Adelman Mr. and Mrs. Leonard E. Minsky Annee H. Tara ’73 Prof. Jennifer Wriggins and William Battles Norman Minsky Paul R. Tardif ’93 Mary L. Bonauto Katherine E. Blackwell Mr. and Mrs. James L. Moody, Jr. Carol Taylor Wright & Mills, P.A. Dr. and Mrs. Daniel N. Brooks Lois Nealley Ilse Teeters-Trumpy ’06 Karen L. Wright ’00 Mr. and Mrs. Philip D. Buckley Norman, Hanson & DeTroy, LLC F. Mark Terison ’78 in honor of Prof. L. Kinvin Wroth Hon. Gene Carter Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence E. Parker, Jr. James M. Bowie Jean D. Wulff ’93 Paul W. Chaiken ’74 Penobscot County Bar The Maine Real Estate Network Christopher A. Wyskiel ’80 Mr. and Mrs. Galen Cole Association Alan Thorndike ’76 Yiping Yang ’92 in memory of Cynthia and Harvey Creem Joseph J. Philippon Sarah Allison Thornton ’76 Merle Loper Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Curran Mary Carangi Porreca TIAA-CREF Matching Gifts John H. Zane ’93 David L. Cutler Roger A. Putnam Program Nancy C. Ziegler ’80 and Mr. and Mrs. Joel A. Dearborn Mr. and Mrs. Dan Rosenberg Kevin J. Tierney ’76 Hon. Kermit V. Lipez Peter J. DeTroy III ’72 and Abby Rudman Laura E. Tobin ’92 Anne B. Zill Mary R. Roy Andrew I. Rudman Robert C. Tommasino ’77 Prof. Donald N. Zillman Duffy Anderson Investment Cecelia Rudman Hon. Frederick Torrisi ’74 Thad B. Zmistowski ’89 Management LLC James Rudman Jeffrey S. Fister D.M.D. Lisa L. Rudman Galen Cole Family Hon. Paul L. Rudman Foundation, Inc. Samuel K. Rudman This report delineates gifts and pledges received Gilbert & Greif, P.A. Sara Rudman between July 1, 2013 and June 30, 2014. All Annual Ronald A. Glantz Rudman Winchell, LLC Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Glazier Mr. and Mrs. David Schiro Fund gifts or pledges received after June 30, 2014 Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin E. Grant Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence R. Schiro will be included in the Philanthropy Report for Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Hart Mr. and Mrs. James F. Schlucter Merton G. Henry Thomas M. Stathakes 2014-15. Every effort has been made to ensure the Lambert Coffin Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Sutcliffe III accuracy of this report. Please contact Deborah Mr. and Mrs. Steven L. Langer Torrey A. Sylvester ’70 William P. Lucy Mr. and Mrs. Miles U. Theeman Lorenzen if you notice any errors or omissions at Mr. and Mrs. James G. Lynch ’58 Webber Group 207-228-8411 or [email protected]. Mr. and Mrs. J. Herbert William C. Bullock, Jr. Family Mackintosh Foundation Robyn and Charles March ’96 Mr. and Mrs. Edwin L. Woolley III Mr. and Mrs. John J. 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Planned Giving – Leaving a Legacy

There are many different ways to make a planned gift. Some A message from Bob Laskoff ’70 of them include: s an Alum of Maine Law, albeit a little older than most • Outright Bequests of you, I urge you to consider the unique opportunity of • Gifts of Appreciated Stock Aincluding the University of Maine School of Law in your • Charitable Gift Annuities estate plan. Many times during the year Jackie, my wife of 47 • Charitable Remainder Trusts years, and I discuss where we are in life and • Charitable Lead Trusts what made that possible. The answer won’t • Other Planned Giving Vehicles, including gifts of life insur- surprise you. ance, retirement plan assets, and commercial or residential Please join us by giving something back real estate and leaving a legacy for future generations. For more information, please contact Tina Simonetta Samuels Although there are many ways to express in the Maine Law Advancement Office at (207) 780-4342 or your appreciation for what Maine Law has [email protected]. and continues to do for its alums and the Thank you for considering a legacy gift that will forge a way State of Maine, the opportunity to provide for future generations. Bob Laskoff for Maine Law into its future and beyond my own lifetime is special. Jackie and I have both made provisions for Maine Law in our Bob Laskoff ’70 estate plans, and I hope you will do the same! University of Maine School of Law Foundation Board Member

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