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Advocate belief that government can help? from page 1 Shure also asked Chen about the Perfect Together HLSA CONNECTOR people do so is a belief that government unusual role of the department: The Public cannot help. Public attitudes towards Advocate, he noted, is the only cabinet On September 27, half a dozen HLSA-NJ Newsletter of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey government have changed in recent member who is not appointed to do what members traveled to Cambridge to serve decades, Shure noted. When the Public the governor tells him to do. In light of on a panel encouraging current students to Volume 3, Issue 1 Fall/WinterWinter 20072013 Advocate was first created, many believed this, and in light of the Public Advocate’s pursue legal careers in New Jersey. government potential role as a The panel, scheduled to coincide with would be able plaintiff in suits Still “Government Under Glass”? the beginning of the fall recruiting season, Letter From The President to help solve against other will include the Honorable Jack M. Chen Maps Public Advocate’s New Course TED WELLS WILL BE 51ST some of the departments, he Sabatino ’82, J.A.D.; Amy Winkel- more pressing social and economic issues of asked Chen what he hears from and how By Stephen Herbes ’01 past year, I canone attest reason that itpeople is no exaggeration may do VAtechnologyNDER BandIL ethics.T L ETheCT UprogramRER was man ’87, Criminal Chief in the Office of Ronald K. Chen, the New the day, but now, many people no longer he relates to other cabinet members. to say that without the dedicated and very Theodoreorganized V. by“Ted” John Wells, Bartlett Jr. ’76and will was kick held the U.S. Attorney in Newark; Lowenstein Jersey Public Advocate, was the believe in or want government help. The Public Advocate acknowledged able support of Steve, your Association offat HLSA-NJ’sthe Law Center second in Newhalf-century Brunswick of on Sandler partners Nicole Albano ’97 and speaker and honored guest at Shure moved on to pose this pair of that some cabinet members have would not function as well and as efficiently VanderbiltSeptember Lectures. 27, 2012. Fa Imous encourage most yourecently to read Steve Hecht ’92; and Michael the Association’s annual Spring approached him with as it does. I am sure that Steve joins me in formore representing about this former timely andVice fascinating Presidential topic Passante ’03, an assistant municipal Symposium on June 19, 2007. suggestions as to pointing out that he has been supported Chiefin the of ensuingStaff I. Lewis pages. “Scooter” Libby, who prosecutor in Newark and coordinator of Also at the event, which where the Advocate’s in this work by his talented and dedicated was chargedWe continue with perjur to sponsory and obstruction public interest of New Jersey Young Lawyers for Obama. took place at the Law Center in attention could be paralegal, Patty Smith. We should all be justicefellows in duringthe investigation the summer, of as the you leaked will see focused in order to New Brunswick, the identity of an undercover CIA operative, Summer grateful for all the hard work they have done in this issue. This past summer we funded help their own Association’s two 2007 from page 3 to promote the work of the Association. I three interns who worked in Newark at departments gain Summer Public Interest Fellows personally extend my thanks and gratitude the Institute for Social Justice and at City more resources. He were introduced and presented outside the courtroom. with certificates recognizing for their support during this past year. Hall. Our 2012 summer fellows provide also denied ignoring Public Advocate Ronald Chen (l), Summer Fellowship The attorneys I assisted placed an In this issue, we continue our recent the actions of other their achievements. Damon Program Coordinator Bob Holmes ’70 and HLSA-NJ reflections on their experience that you may extraordinary amount of trust and President John Bartlett ’01 (r) congratulate Damon departments when King ’09 of Plainsboro spent a practice of selecting for recognition read in this issue. confidence in me. Throughout the King ’09 and Josh Kipnees ’09. those actions were not ten-weekDespite summer the atthreatened the New disruption distinguished alumni of the Law School. This The occasion of the Vanderbilt Lecture summer, I was asked to compose in the public interest. fromJersey HurricaneInstitute for Sandy, Social your Justice, Association’s and Josh year,Advocate, we have for selected example, Judges is “in Leonard but not Garthof” also serves as our annual meeting. All of your sentencing memos, as well as motion After Chen and 56thKipnees Annual ’09 served Vanderbilt the same Lecture period withand andthe PublicJohn GibbonsAdvocate for – suchit is recognition.treated a existing slate of officers were re-elected to papers regarding the admissibility of Shure completed their annualthe Federal meeting Public were Defender. held at (The The Fellows’ Manor Bothsubsidiary have forof many,the manydepartment years rendered for another one-year term. As always, I want to evidence. Our supervisor also made it a dialogue, they opened asactivities scheduled are ondescribed November in their 8, 2012. own wordsWith extremelybudgeting valuablepurposes, public but theservice department as federal close by reminding you of the importance of priority to regularly assemble panels of the discussion up to someon page luck, 3.) The Kipnees’ Manor father, regained Rob itsKipnees power districtdoes not and have court any supervisoryof appeals powerjudges. over Judge the work of the Association and of the desire attorneys in the office to present different questions from the in’80 time of Lowensteinto host the Sandler,event. Wewas are among grateful the Garthit. Among continues the first to issuesserve toas drawa Senior Chen’s Judge Tedto Wells have more ’76 (r)of withyou actively client participateLewis in viewpoints and some background on a floor. For the next thatmore the than turnout 50 alumni was muchin attendance. better than one onattention the Third while Circuit still well into“staffing his 90’s. up”: Judge “Scooter”our work asLibby, officers former or trustees. chief of Anyone who A Family Affair: Rob KIPNEES ’80 with son Josh ’09, one of the particular issue, be it the difference eminent domain, voting rights, and the staff to Vice President Dick Cheney. half hour, alumni might haveNew Century,expected Newunder Advocate the extremely Gibbons has for some years now been at his wishes to become actively involved should Association’s 2007 Summer Public Interest Fellows. between practice on the state and federal Advocate Chen, a former Assistant de-institutionalization of people confined asked the speakers inconvenient circumstances occasioned law firm, where he continues his practice and Wellsfeel hasfree representedto reach out publicto any figuresof our officersin a level or the function of the Sentencing Dean of Rutgers-Newark Law School who in mental institutions. questions: Has New Jersey entered an age in questions on issues ranging from the by Sandy. Chief Justice Stuart Rabner public service through his enormous host of other matters over the past three Guidelines. Moreover, I was encouraged to was appointed to the position of Public Jon Shure, President of prothe bono and trustees and express your particular which the Department of Public Advocate Administrative Procedure Act and the delivered a thoughtful and well-received talk work. We should all be honored to be in the decades.interest. But in order to do that, you must sit in on trials at the Federal Courthouse Advocate by Governor Jon S. Corzine in progressive think tank New Jersey Policy Wells will deliver a talk titled is less relevant? Or, should the Department influence of political pressure groups to regarding our Supreme Court’s recent ruling company of such outstanding individuals first join the Association and pay your dues. next door to our office if I found the topic 2006, began the symposium with an Perspective and a long-time observer of “Reflections on U.S. v. Libby: Trying a should be tasked with restoring people’s eminent domain and beach access. who are among our greatest alumni. at issue to be of interest. The varied and onoverview eyewitness of his identification. Department and a review of state government, was the evening’s PoliticallySo join andCharged pay now! Case in the Shadow of intriguing subject matter to which I was his Duringfirst year the inevening, office. StephenThe department, H. Roth, discussant.Mindful ofShure the technological expanded developmentson Mr. an UnpopularWith best War wishes.” The for51 st anVanderbilt enjoyable exposed afforded me an unparalleled Esq.originally was honored founded asin the1974, third was recipient charged byof ofChen’s our age, historicalyour Association overview sponsored of a theCLE- Lectureholiday will season be held and at a healthyThe Manor and prosperousin West Become a Trustee hands-on experience that simply could not thethe IrwinLegislature Markowitz with Awardthe task for outstandingof watching approveddepartment, program noting conducted that byGovernor Professor OrangeNew Year.on Wednesday, October 24, with be replicated in a classroom. servicethe other to yourdepartments Association of state over government the course AndrewBrendan RossnerByrne, of whothe Rutgerscreated Institutethe cocktails at 5:30pm and dinnerHervé Gouraige at 7:00pm. (’77) The activities of HLSA-NJ are made possible by its volunteer By far the most rewarding moment of ofand many bringing years. suit As youragainst President other members during this of fordepartment, Professional Educationcoined theon thephrase topics of The cost will be $95 for alumni admitted to trustees. The Association is seeking new volunteers to participate in my summer was when a defendant with a the executive cabinet when in the public “government under glass” and described the bar before 2002, and $70 for alumni borderline I.Q. was given a sentence at the interest.The HLSA The Connector department results was from eliminated a collective in effort. the As editor,Public I Advocate’swould like to role thank by referenceeveryone who to contributedadmitted to inthis 2002 newslet or later.ter: Judge Leonard I. Garth the governance of the association, to be formally elected as trustees and Former Judge John Gibbons and for their reflections on HLS; and Kevin Golembiewski, Scott Hugo, and Jamie Niskean-Singer for sharing thoughts bottom of his guideline range, largely on 1994 and re-established in 2005. In re- that phrase. When the department was If you have not received your Vanderbilt about their summer experience as HLSA-NJ Public Interest Fellows. I would also like to especially thank HLSA-NJ Trustees David Landau, Ken Oettle, John at the Vanderbilt Lecture on October 24. Being a trustee is a great the strength of the memo I wrote on his creating it, the Legislature instructed the eliminated in 1994, Shure noted with a invitation, please e-mail [email protected] or Bartlett, Robert Lack, President Hervé Gouraige, Vice President Nicole Denise Bearce, my wife Geraldine Reed Brown, and HLS Alumni Relations Staff, behalf. Although this perhaps represented office to focus on certain constituencies sense of irony, the state created the call (201) 489-3737. way to stay involved and network with fellow HLS alumni in all Director Karen Chance, Associate Directors Ute Lütjens and Pete Mumma. only a minor victory for the defendant, I and issues, including asylum and mental Department of the Business Advocate to walks of life. The current leadership includes law faculty; public-, felt great pride in knowing that during the healthWe continue advocacy, trying to enhancecivil Thecommitment Connector’s brandreplace and value it. by incorporating such features as: (a) the Distinguished HLS Alumni in New Jersey section; private- and nonprofit-sector attorneys; and sitting and retired course of my internship this summer, in hearings,(b) the report rape on ourcounseling, CLE Symposium and “Attorneys,elder Technology,How Do and You Ethics” Get presented People To by Care?Professor Andrew Rossner; (c) theINSIDE social media and multimedia addition to learning so much, I was able to advocacy.section which includes recent programs on Celebration of LatinoShure Alumniasked Latino the leadership, audience The toLittle Rock Nine, The Paper Chase at Forty, and current judges. In addition to our annual meeting, the Vanderbilt Lecture, HLS students talking about Clinical Education. Rabner Takes The Bench help alter a client’s life for the better. During his first year, Chen said, he consider why people vote against their the full board of trustees meets approximately 2-3 other times each I thank HLSA-NJ for providing me with hasThe focused Harvard on Law building School Association up the department. remains committed economic to its mission interest. as stated He hypothesized in its Constitution: that “The objectsLetters of this Association from shallour be SPIFs to advance the year. For more information, e-mail [email protected]. that opportunity. Somecause ofoffices legal education,have been to broughtpromote theinto interests the and increase the usefulness of the Harvard Law School, andAlumni to promote Updates mutual acquaintance and More and good Josh Kipnees ’09 department.fellowship among The all membersOffice ofof thethe Association.” Child ItSee is hopedAdvocate that this ,newsletter page 4 assists in fulfilling that purpose. Your comments, reactions, as well as, any news you may have are very welcome. I would especially welcome your suggestions for other distinguished alumni to recognize in future editions of The Connector. - Ron Brown email: [email protected] Page 2 THE HLSA CONNECTOR Page 3

Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 century. I am the first of these many others. As you look to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector. 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Distinguished HLS AlumniOur in2007 New JerseyPublic Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! Judge Leonard I. Garth But, back to the Law School.For the In first the daystime thatin three I was years, enrolled we as Fellows In Their Own Words During my first year of law school in September panel a student and thereafter,expect when this I taught year’s aVanderbilt number of Lecturetrial advocacy to 1998, a woman who had been a Mr.mentor Ron Browndiscussion has asked me if in seminars at Harvard forfully a paynumber for itself, of September thanks to aclasses, necessary I was Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I have any recollections of Harvard reminded all too well of the rigors of studying, making case abstracts I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Law School and if I would be good and facing annual examinations. Yet despite the difficulties presented Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. enough to note them. in Constitutional Law (Professor Paul Freund), and the other courses Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – This year, we contributed $3,400 I also worked on projects As a preface, let me say that I left Johnof similar Bartlett difficulty, ’01, these days I no longer think of those difficulties, but providing funding for my first- University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and Harvard Law School 60 years ago HLSA-NJrather the ones that have faced me as a Court of Appeals Judge in the year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvardas a member Law of professionalthe class of 1952. opportunities I Third abloom Circuit, in forthe the lastpage forty 3.) some The odd value years. of their experience, wake of the U.S. Supreme think I was among the oldest of the This exercise of recollection that Ron Brown has asked me to write Association’s dues-paying School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents members, as I left military service has brought back not only memories of my former classmates, and of view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. some years before and had been the professors who taught me, but of my sessions with the study group of and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence,working in the interimresponsibility. to support As my recently which as two I was years a member. ago, I$1,000 can remember to support preparing travel andfor the lodging inquisitions for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary wifeas the and end daughter. of the I20 still thankcentury the and Good the Lord andmore the than government 110 of our state’sthat 950I anticipated or so HLS at the ourhands Cambridge of Professors panelists Kaplan, in Freund,September. Fuller, of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st forbeginning having provided of the 21 the. GI Bill of Rights. alumni paid dues to etc.the IAssociation, am happy to asay I survivedOur spending them and inon later food years for was Boarddelighted ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his LetToday, me prefacewe might my recollections instead markby saying responsethat John rate Gibbons that — whileto join in withone thesense many leadersmeetings, of theat less bench than and $400 bar for who the provided year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are (50L)September and I were11, members2001 as ofthe the centenaryNew Jersey Barunderwhelming and Harvard Law — stillleadership permitted and lusterthe to theto date,Harvard is modest. Law School We madeAssociation no gift of toNew and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 Schoolturning Association point. That of New fateful Jersey, day as wellcame as beingAssociation friends. (Indeed,to provide programming,Jersey. make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s wethree were months confirmed after by Ithe completed United States law Senatea substantialas Federal Judgesgift to the LawJudge School, Leonard and I. Garthprovided was appointed us the printing by President and distribution Nixon to the communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest onschool the same and day.)five days As attorneys,after I started we had my either end contested the year with with one as muchUnited money States in District the Courtof this for thenewsletter District ofand New all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. anotherfirst job where as a ourlawyer. clients There were are adversaries, a host of or hadbank joined as onewe anotherstarted with.Jersey This year,in 1969 only and 46 was elevatedmailings to throughout the United theStates year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair whenother the places interests to draw of our the clients line, ofwere course, common. alumni The Association have paid in their Courtdues so of far.Appeals That for theour Third hope Circuit and inaim 1973. to makeHe generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public thoseand daysour washuman as vibrant nature as compelsit is today, us and to I cantwo-thirds recall the Harvarddrop in responsehas served—andrate is making is still contributionsserving—as a Seniorto the Judgelaw school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past Law School of New Jersey banner which Frank Brennan, the Justice’s on that Court since 1986. From 1952 to 1955, returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. brother, donated to the Association and which was displayed at every Judge Garth was an Associate at Cole, Morrill & following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank meeting. (I hope it still is!) Nadell; from 1955 to 1969 he was a Partner at Cole, Berman & researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- In those days, when we were students at the Law School, we Garth. Judge Garth is now 91 years of age and has just completed across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we rd serving leaders like Albert target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. had our classes taught by legal giants whose names will always be his 43 year on the Federal Bench. He is actively engaged as a discrimination against ex- are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David both state and federal law. Over the course of my revered in Harvard Law School’s history, such as Professors Austin Senior Judge with the Third Circuit maintaining chambers in North offenders in municipal hiring Damon King ’09 species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the Scott, Warren Seavey, Archibald Cox, Benjamin Kaplan, W. Barton Branford, Connecticut (where he resides), as well as Newark and The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake Leach, A. J. Casner, Paul Freund, Stanley Surrey, Livingston Hall, Philadelphia. Recently the Third Circuit dedicated the Atrium in turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law the Martin Luther King, Jr. Building and United States Courthouse Robertfirst time, Braucher, a majority Kenneth of officers Davis, David Herwitz, Arthur Miller Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and in Newark in Judge Garth’s name. and,were of graduated course, Dean from Erwin the Griswold.law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being schoolOur classesin the were, twenty-first for the most part, lecture classes. The seminars At his confirmationMarkowitz hearing, ’52 Justice, and Samuel so A. See Summer, page 4 werecentury. icing I on am the the cake. first I ofhave these always felt that the schooling I received Alito, Jr., who was onemany of others.Judge Garth’sAs you early look law atto Harvard be president Law School of provided the essentials needed for the practice clerks on the Court forward,of Appeals, ask yourself:said Judge What Garth the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you ofAssociation, law no matter and themy particularsuccessor legal discipline in which one later “really epitomized open-mindednessdo you want the Association and fairness. We Can’t Do Until You Due If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of engaged.Jason Orlando The curriculum ’00 will be theprovided second. the fundamentalsa huge thatdifference I believe in what we can do for youHe readto the look record like inin detailthe years in every to come? single And case... by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 everyThis lawyer marks must a absorbhopeful before moment, he or sheof attemptsand for to therepresent Law School. a He insistedhow onwill scrupulously you be part of following it? precedents, interest fellowships and campus programming for students to clientcourse. whether We’ll in launch civil or criminalour second cases. half- I can’t put it more plainly: We needboth the precedentsIf you’ve paidof the your Supreme dues, comeCourt out and to the dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. centuryIndeed, of Vanderbiltthe one course Lectures that I cherishedwith one the mostyour and help. which And I look we especiallydecisions need of his help own court,our the events, Third or Circuit.been active He taughton the allboard, of his I law To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a forof inthe my brightest applications starts of inprospective the American law clerks wasfrom Civil those Procedure alumni graduatedclerks that after every 1970, case hasthank to be decidedyou. If onyou an individualhaven’t done basis, those and he legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite where I had the benefit of Professor Kaplan’s instruction. Although I really didn’t have much use for any grand theories.” Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni recall that neither our case book nor the instructors dealt heavily with Born in Brooklyn in 1921, Judge Garth received reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. “final orders” as a jurisdictional requisite in the appellate process, I his bachelor’s degree from Columbia University in learned how very vital it was when I began to practice. I might note 1942, after which he was selected as a Rockefeller his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and AthatL UI wouldMN spendI On a good The deal Moveof time stressing appellate jurisdiction Foundation Scholar for post-graduate study with I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 Statewhen Senate I taught Judiciary classes atChairman both Rutgers John Law Adler School ’84 and has Seton declared Hall. his the National Institute of Public Affairs. After Assemblyman Mikeservice Panter as a lieutenant ’95 (D-12 inth) themay U.S. have Army, some he alumnientered candidacy Of recent for Congress date, there in New has Jersey’sbeen criticism third Congressional of the third yeardistrict. law Name: Class: school requirement. There has also been criticism that the core Harvardcompany Lawnext Schoolspring, andif Republican graduated Jayin 1952.Webber He ’00 practiced wins his law race in HLSA-NJcurricula secretary of law schools Stephen must F. beHerbes changed ’01 ,to CPA, meet J.D.,current LL.M., needs and of Newfor Assembly Jersey as ina memberthe 26th District.of the law Webber, firm ofof Cole,Morris Berman Plains, won& Garth a Address: the members of our profession. I will not venture into a discussion (nowcontested Cole, primary Schotz, in Meisel,June. Forman & Leonard, P.A.) until he was CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: offrom these the 50mattersth annual other Vanderbilt than Lecture.to say thatThose without images were the providedbenefit by of these appointed to the District Court bench. fundamentalKeith Krebs/P.O.V. courses Image - Servicea legal. education such as the scholarship Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector. Harvard provided - a “good” lawyer may not be equipped to meet the Judge Leonard I. Garth continued on page 16 demands that trial and appellate work require or to comprehend the Pagenuances 2 of our statutes, civil, criminal and constitutional concepts. THE HLSA CONNECTOR Page 3

Distinguished HLS AlumniOur in2007 New JerseyPublic Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we John J. Gibbons, former Chief Judge of the Third U.S. Circuit Fellows In Their Own Words1 During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to John J. Gibbons, Esq. Court of Appeals and a director at Gibbons P.C. 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe has committed his five-decade career to protecting of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees John J. Gibbons shared with the editor of I would like to thank the network, a partnership between the rule of law in this country, a commitment that member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the The Connector, the following reflections Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers had him defending the 660 men incarcerated at staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. about Harvardfor Justice. Law School. Association of New Jersey for the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my “Whenfirst- I was aI Senioralso workedat Holy Crosson projects College University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two I had nevertouching met a lawyer. on racialMy economics and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. National Recognition, Local Talent assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity ofprofessor the economicheard that inequality.I was thinking In the of A nationally recognized attorney, Judge Gibbons time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-payingapplying towake a graduate of the program U.S. in Supremeeconomics is listed among the nation’s leading business lawyers in School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legalat a UniversityCourt’s in decisionGreat Britain, in Parentsand he the Chambers USA Guide to America’s Leading Business view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jerseyurged meInvolved to apply toin lawCommunity school instead. Schools My v. Lawyers where he is ranked number and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice fatherin arrangedSeattle forSchool me to Districtmeet the General#1, I one among the state’s commercial Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a varietyCounsel preparedof the company a memo he worked discussing for and th litigators, and in The Best Lawyers in Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st that attorney insisted that my clear choice America, where he is ranked in the category of First beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his ways in which NJISJ combinesamong the four that accepted me must Amendment Law. In 2005, he received the Lifetime Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are be Harvard Law School. Since he was then the first lawyer I had met I Achievement award from The September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 followed his advice, enrolling at Harvard in the fall of 1944. American Lawyer for his outstanding private turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s Harvard was quite a change from my practice and his dedication and contribution to three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest undergraduate experiences. Class performance by a the public good. He serves on the Editorial Board school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. student did not count for anything, since one’s grade first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair of The National Law Journal, depended entirely on the one final exam at term end. other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel andunderserved was named populations. the 2004 Lawyer I am of thehonored Year by with the a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the Youprospects got no feedbackof individuals about your class doctrine,performance. particularly with Newgrateful Jersey to Lawthe Journalmembers for hisof dedicationInterest to Fellowshippro by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past Harvardreturning Law to theirSchool communities was thus a perfect respect preparation to regional bonoHLSA-NJ causes. for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. forfollowing courtroom soloincarceration, performances. I contribution agreements, haveJudge a summer Gibbons experience was born that in Newark,Association and raised of inNew Belleville. Jersey. AfterThis walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researchedAt that thetime, efforts and soof farcities as I knowwhich still have today, been the the Law subject Review of servingwill fundamentally in the Navy, shapehe considered my studyingaward enabled history me in Europe,to work butat between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- offeredacross athe position country on itsto editorial reduce boardvigorous to the five policy students debates in andeach theof the insteadlegal career. a professor suggested he attendthe lawFederal school. Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert fourdiscrimination sections that hadagainst the highest ex- gradetarget point ofaverages, legal challenges and much under to my UponSincerely, graduation from Harvard LawOffice School, in Newark he this summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David surpriseoffenders I was in onemunicipal of the five hiring selected fromboth mystate section. and federal law. returned to NewarkDamon to Kingpractice ’09 law Overfor his thecurrent course of my species. Crabtree ’52, David andSince prepared I was written still a Reservematerials Navy OfficerNJISJ I provideswas not surprised numerous to be firm (then known as Crummy, Gibbonsinternship, & O’Neill). I was given the Landau ’53, Jerry The Association is at a assignedfor presentations the task ofto writingNew Jersey an anonymousexamples comment of ways on thein recentlywhich In 1970, he was appointed to the Courtchance of Appealsto witness and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin enactedmunicipalities but still on not policy operative reform Uniform attorneys Code of Militarycan commit Justice. theirThat inDear Philadelphia, HLSA-NJ, where he served forin 20the years. federal He criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helpedgave connect me the opportunityknowledge to workand withskills Professorto aid thenI returnedwould like to theto convey firm andmy now process,provides valuableboth withintrial assistance and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates withEdmund pro bono Morgan, underrepresented who as a consultant to theand U.S. sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so on cases. He is a Seemember Summer of the, page National 4 Panel Military had worked on that reform legislation. I century. I am the first of these many others. As you look of Distinguished Neutrals of the CPR Institute was also lucky enough to be enrolled in Morgan’s 2 to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What for Dispute Resolution and has served as an Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’tEvidence Do Class.Until His class You performance Due and his arbitratorthe spring and symposium a mediator and in aother number events of large HLSA-NJ commercial offers disputesto you Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read aboutcritique it in ofthe my Connector skepticism, aboutit was reform made of possible military amongand all major our corporations.members, it Hewouldn’t has also exist engaged without in litigation the support involving of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? justiceby members convinced who me Ipaid had madetheir adues. sound From choice our in selectingsummer the public law as antitrust,our dues-paying intellectual members. property Iflaw you and haven’t securities paid regulation, your 2007-2008 while also course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to myinterest life work, fellowships a choice I andhave campusnever since programming regretted. Exposure for students to Edmund to runningdues yet, the please firm’s contribute unique pro today bono by program using the - the form John below. J. Gibbons century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I Morgan was the best thing I experienced at Harvard Law School. How Fellowship in Public Interest & Constitutional Law. of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those fortunateTo become I was!” an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg MufsonJohn &J. GSpar,ibbons, 200 Executive Esq. continued Drive, on Suitenext page Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 1 Alladmitted the graphics to in thisthe section, bar for and over the single 5 years footnote as aboutof July the CPR1, 2007, Institute and for Dispute $50 forResolution, alumni were admitted added by the for editor less of The5 five Connector years andand were those not part in ofthe Judge pub Gibbons’lic sector. published biography. The biographical text information about Judge Gibbons was taken verbatim from http://www.gibbonslaw.com/biographies/attorney_biography.php?attorney_id=78. his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and On The Move 2 I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey ALUMNI estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. http://www.cpradr.org/Portals/0/About_CPR/2011%20CPR%20AnnualReportLoRes.pdf (“The CPR Institutein the (CPR) amount serves as of an independent, objective $75.00 resource for the avoidance, $ 50.00 management, and resolution of complex business-related disputes. No other organization has equal State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni influence, range of intellectual property, or breadth of programs focused exclusively on commercial conflict management. By harnessing the collective expertise of leading legal minds and company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race benchmarkingName: best practices, it is the leading ADR resource for multinational corporations with billions of dollars at risk. Class:CPR is also a top online destination for lawyers seeking superior arbitrators HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a and mediators,Address: as well as cutting-edge ADR tools, resources and training. CPR’s membership comprises an elite group of ADR trailblazers, including executives and legal counsel from the most contested primary in June. successful companies in the world, partners from global law firms, government officials, retired judges, highly-experienced neutrals, and leading academics. CPR has defined the field of ADR CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images for more thanTelephone: 30 years. It was the first to bring together Corporate E-Mail: Counsel and their law firms to find ways of mitigating the risks, costs and delays associated with litigation. CPR was also the from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by first to develop an ADR Pledge©, which obliges subscribing companies and law firms to explore alternative dispute resolution options before pursuing full-scale litigation. But, that was only the Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] beginning. Since that time, CPR has staked its claim as the only independent think tank in the field and has become the go-to resource for leading practitioners seeking objective analysis, insight and innovationDate in commercial of Admission dispute resolution. to the The organizationBar: harnesses the expertise of leading minds to benchmark I am bestemployed practices and in combines the public theory withsector. practical application to produce the gold standard for ADR methodology, tools and services. Never content to rest on its laurels, CPR also advances innovation in the field as the initiator of the most cutting-edge thinking in commercial conflict resolution today. Learn more at www.cpradr.org.”) Page 2 THE HLSA CONNECTOR Page 3

John J. Gibbons, Esq. continued from previous page Our 2007 Public Interest GivingLe Backtte tor HisFr Professionom T hande Community Presid ent Publications spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! Judge Gibbons founded, and • “Does 9/11 Justify a War Foron thethe Judicial first time Branch? in three,” 63 Rutgersyears, we Law During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words currently is the director of, the John J. Review 1101, 2011 1998, a woman who hadGibbons been a mentorFellowship discussionin Public Interest in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe • “Commentary on the Terror on Trial Symposium,” 28 University of mine – Galina V. &Starovoitova, Constitutional a Law.Cambridge, This uniquewhere increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes of Texas Review of Litigation(including 297 our, 2008 youngest alumni). But the program goes beyond typical pro bono Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. work, with three attorneys on staff at the • “Chief Justice John Marshall and Federalism,” 16 St. John’s Journal Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – This year, we contributed $3,400 firm who undertake public interest and Johnof Bartlett Legal Commentary ’01, 351, 2002 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and constitutional law projects and litigation HLSA-NJ• Symposium, Fresh Considerations on Federalism and year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See economic inequality. In the for a variety of cases, representing public Thanks to the generosity of the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities Separationabloom in ofthe Powers: page Some 3.) Thoughts The value on ofPolitical their experience,Structure as wake of the U.S. Supreme interest organizations, government Association’s dues-paying School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) Constitutional Law,” and31 Seton the Hallconnection Law Review it 30helped, 2000 them Court’s decision in Parents agencies, private non-profit corporations, members, I served as a legal view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase •the “Symposium: old saw, with Critical develop Perspectives to New on Jersey’sMegan’s legal Law: community, Protection intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. courts and individuals. Under Judge and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunitiesvs. Privacy,”come great 13 New Yorkis priceless.Law School We’ll Journal have of Human spent Rightsnearly 56 , Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Gibbons’ direction, the Fellowship has Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as1996 two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th been involved in the most significant Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st • “Convergence in Communications Technology and the First beginning of the 21 . and controversial issuesalumni that paid confront dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Amendment,” 25 Seton Hall Law Review 1375, 1995 Today, we might theinstead Federal markand Stateresponse courts today. rate thatThis — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 asrepresentation the centenary includesunderwhelming challenging — still• “Thepermitted Quality the of the Judgesto date, Is is Whatmodest. Counts We in made the End,”no 61 gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fatefulthe constitutionality day came Associationof Megan’s to Law;provide programming,Brooklyn Law make Review the 45 , Law1995 School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution opposing the Attorney General’s decision • “The Court’s Role in Interbranch Disputes Over Oversight of communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest to closeschool deportation and five daysproceedings after I startedto the publicmy forend detainees the year arrested with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other I researched various legal issues Agency Rulemaking,” 14 Cardozo Law Review 957, 1993 Through NJISJ’s Second Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. in thefirst wake job as of a 9/11; lawyer. challenging There are raciala host profiling of bank on the as weNew started Jersey with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair Turnpike;other places serving to as draw an advocate the line, for of inner course, city studentsalumni in the have landmark paid their •dues “Symposium, so far. That Emerging our Constitutional hope and aim Rights: to make Health generous Care and effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public Abbottand v.our Burke human school nature finance compels litigation; us toand defendingtwo-thirds battered drop inand response Education,” rate is making 16 Seton Hallcontributions Legislative to Journal the law 36 , school1992 in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past low-income women in cases concerning domestic violence, criminal • “Intentionalism, History, and Legitimacy,” 140 University of returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. prosecution for injuries to their unborn fetuses, and denial of welfare , 1991 following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines Pennsylvania Law Review 613 As you look back, thank to children in families already receiving welfare. The Fellowship has researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear • “Fictions,” 20 Seton Hall Law Reviewthe 344Association’s, 1990 long- litigated cases resulting in more than 125 reported decisions, including across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we • “Antitrust, Law & Economics, andserving Politics,” leaders 50 Law like and Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. severalare inand the Unitedwhat we States do Supreme as a Court in cases that Judge Gibbons Cohn ’51, David argued personally. Contemporary Problems 217, 1987 offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the Judge Gibbons was a leader in the successful legislative effort to • “The Antitrust Jurisprudence of the Third Circuit,”40 The Record The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake abolish the death penalty in New Jersey, the first state to do so since 1976 , 1985 turning point as well. For the of the Association of the Bar of the CityFitzgerald of New YorkEnglish 198, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law when the United States Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment. first time, a majority of officers • “Tribute to Justice Brennan,” 36 RutgersFish ’55 Law, ReviewSteve 729 Roth, 1984 ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and Judge Gibbons is passionate about challenging the constitutionality were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being andschool proportionality in the of twenty-firstthe death penalty and is currently active in the • “Federal Law and the State CourtsMarkowitz 1790-1860,” ’52 36, Rutgersand Lawso See Summer, page 4 deathcentury. penalty I am abolition the first movement of these in other states. Review 399, 1984 many others. As you look toJudge be Gibbonspresident has alsoof sharedthe his commitment to the rule of law • “The Eleventh Amendment and Stateforward, Sovereign ask yourself: Immunity: What A We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you withAssociation, students of and Constitutional my successor Law and other subjects at the Seton Reinterpretation,” 83 Columbia Lawdo Reviewyou want 1889 the, 1983Association If you’ve read about it in the , it was made possible HallJason University Orlando School ’00 will of beLaw, the where second. he held thea Richard huge difference J. Hughes in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And Connector and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of • “Book Review, R. Berger, Government by Judiciary: The by members who paid their dues. From our summer public Chair inThis Constitutional marks a hopeful Law until moment, June of of 1997. andHe hasfor thealso Law taught School. how will you be part of it? our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment,” 31 Rutgers Law at Rutgerscourse. We’llUniversity launch Law our School, second Duke half- UniversityI can’tLaw putSchool, it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. Review 839, 1978 andcentury Suffolk of UniversityVanderbilt Law Lectures School with and onehas authoredyour help.numerous And Lawwe especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a Reviewof the articles. brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated• “Hague after v. 1970,CIO: A Retrospective,”thank you. If52 youNew haven’tYork University done those Law legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the sameReview rate 731 as, 1977the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite ProfessionalWells ’76. Activities(See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni • “Governance of Industrial Corporations in an Industrial • reachingMember, out 1960-1964, to current and students Chairman, with a1963-1964, than makeNew Jerseyup the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. Democracy,” 31 The Business Lawyer 1393, 1976 Board of Bar Examiners • “Remarks at Commencement,” , 1974 •A Member,LUM Governor’sNI On Select The CommitteeMove on Civil Disorders, 1967- his alphabet soup of degrees have27 joined Rutgers the Law tax Review and trusts237 and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey 1968 •estates “Book practice Review, at Riker H. Friendly, Danzig Federalin Morristown. Jurisdiction: A General in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 •State Member, Senate New Judiciary Jersey Chairman Council Against John Adler Crime, ’84 1968-1970 has declared his th AssemblymanView,” 48 New Mike York Panter University ’95 Law(D-12 Review) may 564 have, 1973 some alumni •candidacy Member, for Council Congress of in NewNew Jersey’sJersey Departmentthird Congressional of Community district. Name: Class: •company “Waiver: next The spring, Quest if forRepublican Functional Jay Limitations Webber ’00 on winsHabeas his race Affairs, 1968-1970 th HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for CorpusAssembly Jurisdiction,” in the 26 2District. Seton Hall Webber, Law Review of Morris 291 ,Plains, 1971 won a Address: • Fellow, American Bar Foundation contested primary in June. • CORRECTION:Member, Essex The County spring Barissue Association failed to include photo credits for images • “Compensation for Automobile Accident Losses,” No. 546 The Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by , 1968 • President, New Jersey State Bar Association, 1967-1968 InsuranceHave news?Law Journal E-mail 615 [email protected] • KeithMember, Krebs/P.O.V. American Image Bar Service Association. Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector.

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3 Our 2007 PublicCLE PInterestROGRAM AND MIXER Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we FellowsOn September In27, 2012 Their the HLSA-NJ Own sponsored Words a reception and Symposium at the Law Center, New During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Brunswick, New Jersey. The subject of the Symposium was “Attorneys, Technology, and Ethics”. Professor 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary AndrewDear Members Rossner of4 led HLSA-NJ, the attendees throughattorneys a stimulating through interactivethe ReLeSe consideration of ethical issues presented by of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees seeminglyI would everyday like to activities thank theas the following:network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School• the use ofNJISJ e-mail and to communicateVolunteer Lawyers with clients, staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey• forthe use offor mobile Justice. applications on smart phones, I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – This year, we contributed $3,400 John Bartlett ’01, providing funding for my •first- the use of off-siteI also thirdworked party on services projects for e-mail or electronic file storage, University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship.• using the Internet, assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See economic inequality. In the Thanks to the generosity of• themaintaining a firm web page, and time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, wake of the U.S. Supreme Association’s dues-paying• the use of social networks including Facebook, LinkedIn, blogs, and chat rooms. 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Jersey's urban school districtsaccount. committed She later to filedyears an ofemployment age, Rabner –of a formerdiscovery. federal In response, prosecutor, Stengart’s Governor’s lawyer a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution three months after I completed law communities.This New Jersey case presentedequal novel educational discrimination opportunity. lawsuit againstChief her Counsel, employer, and statedemanded Attorney that General communications – is the youngest between school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. questions about the extent to which Loving Care Agency, Inc. (Loving Care), and CLE PROGRAM continued on next page first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous 3effort The CLE to program improve was freethe to reentryHLS alumni whoHousing had paid theirAct currentand the year Mt. HLSA-NJ Laurel dues. underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the 4 Associate Dean for Professional and Skills Education and Director of the Institute for Professional Education, Dean Rossner holds a J.D. and M.A. from a joint program in law and draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School philosophy at the University of Michigan, where he was named to the Order of the Coif. He clerked for Judge Nathaniel R. Jones, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, then backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This joined the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division where he prosecuted criminal antitrust and Department of Defense contract fraud cases as well as handled merger and other walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at civil and administrative antitrust matters. In 1986, he served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey, where he prosecuted white collar between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s crime cases, including government contract fraud, government program fraud, tax and securities fraud. In 1991, he joined the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office as chief of the and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. discriminationAntitrust and Securities against Fraud Unit inex- the Division of Criminal Justice. Within the Division of Criminal Justice, he subsequently served as chief of the Official Corruption and Antitrust are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David both state and federal law. Over the course of my offendersBureau, chief in of municipalthe Financial Crimeshiring and Antitrust Bureau, deputy director and then acting director of the Division.Damon Dean King Rossner ’09 has been active in the National Association of species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry Attorneys General (NAAG) Antitrust Task Force, serving for almost 10 years as vice chair for litigation training and before that as a vice chair for investigations. NAAG recognized his forachievements presentations by awarding to New him Jerseythe NAAG Marvinexamples Award forof outstanding ways inleadership, which experience and achievement in advancing the work of chancestate attorneys to witness general andand also partake the first turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalitiesNAAG Training Institute on policy Teacher reform of the Year Award.attorneys With more can than commit27 years of teachingtheir litigationDear advocacy, HLSA-NJ, in 2001, he was founding directorin ofthe the Newfederal Jersey Attorneycriminal General’s law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options.Advocacy IInstitute, also helped which has connect become a nationalknowledge model for trainingand skillspublic sectorto aidattorneys. He hasI would developed like curricula to convey and course my and teachingprocess, materials both on trialwithin advocacy andskills, were graduated from the law the late Irwin formerdeposition inmates skills, examination with pro of experts bono skills,underrepresented and evidentiary issues at trial, as welland as, varioussincere substantive appreciation legal issues relatingfor being to the work of government attorneys. Since 1988, he school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 has served as a faculty member and lecturer for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA), teaching at NITA’s regional, national, and in-house programs. He has also authored many others. As you look century. I am the first of these course and teaching materials for numerous NITA-style programs, and collaborated with professional and other organizations to develop and conduct specialized courses for to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What attorneys. Dean Rossner has previously taught at Temple Law School, Seton Hall Law School, and Rutgers School of Criminal Justice, as well as, at Rutgers School of Law–Newark. Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you IfHe you’ve currently read teaches about Antitrust, it Intensivein the ConnectorTrial Advocacy,, Evidence,it was made Evidentiary possible Issues at Trial,and Intensive all ourDeposition members, Advocacy it and wouldn’t courses in existthe Institute without for Professional the support Education. of Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And He serves on the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on the Rules of Evidence and is president of the C. Willard Heckel Inn of Court. This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 5 course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest Wikipedia atfellowships http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog and campus programming provides the following for explanation students of to what is a blog:dues “A yet, blog please(a portmanteau contribute of the termtoday web by log) using is a discussion the form or informationalbelow. site century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I published on the World Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries (“posts”) typically displayed in reverse chronological order (the most recent post appears first). Until 2009 blogs of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. 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The your rise separateof Twitter and du esother check “microblogging” with your systems RSVP helps to the integrate Vanderbilt MABs and lecture single-author. Dues blogs are into$75 societal for alumni newstreams. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. The emergence and growth of blogs in the late 1990s coincided with the advent of web publishing tools reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. that facilitated the posting of content by non-technical users. (Previously, a knowledge of such technologies as HTML and FTP had been required to publish content on the Web.) Although not a requirement, most good quality blogs are interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments and even message each other via GUI widgets on the blogs, and it is this his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and ALUMNI On The Move interactivityI thatenclose distinguishes my them check from otherfor staticthe websites. 2007-2008 In that sense, dues blogging to thcane be Harvard seen as a form Law of social School networking. Association Indeed, bloggers of doNew not only Jersey produce content to estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. post on theirin blogs, the butamount also build of social relations with their $75.00 readers and other bloggers.” $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni 6 candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. WikipediaName: at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friending provides the following definition of social media friending: Class:“Friending is the act of adding someone to a list of “friends” on a social company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race networking service. The notion does not necessarily involve the concept of friendship.[footnotes 1] It is also distinct from the idea of a “fan” — as employed on the WWW sites of th HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26 District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a businesses,Address: bands, artists, and others — since it is more than a one-way relationship. A “fan” only receives things. A “friend” can communicate back to the person friending. The act of contested primary in June. “friending” someone usually grants that person special privileges (on the service) with respect to oneself. On Facebook, for example, one’s “friends” have the privilege of viewing and CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images posting to Telephone:one’s “wall”. There are distinct groups of “friends” that E-Mail: one can friend on a social networking service. The notion of a social network friend does not necessarily embody the from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by concept of friendship, although terminology has not yet evolved to distinguish the different types of social networking friends. These three categories of social networking friends are: Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] (1) friendsDate who are of actually Admission known: these to arethe people Bar: that may be one’s friends or family in real life, with whomI am one employed has regular interactionin the public either on-line sector. or off-line,(2) organizational friends: these are companies and other organizations who maintain a “friending” relationship as a contacts list,(3) complete strangers: these are social networking “friends” with whom one has no relationship at all. Page 2 THE HLSA CONNECTOR Page 3

STEPHEN ROTH RECEIVES Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! THE IRWIN MARKOWITZ ALUMNI SERVICE AWARForD the first time in three years, we During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova,O na November Cambridge, 8, 2012, Stephenwhere Roth became increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament theand thirda recipientmembers of theof Irwinclasses S. Markowitz7 (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whomAlumni Servicethat make Award me feel“for oldhis decades of rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown This year, we contributed $3,400 exemplary –service like ’09 to and HLSA/NJ ’10 – John and Bartlett the ’01, providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two communityheard of Harvard from Lawhalf School a alumni in year summer internship. touching on racial and assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the HLSA-NJ extraordinary young law students. (See New Jersey, and with deep appreciation for his Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, work to promote the strength and continuity Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them of the Association”. The first recipient was members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, Albert Cohn. The second recipient was Judge intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Seattle School District #1, I Dave Landau. Gerri Markowitz, who was Institute for Social Justice in Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th married to Irwin for 51 years, was present Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st when Mr. Roth was recognized as the recipient beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Today, we might instead ofmark this year’sresponse award rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are Stephen H. Roth (’67), recipient Irwin Markowitz ’52 and Geri Markowitz legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 of the Irwin Markowitz Award and direct service programs to policy options still available to turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. CLE PROGRAM continued from previous page The Appellate Division company manual—that is, a policy that first job as a lawyer. 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Damon King ’09 Over the course of my communications,species. Stengart waived the reasonably expect that e-mail communications Crabtreethat ’52 , in a caseDavid by case and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the attorney-clientThe Association privilege byis sendingat a e-mails with her lawyer through her personal Landau context’53, based Jerryanalysis, for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake on turninga company point computer. as well. ThatFor the computer use [password-protected, web-based e-mail] Fitzgerald“courts English might, Marvin treat municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, policyfirst in time, part astated majority the offollowing: officers account would remain private, and that e-mails transmitted via options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin • “The company reserves and will exercise the sending and receiving them using a company an employer’s e-mail former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 right to review, audit, intercept, access and laptop did not eliminate the attorney-client account differently century. I am the first of these many others. As you look disclose all matters on the company’s media privilege that protected them.” to be president of the than they wouldforward, web-based ask yourself: e-mails What sent on systemsAssociation, and services and my at successor any time, with or Chief Justice Rabner observed that the the same companydo you computer”; want the “theAssociation location of We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you withoutJason Orlando notice.” ’00 will be the second. 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Bartlett in Stengart, ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. • “Occasional personal use is permitted; (3) Provide employees with express notice that plaintiff took no steps whatsoever to shield Ahowever,LUM theN systemI On should The notMove be used messages sent or receivedhis alphabet on a personal, soup of degreesthe e-mails have fromjoined his the employer. tax and Instead,trusts and he I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey to solicit for outside business ventures, web-based e-mail accountestates are practice subject at toRiker Danzigrepeatedly in Morristown. sought legal advice about the in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 Statecharitable Senate organizations, Judiciary Chairman or for any John political Adler ’84 hasmonitoring declared if his company equipment is used negotiation for ththe purchase of TEI using candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. 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Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we FellowsGeorge J. Andresakes, In Their Esq. ’39 Own Words David S. Bate, Esq. ’42 During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Milton A. Mausner, Esq. ’41 Jerome R. Kaye, Esq. ’52 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary attorneys through the ReLeSe Dear MembersPhilip ofN. HLSA-NJ, Sobel, Esq. ’65 Dean A. Gaver, Esq. ’69 of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the HarvardWilliam Law T. Lifland, School Esq. ’52NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers Seymour H. 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Looking both future as we have in past respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School inreturning his father’s to icetheir cream communities parlor, George wrote from Harvard Law School in 1946. After a passed away on July 30, backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This a note to himself - “Louise - little, but oh one year clerkship in Newark, N.J., he joined 2012 at the age of 68. walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at my” - which he carried with him always. The the firm of Boyd, Dodd, Keer & Booth Dean was a member of between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s couple lived in Upper Montclair, N.J., where (now Booth, Bate, Grieco and Briody) in the firm’s Real Estate and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David theyoffenders raised infive municipal children. hiringGeorge startedboth statehis andMontclair, federal law. N.J., working until his retirementDamon King ’09 Over theDepartment, course offocusing my species. Crabtree ’52, David ownand lawprepared practice, written Connell materials and Andresakes,NJISJ providesin 2010. numerousServing Essex Fells, N.J., he was his practice internship,on issues associatedI was givenwith landthe The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry infor Montclair, presentations and eventuallyto New Jersey became generalexamples ofborough ways attorneyin which for 35 years, a member and use, zoning,chance real estateto witness development and partake and turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin counselmunicipalities for Village on Supermarkets.policy reform He workedattorneys canpresident commit of the their planning Dear board HLSA-NJ, for 18 years, management.in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, foroptions. the company I also helped until connecthis retirement, knowledge and aand member skills ofto theaid volunteerI wouldfire company like to convey Priormy to joiningprocess, Greenbaum, both within Rowe, Smithand were graduated from the law the late Irwin remained on the board of directorsunderrepresented until for 15 years andand a member sincere and presidentappreciation of for& being Davis in 1999, Dean was with the firm of former inmates with pro bono See Summer, page 4 school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so 2004. He was also a prominent member of the board of education for seven years. He Hannoch, Weisman, Stern & Besser for 30 century. I am the first of these many others. As you look New Jersey’s Greek community, serving in took particular pride in his work with the years. He represented his clients, including to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What variousWe positions Can’t in AHEPA Do and Until eventually YouJuvenile Due Conference Committee,the spring working symposium property and other owners, events developers, HLSA-NJ offerslandlords to youand Association, and my successor do you want the Association rising to the position of district governor. with young people with behavior problems. lenders, in a variety of contested matters, Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of George retired to Mantoloking Shores, N.J., He was the attorney and served on the board including zoning applications, eminent This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 and Marco Island, Fla., where he enjoyed of directors of the Florence and John J. domain and regulatory proceedings, and course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. cooking, sailing and spending time with Schumann Foundation and the International project planning for real estate ventures. He century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those friendsTo become and family.an active He member was predeceased of the Harvard by LawFoundation. School Associat As a lifelongion of New member Jersey, of simply St. fillhad out extensivethe form experiencebelow and returnin working it wi thwith a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be hischeck loving payable bride, to Louise,“Harvard and Law his School daughter, Association Peter’s of N.J.” Episcopal to Jeffrey Church, Kantowitz, he served Esq., onGoldberg the Mufsonstate, county& Spar, and200 Executivelocal planning Drive, Suiteboards, Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 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Andresakes and wife, Bonnie; daughter, he served on the board of directors of Glen clients on the regulatory and public policy Patricia Ferguson and husband, Keith and Ridge Savings and Loan, which became the issues impacting their business interests. his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey ALUMNI On The Move son, Michael Andresakes and wife, Diane. Bank of America. A member of the Essex Dean was a member of the firm’s estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his He is also survived by seven grandchildren Fells Country Club and Fells Brook Club, he Redevelopment and Land Use Practice Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12th) may have some alumni candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. and sevenName: great-grandchildren. In lieu of also served as head of the West Essex United Class: Groups. He served as counsel in several New company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race flowers, the family requests donations be Way. He is survived by his wife of 70 years, Jersey landmark cases involving exclusionary Stephen F. Herbes ’01 th HLSA-NJ secretary , CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26 District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a made to theAddress: Kathryn J. Andresakes Memorial Janet (nee Mallon); his children, Suzanne zoning and related land use matters. He contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images ScholarshipTelephone: Fund, c/o Providence College, 1 B.E-Mail: Morris, David S. Bate Jr. and Catherine represented the sponsors of the state’s largest from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Cunningham Square Providence, R.I. 02918. B. Bull; seven grandchildren and one great- waterfront development project throughout Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in theIN public MEM Osector.RIAM continued on page 12

8 Each obituary is as published in a newspaper except where otherwise noted. 9 The information about Mr. Garver was taken from http://www.greenbaumlaw.com/OurAttorneys_ProfileDetails.asp?attorneyCode=60V17B24I55 andThe Star Ledger. Page 2 THE HLSA CONNECTOR Page 3

Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From TheS OCPreIALsid MEenDt IA & MULTIMEDspendingIA and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we During myHL firstS hasyear several of law multimediaschool in videosSeptember on topics panelthat may be of interest to membersexpect this of theyear’s Association. Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a womanBelow who had are been some a ofmentor those topics.discussion Just copy thein hyperlink into a web browserfully pay to viewfor itself, the video.thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Celebration of Latino Alumni Latino Leadership: Our Time is Now (video) Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/spotlight/alumni-pursuits/celebration-of-latino-alumni-our-time-is-now.html Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – This year, we contributed $3,400 San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro Johngraduated Bartlett from ’01, Harvard Law School in 2000 planning to run for city providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and council back home, already inspiredHLSA-NJ by mentors like Henry Cisneros, San Antonio’s first Latino mayor. His year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See economic inequality. In the experience taught him to take responsibility for helping young Latinos trying to get ahead. “We need to Thanks to the generosity of the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, wake of the U.S. Supreme encourage and harness professional development in the next generation,” Castro said, harking back to his Association’s dues-paying School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them Court’s decision in Parents address to the Democratic National Convention when he credited his immigrant grandmother’s work in members, I served as a legal view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. menial jobs that paved the way for his mother to earn a Master’s degree. “We need to continue to answer the and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I emails, write the letters of recommendation, take the time on the phone trying to answer the questions about Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century andthe the next step,more and than help 110high of school our state’s students 950 fill or inso gapsHLS becauseour their Cambridge families haven’tpanelists had in someone September. who went of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st beginning of the 21 . to college muchalumni less paidlaw school.” dues to Castro the Association,shared his thoughts a inOur a keynote spending address on celebrating food for Latino Board alumni ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Today, we might instead atmark Harvard responseLaw School. rate The that second — while Celebration in one senseof Latino Alumni,meetings, held at atless Harvard than $400 Law forSchool the fromyear Sept. legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary27 to 30, drewunderwhelming about 200 alumni — still and guests permitted to the schoolthe to toshare date, their is experiencesmodest. We and made reflect no gifton theto path and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day ofcame social change.Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/spotlight/civil-rights/01_looking-back-little-rock-revisit-cooper-v-aaron.html Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is The U.S. Supreme Court ruling mandating school desegregation in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel is considered one of the Court’s landmark decisions. But the implementation of federal law prohibiting effort to improve the reentry underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the state-mandated school desegregation required a subsequent ruling in 1958, in Cooper v. Aaron, in which the prospects of individuals draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School Court held that states could not avoid desegregation by legislative action. In October, the Charles Hamilton backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This Houston Institute for Race and Justice sponsored a two-day conference looking back at Cooper v. Aaron and walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at the impact it’s had on law and education over the course of 55 years. The event brought together legal scholars, between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we students, and civil-rights lawyers and featured a moot court proceeding involvingserving U.S. leaders Supreme like Court Albert Justice discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a Stephen Breyer and nine appellate judges, to revisit the legal questions raisedCohn by Cooper. ’51, Another highlightDavid of offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. the conference was a presentation by four members of the “Little Rock Nine,”Crabtree who, as ’52 teenagers,, tookDavid part in and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the The Association is at a an effort by the NAACP to break the racial barrier at Little Rock Central LandauHigh School ’53, in 1957 andJerry helped to for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the pave the way for Cooper. Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first The Paper Chase’ at 40 (video) Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 century. I am the first of these http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2012/10/03_paper-chase-40th-anniversary.htmlmany others. As you look to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Association, and my successor Professor Richard Lazarus ’79 on the Water Basin Project and Water Sdoecurity you want Initiative the Association at Harvard We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG3ahA3nn7w&feature=plcp a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures withClinical one Voices:your Shelp.tudents And Talk we Aboutespecially Clinical need Education help our events, or been active on the board, I of the brightest starts in the Americanhttp://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL193993E550004C8D24&feature=plcp from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And Harvardwe’re Lawclasses Review of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students withhttp://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=dc0b63e993957d248f7d8073f&id=200523b8ac&e=e952d65392 a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and ALUMNI On The MoveThe Chayes International Public Service Fellowship I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman Johnhttp://law.harvard.edu/news/2012/11/20_chayes-intl-public-service-fellowship-snapshots.html Adler ’84 has declared his Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12th) may have some alumni candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Name: Class: In the Driver’s Seat: The Changingcompany Role of nextGeneral spring, Counsel if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a http://law.harvard.edu/news/spotlight/business-law/in-the-drivers-seat-changing-role-gen-counsel.html Address: contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: th from the 50 annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those‘We’re images All werein it provided Together’: by Paul Pierce Discusses the Business of Basketball Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] http://law.harvard.edu/news/spotlight/business-law/03_representing-the-professional-athlete-2012.html Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector.

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Our 2007 ChiePublicf Jus tInterestice Stua rt Rabner, HLS ’85, Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we Delivers 2012 Vanderbilt Lecture During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words n November 8, 2012, Chief Justice After beginning his career as an Assistant 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary DearO Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees RabnerI would became like at leastto thank the fourth the consecutivenetwork, a partnership between U.S. attorney, Chief Justice Rabner worked in member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the ChiefHarvard Justice Lawto address School the Association’sNJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers a number of positions including First Assistant staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. flagshipAssociation annual of event.New JerseyHis topic for was “Eyewitnessfor Justice. U.S. attorney and chief of the terrorism unit. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 Identificationproviding funding in the for21st my Century”. first- He focusedI also worked on projects He was chief of the office’s criminal division University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two on the New Jersey Supreme Court’s decisiontouching in on racial and when he was named chief counsel to Governor HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See StateThanks v. Henderson. to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the Corzine in January 2006. He was named time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’sChief Justice Stuartdues-paying Rabner waswake sworn of the U.S. Supreme New Jersey Attorney General in September School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them intomembers, office I servedon June as 29,a legal 2007 afterCourt’s being decision in Parents 2006 and served in that position until his view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, nominatedintern for by theGovernor New JonJersey S. Corzine Involved and in Community Schools v. nomination to the Court. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly confirmedInstitute for by Socialthe Senate. Justice Hein is theSeattle eighth School District #1, I Chief Justice Rabner is a member of Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing

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Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest Princeton University in 1982. He graduated Dickinson R. Debevoise before joining the former Deborah Wiener, have three children. school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. from Harvard Law School in 1985. U.S. Attorney’s Office in Newark in 1986. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is cumChance laude Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. 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And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or includeby its your volunteer separate dutrustees.es check The with yourAssociation RSVP to is the seeking Vanderbilt new lecturevolunteers. Dues to are participate $75 for alumni in the admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 governance of the association, to be formally elected as trustees at our annual meeting on On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check forthe the same 2007-2008 evening asdues the Vanderbiltto the Harvard Lecture Lawthis Fall.School Being Association a Trustee is ofa great New way Jersey to stay ALUMNI estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of involved $75.00 and network with $ 50.00 fellow HLS alumni in all walks of life. The current leadership State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: includes law faculty; public, private, and nonprofit-sector Class: attorneys; and sitting and retired th HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26 District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: judges from all across New Jersey. In addition to our annual meeting, the Vanderbilt contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: Lecture, the E-Mail: full Board of Trustees meets approximately 2-3 other times each year. For more from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Have news? E-mail [email protected] Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Date of Admission to theinformation, Bar: e-mail Hervé Gouraige at this I emailam employed address: [email protected] the public sector.

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Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The PresPhideotont s from The 2012spending V andan ourd incomeerbi thislt year. Lecture & Annual Meeting of the AssociatiCongratulations,on Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, An$1,000 unidentified to support alumnus, travel and Former lodging Judge for Harvey Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing as the end of the 20th century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary Welcome Special Master for State v. Henderson, Weissbard (’62) and Bruce Shoulson (’64) of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school beginning of the 21st. alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Former Judge Geoffrey Gaulkin ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear Former Chiefthe JusticeAssociation’s James R. Zazzalilong- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert target of legal challenges under Office in Newark this summer. Former Judge David Landau (’53) discrimination against ex- Sincerely, are andChief what Justice we Stuart do Rabneras a (’85) Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 century. I am the first of these many others. As you look to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. Former Congressman Herb Klein (’53), century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I Geri Markowitz and Moira Crabtree Mrs. Herb Klein, and Ben Kreitzberg of Benthe Kreitzbergbrightest startsand Dorothy in the KreitzbergAmerican from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector. Moira Crabtree and David Crabtree (’52) Patty Smith and her aunt Alice Hroncich Patty Smith and Gregory Lopez

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Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The PresPhideotont s from The 2012spending V andan ourd incomeerbi thislt year. Lecture & Annual Meeting of the AssociatiCongratulations,on Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing Former Congressman Herb Klein (’53) and as the end of the 20th century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary of projects,Freeholder-Elect learning Johnabout Bartlett the (’01)the decision’s Jasoneffect Orlandoon school (’00) and HLSA-NJ Distinguished Professor of Law, Robert beginning of the 21st. alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his ways in andwhich Amy NJISJ Winkelman combines (’87) assignment programsVice President, that Nicole Bearce (’97) E. Knowlton Scholar, and Director of the Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James ConstitutionalR. Zazzali, in Litigation July. Looking Clinic, Rutgers on are to date, is modest. We made no gift to September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. CorzineSchool and of Rabner’s Law-Newark, wife, FrankDeborah. Askin At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert target of legalFormer challenges Congressman under Herb Klein (’53), discriminationColleen Kelly (’80) against and Robert ex- Lack (’81) Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipal hiring both state andU.S. federal Attorney law. for NJ Paul Fishman(’82),Damon KingFormer ’09 JudgeOver David the Landau course (’53), of my species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides andnumerous John Bartlett (’01) Amy Winkelmaninternship, (’87), andI was HLSA-NJ given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which Presidentchance Hervé to Gouraige witness (’77)and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 century. I am the first of these many others. As you look to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those ToGeri become Markowitz an active and member Geri Brown of the (’71) HarvardPhilip Law MarkowitzSchool Associat (’97),ion Hervé of New Gouraige Jersey, (’77), simply fill out the form below and return it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School AssociationMark of N.J.” Olinsky to Jeffrey (’81), Kantowitz, Ken Oettle Esq., (’69) Goldberg MufsonMadeline & Spar, Bello,200 Executive Susan Parry, Drive, Suite Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the VanderbiltEllen lecture Roth, .Geraldine Dues are Reed$75 for Brown alumni (’71), reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five yearsGeri and Markowitz, those in Joanthe pub Roselic sector. ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] DateAmy Winkelmanof Admission (’87) to the Bar: John Bartlett (’01), Steve Roth (’67), I am employed in the public sector. and Chief Justice Rabner (’85) Sylvia (Mrs. Albert) Cohn, Bruce Shoulson (’64) and Laurence Orloff (’60) John Bartlett (’01), and Ron Brown (’71) Page 2 THE HLSA CONNECTOR Page 3

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ForDear the brother of Fitzgerald English, Marvin is survived by his beloved wife of 61 years, Express located on Long Island, New York. municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law Charlesfirst time,“Chip” a majority Gaver ofand officers the late James Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, Claire Sandman Mausner; sons, David and He played bridge all his life but almost every options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and “Jimmy”were graduatedGaver. Belovedfrom the companion law of the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being Lindaschool Magnano. in Inthe lieu twenty-first of flowers, donations wife Gale of Oak Park, IL, and Richard and day in his retirementMarkowitz years. ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 in memorycentury. 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M a ushopefulner ,moment, 94, died of memoryand for the to Law the School. Rabbi Sally J. Priesand Neck;how will nephews, you be part Edward of it? Smith and Philip interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. Thursday,course. We’llAug. launch30, 2012, our atsecond Riverview half- EndowmentI can’t put Fund it morefor the plainly: Future, We c/o need 332 SaltzbartIf you’ve and paid his wife, your Karendues, comeof Colts out Neck; to Medicalcentury Center of Vanderbilt in Red BankLectures after with a onebrief Hanceyour help. Ave., TintonAnd we Falls, especially NJ 07724. need help nieces,our events, Pamela or beenSpahn active and heron thehusband, board, John I thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a illness.of the Milton brightest was startsborn inin theCarteret, American NJ from those alumni graduated after 1970, Spahn, Boyds, MD; Susan Saltzbart Kilsby legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite to Max L. and Sally Traub Mausner. He Jerome Kaye (’52), passed away, and her husband Richard Kilsby of London, Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni graduated from Red Bank High School, Wednesday, April 11, 2012. England, and Sally Saltzbart Minier of reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. earned his bachelor’s degree from the Colts Neck; and three grandnieces and two University of Pennsylvania, and then Seymour H. Smith, 92, of Colts grandnephews. He is sorely missed by his his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and receivedALU hisM lawN degreeI On from The Harvard Move Law Neck, an attorney whose career spanned friend and bridge partner, Arthur Samet I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey almost 60 years as a Viceestates President practice atand Riker Danzigof Plainview, in Morristown. NY; and his administrative in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 School,State Senate Class Judiciaryof ’41. HeChairman entered Johnmilitary Adler ’84 has declared his General Counsel of LoewsAssemblyman Theaters Mike in Panterassistant, ’95 Judi(D-12 Olsenth) may of Newhave Milford. some alumni servicecandidacy in the for U.S. Congress Army inin New1941 Jersey’s and served third Congressional district. Name: Class: in the Pacific area until 1945 seeing action in New York, died peacefullycompany in his nextsleep spring, on if RepublicanDonations Jay may Webber be made ’00 inwins his hismemory race NewHLSA-NJ Caledonia secretary and Stephen Guadalcanal F. Herbes achieving ’01, CPA,Wednesday, J.D., LL.M., July and 18, 2012,for atAssembly Care One in thein 26thto District. the Will Webber, Rogers of InstituteMorris Plains, for medical won a Address: the rank of Sergeant. Milton was admitted to Wall Township. He was acontested native New primary Yorker in June.research pertaining to cardio-pulmonary CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photowho credits spent for the images last two years of his life living diseases, where Mr. Smith served on the Telephone: E-Mail: the New Jerseyth Bar in 1946; he was employed from the 50 annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images werein New provided Jersey by near his family. He received Board of Directors at www.wrinstitute.org. by Keithand laterKrebs/P.O.V. became Imagea partner Service with. the firm Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector. eventually known as Reussille, Mausner, a Bachelor of Arts degree from New York IN MEMORIAM continued on next page Carotenuto, Barger, Kenny and Steel, LLC. University and his law degree from Harvard University. His life spanned the military, Page 2 THE HLSA CONNECTOR Page 3

IN MEMORIAM continued from previous page Our 2007 Public SpeculationInterest on the Next Thirty-three a car and then rebuilt it, just to see if they Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Years,’’ and its publicationCongratulations, was a milestone could do Mr.it. He graduated Chief from Justice! Harvard and For the first time in three years, we Fellows In Their Ownin theWords futurism fad of the 1960s. The book Harvard Law School. During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to combined multifarious elements, from His first wife, the former Helga Susanna 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys throughthe insights the ReLeSe of Aristotle to sophisticated Gerschenkron, died in 1977. He is survived of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnershipstatistical analysis, between to create what the authors by a son, Jonathan, and a daughter, Lisa member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and calledVolunteer ‘’a framework Lawyers for speculation.’’ Juckett, from that marriage. staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. AAssociationnthon yof J. New Wiener Jersey 10for (’56) for(right) Justice. About half of its 100 predictions In addition to his wife, survivors include I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – This year, we contributed $3,400 I also worked on projects John Bartlett ’01, withproviding co-author funding Herman for my Kahn first- panned out -- not including 150-year life their son, Adam; his sister, Carol Seaver; and University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year“Einstein summer said heinternship. never thought about spans or months of hibernation for humans. three grandchildren from his first marriage. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See economic inequality. In the theThanks future to becausethe generosity it comes of the soon enough. But accuracy mattered less than what In 1961, Mr. Wiener was a founding time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, wake of the U.S. Supreme AnthonyAssociation’s J. Wiener dues-paying thought about it deeply Mr. Wiener called ‘’reducing the role of member of the Hudson Institute, a research School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents and influentially. thoughtlessness’’ in making societal choices. center known for Mr. Kahn’s investigations view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. In 1967, Mr. Wiener, a self-described Clarification, not prophecy, was the goal. of nuclear weapons strategy. Mr. Kahn was and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I futurist, collaborated with Herman Kahn The American Academy of Arts and outspoken in urging that society grapple Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. toof projects,write a learning431-page about book the brimmingthe decision’s Sciences effect helpedon school finance the study, sponsored with the consequences of nuclear war with st beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board withways forecastsin which forNJISJ the combines year 2000. assignmentHome by programsthe Hudson that Institute, Chief for which Justice both Stuart ‘’thinking J. Rabner the unthinkable.’’’85 is sworn in by his Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year computers?legal advocacy, Check. policy Artificial analysis, organsconsider and raceauthors and worked.proposing predecessor, James R. ZazzalMr. Wieneri, in consultedJuly. Looking on the futureon are with September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to limbs?and direct Check. service Pagers programs and ‘’perhapsto policy even options stillKen available Weinstein, to presidentGovernor of Jon the S. Corzineclients and as Rabner’sdiverse as wife, the Deborah.Stanford Research At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have two-wayassist Newpocket Jersey'sphones?’’ urbanWhy, yes! school districtsinstitute, committed said Tuesday to in yearsan interview of age, Rabnerthat –Institute, a former NASA federal and prosecutor, Shell Oil. Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities.But the millennium turned withoutequal educational the book opportunity. was remarkable forChief its sophisticated Counsel, and state HeAttorney worked General for two – years is the in youngestthe Nixon school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other noiselessThrough helicopters NJISJ’s Secondreplacing I researchedtaxis. methodology various legal issuesat a time Chiefwhen Justice advanced in the modernWhite historyHouse ofon the urban state’s policy high andCourt. was a first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is ArtificialChance Campaign,moons still doa notpolicy illuminate affecting huge Newcomputer Jersey’s modeling Fair was still far off. More longtime editor of the journal Technology other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous swathseffort ofto theimprove Earth. the And reentry are you, too,Housing still Actthan and thesimply Mt. Laurelextrapolating underserved from populations.trends in ISociety. am Hehonored taught withfor many a Summer years atPublic what and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the waitingprospects for that of predicted individuals 13-week vacation?doctrine, observedparticularly in thewith 1960s, itgrateful tried toto calculate the members is now of PolytechnicInterest InstituteFellowship of Newby Yorkthe draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returningMr. Wiener to their -- communitieswho is of no relationrespect to ‘’theto complex regional and unexpected HLSA-NJ ways thefor future enabling University.me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. thefollowing former congressmanincarceration, with a Isimilar contribution name was goingagreements, to be different.’’ have a summer experience thatMr. WienerAssociation died ofbefore New hisJersey. grander This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank --researched died on Junethe efforts19 at hisof homecities in Closter,which have beenAnthony the subject Janoff of Wienerwill fundamentally was born on shapepredictions my --award like finding enabled life me on toother work planets at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- N.J.,across at the81. Hiscountry wife, to the reduce former Deborahvigorous policyJuly debates27, 1930, and inthe Newark legal and career. grew up in or settling underseathe Federal colonies Public --Defender’s could be and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert target of legal challenges under Zaidner,discrimination said the causeagainst was cardiacex- arrest. Maplewood, N.J. Sincerely, fulfilled. ButOffice his prophecy in Newark that this fax summer.machines are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David both state and federal law. Over the course of my offendersThe inbook municipal he and hiring Mr. Kahn wrote He set up a public address system inDamon his Kingwould ’09 become office workhorses by 2000 hit species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the was ‘’The Year 2000: A Framework for high school. He and a friend once took apart the mark, at least until e-mail displaced them. The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law 10 first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. This obituary I also is from helped http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/27/us/anthony-j-wiener-forecaster-of-the-future-is-dead-at-81.html connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 century. I am the first of these many others. As you look to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in theTrus Connectortees, it was & made O possibleffic ersand of all our t hemembers, HL itS wouldn’tA-NJ exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interestThe fellowshipsTrustees and and O fficerscampus programmingfor 2012-2013 for are students the same to as fordues 2011-2012. yet, please contributeThe photo todayand bio by of using Trustee the form Robert below. J. Lack century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I were inadvertently omitted from the last edition of The Connector and are now presented. of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Robert J. Lack ’81, a senior partner at Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman LLP in Newark, was elected Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni to the Board of Trustees in November 2011. Mr. Lack’s practice focuses on complex and multidistrict reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. litigation, securities litigation, accountants’ liability, and commercial litigation. He currently leads his firm’s representation of the trustees for noteholders in the multidistrict Tribune Company Fraudulent his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and ALUMNI On The Move I enclose my check forConveyance the 2007-2008 Litigation dues in seeking to th toe recoverHarvard billions Law of School dollars distributedAssociation to shareholdersof New Jersey in Tribune’s estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his 2007 leveraged buyout. He served as Friedman Kaplan’s Co-Managing Partner from 2006 to 2012. Mr. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12th) may have some alumni candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Name: Lack graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa Class: from Princeton University in 1977 and received company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race a master’s degree from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in th HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26 District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: 1978. He received his law degree magna cum laude in 1981 from Harvard Law School, where he served contested primary in June. as Note Editor of the Harvard Law Review. After law school, he clerked for The Honorable Leonard CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by I. Garth of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and was a litigator at Sullivan & Cromwell. Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to theHe Bar: is admitted in both New Jersey and New York. I am He employed was selected in the for inclusionpublic sector. by Thomson Reuters in the New Jersey edition of Super Lawyers® in 2006, 2007, 2009, and 2010.

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Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From SoThmee P Areddsiditeiontn al Backgrounspendingd and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we During my first year of lawo nschool Stat in eSeptember V. H enpanelders on expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had beenNote a mentorfrom the Editor.discussion If you read the court’sin decision in State v. Henderson,fully pay orfor read itself, the thanks Special to Master’s a necessary Report, Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees or the Harvard Law Review Case Note, or if you were able to attend this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture, nothing I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers presented below will increase your understanding of this case. If you did not read the foregoing material or Harvard Law School staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. attend the Lecture, the information presented below is offered to provided a broader understanding of the I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier“who, – what, was when,heard and why”from of halfthis case.a 2007 This President information of is providedtoward bysummer the editor fellowships of The Connector,for two and touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg.was notAt partthe of Chiefdozen Justice of us aboutRabner’s the remarks at the Vanderbiltextraordinary Lecture. young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme The following facts are from the court’s the two-part Manson/Madison test. to determine whether the identification was School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents decision in 11, and from a Under this test, “a court must first decide nonetheless reliable.” view 1989,State the v. yearHenderson the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. Case Note in the Harvard Law Review12. whether the procedure in question was in During a pre-trial hearing to determine and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I fact impermissibly suggestive. If the court the admissibility of Womble’s identification Soviet“In therepublics early tomorning declare independence,of January 1, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary 2003,as theRodney end ofHarper the 20 was centuryshot and and killed the doesmore thanfind 110 the of ourprocedure state’s 950 impermissibly or so HLS ofour Henderson, Cambridge Womble panelists testified in September. that he felt of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st in beginningan apartment of the in 21 Camden,. New Jersey. suggestive,alumni paid it duesmust tothen the decideAssociation, whether a “asOur though spending Detective on foodWeber forwas Board‘nudging’ ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his James Womble,Today, awe friend might of Harper’s instead who mark had theresponse objectionable rate that procedure — while inresulted one sense in a meetings, at less than $400him for tothe yearchoose legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are beenSeptember celebrating 11, the 2001 new asyear the by centenary smoking ‘veryunderwhelming substantial —likelihood still permittedof irreparable the to date, is modest. We made[Henderson’s] no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 crackturning cocaine point. and drinkingThat fateful wine, wasday incame the misidentification’.Association to provide The programming, trial court, makedespite the Law School this year. Still,photo they and have that assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s apartmentthree months during the after shooting. I completed He overheard law notinga substantial that the gift investigators to the Law hadSchool, deviated and provided us the printing andthere distribution was pressure communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest theschool shooting and while five daysbeing after held I instarted a ‘small, my slightlyend the from year approvedwith as much procedure money14 , infound the of this newsletter and forall himour toother make Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. narrow,first jobdark, as hallway’ a lawyer. by There the shooter’s are a host armed of ‘nothingbank as wein startedthis case with. that This was year, improper, only 46 mailings throughout the yeara –choice” and it isand Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair accomplice.other places During to draw the policethe line, investigation, of course, andalumni certainly have nothingpaid their that dues was so so far. suggestive That our hope and aim to makethat generous“when he effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school15 in the Wombleand our identified human Larrynature Hendersoncompels usas theto as to result in substantial likelihood of first looked at the photo array , he did not prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past accomplice in a photo lineup, during which misidentification’. “Based on Womble’s in- see anyone he returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. the primary investigators interrupted the court and out-of-court identifications and recognized.” At following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank testimony about Henderson’s post-arrest trial, Womble also researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at procedurebetween to regret encourage and pride, Womble fear to make an the Association’s long- identification.”13 statement alone, the jury convicted Henderson “admitted that across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. “After a grand jury indicted Henderson of reckless manslaughter, aggravated assault, he smoked about discrimination against ex- are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my for first-degree murder, the trial court granted and related weapons charges. On appeal, the two bags of crack species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the his motion for a hearing to determine Appellate Division of the Superior Court of cocaine each day from the time of the shooting The AssociationWa d e is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake the admissibility of the identification. New Jersey determined that the identification until speaking with police ten days later.” turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law procedure was ‘impermissibly suggestive’ and A unanimous New Jersey Supreme Court Thefirst trial time, court a majority heard oftestimony officers about the Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and identificationwere graduated procedure from the and law then applied remanded the case for a new Wade hearing “modified the frameworklate forIrwin assessing underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being former inmates with pro bono See Summer, page 4 school in the twenty-first State v. HMarkowitzenderson ’52 continued, and on nextso page century. I am the first of these many others. As you look 11 “Wombleto be and presidentHarper were acquaintancesof the who occasionally socialized at the apartment of Womble’s girlfriend, Vivian Williams. On the nightforward, of the murder, ask yourself: Womble and What Williams broughtAssociation, in the New Yearand in my Williams’ successor apartment by drinking wine and champagne and smoking crack cocaine. Harper had started the eveningdo with you them want but left the at Associationaround 10:15 p.m. We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you WilliamsJason also Orlando left roughly ’00 three will hours be thelater, second. leaving Womble alonea hugein the apartmentdifference until in Harper what rejoined we can him do at for2:00 you to 2:30 a.m.to Soon look after like Harper in returned,the years two tomen come? forcefully And entered If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of the apartment.This Womblemarks knewa hopeful one of them, moment, co-defendant of Georgeand Clark, for who the had Law come School. to collect $160 from Harper. The other howman waswill a youstranger be partto Womble. of it? While Harper and Clark by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 wentcourse. to a different We’ll room, launch the stranger our pointed second a gun half- at Womble and toldI can’t him, “Don’tput move,it more stay rightplainly: here, you’reWe neednot involved in this.”If Heyou’ve remained paid with your the strangerdues, come in a small, out narrow, to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. darkcentury hallway. Wombleof Vanderbilt testified that Lectures he “got awith look at”one the stranger,your but help.not “a realAnd good we look.” especially Womble also need described help the gun ourpointed events, at his torsoor been as a darkactive semiautomatic. on the board, Meanwhile, I Wombleof the overheard brightest Clark startsand Harper in theargue American over money in thefrom other room.those At alumnione point, graduated Harper said, after“do what 1970, you got to do,”thank after you.which WombleIf you heardhaven’t a gunshot. done Womble those then To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a walkedlegal into firmament, the room, saw New Clark holdingJersey’s a handgun,own Ted offered towhose get Clark dues the $160,– if paid and urgedat the him same not to rate shoot as Harper the again.things As Clark yet, left, I invitehe warned and Womble, implore “Don’t you rat to me be out, I check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite know where you live.” Harper died from the gunshot wound to his chest on January 10, 2003. Camden County Detective Luis Ruiz and Investigator Randall MacNair were assigned Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni to investigate the homicide, and they interviewed Womble the next day. Initially, Womble told the police that he was in the apartment when he heard two gunshots outside, that he reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. left to look for Harper, and that he found Harper slumped over in his car in a nearby parking lot, where Harper said he had been shot by two men he did not know. The next day, the officers confronted Womble about inconsistencies in his story. Womble claimed that they also threatened to charge him in connection with the murder. Womble then decided to “come clean.”AL HeU admittedMN thatI heOn lied atThe first becauseMove he did not want to “rat” out anyone and “didn’this want alphabet to get involved” soup out of of feardegrees of retaliation have joinedagainst histhe elderly tax father. and trustsWomble ledand the I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey investigators to Clark, who eventually gave a statement about his involvement and identified theestates person practice who accompanied at Riker Danzighim as defendant in Morristown. Larry Henderson.” in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th 12 New Jersey Supreme Court Uses Psychological Research To Update Admissibility StandardsAssemblyman For Out-Of-Court Mike Identifications, Panter 125’95 Harv.(D-12 L. Rev.) may1514 (2012)have some alumni candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Name: Class: 13 company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Id. 1515. (“After Womble hesitated to make an identification to the officer conducting the lineup, the investigators enteredth the interview room and told Womble ‘to focus, to calm HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26 District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: down, to relax,’ and to ‘just do what you have to do, and we’ll be out of here’, to which Womblecontested responded primary that he ‘could in June. make [an] identification’. The investigators then left and the identificationCORRECTION: process The started spring anew. issue When failed shown to include Henderson’s photo creditspicture, forWomble images ‘slammed his hand on the table and exclaimed, ‘[that’s the mother [-----] there.”). Telephone: E-Mail: th 14 from the 50 annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Id.Keith (“The Krebs/P.O.V. procedure was Image for the Service most part. consistent with guidelines issued by the New Jersey AttorneyHave General. news? See, E-mail OFFICE OF [email protected] THE ATT’Y GEN., DEP’T OF LAW & PUBLIC Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector. SAFETY, ATTORNEY GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR PREPARING AND CONDUCTING PHOTO AND LIVE LINEUP IDENTIFICATION PROCEDURES (2010) available at http:// www.nj.gov/oag/dc/jaguide/photoid.pdf).

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SOurtate v. Henderson2007 continued Public from previous page Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. eyewitness identification evidence in that passes between theCongratulations, event and the whether anMr. identification Chief in Justice! an actual case is For the first time in three years, we criminal cases” because the then current legal eventual recollection of a particular piece of accurate or not. Instead, science has sought to During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words standard did not offer” an adequate measure information’; and retrieval—the ‘stage during answer, in the aggregate, which identification 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary ofDear reliability”, Members didof HLSA-NJ, not “sufficiently attorneys deter throughwhich athe person ReLeSe recalls stored information.’ ” procedures and external variables are tied to of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees inappropriateI would policelike to conduct”, thank the and overstatednetwork, a partnershipAs noted by between the Special Master, “[a]t each of an increased risk of misidentification.” member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers “theHarvard jury’s ability Law to evaluateSchool identification those stages the information ultimately offered The Court also noted: staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. for Justice. evidenceAssociation offered of New byJersey eyewitnesses for who as ‘memory’ can be distorted, contaminated “The factors that both judges and juries I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – This year, we contributed $3,400 I also worked on projects John Bartlett ’01, honestlyproviding believe funding their for testimony my first- is accurate.” and even falsely imagined” and these are will consider are not etched in stone. We University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two year summer internship. touching on racial and HLSA-NJ Quoting from Berger v. United States, 295 important in understanding factors that can expect that the scientific research underlying assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the U.S. 78, 88, that “at the core of our criminal impact memory in each of these stages. them will continue to evolve, as it has in the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme justice is the ‘twofold aim…that guilt shall As noted by the Court: more than thirty years since . For School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents Manson view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, notintern escape for or theinnocence New suffer’”,Jersey theInvolved court in Community “To beSchools sure, v. many questions about the same reason, police departments are not and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly observedInstitute thatfor “InSocial the Justicecontext in of eyewitnessSeattle Schoolmemory District and #1 , psychologyI of eyewitness prevented from improving their practices Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for identificationNewark. I took evidence,part in a variety that meansprepared that a identificationsmemo discussing remain unanswered. And as we learn more about variables that affect th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. courtsof projects, must carefullylearning considerabout the identification the decision’s effect on school memory. New approaches, though, must st beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board evidenceways in whichbefore NJISJit is admittedcombines to weedassignment out programs that Chief Justice Stuartbe J.based Rabner on reliable ’85 is scientificsworn inevidence by his that Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year unreliablelegal advocacy, identifications, policy analysis, and that juriesconsider must race and proposing predecessor, James R.experts Zazzal generallyi, in accept.”July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to receiveand direct thorough service instructions programs tailoredto policy to the options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine “Theand Rabner’s changes wife, outlinedDeborah. inAt 47 this turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have factsassist of theNew case Jersey's to be ableurban to evaluateschool the districts committed to years of age, Rabner –decision a former are federal significant prosecutor, because Governor’s eyewitness three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution identificationcommunities. evidence they hear.” equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and stateidentifications Attorney General bear directly – is the onyoungest guilt or school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other ThroughAs noted NJISJ’s in theSecond I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the moderninnocence. history At ofstake the isstate’s the very high integrity Court. of mailings throughout the year – and it is first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 opinion,Chance thereCampaign, are threea policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair the criminal justice system and the courts’ other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous majoreffort processesto improve or thestages reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations.ability I am to conducthonored fair with trials. a Summer Ultimately, Public we and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the involvedprospects in of memoryindividuals16: doctrine, particularly with grateful to the membersbelieve of that Interestthe framework Fellowship described by belowthe draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. acquisition—’the will both protect the rights of defendants, by perceptionfollowing ofincarceration, the original I contributioneyewitness agreements, identification have research a summer remains experience minimizing that theAssociation risk of misidentification, of New Jersey. This and walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at event’;researched retention—’the the efforts of periodcities of time probabilistic, meaning that science cannot say enable the State to introduce vital evidence.” between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. 15 are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offenders A detective inpre-numbered municipal and hiring shuffled eightboth photos state and andshowed federal them law.one at a time to Womble. Before doing Damonso, the detective King ’09 read theseOver instructions the fromcourse a standard of form: my “In a species. Crabtree ’52, David andmoment, prepared I will show written you a numbermaterials of photographs NJISJone at a time.provides You may numerous take as much time as you need to look at each one of them. You internship,should not conclude I was that thegiven person the who The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry forcommitted presentations the crime isto in Newthe group Jersey merely becauseexamples a group of photographsways in is beingwhich shown to you. The person who committed the crime may chanceor may not to be witness in the group, and and partake the mere turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalitiesdisplay of the photographs on policy is not reform meant to suggestattorneys that our officecan believescommit the persontheir who committedDear HLSA-NJ, the crime is in one of the photographs. inYou theare absolutely federal not criminalrequired to chooselaw first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options.any of the photographs,I also helped and youconnect should feel notknowledge obligated to choose and anyskills one. Theto photographsaid will beI shownwould to likeyou in to random convey order. my I am not inprocess, any way trying both to influence within your decisionand by the order of the pictures presented. Tell me immediately if you recognize the person that committed the crime in one of the photographs. All of the photographs will be shown to you were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so even if you select a photograph. Please keep in mind that hairstyles, beards, and mustaches are easily changed. People gain and lose weight. Also,See Summerphotographs do, pagenot always 4 show the century. I am the first of these many others. As you look true complexion of a person. It may be lighter or darker than shown in the photograph. If you select a photograph, please do not ask me whether I agree with or support your selection. It to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What is your choice alone that counts. Please do not discuss whether you selected a photograph with any other witness who may be asked to look at these photographs.” Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you 16 Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And Ifhttp://human-memory.net/(“ you’ve read about it The in popular the Connector image of memory, it was is as madea kind of possible tiny filing cabinetand full ofall individual our members, memory folders it inwouldn’t which information exist without is stored away,the supportor perhaps ofas a This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? byneural members super-computer who ofpaid huge capacitytheir dues. and speed. From However, our insummer the light of modernpublic biological our and psychologicaldues-paying knowledge, members. these If metaphors you haven’t may not paid be entirely your useful 2007-2008 and, today, course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interestexperts believe fellowships that memory and is in campus fact far more programming complex and subtle for than students that. It seems to that ourdues memory yet, is pleaselocated notcontribute in one particular today place by in using the brain, the but form is instead below. a brain-wide century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I process. For example, the simple act of riding a bike is actively and seamlessly reconstructed by the brain from many different areas. The memory of how to operate the bike comes of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those Tofrom become one area, an the activememory member of how to get of fromthe hereHarvard to the end Law of theSchool block comes Associat fromion another, of New the memory Jersey, of simplybiking safety fill rulesout fromthe another,form below and that and nervous return feeling it whenwith a a car veers dangerously close comes from still another. Each element of a memory (sights, sounds, words, emotions) is encoded in the same part of the brain that originally created that legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite fragment (visual cortex, motor cortex, language area, etc.), and recall of a memory effectively reactivates the neural patterns generated during the original encoding. Thus, a better Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni image might be that of a complex web, in which the threads symbolize the various elements of a memory, that join at nodes or intersection points to form a whole rounded memory reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. of a person, object or event. This kind of distributed memory ensures that even if part of the brain is damaged, some parts of an experience may still remain. Neurologists are only beginning to understand how the parts are reassembled into a coherent whole. Neither is memory a single unitary process but there are different types of memory. Our short term ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and and long-termI enclose memories aremy encoded check and for stored the in different 2007-2008 ways and indues different to parts th eof theHarvard brain, for reasonsLaw Schoolthat we are Associationonly beginning to guessof New at. Years Jersey of case studies of estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. patients sufferingin the from amount accidents of and brain-related diseases $75.00 and other disorders $have 50.00 begun to indicate some of the complexities of the memory processes, and great strides have State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th been made in neuroscience and cognitive psychology, but many of the exact mechanisms involved remain elusive.”) candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector.

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Judge Leonard I. Garth continued from page 2 Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! During his years of practice, Judge Garth participated in Some of the recent noteworthyFor therulings first thattime he in has three made years, are: we numerous activities of the New Jersey, Federal, Fellows In Their Own Words During my first year of law school in September panel United States v. Ware, Nos.expect 694 F.3dthis 527year’s (3d Vanderbilt Cir. 2012) Lecture (amendment to American,1998, a andwoman Passaic who Countyhad been Bar a mentorAssociations, discussion in to crack cocaine sentencingfully guideline pay for itself,does notthanks apply to retroactively a necessary to attorneys through the ReLeSe and he has served as a member of the adjunct Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where sentences resulting fromincrease departure in or what variance we fromcharge career attendees offender I would like to thank the network, a partnership between faculties at Seton Hall Law School and Rutgers Law member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes sentencing range). (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers School. In 2010, Rutgers Law School established staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. In re Enterprise Rent-A-Car Wage & Hour Employment Practices theI Rutgers got to knowLaw School as my Leonardprofessor I.at Garth Brown Scholar. – likeThe ’09 first and Scholar ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects 2007Litigation President, 683 ofF.3d 462 (3d Cir. 2012) (established the Enterprise University fournamed years was earlier Dean Ronald– was Chen.heard In 2011, from Rutgers half a toward summer fellowships for two year summer internship. touching on racial and HLSA-NJtest to determine whether an employer is a joint employer under the assassinated inalso St. establishedPetersburg. a Atlecture the seriesdozen in Judge of us aboutGarth’s the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote inname. the weekly He is aHarvard life member Law of theprofessional opportunitiesFLSA; abloom holding in thatthe the pagetest requires 3.) The a valuemelding of oftheir the experience,tests in Lewis Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record thatAmerican future historians Law Institute, would a FellowGarden State. (See page 4.)v. Vollmer of America, No.and 05–1632, the connection 2008 WL it 355607 helped (W.D. them Pa. members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, theof year the the American Berlin WallBar Foundationfell But, to paraphrase Feb.the 7,old 2008), saw, withand Bonnettedevelop v. California to New Jersey’s Health legal & Welfare community, Agency , intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. (Newand Jersey the BalticSection), States and becamea former the member first of thethose great opportunities704 F.2dcome 1465 great (9th Cir.is 1983), priceless. supplemented We’ll have by considerationspent nearly of Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I FinancialSoviet republicsDisclosure to declareCommittee independence, of the Unitedresponsibility. As recentlyadditional as two years economic ago, realities$1,000 of tothe support work relationship); travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary Statesas theJudicial end Conference.of the 20 centuryJudge Garth and theis also a moreformer than member 110 of of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st Fleisher v. Standard Insurance Co., 679 F.3d 116 (3d Cir. 2012) thebeginning New Jersey of State the 21 Board. of Bar Examiners; formeralumni president paid ofdues the to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his response rate that — while(dissenting); in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year PassaicToday, County Barwe Association;might instead former mark president and trustee of the legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey; a former member of Macfarlan v. Ivy Hill SNF, LLC, 675 F.3d 266 (3d Cir. 2012); and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have the Passaic County Bar Association Judicial Screening Committee; assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to theLeslie Law v.School, Attorney and General provided, 678 F.3d us 265 the (3dprinting Cir. 2012);and distribution a member of the Federal Bar Association; a member of the American communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as muchLandsman money & in Funk the PC v.of Skinder-Strauss this newsletter Associates and all, 640 our F.3d other 72 (3d I researched various legal issues Bar Association; a member of the New Jersey Fellows and Appellate Through NJISJ’s Second Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with.Cir. This 2011) year, (dissenting);only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is affecting New Jersey’s Fair Judges Conference; former chair of the Passaic County Ethics Chance Campaign, a policy other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public Committee; a former member of the New Jersey Baldwin v. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 636 F.3d 69 (3d and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the Bar Association Standing Committee on Judicial Cir. 2011); draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School Appointments; former chair of the New Jersey State backward and forward, Keystone Redevelopment Partners, LLCyears. v. Decker, 631 F.3d 89 (3d following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This Barwalking Association the Bankruptcyemotional lines Committee; a former Cir. 2011); As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at memberbetween of theregret Federal and pride,District fear Court of New Jersey the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s Byers v. Intuit, Inc., 600 F.3d 286 (3d Cir. 2010); Committeeand hope on– it’s Revision part of ofwho Local we General and Admiralty Rules; a serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. formerare memberand what of thewe Advisorydo as Boarda of the Law and Society Major Clausell v. Sherrer, 594 F.3d 191 (3d Cir.Cohn 2010); ’51, David offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my of Ramapospecies. College; a former Vanderbilt Lecturer to the Harvard Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the Rite Aid of Pennsylvania, Inc. v. United Food & Commercial Workers Law SchoolThe AssociationAssociation ofis New at Jersey;a a former Weintraub Lecturer Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake Union, Local 1776, 595 F.3d 128 (3d Cir. 2010); at Rutgersturning Lawpoint School, as well. Newark; For the a former Lecturer at the Institute Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law for firstContinuing time, a majority Legal Education;of officers and a former instructor of Trial Jahjaga v. Attorney General (No. 06-2866)Fish ’55 and, SteveGjeroski Roth v. Attorney ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being Advocacy at Harvard Law School. General (No. 06-3466), 512 F.3d 80 (3d Cir. 2008); former inmates with pro bono See Summer, page 4 schoolIn addition in theto histwenty-first service on numerous motion panels of the Markowitz ’52, and so Santana Gonzalez v. Attorney Generalmany, 506 F.3dothers. 274 As (3d you Cir. look2007); Thirdcentury. Circuit I am Courtthe first of ofAppeals, these Judge Garth has written well over to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What fifteen hundred opinions while performing other Court-connected Pennsylvania Prison Society v. Cortés, 508 F.3d 156 (3d Cir. 2007); Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you services. Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in whatUnited we can States do for v. youColes, 437to F.3dlook 361 like (3d in Cir.the 2006);years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of Judge Garth and his wife, Sarah, have a daughter, Tobie Garth by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. United States v. Pelullo, 399how F.3d will 197you be(3d part Cir. of 2005); it? Meisel,course. who, We’ll among launch other our accomplishments, second half- is a I graduatecan’t put of it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. Rutgerscentury Law of School. Vanderbilt Judge Lectures Garth’s withson-in-law, one Michaelyour help.Meisel, And is a we especiallyIPSCO Steelneed (Alabama), help our Inc. events, v. Blaine or beenConstruction active on Corp., the board, 371 F.3dI namedof the partner brightest in Cole, starts Schotz, in the Meisel, American Forman from& Leonard, those P.A.alumni graduated150 (3d after Cir. 2004);1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a The Meisels have three children (grandchildren of Judge Garth), things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at theIn resame Kensington rate as the Intern. Ltd., 368 F.3d 289 (3d Cir. 2004); andWells the judge ’76. has(See seven page great-grandchildren, 1.) And we’re six classesof whom of the live 1950s in and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni Connecticut.reaching out to current students with a than make up the Ingap re Kensingtonbetween our Intern. Ltd., 353 F.3d 211 (3dJohn Cir. W. 2003); Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. Brown v. Philadelphia Housing Authority, 350 F.3d 338 (3d Cir. On The Move 2003);his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey ALUMNI estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. American Civil Liberties Union v. Ashcroft, 322 F.3d 240 (3d Cir. in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. 2003);Assemblyman aff ’d, 542 Mike U.S. Panter656 (2004); ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: th 316 HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and Federalfor Assembly Home inLoan the Mortgage26 District. Corp. Webber, v. Scottsdale of Morris Insurance Plains, Co., won a Address: F.3dcontested 431 (3d primary Cir. 2003); in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by In re Cendant Corp. PRIDES Litigation, 243 F.3d 722 (3d Cir. 2001). Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector.

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Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. FROM THE SPECIAL MASTERS REPORCongratulations,T Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys W throughhen the Newthe ReLeSeJersey Supreme Court remanded the case, it appointed former Judge Geoffrey of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network,Gaulkin a partnership “to preside at between the remand hearing as a Special Master to evaluate the scientific and other evidence member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJabout and eyewitness Volunteer identifications.” Lawyers The Special Master was present at the Vanderbilt Lecture and was staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for foracknowledged Justice. with thanks by the Chief Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I alsoThe workedSpecial onMaster projects “presided over a hearing that probed testimony by seven experts and produced University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. more than 2,000 pages of transcript along with hundreds of scientific studies.” The Court adopted much assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economicof the Special inequality. Master’s In “extensive the and very fine report.” Here are six major points from that Report: time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, 1.intern “The for scientific the New findings Jersey can andInvolved should in Community4. “The Schoolsstudy ofv. eyewitness identification 6. “The scientific literature and expert and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institutebe used for to Socialassist judgesJustice and in juriesSeattle in the School Districtrelies in #1the, firstI instance on precepts testimony show a broad consensus that Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark.difficult I took task part of inassessing a variety the reliabilityprepared of a memodrawn discussing from the broader studies of human the reliability of eyewitness testimony th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects,eyewitness learning identifications.” about the the decision’s effectmemory. on schoolThose studies, pioneered by is highly dependent on the police st alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his beginning of the 21 . ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programsDr. Elizabeth that Loftus, demonstrate that procedures used in conducting lineups. Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are 2.legal “The advocacy,Manson/Madison policy analysis, test doesconsider not race andeyewitness proposing performance depends on The lineup – live or photographic September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 andprovide direct thatservice needed programs assistance. to Designedpolicy options stillmany available variables. to The central precept is – appears to be the most commonly turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s assistto makeNew reliabilityJersey's theurban “linchpin” school of districts thatcommitted memory to does not function like a used police identification procedure. three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest communities.judicial examination of eyewitness videotape, accurately and thoroughly A lineup is essentially a memory school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. testimony, Manson/Madison falls well capturing and reproducing a person, experiment. Police conducting lineups first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair short of attaining that goal, for it scene or event. Memory is, rather, a have been likened to scientists in that other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public neither recognizes nor systematically constructive, dynamic and selective they test a hypothesis (the suspect is and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the accommodates the full range of process.” the perpetrator) by conducting an draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. followinginfluences incarceration, shown by science I to contributionbear on agreements, have a summer experience thatexperiment Association (placing ofthe New suspect Jersey. among This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researchedthe reliability the efforts of such of citiestestimony… which The have 5.been “At the each subject of those of stages,will thefundamentally information shape mya group awardof fillers) enabled in mewhich to thework group at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- acrossshort the answer country to tothe reduce Court’s questionvigorous policy debatesultimately and offeredthe legal as “memory”career. can is presentedthe Federalto one Publicor more Defender’s persons and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discriminationwhether the Manson/Madisonagainst ex- testtarget and of legal challengesbe distorted, under contaminated Sincerely, and even (eyewitnesses)Office in Newarkorder to this gather summer. data are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offendersprocedures in municipal are “valid hiring and appropriateboth state and federalfalsely law.imagined. The witness doesDamon not King ’09to test theOver validity the ofcourse their hypothesis.of my species. Crabtree ’52, David andin prepared light of written recent materialsscientific and otherNJISJ providesperceive numerous all that a videotape would Scientificinternship, experiments I commonlywas given callthe for The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for evidence”presentations is that to theyNew areJersey not.” examples of waysdisclose, in whichbut rather “get[s] the gist of double-blindchance (sometimes to witness calledand partake blind) turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can things”commit and their constructs Dear a HLSA-NJ,“memory” on test procedures,in the federala “staple criminal of science.” law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, 3.options. “Because I also thehelped reliability connect ofknowledge any and“bits skills of toinformation aid ... andI would what likeseems to convey myWells characterizedprocess, both double-blind within lineupand were graduated from the law the late Irwin formerreported inmates “memory” with pro bonois subjectunderrepresented to plausible.” andThe witnesssincere does appreciation not encode for beingadministration as “the single most school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 so many influences, the researchers all the information that a videotape important characteristic that should century. I am the first of these many others. As you look commonly recommend that eyewitness does; memory rapidly and continuously apply to eyewitness identification.” to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What identifications be regarded as a form of decays; retained memory can be Double blind testing requires that the Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’vetrace evidence: read about a fragment it in the collected Connector at , it was madeunknowingly possible contaminatedand all ourby members,post- it wouldn’tneither the exist test without administrator the support nor theof This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by themembers scene ofwho a crime, paid theirlike a dues.fingerprint From our summerevent information public ; theour witness’s dues-paying retrieval members. subject If you knowhaven’t the paid “correct” your or2007-2008 “desired” course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interestor blood fellowships smear, andwhose campus integrity programming and forof studentsstored “memory” to dues can yet,be pleaseimpaired contribute answer; today by the using best theknown form example below. is the century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I reliability need to be monitored and and distorted by a variety of factors, testing of new drugs, in which neither the of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To assessedbecome froman active the point member of its of recovery the Harvard to Law Schoolincluding Associat suggestiveion of interviewingNew Jersey, simplyand fill outmedical the form administrator below and return nor the it wipatientth a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be checkits ultimatepayable topresentation “Harvard Lawat trial.” School Association ofidentification N.J.” to Jeffrey procedures Kantowitz, conducted Esq., Goldberg by Mufsonknows & Spar, whether 200 Executivethe patient Drive, received Suite the Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separatelaw du enforcementes check with personnel.” your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lectureexperimental. Dues aredrug $75 or afor placebo.” alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector.

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Our 2007 Public Interest LetLOOKter FrINGom TBhACKe P r.e .s .i dHeLnStA- NJ PUBLIC INTERESspending andT ourFE incomeLLO thisWS year. REFLECT ON THEIR SUMMER 2012 WORK EXPERIENCongratulations,CE IN NEW JMr.ERSEY Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we Fellows In Their Own Words During my first year of law school in September panel This past summer,expect this the year’s Association Vanderbilt providedLecture to financial support to three Harvard Law School Public Interest Fellows. 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees network, a partnership between Kevin had the following thoughts about his experience working primarily with the Mayor’s Chief I would like to thank the member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers Policy Advisor. staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown The first– likehalf of’09 this and summer, ’10 – I Johnfocused Bartlett on the ’01,New Jersey MedicalThis andyear, Health we Sciencescontributed Restructuring $3,400 Act, providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier –which was reorganizedheard Rutgersfrom halfUniversity, a 2007 the President University of of Medicinetoward and summer Dentistry fellowships New Jersey, forand Rowantwo touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. AtUniversity. the Adozen significant of us about portion the of my work involved analyzingextraordinary the potential youngimpact lawof the students. legislation ( Seeon the Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvardcity Law of Newark professional from a policy opportunities perspective. abloomI also performed in the backgroundpage 3.) legal The research value onof thetheir entities experience, involved in Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians thewould legislation, Garden analyzed State. drafts (See pageof the 4.) legislation, and helped developand factthe sheetsconnection explaining it thehelped mechanics them of the members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, final bill. intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly During the second half of the summer, a fellow intern and I worked on a project involving recycling in Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Newark. We were given the task of analyzing approaches to recycling taken by different cities across the nation Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st and using such research to develop a proposal to increase Newark’s recycling rate. After contacting cities across the beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his country and analyzing data, we proposed that Newark switch from dual stream to single stream recycling. In my Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenarylast week, weunderwhelming presented our proposal — still to several permitted city leaders the and continuedto date, tois workmodest. on this We project made off-site. no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day cameIn additionAssociation to these two to providelarger projects, programming, I drafted makeseveral legalthe and Law policy School briefings this year. and Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completedanalyzed law thea likely substantial effects ofgift the toAffordable the Law CareSchool, Act onand Newark providedto help the us city the prepare printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest schoolKevin and Golembiewski five days after I startedfor themy Act’s implementation.end the year with My workas much on the money Affordable in the Care Actof beganthis duringnewsletter this and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a hostpast springof semester;bank as Iwe wrote started a term with. paper This on year, health only care 46 delivery mailings in Newark throughout and the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair our hope and aim to make generous other places to draw the line, of course,focused a largealumni portion have of the paid paper their on thedues Act. so far. That effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the I also had the opportunity to attend meetings throughout the summer in which prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past stakeholders from business, the community, and government brainstormed policy returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This solutions to pressing city problems. following incarceration, I walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a Scott worked with the Contracts Department and with the Mayor’s PolicyCohn Advisor, ’51, City of DavidNewark. offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my Crabtree ’52 David species. He had the following to say about his summer experience. , and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry When it came to applying for summer jobs, I knew there was only one place I wanted to be – Newark which for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law is in many ways the epicenter of innovative public policy solutions. I wanted to be at the frontlines in the fight to municipalities on policy reform first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and improve the everyday lives of American citizens. were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first At orientation, I was honored to learn that my supervisors had designated meMarkowitz the leader ’52 of ,my ownand project.so I See Summer, page 4 century. I am the first of these managed a six-member team of interns, and our task was to update the city codemany to empower others. Code As Enforcementyou look to be president of the in their efforts to combat abandoned properties. While the work at City Hallforward, was thrilling ask yourself:in and of Whatitself, my the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Association, and my successor supervisor was determined that we get a firsthand experience of what the housingdo you crisis want meant the Associationto Newark. My We Can’t Do Until You Due If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second.team piled intoa huge a Code difference Enforcement in what van we and can two do officers for you served toas lookour tour like guides in thethrough years the to city. come? I was And stunned by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 This marks a hopeful moment,to see of incredible and contrastsfor the Law in areas, School. separated by only a few blocks.how Here, will thereyou bewere part immaculately of it? maintained course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. homes. Just a few moments later, we were in the midst of blocks where two-thirds of the lots were either razed and century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I overgrown with weeds or empty husks. My heart went out to the homeowners we saw, struggling to maintain of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s owntheir Ted homes andwhose their dues pride – if while paid the at thestreet same around rate themas the deteriorated. things Noyet, family, I invite and and no implore child, deserved you to that.be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Working at the Newark Law Department was one of the most fulfilling experiences in my life. Every Wells ’76Scott. (See Hugo page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students morningwith a I lookedthan forwardmake toup the daythe atgap City Hall,between knowing our that what I did mattered for theJohn citizens W. Bartlett of Newark. ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. I could not have asked for better supervisors. They entrusted me with a remarkable amount of responsibility ALUMNI On The Moveand granted me incredible access. I hislearned alphabet invaluable soup oflessons degrees about have the joined dynamics the oftax local and government. trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey Unfortunately, my time with the departmentestates practice was cut at short Riker by Danzig back surgery in Morristown. and post-operation nerve issues. in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman JohnDespite Adler it all,’84 my has supervisors declared remainedhis incredibly supportive. th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni As much as I wish I could have spentcompany the whole next summer spring, at if the Republican Law Department, Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: I would not trade the limited time that I was fortunate enoughth to have. I could not HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26 District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: have asked for a better internship – challenging,contested primarymeaningful, in June. and fulfilling. It has CORRECTION: The spring issue failed toreaffirmed include photo my credits commitment for images to making a difference in local government. Telephone: E-Mail: th from the 50 annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those The images Association were provided has by my heartfelt gratitude for their support. Between housing Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector. at NJIT, travel, and medical costs, I honestly could not have gotten by this summer without the fellowship. Thank you – your generosity is something I will never forget.

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Our 2007 Public Interest LetLOOKter FrINGom TBhACKe P r.e .s .i dHeLnStA- NJ PUBLIC INTERESspending andT ourFE incomeLLO thisWS year. REFLECT ON THEIR SUMMER 2012 WORK EXPERIENCongratulations,CE IN NEW JMr.ERSEY Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we Fellows In Their Own Words During my first year of law school in September panel This past summer,expect this the year’s Association Vanderbilt providedLecture to financial support to three Harvard Law School Public Interest Fellows. 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees network, a partnership between I would like to thank the Jamie worked at the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice and had the following thoughts about that member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers Harvard Law School experience. staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. Challenges, and opportunities, are everywhere when it comes to public interest law in New Jersey. Working I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two for thetouching New Jersey on Institute racial for Socialand Justice allowed me to get involved with issues that I was aware of, and the HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the experienceeconomic opened inequality. my eyes to Inproblems the that I wasn’t even aware of. In particular, I was aware of the disturbingly time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying highwake incarceration of the ratesU.S. in SupremeNew Jersey, but what I was not aware of was the devastating collateral effects of a School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal criminalCourt’s conviction. decision Securing in Parentshousing and employment becomes a challenge, which in turn increases the likelihood view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey of recidivism.Involved in For Community this reason, Schools the Institute v. has worked on many initiatives aimed at facilitating successful reentry. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in SeattleOne of theSchool most interestingDistrict #1 aspects, I of my summer was being able to see one of these initiatives, a “Ban the Box” Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th project, through various stages of development. “Ban the Box” is an effort to shield former convicts from being askedLinda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st to immediately disclose their criminal history during their job application process. Many employers automatically beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his pre-sort applicants into a rejection pile if they check a “yes” box that appears on the job application asking if they Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are have ever been convicted of a crime. The thinking behind the bill is that often times quality applicants would September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban get theschool job ifdistricts they simply committed had the opportunityto years to go of through age, Rabner the full – hiringa former process. federal Accordingly, prosecutor, the Governor’s bill shifts the three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. criminalequal record educational disclosure opportunity. to the time of job Chiefoffer Counsel,– this way theand employer state Attorney has the chanceGeneral to –learn is the more youngest about the of this newsletter and all our other school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the JamieThrough Niskanen-Singer NJISJ’s Second prospectiveI researched employee various and legal can betterissues weigh Chiefthe severity Justice of in the the crime modern in light history of the of potential the state’s employee’s high Court. positive first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy attributes.affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry HousingI worked Acton “whereas”and the Mt. clauses Laurel that appearunderserved at the frontpopulations. of the billI am and arehonored intended with to aexplain Summer and Public justify and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals the needdoctrine, for such particularly a bill. It was fascinatingwith grateful to be involved to the in strategicmembers meetings of atInterest the Institute Fellowship and to seeby not onlythe draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities the meticulousnessrespect to with whichregional the bill’s languageHLSA-NJ was for drafted enabling and meedited, to but Harvardalso to see the Lawpolitical Schoolconcessions backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I thatcontribution were built into theagreements, bill. There was a haveconstant a summer calculus experience involved in that balancing Association the aggressiveness of New Jersey.and potential This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at researched the efforts of cities effectiveness of the bill, with its political viability. I also enjoyed seeing the strategies used to develop support for between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s the bill from key stakeholders. The Institute spoke with businesses like Walmart and Proctor & Gamble that have and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipal hiring alreadyboth implemented state and federal such law.policies internally, and it was ableDamon to getKing them ’09 to assuageOver thethe fears courseof business of leaders my species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials who wereNJISJ concerned provides that thenumerous bill would be bad for business. It was also interestinginternship, to learn the I procedure was given by whichthe The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey a billexamples moves through of ways the Newarkin which City Council – by no means a simple process. I chanceattended to a witnessNewark andCity partakeCouncil turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform meeting,attorneys which canat times commit was quite their the shoutingDear HLSA-NJ,match, especially with public testimonyin the beingfederal allowed. criminal However, law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect the “Banknowledge the Box“ and bill, skills sponsored to aid by CouncilmanI would Rice, like was tounanimously convey my approvedprocess, for both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono finalunderrepresented reading. and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 I genuinely enjoyed spending the summer pursuing public interest law in New Jersey century. I am the first of these many others. As you look and am very thankful that the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey sponsors to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Untilsuch a fellowship. You It wasDue a great experiencethe getting spring to symposium meet some andof the other Association’s events HLSA-NJ offers to you Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the boardConnector members, it was and made hear aboutpossible the interestingand all work our in members, which they it are wouldn’t involved. exist This without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues.opportunity From madeour summerme think thepublic fellowship our could dues-paying be improved members. by creating If ayou closer haven’t link paid your 2007-2008 course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campusbetween programming the Association for students and the sponsoredto dues fellows. yet, If please Association contribute members today volunteered by using the form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I to have a fellow shadow them for a day and fellows shadowed with three different of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member ofvolunteers the Harvard over Law the summer,School Associatit wouldion provide of New a great Jersey, opportunity simply fill for out us to the see form the work below and return it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law Schoolbeing done Association in New Jerseyof N.J.” by to HLS Jeffrey alumni. Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector.

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Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The PresideDnUESt NOTICE spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, Involved in Community Schools v. To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, intern for the New Jersey and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence,simply fill out theresponsibility. form below As recently and return as two it yearswith ago,a check $1,000 payable to support to travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st beginning of the 21 . “Harvardalumni Lawpaid Schooldues to Associationthe Association, of aN.J. ” Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came AssociationMail your topayment provide programming,to our Treasurer: make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution David S. Stone communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we150 started JFK with. Parkway, This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public Short Hills, NJ 07078 effort to improve the reentry and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking theAnnual emotional dues lines for the Association year are $75 for alumni admitted to the bar for six toAs 49you years. look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at the Association’s long- betweenAnnual regretdues andare pride,$50 for fear alumni admitted for fewer than five or more than 50 years and those in the public sector. across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a The annual year for the Association begins on July 1st. Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake turningI enclose point my as check well. For for the the 2012-2013 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New FitzgeraldJersey in theEnglish amount, Marvin of municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and r $75. r $50. were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 century. I am the first of these many others. As you look to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Association,Name: ______and my successor do you want the Association Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 interest fellowships and campus programming for students to course.Class:______We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legalAddress: firmament,______New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. Telephone: ______ ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 StateE-Mail: Senate______Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: Year of Admission to the Bar:______contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keithr Krebs/P.O.V.I am employed Image Servicein the. public sector. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector.

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