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Case Western Reserve University School of Law raises $58 million, capped off by a $10 million landmark gift from alumnus to establish the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law HIGHLIGHTS WE RECENTLY CELEBRATED OUR 6 Case Western Reserve University School of Law raises $58 million, capped off by a $10 million landmark gift from alumnus to establish the Coleman P. Burke Center for In Brief x x 125TH ANNIVERSARY Environmental Law FALL 2019 ISSUE 102 10 Opioid Epidemic: Case Western Reserve law grads play central roles in unprecedented EDITOR IN CHIEF We have so much history, we could write a book! opioid litigation Dena Cipriano 12 Fusion program partners with University’s think[box] to give students a first-hand CONTRIBUTING WRITER innovation experience 40 Brian Glaviano 16 CWRU Law launches Yemen accountability project to document war crimes for future DESIGN/PRINTING SO WE DID. prosecution Academy Graphic Communication, Inc. 20 Ohio Attorney General awards funding to human trafficking clinic PHOTOGRAPHERS 22 Keeping Do-It-Yourself Gene Science Safe: iStock CWRU team will provide policy Brian Glaviano recommendations for balancing safety, Kamron Khan innovation Dan Milner 30 The Russia-United States Legal Education Karen Ollis Foundation is evolving the bench and bar in Annie O’Neill “Girls can’t be lawyers.” That’s what a male classmate told Alberta Colclaser when she was young. But Colclaser proved that wrong, graduating from the law school in 1936. She was one of three women in her law Russia, one student at a time. class of 75 students. Even so, Colcaser said the most interesting part of her life came Shutterstock degree—when she helped pioneer international aviation law. At that time, Amelia Earhartafter had earning made herthe firstlaw flight from Hawaii to North America. Colclaser’s work in the office of Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of 44 Law faculty honored for scholarship and State resulted in setting government policies in this new field. While working in D.C. during WWII, Colclaser earned her pilot’s license and served the Civil Air Patrol. Colclaser traveled the world during her career, and 44 eventually left government work to become the secretary of the College of Wooster. She lived there for more service than 35 years, and passed away in 2010 at age 99. IN BRIEF ONLINE DESIGNER Carl Roloff

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CHAPTER FOUR 33 Case Western Reserve University School of Law i CHAPTER FOUR SEND CORRESPONDENCE AND INFORMATION TO: Brian Glaviano Manager of Marketing and Communications Here, a Cleveland News advertisement announces a town hall meeting during the national Drawing attention and taking a stand—these debate over the proposed Equal Rights for Women amendment to the Constitution. “book-carrying picketers” were called suspiciously photo- genic in an article describing their protest. Their signs point to the Case Western Reserve University School of Law Milestones scarcity of female law students and hint at a law dance at Hotel Holleden. ber of competing schools in the area, in- Pictured in the picket line: Bettyanne Meyer, Eileen Foley, Iona Caldwell and Joanne 1826 Western Reserve College is found- - cluding the University of Cincinnati Law Kuth. The photo is stamped April 21, 1947. ed in Hudson, Ohio, with the main pur MILESTONES 11075 East Boulevard School, the University of Michigan Law pose of ministerial education. The name School, and the Ohio State University 3 is an homage to the fact that Northern Law School. Cleveland, OH 44106

Ohio was once the Western Reserve terri- MILESTONES MILESTONES tory of the state of Connecticut. 1892 The law school opens in the fall CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER [email protected] 2 without an endowment, library, dean or Western Reserve College moves to 1882 even any full-time faculty. The incoming 10 48 Cleveland and becomes a university. 216.368.1798 1L class had twenty-four students. Annual

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This is one of the many picturesque aerial photographs taken at Case Western 4 An Update from the Deans: Q & A $30 Reserve University. Here is the campus view overlooking Wade Lagoon. All rights reserved. 26 Student Profile 29 Featured Alumni 40 Society of Benchers 2019 42 Faculty Briefs CELEBRATING 125 YEARS Get live updates. Join our groups today. This commemorative book 48 Commencement Case Western Reserve University 50 Upcoming Events is available on amazon.com School of Law 12 52 Class Notes From the beginning in 1892, Case Western Reserve 59 In Memoriam for $30. All proceeds go University School of Law set a precedent for pushing 71 Alumni Committees educational boundaries and providing access to students to our Annual Fund, of all races, genders and backgrounds. This photo-driven archival book explores 125 years of diversity, leadership, which supports student world impact and progressive initiatives at the law school. Share in the success of alumni and faculty who contribute If you’ve got a story to share, scholarships. to the school’s tradition of excellence. Learn the law school don’t hesitate to contact us at story—its brave beginning and significant milestones [email protected]. during more than a century. See how the school is poised We’d love to hear from you. for the future, as a national leader in legal education. 16 AN UPDATE FROM THE DEANS Q&A

Appointed to lead the law school in 2013, Jessica Berg and Michael Scharf are among the longest-serving law school deans in the country. We caught up with them for an annual update about the law school.

Tell us about the theme of this issue of In Brief ? Let’s talk about that $10 million gift.

MICHAEL: We are celebrating the conclusion of the most successful fundraising campaign in the history of the law school. Ten years JESSICA: We have an incredible alumnus named Coleman (Coley) Burke, who is an extremely successful New York real estate lawyer, ago, the University Board of Trustees set a goal of $32 million for the law school’s Forward Thinking Campaign. Our alumni’s land developer, and amateur paleontologist. Every year when we would visit his office, Coley would show us a new fossilized generosity exceeded all expectations, donating a total of $58 million, including the largest gift the school has ever received. Most dinosaur that he had collected during his excursions to South America. There were two things Coley loved to talk with us about importantly, over fifty percent of our alums contributed during the campaign, an extremely high percentage compared to other law — his favorite professor Leon Gabinet (for whom he endowed a chair in his honor) and his travel adventures across the globe. Coley schools. This issue of In Brief tells the story of some of those gifts and how they have transformed our school. decided that he wanted to do something to help both the environment and our school by endowing the largest law school environmental law center in the country. And we had just the right faculty member up for the challenge of serving as the Center’s What does the law school do with all that money? director. We are excited to tell the story of the new Burke Center in this issue.

JESSICA: Our endowment has grown tremendously and has just crossed the $100 million threshold, putting us in rare company. What other news do you want to share? We now have the 32nd largest endowment of any U.S. law school. As with our annual fund dollars, much of the interest from the endowment goes to fund scholarships to enable us to attract the best and brightest students. Our bar pass rate and MICHAEL: We are pleased to report that the 2020 U.S. News and World Report specialty rankings ranked us in the top ten law employment rate have been steadily improving. And this year our incoming median GPA is 3.63, up from 3.46, the most schools for Health Law, in the top 20 law schools for International Law, and in the top 25 percent of law schools for Intellectual significant increase in years. Property Law. And PreLaw Magazine, a publication of National Jurist, recently ranked us as a “Top School” for Health Law (A+), International Law (A+), Intellectual Property Law (A+), Business and Corporate Law (A), Criminal Law (A-) and Public Interest Law MICHAEL: We also now have 14 endowed chaired professorships, which enable us to attract and retain some of the top law teachers (A-). Few law schools have so many highly ranked specialty programs. and scholars in the country. Our faculty was ranked 32nd best in the nation this year in terms of scholarly impact. Two of our faculty members, Jonathan Adler and Casandra Robertson, were cited in Supreme Court opinions this term. And during the past 12 months JESSICA: We celebrated the legacy of some incredible retiring faculty this year, including Professor Lewis Katz, our Director of our faculty’s expert views were quoted in more than 900 separate news stories, some published in hundreds of different newspapers Foreign Graduate Legal Studies, who taught at our school for a record 53 years, and Professor Judy Lipton, the former Associate around the country and world. Dean for Experiential Education, who taught in our Clinic for 36 years. Like his close friend Leon Gabinet, who came back after retiring to teach Tax Law, Lew has decided to re-join us as an adjunct faculty member, and is teaching his favorite Criminal JESSICA: The money also goes to support our signature experiential education program, which integrates practical experience into Procedure course this year. all three years of law school, culminating in a capstone clinic or externship for every student. As described in this issue, our Moot Court and Mock Trial teams had an unprecedented string of successes this year. The Spring 2019 issue of PreLaw Magazine ranked You’ve just completed your sixth year as co-deans. What is coming up? us 12th best school for practical training, right up there with Yale and the University of Chicago. MICHAEL: In the upcoming year, we will be working with our faculty, staff, and alumni to craft a new strategic plan to build upon the MICHAEL: We’ve also been able to complete a number of building projects that have reinvigorated our facility with the newest successes of the past six years and position the law school to continue to thrive in tomorrow’s legal world. We welcome your input! teaching technology. In this issue, you will see photos of some of our newly renovated spaces, including the BakerHostetler Courtroom, active learning classroom, Burton D. Morgan/Tarolli IP Venture Clinic, and Stephanie Simon student café. On top of all JESSICA: The law school is benefitting in so many ways from the historic alumni support during the Forward Thinking campaign. We that, when the Cleveland Institute of Art moved to Euclid Blvd, the University transformed the 4.2 acre space next to our school into hope to see you on campus, or during our travels to your home towns throughout the world. We can’t thank you enough for the part a beautiful park dubbed East Bell Commons, which is pictured on the back cover of this magazine. that you have played in taking our law school to the next level, and look forward to working with all of you to achieve our future goals This is only the beginning of the story!

4 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Fall 2019 x In Brief x 5 Case Western Reserve University School of Law Coleman P. Burke’s contribution—the law school’s largest- ever—will support interdisciplinary education and research

Nearly a decade after endowing a most innovative and frequently cited professorship in honor of his law school environmental law scholars, will serve as RAISES $58 MILLION, mentor Leon Gabinet, alumnus Coleman the center’s director. P. Burke ’70, has committed $10 million to establish a center at the Case Western “Today’s environmental problems require Reserve University School of Law that a willingness to work outside and across combines two of the driving passions of his disciplinary boundaries,” Adler said. “It life: the environment and the law. is our hope that this center will foster productive dialogue and analysis of these The gift—the largest in the law school’s issues and prepare a new generation of 126-year history—creates the Coleman environmental lawyers.” P. Burke Center for Environmental Law. The Burke Center will dramatically expand Last year, Adler, who joined the university students’ learning opportunities in in 2001, was the nation’s eighth-most-cited environmental law, while also establishing public law scholar (excluding constitutional the school as a leading intellectual hub law) for the preceding four years. Adler of interdisciplinary research and thought was 49 at the time of the list’s publication; Professor Jonathan H. Adler is the director leadership in this rapidly growing field. the seven scholars ranked above him of the new Coleman P. Burke Center for had an average age of 63. He is currently Environmental Law. completing a book on environmental “This center will federalism for the 21st century for funding environmental law externships and Cambridge University Press, the seventh related opportunities around the country. help prepare book he has authored or edited. Finally, the center will sponsor student research and development of additional students to meet “We are profoundly grateful for this courses in environmental law. the environmental transformational gift from an alumnus whose decade’s-long commitment to “This center will help prepare students challenges of today, the environment has helped preserve to meet the environmental challenges of and nurture some of our country’s most today,” Adler said, “as well as those that as well as those that treasured natural and marine resources,” inevitably will emerge in the future.” inevitably will emerge Case Western Reserve President Barbara R. Snyder said. “With the leadership of In addition to his service on the Audubon in the future.” Professor Adler, one of our university’s most Society and National Forest Foundation, dedicated and dynamic scholars, this center Burke also is a member of the Leadership – Professor Jonathan H. Adler will extend and expand upon the spirit of Council of the Yale School of Forestry & Coleman Burke’s own personal service.” Environmental Studies. As a member of the international multidisciplinary society, “Our natural world faces increasingly The Burke Center’s first major event the Explorers Club, he also has led two critical and complex environmental takes place this fall, with a symposium expeditions for dinosaur fossils in the Santa challenges,” said Burke, who has spent 40 centered on the upcoming 50th anniversary Cruz Province in Argentina and explored years engaged in such issues as a director of the founding of the Environmental rivers in Tierra del Fuego. capped off by a of the National Audubon Society, the Protection Agency in 1970. Papers from this $10 million landmark gift National Forest Foundation, the Woods symposium will be published in the Case Burke, of Hobe Sound, Florida, is the founder Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Yale Western Reserve Law Review. The center and managing partner of Waterfront from alumnus to establish the Peabody Museum of Natural History, the also is planning a spring 2020 symposium NY, Bulgroup Properties and North Coleman P. New York Botanical Garden and the Wildlife on environmental health, to be co- River Company, commercial real estate Conservation Society, among other leadership sponsored with the school’s Law-Medicine companies with holdings in New York, activities. “This center will combine the Center—the nation’s first institute centered Maine, Massachusetts, Colorado, New Burke Center for Environmental Law law school’s significant expertise in the on the subject of health law. Hampshire, Pennsylvania, California and subject with the university’s broader related Vermont. Before establishing Waterfront, strengths to make meaningful contributions The Burke Center will support scholarships Burke was a partner at the law firm of to address them.” for students interested in environmental Burke & Burke for 13 years. He also has law, along with faculty positions in the created the Coleman and Susan Burke Professor Emeritus Leon Gabinet (left) and alumnus Coleman P. Burke (right) Case Western Reserve law professor area. It will build on the school’s national Foundation, named after him and his wife Jonathan H. Adler, one of the country’s leadership in experiential learning by of nearly four decades. n

6 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Fall 2019 x In Brief x 7 Stephanie Simon Bartons ‘08 (left) with George Simon ‘96 (center) and Dean Michael Scharf cut the ribbon to celebrate the naming of the Stephanie Simon Bartos Res Judicafe, the law school’s eatery for students, faculty, staff and guests.

Professor Jessie Hill teaches in the new active learning classroom.

School of Law throughout the The moot courtroom was transformed with a gift from BakerHostetler, which celebrated its renovated 100th anniversary at the same time the law school celebrated its 125th. The original funding capital campaign with alumni contributions was donated in memory of Joseph C. Hostetler, its founding partner and a 1908 graduate.

Alumni support throughout the capital campaign led to Reserve law students as they file for patents and seek legal numerous building upgrades over the past five years. assistance in launching new products. The moot courtroom received a transformation with new carpet, an improved jury box, expanded bench and video The law school’s first active learning classroom was created and audio technology. The courtroom also features framed on the ground floor, providing spaces for interactive group photographs of great legal minds who graduated from work with monitors at each table, enhancing the educational CWRU Law throughout history. The project was made experience for students. New Brody individual workstations possible by a gift from BakerHostetler. The law firm were added to the library, and its conference rooms were celebrated its 100th anniversary at the same time the renovated. The workstations provide quiet, walled spaces for law school celebrated its 125th. The original funding was individual study. donated by the wife of Joseph C. Hostetler, its founding partner and a 1908 graduate. The law school also transformed its cafe with a gift from George Simon ‘96. He named the new Res Judicafe after The IP Venture Clinic, a new high-tech conference The law school also created a new IP Venture Clinic space his daughter Stephanie Simon Bartos ‘08. Class gifts room for students to hold client meetings, was with support from the Burton D. Morgan Foundation and from students in the classes of 2018 and 2019, along created with support from the Burton D. Morgan the Tarolli law firm. The suite provides a tech-equipped with matching gifts from alumni, created a new student Foundation and the Tarolli law firm. conference space for clients to meet with Case Western kitchenette space on the first floor of the law school.

8 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Fall 2019 x In Brief x 9 he was still her law clerk when she “kicked me out of the nest,” he U.S. District Court Judge Dan Aaron says, and appointed him special master in a case. He rented an office, Polster speaks at Case Western bought a desk, and never looked back: he has made an impressive Reserve University about the opioid career since then, serving as special master in dozens of cases litigation. Polster is presiding over around the country. It’s all he does. the case and is a frequent lecturer at the law school. In less than two years, hundreds of depositions have been taken in the Opioid MDL, hundreds of millions of pages produced, and Cohen has called balls and strikes on all of the parties’ discovery disputes. But, as he points out, sheer mass is only part of the story. The allegations in the case include some plain vanilla tort claims, but also a number of novel claims and legal theories that are stretching the law, he says. And all of this, too, is occurring on a fast litigation track.

Peter Weinberger ’75 is one of the lawyers pressing those claims, both novel and vanilla. He is nationally renowned as a trial lawyer, and nationally esteemed. That much is evident from his selection as Plaintiffs’ Liaison Counsel by hundreds of plaintiffs’ lawyers, from David R. Cohen ‘91 is a Special “Plaintiffs are, in effect, all of around the country, who convened in Cleveland as soon as the multi- Master of the opioid multi- us.” – Professor Andrew S. district litigation transfer order was issued, in December 2017. His district litigation. Pollis, New York Times. Pollis responsibilities include communicating with all plaintiffs’ counsel on is a national expert on the matters relevant to the Opioid MDL, coordinating discovery efforts, litigation and frequently called and planning for trial. The first “bellwether” trial is scheduled for this upon by the media. coming October. Given the complexity of the litigation, and the stakes, Weinberger says that being liaison counsel is “a 24/7 job.” client was brought in to the case relatively late, he says – in June 2018. So he, and the client, “had a lot of catching up to do.” The opioid epidemic had its origins in the 1990s, Weinberger says, when a massive marketing campaign convinced doctors that a Johnson is former president of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar new approach to treating pain in their patients was needed, and Association and has had an unusual career, he says, one that mixes available. As he explains, pharmaceutical companies claimed that litigation and transactional work in about equal parts. newly-developed synthetic opioids, with their timed-release feature, OPIOID Epidemic were a safe substitute for morphine or other addictive painkillers. During law school, Johnson and Weinberger shared afternoon They were, in Weinberger’s view, anything but. rides to downtown Cleveland, where they both worked, part-time, Case Western Reserve law grads play central at law firms. Now, they are the only lead lawyers in the upcoming In the Opioid MDL, Weinberger and his plaintiffs’ counsel colleagues bellwether case who are local Clevelanders. There will be so many represent municipalities and other governmental organizations other lawyers for that trial, Johnson predicts that it will be difficult roles in unprecedented opioid litigation seeking to recoup the $50–60 billion per year that, they allege, to fit them all into the courtroom. the epidemic costs them for such things as health care, law A terrible opioid epidemic, only about 20 years old, continues to Cohen is a Special Master in the Opioid MDL, one of three appointed enforcement, emergency and first responders, addiction treatment, CWRU Professor Andrew Pollis, whose research focuses on the ravage our country and society. The cost in ruined and ended lives is by presiding Judge Dan Aaron Polster, who is a frequent guest lecturer child care, and other social services. Plaintiffs also seek various Opioid MDL and who is frequently quoted in the national media heartbreaking, and without measure. at the law school. Cohen says that his primary area of responsibility is forms of injunctive relief designed to change the behavior of the about it, points out that plaintiffs face significant problems of proof umpiring discovery. He was polite enough to put off attending to the industry, educate the public, and control pharmaceutical marketing as to causation, and are pressing “rather attenuated” damage Other costs incurred by governmental entities in dealing with messages until the interview was over, but Cohen was clearly anxious and lobbying. Weinberger foresees a long-term court-supervised claims in this difficult and complex litigation. the epidemic can, perhaps, be measured, though they are said to to get back to work on a job that he compares to “drinking from a fire program for solving the scourge of opioid addiction. amount, nationwide, to a total figure in the many billions. Those hose every day.” “At the same time, if it gets to the jury, the evidence is going to be costs are the subject of more than 1,600 separate lawsuits from Weinberger has spent his career in Cleveland. In 1988, he so persuasive about the conduct of the opioid industry,” he says, around the United States, consolidated and transferred as multi- Cohen is an attorney who seems to be doing exactly what he was joined Spangenberg, Shibley, and Liber. He served as that firm’s that jurors may be of a mind to award damages. And, since the district litigation to the federal district court in Cleveland. In re meant to do. After what he cheerfully characterizes as a failed managing partner for 17 years, stepping down from that post at governmental entities pressing the claims are comprised of their National Prescription Opiate Litigation (the “Opioid MDL”) may be business career, he got into law school at age 29 pretty much by the the end of 2017. citizens, “plaintiffs are, in effect, all of us” (as the New York Times the largest, most complex litigation in American history. It dwarfs luck of the Irish – the Irish, in this case, being the beloved former Dean quoted him saying). the tobacco litigation, the asbestos litigation, the 9/11 terrorism of Students, Dan Clancy, who encouraged Cohen to take the LSAT. Weinberger’s was the first class to study in the new law school litigation, and even the great oil spill cases of the past. Among the Cohen began his studies thinking that he didn’t really want to be building at CWRU. His favorite professors: Arthur Austin and Ron Opioids do have a legitimate, useful purpose, Pollis says, that hundreds of lawyers involved in the case, CWRU law graduates are an attorney –“in some ways, I still don’t want to be an attorney,” he Coffey – though one of those two (many readers of a certain vintage differentiates this particular public health crisis, and the Opioid playing an outsized role. says, and he’s serious. But in law school, “it felt great to be good at will be able to guess which one) “scared the living daylights out of MDL, from the nationwide tobacco litigation of some years ago. something again.” me,” he laughingly recalls. Doctors legally prescribe opioids, he points out, because “for some During the time he was interviewed for this article, a little over an patients it is the only way to get meaningful relief from pain.” hour, attorney David R. Cohen ’91 received 20 emails asking for his After a couple of years of private practice, he “fell into a job” as law Another familiar face from law school is one that Weinberger now guidance or rulings on significant issues in the Opioid MDL. Each of clerk to “the best boss ever,” Kate O’Malley ’82, who had just been sees at the United States Courthouse with some regularity. Tim Even Peter Weinberger concedes that there is a place for the use them required his considered response; none of them was a no- appointed U.S. District Court Judge. (She’s now on the U.S. Court of Johnson ’74, and his law firm Cavitch, Familo and Durkin, represent of opioids for health problems such as intractable cancers or acute brainer. Those kinds of demands on his time are typical, he says. Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in Washington, D.C.) Ten years later, one of the defendants in the MDL’s “Pharmacy Group.” Johnson’s pain – “limited use,” he says, “under rigorous scrutiny.” n

10 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Fall 2019 x In Brief x 11 Fusion program partners with University’s think[box] to provide students a firsthand innovation experience

Since its launch in 2009, the Fusion program has served as a training ground for graduate students in law, science and management to develop the skills needed to meet the underlying challenges of successful technology entrepreneurship and innovation.

Mixing students into interdisciplinary teams, the program is structured to lead them through a collaborative analysis of new technological innovation, with each team simulating the advancement of a raw invention to the point of presenting a juried investment pitch, demonstrating the product’s financial potential, intellectual property strength and an early-stage technological development plan.

For the first time in the program, the CWRU think[box] houses state-of-the-art fabrication equipment, including dozens of students’ moved beyond simulating a 3D printers for inventors to build prototypes. new product and, instead, leveraged the resources of a flagship institution at the with community and collaboration – Think[box] houses a cornucopia of state- university to bring their ideas to life. where ideas are developed – to the of-the-art prototyping and fabrication entrepreneurship and incubator levels equipment including 3-D printers, The Larry Sears and Sally Zlotnick – where innovators can take advantage electronics development and wood and Sears think[box] of a range of services from the many metal fabrication machines – all with Housed in the seven-floor Richey Mixon think[box] partners, such as the School the relevant tools needed by a creator, Building on CWRU’s campus, think[box] of Law’s IP Venture Clinic, CWRU including the open-source documents is built to be accessible to even the most LaunchNET and the Technology Transfer and free classes needed to operate them. modest ideas, but is also capable of Office. It is a self-service model that serving as a start-to-finish launchpad allows entrepreneurs and prototype “We’ve structured think[box] so a person for entrepreneurs looking to develop a inventors to consult with free legal can come and take their idea as far as product from a prototype to a commercial representation for a range of corporate they want. Any inventor can come in at reality. The on-campus facility is also the legal and intellectual property issues. the first level, develop an idea and build largest of its kind in the country that is Help is also available for developing a prototype,” said Tiffany McNamara, open to the community and free to use. business plans and investment pitches, Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships commercialization and fundraising and Business Development at think[box]. Each floor of think[box] represents a strategies and access to free or low-cost different stage of innovation, starting space to house their startup company.

12 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Fall 2019 x In Brief x 13 “For all of our student The students were separated into five interdisciplinary teams and challenged to teams, using a facility create an IoT product using a basic, over- the-counter Arduino microprocessor that like this was invaluable. brings smart functionality to stand-alone components. Each team was provided with By the end of the class, a complete Arduino kit, containing dozens of useful elements, as well as a small budget each team created a to obtain other necessary elements to real, working prototype create a functional prototype. “The class was such an amazing experience, of their product.” working not just with the faculty, but also my team members,” said Lindhorst. “Each – Ted Theofrastous, Managing of us brought our own expertise to the Director and co-founder of the table. We relied on each other and most importantly, learned from each other.” Fusion program Working with students in the MBA, engineering and Masters of Patent Practice From laser cutters to a Poly-Jet 3D printer to an eight-head embroidery machine, the programs, Lindhorst’s team invented the Think[box] has what inventors need to bring form to their ideas. “Lavender Retriever,” a dual-chambered scent and pheromone diffuser for dogs The team completed its analysis of that relieves anxiety by releasing a Lavender Retriever by assessing the path combination of lavender essential oil and to market. They determined they would dog-appeasing pheromones when the need to raise $350,000 to get through the “The class was sensor detects barking. first phase of commercialization, starting with filing provisional patent applications, such an amazing continued from previous page to actually design and prototype something in the context of teaching them the art of “Once we came up with the idea, our first completing prototyping, securing new, using a common technology platform.” commercialization was really remarkable,” step was to make sure our product was a manufacturing contracts, developing “From there, if they wish, they can get experience, working said Fusion co-founder, instructor novel concept that was patentable,” said a website and designing a marketing consultation on market viability, intellectual Hands-on Product Development and CWRU chief innovation officer, Joe Lindhorst. “We followed that with extensive campaign. not just with the property, investability and more.” market research and found that pet calming Moving from the classrooms at the Jankowski. “It enabled them to move products and diffusers were both good Weatherhead School of Business to the beyond just analyzing potential solutions Finally, utilizing the staff expertise and faculty, but also Serving thousands of students and markets with healthy annual growth.” sixth floor of Think[box], Fusion students from a multidisciplinary lens, to being capabilities of think[box], the team entrepreneurs each year, think[box] learned firsthand what goes into taking an personally connected to the development created a working prototype which they my team members. was a natural partner for the Fusion In the United States alone, there are more idea from concept and actually building it of their technologies.” demonstrated as part of their end-of-year program, which has worked with different than 60 million dog owners. The team’s into a product. presentation. Each of us brought technologies each year, including For Rebecca Lindhorst, a 3L law student research showed that 21 percent had tried the internet of things (IoT), advanced pet calming products ranging from $14 The class sessions at think[box] started studying intellectual property with “For all of our student teams, using a facility our own expertise medical imaging, clinical diagnostics, with technical training for students to learn a background in biochemistry and to $21 and that the potential commercial like this was invaluable,” said Theofrastous. neuromodulation and water technologies, the capabilities and programming functions molecular genetics, the process of market for the product was conservatively “By the end of the class, each team created to the table. We including a purification project that was of an Arduino microcontroller, an open- protoyping a product and taking it through $176 million dollars. a real, working prototype of their product. developed in partnership with NASA. source electronic IoT prototyping platform commercialization was eye-opening. This process of design and construction relied on each capable of bringing smart functionality “We felt like our product had a few makes the opportunity analysis of both “Every year, we’re looking to push students to independent electronic devices. From “I’ve been focused on patent law but advantages over similar competition – other the core technology, as well as its new, other and most further into the innovation process,” said there, students learned about the available never had experience in product creation,” devices only diffuse one product, and they innovative elements, much more tangible Ted Theofrastous, Managing Director and resources in think[box] and software design said Lindhorst. “Seeing how pieces come weren’t sensor activated, so they were much and real. Going forward, these students importantly, learned co-founder of the Fusion program. “In the from Nick Barendt, Executive Director of the together was an incredible learning more expensive to keep stocked with high- will have a strong understanding of past, we’ve worked with students to develop School of Engineering’s Institute for Smart, experience that is going to help me cost pheromones,” said Lindhorst. “Also, our not just their own areas of training, but from each other.” strategies for existing inventions based on Secure and Connected Systems (ISSACS). better understand the perspective of the product roadmap featured the integration can better see their connection to the a common scientific domain, usually coming inventors and how I can interact with of smartphone control, data collection and broader ecosystem of innovation and – Rebecca Lindhorst, out of CWRU laboratories. This year, we “To think that we were able to effectively them and how to pull out the info from potential AI enhancements down the road entrepreneurship. It’s a little overwhelming wanted to leverage the tremendous assets introduce law and management students them that could give them some type of would provide us a competitive edge in a at first, but these are very smart students 3L law student the university has in place to push students to hands-on electronics design and coding protectable IP.” growing market.” and they did not disappoint.” n

14 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Fall 2019 x In Brief x 15 CWRU Law Launches YEMEN ACCOUNTABILITY To Document In Fall 2018, the Henry T. King, Jr. War Crimes Research Office at Case Western Reserve University School of Law PROJECT launched the Yemen Accountability Project, a student initiative to document and map war crimes and crimes War Crimes against humanity in the Yemeni Civil War. The project has received funding from alumnus Timothy Geisse (JD ‘84) For Future and the John F. and Mary A. Geisse Foundation. Yemen has eclipsed Syria as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with an estimated 70,000 to 80,000 deaths attributed to the conflict between March 2015 and August 2018. An August 2018 United Nations report concluded Prosecution that both sides of the conflict have committed numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity.

16 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Fall 2019 x In Brief x 17 “We’ve come a long way in a short time, first building the team and now getting into what will be a multiyear project that will give students great experience while making a difference in the world,” said Graham.

The culmination of these products will provide prosecutors in a future tribunal a trial package to undertake an efficient investigation and prosecution of those most responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Yemeni Civil War.

“Our goal is to build on the success of the Syria Accountability Project, which has Laura Graham ’21 produced over 27,000 pages of relevant data, analysis and reports on the Syrian crisis for In addition to serving as the clients including the UN High Commissioner executive director of the Yemen for Human Rights, The International Criminal Accountability Project, 2L Laura Court, The Commission of Inquiry for Syria, Graham was also a part of the five- the International, Independent, Impartial person CWRU team that took first Mechanism for Syria, and various interested place at the Jessup International Law States parties and NGOs,” said Johnson. Moot Court Competition in Chicago “This research will be invaluable in the on February 7-10. international community going forward and I’m so proud of the way our students have This summer, Graham was responded to this challenge.” selected by the Squire Patton Boggs Foundation for a prestigious The Yemen Crisis and CWRU’s Yemen fellowship that supported her Accountability Project were the subjects internship at the International of the May 24, 2019 broadcast of “Talking Criminal Court at the Hauge, Foreign Policy,” the quarterly radio program Netherlands, which has a mandate hosted by CWRU Dean Michael Scharf which to prosecute individuals for is broadcast from Cleveland’s NPR station, international crimes of genocide, WCPN 90.3 FM Ideastream. Johnson and crimes against humanity, war crimes Graham were guests on the broadcast, which and crimes of aggression. continued from previous page because they see this as an opportunity The Conflict Narrative is a chronological and can be streamed online at law.case.edu/ to make a difference with respect to the historical documentation of relevant legal, TalkingForeignPolicy. Graham’s internship involved The project, which was modeled after former growing humanitarian crisis in Yemen.” “Despite the workloads geopolitical, and military events. preparing direct examination International Prosecutor David Crane’s and pressures of law This project is the latest to be launched by questions for the defense witnesses successful Syrian Accountability Project Johnson found the perfect student to serve The legally relevant incidents will be CWRU’s War Crimes Research Office, which and legal research memoranda for at Syracuse University, invited students to as executive director in 1L Laura Graham, school, these students extracted and placed in the Crime-Based was established in 2003 and named for the the attorneys defending Dominic work in teams in the first comprehensive who holds a Ph.D. in sociology and decided are volunteering their Matrix where the Geneva Conventions late Nuremberg prosecutor and CWRU Law Ongwen, a commander of Joseph effort to document atrocities and lay the to enroll in law school specifically because and its Protocols, the Rome Statute of the Professor Henry King. The Office, whose Koney’s Lord’s Resistance Army. foundation for successful prosecutions of of her interest in international conflicts. time because they see International Criminal Court, and the Yemeni work was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize The case raises the question of the responsible parties. Before coming to Case Western Reserve, this as an opportunity Penal Code will be applied to each incident. by an international prosecutor, has to date whether Ongwen can avoid criminal she was a professor at Tufts University, assisted in the prosecution of war criminals responsibility for war crimes Expecting a handful of volunteers, director teaching courses on genocide, human to make a difference Using the Crime-Based Matrix, before the Yugoslavia Tribunal, the Rwanda because he was initially kidnapped, of the War Crimes Research Office and rights, social justice and conflict resolution. with respect to the draft Indictments will be created by Tribunal, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, brainwashed and transformed into a former Chief of Prosecutions for the Special “After years of teaching in a classroom, I representationally charging those that are the Cambodia Tribunal, the Lebanon Tribunal, child soldier. Court for Sierra Leone James C. Johnson was decided that I needed to be able to affect growing humanitarian most responsible. the Iraqi High Court, the Uganda War Crimes overwhelmed by the response. More than change on the ground,” said Graham. “I crisis in Yemen.” Chamber and the piracy courts in Kenya, “I chose to leave academia and 70 students, including LLMs with fluency in came to Case because the law is the best Finally, Analytical Dossiers, or white Mauritius and the Seychelles. attend Case because a law degree – James C. Johnson Arabic, volunteered to assist in the effort. outlet that I can use and this school has papers, will break down the large amounts would enable me to have a greater one of the strongest international law of data collected in the former documents To date, 138 CWRU Law students have impact in international law,” said “When we put the word out about this programs in the country.” and provide analysis. This will include undertaken summer or semester-long Graham. “I knew that Case Western’s last semester, we didn’t expect this kind that will document war crimes in Yemen trends analysis of the war showing how internships at the international tribunals and extraordinary international law of response,” said Johnson. “Despite the Led by Johnson and Graham, the students to assist in future prosecutions: a Conflict the types of crimes develop and change six CWRU Law graduates have gone on to program would open doors to workloads and pressures of law school, working on the Yemen Accountability Narrative, a Crime-Based Matrix, Draft across the region. careers as prosecutors and legal advisers at exciting opportunities in the field.” n these students are volunteering their time Project are creating four distinct products Indictments and Analytical Dossiers. the international tribunals.

18 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Fall 2019 x In Brief x 19 offered trauma-informed services from an interdisciplinary team that includes students and faculty from the schools of social work, nursing and medicine.” DONOR Targeted outreach is planned for populations Spotlight most at-risk for trafficking, including teens, incarcerated individuals, those facing homelessness and/or substance-use MR. ROBERT (“ROB”) G. MCCREARY, III disorders, foreign nationals and members of the LGBTQ community. LAW ’76 Rob McCreary ‘76 made a substantial commitment to provide seed money for The new round of funding to the law school is the start-up of our new MA in Financial Integrity program and is also a regular among the largest continuation VOCA grants contributor to the Annual Fund and scholarship funds. “When I graduated, I felt issued. like I could go toe-to-toe with anybody immediately. I was well trained in corporate law, tax law and securities.” The school, he said, also readied him for his future “The program will continue to provide endeavors as an investment banker and private equity fund manager—extending education and awareness on human- his potential for career success beyond law. It’s the career preparedness and trafficking issues for multi-disciplinary enterprising spirit that the School of Law instilled in McCreary decades ago that he professionals and students in the fields of sees reignited in the curriculum and leadership today. “I really like the Co-Deans’ law, social work, nursing and medicine,” said whole approach,” McCreary said. “They are unswerving in their commitment to Giamaria, adding that work also is planned get the best students, and they balanced an innovative curriculum with rigorous with legislators, social service and health care Centers of Excellence in areas such as Health Law, International Law and IP-Tech providers, members of law enforcement and Law. I’m energized. It’s something that’s inspired me to help in any way I can.” the general public.

The clinic also will continue its efforts to include students in the initiative. The law school’s annual human trafficking conference draws hundreds of experts and volunteers in the field from around the country. MR. BYRON KRANTZ LAW ’62 “This funding award acknowledges and Naples, FL/Chagrin Falls, OH supports the exceptional work that this program provides to survivors of human Byron Krantz ‘62, founding partner of Kohrman, Jackson & Krantz LLP, reminisced: trafficking,” said Simek. “It also allows us “A much needed scholarship allowed me to complete my legal education at Ohio Attorney General to further collaborate with others locally, Reserve; when it was awarded I pledged to thank those who helped me by regionally, nationally and internationally to providing for future students as they had for me.” He contributes regularly to the assist human-trafficking survivors, penalize Annual Fund, Deans’ Discretionary Fund, traffickers and reduce the demand for those and established the Krantz Family who are being exploited.” Endowed Scholarship Fund in 2013. “My AWARDS FUNDING TO intent was to help today’s students to Working toward a solution use their time learning, not stressing Ohio is indicative of the human-trafficking over their economic needs.” He problem: The state ranked fourth in the added, “My recent tenure as human trafficking clinic number of sex-trafficking hotline calls in 2016, Chairman of the Dean’s after California, Texas and Florida, according Visiting Committee The Human Trafficking Program at the Case Western Reserve University to the National Human Trafficking Resource provided unique insight School of Law is expanding its community outreach, education and Center (NHTRC). into our law school, survivor identification with a new round of state funding. its leadership and And the numbers keep climbing. Sex and labor direction. We are The Ohio Attorney General’s Victims of Crime Act Fund (VOCA) recently trafficking represent a criminal industry worth truly blessed to awarded the initiative $425,000 to continue its support. The clinic about $150 billion each year, second only to have Co-Deans represents survivors of both sex and labor trafficking in criminal, civil, illegal narcotics, according to NHTRC estimates. with such insight juvenile, family and immigration matters. and purpose To raise awareness and help counter the directing what The initiative is directed by a team of attorneys with dual social work scourge, Case Western Reserve partnered with each day is degrees: Melanie GiaMaria and Maya Simek, both lecturers at the law the Collaborative to End Human Trafficking becoming a more school, and Judith Lipton, the Honorable Blanche E. Krupansky and to host the fourth annual Human Trafficking truly remarkable Frank W. Vargo Jr. Professor of Law who retired this summer. Symposium, called “Human Trafficking institution.” Multidisciplinary Symposium: Strategic Melanie GiaMaria and Maya Simek, both lecturers at the law “The program’s goal is to empower survivors to lead lives of meaning Responses to the Trafficking Crisis” at the school with dual degrees in social work, are leading the Human Cleveland Botanical Gardens on Aug. 29. n and fulfillment,” said Lipton. “To further this goal, clients will be Trafficking Program at the law school.

20 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Fall 2019 x In Brief x 21 Keeping Do-It-Yourself Gene Science Safe CWRU team will provide policy recommendations for balancing safety, innovation

While federal and professional regulatory systems monitor genetic-editing experiments in university and corporate labs, most research conducted outside of these settings lacks formal oversight.

Now, two Case Western Reserve University faculty members have received a two-year grant to provide regulatory recommendations for gene-editing research conducted in non-traditional settings. The aim of this $160,000 grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health is to protect the public while encouraging creativity and innovation that could benefit many people.

The grant recipients are Distinguished University Professor and Arthur E. Max Mehlman, Arthur E. Petersilge Ron Conlon, Associate Professor of Genetics Petersilge Professor of Law, Max Mehlman, Professor of Law and Law-Medicine Center and Genome Sciences at Case Western Director Reserve University School of Medicine and Associate Professor of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Ronald Conlon. Those who conduct unofficial gene editing potentially lethal human diseases such “Non-traditional experimentation has a include biology professionals who pursue as cystic fibrosis, hemophilia, cancer and long history and has generated impressive projects of personal interest in their free heart disease. At the same time, there are results,” said Mehlman. “But individuals time, moonlighters in industry and academic potentially grave risks, illustrated by the fact who do gene-editing work in unofficial laboratories and amateurs operating out of that in 2016 CRISPR-Cas9 was added to the capacities are highly varied. For instance, their homes. (United States) list of possible weapons of some reject intellectual property rights and mass destruction—the only biotechnology advocate open-source science while others With grant support, the researchers will so listed.” seek to safeguard and commercialize their conduct a detailed literature and statutory discoveries. Some document their work on review as well as actively monitor social Regulatory options the researchers will social media while others are secretive. We media to provide a comprehensive picture of explore include establishing licensure and need a consistent set of policies to address current and potential unofficial gene-editing training requirements, mandating the these diverse situations.” practices and capabilities. reporting of gene-editing experiments and introducing restrictions on purchases of Gene editing entails changing an organism’s For example, it is now possible to buy gene- material and equipment by individuals and DNA through emerging biotechnologies, editing kits online, and some experimenters commercial entities. such as CRISPR-Cas9. These tools allow are injecting themselves in attempts to edit researchers to add, remove or modify their genes. And while experts believe that “Let me be clear, our aim is not to stifle genetic material at precise locations in the most unofficial gene editing is being done creativity,” said Mehlman. “Not only won’t it genome, potentially representing cures only with bacteria and fungi, social media work, it could make things worse by driving for serious diseases and improvements to forums contain discussions of working with unofficial gene editing further underground. sustainability in agriculture, among other animals and even humans. Our aim is to promote safe and potentially benefits. But genetic editing also has raised beneficial gene editing outside of official ethical and environmental concerns, ranging “The stakes are high in two domains,” said circles.” n from worries of ecosystem disruption to Conlon. “On one hand, genome editing holds fears of designer babies. real promise for preventing and treating

22 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Fall 2019 x In Brief x 23 “My CWRU LLM enabled me to obtain an in-house counsel Law school strengthens its position at Siemens China, a regional company of a Fortune DONOR 500 multinational corporation. network with China with new The LLM program taught me Spotlight critical thinking, equipped me with the necessary technical MR. HOWARD J. FREEDMAN LAW ’70 skills in legal research and writing to excel in degree program and five-city tour practice, and prepared me to successfully pass Howard J. Freedman ‘70 has given the New York Bar Exam. And the experience of generously to the Law School, building studying in the family-like atmosphere of CWRU on his family’s legacy of philanthropy to and living in Cleveland helped me to understand the University. “Even 50 years on, the western culture, which contributes to my success memories of the classrooms of young, in an inter-cultural working environment.” rising-star professors such as Lew Wang Hui (LLM 2005) Katz and Ron Coffey are vivid. Lead Lawyer for the Division of Energy The energy and intensity Management and Building Technology, Siemens that the faculty brought to China work was contagious and edifying,” Friedman recalls. “Those memories, and the “One of my fondest memories outstanding leadership at from CWRU was my hands- CWRU under President on legal experience in the Snyder and at the School Certificates of Qualifications of Law under Co-Deans for Employment program, Berg and Scharf, are the where my classmates and I got inspiration for my support. to help people with criminal I hope that, through my records overcome legal barriers support and that of other to obtain employment or licensure in certain fields. alumni and friends, the The work provided me a great opportunity to School of Law will continue to work with local lawyers, communicate with native grow and thrive as a renowned speakers with various backgrounds, and use my center for legal education and In early December, Dean Scharf, Professor Jack Turner, Former potential partner schools, and presented their latest research. The legal skills to help people in need. Building on that scholarship.” Professor Timothy Webster, Professor Jonathan Gordon and tour included stops within Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Chongqing experience, I now make it a habit to participate in Assistant Director of Development John Coorey visited five cities and Bangkok. The law school boasts over 400 alumni working at volunteer legal activities at least once per month in in East and Southeast Asia. They met with prospective students, the highest levels of government, private practice, and academia China.” hosted alumni receptions, discussed new cooperation models with throughout Asia. Gao Kaiwen (LLM 2016) Associate, King Wood & Mallesons MS. MICHELLE YA-LING GON LAW ’85 Shanghai, CHINA This year, the law school launched a “Most large national law firms Named one of the top 30 attorneys in joint LLM in international commercial in China and almost every China, Michele Gon ‘85 established the law and dispute resolution with Chinese local office set up Michelle Gon Endowed International Southwest University of Political by foreign law firms would Business Law Scholarship. She was Science and Law in China (SWUPL). prefer to hire candidates with the first JD student with a foreign LLB The program is taught at both an overseas LLM like the degree. “At that time, the School of institutions. Students spend their first one offered by CWRU. After I Law was not very ‘international’ yet. For two years in Chongqing and also take received my LLM degree from example, there was no LLM program eight intensive courses with visiting CWRU and returned to China, I represented a lot of for foreign students,” she recalls. Case Western Reserve law faculty. Chinese companies in their M&A transactions with Noting that today there are The joint degree program students U.S. companies, privatization transactions from the over 150 foreign students spend their third year in Cleveland U.S. listing market, and direct outbound investment studying law at CWRU, Gon studying advanced commercial law. to the U.S. Without the doors the CWRU LLM says, “I hope to make my They also hone their oral advocacy and opened for me and the knowledge I gained through token of appreciation by presentation skills and make valuable the CWRU LLM, it would have been impossible for promoting the school connections in the U.S. After three me to have achieved that.” and its international law years, students graduate with both Lu Yaosong “Will” (LLM 2009) program.” a masters degree from SWUPL and a Partner, DeHeng Law Offices masters degree from CWRU.

24 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Fall 2019 x In Brief x 25 STUDENT PROFILE

“I like the intellectual From the Chicken Farm challenge that arguing an appeal presents. In to the Courthouse the proper case, you can argue both law Vito Giannola put poultry farming behind to and policy, and help become a lawyer and accept a judicial clerkship shape society within a legal framework.” “The Farmer is the Man That Feeds But these were not just any chickens. He is especially interested in appellate – Vito Giannola Them All,” says the protest song from work and has participated in both the America’s Progressive Era of the 1890s. The Oxford farm where Giannola worked Dunmore Moot Court competition and It has been recorded by Pete Seeger, Ry is owned by a well-known art patron the Appellate Litigation Clinic. “I like the Cooder, and Fiddlin’ John Carson with and collector, Gary Wasserman, and the intellectual challenge that arguing an Moonshine Kate. There is probably no cross-bred poultry operation (known as appeal presents,” he says. “In the proper song about how the farmer goes to law the “Cosmopolitan Chicken Project,” or case, you can argue both law and policy school and gets elected editor-in-chief of “CCP”) is designed to “foster a dialogue on and help shape society within a legal the law review. Not yet. When that song national identity and the interdependence framework.” is written, though, its inspiration may well of different cultures, species and the be Vito Giannola of Case Western Reserve environment,” according to the Wasserman “Surrounded by a great group of people,” University School of Law’s class of 2020. Project’s website. Today the Cosmopolitan as he says, Giannola is looking forward to chicken carries DNA from 20 different his upcoming term as editor-in-chief of Giannola was raised in Oxford, Michigan, international breeds, and “lives longer, is the law review (to which he was elected forty miles north of Detroit, in a blue- more fertile, is less susceptible to disease, unanimously) and this year’s theme issue, collar family. Growing up there, he worked and exhibits less aggressive behavior.” centered on the 50th anniversary of the part-time manual jobs in construction establishment of the Environmental throughout his high school years and Giannola enjoyed his time with the CCP, Protection Agency. during summer breaks from college at and his workmates there. At the same Northern Michigan University, in the time, he also realized that farming was Giannola has accepted a judicial clerkship, Upper Peninsula. Giannola spent a great not an occupation he wanted to pursue to commence after graduation, with deal of time in the outdoors up there in long-term. He used his experience, rather, Judge Alice Batchelder of the U.S. Court the U.P.: “I learned a lot about myself as motivation, and a conceptual stepping of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. “We while I was in the woods,” he recalls. stone, to his real calling -- to the bar. kind of clicked,” he says, speaking of his previous experience with her as a judicial Law school began to beckon in his He chickened out, one might say -- in a extern. “She is an educator, supportive sophomore year of college. “I appreciated good way. and outgoing.” Next to a Supreme Court how law was integrated with everything,” judicial clerkship, there is no more he says, and he is comfortable with the He was offered a generous scholarship at prestigious position for a graduating law rigors of analytical thought that occupy Case Western Reserve University which student. the legal mind. Still, he decided to take a made his dream of becoming a lawyer year off after college to contemplate what possible. Like many people who take Giannola is genuinely well-liked around he really wanted to do. time off between college and graduate the law school, and no wonder. As his school, Giannola has particularly cherished Contracts professor, Juliet Kostritsky, his legal career takes him, that kind of pre-law school work? “I’m very grateful Even now, there’s no doubt that Giannola So he returned to a job he had previously the law school experience — even the relates, on one occasion, a potential helpful attitude, and a down-to-earth for all of the opportunities I’ve had,” he will be a persuasive advocate. That done part-time in Oxford, as a chicken inevitable needling he took in Professor law student visiting the school with her personality, will surely serve him well. says, “and I’m grateful that all of that potential student that he squired around farmer – building coops, shooting predator Raymond Ku’s Constitutional Law class parents was looking for someone to give experience now seems to be coming to on her visit to the law school? She did, in raccoons with a 22 caliber rifle, and doing about the Supreme Court’s 1935 decision them a last-minute tour. Giannola saw Now that he’s on the cusp of a promising fruition. I’m excited for what the future fact, end up enrolling at the law school; all the other tasks necessary for poultry to in Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United them looking lost, introduced himself, and legal career, how does he regard his other, holds.” she’s now starting her second year. n survive and thrive. States, the infamous “Sick Chicken” case. volunteered to be their guide. Wherever

26 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Fall 2019 x In Brief x 27 FEATURED ALUMNI DONOR Spotlight MR. CHARLES E. HALLBERG LAW ’77 Driving Change Naples, FL When asked to talk about his and his wife’s incredible gift to the Law- James Chen ’91 is helping Rivian reach Medicine Center, University Trustee Charles Hallberg ‘77 quipped: “I would describe it as a good start!” He went on to explain why he supports the law school: “All of our future successes are based new levels of technological innovation on what we learned during our formative years at CWRU. Legal education is the last bastion of a liberal arts education — with Electric Adventure Vehicles™ teaching key skills through the Socratic method, which is designed to develop critical thinking and an approach Weekdays, James Chen ’91 serves as 2010, where he served as Vice President to problem solving that not only focuses on the Vice President of Public Policy at Rivian of Regulatory Affairs and Deputy General material elements but on how to get where you Automotive, LLC, where he spends his time Counsel. need to go. My giving back is a way to ensure this advocating for the rollout of the automotive education for future generations.” company’s futuristic Electric Adventure “Tesla was the ideal intersection of my Vehicles™ — high performance, all electric training, my experience, my interests and pick-up trucks and SUVs. my desire to do good in the world,” Chen said. He was instrumental in guiding Tesla Then on weekends in the winter, Chen through a sea of regulations to ensure pursues his other driving passion: working the safety and efficiency of its cars and MR. RICHARD VERHEIJ LAW ’83 as a member of the National Ski Patrol. facilities, which included promoting zero West Palm Beach, FL He dons his Ski Patrol uniform and heads emissions and striving towards zero landfill, to Liberty Mountain in Carroll Valley, respectively. Richard Verheij ‘83 established the Johan Verheij Memorial Professorship to honor his late father, provided an endowment to support PA. As Assistant Patrol Director, Chen the law school’s Center for Business Law, and supports the Annual Fund each year. He says: “Ron Coffey, Lew Katz and other faculty vigilantly provides aid to injured skiers Then in 2018, Chen joined Rivian, which he the market of trucks and SUVs, which are 60 members at the law school provided me a solid foundation upon which to build a very successful career and I felt strongly that I should and helps ward off mishaps before they describes as “having many parallels with percent of all new vehicle sales. This is why support their continuing ability to similarly impact incoming students into the future.” happen. how Tesla developed — a dynamic CEO, it is critical, Chen explains, that an American incredible product and technology, incredible company is focusing on this area. Helping people has been a long-time infrastructure, and the investment — all priority for Chen. At Case Western Reserve coming together.” Still, electric vehicles comprise only about School of Law, Chen studied international 1 percent of the overall U.S. fleet. Chen MR. LEWIS (“LEW”) I. WINARSKY trade and criminal law. At one point, Chen’s role entails both regulatory and believes the industry is at a “tipping point,” LAW ’72 he says, “I wanted to be a prosecutor, policy areas. He spends much of his and part of his job is also making sure representing victims of crime.” He credits time educating lawmakers, particularly federal tax credits for electric vehicles Lew Winarsky ‘72 managing partner for Sky Properties LLC, and Case Western Reserve with “honing my at the state level, about the promise of stay in place, and to fight intense lobbying his wife, Sue, have made a will bequest to be split between ability to be a critical thinker,” as well as electric vehicles, which he emphasizes for adverse policies from the oil and gas the law school’s Cox International Law Center and the giving him “the training and discipline to be are U.S.-invested, U.S.-developed, reduce industry. University’s International Affairs Office. Winarsky says, both an attorney and a business executive.” dependency on oil, improve the environment “I am proud of my degree and my association with and create new jobs. On the regulatory side, Chen also works to Case.” In explaining his bequest, Winarsky says, “An After graduating, he took a position ensure the vehicles are not just compliant, attorney’s highest duty is to the client, to justice, through the honors hire program with the “There is nothing but good in getting this but exceed expectations for safety and human rights and a civil society of laws. I like what U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, technology out there,” Chen said. “This is performance. the school is doing to promote these. I want the as an attorney-advisor first with the how lawyers can really make a difference, school to continue to be positively engaged in Ohio Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and how a law degree can help society “Here’s the great thing. Everything in law and with the larger world. And I want the school to Enforcement Division, and later the Toxics become a better place.” school — the training I received, the degree, continue to increase opportunities for those who and Pesticides Enforcement Division. the connections — that’s what opened might not otherwise have access to them. Without Next year, the automaker’s first vehicles the doors for me to have the career that I my contribution this may not be possible. This is why Chen spent the ensuing 15 years in the will be in production, and Rivian will sell have. There have been a few bumps along I give; you should too—send in your check and note: environmental practice divisions at two them directly to consumers, similar to the road. But there’s no question that I ‘Lew sent me!’” firms, Hogan & Hartson and Crowell & Tesla’s strategy. By focusing on all Electric am thrilled and honored to be pushing the Moring LLP, before joining Tesla in August Adventure Vehicles™, Rivian is breaking into mission at Rivian. It is an exciting time.” n

28 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Fall 2019 x In Brief x 29 develop a rule-of-law legal culture in the rising generation of Russia’s bench and bar in the early 1990s, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Their vision was to create a program that ultimately would help integrate Russia into the worlds’ economic, political and social arenas.

The Pickers formed partnerships with two Russian law schools—one in Volgograd and the other in St. Petersburg—and received initial funding through the former United States Information Agency (USIA). Then with funding from NAFSA: Association of International Educators, a student exchange resulted. Case Western Reserve and Cleveland State then added a fully accredited summer school program in St. Petersburg, which mixed American and Russian students together.

By the end of the millennium, USIA ceased to exist. Without funding, the program ceased. At this time, the Pickers retired, becoming emeritus professors at their respective law schools, and formed RUSLEF A PASSPORT as a nonprofit Ohio corporation to continue the most effective portions of the program. The Pickers raise funds for sponsoring TO PROGRESS Russian law students at American Bar Association-accredited law schools across the country, covering the payment of their non-tuition expenses. In turn, participating law schools wave tuition. Sidney Picker Jr. (left) with Arsenia Golubenkova, a law student from Russia who studied law at Case Western Reserve University in 2018-19

Over the years, the program has succeeded The Russia-United States because of the Pickers’ thoughtful Nearly 30 years later, the Pickers’ vision “I feel very comfortable in Cleveland and in selection of exchange students via Building Relationships is coming to fruition in Russia. They visit the United States, in general,” she said. personal interviews and transcript reviews, The opportunity to make an impact is Legal Education Foundation is annually, holding reunions with alumni of and the sheer nature of those students exactly what drew Golubenkova into law as the exchange program, and visiting former That’s the intention. The Pickers go to involved. a 17-year-old, moving from a small Russian evolving the bench and bar in students in their homes and workplaces. town called Cherepovets to St. Petersburg great lengths to treat every student like a Gradually, student by student, RUSLEF member of their own family, hosting them “The Russians are very gregarious people to attend university. Her focus is intellectual is building a generation of modern law at their home and constantly keeping in who are rich in literature and they love to property (IP) law. practitioners who are equipped for the touch. Russia, one student at a time. argue, but they never had an opportunity global economy. to do that in a law school class because “With IP, your clients are inventors, artists Engaging classroom discussions and “The process of education is so much more “We love the students—we personalize in those days, Russian courses were and authors, and they are full of new ideas an expectation to contribute thoughts, involving, and it was something new for Now, there is a core of more than 100 former it for them,” Sidney Picker said. “We are only lectures,” Sidney Picker said. “When and energy—this fresh innovation and opinions and ideas—this type of learning me,” says Golubenkova, 23, relating that in students who are running firms, working in extremely close to them and want to make we brought Russians into our American inspiration,” Golubenkova said. “That’s the environment was a departure from Russia, “we are allowed to ask a question, government positions, climbing the ranks of sure they also stay in touch with each other, classrooms, they were delighted and area of law where I feel like I can really do what Arsenia Golubenkova traditionally but that is not happening often.” Courses international corporations and law practices. because through those connections they participated actively.” something to make positive change.” experienced in college-level courses at are lecture-based—and more significantly, can make a difference.” home in St. Petersburg, Russia. the practice of law is quite different. “Their influence has spread into law The program is designed to create During her year at law school in 2018- schools as well,” Jane Picker said. “The The Pickers’ email inbox fills with ambassadors—to instill a rule of law 2019, Golubenkova ingrained herself in the But as an exchange student at Case Sidney Picker Jr., a professor emeritus in curriculum used to be controlled by a correspondence from former students. culture in exchange students during their classroom dynamics and American culture. Western Reserve University School of Law, international law and trade at Case Western central authority, but now some schools “They are tremendously loyal to us and the yearlong experience, so they can return to She rented a room with a local Cleveland sponsored by the Russia-United States University law school and his wife Jane are developing courses on their own.” program, and some will come to the United Russia and influence their colleagues to family, who included her in holidays and Legal Education Foundation (RUSLEF), M. Picker, professor emerita at Cleveland- States on business or for pleasure and visit embrace it. family outings. On campus, she reveled in Golumbenkova experienced a fresh Marshall College of Law of Cleveland State Simply put, “They are making an impact,” the discussion. with us,” he said. perspective of law. University, recognized an opportunity to she said.

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This relationship building is a key aspect Inspiring Change were the only Americans to receive such a of the program and its power to generate The RUSLEF program is a passion project designation. valued connections between U.S. and for the Pickers, who hand-pick exchange DONOR Russian attorneys and educators. Exposure students and spearhead all the funding to Jane Picker said the program has received to how a rule-based legal culture works arrange exchange programs at universities tremendous support from so many, and Spotlight helps provide a foundation for establishing across the country. For example, this at Case Western Reserve, adjunct faculty a stable economic and social system. year’s students were placed at George member and attorney Joel Levin, of Levin & Washington Law School in Washington, Associates, provided his office to assist with JOHN P. KELLOGG, ESQ LAW ’80 Developing a program with Russia was also D.C.; Tulane Law School in New Orleans; the financial matters of RUSLEF. Shaker Heights, OH important to the Pickers, who recognized CWRU in Cleveland; University of Illinois a lack of partnership between U.S. and in Champaign-Urbana; University of “He was a tremendous help in getting us John P. Kellogg ’80 has had an exciting career as an entertainment Russian educational institutions. In fact, Main in Portland; McGeorge Law School organized,” she said. attorney, representing such artists as Eddie Levert, The O’Jays, LSG, RUSLEF was novel and still the largest in Sacramento; and the University of Stat Quo, and G-Dep. He went on to Chair the Music Business exchange program bringing Russian law Arkansas in Fayetteville. The Pickers, now in their eighties, continue Management Department at the Berklee College of Music in students here to study. Sidney Picker their devotion to the program they founded. Boston, MA, and was inducted into the Black Entertainment and reflects back on the second year of the The Pickers arrange for special experiences “Hopefully, we are helping change people’s Sports Lawyers Association Hall of Fame. Kellogg established program, in 1994, when there were RUSLEF for the students. “When Ruth Bader lives and to make some kind of small the John Wragg Kellogg Prize Fund in 2014 to honor his father exchange students at the law schools of Ginsburg agreed to give our students a difference in the world,” Sidney Picker said. who was also an alumus of our school (class of 1948). The Prize Case Western Reserve and Cleveland State, private tour and meeting in her chambers, “In two or three generations, the Russian goes to the top minority 3L student every year. He says: “As where Jane Picker taught. practice of law will be much different than we were delighted—and it was so a second generation CWRU Law School graduate, I am glad to the way it is today. It’s gradual change, successful, she agreed to do it again next support the John W. Kellogg Prize, named in honor of my dad, “We had more Russian students at Case year,” Sidney Picker says. student by student, person by person.” which supports the inclusion of minority students at our alma and CSU than the rest of the country had mater. I am grateful that his dedication to law, civil rights and in total, and more than half of all Russian Meanwhile, St. Petersburg State University For Golubenkova, the opportunity to be part politics is recognized through the awarding of a yearly prize that students in the U.S. were together in in St. Petersburg, Russia, awarded the of this gradual change has meant the world. assists young students in the pursuit of their goals.” Cleveland,” he said. Pickers with honorary doctoral degrees “I am so grateful for this opportunity, which for their academic accomplishments. They has definitely changed my life,” she said. n

MR. GARY L. BRYENTON LAW ’65

Case Western Reserve Gary L. Bryenton ‘65 is former Executive Partner of BakerHostetler Law Firm and served as Chair of the Law School’s Campaign climbs to #1 spot in Committee. In explaining his generous campaign donations, both to the Annual Fund and for a scholarship to support the Editor-in- Chief of the Law Review, Bryenton said: “The CWRU Law School has been, and continues to be, a source of great inspiration for me, and Ohio February bar as such has guided me through a career of more than five decades of practice at the highest level. The faculty is genuinely committed exam for 2019 to assisting the Students to do their best, and the Co-Deans are equally committed to the students and the faculty. Giving back permits me to honor my source of inspiration, while at the same time helping make it possible for others to develop their own.” The Ohio Supreme Court issued the results of the February 2019 bar exam, and Case Western Reserve University School of Law was the #1 Ohio HON. NATALIE K. FINN LAW ’72 law school in both first time Anchorage, AK and overall bar pass rates. After graduating from the law school in 1972, Natalie Finn flew to Alaska to spend a year The law school has had similar as a Vista Volunteer. That year turned into a 47-year adventure in the northern frontier. She worked as a prosecutor in Fairbanks, then as a District Court Judge for multiple strong results in recent years, decades in Anchorage, and is presently serving as a pro tem Superior Court Judge, including the #1 bar pass rate presiding over cases in communities large and small around the state. A generous for first time takers in the July donor to the law school, Judge Finn says: “I give to the law school because I am 2017 Ohio Bar Exam and the so grateful for an education that has given me tools to pursue a challenging and #2 overall pass rate in the July fascinating career in Alaska over several decades. It has been such an adventure.” 2018 Ohio Bar.

32 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Fall 2019 x In Brief x 33 all these jobs away,” because one of the stipulations was that we didn’t have to abide by the union contract. David answered, “Oh, “A picture is worth no, no, no, you don’t get it. I’m wearing a ‘white hat’, I’m coming a thousand words! into town and saving 1,500 jobs.” Then approximately a week or so later, he received a box. He opened up the box and inside was a While David may white Stetson, and it was a gift from a businessman in Gadsden. have been known as He wrote, “Mr. Brennan, we agree, you are saving 1,500 jobs, and a gruff, hard charging, you are wearing a white hat and here it is.” no nonsense

Q: You and David have been extraordinary industrialist, he was philanthropists. You contributed tens of millions a man with a clear vision of the future and fierce of dollars in Ohio from the rebuilding of downtown compassion for his fellow man. His vision was & Akron, to the United Way, to St. Vincent-St. Mary and straightforward and direct like David. Simply put, Summa Health. David and you also contributed over he had an unbridled desire to make the world $1 million to Case Western Reserve University. The a better place for everyone. David was defined Brennan contributions include the Center for Science by his zealous love of making things happen and Discovery at the College of Arts and Sciences, the Presidential Fund, the Trustee Fund as well – learning far more from his failures than his as generous support to the School of Law with an successes. David was a true friend, respected endowed professorship. Can you tell us about your for his leadership, commitment and passion. His joint philosophy of giving? white cowboy hat came to represent everything Ann and David Brennan with their children, Elizabeth, John, Kathleen, and Nancy. good about David Brennan – a man larger than We never sat down and talked about it; we just gave because life with a broad smile and a very big heart.” somebody asked. As far as the giving goes there has always been a connection between our involvement and our giving. For – Jack T. Diamond (‘83), example, Summa Health — we’ve had our medical care there President of Brennan, Manna & Diamond LLC David L. Brennan graduated from Case Western Reserve University School of Law forever. The Elms — I went to school there. St. V’s — David went in 1957 and went on to become one of the most successful lawyers and generous to school there. Our giving followed what our interests are and philanthropists in the state of Ohio. The Brennan Chaired Professorship at CWRU our belief that it’s important for this geographic area that we have things like the arts, which make a place more livable. And then I went to a White House event hosted by former First law school bears his name. He passed away in October 2018. Here, Dean Jessica Berg Lady Barbara Bush. The speaker was Peter Du Pont, and he was talked with David’s wife, Ann, about this incredible alumnus. Q: David was quoted in the 1990s as wanting to lead a talking about the fact that as a country we needed school choice. He “crusade in education.” Can you tell us what inspired explained it as the “Buick Tax.” If there were only one kind of car sold the many years of work with charter schools? in the country, what happens to it eventually? The quality goes down. We could see that the quality in our public schools unfortunately had gone down, because there wasn’t any competition. When I came Q: You met David and then married him in 1957 and Q: I read that David got his entrepreneurial start We had a number of industrial plants that we had purchased from Firestone as Firestone was divesting itself of different home, I talked about what I heard with David, and then he began had four children (Elizabeth, John, Kathleen, and while in law school, working as a bookkeeper for things. Particularly in Spartanburg, South Carolina, we had to start reading a lot about it, and that was what really led him into being Nancy). When you first met, what surprised you the local physicians. Did you have any inkling just how doing statistical data analysis, which was required because the such a proponent of school choice. Particularly for the poor, because most about him? successful he would be at that time? automobile companies, whom we were supplying, had such low they, unfortunately, had so little opportunity to make any kind of a tolerances for differences in machine parts. Well in order to do choice. That was where it all began. David wrote poetry. I never expected him to be a poet — here’s I always knew David would be successful. David had been told statistical data analysis, you had to know some arithmetic. We this great big guy, and he’s very business-like. However, he wrote he probably would not live beyond 50 because of inherited heart realized that many employees had difficulty with simple math. Q: What would David say was his proudest some wonderfully romantic poems to me. It was really sweet. problems that his father had. As a result, David was always in a Then we began to investigate a little more and found out that a lot accomplishment? hurry. That made him look for stuff to do whenever he could, and of our employees, good employees, couldn’t even read. Along with Q: Can you tell us what led David to law school here? do as much as he could. He never slowed down. my friend Sally Coens, we set up learning centers in our various I think his proudest accomplishment he felt, especially toward the plants, and would give time off to people to learn. During the end, was the fact that there were thousands of Ohio kids who had The story David liked to tell about why he went to Case Western Q: Many successful entrepreneurs are known for summer their families could learn and that was the beginning. a high school diploma because they’d gone to school because of Reserve was that he had been working at Bellows Valve Air — a wearing their signature hats. David was known for his activities. company that created neon signs. He was working all day, and then wearing a white Stetson cowboy hat. Can you tell us The reason we started using computers was we began to realize going to the University of Akron law school at night. David decided the story behind that? the size of the education problem. I had done some volunteer Q: If he were to share sage words with our students rather than sleeping through law school, maybe he should go work with Project Learn here in Akron. It’s a wonderful program, and alumni, what advice do you think he would give? during the day, so he applied to Case Western Reserve University. That happened as a result of our company Brenlin Group but it teaches one person to read one at a time. Well, if you think His mother had $800, which was the tuition at the time. He had purchasing the former LTV steel plant, in Gadsden, Alabama, out about it, people are going to continue to be illiterate before you I think he would say to love the law, protect it. Beyond that, the his transcript, and he showed up on the first day of class and the of bankruptcy. The court ruled that we could make the purchase. get to the end of the line. That was a time when computers were main thing is always plan. Don’t just plan for the downside, which Dean’s secretary took him right in and put him in the class. We all flew down to Gadsden, and David was met at the airport beginning to come in, and then there was the Plato software that some people are very good at, but plan for the upside. Because by a reporter. This reporter asked, “Well now Mr. Brennan, how do was starting, it was in the late ‘80s. It made sense to us and we sometimes, when you’re successful, that’s when more problems you feel coming into town and wearing your black hat and taking started using computers to scale up educational offerings. start than when you’re not successful. n

34 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Fall 2019 x In Brief x 35 Teams triumph at national moot court and mock trial competitions and win top speaker awards

International Criminal Court Moot Court Team (L to R) Adrianna Vis team members (L to R) 2Ls Teresa Azzam and Kathleen Burke Black Student Law Association Team members (L to R) Alicia Jessup Team members (L to R) Megan MacCallum, Alex Lilly, Taylor Velazquez-Martinez, Jazmine Edwards, Caroline Ford, Kelsey Smith and 1Ls Kristina Aiad-Toss, Emma Green and Jamison King Hampton, Allison Smith, McClellon Cox and Demari Muff Frank, Laura Graham and Andrea Shaia and Gloria Neilson CWRU VIS INTERNATIONAL BLACK LAW STUDENT JESSUP INTERNATIONAL LAW INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT ARBITRATION TEAM ASSOCIATION MOCK TRIAL MOOT COURT COMPETITION MOOT COURT TEAM The Vis International Commercial Arbitration Team took second The Black Law Students Association (BLSA) Mock Trial Team took The Jessup team first place and captured four of the top 10 speaker On March 16-17, the International Criminal Court Moot Court team, place in the competition hosted by Loyola Law School in Chicago 3rd place out of 67 teams in March during the National BLSA Mock awards at the Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in consisting of (during the last academic year) Kelsey Smith 3L, from February 15-17, and Teresa Azzam won the competition’s Trial Competition in Little Rock, Arkansas. The students that Chicago on February 7-10. Adrianna Velazquez-Martinez 2L, Caroline Ford 1L, Gloria Neilson Best Oralist award. competed in Little Rock were (as of last academic year) Allison 2L, and Jazmine Edwards 1L, competed against two dozen teams Smith 3L, Alicia Hampton 2L, McClellon Cox 3L and Demari Muff 2L. The team went 4-0 in the preliminary rounds, beating the University from across the continent at the North American Rounds of the ICC The Vis team was composed of (as of last academic year) 3L Douglas The team also consisted of Fatimah Smith 1L, Lauryn Durham 1L, of Chicago, Chicago Kent, Iowa University and Marquette University. Competition at Pace Law School in New York. Pilawa, 2Ls Teresa Azzam and Kathleen Burke, and 1Ls Kristina and Candice Green 3L, who assisted the team in their preparation. The team then defeated St. Louis University in the quarter finals, Aiad-Toss, Emma Green, and Jamison King. The team is coached by Wayne State University in the semi finals, and Loyola Law School in The competition involved the legal issues of whether unilateral use Professor Katy Mercer and former Professor Timothy Webster. The team was coached by the Honorable Summit County Magistrate the finals, advancing to the International Rounds, March 31-April 6 of force against chemical weapons facilities constitutes a crime of Brett Hammond and Cuyahoga County Assistant Prosecuting in Washington, DC, for the second consecutive year and the eighth aggression and whether a law professor who provides the Attorney Ike Ekeke ‘16. time in the past 15 years. government one-sided legal advice can be held criminally responsible for aiding and abetting aggression. Earlier in the year, the BLSA Mock Trial team competed in the In an extraordinary sweep, all four of the team’s oralists won top NATIONAL MOOT COURT Constance Baker Motley Mock Trial Competition in Chicago speaker awards for the first time in the law school’s history. Andrea Based on its high briefs and oral argument scores in three COMPETITION February. Out of 15 registered teams, the team came in third and Shaia, then a 2L, was the 9th best speaker, Megan Maccallum, also a preliminary rounds, the Case Western Reserve team advanced to earned the right to represent the Midwest Region in March at the Law students John Gardner and Sarah Lucey advanced to the final 2L last year, was the 5th best speaker. Taylor Frank, a 2019 the semi-finals, where it lost a close round to Temple Law School. national competition. graduate, was the 3rd best speaker, and Alex Lilly, also a 2019 The Case Western Reserve team was coached by Professors round of the regional National Moot Court competition in Cleveland last November, earning a berth in the national rounds in New York graduate, was the 2nd best speaker in the competition. Michael Benza and Cassandra Robertson. In Chicago, Muff earned the award for best advocate among all City in January. The bench included the newly-elected Justice of the competitors in the competition. Ohio Supreme Court, Melody Stewart, who is also a former Director of Student Affairs at CWRU School of Law. Professors Katy Mercer and Tim Duff coached the team to victory. The second CWRU team CASE CLASSIC MOCK TRIAL COMPETITION was comprised of Jamie Lamson-Buscho, Andrew Condiles and CWRU teams captured second and fourth place at the Case Classic, the first Mock Trial competition of 2018-19. The competition was Rachel Andelman. composed of 20 teams from law schools from Ohio, Pennsylvania, Alabama and Virginia. At the national competition, Lucey and Gardner were defeated in a CWRU’s team of Morgan Austin, Tiana Bohanon, Alex Haddad and Joe Shell was the tournament’s runner up. The other team of Stephanie close match in the first round, but prevailed with a win in the McNeal, Justin Mackin, Lysette Roman and Allison Smith came in fourth place. The teams are coached by Mike Gabelman ‘12, who is the second round. Assistant Public Defender for Lake County.

36 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Fall 2019 x In Brief x 37 FIRST-YEAR LAW STUDENTS Importance of law annual fund dollars The annual fund is particularly important to the law school because it directly supports our students every day. A robust annual fund allows us to offer financial assistance to our students; this year more than 90% of our BY ELECTIVES students will benefit from your support! And, unlike many other law schools, 100% of our annual fund dollars directly support our students through financial assistance for tuition, moot court travel, and public interest EXPERIENCE fellowships. Gifts of every amount absolutely make a difference for our students.

First-year law students are now taking electives during Inspiredtheir first year of law school. The program began in spring What can 2019 as a way to engage students in specialty areas before they get further into their academic careers. my law $100 $1,000 Each 1L student takes two, one-credit, electives in the Combined with gifts from your Allows us to provide books for a spring semester. The options for 2019 were annual fund classmates, these funds provide 1L incoming student. 74% of the • Artifact Law travel support for students incoming class in 2019 received • Bioethics and Law gift do? interviewing for jobs out of state. this book support. • Civil Litigation Practicum 91% of the Class of 2018 obtained • Criminal Law Practice: Contemporary Issues jobs in 26 states and DC by the • Courts, Public Policy, and Social Change reporting deadline. • International Law: Fundamentals • Legal Analysis and Problem-Solving • Professionalism: Competencies of a Successful Lawyer

The response from students has been overwhelmingly $2,500 positive. Here’s what some of our students said about Can provide funding for a student the experience last year: $500 to gain preparation for practice Can cover expenses for our award- through a summer internship in “I chose artifact law because it was unique. I really winning moot court teams as the public interest or social justice enjoyed it because we got to learn about abandoned they travel both nationally and area. Each year more than 50 law shipwrecks and who had ownership rights to them.” Kristin Lyons Alexandria McKenna internationally. These teams provide students take unpaid summer jobs – Kristin Lyons our students with invaluable with government agencies and experiences through real-life nonprofits and your annual fund “I really enjoyed taking bioethics with Dean Berg; she is litigation challenges and allows them gift can help cover basic expenses wonderful and super engaging and it was great to get to to develop their courtroom skills. while they gain practical experience. learn something outside of our standard curriculum.” – Alexandria McKenna

“Some of the other qualities of professionalism include civility, good judgment, honor and commitment. Overall, the point of the professional ethics class is to instill in you that professional perspective to offer you a good start as a lawyer.” When should I support the – George Kamanda law annual fund? “We talked about all of the famous cases that everyone’s heard of since elementary school, like Brown v. Board of Gifts to the Case Western Reserve University donors prefer to make their gift at the end of the Education and everything that led up to that. Professor School of Law annual fund are accepted at any calendar year to take advantage of tax benefits. Jonathan Entin really knows his stuff and he has an time. The fund operates on a fiscal year that starts incredibly fascinating amount of background information July 1 and ends June 30; so making a gift early in You can give online anytime at giving.case.edu/ that you’re not going to get from the cases.” the cycle saves you from being solicited multiple law or by calling the office of Alumni Relations & times and saves the law school money. Many Development at 1-800-492-3308. – Lindsey Leonard, about her courts, public policy and social change course. George Kamanda Lindsey Leonard

38 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Fall 2019 x In Brief x 39 1 2

Society of Benchers Inductees With Co-Deans Michael Scharf (left) and Jessica Berg (right) are (back row, left to right) Justice Melody J. Stewart, Thomas J. Callahan ‘85, David R. Cohen ‘91, William “Chip” M. Carter, Jr. ‘98, Kathryn S. Mercer ‘83, Bill J. Gagliano ‘80, (front row) Hon. Natalie K. Finn ‘72, Charles Hallberg ‘77, Jay Shapiro ‘80, and Margery B. Koosed ‘74. Not pictured are Michael G. Cherkasky ‘75, Michelle Gon ‘85, and Hon. John J. McConnell, Jr. ‘83.

Society of 3 4 Established in 1962, SocietyBenchers of Benchers gives recognition to graduates 2019 who have distinguished themselves in their professions and their communities and have brought honor to the law school. The 57th annual celebration was held on June 20, 2019.

5 6 1. Fran Goins ‘77; 2. Professor Michael Benza ’92 addresses Retired Professors Lewis Katz and Leon Gabinet, long-time emcees for the Society of Benchers event; 3. Chair James M. Petro gave the welcome remarks; 4. Michelle Gon ‘85 is a 2019 inductee; 5. Stanley and Susan Jaros ’73; 6. Bob Rotatori ’59 and MaryAnne Rotatori

40 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Fall 2019 x In Brief x 41 Faculty Briefs

Jonathan Adler Shannon French BUSINESS AND THE ROBERTS COURT PROFESSOR POLLIS APPOINTED Talking Foreign Policy: North Korea Summit, TWO FACULTY MEMBERS CITED (Jonathan Adler, ed., 2016). AS CHAIR OF OHIO SUPREME 51 CASE W. RES. J. INT’L L. 237 (2019) (with BY U.S. SUPREME COURT IN Environmental Protection: Final Frontier or Michael P. Scharf, Milena Sterio, Tim Webster, Achilles Heel? in THE CAMBRIDGE COURT COMMISSION and Paul R. Williams). SPRING 2019 HANDBOOK OF CLASSICAL LIBERAL The Ohio Supreme Court has appointed THOUGHT, 56 (Todd Henderson ed., 2018). Professor Andrew Pollis, an experienced Andrew Geronimo Introduction: Property In Ecology, 59 NAT. civil-litigation attorney, as the chair of its Ohio Adopts the Uniform Bar Exam, RESOURCES J. x (2019). Commission on the Rules of Practice and CLEVELAND METROPOLITAN B.J., Oct. 2018 at Justice Kavanaugh’s Wheelhouse: Procedure. 10. Administrative Law, 44 ADMIN. & REG. L. NEWS 7 (Fall 2018). The appointment will last through December Paul Giannelli MARIJUANA FEDERALISM (Forthcoming 2020 and may be extended by an additional two 2019). years. BALDWIN’S OHIO PRACTICE, EVIDENCE (2018 supplement, 3d ed. 2010). Pollis has been a member of the commission OHIO CRIMINAL LAWS AND RULES ( 2019) Jessica Berg since 2015, serving on its Appellate Rules, Civil (with Katz). Ethical Issues in the Use of Nudges to Rules and Evidence Rules Committees. He was OHIO EVIDENCE HANDBOOK (2018). Obtain Informed Consent for Biomedical counsel to the Appellate Rules Committee for Research, 40 IRB 1-5 (2018) (feature article) several years before 2015. His appointment as UNDERSTANDING EVIDENCE (5th ed. 2018). (with Maxwell Mehlman and Eric Kodish). chair of the commission follows a year of service Professor Andrew Pollis JONATHAN CASSANDRA as chair of the Appellate Rules Committee. Informed Consent for Registries, in Ayesha Hardaway ADLER ROBERTSON REGISTRIES FOR EVALUATING PATIENT “It is an honor to be appointed as chair,” Pollis said. “I’m looking forward to leading the Time is Not on Our Side: Why Specious Claims OUTCOMES (AHRQ, 4th Edition, Justice Neil Gorsuch’s opinion Professor Cassandra Robertson’s commission through the important process of evaluating potential rule amendments that of Collective Bargaining Rights Should Not Be Forthcoming, 2019). concurring in the judgment in Kisor v. article “The Right to Appeal,” which was we will recommend to the court this year. We have a lot to achieve in 2019.” Allowed to Delay Police Reform Efforts, 15 Patient Autonomy, Consent and Capacity: STAN. J. C.R. & C. L. (Forthcoming 2019). Wilkie twice cited Professor Jonathan published in the North Carolina Law Children in OXFORD HANDBOOK OF The commission is responsible for submitting proposed rule amendments to the Ohio H. Adler’s article “Auer Evasions,” from Review in 2013, was cited in Justice COMPARATIVE LAW (Forthcoming, 2019) Supreme Court, which is responsible for the rules and procedures that govern Ohio’s the Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Sonia Sotomayor’s majority opinion in (with Emma Cave). Sharona Hoffman courts. The Supreme Court relies on more than a dozen commission and boards to help it Policy. In Kisor, the Supreme Court the recently published case, Garza v. Patient Autonomy, Consent and Capacity: regulate the general practice of law. The Commission on the Rules of Practice and Healing the Healers: Legal Remedies for considered whether to maintain Idaho. Adults in OXFORD HANDBOOK OF Procedure Commission is one of 11 formed to provide quasi-ministerial authority on Physician Burnout, YALE J. HEALTH POL’Y L. so-called Auer deference, under which COMPARATIVE LAW (Forthcoming, 2019) behalf of the Ohio Supreme Court. ETHICS (Forthcoming 2019). courts are to defer to reasonable In the case, the court reversed the (with Mary Donnelly). What Genetic Testing Teaches About Long- federal agency interpretations of their Idaho Supreme Court’s decision At Case Western Reserve, Pollis teaches in the Civil Litigation Clinic, where he supervises Term Predictive Health Analytics Regulation, own regulations when those involving an inmate who claimed his regulations are ambiguous. public defender was ineffective after Juscelino F. Colares students on a wide variety of civil matters that involve the rights of low-income N.C. L. Rev. (Forthcoming 2019). he failed to heed the inmate’s request individuals. He also teaches evidence and coordinates the law school’s appellate practice Personal Health Records as a Tool for TURK-SWITCH: The Tariff-Leverage and Professor Adler’s article argued that to file a notice of appeal. According to program. He is an expert in appellate-law issues and is the co-author of the last 11 Transparency in Health Care in Legal Case for Turkey’s Shift from Customs Auer deference facilitates the evasion Justice Sotomayor’s opinion, a plea editions of Ohio Appellate Practice (Thomson/West). His scholarly writings focus on TRANSPARENCY IN HEALTH AND HEALTH Union to FTAs with the European Union and n of administrative law norms, and was agreement’s appeal waiver can not issues of appellate and civil procedure, the legal profession and evidence. CARE IN THE UNITED STATES: LAW AND Beyond, 22 J. INT’L ECON. L. 99 (2019) (with cited by Justice Gorsuch. The Supreme cover every situation; a defendant may, Mustafa Durmus). ETHICS (Holly Fernandez Lynch, I. Glenn Cohen, Carmel Shachar, and Barbara J. Evans Court, in an opinion by Justice Elena for example, want to challenge whether George W. Dent Jr. The Constitutional Challenge to the New eds., forthcoming 2019). Kagan, upheld Auer deference subject the plea agreement was voluntarily Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum Imports, J. to a series of new constraints designed made. Joe Custer Model Rule 8.4(g): Blatantly Unconstitutional Portable Medical Order Sets (POLST): Ethical TAX’N INV., Winter 2019, at 45. to limit abuse of the doctrine. Judge Have you made the Technology Paradigm and Blatantly Political, 32 NOTRE DAME J.L. and Legal Landscape, 15 NAT’L ACAD. ELDER Gorsuch’s separate opinion, joined by In her article, Robertson had urged the Shift in your Practice of Law?, CLEVELAND ETHICS & PUB. POL’Y 135 (2018). More on Taxation of Bobbleheads and Other L. ATT’YS J. (Summer 2019). Sports Promotional Items, J. TAX’N INV., Justices Thomas, Alito and Kavanaugh, U.S. Supreme Court to acknowledge the METROPOLITAN B.J., Dec. 2018, at 38. Perceptions of Gender, Race, and Anti- Spring 2019, at 87. Step Therapy: Legal, Ethical, and Policy called for eliminating Auer deference right to appeal. Robertson’s research Conservative Discrimination on Campus, 32 Implications of a Cost-Cutting Measure, 73 altogether. has also been cited by judges on the ACAD. QUEST. 94 (2019) (with Hal Arkes). UCIA: Universal Citation in International Avidan Cover FOOD & DRUG L.J. 38 (2018). supreme courts of Kansas, California Arbitration (Stephen Anway gen. ed., 2018), Quieting the Court: Lessons from The 51 GEO. WASH. INT’L L. REV. (Forthcoming Kisor v. Wilkie marked the second time and Oregon. Sotomayor’s opinion Muslim-Ban Case, 23 J. GENDER RACE & Jonathan Entin 2018) (Book Review). Daniel A. Jaffe Professor Adler’s work was cited by the marks her first U.S. Supreme Court JUST. (Forthcoming 2019). Supreme Court. Professors Adler’s citation, placing her in the rarefied Another Superseded Quill: The End of the Supreme Court Appointments in OHIO SCHOOL LAW (2018-2019 ed.) (with scholarship was previously cited in an company of the most elite law scholars Physical-Presence Rule for Requiring Out- Presidential Election Years: The Case of John Susan C. Hastings, Richard D. Maloloff, and opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts in in the country. n of-State Businesses to Collect Use Taxes, J. Hessin Clarke, OHIO HIST. (Forthcoming Michael L. Sharb). City of Arlington v. FCC. n TAX’N INV., Fall 2018, at 15. 2019).

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LAW FACULTY HONORED FOR SCHOLARSHIP AND SERVICE

BOOKS PUBLISHED BY CASE WESTERN Dean Michael Scharf and Professor Dean Jessica Berg and Professor Cassandra Professor Jessie Hill and Adjunct Professor RESERVE LAW FACULTY IN 2018-19 Raymond Ku Robertson Marvin Sicherman • Paul Giannelli, Problems in Evidence • Dale Nance, Evidence Law (2018) At the law school’s annual celebration of faculty scholarship and (2018) (with Robert P. Mosteller, (with Roger C. Park, David P. service on May 9, 2019, two faculty members were designated Liesa L. Richter, and Kenneth S. Leonard, Aviva A. Orenstein, and Broun). Steven H. Goldberg). Distinguished Research Scholars, and three others were honored with special awards and prizes, while faculty members were lauded • Paul Giannelli, Understanding • Andrew Pollis, Ohio Appellate for publishing books in 2018-2019. Evidence (5th wed. 2018). Practice (2018-19) (with Mark P. Painter). • Paul Giannelli, Questions and The law school established the Laura B. Chisolm Distinguished Answers: Evidence (2018). • Michael P. Scharf, The Legacy of Ad Hoc Tribunals in International Research Scholar and the Oliver C. Schroeder Jr. Distinguished • Daniel A. Jaffe, Ohio School Law Criminal Law (with Milena Sterio, Research Scholar honorifics as a way to recognize rising stars on (2018-2019 ed.) (with Susan C. 2019). their way to chaired professorships and honor two of the law Hastings, Richard D. Maloloff, and school’s most impactful former professors. At the annual Professor Carmen Naso with Michael L. Sharb). • Michael P. Scharf, The Founders: Professor Lew Katz Four Pioneering Individuals Who celebration, Co-Deans Berg and Scharf announced that Professor Dean Jessica Berg • Lewis R. Katz, Ohio Arrest, Search Launched the First Modern-Era Raymond Ku has been designated the Laura B. Chisolm and Seizure (2018). Distinguished Research Scholar, and Professor Aaron Perzanowski International Criminal Tribunals The Case Western Reserve University • Lewis R. Katz, Ohio Criminal Laws has been designated the Oliver C. Schroeder Jr. Distinguished (with David M. Crane and Leila Libraries hosted a Faculty Authors and Rules (with Paul Giannelli, Sadat, 2018). Recognition Reception last spring at Kelvin Research Scholar. 2019). • Robert Strassfeld, Understanding Smith Library. Representing the School of Law are Professors Andrew Pollis, Sharona The law school established the Faculty Distinguished Research • Kevin C. McMunigal, Criminal Law: Labor Law (5th ed., 2019). Problems, Statutes & Cases (2018). Hoffman and Dale Nance. Prize to recognize professors whose published works during the preceding three years demonstrate extraordinary scholarly achievement based on their impact on academic discourse, law and policy. The Co-Deans announced that the recipient of the 2019 Professor Jean McQuillan with Erik Jensen Lewis Katz Raymond Ku Distinguished Research Prize is Cassandra Burke Robertson, the Professor Judy Lipton Dean Michael Scharf Aphorism Cookies, MISS. C.L. REV. OHIO CRIMINAL LAWS AND RULES (2019) The First Amendment Implications of John Deaver Drinko — BakerHostetler Professor of Law and (Forthcoming 2019). (with Giannelli). Copyright’s Double Standard, 17 VA. SPORTS Director of the Center for Professional Ethics. In the past three as the law school’s associate dean of academic affairs for the past Four States Challenge the Cap on SALT & ENT. L.J. 163 (2018). years, Robertson has published in the Emory Law Journal, four years. Deductions, J. TAX’N INV., Fall 2018, at 51. Connecticut Law Review, Case Western Reserve Law Review, Florida Charles Korsmo Law Review and New York University Law Review. Her scholarship Every year, the law school presents the Judge Richard M. Markus The Origination Clause and the Validity of The Flawed Corporate Finance of Dell and Kevin McMunigal Taxing Statutes, J. TAX’N INV., Winter 2019, was also recently cited in the U.S. Supreme Court’s majority opinion Adjunct of the Year Award in recognition of an exceptional adjunct DFC Global, 68 EMORY L.J. 221 (2018) (with Attempted Ethics Violations, 33 CRIM. JUST. at 61. in Garza v. Idaho. professor based on professional achievement, teaching and Minor Myers). 55 (Winter 2019) (with Peter Joy). service. This year’s honoree was Marvin Sicherman, who teaches Taxation and the Constitution: Recent Delaware’s Retreat from Judicial Scrutiny of CRIMINAL LAW: PROBLEMS, STATUTES, AND The law school established the Distinguished Service Prize to bankruptcy law. Articles, 159 TAX NOTES 1155 (2018). Mergers, 9 U.C. IRVINE L. REV. (Forthcoming CASES (2018). recognize professors whose service during the preceding two years Ties in Baseball (and Beyond), BASEBALL 2019). Misuse Of Titles By Former Government demonstrates extraordinary dedication to the school. The Co-Deans Four faculty members retired in 2019 (Lewis Katz, Judy Lipton, Jean RESEARCH J. (Forthcoming 2019). Lawyers, 34 CRIM. JUST. 64 (Spring 2019) announced that the recipient of the 2019 Faculty Service Prize is McQuillan and Carman Naso), and they were recognized for their (with Peter Joy). Jessie Hill, the Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law who has served years of service during the celebration event. n

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Overloaded Prosecutors, 33 CRIM. JUST. 31 Matthew Rossman (Summer 2018) (with Peter Joy). PROFESSOR AYESHA HARDAWAY Opportunity Knocking! Are Opportunity Police Misconduct and Release-Dismissal APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF LAW Zones a Model for a Smarter Homeowner ANAT ALON-BECK JOINS Agreements, 33 CRIM. JUST. 31 (Fall 2018) Subsidy?, 81 U. PITT. L. REV. (Forthcoming (with Peter Joy). SCHOOL’S SOCIAL JUSTICE LAW 2019). LAW FACULTY Opportunity Zones – Promise or Peril for Anat Alon-Beck is the newest faculty Jean McQuillan CENTER Residents of Economically Distressed member to join Case Western Reserve Communities?, 25 WASH.. & LEE J. CIVIL RTS. University School of Law as Assistant Ethics Perspective: Elder Abuse: Mandatory From the law school’s efforts to improve the & SOC. JUST. (Forthcoming 2019). Professor of Law on the tenure track. Reporting by Ohio Attorneys, CLEVELAND county’s bail/bond system to its involvement METROPOLITAN B.J., Jan. 2019 at 39. in municipal police reform, Case Western Her research focuses on corporate law and Reserve University School of Law has been a Michael P. Scharf entrepreneurship, with a particular focus leader in social justice. Max Mehlman Foreword: International Law and Policy in on how legal and regulatory structures the Age of Trump, 51 CASE W. RES. J. INT’l L. influence entrepreneurial opportunities Bioethics of Military Performance “We are delighted to announce that Professor 1 (2019) (with John G. Wrench). and firms. She is passionate about Enhancement, J. ROYAL ARMY MED. CORPS Ayesha Bell Hardaway has been appointed empowering women to advance in (Online First: April 29, 2019). director of the law school’s Social Justice Law THE LEGACY OF AD HOC TRIBUNALS IN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW (Milena entrepreneurship and leadership positions Ethical Issues in the Use of Nudges to Center,” Co-Deans Jessica Berg and Michael Sterio and Michael P. Scharf eds., 2019). in the business world. Obtain Informed Consent for Biomedical Scharf said. “Professor Hardaway is an Research, 40 IRB 1-5 (2018) (feature article) extraordinary colleague who will be an Responding to Chemical Weapons Use in Professor Alon-Beck’s most recent article, (with Jessica Berg and Eric Kodish). outstanding Director.” Syria, 51 CASE W. RES. J. INT’L L. 189 (2019). Professor Anat Alon-Beck “Unicorn Stock Options - Golden Goose or The Fragmenting of Humankind? in Striking a Grotian Moment: How the Syria Trojan Horse?” is forthcoming in Columbia Professor Hardaway joined the faculty in 2012 Airstrikes Changed International Law POSTHUMANISM: THE FUTURE OF HOMO Professor Ayesha Bell Hardaway Business Law Review. Several media outlets and corporate law blogs have after working as an Assistant Prosecuting Relating to Humanitarian Interventions, 19 SAPIENS 384 (Michael Bess and Diana featured her research on unicorn firms, including the Business Law Prof Blog, Attorney for Cuyahoga County and a litigator CHI. J. INT’L L. 586 (2019). Walsh Pasulka, eds., 2018). Harvard Corporate Governance Blog, Mayer Brown’s Free Writings + Perspectives in the trial department at Tucker Ellis LLP. She has published on issues of racial Talking Foreign Policy: North Korea Summit, Blog, Bloomberg’s Money Stuff and Tech Nation: TheMarker Magazine. inequality and social reform and has taught as a clinician in the areas of health law, 51 CASE W. RES. J. INT’L L. 237 (2019) (with Dale Nance civil litigation and criminal justice. In 2015, she was selected to serve on the Shannon French, Milena Sterio, Tim Her article,”Preparing for the Apocalypse: A Multi-Prong Proposal to Develop Belief Functions and Burdens of Proof, 18 Independent Monitoring Team appointed to evaluate police reforms to be Webster, and Paul R. Williams). Countermeasures for Biological, Chemical, Radiological, and Nuclear Threats” (with LAW, PROB., & RISK 53 (2019). implemented by the Cleveland Police Department under a federal consent decree. Talking Foreign Policy: Responding to Rogue Constance E. Bagley), was published in Cardozo Law Review. The article was just Craig Callen on the Burden of Proof, in States, 51 CASE W. RES. J. INT’L L. 267 selected to be featured in the first episode of Cardozo Law Review’s new podcast, “I am honored by the opportunity to deepen our institutional commitment and Experts, Inference and Innocence: A (2019) (with Todd F. Buchwald, James Below the Line. understanding of social justice and its place in the law. As a graduate of the law Symposium in Honor of the Work of D. Johnson, Milena Sterio, and Paul R. school, the ability of the institution to meet the needs of all of our students while Michael Risinger, 48 SETON HALL L. REV. Williams). Alon-Beck joins the faculty of Case Western Reserve from New York University working to address inequities in our legal system is of paramount importance to me 1569 (2018). School of Law, where she currently serves as the Jacobson Fellow in Law and as a faculty member.” said Hardaway. EVIDENCE LAW (2018) (with Roger C. Park, Calvin William Sharpe Business. Prior to NYU, she was a visiting assistant professor of international David P. Leonard, Aviva A. Orenstein, and business and management at Dickinson College. “As director, Professor Hardaway will guide the center as the hub of the law school’s Steven H. Goldberg). UNDERSTANDING LABOR LAW (5th ed., work in the area of social justice,” said Berg and Scharf. “At Case Western Reserve 2019) (with Douglas E. Ray, and Robert Formalism and Potential Surprise: Alon-Beck holds JSD and LLM degrees from Cornell Law School, where she served University School of Law, social justice is a unifying theme that our institution aims to Strassfeld). as an editor of the Cornell International Law Journal. She received her LLB from Tel Theorizing About Standards of Proof, in incorporate throughout the curriculum,” they added. In recent years, CWRU has been Robert Strassfeld Aviv University Buchmann Faculty of Law and served as an editor of Theoretical Experts, Inference and Innocence: A ranked among the best law schools for public interest law. n Symposium in Honor of the Work of D. UNDERSTANDING LABOR LAW (5th ed., Inquiries in Law. Michael Risinger, 48 SETON HALL L. REV. 2019) (with Douglas E. Ray, and Calvin 1017 (2018). William Sharpe). “Anat Alon-Beck is a rising star with a unique background whose appointment will enhance our nationally recognized business law specialty area,” said Case Western Truth, Justification, and Knowledge in the Resale Markets for Digital Music, in Cassandra Burke Robertson Reserve Co-Deans Jessica Berg and Michael Scharf. Epistemology of Adjudication, in OXFORD HANDBOOK OF MUSIC LAW Conflicts of Interest and Law-Firm Stephen Wilks PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL (Forthcoming 2019). CONFERENCE ON FACTS AND EVIDENCE: A Structure, 9 ST. MARY’S J. LEGAL MAL. & Private Interests, Public Law, and The fall 2018 issue of PreLaw Magazine, a National Jurist publication, ranked Case The Tethered Economy, 87 GEO. WASH. L. DIALOGUE BETWEEN LAW AND ETHICS 64 (2019). Reconfigured Inequality in Modern Western Reserve as one of the top law schools in the nation for business and REV. (Forthcoming 2019) (with Chris PHILOSOPHY (2018). Judicial Impartiality in a Partisan Era, 70 Payment Card Networks, 123 DICK. L. REV. corporate law, with an “A” grade for the second consecutive year. The ranking is Hoofnagel, and Aniket Kesari). FLA. L. REV. 739 (2018). 307 (2019). based on the strength of the program in several categories, including faculty (Un)Civil Denaturalization, N.Y.U. L. REV. scholarship, curricular offerings, concentrations, certificates, clinics and Aaron Perzanowski n Andrew Pollis (Forthcoming 2019) (with Irina D. Manta). externships. Clown Eggs, 94 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1313 OHIO APPELLATE PRACTICE (2018-19) (with (2019). Mark P. Painter).

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Emily Cunningham with her father, 2019 Russell Cunningham ’89

Douglas Pilawa (center) with his father, Dennis Pilawa ’78, and stepmother, Kimberly Brennan ‘93 From left: Co-Dean Michael Scharf; Hon. Rebecca Dallet ‘94, a Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice and commencement speaker; Law Alumni Association Board President George Moscarino ‘83; and Co-Dean Jessica Berg.

Garo Yaghsezian with his sister, Carina Izakelian ’14

LLM graduates from the Middle East pose for a photo with Professor Lewis Katz, a long-time faculty member of more than 50 years who retired in 2019. Fall 2019 x In Brief x 49 2019-2020 SCHOOL OF LAW UPCOMING EVENTS MERCHANDISE EVENTS ARE WEBCAST AT LAW.CASE.EDU/LECTURES WHERE YOU CAN ALSO GET CLE CREDIT INFORMATION, AGENDAS AND MORE INFORMATION.

September 20, 2019 November 8, 2019 April 3-4, 2020 THE FREDERICK K. COX INTERNATIONAL Coleman-Burke Center Ignite: Legal Tech Innovation 2020 LAW CENTER CONFERENCE IT’S GETTING HOT IN HERE: Climate Change Sponsored by the CWRU Law Ben C. Green Atrocity Prevention: The Role of Cases Heat Up in Federal Court Law Library & the Mid-America Law Library International Law and Justice 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Moot Courtroom (A59) Consortium 2019-208:30-5:00 p.m., Moot Courtroom (a59) 1.0 CLE 8:30 - 4:30 p.m., Moot Courtroom (A59) 6.0 CLE 6.0 CLE November 11, 2019 Dozens of October 14, 2019 THE INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL SECURITY LAW THE FREDERICK K. COX INTERNATIONAL & POLICY DISTINGUISHED LECTURE April 16-17, 2020 LAW CENTER Assigning Protection: Can Refugee Rights CANADA-UNITED STATES LAW INSTITUTE Satyajit Boolell, Chief Prosecutor of Mauritius and State Preferences be Reconciled? 44TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE 4:30 – 5:30 p.m., Moot Courtroom (a59) James C. Hathaway, Professor of Law, Climate Change and the Arctic 1 CLE University of Michigan Law School (4/16) 5:00 – 8:00 p.m., CWRU Law Upper items 12:00 – 1:00 p.m., Moot Courtroom (A59) rotunda (4/17) 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., new October 16, 2019 1 CLE Cleveland Botanical Gardens THE INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL SECURITY LAW 5 CLE & POLICY DISTINGUISHED LECTURE February 4, 2020 Apparel Immigration: The Forgotten Environmental SOCIAL JUSTICE LAW CENTER Issue DISTINGUISHED LECTURE Julie Axelrod, the Director of Litigation for Racial Justice, Restorative Justice and CASE DOWNTOWN the Center for Immigration Studies Radical Healing Mugs 4:30 – 5:30 p.m., Moot Courtroom (a59) Fania Davis, JD, PhD, Woodrow Wilson Case Western Reserve University law 1 CLE Visiting Fellow, Co-Founder and Director of faculty hold lectures downtown Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth throughout the year on a variety of October 18, 2019 4:30 – 5:30 p.m., Moot Courtroom (a59) topics. All lectures are held at the City LAW REVIEW SYMPOSIUM & COLEMAN- 1 CLE Backpacks BURKE ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER Club of Cleveland, 850 Euclid Avenue, CONFERENCE February 26, 2020 #200. Doors open at 7:45 a.m. Lectures “The Environmental Protection Agency THE FRANK J. BATTISTI MEMORIAL occur from 8:30 – 9:30 a.m. Continental Turns 50” LECTURE breakfast is provided. Duffle Bags 8:30 - 4:30 p.m., Moot Courtroom (A59) Judicial Independence 4.0 6.0 CLE Charles G. Geyh, John F. Kimberling Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer October 16, 2020 October 24, 2019 School of Law Free Speech on the Internet: Blocking, Center for Business Law 4:30 – 5:30 p.m., Moot Courtroom (a59) Banning, and Removing Content Umbrellas IP Protection – Myth vs. Reality 1 CLE Andrew Geronimo, Supervising Atossa Alavi, Senior IP and General Counsel Attorney at the Milton A. Kramer Law at AlphaMicron, Inc. March 5, 2020 Clinic Center 4:30 – 5:30 p.m., Moot Courtroom (a59) International Women’s Day Summit 2020 Children’s items 1 CLE Presented by: Case Western Reserve February 26, 2020 University School of Law, Cleveland- The Laws that Govern the Great Lakes October 25, 2019 Marshall College of Law & Cleveland Stephen Petras, Co-Founder and FOURTH FALL TRADE LAW UPDATE Metropolitan Bar Association Director of NeXT1 Inc.., Director of the Year Three of U.S. Trade and Supply Chain 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Cleveland Metropolitan Restructuring Bar Association Frederick K. Cox International Law 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., Moot Courtroom (A59) Center 3 hours CLE March 27, 2020 THE LAW - MEDICINE CENTER April 15, 2020 October 29, 2019 CONFERENCE On Our Block: 100 Years of Mortgage Law Med Center Co-Sponsored by the Coleman-Burke Finance Policy David C. Dvorak, Chairman and CEO, Jintel Environmental Law Center Catherine Lesser Mansfield, Executive ORDER TODAY law.case.edu/merchandise 8:30 - 4:30 p.m., Moot Courtroom (A59) Health Director of the Masters in Financial All net proceeds benefit the Student Bar Association’s job interview travel fund. 4:30 - 5:30 p.m., Moot Courtroom (A59) 6.0 CLE Integrity (MAFI) program 1.0 CLE

50 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Fall 2019 x In Brief x 51 ALUMNI CLASS NOTES ALUMNI CLASS NOTES

Hon. Timothy J. Grendell – has become a Jeffrey Casto – of Roetzel & Andress LPA, Class of Class of 1966 member of the National College of has been named to the list of Best 1983 Leon Weiss – of Reminger Co. LPA, has Probate Judges Executive Committee. Lawyers in America® for 2019. Margaret Grover – of Wendel, Rosen, been named to the 2019 Ohio Super Black & Dean LLP, has been named to the Richard Hardy – of Ulmer & Berne LLP, Rita A. Maimbourg – of Tucker Ellis LLP, Lawyers list. 2018 edition of Northern California Super has been named to the 2019 Ohio Super has been named to the 2019 Ohio Super Lawyers. Lawyers list. Lawyers Top 50 Women and Cleveland Top 25 lists. Lynda Laing – of Strauss, Factor, Laing, & Class of Robert Polifka – has joined Tarter Krinsky 1968 Lyons, has been elected 2018-2019 & Drogin as counsel in the litigation and Matthew Moriarty – of Tucker Ellis LLP, Mario Ciano – of Reminger Co., LPA, has Secretary of the Rhode Island Bar corporate and securities practice area. has been named to the 2019 Ohio Super been honored with a 2018 America Association. Lawyers list. Jurisprudence Award by ORT America and Howard Stein – of Certilman Balin Adler & R. Mark Jones – of Roetzel & Andress the William K. Thomas Professionalism Hyman LLP, has been to the 2018 New Nancy Noall – has joined Roetzel & LPA, , has been named to the list of Best Award by the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar York Metro Super Lawyers List. Andress LPA’s Cleveland office as a Lawyers in America® for 2019. Association. shareholder. John McLandrich – of Mazanec, Raskin & Class of 1979 Ryder (MRR), has been named to the 2019 Class of Class of 1971 Marc Groedel – of Reminger Co. LPA, has 1982 Edition of Best Lawyers in America®. Richard N. Patterson – has joined The been named to the 2019 Ohio Super Frank Leonetti III – of Reminger Co. LPA, Bulwark as a regular contributor. Lawyers list. has been named to the 2019 Ohio Super Class of Lawyers list. 1984 Randolph Oppenheimer – of Barclay Marc Merklin – of Brouse McDowell, has Damon LLP, has been named to the list of Richard Rymond – of Reminger Co. LPA, Class of Melissa Yasinow ’11, Marge Koosed ’74 and Nancy Petro been named a fellow of the American 1972 Best Lawyers in America® for 2019. has been named to the 2019 Ohio Super College of Bankruptcy. Stephen C. Ellis – of Tucker Ellis LLP, has Lawyers list. been named to the 2019 Ohio Super Harold (Kip) Reader – of Ulmer & Berne Class of 1977 Anthony O’Malley – of Vorys, Sater, Theodore Tucci – of Robinson + Cole, has Lawyers list. LLP, has been named to the 2019 Ohio Class of Seymour and Pease LLP, has been named Everett Glenn – of the ESP Educational 1980 been named a “Local Litigation Star” by Super Lawyers list. to the list of Best Lawyers in America® Institute, was recognized as a 2018 Bill Gagliano – of Ulmer & Berne LLP, has Benchmark Litigation. David A. Schaefer – of McCarthy, Lebit, National TRIO Achiever by the Council for been named to the 2019 Ohio Super for 2019 and a 2019 Ohio Super Lawyer. Class of 1973 James Turek – of Reminger Co. LPA, has Crystal & Liffman Co., LPA, has been Opportunity in Education. Lawyers list and was ranked as one of William Porter – of Vorys, Sater, Seymour Paul Dutton – of Harrington, Hoppe & named to the list of Best Lawyers in been named to the 2019 Ohio Super Frances Floriano Goins – of Ulmer & Ohio’s “Leaders in Their Field” in Real and Pease LLP, has been named to the Mitchell Ltd., has been named chairman America® for 2019. Lawyers list. Berne LLP, has been recognized in Estate by Chambers USA: America’s list of Best Lawyers in America® for 2019 of Akron Children’s Hospital Foundation Benchmark’s Top 250 Women in Leading Lawyers for Business. Mark Wakefield – of Lowe Eklund and a 2019 Ohio Super Lawyer. Board of Directors. Wakefield Co. LPA, has been named to Litigation for five years in a row and has James Goldsmith – of Ulmer & Berne LLP, Class of 1975 the 2019 Ohio Super Lawyers list. Miles Zaremski – has published the law been named a “State Litigation Star” by has been named to the 2019 Ohio Super review article, “HIPAA’s Privacy Rule and Steven Kaufman – of Kaufman & Benchmark Litigation and to the Top 50 Lawyers list. State Privacy Laws: Roadblocks to Company, has been named to the list of Women Ohio and Top 25 Women Katherine Hatton – of the Robert Wood Medical Organizations’ Self-Policing Best Lawyers in America® for 2019 and Cleveland editions of the 2019 Ohio Super Johnson Foundation, has been elected to Expert Medical Testimony” in Annals of 2019 Ohio Super Lawyers List. Lawyers List. the Board of Directors for the Public Health Law at Loyola Law School. Donald Scherzer – of Roetzel & Andress Thomas Zaremba – of Roetzel & Andress Interest Law Center. LPA, has been named to the list of Best LPA, has been named to the list of Best – of Roetzel & Andress Lawyers in America® for 2019 and a Lawyers in America® for 2019. George R. Sarkis Class of 1974 leading practitioner in the field of LPA, has been named to the list of Best Frank Carlson – has retired after more Litigation: White Collar Crime & Lawyers in America® for 2019. than 10 years as assistant law director Government Investigations by Chambers. Class of 1978 David Weibel – of Kadish, Hinkel & Weibel, for the city of Amherst, Ohio. Henry E. Billingsley – of Tucker Ellis LLP, has been named “Lawyer of the Year” in John Flynn – of the University of Arkansas has been named to the 2019 Ohio Super the 2019 edition of Best Lawyers in Class of in Fayetteville, has been inducted into the 1976 Lawyers list. America®. Board of Trustees at University of the Beverly Grady – of Roetzel & Andress Hugh Bode – of Reminger Co. LPA, has South (Sewanee). He was also reelected LPA, has been named to the list of Best been named to the 2019 Ohio Super Class of to the City Council in Bella Vista, Lawyers in America® for 2019. 1981 Lawyers list. Arkansas. Robert Joondeph – of Disability Rights Alexander Andrews – of Ulmer & Berne Douglas Charnas – has joined McGlinchey LLP, has been named to the 2019 Ohio Mark Katz – of Ulmer & Berne LLP, has Oregon, has been appointed to the Social Stafford in their Washington, D.C. office in Super Lawyers list. been named a “Labor Employment Star” Security Advisory Board. the corporate and business transactions by Benchmark Litigation and a 2019 Ohio area. Super Lawyer. Allison Smith ’19 and Vito Giannola ’20

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Catherine Kilbane – has joined the Board Class of Ronald Mingus – of Reminger Co. LPA, Class of 1989 Class of Class of 1985 of Directors for Interface, Inc., a global has been named to the 2019 Indiana 1993 1996 Bruce McDermott – of Murtha Cullina LLP, Carl Gluek – of Frantz Ward LLP, has been commercial flooring company focused on Super Lawyers list. William (Bill) Edwards – of Ulmer & Berne, The Legal 500, a prominent legal services has been chosen to serve a five-year named to the list of Best Lawyers in sustainability. LLP, has been elected Vice-Chair of the ranking organization, has once again term of the Connecticut Energy Efficiency Christian R. Patno – of McCarthy, Lebit, America® for 2019. Wittenberg University Board of Directors. placed Eiger’s labor and employment John F. McCaffrey – of Tucker Ellis LLP, Board. Crystal & Liffman Co., LPA, has been He was also named as a “Labor practice in 1st Tier, for the 5th year in a Laura Kingsley Hong – of Tucker Ellis LLP, has been named to the 2019 Ohio Super named to the list of Best Lawyers in Denielle Pemberton-Heard – has joined Employment Star” by Benchmark row! Head of the practice, partner John has been named to the 2019 Ohio Super Lawyers Top 100 and Cleveland Top 50 America® for 2019. Diversified Search as the General Counsel Litigation. Eastwood, is mentioned as a leading Lawyers list. lists. and Managing Director in their Jody Perkins Ryan – has joined Gallagher lawyer in this field. William Gelm – has joined Buchalter as a David Leopold – of Ulmer & Berne LLP, George Pilat – of Mazanec, Raskin & Washington, D.C. office. Sharp LLP as Of Counsel in their Shareholder in their Scottsdale office. Susan Friedman – has joined Ziegler has been recognized on the National Law Ryder (MRR), has been named to the list Cleveland office. Susan L. Racey – of Tucker Ellis LLP, has Metzger LLP as an Associate in their Journal’s inaugural Immigration of Best Lawyers in America® for 2019 for Robert Simpson – has joined Carlton been named to the 2019 Ohio Super Cleveland office. Trailblazer’s list and named to the 2019 insurance law. Fields as a shareholder in their Hartford Lawyers list. Ohio Super Lawyers list. Class of 1991 office. Christopher Keim – of Frantz Ward LLP, has been elected to the Board of Trustees Edward Marinstein – and wife Robyn Robert Altneu – of U.S. Customs and James Vollins – has joined BioDelivery Class of for the Greater Cleveland Sports have received the Albany (New York) 1988 Class of 1990 Border Protection, has been named Sciences International Inc. as General Timothy Downing – of Ulmer & Berne LLP, Director of the Regulations and Disclosure Commission. He has also been named to Jewish Community Center’s Pillars of the David De Lorenzi – of Gibbons P.C., has Counsel and a member of the executive has been appointed Chief Diversity Officer Law Division. the list of Best Lawyers in America® for Community Award. been named one of only 18 attorneys leadership team. of the firm and to the Allegheny College 2019. Alisa Peskin-Shepherd – of Transitions nationwide to the “Client Service All- Irah Donner – of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips Alumni Council and Cuyahoga County’s Margaret Murray – of Murray and Murray Legal PLLC, has been appointed to the Stars” list by BTI Consulting Group. LLP, has received the 2018 Cornerstone First Human Rights Commission. Class of Co. LPA, has received the Amicus Curiae newly created board for the International Award honoring outstanding pro-bono 1994 Award from the Ohio Association for Academy of Collaborative Professionals. legal services to nonprofits from the Jim Craven – of Wiggin and Dana, has Lawyers Alliance for New York. been selected as this year’s recipient of Justice. J. Bret Treier – of Vorys, Sater, Seymour the Defense Research Institute (DRI) Kristin L. Pruitt – of Lake City Bank, has and Pease LLP, has been named to the Jackie Ford – of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Lifetime Community Service Award. been named a Top General Counsel in the list of Best Lawyers in America® for 2019 Pease LLP, has been named to the list of 2018 First Chair Awards. and a 2019 Ohio Super Lawyer. Best Lawyers in America® for 2019. David A. Lum – of McCarthy, Lebit, Crystal & Liffman Co., LPA, has been named to Kevin M. Young – of Tucker Ellis LLP, has Hugh Kevin McNeelege – writing under the list of Best Lawyers in America® for been named to the 2019 Ohio Super the name Bear Kosik won first prize in the Class of 2019. 1997 Lawyers list. New York State Fair Poetry Contest and Bryan Falk – of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and recently published a book Remaking Pease LLP, has been named to the list of Democracy. Class of Best Lawyers in America® for 2019. Class of 1995 1986 Donald Moracz – of Reminger Co. LPA, Adam Fried – of Reminger Co. LPA, has Lissa C. Gipson – has joined Tarter Suzanne Kleinsmith Saganich – of has been named to the 2019 Ohio Super been named to the 2019 Ohio Super Krinsky & Drogin as a partner in the FisherBroyles LLP, has been named to Lawyers list. Lawyers list. litigation and corporate and securities the 2019 Ohio Super Lawyers list. John Slagter – has joined Tucker Ellis as a Morris Hawk – has joined Roetzel & practice area. She practices primarily in David Tocco – of Vorys, Sater, Seymour Partner in their Cleveland office. Andress LPA’s Cleveland Office as the areas of complex commercial and Pease LLP, has been named to the Counsel. litigation, product liability, and art law. list of Best Lawyers in America® for 2019. Class of J. Troy Terakedis – of Dickinson Wright Gary Greenlee – has joined McConnell Michael Tucker – of Ulmer & Berne LLP, 1992 PLLC, has been named to the 2019 Ohio Wagner Sykes and Stacey as an associate has been named to the 2019 Ohio Super Corine Corpora – of Tucker Ellis, LLP, has Super Lawyers list. in insurance litigation and commercial Lawyers list. been named a Recognized Practitioner by litigation. Chambers USA 2018. Julie (Olson) von Haefen – has been elected to represent the 36th District in Franklin Malemud – of Reminger Co. LPA, Robert Glickman – of McCarthy, Lebit, Class of the North Carolina House of has been named to the 2019 Ohio Super 1987 Crystal & Liffman Co., LPA, has been Representatives. She serves on the Lawyers list. Robert Chudakoff – of Ulmer & Berne LLP, named to the list of Best Lawyers in Finance, Education-Community Colleges, has been named to the 2019 Ohio Super America® for 2019. Aaron McQueen – of Jackson Kelly PLLC, State and Local Government, Homeland Lawyers list. has been promoted to Member in the Christopher Koehler – of Frantz Ward Security, and Military and Veterans Affairs firm’s Akron, Ohio office. Matthew Kadish – of Kadish, Hinkel & LLP, has been named to the list of Best committees in the NC General Assembly. Weibel, has been named to the list of Lawyers in America® for 2019. Best Lawyers in America® for 2019. Hon. William F.B. Vodrey – a magistrate of Cleveland Municipal Court, was Lucy Ireland Weller and Chuck Weller ’73 awarded the Oberlin College Alumni Medal.

54 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Fall 2019 x In Brief x 55 ALUMNI CLASS NOTES ALUMNI CLASS NOTES

Gregory Guice – of Reminger Co. LPA, has been named to the 2019 Ohio Super Lawyers list.

Class of 2004 Tammi Lees – of Roetzel & Andress LPA, has been promoted to shareholder. Allyson O’Keefe – of Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP, has been listed as a Notable Woman in Real Estate by Crain’s Cleveland Business.

Class of 2005 Anthony Catanzarite – of Reminger Co. LPA, has been named to the 2019 Ohio Rising Stars list. Lauren Gardner ’93, Mark Gardner ’93, Brian Miller ’93 and Craig Denny ’93 Javier Pacheco – of Porter Wright Morris John Stalzer – of Reminger Co. LPA, has & Arthur LLP, published his article, “El Class of Class of 1998 2000 been named to the 2019 Ohio Super riesgo de no servir a todos sus pacientes James Rownd – of Kadish, Hinkel & Matthew Albers – of Vorys, Sater, Lawyers list. por la internet,” in D’latinos Magazine. Weibel, has been named to the list of Seymour and Pease LLP, has been named Holly Marie Wilson – of Reminger Co., Bethany Ricketts Murray – of Reminger Peggy Grabow, Raymond Grabow ’58 and James Pasch ’10 Best Lawyers in America® for 2019. to the list of Best Lawyers in America® LPA, has been named to the Ohio State Co. LPA, has been named to the 2019 for 2019. Richik Sarkar – of McGlinchey Stafford Bar Association Amicus Committee. Ohio Rising Stars list. Class of 2008 Liana Hollingsworth – of Vorys, Sater, PLLC, has been named to the 2019 Ohio Molly Brown – has joined Heartland Seymour and Pease LLP, has been named Justin Cranney – has joined Idaho-based Super Lawyers list and Lawyers of Color’s BancCorp as Senior Vice President and to the 2019 Ohio Rising Stars list for labor Class of Hawley Troxell as an equity partner. first “Nation’s Best” list. General Counsel. Class of 2002 2006 and employment. John Titley – of Varnum LLP, has been Greg Doggett – has joined Dentons as Bryan Farkas – of Vorys, Sater, Seymour Beth Norwood Fischer – is now Vice David Johnson Jr. – of Aronberg Goldgehn elected partner. counsel in the Health Care practice area. and Pease LLP, has been named to the Chancellor for University Advancement at Davis & Garmisa, has been named a Class of 1999 list of Best Lawyers in America® for 2019. the University of North Carolina – Anthony Vacanti – has joined Tucker Ellis Eric Meiring – has joined Winston & Member. Elizabeth Acee – of LeClairRyan, has been Greensboro. LLP as business litigation counsel. Strawn LLP, in the firm’s Antitrust/ Craig Haran – of Frantz Ward LLP, has Erin Morgan Klug – of Varnum LLP, has named President. Competition Practice as partner. been named to the list of Best Lawyers in Kimya Johnson – has joined Ogletree been elected partner. Joshua Lamancusa – the district attorney America® for 2019. Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart as Senior Thomas Peppard Jr. – has been elected Class of J. Matthew Linehan – of Ulmer & Berne of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, has Counsel and Co-chair of the National 2007 partner at Tucker Ellis LLP. LLP, has been named to the 2019 Ohio received the 2018 Jack & Nancy Flannery Diversity and Inclusion practice at their Kevin Carter – of Frost Brown Todd LLC, Ronald Silley – has been appointed Rising Stars list. Salute to Courage award from the New Class of Philadelphia office. has been promoted to Member. 2001 Executive Co-Dean of the China-EU Castle (Pennsylvania) YMCA. Kristin Morrison – of Jones Day, has been Jayme L. Butcher – of Blank Rome LLP, David L. Kane – has joined Vedder Price Mark Gorski – of Sports Data Labs, has School of Law in Beijing, China. promoted to Partner. Hon. William C. McConico – has been re- has been appointed to serve on the as a Shareholder in the Insolvency, been named to the Leaders Under 40 John C. (Chaz) Weber – of Tucker Ellis LLP, elected to his third term as judge of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Large Bankruptcy & Corporate Reorganization Class of 2018. Nicholas Preusch – of PBMares LLP, has has been named to the 2019 Ohio Rising 36th District Court in Detroit, Michigan. Firm Committee for the 2018-2019 term. group in Chicago. been named one of CPA Practice Advisor’s Sean Morrison – announces the Stars list. Top 40 Under 40. Frank C. Miller – has rejoined Andrean Horton – has joined Myers Brian Wright – has returned to Faruki+ as formation of the Sean Morrison Law BakerHostetler as a partner in their Industries Inc. as Executive Vice a Partner after serving for three years as Offices LLC located in Slidell, Louisiana. Mateusz Saykiewicz – has been elected Columbus, Ohio office. President, Chief Legal Officer, and General Counsel and Vice President of Class of to partnership at Pepper Hamilton LLP. Jennifer Orr – of Taft Stettinius & Hollister 2009 Secretary. Innovation for Henny Penny Corporation. Benjamin Sasse – of Tucker Ellis LLP, has LLP, has been named to the 2019 Ohio Carolyn Davis – of Taft Stettinius & Adam Shank – has joined the Boys & Girls been named to the 2019 Ohio Super Chetan Nagendra – has spearheaded the Rising Stars list. Hollister LLP, has been named to the Clubs of Ohio as the inaugural executive Lawyers list. opening of a new PDS Legal office in 2019 Ohio Rising Stars list. director. Class of Seth Wamelink – has been elected Bangalore, India. 2003 partner at Tucker Ellis LLP and named to Garrett Hall – has joined HIPAA One as Jazmyn Stover – has joined Fisher Phillips Michele Connell – of Squire Patton Boggs, Natalie Rouf – has joined Dinsmore & the 2019 Ohio Rising Stars list. vice president of strategy. as a partner in their Cleveland office. has been selected as an honoree in the Shohl LLP as a partner in their Cincinnati 2018 National Women in Law Awards by Gwen Gillespie Herman – of Calfee, Halter headquarters. Corporate Counsel and Inside Counsel. & Griswold LLP, has been elected to Partner.

56 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Fall 2019 x In Brief x 57 ALUMNI CLASS NOTES In Memoriam July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019 Class of 2010 Michael Rudick – has joined Rivkin Radler Class of 2017 LLP as an associate in the General Erika Dunyak – has accepted a position as Nicole Bechtold – of Reed Smith LLP, has Liability Practice Group. been promoted to Partner in the firm’s a clinical fellow in the Harvard Law School In Memoriam includes names of deceased alumni forwarded to Case Western Reserve University School of Law over the past year. Jeremy Schirra – has joined Dickinson Food Law and Policy Clinic where she Pittsburgh office. Mr. C. Starr Atwood (LAW’72) Mr. Michael T. Gavin (LAW’55) Mr. John G. Papandreas (LAW’52) Wright PLLC as Counsel in their Columbus leads the Farm Bill Legal Enterprise, a Jeffrey Dornbos – has joined Clark Hill PLC office. consortium of legal scholars focused on Mr. Albert A. Baillis (ADL’48, LAW’50) Mr. Allan John Goodfellow (CIT’45, LAW’50) Mr. Thomas Paris (LAW’53) as senior counsel in their Grand Rapids, improving the farm bill. Hon. William Ridenour Baird (LAW’59) Mr. Larry S. Gordon (ADL’53, LAW’56) Ms. Katherine Wood Piraino (LAW’81) Michigan office. Matthew Vazzana – has joined the City of Hudson as a City Solicitor. Amanda King – has won a Cleveland Arts Mr. Thomas S. Baker, Jr. (LAW’68) Mr. Sheldon Jay Greenberg (LAW’64) Mr. Norman S. Pomerantz (LAW’59) Erica M. James – of Tucker Ellis LLP, has Prize “On the Verge Fellowship” for visual Mr. Kenneth Earl Banks, Jr. (LAW’73, MGT’84) Mr. Jacob Louis Hafter (LAW’01) Ms. Abigail Mary Price (LAW’88) been named to the 2019 Ohio Rising arts. Mr. Robert O. Berger (LAW’78) Mr. Marvin N. Halpern (LAW’61) Mr. Herbert H. Pridham (LAW’55) Stars list. Class of 2013 Brinton Resto – has joined Minc Law in Mr. Frank Brcak (CLC’43, LAW’51) Mr. Edwin V. Hill, Jr. (LAW’67) Ms. Regina W. Ratino (LAW’73) Ryan Kuchmaner – of Black McCuskey Hunter G. Cavell – has joined Buckley King Orange Village, Ohio as an attorney. Mr. David L. Brennan (LAW’57) Mr. Gregory Theodore Holtz (LAW’77) Mr. James B. Reich (CLC’53, LAW’58) Souers & Arbaugh, has become a Certified as an attorney in their Cleveland office. Specialist in estate planning, trust and Fahreen Velji – has joined the New York Mr. Emer Dean Broadbent (LAW’85, SAS’85) Mr. Norman S. Jeavons (LAW’58) Mr. Howard L. Sokolsky (ADL’51, LAW’53) Trevor Hardy – of Ulmer & Berne LLP, has probate law. office of Outten & Golden LLP in the Ms. Heather J. Broadhurst (LAW’82) Mr. Daniel M. Jonas (ADL’64, LAW’68) Mr. Joseph Paul Sontich, Sr. (LAW’49) joined the Board of Directors of the Little individual practice area. Mr. James F. Brucklacher (LAW’48) Ms. Elise C. Keating (CAS’00, LAW’05) Mr. Roy Lewis Sweetgall (LAW’81) Brian Nally – of Reminger Co. LPA, has Italy Redevelopment Corporation. been named to the 2019 Ohio Super Mengxue Xie – has joined the Cleveland Mr. Thomas P. Butler, Jr. (LAW’60) Prof. Robin M. Kennedy (LAW’70) Mr. Newton E. Thomas (LAW’49) Paul L. Janowicz – of Tucker Ellis LLP, has office of Ulmer & Berne as an Associate in Lawyers list. Mr. Richard A. Chenoweth (LAW’48) Mr. Fred D. Kidder (LAW’50) Mr. Patrick John Tulley (LAW’01) been named to the 2019 Ohio Rising Product Liability. Christina Niro – of Frantz Ward LLP, has Stars list. Mr. Charles Cohen (ADL’49, LAW’52) Mr. D. Kevin Laughlin (MGT’84, LAW’84) Mr. Harold H. Uible (ADL’47, LAW’49) been elected to partnership and to the Mr. John Paul Conomy, (LAW’92) Mr. Norman W. Lawson, Jr. (LAW’68) Mr. Anthony J. Viola (ADL’54, LAW’56) Sarah Nasta – is now Elections Counsel Northeast Ohio Advisory Board of Class of for the U.S. House of Representatives 2018 Hon. Thomas Patrick Curran (LAW’62) Mr. Marc I. Lipton (LAW’77) Mr. Robert C. Weber (LAW’56) Children’s Hunger Alliance. Committee on House Administration. Lauren Chisner – has joined the Ohio Mr. Martin W. Elson (LAW’83) Mr. George E. Mastics (ADL’53, LAW’56) Mr. Howard Jerome Weinstein (LAW’85) Gretchen Woodruff Root – has joined Attorney General’s Office as an Assistant Daniela Paez – of Ulmer & Berne LLP, has Mr. J. Martin Erbaugh (LAW’73) Mr. James Scott McEwan (LAW‘15) Mr. Richard K. Werner (LAW’75) Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC as Attorney General in environmental been selected to the 2018 class of “Forty Mr. Thomas N. Fannin (LAW’68) Mr. James C. McGrath (LAW’57) Mr. Arthur D. Wolfcale, Jr. (LAW’54) Counsel, Labor and Employment in their enforcement. Under 40” by Crane’s Cleveland Business Pittsburgh office. Hon. John B. Farmakides (ADL’50, LAW’53) Mr. Brian Herbert Meister (LAW’96) Mr. Blake Womer (LAW’23) and named to the 2019 Ohio Rising Stars Nevada Heft – has joined Norris Mr. Brian W. FitzSimons (LAW’74) Mr. George M. Miller (LAW’68) Mr. Thomas J. Wozniak (MGT’65, LAW’68) Sean Weinman – has joined GE Aviation list. McLaughlin & Marcus, P.A. as a law clerk Hon. Robert B. Ford (LAW’49) Mr. John Scott Moorehead (LAW’50) Mr. Eldon S. Wright, Jr. (LAW’50) as Senior IP Counsel in their Cincinnati, in the business law practice group. Leo Zhen Zhou – has joined J.P. Morgan in Ohio office. Ms. Gale Holly Freeman (LAW’89) Hon. Robert A. Nader (ADL’50, LAW’53) China as a lawyer. Ryan Krisby – has joined Benesch, Mr. Corey Frost (LAW’87) Mr. Richard A. Oviatt (LAW’67) Matthew Wholey – of Ulmer & Berne LLP, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP as an has been named to the 2019 Ohio Rising associate. Stars list. Class of 2014 Matthew Turkalj – has joined Reminger Richard Hilbrich – has accepted a new Co. LPA in their Cleveland office. Gale Holly Freeman, ‘89 position as an Associate Attorney at John Gardner (December 25, 1957- December 17, 2018) Class of Brooke Tyus – has joined the Cleveland 2011 Brennan Manna Diamond. office of Ulmer & Berne LLP as an Sadly, on July 18, 2019, at the age Steven Chang – has joined Reminger Co., A Tribute to Gale Holly Freeman LPA, as an attorney in their Columbus associate. of 25, John Gardner of Scranton, Pennsylvania passed away. office. Class of 2015 “Gale passed away one week shy of her 62nd birthday from a hereditary Daniel Eichinger – has joined the Trial Henry A. Bailey – has joined the Atlanta John was an outstanding student Division of the Office of the Public office of Berman Fink Van Horn as an who excelled in the classroom, as heart condition. She went in her Defender for Allegheny County as a associate attorney in its commercial real a Senior Editor of the Law Review, sleep and without pain. She and manager. estate division. and an award-winning member I met when we were 1Ls at law Marissa Calcagno Ennis – of Tucker Ellis Ellesha LeCluyse – has joined Ulmer & of our Moot Court and Mock Trial school, and enjoyed many long days LLP, has been named to the 2019 Ohio Berne LLP in the Health Care Practice teams. More than anything, John studying, working on the Journal of Rising Stars list. Group. was an incredibly kind individual International Law and the Canada whose thoughtful nature will David Harman – of Burg Simpson Shipra Rege – of Ulmer & Berne LLP has US Law Institute together. As you be missed by his family, friends, Eldredge Hersh & Jardine, has been joined the Board of Directors of Greater know, she was a caring and sharing and colleagues. He earned a JD promoted to Shareholder. Cleveland Volunteers. person. The world is not a better from CWRU Law in 2019, and a John Gardner, Class of 2019, is pictured with place without her.” Jennifer L. Mesko – of Tucker Ellis LLP, Halden Schwallie – has joined Ulmer & bachelor’s degree in 2015 from Professor Michael Benza during the awards has been named to the 2019 Ohio Rising Berne as an associate in their Business the University of Notre Dame. ceremony before commencement. Stars list. Litigation Practice Group. – John T. Paxman ’89

58 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Fall 2019 x In Brief x 59 Thomas I. Hausman (MGT ’97) Marshall I. Nurenberg (CLC ’50, LAW ’53) CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY COLLEAGUE Mark Andrew Healey ’86 Matthew C. O’Connell ’83 ($1,000 - $4,999) Jay M. Herman ’76 M. Patricia Oliver ’80 Donald A. Heydt ’78 W. James Ollinger ’68 Anonymous SCHOOL OF LAW Susan and Howard ’74 Hopwood Anthony Joseph O’Malley ’84 Joseph J. Allotta ’72 Timothy M. Opsitnick ’85 Himanshu S Amin (MGT ’93, LAW ’95) Joel and Susan ’81 Metzenbaum Hyatt 2018-2019 HONOR ROLL OF DONORS The Andersons Inc. Seth Alan Jacobs ’81 William S. Paddock ’69 Stephen Anway Candace M. Jones ’92 John A. Pendergrass, III ’79 Lawrence E. Apolzon ’82 Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kancler ’64 Charles R. Perelman ’55 BAE Systems Inc. Hon. Stephen Hughes Kehoe ’86 Stephen John Petras, Jr. ’79 Debbie Moss Batt (LAW ’78, MGT ’90) Mr. James (ADL ’63, LAW ’66) and Mrs. Susan Harold A. Phelan ’58 Mara E. Cushwa ’90 & John Paul Batt ’78 Kendis (FSM ’65) Thomas A. Piraino, Jr. Caitlin Bell Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Kendis (ADL ’66, LAW ’69) Harry A. Pogach ’65 Douglas R. Bell ’90 Catherine Mary Kilbane (WRC ’84, LAW ’87) Dr. John Sedor and Ms. Geralyn Presti (LAW ’88, Lawrence M. Bell ’61 Eric E. Kinder ’94 SAS ’88) The Benevity Community Impact Fund Ronald Jay Klein ’82 Steven Gerald Rado ’08 Co-Dean Jessica Berg (GRS ’90, Public Health) Stephen John Knerly, Jr. ’76 Benjamin J. Randall ’72 James H. Berick ’58 James Charles Koenig (MGT ’83, LAW ’87) The Honorable Judith Harris Rawson ’76 J. V. Biernacki Robert J. Kolesar ’68 Sarah and Kip Reader ’74 HONOR ROLL BY DONOR CLUB Ms. Stacey Lemming Blasko ’96 Anthony Dean Konkoly (LAW ’86, MGT ’96) Charles Theodore Riehl ’71 J. Kenneth Brown ’61 Donald L. Korb ’73 William P. Rogers, Jr. ’78 Recognizing alumni and friends who have made gifts to the law school John Duff Brown ’69 Jason A. Korosec (MGT ’97, LAW ’97) David Ira Rosen ’77 during the fiscal year 2019 (July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019) The Brush Foundation Byron Samuel Krantz ’63 Patricia Ann Ruf Tracey G. Burton ’90 Alan Robert Kretzer ’68 James M. Ruschell ’73 Thomas James Callahan ’85 Thomas Robert Kromer ’82 Patrick Joseph Saccogna (LAW ’90, LAW ’99) The John F. and Mary A. Geisse Foundation Drs. Reed and Andrea Gelzer Elizabeth Haber Lacy ’91 Lawrence E. Sachs ’83 LEADER George Damron Callard ’92 James D. Graham ’95 Michelle Ya-Ling Gon ’85 Angela Genovese Carlin ’55 Carmen Frank Lamancusa ’67 John Michael Saganich (WRC ’79, LAW ’84) ($100,000+) James Hagy (WRC ’75, WRC ’78) & Camilla Hagy Marie C. Grossman (LAW ’71, GRS ’93) Craig Edward Chapman ’80 James Thompson Lang ’89 Charles Robert Schaefer ’69 Coleman ’70 and Susan Burke Foundation (WRC ’76) Grunfeld Desiderio Lebowitz Silverman & Klestadt Robert L. Chapman ’68 Dale C. LaPorte ’66 David A. Schaefer ’74 Carleton C. Hutchins Trust Stephen M. 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Petro ’73 Alexander Carl Elsberg ’96 Kevin David McDonald ’78 Benjamin Stulberg (MGT ’07, LAW ’07) Ranney Foundation Tucker Ellis LLP Phillip A. Ranney ’61 William Wendell Falsgraf ’58 George L. McGaughey, Jr. ’75 Mark F. Swary ’73 Stanton Foundation Vanguard Charitable Robert Philip Reffner ’77 Fay Sharpe LLP Ralph Curtis Megargel ’92 Arthur J. Tassi, III ’79 Ulmer & Berne LLP Frederick A. Watkins ’68 Robert S. & Sylvia K. Reitman Family Foundation Donald Gerard Featherstun ’79 Alex S. Melgun (ADL ’52, LAW ’55) James E. Thomson ’61 Mr. Mark Alan (MGT ’87, LAW ’87) & Mrs. Nancy of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland John J. Filak ’56 W. Joseph Melnik ’94 Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence P. Trepeck Weinberger Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Reitman (LAW ’58; WRC ’82) Toni Marie Fisher ’87 Prof. Frank S. Merritt ’68 Theodore J. Tucci ’82 Lewis ’72 and Susan Winarsky Joseph Marc Sellers ’79 PARTNER John M. Flynn ’68 Gerald A. Messerman (ADL ’58, LAW ’61) Ralph Sargent Tyler, III ’72 Peter H. 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Robert Franklin Orth 1964 John Lawrence Tomec Hon. Leo Michael Spellacy Joseph Michael Vitale Kenneth A. Dettelbach Laurence D. Steinsapir Marshall J. Wolf John D. Emerich James F. Sweeney John A. Zangerle Richard E. Grubbe Donald Matthew Tomsik I. James Hackenberg Harold L. Witsaman Thomas A. Heffernan 1968 Edward Kancler Christopher W. Baldwin 1960 Richard A. Rosner Robert L. Chapman Sheldon I. Berns Ritchie T. Thomas Mario C. Ciano Dick Brubaker John D. Wheeler John M. Flynn Bernard Goodman Charles E. Zumkehr Austin T. Fragomen, Jr. Richard Alan Goulder Alan Barry George Albert H. Leyerle 1965 Harlan M. Gordon Josiah L. Mason Ronald G. Gymer Oakley V. Andrews Robert M. Moss Daniel Joseph Hudak Robert S. Balantzow Donald W. Perkal Donald A. Insul Christ Boukis John Henry Wilharm, Jr. David Carroll Johnson Gary L. Bryenton Thomas J. Kiss Hon. William F. Chinnock 1970 1972 Robert J. Kolesar Hon. H. F. Inderlied, Jr. Courtland T. Babcock, II Joseph J. Allotta 1961 Timothy E. Kramer Harvey M. Adelstein Harry A. Pogach Thomas Harvie Barnard Mark David Averbach Alan Robert Kretzer Lawrence M. Bell John G. Sayle Hon. Donna J. Bowman Bernard Robert Baker, III Wilbur C. Leatherberry J. Kenneth Brown Robert B. Weltman Coleman P. Burke Richard H. Bamberger Richard Frank Mack John Jay Freer Michael Drain Roger S. Bamberger Joseph T. McGinness Donald N. Jaffe Howard J. Freedman Douglas N. Barr 1966 Frank S. Merritt Myron L. Joseph W. Logan Fry William P. Bobulsky Hon. J. C. Argetsinger, II Charles R. Oestreicher John O. Martin John N. Gulick, Jr. Thomas B. Brigham, Jr. David A. Basinski W. James Ollinger Gerald A. Messerman Hon. John Robert Hoffman, Alan K. Brown Hon. Paul Brickner Hon. Martin O’Donnell Parks Robert E. Murray Jr. J. Douglas Butler Robert F. Burkey Michael Alan Pohl Phillip A. Ranney Robin M. Kennedy* Paul M. Dutton J. David Buzzard Robert G. Rubin Ellen Lake Stephen C. Ellis Harvey Allen Snider Phillip Campanella George R. Sapir Terry Leiden Hon. Natalie K. Finn James E. Thomson Logan Fulrath, Jr. Hon. Edward J. Schoenbaum Larry B. Litwin John T. Forry Peter C. Wykoff Mark Joel Goldberg Arthur Wallis Shantz, Jr. Seth Benjamin Marks William H. Fulton John A. Hallbauer David Niel Strand Daniel C. Miclau John H. Gibbon HONOR ROLL BY DONOR BY CLASS YEAR 1962 James D. Kendis Roger W. Van Deusen John Ford Strong Paul Dale Glenn Robert Michael Beno Peter George Kratt Frederick A. Watkins Homer S. Taft, Jr. George S. Goodridge Recognizing alumni who have made gifts to the law school during fiscal year 2019 (July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019) Daniel Thomas Clancy Thomas J. LaFond Hon. Raymond F. Voelker Richard J. Hartman Hon. Thomas Patrick Dale C. LaPorte 1969 David S. Weil, Jr. Paul K. Kiever Curran* Evan E. Lloyd Col. William C. Kirk Joseph F. Spaniol, Jr. William J. Miller John J. Filak David Friedman William W. Allport 1947 H. Philip Heil John Garver Morrisson Herschel Kozlov John M. Stickney Eleanore S. Neubert David L. Freeman Raymond John Grabow John Duff Brown 1971 Richard C. Rose Byron Samuel Krantz Raymond Ronald November Hon. William J. Martin Melvin J. Strouse David C. George Sheldon L. Greene Stephen L. Buescher Thomas E. Africa William H. Logsdon Benson Dale Pilloff Benjamin J. Randall Jack Kaufman George C. Limbach Kenneth L. Cohen Thomas G. Belden 1952 Frederick M. Lombardi C. Max Vassanelli Robert N. Rapp 1948 John M. Lennon George Joseph Moscarino George E. Harwin Jerry W. Boykin Hon. Joseph E. Cirigliano 1955 Frank Charles Manak, III David R. Williams Jeffrey David Solomon Irving Martin Weiss J. Robert Malloy Hon. David S. Perelman Jan Horbaly Joseph W. Casper Joseph J. Sommer Angela Genovese Carlin Charles E. Merchant Robert M. Spira Hon. Alfred L. Margolis Harold A. Phelan Bernard Charles Johnson Madge Langer Casper Hon. R.R. Denny Clunk James S. Monahan Ed H. Tetelman Daniel B. Roth 1967 Robert D. Kendis John A. Demer, Jr. 1949 Frank H. Harvey, Jr. Robert S. Reitman Ivan L. Otto Stephen D. Tompkins Keith E. Spero Alan S. Sims Joseph E. Bolek, Jr. James M. Klein Charles W. Findlay, III Donald Richard Brooks 1953 Donald E. Lefton Col. Allan A. Toomey Lewis Einbund Brano Urbancic Eugene Stevens Gerald B. Chattman William Alan Koenig Jeffrey S. Glazer William C. McCoy Alex S. Melgun Ralph Sargent Tyler, III Anthony J. Viola* 1963 William G. Dolde Jeffrey B. Marks Marie C. Grossman Howard E. Hendershott, Jr. Bernard H. Niehaus David F. Walbert Harold H. Uible* Charles J. Acker Richard M. Fanelly Jeffrey L. Meldon Kathryn G. Havemann Herbert J. Hoppe, Jr. Charles R. Perelman Robert B. Walker 1959 Alan V. Friedman Sheldon G. Gilman Thomas Mester Katherine Ann Hossofsky Marshall I. Nurenberg Edwin Z. Singer Diane Rubin Williams 1957 Daniel P. Batista Ronald H. Gordon Jerrold L. Goldstein Hon. Thomas F. Norton Jack Kurant 1950 Albert Obermeyer James E. Wanner Ronald A. Gold Lewis I. Winarsky Ralph V. Cosiano Charles W. Lissauer Ronald E. Holtman William S. Paddock Carl A. Nunziato Ignatius A. Comella Jack E. Shelley Daniel S. Rak Charles B. Zellmer Gerald E. Fuerst Justin R. Lumley Carmen Frank Lamancusa Charles Robert Schaefer Hon. George W. Spanagel Ellen W. Ott 1956 Alan D. Greenberg Carole Ann Mancino Lloyd D. Mazur Jerry B. Silverman Jerold George Paquette 1954 Allen B. Bickart 1958 Richard Arthur Keeney Paul A. Mancino, Jr. Marian Foreman Ratnoff Harold Roy Weinberg Hon. Herbert E. Phipps 1973 1951 Hon. Daniel Eugene Martin C. Blake James H. Berick Richard N. Mitchell William A. Papenbrock Charles Preston Rose, Jr. Thomas L. Wiseman Charles Theodore Riehl Mark William Altier Richard G. Bell Gallagher Jerome M. Ellerin John P. Falcone Garrett J. Murray David L. Simiele William A. Shira, III William T. Wuliger Gregory A. Weiss Frederick W. Anthony Wallace B. Krivoy Herbert B. Levine Robert J. Federman William Wendell Falsgraf Anthony John Musca John D. Steele, Jr. Jerome F. Weiss Kenneth Earl Banks, Jr.

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Richard John Hauer, Jr. Robert P. Weaver Mark F. Brancato Scott P. Kenney Hazel Martin Willacy Douglas W. Charnas LAW FIRM GIVING CHALLENGE George Thomas Kimmel, III Cary J. Zabell Diane Citron Daniel J. Kolick Kevin Cogan The School of Law is grateful to the law firms and alumni volunteer representatives who Frederick J. Krebs Ann Pauline Cohn annually participate in the Law Firm Giving Challenge (LFGC). With the assistance of Edward Thaddeus 1977 Jonathan E. Coughlan Joan U. Allgood participating alumni at respective firms and firm support, the 2018-2019 Law Firm Giving Krumeich, II Mary Lynn Durham HONOR ROLL BY Mitchell L. Alperin Challenge raised more than $225,000 for the Law School Annual Fund. Gregory M. Lichko James Hagy Charles M. Andrews FIRM SUPPORT Margaret A. Malone Richard G. Hardy Thomas D. Anthony Congratulations to the Following Law Firm Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP George L. McGaughey, Jr. Stephen M. Harnik Janet Roberta Beck Giving Challenge Award Winners: Managing Partner: Stanley R. Gorom III Thomas F. McKee Donald A. Heydt BENEFACTOR Kent Howard Borges LFGC Representative: Matthew K. Grashoff Osborne Mills, Jr. William H. Howard ($25,000-$99,999) Thomas Boustead First Place, Participation – 100% ’13 Lester S. Potash Janet MacKenzie Kittel Jonathan M. Boylan Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP LFGC Representative: Eric B. Levasseur ’02 BakerHostetler Dorothy F. Reichenbach Joy L. Koletsky Kerry D. Bruce Tucker Ellis LLP Ulmer & Berne LLP Louis Rorimer Charles R. Kowal Herman J. Carach Jones Day Hon. Edmund B. Round Christine Blair Legow Joseph D. Carney Second Place, Participation Partner-in-Charge, Cleveland: Heather Donald S. Scherzer Paul J. Lupia PARTNER Geoffrey K. Barnes Beverly J. Coen Buckley King Lennox 1974 Hon. Kenneth R. Spanagel Kevin David McDonald ($10,000 - $24,999) Deborah Benik B. Amanda Garver Weston Hurd LFGC Representative: Dennis L. Murphy ’91 Roger E. Bloomfield Marc S. Stein Louise Wenner McKinney Daniel B. Bennington Gwenn E. Glover Tucker Ellis LLP Marc A. Boman Hal T. Stern H. Jefferson Megargel, II Margaret Anne Cannon Frances Floriano Goins Third Place, Participation McDonald Hopkins LLC Jerry Lucious Boswell Carol B. Tanenbaum Karen N. Moellenberg Abraham Cantor Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP President: Shawn M. Riley ’86 Frank Jonathan Hariton Gerald P. Vargo Michael D. Goler Andrew R. Morse DEANS’ SOCIETY Lawrence John Carlini LFGC Representative: David B. Cupar ’99 Howard H. Hopwood, III Thomas A. Visconsi, Jr. Michael Frederick Harris Daniel H. Plumly ($5,000 - $9,999) Michael Allen Cyphert Total Giving Douglas M. Johnson P. Michael Ward Timothy D. Holder Radd L. Riebe William Scott Derkin (alumni and firm support combined): Reminger Co., LPA Grunfeld, Desiderio, Lebowitz, Silverman & Stephen Richard Kalette G. Kimball Williams David L. Huber Janice E. Rieth Lee J. Dixon, II 1. BakerHostetler Managing Partner: Stephen E. Walters Klestadt LLP Paul H. Keating Peter H. Winslow Patricia Marcus Inglis William P. Rogers, Jr. Leonard Ehrenreich 2. Jones Day LFGC Representative: David Walters ’16 Squire Patton Boggs Foundation David Herman Kessler John C. Wojteczko Peter A. Joy Fred B. Sampliner Leslie Robert Evans 3. Ulmer & Berne LLP Zashin & Rich Alan S. Kleiman L. James Juliano, Jr. Stephen Albert Santangelo Lawrence J. Friedman Roetzel & Andress LPA Susan Elaine Klein Gordon D. Kinder, II Michael David Schenker Nelson E. Genshaft 1976 Participating Firms Chairman: Robert E. Blackham Andrew Kohn Phillip J. Kolczynski David Bennett Sholem COLLEAGUE James N. Harding Valerie Jane Bryan BakerHostetler LFGC Representative: Tammi Lees ’04 Lee A. Koosed Marianne Ludwig Kenneth Allyn Sprang ($1,000 - $4,999) Stanley T. Jaros James A. Ellowitz Managing Partner: Hewitt B. Shaw ’80 Margery Beth Koosed John E. Lynch, Jr. Barbara Bell Stalzer Susan Stevens Jaros William N. Farran, III LFGC Representative: David A. Carney ’05 Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC Deanna Coe Kursh Richard K. MacBarron Marjorie Lord Westphal Margaret Nancy Johnson Richard Charles Foote Managing Partner, Cleveland: Michele L. Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP Edward James Mitchell David G. Mayer Dwight S. Williams James F. Koehler Stephen E. Friedberg Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff Connell ’03 Fay Sharpe LLP John Thomas Mulligan Christine J. McCamont McCullough A. Williams, III Donald L. Korb Margaret J. Gillis Managing Partner: Gregg A. Eisenberg LFGC Representative: John D. Lazzaretti ’06 Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP Kristina Nygaard Christopher C. McCracken F. J. Witt, III Thomas Dutton Leidy Cathy Carter Godshall LFGC Representative: Lee M. Korland ’03 Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP David M. O’Loughlin Hon. Pat E. Morgenstern- Ann H. Womer Benjamin Charles R. McDonald Douglas Neil Godshall Thompson Hine LLP McDonald Hopkins LLC David L. Parham Clarren Gail L. Young Bernard J. Monbouquette Constance Rudnick Grayson Brouse McDowell Partner-in-Charge, Cleveland: Kip T. Bollin Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease LLP John S. Pyle Edward A. Pace Robert Sherman Moore Joan M. Gross Managing Partner: Marc B. Merklin ’84 LFGC Representative: Melissa A. Barrett ’17 Kip Reader Robert Philip Reffner R. Richard Newcomb Patrick Augustus Guida 1979 Partner-in-Charge, Cleveland: Christopher J. Marcialyn Glass Robinowitz David Ira Rosen Tucker Ellis LLP Lawrence L. Newton Jay M. Herman Christopher N. Ames Carney ’86 David A. Schaefer Scott M. Rosenzweig Managing Partner: Joseph J. Morford Michael J. Peterman Joseph Wayne Hull Richard M. Bain LFGC Representative: Jim T. Dixon ’97 Walter | Haverfield LLP David H. Shapiro Jacqueline Simpson LFGC Representative: Thomas R. Peppard, Jr. James M. Petro William Jacobs Andrea L. Berger LFGC Representative: Gabrielle Kelly ‘07 Managing Partner: Ralph E. Cascarilla Paul M. Shapiro Larry V. Slagle ’08 Ron Pfeiffer Hon. Michael P. Kelbley Harvey Paul Blank LFGC Representative: Mark S. Fusco ’88 Robert G. Sillars Robin Stuart Stefan Dennis M. Race Margaret A. Kennedy Harold James Bush Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC Kenneth D. Simmons James A. Vasios Ulmer & Berne LLP James M. Ruschell Stephen John Knerly, Jr. Jill Goubeaux Clark Managing Partner: Steven A. Dimengo Weston Hurd LLP Lawrence R. Sykes Marvin L. Weinberg Partner-in-Charge, Cleveland: Patricia A. David E. Schreiner David J. Lundgren Robert Brayden Downing Managing Partner: Carolyn M. Cappel R. Byron Wallace Daniel W. White Shlonsky Jeffrey N. Silverstein Patrick Michael McLaughlin Claudia H. Dulmage Buckley King LFGC Representative: Warren M. Rosman ’76 Michael F. Westerhaus Dennis R. Wilcox LFGC Representative: Jennifer Lawry Adams Steven T. Sloan Dixon F. Miller Donald Gerard Featherstun Managing Partner: Brent Buckley Scott Russell Wilson ’96 Randall L. Solomon John R. Miller Robert Andrew Fuerst LFGC Representative: Rosemary Sweeney ’87 Zashin & Rich Hon. Daniel V. Zemaitis D. Stephen Stone, Jr. 1975 Alan C. Porter David Lake Giles Managing Partners: Andrew Zashin ’93 and Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease LLP Mark F. Swary Douglas Carlson Jeffrey P. Posner Marc William Groedel Stephen Zashin ’95 Managing Partner: Brent D. Ballard ’85 Managing Partner, Cleveland: Anthony J. Francis G. Titas Michael J. Casper Hon. Judith Harris Rawson 1978 Charles Moorman Hall LFGC Representative: George S. Crisci ’83 LFGC Representative: Donald E. Lampert ’86 O’Malley ’84 Kenneth James Walsh Kevin A. Cudney Warren M. Rosman George Peter Angus David Joseph Helscher LFGC Representative: Thomas M. Welsh ’03 LFGC Representative: Matt E. Albers ’00 Stephen C. Weingrad Thomas C. Doolan Dennis A. Rotman Debbie Moss Batt Roy Allan Hulme LFGC Representative: Lindsay Doss Spillman Charles David Weller Stanley M. Dub Ann C. Rowland John Paul Batt John S. Inglis Gallagher Sharp ’10 George Wenz Leslie Dunn Patricia M. Sexton Victoria Matts Beach Kurt Karakul CEO and Managing Partner: Timothy T. Brick Richard B. Whitney Oldrich Foucek, III Roger Lee Shumaker Bruce J. Belman Duncan J. MacCallum ’88 C. David Witt Thomas Miller George Nancy M. Spain Ronald J. Bernstein Stephen Allan Markus LFGC Representative: Markus Apelis ’08 Alan H. Yamamoto Mark J. Hassett Scott E. Stewart Henry Edmund Billingsley, II Alexander G. Nossiff

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George Sabato Crisci 1985 Barney Singer Jack T. Diamond Karen Ann Skarupski Karen Feibel Aronoff Robert Edelstein Ann Kowal Smith Brent D. Ballard John R. Estadt Elizabeth Anne St. Lifer John Walter Boyd Susan L. Estill Michael Scott Tucker Charles A. Brigham, III R. Leland Evans Rochelle Friedman Walk Thomas James Callahan Philip Lee Francis David Hamilton Wallace Bret J. Cimorell Kenneth Stuart Ginsberg Michelle Anne Williams M. Bradley Dean Jonathan D. Greenberg Meryl Sugar Zweig Gary Stuart Desberg Joseph Francis Hubach Deirdre Anne Donnelly David G. Johnson Hon. Jay T. Finch 1987 R. Mark Jones Howard Mark Gitten Barbara Lee Armstrong Steven Elliott Kahan Michelle Ya-Ling Gon Phillip Mark Callesen Frank Charles Krasovec, Jr. M. Ann Harlan Angela Birch Cox Walter Howard Krohngold Geoffrey P. Haslam Toni Marie Fisher Robert Andrew Liebers Adrienne Sauro Heckman Lynn Maureen Gattozzi Hon. John James Anne Bryan Hemenway Jill Friedman Helfman McConnell, Jr. Michael Thayer Hemenway John F. Hill Lisa A. Roberts-Mamone Dawn M. Kaesgen Kathryn Lynn Mercer Laura Kingsley Hong Craig Stephen Jones Michael William Simon Terence M. Kennedy David S. Michel Scott P. Kenney Edmund George Kauntz Vincent Joseph Tersigni Marjorie H. Kitchell Barry J. Miller Lori Elaine Kirschner Catherine Mary Kilbane Jeffrey Lang Weidenthal Rob M. Kochis George M. Moscarino John Kenneth Krajewski James Charles Koenig Jeanne Martoglio Wilson Alexandra M. H. McPeek Ronn Samuel Nadis Edward R. Marinstein Edward Kolesar Richard Evan Wolfson Ronald A. Mingus Matthew C. O’Connell Gregory Valentin Mersol Barbara Ann Langhenry Robert Francis Yonchak James J. Murtha Colleen Ann O’Connor Robert William Monroe Robin Lynn LaPeters Michael A. Pavlick David Edward Rodney J. Patrick Morris John Kelly McDonald 1989 Elaine Welsh Rosenberger Lawrence E. Sachs Gregg A. Rossi Kathleen Lennon Newman Debbie J. Michelson David Allan Basinski, Jr. Alan Wesley Scheufler Patrick Joseph Saccogna Timothy M. Opsitnick Michael A. Moran Katherine Diane Brandt David Clifford Shall Richard P. Stuart Arthur E. Phelps Amy Soppel Renshaw Margaret Suzanne Callesen Richard H. Verheij Annette M. Wietecha Mary Frances Primiano David Brian Shifrin Dennis Bowen Coppin Michael W. Wise David B. Ritter Judith Steiner Anthea Rena Daniels 1984 Bridget Hart Shea Rosemary Sweeney Alan Paul DiGirolamo James Bruce Aronoff Robert Daniel Sweeney, Jr. Ronald Jay Teplitzky David L. Drechsler 1991 Robert John O’Brien Patricia F. Jacobson 1981 Matthew Patrick Moriarty Robert Alan Miller Amy Adler Becker J. Bret Treier Timothy N. Toma Adam Paul Hall James Walter Brown, III John A. Pendergrass, III Robert D. Katz Kathleen Anne Pettingill Constance Anne Nearhood Brian S. Braunstein Douglas V. Van Dyk Renee Fern Videlefsky John Malcolm Allan, Jr. Christopher H. Hunter David R. Cohen Stephen John Petras, Jr. John P. Kellogg Steven Brian Potter Lynn Frances Ondrey Gruber Bruce Hunter Cox Jeffrey I. Wertheimer Mark Alan Weinberger Mary K. Bender Mark Peter Kesslen Anita D. Cosgrove Joseph Marc Sellers Steven Arthur Rosenberg William M. Ondrey Gruber Susan Woodward Demaske Alan Yanowitz Richard M. Wortman R. Eric Kennedy Thomas Craig Blank Randall Girard Klimchock Irah H. Donner Marilyn Jean Singer Linda M. Saunders Florence Upjohn Orosz William Davis Fosnight Kevin M. Young David Alan Kutik Raymond Marion Buddie James Thompson Lang David Carr Dvorak James Stephen Stephenson James Alan Porter Timothy F. Geisse Thomas M. Lawrence Hon. Colleen Conway 1988 Kevin David Margolis Van Courtland Ernest Arthur J. Tassi, III Stacy Smith Quinn David Michael Grodhaus Paul Brian Madow Cooney 1982 1986 Helen M. Bell Mark Raymond Mitchell Christina D’Eramo Evans James D. Vail Lois S. Resnick Alexander C. Kinzler Lisa Froimson Mann Stuart W. Cordell Lawrence E. Apolzon Laurie Eigner Aronoff Pippa Henderson Carter David Aaron Posner Jacklyn J. Ford Cynthia J. Wiens Debra Dee Rosman Keith Robert Kraus Rosaleen Kiernan Mazanec Dale Cowan Steven E. Borgeson Steven Kenneth Aronoff Kathy DeVito Cohen Susan Lynn Racey Thomas C. Gilchrist Roger Harold Williams Robert Stephen Rybka Albert Joseph Lucas Jean M. McQuillan Michelle Bisenius Creger Andre Ashley Craig David Louis Blackner Charles Daroff Robert Dale Sheehan Lynn Ann Kriessler Richard J. Rymond Milton A. Marquis Glenn Richard Moss Kathryn Gonser Eloff Sheryl Ann DeSantis Luke Lucien Dauchot Timothy James Downing Lisa L. Smith Elizabeth Haber Lacy Cynthia Anne Smith Sheila Anne McKeon 1980 M. Patricia Oliver Christine M. Farquhar Sarah J. Gabinet Mark David Euster Loretta H. Garrison Brian Julius Tareshawty Robert M. Loesch Theodore J. Tucci Marc Bryan Merklin Lorraine Ruth Baumgardner Penny Rabinkoff Douglas R. Folkert Ian S. Haberman Mark Andrew Healey Victor Thomas Geraci Alan Victor Wunsch Lauren McFarlane Michael Willis Vary Lisa Hall Michel Christopher Mark Bechhold Roslyn Zisie Roth Bob Charles Griffo Valerie A. Hawkins Kirsten Anne Hotchkiss Alan Craig Hochheiser Donald Moracz Lori Wald David Landers O’Connell Anna Mae Blankemeyer Michael Joseph Russo David Geoffrey Holcombe Robert Joseph Henry Ari Hershel Jaffe Santo Incorvaia 1990 Dennis Leo Murphy David A. Wardell Anthony Joseph O’Malley Natalie A. Napierala Craig Edward Chapman Amy R. Schmidt Susan Metzenbaum Hyatt Nancy A. Hronek Hon. Stephen Hughes Kehoe John B. Kenison, Jr. Jessica Catherine Abrahams David Pierson Woolsey Craig Turner Ornell David Arthur Christiansen Philip Arend Schuster Robert Mason Ingersoll Timothy Sean Kerr Anthony Dean Konkoly Sharon L. Knaggs Dimitri John Nionakis Kevin Gregory Robertson Douglas R. Bell Michael Edward Elliott Jay Shapiro Julie Ann Stern Jacobs Enid L. Kushner Saralee K. Luke Alise Rachel Panitch Ronald Jay Klein John Michael Saganich William J. Brucker Hewitt B. Shaw Seth Alan Jacobs Donald E. Lampert Michael John Lyle Suzanne Young Park Frank Irvin Ford, Jr. Thomas Robert Kromer 1983 Lisa Katherine Toner Rita Bryce Lynn Beth Simon John Michael Majoras Bernadette Mihalic Mast Helen Probst Mills Anne Rothwell Forlines Suellen Shapiro Kadis J. Philip Lawroski Bruce G. Alexander Nelson A. Toner Tracey G. Burton Branka Ann Snajdar- George L. Majoros, Jr. David L. Mast John Peter Slagter Bill J. Gagliano Jean C. Kalberer Kathy P. Lazar David Altman Gregory J. Viviani Mara E. Cushwa Mismas David Talmage Musselman Donald S. Maurice, Jr. Susan St. Onge Karen Sternbergh Gerstner Jeffrey Stephen Kaufman John W. Lebold Michael A. Axel Amy L. Weber Christopher D. Fleming Ieva Karklins O’Rourke Thomas I. Michals Weicheng Wang Earl Francis Ghaster, Jr. David Clyde Vanaman Neil J. Kozokoff Frank Leonetti, III Denise Dzurec Bell Robert Mitchell Weiss Ann Marie Intili Gardiner Susan Kurachi Reeves Pamela Sue Miller John Adam Zangerle, III John Mills Gherlein Marilyn Gottlieb Wasser Rita Ann Maimbourg William F. Lepage Edward Joseph Bell John M. Wirtshafter Amy Scott Gilchrist Ronald Eric Gluck Irene Lowe Willson Steven J. Miller Raymond Michael Malone Arthur R. Braitman Suzanne Kleinsmith Debra Ann Perelman Richard C. Haber James Arthur Goldsmith Karen Greve Milton Craig A. Marvinney Donna L. Cahill Saganich Geralyn Presti

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1992 Amanda M. Seewald David M. Neumann Michael J. Shapiro Hon. Ronald Joseph O’Leary Barbara Eva Rettig Bailey Elayne Marie Siegfried Galen Leigh Schuerlein Michael John Benza Ann M. Skerry George Damron Callard Renee Lee Snow James Francis Contini, II 1995 Jennifer Louise Vergilii Corine Reebel Corpora Himanshu S. Amin Olga Yefimovna Zullig Robert Stephen Faxon Nicole Bornhorst Lisa Babish Forbes Larissa Larson Bungo Katherine A. Friedell Matthew E. Burke 1998 Donald S. Gries Kim Rosen Cullers Benjamin W. Chase John Suderley Harris Michael A. Cullers Jennifer Cupar Matthew Hartell Herndon Richard L. Dana, Jr. Lesli Christine Esposito Candace M. Jones Anne Lederman Flamm Andrew M. Fowerbaugh Derek Kaesgen Lisa H. Fraley Frederick Peter Lehr Denise Lynn Kipfstuhl Adam M. Fried Kevin Scott McDonald Susan R. Massey Daniel Paul Goetz John Joseph McGuire Joseph Jay Matts James D. Graham Marc Dominick Miceli Ralph Curtis Megargel Kelly N. Grigsby Andrew David Rothstein 2002 Laura Pizmoht Robert B. Port Robert S. Melson Daniel R. Hansen Beth Norwood Fischer Pejavar Nikhil Rao Doug Musick Carolyn P. Hermon-Percell Junxia Tang Jernejcic 1999 Elizabeth Terese Reichard Jacquelyn Nance Alison M. Hill Miss Adrienne B. Kirshner Margaret Tiernan Reidy Jeremy Scott Belin Amelia S. Renkert-Thomas Lincoln G. Kaiser Eric Blake Levasseur Laura Marie Simmons David B. Cupar J. Matthew Shady Daivia S. Kasper Hugh Barrett McClean H. William Smith, III Gregory W. Knapp Larry Bruce Donovan David Andrew Sims Marianna J. Perakis Hon. William F. B. Vodrey Kirstin T. Knight Lesley A. Gordon Laura Kendall Sitarski Jennifer Lawless Roth S. Peter Voudouris Nicole Robilotto Nason Jill Elaine Nelson Jennifer L. Stapleton Jack Turner, II Steven Harris Weigler Kristine Marie Wellman Richard Christopher Rezie Rachel E. Starkey John A. Young Matthew Allen Salerno Michael J. Zbiegien, Jr. Michael Allen Van Lente 2008 S. Colin G. Petry Sarah Anne Stover Veronica Lambillotte Vasu Lauren B. Shy Alexander van Voorhees Dorothy Richard Reece James R. Warren, III Amy Marie Wojnarwsky Stephen Simeon Zashin 2003 Gary Michael Broadbent 1993 Marijane E. Treacy Atossa Alavi Sara Busch Whetzel Nicholas Pavel Resetar Marcel Wong A. Michael Anderton 2005 Kyle Thomas R. Cutts Derek A. Auito Amelia Jane Workman Eric Peter Stephens Heidi Anne Armstrong David Alan Carney Molly Anne Drake 2014 1996 Michele L. Connell Farago Uri Strauss Elissa Morganti Banas Jennifer Lawry Adams 2000 David James Grover Ingrid Hung 2012 Madeline Dennis Matthew R. Duncan Parker J. Zabell Daniel Joseph Van Grol Gabriel Santos de la Merced Stacey Lemming Blasko Matthew E. Albers Matthew E. Henoch Peter W. Kelly Sarah Marie Cleves Liam Joseph Dunn Ryan W. Falk Lori Helton Welker Craig Stephen Denney Howard J. Bobrow Mike Brevetta Wendy Browne Henoch Susan Marie Kornatowski Dante Altieri Marinucci Diana Marie Feitl Jeffrey William Gallup Cynthia Dollar Grant Neil Dinner Robert E. Cahill Amy Elizabeth Miller 2007 Anup Kumar Misra Neil Patrick McLaughlin Gregory Thomas Frohman Mandi Jo Hanneke Thomas Allan Hamilton Alexander Carl Elsberg Carleigh Landers Elkus Daniel Patrick Moloney Ronald Gary Blum, Jr. Thomas Robert Peppard, Jr. 2010 Daniel Joseph Straka Megan Ormond Gabrail Amy M. Klosterman Ann Elizabeth Knuth M. David Galin Bryan James Farkas Erin Pearl Moloney Susan Matthees Blum Kimberly Pinter Jillian Leora Dinehart Jaclyn Lara Matayoshi Vary Michael Gabrail Lee Michael Korland Ross I. Molho Laurie Keco Grabowski Jessica A. Fiscus Justin A. Morocco Kevin Russell Carter Jamie Lynn Price Andrew Casey Geronimo Keith Edmund White Richard L. Hilbrich Amanda Raines Lawrence Sean C. Reidy Matthew David Kades Leigh R. Greden Ryan Michael Patton Ndubisi Anthony Ezeolu Steven Gerald Rado Andrea Marie Glinka Yelena Grinberg Katz Thomas Robert Simmons Shannon Lee Shinaberry Salim Anthony Kafiti Hilary Sara Leeds Elliot S. Reed Ivan Ross Goldberg Will Scott Randall, II Przybysz 2013 Shihui M. Nelson John Paul Daniel Lucci Jessica Marie Sandler Erica James Gene Paul Puerta Gail R. Taylor Randall K. Skalberg Robert Kamins Audrey Robinson Tedford Andrew Michael Katz Ruchi V. Asher Brent Michael Pietrafese Noelle Margherita Shanahan Shane A. Lawson Donald G. Slezak Lee S. Walko Tracey L. Turnbull Tariq Mahmood Naeem Gabrielle Kelly Jeffrey Bieszczak Danae K. Remmert Cutts Aaron Minc Samuel Francis Toth Seth M. Wolf Col. Jeremy S. Weber Christian A. Natiello 2006 James D. Kuthe Jessica Bieszczak Alan Charles Yarcusko Rebecca Wistner Haverstick Jodi Rich Melanie Ann Shakarian Caitlin Anne McDonough Adam Paul Slepecky Brian Patrick Nally Yitu Wang Brian William Avery Danielle A. Caldwell Kurt Matthew Young Benjamin Creighton Sasse Joshua Jay Strickland Conor Andrew McLaughlin Tristan Willem Statler James M. Pasch Meena M. Yust Patrick Donald Burns Hillary Victoria Colonna Andrew A. Zashin Corinna M. Taubner Joseph Andrew Ursic Harini Narayanswamy Matthew Ryan Amanda McMurray Roe 1997 Michael Wilson Daniels Kyle Colonna Elizabeth M. Yanelli Thomas M. Welsh, Jr. Matthew Linden Paeffgen VanWasshnova Christine Michelle Snyder Joseph Charles Blasko Ethan David Dunn Ruizhe Du 2015 Evan Perry John C. Weber Lindsay Doss Spillman 1994 Eric Gi ke Cheng Laura Ann Evans Josh Friedman James D. Asimes Graham Christian Polando Jiajia (Veronica) Xu James Matthew Willson James O. Craven Rhonda B. Debevec 2001 2004 Gretchen Elise Gosnell Jessica Rubin Grashoff Joseph Zachary Czerwien Gerald Lawson Sink Laurie H. Goetz Damon Brandon Forney John Joseph Allotta James Franklin Anderton, V Ruth Mary Hackler Matthew Karl Grashoff Stephen William Dukes Mary Irene Slonina Cathryn D. Griffin Jon Joseph Goldwood Linda Louise Bickerstaff Carolyn J. Aton John David Lazzaretti 2009 2011 Trevor J. Hardy Nathaniel J. Ehrman Mark Griffin Darcy Mehling Good Nicole E. Braden Lewis Matthew A. Bobrowski Gregory Adam Lewis Matthew Sutherland Hao Cai Heather Doherty Su He Dylan Taylor Klossner Mariel Ann Harris Matthew Dennis Graban Margaret Katherine Feltz Pete Collins Shari Lil Lyons Spaeder Dae Hyun Chung Andrea Rose McCarthy Paul Lewis Janowicz Jeffrey John League Eric E. Kinder Colinda Katrice Howard Sara Dawson Harvey Adrienne Cvetkovic Mark Wallace McDougall Benjamin Stulberg Margaux Juliet Day Jennifer Lynn Mesko Nelson Robert Leese Lamont Chad Mignott W. Joseph Melnik Jason A. Korosec Catherine Lupo Miller Ayesha B. Hardaway Jed Benjamin Miller James T. Tsai Benjamin David Faller Gregory Scott Miao Anthony James Martucci Bradley Steven Pulfer A. Tod Northman, II Lora Lynne Krider Ross Perry Miller Christopher S. 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On September 5, 2019, CWRU President Barbara Snyder dedicated East Bell Commons, a new 4.2 acre park adjacent to the Law School where the Cleveland Institute of Art used to be. “Turning Point,” a Stonehenge-like sculpture created in 2000 by artist Philip Johnson, was placed at the apex of the park pathways.