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GAMECHANGERS

A SPECIAL ISSUE HONORING PROMINENT ALUMNI WHO HAVE MADE EXTRAORDINARY CONTRIBUTIONS TO THEIR FIELDS

INCLUDING MARVIN R. BAXTER ’66, Former Justice, Supreme Court of California; WILLIE L. BROWN JR. ’58, Former Mayor of San Francisco and Former Speaker of the California State Assembly; CAROL A. CORRIGAN ’75, Justice, Supreme Court of California; JOSEPH W. COTCHETT ’64, Founding Partner of Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy; EDWARD J. DAVILA ’79, Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California; KAMALA HARRIS ’89, U.S. Senator for California; BRAD R. HILL ’83, Presiding Justice, California Fifth District Court of Appeal; LAWRENCE J. O’NEILL ’79, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California; AND JACKIE SPEIER ’76, U.S. Representative from California. [ FROM THE DEAN

Dear Alumni and Friends, UC Hastings Magazine The law has ancient roots, and we practice our profession in accordance with Spring 2019 Volume 12, Number 1 fundamental axioms and principles. We rightfully take pride working within an Anglo-American legal system that is centuries old. Substantive guarantees Chancellor & Dean David Faigman of due process and equal protection, and procedural guarantees of the adver- sarial system and fundamental fairness, are cornerstones of our profession. At Academic Dean | Morris Ratner the same time, the law and what it means to be a lawyer have changed and Chief Communications Officer continue to change, sometimes in dramatic and even revolutionary ways. And Alex A.G. Shapiro [email protected] this change is inevitably led by the lawyers themselves. It is these lawyers who Chief Development Officer give those ancient and fundamental principles Eric Dumbleton modern meaning. They are the gamechangers. [email protected] We are in the midst of a time of particular Illustrations | Max-o-Matic upheaval in the law, as tech increasingly Photography | Jim Block changes legal practice and the law asserts its influence on, and power over, tech. Produced by | DCP Additionally, myriad areas of practice—from Board of Directors tax to immigration to bankruptcy to crimi- Tina Combs ’88, Chair Carl W. “Chip” Robertson ’98, nal sentencing to the environment—present Vice Chair constant challenge and revision. UC Hastings Simona Agnolucci ’06 has begun a major renovation and expansion Donald Bradley ’68 of its campus with one goal in mind: to further Thomas Gede ’81 Adrienne Go its mission of training students in the basics Claes H. Lewenhaupt ’89 of lawyering, while preparing them to employ Christian Osmeña that knowledge to be ready for, and to contrib- Mary Noel Pepys ’78 ute to, a quickly changing legal landscape. Courtney Power ’01 UC Hastings is already well-known for Contact Us producing leaders across a wide spectrum of law and law-related fields. It is Advancement & Communications University of California with this in mind that we decided to celebrate a cross section of distinguished Hastings College of the Law UC Hastings alumni who have been gamechangers in both traditional and 200 McAllister St. nontraditional ways. Founded in 1878, UC Hastings has graduated countless San Francisco, CA 94102 high achievers, innovators, and thought leaders. In this special edition of UC 415.565.4615 Hastings magazine, we spotlight a selection of them; we will feature many more [email protected] in future editions. Our honorees include high-profile elected officials and lumi- uchastings.edu naries of the bench, social justice pioneers and tech trailblazers, media titans Send changes of address to and independent impresarios. Collectively, they illustrate the breadth of possi- [email protected]. bilities available to the farsighted and prodigiously gifted lawyers of yesterday, Please submit your class notes at today, and tomorrow. [email protected]. We thank all of the honorees in these pages (and those to be honored in UC Hastings is published by the future magazines) for their contributions—and for continuing to make the law University of California Hastings College of the Law. ©2019 school proud. All rights reserved. Sincerely, If you prefer to opt out of receiving UC Hastings magazine by mail, email [email protected] or visit uchastings.edu/alumni-contact.

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OVER THE YEARS, UC HASTINGS HAS GRADUATED MANY ALUMNI WHOSE VISIONARY THINKING MAKES THEM LEADERS IN THEIR FIELDS. IN THIS ISSUE, MEET SOME OF THE INSPIRING ALUMNI WHO ARE CHANGING THE GAME.

2 PUBLIC SERVICE / PUBLIC INTEREST Alumni contribute to the greater good in countless ways, from serving the country as elected officials to overseeing transformative social justice organizations. They have left—and continue to leave—an indelible mark on the communities they serve.

9 THE JUDICIARY Serving in—and presiding over—courts of all levels in states across the nation, UC Hastings alumni have been judicial thought leaders for generations.

13 THE PRACTICE OF LAW UC Hastings graduates can be found in top leadership positions at the country’s most respected law firms—and in many cases were the firms’ founders. Their track records in and out of the courtroom are impressive, as is their commitment to giving back.

21 BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY LAW Movers and shakers in wide-ranging industries such as finance, biotech, real estate, and insurance, UC Hastings alumni excel in careers that are anything but “business as usual.”

27 BEYOND THE LAW Highly accomplished alumni thrive in fields as diverse as documentary filmmaking, television news, public relations, academia, and ice dancing—putting their law degree to work in creative ways.

32 ADVANCEMENT Two alumni reflect on the long-term benefits of giving back to their alma mater, whether through planned giving or cy pres awards.

33 BUILDING UC HASTINGS With plans underway to establish a vibrant academic village in the heart of San Francisco, UC Hastings is changing the game for how students can live and learn in an interdisciplinary community. GAMECHANGERS

UC HASTINGS 1 JEFF ADACHI ’85 ZAHRA BILLOO ’09 Over the next 20 years, Former San Francisco Executive Director, and after stints in the state Public Defender San Francisco Bay Area Senate and as Nevada’s → Adachi spent almost his Office of the Council attorney general, he was entire legal career in the San on American-Islamic elected governor in 1982. Francisco Public Defender’s Relations After serving two terms, Office and served as the → Since joining the Bryan represented Nevada city’s public defender since Council on American- in Washington, D.C., as a he was elected to the post Islamic Relations at the two-term U.S. senator. He in 2002. During his tenure, beginning of her legal currently practices law at he tried more than 150 jury career, Billoo has shep- Fennemore Craig in Las trials, handled more than herded the San Francisco Vegas, where he focuses on 3,000 criminal matters, chapter through a decade government relations. and established innovative of unprecedented growth, programs that have placed overseeing a team of XOCHITL CARRION ’07 the office, whose team of Assistant District almost 100 lawyers and 60 Attorney, San Francisco staff represents more than District Attorney’s Office 23,000 people annually, at → Carrion has assisted San the cutting edge of legal Francisco District Attorney representation of the poor. George Gascón since 2015 Adachi passed away earlier in representing the people this year. of the city and county of San Francisco. She also PUBLIC INTEREST PUBLIC MANUELA serves as the Northern

ALBUQUERQUE ’75 advocates who serve the District vice president of / Former Berkeley local American Muslim the California La Raza City Attorney population through direct Lawyers Association. She → Albuquerque served legal services and com- also served as a member of as Berkeley city attorney munity outreach. Under the California Law Revision for 22 years, the longest her tenure, the chapter has Commission, to which tenure of any city attorney also engaged in high-im- she was appointed by in Berkeley’s history. In that pact litigation challenging Gov. Edmund G. Brown position, from which she discriminatory treatment Jr. in 2011 and which she retired in 2007, she advised against Muslims. Billoo chaired in 2012-2013. She the Berkeley City Council, received the 2017 Human also served as co-president Housing Authority, city Rights Award from the of Brava! for Women in the manager and staff, and city Society of American Law Arts; chair of communi- boards and commissions, Teachers in honor of her cations for the Hispanic while also litigating cases work. National Bar Association’s at every level of state and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and federal courts. She earned RICHARD H. BRYAN ’63 Transgender Division; numerous honors for her Former U.S. Senator and president of the San work, including California from Nevada Francisco La Raza Lawyers Lawyer of the Year in 2007, → Following his early Association. and was named Public days as a deputy DA and Lawyer of the Year by the public defender, Bryan JAMES M. COLE ’79 California State Bar’s Public was elected to the Nevada Former U.S. Deputy ALUMNI FROM SERVING CONTRIBUTE GOOD THE THE GREATER IN COUNTRY TO COUNTLESS AS WAYS,

PUBLIC SERVICE SERVICE PUBLIC → ELECTED OFFICIALS OVERSEEING TRANSFORMATIVE SOCIAL TO JUSTICE ORGANIZATIONS. THEY HAVE INDELIBLE CONTINUE LEAVE—AN MARKLEFT—AND TO ON THE COMMUNITIES THEY SERVE. Law Section in 2005. State Assembly in 1968. Attorney General

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→ Following his graduation He teaches as an adjunct from UC Hastings, Cole professor at UC Hastings. joined the Department of Justice, and spent the next SEAN ELSBERND ’00 13 years working in various Chief of Staff, San roles, from trial attorney to Francisco Mayor’s Office deputy chief of the Public → Elsbernd was selected Integrity Section. He served as chief of staff to Mayor as deputy attorney general London Breed in 2018. from 2011 to 2015, working He previously served as with the attorney general state director for Sen. to formulate the federal Dianne Feinstein, District response to changes such as state decriminaliza- tion of marijuana and the Smart on Crime program. He is now global co-lead of Sidley’s White Collar: Government Litigation and Investigations practice. Willie L. Brown Jr. ’58 FORMER MAYOR OF SAN FRANCISCO BURK DELVENTHAL ’69 Chief Deputy, 7 representative on the Following a few years as a criminal Government Law Division San Francisco Board of defense lawyer, Brown launched his of the San Francisco City Supervisors, chief legislative political career with his election to the Attorney’s Office aide for Supervisor Tony California State Assembly in 1964. During → Delventhal joined the San Hall, and co-director of Francisco City Attorney’s the Congressional Human his 30-year tenure, he became the body’s Office in 1970. During his Rights Caucus under former first African American speaker in 1980, career, he handled liti- Congressman Tom Lantos, a position he held until his retirement in gation, opinion writing, among other roles. Upon 1995. Brown wasn’t through with politics, and legislative drafting his appointment as chief involving constitutional, of staff, the San Francisco however. In 1995, he was elected mayor of municipal, and public pol- Chronicle noted that he was San Francisco and served two terms that icy issues. He was awarded “known for his willing- coincided with the dot-com tech boom. the Charles S. Rhyne ness to dig into the more He oversaw a number of substantial infra- Lifetime Achievement unglamorous aspects of Award by the International local government.” structure and building projects during Municipal Lawyers his mayoralty, including a subway exten- Association in 2013, the CLAIR ENGLE ’33 sion and a new biomedical campus at UC highest award of its kind for Former U.S. Senator San Francisco. Retired from politics since local government attorneys from California in North America, granted → Known as “Congressman 2004, he now heads the Willie L. Brown irregularly to exceptional Fireball,” Engle served Jr. Institute on Politics and Public Service, recipients. He was also the in the U.S. House of writes a freelance column for the San California State Bar’s 2013 Representatives from Francisco Chronicle, and remains one of the Public Lawyer of the Year, 1943 to 1959 and as a honored for his long career U.S. senator from 1959 to city’s most influential power brokers. in service to the public. 1964. He became district

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attorney at age 23 in political issues and policy. NOREEN FARRELL ’97 E.J. FLYNN ’87 California’s Tehama She served as a legisla- Executive Director, Senior Human Rights County and served in the tive assistant for Rep. Pat Equal Rights Advocates Officer, United Nations California Senate. While Schroeder, chief of staff → Farrell set her career path Security Council Counter- in the House, the “Flying for Rep. Anna Eshoo, and in law school when she Terrorism Committee Congressman” flew him- defense policy adviser for served as editor-in-chief → Flynn has spent most self to meet with his 18 Sen. Ted Kennedy. She of the Hastings Women’s of his career at the United counties of constituents. has been the subcom- Law Journal. As executive Nations, in roles that have Despite losing the ability mittee staff director on director of Equal Rights to speak, he famously the House Permanent Advocates (ERA), a civil voted in the Senate roll call Select Committee on rights organization that to break the Civil Rights Intelligence and profes- focuses on gender jus- Act of 1964 filibuster sional staff member for the tice, Farrell leads national shortly before his passing House Armed Services initiatives addressing issues from a brain tumor, by Committee. The Associated such as the gender wage pointing to his eye, repre- Press, Politico, and The gap, women’s economic senting his “aye” vote. Wall Street Journal have security, sexual harass- requested her analysis, and ment, and education equity. MIEKE EOYANG ’02 she has written for Forbes She has been at the forefront focused on human rights Vice President, Third Way and The Washington Post. of ERA’s impact litigation and led to assignments → Eoyang is the vice She appears frequently on work, including before the around the world, including president for the National MSNBC, commenting on U.S. Supreme Court, serving in Haiti, Croatia, Bosnia- Security Program at Third national security and legal as lead counsel to plaintiffs Herzegovina, Switzerland, Way, a think tank for issues. in numerous lawsuits. and New York City. For the

Kamala Harris ’89 U.S. SENATOR FROM CALIFORNIA Harris’ formidable career has been marked by firsts. A daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants, she became the first black woman to serve as district attorney in California when she was elected to serve as San Francisco’s district attorney. She was the first woman and first person of color to serve as California’s attorney general and the first-ever South Asian- American U.S. senator, a position she has held since January 2017. As Harris sets her sights ever higher, she is living proof that barriers are meant to be broken to pave the way for future generations of leaders.

4 GAMECHANGERS past 13 years, he has served Office of Legal Counsel JOHN T. KNOX ’52 California State Legislature as a senior officer at the UN (OLC), which acts as a Former California State for nearly 10 years, where Security Council, providing legal advisory office for the Assemblyman he worked to further pro- strategic advice to member U.S. executive branch, for → Knox represented gressive public policy on states on how to prosecute more than a quarter cen- western Contra Costa issues of access to justice, and prevent terrorism, while tury. Her primary duties County in the Assembly public rights, and civil honoring human rights involve examining all from 1960 through 1980, liability. Before attending obligations. Prior to joining executive orders, as well the last four years of which UC Hastings, Lew enjoyed the UN in 1993, Flynn spent as other legal documents he served as the Assembly a career in the public six years as a lawyer with issued by both the presi- speaker pro tem. Knox health arena, working as a nonprofits, representing dent and attorney general, was a driving force behind research analyst for the UC Central American refugees to ensure legality and the 1970 creation of the Berkeley School of Public pro bono on the Texas- proper form. She special- Health and the Department Mexico border and later in izes in constitutional and of Health Services in Los Southern California. administrative law and is Angeles County. an elected member of the PHILIP GINSBURG ’93 American Law Institute. MARY CATHERINE General Manager, San She was honored with the MALIN ’84 Francisco Recreation and Mary C. Lawton Award for Assistant Legal Adviser Parks Department Outstanding Government for Diplomatic Law → Ginsburg became Service from the American and Litigation, U.S. general manager of the San Bar Association in 2013. Department of State Francisco Recreation and California Environmental → During her 30-year Parks Department in July ROBERT M. Quality Act, which requires career at the Department of 2009. Previously, he served HERTZBERG ’79 state and local agencies State, Malin has worked on as a labor and employment California State Senate to identify and mitigate landmark Supreme Court attorney at Carroll Burdick Majority Leader significant environmental and International Court of and McDonough, and → Active in politics since impacts of all planned Justice cases and served as worked in a variety of San he volunteered in local construction projects. He a diplomat in The Hague. Francisco city positions— elections as a college stu- also sponsored laws in 1965 She is a specialist in foreign as a deputy city attorney, dent, Hertzberg has won to create the San Francisco state and official immunity human resources direc- seats in both California Bay Conservation and issues, the recognition of tor, and chief of staff for state houses and is one Development Commission. states and governments, Gavin Newsom during his of a handful of California Knox died in 2017. and diplomatic law. A tenure as mayor. As general politicians to have served two-time recipient of the manager, he has focused on as both Assembly speaker ANTHONY LEW ’08 Presidential Rank Award, making the parks system and a state senator. After Deputy Attorney General, she also teaches foreign accessible for all. Under his leaving the State Assembly California Department of relations law as an adjunct leadership, San Francisco in 2002, he spent 12 years Justice professor at Georgetown became the first city in the in the private sector focus- → Lew joined the California University Law Center. country where 100 percent ing on global clean energy Department of Justice in of its residents live within a initiatives, which led 2018, and acts as legis- ROBERT T. MATSUI ’66 10-minute walk of a park. him to receive the World lative advocate on issues Former U.S. Representative Bank Award for Lighting that include consumer from California ROSEMARY HART ’79 Africa in recognition of his protection, privacy rights, → Matsui represented Special Counsel, U.S. efforts. Hertzberg returned and white-collar crime. California’s Third (later Department of Justice to electoral politics in 2014, Previously, he served as Fifth) District in Congress Office of Legal Counsel when he was elected to counsel for the Assembly from 1979 to 2005. He → Hart has served in the the state Senate. Judiciary Committee in the had previously served as

UC HASTINGS 5 a Sacramento city coun- Gov. Brown and deputy and as interim director of cilman and vice mayor. research director for his Refugee and Immigrant An internee of Tule Lake 2010 campaign. Services for Jewish Family during World War II, he & Community Services. went on to help pass the GEORGE R. Civil Liberties Act of 1988, MOSCONE ’56 KATE ORLOVSKY ’06 which included a formal Former Mayor of Director; Hague Office, apology for the intern- San Francisco ICC & ICL Programme, ment program, and helped → A former state senator, International Bar secure the Manzanar camp Moscone campaigned for Association she co-founded the DNC National Historic Site mayor on a platform of → Orlovsky has spent Veterans and Military designation. He chaired the inclusivity. As the “People’s most of her professional Families Council. A mem- Democratic Congressional Mayor,” he appointed life working in and around ber of the DNC Resolutions Campaign Committee from dozens of individuals from The Hague, with a focus Committee since 2001, she 2003 to 2005 and is the underrepresented minori- on human rights and is currently chair of the namesake for the Robert ties to administrative posts. gender equality issues. California Democratic Party T. Matsui United States During his tenure—which She served as a consul- Women’s Caucus and the Courthouse and Federal was cut tragically short in tant on Human Rights DNC Executive Committee. Building in Sacramento. He 1978 when he and Harvey Watch’s International She is a co-founder and passed away in 2005. Justice Programme and counsel at WeSaidEnough, as a legal officer for the a women’s rights advocacy LILA MIRRASHIDI ’09 Women’s Initiative for group that launched the Deputy Secretary; Gender Justice. In 2016, MeToo politics movement. California Business, she joined the Hague office Consumer Services and of the International Bar STEVE PHILLIPS ’97 Housing Agency Association, where she was Founder, → Gov. Gavin Newsom named director in 2018. Democracy in Color appointed Mirrashidi dep- → A civil rights lawyer and uty secretary of business CHRISTINE PELOSI ’93 senior fellow at the Center and consumer relations Milk were assassinated Chair, California for American Progress, in January 2019. Over the by former Supervisor Dan Democratic Party Phillips is the founder of previous eight years, she White—Moscone gave Women’s Caucus Democracy in Color, an was appointed by Gov. voice to marginalized → Pelosi began her legal organization dedicated Edmund G. Brown Jr. to populations and started to career as a public interest to race and politics. He is serve in multiple capaci- transform the city into the attorney in San Francisco. co-founder of PowerPAC+, ties. She held positions at San Francisco people know She then served as HUD a social justice organization the California Department today. special counsel in the dedicated to building a of Business Oversight, Clinton-Gore adminis- multiracial political coali- which included leading ROCHELLE NASON ’87 tration, a chief of staff tion. He has appeared on the implementation of the Mayor of Albany, on Capitol Hill, and a multiple national radio and PACE program and heading California Democratic National television networks, and is the legal division. At the → Nason was named the Committee member elected a columnist for The Nation California Department of 2019 mayor of Albany by from California. A former and a contributor to The Corporations, she played a the Albany City Council, executive director of the New York Times. He is the key role in the Department just after her re-election state party, she led its author of the best-selling of Financial Institutions to a second council term. Platform Committee for 13 Brown Is the New White: merger. She also served Previously, she served as years, and has been elected How the Demographic as deputy appointments executive director of the six times to the Democratic Revolution Has Created a secretary for the Office of League to Save Lake Tahoe National Committee, where New American Majority.

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Julia Olson ’97 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND CHIEF LEGAL COUNSEL, OUR CHILDREN’S TRUST After spending 15 years representing conser- vation groups, Olson founded Our Children’s Trust, an organization that gives voice to young people in the fight for their right to a stable climate. She is best known for her work as lead counsel in a landmark constitutional climate lawsuit, Juliana v. the United States. Brought by 21 youth plaintiffs, the suit asserts that government actions causing climate change have violated the plaintiffs’ Fifth Amendment rights to life, liberty, property, and public trust resources. Olson received the Kerry Rydberg Award for Environmental Activism in 2017.

VIRGINIA PATTON Corruption, the Convention abortion restrictions on the course of his career, he PRUGH ’81 Against Transnational foreign aid and to ensure has served in various dep- Attorney Adviser, Law Organized Crime, and the justice and accountability uty and assistant attorney Enforcement and Commission on Narcotic for gender-based violence. general positions, including Intelligence, Office of the Drugs. She previously interned at acting chief deputy attorney Legal Adviser, U.S. the International Criminal general for former California Department of State AKILA Tribunal for the Former Attorney General Kamala → After graduating from UC RADHAKRISHNAN ’09 Yugoslavia and DPK Harris ’89. Hastings, Prugh joined President, Global Justice Consulting. the U.S. Army Judge Center SIMIN SHAMJI ’94 Advocate General’s → Radhakrishnan was MATTHEW Deputy Public Defender, Corps, where she served named president of the RODRIQUEZ ’80 San Francisco Public for 27 years, retiring as a Global Justice Center (GJC) Secretary for Defender’s Office lieutenant colonel. After in 2018 after eight years Environmental Protection, → As the managing attor- leaving the Army, she working at the organi- CalEPA ney of the Clean Slate and joined the Department of zation. At the GJC, she → Rodriquez became Specialty/Reentry Unit State as an attorney adviser. combines advocacy with secretary for environmen- in the Public Defender’s Recognized for her exper- legal analysis to develop tal protection at CalEPA Office, Shamji oversees tise in international crime, precedents that advance in 2011. In addition to various initiatives, includ- she has been a member gender equality through supervising various state ing the program that helps of several U.S. delegations the rule of law. She is active environmental boards and people clear their criminal to the United Nations, in international women’s departments, he acts as an records through expung- including those advising rights, and is leading environmental adviser on ing certain convictions the Convention Against efforts to challenge U.S. the governor’s cabinet. Over and obtaining certificates

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of rehabilitation. She J. CHRISTOPHER has worked in the San STEVENS ’89 Francisco Public Defender’s Former Ambassador to Office for more than two Libya decades and, after practic- → Stevens’ distinguished ing as a trial attorney for diplomatic career took off many years, began focusing with postings in Riyadh, on criminal justice policy Cairo, Damascus, and issues, including bail and Jerusalem. He was con- sentencing reform, racial firmed as U.S. ambassador disparities, implicit bias, to Libya in 2012 follow- and evidence-based alter- ing the fall of Muammar natives to incarceration. el-Qaddafi. During a visit to the U.S. diplomatic mission RANDY SHAW ’82 in Benghazi in 2012, Stevens Executive Director, and three other Americans Tenderloin Housing Clinic were killed in a terrorist → Shaw founded the attack. UC Hastings estab- Tenderloin Housing Clinic lished the Ambassador while he was a law student J. Christopher Stevens at UC Hastings. He has Memorial Lecture Series in Jackie Speier ’76 dedicated his career to his honor, which focuses on U.S. REPRESENTATIVE FROM CALIFORNIA improving living condi- the use of law and public Shot five times at point-blank range and left tions for tenants, limiting policy to promote peace. tenant displacement, and for dead during the 1978 Jonestown massa- preserving and increasing ELISE K. TRAYNUM ’86 cre that killed her then-boss, Congressman affordable housing. THC is General Counsel, ACLU Leo Ryan, Speier entered electoral politics the city’s leading provider of Northern California by running for Ryan’s vacant seat in 1979. → As general counsel at the ACLU of Northern Although she lost that election, it marked the California, Traynum beginning of a political career that started provides legal services with a seat on the San Mateo County Board and representation for of Supervisors, continued with an 18-year ACLU-NC on a range of work, including com- stint in the California State Legislature, and pliance, employment, led to her election to Congress in 2008. As contracts, and other laws a U.S. representative for California’s 14th and regulations. Previously, Congressional District, Speier has focused of legal representation to she served as general tenants facing no-fault counsel and secretary to on women’s rights, military and veterans’ evictions and is the chief the board of directors at affairs, and advocating for the middle class. provider of housing for UC Hastings for 14 years. In 2012, Newsweek named her to its list of homeless single adults. During her tenure, she 150 “Fearless Women” in the world. In 2018, Shaw has authored six defended a case against books on activism; his the law school that was Politico named her as one of the 50 thinkers, most recent work is heard by the U. S. Supreme doers, and visionaries driving American poli- Generation Priced Out: Court. In Christian Legal tics and policy. She has written a best-selling Who Gets to Live in the Society v. Martinez, the autobiography, Undaunted. New Urban America. court upheld UC Hastings’

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policy to require student Zipser, a business litigation JEFFREY AMESTOY ’72 organizations to open their and intellectual property Former Chief Justice, membership to all students law firm in Irvine. Supreme Court of irrespective of their status Vermont or beliefs. ANN M. VENEMAN ’76 → After graduating from Former Executive UC Hastings, Amestoy VIEN TRUONG ’06 Director, UNICEF returned to his home state Former President, → Veneman has had a dis- of Vermont to serve as Dream Corps tinguished career in public assistant attorney gen- → Truong witnessed service, most notably serv- eral. Following a stint as poverty firsthand while ing as executive director of Vermont’s commissioner growing up in Oakland UNICEF from 2005 to 2010 of labor and industry, and with her Vietnamese and as the U.S. Secretary more than a decade as refugee parents. She of Agriculture from 2001 the state attorney gen- has devoted her career to 2005, the only woman eral, he was confirmed as to ending the scourge ever to have led that chief justice of Vermont’s of poverty, and as the department. She was also Supreme Court in 1997. In president of Dream Corps, the first woman to lead his role as chief justice, a national social change California’s Department of Amestoy authored the organization, she focuses Food and Agriculture as 1999 landmark ruling in on environmental, energy, its secretary, a position she Baker v. State of Vermont, and economic policies to held from 1995 to 1999. She which held that same-sex improve the lives of vulner- was named to the Forbes couples were entitled to able populations. Truong World’s 100 Most Powerful the rights and benefits of received the White House Women list in 2009 and as marriage. Amestoy retired Champion of Change a woman of history by the from the court in 2004 Award in 2016. National Women’s History but continues to publish Museum in 2016. widely respected legal THOMAS J. UMBERG ’80 scholarship. California State Senator VIVIANA WAISMAN ’95 → A retired U.S. Army President and CEO, MARIA LUCY colonel and former deputy Women’s Link Worldwide ARMENDARIZ ’97 drug czar under President → As the founder of Judge, Superior Court of Bill Clinton, Umberg Women’s Link Worldwide, Los Angeles County served three terms in the Waisman leads a team → In 2018, Gov. Edmund California Legislature prior located on four continents G. Brown Jr. named to his election as a state that advances the rights Armendariz to the Superior senator in 2018. As a fed- of women and girls in the Court of Los Angeles eral criminal prosecutor, he courts of countries around County. Her impressive had a 100 percent convic- the world. She has written career trajectory previously tion rate. Among his tours and spoken extensively on of active duty, Umberg led human trafficking, repro- the U.S. military effort to ductive rights, and gender attack corruption within crimes. Prior to founding the Afghan army and Women’s Link in 2001, police in 2009 and earned a Waisman consulted for the Bronze Star for meritorious U.N. Population Fund and service in a combat zone. was a lawyer at the Center SERVING IN—AND PRESIDING UC THE HASTINGS ACROSS NATION, OVER—COURTS OF ALL LEVELS IN STATES

He is a partner at Umberg for Reproductive Rights. THE JUDICIARY → BEENALUMNI JUDICIAL HAVE THOUGHT LEADERS FOR MANY GENERATIONS.

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Marvin R. Baxter ’66 FORMER ASSOCIATE JUSTICE, SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA Baxter began his accomplished legal career as a district attorney in Fresno County before spend- ing the next 13 years in private practice. Prior to joining the California bench, he spent six years as appointments secretary to Gov. George Deukmejian and helped appoint more than 700 judges. After serving as an associate justice on the California Court of Appeal, he was named to the California Supreme Court in 1991, where he served until his retirement in 2015. He also served 18 years as vice chair of the Judicial Council of California. UC Hastings’ moot court- room is named after Baxter and his wife, Jane.

included service as chief of Commission on Children in in Alameda County. During defender and judge of the staff for former California Foster Care in 2006. the course of her career, Superior Court of California, Senate Majority Leader she has taught at several both for Santa Clara Gloria Romero, legal CAROL A. law schools, including County; he also maintained counsel for then-Assem- CORRIGAN ’75 UC Hastings; served on a private legal practice in blyman (and later Los Associate Justice, various task forces; and has San Jose. While a Superior Angeles Mayor) Antonio Supreme Court of received numerous honors Court judge, Davila Villaraigosa, legal con- California and awards. presided over the head- sultant to the office of → In December 2005, Gov. California Assemblyman Arnold Schwarzenegger EDWARD J. DAVILA ’79 Robert Hertzberg ’79, State nominated Corrigan to Judge, U.S. District Court Bar Court judge, counsel the California Supreme for the Northern District for the State Assembly Court. Prior to assuming of California Committee on Public her seat on the state’s → In 2011, Davila was Safety, and ombudsman highest bench, she served named to the U.S. District for women’s prisons at the as an associate justice Court for the Northern California Department on the California Court District of California by of Corrections. A native of Appeal, a judge on the then-President Barack of East Los Angeles, Alameda County Superior Obama. He was the first line-making case of a Las Armendariz spent part of Court, and a judge for Latino in the federal judi- Vegas couple who planted her youth in the California the Oakland-Piedmont- ciary to represent the Bay a severed finger in a bowl of foster care system, and Emeryville Judicial Area in more than 15 years. Wendy’s chili in an attempt was appointed to the District. She also served as During his career, he has to win a lawsuit against California Blue Ribbon a deputy district attorney served as deputy public the fast-food chain. In early

10 GAMECHANGERS 2006, Davila sentenced the As a neutral, Flier helps to later—making history wife and husband to prison resolve matters that run as the first woman to terms of nine and 12 years, the gamut from commer- hold that position. Before respectively. cial disputes to familial embarking on her judicial conflicts involving probate career, she worked as an MICHAEL L. issues. attorney for the Atlantic DOUGLAS ’74 Richfield Company and Former Chief Justice, CARIN FUJISAKI ’85 the Montana Power Supreme Court of Associate Justice, Company. She retired Nevada Feinstein—instead, paving California First District from the Supreme Court in → Douglas was appointed a path that led to the bench Court of Appeal 2008, but remained active to Nevada’s Supreme rather than politics. After → Fujisaki has enjoyed a in promoting improved Court in 2004, the first working as a prosecutor in diverse career; she got her access to justice, the abo- African American justice the San Francisco District start as a research attor- lition of the death penalty, in the court’s history; Attorney’s Office and a ney at the San Francisco and refinements to the he served as the court’s lead attorney in the City Superior Court and then civil and criminal justice chief justice in 2011 and Attorney’s Office, she spent four years as an systems. Gray passed 2018. Prior to his Supreme joined the San Francisco associate at Howard, Rice, away in 2017. Court term, Douglas was Superior Court in 2000. In Nemerovski, Canady, chief judge of the Las 2010, she began a two-year Robertson & Falk. She then BRAD R. HILL ’83 Vegas District Court (and term as the court’s pre- moved to the California Administrative Presiding a trial judge beginning in siding judge and retired in Supreme Court, where she Justice, California Fifth 1996), vice president of the 2012. Since then, Feinstein served as a staff attor- District Court of Appeal Nevada District Judges has devoted her time to ney for Associate Justice → Appointed in 2006 to the Association, and a member serving on nonprofit and Marvin R. Baxter ’66 for California Fifth District of the Judicial Council of government boards. more than 20 years and Court of Appeal by Gov. the State of Nevada. He as principal attorney to Arnold Schwarzenegger, was also an attorney for RICHARD FLIER ’71 Chief Justice Tani Cantil- Nevada Legal Services and Former Judge, Superior Sakauye for four years. served in the Clark County Court, County of Contra Fujisaki served on the UC District Attorney’s Office, Costa Hastings board of direc- where he promoted access → Following more than a tors for 12 years, including to justice and specialty decade as a prosecutor one year as board chair. courts. The National Bar and a 20-year career as In 2018, Gov. Edmund Association honored a Superior Court judge, G. Brown Jr. appointed him with its Lifetime Flier has been a neutral for Fujisaki as the first Asian Achievement Award in almost 15 years, helping American woman to the 2016. He retired in 2019. adversarial parties reach First District Court of Hill has long been active resolution of their disputes Appeal. in the field of judicial KATHERINE through arbitration or education. His career FEINSTEIN ’84 mediation. While on the KARLA GRAY ’76 includes service on the Former Presiding Judge, bench, he served three Former Chief Justice, Superior Court of Fresno Superior Court of San tours as a civil fast track Supreme Court of County, where he served Francisco judge, which required him Montana as presiding judge, assis- → Throughout her career, to supervise approximately → Named an associate tant presiding judge, and Feinstein has resisted 25 percent of all litigation justice of the Supreme as a member of the court’s calls to follow in the in the county and pre- Court of Montana in 1991, Executive Committee. In footsteps of her famous pared him for the relatively Gray became the court’s 2000, in a highly pres- mother, U.S. Sen. Dianne fast-paced world of ADR. chief justice nine years tigious appointment,

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he was named by Chief elevated to the California Justice Ronald George Supreme Court—becom- to the Judicial Council ing the first African of California—the gov- American to serve on erning body for all trial the high court. One of and appellate courts in his most notable cases is California—first to serve the criminal prosecution as a trial judge and then as of William and Emily an appellate justice. Harris of the Symbionese Liberation Army for the WILLIAM kidnapping of Patricia LAFFERTY ’85 Hearst in 1974. Manuel Judge, U.S. Bankruptcy was well-known for his Court for the Northern pro bono work, and in 1989 District of California the State Bar of California → Lafferty’s post-law created an annual award school clerkship for San for pro bono legal services Francisco bankruptcy in his honor. In addi- judge Thomas E. Carlson tion, the Wiley Manuel foreshadowed his own Courthouse, part of the future. After Lafferty Alameda County Superior A. Ashley Tabaddor ’97 worked for Howard, Rice, Court, was named after JUDGE, LOS ANGELES IMMIGRATION COURT Nemerovski, Canady, the Oakland native, who Tabaddor held various positions before Falk & Rabkin for 24 passed away in 1981. years, he was appointed her appointment as an immigration judge as a bankruptcy judge LESLIE C. NICHOLS ’66 in 2005, including as an assistant U.S. for the Northern District Former Judge, Superior attorney and a trial attorney with the of California in 2011. He Court of California civil division handling federal appellate was also appointed to the → Nichols has led a dis- Ninth Circuit’s Bankruptcy tinguished career on the litigation. During her time on the bench, Appellate Panel in 2016 bench, serving as a judge she has presided over tens of thousands and serves as a member of the Superior Court of of cases, including cases on the detained, of the Federal Judicial California for 25 years. non-detained, unaccompanied juvenile, and Center’s Bankruptcy In that role, he handled Education Committee. settlement conferences, mental competency dockets. As the cur- and pretrial, trial, and rent president of the National Association WILEY MANUEL ’53 post-trial matters involv- of Immigration Judges, she has testified Former Associate Justice, ing civil law, family law, before Congress and has called upon it Supreme Court of juvenile delinquency and California dependency, probate and to remove the immigration court from the → Following his time at mental health, and crim- Justice Department’s purview to ensure the UC Hastings, Manuel inal law. After stepping court’s independence from a law enforce- worked for 23 years in down from the bench in ment agency and its use of the court in the California Attorney 2009, Nichols served in the General’s Office. He Assigned Judges Program furtherance of law enforcement priorities. transitioned to a judge- until joining ADR Services Tabaddor is currently a lecturer at UCLA ship in the Alameda as a full-time mediator, School of Law, where she teaches a course County Superior Court in arbitrator, and referee. on immigration law and practice. 1976, and in 1977 he was

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LAWRENCE J. the District of Columbia SIMONA O’NEILL ’79 (an office later renamed AGNOLUCCI ’06 Chief Judge, U.S. District Attorney General for the Partner; Keker, Van Nest Court for the Eastern District of Columbia) and & Peters District of California was selected to lead the → Agnolucci specializes → After graduating from department in 2000. As an in complex litigation, UC Hastings and complet- active service member in including class actions, ing a prestigious clerkship the U.S. Army from 1981 white-collar criminal for Judge Robert F. Kane of to 2014, Rigsby continued defense, and bet-the-com- the First District Court of to serve during his time pany commercial disputes. Appeal, O’Neill went into in the attorney general’s She represents “sharing private practice in Fresno, office and as a judge; he economy” platforms, tech made history when he companies, investment became the first D.C. advisers, smartphone

sitting judge and the first manufacturers, and leading military judge in the Army law firms. She recently suc- to deploy on a full-time cessfully tried to verdict basis to an active war one of the few class actions zone.

LIDIA STIGLICH ’95 Associate Justice, arguing 50 jury trials Supreme Court of to verdict. In 1990, he Nevada became a Fresno County → Stiglich was appointed Superior Court judge, and to the Supreme Court of in 1999, he was appointed Nevada by Gov. Brian a U.S. magistrate judge. In Sandoval in 2016; she is 2007, he was nominated its first openly gay justice. to be tried in California to the U.S. District Court Prior to her appointment in recent years. She also for the Eastern District of to the Supreme Court, has an extensive pro bono California, unanimously she spent four years as practice—in which she confirmed by the Senate, a District Court judge in often represents women and becoming chief judge Nevada’s Second Judicial fleeing gender-based per- in 2016. District. In addition, she secution—that has been was the co-founder and recognized by national ROBERT R. RIGSBY ’86 presiding judge of the media, including The New Associate Judge, Superior Youth Offender Drug York Times. Court of the District of Court, a specialty court Columbia designed to serve as an KHALDOUN A. → Rigsby has served on alternative to incarceration BAGHDADI ’97 the District of Columbia for young adult drug users. Shareholder; Walkup, Superior Court since 2002, Stiglich is an instructor at Melodia, Kelly & when he was named to the University of Nevada, Schoenberger the bench by President Reno, and a faculty mem- → Baghdadi served as George W. Bush. Prior ber at the National Judicial chairman of the San to his appointment, he College. Francisco Human Rights

served in the office of the UC HASTINGS CAN BE GRADUATES FOUND LEADERSHIP IN TOP THE COUNTRY’S POSITIONS MOST AT Commission, the first RESPECTED FIRMS—AND LAW IN MANY CASES WERE THE FIRMS’ FOUNDERS. THEIR TRACK RECORDS IN AND OUT OF THE COURTROOM ARE IMPRESSIVE, AS IS THEIR COMMITMENT GIVING TO BACK. Corporation Counsel for LAW OF THE PRACTICE → Palestinian American

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to hold that post. He open warrants, and low-in- DONALD E. is a shareholder with come individuals seeking BRADLEY ’68 Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & criminal record remedies. Chief Legal Officer, Schoenberger, where he Prior to joining Orrick, she Wilson Sonsini Goodrich has worked for 20 years. was a litigation fellow in the & Rosati He is dedicated to helping Office of General Counsel → As chief legal officer at people in need of an advo- for The Regents of the Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & cate and has earned the University of California. Rosati, Bradley advises the highest accolades in cases firm on ethical and other involving wrongful death, PHILIP T. BESIROF ’96 legal aspects of its practice. Volunteer in Public defective products, medical Managing Partner, He also is the president Service,” and he serves as negligence, and public tran- Morrison & Foerster and a director of Attorneys immediate past president sit injuries. He has served → Besirof is the manag- Insurance Mutual Risk of the Charles Houston as an instructor of trial ing partner of Morrison & Retention Group, which Bar Association and practice and moot court Foerster’s San Francisco provides primary profes- president of the California at California institutions, office and a partner in the sional liability insurance ChangeLawyers. including UC Hastings. firm’s Securities Litigation, to a number of California Enforcement, and White- law firms, including his DION COMINOS ’88 SUZETTE J. BARNES ’10 Collar Criminal Defense firm. Earlier, Bradley was Firm Managing Partner, Senior Associate; Orrick, Group. He has 20 years’ the chair of the firm’s tax Gordon Rees Scully Herrington & Sutcliffe experience in complex practice, specializing in Mansukhani → Barnes, a senior asso- civil litigation, with an mergers and acquisitions, → Cominos, who joined ciate in Orrick’s San emphasis on represent- corporate finance, and Gordon & Rees in 1987, Francisco office and a ing companies and their investment funds. Before has been its managing member of the White Collar, directors and officers in joining the firm, he was partner since 2006. The Investigations, Securities securities class actions, a partner at Pillsbury, firm has over 900 attorneys Litigation & Compliance shareholder derivative suits, Madison & Sutro (now with offices across the Group, focuses on the repre- and regulator inquiries and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw country. He specializes sentation of major financial investigations. He is among Pittman). Bradley serves on in commercial litigation, institutions, corporations, the few lawyers in the the UC Hastings board of and has also acted as a and individuals in securities country who have defended directors. mediator and an arbitrator, a securities class action at and served on commit- trial. Contributing to the ERIC S. CASHER ’06 tees for the American Bar defense verdict for JDSU Principal, Meyers Nave Association, the California and its former executives → Casher leads the public Bar Association, and the in a securities class action law practice at Meyers Defense Research Institute, jury trial seeking $20 billion Nave, and has always among others. He has in damages for alleged demonstrated a passion been distinguished as a securities fraud and insider for public service. He is Super Lawyer every year trading, he played a key role city attorney for the city of since 2004 for his work in co-managing case strat- Pinole and was appointed in civil litigation defense and complex commercial egy and complex discovery by then-Attorney General and business litigation. He actions, regulatory inves- issues. He is also chair of Kamala Harris to a four-year also periodically teaches tigations, and internal the board of directors of term as commissioner on courses at UC Hastings as a investigations. She also the San Francisco AIDS the California Fair Political visiting lecturer. provides pro bono services Foundation, a nonprofit Practices Commission in to veterans seeking VA organization that provides 2013. The Bar Association ALISON CORDOVA ’12 benefits, homeless individu- education and treatment. of San Francisco honored Partner; Cotchett, Pitre & als seeking the resolution of him as an “Outstanding McCarthy

14 GAMECHANGERS Joseph W. Cotchett ’64 FOUNDING PARTNER; COTCHETT, PITRE & MCCARTHY Cotchett has been lauded as one of the best trial strategists not only in California but also in the United States. Cotchett has an exceptional history of standing up for social justice in his 50-plus-year legal career, espe- cially representing victims of white-collar fraud and corporate malfeasance. He has tried more than 100 jury cases, including a celebrated victory on behalf of 23,000 senior citizens harmed by the collapse of Charles Keating’s Lincoln Savings and Loan in 1990 that resulted in a $3.3 billion jury verdict. He also successfully represented the California Supreme Court and individ- → Cordova is a trial lawyer Norwalk virus, and settle- ual judges in a case brought against them who has proven her talents ments of 12 injury and death and acumen in large, lawsuits brought on behalf by the New York Stock Exchange and the complex matters, including of the victims of the 2015 National Association of Securities Dealers. taking on Chevron, PG&E, Berkeley balcony collapse. Among his many honors, Cotchett was PetSmart, Samsung, the As San Francisco deputy inducted into the very select State Bar of United States of America, city attorney from 1992 to and Boeing. A partner at 2001, he prosecuted con- California Litigation Trial Lawyers Hall the Cotchett firm, she has sumer protection lawsuits of Fame in 1999 and into the prestigious argued at the Ninth Circuit against big businesses, American Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame in and won several trials, including suits alleging 2011. He has been recognized as one of the including representing a California’s largest title central California Irrigation insurers had defrauded both 100 most influential lawyers in the nation District in a legal mal- consumers and the gov- for the past 17 years and was lauded by his practice action against a ernment (which resulted in peers as Super Lawyers’ No. 1 lawyer in nationwide law firm. some $75 million in verdicts Northern California in 2017. He has been and settlements) and a suit MATTHEW DAVIS ’89 accusing Bank of America practicing at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy Shareholder; Walkup, of mishandling government since 1967. Following his graduation from Melodia, Kelly & bond funds, which settled California State Polytechnic University with Schoenberger for $187 million. an engineering degree, he served as an offi- → Since joining Walkup in 2001, Davis has obtained PHILLIP A. DAVIS ’83 cer in the U.S. Army Intelligence Corps and verdicts and settlements Special Counsel; as a Special Forces paratrooper and JAG on behalf of plaintiffs, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter Corps officer, being awarded the Legion of including a $25 million jury & Hampton Merit for his service. verdict on behalf of hotel → As a special counsel guests who contracted the in Sheppard Mullin’s Los

UC HASTINGS 15 Angeles office, Davis Los Angeles Superior and Boats and Ford Motor of the country’s top specializes in corporate and Municipal Courts. Company, Dreyer obtained plaintiff-side litigation securities litigation; direc- verdicts in the amounts of firms—Fineman joined the tor, officer, shareholder, ROGER A. DREYER ’80 $31 million for a brain-in- firm in 1991 and became and partnership litigation; Partner, Dreyer Babich jured client and $65 million national managing part- real estate litigation; and Buccola Wood Campora for a family who lost their ner in 2003. He represents creditors’ rights. He has → Dreyer has tried more husband and father, both as institutional investors represented public and than 125 civil jury trials a result of defective prod- in individual and class private companies, individ- for clients in 14 California ucts. Additionally, as lead securities and financial uals, and venture capital counties, obtaining multi- trial lawyer for the Oakland fraud cases, and classes funds, among others, in million-dollar jury verdicts Raiders, he achieved for and groups of individuals federal and state securi- in wrongful death actions that team a verdict in the in mass tort and consumer ties fraud class actions, and catastrophic brain amount of $34 million, the fraud litigation, and has shareholder derivative and spinal injury cases. largest fraud verdict in won a number of awards suits, and other disputes— His most notable cases Sacramento County history. and honors for his work. including those involving included the “water intoxi- Fineman is a past president breach of fiduciary duty cation” death case of 2007, STEVEN E. of the national public inter- and mismanagement. He which held a broadcast FINEMAN ’88 est law firm Public Justice also successfully defended company responsible for Managing Partner, Lieff Foundation and currently a number of consumer actions that led to the death Cabraser Heimann & serves as an ex-officio class actions filed under of Jennifer Strange, and Bernstein member of the board. He is the Song Beverly Act. Davis resulted in a verdict of $16.7 → Based in the New York a member of the board of is a volunteer judge pro million for her family. In two City office of Lieff Cabraser the American Constitution tem and arbitrator for the trials against MasterCraft Heimann & Bernstein—one Society for Law and Policy.

Lynne Hermle ’81 PARTNER; ORRICK, HERRINGTON & SUTCLIFFE Hermle is one of the most recognized employment defense lawyers in the country, successfully representing major companies such as Microsoft, Twitter, SpaceX, and others in bet-the-company litigation. She broke out on the national stage with a big win for Kleiner Perkins in the Ellen Pao sex harassment trial, where her courtroom work was called “masterful” by The Recorder. Hermle has been named a national Employment MVP four times by Law360, which calls her a “serial winner,” and The Daily Journal has named her one of its top 100 lawyers in California five times. She was named a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers in 2017.

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“The Dream Corps is like the Peace Corps for the American dream. We fight for an America that is as good as its promise.”

Vien Truong Former President The Dream Corps A Portrait Series of UC Hastings Alumni

The Gamechanger series highlights esteemed UC Hastings alumni who have refused to play by someone else’s rules. They have decided not only to change the way the game is played, but to change the game itself.

But what does it take to be a GAMECHANGER? Is it intelligence, determination, education?

All of these are important, but they mean nothing without the optimistic belief that our world can be better and that each one of us can have a profound impact. We wanted to highlight individuals who give us hope. Individuals who insist that our government, technology, and businesses can do more to serve humanity and the planet.

We thought about how best to represent these Gamechangers photographically while honoring their deep connection to UC Hastings. The UC Hastings color palette draws attention to the eyes of each person. This glow of yellow light represents the vision, leadership, and optimism each figure carries with them through their life’s work.

Keep up the good work. Each one of you is an inspiration.

—Carl Brown and Sean Donnelly, Corduroy Media “Seriously consider public service. The work is endlessly fascinating. I get to deal with constitutional issues almost every day, and I am working for my community. How many lawyers enjoy that luxury? I’m pretty lucky.”

Burk Delventhal Chief Deputy of Government Law Division San Francisco City Attorney’s Office “No matter what your journey has been, always believe that you can be the best at whatever you choose to do in the field of law and beyond.”

Eric S. Casher Principal at Meyers Nave City Attorney for the City of Pinole “Every way in which we approach the business is with that fundamental idea of connecting people to create better transportation. It’s a focus on connecting people, connecting communities.”

Kristin Sverchek General Counsel Lyft “My time at UC Hastings was transformative. I became somebody who could look at the issues from 360 degrees instead of just from my own perspective.”

Nathan Ballard CEO The Press Shop “There’s a proverb I like: ‘If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.’ ”

Matthew F. Valdez Associate General Counsel San Francisco Giants “I approach law—and especially the great responsibility and privilege of advancing or protecting my clients’ interests—the same way I approach all the passions of my life: with enthusiasm, creativity, and focus.”

Claude M. Stern Partner Quinn Emanuel “The narrative of being a Palestinian, and my mom originally starting in a refugee camp in 1948—that’s a story that’s hard to keep out of your mind when you’re deciding what you want to do with your education and whether or not you want to help people.”

Khaldoun A. Baghdadi Shareholder Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger “I hope that by giving kids access to emerging technology, they’ll be able to go further and do more than I ever could as a kid.”

Martha Mendizabal Co-Founder TecnoLatinx XR Labs “I wrote Generation Priced Out as a call to action for progressive cities whose housing policies have priced out the working and middle class and particularly millennials.”

Randy Shaw Executive Director Tenderloin Housing Clinic Support the Next Generation of Gamechangers at uchastings.edu/gamechanger

Victoria Ayeni External VP Associated Students of UC Hastings “There are a lot of battles to be fought, so I just hope the next generation that is coming up does not shy away from the challenge. I hope that they realize and recognize the sacrifices that people have made to put myself and other Asian American leaders in the positions that we are in. I hope we are able not only to leverage that and do greater things for ourselves, but to also make room for the next generation of attorneys who are coming up. They are the ones who will pick up the mantle and continue the fight against injustice.”

Jeff Adachi Former Public Defender City and County of San Francisco 1959-2019

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Fineman is also vice chair of governance matters as working for Associate of the Marin Agricultural the board of the New York/ well as mergers, acquisi- Justices Edwin Regan Land Trust. New Jersey Region of the tions, strategic alliances, and Keith Sparks at the Anti-Defamation League and intellectual property California Court of Appeal, SUSAN J. and a member of ADL’s licensing and management. Third Appellate District. HARRIMAN ’83 National Commission. Fishburn has served as He also serves on the UC Partner; Keker, Van Nest chairman of the Sanford- Hastings board of directors. & Peters L. RICHARD “RICK” → After joining Keker, FISCHER ’70 ANDREW G. Van Nest & Peters in 1985 Senior Partner, Morrison GIACOMINI ’91 and becoming a partner & Foerster Managing Partner, four years later, Harriman → Since the 1970s, Fischer Hanson Bridgett has focused on complex has focused on cases → Under Giacomini’s business litigation. She involving retail financial leadership, Hanson Bridgett has tried state and federal services, payment systems, has risen to be in the top 10 cases involving commercial and data security, often in firms in Northern California. disputes, real estate, and conjunction with banks, As part of his managing wrongful termination, and technology companies, Burnham Institute for partner duties, Giacomini has represented groups as insurers, and others. He Medical Research and is on champions an inclusive and diverse as the International also takes on enforcement the executive committee diverse workplace culture Longshore and Warehouse and compliance cases of the board of the UCSD by overseeing initiatives Union, Southern Glazer’s connected to the Federal Moores Cancer Center. He such as recruiting diverse Wine & Spirits, EA Games, Trade Commission and is also a founding director candidates at the law Univision, and the Alameda Consumer Financial of the Corporate Directors school level, implementing County District Attorney’s Protection Bureau, and has Forum and Biocom, the mentorship programs, and developed modifications largest regional life science holding the firm account- and regulatory clarifica- association in the world. able to diverse hiring goals tions for issues in consumer and statistics. As a result, lending and retail banking. THOMAS F. GEDE ’81 Hanson Bridgett has been Fischer, who acts as Visa’s Of Counsel; Morgan, ranked No. 4 among the Washington counsel, has Lewis & Bockius 100 Best U.S. Law Firms for received a variety of awards Principal, Morgan Lewis Women and No. 3 for Top and honors, and created an Consulting Firms for Minority Partners endowed scholarship fund → Gede assists clients in by Law360. In addition, 39 at UC Hastings. complex governmental mat- percent of equity partners Office. Previously, Harriman ters. He worked as a senior at Hanson Bridgett are clerked for Judge Robert F. WAINWRIGHT deputy in the California women, surpassing the Peckham of the U.S. District FISHBURN JR. ’81 Attorney General’s Office, national average of 20 Court for the Northern Partner, Cooley and is known nationally for percent in 2018. Giacomini District of California and → A founding partner of his work in federal Indian also serves on the exec- was a teaching fellow Cooley’s office in San Diego, law matters, having focused utive committee of the at Stanford University Fishburn is a thought leader on gaming compacts, civil Bay Area Council and is Law School. She is the in the fields of life science and criminal jurisdiction, chair of its Government incoming secretary for and digital health. His natural resources, and law Relations Committee. In his the American College of practice is concentrated enforcement issues. He has spare time, he also serves Trial Lawyers and previ- on representation of life testified before Congress as a trustee for the Buck ously served on its Board science, technology, and on American Indian and Family Fund at the Marin of Regents. She also is a other operating companies, Native Alaskan issues. Community Foundation and fellow of the International dealing with corporate Gede started his career on the board of directors Academy of Trial Lawyers

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and formerly served as chair MICHAEL A. KELLY ’76 JEFFREY LENA ’96 of the Ethics Commission Shareholder; Walkup, Counsel, The Holy See for the city and county of Melodia, Kelly & → From teaching history San Francisco. Schoenberger and law to making legal → One of the nation’s top history, Lena has had a JENNIFER L. personal injury attorneys, transformative journey. A KELLER ’78 Kelly specializes in cases history graduate student Partner, Keller/Anderle involving catastrophic at UC Berkeley, he enrolled → Keller has received brain injury, wrongful at UC Hastings to pursue many awards for excel- death, and product lia- a legal career. After law the importance of social lence as a trial lawyer, bility. He has concluded school, he taught law at justice and is a member of including three CLAY more than 200 cases where the University of Turin various nonprofit boards, Awards (California the recovery by his client in Italy, which led to a as well as serves on the UC Lawyer Attorneys of the exceeded $1 million. connection with the Hastings Foundation board Year) in 2012, 2018, and Honored by the American Holy See that would of trustees. 2019 for jury verdicts in Board of Trial Advocates change his life forever. intellectual property, as the 2014 California Trial Now, Lena represents the THOMAS MILLER ’73 white-collar defense, and Lawyer of the Year, he is Holy See in civil lawsuits Construction Defect municipal law. In 2018, currently spearheading the in the United States. Some Attorney, The Miller Law she was inducted into litigation against Pacific of these suits accuse the Firm the California Lawyers Gas & Electric relating Vatican of complicity in → Miller has spent the Association Trial Lawyer to the 2017 Northern sexual abuse by priests entirety of his career in Hall of Fame. She made a California wildfires and and money laundering; construction law. He last-minute appearance 2018 Butte County “Camp” he has also been involved knows the field inside in 2011 as lead counsel fire. He was selected by in protecting the Vatican and out, having litigated for MGA Entertainment Museum’s copyrights. disputes on behalf of both in its retrial of Mattel v. He has won numerous plaintiffs and defendants. MGA, popularly known as high-profile cases. During his early years of Barbie v. Bratz, and pulled practice, he represented off what Reuters called JOHN LIM ’82 developers and insurance “a stunning reversal of Partner, LimNexus companies. For the past fortune” in favor of MGA. → Lim’s practice focuses several decades, however, Among other high-profile on real estate development he has represented home- cases, she won California’s and financing matters for owners and associations, largest business jury large-scale commercial and has won more than verdict of 2009 with $350 Super Lawyers as a “Top projects, representing $1 billion for his associa- million awarded to her 10” honoree for 2018-2019 everyone from invest- tion clients. Miller is venture capitalist client in and by Best Lawyers as the ment groups to financial also the author of four Auerbach v. Daily. Keller 2017 Lawyer of the Year institutions to developers treatises on construction also represented Standard in the area of mass torts. in cases dealing with defect law. & Poors in the U.S. govern- He has taught courtroom topics such as financ- ment’s multibillion-dollar advocacy skills for NITA ing, land use, loans, and ALEXANDER lawsuits alleging S&P and ABA ROLI across the bankruptcy proceedings. MORRISON, inflated the value of U.S. and in Eastern Europe, Some of his best-known CLASS OF 1881 certain mortgage-backed South America, Japan, projects include Plaza Founding Partner, securities. She is currently Scotland, and Ireland. He Mexico, The Source, Aroma Morrison & Foerster defending actor Kevin was an assistant professor Center, and the San Pedro → A member of the law Spacey in a civil case in of law at UC Hastings from Wholesale Mart. He has school’s first graduating Los Angeles. 1981 to 2001. a profound conviction in class, Morrison founded

18 GAMECHANGERS what was to become past chair of the State Bar Morrison & Foerster of California’s Antitrust under the name O’Brien & and Unfair Competition Morrison in San Francisco Law Section, a former in 1883. His mission was executive committee to practice “principally member, and current in the line of corporation adviser to the section. business.” The firm grew into an international RICHARD H. giant, with 17 offices SCHOENBERGER ’85 located throughout the Shareholder; Walkup, United States, Asia, and Melodia, Kelly & Europe. Morrison has Schoenberger been remembered since → Schoenberger began his his death in 1921 through legal career as a prosecu- bequests made in his tor in the Alameda County name—helped in part by District Attorney’s Office, his former law firm—to where he cut his teeth libraries, a visiting lecture trying cases. He joined series, scholarships, and a the distinguished Walkup Peter Martin Nelson ’79 planetarium. firm in 1987, and became PRINCIPAL, NELSON DAVIS a partner in 1995 and a ROXANE A. named partner 10 years One of the top lawyers in the global enter- POLIDORA ’88 later. Of his many civil jury tainment industry, Nelson is a longtime Partner, Pillsbury trials representing the fixture on the Hollywood Reporter’s annual Winthrop Shaw Pittman catastrophically injured, Power Lawyers list. As a principal of the → Polidora is the leader 11 of his verdicts have of the firm’s Antitrust & been for at least $1 million. Santa Monica-based firm Nelson Davis, Competition practice and At various points in his Nelson has negotiated what Variety calls the managing partner of career, he has held or “some of the most groundbreaking franchise the San Francisco office. shared the San Francisco, deals in movie and TV history.” His client She represents clients Sacramento, Santa Clara, in significant antitrust, and San Mateo county list includes winners of Academy, Emmy, unfair competition, and records for the largest ver- Grammy, and Golden Globe awards, such commercial litigation in dict in specific case types. as director Peter Jackson and actor Allison courts across the country. He was selected by Best Janney. He has spoken frequently before pub- The roster of top clients Lawyers as the 2016 and she has represented 2019 Lawyer of the Year lic audiences on film financing, production, include Kemet Corp. and for San Francisco in the distribution, copyright, and the art of negoti- Tokin Corp., Home Depot, area of personal injury ation, and he has been published in multiple AT&T, and Chevron, and was honored as the legal and industry journals. Before beginning along with many others. Trial Lawyer of the Year Among her numerous by the San Francisco his career in entertainment law, he served honors, Polidora was Trial Lawyers Association a one-year clerkship for the Hon. George E. named one of the Most in 2011. He is a highly MacKinnon, Circuit Judge for the United Influential Women in Bay regarded trial advocacy States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia. Area Business for 2018 teacher, both nationally by the San Francisco and internationally, and a Nelson is also a competitive sailboat racer. Business Times. She is member of the American

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Board of Trial Advocates, antitrust lawyers in the issues. The Los Angeles the International Society of country, he has been attorney has been named Barristers, the International appointed lead counsel in a Super Lawyer in the Academy of Trial Lawyers, cases with national and field of Bankruptcy & and the American College global impact and has Creditor/Debtor Rights of Trial Lawyers.. secured billions of dollars every year since 2005 in settlements. Simon in a peer survey, an SCOTT A. SHER ’97 served on the UC Hastings honor bestowed on only Partner, Wilson Sonsini board of directors for 5 percent of Southern Goodrich & Rosati 12 years, including two California attorneys. He more than 2,000 Bay → Sher leads the antitrust years as board chair- was also honored by Best Area multifamily hous- department at Wilson man. He opened his Lawyers in America and is ing units. In his career, Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati own firm in 2008, which a fellow of the American he has led the devel- and is a partner in the became Pearson, Simon College of Bankruptcy. opment of more than firm’s Washington, D.C., 1,000 market-rate and office. His practice focuses CLAUDE M. STERN ’80 affordable apartment and on antitrust counseling Partner, Quinn Emanuel condo units in emerging and litigation, and he Urquhart & Sullivan neighborhoods in San represents clients with → One of the leading Francisco. He serves on antitrust issues that intellectual property trial the Urban Land Institute arise through the merger lawyers in the U.S., Stern San Francisco, SPUR, and and acquisition process. has almost four decades Housing Action Coalition His representations of practical experience. boards and has also been have included cases During that time, he has appointed to the San involving the intersection & Warshaw. Simon takes served as president of the Francisco Mayor’s of antitrust and intellec- pride in being a trial Association of Business Housing Trust Fund tual property law. Sher attorney and has one of Trial Lawyers, been Working Group and the specializes in working the largest antitrust class named “IP Attorney of San Francisco Inclusionary with companies in the action jury verdicts in the Year in California” Housing Technical software, biotechnology, the Northern District of by numerous publications, Advisory Committee. pharmaceutical, computer California. and identified as a Band hardware, semiconduc- 1 lawyer by Chambers. GLEN R. tor, telecommunications, JAMES I. STANG ’80 Currently, he is co-chair VAN LIGTEN ’90 internet infrastructure, Founding Partner, of the National Intellectual Partner, Gunderson and e-commerce indus- Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Property Litigation Practice Dettmer tries and has represented Jones at Quinn Emanuel, a firm → As a partner in the Bay Google, McAfee, and → Stang co-founded considered one of the Area offices of law firm Sun Microsystems, among Pachulski Stang Ziehl & “Fearsome Foursome” Gunderson Dettmer, Van others. Jones in 1983 and has by Law360 for its Ligten counsels emerging received acclaim for his extremely competent companies and venture BRUCE L. SIMON ’80 bankruptcy work at the litigators. capital firms on all aspects Founding Partner; state and national levels. of corporate law, with a Pearson, Simon & He has represented more ERIC TAO ’95 particular focus on venture Warshaw than 15 creditors’ commit- Managing Partner, financings, mergers and → Simon was named 2018 tees involving survivors of L37 Partners acquisitions, and IPOs. His Antitrust Lawyer of the sexual abuse. Stang has → With nearly two decades annual portfolio comprises Year by the California also lectured and written of experience in real hundreds of financing Lawyers Association. extensively on both bank- estate, Tao has driven the transactions. A vocal One of the leading ruptcy and receivership development process for proponent of hands-on,

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practical legal training, he District of California. He BARBARA BANKE ’78 has co-taught the corpo- has also successfully rep- Chairman, Jackson Family rate classroom component resented numerous other Wines of UC Hastings’ Startup parties at the trial and → Twenty years after Legal Garage for the past appellate levels, includ- co-founding Jackson several years. ing the San Francisco Family Wines with her late Chronicle, Billboard husband, Jess Jackson, BRUCE WAGMAN ’91 magazine, the Sacramento Banke continues to lead Of Counsel, Riley Safer Union, and the California the company today. Holmes & Cancila Newspaper Publishers With a vast portfolio of → Wagman, an attorney in Association. Wagstaffe properties on five conti- the firm’s San Francisco is an adjunct professor at nents, she helms a global office, is the only lawyer UC Hastings, where he company anchored by the with a practice completely teaches civil procedure. Kendall-Jackson winery in devoted to animals within Sonoma. Banke, who prac- a major U.S. firm. He has RANDALL published the leading W. WULFF ’74 animal law casebook Founder, Wulff Quinby and the only global Sochynsky Dispute survey of animal law. His Resolution practice covers the use of → Following a 20-year animals in entertainment, career as a trial lawyer, biomedical research, and Wulff became a full-time animal agriculture/food neutral in 1994. Since production; animal then, he has served as cruelty; and wildlife mediator in more than ticed constitutional and control. He has worked 2,000 cases. Among his land-use law for more than on behalf of every species successful mediations, a decade prior to diving from chimpanzees and Wulff oversaw a $2.75 into the wine business, gorillas to dolphins and billion agreement among is a generous philanthro- whales. Discover, MasterCard, and pist, directing most of Visa, and the $1.1 billion her giving to children’s JAMES M. class action settlement and educational charities WAGSTAFFE ’80 of the Microsoft antitrust across the U.S. Partner, WVBR claims in California. He → Wagstaffe specializes in was also selected to lead JOHN BARGER ’84 defamation, privacy, and the panel that decided the Managing Director/ intellectual property property damage claims Principal, NorthernCross litigation and handles for the World Trade Center Partners diverse cases in courts in the aftermath of the → As the managing throughout the country. Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. director of investment He has developed a and advisory firm specialty in defending NorthernCross Partners for against libel, privacy, the past 14 years, Barger and related claims. He primarily counsels small defended The New Yorker and middle-market com- magazine in its successful panies and private equity trial in the U.S. District

MOVERS ANDMOVERS SHAKERS IN WIDE-RANGING INDUSTRIES SUCH AND AS FINANCE, BIOTECH, REAL ESTATE, firms on matters that INSURANCE, UC HASTINGS ALUMNI ARE EXCEL ANYTHING IN CAREERS THAT BUT “BUSINESS AS USUAL.” Court for the Northern LAW AND TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS → include portfolio operating

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and liquidity strategies, as Development Foundation of the industry, including → Gurrola founded one of well as fund administra- → Dixon joined the firm retail, industrial, office, three known Hispanic tion. In 2013, he founded of Folger Levin & Kahn in residential, and mixed use. investment banks in the SierraConstellation 1998, first as an associate From shopping centers U.S. today. Since leaving Partners, a leading firm in and then as partner. She and business parks to JPMorgan, he has made turnaround management. later acted as senior legal residential communities, approximately $135 billion Barger currently serves on director for Yahoo and Duda’s firm has made an of impact (investment the boards of NanoLumens, director of U.S. legal strat- impressive mark through- gains, advice and oppor- which specializes in inter- egy for Terra Firma, before out Texas, California, tunities). Gurrola has done active LED visualization joining Mozilla full time and Nevada, among business on six conti- products, and WineDirect, other states. Duda was nents. His clients have a leading provider of direct- also a founding inves- included the U.S. Treasury to-consumer services to tor and director of HMI and a $160 billion con- wineries. Acquisitions and The Vons glomerate. He advises Companies, which merged pensions, endowments, FRANK BUSCH III ’00 with Safeway in 1997. foundations, and family Founder and CEO, offices with a combined Deloache Capital and ADAM ELSESSER ’87 $1.5 trillion to invest. He Thomas Title & Escrow Chairman, CEO, and sits on the Chancellor’s → Armed with several President; Penumbra Circle of UC Hastings and years of experience in in 2012. At Mozilla, she → When Elsesser has volunteered to train corporate and banking served as external adviser; co-founded Penumbra in high-risk UC Hastings law following stints at a associate general counsel; 2004 with his best friend graduates in investment law firm and as in-house senior vice president, busi- from Stanford University, law. counsel at a bank holding ness and legal affairs; and their goal was to cre- company, Busch founded chief business and legal ate innovative medical KATHRYN HALL ’71 Thomas Title & Escrow officer, before taking on products that would have Proprietor, HALL Wines in 2006—the first of the role of chief operating a huge impact on patients and WALT Wines several commercial real officer in 2018. In 2019, and their families. The → Today, Hall is best estate-related firms run Dixon was appointed CEO global company, head- known as the proprietor of by him. His businesses and executive director of quartered in Alameda, the award-winning HALL provide debt and equity the Stellar Development now offers a broad portfo- Wines and WALT Wines, solutions, as well as a Foundation, a nonprofit lio of neuro and peripheral grown on 500 acres of range of services that organization that pro- vascular devices. Prior family-owned estate vine- include commercial title motes the development to Penumbra, Elsesser yards in Napa Valley. But insurance, 1031 exchange and adoption of the Stellar served as the CEO of her résumé also includes accommodation, and open-source blockchain Smart Therapeutics, which remarkable achievements corporate escrow arrange- protocol. focused on devices for in other fields: She has been ments for domestic and neuro-intervention, and assistant city attorney in international transactions. FRITZ DUDA ’64 was a partner in the San Berkeley, the developer of Busch expanded the busi- President, Fritz Duda Francisco law firm Shartis ness into Latin America, Company Friese before he moved and it is now one of the → Since it was founded in into the medical device leading escrow providers 1974, Duda’s namesake industry. south of the border. real estate investment company has established KENNETH DENELLE DIXON ’97 an impressive track record GURROLA ’97 CEO and Executive of developing high-quality Owner, Chairman, and Director, The Stellar projects in various sectors CEO; Eastridge Capital

22 GAMECHANGERS one of the United States’ of marijuana. As CEO ranks of First American → Although Komeiji spent first and largest affirmative of Powerplant Global Corporation, founded in decades at litigation action programs at Safeway, Strategies, a PR and com- 1889 by his great-grand- practice Watanabe Ing & United States ambassador munications firm focused father. Over the ensuing Komeiji, eventually working to Austria (from 1997 to on the legal cannabis decades, he held various his way up to senior part- 2001), and a high-powered industry, he works with positions at the firm, ner, he is currently making Texas attorney. She was companies and investors which became a global waves as the president also president of an inner committed to expanding provider of title insurance, and general manager of city development company the legalized cannabis property information, and Hawaiian Telcom, an in Dallas and co-founder market in the U.S. and settlement services. integrated communica- of the North Texas Food Canada. Prior to his work Appointed CEO in 2003, tions provider based in Bank. as a corporate and polit- Kennedy held that position Honolulu. He previously ical strategist, Huttner until 2010, when the firm served the company as MICHAEL co-founded a Denver law split into two separate chief administrative officer HUTTNER ’95 firm and his own consult- NYSE-traded entities. He and general counsel before Chief Executive Officer, ing firm, Huttner Group. currently serves as chair- his appointment to his Powerplant Global man of the board of First current position in July Strategies PARKER S. American Financial, one 2018. Earlier that year, → A longtime proponent KENNEDY ’73 of those companies. he was honored by the of the medical benefits Chairman of the Board, Hawaii Venture Capitalist of cannabis, Huttner First American Financial JOHN KOMEIJI ’79 Association with the helped design the road Corporation President and General Corporate Intrapreneur of map for Colorado’s even- → Four years out of law Manager, Hawaiian the Year award. tual decriminalization school, Kennedy joined the Telcom

Julie Gruber ’92 EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT AND GLOBAL GENERAL COUNSEL, GAP INC. A senior leader for Gap Inc., Gruber wears many hats—as executive vice president, global general counsel, corporate secretary, and chief compliance officer. She directs an inter- national team to keep the worldwide apparel corporation growing strong, while minimizing its legal risks. Gruber also leads Gap’s gov- ernment affairs and corporate administration teams. Before joining Gap, she was an asso- ciate at Bronson, Bronson and McKinnon in San Francisco and clerked for Judge Ronald M. Whyte in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Jose.

UC HASTINGS 23 CONSTANCE LAU ’77 of the 25 Most Powerful Turnstone Systems → Described as “absolutely President and CEO, Women in Banking in as its general counsel. a player in the emerging Hawaiian Electric the U.S. As chair of the Following corporate stints companies market” by Industries National Infrastructure at a couple of other tech Chambers USA and one → Lau heads HEI, Hawaii’s Advisory Council, Lau companies, Liu landed at of the “10 Emerging Law largest publicly traded currently leads efforts VeriFone Systems, where Firm Leaders in California” company, with operations to enhance the resil- he spent almost a decade by Daily Journal, McCusker in energy, banking, and ience and cybersecurity leading the legal depart- is well-known in Silicon sustainable infrastructure. of the nation’s critical ment. Since 2017, Liu has Valley for his work in Lau began as assistant infrastructure. served as vice president corporate, securities, and corporate counsel at sub- and deputy general partnership laws, especially sidiary Hawaiian Electric, ALBERT LIU ’97 counsel of the Chinese as they relate to advising now a key player in Vice President and conglomerate Alibaba emerging-growth technol- Hawaii’s efforts to achieve Deputy General Counsel, Group—one of the big- ogy companies. His firm, the nation’s most aggres- Alibaba Group gest and highest-valued Goodwin Procter, has an sive climate goals of 100 → A software engineer companies in the world— online resource for startups percent renewable energy, prior to entering law focusing on the company’s called Founders Workbench, carbon neutrality, and 100 school, Liu launched his globalization strategies. and McCusker is a key con- percent renewable ground legal career as a tech tributor to the site. transportation. Lau also lawyer at Sullivan & ANTHONY spent time as president Cromwell and moved MCCUSKER ’95 MARTHA and CEO of subsidiary in-house in 2000 when he Partner and Co-Chair MENDIZABAL ’10 American Savings Bank, joined telecommunica- of Technology Practice, Co-Founder, TecnoLatinx landing on US Banker’s list tions equipment provider Goodwin Procter XR Labs

Doug Shorenstein ’79 FORMER CHAIRMAN AND CEO, SHORENSTEIN PROPERTIES As chairman and CEO of Shorenstein Properties, Shorenstein took his father’s San Francisco- based real estate development company national, amassing properties in 20 markets, including Los Angeles and New York. The company’s current portfolio totals approximately 25 million square feet (including some 2.3 million square feet under development), with a gross value of about $9 billion. In 2007, Shorenstein was appointed to the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and in 2011 was named chair- man. Previously, he worked with the law firm of Shearman & Sterling. He passed away in 2015.

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→ Mendizabal has been corporate law. Once lured lawyer in private practice, organization’s largest passionate about raising into biotech, Mendlein a city attorney, and an individual donations since technology awareness became a “parallel” entre- airline executive, Nagin its founding. in Latin America ever preneur, often serving as a enjoyed an impressively since her student days, hands-on chairman of the varied career before ALAN OSHIMA ’76 when she volunteered to board at several pioneer- his death in 2009. His President and CEO, help refurbish donated ing biotech companies. In introduction to the airline Hawaiian Electric computers. After working 2018, he became president industry came in 1980 Company in equity derivatives at of corporate and prod- when he joined cargo air- → Oshima was named to uct strategy at Moderna line Flying Tigers, where head Hawaiian Electric Therapeutics, a clinical he served as general coun- Company in 2014 with a stage biotechnology sel and eventually as CEO. promise to transform the company, where he has He subsequently became utility’s culture to be more been a board member general counsel for United innovative and adaptable, since 2012. In addition to Airlines and, after a few expanding the use of his JD degree, Mendlein years at law firm Skadden cost-effective renewable has a PhD in physiology Arps, joined US Airways, energy resources for power and biophysics. He is the where he remained until co-author or co-inventor of 2002. The Lawrence M. ICAP, the world’s largest more than 210 publications Nagin Faculty Enrichment broker-dealer, she turned and published patents. Fund is named in his to emerging technol- honor. ogies and co-founded SCOTT MORRIS ’76 TecnoLatinx XR Labs. The Senior Vice President & KENNETH OLIVIER ’77 Los Angeles-based organi- General Counsel, Trilogy Past Chairman, zation uses immersive International Partners Dodge & Cox educational experiences → Morris began his legal → Armed with both a UC to introduce virtual reality career working as an Hastings law degree and generation and transpor- and augmented reality attorney-adviser to the an MBA from Harvard tation, while also helping hardware to English- and chairman of the Federal Business School, Olivier to create more sustainable Spanish-speaking Trade Commission. He has spent his career at San communities. He has communities in the U.S., since worked exclusively Francisco-based invest- also served in executive Latin America, and the in the telecommunications ment company Dodge & roles at Hawaiian Electric Caribbean. industry, with a partic- Cox, which he joined in Industries and Hawaiian ular focus on external 1979. He worked his way Telcom. He was a found- JOHN MENDLEIN ’93 affairs, for companies up the ladder, eventually ing partner of the law firm Executive Partner, such as Viacom Cable, becoming the firm’s CEO. Oshima, Chun, Fong & Flagship Pioneering; AT&T Wireless, Terabeam In addition, he served Chung and practiced law Strategic Consultant, Corporation, and Western as a trustee and chair- with Carlsmith Ball. Moderna Therapeutics Wireless. Morris has man of the Dodge & Cox → A scientist and a lawyer, worked for Trilogy since Funds and as a member of GEORGE R. ROBERTS ’69 Mendlein has helped 2006 and serves as a various investment policy Co-Chairman and found and direct many member of UC Hastings’ committees. A trustee of Co-CEO, Kohlberg Kravis biotechnology compa- board of trustees. the Carnegie Endowment Roberts nies. When biotech was for International Peace, → Roberts, a titan in the taking off in Silicon Valley LAWRENCE NAGIN ’65 he and his wife recently world of private equity, in the 1990s, he got a job Former General Counsel, endowed the Ken Olivier co-founded global invest- with Cooley doing patent United Airlines & Angela Nomellini ment firm Kohlberg Kravis work, licensing deals, and → As a public defender, a Chair with one of the Roberts (KKR) in 1976.

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KKR pioneered lever- positively evolve the built aged buyouts and is best environment. Safier is the known for its 1988 buyout chairman of the board of of RJR Nabisco, a deal the Jim Joseph Foundation that was immortalized in and the former director and the 1989 book Barbarians chair of the San Francisco at the Gate: The Fall of Jewish Community RJR Nabisco. An avid Federation’s Endowment philanthropist, Roberts Fund. He serves on has served on the boards the board of directors of SPUR, is a founding member of UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation, and serves on UC Berkeley’s Fisher Center Policy Advisory Board, is a member of Urban Land Institute’s Urban Development Mixed-Use Council, and is a member of of numerous cultural and Lamda Alpha International. Adelmise Warner ’01 education institutions Safier continues to advise GLOBAL HEAD OF DIVERSITY AND and established the San and serve in various roles in INCLUSION, SIRIUSXM AND PANDORA Francisco-based Roberts the education and health- Enterprise Development care sectors. Prior to the As global head of diversity and inclusion for Fund, which invests in Prado Group, Safier was a SiriusXM and Pandora, Warner is responsi- and advises social enter- principal at Prometheus ble for developing and implementing all the prises that seek to provide Real Estate Group and diversity and inclusion strategies, includ- job opportunities to people following Hastings, Safier who face barriers to managed AMB’s interna- ing the hiring, retention, development, and employment. tional clients and their U.S. advancement of underrepresented talent, assets. particularly women and people of color, for DAN SAFIER ’94 the satellite radio/audio streaming service President and CEO, KRISTIN Prado Group SVERCHEK ’07 industry leader, now the largest audio enter- → Safier is the founder General Counsel, Lyft tainment company in the world. Previously, of and oversees the → Sverchek has focused Warner, who grew up in Haiti and immi- Prado Group, a San on startups and venture grated to the United States at the age of 16, Francisco-based real capital since the start estate development and of her career, first as an was senior counsel at Electronic Arts and investment management associate at Gunderson a senior associate in Morgan Lewis Labor firm. The firm focuses Dettmer and then as an and Employment Practice Group. Warner on urban residential, associate and partner at serves on boards of nonprofit organizations retail, office, medical, Silicon Legal Strategy. In and mixed-use proper- 2012, she became Lyft’s dedicated to the advancement of underrepre- ties within high-density first in-house lawyer. Since sented people, including the Women’s Audio marketplaces, including the then, she has helped Lyft Mission and the National Employment Law San Francisco Bay Area. grow from San Francisco Council. Warner is a 2019 Eisenhower fellow. Prado Group’s mission is to into all 50 states and

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Canada. Sverchek and her merchandising selling NATHAN BALLARD ’99 team at Lyft have success- office supplies in college, CEO, The Press Shop fully settled a number of credits the birth of The → San Francisco maga- lawsuits for the company Sharper Image—which he zine’s “Power Issue” said in disparate areas of law, founded in 1977—to his that Ballard is a “preem- including personal injury, discovery and subsequent inent media whisperer” regulatory, intellectual mail-order marketing of who represents “a veritable property, employment, a $69 waterproof watch. Yellow Pages of powerful disability law, and privacy. Over the course of the clients.” Ballard specializes In the spring of 2019, she ensuing 30 years, his com- in crisis communica- took Lyft through its highly pany grew into a chain of tions. He was Gov. Gavin publicized IPO. more than 200 stores with Newsom’s communications $800 million in sales. director when Newsom BRUCE TELKAMP ’94 served as mayor of San Co-Founder and CEO, JANINE YANCEY ’92 Francisco. Ballard has HealthPocket and Founder and CEO, AgileHealthInsurance. Emtrain com → After practicing employ- → Telkamp developed ment law and representing his tech bona fides as an high-tech companies in IP lawyer representing the Bay Area, Yancey envi-

Silicon Valley compa- sioned how technology nies at law firm Wilson could democratize access Sonsini Goodrich & to legal information by Rosati. He has since informing employees of spent the majority of his their rights and respon- been a communications career in the health care sibilities, while making adviser to Fortune 100 industry, leading innova- trending employee con- companies, major tech tive companies that help cerns visible to employers. figures, the Golden State consumers navigate the To make it happen, Warriors, Super Bowl confusing maze of health Yancey founded Emtrain 50, and San Francisco’s insurance. HealthPocket and recruited engineer- Olympic bid. He was a is the country’s largest ing and product leaders spokesman for presidential source for health insur- from LinkedIn, Adobe, candidates Sen. John Kerry ance, and Agile helps and McKinsey to bring and Gen. Wesley Clark; consumers find alterna- machine learning and the Democratic National tives to Affordable Care predictive analytics to the Committee; the California Act plans. With his wife, world of compliance train- Democratic Party; and Diane Turriff ’90, Telkamp ing. Emtrain partners with the California Labor established the Telkamp- Netflix, Dolby, Workday, Federation, AFL-CIO. Turriff Scholarship at UC Yelp, and 800 other cul- He was a market leader Hastings. ture-focused employers and managing director to prevent harassment, at Burson-Marsteller, a RICHARD bias, and ethics issues and global public relations THALHEIMER ’74 create healthier workplace agency. Ballard is currently Founder and Former cultures. CEO of The Press Shop, a CEO, The Sharper Image full-service public relations Thalheimer, who → ACCOMPLISHED ALUMNI THRIVE IN FIELDS AS DIVERSE FILMMAKING, AS DOCUMENTARY TELEVISION agency with offices in San NEWS, PUBLIC RELATIONS, ACADEMIA, AND ICE DANCING—PUTTING WORK THEIR DEGREE IN LAW TO first ventured into THE LAW BEYOND → COUNTLESS WAYS. CREATIVE Francisco and Sacramento.

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MERLE CHAMBERS ’77 scores of headline-making ABBY GINZBERG ’75 PHILIP KAN Former CEO, Axem contracts for players such Documentary Filmmaker GOTANDA ’78 Resources as quarterback Aaron → Over a 30-year career, Playwright and Filmmaker → Chambers headed oil Rodgers (whose four-year, Ginzberg has directed → Gotanda uses film, and gas exploration and $134 million contract and produced documen- theater, and music to tell production company extension with the Green taries primarily centered stories primarily focused Axem Resources for more Bay Packers broke records on the legal field and on the Asian American than 20 years, leading it in NFL history). Other justice issues. Her film experience and margin- to spectacular success notable clients in Dunn’s Soul of Justice: Thelton alization. He joined the in the Rocky Mountain remarkable portfolio Henderson’s American Asian American theater region. She was the first include Jim Harbaugh, Journey (2005) focused movement in the 1970s, woman inducted into the Chip Kelly, Ray Lewis, on one of the country’s writing dozens of plays— Rocky Mountain Oil & Gas Steve Young, and Carson first African American many experimental in Hall of Fame and served Palmer. federal judges, while style—about such topics on the National Petroleum Cruz Reynoso: Sowing as interracial marriage, Council. Since selling CLARA FOLTZ the intersections between Axem in 1997, Chambers First Female Lawyer on different ethnic groups, has devoted consider- the West Coast and the challenges faced able time to philanthropy → Though not technically by those of mixed race. as board chair of Merle an alum, Foltz—who was Among his plays are Chambers Fund, a private born in 1849 and is closely Sisters Matsumoto, The foundation committed identified with the law Wash, The Dream of to long-term economic school’s history—was Kitamura, Day Standing opportunity and social a legal trailblazer who on Its Head, and The Wind justice. played a major role in Calls Mary. Several of opening up the California the Seeds of Justice his acclaimed films have DAVID DUNN ’88 bar to women. After highlights the first Latino been invited to Sundance. Founder and CEO, becoming the first woman judge on the California He is the recipient of a Athletes First admitted to the state bar, Supreme Court. Ginzberg Guggenheim Fellowship → One of the most suc- at age 29, Foltz wanted also received a Peabody and a grant from the cessful and respected to pursue a formal legal Award for Soft Vengeance: National Endowment for sports agents in the education at UC Hastings. Albie Sachs and the New the Arts, and is a profes- industry, Dunn has She was unsuccessful in South Africa (2014) and sor at UC Berkeley in the negotiated NFL contracts her first attempt to gain was consulting producer Department of Theater, admission, due to the gen- for Academy Award Dance, and Performance der restrictions of the era. nominee The Barber of Studies. Undaunted, Foltz co- Birmingham (2011). Her authored an amendment film And Then They Came GREGG JARRETT ’80 to the state constitution for Us (2017), about the Legal Analyst and that would dismantle connection between the Commentator, Fox News these gender barriers and incarceration of Japanese → Fox News anchor Jarrett filed suit to gain entrance. Americans during World joined the network in As a result, Foltz paved War II and the current 2002 after having worked the way for women to Muslim travel ban, won a at both Court TV and totaling more than $1 attend UC Hastings— Silver Gavel Award. She MSNBC. He is known billion. Ranked No. 24 as well as other law is currently in production for his critiques of the on Forbes’ 2018 list of schools—and to pursue on a documentary about Clintons and the Mueller top sports agents in the law as a career. Congresswoman Barbara investigation, positions world, Dunn has landed Lee. that form the basis of his

28 GAMECHANGERS best-selling 2018 book, N. MARK LAM ’83 The Russia Hoax. Jarrett’s Former CEO, Live365 follow-up book will be → Consider Lam’s many published in the fall of accomplishments: CEO 2019. After graduating not once, but twice, of from UC Hastings in 1980, one of the world’s largest he spent a few years as internet radio networks; a defense attorney with adjunct professor at the Gordon & Rees. Jarrett University of California, has also taught law as an Irvine; co-author of China adjunct professor at New Now: Doing Business York Law School. in the World’s Most Dynamic Market, one of BRAD KREVOY ’82 the best-selling English- Founder and Chairman/ language business books CEO, Motion Picture about China; and founder Corporation of America of the Pristine Group, → In his 30-year career as based in Newport Beach. a feature film and tele- All told, Lam certainly vision producer, Krevoy has an impressively Sam Fernandez ’80 has produced and/or diverse résumé. And, as EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT AND GENERAL distributed projects that a top executive, teacher, have generated worldwide and lawyer, he has had COUNSEL, LOS ANGELES DODGERS revenues of more than a far-reaching impact on Cuba-born Fernandez joined the Dodgers $1.5 billion. His projects high-tech and business four years out of law school and has been have included Netflix’s law and strategy. there ever since. An avid fan of the team A Christmas Prince; Hallmark Channel’s JOHN MAATTA ’77 since he was a child, he’s responsible for family series When Calls CEO, Wizard supervising the organization’s vast legal the Heart; the Academy Entertainment; portfolio, which touches on every facet Award and Golden Globe Of Counsel, Eisner of the day-to-day management of a major nominee for Best Foreign → Maatta is the CEO of Language Film Prisoner Wizard Entertainment, a league sports franchise and includes con- of the Mountains; the multifaceted media and tract negotiations, intellectual property Emmy, Golden Globe, entertainment company, management, and litigation. He has worked and SAG award-winning which is the largest on matters ranging from the establish- HBO film Taking Chance; producer of pop-culture and Dumb and Dumber live entertainment in the ment of the Dodgers’ training facility in (which broke box-office country. Previously, he the Dominican Republic in 1987 to serving comedy records upon its was the co-head and chief on the board of directors of Major League release in 1994). Krevoy is Baseball Properties. He has received a member of the Motion Picture Academy and numerous awards and honors, including serves on the Board of the recognition by the National Law Journal American Film Market as one of the country’s “50 Outstanding and California State General Counsel.” Summer School of the Arts.

UC HASTINGS 29 Leo Martinez ’78 ALBERT ABRAMSON PROFESSOR OF LAW, UC HASTINGS After graduating from UC Hastings Order of the Coif and as a member of the Thurston Society in 1978, Martinez returned to UC Hastings as a faculty member in 1985. Over the course of his illustrious career with UC Hastings, Martinez has served as acting chancellor and dean, academic dean, interim general counsel, and Albert Abramson Professor of Law. Martinez is a leading scholar in contract, federal tax, tax policy, tax procedure, and insurance law, in which he has published prolifically, including six editions as principal author operating officer of the to the family business of West’s Insurance Law and as a principal CW Television Network, not long after his time editor of Appleman’s four-volume Insurance and was the first employee at UC Hastings, joining of the WB Television Chronicle Books in 1986. Practice Guide. He is a past president of the Network, where he was He became editor-in-chief Association of American Law Schools and also the chief operating of the adult trade division has balanced his dedication to legal educa- officer and the general and eventually bought the tion with a commitment to public service, counsel. Maatta was an company in 2000. McEvoy executive at Warner Bros. is also an influential leading the boards of various organizations and its related entities for presence in the art world, such as KQED and Public Advocates. Apart over 29 years. Maatta is serving as a member of from his accomplishments, Martinez’s also affiliated with the the accessions committee impact as a thought leader and mentor Eisner firm in Beverly at SFMOMA. He is past Hills, where he is involved chairman of the Board distinguishes him as being “beyond the in matters that cover the of Commissioners at the law.” He has shared his vast experience spectrum of entertain- Smithsonian American with decades of students who remember ment law. At UC Hastings, Art Museum and current him most for his epigrammatic adages Maatta was one of the board chair at SFFILM. He founders of the Comm/Ent established the McEvoy and boundless support. Despite all these law journal. Foundation for the Arts in accomplishments, Martinez counts as his 2017. greatest achievement consistently beat- NION MCEVOY ’79 ing Chancellor & Dean David Faigman in Chairman and CEO, GERALD POSNER ’78 Chronicle Books Investigative Journalist racquetball. → The great-grandson of and Author San Francisco Chronicle → One of the youngest founder Michael de attorneys ever hired by Young, McEvoy returned Cravath, Swain & Moore,

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famous for Holes, which Degradation) and climate known as Interlude), a he published in 1998. The change. His scholarly company focused on inter- book won the National work addresses carbon active music videos. Book Award for Young offsetting, biodiversity People’s Literature and the conservation law, and the LAWRENCE VAVRA ’02 Newbery Medal, and was human right to water. He Co-Founder adapted by Sachar into a is the author of The Idea of SFX Entertainment and popular film in 2003. Biodiversity, and in 2017 Deckstar he was given the Rutter → As a student at UC Posner had a notable GORSHA SUR ’06 Award for Outstanding Hastings, Vavra enjoyed career as a lawyer, but it Ice Dancing National Teaching at UC Hastings. putting on concerts. is his work as an inves- Champion One artist he booked, DJ tigative journalist that → It was only after his NANCY TELLEM ’78 AM, went on to become has made him his name. highly successful ice Executive Chairwoman Vavra’s first manage- The author of more than dancing career wound to and Chief Media Officer, ment client. Along with a dozen books, Posner a close that Sur came to Eko partners Paul Rosenberg has covered topics from UC Hastings. A two-time → After graduating from and Matt Colon, Vavra the Nazi “Angel of Death” World Junior medalist, UC Hastings, Tellem prac- co-founded Deckstar, and Josef Mengele to interna- he won the gold at the ticed law for four years his client list quickly grew tional heroin syndicates. United States Figure in Los Angeles before to more than 30 artists. His book Case Closed, Skating Championships transitioning to what In 2012, Vavra produced which maintains that Lee for ice dancing twice after would become a phenom- the first-ever electronic Harvey Oswald acted relocating to the U.S. After enally successful career dance music performance alone in the assassina- retiring, Sur worked as a in television. After stints at the Grammy Awards. tion of John F. Kennedy, coach and choreographer with Wheel of Fortune and He is also a co-founder of was a finalist for the 1994 before enrolling at UC Merv Griffin, she worked SFX Entertainment (now Pulitzer Prize in history. Hastings in 2003. Since at WB and CBS, where known as LiveStyle). Vavra More recently, he pub- graduating, he has studied she rose to the posi- has managed well-known lished God’s Bankers: international commer- bands, including Jane’s A History of Money and cial arbitration law at Addiction, Rancid, and Power at the Vatican, an Stockholm University and Smashing Pumpkins. in-depth look at the his- now serves as manag- tory of the Vatican Bank. ing partner of Versus Advocates’ Bay Area LOUIS SACHAR ’80 office. Author → Sachar received a pub- DAVID TAKACS ’08 lishing deal for his first Professor of Law, UC book, Sideways Stories Hastings tion of president of CBS from Wayside School, → Takacs is a professor at Entertainment, becoming during his first week at UC Hastings specializing one of the first women to UC Hastings. After almost in environmental law. He hold a top entertainment a decade practicing law has consulted for inter- post at a major network. in order to subsidize his national NGOs and U.S. Since stepping down as work as a children’s book government agencies, CBS president, she joined author, he finally turned to analyzing legal and policy Microsoft as entertain- writing full time and has issues pertaining to REDD ment and digital media since published more than (Reducing Emissions from president and currently 20 titles. Sachar is most Deforestation and forest oversees Eko (formerly

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ALUMNI REFLECT ON THE BENEFITS OF GIVING BACK TO THEIR ALMA MATER

AWARDS IN EVERYONE’S INTEREST

BY LAUREN (RUSSELL) CAPURRO LLM ’04; TRUMP, ALIOTO, TRUMP & PRESCOTT

When a class action lawsuit settles in favor of the plaintiffs, it isn’t always feasible to distrib- ute all of the recovered funds to class members because the cost of distribution is too high relative to the likely award to claimants. In that event, a cy pres award is possible. Meaning “as near as” in French, a cy pres award goes to a nonprofit organization whose work closely relates to the subject of the class action. UC Hastings is among the organizations that can qualify for a cy pres award. I know this because my firm recently settled a case in which all recovered funds were distributed for char- itable purposes, including the children’s advocacy program at UC Hastings. Other attorneys can have similar success in gaining approval of a cy pres distribution to UC Hastings, espe- cially if they understand the preferences and standards of the courts. California state courts, whose policies are set forth in Section 384 of the Code of Civil Procedure, view cy pres awards favorably. Federal courts are more stringent, and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has recently issued new guidelines. Lawyers seeking a cy pres award in this district must now disclose any link to the potential recipient. Depending on the settlement size, a cy pres award can be significant. As I have seen firsthand, allocating a portion to UC Hastings means the funds will be put to good use.

PLANNED GIVING, WITH GRATITUDE

BY JOHN KOEPPEL ’76, OF COUNSEL, ROPERS MAJESKI KOHN BENTLEY

Looking back, I realize that law was the best profession I could have chosen. I also realize it was my education at UC Hastings that propelled me toward success. I am immensely grateful for this education, and to the school that allowed me to earn a law degree at practically no cost. For that reason, and because it makes me feel I’m doing the right thing, I have included UC Hastings in my estate plans. Any UC Hastings graduate has an opportunity to take the same step. While not everyone is as fortunate as I was to attend UC Hastings at a time when California provided most of the school’s funding, keeping tuition low, planned giving is possible for most people. One way to start is by adding UC Hastings as a beneficiary of your retirement account. It’s easy to do, and designating a percentage rather than dollar amount allows your beneficiaries to do better as you do better. Your generosity has impact: Planned giving helps fulfill the vision for the campus and legal education at UC Hastings. It also provides financial support for new generations of students. To me, there’s no better way to leave a legacy. For more information, visit uchastings.edu/alumni/how-to-give.

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BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE UC HASTINGS ESTABLISHES A VIBRANT NEW ACADEMIC VILLAGE

Hastings once again proves it’s a thought leader in UC legal education with the establishment of an interdis- ciplinary academic village in downtown San Francisco. In the law school’s 2017 Long-Range Campus Plan (LRCP), Chancellor & Dean David Faigman described this vision: “Great law schools contribute positively to the environment and communities surrounding them. At UC Hastings, we are moving forward to develop a vibrant academic village in the heart of San Francisco, a hub of innovation commingling profes- sional and graduate students in law, medicine, and business. “Over the next decade, UC Hastings will build or rehabili- tate 75 percent of its two-block footprint at the nexus of the Civic Center, Tenderloin, and Mid-Market neighborhoods we call home. The LRCP describes how we will take this unprec- edented opportunity to provide unique advantages for our students and radically reduce our carbon footprint, while under- pinning the ongoing vitality of our community. “[F]ollowing completion of a LEED Platinum academic build- ing at 333 Golden Gate in January 2020, the obsolete academic buildings at 198 McAllister and 50 Hyde Street will be replaced with approximately 618 new units of campus housing and campus-serving amenities. Developed in collaboration with UCSF, this project offers a framework for interdisciplinary living and work space for students and faculties of both schools. The proximity of shared teaching and clinical spaces, institutes, and departments on campus will help foster deeper academic collaborations for the benefit of all of our students.” “Certainly, the College’s longtime partnership with UCSF (and other institutions both inside and outside the University of California system) will add to the dynamism of the new village, in which professional and graduate students from many disci- To learn how you can support UC plines will be encouraged to experience campus life together. Hastings’ initiatives to transform its The new residential tower will also have active ground-floor campus into a dynamic academic uses, which deepen the campus’s ties to the community. village, visit uchastings.edu/giving or “Our business and history give us the foundation on which contact Chief Development Officer to build an extraordinary future as one of the pre-eminent law Eric Dumbleton at 415.565.4616 or schools in the nation,” says Faigman. “I look forward to working [email protected]. with the entire community as we build for the future.” IMAGE BY STEELBLUE

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