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N 0 T E S President's Letter

Dear Fellow Alumni: ( I This has been, as expected,' a most exciting and productive year for CMLAA. Although we can count ~ number of successes this year, we still have more rvork to do. Therefore, it is my prediction that_1993- 94 will be an even bigger and better year for all of us. Among the successes this year, we must include - the following: f - 17th - 18th Block Project - Through our efforts and with the extraordinary commitment from individuals on 01,u Past Presidents and Outreach Committees, the Ohio Legislature, Board of ' Regents and Governor Voinovich demonstrated a firm commitment to this project which will . include a new law library. Thank you all! CLE - Our Cop.tinuing Legal Educa'tion programs cqntinue to grow and serve the legal com­ munity with our Saturday morning seminars. Mentor Program -This year's program included an outstanding joint Mentor/Life Member reception where many generations of C-M graduates met, exchanged ideas and networked. The history of our great school was evident in the enthusiasm of_alHhe attenqees. ABA - The CMLAA, faculty, staff and CSU worked through a difficult time to come up with a resolution to i ~ sue·s -arisi n'g after the ABA site visit. Thank you to all involved. We need to work together toward greater funding of dur Alma Mater. Membership - Our ranks continue to grow as we reached our highest number ever. Please encourage your friends to join and consider becoming Life Members. Annual Recognition Luncheon - Over 700 people gathered to honor Judge James J. McMonagle 1 70 and David B. Roth '79. When all the Cleveland-Marshall graduates stood en masse, it was an awesome demonstration of just how large and expansive the c'-M family has become. Life Member Scholarship Awards -This year we named an award in honor of our friend,]. Patrick Browne. We will miss him. Students receiving the scholarships epitomize the excep­ tional multi-faceted individuals who have traditionally ,chosen a Cleveland-Marshall education. 1_ The Cleveland-Marshall family has more to do. We mtist •continue to support our Alma Mater, its faculty, staff and students. Fundraising will become a priority to insure the cont~nued vitality of the College of Law. We must use the same team work we used this past year to provide for a strong futl.ue. Finally, thanks to all those people who have worked so diligently in every endeavor of the Law , , Alumni Association and the College of Law ..Without your efforts we would have been unable to prevail on so many fronts this year. It has been niy honor to serve with and for all of you.

Sincerely, \ - ~,~,~~tl Sheryl King Benfdrd President, CMLAA

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1993 3 / Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association News-Summer 1993

N 0 T E S

CONTENTS

4 Dean's Column 6 Farewell to I- Patrick Browne

Volume I, Number 3 10 Summer 1993 The Medical Institute Editor: Mary McKenna for Law Faculty Associate Editor: 12-13 Louise F. Mooney Annual Recognition Luncheon Publications Co-Chairs: Mary Groth '83, Melody Stewart '88 14-17 Graphic Design: Szilagyi & Szilagyi Life Members Printer: 19 Legal News Publishing Company Tribute to Marlene Shettel Photo Credits: Steve Zorc & Bill Szilagyi 22-26 Alumni Happenings We hope you enjoy this new issue of Law Notes and ask that you continue to contribute and 27-29 respond to information in this and future issues & of Law Notes. Special thanks to Leon M. Plevin Faculty Staff Happenings '57, Donald F. Traci '55, Susan L. Grage! '80, Daniel R. McCarthy '54 and Sheldon Sager for their commitment in support of this publication. Special thanks to Michaeline Carrig for her assistance. The CMLAA Board of Trustees is dedicated to serving the alumni, students, faculty and staff of the College of Law. For comments and suggestions, please feel free to contact the Law Alumni Office at 216-687-2368. Law Notes, issued by the Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association, 1801 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44115

Summer 1993 3 Dean's Column

A HAPPY ENDING, A PROMISING BEGINNING by Steven R. Smith

As the 1992-93 academic year tion space. We have tried to be as ready discussed. The commitment to comes to an end, many of us at the law efficient as possible in planning the the building and the reinstatement of school conclude it is one of the most space so that it will provide sufficient the commitment for the operating funds eventful years in the recent history of space for the foreseeable future, thereby have answered the major concerns of the school. In many respects, this year eliminating the need for a series of the American Bar Association. We ex­ can build the foundation for a very additions. pect that the ABA will continue to bright future for the school. monitor the implementation of the Among the most significant devel­ promises, but we believe that that imple­ opments have been the approval and mentation will meet all of the concerns initial construction funding of the new raised by the ABA and the Association law library building, the recommitment of American Law Schools. of the university to a funding plan for This has been a year of truly ex­ the law school, the tentative resolution traordinary support from the law of ABA accreditation issues, and the school's alumni and friends. Alumni extraordinary community and alumni pressed the law school's and university's support for the law school that we have case for funding the 17th-18th Block seen throughout the year. including the law library. During the The University Board of Trustees, difficult times surrounding the operat­ the Ohio Board of Regents, the Legisla­ ing funds issues, many alumni and ture and the Governor's Office have all friends of the law school offered to help provided support for completing the in any way possible. It has been a great planning and construction of a new reminder that legal education is an arm library for the law school. This building of the legal profession and ultimately will provide the space that our library depends on the profession for its legiti­ needs and will allow us to have the macy and its strength. While the year most modern combination of books In March of 1992, the university had its difficult moments, it is because and electronic data available to our made a number of commitments to of the interest and involvement of the students, faculty and alumni. The li­ fund critical aspects of the law school's profession with the school that it has brary is part of the 17th-18th Street academic program. These included the emerged with the momentum to con­ development about which I have writ­ law library, the legal writing program, tinue to improve its quality. This is a ten in the past. The law library and the faculty salaries, student financial aid, bond we intend to strengthen in the business school building are the first the Law Review and Journal of Law and months and years ahead. We will be priorities for construction in this project. Health, and academic support. During coming to you for your support, for As it stands now, the university has the winter, the university stated it was suggestions, and for the private funds received the funds to complete the plan­ unable to go forward with certain of the that will provide the margin of excel­ ning for the building and the first part commitments in the time originally lence for our programs. of the construction funds. In addition, promised. This created a significant On behalf of all the students, faculty the legislature included special language problem for the law school which was and staff of the law school, thank you for in the state's capital bill that should resolved in April when the university all you have done during the year.• ensure completion of the law library reinstated the commitments it had funding in the next biennium. The made. We now look forward to signifi­ new library will be attached to the old cant improvements in the academic law library and entered through the program that are possible as a result of atrium. Following construction of the the funds committed to the school. Correction new library building, the current li­ The accreditation difficulties fac­ Court of Common Pleas Judge brary space will be reconfigured for ing the school have been subject to Norman A. Fuerst is a member classrooms, seminar rooms, a mock trial several press reports. Almost all of the of the class of 1953. room, faculty and administrative of­ difficulties relate to the building and fices, legal clinics and student organiza- the operational funds that I have al-

4 Law Notes THE CLEVELAND- MARSHALL LAW ALUMNI ASSOCIATION GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES THE GENEROSITY OF:

NURENBERG, PLEVIN, HELLER & McCARTHY

SPANGENBERG, SHIBLEY, TRACI & LANCIONE

GOLD, ROTATOR!, SCHWARTZ & GIBBONS

McCARTHY, LEBIT, CRYSTAL & HAIMAN

WHO HAVE MADE THIS ISSUE OF LAW NOTES POSSIBLE.

Summer 1993 5

An Affectionate Farewell to J. Patrick Browne

I 1935-1993

11 A skilled and caring teacher, a voracious researcher, an indefatigable writer, 11 John B. Robertson.

"Pat's impishness knew no bounds, 11 Eunice Clavner.

11 Ofgentlemen, teachers and scholars I have known in over 40 years of teaching, Pat was the best, 11 Jim Flaherty.

"The old fraud strikes again, 11 Pat Browne, writing about him­ self in a letter to John Robertson.

"Ha' we lost the goodliest fere o' all?" Ezra Pound, Ballad of the Goodly Pere.

Eunice Clavner '85, tells this story about her longtime companion, Cleveland­ Marshall Professor of Law f. Patrick Browne, who died in Lakewood, Ohio, on January 11, 1993. Ms. Clavner asked Professor Browne to cover for her during a hearing in a divorce case in which her client was named as a co-defendant. When Pat arrived at Judge Patrick Gallagher's court, he was somewhat unnerved to find plaintiff's counsel was a former student. Of course, there is no record of the student's frame of mind, especially when, from the bench, Judge Gallagher graciously acknowledged Pat's reputation as the state's foremost authority on motion practice and civil procedure. Reassured, the Professor proceeded to pull reams of paperwork from his briefcase, spread it on the table and, to the consternation ofopposing counsel, moved for summary judgment. Eventually, the Judge ruled in favor of the Browne-Clavner client and scolded the former student for not listening more closely to Professor Browne's lectures on summary judg­ ment. Later, seeing Pat's signature on the agreed judgment entry, Judge Gallagher smiled knowingly and muttered, "Ah, yes, His Eminence."

Summer 1993 7 brother and uncle who had spent most of his life in Cleveland and almost a quarter of a century at Cleveland­ Lat was one story about His Emi­ Marshall. nence; this is another. A colleague of J. Pa trick Browne was born in Cleve­ Browne's for 19 years, Professor Earl land, attended local schools and was Curry, recalled his defense of a client graduated from Cathedral Latin High who was being sued by a landlord for School. His magna cum laude bachelor's smoke damage from a stove that was degree was from John Carroll Univer­ inadvertently turned on by the client's sity (1957), and his magna cum Laude toddler. Every time the landlord's at­ law degree was from the University of torney filed papers, Earl would consult Detroit Law School (1960). Following with Pat who would, unfailingly, dis­ graduation, he enlisted in the army and cover some flaw that allowed Earl to graduated with honors from the Judge move for dismissal. The case dragged Advocate General's School in 1961. In Eunice Clavner and Pat Browne at the on for two and a half years in Municipal Lincoln Inn September of that year, he completed Court until there was no one left work­ the Maxwell Graduate Overseas Train­ ing for the landlord who remembered thority on Ohio Civil Procedure advis­ ing Program through Syracuse Univer­ the details of the suit and the case was ing you in your decision, are you going sity and served with the American Con­ dismissed at the request of plaintiff's to change even one syllable?" Cer­ sulate in Kaduna, Nigeria. When he left attorney. Justice was reduced to this, tainly not. Professor Browne appreci­ the army in 1964, he left with the rank according to Prof~ssor Curry: "Pat sim­ ated the judiciary as well: "Judges are of captain. In 1965 he earned a library ply papered them to death." indispensable to me," he once remarked. degree at Case Western Reserve Univer­ Colleagues and former students "If it weren't for all their mistakes, I sity School of Library Science. He came were not the only lawyers who turned wouldn'thaveanythingtowriteabout." to the College of Law in 1969 after a to Pat Browne for advice. In an Ohio four-year association with the Cleve­ 11 courtroom, J. Patrick Browne was a for­ Judges are in­ land law firm of Gallagher, Sharp, Fulton midable presence, for his writings - & Nixon. But, as John Robertson, a over 200 works - comprise the entire dispensable to colleague at the firm and a friend from jurisprudence of the law of Ohio Civil youth, noted, Pat's heart was not en­ Procedure. Although he scoffed at theo­ me,'' he once re­ tirely with the enterprise he soon chris­ rists and labeled himself a technician, 11 tened Hustlers, Sharp, Scrooge and his scholarship was prodigious: Ac­ marked. If it Marley. His heart was in the library and cording to his friend and colleague, in the classroom and with the students Professor Alan Miles Ruben, he 'burned weren't for all who inhabited both. He came to Cleve­ out' three computers indulging the kind land-Marshall, first as a full-time librar­ of scrupulosity that could produce their mistakes, I ian and part-time teacher; later, in the "eighteen articles on Ohio Rule of Civil mid-70s, he gave up his library duties to Procedure, number one, subdivision wouldn't have teach full-time and was shortly thereaf­ three, clause four, paragraph five, ter awarded tenure. In addition to subsentence three." So it is not surpris­ anything to write teaching Civil Procedure, Motion Prac­ ing to learn that even judges consulted about." tice and Discovery Practice, he taught with him. Judge Ronald B. Adrine '73, Appellate Procedure, Sanctions, Equity, recalls a number of 'conspiratorial' epi­ These were among the anecdotes re­ Insurance Law, Brief Writing and Advo­ sodes in which he was confronted by a counted during the memorial service cacy, and he was several times faculty tricky procedural matter and asked Pat for Professor Browne on February 1, advisor of the CSU Law Review. Profes­ to sit in on the case. Pat would arrive at 1993, when students, faculty, alumni, sor Browne was licensed to practice in the courtroom with a satchel carrying members of the bench and bar, Pat's Ohio, Michigan, the U.S. Court of Mili­ one of the first laptop computers to brothers, Michael T. and Patrick F. tary Appeals, and the U.S. District Courts surface on the Cleveland legal scene, Browne, and Pat's nieces, Michelle of Northern Ohio and Eastern Michi­ listen attentively, type madly, then Browne and Sharon Borros, gathered at gan. These are the external details of the hand the Judge a journal-length pro­ the law school Jor a ceremony charac­ life of Pat Browne that were celebrated in nouncement. "Now," asked Judge terized by Dean Steven R. Smith as a the February 1 service. Adrine, "if you have the foremost au- celebration of the teacher, friend, But no outline or sum of degrees,

8 Law Notes publications, and honors captures the Shockley and Jayne Hurst Geneva, whole story of Professor Browne. For, tell of observing their professor as he notwithstanding his considerable con­ waited at a cross walk for the light to tribution to the practice of law in Ohio change. Though the street was empty and to the teaching of law at Cleveland­ of automobiles and hordes of pedestri­ Marshall, the picture of Pat Browne ans streamed past him, only Pat waited that emerges from the recollections of for the walk sign to appear before he his friends is not of a scholar solely. Or, crossed the street. Moreover, Ms. as the poet cited above might say: "No Shockley recalls that, as a law clerk mouse of the scrolls was he." Pat Browne reading hundreds of briefs in Judge had a mischievous, irreverent spirit, a John V. Corrigan's court, she could booming laugh that preceded him in always spot a Pat Browne student by the the corridors of the law school and a way the rules of civil procedure were fondness for Scotch that was legendary. invoked. Now, as an Assistant Prosecu­ Fun-loving, expansive and, as Professor tor in the Civil Division of the Cuyahoga James Flaherty described his colleague County Prosecutor, Ms. Shockley at­ of many years, "Irish through and tributes the "high level of jurisprudence through, with a bit of the devil in him." in this town to the influence of Pat A large bit, in fact. Amid the super­ Browne on the legal community." charged sensitivities of a university, Pat Another student, writing anonymously, Browne relished the politically incor- expressed Pat's dedication to his calling ~ rect, papering his office with poster art 11 this way: "He teaches and writes about that was, to say the least, 'question­ Pat had a secret the rules of civil procedure as if they able.' Arriving at a classroom full of were members of his family." anxious first-year students, the Profes­ ambition no one At the law school and throughout sor would pull out a stack of study the city, he will not be easily replaced: guides that included The Toy Of Sex, could have J. Patrick Browne, Teacher, Librarian, and he comforted his students with the guessed. He Scholar and Friend. disquieting revelation that he, yes, he, titititititititititititititititititititi J. Patrick Browne, had made Ds in Torts wanted to win an "This is an event I'm not sure Pat and Civil Procedure, a revelation that would approve of," the Dean remarked no one truly believed of the editor-in­ Ernest at the beginning of the February 1 cer­ chief of the Ohio Civil Practice Journal emony. And Judge Adrine agreed: and of the Ohio Sanctions Reporter as Hemingway "Somewhere he's laughing at all of us, well as the author of numerous books, look-alike telling us we're making much ado about treatises and articles and the state's only nothing." He would probably not ap­ authority on Ohio Civil Rule 11. contest." prove of this article either which has If Pat's fondness for Scotch was made not nearly enough of Pat Browne. legendary, so, in spite of his grumbling Eunice Clavner It is difficult, however, to write un­ ("Law school would be a great place to guardedly and with all due praise about work if it weren't for the students"), was Saturday morning class for a course not someone gifted with irony and given to his rapport with the men and women even on the bar exam and have 100 law self-mockery. The writer senses always he taught. It would be difficult to find students sign up to take it. the critical eye. Nevertheless, however a student who did not respond to Pat's In speaking of his friend during the Pat Browne is remembered, those who gifts as a lecturer or to his enthusiasm memorial service, Jim Flaherty re­ have known him long and well in all his for the law, and it would be difficult to minded the audience that Pat had briefly beguiling contradictions are agreed on find a more selfless instructor. Not entered the seminary. To the extent one thing. He would have been pleased exactly a lawyer's lawyer - he was far that he lived the life he taught, there to have a scholarship at the law school too contrary for that - he was surely a remained a sacerdotal quality in his named for him. Such a scholarship teacher's teacher, unfailingly generous career at Cleveland-Marshall, and he fund has been created by Eunice with his time and knowledge and so succeeded in inculcating in the gradu­ Clavner. Donors should send checks popular that he will perhaps be the ates of Cleveland-Marshall who stud­ made out to the Pat Browne Scholarship only faculty member at the law school ied with him an abiding respect for the Fund, care of Ms. Clavner, 600 Standard who will ever be able to schedule a law. Two 1987 alumnae, Carol Building, Cleveland, Ohio 44113. LFM

Summer 1993 9 THE MEDICAL INSTITUTE FOR LAW FACULTY

school's most ingenious programs, the Medical Institute for Law Fac­ ulty. The Institute, which this June be­ gan its fourth year, is the brainchild and favorite offspring of a coalition of Cleveland-Marshall faculty, ad­ ministrators, and physicians from the Cleveland Clinic. It owes much to the perseverance of Dean Smith and Assistant Dean for External Af­ fairs Louise P. Dempsey '81. Both Dean Smith and Assistant Dean Dempsey had worked in hospital settings before coming to Cleveland­ Marshall, and both shared an inter­ est in health care law studies. They agreed that their experience in ob­ serving, not just ordinary day-to­ day medical and administrative pro­ cedures, but also the extraordinary pressures brought to bear on the Suiting-up-Medical Institute, Class of 1991 men and women - physicians, ad­ ministrators, and employees of all ranks - who work in hospitals had For the past four years, shortly after graduation, Cleveland­ informed their understanding of the large issues confronting Marshall Dean Steven R. Smith has hung up his cap and health care policy makers trying to unravel the tangle of law gown and hastily put on another cap and gown. This time, and medicine and human need. though, the regalia that Dean Steven R. Smith dons is the Looking through the Association of American Law regalia of his second love, the medical profession, a profes­ Schools' roster of over 300 faculty members teaching health sion he understands well: Before coming to the College of care law and law and medicine, Dean Smith noted only a Law in 1988, Dean Smith taught on the faculties of both the handful had undergraduate or graduate degrees in disci­ School of Medicine and the School of Law at the University plines related to medicine or bioethics or hospital adminis­ of Louisville, and his research interests are almost exclu­ tration. That so few had an experience so beneficial to his sively in the area of law and medicine. own scholarship convinced him further of the need to create When the Dean arrives at The Cleveland Clinic Founda­ the Medical Institute for Law Faculty. tion, scrubs down and puts on the surgeon's all white Fortunate for the Institute was the agreement of two trappings, he is not taking liberties with his reputation as co­ Clinic doctors, Shattuck W. Hartwell, Jr., former Director of author of Law. Behavior and Mental Health and author of the Clinic's I. H. Page Center for Creative Thinking in articles on law and medicine too numerous to tally. When Medicine, and William M. Michener, past Chair of both the Steve Smith observes surgery, accompanies doctors at the Division of Education and the Department of Continuing Clinic on their rounds and quietly listens as physicians Medical Education at the Clinic. Both physicians concurred discuss therapeutic options for the critically ill in intensive that the need was great and the time was ripe to encourage care units, he is acting as a participant in one of the law exchanges between law and medicine. It was the foresight of 10 Law Notes Drs. Hartwell and Michener working with the two deans that as physicians' performance appraisals, and confidenti­ helped create the first Institute in 1990, and it is their ality issues in medical record keeping. continuing involvement each year afterwards that has helped "Nothing in books or on paper can compare with refine the program and the opportunities available to the the immediacy of day-to-day contact with doctors, nine faculty members selected from scores of applicants nurses and hospital staff," Dean Smith remarks of his around the country who each year vie for a place in the experience as both an administrator and a participant Institute. in the Institute. Like Dean Smith, three other College The ten-day Institute offers unprecedented opportimi­ of Law faculty and administrative staff members have ties to these professors who have come to Cleveland-Marshall enrolled in the Institute: Dena Davis, Joel Finer and from states as far north as Maine and as far west as Arizona, Louise Dempsey. from schools as diverse as the University of Michigan, SUNY­ In the past two years, the Institute has expanded Buffalo, and Howard University. Past par­ to include visits to various depart­ ticipants have included the Joseph Solomon "Nothing in ments of the MetroHealth Medical Distinguished Professor and former Dean Center, a medical facility often serv­ of the New York Law School, E. Donald books or on ing the needs of Cleveland's unin­ Shapiro, and the law librarian of Congress, sured and indigent citizens. Louise Kathleen M. Price, as well as directors of paper can Dempsey recalls her impressions of legal clinics, science, technology and law hours spent observing the frantic centers, and a handful of dedicated men compare with activities during a crowded week­ and women teaching health care law end evening in MetroHealth's emer­ throughout America. the immediacy gency department. In an age which All have come to Cleveland for a pro­ criticizes the distancing of doctors gram that is the only one of its kind in the of day-to-day from their patients, Ms. Dempsey saw country. The Institute offers these teachers contact with a staff full of compassion and con­ and scholars a chance to observe and wrestle summate attentiveness to patients' with experiences that few outside the health doctors, nurses needs. Especially she remembers a care profession can imagine, yet they are panicky young mother who brought experiences which may transform their and hospital her newborn .son into the emer­ teaching or the direction of their research. gency room. The mother was weep­ Participants are, for instance, not only al­ staff," ing because her baby hadn't eaten lowed to observe surgeries, they are also for hours and she was afraid he would allowed to visit the intensive care units where patients are starve. Though the young mother's problem hardly taken post-operatively. They see the healing and the failure .qualified as an emergency, Ms. Dempsey remembers to heal, and they are allowed to interview the professionals how the staff examined the baby, comforted the young entrusted with patients' aftercare. mother and reassured her that her son was alright. "The Institute leads teachers of law into the nooks and "When you are involved in discussions of why crannies of a large health care institution," says Dr. Hartwell. medical services cost so much, you realize that there is "The professors rub elbows with physicians at work in a a human component that can't be figured into any research and teaching hospital, where doctors speak can­ equation. The young mother wasn't sick, and her baby didly about what they do and the issues they face in medicine wasn't sick either, but both were in need, and doctors today." and nurses met their needs, ungrudgingly," Ms. In fact, participants' involvement is so intense that often Dempsey continues. "No one scolded the mother for they find !hemselves as conversant with the details of a taking up valuable time in an emergency room and patient's recovery as many of the nurses and doctors sur­ costing the taxpayers money. My experiences at the rounding the patient. And in a day that may be divided Clinic and at MetroHealth brought home to me how among tours of the transplantation center, the cardiac unit, terribly complicated our problems with health care the pharmacy, the neonatal intensive care unit or the divi­ delivery are, how reactive to ongoing, deep-seated sion of nuclear medicine, participants are encouraged to societal problems. The young mother was still a child consider the larger bioethical questions raised at each stop herself; she had no family structure, no emotional along the way. Questions, for instance, regarding treatment resources for dealing with her baby, yet all her instincts of the aged, ethical limits of reproductive technology, the were intact and the kindness of the emergency room impact on medical care and medical costs of such protocols Continued on page 20

Summer 1993 11 ANNUAL RECOGNITION LUNCHEON by Cindy Marizette

Friday, May 7, the Law Alumni Association hosted its 1993 Annual Recognition Luncheon at Swingos at the Statler, where Judge James]. McMonagle '70 and David B. Roth '79 were honored for their outstanding contributions to public service, the inspiration and leadership they have given to society, and their dedication to the legal profes­ sion. Over 700 people attended the spectacular event. The luncheon was a who's who in Cleveland politics. Among some of the familiar faces in the crowd were Ohio Attorney General Lee Fisher, U.S. Congressmen Martin David Roth, Sheryl King Benford, Jim McMonagle Hoke and Eric Fingerhut, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio Emily Sweeney '81, U.S . District Federal Judge nominees Hon. Lesley Brooks Wells '74 and C-M Associate Dean Solomon Oliver, Jr., as well as a host of judges, who, for the most part, were graduates of the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. Michael L. Climaco '72 was honored with the President's Award for his devotion and commitment to the College of Law, as well as his leadership role in the community. Law Professor Susan Becker '83 was pre­ sented the Howard L. Oleck Faculty Writing Award. A number of proclamations and acknowledgments were presented, including a letter of congratulations from Vice President of the United States Albert Gore, Jr.•

Seated: Rose Fini, foe Caterini, Leo and Miriam Rossmann Standing: foe Carella, Lisa Gold

Jeff and Luke Karlovec, Jim McMonagle

Hermine Eisen, Maria Quinn, Linda Rich

12 Law Notes Hon. Harry Jaffe, Hon. John Donnelly

John Lawson

Atty. General Lee Fisher

D ean Smith, D ebbie Hiller

Tina Weeks/er, Kevin Senich Michael Climaco, Steven Steinglass

Father and son fudges, Jim and George McMonagle

Fred Widen, fack Guttenberg, Tom Bonda

Bobbie Shears, Gary Maxwell

Summer 1993 1 3 Life Members

1929 Max Ratner Sheldon E. Rabb David Ross 1940 Hon. William T. Gillie Stanley E. Stein Keith E. Belkin 1941 Paul J. Hribar 1963 Joseph A. Coviello Michael J. Nath 1942 Hon. August Pryatel Lester T. Tolt Steven H. Slive J. David Horsfall Thomas J. Scanlon 1977 Charles T. Simon Elsie Tarcai 1964 Harry L. Griffith Jack W. Bradley 1947 Bennet Kleinman Henry B. Fisher Lawrence J. Cook 1950 Bernard Mosesson Howard M. Rossen Robert M. Wilson Charles Ipavec Joseph T. Svete Roger M. Synenberg 1951 Dr. Bernice G. Miller Norman]. Kamen Anne L. Kilbane Hon. Eugene M. Fellmeth 1965 David S. Lake Kathleen M. Carrick Donald B. Mccann 1966 Edward T. Haggins Linda M. Rich Francis E. Kane 1967 Charles B. Donahue, II Rita S. Fuchsman 1952 Chief Judge Th omas Lambros Lawrence J. Rich 1978 David M. Paris Hon. Edwin T. Hofstetter Norman D. Tripp Ronald F. Wayne Hon. Joseph A. Zingales Theodore R. Kowalski 1979 La Verne Nichols Boyd Joseph Cachat Kenneth Montlack Louis C. Damiani Philip R. Brodsky William M. Wohl Sheryl King Benford 1953 John]. Sutula 1968 Hon. John E. Corrigan William]. Day William T. Monroe Herbert Palkovitz 1980 Culver F. Eyman, III Walter L. Greene James R. Kellam Geoffrey M. Schumer Olga Tsiliacos Richard Moroscak Gerald R. Walton 1954 Daniel R. McCarthy Robert I. Zashin Howard Mishkind Edward C .. Hawkins William E. Powers Richard C. Alkire John]. McCarthy 1970 Blaise C. Giusto Susan L. Grage! Russell T. Adrine Joseph H. Weiss, Jr. 1981 David Paul Burke 1955 Hon. Charles W. Fleming Kenneth A. Bossin Hermine G. Eisen Hon. George W. White Robert J. Sindyla Louise P. Dempsey Hon. Robert E. Feighan William A. Wortzman 1982 Jam es Lee Reed Charles J. Gallo Sr. 1971 Dharminder L. Kampani K. Ronald Bailey Donald P. Traci Frank L. Gallucci, Jr. 1983 John L. Habat Glenn J. Seeley James E. Melle Paul Brickner Peter W. Moizuk James J. Komorowski Peter Marmaros Carol Emerling Thomas P. Hayes Donna J. Taylor-Kolis Irene M. Kotulic Timothy M. Bittel Elizabeth Haque 1957 Frank T. Szucs William Thomas Plesec Kevin J.M. Senich Leon M. Plevin Joyce E. Barrett 1984 Carl F. Asseff Maynerd Kimball 1972 Gary N. Holthus 1985 Laurie F. Starr Richard T. Reminger James A. Lowe Tina Ellen Wecksler Thomas J. Brady John V. Jackson, II 1986 James E. Tavens 1958 Charles R. Emrick, Jr. Michael L. Climaco Laura J. Gentilcore James Patrick Conway William P. Farrall 1987 Gary Lichtenstein Aaron Jacobson William P. Gibbons John T. Hawkins Julian Kahan 1973 Mary Agnes Lentz Scott C. Finerman 1960 Hon. Hans R. Veit 1974 Hon. Lesley Brooks Wells Barbara Silver Rosenthal Don C. Iler Michael C. Hennenberg 1989 Raymond Gurnick Donald L. Guarnieri Stephen 0. Walker Scott Spero Donald M. Colasurd Thomas E. Downey Sheila McCarthy Norman T. Musial Timothy G. Kasparek NIA Fred Ramos 1961 Hon. Anthony 0. Calabrese, Jr. William R. Fifner John Makdisi Fred Lick 1975 Dr. Gregory J. Lake Marshall Nurenberg Martin J. Sammon B. Casey Yim Maurice L. Heller Paul S. Sanislo Dale H. Markowitz Stephen J. Werber Richard J. Bogomolny Gerald L. Steinberg Victoria Plata Robert Wantz Richard S. Koblentz Stephen R. Lazarus Esther S. Weissman William C. Hofstetter Steven R. Smith 1962 Clarence L. James, Jr. Deborah Lewis Hiller Louise F. Mooney Lucien B. Karlovec 1976 Charles G. Deeb Solomon Oliver, Jr.

14 Law Notes Life Members

Julian Kahan '59 is the Senior Associate Dean of Faculty and America, where he is Chair of the Member of Julian Kahan & Associates Administration since 1991. Prior to Products Liability Section and Co­ Co., L.P.A. He served on the Board of coming to Cleveland-Marshall, Dean Chair of the Products Liability Trustees of Taylor Road Synagogue Oliver was an Assistant U.S. Attorney Advisory Committee, the Ohio for almost 30 years, and is presently a for the Northern District of Ohio, Academy of Trial Lawyers, where he is member of the Board of Trustees of where he also served as Chief of the a member of the Board of Trustees B'Nai Jeshurun and serves on its Civil Division and Chief of Appellate and a past Chairman of the Products Endowment and Fellowship Commit­ Litigation. Dean Oliver clerked for Liabilities Section, President of the tees. In addition, he has enjoyed the late Judge William H. Hastie of Cleveland Academy of Trial Attor­ much success on the State of Israel the U.S. Third Circuit Court of neys, and a Master Bencher of the Bond Drives. Appeals. Harold H. Burton Chapter, American Mr. Kahan chairs the Group Oliver is a graduate of the College Inns of Court. Travel Committee of the Cleveland of Wooster and of New York Univer­ Mr. Lowe is also a faculty mem­ Bar Association and is a member of sity Law School. He is currently a ber and lecturer for the National the Legal and Real Property commit­ member of the Board of Trustees at College of Advocacy, Basic, Advanced tees at Beechmont Country Club. He the College of Wooster and of the and Specialty Colleges and a member is a pro bono attorney for the legal Professional Ethics Committee of the of the adjunct faculty of Case Western services project of the American Cleveland Bar Association. Reserve University's School of Law. Jewish Congress. In November of Dean Oliver was recently recom­ 1991, he chaired the 20th anniversary mended for appointment to the of the Chagrin Falls Toastmaster Club Federal Judgeship for the Northern and was elected its President. District of Ohio. Last fall, Mr. Kahan and his wife CMLAA WELCOMES NEW LIFE MEMBERS of 36 years, Etole, received the Israel Unity Award at a State of Israel Bonds La Verne Nichols Boyd ' 79 dinner which was held in their honor. Laura]. Gentilcore '86 Hon. William T. Gillie '40 John L. Habat '83 James A. Lowe '72 Louise F. Mooney (C-M Staff) Assc. Dean Solomon Oliver, Jr.

fames A. Lowe '72 LAW NOTES James A. Lowe '72 is a partner in the law firm of Sindell, Lowe & NOW So lomon Oliver, fr. Guidubaldi, where he practices civil Associate Dean Solom on Oliver, Jr. litigation, primarily against manufac­ ACCEPTS joined the faculty of the Cleveland­ turers and distributors of defective Marshall College of Law in 1982. He and dangerous products. He has been ADVERTISING teaches and writes in the area of admitted to practice before the U.S. federal, civil practice and procedure. Supreme Court, the U.S Court of 216-687-2368 While at Cleveland-Marshall, he has Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, the U.S. been the recipient of a National District Court for the Northern Endowment for the Humanities District of Ohio, and the Ohio Fellowship and has served as a Supreme Court. Visiting Professor at two Czechoslova­ Mr. Lowe is a member of the kian universities. He has served as Association of Trial Lawyers of

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creators of the Medical Institute for a valuable member of both the legal THE TWO Law Faculty and continues to be and the public interest community of involved in each Institute. In addition, Cleveland. LOUISES Ms. Dempsey helped bring Supreme (Dean Dempsey is the small, Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun to blonde Serious One from the North.) The law school has two Louises, one campus in 1990, and she was instru­ * blonde, one brunette, one small, one mental in securing the College's Baker Communications Coordinator Louise Large, one from the North, one from the & Hostetler Chair in 1989. As a F. Mooney echoes Louise Dempsey's South, one serious, one not so serious. member of the Association, she has enthusiasm for the work of the Law Both have recently become life members been an active and dedicated alumna. Alumni Association. "The law school of the Law Alumni Association. "I decided to become a life mem­ is indebted to the Alumni Association ber because I am most grateful to Mary for so many things, but especially for Assistant Dean Louise P. Dempsey McKenna and to other members of the its involvement in making sure that is a 1981 alumna of Cleveland­ Association who worked so hard with we would have a new law library. I Marshall. Dean Dempsey returned the dean, the faculty and the adminis­ decided to become a life member for to her alma mater in 1984, first as its tration in lobbying for the 17th-18th a number of reasons," Ms. Mooney Director of Development and Street Project. The Alumni Association continues "First, I am grateful to Alumni Affairs and Mary for selecting me since 1988 as its as her Associate Editor Assistant Dean for and unchaining me External Affairs. She from other less came to the law s.chool glamorous responsi­ from The Cleveland bilities, second, I Clinic Foundation always wanted to see where she was em­ my name on a plaque ployed in the Division in the atrium next to of Public Affairs Dean Smith's and during a critical time Prince Charles' and in the Clinic's history. third, it's the closest Dr. John Conomy, I'll ever come to being former Director of the a lawyer." Foundation's Mellen Asked about her Center, has spoken duties at the law often and publicly of school, Ms. Mooney the contribution of replied, "When I first Louise Dempsey in came to the law raising the funds that built the brought energy, stamina and expertise school, I was impressed with how Clinic's Mellen Center for Multiple to our efforts. They have helped assure important everybody seemed, and I Sclerosis. us a new law library." used to say, when asked what exactly Dean Dempsey has also made Dean Dempsey's activities are not I did, that I was the goat the horse lasting contributions to the law confined to the business of the law trainer puts in the stable with the school. She is responsible for school: She is Chair of the Visiting thoroughbreds to calm the horses creating the College's first annual Nurse Association, former Chair of the down. Lately, though, I've felt more sustaining fund drive, for assisting Health Care Law Section of the respectable." In fact, what Ms. in the formation of the College's Cleveland Bar Association, a member Mooney does is write for Law Notes, Visiting Committee, for creating the of the Cleveland Bar Association's assist in fund-raising initiatives and College's Media Advisory Commit­ Board of Trustees and a member of the with projects of the Law & Public tee and for raising the funds that Advisory Board of the Center for Policy Program. inaugurated the fournal of Law and Biomedical Ethics of Case Western (Ms . Mooney is the large, Health. Dean Dempsey's profes­ Reserve University's School of Medi­ brunette Not So Serious One from the sional interests focus on health care cine. She also serves on the boards of South.) law, so it should not surprise anyone Laurel School and the Benjamin Rose (And Mary McKenna is the Merry to learn that she is one of the Institute. In short, Louise Dempsey is One in between.)

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SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS The Third Annual Scholarship Awards, sponsored by the Life Members of the Law Alumni Associa­ tion, were presented at an awards ceremony and reception at the Tom Scanlon, Tom Brady, Charles Donahue Laura Williams, f erry Walton, Anne College of Law in April. Congratula­ Kilbane, Eunice Clavner tions to the following recipients:

Adam Carr Carla Elliott Rosalina Fini Mary Hughes Michelle Joseph Karen Manning James O'Connor Afshin Pishevar Alan Ross, Scott Finerman, Debbie Hiller Dorothy Richards Joel Vujevich

Irene Kotulic, Bernice Miller, Vicki Plata Laura Williams, Rose Fini

Tom Brady, Paul Hribar, Libby Gubanc

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Scott Finerman, fames O'Connor

Sheryl King Benford, Scott Spero, Dorothy Richards, Mary Hughes, Rose Fini, Karen Manning, Afshin Pishevar, Michelle Jos eph, Carla Elliott, Adam Carr, Joel Vujevich, fames O'Connor

Summer 1993 1 7 ATTENTION CALIFORNIA ALUMNI SUPER SATURDAY!!! The Law Alumni Asso_ciation, in conjuction with the Office of Career Planning, hosted the third annual "SUPER SATURDAY", a career day designed to allow students to become familiar with various areas of legal expertise. Special thanks for partici­ pating in the event to:

Deborah Akers Gordon Becker Linda Bluso Tom Colaluca John Gill Alan Goldner Rebecca Greenberg Lynn Ondrey Gruber Ted Meckler Howard Mishkind John Polito David Roth Bob and Marjorie Lynn, Casey Yim Kurt Schaffrath Jerry Walton Our California Cleveland-Marshall reception will be held in the latter satellite chapter has been officially part of the year. For further informa­ launched with B. Casey Yim '75 and tion, please contact Casey at 213-250- Robert C. Lynn'74 at the helm. 1800 or Bob at work at 619-974-4212, Letters of interest have been distrib­ or home at 619-583-2022, or Mary uted by the co-chairs, and a kick-off McKenna at 216-687-2368. r--- Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association Annual Dues June 1, 1993 - June 1, 1994 --,

Annual Dues Other Categories General Membership ...... D $50 Life* ...... n $1,000 1990-1992 Graduate ...... 0 $25 (If paid in lump sum, otherwise, $1,250 payable $250 per year for 5 years.) 1993 Graduate ...... D Free Personalized desk clock upon receipt of first payment. Name on permanent Law Review ...... D $20 plaque in Law College Atrium upon receipt of full payment. (For dues paying members) Sustaining Membership* ...... ! I $100 Journal of Law & Health ...... D $20 My firm or company will match my contribution to support The Cleveland- Marshall College of Law: $__ _ _ Enclosed is the Educational Matching Gift check or form. Life Membership Dues Fund a Student *Memberships include Law Review subscription. Scholarship Program

Contributions may be tax deductible. To insure proper credit, please use this return form. Firms remitting dues for Address: ______more than one member on one check should return all statement forms or list City: ______State : ______Zip: ______the names of those individuals. Thank you for your continuing support. Phone: Class of: ______

L------~ 18 Law Notes TRIBUTE TO MARLENE E. SHETTEL

In June 1972 Marlene Shettel began Marlene's retirement party in the her career at Cleveland-Marshall as a law school atrium gathered together budget officer; two years later, as students, faculty, staff and alumni Assistant to the Dean, she was still to express their appreciation for her the College's primary financial agent, Cleveland-Marshall years. Marlene's but she was also reaching from the interest in theater and dance dis­ world of numbers into the world of closed talents in faculty and staff letters as she found herself not only undreamed of: Who, for instance, balancing the law school budget, could predict the appearance of overseeing the allocation of grant Melody and the Loanettes, starring funds and preparing statistical re­ Marlene Fans, Sandra Natran, Kay ports, but also editing the college Benjamin, Machelle Dantzler, bulletin. Those were busy years and Vicki Plata, Cynthia Applin and her job had a wide and awesome lead singer Melody Stewart '89, in range of responsibilities; however, an original performance of "Stop in they were not beyond the grasp of the Name of Loans" or the perfor­ the former graduate of Chatham Col­ mance of Fred Debit (aka Professor lege, who discovered sometime in Frederic White) and the Creditors the mid-60s when she began keeping (aka Melody and the Loanettes supra) the books in her husband's business, in their boisterous rendition of "Fifty that though English had been her Ways To Leave The Law School." As major in college, she was superbly one of the Loanettes noted "only for gifted in math. It was, and contin­ Marlene would I do this!" ued to be, the law school's good Marlene will doubtless be as busy fortune to have her on the staff in the _J_ in her retirement as she has been in days before the phrase 'not in my job No job description in the her career at the law school. The description' made its corrosive im­ mother of five sons and a daughter, pact on the work ethic. No job de­ world confined Marlene the grandmother of 12, she will be scription in the world confined Shettel, an employee gener­ spending time with her family, per­ Marlene Shettel, an employee gener­ haps honing her tap-dancing skills, ally considered to be one of the ally considered to be one of and traveling. In fact, when this school's most dedicated and consci­ the school's most dedicated article appears, she may be in Paris entious workers. and conscientious workers. with her son, an analyst of Pan­ In 1977 Ms . Shettel became the Asian business opportunities for a College's Financial Aid Administrator, and it was in that French investment firm, and when she returns she will greet capacity that she shone most brightly. When she retired in her newly-arrived 13th grandchild, who like the law students March after 21 years of service to the school, she was of Cleveland-Marshall, will find himself or herself well-cared celebrated for her kindness and for her hard work on behalf for and in good hands. of several generations of law students. In that office which Bruce Hodge, a first year law student, delivered the poses some of the most challenging problems of school following testimonial to Marlene Shettel at the Black Law administration, she combined her mathematical shrewd­ Students Association banquet in April. Mr. Hodge's words ness (enhanced by a number of graduate courses at CSU in seem an especially fitting tribute to the contributions of accounting and by tax courses at H & R Block, Inc.) with Marlene Shettel to the law school. LFM genuine concern for the students who came to her with need. Ms. Shettel was a sincere advocate for many, many men and women now practicing law, and it is perhaps not Tonight we honor an individual who is directly respon­ unlikely that many of those attorneys owe a great deal of sible for promoting the advancement of many minorities their success to her perseverance on their behalf. Continued on page 20 Summer 1993 1 9 MOOT COURT TEAM SHINES by Stephen f. Werber The Cleveland-Marshall team of Beth ture proceeding, constitutional issues schools as Temple, Wayne State, Cooley, Ann Chandler and Nancy Nava earned arising under the double jeopardy clause Catholic University, and the University Best Brief and Second Place Team awards and its sham exception, substantive of Illinois. at the University of Minnesota Civil due process, and excessive fines. Of the five teams we have sent to Rights Competition in March. To reach the final round, Ms. Chan­ competitions this academic year, we This team worked harder, learned dler and Ms. Nava defeated teams from have had a Finalist team, two Semi­ more, and came further than any other Hamline, Washburn, the University of finalist teams, and and Octo-Finalist team I have coached since 1981. They Wisconsin, the University of Minne­ team. All of our teams have filed highly overcame the withdrawal from school sota, and Albany. They lost in the final competitive briefs. I am extremely of their third team member and had to round to an outstanding team from proud of all of our students and their deal with one of the most complex New York University. To earn the best efforts and I am, of course, particularly series of issues we have ever faced. The brief award, these students surpassed gratified by the outstanding results issues in the case they briefed and ar­ the efforts of all schools in the compe­ earned by Beth Ann and Nancy.• gued included: the proper standard of tition which included not only the five proof necessary for a civil in rem forfei- schools noted above, but also such

Medical Institute from page 11 the legal standards relating to informed fund's trustee. staff helped her tq feel competent and consent are much too optimistic in Other Clinic physicians involved able to mother. So, you have to ask their expectations of what patients can in the Institute curriculum are John D. yourself, in considering how to contain comprehend." Kurtz echoes Dean Clough, Chairman of the Division of medical costs: Where do you start? It's Dempsey in recognizing that the eco­ Health Affairs and Andrew J. Fishleder, not so simple as physicians' greed or nomics of health care is far more com­ Chairman of the Division of Education. outrageous drug pricing or fear of law­ plicated than the lay person generally LFM suits. Our problems begin with our perceives: "The Institute drives home society and our culture. Perhaps that's the high cost of medicine because of Tribute to Marlene from page 19 where we should seek the cure for rising both personnel and technology costs," through the law school educational medical costs. The virtue of the Insti­ Kurtz says. And, like Dean Dempsey, process. Due to this person's service tute," Ms. Dempsey concludes, "is that Professor Kurtz was impressed with the and dedication, many of us in this room these experiences make real what no medical staff's" commitment to patients are, or will be, in a position to serve our book can adequately describe." that one loses sight of from a mere community as advocates of justice. Sheldon Kurtz, a 1992 participant reading of legal cases where invariably Ironically, I can't say I've ever heard in the Institute, calls his weeks at the the focus is on unintended failure rather of our honoree lecturing a class in Torts, Clinic "absolutely invaluable to teach­ than success." or Property, or Civil Procedure. ers of health law, health policy, and the The Medical Institute for Law Fac­ Knowing this individual has en­ health care delivery system." Professor ulty would have been only a fine idea hanced the lives of most law students in Kurtz has incorporated a "mini-insti­ had not it received support from exter­ a very personal way. This person's tute" experience into his health care nal funders. The College and the Clinic voice was the first I heard when enroll­ law classes at the University of Iowa are grateful for the generosity of Cleve­ ing at Cleveland-Marshall College of where he is Percy Bordwell Professor of land attorney John Deaver Drinko, se­ Law. Our Honoree is loved and re­ Law. In translating the Institute into nior adviser to the managing commit­ spected by too many people to name. his own teaching, Professor Kurtz ex­ tee of Baker & Hostetler, who has helped Yet, if asked this person could probably plains that what he wants his students each year to support the Institute. The name each and every one from memory. to take away from their classes is an Institute is also indebted to the Hubert Our honoree has demonstrated a understanding of the gulf between the A. and Gladys C. Estabrook Charitable concern and advocacy for the disad­ abstractions of law and their applica­ Trust, which has been involved in each vantaged and people from low income tion to the practice of medicine. "For Institute. The Estabrook Trust is ad­ households. instance," Professor Kurtz remarks, "I ministered by the law firm of Porter, However, I have yet to find a law came away from the program much less Wright, Morris, and Arthur. R. Bruce review or article on the subject written convinced than I was before I went that Snyder of the firm's Dayton office is the Continued next page

20 Law Notes Continued from page 20 CLEVELAND-MARSHALL COLLEGE by this individual. This special person has been recog­ OF LAW nized as a humanitarian and a devout public servant. CLASS OF 1968 But I've never heard our honoree mentioned as a potential candidate for SPECTACULAR 25TH political office. As a matter of fact, this individual is not a politician, judge, REUNION CELEBRATION dean or associate dean of the law school FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1993 or even a lawyer. So, if you find the lettersJ.D. after & this person's name, they stand for JUST SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1993 DELIGHTFUL. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Cleve­ • Ritz-Carlton reception land-Marshall chapter of the Black Law • Luncheon and tour of Student's Association proudly honors Cleveland Marshall Helen L. Garee Humanitarian Award •"Lolly The Trolley" tour of and Ohio Association of Student Finan­ Cleveland cial Aid Administrators Meritorious Award recipient: our own Marlene E. • Ritz-Carlton Banquet Dinner Shettel.• Class of 1968: Hon. john E. Corrigan, President, Hon. Timothy G. Cotner, Vice President, Hon. Ann K. Dyke, Secretary THANK YOU Thanks from the Cleveland­ Marshall B.L.S.A. Chapter to the Greg Clifford William Mitchell following attorneys who so gra­ Rhonda Curtis Alison Nelson ciously volunteered to serve as judges Barbara J. Danforth Heather Graham Oliver for the Midwest Regional Frederick Marsha Fudge George Pace Douglass Moot Court Competition Bari Goggins Charles Patton held in Cleveland in February. Judge Lillian Greene Rene Tramble-Richard Esther Harbour Ronald Riley Judge Ronald B. Adrine Sebraien Haygood Judge Saundra Robinson Russell T. Adrine James H. Hewitt III Clarence Rogers Genelle Allen George Hicks, Jr. Meyers Rollins Solomon Balraj Traci Hixson Stephen Rowan Judge Randolph Baxter Debbie Horton Charles See Ronald R. Benford Gerald M. Jackson Rufus Sims Linda Bickerstaff Greg Jacobs Robert Smith III Yvonne Billingsley Marsha Johnson Oscar Trivers Judge Patricia A. Blackmon Garlandine Jones Franzetta Turner Laverne Nichols Boyd Judge Nathaniel R. Jones C. Larry Watson Caprice Bragg Peter L. Jones Sanford Watson Russell R. ·Brown C. Randolph Keller David Whitehead Janet Burney Anthony Kellon Cassandra Collier Williams Annette Butler Verna Jo Lanham Earl Williams Donald Butler Ester Lester Ron James Bruce Chancellor Lynn Loritts Laura Williams Cathie Chancellor Lawrence Mays Mark Williams Everette Chandler Reginia Melton (Alumni in bold) Pinkie Clark Lessie Milton

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1952 near Dallas. He previously served as George Forbes was recently sworn in Chief Counsel of Fermilab from 1987 as President of the NAACP Cleveland to 1992. Frederick E. Krizman was one of the Chapter. Congratulations! reviewers covering the code and rules and regulations of the State of Ohio 1970 for the Healthcare Records Manual, 1963 which was recorded in the Library of Jeffry L. Weiler, a partner in the Tax Congress. CMLAA Honorary Trustee Judge Practice Group at Benesch, Leodis Harris was the keynote Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff, has 1958 speaker at a Black History Month been named to the fifth edition of event at Bedford High School in The Best Lawyers in America. The February. He spoke on the impor­ listings in The Best Lawyers in Life Member Charles R. Emrick of tance of education and the signifi­ America are compiled from recom­ Calfee, Halter & Griswold was cance of high self-esteem and self­ mendations of attorneys around the featured in Corporate Cleveland determination. nation. He is listed in the book under magazine, where he was commended the categories of Estate and Probate for the Second Attorney Program, Law and Tax Law. which prepares younger partners to 1966 be the next generation of leaders at Patrick J. Morgan was recently the firm, and the Structured Acquisi­ Congratulations to Sandusky attorney elected to the American College of tion Program, where he helps young John A. Pfefferle, who was appointed Real Estate Lawyers as one of 40 new executives find, purchase and finance Erie County Court judge by Gov. members. The organization has 800 new businesses. George Voinovich. The new judge passed the bar in 1966, practiced law members nationwide, with 24 in in Sandusky for nearly 25 years, Ohio. He is a partner in the firm of 1960 served as Erie County prosecutor for Zeisler, Morgan & Poklar and General 10 years and substituted in the Partner in Zeisler Morgan Properties, Donald Colasurd, CMLAA Life Sandusky Municipal Court. Ltd. Residents of Chagrin Falls, Mr. Member, is Chairman of the Indus­ Morgan and his wife, Karen, are the trial Commission of Ohio. He is parents of five children. pleased with the progress made in 1967 enhancing the Industrial 1973 Commission's service to the workers Stanley Morganstern has been and employers of Ohio. Hearings are reappointed as the Editor-in-Chief of Congratulations to Judge Ronald now current at every level of the Banks Baldwin's Domestic Relations Adrine, who was sworn in as First Commission and large backlogs have Journal of Ohio and the Co-General Vice-President of the Cleveland been eliminated throughout the Editor of Ohio Domestic Relations NAACP Chapter. system. Law. 1968 Congratulations to Mr. & Mrs. Daniel]. 1962 Ryan on the birth of their tenth child, Carrie Marie, on December 5, 1992. Life member Sheldon E. Rabb and Congratulations to William A. Steven S. Davis '75 are co-founders Schmidt, Jr. on his promotion to of Civil Resolutions, Inc., a company Corporate Counsel of Universities 1974 that offers professional mediation Research Association, Inc. in Wash­ services. The firm offers afree ington, D.C. Universities Research Mark R. Devan has joined Berkman, consultation to anyone who feels Association is a group of 80 research Gordon, Murray & Palda as a partner they may be best served by mediating universities which operate Fermilab and will continue to represent the their differences. near Chicago and the Superconduct­ criminally accused in all federal and ing Super Collider (SSC) Laboratory state trial and appellate courts.

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1976 professionalism and her willingness Congratulations to Hon. Lesley to help other women achieve. Brooks Wells who was recommended for appointment to a federal judge­ The board of directors of The Shelby 1980 ship in the Northern District of Ohio. Insurance Group has elected Thomas D. Jungeberg Vice President. He retains his position as general counsel Wanda Arnold is now General Counsel 1975 and corporate secretary and remains for the Cleveland Public Schools. responsible for all the legal affairs for Double order of congratulations go to the company. He resides in Lexing­ Richard J. Kaplan, who owns his Bruce A. Taylor and his wife Nancy. ton, Ohio with his wife and two sons. own law firm and is President of a Along with celebrating their 20th Title Insurance Agency, is also the wedding anniversary, they have a Congratulations to Judge Shirley Chairman of the City Commission new baby girl, Anne Marie, to add to Strickland Saffold on her election to for the City of Lauderhill, Florida. their 16 year old son, David, and 13 the board of governors of the Ameri­ year old daughter, Beth. Bruce works can Judges Association. Her term of Congratulations to Eliot J. Katz on as a Senior Trial Attorney for the U.S. office is for three years. his promotion to Senior Editor in the Department of Justice in Washington state practice division of Lawyers and Nancy is a tutor for Annandale Paul Grau is the new law director of Cooperative Publishing. As a mem­ High School in Virginia. Oakwood Village. In addition, he is ber of the New York bar, he also does also the law director in Brecksville. some pro bono work through the Jose Feliciano was appointed to a He is a partner in the Garfield Heights local Probono Legal Services Project. 3-year term on the ABA's Standing firm of Reddy, Grau and Meek. Committee on Dispute Resolution. Congratulations to Nancy Olson and 1977 her husband, Paul Wiencek, on the Judge Una H.R. Keenon has been birth of their daughter, Sara Lynne, named to the Executive Committee on August 16, 1992. Board of the Cleveland chapter of the Carey N. Gordon is contract advisor for the Agency for International NAACP. The Cuyahoga County Republican Development in Islamabad, Pakistan. Party announced the appointment of He serves as Chief of the Infrastruc­ WOW!!! Steven M. Barkan, Associ­ Jeffrey L. Dean as Executive Vice ture Branch of the USAID/Pakistan ate Dean and Director of the Law Chairman and Assistant General Contracts Office, which is responsible Library of Marquette University Law Counsel. Dean is currently CEO and for construction and engineering School in Milwaukee, is the first General Counsel for the International activities. In September, 1992, he recipient of The West Excellence in S.E.E., an association of engineers traveled overland from Islamabad to Academic Law Librarianship Award. based in Solon. He and his wife, Xinjiang Province, China to visit sites Dean Barkan is honored for his Laurie, live in Bentleyville with their on the old Silk Route. outstanding record in teaching, in two children. participation in professional educa­ tion activities, and for the nature and 1979 Douglas P. Whipple has been elected quality of his scholarship. The award, to serve as a member of the Citizens established to recognize academic law Steven Percy is the new chief execu­ League Board of Trustees. Mr. librarians who distinguish themselves tive officer of BP Oil. He most Whipple, a partner with the Cleve­ in managing and providing effective recently worked in London as BP land-based law firm of Baker & access to information, is made treasurer and CEO at BP Finance Co. Hostetler, will serve in the position available by West Publishing Com­ Mr. Percy lives in Bath Township with through 1993. pany. The honor includes an award his wife and their two daughters. of $10,000 and an inscribed obelisk, Kudos to Ann Cofell, St. Cloud, which will be presented to Dean Congratulations to CMLAA President Minnesota Area Legal Services' Barkan at the 1993 American Associa­ Sheryl King Benford for receiving managing attorney, who received the tion of Law Libraries in Boston. the Woman of Professional Excel­ Bernard P. Becker Legal Services Staff CONGRATULATIONS! lence Award from the YWCA of Award at the Minnesota State Bar Cleveland, in recognition of her

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Association's annual convention. The 1982 for protecting Missouri's natural award is given each year to an environment and public health by enforcing laws that protect the state's individual who has provided out­ Kenneth R. Callahan Jr. has been air, land, and water resources. The standing service to disadvantaged appointed by Gov. George V. Division also promotes Missouri's citizens through local legal services Voinovich to fill a vacant judgeship at economic well-being by encouraging programs. Cofell handles a variety of the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas wise management of the state's civil legal problems for low-income Court. From 1984 to 1988 he served natural resources. He served as individuals with an emphasis on as an assistant public defender in Assistant General Counsel to the public benefits cases. Geauga County. From 1988 until Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer 1990, he was the director of the District before joining DNR in 1990. Geauga County public defender's 1981 He also served as an environmental office. He has been a trial lawyer for planner for an Ohio engineering and 10 years and lives in University Paul G. Lux has joined the Norwalk, consulting firm. Ohio law firm of Freeman, Laycock Heights with his wife, Martha, and and Conway. He has been a practic­ their two children. CONGRATULA­ ing lawyer since 1981 and has a TIONS! 1984 background in personal injury and business litigation. He and his wife, Baker & Hostetler partner Patricia J. Congratulations to Diane V. (Coad) Kirsten, and their five children live in O'Donnell was featured recently in an Grendell on her election to state Berlin Heights. article in the Plain Dealer. Starting out representative of the 68th district. as a secretary at a real estate firm, she Congratulations to CMLAA Board worked during the day and went to 1985 member Emily Sweeney, who was school at night. After college gradua­ appointed U.S. Attorney for the tion, she pursued a law degree and Dr. Elizabeth Swenson is President Northern District of Ohio. specializes in putting complicated of Division 2 (Teaching) of the commercial real estate deals together, American Psychological Association Diane M. Smilanick is an Assistant particularly the renegotiation of and of the Cleveland Association of Cuyahoga County Prosecutor in the troubled loans. She is also President Phi Beta Kappa. She is a professor juvenile division. She also has a private of the local chapter of Commercial and dean at John Carroll University. practice concentrating in probate, wills Real Estate Women. She and her and trusts and personal injury. husband, Bruce Gaynor, reside in Governor George Voinovich has Shaker Heights. appointed Charles E. "Chip" Henry to Juvenile and Probate Judge in 1983 Geauga County. CONGRATULA­ TIONS!! Daniel Pollack recently joined the faculty of Yeshiva University's 1986 Wurzweiler School of Social Work in New York City as an assistant professor. James Neff has opened up his own practice at 2000 Standard Building. Congratulations to Hon. Linda Rocker on her recommendation for Garlandine Jones is a referee at appointment to a federal judgeship in Domestic Relations Court. the Northern District of Ohio. Gregory F. Clifford '81 David Shorr has been named the 1987 CMLAA Trustee Gregory F. Clifford Director of the Department of Natural has been named to the Executive Resources in Jefferson City, Missouri. Diane E. Millett announces the Committee Board of the Cleveland Shorr currently serves as Director of formation of Millett and Associates, Chapter of the NAACP. DNR's Division of Environmental Co., a Licensed Professional Associa­ Quality. The division is responsible tion, practicing largely in the areas of employment law and school law. 24 Law Notes Alumni Happenings

sure the Erie County Drug Task Force with administrative tasks and im­ would be successful. Congratula­ prove his counseling technique. He tions! and his wife, Marylois, have four sons, ages 5 to 11. The husband and wife team of James Sergi and Allison Huegel are the Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecu­ owners of Pro Ed Communications, a tor John Keshock also has a private full-integrated health science commu­ practice, concentrating on personal nications firm, specializing in multi­ injury cases. He is single and resides media pharmaceutical advertising and in South Euclid. professional meeting management. Brian]. Higgins, who joined the 1988 family law firm of Higgins & Higgins Co., L.P.A., is also a certified public Michelle A. Mazurek '87 Terry Donner is the Assistant General accountant. Counsel of Mt. Sinai Hospital. 1990 Congratulations to Michelle A. Renee Tramble-Richard is now an Mazurek on becoming a partner at associate at the law firm of Calfee, Lisa A. Fleger was named trust officer Hahn Loeser & Parks. She has been at Halter & Griswold. of personal trust administration at the Cleveland office since 1985 National City Bank. Lisa resides in concentrating her practice in the Real Congratulations to proud parents Westlake and is a member of the Estate area. She and her family reside Chris Holocek '88 and Tanya Cleveland and Ohio bar associations. in Rocky River. (Gostic) Holocek '89 on the birth of their baby girl, Alexandria. John Griffin, an emerging expert on Former director of legislation and criminal defense, will marry Terry policy initiatives for Governor George Amy Berman Hamilton has joined Vandivort of Lakewood on October 2, V. Voinovich Timothy J. Cosgrove Hahn Loeser & Parks as an associate. 1993. John has his own practice and has joined the firm of Squire, Sanders can be seen haunting the corridors of & Dempsey. Although Terry Hitchman still justice downtown. maintains his central office in Congratulations to Kathleen M. Mansfield, Ohio, he also has an office John Leucken and his wife, Carla, Sasala (Dugan) and her husband, in a restored garage behind his home announce the birth of their second Steve, on the birth of their 4lb., 10 oz. in Butler. Prior to becoming a lawyer, child, Joseph. John and family daughter, Ann, who arrived 8 weeks he was a probation officer for Stark moved to Akron where John is an early on January 2, 1993. County and later served as a law clerk associate for Brouse & McDowell. to Stark County Common Pleas Judge Capt. William Kraus was sworn in Sheila Farmer. Daniel Schiau and his wife, Libby, before the U.S. Supreme Court on were blessed with a beautiful baby March 1. He also received the Air boy named Daniel Luis on January 5, Force Commendation Medal for 1989 1993. Dan was sorry that the little service in Korea and is currently the fellow did not arrive by the 31st of chief of labor law at Andrews Air Nancy Cole Winters has been named December for the tax deduction. Dan Force Base, Maryland. as a partner in the law firm of Talty, reports that he has been busy work­ Rising & Winters. Congratulations! ing for the Prosecutor's office in the The Ohio Prosecuting Attorney juvenile courts. Association presented Mary Ann Rev. Eric Bing, featured in the Plain Barylski with a certificate of achieve­ Dealer, was recently installed as the Kevin Donnelly, still stationed with ment award for her outstanding pastor of Newbury United Commu­ the FBI in El Paso, was assigned to the performance. She was nominated for nity Church. Bing says the discipline Waco team for the David Koresh her efforts for the last four years, of the law has helped him clarify standoff. including her involvement to make problems, deal more systematically

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Jeffrey Short has entered private are associates at the law firm of partner with Stege & Hickman Co., practice and shares space with Joan Graves, Haley, Horton & Muttalib. which will continue under the new Stafford and John Vitulo. name of Stege, Hickman & Lowder. 1991 Ms. Lowder's practice includes probate and estate planning for James Byrne and his wife, Caroline, families with disabled children; issues have purchased a home in Broadview Bernadette Walsh of Rosemont, Pa. affecting persons with mental illness, Hts. Jim works for Baughman & has joined the law firm of Montgom­ mental retardation or development Associates on Public Square. ery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads as disabilities; the Americans With an Associate in the Trusts and Estates Disabilities Act; and the representa­ Frank Manning boldly stepped out Department. In addition to its trusts tion of non-profit corporations. on his own and is practicing law at and estates practice, the firm focuses 35100 Euclid Avenue in Willoughby. on litigation, corporate, environmen­ Frank's wife, Karen, is in her final tal, tax, employee benefits, and real Scott J. Rose has joined the firm of year at Cleveland-Marshall, and his estate law. Stege, Hickman & Lowder Co., L.P.A. as an associate. son, Patrick, is getting really tired of parents who read all of the time. Congratulations to Steven Hartstein and Debra Laub, who were married in Frederick M. Welfel, has opened his law office at Four Commerce Park Dave Cuppage and his wife, Christie, the fall. He is employed at Cohen & are the proud parents of Ellen Marie, Company and she is an account Square in Beachwood. who weighed in at seven pounds, six representative at Beachwood OB­ ounces at birth. . GYN. They are residing in University Ronda Curtis has become an Assis­ Heights. tant Director of Law for the City of East Cleveland. Ed Leonard, a Captain in the United States Army, still resides at Hunter Ute Lindenmaier Vilfroy and her Army Airfield in Georgia. husband, Tom Vilfroy, welcomed Lillian Earl is an Assistant Ohio their first child, Nicholas William, on Attorney General. Ellen Richman has started her own October 9, 1992. Ute is a Judicial Law practice and is concentrating on Clerk to Common Pleas Court Judges Eric E. Bell was recently named an estate planning law. Norman A. Fuerst '53 and Anthony associate at Ulmer & Berne. 0. Calabrese, Jr.'61. James V. Weixel Jr. has moved to Eileen B. Vernon has been named as California, where he will open a surf 1992 the Regional Vice President for the shop/tanning booth. Jim plans to Middleburg Heights office of the American Arbitration Association. study for the California Bar in his David Wigham has recently joined Prior to her becoming an attorney, spare time. the Critchfield, Critchfield and Eileen taught speech and debate and Johnson law firm in Wooster. Dave Chernosky and his wife, Laura, was a radio news broadcaster with a daily talk show. are the proud parents of Alexander Kenneth P. Abbarno and Kevin P. Joseph, born on January 30, 1993. Foley have become members of Matthew Kentner has joined the Alexander weighed in at eight Reminger & Reminger Co., L.P.A. pounds, twelve ounces. Dave prac­ Waynesfield-based law firm of Yale & Associates Co., L.P.A. in their new tices with the law firm of Uhlinger & Y. Marie Paratto has become an office in Wapakoneta, Ohio. Keis on Public Square. associate with Roth & Rolf Co., L.P.A. Ms. Paratto is also a certified public Double order of Congratulations to accountant. IN MEMORIAM Ben Couture. Not only did he just Andrew R. Gary '92 start his own practice concentrating William E. Karnatz, Jr. has_joined Max M. Jacobs on immigration law, but he was the firm of Ziegler, Metzger & Miller Hon. Frank G. Lavrich '52 married in December. as an associate. Hon. Merlin C. Parent Roy W. Roseboro 'SO Linda Bickerstaff and Lori Leisure Janet L. Lowder has become a Frank T. Szucs '57

26 Law Notes Faculty & Staff Happenings

teach courses on business law and enterprise regulation in the People's Street Law Associate Director Pamela Republic of China. Professor Ruben Daiker Middaugh '88 and Student has many years of teaching in these Liaison Artemus Carter are consult­ areas and recently returned from ing with the Northeast Ohio Health Costa Rica where he presented a Services Agency in its work with the paper on Constitutional Limits on Cleveland Public School's GRADS Public Employee Bargaining to the Program. GRADS seeks to improve ABA Public Employee Labor Law retention of young parents still in Conference. In addition, he partici­ high school. Ms. Daiker Middaugh pated with Professor Steven Gard in and Mr. Carter advise the students on a brief involving the refusal of a legal aspects of health-related issues. union to publish in an in-house publication a member's letter to the Fair Employment Practices Clinic editor because of its contents. Attorney Ken Kowalski and his wife, Carla, celebrate the birth of their second daughter, Lisa Frances, born Solomon Oliver, fr., February 4. Mother, father, baby and sister Rachel are all doing fine. Associate Dean Solomon Oliver, Jr., served as a member of a panel On March 1, 1993, Linda A. discussing "A Critical Review of Ammons was the 1993 Rittenhouse Selected 1'992 Books Related to Race" lecturer at Andrews University in at the Midwestern People of Color Berrien Springs, Michigan. Her topic Legal Scholarship Conference at Case was domestic violence and her Western Reserve University on March address was "Private Terror, Public 26-28, 1993. Dean Oliver also Denials, No Shelter in the Time of appeared with Professor Steven Storm." In addition to the evening Steinglass on a radio show hosted by lecture, Professor Ammons appeared Professor Howard Mims, CSU on the South Bend, Indiana NBC Professor of Black Studies, on the affiliate Live At Noon show to discuss "Legacy of justice Thurgood the topic of battering and her work in Marshall." Finally, Dean Oliver Susan Becker '83 reviewing clemency petitions for accepted an appointment to serve on Professor Deborah A. Geier will be incarcerated battered women in Ohio the Local Planning Group of the traveling to Washington, D.C., for prisons. On March 25, 1993, Profes­ Cuyahoga County Department of the May meeting of the ABA Section sor Ammons conducted a seminar on Children and Family Service. on Taxation. There she will join a domestic violence at the 58th Annual panel considering Federal income tax Conference of the Association of Professor Susan Becker '83 has won issues affecting the family. An article Social and Behavioral Scientists in the law school's Howard Oleck Award by Professor Geier, "Commentary: Cleveland. Finally, on March 26, at for Outstanding Article by a Faculty Textualism and Tax Cases," is the Fourth Annual Midwestern Member for "Conducting Informal scheduled for publication in Volume People of Color Legal Scholarship Discovery Of A Party's Former 66 of the Temple Law Review in July. Conference held at Case Western Employees: Legal and Ethical Also in July Professor Geier will be Reserve University School of Law, Concerns and Constraints," pub­ one of the 24 law professors selected Professor Ammons served as a lished i'n 51 Maryland Law Review. for the 24th Economic Institute for respondent on the issue of female law professors. The Institute, spon­ circumcision. Following his nomination by the sored by George Mason University Council for International Exchange of School of Law and held on the Victor Streib began the new year in Scholars, Professor Alan Miles Ruben campus of Dartmouth College, is an Cracow, Poland. Professor Streib has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar­ intensive course on microeconomic joined a number of his Cleveland­ ship for academic year 1993-94 to. theory and its relevance to legal issues. Marshall colleagues who have

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school: Joel Finer was invited to read a selection of his poems at the CSU Poetry Center's Odd Tuesday poetry ' forum. Professor Finer also is the editor and publisher of a new and informative in-house publication, Marshall Memoranda, which he proposes publishing twice yearly.

In the spring Louise P. Dempsey, '81, usually sets off for distant lands, very distant lands, Bali, for instance, or Thailand. This spring, however, Assistant Dean Dempsey only made it as far as Miami, where she spent three Rosa De/Vecchio days at the annual meeting of the Victor Streib Visiting Nurse Association, which she "American Constitutional Conven­ participated in the ABA's outreach chairs in Cleveland, and Austin, tions: The Judicially Unenforceable program to former countries of the Texas, where she and her son, Rules That Combine With Judicial Soviet bloc, the Central and Eastern Lawrence, traveled together on a Doctrine and Public Opinion to European Law Initiative (CEELI), college visit. Regulate Political Behavior" is the when he lectured at Jagiellonian title of an article by Professor James University's law school during the Always in demand as a speaker, G. Wilson, appearing in the Fall 1992 month of January. The Children's Steven R. Smith addressed the ABA/ Buffalo Law Review. Rights Chronicle wi:l publish Profes­ AALS Evaluators Conference on sor Streib's article "The Juvenile "University and Law School Finance." In February Professor Patricia McCoy Death Penalty in Pennsylvania." In Dean Smith is active in both organi­ spoke to the Cleveland Bar the fall, the Capital Punishment zations, serving on the ABA's Stan­ Association's Section on Business and Anthology, edited by Professor Streib, dards Review Committee and as Chair Banking Law on "Back to the Future: will appear, and in December, the of the Part-Time Legal Education The Survival of Banks and Bank Indiana University Press will bring Committee; he is also a member of Counsel." out a second edition of his Death the Deans' Steering Committee of Penalty for Iuveniles. Professor Streib CEELI, the ABA's outreach program to At the request of Ohio Senator has also been active as a lecturer and the former Soviet bloc countries of Cooper-Snyder and the Ohio Associa­ a consultant: In May, he delivered an Central and Eastern Europe. He is a tion of Civil Trial Lawyers, Steven address before a conference of the member of the AALS Accreditation Werber conducted a review of a new Law and Society Association on Committee. Tort Reform and Product Liability "Death Penalty for Lesbians" and was Reform Act which the Senator had a consultant to the U.S. House of Rosa Delvecchio, secretary to authored. Most of Professor Werber's Representatives' Subcommittee on Associate Dean Solomon Oliver, has suggestions for modifications to the Juvenile Justice. completed her doctorate in English proposed legislation were accepted by from Case Western Reserve Univer­ the Senator and incorporated into the Janice Toran's article "Secrecy Orders sity. Although Dr. Delvecchio bill. and Government Litigants: A concentrated on Middle English Northwest Passage Around the studies when she received her masters Placement Secretary Cynthia Freedom of Information Act?" degree from CSU, her doctoral Marizette, only recently returned appeared in the December 1992 issue research was in nineteenth-century from the Presidential inauguration in of the Georgia Law Review. Professor American literature. Her thesis, "'Into Washington, D.C., headed west in Toran is chair-elect of the Civil That Material Nihility': Poe's Crimi­ May to Honolulu for a week's vaca­ Procedure Section of the AALS. nal Persona As God-Peer," examines tion with her family. the short stories of Edgar Allen Poe. A new poet has surfaced at the law Joan Baker is involved in some of the law school's most adventurous

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research. Professor Baker is preparing Thought: A Study in Casuistry," Law and Medicine. He wrote an op-ed a book on labor practices in state and published in the Journal of the column, "The Court's Invitation to federal prisons. Professor Baker American Academy of Religion, ap­ Intolerance," which was published in describes the book's primary focus as peared in December of 1992, while four newspapers last July: the Orange a concentration on "labor policy, "Shifting the Burden of Proof in County Register, Desert News, the union opposition to prison work, the Right-To-Die Cases," published in Indianapolis Star, and the Los Angeles relation of work to life in a market Second Opinion, and "Those Who Daily Journal. economy, and the many social policy Don't Give," published in the Mt. issues that are being encountered in Sinai Journal of Medicine, both ap­ Jane M. Picker reviewed The Right To the U.S. as a result of increases in peared in January 1993. In addition Justice: The Political Economy of social disorganization, educational Professor Davis has been a frequent Legal Services in the United States at failure, and lack of work opportuni­ speaker, twice lecturing on "Black the request of the publisher Edward ties." Professor Baker has made a tour Candidates and Liberal Jewish Elgar Publishing Limited of Aldershot, of prisons throughout the country Perspectives on Church and State" in England. Professor Picker has re­ and plans to visit several more this October 1992 before the American cently joined the Executive Council summer. Professor Baker continues Academy of Religion's Section on of the newly organized Section on her work of many years, tutoring Religion and the Social Sciences and International Law of the Cleveland students who are experiencing again in November 1993 before the Bar Association. academic difficulties and assisting Center for the Study of Religion and them in recognizing learning styles American Culture. In February Arthur Landever served as a facilita­ that are appropriate to their own Professor Davis discussed "The tor at three Great Stories Seminars needs. And, finally, Professor Baker is Concept of Futility" with the North­ throughout the year: Great Stories attempting to bring together mem­ east Ohio Oncology Social Work and Women's Issues in Professional bers of the AALS' Women's Section Group and in March she spoke to the Lives, Great Stories and the Helping and the Gay and Lesbian Rights Association for Practical and Profes­ and Healing Profession and Great Section for a joint meeting at a future sional Ethics and to the Cleveland Stories and the Teaching and annual meeting of the organization. Clinic Ethics Grand Rounds. Her Childcare Profession. The seminars, topic then was: "It Ain't Necessarily sponsored by the Colleges of Law and On January 21, 1993, Earl Curry So: Religious Studies and Bioethics." Arts and Sciences, were funded by a spoke to the Trumbull County grant from the Ohio Humanities Industrial Management Society on Forthcoming from the University of Council. Professor Landever also "How To Avoid Grievances." California at Davis Law Review is participated in the College's Brown David Forte's "Nurture and Natural Bag Luncheons, lecturing his col­ Four articles by Dena Davis appeared Law" and from International Perspec­ leagues on "The Early Education of in journals at the close of the year tives on Church and State, "Religious the Founders." And, finally, he and at the beginning of the new year: Toleration in Classical Islam." In addressed a local chapter of the "Foreign Nationals, Organ Trans­ 1992 Professor Forte contributed American Association of University plants, and the Problem of the Free "Getting Rid of the Vegetables" to Women on "Women and the Four­ Rider," published in Theoretical First Things and "Clear and Convinc­ teenth Amendment." Medicine, and "Abortion in Jewish ing Truth in Right to Die Cases" to

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The Black Law Students Association Midwest Regional Court, and Randolph Baxter - U.S. Bankruptcy Court. The Convention and the 1993 Frederick Douglass Moot Court presiding bench for the final argument consisted of Judges Competition were held in February in Cleveland. Cleve­ Nathaniel Jones, U.S. Court of Appeals , Sixth Circuit, land-Marshall students Carla Elliott (a member of the Patricia Blackmon, Ohio Court of Appeals, Eighth Dis­ winning team from last year's Douglass competition) and trict, and Saundra Robinson, Summit County Court of Darnella Robertson were the coordinators for this year's Common Pleas, Juvenile Division. competition. They are to be commended for the job they Once again, a team from Cleveland-Marshall performed did in preparing for and running the competition. well in the competition and argued in the final round. The The arguments took place in the Justice Center court­ team of Bruce Hodge and Benita Render received the rooms with the semi-final and final rounds held at the Charles Hamilton Houston award for finishing second in Court of Appeals in the old courthouse. In addition to the the competition. They, along with the first place team from many local attorneys who sat as judges in the preliminary Indiana (Bloomington), represented the Midwest region at and quarter final rounds, the competitors also benefitted the National Competition in Houston in Texas in March. by having actual judges hear arguments in the advanced The Midwest region consists of law schools from Ar­ rounds: Lillian Greene - Cuyahoga County Common kansas, Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin, Min­ Pleas Court, Ronald B. Adrine - Cleveland Municipal nesota, N. Dakota, Michigan and Ohio.•

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