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New Dean Peter Pitegoff

A PLACE OF GREAT OPPORTUNITY

ISSUE NO. 83 NOVEMBER 2005 PORTLAND, MAINE The3 Faces Philanthropyof

Annual Fund Capital Gifts Legacy Gifts Annual giving sustains priority Gifts to build the Law School Bequests and other planned programs at the Law School. permanent endowments and gifts to the University of improve the School’s physical Maine School of Law Last year, $238,000, mostly plant. Foundation build perpetual unrestricted gifts, was used endowments to fund for scholarships and public The recent $3.3 million dollar scholarships, faculty interest fellowships and to capital campaign provided development, and other underwrite important funds for 17 endowments, priorities at the Law School. academic activities. renovations to the Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic For many leading educational and new furniture and fixtures institutions, legacy gifts for the library. have underwritten their development and growth toward excellence.

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2 Feature Article: till in my first months as dean, I am Maine Law: A Place of Great discovering what you already know— Opportunity S that the University of Maine School of 10 Around Campus: Dean Pitegoff 12 Coffin Lecture: Eliot Spitzer Law is a unique and excellent law 15 Commencement 2005 school. Of course, I was aware of Maine 19 Faculty Notes Law in the past and learned much more 22 Focus on Alums: during the dean search process. But that Alice Persons ’86 and was from away. Now that I have had the Nancy Henry ’86 24 Class News opportunity to meet and talk with numerous alumni/ae and civic leaders, to 2005-2006 work with faculty and staff, and to greet Alumni Association Board of our students, the rich character of this Directors law school community is ever more OFFICERS: apparent. I appreciate the warm welcome Timothy H. Norton ’88, President I have received and am encouraged by a Michael K. Martin ’89, Vice President Janet Vivar Britton ’98, Secretary shared will to make this remarkable law school even greater. Elizabeth Eddy Griffin ’92, Treasurer As Maine Law sustains momentum in its teaching, research, and public service, a con- DIRECTORS: sistent theme going forward is engagement. A great law school has a faculty and student Miles F. Archer ’00 body engaged collaboratively in an innovative and challenging process of learning the law. John F. Bisson ’93 A great law school is engaged in creative scholarship in concert with other academic and Michael R. Bosse ’96 intellectual centers here and throughout the world, advancing knowledge and grappling Rachel L. Bouchard ’96 Eugene C. Coughlin III ’70 with societal problems. A great law school contributes to social justice through legal ser- Ronald J. Cullenberg ’71 vices and engagement in public policy development. Thomas G. Diebold ’92 And, a great law school includes graduates engaged in a wide array of work and serving Alfred C. Frawley III ’76 James B. Haddow ’86 in leadership roles in law, business, government, and community. This issue of Maine Law Katherine R. Knox ’04 magazine recounts the stories of alumni/ae who took risks and succeeded in charting satisfy- Mark G. Lavoie ’78 ing career courses. Nancy Savage Marcus ’91 The wide-ranging careers of Maine Law graduates are an important element of our Elaine M. Michaud ’93 Anne E. O’Donovan ’91 enterprise, giving further definition to the character of the Law School. More concretely, Michael J. Quinn ’88 our graduates contribute generously to the Law School through mentoring and job place- Ronald W. Schneider Jr. ’96 ment for our students, through participation in curricular initiatives and other law school Susan M. Schultz ’89 Heather M. Seasonwein ’01 endeavors, and through crucial financial support. I am pleased to join a law school with Ryan S. Stinneford ’88 such an energetic and involved alumni/ae community. John R. Veilleux ’99 The University of Maine School of Law is a valuable asset for the state, and it is well EX OFFICIO: positioned to achieve a higher profile nationally. Colleen Khoury has done a fantastic job Peter Pitegoff as dean for the last seven years. I look forward to working with you to build on her good Dean Professor Melvyn Zarr work, helping the Law School advance even further at this formative and dynamic moment Faculty Representative in the history of Maine Law. Joshua Wernig ’06 SBA Representative M. Thomasine Burke ’90 Past President John Gundersdorf Director of Alumni Relations & Development Allison Leslie Bowman Assistant Director of Alumni Relations & Development Maine Law A Place of Great Opportunity

sk third year students at Maine Law where their legal education is likely to take them, Aand most will have a ready answer. But life is wonderfully unpredictable, and when those students graduate and begin charting their professional careers, many of them—even if they started out with a clear direction in mind—will at some point find themselves facing obstacles and opportunities they had not anticipated. How they navigate through these unexpected developments can make all the difference in the world. As the following article illustrates, those who are alert to possibilities and who are prepared to act boldly and to change course to take advantage of emerging opportunities, often find Fortune favors the bold — Virgil Derek Van Volkenburgh, director, routes to great careers. Career Services Office, Here at the Law School we encourage students and alumni/ae to explore a variety of [email protected] career options and to remain as vocationally and geographically flexible as their personal cir- cumstances will allow. Currently, the job market for lawyers is tight, especially in Maine and northern New England, and it is likely to remain so in the years ahead. Job seekers who are Find a Niche adaptable and willing to consider a range of alternatives improve their chances of finding suitable positions. Over the course of their post-law school careers, the alumni/ae featured have found themselves working and studying in locations as far afield from Portland as Be Open to Change Texas, Washington, and Alaska. They have held jobs in settings as varied as prosecutors’ offices, classrooms, art galleries, and even a windsurfing school. Some of the positions have been traditional legal jobs. Others have not, but have nevertheless drawn on knowledge and skills acquired at Maine Law. Take Risks One trait shared by these alumni/ae is their willingness to challenge themselves and to take some calculated risks to improve their situations—the risk of professional and financial failure, the risk of disappointing their own or others’ expectations, the risk of change. New Forge Ahead law school graduates will profit by adopting a similar approach as they pursue their own careers. Taking a chance on a new venture is often a precursor to personal and professional growth. Moreover, it can open the door to the kind of serendipitous opportunities that often Be Flexible contribute to a successful and happy life. Knowing what risks and which directions are worth taking, however, requires first a keen understanding of one’s own goals and values. Besides having a healthy supply of self-confi- Enjoy Your Work dence, the alumni/ae here also either began with, or developed, a self-knowledge that helped guide their choices. There is an old Hasidic saying that might have served as their motto: Everyone should Be Adventurous carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength. —Derek Van Volkenburgh, director, Career Services

2 John L. Senning ’69 Find a Niche

Little did he know what a huge impact his started connecting dots. He reasoned that, choice of topic would have on his future. if he could combine those areas of law and His thesis adviser, Professor David Halpern, handle estate planning needs and corre- knew this research would intrigue a col- sponding tax issues of people with yachts, league who was starting a new Institute of he might be able to build an interesting Aerospace and Aviation Law at Southern practice at a time when recreational boat- Methodist University (SMU) School of ing was starting to boom. “I thought it Law in Texas. might be a good combination to take back “Halpern conned me into going to the to Connecticut,” says Senning, who want- graduate Law School program there,” says ed to move closer to his parents after he Senning. “I don’t know what motivated me and his wife divorced. He got a job in 1978 John L. Senning ’69 (pictured with his sons) identified to go! I’m from Connecticut and had never with a Hartford law firm, then moved to its a lucrative niche, combining admiralty and marine law with trust and estate law. been farther west than New York.” regional office in Essex, where there were When his SMU studies ended, Senning more yachts. hile delivering frigid vans full of and his family were ready to head back Senning’s instincts were right, and the Wdoughnuts in the wee morning hours east, and SMU helped Senning get a job practice steadily grew. His job now is multi- of his Law School days, John L. Senning with a new satellite communications com- faceted. He represents lenders making ’69 rarely had time to ponder how life mission in Washington, D.C. Shortly yacht mortgages, expanding boatyards that might shake out. Had the young husband before the move, though, he learned that need help with marine and environmental and father taken time to muse about the his new job had become “unfunded.” Had issues, and individuals who are buying large future, it’s unlikely he could have predicted that bad news not come, there’s a good boats and need financing or help in making the twists and turns his career would take. chance Senning would be leading a differ- sure the vessel is in good condition. He “I feel blessed to be where I am now,” ent life today. deals with yacht collisions and product lia- says Senning, who runs a successful law practice in Essex, Conn., that combines admiralty and marine law with trust and I don’t regret any choices I’ve made. Those choices, whether estate law. “I don’t regret any choices I’ve consciously made or not, were pretty good ones as it turns out. made. Those choices, whether consciously made or not, were pretty good ones as it turns out.” SMU scrambled to help Senning find bility issues and gives advice on obtaining With a family to support, Senning another job with a law firm handling avia- international registration and cruising per- worked his way through Law School in an tion-related matters. He wound up in New mits. He helps yacht owners with estate assortment of jobs—working in ski shops, an York City with a firm that was counsel for a planning and life-planning decisions. auto repair shop, and as an insurance large satellite communications company. “I love what I’m doing,” says Senning, adjuster; doing telephone marketing; and “On my first day, I was called in by the whose first job during high school was making the early-morning doughnut runs. senior partner who told me that they’d just working on boats in Essex. “My commute Life was busy, but going well. He had found lost someone in their admiralty department now is less than a mile. I get to learn about a house on the ocean in Cape Elizabeth for and asked if I would fill in,” recalls the stories of boats that are over 100 years a reasonable rent and was fortunate to be Senning. “I knew it wasn’t really a question old, meet people from all over the world, one of the first Maine Law students in a new that called for an answer!” Having studied and I’ve made a lot of rewarding friend- program that allowed him to handle cases some maritime issues at Maine Law and ships in this job.” for the District Attorney’s Office and argue SMU, Senning figures he was “the closest The job also has allowed him to indulge criminal appeals before the Maine Supreme thing to anyone with experience.” The in his love of boats. He and his wife, Susan, Court without first passing the Bar. partners told him he could pursue his other and their two sons, Skylar, 11, and Hunter, When it came time to do his third-year interests if he kept up with the admiralty 8, have numerous boats, including four thesis, Senning chose a hot topic for the cases. antique ice boats, a 70-year-old schooner, times—inverse condemnation—which As he gained experience working with eight collector canoes, a 1955 Chris Craft deals with the rights of and remedies for shipping and yachting clients and dealt mahogany speed boat, four Boston landowners affected by airport expansions. with some trust and estate work, Senning Whalers, and several sailing dinghies.

3 Annmarie Levins ’83 Be Open to Change

and then had gone on to work as the head law librarian at the U.S. Supreme Court. After her clerkship, Levins moved to It was unusual then to go New York and was hired by Rudy Giuliani from criminal work to the as an assistant U.S. attorney, specializing in organized crime and racketeering prosecu- world of big business. tions. She eventually became chief of the narcotics investigation unit and deputy chief of appeals. handle it well. The nice thing about She loved the job, but when a call came Microsoft is that its legal department is in 1992 offering her a chance to do what closely integrated with the business. We’re she’d intended all along—teach—she using legal skills to help the business lead- jumped at the chance. Hazelton, now the ers make good business decisions.” University of Washington School of Law’s After three years, Levins was asked to librarian, asked Levins to run the school’s take on the additional responsibility of Trial Practice Program. supervising the legal work for the sales “Teaching was something I always organizations in the United States and thought I wanted to do,” says Levins, but Canada. So now, on any given day, she she missed the fast pace of practicing law might help a vice president in charge of Annmarie Levins ’83 thought she would stay in Maine North American sales be sure he’s complet- and teach, but she ended up out-of-state, working for and in 1995 took a job as chief of the Microsoft Corp. financial fraud unit of the U.S. Attorney’s ing a deal without committing antitrust Office in Seattle. violations or offer her enforcement team uck, and one particularly great Law Another out-of-the-blue, intriguing job guidance on developing an international LSchool connection, helped Annmarie offer came by phone in 1998. A Microsoft case involving spam. She calls her job Levins ’83 get to where she is now. recruiter was looking to hire a criminal “incredibly rewarding.” As associate general counsel for lawyer to head up the company’s anti- “I work with smart, dedicated, and cre- Microsoft Corp., she manages two legal counterfeiting program and help establish ative people. I grew up in a small town in teams—one handling transactional work an international enforcement division. Massachusetts, and sometimes I have to for the company’s U.S. and Canadian sub- “It was unusual then to go from crimi- pinch myself that I regularly do business sidiaries, the other dealing with enforce- nal work to the world of big business,” with—and have friendships with—people ment issues like online fraud and piracy. explains Levins. “Since then, many busi- all over the world. It’s a very challenging “It’s not something I ever thought I’d be nesses have realized the usefulness of the job, but I’m encouraged to come up with doing, but I absolutely love my job,” says skills lawyers develop as prosecutors.” creative solutions and drive them forward.” Levins, who went through Maine Law Levins enjoyed making new use of her After 13 years in Seattle and seven thinking she’d stay in Maine and use her investigative techniques, and brought in working for Microsoft at its headquarters in degree to teach at a university. other people with similar know-how—FBI Redmond, Wash., Levins asked to move But graduating summa cum laude and agents, Drug Enforcement Agency experts, closer to her family in Massachusetts last serving as editor of the Maine Law Review former assistant U.S. attorneys. fall and work from a Microsoft sales office. led to opportunities that were hard to pass “I’m very proud of the way my team has She says the arrangement, with her head- up. After clerking for Judge James L. Oakes built relationships with law enforcement ing to Washington about once a month for of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in agencies to help make the Internet safer for meetings, is working well. Vermont, Levins had a chance at a clerk- everybody and to catch criminals,” says Levins and her partner, Linda, also an ship with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Levin. attorney, have two children, Gregory, 6, Lewis F. Powell, Jr. After so many years of deep involve- and Kaitlyn, 3. When not attending soccer While in Washington, D.C., Levins ment in investigations, it’s sometimes hard practices and swimming lessons, Levins reconnected with Penny Hazelton, who for Levins to resist the urge to jump back enjoys running, basketball, rowing, and had been her legal research and writing into cases directly. “But fortunately I have a exploring New England again. teacher and law librarian in Law School lot of smart people who practice law and

4 Gregory Smith ’73 Take Risks

military deferment, and took the job. himself. Justice Souter apparently thought This unexpected turn led to another otherwise. Within seven years, Smith was that fall when visiting college buddies sug- the State Attorney General, having quickly gested on a lark that they all take the risen through the ranks as openings occurred. LSAT. Smith did well. “I had thought He served until 1984, when he left to teaching was a step to graduate school in join McLane, Graf, Raulerson & chemistry, and I had never even thought of Middleton, first in Manchester, then open- going to law school.” ing the State Capitol office in Concord. In Nevertheless, next thing he knew, he this case, he thought he was “taking a path was enrolled at Maine Law. Throughout that would, for the first time since the age law school—where he was editor of the of 15, allow more time for life outside The career of Gregory Smith ’73 (pictured with his Maine Law Review and worked at the work,” contends Smith. sons at Fenway Park) has taken a number of then-new Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic— In actuality, though, he didn’t plot a unexpected turns. Today, he is a highly regarded expert on environmental law. Smith intended to spend his legal career simpler course at all. Smith could have advocating for the impoverished and disad- eased into an area he knew well but asked ust when Gregory H. Smith ’73 vantaged. So when he graduated, he instead to build an environmental law Jthought he knew exactly what lay ahead applied only to legal aid organizations, the practice. He liked the idea of working in a for him, life presented starkly different courts, and the New Hampshire Attorney rapidly emerging area of regulatory law and options. It’s been the pattern of his life. General’s Office, seeking to handle public had handled some cases involving the At each juncture, he consciously chose interest cases there. Clean Air and Clean Water acts and the new opportunity over what he had antici- And who should offer him an unusual Superfund sites. pated. That approach led him to become opportunity but New Hampshire’s Deputy But he was by no means an expert. He New Hampshire’s attorney general and now a Attorney General David H. Souter—now a hit the books and started learning, gaining highly regarded expert on environmental law. U.S. Supreme Court justice—and Attorney knowledge with each case. Twenty-one One of his first sudden shifts of fate was General Warren B. Rudman, later a U.S. years later, he chairs the firm’s environ- a last-minute chance to further his educa- senator. “David Souter asked me if I’d ever mental department and government rela- tion. Having grown up on a family dairy farm in rural New Hampshire at a time when many such enterprises were going Each time I went in a different direction, I thought of it like a under, Smith faced the reality that college bitter pill—it wasn’t going to taste good, but it would be good for me. was out of the question. A family friend, however, arranged for financial support for I knew I needed to force myself to stand up and try it. him to attend the University of New Hampshire. He interviewed in August and returned 30 days later as a student. thought of being a homicide prosecutor, tions practice and is one of his state’s most He majored in chemistry and figured and I said no. He said that if I’d consider it, respected environmental and administra- he’d become a research scientist. “You within a year or so I’d learn how to try a tive law practitioners. adapt to other people’s view of you, and for murder case.” About eight years ago, he got his firm me, that view was that I was good at sci- Smith wrestled with the decision. The involved with a world network of law firms, ence and math,” Smith says. “But the truth job was so outside the realm of what he and that has allowed him to realize a dream was that it wasn’t something that excited had set his sights on for three years. He of traveling he’d had since boyhood. Last me at all. When I read, I loved biographies realized it offered him exceptional training, year, Smith took a sabbatical to spend time and books about history and government but for Smith, who had always been in Europe with his sons, Geoffrey, 27, and leaders. I guess it took me a while to finally uncomfortable in the spotlight, the idea of Stuart, 24. catch up with myself.” standing up in court and trying a murder When asked why he repeatedly chose After college in 1969, he was two weeks case was utterly out of his comfort zone. the tougher road in his career: “It might from entering military officer school in However, as unsure as he was, that’s the have been for lack of good, thorough analy- Texas when his mother learned that path he chose. Asked in his interview where sis,” Smith jokes. “But each time I went in a Cheverus High School in Portland needed he’d like to be in ten years, Smith told different direction, I thought of it like a bit- a physics, science, and math teacher. Smith Souter that he’d like to be near the center of ter pill—it wasn’t going to taste good, but it had no plans to make a career of teaching, public policy decision-making but that he would be good for me. I knew I needed to but was impressed at his interview, got a didn’t feel well-suited to high public office force myself to stand up and try it.”

5 Jean Deighan ’76 Forge Ahead

the show. Most were practical and wise, Just after the couple married and Porter and yet, they were accepting of their sub- had passed the Bar, Deighan was let go. servient role,” says Deighan. “It really “They said they didn’t have enough work opened my eyes to how hard it is for some for me. I was flabbergasted, since they had people to change their patterns.” just hired another litigator,” she says. She It was her first real look at gender briefly considered the idea of suing over inequity, and she felt for the women in that gender discrimination, but she sensed that office, in part because she had experienced a it was for the best in the long run. less obvious kind of discrimination herself. “Sometimes life is unfair, but that’s Hearing impaired since birth, she grew up in when you start squeezing the lemons into Hampden focusing on academics and striv- lemonade. I believe living well is the best ing to compensate for a slight speech imped- revenge. So I concentrated on that and iment and difficulty picking up the subtleties thrived.” of conversations. In college, she was discour- She took a better-paying job with aged from pursuing a theater major. Northeast Bank & Trust as a lawyer/trust Undaunted and armed with a new hear- officer, and a silver lining soon became clear. ing aid, Deighan entered Maine Law, She was delighted to realize she loved trust Jean Deighan ’76 overcame discrimination and now where she learned how to “really think and estate law—which hadn’t excited her in owns a successful investment advisory firm in Bangor. clearly.” law school—and portfolio management. “The Law School is a major reason why After eight years with the bank and eight ears after the fact, Jean M. Deighan I am where I am now,” she says. “I couldn’t more at an investment management firm, Y’76 ran into the senior partner who had have done it without the analytic and she was ready for a new challenge. fired her from his Bangor law firm. He problem-solving skills I learned there. The In 1994, she took “a big leap that felt finally offered an apology, saying he’d made Law School produces good thinkers as well like jumping off a cliff” and formed her own a big mistake. as good law practitioners.” investment firm, Deighan Associates, Inc. It She cheerfully accepted the apology and After graduating, she joined a now- took off quickly, Deighan says, largely told him that he’d actually done her a defunct Bangor law firm as a litigation asso- because “I’ve never been afraid of hard favor, explaining that had she not gone ciate, thinking she’d be “Maine’s answer to work, and I surround myself with people through that painful episode, she wouldn’t F. Lee Bailey in skirts.” The year was 1976, who feel the same way.” That hard work have experienced the wonderful things that followed. Sometimes life is unfair, but that’s when you start squeezing And everything that followed enabled her to act on a strong conviction in 1994 the lemons into lemonade. and form her own successful investment advisory firm in Bangor. and in the relatively small city, it was still paid off—ten years later the firm has more Deighan didn’t envision doing anything quite a novelty to hire a woman lawyer, than $90 million under management. besides practicing law when she decided to and her hiring gave the firm “more than its Creating her own business was an all- go to Maine Law in 1973. She was prompt- share” with two, Deighan notes—but not consuming endeavor but also gave her needed to enroll after realizing how much getting for long. ed flexibility with her children, Katie, now “some stars on my shoulders” would help in After about a year, she announced her 20 and a junior at Tufts, who is studying the workplace. Deighan came to this con- engagement to Glen L. Porter ’78, then a abroad in Spain this year, and Alex, 17, a clusion after interning in public social work third-year student at Maine Law who was senior and varsity ice hockey player at while earning a degree in English and sociol- also planning to practice in Bangor. The Bangor High. Outside of work, Deighan ogy from Tufts University/Jackson College. couple was thrilled; Deighan’s employer was serves on boards for the Maine Law School In the office where she worked, Deighan not. “The partners were beside themselves Foundation, the University of Maine Board says the women were grossly undervalued worrying about whether they’d have to step of Visitors, the Maine Community and treated unfairly. away from a profitable situation if both of Foundation, and the Bangor Museum and “The supervisors in private offices were our firms were involved in a case. They Center for History. She’s also involved with all men.The women sat en masse out in were worried that the appearance of a con- economic development efforts and loves the open at broken-down desks, running flict of interest might cost them business.” sailing, creative writing, painting, and col- lecting art and promoting artists.

6 Bryce Weatherly ’97 Be Flexible

who didn’t have a job. So he checked into a “really bad motel that charged by the week,” consulted a list of local Maine Law It was a gamble and it alumni/ae, and set up informational inter- definitely was, ‘welcome views. “I went through some bumps, definite- to the real world.’ ly,” Weatherly recalls. His first break came when fellow Maine Law grad, Robert V. O’Brien Jr. ’79 hired Weatherly as a com- and accepted the position. munications analyst with a health care The diverse job, which included serving Bryce Weatherly ’97 (pictured with former President consulting firm. Weatherly reviewed health as the CEO’s “lead communicator and George H. W. Bush) tried his luck on the West Coast, advance guy,” proved extremely beneficial. eventually finding success at Washington Mutual, Inc. care contracts and advised client companies, including Boeing, on how to effec- “There’s no better way to learn the ins and willingness to go outside his comfort tively communicate about human resources outs of business than at the executive level. Azone has served Bryce E. Weatherly matters with their employees. In three years I got to see how all aspects of ’97 well. It’s led him to a rewarding career While the job wasn’t a perfect fit with the company worked. It was a high-stress, as leader of a team of people responsible for Weatherly’s skills, it was a foundation to high-stakes job, but it really matured me.” making Seattle-based Washington Mutual, build on. After two years, he left to study And it positioned him well for the next Inc., run as smoothly as possible. for the Bar exam and make some new con- step, as first vice president in Washington Getting to this point in his career tacts in hopes of finding a job doing legisla- Mutual’s operational excellence depart- required Weatherly to take a few big tive advocacy work. ment. The OpEx team looks at efficiency chances, starting with his decision to earn After passing the Bar, things started and effectiveness throughout the large his degree from the University of Maine falling into place. “Through the sheer financial services company, guided by what School of Law. power of networking, I had met the head of the firm calls the “voice of the customer.” Maine wasn’t on his radar when he government affairs for Gap Inc.,” says For example, if call-center customers report started applying to law schools while an Weatherly. “A few months later, she called long holding times, the team would use a undergrad at Temple University. But when to see if I’d be interested in going there.” set of tools and techniques for eliminating a professor of his served as a moot court He moved to San Francisco and became the problem. competition judge at Maine Law and came government affairs manager for the clothing Weatherly has embraced his role as back with glowing reviews, Weatherly took retailer, advocating for the company’s public leader but he still strives to learn more. A note and decided to give Maine a go. policy positions at the federal, state, and career coach recently helped him identify He has never regretted that choice. “As local levels of government. He enjoyed his long-term aspirations and the skills he I’ve made changes, good things have hap- interacting with politicians and regulators still wants to gain. Toward that end, pened,” he says. “Had I stayed in Philly, and using advocacy skills learned in law Weatherly says he loves reading business which would have been really easy to do, I school. “I credit (Professor) Jim Friedman books and attending leadership seminars. couldn’t say that things would have turned there. You didn’t go into his constitutional “This job has been a great opportunity out as well for me as they have. My educa- law class unprepared. He made you see all because I can take on new areas of respon- tion at Maine Law really helped open doors sides of an issue.” sibility and the company gives me room to that previously were unimaginable to me.” Realizing he wanted to take the work a learn and take some chances,” he says. “I As he finished up law school in step further—in Washington, D.C.—he appreciate that because, as I’ve gotten December 1996, Weatherly stretched him- called a contact at Washington Mutual, older, I’ve seen how people who rise to the self again. With no job, family, or friends Inc., for advice on how to proceed. His top do it, and the smart ones take a few there, he took a leap of faith and moved to contact’s response? “How about coming risks”—something Weatherly knows a Seattle. back here and working as our CEO’s aide?” thing or two about. “It was a gamble,” Weatherly says. “And “When he first mentioned it, I wasn’t (Weatherly was recently promoted to it definitely was ‘welcome to the real world’ interested. But he said if I’d at least come special assistant to the chairman and chief when I got off the bus from the airport in talk with him, he’d promise to help me in executive officer at Washington Mutual, a downtown Seattle on Jan. 1, 1997, and my search for a job in D.C., so I agreed.” role combining aspects of his two previous started looking for an apartment.” Weatherly didn’t think he had the positions and allowing him to now serve the He immediately discovered how reluc- experience for the job, but went to the chairman in both a communication and tant landlords were to rent to someone interview due to his contact’s encourage- operational capacity.) ment. Weatherly hit it off with the CEO

7 Laurie Balmuth ’80 Enjoy Your Work

transferred into a public administration and earned her degree in 1994 in print- program she “lunged” at the opportunity making and painting, all the while contin- and also began working as a consumer uing to manage buildings, remodel historic advocate in the attorney general’s office in homes, and build townhouses. Augusta. The job gave her much-needed Balmuth eventually hired a company to work-study money and credit toward her manage her properties so that she could degree, which she ultimately earned from spend time in New York, exhibiting and the Portland-Gorham campus. selling her mixed-media artwork in gal- “At first I did not believe that I could leries. Her pieces are included in museum, master subjects like statistics, economics, library, and private collections in the and computer programming. I worked sav- United States, Europe, and South America. agely and pulled A’s. I was shocked.” After 11 years, she started feeling isolat- That success gave her confidence, at 29, ed spending most of her time in an art stu- Laurie Balmuth ’80 goes where the wind takes her, to take a logical next step and enroll at dio. So in 1999, she went to visit an artist enjoying every chapter of her never-dull life. Maine Law. “The idea of obtaining justice friend and fell passionately in love—with for myself and for those like myself was the Columbia River Gorge in Hood River, aurie Balmuth ’80 spent last winter very attractive to me because I had not had Lwindsurfing and socializing on the island those things. And I also wanted them for of St. Lucia near Barbados. It wasn’t all my children. I applied to Maine Law the I credit Maine Law with giving play—she also worked as business manager year after the ‘feminist’ lawsuits opened of a windsurfing school there. careers to women that had been closed to me a chance to make a positive Looking at her lifestyle, most people us in the past.” Enrollment at the Law wouldn’t think Balmuth is putting her School reflected that—Balmuth’s class was difference for myself and others. Maine Law degree to use. But she’d 40 percent women. emphatically disagree. Balmuth financed law school with loans Balmuth says earning a law degree and a variety of jobs, including working in Ore. She bought and remodeled a large empowered her to respond positively to life’s the state’s handicapped rights office and in house there and started dating a man who challenges and opportunities. “One learns the farm workers’ unit of a legal aid agency works for a manufacturer of windsurf the rules of God, nature, and humanity by in Lewiston. After graduating, she returned boards. One lesson was enough to get her reading beautifully written, true stories of to Connecticut to study for the Bar exam. hooked on the sport. how folks in every walk of life and every She worked for Connecticut’s handicapped “Windsurfing is a wonderful addiction pursuit and profession got into a dispute, and rights office, clerked in Hartford Superior to have,” says Balmuth, who finished her how the Court resolved that dispute. Law Court, then joined a small law firm, dealing remodeling project in 2002, sold the house, School teaches you how to think clearly and mostly with real estate and finance matters. and indulged in windsurfing trips to how to get the facts and how to let go and When both of her parents died within Venezuela, California, and the Dominican move on once the job is done.” six months of each other, Balmuth sold the Republic. Balmuth considers her ability to get such property they left her and decided to make Nowadays, besides happily running an education nothing short of miraculous. a fresh start. She and children—Amber, Brian’s Windsurfing School in “the Gorge” A few years before enrolling at Maine 17, and Benjamin, 21, at the time—moved with partner Brian Shurton, she’s renovat- Law, she was a “back-to-the-land hippie,” to Portland, Ore. She used her real estate ing another home and makes time to see living on a farm in North Whitefield, law knowledge to invest in and renovate a her children and three grandchildren in Maine, a divorced young mother of two, on “beautiful, 1911 Chicago-style apartment Connecticut and Portland, Ore. welfare, feeling trapped. “I came from a building” and that sparked a new career— Balmuth says her education was key in background (in Milford, Conn.) where buying and fixing up buildings, then selling creating her “interesting, rarely dull” life. women did not have career opportunities. them for a profit, and managing the rental She feels so strongly about what she gained This was before Griswold v. Connecticut properties. from Maine Law that last year she gave the (1965), when early marriage and compulsory During this period, she was inspired to school $25,000 to start a scholarship fund childbearing was the rule.” try her hand at something she hadn’t been for nontraditional students like herself. It was a big step when Balmuth enrolled able to pursue for many years. She enrolled “I was very fortunate to be able to at the University of Maine in Augusta, first in a bachelor of fine arts program at Pacific attend law school,” she says. “I credit Maine as an art major. When offered a chance to Northwest College of Art (she more Law with giving me a chance to make a have her education costs covered if she recently served on its board of directors) positive difference for myself and others.”

8 Hon. Fred Torrisi ’74 Be Adventurous

wife lived in Fairbanks. While there, he did He also handles administrative appeals family law, more allotments work, and from Anchorage, typically by phone. other civil matters, then decided to return (Judge Torrisi notes that he occasionally to his friendly village clients in more rural gets a nice reminder of Maine Law via Dillingham. Wendy Lyford ’87, the area court admin- The small city is home to the world’s istrator in Anchorage). largest red salmon fishery, and the fishing Most of his cases are criminal, and industry was undergoing a major transition many revolve around problems with alco- at that time, becoming regulated. Many hol or children in need of aid. “I love the legal problems ensued. “People who never job. I still have an extremely interesting and Hon. Fred Torrisi ’74 (pictured trying to start his boat engine in the middle of Lake Kulik) became captivated before had to get a fishing permit would varied caseload,” says Judge Torrisi, who also by Alaska while on a visit in 1973. miss deadlines for permits and face the pos- still clearly loves where he lives. Remote sibility of their whole livelihoods being Dillingham, at the confluence of the he Hon. Fred Torrisi ’74 had a simple ruined,” explains Judge Torrisi. “Many hun- Nushagak and Wood rivers, is considered a Tplan all through law school. He’d gradu- dreds of applicants had problems.” government center and has a small hospital ate, pass the Bar, and become a small-town He branched out on his own in 1978, and roads running through it, but none of the lawyer, handling “a little bit of everything.” continuing on a contract basis for a while surrounding roads interconnect. So people What he didn’t plan on was this all with Alaska Legal Services and enjoying generally get around by snow machine or coming to pass in the remote Bristol Bay his small-town practice as he’d always small airplane. area of Alaska. intended. Judge Torrisi reconnects with “the He didn’t, for example, see disputes over “When I first came to Alaska 30 years Lower 48” about every two years. It’s a six- reindeer herding in his future. Or consider ago, there were many villages that had no hour flight to Seattle, and then it’s usually that he’d be riding across the tundra to televisions and maybe one phone. Now, of on to Vermont where he and his wife were work on a snow machine. Or that someday, course, most everyone has the Internet. I’ve raised and still have family. He says he’s as a judge, he’d be hearing a homicide case in a makeshift courtroom on an island in the Bering Sea. And yet, he says, “It’s been exactly what It’s just an incredibly beautiful spot, and there are fewer I always wanted.” of those as the world gets more sophisticated. Alaska got its grip on Judge Torrisi when he visited the state between his second and third years of Maine Law. A woman ahead of him at Maine Law had dealt with a lot of natural resource issues, always delighted to visit but knows he’s liv- gone to Alaska and sang its praises. He vis- illegal caribou cases, worker’s comp. It’s the ing where he belongs. ited Alaska and also returned captivated by setting that has made the cases interesting “Alaska has an infinite number of possi- its openness, beauty, and outdoor recre- a lot of the time.” ble outdoor trips and adventures. (My wife ational opportunities. In 1996 he was tapped by then-Gov. and 16-year-old son, John Mihai) love hik- After graduation, he and his future wife, Tony Knowles for a newly created position ing, biking, skiing. We can get in a boat Linda moved to Dillingham, where he on the Dillingham Superior Court, Third and go hundreds of miles without seeing worked for Alaska Legal Services as a Judicial District. someone. It’s just an incredibly beautiful VISTA volunteer. He spent much of his Judge Torrisi is based in Dillingham, spot, and there are fewer of those as the first year helping people get pending appli- which has its own small courthouse and world gets more sophisticated.” cations for land processed and settled. law library. But because Superior Court In the summer months, Judge Torrisi Under the 1906 Alaska Native Allotment judges are required to cover for each other also enjoys camping and playing on the Act, Alaska Natives could obtain title to and disqualifications are common, he flies Snag City Rollers, a softball team he’s been the land they had used and occupied. As about ten times a year to hear cases part of since 1979. (Another alumnus Joe the act was about to be repealed in 1971, throughout a territory roughly the size of Baiungo ’92, who practices in Belfast, there was a rush of last-minute applications Ohio. He has tried cases in Kodiak, Palmer, Maine, played on the team when he for allotments of land and a subsequent Valdez, and elsewhere, but his usual desti- clerked a summer for Judge Torrisi during “administrative mess.” nations are Naknek, about 80 miles away, law school, and has returned twice to After becoming a staff attorney for and Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska for fishing trips.) Alaska Legal Services, Judge Torrisi and his about 700 miles southwest of Anchorage.

9 AROUND CAMPUS New Dean, New Era

ean Peter Pitegoff takes the helm “The idea of a community Dof the Law School at a time of economic development clinic great challenge and promise. Armed wasn’t on anybody’s radar screen, with a plan that includes innova- but that clinic became a model tion and engagement, Pitegoff for similar transactional and intends to reinforce and build on development clinics at other law the school’s strengths in order for schools across the country,” says Maine Law to gain the regional and Pitegoff. “It also was the key national recognition it has long ingredient in the evolution of a deserved. curricular concentration at UB, “I’m looking forward to joining where we crafted a multifaceted the Law School at a formative program around affordable hous- moment,” says Pitegoff who arrived ing and community development at the school in July. “There’s a lot law.” of enthusiasm for new curricular Pitegoff’s experience in build- innovations, for further engagement ing a clinical program will serve with the community, for public poli- him well as he considers the cy initiatives, and for scholarly possibility of growing the exchange on a wider stage.” Dean Peter Pitegoff Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic Pitegoff comes to the Law (CLAC). He believes the Center School with a wealth of diverse 1978, he enrolled at New York University for Law and Innovation and the experience. Most recently, he served seven School of Law as a Root-Tilden Scholar, Maine Patent Program present tremendous years as vice dean for academic affairs at an honor conferred on the basis of demon- opportunity for synergy with the CLAC the University at Buffalo Law School, strated commitment to and capacity for and for public service by the Law School. State University of New York (SUNY), public service. After graduation, he served “Maine Law can be a resource for poli- where he had been a law professor since as legal counsel for the Boston-based ICA cy makers in the public sector, in the pri- 1988. In his role as vice dean, his responsi- Group, a consulting firm that assists com- vate sector, and the nonprofit world in a bilities ranged from curriculum and faculty munity economic development initiatives wide range of areas from economic devel- development to public relations and man- nationwide. While in practice, he taught opment to law reform,” Pitegoff explains. agement. The position also demanded on an adjunct basis at Harvard Law School Another priority for Pitegoff will be re- Pitegoff’s participation and leadership in and at New York University School of examining the Law School’s curriculum. all aspects of the school’s operation, such Law. While Pitegoff believes Maine Law has an as managing the administrative structure “I really enjoyed teaching law,” Pitegoff excellent core educational curriculum, he and assuring its integration with the facul- says. “I also enjoyed writing and didn’t believes “it’s limited in scope because of a ty and school mission. have enough time for either while in prac- small faculty and limited space.” He says “I was dealing with many of the issues tice. That’s when I decided to throw my that he looks forward to expanding the that a dean faces,” he says. “The difference hat into the ring for a full-time professor curriculum to provide a broader range of here at Maine Law is that I am the point position.” courses over time. person and often the voice and face of the Once at the University at Buffalo (UB) How is it possible to do this with faculty Law School in the public realm.” Law School, Pitegoff pursued his research and space limitiations? Pitegoff thinks one Prior to his academic career, Pitegoff agenda and published extensively in the answer is the introduction of “bridge cours- worked as an advocate and a practicing subjects of urban revitalization, corporate es.” These courses, taught by members of lawyer. After graduating from Brown organization, and community development. the judiciary and practicing bar, would University in 1975, he was a community He taught corporation law and legal ethics bridge theory and practice in a short, one- organizer for the National Association for and was able to translate his practice into a credit course format. Each course would the Southern Poor in eastern North clinical education program in community target a specific area of cutting-edge law Carolina, a grassroots program for econom- economic development law. He built a clin- that is not being covered in the current cur- ic and civil rights in rural communities, ical program that was transaction-based, riculum. Pitegoff brings the idea for these and later, for the Citizens Action League representing nonprofit organizations, small courses from his vice deanship at UB. in Oakland, California, an inner city businesses, public agencies, and community “Students loved bridge courses because neighborhood organization seeking better coalitions in enterprise development and they got a window into different areas of municipal services and tax reform. In affordable housing development. practice. The faculty valued the program

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because it filled a curricular gap that was The potential for a new self-sufficient, to remain a small law school, not covered in full semester courses. And, building is clearly on but a slightly larger small law school,” says the bar and judiciary enjoyed the engage- Pitegoff. ment with the law school, so it was a win, everyone’s mind. I’ll be “Once we have a plan and a target date, win, win situation,” he says. working very hard on a we can begin that kind of expansion and Pitegoff is discussing academic calendar programmatic change with temporary reform that might allow for a substantial strategy for a new law build- space, with borrowed space, perhaps with bridge term at Maine Law; meantime, he ing that enables us to grow overcrowding, as long as we know there’s plans to “sprinkle” some these courses into some light at the end of the tunnel.” each semester, starting as soon as spring ’06. and be more self-sufficient, to Along with the challenges that Pitegoff Additionally, Pitegoff has appointed two will be facing on the job, he also will be faculty members as associate deans—one remain a small law school, contending with an extended transition. for academic affairs, Jeffrey Maine, and one but a slightly larger small law His wife, Ann Casady, an accomplished for faculty development, Lois Lupica. graphic designer and design professor, and Maine’s role as associate dean for academic school, says Pitegoff. their two sons Max, a high school senior, affairs includes coordinating course plan- and Eli, an 8th grader, will remain in ning and adjunct teaching, monitoring and Buffalo for the duration of the academic expanding interdisciplinary or dual degree year. opportunities, building related extracurricu- growth in the overall student population. “It is a difficult time for our family, com- lar programs, and exploring curricular inno- However, he is quick to add that he wants muting back and forth, but this plan vations. As associate dean for faculty devel- to keep what is special about the enables Max to finish his senior year with opment, Lupica is coordinating extensive University of Maine School of Law, namely less disruption and gives us time for a more faculty initiatives to advance the Law its intimate academic atmosphere and its patient housing search. We look forward to School as an institution, encouraging relatively small size. July of 2006 when the family will be settled scholarly workshops inside the Law School, Talk of expansion ultimately leads to a together in Maine,” Pitegoff says. promoting publication placement and fac- long-asked question—is there a new build- Between work and family, Pitegoff tries ulty presentations beyond the Law School, ing in the Law School’s future? to fit in some of his hobbies. An avid ten- and identifying and marshaling additional “The potential for a new building is nis player, he already has found his way resources and incentives for scholarship clearly on everyone’s mind. I’ll be working into the southern Maine tennis scene. and policy development. very hard on a strategy for a new law build- And, while in Buffalo, he was the alto sax- “Together, the efforts of the two associ- ing that enables us to grow and be more ophone player in a jazz band called “Class ate deans will serve to Action,” whose core mem- heighten the public bers were law professors. profile of the Law The group played in many School while building of Buffalo’s downtown upon internal clubs, mostly fundraisers strengths,” says for summer public interest Pitegoff, who also is law fellowships. exploring the possibili- But, even though ty of modestly expand- Pitegoff has left much ing the size of the stu- behind, he now is focusing dent body. on what is ahead. “Maine “Due to limited is a wonderful state. It’s state funding, the law beautiful. It’s also a state school is quite depen- where public policy and dent on tuition and dialogue are grounded in philanthropic support,” common sense and a pro- Pitegoff says. gressive point of view,” he He explains that, in says. “Ever since we moved order to have an ade- to Buffalo, we’ve been quate financial founda- looking forward to our tion, there needs to be return to New England.”

11 AROUND CAMPUS 14th Annual Frank M. Coffin Lecture on Law and Public Service

Lyrae Williams New Director of Administration Named

yrae Williams took over as the Law LSchool’s Director of Administration in September. She brought with her years of experience in academic environments, most New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Judge Frank M. Coffin pictured during Spitzer’s visit to Portland to recently serving as fiscal manager for the deliver the University of Maine School of Law’s 14th Annual Frank M. Coffin Lecture on Law and Public Service on University of Arizona College of Fine Arts. October 18. Williams previously worked as a fiscal analyst in the University of Arizona budget ew York State Attorney General Eliot topic of insurance regulation. Insurance law office and as financial planner in the office NSpitzer seriously questioned whether students, who had been reading about his of academic affairs at Wesleyan University institutions in a free market society are investigations, asked very good questions.” in Connecticut, advising the provost and capable of self-regulation, as he delivered As a Frank M. Coffin lecturer, Spitzer— other senior personnel. Her prior experience the University of Maine School of Law’s who is a 2006 democratic candidate for was as an accountant and financial analyst 14th Annual Frank M. Coffin Lecture on Governor of New York—joins a distin- in the nonprofit health care sector. Law and Public Service in Portland on guished group of lecturers, including former “It is an honor to come to the Law School October 18. Massachusetts Attorney General and past of Maine, and be a part of such an exception- Spitzer told an audience of more than president of Common Cause, Scott al administrative team. I look forward to nav- 500 students, alumni/ae, and friends of the Harshbarger; U.S. Supreme Court Justice igating the future with Dean Pitegoff and University of Maine School of Law that Ruth Bader Ginsburg; and former U.S. doing all that I can to ensure the continued “there must be measured government inter- Senator Warren Rudman (R-NH). success of the school,” said Williams. vention to ensure markets work” and that The Frank M. Coffin Lecture on Law Williams has an undergraduate degree in there are “certain core values that do not and Public Service was established in 1992 finance and accounting, and a master’s degree come from free markets.” and honors a distinguished member of the in higher education finance and economics, Spitzer also spoke about the evolving United States judiciary and a longtime both from the University of Arizona. She may balance of power between state and federal friend of the University of Maine School of be reached at [email protected]. government when it comes to the enforc- Law. Judge Coffin was appointed to the ing accountability. United States Court of Appeals for the The public lecture, which drew a record First Circuit by President Lyndon B. crowd, was held at the University of Johnson and has sat on that court since Southern Maine’s Abromson Community 1965. He served as Chief Judge from 1972 Education Center in Portland. to 1983 and is currently Senior Judge. Earlier that day, Spitzer took part in The University of Maine School of Law Professor Jenny Wriggins’ Insurance Law has a long history of public service by its class. “Eliot Spitzer, a law school classmate graduates. “Maine’s law school is an asset of mine, spoke about the work his office for the state and the region,” noted Dean has recently been doing investigating and Peter Pitegoff, “and a magnet for policy prosecuting illegal practices by gigantic leaders from near and from afar.” Of last insurance brokers,” said Wriggins. “In addi- year’s graduating class of 95 students, 25% tion to being very engaging, he demon- went on to judicial clerkships and nearly strated to students the great importance 20% took positions with public service both of insurance as a major part of our organizations. economy and of the perhaps somewhat dry

12 AROUND CAMPUS New Assistant to Dean Named Wathen Writing Prize Awarded n June, the Law School welcomed Jessica Last fall, Burnett and Brown as the new assistant to the dean I Curtis were awarded and coordinator of special events. Wathen Writing Prizes Prior to joining the law school, Brown for their outstanding worked at the Muskie School of Public legal briefs in Hiibel v. Service on a cross-disciplinary training Sixth Judicial District project for childcare providers and social Court of Nevada. Both service workers. students were also “Coming from a non-academic project selected to be Legal within the University, it is a very exciting Writing Instructors for prospect for me to be surrounded by people the 2005-06 academic who are so enthusiastic about learning. I year. look forward to working with the dean, faculty, students, and friends of the Law School on a daily basis,” she said. Brown received her B.S. in Communications from Emerson College, Elizabeth Burnett ’06, (left) where she was the editor-in-chief of the stu- the Hon. Daniel Wathen ’65, dent newspaper, The Berkeley Beacon. She and Alicia Curtis ’06 lives in Saco with her husband, Geoff, and her 6-year-old son, Connor. She may be reached at [email protected]. Reception for Incoming Students On August 24, the eve of 1L orientation, the Alumni Association sponsored a reception for the incoming class at Ri Ra in Portland. The annual event, which was started last year, gives students a chance to meet and mingle with alumni/ae and each other before the start of their first academic year at Maine Law.

Heather Seasonwein Walker ’01 (right), co-chair of the Alumni Association’s Alumni-Student Relations Committee, speaks with new students Katherine Griffin ’08 and Tom Trenholm ’08.

Jessica Brown

Fall 2005 Godfrey Scholar-in- Residence Lecture Margaret Jane Radin (left), the William Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law at Stanford University, delivered the Godfrey Scholar-in- Residence Lecture in the Moot Court Room on September 26. Professor Radin is a renowned expert in intellectual property and technology, electronic commerce and jurisprudence of cyberspace. Before delivering her evening lecture, Radin taught Professor Tom Ward’s Intellectual Property class (pictured) and had lunch with the Law School faculty.

13 AROUND CAMPUS Program Coordinator for Admissions and Career Services Joins Staff

erry Wyler joined the Law School staff Kin July as the program coordinator for admissions and career services, a newly created position. “I am looking forward to working in a new, challenging role and, as part of the team, to ensure our students get the best out of law school,” said Wyler. Wyler brings with her a variety of administrative experience, most recently Guest Auctioneer Darcie McElwee ’98 (left) solicits bids on a sweater custom-knit by Barbara Gauditz ’87. Professor Orlando Delogu (center) drew cheers and whistles from the audience as he modeled a sample sweater. serving as an administrative manager for MoneyGram International Ltd. in London. 2005 MAPIL Auction Previously, Wyler worked as the operational manager for the American Bear The 17th Annual Maine Association for Public Interest Law (MAPIL) Auction, held Association in Minnesota, and as an office on April 8, raised more than $17,600 for the MAPIL Summer Fellowship Program. manager for Sun Microsystems in London. The fellowships make it financially feasible for Maine Law students to work for non- “Since moving to Maine from my home profit legal services organizations that otherwise could not afford to take on another in London, England, I have been involved summer employee. Most students work for organizations serving low-income Mainers, in a process of discovery and learning. The but the fellowships have also sent Maine Law students to locales from Appalachia to prospects of exploring the state’s beautiful Cape Town, South Africa. natural landscape, and of becoming more familiar with Maine’s history and culture, is very exciting.” Wyler may be reached at [email protected]. 2004-05 Osher Scholars This year’s Osher Scholarship Reception was held at the Portland Museum of Art in May. Created in 1999, the University of Maine School of Law’s Osher Fund was established through a gift from the Bernard Osher Foundation in San Francisco, California. An additional gift endowment of $250,000 was made by the Foundation in March. Osher scholars must be Maine residents, have strong academic qualifica- tions, show promise for excellence in their pursuit of legal education, and demon- strate financial need.

(l to r) Jordan McColman ’08, Benjamin Jenkins ’07, Joanna Wyman ’05, and Andrew Ellis ’05

Kerry Wyler

14 Commencement 2005 The Class of 2005 on the steps of Portland City Hall.

he Maine Law Alumni Association gained 96 members • “Keep an open mind, recognizing the real possibility that Ton Saturday, May 28, when the Class of 2005 celebrated you may be wrong.” their graduation from the University of Maine School of Law • “Something is only impossible until someone does it.” during their Commencement ceremony at Merrill • “Know who you are and what you believe.” Auditorium in Portland. Levins advised graduates “you will need to have a strong Annmarie Levins ’83, associate general counsel for moral compass and be willing to follow it, even when it Microsoft Corporation, was invited by the graduating class to would be easier not to.” She told the class that, in order to be give the keynote address. She focused her remarks on four successful, they would need to have more than just good lessons that she said have been of great importance to her legal skills. Levins urged the graduates to take time to under- throughout her legal career. They were: stand people and how to work effectively with them. She • “You don’t have to know all the answers, but you do concluded her address with, “I hope that you will find that have to ask the right questions.” you love being a lawyer as much as I do.”

Annmarie Levins ’83 gives the keynote address. Dean Colleen Khoury presents John Veroneau ’89 with the L. Kinvin Wroth Distinguished Alumni/ae Award.

15 2004-05 Alumni Association President M. Thomasine Lorelle K. Londis ’05 (pictured with Jessica A. Coro Student Commencement speaker Andrew D. Ellis ’05 Burke ’90 with Uma Outka ’05, who received a Law ’05) also received a Law Alumni Association Award, Alumni Association Award which recognizes outstanding members of the 3L class.

During the ceremony, Dean Colleen Khoury presented M. Thomasine Burke ’90 presented the Alumni John Veroneau ’89, a partner with DLA Piper Rudnick Association Award to Uma Outka ’05 and Lori Londis ’05. Gray Cary LLP in Washington D.C., with the L. Kinvin The award recognizes the person(s), who, in the opinion of Wroth Distinguished Alumnus Award. Veroneau, former the faculty, were the outstanding members of the graduating assistant secretary of defense for legislative affairs, served as class. Outka, who graduated summa cum laude, accepted a legislative director for Senator William S. Cohen and for position as an associate with Verrill Dana, LLP, in Portland. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist; he also served as chief of Londis, who graduated magna cum laude, is working as an staff for Senator Susan Collins. And, in 2001, he joined the associate in the litigation department at Bernstein, Shur, Bush administration as assistant U.S. trade representative for Sawyer & Nelson in Portland. Both Outka and Londis were congressional affairs and was later appointed general counsel given Law School chairs by the Alumni Association to con- for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. gratulate them on their award. Maine Law Alumni Association 2004-05 President Members of the Class of 2005 selected Andrew D. Ellis ’05,

Prizes Awarded at Faculty Award for Trial Advocacy Independent Writing Award Graduation: Class of 2005 Awarded for outstanding performance in Awarded to the best Independent Writing advocacy courses. Project. Faculty Scholastic Achievement Award Delia van Loenen Jennifer L. Kruszewski, “Predatory This award is given to that member of the Lending: Preemption of State The Edward S. Godfrey Leadership Award senior class who achieves, over three years Predatory Lending Laws Calls for an This award goes to the student who has of law study, the highest academic average. Effective National Predatory Lending made the most significant contribution to a Angela C. Arey Standard” Uma Outka student-edited law journal during his or her years at the law school. ABA/BNA Award for Excellence in the Faculty Significant Achievement Awards Angela C. Arey Study of Intellectual Property Law These awards are presented to members of Katherine M. McCarthy Christine S. Roberts the senior class whose academic perfor- Katherine M. McCarthy mance and/or overall contribution to the Wernick Prize for Legal Writing school have been significant. This award was established by friends and ABA/BNA Award for Excellence in Labor Danny R. Coyne former colleagues to honor the memory of and Employment Law Lorelle K. Londis Justice Sidney Wernick. It is given to the Shane T. Wright student who has submitted the best piece Katherine M. McCarthy ABA/BNA Award for Excellence in the of legal scholarship during the year. Joanna C. Wyman Study of Health Law Lorelle K. Londis, “The Corporate Face Nicholas W. Allen Gignoux Award for Appellate Advocacy of the Alien Tort Claims Act: How an This award is for the graduating senior who Old Statute Mandates a New American Bankruptcy Institute Medal for has demonstrated excellence in advocacy Understanding of Global Excellence in Bankruptcy Studies skills through moot court programs. Interdependence” Tunisia L. Staten Sonia J. Buck Uma Outka, “Environmental Holly E. Russell Injustice and the Problem of the Law”

16 The ceremony underway at Merrill Auditorium in Portland

a graduate with a diverse background, to deliver the student Commencement remarks, ending his address with the address. Ellis grew up in Norway, Maine, and spent his senior following poem: year in high school studying abroad in Germany. He graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Art in 1995. “Professor Zarr, we’ve come so far Following graduation, he traveled back to Germany as a From the wreck of Ralphy Raymond’s car Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow, where he taught English To this auspicious journey’s end and American culture. In 1996, Ellis returned to Maine With fond farewells to all our friends. where he focused on painting and worked several different jobs, including one as a college writing teacher. In 2002, he Remember us, and we will you enrolled at Maine Law. In his spare time, Ellis is a singer- And all the rest at Maine Law, too songwriter and guitarist for a roots and folk-influenced band, For giving us the smarts we need and he channeled some of that creative energy into his To pass the Bar, and to succeed.”

Outstanding Scholastic Achievement Maine State Bar Association Pro Bono Awards Student Award Presented by the faculty for outstanding Recognizes a student whose law-related ser- performance in selected areas of the vices to the community, without compensa- curriculum: tion or education credit, exemplifies the legal Taxation— profession’s tradition of pro bono service. Emily G. Ellison Katrina Leifeld Business and Commercial Law— The Clinical Legal Education Association Josh T. Silver Award Environmental & Marine Law— The recipient of this award was nominated Angela C. Arey by the clinical faculty for excellence in clin- Criminal Law & Procedure— ical fieldwork based on ethical and high- Luke S. Rioux quality representation provided to clients National Association of Women Lawyers and the community, and for exemplary Recognition Award thoughtfulness in exploring lawyering issues Acknowledges a graduate who has con- and skills in an accompanying seminar. tributed to the advancement of women in Toby D. Jandreau society and promoted issues and concerns of Law Alumni Association Award women in the legal profession. The recipient of this award is that person Emily G. Ellison who, in the determination of the faculty, is an outstanding member of the senior class. Uma Outka (Standing at back) Uma Outka ’05 and Angela Lorelle K. Londis Crossman Arey ’05 (standing at front) both received the Faculty Scholastic Achievement Award for achieving, over three years of law study, the highest academic aver- ages in their class. 17 Maine Law: Class of 2005 Name Hometown Undergrad Degree/College Name Hometown Undergrad Degree/College Nicholas W. Allen Waltham, MA B.A. 1999 Bowdoin College Jennifer L. Kruszewski West Rutland, VT B.S. 1997 University of Vermont Angela Crossman Arey Rockland, ME B.A. 1995 American University Virginia York Lee Kittery Point, ME B.A. 1985 University of Maine Matthew A. Baum A.B. 1995 St. John’s College at Annapolis M.B.A. 1993 Whittemore School of Business at the University of New Thomas Wayne Bell Lower Burrell, PA B.A. 2001 University of Pittsburgh Hampshire Joseph M. Bethony Hampden, ME B.A. 2002 University of Maine Katrina Leifeld Whitinsville, MA B.A. 2000 Clark University Pamela J. Boivin Augusta, ME B.S. 2002 University of Maine at Augusta Brian Joseph Libby Portland, ME B.S. 1992 Rochester Institute Matthew Dillon Bowe Milton, MA A.B. 1999 Bowdoin College of Technology M.A. 2004 Boston College Ph.D. 1998 Worcester Polytechnic Vera Delacy Bradsher Durham, NC B.A. 1992 University of North Institute Carolina—Asheville Lorelle K. Londis Portland, ME A.B. 1989 Duke University M.P.A. 1995 NCCU M.A. 1992 The University of Alabama Sonia J. Buck Portland, ME B.A. 2002 University of Southern Maine Jisel E. Lopez Haverstraw, NY B.A. 2001 Colby College Jamie Irene Bullingham Brunswick, ME B.A. 2001 University of California, Cara Anne Lovejoy South Portland, ME B.A. 2001 Simmons College Los Angeles Ryan Allen Lovell Bath, ME B.A. 1997 University of New Hampshire Martha Bohannon Bullock Charlotte, NC B.A. 1999 University of North Carolina M.Ed. 1999 Saint Michael's College at Chapel Hill Amanda Beth Lynch Portland, ME B.A. 1997 Providence College Kelly A. Busby Biddeford, ME B.S. 2002 University of Southern Maine M.Ed. 1999 Boston University Jason S. Campbell Los Angeles, CA B.A. 2002 University of California, Vincent J. Marconi, Jr. Portsmouth, NH B.A. 2002 Franklin and Marshall Los Angeles College Nicolle Alicia Carbone Harbour Grace, B.A./B.Ed. 1992/1995 University of Michelle Lynn Maynard Topsham, ME B.A. 2002 University of Virginia Newfoundland, Canada Prince Edward Island Katharine Margaret Auburn, ME B.A. 2000 Dartmouth College M.F.T. 2001 Southern Connecticut State McCarthy Ed.M. 2001 Harvard University University Meredith Wynn Mendelson Pittsburgh, PA B.A. 2001 Bates College David Russell Carpenter Brunswick, ME B.A. 1986 Middlebury College Elizabeth Harrill Mitchell Vassalboro, ME B.A. 1962 Furman University Colleen Beth Cashman Reading, MA B.A. 2000 University of New Hampshire M.A.T. 1967 University of North Kristin McHenry Collins Phippsburg, ME B.A. 2000 Colgate University Carolina—Chapel Hill Jessica Adler Coro Saco, ME B.A. 2001 University of Maine at Augusta Katherine Moore Bangor, ME B.A. 2000 University of Maine Danny Romano Coyne Scarborough, ME A.B. 1998 Bowdoin College Victoria Morales South Portland, ME B.A. 1997 Boston College Christopher Michael Dargie Southbridge, MA B.A. 2002 University of New Hampshire Uma Outka Charlottesville, VA B.A. 1995 University of Virginia Maureen Dupree Davis Mercer, ME B.A. 1976 University of Maine M.P.P. 2005 Muskie School of Public M.A. 1995 University of Maine Service Rebecca Vaughan Dean Edgecomb, ME B.A. 1985 University of Maine Rachael Kathryn Pierce Brownfield, ME B.A. 1999 University of Southern Maine Mark Normand Dion Portland, ME B.A. 1983 University of Southern Maine Kim Elizabeth Pittman Portland, ME B.A. 1984 University of New Hampshire M.H.S.A. 1994 Antioch College Margaret Anne Priest Machias, ME B.A. 1986 Boston University André G. Duchette Brunswick, ME B.A. 2001 Middlebury College M.Ed. 1990 University of Southern Maine Scott Mercier Edmunds Hollis, NH B.A. 2000 Colby College Susan Manchester Quigley Portland, ME B.A. 1999 Boston College Heather G. Egan Holyoke, MA B.A. 2002 Smith College Stephen Douglas Rees, Jr. Sarasota, FL B.A. 2001 Bates College Andrew David Ellis Norway, ME B.A. 1995 Yale College Mika Koda Reynolds Portland, ME B.A. 2000 Colby College Emily Green Ellison San Francisco, CA B.A. 1998 University of Michigan, Luke Stephen Rioux Falmouth, ME B.A. 2002 McGill University Ann Arbor Christine Susan Roberts Cape Elizabeth, ME B.A. 2000 Colby College Heidi Jone Ellrich Rangeley, ME B.A. 1998 Smith College Holly Elizabeth Russell Topsham, ME B.A. 2001 University of Pennsylvania Robin Collett Emmans Selah, WA B.A. 2001 Whitworth College Carolyn Crockett Russo Portland & Camden, ME B.A. 1983 University of Maine Jessica Michele Emmons Waterboro, ME B.A. 2001 University of Pennsylvania at Farmington Jennifer Linn Galvagni Pittsfield, MA B.S. 2002 University of Massachusetts M.S. 1993 University of Maine at Amherst Hanna Sanders Portland, ME B.A. 1994 University of Maine Maria Pauline Gavin Mason, NH B.A. 1996 College of the Holy Cross Erik David Scheinfeldt Paxton, MA B.A. 1999 American University M.B.A. 2000 University of Kevin Joshua Scott Rye, NH B.A. 1999 University of New Hampshire Massachusetts, Boston Mary Leeann Shaffer West Lafayette, IN B.A. 2002 Indiana University Seth Andrew Goodall Richmond, ME B.S. 2000 University of Connecticut Joshua Theodore Silver Freeport, ME B.A. 1999 Middlebury College M.S. 2005 University of Connecticut Gwendolyn J. Simons Louisville, KY B.H.S. 1986 University of Kentucky LeAnn L. Greenleaf Auburn, ME B.A. 1990 University of Southern Maine Tunisia LaShaun Staten Jonesboro, GA B.A. 2001 University of Georgia Devens MacMillan Hamlen Wayland, MA B.A. 1996 Bates College Emily Radley Stein Rockport, ME B.A. 2002 Colgate University Jonathan Steven Handelman Schenectady, NY B.A. 1989 Washington University in St. Louis Tori L. Stenbak Etna, ME B.A. 1999 Keene State College M.A. 1991 Union College Jennifer Louise Tarr Augusta, ME B.A. 2000 George Washington Ph.D. 2003 Texas A&M University University Merritt Turner Heminway Portland, ME B.A. 1994 Vassar College Michael Loren Toomer Saco, ME B.A. 1997 University of Southern Maine M.P.P. 2002 Muskie School of Public Brendan Francis Trainor Veazie, ME B.A. 1998 University of Maine Service Alexander Zissimos Typaldos Bangor, ME B.B.A. 2002 Southwestern Adventist Maureen Ann Hopkins Windham, ME B.A. 2000 Mount Holyoke College University M.F.S. 2002 George Washington Delia Birgitta van Loenen Falmouth, ME B.A. 2002 Bowdoin College Unviersity Amy J. Visentin Cumberland Foreside, ME B.S. 1979 Lehigh University Alicia Lee Howe Milton, NH B.A. 1998 University of New Hampshire M.S. 1985 The Pennsylvania State M.A.T. 1999 University of New University Hampshire Cora Betty Volchok Seattle, WA B.A. 1997 College of the Holy Cross David Iglesias Miami, FL B.A. 2002 Florida International M.Ed. 2001 Worcester State College University Jonathan P. Whitney Kennett Square, PA B.S. 2000 University of Southern Maine Toby D. Jandreau St. Francis, ME B.A. 1999 University of Maine Lisa W. D. Whittier Liberty, ME B.A. 2002 University of Maine at Augusta Stephanie Elizabeth Bath, ME B.S. 2001 Tufts University Felter Jazlowiecki Stephanie Ann Williams Ogden, UT B.A. 2002 University of Utah Jonathan Walter Johnson Pawtucket, RI A.B. 2001 Saint Anselm College Shane Trent Wright Pittsfield, ME B.A. 1994 Colby College Colin Timothy Keohan Plymouth, MA B.A. 1994 Fordham University Joanna Clymer Wyman South Portland, ME B.A. 1992 Haverford College Alison Marie King Farmington, ME A.B. 1997 Colgate University John Thomas Wyrocki III Danvers, MA B.A. 1997 Bradford College David Edward John Kruse Weston, CT B.A. 2000 University of Vermont 18 FACULTY NOTES

■ In June, degree from the University of Baltimore Joe Lee Bankruptcy Professor David School of Law. Institute in Cluchey served as Lexington, Ken., on the site director for the Impact of ■ Angela Caputo the St. Petersburg Revised Article 9 in Griswold Summer Law , a legal Bankruptcy. Program in St. writing fellow pub- Additionally, Petersburg, Russia, lished the article Professor Lupica has and taught a two- “Teaching IRAAC: been appointed by week course on international trade law. The Power of Self Dean Peter Pitegoff to serve as Associate Professor Cluchey has been associated Discovery” in Dean for Faculty Development. In this with the St. Petersburg Summer Law Volume 19, No. 2 of role, Professor Lupica will coordinate The Second Draft Program, an ABA-accredited summer , extensive faculty initiatives to advance the biannual newsletter of the Legal program, since 1995. the Law School as an institution; Writing Institute. encourage scholarly workshops inside the Law School and promote publication ■ Professor ■ Rita Heimes placement and faculty presentations Orlando Delogu’s , Director of the beyond the Law School, and identify article, “Kelo et al v. and marshal additional resources and City of New Center for Law and Innovation, was incentives for scholarship and policy London—Wrongly development. Decided and a invited to serve on Missed Opportunity the Maine Science for Principled Line- and Technology ■ Professor Jeffrey Maine was invited Drawing with Respect to the Fifth Advisory Board to present at an ALI-ABA course enti- Amendment’s Taking Clause” is forth- which will advise Maine’s new Office of tled Internet Law for the Practical coming in the Maine Law Review. Innovation. Lawyer, which was held on April 21-22 in Washington, D.C. He focused on tax ■ considerations in Internet transactions. ■ Associate Professor Christine Professor Lois Lupica was selected to Professor Maine’s article “Taxing the Galbraith serve as reporter to Maine’s Task Force recently participated in a New Intellectual Property Right” has been scholarly works in on the ABA’s Ethics 2000 project. The Paul Chaiken published as the lead progress conference Task Force, chaired by ’74 article in Volume 56 at Cardozo Law , was charged with reformulating Maine Bar Rule 3 to conform to the of the Hastings Law School in New York Journal. It was City. She is current- structure of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Responsibility and to rec- recently cited by the ly the Academic Federal Circuit Representative to ommend substantive changes in the Maine rules as appropriate. Court of Appeals. the Maine State His recent article Bar’s Continuing Professor Lupica received an honor- able mention for the 2005 National “Giving Intellectual Legal Education Committee and has Property” also has been accepted for publi- been active with the Maine Breast Award for Innovation and Excellence in Teaching Professionalism. Her article, cation in U.C. Davis Law Review (Spring Cancer Coalition. “Professional Responsibility Redesigned: 2006). Sparking a Dialog between Students and Dean Peter Pitegoff has appointed ■ Visiting Assistant Clinical the Bar” is published in Vol. 29 of the Professor Maine as the Law School’s Professor Jill Green arrived at the Journal of the Legal Profession, an acade- Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. In Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic in August. mic journal of the University of this role, Professor Maine will coordinate Green spent the last Alabama School of Law. course planning and adjunct teaching, two years as a sole Professor Lupica’s article, “The monitor and expand interdisciplinary or practitioner and for- Impact of Revised Article 9,” published dual degree opportunities, build related merly worked at the in the Kentucky Law Journal’s business extracurricular programs, and explore Office of the bankruptcy symposium, describes the curricular innovations. Attorney General need for an empirical study of Revised and at Pine Tree Article 9. In May, Professor Lupica ■ In June, Professor Alison Rieser Legal Assistance. attended the Washington University’s was named a member of the newly estab- She received her Empirical Scholarship Workshop, and lished Marine Aquaculture Task Force, a undergraduate degree in political science has embarked upon the study described foundation-supported initiative to devel- and history from the University of in her article. Also that month, Professor op ecological standards for the farming of Maryland at College Park and her law Lupica spoke at the 12th Biennial Judge

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fish and shellfish in Project provides noted her work in Maine with the Office U.S. waters. She was attorneys in private of the Attorney General, the Maine invited to make a practice the oppor- Judiciary, the Maine State Bar and presentation to the tunity to provide numerous businesses and legal firms. Ocean Studies limited representa- Board of the tion to plaintiffs ■ Professor National Academy seeking protection Thomas Ward mod- of Sciences in from abuse orders. erated the Annual March on institu- The project is being Seminar of the tional reforms needed to restore fisheries- introduced as a pilot in the Portland Annual Seminar of altered marine ecosystems. While on and West Bath District Courts from the Financial sabbatical in April and May, she visited June through December 2005, but its Lawyers Conference three centers for research on marine pol- expansion to other Maine communities on “Intellectual icy in the Pacific Rim, presenting her is expected. Professor Smith discussed Property Assets in study of the history of sea turtle conser- considerations involved when repre- Commercial Law and Bankruptcy” held vation at the University of Wollongong senting clients who are deaf or hard of in Indian Springs, California in April. He and James Cook University in Australia hearing. and the University of Hawaii in also co-moderated a program on Honolulu. Her chapter on the role of “Financing the Music Industry” presented ■ Associate Professor Deborah legal regimes was published in a new to the ABA’s Subcommittee on Tuerkheimer’s textbook on marine conservation biology most recent article Intellectual Property Financing of which in May. The Ocean & Coastal Law “Conceptualizing Violence Against he is Co-Chair. Journal has accepted for publication her Pregnant Women” has been accepted for This past summer, Professor Ward article with Dan Bodansky (University publication in taught at Seattle University, and the Intellectual of Georgia Law) on legal authorities to Volume 81 of the 2005 edition of his treatise, Indiana Law Journal Property in Commerce prevent ship strikes of critically endan- . , was published by gered North Atlantic right whales. Publication is Thomson-West. Earlier in the spring, she contributed a expected in early 2006. case study on the listing of Maine’s ■ Professor Jennifer Wriggins Professor ’ article Atlantic salmon populations as endan- “Toward a Feminist Revision of Torts” gered to a workshop on federalism and Tuerkheimer also was invited to make has been published in Vol. 13, No. 1 of the Endangered Species Act at Stanford American University Journal of a presentation in April at Brooklyn Law the Law School. Gender, Social Policy and the Law School on “Beyond Fetal Victimhood: . Pregnancy Battering and the Pregnant Two of Professor Wriggins’ earlier articles, “Domestic ■ In June, Professor Woman.” Violence Torts” and Martin Rogoff visit- In June, Professor Tuerkheimer pre- “Interspousal Tort ed France as a mem- sented a paper entitled “Pregnancy Immunity and ber of a University of Battering and the Construction of Insurance ‘Family Maine System dele- Victimhood” at the Law and Society Member Exclusions’: gation whose purpose Annual Conference in Las Vegas, Shared was to broaden and Nevada. In addition, she was asked to Assumptions, deepen cooperative serve on the Maine Federal Public Relational and relationships with Defender Selection Committee. Liberal Feminist Challenges” are includ- French universities. The delegation visited in excerpted form in the new 3rd edi- ed universities in Paris, Lille, Nantes, ■ tion of Studies in American Tort Law by Angers, and Le Mans. The Law School Director of Legal Johnson and Gunn. presently has exchange relationships with Research and Nancy In March, Professor Wriggins served law faculties at universities in Le Mans Writing Wanderer ’90 was on a panel at Harvard Law School on and the Paris suburb of Cergy-Pontoise. honored by the Law “Women and Tort Law: Hidden Victims, School faculty to Hidden Curriculum.” In addition, ■ Associate Professor Deirdre Smith receive the Faculty Professor Wriggins’ article “The Value of ’94 was on the faculty of the training Senate Award for Injury: Race, Gender and Torts, 1900- for the Pro Bono Domestic Violence Service for 2005. 1950” was accepted for publication in Project, sponsored by several organiza- The faculty recognized her decade of ser- the Howard Law Review. tions including the Women’s Law vice to the Law School and the Section of the Maine State Bar enhancements she has made to the Law Association. The Domestic Violence School’s legal writing program. They also

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■ In July, Professor Melvyn Zarr Associate Clinical reviewed the past Professor Jim Burke term of the United States Supreme In May, Jim Burke Court for a CLE pro- assumed the position gram put on by the of Associate Clinical Attorney General’s Professor of Law after Office in Augusta. It serving as a visiting was attended by 125 lawyers. clinical professor at Maine Law since 2002. A graduate of Bates ■ Edward S. Godfrey Professor of College and Western Law Donald Zillman made a presenta- New England College tion in early May to the International of Law, Professor Burke Bar Association Seminar in Toledo, has practiced law in Spain, on “The Changing Face of Lewiston, Maine, for Regulation in the Energy and Natural more than 20 years. In Resources Sectors.” While there, he also addition to his legal delivered a lecture to the Spanish Energy practice, he has been Club on “Global Trends Toward New intensively involved in and Old Ways of Energy Regulation.” numerous bar, public Professor service, and charitable Zillman’s article, activities through the “Military Veterans years. in Congress” is forthcoming in the Maine Law Review. He recently Reactions to Changes in Energy written with John Gulliver of Pierce wrote “International Regulation” and “Contemporary United Atwood. Both articles will be published Practitioners States Energy Regulation;” the latter by Oxford University Press in March.

Grant Funds Library and Play Area at the Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic A collaborative effort has led to the creation of a library and play area at the Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic (CLAC). As a 1L, Nicole Carbone ’05 submitted an application for a $1,000 family violence prevention grant from The Target Corporation family of giving programs. Last year, the money came through, and CLAC administrative associate Diane Arbour went to work coordinating its use. Cumberland County Sheriff Mark Dion ’05 volunteered inmates from the Cumberland County Jail’s Community Service program to paint a play area for clients’ children; Carbone and CLAC administrative assistant Samantha Philbrick chose children’s books from Borders; and CLAC staff purchased toys, coloring books, comics and other literature geared toward preventing child abuse and domestic violence. Arbour says there is a bit of money left to be spent on the project and says the next step will be ordering display stands for the prevention literature. The Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic represents low-income individuals in a broad range of cases in Cumberland, York, southern Androscoggin and western Sagadahoc counties. At this time, the clinical program offers a General Practice Clinic, which includes a domestic violence and a juvenile defender component, and the Prisoner Assistance Clinic.

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A Passion for Poetry: Alice N. Persons ’86 and Nancy A. Henry ’86

lice N. Persons ’86 and Nancy A. AHenry ’86 have a flair for self-expres- sion. During law school, they worked as singing waitresses at a restaurant in Falmouth and once hosted a literary holi- day party for their classmates during which guests took turns reading passages from A Christmas Carol. Nearly two decades later, Persons and Henry still have the same artistic panache; and these days, they are able to share it with the world—through poetry. In 2003, the two women founded Moon Pie Press, a small Maine press which pub- lishes poetry chapbooks. As of November, the press had 16 titles. Nancy Henry grew up in the South, penning poetry and dedicating herself to her studies. At the young age of 16, she enrolled at St. Andrews Presbyterian College in North Carolina with hopes of becoming a minister. She later made the decision to take the LSAT and to apply to a number of law schools in the Northeast. She planned to visit each one before making a decision. “I got to Portland and never looked anywhere else,” she said. Alice Persons, who also has Southern roots, attended the University of Oregon for both her undergraduate and graduate degrees, previously worked as a high school English teacher in Wisconsin and taught at Harvard, where she took courses in poetry. “The professors taught us how to market Nancy A. Henry ’86 and Alice N. Persons ’86 with the chapbooks published by their poetry press, Moon Pie Press and submit our work,” she said. “I managed to have several of my poems published library.” The two bonded over their “Several years ago, it really dawned on while I was taking the courses.” Southern background and over their love us how many talented poets there are in In 1983, she left Harvard to attend the of poetry. “It was so exciting,” recalls Maine,” said Henry, who has received four University of Maine School of Law. Henry “Alice was the first published poet I Pushcart nominations, an Atlanta Review Although Persons never intended to prac- had ever met.” International Merit Award, and whose tice, she was interested in the knowledge Although the two had poetry in com- poems have appeared in more than 200 that law school would provide. Looking mon, both women found little time to publications worldwide. back, it was not only the education, but the dedicate to their hobby during law Before establishing a press of their people who really mattered. school. It wasn’t until 15 years later that own, Henry and Persons worked with “We had such a wonderfully lively Henry and Persons decided to take their Lillian B. Kennedy ’78 on an anthology class,” says Henry. “I met Alice the very hobby by the horns and give birth to of Maine poetry called A Sense of Place: first day of school at a reception in the Moon Pie Press. Collected Maine Poems, which featured 26

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While they take their work seriously, they feel it’s important to retain a sense of humor, which is apparent from the press motto: Moon Pie Press—where the men are handsome, the women have curves, and ALL the poetry is above average.

Over the past two co-editors and publishers, they also have years, the press has full-time careers. Persons is an account been steadily gaining manager for West Publishing, a part-time recognition, especially business law professor at the University of in Maine. In May, Southern Maine’s School of Business, and a Moon Pie Press dedicated volunteer for the Animal Refuge received national League of Greater Portland. Henry is the attention when four of patient rights liaison at Spring Harbor the press’s poets, Hospital in Westbrook and an adjunct including Persons, had English professor at Southern Maine their work read on Community College. National Public Radio “In the future, it would be great to do by Garrison Keillor, the press full-time,” said Persons. “We’re host of the Writer’s certainly not running out of great work. Almanac. There are so many talented poets out there “On a whim, last who have never had a book.” February, we sent Persons herself has penned two chap- Nancy A. Henry ’86 (left), William Shea ’86, and Alice N. Persons ’86 during their time at Maine Law Garrison Keillor 10 books: Be Careful What You Wish For (Fall chapbooks, wrote a 2003) and Never Say Never (December Maine poets, including poems by all three heartfelt letter about 2004). Henry has five to her credit: Brie Maine Law alumnae. The book was very our small Maine press, and tied it with a Fly, Anything Can Happen, Hard, ErosIon, successful. ribbon from my wedding bouquet,” said and Europe on $5 A Day. “That was when a light went on,” Persons. More information on Moon Pie Press is Persons said. “I thought…we can do this.” “We were so excited to hear him read available online at www.moonpiepress.com. Persons and Henry had gotten to know the poems on-air, but we didn’t realize many Maine poets by attending poetry what the national exposure would mean readings together years earlier. From there, for us,” said Henry. In the weeks that fol- it took time and determination. As with lowed, Moon Pie Press received book most symbiotic business partnerships, both orders from as far away as Hawaii and women give each other credit. Alaska, along with piles of fan mail and “Alice is a real go-getter,” says Henry. poetry submissions. “When an idea is put out there, she finds One of the most exciting letters came out a way to make it happen.” from a professor at Baylor University in Today, there are 11 official “Moon Pie New Jersey. He asked whether Moon Pie Poets.” While they take their work serious- Press would be interested in publishing a ly, they feel it’s important to retain a sense book of Thomas Edison’s poems. of humor, which is apparent from the press “We had no idea Edison was such a motto: “Moon Pie Press—where the men wonderful poet until we read his work,” are handsome, the women have curves, says Henry, also an accomplished collage and ALL the poetry is above average.” artist who is designing the book’s cover. You may be wondering: What is a The Maine Public Broadcasting Moon Pie? It’s a packaged cookie made by Network also took notice after the NPR the Chattanooga Bakery in Tennessee; exposure. The duo was interviewed on both Persons and Henry grew up eating Maine Things Considered. More excitement the sweet treats. They recall, “When we followed; over the summer, the press came to name our press, we liked the released its first anthology. dreaminess and poetic associations of the While Persons and Henry have dedicat- moon and pie.” ed themselves fully to the press, serving as

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Have you recently marked a major milestone? the Criminal Law Advisory Commission Log on to www.mainelawalum.org to post until 2007. Justice Jabar was appointed to a class note of your own and to read the most the Superior Court in 2001. recent notes posted by your classmates. 1972

1964 Class Agent Needed [email protected] Class Agent: Henry N. Berry III 1973 1965 Class Agent: Ellsworth T. Rundlett, III Class Agent: Richard W. Elliot [email protected] Farris Management Gregory Farris is an owner of a Les Otten (left), Gregory Farris ’73, and Governor John 1967 Citation S2 business jet through Farris Baldacci with the Red Sox World Championship trophy. Management. On December 18, 2004, Class Agent Needed Farris’s jet picked up the Red Sox World 1974 [email protected] Series Championship trophy at the Portland International Jetport and flew it, Class Agent Needed Ward I. Graffam has been elected along with team officials, to Presque Isle, [email protected] Chairman of the Maine Maritime Bangor, Augusta, and Lewiston. Farris had Academy Board of Trustees. Graffam oper- the opportunity to meet Les Otten, part Ronald S. Battocchi received a 2004 ates law offices in Portland and Camden, owner of the Red Sox, and had the oppor- Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished specializing in corporate law and strategy. tunity to share this very special occasion Executives. Battocchi has served as general with Gov. John Baldacci. counsel of the National Transportation 1968 In July, Gov. John Baldacci nominated Safety Board since 1999. He plans to retire Keith Powers for reappointment as District at the end of the year. Class Agent Needed Court Judge. Powers lives in Cape Elizabeth. In July, Gov. John Baldacci nominated [email protected] In August, S. Peter Mills III announced Ralph Tucker of Brunswick to the Maine his candidacy for governor of Maine. District Court. Tucker is a partner with 1969 Currently, Mills is serving his sixth legislative McTeague, Higbee, Case, Cohen, Whitney term and also practices law in Skowhegan. & Toker, P.A., of Topsham. Class Agent: Craig H. Nelson [email protected] Hon. John A. Woodcock, Jr. ’76, honored at David Hawkes received a Distinguished 2005 Annual Alumni Dinner Service Award at the University of Hon. John A. Woodcock, Jr. ’76 was honored with the Southern Maine’s 125th Commencement Alumni Association’s 2005 Distinguished Service Award at in May. Hawkes was recognized for his vol- the Annual Dinner held on April 9 at the Portland Country unteer work with the USM Foundation and Club in Falmouth. The award was presented to him by his his “enormous goodwill for the university.” Maine Law classmate Alfred Frawley III ’76, his sister David Q. Whittier is of counsel to the Elizabeth Woodcock ’88 and his former law clerk M. South Paris law firm of Whittier Glynn Katherine Lynch ’02. Martin & Eichorn, P.A. The Alumni Association chose to honor Judge Woodcock, the Federal Judge for the United States District Court for the 1970 District of Maine in Bangor, because he is a dedicated volunteer who has made significant contributions to a wide range of organizations, including the University of Maine Class Agent Needed School of Law. He serves on the School’s Board of Visitors and travels to Maine Law [email protected] often to participate in programs for current students, including 1L orientation. He has served as class agent, and as part of the recent capital campaign, and he established a 1971 scholarship fund in the family name with his siblings, Timothy ’77 and Elizabeth ’88. The Distinguished Service Award is awarded by the Alumni Association Board of Class Agent Needed Directors at the annual dinner to an alumnus/a with a sustained record of accomplish- [email protected] ment. The recipient is chosen for his/her outstanding achievements, exceptional service to the advancement of the Law School, and/or service to the community. Hon. Joseph M. Jabar of Waterville Recommendations for this award may be made by sending an e-mail to has been appointed by the Supreme [email protected] or calling (207) 780-4342. Judicial Court to serve as a consultant of

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1975 sented with the Maine Bar Foundation’s America 2005-06. Epstein is a partner at most prestigious annual award, the Howard McCandless Epstein & O’Donovan L.L.P H. Dana Jr. Award. Schendel was honored in Portland. Class Agent Needed for “her long and unstinting work to In March, Steve Moriarty spoke at a [email protected] increase access to justice for Maine’s low- seminar sponsored by Lorman Education income residents.” Services in Portland, titled “Basic Workers’ 1976 Compensation in Maine.” 1977 Class Agent Needed 1979 [email protected] Class Agent Needed Paul F. Macri of [email protected] Class Agent Needed Auburn has been [email protected] elected to the 1978 American Academy 1980 of Appellate Class Agent: John R. Bass, II Lawyers. Macri is a [email protected] Class Agent: Andrew J. Bernstein partner at the [email protected] Lewiston law firm of Eleanor Baker of Cape Elizabeth, man- Berman & aging principal of the accounting firm of Chief Justice Leigh Saufley received Simmons, P.A. Paul F. Macri Baker Newman Noyes, LLC, has joined the the Caroline Duby Glassman Award at the Sarah Allison Thornton began a new Board of Trustees of the Maine Chapter of Maine State Bar Association’s annual position in March as Clerk of the United the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. meeting in January. The award is presented States District Court in Boston. Eileen M. L. Epstein of Falmouth was each year to a woman who is a member of In January, Mary Schendel was pre- included in the The Best Lawyers in the Maine Bar and has worked to advance

Class of 1980 25th Reunion with high-quality cherry chairs bearing an inscription noting they are a gift from the Class of 1980. Additional funds will be In September, members of the Class of 1980 (shown below directed to the Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic in the name of with several faculty members) gathered for their 25th the three members of the class who have died since graduation: Reunion. Events included a cocktail reception at the home of Sheila Fine ’80, Linda Smith Dyer ’80, and John Mumm ’80. Nancy Ziegler ’80, a brunch at the Law School, and a dinner The gift will be used by the clinic over the next three to five at the Purpoodock Club in Cape Elizabeth. years to enhance their services to low-income families. The In celebration of their reunion, class members are raising a class also decided, due to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, gift of $50,000. The funds will be used to replace the chairs in to designate funds to the legal clinics at Tulane University and the Moot Court room, the Law School’s most public venue, Loyola University law schools in New Orleans.

25 CLASS NEWS women in the profession or the communi- Board of Directors. Belmont is corporate chairman of the Supreme Judicial Court’s ty; or has worked to educate the bench, counsel for MaineHealth in Portland. Advisory Committee on Rules of Evidence. bar, or public on the status of women William B. Cote of Lewiston has been Beneman is a partner with Levenson lawyers; or has been a role model for appointed by the Supreme Judicial Court Vickerson & Beneman in Portland. younger or less experienced women as chairman of the Maine Assistance Timothy Benoit, a shareholder and lawyers. Saufley also received the Neal W. Program for Lawyers. director of Perkins, Thompson, Hinckley & Allen Award for leadership in the public Dan Warren, a partner with Jones & Keddy, P.A., presented at a June seminar in sector from the Portland Regional Warren, PA, in Scarborough, received the Portland titled “Partnerships, LLCs, and Chamber’s board of directors at their 151st 2004 Great Person Award from the LLPs: Organization and Operation in Annual Dinner and Awards in September. Scarborough Leader. He was nominated Maine.” Marilyn Stavros of Kennebunkport for his work with children and the In May, Jonathan Brogan and several of has been nominated to the Maine District Scarborough Youth Sports Forum, an orga- his colleagues presented a seminar at the Court by Gov. John Baldacci. Most recent- nization that he started. Portland Country Club on “Advance Auto ly, Stavros served as a case management Liability.” officer in the District Court. 1984 Richard Mulhern has been elected to Judith Fletcher Woodbury, a partner the board of the Mount Washington at Pierce Atwood LLP, has been ranked Class Agent: Thomas E. Powers Observatory. Mulhern is a partner with the among the best [email protected] New England law firm of Sulloway & Hollis. attorneys in the nation by George F. Eaton II, a partner with 1986 Chambers and Rudman & Winchell in Bangor, has been named one of the “Leaders in their Field” Partners, an inter- Class Agent: James B. Haddow in the 2005 Chambers USA Guide to national research [email protected] firm. She was America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. praised for being a Meris J. Bickford has begun service as “thorough, focused, 1985 president of the Maine State Bar and technical” Association. Bickford is a vice president at Judith Fletcher Woodbury ’80 attorney. Class Agent Needed Merrill Merchants Bank in Bangor. [email protected] James “Allie” McCormack of 1981 Freeport has opened Taylor, McCormack Kenneth P. Altshuler, a partner at & Frame LLC, a law firm on Milk Street Childs, Rundlett, Fifield, Shumway & in Portland. Class Agent: Lawrence J. Mullen Altshuler in Portland, was invited to join Kaighn Smith Jr. published the lead [email protected] the American College of Family Trial article in the latest issue of the New Ritchie Berger, of Shelburne, Vt., has Lawyers. Mexico Law Review, “Federal Courts, State been recommended to be Vermont’s next David Beneman has been elected chair- Power, and Indian Tribes: Confronting the U.S. Attorney. Since 1982, Berger has man of the Scarborough Board of Well-Pleaded Complaint Rule,” New been with the law firm of Dinse, Knapp & Education. He also has been appointed Mexico Law Review vol. 35, no. 1 (2005). McAndrew, P.C., in Burlington.

1982

Class Agent: Jeffrey Jones [email protected]

1983

Class Agent: Heidi Osborn [email protected] Elisabeth Belmont has been named 2005-06 president-elect- designate/ treasurer of the American Health Lawyers Association’s Class of 1985 Faye Luppi ’85 (left), Valerie Stanfill ’85, and James Hunt ’85 at the Alumni Association’s annual dinner Elisabeth Belmont ’83 26 CLASS NEWS

Alumni/ae 1987 Reconnect (l to r, back) Robert Class Agent Needed E. P. Jones ’91, [email protected] Russell B. Pierce, Jr. ’91, (front) Robert Elting H. Smith has been elected to A. Ruesch ’90, the Board of Directors of Community Joyce Leary Clark ’90, Stephen V. Counseling of Maine Inc. Smith, assistant Richardson ’91, Lisa general counsel for Hannaford Bros., lives Pierce, Dennis in Cumberland. O’Donovan ’91, Anne O’Donovan ’91, John Quigley 1988 (visiting student, 1988-89), and Class Agent: Ryan S. Stinneford Robert C. Brooks [email protected] ’91. Alice E. Knapp celebrated the third anniversary of her solo practice on May 1. In addition to her health law specialty, she Buchanan worked as an MCLU intern and Elizabeth Eddy Griffin has been elect- has become a general practitioner. Also, continued her work through graduation, ed treasurer of the Maine Law Alumni Knapp is in her sixth year as a town select- later serving on the Association’s Board of Directors. Griffin man in Richmond board of directors. practices at the Portland law firm of Pierce and currently She is also a long- Atwood LLP. chairs the board. time member of the Douglas Gross and Melissa Martin of Timothy H. MCLU’s legal Lebanon, N.H. are busy looking after their Norton has been panel. Buchanan is two young boys, Coleman (4) and elected president a partner in the William (2). of the Maine Law Portland law firm of Jeffrey Russell, who lives in Hampden, Alumni Warren, Currier & wrote in May: “Spring of 2005 finds me Association Board Buchanan. Brenda Buchanan ’90 busy parenting two rapidly growing chil- of Directors. Julia Finn is now managing the Maine Tim Norton ’88 dren, COO for a start-up aerospace mili- State Bar Association’s High School Mock tary contracting company, aviation devel- 1989 Trial Program. opment consultant and founder of an outdoor adventure flying company. Never a Class Agent: Michael K. Martin 1991 dull moment!” [email protected] Lynne Skeirik and Jim Patnode left the U.S. Embassy in Lima, Peru, in July. Michael K. Martin has been elected Class Agent: Anne E. O’Donovan Skeirik was called back to Washington vice president and 2005-06 Annual Fund [email protected] unexpectedly to serve in the Department Campaign Chair of the Maine Law Kenneth D. Keating joined the of State as the special assistant to the Alumni Association Board of Directors. Roberts & Shirley Law Office in assistant secretary for consular affairs, Congressman Tom Allen (D-ME) has Springvale as an associate in February. Ambassador Maura Harty. Skeirik was appointed Peter J. Wiley as his chief of John Quigley visited Portland and serving in Peru as visa chief and deputy staff. Wiley assumed the post in mid- some of his friends from Maine Law in consul general. Before Peru, Skerick and March after serving as director of manage- August. He is senior lecturer in law and Patnode had served for three years at the ment consulting for the National taxation at the Limerick Institute of U.S. Embassy in Paris, France. Governors Association since 2000. Technology in Limerick, Ireland. Quigley also practices as a taxation consultant. 1993 1990 1992 Class Agent: Walter F. McKee Class Agent: M. Thomasine Burke [email protected] [email protected] Class Agent: Thomas G. Diebold Debra Brown has opened her own law In May, Brenda Buchanan received the [email protected] practice in downtown Portland, where she Maine Civil Liberties Union’s Annual Thomas G. Diebold of Cape Elizabeth focuses on construction law. Justice Louis Scolnik Award, which is has been elected to serve on the Maine Marsha Osgood Connors and Joseph given to an attorney in Maine for “out- Law Alumni Association’s Board of Connors ’97 announce the birth of their standing contribution to civil rights and Directors, on which he is co-chairing the second child, Anna Osgood Connors, on civil liberties advocacy every day for the Communications Committee. May 10. The couple lives in Naples, Fla. rights of Mainers.” Before law school,

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In May, Tom Marjerison and several time to raising awareness and funding for has been named a shareholder of of his colleagues presented a seminar at the neuroblastoma through the Friends for Life Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson. Portland Country Club on “Advance Auto foundation. For more information, see Schneider is a member of the health law, Liability.” www.jackramsden.com. employment law, and education law practice groups and specializes in ERISA, 1994 1995 health care, employment, education, and criminal law litigation. Class Agent: Carlos A. Diaz Class Agent: Michael D. Traister Kimberlie Sweet is an associate at the [email protected] [email protected] Law Offices of Kathleen Ann Foley where she practices civil litigation, focusing in Lisa Fitzgibbon Bendetson and Eric the area of family law. She and her hus- Bendetson celebrated the birth of their 1996 band, Jamie, have a 2-year-old daughter, son, Adam Daniel Bendetson, in Taylor, and an 8-month-old son, Connor. September 2004 and enjoyed their first Class Agents: Michael R. Bosse They live in Concord, Massachusetts. year as parents. Fitzgibbon Bendetson is a [email protected] staff attorney at Thompson & Bowie, LLP, Daniel J. Mitchell 1997 and Bendetson is a program director for [email protected] Spurwink. They live in Scarborough. Ron Schneider Class Agent: Kurt W. Adams As of July, Tina Farrenkopf and her [email protected] [email protected] partner, Paul Watkins, were anxiously Michael R. Bosse of Portland has awaiting the arrival of their adopted baby, been named a shareholder of Bernstein, Kurt Adams of Yarmouth is the new Tessa Allison, born April 7 in Guatemala. Shur, Sawyer & Nelson. Bosse is a mem- chairman of Maine’s Public Utilities Farrenkopf serves as the Associate Director ber of the firm’s practice groups in con- Committee. He formerly served as chief of the National Tribal Justice Resource struction law, health law, agency and counsel to Governor John Baldacci. Center in Boulder, Colorado. health licensure, and litigation. He also Christopher Bond has joined the full- J.T. Mann has moved from New Jersey has been elected to serve on the Maine time faculty at St. Joseph’s College in to Massachusetts where he is now a part- Law Alumni Association’s Board of Standish, as an assistant professor of busi- ner at Rubin & Mann P.C. in Boston. Directors, on which he is co-chairing the ness administration. Mann leads the firm’s business immigra- communications committee. Michael A. Fagone of Saco has been tion practice group. Rachel Bouchard is co-chairing the named a shareholder of Bernstein, Shur, Linda (Rossignol) Ramsden and her Alumni-Student Relations Committee of Sawyer & Nelson. Fagone is a member of husband, Matt, welcomed their fourth the Alumni Association’s Board of the firm’s bankruptcy and insolvency prac- child, Lucy Brynne, on March 8. Ramsden Directors. Bouchard works for Douglas tice group. had been working as an appellate attorney Title Company in Yarmouth. Jaime D. Jackson has been named a for the Committee for Public Counsel Melissa Reynolds O’Dea and her hus- partner with Atlee, Hall & Brookhart LLP Services in Boston but is currently on band, John, welcomed their first child, in Lancaster, PA. He also has been select- leave since her son was diagnosed with Clare Jacqueline, on April 10. ed by Philadelphia magazine as one of neuroblastoma, a rare childhood cancer, in Ronald W. Schneider, Jr., of Wells Pennsylvania’s Super Lawyers Rising Stars. March of ’04. Ramsden now dedicates her David Levesque has been elected president of the University of Southern Maine Alumni Association. Levesque is in private practice in Newcastle.

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Class Agents: Darcie N. McElwee [email protected] Andrew R. Sarapas [email protected] In May, Aaron Baltes and several of his colleagues presented a seminar at the Portland Country Club on “Advance Auto Liability.” Janet Vivar Britton has been elected Secretary of the Maine Law Alumni Class of 1995 Association Board of Directors. Britton is (l to r) Christopher Goss ’95, Christopher Mulligan ’95, Julie Linnell ’95, Christine Thibeault ’95, William Stiles ’95, corporate counsel for Hannaford Bros. in Trevor Hughes ’95 and William Norbert ’95 at the Alumni Association’s Annual Dinner Scarborough.

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1999 Gregg Frame of South Portland has Heather Seasonwein (Walker) was opened Taylor, McCormack & Frame LLC, married to Corey Walker on July 22 at the a law firm on Milk Street in Portland. York Harbor Reading Room. Seasonwein Class Agent: John Shumadine John Turcotte writes: “I have accept- Walker, who co-chairs the Alumni- [email protected] ed a position with Ainsworth, Thelin, Student Relations Committee of the Chamberlain, & Raftice, P.A, of South Alumni Association Board of Directors, is Timothy Boulette has been elected to Portland. I will continue my practice in an associate with Laskoff & Associates in the Board of Directors for the Jewish the areas of civil litigation, real estate Lewiston. Community Alliance of Southern Maine transactions, zoning, and family law.” and to the Board of Directors for Turcotte was married on September 17 to Congregation Bet Ha’am in South 2002 Anna N. Astvatsaturova ’03. Portland. Boulette is an associate with the Portland law firm of Murray, Plumb & Class Agents: Karla Black Murray. 2001 [email protected] Merritt T. Carey has launched an M. Katherine Lynch employment law service for Maine busi- Class Agent: Chadwick Weber [email protected] [email protected] nesses called GraffamSolutions. Carey for- Elizabeth Bancroft writes: “After clerk- merly served as in-house counsel for Matthew J. McDonald is now branch ing in Warren County, New Jersey, for UnumProvident Corporation. manager/counsel for LandAmerica Judge John H. Pursel, J.S.C. ’70, I moved Sarah L. Glynn is the managing part- Cumberland Title in Portland. to ‘south Jersey’ to practice municipal and ner of Whittier Glynn Martin & Eichorn, Yoel Molina was married to Dorothy redevelopment law for a mid-size firm, P.A., in South Paris. Anthony on July 2 in New Gloucester, Parker, McCay & Criscuolo, P.A.” Donna L. Martin is a partner with Maine. Molina owns a law practice in Gregory J. Domareki has joined the Whittier Glynn Martin & Eichorn, P.A., Miami, Fla. law firm of Verrill in South Paris. Robert Ranco writes: “I’ve been at Dana, LLP as an In May, John Veilleux and several of Smith & Carlson for almost four years, but associate in the his colleagues presented a seminar at the I’ve recently accepted a job at Rosenthal estate planning and Portland Country Club on “Advance Auto & Watson, a small personal injury bou- estate administra- Liability.” tique here in Austin (Texas). I’ll still be tion group. Prior to doing PI litigation—which is what I’ve joining the 2000 focused on at my prior job.” Portland firm, Kevan Lee Rinehart, an attorney at Domareki was Class Agents: Jennifer Archer Perkins Olson in Portland, has been voted employed as a tax [email protected] president-elect of Well Suited, an indepen- associate by Gregory J. Domareki Karen L. Wright dent not-for-profit organization that pro- Pricewaterhouse-Coopers, LLP, in New [email protected] vides business attire to low-income women. York, where he represented domestic and multinational public and private companies in tax consultation matters. Shaun Gehan writes: “I recently moved my practice, along with a senior partner and an of counsel, to a new firm, Collier Shannon Scott (CSS), also here in Washington, D.C. We brought our regulatory, fisheries, campaign finance, and white collar crime practices to this 100-or-so attorney firm. CSS represents a number of trade associations and specializes in international trade, government relations, advertising, anti-trust, and environmental law.” Following the conclusion of her clerkship with the Hon. John A. Woodcock, Jr. ’76, M. Katherine Lynch joined the employment and law department of Eaton Peabody in Bangor. Lynch focuses her practice on the representation of employ- ers in the private and public sectors, cover- ing a wide range of employment matters, A number of Maine Law alumni/ae were in attendance as Heather Seasonwein Walker ’01 (fourth from right, at back) celebrated her wedding day. including employment-based litigation.

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2003 member of the Maine Board of Bangor. He is focusing on civil litigation Environmental Protection. and trial work. Fethke also was appointed Peter C. Felmly, an associate at to the Searsport Board of Appeals in Class Agents: Wendy Moulton Starkey Drummond Woodsum & MacMahon in August. [email protected] Portland, has been named president-elect Zachary I. Greenfield of South Natasha Woodland of the Maine State Bar Association’s Young Portland has joined the Portland law firm [email protected] Lawyers Section. of Monaghan Leahy, LLP, as an associate. In July, Alec Altman married the for- The Kip Tiernan Education and Social He focuses his practice on civil litigation, mer Katie Maloney. The couple resides in Justice Fellowship Committee has selected and corporate, probate, and municipal Cape Elizabeth. Altman is owner of Bingas, Carrie Leighton as the next Kip Tiernan law. a Portland restaurant and catering service. Fellow. For the next year, she will be devel- Katherine Knox has been elected to Anna Astvatsaturova married John oping new pro bono resources to assist serve on the Board of Directors of the Turcotte ’00 on September 17. homeless women and their families in York Maine Law Alumni Association. Knox Astvatsaturova works for Friedman County. Leighton previously served as a works in the municipal and governmental Gaythwaite Wolf & Leavitt in Portland. Coffin Fellow at Pine Tree Legal services practice group at Bernstein, Shur, Michael Theodore Bigos has been Assistance. Sawyer & Nelson in Portland, and recent- appointed to the Maine Commission on In May, Jennifer Rush and several col- ly, she has been appointed to the Portland Governmental Ethics and Election leagues presented a seminar at the Portland Board of Appeals. Practices by Gov. John Baldacci. Bigos is a Country Club on “Advance Auto Letha Sgritta has left a practice in trial lawyer with Berman & Simmons in Liability.” North Carolina to join the law firm of Lewiston. Oast & Hook, P.C., in Virginia. Christina B. Connors has accepted a 2004 position as an associate at the Winthrop, 2005 Maine law firm of Levey & Wagley P.A. Class Agents: Katherine R. Knox Her practice areas are elder law, estate [email protected] Class Agents: Seth Goodall planning, family law, animal protection, Laura K. Welles [email protected] and general practice. [email protected] Devens Hamlen, Denis Culley of Mercer was nominated [email protected] by Gov. John Baldacci for appointment as a Aaron Fethke has joined the law firm of Gross, Minsky, and Mogul, P.A., in

In Memoriam

Caroline J. Gardiner ’89 died May 18, 2005. Curtis Bourdon ’71, a well-respected Woodstock, Vermont attorney, died suddenly on June 9, 2005 He was 58. She was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) in 2001, afterward becoming a tireless activist for ALS research and After graduating from Maine Law, Mr. Bourdon moved to patient services. A resident of Raymond, Ms. Gardiner Woodstock, a town where he had roots spanning five genera- practiced law in Portland. She was admitted to the Maine Bar tions, to begin a law practice with his father. in 1989, to practice before the U.S. District Court in 1990, He was a member of the Vermont Bar Association; an active and before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1996. member of the Woodstock Rotary Club, where he was a past Ms. Gardiner was recognized by the Maine Bar Foundation in president; and the attorney for the Woodstock Union High 1992, 1993, and 1994 for her outstanding volunteer service. School board. In 2002, she was honored by the Maine Association of Friends described Mr. Bourdon as a dedicated community Criminal Defense Lawyers for her many years of distinguished leader who had a strong commitment to his clients; he also legal advocacy on behalf of Maine’s children, families, and was known as a family man who always made time for his wife accused. The following year, Ms. Gardiner received the and children. Annual Family Law Achievement Award from the Family Law Section of the Maine State Bar Association. She was a member of the Cumberland County Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and Resources for Divorcing Families. Ms. Gardiner is survived by her husband and two daughters.

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Lewiston-Auburn Reception On May 19, alumni/ae in the Lewiston-Auburn area met for a luncheon at DaVinci’s Eatery. (l to r) Paul Macri ’76, John Sedgewick ’77, Dean Colleen A. Khoury, Ronald Bissonnette ’81, Elliott Epstein ’78, Daniel D’Auteuil, Jr. ’93, Patricia Weidler ’02, Valerie Stanfill ’85, Michael Bigos ’03, and Kimberly Levesque ’03

27th Annual Road Race Students captured the spotlight at this year’s 27th Boston Reception Annual Law School Road Race, which was held on a A well-attended dinner was held for beautiful afternoon in late September. Lynne Davies Boston, Mass. area ’08 and Michael Kress ’07 (pictured above) took first alumni/ae on place in the overall Women’s and Men’s Divisions. May 11 at Maggiano’s Kress finished the four mile race in 23 minutes and 9 Little Italy. seconds; Davies finished in 27 minutes and 20 seconds. (Above, l to r) Joseph W. Corrigan ’00, Gerald The team competition too was dominated by stu- S. McAuliffe ’71, and dents. Team “What WHAT” took home top honors. Jay F. Theise ’70. (Right, l to r) Sarah E. Members were: Michael Kress ’07, Andrew Jessen Ashby ’02 and Sarah ’07, Rebecca St. Laurent ‘06, and Stepheney Collins. Allison Thornton ’76 Thanks to underwriter Barbri and to the many local law firms who sponsored the event. The race netted $1000 for student scholarships. Already, plans are underway for the School’s 28th Annual Road Race. Interested in volunteering? Contact [email protected].

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Portsmouth Reception On April 26, alumni/ae from the Portsmouth, N.H. area gathered for an evening reception at the The One Hundred Club. (Left, l to r) Valerie Lovely ’03, Former Dean Colleen Khoury, and Valerie Strauchs ’03 (Above, l to r) Michael Quinn ’88 and Andrew Share ’01

D.C. Reception On June 8, dozens of alums gathered at the Law Offices of Clifford Chance in Washington, D.C., courtesy of David Evans ’78, for an alumni/ae reception. (Below, l to r) David Beam ’01, Scot Draeger ’99, and Michelle Giard ’99 (Right, l to r) Paul Crowley’02, Amanda O’Neil ’02, John Bean ’03, and Shaun Gehan ’02

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32 FROM THE PRESIDENT

Maine Law, the magazine of the University imes of Alumni Office to communicate with alum- of Maine Law Alumni Association, is pub- Ttransition ni/ae and for alumni/ae to communicate lished twice a year. Issues are scheduled for can be both with each other. If you haven’t already the fall and spring. Please send items of trying and logged on to the Web site, I encourage you interest to Allison Leslie Bowman, Maine exciting. to visit. This year, new Communications Law Alumni Office, 246 Deering Ave., They are a Committee co-chairs Tom Diebold ’92 Portland, ME 04102, or e-mail items to chance to and Mike Bosse ’96 have signed on (pun [email protected]. Additional review the intended) to take the Web site to the next Law School and alumni/ae news can past and an level. I know that both Tom and Mike be found at www.mainelawalum.org. opportunity would welcome your comments regarding to look to your experiences with the Web site. ______the future. In the coming year, the Alumni With the Association is also hoping to strengthen We would like to extend our appreciation end of Dean Khoury’s tenure as dean of the and expand its mentoring program. to the many people who contributed to this Law School and the arrival of Dean Although this program has had mixed suc- issue of Maine Law. Pitegoff, the Alumni Association and the cess in the past, it provides a truly unique entire Law School community face such a avenue for alumni/ae to interact with and • Amy Barnes and Leigh Raposo in the transition. The past year ended with Dean provide immediate benefits to students USM Marketing and Brand Management Khoury attending her final Alumni while receiving great rewards in return. Office. They supervised the production Association Board meeting, leading us to Our Student-Alumni Relations Committee and graphic design of the magazine. remember the enormous contributions she co-chairs Rachel Bouchard ’96 and has made to the faculty, students, and per- Heather Seasonwein Walker ’01 will be • Allison Leslie Bowman who oversaw the haps most notably, the alumni/ae of this working on this program and will be look- publication and wrote and edited much school. Her efforts led to record turnouts at ing for interested alumni/ae who want to of the material. alumni/ae events and a success in the capi- participate. Please contact Rachel, • Other staff at the Law School for their tal campaign exceeding all expectations. Heather, or the Alumni Office for more editorial and proofreading assistance. She will be greatly missed, but we take details. comfort from the recognition that she will These activities will be undertaken ______soon return to teaching. hand in hand with the continuation of our While change can sometimes be diffi- traditional activities, such as sponsoring cult, in this case I am confident that the alumni/ae events and undertaking fundrais- To Maine Law Alumni/ae and future of our Law School is full of promise. ing to support scholarships and other criti- Friends of Maine Law From my first meeting with Dean Pitegoff, cal programs. I am sure it will come as no Thank you for your feedback and sugges- I have been greatly impressed by his conta- surprise to any of you that, in this bud- tions concerning this publication. Our goal gious energy and excitement. In just these getary climate, the scholarships offered is to capture all that is special and unique few months, Dean Pitegoff has demonstrat- through the Alumni Association have an about the Law School, the faculty, the ed a commitment to build on the many ever-increasing importance to the students students, and alumni/ae. You can help strengths of the Law School while simulta- who receive them. In addition, the scholar- through your letters and e-mails. We hope neously searching for areas where the ships serve to support recruiting efforts to to hear from you, and when appropriate, we school can grow and excel. It is the goal of help the Law School compete with other want to share with our readers your success- the Alumni Association Board of Directors schools. This year’s Annual Fund will be es and celebrations. Please write or send an to work side by side with Dean Pitegoff to led by Board Vice President and Campaign e-mail to us. achieve these objectives, to seize upon this chair Mike Martin ’89. Alumni/ae have time of transition, and to reevaluate our always been generous in their support of John C. Gundersdorf own mission. the Annual Fund, and we hope you will Director of Alumni Relations Without a doubt, the most exciting continue your support of this very impor- University of Maine School of Law opportunity for the Alumni Association is tant effort. 246 Deering Avenue our new Web site (which you can visit at It is my hope that this will be a year of Portland, Maine 04102 www.mainelawalum.org). Last year’s positive transition. On behalf of the Communications Committee chair Fred Alumni Association Board of Directors, I Phone: (207) 780-4342 Frawley ’76 did an outstanding job of would like to thank you for all you have E-mail: [email protected] researching and bringing the new Web site done and all you will do for the Alumni online. Not only does the Web site allow Association this year, and I look forward to our alumni/ae an easier means of keeping hearing from you. up-to-date with developments at the Law School, but it provides an invaluable tool —Tim Norton ’88 for the Alumni Association and the 2006 Calendar of Events January 18 Law Alumni Association Board of Directors Meeting 19 University of Maine School of Law Foundation Board Meeting March 29 Annual Scholarship Reception 29 Law Alumni Association Board of Directors Meeting April 8 Law Alumni Association Annual Dinner May 17 Law Alumni Association Board of Directors Annual Meeting 27 Law School Graduation

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