THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RECORD College of Law Alumni Association • Spring 1998

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1 From the Dean A good reputation is more valuable than money.

2 Creating a Wind of Change Law grad is a breath of fresh air at Central State.

4 Privacy Showdown: The Coming Battle Over the European Union’s Data Protection Directive U.S. privacy policies clash with European regulation.

7 Faculty News Our faculty excell in their professional and personal lives.

11 Law Firm Returns Favor With Campaign Gift Affirm thy Friendship Campaign exceeds $11 million. Law grad leads revival, see page 2. 12 Student Research Aids Legal Services Aspiring lawyers hone their skills while helping others. College of Law Administration Gregory H. Williams 13 Student News Dean Journal on Dispute Resolution earns award. College of Law Alumni Association Officers Carl D. Smallwood ’80 14 Alumni News President What’s new with classmates, far and wide. Elizabeth J. Watters ’90 President-Elect 20 College of Law 1998 Alumni Awards Call for Nominations National Council Officers Recognize a fellow graduate for outstanding service. Benjamin Zox ’62 Chair 21 In Memoriam Joylynn Berry Butler ’76 Vice-Chair Our sympathy goes to family and friends. Pamela H. Lombardi Secretary 23 How Much Do You Know About the College of Law? Send address changes and alumni news to: Test yourself with Professor Whaley’s annual trivia contest. The Law Record OSU College of Law John Deaver Drinko Hall 55 West 12th Avenue Columbus, OH 43210-1391 Phone: (614) 292-2631 FAX: (614) 292-1383 e-mail: [email protected] The Law Record is published for the alumni and friends of The Ohio State University College of Law Editor: Liz Cutler Gates Design: Jane Hoffelt/Pageworks ©1998, College of Law, The Ohio State University Cover Photo: William P Cannon

The faculty family expands, see page 8. From the Dean.

Dear Friends, Anita DiPasquale (see pages 9 The U.S. News and World Report annual rankings of law schools and 10), to work in that area. were released in February. It is a listing that has bittersweet • stepped up placement ramifications — we, the administration and faculty of the efforts for third-year College, know the high quality of our programs are not always students (and alumni) reflected in the numbers, yet the rankings impact the school in through the hiring of Amee many areas, from admissions to fund raising to placement. We McKim ’94 as Placement hate to admit it, but our position in lists like U.S. News, the Director and the creation of Princeton Review, and the Bremen Report are worth notice. a new position for a part- “Why?” you ask. “Aren’t all such rankings arbitrary? Isn’t it a time assistant director. Dean Gregory H. Williams talks with • been a finalist for the matter of the opinion of a few select people? Don’t rankings change students in the lounge. dramatically depending upon the criteria and methods used?” Teaching Excellence Award, You’re right. This year, we ranked 42nd in the U.S. News tally which is presented annually by The Ohio State University to of the nearly 200 law schools in the U.S., up from 48th the two academic units (out of 99) who exhibit outstanding previous year. The Bremen Report has placed us 8th among the instruction in the classroom. nation’s law schools, while the Princeton Review consistently lists • increased our commitment to research through sponsoring a Ohio State as one of the finest public law schools in the country. symposium on “The Future of Bakke: Socio-Legal Perspectives We recognize that you, as a graduate, have concerns about on Affirmative Action in Education” (see page 24). where your alma mater is ranked. The perception of the school There is still much to be done. The lack of funding continues that granted you a degree may directly impact how you and your to draw us down. From 1995 to 1996, the faculty resources work are viewed. In the words of the ancient writer, Publius ranking dropped from 67th to 116th. In 1997, it was at 117. Syrus, “A good reputation is more valuable than money.” It is ranked at 78 this year, reversed in part as a result of the We pay attention to reputation. In the past months, we have Affirm Thy Friendship fundraising campaign. I continue to worked hard to protect our good name, thus preserving yours. We lobby central administration and the Ohio Board of Regents to examined the raw data. We have worked to strengthen the College. secure adequate funding. Along with Dr. Richard Sisson, Ohio State senior vice We consistently promote scholarly research through regular president for academic affairs and provost, we invited a team faculty workshops. Two endowed lecture series bring renowned of independent legal education professionals to visit Drinko Hall scholars to campus each year to increase the flow of intellectual last spring. They sat in our classes, talked with our students and ideas and stimulate debate (see pages 7 and 22). staff members, and roamed the recesses of the law library. This While it is good news that we improved our position in the visit was in addition to a profitable year-long self study required rankings, I remain opposed to attempts to quantify the by the American Bar Association for re-accreditation. Both opportunities offered by law schools. In late February, the allowed us to see the truth behind the ratings. Association of American Law Schools held a press conference The findings were not surprising. In their final report to calling upon U.S. News and World Report to stop publishing its Dr. Sisson, the legal educators praised OSU as a leading public annual rankings. The Law School Admission Council has law school with a faculty who have a firm commitment to distributed a letter to 93,000 law school applicants called “Law teaching. They noted a fine physical facility with a strong library School Rankings May be Hazardous to Your Health.” This letter that supports faculty and student needs quite well. But they also has been endorsed by the deans of 164 of the 180 law schools madp recommendations to further improve an already-healthy approved by the American Bar Association. school, suggestions we have already begun to implement. In the I am proud to have been involved in both of these efforts, and I urge you to recognize that no rankings system can past months, we have: • reinforced our commitment to teaching through the hiring accurately evaluate the unique characteristics of law schools. of Professor Ruth Colker to fill the newly-created Grace Heck When it’s all said and done, how we rank in U.S. News, the Faust Memorial Chair in Constitutional Law. A nationally- Princeton Review, or any other list is a moot point. What is known scholar, Professor Colker was highly sought after by important is how you and the other 7,500 graduates of the numerous law schools in the nation. College take the tools you’ve gained here and utilize them to • strengthened the faculty in the area of alternative dispute make the world a better place. resolution through the hiring of two new faculty members who will arrive on campus in the fall of 1998. Professors Josh Stulberg and Sara Rudolph Cole could position the College to become one of two top ADR programs in the country. Our program is already ranked fourth in the nation by U.S. News. Gregory H. Williams • initiated and staffed a children’s legal clinic. We have welcomed Dean a new director, Professor Kate Federle, and a new staff attorney, 1 OF CHANGE Q M u d

College of Law graduate brings fresh air to Central State University.

BY LIZ CUTLER GATES

t is a blustery afternoon at I not be easy, but it is a challenge Central State University in that he is meeting head on. Wilberforce, Ohio. University “The defining moment president John Garland strolls in most people’s lives has been across campus. He has been the joining of a community called upon to right a sinking ship, of scholars and learning,” and it’s as if the strong breezes Garland says. “The historically are winds of change, sweeping black colleges and universities out years of financial and have been that defining moment administrative mismanagement for tens of thousands of African- that have nearly destroyed the Americans in this country. southwestern Ohio school. When I saw an institution like Garland, a 1971 graduate Central State on the verge of not of Central State with a J.D. degree being able to continue with its from The Ohio State University 110-year mission of turning out College of Law (1974), is indeed leaders, not being able to grant a breath of fresh air to a that defining moment, I felt if problem-plagued institution. I could do something, then I Last summer, Central State was would do it.” on the verge of closing until the Media reports had painted ' Ohio legislature stepped in with a bleak situation on the Greene additional funding. Now it is County campus. When Garland operating on a stripped-down visited during Homecoming budget of $24 million, a reduced in 1996, he expected “a dusty faculty, buildings undergoing mudhole with buildings leaning long-delayed maintenance, and on one another.” Instead, he 23 state-imposed conditions for found the beautiful campus staying open. he remembered from his (Ed. note:At the end of February, John Garland college days. the Ohio Office of Budget and “It’s green: It, sits in the middle Management returned financial control to The New York native is not daunted of the rolling portion of Ohio and it is school officials. The work of state analysts, by the task. He led men into combat in truly an oasis,” he says. “That doesn’t hide who had been traveling daily to the Wilberforce Vietnam. He developed legal services some of the internal problems in some of campus since September, had been phased programs for low-income persons. He these buildings, but the campus looks like out and university officials shouldered dealt with financial cuts at another a university campus.” greater financial responsibility, according to historically black state university. Leading His renewed relationship with the published reports.) Central State back to its “glory days” will university began last summer as he “mentored” the newly-appointed chairman calculated plan to acquire the necessary of the Central State Board of Trustees, academic management experience. former law classmate Fred Ransier ’74, “I went to the University of Virginia in through the maize of higher education cWtts 1991 as associate general counsel,” he administration and the search for a new recalls. “I took a step down from general chief executive officer. Garland was counsel (at the University of the District Associate Vice Provost for Intellectual ks law school of Columbia). I did it consciously. There Property at the prestigious University of are times in our careers when you have Virginia in Charlottesville. t f i a i h i n g ¡ok k e e p i n g to take a step back to get forward,” It was familiar ground. Ransier and he adds. Garland have known each other for more His work at the prestigious southern than 30 years, meeting first as develop university did not go without notice. undergraduates at Central State. Within a few years, he was the executive “John is a few years older,” recalls ks Meks assistant to the president, and he Ransier, now an attorney in private focused on gaining the experience that practice in Columbus. “He had been would someday put him in the chief a mentor to me and a number of our abilities. executive’s position. By the time he friends,” he adds. “His experience as resigned to accept the Central State job, a Vietnam veteran brought a different he was associate vice provost for perspective.” intellectual property. Now Ransier was seeking Garland’s started to form partnerships with the Apart from the job, his “pride and advice as a seasoned administrator in city of Xenia, just four miles to the west joy” is his family. He met his wife, higher education. “We were not thrilled of the campus. “Community relationships Carolyn Farrow Garland, while both were with the quality of candidates,” admits have been strained for many years,” students at Central State, but the two Ransier of the search for a new leader at says Ransier. didn’t develop a serious relationship until Central State. During one phone call, Garland has been described as they became reaquainted while he was Ransier asked if Garland might be straightforward, decisive and versatile, in law school. They married in 1975. interested in the position. He was. with a sense of humor and of perspective. Ms. Garland works for a foundation that “1 heard from a number of people — A problem-solver and consensus-builder, provides technical assistance and seed ‘why did you hold this candidate back?”’ he remains clearly in charge while giving money grants to women-directed recalls Ransier. “He is a graduate of fellow employees a sense of being part of community housing. Their two children, Central State. He tells an excellent story of the process. Amy, 21, and Jabari, 19, are both the type of student at Central State, and He credits his law school training for students at the University of Virginia. □ he is at one of the finest public helping develop his leadership abilities. universities in the country!” “When I was in college, I was fairly right- Garland had not been among the early brained,” he says. “I really liked poetry candidates reviewed for the position. But and music, although I was a political his late appearance in the running has not thinker,” he notes. diminished the trustees’ confidence that “My legal training disciplined me to he can carry out the task. think in terms of patterns and that “This is not your typical job,” stresses everything should have a rational basis,” Ransier. “This is going to take a very he stresses. “I also think law requires one special person to pull it off,” he adds, to be decisive,” he says. “That was one noting there are staff and student morale of the things the board of trustees (at issues at the university in addition to Central State) was looking at, someone financial problems. who could be decisive.” Garland has exceeded expectations, It’s a long way from the boy who grew according to Ransier. “He has recruited a up on the streets of Harlem, dropped out sound team of administrators, all of whom of high school to enlist in the military, have enjoyed successful careers in other and later obtained a GED so he could universities,” he notes. The new president enroll in college. And while Garland’s Law classmates Fred Ransier and John has opened once-troublesome doors of career path has been varied, his position Garland are leading Central State University communication with the faculty and at Central State is the result of a bach to good health. 3 P R I V A I T

SHOWDOWN:

WK M Then can other people lawfully find. that facilitate desirable commerce while ■ W out about your personal secrets? In protecting individual privacy. One way to BY PETEK SW IRE W W the United States, there is a long ensure privacy is through improved technology. tradition — dating back to the Fourth Professor Peter Swire’s article, The Uses and ^■ ^ |h e United States and the rest Amendment’s prohibitions on unreasonable Limits of Financial Cryptography: A Law of the world are in the midst of searches and seizures — against government Professor’s Perspective, discusses how a revolution in information intrusion into an individual's privacy. Federal cryptography will be essential to assuring processing and communication. Much agencies today are bound by fairly strict rules security in electronic commerce. Cryptography, about this revolution is welcome: laid down by the Privacy Act of 1974. As for however, will often not do a good job of ensuring personal computers more powerful invasions of privacy by the private sector, there privacy, because the buyer will usually agree to than mainframes of a generation ago; is a growing but confusing tangle of statutes and reveal important information (name, shipping virtually instantaneous communication- common-law remedies. A century ago, a address, credit history, etc.) in the course of the of voice and data around the world; pathbreaking article by Brandeis and Warren transaction. If technology supplies only limited and a steadily expanding universe of called for torts remedies where the press and privacy protection, then we must look to a information available over the Internet. other private parties failed to “leave persons combination of market incentives and law. Nonetheless, at least one aspect of the done.” In recent years, statutes have sprouted In Markets, Self-Regulation, and Legal computer revolution has generated at the state and national level. For instance, Enforcement in the Protection of Personal significant concern: the potential after reporters searched fudge Bork’s history Information, Professor Swire analyzes the threat to individual privacy. With the of video rentals during his contentious strengths and weaknesses of each approach, and dramatic reductions in the cost of confirmation fight, Congress passed a statute sets forth a series of empirical criteria for when processing and access to information, barring release of such records. Other statutes each should be favored. (These articles, and it is easier than ever to track down other govern diverse areas such as credit histories, many of Professor Swire’s other writings, individuals and learn many things about cable television service, health records, and appear at www.osu.edu/unitsAaw/swire.htm.) them — where they are, what they buy, interception of electronic mail. The privacy challenge, moreover, extends what sites they visit on the Web, and The issue of privacy has gained new far beyond the United States. As discussed much more. prominence in the Internet world, as fears grow below, the European Union is promulgating Mounting concerns about privacy' in that each transaction by an individual might be privacy laws that are substantially stricter than the information age have generated an recorded and then sold to a large and unknown those now existing in the United States. international controversy about the best number of parties. More generally, advances in Professor Swire is currently completing a book institutional mechanisms for protecting computers and telecommunications mean that with Dr. Robert Litan, None of Your Business: privacy. In 1998, this debate could erupt the costs of gathering, processing, and World Data Flows, Electronic Commerce, into an all-out trade war. The spark could disseminating information are declining rapidly. and the European Privacy Directive. The be the implementation pf the European A wider and wider array of businesses finds book is scheduled to be published by the Union’s (E.U.) Directive on'Bata it economical to use personal information in Brookings Institution in May 1998. The% Protection, which becomes effective in new ways. following is based on a “Policy Summary” of the October. Little known in this country, In this period of rapid change, the legal and book, which is available at Professor Swire’s except among a few industries that are policy challenge; is to create neffllnstitutibhs web site. aware of its potential impact, the THE COMING BATTLE OVER THE EUROPEAN UNION’S DATA PROTECTION DIRECTIVE Is a showdown over privacy policy unavoidable?

Directive prohibits (subject to a limited be informed and to have the right to opt number of exceptions) transfer of personal out before data are disclosed for the first information about European citizens to time to third parties for purposes of other countries that lack “adequate” direct marketing; protection of privacy. • establishes in each country a “supervisory Will the E.U. decide the United authority” to oversee each country’s States lacks “adequate” privacy privacy laws, and which, along protections? Will important sectors with private individuals, can bring of the U.S. economy be singled out as enforcement actions for violation of being “inadequate?” Finally, is there any privacy laws. way to avoid the coming showdown That the United States and the E.U. over privacy policy? differ in their approaches to privacy, as in their approaches to a variety of Prof. Peter Swire PRIVACY POLICY policy issues, would not matter, except for one thing. Article 25 of the Directive ON BOTH SIDES prohibits the transfer of anyone’s OF THE ATLANTIC In Europe, privacy is a clearly established personal data from the E.U. to other A yhile privacy is taken very “human right.” Some national privacy countries that the E.U. determines do not ■ W seriously on both sides of the laws have existed for more than twenty provide an “adequate” level of privacy W W Atlantic, the United States and years. However,hn 1995 the European protection. The Directive contains a Europe have very different approaches Union adopted its sweeping Directive number of exceptions to its flat to the issue. The U.S. approach has been on Data Protection, which takes effect in prohibition, such as where the data selective, with regulation only in areas October 1998. The Directive is intended subject has consented “unambiguously” where a special need has been shown. to upgrade and harmonize privacy to the transfer; the transfer is; necessary This does not indicate that privacy lacks protections throughout the E.U., and it 1 to complete a transaction (such as the importance here, but instead reflects requireS each E.U. member nation to | purchase of an airline ticket or the use of the fact that the Constitution and both adopt a strict privacy law that, among a credit card in Europe); the personal federal and state legislatures value ™ other features: information is otherwise public; or the other policy objectives that can • requires all those processing personal party desiring to send the information has compete with privacy. These include the data to comply with well-defined fair entered into a “contract” approved by the prevention and prosecution of criminal information practices, including supervisory authority of the country from acts, the First Amendment’s protection guarantees that individuals have access which it plans to transfer the data. of the press, and a general suspicion to and the opportunity to correct all Judging from the public pronouncements of government intervention (which personal data about them; of E.U. officials so far, these exceptions arguably has grown in recent years). • allows use of personal data only for the are likely to be narrowly construed. A flat The European approach to privacy purpose for which it was originally prohibition, if imposed, is likely to have is more strict and comprehensive. gathered, and requires an individual to real consequences. 5 WHAT WILL THE E.IJ. remember that their European operations such as encryption, special Internet taxes DECIDE, AND WHO IS are staffed largely by Europeans, and (which should be avoided) and AT RISK? companies risk the goodwill of their intellectual property protection on the employees and customers if they Net. The preference would be to locate ( ">J uessing exactly how the E.U. will knowingly violate European law. that office within the Department of »ap p ly the “adequacy test” to the Commerce, which should have an W United States is a hazardous updated mission in this digital age to enterprise because of conflicting messages AVOIDING THE facilitate electronic commerce. that E.U. officials have been sending. Based SHOWDOWN Second, rather than establish a new on research, these outcomes are projected: t is a safe assumption that between federal agency to issue detailed regulations • The E.U. is unlikely to issue an across- I now and October 1998 the United governing privacy, different industries the-board finding that U.S. privacy States will not adopt in legislative should establish their own “privacy codes protections are “inadequate.” form the kind of comprehensive of conduct” and firms within them should Instead, it is likely to make adequacy regulatory system for protecting personal agree to abide by such codes in a way that determinations on a sector- and practice- privacy that is now prevalent in Europe. can be verified. At a minimum, such specific basis. Does this mean that the United States and codes should include privacy principles • The E.U. is likely to decide that some the E.U. are necessarily on a collision that: (1) afford notice to consumers of U.S. sectors — such as the credit course over the privacy issue? Not what data is collected about them and reporting industry — that are governed necessarily, if officials on both sides of the how it is intended to be used and (2) by specific laws governing the use of Atlantic show creativity and flexibility. provide a meaningful opportunity for personal information do meet the consumers to limit the use and re-use of adequacy test. their personal data, as well as to correct • Unless a generic compromise is found, errors that may exist in company files. the E.U. is likely to demonstrate its (Ed. note: Professor Swire is engaged in a seriousness about the Directive by project to help draft such codes.) initially singling out one or more U.S. CRITICS Critics on both sides of the Atlantic companies or sectors as not meeting the ON ROTII SIDES may object that self-regulation is adequacy test and thus subject to the OF THE ATLANTIC inadequate because it cannot be enforced. data transfer prohibition of the Directive. This is not true. Firms that advise High on the potential target list are firms HAY OIMECT consumers of their privacy policy and do in the direct marketing industry, the THAT not adhere to it will be open to lawsuits insurance industry, and any company SELF- REGULATION for misrepresentation and to prosecution handling personal medical information. by the Federal Trade Commission or the The above list of potential targets IS INADEQUATE states for engaging in an unfair or could represent the tip of the iceberg. If RECAUSE deceptive practice. Moreover, individuals the E.U. decides that the largely self- IT CANNOT who feel they have been aggrieved can . regulatory approach followed by the inform the media, which have proven to be United States is not sufficient to justify an RE ENFORCED. perhaps the most effective enforcement tools “adequacy” finding, a much broader of all. Recently, Lexis®•Nexis®, America information embargo is possible, affecting Online, and Experian all found themselves a wide range of industries. subjects of media stories about their data Skeptics have claimed that the practices and, once exposed, each Europeans would never take steps that In particular, the United States should company quickly abandoned the practice. would result’in these effects. They take two important steps in its own Establishing a privacy office and apparently haven’t been listening to the interest and that of its citizens to protect forming codes of conduct makes sense for remarks of various European officials, or privacy. First, because there is no the U.S., and also would likely resolve the they haven’t read the Directive closely. In institutional home within the federal privacy showdown that otherwise looms addition, the fact that many data transfers government for matters relating to with Europe. More broadly, the experience could be considered unlawful exposes any privacy in the private sector, the gained with these privacy rules might company doing business in Europe to the Administration should establish a prove helpful in resolving the many potential threat of legal action, negative permanent office dealing not just with additional international conflicts we are publicity, and harassment. Moreover, privacy, but with other issues affecting likely to face as global electronic American companies in particular must electronic commerce more generally, commerce becomes a reality. □

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The Missouri Recently published articles by Professor and of the National Advisory Board, Law Review Edward B. (Ned) Foley include “The Public Campaign. recently Elusive Quest for Global Justice,” in the The Twentieth Century Fund is a non­ published an Fordham Law Review, and “Interpretation profit foundation, based in New York, article by and Philosophy: Dworkin’s Constitution,” which publishes books and papers on Professor Mike in Constitutional Commentary. issues of public policy. The Working Braunstein. Forthcoming articles by Professor Foley Group was convened in January 1997 to “Structural include “Public Debate and Campaign produce a report on campaign finance Change and Finance,” Connecticut Law Review; litigation. Professor Foley has assisted the Interprofessional “Jurisprudence and Theology,” Fordham deliberations of the group through Competitive Law Review; and “Constitutional Theory providing research and writing Advantage” is an Prof. Michael Braunstein and School Finance,” Georgia Law Review. memoranda. He is also actively involved empirical study of the use of lawyers and Professor Foley continues to be in outlining, drafting, and editing the other professionals in residential real involved in the subject of campaign Group’s report. estate transactions. A paper he delivered finance. He is a member of the Washington, D.C.-based Public on the globalization of property law, Twentieth Century Fund Working Campaign is a public-interest organization “Nature, Property Rights and Private Law Group on Campaign Finance Litigation dedicated to achieving campaign finance — The Context of Reception and the Ecological Problem,” was published in 59 Locumer Protokolle 47 (1997). His revision of a casebook, Property Law, Cases, Materials Separation of Powers is Topic and Problems, (originally authored by Professor Tim Jost and others) will be for Strong Lecture released in the spring by West. This revision will mark the first time that the Dean Peter Shane examined how separation of power and interbranch dialogue first year property course materials will impact the crafting of meaningful public policy during the annual Frank R. Strong contain a substantial empiricist approach. Law Forum on Wednesday, February 4. Dean Shane leads the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Professor Sharon Davies set a new An expert in constitutional and administrative law, Dean Shane taught at the personal record as she finished the New University of Iowa for 13 years before assuming the Pittsburgh deanship in 1994. York City Marathon (26.2 miles) on He is prominent both as a lawyer and as a legal educator, serving currently as chair Sunday, November 2. She completed the of the AALS Section for the Law School Dean and as a board member of the race in 4 hours and 11 minutes in the Council on Legal Educational Opportunity (CLEO). pouring rain and cold. This was her third A Harvard College and Yale Law graduate, Dean Shane clerked for the late Alvin marathon, and she shaved seven minutes B. Rubin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and worked from off last year’s time. 1978—1981 in the U.S. Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel and the Office Vicki Eastus, formerly Assistant to the of Management and Budget. He is the Dean has been designated Assistant Dean author of two leading casebooks, for Public Programs. Her duties include Administrative Law: The American Public designing public service programs for the Law System and Separation of Powers Law. College of Law and administering those He has written extensively on school programs, teaching in the Judicial Extern desegregation, constitutional remedies, program, serving as administrative liaison regulatory policy making, executive to student organizations, assisting with privilege, and other constitutional and long-range planning, and working with administrative law topics. the faculty to increase interaction with bar The Strong Law Forum was the associations and the legal community. She college’s first endowed lecture series. will continue to work closely with the Pro It was made possible through a gift Bono Research Group, Street Law, VITA, from Isadore ’27 and Ida Topper and and the Public Service Fellow programs. ci u ... „ n , named to honor Frank R. Strong, Dean Assistant Dean Eastus joined the College Sheldon Mike Young 51 talks with Dean Peter r— Shane, of the University of Pittsburgh, °* e co“e8e from 1952 to 1965. LJ of Law in September 1996 and has taught following the annual Strong Lecture. at Dickinson School of Law and Capital University Law School. 7 Faculty News

reform. It is and William Scranton. As a member of on the duty of lawyers to report a leading the board, Professor Foley advises the professional misconduct. advocate of organization’s director and staff on issues Professors Timothy Jost and Sharon public of constitutional law relating to campaign Davies’s book on Medicare and Medicaid financing of finance reform. Fraud and Abuse was published by West in campaigns, On a personal note, Professor Foley January. An article by Professor Jost on often called and his wife, Miranda Cox, welcomed developments in the American Health the “clean Robert Roland Foley into their family on Care System since the demise of the money” December 17. He joins big brother Max Clinton Plan was published in a German solution. at the Foley residence in Hilliard. law journal in the fall; another (this one Other Professor Arthur Greenbaum is in German) will appear in a German members of continuing his work in Ohio civil health policy journal in the spring. An the National procedure with the publication of the article (in English) by Professor Jost on Prof. Foley and sons Robert Advisory 1997 Supplement to The Ohio Rules of Civil recent developments in the German health and Max. Board Procedure With Commentary, a work he care system will appear in the Journal of included co-authored with Professors Howard Health Politics, Policy and Law later this year. former senators Charles Percy, William Fink and Charles Wilson, which is Proxmire, and Paul Simon, and former Another article comparing the role of the published by Michie Law Publishers. courts in making health care rationing governors Tony Anaya, Richard Lamm, He presently is working on an article decisions in Germany, England, and the United States will be published by the Hastings International and Comparative Law Review this spring. Professor Jost Ohio State Faculty Lead at AALS Meeting spoke at the Health Benefits Section at the AALS on health insurance reform and will Ohio State was very visible at the recent annual meeting of the American Association speak at a symposium on medical necessity of Law Schools, the professional organization for law faculty from around the at St. Louis University this spring. country. Sessions were held in San Francisco during the first week in January. Dean Professor James Meeks was on a panel Gregory H. Williams was elected to the position of President-Elect of the at the annual conference of the National organization. Several other faculty and staff made presentations, including: Association of State Utility Consumer • Associate Dean Camille Hébert chaired a panel on Racial and Sexual Harassment Advocates in Boston on November 10. The and the First Amendment. third edition of his torts casebook, written • Associate Dean Nancy Rapoport proposed a uniform code of bankruptcy ethics with George Christie (Duke), Ellen Pryor during a panel on “Local Cultures + Judicial Discretion = National Confusion?: (S.M.U.) and Joe Sanders (Houston), was Equities, Equations and the ‘Uniformity’ of the Bankruptcy Code.” published by West this past summer. •Assistant Dean Pamela Lombardi moderated and participated in a panel discussion: Using Special Teams:’ CLE, Admissions and Career Services” a program of the Professor Deborah Merritt, with Jennifer Section on Institutional Advancement. Cihon ’97, authored an article titled • Professor Deborah Merritt presented a paper as part of a panel, “Can/Should/Does “New Course Offerings in the Upper-Level Legal Scholarship Influence the Legal System?” She discussed empirical evidence Curriculum: Report of an AALS Survey,” on both law professors’ interest in influencing the legal system (based on a survey that appeared in the December 1997 issue she conducted last fall) and courts’ citations of legal scholarship (based on both of the Journal of Legal Education. She has her work and the work of other scholars). also authored an article “Hearing the • Professor Merritt also became Chair of the AALS Committee on Curriculum and Voices of Individual Women and Men: Research. That committee sponsored a session on minority students and legal education. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg” for a •Professor Timothy Jost, at a session on Employee Benefits, gave a presentation on symposium in the University of Hawaii the Health Insurance Portablility and Accountability Act of 1996 and the Law Review. In February, she participated privatization of health insurance reform. in a symposium on “Textualism and the • Professor Vincene Verdun was part of a panel that addressed “Wrongs and Constitution” at the George Washington Remedies: Innovation in Scholarship and the Classroom.” University Law School. Her comments on • Professor Allan Samansky demonstrated the interactive computer tutorial he has “The Textual Basis of Federalism” will developed, “Introduction to Partnership Taxation,” at the CALI (the Center for appear in a forthcoming issue of the Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction) exhibit. □ George Washington Law Review. In mid-December, Professor John Quigley participated in a conference in Gaza City, Faculty News

Israel, that focused on human rights of warfare and a specialist on the 19 at Hillel Foundation in Columbus. issues relevant in the anticipated Israeli- Arab-Israeli conflict. He spent most of The lecture is designed to feature a Jewish Palestinian negotiations for a final his career as a professor of law at member of the OSU faculty and was settlement between the two peoples. George Washington University, but he established in honor of the late Ohio State The purpose of the conference was to began his teaching career at Ohio State Professor Louis Nemzer. highlight the need for human rights in 1949. A leading authority on the Associate Dean Rapoport also served as considerations to be taken into account in Arab-Israeli conflict, he authored a faculty member at the Eastern District of the final settlements. Discussion focused numerous pieces published by the Pennsylvania Bankruptcy Conference and on security issues, the status of Jerusalem, United Nations relating to legal issues spoke about her latest proposal of a uniform the Israeli settlements, and the Palestinian in the Arab-Israeli conflict. At the code of bankruptcy ethics at Pennsylvania refugees. He presented a paper on the commemorative session, Professor State University/Dickinson School of Law. rights of Palestinian refugees to return to Quigley spoke, along with Dr. Anis Professor Nancy H. Rogers was appointed their home areas. Kassim, a Palestinian lawyer who was as an advisory member of the Ohio Courts While at the conference, Professor an L.L.M. student of Mallison’s at Futures Commission. She spoke in Quigley participated in a brief George Washington; and Professor December to the Rules and Procedures commemorative session there to the Francis Boyle of the College of Law, Task Force about the role of rules in memory of Professor W Thomas University of Illinois. encouraging greater use of mediation and Mallison, who died November 24. As the 1998 Nemzer Scholar, Associate other negotiation-assistance procedures. Mallison was an expert on the law Dean Nancy Rapoport spoke February She also wrote brief papers for the Quality and Access Task Force on several topics — access to justice by low-income persons, special procedures handling small Dean Williams Receives Honorary Degree civil cases, and enhancing quality of dispute resolution processes. Dean Gregory H. Williams received an honorary LL.D. degree from California Professor Rogers serves as co-chair of Western College of Law in San Diego. He spoke at their graduation on the Association of American Law Schools December 19. 11-member Resource Corps, a group that Also, as expected, he was elected to the position of President-Elect of the facilitates planning and retreats by law Association of American Law Schools. The election was held at the group’s January faculties. In that capacity, she served as a 1998 meeting in San Francisco. The President-Elect serves in that position for one volunteer retreat co-facilitator for a law year, then assumes the Presidency of the organization. school in New York in October. While in San Francisco, the Dean hosted a reception for Bay area alumni and Professor Rogers also was a panelist graduates who teach in law schools. More than 50 people attended a special for the AALS Conference for Deans on reception on January 7 at the Hilton Hotel. March 2 in Palm In the past months, the Dean has represented the College of Law in many forums. Springs, Calif. Some of his activities include: Assistant Dean • meeting with OSU law alumni Robert Solomon at Porter, Wright, Morris and was the Keynote Arthur in early December. Speaker at the The event was hosted by Martin Luther Charles C. Warner ’70 and King celebration Buzz Trafford ’77. sponsored by the • greeting OSU law alumni at City of Worthington, Assistant Dean Robert Schottenstein, Zox and Dunn, Ohio on January 19. Solomon also in early December. The reception was hosted by National Council President Benjamin L. Zox ’62. Staff Arrives for • speaking at the Martin Luther California Western College of Law Dean Steven Juvenile Law Clinic King Day celebration at Smith prepares to present an honorary LL.D. to The new Juvenile Law Clinic and Justice Marshall University in OSU Dean Gregory William as California Western for Children Project is underway with the Huntington, W Va. on professor Christine Hickman (left) and Associate arrival of Professor Katherine Hunt January 21. □ Dean Barbara Cox look on. Federle, the director of the Justice for Children project. 9 Faculty News

Professor Federle comes to Columbus from Small Firms Should Consider Tulane University Law School, Hiring Law Students where she was an associate Law students are available for clerkships and permanent positions in smaller firms. professor That was the message Placement Directory Amee McKim ’94 gave when of law. She is she spoke to the Small Firm and Solo Practitioner Committee of the Columbus Bar Prof. Katherine Hunt a graduate of Association on January 8. Federle Pomona College Sharing the podium with Amy DeLong of Capital University Law School, she and received a J.D. from the University shared the advantages and responsibilities of hiring law clerks. Both talked about of Puget Sound School of Law and an the specific programs each school has to help employers meet hiring needs. L.L.M. degree from Georgetown The College of Law hosts on-campus interviewing in both the spring University Law Center. She has also and the fall, lists of available jobs are posted regularly, as are volunteer taught at the William S. Richardson opportunities. For information about how you can recruit a student to work School of Law at the University in your office, call Amee McKim at (614) 292-8814. □ of Hawaii. The staff attorney for the clinic, Anita DiPasquale, comes to Ohio State from CASA Research Guide is Praised of Franklin County, an “Once in a blue moon, a book is published that belongs in every Ohio law firm,” organization wrote Bruce M. Kennedy, director of the Law Library at the University of Toledo in the school’s Toledo Transcript (Fall 1997). Ranking Ohio Legal Research Guide with that provides Staff Attorney Anita guardians ad litem DiPasquale Professor Ervin Pollack’s 1950 guide to Ohio legal research, he classed the book in abuse, neglect, written by Ohio State law librarian Melanie K. Putnam and Susan M. Schaefgen, and dependency cases in the Franklin library manager at Porter, Wright, Morris and Arthur, as the new definitive County Juvenile Courts. research guide. Her duties will include providing Ohio Legal Research Guide contains a wealth of information about researching client representation, teaching lawyering laws in the Buckeye State. Kennedy’s review ranks the authors as among the state’s skills, and supervising students. She most knowledgeable law librarians on the intricacies of Ohio legal research. received a B.A. degree from Ohio State He says that the book is “sensibly organized and cleverly written to operate on and a J.D. degree from Case Western several levels.” Reserve University School of Law, where A strong feature of the guide, says Kennedy, is its holistic approach to legal she was graduated magna cum laude. research. “The core of the guide is a comprehensive, exhaustive analysis of Ohio The Justice for Children Project legal literature in its many forms — books, periodicals, microforms, online is a new educational and interdiscipli­ databases, cd-rom and websites. However, beyond this core, the authors remind nary research initiative at Ohio State. attorneys of several powerful but under-utilized research resources — notably the Its mission is to explore ways in online public catalogs and government document collections maintained by libraries throughout the state. Finally, the guide steps beyond the pale of publication which the law may be used to improve by offering researchers a wealth of information gathering tips — addresses, the experiences of children by telephone numbers and e-mail addresses of government offices — engaging in original scholarship and where very current or unpublished legal information is available.” research, educating students in the Putnam, who was named Outstanding Staff Member for 1996-1997, has been a law while considering the insights member of the library staff since 1990 and is currently the Head of Public Services. of other disciplines, and constructing Published in May 1997, Ohio Legal Research Guide is available from the and pursuing legal and non-legal publishers, William S. Hein and Co., Inc., Buffalo, New York. 0 solutions to many of the problems confronting children. □

10 AFFIRM THY FRIENDSHIP

La w F ir m R e t u r n s Fa v o r

W ith C a m p a ig n G i f

T he law firm of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease has Werth says his own made a $100,000 commitment to the College’s Affirm commitment of $25,000 is a way Thy Friendship Campaign. The contribution has been of saying “thank you” and he designated for the Cornerstone Fund, which was established to encourages other graduates of support capital projects. the College of Law to follow suit. “The Ohio State University College of Law has provided us “Those who have graduated from with many attorneys over the years,” says Robert W Werth ’65, the College of Law have been the firm’s managing partner. “Ohio State has been good to us provided with an opportunity to with high quality law students. We want to be good to Ohio be successful,” he stresses. State.” Werth also challenges other The firm has had a long-standing friendship with the firms to support the school College, and according to Werth, recruits first and foremost financially. “Particularly in Ohio, from Ohio State. The firm currently employs 53 OSU law those firms have benefited alumni; 33 members of the firm hold undergraduate degrees significantly by Ohio State Robert W Werth '65 from the University (including some law grads). Firm partner supplying quality graduates.” Carl Smallwood ’80 is this year’s Law Alumni Association In recognition of the support from Vorys, Sater, Seymour president. Werth, Smallwood, and firm partners Mary Ellen and Pease, the College will name its faculty lounge for Fairfield ’72 and Douglas Williams ’80 serve on the College’s the firm. Located on the third floor of John Deaver Drinko National Alumni Council. Werth and Fairfield are also part of Hall, the lounge is used for a variety of activities, including the College’s Campaign Executive Committee. faculty seminars, student receptions, and National Alumni As managing partner for the past five years and with the Council meetings. firm for more than 30, Werth has recognized Ohio State’s “The faculty is extremely important in producing high importance in his career. “I owe my livelihood to the College,” quality law students,” commented Werth. “We felt it was a he says. “To the degree that I’ve had success, I owe it to the good idea to give to the University and combine that with College of Law.” faculty recognition.”

Law Campaign Progress Report

December 31, 1997 Component Goal Raised 0% 20% 40% 80% 80% 100%

Preparing Tomorrow’s Leaders $ 5,750,000 $ 3,497,628 H b .. |R1% Faculty Leadership and Excellence $ 4,500,000 $ 4,216,745 ■HÉ8K 194%

Academic Leadership and Excellence $ 2,000,000 $ 452,974 1 l _ _ _ | 23% Commitment to Service $ 1,750,000 $ 107,832 0 8 % Building for Tomorrow $ 4,000,000 $ 2,608,762 -■ 165% Total $ 18,000,000 $ 11,904,863 mmr-.™ m i ge%

Note: Commitments totalling $1,020,922 are undesignated.

11 Student Research Aids Leial Servibes

I n its first semester of operation, the Pro Bono Research Group mentors in the public service field. This year’s co-directors, (PBRG) has handled more than 25 research projects for several third-year students Kristine Hayes and Andrew Stark, have built offices of the Ohio State Legal Services Association (OSLSA) on this relationship and have made the vision a reality. They and the South Eastern Ohio Legal Services. Topics have ranged have developed quality control procedures, research strategies, from discovering the obligations of school districts to protect and office management protocols. Sol Bermann ’99 will lead the students from bullies to assisting an attorney in establishing a group next year. free divorce clinic for low income individuals. The 46 student The group’s continued success has been ensured by a members of PBRG have researched legal issues concerning generous gift secured through the “Affirm Thy Friendship” public benefits, child custody, adoption, debt collection, Campaign. This financial support has allowed the group to evictions, and bankruptcy. concentrate on providing high quality legal research. “The students are doing a terrific job,” says Eugene King ’83, Faculty and administration of the College are also enthusastic managing attorney of OSLSA. “The research help they provide about the new venture. Most of the professors have signed on as has a tremendous impact on the amount of legal assistance members of the Faculty Advisory Board and are ardent available in Southeast Ohio to lower income clients. I wish I had supporters of the public service effort. this opportunity when I was in school.” “I am impressed by our students’ creativity and hard work in How does a student organization go from an idea to getting this program up and running in such a short time,” says providing assistance to public service attorneys in only one year? Dean Gregory H. Williams of the success of PBRG. “PBRG is a The answer lies largely with one creative and dynamic student, creative approach to helping solve the lack of legal services Andrea Shemberg ’97. Funded in part by a Public Interest Law available to lower income clients, and it is a program that will Foundation summer fellowship, Shemberg spent the summer serve as a model for other law schools to emulate.” before her third year of law school working for OSLSA. There she The students continue to have high aspirations for the group, saw that the organization’s efforts to provide legal services were and they hope to expand the network of attorneys it serves hampered by a tremendous need for time-consuming legal throughout Ohio. research. Shemberg asked how law students could help provide “Where do we see PBRG going?” asks Associate Dean Nancy legal services to lower income clients. After sharing the need with B. Rapoport. “We see it as being something far beyond the classmates at the College, Shemberg and other students took on typical law school public interest offering. It goes beyond law the daunting task of founding the Pro Bono Research Group. school, reaching to the farthest comers of Ohio, because it Shemberg and the-other members of the founding board enables lawyers—not just law students—to give back something were committed to developing a way for law students to help of value to the community. We see PBRG as doubling, if not OSLSA. They also wanted to have an impact on the legal tripling, the amount of legal services and pro bono work done in representation available to lower income clients in Ohio, who the state of Ohio.” generally have limited access to lawyers and to justice. The The group is the cornerstone of the College of Law’s public vision was that students could eventually serve as researchers for service activities, according to Assistant Dean for Public legal services staff and private attorneys who were engaged in Programs Vicki Eastus, who advises the group. “As far pro bono representation throughout the state of Ohio. as we know, Ohio State is the only law school with a program A starting point was finding a manageable case load. like PBRG,” she notes. “The students hone their practical Shemberg worked closely with Eugene King and Thomas Weeks skills, leam substantive law, and enforce their commitment of OSLSA. They agreed to screen cases for the group and to help to professionalism and to public service. We expect that these train the students in the substantive law they would be students, who have participated in pro bono activities while researching. This partnership with OSLSA has enabled PBRG to they are in law school, will continue this social commitment accept projects immediately and has provided the group with as attorneys.” □

12 Student News

Article Earns Editor; and Patricia Franz, a third-year who is visiting at the University of Prestigious Award Oklahoma. Judge’s note is “Giving Credit Where Credits? Is Due?: The Unusual A College of Law student has won the Use of Arbitration in Determining highly-respected Center for Public Screenwriting Credits.” “Habits of a Resources (CPR) Awards for Excellence Highly Effective Transformation for a student article. This is the second Mediation” is the topic of Franz’s note. straight year that Ohio State’s Journal The third note to be nominated was on Dispute Resolution has received the honor. written by Michael Moffitt and is titled, Robert A. Wells, a member of the Class “Casting Light on the Black Box of of 1998, was recognized for an article Mediation: Should Mediators Make their proposing use of arbitration in director Conduct More Transparent?” and officer indemnification disputes. The The CPR Awards are given annually to article, “The Use of Arbitration in Director Josh Morrow (left) and Robert Wells following honor outstanding scholarship in the the ceremony where Wells’ received the CPR field of Alternative Dispute Resolution. and Officer Indemnification Disputes,” Award for a student article. Morrow is editor- The student category carries a first place was published in the Journal on Dispute in-chief of the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, Vol. 13 No. 1 (December Resolution. prize of $2,000 and a second place prize 1996). Wells is visiting this year at the of $1,000. University of Maryland. firms to develop alternatives to the high Last year, E. Casey Lide’s article, The award was announced on January cost of litigation. “ADR and Cyberspace: The Role of 29 at a ceremony in New York City and is Three other articles from the Journal Alternative Dispute Resolution in Online sponsored by the CPR Institute for were also selected as finalists, including Commerce, Intellectual Property and Dispute Resolution, a nonprofit alliance of two written by College of Law students: Defamation” won the first place prize in 500 global corporations and leading law Shawn Judge, JDR’s Recent Developments the student category.

Looking for a job? The College of Law Placement Office is here to help you! Our services include: Alumni Newsletter: State and national job listings are included in this bi-weekly newsletter. The cost is $15 for six-month subscription (OSU law grads) or $30 for six- month subscription (non-OSU law grads). Job Postings and Other Placement Resources: Our placement resources are on open reserve in the law library. Resources include current job postings and alumni newsletters from approximately 80 other law schools. Online Information: Alumni have access to Lexis® *Nexis® career services directory. The password is published monthly in the placement newsletter. Career Counseling: From reviewing resumes and cover letters to brainstorming December 1997 graduates were honored at a reception on December 12 in the Faculty job search strategies, we’ll be glad to help Lounge. Among those recognized were, front, left to right, Terri Marie Barton, Dawn Michelle you search for that perfect job. Dunker, Lori Hackney Duckworth, back, Christopher A. Rinehart, Marcus Adrian Streips, Ronald D. Gutt, and Dean Gregory H. Williams. For more information, call Amee McKim, placement director (614) 292-8814.

13 Alumni News

Let us know what is happening in your life, personally, and Family Law Practice Opens Doors professionally Submit news items to: Liz Cutler Gates, The Law Record, The “I have found family law to be a delight,” says Larry Stotter ’58, the former chair Ohio State University College of Law, of the American Bar Association’s Family Law Section. “The captains of industry 55 West 12th Avenue, Columbus, will open their doors to you,” he added, recalling how clients will often tell him Ohio 43210-1391 or fax them to things that others would never know. (614) 292-1383. A card is provided at But family law had not been his goal. Experience working for the Clamon the back of the magazine for your Steamship Company before the Korean War had whet his appetite for maritime convenience. You may also e-mail law. By graduation, his focus was on the general practice of law. Moving to San news to: [email protected]. Photos Francisco, he eventually settled into private practice, first as a litigator and are welcome but will not be returned. ultimately representing only clients with family law problems. His cases have made headlines. He has represented the rich and famous, including rock star Peter Frampton; Mieka Tunney, ex-wife of former U.S. Senator John V Tunney; and Sun Bonds, ex-wife of San Francisco Giants slugger, Barry Bonds. 1930s After successfully representing the mother in an international child custody James V Armogida ’32 retired in case, he became involved in helping fight parental kidnapping. In 1986, he September 1997 after 65 years in legal testified at the Hague Convention on International Child Abuduction. Later, he practice. A past president of the Stark testified before Senate committees in support of the Uniform Child Custody County Bar Association, he and his wife, Jurisdiction Act. Velia, live in Canton, Ohio. Considered among the top family lawyers in the country, Stotter was listed in Town and Country magazine’s January, 1998 “Guide to Divorce.” He is also a member of the Matrimonial Network, a group of about 30 elite lawyers who 1 950s provide a sort of support system in the practice of big-ticket family law. It can all be a heady experience, admits Stotter, who initiated the magazine Class of 1953 Family Advocate during his tenure as Family Law Section chair. “There are millions of dollars at stake,” he says. The 45th reunion of the Class of 1953 But he ranks his greatest legal experience as the time he argued before the U.S. will be held Friday, September 19 in Supreme Court in 1978 and saw the court overturn a decision made by the Columbus, Ohio. For more Supreme Court of California. “I was afraid of being asked a question in relation to information, call (614) 292-2937 or the case that I couldn’t answer,” he recalls. “I read all the relevant articles.” Once in Frank Bazler at (937) 339-0511. court, the justices asked a question of his opponent. “I knew the answer,” he says, with a twinkle in his eye, “but he didn’t. He had even cited it in his response!” He also recalls how Justice William J. Brennan maintained eye contact with him John M. Adams ’54 has been happily during the oral arguments. “He kept nodding, as if he was agreeing with me,” he retired since 1991. He and his wife, notes. When the decision of the court was handed down, Justice Brennan had Janet, live in Columbus, when not written the dissenting opinion. “I learned that the expressions on the faces of the enjoying golf and duplicate bridge while justices mean nothing!” wintering in Florida. “You have to know how to deal Donald A. Eaton ’54 passed the with people,” he says of his chosen California bar after taking it for the first profession, and he advises law time in 1995. He resides in Van Nuys, students to consider the options. Calif, with an office in nearby North “Do you want to deal with the Hollywood, where he specializes in human side of practicing law, or do collection law. you want to deal with the bottom line numbers?” Alan M. Wolk ’55 recently celebrated For Stotter, dealing with people the 40th anniversary of his marriage in the practice of law has been the to his wife, Phyllis. Currently a labor deciding factor in his job arbitrator, he recently retired as Director satisfaction. “I’ve lived the best of of Law, City of University Heights, Ohio all possible lives,” he says. □ Lany Stotter '58 after more than 16 years in the position.

14 He is also a former Assistant Attorney adjunct professor at the College of Law for General for the State of Ohio and a Class of 1968 more than 20 years. past president of the Cuyahoga County The 30th reunion of the Class of 1968 Clair M. Carlin ’72 is a member of the Bar Association. The Wolks live in will be held Friday, September 11 at Ohio Democratic Party statewide Solon, Ohio. the College of Law. For more candidate identification committee. The Duane F. Lantz ’56 recently retired. He information, call (614) 292-2937. committee interviews potential candidates currently resides in Big Pine Key, Fla. for executive, legislative and judicial office and makes appropriate recommendations to the Ohio Democratic Party. Class of 1958 19 7 0s Completing his third year as chair of the Teaching economics and finance at Texas The 40th reunion of the Class of 1958 California State University Systemwide Wesleyan University is John F. Shampton will be held Friday, September 11 at Academic Senate is James M. Highsmith ’70. He was appointed professor of the College of Law. For more ’72. The senate represents 18,000 faculty information, call (614) 292-2937. business and business law and adjunct on 22 campuses with 350,000 students. professor of law at the Fort Worth, Tex. A professor of business law at California school in 1997, where he also teaches real estate classes in the law school. State University at Fresno, he is also finishing work on the design team of the Re-elected to the Sandusky County He earned a Ph.D. in Finance in 1992 from the University of North Texas. California Virtual University, a cooperative Common Pleas bench in 1996, Harry of accredited California colleges and A. Sargeant, Jr., ’58 is serving his He and his wife, Rena Sue, live in Plano, Tex. universities. He and his wife, Deborah fourth term as judge. He previously Powell Highsmith, live in Fresno. served three years as municipal judge, Recently named as chair of the editorial was prosecuting attorney for 11 years, board of the ABA/BNA Lawyers Manual and was in private practice from 1958 on Professional Conduct was Charles W. Class of 1973 until 1975. He and his wife, Betty, live He has been a member Kettlewell ’71. The 25th reunion of the Class of 1973 of the board since 1994. Charles’ in Fremont, Ohio. will be held Friday, September 11 at practice in Worthington, Ohio, consists Albert L. Bell ’58 retired July 1, 1997 the College of Law. For more of representing lawyers on ethics, as General Counsel of the Ohio State Bar information, call (614) 292-2937. Association. He received the Ohio Bar disciplinary, and licensing matters. He has Medal in June 1996 and was named taught professional responsibility as an Honorary life Fellow by the Ohio State Bar Foundation in November 1996. He and his wife, Jean, reside in Westerville, Ohio.

1 9 6 0 s Richard A. Kahler ’66 expanded his Tiffin, Ohio, law office nearly two years ago when his son, John M. Kahler II joined the firm to form Kahler and Kahler Law Offices. Six months ago, John’s wife, Jennifer, also joined the firm.

Class of 1963 The 35th reunion of the Class of 1963 will be held Friday, September 11 at the College of Law. For more information, call (614) 292-2937. Past Law Alumni Association President, Charles Warner ’70 introduces Dean Gregory H. Williams at an informal gathering of at the Columbus law firm of Porter, Wright, Morris and Arthur in December The Dean greeted graduates who work at the firm, introduced new Placement Director Amee McKim ’94, and shared the latest news of the College. 15 Alumni News

Douglas Mancino ’74 has been listed in W. Ray Persons ’78 has been appointed organization and is responsible for the Who’s Who in Health Care, published by to the Board of Directors of the Federal system of indigent representation in the the Los Angeles Business Journal. The Defender Program, Inc. by the judges federal courts for northern Georgia. health care lawyer specializes in the tax of the United States District Court, the Persons is a partner in the law firm of and business and transactional aspects of Northern District of Georgia. The board Swift, Currie, McGhee and Hiers, where the business. serves as the policy making body of the he specializes in trial practice, and serves on the firm’s executive committee. He and his wife, Wendy, live in Stone Mountain, Ga., with their son, Conrad, Cleveland Lawyer Finds and daughter, April.

Creative Outlet in Theater Class of 1978 The 20th reunion of the Class of 1978 One will generally find Stephen H. Gariepy ’77 at will be held Friday, September 11 at Cavitch, Familo, Durkin and Frutkin on the 14th the College of Law. For more floor of the East Ohio Building in downtown information, call (614) 292-2937. Cleveland. He has spent his entire career there, concentrating on estate planning and business succession. It’s a field he’s been actively involved in, serving as president of the Estate Planning Council of R. Christopher Doyle ’79 was elected Cleveland, as a fellow of the American College of to partnership in the firm of Baker and Trust and Estate Counsel, and is chairman of the Hostetler, L.L.P Associated with the Cleveland Bar Association’s Estate Planning Institute. firm’s Columbus office, he concentrates But several years ago, a “spare time” interest in Stephen H. Gariepy ’17 his practice in employment law and creative writing blossomed into a new interest in benefits, with an emphasis in workers’ theater when he wrote the book for a musical that has been performed in the compensation matters. Cleveland area for the past two years. Frank M. Placenti ’79 practicesTaw “Mim” is the biblical story of Mary and Joseph. “In doing the research, in Phoenix, Ariz. where he heads the I discovered that Mary’s name in the Hebrew would have been Miriam,” he explains. “Mim” is the shortened version of the given name. corporate finance and transactions “A friend, Ron Owen, did the music for it,” he recalls. “He knew I had done practices of the Phoenix office of some creative writing in my spare time, and he approached me about writing Bryan Cave L.L.P. He has served as the script.” chairman of various organizations, The creative process took three years, but the full-scale musical was first including the Phoenix Chamber of presented in December, 1996 at the Cleveland Music Hall by Daybreak Commerce, the Chamber’s Super Bowl Productions, a non-profit performing arts group. Committee in 1996, and the Boys It was performed in December, 1997 at Lake and Girls Club of Metropolitan Phoenix Erie College in Painesville and at the in 1997. Weathervane Playhouse in Akron. While initially involved only as the script Jo Ann Wasil ’79, along with C. Jeffrey writer, Gariepy has used his legal skills to Waite ’81 and Mark Mastrangelo, help the production company achieve has written Ohio Workers’ Compensation non-profit status, and he recently joined Law: Practice Guide published by West the board of directors. Group. The two-volume set provides “This past year I’ve been involved in an overview of all aspects of Ohio administrative ways,” he notes. “It’s workers’ compensation legislation. exciting to see all the different people Wasil maintains an office in Cleveland and organizations it takes to mount where her practice focuses on civil something like that.” litigation, employment, workers’ Gariepy and his wife, Sue, and compensation, administrative, corporate, their three children, live in domestic relations and personal Chagrin Falls, Ohio. □ injury law. 1980s written Ohio Workers’ Compensation Law: counsel. A certified public accountant Practice Guide published by West Group. and financial planner in addition to being Brad A. Myers ’80 is serving as president The two-volume set provides an an attorney, Leuby lives in New Albany, of OACRAO (Ohio Association of overview of all aspects of Ohio workers’ Ohio, with his wife, Eileen, and their Collegiate Registrars and Admissions compensation legislation. Waite is a three children. Officers), the professional association for member of the law firm of Monnie, Waite higher education registrars and admissions A commander in the U.S. Navy Judge and O’Connor in Cincinnati where his directors at all two- and four-year Advocate General Corp (JAGC), practice focuses on workers compensation institutions in the Buckeye State. He is Raul A.E Pedrozo ’83 has been assigned law and personal injury. the senior associate registrar at The Ohio as Special Assistant for Oceans Policy State University. William Leuby ’83 has to the Undersecretay of Defense for joined Hamilton Capital Policy. He and his wife, Sonja live in Dale K. Perdue ’80, managing partner Management, one of Kensington, Md. of Clark, Perdue, Roberts and Scott, and central Ohio’s largest D. Andrew List ’90, an associate with the independent, fee-only firm, obtained a million dollar verdict in a investment management Class of 1983 nursing home neglect case. and financial advisory William Leuby ’83 The 15th reunion of the Class of 1983 C. Jeffrey Waite ’81, along with Jo Ann firms, as vice president, will be held Friday, September 11 at Wasil ’79 and Mark Mastrangelo, has chief operating officer, and general the College of Law. For more information, call (614) 292-2937.

Kies Moves to Price Waterhouse A daughter, Candace, was bom on July 23, 1997 to Dan ’85 and Carole D. After three years of wrangling with tax reform and the federal budget process, Ken Weiss, Worthington, Ohio. She joins Kies ’77 has stepped down as Chief of Staff to the Joint Annie, 6, and Scott, 4. His company, Committee on Taxation. Since 1995, he has worked with House Guardian Electronics, Inc., was Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Archer, a Texas named Dealer of the Year at the national Republican. convention of the rental-purchase “It is time for a change,” he said in January from his office on industry. As president of the Ohio Rental Capitol Hill, a few days before he headed for his new position at Dealers Association, Dan also accepted Price Waterhouse, the giant accounting firm. There he will serve the State Association of the Year award for as one of the managing partners of the Washington office, ^ the second consecutive year. which includes 225 employees who provide tax expertise to the rest of the firm, as well as service clients in the Virginia, Maryland, and District Clair M. Forrest, Jr. ’85 recently of Columbia. completed a three-year term as And what is he most proud of during those three years? “We worked president of the Seneca County Bar successfully for passage of the tax reform bill,” he says, “that will save $275 billion Association. He and his wife, Linda over the next ten years.” Wittig Forrest, also greeted a son, Adam “We also made major progress in the sophistication of the revenue March, born on October 5, 1997. estimating function,” he adds. He coordinated a year and a half-long project to They also have an eight-year-old determine how to complete the process. The results of the effort were published daughter, Karen Estella. The Forrests last November. reside in Tiffin. Kies first served as a staff member for the Ways and Means Committee during After six years as in-house counsel the 1980’s. From June 1981 to December 1982, he was Assistant Minority Tax at BFGoodrich, David P. Dureska ’86 Counsel, then served as Chief Minority Tax Counsel from December 1982 to has rejoined the Akron firm of December 1986. Prior to returning to the Federal government three years ago, he Hudak and Shunk to establish and was a partner at the Cleveland-based law firm of Baker and Hostetler, where he manage a branch office for the firm in was the firm-wide chair for tax and personal planning. Canton, Ohio. He and his wife, Laura, Ken credits professors like Mike Rose and Morgan Shipman for instilling in live in Canton. him his interest in tax law. Their teaching “fundamentally impacted my career,” Michael A. Heiner ’86 is president he says. of Midland Title of Ashtabula County and vice president of Bates Title Corp., both purchased in January 1997. He is 17 Alumni News

also partner at Baters, Hiener and Vince, plans, health plans, and executive associate with Luper, Sheriff and Madison, Ohio. He and his wife, Diane, compensation plans. Neidenthal in Columbus. reside in Dorset, Ohio. Felicity Hillmer ’89 is a District Brenda Bowers ’90 and Debi (Colacci) At the October meeting of the Hearing Officer for the Ohio Industrial Willet ’89 have been elected co-chairs of International Women’s Insolvency Commission. She and her husband, the Ohio Network of International and Restructing Confederation in David McCarty ’92, reside in Toledo. Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Philadelphia, Pa., Susan L. Rhiel ’86, David C. Levine ’89 has also been'elected Confederation. was elected chairman. She is a to partnership in the firm of Baker and D. Andrew List ’90, an associate of Clark, partner at Thompson, Hine, and Flory Hostetler, L.L.P He concentrates his Perdue, Robers and Scott, and Dale K. L.L.P., Columbus. practice in litigation, with an emphasis in Perdue ’80, managing partner, obtained a William A. Herzberger ’87 was business and commercial disputes, medical million dollar verdict in a nursing home admitted to partnership at Jones, Day, malpractice and other personal injury neglect case. He has been certified as a Reavis and Pogue, Cleveland. He and cases, and appellate practice matters. He member of the Million Dollar Advocates his wife, Cindy Brown Herzberger, and is located in the firm’s Columbus office. Forum, an organization that recognizes their two daughters, Ashley, 9, and Jeannine C. Sanford ’89 was elected attorneys on a national level who have Amanda, 6, live in Avon Lake, Ohio. secretary of the District of Columbia Bar achieved a verdict or settlement in the amount of one million dollars or more. Philip F. Downey ’88 Association, the second largest mandatory has been named bar in the country. She is the director of President-elect of the Law Alumni partner in the Columbus Zacchaeus Free Clinic, a non-profit legal Association, Elizabeth J. Watters law office of Vorys, clinic in Washington, D.C. and was recently ’90, has been named a Sater, Seymour and married. She and her husband, the Rev. partner of Chester, Pease, L.L.P His practice Charles Parker, reside in Washington, D.C. Willcox, and Saxbe, L.L.P. Her practice involves litigation Neil D. Schor ’89 has been named a is concentrated in in a variety of areas, Philip E member of the law firm of Harrington, commercial litigation, including contract/ Downey ’88 Hoppe and Mitchell, Ltd. He practices employment law, commercial disputes, commercial litigation, utility law, and civil and bankruptcy. She litigation in the firm’s Youngstown office. insurance coverage matters, zoning Elizabeth J. resides in appeals, personal injury and product He and his family reside in Liberty Watters ’90 n j . „ . , Grandview Heights. liability claims, and utilities regulation. Township, Ohio. From the north, Jane (Steiner) Sebens Joining the faculty this year at the Debi (Colacci) Willet ’89 and Brenda ’90 writes: “After practicing with the University of Akron School of Law is Bowers ’90 have been elected co-chairs former firm of Faulkner, Banfield, As a of the Ohio Network of International Bernadette Bollas Genetin ’88. Doogan and Holmes in Anchorage for Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring visiting assistant professor, she is teaching five years, I took a year off to wander and Confederation. basic business associations, corporations, pursue other interests (to be determined and advanced legal communications along the way). It began with a camping (contract drafting). 1990s trip to the Southeastern community Jordan Berns ’90 has been elected to of Haines, Alaska, where I met a gold partnership in the firm of Baker and miner and renaissance man, named Class of 1988 Hostetler, L.L.P. Located in the firm’s Mark. The eventful year (1995) included Cleveland office, he focuses his practice The 10th reunion of the Class of 1988 engagement, permanent relocation to in civil litigation, with an emphasis in will be held Friday, September 11 at Haines (population approx. 2,000) commercial matters. the College of Law. For more and a four month, 26,000 mile cross­ information, call (614) 292-2937. Brigid E. Heid ’90 and country USA and Mexico adventure in Kurt R. Swartzlander our VW Vanagon. The next year (1996) were married November was no less exciting. We got married, 29, 1997. He is a 1 opened my law office (and continue to Richard J. Helmreich ’89 has been mechanical engineer for be the only practicing attorney in our elected to partnership in the firm of the Rimrock Corporation scenic coastal town) and we started Baker and Hostetler, L.L.P. Located at the of Columbus. She is also building our nine-sided home (elevation firm’s Columbus office, he concentrates his president of Women about 600 feet) on the mountainside practice in employee benefits, designing Lawyers of Franklin spectacularly overlooking Haines and the qualified and nonqualified retirement County and is an Lynn Canal.”

1 8 Alumni News

After practicing workers’ compensation December 1997 issue of Ebony Magazine. first child, Anne Frances Knotts, on defense for the past five years in Toledo, He is an attorney who is co-founder and August 3, 1997. She has resigned from David McCarty ’92 has joined the firm partner, Bishop, B. Ray and Associates her position as Assistant Prosecuting of Kegler, Brown, Hill and Ritter in Educational Consulting Firm, Dayton, Attorney, Juvenile Division, with the Columbus. He and his wife, Felicity Ohio, a motivational speaking and Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney’s Hillmer ’89, live in Toledo. consulting firm. office. She continues to coach the Jose A. Figueroa ’93 has been living and Steve Ellerman ’96 has joined the firm A.T.L.A./Michael E Colley National working in Puerto Rico since graduation. of Calfee, Halter and Griswold in Student Trial Advocacy Competition From September 1993 to July 1994, he Cleveland. He resides in Lakewood, Ohio. teams for Ohio State (along with Mark Serrott, ’79), and teaches in paralegal served as staff attorney for the Office of Karen Frees ’96 has joined the Legislative Services of the Puerto Rico programs at the Academy of Court advancement staff of the Columbus Reporting and Columbus State University. General Assembly. From July 1994 to Foundation as Gift Planning Officer. August 1996, he served as Lead Counsel She and her family live in Upper She and her husband, John, live in Arlington, Ohio. of the Government and Federal Affairs Westerville, with their two children. Committee of the Senate of Puerto Rico. Chris Dunakin ’97 is in an Executive Andrew S. Mcllvaine ’96 is an Finally, from August 1996 to the present, Fellowship Program with the State of associate with the law firm of Palecek, he has been serving as the Executive California. Working under Governor Pete Mcllvaine, Paul and Hoffmann Co., Director of the Office of Legislative Wilson’s office, he is part of the staff of the L.P.A., 200 Smokerise Drive, Suite 200, Services, overseeing the Administration of Business, Transportation, and Housing Wadsworth, Ohio. a office with more than 100 employees. Agency for California. Elizabeth Sherowski ’96 and her Richard Law Orloski ’97 is an associate husband, Michael Knotts, welcomed their with Orloski, Hing and Pandaleon in Class of 1993 Allentown, Penn. The 5th reunion of the Class of Four members of the Class of 1997 have 1993 will be Friday, May 15 in Drennen Award joined the firm of Baker and Hostetler, Columbus. For more information, Goes to L.L.P Elizabeth A. Scully, Daniel J. call (614) 292r2937 or call Scott Guttman, Stephen E. Ifeduba, and T. M. Anderson at (512) 477-4242. Helfrich Christopher Brown have been named as associates in the Columbus office. Kurt P Helfrich, a 1997 graduate of the College of Law, has received the Jacqueline Kirian Shultz ’97 married Joanne S. Peters ’94 and husband, Brian Judge William M. Drennen Award. Rodney Shultz. She is currently a staff Cooperider, welcomed the birth of their The award is given to the student who attorney at the 2nd District Court of Appeals in Dayton. She and her husband son, Evan John Cooperider, on November attains the highest numerical grade reside in Kettering. 7, 1997. The family resides in Columbus, average in tax courses at the College. where she is an associate with Isaac, It was established in 1981 with gifts Jeffrey A. Yeager ’97 has Brant, Ledman and Teetor. from former law clerks of Judge joined the Columbus Published in The Tax Executive is Lisa Drennen, a 1938 graduate of the office of Squire, Sanders M. Zarlenga ’94, who co-authored an College, who was a U.S. Tax Court and Dempsey L.L.P as an article, “The New Anti-Morris Trust Judge. □ associate in the litigation and Intragroup Spin Provisions” with practice group. □ colleagues Mark J. Silverman and Andrew J. Weinstein of Steptoe and Johnson, L.L.P. Jeffrey A. Yeager As an associate in the firm, she focuses on ’97 corporate tax issues. Elizabeth Welch Lykins ’95 has joined Because of the large volume of class the law firm of Miller, Johnson, Snell and notes submitted, we regret we cannot Cummiskey, PL.C, Grand Rapids, Mich., confirm all information. If information as an associate practicing in the area of is printed incorrectly, please contact the employment law. Alumni Office and we will correct the Barry Lamont Ray ’95 is listed among error in the next issue. “30 Young Leaders of the Future” in the Kurt P. Helfrich, ’97

19 College of Law

1 9 9 8 Alumni Awards

C a ll fo r N o m in a tio n s

Two alumni and a faculty member will be Nominee’s N am e ______honored at the College of Law Annual A d d re ss ______Alumni Return festivities in September C ity ______1998. Submissions will be judged by representatives of the Membership and S t a t e ______Z i p ______Alumni Recognition subcommittee of the Current Position ______Alumni Association’s National Council. Nominations, including a resume or Sponsor’s Name ______curriculum vitae, are due March 27, 1998. P h o n e ______

A w ard C ategories Aw ard C ategory (C heck one) Outstanding Alumna/us Award O utstanding Alum na/us Aw ard Given annually to a College of Law Recent Alumna/us Award graduate for exceptional professional Faculty Award achievement or outstanding service to the College or community. I nominate the candidate because ______R ecent Alum na/us Award Granted annually to an individual who has graduated within the past ten years whose accomplishments exemplify outstanding professionalism or loyalty to the College or community.

Faculty Aw ard Given annually to a current faculty member Continue on a separate sheet if necessary; include a for outstanding teaching, research, or resume or curriculum vitae and any supporting data community service. you deem appropriate.

M ail or fax by M arch 27, 1998 to: Assistant Dean Pamela H. Lombardi OSU College of Law • John Deaver Drinko Hall 55 West 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210-1391 Fax: (614) 292-1383 Inquiries: (614) 292-8809

20 In Memoriam

The College of Law family has received word listed in the 1972-73 edition of Who’s booking agent, and personal manager of the deaths of these alumni. We express our Who in America. since the 1920s. He is survived by his sympathy to relatives and loved ones, A native of Columbus, Chuck received wife, Geri, a son, and a daughter. both his undergraduate and law degrees C. Merle Igo ’33 died July 1, 1997. Charles W. (Chuck) Ebersold ’38, from Ohio State. He was awarded the He was 87. A practicing attorney in a telecommunications executive and Order of the Coif and was a member of Columbus for more than 58 years, friend of the College of Law, died January Delta Tau Delta. he is survived by a son, Richard B. Igo, 1, 1998, of cancer, at his home in He was a past director of the Ohio a daughter, Lucinda Farrell, a Wilmette, 111. He was 85. State Alumni Association and was a granddaughter, and several nieces He retired in 1975 as vice president- charter member of the university’s and nephews. corporate secretary-assistant to the President’s Club. He received the Willis Grant ’35 died December president of Illinois Bell (now Ameritech). Centennial achievement award from the 24, 1997, in Daytona Beach, Fla. He He began with the company as a student university in 1970. was retired from Grant and Steiner, manager after college before being He is survived by his wife, Florence, Canton, Ohio, and is survived by his promoted to upper management whom he met in high school and married wife of 65 years, Doris; three daughters, positions in the company, as well as at 57 years ago. Burial was in Columbus. Linda G. Sharp, Chappaqua, N.Y., AT&T in New York City and the Gifts in his memory may be made to the Gayloe G. Hughes, Lapaz, Mexico, and Wisconsin Telephone Company. College of Law, where a chair in Susan G. Leonard, Macon, Ga.; two He devoted much of his time to the constitutional law will be established in sisters, Marien Robinson, Rochester, Union League Foundation for Boys’ accordance with the terms of his will. N.Y., and Betty Perkins, North Clubs and helped the American Cancer Hollywood, Calif. Society raise millions of dollars. In 1961, Word has been received of the death Eugene C. Barstow ’53 died August he led the Illinois crusade that raised the of former Ohio State law professor, Mary 26, 1997 at the age of 70. A lawyer in largest total of contributions in the Ellen Caldwell. She died September 1, Cincinnati for 33 years, he also worked organization’s history. 1995 of cancer at her home in as chief of the permit division of the He was a former president of the Gainesville, Fla. A professor emeritus at Ohio State Liquor Department. He is Skokie County Club and a member of the the University of Florida since 1985, she survived by his wife, Joyce, of Sarasota, American Legion. was a member of the Florida law faculty Fla.; a cousin, Judge Donald DeCessna The Institute of Medicine in Chicago from 1974 to 1985. ’53, Perrysburg, Ohio; and several nieces presented Chuck with its Citizen Professor Caldwell taught at Ohio and nephews. Fellowship Award in 1972, and he was State from 1966 to 1974 and was one Walter E. Shaeffer ’53 died January of the first female law professors in 14, 1998 in Columbus at 69 years of age. the country. He is survived by his wife of 27 years, A native of Louisiana, Caldwell also Carole; children, Carolyn Ziliak, Penny served as administrative assistant to Malley, Deborah Bryant, Walter and Louisiana Governor Earl Long; editor Bradley Hoge, and Cindy Baird; and and assistant director for the Louisiana several grandchildren. State Law Institute; and editor for the William J. Ahern ’55 died January Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure. She 7, 1998 at his residence in Upper also wrote a book on communication Arlington, Ohio. He was an attorney sciences and law, and several articles and in private practice for more than book chapters. 42 years. He is survived by his wife, She received a J.D. degree from Ellen, son, Douglas, three grandchildren Louisiana State University in 1955 and and a sister. an L.L.M degree from Yale Law School in Raymond W. “Bill” Hand ’56 died 1959. She also did graduate work at January 8, 1998 of complications from L.S.U. in sociology, geography, and emphysema. He was 69. A six-term anthropology. representative to the Missouri House Stanford Zucker ’25 died of natural of Representatives, he represented the causes on January 3, 1998 in Century 87th district in St. Louis County for more City, Calif.. He was 95. A native of than 11 years. He was a lawyer and Cleveland, he had worked in the business consultant in the St. Louis area. Charles W (Chuck) Ebersold ’38 entertainment business as a producer, He is survived by his wife of 42 years,

21 In Memoriam

Carole; a son, Steven Hand, Arlington, women, and the poor, Frederick E. Heights, Ohio, died November 20, 1997. Va.; and two daughters, Sara Rader, Davis ’73 died January 3, 1997 following He was 42. He is survived by his wife, Chicago, and Carolyn Milges, a lengthy struggle against pancreatic Cathie; his parents, James and Marie, of Des Peres, Mo. cancer. He was 49. His survivors include Willoughby Hills; grandmothers, Lena Publisher of Los Angeles’ largest black his wife, Nancy; and two sons, Trotta, Mayfield Heights, and Olive newspaper, the Los Angeles Sentinel, John B. Franks ’94, of Mayfield Renner, Lyndhurst, and two sisters. □ Kenneth R. Thomas ’59 died November 28, 1997. He is survived by his wife and co-publisher, Jennifer; a daughter, Maria The account of the death of John Edmund Pembroke ’82, reported in the Summer Thomas; and a brother, Charles Wilson. 1997 issue of the Law Record, contained some inaccuracies. He died in a 1996 plane Thomas C. Scott ’61 died November crash near Granville, Ohio. It was widely reported in area newspapers, where the Law 7, 1997. He was 61. A partner in the Record obtained the information, that he and his wife, Nancy Pierce, had just taken off firm of Thompson, Hine and Flory, he from Port Columbus when the plane developed engine trouble. It was also reported was chairman of the firm’s Banking, that he had told her to get into the back seat before the plane went down, thus saving Bankruptcy and Commercial Finance her life. In actuality, the couple was enroute from Chicago when the accident department. He is survived by his wife, happened. Ms. Pierce, a 1984 graduate of the College who was a practicing attorney Nancy and daughters, Amy Mampieri until shortly before the accident, was doing paperwork in the back seat of the plane and Molly Zesch. the entire trip. We apologize for any inconvenience the error might have caused. Known as an advocate for minorities,

M aking or Breaking M ediation: The Role of Lawyers Craig McEwen D aniel B. Fayerweather Professor of Political Economy and Sociology Bowdoin College 4:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 15 Auditorium, John Deaver Drinko Hall

A leading sociologist, Professor McEwen has written extensively in the area of dispute resolution, including Mediation: Law, Policy and Practice with Ohio State’s Professor Nancy Rogers. The book won the Book Prize for the Center for Public Resources Legal Program “for Excellence and Innovation in Alternative Dispute Resolution.” A summa cum laude graduate of Oberlin College, Professor McEwen received an A.M. degree from Harvard University in 1969 and a Ph.D., also from Harvard, in 1975. He has been a faculty member at Morgan State College and joined the faculty at Bowdoin in 1975. He also was the Drinko Distinguished Visiting Professor at the College of Law in 1991. The Schwartz Lectures on Dispute Resolution was established in 1992 as a result of the generosity of the late Stanley Schwartz, Jr. ’47 and the Schwartz family. Each lecture is published in the interdisciplinary Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution in keeping with Mr. Schwartz’ interest in the promotion of scholarly publication in the area of dispute resolution. c r .

22 How Much Po You Know About the College of Law?

Professor Douglas W haley’s trivia contest has become a tradition at the College of Law. Last year, it was held in conjunction with Parents and Partners Day for the first time last year. W inning by a narrow margin, the students took the 17th annual,match against the faculty. Now here’s your challenge. How m uch do you know about the College? Here’s a scaled-down version of the quiz, drawing on those questions that might best be answered by current students about the law school. To see how well you did, turn the page upside down for the answers.

1. What is the name of the online catalog tn l| serves 14. What two words summarize torts according to Professor The Ohio State University library system, incmaing the Michael Braunstein? Law Library? 15. Professor Morgan Shipman feeds his students a lot of 2. What is Bruce Johnson’s title and when is the library quotes. 1 le tells them, foitxample, that according to open on Mondays — from what time to what time? Buddha., what is the purpose of life?

$. What recently-retired faculty member was the first female 16. What, professor warns his students, “Be careful or you’ll Editor-In-Chief of The Ohio State Law Journal, serving in be sucked down the hellhole of litigation?” this capacity in 1957? 17. Name the faculty member who teaches his students that 4. Name another current member of the faculty who was j the first rule of law is “sue solvent parties.” once Editor-In-Chief of the Law Journal.

5. What faculty member played in an all-instrumental soul XajEqyW sEjSnoQ rossajojy band in high school? 71 umequ33i£) wy iosssjojj '91 6. The law school building is named after John Deaver Suusjjns 61 Drinko. In what year did he graduate frpm the College 3|qBU0SB3I sg of Law? •*t S1U33 C,L 7. In 1961, when Ohio Governor George Voinovich was a piEAU5]-I '71 student here at the College of Law, what important 33£) uoproyj g tuapissrg flSO Jratmog u position did he hold? smBiqiyW h Ajo§3J£) ubsq 8. Currently, what is the number of semester hours needed pUB ‘SUIBT||]/y\ piABQ ‘unpj3/y 3U33UIA to graduate? ‘uisquojq XqtBg ‘S3iaeq uoreqs sjosssjoij — 3Atg 01 Asuprug mif 9. What members of the faculty went to undergraduate losssjojg puB uosuqof 33mg ubsq aiEpossy school with best-selling author Scott Turotl? '6 88 '8 10. How many full-time members of the College of Law tusptssjg uopBpossy mg tuapms L faculty are African-American? bb6I '9 11. Through the years members of the law school faculty umBqu33i£) jay rosssjoig 6 have served in important positions in the tipper uqqSnBg ubj$ lossajorg •* administration of the whole university. Name the member jdoqsnEi>i uBof smusrng tosssjoig £ of the law school faculty who held the most senio^i iqSrapira oi -ui!e gx;Z administrative position at OSU until December 31, 1997. S33TAJ3S UOUBUIiOjU] JOJ UB3Q StBtDOSSy 7 11 The dean of the College of Law is Gregory Williams. 11VDSO I What is his middle name? 11 If you want to park your car for two hours at a parking :sj3MSM v aqj. meter near the law school, what will it cost you?

23 Tw enty Y ears A fter

B a k k e Hie Law and Social Science of Affirmative Action in Higher Education

The Ohio State University Symposium Speakers College o f Law Columbus, Ohio ♦ Jim Chen, Associate Professor of Law, University of Minnesota. ♦ Christopher Edley, Jr., Professor of Law, Harvard University. A pril 3-4, 1998 ♦ Edgar Epps, Marshall Field IV Professor of Urban Education, University of Chicago. Twenty years after the Supreme Court’s historic decision in ♦ John Gruhl, Professor qf Political Science, University Bakke, affirmative action remains one of the most hotly contested of Nebraska. legal and social issues in America. This conference brings ♦ Maureen Hallinan, White Chair of Sociology, University together prominent law professors and social scientists to of Notre Dame. discuss the future of affirmative action in higher education. ♦ Jennifer Hochschild, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, What has been the impact of Bakke on minority students, the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. white students, universities, and the professions? What would ♦ Samuel Issacharoff, Charles Tilford McCormick Professor happen if affirmative action were eliminated? Are there of Law, University of Texas. alternatives to race-based preferences in university admissions? ♦ Thomas Kane, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy How are the courts likely to rule on future challenges to School of Government, Harvard University. affirmative action plans? ♦ Deborah Malamud, Professor of Law, University of Michigan. ♦ Deborah Merritt, John Deaver Drinko/Baker & Hostetler The Ohio State University College of Law, the College’s Chair in Law, The Ohio State University. Socio-Legal Center, and the Ohio State Law Journal are ♦ Rachel Moran, Professor of Law, University of California cosponsoring this interdisciplinary conference on Bakke and its at Berkeley. future. Plan to join us April 3-4, 1998, in Columbus, Ohio. ♦ Barbara Reskin, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University. The Ohio State Law Journal will publish all conference papers in ♦ Kathleen Sullivan, Professor of Law, Stanford University. its Fall 1998 issue. ♦ Susan Welch, Dean, College of the Liberal Arts, and Professor of Political Science, The Pennsylvania State University. ♦ Gregory H. Williams, Dean, College of Law, and Professor of Law, The Ohio State University.

Please mail this form, with a check made out to “The Ohio State Law Journal,” to Bakke Conference, The Ohio State Law Journal, 55 West 12th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210-1391. Seating at the conference is limited. Please register by March 30, 1998. For further information on the conference, please contact Symposium Editor Brad Johnston at (614) 292-6829. Bakke Conference

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Please indicate the portions of the conference for which you wish to register. Enclose a check for the appropriate total.

□ $75 Conference fee includes admission to all panels, written materials, refreshments during breaks, continental breakfast on Saturday, and a copy of the Symposium issue.

□ $50 Friday’s conference banquet at the Adam’s Mark.

□ $15 Informal lunch on Saturday.

24 C onference Schedule

Except as noted, all events occur at The Ohio State University College of Law

Friday, A pril 3

1 :3 0 Welcome Conference Editors, Deborah Merritt and Barbara Reskin

1 : 4 0 Introduction Gregory H. Williams Life on the Color Line

2 : 0 0 Panel I: Susan Welch and John Gruhl Does Bakke Matter: Affirmative Action and Bakke in the Admissions Office Minority Enrollments in Medical and Law Schools and the Courts Samuel Issacharoff Defending Affirmative Action

3 : 1 5 Break

3 : 3 0 Panel II: Maureen Hallinan Social Science Findings Related to Diversity in Education Affirmative Action in the Classroom Edgar Epps The Impact of Affirmative Action on Minorities’ Access to Faculty Positions

Kathleen Sullivan After Affirmative Action

5 : 0 0 Panels Adjourn

7 : 0 0 Conference Banquet— The Adam’s Mark Hotel

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8 : 3 0 Continental Breakfast

9 : 0 0 Panel SI: Jennifer Hochschild The Politics of Affirmative Action: Who Supports It, Is Affirmative Action Fair? Who Opposes It, and Why? (

Jim Chen Command Performance: The Soul of Diversity Under Affirmative Action

Deborah Malamud The Jew Taboo: A (Jewish) Response to Farber and Sherry on Affirmative Action and the Jews

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1 0 : 4 5 Panel IV: Thomas Kane Affirmative Action in College Admissions: The Viability The Future of Affirmative Action of Non-Racial Criteria for Producing Racial Diversity

Rachel Moran Diversity, Distance, and the Delivery of Higher Education

Christopher Edley, Jr. Still Not All Black and White

12:15 Informal Lunch Non Profit Org. U.S. Postage PAID College of Law Columbus, Ohio 55 West Twelfth Avenue Permit No. 711 Columbus, Ohio 43210

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For more information, see our web page Friday, May 15 and Saturday, May 16 at Fifth Reunion of the Class of 1993, Columbus or call (614) 292-2937 (unless otherwise specified). Saturday, May 16 Class of 1998 Hooding Wednesday, April 15 Ohio Theater, Columbus Schwartz Lecture Speaker, Roberta Cooper Ramo, 4:00 p.m., auditorium first woman president of the American Bar Association Making or Breaking Mediation: The Role of Lawyers Professor Craig McEwen, Bowdoin College, Maine June 25 Fellows in Criminal Justice Seminar April 30 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m., Fellows in Criminal Justice Seminar at The Ohio State University at Marion 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Drugs of the 90s featuring Lucille Fleming and Mike Link, at The Ohio State University at Marion Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services, Negative Youth Influences and Positive Resources and Detective Tim Brown, Marion City Police featuring Dale Griffis, former Tiffin Police Supervisor; Call (614) 389-6786, ext. 6312 for more information. Detective Tim Brown, Marion City Police; Teymor Sepahbrodi, M.D., Clinical Director, September 11 and 12 Charter Behavioral Hospital, Maumee; Reunions for the Classes of 1957, 1963, 1967, 1973, and Jim Wright, Principal, Calvert High School, Tiffin 1977, 1983, and 1987 Call (614) 389-6786, ext. 6312 for more information. Annual Alumni Return at the College of Law May 6-8 Ohio State Bar Association Annual Meeting September 19 Dayton, Ohio 45th reunion of the Class of 1953, Columbus OSU Alumni Breakfast For more information, call (614) 292-2937 Thursday, May 7 or Frank Bazler at (937) 339-0511.