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a LETTER TO ALUMNI LAW AND MOTORCYCLING - CLASS REUNIONS Dean Mar y Kay Kane DIFFERENT CAREERS AND Classes From the '30S Through the '80S Discusses the Civil Litigation DIFFERENT PATHS TRAVELED Gathered at the Westin St. Fran cis in Concentration September r998 II III CAMPUS NOTES ALUMNI RECEPTIONS FACULTY NOTES PICTURE BOOK The james Edga r Hervey Skyroom Opens - Hastings Faculty Report Latino Chapter New Students Reception Alumni Officers' Gathering in the Sky on Their Recent Activities - State Bar Reception, Monterey - PlRI Symposium Focuses on land Use Control Honolulu New Bar Admittees Reception -Visitor From Guam San Francis co Chapter New Bar Immigration Clinid Work Admittees Reception Advances a High-Profile Case CLASS NOTES The 28 th Annual Co llege of Advocacy Most Se nior Professor Retires at McGeorge ClE Program - judy Boyette ('8r) - The Barrow Award Named UC Associate Vice President for Newsman Daniel Schorr FOR THE BENEFIT - A Wedding Album Ce lebrating justice Blackmun~ 90th Birthday OF THE COLLEGE
Sproul Honored for Board Service The David B. Gold Reading Room - Visitors From Vietnam The Horace Coil ('57) Chair of Litigation Getting On-Line With the Alumni - Planning Firm-Wide So licitation Strategy Association - Work Progresses on r98 McAllister Renovation
As dusk settles over the San Francisco skyline, ASUCH President Aaron Fluss ('00) a nd jackie Gray ('00) enjoy the view from the jam es Edgar Hervey Skyroom on the 24th floor of McAllister Tower. The Hervey Skyroom, which opened on january 25, is a relaxed setting for student and alumni gatherings. (Photo: Bruce Cook) SPRING 1999
n earlier columns, I described Concentration is to provide our students The incredible depth of our litigation I th ree of the JD concentrations both a theoretical and a practical offerings is a reflection of the enormous that the faculty instituted in order understanding of the fundamental faculty strength Ha stings has in this area. to build on the traditional strengths of the concepts of civil litigation, as well as in the It is no overstatement to note that the College in specific areas of student interests fast growing areas of alternative dispute College has assembled a full-time faculty and energies. This column is devoted to the resolution. Students opting into the of litigation experts who are the envy of
last of the concentrations we inaugurated: concentration complete 20 units of other law schools. Our ability to do that the Civil Litigation Concentration. required study, while also enro lling in a was aided immeasurably by the The decision to emphasize our training minimum of eight courses. Four of those endowment of the James Edgar Hervey in litigation skills as one of our strengths courses must include Evidence; Trial Chair of Litigation and its award to should come as no surprise to the Advocacy I; one course from a list of Professor Roger Park, formerly of the practicing bar. Hastings has a long history Alternative Dispute Resolution courses; University of Minnesota and a leading as a premier provider of continuing lega l and another course from a listing of expert in the field of evidence law. And, as education for trial attorneys, through our Advanced Advocacy or Clinical courses. you will read later in this issue (see p. 27), summer College of Advocacy programs, The remaining four courses may be in December 1998, Hastings received its and, more recently, with our partnership satisfied from a wide array of electives, second endowed chair in this field: the with Court TV in providing nationally ranging from seminars and courses in Horace 0. Coil ('57) Chair of Litigation, televised panel discussions by prominent Appellate Advocacy; Complex Litigation; which we will fill later this spring. Both trial attorneys about effective techniques International Litigation and endowed chairs are named in honor of for trial. But these CLE programs merely A rbitration; Lega l Reasoning and alumni who had extremely successful cap the excellent and broad-gauged JD Rhetoric; and Science in Law, to name careers in litigation. The endowment of curriculum in this area that is the base of just a few. Students also must complete a these chairs helps ensure that Hastings our Civil Litigation Concentration. substantial research paper on a specific can continue its tradition of being a The objective of the Civil Litigation topic within civil litigation. leader in education for trial lawyers.
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LETTER TO AL
El e~'e n full-time faculty members authored several law school texts on legal rhetoric and styles of argumentation; comprise the core of our litigation faculty, Remedies and on California Civil William Sc hwar~er, who was appointed a aided by the invaluable contributions of Procedure, as well as serving as the reporter Distinguished Professor of Law at Hastings many members of the Bay Area trial bar for a federal civil rules project in Nevada; in I996, after serving as the Executive who serve as adjunct faculty, teaching the RIchard Marcus. who recently was Director of the Federal Judicial enter many sections of our skills training courses promoted to a Distinguished Professorship, and as a Senior U.S. District Judge for the in trial advocacy, negotiation, and the like. teaches Civil Procedure and Complex Northern District of California, teaches This partnership of academic and real Litigation and has co-authored law school courses in Complex Litigation and in world experience provides our students the texts in both of those fields, as well as Judicial Administration; and Keit h best possible training. Space will not allow several volumes of the leading national Wingate, who teaches in the civil me to review all the credentials and talent federal practice treatise, and he also has procedure and federal courts areas, is the that our litigation faculty possess, but a served as a reporter with various federal co-author of course books on Federal brief description of just the full-time rules advisory committees; Melissa Nelken, Courts and California Civil Procedure, as faculty provides some idea of the depth of who, in addition to teaching Civil well as of a student Nutshell about talent that we have gathered at the Procedure, is a specialist in teaching California Civil Procedure. Since federal College. negotiation and trial advocacy and lectures civil procedure also is my own specialty, Hastings Civil Litigation faculty are: to lawyers around the country in those you can see why I take great pride in \1ark Aaronson. who is the Director of our subject areas; Roger Park, whom I being able to associate with such Civil Justice Clinic, practiced for some 13 mentioned earlier, and whose expertise in remarkably talented and productive years in San Francisco before joining our Evidence Law is demonstrated in the colleagues. faculty in 1992; Datid Falgman. who leading casebook in the nation on the As I said at the outset, Hastings has a teaches both Evidence and Science in Law, subject, as well as in an Evidence hornbook, litigation faculty without equal. With their is a co-author of the leading national in a practitioners manual, and in enthusiasm and enormous abilities fueling treatise on scientific evidence; Etan Lee. numerous law review articles; Eileen our program, we can rest assured that our whose specialties are Federal Courts and Scallen, who teaches Evidence, Civil Civil Litigation Concentration will Federal JLtrisdiction, publishes widely in Procedure, and A rgumentation and remain a special hallmark of the kind of those areas; Dat lei Let me. who teaches Persuasion Theory, is widely published and legal education about which Hastings Civil Procedure and Remedies, has co- a frequent speaker on panels discussing alumni justifiably can be proud .
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THE JAM E S E 0 GAR HERVEY SKYROOM
There's magic on the 24th floor.
anuary 1999 saw EDGAR Hrf,,\ . , the opening of IAM~ II the James Edgar " ISKYROOMt Hervey kyroom atop the Tower at 100 McAllister Street. i It A LITTLE HISTORY named in honor of James Edgar Hervey of the Clas The roo McAllister building was of 1950, a prominent San Diego trial lawyer and built by the Methodist Church in longtime member of the the "modern Gothic" style and American Board of Trial Advocates. The Skyroom opened in 1929 as the luxury features panoramic views of the San Francisco William Taylor Hotel, the tallest skyline. The Hervey hotel west of Chicago. But the Skyroom serves as a student lounge and Depression brought hard times, and alumni reception area in 1936 the building was sold and and quickly has become a sought-after gathering reopened as the Empire Hotel fea place for the Hastings turing the Skyroom, which predated community. Its renovation, the Top of the Mark as the city's first completed in January 1999, features carpeting, a panoramic cocktail lounge. During wet bar (serving light the World War II years, the building refreshments), comfy easy chairs and seating, was taken over by the government and breathtaking views in all directions - the Bay, Financial District skyscrapers, the for federal workers before the revitalized Civic Center, and Twin Peaks. During evening hours, recessed lighting of various colors in the walls and ceiling is reminiscent of the Art Deco period and adds a present federal office building on soft glow to the space. For the walls, Ha tings Art Curator Suzanne Park selected artwork from the '20s, including fine arts reproductions of a 1927 Georgia O'Keeffe Golden Gate was constructed. In cityscape (with a skyscraper uncannily resembling the Tower), Picasso's cubist "Untitled the 1970S, Hastings acquired the Still Life With Guitar," and works by Florence Henri, Marcelle Cahn, and Wassily Kandinsky. building for student apartments. At ceremonies at dusk on January 25, as purple-pink cl ouds fl oated by and city light began to twinkle on the skyline, Board of Directors Chair Maureen Corcoran ('79) cut the ribbon to welcome some 100 faculty, student, staff, Board of Directors members and friends of the College to an opening-night reception.
Make the Hervey Skyroom a must-see during your next trip to campus.
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Alumni Officers' Gathering In the Sky
In conjunction with their December board meeting, several members of the Alumni Associatio n Board of Governors made an on-site inspection of the new James Edgar Hervey Skyroom in McAllister Tower.
In the Skyroom's north wing are, left to right, Maria Louisa Hekker (,88), Douglas Crosby ('69), M. Wainwright Fi shburn (' I), John E Sealey ('72), Dean Mary Kay Kane, Alumni Director Judy Lane, Dennis Hightower ('92), Hon. Brad R. Hill ('83), Sreten J He (' 7), Alumni President Brad L. Fuller ('83), Past President Eric M. Abramson (,81), Mercedes Moreno (,80), Academic Dean Leo Martinet ('78), Hon. Jamoa A. Moberly ('76), and Ernie Washington ('69). II ,\ S T I :\ (; S
P L R s 5 E CON 0 5 Y M P 0 S U M Examines Land Use Control
n September 1998, the Public I Law Research Institute, in cooperation with the Municipal Law Institute Committee of the League of California Cities' C ity Attorneys Department, pre ented its Second Annual Symposium on C urrent Iss ue in Municipal Law, The program, entitled "The Effects of State H ousing Laws and CEQA on Local Land Use Control," examined the tension between statewide or regional goals and California's traditional commitment to local control over land use decisions, At right, Professo r David Jung, right, Director of the Public Law Research Institute, talks with luncheon speaker David Lyon, President of the Public Policy Institute of California, an orga nization which links groundbreaking research to the realities of public policy.
Jayne W Wi lliams ('74), Oakland City Attorney, was among registra nts.
on. John S. Unpingco, Chief Judge of II the District Court of Guam, was a visitor to the College on October 13, 1998,
when he discussed Continuing Legal
Education programs with Professor David 1.
Levine and Dean Mary Kay Kane .
. .) Immigra tion Clini c's Work Advances a High-Profile Case
high-profile legal case cleared a Arnesen traveled to New Zealand imagined; it shows students the intricacie major hurdle la t summer with a because, he says, Social ecurityofficia ls of procedure and different legal jubil ant welcoming scene at told him he had to apply for benefits from approaches; it even demonstrates the FG. The celebration - complete with a abroad.) effect of publici t y." (The Bay Area pres "Welcome Back" ball oon, champagne, H asting tudents Juan Ruvalcaba - C it ronicle and Examiner, and the legal and flashe and whi r of media cameras (,99), Paul Ocampo (,97), Jillian Blanchard press, the Recorder and San Franci co - happened thanks in no small part to (,99), Erica Tomlinson (,99), and Dai ly }ournal - featured articles the work of Hastings' Immigration Shah pour Matloob ('99) participated on throughout summer 1998.) Law C linic, headed by Professor the case, with Blanchard serv ing as the Hastings' Immigration Clinic began in Richard Bo well. primary student working with the 1994 with a grant from the U.S. Christopher Arnesen, a longtime lawyers on the case during summer and Department of Education. Referrals come permanent resident of the United States, fa ll 1998. Thi is a prime example of the from groups such as the Lawyers was all owed to return to the United types of case well suited to students in Committee for C ivi l Rights, a Sa n tates from New Zealand to establish his the clinic, Professor Boswell explained. Francisco nonprofit age ncy, and from law claim to lawful permanent residence and "It is complex; it implicates almost every offices involved in pro bono work. The coll ect his Social Security disability aspect of immigration law that can be clinic uses the vehicle of immigration a a benefits from his bridge 28 yea rs' work between here. An AIDS theory and patient, he was practice. At ca ught between Hastings, the Immigration where many and of the Naturalization students are Service, which for immigrants, four yea rs had such clinic refused to let him experience is re-en ter the particularly United rates meaningful, ba ed on his Profe ssor health status, and Boswell sa id. the Social Security Almost every Admini tration, area that is which had foundational required that he for practice - be physicall y in appellate, trial, the nited tate interview, in order to receive strategy, benefits. (In 1994, writing comes into play.
\X'hen hIS plane touched doten m San Francisco August 4, Chr is A rnesen, left, was still uncertain whether the INS would let him through customs and back mto the country. The INS did allow his te mporary return while his case is appealed, a nd he was greeted by a welcommg party mduding Professo r Richard Boswel l, rig h t, and attorneys from the San Francisco firm of Patterson & McCombs and the Los A ngeles·based firm of Sheppard, Mu ll m, Richter & Hampton, which also performed pro bono work on A rnesens behalf
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College of Advocacy CLE Program
as t summer, Has ting spon o red CRIMINAL JUSTICE INSTITUTE its 28th annual ollege of ( JULY 30-AUGUST 1 , 1998) HASTINGS' 29TH Advocacy LE Program on Andrea Auer ('89) ANNUAL. COL.L.EGE OF ca mpus, wi th attendance up in Hon. Terrence Boren ('68) ADVOCACY CLE each of the program's three institute . Hon. Ell en hait in ('73) PROGRAM HAS BEEN The oll ege of Advocacy, which was William Keane ('86) SCHEDUL.ED FOR THE inaugurated by Hastings in 1970, offers an Theresa Moore (,81) FOL.L.OWING DATES: intensive three-day trial ad vocacy skills George Walker (' 52) t rai ning program, where both non-trial BUSINESS LITIGATION lawyers and experienced litigators ca n BUSINESS LITIGATION INSTITUTE INSTITUTE ( AUGUST 6-8, 1998) - JULY 29-31 , 1999 develop or fu rther hone their litiga tion Debo rah Ballati ('75), Co-C hair skills under the tutelage of seasoned trial Stephen Coll ins ('79) PERSONAL. INJURY attorneys. As in prior yea rs, the program INSTITUTE Stephen English ('73) was broken down into three institutes, - AUGUST 5 - 7 , 1999 Edith Matthai ('75) depending on the type of practice Don Putterman ('79) engaged in by the participants. The CRIMINAL. JUSTICE INSTITUTE institutes are Ii ted to the right, along PERSONAL INJURY INSTITUTE - AUGUST 12- 14, 1999 wi th a list of the Has tings alumni who ( AUGUST 13-15, 1998) participated as faculty in each. Matthew White ('79), Co-C hair Debra Bogaards (,81) FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE UPCOMING Nanci Clarence ('85) PROGRAM , PLEASE CALL James Hagedorn ('63) THE HASTINGS OFFICE Nicholas Heldt ('78) OF CONTINUING LEGAL Karen Kirby ('89) EDUCATION , Shelley Kramer ('78) (415) 565-4664 Neil Moran ('80) Ken Rosenthal ('58) Geoff rey Spell berg ('85)
Deborah Ballati ('75) and George Wailes served as the Co -Chairs of the Blls iness Litigation Institute for this past summers Co llege of Advocacy CLE program.
Criminal Justice Institute Co-Chai r Jon Hopkin s and Ma tt W hite ('79), who served as Co-Chai r fo r the Stephen English ('73) took time to visit with Dean fe llow facu lty member Theresa Moore (,8 1). Persona l Injury Institute in last summers Co llege of Mary Kay Kane during a break in his teaching Advocacy program, is shown here with Nanci Clarence duties as a faculty member in the past summers ('85 ), who lectured at the In stitute. Co llege of Advocacy program.
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For Newsman Daniel Schorr
t a reception on September 8, 1998, journalist Daniel Schorr received the Roscoe Barrow Memorial Award for A his contributions to the area of communications law. The honor coincided with the publication of Forgive Us Our Press Passes, a collection of his writings published by Comm/ Ent, Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal. He is shown, below, with then-student editors of the work, Matthew Passmore ('98) and Chip Robertson (,98), who gave him a Lucite copy of the book cover, and, above, with Barrow Award presenter Rachelle Chong (,84), a former member of the Federal Communications Commission. The journal established the Barrow Award in 1980 in honor of the late Professor Roscoe Barrow, who was Comm /Ent~ founder. · ... 11 .\:-:'1' 1:-- 1::-:
JUSTICE BLACKMUN'S LAW CLERKS CEL EBRATE HIS 90TH BIRTHDAY A T CONS TITUTIONAL LAW QUARTERLY SYMPOSIUM
Retired Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun's legacy was the topic of a Hastings Co nstitutio nal Law Quarterly sy mposium on O ctober 17, 1998. Participants, all of whom served as his law clerks, included three Hastings faculty: Professors Vikram Amar, William Dodge, and Radhika Rao. Speakers disc ussed Ju stice Blackmun's contributions to the law in such areas as federali sm and the se paration of powers, sc ience and medicine in the law, free speech, federal tax, homosexuality, race, privacy, capital punishment, and criminal law and procedure. Ju stice Blackmun died on March 4, 1999. Vol. 26, No.1 of Has tings' Constitutional Law Quarterly, to be published in Spring 1999, will include papers from the sy mposium.
Among Justice BLackmun's Law clerks who spoke were Professors Pamela S. KarLan of Stanford, Deborah C. MaLamud of the University of Michigan, and Robert Green of CornelL. Pictured with them are Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterl y Senior Symposium Editor AdeL AaLi ('99) and Editor·in·Chief Azniv Ksachikyan ('99).
Former Law clerks of Justice BLack mun, including Hastings Professors WiLLiam S. Dodge and Radhika Rao, Judge Karen Nelson Moore of the U.S. Court of AppeaLs for the Sixth Circuit, Judge Diane P. Wood of the U.S. Court of AppeaLs for the Seventh Circuit, and Hastings Professor Vikram Amar, served as peakers at the symposium in his honor.
I)' LONGTIME HASTINGS BOA R 0 LEA 0 E R John Sproul Steps Down
JOH N A. SPROU L persua ive manner in recently retired from the add res ing key is ue wer Ha tings Board of Director especially crucial in helping upon the expiration of h is to lay the foundati on for I2-year term this pa t the crafting of workable October. Appointed to the olutions to ome of the Board in 1986 by fo rmer College' property Gov. George Deukmejian, manage ment iss ues in Mr. proul formerl y se rved recent years. He also was a the longtime Executive in strumental in facilitati ng Vice Presiden t of the renewed and cl oser Pacific Gas and El ectric relationships with the om pan y. In addition to his University of California, publi c service at Has tings, which have resulted in , M r. Sproul ha served on among other things, the both the U ni versity of management by UC of California's Canadian Has tings' investment fun ds. Studies Ad visory Board and ''Although John proul is the Lawrence Hall of not a Hastings grad - he cience's Ad visory Board, as received his J.D. degree well as having been a pa t from Boalt H all - he C hairman of the Board of simply could not be any the Pacific Coast Gas more loyal to Hastings. He Association. has been both a regul ar Dean Mary Kay Kane participant in a wide va ri ety publicly praised Mr. Sproul 's of Hastings alumni events man y significant and a longtime member of contributio ns to H as ting the Has tings 1066 noting, among other things: Foundation. Indeed, his "John Sproul se rved man y contribution to with great distinction in his H astings over the yea rs year on the H astings Board mo re than quali fy hi m to of D irectors. His exem plary be designated an 'H onorary leadership as the Board's Alumnus of H as tings Chair of Finance, as Vice College of the Law,' which Chair, and subsequently as status,l have no doubt, wi ll Chair of the Board was be confe rred upon him always characterized by someday. While hi service both great diplomacy and o n the Board w ill be ound judgment. mi sed, 1 look forward to ''As Chair, he particularly helped guide Hastings th rough his continued pa rticipati on in the va rious acti vitie of the ome very challenging time and with re pect to several Coll ege and to receiving his w ise advice and counsel for en itive matter. Mr. Sproul' thoughtful approach and man y years to come." 11 .\ :-: '1' 1.\ 1::-: GETTING
Visitors From Vietnam ON LI N E
WITH THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
IF YOU THINK •• DOT - COM" IS A SMALL VILLAGE IN VIETNAM, YOU MAY NOT BE THRILLED BY OUR NEWS.
For the rest of you, we're delighted to announce that you can now access the Alumni Association online. Look for us at www.uchastings.edu/ alumni.In group of Vietnamese attorneys from the Bar Association of addition to getting information ahout the Alumni Association, its Ii Ho Chi Minh C ity visited Has tings in Novembe r 1998 during a officers, and various regional and special interest Chapters, you can, t rip to San Francisco to study the U.S. judicial system. W hile here, they among other things, update your attended Professor Stefan Riesenfeld 's cl ass in Public International Law address, share news for the Community magazine, and review and toured the Library and 200 McAllister building, accompanied by our calendar for upcoming events. You can even RSVP right online! Library Associate Director Faye Jones, back row, left, and Academic Like most websites, ours is a Dean Leo Martinez ('78), back row, right. work-in-progress and open to your comments and suggestions. Please let us know what kinds of information you would like to have available to you. Whenever possible, we will accommodate your requests. We hope you'll take advantage of this opportunity to remain in contact with your Alumni Association. Check our c.alendar of activities and make plans to attend. You're sure to meet old friends and make new ones. Find out what's happening at the College. Get involved! We look forward to seeing and hearing from you more often. One, a specialist in es tate planning, works il1 asset management; the other combines law with th e fa st-pa ced b~l s il1 ess of high
NAN C Y L. POWERS
n June 1992, Nancy L. Powers ('79) founded a cohesive, yet informal, networking group of some 40 Bay Area business and professional women with similar backgrounds and interests. That all sounds routine enough - except for one thing - they all ride motorcycles. Members of Professional Motorcycle Sisters plan and lead rides, including on the Baja Peninsula's Highway 1 to Cabo Sa n Lucas, Mexico, to Costa Rica, the U.S. Southwest and Northwest, and throughout Califo rnia. More international rides are in the planning. The safety-conscious Sisters wear protective cl oth ing and helmets on their rides, and members sponsor safety classes. They publish a newsletter "whenever Nancy . . . or anyo ne else has time to prepare one" and include information about meetings, rides, equipment for sale, news about members, and information about members' businesses. Though the Sisters' home meeting locati on is at an Embarcadero C enter restaurant, they often meet at favorite restaurants in other areas or in each others' homes. Powers said she created the club because many groups do not meet the needs of business and professional women. "The group provides camaraderie and business networking opportunities," she sa id. Their bright red business card with a stylized motorcycle proclaims: "Professional Motorcycle Sisters. For Professional Women Who Ride." Las t fa ll , while on a ride to Cabo, she even met with clients, packing appropriate business attire on her Kawasa ki. Instead of a women's auxiliary, the group ha formed a men's auxiliary - business and professional men who ride motorcycles and are interested in networking for their businesses. Powers, a Berkeley native, has relatives who have li ved in the Bay Area for six generations ince the arrival, on September 27, 1849, of her grandfather's grandfathe r. She has practiced law since her admission to the California Bar in ovember 1979, concentrating on family wealth preserva tion, including estate planning, trusts, and lottery law, and recently left priva te practice to become Vice President for Mellon Priva te Asset Management in an Francisco. She has been acti ve in man y profess ional organizations, including her pa t service as an Executive Comm ittee member of the State Bar of California's Estate Pl anning, Trust, and Probate Law ection, where she also served as the Chair of that ection's Probate Law Committee and as the C hai r of it Lottery Law Subcommittee. In addition, she holds memberships in various other profe sional groups such as the Probate and Trust Law ection of the Bar Association of Sa n Francisco and the ABA's Real Property, Probate, and Trust Law Section. She previously se rved as C hair of the Employ ment Committee of Queen's Bench and as a member of the Board of Governors of the Hastings Alu mni Association. Powers is active in a wide va riety of other civic and philanthropic endeavor, including her service as a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Maritime Museum Association in San Francisco and a a member of the Board of Trustee of the College Preparatory School in Oakland .
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technology. They share a co 111 111 on interest - a love of motorcycles and the thrill of two-wheeled travel on the open road.
JAM E S J . SOWERS
dventure might not be his middle name, but it comes about as close to defining his lifestyle as anything can. A Meet James]. Sowers ('88/ '89 JD/ MBA). Sowers' most recent quest began two years ago, when he joined an office products inventor, two filmmakers, and a Canadian outdoorsman, leaving Santa Monica on their Kawasaki motorcycles for Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. The group, some of whom met through the Internet, became pals. One had overcome cancer, and another, growing up in South America, had seen firsthand the conditions faced by third-world children. So their trip, in addition to being a journey of self-discovery and exploration, helped raise money for the American Cancer Society and Save the Children. On the road, Sowers posted journal entries to the ride's website, "Riding to the Moon," http:// moonride.org, with a laptop computer, digital cameras, a modem, and a satellite phone. Motorcycles aren't new to Sowers, who grew up with sports, mathematics, and fast vehicles. He went from a mini-bike at age 11 to a two-stroke Ducati 90. As a teenager, after a few spills on his Honda, he got permission to put a V-8 in the family Vega - four wheels, his parents figured, were safer than two. He took an undergraduate degree in computer science at Cal Poly Pomona, where he graduated magna cum laude, working his way through school driving a forklift and programming computers at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena. In college, daredevil urges persisted - he hang-glided and took up skydiving. During his relatively sedate Hastings years, he was active in volunteer programs providing legal services to low-income clients. . -. Throughout his career, Sowers has kept up his volunteer work: working on the staff of Earth Day 1990; serving three years on the Board of Directors of San Francisco Education Services, a nonprofit serving children; and handling pro bono cases through the Volunteer Legal Services Program of the Bar Association of San Francisco. Reflecting on his la w school da ys, Sowers noted, "Of course, when I was at Hastings, we all hated school. We hated the law school process. But looking back, one of the best things I got from my years at Hastings was a very special circle of friends," he said. "You are around an incredible amount of talent, competition, and diversity." On graduation (armed with an MBA from Berkeley along with his Hastings JD), he went to work for the U.S. Department of Justice, handling civil and criminal cases. His la t case was the investigation of Microsoft Corporation, which resulted in a 1995 consent decree ending a government investigation of the software giant for anti-competitive behavior. That decree, criticized at the time, was the basis of the Department's 1997 move against Microsoft. "If there is vindication, 1 think it's due to the fact that it's now recognized that this consent decree was crafted in such a way that it anticipated future behavior," Sowers told the San Jose Mercury News in a 1997 interview. Sowers left Justice in 1994, when the call of the road again beckoned. He spent several months traveling and studying percussion and dance in Brazil, Cuba, and Trinidad. (He now DJs at festivals and clubs and dances with a Cuban salsalrueda group around the Bay Area.) Meanwhile, he returned to his first love - the technical world of Silicon Valley. And he's looking toward more travel- "Riding to the Sun," he muses, "from Capetown to Cairo." Sowers' ow n website, http://arana.com, hints at the future. Under a page named '~dventures," he enters, "What's next? (coming soon)."
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AU apcions Usc name left co right, unless otherwise scated. Alumni Receptions Picture Book
L ATl 0 CH APTER NEW STCOENTS RECEPTION SEPTEMBER 1998
Vincent M. Casiano ('99), Erasmo C. Pacheco, Jr. ('77), Marco S. Zambrano Ricardo A. Callejo ('59) is surrounded by his daughter Francesca Ca ll ejo and Hon. ('99), and Gabriel FLores ('99). Alexander E. Saldamando ('67).
Dean Mary Kay Kane holds court. Lina Raquel Gui llen ('00) and Tony Mora les ('64).
Alumni ASSOCiation Board member Mercedes U. Moreno ('80), Datid Pelcie, Colette Pelcic ('01), and Academic Dean Leo MartInez ('78).
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STATE BAR RECEPTION, M ONTEREY O CTOBER 1998
Barbara Ri zzieri ('88), Elten Belt Campos ('87), and Ricardo Diaz ('86)
Charlene Usher ('96) visits with 1998-99 State Bar President Raymond Marshalt at the State Bar Conven tion in Monterey.
Louis Gonzalez ('91) and Deborah Gonzalez
Aubrey Weldon ('74), Alumni Association Board member John Staley ('72), Dean Mary Kay Kane, and Hon. Kay Kingsley ('81).
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Marc Sa t/ us ('79), Dean Mary Kay Kane, Robert Ponce ('80), and Lynne Griffin.
Classmates John Menken (,69) and Leo Piggott ('69).
Jorge Moreno, AlumnI Association Board members Mercedes Moreno ('80), Gregg Hovey ('83), and A ndre Ross ('93).
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HONOLULU NEW BAR A OM ITTEES RECEPTION NOVEMBER 1998
Among those attending the ew Bar Admittees Reception were, seated, honorees Rya n Au ('98) and Michelle Shin ('98) with 1066 Foundation President Barry Sc hulman ('64) and, standing, Dean Mary Kay Kane, Hastings Board of Directors Vice Chair jim Mahoney ('66), reception host Bert Kobayashi (,65), Ron Au ('63), A l Wong ('64), and Honolulli Alumni Chapter President Harvey Lung ('81).
Kneeland Lobner ('44) and Dwight Rush ('53). Chatting at the buffet are 1066 Foundation Trustees Betty Falk ('46) and Marvin Sussman ('50) with Georgia Rush.
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Former Alumni Association Presid ent Brian ThIessen ('67) with Chris Cole ('92).
Pausing for our photographer are Swan Fujioka (,86), Janet Kin g, 1066 Foundation First Vice President George Kin g ('5 ), and Jeff Lall ('77)·
Richard Yanagi ('85) and Lex Smith (,83).
Crystal Rose ('82), Carol Mon Lee ('74), and Dr. Jerry Ben dey.
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1998 classmates Meghan Rhea and Todd Williams.
Carrie Grove ('98), Jessica Stavnezer ('98) and Christopher Leung ('98).
Dee Dee Wilson ('98) and Matthew Dudley ('95).
Peter Buxton ('71) with Wayne Veatch, Sr. ('35) and Wayne Veatch, Jr. ('76).
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1998 classmates Peter Meringo lo, Krista Martinelli, and Alumni Association Board of Governors member Ernie Washington (,69), Clare Fisher, and Alumni Board Kate Scanlan. President Brad Fuller (,83).
1998 classmates Ja so n Sc hwarz, Sarah Weinstein, Kate Cutler, and Jennifer Bunshoft.
Hon. Tim Reardon ('66) and Hon. A lexander Sa ldamando ('67).
Winifred Hepperle ('43), Elizabeth Richards ('57), Beny Bullock ('79), and Jean Wall ('70). Hastings Board of Directors Vice Chair Jim Mahoney ('66), Josel)hine Mahoney, Jane Baxter, and Hon. Marvin B~X[er ('66).
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1066 Foundation Trustee Jack Smith ('54) and ABA Law Student Division Rep. Vincent Casiano ('99) visited at the reception.
ABA Law Student Division Rep. Stephen Brundage ('00), Criminal Law Society Co-Chair Aliya Gordon Two law journal edirors-in-chief Azniv Ksachikyan ('99) of the ('00), and Constitutional Law Quarterly and Osha Meserve ('99) of the ASUCH Internal West/ Northwest Journal of Environmental Law and Policy. Vice Presiden t Alex Sa ksen ('99). Professor David Levine and James Edgar Hervey Chair of Litigation Roge r Park share a lighter moment. A HASTINGS PROFILE IN PHILANTHROPY
Merle Catherine Chambers Former Chief Executive in Oil and Gas Indu stry Manager of Investment Company Private Foundation Leader Benefactor to Higher Education and 1977 UC Hastings Law Grad
erle C. C hambers previously se rved as the President and CEO of Denve r-based Axem Resources, Inc., until its sale in II 1997. She subsequently launched Leith Ventures, L.L.c., to manage investments and pursue interesting business oppo rtunities. Additionall y, Ms. C hambers is acti ve in her family's foundation, C hambers Family Fund. Despite this demanding schedule, she always has found time to serve her alma mater. She was an underwriter of the law school's Attorneys General Forum, a past Board member of the Hastings 1066 Foundation, the first person to have served as the National Chair of a Has tings Annual Campaign, and, more recently, a key supporter of her C lass of 1977's campaign to endow a Distinguished Professorship. When as ked why she chose to become a major benefactor at Hastings, Ms. C hambers replied: "Having also attended another law school to secure an LL.M. in Taxation, I can unreservedly tell you that a Hastings legal education is second-to-n one! The level of instructi on was incomparably high when I attended Hastings, and I know that the faculty continue to command great respect. This yea r, each of the major national legal professional associations has had a Hastings faculty member on it governing board, making our law school unique in providing that kind of high visibility and national leader hip within the profession. M y Ha ting experience taught me to think analytically and to look at all sides of a problem. These kills have served me well in all of my business ventures and will help me make an important difference in the not-for-profit arena, too. In short, my experience at 1,n ~~~ ills ~ iti ve and serviceable one - one that I would like others to share. By contributing to Hastings. , I ~[~~m', ~r e" ta;---ufO ~{fJ~ i O n S of students will have the opportunity to be exposed to an intellectually ri gorous and ve?~wa rdin g e~1i>e>TLe n ce both p~~ o n a ll Y and personally." If you share Ms. Chambers' belief tI~iT~o ur H ~ ~ QEJn ~e r ve~<)) u well and has been most rewarding, then I 'd b' . . 19b b . I Jiiirfu: J~ H ? A I C . v 'b . p ease con 1 er ecomtng - orconttnulf)f(/rP e l lr u a-r",e;s,''o II. ~' ~~~~t , ' 1 ~ as\,!=;r+ nnua ampalgn. lourcontn utlon, along with other, will help maintain the r.~d itipn f ~&rbtqce a , ~ 0\v an :£>~ the future, ~"--' 6 .- t7 , ~ ::"-, ...... - r ( 0 0" t5 Q r I I - .-J ' r'-> = rJl [J';; =""1_' ~ 0 I:\J~ ~~ _~ I I ~ / ~;.;~ L:?l~ l!JI v: 0' = ~~ri j PLEASE CALL THE COLLEGE-R~AtIONS O-Pl;=iICe:. AT ~~ 565-4615 TO LEARN MORE ABOUT VARIOUS GIFT'" OPPORTUbilTIES TffA~~lf~ NOW AVAILABLE. ,,/ Gold Foundation Gift
Will Renovate ca rpeting, furniture, and li ghting way for securities class action in federal improvement and will be fu ll y wired for court. Born in G loversvill e, New York, Third-Floor laptop computers. David Gold fought in World War II Dean Mary Kay Kane commented before attending UC Berkeley and then Reading Room that the Gold Foundation's most earn ing his law degree from H astings. generous gift for the renova ti on and After passing the bar, Mr. Gold opened a $350,000 gift from the David B. overall enhancement of the third-floor solo practice in San Francisco. Later, he Gold Foundation wi ll enable the I Reading Room could not have come at a expanded the firm, which ub equently 1 law school to renovate and more opportune time, particula rl y became Gold & Bennett in 1993. The refurbish the third-floor Reading becau e the 198 McAlli ster classroom firm was particularl y renowned for its Room of the 198 McAllister class room building recently was cl osed for work on securities cla s acti ons and building. Prior to the opening of the 200 infrastructure improvements and code antitrust matters. Before his death in McAllister li brary building in 1980, thi upgrades. Dean Kane al 0 noted that September 1994, Mr. Gold also had been area functioned as the main reading room when all of the enhancements made active in numerous professional for Has tings' library. The space will be possible by the Gold Foundation's gift are orga niza tions, including the Bar upgraded to house a 10,400 square-foot completed, "the third-floor Reading Association of San Francisco, the tate readin g and study area and also will offer Room truly will be a most inviting and Bar of Cali fornia, and the American Bar a serie of new smaller-sized rooms showca e study area for our student ." Association, a well as the Sa n Francisco surrounding the outer perimeters of both Upon completion, the upgraded Trial Lawyers Association, the Cali fornia the third fl oor and upper mezza nine level study area will be named the David B. lj-ial Lawyers Association, and the for either group study or meeting Gold Reading Room in honor of a 1951 Association of Trial Lawyers of America. pu rposes. The soon-to-be-ren ova ted graduate of the law school and veteran Commenting on Mr. Gold's faci lity also will receive new finishes, litigator whose advocacy helped pave the contributions to the legal profession, The Recorder, in its September 13, 1994, editi on, noted the fo llowing:
Go ld was among the most prominent securities plaintiffs lawyers in the country, parricipating in numerous major pieces of litigation over nearly 30 years. Many colleagues credit him with pioneering the fraud-on -the-market theory, which opened the door to federal class actions by corporate shareholders and investors . ... "David was a great litigation warrior," said Melvyn Weiss, a partner at New Yorks Milberg, Weiss, Bershad, Hynes & Lerach, another leading plaintiffs securities firm .... "David Gold was one of the scions of the plaintiffs' bar nationally," [added] Paul Dawes, a Latham & Watkins San Francisco partner who [had] litigated against Gold.
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Ea rl ie r, in it Ja nuary 4, 1976, edition, Planning Firm -Wide Solicitation Strategy the an Francisco Examiner had referred to ir. Gold as bei ng "the hottest lawyer in America." In add ition to hi celebrated work in the courtroom, Mr. Gold played a prominent role in prov iding continuing education to the ba r. Over the yea rs, he was the author of numerous articles about securi ties work and federal cl ass actions and presented paper and lectures to such prestigious orga nization as the ABA's ection on Litiga ti on, the C alifornia State Bar's Business l aw ection, the Nati onal Investor Relati ons Institute, the New York Institute of Finance, the Public l aw In titute, and U C l aw Center's Corpo rate law and Finance Institute. Mr. Gold also served as a faculty member in Has tings' own C ollege of Advocacy C lE program. Dean Kane commented that Mr. ttending a strategy session in November regarding the law Gold's "many landmark endeavo rs in the courtroom will long be remembered and, I School's new firm-wide solicitation program were Gary Anderson thanks to the Gold Foundation's ('66) of Pill bury Madison & Sutro, Dean Mary Kay Kane, Stewart magnificent gift to enhance the Reading Room, his fostering of education al 0 will Foreman ('74) of l andels, Ripley & Diamond, and Elaine Ba yus ('77) of continue to endure as future generation of student will be able to enjoy this state Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. of-the-art faci lity while furthering their legal research and tudies. This gift is an ideal way to benefit our tudents and to ho nor the many contributions to the profession by one of our school's mo t distinguished graduates." The David B. Gold Foundation, which DOWN ON THE CORNER was e tabli hed in 1992, is a family fo undation based in San Francisco to Construction equipment chips away at the entrance of Hastings' promote the devel opment of po itive 198 McAllister classroom building in preparation for a human potential and to enrich the quality of life in the communities that it se rve. reco nfigured entryway with handicapped access. It has six program areas: yo uth Watch fo r more in an upcoming Communiry on development, pre ervati on of the environment, health, arts, Jewish cult ure, 198 McAllister's seismic upgrade and and education/ ocial i sues. renovatio n, expected to be completed in
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HORACE o. COl L ( , 5 7 ) Chair of Litigation Established
t their December 4, 1998, Board President of the Riverside-San A meeting, the Ha tings Boa rd of Bernardino-Pomona C hapter of the Directors approved the Califo rnia Tr ial Lawyers Association establi shment of the Horace 0. (1 969-70); and Pre ident of the Riversid e Coil ('57) C hair of Litiga tion. The County Bar A sociation (1 974-75). M r. endowment of the newly named C hair, Coil also was appointed by former Gov. which is only the school's fourth endowed George Deukmejian to serve a three-year C hair, was made possible by a $500,000 term as the head of the State Bar gift to the College from Henry W oil, Disciplinary Board. Jr., and John M. Coil in honor of their late Mr. Coil's public se rvice extended brother, Horace 0. Coil. Henry Coil is the outside the legal arena, as well. There he President of Tilden-Coil Constructors, erved on the Board of Directors of the Inc., in Riverside, and John Coil is a John Wayne Cancer Center; as President structural engineer and Vice President of of the Lions Club in Rive rside; and did Thornton, Tomasetti, Coil, and Welsh in volunteer wo rk with both the Heart Tustin. Association and the Trauma Societ y. Dean Mary Kay Kane observed that Most important from Has tings' Horace 0. Coit ('57) the Coil brothers' most generous gift in perspecti ve i that Mr. Coil was a honor of their late brother could not longtime member of the Has tings 1066 have come at a mo re propitious time, After being admitted to the Foundation, where he se rved as especially "sin ce the College is now California Bar in 1957, Mr. Coil began President from 1981 to 1983. As Dean embarked on a major drive to raise private practice in Rive rside with the Kane observed, "Horace Coil was one of priva te funds for the endowment of more firm of Be t, Best & Krieger. the school's most distinguished Distinguished Professorships and more Subsequently, in 1962, he became a se nior graduates, as well as one of our most endowed C hairs at the schooL" partner with the firm of Reid, Babbage effective ambassadors during his tenure Dean Kane also noted that "the & Coil, with offices in both Riverside as Foundation President. In that role, he crea tion of an endowed C hair in and Newport Beach. (In the late '80s, that ge nerated both a great deal of good will Litiga tion at Has tings in H orace Coil's firm merged with Sur & Hell ye r of and private support fo r the College. I honor is particularly appropriate, both Newport Beach to form the firm of Reid ca n think of no better culmination of becau e Mr. Coil wa a most distinguished & Hell ye r.) Mr. Coil ' man y yea rs of service to trial lawyer before his untimely death in Mr. Coil 's practice primarily focu ed Has tings than for his brothers to September 1989, as well as a most loyal on general personal in jury and business continue the tradition of 'Coil giving' to and dedicated supporter of Has tings." litiga tion. His renown as a litigator led to the College by creating a C hair in Born in Ri verside in 1934 to a family his designation as an Associate of the Horace's memor y. The new C hair, which with a ri ch legal tradition - his father, American Board of Trial Ad vocates in soon will be held by a most distinguished Henry W Coil , had been the longtime 1987, as well as to his membership in the scholar and teacher in the litigation General C ounsel of the California Association of Trial Lawye rs of America. fi eld, will bring honor to H orace O. Coil Electric Power Compan y from 1918 to In addit ion to having become an in perpetuity and provide superio r 1955 - Horace Coil majored in Business acknowledged expert in litiga tion, Mr. scholarship and teaching fo r the Administration at UC Berkeley and then Coil found time to contribute back to benefit of f ut ure generations of went on to earn hi law degree from the profession on many fronts. For Hastings students. The re could be no Hastings College of the Law in 1957. At example, his se rvice included leadersh ip finer legacy in honor of one of our Hastings, Mr. Coil was acti ve in the Phi roles in everal bar-related orga niza tions, m ost outstand ing graduates." Delta Phi legal fraternity. including C harter Presiden t of the Rive rside County Barristers Club (1963); From the 63rd Anniversary Class of 1935, represented by Wayne 0. Veatch, Sr. and Edward Louis Beggs, to the Class of 1988, some 300 Hastings alumni and guests attended Reunions 1998 on September 26 at the College and the St. Francis Hotel on Union Sq uare. A luncheon for the Classes of 1935 to 1949 was held on Saturday afternoon at the College, foll owed by campus tours and a reception for all. That evening, the Classes of 1953, 1958,1963,1968,1973, 1978,1983, and 1988 enjoyed a reception, private class dinners, and dancing at the St. Francis.
Wlayne 0. Veatch, Sr. ('35) and Edward Louis Beggs ('35). Hon. Thomas M. lenkins ('49), lack Benjamin Streeter ('48), Robert J. Popelka ('48), and Betty M. Falk ('46).
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Back row, Warren C. Welteroth, Jess Jose /)Il Aguilar, and George King. Front row, Hon. Richard T Ford, Hon. Ben T Kayashima, and Kenneth W Rosenthal.
Back row, John R. ButLer, Bruce W Belding, Ronald Eugene Vernon , Thomas C. McNally III, and Hon. Richard Charvat. Front row, Melbourne B. Wedd le, Joseph W Bryans, James C. Hagedorn, David W McMurr y, Gil Medeiros, and Frederick A. Hinden.
Back row, John E. Haapala, Roge r T Nuttall, Frank J. O'Connor, Jr., John P. McCall, Robert J. Radway, George J. Silvestri, Jr., and Ian M. Sammis. Middle row, Marshall P. Sa lzman, Robert J. Jaffe, Gene P. La Foll ette, W Bailey Smith, Robert A. Biorn, Michael P. Downey, and Hon. Ralph Nunez. Front row, Walter J. Maund, Michael J. Hanley, S. Syd Rahe, Hon. Thomas W Kelly, Kenneth C. Bornholdt, Dennis H. Kollenborn, William P. Kesseler, Cecelia D. Lanon, Marz J. Garcia, and Hon. Ina Levin Gyemant.
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Back row, Rudolph George Kraft Ill, WiWam Stewart Martin, Jeffrey Bryan Rosichan, and Benjamin Avery Nix. Next row down, David Justin Cowan, MarceHa BaHard, Gregory Louis Ursich, Dakin NeviHe Ferris, Guy C. Parvex, Gary Robert Ray, Timoth y Mark Freudenberge r, Andrew Cuyugan McCuHough, and Jam es J. Sowers. Next row down, Hans W Herb, Thomas Patrick ToHer, Mark Edward Porter, Teresa R. Morimoto, Linda Suzanne Koffman, Susan Applegate, Laurie S. Armstrong, Dennis Eugene Wong, and Mary Catherine Merz. Front row, Leah Joan TuffaneW-Btofeld, Helen Olive Mitowe, Elisabeth Ann Frater, Marianne Smith Johnson, Joy Alison Mastache, Maria Louisa Hekker, Annemarie J. DeBartolomeo, Barbara Ann Rizzieri, Ann MicheHe Sterling, Elizabeth Sydney Stein, and Deon Roy Stein. II \ :-:T I \ I:"
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PROFESSOR VIK RAM public presentation of the Commission's the Lowell High School Admi sion AMAR participated in a symposium report in New Orleans. The Commi sion Selection Committee at the request of the / on Ju tice Harry A. Blackmun's was established by the AALS President to Superintendent of choo1 of the an juri prudence at Has tings in October study ways to encourage law chools to Francisco Unified chool Di trict. 1998, ponsored by the Hastings increa e opportunities for their students Constitutional Law Quarterly in honor of to engage in law-related pro bono activities. PROFESSOR WILLIAM DODGE Justice Blackmun's 90th birthday. 0 He o In February, he co-taught four short participated in a sy mposium on Ju sti ce wa the author of an articl e on the sem inars on trial advocacy at the Law Harry A. Blackmun's jurisprudence at political and legal nature of impeachment School of the Universidad de San Carlos Has tings in October 1998, sponso red by and its alternatives entitled "Debunking in Guatemala C ity, Guatemala. The the Hastings Co nstitutional Law the Myth ," which appeared in the San seminars are part of an ongoing project Quarterly in honor of Ju stice Blackmun's Francisco Recorder on October 28, 1998. 0 that he has had with the law school under 90th birthday. He had accepted for In fall 1998, he made several television the au pices of the U.S. Agency for publication the following articles: appearances on the topic of International Development. 0 Also in "Understanding the Presumption Against impeachment on the national Court TV February, he submitted the manu cript for Extraterritoriality," 16 Berkeley J. Int 'l L. network. the third edition of Immigration Law and 85 (1998); "Weighing the Li tener's Procedure: Cases and Materials and for Interests: Justice Blackmun's Commercial PROFESSOR GEORGE Selec ted Statutory and Regulatory Speech and Public Forum Opinions," 26 BISHARAT gave a talk, "Peace and the Materials for Immigration Law and Hastings Const. L.Q. (1998); and "The Political Imperative of Legal Reform in Procedure. Case for Punitive Damages in Contracts," Palestine," on October 29, 1998, at Case 48 Duke L.J. 629 (1999). Western Reserve U nive rsity School of PROFESSOR MARSHA COHEN Law in Cleveland, Ohio, as part of the served as a member of a panel on the Food PROFESSOR BRIAN GRAY has 1998-99 Symposium on the Legal and Drug Administration Modernization been appointed by the Hastings Boa rd of Foundations for Peace and Prosperity in Act of 1997 at the 19th annual Health Law Directors to the Harry and Lillian Hastings the Middle Ea t, sponsored by the School's Teachers Conference on June 6, 1998, in Research Chair for the 1999-2000 academic Journal of International Law. Houston. 0 She is the author of a case year. 0 Professor Gray is working on a note on "Kawaauhau v. Geiger," ll8 S. C t. history of Hetch Hetchy and the decision PROFESSOR RICHARD A . 974 (1998) for the annual Supreme Court of Congress in 1913 to allow San Francisco BOSWELL gave a presentation in Review in Health Law News (Sept. 1998), to fl ood the counterpart of Yosemite Valley October 199 in Detroit at the annual Vol. XII, No.1, published by the University for water supply and hydroelectric power. conference of the National Lawyers of Houston Health Law and Policy The book will focus on John Muir's fi ght to Guild, Immigration Project, entitled Institute. 0 In January 1999, she was the save the valley and to protect Yosemite "Overcoming Grounds of Inadmissibility: co-author, with William L. Marcus, Esq., of National Park, the triumph of utilitarian nlawful Pre ence and Advance Parole." the third edition of Pharmacy Law for conservation ism, and the effect of the o In January 1999, as Co-Editor-in-Chief California Pharmacists. The book was Hetch Hetchy controversy on 20th of the Clinical Law Review, he attended written at the request of the faculty at the century environmental poli cy. 0 Along the meeting of the Reviews Board of UCSF chool of Pharmacy, who needed a with Professor John Dwye r of Boalt Hall, Editor in ew Orleans. 0 Also in text for the mandatory Law and Ethics he also is serving as a consultant to the January, as a member of the AALS Pro course for all pharmacists. 0 Profe or California Law Revision Commission's Bono Commi io n, he participated in the Cohen continues her service as Chair of project to consolidate the environmental .. II . \ ~ T I \I ;~
and natural resources laws of the tate. 0 Code: Making Se nse of the Corporate interest o rgan ization. 0 In December In eptember 1998, Professor Gray spoke to Alternative Minimum Tax). 1998, he was elected to membership in the the Georgetown University Law Center's American Law Institute. The Institute's Conference on Regulatory Takings, which PROFESSOR DAVID I. LEVINE membershi p includes scholars, lawyers, was held in San Francisco. His talk wa had published '~viat i n Products Liability and judges whose goal is the si mpli entitled "Environmental Regulation and for Manufact uring and Design Defects: fication of the law to secure better 'Priva te Property' Rights in Water." Two Recent Developments" 14 World administration of justice. Bulletin 93 (1998) (co-a uthored with arel PROFESSOR JOSEPH GRODIN , ]. Stolker). PROFESSOR CALVIN MASSEY John F. Digardi Distinguished Professor of made television appearances on the topic Law, is the author of an article, PROFESSOR RORY LITTLE of impeachment in fall 1998 on KRON "Rediscovering the State onstitutional on October 19, 1998, presented "Review C hannel 4 Nightly News and on Bay of the Supreme Court's Term" at Right to Happiness and Safety," 25 1997-98 TV's "Talk Back" program. 0 In October Hastings Const. L.Q. 1 (1997). 0 In the Annual Retreat for the Judges of the 1998, he participated in a debate on the September 1998, he gave a speech entitled Northern District of California. 0 On impeachment of President Clinton "Law and Literature" at the Statewide November 6, 1998, he wa a sy mposium sponsored by Golden Gate U niversity Conference of Appellate Resea rch panelist at Fordham Law School in New Law School in San Francisco. 0 In Attorneys in Los Angeles. 0 He has been York C ity on the topic "The C hanging N ovember, he was a colloquia elected President of the National Senior Role of the Federal Prosecutor: Ethics" participant in a workshop program on Citize ns Law Cente r. and also delivered a paper there entitled Guns in America, sponsored by "The Federal Death Penalt y." 0 From Academics for the Second Amendment,
PROFESSOR DAN FENNO November 30 to December 11, he served in Arlington, Virginia. HENDERSON participated in a as a panelist for the Bar Association of documentary film on alternative dispute San Francisco's "Ethics Hotline." 0 In fa ll PROFESSOR UGO MATTEI , resolution made by the University of 1998, he was appointed C hai r of the Legal the Alfred and Hanna Fromm C hair in California, Berkeley, in November 1998. 0 Ethics Committee of the American Bar International and Comparative Law, He joined a Delaware delega tion to Tokyo Association's White Collar Crime completed the follow ing publications: 0 on December 12, 1998, including members Section. 0 Also in fa ll 1998, he was "Trust Law in the U nited States. A Basic of the Chancery Court, to meet with the appointed a member of the Ad Hoc Study on Its Special Contribution," Corporate Governance Reform Council of Committee to draft Attorney Special Iss ue of The American Journal of Keidanren.O During the spring term 1999, Disciplin ary Rules, U.S. District Court, Comparative Law, (1998) (with Henry he has been appointed Visiting Professor of Northern District of California. 0 He Hansmann). 0 "Legal Pluralism, Legal Law at the Richardson School of Law, was a regular radio commentator on the C hange, and Economic Development," in University of Hawaii. presidential impeachment proceedings L. Favali-E.Grande-M.Guadagni (Eds.), on KCBS, San Francisco. New Law for New States, Turin, PROFESSOR DANIEL LATHROPE CHarmattan, 1998. 0 '~ Transaction ACADEMIC DEAN LEO P. had the following works published: 0 Costs Approach to the European C ivil MARTINEZ in September 1998, joined Fundamentals of Partnership Taxation (5th Code," 5 Eur. Rev. of Private L. 537 (1998). the Board of Directors of Public ed., 1998) (with Lind, Schwarz & o "II Problema della Codificazione Civile Advocates, a San Francisco-based public- Rosenberg). 0 The Alternative Minimum Europea e la C ultura Giuridica. Tax: Compliance and Planning with Pregiudizi, Strategie e Sviluppi," in Analysis (1998 Supplements). 0 1998 Contratto e Im presal Europa 207 (1998). 0 Supp lement to Fundamentals of Corporate "Entry: Restatement," in X VII Digesto Taxation (1998) (with Lind, Schwarz & Discipline Priva tistiche IV (1998). 0 Rosenberg). 0 1998 Supp lement to "Entry: Rule of Law," in X VIII Digesto Fundamentals of Business Enterprise Discipline Priva tistiche IV (1998). Taxation (with Lind, Schwarz & Professor Mattei also made the Rosenberg). 0 Book Review, 65 S. Econ. J. fo llowing speeches: 0 "Efficiency and 359 (1998) (reviewing Lyo n, Cracking the Equal Protection in the New European II \ :--'1" I \ I;"';
ontract Law" at the LJniver' ity of PROFESSOR RADHIKA RAO \ lrgll1l<1 Law chool, okol Coll oquium has been appointed to serve on the in Pr!vat International Law, on Advisory Committee on Human ~ eptember 12, 199 . 8 "Default, Cloning, a newly established commis ion landatory and Enforcement Rules in whose 12 members were selected from the European Law of Contract" at Ya le the fields of law, medicine, biotechnology, Law chool's omparative Law and genetics, and reli gion. The Committee's What are those Economics Forum on October 4, 1998. 0 mandate include reviewing the scientific three little words "Litigating in Europe. A Basic G uide for and social implications of human cl oning California Attorney" at the an and making policy recommendation to nobody wants Francisco Barrister's Club on October 20, the California Legislature and the to hear? 1998. 0 "Patterns of African Constitution Governor by December 31, 2001. 0 in the Making" at the Internati onal Professor Rao also participated in a Conference on African Constitutions, sy mposium on Justice Harry A. " PARTY OF ONE?" Faculty of Hi tory at the Univer ityof Blackmun's jurisprudence at Has ting in Bologna, Italy, on November 24, 1998. 0 October 1998, sponsored by the Hastings "Law and Economics as an Educational Constitutional Law Quarterly in honor of Don't let this Device" at the University of Genova Justice Blac kmun's 90th birthday. A pecial School of Advanced Educati on on written version of her pre entation on happen to you. January 18, 1999. Justice Blackmun's privacy Several of Professor Mattei's works juri prudence will be published in also are being published in other Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly. languages. 0 He has contracted with o Her latest paper, "Property, Privacy, The Alumni Association G reenwood Publishing Co. to publish the and the Human Body," has been needs volunteers to help English version of Basic Princip les of accepted for publication in the Boston Property Law and, with co-author University Law Review. contact graduates for Professor Shukanov, Dean of the School Reunions 1999 next fall. of Law, University of Moscow, he PROFESSOR REUEL published the Russian ver ion of Basic SCHILLER was a participant in the Principles of Property Law. 0 A Japane e sy mposium "Total War and the Law: Alumni from the Classes translation of Hansmann and Mattei's New Perspective on World War 11," held of '54, '59, '64, '69, '74, '79, article "The Function of Trust Law," 73 November 7, 1998, at Michiga n State YU L. Rev. 434 (1 998) i in preparation University, East Lansing. His '84, '89, to be published in Japan. The Chine e presentation was entitled "Reining In the tran lation of his article "Three Patterns Administrative State: World War 11 and VVE of Law," 45 Am. J. Camp. L. 5 (1997) i in the Decline of Expert Administration." preparation to be publi hed in China. NEED PROFESSOR KEVIN TIERNEY PROFESSOR MELISSA attended a workshop in February 1999 on YOUI NELKEN served as a discus ant at the low-income taxpayers, orga nized by the American P ychoanalytic Association's American Bar Association's Section on fall meeting in ew York in December Taxation, which was held at America n 1998.0 During spring 1999, he is a Universi ty in Washington, o.c. 0 He is Visiting Profe or at the University of acting a a con ultanr to Nebraska Public Leiden, etherlands. 0 he is a member Televi ion's new documentary on the of the Joint Committee on cope Trial of 1925, which will be part of Confidentiality of the America n the "American Experience" series and Psychoanalytic Associati on. will air nationall y in summer 1999. 11 ,\ :-: '1' I \ (::-:
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CLASS OF 1933 CLASS OF 1965 BENJAMIN D . FRANTZ H ON . J A CK KOM AR has been co n recently retired from his teaching post at firmed as Pre iding Judge of the Santa McGeorge School of Law. See article, C lara Superior Court for 1999. H ON. page 40. RICHARD C. TURRONE has been elected Assistant Presiding Judge of the CLASS OF 1958 Santa Clara County Superior C ourt for retired in 1996 from the Army Reserve W ILLIE L. BROWN celebrated hi 1999. and li ves with his wife, Mary Jo, and his 1,000th day as San Francisco mayor on daughter, Ashley, in an hi toric home in October 4, 1998, fielding questions from CLASS OF 1966 Redlands. CHARL ES F . LEE, a constituents for five hours. The topics STEPHEN T. CLIFFORD is the 1998 Novato attorney and former chair of the included the city's housing shortage, recipient of the Kern County Bar Associa Board of Trustees of Novato Community neighborhood frictions, Muni, homeless tion Bench and Bar Award. For 22 yea rs, Hospital, has been appointed to the Board ness, mental illness, and crime. SUZIE he has been a senior partner with the firm of Directors of Marin General Hospital. S . THORN received the Lifetime of Clifford and Brown in Bakersfield. He He was a partner for 17 years with the San Achievement Award from Queen's was profiled in the November 22, 1998, Francisco firm of Goshkin, Pollatsek, Bench at its annual Past Presidents' Din Bakersfield Californian. HON. LESLIE Meredith & Lee before establishing his ner on November 17, 1998, at the St. Fran C . NICHOLS has served 15 years as a own practice in Novato ix years ago. He cis Yacht Club. judge of the Santa Clara Superior Court. is also a judge pro tem of the Santa Rosa He served two elected terms as the Cou rt's Workers' Compensation Appeals Board. CLASS OF 1961 Presiding Judge, during 1997 and 1998, and HON . LENARD D . LOUIE, a judge JAMES N . ONO was recognized by is completing two terms as a member of on the San Francisco Superior Court, was San Jose's Japanese-American Citizens the Presiding Judges Advisory Committee called "the wi est judge in San Francisco League for performing community ser to the California Judicial Council. He was and the guy with the most treet smarts," vice in the area of law at the organiza elected in fall 1998 for a third time to a six by an attorney in a December 15,1998, tion's 95th anniversary dinner in October year term of office. A highlight of his San Francisco Examiner article rating the and for "serving as a great role model for tenure was the successful unification of city's 49 Municipal and Superior Court the Japanese-American community." the courts in July 1998, when Judge Judges. Louie also was rated at the top of Ono, who practices with the Law Offices Nichols administered the oath of office to the "encourages negotiation" category by of Dennis Kim in San Jose, began the 35 Municipal Court Judges and five all respondents, by most experienced League's newsletter, Outlook, and became Municipal Court Commissioners. They lawyers, and by lawyers appearing most its President in 1969. Known for his thereby became Superior Court Judges frequently in court. prowess in golf, he was the only Ameri and Commissioners, and the Municipal can to qualify to play in the enior ama Court ceased to exist. Judge Nichols will CLASS OF 1968 teur golf championships in the United be hearing mostly civil trials during 1999. STEPHEN A . COHEN is an attor States (1991, 1994, and 1995), in Great ney specializing in taxation with the Britain (1996 and 1998), and in Japan CLASS OF 1967 Department of Revenue and Taxation in (1997). HON . STEVEN J. STONE, JOHN E . HOLMES III,seniorpart Barrigada, Guam. J AY-ALLEN Presiding Justice of Divi ion Six of the ner in the Riverside firm of Thompson E ISEN , President of Eisen & John ton Second Appellate District, California and Colegate, recently received the U.S. Law Corp., Sacramento, was profiled in Court of Appeal, retired in January 1999. Army's Legion of Merit award, one of the the November 16,1998, Los Angeles Daay He will join JAMS/ Endispute as a private highest non-combat medals that can be JournaL He is President of the California judge and mediato r. earned, culminating more than 30 years of Academy of Appellate Lawyers. military service. In presenting the com S T EPHEN J. GAY has joined the CLASS OF 1964 mendation, Brigadier General John C. Sacramento firm of Trainor Robertson as HON. RICHARD W. KIRBY has Scott noted that the medal was awarded a director and sh areholder. He has more returned to service as a Workers' Com for "exceptionall y dedicated and meritori than 30 years' experience in general civil pensation Judge for the next year in Wal ous service . . . . as a commander, a judge li tigation, including profe sional negligence nut Creek. advocate, and a a military judge." Holmes defen e law, products liability, and COI1-
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ings ... and teachers are teaching kid broad-ba ed membership, including how to avoid violence. We're becoming employee and employe r attorney, in ur like a big city." One of Bennerr' hobbies, ance company repre entatives, employer, motorcycling, has taken him on excur insurance carrier claims taff, doctor" and sions around the outhwe t and abroad. other . Jordan al 0 erve on the Editorial STEVEN H. FELDERSTEIN in Board of Claims magazi ne, a national pub January 1999 formed a new law firm, lication dealing with insurance is ue . Felderstein Willoughby & Pa cuzzi, TANYA M . NEIMAN, director of th which focuses its practice on bankruptcy, Bar As ociation of an Francisco's Volun out-of-court restructures of debt, com teer Legal Services Program, wa honored merciallaw, and related matters. It is a with the 1998 Loren Miller Legal Services bankruptcy boutique spin-off from the Award at the State Bar of California's dissolving Sacramento firm of Diepen annual meeting in eptember 1998. The brock, Wulff, Plant & Hannegan. award represent the State Bar's highest honor conferred upon an individual who CLASS OF 1974 has led the profe sion in efforts to provide truction litigation. He was most recently MARIA K . Boss, Professor of equal access to the justice system for the with the Sacramento firm of Gay & Finance and Law in the School of Busi state's most needy individuals. Neiman i a Ditore. BION M. GREGORY, the ness and Economics, is one of Cal State former California state public defender ninth Legislative Counsel in the history L.A.'s 1997-98 Outstanding Professors. who joined the Ba r Association of San of California, was profiled in Sacramento The honor was given for excell ence in Francisco's Volu nteer Legal Services Pro Lawyer in September 1998, in an article teaching, scholarly inquiry, professi onal gram in 1982. In partnership with the Bar entitled "The Legislature's Top Lawyer." activities, and service to the ca mpus and Association of San Francisco and its The 85 attorneys under his direction are community. Boss joined Cal State L.A. in Lawyer Referral Service, she built the vol charged with drafting all legislation and 1987. Her publications are in areas related unteer legal service program into one of providing legal advice to legislators and to American and German regulations of the largest and most innovative legal ser their staffs. insider trading and to the European vices programs in the country. DAVI D Community directive regulating in ider L. SLATE is Vice President of H uman CLASS OF 1971 trading. he has served on the Academic Resources and Deputy General Counsel at ROGER A. HEDGECOCK was fea Senate, the Faculty Policy Committee, CNF Transportation of Palo Alto. He has tured in a September 3, 1998, Alpine Sun and the choo! of Business and Econom 24 years' executive experience in labor and article about his radio show, KOGO News ics' Reaccreditation Self-Study Report employment law in the public and private Radio 600's "Community Forum." The Committee. RICHARD A . DERE sectors. RICHARD J . THAL program, which Hedgecock terms a cul VAN, an attorney with the Irvine firm HEIMER, Sharper Image fo under, was tural show, began in 1986 and highlights of Snell & Wilmer, where he specializes profiled in the September 15, 1998, San political personalities, authors, and enter in appellate practice, was recently named Francisco Chronicle. T halheimer, who tainers. Most issues deal with the relation Secretary-Treasurer of the California launched the business in 1978, has lately ship between the government and the citi Academy of Appellate Lawyers. HON . focused on developing new products in the zen - gas price gouging, the IRS, and the KEITH H . FUDENNA, an Alameda company's Novato engineering lab. The balanced budget amendment. His award County Municipal Court Judge, was pro company is known for its unique wares, winning website, filed in the San Francisco Daily Journal including a tiny ai r conditioner worn www.rogerhedgecock.com. is geared on September 10, 1998. Fudenna, who was around the neck and hot-sell ing items such toward consumer issues. PATRICIA D . appointed by Gov. Pete Wilson in as gel shoe pads. HON . BRUCE VAN LEE is head of Santa Clara County's new December 1997, previously served as VOORHIS wa sworn in as Superior Office of Women's Advocacy. She has rep Alameda Municipal Court Commissioner Court Judge in June 1998 upon the passage resented the poor as an attorney with var and as an attorney with the firm of Brown, of Proposition 200 and the abolition of the ious legal se rvice agencies since gradua orris, King & Snell. C H R I STO Municipal Courts in Contra Costa Coun tion. PAUL D . SUPN IK practices PHER C . GAUTSCHI is a solo prac ty. JAYNE WILLIAMS, Oakland City copyright, trademark, and entertainment titioner in Ventura covering Lo Angeles, Attorney, was profiled in the August 19, law as a solo practitioner in Beverly Hills. Woodland Hills, and Santa Barbara and 1998, San Francisco Daily Journal and the specializing in bankruptcy, primarily for September 21, 1998, Los Angeles Daily CLASS OF 1973 individual and small business debtors. Journal on how she decided to study law RICHARD A . BENNETT, Napa RICHARD H . JORDAN, a Novato and on her work as City Attorney. County uperior Court Judge, was pro workers' compensation defense attorney, filed in the Los Angeles Daily Journal on has been elected President of the North CLASS OF 1975 August 20, 199 , and the San Francisco Bay Workers' Compensation As ociation. KIRK E. KONING is Chief Financial Daily Journal on August 25, 1998. "We're He is the founding member of the eight Officer for Automatic Data Processing's gerring more and more ad criminal year-old organization, which is headquar Claim Services Division, responsible for ca e ," he said. "We have drive-by hoot- tered in Santa Rosa. NBWCA ha a all financial, lega l, and administrative func- . ... II ,\ S T I :\ (: S
tions. HON. JAMES R. LAMB CLASS OF 1977 DEN, Associate Ju sti ce of the Fi rst Di s HON . COLLEEN K. HIRAI,a trict Court of Appeal, was profil ed in the Hawaii Judiciary Ci rcui t Court Ju dge for October 5, 1998, San Francisco Daily Jour the First C ircuit, was profil ed in the nal and in the O ctober 22, 1998, Los October 5, 1998, Hono lulu Advertiser. She Angeles Daily JournaL He previ ously is hea ring the state's case again st the Bish served as Alameda uperi or Court Judge op Estate t rustees, where she will decide and was a partner in the Oakland fi rm of whethe r the t rustees are fo ll owing the Fitzgerald, Abbott & Bea rdsley. Though will of a long-dead princess who wa nted he denies being a coll ector, on di splay in her estate to be used to educate children Lambden's office are 30 to 40 hats given of Hawa ii an ancestry. The Bi hop Estate him by friends. He dislikes footnotes in is the largest pri va te landowner in Hawaii. opinions: "They often escape the mo t ROBERTA K. OMATA is an attorney ca reful attention of their authors and are with the California HealthCare Founda overlooked by editors. Like land mines, tion in Oakland. HON. ROGER T . they ca n lie buried for yea rs until stum PICQUET has been elected Presiding Law. She is a frequent lecturer before bled upon." SUSAN F. PETRO Judge for 1999 for the Sa n Lui O bispo nati onal organiza tions on iss ues pertaining VICH, a Santa Barbara attorney, is quot Superi or Court, which has 14 judicial offi to health law and is the author of numer ed in an August 25, 1998, Sa n Francisco cers and a staff of some 140. Daily Journal article surveying women ous articles and several books on the sub lawye rs' pay. Petrovich had a difficult CLASS OF 1978 ject. She previously served as General time landing a job after graduating. "I Counsel of the U.S. Department of Educa LARS FORSBERG is an attorney was offered a job as a secretary," she sa id . tion. JERRY M. CUSTIS has pub with the New York firm of Holland & "The first time I went into court, the lished a treatise on litiga tion, Litiga tion Knight, specializing in international law. judge asked to see m y bar card, because Management Handboo k, through West he did not believe I was a lawyer." Petro Publishing. The book, he says, has a happy CLASS OF 1979 vich is now one of 10 partners in the ending. JOEL J . HAYASHIDA, Santa Barbara firm of Hatch & Parent. STEPHEN J. BISKAR was appoint Seni or Patent Counsel for the Clorox JAMES F. POKORNY of the San ed by the O range County Public Defend Com pa n y, was profiled on November 30, Diego firm of James F Pokorny & Asso er in Jan uary 1995 as Director of the Asso 1998, in the Los A ngeles Daily Journal and ciates practices aviation litigation and ciate Defender's O ffice. (As a result of the the Sa n Francisco Daily Journal in an arti criminal defense in San Diego. He is a bankruptcy of the county in 1994, the cl e titled "The G ive rs." Hayashida has regular legal commentator on KUSI TV Public Defender's Office was segmented donated up to 120 hours yea rly since 1979 and was recently elected Vice-President in to three units: Public Defender, Alter to Nihomachi Legal O utreach, a San Fran of the Lawyer Pilots Bar Association, a nate Defende r, and Associate Defender.) cisco-based orga niza tion offering advice nationwide group of attorneys interested As Associate Defender, Biskar handles and counseling to victims of domestic vio in aviation safety issues. CHRISTINE cases where the Public Defender and lence, se niors, and at-risk yo uths in the U. TEJADA has ended her work in the Alternate Defender have a conflict of city's Asian-Pacific Islander community. public sector as Mayor Willie Brown's interest. In August 1997, the Associate HON. LAWRENCE J . O 'NEILL, Director of Development (and, previous Defender's O ffice took on the new task of who for nine yea rs was a Fresno County to that, as Chicago Mayor Richard a high-profile, complex, and potentiall y Superior Court Judge, has been appointed Daley's Real Estate Development Project expensive ca pital case, in which Bi skar is Mag istrate Judge for the U.S. District Director) to return to the private secto r. lead counse l. He retains his duties as Court, Eastern District of California. She has joined Charles Schwab & Co. in superviso r of the remaining staff. HON. NANCY L. POWERS has left priva te San Francisco as Director of Real Estate. WILLIAM J . CAHILL, a San Francis practice to become Vice President for co Superior Court Judge, was rated num Mell on Private Asset Management in San CLASS OF 1976 ber one among the fi ve highest-ranked Francisco. See article, page 12. judges in a December 1998 San Francisco ANDREW D . SOROKOWSKI is ALAN M . CARLSON is C hief Exec Examiner se ri es rating the city's 49 teaching Western C iviliza tion at St. Bas il utive Officer of the San Francisco trial Municipal and Superior Court Judges. College in Stamford, Connecticut. KEN courts. MICHAEL M. JOHNSON, a Cahill got consistently high marks from NETH F. STRONG has left priva te Judge in the Los Angeles Superior Court, attorneys for "lack of bias," "encourages practice and gone in-house as Vice Presi was profiled in the August 13,1998, Los negotiation," and "communicating rul den t and General Counsel of Hard ing Angeles Daily JournaL He began his ings" categories. MAUREEN E. Lawson Associates Group, Inc., in Novato. career at McC utchen, Black, Verleger & CORCORAN, head of Pill bury Madi JOANN M. SWANSON is an Assis Shea, which merged in 1990 into the Los son & Surro's healthcare practice division, Gatos firm of Baker & Hostetler, where tant U.S. Attorney, specializing in civil has been elected Chairman of the Board enfo rcement in the U.S. Attorney's Office he was a partner prior to his appoint of Directors of Has tings College of the ment to the bench by Gov. Pete Wilso n for the Northern D i trict of Califo rnia. in 1997.
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ti on and the C alifornia choo1 Boards ciali :ing in health care law. W A YNE P. As ociation designated him "Legi lator of HIGGINS i a partner with Higgin , the Ye ar." WILLIAM P. V ELA ha Mobas eri & Lopez in Lo Angeles, spe been selected for Who's Who in A meri ciali zing in bu iness and civil litigation can Law for his work as an attorney in and federal and tate criminal trial mat the area of immigration law. He works ters. LEE N . PLiSCOU recently for the U.S. Department of Ju stice in Sa n rejoin ed California Rural Legal A i tance Francisco, where he decides political asy doing civil litigation on behalf of the rural lum cases. poor in Marysville after a four-yea r break, during which he and his wife traveled and CLASS OF 1981 added two children to their family. From HON. STEVEN K . AUSTIN has Oxnard, where Lee was working with been appointed by Gov. Pete Wilson to the C RLA, they ailed west to Australia and Contra Costa Superior Court. Previously, across the Indian Ocean. Their first child, he was a partner with the Berkeley firm of a girl, was born on an atoll near Indonesia, from which they sa iled to Madagascar and CLASS OF 1980 Buresh, Kaplan, Jang, Feller & Austin. BERT I. AYABE is a solo practitioner South Africa, thence to Florida. They JOHN GIRAUDO recently was in Honolulu, speciali zing in per onal drove from Florida to Marysville. ''As soon appointed General Counsel of ithe Asia injury and commercial litiga tion. JUDY as we drive to Oxnard, we can call it a cir Holdings, Ltd., in Hong Kong, a member BOYETTE is UC Associate Vice Presi cumnavigation," Lee says. Meanwhile, of the global independent power com dent for Human Resources. See article, though he doesn't know what to call the pany ithe Energies, In c. RAN DY page 42. BRUCE A . EDWARDS trip, he is glad to be back at work. LYNN ROGERS erves on Matthew Bender was the subject of a mediator profile in SOODI K, a certified family law specialist & Company's CoWer on Bankruptcy Edi the October 16, 1998, Los Angeles Daily and 0 10 practitioner in Los Angeles, torial Board. Over the last century, Co l Journa l. He is a San Francisco-based neu reecently was installed as Chair of the Los lier on Bankruptcy has been continuously tral, Executive Vice President, and C hief Angeles County Bar Association's Family updated and revised by the best bank Mediator for JAMS/ Endispute, the Law Section. ruptcy scholars and practitioners. A part nation' largest for-profit alternative di s ner with the San Francisco firm of Mur pute resolution provider. Approximately CLASS OF 1983 ph y, Weir & Butler, Rogers lectures half his cases are in construction-defect CAROL A . BRITTAIN is a solo prac extensively with the American Bank or environmental matters. JON Y. titioner in San Francisco, specializing in ruptcy Institute and several Continuing NAKAMURA reports he has survived business and transactional matters, and a Legal Education programs, and, over the another bank merger and is Vice Presi participant in Has tings' Alumni Mentor past 10 years, has written o r contributed dent, Senior Counsel, and Assistant Sec Program. HaN. EDWARD F . LEE, a to several Collier treatises. ERIC C . retary in the Legal Department of Cali judge on the Santa Clara County Superior STARR has left the San Francisco-based fornia Bank & Trust. MARIE S. Court, was profiled in the A ugust 4, 1998, firm of Rubenstein & Perry, where he SILVEIRA, a judge on the Stanislaus Los Angeles Dai ly Journal. Lee, who also handled transactional real estate, to open County Superior Court, was profiled in has served as a police officer and prosecu the firm of Starr Finley in San Franci co the September 3, 1998, Los Angeles Dai ly tor, says his most interesting wo rk was as a with real estate and bu iness law attorney Journal. For relaxation, she plays cribbage National Guard Captain, when, in 1992, he Julie Finley. THOMAS J . UMBERG and tends 50 varieties of roses. was sent to Los Angeles to command the was nominated by Pre idem Clinton and 670th military police company after ri ots unanimously confirmed by the U.s. Sen CLASS OF 1982 broke out over the verdict in the Rodney ate in 199 as the Deputy Director for King affair. "It was one of those things you upply Reduction at the White Hou e DAVI D L. BARON was the featured never want to see again," he recalled. "The Office of National D rug Control Policy. plaintiff's co-counsel in a "Case in Focus" Umberg is responsible for development in the A ugust 7, 1998, Los Angeles Daily city was dark, there were big fires, and and coordination of the U.S. poli cy to Journal in which the jury returned a ve r people were shooting at you." Out of reduce the supply of illegal drugs in dict of $62 million in favor of the plain court, Lee keeps bees, tends chickens, and America. He continues to erve in the tiff in what was held to be an oral con produces his ow n wine - "Ned's Red" and .S. Army Re erve as a Lieutenant tract for compensation. EDNA F . "Ned's White" - which he hands out to C olonel. Prior to his nomination, he was C A S H -DUDLEY, a grandmother her friends on holidays. LISA A . MON a litigation partner in the Orange C oun self and a family law specialist, has written DORI is Corporate Counsel with USCS ty and Los Angeles offices of Morrison Tips on Grandparent Rights, a book that International, Inc., a Rancho Cordova & Foerster. In 1990, he was elected to the includes pertinent California laws and an company involved in software develop California Legislature from Orange overview of county court processes. She is a ment and billing services. MARY E . County and was the author of 53 mea- Modesto solo practitioner. D AN I E L A . WYNNE is an attorney with Baker & ures igned into law. During hi time in CHESIR is an attorney with the Kaiser McKenzie in the firm's Palo Alto office. office, the America n El ectronic Associa- Foundation Health Plan in O akland, spe- II \ :-: '1' 1,\ (; :-:
CLASS OF 1984 deceased, and pri or to that practiced with SUSAN ( SUSIE) M. CHUNG and the fi I'm of Brobeck, Phleger & Harri son KEVIN B . ROMANO, who practice in Sa n Franci co. KEVIN J. family law at the firm of C hung & KEENAN has rejoined the Los A ngeles Romano in an Jose, celebrated thei r 10th office of the Houston-based international wedding anniversa ry and the llth yea r of firm of Fulbright & Jaworski. As of coun their partner hip in December 1998. ay sel, he focuses his prac ti ce on corporate Kevin: "We've come a long way, baby!" and health law. He was an associate with MATTHEW D . LEMPRES, a part the firm from 1991 to 1997 and is a Certi ner with the O akland firm of Wulfsberg fi ed Public Accountan t in Califo rnia. Reese Ferris & Sykes, has been appointed RON LEMIEUX and his wife, MARY a trustee of the University of California ELLEN ('90), are expecting their third Berkeley Foundati on. HON. CINDEE so n in spring 1999 in Menlo Park. In 1996, M. MAYFI ELD, a judge on the Mendo she left the practi ce of law to concentrate cin o County Superior Court, was pro on their famil y and to pursue a ca ree r as a fil ed in the October 16, 1998, Los A ngeles freelance writer. NANCY E. ney in the Asset Forfe iture Unit of the Daily Journal. RESN ICK is Senior Counsel at Ameri can U.S. Attorney's Office fo r the Northern Protective Services, Inc., in Oakland. She District of Cali fo rnia. As a member of CLASS OF 1985 joined the compan y from the California Has tings' adjunct fac ulty, she also teaches JEFFREY G. ADACHI, a public State Automobile Association, where she trial advocacy. GEOFFREY A . defender for 12 years, has been promoted was an employ ment attorney in the O ffice O 'NEILL is serving as U niversity Coun to Chief Deputy Public Defender by San of General Counsel. VIVIEN B . sel in the General Counsel's O ffice of the Francisco Public Defender Jeff Brown. WILLIAMSON was the subject of a Unive rsity of California Systemwide He will oversee the office's management mediator profile in the August 21, 1998, Administration in Oakland. He previous tea m, which, in turn, supervises some 70 Los A nge les Daily Jo urnal. With a desire ly was Planned G ivin g Counsel at the attorneys. He replaces Peter Keane, a to resol ve disputes rather than fi ght them, Berkeley campus. GILLIAN M. member of Hastings' adjunct facult y, who she became a full-time neutral and is now Ross, President of California Women has become the new Dean of Golden a San Francisco mediator affiliated with Lawye rs, was profil ed in the November 2, Ga te University Law School. BRENT the America n Arbitration Association, 1998, Los A ngeles Daily Journal on the A . BABOW participated in a manage occasionally serving as a special master. role of the orga niza tion, which was ment buy-out of Vallejo-based TIMEC She is on the Mediation Legislation Com founded in 1975 by 20 lawye rs and seeks Company in early 1998. As a principal, he mittee of the California Dispute Resolu to adva nce women in the legal profession. is now Vice President of Professional Ser tion Committee, a legislative advocacy A partner with Wendel , Rosen, Black & vices, with duties encompassing human group for neutrals that she co-founded. Dean in O akland, Ross joined California resources, training, risk management, Women Lawye rs in 1992, while serving and the legal departments. Additionally, CLASS OF 1986 on the board of Women Lawye r of he remains General Counsel, in which MARTIN D. CARCIERI completed Alameda County, a C WL affiliate, post he has served since 1992. BRAN his PhD. in Political Science at UC Sa nta whe re she was President in 1993. JAY DON D. BAUM is a partner in the Barbara in December 1997 and has taken a M. SPILLANE has formed Fox , Palo Alto office of Cooley Godward, tenure-track position at the U nive rsity of Siegle r & Spillane, a business litigation where he has served as special counsel in North Florida in Jackso nvill e, where he firm in Los Angeles, specializin g in the litigation group since 1996. Previous teaches constitutional law, administrative entertainment, real es tate, and ge neral ly, he was a prosecutor for Contra Costa law, and political theory. His most recent com mercial matters. County, specializing in homicide and article, "A Progress ive Reply to the AC LU ga ng violence cases. VICTOR H. on Propos ition 209," appears in the fall CLASS OF 1987 GREENBERG, Children's Services 1998 issue of the Santa Clara Law Review. DAVID J. HOLLANDER has formed Inspector General for Los Angeles Coun HECTOR CHINCHILLA, a litiga tion a new partnership, Hollander & Gould, t y, was profiled in the October 5, 1998, partner with C rosby, Heafey, Roach & based in Sa n Diego. The firm's practice Los Ange les Daily Journal. "The hardest May's San Francisco office, is President of focuses on business litigation, personal part of this job is that I don't see Ii ve kids the San Francisco Planning Commission, injury, and asset recovery actions. JOH N anymore," he said. " ... and the deaths of which, in December 1998, approved the B. MONAHAN recently was promoted children are the greatest tragedy I have beginning of construction (subject to to Vice President, Worldwide A nti-Piracy, eve r experienced." DOROTHY K. appeal) on a $125 million renovation project at Walt D isney Pictures and Television in GUSTAFSON is of counsel to the San for the Asian Art Muse um. The Museum Burba nk. His practice foc uses on intellec Mateo firm of Bien & Summers, special will be housed in the rehabilitated O ld tual property. JAMES M. SHORE has izing in appellate law. She se rved as a judi Main Librar y, located across the street from joined Graham & Dunn in Seattle, where cial staff attorney at the California Court Hastings' 200 McAllister building. BETH he chairs the firms labor and employment of Appeal to Justice Robert Merrill, now MCGARRY is an Assistant U.S. Attor- department. He and BERYL ROSEN- II \ ST I\ t;s
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CLASS OF 1989 GREGORY L. FEINBERG, fo rmer ly an associate with the Century ity firm of Gabriel, Herman & Peretz, is General Counsel of Medical Analy i Sy tems, a Camaril lo-based diag nostics com pany. He was profil ed in the November 2, 1998, San Francisco Daily Journal. HEIDI S. MARETZ is Corporate Counsel with DDR O liverMcMillan, a Sa n Diego-based developer of mixed-use retail and entertainment centers throughout the country. She is the co author of Ca lifo rnia Causes of Action, published by James Publishing in Decem ber 1998. FRANKLIN T . WATSON one of four partners in the Sacramen to-' based firm of Watson, Khachadourian, Re & Kraft, was profiled in the August 31, 1998, Sacramento Bee. PETER K . WOLFF is a partner with the Sa n Fran cisco firm of Leland, Parachi ni, Stein berg, Matzge r & Melnick, specializing in commercial litiga t ion.
CLASS OF 1990 MARY ELLEN L. LEMIEUX writes from Menlo Park that she and her husband, RON LEMIEUX ('85), are expecting their third son in spring 1999. In 1996, she left the practice of law to concentrate on their family and to pursue a ca reer as a freelance writer. SU LLY W. MOORE and his wife, Laura, cele BAUM SHORE ('90) are raising their fo r Fox Sports Net and FX in Los A nge brated their son Cameron's first birthday family on Bainbridge I land. VERNON les. His practice focuses on entertainment in July 1998. JEFFREY C. NAVE M . WI NTERS has left Cooley Godward law. He was previously at Sony and Dis recently left the firm of Perkins Coie with four partners to form their own firm, ney Studios in the business and legal where he was a partner, to open the ' Day Casebeer Madrid Winters & affairs departments. Classmates may con Spokane office of Foster Pepper & Shefel Batchelder in Cupertino. T he firm repre tact him at mkrimmer@foxsports. net. man. MARK A. PADIN began a new sents Sun Microsystems in it lawsuit JAY S . LAIFMAN has been promoted position in fall 1998 as Associate Dea n of against M icro oft rega rding Sun's Java to First Vice President and Senior Coun Academic Support at the University of Technology and is litigating a number of sel at Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., in patent and other case for Amgen. "The Calabasas, where he is responsible for real West Los Angeles in Inglewood, a state accredited law school serving a large work is interesting, the client are great to estate-related matters and developing minority student population. Padin, a work with, and we were fortunate to have new products. BRYAN POWELL is a very talented associates join us," Vernon pa rtner with Lane, Powell, Spea rs & Hastings' LEO P graduate, served from aid. "And I have new-found empathy and Lubersky in Portland, where he focuses 1996 to 1998 as Hastings' Legal Education respect for people who start their own on real estate and corporate finance. His Opportunity Program Fell ow. Before becoming a LEO P Fellow, he practiced law businesse ." wife and classmate, JANICE L. WEIS, was promoted to Assistant Dean of the in Santa Rosa from 1991 to 1996 as a solo CLASS OF 988 Environmental and Natural Resource practitioner in the areas of immigration, per onal injury, and business. BERYL MATTH E W H . KRIMMER is Vice Law Program at Lewi and Clark Law chool in Portland, Oregon, in September ROSENBAUM SHORE enjoys li ving Pre ident of Busine and Legal Affair on Bainbridge Island, Washington, where ... II II ST 1:\ I; S she and her husband, JAMES M. office of Morrison & Foerster, specializin g doing li tigation and is now involved SHORE (,87), are raising their famil y. in litigation. exclusively in famil y law counseling, giv JOSHUA N. SONDHEIMER has ing seminars throughout Califo rnia about joined the San Francisco C ity Atto rney's CLASS OF 1 992 confl ict resolution in family law matters, Office, focusing on litigation. Before KRISTOFER BIORN and his wife, a topic on which she is writing a book. returning to San Francisco, he worked in Paige, are the parents of a daughter, Halle, KAREN I . RAINES is a corporate Cambodia on human rights and legal born on November 29, 1997. He is now a lit attorney with Costco W holesale Corpo training projects of the International iga tion partner with the Palo Alto firm of ra tion in Issaquah, Washington. JULIE Human Rights Law Group and the Uni C rist, Schulz, Bi orn & Shepherd. NINA REAGIN is an Assistant U.S. Atto rney ve rsity of San Francisco School of Law, J. HALLER is Vice President for Busi in the US. Attorney's Office fo r the practiced with the firm of Hoga n & ness Development with Special Counsel, a Northern District of California in San Hartson in Washington, D.C., and Sa n Francisco firm specializing in tempo Francisco. clerked for Justice Seth Montgomery of rary and permanent placements of attor the New Mexico Supreme C ourt in neys and paralegals. TYLER R. CLASS OF 1994 Santa Fe. MEADE is an associate with the Sa n Fran STEVEN P. ALLEN, Director of cisco firm of Bartko, Zankel, Tarrant & Legal Services at the Center fo r Commu CLASS OF 1991 Miller, where he focuses on complex civil nity Solutions in Pacific Beach, has wel SHARI L. ALLISON, a Federal Pub litigation, white-coll ar defense, and fran comed interest in the Center from class lic Defender, is serving as President of chise law. Previously, he was a Deputy mate and La Mesa solo practitioner the Tonali Legal Alliance of Women in Attorney General with the financial MICHELE M. MACOSKY. She Las Cruces, New Mexico. NICHOLAS crimes unit of the California Department involved the Lawye rs Club in helping P. AZEMIKA practices family law of Justice in San Francisco. construct a children's play and family with the firm of Azemika & Azemika in therapy area for the Center, which assists Bakersfield. DOUGLAS S. BUR- CLASS OF 1993 victims of domestic violence. VICTOR DI N has been named a partner with the LAURA R. EIG and her husband, A. BULLOCK, an associate with Sedg Washington, D.C., firm of Birch, H orton, Spencer, are celebrating the birth of a sec wick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, married Bittner & Cherot, where he practices lit ond child, Menachem Mendel, born KYM M. GOODRUM (,95), an asso iga tion, wildlife law, natural resources August 21, 1998. She practices immigration ciate with the Los Angeles firm of Wil law, and telecommunications law. He is law with the US. Department of Justice in son, Else r, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker also a legal writing and research instruc Miami. MICHAEL D . FABIANO isan on August 8, 1998, in Jamaica. See page tor at George Mason University School attorney with Lyo n & Lyo n in La Joll a. His 44. AMY J. FITZPATRICK reports of Law in Fairfax, Virginia. practice focuses on intellectual property lit from Pohnpei, Micronesia, where she is CHRISTOPHER P. CLINE has igation and patent law. JOHN D. with the Department of Justi ce, that in joined the Board of D irectors of FORSYTH is an associate with the Wal her first nine weeks she was Acting Catholic Charities. He is a partner with nut C reek firm of Clancy, Weisinger and Attorney General for four weeks. "There Lane Powell Spears & Lubersky in Port Associates, a boutique criminal defense are overwhelming amounts of work, but land, Oregon, and an author and fre firm, specializing in child mole tation, sex never a dull moment: arson, two murders, quent speaker on estate planning and crimes, and homicide. ALAN S . escaped prisoners, stranded ships ... . I charitable giving for high net worth indi HODES, who has been associated with learn about 10 new things every day - viduals. JAMES C. DRISCOLL cel the San Francisco firm of Limbach & Lim legal, political, and social. It's a small island, ebrated the fifth anniversa ry of his firm, bach since graduation, recently was elected but fu ll of intrigue ... and 82 degrees every the Law Offices of James Coy Driscoll, to partnership. He continues to practice day." SALLIE P. GIBSON is an located in San Francisco's Financial Dis intellectual property law, with a focus on Assistant C ity Attorney, specializing in trict. Driscoll specializes in representing patent and trademark procurement and labor and employ ment litigation in the commercial and residential tenants and enforcement and li ves in Menlo Park with San Francisco C ity Attorney's Office. in personal injury. KATHLEEN A. his wife, CYNTHIA KIKUGAWA REBECCA M. HEINSTEIN, for HOWARD is a partner with the San (,94), and their daughter, Caroline. merly an associate with the Law Offices Francisco office of the firm of Cooley CURT HOLBREICH is a civillitiga of Ruth Miller in San Mateo, is an Assis Godward. Her practice focuses on general tor with the San Francisco firm of tant Regional Counsel in the Office of civil litiga tion, with an emphasis on envi Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canad y, Falk the General Counsel for the US. Social ronmentallitigation and counseling. & Rabkin. JOSHUA M . KING is Security Administration in Sa n Francisco. Lou IS J. LA ROCCA and his wife, General Counsel of Cellular O ne in Her practice focuses on defending the Dr. Alexia Lucero, are celebrating the South San Francisco. He joined the com agency in disability appeals in federal court. birth of a son, Cayman Joseph La Rocca, munications compan y in 1996 as Senior CYNTHIA KIKUGAWA lives in on September 8, 1998. Louis practices fam Counsel and also teaches Legal Writing Menlo Park with her husband, ALAN ily law and estate planning in solo practice and Research and M oot Court at H ast S. HODES ('93), and their daughter, in Los Altos. WESLEY E . OVER ings. ALISON L. PATTON was mar Caroline. ANNE W . LACKEY is an SON is a partner with the San Francisco ried on October 3, 1998, to attorney John associate with the San Francisco fi rm of E. Thickstun of La Jolla. She has stopped Clarence & Snell, specializing in complex
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criminal defense, with an empha i on Valley offi c a a pat nt litiga tion asso l civil ri ghts iss ues. DAVID LOPEZ ate. He was fo rmerly with ray, ary, married MICHELLE M . Ware & Freidenrich in an Diego. MITCHELL ('96) on October 4, 1998, KAREN A . GIBBS, an associate with in Del Rey O aks, near Monterey. See C ooley G odward in Pa lo Alto, with a page 44. MICHELE M. practice focused on intellectual property MACOSKY, a solo practitioner in La disputes, repo rts he r son, C harlie, was Mesa, was feat ured in an October 14, born October 1, 1998. Contact her at gibb 1998, article in the Sa n Diego Daily [email protected]. KYM M . Transcript on women and the legal pro GOODRUM, an associate with W ilson, fess ion. She recalled a client at a Los Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & D icker in A ngeles firm where she worked who Los A ngeles, married VICTOR A . BULLOCK JUDY BOYETTE (,81 ) Is initiall y refused to work with her on a ('94), an associate at edg product liability case due to her gender. wick, Detert, Moran & A rnold, on UC' S ASSOCIATE But a partner backed Macosky and A ugust 8, 1998, in Jamaica. See page 44. VICE PRESIDENT assigned the case to her. Ironically, ALEXANDER R . MARTINEZ has A year into her new job as UC's when she left the firm several years been an Assistant District Attorney at the Associate Vice President fo r Human later, the same client strongly res isted Sa n Bernard ino County District Attor Resources and Be nefits, Judy Boyette ('81) being assigned to another associate. O n ney's Office in Joshua Tree since mid-April in March 1998 combined systemwide another front, Macosky recently 1998, pecializing in criminal prosecution, ad m inistration 's Human Resources and in volved the Lawyers Club in helping and reports that he "loves it!" Contact him Employee Benefits departments into one construct a children's play and family at [email protected] n-bernardino.ca.u s. unit designed to prov ide an array of therapy area fo r the Center fo r Com ERIN C . MORTON completed a services to employees and annuitants. mun ity Solutions in Pacific Beach, clerkship with Justice G reg Abbott of the In the lead article in the November 1998 whi ch assists victims of domestic vio Texas Supreme Court and joined the HR / Benefits Review, the office's newslette r, lence. The Cen ter's Director of Legal Austin, Texas, firm of G raves, Dougherty, she anticipates that HR and Benefits - Services is classmate STEVEN P . Hearon & Moody in fa ll 1998. Her daugh both y tem wide and local- will become ALLEN. CINDY M. OAKES is ter, Elise Sarah, was born in January 1998. the most sought-after resources in the UC now clerking permanently fo r US. CARLA (BURNEY) ANENE , system because the U ni ve rsit y's success in Magistrate Judge Wayne D. Braz il of MADELYN JORDAN-DAVIS, carrying out its mission depends largely on the US. D istrict Court, Northern Dis DIANE LEWIS , VALERIE its succe s in recruiting, retaining, trict of California, Oakland, and raising MERCIER , DANIELLE OCHS moti va ting, and devel oping the best people. Michael, born November 15, 1994, and TILLOTSON, and ENID Y. The new orga nization refl ects Boyette's Zane, born June 2, 1998. DOMINI RIVERA, alumnae of the Hastings Black HR/ benefits vision, "to have an PHAM is an associate with Rice Law Student Association, met for lunch orga niza tion that ... [provides] integrated Fowler Booth Banning in San Diego, and an opportunity to catch up at the human resource and benefit services to the specializing in business and employ C ity Club in San Francisco on September institution as a whole, with a strong ment litiga tion. MATTHEW A. 21,1998. The group also included several emphasis on strategic planning, responsive SUMROW has joined the firm of 1996 classmates - MONIFA BROWN , customer se rvice, effective relations with Arter & Hadden in the Woodland Hills DIANE JOHNSON , MICHELLE locations and constituents, and creati ve office, where he is a member of the cor M. (MITCHELL) LOPEZ, and planning and consulting services fo r our porate/ securities group. He was previ SHARI HOLLIS Ross, as well as coll eagues at the campuses, medical center , ously an Assistant Professor of Law at CHARLENE L. USHER, who orga laboratories, and other locations." West Bohemia U n iversity in Plze n, nized the event. MARK D . WEIDE Boyette was previously Deputy General Czech Republic, where he taught Euro MAN recently joined the litigation sec Counsel with Pacific Tele is G roup in San pean Union Law and In troduction to tion of the Sa n Francisco firm of Pillsbury Francisco, with respon ibil ity for securities, Anglo-American Law. Madison & Sutro. Previously, he practiced mergers and acquisitions, and human in his hometown, Sacramen to, with the resources. T here, she was involved in all CLASS OF 1995 firm of Wilke, Fleury, Hoffelt, Gould & areas of human resources, including BRENDA M. ALTMAN, a solo Birney. STEVEN L. YARBROUGH employee benefits and compensation. practitioner in fam ily law in San Fran is a partner with the firm of Cochran Fol Before she joined Pacific Telesis, he was a cisco, was recently named to the Board lett & Yarbrough in Crescent C ity. partner with the an Francisco firm of of Directors of San Francisco Friends Pillsbury Madison & Sutro in the employee of the Urban Fo rest. She also is serving CLASS OF 1996 benefits and health care law group, and another three-year term on the Presidio PAULINA DO AMARAL, having left earlier held management positions in the Community YMCA, where she is the C hief Judge R ichard Enslen of the US. insurance indu try. In addition to her C hair of the Health and Fitness C om District Court, Western District of Michi Hastings de.gree, she holds a bachelor's mittee. JACKSON CHEN has ga n, in the capable hands of her classmate degree in special education from the Texas joined Weil Gotshal & Manges' Silicon STEPHEN E. SMITH, recently \X'oman's Cni\'er itv, Denton, Texas. II \ ST I \I: S
joined her other c1as mates LISA J. ciate with the Law Offices of Reidun LEEBOVE and KAREN J. MAN Stromsheim in San Francisco. CRAIG DEL as an as ociate with Lieff, Cabraser, R . ENOCHS and TAMMI J . Heimann & Bernstein in San Francisco. GEERS are celebrating the first JASON A. HOBSON is an associate anniversa ry of their firm, Enochs & with the San Francisco office of Nos Geers, in Houston. C raig doe energy saman, Guthner, Knox & Elli ott, practic marketing work and small busi ness ing public finance and real estate law. advisement, while Tammi practices exclu MAGDALENA P . LAWSON bega n a sively in civil litigation. VERNON C. new position a Associate General Coun GOINS is a partner with Taylo r & Goins e! for PSB Lending Corporation in in Oakland, specializing in busin ess trans Carlsbad, in July 1998. MELODY actions, litiga ti on, and tax law. JEREMY SUNSHINE LOWE married Dr. D. H U I E is the co-author of an article Andre Creese on Ju ly 26,1998. They hon appearing in the summer 1998 issue of eymooned in Spain. See page 44. VAN Environmental Law News, a publicati on T. LY began work in June 1998 as an of the Environmental Law Section of the Assistant District Attorney at the San State Bar of Cali fornia, entitled "Beyond an associate at Littler Mendelson in San Francisco District Attorney's Office. She the Gore Factors: What Courts Consider Francisco, practicing labor and employ is the first Vietname e-American female in Allocating CERCLA Section 113(f) lia ment law. GREGORY C. TOLLEF attorney in the office. MICHELLE M. bility." He is an associate with Jaffe, Tru SON has completed clerkships with the MITCHELL married DAVID LOPEZ tanich, Scatena & Blum in San Francisco. Idaho Supreme Court and the State of ('94) on October 4, 1998, in Del Rey ANDREA J. LACAMPAGNE,an Idaho Court of Appeals. He is currently an Oaks, near Monterey. See page 44. AMY associate in the labor and employ ment associate with the Boise, Idaho, firm of K. O 'BRIEN is an attorney with the department of the San Francisco firm of Stoel Rives, where his emphasis is in con u.s. Securities and Exchange Commis Hanson Bridgett Marcus Vlahos & Rudy, struction defects, product liability, and sion, Division of Corporate Finance, in has been elected President of the Board of commercial business litigation. He and his Washington,D.C. SAN ORA M . Directors of Stepping Stones Growth wife, Karen, have a one-year-old son, Alek PAEK is a contract manager at Pacific Center in San Leandro, a nonprofit sander Knute. LISA L. WONG is an Bell in San Ramon. CHARLENE L. agency serving children and adults with associate with the New York City office of USHER reports Hastings Black Law developmental disabilities. MARGARET the firm of Dewey Ballantine, where she Student Association alumnae met for C. LlVNAH is an associate with the Palo speciali zes in corporate law. She was for lunch and an opportunity to catch up at Alto office of Cooley Godward, specializing merly an associate with Dillingham & the City Club in San Francisco Septem in litigation. MASAKO MASU DA is an Murphy in San Francisco. ber 21, 1998. The group included Usher, associate with Tanso & Yamamoto in who organized the event, and her 1996 Tokyo, specializing in transnational transac CLASS OF 1998 classmates MONIFA BROWN , tions. COLLEEN E. O'LEARY is an BITA ABDOLLAHI is an associate DIANE JOHNSON , MICHELLE associate with the San Francisco firm of with Hollander & Hollander in O akland, M. (MITCHELL) LOPEZ, and Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, where she specializing in civil li tigation. ANDREW SHARI HOLLIS Ross, as well as specializes in securities litigation. She was B. DZEGUZE is an associate with the Class of 1995 members CARLA (BUR previously with the San Francisco office of Indianapolis firm of Barnes & Thornburg, NEY) ANENE , MADELYN JOR Sheppard, Mulli n, Richter & Hampton. specializing in intellectual property and DAN-DAVIS, DIANE LEWIS, ANDREA N. ORLEANS is an associ trade regulation litigation. CHRISTINA VALERIE MERCIER, DANIELLE ate with Tucker, Flyer & Lewis in Washing M. KOTOWSKI is an associate in the OCHS-TILLOTSON, and ENID Y. ton,o.c. LEONARD PENA is an asso labor department of the Palo Alto office RIVERA. ciate with the firm of Cooksey, Howard, of Morrison & Foerster. PAUL C . Martin & Toolen in Costa Mesa, specializ LAcou RCI ERE is an associate with CLASS OF 1997 ing in bankruptcy litigation for secured White & Case in San Francisco. Previous KHALDOUN BAGHDADI is an asso creditors. Contact him at ly, he was with Morrison & Foerster in ciate with Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & [email protected]. MARTI N L. San Francisco. TANYA B. MCGRE Echeverria in San Francisco. JUSTIN PITHA is a Deputy Attorney General GOR is an associate in the litigation H. BASS is an associate with Taylor & with the Attorney General's Office, Califor department of the Palo Alto office of Faust in San Francisco. ADAM W. nia Department of Justice in Los Angeles, Morrison & Foerster. MICHELLE E . BELL is an associate with the Portland, specializing in criminal law. JODY L. NEPOMUCENO is an associate with Oregon, firm of Klarquist Sparkman SH I PPER married Michael Levinsohn, a Gray, Cary, Ware & Freidenrich in an Campbel Leigh & Whinston, practicing criminal defense attorney working in the Diego, where she is a member of the envi intellectual property law, with an empha South Bay, on November 7, 1998. They were ronmental, land use, and real estate group. sis on biotech patent law relating mostly introduced by MICHELLE HOOT CYRIL H. Yu is an associate with the to the National Institutes of Health. NICK, "to whom we will be forever grate Fresno firm of Forrest & McLaughlin, DAVID I. BROWNSTEIN is an asso- ful," Jody writes. She continues to work as specializing in civil li tigation .
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Tanya Usher, Victor A. Butlock ('94), Kym (Goodrum) Bu tlock ('95 ), and Charlene Usher ('96) celebrate the Bullocks' nuptia ls.
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