University of Wisconsin Law School Law in Action A Newsletter for Alumni and Friends Winter 2009 Wisconsin Named No. 2 Law School in Practical Training BRIAN EBNER (3) he University of Wisconsin grow as professionals.” Law School took the Clinical education has become No. 2 spot behind Yale increasingly important over the past TLaw School as Best in Practical few years as studies on legal educa- Training in a study published by tion call for more of these learning the National Jurist magazine in its opportunities and student demand Fall 2008 issue. Law schools were for relevant, hands-on training ranked based on the number of increases. A recent influential report available clinical positions per full- by the Carnegie Foundation for the time student at each law school Advancement of Teaching, which approved by the American Bar critiqued legal education in the Association. Wisconsin tied with United States and Canada, empha- Drake University Law School. sized the importance of clinical “We’re delighted to be recog- experiences in educating future nized for our commitment to this lawyers. Legal clinics, like medical significant aspect of legal education,” internships for future doctors, offer notes Law School Dean Kenneth students who are preparing for the B. Davis, Jr. “We were a leader in legal profession an opportunity clinical education right from the to develop the necessary skills in start, and we understand the im- a closely supervised setting. Clin- portance of combining substantive ics prepare students to work with Students in UW Law School clinical programs law classes with attorney-supervised provide legal services to real clients with clients, be problem solvers, and deal support and close supervision from faculty. clinical experiences to help students with complex ethical issues. Continued on page 11 Alumni Listening Sessions Provide Valuable Feedback Alumni and community leaders in of intensified competition for na- initiative with a commitment to five Wisconsin cities and in several tional recognition, for top students, excellence that would enhance the major cities across the country par- and for outstanding faculty. stature and reputation of the UW ticipated over the past six months Great students, great faculty, Law School. Attendees supported in listening sessions with Dean and a great curriculum were the taking action to retain the best Kenneth B. Davis, Jr. The sessions unifying themes at the Listening faculty, motivate faculty produc- were organized to gather informa- Sessions. Dean Davis presented tivity, renew the curriculum, and tion, elicit feedback, and identify his thoughts about change to each recruit the best students. There was several action areas that will consti- group and invited feedback. Despite also support for strengthening the tute the Law School’s next steps in the differences in locale, there was business law curriculum and for positioning itself in an atmosphere broad and strong support for an expanding skill-based training to all Continued on page 3 DEAN’S MESSAGE “Back When I Was in Law School…”

“We are one of the schools that early on made clinical education a significant part of our educational program, a decision that is important both in our history and for our future.”

clinical education a significant part and skills, including how to work of our educational program, a deci- with clients, investigate facts, iden- sion that is important both in our tify the theory of a case, negotiate

ANDY MANIS history and for our future. settlements, and do many of the For those of you who par- things that real lawyers do; and the One thing I’ve learned as Dean is ticipated in our clinical program in way clinics provide students with that we each view the UW Law the past, today’s experience would an opportunity to practice a high School through the lens of our own seem very familiar to you, but like degree of ethical, competent profes- time and experience. As a result, I other aspects of the curriculum, it sionalism and develop a lifelong sometimes find myself discussing is not the same as it was. Clinical habit of reflective lawyering. today’s UW Law School in terms education has become increasingly But perhaps the most compel- of how it was ten, twenty-five, or sophisticated and there are broader ling aspect of a clinical experience is thirty-five years ago. While much offerings. Moreover, not only has that it is real — an opportunity for about legal education is the same, clinical education been recognized students to work with real clients there also is much that has changed. for its important role in the educa- with real problems. And there is no One example is our clinical tion of future lawyers, but it is also greater feeling for a student attorney education program, which recently in high demand among prospec- than helping a client accomplish was recognized as among the “best tive students, and a strong clinical something that would have been in practical training” by the program is virtually a requirement impossible without the clinic’s legal National Jurist magazine. There are for law schools that want the best assistance. This is a feeling that roughly two hundred law schools applicants. resonated with our clinical students in the U.S. today, many of them What is it that makes the clini- more than a quarter century ago, very good, but only a dozen or so cal experience so significant for cur- and it is one of the aspects of our that can truly claim a distinct and rent students and so important in clinical education program that, well recognized niche in shaping the decision of applicants? Several unlike many other things, hasn’t the course of legal education and factors no doubt are important: the changed one bit. scholarship over the years. We are usefulness of clinics to expand upon —Dean Kenneth B. Davis, Jr. one of these few. We are also one and synthesize classroom learning; of the schools that early on made the way clinics develop confidence

Law in Action is the semiannual newsletter Assistant Editor: Dianne Sattinger of the University of Wisconsin Law School, [email protected] 975 Bascom Mall, Madison, WI 53706-1399. Contact for Class Notes: Alumni Director Law in Action is funded by private donations. Jini Rabas, [email protected] Dean of the Law School: Contact for gifts information: Alumni Director Kenneth B. Davis, Jr. Jini Rabas, [email protected] Editor: Assistant Dean Design: Colleen O’Hara Carolyn Lazar Butler Wisconsin Alumni Association [email protected]

2 Law in Action NEWS Law School Benefits from WARF’s IP Expertise UW Law School students and The Law School, with sup- October on Intellectual Property faculty are benefiting from the port from a grant from the Ewing (IP) Management with Nanjing Law School’s increasing involve- Marion Kauffman Foundation, is University in Nanjing, China. The ment with the Wisconsin Alumni partnering with WARF to offer a program featured speakers from Research Foundation (WARF) and new student education initiative Nanjing University, WARF and WARF’s expertise in intellectual in entrepreneurial studies, with an the UW Law School, including property and entrepreneurship emphasis on the technology transfer professors John Ohnesorge, Pilar issues, thanks in large part to the process (licensing agreements, joint Ossorio, Shubha Ghosh, and Allison efforts of WARF’s Managing ventures, partnerships, and other Christians from the Law School. Director Carl Gulbrandsen ’81 and methods to share both the risks and These opportunities for students his colleagues. rewards of bringing new technolo- and faculty to work alongside the ex- WARF, founded in 1925, gies to market). The new program, perts at WARF, as well as with legal supports scientific research at the which is scheduled to begin in the and business professionals involved University of Wisconsin-Madison fall of 2009, responds to a growing with intellectual property issues, will by moving inventions arising from student interest in intellectual prop- help law students gain the skills that the university’s laboratories to erty, entrepreneurial studies, bio- will be needed by high-tech busi- the marketplace. As the technol- technology, and hands-on learning nesses in the twenty-first century. ogy transfer organization for the experiences in business transactions. The partnership will also connect the university, WARF is at the center of In another venture with Law School faculty with scientists a legal practice area that is growing WARF, the Law School’s East and other professionals to build a both in popularity and in prestige. Asian Legal Studies Center and stronger interdisciplinary commu- WARF held a two-day program in nity in an entrepreneurial climate.

Listening continued from page 1 Professor Charo Joins Obama Transition Team areas of teaching. Alumni expressed UW Law School Professor R. Alta Administration in order to ensure a the desire to be more involved with Charo, a nationally prominent well-informed and smooth transi- the Law School faculty and with authority on bioethics, was named tion. She expressed appreciation one another. by President-elect Barack Obama to her Law School colleagues for “Our commitment to excellence to the Transition Team he formed helping her to make a rapid change will be the centerpiece of our strategic immediately following his election in plans. initiative,” explained Dean Davis in in November. Charo is the Warren P. discussing his view of the next step Charo had worked on issues Knowles Professor of Law & Bio- in setting the Law School’s priorities. surrounding science and health ethics at the Law School and has a “We are looking at the future of the policy for Obama’s pre-transition joint appointment with the School Law School, and we know that we team from mid-September to early of Medicine and Public Health in must make smart choices and care- November. Her expertise includes the Department of Medical History fully set our priorities. We thank you a number of issues related to bio- and Bioethics. She is the author of for your involvement, and we will ethics, health policy, and science nearly one hundred articles, book work hard to be worthy of your trust policy. chapters, and government reports, and your support.” Charo was assigned to the and was elected to the National The Law School welcomes ad- team reviewing the Department of Academies Institute of Medicine in ditional feedback on priorities for Health and Human Services, and 2006. Among her teaching areas at the future. Send your comments, went to Washington in late Novem- the Law School are bioethics, food- thoughts, ideas to Alumni Director ber to work in person with execu- and-drug law, and health law. Jini Rabas at [email protected]. tive branch personnel of the Bush

www.law.wisc.edu Winter 2009 3 FACULTY NEWS Successful Recruiting Adds Five to Faculty

The Law School continues its suc- judges from across the nation. He Law School, Ghosh served as a cess in recruiting top talent, includ- will teach courses in criminal law, law clerk for Judge John T. Noo- ing experienced scholars. This year’s appellate advocacy and legal process nan on the US Court of Appeals five new faculty include three new and work with students and faculty for the Ninth Circuit and was an professors and two lateral hires. in the Law School’s moot court and associate for Baker & McKenzie In the increasingly competitive clinical programs. in San Francisco. Ghosh’s teach- law school environment, recruit- ing interests include intellectual ing and retaining the best faculty is Andrew Coan, a property, business associations, critical to the stature and reputation graduate of Stan- Internet law, copyrights, patents, of a school. Louis Butler, Andrew ford Law School, torts, and property. His published Coan, Shubha Ghosh, Darian received his B.A. work has appeared in Tulane Law Ibrahim, and Brad Snyder bring ex- in English and Review, Case Western Law Review, pertise in wide-ranging substantive Philosophy from Houston Law Review, Florida Law fields including criminal defense, the UW-Madison, Review, Harvard Journal of Law and appellate practice, intellectual prop- where he graduated first in his class. Technology, Berkeley Technology Law erty, business law, constitutional Following law school, Coan clerked Journal, Antitrust Law Journal, and law, American legal history, and for the Honorable Richard A. other publications, both scholarly entrepreneurship. Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals and practitioner-oriented. His cur- Following is an introduction for the Seventh Circuit and was a rent scholarship includes a book on to these accomplished new faculty James C. Gaither Fellow & Lectur- Global Patent Law, an update of members. er in Law at Stanford Law School. Understanding Intellectual Property Coan is a prolific op-ed writer (by Donald Chisum) for Lexis-Nex- Louis Butler Jr., a whose work has been published in is, and numerous articles. He is also former Wisconsin a variety of papers, including the involved in research on punitive Supreme Court Los Angeles Times and the Chris- damage awards in civil tort actions justice and the first tian Science Monitor. His scholarly and statutory treble damages. At the African American work has appeared in Stanford Law UW Law School, Ghosh teaches to sit on the state’s Review, Fordham Law Review, and intellectual property law courses. highest court, is Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and the UW Law School Justice in Civil Liberties, among others. His Darian Ibrahim Residence for two years. Butler, teaching interests include constitu- comes to the UW a graduate of Lawrence College, tional law, federal courts, and legal Law School from received his law degree from the theory. He teaches Constitutional the University of UW in 1977 and worked in the Law and Federal Jurisdiction. Arizona James E. state public defender’s office as Rogers College of both a trial lawyer and an appellate Shubha Ghosh, Law, where he was practitioner before his judicial ap- who most recently an Associate Professor of Law. His pointment to the city of Milwaukee was a Professor of scholarly interests include corporate Municipal Court and his election as Law at Southern and securities law and the intersec- a Milwaukee County circuit court Methodist Uni- tion of law and entrepreneurship. judge in 2002. He was appointed versity, earned a Ibrahim’s current research analyzes to the Wisconsin Supreme Court B.A. from Amherst and compares the financing options in 2004 and served from 2004–08. College, a Ph.D. in economics from that are available to high-tech start- For the past twelve years, Butler the University of Michigan, and a ups, including angel finance and has been a faculty member of the J.D. with distinction from Stanford venture capital. His published work National Judicial College, teaching Law School. After graduation from has appeared in journals including

4 Law in Action FACULTY NEWS the Vanderbilt Law Review and Iowa Brad Snyder spent Story of the Homestead Grays and Law Review. Ibrahim is a 1999 grad- two years covering the Integration of Baseball, recount- uate of Cornell Law School (magna baseball, crime, ing the story of one of the greatest cum laude). He earned a Bachelor of and politics as a re- teams in the history of the Negro Science degree in Chemical Engi- porter for the Bal- Leagues. In 2006, he published his neering in 1996 from Clemson Uni- timore Sun between second book, A Well-Paid Slave: versity (magna cum laude). Ibrahim his undergraduate Curt Flood’s Fight for Free Agency in was an associate in the Corporate education at Duke and his legal Professional Sports, which tells the and Securities Group at Troutman education at Yale Law School. After story behind the Supreme Court’s Sanders LLP in Atlanta for four years graduating from Yale, he clerked for Flood v. Kuhn decision about and clerked for the Chief Justice of the Honorable Dorothy W. Nelson baseball’s antitrust exemption. the Georgia Supreme Court before of the U.S. Court of Appeals for Snyder writes about the intersection entering academia. At the Law the Ninth Circuit and then worked between American legal history and School, Ibrahim teaches Business for nearly three years as an associ- constitutional law. He teaches Civil Organizations II (public corpora- ate at Williams & Connolly LLP in Procedure, Constitutional Law, tions), Securities Regulation, and Washington, D.C. In 2003, Snyder and a seminar on Brown v. Board of Law and Entrepreneurship. published his first book, Beyond the Education. Shadow of the Senators: The Untold

Alumni Honor Faculty for Teaching Excellence

Peter Carstensen Asifa Quraishi Michele LaVigne Thomas Dawson Paul Kent

Five outstanding teachers at the polled classes of recent alumni, the Year Award, for their UW Law School have been named and both were declared winners excellence in co-teaching environ- by the Wisconsin Law Alumni of the honor. mental law. Dawson is an Assistant Association (WLAA) as “Teacher Michele LaVigne is the 2008 Attorney General and Director of of the Year” in three separate Clinical Teacher of the Year. the Environmental Protection Unit categories. LaVigne, a former public defender, with the Wisconsin Department of Professors Peter Carstensen is director of the Defender Proj- Justice, and Kent is an attorney with and Asifa Quraishi each received ect at the Law School’s Frank J. Anderson and Kent, S.C., which the 2008 Teacher of the Year Remington Center. LaVigne is also specializes in environmental law. award, which recognizes excellence the founder of the highly successful In announcing the awards, in classroom teaching by a tenure- Mock Trial Program at the Wiscon- Dean Davis noted, “One of our track professor. Carstensen is sin School for the Deaf. Law School’s central strengths is an expert in antitrust law and Adjunct faculty members the quality of our faculty and their Quraishi in Islamic law. Carstensen Thomas Dawson and Paul Kent commitment to teaching. We thank and Quraishi received the same received the Warren H. Stolper these five great teachers for their number of votes from the three Award, also known as the Adjunct of work and dedication.”

www.law.wisc.edu Winter 2009 5 FACULTY NEWS Ohnesorge Named Co-Director of UW’s China Initiative University of Wisconsin Law School Professor John Ohnesorge has been named Co-Director of the new UW-Madison China Initiative, which is designed to promote global competence and to advance interna- tionalization with respect to China. The Initiative brings together a group of outstanding faculty, BRIAN EBNER alumni, and leaders in business and Chancellor Carolyn “Biddy” Martin shared her vision for the UW-Madison and the Law School’s role in that vision. government to bolster research and teaching about China, to create new New Chancellor Meets Faculty and partnerships between Chinese high- Welcomes Board of Visitors er education institutions and the UW-Madison, and to develop plans Carolyn “Biddy” Martin, the new sin Idea, that the boundaries of the for strategic engagements between chancellor of UW-Madison, was campus are the boundaries of the China and the state of Wisconsin. introduced to the Law School’s state and beyond. Ohnesorge, who is Vice-Director faculty and welcomed the Law Martin told the group that she of the Law School’s East Asian Legal School’s Board of Visitors at its had borrowed language from Dean Studies Center, will be Co-Director annual meeting on November 7. Davis for her inaugural address in of the China Initiative for a two-year Martin, who became the October. “Ken speaks of the Law term. For more information on the twenty-eighth leader of the universi- School as both preeminent and goals and work of the Initiative, see ty, came from Cornell University in public,” Martin said. “This is true www.international.wisc.edu/china/ Ithaca, N.Y., where she had served as for the university as well, and we about.html. provost since 2000. Prior to becom- can’t do one without the other. We ing Cornell’s provost, Martin spent can’t be preeminent without being four years as senior associate dean in true to our public mission to serve Cornell’s Colleges of Arts and Sci- the state, and we can’t serve our UW Law Librarian ences. A professor of German studies public without remaining preemi- Shucha Recognized and women’s studies, she served as nent.” Martin says she embraces the the chair of German studies from chance to spend significant time University of Wisconsin Law School 1994–97. Martin knows the Madi- working with the many supporters Law Librarian Bonnie Shucha has son campus well, having received her of UW-Madison to ensure that it been named one of the Wisconsin Law doctorate in German literature at continues to thrive. Journal’s 2008 Unsung Heroes. The UW-Madison in 1985. The Board of Visitors is an award recognizes outstanding work by “Martin brings experience and alumni group appointed by the “behind the scenes” personnel in the enthusiasm to the chancellor’s posi- Dean to serve in an advisory and Wisconsin legal community. tion,” noted Kenneth B. Davis, Jr. consultative capacity. The Board Shucha, the head of reference “She has an inclusive style and is a provides advice to the Dean on at the UW Law Library, was recog- champion of our interdisciplinary matters such as long-range plan- nized for her work helping alumni, approach, a strength both of the ning and alumni relations, forms students, and others find answers to Law School and the UW-Madison an advocacy network for the Law their research questions. Shucha was campus.” Martin also appreciates School, and assists and advises on also recognized for her many out- the traditional value of the Wiscon- major fund-raising efforts. reach activities.

6 Law in Action STUDENT NEWS

Securities Class Action Litigation First-in-Family Symposium Attracts National Interest College Graduates This year’s Wisconsin Law Review Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson Well Represented Symposium, “The Continuing Evo- of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin in Student Body lution of Securities Class Actions,” was the group’s luncheon speaker, featured an especially timely topic discussing “Litigation: A View from Approximately 15 percent of the central to the integrity and health of the Bench.” UW Law School’s current stu- our financial markets. The sympo- The conference, which brought dent body are the first in their sium, held in Madison in October, together commentators from law family to have graduated from was the Midwest version of the an- firms and scholarly institutions college. Many have overcome nual conference of the Institute for from around the country, included significant life obstacles to reach Law and Economic Policy (ILEP), four major panels featuring promi- law school. Class background — widely considered to be the principal nent speakers. It was co-sponsored measured by parents’ education, conference for securities and corpo- by the the Law School, ILEP, and income levels, and occupational rate law litigators. Citizens Bank. status — is, according to experts in the field, a strong predictor of one’s chances of even consider- Women’s Law Journal Takes New Name ing attending an undergradu- The Wisconsin Women’s Law Jour- Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender ate institution. Many highly nal (WWLJ), officially became the & Society more accurately reflects qualified and interested students Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender the scholarship being published in who are first-in-family college & Society, with the publication of the Journal today. It acknowledges graduates consider law school Vol. XXIII, Number 1. The WWLJ the impact of gender on the legal out of their reach. A broad ap- was one of the earliest law journals system without reference to one proach and a long-time holistic in the nation to be devoted to the sex. The Board believes that the admissions policy that considers study of women and the law, con- new name will better advertise the socioeconomic class along with tributing insightful scholarship to type of content and scholarship that the more traditional factors of the field over the past twenty-two they would like to publish, attract- diversity are helping Wisconsin years. ing submissions that more closely increase socioeconomic diversity The name change to the reflect the Journal’s mission. in the Law School. According to Dean Kenneth B. Davis, Jr., “As Smith Named Assistant Director for Admissions Wisconsin’s only public law school, we are constantly striv- Rebecca L. Smith dent of the UW Law Mock Trial ing to ensure that students has been named team, Secretary of the Latino/a Law from low-income families and Assistant Director Students Association, and Articles students who are the first in for Admissions Editor and Symposium Editor their families to attend college and Financial Aid of the Wisconsin Women’s Law have a place alongside students at the Law School. Journal (now the Journal of Law, from professional and more af- Prior to beginning Gender & Society). She was named fluent family backgrounds. We her new position Smith practiced at the 2006 recipient of the Leonard actively recruit first-generation DeWitt, Ross & Stevens in Madison, Loeb Scholarship, conferred by the college graduates and hope in the areas of business, real estate, American Academy of Matrimonial to find alumni who will help and family law. Lawyers in recognition of both us fund scholarships aimed at Smith graduated from the UW academic excellence and strong these students.” Law School in 2007. She was Presi- interest in family law.

www.law.wisc.edu Winter 2009 7 STUDENT NEWS Wisconsin Students Make Mark in National Competitions UW Law School students received a field of thirty teams from law who then went on to the national honors for their writing and litiga- schools across the country (ceding finals in Seattle. A total of sixteen tion skills this fall at competitions First Place to Northwestern by one teams competed. The students were throughout the country. point). Team members were Erica coached by Professor Carin Clauss UW students took First Place Christian, Scott Colom, Sam and four classmates. at the ABA Regional Law School Kidd, and Andrew Rima. In ad- In the inaugural year of a newly Negotiations Competition in dition, Sam Kidd was named Best established competition in Boston, November in St. Louis, competing Advocate among the one hundred the Foreign Direct Investment against twenty teams from other and twenty students participating International Moot Competition law schools. The two-person team in the competition. Team coaches (FDI Moot), three UW students of Sam Wayne and John Corne- are adjunct faculty members Rhonda distinguished themselves with briefs lius will advance to the national Lanford (of Habush Habush & and oral arguments (“memoranda”) competition in Boston in Febru- Rottier) and Ellen Berz (State on cutting-edge issues in the inter- ary. The team’s coach is S. Richard Public Defender). The Mock Trial national law governing investor- Heymann of the Law School’s Program is funded in large party by state arbitrations. The team of Erin adjunct faculty. attorney Robert Habush ’61. Ehlke, Anu Chudasama, and At the national California Second Place honors at the Zhi-Xiang (Alex) Oh won the Criminal Justice Competition in Regional Thomas Tang Moot award for Best Respondent’s Los Angeles in October, a team of Court Competition in St. Paul Memorandum, one of only two four students from the UW Mock went to the Wisconsin team of writing awards. Their coach was Trial Team took Second Place in Amesia Ngialah and Sai Lui, Professor Jason Yackee.

New Certificate in Health Advocacy A new Consumer Health Advocacy Certificate has been approved for graduate and professional students who participate in the Center for Patient Partnerships based at the UW Law School. The Center for Patient Part- nerships trains professional and graduate-level students from a diversity of disciplines in the art and science of patient advocacy and patient-centered care. The center advances the Wisconsin Idea as students assist patients and families struggling with life-threatening and serious chronic illnesses to navigate the health care system and address Comparing views. Current students share experiences and opinions with members of related legal, financial, and psycho- the Law School’s Board of Visitors during the annual visitor-student lunch. social issues.

8 Law in Action ALUMNI NEWS Rep. Obey’s Kastenmeier Lecture Draws Overflow Crowd

U.S. Rep. Dave Obey, chair of the overflow audience in the Law SALVO JAY powerful House Committee on School’s Godfrey & Kahn Hall that Appropriations, addressed the issue the country’s ongoing financial cri- of economic injustice and the gap sis is not the result of the so-called between rich and poor Americans housing bubble or even Wall Street at the annual Kastenmeier Lecture exuberance, but of the widening held at the Law School this fall. gap between rich and poor. Obey, a Wausau native and a The Kastenmeier Lecture is UW-Madison graduate, has repre- supported by a fund established to sented Wisconsin’s 7th District in recognize Robert W. Kastenmeier, Congress since 1969. He is the only a Law School graduate who served Democratic member of the House with distinction in Congress from to have served on the three major 1958–90. The fund was created to U.S. Representative Dave Obey spoke on “Economic Justice” to a large audience at the economic committees in Congress: foster scholarship in the fields of annual Kastenmeier Lecture. the Budget Committee, the Joint intellectual property, corrections, Economic Committee and the administration of justice and civil ton with his wife Dorothy, attended Committee on Appropriations. liberties. The eighty-four-year-old the lecture, which has been held in In his speech, Obey told the Kastenmeier, who lives in Washing- his honor since 1992.

Noted Author Scott Turow to Deliver Fairchild Lecture Lawyer-author Turow is the award-winning Alumni and guests are invited Scott Turow author of eight best-selling novels to this event and may register online will present and two nonfiction books. His at www.wisconsinlawalumni.com. the Thomas E. books have been translated into over Due to limited seating, registration Fairchild Lecture twenty languages and have sold over is required. For more information, on Friday, April twenty-five million copies. Turow’s contact Lynn Thompson 24, at 4 p.m. in first book, One L (1977), about at [email protected] or the Law School’s his experience as a law student at (608) 262-4915. Godfrey & Kahn Hall. A reception Harvard, is considered a classic for will follow. students entering law school.

Alumna Klingele Begins Clerkship for U.S. Supreme Court

UW Law School one-year clerkship on the Court at as a law clerk to the Honorable Bar- alumna Cecelia the end of July. At the UW Law bara B. Crabb, Chief Judge of the Klingele ’05 is School, Klingele excelled aca- United States District Court for the serving as a U.S. demically, founded the Law School Western District of Wisconsin, and Supreme Court Family Association for support of served one year as clerk to Judge clerk with Justice students with young children, and Susan H. Black of the United States John Paul Stevens was an active participant in three Court of Appeals for the Eleventh this year. Klin- clinical programs. Following gradu- Circuit. gele began her ation, Klingele completed two years

www.law.wisc.edu Winter 2009 9 CLASS NOTES

1940s PEARLS for Teen Girls in Milwaukee, has Len Zubrensky ’49 has written the been a Regent since 2003. book Let the Hi-Jinks Begin, a political memoir with stories of his relationships Cynthia A. Van Bogaert ’82, a part- with Democratic “movers and shakers” ner and chair of the Employee Benefits in Wisconsin. Zubrensky will discuss the Practice Group at Boardman Law Firm book at a Wisconsin Historical Museum LLP, has been named a Fellow of the program on March 3, 2009 in Madison. American College of Employee Benefits Counsel. She is the first attorney in Christopher Spencer ’72 Linda H. Bochert ’74 1970s Wisconsin to have achieved this honor. Christopher Spencer ’72 has been elected a Senior Vice President of Thomas McAdams ’87 has been American Family Mutual Insurance appointed to the state of Wisconsin’s Company in Madison, taking on the chief three-member Tax Appeals Commission legal officer and corporate secretary by Governor Jim Doyle. McAdams has responsibilities. He has served as Vice served as an Assistant District Attorney President of the Legal Division for the in Milwaukee County since 1987. last ten years. Michael Meyer ’87 has been named Peter M. Gaines ’75 Cynthia A. Van Bogaert ’82 Linda H. Bochert ’74, a partner at Supervising Staff Attorney for the U.S. Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, received District Court for the Northern District the Honorary Recognition Award of the of Illinois, Chicago. UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences in October. The award recog- Orlando Cabrera ’89 has joined nizes Bochert’s seventeen years as a poli- Nixon Peabody LLP in its Washington, cymaker with the Wisconsin Department D.C., office as counsel in the firm’s of Natural Resources and Department of Affordable Housing Practice. Cabrera Justice, helping to implement many of the was most recently Assistant Secretary state’s pioneering pollution control laws for Public and Indian Housing at the Orlando Cabrera ’89 Don M. Millis ’90 and natural resource initiatives. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). He will con- Peter M. Gaines ’75 has joined the tinue as CEO and president of National Corporate Practice of Jenner & Block, Community Renaissance, a national non- LLP, in Chicago as a partner. His previous profit affordable-housing developer. experience in complex finance transac- tions includes twenty years at Mayer, 1990s Brown & Platt and thirteen years practic- Don M. Millis ’90 has been named a ing in London. shareholder in the Madison office of Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren S.C., Michael B. Schaedle ’92 Nia Trammell ’98 John Walsh ’75 of Axley Brynelson, LLP, where he practices in the Tax and a former President of the State Bar of Litigation Departments and chairs the Wisconsin, has been elected to the Claims Governmental Relations Practice. Committee of the State of Wisconsin’s Injured Patients and Families Compensation Michael B. Schaedle ’92, a partner Fund and the Wisconsin Health Care with Blank Rome LLP in Philadelphia, Liability Insurance Plan (WHCLIP). has been elected Secretary of the KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program) James J. Hoecker ’78, formerly chair- Philadelphia Charter School, in rec- man of the Federal Energy Regulatory ognition of his dedication to ensuring Cynthia Buchko ’00 Allison M. Sell ’06 Commission, has joined the Washington, equal education to all students in the D.C., office of Husch Blackwell Sanders Philadelphia area. as a senior counsel. Hoecker will focus primarily on emerging markets in the Lori Ringhand ’97 has joined the fac- wholesale electric and national gas areas. ulty of the University of Georgia School of Law. Ringhand’s teaching areas include 1980s constitutional law, election law, compara- Danae Davis ’80 has been reappointed tive law, and state and local government to the University of Wisconsin System’s law. Her research focuses on empirical Board of Regents for a three-year term. studies of voting patterns and practices of U.S. Supreme Court justices. Sarah Fowles ’08 Elisabeth Howard ’08 Davis, who is Executive Director of

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Steven C. Kilpatrick ’98 has joined Rebecca K. Hamrin ’08 has joined the the Civil Litigation Unit of the Wisconsin Real Estate Practice Group of Godfrey & Department of Justice as an Assistant Kahn S.C. She practices in the Milwaukee Attorney General. Kilpatrick has worked office. for the last nine years at Connecticut Legal Services, Inc. Elisabeth Howard ’08 has joined Stafford Rosenbaum LLP as an associate Nia Trammell ’98 has been appointed in the firm’s Madison office. Her practice an Administrative Law Judge with the focuses on business and municipal law. Stevens T. Kelly ’08 Bree E. Linck ’08 Workers’ Compensation Division of the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Stevens T. Kelly ’08 has joined Bell, Development. Trammell was also recent- Boyd & Lloyd LLP as an associate in the ly elected Vice President of the Madison firm’s Chicago office. Kelly will practice in Equal Opportunities Commission. the Investment Management and Financial Markets Group. Jay M. Schloff ’99 has been named Chair of the Intellectual Property Bree E. Linck ’08 has joined Bell, Boyd Practice at Intellipex PLLC. & Lloyd LLP in Chicago as an associate. She will practice in the firm’s Labor and 2000s Employment Group. Adam J. Loomans ’08 Eric J. Weiss ’08 Cynthia Buchko ’00 has been named a shareholder in the Madison office of Adam J. Loomans ’08 has joined the Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek. Buchko Milwaukee office of Godfrey & Kahn Keep in touch! concentrates her practice in renewable S.C. He is a member of the Corporate Send your news to Jini Rabas, energy law, energy and public utilities Practice Group. Director of Alumni Relations, at law, and commercial litigation. [email protected], or write to her Aaron A. Mitchell ’08 has joined the at the University of Wisconsin Lewis W. Beilin ’03 has joined the intellectual property law firm of Brinks Law School, 975 Bascom Mall, Wisconsin Department of Justice as Hofer Gilson & Lione in Chicago as an Madison, WI 53706. an Assistant Attorney General. Beilin associate. works in the SPAR unit (State Programs, And don’t forget to update your Administration and Revenue). Wendy S. Richards ’08 is a new asso- contact information, including your ciate in the Milwaukee office of Godfrey e-mail address. You can do it online Michael Dirks ’04 has joined Tlusty, & Kahn S.C. She is a member of the Tax at www.uwalumni.com (click on Hittner, Kennedy & Freeburg, S.C., based Practice Group. “Update Your Records”) or send an in Schofield, Wisconsin. He practices e-mail with your new information to in the areas of family law, real estate, Monica Santa Maria ’08 has joined the [email protected]. landlord/tenant law, and general civil Madison office of Godfrey & Kahn S.C. litigation. She is a member of the Litigation Practice Group. Training continued from page 1 Melissa Rhone ’06 has joined the Civil Litigation Unit of the Wisconsin Sheila Simhan ’08, a first-year associ- The UW Law School has more Department of Justice as an Assistant ate at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP than ten unique clinical projects, Attorney General. in Chicago, is participating in the firm’s covering a broad array of legal year-long First Year Public Service practice areas, including family law, Allison M. Sell ’06 has joined Quarles Fellowship Program as a staff attorney at & Brady LLP in Milwaukee as an associate the Small Business Opportunity Center appellate practice, landlord-tenant, on the Public Finance team. of Northwestern University School of criminal law, consumer law litiga- Law. tion, and patient advocacy. The Amanda Prutzman ’07 has joined Remington Center, which is home Messerli & Kramer P.A. in Plymouth, Andrew J. Turner ’08 has joined the Minnesota. She is a member of the Corporate Practice Group of Godfrey & to most of the clinical projects, is Collections Group. Kahn S.C., working in the Madison office. one of the longest-established clini- cal programs in the United States. Sarah Fowles ’08 is new associate in Eric J. Weiss ’08 has joined the For more information, see law.wisc. Litigation Practice Group in the the Business Practice Group at Michael edu/academics/clinics/clinicaleduca- Best & Friedrich LLP. She is practicing in Milwaukee office of Godfrey & Kahn S.C. the Madison office. tionskillstraining.html.

www.law.wisc.edu Winter 2009 11 Upcoming Events

• LEO Banquet Saturday, April 18, 2009 Madison Concourse Hotel

• Thomas E. Fairchild Lecture Friday, April 24, 2009 Speaker: Author Scott Turow

• Milwaukee Law Day Thursday, April 30, 2009 Discovery World at Pier Wisconsin, Milwaukee

• Honors and Awards Ceremony Thursday, May 14, 2009 Union Theater

• Commencement Day Friday, May 15, 2009 Law School Hooding Ceremony — Monona Terrace University Commencement — Kohl Center

• Estate Planning in Depth June 15–19, 2009 Co-sponsored by ALI-ABA and UW Law School Continuing Education and Outreach JEFF MILLER, UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS UNIVERSITY MILLER, JEFF • Reunion Weekend September 4–5, 2009 Classes of 1958, 59, 63, 64, 69, 74, 79, 84, 89, 93, 94, 98, 99, 2004

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