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Advocate belief that government can help? from page 1 Shure also asked Chen about the Perfect Together HLSA CONNECTOR people do so is a belief that government unusual role of the department: The Public cannot help. Public attitudes towards Advocate, he noted, is the only cabinet On September 27, half a dozen HLSA-NJ Newsletter of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey government have changed in recent member who is not appointed to do what members traveled to Cambridge to serve decades, Shure noted. When the Public the governor tells him to do. In light of on a panel encouraging current students to Volume 3, Issue 1 Fall/WinterSpring 20072014 Advocate was first created, many believed this, and in light of the Public Advocate’s pursue legal careers in New Jersey. government potential role as a The panel, scheduled to coincide with Letter From The President would be able plaintiff in suits Still “Government Under Glass”? the beginning of the fall recruiting season, to help solve against other will include the Honorable Jack M. ChenWelcome Maps to this Publicedition of TheAdvocate’s New Course TEkeepD WourE LconnectionsLS WI LlivelyL B Eand 5 1relevantST some of the departments, he Sabatino ’82, J.A.D.; Amy Winkel- Connector, the newsletter of the Harvard through this publication. In that spirit, please more pressing social and economic issues of asked Chen what he hears from and how By Stephen Herbes ’01 one reason people may do VANDERBILT LECTURER man ’87, Criminal Chief in the Office of LawRonald School K. AssociationChen, the ofNew New Jersey. I be sure to check out a new feature in this issue, the day, but now, many people no longer he relates to other cabinet members. Theodore V. “Ted” Wells, Jr. ’76 will kick the U.S. Attorney in Newark; Lowenstein amJersey honored Public andAdvocate, excited was to thewrite my first called The Healthy Alum. believe in or want government help. The Public Advocate acknowledged off HLSA-NJ’s second half-century of Sandler partners Nicole Albano ’97 and President’sspeaker and Letter, honored and guestI thank at you for Before closing, I would be remiss if I Shure moved on to pose this pair of that some cabinet members have Vanderbilt Lectures. Famous most recently Steve Hecht ’92; and Michael the opportunity to serve all of you in this did not thank the Board of Trustees for approached him with the Association’s annual Spring for representing former Vice Presidential capacity. I look forward to what is to come, but their continued enthusiasm and renewed suggestions as to Passante ’03, an assistant municipal Symposium on June 19, 2007. Chief of Staff I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, who dedication to ensuring the vibrancy of our where the Advocate’s prosecutor in Newark and coordinator of let me Alsotake a atfew the moments event, towhich highlight several was charged with perjury and obstruction of attention could be New Jersey Young Lawyers for Obama. activitiestook place that at took the Lawplace Center over the in past year. justiceorganization. in the investigation In particular, of please the leakedjoin me focused in order to NewRecently Brunswick, and undeterred bythe the seemingly identityin welcoming of an undercover our new HLSA-NJCIA operative, officers Summer help their own never-endingAssociation’s winter two this season,2007 our 57th and trustees – their photographs and short from page 3 departments gain AnnualSummer PublicVanderbilt Interest Lecture Fellows (although biographies are included in this newsletter. more resources. He rescheduled)were introduced went and off presented without a hitch at a We ask that you continue to support our local outside the courtroom. with certificates recognizing also denied ignoring new venue, the Maplewood CountryPublic Club, Advocate Ronald Chen (l), Summer Fellowship association so that we can continue to offer all The attorneys I assisted placed an the actions of other ontheir January achievements. 22, 2014. WeDamon were privileged Program to Coordinator BobNicole Holmes Bearce ’70 ’and97 HLSA-NJ our members the benefits of our programmatic extraordinary amount of trust and President John Bartlett ’01 (r) congratulate Damon departments when hostKing Professor ’09 of Plainsboro Norman Dorsenspent a (HLS ’51) graduated from HLS and had a particular initiatives; to help us in that regard, please confidence in me. Throughout the King ’09 and Josh Kipnees ’09. those actions were not ten-week summer at the New connection with and impact on New Jersey, summer, I was asked to compose as our esteemed guest speaker. Professor pay your dues to our new treasurer (Kaushal in the public interest. Jersey Institute for Social Justice, and Josh Advocate, for example, is “in but not of” sentencing memos, as well as motion Dorsen is the Frederick I. and Grace A. including those who practiced or resided here. “Ken” Majmudar) at the address on the form After Chen and Kipnees ’09 served the same period with the Public Advocate – it is treated a papers regarding the admissibility of Stokes Professor of Law and Counselor to Please pause to reflect on their legacies. in this newsletter. Shure completed their the Federal Public Defender. (The Fellows’ subsidiary of the department for evidence. Our supervisor also made it a the President of New York University. He On another front, as technology continues Finally, we encourage each of you to dialogue, they opened activities are described in their own words budgeting purposes, but the department priority to regularly assemble panels of was the Founding President of the Society of to intersect with so many of our experiences, reach out to any of us with your thoughts the discussion up to on page 3.) Kipnees’ father, Rob Kipnees does not have any supervisory power over attorneys in the office to present different American Law Teachers (1971-1973), and this issue includes a section on social media and suggestions on how to improve HLSA- questions from the ’80 of Lowenstein Sandler, was among the it. Among the first issues to draw Chen’s Ted Wells ’76 (r) with client Lewis viewpoints and some background on a General Counsel (1969-1976) and President and multimedia from HLS. It is well NJ. This is a team effort, and we solicit and floor. For the next more than 50 alumni in attendance. attention while still “staffing up”: “Scooter” Libby, former chief of particular issue, be it the difference (1976-1991) of the American Civil Liberties worth taking time to appreciate a few of the staffwelcome to Vice your President participation Dick and Cheney. input as a A Family Affair: Rob KIPNEES ’80 with son Josh ’09, one of the half hour, alumni New Century, New Advocate eminent domain, voting rights, and the Association’s 2007 Summer Public Interest Fellows. between practice on the state and federal Union. His thought-provoking Vanderbilt wonderful things happening on campus and vital part of the process. As former Dean asked the speakers Advocate Chen, a former Assistant de-institutionalization of people confined Wells has represented public figures in a level or the function of the Sentencing Lecture topic was Seeking Civil Liberties, recognizing the important and longstanding Kagan said well about our alma mater, “I’ve led questions: Has New Jersey entered an age in questions on issues ranging from the Dean of Rutgers-Newark Law School who in mental institutions. host of other matters over the past three Guidelines. Moreover, I was encouraged to contributions of students and faculty. These a school whose faculty and students examine which the Department of Public Advocate Administrative Procedure Act and the whichwas appointed we are pleased to the to positionshare with of youPublic as Jon Shure, President of the decades. sit in on trials at the Federal Courthouse is less relevant? Or, should the Department influence of political pressure groups to reprintedAdvocate in by this Governor newsletter. Jon S. Corzine in areprogressive highlighted think in thetank pieces New onJersey “Celebration Policy andWells discuss will and debatedeliver every a aspecttalk of titledour law next door to our office if I found the topic should be tasked with restoring people’s eminent domain and beach access. 2006,Thinking began backthe tosymposium warmer days, with over thisan 60:Perspective Celebrating and 60 a Yearslong-time of Women observer at HLS,” of “Reflectionsand legal system. on U.S. And v. what Libby I’ve: learnedTrying most a at issue to be of interest. The varied and pastoverview summer, of his HLSA-NJDepartment againand a reviewprovided of whichstate Igovernment, was delighted wasto attend the andevening’s represent Politicallyis that no Charged one has Case a monopoly in the Shadow on truth of or intriguing subject matter to which I was financialhis first yearsupport in office. for two The HLSdepartment, students ourdiscussant. local organization Shure (andexpanded was further on thrilledMr. anwisdom. Unpopular I’ve learned War.” thatThe we 51 makest Vanderbilt progress by exposed afforded me an unparalleled tooriginally work infounded New Jerseyin 1974, as Publicwas charged Interest by forChen’s my 11-year-old historical daughter, overview who attendedof the by Lecturelistening will to be each held other, at The across Manor every in apparent West Become a Trustee hands-on experience that simply could not Fellows.the Legislature Both our with fellows the worked task of in watchingNewark, mydepartment, side, to witness noting these that amazing Governor women); Orangepolitical on orWednesday, ideological Octoberdivide.” May24, withwe all be replicated in a classroom. andthe otherwe are departments proud to share of state with government you their asBrendan well as Byrne,“Celebrating who Alancreated Dershowitz: the cocktailsoffer atour 5:30pm voices andabout dinner how atbest 7:00pm. to shape The activities of HLSA-NJ are made possible by its volunteer By far the most rewarding moment of The cost will be $95 for alumni admitted to reflectionsand bringing on suit that against work otherexperience members in this of 50department, years at HLS.” coined In many theways, itphrase feels like our organization for the future, and may we my summer was when a defendant with a the bar before 2002, and $70 for alumni trustees. The Association is seeking new volunteers to participate in newsletter.the executive In cabinetaddition when to focusing in the onpublic our only“government yesterday underwhen glass”I experienced and described Professor listen to each other and grow together as a borderline I.Q. was given a sentence at the the Public Advocate’s role by reference to admitted in 2002 or later. risinginterest. HLS The students department who are was just eliminated on the cusp in Dershowitz’s class as a 1L twenty years ago. community over the coming year. the governance of the association, to be formally elected as trustees bottom of his guideline range, largely on that phrase. When the department was If you have not received your Vanderbilt of1994 embarking and re-established on their careers, in this2005. edition In re- – Apropos of its name, “The Connector,” With my warmest wishes for the very at the Vanderbilt Lecture on October 24. Being a trustee is a great the strength of the memo I wrote on his creating it, the Legislature instructed the eliminated in 1994, Shure noted with a invitation, please e-mail [email protected] or in the In Memoriam section – also recognizes we wholeheartedly thank our Vice President, best in health, happiness, and success behalf. Although this perhaps represented office to focus on certain constituencies sense of irony, the state created the call (201) 489-3737. way to stay involved and network with fellow HLS alumni in all the passing of persons who attended or Ronald Brown, for his unceasing energy to throughout 2014. - only a minor victory for the defendant, I and issues, including asylum and mental Department of the Business Advocate to Nicole Bearce walks of life. The current leadership includes law faculty; public-, felt great pride in knowing that during the health advocacy, civil commitment replace it. The HLSA Connector results from a collective effort. As editor, I would like to thank everyone who contributed to this newsletter, including Professor course of my internship this summer, in hearings, rape counseling, and elder How Do You Get People To Care? INSIDE private- and nonprofit-sector attorneys; and sitting and retired Norman Dorsen for his remarks at this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture and our two summer interns Stephanie Freudenberg and Khaled Mowad. I would also addition to learning so much, I was able to advocacy. Shure asked the audience to judges. In addition to our annual meeting, the Vanderbilt Lecture, like to especially thank Karen Chance and Pete Mumma of HLS Alumni Relations. Rabner Takes The Bench help alter a client’s life for the better. During his first year, Chen said, he consider why people vote against their the full board of trustees meets approximately 2-3 other times each I thank HLSA-NJ for providing me with hasThe focused Harvard on Law building School Association up the department. remains committed economic to its mission interest. as stated He hypothesized in its Constitution: that “The objectsLetters of this Association from shallour be SPIFs to advance the year. For more information, e-mail [email protected]. that opportunity. Somecause ofoffices legal education,have been to broughtpromote theinto interests the and increase the usefulness of the Harvard Law School, andAlumni to promote Updates mutual acquaintance and More and good Josh Kipnees ’09 department.fellowship among The all membersOffice ofof thethe Association.” Child ItSee is hopedAdvocate that this ,newsletter page 4 assists in fulfilling that purpose. Your comments, reactions, as well as any news you may have, are very welcome. I would especially welcome your suggestions for distinguished alumni to recognize in future editions of The Connector. - Ron Brown email: [email protected] Page 2 THE HLSA CONNECTOR Page 3

NEW TRUSTEE Our 2007 Public Interest Letter Fro mFrank T Ferruggiahe Pis ar graduateesid of ePrincetonnt University and Harvard Law Schoolspending (1981). and Upon our graduation income this from year. Harvard, he Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! became an associate at the law firm of McCarter and English. He became a partnerFor in the1988, first and time he nowin threeheads years,up a nationalwe During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words practice in property tax appeal litigation. He is a member of the New Jersey, New York and District of Columbia Bars. 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Mr. Ferruggia was born and raised in Newark, and while at Princeton, he majored in Urban Studies at the Woodrow Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He was selected by the faculty as the Latin Salutatorian of the class I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers of 1978. He served as the head of the Princeton Alumni Schools Committee in Essex County for over 20 years and Harvard Law School staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. for Justice. concentrated on recruitment of minority candidates for admission to Princeton from the high schools of the Greater Association of New Jersey for I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – This year, we contributed $3,400 I also worked on projects Newark community. Mr. Ferruggia is ChairmanJohn of the Bartlett Greater ’01, Newark Holiday Fund and has recently been elected providing funding for my first- University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two year summer internship. touching on racial and Chairman of the Newark Regional Business Partnership.HLSA-NJ assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme NEWSchool Record OFFICERS that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking Presidentthe emotional1 lines Vice President2 Secretary3 As youTreasurer look back,4 thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- 1 across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s Nicoleand Bearce hope is known – it’s for part her authentic of who style we and thoughtful approach to building credibility and trust with clients, adversaries, judges and jurors. At her servingbest and mostleaders persuasive like under Albert pressure, Nicole handles high-stakes, complex commercial matters, including pharmaceutical and mass tort litigation, contract and fiduciary breach claims, corporate governance conflicts, consumer discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. fraudare allegations, and andwhat disputes we amongdo shareholdersas a and business partners. She has handled matters in multiple jurisdictions, including New Jersey, NewCohn York, ’51 California, and Delaware.David Nicole offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my is particularlyspecies. knowledgeable about information governance, electronic discovery and spoliation issues, and she co-chairs the firm’s E-Discovery Task CrabtreeForce. She also’52 serves, on theDavid E-Discovery and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the CommitteeThe for the Association International Institute is at for Conflicta Prevention & Resolution, as well as The Sedona Conference Institute. Nicole also oversees the firm’sLandau pro bono ’53 representation, ofJerry Uncommon for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake Schools, an entrepreneurial nonprofit that creates and manages outstanding urban charter public schools across five regions, including the multiple campuses of Newark’s North Star Academy. turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law As drivenfirst outsidetime, thea majority office as sheof isofficers inside, Nicole’s free time is spent racing sailboats and volunteering as a leader for her daughter’s Girl Scout troop,Fish where ’55 she, takesSteve great pride Roth in helping’67, the girls grow in courage, confidence and spirit. She also serves as a trustee for several charitable organizations. options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin 2 former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being Ron schoolBrown is Legalin Officerthe providingtwenty-first advice and counsel to the Chief Technology Officer for the State of New Jersey and to the Senior Management teamMarkowitz at the New ’52 Jersey, Officeand of Informationso See Summer, page 4 Technology.century. He hasI am served the asfirst the Chiefof these Technology Officer’s representative on the Procurement Committee, and the Intellectual Property sub-committeesmany of others.The National As Association you look of State Chief Information Officers (“NASCIO”). He also chaired the state wide ad-hoc working group on E-discovery. Ron is President and CEO of Ronald W. Brown & Associates, LLC, a management to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What consulting and business advisory services firm. http://ronaldwbrownassociates.intuitwebsites.com/index.html. He is also Director, Business Advisory Services at The Efficiency Xperts. http://www. We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you efficiencyxperts.com/.Association, and His priormy positionssuccessor include the following: The Reed-Brown Consulting Group, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer;do you W. Fryewant & theAssociates Association Certified Public Accountants/ConsultantsJason Orlando ’00(Newark, will Newbe the Jersey), second. Director of Managementa huge Consulting; difference BRS&W in what Productions we can Inc. do (New for York, you New York)to Presidentlook like and in Chief the Operating years Officer,to come? co-founder, And and If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of shareholder;This Sammy marks Davis, a Jr., hopeful National Liver moment, Institute, Inc. of at the Universityand for of the Medicine Law and School. Dentistry of New Jersey (Newark New Jersey)how Executivewill you Vice be Presidentpart of it?for Administration and Chief by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 Operatingcourse. Officer; We’ll Motion launch Picture Associationour second Of America, half- Director of NorthI can’t American put andit Commonwealthmore plainly: Operations We need (Anti-piracy); ITT IfLegal you’ve Department. paid yourRon earned dues, his come B.A. with out Distinction to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. in History from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He was in the Honors History Program, on the Dean’s List, and was a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship nominee. His senior thesis was century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I published in Rutgers Review. Ron next attended Harvard Law School, where he earned his Juris Doctor, was a member of the Board of Editors and Articles Editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a Libertiesof theLaw Review.brightest He also starts was the in first the Resident American Tutor and Pre-Lawfrom Advisor those at Currieralumni House, graduated Radcliffe College. after Ron 1970, then attended thank Harvard you.Graduate If Schoolyou ofhaven’t Business doneAdministration those where he earnedlegal hisfirmament, Master in Business New Administration Jersey’s own and wasTed a Goldmanwhose Sachs dues Fellow. – He if alsopaid attended at the Columbia same rate University’s as the Parker Schoolthings of Foreignyet, I inviteand Comparative and implore Law, Summer you to Program. be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite 3 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni JacobWells T. Elberg ’76 joined. ( Seethe U.S.page Attorney’s 1.) OfficeAnd in 2007.we’re Jake is Chiefclasses of the of Health the 1950sCare and and Government ’60s – Fraudwould Unit more at the U.S. Attorney’spart of thisOffice greatfor the endeavor. District of New Jersey. In that role, he supervisesreaching and directs out allto of current the Office’s students criminal andwith civil investigationsa than and makeprosecutions up of thehealth caregap fraud between offenses, includingour investigations and prosecutions of Johnfraud W.against Bartlett the government ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. and private health insurance plans, illegal kickback schemes, violations of the Federal Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act, and the improper diversion of prescription drugs, as well as all health care- related actions brought by the Office under the False Claims Act. In addition, he supervises and directs the investigations regarding Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, as well as fraud On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey againstAL certainUM governmentNI agencies and programs. Prior to joining the US Attorney’s Office, Jakeestates was an practiceassociate atat Dwyer Riker & DanzigCollora LLP in (now Morristown. Collora LLP) in Boston, where his areas of practice included white collar criminal defense, internal corporate investigations, and general commercial litigation. Jake received his JD in 2003 from Harvard Law School, graduating magna in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his cum laude, after having received his BA in 2000 from Dartmouth College, from which he graduatedAssemblyman cum laude and with Mike honors. Panter After graduating ’95 (D-12law school,th) may Jake servedhave assome a law clerkalumni to the Honorablecandidacy Nancy for Gertner Congress (District in of NewMassachusetts). Jersey’s third Congressional district. company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: 4 KaushalHLSA-NJ “Ken” secretaryMajmudar, CFA,Stephen founded F. Ridgewood Herbes Investments’01, CPA, in 2002J.D., and LL.M., serves andas its Chieffor Investment Assembly Officer in withthe primary26th District. focus on managingWebber, its ofValue Morris Investing Plains, based wonstrategies. a Address: Ken graduated with honors from Harvard Law School in 1994 after being an honors graduate of Columbiacontested University primary in 1991 in with June. a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. Prior to founding RidgewoodCORRECTION: Investments inThe late spring 2002, Kenissue worked failed for to seven include years photo on Wall credits Street for as images an investment banker at Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers where he gained extensive experience working on Telephone: E-Mail: initialfrom public the offerings, 50th annual mergers Vanderbilt and acquisitions Lecture. transactions Those images and other were corporate provided finance by advisory work for Fortune 1000 companies. He is admitted to the bar in New York and New Jersey though retiredKeith from Krebs/P.O.V. the practice of law.Image Ken’s Service high level. experience and work with clients has been recognized and Havecited on multiplenews? occasions. E-mail In 2009, [email protected] Businessweek.com named Ken Majmudar one of the 50 Most Experienced Independent Advisors in the country. In 2005, Kaushal and The Ridgewood Group were also recognized as a 5-star advisor, their highest rating, by Paladin Registry. Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector. He is a noted value investor who has written and spoken extensively on the subject of value investing and intelligent investing. He has been a member of the Value Investors Club – an online members-only group for skilled value investors founded by Joel Greenblatt, SumZero (an online community for professional investors) and has also written for Seeking Alpha, among others. Ken isPage active in leading 2 professional groups for investment managers as a member of both the CFA Institute and the New York Society of Securities Analysts. THE HLSA CONNECTOR Page 3

Our ARTHUR2007 T.Public VANDERBILT Interest AND THE VANDERBILT LECTURE: Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we LECTURERS AND TOPICS 1956-2014 During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words Thanks to Patty Lopez for preparing the following chronology of the Lecturers and Topics, 1956 - Present. 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary attorneys through the ReLeSe Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, Some information is missing and if anyone can supply it, we would be very thankful. of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the 1956Harvard Hon.Law Arthur School T. Vanderbilt, NJISJ “Famous and VolunteerFirsts in Jersey Lawyers Jurisprudence: An Acknowledgement of Indebtedness” staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. 1957Association Prof.of New Paul JerseyA. Freund, for “Thefor SupremeJustice. Court and Fundamental Freedoms” I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two 1958 Prof. Arthur E. Sutherland,touching “Scientific on Premises racial and andJudicial Conclusions” HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See 1959Thanks to theProf. generosity Austin Wakeman of the Scott,economic “Half ainequality. Century in theIn Pursuitthe of the Law” time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, 1960Association’s Prof. Miltondues-paying Katz, “The wakeInternational of the LegalU.S. Order:Supreme Variations on a Theme” School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them 1961members, IProf. served A. Jamesas a Casner,legal “TheCourt’s Social decisionSignificance in ofParents present Day Family Dispositions” view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, 1962intern for Prof.the HaroldNew J.Jersey Berman, “TheInvolved Dilemma in Community of Soviet Schools Law v.Reform” and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I 1963-1977 Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I tookMissing part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. 1978of projects, Prof.learning Bayless about Manning, the “America’sthe decision’s Dangerous effect Addictionon school - Too Much Law” st beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board 1979ways in whichMissing NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are 1980legal advocacy,Floyd policy Abrams, analysis, Esq., “Pressconsider Paranoia: race Myth and or Reality”proposing September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 1981and direct serviceProf. Arthur programs R. Miller, to “Emerging Trends in Judicial Control of Litigation - Sanctions” turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution 1982communities. Hon. Leonard I. Garth, “Pruningequal educational the Least Dangerousopportunity. Branch: ChiefCongressional Counsel, Intrusions and state on Attorney the Federal General Judicial – Power”is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other 1983Through Sanford NJISJ’s M. Jaffe,Second Esq., “TheI researched Adversary various System: legal Is issues There a BetterChief Way?” Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. mailings throughout the year – and it is first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 1984Chance Campaign,Hon. Ruggero a policy J. Aldisert, affecting “A Picador New At Work Jersey’s Among Fair Sacred Cows” other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous 1985effort to improveHon. Alan the B.reentry Handler, “JurispudenceHousing Act andand Prudential the Mt. Laurel Justice” underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the 1986 Dean James Vorenberg, “Making the Case for a Life in the Law” draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. 1987following Missingincarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank 1988researched theHon. efforts Daniel of J. citiesO’Hern, “Awhich Nation have of beenEmployees the subject or Every of Manwill a King fundamentally – Who Is To shapeSay? Some my Viewsaward on Private enabled Employment me to work Law” at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- 1989across the Missingcountry to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. 1990 Hon. John F. Gerry, “A Fading View From The Bridge” are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. Crabtree ’52, David 1991and prepared Missing written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry 1992for presentations Hon. toMarie New L. Jersey Garibaldi, examples “The New of Jersey ways Experience: in which Accommodating the Separation Between thechance Legislature to witness and theand Judiciary” partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin 1993municipalities Prof. on Roger policy I. reform Abrams, “Theattorneys Future canof Legalcommit Education” their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and 1994 Hon. Dickinson R. Debevoise, (topic and text not available) were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so 1995 Hon. Robert N. Wilentz, (topic and text not available) See Summer, page 4 century. I am the first of these many others. As you look 1996 Hon. Deborah T. Poritz, Chief Justice, (topic and text not available) to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What 1997 Hon. Charles Fried, “Cardozo: Themes and Adventures of a Biographer” Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And 1998If you’ve readAlan about V. Lowenstein, it in the Esq.,Connector “The , Legacyit was ofmade Arthur possible T. Vanderbilt and to theall ourNew Jerseymembers, Bar” it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? 1999by members Prof. who Robert paid F. their Williams dues. and From Dean our Jack summer M. Sabatino, public “Two Institutionsour dues-paying & Two Men: members. The NewIf you Jersey haven’t Supreme paid Court your 2007-2008& Harvard course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowshipsLaw School and Alan campus B. Handler programming & Daniel J.for O’Hern, students a Mutual to Appreciation”dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I 2000 Prof. Henry J. Steiner, “Religious Freedom: Human Rights Dilemmas” To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those 2001 Prof. Charles D. Fried, “Reflections on the Reaction to Bush v. Gore” legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite 2002 Hon. Gary S. Stein, Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or(topic include and yourtext notseparate available) dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 2003admitted toDean the bar Elena for Kagan, over 5 (topicyears andas of text July not 1, available)2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. 2004 Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter, “Fighting Terrorism in a Networked World” ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and 2005 I encloseProf. Charles my J.check Ogletree, for Jr., the “President 2007-2008 Bush’s Impactdues toon thethe Supreme Harvard Court” Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. 2006 in Hon.the amount James R. of Zazzali, “International $75.00 Human Rights: $ An 50.00 Overview” State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12th) may have some alumni 2007 Theodore V. Wells, Jr., “Reflections on U.S. v. Libby: Trying a Politically Charged Case in the Shadow of an Unpopular War” candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Name: Class: company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race 2008 Hon. Anne Milgram, Attorney General of New Jersey, “Reducing Violence in New Jersey: The Governor’s Anti-Crime Plan” HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a 2009 Address:Eliot L. Spitzer ’84, “From Ayn Rand to Ken Feinberg; How quickly the paradigm shifts. What should be the rationale for contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone:government participation in the market E-Mail: place?” from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by 2010 Hon. John E. Wallace, Jr., “Harvard Law School Graduates on the United States Supreme Court” Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] 2011 DateDean of MarthaAdmission Minow, to “Inthe Brown’s Bar: Wake: Legacies of America’s Educational I am Landmark” employed in the public sector. 2012 Hon. Stuart Rabner, Chief Justice, Supreme Court Of New Jersey, “Eyewitness Identification Evidence in the 21st Century”

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Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of 5toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, wake of the U.S. Supreme Each of these persons attended or graduated from HLS, and practiced or resided in or had some connection with New Jersey. Association’s dues-paying School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents Erwinview L.1989, Cherovsky the year -the LL.B. Berlin 1958 Wall fell FrancisBut, Giardielloto paraphrase - LL.B. the old 1951 saw, with Together,develop to they New weighed Jersey’s fivelegal pounds.community, As their intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Erwin Cherovsky died in August 2013. Francis R. Giardiello, 90, passed weight went down to one and three-quarter Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing He was an attorney and author.th away peacefully on Sunday, January 27, pounds each, the doctor told their parents Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st 2013. Frank was born on April 26, 1922 in that they were dying and their only hope beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his FarleyToday, Carter Childswe might - LL.B. instead 1942 mark Philadelphia,response rate PA.that He — grewwhile up in in one Paterson, sense wasmeetings, Dr. Martin at less Cooney, than $400 who for had the come year over legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are SeptemberFarley Carter 11, Childs,2001 as94, the of Watchung,centenary graduatingunderwhelming from —Central still Highpermitted School the in fromto date, Germany is modest. with We something made no hegift calledto and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 N.J.,turning died atpoint. Overlook That Hospital,fateful day Summit, came 1940.Association to provide programming, make “in-cu-ba-tors.”the Law School thisUnder year. Dr. Still, Cooney’s they have care assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s N.J.,three on Wednesday, months after February I completed 13, 2013. law a substantialDuring Worldgift to Warthe LawII, FrankSchool, was and a theyprovided were us on the display printing at andConey distribution Island and communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and 1st Lieutenant in the Army Air Force. His Atlantic City, where people paid a nickel to Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is affecting New Jersey’s Fair lived in Watchung and formerly in Scotch aircraft was shot down in 1944 during a raid view them. They thrived under his care and Chance Campaign, a policy other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public Plains/Fanwood and Williamsburg, Va. Mr. near Politz, Poland, and he was interned one year later came home to live. The family and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the Childsdraw graduated these lines. from Looking Brown both University in in Sweden. After the war Frank attended moved to Woodbridgefuture as we whenhave inthe pasttwins returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School 1939backward and from Harvardand Lawforward, School in 1942. Georgetown University, where he graduated were five. years.They attended local schools and following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This Hewalking served in the the Armyemotional during lines World War II, cum laude in two and a half years with a graduated from AsWoodbridge you look back, Senior thank High researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at frombetween 1942 toregret 1946, and and pride, retired fear as a major in Bachelor of Science degree. He received his School, classthe of 1947.Association’s Stewart graduatedlong- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert the Reserve. For over 33 years, Mr. Childs law degree from Harvard Law School in 1951 from Johns Hopkins in 1951, with a degree discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David both state and federal law. was an attorney for various subsidiaries of and practiced law in the city of Paterson for in business administration. He then attended offenders in municipal hiring Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the Western Electric in New York City, finishing many years. Harvard Law School, where he received his The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake his turningcareer pointas general as well. solicitor. For the He was a Frank married Ruth Voorman in 1953 J.D. in 1954.Fitzgerald In 1954, Mr.English Hutt, Marvinjoined the municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law memberfirst time, of the a majority American of officersBar and the New and resided in Totowa, where they raised U.S. Army andFish was ’55 honorably, Steve discharged Roth ’67, in options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and Yorkwere Bar graduated associations. from Mr. the Childs law lived life three children. He served the Borough of 1962. Mr. Huttthe served aslate assistant townshipIrwin underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being former inmates with pro bono See Summer, page 4 to theschool fullest. in Hethe was twenty-firstan avid runner until Totowa for many years - as borough attorney, attorney in MarkowitzWoodbridge ’52 in, 1960and andso as century. I am the first of these many others. As you look his 80s, a golfer till his 90s, a skier, a world tax collector, treasurer, municipal judge and township attorney and solicitor from Jan. 1, to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What traveler,Association, a dancer, and a lifelong my successor student. He went as the first chairman of the Totowa Industrial 1961, to Dec.do 31, you 1967. want Hethe wasAssociation appointed We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you backJason to law Orlando school to’00 sharpen will be upthe his second. law skills Commission.a huge difference He in waswhat thewe canthird do forGrand you attorneyto look likefor inthe the Woodbridgeyears to come? Township And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of at age 85.This marks a hopeful moment, of Exaltedand for theRuler Law of School. Passaic Valley Elks Lodge Boardhow will of you Education be part of from it? 1964 to 1984 by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 course.He measured We’ll launch life by our his secondfriends half-and No. I2111. can’t put it more plainly: We need and Ifagain you’ve from paid 1988 your todues, 1989. come Stewart out to was interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. wantedcentury many, of Vanderbiltmany in that Lectures circle. Hiswith every one your help. And we especially need help generalour events, counsel or been for activethe New on theJersey board, Builders I To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a dayof was the marked brightest by cardsstarts to in send the and American calls to Stuartfrom those O. Goldsmith alumni graduated - LL.B. after 1956 1970, Associationthank you. forIf overyou 35haven’t years, anddone represented those legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite make. To his nieces and nephews he was a Stuart Oliver Goldsmith, 83, “Buddy” numerous builders throughout the state. He Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni was an original member of the League of cherishedreaching uncle, out to to the current DiGioacchino students family with he a tothan friends make and upfamily, the diedgap on between September our 2, John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. was a family favorite, to his children a source of 2013. He was a graduate of Rutgers University Municipalities drafting committee on the endless inspiration, to his grandchildren a most and Harvard Law School and had a career in municipal land use law from its enactment his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey wonderfulALU Mgrandpa,NI toOn his Thefriends Move a reason to commercial real estate development. in 1975 through various modifications. estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 smileState and Senate the source Judiciary of the Chairman warmest of John hugs. Mr.Adler ’84 has declared his He served as a lecturer for the Institute of Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12th) may have some alumni candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Continuing Legal Education on real estate Childs was devoted to his Catholic faith. He Stewart M. Hutt - J.D.company 1954 next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: thand planning laws. He also participated in becameHLSA-NJ a Fourth secretary Degree Stephen Knight F. and Herbes was active ’01, CPA, J.D.,Stewart LL.M., Martin and Hutt,for Assembly 84, lovingly in the 26 District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: in the Knights of Columbus in many cities. His known as “Uncle Stewie”contested by primary family, in June.the writing of the Mount Laurel Law and wife,CORRECTION: stricken by Alzheimer’s, The spring issuewas failedhis true to includelove, photocolleagues credits for and images friends, passed away on Friday, was invited to Harvard Law School as a guest Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by andKeith he was Krebs/P.O.V. faithful in Imagehis daily Service visits. to her over Oct. 4, 2013. Mr. Hutt andHave his identical news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector. many years. twin, Herbert, were born in the Bronx, N.Y. IN MEMORIAM continued on next page

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IN MEMORIAM continued from previous page Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. speaker on it. When he was introduced there Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we wereFellows boos, but when In he was Their done speaking, Own Arthur Words Minuskin - J.D. 1948 Eugene Leroy Parker, Jr. - LL.B. 1950 During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to he received a standing ovation. Mr. Hutt was a Arthur Minuskin of Fair Lawn died Eugene “Gene” LeRoy Parker, Jr. of 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary memberDear Members of the American of HLSA-NJ, Land Use andattorneys Local throughTuesday, the January ReLeSe 22, 2013. He was 88. A Plainfield, NJ, passed away on Tuesday, April of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees GovernmentI would Sectionslike to thankand served the as directornetwork, a partnershipPaterson native, between Judge Minuskin opened a law 23, 2013. Born July 14, 1924 in Mount member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers ofHarvard the New JerseyLaw Bar LandSchool Use Section. He practice in the early 1950s. He served as Fair Pleasant, Tennessee, to Amy Alice Hoge staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. also argued the first case to be televised live Lawn’s assistant borough attorney, borough Parker and Eugene LeRoy Parker, he was a I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two before the New Jersey Supreme Court. touching attorneyon racial and magistrate.and He rose to a Superior graduate of Hay Long High School, Harvard HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality.Court judgeship In thein 1977. College ‘46, and Harvard Law School ‘50. time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, RichardAssociation’s M. Kohn dues-paying- LL.B. 1955 wake of the U.S.On Dec.Supreme 30, 1977, Judge Minuskin He served in the US Navy aboard the USS School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members,Richard I servedM. Kohn, as a 81,legal passed Court’s away decisionruled thatin a Parents78-year-old cancer patient had LCT #1092 in Leyte Gulf in the Philippines view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, Friday,intern Marchfor the 29, 2013.New JerseyBorn in Trenton,Involved in Communitythe constitutional Schools rightv. to be given Laetrile, a with BB69, the 7th Fleet Flagship Mighty and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Seattle School District #1, I RichardInstitute was for educated Social Justicein the Trentonin school controversial substance derived from apricot MO. during WWII. Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th system before entering Harvard College at pits. The judge said the treatment was “in the Married in 1948 he lived in NorthLinda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st best interests of the patient, even if that welfare Babylon, Long Island, NY and worked for beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board theways age in ofwhich 16. HeNJISJ graduated combines from Harvardassignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. 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Damon King ’09 Over the course of my as trustee of the Mercer Bucks Federation Minuskin’s ruling that Newark could sue gun Grace Episcopal Church, Plainfield. After species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the manufacturers for damages stemming from retirement in 1989, he traveled the world on The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry andfor presentationsthe Princeton toMercer New JerseyBucks Federationexamples of ways in which chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin formunicipalities more than 40on policyyears. Areform founding attorneystrustee cangun violence.commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, 50+ trips within Elderhostelthe federal (Roadcriminal Scholar), law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, ofoptions. the Mercer I also Bucks helped Federation connect Foundation,knowledge and Afterskills retiringto aid at 70, he Iremained would like active to conveyparticularly my process,enjoying theboth cruises within on canals,and were graduated from the law the late Irwin heformer served inmates as vice-president with pro bono and chairmanunderrepresented as a mediator andand a specialsincere master, appreciation and also forrivers, being and oceans. school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 of the investment committee of the Jewish heard cases in Superior Court in Essex century. I am the first of these many others. As you look County. J. Lester Parsons - LL.B. 1965 to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Community Foundation of Princeton, Association, and my successor do you want the Association Mercer,We Bucks. Can’t He was aDo longtime Until member of You Due the spring symposium and J.other Lester events Parsons, HLSA-NJ III died offersat his hometo you in Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And theIf you’veJewish Communityread about Centerit in the and Connector the Jewish , it wasDonald made H. possible Mintz - J.D.and 1954 all our members,Vero it wouldn’t Beach, FL exist on withoutMarch 21, the 2013. support Jay wasof This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? Familyby members and Children who paidServices. their He dues. served From on our summerDonald public H. Mintz, 82,our of dues-payingEast Hanover, members. born Ifin youOrange, haven’t NJ, paidin 1940. your He 2007-2008 graduated course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to theinterest board fellowships of Greenwood and House campus and programming served N.J., for passed students away toSunday, Maydues 12, yet, 2013, please at St.contribute from todayThe byChoate using School the form in 1957, below. Princeton century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I as its finance committee chairman. Mr. Kohn Joseph’s Hospital, Wayne, N.J. Donald was University in 1961 and Harvard Law School of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a also served as a trustee of Mercer Medical born in East Orange, N.J., and resided there in 1965. He also received a Masters Degree legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Center Foundation, Trenton Jaycees, Multiple before moving to East Hanover. He was a in Tax Law from NYU and an MBA from Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni U.S. Army veteran who served in World War Fairleigh Dickinson. A brilliant and generous reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 Sclerosisadmitted Society, to the barYMCA for over Advisory 5 years Board,as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. Carolyn Stokes Day Nursery, and the Boys II. He graduated from University of Chicago, man, Jay gave selflessly of his time and Columbia University, and Harvard Law talents to many community, charitable and his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and Club of Trenton.I enclose Honored my manycheck times for bythe his 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey ALUMNI On The Move School in 1954. Mr. Mintz was an attorney educational institutions in Bernardsville, NJ, estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. community,in hethe was amount the recipient of of the 1993 $75.00 $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th community service award from the Jewish in East Orange. He was the Essex County Fishers Island, NY, and Vero Beach, FL. He candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Federation,Name: the 1995 lifetime achievement prosecutor from 1955 to 1959, and he Class: was a was an accomplished private pilot and sailor. th member of the Essex County and New Jersey HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26 District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a award fromAddress: the Federation, and the 2000 contested primary in June. community service award of the United Jewish Bar associations, the American Legion, and CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images FederationTelephone: of Princeton, Mercer, Bucks. E-Mail:Temple B’nai Abraham of Livingston. He from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: sang bass with the Masterwork Chorus I am employedand in the public sector. IN MEMORIAM continued on next page the New Jersey Opera for 22 years. IN MEMORIAM continued on next page

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IN MEMORIAM continued from previous page Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The Prewithinsid ethen cities.t He incited the wrath of Junespending was a and graduate our income of Irvington this year. High School Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! Jerome G. Rose - J.D. 1951 many critics by his assertion that the primary and ForDrew the University; first time shein wasthree also years, one ofwe the Fellows In Their Own Words DuringJerome my G. firstRose, year 86, ofdied law on school April in5, beneficiariesSeptember of thepanel court’s decision would be firstexpect women this year’s to be Vanderbiltaccepted to, Lecture and graduate to 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary 2013, in Princeton, NJ, where he had resided land use developers and not the urban poor. from, Harvard Law School. During her long Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees network, a partnership between for the previous 44 years. He was professor In 1948 he received an A.B. with and distinguished legal career, June had I would like to thank the member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers of urban planning and professor of business Distinction in Government from Cornell many accomplishments, including working Harvard Law School staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. law at Rutgers University for 27 years before University, where he was elected to Phi Beta as the first woman deputy attorney general I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects his Universityretirement infour 1996. years He was earlier honored – aswas an Kappa.heard Hefrom received half a J.D.2007 cum President laude from of intoward the State summer of New fellowshipsJersey and as foran assistanttwo touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. outstandingassassinated teacher, in St.having Petersburg. won the RutgersAt the Harvarddozen of usLaw about School the in 1951. He was a prosecutorextraordinary for youngEssex County,law students. where she(See was Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the Universitytime, I wroteprestigious in the Lindback weekly Harvard Foundation Law memberprofessional of the opportunities Bar of the State abloom of New in York, the thepage first 3.) Thewoman value in theof their state experience,to prosecute a Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme AwardSchool for Record Excellence that future in Teaching, historians as would well andGarden a licensed State. ( Seeprofessional page 4.) planner in the murder.and the As connection a prosecutor, it Junehelped also them helped members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, as, the Rutgers School of Business teaching State of New Jersey. He had been a member of found the Office of Public Defender for intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Seattle School District #1, I awards. Upon his retirement in 1996, the Princeton Township Zoning Board and the the State of New Jersey. June’s work in the Institute for Social Justice in Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing Rutgers created a new awardth in his honor, Princeton Regional Planning Board. Before prosecutor’s office was followed by her 1964 Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st the beginningJerome G. of Rose the 21 Excellence. in Teaching retirementalumni paid he haddues been to a theconsultant Association, to many a appointmentOur spending as theon state’sfood Motorfor Board Vehicle ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Award,Today, to be given we to mightoutstanding instead teachers mark in municipalresponse rateand thatstate — governmentwhile in one agencies sense Director,meetings, aat positionless than she$400 held for untilthe year 1970, legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are the SeptemberSchool of Planning 11, 2001 and asPublic the Policy.centenary His onunderwhelming matters relating — tostill housing permitted and land theuse makingto date, heris modest.the first We woman made noMotor gift Vehicleto and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 studentsturning will point. remember That him fateful for hisday sense came of control.Association Starting to provide in 1972 programming, and continuing make for Directorthe Law Schoolin the country. this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution humor, his dramatic presentations of material 20 years thereafter, he was editor-in-chief of June then enjoyed many years as an communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other I researched various legal issues and his ability to make Land Use Law and the Real Estate Law Journal, a quarterly review attorney in a neighborhood law practice Through NJISJ’s Second Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair Business Law engaging courses. He was also a of developments in the fields of real estate law, until she was appointed as a Superior Court other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public controversial land use planner who criticized and our human nature compels us to taxationtwo-thirds and drop finance. in response He wrote rate eightis making books Judgecontributions in 1974. toAlthough the law she school handled in variousthe prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the the drawNew these Jersey lines. Supreme Looking Court’sboth zoning on various aspects of land use regulation, 70 types of cases,future she especially as we enjoyedhave in the past years returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School decisionbackward that openedand upforward, suburban land articles and an autobiography as well as several spent workingyears. with the children who came following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This for walkinghousing thedevelopment. emotional Helines had argued booklets about his extensive travels. through her courtroom. As you Forlook example, back, thank when it researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- in many articles and land use conferences was time for the children to meet “the judge”, across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert that the court’s decision would drain the June Strelecki - LL.B. 1955 June allowed each child to choose and keep a discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my central cities of their middle class residents, The Honorable June Strelecki, 84, of stuffed animal from the vast collection that species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the concentrate the urban poor in New Jersey’s The Association is at a Wall Township, passed away peacefully at she kept for justLandau this purpose. ’53, June continuedJerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake citiesturning and pointwaste asprecious well. For fuel the and other her home on Saturday, March 9, 2013. Born to serve as a judgeFitzgerald until Englishshe retired, Marvin from the municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law resources.first time, Instead a majority of the ofcourt’s officers urban policy in Newark, June resided in Irvington before bench in 2008Fish and ’55 began, Steve work as Roth an agent ’67, for options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and he wereproposed graduated programs from ofthe redevelopmentlaw moving to Wall Township over 30 years ago. the Ocean Countythe Prosecutor’slate Office,Irwin where former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 she continued to work until her passing. century. I am the first of these many others. As you look to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second.CRITERIA a huge difference TO BEin what USED we can do forFOR you THEto look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 course. We’ll launchDISTINGUISHED our second half- I can’t ALUMNI/ALUMNAE put it more plainly: We need AWARDIf you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legalThe firmament,Harvard Law New School Jersey’s Association own Ted of New whoseJersey duesselects – twoif paid Harvard at the sameLaw Schoolrate as graduatesthe thingseach year yet, forI invite recognition and implore as distinguished you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite WellsNew Jersey’76. alumni(See page or alumnae 1.) And of the we’re Law School.classes The of individuals the 1950s chosenand ’60s must – would have morepracticed lawpart or ofworked this great in their endeavor. chosen profession for 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reachingsome period out into New current Jersey. students The Awardwith a may bethan made makeposthumously. up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey AAwardeesLUM mustNI have distinguished themselves in various ways, includingestates but not practice limited at to Riker one Danzigor more in of Morristown. the following: (a) Outstanding record of quality work in their chosen field; (b) Outstanding record over a substantial period of time of service to a local, in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacystate, regional, for Congress national, in New or international Jersey’s third community; Congressional (c) district.Notable and exceptionalAssemblyman philanthropic Mike Panter endeavors; ’95 (D-12 and (d)) may Academic have some excellence. alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a The recipients of the award are announced in December each year and are honored at an event in the spring of the following year, where Address: contested primary in June. CORRECTION:each is given a Theplaque spring and issue afforded failed to includean opportunity photo credits to for reflect images on his or her life’s work. Award recipients will be listed on a Distinguished Telephone: E-Mail: fromAlumnae the 50th and annual Alumni Vanderbilt Honor Lecture. Roll Those Plaque images maintained were provided by the by Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey. Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector. Approved, Oct. 29, 2013, Board of Trustees, Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey.

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Our 2007 PublicTHE 57THInterest VANDERBILT LECTURE Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we “The Vanderbilt lecture is more than an alumni gathering. It was conceived over fifty years ago by our Association as a continuing During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellowsreminder of theIn Law Their School’s inspiration Own to continueWords learning, to explore new ideas, and revisit sometimes forgotten old ones.” 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary attorneys through the ReLeSe Dear MembersOn January of HLSA-NJ,22, 2014 Norman Dorsen ’53 delivered the Vanderbilt Lecture. David Landau introduced Professor Dorsen as follows: of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard“ It is notLaw without School some emotion NJISJ that and I introduce Volunteer our Lawyers Vanderbilt Lecturer, as Professor Dorsen and I were classmates at HLS staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Associationand have of New most Jerseyrecently for celebrated for Justice. the 60th reunion of the distinguished class of 1953. At that time the Korean War (which I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – This year, we contributed $3,400 John Bartlett ’01, providingbegan funding in 1950) for mywas first- beginning toI windalso workeddown and on projectsthe class of 1953 was particularly distinguished by being the first HLS University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two year summer internship. touching on racial and HLSA-NJ class which included women. I recall that the faculty was principally conservative and that it had voted to expel two students assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s(brilliant brothers)dues-paying who hadwake invoked of thethe FifthU.S. AmendmentSupreme when asked in some then typical forum about their political School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members,views. I servedDean Griswoldas a legal rescued Court’s the two decision brothers inand Parents went on to deliver a significant series of lectures across the country on view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern thefor importance the New of theJersey 5th Amendment.Involved in Community In our society Schools in thev. early 1950’s, there was segregation in much of the country and and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institutethe formilitary, Social andJustice discrimination in Seattle of variedSchool sortsDistrict in most#1, of Ithe U.S. Yet, from this environment there emerged two members Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th of the Class of 1953 who became the nation’s foremost constitutional scholars, professors, and authors: Gerald Gunther and Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st Norman Dorsen. Gerry Gunther passed away a decade ago. Norman has led the ACLU. He is a Civil Rights hero. He has beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his received national and international recognition. Norman is not only a scholar, he is a battler in the courts, frequently the Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and directSupreme service Court. programs And heto is a belovedpolicy options and outstanding still available NYU to Law SchoolGovernor professor Jon S. and Corzine Counselor and toRabner’s the President wife, Deborah. of NYU.” At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s 6 three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educationalSEEKING opportunity. CIVIL LIBERTIESChief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other school and five days after I started my Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legalNorman issues DorsenChief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair Thank you all very much. I am honored to be here and to join the other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel someoneunderserved of a basicpopulations. right. People I am asserthonored many kinds with aof Summer civil liberties Public – and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the groupprospects of distinguished of individuals speakers who havedoctrine, spoken inparticularly this lecture series.with forgrateful example, to athe right members to a fair trialof (or dueInterest process), Fellowship freedom of byspeech the or draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past Ireturning have known to theirmany communities leaders of the Newrespect Jersey bar, includingto regional Professor religion,HLSA-NJ the for right enabling to privacy, me theto rightHarvard to private property,Law theSchool right to backward and forward, years. following incarceration,Andrew Kaufman I ofcontribution Harvard Law School,agreements, who was travel,have a thesummer right notexperience to be discriminated that Association against on of arbitrary New Jersey. grounds This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the effortsa student of citieswith me inwhich the earlyhave been1950s, the and subject Justice of suchwill asfundamentally race or sex, andshape others. my Mostaward of us enabledhave a strong me to opinion work atof between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- across the countryWilliam to reduce J. Brennan, vigorous who was policy only debates in his and second the whatlegal career.civil liberties are, or should be, nothe matter Federal what Public others Defender’s may think. serving leaders like Albert and hope – it’s part of who we discrimination yearagainst on the ex-Supremetarget Court of whenlegal challengesI was clerked under for Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. But what are civilDamon liberties? King ’09Where doOver they comethe from?course Theyof domy not species. Crabtree ’52, David Justice Harlan in the late 1950s. and prepared writtenJustice materials Brennan lookedNJISJ awfully provides numerous descend from the heavens announcinginternship, that “I am I a civilwas liberty.”given theAnd The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which just because you or I think somethingchance is a civil to libertywitness does and not partake make turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin young compared to the other justices; it must be the municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their itDear so. HLSA-NJ,A constitutional provision or ain law the must federal declare criminal it, or a courtlaw first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, New Jersey air. More recently, I spoke only a few options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid or otherI would authoritative like to convey body mustmy enunciateprocess, it. both Moreover, within after and it is were graduated from the law the late Irwin weeksformer ago inmates with two with of my pro New bono Jersey underrepresentedclassmates at and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so a reunion at Harvard Law School. agreed that a civil liberty exists in principle,See Summer for it to, bepage enforced 4 some century. I am the first of these many others. As you look official must determine that the civil liberty has been violated. to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What This evening I shall make some observations about the nature of Association, and my successor do you want the Association judicialWe review Can’t in the U.S., Do followed Until by a brief You discussion Due of three civil Takethe springthe right symposium to privacy. and There other is eventsongoing HLSA-NJ conflict inoffers the toU.S. you over Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And libertiesIf you’ve decisions read about of the itU.S. in theSupreme Connector Court., it I shallwas made end with possible a few whenand allthe our police members, may enter it wouldn’t a private exist home without or business the support without of a by members who paid their dues. From our summer public This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? general thoughts. The first of the three cases, from 1958, raised the judicialour dues-paying warrant. Formembers. example, If whenyou haven’t police believe paid yourin good 2007-2008 faith, but interest fellowships and campus programming for students to course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to question whether the U.S. government has the power to take away mistakenly,dues yet, please that an contribute armed criminal today is by in usinga house, the can form they below. simply break century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I the citizenship of a person born in the U.S. because he voted in an into the building? Or can they stop and search an automobile that of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a election of another country. The second case, from 1968, raised the they think, again erroneously but in good faith, carries stolen property legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite question whether a state of the U.S. that has a wrongful death statute and the culprit is about to drive away. Another type of privacy issue Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with youris whether RSVP toa woman’sthe Vanderbilt right to lecture have .an Dues abortion are $75 is protected, for alumni always or than make up the gap between our thatadmitted authorizes to the children bar for to over recover 5 years money as of damages July 1, from2007, someone and $50 whofor alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. reaching out to current students with a John W. Bartlett ’01 only in certain circumstances, such as rape or incest. Another privacy wrongfully kills a child’s father or mother can, consistently with the related issue is whether the government or a private individual can his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and U.S. Constitution,I enclose exclude my checkthose whose for parentsthe 2007-2008 were not married dues toor, the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey ALUMNI On The Move as we used to say, were “illegitimate” children. The third case, decided discriminate against homosexuals in housing or employment. Do estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his in 2012, considered whether the U.S. Congress violates the right of people have a right not to be discriminated against, or, perhaps, a right Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12th) may have some alumni candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. freedom of speech by making it a crime for a person to claim falsely that to discriminate in certain situations? company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: th he had received the Medal of Honor, the country’s highest award for HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26 District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: For a long time, family or tribal leaders made these decisions, and in contested primary in June. bravery in battle. I had a personal connection with all these cases, but some places they still do. These days most countries give this power to CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images in very differentTelephone: ways. E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by the government. But which government, national or state or local? Have news? E-mail [email protected] Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. As I have Datesaid, theof Admissionthree cases all to involve the Bar: civil liberties, which means If it is the Inational am employed government, in the which public part sector. of it- the executive or the that each presents a question whether a government has deprived legislature or the courts? 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LECTURE continued from previous page Court justices, have had long public careers and are well known to the Our 2007 Public Interest CourtsLe havett ether final Fr sayom in mostT hcountries,e P rincludingesid thee nU.S.t But people. Another argumentspending supporting and theour powerincome of thisjudges year. in the U.S. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! why? Legislators, the president and other executive officials also is that most are appointed forFor long the terms first or timefor life. in Thesethree judgesyears, wedo not Fellows In Their Own Words takeDuring an oath my tofirst support year ofthe lawConstitution. school in LegislatorsSeptember often panelface have to worry about beingexpect re-elected this year’sand can Vanderbilt rule as their Lecture conscience to questions1998, aabout woman the whoconstitutionality had been a mentorof a law theydiscussion are debating, and in counsels them, even whenfully a paydecision for itself, is expected thanks to bea necessary unpopular. Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees the Department of Justice, the State and Defense Departments, and Presidents and legislators, because they face re-election campaigns, I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers other executive agencies frequently consider the validity of laws they cannot afford to be as independent because of the political pressures Harvard Law School staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. for Justice. enforce. Why isn’t their judgment final? In the U.S. and elsewhere on them. Thus, if one is truly “seeking civil liberties”, as I title this Association of New Jersey for I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects the legislature and the president – to whom the executive departments talk, the safeguarding of minority groups and of dissenting political University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two year summer internship. touching on racial and HLSA-NJand religious opinions are almost certainly better protected under the reportassassinated – are more in democraticSt. Petersburg. institutions At the than courts,dozen beingof us aboutelected the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the fromtime, states, I wrote districts in the or weeklyby the Harvardnation asLaw a wholeprofessional rather than opportunities being current abloom system in inthe which independentpage 3.) The courts value have of theirthe last experience, word. Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme appointed,School Record as federal that future and many historians state wouldjudges are. Garden It is therefore State. (See not page 4.) and the connection it helped them Court’s decision in Parents An important consequence of the intense debate about the legitimacy members, I served as a legal surprisingview 1989, that, the when year the the U.S. Berlin Supreme Wall Courtfell rendersBut, an importantto paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. of judicial review is that American judges often defer decisionand theon theBaltic rights States of criminalbecame thedefendants first suchthose as Mirandagreat opportunities or come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recentlyto theas two decisions years ofago, the elected$1,000 branches to support of government, travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing

Gideon, or on race discrimination, abortion, and many other issues, Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20th century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLSas the ourGerman Cambridge Constitutional panelists in September. the losing parties frequently claim that the Court is undemocratic and of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school beginning of the 21st. alumni paid dues to the Association,Court a didOur in thespending case I mentioned.on food for Board Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his has misused its power of judicial review over the elected Congress or the ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one senseIndeed, manymeetings, leading at less U.S. than justices, $400 for the year consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are president or their counterparts in the states. legal advocacy, policy analysis, September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted suchthe as toFelix date, isFrankfurter modest. We and made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have Similar issues arise in many countries. William Rehnquist, largely rested assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution equal educational opportunity. In 2011, the German Constitutional their judicial philosophies on the principle of judicial communities. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. Court upheld the validity of a law which deference, or judicial restraint, as it is often called. Through NJISJ’s Second first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair was designed to alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous other places to draw the line, of course, Very few judges, maybe none, would say that they should defer to the effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compelssupport theus toEuro two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the legislature or president all the time. Similarly, very few or no judges prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking bothby permitting future as we have in past respect to regional would maintain that deference is never required. Accordingly, the returning to their communities HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School Germanybackward to contributeand toforward, a general European years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This ongoing debate is over how much and when judges should defer. Some fund.walking The the German emotional court lines said that nobody can predict “which As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at judges say that a great deal of deference is due because judges are not measuresbetween will regret be best and for pride, Germany fear and the future of a united Europe the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we electorally responsible to the people; othersserving say, toleaders the contrary, like Albert that this in the current crisis.” Given this uncertainty, the court concluded that discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a position amounts to an abdication of judicialCohn ’51 responsibility, toDavid protect German lawmakers, as elected representatives of the people, should offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. civil liberties against the government whenCrabtree it is ’52unpopular, toDavid do so. NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the decide such questions without judicial interference. and prepared written materials The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the All this can get complicated and confusing,Fitzgerald and English some, judgesMarvin and Back to the U.S. . . . Sometimes a majority of the American people municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers lawyers say we should return to theFish basics. ’55 , TheySteve ask, Roth why ’67 can’t, opposes a court decision. But it cannot reverse the decision except by options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law we resolve these problems in the goodthe old fashionedlate way, Irwinthrough underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being amending the Constitution, which is extremely difficult to do. At former inmates with pro bono See Summer, page 4 school in the twenty-first traditional and reliable methods of judicialMarkowitz decision ’52 ,– constitutionaland so times, people take the law into their own hands and simply refuse century. I am the first of these or statutory text, the history of themany relevant others. provisions, As you andlook the to abideto be by a presidentcourt’s decision of orthe even resort to violence, as happened forward, ask yourself: What precedent of earlier cases? The trouble is that these methods of decision whenAssociation, the Supreme and Courtmy successor ordered the racial desegregation of public do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you are old and may be traditional, but they are often not reliable. Texts facilitiesJason andOrlando prohibited ’00 will public be the schoolssecond. from organizinga huge difference or leading in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of may be ambiguous, history may be unavailable or inconsistent, and by members who paid their dues. From our summer public religiousThis prayers marks for astudents. hopeful Such moment, lawless of actions and plainly for the reduce Law theSchool. how will you be part of it? our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 precedent often is not on point. When the text or the history or the interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. prestigecourse. and We’ll authority launch of theour judiciary, second andhalf- that is obviouslyI can’t putbad itfor more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to your help. And we especiallyprecedent need is clear, help a case rarelyour events, gets to orthe been Supreme active Court, on the and board, may I not the centurycountry. of Should Vanderbilt courts Lectures avoid precipitating with one such events by simply of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduatedeven become after a1970, case. Thethank question you. of Ifhow you much haven’t judges done should those defer to To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a upholding controversial laws? legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at thethe sameCongress rate andas the executive things cannot yet, be I inviteavoided. and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite ThereWells are ’76 strong. (See counter-argumentspage 1.) And we’reto justify theclasses power of the of 1950scourts and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni than make up the Ingap these between circumstances, our it is not surprising that skepticism and even admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. to reviewreaching the out constitutionality to current students of actions with aby the other branches of John W. Bartlett ’01 cynicism have grown over the years, leading some professors and government. One argument that particularly appeals to lawyers is lawyers,his alphabet and soupmany ofmembers degrees ofhave the joinedpublic, theto concludetax and thattrusts courts and thatAL courtsUM areN composedI On ofThe lawyers, Move and lawyers are smarter, know I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey decideestates casespractice as ifat theyRiker were Danzig legislators in Morristown. or politicians, and that legal in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 more,State andSenate are Judiciarybetter trained Chairman than otherJohn people,Adler or’84 at has least declared think they his doctrine is merely a cover or a mask thfor the personal, not legal, are. Therefore, even though some presidents are lawyers (including Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. preferences of individual judges. In other words, judges come out Name: Class: President Obama) and many governors and legislators are also company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race in a case depending on thwhere they came in. In the U.S., the Legal lawyers,HLSA-NJ courts secretary should Stephen have the F. last Herbes word. ’01 In, addition,CPA, J.D., courts LL.M., provide and for Assembly in the 26 District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: Realistscontested during primary the in 1920s June. and 1930s, and the Critical Legal Studies a forum that permits reflection and confidential discussion based on CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Movement, more recently, promoted this view. Telephone: E-Mail: priorfrom cases the 50andth annual other Vanderbilt relevant Lecture. materials. Those Further, images were even provided when by judges Have news? E-mail [email protected] areKeith appointed Krebs/P.O.V. rather Image than Service elected,. they often have strong democratic To try to shed light on these issues I turn to the three cases that I Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector. credentials. In the U.S., an elected president appoints judges, and an mentioned at the outset of this talk. elected Senate confirms them, and most judges, especially Supreme Page 2 LECTURETHE HLS continuedA CON NonE nextCT OpageR Page 3

LECTURE continued from previous page Our 2007 Public Interest this government “endowed it with broad powers . . . [but] the citizens Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Clemente Perez was born in Texas and thus became a citizen of the themselvesCongratulations, are sovereign, and their citizenshipMr. Chief is not subject Justice! to the general For the first time in three years, we U.S.Fellows under the Fourteenth In Their Amendment Own to the Constitution, Words which powers of their government.” Accordingly, Congress cannot deprive people During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to was ratified in 1868. It provides that “All persons born or naturalized of the citizenship that the Fourteenth Amendment gives them. 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary inDear the UnitedMembers States of HLSA-NJ, . . . are citizens of theattorneys United Statesthrough and the of theReLeSe State of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like towherein thank theythe reside.”network, The a immediate partnership purpose between of In the absence of judicial precedent and relevant history, was there member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers Harvard Lawthe SchoolFourteenth Amendment was to assure that a solid basis for a decision in the Perez case either way? Should the staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. Court in these circumstances have deferred to Congress, as Frankfurter I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – This year, we contributed $3,400 African slaves and former slaves could be U.S. John Bartlett ’01, providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects maintained? Or is citizenship a constitutional status that the University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two citizens, thereby touchingreversing theon notorious racial Dredand HLSA-NJ year summer internship. government cannot take away from anyone? Perhaps this is a case assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Scott decision of 1856economic which inequality.helped to precipitate In the Thanks to the generosity of the where each justice came out where he went in, but how would we time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, the Civil War. Manywake yearsof later,the U.S.at the Supremeoutset of Association’s dues-paying know? School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I servedWorld as a Warlegal II, CongressCourt’s enacteddecision the Nationalityin Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, Actintern of 1940. for Thethe lawNew provides Jersey that anInvolved American in Community Schools v. I had a slight connection to the Perez case because and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Seattle School District #1, I citizenInstitute who for votes Social in an Justice election in of another country I was clerking for Justice Harlan at the time. I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing

thereby forfeits U.S. citizenship because such an Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20th century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. discussed the Perez case with him and helped him actof demonstratesprojects, learning a lack about of allegiance the theto thedecision’s U.S. effect on school beginning of the 21st. alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board to Chiefdraft anJustice opinion Stuart in a companion J. Rabner case.’85 isIn swornthe in by his Perezways votedin which in a NJISJMexican combines election (heassignment was a dual programs that Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year consider race and proposing end,predecessor, the Supreme James Court byR. a 5-4Zazzal vote,i, within July. Harlan Looking on are citizen),legal advocacy, and the policy U.S. governmentanalysis, relied on the September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to agreeing,Governor upheld Jon Congress’sS. Corzine power and Rabner’sto strip Perez wife, of Deborah. At 47 Nationality Act to revoke his citizenship.7 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to hisyears citizenship of age, Rabnerfor voting – a informer a Mexican federal election.prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution equal educational opportunity. Butcommunities. did Congress have the constitutional power to enact the law? There is JusticeChief William Counsel, 0. andDouglas state wroteAttorney a dissenting General opinion– is the in youngest which he school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in thewent modern so far historyas to say of thethat state’s “These high [expatriation Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is nothing in the Constitution or its history that bears on the subject, and no Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair cases] are the most important constitutional other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous prior case addressed the issue. So what is the answer or, more accurately, effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations.pronouncement I am honoredof this withcentury,” a Summer presumably Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the how does one go about finding an answer?doctrine, When Perez’sparticularly case was arguedwith grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the prospects of individuals because they addressed the fundamental question draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past inreturning the Supreme to their Court communities in 1957 the justicesrespect were deeply todivided. regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School whether the people or the government is the backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank Oneresearched group, ledthe by efforts Justice of Frankfurter, cities which would have have been upheld the the subject statute. of will fundamentallyultimate shape mysovereign award in the enabled United States.me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- They relied on thevigorous general policy authority debates of andCongress the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s across the country to reduce I had a closer connection to the second case. It was a lawsuit brought and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discrimination againstto legislate ex- and thetarget fact ofthat legal there challenges was nothing under in Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. by the five children of Louise Levy, an are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipalthe Constitution hiring both that stateprohibited and federal Congress law. from Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared writtenpassing materials such a law or,NJISJ as Frankfurter provides numeroussaid, from unmarried black woman who died whileinternship, she I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to “makingNew Jersey a damn examples fool of itself.” of Inways addition, in which since was a patient in a hospital in New Orleans,chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin 8 municipalities on policyCongress reform had theattorneys power to candeclare commit war andtheir to LouisianaDear HLSA-NJ,. A Louisiana wrongfulin death the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helpedregulate connect foreign affairs,knowledge it hadand the skills responsibility to aid statuteI would provided like thatto convey the surviving my childprocess, of both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and asincere parent appreciation who dies through for being the fault of another may recover money Markowitz ’52, and so to reduce conflicts between the U.S. and other nations, and this is one See Summer, page 4 school in the twenty-first damages for the wrongdoer’s offense. Levy’s children sued under century. I am the first of these many others. As you look way of doing that. Accordingly, Frankfurter’s group concluded that to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Congress could determine what acts would lead to loss of citizenship, this statute, claiming that the hospital was negligent. The courts of Association, and my successor do you want the Association oftenWe called Can’t expatriation. Do In thisUntil view, the You Supreme DueCourt should Louisianathe spring dismissed symposium the suit.and otherThey eventsheld that HLSA-NJ the word offers “child” to inyou the Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And deferIf you’ve to the readCongress about and it thein thePresident, Connector and should, it was uphold made thepossible law. statuteand all meant our onlymembers, a “legitimate it wouldn’t child,” exist born withoutof married the parents. support They of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public saidour that dues-paying this rule wasmembers. “based onIf moralsyou haven’t and general paid yourwelfare 2007-2008 [because] course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to Anotherinterest groupfellowships of justices, and campusled by Chief programming Justice for students to itdues discourages yet, please bringing contribute children today into by the using world the out form of wedlock.” below. The century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I Earl Warren, had a different opinion. Warren U.S. Supreme Court considered the case on appeal under another part of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those wroteTo become that “Citizenship an active member [is] man’s of basic the Harvardright, for Law School Association of theNew Fourteenth Jersey, simply Amendment, fill out the the form Equal below Protection and return Clause. it with a legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be itcheck is nothing payable less tothan “Harvard the right Law to Schoolhave rights.” Association A of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. stateless355, West person Orange, “is disgraced NJ 07052. and degradedOr include . . your. with separate dues check with yourThat RSVP clause to thesays Vanderbilt that no state lecture shall. Dues “deny are to $75 any for person alumni within its than make up the gap between our admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. reaching out to current students with a John W. Bartlett ’01 no lawful claim to protection from any nation.” jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” Neither it nor any other Warren went on to say that the people who created LECTURE continued on next page his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey ALUMNI On The Move 7 estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. Perez v. Brownellin the 356 amount U.S. 44 (1958) of (“Petitioner was born $75.00 in Texas in 1909. He resided $ 50.00 in the United States until 1919 or 1920, when he moved with his parents to Mexico, where he State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his lived, apparently without interruption, until 1943. In 1928 he was informed that he had been born in Texas. At the outbreak of World War II, petitioner knew of the duty of male United Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12th) may have some alumni candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. States citizens to register for the draft, but he failed to do so. In 1943 he applied for admission to the United States as an alien railroad laborer, stating that he was a native-born company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: citizen of Mexico, and was granted permission to enter on a temporary basis. He returned to Mexico in 1944 and shortly thereafter applied for and was granted permission, again HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a as a native-bornAddress: Mexican citizen, to enter the United States temporarily to continue his employment as a railroad laborer. Later in 1944 he returned to Mexico once more. In 1947 contested primary in June. petitioner applied for admission to the United States at El Paso, Texas, as a citizen of the United States. At a Board of Special Inquiry hearing (and in his subsequent appeals to the CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Assistant Commissioner and the Board of Immigration Appeals), he admitted having remained outside of the United States to avoid military service and having voted in political Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] elections inDate Mexico. of He Admission was ordered excludedto the onBar: the ground that he had expatriated himself; this order I wasam affirmed employed on appeal. in the In 1952 public petitioner, sector. claiming to be a native-born citizen of Mexico was permitted to enter the United States as an alien agricultural laborer. He surrendered in 1953 to immigration authorities in San Francisco as an alien unlawfully in the United States but claimed the right to remain by virtue of his American citizenship. After a hearing before a Special Inquiry Officer, he was ordered deported as an alien not in possession of a valid immigration visa; this order was affirmed on appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals.”) Page 2 THE HLSA CONNECTOR Page 3

LECTURE continued from previous page The First Amendment to the Constitution provides that Congress shall Our 2007 Public Interest provisionLet oft thee rConstitution From mentions The the P issuere of slegitimateiden ort out of make “no law . . . abridgingspending the freedom and our of incomespeech.” thisThe year. question in the Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! wedlock birth, and there was neither history nor a prior decision that Alvarez case was whether the ForFirst the Amendment first time invalidatedin three years, the Stolenwe Fellows In Their Own Words addressedDuring the my issue first presented year of bylaw the school Levy case.in HowSeptember should the Courtpanel Valor Act and thus wipedexpect out Alvarez’s this year’s conviction Vanderbilt for falsely Lecture claiming to have1998, decided? a woman who had been a mentor discussion in the Medal. Looking at thefully First pay Amendment, for itself, thanks one might to a think necessary that all Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe Cambridge, where of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a speech is protected becauseincrease it says plainlyin what that weCongress charge shall attendees make “no I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Three justices would have upheld the law. They pointed out that in law.” That, for example, is what Justice Hugo Black Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. for Justice. the U.S. distributions of property are governed by state not federal maintained during his long tenure on the Supreme Association of New Jersey for I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – This year, we contributed $3,400 I also worked on projects law, and that Louisiana, in the interest of family stability or general JohnCourt. Bartlett But despite’01, Justice Black’s eminence, providing funding for my first- morality,University could fourrationally years passearlier laws –to encouragewas heard parents from to marry. half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two year summer internship. touching on racial and assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the HLSA-NJthat position is demonstrablyextraordinary wrong because young thelaw students. (See Further, under the laws of England and of most states in the U.S., Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunitiesAmendment’s abloom in full the text is thatpage Congress3.) The shallvalue make of their experience, wake of the U.S. Supreme non-marital children could recover damages for wrongful death only Association’s dues-paying School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.)no law “abridging the freedomand the of speech,”connection and theit helped them Court’s decision in Parents if the parents formally acknowledged the child as theirs, which the members, I served as a legal view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase Constitutionthe old saw, does with not definedevelop “abridge” to New or Jersey’s“freedom legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. parents here did not. Accordingly, the three justices concluded that and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunitiesof speech.” come So greatthere is plentyis priceless. of room forWe’ll interpretation, have spent as nearlywe have Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I LouisianaSoviet republics could validly to declare deny independence, the Levy children theresponsibility. right to recover As recently learned as two from years manyago, cases $1,000over the toyears. support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary damagesas the for end their of mother’sthe 20 deathcentury even and if negligentlythe more caused. than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to Doesthe Association,that mean therea areOur limits spending on what peopleon food can sayfor in theBoard U.S.? ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Six justices disagreed. In his opinion for the majority, Justice Douglas Today, we might instead mark response rate that — whileYes. Ifin A sellsone Bsense a car or ameetings, house or a at painting less than and $400 lies about for the what year he is legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are asked,September rhetorically, 11, 2001why innocentas the centenarychildren shouldunderwhelming be denied rights — stillselling, permitted that speech the can beto punished date, is as modest. fraud. WeOr ifmade X is anno authorgift to and and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have becauseturning they point. are “illegitimate” That fateful when day they came have all the responsibilities uses someone else’s words in a book or an article without crediting the assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution of other citizens, including paying taxes and serving in the military. other person, X can be punished for plagiarism. There are other limits communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other I researched various legal issues The opinion emphasized that Louise Levy “cared for the [children] on free speech, including perjury, libel, obscenity, advocacy of imminent Through NJISJ’s Second Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. andfirst nurtured job as them;a lawyer. they There were indeedare a host hers ofin the biologicalbank as we and started in the with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair violence, personal threats ourand hopechild pornography.and aim to Eachmake of generous these limits spiritualother sense;places into her draw death the theyline, suffered of course, wrong inalumni the sense have that paid any their dues so far. That effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in responsemust ratebe defined, is making and therecontributions are often hard to cases.the law But schoolit is clear in thatthe these dependent would.” prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both categories of speech are not protected underfuture the asConstitution. we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School I wonderbackward how manyand here wouldforward, have supported Louisiana and denied years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines So, could the government validly punish As Alvarez’s you look intentional back, thank false the children the right to recover for their mother’s wrongful death. researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear statement that he won the Medal of Honor.the TheAssociation’s Supreme Courtlong- often Yet, was the majority opinion persuasive? As I have intimated, it did across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we has declared that “There is no constitutionalserving value leaders in false like statements Albert of target of legal challenges under not rely on prior cases or history, and it ignored the question of judicial discrimination against ex- Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a fact,” and, as I just said, it has enforcedCohn libel, ’51 perjury, and fraud,David all of offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my deference to the state of Louisiana. species. which involve false statements of fact. Moreover,Crabtree ’52the, Stolen ValorDavid Act is and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry Which side was right? I should mention that I was the advocate for venerable. It goes back to the American Revolution in the 1780s, when for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the General George Washington establishedFitzgerald a system to English ensure that, Marvin military municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law the firstLevy time, children a majority in the of Supreme officers Court, and it is my favorite of the Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, honors were received only by the truly deserving. options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and caseswere I argued graduated there, from perhaps the becauselaw it raised a totally new question the late Irwin underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being former inmates with pro bono See Summer, page 4 andschool perhaps in because the thetwenty-first Louisiana courts seemed to me to have acted So what is the problem? The SupremeMarkowitz Court ’52should, and have upheldso many others. As you look outrageouslycentury. I inam denying the first the of Levythese children damages for their mother’s Alvarez’s conviction under the Valor Act, isn’t that right? . . . Not so fast. wrongfulto be death. president After all,of thethe children were not responsible in any forward, ask yourself: What We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you wayAssociation, for the failure and of theirmy successor parents to marry. But is my opinion merely In the U.S. it is well established thatdo you even want when the Associationspeech is not If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of a “personalJason Orlando preference”? ’00 will Would be the a contrarysecond. decisiona be huge more difference justified inas whatconstitutionally we can do for youprotected to alook government like in the restriction years to come?on speech And is and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 a matterThis of lawmarks or would a hopeful it too bemoment, a “personal of preference.” unconstitutional unless the government shows a “compelling state course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. interest” for the restriction and the law is “actually necessary” to achieve Thecentury third case of VanderbiltI shall discuss, Lectures which withwas decided one in Juneyour 2012,help. concerned And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I its purpose. In this case there was no evidence that the “public perception To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a of the brightest startsa law calledin the the American Stolen Valor Act,from which those Congress alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those of military awards [was] thingsdiluted yet, by Ifalse invite claims” and imploreor that theyou falsehood to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite legal firmament, passedNew Jersey’s in 2005. own The Ted Act madewhose it a crime dues to– iffalsely paid at the same rate as the Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and offended’60s – would genuine more holderspart of of the this award, great endeavor. the two interests that the 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni claim receipt of military decorations and medals. reaching out to current students with a than make up the governmentgap between asserted. our Further, the statute by itsJohn terms W. couldBartlett apply ’01 to admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. A man named Alvarez pleaded guilty to a charge private conversations, including those within the privacy of the home. of untruthfully stating that he had received the Finally,his alphabet the government soup of degrees did not have show joinedthat it theneeded tax suchand atrusts broad and law ALUMNI OnMedal The of Honor,Move the nation’s highest military I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey toestates achieve practice its goal. at Riker The Danzigstatute couldin Morristown. have been confined to statements in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 award.State Senate Alvarez Judiciary appealed, Chairman and the case John went Adler to the ’84 Supreme has declared Court. his LECTUREth continued on next page candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: 8 For additional discussion of this case, the editor of The Connector recommends Murray, Melissa, “What’s So New about the New Illegitimacy”, American University Journal of Gender, HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Social Policy and the Law vol. 20, no. 3 (2012). http://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1572&context=jgspl (“Though Louise Levy’s maternal conduct Address: contested primary in June. arguablyCORRECTION: had little relevance The spring to the issue merits failed of her to includechildren’s photo underlying credits equal for images protection claim, the Court noted that she ‘treated [her five non-marital children] as a parent would treat Telephone: E-Mail: anyfrom other the child’—including 50th annual Vanderbilt children Lecture.born and Those raised images within marriage.were provided The five by children lived with Levy, and she—and she alone supported them through her work as a domestic servant,Keith Krebs/P.O.V. without resort toImage the public Service fisc.. Perhaps most impressive to the Court (and to the children’sHave lawyers, news? who mentioned E-mail it [email protected] in their briefs) was the fact that Louise Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector. Levy took all five children to church ‘every Sunday and enroll[ed] them, at her own expense, in parochial school,’ rather than relying on public school for their education. The Court’s emphasis of these facts presents an implicit message—regardless of their mother’s sexual history, the Levy children were no ordinary bastards, at least as far as the traditional account of illegitimacy was concerned. They were not reliant on the public fisc, and their mother emphasized strong moral and religious values.”) Page 2 THE HLSA CONNECTOR Page 3

LECTURE continued from previous page Our 2007 Public Interest mother. To general amazement, the Louisiana courts again refused Letter From The President spending and our income this year. made in public, or, as Justice Breyer maintained to Congratulations,allow the children to recover. Instead Mr. ofChief ending the Justice! discrimination For the first time in three years, we inFellows dissent, the government In Theirmight have avoided Own or Words against non-marital children by permitting them to sue under the During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to narrowed the constitutional problem by publishing Wrongful Death Act, Louisiana decided to deny all children in the 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary aDear register Members of recipients of HLSA-NJ, of military awardsattorneys so that lies through the ReLeSe state a right to damages under the Act. That way, Louisiana said, of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees aboutI medalswould couldlike to be thankeasily exposed.the network, a partnership between there was no discrimination; the Act would protect no child in these member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers circumstances. The other lawyers for the Levy children and I quickly staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. InAssociation the end, sixof justicesNew Jersey voted for to invalidatefor Justice. the law under the First prepared to appeal again to the U.S. Supreme Court. But before we I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – This year, we contributed $3,400 I also worked on projects John Bartlett ’01, Amendment,providing funding mainly for because my first- they thought that upholding it might did so, Louisiana gave up and decided to allow the Levy children and University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two leadyear to prosecutionssummer forinternship. other types of falsehoodstouching by onprivate racial individuals and assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the HLSA-NJ extraordinary young law students. (See all other children in the state to recover in these circumstances. which,Thanks however to the generositydeplorable, of did the no provableeconomic harm. inequality. After all, Inmost theof us time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, modifyAssociation’s the truth oncedues-paying in a while. As a longtimewake of opponent the U.S. of government Supreme In discussing the three civil liberties cases, I have referred to some of School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them Court’s decision in Parents restrictionsmembers, onI servedspeech, Ias start a legal with much skepticism about laws like the the general ideas with which I began this lecture - the relevance of view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, Involved in Community Schools v. Valorintern Act. for Onthe the Newother hand,Jersey I have a strong “personal preference” constitutional text, history, federalism, the proper role of courts, and and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I values, that is, a judge’s personal or ideological preferences. Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took partagainst in a variety people whoprepared lie about theira memo accomplishments. discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learningThus, about whenthe the theThomas decision’s Jefferson effect onCenter school for the st Now it is time, in conclusion, to ask the converse question. Do the beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board Protection of Freeassignment Expression, ofprograms which I wasthat a Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his ways in which NJISJ combines three cases help us to understand the general principles and the judicial Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policyboard analysis, member, debatedconsider this race case, Iand was proposinga thorn in predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are process of which they are a part? September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programsthe side of tomy colleagues.policy optionsI kept trying still toavailable find a toway Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s assist New Jersey'sto uphold urban the law despite the First Amendment The cases show the relevance of the traditional criteria, but they also three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest communities. because of my distaste for the falsehood. show that, in novel and hard cases, these methods may not be decisive. school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. Specifically, do the judicial techniques of text, history and precedent first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is EventuallyChance Campaign, I went along a with policy the others,affecting as I always New suspected Jersey’s I would. Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel leadunderserved to a confident populations. decision I amin thesehonored cases? In with one a sense,Summer the Publicanswer and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the Whatprospects happened of afterindividuals the three casesdoctrine, were decided? particularly Supreme withCourt maygrateful be yes.to Ifthe a judgemembers is a textualistof Interest or regularly Fellowship defers to Congressby the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past decisionsreturning often to their have communitiesan afterlife, and allrespect of these did. to The 1958regional Perez case, orHLSA-NJ the states for in enablinghard cases, me or, toon the Harvardother hand, if Lawhe or sheSchool strongly backward and forward, years. whichfollowing upheld theincarceration, government’s powerI tocontribution strip a native born agreements, American of supportshave a summer individual experience rights, thatthat judgeAssociation can usually of Newreach Jersey. a decision This As you look back, thank walking the emotional lines citizenshipresearched for the voting efforts in aof foreign cities election, which was haveoverruled been by the the subject Supreme of bywill following fundamentally his established shape myphilosophy. award But enabled that lineme toof workthinking at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- Courtacross 20the years country later, thusto reduce vindicating vigorous Chief Justice policy Warren’s debates andopinion the raiseslegal career.a further question, why did thethe judge Federal choose Public a particular Defender’s legal and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert aboutdiscrimination the sanctity ofagainst citizenship. ex- Thetarget third of legal challenges under philosophy?Sincerely, What led him or her to beOffice that insort Newark of judge? this summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my case,offenders involving in municipalthe Stolen Valorhiring Act was not species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous This means that, when a case cannotinternship, be disposed I ofwas easily, given when the the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry overruled. There has not been enough time. for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which usual legal materials do not light achance clear path,to witness a judge and must partake dig turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin But there has been enough time for Congress municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their deeperDear HLSA-NJ, to decide the case and such a decisionin the is federalsubjective. criminal Does it lawalso first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, to pass a new Stolen Valor Act, which knowledgelimits and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and options. I also helped connect mean that such a decision is “political,” “ideological,” or a “personal were graduated from the law the late Irwin theformer crime inmatesof falsely claimingwith pro abono military underrepresentedhonor and sincere appreciation for being preference?” Yes, sometimes. JudgesSee must Summer judge; they, page were 4 put on school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so to cases where the lie is intended to make money or obtain some other the bench for that purpose. They all have core values, the place where century. I am the first of these many others. As you look benefit. One day we will find out if the new law survives the First to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What “they came in.” I do not mean to suggest that judges are free of legal Amendment. Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due restraints.the spring To symposium the contrary, and they other are duty-boundevents HLSA-NJ to use offersthe tools to of you the If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And The most interesting sequel was to Levy v. Louisiana. After holding judging trade, honestly and as far as they can go. In other words, the by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? that the state could not exclude out-of-wedlock children from the judicial creation or application of a civil liberty is part of “the law” course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. benefit of wrongful death laws by drawing a line between “legitimate” but to get there, or not, often requires more than conventional legal century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those andTo “illegitimate”become an active children, member the Supreme of the Harvard Court returned Law School the case Associat to the ion ofanalysis. New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a trialcheck court payable to decide to “Harvard whether Lawthe hospitalSchool Association was in fact negligentof N.J.” to and, Jeffrey if Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be Is this way of looking at the problem of judging good or bad? I suggest classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. so,355, how West much Orange, money NJ the 07052. children Or shouldinclude recover your separate for the deathdues checkof their with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re that it is neither; it seems to me merely to be inevitable. reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and BECOME A HLSA-NJ TRUSTEE ALUMNI On The Move I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th The activities of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey are made possible by its volunteer candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: trustees. The Association is seeking new volunteers to Class: participate in the governance of the association, HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: to be formally elected as trustees at our annual meeting on the same evening as the Vanderbilt Lecture contested primary in June. this Fall. Being a Trustee is a great way to stay involved and network with fellow HLS alumni in CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by all walks of life. The current leadership includes law faculty; public, private, and nonprofit-sector Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admissionattorneys; to the Bar: and sitting and retired judges from all across I am Newemployed Jersey. in In theaddition public to sector. our annual meeting, the Vanderbilt Lecture, the full Board of Trustees meets approximately 2-3 other times each year. For more information, e-mail Nicole Bearce at [email protected]. Page 2 THE HLSA CONNECTOR Page 3

PHOTOS FROM THE 2013 VANDERBILT LECTURE Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! & ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATIONFor the first time in three years, we During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great Hon.is priceless. Frederic KesslerWe’ll (ret.)have ’78,spent John nearly Avery, Jake Elberg ’03, Joseph Steinberg ’59, Colleen Kelly ’80, Kenneth Stahl ’71, Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I SovietHon. republics Harvey to Weissbard declare independence, (ret.) ’62, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, John$1,000 Wefing, to support Hon. Peter travel Buchsbaum and lodging (ret.) for ’70, Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Shirley Ripullone, Frank Ferruggia ’81, Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as Davidthe end Stone of the ’84, 20 Nicole century Bearce and ’97, the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS Arnoldour Cambridge Mytelka ’61, panelistsHon. Dorothea in September. Wefing (ret.), of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st Robert Lack ’81, Geraldine Reed Brown ’71, beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spendingand Elaine on Buchsbaumfood for Board assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Hervé Gouraige ’77, Norman Dorsen ’53, and Ron Brown ’71 ways in which NJISJ combines Today,and weDavid might Landau instead ’53 mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s andMichael hope Edelson– it’s part ’68, of Irwinwho we Facher ’64, Ross Pearlsonserving ’87, leadersNicole Bearcelike Albert ’97, discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. Norman Dorsen ’53 and are Howardand what Singer, we Robertdo as Singer a ’68, KaushelCohn “Ken” ’51 Majmudar, ’94,David offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my Hon. David Landau ’53 species. and Sheila Shuster ’85 and CrabtreeDavid Schechner ’52, ’53 David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 century. I am the first of these many others. As you look to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I of theJackeline brightest Klein, starts Sylvia in the Cohn, American from those alumniNicole Bearce graduated ’97 after 1970, thank you. IfRon you Brown haven’t ’71 done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legalHerb firmament, Klein ’53, New Marvin Jersey’s Sachs own ’55, Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Wells ’76. and(See Paula page Landau 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector. IN MEMORIAM continued on next page Patty Lopez Hervé Gouraige ’77 Page 2 THE HLSA CONNECTOR Page 3

Our 2007 Public 2013Interest SUMMER FELLOWS Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we Each year, the Harvard Law School Association of New During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to JerseyFellows sponsors one orIn more Their Harvard Law Own School students Words to 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary workDear as Members summer internsof HLSA-NJ, in public interestattorneys jobs in Newthrough Jersey. the The ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees AssociationI would has like funded to thank this programthe sincenetwork, 1999. a partnership In 2012, the between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the AssociationHarvard awardedLaw fellowshipsSchool to twoNJISJ students and whoVolunteer interned Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. inAssociation the Mayor’s of office New Jerseyin Newark for andfor one Justice. student who interned I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 withproviding the New funding Jersey Institutefor my first- for Social JusticeI also in Newark.worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two In 2013, the Association awardedtouching fellowships onto tworacial IL’s and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See whoThanks interned to the in generositythe U.S. Attorney’s of the officeeconomic in Newark. inequality. In previous In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, years,Association’s the Association dues-paying has awarded fellowshipswake of to theHLS U.S.students Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them whomembers, interned I at,served among as othera legal organizations, Court’s Legaldecision Services in of Parents HLSA Trustees with summer fellows view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, Newintern Jersey, for Essex the NewarkNew LegalJersey Services,Involved the Camdenin Community County Schools v. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Stephanie Freudenberg and Khalid Mowad. Prosecutor’sInstitute for Office, Social andJustice the Attorneyin Seattle General’s School office District in Trenton. #1 , I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing

Students must work full-time for at least eight weeks in traditional public service jobs in New Jersey such as those mentioned above. Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20th century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of Notprojects, eligible learning are judicial about clerkships, the theresearch decision’s assistantships effect on for school professors, and political campaign work. Students may split their summer between beginning of the 21st. alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his twoways public in which interest NJISJ organizations. combines Selectedassignment Fellows mayprograms combine theirthat fellowships with other sources of funding, including grants from Summer Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are Publiclegal advocacy,Interest Funding policy (SPIF)analysis, at the Law School and employer stipends, as long as the total falls within the funding cap established by SPIF. September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s Khalidassist NewMowad Jersey's9 urban three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest Interning at the United States Attorney’s office in Newark, NJ, offered the opportunity to work with numerous school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is AssistantChance U.S.Campaign, Attorneys a onpolicy a diverse rangeaffecting of assignments New Jersey’s and cases. Fair This aspect of the program allowed me to get other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous aeffort taste ofto both improve criminal the prosecutionreentry andHousing civil lawsuits Act and handled the Mt. byLaurel the government.underserved Regardless populations. of the Itype am of casehonored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the Iprospects was on, all ofof the individualsAUSA’s I worked doctrine,with trusted particularly me with handling with significantgrateful assignments.to the members The variety of of Interestthe Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past casesreturning exposed to theirme to communities the varied tasks thatrespect federal prosecutorsto regional are trusted with.HLSA-NJ I performed for enabling background me toresearch, Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. reviewedfollowing discovery incarceration, materials, andI draftedcontribution memoranda andagreements, briefs on a wide haveof variety a summer of issues. experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researchedMany of the the efforts assignments of cities I worked which on required have been significant the subject research of andwill discussion fundamentally with the shape assigning my AUSA.award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- Thisacross provided the country a good toopportunity reduce to vigorousget to know policy and debatesunderstand and thethe law pertaininglegal career. to various topics. I particularlythe Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert learneddiscrimination a lot about securitiesagainst lawex- and regulation,target of legal the Americanschallenges withunder Disabilities Sincerely, Act, and various evidentiary rules.Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David offendersThe Newarkin municipal district hiringoffice has bothhad a statelong-standing and federal and law. proud internship program whichDamon manyKing of ’09 the currentOver the course of my species. Crabtree ’52, David AUSA’sand prepared participated written in materialsas law students. OurNJISJ supervisors provides were numerous therefore keen on interspersing our work days withinternship, I was given the Landau ’53, Jerry The Association is at a brownfor presentations bag lunches, to presentations, New Jersey and visitsexamples to federal of lawways enforcement in which agencies. Additionally, I had the opportunitychance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin ofmunicipalities sitting in on onnumerous policy reform court proceedingsattorneys such can as initialcommit appearances, their Deartrials, HLSA-NJ, and sentencings. Viewing courtin the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, proceedingsoptions. I also first helped hand providedconnect valuableknowledge insights andon trial skills advocacy to aid on behalf ofI thewould government. like to convey This informedmy process, my both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin preparationformer inmates for our with mock pro trial bono which culminatedunderrepresented the internship programand andsincere was the appreciation highlight of for my beingsummer experience. school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 century. I am the first of these many others. As you look I genuinely enjoyed spending the summer pursuing public interest with the government and am greatly thankful for the support of the to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey. Meeting some of the fellowship sponsors was a great experience and has encouraged me to Association, and my successor do you want the Association continueWe toCan’t strengthen myDo Jersey Until roots as I continue You with Due my legal career. the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. Stephanie Freudenberg10 This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 I thank the HLSA of New Jersey for their generous public interest funding. With the help of this funding, I course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I interned in Newark at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey for ten weeks. This summer, I of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active memberresearched of the Harvard issues Lawfor all School four divisionsAssociat ionof the of NewU.S. Attorney’sJersey, simply Office: fill out Criminal, the form Civil,below Special and return Prosecutions, it with a and legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard LawAppeals. School IAssociation learned a lot of about N.J.” tothe Jeffrey law as Kantowitz, I wrote memoranda Esq., Goldberg on computer Mufson hacking,& Spar, 200 privilege, Executive search Drive, and Suiteseizure, Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. andOr include mail fraud, your amongseparate other dues topics.check with The your U.S. RSVPAttorney’s to the VanderbiltOffice also lecture hosted. Duesa series are of $75 brown for alumnibag lunches with reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5Assistant years as ofU.S. July Attorneys, 1, 2007, discussingand $50 for a widealumni range admitted of topics for from less 5career five years choices and to those how into theconduct public a sector.trial, and encouraged me to go to court to watch motions and trials as often as possible. It was a great experience, I learned his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my checka lot, for and the I appreciated 2007-2008 the dues opportunity to the to Harvard serve the LawDistrict School of New Association Jersey as a legal of intern.New JerseyI will return to ALUMNI On The Move Cambridge this fall even more certain that a career in law is right for me. estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12th) may have some alumni 9 candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. HARVARDName: LAW SCHOOL , J.D. Candidate, May 2015 • 1 L Reading Group, Shakespeare’s Constitution Class: • Online Contributor, Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race • Research Assistant to Professor Intisar Rabb RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, Bachelor of Arts Honors: magna cum laude in History, January 2012 Thesis: “My Slave, My HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Child: SlaveryAddress: in the Cape, 1806” discussing the social implications of changing slave-master relationship in the cape of southern Africa during the early 19th century. Study contested primary in June. Abroad: Qasid Institute, Amman, Jordan, February 2012-July 2012 • Studied advanced Arabic through reading of texts in grammar, morphology, and Koranic exegesis. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Studied IslamicTelephone: Jurisprudence and personal law through readings E-Mail: of classical legal manuals; Al-Azhar University, Cairo Egypt, Summer 2010 • Read and studied Arabic from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Have news? E-mail [email protected] texts in Islamic Jurisprudence and grammar one on one with local scholars Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. 10HARVARDDate LAW SCHOOLof Admission, J.D. Candidate, to the May Bar: 2015 Honors: Dean’s Scholar Prizes in Civil Procedure I am and employed Contracts Activities: in the Journalpublic of sector.Law and Public Policy, Editor; Abigail Adams, President; Federalist Society, Treasurer PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, A.B. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, June 2012 Honors: summa cum laude; Senior Book Prize (best academic performance in department) Activities: Ecology Representatives; Energy Service Corps Study Abroad: Panama (EEB Semester in the Field, Page 2 THE HLSA CONNECTOR conducting research projects) Thesis: Foraging Ecology and Conservation of Wading Birds in Coastal New Jersey Page 3

Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From TheSOCIAL Presid MEDIAent & MULTIMEDIAspending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we During my first yearHLS of has law several school videos in onSeptember topics that maypanel be of interest to membersexpect of the this Association. year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a womanBelow who had are been some a ofmentor those topics.discussion Just copy thein hyperlink into a web browserfully pay to viewfor itself, the video.thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees network, a partnership between • Four HLS Professors ‘Think Big’ at Annual Event (video) I would like to thank the member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2013/07/11_hls-thinks-big-2013.html Harvard Law School staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know• Lessig as my on professor ‘Aaron’s Lawsat Brown - Law and– Justicelike ’09 in anda Digital ’10 – Age’ John (video) Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2013/02/lessig-chair-lecture-aarons-laws.htmlfour years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two year summer internship. touching on racial and assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the HLSA-NJ extraordinary young law students. (See • Ken Burns Offers Preview of ‘Central Park Five’ at HLS Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, wake of the U.S. Supreme http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/multimedia/index.html Association’s dues-paying School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989,• theGinsburg year the Holds Berlin Court Wall at fell HLS (video)But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. and the Baltichttp://www.law.harvard.edu/news/multimedia/index.html States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing • Justice Thomasth Speaks at Harvard Law Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/multimedia/index.htmlst beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Today,• Celebrationwe might 60:instead Celebrating mark 60 Yearsresponse of Women rate that at HLS — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmExo0d-XSk&list=PL2q2U2nTrWq0RuxkMbHq_pLgoM0vaDNfl&index=3 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point.• Celebrating That fateful Alan Dershowitz:day came 50Association years at HLS to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_CqB4wjm5w&list=PL2q2U2nTrWq3h8GHbMVo6w3ZQrP6E_uBx&index=1 after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line,You of might course, want toalumni consider have signing paid uptheir for dues one ofso the far. free That publications our ofhope The and Harvard aim toMedical make School.generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compelshttp://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletters/ us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the THEdraw theseHEALTHY lines. Looking bothThe newsletters contain useful tips. Here is an excerpt from a recent newsletter featuringfuture as 10we Mythshave about in past the flu. returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward,http://www.health.harvard.edu/flu-resource-center/10-flu- years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at ALUMbetween regret and pride, fear“If you’ve ever had the flu, you know how sick you can be. Chances are good that somethe of theAssociation’s advice friends long- across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who andwe family gave you about avoiding or dealing with the flu was wrong. There seems servingto be no leadersshortage like of Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do asmisinformation a and bad advice when it comes to dealing with the flu. Here are 10 commonCohn ’51 myths, about theDavid flu. offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the 1. YouThe can catchAssociation the flu fromis at thea vaccine. have the flu, wash your hands frequently, 8. Feed a cold,Landau starve ’53 a fever., Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake Theturning vaccine point is made as well.from Foran inactivated the virus and consider taking anti-viral medications If you have theFitzgerald flu (or Englisha cold), andMarvin a fever, municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law thatfirst can’t time, transmit a majority infection. of officers So people who if you were exposed to the flu before being you need moreFish fluids. ’55, Steve There’s Roth little ’67 reason, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being get sick after receiving a flu vaccination were vaccinated. to increase or decrease how much you eat. former inmates with pro bono See Summer, page 4 goingschool to get sickin anyway.the twenty-first It takes a week or two Though you Markowitzmay have no ’52 appetite,, and “starving” so 4. The flu is just a bad cold. many others. As you look to getcentury. protection I am fromthe first the vaccine.of these But people yourself will accomplish little. And poor to be president of the Influenza may cause bad cold symptoms. But forward, ask yourself: What assume that because they got sick after getting nutrition will not help you get better. Association, and my successor in the United States alone, 36,000 people die do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you the vaccine, the shot caused their illness. Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. anda huge more difference than 200,000 in what are we hospitalized can do for eachyou 9.to Chickenlook like soupin the will years speed to come?your recovery And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of 2. HealthyThis people marks don’t a hopefulneed to bemoment, vaccinated. of yearand becausefor the Law of the School. flu. fromhow will the youflu. be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 It’s course.true that We’ll the flulaunch vaccination our second is routinely half- 5. YouI can’t spreadput it the more flu ifplainly: you’re feeling We needwell. HotIf liquids you’ve paidcan sootheyour dues, a sore come throat out to and interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. recommendedcentury of Vanderbiltfor people whoLectures have awith chronic one Actually,your help. 20% And to 30%we ofespecially people carryingneed help the provideour events, much or been needed active fluids. on the Butboard, chicken I To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a illness.of the But brightest anyone —starts even in healthy the American folks — influenzafrom those virus alumni have nograduated symptoms. after 1970, soupthank has you. no otherIf you specific haven’t qualitiesdone those that can canlegal benefit firmament, from being New vaccinated. Jersey’s own Current Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the helpthings fight yet, theI invite flu. and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite 6. You don’t need to get a flu shot every year. guidelinesWells ’76 suggest. (See thatpage children1.) And ageswe’re 6 classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni The influenza virus changes (mutates) each 10. If you have a high fever with the flu that monthsreaching to 19 out years to old, current pregnant students women, with and a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. year. So getting vaccinated each year is lasts more than a day or two, antibiotics anyone over age 49 be vaccinated each year. important to make sure you have immunity may be necessary. In addition, the flu shot is recommended for his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and ALUMNI On The Move to the strains most likely to cause an outbreak. Antibiotics work well against bacteria, but I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey healthy people who might spread the virus to estates practice at Riker Danzigthey aren’t in Morristown. effective for a viral infection like in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’847. Youhas declaredcan catch his the flu from going out in others who are particularly susceptible. 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Those images werecoincides provided with by the cold weather. So people The flu is a good example of how medical myths to do to protect yourself from the flu. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. often associate the flu with a cold, drafty can get in the way of good medical care. When it’s Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector. There are a number of steps you can take to environment. But, they are not related. flu season, take the necessary steps to stay healthy. protect yourself during flu season besides That includes separating fact from myth.” vaccination.Page 2 Avoid contact with people who THE HLSA CONNECTOR Page 3

Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The President spending and our income this year. REMARKS OF RONALD W. BROWN ONCongratulations, THE OCCASION Mr. ChiefOF Justice! For the first time in three years, we HIS ACCEPTING THE IRWIN MARKOWITZ ALUMNI SERVICE AWARD During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe Cambridge, where of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a increase in what we charge attendees nI Januarywould like22, 2014,to thank Ronald the W. Brownnetwork, (’71) a partnership became the between fourth recipient of the member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the O IrwinHarvard S. Markowitz Law11 AlumniSchool Service NJISJAward and “for Volunteerhis decades Lawyers of exemplary service to staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. HLSA/NJAssociation and of theNew community Jersey for of Harvardfor Justice. Law School alumni in New Jersey, and I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – This year, we contributed $3,400 John Bartlett ’01, withproviding deep appreciationfunding for myfor first-his work to promoteI also worked the strength on projects and continuity of the University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ Association.”year summer The firstinternship. recipient was Albert Cohn, the second was Judge Dave Landau, assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See economic inequality. In the andThanks the thirdto the was generosity Stephen of Roth, the Gerri Markowitz, who was married to Irwin for 51 time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, wake of the U.S. Supreme years,Association’s was unable todues-paying be present when Mr. Brown was recognized as this year’s recipient. School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them Court’s decision in Parents Nicolemembers, Bearce, I served President as ofa legalthe Association, presented the award to Mr. Brown “with view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. honor and affection by his classmates and colleagues.” and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing

Ron entitled his remarks “Service, Saints, Socrates, and Superman”. Here is the text of Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20th century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. thoseof projects, remarks learning as Ron preparedabout the them. Thethe decision’sremarks heeffect actually on gaveschool were much shorter beginning of the 21st. alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his andways conformed in which toNJISJ time combines limit expectations. assignment programs that Irwin Markowitz ’52 and Geri Markowitz Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have Whenassist DavidNew LandauJersey's receivedurban this award,school hedistricts shared committed with us some to Theyears Lord of age,is blessing Rabner me – right a former now. federalAnd my prosecutor, heart is full. Governor’s But I hope at a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution three months after I completed law memoriescommunities. about HLS. This evening,equal I will educational do the same. opportunity. I love good theChief end ofCounsel, my brief remarks,and state that Attorney if Irwin General Markowitz – is werethe youngesthere---and school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other moviesThrough and greatNJISJ’s screenplays. Second SomeI researchedof my remarks various this legal evening issues heChief is in spirit Justice – hein wouldthe modern say one history sentence of to the me state’s as this high year’s Court. recipient first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is affecting New Jersey’s Fair willChance sound Campaign, like screenplays, a policy and hopefully visualize some events of the award that bears his name, and of other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public in my life that were movie-like. I have published the full text of my my remarks. And that sentence would be and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past reflectionsreturning toas theira WordPress communities blog at : http://ronaldwbrownassociatesllc.respect to regional theHLSA-NJ same one for Will enabling Smith mesaid toin the filmHarvard Law School backward and forward, years. com/2013/12/04/reflections-on-service-saints-socrates-and-following incarceration, I contribution agreements, Independencehave a summer Day: experience “Now thatthat’s whatAssociation of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank superman/comment-page-1/.researched the efforts of cities I am whichfairly confidenthave been thethat subject everyone of I’mwill talkingfundamentally about!” shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- goingacross to thethe sitecountry will enjoy to reduce the graphics vigorous and audio policy files debates as well andas learn the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert somethingdiscrimination new. In againstaddition, ex-if Bob Holmestarget of goes legal to challengesthat site, heunder will PermitSincerely, me this aside: Anytime a lawyerOffice refers in Newark to brief this remarks, summer. get are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David seeoffenders a picture in of municipal 25 Trowbridge hiring Street,both the stateentrance and federalto the basementlaw. ready for those remarksDamon King to end ’09 in eternity.Over Butthe I promisecourse youof I willmy species. Crabtree ’52, David apartmentand prepared where written we lived materials during our firstNJISJ year provides of law school numerous and at not take us there. Tonight I will onlyinternship, draw from I sectionswas given of what’sthe The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry whichfor presentations someone erected to New a plaque Jersey memorializingexamples theof partiesways inwe threw.which presented in the blog so that we can honorchance our to time witness commitment. and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law Bymunicipalities publishing a on link policy to the reform blog, I can assure Pete Mumma from the first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid Nicole,I would as your like first to conveyact as themy newlyprocess, elected Presidentboth withinof HLSA-NJ, and were graduated from the law the late Irwin HLS alumni office that we will notunderrepresented be requesting the next editionand of wouldsincere youappreciation please stand for in being place of Gerri Markowitz. Sylvia Cohn, former inmates with pro bono See Summer, page 4 school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so The HLSA-NJ newsletter be published in multiple volumes resembling would you please stand in place of your late husband Al. David century. I am the first of these many others. As you look a treatise. Everyone who goes to the site will find some examples of the Landau would you please stand. Patty Lopez would you stand for to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What Socratic Method at HLS applied in life in two novel ways that I know We Can’t Do Until You Due Stevethe spring Roth. Wouldsymposium everyone and please other join events me in HLSA-NJ a round ofoffers applause to you for Association, and my successor do you want the Association will leave you laughing. Readers who go to that blog will be able to If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible theseand allprior our recipients members, of the it Irwinwouldn’t Markowitz exist without Award theand support in memory of Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And read about how Irwin and Gerri Markowitz met, and how I met my This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public ofour the dues-paying great person members.after whom If the you award haven’t is named? paid your 2007-2008 wife Geri at HLS. course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. Irwin Markowitz was married to his Gerri for 51 years. I have century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I If you watch the Academy Awards/Oscars, the To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association ofbeen New married Jersey, tosimply my Geri fill outfor 41.the Inform telling below you and that, return and despiteit with thea of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those recipients of those awards sometimes take so much legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz,presence Esq., here Goldberg this evening Mufson of the & U.S.Spar, Attorney 200 Executive for New Drive, Jersey, Suite and time thanking everyone that a signal is given to Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with yourdistinguished RSVP to the members Vanderbilt of the lecture criminal. Dues defense are $75 bar, forI also alumni have to take reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 bringadmitted up the to music,the bar the for equivalent over 5 years of asa hookof July to 1, 2007, and $50 for alumnithis admittedopportunity for to less confess 5 five to years the commission and those inof thea crime. public I sector.suspect it pull them off stage. I don’t intend to speak very long tonight. But those must have been the same one Irwin committed with his Gerri, but I of you with iPods, iPads, iPhones, cell phones, or other devices, please On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the shallHarvard only speak Law about School my crimeAssociation with my Geri.of New Jersey ALUMNI estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. feel free to turn them on and key up the music if I do. in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 REMARKS continued on next page State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12th) may have some alumni 11 candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. The Connector,Name: Fall/Winter 2006 (“Irwin Markowitz was one of the Association’s most active members. AsClass: far back as anyone can remember, he was the primary organizer company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race of the Vanderbilt Lecture program, and a sparkling presence at the event itself.”) The following information is taken verbatim from two sources. The source information was HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a combined toAddress: eliminate redundancy. “Irwin S. Markowitz had a law practice in Bergen County for 50 years. He was of counsel to Fischer Porter & Thomas, where he focused his contested primary in June. practice on corporate and commercial transactions. He had considerable experience in alternative dispute resolution proceedings and had been appointed by the Chancery CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Division of theTelephone: Superior Court of New Jersey in a number ofE-Mail: complex matters with a high degree of success in achieving non-litigated resolution. Mr. Markowitz was on the from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by approved list of mediators for the New Jersey Superior Court, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey and N.A.S.D.A.Q. He had also served as Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Chairman ofDate the A.D.R. of Admission Committee of tothe theBergen Bar: County Bar Association and had lectured extensively I am to legalemployed and non-legal in the groups public on the sector. subject. Mr. Markowitz was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and Harvard Law School (Class of 1952). Prior to Mr. Markowitz’s entry into private practice he served as general counsel to financial and insurance companies. He was a U.S. Army veteran.” See http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Irwin-Markowitz/387146175 and http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/bulletin/2006/ fall/memoriam.php. Page 2 THE HLSA CONNECTOR Page 3

REMARKS continued from previous page As you probably know, the Litigation Section is one of the largest in Our 2007 Public Interest Letter FGivenrom how T obviouslyhe P gorgeousresi dmye Gerint is, I the ABA, and getting professionalspending and visibility our income through this publications year. is Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! confess to the crime of marrying her before the age always a wise career move. ThatFor the editor first timewould ineagerly three haveyears, accepted we Fellows In Their Own Words During my first ofyear consent. of law She school wasn’t justin a childSeptember when I marriedpanel anything you cared to write,expect and thisgiven year’s the caliber Vanderbilt of the writersLecture within to 1998, a woman whoher, hadshe wasbeen an a infant.mentor And truthdiscussion be told, I not in the Harvard Law Schoolfully Association pay for ofitself, New thanks Jersey, to would a necessary have fast- Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galinaonly V. married Starovoitova, her before a theCambridge, age of consent, where I tracked consideration whateverincrease you in wrote.what weThat charge editor attendees has recently I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the married her before she was even conceived. The been promoted. The portfolio of the former Pro Bono and Public Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. sentence I am serving for this crime is wonderful. It’s a life sentence, Interest Committee has been broadened through a merger with two Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – This year, we contributed $3,400 I also worked on projects without the possibility of (or the desire for) parole. Johnother Bartlett committees ’01, into the Access to Justice Committee. The Access providing funding for my first- University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two year summer internship. touching on racial and assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the HLSA-NJto Justice Committee is havingextraordinary a conference young calllaw tomorrow students. night(See to I. SERVICE Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunitiesdiscuss abloom soliciting in thearticles forpage publication. 3.) The value If you of speak their with experience, me tonight Marian Wright Edelman was correct when she Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.)about a subject about whichand youthe wouldconnection like to writeit helped an article, them you Court’s decision in Parents said “Service is the rent we pay for being.” The members, I served as a legal view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase willthe beold fast saw, tracked with becausedevelop the editor to New who Jersey’s was recentlylegal community, promoted is Involved in Community Schools v. plaque I received this evening is for service to this intern for the New Jersey and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunitiesthe same come person great who is editoris priceless. The Connector,We’ll have the spentnewsletter nearly of this Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I organization.Soviet republics I hope to to declare be able independence, to continue paying responsibility. As recentlyAssociation: as two years me. ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary rentas by the rendering end of servicethe 20 to HLSA-NJcentury and for the a long more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st timebeginning to come. of the 21 . alumni paid dues to II.the SAINTSAssociation, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Today, we might instead mark response rate that — whileSome insaints one are sense easy to recognize.meetings, In atNew less Orleans, than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are OneSeptember form of service 11, everyone2001 as whothe iscentenary an alum can performunderwhelming and that —is stillyou canpermitted recognize the them byto their date, National is modest. Football We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 to payturning your HLSA-NJpoint. That dues. fateful Those day dues camehelp us fundAssociation such things to asprovide the programming,League helmets make and by theirthe Law fans School who say this things year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution Summer Fellows program. If you don’t know about that program ask like “Who Dat” and who belong to the Who Dat communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Ken Oettle, and he will talk with you about it. Nation. But there are some other saints among us are Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is affecting New Jersey’s Fair not as easy to recognize as those Chance Campaign, a policy Anotherother formplaces of to service draw theis what line, weof docourse, when wealumni help others. have paidThere their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public who love football in New Orleans. is someoneand our whohuman usually nature attends compels this usevent to but two-thirdswho shall dropremain in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the nameless.draw these We welines. all Lookingknow him both in his official capacity. But the thing And though All Saintsfuture Day doesas we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward andthat mostforward, impressed me about him was when a not occur this early inyears. 2014, we following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This As you look back, thank walking the emotionalformer Governorlines talked about meeting this person are going to recognize some saints tonight. researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- while that person was rendering service in a soup across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we In addition to Gerry Markowitz andserving Sylvia leaders Cohn, likewould Albert anyone kitchen on Thanksgiving Day. And though I will discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a who was married to an HLS grad, pleaseCohn raise ’51, your right handDavid and both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my not name that person lest reporters start showing offenders in municipal hiring species. keep it in the air. Now, would anyone Crabtreewho is currently ’52, marriedDavid to an and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the The Associationup at isevery at soupa kitchen in New Jersey, I will drop HLS grad, please raise your right handLandau and keep ’53 it, in the air. JerryFinally, for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake a hintturning about point how weas allwell. know For him. the Some in this room refer to him as the would anyone who in the future wouldFitzgerald consider English marrying, Marvin an HLS municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, CJ while others more respectfully refer to him as Chief Justice. grad, please raise your right hand? Thank you. Everyone can now put options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being A thirdschool form in of servicethe twenty-firstis simply by sharing what you know to inform their hands down. Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 others.century. Geri Iand am Ithe first first did of that these when we authored I have great news for everyone who raisedmany their others. right As hand. you I lookhave it a Caseto Notebe presidentin the Harvard of theCivil Rights-Civil forward, ask yourself: What on the highest authority – well not the highest but pretty high up – We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you LibertiesAssociation, Law Review. and my Isuccessor did that when I applied do you want the Association that each of you is a candidate for sainthood. As you may know, part If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of to be,Jason and Orlando Professor ’00 Jerome will be S. theBruner second. accepted my a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And of the criteria for being considered for sainthood is the performance of by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 applicationThis tomarks become a thehopeful first moment,pre-law advisor of atand for the Law School. how will you be part of it? course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it morea plainly:specified We number need of miracles.If you’ve And eachpaid ofyour you dues, who comewere outmarried to to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. Currier House12, Radcliffe where he and his wife century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especiallyor are married need helpto an HLSour grad events, have or undoubtedly been active on met the that board, criteria. I wereof to the be thebrightest first startsMasters. in Currierthe American House opened from in 1970. those Since alumni that graduatedAnyone aftermarried 1970, to an HLSthank grad you. must If on you innumerable haven’t done occasions those have To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a firstlegal co-authored firmament, case New note, Jersey’s Geri andown I Tedhave co-authoredwhose dues many – if other paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite 13 resisted the temptation to strangle them in order to get them to stop articles.Wells ’76 We. still(See do pageit in our1.) blogs And and we’re publications. classes of the 1950s and talking,’60s – would and it more is a miracle part that of youthis didgreat not endeavor. yield to that temptation. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. In connection with this third form of service, I am pleased to advise you that there is a person here with us tonight who was formerly one On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey ofA theL editorsUM ofN theI newsletter for the Pro Bono and Public Interest estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section of Litigation. REMARKS continued on next page in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: 12http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~currier/about/history.html HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a 13 Address: Here are some of these articles. contested primary in June. Article,CORRECTION: Co-Author, “What The is spring Leadership issue failed and Whatto include Makes photo A Leader?” credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: http://www.slideshare.net/180RonWB/what-makes-a-leader-and-what-is-leadershp#!from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Article,Keith Co-Author, Krebs/P.O.V. “DNA Image Collection Service and. the Fourth Amendment”, American Bar Association, SectionHave of Litigation,news? ProE-mail Bono & [email protected] Public Interest, Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector. http://apps.americanbar.org/litigation/committees/probono/articles/winter2012-DNA-collection-fourth-amendment.html What’s In My Genes and Jeans Is My Business Not Yours”, Garden State Bar Journal, http://www.gardenstatebar.org/news/gsba-law-journal/63-whats-in-my-genes-and-jeans-is-my-business-not-yours Page 2 THE HLSA CONNECTOR Page 3

REMARKS continued from previous page Our 2007 Public Interest Recent research in the Derrick A. Bell papers at New York University Letter From The President spending and our income this year. III. SOCRATES yieldedCongratulations, additional insights on Derrick’s Mr. decision Chief to come Justice! to HLS. For the first time in three years, we InFellows 1967, fourteen years In after Their Erwin Markowitz,Own Words During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to David Landau, and Norman Dorsen left On June 2, 1969, Derrick wrote two letters. One letter was written to 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Cambridge,Dear Members my of roommate HLSA-NJ, Bob Holmesattorneys and I,through the ReLeSe Dean Dorothy Nelson, USC Law Center. The other letter was written of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees alongI withwould many like toothers, thank were the standingnetwork, on the a partnership between to Professor Howard Miller, USC Law Center. The first letter provides member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the stepsHarvard of Langdell Law registering School for our firstNJISJ yearand at Volunteer Lawyers insight on Derrick’s decision to join the Harvard Law School faculty. staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New JerseyHarvard for Lawfor School.Justice. We had some of the The second letter underscores his commitment to legal services. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – This year, we contributed $3,400 I also worked on projects John Bartlett ’01, providing funding for mygiants first- of the legal world as professors: University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two year summer internship. touching on racial and Below are the first three paragraphs of the letter to Dean Nelson. Note HLSA-NJ W. Baron Leach for Property; Milton Katz assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the in particular the last paragraph. for Torts; Lon Fuller for Contracts. time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents “This is to inform you of my decision to resign from my position on the view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. USC Law School faculty effective September 1, 1969. and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I As you know, in recent weeks I have been seriously considering an Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently as two years ago, $1,000 to support travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school invitation to join the faculty at the Harvard Law School. Deciding st beginning of the 21 . alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that to Chiefaccept Justicewas difficult Stuart because J. Rabner it means ’85 terminatingis sworn in a relationshipby his Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing withpredecessor, this school which,James whileR. Zazzal brief,i, has in provided July. Lookingme with faron more are of September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to substanceGovernor than Jon I canS. Corzineeasily repay and or Rabner’s even adequately wife, Deborah. describe. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came Association to provide programming, make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey'sDuring urbanthe 1967-1968 school schooldistricts year, committed something to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution communities. extraordinary happenedequal educationalthat I remember opportunity. and MyChief decision Counsel, to leave and reflects state Attorney a number General of considerations. – is the youngest Principal school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’syou probably Second don’t Iknow researched about. various Dean Dereklegal issues Bok, amongChief them Justice is the in theopportunity modern tohistory work withof the the state’s more highthan Court.100 black first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign,Professors a policy Albert affectingSachs and New Professor Jersey’s Charles Fair law students who will be enrolled next year at Harvard. The challenge other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous effort to improveNesson the reentryquietly collaboratedHousing withAct and the Mt. Laurel ofunderserved working with populations. these students I am became honored irresistible with when a Summer their leadersPublic two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the and our human nature compels us to prospects of twoindividuals HLS African doctrine, American particularly with wrotegrateful and to called the urgingmembers that Iof come.” Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to theirstudents— communities Reginald respect V. Gilliam ato regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. following incarceration,founder and theI firstcontribution Chairman of agreements, Onhave June a summer 6, 1969, experience Derrick wrote that a letterAssociation to Dean Derek of New Bok, Jersey. Harvard This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of Universitywill fundamentally School of Law.shape The my letter includedaward enabled a memo me of theto workfollowing at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- the Harvard Black Law Students across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the transportationlegal career. expenses incurred on theMay Federal 27, 1969 Public “in Defender’sconnection and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert Association and Bishop Hollifield discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under withSincerely, travel from New York to BostonOffice and returnin Newark for discussions this summer. with are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David and brought fiveboth distinguished state and federal law. Over the course of my offenders in municipal hiring Harvard Law SchoolDamon faculty—as King ’09 authorized by Dean Derek Bok: species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared writtenvisitors materials to campus forNJISJ some provides numerous internship, I was given the Taxi to LaGuardia Airport $ 4.00 The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations eveningto New Jersey“conversations” examples withof ways in which chance to witness and partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalities onsome policy faculty, reform some attorneysstudents whocan commit their EasternDear HLSA-NJ, Shuttle round-trip fare in the federal$36.00 criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helpedwere onconnect the Law knowledgeReview, and and skills to aid TaxiI towould Cambridge like to from convey Boston my Airportprocess, $ both 5.00 within and were graduated from the law the late Irwin underrepresented and Taxisincere to Bostonappreciation Airport for from being Lexington $10.00 former inmates us.with Though pro bono these small sessions See Summer, page 4 school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so Total $55.00” century. I am the first of these many others. As you look were open to anyone who wanted to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What to attend, I don’t recall seeing any announcements More interesting to me than those transportation costs compared to Association, and my successor do you want the Association aboutWe them Can’t in the Harvard Do Law Until Record or Youthe Harvard Due Crimson. whatthe spring they would symposium be today, and is the other following events paragraph HLSA-NJ in offers that letter: to you Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And TwoIf you’ve of those read distinguished about it in visitorsthe Connector who came, it wasup frommade possibleNew York and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members whoCity paid to participatetheir dues. in Fromthese evening our summer “conversations” public Onour another dues-paying subject, members. one of my If secretaries, you haven’t a Mr. paid Vernon your 2007-2008White, has course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to interest fellowshipsincluded and civilcampus rights programming activist Roy Innis, for students the founder to inquireddues yet, about please the contribute possibility today of accompanying by using the me form to Harvard. below. Mr. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I the Congress of Racial Equality and Professor White is a phenomenal typist (speeds in excess of 100 words per To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those Charles V. Hamilton of Columbia University. minute) and has excellent shorthand and other secretarial skills. He check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be Professor Hamilton was the author of a book on is extremely intelligent and very dependable and has done some work classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re Adam Clayton Powell and the co- on an advanced degree at Harvard. He turned to secretarial work reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. author with Stokely Carmichael after illness wrecked his hopes of becoming a concert pianist. If I can his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and of a book on Black Power. One select a secretary, Mr. White would be more than satisfactory. (I do not ALUMNI On The Move I encloseof the my other check distinguished for the visitors2007-2008 dues to the expectHarvard that Mr.Law White School will Associationmake demands of for New travel Jersey expenses of the estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his was Derrick A. Bell who would outlandish variety to which recently you have been subjected.)” Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12th) may have some alumni candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Name: later become the first tenured Class: company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race African-American Professor of While giving appropriate attention to practical matters, Derrick always HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Law at HLSAddress: and for whom an official website[ii] kept a sense humor as well as a sense of commitment and caring about contested primary in June. others. I think his letter reflects that. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images was createdTelephone: after his passing in 2011. These E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Have news? E-mail [email protected] conversations were unprecedented, and in my Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. view, courageousDate of undertakings Admission to to broaden the Bar: dialogue I am employed in the public sector. within the Harvard Law School. 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REMARKS continued from previous page clerk at the Supreme Court, and later become Our 2007 Public Interest Letter IF wantro tom share T oneh e experience Pre here.sid I esharen tothers in Chancellorspending of andthe ourNew income York thisCity year. Department Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! the blog. Let me set the stage by referring to “The Paper of Education.)For the Joelfirst says:time “Iin havethree no years, answer we to Fellows In Their Own Words During my firstChase”, year aof book law writtenschool byin John SeptemberOsborne, a classmatepanel the expectquestion this because year’s VanderbiltI don’t Lecture to 1998, a womanwith who whom had been I took a mentorContracts taughtdiscussion by Lon Fuller.in understandfully pay the for question.” itself, thanks The to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees There is a scene in trailer for the movie “The Paper classroom seems to become very dark and quiet, as I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Chase” when Professor Kingsfield calls a student down though an intellectual solar eclipse has occurred Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. for Justice. to the front of the lecture hall and says “Mr. Hart. Here is a dime. Call and we are inside Plato’s Cave Association of New Jersey for I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – This year, we contributed $3,400 I also worked on projects your mother and tell her there is serious doubt about your ever becoming John Bartlett ’01, rather than Austin North. Professor Shapiro providing funding for my first- University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two year summer internship. touching on racial and a lawyer.14” As some people in this room will remember, back in the day, HLSA-NJ again poises the question. Up assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the sometime, Professors I wrote actually in the usedweekly put Harvard downs likeLaw that asprofessional part of their opportunities Socratic abloom in the in thepage far 3.) left The cornervalue ofof theirthe experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme teachingSchool method. Record that Another future of historiansthose infamous would Kingsfield Garden like State.put downs (See pagewas 4.) room,and the the hand connection of Bill Jones it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents this:view “If that1989, is yourthe yearbest answerthe Berlin Mr. WallHart, fell we take this But,shroud to andparaphrase slowly theslowly old goessaw, up.with I thinkdevelop to myself: to New “Bill Jersey’s you have legal community, intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. drawand it overthe yourBaltic head. States Your became brain is thedead, first and we thosemourn itsgreat passing.” opportunitiesnever come spoken great in this isclass. priceless. Please tellWe’ll me haveyour spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence, responsibility. As recently armas two is yearshaving ago, a spasm$1,000 and that’sto support why yourtravel hand and lodgingis in the for air!” Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary Professorsas the hadend aof seating the 20 chart century with the and name the and picture of every student Everyone, including Professor Shapiro, sees the hand. The Professor of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school beginning of the 21st. alumni paid dues to the Association, a Our spending on food for Board Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his in the class and would look at that chart before selecting who would be asks, “Is there anyone else who thinks they can answer my question?” ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are called upon. I think they kept little marks next to the Seeing no one else respond, and Bill’s arm apparently locked in a legal advocacy, policy analysis, namesSeptember so that 11,they 2001could asbe thesure centenaryto distribute theirunderwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 Association to provide programming,Charlie-horse make like crampthe since Law his School hand thiswas year.still in Still, the air,they Professor have penetratingturning questionspoint. That evenly. fateful People day who came had not read assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the LawShapiro School, looks and down onprovided the seating us the chart, printing identifies and distribution the name that the cases or where otherwise unprepared did not sit in communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as muchgoes money with thein thehand, andof saysthis “Mr.newsletter Jones?” andBill replies,all our “Yes, other that’s I researched various legal issues their assigned seat, but sat in the very last row of the Through NJISJ’s Second Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. Thisme.” year, Professor only 46Shapiro mailings then asks throughout “What is your the answer?”year – and In ait clear,is affecting New Jersey’s Fair lecture hall and were known as backbenchers. Being Chance Campaign, a policy other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their duesloud so and far. confident That voice,our hopeBill says and “ Professoraim to Shapiro,make generous I think that effort to improve the reentry Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public calledand on our by ahuman Professor nature was the compels intellectual us to equivalent two-thirds drop in responseyour rate question is making was askedcontributions and answered to inthe Ashwander law school16. inFor the a few prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the of goingdraw theseinto thelines. gladiatorial Looking both arena. If you were not seconds there is no sound other thanfuture the restas weof thehave class in flippingpast returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. prepared you would be slaughtered. Back in the day, to the index and the Table of Cases looking for Ashwander. It following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank some professors entered the classroom with a facial is not to be found. Someone whispers to a neighbor, “What’s researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s demeanor resembling that of Ivan Drago entering the Ashwander?” The even softer reply comes back “I don’t know. across the country to reduce ringand in hopethe film – it’s Rocky part ofIII who or weRussell Crowe as Javert serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a I thought Ashwander was somethingCohn you’51, ordered withDavid extra in Les Miserables. offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. sprinkles from Hazens in HarvardCrabtree Square!” ’52, And Davidthen it and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the I now wantThe toAssociation share something is at thata actually happened my first year. If it happens! Professor Shapiro smiles.Landau Back then, ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake wereturning a screenplay, point as it mightwell. For be called:the The Day The Earth Stood Still In law professors do not ever smile.Fitzgerald They have English , Marvin municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, Civil Pro: Doesn’t Anyone Have An Answer?” practiced frowns like that of options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and were graduated from the law Tommy Lee Jonesthe either aslate Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 school in theWe hadtwenty-first a Civil Procedure class with Professor Shapiro. U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard or many others. As you look century. I am theIn onefirst class of these he asked the most convoluted, complicated, to be president of the as Thaddeus Stevensforward, in Steven ask yourself: Spielberg’s What film and incomprehensible question ever heard in Austin Association, and my successor Lincoln. Smilingdo in you class want was the surely Association a breach We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Jason OrlandoHall. ’00 will The be theclosest second. thing to that a questionhuge difference was the intype what weof thecan facultydo for you code of conductto look forlike classrooms. in the years Professor to come? Shapiro’s And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marksof questionsa hopeful Master moment, Po askedof Davidand forCarradine, the Law a.k.a.School. smile is like the sun howcoming will youup beat partdaybreak of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 15 course. We’ll “Grasshopper”,launch our second in the half-television seriesI can’tKung put Fu it. Nomore plainly: We need dissipatingIf you’ve the paidmental your dues,fog come out to interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. century of Vanderbiltone answered Lectures his with question. one Withyour a visagehelp. worthyAnd we of especially need help of ourour events,Plato’s or beencave. active You on the board, I of the brightestProfessor starts inKingsfield the American in The Paperfrom those alumni graduated after 1970, can thankalmost you. hear If a youcouple haven’t of done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legal firmament,Chase. New ProfessorJersey’s ownShapiro Ted calls whoseon dues – if paid at the same rate as the classmates,things yet, formerly I invite and with implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni Wells ’76. (Seethree page students 1.) whoAnd usuallywe’re had classesan of the 1950s and ’60s – would more the partHarvard of this Gleegreat endeavor.Club, start to hum the answerreaching to those out kind to currentof questions. students One ofwith those a he callsthan make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. on is Joel Klein (who would go onto Law Review, REMARKS continued on next page On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey ALUMNI estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. 14 in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 Statehttp://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2574452505/ Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his 15 Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12th) may have some alumni candidacyhttp://www.imdb.com/character/ch0037571/quotes for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Name: Class: Master Po: [after easily defeating the boy in combat] Ha, ha, never assume because a mancompany has no eyes next he spring,cannot see. if Republican Close your eyes. Jay What Webber do you ’00 hear? wins his race YoungHLSA-NJ Caine: secretary I hear the water,Stephen I hear F. the Herbes birds. ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: Master Po: Do you hear your own heartbeat? contested primary in June. YoungCORRECTION: Caine: No. The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: Masterfrom Po: the Do 50 youth annual hear theVanderbilt grasshopper Lecture. that Those is at your images feet? were provided by YoungKeith Caine: Krebs/P.O.V. [looking down Image and Service seeing. the insect] Old man, how is it that you hear these things?Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector. Master Po: Young man, how is it that you do not? 16As used here, Ashwander v. TVA , 297 U.S. 288 (1936) is merely a place holder for the case that Bill mentioned since I don’t recall the name of the case that was discussed. 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REMARKS continued from previous page Our 2007 Public Interest 4. Sometime between the first event and the third, Letter From The President spending and our income this year. Hallelujah Chorus. For the next twenty minutes, Congratulations,the fourth event occurred: My Mr. roommate Chief Bob Justice! For the first time in three years, we ProfessorFellows Shapiro goes In back Theirand forth with Own Bill Jones Words Holmes and I received our draft notices During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to on Ashwander. At the end of the class the Professor I elaborate on the first and fourth events in my blog. 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary commendsDear Members Bill and of HLSA-NJ, says he hopes the restattorneys of us will through be the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees as wellI would prepared like for to our thank next theclass as Mr.network, Jones awas partnership between IV. SUPERMAN: IRWIN MARKOWITZ member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the forHarvard this one. A Lawfew months School later I amNJISJ at Bill’s and apartment Volunteer celebrating Lawyers One of the reasons Irwin was so passionate about The staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. for Justice. hisAssociation birthday. Afterof New a few Jersey libations, for I ask Bill, “How in the world did you Vanderbilt Lecture was his dream that proceeds from I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – This year, we contributed $3,400 I also worked on projects John Bartlett ’01, doproviding what you funding did that for‘Ashwander my first-’ day in Civil Pro?” He replies, “Do you the event would help fund Fellowships for students to University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two year summer internship. touching on racial and HLSA-NJ really want to know?” I said: “Yes.” He replies, “You promise not to tell?” experience working in New Jersey in areas of Public assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the I say, “I promise.” He says, “Come with me to my den.” There he shares Interest. Judge David Landau shares the following words with us, time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme his secret. He pulls down and opens two notebooks. showing just how passionate Irwin was about the Vanderbilt Lecture: School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, The first page of one says “Harvard Law Review.” The intern for the New Jersey Involved in Community Schools v. “In reading the short bio in one of the responses to your note, I think it and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. 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Bill saysprograms to me, “Ron,that I Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his he had Gerri reach out to me on my cell phone, when I was driving in Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year lookedlegal advocacy,at the course policy syllabus analysis, at the beginningconsider of the race term and sawproposing we were predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are Massachusetts, to ask if I could arrange for an appropriate Vanderbilt September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to scheduledand direct to servicediscuss aprograms certain principle to policyin Civil options Pro. I wentstill availableto Langdell to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 lecturer. I was able to do so, fortunately, very quickly, by telephone from turning point. 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He Counsel, passed, knowingand state that Attorney the tradition General would – survive.is the youngest Long time school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other that wasThrough published NJISJ’s in the YaleSecond Law Journal,I researched as well as various Professor legal Shapiro’s issues membersChief Justice will remember in the modern his telephonic history efforts of the tostate’s remind high them Court. of THE first job as a lawyer. There are a host of bank as we started with. This year, only 46 mailings throughout the year – and it is response.Chance I Campaign,knew every argumenta policy cold. Andaffecting every timeNew Professor Jersey’s Shapiro Fair LECTURE every year.” alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous other places to draw the line, of course, askedeffort me to a improvequestion, Ithe simply reentry drew fromHousing the answers Act and in the the LawMt. LaurelReview underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the Some people think that Clark Kent was Superman. andprospects Law Journal.” of I individualssaid, “Bill, with alldoctrine, the work weparticularly have to do, how with did grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past They are wrong. Irwin Markowitz was the real Man youreturning find or to maketheir time communities to do all of that respectextra work.” toHe looked regional at me and HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experienceof Steel. The that characterAssociation created byof JerryNew SiegelJersey. and This Joe said, “Ron, welcome to competition at Harvard Law School.” 17 walking the emotional lines As you look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentallyShuster shape in my 1933, thataward first enabled appeared me in toD.C. work Comics, at between regret and pride, fear the Association’s long- Fouracross things the happenedcountry into 1968 reduce during thevigorous second policysemester debates of my firstand theyear legal career. and later became a televisionthe Federal series, Public was only Defender’s able to do and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert atdiscrimination HLS. Each of theseagainst events ex-permanentlytarget impacted of legal mychallenges life. I am under sure Sincerely, such things as “changeOffice the course in Newark of mighty this rivers” summer. and are and what we do as a Cohn ’51, David thatoffenders two of thesein municipal events permanently hiring impactedboth state yours. and federal law. Damon“leap tallKing buildings ’09 inOver a single thebound.” course Irwin Markowitzof my species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous did much more thaninternship, that. Irwin changedI was thegiven course the of The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry 1.for presentationsIn February of to1968, New I stoodJersey on Massexamples Ave. outside of ways in which people’s lives, for example,chance when, to witness as Gerri and Markowitz partake turning point as well. For the Fitzgerald English, Marvin municipalitiesa gate to Harvard on policy Yard reform and prayedattorneys to God thatcan commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, shared with me, Irwinin thepaid federalthe rent criminalfor a walk-in law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options.while II wasalso inhelped Cambridge connect I would meetknowledge a woman and skills to aid I would like tostore convey front myin Teaneckprocess, that providedboth draftwithin counseling and were graduated from the law the late Irwin formerwith inmateswhom I withcould pro spend bono the restunderrepresented of my life. and sincere appreciationduring for the being Vietnam War, as well as in his always being Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 school in the twenty-first Someone who was intellectually gifted, physically involved in the American Civil Liberties Union and in century. I am the first of these many others. As you look gorgeous, emotionally compatible with me. And for those of you who Fair Housing. Irwin “The-Man-Of-Steel” Markowitz to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What know me, you are probably thinking, “Ron, you should have just changed the course of HLSA-NJ through his passion Association, and my successor do you want the Association We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’veasked forread two about out of itthree, in the because Connector once you, itadded was thatmade last possible one you forand the all Vanderbilt our members, Lecture and it wouldn’t generating exist the funds without from the this support event to ofhelp This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by memberswere really pushingwho paid the theirouter limitsdues. for From miracles!” our summer public supportour dues-paying its Summer members. Fellows program. If you Ihaven’t believe paidwe are your fulfilling 2007-2008 Irwin’s interest fellowships and campus programming for students to dreamdues yet,for The please Lecture, contribute and it is todaya living by testimony using the to formhim. below. course. We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to 2. On April 4th, while I was again standing your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one on Mass Ave. at night, just outside Harvard If this were a film, the music you would start to hear of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a Yard across the street from The Coop, we now would be the Superman theme composed by John legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite received the news from Atlanta that the Rev. Williams, the greatest film composer of our time. Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been shot Thank you Superman Irwin Markowitz. reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. and had died. Thank you everyone for your attention and thank you for this award. ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and 3. On JuneI enclose 5th, we my received check the for news the from 2007-2008 Los dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. Angeles,in thethat amount Presidential of candidate Senator, $75.00 $ 50.00 State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his th Robert Kennedy Jr. had been shot and later died. candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images 17http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SupermanTelephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector.

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Our 2007 Public Interest Letter From The PresideDUESnt NOTICE spending and our income this year. Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice! For the first time in three years, we During my first year of law school in September panel expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to Fellows In Their Own Words 1998, a woman who had been a mentor discussion in fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary Dear Members of HLSA-NJ, attorneys through the ReLeSe of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a Cambridge, where increase in what we charge attendees I would like to thank the network, a partnership between member of the Russian Parliament and a members of classes (including our youngest alumni). But the Harvard Law School NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers staunch advocate of human rights whom that make me feel old rest of our program requires your help. Association of New Jersey for for Justice. I got to know as my professor at Brown – like ’09 and ’10 – John Bartlett ’01, This year, we contributed $3,400 providing funding for my first- I also worked on projects University four years earlier – was heard from half a 2007 President of toward summer fellowships for two touching on racial and HLSA-NJ year summer internship. assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the dozen of us about the extraordinary young law students. (See Thanks to the generosity of the economic inequality. In the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law professional opportunities abloom in the page 3.) The value of their experience, Association’s dues-paying wake of the U.S. Supreme School Record that future historians would Garden State. (See page 4.) and the connection it helped them members, I served as a legal Court’s decision in Parents view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell But, to paraphrase the old saw, with develop to New Jersey’s legal community, Involved in Community Schools v. To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, intern for the New Jersey and the Baltic States became the first those great opportunities come great is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly Institute for Social Justice in Seattle School District #1, I Soviet republics to declare independence,simply fill out theresponsibility. form below As recently and return as two it yearswith ago,a check $1,000 payable to support to travel and lodging for Newark. I took part in a variety prepared a memo discussing th Linda Holt/N.J. Judiciary as the end of the 20 century and the more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS our Cambridge panelists in September. of projects, learning about the the decision’s effect on school st beginning of the 21 . “Harvardalumni Lawpaid Schooldues to Associationthe Association, of aN.J. ” Our spending on food for Board ways in which NJISJ combines assignment programs that Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his Today, we might instead mark response rate that — while in one sense meetings, at less than $400 for the year legal advocacy, policy analysis, consider race and proposing predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are September 11, 2001 as the centenary underwhelming — still permitted the to date, is modest. We made no gift to and direct service programs to policy options still available to Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 turning point. That fateful day came AssociationMail your topayment provide programming,to our Treasurer: make the Law School this year. Still, they have assist New Jersey's urban school districts committed to years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s three months after I completed law a substantial gift to the Law School, and provided us the printing and distribution Kaushal “Ken” Majmudar communities. equal educational opportunity. Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest school and five days after I started my end the year with as much money in the of this newsletter and all our other Through NJISJ’s Second I researched various legal issues Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court. first job as a lawyer. There areRidgewood a host of bankInvestments, as we started 57 with. JFK This Parkway, year, only 1st 46 Floormailings West, throughout the year – and it is Chance Campaign, a policy affecting New Jersey’s Fair other places to draw the line, of course, alumni have paid their dues so far. That our hope and aim to make generous Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel underserved populations. I am honored with a Summer Public Short Hills, New Jersey 07078 effort to improve the reentry and our human nature compels us to two-thirds drop in response rate is making contributions to the law school in the prospects of individuals doctrine, particularly with grateful to the members of Interest Fellowship by the draw these lines. Looking both future as we have in past returning to their communities respect to regional HLSA-NJ for enabling me to Harvard Law School backward and forward, years. following incarceration, I contribution agreements, have a summer experience that Association of New Jersey. This walking theAnnual emotional dues lines for the Association year are $75 for alumni admitted to the bar for six toAs 49you years. look back, thank researched the efforts of cities which have been the subject of will fundamentally shape my award enabled me to work at the Association’s long- betweenAnnual regretdues andare pride,$50 for fear alumni admitted for fewer than five or more than 50 years and those in the public sector. across the country to reduce vigorous policy debates and the legal career. the Federal Public Defender’s and hope – it’s part of who we serving leaders like Albert discrimination against ex- target of legal challenges under Sincerely, Office in Newark this summer. are and what we do as a The annual year for the Association begins on July 1st. Cohn ’51, David offenders in municipal hiring both state and federal law. Damon King ’09 Over the course of my species. Crabtree ’52, David and prepared written materials NJISJ provides numerous internship, I was given the The Association is at a Landau ’53, Jerry for presentations to New Jersey examples of ways in which chance to witness and partake turningI enclose point my as check well. For for the the 2014-2015 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New FitzgeraldJersey in theEnglish amount, Marvin of municipalities on policy reform attorneys can commit their Dear HLSA-NJ, in the federal criminal law first time, a majority of officers Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, options. I also helped connect knowledge and skills to aid I would like to convey my process, both within and r $75. r $50. were graduated from the law the late Irwin former inmates with pro bono underrepresented and sincere appreciation for being school in the twenty-first Markowitz ’52, and so See Summer, page 4 century. I am the first of these many others. As you look to be president of the forward, ask yourself: What We Can’t Do Until You Due the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you Association,Name: ______and my successor do you want the Association Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second. a huge difference in what we can do for you to look like in the years to come? And If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of This marks a hopeful moment, of and for the Law School. how will you be part of it? by members who paid their dues. From our summer public our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 interest fellowships and campus programming for students to course.Class:______We’ll launch our second half- I can’t put it more plainly: We need If you’ve paid your dues, come out to dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below. century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one your help. And we especially need help our events, or been active on the board, I of the brightest starts in the American from those alumni graduated after 1970, thank you. If you haven’t done those To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a legalAddress: firmament,______New Jersey’s own Ted whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the things yet, I invite and implore you to be check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more part of this great endeavor. 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni reaching out to current students with a than make up the gap between our John W. Bartlett ’01 admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector. Telephone: ______ ALUMNI On The Move his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown. in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00 John Adler ’84 StateE-Mail: Senate______Judiciary Chairman has declared his th candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district. Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12 ) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race Name: Class: HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a Address: Year of Admission to the Bar:______contested primary in June. CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images Telephone: E-Mail: from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keithr Krebs/P.O.V.I am employed Image Servicein the. public sector. Have news? E-mail [email protected] Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector.

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