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a LETTER TO ALU M N I ALUMNI RECEPTION THE FIFTH ANNUAL 1066 Dean Kane begins a series of letters to the PICTURE GALLERY FOUNDATION ATTORNEYS alumni about Hastings' new areas of Honolulu, January 1997· GENERAL FORUM RECEPTION concentration.This issue focu ses on State Bar Reception, October 1996. Photos of the celebration the tax concentration area. Washington, D.c., January 1997. following the Forum.

" THE BURDENS AND BE N EFI TS CAMPUS NOTES FACULTY NOTES OF RACE I N AMERICA " - Hastings' Scholarly Publications Offer Catch up on the many activities Presented by the 1996 Mathew 0. Tobriner Document Delivery Service. of our faculty. Memorial Lecturer, - Hastings Students Present Papers - Harry and LiUian Hastings Research Harvard University Law Professor At National Law and Chair and Sc holarships Established. Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. Communication Conference. - Fi ve Promoted to Full Professor. - Second-Year Students Cruise - Hastings Mourns The Loss of Away The Btues. Prof Julian H. Levi, 1909-1996. - Patio Expands Hastings Campus. - Hastings Mourns the Loss of II - Cabaret 1997. Prof Rudolf B. Sc hlesinger, 1909-1996 and Ruth H. Sc hlesinger, 1920-1996. A L UM S IN TH E CORPOR A TE W ORLD Fi~ ' e alums, Merle Catherine Chambers ('77); Christine Helwick ('73); Nicholas G. m Moore (,67); Guy RounsaviUe, Jr. ('68); TH E FI F TH ANNUAL C LASS N OTES and Richard Thalheimer ('74) offer ATTORN E Y S GE N ERAL F OR UM Catch up on your classmates' activities. Six former A ttorneys General discuss their views of the corporate world. u.s. Have we heard from you latdy? controversies involving the appointment process of the federal judiciary, the war on drugs, public perception of the profession, RICO, and the role of independent counsel. DO You HAVE A JOB FOR A ON THE COVER : HASTINGS STUDENT OR PartlClpancs In che !rich annual Accorneys General GRADUATE"? Forum' (b,lck TO It , lefc [0 n~hc) ?\'icholas Kac~enbach, Prof. Archur R. ~ 1 dler, Edu In ~Ieese l/J. \X"dliam Barr, RlcharJ Thornburgh, (fron! rolt. leic ro rlf(hc) \X'lllwm You NEVER WRITE , ',nbc ,lnJ Gnffln Bell. (Phoro: liulan \o~elJ You NEVER CALL

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n past issue of the Hastings opportunities to gain advice and informa­ Comml-tni ty, I have written about tion about the tax and business field as I the fact that one of the things potential career choices. Upon gradua­ that the faculty has done to tion, several of the tudents already have en ure that our curriculum is devel oped been employed by law firms and account­ to address the needs of the future is to ing firms, and other are intendin g to offer four conce ntrations in which stu­ attend a graduate tax program. dent may elect to enroll in their upper­ In talking with students about the tax clas yea rs. The four areas offered are tax, concentration, they have expressed enthu­ civi l litiga tion, international law, and pub­ siasm over their experience. In the words lic interest law. This academic year was of one student, "there is an openness the fi rst one in which the concentrations among the student and facu lty, with the have been implemented. Each is some­ res ult that the concentration fosters a real what different in the program and oppor­ sense of community." The student added tunities it offer, as well as in its subject that the students involved in the concen­ matter focus. Thu , I thought that I would tration are intent on lea rning a substan­ foc us my letter in this and subsequent tial body of tax law and that the concen­ iss ues on each of the concen trations in tration adds motivation to what otherwi e turn so that yo u might better appreciate experts that simply are beyo nd comparison. might be a Ie stimulating third year of what i involved and why we are excited This yea r nearly 20 student enrolled in law school. Another student pointed out the concentration. This year's group about this new development. Let me begin that the facu lty member in volved in the includes not only graduates from several with our taxation concentration. concentration are good friends as well as As yo u might expect, we have an out­ California unive rsitie but also graduates good teachers, and their congeniality and standing tax faculty who represent the from Cornell, Duke, MIT, Wharton, and camaraderie create an open and good rela­ leaders in the field and who provide the Ya le. Their undergraduate degrees va ry tionship between them and the students momentum and core for this conce ntra­ from business and economics degrees to both in and out of the class room. ones in art history, engineering, East tion. Professor Lathrope, Lind, and As even this brief de cription reveals, Asian studies, and political sc ience. Schwarz are coauthors of one of the lead­ the tax concentration is off to a great The tax concentration students must ing casebooks in both partnership and start. It is exciting to watch it happen and complete 20 units of courses from a long corporate tax; Professor Lathrope also has is just one more reason why we all can list of possible taxation and bu iness relat­ a leading treatise on the alternative mini­ take pride in being part of Hastings. ed courses. The program includes semi­ mum tax; Professor Lind also coauthors a nars in both Busines Planning and Estate leading casebook in income tax and a trea­ Planning. The capstone of the concentra­ tise on estate and gift taxation; and tion is a year-long seminar that in volves Professor Schwarz is the coauthor of the several sessions on tax policy. In the semi­ first and only casebook on nonprofit taxa­ nar, each student also writes and presents tion. Professor Hutton was the former a paper, under the supervision of one of director of the LL.M. taxation program at Mary Kay Kane the fac ulty members, on some aspect of NYU and doe ex tensive speaking Dean taxati on. In conjunction with the seminar, throughout the countr y. Dean Martinez several social events are held throughout ha done substantial writing in taxation, the yea r. These events all ow the tax facul­ primarily in the area of tax procedure. So, ty membe rs and tudents to get to know yo u ca n see that our students are getting a one another better and provide informal rare opportunity to study taxation with

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Mathew O. Tobriner Memorial Lecture "THE BURDENS AND BENEFITS OF RACE IN AMERICA"

Charles). Ogletree, )r., Professor oj Law, Harmrd Uni'l'ersity amount of progres . He pointed Ollt land­ October 21, 1996 mark, including Brown v. Board of Education, Batson v. Kentucky, the 1964 C ivil Rights Act, and the 1965 Voting he Burdens and Benefits of Race Rights Act. He listed specifi gains in the in America" presented by numbers of African-American leaders in Harvard Professor had es J. business and government. Ogletree, Jr., began with some His participation in the 1995 "Mi llion bleak obse rva ti ons on race relations, Man March" in Washington, D.C., gave including one from Frederick Douglass, him an additional ource for hope. "It was abolitioni t and former slave, who said, a time when African-American men "The rea onabl e doubt, which is usually stood shoulder-to- houlder and engaged in interposed to save the life and liberty of a constructive dialogue and positive engage­ white man charged with crime, seldom FoLlowing the lecture, Gerald D. Marcus (righ t) holds ment. . . . [It was] the most hi toric gather­ the dock presented to him by RosabeLle R. Tobriner, ing ever of men of colo r. ... Men talked has an y force or effect when a colored honoring him for many yea rs of service as the C hair of man is accu ed of a crime." Several addi­ the Mathew 0. Tobriner Memorial Commirree. Prof about per onal responsibility in their com­ ti onal observations illustrated that "the Ogletree is on the left. munities " .. We left there convinced that burden [of race in America] is not limited we could remove the burden and pursue to descendants of slaves, but has impacted that he disagreed with Harvard Professor the benefits of racial prog ress in America." Latinos, Nati ve-America ns, A ian­ William Wilson, who believes that the end Reminding the audience that it was American, and many other ." Yet the of the industrial revolution has meant Ju stice Tobriner who was the only di - lecture concluded with visions of hope that fewer entry jobs are avail able, making se n ter in the 1978 Bakke case, Prof. fo r the f uture of race relations in the unemployment a class issue rather than a Ogletree concluded, "Justice Tobriner rec­ U nited tate. race issue. Prof. Ogletree observed, "There ognized long ago that in order to make Prof. Ogletree's pre en tati on was the are race problems that have nothing to do progress we have to be cognizant of race fourteenth in the annual series presented with class. I am treated a certain way even and move forward. If his legacy is to mean by the Mathew 0. Tobriner Memori al though I am probably in the highest class anything, if Dr. King's life is to mean any­ Committee, honoring the late California of the American citize nry." thing, if we are truly to move beyond the Supreme Court Justice. The audience of He found it ironic that for useful burdens of race in this society and move students, alumni, professor, and other insights and practical solutions he had to to the benefits of racial harmony, we, too, members of the legal community gath­ turn to "two Southern Presidents, from must recognize his eloquent words and ered in the Loui B. Mayer Room on tates with widely documented cases of recognize the challenge that, if we are race October 21, 1996. racial oppression." His quote included one blind, then we are blind to racism, and In his lecture, Prof. O gletree rejected from President Lyndon B. Johnson: "You that we have to take race into account theorie offered by others. For example, he don't take a person who fo r yea rs ha been and to not simply make it a principle that rej cted the theory proposed by Prof. Paul hobbled by chains and liberate them, bring is based on a case but based on a sen e of D. Butler of the George Washington them up to the starting line of a race, and justice, equality, and freedom .. . , We all niversity National Law Center, who then say 'you are free to compete with all must struggle to make ure that justice is wrote, "The criminal conduct among the other " and still justly believe that yo u available equally to all under the law." African-Americans is often a predictable have been completely fair." Prof. Ogletree recei ved national recog­ reaction to oppres ion. Sometimes black Prof. Ogletree next quoted President nition for his role as counsel to Anita Hill crime is a sy mptom of internalized white Clinton, ay ing "White America must during the Clarence Thomas confirma­ supremacy. Other times it i a reasonable understand and acknowledge the roots of ti on hearings. Beginning his career as a re ponse to the racial and economic sub­ black pain. It began with unequal treat­ public defender, he recentl y helped draft ordinati on every African-American faces ment first in law and later in fact . ... the constitution for South Africa, the first every day," Prof, Ogletree said he believed Blacks must understand and acknowledge to provide whites and blacks equal rights this was "ill conceived, shortsighted, and the roots of white fear in America .... and protection under law, He has count r-productive. It does not lead to Both sides seem to fear deep down inside appeared a a moderator and as a guest equality. It does not lead to justice or fair­ that they will never quite be able to see commentator for several national televi­ ne . It imply perpetuates the racial each other as more than enemy faces." sion news programs. tereotyping that ha 0 much influenced In di cussing the benefits of race in His complete lecture will be published and damaged our ystem." America, Prof. Ogletree recognized that in the Spring 1997 is ue of Hastings Consti­ Prof. Oglerree also commented later the nation has made a tremendou tutiona~ Law Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 3.

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ore Has tings graduates appea r to MERLE CATHERINE CHAMBERS (77 ) M be headi ng fo r the corporate Merle Catherine Chambers has been involved in the oil world. The Class of '96 reported and gas business for more than 20 years. As a result of her corporate and industry hires that growing interest and increasingly active participation in the included 12% of the cl ass, up fro m the 6% mid-1970S in her parents' Denver-based company, Jerry reported by th C lass of '95. According to Chambers Oil Producer, she founded Axem Resources, In c., the Has tings Office of Career ervices, for in 1978. Since 1986 (until the recent sale of Axem in 1997), the first time ever this yea r's o n-ca mpus Chambers was Axems President and Chief Executive recruiters included Sun Microsystems, Officer. Under her direction, Axem was tremendously suc­ Fujitsu Busine s Communicati ons, cessful, being actively engaged in the acquisition, explo­ Hewlett-Packa rd, and, after everal yea r ration, and development of oil and gas in the western and of ab ence, Genentech. sou thern United States, Canada, and West Africa. She also An article in Forbes, November 1995, served as Chair of the Executive Committee of a nation­ touched upon the all ure of the corporate wide cargo surface trans/Jortation business in Chicago, from world, when it stated, "Atto rneys these Jun e 1987 until its sale in Septe mber 1994. At this writing, Chambers has just closed on days play leading, not just supporting, the sa le ofAxem. A lthough she has retained several oil and gas properties and will keep roles in high-profil e takeove r, tax, and reg­ her hand in the oil business, she has started a company called Leith Ventures, LLC , ulatory battles. They ge t in volved in virtu­ which will manage her investments and look for interesting business opportunities. She all y every kind of busines deci ion, from also will devote more time to her familys foundation, The Chambers Family Fund. In employ ment poli cies to the intricate, high­ addition to all of her business ac tivities, Chambers has served as a member of the velocity changes in communicatio ns law. Ha st ings !O66 Foundation Board of Tru stees and in I990-9I as the first Na tional Chair of They are the minds that chief executives Hasti ngs Annual Campaign. increas ingly turn to for advice." I started law school planning to be a lawyer. After graduation, 1 joined a Denver law And the importance that industry firm in the general practi ce area, with an emphasis on estate planning. I was getting m y places on legal training is reflected in masters in taxation from the University of Denver while I was working. I liked prac­ salary trends for top-level, in-house posi­ tice, especially disc uss in g all the unusual cases we had. Looking back, I was the associate tions. When, in 1989, Forbes su rveyed the who was the most interested in how the law firm actually ran, an indication of m y power and pa y of corpo rate lawyers, not a future direction. single in-house attorney made the top 25. At the sa me time, 1 was in volved in a family oil busin ess, where a management transi­ In con trast, the Forbes I ist of top-paid cor­ tion was taking place. 1 decided to join the oil compan y in order to help with the man­ porate lawyer included fi ve in-house agement. Once I shifted into the business world, I never looked back. I had grown up attorneys in 1994. with business disc ussions every night at the dinner table and was astonished at how Fi ve alums, MERLE CATHERINE much 1 had absorbed without realizing it. CHAMBERS (,77), CHRISTINE A family oil business has a ve ry different dynamic than a law practice, and man y HELWICK (,73), NICHOLAS G . adjustments in work style were necessary. Shortly after 1 became President of the busi­ MOORE (,67) , GUY ROUNSAVILLE, ness and was having m y first tas te of autho rity, m y fathe r, who was m y boss, died. JR . ('68), and RICHARD THAL­ Taking full responsibility for all as pects of the family business at that point was a tribute HEIMER (,74) offer their views of the to my father's ability to pass on his petroleum industry acumen, and also to my H astings corporate wo rld. experience, which taught me to think analyticall y and to look at all sides of a problem. These skills continue to serve me well in my new venture and in my aim to make a dif­ ference in the not-for-profit arena.

"Once I shifted into the business world, I never looked back."

-MERLE CATHERINE CHAMBERS ('77)

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NICHOL AS G . MOORE (,67) lichola s G. Moore is Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P, wl[h offices located in 100 cities throughout the United States. He is also Chair of the Board of oopers (1 Lybrand International, the global network of member firms in 142 countries wor ldwide. Moore buls an organi:;::ation that is at the forefront of changes transforming the professional services industry-jrom rhe impact of globalization and technology to the inroads made by providers of non-traditional services. As a young partner, Moore helped establish an office in Palo Alto and oversaw an unmatched, decade-long pace of growth. ow, he is determined to make Coopers & Lybrand the finest professional services firm in the world. I studied accounting a an undergraduate and worked fo r a Big 8 firm while at Ha ting . In law chool, I decided to specialize in taxation and to develop kill in the corporate client world. After interviewing with the tax departments of several C PA firms, I accepted a job with Coopers & Lybrand because it offered the chance to specialize earl y. At the firm, I quickly developed corporate tax expertise and, withIn two yea rs, had an opportunity to move to Palo Alto to build a tax practice in a growing area later kn own as the Silicon Valley. At Palo Alto, I worked closely with technology-oriented venture capital firms and high-technology companies. We grew a substantial tax practice, and I later took responsibility for the entire office. That practice now boast as client ome 75 top-tier venture capital firms, as well a about 65 publi c companie in all aspects of high technology. A a young tax practitioner, I found the growth opportunities in the client world to be li mitless. Furthermore, my broad involve­ ment in client matters-from transactions to strategy to international issues- prepared me well for senior management within my own firm. Ha ting also prepared me in a number of ways. H a tings was academically rigorous, and the cour e requirement were such that hard work, discipline, and focus were necessary to survive. The legislative and judicial proce ses we studied were in tructive in many ways, not the least of which wa the critical thinking implicit in the process. The faculty was world class and made lasting impressions on me, particularly for their intellectual honesty and rigor. I also learned some law- and that grounding has se rved me ve ry we ll , not onl y a an expert in taxati on, but also as CEO of a firm that has faced serious legal challenges. Our succes es over the past few years in resolving the e issues is one of my proudest accomplishments.

CHRISTINE HELWICK ('73) Christine Helwick serves as the General Counsel for the California State University, a state-wide system of 23 unive r­ sity campuses. She was named General Counsel in 1994, after having previously served at the University of Ca lifornia to as Managi ng University Counsel-Litigation from 1984-94, as "1 feel very lucky Berkele y Campus Counsel (1989-94), and as Assistant Counsel-Litigation at UC (I978-84). Prior to serving in high­ er education, Ms. Helwick served as a litigation associate for Crosby, Heafey, Roach & Ma y in Oakland. have found such a I began my legal career in a traditional way, first clerk­ ing, and then working for a large law firm selected as a result of law school interviews. My Hastings education stood me well , and the fi rm, at which I was one of the first women, provided me with excellent training and opportunity. But, after a few yea rs, I unique niche in the was looking for a different environment in which to practice law. I fell into the practice of higher education law by responding to an ad to work for the Office of the General Counsel at the University of California. Few are aware that lawyers in a university do omething other than teach-rathe r, we represent the univer­ sity and provide legal advice in a complex and heavil y regulated field, much li ke any practice of law." other large in titution. I find the issue in my work d iverse and interestin g, the people intelligent and challenging, and the se n e of public service rewarding and fulfi lling. I al 0 enjoy participating with the network of coll ege and unive rsity atto rneys working in other institutions of higher learning across the country. It is a wonderfull y fun, ensi­ ble, and humane community of lawyers who truly ca re about one another. -CHRISTINE HELWICK (,73) After many years at UC, I wa asked by the C hancell or of the California State University to serve as General Counsel. This new position has given me a fresh per pec­ tive on higher education law and a unique opportunity to interface with the "outside" world of trustees, legislators, presiden ts, and other poli cy makers. M y job is very reward­ ing, and I feel very lucky to have found such a unique niche in the practice of law.

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GUY ROUNSAVILLE, JR. (,68) RICHARD THALHEIMER (,74) After practicing law for a short whil e, Guy Rounsaville, Jr., has been General Counse l and Richard Thalheimer founded The Sharper Corporate ecretary of We lls Fargo & ComJJany and Wells Image in 1977. The Sharper Image is a spe­ Fargo Bank, N.A., since 1977. He is presently Executive Vice cialty retai ler President, Chief Counsel, and Secretary of We lls Fargo of a unique Bank, N.A. He is responsible for the overa ll legal functions selection of of the company and the bank, and also serves as its innovative, Corporate Secretary. high-quality Wells Fargo was established in 1852 and is the oldest bank products, in California. It is currently the ninth larges t bank holding including comJJany in the United tates, having assets of $109 billion. housewa res, It has 39,000 em /Jloyees, 1,841 branches, and 4,300 ATMs in health and the 10 western states, with headquarters in San Francisco. fi tness, recre­ Mr. Rounsaville is also currently serving as a member of ational, and the Hastings 1066 Foundation Board of Trustees. As Rounsa- electronic vi lle's fo ll owing comments show, his experience at Hastings provided a sound foundation merchandise for his opportunities at Wel ls Fargo. that are mar­ W h ile at Hasti ngs, I worked, as d id many of my fe ll ow tudents, in the downtown keted through fina ncial d istrict of San Francisco. D u ring th is time, it was quite apparent t hat being a colorful cata­ lawyer made possible a variety of professional opportunities. One such opport unity pre­ logues and in its world-wide network of sented itself in 1969 when I was employed by Wells Fargo. T h is was at a time when stores. With initial sales of $250,000 and wanting to become an "in-house" attorney was considered to be a somewhat un usual only six employees, company sales have career path for a yo ung lawyer to pursue. In point of fact, I was the second lawyer in grown to over $200 million, and it now has w hat was to become, in early 1971, the Wells Fa rgo Legal Department. For me, it was more than 1,300 employees. Today, Richard clearly a case of being in the right place at the right time. 1 had the good fo rt u ne to have Thalheimer is the Founder and Chair of a wonderf ul mentor as m y first boss who, in 1977, gave me t he opportun ity to succeed the Board of the publicly held corporation. him as General Counsel. Since those early years, the depar t men t has grown with the W hen I arrived in San Francisco, 22 compan y, and today, we have 66 attorneys that provide legal services in support of the year old and fresh out of Ya le College, I com pan y's man y business activities. I believe it is al 0 fa ir to say t hat since that t ime, knew I wanted to start a business. attitudes have changed, and pursuing a legal career "in-house" is no longer considered Knowing virtuall y n o one in California, it so unusual. This is certainly reflected by the excellen t q uality of the lawyers (som e of occurred to me that going to law school w hom are Hastings' alumni) in Wells Fa rgo's Legal Departmen t. might be helpful in keeping m yself out of t rouble. How could I build a business, sign contracts, and negotiate w ithout under­ standing all the ramifications? C hoosing H astings was easy. It was sim­ ply the best sch ool in San Fran cisco, and I had always h eard great things about the teaching staff. "It was quite apparent that being a lawyer As it turned out, going to law school proved to be one of the wisest decisions I made. It has all owed me to make business deci ion with a much broader perspec­ tive. This avoids problems, and always made possible a variety results in a better outcome. As The Sharper Image grew to over $200 million of sales, I continued to think that m y three yea rs at H astings helped prepare me of professional opportu ni ties." fo r man y of the decisions I faced. As The Sharper Image contin ues to grow, I know my Hastings education will continue to be a valuable asset. -GUY ROUNSAVILLE, JR. ('68)

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More than 50 Hawaii alumni attended an elegant reception in January 1997 at the Waialae Country Club, which was hosted by Bert Kobayashi ('65).

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(Abote) Al \X-'cmg ('64), LaUrie Wong, Richard Hirai ('67), Dean Mary Kay Kane, Elsie Hirai, and receptIOn host Bert Kobayashi ('65).

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HASTINGS ALUMNI STATE BAR RECEPTION IN LONG BEACH, OCTOBER 1996

Proving, once again, that Hastings alumni are leaders in the profession, the California State Bar Annual Meeting attracted a large crowd. This year, 80 alums attended the Hastings Alumni Reception at the meeting.

(Right) Hon. Robert Neher ('60) and Randolph Linehan ('75).

(Above) Eric Abramson ('81), President-elect of the (Below) Hastings Alumni Association Hastings Alumni Association; Julia Abramson; and Board of Governors members: Fred Butler Brian Thiesse n ('67), Past President of the Hastings (,86), Treamrer; Elizabeth Franco Alumni Association. Bradley ('77), President; and Hon. Jamoa Moberly ('76), Second Vice-President.

(Above) Theresa Bannister ('73), Suzanne McDonnell ('73), Dennis \'V'eaver ('74), and Alumni Association Board of Governors member Wayne Veatch ('35). (Above ) Maria Louisa Hekker ('88), member of the HastInp Alumni Association Board of Governors; George KIng ( 58), Fmt Vice-PresIdent of the 1066 Foundation . / . Board of Trustee s; and Janet King. · . . . 11 .\ ~T 1:-'; I: ~ ....

(Left) Robert ulnner ('95) and WASHINGTON, D.C. Prof Dan RECEPTION, JANUARY 1997 Lathrope.

A "standing-room-only" crowd

was on hand for the Hastings (Bel ow) Prof John Dlamond, Alumni Reception this past Bret Birdsong January in Washington, D.C., ('93), a nd Prof Rory Litt/e. held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools.

(Below) Joe Schilling ('83), Dean Mary Kay Kane, Ruth Burdick ('96), and Prof Dat'id Faigman.

Prof Elaine \V, ('74) of the University inois Co llege of Law and n Mary Kay Kane.

(Left) Prof Bill Wang (center) greeted Diane Uchimiya ('93) and Mark Kearn ('95).

(Abote) Prof James Colliron ('73) of the DePaul Unt­ tersity College of Lat<' and Margot Champagne ('72).

(Abot'C) Academic Dean Leo Martinez ('7 ) and Lauren Chol ('95)

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HASTINGS' SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS HASTINGS STUDENTS OFFER DOCUMENT DELIVERY SERVICE PRESENT PAPERS AT

he Hastings scholarly publications listed below now provide tables of content, NATIONAL LAW AND I abstracts of articles, and order forms following the publication of each iss ue. COMMUNICATION - Hastings Law Journal - Hastings ommunications and Entertainment Law Journal - Hastin gs Constitutional Law Quarterly - Hastings International and Comparative Law Review CONFERENCE - Hastings West-Northwest Journ al of Environmental Law and Policy - Hastings Women~ Law Journal hree Ha tings students were To register for the service, end e-mail to [email protected]. Type "register" elected to participate in the and the names of the publications that interest you or type "ALL." Please provide yo ur I national conference of the fu ll name and complete mailing address. You also may submit your request by fax, Commission on Communication 415/ 565-4814, or by mail, to the Office of Scholarly Publications, 198 McAlli ter Street, and Law, which is part of the Speech Room 442, San Francisco, CA 94102. There is no charge for registering for this service or Communication Association. The confer­ for delivery of abstracts by U.S. first class mail. ence took place in an Diego in November 1996. The tudents entered a competition by submitting papers that were origin all y written for Associate Academic Dean Eileen A. callen's semi­ SECOND--YEAR STUDENTS nar on theories of legal argumentation. The students submitted their papers CRUISE AWAY THE BLUES for evaluation by experts in the field of Communication and Law, competing for places on the program with profess ors and graduate students in communication from throughout the nation. DAVID CARDI F F ('96) received the distinction of participating on the "Top Three Competitive Papers" panel of the Commi sion. The papers' author and titles are: JENNY WALD (,97) offered an examination of the story-telling tech­ niques in the scholarl y writings of African-American law professor Patricia Williams. Her paper was entitled "Legal + Reason ing = Rhetoric." R UTH B URDICK ('96) examined the argumentation strategies of groups who justify their existence on the lan­ guage of the Second Amendment in her paper, "The Second Amendment Rhetoric of the Militia Movement." DAV ID CARDI F F ('96) provided an Recognizing that the beginning of the second year of law school may invol,/e a bit of rough sailing, the Alumni analys is of the images in both Justice Association, along with the offices of the Academic Dean and Swdent Sen/ices, created second-year swdents to some smooth cmising on the Bay with faculty members. Blackman's di sent from a denial of review in Peop ~ e v. Ca llen and Ju stice Scalia' response in his paper, "Murder by Death (Penalty)." . n· II \ :-;'1' 1:,\ (;:-;

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PATIO EXPANDS CABARET 1997 HASTINGS CAMPUS

As we know, our Dean wears many ltats. Here she is enjoy­ A partial view of the new patio. ing one of them at the January 1997 annual Fawlty/ Student Cabaret, sponsored by the Alumni Association, Office of Student Services, and ASUCH (the student government organization). The hats creator is on the Tight.

Board of Directors Chairman J O H N K NOX ('52) and Dean Mary Kay Kane cut the ribbon to offi­ cwllyopen the new second-floor pano (see photo, abote) at the 200 McAiUster Buildmg on September 24, 1996. The 120' x 20' t me-cotered patiO, adjacent to the Law Cafe, offers students a sheltered outdoor set­ tmg-a firSt for the Hasnngs' campus.

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The Attorneys General Forum, a yearly, informal roundtable discussion among the nations former chief legal officers, was created by Hastings in 1991. Through the Forum, Hastings students, faculty, and alumni have had unusual opportuni­ ties to witness free-wheeling, thought-provoking discussions among those responsible for the creation of administration-of justice policies at the national leveL

The fifth Forum fea tured the following former U.S. Attorneys General: (left to right) WILLIAM BARR , who served Pre ident George Bush, 1991-93; GRIFFIN BELL, who se rved Pres ident Jim my Carter, 1977-79; NICHOLAS KATZENBACH , who served President Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965-66; Harva rd Law Professor Arthur R. Miller, moderator; RICHARD THORNBURGH , who se rved Presidents Ronald Reaga n and George Bush, 1988-91; EDWIN MEESE III , who served President Ronald Reaga n, 1985-88; and WILLIAM SAXBE, who served Pres idents Ri chard Nixo n and Gerald Ford, 1974-75.

With just weeks to go before the presidential election, the October 19, 1996, Attorneys General Forum focused on several ca mpaign iss ues. C-SPAN first broadcast the Forum on December 29, 1996. C heck yo ur television schedules for subseq uent rebroadcast times. Highlights of so me of the issues disc ussed foll ow. · .. . 11 .\:-;'1' I ~ (;:-; ..

"Judge Bashing"

MILLER : It's an election year, and there are a number of [i sues] . .. that bear on law and lawyers ... . One i "judge bashing" .... We've heard themes throughout the year on this. . .. peaker Gingrich said "Judge Baer is the perfect reason we are 10 ing civili:a­ tion." Oudge Harold Baer i a federal judge in New York who, in a 1996 drug case, suppre sed 80 p unds of cocain e as bing ille­ gally seized and made some not terribly gracious remarks in hi decision about the New York C ity Police Department. His deci- ion produced a firestorm, including sugge tion from the White House that Judge Baer might consider stepping down if he didn't reverse his decision.]

KATZENBACH : The people who made ... criticisms did not really know what all the facts of the case were. They hadn't read the record .... If Oudge Baer] was wrong about his deci ion on the search and seizure, presumably the Court of Appeals would have reversed the decision. I think people who make those criticisms, for the most part, criticize the ruli ngs of judge becau e they don't like the result, not because of knowing whether the judge's decision was technically or legall y correct or not. I think that is one reason to be quite cautious in terms of the decision. [I think it is] particularl y wrong fo r President Clinton to have crit­ ic ized him beca use that reall y puts pre ure on the judge. And I think Judge Baer was particularl y wrong when he reversed hi decision because that suggested he could be influenced.

MEESE: I think, in general, there should be an obligation upon the Attorney General and upon lawyers generally not to criticize the court unduly. Certain ly public officials have a responsibility not to try to coerce and intimidate the court, which is what wa done in thi case.

BARR : I think there's a role for criticism of the judiciary. The ... federal judiciary is appointed for life. There are no check and bal­ ances on them reall y, other than the opinion of the populace and of commentators .. . about their behavior.

THORNBURGH : The institution of an independent judiciary i extremely important in our country. I've been doin g a lot of work over the last five yea rs in the former oviet Union and in Eastern Europe, where they never had an independent judiciary, and they look with covetous "One of the problems eyes upon our judiciary and the fact that we operate under the rule of law. I think that we ca n maintain our re pect and ve neration for the institution of the judiciary and ... still reserve the right to criticize individual judges and court decisions when we think they're is that the ABA has wrong .... almost become an BELL: We're not so weak in this country that we ca n't criticize a judge, and the judge is not so weak that he can't stand criticizing . .. if yo u do it in a civil way, yo u know, with good organization which manners .... I wa a judge in the South during the civil rights revolution, and if I and m y colleague had not been able to stand a little criticism, we'd all be gone, so I don't can now veto worry about that. candidates for judges. The Judicial Appointment Process Their approval or SAXBE: There have been periods in our history where it [the judicial selection proces ] was pretty much political, and yo u appointed the people from the states that were important non-approval is very to yo u, and where they had trong leadership in yo ur party. They put that all together and by and large we got better judges than yo u would expect, but it was political .... However, persuasive with as you took the politics out, yo u brought in other politics, and the bar associations wanted to dictate who were goi ng to be the qualified people. They took themselves ve ry seri ously, too Presidents . ... "

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the recommendations. If yo u didn't take their recommendation, they thought that you were , ,I). 1 "" -I "' not doing your job.

KATZEN BACH : Herbert Brownell [Attorney General during the Eisenhower administrati on] put the ABA into the proce s. He did it because, at that time, for the most part, and for ome years thereafter, the nominees for judge were the political adviso rs, the campaign manager, the fund raiser, whatever it might be . . . and that did not, all by itself, lead to quality in the judiciary ....

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MILLER: A lot of peopl e, including former Senato r Dole, have argued that the ABA, sin ce it is interested in a variety of social iss ues and has a point of view, should be extracted from the nomination and confirmation process. Do you agree?

MEESE: 1 think there's been a real change from the days when President Eisenhower and Attorney General Brownell brought the ABA into the proce s .. . . One of the problems is that the ABA has almost become an organization which can now veto candidate for judge. Their approval or non-approval is very persuasive with Pre idents and even mo re persuasive sometimes with Senate confirmati on processes .. .. 1f they restricted themsel ves just to providing info rmation to the Attorney General rather than gi v­ ing the ultimate approval or non-approval, yo u would take that poli tical aspect out of their role.

Form er A ttorneys General Barr, Bell, and Katzenbach, wi th Prof. Miller (left to right).

THORNBURGH : During the 1970s and 1980s, they [the ABA] had expanded their criteria for evaluating judges. It used to be on the bas is of their professional quali fications, their integrity, their intellige nce, and legal acumen, roughly speaking. In the late 70s and early 80s, they began a little bit of a mis ion creep that saw them in their own terms changing the rules. They decided they would take into account judicial philosophy and ideological views ....W e had a dust-up .... They backed down on that and went back to their original charge, but I'm not sure whether it was done tongue-in-cheek o r not because these criticisms still persist to this day.... They can still serve a useful function, but 1 think their power need to be diminished.

KATZENBACH : 1f they' re taking an ideology o r judicial philo ophy, they're wrong to do it. I've not been aware that they've ever done it. And it isn't the ABA that i say ing "quali fied" or "not qualified" on judges. It is a committee of the ABA. And that com­ mittee may feel that all of the positions that the ABA has taken in the House of Delegates are absol ute nonsense. 1f they stick by what they're mea nt to stick by, yo u tell me who can do a better job than the ABA ....

BARR : 1 want to say, Nick, 1 think yo u're wearing blinders. From my experience with the ABA, they are blatantly biased, and they have two standards. If omeone has spent a li fetime as a prosecutor, he'll get [labeled] unqualified; I've een cases like this, many of them. Unqualified because his experience i limited to prosecution. If he had been a public defender for his entire career, he'll be qualified. Academicians who are on the conser vative side are found unqualified. Academicians who are on the liberal side are found qualified time after time, and standards like judicial temperament and other things are used basically to transport into the selection process the political views of the ABA, which have become more and more ideological over the years, partly to increase their membership.

BELL: Let's look at this proposition from a different direction. How can it be democratic for some group that hasn't been elected to anything to have the veto power over 'appointing' a judge? .... So President Carter asked me one day, "What have they been elected to?" .. .. There's nothing about the ABA in the Constitution. 1 [see them as] a small group sitting around nullifying what­ ever the President and the Senate want to do. 1 think it's anti-democratic, myself.

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MILLER : Let' just get an historical benchmark. In the Kenned y-J ohnson yea rs, how high on the agenda was drugs?

KATZENBACH : I think it was not terribly high on the agenda at that time. The only thing that I find intere ting in term or con­ temporary view i that J. Edgar Hoover was absolutely determined to keep the FBI out of anything to do with drug because he knew of the corrupting influence on agents, and he would have nothing to do with it .... We spent a lot of tim on orga­ nized crime, and it took a while before organized crime was going to get into drugs, in a funny kind of way. A bad as they were, they made things like gambling, prostitution, and so forth much bigger on their agenda than drugs, and many of the old capos weren't going to deal in drugs. They thought that was a dirty thing to deal in.

THORNBURGH : I used to give peeches as Attorney General to groups about drugs, and I would talk about our enforcement efforts ... and then I'd kind of surprise the audience. I'd say, "You know, if yo u want to lose the war on drugs, just leave it to law enforce­ ment." And, by that, of course, I didn't mean to run down or denigrate the effo rts that the FBI and DEA and other agencie have made. What I was trying to convey was the role that all of us in society have, and particularl y our leaders have, in setting examples for yo ung people. God bless her, Nancy Reagan took a lot of ridicul e for her simple "just say no" message, but, during that ten-year period, there was not just a decline, but a steady decline in the use of drugs by yo ung people .... There isn't a "j ust say no" message coming out of the White House now. I don't know what the message is, but it surely isn't "just say no," and it's always accompanied by a kind of a chuckle, a wink, and a nod, and I don't think this is a laughing matte r. I think that when you have this kind of an increase in drugs, there's a need for that kind of [Presidential] leadership and a need for a rein vigora­ tion and a sustaining of the law enforcement, as well.

MEESE: It takes both demand reduction and supply reduction. The point is that it was a national priority for a long period of time. It's not such a priority today, and I ag ree with Dick [Thornburgh]. ... We have to get teachers back in the mode of talki ng to their kids about drug and about the dangers of drugs. We've got to get people in other place , including the news media, to make it like it was in the 1980s when there were cover stories in Time and Newsweek and in other places about the dange rs of drug.

MILLER: [Former Attorney General] Elli ot Richardson ... has written ve ry strenuously that the drug poli cy has been a [massive] failure. And that it will continue to be a failure until you deal much more forcefull y with the demand side, and you can only deal with the demand ide by getting at the root ca uses for drug utilization. So, in the name of Elli ot Richardson, let me throw that out.

THORNBURGH: 1 think its simplistic to ignore the need for firm and aggressive law enforcement .... You can't simply solve a drug prob­ lem in the multi-billion dollar trafficking business in illegal substances by better housi ng, better education, better health care, all of which are laudable and much needed, but yo u also need firm and aggressive and trongly supported law enforcement.

KATZENBACH: I ag ree with that. My difficulty i that when yo u talk about the second [dealing with root causes], they think you're attacking [law enforcement]'

SAXBE: I think the social acceptability of drug use is the tender place which we must work on, and I think once that changes, a the message gets across that it isn't healthy or profitable to be hopped up on drug, then we'll see a turnaround ....

MILLER: In 1970, the Congre of the United States enacted RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) to attack the Mafia. ... ow it i apparently a very important tool in drug enforcement policy to try applying the RICO principles of a racketeering enterpri e to drug dealer . Do yo u have a reaction to that? Does that make any sense?

BARR : Ab olutely. RICO is meant to attack organized criminal activity, and the organized criminal acti vity that gave it birth was La Cosa 0 tra. But right now, the drug organizations that are involved in the production and the tran portation and the di tri­ bution of drugs are highly organized, di ciplined organizations .... It' amazing how organized they are, so I think RICO i a perfect weapon to use against drug organizations.

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MILLER: At what point does aggressive enfo rcement of RICO, and all of the people alli ed w ith an enter­ prise, which may be a drug enterprise o r a racketee ring enterprise, begin to inte rfere with ri ght to coun el and the ability of lawyer to represent clients, however hein o us we think those '/!\t what point does clients might be? aggressive enforcement BARR: It would be taking it too far if y u went after lawyering with RI 0. But if yo u're goin g after lawye rs who are part of an orga ni za ti onal criminal conspiracy, then it is not taking it too of RICO ... begin to far. I m an, w 've all seen the movie, "The Godfathe r." I th ought one of the mobsters there had gone to law school. Th r are such things as in-hou e counsels of criminal organiza­ interfere with right to ti ons. counsel and the ability MEESE: I think that RICO is kind of the nuclea r warhead of the criminal justice system. It was designed fo r majo r criminal conspiracies, major sy ndicate, and I think it needs to be used of lawyers to represent for tho e purposes. What we have seen, unfortunatel y, i that RICO has been used ... a lot of times to try to coerce a plea in a criminal ca e. The civil aspects of RICO have been clients, however used in ordinary stock transactions, in civil disputes. It's been ove rused, and it's been mi - used to a great extent. I think most of us would agree from our ow n private practice that heinous we think those that has been a sad part of RICO, and I think it needs to be reformed, quite frankl y, 0 that it ca n't be misu ed the way it is. But I think in a criminal pro ecution, it ought to be used selec­ clients might be?" tively in those cases where yo u have a major drug cartel, a major organized crime sy ndica te .... - \1 r It should not be used against lawye rs just to intimidate or coerce lawye rs who are carrying out \ f' \11 R their lawyerly function, even in repre enting criminals, as opposed to lawyers who become part of the criminal conspiracy themsel ves .... There's an awful lot of money in drugs, and some lawyers believe in an awful lot of money fo r themselves if they can get it. As a result, ome of them have been drawn over the line of what is proper representati on into actual counseling of drug cartels in the course of their criminal operatio ns. When that happens, then they are subject to the sa me kind of penalties the ca rtel is, but I think yo u have to be very careful in [not] using this ultimate weapon irresponsibly or wi ldl y, and save it for the cases it's reall y designed fo r.

SAXBE : Lawye rs are not held in the high esteem that they once were. As somebody said, "It's no disgrace, but it's no great honor to be a lawyer today."

BELL: It's been commercialized, left being a profe sion to some extent and gone over [to] being just an "People are scared to enterprise to make money .... 1 think we started going downhill [with the public's perception of the pro­ fession] when we started going to the government [requesting it] to pay fees for doing pro bono work. When I was a young lawye r, the most positive thing I did was to get appointed to a criminal ca e to death of undertaking defend somebod y that didn't have any money or to represe nt somebody on a civil case that couldn't pay much. [That was the pride of being a lawyer.] That's gone now, except in small towns. They now research and develop­ say, "se nd them to the government, let the government handle that."

ment ... because they THORNBURGH : I think there's another aspect that deserves some mention, and that's the prob­ lem of lawsuit abuse, frivolous lawsuits, excessive verdicts .... Obviously, we need to retain a trong know that one misstep system of civi l justice to compensa te people who've been done wrong, but it's haywire. It's out of control, and we need some reasonable limitation on it, and I think that will h elp to restore some is going to open them sa nity to the public perception of the profession.

up to the threat of MEESE: There are two things, at least, that have contributed [to the change in the legal profes­ sion]. We never had lawyer ad vertising when I started practicing, and now yo u have lawyers ad ver­ these outrageous tising like used-car salesmen ... so that the public perception of the profes ion has certainly changed to hucksterism, rather than a learned profession. The second aspect is something has happened since punitive damages." we were in law school, the whole idea of punitive damages. Punitive damages was a relative rarity forty yea rs ago. Today, it's a regular part of a prayer in the hope that after you've compensated the plaintiff, _ F \\lR \T )R"" (JI'JER \L RlIlt-\R TH~ R'[\I "- ... ,H

. . . . I ~) . after yo u've paid all the damage, after yo u've taken care of the pain and suffering, now there' sort of a what 1 ca ll the "wheel­ of-fortune" reward that you can get out of the defendant, particularly if it i ad ep-pocket defendant ....

KATZENBACH : 1 rather agree with much of what yo u say about punitive damages, but 1 think ITl ost all the evidence that l'IT\ aware of is very anecdotal about it and, therefo re, being anecdotal is extreme- because you pick the extreme case - and 1 jU 't wonder whether punitive damage pre ent a big problem o r not.

THORNBURGH : These outrageous verdicts have induced more settlements of cases that never should have been ettl ed beca use of a fear of punitive damages and [have had an] effect on innovation, research, and development in many of ou r key in du trie today. When you look at the development of vaccines, people are sca red to death of undertaking research and development of vaccines, including an AID vaccine, because they know that one misstep is going to open them up to the threat of thes out­ rageous punitive damages.

BELL: If you'll recall , the government had to pay drug companies to make the flu serum. You remember that? To get the drug com­ panies to make the serum, the government had to ag ree that they would not only indemnify the drug companies against any loss, but they would defend the ca es a well. We may be heading in that direction. You know, why would you want to ri k los­ ing your whole business just to make something that might be helpful ....

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MEESE: In Georgia, they've done one thing that is interesting, 1 believe, and that is to have a good portion of the punitive damages not go to the plaintiff but go to the state ...

BELL: 75% ...

MEESE: ... and that would be a good start. 1 suspect also that if the lawyers therefore did not get a portion of that recovery, there would probably be less incentive to include punitive damage a one of the things that are sought ....

BARR : We got off on this by talking about whether there's honor left in being a lawyer, and mainly what we've been talking about i the public perception of lawyers .... 1 think there's another question and that is, 1 think, the sense of hono r that lawyers fee l themselves, the ethical standard, whether that is changing .... 1 do think there is a change there for the wor e, in a sense that people no longer have that feeling of providing personal ervices, the relationship with the client, the ethical obligations, and o forth. 1 think there will be a way back, and 1 think it will be self-correcting becau e 1 think people will find the business aspect of the law Ie sand les attractive. The idealists will go into the law, and they'll be satisfied with maybe less money, but they'll have a more rewarding experience.

I fi · ... " . .. A san A mencan,. BELL: 1 was aga inst it all [the role of the independent counse l] from the beginning. I'm still against it . .. . The e things ought to just be left under the system to the Attorney General. I'll have to tell you, BARR : We had killed the Independent Counsel Statute-that is, President Bu h's administration had killed it. 1t had expi red. And our position, even though the election was over and a Democratic the [independent administration was coming in, was that it should stay dead. 1 remember Bernie Nussba um [former White House counsel for the Clinton administration] came in to my office [during the transition], counsel} is a and 1 sa id to him, "You know, if you have any brains, you're not going to res uscitate the Independent Counsel Statute. As a Republican, nothing would please me more than to see this law reenacted and bad idea." to see you people try to live under it. But, as an America n, I'll have to tell yo u, it's a bad idea." He sa id, - FORMI:R AnOH,NEY GrNERAl "No, no. We have very high ethical standards, and we're not afraid of the Independent Counsel Statute. WilliAM BAJl:R We're deeply committed to it." So, they brought it bac k up aga in , and now we see the conseq uences of it, now that a Democratic administration has had to li ve under it as [the] Republica ns had to do. 1 think we may see a coalescence and maybe get back to the system-that worked for 200 years-which is the Attorney General.

MEESE: Those independent counsels that are in place will continue in place, and there are several of them. 1t's not just Ken Starr. There are quite a gaggle of them .... 1 think it points out the importance of holding a President, his Attorney General, and the government responsible, and there is a responsibility. The most extensive prosecution of fi gures in and around the White House took pl ace in the so-called Waterga te situation, and that was where the counsel responsible for that, a special prosecu­ tor at the time, was appointed by the Attorney General. 1t seems to me that history has illustrated that when you have a per­ son who is accountable to nobody-this is exactly what the people who wrote the Constitution were worried about-and when you have independent counsels who don't have that responsibility, they just go on and on and on, they spend a lot of money and so on, and I don't say this in any deroga tion of Ken Starr ... but 1 think that as an institution, independent counsels ... are a bad idea in a democratic republic, and [we] ought to get back to holding officials accountable for the job they were elected to do.

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MILLER: Now, since there's talk in the air coming out of Whitewater about Presidential pardons, what was yo ur advice to President Ford on that subject many years ago?

SAXBE: Well, he called me up on the telephone and sa id, "I have just pardoned the President."

MILLER: And now 1 think it is time to pardon the panelists. I'd just like to thank our six guests for giving of themselves these two hours. Thank yo u for attending. I thank Hastings Coll ege of the Law for their in vitation and just express the hope that we're all here again next yea r.

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The Fifth Annual 1066 Foundation Attorneys General Forum Reception

Marilyn Lobner, Forum moderator Arthur Miller, and Hastings Board of Directors member Knee/and Lobner ('44/

Hastings Board of Directors member Maureen Corcoran ('79), former AG. Bill Barr, Tracey Letteau ('95), and Brendt Stallings. Former AG. Ed Meese with Matthew Small, Harold Small ('70), Susan Small, Hillary Small ('99), and Brett Weiner.

Cec Shulman, former AG. Nick Katzenbach, and 1066 Foundation President Barry Schulman ('64).

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Prof Mary Crossley, former AG. Nick Katzenbach, and Prof Richard Boswell.

Former A G. Nick Katzenbach with Prof Ray Forrester.

1066 Foundation Secretary Rob Wright ('71), former AG. Dick Thornburgh, Lisa Wiborg, and Hastings Board of Directors member Jan Lewenhaupt. Former AG. Griffin Bell and 1066 Foundation Board member Peter Davis (,69).

Matthew Borcherding ('99), former AG. Ed Meese, 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals Judge John Noonan, Tom Duann ('99), and David Saltzer ('98).

Former AG. Nick Katzenbach with Christine Pelosi ('93).

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F.\(:l·I~T)· X()TES

PROF. MARK N . AARONSON was The books pictured above were published PROF. JOSE PH R . GRODIN present­ the featured speaker at the annual meet­ during 1995-96 and were authored by ed "Recent Developments in Employment ing of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Hastings Profs. Barrett, Boswell, Diamond, Law" at Hastings' "Beat the Clock" MCLE Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area in lung, Lathrope, Levine, Lind, Marcus, program in January 1997. November 1996. His topic was "Why Massey, Mattei, Park, Parrish, Roht- Welfare Reform Isn't About Welfare or A rriaza, Schwarz, Wang, Weisberg, and DEAN MARY KAY KANE served as the Reform." Dean Kane. For a complete list of moderator for a panel discussion entitled Hastings faculty publications for the year, "Dealing with Di abilities: Regulation, PROF. GEORGE BISHARAT spoke at please refer to the autum n 1996 edition of Accommodation, and Aggravation," at the Annual Convention of the Associ­ Hastings Community. the ABA Midyear Meeting in San ation of Arab-American Univer ity Antonio, Texas, in January. She also deliv­ Graduates in Anaheim in October 1996. PROF. DAVID L. FAIGMAN presented ered a lecture on "Recent Developments His topic was "Arab-Americans and colloquia on "The Law's Use- and Abuse­ in Class Actions" at a November 1996 Affirmative Action." of Scientific Evidence" at Villanova Hastings MCLE program. University for their Psychology-Law PhD.lJD program in November 1996; at RICHARD A . BOSWELL returned to PROF. FREDERICK W. LAMBERT Venezuela in February 1997 to conduct a Washington and Lee University School participated in "Busine s Enterprises­ special training course for law teacher of Law in November 1996; and at the UC The Next Century" at Lewis and Clark and judges o n teaching trial advocacy. San Diego Psychology Department in Northwestern School of Law in October This program was sponsored by the Jan uary 1997. 1996. He has completed From Financial United States Info rmation Service and Profile to Lega l Struc ture: Planning the the Admini trative Office of the Courts Business Acquisition for the Transacti onal of the Republic of Venezuela. He also pre­ Working Group of the Research Division sented an "Immigration Law Update" at of the AU-ABA. This experimental pro­ an October 1996 Hastings MCLE program. ject provides a training program on merg­ ers and acqui itions for mid-level and PROF. MARSHA N . COHEN was senior a sociates in large law firms. invited by the U.S. Food and Drug Admini tration to speak on behalf of the PROF. DANIEL J . LATHROPE pub­ co nsumer viewpoint at a conference con­ lished a supplement to his treatise, The vened in December 1996 to determine Alternative Minimum Tax-Compliance Prof David L. Faigman, v".hat, if any, regulatory action the agency ChalTh older of Harry and Lillian and Planning with Analysis, in October hould take in light of outbreaks of E. coli Has tings Resea rch Chair. 1996. ( ee Prof. Stephen Schwarz's note for contamination of fruit juice. See page 22. another publication.)

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PROF. EVAN TSEN LEE ga ve an Marcu wa appointed pecial Reporter to overview of the new habeas co r/Jus reform the Advisory Committee on the Civil tatute and an analysis of its retroactive Rules of the Judicial Conference of the effect in Se ptember 1996 as part of a U.S. to assist in a study of possible change videoseminar on "New Developments in to the rules governing discovery. Prof. the Federal Law of Habeas Corpus ," spon­ Marcus also was appointed to a three-year so red by the Federal Judicial Cente r. term on the Ninth Circuit Local Rules Federal judge, clerks, and other cou rt per­ and Internal Operating Procedures sonnel viewed the li ve telecast at locati o n Committee. throughout the nati on. Prof Jam es R. McCall/Jresented PROF. SHAUNA I. MARSHALL was "Polygraph y and the Law of Sc ien­ PROF. DAVID I. LEVINE deli vered a appointed to the Sa n Franci co Mayor's tific Evidence" a t a MCLE /Jrogram lec ture on "Punitive Damages and Other Task Force on Welfare Reform. She also in Se ptember 1996. (See the notes in this sec tion about Hastings Professors Civil Punishments" at Hastings' "Beat the has joined the Coali tion on Homele sness Joseph R. Grodin, Ca lVin R. Massey, Clock" MCLE program in January 1997. C ivil Rights Committee. In January 1997, David I. Levin e, Rory K. Little, He co-authored two articles with Dr. she spoke to students at Thurgood Richard Boswell, and Dea n Kane, who also made /Jr esentations at Carel Stolker of Leiden U ni ve rsity: Marshall High chool about why she Hastings ' MCLE program s.) "AIDS-Phobia," 71 Neder iands }uristenblad enjoys practicing and teaching law. 882 (1996) and "Toestanden In Amerika," 22 }ustitiele Verkenningen 61 (1996). Both ACADEMIC DEAN LEO P. PROF_ NAOMI ROHT-ARRIAZA pre­ articles were published in Dutch. MARTINEZ completed hi s term on se nted a lecture on "Compensation and KQED's Board of Directors in December Commemo rati on as Adjuncts to Criminal PROF. STEPHEN A . LIND, along 1996. He se rved as KQED's Board C hair in Prosecutions in the Wake of Mass with Prof. Dennis Calfee of the 1996. Violence" to the Confe rence on Ju sti ce in U ni versity of Florida College of Law and Catacly m: Criminal Tribunals in the Prof. Guy B. Maxfield of New York PROF. CALVIN R . MASSEY lectured Wake of Mass Violence, organ ized by University School of Law, recently com­ on "Recent Devel opments in Constitu­ Duke Un ive rsity and the Office of the pleted the Seventh Edition of Stephens, tional Law" at Hastings' "Beat the Clock" Prosecutor, International Tribunal on the Maxfield, Lind, and Calfee's Federal Estate MC LE program in January 1997. fo rmer Yugoslavia and Rwanda, in and Gift Taxation, published by Warren Brussels, Belgium, in July 1996. She deliv­ Gorham and Lamont. (See Prof. Stephen PROF. UGO A . MATTEI co-orga nized ered a lecture on" wapping Amnesty for Schwarz's note for another publication.) a symposium on comparative law in the Peace: International Law Constraints and United States held at the U niversity of Opportunities" as part of a plenar y panel PROF. RORY K . LITTLE se rved as Mi chiga n, A nn Arbor, in September 1996. at the International Law Association Associate Deputy Attorney General for He also delivered a paper on "Legal International Law Weekend in New York the U.S. Department of Ju stice in Systems Under Distress," addressin g is ues in October 1996. She spoke on "ISO 14,001 Washington, D.c., from September 1996 of HIV-contaminated blood as part of a and APEC: Uses, limitations, and Policy to January 1997. He served as a member of Columbia Uni versity project on HIV­ Alternatives" at a conference on APEC the U.s. Judicial Conference' meeting to Contaminated Blood and Poli cy in and the Environment: Innovative study possible uniform federal ethics rules Annecy, France, in December 1996. Approaches to Trade and Environment in in eptember 1996. In October 1996, he the Asia Pacific, in San Francisco in testified before the North Carolina Ethics PROF. JAMES R . MCCALL spoke to November 1996. Committee rega rding new state rules of the Conference of the Association of ethics. Upon returning to Has tings, he California County Counsel at the PROF. STEPHEN SCHWARZ spoke pre ented a lecture on "The U.S. Silverado resort in Napa on the topic of on the "Corpo rate Tax Aspects of Department of Justi ce: Pas t, Present, and "Client Conflicts and C rimes and the Nonprofit to For-Profit Conversions" at Future," at Hastings' "Beat the C lock" Ethics of County Counsel" in January the annual conference of the National MC LE program in January. 1997. He also deli vered a Has tings MCLE Center for Law and Philanthropy at New lecture in September. York University School of Law in PROF. RICHARD L. MARCUS spoke October 1996. He, along with PROFS . in September 1996 to the n th C ircuit PROF. ROGER C . PARK gave a talk STEPHEN A . LIND and DANIEL J . Judges' Workshop in Mobile on attorneys' on "Reasoning About Behavior and the LATH ROPE, published the Fourth fee awa rds and made a presentation in Ban on Other C rimes Evidence" to a ple­ Edition of their casebook, Fundamentals December on the sa me ge neral topic to nary session of the Association of Amer­ of Co rporate Taxation, in January 1997. the 1996 Federal C ivil Law and Procedure ica n Law Schools Evidence Conference in Seminar for Federal Judges in Tempe. In Washington, D.C., in October 1996. The addition, he was appointed to serve on the talk addressed the releva nce of personali­ National Order of the Coif Triennial ty theory to cu n en t policy issues in the Book Award Committee to select the win­ law of character evidence. ner of the Coif Award for books pub­ li shed in 1994-96. In December 1996, Prof. II \ " T I \ ,;:-;

established at olumbia, Minnesota, and in their re pective field . "[ know I speak HARRY AND Texas la w schools. The C hai ri de ignated for all m y coll eagues when I offer my con­ annuall y by the Dean, upon approval of gratulati ns to avid Fa igman on his LILLIAN HASTINGS the Boa rd of Directo rs, to a tenured facul­ receipt of this new honor. We look (or­ ty member wh o has been teaching at least ward to reading his book and to elebrat­ RESEARCH CHAIR ten yea rs. Selecti on is based upon both the ing the wo rk of future Harry and Lill ian prior scholar hip record of the facult y Hastings Resea rch C hairh lder in AND SCHOLARSHIPS ca ndidate and a written resea rch proposal. upcoming yea rs." The C hairholder receives the income ESTABLISHED from the endowment for the yea r in which he o r he is 0 designated; some of At it fall 1996 meeting, the Hastings the funds are designed a a summer FIVE PROMOTED Board of Directors formall y established re earch tipend, whereas the remainder the Harry and Lillian Hastings Research can be used as a professional expen e bud­ TO FULL C hai r, as well as the Harry and Lillian get to allow the facult y member to com­ Hastings Scholar hip . These two impo r­ plete planned research. A ll publicati ons PROFESSOR tant developments were made possible and presentations made by the fac ult y becau e of a sub tantial $2,000,000 member during the time in which he o r The facult y awarded this fall , and the beque t of unrestricted endowed funds by she sits in the C hair ca rry the title of the Board of Director approved in Decem­ Lillian Hastings, who was the widow of Harry and Lillian Hastings Resea rch ber, promotions to full profess r fo r Harry Ha tings, a member of the Board of C hair and, in that way, recognize the gen­ Profs. Bisharat, Bloch, Carrillo, rossley, Directors and a direct descendant of erosity and su pport of the Hasti ngs fam il y. and Roht-Arriaza. Congratulati ons! Serranus C linton Hastings, the Coll ege's Dean Kane announced that the inau­ founder. From thi most generous gural Harry and Lillian Hasting Resea rch bequest, the Board determined to c reate C hairholder for the 1997-98 academic yea r two $500,000 endowed funds, restricting was approved by the Board of Directo rs at HASTINGS the annual income of each fund to the its December meeting. He is Professor support of the research chair and several David Faigman, whose proposal is to write MOURNS THE Loss scholarships, res pectively. a book entitled "The Law 's Science: The The decision to earmark and endow Use and Abuse of Science in Law and OF PROE JULIAN H. these two programs further the devel op­ Politics." Professor Faigman alread y ha ment of two of the key areas where need established a national reputation as a LEVI, 1909-1996 fo r additional support was identified in scholar in the fields of evidence, constitu­ "Hastings 2000: A Long-Range Plan"- fac­ tionallaw, and sc ience and the law. In fact, Prof Julian Levi ult y re ea rch suppo rt and student scholar­ his Reference Manual on Scientific joined the 65 Club ship assistance. 1t also refl ects the Board Evidence is being publi hed this spring by at Has tings in 1978, of Directors' desire to fo rmally recognize West Publishing Compan y. The Hastings where he taught the magnificent contribution made by Research C hair book proposal, however, until shortly befo re Harry and Lillian Hastings in a perma­ takes a more expansive perspective, look­ his dea th on nent and formal way by naming these t wo ing not only at science in the courtroom, October 16, 1996. im portant programs in their hono r. but also its use in the legislative process The following The Hastings cholarships w il l provide and in administrative age ncie .It is being quotes were ta ken annuall y for fi ve $5,000 scholar hips to be written for a ge neral audience, whi ch wi ll from his memorial given to second- o r third-yea r students include not only lawye rs, judges, and sc i­ service at Has tings who maintain an excellent grade point entist , but also accountants, business on Nove mber 4, 1996. average and demonstrate financial need. managers, and, as Prof. Faigman notes in The recipien t will be selected by the his proposal, "an yo ne else who is curious "The w ide and vari ed expe rience and H astings Faculty Scholarship Com m ittee. about this ve ry important subject." connections with Julian that are repre- T he fir t recipients will be announced The funding from the C hai r will ented by the peopl e in thi room today this pring. Given the steep ri e in tuition ensure that Professor Fa igman can com­ reveal very dramaticall y one of the central in the la t several years, with the re ult plete the book in a timely fas hion and and special features of Julian 's life. Julian that in-state fee now total annuall y more thu ,given the heightened interests and was always conq uering new worlds and, than 10,000, the e cholarships provide a current foc u on the topic generall y, that most often, leading the way fo r the re t of \'ery meaningful and important means of the book will reach its audience as soon a us. To peak of Julian 's 65 Club member­ honoring and helping some of our mo t possible. Dean Ka ne concluded by noti ng ship as a second career is no exaggeration academically succe fu l tudents. that she was most grateful to the Hastin gs when you realize that we had the benefi ts The Re earch Chair similarly is a means family and to the Board of Director for of having Julian as our colleague for 18 of honoring some of our most productive recognizing how important the provision yea rs .... In sum, Julia n was a man with faculty, as well a providing them impor­ of this kind of research support i to u nl imited curiosity, giving unstintingly tant sources of extra upport for their building and continu ing the preeminence and u nselfishly of his time and talent, and re earch. 1t i modeled after similar chair of the Ha ting faculty as lead ing sch olars with a practical ability to get th ings done

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and make things happen in ways that most of u could o nly ho pe to imagine." HASTINGS MOURNS THE Loss OF - DEAN MARY KAY KANE PROE RUDOLF B. SCHLESINGER, 1909-1996, "Mayor Daley described Julian as a pe rson of integrity who was both d ynamic and AND RUTH H. SCHLESINGER, 1920-1996 committed. Man y of us wo uld be mo re than happy with a e ul ogy that e nded with Prof Rudolf Sc hles inge r joined Hastings' faculty in 1975 that. But yo u realize, a did Mayor Daley, and was a member of the 65 Club until his retirement that this description alone did not cap­ in 1994. Hi s wife, Ruth, was Hastings' first art curator ture Julian. So Mayor Daley went o n to and served in that ca pacity until August 1996. They describe Julian's almost single-handed eco­ both died on November 10, 1996. The foUowing com­ nomic and racial stabiliza tio n of the ments were taken from their memorial service held at University of C hi cago's H yde Park ne igh­ Hastings on January 22, 1997. borhood. Mayor Daley sa id of that accom­ pli shment what 1 beli eve is the essence of "Before it was fa hi onable to consider that lawyers the man we honor today. Mayor Daley must practice in a global environ me nt, Rudi opened said, 'Oulian] had nothing to ga in from his students' eyes to legal developments o utside the what he did for the ity and its universi­ U nited States and made them unde rstand the impo r­ t y. He did it because it was good and tance of being part of the broader legal community. because he could make it work.' Julian's He was a true intellectual, whose broad-gauged life was marked with this selfle devotion approach to the study of law was deli vered with passion and excitement. H e was the to publi c service, and he accomplished quintessential teacher and scholar. . . . that to which 1 can o nly aspi re." "As fo rtunate as Hastings wa to have lured Rudi Schlesinger from Cornell to the - ACADEMIC DEAN LEO P . MARTINEZ West Coast, little did we realize at the time that we would be the direct beneficiaries of the taste, talent, and dedication of Ruth Schlesi nger, who quickly became a vital and "No one could be aro und Prof. Levi for active force at Hastings as she assumed the first-ever role of H astings Art C urator. In long without unde rstanding that he was a 1978, the n Hastings Dean Anderson, knowing of her background, asked Putti to devel­ person who lived to solve problem , and op a Hastings art program, adding the caveat that there was no m o ney for acquisitions. the Public Law Research In stitute ex ists With that as the beginning, Hastings became one of only three law schools in the as an expression of Prof. Levi's commit­ nati o n to have an art c urator, with the other two being H arvard and the University of ment to publi c service and his belief that Texas. She started with a few oil portraits and some photographs- nothing catalogued­ lawyers have an important role to play in until today we can take enormous pride in a collectio n of over 400 works .... H ow did solving society's problems. As we strive to she do it? With e no rmous initiative and creativity .. .. " fulfill that legacy, however, 1 know we will "As everyone who had the opportunity to come into contact with the Schlesingers be successful only if we also carry o n his can testify, Rudi and Putti Schl esinger were an inc redible team, who e elegant and legacy of respect for the talen t and abili­ graceful presence were a distinct pleasure to behold."-DEAN MARY KAY KANE ties of the students of H astings and the profession they seek to e nte r." "As 1 meet with Cornell alumni around the world, they w ithout fail recount their time -PROF. DAVID J . JUNG in and out of the classroom with Rudi, and universall y hail him as their favorite profes­ sor and, more importantly, a a friend. Following Rudi's death, 1 received numerous "He was a strategist for good causes. H e phone calls and letters from former students expressi ng their sorrow at Rudi and Putti's was happy to do things that others passing, and expressing their admiration and appreciation for both of them." thought were impossible. H e could ana­ -DEAN CHARLES D . CRAMTON , CORNELL LAW SCHOOL lyze every a pect of an issue and was delighted to find solutions that worked .. "The real hall mark of Rudi Schlesinger to those who knew him well was the heer intel­ .. He enjoyed everyone- including his ligence that he brought to ever y subject. H e always had a fresh way of looking at things, opponents. H e listened. Even with diffi­ and a new way to see a problem, be it a faculty iss ue, a personal career decision, any­ cult problems, 1 never saw Julian morose. thlllg you could pos lbly mentIon. The play of his mind was stunning .. .. He was a happy problem solver! He "Every meeting with Putti, beyond the most casual, was a social occasion because of unde rstood precisely the steps that were he r beautiful manners. And those we re based upon an appreciation of the dignity and needed and who would do what. I will worth of everyo ne .... never forget the smil e o n his face and the "To those of you who were hi students and who were charmed by his personality and twinkle in his eye when he would say to awed by hIS bnlllance, I want you to know that his faculty coll eagues were, too. Fo r someone, 'I need your help.' Inevitably, tho e of you who may have wondered what the real Rudi Schlesinger was like I'll tell they, too, came to the cause and wanted to help." you. If you scratched the surface, what you found, thank God, was more Rudi.' ... Rudi and Putti brightened the lives of all of us whil e they were with us. Now the memories -DR. JACK BARCHAS, C hair of the of them will continue to brighten o ur lives for yea rs to come. They were gracious and Department of Psychiatry at Cornell graceful to the core. It is impossible to think of them without smiling." Medical Center in New York C ity. -PROF. JAMES R. MCCALL II ,\ST I i\ (:s

his Spring I997 listing of "Class Inc., of Reno in November 1996, where he Notes" is based on items received oversees development of new projects, before January I5, I997. Items government and regulatory matters, and received after that date will legal affairs. List received the Hastings appear in the next issue. If you have news Medal of Achievement in 1993. BRUCE for "Class Notes," just send it in the enve­ D . VARNER was profiled in the lope found in the center of this magazine. September 9, 1996, issue of Business You may find the form on page 36 helpfuL Press/ California, which highlighted hi achievements in his business law practice. He is a enior partner at the Riverside office of Gresham, Varner, Savage, Nolan & Tilden. CLASS OF '35 WAYNE O . VEATCH , SR., retired from Veatch, Carlson, Grogan & Nelson Nearly 14,000 UC Hastings College of in Los Angeles in January 1996. CLASS OF '63 the Law alumni were notified recently DON E. BAILEY has formed a new firm about the upcoming new Alumni with GUY O . KORNBLUM ('66). The Directory and a ked for their input. If firm, Bailey & Kornblum, L.L.P, handles you have not already done so, please CLASS OF '52 major injury and insurance cases. Its main return your questionnaire today so that ARTHUR W. GRAY, JR. , has complet­ office is located in San Francisco and the your information will be accurately ed two years as the President of the firm has satellite offices in Los Angeles, included in this great new reference Foundation of the State Bar of California. Denver, and Indianapolis. J . PAUL book. He retired from his Anaheim firm of COAN is a referee in the Solano County The Bernard C. Harris Publishing Gray & Gray in 1995. Superior Court for juvenile dependency, Company, Inc., the official publisher of conservatorship, and family support cases, our Directory, wi ll begin calling alumni in addition to small claims and juvenile within 2 to 3 months as the verification trials. He was profiled in the August 12, phase of this project begins. Please give CLASS OF '58 1996, issue of the San Francisco Daily the representative a few moments of your JOHN F . DEMEO is a partner with JournaL time to verify your listing. DeMeo & DeMeo in Santa Rosa. If you would like to order a copy of the UC Hastings College of the Law Alumni Directory, please let the Harris represen­ CLASS OF '64 tative know during this conversation, CLASS OF '61 HON . THEODORE E . MILLARD is ince this will be your only opportunity HON. TAKETSUGU " TAK" TAKEI the Presiding Judge for the Orange was joined by more than 500 people, to reserve the book. County Superior Court. An interview including former Chief Justice of the The UC Hastings College of the Law with him was published in the September Alumni Directory is scheduled for release California Supreme Court Rose Bird, who 15, 1996, edition of the Orange County in October/ November 1997. It promises paid tribute to him at his retirement din­ Register. ner in San Jose in September 1996. He was to be the definitive reference of nearly 14,000 alumni. Don't miss the opportuni­ honored for his 20 years as a Superior Court Judge for Santa Clara County. ty to be part of it! CLASS OF '65 HON . FRANK A . GRANDE is the Presiding Judge for the San Joaquin CLASS OF '62 Superior Court. His profile appeared in HON . ROBERT F . LIST, former the San Francisco Daily Journal on Governor of Nevada, was promoted to September 3, 1996. ARNOLD O . Executive Vice President of Boomtown, · 1I i\ST I N(j:-l

has sa tellite offices in Los Angeles, Military Judge from the U.S. Army Denver, and Indianapoli s. Kornblum Reserve. DAVID S. LICHTENSTEIN delivered a presentation on "How to recently established a solo practice in Manage a C ivil Litigation Practice" at Birmingham, Michigan, concentrating on Hastings' "Beat the Clock" MC LE pro­ insurance matters. STEPHEN E . gram in January 1997. HON. LESLIE C. NEWTON, former head of Kindel & NICHOLS was elected by the judges of Anderson's corporate department, has the Sa nta Clara County Superior Court joined Heller Ehrman White & McAuliff to be their Presiding Judge for the 1997 in Los Angeles, where he concentrates in calendar year. Nichols has se rved on the corporate and securities areas. He handles court since 1984. W ALTER M. acquisitions and sales and financing of financial institutions, high technology firms, as well as manufacturing and ser­ Hon. Lois Haight ('65) of the Contra vice companies. HON . CHRIS Cosw County S"perior Court senled STROMSNESS was profiled in the as a faw lty member in Hastings' April 8, 1996, edition of the Los Angeles annual "Beat the Clock" MCLE pro­ gram in January 1997 Her topic ,vas Daily Jo urnal. He was elected to the the "Rights of Victims of Crime." Siskiyou County Municipal Court in 1995.

OVEROYE received the state Attorney General's Award for Excellence on December 19, 1996, for his work in federal CLASS OF '68 habeas co rpus and the development of two HON . T IMO THY J . EVAN S of the office manuals on this topic. Overoye, Hon. Lesli e C. Nicho ls ('66) Sutter County Consolidated Courts was who has been with the state Attorney profiled in the Los Angeles Daily Journal General's office since graduating from on October 17, 1996. He was elected in Hastings, works in the criminal division June 1988 to the Sutter County in Sacramento. JOHN T RONAN III PH ILLIPS, JR., joined the Philadelphia Consolidated Courts after hav ing served has joined the San Francisco office of firm of Hoyle Morris & Kerr as a partner as a Sutter County Municipal Court Arter & Hadden in its national environ­ in July 1996. He was featured in The Legal Judge since 1978. HON . RAL P H mental practice group_ MICHAEL J. Intellige ncer on August 1, 1996, after NUNEZ conducted the swearing in of SULLIVAN retired and moved to Santa obtaining a $10.25 million verdict in a Cruz Bustamante as Speaker of the State Fe after 30 years with the IRS. He served defamation action brought against a Assembly. Nunez was appointed to the the last 21 years as an estate tax supervisor Pennsylvania school by a former teacher Fresno Superior Court by Gov. Jerry in San Francisco, Oakland, and Walnut accused of sexual harassment. His practice Brown in 1983. RICHARD C . SM ITH , Creek. EDWARD A . WEINER has a solo concentrates in the areas of white collar formerly a shareholder with Quinn, Kully practice in San Francisco, emphasizing crime, employment, and commercialliti­ and Morrow, has joined the Los Angeles real property and bankruptcy law. He is a gation. office of the national law firm of Arnold former Chair of the State Bar's Real & Porter. CHARLES R . SPATOL A , Property Law Section, a current member JR., has a solo business litigation practice of the planning committee for CEB's in Stockton. MARK L. TUFT, a partner Annual Real Property Institute, and an CLASS OF '67 with Cooper,White & Cooper in San author of several publications on real HON . ROBERT C . BRADLEY, Francisco, gave two presentations in con­ property law. Ventura County Superior Court juction wi.th Hastings' "Beat the Clock" Presiding Judge, has been reelected for MCLE program in January 1997. One was another term, which began January 1, entitled "How to Identify and Resolve 1997. He was appointed to the Superior Conflicts of Interest- A Checklist for CLASS OF '66 Court in 1984 by Gov. George Staying Out of Trouble" and the other GARY A . EISENBERG is Chair of the Deukmejian. MICHAEL FRIEDMAN has was "Current Developments in Ethics." Board of Advance Finance, Inc., a finance a solo practice in Torrance, concentrating company in Beverly Hills that specializes on family and criminal law matters. He is in commercial loans. HON . RICHARD serving as President of the South Bay O . FRAZEE is the Supervising Judge of American Inn of Court. JOHN E . CLASS OF '69 the Probate Department for the Superior HOLM ES III is a senior litigation partner GEORGE R . KUCERA is General Court of Orange County. GUY O . at Thompson & Colegate in Riverside. He Counsel for the real estate firm of Devco KORNBLUM has formed a new firm also serves as a National Director of the Properties, Inc., in Reno. DON ALD J. with DON E . BAILEY ('63). The firm, American Board of Trial Advocates and as MCCUBBI N has joi ned with fi ve other Bailey & Kornblum, L.L.P, handles major a mediator for the 4th District Court of experienced practitioners to form the San injury and insurance cases. Its main office Appeal for the State of California. He Francisco "boutique" firm of Friedman, is located in San Francisco and the firm retired this year as a Colonel-Senior Olive, McC ubbin, Spalding & Bitter. The

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practice i limited to estate planning and HEDGECOCK, former Mayor of San Court in January 1994 by ov. P te tru t and tate admini tration. JOHN Diego, host a top-rated political call-in Wilson. JOSEPH M . HUDDLEST O N , E . NORDI N II recently received a letter program on KSDO, San Diego's leading a 22-yea r partner with the firm of Hughe· of comm ndation from both Attorney radio station for the 35-and-over audience. Thorsness Powell Huddle ton & Bauman, General Janet Reno and FBI Director He was profiled in the Na tional Journal's L.L.C, has been selected a a pri nci pal Loui Freeh for his successful defense as Congress Daily on August 15, 1996. partner in the Anchorage firm. His p - lead coun el in a recent civil ca e that ROBERT M . HOLSTEIN , JR., was cialty i insurance litiga tion. STEPH E N determined that the FBI's use of deadly profiled in the October 21, 1996, issue of C. KENNEY was appointed to be an edi­ force "was entirely appropriate under the The Business Press. He is President of the tor for the newsletter, "Air and Space circumstances of the case." RONALD V. Riverside firm of Holstein, Ta ylor & Lawyer," published by the ABA's Forum ROSEQUIST was named Chair of the Unitt, where he practices personal injury on Air and Space Law. He is a partner in Board of Directors of the Bay Area law. HON . JOHN . M . MEYER was the San Francisco firm of Kenney & Regional Technologies Alliance. He is a elected to the Skagit County Superior Markowitz. JERRY H . KINDINGER partner with the Oakland firm of Crosby, Court, in Washington state, after two was elected managing partner of Rya n, Heafey, Roach & May, where he special­ years on the District Court Bench. In July izes in corporate law and mergers and 1997, he will begin serving as President of acquisitions. RICHARD P . ST. CLAIR the University of Washington Alumni has merged his firm with Yuhl Rhames & Association. MICHAEL J . MORIARTY Yuhl to form Yuhl Rhames Yuhl & St. has joined the New York City offi ce of Clair, L.L.P With offices in Santa Monica Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis. His and La Joll a, the firm specializes in the practice concentrates in securities, prosecution of wrongful death actions fin ance and banking, including corporate and repre ents consumers and their fami­ acquisitions, SEC reg istration and private lies se riously injured or damaged by defec­ placements, commercial bank loa ns and ti ve products, construction, premises and issuance of letters of credi t, tax-exempt vehicular accidents, elder abuse, medical financing, savings bank acquisition and malpractice, and other acts of negligence. regulation, and ge neral corporate counsel­ ing. He se rved with the New York C ity office of the Securities and Exchange Commission from 1975 through 1978 and Jerr y H. Kindinger ('72) CLASS OF '70 was a partner at Keck, Mahin & Cate. DENNIS C. POULSEN sold his busi­ MICHAEL R . SILVEY was appointed ness, Rose Hills Compan y, in 1996 and will partner-in-charge of the Portland office serve as Chair of the Los Angeles Area of Foster Pepper & Shefelman, a Swanson & Cleveland, an 85-person Chamber of Commerce in 1997. He plans Northwest regional law firm. His practice Seattle law firm. Kindinger is the seventh to retire in 1998. HAROLD S . SMALL, emphasis is real estate. TOMMIE W . person to fi ll the position in the 99-year who has his law offices in San Diego, WHITENER is a California State Bar cer­ history of the firm. JOHN MICHAEL deli vered a presentation on "Succession tified family law specialist. He recently O 'CONNOR was married in September Planning for Attorneys and Other associated his solo practice with Robert J. 1996. He continues as managing partner Professionals" at Hastings' "Beat the Cleek to form Whitener & Cleek in of Schneider, Wallerstein & O'Connor, Clock" MCLE program in January 1997. Novato. He reports he is finally at the L.C, in San Jose. His practice remains pri­ point in his career to be able to take off maril y business and commercial litigation Wednesday afternoons to play golf. but has expanded into mediation and arbitration. O'Connor was recently added CLASS OF '71 to Santa Clara County's list of court­ MICHAEL W . CASE has completed his approved Special Masters. HON . PERRY three-year term as a member of the CLASS OF '72 M. PARKER was profiled in the California State Bar's Board of Governors. HON . JEFFREY L. AMESTOY was September 25, 1996, issue of the Los During his final yea r, he served as Vice sworn in as the Chief Justice of the Angeles Daily Journal. He was appointed President and chaired the Board's Supreme Court of Vermont in January to the Sutter County Municipal Court by Committee on Admissions and 1997. He had served as the Attorney Gov. George Deukmejian in December Competence. A partner at Ferguson, General of Vermont since 1984, holding 1989. PAUL A . ROBERTS serves as the Case, Orr, Paterson & Cunningham in the office longer than an yo ne in history. 1996-97 President of the Santa Barbara Ventura, he practices real estate and busi­ Formerly, he had been appointed Contemporary Arts Forum Board of ness litiga tion. DAV ID B . GAW recently Commissioner of Labor and Industry and Directors. He is a partner in the firm of was certified in elder law by the National was legal counsel to the Governor's Angle, Carlson, Goldrick & Roberts. He Elder Law Foundation. He has practiced Commission on the Administration of was profiled in the Santa Barbara News elder law for 25 years. His Napa firm of Justice. HON . H . THEODORE Press on November 14,1996. JOHN F. Gaw, Van Male, Smith, Myers & Miroglio HAN SEN was profiled in the Los Angeles ST ALEY is a certified specialist in family focuse on elder law, estate planning, and Daily Jo urnal on October 9, 1996. He was law at the Pleasanton firm of Staley, trust and probate law. ROGER A . appointed to the Sutter County Superior Jobson & Wetherell. JOSEPH L.

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WALTUCH serves as counsel to Advanta Finance Corporation, a consumer finance corporation operating in 14 states. He is based in San Diego.

CLASS OF '73 HON . RICHARD A . BENNETT was elevated to the Napa County Superior Court by Gov. Pete Wilson in November 1996. He served 11 years on the Napa County Municipal Court. ROBERT L. CROWELL was elected President of the State Bar of Nevada, a position his father, WILLIAM J . CROWELL (,37), held in

1957. He practices government relations at (Left to right) Jud y Lane, Director of A Lumni Relations, Jeanne Reimann ('91), Anthony the Carson City firm of Crowell , Susich, A Lbertazzi ('93), Dean Mary Kay Kane, Christo/)her Cline ('91), and the HonorabLe Owen & Tackes, Ltd. CLEMENT L. Mark Gardn er ('74) at the O regon Sw te Bar A Lumni Reception on Se ptember 26, 1996. GLYNN left Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro in 1991 after 18 year to found Glynn, Cella & Lange in Walnut Creek. His firm is devoted to litigation and other forms of (University of Massachussetts Press, 1994); Vice President of membership and is dispute resolution. GREG J . JACOBS and currently a Visiting Environmental active on many Comstock Club commit­ serves as Assistant District Attorney for Scholar at the Environmental Law tees. He is CEO and founder of the Van Sonoma County. He spent three years Center, Vermont Law School, working on der Mei Law Firm in Sacramento, which prosecuting the Richard Allen Davis case, a book on "environmental federalism." specializes in areas such as business and starting in Sonoma County and conclud­ HON . MICHAEL L. DOUGLAS was corporate law, nonprofit corporation and ing with the conviction in Santa Clara re-elected as a District Court Judge, State association la w, secu rities and corporate County. HON. JON R . ROLEFSON of Nevada, where he presides over both finance law, franchise law, and general was appointed to the Alameda Municipal criminal and civil matters. He was first business counseling. Court by Gov. Pete Wilson in November appointed in 1995 by Gov. Bob Miller. 1996. He had been a partner with Traback JON E . ELLINGSON was elected to & Rolefson since 1991. the Montana House of Representatives in 1994 and re-elected in 1996. HON. RAYMOND J . IKOLA was profiled in the August 21, 1996, issue of the Orange CLASS OF '74 County Reporter. He was appointed to the JACK H . ARCHER is Professor of Orange County Superior Court by Gov. Environmental Law and Policy in the Pete Wilson in October 1996. HON . Graduate Environmental Sciences STEVEN E . JAHR was appointed by Program at the University of Chief Justice Ronald M. George as Chair Massachusetts; lead author of the recently of the Trial Court Budget Commission for published The Public Trust Doctrine and 1997. He presides over the Shasta County the Management of America~ Coasts Superior Court. TANYA M . NEIMAN , Director of the Bar Association of San Francisco's Volunteer Legal Services William G. Van der Mei ('74) Program, was honored as the 1996 recipi­ ent of the coveted Kutak-Dodds Prize pre­ sented by the National Legal Aid and Defender Association in Washington, D.C. The prize honors an advocate "who, CLASS OF '75 through the practice of law, has con­ SUSAN M . POPIK, a partner with tributed in a significant way to the Chapman, Popik & White in San enhancement of human dignity and the Francisco, has been appointed to the edi­ quality of life of those persons unable to torial board of the CGL Reporter. afford legal representation." WILLIAM Published biannually, the Reporter G. VAN DER MEl has been elected a includes analyses of some of the nation's Director and President-Elect of the most significant appellate decisions affect­ Comstock Club and will take office in ing commercial lines insurance coverage. Han. Michael L. DougLas ('74) July 1997. For the past year, he served as DEE S C H ILLI NG was profiled in the

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October 2, 1996, i ue of the Tahoe Insurance Co. of America in its Foster North Carolina As ociation of Women Tribune. Her outh Lake Tahoe practice City office. Recently, the American Attorneys. he practic family law in focu e on civil matter for people who Arbitration Association sent him to Raleigh, North Carolina. JEAN M . cannot otherwi e afford legal services. She England to participate in a three-day con­ DAN DONA started a 010 practice in had previously been commissioned by the ference on "Mediation: The San Francisco Santa Barbara. She practices civil litiga­ Presbyterian Church to provide legal ser­ Experience." T he conference was tion. ROBERTO DE LA ROSA was vice to the poor. CHRISTINE V . designed to encourage British legal profes­ profiled in the Bakersfield Californian on TEJADA recently returned from work as sionals to use ADR. JOHN K. COTTER August 26, 1996. He is co-founder and Project Director for Chicago Mayor has spent nine years with the Sacramento Executive Director of the O rganization Richard Daley to work as Director of County Public Defender's Office in the for the Legal Advancement of Raza, Inc. Development, Mayor's Treasure Island felony trials section. He finished "yet PHILIP KAN GOTANDA was profiled Project, City and County of San another thrill-packed triathlon season, in the October 10, 1996, is ue of The Francisco. including a sparkli ng performance in the Seattle Times. He spent a week in Seattle Alcatraz Triathlon" in June 1996. PAUL for a blitz of public appearances and A . DE MONTESQUIOU was profiled in attended the opening performances of a the October 18, 1996, issue of the Los Northwest Asian-American Theater A ngeles Daily JournaL He practices civil revival of his play, "The Dream of CLASS OF '76 litigation, medical, dental, and legal mal­ Kitamura." EDWARD V . KING, JR ., a JOHN R . BUDNIK is in-house counsel practice, and business torts in h is Encino for Crawford Investment Company, a firm of McCulloch & de Montesquiou. Riverside mortgage loan brokerage firm. YVONNE M . FLORES, President of Previously, he spent 10 years in the title the Mexican American Bar Association, insurance industry. HON . GEORGE C . was profiled in the October 7, 1996, issue HERNANDEZ, JR., was elevated to the of the San Francisco Daily JournaL She Alameda County Superior Court by Gov. has a solo insurance defense practice in Pete Wil on in August 1996. He spent Beverly Hills. EDWARD D . HAAS, of eight years in private law practice and counsel to Long & Levit in San four years as a county court commissioner Francisco, delivered a presentation on before being named to the Municipal "Avoiding Legal Malpractice for the Real Court in 1989, where he oversaw felony Estate Lawyer" at a November 1996 criminal cases and most recently was the MCLE program sponsored by Hastings. Presiding Judge. THOMAS B . MASON JUDITH J . RENTSCHLER, formerly was profiled in the Ukiah Daily Journal regional counsel and Vice President of on August 13, 1996. He served as a the San Francisco office of CB Director of Redwood Legal Services in Commercial Real Estate Group, Inc., Ukiah before starting his criminal law started Rentschler & Tursi in Foster Academic Dean Leo Martinez and Brad Seligman, practice in 1985. JOHN A . MILLER City in October 1996. She specializes in both of the Class of '78, following last October's received the 1996 California Book Award commercial real estate transactions and Tobriner Lecture. for First Work of Fiction for his collection broker-dealer litigation. R ICHARD T. of short stories, Jackson Street and Other SAKAI , former director of LEOP at Soldier Stories, and recently published his Hastings, completed a five-year visit as novel Cutdown. Both books were pub­ an associate professor at Santa Clara San Francisco-based lawyer, has represent­ lished by Orloff Press. ANN M . University School of Law, where he was ed approximately three dozen professional VENEMAN served as a San Joaquin twice voted Professor of the Year. Sakai athletes in cases against their agents. He Valley delegate to the Republican teaches at USF School of Law and was profiled in the August 6, 1996, issue of National Convention. She is Secretary of returned to Hastings in 1995 as a consul­ the Dallas Morning News. JOSEPH S . the State of California Department of tant to the Disability Resource Program. KONOWIECKI, a partner with the Los Food and Agriculture and the first Angeles firm of Konowiecki & Rank, was woman to head that office. Veneman pre­ featured in the October 7, 1996, Los viou ly was the highest ranking woman in Angeles Daily JournaL He is practicing the U.S. Department of Agriculture, serv­ CLASS OF '78 business law with emphasis in health care­ ing a deputy secretary from 1991 to 1993. DOUGLA S W. ALLAN is a senior part­ related transactions, mergers, and acq uisi­ Before that, she was deputy undersecre­ ner at Allan & Sisemore, a San Francisco tions. STEPHEN J . NESSlER, Vice tary for both international affairs and firm focusing on arbitration, construc­ President and manager of the Corporate commodities programs. tion, and insurance coverage and defense. Tax Department of Wells Fargo Bank in PATRICIA BESCOBY BARTSCHER San Francisco, delivered a presentation on is University Counsel for San Francisco '1\ccounting Principles for Attorneys" at State University and teaches a course on Hastings' "Beat the Clock" MCLE pro­ CLASS OF '77 international business law to undergradu­ gram in January 1997. GERALD JAMES D. B IE RNAT i orthern ate business students. VICTORIA POSNER authored Citizen Perot California chief attorney for afeco B EN DER was elected President of the (Random House) and was featured in the . . , · II,\ ST I N(:S ····

August 29, 1996, issue of the Contra Costa case. RICHARD A . LlTTORNO recent­ Davis, L.L.P., in Santa Rosa. MATTHEW Times. DANNETTE L. SAKODA has ly merged his practice with Sanders, N . WH ITE, after nearly 20 years of com­ devoted her career to assisting publi c Dodson, Rives & Cox in Pittsburg, muting to San Francisco, set up a solo interest groups and providing legal ser­ California. He continues to specialize in practice in San Rafael, where he handles vices to low income individuals. She was general business, taxation, and probate civil litigation matters, primarily personal recognized for her efforts in the law and and estate planning. PETER W . injury cases. White also serves as Co-Chair the community by the Santa Clara MICHAELS, a San Francisco attorney of the personal injury faculty for the County Bar Associations Minority Access with Cooper, White & Cooper, was Hastings College of Advocacy. Committee at its annual Young Hero's included in the Euromoney Publications reception and was profiled in the PLC Guide to the Worlds Leading September 30, 1996, issue of the San Communications Lawyers. Michaels is the Francisco Daily Journal. son of the HON . RUDOLF H . CLASS OF '80 MICHAELS (,48), an arbitrator and KATHLEEN M . BALES-LANGE was legal consultant in Sacramento. appointed Tulare County Counsel by the LAWRENCE ROBERT RAMSEY is a Tulare County Board of Supervisors on CLASS OF '79 partner in the Torrance firm of Bowman November 12,1996. Her term will end BETTY C . BULLOCK, whose law & Brooke. He focuses on products liabili­ January 5, 2001. WILLIAM S . COATS offices are located in San Francisco, deliv­ ty and employment lit igation defense. III , formerly with the Palo Alto firm of ered a presentation on "Preventing Legal HON . ELAINE M . WATTERS, the first Brown & Bain, joined the Menlo Park Malpractice" at Hastings' "Beat the office of Clock" MCLE program in January 1997. Howrey & KIM C. CRANSTON serves as Simon. He President of the Social Venture focuses on Network, a San Francisco-based interna­ intellectual tional organization of successful busi- property litiga­ ness and social entrepreneurs dedicated tion. FRANK to changing the way the world does S . DELIA business and to promoting progressive joined Cascade solutions to social problems. EDWARD Automation I. DAVILA, a criminal defense attorney Design as Presi­ with Davila & Poverino, became dent of the President-Elect of the Santa Clara Bellevue, Wash­ County Bar Association in October ington, firm. 1996. He has been active in the organiza­ Formerly, he tion for 14 years and served twice as was Vice Pres­ President of the Santa Clara County ident of Mentor chapter of the La Raza Lawyers Graphics in Association. JON B . EISENBERG Wilsonville, has joined the Oakland firm of Horvitz (Top Row, left to right) Marty Dekess ian ('96), Lesli e Martin ('93), Steve Herum ('79), Oregon. DALE Ste/)/len Tay tor (,80); (bottom row, teft to right) David WeUenbrock, Dean Mary Ka y & Levy. He was a senior staff attorney Ka ne, Stockton District A ttorney John Phitups, a nd Claudia Phitli ps a t the Stockton ANN GOLD­ with the California Court of Appeal, A tumni Reception in November 1996. BERG is serv- First Appellate District, Division Five, ing as the first for 15 years. VALERIE FONTAINE, (and only) female Superior Court Judge in female US. whose legal search consulting firm of Sonoma County history and the first attorney for the Department of Justice in Seltzer, Fontaine, Beckwith is located in woman from the Hastings Class of '79 to Columbus. She has worked for the US. Los Angeles, delivered a presentation on become a Superior Court Judge, is finish­ Attorney's Office since 1984. MATTHEW "Bias in the Bench and Bar" at an October ing up her second year as the Presiding B . PAVONE, a partner with Cooper, 1996 MCLE program at Hastings. HON . Judge of the Sonoma County Superior White & Cooper in San Francisco, deliv­ LESLEY D . HOLLAND was appointed Court. Although the term of a Presiding ered a presentation on selected issues of to the San Joaquin County Superior Judge in Sonoma County is one year, "Criminal Law Ethics" at an October 1996 Court by Gov. Pete Wilson on November Judge Watters was elected to a second­ MCLE program sponsored by Hastings. 5,1996. ROBERT A . JULIAN, a partner year term- the first time this has hap­ ART C. PRECIADO has expanded his at San Francisco's Murphy Weir & Bu tler, pened in the county. She appeared on the Pasadena partnership of Gutierrez & was profiled in the August 26, 1996, edi­ cover of and was profiled in the Preciado to eight attorneys and continues tion of the Los Angeles Daily Journal. His November 1996 issue of Sonoma Business. to practice in the area of employment law, practice emphasizes bankruptcy and She was appointed by Gov. Pete Wilson in civil rights defense, appellate practice, and defense law. R. STEVEN LAPHAM was 1992. Prior to ascending the bench, general civil litigation. HON . GLORIA an Assistant US. Attorney for 12 years Watters had a civil trial practice with an F . RHYNES was appointed to the before his appointment last Mayas Special emphasis on business litigation. She is Oakland-Piedmont-Emeryville Municipal Attorney to the US. Attorney General, married to MICHAEL G . WATTERS Court by Gov. Pete Wilson in October for the purpose of trying the Unabomb ('74), a partner with O 'Brien, Watters & 1996. She was formerly a partner with

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Hanna, Brophy, MacLean, McAleer & Diamond and Prof. Stuart Madden) a planning, a well a tru t and probate law. Jen en in Oakland. R U SSELL S . torts treatise, Understanding Torts (1996). EMILY P . RISTAU wa featured in the ROECA, a partner with Long & Levit in In addition to teaching torts, he has Newport Beach News on October 10,1996. an Francisco, delivered a presentation on taught criminal law and agency and will She practiced seven years before re igning " ub tance Abuse and Other Personal be teaching a course on sexual orientation to become a full-time mom. She chaired A pect Affecting Competence in the and the law. He is also the Co-Chair of the Christmas Company fundrai er, the Practice of Law" at Hastings' "Beat the Sacramento Lawyers for the Equality of principal fund raising effort for the Junior Clock" MCLE program in January 1997. Gays and Lesbians (SacLEGAL), League. GEOFFREY L. ROBINSON , a THOMAS J . UMBERG returned to the Sacramento's Gay and Lesbian Bar partner in the Walnut Creek office of Irvine firm of Mo rrison & Foerster after Association. STEVEN L. PHILLIPS, McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, is taking a leave of absence to serve as the after 15 satisfying years in San Francisco the winner of the 1996 State Bar of California Director of the Clinton/ Gore at Morrison & Foerster, moved with his California President's Pro Bono Publico campaign. He has a litiga tion practice. wife to Singapore, where he is the Service Award for his work in repre ent­ JAMES M . WAGSTAFFE, a partner Director of Legal Services at CMS Energy ing senior citizens and Planned with Cooper, White & Cooper in San Asia Pte., Ltd. RISCHA W . SLADE is Parenthood. EUGENE YAMAMOTO Francisco, delivered a presentation on "Ex Director of the Opportunity House, a chaired the 1996 Commercial Law and Parte and Ex Party Contracts" at a Vacaville homeless shelter. HON . JULIA Bankruptcy Section of the Bar Hastings' MCLE program in September A . SPAIN , who had been Executive Association of San Francisco. Recently, he 1996. He also spoke on "How to Beat the Director of the Alameda County Bar returned to the Oakland-based firm of Media at Their Own Game and Do It Association since 1990, was appointed to Crosby, Heafy, Roach & May where he Right" at Hastings' "Beat the Clock" the San Leandro-Hayward Municipal began his career. His focus is on commer­ MCLE program in January 1997. On leave Court by Gov. Pete Wilson in November cial and bankruptcy litigation. Yamamoto from practice this spring, he is serving as a 1996. REBECCA L. WIGHTMAN was was featured in the November 5, 1996, visiting professor at Hastings, teaching recently selected to be a part-time traffic issue of The Recorder. civil procedure and constitutional law. referee and juvenile court hearing officer in Marin County.

CLASS OF '84 CLASS OF '81 CLAUDINE H . CHENG, a San MARY ANN AGUIRRE, a LEOP honor CLASS OF '82 Francisco-based international business graduate, is the sole owner of Aguirre & JANICE L. FUHRMAN made an histor­ attorney, is serving as First Vice-Chair of Associates, a professional law corporation ical documentary for PBS on the occupa­ the San Francisco Democratic Party and with offices in Modesto and San tion of Japan. Her next project is a docu­ wrote a daily diary about the Democratic Francisco. Her practice emphasis is envi­ mentary about a law school class, and she National Convention for the San ronmental matters. JOSEPH L. COLE is currently trying to get backing from a Francisco Examiner. She was profiled in is senior partner of the 12-lawyer Santa former Hastings classmate who has the August 26, 1996, issue of the newspa­ Barbara firm of Seed, Mackall & Cole. become a "movie mogul." Her production per. LORI B . KRAMER, branch counsel After organizing the music and playing company, Look East Productions, is based for Continental Lawyers Title Company, bass for two "Hastings Law Revues," he in Truckee. closed the Orange County bond transac­ has gone on to form a band, Jacob's tion in June, issuing $780 mill ion in title Ladder, which just released its first CD, insurance. A . MEGAN MADDEN "Filled with Rain." Information about the CD can be accessed through . THOMAS F . RUSSELL H . MILLER recently GEDE serves as one of four Special opened a Burlingame practice specializing Assistant Attorneys General to Dan in campaign, election, lobbying, conflict Lungren. He was profiled in the August of interest, and ethics compliance law. His 14,1996, issue of The San Francisco clients are mostly corporations and indi­ Recorder. ABBY J. LEI BMAN, co­ viduals affected by the Federal Election founder and Executive Director of the Campaign Act, U.S. H ouse and Senate California Women's Law Center in Los Rules, the federal Ethics in Government A ngeles, is the winner of the California Act and Lobbying Disclosure Act, as well Women Lawyers' 1996 Fay Stender as the California Political Reform Act. Award. The award honors Leibman's life­ TRU DY N EARN, formerly a partner long personal and professional dedication with Diepenbrock, Wulff, Plant & to advocacy and "contributions that serve Hannegan, formed her own law firm in a the role model for women and girls." Sacramento. Her practice focus includes LAWRENCE C . LEVINE continues to estate planning, family wealth succession teach torts at University of the Pacific, planning, elder law, pension and employee McGeorge School of Law. He has recently benefits, and executive compensation. FCC Commissioner RacheUe 8. Chong ('84) visited Nearn is a certified specialist in estate with Academic Dean Leo Martinez ('78) during her co-authored (with Hastings Prof. John trip to San Francisco last fal!.

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recently opened a Berkeley solo practice, law and asset forfeiture at the U.S. & Rosenblum, L.L.P, as a partner in limited to the areas of estate planning and Attorney's Office, Northern District of September 1996. Her focus at the probate. CYNTHIA M . NOJIMA is Cali fornia. DOUGLAS H . Phil adelphia firm is real estate litigation. deputy corporation counsel with the MORSEBURG , a former litigation asso­ MICHAEL HUNTER SCHWARTZ, an Department of Corporation Counsel, ciate with Marks & Murase in Los Assistant Professor at Western State City and County of Honolulu. ROBERT Angeles, joined the Pasadena-based intel­ University College of Law, Orange L. TELLES, JR., is of counsel to the lectual property fi rm of Sheldon & Mak County, in Fullerton, published his second Walnut Creek firm of Shapiro, Mittelman as an associate. JANICE L. SPEROW, article, "Power Outage: Amplifying the & Buchman. He had been a solo practi­ the managing attorney at the San Fran­ Analysis of a Power in Legal Relations," in tioner before joining the firm. cisco firm of Ruiz & Schapiro, was elected President-Elect of the National Associa­ tion of Women Lawyers. Her practice focuses on litigation and employment law. CLASS OF '85 BARTLEY B . BAER was elected part­ ner at Baker & McKenzie in San Francisco in September 1996. A week CLASS OF '87 later his second child was born. "It was a RANDALL A. DOCTOR has been great week!" NANCI L. CLARENCE named a partner at the Los Angeles office was featured in the July 31,1996, issue of of Barger & Wolen, where he specializes the San Francisco Bay Guardian. She is a in insurance regulation. He is a frequent partner at Clarence & Snell and practices speaker on issues involving life insurance civil rights law. In addition, Clarence was products. MICHAEL K . JOHNSON, a Michael Hunter Schwartz ('87) recently selected as a new member of trial and appell ate attorney, has joined the California Senator Ba rbara Boxer's Judicial Oakland-based firm of Larson & Advisory Committee for the Northern Burnham. H is practice focuses on insur­ the Willamette Law School Law Review. District. TIMOTHY A . COVINGTON , ance coverage and bad faith, construction He currently teaches contracts, insurance who specializes in intellectual property, defect, legal malpractice, and environ­ law, and remedies, and chairs the Faculty was elected a partner at the Palo Alto mental toxic torts. Johnson is associate Appointments Committee. KERRY L. office of Fenwick & West. LEAH E. editor of Larson & Burnham's STELZER graduated from Harvard WEIL-SCHULEZ joined the Los "Professional Liability" newsletter and a University's Kennedy School of Angeles-based corporate and internation­ regular contributor to the firm's Government in June 1996 and most allaw group of Sony Pictures Entertain­ "Coverage" newsletter. ALBERT LEE recen tly worked for the U.S. Department ment in May 1996. WENDY G. joined Pasadena's Samaha, Grogin & of State in the southern region of Africa. YAMAGUCHI is Compensation Manager Stulberg as a partner. Formerly, he was a She lives in Newton, Massachusetts, with at the Bank of Hawaii in Honolulu. founding partner of Ahn & Lee in Los her husband, Jules. Stelzer is expecting her Angeles. His practice focus is business and first child in July. DAVID P . VAUGHN'S banking. BEVERLY E . NARAYAN experience as a lawyer in the U.S. focuses on arbitration, mediation, and liti­ Congress and as a prosecutor has earned gation in her Burlingame solo practice. him a promotion to the Speciallnvestiga­ CLASS OF '86 JULIE C . PEARL is Chief Executive tions Division of the Los Angeles County SHARON ELKIN (now KATE D . Officer of Munro, Nelson & Pearl, a firm District Attorney's Office, where he pros­ BUSH) prosecuted homicide, kidnap­ emphasizing immigration law for corpora­ ecutes political corruption and election ping, and sexual assault felonies until 1995, tions, professionals, and investors. The fraud. W . ANTHONY WILLOUGHBY when her son, Benjamin Bush, was born. firm represents a number of emerging focuses on litigation at the Beverly Hills She now focuses on motions and appeals technology companies, as well as individu­ firm of Willoughby & Associates. GAIL with the San Diego County District als from Western Europe and Asia. The M . ZATZ is the legal research coordina­ Attorney's Office. MARISA L. FERMIN firm's original office is located in San tor for the Vermont Governor's Commis­ is Vice President of Business and Legal Diego. Pearl opened the San Francisco sion on Women for six mon ths of the Affairs for 20th Television (Fox) in Los office in 1995. DAVID C . POWELL year. For the other six months, she leads Angeles. She wrote in January that she is joined the San Francisco office of Los Inn-to-Inn bicycle tours for Bike Vermont. expecting her second child. Dara, her first, Angeles-based Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & is now five years old. LESLIE R . KATZ Younger as an associate in August 1996. was featured in the October 29, 1996, issue He litigates commercial disputes on behalf of the San Francisco Examiner. She was of financial institutions and handles real CLASS OF '88 elected to the San Francisco Board of property litigation. FRANK P . SARRO IRENE B . BUENO serves as the Deputy Supervisors in November 1996. BETH opened his own firm in July 1996 in San Assistant Secretary for Legislation MCGARRY received the Director's Francisco, where he continues to special­ (Congressional Liaison) at the Depart­ Award fo r Superior Performance from ize in labor and employment law. ment of Health and Human Services in Attorney General Janet Reno in March SUZANNE I. "SHOSHANA" Washington, D.c. Her profile appeared in 1996. McGarry focuses on employment SCHILLER joined Astor Weiss Kaplan the Manila Mail on September 4, 1996 .

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B RIAN K . CONDON , formerly a share­ same office. TODD A . SPITZER wa hIder with Quinn, Kully and Morrow, elected to the Orange ounty Board of ha j ined the Los Angeles office of the Supervisors in the Third Di trict. He i a national law firm of Arnold & Porter. deputy district attorney for Orang GAIL A . F L ESHER is a partner at the County, where he won the Outstanding ew York City firm of Davis Polk & Prosecutor Award in 1992. RACHEL A . Wardwell, where she practices environ­ VAN CLEAVE recently returned from mental law and corporate transactional Rome, Italy, where she spent six month law. L Y NETTE M . FREDIANI practices as a Fulbright Scholar conducting busine s litigation at the Santa Cruz firm research on Italy's criminal justice system. of Baskin & Grant. JOAN KRAJEWSKI She is an Assistant Professor at Texas 1i ch is a partner in the environmental section University School of Law. JOHN B . of the Dallas firm of Gardere & Wynne, VON PASSENHEIM has part owner­ L.L.P. T. GREGORY LANIER was pro­ Rickey A. Green ('89) ship in the oldest bar in San Diego, along moted to partner at the Palo Alto office with maintaining his solo practice which of Cooley Godward, L.L.P. His practice focuses on entertainment law. includes securities and general business ing on prison inmate civil rights and litigation. L Y N BETH NEYLON gradu­ habeas corpus, is now Director of the over­ ated "with Distinction" from Georgetown seas department at the Jewish Commun­ CLASS OF '90 University Law Center with an LL.M. in ity Federation of San Francisco. MARY JOHN C . CUSKER serves as assistant international and comparative law in May GUILFOYLE LEUPOLD was elevated to regional counsel for the Social Security 1996. She is now the Executive Director partner at the San Francisco office of Administration in San Francisco. He pre­ and co-founder of Human Rights Access, Hancock, Rothert & Bunshoft, L.L.P. She viously was with the Pasadena office. a nonprofit international human rights is a member of the firm's employment law PATRICK E . MEYERS left the Denver organization in Washington, D.C. practice, with particular expertise in the CAROLE R . ROSSI became an associ­ Americans with Disabilities Act. CHERI ate at the San Francisco firm of Hanson, D . LOVE has opened a solo practice in Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos & Rudy in Monterey, continuing in the areas of pub­ December 1996. She served as the lic entity representation and construc­ Assistant General Counsel at the State tion, which she practiced at Lozano Smith Bar of California in San Francisco for five Smith Woliver & Behrens. MARY B . years before returning to the firm's labor NEUMAYR left the San Francisco office and employment section. of Coudert Brothers in September to join the San Francisco office of LeBouef, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, where she prac­ tices antitrust and general commercial lit­ CLASS OF '89 igation. COLLEEN O 'GRADY­ SHARON SHAW CRULL was elevated DIAMOND had a baby boy, Christopher, to partner at the San Francisco firm of and was promoted to senior counsel of Gordon & Rees. Her practice focuses on the state regulatory group at Pacific medical devices litigation. MARK W. Telesis in San Francisco. MCGREGOR DANIS was elected partner at the San W. SCOTT is a prosecutor in the Contra Francisco office of Morrison & Foerster, Costa County District Attorney's Office L.L.P., where he is a litigator. GREGORY firm of Moye, Giles, O'Keefe, Vermeire & in Martinez. He recently married Jennifer L. FEINBERG has joined Medical Gorrell, L.L.P., to become Vice President Urbanski, who is also a prosecutor in the Analysis Systems, Inc., a Camarillo compa­ and General Counsel for The Quizno's ny, as its General Counsel and Director of Corporation in Denver. Quizno's is a pub­ Intellectual Properties. RICKEY A . lic company that franchises quick service GREEN is a partner at the San Jose firm restaurants nationwide. PAUL A . HiTech Law. He specializes in tax law and PETERS has returned to the San teaches federal income taxation on the Francisco firm of Kaufman & Logan's adjunct faculty at Santa Clara University. business litigation/ insurance coverage He is a member of the State Bar of group, where he had practiced from 1992 California's Executive Committee and to 1995. During the past two years, he past President of the Santa Clara County practiced with the Chicago law firm of Bl ack Lawyers Association. He also was Clausen Miller, P.c. STEPHEN ALAN selected the Northern California Tennis RAY joined the senior administration of Pl ayer of the Year in 1994. R E BEC CA Harvard Law School as Director of LANDES , after six years as a staff attor­ Academic Affairs. In October 1996, he ney with the U. . District Court for the married Donna Harada. JAY M . Ross Ea tern District of California concentrat- was elevated to partner at the San Jose

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business law firm of Hopkins & Carl ey. and B R IAN F. VAN VLECK announce ROBERT M . COELHO is an attorney His practice focuses on commercial, bank­ the birth of Audrey Nicole Lopez Van with the Law Offices of J. Michael Bewley. ing, and construction litigation. JASON Vleck on June 26, 1996. ALICIA L. He has relocated to the firm's new office C . SCHAFFER has joined the QUEEN is a criminal defense attorney in San Jose, where he continues to focus California Supreme Courts civil ce ntral and a member of the National Lawyers on employment and personal injury li tiga­ staff as a se nior attorney. He was previous­ G uild Affirmative Action Committee. tion. KRISTIN M . DIAMOND is associ­ ly an associate in the San Francisco offi ce She was featured in the Mendo cino ate general counsel at VLSI Technology, of Baker & MacKenzie. In April, he and Beacon on October 17, 1996, which high­ Inc., a semiconductor company in San CYNT HIA MCGOWAN ('90) celebrat­ lighted her participation in debates on Jose. She works on intellectual property ed the birth of their so n, Aaron Bruce. Propo ition 209. B RUCE A . W AGMAN and technology li censing matters. MIC KI S . SINGER was elevated to is an associate at the San Francisco law Previously, she worked as counsel at partner in the San Francisco office of firm of Morgenstein and Jubelirer. Intermedia Partners in San Francisco. M . Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold. She DIAN E M . W ILCZY N SKI celebrated the CATHERINE GEORGE works for the practices in the area of products li abili ty. birth of her daughter, Sophie Marie, in Washington, D.C., firm of Sutherland, ADAM S . WARSHAW recently opened June 1996 in Kingwood, Texas. Asbill & Brennan, L.L.P. ROBIN K . his own firm, where his emphasis is con­ GREGORY A . ZLOTNICK , a former JEPSEN is a solo practitioner in Carmel, struction law, insurance bad faith law, real water policy analyst for the state where she focuses on estate planning and estate law, and general civil litigation. Department of Fish and Game, was elect­ tax matters. She recently married ed Director of the Santa Clara Valley Anthony Lorenz of Santa Monica. Water District's fifth district. He has ANNEMARIE KAISER is a partner served in several key water policy posi­ with the San Diego firm of Knobbe, CLASS OF '91 tions as an appointee of Gov. Pete Wilson. Martens, Olsen & Bear. She focuses on LAUREN M .S . BOLFANGO began her intellectual property law. KENNETH W . fifth year with the three-attorney civil lit­ MULLER has returned to San Francisco igation firm of Eugene L. Bass in and is working for the firm of Jeffer, Redwood City, which emphasizes con­ Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, L.L.P., where struction matters. She argued before the he focuses on business litigation. California Appellate Court last year and won (with sanctions award). The award received coverage in T he Recorder. "Everything is A-OK!" THOMAS A. CLASS OF '93 COHEN was featured in the August 29, TERESA SEXTON COLE is a staff 1996, issue of the San Francisco Daily attorney at Rappahannock Legal Services Journal. The former fi lmmaker is spear­ in Culpeper, Virginia. Formerly, she heading a class action suit on behalf of worked at the American Bar Association's several hundred fi lmmakers, producers, Commission on Domestic Violence in and movie owners regarding the alloca­ Washington, D.C. Her son, Jackson tion of contract royalties. ROCIO L. Sawyer Cole, was born in October 1994. CORDOBA practices public interest law ADAM J . GILLMAN, who practices (women's rights/civil rights) at the New with the Irvine firm of Bryan Cave, L.L.P., York City office of The NOW Legal recently married Michele McCain of Defense and Education Fund. Previously, North Tustin. PAUL JAHN recently Gregory A. Zlotnick ('91) E . she worked with the A merican C ivil completed a clerkship for the Honorable Liberties Union in New York and Ill inois. Claudia Wilken, U.S. District Court, LEAH SUE GOLDBERG joined the Northern District of California. He is San Francisco fi rm of H anson, Bridgett, now practicing civil litigation, with an Marcus, Vlahos & Rudy in the environ­ CLASS OF '92 emphasis in technology cases, with mental law section. Her practice focuses STACEY L. BENNETTS is an attorney Friedman Ross & Hersh, P.c., in San on hazardous waste remediation and cost for the Washington Appellate Project in Francisco. Jahn was a litigation associate recovery, underground storage tanks, Seattle. She recently married DENNIS P . with Morrison & Foerster before his clean air and clean water, with a special CARROLL ('94), a staff attorney for the clerkship. GAYLE I. JENKINS moved emphasis on Brownfields agreements and Public Defender Association in Seattle. with a group of six partners and four asso­ strategies, and condemnation and acquisi­ KRISTOFER W . BIORN, formerly with ciates from Adams Duque & Hazeltine to tion of contaminated properties. REED Gordon & Rees, is now a partner with the Thelen, Marrin, Johnson & Bridges in Los R. HEIMBECHER practices intellectual Palo Alto firm of Crist, Griffiths, Schulz Angeles. Her practice focuses on life and property law with Dorsey & W hitney in & Biorn, A.P.C. KAREN C . CARRERA health insurance litigation. LT. JOHN Denver. JANETTE G . LEONIDOU is a deputy city attorney at the San C . KAUFFMAN recently completed a became a partner at the San Mateo office Francisco City Attorney's Office, code tour as defense and trial counsel in Pearl of Simpson, Aherene & Garrity. She spe­ enforcement unit. She fi les complaints Harbor and is assigned as Command cializes in construction law with a focus against landlords who fail to comply with Judge Advocate on the U.S.S. Nimitz on civil litigation. MELINDA R . LOPEZ the city's housing and health codes. (CVN 68), home ported in Bremerton,

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a, hington. WARREN D . KELLY ha Parr at the United tate Tax ourt in joined the River ide firm of Thoma Mort Wa hington, D .., and "loving it. Thi i & Pros er. Hi practice focu es on con­ the best job anyone could ever imagine. 1 struction defect, product defect, and toxic can't believe they pay me for working tort litigation. TODD D . MAYO earned there!" SANDRA D. MATTHEWS i a a LL.M. in taxation from the University staff investigator for Public Intere t of Florida and formed his own firm in Investigations in Los Angeles, focu ing on Amherst, New Hampshire, where he civil right and constitutional law cases. focu es on tax law and exempt organiza­ FRANNIE S. MOK-WANG i the prin­ tions. STEWART S . PHARIS practices cipal attorney of the Law Office of bankruptcy law with the Cleveland office Frannie S. Mok-Wang, with office in of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern downtown San Francisco and Oakland. District, Ohio. S . NIALL VIGNOLES She has a general practice with emphasi took a leave of absence from the San on immigration, family, housing, estate Francisco City Attorney's Office to be planning, consumer bankruptcy, busine s Associate Director for the 1996 Leslie S. Hyman ('94) transactions, and litigation. Her child , Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta. Nathan, is two years old. SARA J . JUSTIN X. WANG is co-founder and MOODy-JEWETT practices criminal managing partner of the six-attorney firm Problems and Recurring Issues" at defense for the San Diego County Public of Baughman & Wang, which has offices Hastings' "Beat the Clock" MCLE pro­ Defender's Office. Her daughter, Montana in San Francisco and San Jose. A 20- gram in January 1997. CARL A . Lynne Jewett, was born in October 1995. minute documentary film about him will F ALSTROM is an associate with the San WILLIAM M . MOSELLE graduated be shown in China soon. PETER M .D . Francisco firm of Munro Nelon & Pearl. from the Ya le School of Management in WONG was appointed to a one-year term His focus is immigration law. TRAVIS M . May 1996. He is working as a manager of on the Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, GEMOETS is an associate at Sheppard the corporate strategic planning depart­ Canady, Falk & Rabkin's Administrative Mullin Richter & Hampton, L.L.P, in Lo ment at Advanced Micro Devices in Committee. He is an associate in the Angeles. He focuses on labor and employ­ Sunnyvale. BRAIN D. PETERS has firm's corporate department at the San ment law. EVA Guo is a regional repre­ joined the Los Angeles firm of Knapp, Francisco headquarters office. sentative for U.S. Senator Harry Reid in Marsh, Jones & Doran, where he practices Las Vegas. HOLLY L. HOLDREGE, an business law and litigation. associate for the past two years with Kirkpatrick & Lockhard in Pittsburgh, CLASS OF '94 relocated to Los Angeles to join Morgan, STEVEN P . ALLEN recently accepted Lewis & Bockius as a corporate associate. CLASS OF '95 a position as Program Director of Legal LESLIE S. HYMAN joined the San RACHELLE BADAL is working on gen­ Services at the Center for Community Antonio firm of Cox & Smith, Inc., in eral corporate matters as an attorney for Solutions in San Diego, specializing in the litigation department, where she VLSI Technology, Inc., a semiconductor domestic/ family violence intervention, devotes her practice to commerciallitiga­ company in San Jose. MICHAEL A . education, prevention, advocacy, and liti­ tion. Previously, she clerked for the BONANNO, GREG N. SARAB , and gation. JULIA ( PUGLIESE) Honorable Edward C. Prado in the U.s. ADAM M . WASSERMAN started Sarab, ALLOGGIAMENTO practices litigation Di trict Court for the Western District of Wasserman Associates, L.P, in San at the San Francisco firm of Morrison & Texas. ANNE W . LACKEY was recently Francisco, which has developed the Foerster, L.L.P ERICA S. BEHRENS is hired as a capital punishment appeals Examinator software application permit­ an associate in business litigation with the lawyer for the U.S. District Court for the ting students to use their own laptop downtown Los Angeles firm of Northern Disrrict of California. She ha computers for essay exams with no possi­ Monteleone & McCrory. SOMNATH R . worked for the past two years as an attor­ bility of cheating. ALAN E . CHATTERJEE joined the San Francisco ney with the disrrict's Federal Public BUERGENTHAL is an associate in the firm of Morrison & Foerster, L.L.P, in Defender's Office. MYRA K . corporate practice group of the January 1997. KRISTIN WHIPPLE LEVENSON , a social security specialist, Columbus, Ohio, law office of Squire, DALE moved to Denver in the summer served as the guest lecturer for the Sanders & Dempsey. Previously, he of 1996 and is an associate with Davis, Hastings Civil Justice Clinic's introducto­ clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals, Graham & Stubbs in the litigation depart­ ry session on social security law during Sixth Circuit. LISA M . BURKDALL ment. MATTHEW D . DISCO continues the fall 1996 term. JOH N M . joined the tax and trusts and estates to make use of his Hastings Civil Justice LIVINGSTONE attended the University department at Musick, Peeler & Garrett Clinic rrial experience as part of his busi­ of Florida Graduate Tax Program, receiv­ in Los Angeles as an associate. GARRY ness rransactional practice at Pill bury, ing an LL.M. degree in taxation in 1995. K . COHEN is an associate with the Madison & Surro in San Francisco. He then went to work for the Office of plaintiff-side personal injury firm of KATHLEEN T. D Y ER, who practices Chief Counsel, IRS, at the National Wartnick, Chaber, Harowitz, Smith & with Clarence & Snell in San Francisco, Office in Washington, o.c. He is now Tigerman in San Francisco, where he pri­ delivered a presentation on the topic of clerking for the Honorable Carolyn Miller marily handles toxic torts litigation. "Bia in the Legal Profession: New THOMAS M. COREA is a commercial

:; t- litigator with Tiffany & Bosco, PA., in write short stories. BRADFORD K . Lucasfilm expansion project, is now prac­ Phoenix. He and hi s wife, Jenni, a teacher, N EWMAN is an as ociate with Jeffer, ticing environmental law for the recently celebrated the birth of their first Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, L.L.P, in its Resolution Law Group, pc., in Lafayette. child, Mary Kate. NATHANAEL M . San Francisco office. E NID Y . RIVER A MIC H AEL K . N IETO, formerly a litiga­ COUSINS finished one yea r at the Los has joined the A ndrew V Mellon tion associate with McCutchen, Doyle, Angeles firm of Greenberg Glusker Fields Foundation in Brooklyn as a program Brown & Enersen, is now a deputy dis­ Claman & Machtinger and now clerks for ass istant. LAURE N KN U DSEN trict attorney in the Alameda County the Honorable EA. Little, Jr., U.S. District S C HOE N T H A L ER completed her clerk­ District Attorney's Office. M A TTHEW Court, Western District, Loui siana. ship for the Honorable A. Wallace D . RUY A K focuses on civil litigation SCOTT J . HAUSWIRTH joined "Tashima of the 9'h Ci rcuit U.S. Court of and labor and employment law at the Freeland Cooper LeHocky & Hamburg's Appeals. Her clerkship also spanned the Fresno firm of Jory, Peterson, Watkins & litigation practice in San Francisco as an ti me he sat with the U.s. District Cou rt, Smith. AMY E . S C HEFFLER is an asso­ assoc iate. Formerly, he was with the Santa Central District of California. Schoen­ ciate with the law firm of Brobeck, Barbara firm of Schramm & Radue. thaler has joined Pillsbury Madison & Phleger & Harrison in San Francisco. Her DOROTHY L. HINES completed her Sutro in San Francisco. ERIC A J . current area of emphasis is employment clerkship for the Honorable Ronald M. TEASLEY recently took a seven-month law. S T EPH E N E . SMITH is an attor­ Whyte, U.S. District Court, Northern leave from he r position as a litigation asso­ ney-advisor for the Office of ciate with Steefel, Levitt & Weiss to serve Administrative Law Judges for the U.S. as Northern California Campaign Department of Labor, where he conducts Coordinator of the Campaign to Defeat legal research and drafts opinions for the Proposition 209, for which she was recent­ judges. The cases he works on are based on ly honored by the Minority Bar Coalition. disability payments for longshore and har­ bor workers, as well as coal miners with black lung disease. EVAN R . SOREM moved to San Diego after graduation and CLASS OF '96 started work in the commercial law and JACOB BRAY is working with private fin ancial institutions group at the firm of practitioner CANDACE C . DAVEN­ Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich. PORT ('75) in her San Rafael social ROLAND K . TELLIS is an associate security practice, where he puts to direct with the Los Angeles office of Baker & use the knowledge and experience gleaned Hostetler. at the Hastings Civil Justice Clinic. A la n E. Buergenthal ('95) ANTONY E . BUCHIGNANI'S "Wedge of Doom" took first place in the Third Annual Robot Wars competition held at District of California and has joined the Fort Mason in San Francisco last August. Palo Alto office of Fenwick & West as an CARYN L. CRAIG is an associate with associate in the corporate/securities the San Diego firm of Best, Best & group. JOSEPH A . LEVIN is a public Krieger. MICHAEL J . CUMMINS is an defender with the Defender Association associate with Derby, Cook, Quinby & of Philadelphia. MELISSA A . Tweadt in San Francisco. YOUNG-CHUL LUNDSTEDT is practicing general cor­ DHONG practices international business porate and commercial law with White & transactions and intellectual property law Case in the firm's Moscow office, where with the Central International Law Firm she plans to stay for the next three years. in Seoul, Korea. JASON A . HOBSON CARLA M . MILLER completed her is a junior transaction lawyer at the San clerkship for the Honorable Cecil E Poole, Francisco firm of Cadwalader & Watters. of the 9th Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals, His practice focuses on corporation and and joined Morrison & Foerster, L.L.P, as real estate law. JOSHUA M . KORAN is an associate in the New York City office. pursuing an MBA at St. Peter's College in ROXANNE M . DIAZ MONTGOMERY Oxford, England. ROBERT L. practices municipal law and civillitiga­ McKAGUE works in the legal division tion at the Los Angeles firm of Richards, of the Board of Governors of the Federal Watson & Gershan. In October 1996 she Reserve System in Washington, o.c. married James Montgomery. JOH N F. MICHELLE M . MITCHEL L received NARDIZZI is working for the investiga­ the State Bar's Earl Johnson, Jr., Fell owship tion firm of Palladino & Sutherland in to support her work at La Raza Central San Francisco. Among the cases he han­ Legal in San Francisco. MIC H AEL O. dles are ones involving toxic clean-ups, NELSON, after a busy fall helping to run libel, and police misconduct. Nardizzi a campaign in Monterey County and recently married, and he continues to working for George Lucas on h is

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