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As President of the Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association, I admitted a slight bias. Nonetheless, I was not hesitant to brag about recent events. Although several months have passed since we celebrated the major renovation of our law school building, now known as Wolstein Hall, many are still discovering our new law school home, along with its improved classrooms, offices and clinic areas. Soon, our new technologically advanced trial courtroom will be unveiled - thanks to the continued generosity of the Cleveland-Marshall community. In addition to bragging about the physical transformation of our law school building, I also boasted of a new sense of pride and a renewed energy at the law school. We are proud of our improved bar passage rates, continued fund-raising success, and other student and faculty achievements too numerous to mention here. My year as president of the Law Alumni Association has given me the unique opportunity to witness numer ous examples of this renewed energy: the alumni association's effort to establish a new fund to help students defray the cost of preparing for and taking the bar exam in addi tion to its continued efforts to provide scholarship dollars, graduation class fund-rais ing challenges, and stepped-up efforts to provide employment opportunities, to name a few. I have always been proud to be a Cleveland-Marshall graduate. I am grateful that Cleveland-Marshall continually strives to provide new reasons to renew that pride. Sincerely, ( .- vffi7) k4d(?" Stacey McKinley, Class of 1997 ) ~STATEUHNE~SI'N ~UAIIAMAlLCClLEGE Of~ Law Notes JUN 2 4 2010 Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association News Contents Academic Year 2010-2011 2 An Interim Provost: Our cover artist: Geoffrey S. Mearns August F. Biehle, Jr. (1885-1979) Cleveland Artists Foundation Col lection 3 An Interim Dean: Phyllis L. Crocker 4 2010 Alumni Honorees: Frank G. Jackson Opaque watercolor (gouache) was a favorite medium of Au gust Biehle's while he was attending Henry Keller 's summer and Gary S. Adams school in Berlin Heights, Ohio. Kel ler and his students-who also included Frank Wilcox, Clara Deike, and Grace Kelly 10 Living and Learning Law in Summer would have been surrounded by scenes such as that in Hill Public Interest Fellowships: side in Berlin Heights. The expressive, bold color (notably in the bright blue used to define shapes and render shadows) 14 Living and Learning through CIMILAW that characterize the painting is a result of the influence of Keller, who was at the time heavily inspired by Fauvi sm and Extern ships Post Impressionism. The son of German immigrants, Au gust Biehle was a lifelong Clevelander. He apprenticed with his 16 Dworken & Bernstein, Patrick Perotti father and studied in Munich, Germany, as we ll as wi th and Cy Pres Cleveland School masters. During the days of the WPA he was awarded many public commissions, some of which are 18 Two New Faculty Members: Gwendolyn still on display at the Cleveland Public Li brary. Roberts Majette and John T. Plecnik Cleveland Artists Foundation was founded in 1984 by Cleve land-based artists, patrons, and collectors who recognized 20 Moot Court Teams Triumph th e need to estab li sh an organization that would preserve, research, collect, and exhibit the most significant visual art 21 A Class Action: Graduation of the Northeast Ohio region. CAF has become the premier Challenge 201 0 center for the art of Northeast Ohio-Dwing both to its sig nificant collecting initiative, and to its commitment to cre 22 Life Members ative exhibition planning and educational outreach. www.clevelandartists.org 27 Professor Kevin Francis O'Neill 32 Pipeline Programs Continue to Thrive at CIMILAW 34 Marie Rehmar and Gary Williams Retire Volume 19 Executi ve Editor: 35 Alumni Happenings Mary McKenna Editor: 43 Faculty and Staff in the News Louise F. Mooney Graphic Design: Szilagyi Communication Design Prin ter: Northern Ohio Printing Photo Credits : Mary McKenna and Bill Rieter We hope you enjoy this new issue of Law Notes and ask that you conti nue to contri bute and respond to in formation in thi s and future issues of Law No tes. Special thanks to Leon M. Plevin '57, Donald F. Traci ' 55, Susan L. Grage! '80, Daniel R. McCarthy '54 and Sheldon Sager for thei r commitment in support of this publication. The CMLAA Board ofTru stees is dedicated to serving the alumni, students, facu lty and staff of the College of Law. For comments and suggestions, please contact the Law Alumni Association Office at 2 16-687-2368 or by email at [email protected] io.edu Law Notes, issued by the Cleveland-Marsha ll Law Alumni Association 2 12 1 Eucli d Avenue, LB 12 1 Cleveland, Ohio 44 11 5 Spring 2010 1 Geoffrey S. Mearns is the Interim Provost of Cleveland State University eoffrey s: Mearns joined the University on July II, 2005 , as the 13th Dean of the Clev.eland-Marshall College of Law. On January 28, 2010, CSU President Ronald M. Berkman announced Dean Mearns 's appointment as the University's Interim Provost. In 2005 , two immediate challenges confronted the new dean: supervisingG the renovation of the 30-year-old law school building and meeting the terms of the Wolstein scholarship challenge grant. In 2004, Mrs. Iris S. Wolstein donated $5 million to the law school in honor of her husband, the late Bert L. Wolstein '53. The $5 million gift would support the restoration of the aging law school building- a gift appropriate to the memory of one of the region's most successful real estate developers. Mrs. Wolstein's generosity did not end with the $5 million gift. She also offered to match every dollar, up to $1,250,000, donated to the law school 's Bert L. Wolstein and Iris S. Wolstein Scholarship Fund. Over the next four years, 22,000 square feet of the old library space were reconfigured and renovated to create new clinic offices, new classrooms and a handsome faculty presentation room, while 4,700 square feet were added to the Euclid Avenue fa<;:ade to create a new front entrance, the new Jones Day conference room and three light-filled floors of reception and study space. By 2008, over a thousand alumni , friends, law firms and corporate supporters had donated funds necessary to match Mrs. Wolstein's challenge. The Wolstein Scholarship Fund is a resource for generations of law students to come. Dean Mearns also helped strengthen the law schools externship program, established its Center for Health Law and Policy and the Community Health Advocacy Law Clinic, encouraged faculty and student multicultural recruitment, supported programs that increased our students' bar passage rates, supervised the development of innovative marketing materials, and initiated a review of the curriculum to assure the law school continues to meet the demands of contemporary lawyering. A successful and enterprising development officer, last year he inaugurated the law school 's newest fund-raising campaigns: the creation of a state-of-the-art Trial Courtroom that will open in the fall of 20 I I and the ambitious million dollar Fund for Excellence, which will support faculty research and scholarship, increase student scholarship funds, create additional academic centers of excellence and enhance the reputation and prestige of the law school. In his role as Professor of Law, Geoffrey Mearns has been a popular and respected faculty member, teaching courses in Criminal Law and White Collar Crime. In his role as Dean, he has sought students' insights and counsel on a number of law school projects. ln addition, he has fully understood the implications of serving as head of a public law school and has been an effective exponent of the law school's importance to the legal profession in Northeast Ohio. He spoke often to our students of the lawyer's responsibility to serve the public and encouraged participation in the law school's Pro Bono Program projects. Geoffrey Mearns will serve as Interim Provost until a permanent Provost is appointed. In the meantime, he will be as winning and persuasive an advocate for the University as he has been for the law school. And that will be good for the University, the law school and the City of Cleveland. 2 Law Notes Phyllis L. Crocker is the Interim Dean of Cleveland-Marshall College of Law During my tenure as Interim Dean I will work to ensure tliat we continue to exemplifY Learn Law. Live Justice. We will continue to attract academically strong and di verse students, to expand opportunities for our students to become ready to practice, to support our faculty's schol arly pursuits and commitment to rigorous education ofour students, to engage our graduates-in short to be part of the legal community. I look forward to working with all of you in these endeavors. -Interim Dean Phyllis L. Crocker, March 2010 Gavel column n March 1, Cleveland State University President Ronald M. Berkman an nounced his appointment of Associate Dean Phyllis L. Crocker as Interim 0Dean of Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. Dean Crocker replaces Dean Geoffrey S. Mearns who will serve as Cleveland State's Interim Provost until a petmanent Provost is appointed. . . Dean Crocker is a graduate of Yale University and Northeastern Umverstty Cleveland-Marshall's School of Law. Following her law school graduation, she clerked for the Hon Pioneer Women Faculty orable Warren J. Ferguson in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Our law school employed the first woman law faculty Circuit and was subsequently an associate in a small Chicago law firm special- member in Ohio , Grace Doering McCord, Class of izing in complex federal litigation. . 1932. Three decades later, in 1968, the late Ann Al From 1989 until 1994, Dean Crocker worked as a staff attorney m the fed drich joined the law faculty and became one of the first erally funded Texas Resource Center in Austin, Texas, where she person~lly tenured women law faculty members in Ohio. Profes represented and joined with other attorneys across the country m rep~esentmg sor Aldrich created the Moot Court Program and the death row inmates in state and federal post-conviction appeals. Dunng those LCOP Program.ln 1980, she left teaching to become the years, she served as co-counsel in Herrera v. Collins, 506 U.S. 390 (1993). Her first woman appointed to the U.S . District Court for the work on behalf of incarcerated persons and her subsequent scholarshtp reflect Northern District of Ohio. In the 1970s, Professors Joan her personal commitment to assuring the rights of those accused of and con Baker, Lizabeth A. Moody and Jane M. Picker joined victed of criminal acts. the faculty. Professors Moody and Picker founded the A member of the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law faculty since 1994, she Women's Law Fund in 1973. Professor Picker founded is the author of numerous articles examining constitutional issues surrounding the Gender Discrimination in Employment Clinic in 1972 capital punishment and the racial and cultural factors often implicated i? capital (now the Employment Law Clinic) and, during the late convictions and sentencing. In 2004, the ABA named her chatr of the Ohto Death 1980s, the Summer Institute for Law Students in St. Penalty Assessment Team, part of an eight-state study to _assess _impartiality in the Petersburg, Russia . Professor Picker, now Professor administration of the death sentence. The project report, tssued m 2007, dtsclosed Emerita, retired from teaching in 2002 and founded serious inequities in the way the state's death penalty is administered, addressed RUSLEF, a nonprofit organization sponsoring Russian these failings with specific recommendations and called for a temporary suspen law students studying in America. In 1986, Professor sion of executions. Dean Crocker is co-author of the widely respected KATz & Moody was named the first woman Interim Dean of the GIANNELLI, BALDWIN'S OHIO PRACTICE: CRIMINAL LAW (3'd ed. , 2009) and is a law school and was elected the first woman President frequent guest lecturer on capital punishment. . . . of the Cleveland Bar Association. In 1994, she left our As Associate Dean since 2006, Dean Crocker has been mstrumental m build law school to head Stetson University College of Law, ing a strong adjunct faculty, increasing diversity in student and faculty recruit where she is now Distinguished Professor of Law and ment and creating new opportunities in career development. She has also been Dean Emerita. She has been honored throughout the invol~ed in faculty efforts to strengthen the curriculum and maintain our stu profession for her service as a lawyer and her advocacy dents' high bar passage rates. of women in the profession. Professor Baker retired in Dean Crocker has brought a high level of integrity and competency to her 1995, a revered teacher who, as Professor Emerita, has service as teacher, scholar, public servant and administrator. The faculty, staff continued to tutor students for the Ohio Bar Exam. The and students of Cleveland-Marshall College of Law congratulate her on her contributions of these pioneer faculty members en appointment as Interim Dean and express their confidence in her_lea?ership as riched the law school curriculum and, ultimately, helped we continue to build a law school where students learn law and hve JUSttce. diversity the legal profession in Northeast Ohio. Today Dean Crocker lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, with her husband, Jeff Cory there are 23 women teaching law at Cleveland-Marshall ell, and their two Golden Retrievers. College of Law. Spring 201 0 3 Congratulations to the 201 0 Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association Honorees: 4 Law Notes The Honorable Gary S. Adams Frank G. Jackson Past President of the Greater Mayor of Cleveland, Class of 1983 Cleveland Automobile Dealers' Association, Class of 1983 rank Jackson has one of the most difficult jobs in America: He is the Mayor of the City of Cleveland. ary S. Adams is an enthusiast, an expansive hard It is a city that he knows like the palm of his hand. driving, hard-working man who it is good to have on The son of an interracial, intercultural marriage be your team. The law school and its students have been tween an Italian mother and an African American fa- fortunate in his advocacy and friendship. ther,F the Mayor lives today on the street in the Central City And, as we shall see, so have thousands of employ area where he was raised- a cluster of streets that, nowa eesG of the automobile industry. days, demographers would label an "inner city" neighbor Gary was born and raised in Akron, Ohio. Pete Adams, his fa hood. He attended Cleveland elementary schools, graduated ther, worked in the aerospace industry for many years, and his from Max Hayes High School and then enlisted in the United mother, Pinky, remained at home raising Gary and his brother, States Army during the Vietnam War. Returning to his home Terry. Pete Adams died in 1972; Mrs. Adams lives in Florida town, he enrolled in Cuyahoga Community College, received and is a healthy 89-year-old. an associate degree and completed his bachelor's degree at A graduate of Walsh Jesuit High School in Cuyahoga Falls, Cleveland State University. But he was not satisfied that his Ohio, Gary earned his undergraduate degree in business admin education was complete: He earned a Master of Public Ad istration from Mount Union College, in Alliance, Ohio, where ministration degree at CSU's Levin College of Urban Affairs he participated in NCAA football and golf. And, sometime dur and, afterwards, while working as a night clerk in the Cleve ing his college years, this Jesuitically educated former altar land municipal Court, studied law at Cleveland-Marshall. He boy from the Midwest learned to play and love an inscrutable, has been married to Edwina Jackson since 1975 and is step quintessentially British sport: Rugby, a game of labyrinthine father and step-grandfather to Mrs. Jackson's daughter and rules with its own strange vocabulary, as difficult and physical grandchildren. ly challenging as any game on the face of the earth. It is a rough The Mayor is a Cleveland story: ethnic, working class, pub game, wonderful to win-as beloved by boys on the fields of lically educated. Not just a resident, however. He is a Cleve Eton as it is by the sons of Welsh coalminers, and now becom land citizen, as deep-rooted and solidly grounded as any land ing beloved in the home state and hometown of Gary Adams, a mark. He has not left his city, has not moved to the suburbs and former president of the Cleveland Rugby Club and Ohio Rugby has not sought work outside the geographic area of Northeast Union. Today, he is part of the Greater Cleveland Sports Com Ohio. In his case, we spell Citizen with a capital C. mission's bidding effort to host the 2012 Rugby Golden Oldies A Public Citizen, that is. A man meant to serve the public tournament, a week-long international festival that will bring one whom barriers of class or race could not deter. Following 120 teams from around the globe to our city. Under normal cir his graduation from law school, he worked as a City of Cleve cumstances, selling a tournament of competing "oldies" playing land Assistant Prosecutor. In 1989, he won a seat on the Cleve a foreign football game in Cleveland, a basketball-crazed town land City Council representing his fellow residents in Ward 5, dominated by 20-year-old athletes, would not seem a winning an area as hard hit by the financial downturns of the just-clos proposal. You have to know Gary, or as they say down at the ing Reagan era as any area in America. Low-keyed and taci Q, sit back and "witness." turn, he surprised his fellow councilpersons with his dogged Because, the truth of the matter is that Gary Adams is a hand ness. And doggedness paid off. On the Council, he delivered ful. Perhaps it is because he began working when he was ten close to one-half billion dollars of economic and community and hasn't stopped since, or perhaps it is because the Jesuits investment to his ward, which supported projects like Arbor taught him discipline and perseverance. Whatever the culture Park Place and renovations of the low-income properties oper that created him, any cause he embraces has a splendidly good ated by the Metropolitan Housing Authority. His service was chance of succeeding. not confined to his own ward, however. As Chair of the Com Following his graduation from Mount Union in 1975, Gary munity and Economic Development Committee, he worked to went to work for the Greater Cleveland Automobile Dealers' renew the city's downtown and neighborhoods, he was instru Association. GCADA is an old establishment, founded in 1915, mental in bringing millions of dollars in new investments from the year Henry Ford's company rolled a million Model Ts off Frank Jackson continued on pg. 6 Gary Adams continued on pg. 8 Spring 2010 5 h.------=------ Distinguished Alumni Frank Jackson from pg. 5 the federal government and private sector city used to be. "We have a long and rich neighborhoods through projects like the to neighborhoods throughout the city. history," he reminded his supporters in his Detroit Avenue Streetscape Project, the His successes persuaded his fellow first inaugural address as Mayor. He re Treadway Creek Greenway Restoration & Council members to elect him Council members the factories, the iron ore boats, Trail project and new recreation centers in President in 200 l . During his tenure, City the steel mills, the town's vibrant eth urban neighborhoods. He solicited the aid Council worked to retain jobs, encourage nic culture and schools that were among of the city's business leaders and the sup new businesses and growth in the city, and the finest in the nation. And, again, per port of suburban mayors in developing a improve the quality of life for people in haps because he remembers what his city plan for regionalism. He pledged to make Cleveland_ But all was not well. used to be. He remembers the struggles of Cleveland a model "green" city and insti The relationships between Cleveland's black workers for job equity, the inner tuted a Five-Year Capital Improvement Mayors and City Council Presidents have city schools that were among the worst in Plan to rebuild the city's crumbling infra often been contentious, fabled even, and the nation and the riots that erupted in the structures, its parks, playgrounds, and city always open to the public_ So too, Council 1970s following decades of racial tension. streets. He presided over the stunning ren- "I have seen this city knocked flat on its back, and I have seen it struggle to its feet again-courageous in the face of adver sity, determined when confronted with challenges, resolute in its refusal never to give up." President Jackson increasingly found him "I don't want Cleveland to be a ... city ovations along the Euclid Corridor, sup- . self in disagreement with the mayor. In that has lost hope," he told the crowds of ported the Medical Mart proposals and be April 2005, he announced his candidacy clergy, politicians, and supporters on Janu gan a campaign, "Art in Everything," to for Mayor of Cleveland; in the following ary 2, 2006, the day he was sworn into of call attention to the city's rich artistic and November, he won the mayoralty with 55 fice, not in the great atrium of Cleveland's cultural resources: from the Cleveland Or percent of the vote. He is the 56th Mayor majestic City Hall but- symbolically chestra to the Cleveland Museum of Art of Cleveland, the first City Council Pres in the gymnasium of East Technical High to the city's ethnic celebrations and its ident to be elected Mayor since 1867, the School, a school in need and at risk. many fine examples of public and domes city's third African American mayor and The Mayor spoke then, and speaks now, tic architecture. the fourth Cleveland-Marshall College of of the city he envisions: "I have seen this And that's not all: As the Mayor not Law graduate to serve as Cleveland May city knocked flat on its back, and I have ed in his 2006 inaugural address, "Ev or. He was preceded by our alumni Ed seen it struggle to its feet again-coura erything begins with education." Accord ward Blythin '16, Frank Lausche '21, geous in the face of adversity, determined ing to Assistant Dean Louise P. Dempsey and Carl B. Stokes '56. when confronted with challenges, resolute '81, Vice-chair of the Board of the Cleve He has much to keep him busy. Like in its refusal never to give up. If we are land Metropolitan School District, when it most of America's large metropolitan ar going to make Cleveland great again, we comes to schools, the Mayor is "a worka eas, Cleveland is a troubled city, plagued must show our love and passion for Cleve holic," the earnest advocate of our city's by crime, homelessness, foreclosures, the land. We must show our heart and be will youngest citizens. One of his first acts in erosion of its industrial foundations, loss ing to sacrifice for our future." office was to appoint an Education Chief of jobs, a plummeting economy and pov Lofty words aside, the new Mayor be to be a liaison between his office and the erty. Its population is declining, its schools gan like a good steward with the basics: School Board and its CEO. He institut are in trouble, and it is a scramble to hold He urged City Hall to tighten belts and cut ed and enforced a zero-tolerance policy on to one problem long enough to fix it be waste; he forged bonds with the police de against violent acts, and, announcing that fore another rears its head. partment and its chief and worked to im there were no "throwaway" children, he Why does a person take a job like that? prove the department's public relations; he pushed through a generous college schol Perhaps because he remembers what his committed his administration to restoring arship program for graduates of the city 6 Law Notes Distinguished Alumni schools, even those whose performanc millions of dollars in damages, including Stabilization Program funds from the De es had not always been promising. He has lost taxes and money spent demolishing partment of Housing and Urban Develop been persuasive in eliciting the support of and boarding up thousands of abandoned ment. Four hundred cities competed for businesses and the medical industry in de houses. Today, the City Law Director, the awards. Only 56 were successful. The veloping onsite apprenticeships for stu Robert Triozzi, and staff await a hearing in funds will be used in 20 county neighbor dents. He has stayed close to the school the 6th Circuit. Whatever happens, the suit hoods to rehabilitate homes for resale to board and participates in the recent plans has already had one success: It captured low-to-middle-income families, to restore for restoring the integrity of our school sys the attention of the media and the public foreclosed and abandoned housing, to de tem. And he has been on hand when inter in uncovering the relationship between un molish structures that cannot feasibly be nal troubles threatened to demoralize the scrupulous lending practices and the finan rehabilitated, and to expand the Re-Imag students and their teachers. cial crisis that moved inexorably from our ining Cleveland pilot program. Yet, while the Mayor moved imper cities and country across the oceans to Eu The award was encouraging. The pros turbably from one trouble spot to anoth- rope and Asia. pect of stimulus monies from the federal On January 2000, he was sworn into office, not in the great atrium of Cleveland's majestic City Hall but-symbolically-in the gymna sium of East Technical High School, a school in need and at risk. er throughout the city-always reassuring Throughout 2008 and 2009, the city's government is encouraging. The proposed and optimistic, as if there were nothing problems did not abate: troubles with clos reformation of the city school district is en that could not be made right- across the ing the deal for the much-anticipated Med couraging. The prospect of a new Inner Belt country a severe recession was at hand. ical Mart, with escalating unemployment, bridge, the Opportunity Corridor, the West And Cleveland was hard hit. with companies pulling out of the very city Shoreway, the restructured county govern In the wake of the collapse of the sub where they had been founded, and with an ment- all are encouraging. But the most en prime mortgage industry, our city became ongoing media exposure of unprecedented couraging news of all is the Mayor himself. the country's foreclosure capital, the epi corruption within the county government. With so many political figures nationally center of the national crisis with thousands And yet, in 2009, the intrepid Mayor and locally compromising the public trust, of homes lost, families dislodged and dis announced his intention to seek a second it is good to have a leader who chooses as located and neighborhoods transformed term. With the backing of the city's major his campaign motto: "It is what it is." That foreclosed house by foreclosed house- into players- from the Plain Dealer to Con is to say, a leader to stare down the dark desolate patches of urban ruin, the prey of gressional Representatives and Senators ness and deal with the realities that present thieves and drug hustlers. he was returned to office in November and themselves, no matter how disheartening. The Mayor is often characterized as sworn in for the second time as Mayor of According to Mr. Triozzi, "The Mayor be soft-spoken and placid. But, according Cleveland. lieves in the future of Cleveland. He is com to Dean Dempsey, sometimes his moth Kevin J. Kelley '04, Cleveland City mitted to this city like no other public of er's Italian spirit breaks out and speaks Council Majority Whip, who has served the ficeholder I've ever known. As a lawyer, it with passion. Passion was in a 2008 law Ward 13 community since April2005, re is wonderful to have a client who you can suit he helped set in motion against 21 marked of the Mayor, "He has always had trust to come out on the right side of issues. global banks and mortgage companies a great command of the issues. He knows A man with his level of integrity." Deutsche Bank, Bank of America, Cit how to manage a storm." Recently, man The city, with all its multiple problems, igroup, Chase, Countrywide Financial, aging the storm has paid off handsome is what it is, and the Mayor of Cleveland among them- implicated in the mortgage ly. In January, the city, in an alliance with is what he is: not flashy, not grandiose, industry collapse. Cleveland was the first the County Land Reutilization Corpora not carried away by power. An exemplary major city to attempt to push back against tion, Cuyahoga County and the Cuyahoga citizen and public servant. A Cleveland the banks, accusing them of creating a Metropolitan Housing Authority, received er. Just what we need to take hold and set public nuisance and seeking to recover $40.8 million in federal Neighborhood things right. Spring 2010 7 ~------======------=--=------ Gary Adams from pg. 5 its assembly line, and Americans began to He graduated from Cleveland-Marshall thriving. By 2007, however, this home view the automobile as perhaps more than in 1983, and two years later, he married born industry that had fed and clothed a novelty. Today, the organization repre Connie Glaski, whom he had met at a par generations of Americans had entered sents 250 franchised motor vehicle deal ty during Cleveland's Grand Prix. At the danger waters, and by the close of the ers, including new-car, truck, motorcycle time, Connie was working in radio; today, year, the series of crises now known as and R V dealers in a 21-county region of she handles communications, advertising the Great Recession was in full gear. Trig northern Ohio stretching along the Lake and public relations for the Cleveland Au gered by an insolvent and unscrupulous Erie shore and beyond. to Show. Gary and Connie have two chil investment-banking system, the recession Gary has been a "car guy" since child dren: Peter, a 2009 Georgetown Univer reached deep into the pockets of ordinary hood. He remembers the excitement of sity graduate, now an investment banker workers and homeowners, and the auto going downtown with his parents every in Washington, DC, and Katie, a junior at mobile industry was not spared. fall to watch as car dealers pulled down the University of Michigan and a member As Gary explains, " It wasn't just the the papers covering their showcase win of the Wolverines Field Hockey team. manufacturing side of the industry that dows to reveal the lineup of new cars. "It In 1987, Gary was named President of suffered. When the banks pulled the rug ''1 enrolled in the night school. It was a great experi ence. l _admired my fellow students-men and women who worked all day and studied law in the evening.'' was a night of entertainment for us," he the Greater Cleveland Automobile Deal out from under the credit market, car sales recalls, " like a holiday!" ers' Association. He has done well by plummeted, and throughout this part of He began his GCADA career as a floor GCADA, shepherding the association the country, dealerships- some that had manager at the auto show and began mov through regulatory compliance audits, de been owned by families for generations ing up through the ranks. By 1979, though veloping better employee screening pol were forced to close their doors. And it he was on the executive tract, Gary real icies, creating in-house educational pro wasn't just the guys who own dealerships ized that his education was not over. The grams, providing managerial assistance or who sell cars or staff the dealerships complexities of the job, the legal and reg to the association's dealerships and trans who suffered. It was everyone, from the ulatory issues, and, in human terms, the forming the annual Cleveland Auto Show people who sell coffee machines to the challenges of dealing with the concerns into the gala, celebrity-packed production mechanics who repair cars and the guys of over 4,000 employees convinced him that it is today. In 2003, he implement who insure cars, sell tires, car radios and that he needed a law degree. "The com ed a project unique to GCADA and pre sound systems." pany president encouraged me to go to scient in our times. Under his direction, Gary got the picture: "For us, the reces law school," he notes. "I chose Cleveland GCADA created its own human resourc sion was as devastating as it was to the Marshall. es management program. It is a compre building trades and housing industry or "I enrolled in the night school. It was hensive program that offers in-house le any other institution in America"-a vast a great experience. I admired my fellow gal services, an automotive advertising landscape of the unemployed who couldn't students- men and women who worked review program, sales training and work pay their bills, who lost their homes, their all day and studied law in the evening. shops and its own workers and unem savings, their children's college funds, Many were married and had children al ployment compensation program. Its di their hopes for retirement. "One in every ready. You have to be pretty tough to be mensions and sweep are truly remarkable. four Americans has some workplace at able to stand the rigor of the classes and Moreover, while the rest of the country tachment to the automobile industry," he also keep up with your home and work re wrestles with health care reform, GCADA says. Beyond what you couldn't buy or sponsibilities. You have to really want to has developed its own generous self-in keep, the recession took an emotional toll do something with your life. To change sured group health plan. on Americans. The decline of the indus your life. Those were the kinds of stu The automobile industry that entered try that was as endemic to this country as dents that made the time I spent in law the new century, though weakened by baseball seemed to broadcast doomsday school so great." rising oi l prices, was still healthy and for "the American dream." 8 Law Notes The intrepid President of the GCADA for Gary the auto show is not just selling And it means our law school and our began to speak out and did not stop until cars. GCADA has a charitable arm-the Law Alumni Association as well. In the dust had begun to settle in late 2009. Auto Show Charities- and in the past few 2008-2009, Gary was President of the There were weeks when you could not years it has raised over $1 million for local CMLAA Board of Trustees. "Where," he open a paper or tum on a radio or TV with organizations such as the Epilepsy Foun asks, "would this city be without our law out seeing his face or hearing his voice dation, the March of Dimes, the Ameri school? Think of it. Other schools suf demanding relief for auto workers and can Cancer Society, Harvest for Hunger, fer brain drains. Our graduates stay; they hammering away at members of the U.S. the Crawford Auto Museum and Univer build communities; they generate income; Congress and the General Assembly. His sity Hospitals' Rainbow Babies and Chil Cleveland-Marshall is as big a part of the was, of course, not the only voice but, in dren's Hospital and its Ireland Cancer region's economic rebirth as the Cleve Northeast Ohio, his was the loudest, one Center Diana Hyland Miracle Fund. The land Clinic. 1 owe Cleveland-Marshall for of the most persuasive and certainly one good work accomplished by the annual whatever success I have had." of the most authoritative. Cleveland Auto Show reaches far into the As a private citizen, Gary has had a long Though the battle for the country's fi- local community, even into the lives of involvement with some of Greater Cleve land's most imposing cultural institutions: There were weeks when you could not He is a past-Chair ofthe Board of the West em Reserve Historical Society's Crawford open a paper or turn on a radio or TV Auto-Aviation Museum (GCADA is an historic supporter of the Crawford Mu seum); a member of the Advisory Board without seeing his face or hearing his of the Cleveland Institute of Art; a Trust ee and Executive Committee member of voice demanding relief for auto workers the Greater Cleveland Sports Commis sion; the founder and former director of and hammering away at members of the the National Association of Dealership Counsel and the Association Health Care U.S. Congress and the General Assembly. Coalition; a past board member of the National Automobile Dealers Charitable Foundation; a past board member of the nancial stability is far from over, at the families who may never visit the show or National Automobile Dealers Associa close of 2009 there was brightening on realize its influence in their lives. tion Retirement Trust; founding Director the horizon for the automobile industry, Gary Adams is one of the most persua of the Cleveland Auto Show Charities; thanks to government interventions, bail sive fund-raisers in the city. From 2004 un a member of the Board of Directors of outs, drastic measures taken on the parts til 2008- years in which law school fund Mount Union College; a member of the of GM and Chrysler and basic reforms ing increased substantially-he chaired the American Society of Association Execu within the industry. And thanks also to law school's Development Council and tives; past President of the National Au men and women like Gary Adams advo was instrumental in aiding the law school to tomotive Trade Association Executives; cating on behalf of thousands of Amer raise over $1,250,000 dollars to match Mrs. a member of the American Bar Associa ican citizens, the so-called "little peo Iris Wolstein's challenge grant of the same tion and a former member of the Harvest ple," on whose shoulders the industry had amount. The Bert L. and Iris S. Wolstein for Hunger Corporate Cabinet. In recog flourished for almost a century. Scholarship Fund is today the law school's nition of his service to the law school and In February of 2009, Gary announced largest scholarship resource. the community, in 2009 CSU's Alumni that he would retire at the end of the year "Much of my fundraising is from Association honored him with its George as GCADA President, but he would stay GCADA," he says. "Our dealers have de B. Davis Award for Public Service. on as President of the auto show. For the termined to give or invest in educational In a word, the irrepressible Gary Adams public, that means an even glitzier show, institutions that attract and keep people in gets around and gives a lot. And he takes more celebrities, and more big-time en our region." That means his undergradu as much of the world along with him as he tertainment. By the time Gary retires, the ate college, Mount Union, and the com can. We have been fortunate to have been Cleveland Auto Show is bound to be the munity colleges in Cuyahoga, Lake and along for the ride, which was, of course, Super Star of All Auto Shows- because Stark Counties. always in the fast lane. Spring 2010 9 Living and Learning Law in Public Interest Every year the law school awards a limited number of Public Interest Summer Fellowships to law students who have developed summer projects in public service or nonprofit organizations. Often a Fellowship grant makes the differ ence between envisioning a worthwhile project and actually completing it. In the summer of 2009, 11 students competed successfully for fellowship-funding in a variety of legal settings: from the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland to the Office for Civil Rights in the United States Department of Education to the Fort Hall Law and Order Commission of the Shoshone-Bannock Indian tribe on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in Idaho. 10 Law Notes Summer Fellowships woof our 2009 Summer Fellows recorded their experiences for LAW NOTES. Wittenberg University graduate Erika Franz '12 is a student in the law school's and the Levin Col lege's dual JD/MPA degree program. Last summer she spent ten weeks as a volunteer in Tanzania with the Kilimanjaro Women Information Exchange and Consultancy Organization in Moshi, Tanzania. It was her second trip to East Africa as a volunteer for a social service organization. Maya Simek '10 earned an undergraduate degree in psychology from John Carroll University and a Masters of Applied Social Sciences from Case Western Reserve University. She is a former social worker and has twice been awarded Summer Fellowships from the law school. Both were in public interest law firms; the first, in 2008, was in New York City and the second, in 2009, was in San Francisco. This fall, the law school presented Maya with its Outstanding Pro Bono Student Award in recognition of her many hours of volunteer service. Kilimanjaro Women's Information and Consultancy Organization by Erika Franz It takes a village to raise a child. You may have heard this traditional African saying from time to time. Throughout my experiences in Africa, I have come to understand and respect this concept and its many mean ings. Whether it is a mama who takes in parentless children, neighbors spending their weekends helping to fix another's house, or local teenagers spending their free time teaching in nursery schools, the meaning of com munity is all around you. This is one of the reasons I have found myself drawn back to Tanzania, East Africa, on my eternal journey of self-discovery. In March 2008, after just enough experience in the working world to know that I still needed to find a pas sion, I signed up for Cross Cultural Solutions, an international volunteer program. With donations from family and friends, along with my own savings, I traveled to Moshi, Tanzania, in April. The days were filled with heart-wrenching stories from the boys I worked with in the juvenile detention home, stories of courage from the women fighting to provide for their families, and stories of hope and promise from the school children. I saw first-hand the broken justice system, the societal failures facing the Tanzanian people, all in a setting of Spring 2010 11 As I continue to develop my interest in international development and human rights, I am grateful for the support of Cleveland-Marshall and look forward to sharing my experiences with fellow students and the faculty. absolute beauty. ·It was clear to me that tance rights. a bit off the beaten path. Saving all year Tanzania and its people had captured my My fellowship was a once in a lifetime to spend my time and money living in a heart, and I vowed to return experience. I broadened my perspective, third world country can sound a bit crazy. I had heard about the Kilimanjaro Wom explored the legal systems and practices But when I step off the plane and onto en's Information Exchange and Consul of a developing country, worked side by the African soil at the Kilimanjaro Inter tancy Organization (KWIECO). Once side with Tanzanians improving life for national Airport, I am surrounded with a I found the organization, I began the other Tanzanians, and observed the chal feeling of home. Taking in a deep breath search to fund my return. Soon after lenges facing the people of Kilimanjaro. of warm East African air has become as arriving at Cleveland-Marshall, I read Some of the most common problems refreshing as the cold air that accompa about the Public Interest Summer Fel were the conflicting legal systems (tribal, nies our Cleveland winter. lowship. Knowing right away that statutory, and religious), lack of aware I have been fortunate enough to experi KWIECO might be a good fit, I worked ness of rights, lack of means to obtain ence support of the greater community in up a proposal and waited ... and waited ... legal support, and inheritance issues for my personal life as well. In my travels to and waited. Of course, most students may widowed women. One of my most mem volunteer, intern, and research in Moshi , not have been ready to submit a proposal orable experiences was a legal aid camp it has been the constant support of my early in September! When the applica in Siha, a district in the region about 45 family and friends, both emotionally and tion came out shortly after spring break, minutes from Moshi. We spent the entire frnancially, that has allowed me to take I eagerly handed my application in and day raising awareness of KWJECO 's risks . Without the Public Interest Fellow after a few anxious weeks, I received the work and counseling the people of the ship from Cleveland-Marshall, I would good news. I had received the fellowship region. Working in a soccer field, under not have been able to fund my summer and, combined with my savings, I was on the hot Tanzania sun, complete with a experience with KWIECO. As I continue my way back to Moshi. Maasai herdsman in the backdrop with to develop my interest in international Serving the 1.2 million people liv his cattle, four of our lawyers sat for development and human rights, I am ing on and around the slopes of breath hours providing free advice to over 90 grateful for the support of Cleveland taking Mt. Kilimanjaro, the dedicated men and women. Marshall and look forward to sharing my lawyers and staff of KWlECO aim to Focused on making a career in interna experiences with fe ll ow students and the fill the growing demand for legal ser tional law and international development, faculty. It certainly does take a village to vices for the marginalized population I am planning to return to Moshi this raise a child and that is true everywhere of the region. Located in the capital of summer. I will be studying the impact in the world. the region, KWlECO has developed a of short-term volunteer programs on the reputation for its work in women 's rights, local organizations that accept interna Postscript: Erika has been approved for a children 's rights, and property and inheri- tional volunteers. I realize my choices are second Fellowship with KWIECO! 12 Law Notes The New York Lawyers for the Public Interest and the Equal Rights Advocates by Maya Simek Every law student should be afforded the opportunity to clerk or intern. Not only will he or she experience the application of the law, but she may be able to recognize, reconstruct, and develop the shape of her future path. With the help of the Cleveland Marshall Summer Fellowship Program, I have been lucky enough to have two of the Maya standing far right. most memorable experiences of my law school career. minority groups in the media, conduct for interns, including brown bag lunches, During the summer between my first Americans with Disabilities compliance either in-house or at other firms, with dis and second year, I was chosen as an checks, and complete fascinating research cussions of various areas of the law. There intern for New York Lawyers for the projects such as a study of New York's were numerous social events, such as Public Interest. NYLPI is a nonprofit, Access-a-Ride Program and a study of network nights at other firms or agencies civil rights law firm that strives for so the liability of employers with regard to and a non-profit lawyers' softball league. cial justice and advocates for under hiring, firing, and retention in connection Further, I received valuable lessons about served, underrepresented communities. with social networking sites. fundraising at each organization's yearly In the belief that communities know During the 2009 summer I was privi fundraiser, etiquette lessons from a golf best their own needs and challenges, leged to be a clerk for Equal Rights Advo outing, and a heightened understanding NYLPI relies heavily on a Community cates in San Francisco, California. Equal of the ever-present wonder and beauty of Lawyering model for effecting positive Rights Advocates is a non-profit employ collaboration between and among lawyers change. Community Lawyering brings ment law firm that deals with discrimina and law firms. together lawyers, community advocates, tion issues in the work place, focusing Without a doubt, these experiences have and social workers in a systemic effort specifically on women's issues. As an changed my life. As a licensed social work to address all of the needs of the com intern, every week under the guidance of er, I knew since the start of my law career munity members. Moreover, the model our attorneys we accepted phone calls on that I wanted to combine law and social is such that ideally the agency is in the a national hotline. Callers from across the work in a non-profit setting. Even so, neighborhood it is assisting, so that there country would share problems they had were it not for the opportunity afforded is a visible "store-front" presence, and experienced in employment, and it was to me through Cleveland-Marshall's Fel the agency is in tune and aware of the my job to explore the issues and analyze lowship Program, I never would have had needs specific to the area. the pathways for that person based on the the exposure to as many legal areas, fields Focusing on environmental issues, dis laws and resources in his or her particu of thought, and work models within the ability advocacy, access to health care, lar area. Moreover, I gained experience public interest spectrum. The experience NYLPI afforded me the opportunity to researching and helping to outline the has helped me define my career path. I delve into a variety of legal and social Ninth District's development of Title IX have found mentors and friends who have issues. Furthermore, the Community Law cases. I taught Sexual Harassment Work nUJtured my academic, experiential and yering Model allowed me to explore the shops within the community, performed personal growth. These people and experi importance of the intersection and inter deposition summation for the agency's ences have not only reafftrmed my com connection between social service agen cases, and conducted client interviews for mitment to public interest work, but have, cies and the law. I was personally afforded the largest class action lawsuit in the his quite honestly, shaped not only the lawyer, the ability to help with a class action law tory of the nation. but the person I have become in the past suit, work on administrative hearings for In addition to the amazing legal and three years. For all that I have become and children whose individualized education professional experiences at both NYLPI wi ll become, I will be forever indebted to plans were not being followed, complete and ERA, both fmns were committed to NYLPI, ERA, and the Cleveland-Marshall studies on the current vernacular used for providing additional educational activities Public Interest Fellowship Program. Spring 2010 13 Living and Learning Law through the CIMILa "The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience. " Oliver Wendell Holmes his fall, the law school opened with a greatly enlarged Extemship Pro gram, thanks in large part to the hard work of our Manager of Student Affairs lnga Laurent '05, who together with Interim Dean Phyllis TL. Crocker, has taken hold of the law school's Extemship Program and greatly expanded the opportunities for studying law beyond the four walls of the building on the comer of East 18th Street and Euclid Avenue. Today, Cleveland-Marshall student externs are earning academic credit in state, county and federal government agencies; in the of fices of legal counsel; in the courtrooms of ~111!!1111----.o::r judges on every level of the state and federal ----~""11 ~ · (f) judiciary, and in a variety of other legal ven 0) ues: from the Office of Medicare Hearings _;::.--~~-· ~ and Appeals to the U.S. Department of Jus ~ tice's Immigration Court, to the Federal Trade Commission and the IRS. And, in the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland and in the offices of the Federal and county public defenders, they are helping to bring justice to our poor est citizens. Two thousand and nine, the year Jenni fer Blaga '94 joined the law school staff as its new Director of Career Planning, was not a good year for placement directors. The economy was in steep decline, and lawyers were being laid off throughout the state. Still, Ms. Blaga was unde terred and entrepreneurial. She approached then-Dean Geoffrey S. Mearns with two ideas for improving our students' employment opportunities. First, the law school should strengthen relationships with the small and mid-sized firms in town. Then, reasoning that in-house opp01tunities rarely exist for re cent law school graduates, she proposed reaching into the corporate world to develop externships. Externships would provide our students with in-house ex perience and establish relationships that could help them find employment in the future. Over the past six Mays, Dean Mearns and Ms. Blaga have worked together to create these opportunities, and their efforts are meeting success: Today, the law school has established externships with the Parker-Hannifin Corporation; Matrix Pointe Software, LLC; Developers Diversified Realty Corporation, and Medical Mutual of Ohio, and more sites are pending. For our law school (and for any law school), creating extemships in the private sector is a trail-blazing initiative, one 14 Law Notes OJ CD :::l OJ Externship Program CD () A" 3 Pol that Ms. Blaga anticipates will be a trend of :::l the future in law school placement. For lnga Laurent, when it comes to ex temships, the past is prologue. "Externships mimic the apprenticeships that aspiring lawyers held in the early days of the legal profession when law schools were scarce and students leamed their trade 'reading law' in the offices of veteran lawyers." That's how Jefferson and Lincoln and My ra Bradwell learned the law. It was a good idea then, and it's good now. These student externs a judicial extern was one of my best learn are living the life of the ing experiences in law school. It enriched law as prescribed by z my understanding of judicial procedure 8. and the challenges of achieving and pre Justice Holmes. Cil serving justice." [;;" (fJ Eman Dughy's externship in the of- Benjamin Beckman externed for the ~ fice of the Federal Public Defender was Honorable Solomon Oliver in the U.S. "phenomenal. I was involved in cases that District Court for the Northern District of tested me mentally and emotionally, be Ohio. "I was able to participate fully in the yond anything I could read or leam about activities of the Judge 's chambers and was in a classroom. The experience gave me encouraged to write the first draft of a few new perspectives in this area of the law opinions on various Motions to Dismiss. and direction on how to apply what [ had My federal externship was very rigorous learned in my own career." and very rewarding." Scott Parry's externship with the Na tional Labor Relations Board broadened his legal training. "As a JD/MPA Dual Degree student, my Extemship placement at the National Labor Relations Board was the ideal bridge linking law school's theoretical studies with the realities of Aleksandra Stankovic externed with this public service agency. I was given a the Honorable Karen Nelson Moore ofthe full and challenging case-load, from in U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. "Dur take to final disposition and was able to ing my eight weeks with the Sixth Circuit, I expand upon the legal practitioner's skills worked on five very different cases, that l developed in the Employment Law with topics ranging from immigration Clinic." marriage fraud to the Family Medical Leave Act. Today, I am a far better student of the law because of my externship." Charissa Walker served as an extem in the United States District Cowt of the Honorable Solomon Oliver. "Working as Spring 2010 15 Patrick Perotti '82, Dworken & Bernstein and the Ancient Principle of Cy Pres y Pres: a legal principle as old as the Norman Con quest. Though not generally known or used, it is experiencing a second life in the hands of law yers in the Cleveland-area law firm of Dworken & Bernstein. Cy pres arose from the French/Eng liCsh common law tradition and applied to the use of monies left over from a trust or settlement when it became impossible or il legal to disperse the funds according to the wishes of the trustee or litigant. A classic example of cy pres, often cited, involves a trust set up in the 19th century to fund efforts to abo lish slavery. When the 13th Amendment ended slavery, the court, under the law of cy pres, allowed the monies remaining to be dispersed to impoverished African Americans. Dworken & Bernstein's offices are in Painesville, Ohio, and in downtown Cleveland. Its 22 attorneys represent businesses, individuals, and families in litigation and transactions across a wide spectrum of legal practice. The firm's lawyers- including six CIMILaw graduates-also handle a large number of class ac- tion suits and have successfu lly advocated for groups of citizens Patrick T. Murphy '86 HowardS. Rabb '86 of considerable attainment, one of fewer than one percent of the lawyers in Ohio who have been certified as employment law specialists, but it is his work repre senting groups of clients in class actions that draws the legal world's attention and perhaps strikes fear in the board rooms of the large corporations and banks against whose suspect activities he begins to build his case. It is in the nature of class actions to lin ger long in the courtrooms of America, sometimes for years. For the losing de fendants, the very length of the actions Gary S. Okin '77; David J. Richards '71; Patrick T. Perotti '82; Irving Rosner '79. may be a comfort: Plaintiffs may die or move or for other reasons be difficult to locate. When that happens, their portion victimized by consumer fraud , real estate and escrow fraud, of the settlement wi ll ordinarily be returned to the defendant. utilities overcharges, defective products, improper credit card Not, however, when Patrick Perotti is involved. charges, and a host of others fraudu lent practices, often wining Years ago, Mr. Perotti settled a multi-million dollar law suit for their cli ents settlements in the millions of dollars. against an insurance company. When $I4 million of the settle It is in the successful settlement of class action suits that the ment went unclaimed, Mr. Perotti evoked the doctrine of cy pres principle of cy pres has been born again, initially in the practice and, with the agreement of the judge and the insurance compa ofDworken partner Patrick Perotti, a 1982 cum laude graduate ny, the unclaimed monies were distributed to charities. It was the of our law school. Mr. Perotti is an employment law attorney largest cy pres settlement of its kind in the country at that time. 16 Law Notes Accordi ng to an article by Brenda Craig* posted on the firm 's web site, n April , Nicole Lester traveled what began as Mr. Perotti 's somewhat un to Denver, Colorado, to attend orthodox gesture has now become a guid the American Bar Association's in g principle of the Dworken law firm. ISection of Business Law Spring Today, Dworken lawyers wi ll not accept Meeting, where, as one of a hand a class action suit without first receiving ful of law students being honored assurances from all parties that unclaimed as CLEO Fellow Scholars, she re fu nds wi ll be dispersed to comm uni ty ceived an ABA scholarship. CLEO, organizations or charitable foundations. the Council on Legal Education Their efforts have paid off bountifully. Opportunity, is a non-profit project Monies negotiated by the Dworken firm of the ABA Fund for Justice and in cy pres agreements have brought $18 Education, dedicated to diversify million to organizations such as the Mus ing the legal profession. CLEO Fel cu lar Dystrophy Association, Habitat for low Scholarships are highly com Humanity, the Cystic Fibrosis Founda petitive. The four or five students tion, MADD, Big Brothers Big Sisters, who receive them annually must the Legal Aid Society, Leukemia Soci submit a winning essay and dem ety, Boys and Girls Clubs and homeless onstrate an interest in pursuing a shelters. This astounding achievement is career in business law. the work of a single law firm. Imagine Ms. Lester earned a Bachelor the good that wo uld come if others fo l of Science degree in Communi , lowed its example. In a genuine and ear cations from the University of Il nest effort to serve justice, the firm has linois at Urbana-Champaign and established Ohio Lawyers Give Back, an a Master of Public Administration organization that encourages lawyers ev degree, with distinction, from the erywhere to follow its lead in the use of American University in Washington, DC. cy pres in class acti on settlements. Were Prior to law school, she spent nine years working they to do so, millions and millions of dol in Washington, DC, area agencies, first as a Program lars would become avail abl e to worthy or Manager in Youth Services for the National Crime Pre ganizations- organi zations that salvage vention Council, and afterwords as an Assistant Direc li ves, fund medical research, restore dig tor of Programs for the National Center on Nonprofit nity to the poor and may transform entire Enterprise in Arlington, Virginia. From 2004 until 2008, comm unities. she worked in the Housing and Community Develop Though it is a tribute to the enduring ment Division of Fannie Mae as a Senior Business De traditions of the common law that a doc velopment Manager for Public Entity Finance. trine that predates the discovery of Amer She is President of the CIMILaw Women Law Students ica has retained its power to effect social Association, an Associate Member of the Cleveland good on so large a scale in our own times, Marshall Moot Court Team , a member of the CIMILaw Mr. Perotti traces its influence in his own Business Law Students Association, an Associate of the life, not to the Midd le Ages where cy pres American Bar Association's Council on Legal Education was first recorded, but to the words of his Opportunity, a frequent Pro Bono Program volunteer, own Irish Catholi c mother who told him, and a law student member of the American Bar Associ "Always do the right thing." * ation and of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association. During the past year, she has worked as a law clerk in *Craig, Brenda, Patrick Perotti - THE Gooo LAw the Cleveland office of Walter & Haverfield, LLP. YER NEWS , April1 6, 2009 Spring 2010 17 Two New Faculty Members Contribute Expertise in ' Vital Areas of Legal Study: Health Care Law and Tax Law. ew students and new faculty invig and Health Care Reform Policy. In 2007 and 2008, she spent orate the law school, bringing new another sixth-month period as a Fellow on the House of Repre insights and new enthusiasm to the sentatives Ways and Means Committee, Health Subcommittee, where she analyzed proposed legislation on issues related to Ncommunity of teachers and learn- medical research and health care policy. ln addition, she served ers they are joining. In late summer, as the as a member of then-Senator Barack Obama's volunteer Health Policy Committee. entering class of 201 0 begins to assemble in She is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association the atrium and Moot Court Room, we will also and the American Society of Law Medicine and Ethics, as well welcome two new Cleveland-Marshall fac as several other health-law-related organizations. She lectures and · consults on issues of health care reform. A recent article, ulty members: Professors Gwendolyn Rob From Concierge Medicine to Patient-Centered Medical Homes: erts Majette and John T. Plecnik. Professor International Lessons and the Search for a Better Way to Deliver Primary Health Care in the U.S. , was published in the AM ERI CAN ,, Majette will become an important contribu JOURNA L OF LAW AND MEDICIN E (2009). tor to the development of the law school's At CIMILaw, Professor Majette will teach Contracts in the fall new Center for Health Law and Policy, and and spring and Health Care Law in the spring. Professor Plecnik will greatly enrich our stu dents' opportunities to study and master the law of Taxation and Estate Planning. Gwendolyn Roberts Majette's undergraduate degree is from Emory University (1989); her JD is from George Washing ton University School of Law (1993), where she was a Dean's Fellow, and her LLM, with distinction in Global Health, is from Georgetown University Law Center (2009). Professor Majette has had a decade-and-a-half of experience teaching various courses in the health law curriculum- from introduction to International Health, Human Rights and Public Health to Health Care Law and Policy. She was a Lecturer in the American University Washington College of Law 's Health John T. Plecnik earned a BA, summa cum laude, in Accounting Law and Policy Institute in 2009, an Assistant Professor of Law with a minor in Mythology from Belmont Abbey College, where he at the Florida Coastal School of Law from 2005 until 2007, and graduated co-valedictorian in 2003. He earned his JD, cum laude, an Assistant Visiting Professor of Law at Campbell University from Duke University School of Law in 2006. While at Duke, he School of Law from 2004 until 2005. Professor Majette was a was one of six inaugural executive board members to co-found the member of the Howard University School of Law 's legal writing DuKE JO URNAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW & PUBLIC POLICY. He faculty from 1995 until2006, and from 1996 untill997, she was also served as an editor on LAW & CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Howard's School of Medicine received the Faculty Award for Outstanding Achievement in Taxa teaching Health Care Ethics to students through a multi-disci tion & Estate Planning. Professor Plecnik earned his LLM in Taxa plinary approach. tion from New York University School of Law in 2009. While at Professor Majette has also had considerable Capitol Hill expe NYU, he served as Executive Editor of the NYU REVIEW OF LAw rience. During a six-month period in 2008 and 2009, she was a & SociAL CHANGE and was the first part-time student to be selected Legislative Fellow in the Office of U.S. Senator Debbie Stabe as a member of that review. In addition, Professor Plecnik was now, where she worked on MEDICARE, MEDICAID, CHIP awarded the Certificate in Business Excellence and alumni status by 18 Law Notes Columbia Business School for completing a number of Executi ve Education programs in 2007, 2008 and 2009. he American College of Following his graduation from law Bankruptcy has named Ben school, Professor Plecnik joined the Wall jamin Beckman, a 2010 Street law firm of Thacher Proffitt & T Wood LLP as an ERLSA associate. He graduate of the Cleveland-Marshall currently serves as a law clerk to the College of Law, as one of its Distin Honorable David Gustafson of the United guished Law Students for 201 0. Mr. States Tax Court in Washington, DC. Beckman was among five law stu Since 2009, he has served as an Adjunct dents selected for the Fifth, Sixth, Professor of Law at Georgetown Univer Seventh, Eighth, and Tenth United sity Law Center, where he teaches Tax Penalties & Tax Crimes. States Circuit Courts of Appeals. Professor Plecnik is licensed to practice Mr. Beckman competed with oth in New York and in the United States Tax er students from law schools in the Court. He also holds the NASBITE Certi Sixth Circuit to win the honor of fi ed Global Business Professional designa representing the Sixth Circuit. tion, which provides a benchmark for com Students vying for this prestigious petence in global commerce. Professor Plecnik is the author of Equal award undergo a rigorous process. Access to Public Education: An Examina They must have outstanding aca tion of the State Constitutional & Statutory demic credentials and an interest in Rights ofN onpublic Students to Participate bankruptcy law. A faculty member in Public School Programs on a Part-Time or a Fellow of the College of Bankruptcy must nominate them and Basis in North Carolina & Across the each student must submit written materials and additional let Nation in the TEXAS JOURNAL ON CIVIL Lrn ters of recommendation. The chosen students received an all-ex ERTLES & CIVIL RIGHTS (2007). He is cur rently at work on an article entitled Abolish pense paid trip to Washington, DC, in March to attend the College the Inflation Tax on the Poor and Middle of Bankruptcy's annual Induction Ceremony and Events. Class, which proposes a refundable tax Mr. Beckman earned his undergraduate degree in history, credit to mi tigate the effect of inflation on magna cum laude, from Amherst College. In college, he played cash, cash equivalents, and interest-bearing four years of varsity Lacrosse and participated in the 1998 East instruments. The article will also analyze the impact of inflation during the savings West All-Star Lacrosse Game. Prior to entering law school, he and loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s and worked in real estate development and construction. As a law the potential impact of inflation during student, he has been a judicial extern for the Honorable Solo today's credi t cri sis. mon Oliver, Jr. of the United States District Court for the Northern At CIMILaw, Professor Plecnik will teach District of Ohio, served on the Cleveland State University Presi Estates and Trusts in the fa ll and Tax Law I dential Search Committee and is the Submissions Editor of the and Wealth Transfer Tax in the spring. We welcome Professors Majette and CLEVELAND STATE LAw REVIEW. In the summer of 2009, he worked Pl ecnik to the law school and look forward as an associate at Jones Day and has accepted an offer to join to a long and productive association as the the firm following his graduation this year in May. law school continues to build its pro grams in Health Care Law and Tax Law. Spring 2010 19 Moot Court Teams Triumphant Throughout the Country " n March, the Moot Court team of The 2009-1 0 school year against in the preliminary rounds at Chelsea Mikula '10, Christo has been a year of stellar the Stetson International Environmen pher St. Marie '10, and David tal Moot Court Competition at the Uni ISporar '10, placed in the top eight achievements for the versity of Ma!yland in Baltimore and in the country in the Association of the made it into the final-four semi-finals Bar ofNew York National Moot Court Cleveland-Marshall College in Florida. Competition in New York. of Law Moot Court teams. Theeight-memberCIMILAW Amer Our ABA National Appellate Ad ican Association for Justice Nation- vocacy Competition team of Saman- al Trial Competition team of Udochi tha Vajskop '11, Mike Jagunic '11, and Kevin Marchaza '11 Onwubiko '11, Luisa Taddeo '10, Judy Santora '12, Chris competing in the regional rounds in Miami received the award for Pantoja '12, Justin Rudin '10, Anthony Rich '10, Ashley Best Brief and was the number one seed throughout the event, fin Jones '11 and Susanna Ratsavong '12 performed outstandingly ishing 5-0. The team advanced to the final round of the National well during this year's AJA competition. Reminger attorneys Da Competition in Chicago in April but lost their quarterfinal round- vid A. Valent '08 and Adam J. Davis '08 coached the team. but by only one point! Our BLSA team of Eman Dughly '10 and Teirra Ndegwa Sarah Kovit '10, Jillian Snyder '10, Nicol Higdon '11, Andy '10 competed in the Frederick Douglass Moot Court Competition Trout '10 and Anna Brown '12 competed in the Jessup Interna and advanced from the regional to the national competition, where tional Moot Court Super Regional Championship in February. The Ms. Ndegwa, in an outstanding performance, argued both the peti team argued four rounds and performed admirably. Though the tioner's and respondent's appeals and was named Best Oralist. team did not advance to the quarterfinals this year, they received Thanks to all our students and their coaches: Professors Ste good scores for briefs and oral arguments. phen Gard, Janice Aitken '96, and Browne Lewis and As The team of April Stephenson '10, Mona Ma '11, and sistant Director of Admissions and Multicultural Recruitment Chance Douglas '11 summarily conquered all teams they argued Sandra L. English '03. 20 Law Notes A Class Action: the Top Hat, Dancing Shoes, 201 0 Graduation Challenge Gala Group he law school class that graduated in May 20 I 0 was certain ly among the most gifted academically. They were also among the most inventive and entrepreneurial. And their imaginative Tand creative energies were on shining display during the annual Graduation Challenge campaign. Each year the graduating class raises money for a gift to present to the law school. The Class of 2010 chose to put their Graduation Challenge efforts into a campaign to build the law school's scholarship resources. And, noting that their Class of 20 I 0 was chock full of artistic and per formance talent, the GC organizers chose as their theme, "Learn Law. Live Justice. Love Art." First, they began raising money through a series of small and unobtru sive events. And then, on April 16, a group of high-spirited musicians, choristers, dancers, and comic actors gave the law school a look at it self in a boisterous and gala final fund-raising event in the auditorium of CSU 's Main Classroom building. "Party 2010: A Class Action" be gan with a silent auction of student artwork and then proceeded to have a bit of fun at the expense of the law school through a series of imperson ations, skits and a video, "A Hastily Made Prospective Tourism Video," that for wit and over-the-top slapstick was pretty unbeatable. Many law students took part in the program, but hats off especially to emcee Matthew Hebebrand, who did a willliing impersonation of Pro fessor Michael Borden, and to vocalists and members of the CI MILA W "Arbitrators" band, Zach Germaniuk and Chris Gray on guitar, Eric Becker on bass and Joey Scale on drums. Kudos to video actors Mar garet Sweeney as a long-suffering student marooned in an endless line of cars waiting for a place in the parking garage, to Laura Kolat playing a gullible law school applicant, to her "student recruiter" Emily White, to Derek Kohanski as an inappropriate questioner, to Thomas Bruce as Professor Kevin O'Neill, David Sporar as Justice Scalia, Nick Costa ras as American Idol finalist Adam Lambert, April Stephenson as ca ble host Nancy Grace, and a dozen other actors who had scene-stealing walk-on parts. These video actors played themselves and acq uitted themselves admi rably: Professor Stephen Lazarus, Assistant Dean Christopher Lucek, Assistant Admissions Director Amy Miller, Career Planning Director Jennifer Blaga '94, Student Services Center Receptionist Israel Pey ton, and Interim Dean Phyllis L. Crocker. Congratulations to the two Graduation Challenge Chairs Lindsay Wasko and Alana Jochum, and the amazing Graduation Challenge team of Margaret Sweeney, Sarah Kovit, Eric Becker, Christopher St. Marie, April Stephenson, Emily White and Susan Vitaz. A wild round of applause to Sarah Kovit and April Stephenson, who com posed scripts for the skits and video and to Anna Woods, who cho reographed the dance numbers. And a standing ovation to Margaret Sweeney, Alana Jochum and Christopher StMarie who directed the video! (Note to students: Are you sure you want to practice law?) Spring 2010 21 • Life Members 1949 Mr. Richard J. Moriarty 1965 Mr. David S. Lake Mr. William P. Gibbons 1950 Mr. Charles lpavec Ms. June W Wiener Han. Joseph Gibson Mr. Bernard Mosesson 1966 Mr. Edward T. Hagg ins Mr. Gary N. Holthus 1951 Han. Lillian W. Burke Mr. Carl L Stern Mr. John V. Jackson, II Han. Salvatore R. Calandra 1967 Mr. Charles B. Donahue II Mr. James A. Lowe Han . Eugene M. Fellmeth Mr. Michael R. 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Veil Mr. Harry W Greenfield Mr. Dale H. Markowitz 1961 Mr. Richard J. Bogomolny Mr. John C. Kikol Mr. Michael E. Murman Mr. Stephen J. Cahn Han. Ted R. Klammer Mr. L Richard Musat Han. Anthony 0. Calabrese, Jr Mr. Michael T. Murray Mr. Jeffrey H. Olson Ms. Winifred A. Dunton Mr. Robert M. Phillips Mr. John M. Richilano Mr. Kevin B. Fergus Mr. Lucian Rego Mr. Alan J. Ross Mr. Harold D. Graves Mr. Walter A. Rodgers Mr. David J. Skrabec Mr. Fred Lick, Jr. Mr. Richard W Sander Mr. Gerald L. Steinberg Mr. Leon G. Nagler Mr. Timothy W Sauvain Mr. James F. Szaller Mr. Paul S. Sanislo Mr. Michael I. Shapero Mr. Christopher W Vasil Mr. Robert R. Wantz Mr. Robert J. Sindyla Mr. B. Casey Vim 1962 Mr. Sheldon E. Baskin Mr. Emil F. Sos Mr. Alan L Zmija Mr. Arthur R. Fitzgerald Mr. Joseph A. Valore 1976 Ms. Deborah Akers-Parry Mr. Clarence L James, Jr. Mr. Joseph H. Weiss, Jr. Mr. Patrick J. AI cox Mr. Lucien B. Karlovec Mr. Wi lliam A. Wortzman Mr. Keith E. Belkin Mr. Sheldon E. 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Nichols II Mr. Vincent T. Lombardo Mr. Michael P. Harvey Mr. F. Ronald O'Keefe Mr. Peter A. Sackett Mr. John T. Hawkins Mr. David A. Peyton Ms. Mercedes H. Spotts Mr. John M. "Jack" Jones Ms. Linda M. Rich Mr. P. Kelly Tompkins Hon . Joan Synenberg Mr. Charles T. Simon Mr. Mark D. Weller Mr. Gary Lichtenstein Mr. Roger M. Synenberg Mr. Frederick N. Widen Ms. Mary D. Maloney Mr. John D. Wheeler Han. Joseph J. Zone Mr. Brian M. O'Neill Mr. Robert M. Wilson 1982 Mr. Jamie R. Lebovitz Mr. E. Tasso Paris 1978 Mr. Mark W. Baserman Mr. James L. Reed Mr. Laurence J. Powers Mr. Thomas L. Colaluca Ms. Kathleen J. St. John Ms. Barbara Silver Rosenthal Ms. Mary Llamas Courtney Mr. Keith D. Weiner Mr. Thomas M. Wilson Mr. Dale E. Creech, Jr. Ms. Laura A. Williams 1988 Mr. Matthew F. Browarek Mr. Emerson S. Davis Mr. Richard G. Zeiger Ms. Pamela Daiker Middaugh Ms. Elisabeth T. Dreyfuss 1983 Mr. Gary S. Adams Hon. Nancy A. Fuerst Ms. Sally M. Edwards Mr. K. 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Klammer Ms. Monica L. Wharton Mr. Geoffrey S. Mearns Ms. Darya P. Klammer 2003 Ms. Sandra L. English Ms. Lou ise F. Mooney Ms. Cheryl L. Kravetz Ms. Manju Gupta Ms. Sandra Natran Ms. Stacey L. McKinley Ms. Madeline J. Lepidi -Carino Mr. Marshall Nurenberg Mr. Anthony T. Nici Mr. James P. Mramor Hon . Solomon Oliver Mr. Matthew A. Palnik Ms. Rh onda J. Porter Mr. Kevin F. O'Neill Ms. Susan E. Petersen Ms. Kimberly Ann Th omas Mr. James H. Peak Mr. Anthony R. Petruzzi Ms. Hallie Ilene Yavitch Ms. Victoria Plata Ms. Kate E. Ryan Mr. John A. Yirga Ms. Nicolette I. Plattner Mr. Sam Thomas Ill 2004 Mr. Todd A. Atkinson Mr. James D. Proud Mr. Adam J. Thurman Mr. Jonathan L. Cudnik Mr. Fred P. Ramos Ms. Wendy Weiss Asher Ms. Dayna M. DePerro Milligan Ms. Tina Rhodes 1998 Mr. Thomas W. Baker Mr. Erik S. Dunbar Ms. Heidi Gorovitz Robertson Ms. Geraldine J. Butler Mr. Ronald L. Frey Ms. Yolanda Salviejo Ms. Laura Courry-Zhao Mr. Siegmund F. Fuchs Mr. Steven Sm ith Ms. Tonya L. Eippert Mr. Kevin J. Kelley Mr. Lloyd B. Snyder Ms. Abigail J. Gardner Mr. Patrick J. Milligan Mr. Steven Ste inglass Mr. David C. Genzen Mr. Nathan J. Wills Mr. William Suter Mr. Richard Koloda Mr. George J. Zi lich Mr. Norman H. Weinstei n Ms. Jill S. Patterson 2005 Ms. Melanie Bordelois Mr. Stephen J. Werber Mr. Edward P. Simms Mr. Nicholas C. DeSantis Mr. Frederic White 1999 Ms. Tammy L. Bogdanski Mr. Scot J. Haislip Mr. James G. Wilson Ms. Patricia McGinty Aston Ms. ln ga N. Laurent Ms. Margaret W. Wong 24 Law Notes New Life Members indsay Wasko is a magna cum laude gradu ate of Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio, where she majored in Criminal Justice Land Business Administration with a concen- tration in Accounting. In college as in law school, she has had an impressive record of student achieve ment: At Baldwin-Wallace, she was on the dean's list for six semesters, she was a member of the Inter national Honors Society in Social Science, and she received a Baldwin-Wallace Scholarship Award and was named "Outstanding Criminal Justice Major" by Dayna M. DePerro the Cuyahoga County Chiefs of Police Association. Milligan '04 At CIMILAW, she has been a spectacularly suc cessful student leader. As President of the Student Ms. DePerro-Milliganjoined Kelley & Fer Bar Association, she has put to good use her orga raro in 2004 as an associate. Previously, she nizational skills and her background in business and worked for a law finn handling personal accounting. The SBA is an umbrella organization injury cases. She graduated from Cleve with fiduciary responsibilities for all recognized law land-Marshall College of Law in 2004 student organizations. SBA also plans relevant so and Miami University in 2001 with a BA cial and educational programs throughout the year, in Speech and Organizational Communi cations. In 2008, she was named one of oversees student elections, raises funds to support Ohio's Super Lawyers. Ms . DePerro-Mil itself, and supports an ad hoc committee to address ligan is on the membership committee of issues raised by part-time students. One of SBA's the Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Asso major assignments is to plan the annual Gradua ciation and was appointed to the Board of tion Challenge fund-raising campaign in support of Trustees for the Association in 2009. CIMILAW. As Graduation Challenge co-chair, she spearheaded one of the most spirited and success Welcome New Life Members ful fund-raisers in years. In addition to her SBA work, Ms. Wasko has served as treasurer of the Justinian Forum and is a student Jose C. Feliciano '75 member of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Associa Joel H. Rathbone '79 tion and the Ohio State Bar Association. Anthony J. Coyne '87 Wayne Kriynovich '88 After graduation, she plans to study for the bar Rodney G. Davis '95 and seek employment in a small or mid-sized law Susan E. Petersen '97 firm, where she hopes to focus on family law, bank John A. Yirga '03 ruptcy law or labor law. Patrick J. Milligan '04 The SBA provides many services to our students Paul D. Castillo '06 and administrators. Its success requires the good Erin M. Kriynovich '07 will of an entrepreneurial and efficient leader. In Lind Chan B. Carlson '08 say Wasko, we have had just such a leader, and we Shawn A. Romer '08 thank her for her work and service on behalf our law Keith D. Scheurman, Jr. 08 school. Spring 2010 25 any students come to law school in search of the kind of ca reer Kevin Francis O'Neill has had and in the hope of learn ing law from the kind of teacher he has become. Widely respected among our students, Professor O'Neill has taught full time at the law school for the past 15 years, and in nine of those years the Cleveland-Marshall students have voted him "Professor of the Year." In 2004, the Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association presented him with the Stapleton Award for Excellence in Teaching. Before joining the faculty of the law school, he had an outstand ing career as a litigator, principally as Legal Director of the Ohio chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, scoring repeated courtroom and settlement vic tories, often on behalf of the region's most vulnerable citizens . • Home Movies Kevin's safari film was different: a documentary tour of our Kevin O'Neill grew up in University Heights, Ohio, the son region's lawn ornaments: little kissing Dutch people, elves, fla of a prominent trial attorney, Mark O'Neill, and the grandson mingoes, saints of many martyrdoms, and, above all, the ubiq of CLEVELAND NEWS editor, Frank O'Neill. Yet, as a youngster, uitous chrome balls glittering in the neat front yards of the he did not envision a career in law or journalism or teaching. city's suburbs. He wished, he explains, to unlock the myster He had something else in mind. He wanted to make movies. ies of the chrome balls, their inscrutable allure. Why were they Kevin was wild about movies- from Charlie Chaplin to the everywhere? Like his hero Ingmar Bergman, Kevin wrote, di great Russian directors of the early 20th century to the achingly rected, produced and narrated the film. "Chrome Balls" is still intellectual films oflngmar Bergman. His parents indulged him available, locked up in a desk drawer in room 151 of the law because, he says, though he was also a great sports fan, "They school. "It has probably turned to dust by now," notes its cre knew no athletic scholarship was coming my way, and, by the ator, 33 years after its debut. time I was a teenager, they were grateful I had an avid interest in something, anything." He began his career with crime and "Foes" monster films, shooting scenes on an old super-eight millime Following his graduation in 1977, he moved to Los Ange ter camera, eventually producing a send-up of a monster movie les, hoping to break into the movie industry. That was not easy. starring three of his high school pals bunched together under a His emphasis in school had been on directing, not on lighting black tarp, playing a two-armed, six-legged lump of a monster, or sound recording where he might have found a crack to crawl its giant eyes and fearful mouth glued to the tarp. The movie through onto a greater stage. Moreover, as hard as it was to get had its world premier in his admirable parents' darkened living into the industry itself, it was even more difficult to get into the room and closed shortly thereafter. union. "I was reduced to working on low-budget, non-union productions." Once, however, he landed a bit-part acting in one "Chrome Ball Safari" of those low budget films: a movie called "Foes," which he de He kept that movie-making dream for a while, attending San scribes as "the single worst sci-fi film ever made. Francisco State University where he majored in film with an "I spent 12 hours a day in orange face-paint turning the emphasis on documentary. By the time he graduated, he had knobs of an earth-destroying machine. It was boring and ex made eight movies, one of which was honored by inclusion in asperating work." But, as Emerson says, there is balance in all the University's highly competitive film festival. The winning of life--eternal recompense- and it came to Kevin by way of film, "Chrome Ball Safari," was an ironic tribute to "Wild King a dark-cloaked hulk of a man hunched over a European editing dom," a popular TV show of the time whose two earnest hosts machine in an obscure back lot of the studio: the Great Orson introduced viewers to a wild-animal-of-the-week filmed live in Welles, editing a documentary about magic. In between takes its own habitat and often in situations that imperiled the hosts: of "Foes," the sci-fi actor with the orange face rushed to the wresting with alligators or huge water snakes, for instance, or back lot to try to catch another glimpse of the radio actor who, arousing anger in male sea lions and startled elephants. in 1938, informed the world that Martians had arrived to de- Spring 2010 27 Kevin Francis O'Neill • stroy the planet. tion, women's rights, gay rights, workers' location with a new name." It was some Despite the thrill of finding himself rights and a cornucopia of isms: environ times exciting work involving the inves sharing the same zip code as some of mentalism, sexism, racism. The President tigatory ann of the U.S. Postal Service, the idols of his youth ("I saw Hitchcock proposed constructing a missile base deep but mostly it was pedestrian fare. being carried into his dressing room in space, its armaments aimed toward the Still, the 20 months he spent on THE once!"), he remained, two years after Soviet Union, whose faltering empire HERALD were formative. Though he his graduation, on the far-out periph was already under attack from within. did not know it at the time, eventually ery of moviedom, unemployed and un- Religious fundamentalism asserted itself the experience would lead him to a ca reer in law. He had come out of college "I admired the way my father practiced law. I ad with, as he says, "an undisciplined writ ing style. A churlish cigar-chomping city mired his courtroom demeanor, ever courteous and editor beat me into clarity using tradi tional pedagogical methods: fear and in collegial. Winning or losing, he was always a gentle timidation. He would take my head off, but he taught me well- how to find the man lawyer. I have tried to model myself after him." meat in an argument, how to detetmine what's important for the reader to know and distill from that what you put down discovered. " I tried to write screen plays as an abiding political presence. Harvey on paper." As it twlls out, he was learn and supplemented my income with a bit Milk was assassinated. ing essential brief-writing skills. part here or there, a job as a tour guide at "A streak of liberalism awakened Kevin had his eye on the editorial Universal and sometimes writing film re in me," Kevin reports, and in 1980, he page. Fired up by the local culture and views for raggedy publications." Recall found a job on the Los ANG ELES HER politics, he would spend his free days ing the three years he spent trying to break ALD-EXAMINER. Founded by William researching and writing a feature story, into the movie industry, he says modestly, Randolph Hearst in 1902 as a union but he could never get the editors to read "I learned a lot, but I didn't think I had the friendly "American newspaper for the what he wrote. " I was thought of as a talent or the ability to network into a sig American home," at its height TH E HER kid who worked his way up from a copy nificant job." ALD was one of the largest, most influ clerk, who helped the sports guys on the ential newspapers in the country, crank weekend and who could do a competent Dateline Los Angeles: ing out a million copies a day. At the job as a consumer affairs writer, but they Grandson of Frank O'Neill dawn of the 80s, though diminished by wouldn't let me advance further." Joins Hearst Syndicate a lengthy strike, the paper still carried a And then he had a revelation. The Though it was time to surrender that punch. It had a tabloid vitality and the people his age whom the paper chose to youthful dream, it was not yet time to kind of screaming headlines that strike cover politics and the courts were new leave California. California of the mid- fear in the hearts of politicians. law school graduates. It was clear that 1970s and early 80s was a state in tur " I arrived in the newsroom every morn if he wanted a career in journalism that, moil. Ronald Reagan had twice served ing at 5:00 a.m., rushed into work, sift absent a degree in journalism, he should as its Governor and had twice fai led to ed through the releases that had arrived go to law school. win the Republican nomination for Presi overnight by wire, retrieved any substan dent. His success in 1980 issued in a con tial news items and delivered them to the Son of 'Whispering servative resurgence that in California editorial staff. By the time I left in 1981 , Death' Studies Law (and elsewhere) often translated into ag 1 had worked my way up from clerk to "I was accepted by a number of Cal gressive and unseemly politics. The war writing a twice-weekly consumer affairs ifornia law schools, but I came back to in Vietnam that spawned the countercul column. lt was a kind of Dear Abby for Cleveland and enrolled at Case," where ture movements of the 60s and 70s had people victimized by some sham, often he fell under the influence of famed law ended. Right and left-wing media now fly-by-night businesses that had opened scholars Peter Junger, a gentle Buddhist, confronted one another over Proposition under one name, raked in buyers, cashed who taught Property Law, and, above all, 13, illegal immigration, bilingual educa- their checks, closed and moved to a new the man who taught him Criminal Proce- 28 Law Notes Kevin Francis O'Neill • dure, Lewis Katz, "the best teacher I had a CWRU." And then there was the teach er at home. Due to his gentle and disarm ing manner while demolishing opposing counsel's arguments, Kevin's father was widely (and affectionately) known in the courtrooms of the Northern District of Ohio as "Whispering Death." "l admired the way my father prac ticed law. I admired his courtroom de meanor, ever courteous and collegial. Winning or losing, he was always a gen tleman lawyer. I have tried to model my self after him." Kevin was a conscientious student and member of the editorial staff of the CASE WESTERN RESERVE LAW REVIEW, which Sonia Winner and Katherine Scarlett O'Neill published his first scholarly article. In 1984 when he graduated, he was well found a cause that summoned all his pas river he helped save. prepared for whatever the great world sions: helping to save the Virgin River He had also done some pro bono work of lawyers and judges and clients held from commercial exploitation in an area in the past on behalf of battered women out to him. He no longer wanted to make of the country to which he continues to seeking the protection of the court and movies or write feature articles. Yet he be drawn "like a salmon." asylum from their abusers. The court had chosen a story-telling profession Every summer during his boyhood, his room confrontations were often intense: as rife with drama as any on the silver parents drove the family west across the a desperate woman and an angry assail screen, a profession in which lives often country to visit Utah 's magnificent Red ant. But, he says, "representing some turned on the written word. Nothing in Rocks country in Zion National Park. In one pro bono who had a terrible need for his school work or early work life had the mid-80s, a coalition of private de help felt good in my soul. Very different been wasted. velopers and local government officials from the intellectual satisfaction l had proposed building a dam that would working with paying clients." Kevin O'Neill, Corporate have reduced to a trickle the 260-mile Attorney long Virgin River flowing southwest Kevin O'Neill, Lawyer Following his graduation, he joined, in erly from the red rock canyons of Utah for the People succession, the law practices of two ven through Arizona until it joins the Colora And thus began the second phase of erable Ohio law firms as an associate lit do River in Nevada. A small and poorly his life as a lawyer. Seven years after igator. Those were his "big finn years," staffed environmental group, the South earning his law degree, he left private he says, years in which he cut his teeth on em Utah Wilderness Alliance in Salt practice to accept a job as Legal Director commercial and complex litigation in cases Lake City, bent on saving the river and of the ACLU of Ohio, and for the next that dealt with a broad anay of issues: from the sunounding wilderness, had filed four years he and the organization rep RICO to products liability to issues in ad a lawsuit opposing the dam. In 1988, resented plaintiffs in case after case that miralty law. It was exhaustive and exhaust Kevin, who had been protesting the ven threatened the rule of law, bringing ac ing and often gratifying work, but "I al ture through letters to Congress, decided tions against the United States govern ways thought something was missing. to pitch himself directly into battle and ment, the State of Ohio, Ohio city gov "We were essentially just fighting over signed on as a volunteer attorney. Today, ernments, and local police forces for money, and I didn't always feel good the waters of the Virgin River flow deep activities that challenged the constitu about some of the cases I dealt with. 1 and clear in its river bed, and Kevin has tional protections of gay citizens, Af wanted to do something that would ad had the satisfaction of watching his own rican Americans, women, the home vance a cause I cared about." In 1988, he children play along the banks and in the less and members of ethnic populations. Spring 201 0 29 Kevin Francis O'Neill • They fought attempts to arrest citizens opeds and is always available to the who merely "appeared" to be under the media and in demand as a guest speaker. influence of illegal drugs, fought to pre He has continued his service, pro bono, vent the city of Cleveland from impos with the ACLU. In a 1999 case, Treesh ing tariffs that would inhibit distribution v. Taft, he successfully argued the First of street peddlers' newspapers, fought Amendment rights of prisoners on death to prevent unauthorized "sweeps" of row who were being denied the privi men and women living on city streets in lege of making a final statement in the Cleveland and Columbus, and fought ef moments before their executions. The forts to prohibit rival groups from pro case later infonned his article Muzzling testing outside the house of an accused Death Row inmates: Applying the First Nazi death camp guard. And, in one Dylan and Katherine O'Neill Amendment to Regulations that Restrict spectacular case that began like a cheap a Condemned Prisoners Last Words, detective movie with an anonymous tip American people's Constitution. which was published in the ARIZONA and ended like a morality play with jus A person reading through his student STATE LAW JOURNAL in 2001 . In 2000, he I ' tice triumphant, ACLU lawyers stopped evaluations over the years would find served as third chair in a successful First I ! the ruthless practice by Cleveland po identical themes running throughout: Stu Amendment challenge to federal regu lice, acting on orders from the Mayor's dents unfailingly remark on his courteous lations that criminalized exporting any office, of seizing homeless street people, ness, his respect for the students, his sense materials discussing or employing cryp forcing them into squad cars and aban of humor, his classroom innovations and tography, a case that must have been es doning them far from their downtown his genuine concern that they learn well. pecially gratifying because the winning shelters and refuges-leaving them in At the same time that they remark on his litigant was his former CWRU Law Pro distant suburbs, for instance, or in the kindnesses, they also praise the rigor of fessor, Peter Junger. wilds of the Metropolitan Park System his class assignments and the scrupulosity or in the gravel pit of the city's water of his grading--even the students whose Stardom treatment plant. grades fall below their expectations. He As it turns out, though Kevin O'Neill is quite simply an extraordinary teacher never became a movie director or was al Professor O'Neill at and has shared his teaching philosophy lowed to write the feature article he want Home in the Law School and insights in STRATEGIES AND TECH ed to write, in the courtroom and in the in the City NIQ UES FOR LAW SCHOOL TEACHING (with classroom, he has a stellar presence. An Professor O'Neill began teaching Con former CIM!LAW faculty member How Oscar-winning presence, you might even stitutional Law at our law school as a ard Katz) 2009. say. Moreover, in 1988, Professor O'Neill member of the adjunct faculty in 1993 and Alana Jochum '10 sent LAw NOTES married Sonia M. Winner, a lawyer with immediately made his mark. Student sur an email in which she reminisced about movie star good looks, who is now the veys the following spring identified him her law school experience and the teach Associate Dean for External Affairs at the as one of the law school's three best teach ers she most admired. Kevin O'Neill Weatherhead School of Management at ers. He joined the full-time faculty in 1995, led the list: "Professor O'Neill is one of Case Western Reserve University. They teaching Evidence, Civil Procedure, First those professors that you remember are parents of a son, Dylan, named for the Amendment Rights and Contracts. not just what he taught you, but the way great Welsh poet, and a daughter, who has Though Professor O'Neillleamed law he taught you," she wrote. "He is the the brazenly theatrical name of Kather in another Cleveland law school (the most encouraging professor I have ever ine Scarlett. The family lives reasonably one in the park), he is at home in the law had. He believes in each of his students, happily in Shaker Heights, Ohio, the leafY school in the city, having already been and he pushes us beyond our self-doubts green and serene suburb where this story something of a hero to so many of its res into mastery of our studies." closes with a couplet from the family's idents. Teaching Constitutional Law in a In addition to his 2009 book on teach best loved poet: public school seems just as right and fit ing strategies, he is the author of schol Time let me play and be I Golden in ting for him as his work on behalf of the arly articles, editorials, book chapters, the mercy ofhis means. Dylan Thomas 30 Law Notes ------~===~=---- lana C. Jochum stands out among the law school's most Aaccomplished students: She is ranked third in her class and serves as editor-in-chief of the CLEVELAND STATE LAw REVIEW. Last year, as a member of the Moot Court Team, she won recognition as author of the "Best Brief" during the region al rounds of the ABA Nationals Moot Court competition. Her note, Pleading in Ohio After Bell Atlantic v. Twombly: Why Ohio Shouldn 't "Notice" a Change, is forthcoming in the CSU LAw REVIEW. Ms. Jochum is a 2005 summa cum laude alumna of Baldwin-Wallace College with a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. In addition to her academic accomplishments, Ms. Jochum has also been an outstanding student leader. In the fall, she co-chaired one of the law school's most successful public conferences, a symposium on "The State of LGBT Rights: Ohio, America, and the World." Co-sponsored by the ACLU of Ohio and the law school, the conference featured guest lecturers representing national and international organizations active in human rights campaigns on behalf of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender citizens. And, as LAw NoTES goes to print, Ms. Jochum and Student Bar Association President Leslie Wasko '10 are co-chairing the Graduation Chal lenge committee. Graduation Challenge is an annual fund-raising initiative of the graduating class, and this year's committee is an especially entrepreneurial one. Its goal is to raise money for law school scholarships and other projects through an event show casing the multiple artistic and performance talents of the class of 2010. "Party 2010: a Class Action," billed as an evening of "toast ing and roasting," included music by a law school band, "The Arbi trators"; skits, a silent auction, and a video "mockumentary" that has a bit of fun at the expense of all of us. This year, former Dean Geoffrey S. Mearns added a new feature to the graduation ceremony. He announced his intention to choose a student to speak at commencement who best exemplifies all that is implied in the law school's motto, Learn Law. Live Justice. That student, to no one's surprise except perhaps the honoree's, was Alana Jochum. Spring 2010 31 Did you know . . . . CIMILAW Pipeline Projects Continue to Thrive The winning Law & Leadership Mock Trial team students in an effort to encourage them to pursue college, and, we hope, law school. The pipeline pro gram that began in our law school and in Ohio State University's Moritz Coll ege of Law as a summer school is greatly expanded and will be held n January, 55 Cleveland Municipal School Dis this summer on eight law schools campuses. trict high school students attended the law C[ MILAW will host "graduates" from two previous school 's second annual Jump Start Program, classes, now entering tenth and eleventh grades Ian initiative sponsored by the C[MI LAW Office as well as a new class of rising ninth graders. of Admissions under the direction of Assistant Di Recently, a team of 12 Law & Leadership Institute ., rector of Admissions and Multicultural Recruit students from various Cleveland Municipal School ment Sandra English '03. Students from Maple District high schools got a taste of courtroom glory Heights High School, the Cleveland Academy for when they walked away from the Cleveland Mu Scholarship, Technology, and Leadership Enter nicipal Court on May 7th with the first-place tro prise (C.A.S.T.L.E.) High School, and Cuyahoga phy in the 2010 Citywide Mock Court Competition. Community College's Upward Bound Program took C[MILAW Manager of Student Affairs lnga Laurent their first steps toward col lege and possibly a future '05 , who administers the L&LI , and with law stu career in law in an inspiring half-day program. Stu dents Michael Ritz and Joanna Lopez, coached dents and their teachers toured the law school and the team. In addition to the team's Best Team met with law faculty, administrators, students, prac award , 9th grade team member Randall Richmond ticing attorneys from the Norma S. Minor Bar Asso won the Best Attorney award. ciation, the local affili ate of the National Bar Associ The yearly event, sponsored by the Cleveland ation. C[MILAW's Jump Start Program is supported Metropolitan Bar Association, takes place in the with funds from the Law School Admission Council Cleveland Municipal Court. The Cleveland-Marshall through its DiscoverLaw.org initiative. DiscoverLaw. Law & Leadership students competed against 30 org was developed by the LSAC's Diversity Com teams from area schools in a "trial" in which student mittee in an effort to increase the representation of attorneys debated whether a defendant was guilty students from racially and cu ltura lly diverse popula of vehicular homicide due to possible negligence tions in colleges and graduate schools. and violation of the texting-while-driving law. Assistant Dean Louise P. Dempsey '81, Vice This summer, the Law & Leadership Institute Chair of the Cleveland Municipal School Board, has begins its third year of offering a five-week simu been instrumental in creating and supporting the lated law school experience to area hi gh school law school's pipeline programs for many years. 32 Law Notes IMILaw student Teirra Ndegwa '10 was named Best Oralist Edward T. Haggins graduated from our during the National Frederick law school in 1966. Thirty years later, he was C Douglass Moot Clinic Court Compe ordained as a minister. The two vocations tition held in Cambridge, Massachu have been entirely compatible. In both, he has had to be a strong advocate: in law, for the setts, in March. Ms. Ndegwa, a dual guilty and the innocent; in his ministry, for be degree candidate in law and public ad lievers and non-believers. ministration, triumphed over students As a pastor, Reverend Haggins has reached from Columbia University, Harvard Law out to a class of men who, he believes, are School, Florida State University and easily forgotten : men of all ages incarcerat Georgetown Law Center in a stunning ed in Ohio prisons. In the mid-1990s he and performance in which she argued both his wife , Brenda, created the Matthew Prison the petitioner and respondent appeal! Fellowship Association to minister to male in Cleveland-Marshall Professor Browne mates-even, and especially, those on death Lewis and Sandra English '03, Assis row. Now in his 80s, he continues to visit his tant Director of Admissions and Mul prison flock regularly, often traveling among ticultural Recruitment, helped prepare three or more prisons each week. Reverend and Mrs. Haggins have also in Ms. Ndegwa for the annual Douglass vested in the youth of Ohio through two char competition, which is sponsored the itable annuities at the Cleveland Foundation. National Black Law Students Associa The first, the Ruth Boaz Foundation, makes tion. According to Professor Lewis, the grants to a variety of charitable causes. The competition director commended Ms. Ndegwa on her courage second , and larger, annuity is the Edward T. in arguing by herself, stating that her scores were commensu Haggins Charitable Gift Annuity, which will rate with those of the top competitors in the recent history of the provide scholarship funds to minority stu contest. dents at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. A native of Cleveland, Ms. Ndegwa earned her undergradu In creating the scholarship, Reverend Hag ate degree in political science and sociology from Ohio Univer gins asked only one favor in return: that we sity, where she held a four-year King/Chavez/Parks Scholarship exhibit, in a prominent location, the first-place and received numerous awards and academic honors. At Cleve award he received from THE SATURDAY REVIEW for writing "the most outstanding article ap land-Marshall, she is the recipient of a Cleveland-Marshall Schol pearing in a College Literary Magazine during arship, the Lillian W. Burke Scholarship, the Charles W. Flem the Academic Year 1965-66." His award for ing Scholarship, the Black Professionals Association Charitable his article , "Right to Counsel in Criminal Cas Foundation Scholarship, a Housing Court Fellowship and the es," hangs outside the offices of the CLEVELAND SBA Student Leadership Award, as well as two Pro Bono Com STATE LAw REVIEW. Accompanying the citation munity Service Awards. She has been active in the American Bar is a letter of congratulation signed by famed Association-Student Division, the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar American journalist and SATURDAY REVIEW editor Association 's 3Rs Program, the National Council of Negro Wom Norman Cousins. en, and as an officer in the Black Law Students Association. At the law school, we are grateful for the In addition to her studies in law and public administration, example he has set for our students, as a Ms. Ndegwa works as a legal intern for Dominion and is a first lawyer, as a minister, as a humanitarian, and, time mother. She and her husband, Bernard Ndegwa, have a now, as a generous alumnus of Cleveland Marshall College of Law. son, Everette, born shortly before she began preparing for the competition. Spring 2010 33 What will we do without Marie Rehmar and Gary Williams? Gary R. Williams, the law school's Bar Pas sage Program Coordinator, earned his undergraduate degree from Cleveland State University and his law degree from our law school. Following his gradua tion, he worked in private practice and in the law de partments of the City of Cleveland and the City of Shaker Heights and was on om adjunct faculty from 1994 until 2002, when he joined the CIM ILA Wad ministration as an Assistant Dean of Student Affairs and Minority Recruitment. Gary's responsibilities also included creating a program for students experiencing academic diffi culty and working with students who were prepar This summer; the law school will lose two colleagues ing to take the Ohio Bar Exam. He was teacher and counselor and, eventually, supervisor of a staff that who will be very difficult replace: Marie Rehmar and included teaching assistants and faculty lecturers. Gary Williams will both retire on the last day of June. He managed that job so well that former Dean Ste ven H. Steinglass asked him to take an even more difficult one: In 2007, the ABA instituted a poli Marie Rehmar, the Law Library's Head of Reference Services, earned her cy allowing law schools to offer academic credit to undergraduate degree from Cleveland State University, her Master of Library Sci students who successfully completed a bar-prepa ence degree from Case Western Reserve University and her Master of Public Ad ration course. Gary was the obvious choice to head ministration from the Levin College of Urban Affairs. She joined the reference that program-except Gary had decided to retire; staff of the law library in 1978. in fact, officially, he had retired. Still, a month later In 1978 there was one LEXIS terminal and one OCLC terminal. There was no he reemerged as the law school's new Bar Passage Internet at all; however, there was a valuable human resource: Marie Rehmar, pen Program Coordinator, creator of the Ohio Bar Strat cil in hand, among the stacks, leafing through books, weaving her way through egies and Tactics Course. He returned, as he says, her own personal archive of boxed-up "really interesting stuff that someone will because "I'm a good soldier." need one day. You just watch! " For over three decades, she has responded to the He is also an engaging personality, full of high research requests of students, faculty, alumni and libra1y guests with unfailing spirits and merriment. In his new job, he became, grace- this amazing colleague with the unerring gift of finding the needle in the almost at once, something of a local hero. The per haystack. And she is as successful researching online as she is combing through suasive gifts that served him so well as a law school files of yellowing newspapers or searching through dusty archives. recruitment officer served him well in the class I am sure there are books and articles that might never have seen the light of day room . Our students are passing the bar in greater without the help Marie has provided to our faculty and administrators. Speaking and greater numbers, and we are often surpassing of my own experience, I could not have done my job for the past 24 years with most of the law schools in Ohio. Just as LAw NoTES out her willingness to help me-especially in the days before the Internet and oth heads to the printer, we learned that 90 percent of er electronic resources. our students taking the bar for the first time in Feb Marie has worked for five Law Library Directors. In announcing her retire ruary have triumphed. CIMILA W was ranked sec ment, the law school's present Library Director, Kristina Niedringhaus, praised ond in the state. Marie's service and her impressive "wealth of knowledge." Add to that a truly re At the law school, we will miss the good soldier, markable memory. Former CIMILaw Library Director Michael Slinger, hearing the local hero and the meniment of his ways! The of Marie's retirement, recently wrote: "Marie is an institution, and her kind heart man no one has ever seen frown or heard utter an will be missed." We wiU also miss her welcoming presence. Congratulations, and unkind word. Congratulations, Gary Williams, and thank you, Marie. From all of us. LFM thank you. From all of us. 34 Law Notes Alumni Happenings • 1953 1973 Eugene Kratus joined Former U.S. Congressman Louis Stokes Richard Panza, principal with Wickens, the Ohio-based law firm received the inaugural "Pillar of Justice Herzer, Panza, Cook & Batista in A von of Weston Hurd as a patt Award " from Federal Bar Association and Sandusky, is President of the Board ner in the Cleveland office. Northern District of Ohio Chapter President of Directors of Legal Aid Society of Mr. Kratus provides coun Carter Strang '84, a partner in the Cleveland Cleveland. sel to closely held busi office of Tucker Ellis & West. .,__,,____ nesses on taxation and es 1974 tate planning matters. 1963 Michael Hennenberg, of counsel to Charles O'Toole is of counsel to the the firm of Dinn Hochman & Potter, John Simonetti was in Cleveland firm of Cavitch, Familo & was selected for inclusion in the 2009 ducted into the National Durkin. Ohio Super Lawyers Magazine. Mr. Multiple Sclerosis Society's Hennenberg is certified as a Criminal Volunteer Hall of Fame Thomas Scanlon, Senior Trial Advocate by the National Board for 2009. Mr. Simonetti Managing Partner of of Trial Advocacy and is a Fellow in the was selected for his out- '------'--~-'---_J Collins & Scanlon in American Board of Criminal Lawyers. standing volunteer support Cleveland, was named a of the organization, for making a dif member of the Irish Legal 1975 ference in the community, and for rais 100 by the Irish America James Aussem is a partner with the ing more than $100,000 in funds to pro Magazine. Mr. Scanlon is Cleveland firm of Cavitch Familo & vide for local programs and MS-related also the recipient of the Medical Mutual of Durkin where he focuses his practice pri research efforts. Mr. Simonetti is an om Ohio and Smart Business magazine 2009 marily in succession planning, business, budsman for the Eaton Corporation. Pillar Award as the Non-Profit Board and estates and trusts. Executive of the Year for his leadership Steven Slive was appointed chairman on the West Side Ecwnenical Ministry F. Tyler Rich earned of the advisory board of the Cuyahoga Board in Cleveland. the Lifetime Achievement Support Enforcement Agency. Mr. Slive A ward from the Arizona is managing partner of Slive & Slive Co., 1969 Prosecuting Attorneys' where he specializes in family law. Marc Bloch was elected a general part Advisory Council. The ner at the Cleveland firm of Walter & award is reserved for "an 1977 Haverfield where his practice focuses on individual who has had a Carolyn Cappel, a resi all aspects of labor relations for both pri distinguished career as a public prosecu dent in the Cleveland of vate and public sector clients. tor." Mr. Rich has been with the City of fice of Weston Hurd, Phoenix Prosecutor's Office since 1977. was re-elected as manag 1970 ing partner. She has been Jeffry Weiler joined 1976 honored with selection for Tucker Ellis & West as Warren Enders, an attorney in the membership in the John a member of the firm's Columbus office of Reminger Co., was Manos Inn of Court and the Cuyahoga Trusts and Estates Practice named a 20 I 0 Ohio Super Lawyer by County and Federal Court Mediation and Group in the Cleveland Law & Politics Media, Inc. Arbitration Panel. Ms. Cappel is listed office. in the 20 I 0 edition of Best Lawyers in M. Colette Gibbons, partner-in-charge America for insurance law and product li 1972 of the Cleveland office of Schottenstein ability litigation. Michael Climaco is counsel in the Zox & Dunn, was invited to become Cleveland office of Tucker Ellis & West a Fellow of the American College of Kevin Irwin was se where he represents government entities Bankruptcy, an invitation-only honorary lected for inclusion in in commercial, civil and administrative association that honors exceptional pro the 2010 Best Lawyers in matters. fessionals distinguished by their work, America for bankruptcy their contributions to the administration and creditor-debtor rights Judge Joseph Gibson was elected to of justice, and their integrity. law. Mr. Irwin is a part serve a six-year term on the Lake County '--._.._ ner with Keating Muething Court of Common Pleas bench. Spring 2010 35 • Alumni Happenings & Klekamp in Cincinnati where his prac Thomas L. Peterson is of counsel to Governor Ted Strickland named tice is concentrated on the representation Brundidge & Stanger in Alexandria,' Christopher Royer to the Self Insured of parties in large mass tort bankruptcy Virginia, where he counsels clients in a Employers Evaluation Board, which re proceedings. wide range of intellectual property law views complaints or allegations of miscon matters. duct against a self-insuring employer. Mr. Angelo Lonardo was named the 2009 Royer is manager of workers ' compen recipient of the John P. Butler Lifetime Henry Reder was appointed to the na sation, disability plans and occupational Achievement Award for Excellence in tional ri sk management committee of the health for the Timken Co. Criminal Defense from the Cuyahoga American Institute of Architects. Mr. Criminal Defense Lawyers Association. Reder is an attorney with Bricker & Patricia Schraff, a partner in the firm of Mr. Lonardo is an attorney with Yelsky & Eckler in Cleveland. Schraff & King in Willoughby Hills, re Lonardo in Cleveland. ceived the Benjamin Rose Institute Katz 1980 Advocacy for the Elderly Award by the Robert Poklar is a partner at Weston Hurd Gregory Clifford, a Western Reserve Area Agency on Aging. in Cleveland where his practice consists of Trustee of the East Ms. Schraff was recognized for working to business law, commercial litigation, merg Cleveland Public Library, improve public programs and policies to ad ers, acquisitions and dispositions. was honored with the vance the health, independence and dignity 2009 Trustee Award of of older adults. John Waldeck, Jr. was appointed chair Achievement by the Ohio of the Real Estate Specialty Board of Library Council Awards Gary Zwick was named head of the tax the Ohio State Bar Association. Mr. and Honors committee. The award rec and wealth management section at the Waldeck heads the real estate group in the ognizes an individual that demonstrates Cleveland firm of Walter & Haverfield. Cleveland firm of Walter & Haverfield. distinguished service and leadership within the community or across Ohio. 1981 1979 Mr. Clifford is the Cleveland Municipal Former judge Kenneth Peter Brodhead, a partner in the Court Chief Magistrate and a member of CaUahan is a partner and Cleveland firm of Spangenberg, Shibley the CMLAA Board of Trustees. a member of the advo & Liber, was voted among The Best cacy and litigation prac Lawyers in America® in the personal Carl Dyczek was named tice group at the Cleveland injury practice area for 20 I 0, named a administrative partner firm of Buckley King. His 20 I 0 Leading Lawyer by Inside Business for the Cleveland firm of practice focuses on white magazine and named a 20 I 0 Ohio Super Walter & Haverfield. Mr. collar criminal defense, business litigation Lawyer by Law & Politics Media, In c. Dyczek is a member of the and mediation. He is actively registered as firm's business group and a Private Judge under Ohio law. Paul Edwards joined the concentrates his practice law firm of Day Ketterer on finance and lending transactions and Dennis Lansdowne, a partner in the as a finance attorney. Mr. commercial real estate matters. Cleveland firm of Spangenberg, Shibley Edwards will help lead & Liber, was voted among The Best growth initiatives for the William Hawal, an attorney in the Lawyers in America® in the Personal firm 's Cleveland office, as Cleveland firm of Spangenberg, Shibley Injury and Medical Malpractice area for well as provide counsel to & Liber, was voted among The Best 2010, was named a 2010 Leading Lawyer clients throughout Northeast Ohio seeking Lawyers in America® in the medical by Inside Business magazine and a 2010 traditional and non-traditional financing. malpractice law area for 20 I 0 and named Ohio Super Lawyer by Law & Politics a 2010 Ohio Super Lawyer by Law & Media, Inc. Henry Perras, a partner Politics Media, Inc. in the Phoenix office of CMLAA Board of Trustees member P. Quarles & Brady, was se Philip Korey was named a 2009 Ohio Kelly Tompkins was appointed Executive lected for inclusion in The Super Lawyer by Law & Politics Media, Vice President for Legal, Government Best Lawyers in America In c. Mr. Korey practices primarily in Affairs and Sustainability at Cliffs Natural 2010. the area of criminal defense and repre Resources, Inc. in Cleveland. sentation of professionals before licens ing boards. 36 Law Notes Alumni Happenings • Patricia Walker, a principal in the profit organization unites children with Timothy Trainer conducted a se Medina firm of Walker & locke, was ap physical disabilities and youth volunteers ries of intellectual property workshops pointed to serve as chair of the Intellectual to enrich each other's lives through one in Croatia, Kosovo and Macedonia Property Law Section of the Ohio State on-one participation in adapted sports and at the invitation of the U.S. State Bar Association. recreational activities. Department. He also conducted work shops for Serbian Government officials 1983 Stephen Walters was named a 2010 Ohio in Belgrade on copyright and trade se Mary Cibella received the Ohio State Bar Super Lawyer by Law & Politics Media, cret/data protection issues and provided Association's 2009 Nettie Cronise Lutes Inc. Mr. Walters is managing partner in an assessment of Bosnia's intellectual Award at the OSBA Annual Convention the Cleveland office of Reminger Co. property system as part of a U.S. AID in Cleveland. The award, created by the project. Mr. Trainer also taught an in OSBA Women in the Profession Section, 1984 tellectual property enforcement course recognizes women lawyers who have "im Amelia Bower was re-appointed to as an adjunct professor at American proved the legal profession through their chair the Legal Ethics and Professional University's college of law. own high level of professionalism and Conduct Committee of the Ohio State have opened doors for other women and Bar Association. Ms. Bower serves as James Walther was elected to a six-year girls." Ms. Cibella is of counsel to the managing partner for the Ohio office of term as judge on the Domestic Relations firm of McGinty, Hilow & Spellacy Co. Plunkett Cooney. Court for Lorain County. in Cleveland and concentrates her practice in the area of professional responsibility Carter Strang, a partner 1988 including disciplinary matters, legal mal with Tucker Ellis & West Shannon Fogarty Jerse joined the legal practice defense and preadmission licen in Cleveland, was sworn in department of The Sisters of Charity sure representation for law students. as Chapter President of the Health System as general counsel to St. Federal Bar Association, Vincent Charity Hospital. Ms. Jerse also Arthur Kaufman was listed in the 2010 Northern District of Ohio serves as deputy general counsel for the edition of The Best Lawyers in America chapter. Mr. Strang health system. for insurance law and in the 2009 edition also received the 2009 Distinguished of Ohio Super Lawyers by Law & Politics Contributions to the Community Award Michelle Lafferty is corporate counsel Media, Inc. Mr. Kaufman writes a month from the Ohio Association of Civil Trial at Hylant Group where she is responsi ly column for the Cleveland Metropolitan Attorneys at its annual convention in ble for the Group's legal representation Bar Journal called, "My Life in 6-Minute Columbus. in all litigation and legal matters, and also Increments," which discusses the unique serves as legal advisor to the Board of mental and physical challenges faced by 1985 Directors. attorneys. Jack Weisensell was inducted into the College of Wooster "W" Hall of Fame. Doug Leak, a partner in the Cleveland Clifford Masch, an attorney in the Mr. Weisensel! is a partner with Bern1ohr office ofRoetzel & Andress, has been cer Cleveland office of Reminger Co., was Wertz in Akron. His areas of practice in tified by the Ohio State Bar Association named a 2010 Ohio Super Lawyer by Law clude commercial litigation, personal in as a specialist in appellate law. Mr. & Politics Media, Inc. jury, medical malpractice and representa Leak's practice focuses on medical mal tion of professional athletes. practice issues, personal injury and de Daniel Pollack co-authored an arti claratory judgment actions involving in cle on the topic of wrongful death of 1987 surance carriers. children in foster care, which was pub James Crawford was appointed direc lished by the University of La Verne Law tor of the Lakewood Public Library. Michael Murray was elected President Review. Mr. Pollack is a Professor at the of the Lake County Bar Association. Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Richard Romanchik joined the Mr. Murray is the legal counsel for the Yeshiva University in New York, NY. Rochester, New York office of Hiscock Madison Fire District and has been a & Barclay as counsel in the firm's in magistrate for the Willoughby Municipal Donna Taylor-Kolis, a partner with tellectual property & technology prac Court for over 13 years. Mr. Murray's Friedman, Domiano & Smith in Cleveland, tice area. practice primarily focuses on personal in was named an executive committee officer jury, criminal law and civil litigation. of Youth Challenge. The Westlake non- Spring 2010 37 • Alumni Happenings Rob Remington was three-member panel that will review city 1993 identified as a "Notable policies on sex crimes and missing per-' Adam Carr was named a Practitioner" in the con sons investigations. Ms. Beasley is an at 20 I 0 Ohio Super Lawyer struction field in the lat torney in the Cleveland office of Yorys, for his work on insur est edition of Chambers Sater, Seymour & Pease. ance coverage by Law & USA: America 's Leading Politics Media, Inc. Mr. Lawyers for Business . Mr. Remington , Jeffrey Black established a partnership Carr also wrote three chap a partner in the Cleveland office of Hahn with Michael Murray '88 creating the ters of the leading trea Loeser and a member of the CMLAA firm of Murray & Black, LTD in down tise on Ohio Tort Law, entitled Baldwin 's Board of Trustees, serves as construction town Willoughby. Mr. Black has been Ohio Practice Series: Tort Law. counsel to a wide range of owners, gener a Councilman-at-Large in Willoughby al contractors, and subcontractors, advis since 2004. Brian Goldwasser was named a 20 I 0 ing them on construction disputes, con Ohio Super Lawyer by Law & Politics struction contracts, claims management Assistant Cuyahoga Media, Inc. Mr. Goldwasser is manag and avoidance, and construction insur County Prosecutor Pin key ing partner in the Cincinnati office of ance 1ssues. Carr received the 2009 Reminger Co. Prosecutor of the Year 1989 Award honoring her as 1994 Christopher Anselmo is the President an example of tenacity, Governor Ted Strickland appointed Keila of Brookside Tax Advisory Group in integrity and profession Cosme judge on the Ohio Sixth District Cleveland. He is both an attorney and a ali sm in the pursuit of justice. Ms. Carr Court of Appeals. Ms. Cosme, a partner CPA. is currently assigned to the elite Major with the law firm of Cosme, D'Angelo Trial Unit where she prosecutes rape and and Szollosi, will be the first Hispanic Mary Biacsi was named one of the murder cases. She has also been depu American to serve on any of Ohio's 12 2010 Top Women Business Owners of tized as a Special Assistant United States district courts of appeal. Northeast Ohio by the Cleveland Chapter Attorney. of the National Association of Women Andrew Dorman, an attorney in the Business Owners. Ms. Biacsi is a principal Meena Morey Chandra, an attorney Cleveland office of Reminger Co., was with the family law firm of ZolleriBiacsi with the U.S. Department of Education 's named a 2010 Ohio Super Lawyer by Law in Cleveland. Office for Civi l Rights, was promoted to & Politics Media, Inc. the management team of the agency. She 1990 now supervises a section of several attor Deviani Kuhar is a partner with the Frank Manning was neys and civil rights investigators. Cleveland firm of Benesch Friedlander elected Chairman of the where she focuses her practice on all as Board of Directors of Daniel Richards was pects of estate planning and tax issues rel Pathways, 1nc., a non elected a member of ative to business counseling for middle profit, community-based Weston Hurd 's manage market companies. outpatient facility dedi ment committee. He was cated to providing quality also named an Ohio Super Dennis Mulvihill, a trial lawyer and part mental health and emergency services to Lawyer by Law & Politics ner in the Cleveland firm of Lowe, Eklund, adults in Lake County. Media, Inc. for his work Wakefield & Mulvihill , was elected in the area of business litigation. Mr. President-Elect of the Ohio Association Larry Seman recently appeared in the Richards resides in the firm 's Cleveland for Justice (OAJ) and will be sworn in as Great Lakes Theatre Festival presen office and emphasizes his practice on its 53rd President at its annual convention tations of Comedy of Errors and Th e construction, commercial litigation, com in May. Mr. Mulvihill represents con Seagull. He also appeared in Ma Rainey's plex insurance coverage, employment, sumers across the United States who have Black Bottom at the Beck Center and in medical malpractice, product liability, been harmed by defective products and Medea at the Actors Summit. municipal law and appellate matters. negligent doctors. 1992 Mark Wiseman is an attorney in the James O'Connor was elected part Teresa Beasley was appointed by Consumer Protection Section of the Ohio ner in the Cleveland office of Reminger Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson '83 to a Attorney General's Office in Cleveland. Co. where his practice focuses in the 38 Law Notes Alumni Happenings • areas of professional liability, complex 1997 1998 commercial litigation and employment Tracy Crandall joined RPM Inter Thomas Baker was elect I itigation. national Inc. in Medina, Ohio, as associ ed a partner at Tucker Ellis ate general counsel. Ms. Crandall will be & West in Cleveland. Mr. 1995 responsible for a wide range of corporate Baker represents product Scott Ciocco was recog and transactional legal matters. She also manufacturers and suppli nized for legal excellence sits on the board of trustees of the YWCA ers, corporations involved by Real Estate New Jersey of Greater Cleveland and the visiting in business disputes and Magazine and was selected committee for Cleveland-Marshall. Great Lakes shipping carriers in maritime for the publication's "Meet litigation. the Real Estate Lawyers" Walter (Scott) Lucas list. Mr. Ciocca is an attor joined the Cleveland office Geraldine Butler opened her own law ney with Flaster Greenberg in Cherry Hill, of Weston Hurd as a part office in Cleveland. New Jersey, where he has worked exten ner. Mr. Lucas concen sively with major developers in both the res trates hi s practice on white Michele Friend is a partner in the Los idential and the commercial sectors. collar criminal matters and Angeles, Cali fornia, firm of Kneafsey & other complex civi l and Friend. She represents a wide range of Marilena DiSilvio, an attorney in the criminal litigation in both state and federal clients in the areas of busi ness litigation, Cleveland office of Reminger Co., was courts throughout the state of Ohio. real estate, civil rights litigation, intellec named a 2010 Ohio Super Lawyer by Law tual property, tort liability & employment & Politics Media, Inc. Marietta Pavlidis is a partner in the litigation. Akron office of Buckingham, Doolittle 1996 & Burroughs where she concentrates her Amy Kullik has been promoted to part James Benedict, Jr. was named pres practice on litigation, employment and ner and shareholder of the Cleveland firm ident of the University Hospitals Ahuj a workers' compensation, and fami ly law. of Mansour, Gavin, Gerlack & Manos Medical Center in Beachwood. where she practices labor and employ Susan Petersen announced the opening of ment law. Leslie Jenny is a shareholder with Bonezzi the law offices of Petersen & Petersen, Inc. Switzer Murphy Polito & Hupp in Cleveland. in Chardon. Ms. Petersen represents victims Nicholas Miller is senior counsel and Ms. Jenny devotes her practice to the defense of personal injuries across Ohio to include a member of Neal Gerber Eisenberg's of physicians, hospitals, nursing homes and wrongful death, medical malpractice, prod Financial Restructuring and Bankruptcy other healthcare professionals. uct liability, automobi le accidents, nursing Practice Group. home negligence and premises li ability. Thomas Kilbane, an attorney in the Timothy Spirko was named a partner Cleveland office of Reminger Co., was Anthony Petruzzi was elected a partner of in the Cleveland office of Buckingham, named a 2010 Ohio Super Lawyer by Law the Cleveland-based firm of McLaughlin Doolittle & Burroughs. His practice is & Politics Media, Inc. & McCaffrey. Mr. Petruzzi focuses his focused on personal injury litigation and practice on white-collar criminal defense, asbestos defense litigation, including con Jennifer Stueber was internal investigations, business litigation, ducting depositions, drafting pleadings, appointed to the board product liability, and gambling law. motions and discovery and preparing for of trustees of Project: trial, mediations, arbitrations and work LEARN, a Cleveland non Theresa Richthammer ers' compensation hearings. profit founded in 1974 was named a partner in that has acquired a nation- the Cleveland firm of 1999 ___.._ ____ al reputation for its dedi- Gall agher Sharp. Ms. Christopher Blake was elected to cation to advancing adult literacy. Ms. Richthammer, who is ac the board of directors of the Cleveland Steuber is an associate with the Cleveland tive in the fmn's profes- Council on World Affairs. Mr. Blake is office ofTucker Ellis & West in the firm 's -.___....,o=____ sional li abi lity practice a partner in the Cleveland firrn of Hahn business department where she practic group, defends professional negligence Loeser & Parks. es in the areas of real estate development, claims, primarily focusing on attorney finance, commercial leasing and general and physician malpractice, and errors and Joseph Hatina was named a partner in corporate law. omissions by real estate agents. the private equity group of Jones Day. Spring 2010 39 • Alumni Happenings Pamela Houston was appointed a U.S. ad Alumni Achievement Award from Wright David Head was named a 20 I 0 Ohio ministrative law judge in Orlando, Florida. State University. Mr. Norman has estab ~ . Rising Star by Law & Politics Media, In c. lished his own law and consulting firm in Mr. Head is an associate with Weltman, John Lysenko was appointed to Baltimore, Maryland. Weinberg & Reis in Brooklyn Heights. Barberton City Council, Ward 2. Matthew Senra, a partner with Cavitch Jamie Nagle joined the Brooklyn Heights Jeanne Mullin was named a 2010 Ohio Familo & Durkin in Cleveland, was elect office of Weltman , Weinberg & Reis as an Rising Star by Law & Politics Media, Inc. ed to the Board of Trustees of Birchwood associate in the bankruptcy depattment. Ms. Mullin is an attorney in the Sandusky School and its Governance Committee. office of Reminger Co. He was also selected as an Ohio Rising Victor Radel was named a partner in the Star by Law & Politics Media, Inc. Cleveland firm of Chernett Wasserman Jennifer Whitney is an attorney in the Yarger, where he practices commercial I Cleveland office of Frantz Ward. Ms. 2001 litigation. Whitney focuses her practice on civil lit Genesis Brown is an Industry Specialist igation, with an emphasis on commercial with Hyland Software in Westlake. Richard Schloss is counsel with Reeder, litigation, business disputes and the repre Lu & Green in Los Angeles, California, sentation of management in all phases of Kelly Burgan was elected apartner in the where he practices in the area of commer labor and employment litigation. Cleveland office of Baker Hostetler. Ms. cial real estate development and finance. Burgan's practice focuses on bankruptcy, 2000 restructuring and creditors' rights, com Robert Yallech was named a 2010 Ohio William Joseph ·Baker is a partner in mercial litigation, environmental and en Rising Star by Law & Politics Media, the Cleveland firm of Giffen & Kaminski ergy, product liability and toxic tort. inc. Mr. Yallech is an attorney in the where his commercial litigation practice Youngstown office of Reminger Co. focuses on securities litigation, broker Oliver Dunford joined dealer arbitration and criminal defense. Hahn Loeser & Parks as Brian Zaber was elected partner in the an associate in the firm 's Cleveland office of Reminger Co. Mr. L. William Erb joined Cleveland office. Zaber's practice is concentrated on the the Cleveland firm of defense of transportation companies, their Cavitch Familo & Durkin Erin Hess was named a 2010 Ohio Rising employers and their insurers. as a partner. Mr. Erb's Star by Law & Politics Media, Inc. Ms. practice focuses primari Hess is an attorney in the Cleveland office 2003 ly on representing banks of Reminger Co. Manju Gupta joined the Cleveland of and financial institutions fice of McDonald Hopkins as an associ in commercial lending, loan restructuring Brian Penvose, President-Elect ofCMLAA ate in the firm 's business restructuring and documentation matters. Board ofTrustees, is a partner with Koblentz and bankruptcy department. Ms. Gupta & Penvose in Cleveland. serves on the Executive Committee of Halle Hebert serves as claim coun the William K. Thomas Inn of Court and sel for The Travelers Companies, Inc. in Beth Ann Schenz was named a 20 I 0 Ohio holds several leadership positions with the Independence, Ohio. Rising Star by Law & Politics Media, Inc. Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association. Ms. Schenz is an associate with Weltman, Rita Kline is of counsel in the Cleveland Weinberg & Reis in Brooklyn Heights. Karin Scholz Jenson was firm of Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & elected a partner in the Denver Tummino. Ms. Kline focuses her prac 2002 office of Baker Hostetler tice in the areas of trademark, patent and Nicholas DiCello, an associate in the where she is a member of copyright matters. Cleveland firm of Spangenberg, Shibley the firm's litigation group and & Liber, was named a 2010 Ohio Rising concentrates her practice in Gary Norman was appointed by the Star by Law & Politics Media, Inc. complex litigation. governor of Maryland and confirmed by the Maryland Senate to the state's Tom Green is shareholder and vice pres Jason Rothman is an associate with Commission on Human Relations. He ident of Kastner Westman & Wilkins in Ogletree Deakins in Cleveland where he con was also inducted into the Distinguished Akron where he provides counsel to em centrates his practice on employee benefits. Alumni Hall of Fame of Brunswick High ployers in all aspects of workplace law. School, and received the Distinguished 40 Law Notes Alumni Happenings • Christopher Peer was as a Defense Counsel for the Army's Trial Kari Balog Coniglio joined the Cleveland elected to the board of di Defense Service. office of Benesch Friedlander Coplan ·& rectors of The Cleveland/ Aronoff as an associate in the firm 's busi Northeast Ohio Market Maria Pocci was mar ness reorganization practice group. division of the American ried to Patrick Carney in Diabetes Association. Mr. Cleveland in September, Sara Hudacek Ryzner was promoted Peer is an associate with the Cleveland 2009. Cleveland-Marshall to site deployment manager for SureSite based law firm of Hahn Loeser & Parks. alumni in attendance in Consulting Group. Ms. Ryzner will pro cluded Haddi Qasem vide leadership in developing and manag Brian Seitz joined the '04, Dan Jacobson '04, ing process standards, project deployment Akron firm of Stark & Vincent Lombardo '81 and Ashleigh strategies and implementation. Knoll Co. in the firm's lit Elcesser '10. Ms. Carney is an attorney igation and employment with the law fmn of Cooksey, Tool en, Gage, Theresa Turk joined the Willoughby group. Mr. Seitz's experi DuffY & Woog in Las Vegas, Nevada. Hills firm of Schraff & King as an asso ence includes construction ciate concentrating in the areas of estate litigation and management 2005 planning, elder law & probate. of complex cases, as well as representing Christopher Adkins is an associate in clients in mediations, arbitrations, bench the Cleveland office of Taft Stettinius & 2007 and jury trials and appellate advocacy. Hollister where he is a member of the Karl Borgquist is a title attorney with firm's estate planning practice. Trott & Trott in Farmington Hills, MI. 2004 Julie DiBaggio, an associate with Robin Bravchok joined Phelps Dunbar LaDavia Drane is the Legislative Weltman, Weinberg & Reis in Brooklyn in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as an associ Counsel in the office of Congresswoman Heights, was named a 2010 Ohio Rising ate in the firm 's regional business practice Marcia L. Fudge '83 of Ohio's 11th Star by Law & Politics Media, Inc. group. Ms. Bravchok focuses her practice Congressional District. Ms. Drane han on health care and corporate law. dles the Congresswoman's judiciary, Brian Gannon was elected partner in housing/community development, health the Cleveland office of Reminger Co. Monique McCarthy is the Assistant care and rules issues. where his practice is concentrated on med Dean of Admissions for Ave Maria School ical malpractice and healthcare law. Mr. of Law in Naples, Florida. Elizabeth Evans joined the Cleveland Gannon was also named a 2010 Ohio office of Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Rising Star by Law & Politics Media, Inc. 2006 Aronoff as an associate in the firm 's cor Jennifer Armstrong is an associate porate and securities practice group. Patrick Milligan with McDonald Hopkins in Cleveland. and Dayna DePerro Ms. Armstrong concentrates her practice Jason Lorenzon joined Milligan are the proud on white collar crime, antitrust litigation, Margaret W. Wong & parents of Patrick John securities litigation and labor and employ Associates as senior attor Milligan, Jr. , born in June. ment counseling and litigation. ney where he focuses pri marily on assisting clients Bryan Kostura rejoined Weltman, Keller Blackburn, Assistant Athens in immigration law. Weinberg & Reis, in Brooklyn Heights, County Prosecutor, was presented the as an associate in the bankruptcy de 2009 Meritorious Service A ward by the Daniel Ari Sherwin joined the partment. Following an internship with Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association. Westlake firm of Curatolo Sidoti Co. as WWR in 2005, Mr. Kostura was called an associate. to active duty in the U.S. Army, where Lindsay Nickolls joined he spent the last four years serving in the family law practice 2008 the U.S. Army JAG Corp. as an offi of Nichols, Sacks, Slank, Heather Heberlein is an associate with cer in the lOth Mountain Light Infantry Sendelbach & Buiteweg, the Cleveland office of Buckley King. Division. While stationed in Ft. Drum, based in Ann Arbor and Ms. Heberlein is also a member of the New York, he acted as the Prosecutor and Brighton, Michigan. business and financial services group con Senior Legal Advisor for the I Oth Combat centrating on corporate law, commercial Aviation Brigade and most recently acted transactions and business reorganization. Spring 2010 41 • Alumni Happenings Adam Davis joined Katherine Knouff is an the Cleveland office of associate with Roetzel &• Rem inger Co . where he Andress in Akron, practic practices in the areas of ing in the area of medica l medi cal malpractice and defense. transportation liabili ty. Megan Maurer is an associate with Susan Whittaker Hughes joined the Cooper & Walinski in Toledo where her Cleveland office of Baker Hostetler as an practi ce focuses on business litigation, associate. Ms. Hughes concentrates her employment and labor, and tort litigation. practice in the areas of employee benefits OBITUARIES and compensation. Matthew Miller joined the Irwin S. Haiman '41 Cleveland office of Weston Lisa Botic Mach was appointed by Hurd as an associate. Mr. August Pryatel '42 Ohio Governor Ted Strickland to the Miller focuses hi s practice Wyatt C. Brownlee '43 State Veterinary Medical Board. Ms. on commerci al and business Mach is trained in both law and veteri litigation, business transac Louis R. Gaiduk '43 nary medicine. tions and real estate matters. Judge Dominic Olivito, Jr. '49 George A. Cain '50 Alexis Osburn joined the Cleveland of Adam Saurwein is an associate in the fic e of Baker Hostetler as an associate. business law department of McDonald James C. Cox '52 Ms. Osburn focuses her practice on cred Hopkins in Cleveland where he concen Nelson G. Karl '53 itors' rights, business restructuring and trates his practice on real estate and com commercial litigation. mercial finance. Robert F. Curry '54 Steven R. Hritz '54 Melanie Schaerban Erika Imre Schindler is an associate joined the Cleveland of with Ulmer & Berne in Cleveland, focus Hon. Frank D. Celebrezze '56 fice of Weston Hurd as an ing on business litigati on. Albert A. Pottinger '59 associate concentrating on Henry A. Hentemann '63 commercial and business Brenda Sweet joined the liti gati on, insurance de Cleveland office of Tucker Kenneth E. Ramsey '63 fense and insurance cov- Elli s & West as an associ Steven G. Laver '68 erage matters. ate in the Trial Department. Ms . Sweet focuses her Kenneth B. Schumaker '68 David Valent joined practice on medical and David M. Linick '75 the Cleveland office of pharmaceutical liability A. David Lafer '77 Reminger Co. where his and mass tort and product liability. legal practice includes Albert E. Chrow '81 matters involving medical Allan Sweet joined the Cleveland office Frederick P. Roth '81 malpractice, hea lth care of Bucki ngham, Doolittle & Burroughs as law, trucking and com an associate where he will focus hi s prac James T. Steiner '82 mercial transportation litigation and com tice on estate planning and probate. Rita D. Ciofani '85 mercial premises li ability. MacCallister West David B. Stern '87 2009 joined the litigation sec Jennifer W. Johnson '92 Adam Fletcher joined the Cleveland of tion of Hahn Loeser & Bernadette A. Marczely '94 fice of Baker Hostetler as an associate. Parks as an associate in the firm 's Cleveland office. Margaret E. Baumgart '95 Meghan Kilbane joined the Cleveland Bruce E. Hodge '95 firm of Mansour, Gavin, Gerlac k & Pratima Ungarala is the manag Manos in the finn 's real estate, litigation er of intell ectual property for Invacare Victor S. Nolan '06 and business services practice gro ups. Corporation in Elyri a. 42 Law Notes Faculty and Staff in the News • David Barnhizer the U.S. Attorney General in U.S. v. Professor Emeritus of Law Me Veigh and Nichols and serves as • published HYPOCRISY AND MYTH: THE co-chair of the Constitution Project's HIDD EN ORDER OF THE RULE OF LAW Death Penalty Initiative. Dean Crock with his son, Michigan State Univer er chaired the committee appointed to sity- Detroit College of Law Professor study and evaluate the administration Daniel Barnhizer (Vandeplas Publish of the death penalty in Ohio as part ing 2009); of the ABA's Death Penalty Morato • spoke on "Children of a Lesser God: rium Implementation Project and was Lawyers, Economics and the Systemic co-author of the Ohio committee's Corruption of the Legal Profession" at report. the University of Toledo Law School's Faculty Forum in October. Dena S. Davis Professor of Law Susan J. Becker • published GENETIC DILEMMAS: REPRO The Charles R. Emrick Sr.-Calfee DUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY, PARENTAL Halter & Griswold Professor of Law CHOI CES AND CHILDREN'S FUTURES and (Oxford University Press (2009)); Lloyd Snyder Carolyn Broering-Jacobs • published "Fathers, Foreskins, and Associate Professor of Law Family Law" in July as a guest writer •published the 2009-2010 edition of Carolyn Broering-Jacobs for the legal column of the LAHEY THE LAW OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT Legal Writing Professor of Law; CLINIC NEWSLETTER; IN OHIO (with former Cleveland-Mar Director, Legal Writing, Research and • published an "op-ed" piece on embryo shall Professor Jack Guttenberg). Advocacy Program research and the Dickey-Wicker • spoke at the Southeast Regional Legal Amendment in the Society Scholars Gordon Beggs Writing Conference on September 12, section of the American Society of Clinical Professor of Law, Employ 2009, at Stetson University College Law, Medicine and Ethics website; ment Law Clinic of Law on "Team Teaching with a • spoke on "direct-to-consumer genetic • helped organize and presented at the Practitioner: An Experiment in Trans testing" at the Mountain States Genet Cleveland-Marshall Christian Legal actional Drafting"; ics Conference in Denver in July; Society's program, "Faith and Prac • spoke on "The Million-Dollar Comma, • spoke on "Cutting to the Core: Male tice, the Legal Journey," on August 31, the Unpopular Insurance Adjuster, and and Female Genital Alteration" as the which featured law school graduates, the Irritated Judge" in January in the Traub-Byfield Fellow at University of former state senator Jeff Johnson '03, Cleveland office of Cavitch, Familo Illinois College of Medicine on Octo former 11th District Court of Appeals & Durkin. ber 10 ; Judge Bill O'Neill and Cleveland • gave the Philippa Harris Endowed Municipal Court Judge Anita Laster Phyllis L. Crocker Lecture, "Cancer, Fertility, and Hope: Mays '92; Interim Dean, and Professor of Law A Bermuda Triangle?" at Princess • was featured in a chapter on stars of • presented with University of Akron Margaret Hospital in Toronto, Canada, Christian legal aid in a new book by Law Professor Margery Koosed at a in October; John Robb entitled DEFENDING THE conference on the ABA Death Penalty • attended the Annual Meeting of the PooR WITH THE LOVE OF Goo in rec Report, Innocence and E-Discovery, American Society of Bioethics and ognition of his contribution to the sponsored by the Akron Bar Asso Humanities and moderated a panel on Christian legal aid movement and his ciation and the University of Akron "New Directions in Jewish Bioethics," leadership of Christian Legal Services School of Law; also in October; of Cleveland from 1998 to 2007. •joined Paul, Weiss, Rifkin, Wharton & • organized a symposium on Boldt v. Garrison attorney Beth Wilkinson in a Boldt, a family law case involving Michael Borden discussion in October of "The Future circumcision of a 12-year-old boy in Associate Professor of Law, of the Death Penalty: Reform, Abo Oregon and wrote the Introduction to • was elected to the American Law lition, Status Quo?" during the law the proceedings published in the JouR Institute. school's first Criminal Justice Forum NAL OF CLINICAL ETHICS (2009); of the school year. Ms. Wilkinson, • is one of nine academics appointed a former Assistant U.S. Attorney, to the National Institutes of Health's was appointed a special attorney to Working Group for Human Embryonic Spring 2010 43 • Faculty and Staff in the News Stem Cell Eligibility Review, which S. Candice Hoke will decide which human embryonic Associate Professor of Law stem cell lines can be used in NIH • participated in a panel presentation, supported research; "E-Voting and Forensics: Prying Open • received the 2009 Cleveland State Uni the Black Box," on August lOth at the versity's Faculty Research Award, the 2009 Electronic Voting Technology University's highest award for faculty Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy research. Elections; • presented "Internet Voting: F ormulat Rosa M. DelVecchio ing Structural Governance Principles Administrative Secretary for Elections Cybersecurity" in Sep • published a chapbook, "Voices from tember at the Second International the Castle Dungeon: A Collection of Symposium on Global Information Poetry" on cyberwit.net (Cyberwit Governance (ISGIG) in Prague, the Publishers, India, 2009). Czech Republic, in September. Her paper will be published in the proceed Patricia J. Falk ings of the meeting; Professor of Law • fi led testimony with the FCC in • published a review of Susan Carin Brian Glassman response to the agency's posted ques gella's 2009 book, ADDRESS ING RAPE tions in which she discussed whether REFORM IN LAW AND PRACTICE in the • spoke on "Religion and Democracy: the FCC should move forward with March 2010 edition of the journal Catholic and Islamic Traditions" at Internet Voting; VIOLENCE AGAINST WOM EN. Northwestern University Law School • participated in the Winter Mid in November; Year meeting of the ABA Standing David Forte • spoke on "Three Soldiers and the Negro" Committee on Election Law that re Professor of Law at the Cleveland Civil War Roundtable, viewed federal election law (including • published "The Closing of the Judi in Cleveland in December; the U.S. Supreme Court's new cam cial Mind," in the CLAREMONT REVIEW • spoke on "Made in the Image: the Idea paign finance decision) and proposals 1 OF BOOKS, Summer 2009, in which of Man in Genesis and the Qur'an" at for uniform state election law; he reviewed Robert F. Nagel's the Law Professors' Christian Fellow • structured the program format and UNRESTAINED: JUDICIAL EXCESS AND ship/Lumen Christi, AALS Meeting in recruited speakers for an Internet Vot I THE MIND OF THE AMERICAN LAWYER, New Orleans in January. ing debate held in Munich, Germany, and Richard A. Posner's How JuDGES in March 2010; THINK; Brian Glassman • was interviewed on March 9 on • spoke to the Intercollegiate Studies Insti Legal Writing Professor of Law National Public Radio by NPR report tute on "Islam and the Prospects for •presented "Law Schools' Management er Pam Fessler about issues involved Democracy" on June 27, in San Fran of Their Art Collections, or, 'So You when one voting machine manufac cisco; DIDN'T Think You Were Running an turer holds a virtual monopoly on the • spoke to the Sovereign Military Hos Art Museum?"' at the Art Law section electronic voting industry- issues that pitall er Order of St. John of Jerusalem, program at the AALS in New Orleans the Justice Department is reviewing. of Rhodes and of Malta (the Knights of on January 8. Justice Department investigators have Malta) on "The Roots oflslamic Law" consulted Professor Hoke on these in Cologne, Germany, in August; Carole 0. Heyward issues. • presented "The Crescent and My Coun Clinical Professor of Law, Urban try" at Liberty University Law School, Development Law Clinic Lolita Buckner Inniss Lynchburg, Virginia, also in August; • served as an expert witness for the Fed Associate Professor of Law • spoke on "Religion and Democracy: eral Trade Commission in an enforce • will publish with co-author, Pace Law Church and Mosque, Case Western ment action relating to an alleged School Professor Bridget Crawford, Reserve School of Law" in November; mortgage modification scam. The case Octomom: Social Factoring the Num • spoke on "Just What is Natural is currently pending in the northern bers with Assisted Reproduction, in a Law, Anyway? at Roger Williams district of Ohio. forthcoming issue of the TEXAS JouR Law School, Bristol, Rhode Island in NAL OF WOMEN AND THE LAW; November; • spoke on "Dirty, Sexy Money" at a fall 44 Law Notes Faculty and Staff in the News • symposium sponsored by WoMEN's cific public policy action that will RIGHTS LAW REPORTER at the Rutgers help Ohio's cities. Professor Lind is School of Law-Newark in November. assisting Ohio General Assembly Rep resentative Dennis Murray drafting Dennis Keating legislation that would significantly Professor of Law and Urban Studies affect foreclosure proceedings by giv • presented a paper on the re-use of ing judges more information and clear vacant land resulting from foreclosures direction about foreclosures on dis in Cleveland and was a keynote speaker tressed and abandoned properties. on a panel on The International Credit Crisis at the conference of the Research Jessica Mathewson Council on Housing and the Built Envi Library Media Technical Assistant ronment of the International Sociologi • recieved the law students' 2009-10 cal Association in Glasgow, Scotland. award for Best Administrator for the sixth time! Kenneth Kowalski and Gordon Beggs Claire Robinson May Clinical Professors of Law Employ Legal Writing Professor of Law ment Law Clinic • spoke at the Southeast Regional Legal •joined with Anita Myerson of the Stephen Lazarus Writing Conference in September on Legal Aid Society of Cleveland in "Fresh Air in the Academy: Why convening an unemployment law clin Stephen Lazarus Legal Writing Professors Need Law ic on October 27 as part of National Associate Professor of Law Practice Sabbaticals"; Pro Bono Week. The clinic served 14 • presented "Update on the Rules of • completed a one-act play, "Mother clients in one evening. Professional Conduct and Review of Tongue," which was performed at a Disciplinary Case Law" at a Cleveland stage reading at The Cleveland Public Arthur Landever Metropolitan Bar Association CLE Theater to an enthusiastic and admir Professor Emeritus of Law program on September 15, 2009. ing audience on November 14; • will publish these articles: Jurispru • has been accepted into the North East dence (and Basketball), an annotated Browne Lewis Ohio Master of Fine Arts program, a Constitution, and an annotated Decla Assistant Professor of Law collaborative program in the creative ration of Independence in EssENTIAL •published Two Fathers, One Dad: arts jointly sponsored by Cleveland FACTS, forthcoming for school librar Allocating the Paternal Obligations State University, Kent State Universi ies from LINCOLN LrBRARY PREss; Between the Men Involved in the Arti ty, Youngstown State University, and • facilitated a session of Great Stories ficial Insemination Process, the LEWIS the University of Akron.. Professor and the Law, entitled "Justice, Wom & CLARK LAw REVIEw; May's focus will be on playwriting. en, the Law and American Culture" at • is appointed to the Cleveland State the law school in October; University Institutional Review Board Karin Mika • facilitated a session of Great Stories and (IRB) for Human Subjects; Legal Writing Professor of Law Justice and Health Care featuring sto •spoke at the 2010 CASE WESTERN • published The Benefits of Podcasting ries by Anton Checkov, Eudora Welty, REsERVE LAw REVIEW Symposium on in THE SECOND DRAFT (Spring 2009); Amy Bloom and John Updike in April. Reproductive Rights, Human Rights, • spoke on "Games in the Legal Writing and the Human Right to Health. Classroom: Enhancing the Learning lnga Laurent Experience" as the plenary session Manager of Student Organizations Kermit Lind speaker at the Lone Star Legal Writing •co-authored with CWRU Law Clinical Professor of Law, Urban Conference Texas Tech Law School; School's Alyson Alber Law & Lead Development Law Clinic • published Games in the Law School ership Institute Expands Diversity • spoke on foreclosure procedure reform Classroom: Enhancing the Learning Pipeline in the January 2010 issue of needed in Ohio to a meeting of the Experience, the lead article in PER the CLEVELAND METROPOLITAN BAR Compact with Ohio Cities Task Force SPECTIVES, a West periodical devoted JouRNAL, which describes the Law & of the Ohio House of Representatives, to discussion of teaching legal research Leadership Summer Institute hosted a group chaired by Representative and writing; by CIMILA W and Case. Michael Foley '94 whose charge is • spoke on "Creating Multiple Choice to create a common agenda of spe- Quizzes with Feedback Using Pow- Spring 2010 45 • Faculty and Staff in the News I erpoint" at the Association of Legal • made the following presentations Writing Directors Biennial Confer while teaching last spring in Sweden ence in July at the University of Mis on a Fulbright grant: · souri Kansas City Law School; • "Environmental Inconsistency and • spoke on "The Benefits of a Com Resulting Environmental Injustice in prehensive Course Website" at the the U.S.: Approaches Beyond Bush" I Association of Legal Writing Direc Nordic Environmental Law, Gover tors Biennial Conference in July 2009 nance, and Science Network Work at the University of Missouri at Kansas shop, University of Oslo, Norway, I City; April2009; • spoke on "Using Real-Life Stories in •"An Introduction to Interdisciplin Teaching Legal Drafting" at the Legal ary Legal Education in Environmen Writing Institute Storytelling Confer tal Disciplines," Uppsala University ence in July 2009 at Lewis and Clark Faculty of Law, Uppsala, Sweden, Law School, Portland, Oregon; May 14, 2009; • spoke on "Games in the Legal Writing •"Clinical Legal Education: Why it's Classroom: Enhancing the Learning worth it and how we do it," Uppsala Experience" at the Southeast Regional University Faculty of Law, Uppsala, Legal Writing Conference in Septem Sweden, May 15, 2009. ber at Stetson University in Florida; Heidi Gorovitz Robertson • presented "The Benefits of an All-Inclu Alan Miles Ruben sive Course Website" in January at the Standard of Review in the INTERNA Professor Emeritus of Law Central States Legal Writing Conference TIONAL REVIEW OF CONSTITUTIONAL Advisory Professor of Law, FuDan at Marquette University Law School, in ISM (2009); University, Shanghai, PRC Milwaukee, Wisconsin. • will publish Extending the Shadow of • spoke on "Labor Arbitration in a the Law: Using Hybrid Mechanisms Recessionary Environment" on June Kevin F. O'Neill to Establish Constitutional Norms in 30 at the Officers and Business Agents Associate Professor of Law Socioeconomic Rights Cases in THE Conference of Teamsters Joint Coun • published (with former Cleveland-Mar UTAH LAw REviEW (forthcoming cil 41 in Huron, Ohio; shall Visiting Professor Howard Katz) 2009); • presented a program on "Federal STRATEGlES AND TECHNIQUES FOR LAW • will publish Engagement's Possibili Constitutional Issues in Ohio State SCHOOL TEACHfNG (Aspen Publish ties and Limits as a Socioeconomic Employee Labor Relations" on April ers 2009), which has been positively Rights Remedy in the WASHINGTON 1, 2010, at a labor arbitration sym received and was distributed to all new UNIVERSITY GLOBAL STUDIES LAW posium jointly sponsored by the law faculty at the summer 2009 AALS REVIEW, 201 0; Ohio Office of Collective Bargain Workshop for New Law Teachers; • will publish Residents of Joe Slovo ing, the Ohio State Employment Rela • participated in a live 30-minute radio Community v. Thubelisha Homes and tions Board, the Ohio Civil Service interview on WHK-1420 AM discuss Others: The Two Faces ofEngagement Employees Association, the Service ing Citizens United v. Federal Elec in the HUMAN RIGHTS LAW REVIEW, Employees International Union, the tion Commission, the Supreme Court's a peer-reviewed journal published by State Council of Professional Educa recent decision on campaign finance Oxford University Press. tors, the Ohio State Troopers Associa regulation. tion and the Fraternal Order of Police. Heidi Gorovitz Robertson Brian Ray Associate Dean and Professor of Christopher Sagers Associate Professor of Law Law and Urban Studies Associate Professor of Law • published Policentrism, Political • will publish Public Access to Private • published Competition Come Full Cir Mobilization, and the Promise of Landfor Walking: Environmental and cle? Pending Legislation to Repeal the Socioeconomic Rights in the STAN Individual Responsibility as Rationale U.S. Railroad Exemption in COMPARA FORD JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW for Limiting the Right to Exclude; TIVE POLICY INTERNATIONAL NEWSLET (2009); • published a short opinion piece TER, September 2009; • published Enforcement of Socioeco Thoughts on the Waxman-Markey • published Dagher, American Needle, nomic Constitutional Rights: Resolv Bill" in the fall issue of AIR AND and the Evolving Antitrust Theory of ing Questions ofJudicial Competence WASTE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION the Firm: What Will Become of Sec by Adopting an "Experimentalist " NEWSLETTER; tion] ? in ANTITRUST LAW (Aug. 2009), 46 Law Notes Faculty and Staff in the News • an online publication of the ABA Sec at the AALS Annual Meeting in New tion of Antitrust Law; Orleans in January as part of a panel •will publish The Recurrent Crisis entitled "Cross Currents in Toter in Legal Romanticism in the WASH national Law, International Human INGTON UNIVERSITY JURISPRUDENCE Rights, and National Security Law"; REVI EW in 2010; • participated in a panel entitled "The •will publish Credit Rating Organi Case for Kosovo" during the annu zations, Their Role in the Current al meeting of the American Society Calamity, and Future Prospects for of Tntemational Law in Washington, Reform, forthcoming in LESSONS FROM D.C. on March 26; THE FINANCIAL CRISIS : INSIGHTS AND • presented her latest article on piracy dur ANALYSIS FROM TODAY'S LEADING ing a panel on current issues linked to the MINDS (with Tom Fitzpatrick; J. Wiley rise of piracy in Somalia at an AMERICAN & Sons, Robert Kolb, ed. 2009); UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW symposium • wi ll publish Much Ado About Proba on March 31 in Washington, DC. bly Pretty Little: McCarran-Ferguson Repeal in the Pending Health Reform Mark Sundahl Legislation in the YALE LAw AND Associate Professor of Law PoLICY REVIEW in 201 0; • published Th e Duty to Rescue Space • will publish Understanding the Recur Milena Sterio Tourists and Return Private Space rent Crisis in Legal Romanticism: Two craft in the JOURNAL OF SPACE LAW Criteria for Coherent Doubt in the • presented "Ethical Issues on Appeal" (2009); WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY JURISPRU during a Cleveland Metropolitan Bar • published The Living Constitution of DENCE REVIEW in 2010; Association Appellate Courts Com Ancient Athens: A Comparative Per • has testified twice before the House mittee program on October 22. spective on the Originalism Debate Judiciary Committee on H.R. 3596, in the JoHN MARSHALL LAw REVIEW the Health Insurance Industry Steven H. Steinglass (2009); Antitrust Enforcement Act of 2009, Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law • will publish Space Tourism and Export which would repeal the current ex • presented "State Courts, State Law, Controls: A Prayer for Relief in an emption from antitrust for insurance and Section 1983" at the Chicago upcoming issue of the JOURN AL OF AIR companies, as it applies to health Kent College of Law Civil Rights Liti LAW AND COMMERCE; and medical malpractice insurers; gation Conference in April 2008. • presented a paper entitled "Bigelow • was a panelist in an ABA Antitrust Sec Aerospace's Commodity Jurisdiction tion CLE Teleseminar, entitled "Peti Milena Sterio Request under IT AR and its Impact tioning and the Antitrust Laws: The Associate Professor of Law on the Future of Human Spaceflight" Foundations of Petitioning Immunity • will publish "The Right to External at the 2009 Astronautical Congress in and the Noerr-Pennington Doctrine"; Self-Determination Under Internation Daejeon, South Korea; • was named to the Advisory Board al Law" in a forthcoming issue of the • spoke in February on "International of the American Antitrust Institute, a MINNESOTA JOURNAL OF INTERNATION Legal Issues when Exporting Goods" non-profit think-tank based in the Dis AL LAw; regarding the legal issues involved trict of Columbia. • will publish Fighting Piracy in Somalia in exporting goods from Ohio at the (and Elsewhere) : Why More Is Needed Lorain Port Authority; Lloyd Snyder in an upcoming issue of the FORDHAM • chaired the Ancient Law panel at the Professor of Law INTERNATIONAL LAW REVI EW; annual meeting of the American Society • published Earned Upon Receipt Flat • will publish The Somali Piracy Prob of Legal History in Dallas in November; Fees and Non-RefUndable Retainers in lem: A Global Puzzle Necessitating a • has been named a co-editor of A the December issue of the BAR JouR Global Solution in the AMERICAN UNI WORKING BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ANCIENT NAL of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar VERSITY LAW REVIEW (2010); GREEK LAW, to be published by the Association; • participated in a roundtable discussion Academy of Athens, an organization • participated in a panel discussion in entitled "Controversy over Allegations that is the modern reincarnation of Toledo on the ethics of legal ser of Gaza War Crimes: Assessing the Plato's Academy; vices practice in a program sponsored Goldstone Report" at Case Western • has been named to a two-year term as by Legal Aid of Western Ohio and University School ofLaw in October; the Assistant Executive Secretary of Advocates for Basic Legal Equality • spoke on "The Right of Intervention the International Institute of Space Law (ABLE); Under Modem-Day International Law" based in Leiden, the Netherlands. Spring 2010 47 • Faculty and Staff in the News Transformations . . . Alan Weinstein Did You Know That Associate Professor of Law • presented "Religious Land Uses and Effective July 1 , 201 0 • • • I' Liability for Violating RLUIP A," at the National League of Cities - Risk Professor of Law Mark Sundahl will become Associate Dean for Information Sharing Consortium Academic Affairs, I Spring Trustees Conference in Louis Professor of Law Dena S. Davis will become the James A. ville, KY, on May 8, 2009; Thomas Distinguished Professor of Law, •presented "A Framework for On Professor of Law Joan Flynn will become the Leon M. Plevin and Premise Sign Regulations at the National Signage Research and Edu Gloria Plevin Endowed Professor of Law, cation Conference" at the University Associate Professor of Law Lolita Buckner Inniss will become of Cincinnati; Professor of Law, • presented "Signs, Sex, and God: Reg Assistant Professor Michael Borden will become an Associate ulating Land Uses Protected by the Professor of Law and First Amendment" at the Northeast Ohio Planning & Zoning Workshop in Assistant Professor of Law Browne Lewis will become Associate Mentor, Ohio in July; Professor of Law? • spoke on "Adult Uses and Secondary Effects: The Empirical Evidence" as Congratulations to all! part of the Richard E. Nelson Sympo sium on Local Government Liability Under Federal Law, at the University Special Mention of Florida Frederic Levin College of Law in Gainesville, Florida, on Febru ary 12, 2010. Did You Know that • • • Stephen J. Werber during the annual meeting of the AALS in January, LexisNexis Professor Emeritus of Law recognized Legal Writing Professor Karin Mika as a "transformation • spoke on "Effective Oral Advocacy" leader" in legal education for her the use of cutting-edge technology as part of the Annual Seminar pre in the classroom and that ... sented by the Appellate Courts Com Professor Mika will join with Legal Writing expert Terri LeCierq as mittee of the Cleveland Metropolitan co-author of a new edition of Professor LeCierq's influential GUIDE TO Bar Association in October. LEGAL WRITING STYLE? Jonathan Witmer-Rich Assistant Professor of Law • was invited by U.S. District Court for the Did You Know that • • • Northern District of Ohio Chief Judge U.S. Senate Rules Committee Chairman Senator Charles Schumer James G. Carr to moderate "The Prac quoted Professor Candice Hoke in a letter to the U.S. Department titioner Panel" in a discussion of "The of Justice requesting full enforcement of the antitrust law and that Military Commissions Act of2009: Back Professor Hoke also facilitated and participated in the writing of a let to the Future or the Fix for a Flawed Sys ter to U.S. Attorney General Holder, along with a group of election ad tem?" at a University of Toledo School ministrators, fair-voting advocates and computer experts. According of Law symposium in February. The to a February 25 NEw YORK TIMES, editorial, the letter warned that panel included prosecutors and defense Election Systems and Software already has a bad record on open attorneys from around the country who are engaged in federal terrprism trials, competition, including contract clauses that prevent jurisdictions that military commission proceedings, and buy their machines from hiring other vendors to service them. The habeas corpus proceedings for detainees letter further warns of the dangers if its deal to purchase the elections at Guantanamo Bay. division of Diebold closes. 48 Law Notes SUPPORT CM LAW Cleveland-Marshall College of Law The Mock Trial Courtroom: A teaching, learning and practicing laboratory for the law school and the legal community in the digital age This summer, the law school will em bark on its newest renovation project when crews move in to begin con struction on the new, million-dollar CIMILAW Trial Courtroom on the ground floor of the law school. Due for completion in December 2010, the trial courtroom provides a simulation based learning experience for students planning careers as litigators, for high school students preparing for mock tri als and for members of the bench and bar. 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