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18 War stories World War II and how it changed USC Law School By John G. “Tom” Tom l i n s o n
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3 br i e f s sp r i n geternal Law Professor and USC Vice President Emeritus Carl M. Franklin’s dedication to the University of A newly endowed chair; the Class of 2005; Southern California is surpassed only by his devotion to his late wife, Carolyn Craig Franklin. In continuing legal education; and more her honor, Franklin recently funded construction of a campus garden, the Liberty Garden Courtyard and Fountain, on the north side of historic Doheny Library. The Franklins also created an endowment 20 faculty news to provide funding in perpetuity for beautification of the university’s campus. Carolyn, a dedicated Elyn Saks’ new book challenges stereotypes volunteer at USC throughout her life, was president of Faculty Wives and Town and Gown, where of the mentally ill; Erwin Chemerinsky takes she raised funds for student scholarships. Her motto, says her husband, was “T ake time to smell three-strikes to the Supreme Court the flowers.” Thanks to the Franklins’ generosity, the whole USC community can do just that. 25 alumni news Reunion photos, class notes, obituaries USCLAW 48 closer Editor Melinda Myers Vau g h n An n i k a Martin ’04 on the life of a USC law student As s i s t ant Editor Phat X. Chiem Administrative Assistant Christi Var g a s Design & Creative Direction Warren Group, Los Ang e l e s pr o f i l e s Cover Illustration Lou Bea c h Principal photography Felipe Dupouy Editorial Intern Elina Agn o l i 14 student voices Daniel Ahn ’04, Joel Allan ’03, David Booher ’04,
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<<< Dean Matthew L. Spitzer The Class of 2002 reunited in December to be sworn in to the state and federal bars and to br i e f s officially launch their professional careers. The USC Law welcomes letters about its contents. Please write to: bar admission ceremony, an annual tradition at USC, enables graduates, friends and families ed i t o r USCLAW to celebrate their success together. Magistrate USC Law School, Los Angeles, California 900 89- 0 07 1 Judge Stephen G. Larson ’89, one of the e-mail: [email protected], fax: (213) 740- 5 476 youngest people appointed to the bench in Letters may be edited for length and clarity. California’s Central District, and Justice Pa u l Boland ’66, of the California Court of Ap p e a l , administered the oaths and reminded students Grad gi v e s $1.8 million for endowed pr o f e s s o r s h i p CC L P of their professional and ethical duties as the at the state’s newest generation of lawyers. center of the media debate Here’s the short of it: Ed w a r d G. Lewis gradu- former Law School Dean Orrin Evans during the ated from USC Law School in 1970, started his final session of a Gifts, Wills and Trusts class, own corporate and real estate practice, did quite ap p r opriately enough. “Dean Evans said some- well for himself and his wife, Marie, and now lives thing that left an indelible impression on me,” half the year in Paris, in a flat along the Seine with Lewis says. “He said, ‘If you want to be immortal , As this magazine goes to press, USC is ha v e three options for multichannel prog r a m - FCC to choose between more competition views of the river and Notre Dame Cathedral. give a chair to the USC Law Scho o l . ’ And, that’s preparing to host a national forum on the ming. A small number of rural markets, with less attractive services or less competition When Lewis looks back across those what I decided to do.” Federal Communications Commission’s rev i e w ho weve r , lack a local cable system — and there- with more attractive services. The FCC chose de c ades of prosperity he has one point of ref e r - The final decision came during Lewis’ 30- y e a r of regulations governing media own e r s h i p . Th e fo r e have only Dir ecTV and Dish Net w o r k as competition and rejected the merger. pr ocess has far-reaching implications for the options. A merger between the two would have Her e’s where CCLP picks up the inquiry: ence for it all: USC. reunion in 2000. As Lewis was chatting with en t e r tainment and news industries — as well as reduced the number of competitors from three Why can’t Dir ecTV and Dish get more spec- “Everything great that has ever happened to P rofessor Martin L. Levine, everyone else sat for the average person who watches TV news to two in most markets and from two to one in trum without merging? If they could, me I can trace back to my wife and USC,” says down for the reunion dinner. Levine took the last or reads a news p a p e r . Giv en the weight of the a few. Even if you never took an antitrust customers could have both more competition Lewis, who also attended the university as an space at Lewis’ table next to Lewis’ wife, Marie, issues invol v ed and their impact on the general course you could probably guess that the and better services. Unf o rt u n a t e l y , the FCC has un d e r graduate. “From the moment I entered ’SC, and motioned for Lewis to go sit somewhere public, you won’t be surprised to read merger would fail government rev i e w. historically starved existing satellite provi d e r s doors just opened for me. I never had to beat the else. Lewis then said to Levine: “I want my own that USC’s Center for Communication Law So why did Hughes and EchoStar think with a stingy allocation of spectrum while and Policy (CCLP) is at the forefront of that they had a chance? The companies claimed leaving much of the spectrum fallow. In addi- pavement looking for a job.” cha i r .” So Levine immediately got up and brou g h t the discussion. that the merger would provide enhanced serv- tion, the FCC will not let the satellite servi c e s Now in semi-re t i rement, Lewis is intent on over Dean Matthew L. Spitzer to talk to Le w i s Spo n s o r ed jointly by the USC Law School ices to a wider audience — customers would pu r chase spectrum from other users. Clearly, supporting education for generations of future ab out the chair — an endowed cha i r , that is. and the USC Annenberg School for ha v e access to all local channels plus a number the FCC’s own spectrum allocation policies — USC students. With a gift of $1.8 million, he The rest is history. Communication, CCLP examines the inter- of high-definition channels, expanded pay-per- byproducts of bureaucratic inertia and pres- endowed the Edward G. Lewis Chair at the Law “ The Law School and the university have sections of law, government policy, the media vi e w options, high-speed Internet services, and sures from interest groups — produced the Sc hool, providing funding for a top-level faculty done so much for me,” Lewis says. “I just felt it and communication technologies and how a “mo r e rob u s t ” selection of international chan- ha r d choice in the proposed merger. a bove: Larson, Boland and Dean Matthew Spitzer. position in perpetuity. Lewis decided to fund the was the natural thing to give something back. ” those intersections affect our daily lives. To do nels. The proposal also cited the companies’ By pinpointing and analyzing underlying below: Students are sworn into the bar. so, CCLP studies these issues at a fundamental combined broadcasting capacity as an oppor- policy issues, CCLP works to understand fully chair as a result of a comment made years ago by — P.C . and structural level — and avoids getting swep t tunity to launch new interactive television how communication policy affects not just along by the buzzwords and surface incanta- services. Sounds great — so why didn’t each companies and conglomerates, but consumers tions of interest groups. company do it all before the merger? — you and me and anyone else who watches Two gr a d s join board of councilors Consider the recent failed merger of The simple answer: “bandwidth.” Nei t h e r TV , reads a newspaper or uses a cell phone. I Hughes/EchoStar, a.k.a. DirecTV and Dish company alone has enough spectrum to do hope you enjoy reading about CCLP’s Dean Ma t t h ew L. Sp i t zer appointed two USC law graduates, James E. Rogers ’63 ( L L . M . ) Net w o r k. Dir ecTV and Dish Net w o r k are the these things. The merged entity, however, in vo l v ement in the debate over media own e r - and David Walsh ’85 to the Law School’s Board of Councilors last fall. The board advises the dean two surviving satellite delivery systems for would have enough spectrum (and orbital ship regulation in this issue of USC Law (Pa g e on various aspects of the administration of the Law School. multichannel video. In most cities, they slots) to provide these services and more effec- 16). Stay tuned for more cutting-edge res e a rc h Rogers is CEO and owner of Sunbelt Communications Co., which owns 15 television stations in compete with each other as well as with a local tive competition for the incumbent cable fr om this and the Law School’s other interdi s - the Rocky Mountain region. He previously practiced law in Las Vegas from 1964 to 1988. Rog e r s cable television system, meaning most people company. The proposed merger forced the ci p l i n a r y res e a r ch centers. se r ved on USC’s continuing legal education faculty during the 1970s and has contributed signifi- cantly to the Uni v ersity of Nev ada-Las Veg a s ’ new law school as well as the James E. Rogers College of Law at the Uni v ersity of Arizona. Walsh is a partner at Paul Hastings, specializing in commercial and environmental litigation. As al w a y s , I’m in t e r e s t e d in hearing your fe e d b a c k on this issue of USC Law. >>> James Rogers and David Wal s h An active volunteer at the Law School for several years, Walsh recently spearheaded the creation of an Mat t h e w L. Spi t ze r , Dean en d o wment fund to honor Judge Howa r d Tur r entine ’39, for whom Walsh clerked after law school. and Carl M. Franklin Professor of Law Walsh also has been active with a number of health, social service and religious organizations.
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2 USCLAW s p r i n g 2003 USCLAW s p r i n g 2003 3 brie f s brie f s from the archi v e s Ne w recruiting programs draw increasingly talented students to USC USC students to clerk in top corporate law court It’s likely that James B. Scott, founding dean of the Los Angeles College of Law, USC Law Sch o o l ’ s This year’s first-year class of students is the most acad e m i c ally talented ever remains unparalleled among other top law schools — 45 percent of incoming USC may be working its way toward a monopoly on clerkships in the Delaware Chancery Court. pre d e c e s s o r , looked a lot better in person. At least to be admitted at USC Law School. A great achievement, to be sure — but students last fall characterized themselves as ethnic minorities. Associate Dean Tom Tomlinson hopes so. He USC Law School has placed four students in clerkships with the prestigious corporate law court, even more impressive when you know that USC made that same state- Hoye says numerous factors are contributing to the school’s ability to found this battered painting during a recent scav - one of the nation’s few courts of equity. In a court with just five chancellors, USC’s four students ment last year and the year before. attract increasingly stellar students. Dean Matthew L. Spitzer is spearheading enge through the Law School’s basement. It’s one are giving the Law School an especially strong presence. Terri Lilley ’02 and Jackie Bird ’01 Indeed, each year seems to bring a smarter, more diverse group of an aggressive fund-raising campaign to create new scholarships, which are of few reminders of Scott’s tenure, which lasted students to USC. Thanks to creative new admissions programs tar geting the cr i t i c al to the school’s ability to recruit top applicants and bring the cost of f rom 1897 to 1899 and helped pave the way for began their clerkships in August 2002; Paul Kroeger ’03 and Candice Choh ’02 will begin clerk- the fledgling college to join USC in 1900. “He’s nation's top students, USC is increasingly the law school of first choice for a USC legal education in line with that of other schools. The dean’s new ships this fall. In addition, Andrew Farthing ’04 will intern with the court this summer. well damaged,” Tomlinson says of the painting. “He students whose lists of options include schools such as Columbia, Summer Fellows program — which guarantees selected students summer didn’t float in a 1959-ish flood in our old building, “USC has been rep r esented very favorably here through Terri and Jackie, who are both a grea t Northwestern, Duke and Michigan. positions with top national law firms and businesses during the summer after and his forehead has a hole right through it. But pl e a s u r e to work with,” says Chancellor William B. Chandler III. Chandler explained that the court And students are applying to USC in rec o r d numbers. Applications for a their first year of law school — has been particularly attractive to high-cal i b e r he’s re s t o r a b l e .” Restorable for about $12,000, often selects clerks based on recommendations from professors with well-known expertise in seat in the Law School’s 2002 entering class increased by 23 percent — to ap p l i c ants. And personal tours, interviews and social events on campus have a c c o rding to estimates. Tomlinson hopes to find mo r e than 5,700 — and the students who applied to USC were among the helped show off the vitality of USC’s campus and the city’s cultural and enter- a generous donor with a fondness for art and Law corporate law, and that Ehud Kamar, assistant professor of law at USC, has provided particularly highest caliber ever. So far, applications for fall 2003 have topped 7,000. tainment opportunities. S chool history to sponsor the restoration. “A stellar recommendations. “We pick up very quickly when a professor of his caliber recommends a similar portrait hung in Harvard Law School, where The benefits of an improving student body are numerous, notes Ap p l i c ants also are consistently impressed with the professionalism of student to us. We’ve quickly realized what tremendous training students are receiving from the Scott studied law. Of course,” Tomlinson says, “I’d Associate Dean Scott Altman. “The increasing quality of the school’s student the Law School’s admissions process, which is aggressive in letting appli- like to make sure ours looks better than theirs.” law school there.” body helps the Law School pursue all its goals,” he says. “Every student bene- cants know that USC wants them. Many receive personal letters from faculty, Kamar has developed a strong relationship with the court and has published extensively on fits by interacting with diverse and capable classmates. Excellent students campus tours often include an intimate lunch with a prof e s s o r , and curren t help the school to attract and ret ain top faculty. When these students grad- students and alumni participate in recruiting efforts to give applicants an the court’s leadership in corporate law. Professor Eric Tal l e y , who also teaches corporate law, has uate and excel in practice, they enhance our rep u ta t i o n . ” “insider’s” view of the USC experience. Even as applications to the scho o l encouraged students to seek opportunities with the court as well. The court’s Vice Chancellor Leo The 208 students who enrolled at USC last fall had a rec o r d-high median skyrocket, the admissions office ensures that each prospective student Strine visited USC last year to speak to corporate law students; his pres e n t ation was published in LSA T score of 165 (the 93rd percentile) and a median undergraduate G.P.A . receives star trea t m e n t . the Southern California Law Review. of 3.55. Even more significant, says Dean of Admissions William J. Hoye, is “T his is a small school that offers students an extraordinary intellectual Bi r d says Kamar and associate deans Scott Altman and Lisa Mead were instrumental in prep a r i n g that a rec o r d number of enrolled students had top LSA T scores an d gr a d u - en v i ro n m e n t , ” Hoye says. “Students interact closely with faculty and partici- ated at the top of their undergraduate class. Additionally, more students cam e pate in the governance of the school. It’s one of our biggest strengths, that her for the clerkship. “The education I received at USC prep a r ed me for this experience,” she says. to USC with graduate degrees or significant work histories in a range of connection between professors and students. We work hard to make the “All of the corporate law professors I had were wonderful, and I rely on my old notes freq u e n t l y .” fields, bringing experiences and ideas that further enrich USC’s intellectual admissions process reflect the positive experience students will have when Lilley calls the clerkship the best possible way to prep a r e for a car eer in corporate litigation. life. And the ethnic, socioeconomic and racial diversity of USC’s student bod y they attend USC.” — M.V. “I’m watching the best lawyers in the world,” she says. “The r e’s not a better way to learn how to be a litigator.” A me m o r a b l e face ina d m i s s i o n s Delaware’s Chancery Court was established in 1792 in the tradition of England’s courts of cha n c e r y , which are governed less by bright-line rules than by a judge’s effort to deliver equitab l e Jannell Lundy do e s n ’t have a hard time selling USC Law School to the thousands of pros p e c - resolutions. Because Delaware law historically has been friendly to corporations — it was one of ti v e students she meets each yea r . USC’s biggest selling points, she says, are the same rea s o n s the first states to allow businesses to incorporate — Delaware’s court has become a hotbed for devel- she came here. oping corporate law and a guide for courts around the country. “This school has the best of both worlds,” she says. “It’s a small school within a major res e a r ch univer s i t y . You have access to so many res o u r ces, yet you still get the personal atten- Save the date! “M o r e than half of the publicly traded companies in this country are cha r t e r ed in Delaware large l y tion and friendly atmosphere of a small school.” The USC Institute for Corporate Counsel be c ause of the world-famous expertise and sophistication of the Delaware Court of Chancery in When she joined the Law School as director of admissions in 2001, Lundy was already wel l - will be held Thu r s d a y , Ma r c h 20, and Fr i d a y , resolving corporate disputes,” says Kamar. A clerkship with the Chancery Court “opens a door for M a r ch 21, at the Los Angeles Marriott in versed in the law school admissions process. She worked for eight years at Sou t h w estern Law students to a level of corporate practice that law firms value very much, ” Kamar adds. — M.V. School in admissions and financial aid, as well as in the dean’s office and alumni relations. A downtown Los Angeles. New Yo rk native and self-proclaimed “big-city girl,” Lundy holds a bachelor’s degree in The first USC Law School Institute – Lo s economics from Loyola Ma rymount Un i versity and a master’s degree in higher education Angeles County Bar Association Benjamin S. and organizational change from UCLA. Fort u n a t e l y , travel is among her hobbies: At USC, she Cr o c ker Symposium on Real Estate Law spends several months each fall on the road to rec r uit students. and Business will be held Tue s d a y , May 6, did you know? The first person in her family to graduate from college, Lundy has a passion for educa- at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Lo s USC law students went unplugged when the Law School began offering tion that is matched only by her commitment to her work — qualities that have made her An g e l e s . wi r eless Internet access for laptop computers last fall. The new cap a - an indispensable part of the USC admissions team, says Dean of Admissions William J. Hoye. For more information on these and other bility allows students to che c k their e-mail accounts and surf the Web “ Jannell has a ve ry sophisticated understanding of what drives students in the admissions continuing legal education opportunities, while they are in the law library, student lounge and other common p rocess,” he says. “Sh e’s engaging, charismatic, smart, crafty and strategic. Sh e’s someone co n t a c t : spaces, as well as the outdoor areas surrounding the Law School. Abou t students remember talking to.” — M.V. 70 percent of USC’s campus now has wireless Internet access. (213) 740- 2 58 2 Depending on how many people are using the service at once, the speed or cl e @ l a w. u s c . e d u > Read more up-to-date USC Law School news online at www.l a w. u s c . e d u / n e w s < of the network is between 20 and 200? times faster than a 56K modem. 4 USCLAW s p r i n g 2003 USCLAW s p r i n g 2003 5 brie f s brie f s
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USC law students are immersing them- In the early fall of 2001, Jessica Kaplan ’02 had by sponsoring special workshops, including one selves in the world of entertainment law – bright job prospects. After all, she had been a that focused on finding jobs with smaller legal < <
infantry Captain Laughlin Wa t e r s p i t ched himself and the rifle company he commanded onto Utah Beach and up the cliffs on D- D a y , 2 June 6, 1944, he had a greater chance of surviving that carnage than he did his first two years of legal education at USC. 3 To be sure, failing on the beaches at boon to the Law School, but precipitated a Normandy came at a higher cost than washing de c r ease in the number of women enrolled. out of law school, and the traumas of that This article examines some of the “War World War II D-Day invasion have long Stories” that affected USC Law School, outlived the horror of that day. Even so, including rep re s e n t a t i v e personal experiences of entering USC law students of that era rou t i n e l y a few USC law students whose lives were he a r d Dean William Hale warn that only one touched — or ended — by the war, and an out of three survi v ed three years of law school. examination of how the war changed the Laugh Waters (1914-2002) was a survi vo r sc h o o l ’s course and character. 4 of both the invasion of France and law school. Hon o r , service, and accomplishment might His martial efforts in Europe earned him a have been the motto of Laughlin Waters’ Bron z e Star for courage, a Purple Hea r t with fa m i l y . Family patriarch Frank Waters studied cluster for multiple wounds, the gratitude of his law at USC from 1916 through 1918; he country in the form of the GI Bill, and the fo l l o wed a career in law and politics. All four 1 enduring esteem of les cito yen of the little Waters siblings trained for professional caree r s : French town of Chambois. To commemorate Frank Jr. was an attorney; sister Mar y earned the actions that liberated Chambois from the a law degree from USC in 1949; another sister, German soldiers, the villagers erected a monu- Ethel, became a physician. Laugh Waters was ment that carried Captain Waters’ name; in the ROTC during his undergraduate days at wa r shortly after his death in June 2002, the city UC L A; when he matriculated into USC Law held a memorial service in his honor. School in 1939, he carried that obligation with World War II profoundly affected all him. Although he completed more than two- st o r i e s aspects of American society, including the USC and-a-half years of classes — 1939 through the Law School. The lives of students, faculty and 1941-42 fall semester — military obligation even the character of the Law School were tr umped law school. Waters was called to active di f f e r ent at the war’s end than they wer e at its se r vice in Mar ch 1942.
1. Kemper Cambell outset. Organizing America for war consumed After his experience in France, Waters 2. One of many war- Ho w World War II changed the lives of USC la w most Americans’ lives, and the effort depleted returned to Los Angeles, to his remaining yea r era women law and changed enrollments in American law of legal education — supported by the GI Bil l st u d e n t s 3. A campus corner students and the character of the Law Scho o l schools. As male law students disappeared, law — and to a lifetime in the law. As a gesture of during war time schools enrolled more women. At USC Law gratitude from the California legal community, 4. Laughlin Wat e r s School, women rose to new heights of accom- the California Bar Association admitted on by Associate Dean John G. “Tom” To m l i n s o n plishment. At war’s end, those who ret u r n e d motion Waters and all other California law fr om service brought financial support in the students who had completed two years of law form of the GI Bill, which proved a financial school prior to their service. USC Law School
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of each class, wer e enrolled at USC. From 1937 through 1941, the numbers of enrolled women to launch a life in the law that included 17 dr opped to 16 to 19 women each year — about 7 percent of each class. years in practice, 23 years on the bench and 15 During the war, though, many women wer e academic stars. Aron o w graduated at the head of years on the law faculty at USC. her class in 1944, the first of five consecutive women — Anne Faries ’45, Dor othy Kendall ’46, Frank Chuman also left law school at the 5 Regina Weinberg ’47, and Vivian Feld ’48 — to graduate number one in their res p e c t i v e classes. st a r t of the spring 1942 semester, conscripted Since 1907, only five women had so distinguished themselves. for very different reasons. A Japanese Women also appeared on the masthead of the So u t h e r n Cal i f o r nia Law Rev i e w in unprec e d e n t e d American, Chuman was taken from his legal numbers. In 1941-42, when Rob e r t S. Thompson ’42 was editor in chief, six of 24 student editors studies by Federal Executive Decree 6099, wer e women. By September 1945, editor in chief Dor othy Kendall ’46 managed a staff of eight; half which relocated more than 100,000 American wer e women. Kendall was the second in a series of five consecutive women editors; her imme- ci t i z ens of Japanese descent in 10 camps in the diate pred e c e s s o r , Anne Faries, was the first woman to achieve editor-in-chief status. West. In March 1942, as Campbell 5. Women had new Articles in the Los Angeles Bar Bulletin were tickled by the uncommon presence of so many women in law school. Unlike Fourteen to 20 women enrolled in each war-time class until 1949, when the number of commenced training as a pilot, Chuman was prominence at USC at most schools, though, women never had been an oddity at USC. Still, given the marked decline in male students, the during the war. percentage of women in classes rose. male students, many of them veterans, increased. In April 1948, the law rev i e w included no sent to Manzanar Relocation Camp in the women. In 1950, only 6 women enrolled at USC Law School, the fewest since 1908. Owens Valley on the east side of the Sierra “ No documentary evidence exists within the Law School to suggest that the faculty and deans Nev ada Mountains. Her e he spent the spring contemporaries Ashley Orr ’47, James Ackerman ’48 and Rob e r t Irvi n ap p e a r ed. By September 1943, 72 students reg i s t e r ed. Faculty met to purposely excluded women from enrolling after the war. But the Law School, which had virtu - of 1942 establishing and managing the camp ’47, among others, found themselves in a similar situation. consider ways of giving credit for classwork partially completed; to stem ally no endowment and ran deficits during the war, likely could not refuse the flood of ret u r n i n g hospital. Wat e r s ’ life in the law was broad and deep: He was elected to four fu r ther declines, the school went on accelerated yea r - r ound trimesters. veterans who brought personal endowments provided by the Serv i c e m e n ’s Readjustment Act Less than a mile to the east of the Man z a n a r terms in the California Assembly, served in the U.S. Att o r n e y ’s Off i c e , Night courses wer e offered. In May 1942, minutes of a faculty meeting of 1944, the GI Bill educational allowance. At least 7.8 million World War II veterans bene- compound, Chuman’s classmate Arthur E. and practiced privately for 15 years before being appointed to the federal rec o g n i z e the first death of a student in the service of his country. fited from the bill. At USC, the GI Bill resulted in 599 enrolling students in 1947. Pugh ’43 learned to fly at tiny Manzanar Air by Associate Dean John G. “Tom” To m l i n s o n bench in 1976. Among his law partners was classmate Robert USC faculty wer e touched by the war, too. Professor Shelden Ell i o t t , Field, then used by Army and Navy cadets as a Thompson ’42. Sur viving law school and D-Day earned Waters a life of who taught administrative law, government regulation of industry and Lives altered and ended training facility. For a time, the two law distinction in the practice of law and on the bench. trade regulation, relocated to Washington, D.C., and worked at the Some of those returning to school included persons like Laughlin Waters and his fellow 1943 students, once joined by a fear of Professor Bil l ””Dep a r tment of Commerce on issues of trade regulation and the war classmates; but some did not return. Kemper Campbell Jr. was one of those. In many ways, he Bur b y’s relentless Socratic method, wer e sepa- A school ch a n g e d economy. Joseph Cormack was a lieutenant colonel in the Judge was part of one of the Law School’s first families. Both of Campbell’s parents graduated from rated by barbed wire and a national culture of World War II changed institutions as well as individuals in prof o u n d Ad vocate General Office in Washington. Although he continued to the Law School, his father in 1907 (LL.M. 1910), and his mother, Litta Belle Hibban Campbell, fe a r . Chuman completed his truncated 1942 albeit different ways. The drop in enrollment in American legal educa- teach at the Law School, Rob e r t Kingsley conducted hearings for the in 1911. Both taught law during the teens and remained close to the Law School as vol u n t e e r s spring semester at the Uni v ersity of Toledo law tion greatly affected law schools. In 1938, the country’s 110 War Labor Board. Hen r y Spr i n g m e y er continued to teach one course and philanthropists. In 1956, brother Joseph graduated from the Law School. pr ogram in early 1944 before transferring to AB A - a p p r oved law schools enrolled 28,174 students; in Mar ch 1943, a year while serving as chief counsel for the rent control division of the A 1938 graduate of St. Joh n ’s College at Oxford Uni ve r s i t y , Kemper Campbell brought a the University of Maryland to finish law 5,686 students studied law in the U.S., an 80 percent drop over five Office of Public Administration. cosmopolitan, even aristocratic, bearing to his legal studies. He was an accomplished student and school. Returning to California at the end of years. Eighty percent of those same law schools had fewer than 70 se r ved on the law rev i e w during Rob e r t Th o m p s o n ’s editorship. In Feb ru a r y 1942, Campbell the war, Chuman passed the state bar exami- students, including USC. Rob e r t Irvin ’47 recalled that during his first Women make their way vol u n t e e r ed for the Army Air Corps; 18 months later, on his last training mission, B-24 pilot nation while working for Abraham Wirin’s two years of study, from 1942 to 1944, it seemed that he and his class- Ar ticles in the Los Angeles Bar Bulletin wer e tickled by the uncommon practice, one that represented Japanese mates wer e part of a private tutorial. presence of so many women in law school. Unlike at most schools, Americans who lost prop e r ty during warti m e Columbia Law School Dean Elliott Cheatham wrote in 1943 that though, women never had been an oddity at USC. Still, given the in c a r ceration. Chuman wrote a book on the the situation for American law schools was dire. He feared that some law ma r ked decline in male students, the percentage of women in classes For a time, the two law students, once joined by a fear o f history of law and Japanese Americans; he schools might have to suspend classes; others might consider merging rose. Professor Bill Burby’s relentless Socratic method, were se p a r a t e d continues to practice law in Southern with other law schools; some might not survi v e the national emergency. In May 1943, the Law School recommended 12 candidates for the by barbed wire and a national culture of fear. California. To his own university president, Cheatham explained that the “ra p i d LL.B. degree; half of them wer e women. A year later, the USC Chapter “ World War II disrupted American life and pa c e ” of induction and enlistments had reduced the student body to of the Order of the Coif elected one student, Betty Altman Aron o w, institutions in unprecedented ways. All physically disqualified men and “a few women.” A year later the same to membership in its ranks. Aronow — one student — represented American law schools, USCamong them, dean noticed that 50 percent of Columbia’s enrollments wer e women; the top 10 percent of her class to membership in the Orde r . Her class Campbell died in a crash. The Kemper Campbell Jr. Student Lounge in USC’s law library honors wer e part of that larger social crisis. USC La w at Cornell Law, 12 of 50 students wer e women. Penn rep o r ted similar of 10 was the smallest graduating class since 1903. the memory of this young law student and bomber pilot. School returned to a post-war academic world numbers, while Yale Law School taught 16 women and 39 men. While the number of women law students at USC continued at its Thompson himself finished law school in June 1942 and vol u n t e e r ed for counter-intelligence that was vastly altered, and, like the law school USC Law School experienced similar depletions: In 1938, 290 1937 level during the war, the percentage of women in each class wo r k with the Army Air Corps. By 1944, he was reassigned as a legal officer” in the Army Air Corps at which they studied, USC students were students registered for classes. In September 1941, 152 registrants in c r eased. From 1929 to 1936, 30 to 33 women, more than 8 perce n t and was stationed in San Antonio, Texas, throughout the war. He returned to Los Angeles in 1946 changed as wel l .
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Q: How would you describe your role as dean successful lawyers did not start out at the top tion to the students' views. The change would of students? of the class, and it certainly takes more than not have happened without student initiative. A : I ’m responsible for both academic and good grades to be successful in the prof e s s i o n . Because of significant student interest, we non-academic counseling. In that role, I see Q: How would you describe the environ m e n t no w have a sports law course. And, this spring myself as a student advocate, a counselor, an of USC Law School, from a student’s perspec- we are offering two entertainment law courses ad v i s e r , a problem solver and a safe haven for ti ve ? with an entertainment practicum compo- students. It’s also my job to help students A : What students consistently say about nent. This will allow students to work at de v elop into lawyers who have a solid sense of being here is that they are ver y impressed by f o r - p rofit entertainment corporations like th e what it means to be ethical advocates and the collegial, support i ve environment at the studios and re c o rd companies and re c e i ve responsible members of the legal community. Law School. They like the personal attention academic credit for that experience. And, ever y once in a while, I have to deal with they rec e i v e. Students say things like, “I can’t Fin a l l y , we are experimenting with having the more difficult issues of student discipline. b e l i e ve it’s so easy to come and see you, that commencement on a Sunday rather than a Add i t i o n a l l y , I work closely with the Stu d e n t someone actually cares.” We are ve ry Mon d a y . All of these changes wer e the res u l t st u d e n t s ’ Bar Association (SBA) and other student conscious and deliberate about being servi c e - of requests from students. gro u p s . oriented, responding to students and Q: Do you believe administrators are gener- vo i c e Q: What do you find most rewa r ding about p roviding personal assistance to the extent ally res p o n s i v e to students’ needs? Dean of Students Lisa Mead is making student life — and students’ roles your job? that we can do it. A: Yes, we are res p o n s i v e because our students in Law School administration — a top priority A: The real joy of the job is working with the Q : How many students do you get to know a re smart and thoughtful — and they have students. The people who choose to come to in the course of a typical yea r ? ve ry good ideas. It’s really important for USC are ve ry talented, diverse and smart. I A : Well, I meet them all at orientation, so I students to know that administrators here find it invigorating, challenging and incred - s t a rt working with them right away. I go to welcome the opportunity to work closely with
Lisa Mead >>> ibly fulfilling to work with them. I assist them lunches with the first-year students. I meet them and help them think about their course as they work tow a rd their goals, try to find regularly with the SBA president and other selection or career choices. For students who p o s i t i ve solutions to their problems and student leaders. I also work with students a re frustrated or have problems or feel like p rovide support as they deal with difficult en r olled in the internship program, which can they don’t have a voice, that’s where I can issues — whether those are academic, in vo l v e as many as 130 students each yea r . In really act as a re s o u rce. Sometimes all they personal or emotional. For example, I rec e n t l y one way or another, I work with at least half want is someone to hear them. So m e t i m e s met with a student who indicated she wanted of each class on a one-on-one basis each yea r . they really want someone to help solve the to drop out of law school. During our conver - By graduation, I’ve talked to, have met with, p roblem or figure out how we can make a sation, it became clear that she didn't see or have had some experience with nearly ever y change to be more res p o n s i ve . herself in the traditional role of a private firm st u d e n t . Q: Fin a l l y , what are your goals for the future? l a w yer so she thought she had made a bad Q: People say that the level of student invol v e- A: I want to continue to improve student life decision to come to law school. I suggested ment in the actual administration of the Law by enhancing our support of students as they she consider an internship for academic cred i t School is unusual. When have students been select their classes, supporting the growth of After a year serving as dean of students, connects easily with students, giving them a with a government office that focuses excl u - able to make a significant change re g a rding peer mentoring programs, assisting with addi- Associate Dean Lisa Mead has become very voice in the Law School’s administration. As a si v ely on public policy matters and is headed their own education or other policies at the tional student-sponsored events — perhaps involved in student life, from greeting new student, she helped found the Public Interest by a lawye r. She recently e-mailed me to let Law School? including faculty and/or graduates in more of me know she was incredibly happy in her A: Last yea r , we implemented a grade system their activities — and holding outreach meet- arrivals at orientation to celebrating with gradu- Law Foundation. After graduation, she worked in t e r n s h i p . change that was really driven by the students. ings with students. Also, I want to work ates on commencement day. During the closely with law students at Public Counsel as Q : What sorts of student issues do you deal We changed to a four-point and letter-equiv- closely with and support the Career Serv i c e s academic year, she meets with students nearly the directing attorney for its homeless advocacy with on a regular basis? alent grading system from our 90-point scale. Office and students on job searc h - re l a t e d A: I often counsel people who have not done Students believed that the four-point scale activities. As much as possible, I want to every day, listening to their concerns and helping project. In 1994, she found herself back at as well academically as they had hoped to do. would make it much easier for national continue to support the sense of community solve their problems. They often drop into her USC, relying on her own experience at the Law I help them deal with the emotional pain and e m p l oyers to compare systems favo r a b l y. students have here at the Law School and office just to say hello. Perhaps because she’s a S chool to empower students to accomplish disappointment, as well as the rec o ver y. I let Changing the grading system was significant make sure each of our students has the best 1 989 USC law graduate herself, Dean Mead their goals. them know that some of the best and most but the faculty and administration paid atten- possible experience at USC.
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“We rea l i z ed that there was a need to dispel the numerou s myths about conservat i v e principles,” says Ahn, a second-yea r student who served as a legislative assistant to Republican Sen a t o r Phil Gramm and is co-chair of the Asian Pacific American Bar Student voices: Every school runs on the vigor of its students. USC Law Scho o l As s o c i a t i o n ’s law students committee. “Often, conservat i v e messages don’t get out or they get mislabeled, leading to debate is no different — except perhaps in the stellar quality of its students. They distin- that proceeds on faulty pres u p p o s i t i o n s . ” Some people don’t rea l i z e that conservat i v es span the polit- guish themselves by their intelligence, their passion, and their desire to make ical spectrum, Kang says. “We want to explore both conservat i v e a difference. By working together and with administrators, USC students are and liberal policies as they bear on people of different ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds — and yet hold on to our conser- shaping their legal education — and becoming lawyers and leaders in the process. vat i v e ideals,” says Kang, a second-year student who rec e n t l y 1 2 se r ved as regional co-chair of Sim o n ’s gubernatorial campaign and is a staff member of USC’s Int e rd i s c i p l i n a r y Law Jou rn a l . And what better place than law school to discuss political di f f e r ences? “Law school is about rigorous but civil debate with the desire changes at the Law School. And, as he prep a re s su m m e r . Nutter worked at the Western Law to learn and to grow intellectually as the common objective,” says sage adviser to leave USC this spring, he offers one last bit of Center for Disability Rights. Booher worked for Ahn. “Wh a t ’s the use of having a diverse, intelligent student body 1. Joel Allan advice to future first-year students: “Don ’t get the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, where if you can’t discuss the issues?” As the resident adviser to 30-40 law students behind — but remember there’s life outside of both students now vol u n t e e r . This summer, who live in the off-campus Terrace Apa rt m e n t s , your civil proc e d u r es book.” Booher heads to O’Mel v eny & Mey ers and Joel Allan has helped first-years adjust to law Nutter to Bet Tzedek. change for the better school, offered a caring ear to students going Leading GLLU takes a lot of time, but the 4. Janna Jenkins th r ough personal emergencies, and even baked taking a stand students don’t mind. For them, such invol v e- Th r oughout her time at USC Law School, Janna Jenkins ’03 has br ownies for the study breaks held in his apart- 2. Ka r en Nutter & David Booher ment is integral to the law school experience. been a leader, serving as the 1L section rep re s e n t a t i v e on the ment. And he’s done it all four years in a row. When military rec r uiters joined USC’s on-campus “I t’s not just making connections with 3 4 Student Bar Association, 2L class president and now 3L class pres - “I do enjoy being the one who has gone in t e rv i e wing program for the first time in more people,” says Nut t e r , “it’s also learning to interact id e n t . th r ough the law school experience and being than 10 years last fall, David Booher and Karen po s i t i v ely with people who have different view- But her invol v ement hasn’t been merely a resume builder. On able to help others assuage their concerns or Nutter engaged classmates in discussions about the points and different experiences.” behalf of her classmates, Jenkins worked with USC administra- fears,” says Allan, a fourth - y ear student who is mi l i t a r y’s “do n ’t ask, don’t tell” rules reg a r ding gays. tors to move commencement from its traditional Monday date pursuing a joint J.D./MBA degree . They handed out informational fliers, put up It’s not just making connections w i t h to a Sun d a y . With other SBA officials, she worked to install a tele- Ser ving as the Law School’s R.A. for so long posters asking students to question the gover n - views from the right vision in the student lounge, add two Internet-linked computers is unusual. “It’s the free rent,” he jokes when me n t ’s tactics and spoke to the univer s i t y ’s pre- l a w 3. Alan Kang & Daniel Ahn people. It’s also learning to i n t e r a c t in lower - l e v el offices for student use, and change the school’s asked why he’s stayed invol v ed. But really it’s his and gay and lesbian groups about the controver s y . Alan Kang and Daniel Ahn are two student “positively with people who have grading system to a letter-grade and four-point scale from the penchant for helping others and a concern for Such activism is part of student life at USC leaders with strong views — and they’re not pr evious 65-90 curve. And she keeps students up-to-date with the quality of student life. — and great preparation for the life of a lawyer , say afraid to voice them. This yea r , they re- e s t a b - different viewpoints and different class-wide e-mail messages. Along with his R.A. duties, Allan is also a Booher and Nut t e r , leaders of the Law School’s lished USC’s Republican Law Stu d e n t s “I like to bridge the gap between the administration and my member of the Spo r ts, Media and Ent e rt a i n m e n t Gay and Lesbian Law Union (GLLU) . Association (RLSA) to encourage discussion and experiences. peers,” says Jenkins, a Sta n f o r d graduate who worked for the Law Society and the Jewish Law Students organ- “B eing part of a student group makes law debate about conservat i v e principles. no n p r ofit Tiger Woods Foundation before law school. “I think ization. He has influenced the curriculum at the school a much more rel e v ant and richer experi- The organization’s 40 members are my classmates see me as someone who can solve problems and Law School as well. Thanks to his efforts, courses ence,” says Booher, a second-year student. “It’s de v eloping a compreh e n s i v e agenda for activities make changes.” in Jewish law and entertainment law have been ex citing to shape where the organization is going and events to help raise awareness of conserva- Staying invol v ed and working with the administration has expanded. Allan also pushed for a practicum and deciding what issues to pursue.” ti v e ideals. Plans include lunch-time helped her think like a lawyer , Jenkins says. She ’s been tackling component for the entertainment law class, Nut t e r , also a second-year student, enrolled in pr esentations with Republican leaders; debates pr oblems and finding solutions — crucial skills she’ll use when enabling students to work at for-profit compa- law school precisely because she was “di s s a t i s f i e d on such hot-button issues as affirmative action ” she begins her professional career at Gibson, Dunn & Crut c h e r . nies such as film studios or a music labels for with the things that I saw on the news and, with and civil liberties; and partnerships with other “I t’s been empowering to learn how the system works,” she says. academic credit. “Now,” Allan says, “we can get a law degree, I thought I could change things.” student groups. Last semester, Ste v e Fra n k , “I ’ m not content to complain about changes that need to be the experience that’s essential to finding jobs in the Their activism extends beyond the Law deputy political director of Bill Sim o n ’s 2002 made. I’d rather implement them. I’ll leave law school knowi n g in d u s t r y.” School. Both students rec e i v ed summer grants campaign for California gover n o r , spoke to that I made a change for students.” Allan is proud to have made some positive fr om USC’s Public Int e r est Law Foundation last RLSA members about the campaign.
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In what Chairman Michael Powell calls the this country,” says Spi t ze r . “The trend towa r d But whether these rules truly protect the “most compreh e n s i v e look at media own e r s h i p consolidation of media ownership has had public interest has long been debated, Ortiz regulation ever undertaken,” the Federal some positive effects and some negative ones. says, and since the 1980s the government has Communications Commission is evaluating a Whether that trend should be continued as a followed a path toward deregulation of the number of federal policies that govern media matter of federal policy is a decision that will ai rw a v es. Congress has weakened existing rul e s ownership and the ability of media companies to consolidate. At the heart of the debate is whether media Are stations less likely to be se n s i t i v e to local issues if they are not lo c a l l y consolidation serves the public ’s interest in ow n e d ? Research shows a decline in coverage of local politics across the having access to diverse viewpoints and ideas in board — but wh e t h e r that is tied to ownership is difficult to say . ne ws and entertainment programming. And at “ the foref r ont of the discussion is USC’s Center for Communication Law and Pol i c y . Jointly administered by USC Law pr ofoundly affect media options for consumers th r ough legislation, and the FCC has granted School and USC Annenberg School for and the quality and process of news g a t h e r i n g waivers or, in some cases, ignored violations Communication, CCLP studies the intersec- and rep o r ting. All of these issues are of critical pending further review. Now, given changes tions of law, technology and communication concern to the Center for Communication in the media industry, the growth of new tech- th r ough sponsored res e a r ch, academic confer- Law and Policy — as well as anyone interes t e d nologies such as the Internet and satellite” Who owns your news? Who owns your news? Who owns your news? Who owns your news? Who owns your news? Who owns your news? Who owns your news? ences and public symposia. Building on both in the quality of news and entertainment br oadcasting, and an increasing outcry among schools’ strengths, the center particularly pro g r a m m i n g . ” business leaders, the commission is rev i ew i n g focuses on the impact of laws and federal policy all of its media ownership policies to determine on the quality of journalism and entertain- I n ching toward dere g u l a t i o n whether the rules should be left intact, modi- ment, consumer choices in communications The media industry is one of few that is explic- fied or thrown out altogether. te c h n o l o g y , and the public’s enduring interes t itly regulated by the federal government. Sin c e In many ways, the current state of the media in free expression. its creation in 1934, the Federal belies the fact that the FCC regulates own e r s h i p In December, the center was one of few Communications Commission has been at all. Although FCC rules prohibit duopolies, USC’s Center for Communication Law and Pol i c y exa m i n e s nonadvocacy organizations to file formal responsible for awarding licenses for use of the some exist, including four in Los Angeles (News comments with the FCC on its media own e r - ai rw a v es. To obtain a license, companies must Co r p . owns KTTV -TV and KCO P - T V ; NBC the fa r - r e a c hing effects of proposed changes in federal media ship review. This spring, CCLP will hold a agree to use the airwaves in a way that owns KNBC, KWHY-TV and KVEA-TV and ow n e r s h i p po l i c i e s public forum on the subject; FCC commis- pr omotes the public interest. recently acquired Telemundo, which own s sioners and news and entertainment exec u t i ve s Many FCC rules wer e designed decades ago KMEX-TV and KFTR-TV; Viacom own s ar e slated to attend. And the center’s new exec - on the theory that the public is best served by KCBS-TV and KCA L - T V ). Sim i l a r l y , FCC ut i v e direc t o r , Sandra Ortiz (see story on Pag e access to a broad variety of ideas, enterta i n m e n t rules prohibit cros s - o wnership of a news p a p e r 19), has been widely intervi e wed by the pres s options and perspectives — and that diver s i t y and television station in one market — and yet on issues related to media own e r s h i p . in media ownership ensures a diversity of ideas. the Tribune Co. now owns KTLA-TV and the wh o Media ownership issues strike at the core Towa r d this end, FCC rules prohibit, among Los Angeles Tim e s . of many of CCLP’s primary concerns, says other things, one company from owning more Both Viacom and News Corp. are in tech- Dean Mat t h e w L. Spi t ze r , former director of than one television station in a single market (a nical violation of the rule capping one the Center for Communication Law and duopoly); a newspaper and television station in co m p a n y ’s national audience at 35 percent of ow n syo u r Policy and a nationally rec o g n i z ed expert on the same market (cros s - o wnership); more than the population. Deregulation of cable has communications law and technologies. one network; or media outlets that together cleared the way for AT&T and AOL-Time “The outcome of these proceedings will reach more than 35 percent of the nation’s Warner to dominate that industry. And the ne w s have a monumental impact on the media in population. Telecommunications Act of 1996, which
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nearly wiped out limits on radio ownership, co u r t twice took issue with other media own e r - in coverage of local politics across the board — ne w opportunities for synergy between print and television news. Television news outlets enabled Clear Channel Communications to ship regulations and orde r ed the FCC to rev i e w but whether that is tied to ownership is difficult face staff and time constraints but reach a large audience. Newspapers often have more pu r chase 1,225 radio stations — one of ever y its “ar b i t r a r y and capricious” guidelines. Som e to say.” rep o r ters and greater ability to provide in-depth news coverage but have smaller audi- nine stations nationwide. In 1995, Clear interpretations of the courts’ recent rulings Most media analysts agree that the quality ences. If a television station and a newspaper could work together, the quality of television << < Sandra Ortiz Channel owned 43 stations. argue that the FCC must either justify its rul e s and volume of local news has declined in rec e n t ne ws could improve and newspapers could gain a new tool for promoting their efforts. Media companies, seeing new opportu n i t i e s or eliminate them altogether. years — with potentially negative consequences Consolidation also makes fiscal sense, especially in an era of globalization. Small news to compete and profit, have generally supporte d While Ortiz disputes that interpretation — for the democratic process. A recent USC organizations can’t afford to cover the world, and in a time when an event halfway arou n d de r egulation, arguing that consolidation does not she believes the courts simply found the FCC Annenberg study found that people get more the world can have global and local implications, news operations must be able to aggre- damage the public interest. Many say the Int e r n e t , ha d n ’t provided sufficient evidence to support its information about political issues and candidates gate res o u r ces. satellite and increasing media outlets offer the rules — she agrees that policies must be rev i s i t e d . fr om campaign ads than local news broa d c a s t s . Still, maintaining a variety of journalistic voices remains vital. “You don’t want just Media expert at public broader access to diverse ideas and infor- But, she warns, “just as the lack of rel e va n t Many believe the negativity of political adver - one news bureau covering the Middle East,” Ortiz says. “When you have fewer people he l m of CCLP mation than ever before. Some suggest empirical res e a r ch cannot be the basis for tising combined with decreasing media cover a g e making choices, they’re going to make increasingly homogenous choices about what consolidation actually encourages owners with retaining a rule, it also cannot be the excuse for of issues is a factor in declining voter parti c i p a - to cover and how to cover it.” mo r e than one media prop e r ty in the same repealing or modifying a rule.” The FCC must tion. Because democracy depends on a One thing is sure: The effects of the FCC’s rev i e w of media ownership policies won’t For years, Sandra Ortiz worked in the tre n ches of the ma r ket to provide widely divergent prog r a m m i n g take time to thoroughly study the effects of its well-informed and parti c i p a t o r y public, Orti z end with journalism. Consumers of entertainment programming and communica- en t e r t ainment industry, most recently as senior vice pres - and viewpoints so the stations do not compete for rules and proposed changes, she says, before says, the effects of media ownership rules must tions technology also are likely to be directly affected by changes in media own e r s h i p ident of television business affairs at 20th Century Fox the same audience. continuing deregulation. be carefully evaluated. rules. Just as decisions about news coverage could be left to a smaller group of media Film Corp., where she negotiated deals with writers, actors, producers and directors for hit shows including “T he Simpsons,” “The Practice” and “Ally McBeal.” Who owns your news? Who owns your news? Who owns your news? Who owns your news? Who owns your news? Who owns your news? Who owns your news? Who owns your news?
Who owns your news? Who owns your news? Who owns your news? Who owns your news? Who owns your news? Who owns your news? Who owns your news? When you have fewer people making choices, they’re going to make As the new executive director of USC’s Center for C o m m u n i cation Law and Policy (CC LP), she’ll lead increasingly homogenous cho i c e s . res e a r ch into how the media is influenced and control l e d by regulatory policy, tech n o l o g y, media ownership and corporations, so too could entertainment programming choices. Ortiz, a former Fox social values. The center is jointly operated by USC’s Law “ Will local news lose? Opponents of deregulation, howeve r , argue Another concern is the potential loss of exe c u t i v e, says dereg u l a t o r y measures already have squeezed out most opportu n i t i e s Sc hool and Annenberg School for Communicat i o n . media consolidation leads to fewer people CCLP hopes to lead studies on some of these competition in news rep o r ting if media outlets for independently produced programs to reach the public. Ortiz has taught media law at Southwestern Law Scho o l , co n t r olling news and entertainment options, issues during coming years with assistance from consolidate. Competition among rep o rt e r s There are long-term legal implications as well. If rules are relaxed now, will they en t e r t ainment law at Whittier Law School and journalism which could mean less diversity in content even if res e a r chers at the USC Annenberg School for dr i v es many to dig deeper and work harder — only be changed again the next time Democrats control Congress or the White Hou s e ? ethics at UCLA Extension. She holds a master’s in broa d - accompanied by increased outlets. Does a wea l t h Communication. Of particular interest is the making it difficult for the press, politicians and What would happen if a Democratic administration pursued anti-trust charges against cast journalism from USC and a law degree fro m of options mean anything if a majority are impact of” media ownership on journalism. As businesses to develop relationships that could a conglomerate that blossomed under the dereg u l a t o r y leanings of the current admin- S ta n f o rd. Prior to working at Fox, she served as the co n t r olled by a few behemoth companies? Can local and independent ownership disappears, pr ohibit aggres s i v e coverage of sensitive topics. istration? “Could these companies turn around and use these steps as a shield against the general counsel at KCA L-TV and director of legal affairs a station or newspaper avoid reflecting the views so too could responsible coverage of local issues, “I f fewer rep o r ters are on a particular beat, sw o r d of the Dep a r tment of Justice or the Federal Trade Commission?” Spi t z er asks. at KCE T , both in Los Angeles. She takes on her new rol e of an owner who has direct responsibility for says Geo f f r ey Cowan, dean of the Annenberg op p o r tunities arise for lazy rep o r ting as well as Wh a t e v er the outcome of the proceedings, Ortiz says, CCLP hopes to ensure that the at USC as the Federal Communications Commission is hiring staff and vetoing programming selection? School for Communication. co r r upt relationships that stifle inves t i g a t i v e jour- FC C ’ s decisions are supported by solid res e a r ch. “Our agenda is protecting the integrity revisiting media ownership regulations, the bro a d ca s t Another complicating factor is the courts ’ “I n the early days of broadcasting, channels nalism,” says Spi t ze r . “Many fewer stories wo u l d of the process,” she says. “Years of res e a r ch are needed. Balancing the needs of the corpo- industry is exploring new digital technologies, and copy- ap p a r ent dissatisfaction with current reg u l a t i o n s . wer e allocated with an emphasis on local news be rep o rt e d . ” rations and the public is a difficult proposition — and it can’t be done in a 60- or 90-day right issues are being challenged. “It’s a really opportune In 2001, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the and local own e r s h i p ,” says Cowan. “Ar e stations But there are good reasons to permit media comment period.” time for me to be here looking at these issues,” Ortiz says. District of Columbia struck down limits on ca b l e less likely to be sensitive to local issues if they consolidation that also must be considered. systems’ national reach. Last year, the same ar e not locally owned? Res e a r ch shows a decline Rel a x ed rules on cros s - o wnership could pres e n t
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Trained in psychoanalysis, USC Law serious danger to themselves or others, and Chemerinsky takes a landmark case Professor Elyn R. Saks has worked with the who show other conditions not re q u i re d to the Supreme Court mentally ill for years, rep r esenting psych i a t r i c under current law, such as impairment. Mos t patients in court, treating them in hospitals patients, Saks argues, should be allowed to and studying their behavior. She has refuse medication or other treatment, absent witnessed firsthand the sort of treatment the an emergency. After all, medical treatment is mentally ill typically re c e i ve in America — not forced on the non-mentally ill even if they su p r e m e health care that frequently swings betwe e n clearly need it. over i n t e r vention and utter neglect. “ Ge n e r a l l y, we believe that people know cha l l e n g e Her latest book, Refusing Ca re: Fo rc e d th e m s e l v es best and care about themselves the Treatment and the Rights of the Mentally Il l most,” Saks says. “So honoring someone’s re f u s i n g (Un i v ersity of Chicago Press, 2002) draws on competent choices and protecting their her experience in law and psyc h i a t ry to autonomy serves a lot of values we hold dear.” consider when — if ever — the mentally ill In the same vein, Saks argues that U.S. In his first appearance before the U.S. “The punishment here isn’t just cruel and Co u r t has found that “gr ossly disprop o rt i o n a t e should be treated against their will. Based on hospitals for the mentally ill should do away Supreme Court last November, USC Law unusual,” he told the justices, “it’s cruel and punishments violate the Eighth Amendment,” case histories and empirical studies, Sa k s with the use of seclusion and mechanical Professor Erwin Chemerinsky was confident. unique. The state can’t point to even one other citing such landmark cases as Harmelin v. pr oposes an innovat i v e approach to caring for restraints, such as tying someone to a bed, He spoke without the aid of notes, citing case person in the history of the United States who Mic h i g a n and Solem v. Hel m — so the principle the mentally ill: Be more pro t e c t i ve of their because the psychological and bodily injury to law and even footnotes from memory. He was has received a sentence of 50 years to life for is es t a b l i s h e d . polite yet firm in responding to rapid-fire ques- shoplifting a small amount of merchandise. Justice Stephen G. Breyer seemed most Honoring someone’s competent choices and protecting tions from the formidable justices. Even in California this sentence would be tr oubled by the law. Questioning Danzig, he th e i r autonomy serves a lot of values we hold dear. He barely let on that this was one of the regarded as much larger than, say, second- asserted that “there must be some way of most important cases of the term — and that de g r ee murde r , manslaughter or rape — which deciding when a state has gone too far.” But “ the fate of hundreds of California inmates hung shows that it is a grossly disproportionate he also cautioned against conver ting the court rights and autonomy, yet also allow for grea t e r patients far outweighs the limited benefits. on the court’s decision. pu n i s h m e n t . ” “into a sentencing commission.” i n t e rvention in some cases, such as during a In rare cases, Saks agrees that violating Chemerinsky’s oral argument came in Chemerinsky argued that under the curren t If the justices don’t o verturn Andrade’s first episode of psych o s i s . s o m e o n e’s autonomy is justified. She advo- Lo c k y er v. And r ade, the long-awaited legal chal- three-strikes law, a person could receive “an sentence, Chemerinsky hopes the California “ In most cases, talk is better than forc e , ” cates relaxing standards for civil commitment Elyn Saks isc the Orrin B.a Evans Professorr eof Law and ” lenge to California’s “three-strikes” law. The indeterminate life sentence for stealing a candy Legislature will amend the law to make the Ps y c hiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Psycho l o g y . says Saks, a re s e a rch clinical associate at the during an initial psychotic episode on the 1994 statue intended to punish repeat bar.” He said the statute didn’t even meet a third strike a violent or serious felony. If the Los Angeles Ps ychoanalytic Society and th e o r y that people may be grateful ret ro s p e c -
offenders by allowing sentences of 25 years to “rational basis test” because had Andrade’s prior Le g i s l a t u r e doesn’t act, he says, an initiative on <<< Refusing Care: Institute. “I found that when I re p re s e n t e d ti v ely for the intervention. Th e re a f t e r , patients life for a third offense for someone convicted of crimes been rape or murder, rather than the the 2004 ballot may be needed. Forced Treatment and ps y chiatric patients, most of them wer e pret t y should file advance dire c t i ves to detail how the Rights of the reasonable, contrary to popular opinion. Th e y they should be treated in the future. “It may two prior felonies of a similar nature. property crimes that triggered the law, he Chemerinsky is now preparing for his next Mentally Ill wa s California is the only state that permits would have rec e i v ed a year in jail at most. Supreme Court appearance in late March, published in December could listen and, even though some people be well to intervene earlier before they judges to treat misdemeanors as third strikes. An d r a d e ’s case was complicated by the fact which will test whether a state government can 20 0 2 . may be somewhat in denial about their situ- become extremely dangerous,” Saks says. Such was the case with Leandro Andrade, who that it was a federal habeas corpus petition, be found financially liable for discriminating ation, most ended up agreeing to seek help.” In general, howe ve r, Saks says society received two 25-years-to-life sentences for which put into effect the Anti-Ter r orism and against the disabled. He won’t soon forget, Those who advocate forcing treatment on should strive to treat the mentally ill without stealing $153 worth of children ’s videotapes. Eff e c t i v e Death Penalty Act. Under the 1996 ho weve r , his first appearance there. patients do so under the rationale that the bias or discrimination. In other words, don’t Because Andrade had previous convictions for law, a federal court can overturn only those “The majesty of the room and the building, mentally ill are incompetent. But that is not tr eat them any differently solely because they petty theft, his subsequent theft convictions state court judgments that are “co n t r a r y to” or the questions from so many incredibly smart t rue, says Saks, who is developing clinical ha v e a mental illness. Indeed, the ver y act of tr i g g e r ed the three-strikes law. He is one of 344 in vo l v e an “un r easonable application” of estab- and wel l - p re p a r ed judges, the finality of their st a n d a r ds for judging the competency of the labeling certain behavior as “mentally ill” is a people serving life sentences in California for lished federal law. Douglas Danzig, California decision — all makes it a remarkable and mentally ill. In fact, the majority of psyc h i- highly subjective value judgment. “In a world similar petty offenses. deputy attorney general, said the case could be di f f e r ent experience,” he says. “The lawyer is atric patients are capable of making decisions of limited res o u r ces,” she says, “it makes sense Chemerinsky’s argument to the Supreme resolved on these statutory grounds alone only a few feet away from the justices while about health care — and should be granted not to impose treatment on those who should Co u r t was simple: Imposing a life sentence for because the law on disprop o r tionate sentences arguing. It is more of a conversation — albeit the right to do so as a matter of course. not be treated against their will. Dollars inap- shoplifting violates the Constitution’s ban was not clearly established. But Chemerinsky an unusual one and unlike any other argument Sa k s’ book suggests that civil commit- p ropriately spent on these people cannot be against cruel and unusual punishment. argued that for nearly a century, the Sup re m e I’ ve had.” — P.C . ments, or forced hospitalizations, should be used to deliver services to people who tru l y res e r ved only for those who pose an extrem e l y want them or ought to get them.” — P.C .
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1 Alex Capro n, University Pr o fe s s o r, Henry W. story on Page 20), Chemerinsky was widely quoted Wang, 2002). In addition to her regular appearances L i fe: Protecting Charitable Giving Without a Death on the record Bruce Pr o fessor of Law, and Pr o fessor of Law and in the media on issues relating to the war on terrorism on Fox News programs, Estrich spoke to the S a n Ta x ,” co-written by Don Weigandt of JP Morgan Tax Notes Medicine, gave the keynote address on human and civil liberties, sex scandals in the Catholic Church Jose Mercury News a bout California Democrat Private Bank, in a January edition of . He The people who are treated the best are families with a and affirmative action in college admissions. Nancy Pelosi becoming the first woman to lead a spoke about lotteries as a source of revenue at the embryonic stem cell research at the Th i r d stay-at-home spouse, who, not surprisingly, are an important International Conference on Bioethics at National political party in Congress — and the persistent dearth Canadian Law and Economics Meeting in To r o n t o 4 Central University in Taiwan. In November, he spoke David Cruz, professor of law, was named the of women political leaders. “The reason a lot of us are and gave the keynote address, “Planned Giving if the “ constituency fo r Re p u b l i c a n s . on the ethics of research using placebos in devel- first visiting scholar for the Charles R. Williams Pro j e c t making a big deal about Nancy Pelosi getting this job Death Tax Dies,” to the National Conference on oping countries at the Sixth World Congress of on Sexual Orientation Law at UCLA Law School for is because, unfortunately, it is still a big deal,” she said. Planned Giving’s annual meeting in Nashville. New York Tim e s Bioethics in Brazil. Capron is currently working in the 2003 spring semester. He co-wrote an amicus Mc C a f f ery was quoted in a article in — Professor Edward McCaffery, commenting on proposals brief filed with the Supreme Judicial Court of 7 Niels Fren z e n , clinical assistant professor of law, January examining the “marriage penalty” and its Geneva, Switzerland, where he is the first director of to eliminate the “marriage penalty,” in The New York Tim e s the ethics and health unit in the Director-G e n e r a l ’ s M a s s a chusetts in Goodridge v. De p a rtment of was a visiting expert at a two-day seminar at the USC impact on taxpayers. “The people who are treated the Office of the World Health Organization. In this Public Health, arguing on behalf of constitutional law Annenberg Institute for Justice in Journalism, which best are families with a stay-at-home spouse, who, director of the program, which provides foreign the clinic’s unique combination of legal and social c a p a c i t y, he is assisting WHO member countries in pr o f essors and Massachusetts lesbian, gay, bi-sexu a l focused on terrorism and civil liberties. Frenzen was not surprisingly, are an important constituency for lawyers with training in U.S. and international law. The services” is so critical to helping domestic violence developing bioethics standards and procedures. and transgendered groups who believe the exc l u s i o n widely quoted on the impact of the war on terrorism Re p u b l i c a n s , ” he said. story highlighted some of the cultural differences this victims. “We may be representing her in a ch i l d of same-sex couples from civil marriage violates their on civil liberties and immigrants. In a December op-ed year’s LL.M. students — and their American profes - custody case or a restraining order,” Vaclavik said, but 11 Mi c hael Shapiro 2 Clinical Pro f essor Mi c hael Bren n a n , along with rights of expression and intimate association under in the Los Angeles Ti m e s, he assailed the , Dorothy W. Nelson Pro fe s s o r sors — are experiencing. “Up until two weeks ago,” “she has to deal with where she’s going to go in the B i o e t h i c s Erin Smith ’04, represented Marva Wallace, the first the state’s Declaration of Rights. Cruz, along with Immigration and Naturalization Service for asking of Law, published the second edition of said Slawson, “I had one [student] who would thank immediate future. She may need therapy. Her chi l d r e n and Law California woman to have her conviction overturned Chemerinsky and 16 other constitutional law immigrant men from certain Middle Eastern countries (Th o m s o n / W est, 2002), of which he is the me after every class. It kind of threw me.” may need therapy with having been exposed to under a new state law permitting habeas corpus peti- sc holars, also was a signatory on an amicus brief filed to appear at local INS offices for identification lead author. Shapiro appeared on CBS’ “The Early vi o l e n c e . ” 14 Nomi Stolzenberg tions to be filed in cases where evidence of battered with the U.S. Supreme Court on Lawrence v. Tex a s , processes and then arresting many of them. Show” in November to discuss the legal and ethical , professor of law, presented 17 Charles Wh i t e b re a d women’s syndrome was not originally introduced at arguing the state’s sodomy law is unconstitutional. “Arresting these men as they voluntarily appear at INS issues involved in a decision to take a 1-year-old off “Democracy in Israel and the United States: , George T. and Harriet trial. The story was covered by the Los Angeles offices serves no purpose other than to spread more li f e support at the request of his mother, thus clearing Similarities and Differences” at the Skirball Cultural Pfleger Pro f essor of Law, taught a weeklong confer - 5 Ti m e s as well as “CBS Evening News.” Under the Mary Dudziak, Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. fear into the affected communities,” Frenzen wrote. the way for murder charges to be filed against his Center in Los Angeles and “In/Tolerance: Spiritual ence on constitutional criminal procedure for the supervision of Brennan and Clinical Pro f essor Ca r r i e Guirado Pr o fessor of Law, History and Po l i t i c a l “National security is not furthered by assembly-line, fa t h e r . If medical care is “utterly futile,” Shapiro said, Cu s t o d y ,” based on her research on liberalism and reli- American Academy of Judicial Education and spoke H e m p e l, students in the Po s t -Conviction Justice Science, served as an adviser on the PBS documen- nationality-based arrests and deportations.” “continuing to provide care to the child is just using gion in American law, to the board of the USC a bout recent decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court Project are collaborating with pro bono attorneys and tary film “Prelude to a Movement: Black Paris and the that human husk for improper purposes.” Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in to judges around the country. Whitebread also was 8 the California Women’s Law Center to file the peti- Struggle for Fre e d o m . ” Her essay “The Politics of the Ariela Gros s , professor of law and history, was American Life. Her research on spiritual custody is quoted widely in the media about a Nevada proposal 12 Edwin Smith tions on behalf of battered women convicted of killing Least Dangerous Branch: The Court, the Constitution named chair of the American Society for Le g a l was interviewed by Bob Edwards supported by a Casden Institute grant. Stolzenberg to legalize marijuana and Americans’ continuing abusive partners prior to the time when battered and Constitutional Politics Since 1945” was History’s 2003 program committee. She also serves on NPR’s “Morning Edition” in October, discussing the published “Bastard Daughters and Illegitimate support for the national ban on the drug. “The fe a r Bas t a r d women’s syndrome could be used as a defense in published in A Companion to Post-1945 America on the society’s executive committee and board of United Nations’ role in international disputes. “It is Mothers: Burning Down the Courthouse in that it will somehow pollute their children has made Out of Carolina Bleak House court. (See more clinic news on Page 24.) ( B l a ckwell Publishers, 2002), and her essay directors. She presented “Between Race and Nation: unrealistic to expect the UN to assert leadership,” and ,” with Hilary Scho r , some of the people who used marijuana ex t r e m e l y “Birmingham, Addis Ababa, and the Image of Bl a ck / Indian Identity in the Southern Courtroom” and Smith said. “As Kofi Annan and Javier Perez de in the Yearbook of Research in English and freely now say, ‘Oh, gee, I wouldn’t be in favor of the American Literature: Law and Literature 3 Erwin Chemerinsky, Sydney M. Irmas Pro fe s s o r America: International Influence on U.S. Civil Rights chaired a panel discussion on sex, race and the law Cuellar and Boutros Boutros-Ghali have said time (V ol. 18). change in the legal status of marijuana,’” he said in Tim e of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics and Po l i t i c a l Politics in the Kennedy Administration” was published at the society’s national confer e n c e . and again, the UN is made up of member nations. The a November edition of magazine. 15 Eric Ta l l e y Science, received a Freedom of Information Aw a r d in Wi n d ow on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights and secretary general of the UN is not a leader, as such, , professor of law, presented 9 D e p a r t u re from the Society of Pr o fessional Journalists’ Lo s Foreign Affairs, 1945 - 1988 (University of North Thomas Ly o n, professor of law, published from a political point of view. He is a lead persuader, “C o m p l e xity and Corporate Governance” to the Wor l d K a ren Lash Angeles cha p t e r . He spoke to several organizations Carolina Press, 2003). Dudziak was a fellow at “Expert Testimony on the Suggestibility of Children: not a decision-maker of a sort that could determine B a n k / OE CD Asian Roundtable on Corporate Associate Dean ended her 11-year ab out civil liberties and the war on terrorism, including Princeton University’s Program in Law and Pu b l i c Does it Fit?” in Children, Social Science and the what the UN could do.” Smith was a popular source Governance, held in Bombay, India, and “Expectations tenure at USC Law School to accept a position as the National Association of Criminal Defe n s e Affairs and a visiting research scholar at Pri n c e t o n ’ s La w (Cambridge University Press, 2002). His Lyo n - for national and international media analyzing the and Legal Doctrine” at the University of vice president of programs at Equal Justice Wo r k s , Lawyers. He was a visiting professor at Duke Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Saywitz oath-taking competency task was prospect of war in Iraq; in December, he was inter- Fr a n k f u r t /Bar-Ilan Conference on Pa r a d oxes and formerly the National Association for Public Interest University’s law school during fall 2002. In the Affairs last fall. She spoke about her research at incorporated into a training manual for judges viewed on “Morning Ireland,” a morning radio S e l f - R e ference in the Law, held in Fr a n k f u r t , La w , in Washington, D.C. Equal Justice Works collab- January edition of the ABA Journal, Chemerinsky Princeton, Columbia, Fordham, Rutgers-Camden and prepared by the Scottish Judicial Studies Board. It broadcast in Dublin, discussing the UN Security G e r m a n y. He also gave presentations at the orates with 180 member law schools (including USC) — along with University of Dayton School of Law New York universities. also has been incorporated into the Wa s h i n g t o n Council’s assessment of weapons inspections in Iraq. University of Michigan and Harvard law schools. to expand public interest programs, run the nation’s Dean Lisa Kloppenberg, a 1987 USClaw grad, and State Child Interview Guide and the A l b e rt a largest post-graduate fellowship program, develop 6 13 M a t t h e w 16 other constitutional law experts — debated the impli- Susan Estrich, Robert Kingsley Pr o fessor of Handbook on Child Wit n e s s e s . Pr o fessor Smith, along with Dean In October, USC Law School’s Domestic Vio l e n c e national leadership training for new public interest S p i t z e r David Slawson Los Angeles Ti m e s cations of the Supreme Court’s focus on state Law and Political Science, published “The Politics of and Pr o fessor , also was Clinic was featured in the ’ “On lawyers, and enhance resources to address obstacles 10 Los Angeles Tim e s so v e r e i g n t y . In addition to broad media coverage of Ab ortion” in The Rehnquist Cou r t: Judicial Act i v i s m Ed w a r d McCaffery, Maurice Jones Jr. Pro fe s s o r featured in a article highlighting the Law” column. The clinic’s director, Assistant to pursuing public service careers. Kathryn Vac l a v i k his argument before the U.S. Supreme Court (see on the Right, edited by Herman Schwartz (Hill and of Law and Political Science, published “Lobbying for the Law School’s new LL.M. program. Smith is Clinical Pro f essor , explained why
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St u d e n t s in USC legal clinics take on high-profile cases
>> > The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap p e a l s The judge set aside the original sentence and King Jr. Boulevard and began holding regular found in favor of a Post-Conviction Justice imposed a straight 26-years-to-life sentence office hours five days a week. Project client whose trial attorney did not with credit for time served — making Moore >> > Immigration Clinic students represented interview two eyewitnesses whose testimony immediately eligible for parole. Brad Chapin clients from the Sudan, Sierra Leone, Alb a n i a , would have refuted the state’s case. Ke i t h ’0 4 and London Kemp ’03 represented Moore Somalia, Ethiopia, Mexico, El Salvador, Jones ’04 argued the case on behalf of client in Superior Court. Vietnam, and several other countries. And r e a Mi c hael Black, who was convicted of assault >> > The Domestic Violence Clinic won a Garcia ’03, Carey Stone ’04, Tiffany Mitchell ’04 ’9 7 ’9 2 with a deadly weapon during an altercation number of victories on behalf of clients this and Alexandra Webber ’04 represented clients with the occupants of a car, even though two fall. Lauren Howard ’03 and Paul Levin ’03 wo n in Immigration Court seeking asylum. O m a r eyewitnesses (including a passenger in the political asylum for a Honduran woman who Zambrano ’03, Ryan Fife ’04 and C h r i s t i n e car) told police they did not see Black bran- fled her abusive husband. Cindy Kang ’03, Sarapu ’03 represented clients seeking dish a weapon. The case was remanded to Karen Nutter ’04 and Melissa Reese ’04 won a asylum before the Immigration and District Court with instructions to vacate temporary custody hearing for a domestic Naturalization Service’s asylum office. Bl a c k’s conviction and sentence. violence victim whose husband accused her of Andrew Hirsh ’03 represented a client before ’9 2 ’8 2 ’8 7 >> > The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also child abuse. And Amanda Airo ’04 and Jo c e l y n the Los Angeles Immigration Court and won a affirmed a district court decision in favor of Riedl ’04 secured a restraining order against waiver of deportation for a Mexican client with Post-Conviction client Rhonda Dyas, finding an extremely violent batterer who also was a minor criminal conviction. Paula Rich ’04 she was unconstitutionally shackled during ordered to pay full child support and restitu- drafted an appellate brief that was filed on her murder trial and that the shackling like l y tion to their client. behalf of a client denied asylum by an immi- prejudiced the jury against her. B r a n d o n gration judge. Jeff Maloney ’03 represented a >> > The Domestic Violence Clinic received a Liebman ’03 represented Dyas on the appeal. client whose removal hearing had been t h r e e - y e a r, $394,000 grant from the suspended due to mental incompetence but ’8 2 ’6 2 ’6 2 >> > A Superior Court judge set aside a life- Department of Justice’s Violence Ag a i n s t who remained in detention for more than a without-possibility-of-parole sentence for Women Office to support its services to y e a r, lost in the bureaucracy, after the Margaret Moore, a long-time Pos t - C o n v i c t i o n victims of domestic violence. In December, the proceedings were suspended. client who was convicted in 1982 for clinic moved its offices to a storefront on the conspiring to murder her abusive husband. corner of Figueroa Street and Martin Luther
PCJP documentary makes stars out of students ’8 7 ’9 7 ’6 1 The story has the makings of great drama: A group of law students, most of whom have never argued in court, rep r esenting inmates whose legal options have all but run out. Th a t ’s why filmmakers Vincent Pagazza and JP Patterson decided to make “Last Hope,” a do c u m e n t a r y that follows four USC law students — Christina Moo r e ’04, Brad Chapin ’04, Erin Smith ’04 and London Kemp ’03 — as they re p resent clients of the Po s t - C o n v i c t i o n Justice Project. The cases invol v e women serving prison sentences for killing abusive spouses or bo yfriends. “The film is called ‘Last Hop e ’ because if these women didn’t have these students ’9 2 ’8 7 w o rking for them, they wouldn’t have anybody,” says Pagazza, the film’s dire c t o r - p ro d u c e r. Pagazzza is an award-winning director with a background in photography. “The most compelling thing about this film is the students,” says Patterson, a graduate of The Classes of ’62, ’82, ’87, ’92 and ’ 97 celebrated reunions last year. From top, left to right: Brian Mulherin ’97, >> > Left to right: Javier Prato, cameraman; Vincent Pagazza, US C ’ s School of Cinema-Television and producer of the film. “They don’t have a lot of expe- Re u n i o n20 0 2 di re c t o r - p r oducer; and JP Patterson, prod u c e r , interview Julianna Yasinski ’97 and Michelle Deardorff ’99; Eugena Yasnogorodsky and friends from the Class of ’92; Ed Hays rience but they have a lot of heart.” — P.C . Mi c hael Bren n a n . and Roy Restivo of the Class of ’92; the Class of ’82; Julie Huffman, Aaron Gundzik, Kathleen Villarruel Schn e i d e r and Karen Lash of the Class of ’87; Geri Frazier and Beth Dunn of the Class of ’82; Larry Tapper ’62, Jerold Cohn This issue of USC Law magazine, along with arch i v ed issues and additional information relating to USC Law ar ticles, can be ’62 and Nancy Cohn; the Class of ’62; Vincent Gonzales, Lanny Tron and Tom Tengan of the Class of ’87; the Class of ’97; the Class of ’92; and a group of minglers at the Class of ’87 reunion. found at ww w. l a w. u s c . e d u / l a w m a g . While you ’re browsing, check out the Law School alumni pages, which include a link to the univer s i t y ’s alumni direc t o r y, an online giving page and information on reunions. See ww w. l a w. u s c . ed u / a l u m n i .
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Iraq. As of mid-Oc t o b e r , 70% favor military action, his grandson, Cole Ryder Robbins, is now 3 years > Class of 1950 On the Honor Roll with tennis in between. Spends the summer in a On the Honor Roll RV in Chula Vista, adjacent to a beautiful public 20% support it if unimpeded inspections are not old. Joseph A. Th o m a s retired in 1997 and still The accomplishments of the Class of 1950 are The Honorable William P. Hogoboom ’49 park. Judge Juaneita M. Ver o n - Fo s t e r re p o r t e d ac hieved, and you-know-who is alone in left field. The taxation section of the California Ba r serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Ja c k Ryb u r n impressive. Judge , who with his wife re c e i ved the Lloyd M. Smith Aw a rd from the no changes. Allan W. Wa l l a c e “perseveres at a Don reports that “Browns multiply rapidly.” True. He Association honored Melvin S. Spears ’51 wi t h BE ST Life and Health Insurance Company. He Toni has generously provided matching contribu- Constitutional Rights Foundation, which seeks reduced pace.” A. Charles Wilson, chairman of doesn’t give a count, but Volney proudly reports its 2002 Joanne Gar vey Awa r d, presented annu- recently retired from the Board of Administration tions, sent a reminder that we still need $20,000 to instill in the nation’s youth a deeper under- the board of 3 companies, travels to Singapore the birth of a granddaughter following 3 fine ally to a California tax practitioner in of the California Public Employees’ Retirement to reach our minimum goal of $100,000 for the standing of citizenship through the va l u e s annually on business. Also vacationed this year grandsons. Marshall Davis is soggy in Seattle, recognition of outstanding lifetime achievem e n t System (CalPERS). He and his wife, Jackie, took Class of 1950 Scholarship Fund. Judge M. Ross ex p r essed in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. in Alaska, London and New York. but visits “five offspring” in California. M a r k and contributions to the field of tax law. Spe a r s their 5 sons, their spouses, and 9 grandchildren to B i g e l o w died in 2002. A retired Los Angeles Jo s e f f ’ s son practices medicine in Santa Barbara. Kauai in July 2002. Joe and Jackie went to Shirley Olsen, Class Reporte r has been with the law firm of Ervin, Cohen and Superior Court judge, he presided over the high- Evans Karpenko living in Euless, Texas, sadly One of Marvin Levin’s sons is in the US Europe for Belgium, Switzerland and a Rhine River ri ch a r d @ f r a z m t n . c o m Jessup for 44 years; the firm’s founding partn e r profile trial of two Symbionese Liberation Army reports the loss of Fran, his wife of 58 years. She Diplomatic Service in Ivory Coast, Africa; another cruise in October. James J. Pe n n e, residing in John Ervin taught taxation at USC and brou g h t members involved in a 1974 shoot out. His was a devoted member of her chu r c h and active in lives north of Bergen, Norway. Of his descendants, Bakersfield, Calif., reports the death of his wife > Class of 1951 many of his former students, including Spe a r s , d a u g h t e r, Superior Court Judge Tricia Ann the community as a volunteer; a master gardener Don von Mizener brags that “none (has) been 12/23/01. Gerald I. “Jerry” Neiter, works 4 days into the firm. Spears served more than 15 yea r s B i g e l o w, reporting his death in the Los Angeles and member of the Fort Worth Botanical Soc i e t y , The (remaining) members of the Class of 1951 indicted” (good genes). Leonard Wei n b e r g ha s a week and completed his questionnaire on a on the USC Institute on Federal Taxation plan- Tim e s , remembers the heightened security meas- wh i c h has established a memorial to her (planting are durable, active, wise and collegial. For instance, two sons practicing law, and 5 grandchildren. Mi l t cruise ship in the Baltic Sea. His latest grand- ning committee and chaired its estate and gift ures at home and the frightening events an oak tree at the entrance to the So c i e t y Don Brown (“trying to keep going until my Z e r i n has 4 grandchildren; the eldest wants to da u g h t e r , Maia, is almost 3. We know that Arn o l d tax section. He also taught tax law at USC surrounding the trial. His writings include a set of grounds). In October, John H. Larson (mayor of youngest son takes over my practice”), M a r v i n be a lawyer. (Memo to the law school: recruit this S. Malter is alive and well because he reports no books distributed to California judges: “Evidence the City of Seal Beach) monitored a panel on Le v i n (“part time – no more administration”), and legacy!). Gene E. Smith is missing without a trace. during the 1960s and was selected by peers in changes in family or work status, as does David B. Objections Handbo o k ,” “Constitutional Rights in municipal ethics and the law at the League of Art Wa s s e r m a n (“No burnout yet”) report that Please report his whereabouts. Worse by far, our 1987 for listing in Ame r i c a ’s Best Lawyer s . Wa l ke r. William S. “Bill” Johnstone is serving Criminal Cases” and “Felony Trials and Pro c e d u r e s , Cities meeting in Long Beach. M i t chell Levy they are still practicing law, and several others, m u ch-respected classmate George Kasem i s as Chair of the Rose Bowl Management Orientation Notebo o k .” C. Neil Ash serves on retired, reports that his family is doing well and that certainly including Ned Good and Harold Wa x, said to have died on 02/11/02. As S t u a r t did for me!” We do too, David. Addressing our Committee, responsible for the management of several Boards: USO World Headquarters, he is going to travel “one of these days”. Ri ch a r d also are. Marshall Davis engages in commercial Hi l l m a n suggests for his own, his headstone should classmates’ responses, M. Stan Tom l i n s o n , now the Rose Bowl Game on New Year’s Day. He and Washington, DC; Rancho Santa Fe Fo u n d a t i o n ; M o r r o w also reports that he and his family are real estate brokerage. Don von Mizener is still read “Too Soo n . ” To finish on an upbeat, those residing in Lake Arrowhead, Calif., retired from the his wife, Lynne, enjoyed the 2002 Mediterranean Scripps Clinic, Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla; well and doing fine. Two grandsons are juniors at t e a ching off shore banking and maritime law. reporting remain unanimously optimistic. The practice in 2002. William L. “Ted” Todd, Jr., some cruise sponsored by the USC Law School on the and Law School, University of Southern California. U SC (fourth generation at USC) and another is Returned questionnaires show that, while retired, economy will prosper. Virtue will be rewarded. Justice 8 years retired from the Bench of the Fo u r t h Sea Dream. He reports enjoying both the associ- For the San Diego Museum of Art, Neil and his a freshman at Arizona State. Judge Harry V. most are active in “giving back” to their commu- will prevail. The Law School will lead. So be it! District Court of Appeal, Division One in San ation with fellow alumni and at the same time w i fe June hosted members of the Museum Pe e t r i s since 1984 has served as a special nities. In this category, Stuart Hillman vo l u n t e e r s Diego, still works as a private mediator, arbitrator contributing support to the Law School. J a ck E. Volney Brown, Jr., Class Reporte r Trustee Association (holding a national meeting at Master in United States District Court, Judge Pro every Tuesday in the heart surgery department of and court support officer. He notes, “My son is G o e r t z e n is retired from the District Court of vv b r o w n @ c ox . n e t San Diego) for a tour of his collection of California Tempore in Los Angeles Superior Court, Mediator Cedars Sinai. Mark Joseff serves recovering alco- President Elect of the San Diego County Bar Appeal bench but continues private judging and plein-air paintings. Judge Edwin Be a ch ’ s w i fe and Arbitrator. Significant cases as an Arbitrator holics. Milton Zerin does pro bono arbitration of Association. We’re the third father-son combo to handling arbitration and mediation matters, as well > Class of 1957 Janet, secretary to several law school profes s o r s include Anderson v. PG & E ( The movie “Erin fee disputes and tries to counter anti-lawyer have served in the office.” He now serves as as acting periodically as an expert witness. Jack ( 1 9 48-1950) and fondly remembered by the B r o ck o v i ch” was based on this case.). He was a rhetoric. Joe Capalbo claims to carry a pooper- See www. l a w.usc.edu/lawmag for an extended Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the and his wife live half time in Laguna Beach (“still women students in the class with whom she asso- Municipal Court Judge, Superior Court Judge scooper when walking his dogs. And, although report on your class. The Class of 1957 cele- Claremont School of The o l o g y . Ted says he’s “still body surfing”) and half time in Studio City, Calif. ciated, died in January 2000. Ed established a (1 96 4 - 1 9 84), and Presiding Judge (1983 - 1 98 4 ) no returned questionnaire mentioned it, the class brated its 45th Class Reunion in May 2002 at the a golf nut — great golf weekend in Ireland this year In addition to his wife, son, 4 daughters, and 2 charitable remainder scholarship gift in her of the Los Angeles Superior Court. Judge Jack is among the most consistent in its financial Faculty Lounge in the Law School. Joining Dean — then cruised the Baltic.” Our classmate M . A . g r a n d children, he reports another grandchild is m e m o r y. He is remarried to Barbara. A retired T. Ryburn, retired, took the cruise with the Law support of the law school. We keep in touch with Matt Spitzer, those in attendance, with spouses, “Mel” Richl e y finally responded to our question- due in February 2003. Daniel C. Cathcart and his Associate Justice of the California Court of Sc hool in June. “It was a great trip”. Ed Sanders e a ch other. Don Brown has dined with Ar t were Dan Cathcart, Bill Johnstone, Jerry Neiter, naires. Mel, who lives with his wife, Rickie, on Lido w i fe, Jackie, of 48 years, have 3 sons, one Appeal, he did some private judging and sitting on “still coming to the office – 4 day week- but no Was s e r m a n who, he alleges, still wears a leather Mel Rich l e y, Billy Robbins, Larry Ross, and Isle in Newport Beach, says he practiced in daughter (all married) and 5 grandch i l d r e n . assignment, but is now “totally retired.” Willis M. heavy lifting”; “Winding down on community helmet when he flies his airplane. Marshall Davis Chris Smith. It was great to talk with classmates Newport Beach for 10 years before forming a Although “of counsel” to the firm of Magana, B r o o k s still works 11 hours a day (6:00 a.m. to service – politics”; Travel centers around chi l d r e n had lunch with Ned Good, who picked up the and their spouses, and learn firsthand of their lives, company with a client to build sailboats. He sold Cathcart & McCarthy, he reports he is still working 5:00 p.m.) in his Beverly Hills office and does more and grandchildren. Wanda Young Sanka r y ch e ck. Marvin Levin regularly visits with J a ck loves, interests, and activities. The recipient this the business two years later for an offer “many on the Golden Buddha vs. Marcos case (15 years) and more pro-bono work. Judge David N. continues to have enormous responsibilities, Fel t h o u s e and has encountered Sid Rose wh o year of the Class of 1957 Scholarship is Mr. David times what I believed it was worth.” He then and hopes to reinstate the trial court judgment of E a g l e s o n reports “Same old drill – ADR work – raising an adopted son/college student and “is in pretty good health.” Leonard We i n b e r g Williams, a 1999 graduate of the University of decided to stay at home with his wife, his Choate $43 billion. He continues to assist the vacations and golf now and then”. Bernard J. g r a n d d a u g h t e r, age 12. Elaine (Blaubach ) sees, on occasion, Mi k e Fra n k l i n , Sid Rose an d Notre Dame who has earned several high grades 48 racing sailboard and his Duffy electric boat. He Dependency Court and acts as a mentor for 3 chi l - G r e e n f i e l d is retired in Falls ch u r ch, Vi r g i n i a ; S ch o e ch celebrated her 75th birthday on Stuart Hillman. And close but no cigar, J o e in law school and was a member of the staff of the has five grandchildren ages 8-13, and his dren in foster care. He and his wife spend their married to Edith; one son, James Peter and 3 November 2, at a luncheon with friends and family C a p a l b o sees Herb Kalmbach ’ s b r o t h e r. Of Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal. youngest son and his wife are living nearby and free time at their ranch in Northern Idaho. Ralph I. gr a n d c hildren. Ralph B. Helm and Alice will visit at the Torrance Marriott Hotel. Ted W. Sullivan those responding to the question, your reporter He says, “I hope someday I can help students expecting a baby. Billy A. Robbins, who is asso- Ca l l e n and his wife of 51 years, Betty, are finally Bob Arm s t r o n g and Eleanor in Scotland in May. lives in Palm Desert playing golf 3 days a week is the only one unconditionally opposing war with attend USC Law School in the same way that you ciated with Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP, reports that expecting their first grandchild. Ralph founded the
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Orange County Trial Lawyers Association in 1963 , consistently gets away on ski trips. Karan Minick On the Honor Roll edly semi-retired, is still active in his practice in <<< USC President Steven B. Sample honored John Argue ’56 and was President from 1963 to 1965. He has made the most interesting life change. She Ventura. He is currently President of the Ven t u r a during an October ceremony on campus. currently handles many non-binding arbitration wound up her practice in Stockton and wrote a The Colorado Springs Airport renamed its main County Bar Association and serves as “of counsel” matters for the Orange and Riverside Superior several page account of her move to an apartment terminal after the city’s former mayor Rob e r t M. to his former firm, working more than he wants Courts. He hopes to retire on his 72nd birthday ab ove a grocery “Mercado” near Rosarita Beach in Isaac ’62. The airport opened in 1994 during “thanks to Mr. Dow and Mr. Jones.” Dick and Jean alumni profile: John Argue ’56 after 45 years of practice. On a sad note, two of Baja California. She allows as how she has written Isa a c ’s tenure as mayor . Isaac secured funds for have a new grandchild born to their attorney our classmates (Ray R. Goldie and John L. 6 novels, as yet unpublished. She picks up her mail the facility’s construction from the Fe d e r a l daughter Ker r y . Attorney son Scott works in Texa s A presidential N e w b u r n) passed away since our last column. in San Diego so drop her a line at POB 437060, Aviation Administration and other sources. Isa a c and Attorney daughter Tracy recently was married Our Class has fond memories of both of them and San Diego, CA 92143. Ll o y d and Jean Ow n b e y was mayor of Colorado Springs from 1979 to on the golf course serenaded by Randy Siple at they will be missed. Respectfully submitted, proudly announce the engagement of their son, 1997 and was president of the U.S. Conferen c e the bagpipes. He and Jean vacationed this year to ho n o r Grant. The Ownbeys will soon celebrate their 40t h . Prague, Germany, Holland and Belgium. Gerard R. Bill Johnstone, Class Reporte r of Ma yors from 1990 to 1991. He pre v i o u s l y They toured the Mediterranean last year and Lloyd, Poi r i e r reports cryptically, “retired-no cha n g e s ” . At wj o h n s t o n e @ h a h n l a w y e r s . c o m practiced law in Colorado Springs and serve d as general counsel for the Jockey’s Guild, will least he responded!! Edward Rote is now a full as a presiding judge of the city’s municipal court. attend the Ke n t u cky Derby this year. To m Commander and lives in S. Colby, WA. He is The late John Argue ’56, former chair of USC’s boa r d of trustees and a prominent figure in the Los > Class of 1960 Ru b b e r t claims to still work 12-hour days and is completely retired. Philip Rudnick is still in Angeles community, was honored posthumously with a USC Presidential Medallion last October. The Class of ’60 has reported in. The exh o r t a t i o n genuinely sorry for himself, but says he has cious advice “(T)hat a man who marries a second Bakersfield and can be reached via E-Mail at USC President Steven B. Sample presented the medal, the highest honor bestowed by the univer- to dish the dirt went largely unheeded, but after adjusted through martyrdom to his regimen. He time did not deserve to lose his first wife” plans a p h i l @ f l e m i n s i l v e r.com. Phil and his wife recently si t y , to Argue’s widow, Liz Argue, during a ceremony on USC’s campus. Sample also announced plans alphabetizing the responses our classmates is in Berlin 4 months a year to practice there. year-end wedding to a remarkable lady named celebrated their 46th Anniversary and are the to construct a campus garden that will be named in Argue’s honor. The John Argue Plaza will be report the following. (The alphabetization is just Modesty prevents him from announcing the good Rita whom Ed and Sally Gr e e n and Ed and Bette proud parents of 5 children and 4 grandchi l d r e n . l o cated between Doheny Library and USC’s Alumni House, just north of the Law School on the a scam to get Pete Aronson to the top of the list.) news – a $12 million dollar plus – the bad news is, N a n c e have approved. A nice new home in He currently spends his time working on a renew- University Park Campus. Pete hurls a challenge to us all to top his good says Tom, that the case commenced in 1983. Ph i l R a n cho Mirage has been purchased in which to able wind-energy project on his ranch in Eastern “John Argue was not just my friend and fellow USC trustee; he was also my teache r ,” said Sample. news. He has a 5-year-old in kindergarten as we Sa l t z is a full time denizen of Santa Fe, NM, where spend the harvest years. I plan to get out of the Kern County – Jawbone Energy. Lillian Tom i c h “During his 17 years on USC’s boa r d of trustees, he played a vital role in USC’s rem a r k able advance speak. A quick sample poll of the class was taken he is active in community affairs and he is learning judging dodge ASAP and go sit in the sunshine. spent a month in Europe, touring France, Italy, to the top ranks of American res e a r ch universities. He car ed deeply about his stewardship of this and the general sentiment is: “Way to go Pete (we to play the piano. Bev (Gore) Schn e i d e r is recov- Until next time, have fun. Switzerland and, of course Yugoslavia. She was un i v e r s i t y , and he car ed very much that USC be one of the nation’s premier centers for world-class g u e s s ) .” Ed Baretta is proud to report his ering from a busted leg, which she ruefully claims Jim Sutton, Class Reporte r recently successful in prevailing before the Ninth te a c hing and res e a r ch. ” grandson has joined the Marines. He said he ran will not ever result in a monetary recovery. One of Circuit and obtained an order vacating a judgment “John had a true passion for USC,” agreed Liz Argue. By placing his name on a campus plaza, she into Bob O’Brien et.us. when they attended the the last places in the world yet unvisited by the of the District Court. The opinion will be published. > Class of 1961 said, the university honors Argue’s memory and ensures “he will always live on at ’SC.” high school graduation of their grandchildren. Tom S chneiders is Alaska and they plan to get there On a sad note, our classmate Bill Clayton re c e n t l y Mrs. Argue added that her husband was particularly devoted to his classmates from the Law Br e s l i n emphasizes he is retired, but reports he’s ne xt year sometime. Bev faithfully watches all the The response to a request for information from our passed away. He had retired from the California Sc hool, many of whom attended the cerem o n y . U.S. District Court Judge Matthew M. Byrne ’56, a life- been married the past 3 years to his wife Audrey, SC games she can. Ed Soko l s k i (like old man classmates was disappointing, at best. Those who Dept. of Savings and Loan and had devoted his Robert Cleaves long friend and classmate of Argue’s at USC Law School, called Argue a “great lawyer” and “a person whom he courted 17 years before popping the river) keeps rolling along in his intellectual property responded include: w h o energies to minority issues and representation. Bill continues to operate the Wilderness Conservancy, of impeccable integrity,” noting that he also was a born leader. “We elected him class president for question. He busies himself writing Pu b l i c practice. His 53rd anniversary was celebrated last was active in the Mexican American Bar protecting wildlife in African countries and one year of law scho o l , ” Byrne said. “But by consensus he became our permanent class pres i d e n t . De f ender pro bono pardon petitions; doing wood June. He’s very active in South Bay Rotary activi- Association and enjoyed travel to Mexico, Costa providing humanitarian operations in flying medical Charles Whitesell “John was very proud of our law class,” Byrne added. “He would refer to it as the class the star s work and gold smithing. It might be good advice to ties and the foreign student ex change program. Rica and Cuba. Your reporter, , wait to file those petitions until a certain Davis is Un f o r t u n a t e l y , Paul Winton’s wi f e reported that supplies, healthcare providers and school supplies is still plugging away in Glendale concentrating on fell on. He often reminded people of the accomplishments of his classmates. But it was really John no longer governor, but that’s a mere afterthought. Paul passed away in April of last year. Jon Witt, 70 to small villages in remote areas of Baja California, litigation involving wills, trusts, elder abuse, conser- who was the pride of our class.” Di c k Clements, maven of the impecunious, is still last August, claims to be retired but is still active as Me xico. He would welcome your help and can be vatorships and family law. My wife of 42 years still The founding chairman of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, Argue was known and doing bankruptcy work from his Long Beach president of the Boys and Girls Foundation of San found at www.wildcon.org. Stanley O. Epstein is puts up with my fishing trips to Alaska, Canada, respected throughout Los Angeles for his pivotal role in bringing the 1984 Summer Olympics to offices and claims that to celebrate his 70th he Diego and is on the boards of 5 other charities and semi-retired. His weekly highlight seems to be and, of course to Casa de Whitesell in Cabo San the city. A partner for nearly three decades in the Los Angeles law firm of Argue Pearson Harbison took an aqua gliding flight over San Francisco Bay civic organizations in the San Diego area. John’s w a t ching JAG (Judging Amy and The Pr a c t i c e ) . Lucas, Mexico. Martin We e ke s proudly reports & Myers, Argue was named one of the “Top 100 Most Influential Attorneys in California” by the Los at a 2,500 ft. altitude in what is essentially a younger son (USC Law, ’98) works for the San Stan is a member of the Board of Directors of the that Case Melon Foundation has chosen his Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journals. At USC, Argue served on the boa r d of trustees and was motorized hand glider. Bill Gibson claims he will Diego City Att o r n e y . The Witts travel much and visit Wes t c hester Symphony. He just returned from an youngest daughter California College Pro f essor of its chairman from 2000 to 2002. hang it up within the year or “sure slow down.” Or v their daughter in the Detroit area whenever they extended trip to the Canadian Rockies. P h i l l i p the year and that his middle daughter is a partner Ar gue passed away in August after a months-long battle with leukemia. He was 70. — M.V. M a r l e t t is retired, traveling, playing tennis and can. Bob Wor r e l l is in his 7th year of retirement Ni ch o l s o n spends a great deal of time motorcy- in the law firm of Andrew and Por t e r . Respectfully living the good life. Bert Massing, on the other and says he inflicts ill-conceived home improve- cling with his wife Joan around the country. Th i s submitted, hand is a self confessed masochist – he still ment projects on Meredith. Bob and Meredith have year they cycled throughout the Arkansas Charles E. Whitesell, Class Reporte r works 9 to 5 for Irvin, Cohen & Jessup and has no 5 grand kids ages 14 to 5 months. Your faithful Smokey’s, Tennessee, Maryland, North Carolina, cw h i t e s e l l @ e a r t h l i n k . n e t plans to retire, although he does allow how he re p o r t e r , in foolish disregard of Will Roger’s saga- and Canada. Ri c hard Norman, although suppos-
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Several USC law grads were included in the Daily Journal’s “ Top 100” listing of California’s most prominent lawyers last fa l l : Bill Lugosi > Class of 1962 I look forward to our next reunion as I pass the pen email. is still practicing law with a On the Honor Roll a bit. Howie lasted in retirement for 6 months and to the next editor who will write this column. Ta John J. Quinn Jr. ’59 (managing partner, Arnold specialty in trademark, copyright and right of is now back at it with Proskauer Rose. Hope that If you missed the 40th reunion brunch you missed & Porter) has helped his firm gather a roster of top ta for now. publicity litigation. Bill also serves as an ex p e r t W. Patrick O’Keefe Jr. ’67 rec e i v ed the pres t i - this missive finds most of you healthy and that the a good time. The stories have gotten better and intellectual property lawyers. He recently was witness. Bill was a panelist at the Fe d e r a l i s t gious Harmon G. Scoville Aw a rd from the New Year brings you and your family peace. E-mail with the passage of years, some feel they had a Judge John C. Woo l l e y , Class Reporte r honored by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Society Conference at Chapman University, a Orange County Bar Association last ye a r. T h e me at Torribiolaw@ yahoo.com if you win a Nobel good - fun time in law school. Others, like ye’ ole’ jw o o l l e y @ o c c o u r t s . o r g for distinguished service. speaker to the Southern California Alumni annual award honors a local attorney who Prize or if you just break 90 on the golf course or e d i t o r, still shiver at the thought of Pr o fe s s o r s John K. Trotter ’62 (a r b i t r a t o r , JAMS) helped Association of Phi Beta Kappa and a panelist for your grandchild takes his or her first step. Regards. S p r i n g m e y e r, Burby and gang. We had a good > Class of 1964 “e xemplifies the highest standards of the legal found JAMS in 1987 and has since made arbi- a Smithsonian/ALI-ABA program on legal prob- time and look forward to the big 50th. Replies to pr ofession and who has contributed significantly John Torribio, Class Reporte r As I reported earlier, Bill Be n n e t t had “retired”. tration and dispute resolution an integral part of lems of museum administration. R i ch Reinjohn the questionnaire and a little snooping on my part to the Orange County Bar Association.” Tor r i b i o l a w @ y a h o o . c o m H o w e v e r, Bill is busy acting as a consultant to the legal process. He is a retired presiding judge had one word for his recent “Sea Dream II” cruise indicate we are still active and yearning to exp l o r e O’ K eefe has a general civil, corporate, real estate, chu r c hes and non-profit organizations. He is also of the 4th District Court of Appeal. with the President’s Associates USC: “Wo w ! ” p robate and estate planning practice and has > Class of 1966 and make a difference. I called Vince Fish at his serving as a voluntary Chaplin with the V. A . Congratulations to my partner Ron Rosenfeld on Samuel A. Keesal Jr. ’65 (name partner, been an active member of the Orange County listed office number and was told it was no longer Hospital and National Guard. Since his recent the birth of his first grandchild, a bo y. D a v e Paul H. Abr a m writes that he is semi-retired living Kee s al, Young & Logan) is the nation’s leading Bar Association for more than 30 yea r s . in service. His home number was answered by the marriage, he has traveled extensively throughout St a n t o n is “retired, sort of.” Dave still has clients in North Fork, CA. In case anyone doesn’t know, securities expert. His client list includes Sal o m o n “m a c hine” so I assume Vince finally made good his the world including Tahiti, Argentina, Uruguay, and is teaching classes at California State North Fork is 17 miles from Yosemite. Paul says Smith Bar n e y , Citigroup, General Electric and JP threat to retire and go sailing. Kent Fr o e h l i ch Bolivia and Peru. Di c k Ber n a c ch i reports that he Un i v e r s i t y , Bakersfield. Dave has the thankless job income children. And with all of this he still prac- every day is a “vacation day” while he spends time Morgan Chase. returned from travels to China, Tibet, Cambo d i a , now has 5 grandchildren the latest of which was of being the President of his homeowners associ- tices a little law. Justice Ri c hard Huffman is still fishing, photographing the surrounding area and G e r m a n y, Poland, Hungary and the Czech born in September 2002. Dick is listed in Dennis M. Wasser ’67 (name partner, Was s e r , ation in a development of 1400 homes. Our affirming and reversing in San Diego. His son is writing a fishing column for the Sierra Star ne w s - Republic. James Gilmartin is still active in the Euromoney’s E x p e rt Guide to the Wo r l d ’ s Cooperman & Carter) is Hollywood’s “divorce condolences to the family of William C. Hobbs. a Deputy District Attorney and his wife Caroline paper in Oakhurst, Calif. Some of Pa u l ’ s practice of law with offices in Saugus, California. Leading Information Tec hnology Adv i s o r s as well ki n g , ” said the Jo u r n a l . His long list of celebrity Bill passed away in March 2002. Bill was a clinical a court appointed Special Advocate in juvenile photography has been on display at various art M a r i l y n (Davis) Liddicoat reports that ch i l d r e n as having been selected for inclusion in A n clients includes Angelina Jolie. p r o fessor at Loyola Law School for 30 years court. Spent 6 weeks in Oxford, England, where he galleries in the area. Larry Campbell is still prac- Britt and Brian, both attorneys, have taken over her International Who’s Who of Internet and e- Brian A. Sun ’79 (managing partner, O’Neill, te a c hing trial advocacy. That’s all for now. See you taught for the University of San Diego at ticing law managing Solar Turbines Inc. practice and that daughter Rebecca is a physician. Commerce Lawyers. Doug Callister re s p o n d e d Lys aght & Sun), a former federal prosecutor, now in the next issue. Magdalen College. Bob Martin and his wife , commercial litigation and “horsing” around with his After being in politics (a member of the county to my inquiry with one word: “Retired!” I reported represents corporate criminal defendants. Monica, celebrated their 50th wedding anniver- and his wife’s hobby, raising and riding horses. In Board of Supervisors) she now spends a good Gary Zimmerman, Class Reporte r earlier that Ray Cotkin had recently married an Recent clients include Earthlink’s co-founder and s a r y. Practices law but not too much. Director of fact, Larry and his wife have a new family member, deal of the year traveling and spoiling her grand- gl z @ b e v e r l y h i l l s l a w. c o m attorney from his office. In a recent issue of the scientist Wen Ho Lee. the 454 Bombardment Group (WWII). Lots of a 9-year-old Hanoverian gelding named Magic children. Norman Marshall is anticipating the Daily Journal featuring an article on his wife Joan, travel. Italy, France, St. Moritz. Joe Nida’s firm was To u ch, which they acquired in Germany and George J. Mihlsten ’80 (p a r t n e r , Latham & > Class of 1965 birth of his first grandchild in January 2003. A nice Ray revealed that he met her in a case, which she acquired by Sheppard, Mullin, Richter and recently brought to their home in San Diego. Pau l Watkins) is a top lawyer in real estate and land- way to start the New Yea r . Jerry Miller enjoyed the successfully defended against him. If you can’t Wayne Dryden wrote to say that he has just been Hampton. He was awarded the “Pioneer of the C r u m is retired and spends most of his time use law. He recently helped Playa Capital launch 40th reunion. Jerry made major contributions to beat ‘em, join ‘em. Congratulations to M a r s h a l l certified as a SCUBA diver and that he has a Year” by the South Coast Business and buying and selling antiques. His son, Brandon, just its 5-million-square-foot residential and commer- the humor of the day recounting the famous lines G r o s s m a n who received the Learned Hand grandson, Tim o t h y , born in February 2002. Still in Te chnology Assoc. Wayne Pa r r i s h retired from finished working for a law firm in Paris, France, and cial complex, Playa Vis ta . of Marv Katz in response to an inquiry by Pro fe s s o r Award from the American Jewish Committee. The Pasadena, Judy Nelson is chair of the audit the Los Angeles County Counsel in 1988 and is now getting a Master’s Degree in Fre n c h at the Sp r i n g m e y e r . Ruth Sward made contact and indi- Award is given to a Los Angeles lawyer “who has Kenneth M. Doran ’81 (managing partner, committee for Argonaut Group and for a time was became the County Counsel of Merced, retired So r bonne. Wayne Hunkins, who has been a cated she retired after 20 years of law practice played a significant role in bettering the local Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher) has been an integral dealing in certified organic fertilizer in Rio de in 2002 and was recently elected to the Mariposa d e fense attorney almost forever, plans on and that she is living in Sacramento. Alex Urbach community and promoting human rights causes.” member of his firm’s management since 1996. Janeiro, Brazil. Is that duplicative work. Based on Superior Court. Congratulations. Tom Stutz an d sw i t c hing sides in mid-year when he retires from is living in Los Angeles and would like to hear from Jerry Garrett now has entered the 21st century His clients include Morgan Stan l e y , Wel l p o i n t her experience in Brazil she has decided that Sophie are celebrating their 35th wedding the defense business to represent plaintiffs. classmates. He may be reached at and has email in New Zealand. If you want the Health Networks and Tick e t m a s t e r . someone else can deal with the no see-ums. Do n anniversary with a Mexican Rivera cruise with their Leonard Mandel is another of our classmates [email protected]; also the old fashioned way: address, let me know. Jerry has been working with Also included were USC Law School Boa r d Fen m o r e has been active on the legislative level 3 children and the grandchildren last Tha n k s g i v i n g . who is retired but he decided to go back to scho o l (213) 658-73 75. Don Zimmer (‘63 - but really the New Zealand Marine Research Fo u n d a t i o n of Councilors member Bruce M. Ramer spearheading the right to an interim appeal of an D i ckran Te v r i z i a n and Jeri have a new grand- rather than be a man of leisure. He is a world one of us) has cut down his practice but still and Massey University tracing fish movements. (name partner, Gang, Tyre, Ramer & important issue prior to a judgment. See C.C.P daughter and Dick received the 2002 Maynard history student at U.C.L.A. Terry McGaughey an d shows up regularly at Best, Best and Kreiger in The program will be for 2 years. Ron Goodgame Brown) and USC Law Professor Erwin 16 6.1. Due to his successful efforts he was asked J. Toll award. Congratulations Dick. Alan Wo l e n his wife became grandparents for the first time Riverside. He and Cathy are enjoying the grand- writes that the tourists in New Hampshire have Ch e m e r i n s k y . For more “Alumni in the to chair the Beverly Hills Bar Association legisla- and Gloria are living in Lake Arrowhead where he in December 2001, when their son and daughter- children. This wraps it up for the reporter. My wife finally seen all the leaves they want and have left. Ne w s , ” see www.l a w .usc.edu/news. — E.A. tive committee and has accepted. Good job. Bob is semi- retired. Active in the community where he in-law had twins, a boy and a girl. Their daughter is and I still are fascinated with our grandch i l d r e n , Ron had hoped to see Ken Unmacht and his wife Fer g u s o n is still active in astronomy. He teache s was President of the Lake Association and cha i r following in dad’s footsteps and will graduate from four-year-old twins (Matthew and Isabelle). By the last October but the plans changed. Ron and his sophomores this subject at the University of of the Lake Stabilization Committee. Ran into Ri c k law school in May 2003. The D. F. Pe l l e g r i n o s time you read this column I may be retired from my w i fe are taking a cruise to New Zealand in L a Verne. Also General Counsel (pro bono) for and Carol Be s w i ck and Howie We i t z m a n at a also recently had their first grandchild and cele- government job and looking for new adventures. It February and will be meeting with our New Kids Enterprises, a non-profit that seeks to Laker game. Rick is still going strong in San brated by taking a 14-day cruise to the Baltic. Do n has been a joy to be a part of the Class of ‘62 and Zealand class representative. Ah, the wonders of improve reading, writing and computer skills to low Bernadino and I might add that he hasn’t cha n g e d R o t h m a n says that he and Jim Bageman a r e
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Los Angeles has recently emerged as the nation’s epicenter for cutting-edge archi t e c t u r e done by s e a r ching for M i t ch Lathrop a n d Ed Rasch b u t wedding anniversary. He is keeping busy working On the Honor Roll D o m b r o w has a similar problem. Although his some of the brightest stars in the business. Witness the billion-dollar Getty Museum, the Fr a n k haven’t found them yet. Don is retired and teache s on the house. He practices exclusively in debt oldest daughter is 39 and working as an attorney, Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall and, just down the street, the magnificent Cathedral of Our reading to 5th graders in South Central Lo s collection and judgment enforcement, both in Charles O. Prince ’75 was promoted by his youngest daughter is a sophomore in pre-law Lady of Angels. Angeles 3 days a week. What a great way to consulting and collecting judgments. He is the C i t i g roup to lead its Salomon Smith Ba r n e y at UCS D. He says that 6 more years of tuition will Perhaps no other lawyer in the city is more responsible for helping to make such large - s c ale proj - spend some of your retirement time. J o s e p h author of the CEB Action Guide “Enforcing Civil in v estment bank and Citigrou p ’s global inves t - prevent him from retiring. He is just back from a ects a reality than O’Malley Miller, a 1976 graduate of USC Law School and a real estate attorney Sch i r a r d is another from our class who is retired Money Judgments” and lead co-author of CEB ment gro u p. Prince, who has served as the month in China and Tibet, and is still flying his in the Los Angeles firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson. (2000), (why am I still working?) He spends his Treatise “Debt Collection Practice in California, 2d co m p a n y ’s general counsel and chief operating C o m a n che about 300 hours per year. Not to Ada (Treiger) Gardiner Miller served as lead counsel for both Disney Hall and the cathedral. His A-list roster of past leisure time traveling and taking care of income Ed ” . now she has second of f i c e r , previously worked as an attorney for U.S. mention hunting (see below). He says his standard pr o p e r t y . John Wes t w a t e r , another recent retiree, grandson. Andrew Treiger is 16 months old (her 16 weeks off is expanding. Mark Fr a z i n r e t i r e d and current clients includes Amgen Corp., Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, Southern California Steel Corp. and Control Data Corp. enjoys his newly found freedom by playing golf, son’s son), and Owen Betanzos is 3 months old after 29 years in the L.A. Public Defender’s Office, Edison, the Port of San Diego and Stan f o r d University. He is past chair of the Los Angeles County traveling and working with various ch a r i t a b l e (her daughter’s son). Congratulations. She is still and was appointed last year as a referee for the Bar Association’s real property section as well as a member of the American College of Real Estat e 12/10/02. He is actually looking forward to judi- organizations. John and his wife, Chris, recently in the Los Angeles County Counsel’s Office as L.A. Superior Court, Juvenile Division. He is also Lawyers. As a result, Miller is widely re g a rded as one of the most influential real estate attorneys cial retirement in 2 and a half years. Bernie says joined my wife and me, and H u g h and Jane Division Chief of the Children’s Services Litigation t e a ching law at the University of West L.A. in Southern California. can’t believe he has been on the bench this long — J o h n s o n, on a great cruise to Alaska. We had a & Training Division. Her current expectation is to Paralegal School and spends time in the Sierra USC Law Professor George Lefcoe attributes Miller’s success to his dedication to every client. this is his second career and he is still receiving his fun trip and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. Bo b retire in Summer 2003, probably to spend more Nevadas hiking, fishing and skiing. R i ch a r d “O’Malley lives and dies for his clients,” says Lefcoe, who taught real estate law to Miller at USC. public defenders retirement. He taught a Judicial We i s s has recently made a career ch a n g e , time with her grandchildren. Eric Lodge reports he G e o r g e reports that his son, Brian, is now in his Seminar at Pepperdine University School Law, and moving his practice from the law firm of Lyon & has a grandson, Sebastian, born on 01/13/02. first year at USC Law School. Bob Harter is now his most rewarding activity as a judge is his current Lyon to Jones, Day, Reavis & Pouge. Thanks to His law firm Lodge & Heller, merged into Pro c o p i o , Senior V. P. and general counsel at RSI Holding assignment presiding over the Drug Court. He has all of you who responded to my request for infor- C o r y, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP on 01/01/02. Corp. in Newport Beach. He founded an air cha r t e r been traveling with the USC football team when mation. It is a northern San Diego county office for the firm company providing on-demand air charter services they play Colorado, Kansas, Oregon and located in Carlsbad. Gary Ottoson che c ks in with to the western states with a Cessna Golden Eagle. Judge Chris R. Conway, Class Reporter Washington. Ronald Supancic ch e cks in again a new address and a major career change. Gary No truth to the rumor that this is Dombrow’s night and we congratulate him on celebrating 41 years left Haight Brown after 33 plus years to open the job. Don McNelley reports in from Indian We l l s > Class of 1968 of marriage in 2003. He has 4 adult children, 3 L.A. office of a San Diego firm that is much smaller. where he has been in solo practice since 1996 . gr a n d c hildren ages 6 to 17. All 4 children work in See www.l a w .usc.edu/lawmag for an extended More hands on, more control of his destiny, and He currently represents customers and brokers in the entertainment industry. Ron continues to focus report on your class. It is a pleasure to be able more “fun.” He is married to Ellen Bergeron who disputes with securities firms, along with corporate on alternative dispute resolution and mediation to report on the comings and goings of our class manages Coldwell Banker Real Estate office in representation and estate planning. He has been and collaboration in divorce proceedings. Ron has as we approach our 35th anniversary. Can it really Brentwood. The kids are grown and fine. His married to Lovelace for 47 years and they have become a coast-to-coast spokesperson for the be that long? It just seems like yesterday. Anyway, campaign for the U.S. Presidency seems stalled 3 children and 7 grandchildren. He is on the <<< Miller recently took a group of USC law students from Professor George Lefcoe’s Real Estate Law co l l a b orative process in family law, appearing on course on a private tour of the new cathedral in downtown Los Angeles. Ron Barak took the time to send an article titled and he is reviewing his options. He was in Pa r i s boards of St. Margaret’s Episcopal School, FIND television and radio on behalf of the process that alumni profile: “ B u cking the Tr e n d .” Ron says he gave up the and Vienna for his wife’s birthday in Fe b r u a r y ( C o a chella Valley food bank) and Cove helps families in divorce restructure rather than O’Malley Miller ’76 model that bigger is better and is now in a solo 2002, golf in Scotland in June 2002, and a horse- Communities Senior Association. Frank Maas destroy their families (Pr o fessor Brown would practice since 2000 in the real estate and busi- ba c k trip to the Sierras over Labor Day. St e p h e n has not practiced law since 1995, and is involved certainly be proud). That is all for now, look forward ness fields and handling both transactional and S h o r e reports that his son Daniel married USC full time in managing and investing in real estate. Miller wouldn’t argue with that assessment. “To be a good lawyer,” he says, “you have to ca re to seeing you at the reunion. litigation matters. Ron now finds that he has better graduate Nonie Muse in August of 1999. Stephen He is currently president of Hillcrest Country Club, ab out your clients and rep r esent them to the utmost of your ability. You need to understand your quality time to devote to his clients and produces sold his practice to his partner effective 08/ 0 1 / 0 1 N. Mitchell Feinstein, Class Reporte r Secretary of the Jewish Federation Council of client’s business as well as their immediate goals.” the best results. The Dean as he always will be, — “free at last” — but since the change in the equity Mf [email protected] Greater Los Angeles, and Chair Emeritus of the What attracts Miller to real estate law is the intellectual challenge it offers — and the fact that Scott Bice has been taking a sabbatical earned market he is on a 5-year buyout and part time University of Judaism. He recently received a he can literally immerse himself in every project. “It’s nice to be able to see tangible evidence that for his 20 years of hard work at the Law Scho o l . work. His noteworthy awards include Outstanding > Class of 1969 doctorate Honorus Causa in Humane Letters from you’ve been along this way,” he says. “That’s sort of fun.” He has been elected to the chair in the Citizen 1994, President Lake Arrowhead Rotary the University of Judaism. His wife, Virginia, is Miller recently wrapped up one of his most high-profile projects with the opening of the Cathedral See www. l a w.usc.edu/lawmag for an extended Chancellors Club after serving as treasurer and Club, Chamber Board for 20 years, and Hospital currently President of the Board of the Beverly report on your class. Charlie Ber w a n g e r is now of Our Lady of Angels in downtown Los Angeles. The $189-million cathedral and its adjoining confer- s e c r e t a r y. He has become a life member of ALI Foundation board member. He is still playing golf Hills Unified School District. He says he plays a lot a partner at Gordon & Rees in San Diego. D o n ence center req u i r ed a great deal of complex legal wrangling. Miller not only had to contend with the and the American Bar Foundation. He also is the with a small defect in his game, just his swing. of golf, skis occasionally, and travels when he has Da v i s , who practicing out of his yacht in Marina del division between ch u rch and state — unusual for a land deal — but also needed to navigate the Judge Advocate for the Catalina Island Yac ht Club, Bernard Kamins the judge ch e cks in to tell us time. Ben “Bunky” Sch u ck reports from Santa Re y , has now opened an investment-banking firm bu r eaucratic intricacies of the Community Redevelopment Agency and the County of Los Angeles. and he also attended the law school cruise on the that his daughter Piper graduated from UC Paula that he is “blessed in all departments” and to work hand in hand with his securities law prac- “I wanted the whole thing to be bullet proo f , ” he says. “I didn’t want any kind of legal train wreck . ” Sea Dream and spent time in Provence afterward. Berkeley and his daughter Marni graduated from his life is “as good as it gets.” Bunky enclosed a tice. This was probably necessary as he has 7 Yet, for all of his success in real estate law, Miller readily admits, “I’m a lawyer — not an arch i- Ri c hard Enkel i s moved to Pasadena 2 years ago Tufts. Great school, my daughter went there too. short letter entitled “Mystery in Gila Bend” which children ranging in age from 2 to 30. D i ck tect. I have trouble decorating my roo m . ” — P.C . from Palo Alto and just celebrated his 34th He celebrated his 30th wedding anniversary describes his annual dove hunting trip with Di c k
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Do m b r o w . Stanton “Larry” Stein is on the move On the Honor Roll associate with some other talented lawyers over a San Francisco Superior Court everyday. But On the Honor Roll training definitely helps retard the aging process) again. His firm, Alschu l e r , Grossman, Stein & Kah a n specializing in business and real estate transac- for one night in April 2002 at the Beverly Hills started his own law firm (Sinnott, Dito, Moura & has moved to the Water Gardens in Santa Monica. The Honorable Jane D. Myers ’76 rec e i v ed the tions, litigation, and estate and trust work. John Peninsula Hotel, he presided over our Class She l l e y E. Reid ’80 rec e i v ed the 2002 Wom a n Puebla) in 1993. With both LA and San Fra n c i s c o He has been lecturing annually and semi-annually Judge of the Year Aw a rd in October from the and his wife, Barbara, reside on the golf course Reunion. No way could his courtroom be as light- of Ac h i e vement Aw a rd from the Wo m e n’s offices, they specialize in commercial litigation. at USC, UCLA, Stanford, Boalt, Harvard and Yal e American Board of Trial Ad vo c a t e s’ Or a n g e at Annandale and give their clubs a regular hearted as that evening’s festivities or as Business Council of the Century City Chamber Randy is a Colonel in the Marine Reserves law schools, and was, at the time of this writing, County chapter. It is the first time that an workout. No imminent retirement plans for them sentimental. Rich brags that his daughter is a of Commerce. Reid is special counsel in the awaiting probable mobilization in connection with expecting his first grandchild. Tom Walley cele- Orange County Superior Court Commissioner with this new business opportunity. S t e v e freshman playing Women’s Volleyball at Cornell en t e r tainment and new media practice of Katten the campaign against terrorism. Randy served as brated his first anniversary with his new wife, has rec e i v ed the award. Myers rec e i v ed the award Ber m a n receives the award this issue for keeping U n i v e r s i t y. No more news to report this time. Be Muchin Zavis Ros e n m a n ’s Los Angeles office. the National President of the Marine Corps Stephanie. He and Stephanie became certified for her “outstanding judicial qualities and in contact with classmates. While assigned as a sure to send me your own news via e-mail @ Reserve Officer’s Association from 2000-2002. scuba divers and spent a week diving in the British persistent efforts to pres e r ve the civil jury system Re f eree at the Eastlake Delinquency Court in Los jb a k e r @ b r i c kstoneco.com. He also has 3 great kids, the oldest of whom is Virgin Islands. His second twin recently married, and Angeles, Steve worked under the supervision of Utah 2002 law school graduate), Kate (mother of studying engineering as a freshman at Carnegie and maintain its orderly and efficient proc e s s ” in Ja c k Bak e r , Class Reporte r his new son-in-law just received his Ph.D. in organic Presiding Judge Rudy Diaz and one of his 1 and expecting another), Kelly (a senior at BYU ) , Mellon. Rob Lence and wife Ann-Marie live in Orange County. jb a k e r @ b r i ck s t o n e c o . c o m chemistry from UCI. Trav Woo d was also recently d e fense attorneys was Cynthia Cohan. Maybe Kacey (a freshman at UC Berkeley), Sam (a Rob’s hometown of Salt Lake City. Rob is currently remarried and is living in Hermosa Beach. His new they pipe in the Trojan Fight Song to speed jury freshman at Laguna Beach High School) and John General Counsel for Huntsman Company, LLC , > Class of 1972 > Class of 1981 wife, Karen, has been a professor of biology at deliberations over there! Steve says that he loves (in 6th grade) and have one granddaughter, where much of his work involves mergers and Cypress College for 30 years. Trav is still at White & Last year was of particular interest because of our judging and has sacrificed his criminal and Congratulations to Kenneth Doran on becoming M ckena. Jonathan Swerdlow has a new son, acquisitions, corporate finance and general Case doing mostly litigation involving securities and 30th Year Class Reunion – a benchmark that personal injury practice unhesitatingly. He also Managing Partner of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher! It is Al e xander Joseph, who was born on 06/ 1 4 / 0 1 . commercial matters. Rob and Anne-Marie have pr o f essional liability actions for national accounting reminds me of the success of our classmates who remarked that as a court commissioner, he will wonderful to see that the Class of 1981 is so Congratulations! Your class reporter J o h n 3 children Bryan 18, Kristen 16 and Erin 11 who firms. He also represents banks and investment have such rich and varied accomplishments. Som e receive 15% less pay and 50% less prestige than successful! Speaking of other success stories, Jameson also has news to report. The Jameson are all involved in some form of athletic endeavor. banking entities. He has been playing lots of golf, have been elevated to the bench recently and a judge. Steve has a 2-year-old granddaughter Keith Bishop was recently appointed co-chair of Group has merged with Gregg Ziskind and Bryan, who was a member of the U.S. Fe n c i n g and has recent travels to Tur k e y , Northern Italy and others many years ago. Some have toiled in the that he spoils rotten and then returns to mommy the Corporations Committee of the Business Law Associates, formerly Ziskind Greene, to form Team at the 2001 Junior Pan Am Games in Hawaii. He is also recovering from cervical spine courtrooms representing clients notorious, impov- and daddy. Steve Brown wrote from We s t l a k e Section of the California State Bar. His oldest Jameson Ziskind LLC. Jameson Kiskind LLC will Bolivia, is a freshman at Stanford, Rob and Ann- surgery in July 2002, the result of a freaky infec - erished, ordinary, guiltless, institutional, and of Village to tell me that I should keep working until daughter Katherine is a sophomore at Harvard and focus exclusively on the placement of partner-level Marie’s alma mater. He is continuing to fence with tion. I had dinner with Trav recently and he is fine, many other variations. Some have never practiced 70 plus! But he allowed as how he has been is studying Japanese. He also has a son, Paul, who lawyers and practice groups in law firms, law firm Stanford’s team and performs with the Le l a n d but it was a really scary story. As for me, Bo b law per se since graduating but have ach i e v e d dreaming about his own retirement plan that is a junior in high school and a daughter, Sara, who mergers, and the placement of in-house counsel. Stanford Junior University Marching Band Ro s e n b e r g , I am still practicing mostly real estate success in other fields of endeavor that I know would include part-time work. Steve is not running is in 5th grade. Jeffrey Th o m p s o n is Senior My daughter, Alissa, is 14 and a freshman at ( “ m a r ching” being the operative word). J e f f as a sole practitioner in Beverly Hills, although I of, including academia, telecommunications, secu- for any political office, but he pledges to stay Counsel for Tenet California in Santa Ana He is Beverly Hills High School where she is the only Kn e t s c h moved to Denver from New York a few seem to be spending more time on personal real rities, retail, farming, oil and gas, and real estate. informed. With an e-mail address, @fe d e r a l - responsible for ten Southern California Te n e t freshman on the varsity volleyball team. We also years ago and specializes in securities and estate and investment matters. Of course, that is as Some have retired. Here is to all of you, my thanks l a w.com, Steve better stay informed about more Healthsystem hospitals. He is currently building a have a son, Matthew who is 11. My wife, Kristin and mergers and acquisitions with Brownstein, Hyatt time permits from my seemingly full time employ- for your friendship. Now for some news: J e f f r e y than politics! Bud Hick s practices law in a large home in Palm Desert and plans to split his time I are so proud! and Fa r b e r. Whether they are skiing, golfing or ment as Class Reporter and Class Representative Ab e l l wrote from his family jewelry store in firm in Reno but spends much of his time in the between there and Irvine. David Dick, M i ch a e l playing soccer, Jeff and his wife Kathy are busy John B. Jameson, Class Reporte r to the Legion Lex Annual Fund. My wife Jacki e ’ s Westwood where he has been the CFO for years. Las Vegas office. He astutely observes the “velvet O’ H a l l o r a n , Margaret Mann and Angela Yat e s with their 2 active kids Caroline 9 and Matthew jb j @ j z s e a r ch . c o m business, “Babies First Class” was recently fea t u r e d Being in the retail business with plenty of family to handcuffs” of law practice: good money and rela- (aka “The San Diego Contingent”) met for their 7. Jeff’s sense of humor is alive and well. He had in the Los Angeles Tim e s . The article started: “Ju s t w a t ch the store, Jeff and his wife, Linda, began tive independence. R i chard Epstein was Bud’s annual observance of their first day of law scho o l . many of us in stitches all evening long. Beth Dunn > Class of 1982 found out you are pregnant? First, call your parents. taking retirement 20 years ago and will continue favorite profe s s o r, as if that explains his gaming Are you really sure you want to memorialize that? lives in San Diego and is a partner with the firm Then call Jackie. For if you wait until your fe t u s to do so for another 10 years. By my calculations, practice. Bud says that his primary pursuit since Ron St. John has been installed as a member of Our 20th Year Reunion was great fun! The relaxed of Butz, Dunn, DeSantis & Bingham. She special- develops so much as fingers, Jackie Rosenberg will Jeff has arranged a 30-year pace for his cycling graduation has been a wicked combination of bill- the Board of Directors of the Conference of atmosphere and beautiful evening made for some izes in employment, unfair business practices and have no room for you and your little one in ‘Babies tours and other traveling adventures. He brags that able hours and a lower golf handicap. He and his Delegates of California Bar Associations. His son wonderful memories shared with old friends. For commercial litigation although she continues to be First Class.’” My daughter, Allison, is an advertising his daughter earned a PhD 2 years ago at UCLA wi f e of 33 years, Suzette, vacation at their second Corey is an officer in the United States Navy and is those of you who were unable to attend, here is very involved on the boards of numerous San executive at Rubin Postaer in Santa Monica, and and is now the Director of Institutional Research home at Lake Tahoe and hope to spend more time currently training to be a nuclear engineer. Paul M. what some of our classmates are up to these days. Diego area non-profits. Beth and her husband her husband, Chris, is a creative director at Fox and Evaluation at Mount St. Mary’s College in Los there in the future. Tony Ko u b a says that he K a r s s e n is living in Iowa and is working for the First of all, kudos to Pau l and Ann Ch e v e r t o n fo r Peter Boermeester have 3 athletic boys, Brian 11, Sports Television. My son, Todd, is licensing and Angeles, a “gem” of a position. I was pleased to opposes the concept of retirement. He advises me Reformed Church of America Building and making the trip up from San Diego to our cele- Matthew 8 and Kevin 4, who keep them on the run special markets manager at Concord Records, and hear recently from John Ang l i n , one of the “silent from his business office in Santa Monica to keep Extension Fund. He is still happily married to his bration, notwithstanding Ann’s then impending most of the time. Jeff Sine left Morgan Stanley is in his second year at the MBA program at USC. t y p e s .” After 30 years of battling the freeways, in the game. Tony plans to work until he becomes wi f e Victoria. They have 3 children, Amanda age 14, due date. In fact, Paul and Ann’s second ch i l d after 16 years to become the Vice Chairman of I am very proud of all of them. commuting between Pasadena and Downtown, literally incapable of doing so. He is presently Elizabeth age 12, and Matthew age 9. Ross H. Ra c hel Anne, was born just days after the reunion UBS Warburg, where he continues to focus on this year John made a gutsy move and started a polishing up his 50-year plan, i.e., 2002-2052! I Pa l f r e y m a n is at Bagby Gajdos & Zachary in on 8/1/2002. Rachel joins brother Matthew in the clients in the media, telecommunications and Bob Rosenberg, Class Reporte r new law firm 5 minutes from home. He took some should think that Pat t y , his wife, would have some Santa Ana. He has been married to Claralyn since Cheverton gang. Congrats. Randy Sinnott (w h o te c hnology industries. For fun, Jeff has produced ri r @ j w b l . c o m good people from his former firm and was lucky to input on that particular plan. Ri c h Kramer pr e s i d e s 1 976. They have 6 children, Claire (University of demonstrates that regular rigorous physical several Broadway and off-Broadway plays and
class of 19 73 re u n i o n class of 19 78 re u n i o n To be held Saturday, April 26, 2003 To be held Saturday, May 17, 2003 at Shutters, Santa Monica at Davidson Center, USC Ca m p u s 34 USCLAW s p r i n g 2003 Call (213) 740-6143 for more information Call (213) 740-6143 for more information USCLAW s p r i n g 2003 35 musicals including “The Goat” by Edward Albee, On the Honor Roll & Rutter in Santa Monica. She also took over the opened his own practice in Rolling Hills Estates. On the Honor Roll in Marina Del Rey, focusing on bankruptcy law. “P rivate Lives” by Noel Coward, and “Chitty Chitty entire cover of California Law Business Charlie is making a name in mediation. S t e v e John LaVio l e t t e and David Web e r used to work Bang Bang in London” by Ian Fleming. Jeff now Peter Szurley ’85, a partner at Gna z z oThill, has (05/13/02) and got a terrific full-color glossy to Mi n d e l had a good one plastered in the June 13 Aimée Dominguez ’89 re c e i ved a De b o r a h together at Bloom, Hergott, Diemer & Cook, LLP. splits his time between NY City and San Diego been named co-chair of the uniform commerci a l boot. Kirk Lundberg apparently got tired of the Daily Journal, next to an article highlighting his Aw a rd from the Anti-Defamation League. However in October 2002, David announced the where Jeff and son Jonathan, 8, are learning to code committee of the business law section of hi g h - t e c h world at the Jay Hachi g i a n and a Bunch long-time volunteer work for the L.A. Free Clinic. The award re c o g n i zes women who exhibit formation of Offer , Weber & Dern, LLP, where he surf. Scott Dettmer has been enjoying the Menlo the State Bar of California. Szurley’s practice O’ Others law firm in Austin, TX, left the law, and He and partner Jerry Kline have just moved to a courage and leadership in professional, civic continues his entertainment practice. M a r k Park, CA law firm that he helped found 7 years concentrates on syndicated and non-syndicated, joined a client again. Now the proud papa of three, larger facility in the Wil s h i r e / Bundy area and are and philanthropic endeavors. Dom i n g u e z, a Kendall Hillman is running his own firm in Suisun ago, Gunderson, Dettmer, Stough, Vi l l e n e u v e , s e c u red and unsecured lending transactions, Kirk is the President and CEO of Tr a d e up to a firm of 8. John Lamb is still employed at senior attorney at Kaye Scholer specializing in Ci t y , CA. M. Kendall reports that he has a beautiful Franklin & Hachigian, LLP. Scott and wife Lisa securitizations and struc t u r ed finance. Tec hnologies, Inc. in Austin, TX, doing something Enron Wind Corp. News at 11. Brent Coeur- securities and commercial litigation, is a unobstructed view of Suisun Bay and Mt. Diablo have 2 kids, Monica, 11, and Grant, 9, who enjoy with international trade and large sums of money. B a r r o n is teaching a course for the Masters in member of the USC Mexican American from his office and, in addition to his legal practice, snow and water skiing and are die-hard Giants Whi c h classmate does Sp o r ts Illustrated re f er to Public Administration at Loma Linda University. Alumni Association, president of the Cub a n is past chairman of the board of directors of the cellular analysis for drug discovery, biotherapeutic Teri Pa u l fans. Sorry about the series Scott. It was just the in its 10/14/02, issue as “the ultimate guy chi c k r a cked up some major victories for American Bar Association, and co-chair of the Fa i r f i e l d -Suisun Chamber of Commerce and Angels’ year! (Note Geri’s e-mail address below.) processing and diagnostic applications. – a warm, bubbly, friendly woman you could go to Toyota Motor Credit Corp. (with a little help from completed terms of the boards of the So l a n o La t i n o - J ewish Rou n d t a b l e . We would love to hear from more of our class- ( w w w.genoptix.com). Harry got married in May the game with,” in one sentence and “the most Your Scribe), and picked up a new puppy along the County Bar Association and the Fai r f i e l d -S u i s u n mates. Please contact us with updates on your life, 2002 followed by a two-week combination busi- powerful woman in America’s most macho pro w a y. Jill Lifter keeps on winning jury trials, most Rotary Club. On the family front, Lance Gams an d children, jobs, hobbies etc. Everyone take good ness trip/honeymoon to Paris, Monaco and sport” in another? (I’m too ch i cken to ask Am y recently a wrongful death case in San Fra n c i s c o on the defendant’s — spoke at 3 seminars on labor wi f e Ellen (‘91) welcomed their second daughter, care until next time. Provence. Harry and his wife reside in Ranch o Tr a s k whether she thinks “a younger, sharper, where she actually convinced a jury that a drunk and employment topics, became co-chair of the Genna Bea, and Melissa Cohen welcomed their Santa Fe surrounded by a four-acre orange grove. meaner version of Al [Davis] – with a law degree” driver who rolled his car was responsible for being Beverly Hills Bar Association’s Labor and “second (and last!) ch i l d ,” Evan Ross. M i ch a e l Mark Frazier and Geri (Craft) Frazier, is a compliment.) Linda Louie vroooomed her way a drunk driver who rolled his car. Lyn Bes a n c o n Employment Law Section, and moved to Malibu. Bo r d y ’ s d a u g h t e r, Shayna, celebrated her Bat Class Reporters Dennis Franks, Class Reporte r to the very top of the National Fast And Loud Jets has spent 10 years working with the same firm, Maizie Whalen Pu s i ch, Washoe County Mitzvah last August — time flies! Michael continues [email protected] (Mark) de n n i s f @ f ox . c o m On Wheels Spewing Nitro Association (aka Par k e r , McKay in Marlton, NJ, on a part time basis. (Nevada) Public Defen d e r , successfully removed his practice in real estate transactions involving [email protected] (Geri) NHRA) and is now General Counsel. Check out Promising me that they are alive and well despite her client from death row. Maize also serves on the sales, acquisition, leasing, and financing of another glossy at www. n h r a . c o m / 2 0 0 2 / n e w s / the fact they never send me a return questionnaire, Board of Directors of the Nevada Attorneys for commercial real estate. Karl Lindegren s w i m s > Class of 1983 > Class of 1985 a u g u s t / 080701.html. Alan Wa s k i n h i t ched his Jerry Kline claims to have seen Noel Macaulay Criminal Justice. Andrea White was promoted competitively with his 3 eldest children. While Kar l Who says that USC Law grads all stay in Lo s See www. l a w.usc.edu/lawmag for an extended wagon to a 250 mph Indy Car. Alan is Sr. Vi c e at the local bagel joint, and Dan Carmicha e l at a to National Privacy Manager at Toyota Motor reports winning the gold medal in the 400 medley, Angeles? R i chard An g e l and his wife Shelli are report on your class. Marc Sherman is practicing President and General Counsel of Fo r s y t h e birthday party. Lori Levin-Bor c o v e r sent me her Sales, U.S.A., Inc. In the change of venue depart- he was still slower than his 13-year-old and tied happy and healthy in Boulder, CO. In late 1996 , with the McLennon Law Corp. in the San Racing, developing race tracks and casinos and new address at Barry Bartholomew & Associates. ment, Tom Larkins, general counsel of Honeywell, with his 11-year-old. Train harder, Karl! In the cate- after many years as a shareholder of Buch a l t e r Francisco area and recently returned with his 2 logging 100,000 frequent flyer miles, all the while Sharon Rhodes is now an (assistant) attorney has relocated from Minneapolis, MN to the corpo- gory of fun vacations, Marguerite Sadler and her Nemer Fields & Younger in Los Angeles, where he daughters from their cousin’s wedding, the “first having his 2 gorgeous daughters entertain Ma r k general of San Diego. Jim We b b e r, still at the rate headquarters in Morristown, N J. family traveled to France last Spring and are now practiced real estate law, Rick and his new wife left traditional Jewish wedding in Kosice, Slovakia, Mi l l e r and family in Deerfield, Ill. After designing, Seattle office of Littler Men etc., was awarded the Congratulations Tom, both on the promotion and actually thinking of moving to Provence. Ca r o l y n Southern California for Sioux Falls (That’s no typo: since the Holocaust.” Pat Geffner was accepted building and selling incredible seaside mansions “Super Lawyer 2002” award by the Wa s h i n g t o n on leaving Minnesota. Jonathan Robertson ha s Co v a u l t embarked on a sabbatical at the end of from Beverly Hills to South Dakota!). Rick took a into “Leadership VA .” She attended an in-law’s for the rich and famous in Sarasota, FL , Law & Politics Magazine. R i ch Zepfel, allegedly joined Aramark Uniform Services as Senior Vic e 2001 that, so far, has taken her throughout Asia, position with his client The Credit Store. Last year, family reunion at a spa in southern Austria. Na n c y Jacqueline Phillips and her award-winning playing roller hockey in a “real league,” is sewing President of Legal Affairs. Dave Bartholomew India and the Pacific, including stops in the after an especially cold winter, Rick and Shelli (S c hneider) Ber t r a n d o , a transactional employ- designer husband traveled to Shanghai, Beijing, the cape for Jim as you read this. If you went to the has left Keesal, Young & Logan “after 16 great Philippines, Hong Kong, mainland China, and the moved to Boulder, from which Rick is able to ment partner at Greenberg, Glusker, spent last Tokyo, and London, and then moved to Hawaii. ABA conference on Advanced Mediation years” to join UBS Paine Web b e r , Inc. Chris Kanjo S e y chelles. Her next trip is to Cuba with the telecommute and maintain his position as Th e year in the South of France and this year will be Rumor has it (and my source is not M a r t a Te chniques in San Francisco last December, has joined Breidenbach, Huchting & Hamblet, Center for Cuban Studies and the Houston Wor l d Credit Store’s Executive Vice President and in Italy. Sandra Ko s s a c o f f refuses to sit still, Fe r n a n d e z at Jeffe r, Mangels), that L o r i e maybe you saw me passing on a few of my secret where he continues his professional liability, Affairs Council. And your Class Reporter and his General Counsel. In 2003, Rick will establish his despite a now 9-year solo career handling trans- (Dewhirst) Por t e r may have wielded a hammer or mediator tricks. You can find some of my articles commercial law, and products liability practice. family had a jolly good time in London last summer, own law firm that will emphasize Colorado real actional real estate: Winter Olympics in Salt Lake two in building her new home in Santa Barbara at Mediate.com. Keep in touch. M i chael Ti d u s’ firm, Jackson, De Marco & w h i ch included a visit with J o h n and K a t h y estate transactions for California clients. Wh e n Ci t y , then Beijing, the Yangtze River and Shanghai, (her husband was the architect). In perhaps the Pec kenpaugh, has changed locales, but Micha e l Mc M a h o n and their kids, Christopher and Carrie. Mike Young, Class Reporte r he’s not engaged in high altitude endurance returning to ski this winter back in Utah. R o s a best use of a law degree I’ve heard of, L a r r y continues his land use and eminent domain prac- As the cost of a terrific dinner Kathy prepared for my o u n g @ w b c o u n s e l . c o m running or training for a marathon, Rick and Shelli C u m a r e visited China last year too, a trip that Vanden Bo s (Rolling Hills Estates Parks and tice with the firm in Irvine. And Jean Murrell our family, I was sworn not to blab about the love spending time with their 3-and-a-half-year- followed a New Year’s at the Imperial Ball in Activities Commissioner, AYSO Regional Ad a m s has opened her new law office, Adams McMahons. But I can report that they literally live > Class of 1986 old daughter Samara. From San Diego, H a r r y Vienna’s Hofburg Palace. Pam Wes t h o f f gave up Co m m i s s i o n e r , and coach of his 17th kids sports Esq., where her practice areas are representing around the corner from Abbey Road and are L e o n h a r d t reports that he’s currently Executive the Chair of O’Melveny’s national leasing prac- team) is using his meat business to feed 5 million This has been a busy year for the Class of 1986, children with special needs, intellectual property, greatly enjoying their tour as ex-patriots. Vice President of Business Development, General tice, left Kathy Sanders all alone at O&M after sc hool children a year and provide food for 2 major starting off with R oxanne Davis who, among and Internet law. Speaking of the Internet, Dana Hobart, Class Reporte r Counsel and Corporate Secretary for Genoptix, all these years (and Kathy’s none too pleased, airlines. Larry’s wife (Class of ’84’s D e b b y many other things, won 2 summary judgment according to the website of Dave Vos s ’ firm, Vos s ho b a r t d @ h b d l a w y e r s . c o m Inc., a company that specializes in laser-based Pam), and took her real estate practice to Gilchr i s t S t e g u r a) helps out Charlie Pe t e r s o n, who motions — one on the plaintiff’s side and the other & Associates, Bryan Brannan practices with Dave
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Renata Tu r n e r > Class of 1987 updates in future columns. a n d a great start. Please note that we had lots to cover firm of Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP, in Pas a d e n a , On the Honor Roll all Boeing Corp. sites out of Chicago, “are still best Deborah Cantrell were surprised and excited to in this issue, and the following has been edited and in September, she and husband Tom Jedrey of friends.” Marsha’s Suzanne, aged 28, Matthew, Linda (Oprian) Ao u a t e and her husband, see each other at the Equal Justice Conference in to meet the law school’s space constraints for the celebrated their 7th wedding anniversary. Mo l l y Pil l s b u r y Win t h r op promoted Sheri Eisner ’92 25 and Andrew, 22 are doing great. C i n d i Maurice, have adopted a baby boy named Tan n e r , Cleveland. Unexp e c t e d l y , Debby took ill and spent “hard copy” of the magazine. To see our full report, Ha n s e n recently celebrated her 4th anniversary to partner in Oct o b e r . Eisner works in the firm’s Aro n b e r g writes of “no new news,” but thanks for 1. Linda continues prosecuting criminal cases for a day at the hospital, with Renata at her side. please visit: ww w. l a w. u s c . e d u / l a w m a g . First, a big with Digital Domain, where she has been Los Angeles office as a litigator focusing on civil ch e cking in anyway, Cindi! Ed Barke t t notes a the U.S. Attorneys Office in Santa Ana. R o b e r t Debby recovered and is doing fine. M a t t congratulations to Mona Pat e l - S i ko r a , who was promoted to General Counsel and will continue to r t and business litigation, including insurance new address for his concern, Atlas Properties, in Be a l l is Head of the Business Trials Pr a c t i c e Ca v a n a u g h has received significant attention for pi c ked as one of the “20 Under 40” for her work to head up the company’s Business Affairs divi- contracts, employment matters and pro d u c t St o c kton, Ca. Ellen (Lange) Gams announces the Group for Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton. leading a “revolution” as a “maverick” member of heading up the Immigrants’ Rights Project at the sion. Lions Gate Exec Peter Block also has much liability disputes. birth of her baby girl, Genna, last Feb r u a r y , and big Robert works in the Orange County office. He and the State Bar’s board of governors. In 2002, 3 of Public Counsel Law Center in Los Angeles. Also to celebrate: the birth of his little princess Zoe, and si s t e r , Ava, now three, is doing well, too. Ellen is still his wife, Susan, have 3 children, Sterling, 6, the 4 candidates endorsed by Matt were elected doing terrific work downtown, John Nantroup ha s the opening of “Secretary” and “Grey Zone” (bot h Quinten, was diagnosed with Leukemia in August working at Amgen in areas of corporate, securities, Meredith, 5, and Hillary, 3. Perry Vi s c o u n t y i s over establishment candidates. Gwynnae Byrd joined C.A.P.O.S., the Los Angeles County District Pete pick-ups), and “The Rules Of Attraction” (a 2002. Due to the type of Leukemia he has, and and merger and acquisitions. She says S h a r i Chair of Latham & Watkins’ Global Marketing took a leave of absence from the “quagmire” of Attorney’s Crimes Against Peace Officers Section. Lions Gate production). Steve Atl e e and wife Liz the fact that the cancer was detected early, his Silverman Evans had a baby boy in October, Strategy Committee and Chair of the Litigation Sacramento politics, and spent a semester at USC Looking after our fiscal well-being, Bo y d (’93) added baby Eleanor Luisa to the family Atl e e , prognosis for a full recovery is excellent. Quinten, named Rex. Claire Goldbloom is “getting married Department and Intellectual Property and Law School this year as a visiting Clinical R u t h e r f o r d is busy making sure the General and Anne Wa n g tells us that Houston resident Lori and the rest of their family are doing very well, in a couple of weeks to a recovering lawyer turned Tec hnology Practice Group in the Orange County Pro f essor in the Pos t - Conviction Justice Pro j e c t . Services Administration’s effort to better align the Mindy (Applebaum) Sach n o w i t z h a s in large part due to the love and support of family wine tasting room manager in the Santa Cruz office. He and his wife, Mary Ka y, have four ch i l- Gwynnae says the physical facilities are “much Federal Supply Service and the Fe d e r a l announced the birth of her second son, Samuel. and friends, such as fellow alums Lisa (Janks) M o u n t a i n s .” She adds that Kristen Pe l l e t i e r dren, John, 7, Matt, 5, Claire, 2 and Will, 1. St e p h e n improved” from when we were students. L i s a Tec hnology Service will make both entities operate Sue (Odell) McGinnis’ twins just started Wa l d r e p, Sabrina (Sinser) Burton and R h e t t “continues to work crazy hours and win trials.” Bo l l i n g e r serves his country as a Lieutenant Me a d , Associate Dean and Dean of Students at more efficiently. On another financial note, Arl e n e pr e s c hool and her eldest, Katie, is engaged to be Warriner (’ 8 9). Lori writes, “This experience has Peter Gutierrez is busy with his 2 daughters, Colonel in the United States Marine Corps. He and the Law School, reports the birth of a son, Jacks o n (Blatt) Ta n s e y is at ANZ (Australia and New married in November. Tracy Dressner, who is underscored for us what is truly important in life Julia 7 and Rebecca 2. He is still “tooling away his wife, Estelle Kel l y , are the proud parents of their Gianni, in 2002. Big brother Michael is now 3 Zealand Banking Group Limited) working on the c o a ching her twin girls’ soccer team, writes, and what matters—the health of your family. at County Counsel” for L.A. County, working on da u g h t e r , Ursa, 8, who is reported to be as preco- years old. Pete Mrowka is a name partner in the restructuring of Pasminco, a large zinc miner that “Anyone who criticizes lawyers for lack of civility Everything else is secondary.” And, her important Land Use and Environmental matters. He has cious as ever. Holly Hunt enjoys her career as a law firm of Spillane & Mrowka, in Brock t o n , is in Voluntary Administration [think Chapter 11]. has never attended an AYSO soccer game. AYSO advice to other parents: “If you get a nagging been running into Paul Singarella (“we are bot h Judicial Law Clerk for the U.S. District Court, M a s s a chusetts. Tom Eck is general counsel to M i chael Po t t e r is a principal and founding soccer parents put lawyers to shame in that feeling that something is amiss with your ch i l d , working on some Clean Water Act issues related Southern District. Holly notes that in this job, she Calusa Investments, LLC, a nationwide mortgage member of Stonegate Partners. Reece Hirsch d e p a r t m e n t .” Leslie Taunele (formerly So a s h ) don’t ignore it. Follow your instincts.” Our best to all to storm water quality”). Leslie King is building a not only avoids billable hours but is also “always lender in Chantilly, Virgina. Tom and his wife has joined So n n e n s chein, Nath & Rosenthal, as Dr e s ch e r hosted a foreign exc hange student from of you, and please keep us posted! new home in Woodland Hills and moving in next r i g h t .” She and her husband, Kevin Couch, a Elizabeth welcomed a new daughter, Lauren a partner in the firm’s San Francisco office, where Ge r m a n y , who arrived September 13, 2001. The y month. She is currently working on another short Molly Hansen & Mary Ann Soden, commander in the U.S. Navy, live in San Diego. Elizabeth, in 2002. Turner Swan is general he will lead the firm’s Northern California health shared innumerable feelings as they all struggled film and still writing. David Ken d i g writes from the Class Reporte r s Gene Salomon continues to practice music law counsel to Causeway Capital Management LLC, a law practice while also doing corporate transac- together to grasp the events of September 11th. Santa Cruz County Counsel Office that he moved ([email protected]) & ([email protected]) after his move to Gang Tyre Ramer & Brown. He start-up, investment management firm in West Los tions and privacy work. The Fra n c hise Tax Board’s After enduring nearly a year of living in a “corpo- his family to Santa Cruz in last January. He writes and his wife, Danielle, have a daughter named Ella Angeles. He brags about his 1.6 mile commute. Craig Swieso and Russ Cashdan, a partner in rate housing” condo, Doug Emhoff and his family he has enough work for 3 associates “but can’t > Class of who is almost 2 years old. Kathleen Vi l l a r r u e l Eve Jaffe has retired from the practice of law and Kaye Scholer’s Century City office, were recently will be heading West and putting down more 1991 hire them!” He saw Peter Gutierrez at a county Sch n e i d e r is the Assistant Dean of the College of is now the proud owner of Garb Jaffee & ba c k at USC for on-campus interviews. Craig was, permanent roots in their newly renovated home See www. l a w.usc.edu/lawmag for an extended counsel seminar and Paul Singarella in Yos e m i t e Arts and Sciences at Santa Clara University. She Associates Legal Placement, LLC. She lives in once again, extremely impressed with the quality in the Palisades. “Just Do It” kudos to J o a n report on your class. Hello everyone. To d d last year, and “neither has aged a day since law and her husband, Pat r i c k, are the proud parents of Santa Monica with her husband Glenn and 2 of the law students he met. Back on a diffe r e n t S ch a f f n e r, who ran her first full marathon in B l o o m f i e l d reports that having a 2-year-old s chool!” Robert Madok is at Paul Hastings Ra c hel 5 and Michael 4. Please contact your class daughters. As for me, I pulled off a “managed” mid- ca m p u s , Janelle Hansen is teaching business law Washington, D.C., last October, and to S t e v e daughter and 1-year-old son “is great!” He has Janofsky & Wa l k e r. Ken Ry ke n is currently reporter at [email protected] with information li f e crisis in connection with my 40th birthday last at the College of Business Administration at Cal Bog g s , who retired from legal practice at 50, and started a new civil litigation, med mal, and personal assigned to the felony law and motion division of you would like to share with your fellow class- ye a r , taking a 2-month sabbatical with my family in State University, Long Beach, and loves it! now holds a SCCA national amateur license. In injury partnership — Rice & Bloomfield. the Alameda County District Attorney’s office and mates. a really small town at the base of the Tetons. I Geoffrey Paul Griffin is a sportswriter (under the that precious leisure time off between jobs, Ma r y Congratulations, Todd! Joe Condo has lots of was recently elected to the Executive Board of the Jon Robertson, Class Reporte r learned that hiking, biking, fishing, white-water byline “Geoff Griffin”) at St. George’s Th e Ann Soden spent a month in India and Al l i s o n news — he and wife Amy have a 9-month-old son, American Inns of Court, Earl Warren Chapter, in jr r @ D a r R o b Le e . c o m rafting, drive-in theaters and rodeos are all very S p e c t r u m in Southern Utah. In June of 2002, Ma l i n spent time in Peru. Changed forever by his H e n r y. He is Senior Counsel for Calpine Corp.’ s Oakland. Bill Scarff has seen Greg Burnight, Bo good for your mental health. Please keep sending Doug Carasso won his first jury trial, an insurance recent trip to a steam-powered brewery in Chicago office and he has a new home address in Ka e m e r l e , Jeff Coyne, Doug Fei c k, Bill Butler, Greg Nylen Paul Murphy Paul Singarella Paul Martin > Class of 1989 your updates! Best regards. bad faith case, in Orange County Superior Court. Belgium, is now building his own Park Ridge, Ill. Marsha Cooper is now teach i n g , , , Fellow litigator Amy (Del Pero) Hoff is now a brewery in the basement of his Topanga Canyon business law at CSU Long Beach, along with Dennis Wilson, Strohre LaCroix, Scott Stein, Thanks to those who replied to the most recent John N. Zarian, Class Reporte r partner in the Newport Beach office of Case, home. Sadly, not all of our news is good news this Janelle Hansen (’ 9 0). She writes that Ka t h l e e n M i ke Goldstein, Dave Rosen and Jeff Pa r ke r. questionnaire. If you have not responded recently, Jz a r i a n @ f o g z l a w. c o m Knowlson, Jordan & Wright LLP, and her family issue. Our condolences to Barbara Fitzgerald L a c e y will be a tenured professor next year and Christina Stark spotted Diron Ohanian at Buca please take a few minutes to e-mail is up by one with the arrival of Samantha Anne, who lost her spouse, Richard E. “Dick” Shoemaker, has written numerous papers that have appeared Di Bepo’s in Redondo Beach recently and says “he (J z a r i a n @ f o g z l a w .com) or write me in care of the Class of 1990 who joined brother Alec in May 2002. An n e in September 2002. Our thoughts and prayers in many law journals. Marsha and Tracey Quinn, still looks the same.” Christina is with the Child Law School, any time, so I can include your Hello Classmates! We hope your 2003 is off to Wan g is enjoying her partnership with the IP law also go out to Lori Loo, whose 4-year-old son, who works as manager for Global Compliance at Support Services Department in Torrance. Je r e m y
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M a r ch is doing very well and now specializes in dinner and reminiscences of law school and the Reno where Michael is a gaming attorney and Elizabeth Gregory >>> On the Honor Roll transportation law. Amie (Thompson) Jacoby past ten years. Dean Matthew Spitzer (‘77) began lobbyist. They keep busy with their children, twins announces the May 2002 birth of a second son, the evening with an update on the Law Sch o o l , Bret M. Di Ma rco ’93 was elected partner at Christian and Olivia, 11 and Madeleine, 9. Vic t o r Stephen, joining big brother James. She is co- and we concluded with some impromptu remarks Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Ros a t i ’s Palo Alto Ro m e r o is a professor at Penn State’s Dicki n s o n manager of the Maui County offices of the Leg a l by Pro f essor Michael Shapiro. Greg Lee mi s s e d he a d q u a r ters. DiMa r co specializes in corporate S chool of Law teaching Immigration Law, alumni profile: Elizabeth Gregory ’93 Aid Society of Hawaii. She recently filed a the reunion to vacation in Prague with his wife law for Wilson Sonsini, which rep r esents tech- Constitutional Law and related subjects. He was complaint “to recover $35,000 from one of the Dana. Greg recently purchased control of Eureka nology and emerging companies at all stages of president of the local chapter of the NAACP last on a self-proclaimed kings of Hawaii for one of our Casinos in Nevada and is a busy businessman, gr owt h . year and has been vice-president of the local senior citizen clients who was swindled — how’s husband, and father to Graham, 3 and Katie, 2. chapter of the ACLU since 1996. For those who mu s i c a l t h a t ? ” M i ke Wa l s h says his brother has joined Raj Tan d e n obtained his LL.M. from NYU in 1996 missed the reunion, we hope you can make it to jo u r n e y him in running a three-attorney firm in Santa Ana. and is a tax partner at Morrison & Foerster in LA. ye a r . Mi k e Hoffman is a labor and employment “15” in 2007 or “20” in 2012. “W e’re working closely with Robert Skripko (‘ 90 ) Marlane Melican flew in from New York with partner at Littler Mendelson in San Fr a n c i s c o . Mi c helle (Nuszkiewicz) Blum, Class Reporte r trying civil cases and having fun doing it.” Ada m husband Nick Brountas and son Charlie, 1. Th e Mark Mitch e l l worked for the Writers Guild of Elizabeth Gregory ’93 decided to become an entertainment attorney after an R.E.M. concert in Durham, mb l u m @ j o n e s d a y. c o m We r g e l e s is now VP of Operations at Concord same week Marlane found out she was pregnant, America for 6 years, lived in Buenos Aires for 1 N.C. Or, more pre c i s e l y, she chose that ca reer path after a fateful meeting with the ro ck band’s Law School, “the nation’s first online law scho o l . she made partner at Davis, Polk & Wardell. Ben y e a r, and now works for the American Guild of ma n a g e r , Jefferson Holt. Backs t age after the show, Holt told her if she wanted to get into the music > Class of 1993 It is a subsidiary of Kaplan & The Wa s h i n g t o n F i s h m a n and family moved back to So u t h e r n Musical Artists, the union representing performing in d u s t r y , getting a law degree would do wonders. Po s t .” Melissa Balaban We r g e l e s writes from California the day before the reunion to take a artists in classical song and dance. Mark also See www. l a w.usc.edu/lawmag for an extended So she went on to earn her degree from USC Law School. Tod a y , Gregory runs her own enter- Santa Monica that she and Adam “are in the job in-house with Countrywide. Bill Flevares spent 2 weeks in Lima, Peru representing the report on your class. Are you getting psyched for tainment law practice in an office above a guitar shop in Nashville, Tenn. During her 10-year care e r , process of tearing down their house that is made the trip out from Ohio where he recently family of an American political prisoner during her our 10th year law school class reunion coming she has worked with bands and artists such as Jimmy Eat World, Jewel, Stone Temple Pilots, Tool and in f ested with toxic mold and building a new one.” joined a small firm and is a probate/estate and terrorism retrial in Peruvian court. Sheri Por a t h up later this year? Here’s the latest scoop on your Hank Williams III. As a young attorney in the Santa Monica law firm of Stein, Kahan & Rosenberg, she She is still a human resources consultant with j a ck-of-all-trades lawyer. Bill now has run and her husband Marshall Rockwell had a baby classmates. Mo n i k a Arb o l e s has set up shop on even helped defend Madonna in a lawsuit brought by three dancers who accused the singer of Employment Practices Solutions, “loving it but marathons in 28 states. Harvey Rochm a n is a liti- girl, Lily, last February who joins brother Jacob, 3. her own, advising management on employment- violating their privacy by including footage in her documentary “Truth or Dare” that revealed their working too hard.” She notes that Mi c hele Milner gation partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips in LA Sheri Flame Eisner is a litigation partner at related matters. Elizabeth Atl e e gave birth to her sexual orientat i o n . is now working with her at EPS and that it is “great with a focus on the healthcare industry. Harvey Pillsbury Winthrop in LA handling everything from third daughter, Eleanor Luisa, on Sept. 21. Af t e r Gr egory’s current roster of clients runs the musical spectrum, from an old-time bluegrass band to have her as a colleague.” (Melissa is now and wife Joan are enjoying their inquisitive coverage to toxic tort to false claims act cases. a 3-month maternity leave, Elizabeth will return to a classical pianist to a hard ro ck group that makes “nearly unlistenable noise.” And, one of her working at USC; see story on Page 6.) Vi c t o r daughter Sadie Anne, 1. Tracy Cahill and her She and her husband Jeff have two little ones, a to her in-house position at BP, where she son 3-and-a-half and a daughter, 6. Phil Wy e l s clients is Jefferson Holt, who now operates a small rec o r d label. Ro m e r o is Pro f essor of Law at Penn State — the husband Tim have a son John, aka “Cooka”, 1. manages litigation. Bill Be r n e r is now the is Assistant Chief Counsel at California’s Wa t e r For Greg o r y , the joy of working with musicians comes from playing a part in their success. Unlike D i ckinson School of Law. He sent digital shots Dianne Costales and her husband Matthew Assistant General Counsel for Nike in Oregon. Bill Resources Control Board in Sacramento. Phil and many entertainment attorneys, she will try to secure rec o r d deals for promising clients. of his and wife Corie’s son Ryan and new baby Haines should have a new baby by the time you married Laura Barrett at a winery in Santa Yu e z his wife Terri have a baby girl, Kenda, 1-and-a-half. “It feels good to open an album that I really like and have my name on it,” she says, “or to have Julia, who arrived this summer from Manila. By the read this. Alan Finke l works for Quick S a n i t y and then honeymooned in Tu s c a n y, where the Robert Skor p i l has had a busy work life — taught thousands of people in an arena screaming in support of your client.” time you read this, I will be out of my foot cast, developing technology and software to improve couple imbibed more world-class wine. (I also Humanities at UT of Dallas, worked briefly for “Dr. Of course, the job isn’t all glitz and glamour. Gregory has to deal with demanding, sometimes having broken my foot in a silly spill down some l i fe — programs to assist in stress management, spent 2 weeks in Tuscany and other parts of Phil” McGraw, acted in a few plays, had a guest Heidi Binford im m a t u r e, artists, label executives, business managers and music publishers. stairs. I am learning how we should not take the workplace productivity and emotional well-being. Northern Italy last fall.) was made simplest things for granted — like good balance, He and his wife Kimberly have a daughter Emma, appearance on “The Simpsons,” played in a fe w partner at Greenberg. Glusker on 01/01/02, and “Y ou get a unique glimpse into America when you deal with people who get so much money, fame and a working right foot! Take care, all of you! 1-and-a-half and son Ethan, 4. Mi c helle (Abe n d ) bands — and currently is an IT manager for an a year earlier ushered in the millennium by and attention so quickl y ,” she says. “It’s very difficult not to be seduced.” Ba u m a n remains with Universal — Vice Pre s i d e n t international ISP company. He and his wife Sarah marrying Michael Beeman on New Year’s Eve. Jo e But Greg o r y , a self-described “misfit,” hasn’t been seduced by her proximity to excess. In 1999, Terri Villa-McDowell, Class Reporte r of Labor Relations — but moved from the motion have a beagle named “Stuey.” Jon Loeb e n j o y s C h i has taken an in-house position as Director she moved away from Los Angeles to the tamer milieu of bluegrass country. She keeps a small stab l e vi l l a m c d o w e l l @ e a r t h l i n k . n e t picture/television side to the theme park side. She recruiting as the hiring partner at Alsch u l e r of Legal Affairs with Exult, Inc., a business process of clients with whom she works very closely, and she doesn’t even have business card s . job-shares, allowing her to work 3 days a week Grossman in LA, and is getting used to the firm’s outsourcing company. He also is working on a “I don’t think I have the right personality to be a lawyer,” she jokes, “but I’ve found a way to work > Class of 1992 and giving her some extra time to spend with great new Santa Monica offices. Tim Shattuck MBA from UCLA and running after his 1-year-old the way I want and to have the lifestyle I want.” — P.C . For those of you who could not attend our 10-year husband Scott and boys Alex, 4 and Logan, almost still is a commercial litigator in Sioux Falls and da u g h t e r , Amanda. Bret DiMarco, his wife Tif f a n y , reunion at the Ritz-Carlton Marina Del Rey last 2. Mark Fal l spotted Reynolds Cafferata at the married Melissa Schmaus last April. Roy Restivo and 3-year-old daughter Kyra have a new addition: Oc t o b e r , you missed a really good time. Thanks to airport last summer. Kristin Escalante is a liti- is in the entertainment industry — but not as a Evan Clarke DiMarco, born April 15. Last summer, our reunion committee — Lei Lei Wang Ekvall, gation partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson in LA. lawyer — and was the former head of sche d u l i n g the DiMarcos vacationed in Hawaii for a week of want to make the honor roll? Dave Fa l i s z e k, Karen Fe l d, Greg Lee, An n e - She and her husband Greg have a daughter for Playboy TV. Robin Web b practices insurance family bonding. Scott Dodd is working as a staff Marie (Funk) Reader, Audry Rohn and R a j Isabella, 7. As president of California Wo m e n coverage and home owners association defen s e attorney for Chief Justice Andon L. Amaraich of Send information about your recent achievements to Ta n d e n — about 50 of us enjoyed a low key Lawyers, Belynda (Bridgeland) Reck w a s work at Grant, Genovese & Baratta in Irvine. Supreme Court of the Federated States of ma g a z i n e @ l a w. u s c . e d u or fax to (213) 740- 5 476. evening of cocktails, the group photo, a nice quoted often in the legal press during the past M i chael Al o n s o and his wife Christina live in Micronesia, a remote tropical Pacific Island of
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Pohnpei. Scott is engaged to Egilove Tikoi, who Canadian Provincial Premieres. While Chris and office and is practicing family law. He’s having a is still litigating away at Latham & Watkins. Vin c e On the Honor Roll Dispute Resolution. Charles Djou’s Seat in the te a c hes English at the College of Micronesia, and Kim Simi (working full-time writing feature film fantastic time and was just voted best attorney in He r r o n continues to work for Latham & Wat k i n s , Hawaii State House was eliminated through re- is planning a wedding in Fiji. Andrew Douglas projects) still live in Pacific Palisades, Chris (and Santa Barbara County. Ken has not had a vacation and he and his wife recently had a baby bo y. Peter Afrasiabi ’97 and Chris Arledge ’98 le f t districting, but he’s currently running for the joined Richardson & Harman, a boutique trial law Kim, if she can get away) travels for business to in 6 years, however. Dawyn Harrison w a s Melanie (Lowery) Pau l s e n and her husband had O’ Me l v eny & Mey ers to start their own litiga- Honolulu City Council. Chris Johnson will be firm in Pasadena. Rebecca (Berg) Downing ha s Europe about 3 months a year, primarily working promoted to supervisor of 20 attorneys at the a baby girl, Violet Metta. Melanie is still with Disney tion boutique in Orange County. The new firm, graduating from Berkeley’s Haas School of accepted a position as General Counsel for in London, Paris, Rome, Madrid, Cannes, and County Counsel Office, Child Services Division. and her husband just sold his first script! S c o t t Turner Green Afrasiabi & Arledge, handles civil Business in May of 2003 and Krista Stevenson Landmark Healthcare, Inc., a complementary Mu n i c h. David Pen d l e t o n welcomed their fourth Dawyn was engaged to be married on August 2, Pea r s o n and wife Ni c o l e (‘95) had their second litigation matters, particularly business disputes. is currently practicing with Littler Mendelsohn in alternative care managed care company in child, David Alexander Pendleton II, on June 1 — 2003, to Lee Gather, a television producer. Ale x boy recently, David Ethan. Gregory Shanfeld i s The firm hopes to fill a niche in the legal San Francisco. Mark DeAng e l i s currently resides Sacramento. The new job allows Rebecca to work an additional volunteer to help David as he B a u e r was recently promoted to Director of with the Price Law Group, and he and his wife community by offering top-notch legal servi c e s in Chicago and is producing 2 films as Pre s i d e n t 3 days a week and spend time with 2-year-old campaigns for his fourth term in the Hawaii House Employee Relations at the Department of Child have two kids, Ethan and Chloe. Sylvia Smith- to middle-market companies. Afrasiabi also is an of Eliezer Films in addition to building a new da u g h t e r , Julianne. Rebecca is also on the Board of Representatives. Don Poo l formed the law firm Support Services (formerly a division of the DA’s H u b e r is with HBO. Sylvia and her husband adjunct professor of law at Chapman Uni ve r s i t y ch a r i t y, the Jewish American Foundation for the Eric Ho D a n a of Directors of the Chemical Dependency Center of Powell & Pool, representing creditors office). has his own law office, specializing recently had a baby girl, Kylie Fallon. Law School. Advancement of Humanity (JAF AH). Mark spent for Women, a Sacramento-based non-profit throughout central and northern California with in intellectual property. John Jensen started a law Tre i s t e r is with Munger Tolles & Olson. He and his 1 month in Israel in solidarity with the Israeli organization. Bob Dugdale reports that he offices in Fresno, San Jose, and Sacramento. partnership, Roberti Jensen with David Roberti w i fe, Toi, recently had a baby bo y, Jackson, who is moving from the Domestic Violence Unit of the people. Meg Lomenzo also resides in Chicago married Kathy Marelich. Elizabeth Rose Fe f f e r Terry Pr i c e ’ s son, Will Russell, was born on (Class of ‘64), formerly President pro tem of the joins sisters Olivia, Natalie and Alexandra. Cu r t i s L.A. City Attorney’s Office to the Child Abuse Unit. and is practicing with Katten Muchin. An i t a was appointed City Attorney for the City of Lom i t a 07/2 7 /02. David Rowe is practicing immigration California Senate. John and his wife have one chi l d H o l d s w o r t h is a litigation partner with Smith, She joins Rod Castro-Silva, who works in the ( G r u e t t ke) Yo r k lives in San Clemente, while and also appointed to her firm’s personnel l a w. Charlette (Pugh) Ta l l celebrated the birth and one on the way. Armenak Kavcioglu st a r t e d Ellson and Harraka in Irvine. He and wife Jorjie Major Crimes Section, and Greg Lesser, who is further up the coast Chris Ait ke n practices with committee. Susan (Hansen) Fox has been the of her first child, Sidney Tall IV. David Wan g jo i n e d his own firm, Raisin & Kavcioglu and has one son have 3 children, Chris, Tyler and Madison. Everyone now a Federal Prosecutor in the Criminal Division. his father in Orange County and keeps active as a Associate Director of the UCS D Office of Planned Or r i c k, Herrington & Sutcliffe and will continue to with wife, Ka t h y. The Kavcioglus are ex p e c t i n g with kids, don’t forget to bring them to Child’s Play, Rod and his wife just bought a house on the board member of a domestic violence shelter Giving for the past year. Elizabeth Gregory specialize in the litigation, licensing, and procure- another child in January. Lee Kol o d n y is with Akin Lorna Hennington’s business in Westwood. In Westside while Greg encourages his classmates (Laura’s House). Chris just welcomed his second opened her own law offices in Nashville and one ment of intellectual property. Kelly Allegra Wei l Gump and recently married Kristine. M i t ch e l l memory of my mother, I close this column with a to use their legal skills to put bad guys away, but child Jack. Tony Christopoulos was married to of her clients, Jimmy Eat World, has sold over 1 had her first child, Allegra Rose Weil, 3/31/02. La n g b e r g is with Stroock and recently celebrated plea to each of you to enjoy your lives and love the says that the salary cut makes him feel like he’s Lynnette Avaness in October of 2001 and is million units of its debut album on DreamWo r k s After a four month maternity leave, Kelly has his one-year wedding anniversary. Dara (Caplan) people in them, because our time here is not doing pro bono work. Greg’s daughter, Caroline, General Manager of the software development Records (see story on Page 40). Jeff Gross ha s returned to work part-time at Wolf, Rikkin & M a r i a s continues to work from home in Las pr o m i s e d . was born in November of 2001. And most team at CyberU, Inc. Jill Rohlfs relocated to L.A. joined Burbidge & Mitchell in Salt Lake City and Shapiro, where she practiced for the last 8 years Vegas as an independent contractor and as a from Menlo Park and is still practicing with Lorna D. Hennington, Class Reporte r re c e n t l y , Mi c hael Wei s b e r g celebrated the birth obtained a $20 million jury verdict in a patent in the real estate/homeowner association depart- mom. Elizabeth Murphy is an employment lawyer Sheppard Mullin. Last, but not least, J a ke Stein lo r n a d h @ s b c g l o b a l . n e t of his new son, Elliot, on 09/26/02 (8 lbs, 12 oz). infringement case in January 2002. Lisa Hatton ment. Paul Windust welcomed his second at Buchalter and loves it. Elizabeth was on the Tim Lee (the Vanilla G) remains single and is still became a partner at Boldra, Klueger & Stein, a tax H a r r i n g t o n was expecting a baby girl in d a u g h t e r, Kayla Elizabeth, born on October 7. cover of L.A. Lawyer in November 2001 and able to watch 14 hours of college football every boutique with offices in Century City and > Class of 1996 No v e m b e r . As a result of a law firm merger, Tom Thank you again for your contributions. Lo o k i n g recently bought a home in the Hollywood Hills. Saturday (I’m not kidding), although he concedes Woodland Hills. H o p k i n s is now with Sheppard Mullin. Be v e r l y forward to catching up with all of you at the Peter Corbell is working at a capital investment Now that we’ve been out of school for about 7 that the other 6 days a week he’s steadily devel- John Rosat i , Class Reporte r Jo h n s o n is expecting her second child in Feb r u a r y reunion on Sept. 20. firm in Hermosa Beach. Stevie Pyo n is still with years, I see that a lot of you have settled down and oping an understanding of such terms as “emerald jr o s a t i _ 2 0 0 0 @ y a h o o . c o m and moved to a bigger house in Coto de Caza. DirecTV and was promoted to Assistant General are starting to raise a family. With so many alums Diane Arkow Gross, Class Reporte r c u t ,” “clarity”, and “platinum.” Additionally, he is James Kim was promoted from Senior Counsel to Counsel. Stevie, M i ke Ludwig and R o b e r t having kids in the last year, I don’t know where to developing child-rearing skills by constantly baby- Di a n e . G r o s s @ EE OC . g o v > Class of 1997 Executive Counsel at Disney and he and his wife S t u r g e o n (’95) recently traveled together to begin. OK, since Andrea (Mellon) McNamara sitting his girlfriend’s dog. Steve Harris is a little Bethanne had their first child, Brandon. St e p h a n i e Colorado for a Trojan football game. L o u i s was the only one to include a personal note with bit further along as he will be getting married to We had a great time at our 5th Year Reunion on > Class of 1994 (Stenger) Montgomery visited Los Angeles S a l m i n a opened a new law office, Doheny and her questionnaire, she gets to go first. Andrea was Stephanie Sasaki and honeymoon in Australia. 07/2 7 /02 at Sam’s by the Beach in Santa Monica. twice this fall. Keith Newburry was recently Career advancements: Peter Binkow became a Salmina, in San Diego. Mark Shpall recently left married in July of 2000 and had her first bo r n Jo a n n and Pat r i c k Rezzo were married in August Dean Matthew Spitzer, Assoc. Dean Lisa Mead, promoted to General Counsel of Honeywell’s name partner at Glancy & Binkow, specializing in the practice of law to pursue a career as a high (Madeleine) in October of 2001. She is currently of 2000 in Maui and reside in San Diego. C h r i s Pr o fessor Michael Shapiro and others from the Hardware Products Group, a $400 million busi- class action litigation. Eric Geismar is Vi c e sc hool teache r . Baby News: Daniel Aya l a and his “retired” and is now a full-time mom. Tripp Dunn, R o y and his wife Lisa (Shaw) Roy c e l e b r a t e d Law School participated. A tribute was given to the ness headquartered in Arizona. Chris Ottinger President and General Counsel at Medtronic wi f e Na n c y (‘95) recently had their first child, son who I had the pleasure of running into while in their 3rd wedding anniversary in Hawaii and reside late Dean Jerry Wil e y . And some traveled from as is Senior Vice President of Business Development Minimed Inc. in Encino and was recently appointed Daniel Antonio. Dan has his own firm in Las Veg a s , Tuscaloosa, AL, on Labor Day weekend of 2001 in Memphis. Chris works for the NLRB and won far away as New York to be there. It was a good and Co-Production at Paramount Television, where Director of Economic Alliance of the San NV . Laura (Pouratian) Emouna is the mother of ( UCLA: 20, BAMA: 17), welcomed his new his first trial earlier this year. Brenda (Ko s m a ) time. Some specific developments involving our he’s launching a string of Western cable ch a n- Fernando Va l l e y. Former Class President D a r o n Mielle Layla and is back to work part time in New daughter Megan into the world in July of 2002. R a d m a ch e r and her husband Dan celebrated classmates are as follows. Carl Be v e r l y w a s nels around the world and producing “The Dead Wa t t s is now a partner at Sidley, Austin, Brown York. Lorin Engquist and wife Angelica have a Laura (Braunwald) Finklestein has a 2-year-old their 5th wedding anniversary last year and took a promoted to Senior Vice President, Drama Zone” television series on USA Networks. Chris & Wood. Betty Downing is still with Smith baby boy named Chasen Paul. Lauren is in his 9th son (Zach) and is currently practicing with Allen short weekend trip to June Lake (they even saw a Programming, at Universal Television in frequently appears on panels discussing television Kaufman, a political law firm. Betty has spoken at year at Ernst & Young. Mark Finkel s t e i n and wife Matkins in Irvine. Karen (Tebelekian) Philips wa s bald eagle). Brenda was named “Senior Counsel” September 2002; Katherine Black m o n - S o l i s and film production and last year served on a panel several conferences with classmate J o h n La u r a (‘ 9 6) are the parents of another boy , Joshua married to her husband Paul in March of 1997 and at her firm last year and has been appointed to the and her husband were expecting a baby girl (Lyd i a with Prime Minister Jean Cretien and the Pom e r a n z . Kenneth Fre e l a n d opened his own Ma t t h e w . Brother Zach is now 2 and a half. Mark now has 2 children: Alexandra and Nicholas. Kar e n California State Bar Committee on Alternative Elliott) in February 2003; Joe Brock is in cha r g e
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Arl e d g e Heather Hersh H a l e y of developing Southern California business for his started Tur n e r , Green, Afrasiabi (‘97), & in Irvine. married Dr. Wen Ho Lee Bell, Abbott, Fleming & Fitzgerald. Should we time with their daughter Bess; and to > Class of 20 0 0 Sunnyvale-based firm; Nancy Conroy lives in Arledge in Costa Mesa. Chris, you have along way (just kidding). Heather did say she got married, but expect Dhillon, Dellecker & Morris soon? L i s a Ledgard Karish and husband Marc Karish. Marc Me xico and is running the Gringo Gazette ne w s - to go to catch up with Pa t r i ck, but 1-year-old not to whom. Heather is still working on Dr. Lee ’ s ( N i cholas) Neal married husband Brad in July is practicing IP law and representing a CIW inmate In the past, I have demonstrated why we are the paper (which can be viewed on-line at Baylee and another on the way is a good start. case, and volunteers at USC as a Moot Court 2001, practices business and IP litigation at Rutan in her parole hearings and Haley is taking time off brightest and most impressive class in USC Law ww w .gringogazette.com); Ri c hard Davies se r v e s Andrew Asch has left Fubright Jaworski for KMZ judge, and for mock interviews. Janet Hurdle i s & Tuc ker and is a volunteer at the Orange County to be with their son Michael. Our class is spending Sc hool’s history. Now, I shall demonstrate why we as general corporate counsel to emerging-growth Rosenman in L.A. Staci Blevins left the practice now Janet Hickson. Janet, do tell us more. Ch r i s Children’s Museum. Karen Keating (Martinez) is time educating and serving in the community. are the coolest class in school history, and, I will do and medium-sized companies in New York; Jo h n of law for law enforcement as an LAPD Po l i c e L a l is with O’Melveny & Myers. Hey Chris, seen also working at Rutan & Tu cker and is getting Brietta Clark is teaching corporations and health so in your own words. First, Mi k e Backs t r o m , wh o F i l i p p o n e became a father in May 2002; O f f i c e r. Staci recently celebrated a commitment any ’98 alumni around there who haven’t reported married in May 2003. Dina (Sayegh) Doll, an law at Loyola Law School and is a volunteer at recently moved to Howrey’s Century City office, Stephanie Fo r m a n and her husband, Stuart, ceremony with her domestic partner (an LAPD in? Sheila Recio is one heck of an attorney and associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutch e r, married HI V / A IDS Legal Services Alliance. M i ch a e l but, more importantly, “spent two weeks taking recently moved to Thousand Oaks, CA, where she sergeant). When she’s not working on campaign an even better woman. Sheila gave birth to iden- husband Greg in 2000. Mary Rabinowitz i s O ’ H a r a earned awards as the Shakespeare depositions in Thailand. That makes me cool.” practices civil defense litigation; Diana Iket a n i wi l l finance for the State, Natalie Bo c a n e g r a i s tical twin boys 02/28/02. Welcome aboard Luc a s working at Knee, Ross & Silverman and is getting Festival Los Angeles Volunteer of the Year 1999 Certainly it does, Mike. But does it make you as run her second marathon in Honolulu, HI, in throwing wild Halloween parties at old Hollywood and Alejandro. Maria Ronch e t t o is now Maria married in May 2003. Daniel Houser and wife and Humanitarian of the Year – Project Angel cool as Julie Buchw a l d , who recently took a job December 2002; Carlos Jaramillo and fiancé, hotels. Donna Carlson loves her work at the San Harrington at White & Case. No details as of yet, Shawna moved to Seattle to set up shop after Food 2001. Abby Dees is a staff attorney at the with the Mayor of Los Angeles as a Policy Analyst Laurel, are engaged to be married in 2004; Ja m e s Bernardino County Health Counsel – Dept. of but I know her husband Frank is one heck of a working at the Silicon Valley Law Group in San Corrections HIV Education and Law Project in for Public Safety? As Julie says, “I never thought R u t t e n and his wife, Nancy, are expecting their Health & Human Services/Dept of Children’s fantasy basketball coach. First year in the league Jose. Monique Fu e n t e s is doing general West Hollywood and Co-President of the Les b i a n I would learn so much about cops.” An arresting first child in May 2003; Melissa Stack is pursuing Services. Donna’s daughter, who visited us in first and he is already 4-0. Jon Rodrigue w a s commercial litigation at Ross, Dixon & Bell and and Gay Bar Association. Lydia Lee is making point, Ms. Buchwald. Since networking and pro an MFA in screenwriting at USC’s film sch o o l ; year classes, saw the errors of our ways and expecting his second child 12/16/02. Jon has recently won a pro bono case to get dental bene- time to mentor a parolee through the Volunteers in bono cases are cool, Julie, maybe you should talk Karina Sterman and her husband John Goode recently enrolled in medical school at the gone in-house as counsel for a publicly traded fits for a terminated employee. R i ch Chacon Parole Program while doing real estate transac- wi t h Vanessa Eisemann, who is busy with, inter had a baby boy (Milo) in December 2001 and University of Washington. Christina Checel jo i n e d REI T. Pa t r i ck spotted David Rodriguez at L.A. represented Angelyne and football star Jim Brown tions at Baker & Hostetler. John Dietrich alia, a pro bono case in which she is “representing Karina chaired her first bench trial this year; Ka t h i the Long Beach City Attorney’s office practicing City Information Te chnology and Board of in his solo practice, while taking numerous pro represents school districts for Atkinson, Anderson, a prisoner with a police excessive force claim.” Also McNamara Tom ch o practices real estate law in l a bor and employment law, and has added Information Te chnology meetings working for bono cases. Did you catch the Daily Journal Loya, Ruud & Romo and passed the Nevada Bar cool through public service is Amy Fr i e d l i, who Atlanta, GA, and she and her husband, Rick N i cholas (9/9/01) to her legion of Isabel and McClain-Hill Associates. Cristina Rodriguez- feature on Rich in October 2002? Nancy Morgan in 2000. Ken Firtel is a transactional associate at spends some nonworking hours overseeing publi- Tom c ho, have 2 children, Morgan 4 and Preston 3; J a ck. Pa t r i ck Collins is heading the financial Ri o s looked stunning on Halloween as the queen is litigating for Coudert Brothers in L.A. after O’Melveny & Myers and was recently honored as cations for the Junior League of Orange County John Vet t e r l i now works out of Sidley Austin’s Los analysis of the cable renewal and rate regulation of pain and pleasure. Cristina is at Sheppard Mullin finishing her clerkship in Houston. An t h o n y the Public Counsel Homeless Prevention Pro j e c t and serving on the Board of Directors for the Boys Angeles office following the destruction of the process for L.A.’s Information Tec hnology Agency. in Santa Barbara but spends a lot of time in L.A. Val e n z u e l a is practicing at Filice Brown Essa & Volunteer Attorney of the Yea r . The business world and Girls Clubs of Garden Grove. Coolness firm’s World Trade Center office in New York (we Pat r i c k has spent the last 2 years raising his family, David To b e n k i n starts at FERC when he gets Mc L eod. The Class of ‘99 is clearly working hard is not without our collective talents. M i ch a e l through government comes from Elisa Montoya, are particularly grateful that John, his wife, Sarina, c o a ching football, and running Collins Financial b a ck from his trip to Guatemala, Honduras, and to put good people in government. C h r i s t o p h e r Fa u v e r was named one of the Pacific Co a s t who is in D.C. working for Senator Harry Reid of and their son, Colin, are safe and well); D a r c e y Se r v i c e s . Mark Fos t e r married Tiffany Fuller June Costa Rica. We all hope David uses his investiga- S h a r p e works at the L. A. County Pu b l i c Business Ti m e s’ “40 Under 40” top up and Nevada and handling his Latino Outreach policy, Wo n g and Wilson Lee will be married in 2001 and is expecting a daughter March 2003. tive skills on FERC’s rapid response unit to help De f ender’s office. Fred Thi a g a r a j a h is a Deputy coming business leaders in the California central Tel e c o m / Te c h policy “and whatever else they S e p t e m b e r, 2003; and Tiffany Ta i will be a What happened to waiting to be surprised on reverse, or at least prevent a CA energy crisis from District Attorney in San Jose and a volunteer tutor coast counties. Chris Hopkins left Simpson throw my way!” There is no doubt that entertain- member of Wong’s wedding party, as a bridesmaid. delivery day? In between complex commercial real ever happening again. David Willingham g o t for the Emergency Housing Consortium. Ba b e t t e Th a t cher & Bartlett to be in-house counsel for ment law is cool, so Eric Galen qualifies for Feel free to send me any updates during the year estate transactions Mark hopes to travel as much married September 1998, had his first child Emma H u l e y also still loves being a Deputy District Platinum Equity and was appointed to the Citizens’ ultimate coolness as he was, “co-counsel on a at [email protected]. as possible before his kid arrives. John Fr a ke r in March ’02, and moved to the U.S. At t o r n e y ’ s Attorney and serves as a volunteer alumni mentor Advisory Council of the MTA, while Matt Wei n is Mariah Carey copyright infringement case, which opened his own practice, Ainer & Fr a k e r, in San office May ‘01. Oh yeah, Dave is still claiming he at UC Irvine. Kenneth Ball is an Assistant in-house counsel at Amgen Corporation in we won on summary judgment.” (Winning is cool.) Mark Watkins, Class Reporte r Jose, specializing in tax and estate planning, and plays basketball. Just in from Honolulu is a report Command Judge Advocate and Special Assistant Thousand Oaks and engaged to be married in Also, Mr. Galen is the co-founder of Flow Music mw a t k i n s @ s h e p p a r d m u l l i n . c o m charitable giving strategies. Under threat of that Dee Won g is working on real estate transac- U.S. Attorney at the Naval Base in Point Mugu, and April. Sean Be s s e r, founder of match A BLE . n e t , Production, LLC, a production and artist develop- slander Mark Gustafson divulged he is with tions and estate planning while also serving as Andrew Stolper is a federal prosecutor at the U.S. an on-line dating service for disabled persons, is ment entertainment company. As we can all agree, > Class of 1998 White & Case, that he married Luann 3 years ago, Director of the Hong Kong Business Association Attorney’s office. Jeffery Nielsen works in the getting an MBA at UC Berkeley. Evosport maintaining the integrity of the profession is a cool Graduate law school, join a big firm, get married, and he now has 8 children (just kidding). K i a of Hawaii. government relations and antitrust litigation at (w w w .evosport.com), founded and lead by Br a d l e y undertaking, so this article would be incomplete and have a baby. Yep, that “Things To Do by For t y ” H a r r i s is now Kia Birdsong and claims she has Manatt & Phelps. There are also some new faces Ot o u p a l i k , became #2 in its market in less than without mentioning Natalia Greene, who works at Pa t r i c k Collins, Class Reporte r list is getting shorter and shorter. Z e e s h a n found her thrill, marrying long time beau Corey in to welcome. Chris Eastland is doing business 2 years. Ryan Owens is representing companies Garrett & Tul l y , a firm that “defends attorneys and pa t r i ck . c f s @ v e r i z o n . n e t Ahm e d i is with Latham & Watkins and exp e c t i n g a lovely ceremony (assuming since she sent no transactions at O’Melveny & Myers. He and wife at Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, doing mergers and accountants sued for legal and profe s s i o n a l a second child in March ‘03. David Al m a r e z pictures) on the island of Maui, and prosecuting Trista are expecting their second child in April. acquisitions, securities and IP transactions. We ma l p r a c t i c e . ” Power is cool, that’s why we’re proud > Class of 1999 p i cked his head up from work to let us know he felony trials for the San Francisco DA’s office. Congratulations are also in order to M i ck i a n d hope to get an update from the rest of the class of Frances Campbell, who has moved to is at Hamburg, Hanover, practicing business and Remember the Fred & Nancy Hasani show from We have much to report for the Class of 1999 . Ben King on the birth of their son Nathan; to ne xt time. Randolph & Associates and is “‘managing’ the civil real estate litigation. Dave married in 1998, and in law school? Well, the show has moved from Menlo Asha Dhillon, Katy Dellecke r and J e n n i f e r Maggie Brandow and husband Chris who are de p a r t m e n t . ” Luis Guzman is cool just because, Chris Eastland, Class Reporte r July 2002 added to California’s Republican party Park to Laguna Nigel. Fred is with the OC offices (Zolezzi) Morris (married in September 2002) b a ck in L.A., Maggie working from home for but he’s also been a Big Brother through the Big ce a s t l a n d @ o m m . c o m with the birth of his daughter Isabella. C h r i s of White & Lee, and Nancy joined Fisher & Phillips work together doing business litigation at Jones, Mental Health Advocacy Services and spending Brothers, Big Sisters of America for almost a year.
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Luis’ Little Brother’s “name is Brayan and I’m very Matt Matkins, Class Reporte r also an ‘SC graduate (Class of 1972). We n d y firm’s New Associate Training and waiting for our of 87. After graduating from the Law School Olafson was one of the “most efficient prob a t e proud of him.” Luis, we all hope he turns out to be ma t t h e w. m a t z k i n @ k m z r. c o m L o v e j o y married her long-time boyfriend, Jason bar results to be posted. Luck i l y , that also seems with an LL.B., he went to work for the Di attorneys I’ve worked with and probably one a fine individual like yourself. John Bo w e r b a n k Garewal, on 10/19/02 in San Diego. R a ch e l like a decade ago. Giorgio Corp. as vice president of the winery of the most reasonable.” He is survi v ed by his is cool because he seemingly can do anything (Miller) Lazarus married Jeff Lazarus on > Class of 20 0 1 Mi c helle Fow l e r , Class Reporter division in San Fr a n c i s c o. He later was the wife, Karen, and his daughter, Christian. related to litigation. His practice at Sheppard Mullin 11/11/01. She received her bar results while on Welcome to our first Class Notes. Luis Chavez mf o w l e r @ s i d l e y. c o m c o m p a n y’s corporate attorney in Ke r n “concentrates on general business litigation, her honeymoon! Rachel is in San Diego, where has moved up in the world of Aikido by receiving C o u n t y, where he was instrumental in the Ro b e rt J. Stahl ’49, who spent 22 years on particularly securities, commercial real estate, she is developing a career in domestic violence his Second Dan promotion. He also moved jobs to d e velopment of the Arv i n / Edison Wa t e r the San Diego Municipal Court bench, died construction and corporate disputes.” Classmates issues. She works for a non-profit agency, became Morris, Po l i ch & Pu r d y. Leslie Howell made a District. Fol l o wing his work there, he starte d of cancer Oct. 5 in his Pacific Beach home. working together are cool, that’s why it’s special a certified domestic violence/sexual assault coun- positive career move to Lisa Helfend Meyer & his own practice. One of the highlights of his He was 78. During his career on the bench, that Justin Suhr and Jennifer Chiarelli are now se l o r , and is on the San Diego Domestic Vio l e n c e in memoriam Associates, where she contentedly practices ca r eer was arguing before the Sup r eme Court. Stahl raced 19-foot lightning-class sloops with working together at Piper Rudnick in Century City. Legal Action Committee. Ilana Cristofar will be family law. Tony Pe t r o s s i a n left the practice of He is survi v ed by his wife of 62 years, Jan e t , th r ee-man crews as a member of the Mis s i o n Zareh Sinanyan, cool guy, now works at Selle, heading down the aisle soon. She is engaged to M. Ross Bi g e l ow ’50, a re t i red Los Angeles law for the allure of Hollywood. He directs music f i ve daughters, 16 grandchildren and 16 Bay Yacht Club. He joined the Navy and Hofman, Voelbel, Mason & Gette, a firm with a cool Justin Fa r a r (‘00); the wedding is set for Superior Court judge, died Sept. 3 of compli- videos and hopes to transition into commercials name and, tell me this isn’t cool, recently traveled 07/19/03. In the meantime, you will find her prac- gre a t - g r a n d c h i l d r en. s e rved in the Philippines during World Wa r and feature films. The next McG perhaps? Th e cations from congestive heart failure. He was to a “firm retreat in Cancun, Mexi c o . ” (My firm sent ticing corporate law at Buch a l t e r, Nemer, Fields II. He also served during the Kor ean War . He sc holarly Mac Bunyanunda published his article, 77. Big e l o w was appointed to the Los Angeles me on a retreat to a warehouse full of documents & Yo u n g e r. Pablo Estrada celebrated the birth Joseph B. Leonard ’66 died on Christmas is survi v ed by his wife, Beve r l y , five sons and “Burma, ASEAN and Human Rights: The Decade Municipal Court in 1969 by Gov. Ro n a l d on Olympic.) Lori Sinanyan, now with Kirkland & of his daughter, Ariana Estrada. When it rains it Day at his home after a brief battle with 12 grandchildren . of Constructive Engagement, 1991 - 2 0 0 1 , ” in the Reagan and became a Superior Court judge in Ellis, organized an extremely cool fundraising pours; he was also promoted to Senior in the ca n c e r . Early in his career he was employed by Stanford Journal of East Asian Affairs. St e p h e n 1973. He presided over the high-profile trial event—a night at the Comedy Club with proceeds Controversy Group at Ernst & Young. After her Aer ojet Corp. and Nort h r op Corp. in human Jack T. Sw a f f o rd ’52, a longtime class M a r q u a r d t didn’t let the L.A. District At t o r n e y ’ s of two Symbionese Liberation Army benefiting the Armenian Bone Marrow Donor clerkship with Judge Rafeedie of the Central res o u r ces and labor relations. After rec e i v i n g rep o r ter for USC Law magazine and a partn e r hiring freeze stop him. He moved to San Diego members invol v ed in a 1974 police shootout R e g i s t r y. Striking out on one’s own, i.e., rugged District of California and before starting at Munger, his law degree, he worked for the Los Angeles in the Pasadena firm of Lagerlof, Se n e c a l , where he is a criminal prosecutor for the City during their arrest for the murder of a school individualism is cool, that’s why we mention Tolles & Olson, Katherine For s t e r took a fabulous County Counsel’s Office and then spent 21 Bra d l e y , Gosney & Kruse, died Nov. 11 from Attorney’s Office. He has prosecuted (and won!) superintendent. Be f o re becoming a judge, Dwight Stirling who opened up, “The law office vacation to San Francisco, Napa Va l l e y, and San years as trust counsel for Trust Se rvices of l i ver failure. He was 80. A Navy ve t e r a n , several jury trials, but he can’t stop thinking abou t Big e l o w had a private practice in Long Bea c h , of Dwight D. Stirling” in Belmont Shore. K i r s t e n Simeon. It was reported that she had to rent a America. His hobbies included Dixieland Jaz z Swa f f o r d spent 37 years with Lagerlof, where that one holdout juror (just let it go, Steve). wh e r e he was active in the Republican Pa rt y. Do o l i t t l e has the cool hobby of “playing on an ulti- cellar to store the spoils. Brian Nelson traveled to and singing in barbershop quartets. He is he worked as a full-time litigator until just a Le A nna Gutierrez has given up sunny California He served in the U.S. Navy during Wo r l d mate frisbee club team in DC .” Her team even Europe, Costa Rica, and around the United States s u rv i ved by his wife Do ro t h y, a daughter, a fe w months before his passing. He held a life- for the political action in Washington D.C. She is went to Hawaii last year for a tournament. (But last year. He is now working at Bennett and War II and the Kor ean War . He is survi v ed by Legislative Assistant to Senator Bill Nelson of son, two stepsons and numerous grandchil- long connection to USC, also his they got spanked.) Lastly, we come to my favorite Fairshter in Pasadena, which specializes in his wife of 35 years, four children, thre e Florida and works on transportation, immigration dre n . undergraduate alma mater. A member of the part of the column – marriages and engagements. c o m p l ex business litigation. He also attended st e p c h i l d r en, 14 grandchildren and 14 grea t - and Hispanic outreach. Also on the East Coast, Law School’s Legion Lex Fund, Sw a f f o rd Here’s the latest: Pamela Otte Colquette ma r r i e d some of the World Series games (Go Angels!). gr a n d c h i l d re n . Jacqueline Bird is clerking for the Delaware James E. Mo o re Jr. ’59, who specialized in pr oudly held the title of 1952 class rep o rt e r , Phil Colquette on 06/22/02 in an Iowa country Nicole Kol h o f f finally enjoyed a real honeymoon Court of Chancery. Sidley Austin Brown & Woo d civil trial litigation, passed away Nov. 10, at a job that showcased his talent for being chapel. Kelly Lane Muñoz married her boy f r i e n d with her husband in Italy and Paris. She is appar- Daniel L. Duggan ’40 died Oct. 26 of heart pulled off a coup by hiring Sean Commons, who the age of 70. After graduating law school, always articulate and pithy. “He was tru l y of almost seven years, Ruben Muñoz, in Newport ently quite the jetsetter, having also traveled to fa i l u r e at his home in Los Angeles. He was 89. just finished a clerkship with Judge King of the he was admitted to the Louisiana Bar and passionate about law,” said his daughter, B e a ch on 01/12/02. Shauna Bain Smith London, Munich for Oktoberfest, and Peru – all Duggan was an early partner in Coldwe l l Central District of California. (In the interest of full joined the Baton Rouge law firm of Fra n k l i n Susan Cremeans. “He loved being class married Hudson H. Smith III on 07/ 06/02 on a while also finishing her first year at O’Melveny & Banker and helped the San Fr a n c i s c o - b a s e d disclosure, I’m just glad to have another friend a and Keogh. During his practice he was re p o rt e r.” Besides his daughter, surv i vo r s cliff overlooking the harbor of Catalina Island. Myers. Z a chary Bulthuis has finally recovered real estate firm expand into other states. He few offices down the hall from me.) Sean pulled admitted to all state and federal courts of include his wife, Helen; son St e ve; and two Anna Mellado Pa r k and Peter Pa r k w e r e from culture shock after returning from a yearlong also was a former president of the Los Angeles off his own coup by marrying Jennifer Nakata on Louisiana, including the U.S. Fifth Circ u i t gr a n d c h i l d re n . married on 06/15/02 in Santa Barbara. Bo b b y clerkship for the High Court of American Samoa. I Realty Board. Born in Edmonton, Canada, 08/04/01. Olivier Th e a r d also tied the knot in Be n j y married Sheryl Kiumehr on 03/24/02. have it under good authority that he actually Co u r t of Appeals. He is survi v ed by his wife, August 2001 to the lovely Karine Calixte. Duggan moved to Los Angeles with his family Justin Sanders married Toi Neal in Hawaii in managed to do some work in between tennis, Pamela, son James E. Moo r e Jr., and daughter Ar nold E. Wayne ’57, a ret i r ed lawyer , died Un f o r t u n a t e l y , Hurricane Isidor ruined their time in when he was 9. He worked his way thro u g h November 2002. As for engagements, Au t u m n snorkeling, and other activities. He is now also at Mic h e l l e . Dec. 16. Wayne had a private legal practice in Cancun, but they survived. Ten days after the Bar UC L A and USC Law School. He is survi ve d Gr e s o w s k i and Tim Spaeth became engaged in O’Melveny & Myers. As for me, I enjoyed an California for many years before moving to Exam, Scott Jacks o n couldn’t wait another minute by his wife of 60 years, Jean Druffel Dug g a n ; Maui in May. Reggie Roberts and Alicia Tho m a s amazing bar trip to Australia and New Zealand, George E. Olafson ’60, a long-time court Van c o u ve r , Wash. He is survi v ed by his wife to marry his wife (but highly suggests putting a sons Dennis and Richard, daughter Joan, and became engaged on 07/05/02 and will wed in wh i c h seems like a decade ago. I have managed p robate attorney, passed away Aug. 10. Nancy and a daughter. little more space between the two). They enjoyed fi v e grandchildren . September 2003. Steve Bush (’01) is engaged to to survive my first year at Sidley along with fel l o w Olafson was well-liked by his co-workers and a honeymoon on Maui and Kauai with lots of Marie Miles and they will marry in October. Tha n k s classmate, Laci Fri s b i e – with whom I will always had a reputation for doing his job well while surfing, piña coladas, sleep, and, well, let’s not go Vincent Peter Di Giorgio ’39 of Bak e r s f i e l d , for your responses, class and remember – stay share the memory of a horrible night in a cramped remaining laid-back. Probate attorney Bob there. Scott has started a law firm with his father, Ca l i f ., passed away Feb . 15, 2002, at the age cool, forever! cubicle at Kinko’s in Chicago, while attending our Kern told the Me t ropolitan Ne w s - En t e r p r i s e
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vi s i o n If you attended USC Law Scho o l ba c k when card ca t alogs were the primary research tool, you might be <<< Annika Martin A 2L’s take on becoming a lawyer surprised by all that the law library is today. It’s still the heart of the Law School, the place where students and faculty collaborate, research and learn. And it’s still a Before I came to law scho o l , I had little idea of what being hand … but on the other hand …” responses rather than the simple yes - a lawyer meant. Like most people on the outside, my image of the legal or-no answers they sought. I consider myself a lawyer because I now well-used legal resource for the community. But now it’s pr ofession was dominated by men like Keanu Ree ve s ’ character in “Th e ha v e a suit wardr obe and an actual professional briefcase. also a gateway to unlimited electronic resources – the Dev i l ’s Advo c a t e ” and women like TV ’s Ally McB eal. To broaden my We may not have passed the bar, we may not have jobs, we may have World Wide Web and beyond. pe r s p e c t i v e, I read books on Har var d’s before- yo u - c o m e - t o - l a w - s c h o o l th r ee semesters of school left, but my classmates and I have taken our reading list, but no movie or book could really impart the experience places as apprentices in the legal prof e s s i o n . of being on the “inside,” looking out at the world with a lawyer ’s eyes. App r entices need masters, and USC has plenty. Rec e n t l y , I attended Keeping up with rapidly changing technology while It wasn’t until I got to USC that I discover ed that lawyers rule the a panel discussion featuring five USC grads of all different ages in all ma i n t aining a premier collection of legal texts is a di f f e r ent careers. Public interest, government, law firms, private practice, world. costly challenge. USC’s law library will undergo a major At the end of the film “The Matrix,” the protagonist is standing in judicial work; many career options wer e rep r esented and I rea l i z ed that a hallway, squared off against the evil agents pursuing him. Suddenly he USC grads have the experience, flexibility and courage to succeed at and renovation during the next two years to make sure it do e s n ’t see the scene as a regular hallway with doors, but as a construc - go beyond the standard law-career track, switching gears, starting busi- supports the needs of 21st-century law students. The tion of the flowing codes of the Matrix. Just as he saw through the nesses and involving themselves in ever y aspect of the legal prof e s s i o n . project will make room for more collaborative study st ru c t u r e of the hallway to the underlying code itself, lawyers see throu g h Thanks to alumni who are leaders in ever y possible field of law — and space and an ever-growing collection of books while the words, the citations, the formulaic phrases to the scaffolding of who are willing to share their experiences and guide those who follow laws that supports our society. them — we apprentices have ever y opportunity to learn from masters strengthening the library’s technological infrastructure. Legal professionals construct, alter, strengthen and repair this of our profession. From wireless networking to reading-sensitive lighting, Now, listening to my lawyerly answers at the holiday dinner table, substructure on a daily basis. We mold society from the inside out, the new library will offer the best in service, resources and sl o wly but permanently. Politicians can apply a new coat of paint, legis- seeing my classmates’ varied and profound intelligence and talent, It’s one more step up for an lators can draw up new architectural plans, but it is the lawyers and witnessing the unique role USC graduates play in our nascent caree r s , learning opportunities. judges who balance black-letter law and policy, testing and ensuring the I can only say that our generation, as each before it, has the chance and already top-rung library. integrity of the girders of the modern world. the capacity to alter and strengthen the scaffolding of our society — and I’ m now halfway through my law school curriculum, and I consider will succeed, as each before it, by standing on the shoulders of giants. Call today with your tax-deductible gift to the Gabriel myself a lawyer. Some might call me presumptuous, but I consider myself a lawyer because I see the scaffolding. I consider myself a lawyer and Matilda Barnett Information Tec hnology Center and because my summer job entrusted me with real cases — and the judge the Asa V. Call Law Library. Give back to the library that I worked for relied on my legal analysis in his decision. I consider myself helped you climb the ladder of success. a lawyer because I know what I’m talking about when my relatives, passing the potatoes at holiday dinners, start asking me all the legal ques- An n i ka Martin is a second-year tions that have been nagging them during the yea r . I consider myself a *law student at USC and a frequent la w y er because I exasperate said rel a t i v es by giving them “on the one contributor to vault.com, a national, We b - based magazine for law students. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University. 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