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University of Washington School of Law UW Law Digital Commons Alumni Magazines Law School History and Publications 11-2011 uwlaw, Fall 2011, Vol. 64 Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/alum Part of the Legal Education Commons Recommended Citation uwlaw, Fall 2011, Vol. 64, (2011). Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/alum/8 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School History and Publications at UW Law Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Alumni Magazines by an authorized administrator of UW Law Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Nonprofit Org US Postage 64 PAID Leaders for the Seattle, WA Permit No. 62 BOX 353020 SEATTLE, WA 98195-3020 Global Common Good FALL 2011 VOLUME FALL 2011 uw uwlaw uwlaw CALENDAR FALL 2011 – S P R I N G 2 0 1 2 law NOVEMBER 3 JANUARY 19 MARCH 20 Order of the Coif Banquet San Francisco Alumni & New York City Alumni & Friends Reception Friends Breakfast FALL VOLUME 2011 64 NOVEMBER 5 Huskies vs. Oregon Tailgate JANUARY 28-29 MARCH 21 Professional Mediation Skills Washington, D.C. Alumni & NOVEMBER 10 Training Program Friends Reception Tacoma Alumni & Friends Reception FEBRUARY 10 MARCH 30 NOVEMBER 15 PILA Auction Admitted Students Day Welcome Reception Gates Public Service Law Speaker FEBRUARY 15 Monica Roa Portland Alumni & Friends Reception APRIL 3 Race & Radicalism Symposium DECEMBER 2 FEBRUARY 15 & Reception Golden Alumni Reunion Luncheon Law School Applications Due APRIL 4-5 JANUARY 12 FEBRUARY 23 Armed Forces U.S. Court First Amendment Panel with Yale Greet UW Law at WSBA Bar Exam of Appeals Visit Law Dean Robert Post MARCH 12 MAY 4-5 JANUARY 13-15 Annual Law Dawgs in the Dispute Resolution Conference Professional Mediation Skills Desert Dinner Training Program For more information on events, registration and additions to the CLE Please recycle. schedule, visit our website: www.law.washington.edu/calendar FALL 2011 uwlaw C ALLING ALL UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON ScHOOL OF Law ALUMNI Law School News 2 Admissions Recruiting Events Features Departments The Office of Admissions & Financial Aid wants you to join us this fall as we James Mackler ’97 10 REMEMBER WHEN… 22 recruit the best and brightest applicants across the country. From private practice to Black Hawk helicopter FACULTY & FIRM 28 pilot to Nashville law firm If you are interested in meeting prospective applicants and sharing your BOOKS & BEYOND 30 experiences as a law student and alumnus of the University of Washington School James Hutchens LL.M. ’05 & IN THE SPOTLIGHT 32 of Law, please contact Admissions at 206.543.4078 or [email protected]. Associate Professor Dwight Drake ’73 14 A LAW DEGREE IN ACTION 36 We will be at the following cities and recruiting events, where your presence From guinea pig to Chicago estate is welcomed and appreciated. FACULTY PUBLICATIONS planning attorney & PRESENTATIONS 42 Toni Rembe ’60 18 CLASS NOTES 47 From shy law student to first woman partner IN MEMORIAM 49 NOVEMBER 1-3 NOVEMBER 14 at west coast law firm University of California Portland State University REPORT TO DONORS 51 Riverside, San Diego, Portland, OR CALENDAR back cover and Los Angeles NOVEMBER 16 NOVEMBER 5 University of Washington Atlanta Law School Admission Seattle, WA Council (LSAC) Forum Atlanta, GA NOVEMBER 18 National Black Pre-Law Conference NOVEMBER 10 The Hilton – University of Houston Hotel & University of Puget Sound Conference Center Tacoma, WA Houston, TX NOVEMBER 11 NOVEMBER 19 University of Oregon Houston LSAC Forum Eugene, OR Houston, TX We look forward to meeting you on the road! UW LAW EARLY ENGAGEMENT Can’t make one of our recruiting events but want to play a critical role in our law school 10 22 36 community by assisting prospective students in their application process? Take the first step today and volunteer! Email [email protected] to express your interest and find out how you can make a difference in the life of a future law student. For more information, visit www.law.washington.edu/Alumni. UW LAW Volume 64 Fall 2011 EDITORIAL BOARD Helen Anderson ’84, Stephanie Cox, Dean Kellye Y. Testy Kimberly Ellwanger ’85, Penny Hazelton, Roland L. Hjorth, JOIN US FOR ADMITTED STUDENTS DAY Editor Elizabeth Coplan Eugene Lee ’66, LL.M. ’68, Jerry McNaul ’68, Signe Naeve ’00 Copyright 2011 University of Washington School of Law. March 30 –31, 2012 All rights reserved. UWLAW is published twice a year by EDITORIAL OFFICE AND SUBSCRIPTION CHANGES the University of Washington School of Law and is made WILLIAM H. GATES HALL UW Law, William H. Gates Hall, Room 383 possible by a gift from the Washington Law School Foundation. University of Washington School of Law Box 353020, Seattle, WA 98195-3020 CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Elizabeth Coplan, Corbin Lewars, Cheryl Nyberg Email: [email protected] CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Elizabeth Coplan, Kerry Dahlen, Matt Hagen,Tiffany Sevareid, Jack Storms, and DWT DESIGN Jo-Ann Sire and John Linse Message from the Dean Dear alumni and friends, As we begin the 2011-2012 school year, we Each day I am grateful that you, our alumni and welcome Michael K. Young as the new president friends, use your passions, skills, and voices to of the University of Washington and as a new advance law and justice. You are society’s ethical member of our law faculty. President Young leaders in all areas of law, business, and public is already an active member of our law school policy. Now more than ever, our world needs the community. In July, he addressed our 2011 skills and values that law-educated leaders bring Intellectual Property Summer Institute; in to the table. We admire and appreciate all that September he met many of you at a welcome you do across the diverse areas in which you work. reception we hosted in his honor. His experience In this issue, we feature a sampling of our alumni in our profession is both wide and deep, and who have emerged from their time in our Seattle his expertise in Japanese Law is a particular classrooms to make a difference around the state, asset to our mission as Leaders for the Global the nation, and the world. We also include our Common Good. 2010-2011 Report to Donors and continue to be grateful for your generous support of our mission This year, the University of Washington and programs. celebrates its 150th anniversary, as one of the top 20 universities in the world. The law school As I launch my third year as your dean, please know opened its doors 112 years ago — in 1899 — and that I continue to be honored by the trust you continues to proudly contribute to UW’s tradition have placed in me and excited by the opportunity of excellence. We encourage you to view the UW before us. Our history is one of distinction, for 150th anniversary website (www.washington. which we should all be rightly proud. Even so, as edu/150) and to join in the celebration. UW celebrates 150 years, I am confident that our future will exceed even our own high expectations. Gates Hall bustled all summer with conferences We are the law school our world needs us to and symposiums, but we missed the energy that be. Thank you for every way that you are part of only our talented and diverse student body can making that so. Onward and upward! provide. Recently, I spoke to our new students during their orientation program, which now spans two weeks and includes a thorough introduction to the study of law and the skills and values of our profession. Thankfully, gone are the days of “look to your left, look to your right, Kellye Y. Testy only one of you will be here at the end of this Dean, UW School of Law year”! The excitement (and nervousness) in the James W. Mifflin University Professor room was palpable. I encouraged our students to immerse themselves in all that our university and law school offers them, and to use their time PRESIDENT YOUNG & DEAN TESTY with us to explore their passions; to hone their skills of judgment, analysis, and leadership; and to develop a fierce commitment to ethics and excellence. I also urged them to remember why F A L L 2 0 11 they came to law school, especially during the rigors of the first year, and to have the courage to add their own voices to law as well as to listen to uw law the voices of others. 1 LAW SCHOOL news Announcing Expanded Center for Public Service Law UW Law has been active in Public Service for over 15 years, but the recent centralization of the Center for Public Service Law allows these efforts to be more efficiently implemented and tracked. Michele Storms, Assistant Dean for Public Service & Executive Director, William H. Gates Public Service Law, says, “Our center acts as a hub for students, where they are educated and inspired about how to incorporate public service into their daily lives. By recognizing faculty and staff pro L TO R, MICHELE STORMS, ANN SPANGLER, ALINE CARTON LISTFJELD bono work this year, we’ve been able to carry the public service notion to the whole community, apply to law school they are full of powerful ideas rather than merely serving the students already about social justice. We don’t want them to lose interested in public service.” that during their time here.” After teaching in the clinical law program for eight Storms claims that with the support of Dean years, and founding the Child Advocacy Clinic, Testy, who advocates public service for lawyers, Storms returned to her legal aid practice in 2001.