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Fall/Winter 2016 MAGAZINE USCFOR FRIENDS AND ALUMNI OF THE USC GOULD SCHOOLLaw OF LAW ISSUE 09 | FALL/WINTER 2016 LEADING THE WAY D.C. Power Players dean’s message In August, I had the pleasure of welcoming our new JD students to the law school just before they started the fall semester. These first-year students, who represent the Class of 2019, display a remarkable level of energy and have already accomplished so much. Our new students include an All-American swimmer, a classically trained violinist, a museum curator, a Peace Corps volunteer, a skateboard company owner and a Top 40 hip-hop artist. Our youngest first-year student is 17, and the oldest is 34. I was impressed that 40 of these students demonstrated their service ethic by volunteering the Saturday before classes began with the Inner City Law Center and the Skid Row Citation Clinic. PHOTO BY MIKEL HEALEY While it’s exciting to meet our new crop of 1Ls, we also know that for them 6 — and for us — the best is yet to come: three years that combine deep dives into legal theory and critical analysis of cases, statutes, and regulations with the practical application of law in classes and seminars as well as clinics, externships, and pro bono service. Evidence of the extraordinary alumni that our highly talented students become can be found in the profiles of five “D.C. Power Players,” beginning on p. 8. From The Washington Post publisher Fred Ryan ’80 to Michelle Van Cleave ’79, the first head of U.S. counterintelligence, they share stories of how Gould prepared them for high-level careers inside the Beltway. “Here at the law school, my colleagues and I are already deeply engaged in the exciting process of preparing the Class of 2019 for a fast-changing legal landscape.” Although nearly 100 Gould graduates work in the D.C. area, the nation’s capital isn’t the only place you’ll find our alumni in leadership roles. Maryland’s Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford ’90 is two years into his first term, seeking ways to make his state’s government more efficient (p. 21), while here in Los Angeles, Kimberley Guillemet ’05 has just launched the first-of-its-kind Office of Reentry at the behest of Mayor Eric Garcetti. On p. 22, she reflects on how her time at Gould put her on a path to a career in restorative justice. I’m also proud to report on the achievements of our LLM alumni. In 2002, we launched our LLM program with 12 students. In 2016, we graduated a robust class of 213, including our inaugural class of online LLM graduates. On p. 24, you can learn how an LLM from Gould boosted the careers of our foreign-educated students, many of whom are now judges, government officials and corporate legal counsel, not just in their home countries, but here in the United States as well. 21 Here at the law school, my colleagues and I are already deeply engaged in the exciting process of preparing the Class of 2019 for a fast-changing legal landscape. We’re mindful that before we know it, these students will be Gould alumni, helping to chart the future for their communities and our nation. Andrew T. Guzman Dean and Carl Mason Franklin Chair in Law FEATURE STORY FALL | WINTER 2016 D.C. POWER PLAYERS 8 Meet five members of Washington, ASSOCIATE DEAN OF MARKETING D.C.’s powerful elite, all Gould & COMMUNICATIONS alumni who launched prominent Sandy Shin Beltway careers. EDITORIAL Anne Bergman Gilien Silsby CONTRIBUTING WRITERS DEPARTMENTS Anne Bergman Traude Gomez BRIEFS Carren Jao 2 FEATURE Julie Riggott 8 Christina Schweighofer USC LAW FAMILY 20 Gilien Silsby 28 FACULTY FOCUS 34 IN MEMORIAM ART DIRECTION & DESIGN ETCH Creative 36 LAST LOOK PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY 2 Phil Channing Mikel Healey USC LAW FAMILY Elliott O’Donovan Brett Van Ort 20 DOUGLAS KMIEC ’76 21 BOYD RUTHERFORD ’90 KIMBERLEY GUILLEMET ’05 22 USC Law Magazine is published by the USC Gould School of HONOR ROLL Law Marketing & Communications Office at the University of 23 Southern California. Please send all correspondence to: TOP GLOBAL CONTENDERS 24 Office of Marketing & Communications 26 2016 REUNION USC Gould School of Law Los Angeles, California 90089-0071 2016 COMMENCEMENT 27 [email protected] 213.740.5563 213.740.5476 fax © 2016 University of Southern California Gould School of Law FACULTY FOCUS 28 ABBY WOOD 30 JOHN G. MATSUSAKA 31 MICHAEL JENKINS 32 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW AT 90 28 35 REMEMBERING EDWIN “RIP” SMITH briefs RECRUITMENT SEASON This summer USC Gould’s Career Services Office hosted Meet “This was a great way for first-year students to get an the Firm Night, a first-of-its-kind career event that gave law introduction to firms and firm practice,” said Denise students the chance to make personal connections with poten- McKenzie ’96, a patent litigator at Arnold & Porter LLP. tial employers before recruitment season kicks into high gear. “For us, it was a way to give back as well as to answer general “One of our objectives is to find our students good jobs questions from students and help them form their goals.” where they can thrive and succeed,” said Dean Andrew Are you an employer who wants to hire one of our highly regarded Guzman, as he thanked the firms for giving Gould students students? Visit: gould.usc.edu/careers/employers/ the “opportunity to get to know you.” Photos: Held on June 29 at Town & Gown, Meet the Firm Night boasted more than 130 guests (including 86 alumni) who represented 43 law firms. Approximately 150 students took advantage of the networking evening. REWARDING HARD WORK USC Gould Prof. Heidi Rummel and “It was extremely fulfilling to be part of Post-Conviction Justice Project student this case,” Mills said. “I learned so much Scott Mills ’16 were named 2016 Califor- working with my professors from both a nia Lawyer Attorneys of the Year (CLAY) legal and personal standpoint.” in the Criminal Justice category by the The client, Edel Gonzalez, served 24 Los Angeles Daily Journal newspaper and years in prison for aiding and abetting a California Lawyer magazine. murder committed by adult codefendants. The pair was recognized at a recent cer- He was the youngest person in Orange emony in San Francisco for their ground- County to receive a life sentence without breaking legal work in the resentencing possibility of parole. of the first juvenile offender under the In addition, Gould alumna Amy Forbes ing the Gibson Dunn team that developed California Fair Sentencing for Youth Act ’84 was an honoree in the Real Estate & a successful strategy to secure approval of and his subsequent release on parole. Development category for her work lead- an NFL-ready stadium in Inglewood. 2 USCLaw magazine ON THE TICKET: 2 GOULD GRADS GOULD QUOTABLES Two Gould alumnae will appear on election ballots this November, as they each make a run for Congress. With his nomination secure, On Aug. 8, Melody Shekari ’15 won the Donald Trump has made it Democratic primary in Tennessee, where she’s clear that he will not release seeking to represent the 3rd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. his tax returns. ... Why has Shekari beat out three other Democrats in the Mr. Trump staked out this primary and will next face Republican incum- politically unpalatable bent Chuck Fleischmann. If Shekari wins the position? The answer lies not in seat, she will be the first Iranian American elected to Congress. any sordid details that Trump’s No stranger to leadership roles, Shekari worked tax returns might reveal, but as a policy fellow in the mayor’s office in Chat- rather in what the refusal itself says about the tanooga, and while a student at Gould she earned man and his ambitions.” the prestigious Shattuck Public Service Award and served as Excerpted from op-ed by Prof. Edward Kleinbard for The Hill president of USC Graduate Student Government. Meanwhile, Nanette Barragán ’05 — who, like Shekari, is a first-generation American — aims to represent California’s 44th district, centered in South LA and the harbor area, for Could a firm with a different the U.S. Congress. Barragán, who grew up in Harbor City, will business model suffer, compete against another Democrat for the seat. Barragán has potentially, if they don’t match worked in D.C. at the White House for President Clinton and at the NAACP, where she focused on social justice issues the $180,000 (starting salary)? and researched racial health disparities. Maybe. But that’s where I think Most recently Barragán, who earned her B.A. from UCLA we in the career counseling in political science with a minor in public policy, was a leader office will be having heart- in the successful fight against Measure O, a ballot measure to-heart conversations with that would have allowed oil companies to drill in the Santa Monica Bay. She served as the first Latina elected to the students to say, ‘Don’t let the Hermosa Beach City Council. absence of the top salary necessarily impact your decision-making about going with one Connect to firm or another.’” Associate Dean and Dean of Career Services Elizabeth Armour, interviewed by the National Law Journal about law students’ salary expectations and on-campus interview participation trends Follow Us Investors may have also USCGouldLaw | USCLawLibrary seen the Autopilot feature as USCGouldLaw | LawDeanGuzman technology in development, and that errors were inevitable, law.usc.edu/go/linkedin which makes it a difficult case.” uscgouldlaw Associate Professor Yoon-Ho Alex Lee, interviewed by the Los Angeles Times about whether the Securities and Exchange Commission will find that Tesla violated security gould.usc.edu laws by not disclosing a fatal accident for a vehicle in Autopilot mode.
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