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Investing in Success The Lasting Impact of Scholarships at Chicago-Kent “Give yourself permission to pursue and lead causes outside of your principle law job ... It will make you a better lawyer. It will make you a better person. You’ll make new and diverse friends. And who knows, such volunteer work may even put you in the way of a new and fulfilling career opportunity. Be a joiner and a leader. ”

— Michael P. Galvin ’78, Illinois Tech Board of Trustees Chairman Commencement address, May 19, 2019 CHICAGO-KENT MAGAZINE 2019 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Investing in Success The Lasting Impact of Scholarships at Chicago-Kent

FEATURE PAGE 13

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Introducing Dean Anita K. Krug 2 C-K CHRONICLE

FEATURE PAGE 10 24 FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS

28 SUPPORTING CHICAGO-KENT

A Tribute to Dean Harold J. Krent 31 CLASS NOTES AND ALUMNI NEWS

PAGE 26 50 IN MEMORIAM

Inside Back Cover: ALUMNI EVENTS CALENDAR

CHICAGO-KENT MAGAZINE 2019 Dean and Professor of Law ANITA K. KRUG; Assistant Dean for Institutional Advancement SUSAN M. LEWERS; Director of Alumni Engagement JOSEPH VOLIN; Managing Editor JACQUELINE A. SEABERG; Communications Manager and Contributing Writer JAMIE LOO; Freelance Writer KEN TRAINOR; Design FORWARD DESIGN

Chicago-Kent Magazine is published by Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, for its alumni and friends. Address correspondence to Editor, Chicago-Kent Magazine, 565 West Adams Street, Chicago, Illinois 60661. Copyright 2019 Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology.

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Johnny Derogene ’19 Named Sole Recipient of 2019 AFL-CIO Fellowship Johnny Derogene ’19 has been selected for a one-year Derogene always fellowship with the AFL-CIO’s legal department in knew he wanted to Washington, D.C. become an attorney. Each year the AFL-CIO’s legal department awards only one Through his college’s fellowship to a graduating law student or a recent judicial law pre-law program, clerk. Derogene is the first student from Chicago-Kent College he heard about of Law to be awarded this fellowship. Chicago-Kent’s Pre- “We are very excited for Johnny,” says Professor Martin Law Undergraduate Malin, co-director of Chicago-Kent’s Institute for Law and Scholars Program, the Workplace. “This is the most competitive and prestigious which is designed position a new law school graduate interested in union-side to prepare labor law can get. Johnny competed against judicial law clerks students from Johnny Derogene ’19 will work in the AFL- and students from so-called elite law schools from all over underrepresented CIO’s legal department in Washington, D.C. the country.” groups to succeed in During his fellowship, Derogene will work with experienced law school and the legal profession. union attorneys around the country on labor law matters and “As a rising senior in college, I participated in the PLUS legislation involving the National Labor Relations Act. Program at Chicago-Kent, and it truly introduced me to law “Unions are important because they make sure that families school,” he says. “It gave me an opportunity to take real law can support themselves, that people can’t be terminated for classes taught by actual Chicago-Kent law professors. I liked trivial reasons,” he says. the professors and the school’s environment. After that three- Derogene graduated cum laude with a B.A. in political week-long program, in 2014, I knew that I wanted to come science and philosophy from John Jay College of Criminal back to Chicago-Kent for law school. And I did!” Justice in New York, where he was a student in the college’s honors program.

Diverse Undergraduates Learn About Legal Profession at Chicago-Kent Students in Chicago-Kent College of Law’s 2019 Pre-Law Undergraduate Scholars Program visited the Dirksen Federal Building, where they toured the courthouse, met United States District Court Judge Sara L. Ellis, and observed proceedings in the courtroom of U.S. District Court Judge Andrea R. Wood. Founded in 2001, the PLUS Program is designed to introduce students from diverse backgrounds to the rigors of law school. During the three- week summer program, 24 undergraduate students representing 21 colleges and universities took classes taught by Chicago-Kent faculty, participated in a mock trial competition, learned about the law school admissions process and career options, took an LSAT practice exam, drafted a memorandum of law, took final examinations in Contracts and Criminal Law, and met leaders in the legal profession. The PLUS Program is free of charge for the students.

2 | CHICAGO-KENT MAGAZINE 2019 Timothy H. Edgar, winner of the 2018 Palmer Civil Liberties Prize, presented Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance, and the Struggle to Reform the NSA at Chicago-Kent in April.

Brown University’s Timothy H.

Edgar Wins 2018 Palmer Civil (Left to right): Tobias Rodriguez ’19, Susana Sandoval Vargas ’19, Carl Sessions ’19, Liberties Prize and Elisabeth Hieber ’19—pictured here with Associate Professor of Law Carolyn Shapiro (center)—were selected for two-year Equal Justice Works fellowships. Timothy H. Edgar, a senior fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, won Four Chicago-Kent Graduates the 2018 Chicago-Kent College of Law/ Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize for Selected for Equal Justice his book Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Works Fellowships Surveillance, and the Struggle to Reform the NSA (Brookings Institution Press Equal Justice Works selected the highest-ever number of Chicago- 2017). He spoke at Chicago-Kent in April Kent College of Law alumni this year for its prestigious public interest about the ideas in his book and about fellowships. Four members of the Class of 2019—Elisabeth Hieber, his experiences as an intelligence official Tobias Rodriguez, Susana Sandoval Vargas, and Carl Sessions— during the George W. Bush and Barack were among the 76 fellows chosen this year. Obama administrations. Equal Justice Works fellowships give law graduates the opportunity In Beyond Snowden, Edgar explains both to design their own public interest projects. why and how we can protect our privacy “The record-setting number of Equal Justice Works awards—eclipsed without sacrificing vital intelligence only by Yale, Harvard, and [New York University] in the entire country—is capabilities. He traces the evolution of testament to our school’s dedication and focus on the public interest,” says America’s mass-surveillance programs then-Dean Harold Krent. “Congrats to Elisabeth, Tobias, Susana, and Carl.” in the twenty-first century, from the Hieber is establishing mobile legal clinics at LGBT-supportive USA PATRIOT Act in 2001 to Obama-era organizations where LGBT elders can receive culturally responsive legal reforms following Edward Snowden’s leaks services. Hieber’s fellowship is hosted by the Center for Disability and of classified information in 2013 to new Elder Law and sponsored by PepsiCo. cryptographic technologies that could Rodriguez is providing legal services for incarcerated fathers and enable intelligence agencies to collect fathers recently released from prison who want to establish or reestablish relevant data while preserving privacy. relationships with their minor children. His project is sponsored by the law Edgar shares his ideas for reform and firm of Greenberg Traurig LLP and is hosted by Cabrini Green Legal Aid. concludes his book with “a call for privacy Sandoval Vargas is defending low-wage immigrant women workers and [for] civil liberties advocates and the against wage theft and other abuses in court and providing bilingual national security community to recognize know-your-rights presentations. Her fellowship is hosted by the their common values in the face of a world Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and that seemingly is turning its back on liberal sponsored by Discover Financial Services and the law firm of Winston & democracy and human rights.” Strawn LLP. Sessions is representing tenants in eviction court and expanding the Eviction Brief Advice Desk, a collaboration between the Lawyers’ Committee for Better Housing, Legal Assistance Foundation, and DLA Piper that offers free assistance to renters at the Daley Center. His fellowship is sponsored by the Rossotti Family Foundation and is hosted by the Lawyers’ Committee for Better Housing.

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Chicago-Kent Jack Etchingham ’20 Places First in the 2018 College of Law Rovner Appellate Advocacy Competition faculty are Jack Etchingham ’20 won the 27th annual Ilana Diamond Rovner Appellate Advocacy Competition, which is sponsored frequent guests on by Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Moot Court Honor Society. The Illinois Institute of competition is named for Chicago-Kent graduate Ilana Diamond Technology’s podcast Curiosity Rovner, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Unplugged. Download previous This year students argued Gamble v. United States, a case episodes to hear discussions involving a convicted felon who was charged by both state and federal officials with possession of a firearm by a felon after police from: found a handgun in his car during a 2015 traffic stop. At issue is whether the U.S. Supreme Court should overrule the separate- • Heather Harper on Chicago’s “tech sovereigns exception to the Fifth Amendment’s Double Jeopardy ecosystem” Clause, which allows a defendant to be prosecuted under state • Anthony Michael Kreis on the benefits and federal law for the same underlying crime. and pitfalls of social media In the final round of competition, Etchingham argued against Alec Kraus ’20. As first-place winner, Etchingham • Nancy S. Marder and Christopher received the Ilana Diamond Rovner Award for Outstanding Schmidt on political polarization and Appellate Advocate. the Supreme Court Kraus, who placed second, won the Fay Clayton Award for • Sheldon Nahmod on free speech on Outstanding Oral Advocate, while Mitchell Bild ’20 received the college campuses Ralph L. Brill Award for Best Brief. The final round of the competition was judged by a • Henry H. Perritt Jr. on driverless cars distinguished panel that included Rovner; the Honorable Mary • Carolyn Shapiro on the development L. Mikva of the Illinois Appellate Court, First District; and then- of immigration and naturalization law Dean Harold Krent. in the United States

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(Left to right): Mitchell Bild ’20 won the Ralph L. Brill Award for Best Brief; Jack Etchingham ’20 won the Ilana Diamond Rovner Award for Outstanding Appellate Advocate; and Alec Kraus ’20 won the Fay Clayton Award for Outstanding Oral Advocate.

4 | CHICAGO-KENT MAGAZINE 2019 Chicago-Kent Programs Earn Top Grades from PreLaw Magazine Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Review conference; its Center for Design, programs in Labor and Employment Law & Technology; its BookIT series Law, Intellectual Property Law, and featuring authors of newly published books; Trial Advocacy have received grades of a vibrant Intellectual Property Law Society; A or higher in rankings published in the and the student-run Chicago-Kent Journal winter 2019 and spring 2019 issues of of Intellectual Property, which is the official preLaw Magazine. publication for the national Patent Trial and The winter 2019 issue of preLaw Appeal Board Bar Association. Magazine identified America’s top seven Founded in 1971, Chicago-Kent’s Trial labor and employment law programs, Advocacy Program offers rigorous courtroom- designating Chicago-Kent as the best skills training to hundreds of students each among them and the only program to year. Known for its outstanding record in earn a grade of A+. trial advocacy tournaments, Chicago-Kent preLaw Magazine notes that Chicago- is a four-time winner of the National Trial Kent’s Labor and Employment Law Program offers a J.D. Competition and is distinguished by the expertise of its certificate, nearly 20 courses in the practice area, and “a host faculty members and coaches, its breadth of courses, its low of practical training opportunities,” including the chance student-to-faculty ratio, and the work ethic and camaraderie to work in the Plaintiffs’ Employment Clinic, which litigates of its students. workplace violations ranging from unfair termination to Additionally, Chicago-Kent’s Program in Alternative sexual harassment. Dispute Resolution received an A- rating in the spring In the spring 2019 issue, preLaw Magazine awarded 2019 issue. Chicago-Kent’s Intellectual Property Law Program a grade The magazine bases its grading on curricular of A+ and gave Chicago-Kent’s Trial Advocacy Program an A. concentrations, clinics, centers, externships, journals, Chicago-Kent’s IP program is distinguished by its student groups, and certificates, among other factors. breadth of course offerings; its annual Supreme Court IP

Chicago-Kent Faculty Ranked 44th in United States #44 The faculty of Chicago-Kent College of Law has been ranked 44th among United States law school faculties for the scholarly impact of their published work. In a study published in August 2018 on the Social Science Research Network, U.S. law school faculties were ranked for the frequency with which their scholarly publications are cited in U.S. legal journals. The “scholarly impact score” for a law faculty was calculated from the mean and the median of total law journal citations to the work of tenured faculty members for the years 2013 to 2017, inclusive. There are currently 204 American Bar Association– accredited law schools in the U.S. “This scholarly impact report reflects my colleagues’ prominence in the legal academy and mirrors the enthusiasm and inspiration they lend students in the classroom,” says then-Dean Harold Krent. Chicago-Kent’s faculty is one of three Chicago-area law faculties listed among the study’s top 50. Also ranked in the top 50 are the University of Chicago and Northwestern University. The study reports that Chicago-Kent’s most frequently cited faculty scholars are Lori Andrews, Katharine Baker, Graeme Dinwoodie, Daniel Martin Katz, Krent, Edward Lee, Martin Malin, Nancy Marder, Henry H. Perritt Jr., and Mark Rosen. “Scholarly Impact of Law School Faculties in 2018: Updating the Leiter Score Ranking for the Top Third” (August 14, 2018) is authored by Gregory C. Sisk, University of St. Thomas Law School; Nicole Catlin, University of St. Thomas Law School; Katherine Veenis; and Nicole Zeman. It can be downloaded at https://ssrn.com/abstract=3230371.

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Mayoral Candidates Debate Georgetown Professor Paul Judge Alsup Headlines 2018 Civil Liberties at ACLU of Butler Gives Book Talk at Supreme Court IP Review Illinois Forum Chicago-Kent The Honorable William Alsup of Before a packed audience in Chicago- Paul Butler, the Albert Brick Professor the United States District Court for Kent College of Law’s Ogilvie in Law at Georgetown University Law the Northern District of California Auditorium in January, six Chicago School, spoke about his book Chokehold: gave a talk titled “Huge Numbers of mayoral candidates—Amara Enyia, Policing Black Men (New Press 2018) Patent Cases: How One District Judge La Shawn Ford, John Kozlar, Lori in April at Chicago-Kent College of Manages Them” in September 2018 at Lightfoot, Toni Preckwinkle, and Law. After the talk Butler answered Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Supreme Paul Vallas—explained how they questions from the audience about Court IP Review. Leading experts would handle civil liberties issues if for-profit prisons, whether progressive from academia, law practice, tech and elected. WTTW’s Amanda Vinicky prosecutors exist, and the goals of the pharmaceutical companies, and the asked candidates questions on issues prison abolition movement. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office also ranging from the city’s gang database spoke at the 2018 conference, which to surveillance cameras. The event had the largest attendance in the was sponsored by the American Civil conference’s nine-year history. Liberties Union of Illinois.

Using the Law to Eliminate “Not Your Father’s An International Perspective Racial Inequities Federalism” on Contract Law Erika Wilson, the Thomas Willis Heather Gerken, the dean of Yale Professor Stefan Vogenauer, director of Lambeth Distinguished Professor in Law School, addressed the topic the Max Planck Institute for European Public Policy and associate professor of “Not Your Father’s Federalism: What Legal History in Frankfurt, Germany, law at the University of North Carolina Conservatives and Liberals Get Wrong discussed “English Language Contracts School of Law, was the featured speaker About Federalism” at Chicago-Kent Governed by a Foreign Law” at the at the fourth annual Dr. Martin Luther College of Law’s 2019 Centennial Morris Lecture in International & King Jr. Forum in January. Panelists Lecture in February. Comparative Law in December 2018. discussed the topic “Legal Racism: How Inequities Created by the Law Can Be Eliminated by the Law.”

6 | CHICAGO-KENT MAGAZINE 2019 Law Reviews Publish Chicago-Kent Student Papers Chicago-Kent College of Law students continue to produce high-quality and wide- ranging scholarship. This past year, two recent graduates received recognition when they published papers they wrote as students in law USPTO Director Iancu reviews at the University of Pennsylvania and Speaks at Chicago-Kent George Mason University. Anthony Joseph ’18 published “Down But Not Andrei Iancu (left), the undersecretary Out: Trinity Lutheran’s Implications for State of commerce for intellectual property No-Aid Provisions” in the November 2018 issue and director of the United States of the University of Pennsylvania's Journal of Patent and Trademark Office, came Anthony Joseph ’18 published a Constitutional Law Online. He wrote the article to Chicago-Kent College of Law in scholarly paper in the November for an independent research project on law February for a fireside chat moderated 2018 issue of the University of Pennsylvania’s Journal of and religion with University Distinguished by Grantland Drutchas (right), the Constitutional Law. Professor Sheldon Nahmod. managing partner of McDonnell In his article, Joseph proposes how common Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP. state constitutional provisions that Iancu answered questions from forbid or restrict government aid to religious the audience about patent law and institutions can be reconciled with the United the USPTO’s role in shaping public States Supreme Court’s 2017 decision in Trinity discourse and the law, such as for Lutheran Church of Columbia Inc. v. Comer. In patentable subject matter, a recent that case, the court held that the Missouri area of controversy. The event Department of Natural Resources had violated was sponsored by the Intellectual the rights of Trinity Lutheran Church under Property Law Association of Chicago’s the Free Exercise Clause of the First Corporate Committee. Amendment by denying the church an otherwise available public benefit (a state Craig Ettinger ’18 published a scholarly paper in the fall reimbursement grant to qualifying nonprofit 2018 issue of George Mason organizations) on account of its religious status. University’s Civil Rights Despite the Trinity Lutheran decision, Joseph Law Journal. argues that state “no-aid” provisions should not be presumed unconstitutional in light of distinctions between religious status and religious uses, established notions of neutrality under the religion clauses, and federalism concerns. Craig N. Ettinger ’18 published “Does the History Behind the Adoption of the Fourth Amendment Demand Abolishing the Third-Party Doctrine?” in the fall 2018 issue of George Mason University’s Civil Rights Law Journal. He wrote the paper for a class with University Distinguished Professor Lori Andrews on the Law of Social Networks. In his article, Ettinger details how Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures conflict with the third-party doctrine, a legal precedent that allows the government to obtain information without a warrant if that information has been voluntarily disclosed to a third party. Ettinger argues that the third-party doctrine should be abolished in its entirety and that doing so would restore every citizen’s expectation of privacy rights with respect to any governmental act that intrudes upon a person’s private information.

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Chicago-Kent Wins the Best Technology Award at the 2019 Capitol City Challenge The Chicago-Kent College of Law trial advocacy team of Timothy Cho ’20, Saman Haque ’20, Lilly Mashayek ’20, and Jane Morrison ’19 finished as national quarterfinalists and won the best technology award at the 2019 Capitol City Challenge at American University in Washington, D.C. The competition is designed to provide participating law students with a twenty-first century courtroom experience. Teams were challenged to use the latest in trial presentation technology to more effectively argue their cases. Chicago-Kent’s team was able to rise to this challenge thanks in part to the skills taught in the law school’s Litigation Technology course. “I think it made us more confident going up (Left to right): The trial advocacy team of Timothy Cho ’20, Saman Haque ’20, knowing that our tech was good,” says Haque, Jane Morrison ’19, and Lilly Mashayek ’20 won the best technology award and explaining that coach Guy Guenther ’18 “taught finished as national quarterfinalists at the 2019 Capitol City Challenge. us a lot of the stuff that we didn’t know.” Guenther, who earned a CALI Award for the highest grade in his Litigation Technology course in spring 2017, worked with the students as they developed the presentation for their arguments using PowerPoint and Trial Director software. “For the technology, we primarily used the skills developed in Litigation Technology, especially during the slides with jury instructions,” explains Guenther, who works as a prosecutor in the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office. “Each of these slides began with showing all the jury instruction as a whole and then calling out and blowing up the elements or important parts and blurring the rest of the instructions still in the background.” In Litigation Technology—co-taught by Nicholas Caputo ’01, founding partner of Caputo & Popovic PC, and Michael Ko ’08, founder of Groundwork Trial Consulting—students learn how to integrate technology into their trial presentations, applying principles of persuasion to create more compelling courtroom visuals. The 2019 Capitol City Challenge team was also coached by Kristen Farr Capizzi ’18, who works in the tax practice of Big Four accounting firm Ernst & Young, and John Montelongo ’91, an experienced litigator and principal of John M. Montelongo Attorney at Law PC.

Preparing for the Future of Law Practice The Institute for the Future of Law Practice selected seven Chicago-Kent College of Law students—the largest group from any participating United States law school—for its 2019 boot camp. Students learned design thinking, data analytics, technology, and process and project management at the boot camp, and then participated in paid internships with law firms, legal services providers, legal tech companies, public service organizations, or innovative in-house legal departments. The Chicago-Kent students in this year’s program are (left to right) McKay Mitchell ’21, Marisa McGrenera ’21, Anna Corbett ’20, Mara Flack ’20, Kristin Riffner ’21, Yilun Hu ’20, and (not pictured) Trace Bareck ’20.

8 | CHICAGO-KENT MAGAZINE 2019 Learning the Students Get Hands-On Immigration Experience Business Tatiana Alonso ’20 of Law heard story after story from women Chicago-Kent who had suffered College of Law is horrendous violence preparing students when she visited for the law jobs of the South Texas the future with its (Left to right): Aakash Dega ’19, Tatiana Alonso ’20, Family Residential new J.D. certificate Professor Daniel Martin Carolina Solano ’19, Diana Gomez ’20, Joanna Martin ’19, Katz Detention Center in program in Legal In- and Rosemary O'Malley ’19 March 2018. Alonso novation + Technology, launched and 11 other members of the Immigration Law Society were the first group in fall 2017. of Chicago-Kent College of Law students to travel to Dilley, Texas, to help Professor Daniel Martin Katz prepare women seeking asylum for their credible-fear interviews with the spearheaded the new program, which United States Citizenship and Immigration Service. builds on the law school’s decades- “As the daughter of immigrants, I know that no one leaves their home long tradition of incorporating legal without reason,” she explains. “These women and children have a right to technology in the classroom. seek asylum and a better life.” “We’re trying to create the next She shared her experiences in summer 2018 with the Chicago-Kent generation of polytechnic lawyers. This Board of Advisors, noting the tremendous need for lawyers at Dilley and the [the world] is the client’s world. We are secondary trauma that students faced. After her talk, each member of the preparing our students to be ready,” board personally pledged $1,000 to fund a January 2019 trip. he says. “The students who go to Dilley are a remarkable group of people,” says Katz created the program in response Professor Felice Batlan, who served as faculty adviser for the trip. “Not only to the ways the legal marketplace has do they put their heart and energy into the trip, they bring a tremendous changed in the past decade—such as amount of substantive knowledge about asylum law.” clients demanding more services for Chicago-Kent then created the Dilley Practicum, a two-credit course for less money and the emergence of new 12 students. With more students wanting to participate than there were slots technology making it easier to scale available, the ILS, under then-President Joanna Martin ’19, were diligent in legal services. selecting the students to participate in the class and the trip to Texas. Students take five required courses— “We gave priority to students who attended the trip the first year because including Legal Analytics and Legal this would make us a more efficient and effective group and therefore we Project Management + Process would be able to work with more women and children. This left us with only Improvement—plus six credit hours five slots,” explains Martin. “For those slots we considered Spanish-speaking of technology-based electives on topics ability, passion for this work, and past experiences.” such as blockchain, e-discovery, and Meanwhile, immigration practice and rules were quickly changing. artificial intelligence. By the time the group left for Texas, the Trump administration had slowed “The best thing about the Legal the number of migrants being allowed to cross into the United States from Innovation + Technology certificate Mexico to request asylum. program is that it showed me an aspect Upon arrival, the student team—supervised by Samantha Lloyd ’13, of the profession that I didn’t know an associate at Ogletree Deakins in Denver—found a smaller but still existed,” says Arthur Surratt III ’19, now substantial number of detainees. Meeting with more than 200 clients over a practice innovation associate at Reed six days, the students were able to spend more time with each client. Smith. “I had the unique opportunity “The biggest difference this time around was the number of interviews to learn about how the right people, we were able to attend. This is important because we were able to give the improved processes, and emerging women courage but also provide witness to their testimony and request technology can come together to alternate lines of questioning from the asylum officers if they miss a key improve the delivery of legal services.” part of the woman’s story,” explains Lloyd. In addition to the certificate program, “Although we cannot be absolutely sure of the numbers, it appears Chicago-Kent is accepting applications that hearing officers found for our students’ clients 100 percent of the time,” for a new LL.M. Program in Legal says Batlan. Innovation + Technology. Batlan and the ILS are starting to prepare for the 2020 trip. If you’d like to help, please contact her at [email protected].

2019 CHICAGO-KENT MAGAZINE | 9 Introducing Dean Anita K. Krug

Anita K. Krug, the first woman to be named permanent dean at Chicago-Kent College of Law, sees coming to Chicago as an opportunity not only to return to her Midwestern roots but also to lead a law school that she strongly believes in.

“From my vantage point the school really is undervalued An accomplished securities law scholar, Krug honed her given the fundamentals—faculty, staff, students, the leadership skills at the University of Washington, where programs—and it should be ranked much higher than she served as interim dean of the law school from 2017 to it presently is,” she says. 2018 and as interim vice chancellor for academic affairs for the university’s Bothell campus from 2018 to 2019. Krug sees five major strengths that set Chicago-Kent apart: an inclusive and passionate student body and She knew early on that she wanted to be an academic— alumni community, a dedicated and talented staff, a eventually. Born and raised in Russell, Kansas, population well-established tradition of strength in teaching and 4,500, she left home after high school to study political experiential education, the faculty’s powerhouse status science at Kansas State University in Manhattan, in influential research and scholarship, and a deep Kansas. After a year abroad as a Fulbright scholar commitment to advancing and empowering the outside at the University of Cologne in Germany, she enrolled community—locally and worldwide.

10 | CHICAGO-KENT MAGAZINE 2019 in Harvard University and concurrently earned her Bringing her practice experience into the classroom, M.A./Ph.D. in political science and her J.D. at Harvard Krug taught Business Organizations, Mergers and Law School. Acquisitions, and Securities Regulation. As she became more experienced as a professor, she began to trust her During law school, Erika George, now the director of the instincts and let the class discussion flow. Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah and the Samuel D. Thurman Professor of Law at the University “That’s where I think the magic in teaching really of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, shared a house for a happens—when everyone is engaged,” she says. year with Krug and another friend, Tania Tetlow, now the president of Loyola University New Orleans. Jason E. Parfet, who took the courses Mergers and Acquisitions and Securities Regulation with Krug, George recalls that Krug “was easily the most studious recalls how she required students to turn in ungraded woman in the house and also very generous and weekly memoranda and then tailored her lectures to fit considerate. I have never heard Anita utter an unkind or her students’ needs. He says she was instrumental in unfair word about anyone. As a house, we often hosted building a team to compete in a national transactional friends for dinners and parties. Between us, we brought law competition designed for students who wanted to together a cross section of sharpen their negotiation friends and welcomed a range and contract drafting skills. of people into our home to “That’s where I think share ideas and discuss issues “I personally competed in of the day.” the competition and gained the magic in teaching valuable experience,” says Eager to get practical Parfet, now an associate at experience as an initial happens—when Ryan, Swanson & Cleveland, career step, Krug accepted PLLC in Seattle. “Dean an offer from Foley Hoag everyone is engaged.” Krug’s mentorship has really in Boston after finishing helped me in my own career; her Ph.D. in 2000. Two years later, she moved to San I can say with certainty that I would not be where I am Francisco, where she began a new position as an associate without her support and guidance over the years.” at Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin PC (now Arnold & Porter LLP) and was named an equity Former student Jason Kirk, now an associate at Wilson partner in 2007. During her time as an attorney, she Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Seattle, remembers Krug’s developed her expertise in securities regulation, advising contagious drive for learning and success. “She set clear investment management firms. and high standards and challenged us to grasp applicable substantive law, public policy, and legal theory in a “I didn’t think I would be at the firm more than three manner that enabled us to evaluate fact patterns and or four years,” she explains. “But it turns out I loved what legal arguments thoughtfully and creatively,” he says. I was doing and stayed there longer than I’d intended.” During law school, Nico Quintana, a public defender for By 2009, however, she was ready to return to academia. the King County Department of Public Defense, worked Kellye Testy, who had been recently installed as dean of with Krug on steps the law school could take to increase the University of Washington School of Law, hired her access and reduce barriers for transgender students to in 2010 as an assistant professor—the first faculty hire attend and thrive at the school. of Testy’s tenure as dean. “As a transgender Latinx law student, I was in my third “What stood out was the combination of academic year of advocating for trans equity, racial justice, and preparation—both J.D. and Ph.D.—and law practice economic justice issues at the law school with other experience at the partner level,” explains Testy, amazing students, staff, and faculty,” says Quintana. who is now president and CEO of the Law School “I enjoyed working with Dean Krug very much because Admission Council. “We thought that situated her of her ability to listen, support, and act.” well to be a productive teacher and scholar in her field of corporate and securities law, and we were right! She became one of our most successful colleagues.”

2019 CHICAGO-KENT MAGAZINE | 11 “She is so generous in mentoring students and has both Now at the helm at Chicago-Kent, she sees four major the capacity and the commitment to help them,” adds priorities for the law school—fostering student success, Testy. “Because of her deep experiences in law, she really maintaining financial well-being, recruiting and knows how to advise students and has many contacts retaining strong and diverse faculty and staff, and that benefit them.” strengthening the law school’s reputation.

Krug rose quickly through the faculty—being named “From our very first meeting with Dean Krug, the an associate professor (with tenure) and associate dean Dean Search Committee was impressed by her for research and faculty sharp intelligence, her development in 2014 and then understanding of the a full professor in 2016. When “I felt like I’d done challenges facing law schools, Testy left the University her charisma, and her of Washington in 2017 to join passion for legal education,” LSAC, Gerald J. Baldasty, my West Coast tour, says Professor Christopher who was then provost and Schmidt, who chaired the executive vice president and it was time to search committee. “During of the University of her visit to campus, she Washington, selected Krug move back.” similarly impressed the as interim dean. members of the Chicago-Kent community. In the end, she made our choice an easy one. Before naming her to the role, Baldasty consulted We're incredibly fortunate to have Anita Krug as our widely with internal and external stakeholders— new dean.” faculty, students, alumni, staff, and members of the legal community. As technology disrupts the practice of law, Krug wants to make sure that Chicago-Kent remains a leader in “The support for Anita Krug for interim dean was preparing students for the new legal marketplace in very strong,” he notes. “What I found through my broad which services are broken down into components consultation: She was (and is) highly respected for her and sourced in the most efficient way possible— scholarship and teaching, her commitment to students, whether through automation, individual consultation, and her pragmatic approach to issues and problems. international outsourcing, or other means. She was known, and respected, as someone who could be a transparent and collegial leader.” “Lawyers of the future, and I believe right now, need to be skilled in understanding and managing this new Krug took quickly to her new role as dean. She prioritized paradigm,” she says. “Chicago-Kent is already ahead of so ensuring the school’s financial stability, enhancing many law schools in emphasizing the core competencies student success, deepening engagements with alumni in emerging technologies that are changing the delivery and other constituencies, fundraising and outreach, of legal services, making it more efficient.” and advancing and valuing diversity. In addition to strengthening Chicago-Kent’s legal “I really enjoyed going outside the law school meeting technology programs, Krug says she wants “to speak very alums, people in the community, and others who are early on with the deans at the other IIT schools to look for interested in the sorts of programs and initiatives the possible collaborative opportunities that a tech institute law school was doing,” recalls Krug. is uniquely situated to provide.”

Her time as interim dean taught her the importance With the new school year underway, Krug is excited of shared governance and transparency and how to to bring her skills to Chicago-Kent and to return to manage conflict. the Midwest. Krug; her husband, James Carroll; and “The key is to make sure that everyone is listened to, their their English bulldog, Annabelle, arrived in Chicago voices are heard, and their concerns are known, and that in early July. we think and deliberate about that and are open about “I felt like I’d done my West Coast tour, and it was time what’s going on in the process,” she says. to move back,” she says.

12 | CHICAGO-KENT MAGAZINE 2019 Investing in Success This past year, alumni and friends of Chicago-Kent College of Law broke college fundraising records by donating more than $14 million to the school, more than $6.5 million of which will go to scholarships. In this issue, Chicago-Kent Magazine pays tribute to the many alumni and friends who have supported the next generation of attorneys through scholarships, and the students and alumni who have benefited from their generosity.

2019 CHICAGO-KENT MAGAZINE | 13 INVESTING IN SUCCESS Robert Abbott Scholarship Lester McKeever ’71 Henderson Banks ’15

Henderson Banks ’15, recipient of the Robert Abbott Scholarship

Law school was the turning point for Lester McKeever ’71, who “There were three I became close to,” he recalls. “Two of them has enjoyed a distinguished career—mostly outside of the became judges.” legal profession. He graduated from the University of Illinois When McKeever graduated, he stayed with the accounting at Urbana-Champaign in 1955 with a degree in accounting and firm, which eventually became known as Washington, looked for a job with the big firms. Pittman & McKeever, and also taught accounting and tax “I was told they would love to hire me,” he says, “but their law at Chicago-Kent for a while. And his career took off. He clients just wouldn’t accept me.” served on the finance committee for Chicago mayors Harold Washington and Richard M. Daley. In 1997 he became the He took a position with Mary T. Washington, the first female chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. African-American CPA in the United States, but his career wasn’t working out as he’d hoped, so he decided to attend And he started thinking about ways to give back. law school in the evenings. He didn’t experience the “blatant “I had been fairly well blessed,” he says, “and I really attributed blockage” getting into Chicago-Kent College of Law that much of that to Chicago-Kent. I thought the legal education he faced within the accounting industry, although there was the best education one could have—because it covered were very few black students in that era. life. Knowing how difficult, financial and otherwise, it was for

14 | CHICAGO-KENT MAGAZINE 2019 Lester McKeever ’71

African Americans in higher education, I thought if we could He thought about going for a master’s degree in labor and find some way to give financial support, that’s what we industrial relations but couldn’t let go of his law degree dream. should do.” He transferred from John Marshall Law School in his second year, lured by Chicago-Kent’s certificate program in Labor and He made the initial contribution to what would later Employment Law. become known as the Robert Abbott Scholarship fund. The Washington, Pittman & McKeever offices were located in “They helped me get scholarships and other benefits—one the Chicago Defender building—the newspaper founded by of which was the hands-on externship,” Banks says. Abbott, who was instrumental in The Great Migration. The Going in, he related more to the employee side, like fighting paper encouraged African Americans to come north to find injustices. But the Abbott Scholarship freed him enough a better life. “I later found out Robert Abbott graduated to take on a second externship, which changed his career from Chicago-Kent,” McKeever says. trajectory. His mentor, Chicago-Kent Assistant Dean Marsha The scope of the fund has broadened and now aids all Ross-Jackson, encouraged him to try the management side, minority students. But McKeever has a special place in his working for the U.S. Postal Service. heart for African-American recipients. “You can help fight for employees as a plaintiff’s lawyer,” Banks says, “but on the management side, you’re actually at “I had been fairly well blessed, the table making decisions, helping to influence what an employer might do.”

and I really attributed much of Since graduating, he worked in employee relations for that to Chicago-Kent.” Amazon and then Walgreens before starting his own firm, Henderson Banks Law, two years ago. There, he’s carving a — Lester McKeever ’71 niche representing resident physicians after winning a recent employment case for over a half-million dollars.

Scholarships free up mental capacity, Banks says. Financial One of those recipients is Henderson Banks ’15, whose aid relieves a law student of looking for work-study or part- mother encouraged her son by giving him a biography time jobs. It increases options, like getting additional career of Johnnie Cochran to read. experience or taking extra classes, both of which Banks did, allowing him to finish a semester early, which saved “There were a lot of things I could relate to,” Banks more money. recalls. “He talked about the role religion and church played in becoming a good attorney—speaking and “I look forward to sponsoring a scholarship in the future,” he building relationships.” says. “I think it’s really important to pay it forward. So many people helped me out along the way. Had they not, I wouldn’t He became interested in labor and employment law after be where I am today.” taking an online course. “I was intrigued by stories of the labor movement and how people came together in solidarity to combat issues they were having with their employers,” Banks says.

2019 CHICAGO-KENT MAGAZINE | 15 INVESTING IN SUCCESS International Student LL.M. Scholarship Santi Piyatat LL.M. ’08 Hasitha Attineni LL.M. ’19

Hasitha Attineni ’19, recipient of the International Student LL.M. Scholarship

Santi Piyatat LL.M. ’08 is the founder, senior counsel, and assistance, he would not have been able to go on with his managing director of Asia Inter Law Co. Ltd. in Bangkok. His studies, finish his degree, and become a good lawyer. I realized practice frequently takes him to New York, Great Britain, and at that time the importance of donations.” the Middle East. But he found his way to law by working for For the past four years he has provided scholarships at his nine years as a police officer. firm, allowing two employees to study law in the United “I saw and experienced how difficult it was for ordinary people States. A year ago he established his first scholarship through to have access to justice,” he says. “I realized that by studying Chicago-Kent. law, I would be able to help more people gain access. The gap “To me, it means giving back,” Piyatat says. “By achieving career between rich and poor is the key factor that inspired me to success, and honoring my education at Chicago-Kent, I hope become a lawyer.” to inspire the next generation of alumni to show their support After graduating from law school and completing an LL.M. when their economic success is achieved. That’s my idea.” in Thailand, Piyatat decided that he needed to take one The first recipient of his scholarship was Hasitha Attineni LL.M. more step. ’19, who, while growing up in India, was fascinated by justice. “I thought, ‘The U.S. is my dream and the answer to my goals,’” “Law is something that touches every aspect of life,” she says, he says. He chose Chicago-Kent College of Law for its prestige “and it’s superior, no matter who you are. Every person needs and name recognition. to comply with it.” Piyatat did not have financial aid at Chicago-Kent, he recalls, She also became interested in economics. “but a friend of mine did have a scholarship and without that “Since childhood, my father always kept giving his insights from the newspaper about politics, business, and finance,

16 | CHICAGO-KENT MAGAZINE 2019 Santi Piyatat LL.M. ’08 which potentially helped me to grasp the connection “Getting the scholarship was a great between economics and people,” Attineni says. honor to me... It has a significant After getting her degree in business administration and business law, Attineni saw that corporate law crossed impact on me and has shaped me international borders, so she decided to do her LL.M. in the U.S. Chicago-Kent was flexible about the courses she could as a person to give back to society.” take, but the scholarship was the deciding factor. — Hasitha Attineni ’19 “Getting the scholarship was a great honor to me,” Attineni says. “It has not only made my life more comfortable but also came here and that’s the most important thing you’ve ever made me believe that hard work pays off. It had given me done.’ That made a lot of sense to me,” Attineni says. so much confidence and has reminded me that I am skillful enough each time I was nervous. It has a significant impact on It convinced her that she could adjust to new surroundings. me and has shaped me as a person to give back to society.” Well, maybe not the weather, but she has come to love Chicago in spite of it and is looking for a corporate in-house Chicago-Kent offers a four-week introduction class to the U.S. counsel position in Chicago or Boston. legal system. Clinical Professor Jonathan Decatorsmith, who teaches the class and also worked with Attineni in the Tax The best thing, she says, is feeling more independent. Clinic, became a mentor. Attineni's parents, both of whom are attorneys in India, questioned her move here but changed their minds when “He said, ‘I know you will feel overwhelmed, but don’t think she got the scholarship. about dropping out.’ He gave me a lot of encouragement,” Attineni says. For Piyatat, such giving fits his sense of mission. He has started a nonprofit called the Santi Foundation to address She earned her LL.M. in U.S, International, and Transnational the gap between the rich and the poor by improving access Law. There was not much time for extracurriculars, but the to justice and to education. scholarship allowed Attineni to focus on classes—though she did join Illinois Institute of Technology’s Indian Student “When I was young,” he recalls, “my grandfather told me Association, which enlarged her social circle. education is like a tree. The better and deeper the roots reach, the greater the chance the tree will survive and become Attineni met Piyatat when he returned to Chicago-Kent in fruitful. I wish to see a better society. I believe financial 2018 to receive an Outstanding Young Alumnus Award. He was independence plays a major role.” warm and encouraging, she recalled, and made her see that she had already accomplished something big. “He said, ‘You

2019 CHICAGO-KENT MAGAZINE | 17 INVESTING IN SUCCESS Fanny Fadel Scholarship Tarek Fadel ’03 Touline Elshafei ’20

Tarek Fadel ’03

Touline Elshafei, a third-year student, couldn’t help but be the top of her class. But women weren’t allowed admission inspired by her mother, Taghrid, when she started thinking to the bar. She couldn’t even find a job as a secretary. about law school. It figured prominently in her personal When her son was born, Fanny knew they needed to leave the statement when she applied to Chicago-Kent College of country. Her brother had just taken a job at the Art Institute of Law. Her mother attended law school in Syria, but when she Chicago, so they came to the city. became pregnant with her first child, she dropped out. When Elshafei, the youngest of four, turned 1, the family emigrated As an only child, expectations were high, Fadel says. “I grew from Syria to Michigan. “After four children, she realized it up in a family where you could be an engineer, a doctor, or a wasn’t going to be her time,” Elshafei says, “and, when we lawyer. I’m a lawyer and a technologist, and I’m fascinated by moved here, there was a language barrier.” medicine, and I’ve got the mind of an engineer because I love to deconstruct everything.” Like mother, like son it turns out. Her mom didn’t push her toward law school, but she did push Fanny also wanted to be an engineer, but that was even more the four kids to attend college. “It was always, ‘Be better, do unlikely than being a lawyer. better,’” Elshafei recalls. “She knew I had an interest in law but let me figure it out on my own. She’s very excited that I was “That’s the mind she’s got, and I inherited it from her. She’s able to do it.” really an amazing woman,” Fadel says.

It made a good story for her personal statement—and mirrors And like his mother, he ended up in law school. “Chicago-Kent Tarek Fadel’s story about his own mother. Fadel ’03 was born was a technology-leaning school,” he says. It also had “a warm in Beirut in 1975, “in the middle of the civil war, which started and welcoming feeling.” He loved the school even though he that year and lasted 20 years.” His mother, Fanny, had attended says he didn’t enjoy the study of law and became less inspired law school—the only woman in her class—and graduated at by the thought of practicing law.

18 | CHICAGO-KENT MAGAZINE 2019 Touline Elshafei ’20, recipient of the Fanny Fadel Scholarship

When he realized that concentrating entirely on his studies Elshafei's first child was born in August, which has made her wasn’t helping, “I decided to get involved in student final year more complicated, so the scholarship helps. government.” He became treasurer, then president of the Without it, Elshafei says, “I don’t know if I would have been Student Bar Association, and found friends for life among able to attend law school. It encouraged me to pursue a dream both the students and faculty. that might have been lost.” It also freed her up to pursue “I’ve never been satisfied with being run-of-the-mill, and if opportunities such as a judicial externship last semester with I wasn’t going to be an exceptional student, I wanted to be Judge Terrence J. Lavin of the Illinois Appellate Court. Lavin exceptional at something,” Fadel says. graduated from Chicago-Kent in 1983.

When he was studying for the bar exam in 2003, he decided to develop his own bar prep program: “I thought, ‘OK, if I’m going to do this, I should be a customer too, right?’” When “It encouraged me to pursue a dream he passed, he turned his program, AdaptiBar, the first such that might have been lost.” program online, into AdaptiGroup LLC, which has students in 65 countries and all 50 states. It was so successful that — Touline Elshafei ’20 Fadel found himself in a position to create a scholarship at Chicago-Kent. After meeting Fanny last year, Elshafei describes the “What really planted the seed was my mom’s 75th birthday,” scholarship connection as “sort of angelic. I didn’t even he says. She doesn’t like gifts, “but this one brought her to realize we had similar upbringings with our mothers. I tears. She was over the moon, which was so welcome because thought, ‘Wow, what are the odds?’” I could never pay her back.”

In order to preserve tax deductibility, scholarship donors at Chicago-Kent have no involvement in choosing the recipients of their largesse. “But whatever resembled the story of my mom would, of course, resonate,” he says. “I had nothing to do with picking Touline, but they hit it spot on.”

When he heard about the uncanny parallels between Elshafei and her mom, he was pleased, but “I was more thrilled when I met her because she’s this great person. I could not have asked for a better recipient. She volunteers all the time. She gives back to the school.”

2019 CHICAGO-KENT MAGAZINE | 19 INVESTING IN SUCCESS Grace and Roy Hansen Scholarship David Hansen ’84 Daniel Broaddus ’18

Daniel Broaddus ’18, recipient of the Grace and Roy Hansen Scholarship

David Hansen ’84 and Daniel Broaddus ’18 are a generation After his clerkship, Hansen joined the newly opened Chicago apart but have plenty in common. office of the international law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP; spent the early 1990s in Skadden’s Hansen has an engineering degree from the University of New York office; and then helped open the firm’s Palo Alto, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and worked as an engineer California, office in 1998. Since 2004 he has taught Law for before entering law school. Computer Science Professionals at Stanford University. “I attended Chicago-Kent because it is an excellent school Broaddus has a Ph.D. in applied physics from Cornell and they offered me a partial scholarship, which was very University, but he didn’t want to stay in academia. He worked important since I did not have much money, and its downtown as a patent agent for just under two years and decided to stay Chicago location provides significant opportunities to work in that field, so he started looking into law school. with law firms, and extern with courts and other government entities,” Hansen says. He worked as a science advisor at Brinks full-time and enrolled in Chicago-Kent College of Law’s evening division. He was He did just that, working part-time for the intellectual accepted into the Honors Scholar Program, which comes with property firm now known as Brinks, Gilson & Lione and doing a full-tuition scholarship. an externship with Judge Stanley Roszkowski of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He “I took many IP classes and really got to pursue the topics I was also clerked for Roszkowski following graduation. most interested in,” Broaddus says. “A big part of that

20 | CHICAGO-KENT MAGAZINE 2019 David Hansen ’84 flexibility was because I had the scholarship, so there was less “I’m fortunate to have excellent pressure to make sure that I maximized my résumé. I knew I wasn’t going to be in a desperate financial position after law parents who always supported me. school, so I could do things that sent me along my particular interests.” The financial aid package, which included the Grace They’re very proud that I became and Roy Hansen Scholarship, also relieved the pressure of a lawyer, and the Chicago-Kent having to take out loans.

“The IP program at Chicago-Kent is excellent,” Broaddus says, scholarship seemed a fitting way “one of the best in the country. IP is a field that has seen a lot to say thank you.” of growth recently. It has existed in various forms for a long time, but in the 1990s and 2000s it grew relative to where it — David Hansen ’84 had been, and certainly in prominence.”

Hansen witnessed and fully participated in that growth. He named the scholarship for his parents, Grace and Roy Hansen, because “I’m fortunate to have excellent parents “The Federal Circuit, the ‘patent’ appeals court,” he recalls, who always supported me,” he says. “They’re very proud that “was created in 1982, right before I graduated in ’84, and I became a lawyer, and the Chicago-Kent scholarship seemed it significantly changed patent law and the importance of a fitting way to say thank you.” patents, in both the litigation and corporate transactions contexts. Things really took off after the Federal Circuit’s State For Broaddus, in addition to relieving financial stress, the Street Bank decision in 1998, which provided for software and scholarship allowed him to consider other career path options. business method patents and began the era of patent ‘trolls.’ He ultimately decided to stay with Brinks Gilson & Lione, but The explosive impact of State Street Bank and the landmark he valued that decision more because he was able to consider Supreme Court patent decisions and legislation that followed other options. are still being hotly debated and litigated today.” “In the end, staying at Brinks was the right decision for me,” he “The emergence of the internet and digital media, passage says, “The scholarship allowed me to decide that Brinks is the of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, and software right place for me. That was a huge benefit.” copyright issues substantially broadened the scope and Broaddus says scholarships are important because they importance of copyright legal issues to today’s business encourage legal career diversity. If everyone comes out of law practices,” Hansen adds. “It was a terrific time to be an IP school burdened by student debt, they may not enter fields lawyer, and I was fortunate to participate in a wide range of where they can help clients who can’t afford high-priced legal lawsuits and corporate deals involving important and often services, he says. cutting-edge IP issues.” “It also attracts an intellectually diverse group of students,” But, Hansen says, “all roads lead back to Chicago-Kent. Any Broaddus says. “I think it enriches the student body at success I have had as a lawyer stems from my Chicago-Kent Chicago-Kent to have that diversity.” education, and I’m happy I have been able to give something back to the school and help other students who, like me, need financial assistance.”

2019 CHICAGO-KENT MAGAZINE | 21 INVESTING IN SUCCESS Yonover Fellowship Geri Yonover ’83 and Ron Yonover Yosef Klein ’12

Yosef Klein ’12, recipient of the Yonover Fellowship

Before Geri Yonover ’83 entered Chicago-Kent College of Law she learned about an opening on the faculty at Valparaiso in 1980, she sat down with her husband, Ron, and her two sons, University Law School in Indiana. She spent the next 18 years John, then 16, and Jeff, then 14. She had Ron’s full support to there, teaching a variety of courses, including Torts, Conflict attend law school but wanted to make sure the boys were on of Laws, Intellectual Property, and the occasional seminar on board. “Fine with us, Mom,” they said, “but you have to get two art law. things: a VCR and a microwave.” She modeled her teaching methods on Chicago-Kent In exchange for a mom who went to law school, her sons professors she respected, such as Joan Steinman and the late received the VCR and microwave. Margaret Stewart. “What I did at Valpo was really an amalgam of what I thought was the best of the best at Chicago-Kent,” As a 39-year-old “returning student,” she was a relative rarity, Yonover says. “I’d always been attracted to academia, and but found Chicago-Kent “very welcoming. It was a wonderful they seemed to enjoy their roles so much and do it so well.” three years. I regretted it not one instant.” After retiring, she came back to Chicago-Kent as an adjunct She chose Chicago-Kent because of its reputation. “Dean Lew faculty member to teach Conflict of Laws, but she and Ron Collens had taken the school to another level,” she says. “It was found other ways to give back. thought of highly.” “We donate to moot court and law review,” she notes. “I After graduating, she clerked for Judge Hubert Will of the was managing editor of the law review and part of the Moot United States District Court for the Northern District of Court Society. Those are annual gifts.” They also established Illinois, then worked at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal until scholarships in the Midwest and Florida, where they now live part of the year. Ron runs a sugar business started by his father, and now their son and grandson work there as well.

22 | CHICAGO-KENT MAGAZINE 2019 Geri Yonover ’83 and Ron Yonover

Because she was financially comfortable, Yonover didn’t need But there is a Jewish bar association at Chicago-Kent, the financial aid at Chicago-Kent, but she knew that wasn’t the Decalogue Society, for which Klein served as president. He case for all law students with children—so she and Ron set also served on the Student Bar Association and worked in up an endowed fellowship. the Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic—now the Tax Clinic— while focusing his studies on trial advocacy and pre-trial “I wanted to help those students go to law school,” she says. litigation courses. “It wasn’t a huge amount, but it might make a difference.” Yonover and Klein met for lunch in 2011, and she reached It made a difference to Yosef Klein ’12, whose first son was out when Klein’s second son was born several weeks before born three weeks early at the beginning of his first semester he completed his coursework. “We talked about my law school at Chicago-Kent. career and my future plans,” he recalls. “She went over my résumé and made suggestions. Her interest and compassion stretched beyond the lecture halls and into my career.”

“She went over my résumé and Klein started his own general litigation practice, Klein Firm made suggestions. Her interest and PLLC, in a Detroit suburb just over a year ago. He focuses on insurance law, and his only marketing involved posting compassion stretched beyond the more than 100 insurance “law lessons” on LinkedIn (now collected on his website), which form the basis of a soon- lecture halls and into my career.” to-be published book.

— Yosef Klein ’12 Yonover describes Klein as “just the kind of person we would hope to help.”

With four sons now, Klein still grapples with the family-career “It certainly had an impact,” he recalls. In addition to balance. Instead of working late into the evenings, he heads the typical expenses of parenthood, the rigors of being home until the kids go to bed, then returns to his office. a new parent took a toll on Klein’s grades, which affected his scholarship. “You have to show them they’re the most important,” he says, “notwithstanding whatever you may be doing at school The Yonover Fellowship, which he received in his second or at work.” year, was much appreciated.

“More than the dollars,” Klein notes, the scholarship “said, ‘We want to recognize the extra difficulties that parents in law school are going through.’ There is no Parents-with-Kids Bar Association.”

2019 CHICAGO-KENT MAGAZINE | 23 Professor Andrews Associate Professor Boni-Saenz Named a Nayar Honored for Teaching Skills Prize II Finalist Associate Professor University Distinguished Alexander Boni-Saenz Professor Lori Andrews was awarded Chicago- and her collaborators— Kent’s 2019 Excellence Illinois Institute of in Teaching Award. In Technology professors nominating him for the Miles Wernick and award, then-Dean Harold Yongyi Yang—were Krent wrote that Boni- selected as the Nayar Saenz engages “students Prize II finalists for their Data-Driven Crime Prevention to become collaborators Program. As one of two teams selected for the second at all levels of instruction.” round of Nayar Prize II, the group received an additional Keisha McClellan ’19 $100,000 to continue its work with the Elgin Police wrote in support of the nomination that Boni-Saenz Department to build an algorithm that identifies those is “committed to his students” and “passionate about most at risk of becoming victims or perpetrators of inspiring others to use careers in law for the good of crime. The city can use that data to identify those in society.” A member of the Chicago-Kent faculty since need of social services or other help. The Nayar Prize 2013, Boni-Saenz teaches Property, Estates and Trusts, is designed to encourage and challenge the Illinois Elder Law, and Latinx and the Law. His scholarship Tech community to develop breakthrough projects that focuses on legal issues in aging and inheritance. will, within three years, produce meaningful results with He was granted tenure in spring 2019. FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS FACULTY a societal impact.

Professor Emeritus Professor Birdthistle Receives Brody Honored Teaching Award from the University for Nonprofit of Chicago Law School Leadership Professor William Professor Emeritus Birdthistle was Evelyn Brody accepted honored with the the 2018 Distinguished 2019 Teaching Award Achievement and from the University of Leadership in Nonprofit Chicago Law School in and Voluntary Action May, marking the first Research Award from time the law school’s the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations graduating class has and Voluntary Action during the organization’s 47th given the award to annual conference in Austin, Texas. At the conference, someone not on the two panels discussed Brody’s ideas and scholarship, University of Chicago’s including one panel titled “The Lasting Impact of permanent faculty. In addition to his faculty appointment Nonprofit Law Icon: Professor Evelyn Brody.” A prolific at Chicago-Kent College of Law, Birdthistle is a lecturer author and speaker, Brody served as the reporter for in law at the University of Chicago Law School and has the American Law Institute’s Project on Principles of the taught the Securities Regulation course there for the Law of Nonprofit Organizations until 2013. She recently past three years. At Chicago-Kent he teaches Business retired after 27 years at Chicago-Kent. Organizations, Securities Regulation, and Investment Funds. In 2010 Birdthistle won the Chicago-Kent College of Law Excellence in Teaching Award.

24 | CHICAGO-KENT MAGAZINE 2019 Professor Krent with Professor Sergio Gamonal C. of the Adolfo Ibáñez Named Chicago University of Chile. Published by Oxford University Press Lawyer’s 2018 in May 2019, the book examines United States labor law Person of the Year by using four labor-protective principles found in Latin America and international labor law. The authors argue Professor Harold Krent, that the Thirteenth Amendment could be used to protect who stepped down in workers in an unequal relationship with their employers. July after 17-plus years The Bar Association of Puerto Rico selected the book for as dean of Chicago-Kent, the Simón Bolívar best book of the year award. Rosado was named the 2018 Marzán was promoted to full professor in spring 2019. Person of the Year by Chicago Lawyer magazine. The editors commended Krent Professor Warner’s New Book Argues for for “adapting the curriculum and program to keep Better Risk Management for Data Breaches up with the legal profession’s ever-changing future” and for working to “continually provide students with Professor Richard beneficial legal training, especially through pro bono Warner co-authored efforts.” In May the Chicago Legal Clinic honored Krent a new book titled with its 2019 “Be a Light” Social Justice Innovation Why Don’t We Defend Award for his contributions to its services community Better? Data Breaches, and for Chicago-Kent’s ongoing partnership with its Risk Management, Environmental Law Project. and Public Policy (CRC Press 2019) with Professor Robert Sloan, Associate Professor Piatt Joins Center head of the computer for IP Understanding Board science department at the University of Associate Professor Illinois at Chicago. Warner and Sloan combine issues Mickie Piatt has been of technology, business, risk management, and legal selected to join the liability to explain why data breach defense is often board of directors for the ineffective and how to respond to the increasing Center for Intellectual frequency of data breaches. Property Understanding. Founded in 2016, CIPU is an independent, Library Director Wenger Joins the nonprofit organization International Association of Law dedicated to raising Libraries Board awareness of intellectual property rights and how Jean Wenger, director they impact people’s lives. CIPU conducts research, of the Chicago-Kent facilitates events, and educates consumers, lawmakers, College of Law Library, educators, business owners, IP holders, and the public has been elected to the on the benefits of IP rights, including patents, copyrights, board of directors of the trademarks, and trade secrets. Chicago-Kent hosted International Association CIPU’s 2017 IP Awareness Summit, which addressed the of Law Libraries. role of the public’s understanding of intellectual property With more than 400 in innovation, ideas, and value creation. members in more than 50 countries, IALL is a worldwide organization Professor Rosado that promotes the work Marzán Offers of individuals, libraries, and other organizations Latin American concerned with the dissemination of legal information. Her term, which runs from 2019 to 2022, begins in Perspective on U.S. November at the IALL’s 38th annual course in Sydney. Labor Law Professor César F. Rosado Marzán co-wrote Principled Labor Law: U.S. Labor Law Through a Latin American Method

2019 CHICAGO-KENT MAGAZINE | 25 A Tribute to Dean Krent

Dean Harold Krent takes a selfie with his longtime executive assistant Tasha Kincade.

More than 250 members of the Chicago-Kent College of Law community came together on April 12 to celebrate the legacy of outgoing Dean Harold J. Krent at a gala event at The Dalcy in Chicago.

During his 17-plus years leading Chicago-Kent, Krent At the celebration, alumni, faculty, and friends of the law enrolled more than 6,000 students, hired more than 30 school donated nearly $1 million to the Harold J. Krent full-time faculty members as well as the directors of its Tribute Fund, which will be used to create the new two award-winning advocacy programs, launched 10 Krent Professorship. centers and institutes, and raised more than $45 million in philanthropic support for the law school. He doubled the diversity in the student body and launched several initiatives to expose underrepresented high school and college students to legal practice.

26 | CHICAGO-KENT MAGAZINE 2019 Dean Harold Krent (left) and Professor Richard Conviser address the audience. Arthur Morris ’71 (left) and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul ’93

(Left to right): Susan Valentine ’87, the Honorable Cynthia Cobbs ’88, Dean Harold Krent, and Cook County Public Defender Amy Campanelli ’87

(Left to right): Victoria Gray ’07, Lalania Gilkey-Johnson ’08, (Left to right): The Honorable Terrence Lavin ’83, Illinois Tech Board of and Rachel Moran ’08 Trustees Chairman Michael P. Galvin ’78, Nancy Krent, Dean Harold Krent, and David Schlaifer ’88

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Senior Partner Council Reception

Nearly 100 members of Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Senior Partner Council joined Dean Anita K. Krug at the Ivy Room in July to celebrate the role of philanthropy at the law school. Senior Partner Council members donate $1,000 or more each during the fiscal year. Last year Senior Partner Council members donated a total of nearly $2 million.

Dean Anita K. Krug (Left to right): Professor Felice Batlan, Michael Ilagan ’98, and Jason Sposeep ’03

(Left to right): Paul Miller ’00 and Amy Curran ’01 (Left to right): Professor Richard Conviser, Thomas G. Siracusa ’86, and Dean Anita K. Krug

Today for C-K

On September 26, 2018, Chicago-Kent College of Law held its fourth annual Today for C-K challenge, raising more than $485,000 for the law school in 36 hours. Three alumni—Jeffery M. Leving ’79, Mary Nicolau ’85, and Norm Mindel B.S. ’73, ’78 as well as the family of former Illinois Governor Richard B. Ogilvie ’49—offered up challenge gifts, and 388 alumni, faculty, staff, students, and friends responded with their own support for Chicago-Kent. Then-Chicago-Kent College of Law Dean Harold Krent and his wife, Nancy Krent, join student volunteers to celebrate the success of Today for C-K. Watch your email and social media for plans for the next Today for C-K challenge.

28 | CHICAGO-KENT MAGAZINE 2019 Consider Including Chicago-Kent in Your Estate Plans Join the Gunsaulus Society The J.D. that David Schlaifer ’88 earned at Chicago-Kent College of Law not only prepared him for a future career in law, but it also supported his impressive career in business. Schlaifer is the founder, president, and CEO of DAS Health, a health care technology and services firm that has become a trusted advisor to more than 1,500 clinicians and health systems, providing care to more than 7 million patients nationwide.

“The education I earned at Chicago-Kent combined with the business knowledge base that I gained while working assisted with the numerous acquisitions I have completed to grow my business,” he says.

While Schlaifer lives in Florida, he still feels connected to the law school and wishes to support future law students by making a gift through his will.

“I found it so easy to want to give back to the law school because I’ve gained so much from my education at Chicago-Kent,” Schlaifer explains.

Members of the Gunsaulus Society have expressed their commitment to Illinois Institute of Technology through a special and important form of financial support. These donors have named Chicago-Kent as the ultimate beneficiary of a planned gift. Such gifts might include a bequest and/or charitable income gifts, such as charitable gift annuities, charitable remainder unitrusts, charitable remainder annuity trusts, gifts from retirement accounts, or gifts of life insurance.

Once you complete your estate plans, please contact the Chicago-Kent alumni office to let us know. We would like to thank you for your generosity by including you in the Gunsaulus Society.

Your membership involves no dues, obligations, or solicitations, but it does allow us to thank you and recognize you for the plans you have made. It may also inspire generosity in others. Benefits of membership in the Gunsaulus Society include annual luncheons, invitations to special events and seminars, and special recognition at university events. The most important benefit you will receive from joining the Gunsaulus Society, however, is the satisfaction derived from making a lasting contribution to Chicago-Kent’s long-term prosperity.

For more information, please contact us at [email protected].

David Schlaifer ’88 (right) with Michael P. Galvin ’78, chairman of the Illinois Tech Board of Trustees

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Chicago-Kent College of Law Names Building for Professor and BARBRI Co-Founder Richard J. Conviser

Illinois Tech’s Law School Building to Become the Conviser Law Center

Illinois Institute of Technology has announced the renaming of the law school building to the Conviser Law Center in recognition of Richard J. Conviser’s lifelong service to Chicago-Kent College of Law and the legal community. Conviser, whose lifetime donations recently surpassed $12 million, is a co-founder of BARBRI, the world’s largest bar exam preparation course, and is also a longtime professor of law at Chicago-Kent. He is the largest donor to the law school. “Over the course of my teaching career with BARBRI and the law school, it has always been my mission to set “We are grateful to our friend and dear colleague Richard up the next generation of lawyers for success,” Conviser Conviser for his generous gift to the law school,” says says. “Chicago-Kent is a leader in innovation. The school’s Chicago-Kent Dean Anita K. Krug. “Over the course of his forward-thinking approach to providing a quality legal career, Richard has contributed to the legal industry as education that prepares students to practice law in this a scholar, businessman, and educator who has impacted rapidly changing legal industry is truly outstanding thousands of students at Chicago-Kent and more than among its peers. My hope is that this gift will support a million through BARBRI. We are honored to publicly more creative initiatives that will raise Chicago-Kent’s acknowledge his long friendship with us by adding his national profile among prospective students and the legal name to our building.” community at-large.” Since its founding, BARBRI has helped nearly 1.5 million The gift will be used to further develop the reputation of lawyers around the world pass a United States bar exam. the law school, which is the second-oldest law school in Conviser was in his mid-20s when he started the small Chicago and recognized nationally for its highly ranked bar exam review as an associate at Baker McKenzie. programs and experiential learning opportunities. BARBRI quickly gained widespread success, training the vast majority of law students nationwide to pass the bar “Richard Conviser has been a mentor and friend for more exam, and it remains so to this day. than 40 years,” says Michael P. Galvin ’78, president of Galvin Enterprises Inc. and chairman of Illinois Tech’s Conviser has attained other milestones in his life. Board of Trustees. “His commitment to building Chicago- After law school, he was awarded a prestigious Ford Kent into a top-tier law school is tremendous, and the Foundation grant that took him to Germany, where he impact of his gift will be felt by students for generations was associated with the Institute for Private International to come.” and Comparative Law, one of Europe’s top international law institutions. While he was at Baker McKenzie, the The official unveiling ceremony for the Conviser Law governor of Illinois appointed him to establish the state’s Center is scheduled for April 2020. first foreign operation. He served as deputy European director of this office in Brussels, Belgium. “Throughout his tenure at Chicago-Kent College of Law, Professor Conviser has had an incredible impact on the Conviser received his bachelor’s and law degrees from the education of every student that has walked through those University of California, Berkeley, where he served on the doors,” says Illinois Tech President Alan W. Cramb. “We Law Review. He also holds a Dr. Jur. from the University of are proud to recognize his contributions both in and out Cologne in Germany. of the classroom, and we know that his continued support will help to further Chicago-Kent’s reputation as an innovator in legal education.”

30 | CHICAGO-KENT MAGAZINE 2019 1965 1967 1973 CLASS NOTES Gerald L. Bepko, Indianapolis, was Dennis L. Blewitt, Boulder, Colo., J. Daniel Azulay, Boynton Beach, Fla., recognized by the Indiana Commission appeared on the television series Pawn retired his law license and moved to for Higher Education, which will Stars with a notebook that his longtime South Florida. present the Gerald Bepko Faculty acquaintance, Hunter S. Thompson, Ernest R. Blomquist, Arlington Community Engagement Award used as the basis of his book Songs of Heights, Ill., received the 2018 annually to recognize faculty at an the Doomed. The notebook shows his Chicago-Kent College of Law Alumni Indiana institution who are exemplars thoughts during the formulation and Professional Achievement Award. of the scholarship of community writing of the book in his handwriting, Thomas A. Demetrio, Chicago, has engagement. Recipients of the Bepko his secretary’s handwriting, and been ranked as the top lawyer in Illinois Award are model faculty members his doodles. for 2019 by Super Lawyers for the third currently engaged in teaching, consecutive year. A founding partner research, or service commitments of Corboy & Demetrio, Demetrio is a that contribute to the greater good of nationally renowned trial lawyer with their communities, and further the an emphasis on medical negligence, commission’s core principles of being 1971 airplane crash, product liability, and a higher education system that is Lester H. McKeever Jr., Chicago, commercial litigation on behalf of student-centered, mission-driven, and was awarded the 2018 American plaintiffs. He continues to serve as the workforce-aligned. Institute of CPAs Gold Medal Award co-chair of Chicago-Kent College of of Distinction. The Gold Medal is the Law’s Board of Advisors. highest honor granted by the AICPA, Bruno W. Tabis Jr., Aurora, bestowed upon CPAs whose influence Ill., joined Huck Bouma PC. Tabis on the accounting profession has been serves as general counsel for closely 1966 especially notable. held businesses, concentrating on William V. Johnson, Northfield, Ill., the formation and maintenance of was awarded the Defense Attorney corporations and LLCs. He also focuses Lifetime Achievement Award at the his practice on commercial real estate 2018 Jury Verdict Reporter Trial and finance. Lawyer Excellence Awards. Johnson 1972 Janice Zarro, Sarasota, Fla., was is a shareholder and the chairman of Barry A. Goldstein-Zavah, Alpine, elected to the Board of Directors of the Johnson & Bell Ltd., focusing on injury Texas, is enjoying retired life in Alpine Canandaigua National Trust Company and mass tort cases. with summer/autumn recreation of Florida. Zarro teamed with her Ilana D. Rovner, Chicago, received vehicle trips back to Buffalo, N.Y., millennial great-niece on a project the Decalogue Society’s 2018 Lifetime each year. titled ”Stilettos and Sneakers: An Inter- Achievement Award. She serves on the Generational Conversation,” which United States Court of Appeals for the addresses women and failure. Seventh Circuit.

1974 Saul L. Langsam, Elkins Park, Pa., is Chicago-Kent in Florida a founding member of Silvers, Langsam Bruce Kohen ’79 and his wife, Sherri Kohen, hosted a & Weitzman, PC, known throughout group of Chicago-Kent College of Law alumni at their home the greater Philadelphia area as “My in Naples, Florida. Philly Lawyer.”

1975 John E. Fennelly, Stuart, Fla., transitioned to senior status on Florida’s Court of Appeals for the Fourth District. He passed away in May 2019. Michael E. Jackson, Shaker Heights, Ohio, was appointed by the Ohio State Bar Association to serve as chair of its Military and Veterans’ Affairs Committee. He was elected to the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas in 2012, and he previously served as a United States Marines combat officer during the Vietnam War.

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Northbrook, Northbrook, Dixon ’97 Dixon and and in Toru´n, Poland, where she is on the 1983 1984 editorial board of the Comparative Law Carol V. Gilden, Chicago, was named Lawrence S. Perry, New York, joined Review. In retirement, the former music one of Chicago’s Notable Women Venable LLP as a partner. Perry has teacher who became a lawyer plays the Lawyers of 2018 by Crain’s Chicago extensive experience practicing French horn in multiple ensembles, Business. A partner at Cohen Milstein before the United States Patent and directs a choir, plays the bagpipes, Sellers & Toll PLLC, she is a part of the Trademark Office, including appeals, and is learning to play her newest firm’s Securities Litigation and Investor interferences, reexaminations, instrument, the alphorn. Protection practice group. She has reissues, and all phases of patent spearheaded some of the most novel prosecution in biotechnical, chemical, securities disputes in the financial pharmaceutical, plant genetics, markets, resulting in aggregate magneto-optical, metallurgical, recoveries in excess of several billion and mechanical technologies. 1987 dollars for investors. Scott J. Cipinko, Marietta, Ga., Richard M. Karpel, Carson expanded his practive from insurance City, Nev., joined the Nevada Press regulation and corporate work to Association as its new executive include more family related and small director. Karpel and his company, 1985 business formation work. He is of coun- Karpel Public Affairs, has taken over James G. O’Brien, Highland Park, Ill., sel at Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig PLLC. management of the association. is president of Oak Hill LLC. Lisa A. Jensen, Belvidere, Ill., is a Joseph R. Lopez, Chicago, continues United States magistrate judge for the to work in private practice with his Northern District of Illinois. She is the partner and wife, Lisa Lopez, at Lopez first woman to serve as a judicial officer & Lopez. He was named to the National in the court’s Western Division. Trial Lawyers 100 Top Trial Lawyers. 1986 Timothy J. Cavanagh, Chicago, Cynde Munzer, Highland Park, Ill., Anita M. Alvarez, Chicago, joined founding partner of Cavanagh Law was named one of Chicago’s Notable Alvarez & Marsal, a global consulting Group, has been selected by his peers Women Lawyers of 2018 by Crain’s firm, as managing director of the for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America Chicago Business. A member in Dykema Disputes and Investigations practice. in the fields of medical malpractice and Gossett PLLC’s Chicago office, she Scott E. Galbreath, J.D. ’86, LL.M. personal injury law every year since represents clients in business and ’91, Sacramento, Calif., was inducted 2015. He has obtained more than 55 transactional matters. as a fellow of the American College verdicts and settlements exceeding Nancy E. Paridy, Evanston, Ill., of Employee Benefits Counsel for $1 million, including a landmark $20 was named among the Top Women his significant contributions to million settlement with the City of Lawyers in Leadership by the Women’s the advancement of the employee Chicago in the high-profile “Code of Bar Association of Illinois. Paridy is benefits field. Silence” wrongful death case. Cavanagh the chief administrative officer and Kathleen B. Lang, La Porte, Ind., recently appeared before the United senior vice president at Shirley Ryan is on senior status as an Indiana trial States Supreme Court with a group of AbilityLab, where she serves as general judge. She is an adjunct professor at the fellow Chicago-Kent College of Law counsel for all legal matters. University of Notre Dame Law School graduates and was sworn in to practice Hillary Ross, Highland Park, Ill., and has also taught Trial Advocacy before the highest court in the land. is a senior partner and shareholder at Chicago-Kent College of Law. She with executive search firm Witt/ recently returned from teaching at Kieffer. As leader of the firm’s the Nicolaus Copernicus Law School Information Technology practice, she specializes in the recruitment of chief information officers and chief medical information officers, as well as leaders Hinshaw & Culbertson Reception in security, data science, analytics, biomedical informatics, research Alumni currently and formerly employed at Hinshaw informatics, innovation and quality, & Culbertson attended an event coordinated by and personalized medicine. Her clients Matthew Walsh II ’92. include health care delivery systems, hospitals, academic medical centers, health care startups, technology vendors, and consulting firms across the country. John G. Tolomei, Lake Zurich, Ill., joined McCracken & Gillen as of counsel, focusing his practice on patent counsel and other intellectual property issues.

2019 CHICAGO-KENT MAGAZINE | 33 Andrea Lubelfeld, Evanston, Ill., currently works as an attorney supervisor with the Multiple Defendant 40th Annual Alumni Awards Celebration Division of the Law Office of the On November 14, 2018, members of the Chicago-Kent College Cook County Public Defender. She of Law community gathered for the 40th annual Alumni Awards taught Juvenile Justice at the DePaul Celebration to honor alumni and faculty for their outstanding University College of Law as an adjunct faculty member. professional and community service achievements and to Jeffrey Patt, Chicago, received raise money for the Chicago-Kent Alumni Board of Directors the 2018 Chicago-Kent College of Scholarship Fund. The scholarship is awarded annually to Law Distinguished Service Award. students who display financial need and academic merit. Patt is a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP. Professional Achievement Awards Richard R. Winter, St. Charles, • Ernest Blomquist ’73, Massucci, Blomquist, Anderson & Dunn Ill., received the 2018 Honorary Fellow • Jodi Caro ’89, Ulta Beauty Award at the Illinois Bar Foundation’s Fellows Breakfast. Winter is partner Distinguished Service Awards at Holland & Knight LLP, focusing his

CLASS NOTES • Jill Webb ’96, Law Office of Jill M. Webb, LLC practice on shareholder and fiduciary • Jeffrey Patt ’87, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP litigation, insurance, intellectual property, and antitrust law. Outstanding Young Alumnus/a Awards • Michael Ko ’08, Groundwork Trial Consulting • Santi Piyatat LLM ’08, Asia Inter Law Co. Ltd.

1988 Institutional Partner Award Kenneth M. Bloom, Deerfield, Ill., was • Quarles & Brady LLP named to the Law Bulletin Publishing Company’s Leading Lawyers list for 2019. Bloom is a partner at Latimer LeVay Fyock LLC. A certified public accountant as well as an attorney, Bloom focuses his practice on estate planning and administration, wills, trusts, special needs planning, probate, asset protection, powers of attorney, and business succession planning. Cynthia Y. Cobbs, Orland Park, Ill., was installed as the chair of the Illinois Judicial Council. She received the inaugural Ida Platt Appreciation Award from Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Black Law Student Association. She is a justice on the Illinois Appellate Court. Standing (left to right): James Gatziolis ’73, accepting the award on behalf of Robert Milan, Chicago, joined Quarles & Brady LLP; Jodi Caro ’89; Jill Webb ’96; and Ernie Blomquist ’73. Alvarez & Marsal as a managing Seated (left to right): Santi Piyatat LLM ’08; Jeffrey Patt ’87; and Michael Ko ’08 director in the firm’s Disputes and Investigations practice. In this role, Milan leads complex global forensic investigations in the areas of anti- corruption, corporate fraud, and 1989 1990 data breach response. As a former Jodi J. Caro, Chicago, received the Eileen M. Burke, Chicago, was assistant United States attorney for 2018 Chicago-Kent College of Law installed as the third vice president the Northern District of Illinois, a Professional Achievement Award. of the Illinois Judges Association. She former Cook County prosecutor, and Caro is the general counsel of Ulta served in the Law Division of the Cook an experienced senior executive in the Beauty Inc. County Circuit Court until her election corporate risk management sector, Mark A. Frey, Crystal Lake, Ill., to the Illinois Appellate Court in 2016. Milan advises clients on investigations, was elected to the Illinois Health Prior to that she worked as a Cook data breach response, data recovery, and Hospital Association’s Board of County assistant state’s attorney for e-discovery, litigation support, and Trustees. Frey is president and chief 10 years, and had her own practice forensic accounting. executive officer of AMITA Health. focusing on criminal defense until her Susan H. Mendelsohn, Chicago, election to the circuit court in 2008. was recognized as one of the nation’s Terrence T. Creamer, Chicago, most respected and successful legal joined Littler Mendelson PC as recruiters and legal industry business special counsel. His practice involves consultants. Mendelsohn is the founder traditional labor matters such as and president of Mendelsohn Legal, Inc. collective bargaining, defense of unfair labor practice charges, arbitration

34 | CHICAGO-KENT MAGAZINE 2019 of grievances, administration of including domestic and foreign collective bargaining agreements, 1991 patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and guiding employers through union James J. Boyne, Steamboat Springs, copyrights, false advertising, and representation campaigns. Colo., joined Weitz Investment unfair competition. Leo P. Dombrowski, Chicago, Management as president. Christopher E. Kentra, Elmhurst, received an award from the Veterans Kristen L. Gorenberg, Northbrook, Ill., joined Burke, Warren, MacKay & Consortium Pro Bono Program for the Ill., is on the Northbrook Zoning Board Serritella PC as a partner. His trial work he has done for military veterans of Appeals, and celebrated 15 years with and litigation practice focuses over the past 20 years. A member of the Ruben & Goldberg LLC. Her daughter on complex commercial matters, TVC National Volunteer Corps since Samantha Ruben ’19 is a graduate of construction, professional liability, 1999, he has represented veterans in 10 Chicago-Kent. Gorenberg and Philip E. and employment law. appellate cases before the United States Ruben ’83 hooded Samantha Ruben at Jonathan C. Wright, Hartsburg, Court of Appeals for veterans claims, the 2019 Chicago-Kent College of Law Ill., was named a circuit judge in the winning them all. Commencement ceremony. Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court of Anne E. Frueh, Oak Park, Ill., joined Illinois. Previously, Wright served as Tenneco as associate general counsel. Logan County’s state’s attorney for Julie M. Koerner, Northbrook, Ill., six years. was promoted to partner at O’Halloran Kosoff Geitner & Cook LLC. She has 1992 been with the firm since 2004. Koerner Cameron Davis, Chicago, made his- handles litigation in both federal and tory last year, beating the previous state courts, with a primary emphasis Illinois write-in record set by President 1993 in the defense of matters brought Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1944 Mark A. Brown, Highland Park, Ill., against public entities, including presidential primary (47,561). When a appeared on CBS 2 News to discuss Section 1983 police liability and Metropolitan Water Reclamation Dis- the sexual abuse scandal in the Boy personal injury suits. trict of Greater Chicago commissioner Scouts of America, including discussion Stephen K. Krull, Maumee, passed away, not leaving enough of the case he litigated and settled Ohio, joined La-Z-Boy Inc. as vice time for petitions to be filed with the against the organization in 2018. president, general counsel, and required number of signatures, Davis Additionally, he was recently named corporate secretary. Throughout Krull’s and seven other candidates ran, need- an Illinois Super Lawyer in personal career, he has been responsible for ing at least 8,075 write-ins to win the injury for the 10th straight year, and mergers and acquistions, compliance, primary. Davis won more than six times received a seven-figure jury verdict intellectual property, litigation, labor the write-ins needed (54,183) and went in a (no-offer) medical malpractice relations, government and public on win a court challenge to his candi- case in Lake County, Illinois. He was affairs, and security. dacy last October. He won the Novem- elected executive vice president of the Peter D. Tonyan, Davie, Fla., joined ber 2018 election and was inaugurated Executive Guild Ltd., a Chicago-area Seminole Hard Rock International in December. business organization made up of more Group as vice president of tax. He Jeffrey R. Gargano, Chicago, than 50 area businesses. has a background in mergers and joined Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Nicholas B. Clifford, St. Louis, acquisitions as well as tax strategy. as a partner, focusing his practice joined Tucker Ellis LLP as a partner on disputes involving intellectual in the St. Louis office. Clifford joined property in United States federal the Intellectual Property and Brand courts and before the International Protection group, and he handles Trade Commission. He has litigated intellectual property litigation and cases involving myriad IP law issues, other commercial litigation matters. Patrick T. Garvey, Park Ridge, Ill., joined Sinars Slowikowski Tomaska as of counsel. He concentrates his practice Alumni Student ConneKtions Week in the defense of premises, product, and toxic tort liability matters. Sheryl J. Halpern, Chicago, was named one of Chicago’s Notable Women Lawyers of 2018 by Crain’s Chicago Business. She is a principal attorney at Much Shelist PC, where she serves as chair of the firm’s Labor and Employment group. Kwame Raoul, Chicago, was elected attorney general for the state of Illinois.

(Left to right): Heather Widell ’12, Daniel Costello ’01, and Mark Taxman ’88 discussed their practice areas on a panel during Alumni Student ConneKtions Week. Throughout the week in February 2019, more than 120 alumni met with more than 180 students for informational interviews, Coffee ConneKtions, job shadowing, and alumni panels.

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John Fox ’17 and Cameron Davis ’92: Teaming Up to Protect Cook County Waterways

Q: What happens for environmental, economic, and social resilience when two Chicago-Kent College of Law alumni—who are separated by 25 years—combine forces?

A: They make history. John Fox ’17 met Cameron Davis ’92 in February 2017 at an informational interview during Alumni-Student ConneKtions Week as Fox was nearing graduation. Little did they know at the time that they would team up less John Fox ’17 serves as research director for Metropolitan than a year later to shatter a statewide Water Reclamation District Commissioner Cameron Davis ’92 electoral record, win an election, and eventually (not pictured). help shape policy that will accommodate the region’s record-breaking weather patterns. A year after they met, Davis decided to throw his hat into the ring to run for a commissionership on the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago. Serving the second-largest county in the United States, with nearly 2,000 staff members and a budget of $1.1 billion, MWRD was a perfect place for Davis to use his certificate in Environmental and Energy Law from Chicago-Kent. He had previously served two terms as President Barack Obama’s “Great Lakes Czar.” However, following the untimely death of a sitting commissioner three days before the filing deadline to run, Davis had to run as a write-in candidate. After hearing from pundits that a countywide write-in race was all but impossible to win, Davis beat out more than a half-dozen other primary contenders in March 2018 to garner 54,183 write-in votes, beating the previous statewide record of 47,561 write-in votes set by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1944. Fox, who had participated in Chicago-Kent’s Entrepreneurial Law Clinic with an active interest in environmental law, helped the campaign by spearheading the development of position papers on everything from green infrastructure to nutrient reduction. When then-Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner attempted to move one of his appointees on the MWRD Board to the seat opened by the commissioner's death, and extend their term an extra two years, Davis engaged election lawyer Ed Mullen and Chicago-Kent’s Center for Open Government to fight back, contending that the voters, not repeat appointments, should fill elected positions wherever possible. A Cook County Circuit Court agreed in October 2018, and Davis went on to win the general election a month later. Fox helped with legal research for one of the first-of-its-kind election law cases regarding write-in votes in the country. “I set out to practice environmental law and wound up learning election law to help the environment,” Fox says about the experience. One of the first things Davis did was appoint Fox as his research director. In that role, Fox now looks for ways to strengthen MWRD’s ordinances and programs for the benefit of the county’s waterways, open space, and taxpayers. “Chicago-Kent prepared me in more ways than I could have imagined,” says Fox. “The hands-on instruction I received, along with Chicago-Kent’s strong alumni network, gave me the confidence and opportunity to show up and make a difference.”

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Jorge Ramirez, Lemont, Ill., department. She focuses her practice stepped down from his position as 1998 in litigation, and handles all types of president of the Chicago Federation Mark T. Cumba, San Diego, matters in the New York Surrogate’s of Labor to join GCM Grosvenor, the received the 2019 Service to the Legal Court and in the New York Supreme Chicago-based firm billed as one of the Community Award from the San Diego Court involving estates. “world’s largest independent alternative County Bar Association. Howard L. Huntington, Naperville, asset management firms,” as its Georgia Demeros, Park Ridge, Ill., Ill., joined Harrison & Held, LLP as new managing director. was honored by the United Hellenic a partner in its Business Litigation Brian A. Rosenblatt, Highland Voters of America as its 2018 Most practice in Chicago. Park, Ill., is an income member at Bryce Distinguished Greek-American in Law. Edwina T. Washington, Southaven, Downey & Lenkov LLC, where he focuses Jennifer Durham King, Chicago, Miss., has been recognized nationally on three main areas: entertainment, was named one of Chicago’s Notable as “One of the Most Promising Black intellectual property, and litigation. He Women Lawyers of 2018 by Crain’s Women in Corporate America” by was named studio general counsel by Chicago Business. She is a shareholder Ebony and as one of the “Outstanding Village Studios LLC, where he oversees at Vedder Price and chair of the firm’s Business and Professional Women” by film financing and development. Corporate Practice Area, co-chair of the Dollars and Sense Magazine. In May Staci K. Rotman, Chicago, joined firm’s Securities and Capital Markets 2014 Washington graduated from the Littler Mendelson PC in its Chicago group, and a member of the firm’s board University of Memphis with a doctorate office as a shareholder. Rotman of directors. She counsels issuers and in education. maintains a wide-ranging labor underwriters as lead counsel in a broad Michael J. Wolf, Evanston, Ill., was and employment practice. range of transactions, including public named vice president, deputy general Bret A. Stone, Santa Barbara, Calif., and private debt and equity offerings, counsel for Baxter International Inc. is celebrating 15 years at Paladin Law mergers and acquisitions, and capital Group LLP. His practice continues planning and formation. to focus on environmental law and Rachel J. Foster, Portage, Mich., was brownfields redevelopment. The firm’s named partner at Warner Norcross + Santa Barbara office is on a redeveloped Judd’s Kalamazoo, Mich., office. Foster 1999 brownfields site. Stone also built a focuses her practice on real estate Jennifer L. Ashley, Libertyville, Ill., shipping container house, which was transactions. She is a member of the was named an Illinois Leading Lawyer recently featured in Dwell. American Bar Association, State Bar for 2019, the fourth consecutive year of Illinois, and State Bar of Michigan, she received the honor. Ashley was where she also serves as co-chair for the recognized in the field of personal Commercial Development, Ownership, injury litigation. and Finance Committee of the Real William M. Dec, Chicago, was Property Law Section. featured on an NBC morning show Hillary A. Frommer, New York, segment with Megyn Kelly on May 17, was appointed co-chair of the New 2018. Dec, who had recently opened a York County Lawyers Association’s Sunda restaurant in Nashville, showed Estates, Trusts, and Surrogate’s Court Kelly and her NBC morning show Practice Section. Frommer is counsel at audience how to cook shrimp stir-fry Farrell Fritz in the Trusts and Estates with leftovers.

Chicago-Kent in California (Left top): Alumni in San Francisco joined then-Chicago-Kent College of Law Dean Harold Krent in March at the Rubin Law Firm.

(Left below): Alumni in Los Angeles joined then-Chicago-Kent College of Law Dean Harold Krent in November for a small gathering.

2019 CHICAGO-KENT MAGAZINE | 39 Jason P. Stiehl, Chicago, joined Loeb & Loeb LLP as a partner in the Chicago-Kent in Miami Litigation Department. Alumni met with then-Chicago-Kent College of Law Dean Andrea D. Wolfson, Miami Beach, Harold Krent and Illinois Tech President Alan W. Cramb Fla., was elevated from Miami-Dade County Court judge to Florida Circuit in Miami. Court judge in the Criminal Division by former Governor Rick Scott.

2002 Gina M. Arquilla DeBoni, Glenview, Ill., was promoted to managing partner at Romanucci & Blandin LLC. She plays a critical role advocating for the

CLASS NOTES firm’s clients who have suffered from traumatic personal injury, medical malpractice, police misconduct, hazing, sex trafficking, products and premises liability, nursing home negligence, and construction John G. Fogarty, Chicago, joined 2000 injury cases. Clark Hill PLC as senior counsel in its William A. Borders, Chicago, Government and Public Affairs practice Jignasa P. Gadani, Hyattsville, Md., was promoted to chief compliance group. Fogarty focuses his practice on was appointed to the Federal Energy officer at Invenergy LLC. election law and governement affairs Regulatory Commission as director of the Jeffrey B. Greenspan, Highland practices. Office of Energy Policy and Innovation. Park, Ill., was named subcommittee Holly D. Gordon, San Francisco, Michael S. Lee, Hinsdale, Ill., was chair of News and Development and joined Ike Robotics as its head of public appointed senior vice president and web editor for the Trial Practice policy and government affairs. Ike regional wealth advisor in Northern Committee for the Section of Litigation is a self-driving truck company with Trust’s Chicago office. Lee joined a of the American Bar Association. cutting-edge technology designed to growing practice focused on building improve the trucking industry. Gordon and implementing goals-based wealth joined Ike after three years working for plans for ultra-high-net-worth clients. the Bay Area Rapid Transit as a group Lisa J. Ulrich, Croton On Hudson, manager in sustainability. N.Y., was honored as a New York/ 2003 Bennett M. Miller, Washington, Fairfield County Volunteer of the Year Patricia L. Boye-Williams, D.C., accepted an appointment by by Pro Bono Partnership. Ulrich has Farmington, Conn., was promoted to President Donald J. Trump to serve as a volunteered with Pro Bono Partnership partner at Murtha Cullina’s Hartford, senior policy advisor in the Department since 2011, and this year alone, she Conn., office. Boye-Williams practices of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil has taken on six matters for four in the firm’s Municipal and Energy, Rights and Civil Liberties. different clients. Environmental, and Utilities practice Adam Weber, Chicago, joined groups. She is on the Farmington Chicago-Kent College of Law as Town Council, and is a member of director of the LL.M. program in Trial the Connecticut Bar Association and Advocacy for International Students. 2001 American Bar Association. Weber is best known for his prominent Dennis F. Esford, Chicago, recently role as a trial attorney at the Office of Travis W. Life, Chicago, joined celebrated six years as the founder and the Prosecutor for the International Swanson, Martin & Bell LLP as an president of Windy City Trial Group, Inc. Criminal Tribunal for the former entertainment and media law partner. Kenneth Klassman, Chicago, Yugoslavia (ICTY), a special court Life represents artists and art-related joined Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP established to try those responsible for businesses in drafting and negotiating as a partner. Klassman partners with serious violations of humanitarian law entertainment agreements, managing commercial real estate developers, committed in the Balkans. At the ICTY intellectual property, and litigating investors, and privately held businesses he prosecuted cases involving senior complex matters. to ensure their unique ventures excel political, police, and military officials, Kyle A. Petersen, Chicago, was and achieve their goals. and brought justice for countless elected treasurer of the Public Interest Julie S. Pleshivoy, Chicago, joined victims. In his final case, Weber helped Law Initiative Board of Directors. Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP as secure the conviction of General Ratko Petersen is a partner at Seyfarth Shaw senior counsel in the firm’s private Mladi´c, the highest-ranking officer LLP, where she focuses her practice on client group. She counsels individuals, prosecuted at the tribunal. labor and employment law. families, business owners, and financial Rosa María Silva, Chicago, was institutions on estate planning, wealth sworn in as a Cook County Circuit transfer, and tax matters. Court judge in December 2018 after winning a general election race in November 2018.

40 | CHICAGO-KENT MAGAZINE 2019 Thomas J. Posey, La Grange, Ill., William T. Gibbs, Chicago, won service. She is the Intake and Traumatic joined Reed Smith LLP as a partner an $880,000 settlement on behalf of Brain Injury project manager at Equip in the firm’s Labor and Employment the estate of a client who passed away for Equality. practice. Posey represents companies after being struck by a tractor-trailer Adrian T. Rohrer, Chicago, was from a wide array of industries in all that had failed to stop at a stop sign. elected to partnership at BatesCarey aspects of labor law and employment He was also named to the 2018 Irish LLP. Rohrer focuses his practice in issues, including serving as a chief Legal 100. Gibbs is a partner at Corboy insurance coverage analysis and labor negotiator. & Demetrio who concentrates his litigation matters. Robert G. Reiter Jr., Orland Park, practice on cases arising from railroad Molshree A. Sharma, Oak Park, Ill., Ill., was elected president of the Chicago negligence, automobile collisions, was named one of Chicago’s Notable Federation of Labor. participation in sports, unsafe Women Lawyers of 2018 by Crain’s Jason N. Sposeep, Oak Park, Ill., pharmaceuticals or medical devices, Chicago Business. Sharma is a partner was promoted to equity partner construction negligence, medical at Boyle Feinberg Sharma, where she of Schiller, DuCanto & Fleck. In negligence, premises liability, product focuses her practice on high-net-worth September Sposeep will become liability, and aviation litigation. divorce and custody issues, including a president of the Chicago-Kent Alumni Jason B. Hirsh, Chicago, was named special concentration in international Board of Directors. the Litigation Practice group leader at custody disputes. Melissa K. Ventrone, Chicago, Levenfeld Pearlstein LLC. He focuses Carrie K. Zalewski, Riverside, Ill., joined Clark Hill PLC as a member, his practice on protecting the assets was appointed chairman of the Illinois focusing her practice on data privacy of business owners as well as Commerce Commission by Governor and cybersecurity. institutional clients. J. B. Pritzker. Zalewski was previously Mariangela Monteiro, Chicago, at the Illinois Pollution Control Board received Chicago-Kent College of Law’s since 2009. 2019 Hon. Abraham Lincoln Marovitz 2004 Award for commitment to public Ryan W. Blackney, Woodstock, Ill., was elevated to income partner at Freeborn & Peters LLP. He is in 12th Annual Public Interest Awards the Commercial Litigation practice group, the Bankruptcy and Financial On April 23, 2019, Chicago-Kent College of Law celebrated Restructuring group, and is a student and alumni dedication and service to the public member of the Fraud and Internal interest. The evening honored the 2019 recipients of the Investigations team. Honorable Abraham Lincoln Marovitz ’25 Public Interest Katie M. Bluestone, Chicago, joined DLA Piper. She focuses her practice in Award, Outstanding Pro Bono Service Award, and the Ronald the area of real estate capital markets. W. Staudt Public Interest Partner Award. In addition, 28 Derek B. Church, Brentwood, students received the Chicago-Kent Certificate of Service or Tenn., is president and chief operating the Dean’s Distinguished Public Service Award in recognition officer of Pendleton Square Trust of their volunteer efforts. Company. He is responsible for overseeing the company’s corporate Honorable Abraham Lincoln Marovitz ’25 Public Interest and trust operations, as well as its Awards legal and compliance areas. Church Ruth Lopez-McCarthy ’09, National Immigrant Justice Center began his career in trust and banking as a staff attorney with the Tennessee Mariangela Monteiro ’04, Equip for Equality Department of Financial Institutions Outstanding Pro Bono Service Award in 2007. Symone Shinton ’17, Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Ryan A. Danahey, Chicago, was named partner at Doherty & Progar. Baum LLP His experience includes defending Ronald W. Staudt Public Interest Partner Award insurance companies and insured Illinois Human Rights Commission entities in both first- and third-party actions in state and federal court. Alissa A. Digman, Chicago, heads the new Chicago office for McInnes & McLane. Digman is an accomplished intellectual property attorney with more than 13 years of experience in procurement and enforcement of patents, trademarks, and copyrights, including working with entertainment law.

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CHICAGO-KENT MAGAZINE McDonald’s Corporationatthe lastsummerwith interned Law alumnaewhenshe two Chicago-KentCollegeof Valdivia ’21workedclosely Second-year studentSofia Summer UndertheGoldenArches during my1Lsummerandexperiencesomanydifferent areas ofthelaw.” toworkatMcDonald’s tohavehadthe opportunity fortunate on aday-to-daybasis,soIfeelvery do curveinunderstandingwhatattorneys in myfamilytogolawschool,Ihadasteeplearning to explore somelitigationclassesduringtheremainder ofmytimeatChicago-Kent.Asthefirst focus solelyontransactionallaw, experienceatMcDonald’s butbecauseofmyinternship Iplan litigation projects IwasassignedatMcDonald’s,” Valdivia says.“IoriginallythoughtIwantedto The experiencealsoopenedheruptonewcareer interests. “To mysurprise,Ireally enjoyedthe draw attentiontounderU.S.law,” Valdivia explains. theproduct’sconcerning name,orifthere restrictions maybedietary thatwewouldneedto see ifthere wasanylegalrisk,forexample,whetherthere maybeatrademarkissueintheU.S. Global MenuattheMcDonald’s restaurantinChicago.“We atitsheadquarters wouldlookto Practice Group asitapproved menuitemsfrom McDonald’s restaurants international forthe One ofValdivia’s favoriteassignmentswasworkingwiththeMarketingandIntellectualProperty all ofthediversepracticeareas inwhichMcDonald’s specializes.” GlobalLegalDepartment asmuchshecouldaboutthepracticeoflawand andlearning in maximizingtheopportunity willingness todoanythinginorder “Shetrulywasinterested tohelptheteam,” says Hernandez. “Sofia stoodoutthroughout thesummerbecauseof her genuinebusinessinterest and had thebondofChicago-Kent,”saysValdivia. help andincludemeinmeetingsorprojects theywere workingon,plusitwasnicethatweall anything theywere workingonandtoinvitehermeetings. “Theywere bothalwayswillingto employment tolitigationtechnology—Strothoff madesure andHernandez toincludeherin eachweek—fromlegal department practicegroups specializing inreal estatetolaborand Although Valdivia rotated toworkwithadifferent practicegroup withinMcDonald’s in-house ease wheninteractingwithindividualsatalllevelsoftheorganization.” saysStrothoff.with acalmconfidenceIhadnotseeninotherinterns,” “Shewaspoisedandat McDonald’s in-houseCommercial PracticeGroup andHernandez’s boss.“Sofiacarriedherself began,ValdiviaWhen herinternship connectedwithLaylaStrothoff ’07,managingcounselfor influential inhelpingmegettheposition.” interview, Valdivia says,“Itwasnicetohaveafamiliarfaceintheroom, andIthinkshewasreally a Chicago-Kentpanelonworkingin-house,andintroduced herself.Whenitcametimeforthe counsel in the commercial practice group forMcDonald’s at in-houseGlobalLegalDepartment, ’10,senior Hernandez Krystin scheduled interview, shemet The weekbefore the Program.Summer Internship Corporate Counsel’s Diversity through theAssociationof Valdivia appliedfortheposition West Loop. inChicago’sheadquarters company’s corporate

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(Left to right): Krystin Hernandez ’10, Sofia Valdivia ’21, and Layla Strothoff ’07 Strothoff Layla ’21, and ’10,Valdivia Sofia Hernandez Krystin right): to (Left Kathryn L. Mickelson, Chicago, Kimberly A. Jones, Chicago, joined 2005 was named one of Chicago’s Notable Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP’s Employee Elizabeth A. Bleakley, Chicago, was Women Lawyers of 2018 by Crain’s Benefits and Executive Compensation named one of Chicago’s Notable Women Chicago Business. Mickelson is a partner group as a partner. Lawyers of 2018 by Crain’s Chicago at Beermann LLP, where she is a part Kevin C. Keenan, Barrington, Business. Bleakley is an attorney at of the Divorce and Family Law group. Ill., was elected as a principal Bleakley Law LLC, where she focuses Mickelson is an active member of the shareholder at Banner & Witcoff Ltd. her practice on serving small- and Women’s Bar Association of Illinois, and Keenan is active in a variety of areas middle-market businesses. serves as co-chair of the organization’s within intellectual property law, Linda S. Fine, Lake Zurich, Ill., Domestic Relations Roundtable. with particular emphasis in patent was elevated to equity member at Tonya G. Newman, Chicago, was prosecution, patent litigation, portfolio Kelleher & Buckley LLC in Barrington, selected as co-chair of the American management, and counseling. Ill. She concentrates her practice in Bar Association’s Products Liability Patrick J. Kelly, Naperville, Ill., ran estate planning for high-net-worth Committee. She is a partner at Neal, for and won a seat on the Naperville clients, estate and trust administration, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP, where she City Council, where he will serve a four- estate and gift taxation, guardianships, represents clients in complex civil year term. contested estates, and complex litigation, products liability, and Tamara L. Lee, New York, is now an probate matters. Fine also represents insurance coverage matters. assistant professor of labor studies and business owners with respect to Craig T. Papka, Waukesha, Ill., employment relations in the School of the formation and operation of was promoted to shareholder with Management and Labor Relations at corporations, partnerships, and von Briesen & Roper SC. He focuses Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. limited liability companies. his practice in the areas of labor and Julia R. Lissner, Chicago, was Andrea E. Forsyth Telling, employment law. named one of Chicago’s Notable Grand Rapids, Mich., was promoted Women Lawyers of 2018 by Crain’s to shareholder at Plunkett Cooney PC. Chicago Business. Lissner is a partner She focuses her practice in the area at Akerman LLP, where she represents of transportation law, with particular public and private companies in emphasis on first- and third-party 2006 business disputes at the state and motor vehicle liability claims. Judith C. Archer, Tacoma, Wash., federal level. Elizabeth N. Hall, Chicago, is the director of human resources Fiona M. McEntee, Chicago, was was named one of Chicago’s Notable for Pierce County, Washington. Archer named one of Chicago’s Notable Women Women Lawyers of 2018 by Crain’s joined the county from Kinder Morgan Lawyers of 2018 by Crain’s Chicago Chicago Business. Hall is a shareholder Inc., where she served nearly eight years Business. She received the Illinois State at Vedder Price in the firm’s Labor and as the director of human resources for Bar Association’s 2018 Elmer Gertz Award Employment practice area. She serves the Texas-based energy infrastructure for human rights, which recognizes as the Chicago office chair of the firm’s company and its 11,000 employees. long-standing, continuing, and Women at Vedder Empowering Success Nicole M. Kalajian, Chicago, is exceptional commitment by an (WAVES) group. counsel at Stradley Ronon Stevens individual or an organization to the Angie C. Hamada, Chicago, was & Young LLP’s Chicago office. She protection or advancement of human appointed as a board member of the represents securities, commodities, rights. McEntee is the founder and Cook County Commission on Human and cryptocurrency professionals managing attorney of McEntee Rights. Hamada is a partner at Allison, in a variety of regulatory, compliance, Law Group. Slutsky & Kennedy PC. and corporate matters. Juan Morado Jr., Chicago, was Sara E. Herbek, Chicago, joined the 2018–19 president of the Hispanic Global Immigration Associates PC as its Lawyers Association of Illinois. Crain’s new managing partner. Herbek brings Chicago Business recognized him as one extensive expertise in immigration of Chicago’s Notable Minority Lawyers strategy, policies, best practices, and 2007 in 2018. He is of counsel at Benesch, compliance. Prior to joining GIA, David E. Blau, Walpole, Mass., where he focuses his practice on health Herbek practiced at Ogletree Deakins, was made co-author/editor of Patent care regulation and policy. where she was a shareholder and head It Yourself, beginning with the 19th Jordan S. Powell, Chicago, merged of the immigration practice at one of edition, which was published in Powell Law Offices with Passen Law Ogletree’s major United States offices. August 2018. Group in 2019 to found Passen & Powell. Maxine Weiss Kunz, Elmhurst, Ill., Courtney D. Fong, Northbrook, As a founding partner, Powell has founded Weiss-Kunz & Oliver LLC in Ill., was named chief legal officer devoted his entire legal career to the 2014. The firm concentrates in family and chief privacy officer of the representation of victims of negligence, law, and has grown to six attorneys Computing Technology Industry including automobile accidents, and three offices in the Chicago area Association. CompTIA is a leading medical malpractice, nursing home (Elmhurst, Ill.; Park Ridge, Ill.; and voice and advocate for the global negligence, assisted living negligence, Chicago). One of Weiss-Kunz’s hires is technology ecosystem. construction accidents, premises Chicago-Kent College of Law graduate Seth A. Herkowitz, Birmingham, liability, and pool drownings. Gabrielle DiPrimio ’16. Mich., was selected as a Crain’s Kristen E. Prinz, Chicago, was Michael A. McCaskey, Chicago, was Detroit Business 40 Under 40 honoree. named one of Chicago’s Notable Women elected to the State Bar of Wisconsin’s Herkowitz is a partner at Hunter Lawyers of 2018 by Crain’s Chicago Board of Governors as a Non-Resident Pasteur Homes, a real estate agency that Business. Prinz is the founder and Lawyer Division representative. services various Michigan locations.

2019 CHICAGO-KENT MAGAZINE | 43 managing partner at the Prinz Law Elena M. Gottreich, Chicago, was Justin T. Nemunaitis, Dallas, was Firm, where she focuses on providing cross-designated as a special assistant recognized among Texas’s top lawyers clients with strategic and cost-effective United States attorney to join the under 40 on the 2018 Texas Super legal and business planning solutions. Violent Crimes Task Force. As a Cook Lawyers Rising Stars list published by Melissa D. Sobota, Chicago, was County assistant state’s attorney, she is Thomson Reuters for the fourth year. elevated to partner at Franczek PC. assigned to the Gun Crime Strategies He is a principal at Caldwell Cassady & Sobota concentrates her practice in Unit, which was developed in 2017 to Curry. His practice focuses on patent both labor and employment law. Her combat the rising level of violent crime infringement disputes and complex labor experience includes collective in Chicago. Assigned to the 11th Police commercial litigation, for both plaintiffs bargaining for schools, municipalities, District, which is often the busiest in and defendants. and county employers. the entire nation, Gottreich focuses Santi Piyatat, LL.M., Thailand, Abby M. Spears, Palm City, Fla., on the gang conflicts that drive the received the 2018 Chicago-Kent joined Nason, Yeager, Gerson, Harris majority of the violence in the Garfield College of Law Outstanding Young & Fumero PA in Palm Beach Gardens, Park and Lawndale areas of the city and Alumnus Award. Fla. Spears practices in commercial vertically prosecutes charged offenders. Kevin P. Shortsle, Lake Forest, Ill., litigation, and she also represents Dana E. Hofferber, Arlington, joined Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP as physicians during credentialing and Va., and her husband, Staff Sergeant a partner. He concentrates his litigation

CLASS NOTES peer-review disputes. (Ret.) Stanley Hofferber, welcomed practice on difficult pharmaceutical, Sarah A. Zielinski, Chicago, is co- their daughter, Syla Jenelle Hofferber, chemical, and medical device leader of McGuireWoods’s National in February 2018. Hofferber left her technologies, with additional focus on Fintech group and was recognized as a position as a staff attorney with the broader intellectual property litigation, notable practicioner in Chambers and District of Columbia Court of Appeals patent prosecution, and counseling. Partners’s 2019 FinTech Guide. to work from home, taking appellate Kristin W. Silverman, Seattle, was appointments for the Washington, D.C., elected as a member of Calfo Eakes courts as well as launching a new career & Ostrovsky PLLC. She focuses her as a Virginia real estate salesperson. practice on complex civil litigation, Rachel C. Jennings, Chicago, government investigations, and 2008 joined Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP appeals. In the last two years Silverman Margaret P. Battersby Black, as professional development and pro has defended the Washington Elmhurst, Ill., was named one of bono manager. Interscholastic Activities Association Chicago’s Notable Women Lawyers of Michael Y. Ko, Chicago, received in a series of lawsuits brought in 2018 by Crain’s Chicago Business. She the 2018 Chicago-Kent College of Law the wake of its investigation into a has played a key role in a number of Outstanding Young Alumnus Award. nationally ranked high school football nursing home and medical malpractice Ko is the founder of Groundwork program’s rules violations. cases at Levin & Perconti. Trial Consulting. Michael J. Victor, Chicago, was Jessica K. Fender, New York, is Nicole L. Little, Chicago, was promoted to partner at O’Halloran the chair of the Forensic Sciences promoted to partner at Fitch, Even, Kosoff Geitner & Cook LLC. He focuses Committee at the United States Tabin & Flannery LLP. She focuses her his practice on counseling public Attorney’s Office for the Southern practice primarily on patent litigation. entities and representing them in District of New York. She recently Gina N. Malandrino, Palatine, civil rights litigation, tort claims, and transferred from her role as an Ill., was named partner at Cheng commercial litigation. assistant U.S. attorney in the Violent Cohen LLC. Malandrino is a general Timothy H. Wright, Oak Park, Ill., and Organized Crime Unit to a corporate and commercial transactions joined Skarzynski Marick & Black LLP position within the Money attorney. She concentrates her practice as a partner. Wright focuses his practice Laundering and Transnational on franchise and licensing law, on counseling insurers on complex Criminal Enterprises Unit. commercial contracts and transactions, coverage and bad faith matters, from private equity financing, mergers and the claim stage through litigation. acquisitions, and general corporate and organizational matters.

Chicago-Kent in China Then-Chicago-Kent College of Law Dean Harold Krent joined groups of alumni in Shanghai and Beijing.

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A group of alumni from Atlanta gathered with then-Chicago-Kent College of Law Dean Harold Krent. (Left to right): Thomas C. Elliott ’93, D. Jelani Miller ’04, Shevonne K. Willis ’04, Arthur Morris ’71, Krent, Micah Hensley ’16, Emily Acosta ’13, Orion G. Webb ’14, Scott Cipinko ’87, John W. Greenwald ’96, and Assistant Dean Susan Lewers

Adam P. Joffe, Arlington Heights, 2009 Ill., joined Traub Lieberman Straus & 2010 Patrick D. Austermuehle, Chicago, Shrewsberry LLP’s Chicago office as Timothy A. Bresnahan, Chicago, was is a founding partner of Lubin an associate. Joffe focuses his practice named one of Chicago’s Notable LGBTQ Austermuehle PC. Austermuehle has in the area of insurance coverage. He Executives of 2018 by Crain’s Chicago experience in complex business and counsels and represents clients in Business. Bresnahan is the senior commercial litigation and consumer complex coverage litigation involving director of gift planning at The Chicago class actions. He has assisted in the a wide breadth of policy types. Community Trust. He is a member of successful representation of a number Ruth Lopez-McCarthy, Chicago, Rivendell Theatre Ensemble’s board of state and federal matters, including received Chicago-Kent College of Law’s and is on the advisory committee of the cases at the appellate level. 2019 Hon. Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Rogers Park Business Alliance. Cheryl D. Balough, Chicago, Award for commitment to public David R. Doyle, La Grange, Ill., was named one of Chicago’s Notable service. She is a managing attorney at was selected to join the Bankruptcy Women Lawyers of 2018 by Crain’s the National Immigrant Justice Center. Court Liaison Committee of the United Chicago Business. In her practice at Sulema Medrano, Chicago, received States Bankruptcy Court for the U.S. Balough Law Offices, she focuses on the Hispanic Lawyers Association District Court for the Northern her clients’ trademarks, copyrights, of Illinois’s Latina Attorney of the District of Illinois. ideas, and trade secrets as they start Year award. She is a partner at Laura A. Elkayam, Chicago, joined new ventures or grow their businesses. SmithAmundsen LLC, and focuses her Much Shelist PC as an associate. Balough currently serves as the chair practice on commercial litigation and Elkayam helps employers implement of the Cyberspace Law Committee of insurance services. best practices to promote compliance the American Bar Association Business Matthew G. Minder, St. Louis, with federal, state, and local labor and Law Section. was elected to partner at Bryan employment laws. Richard Bixter, Chicago, was Cave Leighton Paisner LLP. Minder’s Sean J. Jungels, Chicago, was promoted to partner at Holland practice encompasses all aspects of elected as a principal shareholder & Knight LLP. Bixter is a Chicago the adoption, prosecution, exploitation, at Banner & Witcoff. His practice litigation attorney who focuses his enforcement, and litigation of comprises all areas of intellectual practice in the areas of corporate trademarks and copyrights. property, with a focus on patent bankruptcy, cross-border insolvency, Alexander C. Pappas, Itasca, Ill., and trademark litigation and the financial investigation, and joined Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP procurement and enforcement of asset recovery. as an associate. His practice focuses on design patents. He has experience in David A. Gosse, Naperville, Ill., real estate transactions, commercial representing plaintiffs and defendants was appointed to a two-year term leasing, asset-backed financing, joint in many phases of federal litigation. as co-vice chair of the American ventures, and land development. Katya (Manak) Fuentes, Riverside, Intellectual Property Law Association Jessica Tyrus Mackay, Chicago, Ill., was promoted to partner at Stein & PTAB Trial Committee. A partner at was promoted to partner at Green, Stein Ltd. Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP, Griffith & Borg-Breen LLP. She focuses Audrey D. Mense, Chicago, Gosse helps clients protect their her practice in patent litigation and was elected to partner at Thompson intellectual property rights through counseling, with specific experience Coburn LLP. litigation. He works on all phases of representing plaintiffs and defendants Erin A. Nichol, Chicago, was elected litigation matters, from due-diligence in all facets of patent litigation and partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman investigations through trial and consultation arising under the Hatch- LLP. Nichol concentrates her practice post-trial motions. Waxman Act. in corporate matters, and previously worked as a senior account executive for Public Communications Inc., a marketing communications firm.

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Tatyana L. Ruderman, Glenview, 2013 2014 Ill., joined InfoLawGroup as counsel. Emily T. Acosta, Atlanta, was named Justin DeAngelis, Chicago, spoke She was recently an associate at Mudd one of the Top 40 Lawyers Under 40 at the 2019 annual Design Day Law, where she focused on internet in Georgia by the National Trial Lawyers. conference at the United States Patent law, defamation, intellectual property, Acosta practices at Childers, Schlueter and Trademark Office, presenting on entertainment, and startup law in & Smith LLC and represents injured case law updates related to design transactional work and state and individuals and their families in patents. DeAngelis is an associate at federal litigation. pharmaceutical and medical Quarles & Brady LLP. David J. Starshak, Chicago, married device cases. Martha E. Drouet, Chicago, joined Emily A. Herbick ’15 on November Benjamin M. Altshul, Hawthorn Johnson & Bell Ltd. as an associate. 24, 2018, in Evergreen Park, Ill. The Woods, Ill., joined Hahn, Loeser & Parks Brigid M. Fox, Chicago, joined couple met at Chicago-Kent College of as an associate. Altshul represents Quarles & Brady LLP as an associate Law, where they were both on the moot clients in various commercial real in the firm’s Estate, Trust, and Wealth court team. Starshak is an associate at estate transactions, including Preservation practice group. Horwitz, Horwitz & Associates. acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, Joaquin Hernandez, Davie, Fla., Bradley S. Thomas, Prairie and finance. After being trained as relocated to the Boca Raton, Fla., Village, Kan., joined Shook, Hardy a mediator by the Center of Conflict office of Duane Morris from the firm’s & Bacon LLP as an associate in its Resolution, Altshul spent his first Chicago office. Kansas City, Mo., office. He focuses summer in law school volunteering Rob L. Kohen, Chicago, was named on product liability, pharmaceutical in the Small Claims Division at the a rising star by Illinois Super Lawyers and medical device litigation, and Circuit Court of Cook County. in 2018 and 2019. business litigation. Fernando R. Colon, Washington, Kevin P. Lolli, Chicago, joined D.C., joined the American Federation Swanson, Martin & Bell LLP as an of State, County, and Municipal associate. He focuses on product Employees as associate general counsel. liability, general trial practice, and Peter M. Henry, Chicago, joined construction litigation. 2015 Oasis Financial as its servicing counsel Alexander I. Passo, Ogden Dunes, Nicholas Bartzen, Oak Park, Ill., and senior manager in underwriting. Ind., was named to the Leading Lawyers celebrated the one-year anniversary Brianne Stricoff, Chicago, joined list for 2019. An associate at Latimer of his solo practice, Altus Legal LLC, Anderson, Rasor & Partners LLP as an LeVay Fyock LLC, he concentrates which focuses on legal representation associate. She focuses her practice on his practice in complex commercial of Illinois condominium and medical malpractice defense and long- litigation, including representing homeowner associations. After term care litigation. clients in matters involving internal getting his start with the Chicago- Nazanin Tondravi, Pembroke business disputes, breach of contract, Kent College of Law Solo and Small Pines, Fla., was selected as a “Rising fraud, emergency business litigation, Practice Incubator, Bartzen now has Star: 90 Healthcare Leaders Under 40” unfair competition, and professional offices in both downtown Chicago and by Becker’s Hospital Review. Tondravi negligence actions. suburban Oak Park, Ill. In addition to is responsible for licensing and Stephen D. Pauwels, Chicago, the practice, Bartzen has launched a accreditation for about 1,800 beds joined Gardiner Koch Weisberg & legal technology company, DecSpeak, in five hospitals, ASCs, ambulatory Wrona Law. which uses artificial intelligence to programs, and a nursing home as provide legal information to client director of regulatory affairs at condominium and homeowner Memorial Healthcare System. associations seeking answers to Laurence J. Tooth, Chicago, basic legal issues. joined Litchfield Cavo as an associate. He focuses his practice on counseling insurers and insurance coverage litigation.

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2017 Adam J. Farag, Chicago, started his own firm, ajf legal, LLC. He represents Six Alumni Honored Among clients in all transational areas of entertainment and media law. Margaret “Peggy” Herrmann, “ 40 Under Forty” Chicago, recevied Chicago-Kent College Congratulations to our six Chicago-Kent College of Law alumni who were named among of Law’s 2019 Student Bar Association the “40 Under Forty” outstanding young attorneys in Illinois for 2019 by the Law Bulletin Alumna of the Year Award. Herrmann Publishing Company. is an associate at Irwin IP LLC. Mark Kifarkis, Elk Grove Village, Ill., joined Swanson, Martin & Bell LLP as an associate. He focuses his practice on asbestos litigation and toxic tort litigation. Ashley L. Rovner Watson, Chicago, joined Amin Talati Wasserman LLP as an associate attorney in its trademark group.

Symone D. Shinton, Chicago, joined Judd Z. Fineberg ’09 Adam S. Garber ’07 Juan Morado Jr. ’07 Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Associate Partner Of Counsel Dussias Wittenberg Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC Benesch, Friedlander, Baum LLP as an associate. She received Koenigsberger LLP Coplan & Aronoff, LLP the 2019 Outstanding Pro Bono Service Award at Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Public Interest Awards. Christina L. Vetterick, Chicago, joined the Social Security Administration as an attorney-advisor.

2018 Daniel S. Stringfield ’07 Philip P. Terrazzino ’13 Hailee B. Zabrin ’09 Erika N. Auger, Chicago, joined Reed Partner Associate Partner Smith LLP as an associate. Her practice Steptoe & Johnson LLP Tomasik Kotin Berger Schatz focuses on advertising and marketing, Kasserman, LLC including counseling on digital and social media, right of publicity matters, and sweepstakes and promotions. Joshua G. Bass, Chicago, joined Kirkland & Ellis LLP as an associate. Monica J. Henderson, Chicago, Jun Qiu, Chicago, joined Katten Brianna R. Bower, Las Vegas, joined joined Cunningham, Meyer, & Muchin Rosenman LLP as a staff at- Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada Vedrine PC as an associate. Henderson torney. She concentrates her practice in as a staff attorney. focuses her practice on civil litigation, transactional, corporate, and regulato- Peter W. Buchcar, Park Ridge, Ill., with an emphasis on medical ry aspects of financial services matters. joined Stone, Pogrund, and Korey LLC malpractice defense. Qiu is also a founding member of the as an attorney. Brennan B. Hutson, Chicago, joined Chicago Bar Association’s Financial and Dora M. Cornelio, Chicago, joined Taxman, Pollock, Murray & Bekkerman Emerging Technology Committee. the Cook County State’s Attorney Office LLC as an associate. Tiffany T. Tran, Chicago, joined as an assistant state’s attorney. Anthony Joseph, Chicago, joined Ice Miller LLP as an associate in the Jessica K. Deets, Wheaton, Ill., is an Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom firm’s business group. Tran focuses assistant public defender in the Kendall LLP and Affiliates as an associate in her practice in the areas of mergers County Public Defender’s Office. corporate restructuring. and acquisitions, private equity Alanna Elinoff, Chicago, joined Benjamin D. Lothson, River Forest, investments, corporate finance, Fox Rothschild LLP as an associate. Ill., joined Swanson, Martin & Bell LLP and general corporate matters. Christopher L. Gerardi, Chicago, as an associate. Lothson practices in joined Schiff Hardin LLP as an associate. the area of general civil litigation, with Stephanie G. Gerstetter, Chicago, a concentration in product liability and joined Reed Smith LLP as an associate. other general tort matters. Matthew H. Griffin, Chicago, joined Alida Pecanin, Chicago, joined Schiff Hardin LLP as an associate. Nicolaides Fink Thorpe Michaelides Griffin and his wife, Abigail, welcomed Sullivan LLP as an associate. Pecanin their daughter Leonora Hunter into uses her litigation and toxic tort the world. experience to assist the firm’s insurance clients in all aspects of coverage analysis and resolution of disputes.

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Professor of Law Emeritus Ralph Brill

The Chicago- In 1997 Brill, along with Susan L. Brody, Christina L. Kent College of Kunz, Richard K. Neumann Jr., and Marilyn R. Walter, Law community collaborated on the first edition of theABA Sourcebook is saddened on Legal Writing Programs, which compiled information by the loss of on legal writing programs and best practices. Professor of Brill’s leadership was instrumental in establishing Chicago- Law Emeritus Kent’s Moot Court Honor Society. He led the program Ralph L. Brill. He for more than a decade, during which its students won passed away in numerous national and regional titles. June at the age of 83. In 2011 the law school established its first endowed faculty chair and named it in honor of Brill. A member of Chicago-Kent’s “He was a fantastic educator, a true educational pioneer, faculty since a fearless advocate, and a loyal friend, as well as being a 1961, he taught significant portion of Chicago-Kent’s institutional memory,” more than 8,500 says Adrian Walters, the Ralph L. Brill Professor of Law. students over Chicago-Kent's Ilana Diamond Rovner Appellate the years. He served as associate dean from 1970 to Advocacy Competition presents a Ralph L. Brill Award for 1973, and as acting dean from 1973 to 1974. the best brief each year. Brill also has an award named “Ralph Brill has left an indelible mark on all of the students, after him from the Chicago-Kent Student Bar Association. faculty, and alumni who have been part of the Chicago- Over the years, Brill received numerous awards for Kent community for the past 58 years,” says Professor his contributions to the field of legal writing, including Harold Krent, who served as dean from 2003 through the 2006 Burton Award for Outstanding Contributions 2019. “He leaves behind an enduring legacy of excellence to Legal Writing Education; the AALS Section on Legal in teaching and innovation in establishing a top-flight legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research Annual Award; the writing program that has been emulated far and wide.” ALWD/LWI 2005 Thomas F. Blackwell Memorial Award for The son of Romanian immigrants, Brill was born in Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Legal Writing; Chicago. He earned his bachelor’s and J.D. degrees and the ALWD Leadership Award. The LWI/ALWD at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. At named an award after Brill in 2011, which will be given Chicago-Kent, Brill taught Torts, Products Liability, periodically to honor those in the legal academy who, Advanced Torts, and a pair of seminars—Current Issues for 50 years or more, have assisted their colleagues and in Tort Law and Famous Trials in History. students in mastering legal analysis, research, and writing. Brill was its first recipient. In 1977 Brill established and became the first director of Chicago-Kent’s three-year legal writing program—the Read more about Brill’s career and legacy at first such program in the country—that became a model kentlaw.iit.edu/remembering-professor-brill. for other schools. He was a past chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research, and a former director of the Legal Writing Institute and of the Association of Legal Writing Directors.

50 | CHICAGO-KENT MAGAZINE 2019 The Honorable Daniel G. Martin Class of 1984

Following law school, he became a staff attorney and later a supervising staff attorney with the Federal Defender Program for the Northern District of Illinois. He also served as director of continuing legal education and as a member of the Criminal Justice Act panel attorney selection committee for the Northern District. In 2002 he created and administered the Federal Defender Program’s Summer Trial Skills Institute.

He was appointed a federal magistrate judge for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, in 2012. Martin participated in the Northern District’s Mandatory Initial Discovery Pilot Project, launched in 2017, which studies whether civil litigation costs and delays can be reduced by requiring parties to undertake standard discovery requests before undertaking other discovery. The Honorable Daniel G. Martin ’84 (right), with Professor Harold Krent, received the Chicago-Kent College of Law Alumni Erickson worked with Martin from when he was a law Association’s Professional Achievement Award in 2015. student on the trial team in the early 1980s and then as an instructor and coach for the program. He reminisced: The Chicago-Kent College of Law community mourns “Danny was a tremendous lawyer and judge, but most the loss of United States Magistrate Judge Daniel G. of all he was an incredible person. He will always be in Martin ’84. He was described by Judge David Erickson, our hearts. Every Chicago-Kent trial advocacy team will director of Chicago-Kent’s Trial Advocacy Program, as always carry a part of Danny Martin with them. Thank “one of the rock stars of our law school.” Martin taught you, Danny ... We all love you.” Trial Advocacy to more than 1,000 students during his Martin was a member of the Federal Bar Association and 30 years as an adjunct professor at Chicago-Kent and was an active volunteer with organizations that served coached several of the law school’s most successful people with physical and developmental disabilities, competitive trial teams. including the Muscular Dystrophy Association of America Martin died October 11, 2018, following a remarkable and the Association of Horizon. career as a federal defender, educator, and judge. He Read more about Martin’s career and legacy at was 63. kentlaw.iit.edu/remembering-judge-martin. “Danny served the federal court with distinction, and over the years gave back so much to this school and to the many trial ad students with whom he interacted,” says Professor Harold J. Krent, Chicago-Kent dean from 2003 to 2019. “He was demanding, caring, and fun to be with—just an amazing person to be around.”

Born and raised on Chicago’s South Side, Martin earned his undergraduate degree at DePaul University in 1981 before attending Chicago-Kent.

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The Chicago-Kent College of Law Professor of Law Emeritus Jeffrey Sherman community extends its sympathy The Chicago-Kent to the loved ones of the following College of Law deceased alumni, faculty, and friends. community mourns the death of Professor of Elizabeth H. Belkin ’79 Law Emeritus Jeffrey Professor Emeritus Ralph L. Brill G. Sherman, a one-of- a-kind professor who Lawrence G. Carlson ’80 served as an institutional Adjunct Professor Champ W. Davis conscience to the law school for 32 years. He Theresa L. Davis ’94 passed away in summer Brian B. Dosch ’79 2019 at the age of 72.

Joan M. Eagle ’83 “Jeff Sherman was Richard W. Eicksteadt ’66 a gifted teacher, a fabulous colleague, Melody D. Farance ’00 and a zealous defender of the integrity of the English Susan R. Franklin Fulton ’79 language,” says Professor Harold J. Krent, dean of Chicago-Kent from 2003 to 2019. The Honorable Robert E. Haeger ’66 Sherman joined the Chicago-Kent faculty as an associate Michael T. Haughan ’94 professor in fall 1978. Over the years he taught the courses The Honorable John F. Hechinger ’57 Estates and Trusts, Gift and Estate Tax, and Employee Benefits Law. Prior to joining the law school, he was an The Honorable Fred T. Hensley ’64 assistant professor of law at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Steven J. Hirsh ’84 Champaign from 1976 to 1978.

Professor J. Gordon Hylton Sherman was the valedictorian of his graduating class at Lynbrook High School in Lynbrook, New York, and went on Philip A. Igoe ’77 to Harvard College, where he majored in economics and R. Gilman Johnson ’63 graduated magna cum laude. After teaching mathematics at Craig L. Kavensky ’82 a public high school in Connecticut, he returned to Harvard for his law degree. After graduation, Sherman went into private John B. Kincaid ’63 practice with Doherty, Rumble & Butler in St. Paul, Minnesota, John L. Kirkland ’52 for three years, followed by a year with the Office of the Tax Legislative Counsel in the United States Department of the Melburn E. Laundry ’64 Treasury in Washington, D.C. George N. Leighton Sherman wrote extensively in the areas of wills, taxation, and The Honorable James T. Londrigan ’49 employee benefits, and is the author ofCases and Materials on Pension Planning and Deferred Compensation. He was a Everett Loury ’63 member of the American Law Institute. In 1991 he was elected Lawrence A. Lundgren ’80 as an academic fellow of the American College of Trust and The Honorable Daniel G. Martin ’84 Estate Counsel. Beatrice C. Mayer Honesty and integrity were important to him. Sherman was dedicated and loyal to his family and friends. He loved teaching William D. O’Hara ’68 and loved his students. “He was the most loyal, true blue Professor Emeritus Jeffrey G. Sherman person you will ever meet,” says Rick Buhrke, his partner of 25 years. John H. Sherman ’53 Read more about Sherman’s career and legacy at Abigail K. Sprayer ’75 kentlaw.iit.edu/remembering-professor-sherman. Lucile S. Stark Ross Tyrrell ’67

52 | CHICAGO-KENT MAGAZINE 2019 Upcoming Alumni Events, 2019–20

November 1–3 February 9 Illinois Tech Global Alumni Gathering (India) National Security Law Conference

November 15 February 24–28 35th annual Illinois Public Sector Labor Relations Alumni-Student ConneKtions (ASCK) Week Law Conference

March 2–6 November 20 Diversity Week 41st annual Alumni Awards Celebration

April 23–24 December 6 37th annual Section 1983 Civil Rights Institute for Law and the Workplace Litigation Conference Employment Law Conference

May 17 January 23 Commencement Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Forum

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