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Contents m 1 From the Dean 2 Law Library Named for Michael Moritz ’61 Distinguished attorney, businessman, and community leader is recognized. 4 Center Stage at Juvy Court A leading juvenile judge and a rising political star in Franklin County, Ohio, Yvette McGee Brown ’85 runs her lively courtroom with presence r l v 1' !§| and passion, making decisions that shape kids’ lives. 12 College News Rogers Prize in Dispute Resolution awarded. 13 Faculty News The activities, scholarly and otherwise, of our faculty. 17 Criminal Law Society is the Latest Group to Support Yvette McGee Brown ’85 holds court Students’ Career Interests in Franklin County, Ohio Calling all alumni who practice criminal law

College of Law Administration 18 Honor Roll of Volunteers Gregory H. Williams Thanks to those who have given time and talents. Dean 20 Gift to Research Institute W ill Help Courts Implement College of Law Alumni Society Officers Mediation Methods Elizabeth J. Watters ’90 President Gift from Arthur I. Vorys ’49 allows program to operate. Jeffrey S. Sutton ’90 22 Hooding: The Class of 1999 President-Elect Welcome our newest alumni! National Council Officers David A. Ward ’58 24 Alumni News Chair Learn what’s new with your classmates. Carla D. Moore ’77 One More Honor for Attorney Vice-Chair 26 Howard Fort ’47 receives Thomas More Award. Pamela H. Lombardi Secretary 30 In Memoriam Send address changes and alumni news to: Our sympathy goes to family and friends. The Law Record OSU College of Law 31 Articles of Association for the College of Law Alumni Society John Deaver Drinko Hall Check out these updated articles and vote on their adoption. 55 West 12th Avenue Columbus, OH 43210-1391 Phone: (614) 292-2631 FAX: (614) 292-1492 e-mail: [email protected] The Law Record is published for the alumni and friends of The Ohio State University College of Law Editor: Liz Cutler Gates Student Intern: Amanda Alge Design: Jane Hoffelt/Pageworks ©1999, College of Law, The Ohio State University Cover Photo: Jo McCulty/ University Marketing Communications

Volunteers provide time and talent to give valuable advice to future lawyers. Two members of the Ohio Supreme Court, The Honorable Thomas J. Moyer ‘64 and The Honorable Paul E. Pfeifer ‘66 helped judge the annual Herman Moot Court competition on April 10. They are pictured with student winners: (left to right) Christopher Essig, Chief Justice Moyer, Dean Gregory H. Williams, Justice Pfeifer, Brandy Monk, and Sabrina Hudson. From the Dean

This year, as President of the Association of American Law Schools, I have had the opportunity to work with leaders of legal academia from around the country. As I meet with these deans and professors, I have urged law schools to take seriously their role to teach leadership to future lawyers. One of the most important contributions lawyers make is as leaders of their communities. We are fortunate at Ohio State to have many members of our community serving as outstanding leaders whose examples inspire us all. In this issue of the Law Record, we feature three leaders who have made a difference. Judge Yvette McGee Brown ’85 works with troubled youth in Franklin County, Ohio. The enormous success and respect she has gained are due largely to her willingness to see each Dean Gregory H. Williams received an honorary doctor of humanities juvenile defendant as an individual to whom she will give degree during the May 8 commencement at Ball State University, Muncie, the opportunity to earn a second chance. As you will read in the Ind. he was also the speaker at the ceremony for the College of Sciences cover story, life as a judge has not isolated McGee Brown; she and Humanities at University Arena. Pictured (left to right) is John remains an active member of the Columbus community, working Worthen, president of Ball State, Thomas DeWeese, president of the Ball State University Board of Trustees, Dean Williams, and Greg Schenkel, tirelessly to encourage, cajole, threaten, and yes, punish children secretary of the Ball State Trustees. Dean Williams received his as she teaches them what it means to be a member of society. undergraduate degree form Ball State in 1966. Howard Fort ’47 has been a leader in the Akron, Ohio community. He is one of the oldest African-American lawyers in a fair conclusion to say that most low-income persons in this Akron and has been actively involved in the University of Akron, country lack access to the civil justice system. the Akron Chamber of Commerce, and other community Every thoughtful lawyer that I know values access to the activities. His professional life is another testament to the impact justice system for both the rich and the poor. We do not wish a lawyer can have by embracing opportunities to be a leader, and to alienate people who cannot afford lawyers or to leave them at we are pleased to share his story with you. the mercy of the unscrupulous. Yet unless we come up with a One of the College of Law’s leaders, Nancy H. Rogers, has means to change things, that is what is happening for most low accepted a new challenge at The Ohio State University and has income persons. been named the Vice Provost for Academic Administration. We We all have the opportunity to make a difference today in are all very excited for Nancy; this is an exceptional opportunity the access that all Americans have to the justice system. Through for her. We are particularly pleased that she will continue to our own personal acts—by accepting pro bono cases and teach part-time at the College of Law. Nancy’s leadership and financially supporting legal services—we can improve access to service to the College of Law and to the legal profession has been justice. Our personal acts will also inspire others to follow our exemplary. She served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs for example. At the College of Law, we stress to our students that, five years and led our dispute resolution program to national as lawyers, they will be in a position to make a difference in the prominence. In addition to her work instituting dispute lives of others. Our students look to the work done by our resolution systems in courts across the nation and drafting model alumni and by our faculty, and they follow the fine examples legislation, Nancy has served our profession as a member of the they see. Our students are already reaching out to communities Legal Services Corporation Board. Through her work with the in need. The work our students do makes me proud as I realize LSC, she has made us all aware of the acute need for more legal that the future lawyers of America are prepared to make representation for the poor. profound differences in the quality of life in their communities. A 1991 ABA study concluded that four out of five low We are lucky at the College of Law to be surrounded by income persons with legal needs had no access to lawyers. leaders. Our faculty and our alumni set examples that our That study took into account the contributions of legal services students willingly follow of lawyers working, in a myriad of lawyers, pro bono services by lawyers, and even monies donated ways, for the good of society. to legal services by lawyers. All of that combined was not enough to provide more than superficial legal representation for the nation’s poor. Making a bad situation worse, Congress has since slashed the federal funding to meet the civil legal needs of the poor. Federal funding for legal services remains 25 percent lower in actual dollars than it was in the early 1990’s. I believe that it is Law Library Named

of the exceptional business lawyers in Through OhioLINK, students and faculty the community.” can access items held by major research distance The Michael E. Moritz Law Library is one libraries across the state, including libraries between of the premier law libraries in the country at eight of the nine Ohio law schools. the far and offers users access to a nearly limitless In addition to its resources, the Moritz north world of information. Housed in an 80,000 . Law Library serves as an important place side and square-foot facility in John Deaver Drinko to work. Spacious and filled with natural downtown hall, the library holds the largest collection of light, there is enough room for the entire Columbus legal material in Ohio and one of the largest law student body to study at one time, isn’t much in the nation. With more than 600,000 if necessary. There are 250 study carrels, in the volumes in paper and microform, its 10 group study rooms, two computer holdings cover a broad scope of United labs, and an open reserve collection. Michael E. Moritz ’61 matter of miles. States, foreign, and international law. In It’s the type of place where Mike liked But when Michael E. Moritz ’61 measures addition, a host of treatises, journals, reports, to study when he was in law school. In the moments since his graduation from and other services are available at the library. fact, he sometimes made a point to study Columbus’ North High School in 1951 It is also a federal document depository. in the library when others were enjoying to where he now sits as a partner in the The library also subscribes to a number a popular Ohio State tradition. “One of downtown law firm of Baker and Hostetler, of electronic databases including the things I’ll always remember is being it is light years away. LEXIS/NEXIS and WESTLAW/DIALOG, in the library studying on a Saturday Long removed from the days when which provide powerful research tools to and hearing the cheering come from the he’d take the bus down High Street to students, faculty, and practicing lawyers. stadium or the victory chimes playing,” Arcadia Avenue, where he’d walk to North High School, Moritz has distinguished Mike and Lou Ann Moritz himself as a lawyer, businessman, and community leader. In recognition of these achievements, the library at the College of Law has been named The Michael E. Moritz Law Library. The new name was unveiled during a celebration at the College of Law last December. “It is fitting that the library at the College of Law be named for him,” says Michael E Colley ’61, a Columbus trial attorney, president of the Board of Trustees of The Ohio State University, and law school friend. “He is a role model, he is an outstanding lawyer, and he was an outstanding student,” he adds. “He is one I Distinguished lawyer, businessm an, for Michael E. Moritz

he recalls of those fall weekends. “That’s really a testament to what I was in law ' / f S i i l l l school,” he adds, “1 was purposely not Ilf* *T-WW1 going to football games (and I loved football games—still do), so I could spend that time in the law library studying.” Hard work paid off. By the time he graduated in 1961, he had been consistently ranked at the top of his class for each of the three years. When he took the Ohio Bar exam following his graduation, he received the second-highest score out of 359 men and women who sat for the exam that summer. It was the foundation for a career that has currently placed him as a partner in one of Ohio’s most prestigious law firms, Baker and Hostetler. Along the way there have been directorships for a variety of corporations, including Cardinal Health, Inc., Pharmacy r .. Systems, Inc., and the Pickett Hotel Family and friends of Mike and Lou Ann gathered in December at the College of Law to celebrate the naming of the Michael E. Moritz Law Library. Company. He has served as president of the Capital City Young Republican founded the firm of Moritz, McClure, followed more than 40 years ago when he Club, trustee of the Kenyon Festival Hughes, and Kerscher and he continued clipped a saying from the newspaper and Theater, and commissioner of the Ohio to represent clients in business and estate pasted it to his mirror where he could see it Elections Commission. planning situations. That firm merged every day. It read. The secret to success is At the College of Law, he participated with Baker and Hostetler in 1980 and he hard work in the'Law Journal and was involved with was named business group chair for the “If I’m successful today, it’s because I the Young Republican Club, Student Bar firm in 1989. worked hard and not because I’ve shaken the Association, and Phi Delta Phi. He was Always at his side has been his wife, right hands or met the right people,” he adds. elected to the Order of the Coif and Lou Ann, whom he married following And it’s what he would tell a student graduated summa cum laude. his first year of law school. (They will at the College of Law today. “Work a lot He got his feet wet working for celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary harder than you’ve ever worked in your Dunbar, Kienzle and Murphey, where his this fall.) The couple has four children; life. Work harder than anyone else. primary focus was business law, tax law, Ann, Jeff, and twins, Molly and Cathy. Throw yourself into it. Don’t hold back. and estate planning. By the time he left Seven grandchildren round out the family. Concentrate on learning how to think.’” as a partner in 1972, that six-lawyer firm The advice he offers law students today And maybe even study in the Moritz had grown to 22 attorneys. That year, he is rooted deeply in something he himself Law Library.

and community leader is honored. 3 CENTER STAGE

A leading juvenile judge and a rising political star in Franklin County, Ohio, Yvette McGee Brown ’85 runs her lively courtroom with presence and passion, making decisions that shape kids’ lives.

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A lt first, Yvette McGee Brown comes across as a soft and represent only a small portion of the county’s juvenile I I touch. She’s in her late 30s, and could pass for actions (about 50 bindovers to adult court out of 30,000 younger. There’s a quick, buoyant smile, and a quicker cases in 1998). But nothing grabs headlines and a politician’s laugh—a high-pitched explosion of delight. She also likes interest faster than teen-agers, guns, and innocent victims. to tell a story or three. “I’m a great party guest,” she says, Almost all domestic court cases, even the followed by that wonderful laugh. uncontested divorces, are filled with high emotion and No grave, gray-haired soul here. dramatic choices. But that’s especially true of juvenile Then enter the judge’s courtroom. It feels like cases, which represent about 75 percent of domestic theater—the inherent drama of the cases coupled with court’s 40,000 filings last year. A judge’s decision about a McGee Brown’s command of center stage. She brims with teen can forever change a life. “I can take kids away from presence and passion and doesn’t hesitate to embarrass their parents; I can send kids to the adult system, order them to a foster home,” McGee Brown says. those before the court (pity the unprepared attorney) or The juvenile cases can be heartbreaking and make a flippant remark. To a juvenile at the tipping point perplexing, frustrating and impossible. Some kids’ lives of being jailed: “The bus is revving up.” McGee Brown are entangled in a sticky web of learning disorders, also gives a preacher’s cadence, a hard look, a way to turn addictions, mental problems, broken homes, poverty, a phrase that turns a room dead quiet. Word is, her own whacked-out parents, and a revolving door of mother thinks she sounds mean. caseworkers. “It takes a very special person to do McGee Brown’s beat is Franklin County domestic court, juvenile,” says Columbus City Attorney Janet Jackson, or as some attorneys call it, “the nut house.” This is the McGee Brown’s friend and a former Franklin County home of divorces, neglect and abuse cases, and juvenile Municipal Court judge. “I don’t know if I could sit there crimes. Juvy crimes have become a hot-button political issue, and handle that caseload.” though the shockingly violent acts have leveled off of late And, although the cases are assigned by random,

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4 it seems as if McGee Brown lands many of really cares about those kids,” says she knows about hard times— lived them the highest-profile juvy cases that occur in attorney Ron Solove ’70, a former as a kid. Her sternness is rooted Franklin County, such as the single Franklin County Domestic Relations in compassion. mother of seven children whose 13-day- judge. “That may sound trite, but I’ve It’s 9:00 a.m., a Monday morning in old child suffocated in a crowded bed and known a lot of juvenile judges, and not December in Courtroom 65 on the sixth the 8-year-old girl who poisoned her all of them feel that way,” floor of the Franklin County Courthouse. grandmother. Most recently, there was the Brenda Smith, a supervisor with A door hinge gives off a low moan as controversy over Justin Goen, the 17-year- Franklin County Protective Services, lawyers hustle in and out, checking with old Worthington boy embroiled in a battle the investigative arm of the court, tells a the bailiff, who’s scrambling to keep between Franklin County Children’s story: A teen-age girl, whose case had schedules flexible, fielding last-second Services and his parents about his being been before McGee Brown, was missing; requests and excuses. sent to Jamaican youth camp to modify one morning, the judge strode into From the front of the courtroom, his behavior. Smith’s office and told her to grab her McGee Brown enters with a laugh, While there are criticisms of McGee coat. “We went looking for her, tooling responding to a parting comment from a Brown cases taking too long, she gets too around the west side in the judge’s car,” staffer in the doorway. “Good morning,” close to the subjects, she’s weaker on the Smith says. “And we found her. The girl’s she says as the parties in the room snap domestic side, her reviews are strongly eyes were as big as pancakes, seeing the to attention. She puts on her game face. favorable. She’s said to be hard-working, judge.” About a judge doing fieldwork, The morning docket includes five compassionate, smart, committed, Smith says, “It is the first time in my 23 divorces and eight juvenile or custody fair. “She has the first and foremost years that’s ever happened.” cases. Four of the divorces are characteristic of a juvenile judge: She No doubt, McGee Brown cares— uncontested, quickies at the bench. The

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She's said to be hard-working,

compassionate, smart, com mitted, fair. other is nasty, involving custody problems, an allegation about a slap in the face, and the husband seeking a protective order. In a juvenile case, one mom says she can’t get her 13-year-old, with 28 unexcused absences, to go to class. “If you can’t control a 13-year-old, then God help you when she’s 16,” McGee Brown says. A bevy of workers from the courts and social service agencies are either present or talked about during the morning session: protective services, the Franklin County prosecutor, CASA, FCCS (Franklin County Children’s Services), Crittenton Family Services, Maryhaven, Children’s Hospital, many others. It’s a véritable army of professionals constantly battling brush fires, trying to keep messed-up families in some kind of working order. This morning, McGee Brown’s ire is directed at a 15-year-old boy with an attitude and a record. He’s here because he screwed up smoking dope while on probation. She gives him and his divorced parents copies of a Columbus Dispatch article about a young man serving 27 years to life in prison. “Read that article,” she snaps; “That’s your future." She glares at the boy. McGee Brown could send him to a Department of Youth Services (DYS) institution, a combination jail/school/ treatment center. She’s upset about his lack of supervision, his school conduct, his grades. His dad works the late shift, leaving him unsupervised, and his mom, who’s remarried, is unavailable. Dad says he can’t control him at all times, that h e. can’t know everybody he’s hanging with. “1 tell you what,” the judge says. “I know everybody my child is hanging out with." The probation officer, Eddie Stanley, thinks the teen, whose treatment at Maryhaven has gone well, should get another chance. McGee Brown turns to Stanley, “I don’t believe he’s very sincere." She’s making Stanley work hard on his pitch. Then to the boy: “You think you’re bad enough to do 27 years? You think that’s cool? Then go out and quit wasting my time.” After a brief recess, she returns, ready to send him to DYS. But Stanley, whom McGee Brown has been dispensing justice since 1992 in Franklin County. 7 with a laugh. She chose Ohio University because, “It was a party school.” She thought about broadcast journalism until a professor told the robustly-built McGee Brown she “didn’t have the look, meaning I wasn’t a size 5.” She earned her degree in public relations, but entered Ohio State’s law school to fulfill her interest in politics. She felt alone; of the 225 or so students, only 14 were black. And she was frightened. “A lot of kids were from Ivy League schools, with prominent parents,” she says. “It was the first time in my life I felt I couldn’t compete.” But fear motivated her. “I was so scared of flunking out.” A part-time job with the city attorney, Greg Lashutka, found her in a politically ambitious Republican office: Her boss was Deb Pryce, now a member of the U.S. House, and a fellow part-timer was Bruce Johnson, now an Ohio senator. Out of law school, McGee Brown, a Democrat, landed a position in the state attorney general’s office in the Celeste Yvette McGee Brown with her husband, Tony Brown, their three children, and her mother, administration. There her mentor was Sylvia Kendrick. Janet Jackson, who would later become the county’s first female African-American she trusts, persuades her to reconsider. survived, but would need the next two judge. McGee Brown got a taste for “Mr. Stanley is begging me,” she says. years to recover fully. So Yvette’s politics by working on a campaign for She gives the teen one more chance, grandmother closed down her house, Cindy Lazarus, a longtime City Council but issues a warning: If you slip up, quit her job and moved in, taking care of member who’s now a Franklin County you’re locked up in DYS until you’re the family. “My grandmother was our Appeals judge. 21. She then issues another warning, to lifeline,” she says. Grandma, who was McGee Brown’s career path veered his parents: If you can’t control him, “You born on a sharecropper’s farm in Macon, toward prisons and juveniles, as she will be spending your Sundays visiting Georgia, dished out life lessons to Yvette. represented the state’s Department of him in prison.” “‘Nobody expects anything out of you, Rehabilitation and Correction, then Yvette McGee Brown was bom to a and you have to be twice as good as worked for the Ohio Department of Youth teen-age mom with few prospects and a anybody else.’ She pounded that into me. Services. She got very familiar with the dad who went AWOL. However, her I have never forgotten that.” back end of the justice system. “It was mother, Sylvia Kendrick, had a strong Yvette had one reunion with her father, one thing to see adults in cells,” she says, work ethic, holding down two jobs and which went badly—a bitter memory now “but it was something else seeing kids piecing together enough classes over 10 20 years old. “My husband tells me I’m in shackles.” years to earn a college degree. “My mother supposed to have forgiveness,” she says, In 1992, McGee Brown combined two is my mentor; I’m so driven because of “but I think it’s [my father’s] job to make interests, troubled teens and politics, by her,” McGee Brown says. “No matter peace with me. He’s the one who left us.” running for election to a Domestic what I do, it’s easy compared to what she On her matriage certificate, where it asks Relations and Juvenile Branch judgeship. went through. for a father’s name, she listed “none.” She was a political rookie and a black It was early spring, 1973, when 12- Classwork came easy for Yvette; at Democrat in a county that likes its justice year-old Yvette and her two brothers Mifflin High School, she marched in the dispensed by Republicans. And she faced visited a hospital to see their mom, who band, served as a student council an incumbent, Kip Cloud ’61, who’d been was suffering from a rare form of polio. representative and delivered her class’s appointed to the seat by Governor George She was paralyzed from the neck down, commencement speech. And like many Voinovich ’61; it looked like a slamdunk with a trachea tube in her throat and a teens growing up in the tolerant 1970s, for Cloud. But McGee Brown called on halo brace squeezing her head. The doctor she enjoyed her fun. “Stay out late, drink Janet Jackson for advice and scraped said her life was in God’s hands. when we shouldn’t have, do things that together $67,000, mostly in small Somehow, someway, Yvette’s mom are not politically popular now,” she says contributions, enough to air a few effective TV commercials. She scored a “You poor thing,” she says, “you are not McGee Brown, feel their discretion stunning victory. going to be able to move.” has been taken away in determining The 32-year-old Yvette McGee became Then it’s back to business. There’s a whether a teen is capable of being the youngest judge in Ohio at that time, complicated family case involving a father rehabilitated. All that may change and the first African-American to sit in with two children who used to live in within a year; a state-sponsored the domestic and juvenile division. Not Mexico with their grandparents and commission is expected to make bad for somebody whose first home was a two others with an out-of-state mother drastic recommendations about juvenile walk-up apartment on the near east side. who’s moved eight times in three years. justice this fall. “I have a real strong belief in God, that he And then a pouty-faced girl with dark But it’s not likely anyone packed into has a plan for us. There is no earthly lipstick who has “an anger-management the courtroom cares much about that reason for me to be in the place I am,” problem,” inconsistent school attendance particular political debate at the moment. she says. “It’s almost eerie; every time I and a mom with a taste for alcohol. Many family members are here hoping had a chance to go off the path, there was Four days later, the Monday of McGee Brown will allow Deeorman L. a hand, a hand guiding me.” Christmas week brings a probable cause Saunders Jr. to spend the holidays at home. McGee Brown’s courtroom is not hearing for two 16-year-old boys charged Saunders and Ernest Tukes were always somber. During one case, she is with committing home invasions. A gun charged with those home invasions in concerned about an attorney making an was involved. Under House Bill 1, which Blendon Township and Columbus’ north upcoming court date; the pregnant lawyer went into effect in 1996, juveniles aged side. Both now sit at the defendants’ table, looks as if the baby’s nearly full term. 16 or 17 are to be tried as adults if a wearing handcuffs and tan detention- When the attorney says (truthfully) she firearm is used during a violent crime. center jumpsuits. isn’t due for another six months, the Automatic bindovers are controversial. McGee Brown must decide if the two courtroom bursts into laughter. The Politicians say that law deters violent boys fall under House Bill 1 requirements loudest voice belongs to McGee Brown. crime. Many juvenile judges, including for being tried as adults. The testimony,

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first African-Am erican to sit in the domestic and juvenile division.

❖ coming from two homeowners, is mentioned for a federal judgeship, maybe budget and office personnel. compelling. One man describes the night a statewide office; She’s interested in both, Lias recalls McGee Brown “felt strange, four people, two teen-age boys and two But not now, she says. There's too much having been empowered by one judge and young women, knocked on his door. A work to do, not familiar with the other two. So she gun was pointed at his head, then aimed at It’s a long way from the days when made decisions with the court director his 19-month-old son. Valuables were she joined a court of feuding judges Kay and that increased tension [because] this stolen, threats made. The other witness, an Lias and Ron Solove 7 0 allied against court is a small court and everybody likes ex-Marine, describes the same four people George Twyford ’58 in a lingering battle to know that's going on,” Lias adds, “once approaching his house, but he grabbed the over control of court employees and everybody was informed of what was gun, causing the attackers to flee. administrative matters, Nerves were going on, the tension decreased," Today, The first witness identifies Tukes and frayed even more when Twyford pulled McGee Brown says, “We now talk to each Saunders, saying both held a weapon on off a shrewd political move by nominating other. We have good relationships,” him. With gun possession established, McGee Brown in 1993 to replace Lias as Consensus is McGee Brown has grown McGee Brown has no choice under House administrative judge; Lias and Solove more confident since 1992, stronger in Bill 1. Both 16-year-olds are bound over knew a 2-2 deadlock would result in both family law (an early weakness) and to be tried as adults; if found guilty in Twyford, the senior jurist, filling the juvenile cases, She's criticized for devoting Franklin County Common Pleas Court, position, so they reluctantly backed too much attention to juvy matter, though. they could face at least 10 years in prison. McGee Brown to oversee the $14 million “A universal complaint is that it takes a The attorney for Saunders asks McGee Brown to set a bail that would let Saunders visit his family during the ♦ holidays, The lawyer talks about his good deeds and clean record— that his McGee Brown talks frankly about the influences football coach and his cousin (a police officer in Cincinnati) are here as on her decision-making, character witnesses. McGee Brown doesn’t waver. She sets bond the balancing of personal beliefs, for Saunders and Tukes at $200,000 each, calling the allegations against them “heinous," respect for the law and public opinion. She adds, “I can’t imagine the horrible feeling of having a gun in your face-even worse, ♦ a gun pointed at your child," Saunders and Tukes are transferred immediately to a Franklin County jail; Saunders’ family members leave the courtroom grim, some in tears, McGee Brown sits in her office, squeezing in an interview. It’s a busy life, There’s her caseload, her community commitments (including heavy lifting as a United Way board member) and her husband and three children, in 1993, she married Tony Brown, a Gahanna High School teacher whose first wife died, and then adopted his two children; two years ago, a son was born to the couple. “Please write what a wonderful husband 1 have,” • she says with a laugh. “Stephanie

Hightower [a former city official] once of courtesy Phot© called her husband ‘wonderful’ in an article, and [my husband] has been pointing that out to me ever since."

McGee Brown’s career has been in onthly M Columbus ascendancy. Fresh off of an uncontested election in November for another six-year term, the court’s lead juvenile judge is a rising political star, Her name has been long time for things to happen in her worry about, however; ones that keep her convoluted custody case has done courtroom," says Solove, who lost a up at night, making notes at 5:00 a.m. something stupid; forged a teacher’s reelection bid to Susan Brown in 1994. Cases that make her wonder, she says, signature on an attendance sheet. “She spends a lot of time with those kids, if life wouldn’t be easier as a secretary. McGee Brown, who’d called the school more than some of them deserve," Others Cases forcing her to make irrevocable to verify the document, is incredulous. question if McGee Brown occasionally decisions, Is this teen salvageable? Or a “How dare you! How dare you!” loses her objectivity. Recently, for instance, threat? If she’s wrong, the damage could The girl turns on the tears; McGee she offered to buy a Christmas tree for a be devastating to the teen or to his next Brown is unmoved. poor, single mother in court on custody victim, She talks about three such cases: It’s clear to McGee Brown the girl’s issues, The incident raised eyebrows, » Jabakki Granderson, who, at age 15, grandmother, with whom she’s living, “Lawyers get uneasy about how murdered another teen in 1994, Last can’t control her. Instead of removing her involved I get,” she says, "I don’t worry December, McGee Brown, with the from the home, however, McGee Brown about my impartiality, I spent $3,91 on blessing of the victim’s mother, released hits on an unusual solution. She orders that tree, because the guardian [of the Granderson from a juvenile facility a year her to wear an electronic monitoring woman’s children] got the public early; she thought he had made a device, programmed to alert police if she defender^ office to pitch in for a tree, remarkable metamorphosis, from a punk leaves her house— other than to school or bulbs, lights and a smoke detector, too." to a remorseful and rehabilitated young to the courthouse, ' “I’m just not willing to give up," she man, She thinks Granderson, now on “If you respect me, I respect you," adds, about the question of spending time probation, sets an example to other DYS McGee Brown says, “But you been dissing on cases. “If there’s a possibility of change, youths— there is a benefit to doing the me; and I don’t stand for that, I’m not I'm going to give it a chance.” She cites right things. “I’m at risk," she says, “If he your mother." (However, by early January, examples of “last-chance kids” who are commits a crime, I know it will be on the the girl had ignored McGee Brown’s staying out of trouble. However, front page," order; she!s now living in a foster home.) “Sometimes I get disappointed," she says. •Randy Williams, on whether he should Days later, at the end of another “1 expect more than they do themselves," be bound over as an adult for a 1997 morning in the courtroom, McGee Brown McGee Brown talks frankly about the killing; “A wisp of a kid, Barely 5 feet prepares to rush off to a meeting. influences on her decision-making, the tall, So stupid, He was out late, acting “Depressing day," she says. But she is balancing of personal beliefs, respeet for tough for 14 years old. He fired a gun in cheered by one case. It is part of the the law and public opinion, “When a TV the air, killed a kid. Victim’s mom came to SMART program, a pilot effort based on camera is trained on you in the courtroom, the hearings holding a photo of her son,.," the belief that school attendance reduces ith intimidating," she says. “I’m not Her decision, she says, was “the difference juvenile crime. “I’ve never seen a felony immune to living in the community, between life or death. He’d never case here of a kid who goes to school,” reading the paper, watching TV news. You survive in adult prison, but there had to McGee Brown says, Five unexcused read what’s in the paper, Any judge that be retribution for her son’s murder. If he absences triggers a response to the court, tells you they don’t is lying; the first thing spends seven years in DYS, he has a which investigates the family. “Sometimes, they do is turn to that editorial,” chance at rehab. In adult, he will return it’s something simple, like not being able She cringes over bypass hearings for as an animal, because he has to act like to afford to buy an alarm clock,” she says. teens seeking abortions, “I hate those one to survive," “Other times, it’s more serious issues.” hearings," she says. According to Ohio She committed Williams to the DYS. The front-end intervention is designed to law, a judge must determine if a child “I struggled, I wasn’t diminishing [the ward off “kids raising themselves for 10 who has approached the court is mature mother’s] loss, I put myself in her shoes, I years” and landing in jail. She hopes to enough to get an abortion without know it was really painful," expand the program from the three parental approval, "This is serious; there •A 13-year-old girl, who wanted to Columbus schools now involved, ought to be a parent involved, Some of keep her baby, “I went with my gut, and This particular SMART case discovered these kids come in acting as if they are by the law. The law says that a mother’s that the mother of the truant kids was getting a hair-cut," McGee Brown says, “I right is paramount, and can’t be taken illiterate. Now, mom is in a literacy class don’t think the clinics do a good job in away unless the mother had validly given and the children are doing well. In the preparing them, not from a moral up her right and there’s proof of abuse or courtroom that morning, the mother perspective, but about the possible long­ neglect. Neither was the case.” The girl shares with McGee Brown a teacher’s note term effects; might not be able to have had taken steps to give up the baby for praising her son. “Wow. That’s incredible," children again, psychological scars, I adoption, but changed her mind before McGee Brown says. “You sure Ricky didn’t know women who still cry 20 years later," losing her parental rights, "This got front­ write this?” She’s half-joking, The mother She adds, "But I say a prayer and put my page treatment, TV I had tons of angry assures her it’s authentic. thoughts aside, But I have not consented reaction," But, she says, “I knew I had McGee Brown nods; a small victory. to some, They can appeal, and all but one done the right thing." “I’m very, very pleased,” she says, flashing of my appeals has been upheld," Sitting at the bench, McGee Brown that quick smile. There are so many kinds of cases to isn’t happy. A teen-age girl involved in a The mother smiles too. 11 College News

First Rogers Prize in Dispute Resolution Awarded

Fred Gaona, a second year student from in dispute resolution research and whose work “reflects the analytical rigor Texas, has been named the first place policy analysis. and intellectual breadth associated with winner of the first Nancy H. Rogers Prize The prize is awarded to those students highly-regarded scholarly contributions.” in Dispute Resolution Scholarship for his paper, “The Application of Legal Regulations to Address Unfairness and Power Imbalances in Mediation for Ethnic Minorities.” Second place went to another second-year, Erika Van Ausdall, for her paper, “Trapped Inside a Litigious Society: Is Statutory Support Necessary to Protect the Enforceability and to Promote the Use of Mediation Clauses?” Students who, as part of their normal academic course work, wrote a paper analyzing a dispute resolution topic, were eligible for consideration. A committee of OSU dispute resolution faculty, in consultation with Dean Gregory H. Williams, reviewed both faculty and self-nominated submissions. The prizes, which carry cash awards, Winners of the first Nancy H. Rogers Prize in Dispute Resolution: Fred Gaona, second from right, are named in recognition of OSU and Erika Van Ausdall, center. Also pictured are Dean Gregory H. Williams, far right, Vice Provost Vice Provost Nancy H. Rogers, a pioneer Nancy Rogers, second from left, and Professor Josh Stulberg,far left.

The Honorable Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Dean Gregory H. Williams welcomed Professor Patricia Williams prior Second Circuit, left, talks with students, faculty, and alumni following to her appearance at the Wexner Center on February 25. A professor his lecture at the College of Law on April 6. During his lecture, he at Columbia University School of Law, she is a celebrated cultural discussed the diverse jurisdiction, the criminal docket, and the challenge commentator. She introduced the film “To Sleep With Anger” as part of achieving a consistent approach in federal circuits. of the Critic’s Choice Series. The College of Law and the Wexner Center co-sponsored her appearance. 12 Faculty News

Professor Sarah Cole recently presented a professorship in Ohio State’s Department Professor Merritt also co-authored paper on “Drafting Mandatory Arbitration of History. an article, “Affirmative Action: An Agreements” at the Eighth Annual Professor Gallanis has been named one International Human Rights Dialogue,” Northwest Alternative Dispute Resolution of the book review editors for H-Law, the with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Justice Conference. Professor Cole and Professor listserv for legal historians; he will be in Ginsburg presented their article in Josh Stulberg were members of a panel charge of all books concerning non- February as the Cardozo Lecture to the discussing alternative dispute resolution at American legal history. He has also been Bar of the City of New York. The article the Ohio State Bar Association meeting in asked to contribute to The Reader’s Guide will appear in the Record of The Association Cleveland in May. to the Social Sciences, for which he of the Bar of the City of New York, the Professor Ruth Colker attended a will prepare the entries Rutgers Race & the Law Review, and a book disability discrimination conference at the on “Common Law” of collected Cardozo Lectures. University of California at Berkeley. Her and “Trusts.” In April, Professor Merritt presented a article, “The Americans with Disabilities Professor Arthur paper, “Scholarly Influence in a Diverse Legal Academy: Race, Sex, and Citation Act: A Windfall for Defendants,” recently Greenbaum continues Counts,” at a conference on Interpreting appeared in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil to focus his current Legal Citations sponsored by Northwestern It has already been research in the Liberties Law Review. University’s School of Law. The paper will areas of Administrative featured prominently in several Supreme appear in a special issue of the Journal of Court briefs on major disability Law, Civil Procedure, Legal Studies. discrimination cases pending before the and Professional Professor Arthur Greenbaum Finally, Professor Merritt has been named Supreme Court. Responsibility. to the Board of Directors of the Consortium Professor Howard The Guide to the Ohio Rules of Civil of Social Science Associations. She Fink’s article, Procedure (LEXIS Pub. Co. 1999), which represents the Association of American “Supplementary he co-authored with Professors Howard Law Schools to that Consortium. Jurisdiction—Take Fink and Charles Wilson, was published Professor Nancy Rogers and her It to the Limit!” was in the spring. Outside the College, co-authors, Frank Sander of Harvard published in the Professor Greenbaum has been appointed Law School and Steve Goldberg of Indiana Law Journal’s to serve on the Ohio State Bar Northwestern Law School, have completed symposium on Association’s CLE Advisory Committee. work on a Third Edition of their law school supplemental Professor Timothy Jost attended an textbook, Dispute Resolution: Negotiation, jurisdiction in the Professor Howard Fink international symposium on the Revision Mediation and Other Processes. Aspen federal courts. His Publishing Company published the book of the Declaration of Helsinki on research treatise, Guide to the Ohio Rules of Civil in June 1999. Professor Rogers will be a involving human subjects in early April Procedure, with Professors Arthur Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School in Goettingen, Germany. He presented a Greenbaum and Charles Wilson, was during spring semester, 2000. Professor published in the spring. In 1999-2000, paper on the permissibility of placebo- Rogers has also been named Vice Provost at Professor Fink will visit and teach at the controlled research and the American Ohio State. See page 14 for details. University of Santa Clara Law School, in country report. He also published During the 1999-2000 school year, Santa Clara, Calif. Professor Fink has also two papers in March, an article on Professor Douglas announced his retirement. See the next administrative law issues affecting the Whaley will be visiting issue of the Law Record for more details. Medicare program in the Administrative at Boston College. He Professor Thomas P. Gallanis is the has recently published leading editor of two books published Law Review, and another article in Greek new editions of his this summer : the casebook Elder Law: in a Greek publication comparing casebooks on Readings, Cases, and Materials and the American and German medical Contracts, Sales, and companion volume Elder Law: Statutes malpractice law. Payment Law. He is and Regulations. He has been awarded Professor Deborah Jones Merritt and evaluating the recently a Visiting Fellowship at Oxford Kathryn Barry published “Is the Tort System in Crisis? New Empirical Evidence” promulgated version University’s Centre for Socio-Legal Professor Douglas in volume 60, number 2, of the Ohio State of Article 9 (Secured Studies. He spent part of the summer Whaley there, conducting comparative research Law Journal. The Ohio Academy of Trial Transactions) of the on English and American inheritance law. Lawyers honored Professor Merritt and Ms. Uniform Commercial Code, which he While in the U.K., he attended the annual Barry for this research by naming them the says will necessitate rewriting two of his meeting of the Selden Society, which is Academy’s Outstanding Public Employees casebooks to reflect the changes. He also an organization for historians of English of 1999. Professor Merritt accepted the was a featured speaker at the Columbus law, and the biannual British Legal award at the Academy’s annual awards Bar Association’s Bankruptcy Conference History Conference. Back at home, he luncheon on April 30 and delivered the in May, where he spoke on the new has also been appointed to a courtesy keynote address at that lunch. Article 9. 13 Faculty News Professor Rogers Named Vice Provost at Ohio State

Law professor and former College of Law the 1996 Outstanding Professor in Foundation for Associate Dean Nancy Hardin Rogers the college. Outstanding has been named to the position of vice A former clerk forjudge Thomas D. Contributions to the provost for academic administration in Lambros of the U.S. District Court for Administration of the Office of Academic Affairs at The Ohio the Northern District of Ohio and staff Justice. She also has State University. The appointment took attorney for the Legal Aid Society of been appointed to the effect July 1. Cleveland, Rogers is the co-author of Ohio delegation of the Rogers, of Upper Arlington, will Dispute Resolution: Negotiation, Mediation, National Conference be the primary liaison between the and Other Processes. She also co-authored of Commissioners on two award-winning books on mediation Uniform State Law. Office of Academic Affairs and the Vice Provost vice presidents for research, for and the law. In 1984, Rogers helped At Ohio State, Nancy Rogers agricultural administration, and for Ohio State law students form a second Rogers has served on health sciences, as well as the director law review, the Ohio State Journal on all regular college committees and several of university libraries. Rogers will also Dispute Resolution, for which she serves special committees, including a dean’s have oversight of international programs. as a faculty advisor. search panel. She chaired the Self-Study The appointment completes the Rogers was appointed by President Committee for the American Bar restructuring of the Office of Academic Bill Clinton and confirmed by the Association re-accreditation visit. She also Affairs begun last fall in response to a U.S. Senate in 1993 to the board of co-chaired the Academic Enrichment larger restructuring of the university’s directors of the Legal Services Corp., Grant Advisory Committee this year and central administration. a Washington, D.C.-based organization has served on the Distinguished Scholar “We are very fortunate to have Nancy that distributes federal funding to legal- Selection Committee. Rogers join our staff in this role,” said aid programs throughout the country. Rogers earned a bachelor’s degree from Edward J. Ray, executive vice president Most recently, Rogers received the 1998 the University of Kansas and her Juris and provost; “Nancy is a renowned leader Ritter Award from the Ohio State Bar Doctor degree from Yale Law School. in her field, and ably carried administrative duties in the College of Law for five years. She is highly respected B id d in g F arew ell across campus and has the enthusiastic, support of those who will be working with her in her new position.” Rogers is the Joseph S. Platt-Porter, Wright, Morris and Arthur Professor of Law, and has been instrumental in shaping the College of Law’s number-one ranked alternative dispute resolution program; she has been faculty coordinator for the program since 1998. She served as the college’s associate dean for academic, affairs from 1992-1997, and now teaches mediation issues, dispute systems design, advanced studies in dispute resolution, and facilitation. Rogers will retain her faculty appointment in the College of Law. Rogers first taught at Ohio State in 1975 as a visiting assistant professor, and subsequently served first as an assistant and then as an adjunct professor on a part-time basis during her children’s pre-school years. She Professor Mike Rose, right, bids farewell to faculty and staff before a faculty meeting in May. He, along with Professor Howard Fink, have retired as full-time faculty members. More re-joined the faculty as an assistant details will be featured in the next issue of the Law Record. professor in the fall of 1983. The College of Law Alumni Association named her 14 Faculty News

Faculty in the Media Members of the media often call upon College of Law faculty to provide expert information about current events. Here is a sampling of some of the recent coverage. • U.S. News and World Report quoted Dean Gregory H. Williams about how many law deans believe “undue attention is being paid to the rankings” in U.S. News. Another article mentioned the law school’s first-place ranking in alternative dispute resolution. « Professor Ruth Colker was interviewed on National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation for a report about how the Senate handled the impeachment proceedings. • In a story in the American Bar Association Journal about three cases involving the Americans with Disabilities Act before the Supreme Court this term, Professor Colker stated that the ADA has been virtually repealed for millions Professor Doug Berman fields questions from members oj the media jollowtng a Jorum on tne of Americans who have treatable death penalty at the College of Law. U was one of several times that he was interviewed prior to conditions, “They either say you are the execution of Wilford Berry in Ohio. so disabled you are not qualified to work or if you can work, they say you don’t suggests patients may sometimes not get 1999 on the question of the legality of have a disability,” she said. adequate pain treatment in part because maintenance of “no-fly” zones over Iraq. • Professor Colker was widely quoted in doctors fear legal troubles from the use “The problem is the resolution does not other media about the three test cases. of powerful narcotics. The story also call for action,” he said, referring to the Coverage included U.S. News and World appeared in the New Orleans Times- Security Council resolution 688, which Report, Los Angeles Times, Financial Times Picayune and the Charlotte Observer. called for an end to internal repression, (London), and National Public Radio’s • Associate Dean L. Camille Hébert said to justify the zones. “Legally, it’s a rather Morning Edition and All Things that employers must justify their desires weak position.” She also discussed ADA with Considered. to search a worker’s hard drive in an • The Washington Post, along with other Catherine Lamphere on Minnesota article about e-mail privacy in the May, major media, reported that Peter Swire, Public Radio’s MidMoming, in USA Today, 1999 issue of the ABA Journal. professor of law, was named and in the Seattle Times. • Professor Deborah Merritt was quoted the Clinton administration’s chief • When the Supreme Court handed down in the Washington Post about a recent counselor for privacy. He will coordinate their decision in late June, Professor U.S. Appeals Court ruling that declared policies that govern the use of personal Colker was interviewed by reporters a 1994 federal law unconstitutional. The information by government and from National Public Radio, Newsweek, law gave victims of rape and domestic industry. The story also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Columbus Dispatch, violence the right to sue their attackers New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and others. for violating their civil rights. Denver Post, and on National Public • Professor Timothy Jost noted in the • The Associated Press quoted Professor Radio’s Weekend All Things Considered. Journal of the American Medical Association John Quigley about the impact • Less than a month on the job, Professor that lack of coordination has plagued international sanctions against Libya may Mary Ellen O’Connell participated the coverage for pain relief provided to have had on the country’s decision to turn in a filming of WOSU’s Viewpoint approximately 37 million Americans over two suspects in the 1992 Pan Am jet program on June 10 about the ethics eligible for Medicare or Medicaid. bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland. of intervention in Kosovo. (Meet • Professor Jost was also featured in the « Professor Quigley was quoted in the Professor O’Connell in the next issue Chicago Tribune for his research that Christian Science Monitor on January 7, of the Law Record.) Faculty News

Ball State University, on May 8. The award was given for “outstanding achievement.” During the trip to Muncie, Ind. (his hometown), he was also made an Honorary Deputy Sheriff by Delaware County Sheriff Steve Aul in recognition of the Dean’s achievements and his service as a full-time Deputy Sheriff while he was also a full-time undergraduate student at Ball State. • Attending the Ohio State Bar Association Council of Delegates meeting in Cleveland as part of his second term of membership on the Council of Delegates of the Ohio State Bar Association on May 12. • Recognizing College of Law graduate, The Honorable Jack Grant Day ’38, during a law alumni reception at the Ohio State Bar Association’s annual convention in Cleveland on May 13. • Attending the annual meeting of the Dean Williams is pictured at the White House with Eric Holder, Deputy U.S. Attorney General, and American Law Institute in San Francisco Neil K. Katyal, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center. They were part of a delegation on May 20. that met with Bill Clinton on July 20 to talk about the President’s diversity agenda. • Attending an invitation-only conference on diversity in Washington, D.C. Dean Williams has been very busy since he • Meeting College of Law graduates in sponsored by Attorney General Janet became President of the Association of Youngstown, Ohio, at a reception hosted Reno and Secretary of Education Richard American Law Schools (AALS) in January of by Federal Judge William T. Bodoh ’64 on Riley on June 8. this year. His investiture as President of the March 10. • Speaking to a special meeting of the AALS was followed by his attendance at the • Serving as the featured speaker at the first Scioto County Bar Association on June 15 Mid-Winter Meeting of the American Bar National People of Color Law Professors where he was introduced by Howard Association in Los Angeles where he spoke to Conference in Chicago on March 27. Harcha ’51. law school deans who attended the Section on • Serving as the keynote speaker culminating • Participating in a planning committee in Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar a week-long celebration of diversity at the Chicago for a national conference on T ima Civic Center on April 15 where he Annual Dean’s Meeting. diversity led by ABA President-Elect also spoke via a television hook-up to more Among his other activities over the past William Paul on July 8. than 500 junior and senior high school months are: • Serving as part of a delegation that was students in that area and the Allen County • Delivering a keynote address during a comprised of representatives of all Bar Association. celebration of diversity at Indiana segments of the legal profession who met • Serving as the keynote speaker for the University-Purdue University, Indianapolis with President Clinton on July 20 to talk Annual Convention of the National to a capacity crowd on February 9. about the President’s diversity agenda. Association of Law Placement in San • Serving as part of a delegation which Dean Williams made special remarks on met on February 11 with Ohio Governor Antonio, Texas on April 21 where he behalf of the legal academy to national Bob Taft to talk about merit selection of spoke to more than 600 law placement leaders of the bar following the session state judges. professionals from around the country. with the President. • Speaking to Miami, Fla., Ohio State law • Moderating a panel at The Ohio State • Receiving the first Judge Leon graduates at a luncheon on March 3 hosted University Big 10 Minority Affairs Higginbotham award on July 30. The by Federal District Court Judge Donald L. Conference on May 4. Dr. Sam Betances, award was given by the National Bar Graham ’74. a noted national lecturer, and retired Association at its convention in • Attending the annual Bench-Bar Conference Congressman Ronald Dellums were the with representatives of the Ohio State Bar featured speakers. Philadelphia, Pa. The award is given to Association, Chief Justice Tom Moyer ’64, • Receiving an Honorary Doctor of a person whose work and achievements and all the deans of law schools in Ohio Humanities degree at the spring most resemble the life and legacy of the on March 4 and 5. commencement at his alma mater, late Judge Higginbotham. 16 Criminal Law Society is the Latest Group to Support Students' Career Interests

T l wo current 2L law students saw the need, and sought to meet it! The founding members of the brand new OSU College of Law Criminal Law Society, Heather L. Jones, president, and Doug Janicik, vice president, wanted students who are interested in exploring criminal law as a career option to have support from alumni. The group plans to host panel discussions and forums, in addition to disseminating information about resources, writing competitions, conferences, and events relating to criminal law throughout the school year. This group also offers an exciting opportunity for alumni practicing criminal law to help the members. The Society, with the assistance of the Placement and Alumni offices, seeks to establish a comprehensive database of alumni careers in criminal law. interested in serving as mentors to ■ students and hopes to involve the alumni in several other events throughout the school year. If you practice criminal law, consider becoming involved in this exciting new cooperative venture, and share the wisdom of your experience and practice with current students. Honor Roll of Volunteers

Life at the College of Law would not be the same without Once again we recognize those who have provided an in-kind the dedicated volunteers who willingly give of their time and gift of their time and expertise. We have tried to compile as talent to make the school a better place. From judging moot complete a list as possible, Given the number of people who court competitions and speaking in classes to organizing class are involved in the College on a day-to-day basis, we realize reunions and writing letters of encouragement to prospective that some volunteers may have inadvertently been omitted. If students, our volunteers make an important contribution to that is the case, please accept our deepest apologies and be the College. assured that any oversight is not intentional

Abel, Mark R. ’69 Brown, John T. ’58 Adams, Catherine ’78 . Brown, Yvette McGee ’85 Adams, Rachel ’93 Bryant, Peggy L. ’76 Adams, Theodore ’91 Burkhart, Matthew J. Alford, Alan ’88 Butler, Jolynn Barry ’76 Almaguer, Alejandro E. ’97 Byrne, Robert J. ’88 Ammons, Linda L. ’87 Cahn, James S. ’73 Anderson, Scott M. ’93 Caldwell, Charles M. Anelli, Dianna Calhoun, Donald E. Jr. ’51 Arthur, Bill ’53 Carmany, Peg Asbury, Allan Carney, John Babin/Penny Carney, Stephen Bader, Howard ’73 Carr, James Balthaser, Jim ’78 Casey, John E ’65 Barbin, Brad Cassady, Carrie M Bames, James Cavalieri, Nick ’73 Barnes, Thom ’78 Celebreeze, Anthony J., Jr. Batchelder III, Chester, John F. William G. ’67 Chester, John J. Bazler, Frank E. ’53 Christian, Karen the efforts of volunteer chairs and hosts. Dave Ward ’58 was among those who Bell, A1 ’59 Christoff, Susan chaired a class reunion last year. (He also serves as chair of the Alumni Society's Belville, Dan ’88 Clark, Edward L. ’73 National Council.) Bender, John ’71 Clark, William ’60 Berliner, Irving ’79 Cochran, Robert '91 DiMichele, Susan Freimuth, Jennifer Heron, John J. ’65 Bermann, Sol ’99 Cole, R. Guy Jr. Dombey, Phil ’73 Frick, Bradley Herzberger, William. A, ’87 Bernardini, Paul A. '66 Coleman, Danyelle S. T. ’99 Donoto, Lisa Frost, Gregory L. Hockstad, Karen Besser, Howard R. ’66 Colley, Michael E ’61 Dortch, Michael D. Fulkerson, Jonathan Holschuh, John D. Bessey, John Connor, Dan ’68 Doucet, Elizabeth Gantz, Curtis ’68 Hoover, Luann Beytagh, Francis X. Conroy, James P. ’74 Doucher, Kimberley ’96 Gardner, G. Andrew ’96 Hoppers, John ’68 Bichimer, Ray ’58 Cook, Deborah L. Downey, Philip F. ’88 Glander, Charles E ’59 Hopple, Jim ’63 Blackwell, Kenneth Cooperman, Edwin ’67 Drinko, John D. ’44 Goodbum, Paul ’98 Houlahan, J. Michael Bloomfield, David ’97 Coplan, Robert C. ’42 Duncan, Robert M. ’52 Gormely, David Igoe, Daniel J. ’68 Bloomfield, Sally W ’69 Corbin, Sara ’99 Dunn, Bart Graham, Clay P. ’80 Inderleid, H. F Blumenstiel, Hannah Cornelias, Melanie Edmund, Rob Graham, James L. '62 Isaac, William M. ’69 Bockbrader, Katherine Coulter, Lisa Weekley ’88 Eikenberry, Peter G, ’64 Graney, Mike ’68 Ison, Dick '53 Joseph ’96 Cox, Gary Fairfield, Mary Ellen '72 Gray, Cheryl Johnson, Brian Bodiker, David H.’63 Cox, Marshall ’59 Faller, Bryan Greek, Darold I. ’32 Jolly, Tyronne Bodoh, William T. ’64 Crawford, Dale ’68 Fergus, John ’78 Grove, Michael E. ’78 Jones, Daniel Boggs, Ted Cunningham, Brian Ferguson, Hilary ’99 Hairston, George W ’68' Jones, Heather Bostos, Stephanie Cunningham, Finch, Jodi Hang, Trang Jones, Ronnell Bradley, Monique ’97 Raymond P ’50 Fitch, Stephen ’73 Hanson, Denise Katz, David A. ’57 Braff, David H. ’84 Cupps, Nancy R. '65 Flower, Sharon ’99 Harcha, Howard H., Jr. ’51 Kegler, Chuck ’68 Brake, Daniel Damaser, Hilary R. ’92 Forbes, Johnlander Harper, John 0 . ’48 Kemp, Terence P. Brandt, Isaac Dane, Mimi ’89 Jackson Hawkinson, Cheryl Kerns, Leslie Brandt, Tom Davis, D. William ’73 Ford, Aaron Haynes, John S. ’68 Kestner, R, Steven ’79 Brant, Marjorie ’83 Davis, William J. ’73 Ford, Stephanie Hazexney Victoria ’97 Kies, Kenneth J. ’77 Bravo, Kenneth A. ’67 Deckman, Adrienne Francis, Nichole Henderson, Jennifer Kilgore, Terry L. ’73 Brent, Derrick . Lalak’78 Frasier, Ralph K, Henderson, Ron 73 King, Eugene R, '83 Bressman, David ’90 DeGenova, Jackie Freed, Todd ’98 Hendler, Michael B. ’63 King; Marilyn 18 Honor Roll of Volúnteos

Klausman, Bill McGuire, Traci ’99 Orizondo, Jill Metcalf 78 Kleinman, Stephen R. ’95 McKim, Jake Orlando, Jacqueline ’88 Koenig, Chuck ’78 McKim, Joe Osborne, Julia 78 Kohn, William I, 76 McKim, Josh Overbey, Terry L 75 Kotev, Stephen McMahon, John P. ’42 Oxley, Fred ’73 Lagusch, Alex McNair, Robert M. ’68 Papp, Dennis ’76 Lahki, Priya ’99 McNally, Susan '78 Patel, Mardy Lampke, Matthew Meeks, James E. Patmon, William, III ’93 Landes, Mark ’82 Mengel, Marcia Patton, Thomas F. ’26 Lanier, Janice K. ’94 Mercer, Jeremy Paul, Angelique Larson, Amy ’99 Metzenbaum, Howard Michele '97 Lasley, Aneca M. ’41 Pevehouse, Elizabeth LaTessa, Tony Mezko, Mark Pfeifer, Paul E. '66 Lawrence, James K. L. '65 Mihaly, Peter ’92 Piacentino, C. Michael '73 Leahy, William B. ’68 Miller, Andrew Piccininni, Patrick Leidner, Ellen ’83 Miller, Jennifer Pierre, Darrell LeVere, T. Earl ‘94 Miller, John ’63 Martin, Jr. ’96 In September, Todd Freed ’98, New York; Jill Metcalf Lias, Katherine S. Miller, Michael Plymale, Ron ’68 Orizondo ’78, Detroit, Mich.; and Steve Vogel 78, Liber, John D. ’63 Miller, Tiffany Pohlman, Bill ’88 London, England offered current students tips for out of state job searches as part of a panel discussion. Lind, Jessica Shimberg ‘91 Miraldi, David ’78 Polanski, Peggy ’78 Liston, Jeff Miraldi, Leslee Wilkins ’78 Porter, Pat Sheatsley, James R. 78 Tucker, Carl C. '34 Lomax, Lisa Miskell, Jennifer Porter, Randall ’77 Shemberg, Andrea ’97 Tuschman, James M. ’66 Losey, Mark A. Monk, Brandy Post, Sharon Shenk, Charles H. Tyburski, Charles J. ’64 MacBeth, Bill ’63 Montz, Joy Preisse, Dana S. Shenk, William Allan ’68 Uvena, Frank ’63 Mackin, Jim ’68 Moore, Carla D. ’77 Price, Holly J. Sherman, Kendra ’97 Van Heyde, J. Marbley, Algenon L. Moriarty, Erin E ’77 Profumo, Laura S. Shoupe, Karen 78 Stephen '68 Martin, Jane Spring ’78 Mote, Gretchen Koehler Pruett, Eileen ’81 Shumate, Kim ’92 Vogel, Stephen 78 Marty, Cone Moyer, Thomas J. ’64 Putnam, Melanie Sladoje, Douglas ’88 Voinovich, George V ’61 Mason, James W Müller, David Pyles, Clement W ’75 Slagle, L. Orin '57 Vollmer, Mike ’99 Mathews, Colin A. ’96 Murray, Bernard ’68 Ramirez, Ted L. 77 Slowik, Don ’80 Vourlis, Simina ’90 Maxwell, Lindsay Murray, Ken Rasor, Dennis Jay ’94 Smallwood, Carl D. '80 Walden, Jon McCorkle, Leon M., Jr. ’72 Nemitz, Eugene H. ’73 Ray, Frank A. ’73 Smith, George C. ’59 Christopher ’94 McDonald, John C. ’61 Noll, Steven ’78 Reed, Frederick R, Smith, Monte Glen ’90 Walters, Randall 78 McGarry, Kate Norris, Alan E. (Fritz) ’73 Smith, Robert F. ’78 Ward, David A. ’58 McGrath, Pat ’68 O’Malley, Suzanne Reese, J. Gilbert ’52 Snell, Jeff '88 Ward, Paul E ’39 McGreevey, Robert ’76 Higgins ’79 Reichwein, Diane '83 Reisz, Lisa Pierce ’92 Snyder, Chris Warner, Charles C. ’70 Resnick, Alice Robie Solomon, Robert ’88 Wasserburger, Hanz R. ’97 Richards, Suzanne ’74 Spater, Alexander 73 Watkins, Robert J. ’53 Rinehart, Dana ’73 Speed, Kevin ’99 Watters, Elizabeth J. ’90 Weaner, John W ’63 Rogers, Doug Stephens, Eric *94 Rosenberger, John C. ’73 Stem, Geoffrey ’68 Weaner, Karl H. '31 Rupert, Jeff ’95 Stotter, Lawrence H. ’58 Weaveir, Diane Sandberg, Elisabet Stover, Stephen Webber, Marti L. "Lisa” K. Stratton, Evelyn L. ’78 Weeks, Thomas Sandman, Dan D. ’73 Studer, Rick Werth, Robert W ’65 Sargus, Edmund A. Jr. Summit, Stuart A. ’59 Wheeler, Donald R. 64 Saunders, Charles, Jr. ’72 Sutton, Erin '97 White, Harry W ’73 Saxbe, William B. ’45 Sutton, Jeffrey S. ’90 Whiting, Hugh R. 74 Schindler, Jerome ’68 Swendiman, Matt Whitus, Jim Schlafman, Gerald E. ’54 Swiger, Elinor Porter '51 Williams, Dale E. ’65 Schneider, Mark Taylor, Bill ’73 Williams, Douglas L. II ’80 Schoeppe, Michelle Thomas, Peter Windom, Ricky Marie ’96 Thomas, William K. ’35 Wood, Rob ’99 Schrader, Alfred E. ’78 Thomas, William R. Woods, William H. ’73 Students received a personal view of careers available Schwartz, Niki Zola ’64 Tormey, Ed Zeldin, Laura to them during a breakfast with Dean Gregory H. Selcer, David ’68 Trethewey, Virginia Zeman, Bob Williams and Frederick R. (Fritz) Reed ’73. They talked Marie ’77 Zendell, David J. ’66 about franchising and corporate law. Reed is the chief Sellers, Barbara J. Trott, KaraJ. ’91 Zox, Benjamin L. ’62 financial officer at Wendy’s International. Shamansky Sam 19 G if t t o R e s e a r c h In s t it u t e W il l H e l p C o u r t s Im p l e m e n t M e d ia t io n M e t h o d s

T " hanks to a gift from 1949 related to the dispute resolution process graduate Arthur I. Vorys, students in the courts. and faculty at the College of Law Professor Rogers, who became Vice are helping courts around the country Provost for the university in July, has examine the use of mediation to been the driving force behind the resolve disagreements. The result is development of the alternative dispute in the tradition of the land-grant resolution program at the College and extension model — practical, research- has taught many of the ADR classes at based findings available at little or no Ohio State. She is widely known as one cost that will guide court officials in of the leading experts in mediation and implementing alternative dispute dispute resolution. resolution methods. “Like studies in agriculture and Vorys has committed a total of engineering years ago, research about $200,000 to be given over the next five key aspects of successful court mediation years toward The Nancy H. Rogers programs is largely unknown to most Research Institute on Courts and Dispute judges and court staffs,” says Rogers. Resolution. The Institute, headed up by Modeled after agricultural extension namesake law professor Nancy H. Rogers, programs, the Research Institute focuses on innovative ideas and research Arthur I. Vorys ’49 provides research outcomes on one

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20 or two key court initiatives without charge. “The courts often have limited resources for conducting research or hiring consultants,” she adds. “Judges and administrators in congested Page Society courts also can’t often take time off to attend seminars.” At the same time, the Institute differs from the land-grant model. It is a Members Hear partnership with the National Center for State Courts, a nonprofit entity funded by state judicial systems across cott urow the nation. As a result, the work done S T at Ohio State reaches beyond the borders of the Buckeye State. “The National Center’s publications for judges and court personnel are also a means to distribute articles about research findings in the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution and other scholarly journals.” Vorys’ gift will allow the program to operate for the next five years, according to Rogers. Already, it has provided for a visiting scholar, Professor Ellen Deason of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Law, who is working at Ohio State this summer. With a team of three students, she is preparing a report to help mediators for the U.S. Court of Appeals examine confidentiality provisions for the mediation process and has worked with the Fulton County Courts in Atlanta, Ga. to help their mediators enhance an already extensive alternative dispute resolution program. In addition, reports were previously submitted to the Supreme Court of Ohio Frank Bazler ’53 visits with Paul ’39 and Anita Ward and Associate Dean Camille Hébert and the Maryland Supreme Court. before the Page Society Luncheon on May 15 at the Faculty Club. Vorys recognizes that alternative dispute resolution is the wave of the future. “Mediation is a way to settle disputes and it will be used more and more,” he says. “It will be more economical and helpful to settle differences between litigants.” As a practicing attorney for more than 50 years, he also realizes the limits of the judges and those who work with them. “The courts often lack the time to train lawyers and others to mediate successfully,” he says. Vorys is currently Of Counsel with Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease, the Columbus, Ohio, law firm where he has practiced law since 1949 and been a partner since 1954. And Ohio State is grateful for his involvement. “Without his support, Attomey-author, Scott TUrow, was the keynote speaker when members of the Henry Folsom Page Society gathered at the Faculty Club on May 15. The Page Society is comprised of those we would not be able to assist the individuals who have made major gifts to the College of Law. state and federal courts in this way,” stresses Rogers. 21 HOODING: THE

The Class of 1999 marked the end of their academic career with the traditional Hooding Ceremony at the Ohio Theatre in downtown Columbus on May 15, Attorney-author Scott Turow was the speaker and Professor Alan Michaels was recognized by the class as Outstanding Professor,

Josh Stutberg, right, talks with Algernon Williams during the Third Year which was held at the College of Law on April 23.

Tyler Smith "98, friend of the late Jacob W, Tressler, joined Jacobi mother, Sally Jane Roach, an the platform as Dean Wiliams recognized Jacob for his work at the College of Lawt The second-year law student died of leukemia on July 21,1998 and would have graduated this Paul David ElUs and his guests talk with year He was awarded a juris doctor degree Professors Alan Michaels and Sharon Davies, posthumously during the spring commencement Professor Michaels was named Outstanding of The Ohio State University on July 11, Professor by the graduating class,

t he practice of law is often a family affair. There is rarely a class at the College of Law that does not contain someone who has had a family member precede him or her to the law school. Kevin Gregory Benningtonb father, Roger Bennington, a 1964 graduate, was in the audience during MayS Hooding Ceremony, (Kevin is also the nephew of Ron Bennington ’61.) Other graduates who followed the footsteps of family members to Ohio Stated law school include; Mieah Stefan Asch, a first cousin of the late Simon Karas 73; Isaac Anthony Molnar, the nephew of Lynn Griffith ’82, Calvin Griffith ’87, and Am Griffith’98; Jason P Smith, the grandson of James E, Waldo ’SO; and Lisa Maria Hyre Timms, the sister vy Tuong Duong was joined by her family after the Hooding Ceremony. of John M, Hyre 111 ’95. C L A S S O F 1 9 9 9 o Sc htgah Lz ulr Gates Cutler Liz Photography SecYou

Attomey-author Scott Turow used the story of Dean Gregory H. Williams congratulates Sol Joseph Bermann, left, after announcing "Bartleby, the Scrivener” by Herman Melville to him as the recipient of the Deani Special Award, given to a third-year student who encourage the new practioners of the law, demonstrates outstanding service to the College.

Family and friends of the Class of 1999 gathered in the warm May sunshine in front of A new tradition started this year as the College of Law hosted the Third Year Send-Off for the the Ohio Statehouse, across the street from the graduating class. A buffet dinner and the class photograph, along with a disc jocky and dancing, Ohio Theatre, to congratulate graduates. were part of the evening. Pictured are Cassandra G. Mott and Michael Benjamin Kass. 23 Alumni News

1 950s visual arts. He resides in Amherst, N.Y. Allan Gulker ’53, Dublin, retired in with his wife, Carol, a tapestry weaver and Colley Named Chair 1987 and since has served as a Volunteer family counselor. Missionary to India with the United of University Trustees Methodist Church and Christian Medical John D. Liber ’63, Cleveland, was elected Michael E Colley ’61, of Hilliard, College Vellore in South India. He also president of the Ohio Chapter of the develops World Wide Web sites for Ohio, a Columbus trial lawyer, American Board of Trial Advocates and took charitable, educational, and religious has been office at their Annual Meeting in Columbus organizations, including www.vellorecmc.org named chair in April. He is the managing partner for the and www.indianrun.org. His personal web of The Ohio law firm of Spangenberg, Shipley and Liber site is www.gulkers.com. State in Cleveland. Robert A. Butler ’56, Columbus, was University Ronald Lawrence ’66 retired from included in Best Lawyers in America and Board of Westinghouse. He and his wife, Kathy, are Who’s Who in American Law. He is a Trustees. now living in Sewickley, Pa. partner with Butler, Cincione, DiCuccio He succeeds John R Difalco ’68 is CEO and President of and Barnhart. Ted Celeste, John R Difalco and Associates. He has spent John R. Sherman ’56 retired from the whose one- almost 30 years in the practice of law and Department of Defense on July 31, 1998 year term almost 15 years with his own firm. He and where he was a warranted contracting as chair his wife, Carolyn, reside in Fort Collins, Co. officer for the Defense Logistics Agency. and nine- David S. Bloomfield ’69 has been named Prior to his federal civil service career, John year term as MithaelECoHeyW to The Best Lawyers in America, 1999-2000. practiced law in San Mateo County, Calif trustee ended He is a partner with the law firm of with Reisch and Sherman and Sherman and on May 13. Colley Bloomfield and Kempf and counsels major Harverty. He was City Attorney for several has been a trustee since 1991. public corporations, medical institutions, cities on the San Francisco peninsula. He As chair, Colley is leading the universities, high tech companies, resides in the Sacramento, Calif, foothills. board of a university with an annual restaurants, retail establishments, and Albert L. Bell ’59, Westerville, chaired the budget exceeding $1.7 billion. Ohio nationally-known athletes and ballet dancers committee to review the Ohio Disciplinary State has about 55,000 undergraduate, in both immigration and nationality law and Process for the Ohio State Bar Association. social security law. graduate and professional students, Richard V. Patchen ’59, Columbus, was including more than 48,000 on the awarded the 1999 Bar Service Award at the 1970s Columbus campus. Columbus Bar Association’s annual meeting. Reginald S. Jackson, Jr. Colley is past president of the The award, the highest honor awarded by ’71 was chosen president­ the Association, was given to him for his American Board of Trial Advocates. elect of the Ohio State commendable record of commitment to the He has served as a member of the Bar Association at the Bar. He served as an assistant attorney ABOTA national board of directors organization’s annual general, an associate in a business law firm since 1991 and was president of the convention in Cleveland. and worked in a solo practice before Ohio Chapter from 1991-92. He He will serve a one-year term beginning July 1, founding Carlile, Patchen and Murphy. served as a member of the Ohio Board and on July 1, 2000 of Regents from 1982 to 1986 and has Stuart A. Summit ’59, will automatically assume New York, N.Y., been chair of the Franklin County the presidency of the is lead editorial consultant Republican Party since 1978. association. Prior to being chosen as for the New York and president-elect, Jackson served as the Connecticut Federal District 4 representative to the OSBA Board Litigation Guide. He also studios. The company has been ranked the of Governors. He and his wife, Joanne, have is a trustee of the Federal No. 1 franchiser in the photo business three children and reside in Toledo. Bar Foundation and is category in Entrepreneur Magazine’s 20th Marty L. Steinberg ’71 was included in the chairman for Effective Stuart A. annual Franchise 500 list. The Best Lawyers in America as a leading Case Management in Summit ’59 the New York State and James Atleson ’62 is a professor of law at attorney in business litigation. He is an Federal Court Systems, including views the University at Buffalo State University attorney with Hunton and Williams in from the Bench and Bar. of New York. James wrote his second book, Miami, Fla. Labor and the Wartime State: Labor Relations Alan T. Radnor ’72 was named a Fellow in 1960s and Law During World War II, and continues the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is Mike Adler ’61 is CEO and founder of to specialize in labor law and labor history. a trial lawyer for Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and Moto Photo Inc., North America’s largest He has also begun teaching seminars in Pease in Columbus and has been included franchiser of photofinishing and portrait international labor law and law and the in The Best Lawyers in America since 1988. 24 Alumni News

Joseph Litvin ’73, in high tech law and business planning. Dayton, received the Christopher previously worked for Sanchez Sentinel Award from the Computer Associates, Inc. for seven years. American Road and Life Does Not He is also currently enrolled in a post-MBA Transportation Builders certificate program in Management of Association for Grassroots Imitate Art, Information Systems (MIS) at Pennsylvania Legislative Activism. He. is State University, Malvern. the County Engineer for Says Ju d g e John Kostelnik ’81 is a partner in the Montgomery County. Joseph Litvin ’73 Cleveland law office of Benesch, Friedlander, She may have been the prototype for He and his wife, Elaine D. Coplan and Aronoff. “Sis” Litvin, live in Dayton. a romance novel character, but Judge Janet Burnside ’77 says that the Carl D. Smallwood ’80 Stephen E. Chappelear ’77, Columbus, actions in the fictional courtroom became the president-elect was elected to a three-year term on the Ohio have not happened in her own, at of the Columbus Bar State Bar Association Board of Governors, least to her knowledge. Association on June 11. where he will serve as the representative of Carl is a partner at the law Judge Burnside, of the Cuyahoga lawyers in Franklin County. Stephen is a firm of Vorys, Sater, County Common Pleas Court, general partner at the law firm of Kegler, Brown, Seymour and Pease, division, and her bailiff, Linda Bixel, Hill and Ritter, and chairs the firm’s trial and where his primary areas are the prototypes for the judge and appellate practice section. He is a past Carl D. of emphasis are bailiff characters in Laura Abbot’s president of the Columbus Bar Association. Smallwood ’80 professional negligence, recently-published Harlequin Super employment-related Jerome Edward Friedman ’77 is president Romance, Ms. Abbot Trial Courtship. injury litigation and insurance defense of the Association of Ohio Children’s observed Judge Burnside and Ms. litigation. He has also served as a member Hospital in Columbus. Bixel for three days last year during of the Board of Governors for the Columbus a criminal trial in their courtroom Bar Association for the past four years and is and interviewed them to appreciate past president of the Law Alumni Society. legal procedures and terminology in such cases. Donald B. Leach, Jr. ’82 has been elected vice president and assistant treasurer of the The book follows a romance 1999 Board of Managers for the law firm of between two jurors during a hotly Buckingham, Doolittle and Burroughs. He . contested murder trial. Judge joined the firm in 1991 and is managing Burnside admits similar events have partner of the Columbus office and co-chair not, to her knowledge, happened in of the Construction Law Section. Donald her courtroom. practices primarily in the areas of real estate The book’s forward acknowledges and commercial law, with an emphasis on the assistance from the judge and the construction-related matters. Cuyahoga County Court of Common Michael Segal ’83 is a partner in the New Pleas personnel. York-based law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Laura Abbot is the nom de plume of Wharton and Garrison. author Laura Shoffner of Eureka, Ariz. Arthur L. “Tim” Clements III ’84 is of She is the sister of attorney Charles counsel with the law firm of Nischwitz, Lyon of the Cleveland law firm, Pembridge and Chriszt in Cleveland. Calfee, Halter and Griswold. Sean A. Bowen ’85 is senior counsel for Eastman Chemical Co. in Kingsport, Tenn., where he ffves with his wife, Amy Bowen. Bruce Lowry ’77 has been named one of Sherri Neiding McComas ’85 and her the top tax advisers in North America by husband, Donald Gregory McComas, Ron McCracken ’76, right, was recognized He has also been International Tax Review. adopted a baby boy, Benjamin Arthur, on by the Waste Equipment and Technologies included in The Best Lawyers in America Association (WASTEC) at its annual technical Sept. 29, 1998. He was bom in Russia on conference on Jekyll Island, Ga. He received the and in Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s January 25, 1998. The family resides in Bay Leading Tax Lawyers..Lowry heads Deloitte WASTEC 1998 Distinguished Service Award, Village, Ohio. which is granted annually in recognition of and Touche’s international tax practice in long-term service to the waste industry. Ron is Columbus and Dayton. Alexandra Hilary Wolf and Mark Manning the president of Bes-Pac, Inc. and vice chairman Hamblett ’85, were married on November of Hi-Rise Recycling Systems, Inc. Also pictured 1980s 14, 1998, at Little Dix Bay, the resort on is Fred Leach, WASTEC chairman and Christopher C. Carr ’80, Paoli, Pa., Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands. president of the Leach Company. opened his own practice, which specializes He is a reporter for the New York Law Journal. 25 Alumni News

r One More Honor for Attorney

By Dennis McEaneney Fort was trying to help some of the On appeal, the Ohio Supreme Court Beacon Journal staff writer injured passengers out of the plane when overturned the verdict and the award. The (Editor’s Note: Howard Fort, a 1947 graduate he found a man on the wing. He wanted woman’s attorneys appealed to the U.S. of the College of Law, recently received the Wahl to help. Supreme Court, which refused to hear the Thomas More Award at St. Bernard Church “It was at the height of the civil rights case—meaning Fort came out the winner. in Akron, Ohio. Created by Bishop Michael movement and I’m the only black out of Fort, who now lives in northwest H. Murphy in 1977, the award recognizes the 26 passengers on the plane,” Fort recalled. Akron, spent much of his legal career service and excellence on the part of a “I’m standing on the wing of the plane as a partner in the firm of Schwab, member of the legal profession or a person in and those are really high off the ground Grosenbaugh, Fort and Seamon. public service. This article appeared in the and I’m yelling, ‘Whitey, Whitey,”’ he But he also spent a good deal of time June 6, 1999 issue of the Akron Beacon recalled with a laugh. in the community. Journal and is reprinted with its permission.) Fort—who came to Akron in 1947 He has served on the University of Akron’s because this city seemed like a good place board of trustees and is an honorary alumnus Howard Fort’s father was a barber for a black attorney—prefers to go by and a member of the Alumni Council. At the on the west side of Wichita, Kansas, W Howard “because there are so many time of the plane crash, he was president of And as a kid, Fort had to walk through Williams out there and I didn’t want the Akron Chamber of Commerce. the downtown to see his dad at work. people calling me Bill. But eventually they His other community activities include His route took him by the courthouse, called me Bill anyhow.” the Akron Bar Association, American Red and sometimes he’d stop and peek inside. Memorable Career Cross board of governors, Akron Regional Then one day, he “finally went inside He sat in his home office last week Development Board, Akron General and sat down.” He liked the place, and and talked about his most memorable Medical Center board of trustees and the he never forgot the experience. legal case. It began on New Year’s Day in North Central Association of Colleges and At age 28 and by then living in Ohio the late 1950s when a client phoned Fort Schools executive board. he entered law school, his ticket to at home to ask if he could stop by Those activities were part of his being returning to the courtroom. Fort said yes and waited. named this year’s Thomas More winner. Fort, now a venerable 83 and one When the client arrived, he had his The award given by the Catholic Diocese of the oldest African-American attorneys son with him, a gun “and a box of shells.” and named after a man born in 1478 who in Akron, was recently given one of the The story from the son was this: was an author, lawyer, scholar, statesman, top awards presented each year during A few hours earlier, he had awakened martyr and canonized saint goes to a lawyer, Summit County Law Week. a gun shop owner, bought a gun and judge or public servant whose “private life At a special ceremony, he was bullets and had killed his girlfriend and and public career” exemplify and are “in presented the Sir Thomas More Award. “the man she was with.” general accord with the religious traditions Fort has cut back on his practice of law Fort called authorities and told them of our country and this community.” these days. What he does, he does from the son would surrender later in the day. Alabama native his home. But he still maintains a keen “A lawyer is required to cooperate with Fort is a native of Tuscumbia, Ala., and sense of humor and an appreciation of life. the court, not work against it,” Fort said. earned his bachelor of science and law The appreciation of life comes from a Fort took the case to trial. The son degrees from The Ohio State University. man who lived through a plane crash. was found guilty of second-degree murder Fort explained his family’s trek from In 1973, Fort and Firestone executive but was sentenced to just eight years in Tuscumbia when he was 18 months old to Frank “Whitey” Wahl were on their way prison for two killings. Wichita to Ohio as part of the migration back to Akron from Washington, D.C., Fort had done his job. of blacks in the first half of the century aboard an Eastern Airlines DC-9. It was a Fort’s most memorable civil case from the South to the North “for better foggy November night when the plane around the same time as the murder case educational and employment opportunities.” overshot the runway and plunged down saw him representing the Cleveland Call His father always moved first, Fort said, a 38-foot embankment, breaking apart. and Post in a libel suit. and when he was established, the rest of No one was killed, although 16 The woman won the case in Common the family joined him. people were seriously injured. Wahl and Pleas Court and was awarded $30,000, Fort and his wife, Ruth, have been Fort were OK, but on impact the lights “which was a lot of money in those days,” married 46 years. They have a son, Bill, went out and they were separated, Fort said. and a daughter, Gailmarie. 26 Alumni News

David A. Scott ’86 was elected Chairman of the Ohio Chapter of the Sierra Club. At the time of the 1973 plane crash, Fort handled divorce cases with his The Sierra Club has over 14,000 members Fort was serving as outside counsel for own singular style. “I had a reputation in Ohio, and maintains a statewide lobbying Firestone on Equal Employment for people saying, ‘If you want a divorce, and litigation program. He is employed, Opportunity Commission cases. don’t go to Fort.’ I’d wind up getting the as a senior attorney at the Legal Aid Society Fort recalled going to a Firestone plant parties back together,” he said. of Columbus. in the South once to investigate an EEOC “If it was after a holiday or a weekend Brian T. Casey ’87 has been named to complaint, and the plant supervisor and a woman came in to see me, I’d head the new Insurance E-Commerce Group wouldn’t talk to him. Because he is African- deliberately drag my feet,” Fort said. for the Atlanta-based law firm of Morris, American, the plant supervisor “thought I He recalled running into a woman Manning and Martin. The group will focus was the lawyer for the plaintiff,” Fort said. who had reconciled with her husband on electronic commerce and Internet While it may seem unlikely for an after conferring with Fort but who later strategies for insurance and health care African-American to represent a major divorced her husband using another providers. Brian represents several major players in the online insurance price corporation in EEOC cases, Fort said he lawyer. The woman began the conversation comparison shopping market, including took on the work because “I like things saying, “‘I ought to shoot you. If it hadn’t Consumer Financial Network, a subsidiary where I learn something.” been for you, I’d have been rid of that guy of iXL Holdings, Inc. He is also the founder And he said his race was never a a long time ago,”’ Fort said. of the Global Electronic Financial Services problem in his giving his all. “Firestone was “I look back now and I don’t have to Association (GEFSA), an emerging my client, and either I represent them to explain anything,” he said. “Life hands association of e-commerce companies in the best of my ability or I don’t represent you many interesting things, but I’ve the three major segments of the financial them at all,” Fort said. been blessed in many ways, so I enjoy it.” services industries: banking, insurance and securities. He and his wife, Ashleigh, reside in Atlanta, Ga. Newly named as the new vice provost for campus diversity at Louisiana State University is Gregory J. Vincent ’87. He will begin his new position in mid-August. He is Gregory J. currently the assistant Vincent ‘87 vice chancellor for academic affairs and the director of the Equity and Diversity Resource Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Jan E. Hensel ’88 has been elected as a shareholder for the law firm of Buckingham, Doolittle and Burroughs. She joined the firm in 1996 and concentrates her practice in the area of employment law. Her practice includes state and federal discrimination litigation, drafting and reviewing policies and procedures, and advising clients in all aspects of employment law issues. Jim King ’88 was named partner at the law firm of Porter, Wright, Morris and Arthur. He works in the Columbus office in the litigation department, Stacey Schacter ’88, Cincinnati, has been named Vice President/General Counsel of EMCC, Inc. based in Boston, Mass. He is a member of the law firm of Harris, Howard. Fort ’47 Harris, Field, Schacter and Bardach Ltd. 27 Alumni News

in Cincinnati. He and his wife, Susan, Suzanne Peltier Tortorice ’90 and her to joining the firm, she reside in Cincinnati. husband, Rusty, welcomed their second practiced civil litigation as Mimi Dane ’89 became a partner in the child, Christine Marie, on March 14, 1999. an associate at the law Columbus law office of Squire, Sanders “All are doing well,” she says. Suzanne is firm of Lane, Alton, and and Dempsey. employed by the Special Data Processing Horst as a staff attorney. Corporation in Clearwater, Fla. The family Gregory A. Price ’89 is a staff attorney with Mark Edward Duell ’94 resides in St. Petersburg, Fla. the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio. is a patent attorney for He and his wife, Julie Graham-Price, reside Terre L. Vandervoort ’90 is currently the Porter, Wright, Morris and Elizabeth I. in Columbus with their family. Law Director and City Prosecutor for the Arthur. He and his wife, city of Lancaster, Ohio. She recently Cooke ’94 Brian Sandoval ’89, Reno, Nev., was Pinky Frias Duell, were completed implementation and training on a appointed by Nevada Governor Kenny united in marriage on April 11, 1998. They county-wide domestic violence protocol and Guinn to be the chairman of the Nevada reside in Worthington, Ohio. began training law enforcement officers and Gaming Commission. Brian and his wife, protectors throughout the state on effective Bill Kirsner ’94, Dallas, Tex., was promoted Kathleen, reside in Reno with their two intervention and prosecution of domestic to Dispute ^solution Specialist for the children, James, 4, and Madeline, 2. violence training. She is also on the Federal Labor Relations Authority. In Timothy T. Tullis ’89 was inducted into campaign trail for her second term as addition to serving as a labor lawyer, Bill the Million Dollar Advocates Forum. Lancaster Law Director. She and her also trains federal employees in five Membership for the Forum is limited to trial husband, David Rader, reside in Lancaster. southwestern states on interest-based lawyers who have demonstrated exceptional negotiations and alternative dispute Ralph E. Knull ’91 is an associate with the skill, experience and excellence in advocacy resolution. law firm of Hahn, Loeser and Parks in • by achieving a verdict or settlement in the Cleveland. Joseph Murray ’94, Brian Murphy ’94, amount of $1 million or more. David A. Mallen ’91 and his wife, Lora, Geoffrey Moul ’94, and Brian Basil ’95, 1990s are enjoying their new son, Shawn Gabriel all of Columbus, have formed the firm of Rob Creamer ’90 and his wife, Randie, of Mallen, bom on September 14, 1998. Murray Murphy Moul + Basil LLP It is a Ridgefield, Conn., announce the birth of David has an employment law practice in full service firm committed to providing the their daughter Brenna. She was welcomed Los Angeles. highest quality legal representation to home by her sister Haley, who will be three individuals and to small and mid-sized Rachael T. Rentas-Pilutti ’92 and her in September businesses. husband, John B. Pilutti, welcomed the birth Bridget H. Kahle ’90, Columbus, was of their son, Michael Carl, on February 27, Mary Frances Prechtel ’94, Columbus, has named to the 1999 class of Fellows of the 1998. The family resides in Dublin, Ohio. joined Schottenstein, Zox and Dunn as an Ohio State Bar Foundation. Fellows associate practicing in the Litigation and Michael P. Shuster ’92 is an associate with membership is extended annually to lawyers Construction Departments. Her practice the Cleveland-based law firm of Hahn, who have demonstrated dedication to the focuses on general commercial litigation, Loeser and Parks. highest ideals of the legal profession and the and construction law including competitive welfare of their community. Bridget is an Richard Chiu ’93 was recently named vice bidding issues, contractor attorney at the law firm of Bricker and president, business manager and director of claims and general Eckler and is a member of the firm’s compliance for The Huntington Investment construction practice. Education Law department. Company. He and his wife, Dana, reside in Columbus with their two daughters, Lindsey Adam J. Biehl ’95 is Anna M. Seidensticker ’90 has rejoined an associate in the Buckingham, Doolittle and Burroughs and Taylor. corporate and commercial where she is working in the Labor and Lisa Lomax ’93 was elected president of transactions groups in the Employment Department. Anna has the Board of Trustees of the Columbus Columbus office of Arter previously been an associate in the Light Opera. Lisa is an associate at the law and Hadden. Adam J. Biehl office from 1992-95. Prior to rejoining firm of Thompson, Hine and Flory and Buckingham, Doolittle and Burroughs, practices in litigation. Melanie I. Flamenbaum Anna was an Assistant Attorney General in ’95 has joined the Montgomery County Kathleen Johnson Schnipke ’93 and the Attorney General of Ohio’s Employment Prosecutor’s staff husband, Richard A., welcomed a son, Law Section, where she was presented as an Assistant Prosecuting Jonathan Wesley, on October 21, 1998. the 1998 Professionalism Award by Ohio Attorney. She is assigned The family resides in Westerville, Ohio. Attorney General Betty Montgomery. to the Juvenile Division Jason J. Camp ’94 is an attorney with the Jane (Steiner) Sebens ’90 and her of the Prosecutor’s Office husband, Mark Sebens, welcomed their son, patent division of Procter and Gamble in where she is responsible Fletcher Carl, bom on March 8. They also Cincinnati. for prosecuting juvenile have an eight-year-old son, Tristan. The Elizabeth I. Cooke ’94, Columbus, is an offenders who have family lives in Haines, Ark., where Jane is associate in the litigation group in the Melanie I. been charged with self-employed in the practice of law. Columbus office of Arter and Hadden. Prior Flamenbaum ’95 felony offenses. 28 Alumni News

Rena G. Sauer ’95 and husband, William Preisse in Columbus and E. Davis, welcomed a daughter, Gabrielle the family resides in Davis, bom January 26. Rena is an associate Gahanna, Ohio. in the litigation department at Purcell and Darius N. Kandawalla Scott, Co. LPA, Dublin, where she ’96, Columbus, is an concentrates on corporate bankruptcy, associate in the Director business law and employment law. The and Officer Liability family resides in Columbus. Group at the law firm of ^ —:— r-, j j j r, • Darius N. A son, James Bradbury, was bom to Arter and Hadden. Prior to KandawaUa >96 Elizabeth Welch Lykins ’95 and husband, joining the firm, he was an Jerry, on May 3. Lykins is an associate Assistant Attorney General for the Ohio attorney with the law firm of Miller, Attorney General’s Office, Business and Johnson, Snell and Cummiskey in Grand Government Regulation Section. David E. Kauffman ’95 (le/t) and Daniel M. Rapids, Mich., where the family resides. Betzel ’93 are pictured with Barbara Calder, Julie L. Kaplan ’96 is an associate with editor-in-chief of Commerce Clearing House’s Steven J. Elleman ’96 and Jennifer N. the law firm of Hahn, Loeser and Parks (CCH) Journal of Practical Estate Planning. Elleman ’98, Dayton, have joined the law in Cleveland. Kauffman and Betzel were recently recognized for their part in the success of CCH’s new firm of Thompson, Hine and Flory as Christopher McClellan ’96 has joined associates. Steven is concentrating in the journal series. the Chicago office of Winston and Strawn firm’s antitmst, international and regulatory as an associate. Tracey L. Ballard ’98 has practice while Jennifer’s concentration is Russell R. Rosier ’96 was elected to a joined the Montgomery in corporate securities. The couple resides County Prosecutor’s in Centerville, Ohio. one-year term as vice president of Columbus Light Opera. Rosier is an attorney with staff as an Assistant Jennifer Goldsmith Goldson ’96 and her Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease where he Prosecuting Attorney. husband, James Merrill Goldson, welcomed practices corporate finance. She is assigned to the a son, Micah Farell, on January 18, 1998. Criminal Division of the Jennifer L. Dutey ’97, Columbus, has Jennifer is a staff attorney to Judge Dana S. Prosecutor’s Office where joined Schottenstein, Zox, and Dunn as she presents evidence Tracey L. Ballard an associate. She is practicing in the firm’s to the Grand Jury and Public Law Department, representing explains the law to citizen grand jurors municipalities and school districts in a considering possible indictments against wide range of legal matters, including suspects in criminal felony cases. litigation, real estate transactions and public contracts. Carl E. Black ’98 is an associate with the Cleveland-based law firm of Arter Lisa Fields Thompson ’97 and husband, and Hadden. Alfred Thompson, welcomed twin babies into their lives on May 1, 1999. Khalil Na’im Pat Franz ’98, and her husband, Jeff and Kamila Jewell were welcomed home by Carbon, visited Washington D.C. where their sister, Aliya, 3. The family resides in they attended a reception hosted by the Columbus, where Lisa is a Legislative Aide United States Supreme Court. Pat’s paper on the ramifications that McColloch v. Maryland for the Ohio House of Representatives. had on various state governments, in Barbara Underwood particular Ohio’s, was published in the Nalazek ’97 joined the Journal of United State Supreme Court History Columbus law offices of Scott J. Kelly ’98 is an associate with the Vorys, Sater, Seymour and law firm of Arter and Hadden in Cleveland. Members of the Class of 1999 braved 90-degree Pease where she practices heat to receive their diplomas at the June 11 in the area of commercial Matthew Tenerowicz ’98 is an associate graduation ceremonies of The Ohio State and real estate law. at law office of Baker and Hostetler in Cleveland. University. For the first time since the early Barbara formerly was a , part of the century, the ceremony was held on law clerk to the Honorable ZndeZood Brett A. Wall ’98 b an associate with the Oval due to ongoing renovation at Ohio the law firm of Baker and Hostetler in Stadium, the site of spring quarter graduation Thomas S. Zilly, United Nalazek ’97 since 1927. Law graduates participating States District Court for Cleveland. included: Yolande Marie Williams, the Western District of Washington, Robert A. Wells ’98 is an associate with the Jeffersonville; Alia Marie Edwards, Columbus; Seattle, Wash. law firm of Ober Kaler in Baltimore, Md. Daniel Edward Simon, North Canton; John A. Lloyd, Columbus; Stacey Lynn Wade, Shelby; Nicholas A. Austin ’98 is an associate with Christina Wendell ’99 is an attorney Michelle Renée Darvishi, Kansas City, Mo.; and Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan and Aronoff for the Ohio Attorney General and resides Amy Kendall Larson, Worthington. in Columbus. in Gahanna, Ohio. 29 Alumni News Do you know where these alumni are?

An exciting round of the list below, please Frank S. Marriott Beverly Nelson Muldrow Class of 1989 reunions is slated for forward the information to Richard R Wemersbach Margaret Briggs Samuels John Patrick Besselman September 17 and 18 the College of Law Alumni Class of 1959 Wilbert James Outlaw Michele Denise Brown at the College of Law Relations Office at Jay Allen Gingery Shelley Jan Venick Diana Fay Butts and we don’t want anyone (614) 292-8809 or fax it Robert I. Lack Laurie Ann Young Ken A. Capka Harry Joeseph DePietro to miss the fun. The to (614) 292-1492. Joseph Lee White Class of 1979 Karin Catherine Connolly You may also mail the Christopher Paul Alumni Affairs staff has Class of 1964 Melissa Ann Garber information to 104 John worked diligently all Nelson Lawrence Gordon De La Cruz Ann Aileen Holom Deaver Drinko Hall, Richard Lynn Streinberger spring to track down Susan Shiffler Enlow Daphne Stavros Meimaridis Janice Elizabeth Wolfe graduates so they can be 55 West 12th Avenue, Peter James Kontos Carol Ann Richards Columbus, OH 43210 Michael Garth Moore made aware of the Class of 1969 Rachelle Cohen Singer or send an e-mail to Judith Ann Roof upcoming reunions. Even Clarence Luther Heckman Deborah Marie Yook [email protected]. James Thomas Houfek Kenneth Neal Snyder so, some alumni have Class of 1994 ohio-state.edu. Joel David Sommers Thomas Dale Sykes turned up “lost,” meaning Melissa Dawn Ekmark Emil Stipanovich Jr. Robert William Wiechering Stephanie Lynn Harris we have an incorrect Class of 1949 Ronald Irwin Wiseman Dale Edward Williams Jr. Eric O’Brien Kelley address or no address at James E. Thierry Class of 1974 Class of 1984 Marla Kay McConnell all on our database. If you Class of 1954 Dennis Nolan Balske Melissa Welch Gallagher Scott Michael Smith know the location of Donna Myers Arman Ronald Lee Cafferty Danna Lee Scher Myron Abner Thompson classmates or friends on James O. Gossett Patrick Joseph Cilibert Iwona Nelli Zimnochow Douglas Edmond Webster In Memoriam

Foster B. Cornwell ’35, Athens, died on April 26, 1999, at across the country. He was also editor and publisher of The O’Bleness Memorial Hospital. He was 89. Foster was an Athens Constantian and was fluent in many languages including French, attorney for 60 years and served during World War II as a Spanish, German and Italian. Randall traveled extensively in special agent for the U.S. Counter-Intelligence Agency. He was Europe and visited Africa in 1995. Randall is survived by his preceded in death by his wife, Helen in 1993, and a brother, mother, Lillian Dicks, of McMurray, Pa., and two brothers, Walter Cornwell. Rudy, of Elyria, Ohio, and Peter, of Portsmouth, N.H. Stephen Philip Allison ’73, Cuyahoga Falls, died November 13, Stanley T. Koenig ’85, Mentor, died of heart failure May 21 1998 after a long illness. He was 49. Stephen is survived by at LakeWest Hospital. He was 39. Stanley was a partner for four children, Ashleigh, Megan, Hailey and Aaron; his parents, the law firm of Ulmer and Berne and chairman of the Maurice David and Hazel Tass Allison, Virginia Beach, Va.; Corporate Finance and Securities Group. He sang lead with brother, Gary Brian Allison, -Virginia Beach, Va.; sister, Andrea The Final Four barbershop quartet and was the director of Allison Williams, Philadelphia, Pa., and his former wife, the children’s chorus at Old South Church in Kirtland. He had Nancy Heston. also served as a trustee chairman at the church. Stanley is Dale Schiming ’74, Columbus, died at home in July, 1996, after survived by wife, Emily (Deidrick) Koenig, and two sons, a courageous fight with cancer. He was 46 and an attorney for the Chris and Alex. U.S. Government Department of Hearings and Appeals. He is Other deaths reported include: survived by wife, Kathy, and two sons, Adam and Cody. Frank R. Jusek ’36, Cleveland, Ohio; Randall J. Dicks ’77, Upper St. Clair, Pa., died of a heart attack on March 17 in Mount Lebanon, Pa. He was 48. Randall James Albert Tressler ’51, Westerville, Ohio; was an attorney and international authority on monarchy and Paul E. Fowler ’52, Portsmouth, Ohio; was governor of the Constantian Society, a monarchist group that he began in 1970, which now numbers about 500 members Ralph D. Wheat ’55, Columbus, Ohio.

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artJ cle arI^ Île VOTING INFORMATION NAME AND NATURE MEETINGS The name of this organization shall be the SECTION 1 Dear Fellow Law Alumni: College of law Alumni Society, hereafter Biennial meetings of the Society shall be To bring the Articles of the Law Society up-to-date, the Executive “the Society” It shall be an integral part held in the fall of even numbered years Committee of the Society recommends that they be revised as set of The Ohio State University Alumni beginning in 2000 at a time and place set by the Executive Committee. forth here. These articles apply to the Law Society and its National Association, the official alumni organization of The Ohio State University It will conduct SECTION 2 Council and Council of Class Representatives. The significant its activities so that the charitable nature of Special meetings of the Society may be changes are: the Society is maintained. called by a majority of the Executive Committee. SOCIETY arJ ij l e 1. We have emphasized in Article 11 “Object” that the Society will SECTION 3 be involved in student affairs, class reunions and fund-raising. OBJECT Notices of each meeting of the Society We hope to create a special endowment for student affairs. It shall be the object of the Society to foster a shall be sent to all members not less than spirit of loyalty and ftatemalism among the 20 days prior to such meeting. Twenty 2. The officers of the Society will serve two (2) year terms graduates, former students and friends of the members of the Society shall constitute beginning in 2000 and the business or biennial meetings of the College of law of The Ohio State University, a quorum. Society will be held every two (2) years. This gives the officers hereinafter “the College of Law or the College" time to leam the job and get something done. Annual meetings and to achieve unity of purpose and action AI^LE can be held if needed at the call of the Executive Committee. among them in promoting the best interests of OFFICERS AND TERMS OF OFFICE NATIONAL COUNCIL the College. To these ends, the Society, The Officers of the Society shall be a 3. We believe it is appropriate to have the National Council remain through its members, the National Council president, and a president-elect elected by a part of the Society and not have its own Articles of (Article X), the Council of Class active and associate members. A secretary- Representatives (Article XI) and other treasurer will be appointed by the Executive Association. resources, will assist the College in recruiting 4. We have clarified the purposes of the Council (Article X, Section qualified applicants to the College and in Committee. Their terms of office shall be two 3) by stating that it will give advice, assist with plans and placing them after graduation; encourage (2) years. programs, recognize accomplishments of graduates and faculty, graduates to act as mentors to students of the \ 7 1 1 and assist in Student Affairs and in obtaining financial support. College and to become involved in student A V nlit 5. Members of the Council will serve one five (5) year term and affairs; support and encourage participation ELECTION OF OFFICERS can be re-elected for another successive five (5) year term. in class teunions and other activities of the SECTION 1 Thereafter, following a break in their service, they could, if Society and College; and support and Officers shall be nominated by a nominating encourage contributors to the fund raising and committee appointed by the president on or invited, be elected to serve two additional successive five (5) other development programs of the College. year terms. A member could become an emeritus member at any before August 1 of each even numbered year. The nominating committee shall submit its time during his or her service on the Council if, for example, aMI e nominations by September 1 of each even the individual were not able to attend meetings on a regular MEMBERSHIP numbered year. basis. These changes are being recommended to get more new SECTION 1 SECTION 2 people involved in the Council since service on the Council is The Society shall consist of active, associate Nominations may also be made upon an excellent way to learn about the activities of the College and and honorary members. Voting and office- petition signed by not less than 25 active or gain support from alumni. holding privileges shall be confined to the associate members and forwarded to the 6. Officers of the Council can serve two (2) year terms. first two classes of membership. Secretary-Treasurer, c/o College of Law, by 7. The Executive Committee of the Council will plan meetings of SECTION 2 September 1 of the election year. the Council and between meetings of. the Council may act only “Active membership" shall consist of SECTION 3 on critical matters. graduates of the College holding a degree The slate or slates of nominees shall be given by the College. presented in writing to all active and COUNCIL OF CLASS REPRESENTATIVES SECTION 3 associate members currendy of record with 8. The purpose of the Council of Class Representatives will be to ‘Associate membership” shall consist of the Alumni Development Information System communicate with their class and the College, to encourage members of the faculty of the College or Office of The Ohio State University with the attendance at reunions and to help with fund-raising. We want friends of the College not otherwise eligible notice of the biennial meeting. A majority of to give this Council special emphasis because other Colleges that for membership. Such memberships may votes cast shall elect. The ballots shall be opened and counted and the result have successful Alumni programs have found such Councils to only be granted by the Executive Committee. SECTION 4 announced at the biennial meeting. The new be especially helpful. “Honorary membership” shall consist of officers shall take office at the conclusion of 9. Representatives of the third-year class will be members. those friends and benefactors of the College that meeting. whose services the Society may desire to Please review and vote on the adoption of these articles using the W U l pre-paid postcard inserted in this magazine. recognize. Such memberships may only be T JL JL JL awarded by the Executive Committee. DUTIES OF OFFICERS SECTION 1 Aijr^LE The president shall preside at all meetings (j. DUES provided for under Article V and at all Such dues may be charged as determined by meetings of the Executive Committee; the Executive Committee; but membership in and shall have power to name such Elizabeth j. Watters - David A. Ward the Society shall not be dependent upon the special committees as the president Law Alumni Society President National Council Chairperson payment of dues. deems necessary 31 SECTION 2 through awards and other methods; to assist members at the regular spring meeting SECTION 2 The president-elect shall preside in the the Society in its student affairs programs and of the National Council. The purposes of the Council of Class absence or incapacity of the president; shall activities and to assist the College in SECTION 4 Representatives shall be to improve automatically succeed to the presidency obtaining financial support for projects not Officers of the National Council communication between the College and the and shall, during the final year of his or adequately supported by legislative The officers of the National Council shall members of each class, and between members her term as president-elect, name the appropriations or University allocations. be a Chair, a Vice-Chair, and a Secretary- of each class; to encourage attendance at membership of the Standing Committees SECTION 3 Treasurer serving either as a member or reunions of the.Society and other activities of which shall; serve during his or her term Membership in the National Council ex officio member. These officers shall be the Society and College; and to help with the as president, except for the National Council (a) Categories of Membership elected biennially for a two-year term fund raising activities of the College. of the College. 1. Members by the members at the spring meeting SECTION 3 SECTION 3 Active members of the Society shall be of the National Council in even numbered Each class including the third-year class . The secretary-treasurer shall keep minutes of eligible for election as members of the years upon nomination by the Executive of the students in the College shall be the meetings provided for in Article V; shall National Council. Associate members of Committee. Officers may succeed themselves represented by one or more of its members perform such other secretarial duties as are the Society as provided in Article III, on the Council of Class Representatives and for one additional two-year term. requested by the Executive Committee; shall Section 3, or honorary members of the each class shall have one vote on matters be responsible for collecting, banking, and Society whose interest and counsel shall SECTION 5 before the Council. The President of the expending such funds as may be paid into benefit the National Council and the Committees of the National Council Society, in consultation with the Dean of the the Society by dues or otherwise; and shall College shall be eligible for election as The National Council shall have the College or designate, shall select a have custody of names and addresses of members of the National Council. Alumni following committees: representative from each class who will membership. The list of names and membership on the National Council shall (a) A Nominating Committee to nominate represent the class until such class appoints a membership shall not be released for political be allocated in an effort to represent the for election members and emeritus representative in accordance with Section 4 or commercial purposes, and may be released diversity of the alumni of the College. members of the National Council. below. Should a vacancy occur or exist with to third parties only on approval of the 2. Honorary Members The Nominating Committee shall be respect to members of the Council of Class Secretary-Treasurer of the Society and the Past members of the National Council and composed of the Dean of the College, Representatives, the same procedures for Director of Alumni Affairs of The Ohio State such other alumni or non-alumni who the Chair of the National Council and the appointing such member by the President of University Alumni Association, subject to the have evidenced active and special interest President of the Society. the Society shall be followed to assure constitution of that Association. in the College shall be eligible for election (b) An Executive Committee to plan the representation from each class. as honorary members. meetings of the Council and to act on SECTION 4 Af j* L E 3. Ex officio members critical matters that may arise between It is anticipated that each class shall hold a The Dean of the College shall be an ex EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE meetings. The Executive Committee reunion meeting at least every five years from SECTION 1 officio member and may appoint other date of graduation and that at such time administrators or faculty of the College shall be composed of the Chair, Vice- The Executive Committee shall be a Standing Chair, Secretary-Treasurer of the Class Representative^) shall be appointed. Committee of the Society of Law as deemed appropriate ex officio The Class Representative shall serve a term of members. National Council, the President of the SECTION 2 five years or until the next five year reunion, (b) Term of Membership Society, and the Dean of the College. whichever occurs first, and are eligible for The purposes of the Executive Committee Beginning in 2000, members elected or The Chair may appoint from the National shall be to develop and implement all reappointment. reappointed to the National Council shall Council at-large members to serve SECTION 5 policies and programs of the Society and, serve a term of five years or shall complete on the Executive Committee as may if it deems appropriate, make provision The Council of Class Representatives shall the unexpired term to which elected due from time to time be determined to be meet at the call of the President of the for and charter local alumni clubs within to a vacancy or any enlargement of helpful to the performance of the the Society. Society, to review matters of mutual interest. membership to which staggered terms are Council’s responsibilities. SECTION 3 The Council may adopt its own By-laws for assigned. One-fifth of the membership (c) Such other committees as from time to its organization and meetings. The Executive Committee shall appoint shall be elected annually. All members are time seem appropriate may be appointed a Secretary-Treasurer who shall perform SECTION 6 eligible for reelection to one successive by the Chair or established by the the duties outlined in Article VIII, Section The President of the Society in consultation five-year term and may continue to serve membership. 3 above. with the Dean, has the power to remove any for successive years when serving as an (d) The Council may adopt By-laws for the Class Representative without cause. SECTION 4 officer of the National Council. conduct of its meetings. The Executive Committee of the Society Emeritus members elected shall serve for a SCIlI shall consist of the officers of the Society, such period of time as recommended by SECTION 6 JL m JL J L the Secretary-Treasurer, the Dean of the the Nominating Committee. Meetings of the National Council AMENDMENTS College of Law, ex officio, and chair of the (c) Limitation of Membership and Voting The National Council shall meet each fall SECTION 1 National Council. Membership on the National Council shall and each spring on the dates designated by Amendments to these Articles may be SECTION 5 be limited to a total of seventy-five (75) the Chair on advice of the Executive proposed by a petition signed by not less The Executive Committee shall meet upon- members and of that number no more Committee. Meetings other than those two than 25 members of this Society or by call of the president, the Dean or by petition than twenty percent (20%) shall be non­ stated meetings shall be held upon call of the resolution adopted by the Executive of two-thirds of its members. alumni of the College. Members shall have Chair. A meeting shall also be called by the Committee of the Society A proposed the right to vote on all matters before the Chair upon written request of any three amendment shall be submitted in writing AR^LE Council. Ex officio and Emeritus members voting members of the National Council. to the voting membership of the Society are unlimited in number but such not less than 30 days prior to the biennial THE NATIONAL COUNCIL SECTION 7 members, with the exception of the Dean Quorum meeting, and shall be voted upon by written OF THE COLLEGE OF LAW of the College, shall have no right of vote. ballot. The ballots shall be opened and SECTION 1 A quorum shall consist of those present at (d) Election of Members and any meeting, providing that written notice of counted and the result announced at the The^ifironal Council shall be a Standing biennial meeting. Emeritus Members meeting has been sent to all members at least Committee of the Society. The Nominating Committee, after 20 days prior to the meeting. SECTION 2 SECTION 2 consultation with the other members of An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the total The purposes of the National Council shall the Executive Committee, shall nominate votes cast shall be sufficient to approve an be to interest itself in all matters affecting the members for the National Council for all amendment. College; to give constructive advice expiring and unexpired terms and may COUNCIL OF CLASS SECTION 3 concerning and assistance with the plans and nominate Emeritus members. Upon REPRESENTATIVES These Articles, and any Amendments thereto, programs of the College of Law; to recognize receiving the nominations of the SECTION 1 shall take effect upon their approval by the the accomplishments of graduates and faculty Nominating Committee, voting members The Council of Class Representatives shall Board of Directors of The Obio State shall elect all members and Emeritus be a Standing Committee of the Society. University Alumni Association. 32

APR Symposium Looks THE TECHNOLOGY IN BUSINESS SERIES at Cyberspace, YZK Technology and law will converge THE OHIO BUSINESS PRIVACY FORUM 1000 as specialists in both areas explore issues surrounding cyberspace arid Year 2000 during “ADR in Cyberspace, Year 2000 and Beyond,” a symposium to be held on November 11 at The Ohio Ohio Business Privacy Forum State University College of Law. Sponsored by the Ohio State Journal Offers Businesses Tips on Dispute Resolution, the symposium will bring alternative dispute resolution on Using the Internet (ADR) experts together with technological and legal specialists to explore issues as a Business Tool surrounding the resolution of trademark, consumer protection, and privacy Conference examines emerging privacy issues disputes on the Internet. These experts and specialists will explore the roles ADR that affect markets, customers, employees and suppliers can play in developing means to resolve disputes that arise as a result of Internet The explosion of the Internet changed future directions in U.S. and international use. David Brin, a New York Times best­ the way the world does business. It has privacy legislation and regulation. selling author, will introduce a creative Additionally, companies will share affected the way we hire employees, idea for the use of ADR on the Internet “best practices” in developing privacy transfer medical records and make sales in the 21st century and beyond. Finally, policies and complying with federal and transactions. In addition, advances in the symposium will look at what ADR state regulations. technology outpace current practice, law has to offer the resolution of Year 2000 Conference speakers and faculty and regulation. For firms, this endangers computer and microchip-related disputes. include keynote speakers Peter Swire, valuable proprietary data. Meanwhile, With the overwhelming expansion consumers may have private information Chief Counselor for Privacy, Office of of Internet use, the resolution of online exposed without their knowledge. Management and Budget for the United disputes has been an increasing concern The sponsors of the Ohio Business States, on leave from the College of Law to consumers, governments, and Privacy Forum hope to alleviate some of faculty, and Professor George Trubow, corporations. Advocates of ADR believe these concerns, as well as offer tips on Director, Center for Information that ADR has a valid and valuable place best practices for using the Internet as a Technology and Privacy Law, John business tool. The one-day conference Marshall Law School. in addressing those concerns. The will be held August 31 at the Hyatt For more information go to Internet component of the symposium Regency, Columbus. www.osc.edu/privacy99 or call 614/292-4162. is an attempt to gather interested “The Ohio Business Privacy Forum The Ohio Business Privacy Forum practitioners and academics to propose is a statewide forum for Ohio’s business is the first event of the Technology in possible solutions and debate ADR’s community to learn more about emerging Business Series sponsored by the Ohio place in this new medium. The Y2K privacy issues affecting their markets and Supercomputer Center. Private sector component of the symposium will customers, employees and suppliers,” sponsors include Bank One, Nationwide, address concerns with the predicted said Pari Sabety, director of Technology the Ohio Society of Certified Public onslaught of Y2K-related lawsuits, and Policy for the Ohio Supercomputer Accountants, Squire, Sanders and the tremendous cost of Y2K litigation Center (OSC). Dempsey LLP, Vorys, Sater, Seymour and judgments. ADR professionals and The conference mixes panel and Pease LLP, Arter and Hadden LLP, politicians have stated that ADR can discussions with interactive workshops and Thompson Hine and Flory LLP play an important part in reducing the to provide participants with a better Additional sponsorships are expected numbers and costs of lawsuits. understanding of the legal, technological from other statewide firms. The For Symposium information, and practical issues related to protecting conference is supported by The Ohio call the Journal on Dispute Resolution at personal information. Topics cover State University Fisher College of (614) 292-7172. everything from how to secure “mission- Business and The Ohio State University critical” information to learning about College of Law, Upcoming Events

FRIDAY, AUGUST 20: Orientation for the Class of 2002 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1: 12:00 p.m., Faculty Workshop, “A Social- MONDAY AUGUST 23: First Day of Classes Managerial Approach to Avoiding Wrongful Termination Claims,” Jerry Greenberg, Abramowitz Professor of Business Ethics TUESDAY, AUGUST 31: The Ohio Business Privacy Forum, co-sponsored and Professor of Management with the Technology Policy Group. Call (614) 292-4762 for more information. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6: Labor Day, College of Law offices closed, no classes THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11: Journal on Dispute Resolution Symposium, “ADR in Cyberspace, Year 2000 and Beyond,” THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9: 12:00 p.m., Faculty Workshop, “Family Law in at the College of Law. Formore information, call (614) 292-7172 the Secular State: Two Are Better Than One,” Mary E. Becker, Professor of Law, DePaul University FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12: 12:00 p.m., Legal History Seminar, “A Double THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14: 12:00 p.m., Faculty Workshop, “Reconceiving Head in Nature is a Monstrosity: Statehood and Citizenship in Frontier Rights,” Edward L. Rubin, Professor of Law, University of Pensylvania Washington, 1879-1913,” Sandra E Van Burkleo, Associate Professor of History, Wayne State University FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17: National Council Meeting; Class Reunions; Annual Alumni Return THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18: 4:00 p.m., Center for Law, Policy, and SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18: Annual Alumni Return; Football, OSU Social Science Workshop, “Arthur Larson and the Law of Worker’s Buckeyes vs. Ohio University Bobcats, Ohio Stadium Compensation,” Professor David Stebenne, Associate Professor of History THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23: 4:00 p.m., Center for Law, Policy, and Social Science Workshop, “The Americans With Disabilities Act: How to Measure Its Effectiveness Effectively,” Ruth Colker, Professor of Law Remember When? FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24: 12:00 p.m., Legal History Seminar, “Why the History of English Law Has Not Yet Been Finished,” J.H. Baker, Downing Coif initiates were pictured in 1961. From left to right are Professor of the Laws of England, Cambridge University (Co-sponsored by Alan B. Loop ’33, Roger W. Goubeaux ’61, Michael E. Moritz ’61, OSU British Studies Seminar) Paul J. Stergios ’60, James R. Miles ’61,and MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27: 4:00 p.m., International Studies in the Role of the Courts Series, Professor Charles Epp, Assistant Professor of Government, University of Kansas TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5: 4:00 p.m., Center for Law, Policy, and Social Science Workshop, “Judges’ Attitudes Toward Policy and Attitudes Toward Litigants: Criminal Cases in the Supreme Court,” Lawrence Baum, Professor, Department of Political Science, The Ohio State University FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8: 12:00 p.m., Legal History Seminar, “The Writing Requirement in the Action of Covenant,” Joseph Biancalana, Professor of Law, University of Cincinnati MONDAY, OCTOBER 11-FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15: Fall Break, No Classes, Veterans Day celebrated on October 15 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20: 12:00 p.m., Faculty Workshop, “Enforcement in International Law,” Mary Ellen O’Connell, Associate Professor of Law, The Ohio State University MONDAY, OCTOBER 25: 4:00 p.m., International Studies in the Role of the Courts Series, Japanese Courts, J. Mark Ramseyer, Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies, Harvard Law School