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It has been an honor to lead a board that does more for its stakeholders than any board I have ever served. The Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association Board of Trustees is a cohesive, dedicated and productive group of men and women, whose involvement in their law alma mater has lasted far longer than their student years. As mentors, they have given our newest students encouragement and sound counsel. As adjuncts and Moot Court Team coaches, they bring a world of practical advice to their classrooms and teams. As volunteers for our law school, they are mod­ els of the profession's duty to serve the public interest. And in their personal generosity, they have demonstrated to all our students the importance of supporting the school that is preparing them for their future careers in law, business and public service. It has also been an honor to work together with Dean Geoffrey S. Mearns, CMLAA Executive Director Mary Walton McKenna, my fellow graduates, and our faculty and staff on our joint fund­ raising efforts. I wish to thank CMLAA President-Elect Stacey L. McKinley'97 for the splendid job she did in the November 2008 "Then and Now" benefit, which helped build our Life Member Scholarship Fund resources. And I would like to thank all of our alumni and the Cleveland legal community for their continuing support of the Association's Annual Recognition Luncheon, insur­ ing that each year it is the premier legal event in all of Ohio. In troubled times, it is good to remember how important our public law school is, and always will be, to the economy of Northeast Ohio. Despite devastating downturns and the loss of major talent, the legal profession in Cleveland remains a viable economic machine. And Cleveland-Marshall graduates in every law firm and in every major corporation are fueling the engine. As long as we continue to attract outstanding students and outstanding men and women to teach them, and as long as our alumni continue to support the law school that means so much to this region, we will remain a school of excellence and opportunity-not part of the region's brain-drain, but part of its brain-gain. I thank you for the opportunity to serve the Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association, and I thank you for your dedication to our law school and our city.

Sincerely,

Gary Adams '83 rj Law Notes Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association News Contents Academic Year 2009-2010 2 Dean's Column '· Our cover artist: Jennie Jones was born in Denver, Colorado. She 3 Annual Recognition Luncheon Honorees attended the Layton School of Art in Mi lwaukee, 8 Celebrating Success: We Thank Wisconsin, the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center and was graduated from Northwestern University Mrs. Iris Wolstein, Our Graduates and Friends with a BA in art history. She has lived and worked in Mi lwau kee, Chicago, Boston, and final ly Detroit 9 Looking Ahead: the Fund for Excellence where she established her own photographic stu­ and the Trial Courtroom dio in 1983. She published two books of her work on Cleveland in 1986 and 1991. Recent projects 10 Stand Up For Cleveland inc lude PARADISE IN THE CITY, CLEVELAND BOTANICAL 13 The Future of Forensics: GARDEN (2005), A PLACE APART, BRATENAHL. OHIO (2007) and SURGEON- CRAFTSMAN lAURENCE KNIGHT A Criminal Justice Symposium GROVES, M.D. (2008). Her images have appeared in World Architecture, Inland Architect, Forbes and 14 Life Members Fortune Magazine as well as local publ ications. 17 New Life Members She has participated in many group and one­ person shows and was juried into the 1993 May 17 Black History Month Show. Her work is in numerous private and cor­ porate col lections, including Progressive and The 18 Pipeline! Cleveland Clinic. In 2003 she received the Go lden Achievement Award for the Arts from the Go lden 23 Art Matters Age Centers; in 2006 she rece ived an honorary 24 Students in Israel Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Cleveland State University. Her current work includes black and 27 Leon Plevin wh ite si lver gelatin images of Cleveland at night and digital black and wh ite infrared photography. 28 Alumni Happenings In 2009 she will donate her entire col lection of !l Cleveland images to the Cleveland State Univer­ 35 Faculty in the News sity Library, Special Collections.

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2 Law Notes The Honorable Joan Synenberg '87 Michael E. Gibbons '81

Joan ynenberg is one of the few graduates l have interviewed o er the years who has not immediately told me, "I always anted to be a lawyer, even as a child." And yet, there she is-an accomplished lawyer who practiced criminal defense for 16 years before improbably becoming a judge, first in the community." Cleveland Municipal Court and now in the Cuyahoga Court Yet, by anyone's standards, Michael Gibbons is an extraor­ of Common Pleas. dinary businessman, the Senior Managing Director of Brown So, I would like to start writing about her by saying that in Gibbons Lang & Company, LLC, an independent investment her life there are only surprises; nothing has been predictable. bank that he co-founded in 1989. Two decades after its found­ There was, she says, a vague theme meandering through her ing, BGL's influence is virtually borderless. As difficult as it is consciousness, however. "Whatever I chose to do, I knew it to grasp the complexity of this single company's global deal­ had to be something that helped people." ings, at its core, according to Michael, is a simple concept: "We She grew up in the eastern suburbs of Cleveland. She is one bring people together; we create relationships." The relation­ of the four children of her parents' arranged marriage. Mary ships BGL forges are between and among companies that need

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Synenberg from pg. 3 Perhaps her most unusual law school violence, theft and murder. According job was with the Creative Services to her mentor, criminal defense attorney Coletta and Albert Lehmann were Ital­ department for a radio station that Roll­ Gerald Gold, "These were not cases that ian immigrants, and, as the Judge says, ing Stone had, for several years, named got her name in the paper. They were "Our household was Italian, Catholic and the best rock-and-roll station in the coun­ people [who] had had more troubles than traditional." So perhaps it is Italy in her try: WMMS, whose ungainly logo, the assets." bones that accounts for her spontaneity WMMS Buzzard, was plastered on wind­ Often Joan found herself in the same and daring. shields and t-shirts and on roadside signs courtroom with another Cleveland-Mar- For instance, Joan Lehmann had fin­ ished her first year of college at Bowl­ The Judge is respectful, compassionate, ing Green State University when she daringly decided to take an entire year and encouraging-even and especially off to join the Up with People group, a world-touring singing-and-dancing to the defendants who find themselves troupe, founded in 1968 as a non-profit, standing before her bench. interdenominational, peace-making orga­ nization that sends American youth all over the world in the hope of "building throughout the county. The station was shall graduate, Roger Synenberg '77, bridges of understanding" among many at its peak during Joan's years, and she "the best lawyer I ever met." In 1999, cultures. "I couldn't sing but I love to worked closely with a pair of d-jays Joan Lehmann married the best lawyer dance," she says. Six weeks of training dear to Clevelanders of the era: "Jeff she ever met, and today she calls him at the University of Arizona and 100 cit­ and Flash." Their real names were Ed "the best friend" she has ever had as ies and 40 countries later, she was back Ferenc and Jeff Kinzbach, and from the well. in Cleveland, back in her family 's home late 1970s through the early 90s, their Alone and together, the Synenbergs and back at college, this time at Cleve­ raucous, upbeat exchanges consumed have handled clients whose notoriety land State University majoring in Com­ the morning drive-time airwaves. "They did make the papers, even sometimes munications. were wildly popular," The Judge recalls. the national media. Together they rep­ "The Up with People experience was She wrote publicity for the pair and resented Cleveland's own Bernie Mad­ formative," she explains. "We traveled gathered the best of their "token" jokes off: stockbroker Frank Gruttadauria, who exhaustively, but I learned so much: into a book. "We always knew she was scammed and fleeced his mostly elderly how others live, what their lives are like, brilliant," remembers Flash Ferenc, "and clients of millions. The pair represented what they believe-people in so many gorgeous, but we still thought of her as a suburban mayor in a fall-from-grace settings, from jungles to large metropoli­ one of the guys." drama that had played out in the media tan cities- people of all ages, little kids, Joan's other law school job was as a for months. And then there was the mur­ grandparents. And everyone loved us . social worker in precisely the place where der- by-bagel case, one the strangest ever Loved us! " a friendly ear is most scarce, where help heard in an Ohio court. Gerald Gold and Her undergraduate years at CSU were is most needed and least available: the Joan Synenberg took on the defense of a also formative. "After the year I spent county jail. As it turned out, her jailhouse caretaker accused of causing the death by traveling with the Up with People group, job was readiness-training, sensitizing choking of her multiple sclerosis patient I began to look for a 'helping' profes­ her to the people and problems she would by feeding her a bagel she couldn't swal­ sion, and I thought about public admin­ be dealing with throughout her career. low. The national media relished that istration. I spoke to one of my CSU Pro­ Following her graduation from law story, too. fessors, Jim Kweder. When I suggested school, she set up her own criminal The Synenbergs practiced side by side public administration, he shook his head defense practice in the Leader Building for a few years and then decided to incor­ and said, 'No. If you want to help people, and began representing The People. porate their legal partnership into the go to law school.' And so I did." "I took any case that came my way," firm of Synenberg & Synenberg. They She went from her undergraduate and mostly the work came from the rented offices in the Warehouse District, school straight into law school, working city's poor, including cases involving redecorated and had just had thousands part time and going to school part time. men and women accused of domestic of pieces of Synenberg & Synenberg

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stationery printed, when, on December have imagined." Unpredictably, a bit of meets. And the people love her. In the 1, 2004, Cleveland Common Pleas Court her past trailed her to the court. Flash summer before the November election, Judge Dick Ambrose '87 called Joan Ferenc had been working for MUNY as TV cameras tracked her every move, and and told her Governor Taft wanted to its public relations advisor since 2000. she was the frequent subject of admir­ appoint her to a seat on the Cleveland "I was thrilled when she was appointed. ing blog entries and local newspaper and Municipal Court to replace Mary Eileen She was great in front of the bench, so I magazine articles. Every bar association Kilbane '87, who had been elected to the knew she'd be great on the bench," he in town rated her an "excellent" candi­ Ohio 8'h District Court of Appeals. says. "And she hasn't let anybody down. date, The Plain Dealer endorsed her, and she was the choice of dozens of union locals. Regarding the Honorable Joan Synen­ Ten weeks after launching her cam­ paign, the surprising and improbable berg, we have learned to stay tuned, latecomer had garnered 58 percent of the expect the unexpected, and, about her vote, easily winning the election. According to just about everyone, the career, be always hopeful. Judge is good at what she does. Though she is a Republican, she doesn't particu­ The best lawyer in Cleveland advised I doubt she ever will." larly remember how she became one ("I against it: "You'll be sworn-in in Janu­ In August 2006, the Judge took a half­ think I liked Ronald Reagan," she told ary and you'll have to run for election in day off on her birthday. She and her Cleveland Magazine in an April 2006 November. You'll lose." husband were strolling through Little issue). She refers to herself as a "social Roger's reasoning was entirely sound: Italy when a call came in on her cell liberal," and by all accounts, it shows in She had never run for public office; phone from Robert Frost, Chair of the her courtroom. The Judge is respectful, her name, neither Irish nor Italian, was Cuyahoga County Republican Party. She compassionate, and encouraging-even "wrong," at least in Cleveland, and on a remembers thinking how nice that he and especially to the defendants who find ballot, totally unrecognizable. Moreover, remembered her birthday. themselves standing before her bench. in our city, as a judicial candidate, she Mr. Frost had something besides her "She brings spark to the court," says had two liabilities: She's a woman and birthday in mind: He wanted her to run her old friend Flash Ferenc. More than she's a Republican. for the Court of Common Pleas. "I had that, she brings an expansive and wel­ I am sure she listened and agreed with been on the MUNY bench for a year and coming presence, not the stem stereo­ everything her husband said. He was eight months, I was just hitting my stride typical judicial profile at all , but such absolutely correct; nevertheless, within on the court, and I was happy as a clam. a presence as makes the rendering of months, the new stationery was on its I would have to stand for election in three justice seem more dignified, and, well, way to the recycling bin. She accepted months." Her husband weighed-in on the more just. the Governor's appointment, joined the issue, "You can't win; you have to run." No one (except perhaps the Judge) MUNY court in January, ran for election This time, she took his advice and pre­ seems to think that this is the last govern­ in November, toppled four other candi­ pared, in her inimitable style, to beat the ment office that she will hold. ("The new dates, and in January 2006, she became odds. Her opponent was a woman and a face of the Republican Party," says one the second Republican woman elected to Democrat whose surname seven judges admirer.) But then she has not been good a seat on the Cleveland Municipal Court and a county official shared; in heavily at anticipating her future. And I know of Bench since 1969. As I mentioned, in her Democratic Cuyahoga County, her oppo­ one awed Democrat who would like to life, there are only surprises. nent was considered the favorite. see her in higher office. "I loved the MUNY bench. Larry The truth is the Judge loves running That is only one vote, of course, but Jones (the then-presiding judge) is a for election. She loves the mingling, then her elections have always begun personal hero. And I felt I was really the fanfare, the clamor, the parades, the with one vote: her own. getting into the community, into com­ suburban city council meetings, the eth­ Regarding the Honorable Joan Syn­ munity redevelopment, and I was meet­ nic community meetings, coffees in the enberg, we have learned to stay tuned, ing, and coming closer to, the people churches, even the door-to-door treks. expect the unexpected, and, about her and their problems in a way I could not Most of all, she loves the people she career, be always hopeful.

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Gibbons from pg. 3 his St. Ignatius classmate Jack Corrigan to land-Marshall in 1981 , he was already a visit Cornell with him. Jack, later the "voice McDonald partner- perhaps the youngest capital and companies, banks or individuals of the Cleveland Indians," now the radio partner in the company's history, and when that have capital; between a company that broadcaster for the Denver Rockies, fell he left a decade later, he was its Senior Vice wants to sell a part or all of itself and one or in love with Cornell. Michael did not. By President and served on the operating man­ an alliance of many that agree to purchase the end of the summer, he had withdrawn agement committee. Michael had found a it. Through creative financing, BGL aids from Cornell, enrolled at Kenyon College, new job in Houston with a leading region­ both growing companies and overgrown and was preparing to play on its Division al securities and investment banking firm, companies, most often through mutually beneficial mergers and acquisitions. What 11 I all its clients have in common is that they 1 really worked hard at becoming good are middle-market companies, those with at football. Eventually, I liked football enterprise value between the $50 and $100 million range. And they all need advice. better than science. Virtually better than If you ask Michael how all this happened, he will tell you it was "luck." anything." He had a great deal more than luck on his side. Great role models, for one, and Three NCAA football team. In fact, he was Underwood, Neuhaus & Company. He was a stable home life for another. His father, on the football team, the wrestling team Underwood's CEO and President when, in Eugene Gibbons, taught the science cur­ and the championship La Crosse team, and 1989, he resigned and returned to Cleveland. riculum at Cleveland's John Marshall High he didn't shy away from tough academic He was 35 years old and he had formed School and was the school's hall-of-fame courses either. "Kenyon was perfect for a partnership with another young man and wrestling coach. Elizabeth, his wife, was a me," he says. He graduated with honors friend from the west side of Cleveland: Kev­ homemaker and, later in life, an elementary in 1974 with a double major in economics in Brown. A month-and-a-half later, Michael school administrator. Their son was brainy, and political science and went straight to lost his close friend and new partner. Kevin, studious and, Michael says, "tall, lanky and Case Western Reserve University on a full a national powerboat racing champion, died a little shy. scholarship that paid "even for my books." instantly in the crash of his catamaran "In grade school, I was really into the sci­ Fourteen months and "22 hours later," he speedboat during a racing competition in ences," he recalls. "I made good grades and graduated from Case with a master's degree the stormy waters off Atlantic City. "No one I guess I was a pretty nerdy kid. One day, in management. will ever remove his name from this busi­ my father took me outside and began teach­ He had had an internship at McDonald ness," says Michael. ing me how to play football. He thought it & Company Securities during those 14 Scott Lang arrived in 1996 from a large would get me out of myself, and it did." months, and after graduation he went to Chicago capital investment firm, where he On the day his father taught him how work for the company full time. His formal was executive vice president and managing to throw a football, football became, and education was not over, however. He knew director of investment banking and Brown remains, a passion. that if he was going to be successful, if he Gibbons was renamed; in 2007, Scott retired Michael played footbalkfor St. Igna­ wanted to master the complex interrelated­ from the company and returned to Chicago, tius, Cleveland's all-boys Jesuit preparatory ness of global financial dealings and, most where he is now Managing Director of City school as famed for its athletics as for its important, if he wanted to serve his clients Capital Advisors, LLC. academics. "I really worked hard at becom­ as fully as possible, he needed to be a law­ BGL celebrated its 20th anniversary this ing good at football. Eventually, I liked foot­ yer, too. year. Its success has been remarkable-an ball better than science. Virtually better than "I went to school part-time- at night­ independent investment bank that flourishes anything. I played defensive lineman on a at Cleveland-Marshall, and I worked full in a region whose once strong economy dream team that won the Senate champion­ time for McDonald & Company. I wasn't has suffered stunning declines for almost as ship during my junior and senior years." the best law student. But I was really busy. long as the bank as been in business. There He wanted to continue playing football in Really busy!" are sound reasons for BGL's accomplish­ college and had accepted an offer from Cor­ In truth, he was doing major work and ments. "Law has been indispensable to me, nell, an NCAA Division One team. In the traveling the country for the securities com­ Michael says. "I could not have done the summer before his freshman year, he invited pany. By the time he graduated from Cleve- transactions I have needed to do without

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knowing law. " TIONS: TH E DEALMAKER'S JOURNAL. This more good news on the horizon. "We're hir­ Moreover, as Michael told PLAIN DEALER year, by the end of April, he had already ing, not firing," he says. And in this econo­ reporter Mary Vanac, "Most Wall Street been to Kiev, Warsaw, London, Dusseldorf, my, that's a rarity. firms don't pay attention to midmarket Dubai, and other cities he could not easily The great capitals of Europe and Asia companies," and large investment brokers recall. On Tuesday, April 28, he was sched­ have not soured Michael on Northeast Ohio. and megabanks can't make enough money uled to board a plane to Paris, and on Mon­ He believes in the city where he has lived off mid-market companies to make dealing day, April 27, he could scarcely have been his entire life, in its resiliency- and he with them worth their while. He believes unhappier. Why would a visit to the City of works hard for the region. If you doubt that, all you have to do is take a look at the boards he serves. He is on the board of directors for In 2001, BGL became the first Ameri­ Associated Estates Realty Corporation in Richmond Heights; on the board of trustees, can company invited into Global M&A, a executive committee and vice chairman for European-based consortium of mergers­ the Greater Cleveland Sports Commission; on the board of trustees for Ohio Israeli and-acquisitions firms with offices in 30 Chamber of Commerce in Cleveland; a member of the visiting committee for Case countries. Western Reserve University Weatherhead School of Management and a member of that his bank's independence has made it Lights be so distressing? Because his 8th the compensation committee for Preformed more versatile and better able to respond grade son, Mike, was running a 100 meter Line Products in Cleveland. He has also to market changes. "Also," he continues, championship race for St. Angela's, and his been active in fund-raising for St. Ignatius "we're not arrogant. We work personally father wasn't going to be there. and Kenyon and is a member of the law and we work hard for our clients and their Michael is the father of five children: two school's Visiting Committee. managers. Big banks can't give mid-mar­ daughters and three sons, whose ages range Finally, remember the family who owned ket companies the comfort or expertise from 14 to 30. His daughters, Caitlin and a chain of carwash businesses? Law Notes of senior-level leadership that we offer. Megan, are married. His oldest son, Connor, spoke with Leonard Weiss, the son of "the We're a kind of Midwest Wall Street for the is a junior at St. Ignatius; his middle son, only businessman [Michael] ever met" middle market." BGL has found its niche in Ryan, is a sophomore at St. Ignatius, and when he was growing up. Lennie is now a the topsy-turvy unpredictable and complex both boys are on the football team. Michael commercial real estate developer and a suc­ world of corporate finance. is at every St. Ignatius game, both as a proud cessful businessman himself. He is also a That world has found BGL and Michael father and as the voice you hear when you former champion high-school wrestler who Gibbons, as well. In 2001 , BGL became the tune into AM 1200 for the play-by-play dur­ remembers Michael well. "Michael was a first American company voted into Global ing St. Ignatius's games. When his daughters classy kid. Wild about sports. That explains M&A, a European-based consortium of played soccer for Magnificat (the sport for why he's a good businessman. You do well independent mergers-and-acquisitions firms women closest to football!), he never missed in sports when you really don't like los­ with offices in 37 countries in Europe, their games either. Michael's wife Diane is a ing and when you're willing to take risks. South America, the Middle East and Asia. homemaker, and with a husband frequently Sports makes you disciplined and confident. Global M&A provides support and oppor­ traveling and three active, sports-minded I don't think Michael knew how to be afraid tunities for a host of mid-level, trans-border sons still at home, she has her hands full. of anything." companies involved in international finan­ Because the economies of so many Today, Michael Gibbons is still all of the cial transactions. In 2005, the consortium nations are bound up in one another and above. Plus, he's cerebral-surely one of members elected Michael its chairman, and so tightly knit, the past few troubled years the smartest businessmen in the city-and in 2007, he logged over 300,000 air-miles have not been easy for BGL and its global fearless in a time when business leaders traveling to Argentina, Holland, Japan, enterprises. "Last year-2008- was very need to hang tough, take risks and have Poland and Chile, serving the consortium hard, and we're still in the eye of the storm," confidence. We're glad to have him on our and BGL's own international clients. In he says, "but Cleveland is good for us and team: the region's and the law school's. 2008, he received the "Road Warrior of the we will survive." In fact, by April, they had Law Notes is indebted to Law Librarian Year Award from MERGERS & ACQUlSI- already closed 20 deals in the new year, with Marie Rehmar for her research assistance

Spring 2009 7 Celebrating Success: We Thank Mrs. Iris Wolstein, Our Graduates and Friends

Today we are a 112-year-old law school in a 21st century law school building, thanks in large part to the generos­ i of one woman, Mrs. Iris S. Wolstein. In 2004, Mrs. Wol tein announced a $5 million gift to renovate our 1971 s building in memory of her husband, the late Bert L. Wolstein '53. Mrs. Wolstein also issued a challenge to all of us to support the Bert L. and Iris S. Wolstein Scholar­ ship Endowment, pledging to match every dollar donated to the fund- up to $1.25 million. We reached that goal last spring, and on September 24, the Cleveland-Marshall helped us meet the match. The $2.5 million Wolstein Fund community- students, faculty , staff, alumni and friends­ is our law school's largest student scholarship resource. invited the public to a reception in the handsome build­ It was built on th e good wishes of many individuals, law ing, now called the Bert L. Wolstein Hall, to say thank firms and businesses to our law school and to our students you to Mrs. Wolstein and to more than 1,000 donors who and their future .

8 Law Notes Looking Ahead: the Fund for Excellence and the Trial Courtroom

of alumni members of the Ohio judiciary, past and present - all to remind us ofthe strength of our school 's alumni and our history in edu­ cating the Ohio judiciary. The Trial Courtroom has three especially strong advocates in Tom an C 0 of the Thomas Properties Group; and Mr. Tompkins is the Scanlon '63, founding partner of Collins & Scanlon, Leon Weiss ofthe Executive Vice President for Administration and Chief Financial Offi­ Reminger Co. LP A, and Irene A. Hoyt Rennillo '83, founding partner cer of RPM International. The three graduates have launched the Fund ofRennillo Deposition and Discovery. for Excellence with a substantial pledge toward a goal of $1 million In November, Mr. Scanlon and Mr. Weiss honored retiring Cuya­ by June 30, 2012. The Fund for Excellence will enrich the elements of hoga County Probate Judges, the Honorable John E. Corrigan '68 legal education that make one law school stand apart from others: sup­ and the Honorable John J. Donnelly '69. The event, held in the Silver port for student scholarships, faculty research, academic centers, mar­ Grill in Tower City, paid tribute to the judges' contributions to the legal keting and advancement projects and the dean's discretionary fund. The profession and to the Judiciary of Ohio. The event was a fund-raiser Fund envisions a future in which our law school's reputation will grow as well, with proceeds going to help build the Trial Courtroom, where nationally and our students and faculty will compete successfully with portraits of the two judges will be among the fust lining the walls of the students and faculty of the best public law schools in the country. the new court. The Trial Courtroom is yet another exciting project that has Ms. Renillo immediately grasped the trial courtroom's potential to already enlisted the support of many members of the bench and bar. serve both future lawyers and established lawyers. And, consequently, Located in the former clinic offices, the new technologically sophis­ as Co-Chair of the Ohio Women's Bar Association "Leading With ticated courtroom will provide a setting for the school's and the city's Style" fumaising event, Ms. Rennilo earmarked a portion of the pro­ moot court teams to prepare for competitions and for the city's trial ceeds to support the Trial Courtroom. Always entrepreneurial, she was attorneys to rehearse their arguments in a venue that simulates an actual able to convince an Italian landlord to donate his magnificent villa in courtroom - complete with judge's bench and chambers, jury box and Umbria for a raffle during the benefit. deliberation room, witness stand, a visitors' gallery and all the features The Fund for Excellence and the Trial Courtroom are ambitious of modem trial presentation technology. It will also be a place where projects. Thanks to the generosity of our graduates and our friends in new lawyers and judges can prepare for 21st century litigation. Sur­ the community, we're good at challenges and good at transforming rounding the wall of the new courtroom will be photographic portraits them into reality.

Spring 2009 9 Stand Up for CLEVELAND: I The Urban Development Law Clinic and Three Projects to Save the City

Confronting the Foreclosure Crisis: Shaker Heights. The Cuyahoga County Land Bank All have been hard hit by what Cleveland-Marshall Profes­ Neighbor oods are the building blocks of great cities. Across sor Kathleen C. Engel has called the "foreclosure virus," the America, the foreclosure crisis has left a trail of boarded-up socio-economic blight that has destroyed whole neighborhoods, houses and vacant lots, but homes and businesses are not all that demoralized their residents, eroded the county tax base and sent are lost. Intangible assets of our culture are lost as well: confi­ thousands into bankruptcy. dence in the rule of law, for instance, or trust in the government In the past year, facu lty, students and staff of the Urban to set things right. Moreover, in striking the older, more vulner­ Development Law Clinic (UDLC), in alliance with Neighbor­ abl e parts oia city, foreclosures often eradicate the visible traces hood Progress Inc. (NPI) and its subsidiary, the Cleveland Hous­ of a region's history. ing Renewal Project (CHRP), have taken steps to intervene on In Cleveland, the crisis is classless, sparing neither the behalf of the city's troubled neighborhoods, bringing with them poor nor the well-to-do-not the inner city neighborhoods or an arsenal of legal approaches to resolving Northeast Ohio's the solidly middle-class inner-ring suburbs of Lakewood and housing problems and restoring its economic vitality.

10 Law Notes In Cleveland, the crisis is classless, sparing neither the poor nor the well-to-do-not the inner city neighborhoods or the solidly mid­ dle-class inner-ring suburbs of Lakewood and Shaker Heights.

The Cuyahoga County Land Bank (CHRP) against global banking giants Deutsche Bank and Wells In February, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland visited CSU's Fargo, two of the area's largest holders ofsubprime mortgages and Levin College of Urban Affairs to sign into law a bill establish­ purchasers of foreclosed and dilapidated properties. ing the Cuyahoga County Land Bank. The new legislation allows The CHRP attorneys have taken a novel approach to the the County to buy vacant and abandoned, tax-delinquent property problem of banks purchasing foreclosed and abandoned prop­ and to sell it to responsible citizens or developers and non-profit erties at bargain-basement prices and reselling them in "as is" organizations for redevelopment. Land banks are not new to our condition. Mr. Wagner and Professor Lind allege that the banks country, but as an effort to thwart the purchase of abandoned and violate local nuisance laws and seek to prevent them from foreclosed property by unscrupulous speculators, land banks may selling, without repairing, 36 city properties acquired on the prove to be an enterprising and powerful tool. According to the cheap at sheriff's auction. The suits demand that the banks ei­ Governor and Cuyahoga County Treasurer James Rokakis '83, ther renovate their properties before selling them or demolish the ingenuity of the project and the crafting of the legislation them altogether. NPI provided funding to support the work of owe much to UDLC Professor Kermit Lind '84. Funding from Nathalie Dibo and Jennifer Porter Grasso '06. They, along Neighborhood Progress Inc. allowed the Clinic to hire Cleveland­ with Professor Lind's research assistant Matthew Yourkvitch, Marshall graduates Nathalie Dibo '08 and Keesha Christoph are researching the law, drafting pleadings and motions, and, in '08 to work on the project under Professor Lind's supervision. general, assisting with the litigation. According to Professor Lind, they were indispensable. He cred­ Housing Court Judge Raymond L. Pianka '77 heard the cases its Ms. Dibo with creating a power-point presentation that Mr. in mid-December, granted a request for a temporary restraining Rokakis used in successfully promoting the project to influential order that would stop the banks from selling the homes for at least constituents. two weeks and scheduled a hearing later in the month to determine whether to make the order permanent. But the banks, realizing Taking on the Banks that this Judge might just be leveling the playing field, had the As an authority on foreclosed cases removed to federal court, a and abandoned property, Profes­ ploy they hoped would di scour­ sor Lind has been a leader in age a community organization efforts locally and nationally to with limited funds at their dispos­ reclaim endangered neighbor­ al. But money and might don 't hoods. Recently he has partici­ always win the day, and the fed­ pated in lawsuits against metro­ eral courts have now remanded politan America's greatest assail­ the cases to the Housing Court, ants: the mega banks. Professor where they are pending. Lind is serving as co-counsel If the County Land Bank with Thomas C. Wagner '84 of thrives and the CHRP law suits the Cleveland law firm of Van succeed, these measures to Deusen and Wagner on two law resolve our region's econom­ suits filed in Cleveland Housing ic crisis will have implications Court on behalf of the Cleve­ for the rest of the country, and land Housing Renewal Project though these measures alone will

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not restore lost neighborhoods, they may restore the confidence long-time partner in community redevelopment, the Cleveland­ of Americans in the ability of the law to hold powerful institu­ Marshall Urban Development Law Clinic. tions accountable for their misdeeds. In other words, the power ln December 2008, the neglected and forgotten library with the of the law to effect good. poet's name few residents remembered was reborn as the Langs­ ton Hughes Center, the home of Senior Outreach Services Inc. Saving and Renovating an Historic and Cleveland Clinic's Community Health & Education Center. Cleveland Landmark and Reminding the Senior Outreach provides community-based and culturally com­ City of a Great African-American Poet petent support services to elderly residents of the surrounding lt was a common inner-city sight: an abandoned, dilapidated, community, serves 400 meals daily and offers respite for caregiv­ boarded-up yellow brick building. But the building on east 79'h ers and friendship to isolated seniors. At the Clinic's Community and Quincy in the Fairfax neighborhood on Cleveland 's east Health & Education Center, Clinic doctors and nurses offer free side was far from common. Erected in 1914, it was one of 1, 600 preventive care and nutritional education as well as basic health libraries across America funded by industrialist and philanthro­ screen ing services to neighborhood residents who are uninsured pist Andrew Carnegie. In 1973, the library with its handsome or underinsured. neo-classical facade was renamed in honor of Langston Hughes, The $5.5 million, 25,000 square feet renovation and addi­ the famed African-American poet and playwright whose high tion , was a va luable opportunity for UDLC students to gain school years were spent in Cleveland. Four years later, perhaps va luab le legal experience. Clinic Professor Carole 0. Hey­ amid the social strife criss­ ward '93 led a team of students who assisted with site acqui­ crossing our major cities, sition, participated in nuisance abatement actions, negotiated the library closed. In 2006, and drafted architectural services and construction contracts, Fairfax Renaissance Devel­ handled construction and contractual disputes and drafted opment Corporation (FRDC) utility easements. Because the Langston Hughes Center is acquired the by-now dilapi­ "green" construction, students also leamed about the legal dated building and, over time, issues relating to building "green." Today, the building that purchased adjacent proper­ taught our students so much is a candidate for Si lver Cer­ ties and made plans for reno­ tification by the U.S. Green Building Council Leadership vating the original building in Energy and Environmental Design, an organization that and erecting a new, two-story encourages and supports green enterprise. wing. FRDC did not plan or Cleveland-Marshall Professor of Law and Urban Studies Alan accomp li sh all of this si ngle­ Weinstein is Director ofth e UDLC; Kermit Lind '84 is Associate handedly. The Corporation Director and Clinical Professor; Pamela Daiker-Middaugh '87 sought assistance from its and Carole 0. Heyward '93 are Clinical Professors ofLaw.

12 Law Notes The Future of the Forensic Sciences: A Cleveland-Marshall Criminal Justice Symposium

In anuary 2007, the United States Congress authorized the Cleveland-Marshall Dean Geoffrey S. Mearns was a member National Academy of Sciences to conduct a study on the future of the NAS Committee, and on March 19th the law school held oftlie forensic sciences in America. On February 18,2009, NAS the first conference in the country to respond to the Committee's released the report of the Committee on Identifying the Needs report and discuss the Committee's conclusions and recommen­ of tl\e Forensics Community. In March, the law school held the dations. Dean Mearns organized the Symposium and moderated first symposium in the country to review the committee's conclu­ the full-day round of panels. sions. Seventeen multi-disciplinary experts in law, medicine, and The Committee's report cited major problems in the forensic the forensic sciences, including members of the NAS Commit­ science community and in the medical examiner system. It also tee, took part in the Symposium. Among the guest experts were listed 13 recommendations to secure the just conviction of crimi­ Anne-Marie Mazza, Director of the NAS Committee on Science, nals and protect the wrongfully accused. Technology and the Law; Marcella Farinelli Fierro, MD, fonner Among numerous failings the report cited in the nation's crime Chief Medical Examiner of the Commonwealth of Virginia; Val­ labs were under:funding and understaffing; absence of uniform erie Caproni, FBI General Counsel; Kenneth Martin, Detective standards, training and oversight; and unreliable methodology Lieutenant and Commanding Officer of the Crime Scene Section in the interpretation of forensic evidence, even in such tradi­ of the Massachusetts State Police; Criminal Defense Attorney tional forensic techniques as hair analysis, bite marks, fiber and Terry H. Gilbert '73 of the Friedman & Gilbert finn; Univer­ firearm analysis, and fingerprinting. The Committee also found sity of Akron Professor of Law Jane Campbell Moriarty, and Dr. that advances in DNA technology gave promise of greater accu­ Robert Shaler, who, as a forensic scientist in Office of the New racy in identifYing criminals. The Committee's recommendations York City Medical Examiner, was charged with identifYing the included a proposal that Congress establ ish a National Institute of bodies of the 9/ll victims. Forensic Sciences to ensure uniform methodology and to assure Law Librarian Laura Ray and Assistant Web Administrator that forensic investigations are independent from the investiga­ Rick Zhang are creators of a forensic resource website, which tions of law enforcement agencies. you may reach from our homepage:www.law.csuohio.edu.

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Steven L. Wasserman '78 is a founding partner of Chemett Wassennan Yarger, LLC where his practice focuses on corporate, real estate and finance matters. He is licensed to practice law in Ohio and Florida and is a member of the Certified Grievance Committee of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association. Mr. Wassennan has served on the board of directors and audit committee of a publicly traded telecommunica­ tions company and is a member of the American Bar Association Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section and a past chair of its Trial Techniques Committee. Mr. Wasserman is married to Joni Handler Was­ serman and is the father of Dana and Matthew. Mat­ thew practices law in Chicago, lllinois.

Carl Stern '66 (magna cum laude) retired in 2007 as J. B. & Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Black History in the Making: Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University and Three African American Appellate was elected Professor Emeritus. Judges hear cases at Cleveland-Marshall After 33 years at NBC News - 26 College of Law as law correspondent covering the U.S. Supreme Court and Justice Department - he panel of three African American Judges served as Public Affairs Director of the Justice from Ohio's 8th District Court of Appeals­ Department 1993-96. Mr. Stern received an indi­ the Honorable Patricia A. Blackmon '75, vidual Peabody Award for exceptional journalistic A enterprise in 1974, the same year he was honored the Honorable Melody J. Stewart '88 and the Hon­ by the American Bar Association as the pioneer in orable Larry Jones- presided over a session of the broadcast reporting of the legal beat. court held at the law school on February 19 during Mr. Stern is a member of the Ohio, D.C. and U.S. the country's annual observance of Black History Supreme Court bars, a member of the Cleveland­ Marshall College of Law National Advisory Com­ Month. mittee, and holds several honorary degrees, includ­ The Bartunek Moot Court quickly filled with alum­ ing one from Cleveland-Marshall in 1975. ni and students as attorneys spoke on behalf of their clients in three cases on appeal before the court. As a student at Cleveland-Marshall College of The event marked the first time in the history of Law, Nathan Wills '04 served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Law and Health, was a member of Ohio's courts that an all-African American panel of the 2003-04 Moot Court Team, and was Treasurer judges has served together in an appellate hearing. of Delta Theta Phi International Law Fraternity. He The event is significant in the history of Cleveland­ is a trial attorney with Dennis Seaman & Associates Marshall College of Law as well. There have been Co. L.P.A., where his practice is focused on nursing home negligence, motor vehicle torts and personal only six African American judges on the Ohio 8th lllJury. District Court of Appeals, and three have been our Mr. Wills is a member of the Ohio State Bar graduates. In addition to Judges Blackmon and Stew­ Association, the New Lawyers Council, the Ohio art, Judge Leo Jackson (1920-96) a 1950 alumnus Association for Justice, and the Cleveland Academy of our law school, was also a Judge on the Ohio 8th of Trial Attorneys. District Court of Appeals.

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school works to The Law & Leadership Summer Institute Last summer, Willie Hornsby, an eighth grader in Cleveland's Robert Jamison Mid­ build a stronger dle School, competed for and was accepted into the law school's Law & Leadership Institute, an intensive five-week program for students about to enter the ninth grade. The Summer Law & Leadership Institute is one of the many pipeline initiatives the legal profession: law school has undertaken to encourage minority students to consider-and pursue­ careers in law. from pre-K to law Something happened during those five weeks that changed Willie's life: He found his future. Today, Willie, a student in the Early College Program at Cleve­ land's John Hay School, aspires to be a lawyer. So do Summer Institute partici­ school and beyond pants Diamond Donald, also a student at John Hay, and David Boone, a student in the city's new MC2 Science, Technology and Engineering School. The inspiration they found in the program has stayed with them throughout the school year, and,

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the program. For us, as well as for them, to to strive for academic excellence. Students be chosen was an honor. also staged a mock trial before real judges. As one student remarked, "We saw And, as David Boone noted with awe, "We another world." That was the world that even had a Supreme Court Justice talk to us unfolded in the offices of Calfee Halter, in about being a lawyer!" That Ohio Supreme the chambers and courtroom of Cleveland Court Justice was Maureen O'Connor Municipal Court Judge Anita Laster Mays '80. The students had kind words as well '92, the office of Cleveland Mayor Frank for "Dean Dempsey," "Ms. Laurent," "Pro­ Jackson '83, and in the classrooms of the fessor Williams," and for second-year law law school. Law faculty and practitioners student "Ms. Stephenson"-April Ste­ taught from a comprehensive curriculum phenson, chosen to teach in the Summer created by Harvard Law graduate James Institute, along with Akron Un iversity Col­ O'Neal, co-founder and director of Legal lege of Law student Kate Marrero-Patterson Outreach, a New York City non-profit and University of Cincinnati Law School organization involved in motivating teens

Assistant Dean Louise P. Dempsey '81 wins national pipeline award

here is something am iss when an American profession has on ly a 10 T percent minority representation, especially when that profession is the legal profession-the ve ry one charged with safeguarding the freedoms of all our citizens. In 2004, an alliance of pre-school through college educators, law faculty and admini strators, and members of the bench and bar met in Ra cine, W isconsin, to create the "Wingspread Consortium." Wingspread, w hose primary locations are on col lege ca mpuses, works to in spire students from diverse populations to seek and attain careers in law. The program takes its name from the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed W ingspread Conference Center of the Johnson Foundation in Racine. What Wingspread's lawyers and educators are teach­ ing our country's minority youngsters is that a lega l career is within their reach . Or, quite simply, "Spread your wings and fly free:· recently on a cold Saturday morning, the Each year, Wingspread pays tribute to an educator whose work embodies three returned to attend a session on compet­ the Wingspread mission. The 2008 recipient was Assistant Dean Louise P. ing in the city-wide Mock Trial Program, a Dempsey '81. Dean Dempsey is a long-time member of the Board of the pipeline initiative sponsored by the Cleve­ Cleveland Municipal School District and a dedicated administrator. According land Municipal School System, the Cleve­ to Franklin Pierce Law Center Professor Sarah Redfield, a Wingspread co­ land Metropolitan Bar Association and the founder, Dea n Dempsey is one of the organization's "founding mothers. students and fac ulty of our law school. Without her commitment and Cleveland-Marshall's to Wingspread it would The Supreme Court of Ohio created the probably not exist today; certa inly it would not exist with the strength it Law and Leadership Institute to increase does. Louise's unique position at the dean level and as a member of the diversity in the legal profession. Two law Cleveland Metropolitan District School Board has made it possible for her schools were chosen as model Institute not only to nurture Wingspread nationa lly but also to nurture Cleveland's sites. Cleveland-Marshall was one, and 25 own pipeline programs . . . and thus provide models for other parts of the soon-to-be ninth graders were accepted into country."

Spring 2009 19 student Alexander Caron. This year, the Ohio Supreme Court, in partnership with the Ohio State Bar Association Foundation and the Center for Law-Related Education, has expanded the Law & Leadership Summer Institute to include all Ohio law schools. The 2009 Institute begins on July 6 and concludes on August 7.

The Mock Trial Program The law school's Mock Trial Program, held every spring, is perhaps our oldest pipeline initiative and one of our most success­

ful. Law students volunteering in the Pro Bono Program teach trial Law & Leadership Program with Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson strategies to Cleveland high school students competing in the city­ wide Mock Trial Competition, sponsored by the Cleveland Met­ ful and raucous, but through games, lessons and field trips, they ropolitan Bar Association. In the competition, passions run high are. being coached to imagine themselves as the future's productive as opposing counsel face off against one another in a final hectic, citizens-even as lawyers and judges. high-spirited round of mock trials adjudicated by judges of the Cleveland Municipal Court and witnessed by enthusiastic teachers, The Summer Legal Academy friends and family of the aspiring young lawyers. The law school has partnered with the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association and Case Western Reserve University School of The 3Rs Program Law for several years in a program that brings seniors in local high Every month during the school year, a number of Cleveland law­ schools to campus for a two-week program that mirrors the Law yers, judges, law faculty and law students leave their offices, court­ & Leadership Summer Institute in its simulation of the law school rooms and classrooms to teach Cleveland high-school students the experience. Students compete for a place in the program and the fundamentals of Constitutional Law. The visiting "faculty," many chance to study the fundamentals oflaw, hear lectures by law fac­ of whom left their school books behind years ago, are taking part ulty and practicing attorneys, and prepare for and participate in a in the three-year-old 3Rs Program, a nationally recognized, award­ mock trial. Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Ronald B. Adrine winning pipeline project sponsored by the Cleveland Metropolitan '73. was a founding member of the Academy and remains one of Bar Association and the Cleveland Municipal School District. Its its principal advocates. The 2009 Academy begins on June 15 and goal is to make sure every 1O'h grader in Cleveland passes the social ends on June 26. studies portion of the state-mandated graduation test. Our own law faculty and students participate as volunteer teachers through the SWEL law school's Pro Bono Program. The 3Rs Program teaches the As a high school student in Cincinnati, Aja Brooks spent every rights, responsibilities and realities of conscientious citizenship. summer working at law firms, making her way, year by year, toward Implicit in those lessons is respect for the rule oflaw. But the city's college and the career in law she had imagined for herself since lawyers and law students are also demonstrating, in word and deed, childhood. Later, as an undergraduate student at Miami University that law is a helping and a welcoming profession as well. of Ohio majoring in philosophy and political science, she met attor­ ney James Johnson, who was working in the Office of the Cincinnati Big Brothers, Big Sisters, Little Buddies Solicitor. In 1988, Mr. Johnson, founded SWEL, the Summer Work They march from the school bus every other Friday with increas­ Experience in Law, a multi-faceted program for inner-city youth, ing confidence: 24 children in the tidy uniforms of the Cleveland who, often against many odds, aspire to a career in law. One of Municipal School District- nine and ten-years-olds from the SWEL's projects is to take high school and college students on a tour city's George Washington Carver Elementary School. They are of every law school in Ohio. Our law school supports SWEL and taking part in the law school's Big Brothers, Big Sisters program, hosts SWEL students' visits to Cleveland-Marshall. Aja Brooks was an initiative supported by a gift from the Sisters of Charity to the one of those students who visited our law school and was convinced law school's Pro Bono Program. Right now, the third-graders are she belonged here. Today, Aja is a regional officer and member of our youngest pipeliners, but we have large expectations for their the Black Law Students Association and a student appointee to the futures. On those Friday afternoons, our law students become big Admissions Committee. Next year she will be President of the law brothers and sisters to this group of inner-city children who have school's BLSA chapter. For us, she is an example of the strength of a taken eagerly to their new, older siblings. Right now, they are play- pipeline program to guide minority students into careers in law.

20 Law Notes What One law Firm and One lawyer Have Done for Our City's Youngsters

erhaps it is because he was a teacher in his first end with the summer break. For the past two years, the career. Or perhaps it is because in his second firm has sponsored John Hay students in summer in­ career as a lawyer he takes to heart the obliga­ ternships in its Cleveland offices and plans to continue Ption of the legal profession to serve the com- the internships in summer 2009. munity. Or maybe he's just a good citizen. Whatever In April2008, Robert C. Tucker, one ofthe firm's found­ the reason, Tucker Ellis & West environmental attorney ing partners, announced that he was stepping down as Carter Strang '84 is doing his part to coax Cleveland the firm's managing partner. The firm said "thank you" high school students through the pipeline into the legal to Mr. Tucker by creating a $5000 annual scholarship at profession, and his firm is right there with him. our law school for an undergraduate student aspiring In the 2006-07 school year, Mr. Strang, along with two to a career in law. The scholarship has one very spe­ otherTEW attorneys, was a volunteer in the Cleveland cific stipulation: The Robert C. Tucker Scholarship will Metropolitan Bar Association's 3Rs Program. The goal only be awarded to students who graduate from high of the program is to teach basic Constitutional Law to schools in the Cleveland Municipal School District. every 10th grader in the Cleveland Municipal School According to Cleveland-Marshall Assistant Dean District in order to make sure they pass the Social and Cleveland Municipal School Board member, Studies portion of the Ohio Graduation Test. He and Louise P. Dempsey, "Tucker Ellis & West has set the his colleagues taught in the Early College program at gold standard for pipeline programs:' You can see Cleveland's John Hay High School. Everything and ev­ how well the TEW lawyers teaching and the students eryone involved in the 3Rs Program impressed him.The learning work together by the looks on their faces in lawyer side of him and the teacher side were reunited, the picture below. and he became an avid supporter. Last year and again News Flash: The John Hay Early College TEW-coached this year, he chaired the CMBA's 3Rs Program, which team has won the Mock Trial Championship for the won the 2008 Ohio State Bar Foundation's Outstanding second consecutive year. Program Award. In his classes, he had been par­ ticularly impressed by the John Hay Early College students-so impressed that he approached his colleagues atTEW and urged them to forge a more durable bond with the school and its stu­ dents. As a result, last year, nine TEW lawyers volunteered in the program, and 18 TEW lawyers coached John Hay's first-ever Mock Trial team. In May 2008, the John Hay team competed against 39 teams from Cleveland and its suburbs to win first place 2007·2008 in competition. This year, 31 of CLEVELAND MOCK TRIAL CHAMPIONS the firm's lawyers are 3Rs volun­ JOHN HAY EARLY COLLEGE MOCK TRIAL TEAM teers. . l The firm's bond with the Cleveland city schools does not

Spring 2009 21 The Law School's Community Health Advocacy Law Clinic For the poor, finding adequate medical care is often complicated by legal problems. But, for Cleveland's low-income citizens, help is on the way. It will come from students enrolled in the law school 's new Community Health Advocacy Law Clinic, set to open its doors in the fall of 2009. Professor Pamela Daiker-Middaugh '88, the founder and director of our Pro Bono Program, has developed the CHALC cur­ riculum and will be its director as well. The new clinic's offices and classrooms will share space with the law school's Urban Development Law Clinic and Employment Law Clinic in the renovated ground floor of the law school. CHALC combines the expertise and talents of three public institu­ tions with strong commitments to community service: our law school, the MetroHealth System and the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland. CHALC 's mission is to help our most vulnerable citizens resolve legal problems that may place their health and healthcare at risk. Students will join with lawyers, physicians, nurses and social workers in their efforts to resolve problems relating to special education law, public benefits, disability law, housing law, and immigration law. CHALC will also serve men and women returning to the community from jail or pnson.

Cleveland-Marshall Law Student Patrick Charles Wins Prestigious Legal Writing Award

Third-year Cleveland-Marshall law student Patrick Charles is the winner of the $10,000 Judge John R. Brown Award for Excellence in Legal Writing from the John R. Brown Scholarship Foundation in Houston, Texas. His essay, Bearing Arms in the Ohio Constitution: A Historical and Legal Analysis ofArticl e I Sec­ tion 4, was the judges' unanimous choice. In addition to his stipend, Charles's essay will be expanded into a book, FOUNDING GUNS: THE SECOND AMENDMENT, THE SUPREME COU RT AN D UNDERSTANDING THE RI GHT TO BEA R ARMS IN STATE CONSTITUTIONS, which is forthcoming from McFarland Publishing. A native of South Bend, Indiana, Patrick served in the U.S . Marines Corp from 1997-2002 as a sergeant in the Marine Security Guard. His undergraduate degree in history and international affairs, with honors, is from George Washington University. FO UN DING GUNS is not his first book: It is his third. His first, WASH­ INGTON's DECISION: TH E STORY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON' S DECISION TO REAC­ CEPT BLACK ENLI STMENTS IN THE CONTINENTAL ARMY, DECEMBER 31, 1775 was published in 2005 by Booksurge. His second book, which he wrote in his first year of law school, IRRECONCILABLE GRIEVANCES: TH E EVENTS THAT SHAPED THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, was published this year by Heritage Books. Congratulations to Patrick!!!

22 Law Notes Spring 2009 23 any of us go to law school with the Three Cleveland-Marshall notion that we will one day pursue justice. For some, that means find­ students spend their win­ ing justice in a court oflaw, but for 120 JD and MBA students from all ter break volunteering over the world, it meant traveling half way around the globe to Israel. This past December, in Israel Hillel organized an Alternative Winter Break in Israel specifi­ cally designed for those pursuing graduate degrees in law and in business. Our Alternative Break would focus on Tzedek (Justice) and Tikkun Olam (Repairing the World).

24 Law Notes Gittel Chaiko, Allison Shapero, Caryn Gross at the Western Wall

Second-year law student Caryn Gross, Mesila is an absorption center, but unlike the other absorption 2 first-year student Allison Shapero and centers in Israel that aid those who have made aliyah , this cen­ I, now on the brink of graduation, were ter is specifically for young refugees from the war-tom regions among the law students who spent our of Darfur, Eritrea and the Ivory Coast. There are thousands of winter break in Israel. refugees, most of them children, who have trekked across Africa To many, Israel has one of two faces. and through the Sinai Desert to reach the borders oflsrael where One is the face the media gives Israel: they will be welcomed and find political asylum. Of the thou­ a place of perpetual war, of military­ sands, approximately 50 teenagers currently reside at the center. lined borders and political conflict. The A minimal staff attempts to provide basic education, teach life other is the face of tourism, a land skills, and, if possible, find foster families or even permanent filled with historical and Biblical sites, homes for the youngsters. museums, markets and beaches that, last The city ofJaffa, located on the south side ofTel Aviv, donated year, attracted over three million tour­ a school building, rent-free but in need of renovation. Each day, ists. But on neither face will you see the the volunteers worked side-by-side with these teenagers, helping Darfuran refugees hoping to find asylum to paint classrooms, plant gardens and build a soccer field, while and peace, or newly released prisoners simultaneously befriending the teens and listening to stories of struggling to find their place in society, their journey and survival. or men, women and children with physi­ Volunteers also spent a fun day at the Jerusalem Science cal and mental handicaps trying to lead Museum with the teens. There, we became acutely aware of how nom1al lives. unprepared these young immigrants were to be on their own. The media may ignore them and they And some of us, as we explained elementary scientific proper­ do not make it on any top ten sights to ties, realized that the basic education that North Americans see in Israel, but these refugees are a very often take for granted was never even an option for these young real part oflsraeli society, and numerous immigrants. Israeli organizations exist to provide aid, There is a Russian proverb which tells us that you live as long educate the public, lobby for change and as you are remembered. The generation of survivors will soon be advocate on their behalf. gone, but in sharing their stories with the generations that follow, In developing the program, Hillel their memories and the memory of what happened will live on. believed that Jewish graduate students But there are others who would like to obliterate the memory might have the potential to become of their recent history- such as the men at Rashut, the Israeli future leaders in the Jewish community. Prisoner Rehabilitation Authority, where Allie and I worked. Hillel planned our trip well. In addition Rashut helps former prisoners reintegrate into society. The to service work with various organiza­ program begins while the men are still incarcerated. And that is tions, we heard lectures and discussions where we and other volunteers began our service: in prison. We with Israeli leaders of industry, with visited a minimal security facility to gain a better understand­ policy makers, and other experts. Together, we toured the Israeli ing of how the Israeli prison system works. Here, inmates are Supreme Court and the Knesset. Hillel helped us to gain insight responsible for their own meals and laundry. There is an on-site into the country's social, legal and political landscape. factory, where prisoners may earn minimal wages or they may Law students and MBA students volunteered with one of six take classes to learn a skill or trade. But to be considered for an non-profit or socially responsible organizations. We did not par­ early release, the men must voluntarily meet and work with social ticipate in any of the business students' programs, though we saw workers to prove that once they are freed from prison they will them frequently and had Shabbat together. join society as law-abiding citizens. Caryn, Allie and I volunteered in two of the programs: Caryn If granted an early release, prisoners are required to live up worked for Mesila, an absorption center for refugees from Darfur to a year in a halfway house where they are supported with psy­ and other African regions. Allie and I worked with Rashut, chological services and career services as they plan on rejoining Israel's Prisoner Rehabilitation Authority. society. Hillel volunteers visited three different halfway houses

Spring 2009 25 Bat Yam harbor where they met and worked with ex-pris­ Law and recently signed the UN Convention oners and juvenile offenders convicted on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. of drug-related and violent crimes. We Representatives of Access First explain the painted murals on the dreary walls, were benefits of this legislation will take one or taught how to cook Israeli food , played two generations before they filter down to basketball and soccer and enjoyed other the man on the street, changing society's activities. Often they were men who once attitudes and allowing the disabled public to had wives and children- friends, families enjoy mobility. and jobs-all to be destroyed by violence and drug abuse. Somewhere in the midst of backbreaking work and late night lec­ For many of them, however, the rehabilitation system seems tures and meetings, we were given the opportunity to enjoy Israel's to be working. I spoke at length with one parolee who had been beauty. We spent Shabbat on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, with imprisoned for domestic violence. He explained that he had grown the mountains surrounding us and the sparkling sea before us. It was up never knowing any other way to express his emotions than with the first time that week that all 120 volunteers had come together as his fists; now he has learned to communicate openly and express a whole to reflect on what had brought us to Israel from all over the himself in a positive way. And though he could not forget his past, world- from the United States, Argentina, Belarus, Brazil, Israel, he now had a future to look forward to. Russia, Ukraine, and Uruguay. For many, this diversity introduced Another former prisoner told me how grateful he was to have the a powerful sense of Jewish peoplehood into the experience. "One opportunity to spend the day with us. He told me it was like a single might think that communicating amongst ourselves would be an sunny day among cloudy ones. Rashut had never worked with volun­ issue," said an American participant and Santa Clara University teers in the past, but once they saw what a positive effect it has had, the MBA graduate student, "Not for a second- we were the most unified organization has committed to engaging and working with volunteers group I have ever been a part of. Our unity stemmed from our roots to enhance and expand the services it offers. -our Jewish roots ... Knowing that regardless of the various countries We also met Attorney Gil Harish, who, with his wife, Sharona, that we were from and the different languages we spoke, we are all founded the halfway house in 1988. Mr. Harish bought the building connected through Judaism." in a business deal for less than $500 and then convinced a friend It was this sense of connectedness and solidarity that created even who was refurnishing a hotel to donate the hotel's old furniture. Mr. a third layer to this trip. When I and every other volunteer decided Harish's "business deal" has now grown to three homeless shelters to go on this trip, "Alternative Break" stood for working with under­ and one halfway house that have helped hundreds of thousands of privileged communities and non-profit organizations while learning desperate people over the years. But this is not Mr. Harish's daytime about social justice and advocacy; however, as we waited for our job. He is a practicing attorney focusing on areas that are anything flight to Tel Aviv, Israeli ground troops entered the Gaza Strip. And but social advocacy. His story of being able to balance a career with as the war in Gaza wore on, and missiles began to hit closer and socially responsible enterprises was inspiring. closer, some landing just 15 miles South of Tel Aviv, "Alternative In addition to the hands-on volunteering, participants had the Break" began to stand for something more. It began to stand for opportunity to hear lectures and hold discussions with various orga­ true commitment, not just towards social justice, but specifically nizations such as the Bina Center and Access First. commitment to Israel and her people. We experienced something Volunteers visited the Bina Center, the first and probably only that most Israeli citizens learned long ago: that to live in fear is not 3 secular yeshiva . Located in Tel Aviv. The Bina Center's goal is to live. So, as each of us chose to visit Israel, "alternative" began to to create a new Israeli leadership of pluralistic, secular scholars, mean choice, the choice to fight and advocate for social justice and both men and women, who are versed in traditional Jewish learn­ to stand in solidarity with our fellow humans. And it meant not to ing from a humanist perspective. Students come from all over the choose a life unaffected by what is around and surrounds us. world to study and volunteer alongside Israelis. The Bina Center provides two programs, one focused on Tikkum Olam and the other Gittel Chiako '09 earned her BA from Miami University in on Israeli-Arab co-existence. Though similar in their community International Relations and Russian. She spent a year in Israel, service mission, the co-existence track focuses on community cen­ working with non-profits. She wishs to thank Hillel 's Gary Coleman, ters and organizations that promote Arab-Israeli coexistence and Regional Director; Allison Peterson, Graduate Director and Nina understanding with study sessions exploring the background of Ravick, Senior Associate at Hillel International, who organized Israeli-Arab relations and coexistence-all while living in the co­ Alternate Break trip. habited city of Jaffa. 5 We also spent an afternoon with Access First , a non-profit that 1 Deuteronomy 16: 18-20 advocates for those with phy~ical handicaps. Access First says that 2 A person of Jewish Descent who immigrates to Israel. Literally meaning the biggest problem for those with physical handicaps is acces­ "to go up" sibility. Volunteers were asked to navigate Bat Yam, a coastal city 3 http:/ /www.bina.org .il/english/proj_yeshiva.htm south ofTel Aviv, in a wheelchair. Ten years ago, Israel passed 4 Traditional yeshivas do not accept women to study. the initial version of the Equal Rights for People with Disabilities 5 http:// www.aisrael.org/ Eng/

26 Law Notes Leon M. Plevin Class of 1957 (1932-2008) Though Leon Plevin died in October of 2008, even now, hard work and long hours. He once told a reporter, " I have it 's diffic t to imagine him as "the late Leon Plevin." He always practiced law. I never played tennis, never played is till o very present in our school: in the Leon M. and golf. I practiced law." G ria levin Endowed Professorship, in the Nurenberg, In 2005, Leon joined with Frank Gallucci III '00 to PI vin, Heller & McCarthy scholarship and in work car- form the Plevin & Gallucci firm. Frank was not just anoth­ rie-d eut daily by the Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni er young and promising lawyer: He was the son of one of Association. As President of the Alumni Association in Leon 's best friends, the late Frank Gallucci Jr. '70, and 1984-85, he brought new life to the organization and ere- though many years separated the two new law partners, ated one of its most valuable resources: the Life Mem- they had the bond of two generations of friendship. bers' Scholarship Fund. Today, a large number of our life Gloria Plevin is today one of the region's premier members will tell you that they couldn't leave his office, a painters and printmakers. She recently told a gathering of restaurant or a meeting with Leon without first promising friends and graduates at the law school that she would not to become a life member. be the artist she is today had she not had the support and He was like that about everything: irresistible in his encouragement of her husband. "Leon made my career enthusiasms. And not only our law school but the art com- possible. From the minute I told him I wanted to study art, munity benefited from his passions. he was at my side." A native of Weirton, West Virginia, and a graduate of The entire Cleveland art community might well say the the University of West Virginia, he was the first person same. Leon and Gloria assembled one of the city's fin­ in his family to go to college. He moved to Cleveland in est collections of regional art for the Nurenberg Plevin 1955 to study law at Cleveland-Marshall. firm and built an outstanding collection for their own Cleveland was good for him. As a law student, he con- home and family as well. They mentored and promoted vi need famed trial attorney Abe Dudnik '27 to hire him a number of young artists and veteran artists whose work as his clerk, and in Cleveland he met the love of his life, had been overlooked. Leon was a founder and long-time Gloria Rosenthal, whom he married in 1956. After gradu- president of the Cleveland Artists Foundation, and, in ation, Mr. Dudnik offered Leon a full-time job at Abe 2008, the Cleveland Museum of Art named him an honor­ Dudnik & Associates that, over time, became Nurenberg, ary trustee. Plevin, Heller & McCarthy. Leon served as its managing At the law school, we are grateful to have been one of partner for over 35 years. He had a simple work ethic: Leon Plevin's abiding enthusiasms.

Spring 2009 27 • Alumni Happenings

1970 1977 Robert Poklar joined the Cleveland finn Hon. Ted Klammer received the Inde­ Kevin Irwin, a partner' . of Schneider Smeltz Ranney & LaFond as pendent Living Award for Local Gov­ with Keating Muething & of counsel. Mr. Poklar focuses his prac­ ernment by The Western Reserve Area Klekamp in Cincinnati, tice on business and consumer defense Agency on Aging. was named a 2009 Ohio litigation and on acquisitions and dives­ Super Lawyer by Law & titures. 1974 Politics Media, Inc., in Dennis Eckart joined the Lake-Geauga the area of bankruptcy. 1979 Fund Advisory Committee of the Cleve­ Mr. Irwin's practice is focused on the Peter Brodhead, a partner in the Cleve­ land Foundation. Mr. Eckart heads the representation of parties in large mass land finn of Spangenberg, Shibley & consulting firm of North Shore Associ­ tort bankruptcy proceedings. Liber, was named a 2009 Ohio Super ates. Lawyer by Law & Politics Media, Inc. Nanette Mantell was 1975 named Managing Partner Henry Reder is an attorney with Bricker James Aussem joined at the Princeton, New Jer­ & Eckler in Cleveland. A member of the the Cleveland law firm sey, office of the interna­ firm 's construction law group, his prima­ of Cavitch Familo Durkin tional law firin Reed Smith, ry areas of practice are architectural and & Frutkin as a partner. where she also assumed construction law. He was also elected Vice the position of Vice Chair President of the Cleve­ of the finn 's Life Sciences Health Industry 1980 land Chapter of the Soci­ practice group. Ms. Mantell is a Founding Mary Balazs was named a partner in the ety of Financial Service Professionals, a Trustee and former president of the Phil­ Cleveland firm of Cowden & Humphrey. multidisciplinary network of credentialed harmonic Orchestra ofNew Jersey and cur­ Ms. Balazs has over 25 years of experi­ financial professionals committed to con­ rently sits on its Board of Advisors. She is ence in all aspects of labor, employment tinuing education and a rigorous code of also a founding member of the New Jersey and workplace law. ethics. Association of Women Business Owners. Susan Gragel announced the opening of Jose Feliciano, a litiga­ Jim Theobald was her new practice, Golstein Grage!, which tion partner in Baker & included in the 2008 represents labor unions, employee benefit Hostetler' s Cleveland Virginia Super Lawyers trusts, families and individuals. office, was honored by the Magazine as one of the Hispanic Bar Association top ten attorneys in the William Hawal, a partner in the Cleve­ of Ohio (HBA) with its state, as well as one of the land firm of Spangenberg, Shibley & L..oO...... _ __ "Legacy A ward" at its 26'11 top land use and zoning Liber, was named a 2009 Ohio Super Annual Entrepreneur of the Year Banquet attorneys. Mr. Theobald is Chairman of Lawyer by Law & Politics Media, Inc. in October. Mr. Feliciano is the founder the 85-attorney firm of Hirschler Fleis­ and current Chairman of the Hispanic cher in Richmond, Virginia, where he 1981 Roundtable of Cleveland, former Chair­ also heads the land use/zoning team. Woodrow Ban was elected secretary of man of the Hispanic Leadership Develop­ the Northeast Ohio Chapter of the Asso­ ment Program, and founder and former 1978 ciation of Corporate Counsel-America. President of the Hispanic Community Thomas Colaluca was Forum. He is also a founder of the Ohio named a partner in the Former Common Pleas Judge Kenneth Hispanic Bar Association and served as Cleveland office of Roet­ Callahan joined the Cleveland office its Vice President. zel & Andress. His prac­ of Buckley King as a partner in the tice focuses on labor, Advocacy & Litigation Group, where he Robert Weisman was elected treasurer employment, business, will specialize in white collar criminal of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium' s and environmental law defense, business litigation and media­ Board of Trustees for 2009. Mr. Weisman and complex litigation, with special tion. is a partner in the Labor and Employment, emphasis on traditional labor representa­ and Workplace Safety Practice Groups of tion involving union matters and collec­ Brian Hagan is a judge of the Rocky Schottenstein Zox & Dunn in Columbus. tive bargaining in both the private and River Municipal Court. public sectors.

28 Law Notes Alumni Happenings •

Dennis Lansdowne, a partner in the 1983 treasure. Mr. Cooper's practice focuses Cleveland firm of Spangenberg, Shibley John Habat became the Public Policy on the defense of product manufactur­ & Liber, was named a 2009 Ohio Super Director for The Center for Community ers including the national and regional Lawyer by Law & Politics Media, Inc., Solutions, where he directs the activi­ defense of manufacturers of material han­ and was named one of the Top 50 Cleve­ ties of the Public Policy and Advocacy dling, automation, and electrical prod­ land, Ohio Super Lawyers by Northern team. The team is responsible for fulfill­ ucts. Ohio Live magazine. ing Community Solutions' role as one of Ohio' s leading advocates for sound Robert Hanna was elected to the board Thomas Peterson is an attorney with tax, education, health, and social service of directors of the Women's Center of Merchant & Gould in Alexandria, Virgin­ policies. Greater Cleveland. Mr. Hanna is a part­ ia. Mr. Peterson counsels clients in a wide ner with the law firm of Tucker Ellis & range of intellectual property law matters, 1984 West. including patent and trademark prosecu­ Georgia Froelich is the Senior Vice tion, litigation, unfair competition, licens­ President and Senior Relations Manager Charles Pona was elected a returning ing and related antitrust and trade matters. for Sterling Trust. member of the Management Commit­ tee of Weltman, Weinberg & Reis. Mr. P. KeUy Tompkins, executive vice presi­ John Moran was named to the board Pona is a partner in the firm 's Brooklyn dent and chief administrative officer of of directors and elected treasurer of the Heights office. RPM International, assumed the addi­ Northeast Ohio Chapter of the Associa­ tional duties of chief financial officer. tion of Corporate Counsel-America. 1987 As chief financial officer, Mr. Tompkins Timothy Trainer spoke at the USPTO/ has responsibility for all of RPM's finan­ Carter Strang, a partner APEC Supply Chain Integrity Confer­ cial, legal and communication functions, with Tucker Ellis & West ence in Hong Kong in January, and including investor relations. in Cleveland, is President spoke on the issue of global product - Elect of the Northern counterfeiting at the World Retail Con­ 1982 District of Ohio Chapter gress in Barcelona in April. Mr. Trainer Karen Lawson is a judge in the Juvenile of the Federal Bar Asso­ also conducted a two-week assessment Division of Lake County's Court of Com­ ciation, which advances of Ethiopia' s intellectual property system mon Pleas. the science of jurisprudence and pro­ in Addis Ababa on behalf of the World motes the welfare, interests, education Bank and conducted a series of intellec­ Ronald Margolis joined the Cleveland and professional growth and develop­ tual property enforcement workshops in firm of Becker & Mishkind, where the ment of the members of the Federal legal October in Kazakhstan for various gov­ focus of his trial practice is represent­ profession. Mr. Strang is also serving ernment agency officials as the country ing the plaintiff in medical malpractice, his second year as Chair of the Cleve­ works toward accession into the World wrongful death, catastrophic injury and land Metropolitan Bar Association's 3Rs Trade Organization. Mr. Trainer is presi­ consumer fraud class action cases. Committee, and is coordinator ofTEW's dent of the Global Intellectual Property "pipeline initiatives," which focuses on Strategy Center in Washington, D.C. Suzanne Nigro announced the open­ increasing the number of minorities prac­ ing of her new law office in Cleveland ticing law. 1988 Heights where her practice is focused on Douglas Leak, a partner employment discrimination and employ­ 1986 in the Cleveland office of ee rights. Jonathan Cooper, a Roetzel & Andress, was partner with Tucker Ellis named a 2009 Ohio Super Diana Thimmig, a part­ & West in Cleveland, Lawyer by Law & Politics ner in the Cleveland office was elected a member of Media, Inc. ofRoetzel & Andress, was the Alliance for the Great named a 2009 Ohio Super Lakes Board of Trustees. Beth Rosenbaum joined the Cleveland Lawyer by Law & Politics The Alliance works to office of Benesch, Friedlandler, Coplan Media, Inc. conserve and restore the world's largest & Aronoff as Of Counsel in the firm's freshwater resource through policy, edu­ Health Care Practice Group. Ms. Rosen­ cation and local efforts aimed at preserv­ baum focuses her practice on health care ing the Great Lakes region as a national matters, including assisting clients in

Spring 2009 29 • Alumni Happenings licensure and certification, state and fed ­ 1993 ing professionals, commercial litigation, eral regulatory compliance and commer­ Peter Shelton, a part-, employment litigation, and intellectual cial business transactions. ner and China Group · property matters. Co-Chair with Benesch, 1989 Friedlander, Coplan and Jon Oebker joined Lawrence English was promoted to dep­ Aronoff, relocated from Tucker Ellis & West as uty director of law for the Northeast Ohio Cleveland to the Peoples counsel in the firm 's trial Regional Sewer District. Republic of China to con­ department. Mr. Oebker tinue his practice in the firm 's Shanghai focuses his practice on Timothy Fitzgerald was office. Mr. Shelton works with clients appellate and issues. selected a Fellow of the making investments in China by way of Litigation Council of acquisitions, joint ventures and building Michael Spisak joined America, an invitation­ greenfield operations. He also assists the Cleveland law finn of only trial lawyer honor­ clients with matters pertaining to doing Walter & Haverfield as a ary society established to business in China and working with Chi­ partner and member of the reflect the new face of nese suppliers and customers. workers' compensation the American bar. Mr. Fitzgerald is the defense group. Mr. Spisak Appellate Practice Group Manager and a 1994 focuses his practice in the partner at Gallagher Sharp in Cleveland. Andrew J. Dorman areas of workers ' compensation, business joined Reminger Co. as litigation and employment law. Michael Hudzinski is a partner in the firm 's Counsel in the Cleveland Cleveland office. Mr. 1995 office of Tucker, Ellis & Dorman's legal practice Cynthia Binns was named to the board West, where he is a mem­ will include a wide range of directors of the Northeast Ohio Chap­ ber of the Business Group of civil defense litigation ter of the Association of Corporate Coun­ and primarily focuses his primarily focused on professional liabil­ sel-America. practice on intellectual ity defense. property. Joseph Crimaldi was named partner in David Gunning, a part­ the Akron office of Roetzel & Andress. 1991 ner in the Cleveland Mr. Crimaldi focuses his practice on the Daniel Levin of Associated Talent Man­ office of Roetzel & area of intellectual property. agement will coordinate the production Andress, was named a and distribution of a reality competition 2009 Ohio Super Law­ Benita Pearson is a United States Mag­ show being developed by Billboard and yer by Law & Politics istrate Judge of the Northern District of Fluid Music called "Billboard Next. " Media, Inc. Ohio in Akron.

1992 Michael Haas joined the Cleveland office 1996 Laura Faust, a partner of Jones Day as a partner. Mr. Haas has Kelly Adelman was in the Akron office of worked on a wide range of real estate named a partner in the Roetzel & Andress, was equity ventures and debt financings in all Cleveland firm of Fanger named a 2009 Ohio Super asset categories. He also counsels clients & Adelman. Ms . Ade l­ Lawyer by Law & Poli­ on real estate acquisitions and disposi­ man practices extensive­ tics Media, Inc. tions, commercial and retail leasing, and ly in the areas of estate office and industrial transactions, and planning, probate, real Tamara O'Brien was elected to serve as advises on organizational and regulatory estate, business representation and con­ a member of the Ohio Board of Education, issues regarding venture capital funds, tracts. She also handles business forma­ representing Summit, Pottage, Trumbull hedge funds , and funds of funds. tion, non-profit representation, corporate and Ashtabula Counties. Ms. O'Brien is litigation, intellectual property, and per­ a partner with Roderick Linton Belfance Andrew Kabat joined Haber Polk as an sonal injury issues. in Akron. equity partner. Mr. Kabat has spent 13 years focusing solely on trial work, han­ Donna Andrew was named a Member at dling almost every specialty area involv- Pepple and Waggoner in Cleveland.

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Christine Faranda was named an assis­ the Federal Act. Also, substance, sports and recreation liability tant vice president in the A von office of the Ohio Democratic and trucking litigation in both state and Wickens, Herzer, Panza, Cook & Batista. Executive Committee federal courts. Ms. Faranda focuses her practice on elected Ms. Huff to be employment law and workers' compensa­ an at-large Delegate to 2000 tion, and litigation. the National Democrat­ Matthew Cox was named ic Convention that was Counsel in the Cleveland Mamie Mitchell was appointed to Cleve­ held in Denver, Colorado. Ms . Huff is a office of Tucker Ellis & land City Council, Ward 6. As council­ sole practitioner in Cleveland. West in the firm's Cleve­ woman, she has been appointed to Coun­ land office. Mr. Cox is cil 's Aviation and Transportation Commit­ Susan Petersen was a member of the firm's tee, its Health and Human Services Com­ named to the 2008 Class business department, mittee and its Public Safety Committee. of "Forty under 40" where he focuses primarily on real estate, by Crain 's Cleveland administrative and public law, and legist­ Joseph Simms was promoted to the posi­ Business Magazine. In lative and executive lobbying. tion Of Counsel at the Cleveland office of November, Ms. Petersen Ulmer & Berne, where he focuses his prac­ was selected as one of Thompson Hine elected Gregory Gawlik tice on complex business and commercial eight female lawyers from across the to the firm 's partnership. Mr. Gawlik is a litigation and alternative dispute resolution. country to be a guest on the American member of the tax practice group in the Airlines Radio Network and Sky Radio Cleveland office and focuses his practice Jennifer Stueber is an Network's "Salute to Women in Leader­ on federal and state tax controversies. associate with Tucker ship" Show, which was spotlighted in Ellis & West in Cleve­ the November 10, 2008, edition of Time Jennifer Mingus Mountcastle, a mem­ land. Ms. Stueber focus­ Magazine. Ms. Petersen is Of Counsel ber of the Product Liability Litigation and es her practice in the to Petersen & !bold in Geauga County, Business Litigation practice groups in areas of real estate lend­ where she focuses her practice in the areas the Cleveland office of Thompson Hine, ing and business trans­ of personal injury, wrongful death, medi­ was elected to the firm's partnership. Ms. actions, rental and leasing services, and cal malpractice, automobile crashes, nurs­ Mountcastle regularly appears in trial corporate law. ing home negligence, product liability, and appellate courts and has extensive and employment discrimination. experience defending manufacturers and Thompson Hine elected Robin Wilson distributors of commercial and consumer to the firm's partnership. Ms. Wlson 1998 products against claims of injury to per­ is a member of the Business Litigation Geraldine Butler, was sons and property. Ms. Mountcastle also and Real Estate practice groups in the named a 2009 Ohio Ris­ welcomed her second daughter, Colette Cleveland office and focuses her prac­ ing Star by Law & Poli­ Catherine, in October. tice on business and commercial contract tics Media, Inc. disputes, governmental land use matters Gary Norman was accepted as a Member including eminent domain and zoning, Joseph Rodgers was named a principal of the Fulbright Scholar, Senior Special­ and real estate-based litigation. in the Cleveland office of Squire, Sand­ ist, Candidate Roster. This spring he will ers & Dempsey. Mr. Rodgers's practice also be inducted into the Distinguished Ronald Yingling was elected a member is focused on general corporate and com­ Alumni Hall of Fame of Brunswick High of the Cleveland firm of Nicola, Gud­ mercial litigation and related advocacy School and will receive the Distinguished branson & Cooper. His principal prac­ matters. Alumni Achievement A ward from Wright tice areas include business, employment, State University. product liability and professional liability Heidi Brauer Rucha­ litigation. la was named a partner Jon Pinney was named a hiring partner in at Damon & Morey in the Cleveland office ofKohrman, Jackson 1997 Buffalo, New York. Ms. & Krantz, where he represents corpora­ Leslye Huff was appointed to the HELP Ruchala devotes a sub­ tions, government entities, foundations, AMERICA VOTE ACT (HA VA) State stantial portion of her franchises, and non-profit entities. Plan Committee to revise and update the practice to the defense of State of Ohio's required compliance with personal injury, products liability, toxic

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Eric Weiss is an associate with the also Of Counsel to Djordjevic, Casey & Rathbone. Mr. Block is an attorney man­ Cleveland finn of Cavitch, Familo, Dur­ Marmaros Co. ager of the firm's retail client relationship kin & Frutkin and practices in the areas of management department. employment, securities, real estate and Una Lauricia was named a partner at the zoning, professional liability, financial intellectual property law finn of Pearne Amy DeLuca joined institutions and corporate law. & Gordon. Wickens, Herzer, Panza, Cook & Batista as an Mari Zacharyasz joined Roetzel & Caitlin Magner is pleased to announce associate in the firm ' s Andress as an associate in the Employ­ the birth of Beau Oliver Magner, born in Litigation Department. ment Practice Group, School Law divi­ June 2008. Ms. DeLuca specializes sion in Akron. in labor and employ­ Weldon Rice and his wife, Joy are the ment relations, as well as commercial 2001 proud parents of Alexis Katherine Rice litigation. Kelly Burgan was born in February. named a partner at Baker Gregg Peugeot was recognized for the Hostetler in Cleveland. Tracy Turoff, an associate in the Cleve­ second time as a Rising Star in the area Ms. Burgan is a member land office of Roetzel & ·Andress, was of medical malpractice defense by Ohio of the Business Group and named a 2009 Ohio Rising Star by Law Super Lawyers. Mr. Peugeot is a mem­ concentrates her practice & Politics Media, In c. ber of the Jaw firm of Hanna, Campbell in bankruptcy, restructur­ and Powell in Akron, where his prac­ ing and creditors' rights. Jane Warner is an asso­ tice focuses primarily on the defense ciate with Tucker Ellis & of doctors and hospitals throughout the 2002 West in Cleveland. Ms. state of Ohio. He also defends products Nicholas DiCello, an associate in the Wamer has extensive expe­ liability and general personal injury Cleveland firm of Spangenberg, Shibley rience defending doctors, cases. & Liber, was named a 2009 Rising Star nurses and long-tenn care by Law & Politics Media, Inc. hospitals, participating in Steven Solomon was named a partner general litigation, negotiation, and settle­ at the intellectual property law firm of Thomas Green was named a shareholder ment matters for malpractice suits. She also Pearne & Gordon. in Kastner Westmand & Wilkins in Hud­ studies how tort reform statutes are applied son, where he represents and advises to malpractice laws, hoping to improve the John Yirga was named a partner at the both public and private sector employers quality of medical service for providers and patent boutique firm of Tarolli, Sund­ in all aspects of workplace law, defends patients alike in the long-term. heim, Covell & Tummino. Mr. Yirga employers in employment-related litiga­ focuses his practice in the areas of tion and administrative agency proceed­ 2003 intellectual property, patent, copyright, ings, and represents employers in collec­ Bradley Barmen joined Haber Polk and trademark law. tive bargaining negotiations with labor as an associate. His practice includes organizations. representing clients in complex com­ 2004 mercial, labor and employment, and Cynthia Bayer, an asso­ Chad A. Hester is an associate with Tif­ real estate litigation. ciate in the Akron office fany & Bosco in Phoenix, Arizona. of Roetzel & Andress, Amy Baughman is an attorney with was named a 2009 Ohio Roman A. Kostenko is an associate in Joseph W. Diemert & Associates in Rising Star by Law & the Phoenix, Arizona, office of Cheifetz Mayfield Heights. Politics Media, Inc. Iannitelli Marcolini. Gina Bevack is an associate with Alicia Hathcock was named a partner Beth Judge is Principal of The Judge Ziegler, Metzger & Miller. Her practice in the law firm of Lesiak, Hensal & Law Firm, with offices in Cleveland and areas include estate planning, probate and Hathcock, in Medina, where her prac­ Akron, where her practice is focused on trust administration, and guardianships. tice focuses on estate planning and pro­ medical malpractice litigation, birth inju­ bate, guardianship, and civil litigation. ry, catastrophic injury, wrongful death Brian Block was named a partner in Ms. Hathcock is also vice president of and nursing home litigation. Ms. Judge is the Cleveland firm of Javitch Block & the Medina County Bar Association

32 Law Notes Alumni Happenings • and Medina County's Estate Planning 2006 Andrej Cuturic joined Brouse McDow­ Council. Kevin Burns joined ell's Cleveland office as an associate Tucker Ellis & West as focusing in the area of environmental law. Samuel Lauricia is an an associate in the Cleve­ associate in the Cleveland land office. Mr. Burns is Christopher Demas is an associate at the and Beachwood offices a member of the firm's intellectual property law firm of Pearne of Weston Hurd, where business department, & Gordon. he focuses his practice on where he focuses on tax planning, at both the employee benefits and executive com­ Catherine Donnelly is an associate with federal and state level , pensation matters. Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, where her involving corporate, partnership, individ­ practice focuses on public finance matters. ual and gift tax issues, succession plan­ Kelly A. Hedberg is an associate with the ning and general corporate transactions, Phoenix, Arizona, firm of Rai & Barone. William Ferry is engaged in the general contracts, mergers and acquisitions. practice of law, serving the west shore Milan Kubat joined Weltman, Wein­ suburbs of Cleveland and Lorain County. Jeffrey Lorek has been selected to enter berg & Reis as an associate in the bank­ into duty with the Air Force Judge Advo­ ruptcy department of the firm 's Brooklyn Christine Flanagan cate General's Corps (JAG), where he Heights office. joined the Cleveland will be assigned to Spangdahlam Air office of Roetzel & Force Base in Germany. Norman Schroth was hired in the crimi­ Andress as an associate. nal division of the Summit County Pros­ Ms. Flanagan's practices Michael O'Donnell and his wife, Whit­ ecutor's Office. in the area of intellectual ney are the proud parents of Emmett property, with an empha­ Michael O'Donnell, born in January. 2007 sis on software/infonnation technology. Halli Brownfield is an associate with Sub­ Chris Ricker was named Director of ashi, Wildermuth & Dinkier in Dayton. Edward Gecovich joined Project Management of Peak Discovery the Cleveland office of in New York. Nada Faddouljoined the Akron law firm of Tucker, Ellis & West as Stark & Knoll in the litigation and employ­ an associate and mem­ Mary Segulin, an associate with Hahn, ment department, where she will focus on ber of the firm 's busi­ Loeser & Parks in Cleveland, was named business litigation, immigration issues and ness department. Mr. to the board of Hard Hatted Women, a counseling clients on employment matters. Gecovich's practice con­ Cleveland non-profit organization that centrates on intellectual property, with an trains women for careers in high-wage, Scott Kuboff is an attorney with Gold­ emphasis on patent prosecution. skilled-trade industries. berg & Mumer in Cleveland. Mark Guidetti is working in the May­ Nathan Studeny, an asso­ Jessica Kunevicius opened her own firm field Heights law offices of Joseph W. ciate in the Akron office in Denver, Colorado, where she practices Diemert and Associates. of Roetzel & Andress, immigration and nationality law. was named a 2009 Ohio Leslie J. Hines joined Hahn Loeser & Rising Star by Law & Risto Pribisich joined the Cleveland Parks in Cleveland as an associate in the Politics Media, Inc. office of Ulmer & Berne where he focus­ litigation department. es his practice on the preparation and 2005 prosecution of domestic and international Susan Hughes joined the Cleveland Joseph DeGiorgio became an associ­ patents in the mechanical, electrome­ office of Baker Hostetler as an associate. ate at Weltman, Weinberg & Reis in the chanical, polymer and software arts. collection services department in Grove Margan Keramati joined the Cleveland City. 2008 firm of Mannion & Gray as an associate, Kesha Cristoph is an associate with where she will concentrate her practice in Nobuhiko Sukenaga is an associate McCarthy, Lebit, Crystal & Liffman in general liability and employment law liti­ at the intellectual property law firm of Cleveland. Her practice areas include real gation. Pearne & Gordon. estate, banking and business law.

Spring 2009 33 Bozana Lazic is an associate with Roet­ zel & Andress in Cleveland. Ms. Lazic's Did you know: Did you know: practice is focused in the area of environ­ Edward Kramer, Cleveland­ Students this year voted Pro­ mental, health and safety law. Marshall Adjunct Professor of fessor Kevin F. O'Neill the Drew Legan do is an associate with Land­ Law and Director of the Fair Best Professor of the Year and skroner Grieco Madden in Cleveland. Housing Law Clinic, was se lect­ voted Library Media Techni­ cal Assistant Jessica Mat­ ed to receive the Leonard Wein­ Katheryn McFadden thewson the Best Adminis­ glass "Defense of Civil Liber­ is an associate with Gal­ trator of the Year. Professor lagher Sharp and a mem­ ties" awa rd by the American O'Neill has received the faculty ber of the firm ' s profes­ Association for Justice, for­ award eight times, and Ms. sional liability and appel­ merly known as the American late practice groups. Matthewson has received the Trial Lawyers Association. The administrative five times! Molly McNally is an associate with award is intended to honor out­ Squire, Sanders & Dempsey where she standing lawyers who actively Cleveland-Marshall students practices corporate law. demonstrate a commitment to will launch the law school's third academic journal in defending and advancing civil Alexis Osburn joined the Cleveland 2010:THE GLOBAL BUSINESS LAW office of Baker Hostetler as an associate. rights for all citizens. REVIEW will hold its inaugural Fred Papalardo joined the Cleveland symposium in October. The office of Reminger Co., practicing in the symposium will focus on is­ areas of construction liability, trucking and OBITUARIES sues related to International transportation litigation, commercial litiga­ Business Finance in the Dona ld Pritchard '49 tion, general liability and real estate law. Current Financial Market. Wayne Duff '51 Edward Hawkins '54 Jessica Simon is an associate with McCa­ Reginald Russell '10 is the rthy, Lebit, Crystal & Liffman in Cleve­ Wi lliam Sweeney '54 new publication's editor-in­ land. Marvin Hersch '54 chief, Justin Zucker '1 0 is the Leon M. Plevin '57 Benjamin Wiborg joined the Cleveland publications editor, Charles Richard Fink '57 law firm of Nurenberg, Paris, Heller & Prihoda '10 is the business McCarthy as an associate, where his prac­ Dona ld O'Connor '60 and blog editor, and Andrew tice is concentrated on workers' compen­ Peter Garson '65 Trout '10 is the symposium sation cases. Francis Murtaugh '71 editor. Professors Milena Ste­ Thomas Longo '72 rio and Mark Sundahl are the Mark Manlove '74 new journal's advisors. Langston Davis '75 Han. Jeffrey Win ikoff '78 Did You Know about Our Phi llip E. Thomas '80 Nationally Acclaimed Pro Karen Ondrick '82 Bono Program? Lou is Adelstein '86 The November issue of The Norman Ganz '87 National Jurist listed Cleve­ Charles Lattanzi '93 land-Marshall among the "Best Richard Ziel in ski '95 Public Interest Law Schools in Ashlee Mclaughlin '06 the Country." Victor Nolan '06

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David Barnhizer Professors Lewis Katz, Paul Giannelli, Kathleen C. Engel Professor Emeritus of Law and Judith Lipton; The Leon M. and Gloria Plevin • published The "Delicately Constituted • spoke on "Fairness and the Ohio Death Professor of Law Fiction" of the Rule ofL aw in RULE OF Penalty" at the City Club of Cleveland; • published The Impact of Predato­ LAW IN THE NEWMI LLENNIUM: CH ANG ­ • appointed a Regional Member of the Ohio ry Lending Laws: Policy Implications ING SCENA RIO (K Padmaja, ed. 2008); Judicial Appointments Recommendation and Insights (with R. Bostic, P. McCoy, • forthcoming: MYTH, MAGIC AND MYS­ Panel for the Cuyahoga County Domestic A. Pennington-Cross, S.Wachter) in TERY : THE HIDDEN ORDER OF THE RULE Relations Court, February 2009. BORROWING TO LIVE: CONSUMER AND OF LAW, (coauthored with his son Pro­ MORTGAGE CRE DIT REVISITED (Joint fessor David Barnhizer, Michigan State Dena S. Davis Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University College of Law), Vandeplas Professor of Law University and Brookings Institution Publishing. • published Religion, Press) (2008); Genetics, and Sexual Ori­ • published State and Local Anti-Pred­ Susan .J. Becker entation: The Jewish Tradi­ atory Lending Laws: The Effects of The Charles R. Emrick .Jr.-Cal­ tion in KENNEDY INSTITUTE Assignee Liability and Legal Remedies fee Halter & Griswold Profes­ OF ETHICS JOURNAL (2008); in JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS AND BUSI­ sor of Law • published The Parental NESS (2008) (with R. Bostic, P. McCoy, • completed her sixth and final year of Investment Factor and the A. Pennington-Cross, and S. Wachter); service on the Ohio Supreme Court's Child's Right to an Open • published From Credit Denial to Commission on Rules of Practice and Future in the HASTINGS CENTER REPORT, Predatory Lending: the Challenge of Procedure on December 31 , 2009. Dur­ March-April2009; Sustainable Minority Homeowner­ ing the last three years on the Commis­ • forthcoming: GENETic DILEMMAS: REPRO­ ship (with P. McCoy) in SEGREGATION: sion Professor Becker chaired the Civil DUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY, PARENTAL CHOIC­ THE RISING COSTS FOR AMERICA (Rout­ Rules Committee which initiated numer­ ES AND CHILDREN's FuTURES, Oxford ledge) (2008); ous amendments to the civil rules includ­ University Press; • forthcoming: THE FORECLOSURE VIRUS ing extensive revisions to the discovery • forthcomin g: How GENES TELL STORIES, (with Connecticut University Profes­ rules to accommodate discovery of elec­ Oxford University Press; sor of Law Patricia A. McCoy), Oxford tronically stored data and information. • spoke on "Ethical Issues in Interpreta­ University Press; Prior to her work on the Rules Commis­ tion of Genetic Risk: Perspectives of a • commented on "MOODY and POOR: sion Professor Becker spent three years as REVEAL Participant," "Changing Issues The Rating Agencies and the Subprime an Advisory Council Member of the Ohio in 'Misattributed Paternity,"' and "Col­ Fiasco," Case Western Reserve Univer­ Supreme Court's Futures Commission. lective Rights and Individual Autonomy" sity Center for Policy Studies, (Septem­ at Case Western Reserve University; ber 2008); Michael Borden • spoke on "Rational Suicide and Genet­ • spoke on "Insult and Injury: Race and Assistant Professor of Law ic Testing for Diseases of Dementia" at Subprime Lending," at the Northeast • spoke on "The Promissory Character of the Fifth International Symposium of the People of Color Legal Scholarship Con­ Adequate Assurances of Performance" at Definition ofDeath Network, in Varadero ference, Boston University (September the Ohio Legal Scholarship Workshop at Beach, Cuba, (May 2008); 2008); the University of Dayton School of Law • spoke on "Male and Female Genital • commented on "Mortgaging Retire­ (June 2008). Alteration," Law and Society Associa­ ment: a Preliminary Analysis of the tion, Montreal Canada (May 2008); Role of Homeowner Race in Reverse Phyllis L. Crocker • organized and participated in a panel Mortgage Transactions" Northeast Peo­ Associate Dean on a recent Oregon Supreme Court cus­ ple of Color Legal Scholarship Confer­ and Professor of tody case involving circumcision of a ence, Boston University (September Law 12-year-old boy and co-presented a paper 2008); • is co-author of the new entitled "Common Ground on Stem Cell • spoke on "The Impact of State Anti­ edition of KATZ & GIAN­ Research" the 1Oth Annual Meeting of Predatory Lending Laws: Policy Impli­ NELLI, CRIMI NAL LAW the American Society of Bioethics and cations and Insights" at the Conference (2d ed . 2009), which is Humanities in Cleveland in October; on Empirical Legal Studies, Cornell part of Baldwin 's Ohio • joined the Central Institutional Review University (September 2008); Practice Series. Dean Board of the National Cancer Institute of • spoke on "The Origins of the Subprime Crocker's co-authors are CWRU Law the National Institutes of Health. Market and Crisis" at the NACA 2008

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Mortgage Lending Litigation Confer­ brook.org: The Republic Stands, a post­ acknowledgment of his contributions ence in Cleveland (September 2008); election commentary in November 200~ to the University during two terms as • spoke on "When Regulation Fails: and two pieces in January 2009: The · President of the CSU Faculty Senate. Municipal and State Actions against States and Abortion, a review of Paul the Financial Services Industry" at the Benjamin Linton's ABORTION UNDER Matthew Green 18th Annual Fair Lending Conference STATE CONSTITUTIONS: A STATE-BY­ Assistant Professor in Cleveland (November 2008); STATE ANALYSYS (Carolina Academic • described his research on the constitu­ • spoke on "Liability at the Top of the Press, 2008) and The Meaning of Gaza, tionality of historically black colleges and Subprime Lending Food Chain" at an Editorial; universities under United States v. Ford­ Hofstra Law School (December 2008); • appointed to the Ohio State Advisory ice during the 13th Annual LatCrit Con­ • spoke on "The Impact of State Anti-Pred­ Committee to the U.S. Commission on ference at the Seattle University School atory Lending Laws: Policy Implications Civil Rights; . of Law (October 2008). and Insights" at Suffolk University Law • provided expert testimony on religious School (January 2009); persecution in support of a Petition for Carole 0. Heyward • was quoted in the September 21 issue Political Asylum in Ohio in the Federal Clinical Professor of the CHICAGO TRIBUNE in an article Immigration Court in Cleveland in July; of Law by David Greising, "Enough blame for • spoke on "The Ten Commandments and • published Hope for all to share: trying to pinpoint a culprit the Constitution" at the University of Mis­ Homeowners: Too Little, in the meltdown is difficult because so souri School of Law (October 1, 2008); Too Late in THE JouRNAL many had a role";_ • spoke on "Islam and Democracy" at the OF AFFORDABLE HOUSfNG • was quoted in an article by Michael St. Louis University Law School (Octo­ & COMMUNITY DEVELOP­ Hirsh in the September 17 issue of ber 1, 2008); MENT LAW (Fall2008); NEWSWEEK, "Greenspan's Folly: The • spoke on "Interpreting the Constitution: • spoke on "Ask the former Fed chief's culpability in Wall The Founders and Today" during a con­ Experts: Tools for Community Devel­ Street's woes"; ference on The Presidency and the Courts, opment" on a panel at the Ohio Planning • was quoted in an article by Debra Cas­ co-sponsored by The Cincinnati Lawyers Conference in November. sens Weiss, in the September 2008 Chapter of the Federalist Society and The issue of the ABA JOURNAL, "A Lesson Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at S. Candice Hoke Unlearned: Sixteen Years after Water­ Ashland University. Associate Professor of Law shed Case, Lawyers May Yet be Sub­ • published Voting and Registration Tech­ prime Targets." Stephen W. Gard nology issues: Lessons from 2008 in the Professor of Law Supplement to AMERICA VoTES! A GUIDE Patricia .J. Falk • published Bearing False Witness: Per­ TO MODERN ELECTION LAW AND VOTfNG Associate Dean and Profes­ jured Affidavits and the Fourth Amend­ RIGHTS 2008 (with David Jefferson) in B. sor of Law ment in SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY LAW E. Griffith, ed. (2008); • is completing a three-year term as Asso­ REVIEW (2008). • published an op-ed in the CLEVELAND ciate Dean for Faculty Development and PLAIN DEALER, "RecoupingAIG bonus­ Student Achievement and will resume Deborah A. Geier es: avenues for proactive public protec­ her full-time teaching and writing respon­ Professor of Law tion" (March 22, 2009). sibilities in the fall of2009. • published Loose Appreciation of Depre­ • reappointed to the Advisory Commission ciation Doctrine in Volume 20 of TAX of the American Bar Association's Stand­ David Forte NOTES (2008); ing Committee on Election Law; Professor of Law • published a letter to the editor in THE • spoke on 'Trustworthy Elections? The • received Cleveland State University's WALL STREET JOURNAL, "The Complexi­ Way Forward" at the Chautauqua Institu­ Award for Excellence in Teaching during ties of Indexing Gains" (September 12, tion (July 2008); the University's October 2008 convoca­ 2008). • spoke on "Technical Monitoring of Elec­ tion ceremony; tions" at the Electronic Voting Technol­ • appointed Senior Visiting Fellow at the Sheldon Gelman ogy workshop/conference, in San Jose, Witherspoon Institute's Center on Reli­ The .Joseph C. Hostetler-Sak­ California (August 2008); gion and the Constitution, in Princeton, er & Hostetler Chair in Law • spoke on "Voting Technology Litigation" New Jersey • received Cleveland State University's to a panel on "The Devolution of Voting • published three op-eds on www.ash- highest award for Public Service in Technology," sponsored by the Adminis-

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trative and Regulatory Law Section, the (October 2008); ed at the law school, which uses fiction as State and Local Government Law Sec­ • spoke on "Under Surveillance: Black a fulcrum for a discussion oflegal issues. tion, the Science and Technology Law Women in Leadership and Panoptic Pow­ Section, and the Council on Racial and er Regimes" during a meeting of the Stephen R. Lazarus Economic Justice and the Standing Com­ Section on Women in Legal Education Professor of Law mittee on Election Law during the ABA during the AALS Annual Meeting, San • appointed by Chief Justice Thomas J. Annual Meeting in New York. (August Diego, California (January 2009). Moyer to chair the Supreme Court of 2008); Ohio's Commission on Professionalism • spoke on "Voting Technology Regulation W. Dennis Keating for the year 2009; and Litigation" at a meeting of the ABA Levin College of Urban Affairs • moderated a panel discussion on Mentor Section on State & Local Government Professor and Distinguished Orientation in the Ohio Lawyer to Law­ Law (September 2008); Scholar Cleveland-Marshall yer Mentoring Program at the Justice • spoke on "Lawyers' Roles in Elections" Professor of Law and Urban Center in Cleveland .. at the COGEL (Council on Government Studies Ethics Laws) Annual meeting in Chicago • co-authored Greater Cleveland's First Browne Lewis (December 2008); Suburbs Consortium: Fighting Sprawl Assistant Profes­ • testified before the U.S. Election Assis­ and Suburban Decline, HoUSING Poucy sor of Law tance Commission, in Washington, DC, DEBATE (November 2008); • published Dead Men on "Tracking Voting System Perfor­ • reviewed two books for URBAN AFFAIRS Reproducing: Respond­ mance" and submitted written testimony REVIEW (2009): ROBERT CLIFTON WEAV­ ing to the Existence of that is published on the EAC website; ER AND THE AMERICAN CITY: THE LIFE Afierdeath Children, the • contributed to a panel on "Voting Tech­ AND TiMES OF AN URBAN REFORMER by GEORGE MASON LAW nology, the Statewide Voter Registration Wendell Pritchett (2008) and SEGREGA­ REVIEW (2009). Database, and Auditing Elections" dur­ TION: THE RISING COSTS FOR AMERICA ing the Ohio Secretary of State's Election (J. H. Carr, N. K. Kutty, eds.) (2008), Kermit Lind Summit (December 2008); which includes a chapter coauthored by Clinical Professor of Law • testified before the Ohio House Commit­ Professor Kathleen C. Engel; • published The Perfect Storm: An Eyewit­ tee on State Government and Elections • published The Irish in the Civil War in ness Report from Ground Zero in Cleve­ regarding pending SB 380 (December THE CHARGER (Fall 2008); land's Neighborhoods, ABA 's JOURNAL 2008); • presented "Inclusionary Housing and OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING & COMMUNITY • appeared throughout November on sev­ Housing Trust Funds" at the Joint Con­ DEVELOPMENT (2008); eral local and national media speaking gress of the Association of Collegiate • chaired a panel discussion on "Code on various aspects of the Presidential Schools of Planning and the Association Enforcement Initiatives in a Time of Mort­ election. of European Schools of Planning in Chi­ gage Disaster" at the Ohio Vacant Proper­ cago (July 2008); ties Forum II in Columbus; Lolita Buckner Inniss • participated in the World Forum of the • spoke on "Policies and Programs to Deal Associate Professor of Law International Sociological Association as with Abandoned Housing in the Mortgage • published Back to the Future: Is Form­ President of its Research Council on Crisis" at the Ohio Housing Finance Agen­ Based Code an Efficacious Tool for Shap­ Housing and the Built Environment in cy and the Ohio Capital Corporation for ing Modern Civic Life? in the UNIVERSITY Barcelona, Spain (September 2008). Housing conference in Columbus, Ohio OF PENNSYLVANIA JO URNAL OF LAW & (October 2008); SOCIAL CHANGE (2007-2008); Sandra Kerber • spoke on "Policy Responses to the Mort­ • forthcoming: A Critical Legal Rhetoric Legal Writing Professor of Law gage Disaster in Ohio" at the opening ple­ Approach to 'In Re African-American • attended a Lexis/Nexis Legal Research nary session of the National Conference of Slave Descendants Litigation"' in ST. and Writing Summit held in Santa Fe, State Legislatures Professional Develop­ JOHN 'S JOURNAL OF LEGAL COMMENTARY New Mexico, at the Inn of the Anasazi ment Conference, Columbus, Ohio, (Sep­ (2009); (May 2008). tember 11 , 2008); • spoke on "The Fac;ade of New Urban­ Arthur Landever • participated in a roundtable discussion ism and the Form-Based Code" at the Professor Emeritus of Law of the federal foreclosure response in Property Rights Foundation of America's • facilitated a "Great Stories and the Law" Washington, DC, at the Metropolitan Pol­ 12th Annual National Conference on Pri­ program on ''National Security and Terror­ icy Program, the Brookings Institution vate Property Rights, Albany, New York ism" (November 2008), a series he found- (December 2008);

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• organized the inaugural meeting of The Kevin F. O'Neill Thought and the Historical Imagination Cleveland Roundtable on Housing and Associate Profes~ in the Early American Republic" at the Community Development Law at the law sor of Law University of British .Columbia (March school (September 12, 2008); • published four articles 2009). • was interviewed by New York Times in the two-volume ENCY­ reporter Susan Saulny for an article on the CLOPEDIA OF THE FIRST Brian Ray houses abandoned by their owners and by AMENDMENT (Congressio­ Assistant Professor of Law the banks that hold their mortgages "In nal Quarterly Press): Time, • published Occupiers of 51 Olivia Road Foreclosures, a Rise in Banks Walking Place, and Manner Restrictions; View­ v. City of Johannesburg: Enforcing the Away" (March 30, 2009). point Discrimination; Prisons; and True Right to Adequate Housing through Threats ; "Engagement in the HUMAN RIGHTS Karin Mika LAW REVIEW (2008); Legal Writing Professor of Law Kunal Parker • forthcoming: Extending the Shadow of • published What Teenagers Can Teach us The .James A. Thomas Distin­ the Law: Using Hybrid Mechanisms About Good Teaching. AALS TEACHING guished Professor of Law to Develop Constitutional Norms in SECTION NEWSLETTER (winter 2009); • published Progressive Era Immigration Socioeconomic Rights Cases in the • forthcoming: The Benefits of Podcasting and Naturalization in n Tanenhaus et UTAH LAw REVIEW; in THE SECOND DRAFT (spring 2009). al. eds, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE SUPREME • spoke on "Understanding Engagement COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (Garland as a Mechanism for Enforcing Socio­ Kristina Niedringhaus Publishing 2008); economic Rights" at the South Afri­ Law Library Director • published U.S. Citizenship and Immigra­ ca Reading Group at New York Law Associate Professor of Law tion law (!800 - 1924): Resolutions of School; • elected to the CALI Board of Direc­ Membership and Territory in M. Gross­ • spoke on "Extending the Shadow of tors during the annual meeting of the berg and C. Tomlins eds., THE CAM­ the Law Using Hybrid Mechanisms Association of American Law Schools BRIDGEHI STORY OF LAW fN AMERICA, Vol. to Develop Constitutional Norms in in January. II (Cambridge University Press 2008); Socioeconomic Rights Cases" at the • forthcoming: CUSTOM AND HISTORY : New Voices in Human Rights panel Reginald Oh COMMON LAW THO UGHT AND THE His­ during the annual meeting of the Asso­ Professor of Law TORICAL IMAGINATION fN NINETEENTH ciation of American Law Schools in • coauthored Judicial Opinions as Racial CENTURY AMERICA (Cambridge Univer­ San Diego (January 2009); Narratives: The Story of Richmond v. sity Press); • spoke on "A Tale of Two Countries: Croson, RAcE LAw STORIES (eds. R. E. • spoke on "African-Americans as Immi­ Constitutions, Social Change and the Moran and D. W. Carbado) (2008) (with grants? Some Thoughts on a Historical Story of South Africa's Civil Union University of Pittsburgh School of Law Relation" during the Migrants and Migra­ Act" at The Global Arc of Justice: Sex­ Professor T. Ross); tions: Immigrations and the Notions of ual Orientation Law Around the World • spoke on "Constitutional and Urban Citizenship in a Changing World confer­ Conference at the UCLA School of Transformations from 1968 to 2008 and ence at the University of Miami, Miami, Law's Williams Institute (March Beyond: the Future of Civil Rights, Cit­ Florida (fall2008); 2009); ie, and Democracy in America" during • spoke on "Law and History in the English • spoke on "Current Issues in Socioeco­ Cleveland State University's Constitution Utilitarian Imagination of India" at the nomic Rights" as part of a panel on Day (September 17, 2008); Law and Social Sciences Research Net­ Comparative Approaches to Human • spoke on "Obama, Race, and the Law" work Inaugural Conference at the Centre Rights at the University of Stellenbo­ at a Rutgers University RACE AND LAw for the Study of Law and Governance in sch Faculty of Law in Stellenbosch, REvrnw symposium (October 2008); Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi South Africa (March 2009); • organized "Barack Obama, the 2008 (January 2009); • was appointed an external referee on a Presidential Election, and the Future of • spoke on "Time as Spirit: Common Law law-related study for The Lancet. Civil Rights in America," a roundtable Thought and the Historical Imagination at the law school, featuring Cleveland­ in the Early Republic" at the Center for Heidi Gorovitz Robertson Marshall Professors Oh, Brian Ray and Law, Culture, & History at the Universi­ Associate Professor of Law James G. Wilson. ty of Southern California School of Law and Urban Studies (February 2009); • spoke on "Public Access to Private • spoke on "Time as Spirit: Common Law Land: England's CROW Act, Swe-

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Lloyd Snyder Alan Weinstein den's Allemansratt, and Virtual Her­ Professor of Law Associate Professor of Law esy in the U.S." at the University of and Urban Studies Minnesota Law School; • published Where to Get Answers to a • spoke on "Public Access to Private Question about Legal Ethics in THE • published FEDERAL LAND USE LAW & Land: England's CROW Act, Scandi­ CLEVELAND METROPOLITAN BAR JOUR­ LITIGATION (with B. Baesser), (Thomson/ navia's Allemansratt, and Legal and NAL (SEPTEMBER 2008). Reuters-West, 2009); Cultural Impossibility in the U.S." at • published The Subprime Mortgage Crisis the International Academic Associa­ Steven H. Steinglass and Local Government: Immediate and tion for Planning, Law, and Property Dean Emeritus and Professor Future Challenges in MUNICIPAL LAW­ Rights, Third Conference in February of Law YER (May/June 2008); in Aalborg, Denmark; • published Remedies and the Supreme • published Current and Future Challenges • received a Fulbright Senior Special­ Court's October 2007 Term in THE to Local Government Posed by the Hous­ ist grant to serve as a Guest Lecturer CLEVELAND METROPOLITAN BAR JOUR­ ing and Credit Crisis in THE ALBANY and Researcher at Uppsala University NAL (September 2008); GOVERNMENT LAW REVIEW (2009); in Sweden as a member of the faculty • published the 2008-09 SUPPLEMENT for • published Do "Qff-Site " Adult Businesses of environmental law for four weeks in his treatise, SECTION 1983 LITIGATION IN Have Secondary Effects? Legal Doctrine, April and May; STATE COURTS (Thompson West 2008); Social Theory, and Empirical Evidence (with • spoke on "Environmental Inconsis­ • serves as Of Counsel with several other R.McCieary) in LAW AND POLICY (2009); tency and Resulting Environmen­ law professors on an amicus brief in the • published, RLUJPA Challenges: An tal Injustice in the U.S.: Approaches United States Supreme Court in Hay­ Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound Beyond Bush" at the Nordic Environ­ wood v. Drown. ofCure, in M.S. Giaimo & L.A. Lucero, mental Law, Governance, and Science eds., RLUIPA READER: RELIGIOUS LAND Network Workshop at the University Milena Sterio USES, ZONING, AND THE COURTS (ABA ofOslo, Norway inApril2009. Assistant Professor of Law and AP A 2009); • forthcoming: On the Right to External • spoke on "The American Experience with Alan Miles Ruben Self-Determination: "Seifistans, " Seces­ Affordable Housing Policies" during a Professor of Law Emeritus sion and the Great Powers ' Rule in the faculty and PhD students seminar in the • published the Supplement to Elkouri and MINNESOTA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL Department of City Planning at the Tech­ Elkouri How ARBITRATION WORKS (sixth LAW. nion - Israel Institute of Technology in edition 2003). Professor Ruben in Editor­ • forthcoming: The Kosovar Declara­ Haifa (July 2008); in-Chief of this volume considered an tion of Independence: "Botching the • spoke on "Responding to the Foreclo­ indispensable classic in its field. Balkans " or Respecting Internation­ sure Crisis in Cuyahoga County" at the al Law? in THE GEORGIA JOURNAL OF National Association of County Commu­ Christopher Sagers INTERNATIONAL & COMPARATIVE LAW. nity and Economic Development Offi­ Associate Professor of Law cials' 33rd Annual Conference in Atlanta forthcoming: "Rarely Tried, and ... Rarely Mark Sundahl (September 2008); SuccessfUl ": Theoretically Impossible Associate Professor of Law • presented "Growth Management Regu­ • Price Predation Among the Airlines in the • coauthored the 2008 update to SECURED lations and Wetlands Protection" at the JOURNAL OF AIR LAW & COMMERCE; TRANSACTIONS IN CALIFORNIA UNDER International Ohio Wetlands Conference • forthcoming: Faith Based Financial Reg­ REVISED ARTICLE 9 OF THE UNIFORM in Cleveland (OctOber 2008); ulation: A Primer on Oversight of Credit COMMERCIAL CODE; • spoke on "Signs, Sex, and God: Regu­ Rating Organizations in the ADMINISTRA­ • published The Living Constitution of lating Land Uses Protected by the First TIVE LAW REVIEW (with T. Fitzpatrick) Ancient Athens: A Comparative Perspec­ Amendment" at the Ohio Planning Con­ (2009); tive on the Originalism Debate, THE JOHN ference/American Planning Association • spoke on "Rules, Standards, and De Facto MARSHALL LAW REVIEW (2008); Zoning Workshop in Westlake, Ohio Immunity in Antitrust" at the Loyola Chi­ • forthcoming: Rescuing Space Tourists (October 2008). cago Antitrust Colloquium in April; and Returning Private Spacecraft in the • spoke on "Faith Based Financial Regula­ JOURNAL OF SPACE LAw; Stephen .J. Werber tion: A Primer on Oversight of the Credit • appointed editor of the GLOBAL ACTION Professor Emeritus of Law Rating Agencies" at the Law & Society NEWSLETTER, a publication of the Interna­ • spoke on "Litigation and How to Avoid Association Annual Meeting in Denver tional Law Section of the Cleveland Met­ It" at the Beachwood Business Develop­ in May. ropolitan Bar Association. ment Center in Beachwood.

Spring 2009 39 .James G. Wilson Professor of Law We say goodbye to Professor Kathleen C. Engel and Profes.: . • organized a program at the law school on sor Kunal Parker "Chaos and Crisis: The Ongoing Finan­ We will begin the 2009-10 school year with­ cial Crisis," featuring Cleveland-Marshall out two of our most productive faculty mem­ Professors Michael Borden, Thomas bers: Kathleen C. Engel, the Leon M. and Buckley, Kathleen C. Engel, and Fed­ Gloria Plevin Professor of Law, and Kunal eral Reserve Bank Economist James Parker, the James A. Thomas Distinguished Thomson, as well as Professor Wilson. Professor. Both have published widely in their areas of expertise, and both have rep­ resented our law school in conferences and to Mark Congratulations! symposia worldwide: Professor Engel as a Sundahl, who had been promoted to scholar of mortgage finance and regulation, Associate Professor of Law and to subprime and predatory lending, and housing April Cherry and Heidi Gorovitz discrimination; Professor Parker as a scholar Robertson who have been promoted of colonial Indian legal history and U.S. citi­ to Professors of Law, effective June zenship and immigration history and theory. 30, 2009. Professor Engel will teach at Suftlok Univer­ sity Law School and Professor Parker at the University of Miami Law School. Legal Writing Professor Debo­ rah Klein Is Retiring New Faculty: Deborah Klein has decided to retire at the .Jonathan Witmer-Rich end of the school year. Professor Klein Jonathan Witmer-Rich is a graduate of Gos­ graduated from Cleveland-Marshall Col­ hen College and a magna cum laude alumnus lege of Law in 1980. Shortly afterwards, of the University of Michigan Law School, she began teaching legal writing at her where he was a member of Order of the Coif law alma mater. For many years, she and associate editor of the MICHIGAN LAw was the Legal Writing Department- the REvrEw. He graduated in the top two percent only full-time instructor supervising and of his law school class and was the recipient coaching a dozen or so adjunct teachers of awards for the highest grades in criminal who came and went from year to year, law, contracts, labor law and legal ethics. Pro­ teaching a semester here and there, as fessor Witmer-Rich clerked for the Honorable their schedules permitted. The years of M. Blane Michael on the United States Court shifting colleagues were productive for of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and for the Professor Klein and for the law school as well. During those early years, she was Honorable Joseph P. Goodwin of the U.S. developing a dossier of teaching materials District Court for the Southern District of West and creating a curriculum that would lay Virginia. Previously, he was an associate in the the foundation for what is today the law trial practice of Jones Day in Cleveland; he is school's strong Legal Writing and Advo­ presently an attorney in the Office of the Fed­ cacy Program, with a full-time faculty of eral Public Defender for the Northem District seven. of Ohio, where he has represented Guantana­ According to Karin Mika '83 who, as mo Bay detainees and served as part of a four­ a student, was Professor Klein's research lawyer trial team representing Toledo resident assistant and now teaches in the Legal Mohammad Amawi on charges of conspiracy Writing Program, "She was the most gift­ to aid the insurgency in Iraq and conspiracy to ed teacher I ever had. It was because of kill and maim Americans over seas. Debbie's zeal for writing and her ability In his first semester at Cleveland-Marshall, to share what she had that I.was motivat­ he will teach criminal procedure and legal ed to become a Legal Writing Professor approaches to terrorism; in the second semes­ myself. " We wish Professor Klein a full ter he will teach criminal law and criminal and fulfilling retirement. procedure.

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Kemper D. Arnold '80 Patrick F. Haggerty '84 James P. Sammon '94 Kevin M. Butler '01 Richard W. Jablonski '94 Gregory S. Scott '96 Gregory F. Clifford '80 Kevin J. Kelley '04 Michelle Joseph Sheehan '93 Tim L. Collins '85 Caitlin Magner '02 Emily A. Smayda Kelly '99 Michelle M. DeBaltzo '97 Michael P. O'Donnell '04 Catherine K. Smith '95 Colleen B. De!Balso '02 Troy Prince '02 Stanley E. Stein '62 Brendan R. Doyle '04 Royce R. Remington '88 Carter E. Strang '84 Ian N. Friedman '97 Weldon H. Rice '02 P. Kelly Tompkins '81 Frank L. Gallucci '00 Darnella T. Robertson '94 Darlene E. White '00 Lisa Gold-Scott '94 Kate E. Ryan '97 Robin Wilson '96

Honorary Trustees Hon. Ronald B. Adrine '73 Deborah Lewis Hiller '75 Maria E. Quinn '79 Hon. Richard]. Ambrose '87 Joseph B. Jerome '75 RichardT. Reminger '57 Wendy Weiss Asher '97 RichardS. Koblentz '75 David Ross '76 Sheryl King Benford '79 Dennis R. Lansdowne '81 Hon. Nancy Margaret Russo '82 Janet E. Burney '79 John H. Lawson '76 Hon. Anthony J. Russo '77 Hon. Anthony 0. Calabrese, Jr. '61 Vincent T. Lombardo '81 Joseph M. Saponaro '99 Henry W. Chamberlain '90 William D. Mason '86 Thomas]. Scanlon '63 Michael L. Climaco '72 Gary Maxwell '88 Scott A. Spero '89 Thomas L. Colaluca '78 Daniel R. McCarthy '54 Hon. Melody J. Stewart '88 Hon. C. Ellen Connally '70 J. Timothy McCormack '72 Hon. Louis Stokes '53 Hon. John E. Corrigan '68 Hon. Timothy J. McGinty '81 James R. Tanner, Jr. '91 Hon. Michael]. Corrigan '74 Hon. Ann McManamon '50 James E. Tavens '86 Hon. John J. Donnelly '69 Geoffrey S. Mearns Hon. Hans R. Veit '60 Hon. Ann Marie K. Dyke '68 Howard D. Mishkind '80 Gerald R. Walton '80 Scott C. Finerman '87 William T. Monroe '53 Tina E. Wecksler '85 Hon. Nancy A. Fuerst '88 Hon. Donald C. Nugent '74 Stephen J. Werber Hon.John W. Gallagher '70 Thomas R. O'Donnell '96 Hon. George W. White '55 Jayne Geneva '87 Michael W. O'Neil '94 Frederick N. Widen '81 Susan L. Grage! '80 Kevin F. O'Neill Laura A. Williams '82 Terrance P. Gravens '77 Hon. Ralph J. Perk '83 Gary R. Williams '84 Hon. Maureen Adler Gravens '78 William T. Plesec '71 Leonard D. Young '74 Donald L. Guarnieri '60 Dale D. Powers '60 Robert I. Zashin '68 Hon. Patricia A. Hemann '80 Laurence J. Powers '87 Cleveland-Marshall Law Non-Profit Alumni Association Organization c/o Cleveland State Uni versity U.S . Postage 2121 Eucli d Avenue, LB 12l Cleveland, Ohi o 4411 5 PAID Permit No. 500 Cleveland, Ohio

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