FALL 2019 LAWYERING AT THE SPEED OF CHANGE How Technology Is Changing Business Law plus Losing Labels, Reaching Potential Northwestern Mutual’s Ray Manista, L’90, on shifting course in order to grow ALSO INSIDE Lee Rosenthal on Holmes— and Ambition and Aspiration Today Denno and Triggiano on How Courts Handle Childhood Trauma From Z(iegler) to A(brahamson), with Twerski, Sykes, Sherry, Rofes, McChrystal, Klitzke, Geske, Evers—and Even Some Yeats and Dwyane Wade—in Between 1 MARQUETTE LAWYER FALL 2019 FROM THE DEAN The Company We Keep Someone once remarked to me that you cannot have too many friends. I entirely agree with that sentiment. Marquette University Law School provides powerful evidence of this. Some of our friends you can meet in this issue of the Marquette Lawyer. One is Ray Manista, L’90, a leader at Northwestern Mutual, longtime member of the Law School’s advisory board, and now a trustee of Marquette University; a profile (pp. 14–17) of Ray and his wife, Dawne, complements the cover story. And that story, “Practicing Business Law at the Speed of Change,” draws on the insights and experience of leaders in the practice, many of them longtime friends of the Law School (pp. 4–13). Often, the influence of our friends on us is not publicly visible. For example, the cover story itself was inspired by a strategic planning session led by a great friend of the Law School: Donald W. Layden, Jr., L’82. As chair of the advisory board, Don has encouraged the Law School’s attention to the trajectory and pace of change in the profession, including that prompted by technology. I am grateful for his leadership and friendship. We welcome new friends. Lee H. Rosenthal was already a prominent federal judge but new to us in her visit here last spring. She engaged and animated the Marquette Law School community, and her Hallows Lecture attracted new friends to us, as you can see among the reactions to the lecture (pp. 18–37). Judge Rosenthal had been warmly recommended to us by old friends—past lecturers here. Deborah W. Denno of Fordham University School of Law is also someone new to us who enriched our community this past academic year, as is evident in this issue (pp. 44–49). We enjoy a special friendship with our alumni. Whether in the class notes or profiles Marquette Lawyer (pp. 58–61) or in the alumni awards (pp. 38–43), Spring | Summer 2008 Marquette University Law Alumni Magazine you, too, can get to know some of them. We are so grateful for their contributions through the profession, their service in the community, their examples to our students and those of us engaged in the daily life of the Law School. Marquette Law School has had no more generous friend than Ray Eckstein, L’49, and his wife, Kay, herself a Marquette alumna (Speech ’49). Kay passed away in June 2017, as noted in a previous issue of this magazine, and so now also has Ray, this past April. The Ecksteins provided the lead gift for our new home, opened in 2010, and Ray and Kay Eckstein Hall continues to shape Marquette University Law School. The building is extraordinary in so many ways—including its Ray and Kay Eckstein ability to foster a rich and expanding network on the Site of the Future Law School Also Inside: of friendships and collaboration. We remain • Fifth Circuit Judge Carolyn Dineen King on Judicial Independence grateful and will continue to remember and • Princeton University’s Robert P. George on Faith and Reason honor Ray and Kay Eckstein. Front cover of the Spring l Summer 2008 issue of the Marquette Lawyer Joseph D. Kearney Dean and Professor of Law 2 MARQUETTE LAWYER FALL 2019 FALL 2019 Contents COVER STORY 4 Practicing Business Law at the Speed of Change How technology is changing the practice of business law. by Alan J. Borsuk and David A. Strifling 14 Losing Labels, Reaching Potential Northwestern Mutual’s Ray Manista knows how to shift course in order to grow. 2 38 58 From the Dean Four Models of What It Means Class Notes to Be a Marquette Lawyer Reaching a Defining Moment 18 The annual Marquette Law 58 Family, schools, and Ambition and Aspiration: School alumni awards colleagues lead Katie Living Greatly in the Law ceremony, honoring Annette Perhach to the federal bench. Lee Rosenthal, Chief Judge Ziegler, Aaron Twerski, Lisette 50 of the U.S. District Court Khalil, and Aaron Hernandez, FROM THE PODIUM A Super “Thank You” for the Southern District provides glimpses into the lives Tony Evers to a Superstar and careers of four exemplars of T exas, looks back at Oliver Remarks at the May 2019 Tamara Johnson expresses of the school’s mission. Wendell Holmes, Jr., in order Hooding Ceremony her gratitude to Dwyane to look around and look Wade, benefactor. forward. Reactions come Joseph D. Kearney from Diane Sykes, Darren 44 Remarks upon receiving Trauma: Can the Criminal Bush, Suzanna Sherry, Chad the American Inns of Court Justice System Stay Up-to- 62 Oldfather, Nancy Joseph, Professionalism Award Date with Its Impact? Reflecting upon an Anna Fodor, Anne Berleman for the Seventh Circuit Extraordinary Career on the Kearney, and Peter Rofes. Deborah Denno and Mary Wisconsin Supreme Court Triggiano discuss the impact Celebrating Professor of childhood trauma on Michael McChrystal Janine Geske and the courts, plus an excerpt Ramon A. Klitzke II Diane Sykes help honor from Denno’s Barrock Shirley Abrahamson Recalling his father, Lecture on Criminal Law. in the state capitol. Professor Ramon Klitzke Marquette University EDITOR: COVER: photo by Copyright 2019 Law School Alan J. Borsuk John Nienhuis, Marquette University. Eckstein Hall illustration by DESIGN: All rights reserved. P.O. Box 1881 Stephanie Dalton Cowan Douglas Frohmader Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881 Andy Haas Schneider PHOTOGRAPHY: Phone: (414) 288-7090 Mike Gryniewicz Fax: (414) 288-6403 COPY EDITOR: John Nienhuis law.marquette.edu Amy Bauman FALL 2019 MARQUETTE LAWYER 3 4 MARQUETTE LAWYER FALL 2019 PRACTICING BUSINESS LAW AT THE SPEED OF CHANGE How technology is changing the practice of business law. BY ALAN J. BORSUK AND DAVID A. STRIFLING Justin P. Webb, L’14, began the continuing legal education Do lawyers need to understand the technical details of session with a question: “How many of you think you blockchain, artificial intelligence, and data analytics? Maybe understand what blockchain is?” About 75 people had gathered not. But are they wise to have some grasp of how technology in the classroom at Marquette Law School for the one-hour, and other forces are changing or will change daily life for lunchtime program on June 6, 2019. attorneys who provide counsel to businesses, either through No hands went up. law practices or on an in-house basis? That spoke to the reason the people had come. They shared Yes, in many cases. As is true in so many other economic a strong sense of the need to understand—or at least have and social sectors, automation is reshaping the practice of some grasp of—the rapidly changing world of technology as it business law. It is changing the way clients and attorneys affects legal practice. And the attorneys present knew that they communicate, what clients want or need from attorneys, what weren’t at that point, especially when it came to matters such as is most valued by clients when it comes to legal services—and the often-heard but challenging term blockchain. it is changing businesses themselves, which lawyers also need Webb, of Godfrey & Kahn in Milwaukee, explained in to understand. broad terms that blockchain is a sort of cyber spreadsheet Smart lawyers and firms know that they need to stay on or business ledger that many parties can access at the same top of all of this because tech-driven change keeps coming, time. As applied to the cryptocurrency market (Bitcoin and so and coming fast. on), it means that there is no central clearinghouse or bank. What is now the state of high tech’s impact on the practice Blockchain technology has many other potential applications, of law, and what lies ahead? In what other important respects or “use cases,” as Webb called them: “smart contracts” that are is legal work for businesses changing? How have the daily fulfilled in real time as transactions occur, real estate dealings, routines of serving clients changed in a world so filled with even tamper-proof records of financial transactions, just to computerized tools? name a few. But blockchain is in an early stage. “I’m still waiting to see really good implementation of it,” Webb said. Illustrations by Stephanie Dalton Cowan FALL 2019 MARQUETTE LAWYER 5 We asked questions such as these of the heads of several large where developments are headed and to anticipate legal issues. firms, in-house lawyers for major corporations, lawyers who are “The clients may not know when to call you,” Manista says. “As tech-savvy and at earlier stages of their careers, and some general an advisor, you can’t wait for the client to call.” experts. While it is impossible in these early days to draw any Instead, today’s lawyers must anticipate problems and firm conclusions about the future of the practice, here are a few offer potential solutions to clients rather than adhere to older, observations about what has changed and some perspectives on process-driven models, when clients and lawyers might not lessons already gleaned from lawyering at the speed of change. connect until an issue was ripe or a dispute was in full bloom.