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UFUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FREDRIC LAW G. LEVIN COLLEGE OF LAW • FALL 2008

CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES

FEBRUARY 13 Ceremonial Classroom at the UF MARCH 17 UF LAW Eighth Annual Richard E. Nelson Symposium Levin College of Law from 9 a.m. to The Second Annual Wolf Family Lecture is on “The Squeeze on Local Governments.” 6 p.m. The live music showcase will in the American Law of Real Property is John G. Roberts Jr. Presenters will include Professor James be on the evening of Friday, Feb. 20 from scheduled for Tuesday, March 17, at the Ely, Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free 9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. at a local music law school. The lecture will be delivered Judges UF Moot Court Enterprise at Vanderbilt University Law venue. For more information contact by Gregory S. Alexander, A. Robert Noll School; John Echeverria, currently executive Conference Executive Director Sondra Professor of Law, Cornell University Law director of the Georgetown Environmental Randon at [email protected]. School. For more information, contact Law and Policy Institute and, professor Barbara DeVoe at 352-273-0615. of law at Vermont Law School; and Frank FEBRUARY 26 – 28 Alexander, professor of law at Emory The 15th Annual Public Interest APRIL 24 & 25 University. The symposium will be held at Environmental Conference is titled, “Beyond 100 Year Celebration/All Classes Reunion. the UF Hilton Hotel on Friday, Feb. 13. For Doom and Gloom: Illuminating a Sustainable Join your classmates and professors for the more information, contact Barbara DeVoe at Future for Florida.” The conference will focus Levin College of Law Centennial Celebration 352-273-0615. on farsighted and innovative approaches to and All Class Reunion. Activities include The our environmental problems, emphasizing Heritage of Leadership and Distinguished FEBRUARY 20 & 21 sustainability solutions from science and Alumnus Ceremony, the Century Welcome The Seventh Annual Music Law Conference technology, progressive regulation and Reception, Reunion Dinners, Decade is titled “From the Suits to the Stage.” economics and behavioral change through Dinners, and a Family BBQ with Albert and Conference includes music law symposium communication and social marketing. Alberta. For more information or to register, and panel discussions, and will take place For more info, contact Simone Harbas at contact Development & Alumni Affairs at Saturday, Feb. 21, in the Chesterfi eld Smith sharbas@ufl .edu. 352-273-0640. CALENDAR

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ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: COUNTING THE VOTE CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF DESEGREGATION AT UF WEATHERING THE STORM UP AND COMING LETTERS TO LINDY

As a 1958 graduate of the U of F law school I enjoy receiving UF LAW. It is a fi ne publication. However, in an article on UF Law Student Wins Diversity Scholarship page 10 of the spring edition, I think the BY DANIELLE D’OYLEY proof reader missed a beat. That article ith a move from bustling Chicago to a sparse- “They didn’t treat me as a clerk,” he said. “They twice mentions “Florida Bar Association.” ly populated Tennessee town in his early treated me like an associate.” As a 50-year member of “The Florida teenage years, a stint as a 13-year-old college The fi rm’s specialty areas spanned the gamut, but Bar,” I can tell you that “Association” has W student, and a Jewish Puerto Rican background, Jesse his employers were perceptive to what Butler enjoyed not been a part of its name for that period Butler’s (2L) life has been anything but usual. working on and accommodated his strengths. He quick- of time. These experiences contributed to his selection as a ly learned what he did and didn’t like to do and ended This is a minor blip. Keep up the good work. 2008 Diversity Scholarship recipient by the Sarasota up focusing primarily on civil and commercial litiga- County Bar Association, a scholarship awarded to mi- tion and insurance defense — areas he sees himself fo- —CLARENCE JOHNSON (JD 58) nority students at Florida law schools with an interest in cusing on in the future. practicing law in Sarasota County upon graduation. The In addition to the direction the internship gave him, Congratulations on the FALL 2008 two recipients are given a $5,000 scholarship at the end he also says he has a completely different understand- edition, your fi rst as editor. ‘The ultimate of a 10-week employment period in Sarasota County. ing going into his second year of law school with more goal for UF LAW is to be a good read.’ It After writing an essay and undergoing an interview practical knowledge. He’s realized how much of what is indeed. process with both the Sarasota County Bar Associa- he studied was needed while working this summer. However (you knew this was coming, tion and his future summer employer, Syprett, Meshad, didn’t you?) on page 53, the editorial Resnick, Lieb, Dumbaugh, Jones, Krotec & Westheim- “They didn’t treat me as a clerk,” he said. comment re Ms. Lidsky’s quote in Time er, P.A., Butler was offered the scholarship and an in- “They treated me like an associate.” Magazine, leads to the question: Do sharks ternship with the fi rm. generally use cages in their killing? The Chicago native moved at age 13 to a small Ten- “I never expected to have to think about adverse —YOUNG J. SIMMONS (LLB 57) nessee town with a population of about 400 people, a possession after taking Property Law, but it came in stark contrast to his old home. Before he and his mother right away,” Butler said. “Everything I’ve studied came arrived, Butler said he didn’t believe many of his new into play somehow.” Yours is the best statewide story on neighbors had ever even seen new residents, let alone Because of his impressive performance, the fi rm has JESSE BUTLER water I’ve read in a very long time! Puerto Ricans or Jewish people. decided to keep Butler as a part-time employee during (2L) —CYNTHIA BARNETT, In addition to this culture shock, Butler also took the the school year and asked him to return next summer. If Florida Trend senior reporter and SAT when he was 13 and was accepted to University of everything goes well, he’s been told a position will be author of Mirage: Florida and the Tennessee at Martin as a part-time student, where he waiting for him upon graduation. Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S. enrolled during the eighth grade for computer science “They were very successful in luring me. Now I and chemistry courses. He was the youngest person have to say that the highest probability is that I will EDITOR’S UPDATE: Read the white ever accepted to the school. be there, especially since they want me to come back paper, “Reforming The Florida Water “It’s almost surreal looking back and thinking about and everything went so well,” Butler said. “I don’t Resources Act of 1972: Beyond the how I was sitting there and everyone around me was think I’ll have another fi rm where I’ll enjoy what I do fi rst 35 years,” written by UF Law twice my size,” Butler said. “They actually had to put as much as I did there.” professors and distributed to the Century phonebooks under me for my picture because I was a He encourages anyone with an interest in working Commission’s 2008 Water Congress held foot shorter than everyone else.” in Sarasota County to apply for the scholarship, as Sept. 24 & 25. Visit http://www.law.ufl . A year later he moved to Ft. Myers, Fla,. for high he said this summer was an incredible oppor- edu/ufl aw. school and went on to attend the University of Central tunity. Everyone in the Sarasota County Bar Florida for his undergraduate degree in legal studies. Association was professional, and he was af- Got commentary? Whether exegetic He was honored to receive the scholarship and in- forded opportunities to attend events and or approbatory, we want to know! Send ternship offer, especially as a fi rst-year law student, and meet prominent judges and attorneys in your letter to the editor — bearing in credited his selection to luck and his UF Law educa- the area as a Diversity Scholarship mind submissions will be edited for tion. recipient. style, grammar and length — to Lindy “Two out of the three interviewers I had were UF Butler’s decision to apply for Brounley, UF LAW Editor, UF Law graduates,’ Butler said. “It was a common ground we the scholarship has been one of the Communications, P. O. Box 117633, had.” decisions he’s made that will have Gainesville, FL. 32611-7633, or e-mail it Butler describes his time at Syprett, Meshad, the biggest impact on his life. to [email protected]fl .edu. Resnick, Lieb, Dumbaugh, Jones, Krotec & Westheimer, “I went in to the summer having no —LINDY BROUNLEY (JM 88) P.A. as an incredible experience that exceeded any ex- idea what I wanted to do, not expecting the UF LAW Editor pectations he held. He worked primarily for all the fi rm’s internship to really change that,” he said. partners and described the atmosphere as familial. “That was a life-changing experience.”

FALL 2008 2 UF LAW Vol. 45, Issue 1 FALL 2008 CONTENTS

10 Desegregation 14 Counting the Vote 30 Weathering the Storm Pioneers Honored During The lasting legacy of Florida’s Three years post Katrina, the City UF Constitution Day 2000 presidential election of New Orleans struggles to rebuild

BY SCOTT EMERSON & BY LINDY BROUNLEY BY SCOTT EMERSON KATIE BLASEWITZ

Editor NEWS Associate Director of Communications Lindy Brounley 2 DEAN’S MESSAGE 58 ANNUAL REPORT Director of Communications 100 Years of UF Law • Alumni Receptions Debra Amirin, APR • Financial Overview 4 NEWS BRIEFS Communications Coordinator • Donors Katie Blasewitz • S.C. Chief Justice Roberts • Bequests • Peter T. Fay Jurist-In-Residence Program Web Editor • Endowments • Fall Enrolled Class Stats Matthew Gonzalez • Distinguished Donors • Grad Tax in Peru Editorial Assistants • Book Awards • Study Abroad South Africa Ian Fisher • Class Gifts Adrianna C. Rodriguez • The Marshall Criser Distinguished • Law Firm Giving Spenser Solis Lecture Series • 1909 Society • Conservation Clinic Photographers • Memorials & Tributes Tristan Harper • Florida Law Review Multimedia • JD Alumni Joshua Lukman • Trial Team Final Four Competition • LLMT Alumni Chen Wang • Hispanic Business Ranking Design 87 NOTAS BENE JS Design Studio ALUMNI FEATURES • Faculty Scholarship 22 Andrew C. Hall (JD 69) Printer • In Memoriam 26 Andy Owens (JD 72) The Hartley Press, Inc. 38 Jay White (JD 83) 97 UP AND COMING Correspondence and Address Changes 40 Karen Mills-Francis (JD 87) UF Law Student Wins fl [email protected]fl .edu Diversity Scholarship University of Florida Levin College of Law 34 TECHNOLOGY P. O. Box 117633 Electronic Practice Management & E-Discovery Gainesville, FL 32611-7633 WEB-XTRAS Telephone Numbers 42 PARTNERS See a video clip of Judge Karen’s new show, www.law.ufl .edu/about/contact.shtml • Capital Campaign Update view a portion of the documentary “The Virgil • J. Michael Patrick Scholarship Hawkins Story: A lawyer made in heaven,” or play the Reapportionment Game. Visit 44 ALUMNI NEWS www.law.ufl .edu/ufl aw for these features and • Class Notes & Alumni Profi les others, available only online.

ON THE COVER: Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts Jr. (second from left) presided over the 28% University of Florida Campbell Thornal Moot Court Final Four Sept. 5 with fellow jurists (from left) Judge Cert no. SCS-COC-001376 Susan H. Black, Judge Peter T. Fay and Judge Rosemary Barkett, all UF alumni and judges in the 11th Circuit Court of the U.S. Court of Appeals. 5 QUESTIONS

DEAN Q. What do you think would most surprise ROBERT 100 Years of UF Law alumni returning to Gainesville after a JERRY signifi cant absence? Levin Mabie Q. In our last issue, we discussed changes in legal & Levin education. As the UF College of Law nears its Gainesville, the University of Florida and the College Professor 100-year anniversary, what are some of the most of Law have changed internally, of course, but the of Law signifi cant changes that have taken place? visual differences are most compelling. Gainesville is not a small college town anymore; it’s grown up. Certainly the diversity of our faculty and student body Highways have replaced dirt roads, and buildings has changed dramatically. We recently honored the stand where cows once grazed. Our college opened late UF Law Professor Walter Weyrauch’s record 51 in 1909 in one unplastered room in Thomas Hall years of continuous teaching at a single institution, Dormitory. We moved to Bryan Hall in 1941, and and he noted that when he began teaching here that then to the Spessard L. Holland Law Center, our teachers and students alike were male and white. current location, in 1968. We added Bruton-Geer Today nearly half our student body are female, and Hall in 1984 and our two classroom towers in 2005, more than a quarter are minorities. We also have along with a major renovation of Holland Hall grown considerably in size and scope. We opened in and the Lawton Chiles Legal Information Center. 1909 with 38 students and two faculty members. We Construction is now underway on the $6-million now have more than 1,200 students and 100 faculty Martin H. Levin Legal Advocacy Center, which members (including tenure/tenure track, legal skills, will house a state-of-the-art courtroom. This will and clinical). complete the total reconstruction of the college’s academic space during this decade. Our physical Q. What events do you have planned for the facilities are outstanding and a marvel to those who college’s centennial in 2009? have not seen them within the last few years.

Our biggest event is the Centennial Celebration/ Q. How do you characterize the state of the All Classes Reunion April 24-25, 2009. We’re college today? inviting alumni from every class year to return to campus to help us celebrate this significant When UF Law celebrates its centennial in 2009, we milestone. So far, we have planned a Century will do so proudly as a strong, thriving law school. Welcome Reception, tours, Heritage of Leadership Applications from highly qualifi ed students to our & Distinguished Alumnus ceremony, available J.D., LL.M. and S.J.D. programs increase each year. CLE credits, a family BBQ with Albert & Alberta, We have expanded our Graduate Tax Program, which decade dinners (classmates grouped by decades in is consistently ranked as one of the nation’s best, separate locations), children’s dinner and movies and which now offers the LL.M. in International (ages 5-12), an after party and a farewell brunch. Taxation and the S.J.D. in Graduate Taxation in

2 UF LAW “We opened in 1909 with 38 students and two faculty members. We now have more than 1,200 students and 100 faculty members.”

addition to the LL.M. in Graduate Taxation. Our decisions to make. However, on our current track the highly regarded Environmental and Land Use Law law school has an historic opportunity created by the Program now offers the nation’s fi rst LL.M. in these tuition differential strategy and a modest forthcoming closely-related fi elds. reduction in class size to vastly increase our quality The generous support of alumni and friends and reshape our institution, despite the budget cuts like those listed in the Honor Roll section of this we have undergone. The support of our alumni and magazine has helped us pass the halfway point in friends is more important now than ever. our $47-million capital campaign, and, along with The College of Law is in the initial stages of a tuition devolution, has been instrumental in allowing major strategic planning effort called “UF Law us to continue our progress despite Florida’s tight 2015,” in part in preparation for the Strategic Plan & budget climate. Self-Study required for the ABA sabbatical site visit Recent guests to our campus have included U.S. in spring 2010. We have a stellar group of faculty on Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and our Strategic Planning Committee, and they will be Ruth Bader Ginsburg and former Secretary of State considering what we would like our law school to Madeline Albright. This fall we have been honored look like in the year 2015. For the college to operate with visits by both Chief Justice of the United States at its highest level of effi ciency and best serve our John G. Roberts Jr. and U.S. Supreme Court Associate students, for example, we may envision a law school Justice John Paul Stevens. with a slightly smaller J.D. program, better student- We are particularly proud of our faculty, whose faculty ratios, and more skills training per student. We productivity and scholarship are chronicled in our 2008 might look for our tuition to be close to, but below, Report From the Faculty, online at www.law.ufl .edu. the mean of our peer institutions. Our entering class During the past three years, the faculty has published credentials might be even stronger, as we keep more 53 books (including casebooks), with publishers high quality Florida residents in Florida for their including NYU, Oxford, Princeton, and the University legal education. And we hope to improve the broad of Chicago. The faculty has also published 251 law diversity of our students and faculty as well. review articles and book chapters, with publishers As we look at how we educate our students in the including Ashgate, Cambridge and Harvard. future, we must consider choices such as class size and selection. Legal education is changing around us, and we Q. As you look ahead, what do you see in the must focus our attention on who we are and where we 100 YEAR future for the law school? are going as an institution. We must look at who we are CELEBRATION teaching, and what we are preparing our students to do. April 24-25, 2009 Economic indicators continue to be bleak as this Our alumni are an important part of this effort, and we Visit www.law.ufl .edu magazine goes to press, and that is cause for great invite your suggestions and participation. concern for all of us. As a state institution, our for more information. fortunes, of course, are tied to Florida’s, and if budgets — ROBERT H. JERRY II continue to decrease we will have some very diffi cult DEAN; LEVIN MABIE AND LEVIN PROFESSOR OF LAW

FALL 2008 3 NEWS BRIEFS

Chief Justice of First Amendment the “Choose Life” specialty plate the United States ‘Choose Life’ on license aspects of the violated First Amendment princi- John G. Roberts Jr. (center) shares “Choose Life” li- ples of free speech. a laugh with friend plates protected speech? cense plate in the Under the stern gazes of the ju- Dean Colson (left) and UF Levin fi ctional State of rists, counsel for the plaintiff Cary College of Law he audience in the court cham- Webb. Student at- Aronowitz stepped up to the podi- Dean Robert Jerry torneys Cary Aronovitz and Kevin um to open arguments on the case during a reception ber hushed with anticipation held in his as the bailiff announced in a Combest served as counsel for the before the court. Fighting butter- honor at the UF T ringing tone, “Oye, oye, oye! All plaintiff, the State of Webb De- fl ies, Aronowitz managed to main- president’s house on Sept. 4. Chief persons having business before the partment of Motor Vehicles. They tain his composure when Chief Jus- Justice Roberts honorable Supreme Court of the would argue in the plaintiff’s ap- tice Roberts cut him off with a line was in Gainesville to judge the United States are advised to draw peal of respondent Planned Parent- of questioning, soon joined by the UF Campbell near and give their attention, for the hood of Webb Inc.’s earlier victory other jurists, regarding whether the Thornal Moot Court Final Four court is now sitting. God save the in the U.S. Court of Appeals. Rob- $25 purchase price for the specialty Competition held United States and this honorable ert Davis and Tara Nelson served as tag was a tax, a regulatory fee, or a at the UF Phillips court.” counsel for the respondent. contractual exchange. Center for the Performing Arts So began the University of At issue was whether the federal “The very fi rst question present- on Sept. 5. Chief Florida Justice Campbell Thornal courts held jurisdiction in the mat- ed to me was from [Chief Justice] Justice Roberts’ participation Moot Court Final Four competition ter, and if they did, whether or not Roberts and I was anticipating that marks the fi rst held on Sept. 5. For the fi rst time in time in the UF Moot Court’s near UF history, a sitting chief justice of 100-year history the United States, John G. Roberts that a justice of the United States Jr., presided over the competition, Supreme Court which was held in the university’s has participated Phillips Center for the Performing on the panel. Arts before an audience of 1,500 law students, faculty, staff and guests. Judge Peter T. Fay, Judge Susan H. Black and Judge Rosemary Bar- kett, all UF alumni and judges in the 11th Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals, joined Roberts on the An early Moot Court competition held at UF followed a Moot Court tradition dating back Moot Court bench. hundreds of years to the Inns of Court of England, where barristers would practice their The case to be decided dur- courtroom advocacy skills under the close supervision of the Inns. The tradition was ing the Moot Court hinged on the revived in the U.S. nearly 100 years ago by law students in law schools nationwide.

4 UF LAW question, but it was probably the noted Florida was the fi rst state one question I really didn’t want to have a “Choose Life” license to answer,” Aronovitz said. “I got plate and is also considering a it out of my mouth, I saw him license plate with the words “I nodding and that was a big confi - Believe” with a picture of a cross. dence booster.” Although the “I Believe” tag has Despite pointed questioning been stalled in Florida, South from the bench, the competitors Carolina recently approved an “I were confi dent in their answers Believe” license plate, and a law- because of weeks of practice fac- suit has already been fi led in the ing rigorous grilling from their matter, she said. professors. “This is a very important “What really made it much issue, it’s a hot issue, and some THE CASE ON REVIEW easier than you would have very smart people in our ap- thought was that the questions pellate courts have split on the Charles ROBERSON, Secretary, the professors asked us in prac- constitutionality of the issue,” Webb Dept. of Motor Vehicles, Petitioner tice were hard-hitting, adver- Lidsky said. Represented by Kevin Combest and Cary Aronovitz, vs. sarial, trying to get us to mess Although the bench eventu- PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WEBB, INC., Respondent up, and that prepared us to talk ally ruled for the petitioner, Rob- Represented by Robert Davis and Tara Nelson. to these judges and justice who erts said all of the students per- In The Supreme Court Of The United States Of America, Fall Term, 2008 didn’t want to do that,” Combest formed well. said. “They just wanted to talk “We unanimously decided that etitioner, Charles Roberson, University of Florida Secretary of the Webb Justice Campbell Thornal back and forth. We had seen the there was not a bad one among Department of Motor Vehicles Moot Court Final Four P competitors (from left) worst, and anything less than that them,” Roberts said. “That’s not (DMV), enforces and administers the Cary Aronovitz and Robert was just pleasant.” always the case, so we appreciate State of Webb’s statute authorizing Davis take a fi nal moment That’s not to say the jurists very much, as we do in our day a specialty license plate with the to study in a backstage words “Choose Life.” The State of hallway of the Phillips didn’t ask the competitors some jobs, that a lot of work went into Webb does not have a corresponding Center for the Performing tough questions, probing their the presentations. Judges and jus- statute allowing for a specialty license Arts on Sept. 5. arguments to fi nd chinks in their tices are very grateful when that plate with the words “Pro-Choice.” reasoning regarding complex happens.” Planned Parenthood of Webb, Inc. (PPW) fi led a civil action in legal questions. As an example, Aronovitz and Combest won federal district court against the DMV arguing that the statute authorizing the Choose Life license plate amounts to viewpoint Roberts questioned Davis on his the competition for the petitioner. discrimination by the State of Webb in violation of the First argument for the respondent that Aronovitz was awarded best brief Amendment. In response, the DMV argued that the federal a four-prong approach should and best oral argument of the district court was deprived of subject matter jurisdiction to be adopted when determining competition, while Davis took hear the case by operation of the Tax Injunction Act (TIA). Alternatively, the DMV argued that the Choose Life license plate whether a message on a state home the best overall participant. statute need not be neutral because any message on a state- automobile license tag is govern- The event was sponsored by the issued license plate constitutes government speech. The district ment or private speech. law fi rms of Holland & Knight court held in favor of PPW by fi nding that the TIA did not “The problem with multi- and Zimmerman, Kiser & Sutc- deprive the district court of subject matter jurisdiction and that the statute authorizing the Choose Life license plate in the state factor tests, of course, is that liffe. The Charles W. Abbott En- of Webb violates the First Amendment. The DMV appealed. they delegate a huge amount of dowment provided scholarships The United States Court of Appeals for the Thirteenth Circuit discretion to the judiciary,” said for the fi nal four, the fi nal four affi rmed the district court’s decision and reasoned that because Roberts. “When you have four alternate, the best oralist, and to motorists who receive a Choose Life license plate voluntarily pay factors, they can be manipulated the author of the best brief. Dr. a $25 charge, the charge imposed does not constitute a tax, nor does the charge constitute a regulatory fee; rather it is a simple in any way, and so you’re trans- Joseph Rhile provided the Eliza- purchase price. Consequently, the TIA did not preclude the ferring the determination from beth Rhile scholarship for the district court from exercising federal subject matter jurisdiction. the legislature to the courts about best overall competitor. The circuit court further reasoned that the license plate statute what types of policies the govern- “We depend so heavily on the violates the First Amendment because the license plate message constitutes private speech and the statute authorizing ment can support and promote. jobs that the lawyers do, both in only the “Choose Life” message impermissibly discriminates Isn’t that problematic?” the briefs and in the oral presena- against other viewpoints, mainly the “Pro-Choice” view. The During deliberations, UF tions,” said Roberts. “It always Supreme Court granted the DMV’s petition for certiorari. Before Law Professor Lyrissa Lidsky makes it a more enjoyable expe- the Supreme Court are two issues: 1) whether the charge addressed the audience to outline rience to have counsel who’ve imposed by the Choose Life license plate statute is a tax within the meaning of the TIA and; 2) if not, whether the “Choose the constitutional elements of the put in long hours, as I can tell all Life” message constitutes private speech and viewpoint case, stressing its importance de- four of our advocates have.” discrimination in violation of the First Amendment. spite its hypothetical nature. She —Ian Fisher and Lindy Brounley

FALL 2008 5 NEWS BRIEFS

Hispanic Business Ranks UF UF Law Graduate Tax Law 10th Among Top Law Program Visits Lima, Peru Schools for Hispanic Students This summer, professors Michael Friel, Hispanic Business recently ranked UF Lawrence Lokken, Martin McMahon Law as the number 10 law school and Yariv Brauner traveled to Lima, in the nation for Hispanic students. Peru, to speak at a joint UF/IFA Peru HispanTelligence, the research arm sponsored conference. The faculty of Hispanic Business Inc., annually represented UF Graduate Tax Program’s assesses the nation’s top law schools new International Tax degree program to identify those offering the most during the two-day event, which to Hispanics and at the forefront of involved members of various Peruvian recruiting, retaining and offering quality organizations, universities and private higher education. UF Law exemplifi ed companies. The conference was made the inclusion of diversity measures on possible by a joint partnership between campus in the following categories: the UF Graduate Tax Program and the Donna Vincent (2L) Study Abroad Program Hispanic enrollment, Hispanic faculty, IFA Peru organization. with KPS students Raises Awareness to Benefi t Hispanic student services, Hispanic South African School retention rate and Hispanic reputation. Florida Law Review In 2007, more than 10 percent of Breaks Ground With For 19 UF Law students, the UF/ the student body was Hispanic. The University of Cape Town Study Abroad school specifi cally recruits, supports Multimedia Article Program turned into more than just a and mentors Hispanic law students, For the fi rst time in history, the summer trip. The UF students, along and the retention rate for Hispanic Florida Law Review has published a with High Springs Community School, students in 2006-07 was multimedia article. The article, sponsored a pen pal project that raised 100 percent. Student Constitutional Advocacy Explains $3,400 to benefi t Kalksteenfontein organizations oriented Constitutional Outcomes, was Primary School (KPS) in South toward this group include written by Stephen. A. Higginson, Africa. UF Law students, like Donna the Spanish American an associate professor at Loyola Vincent (2L) pictured above with Law Students Association University New Orleans. Higginson KPS students, also volunteered at (SALSA), the Hispanic included 178 links to audio KPS during the Cape Town Study and Latino/a Law Student recordings of oral arguments in Abroad Program over the summer. Association (HLLSA), the Caribbean Law front of the Supreme Court. KPS is located in Cape Flats, a poor Students Association (Carib-Law), and Higginson started using audio clips township 15 miles outside of Cape the International Law Society (ILS). in his constitutional law class to Town. Many of its residents were In addition, professors Berta help students understand what the forced from Cape Town when District Hernandez-Truyol, Juan Perea and lawyers were arguing. Both Dougherty Six became a white-only area under Pedro Malavet and Assistant Professor and Higginson see multimedia as an apartheid. The money raised will pay D. Daniel Sokol make the University of increased part of law review articles all 136 KPS students’ tuition, said Florida Levin College of Law a national in the future. The article can be found Kathie Price, UF Law associate dean leader in the number of tenured Hispanic at http://www.fl oridalawreview.org/ for library and technology. faculty members. higginson.htm.

Jurist-in-residence program to bring judges to UF Law

new University of Florida Levin “A jurist-in-residence program is one College of Law program will help of the hallmarks of a great law school, and A law students bridge the gap between has long been a program I’ve wanted to what they learn in law school and legal see established at our school,” said Robert practice. The Peter T. Fay Jurist-In- Jerry, dean of the College of Law and Levin Residence Program — named after Peter T. Mabie and Levin Professor of Law. “Our Fay, a senior judge of the U.S. 11th Circuit Peter T. Fay Jurist-In-Residence Program Court of Appeals who graduated from the will bring extraordinary judges to this law college in 1956 — will bring judges to the school to enrich the educational experience college to provide insights to students and of our students, and because it is endowed, faculty on a broad range of issues relating it will infl uence the development of UF Law to judicial process, substantive law, trial students for many generations to come.” and appellate advocacy, and the day-to-day Jerry announced the Peter T. Fay Jurist- practice of law. in-Residence Program during a reception Fay

6 UF LAW UF Conservation Clinic Florida Water designation for the mechanisms at the local level that Teams Up With Georgia On river (if warranted by research), could harmonize planning and local while designing some sort of similar riverine protection regulations. River Conservation protection for the river in Georgia — Law students from the University which does not have an analogous Fall 2008 of Florida and the University of regulation. Georgia met at the border for The two law school-based service Enrolled Class Profi le something other than football — an learning programs are working with This year’s entering class is among the opportunity to canoe the St. Marys the St. Marys River Management best and brightest in the nation. With River, the boundary water between Committee, a volunteer board UF Law ranked in the top 25 public the two adjoining states. The UF appointed by the four counties that and 46th overall of the nation’s nearly Law Conservation Clinic and the border the river (Nassau and Baker 200 accredited law schools, its student University of Georgia Environmental in Florida; Camden and Charleston body continues to refl ect the college’s Law Practicum have teamed up for a in Georgia) and supported by the status as one of the country’s best The 7th Annual trans-boundary water law project that St. Johns River Water Management public law schools. With a substantial involves researching and petitioning District. Students will also be looking 397 students and an average LSAT University of the state of Florida for an Outstanding into shared watershed cooperation score of 160, the class of 2011 Florida Music is no exception to this standard of Law Conference excellence. February 20-21 Class Size: 397 If you are a UF Number of applicants: 3,373 alumnus experienced in entertainment law Number of offers: 940 and interested in Gender: 52% male, 48 % female sharing your knowledge with up-and-coming Minority Representation: 25.4%* musicians and fellow (8.56% Asian, 5.79% Black, 10.57% attorneys, please Hispanic, .5% Native American) email the conference Defense Prevails in Trial *8.3% self declared as other or did not Executive Director indicate race, this fi gure is not included Sondra Randon at Team Final Four in the 25.4% srandon@ufl .edu.

The University of Florida Trial Team marked the end of its four-week selection process Average age: 24 by holding its annual Final Four competition Oct. 3 in the Bailey Courtroom. Final Four Residency: 80% resident and advocates Amanda Brus, Katrina Gavette, Joshua Lukman and Kara Wick, who were chosen from a pool of almost 100 students, presented their arguments for the fi ctitious 20% non-resident. civil case Smith v. Lighter Corporation. Brus and Wick, counsel for the defendant, were Academic Credentials: awarded the title of “Best Overall Team.” Wick was also named “Best Overall Advocate.” The Honorable Judge Stephan Mickle served as the presiding judge. At the end of the UGPA: 75th percentile competition, Mickle congratulated both sides on their dynamic closing arguments. 3.78, median 3.61, Rumberger, Kirk & Caldwell, P.A., a litigation fi rm with offi ces in Florida and Alabama, 25th percentile 3.38 sponsored the tournament. The jury was composed of J. Scott Kirk, James A. Edwards, LSAT: 75th percentile Sara J. Burton and LaShawnda K. Jackson, all attorneys at the fi rm. (Left to right) 162, median 160, Joshua Lukman, Katrina Gavette, Judge Stephan Mickle, Kara Wick and Amanda Brus. 25th percentile 156

welcoming Chief Justice of the United The idea to name the jurist-in- days on campus and participate in States John G. Roberts Jr. to campus. At residence program after Fay came law school activities as suggested by the reception, which was held Sept. 4 at from Fay’s colleague and friend, U.S. a committee comprised of judges, the UF President’s house, the Chief Justice District Court Judge Paul C. Huck, who faculty and law students,” said Huck. expressed his high regard for Fay and graduated from the college in 1965. Huck “While we expect to have judges who applauded the creation of the program. regards Fay as a judicial mentor, and he are UF law alumni participate initially, “I think it would be absolutely wanted to honor Fay in a fashion that it is contemplated that eventually we wonderful for the law school to invite all represented Fay’s tremendous dedication will also invite Supreme Court justices kinds of judges from around the country,” to the professional development of young and other nationally known jurists to said Fay. “This program will really give lawyers. The program will bring judges participate.” students a chance to talk to judges and to to the UF law campus at least once Perhaps not surprisingly, Fay has realize a lot of different things, number one each year for a period of several days to been tapped to serve as the school’s fi rst that judges are human beings striving to interact with law students, providing them jurist-in-residence later this year. do a good job. And number two that jurists with unusual access to judicial expertise “This honor is the highlight of my deal with everyday questions that are very and insight in appellate advocacy. 38 years as a federal judge,” Fay said. similar, if not identical, to the questions “The general concept is that judges “I’m very honored, very embarrassed and that are being discussed in class.” would be invited to spend two or three very humbled.”

FALL 2008 7 NEWS BRIEFS

U.S. Supreme Court “Oral argument is, if not the Associate Justice John Let’s talk: A conversation with Paul Stevens (right) most important, one of the most and U.S. District Court important parts of the case,” Judge Jose A. Gonzalez Justice Stevens and Judge Gonzalez Jr. (left) discussed a Gonzalez said, “because the broad range of legal first thing you have to do as an topics during the n an intimate and very per- former UF President Marshall advocate is gain the attention of inaugural Marshal Criser Lecture Series. sonal conversational setting, Criser (LLB 51). your audience and you can do Stevens is the fourth U.S. Supreme Court Associ- During the conversation, Ste- that orally much easier than you Supreme Court Justice I to visit UF Law in ate Justice John Paul Stevens and vens and Gonzalez interacted can with the written word.” three years, following his close friend and colleague with Professor Sharon Rush, Wolf asked about Stevens’ visits by Chief Justice of the United States U.S. District Court Judge Jose A. Professor Michael perspective on John G. Roberts Jr. and Gonzalez Jr. (JD 57), a judge in Wolf and Flori- “Oral argument stare decisis, associate justices Ruth the Southern District of Florida, da Law Review the doctrine Bader Ginsberg and is, if not the Sandra Day O’Connor. shared their judicial philosophies, Editor in Chief of allowing insights and inside jokes with an Larry Dougherty, precedent to To view a video of the most important, conversation, visit audience of 700 UF Law students who posed ques- stand in court www.law.ufl .edu/ufl aw and faculty. tions previously one of the most decisions. The two old friends were on submitted by stu- important parts Stevens said campus as part of the Inaugural dents and faculty. he gives strong Marshall M. Criser Distinguished The answers of of the case.” deference to Lecture at the University of the two jurists precedence, Florida Curtis M. Phillips Center revealed a deep devotion to the even if he disagrees with the for the Performing Arts on law and offered unique per- decision, as he did in Texas v. Nov. 17. The lecture series was spectives on the finer points of Johnson, a 1989 Supreme Court established with a gift from Lewis legal advocacy that only judges case which protected flag burning Schott (LLB 46) as a tribute to can impart. as a form of free speech.

8 UF LAW “I feel very strongly that case was incorrectly decided for all sorts of reasons… . But, I would never suggest that it should be Marshall M. Criser distinguished lecture overruled,” Stevens said. “I honors former UF president think it was a firm decision, I think the country has accepted ewis Schott (LLB 46) of Palm Beach, Fla., donated $600,000 to the it, and I think it is part of the law university in early 2007 to establish the Marshall M. Criser Distinguished and should remain the law.” Lecture Series. Schott’s gift for the permanent lecture series at the college Stevens went on to note there L was eligible for matching funds from the state of Florida’s Major Gifts Trust are instances in which he feels Fund, which increased the speaker series endowment to more than $1 million. the precedent should not rule. “The goal of the speaker series is to host “I have rather consistently prestigious national and international speakers disagreed with some of the sov- “Marshall Criser every year on topics of particular interest to law ereign immunity jurisprudence students,” said Robert Jerry, dean and Levin Mabie has devoted a in the court,” Stevens said. and Levin Professor of Law. major part of “It just seems to me there is a “The outstanding leadership Marshall Criser has fundamental misunderstanding his life to the shown throughout his career provides an example about the correct relationship for the aspirations we want our students to hold,” University of between the states and the fed- said Jerry. “In honoring Marshall with the named eral government that is entitled Florida,” Schott lecture series, Lewis Schott has again enhanced the to continuing examination.” law school in a way that will enrich the aca demic said. “It is an Both Stevens and Gonzalez experience of our students.” honor to be able offered wise words when asked Schott is a longtime contributor to UF. Law to share general advice to the to continue his students, faculty, and staff are well familiar with law students in the audience. the Marcia Whitney Schott Courtyard at the Levin infl uence at UF.” “When you first get into the College of Law. As a result of an earlier gift from practice, you’re going to find out Schott, this courtyard is named in honor of his late wife, who also earned her law that you don’t know an awful degree from UF in 1946. lot,” he said. “Don’t be afraid to admit that…. . Go ask somebody older than you or more experi- enced than you, and you’ll be surprised how happy they will be to help.” Stevens advised that keeping one’s word is most important. “When you graduate, you be- come part of a profession,” Ste- vens said. “If your word is good and you have the reputation for being trusted for what you say, both for facts and for your un- derstanding of the law, that will pay more dividends than you can possibly imagine.” “Just remember, your reputa- Former UF President Marshall M. tion as a person of honor is very Criser (LLB 51) (left) and Lewis hard to achieve,” Stevens said, Schott (LLB 46) were special guests of the College of Law during Associate “but nothing is more valuable to Justice Stevens’ visit to UF. Schott a lawyer than his word.” established the Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Lecture in honor of Criser. —Ian Fisher

FALL 2008 9 Desegregation Pioneers Honored During UF Constitution Day

BY SCOTT EMERSON & KATIE BLASEWITZ

10 UF LAW ifty years ago one man changed the course of history for higher educa- tion in the state of Florida. African American, academically eligible, and eager to start his instruction, Virgil FHawkins was denied admission to the University of Florida College of Law based solely on his race. In 1949, Virgil D. Hawkins applied to the UF law school and was denied entry based on the color of his skin. With the legal assistance of future Associate Justice of the United States Thurgood Marshall, it took nine years, fi ve Florida Supreme Court and four U.S. Supreme Court rulings before Hawkins broke the color barrier for students at UF — but at great personal cost. Hawkins abandoned his own aspirations to attend the College of Law by agreeing in 1958 to drop his suit against the state if Florida would desegregate university admissions. On Sept. 15, 1958, George H. Starke Jr. enrolled in the UF College of Law, becoming the fi rst black student to enter the university. In 1962, W. George Allen became the fi rst black student to receive a degree from the UF College of Law. In 1965, the Honorable Stephan Mickle, United

States District Judge in the Northern District of Florida, became the fi rst Virgil D. Hawkins opened the doors at UF black student to earn an undergraduate degree from the university. to enrollment of black students in 1958.

FALL 2008 11 awkins went on to “In reality, Virgil Hawkins never At the close of the program Dean Robert graduate from New expected to be the Rosa Parks of Florida or Jerry reminded the audience to remember England School of his admission to the UF’s College of Law the heroic efforts of Virgil Hawkins, George Law in 1964 and to be the Ft. Sumter of civil liberties,” said H. Starke Jr., W. George Allen and Stephan became a member Herman, the attorney who laid the ground- Mickle. “As we leave today, we leave with of The Florida Bar work to recognize and honor Hawkins. the inspiration to do good and remember in 1977. Because of The program also included a panel the struggle of those who came before us.” Hhis efforts to desegregate the state univer- discussion on the federal constitutional W. George Allen (JD 63) enrolled in sity system, more than 12,000 African- issues in law school desegregation with law school in September 1960, and became Americans have since earned degrees at Kenneth Nunn, professor of law; Her- the fi rst African-American law student the University of Florida. man; Juan Perea, Cone Wagner Nugent to graduate from UF Law. UF Law has “Virgil Hawkins and the other stu- Johnson, Hazouri and Roth Professor of changed greatly in the years since Hawk- dents of color who followed demon- Law; and Stephan P. Mickle, U.S. District ins, Allen, Starke and Mickle attended. strated remarkable personal courage and Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern Dis- Allen said that the biggest change he’s persistence,” said Robert Jerry, dean and trict of Florida. seen in UF Law was “the proliferation of Levin Mabie and Levin Professor of Law. George H. Starke Jr. addressed the minority and women students.” “Today, UF has a more diverse student audience during the program and said Allen is a former president of the Na- body, one that more closely matches the that even though he had never met Virgil tional Bar Association, and he and wife, population of Florida and the nation.” Hawkins, he appreciates the sacrifi ce he Enid, are major contributors to the UF The 50th anniversary of desegrega- made. “Virgil Hawkins made it possible Center for the Study of Race and Race tion was celebrated at UF on Sept. 15, for me to attend law school,” Starke said. Relations. Allen serves as a member of and the civil rights pioneers responsible “He made it all possible.” the UF Foundation Board of Directors, for changing the course of history for mi- Hawkins’ niece, Harriet Livings- and the college’s Black Law Student nority students were honored during the ton, also addressed the audience, tell- Association is named in his honor. university’s Constitution Day Program ing them that Hawkins’ faith provided “When I started there I was the only hosted by the Levin College of Law on him with patience and perseverance. black and there were only two women. Sept. 17. The program featured a presen- “Only those who see the invisible can Now the class is more diverse and it rep- tation by Harley Herman, Esq. (JD 78) do the impossible,” said Livingston. resents society — but I started in 1960,” of de Beaubien, Knight, Simmons, Man- “Virgil Hawkins taught us not to judge a said Allen. “Now, the law school is more tzaris & Neal on the life and legacy of person by the color of their skin, but by in tune to the population. The diversity Virgil Hawkins. the content of their character.” has been good for the school.” ■

GEORGE H. STARKE JR. In his own words

o one will ever know how much it meant to me to participate in the Constitution NDay Program, and to have the opportunity to tell the story of some of my experiences at the law school and at UF in the fi rst days… . These experiences were unique. I mentioned to someone earlier that while I would have come to school at UF in any event once the laws changed, I have long thought it would have been better for me as an individual just to have had the normal struggles to contend with… . UF had a 105-year history of segregation when I fi rst came, and I have to think on refl ection that was more diffi cult to cope with than I anticipated — not because of the few threats, but because of the intangibles and subtleties. I tried to conduct myself as simply another student, and tried to block out all thoughts about the historical implications of my being there. I

12 UF LAW FAST FACTS ■ 1946-1958: 85 black students apply to the University of Florida and are denied admission. ■ 1949: Virgil Hawkins and William T. Lewis are denied admission to UF College of Law. ■ 1954: Brown v. Board of Education decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. In a companion decision, the court orders the University of Florida to admit Virgil Hawkins. The state resists the ruling. Virgil Hawkins brings his case before the Florida Supreme Court fi ve times and the U.S. Supreme Court four times. ■ 1957: Florida Supreme Court upholds Virgil Hawkins’ denial of admission. Justice Stephen O’Connell, who later served as UF’s president, concurs in the decision. ■ 1958: Hawkins withdraws his application to the UF College of Law in exchange for the desegregation of UF graduate and professional schools. ■ 1958: George H. Starke is the fi rst African-American to be admitted to UF’s College of Law. ■ 1959: College of Law celebrates 50th anniversary. ■ 1962: W. George Allen is the fi rst African-American to receive a degree from the UF College of Law. ■ 1965: Stephan Mickle is the fi rst African-American to earn an undergraduate degree from UF, later earning his law degree from UF in 1970. Early newspaper ■ Today: In fall 2007, 51,725 students were enrolled at the accounts of George H. University of Florida, including approximately 4,300 African- Starke Jr.’s fi rst day at Americans, 6,000 Hispanics and 3,800 Asians. the UF College of Law ■ Today: 2008 Levin College of Law minority representation: 25.4 on Sept. 15, 1958, and percent. This includes Asian, 8.56 percent; African-American, 5.79 his eventual departure percent; Hispanic 10.57 percent; and Native American 0.5 percent. after three semesters.

wanted to be treated just like everyone else, set a tone for UF and the state — before and… I think in the main I was, although I and after I was there, which contributed cannot be 100 percent certain. Fred Levin for a long time to the climate and general “I tried to and others in my class would know more atmosphere in which minority students, conduct myself about that than I, since they also know and all others, were able to grow, to as simply whether anything changed in how they organize, to express themselves and to another student, were treated following our third semester. work for what they wanted the University and tried to My plan (upon leaving law school after of Florida to become. I was on the Alumni block out all the third semester) had been to reapply in Board of Directors a few years, and had thoughts about about fi ve years or so, but it took longer the opportunity to vote to establish the the historical than that to get the negative experiences Association of Black Alumni. I know there implications of out of my system, and even longer to get to now to be any number of such organizations my being there.” a point where I could even talk about it… . on the various campuses. Five years became 10, and 10 became 20, Finally, thank you again for the and life intervened. So, I did not reapply or invitation and the opportunity to participate decide to go elsewhere. in the Levin College of Law Constitution Day I participated on a panel (during the Program…. . I am glad I had an opportunity Constitution Day activities at UF), with one to learn more about the life and times of Mr. person from each of the decades from the Hawkins. I knew bits and pieces but was 50s through the 90s. It was very interesting impressed with his story. George H. Starke Jr. to note how matters emerged and evolved I appreciate his call now more than ever. stands before a plaque at UF over time, with changes in both commemorating a magnolia culture and leadership at institutional —George H. Starke tree recently planted in his and community levels. I think Governor Excerpted from correspondence to Dean Robert honor in front of the Virgil D. Jerry dated Sept. 25, 2008 Hawkins Civil Clinic at the [Leroy] Collins and Dr. [John W.] Reitz Levin College of Law.

FALL 2008 13 COUNTING THE VOTE The lasting legacy of Florida’s 2000 presidential election.

BY LINDY MCCOLLUM-BROUNLEY

14 UF LAW ‘FLORIDA CAN’T COUNT’ “The fi rst lesson is this: Take it from me Many people are still confused by the series of events leading up to the — every vote counts.” —AL GORE U.S. Supreme Court’s intervention in Florida’s recount of the 2000 presidential itter words from Al tenuous majority, coupled with voter election. By the time the nation’s highest Gore, a man who complaints of confusing butterfl y ballots court ended the litigation on Dec. 12, should know. Gore, and malfunctioning voting machines in the battle had been raging in Florida for who won the majority several counties, compelled Gore, as he 36 days and a dizzying number of suits of the nation’s was entitled to do under Florida law, to and countersuits had made the rounds popular vote in the protest the results in Broward, Dade, through Florida and federal courts. The 2000 presidential Palm Beach and Volusia counties. He country was obsessed with hanging Belection, ultimately conceded Florida’s 25 pressed for recounts in those counties of chads, but Florida law did little to shed electoral votes — and the White House “undervotes” — ballots that did not show light on how to discern the voter intent — to George W. Bush after a landmark a valid legal selection during machine they might reveal. decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to end counting, but which might demonstrate “We’d tended to overlook the Florida’s vote recount. The fi nal margin voter intent when examined manually. importance of elections until the 2000 of victory for Bush in Florida consisted Gore’s decision to ask for manual presidential election, in which we realized of 537 votes, .0002 percent of the state’s recounts in these heavily Democratic we were using outdated equipment, nearly 6 million certifi ed ballots. counties, which many critics described as machines and so on, particularly in the “What happened in 2000 is exactly “strategic cherry-picking” of votes, kicked large populated counties,” said W. Dexter what everyone feared, that it would go up a legal scrum of epic proportions. After Douglass (LLB 55), Gore’s lead Florida down to a few thousand votes or less,” weeks of litigation in Florida’s courts, counsel and long-time state politico who said Stephen N. Zack (JD 71), one of the examination of thousands of ballots with previously served as general counsel attorneys representing Gore following the chads in various states of detachment, for Gov. Lawton Chiles and chair election and a partner in the Miami fi rm and media attention that characterized of the Florida Constitution Revision Boies, Schiller & Flexner. “I think one Florida’s election and state politics as Commission. “The combination of thing important to look at from a historical national jokes, the U.S. Supreme Court antiquated voting systems and antiquated perspective is that there is virtually no intervened with a judgment — one likely voting laws put us in a position when we election that is free of problems. What to be argued in law schools and living became pivotal to the election to cause usually occurs is that the margins are so rooms for generations — that effectively the court proceedings that followed.” large that those problems do not become ended the spectacle. The fi rst case that made its way to signifi cant. But when you have a very “There can be no doubt that a majority the U.S. Supreme Court involved the narrow margin, they become very, very of Americans voted for Al Gore to be Florida Supreme Court’s ruling in favor signifi cant, and that’s what happened in president of the United States — that more of Gore’s protest of the vote count in Florida in 2000.” people voted for Al Gore, or thought they Broward, Palm Beach and Volusia Florida’s 2000 presidential election were voting for Al Gore, than for George counties. Central to the question was was initially called in favor of Bush Bush,” said Zack, who is slated to be the the statutory deadline, set by section by 1,784 votes. This tiny margin of next president-elect of the American Bar 102.111 of Florida law, for counties to victory triggered statutorily-mandated Association. “It defi nitely indicates that certify their election returns no later than machine recounts of ballots in all 67 elections are subject to human variables, seven days after the election. Several of Florida counties, the results of which and in a contested election that is razor the counties conducting manual recounts narrowed the margin to a Bush lead thin, those human errors are going to were unsure they could complete the of little more than 300 votes. Bush’s cause problems.” recounts in time to certify their returns

FALL 2008 15 warranted an extension of the deadline. She certifi ed the election on Nov. 18. The Gore legal team immediately protested in Florida courts, a move Douglass advised against. “My suggestion early on was that they should allow the secretary of state to certify the election and then contest it. Instead of choosing a recount, you could choose a contest statute, which would immediately place the question of a statewide recount under the jurisdiction W. Dexter Douglass (LLB 55), of the Douglass Law Firm in of the courts,” said Douglass. “But Tallahassee, Fla., served as Klain [Gore Chief of Staff Ron Klain] Gore’s lead Florida counsel in the litigation following Florida’s and others said, ‘Well, it had already 2000 presidential election. been determined that we would go with recounts in these four counties.’ ” Despite Douglass’ recommendation, “The combination of antiquated voting systems Gore directed his legal team to pursue extending the certifi cation deadline to and antiquated voting laws put us in a position allow the counties to complete their when we became pivotal to the election.” recounts. This litigation would later prove to run the clock out on Gore’s by the deadline. Although the deadline was in receipt of certifi ed returns from future contest of the vote. was ruled to be immutable by a Florida all 67 counties, although three were still “Had they allowed me to certify Circuit Court, the court also ruled the conducting manual recounts. She also on time, there would have been time counties conducting manual recounts released criteria by which she would for the statewide recount,” Katherine could amend their returns later and that accept amended fi lings and required Harris stated in a June 2, 2008, interview Secretary of State Katherine Harris, the those counties intending to make one to on FOX News Channel’s Hannity & state’s chief election offi cer, had the submit a written statement outlining the Colmes. “His [Gore’s] political team discretion to accept those amendments circumstances compelling them to do so. was concerned that… would harm him after the deadline. Broward, Dade, Palm Beach and Volusia politically. So he listened to his political Nonetheless, at the close of business counties submitted written statements, advisers instead of Dexter Douglass, his hours on Nov. 14, Harris announced she but Harris determined none of them Florida counsel, who said that, indeed,

NOVEMBER 12: Palm Beach NOVEMBER 15: Harris says County offi cials vote to she will not accept further hand Florida 2000 conduct a full hand recount recounts and asks the Florida of presidential votes; Volusia Supreme Court to order the halt RECOUNT TIMELINE County begins its own hand of manual recounts; Broward count; Bush’s legal team, County decides to begin a hand headed by former Secretary recount; AP estimates shrink Source: CNN, Dec. 13, 2000 November 9: Gore’s team, led of State James Baker, goes to Bush’s lead to only 286 votes. by former U.S. Secretary of State federal court seeking to block NOVEMBER 7: Election Day. Warren Christopher, requests a manual recounts. NOVEMBER 21: The Florida hand recount of ballots in four Supreme Court orders hand counts November 8: Democratic Florida counties — Palm Beach, NOVEMBER 14: Florida to continue, and gives counties fi ve presidential candidate Al Gore Dade, Broward and Volusia. Secretary of state Katherine days to complete them. makes an early morning call Harris delays certification to Republican candidate NOVEMBER 10: The Florida of the state’s votes until 2 NOVEMBER 23: Miami-Dade George W. Bush to concede, machine recount is completed. p.m. EST Nov. 15 so three County offi cials stop their hand then calls back to retract his Unoffi cial Associated Press heavily Democratic counties recount because they do not feel concession based on new results give Bush a lead of can explain why they should they could complete the recount estimates of a statistical tie 327 votes out of nearly 6 conduct hand recounts of before the Nov. 26 deadline given between the two men. million cast. their ballots. by the Florida Supreme Court.

16 UF LAW I should certify in time according to the saying that they did not understand the team then fi led a petition contesting the will of law and as the law was written.” basis upon which we reached the decision election, the second Gore v. Harris. The The case, the fi rst Gore v. Harris, to extend the time for the certifi cation.” case moved through circuit and district eventually arrived on the docket of the Meanwhile, Harris, pursuant to the courts to the Florida Supreme Court, Florida Supreme Court, which ruled Florida Supreme Court’s order in Gore which ruled on Dec. 8 that a statewide on Nov. 21 that the recount would take v. Harris, certifi ed the election results recount would proceed with a deadline place, that amended returns must be on Nov. 26 in which Bush was the for completion of Dec. 12. That date was accepted from the counties that were victor with a lead of 537 votes. Gore’s the federal “safe-haven” deadline for party to the case, and that Harris could not certify the election until Nov. 26. “We made a statutory construction analysis of the law, and we found there were ambiguities in the statute which required there to be a construction that would permit the intent of the statute to be carried out,” said Florida Supreme Court Justice Charles T. Wells (JD 64), who was chief justice at the time. The ruling was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court in Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board. The Supreme Court remanded it back to the Florida Supreme Court on Dec. 4 with a request for an explanation of how it reached its ruling. “The United States Supreme Court made a determination that it was not a Stephen N. Zack (JD 71) in matter of statutory construction under his downtown Miami offi ce. state law, but that the federal scheme for electing presidential electors gave to the Legislature plenary power to make the “We as a people are fully committed to the constitu- determination as to how the selection tional electoral process and, at all times, were going of electors was going to be done,” said Wells. “They remanded the case to us, to turn to our lawyers and not to our generals.”

NOVEMBER 24: To the NOVEMBER 27: Gore’s lawyers its authority by ordering Harris to injunctive relief to stop the hand surprise of many observers, move to contest the Florida include the manual recounts in recounts. the U.S. Supreme Court agrees result in a circuit court in certifi ed state results. to hear Bush’s appeal of the Tallahassee. DECEMBER 9: The U.S. Supreme Florida high court ruling in DECEMBER 4: The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5 to 4 ruling, halts the Bush vs. Palm Beach County NOVEMBER 30: Florida Court asks the Florida Supreme manual recounts and sets a hearing Canvassing Board allowing lawmakers vote along party lines Court to explain its reasoning in on the matter two days later. hand recounts to proceed. to recommend a special session extending the hand recounts, to name electors if the election returning the case to Tallahassee DECEMBER 11: Arguments are NOVEMBER 26: Harris contest is not resolved by Dec. and putting off any action in Bush’s heard by the U.S. Supreme Court certifi es the results of the 12, six days before the Electoral appeal objecting to the recounts. in Bush vs. Gore. Florida vote after the Florida College meets. The Republican- Supreme Court deadline led legislature is expected to DECEMBER 8: In a decision DECEMBER 12: The U.S. expires, giving Bush a 537- name electors pledged to Bush. divided 4-3, the Florida Supreme Supreme Court, in a 5 to 4 ruling vote lead over Gore, but these Court in Gore vs. Harris orders in Bush vs. Gore, puts an end to do not include results from DECEMBER 1: In Bush vs. Palm manual recounts in all counties the Florida recount. The ruling Palm Beach County, which Beach County Canvassing Board, with signifi cant numbers of coincides with the Dec. 12 “safe completed its manual recount the U.S. Supreme Court hears presidential undervotes; Bush haven” deadline. Gore offi cially about two hours after the oral arguments over whether the appeals the decision to the concedes the election to Bush deadline. Florida Supreme Court overstepped U.S. Supreme Court and seeks shortly thereafter.

FALL 2008 17 states to appoint its electors before the voter intent that, at that point, our court or not what the Florida court did was Electoral College’s federally mandated was requiring to be done statewide. interfering with the constitutional Dec. 18 meeting. Again, those questions seem to me to direction that the electors for president be The second Gore v. Harris ruling have been a diffi culty of the elections selected by direction of the Legislature as allowed for a statewide hand recount statutes, which really just didn’t address opposed to by direction of the courts.” of undervotes, but it did not include them.” The court issued a per curiam opinion that the Florida court ruling was in violation of the Equal Protection Clause “The [Florida] election laws really were of the 14th Amendment because there was no standard by which all 67 counties not designed in such a way that fi t a could conduct the ballot recount. The opinion stated that it applied only to presidential election where the margin of the specifi c circumstances of Bush v. victory was within the margin of error.” Gore, and should not be considered precedential because “the problem of equal protection in election processes generally presents many complexities.” In addition, a majority of the court agreed that no constitutionally valid recount could be conducted in time to meet the federal safe haven deadline of Dec. 12. The court was divided as to whether the Florida Supreme Court’s statutory construction to allow a recount after the state’s Nov. 14 certifi cation deadline was in violation of Article II. “Frankly, the most controversial aspect of the Supreme Court’s decision was to stop the recount, as opposed to merely remanding it for further proceedings in the court below,” said Florida Supreme Court Justice Jones. “I think the court did that because Charles T. Wells (JD 64) speaks they considered that the Florida Supreme to a classroom of UF Law students regarding professional Court had indicated intent to rely on responsibility during his Sept. 26 the safe harbor provision of the federal visit to UF Law sponsored by the statute.” American Constitution Society. The Supreme Court issued its opinions on Dec. 12. The controversial decision left Gore little time for further action and “overvotes” — votes where selections SUPREMELY CONTROVERSIAL he soon conceded the election. for president were clearly indicated, Bush asked the U.S. Supreme Court to Legal scholar Cass Sunstein later but which also included the candidate’s intervene, which it did on Dec. 9 when wrote, “For those who believe in the rule name handwritten on the ballot. Neither it issued a writ of certiorari for Bush v. of law, it is more than disturbing to fi nd state law nor the court provided uniform Gore and enjoined Florida’s recount. that by far the best predictor of one’s at- standards for how to conduct the recount. “In the case of the second lawsuit, titude toward Bush v. Gore is whether Instead, each county’s canvassing board there were a couple of federal questions one voted for Bush or for Gore. … it is would use its own standards. involved,” said Clifford Jones, associate extremely disturbing to fi nd that on the “In the fi rst case, the case involving in law and lecturer at the University of highly technical, even esoteric issues the protest in the certifi cation to Florida Levin College of Law’s Center involved in the case, the attitudes of so the secretary of state, we had been for Governmental Responsibility. “One many specialists — including journalists unanimous. In the second case, we of them had to do with whether or not the who follow the court, political scientists, were not,” said Wells. “I wrote in my process of counting votes and recounting historians, law professors and even judg- dissent that I felt like the majority’s votes satisfi ed the constitutional es — seem determined, almost all of the decision created a basketful of practical protections of equal protection and due time, by their political preferences.” problems. The statute didn’t provide any process. A secondary issue, which was Nonetheless, Americans, despite standards for making a determination of related to the fi rst appeal, was whether their political preferences, accepted the

18 UF LAW high court’s decision as fi nal and got on Standing on the Florida with business as usual. Supreme Court steps, spokesman Craig Waters (JD “Everyone believed this would 86), announces the court’s resolve itself and a lot of people believed, 7-0 ruling in Tallahassee, Fla., Nov. 21, 2000 that amended at the end of the day, the Electoral College vote tallies must be accepted would step in as it is designed to do if in the state’s contested necessary,” said Zack. “I’ve recently presidential election. spoken at law schools in China, Russia and Poland, and this was a common question. My unequivocal answer was that we as a people are fully committed to the constitutional electoral process and, at all times, were going to turn to our lawyers and not to our generals.” That reliance on the law hasn’t squelched cynical speculation by some that partisan fervor motivated decisions made by both the Florida Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court. Yet the truth of the matter may have been in plain sight all along. “The [Florida] election laws really were not designed in such a way that fi t a presidential election where the margin of victory was within the margin of error. The courts were trying to deal in a very short time span with the proverbial square peg in a round hole. It just was not something that could be dealt with in a very satisfactory way,” said Wells. “What I have said, and what I truly believe, is this was the election of the president of the United States, and no matter what the legal avenues or approaches were for the United States Supreme Court to get to it, it still was

necessary for the United States Supreme COSGROVE PHOTO/PETE AP Court to have the fi nal say.”

ELECTION REFORM, FLORIDA-STYLE “Since 2000, there have been a Florida is no stranger to presidential series of statutory responses that election problems. Few are aware that the congressional Electoral Count Act would make [a recount] much of 1877 — which, ironically, established the Dec. 12 safe haven deadline driving more streamlined, standardized litigation in Florida’s 2000 presidential election — was enacted in part as a result and easier to conduct.” of Florida’s disputed 1876 presidential Mills election between Rutherford B. Hayes John McCain and Barack Obama, many “The 2000 situation was unique in and Samuel J. Tilden. The scandal of worried the state could again experience history,” said Jon Mills, a UF professor that election involved alleged ballot box chaos. This election went smoothly, of law, dean emeritus, and director of stuffi ng and suppression of Republican for the most part, despite heavy voter the Levin College of Law Center for voters, mostly freed slaves. turnout — 73 percent of the state’s Governmental Responsibility (which With Florida’s 27 electoral votes up registered voters, nearly 8.2 million sponsored a post-election conference at for grabs and tight margins reported in Floridians, voted (4.3 million of those the Levin College of Law featuring the advance of the 2008 election between during early voting). principals of the court cases, including

FALL 2008 19 David Boies, Douglass, Zack and act recommended electronic voting the vote electronically but provide a counsels for Harris). “Since 2000, systems, and mandated all voting paper record of each vote, are now the there have been a series of statutory systems must be certifi ed by the standard in use statewide. The optical- responses that, if there was a recount, secretary of state before the canvassing scan machines also alert voters if they would make it much more streamlined, boards can use them. have recorded over- or undervotes as standardized and easier to conduct.” Initially, both optical-scan and the ballot is scanned, giving the voter After the embarrassment of its ATM-style touchscreen systems opportunity to correct his or her ballot 2000 presidential election experience, replaced the old voting machines. before leaving the polling place. the state passed the Florida Election Concerns that the touchscreen system The Florida Election Reform Act Reform Act of 2001, directly addressing was vulnerable to software glitches or also implemented more uniform ballot inadequacies in state law regarding hacking, combined with the lack of a design, and instructed the secretary of voting and tabulation problems. paper trail for ballot recounts, led Gov. state’s offi ce to standardize interpreta- The act outlawed the venerable Charlie Crist to ban its use in 2007 tion of ballot marks and mismarks to computer punch card machines as after the machine recorded 18,000 determine “clear indication that the well as lever and manual paper voting undervotes in a hotly contested 2006 voter has made a defi nite choice” in systems — effectively banishing the Sarasota County congressional race. the event manual recounts are neces- hanging chad to history. Instead, the Optical-scan machines, which tabulate sary. The standards adopted into the

ANATOMY OF A Gerrymander

o many Floridians, tasking elected fairly represent the state’s population representatives to draw nonpartisan growth or movement. Unfortunately, voting districts seems a lot like legislators have historically used the tasking the fox to guard the opportunity to redistrict voting blocks to Thenhouse … every 10 years feathers fl y. shore up re-election for themselves or “Reapportionment, or how we divide our their party. This history of gerrymandered districts for the Legislature and Congress, reapportionment has resulted in legislators, is one of the most important things we do both Democrats and Republicans, because it determines who you can vote supporting redistricting that effectively for in your district,” said Jon Mills, a UF splits votes down partisan lines. professor of law, dean emeritus and director “When I was in the Legislature, I of the Levin College of Law Center for sat on a reapportionment committee. Governmental Responsibility. Were people drawing districts to favor Mills said Florida’s constitution directs themselves or their political party? the Legislature to review and redraw voting Absolutely,” said Mills. “There is a mutual districts in the second year after each self-interest in members of a legislative This political cartoon of “The Gerry-Mander,” from which gerrymandering got its name, was U.S. Census. The constitutional ideal of body to help each other that doesn’t fi rst published in the Boston Centinel in 1812. reapportionment is to draw districts to necessarily favor one party or the other.”

20 UF LAW Early voters cast electronic ballots in

AP PHOTO/J.PAT CARTER PHOTO/J.PAT AP downtown Miami during the 2004 presidential election.

Florida Administrative Code were recount shows a difference of less than spite long waits to vote at some written using ballots cast in the 2000 one-quarter of 1 percent in the margin polling places and occasional mal- election as examples to assist in iden- of victory, a statewide manual recount functioning machines, the votes tifying common mismarking problems, must take place of both under- and of more than 8 million Floridians resulting in clear guidelines to inter- overvotes, unless the combined total were cast and counted — with little pret virtually any mark on a ballot as a of those ballots is less than the number post-election drama. If a recount valid or invalid vote. of votes necessary to change the out- had been necessary, new laws are in Lastly, the act removed vote come of the election. place to standardize the process that recounts from the discretion of the “The new standards and voting would, hopefully, quarantine the con- county canvassing boards and no lon- system make the election more troversy within the bounds of Florida’s ger allows a candidate to protest votes uniform and provide tangible evidence courts. in specifi c counties. As the law stands for review if a recount does arise. So, Florida has come a long way since now, an automatic statewide machine Florida is much better off than we were its 2000 presidential election, and recount is triggered if unoffi cial re- in 2000 or even 2004,” said Mills. one might now offer it as a model of turns for presidential elections indicate “But, that doesn’t mean it’s perfect.” how to run a smooth election in a big, a margin of victory less than one-half This year, Florida’s election was hotly-contested swing state … As long of 1 percent of the vote. If the machine a fairly uneventful mega-event. De- as the margins aren’t razor-thin. ■

Mills is now serving as counsel in the political process and elect broader range of constituencies and are not on a legal team representing representatives of their choice. Districts strictly split by racial or partisan lines. The FairDistrictsFlorida.org that includes must be contiguous. Unless otherwise theory is that legislators and congressmen CGR staff attorney Tim McLendon. required, districts must be compact, elected to offi ce from such districts would The organization is the sponsor of as equal in population as feasible, be less partisan and more balanced in a constitutional amendment to set and where feasible must make use of their views, resulting in an approach to standards the Legislature must use when existing city, county and geographical government that is less divisive and more redrawing district boundaries. boundaries. representative, Mills said. The title and summary of the The primary goal of the amendment — “I think there are people of good amendment, which was argued before if the Supreme Court approves it as a ballot will on both sides of the aisle who the Florida Supreme Court Nov. 6 as measure for a 2010 general election — is really want to see the process be as Case No. SC08-1149, reads: to establish nonpartisan reapportionment transparent and fair as possible,” standards by which districts would be said Stephen N. Zack (JD 71), a STANDARDS FOR LEGISLATURE TO drawn. These standards would seek to partner in the Miami fi rm Boies, FOLLOW IN CONGRESSIONAL assure continuity in redistricting so that Schiller & Flexner, REDISTRICTING boundaries are contiguous and compact, which also represents Congressional districts or districting preventing district lines from being drawn FairDistrictsFlorida.org. plans may not be drawn to favor or in such a way that cherry-picks and “Obviously, there are others disfavor an incumbent or political patches together disparate areas that who just want to win, and party. Districts shall not be drawn to reliably vote one way or the other. that is not the standard by deny racial or language minorities When districts are drawn to embrace which we should want to the equal opportunity to participate contiguous communities, they include a have an election.”

FALL 2008 21 Hall of Andrew C. Hall fi ghts for the rights of victims of state-sponsored terrorism.

JusticeBY IAN FISHER

n 1992, Andrew C. Hall (JD 68) toilet facilities. He was interrogated, ac- that!’ ” Hall said. “I was so offended by the heard a horrifi c story about a cused of espionage, and physically and idea that an American could be kidnapped stranger, also named Hall, who psychologically tortured. At one point, the on Kuwaiti soil by Iraqis. I said, ‘That’s endured the unthinkable. Iraqis blindfolded him and told him they got to be a violation of international law; Chad Hall, an American would shoot him if he didn’t reveal in- it just has to be, and there has to be some- working as a contractor, was formation. When he refused, they cocked thing we can do about it.’ ” Ibeaten and tortured after being kidnapped their weapons, gave the “Fire!” command, As a Holocaust survivor, Andrew Hall from Kuwaiti territory at gunpoint by Iraqi and dry-fi red their weapons at him. has seen fi rst hand what can happen when guards. One of the Iraqis, as Hall told the Hall was sure he would die in his a government takes advantage of its pow- New York Times, “put the clip in the pistol cramped, fi lthy jail cell somewhere in the er. And that is why he began his fi ght for and chambered in a round and said, ‘Well, Iraqi desert. victims of state-sponsored terrorism. I have the authority to shoot you if I have “I have always been a victim-oriented to, to take you with me.’ ” ENTER ANDREW HALL lawyer in that I have a sense of internal A retired Army major, Hall was an ex- After fi ve days of torture, Chad Hall was outrage whenever I see an abuse of pow- pert in munitions, and the Iraqis wanted released. He returned to his hometown of er,” Hall said. “All of that, every bit of it, his valuable knowledge. Houston and saw his family lawyer, who comes from the circumstances of my birth They did almost anything to get it. called Andrew Hall and told him Chad Hall’s and my early childhood.” The Iraqis confi ned Hall to a small story. Andrew Hall was asked what could be prison cell with no lights, window, water done about this, but he had no quick answer. CHAD HALL’S STORY or toilet. He was frequently denied food “[My fi rst reaction was] probably a Chad Hall grew up in Texas and dropped and water and had only limited access to stupid one, which was like, ‘They can’t do out of high school to join the Army at the

22 UF LAW By the third day, American authori- ism to sue foreign states for damages in ties had learned of Chad Hall’s abduction, American courts. but with no diplomatic relationship with In 2000, Hall won the lawsuit for Chad Iraq, turned to Poland for assistance. On Hall in the District Court for the District the fourth day of Chad Hall’s imprison- of Columbia, but the State Department ment, the Polish government located him convinced President Bill Clinton to sus- and brought him food and other necessi- pend judicial process, essentially holding ties. Two days later, Poland negotiated his that the law and judgment did not count, release, and he fl ew to freedom. Hall said. Hall went back to Congress and lob- THE LEGAL BATTLE bied further. Finally, in 2002, Congress In pursuit of justice for Chad Hall, An- passed the Terrorism Risk Insurance drew Hall researched whether sovereign Act of 2002 that the judgments had to states that sponsor terrorism could be be paid. Two American banks, Chase JP sued by their victims. He found one case: Morgan and The Bank of New York, held Prince v. Germany. Prince was a Jewish- Iraq’s money, which was frozen when American who was captured by Nazis in Iraq was declared a sponsor of terror- Poland at the start of World War II. De- ism. The banks were making money on cades later in 1991, he sued Germany, Iraq’s frozen assets and fought in court to and a federal judge ruled that a U.S. court keep it, but Chad Hall was eventually could decide the case. paid in 2003. Relying on the Prince ruling, Hall Chad Hall was awarded nearly $1.8 fi led suit in the District Court for the Dis- million for the torture and loss of past and trict of Columbia but the judge dismissed future wages. Because his marriage failed the suit on the grounds of sovereign im- due to Hall’s post-traumatic stress disor- munity. On appeal, the Circuit Court der caused by his kidnapping and torture, for the District of Columbia ruled that his ex-wife, Elizabeth Hall, was awarded citizens have no right to sue a foreign state $1.5 million for loss of consortium. in American court without its consent. For Andrew Hall, the experiences of Facing a temporary dead-end, Hall his early childhood made the court victo- sought other avenues toward justice. He ry against terrorism feel especially good. went to Congress and began lobbying. Hall, 19xx tender age of 18, where he became an In 1996, Congress responded and passed THE HOLOCAUST expert in disarming explosives. He was a the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Andrew Hall was born in a coal cellar in Mustang — an enlisted soldier who enters Penalty Act of 1996, which amended the Warsaw, Poland, in September of 1944 the Army as a private but works his way Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act to to parents who were Polish Jews hiding up to the rank of an offi cer — retiring allow victims of state-sponsored terror- from the Nazis. as a major. After leaving the army, Hall went to work as a civilian contractor in Kuwait disarming unexploded munitions “I have a sense of that were left from the First Gulf War. internal outrage Because of their close proxim- ity to Iraq, Chad Hall’s crew used GPS whenever I see to identify the Kuwait/Iraq border and an clearly marked it with red stakes. Hall abuse of was working close to the border but was power. All of clearly in Kuwait’s territory when he was kidnapped. that...comes from He was fi rst taken to a remote jail the circumstances before being transferred to the now in- famous Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad of my birth and my where the torture and interrogations early childhood.” continued.

FALL 2008 23 Hall’s family had hidden from the Na- “In the shelter, at that point my mother “One of the things that happens to the zis for years before he was born. Desperate was already pregnant, a V-2 rocket land- families of Holocaust survivors is those to protect his family from the death camps, ed, and the only reason we’re here to tell experiences don’t leave your house,” Hall Hall’s father, Edmund Horskey, posed as a you about it is because it didn’t explode,” said. “They’re there every day. It is the German Aryan and rented an offi ce on the Allan Hall said. “I clearly remember primary subject of conversation between 13th fl oor of the Hotel Warsaw in Febru- walking over to where it had penetrated your parents and friends. So you grow up ary of 1942. Hall’s mother, Maria Horskey, the street and the ground and came all the in an environment steeped in a sense of and then 6-year-old brother, Adam Janush way down to the sub-basement where we injustice at the highest level and what it is Horowitz (now Allan Hall), did not leave were. I remember seeing four or six feet you can do to make sure it never happens that offi ce for more than two years. When of it exposed, and we could clearly see the again. It’s very much a profound part of Edmund left for work, Maria and Adam hid German marking on it.” my personality.” in a dark closet during the day, only a whis- per away from disaster. THE ESCAPE “Literally across the partition, there “[Terrorism A few years after the war ended, Hall’s was an offi ce full of people working, and father was arrested by Poland’s new com- if they would’ve heard us, that would’ve cases] are more munist regime. Hall’s mother did not been instant death,” said Allan Hall, want to take any risks with the safety of Andrew’s older brother who also gradu- visible, so the her sons, and she sent them out of Poland ated from UF Law in 1968. “Directly two with other Jewish war orphans making fl oors above us was the Polish headquar- stakes are their way to Palestine, now Israel. ters of the German Luftwaffe, which was For nine months, Hall and his brother the air force in Poland. My father’s theory higher.” wandered through Europe without their was that the closer we got to their head- parents and without identifi cation papers. quarters, the less likely they were to look The Polish rebellion surrendered in “We would walk 15, 20, 30 miles for us.” October. Warsaw’s German conquer- a day with Andy mostly riding on my In August of 1944, the Poles rose ors ordered everyone to leave and then shoulders,” Allan Hall said. against their Nazi occupiers in the heroic burned the city to the ground. Still work- During the trip, Andrew contracted but doomed Warsaw Uprising. Hall’s ing to avoid capture, Hall’s family es- measles and Allan stayed with him in a family moved from the offi ce to anoth- caped through the sewer system. The ex- German hospital while the group of or- er building’s coal cellar where he was hausted family made its way to Krakow, phans continued their journey. Mean- eventually born. Allan Hall remembers Poland, arriving in November of 1944 while, the boys’ parents, after Edmund running through sniper fi re to get there. and remaining until the war’s end. Horskey escaped from incarceration, Although the coal cellar was thought to Although Hall was too young to re- searched for their children, hitting a cold be safer than the rented room, it was a member his life in Warsaw, it still impacts trail in Munich. In a weird twist of fate, miracle that the family lived through it. him today. they recognized a cousin on a Munich

Andrew Hall, right, as attorney for the families of sailors killed in the bombing of the USS Cole, speaks with reporters outside the Norfolk Federal Court building in Norfolk, Va., Feb. 27, 2007. AP PHOTO/GARY C. KNAPP PHOTO/GARY AP

24 UF LAW Allen, left, and Andrew Hall returned to Poland in 1993 with their families to revisit their childhood haunts.

street. That cousin had come to Munich Hall graduated from UF Law in “I had no idea that it would start me to take the brothers back to Palestine after 1968; if he had passed a Spanish class in on a 16-year journey that would be as receiving a letter from Andrew asking for undergrad, he and Allan would’ve been difficult and complex as it has been,” help. The family was reunited at last. a part of the same class. Instead, Allan Hall said. “But the fact of the matter is fi nished a semester before Andrew. it’s one of those things that once I start- COMING TO AMERICA Andrew Hall clerked for Judge Joe ed it, I’ve never looked back; I’ve never On Feb. 6, 1947, the reunited family fl ew Eaton before going to work for a fi rm in regretted it.” to New York and to freedom. They fi rst Miami. In 1975, he opened his own fi rm, And although state-sponsored ter- lived in Newburgh, N.Y. before moving now known as Hall, Lamb & Hall. rorism cases are just a small part of to Miami. Hall’s practice, he takes a lot of pride in Both brothers earned their undergradu- ANDREW HALL TODAY helping the victims. ate degrees from the University of Florida. Although Andrew Hall once wanted to “They’re more visible, so the Allan worked as a builder after gradua- be a doctor, he has become an excep- stakes are higher. It’s the one case tion, and Andrew was pre-med, but both tional lawyer, Allan Hall said. where if I walk into a cocktail party eventually entered UF Law. “In my opinion, he has one of the and there’s a guy in the military that’s “I took the LSAT on a lark and basi- best legal minds,” Allan Hall said. “I there, he will routinely walk over, shake cally backed in,” Andrew Hall said. “I don’t consider myself a good lawyer, but he my hand, and thank me for the case know if this is true anymore, but if you got a leaves me in the dust.” because he knows that there are civil- high enough score, you were automatically Since winning the Chad Hall case, ians out there fighting,” he said. “That’s admitted, so all of a sudden taking the LSAT Andrew Hall has represented numerous the whole point. Notwithstanding as a lark — it was on a dare — I got auto- other victims of state-sponsored terror- the fact that I’m a civilian, it allows matically admitted into law school. I fi gured ism including the families of the victims me to basically fight, in my way, that must mean something.” of the USS Cole bombing. against terrorism.” ■

FALL 2008 25 Switching Courts From the home court to Drug Court, Judge Andy Owens makes the goal.

BY JAMES HELLEGAARD

26 UF LAW n the old Alligator Alley, Andy having a felony on your record carries Owens (JD 72) could feel his way through for the rest of your life.” “I think the lessons around the basketball court. With The goal of the Court Intervention Pro- that you learn in his teammates at the Univer- gram is to help these young people make sity of Florida in the late 1960s, changes in their lives that will lead them to athletics apply well Owens sweated through count- make better decisions. First-time offenders less practices, scrimmages and who complete the program can have their to life; primarily Igames at Florida Gym, devoting endless charges dismissed. For others who have hours to dribbling around the well-worn multiple offenses on their record, the hope persistence.” hardwood and fi nding those places where is the program will help them turn their he could launch shots with a feeling so true lives around. ly received a pardon from Gov. Jeb Bush, he thought he couldn’t miss. Emotion wells up in Owens’ eyes and who posed for a photo with her that sits in “Every day I’d go up early and stay late in his voice when he talks about the people Owens’ offi ce. and pick different spots on the fl oor and whose lives literally have been saved by the Owens-Philhower has gone on to shoot 30 or 40 jump shots,” recalls Owens, drug court. One woman walked into Ow- work as counselor to help others get off who set school records his senior year for ens’ courtroom in 1997 with a long list of drugs, and this fall opened her own out- points in a season in 1969-70, when he av- 10 felony convictions on her record, includ- patient drug and alcohol recovery pro- eraged 27 points per game, a UF mark that ing drugs and prostitution. gram in Ocala called Recovery Road. still stands. “When the game comes and Brenda Owens-Philhower grew up in She has been a featured speaker for The you can get the ball in that spot, you know Sarasota. She began using drugs at age 13. Florida Bar, the Guardian Ad Litem Pro- you’re going to make it. To me that’s the By the time she went before Owens at the gram and Florida’s drug courts. She’s way I could develop confi dence.” age of 33, she was estranged from her fam- been recognized with Florida’s Points of Today, after 25 years as a circuit judge ily and friends, addicted to crack cocaine Light Award by both Gov. Bush and cur- in Sarasota, Owens tries to instill that same and living behind a dumpster. She weighed rent Gov. Charlie Crist. persistence in young people whose lives 87 pounds. She and Judge Owens share a special couldn’t be more different than the one he “I was looking at a 10-year sentence,” relationship. The judge presided over has known, men and women living precari- recalls Owens-Philhower, who is no rela- Owens-Philhower’s wedding vows. Her ously on society’s edge. tion to the judge, though she now affection- youngest daughter, Elnora, 14, inspired by “I’ve always had a desire to try make ately refers to him as her long-lost uncle. “I the man who literally saved her mother’s life, a difference and help people,” Owens said had already been in prison once, and basi- wants to go on to law school, and her old- as he sat in his offi ce in the courthouse in cally Drug Court was not supposed to take est daughter, Dominique, 17, takes criminal downtown Sarasota. ‘I just felt that as a me because I was already a convicted felon justice classes at night while in high school. judge you would be able to make a differ- and had been to prison. But Judge Owens, He’s the fi rst person she calls when her girls ence in your community, and I certainly he knew I was going to die.” bring home their report cards. think that you can.” Given one more chance to turn her life “He cares about each individual,” Ow- A decade ago, Owens helped create a around, Owens-Philhower grabbed the ens-Philhower said of the judge. “He be- Mental Health Court in Sarasota, as well as opportunity with everything she had, be- lieves that addicts and alcoholics deserve a a Court Intervention Program. Also known coming the program’s fi rst graduate. She second chance. Not a lot of judges care about as Drug Court, the year-long outpatient pro- returns to Owens’ court every year so the us. Everything that I do in my life is because gram for felony drug offenders has given judge can present her with a medallion to of Judge Owens. Me getting my own busi- Owens a chance to reach out a hand and lift signify her accomplishment. She eventual- ness, me buying my own home, me getting up those who have fallen down into inde- scribable depths. “Kids today all feel bulletproof,” he said. Young people have a very diffi cult time reasoning abstractly, he explains, thinking bad things, like getting arrested for drugs, only happens to other people, it won’t hap- pen to them. It’s okay if I experiment, they think, I’ll never get in trouble. LITHERLAND PHOTOGRAPHER/CHIP STAFF Circuit Court Judge Andrew Owens confers with counsel on the fi rst “But regrettably, that’s not the case,” day of the Carlie Brucia murder trial Owens said. “And so a lot of good kids on Nov. 7, 2005. Joseph Smith was end up making a stupid decision. And now later convicted and sentenced to death for the abduction and killing they’re caught, arrested for a felony and of the 11-year-old Sarasota child. SARASOTA HERALD TRIBUNE SARASOTA

FALL 2008 27 my new car…when I got my fi rst new car he Born in Atlanta, Owens’ moved as a ketball in the state of Florida. While Ow- was the fi rst person I called…I’m crying. I child with his family to Tampa, where his ens and Neal Walk lit up the scoreboards cry when I talk about Andy.” father opened an auto parts business, Ow- in Gainesville, Artis Gilmore was helping Sitting in his chambers, Owens proudly ens Tire Company. turn Jacksonville University into a nation- points to the photos on the shelves of Ow- That’s where Owens sports career al title contender and Dave Cowens was ens-Philhower and the other men and wom- began, initially on the North Seminole dominating the backboards at Florida State en who have successfully turned their lives Little League baseball fi elds, where University. around in the Drug Court program. his teammates on Lou Boyles’ Phil- After graduating from UF Law, Ow- “That’s the driving force,” Owens said. lips 66ers included two future judges, ens began practicing law with a firm “You see by saving a mother, you save a Stan Morris (JD 71), a longtime circuit in Punta Gorda. The experience was a family. I can’t tell you the number of suc- judge in Gainesville, and Bobby Simms, real eye opener for Owens, who recalls cesses that we’ve had like that.” a circuit judge in Tampa who died he had no clue what he was doing. Ow- His own life would appear to any ob- in 2004. ens quickly learned the ropes under the server to be one long winning season. mentorship of former Judge Archie When his playing career at UF ended Odom, mainly handling small crimi- and Owens graduated with a bachelor’s “He believes that nal cases, and in 1977 moved with degree in fi nance, he wasn’t exactly addicts and alcoholics his wife to Sarasota, where he began sure what he wanted to do. He’d been deserve a second a civil trial practice representing selected in the National Basketball As- insurance companies with the law sociation draft, but as a seventh round chance. Not a lot of firm of Dickinson & Gibbons. choice, there was no guarantee he judges care about us. Although he was often so nervous would make the team and the money Everything that I do with energy and anticipation before wasn’t exactly great. basketball games that he was sick Eschewing an uncertain future in my life is because of to his stomach and could hardly eat, in basketball, Owens decided to take Judge Owens.” Owens enjoyed the competition in- advantage of a scholarship he’d been volved in playing sports, and battling offered by the NCAA and immediately en- Owens turned his attention to basketball another attorney in the courtroom brought tered law school at UF. But Owens, who in the 7th grade, when he led his team to the many of those same feelings back. had always done well in school, wasn’t pre- city championship. After winning the title “I just switched courts,” he says. pared for the academic rigors of law school, game, Owens invited his teammates to his Along with that sense of competition and his grades in his fi rst year suffered. house for a barbecue. It was there that his came long hours of preparation, however, “I think the lessons that you learn in ath- mom, much to her son’s initial embarrass- and something eventually had to give. In letics apply well to life, and primarily persis- ment, challenged the boys to a pick-up bas- this case, it was Owens’ marriage. Fol- tence,” said Owens, who quickly got himself ketball game in the backyard. lowing the split, he continued working all back on track academically. “And I think if “Well, as it turned out, my mother beat the time. Luckily, it was then that Owens you’re willing to do the work and are per- all of us,” Owens recalls with a laugh. “And caught a big break, a new circuit court sistent, you can achieve desired goals. And she had actually played college basketball judgeship had opened up in Sarasota, and that’s just what I had to do was buckle down for Agnes Scott. She could really shoot, and friends encouraged him to apply. and start working. I was not gifted intellectu- she had a two-handed shot, and none of us Owens credits “some really outstand- ally, so I had to spend some time and read and could do that. That was kind of fun.” ing people” who helped him and pushed study and re-read and study some more.” Owens distinguished himself as a prized his application in front of Florida Gov. Owens counts himself as fortunate basketball recruit at Hillsborough High as Bob Graham, and says it probably didn’t that both his parents were college gradu- he led his team to the state fi nals his last hurt that both he and Graham went to UF. ates. His father, Doug Owens, graduated two years. College programs from around In fact, Owens feels his connections to from Georgia Tech and was an engineer. the country offered him a scholarship, and UF have been the key to his success and His mother, Dottie, graduated from Ag- Owens narrowed his list to the traditional the reason he’s a circuit judge today. nes Scott. They instilled the importance powerhouses North Carolina and Kentucky, Although he’d made his living in the of education in their children, says Ow- along with the University of Florida, which courtroom for more than a decade, his ap- ens, whose sister, Elizabeth Kaplon, has had yet to really distinguish itself as a bas- pointment to the circuit bench in 1983 al- a doctorate in speech pathology, while his ketball program. lowed Owens to see things from a differ- brother, Parker, is a certifi ed public ac- Staying close to home, so his parents ent perspective. Those nervous feelings countant in Tampa. could continue to watch him play, was a ma- he had known before basketball games “Education was pushed in our home jor factor in his choice to come to Gaines- and prior to big cases as an attorney re- from the time we were born,” Owens re- ville. He looks back on it now as a great deci- tuned once again as Owens prepared to members. “You were always pushed that sion that would impact the rest of his life. take his seat behind the bench. you were going to go to college, and even Owens’ playing career at UF coincided “My stomach was just as upset, I was beyond the four-year degree.” with what was a golden era for college bas- just as nervous that fi rst day in court,” said

28 UF LAW Brenda Owens-Philhower with her daughters Dominique Owens (17), left, Elnora Evans (14), and husband Donald Philhower. Philhower-Owens is clean now and has opened her own addiction recovery program, Recovery Road Inc., in Ocala, Fla.

Owens, who initially split his time between the Court Intervention Program. He tells of Remarried several years ago, Owens Sarasota and Bradenton doing civil and di- the young man dressed in a suit and tie who credits the support of his wife, Melissa, vorce cases. “It’s still nerve-wracking. I still recently visited his offi ce and was such a far a third-grade teacher at Bay Haven Ele- get nervous when I go into court. And this is cry from the “horrible heroin addict” he’d mentary School, along with a very strong true about every judge — you always want to seen years earlier that Owens didn’t even faith with helping him get through the make the right decision. And I’m not going to recognize him. The man had since gradu- emotional ups and downs that can come tell you that the right decision always makes ated from college and now had a successful with his job. you feel good, because the law is not always career with a wife and children. At the pro- “I’m not going to tell you that every fair for every person in every instance. But gram’s recent graduation, Owens marveled night I can close the door and go home you want to make the right decision. And if at the progress made by another man who and shut it out because a lot of times you can help someone you like it.” had been estranged from his family. there are a lot of cases that you’re sitting In a quarter century as a judge, Ow- “He struggled, and we had a hard time. up late at night not only doing legal re- ens has presided over some high profi le It took him close to two years to get out of search but just wondering ‘did you make cases, including death penalty cases, this year-long program, but he never quit,” the right decision, what is the right deci- which he calls “such a horrible tragedy Owens said. “And there he is with his kids sion,’ ” Owens said. “But in general by for everyone involved that you will never and his wife. So it’s very, very rewarding. applying those principles you’re able to forget them.” I basically live for that.” close the door and realize that if you’re Today, Owens feels the greatest satis- Owens tells participants in the program going to be successful in the courtroom faction in helping others achieve victories that everybody’s life is a series of prob- you have to also be successful outside in their lives. Though he has no children lems, and encourages them to work with the courtroom. And you can only be of his own, Owens recounts their stories counselors to fi nd the self-discipline they successful outside the courtroom if you like a proud father. need to make good decisions. The problem can leave the courtroom in the court- Owens beams when he talks of the more many have is replicating the structure they room. So as best you can you have to be than “20 clean babies that have been born in” have in the program once they leave it. able to do that.” ■

FALL 2008 29 Weathering the

StormBY SCOTT EMERSON

ollow your feet on any sidewalk in any great American city and you will eventually stumble into urban decay — blighted cityscapes of littered streets lined with neglected and boarded- up homes in neighborhoods surrounded by closed businesses. Many of these neighborhoods once were respectable, even grand. Now, they are relegated to the poor and disenfranchised F— dark streets most of us try to avoid.

30 UF LAW Perhaps no city stands out more vividly agement issues. He was promoted to part- are mired in convoluted questions of inheri- as an example of this than New Orleans. For ner in 2006. tance where many heirs — often the grand- centuries considered the South’s most elegant In September of 2007, Marshall was one children or great-grandchildren of a deceased and prosperous city, New Orleans had fallen of 25 mid-career professionals awarded a owner of record — may have a claim but none on hard times by the time Hurricane Katrina Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in con- have maintained the property taxes. These plowed through in 2005. Already adrift in junction with the University of Pennsylva- abandoned properties pose serious health and urban blight before the storm, New Orleans nia’s Center for Urban Redevelopment Ex- safety threats to New Orleans’ residents and found herself choking on it afterwards. cellence (CUREx). As part of his fellowship, cause property values to sink. “Before joining NORA, ‘blight’ was Marshall, along with two other fellows, was Desperate to save itself from drowning merely a legal concept to me — something selected to work for NORA, an agency the in debt and squalor, the City of New Orleans that I recalled talking about in Professor foundation had identifi ed as a Gulf Coast en- expanded use of eminent domain to seize and Hunt’s preservation law seminar, Professor tity whose work it wished to support. Mar- rehabilitate abandoned and blighted proper- Perea’s constitutional law class or professors shall’s fellowship is funded through March ties. The city’s goal was to wield its eminent Nicholas or Juergensmeyer’s land use class of 2010. domain powers through NORA to clean up while studying eminent domain cases,” said “Urban redevelopment work is fascinat- the city, build new homes for its returning John T. Marshall (JD 97), a project manager ing because it draws on so many different Diaspora and jump-start the city’s economic for the New Orleans Redevelopment Au- disciplines, like tax law, property law, consti- redevelopment by returning real estate to thority (NORA). “That perception changed tutional law, land use and zoning law,” Mar- commerce. Marshall joined NORA just as the when I joined NORA. New Orleans is a city shall said. “There’s no question in my mind agency ramped up its expropriation efforts. of almost incomparable historic beauty and that I would not have received the Rockefell- “The city saw that NORA would have charm, but it has suffered from nearly a half- er Foundation fellowship and this opportu- to play an important role in addressing the century of population loss — and, as fami- nity to serve in New Orleans were it not for city’s blight problem,” said Marshall. “The lies have moved away or people have passed my professors at UF Law and my mentors at consensus among policymakers and local away, increasing numbers of homes have be- Holland & Knight, because they taught me elected offi cials was that NORA’s expropria- come forgotten.” that revitalizing cities presents many hidden tion powers could serve as a critical tool to NORA, formerly called the Community challenges and obstacles beyond designing a combat urban blight and could dramatically Improvement Agency, was created by state more attractive streetscape.” increase the number of public health and law in 1968 to “eliminate and prevent the safety expropriations.” spread of slums and blight.” Its principal AFTER THE STORM Marshall added that before NORA ex- legal tool to accomplish this is acquisition In 2000, the U.S. Census reported 27,000 propriates a property, the agency fi rst offers of abandoned and blighted properties using abandoned properties in New Orleans. In the to purchase the property from the owner of eminent domain — a process called expro- aftermath of Katrina that number ballooned record for its appraised value. This involves priation. to nearly 72,000 according to Greater New providing the last known owner, or the own- Historically under-funded and politically Orleans Community Data Center estimates. er’s heirs, with notice of NORA’s intent to troubled, NORA played only a minor role in Reasons vary for why properties in the take the property. New Orleans’ early redevelopment plans, but city were abandoned. For many, back taxes “The process also includes fi ling a civil in response to the vast devastation wrought owed on the property amounted to more than action in the state’s trial courts and, ultimate- by hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, the its market value. Others were abandoned af- ly, trying the case before the court,” Marshall city government breathed new life into the ter hurricane storm damage. Still other prop- said. “The interests of the owners and poten- tiny agency in early 2007. Money was in- erties, passed down through the generations tial heirs are represented at trial by a court- fused into the organization, its governing without the benefi t of formal deed transfers, appointed attorney or ‘curator.’ ” board was expanded and the state legislature was pressed by the city to pass laws increas- ing the agency’s ability to assemble land. For Marshall, NORA’s expansion would create an opportunity to use his education and legal skills to help the city in its redevel- opment efforts, but his career path to NORA isn’t one he anticipated. After graduating from the Levin College of Law with hon- ors in 1997, he clerked with U.S. Magistrate Judge Elizabeth A. Jenkins (JD 76) of the John T. Marshall U.S. District Court for the Middle District (right) speaks with of Florida in Tampa, Fla. In 1999, Marshall Gentilly-Pontchartrain joined the Holland & Knight fi rm as an as- Neighborhood Association members Emanuel sociate in its Tampa offi ce, where he gained Esteves Jr. (center) and experience working with local governments Victor Gordon (left) in front of the Gentilly

DAVID GRUNFELD/THE TIMES-PICAYUNE GRUNFELD/THE DAVID and businesses on zoning and growth man- Woods Shopping Center in March, 2008.

FALL 2008 31 If an agreement with the owner or heirs including Mary Dora Coghill Elementary TROUBLED WATERS is not reached, expropriated properties navi- School, Southern University and Dillard Uni- Despite NORA’s success rehabilitating aban- gate the legal channels and enter NORA’s versity. In the 1970s, like many U.S. neigh- doned properties in New Orleans using the property pipeline for redevelopment or reha- borhoods, the community saw signifi cant strategy of expropriation, eminent domain in bilitation. Once title is obtained, the property residential turnover. Now, after catastrophic the State of Louisiana has caused a political is then offered for sale to adjacent property damage caused by Katrina and its fl ood wa- part-in-the-water. owners in accordance to the Lot Next Door ters, the community is largely abandoned. At the center of this legal storm was the Ordinance. Passed in 2007, this ordinance “Before Hurricane Katrina, Pontchar- 2005 U. S. Supreme Court ruling in Kelo v. aims to stabilize and improve neighborhoods train Park was a very nice neighborhood City of New London, in which the court de- comprised of blighted lots and structures. If where kids could safely play in its huge cided local government could use eminent a neighbor does not purchase the property, park,” said Laurie Watt, president of Gentilly domain to take private property for the sole NORA works with the community to craft Civic Improvement Association, a coalition purpose of economic development. redevelopment proposals. of 19 neighborhood groups that advocates “The decision created a sort of ‘storm “Based on ongoing meetings with neigh- for rehabilitation and redevelopment of their surge’ of public backlash,” said Marshall. borhood leadership, NORA works with the storm-ravaged neighborhoods. “There was a “Immediately, people became frightened that community to craft a request for proposals golf course and a recently opened senior cen- the court’s decision would mean that their (RFPs) for rehabilitation and redevelopment ter. It was family-oriented with a lot of older local government could take their well-kept for neighborhood properties,” Marshall said. folks who were the original homeowners. home if the government articulated an eco- “This RFP is published in the Times-Pica- But today, the community suffers from the nomic development purpose for the expro- yune and transmitted to a database of neigh- ‘jack-o-lantern effect.’ ” priation or taking of property.” borhood leaders, interested individuals, and In the wake of nationwide outrage fol- non-profi t and for-profi t developers.” “Louisiana voters lowing the Kelo decision, lawmakers rushed In February 2008, Marshall helped recruit jumped on the anti-Kelo to draft amendments restricting the use of a team of 12 outside lawyers he now manag- eminent domain. According to the National es. These attorneys are pursuing expropria- bandwagon by passing Conference of State Legislatures, 39 states tion of more than 850 blighted or abandoned two ballot initiatives that... successfully passed measures restricting properties in the city, and each case will take government’s ability to seize private land roughly six to eight months to proceed to placed restrictions on the following the Kelo decision. trial from the time of fi ling. Using eminent resale of property...” Swept up in this tide of public disapproval domain, NORA has or will soon obtain titles of the Kelo court’s holding, Louisiana voters to more than 250 blighted properties. These “This is where a nice rebuilt home is next enacted two constitutional amendments that properties have recently been packaged into door to a lot with 8-foot weeds growing next eliminated the possibility that a local govern- seven different neighborhood RFPs and put to a dilapidated house, next to another lot of ment could use eminent domain to achieve out for bid by small entrepreneurs, for-profi t weeds. It’s just like teeth carved in a jack-o- economic development. The amendments developers, and non-profi t developers. Once lantern, except this goes on for blocks,” Watt also had the potential to be interpreted as the new owners take title, they have nine explained. circumscribing government’s use of eminent months to eliminate health and safety code According to the U.S. Census Bureau, domain to eliminate threats to public health violations and begin redevelopment or reha- the population of Orleans Parrish in 2005 and safety — a basic governmental power bilitation. was 453,726. In 2007, the population had long accepted. As part of the overall recovery scheme, plummeted to 239,124. Using postal records “Louisiana voters jumped on the anti- NORA and the city developed recovery tar- to measure recovery, the Greater New Or- Kelo bandwagon by passing two ballot ini- get zones — areas where the city would focus leans Community Data Center determined tiatives that provided a detailed defi nition use of federal disaster funds. With one of the the number of households in Pontchartrain of ‘public purpose’ and placed restrictions highest percentages of abandoned properties Park dropped from 1,025 in 2005 to 389 in on the resale of property that the state had in New Orleans, Pontchartrain Park, featur- 2008. previously expropriated,” said Michael Al- ing one of the city’s most distinctive parks As NORA’s community liaison, Marshall lan Wolf, a UF professor of law and chapter and a loyal group of longtime residents, be- consults regularly with community leaders author of “Hysteria versus History: Public came a strategic area of focus for NORA’s like Watt to learn the community’s wishes in Use in the Public Eye,” in a book entitled, redevelopment efforts. regard to redevelopment. Private Property, Community Development, Developed in 1954, Pontchartrain Park “John Marshall has been the voice of and Eminent Domain. was one of the fi rst areas in New Orleans de- NORA,” Watt said. “He has fi elded thousands “It seemed as if politicians and activ- signed to provide homeownership to middle- of questions during community meetings and ists throughout the nation felt the need to and upper-income African-Americans. This provided information resources for countless respond to the anti-Kelo sentiment, to take model community near the shores of Lake action committees. He and his organization advantage of that sentiment to achieve Pontchartrain was built around a city-owned have done a great job in our community.” their preexisting goal of placing restraints park and golf-course designed by Joseph Watt added that while there are other on government acquisition and regulation M. Bartholomew Sr., a nationally-known agencies and ongoing efforts addressing aban- for real property, or both,” said Wolf who African-American golf course designer. As doned property, NORA has consistently been holds the UF Levin College of Law Rich- families began to move into the community, there to provide information to action groups ard E. Nelson Chair in Local Government. churches, businesses and schools thrived, about current programs and how they work. The fi rst measure passed by Louisiana voters

32 UF LAW tory expropriation authority,” Marshall said. “This lawsuit represented a direct challenge to NORA’s critical power to return thousands of dilapidated and blighted properties to commerce by taking property and conveying the land to private persons and entities who agree to remediate the properties’ blighted conditions.” In May 2008, the case went before Judge Madeline Landrieu in civil district court. In her decision she wrote it would be “nonsen- sical” to offer expropriated property back to the person responsible for the blight. Homes in the Pontchartrain Park “The court fi nds that the amendments neighborhood were fl ooded to their passed in 2006 do not preclude the city from eaves following Katrina when the levies of bordering canals were expropriating properties that are blighted in breached. Now about two-thirds of the context in which the city has historically the homes are unoccupied. acted, so the exception to the constitutional- KATHY ANDERSON/THE TIMES-PICAYUNE KATHY ity is overruled,” concluded Judge Landrieu. was Amendment 5. It provided that an ac- it can be transferred to a third party, and that Marshall joined a team of legal experts rep- ceptable “public purpose” for expropriation seized property must be fi rst offered for sale resenting NORA in this landmark case that is the “removal of a threat to public health or at fair market value to the owner, or the own- included Chris Gobert, one of Louisiana’s safety caused by the existing use or disuse of er’s heirs, from which it was seized. These top expropriation attorneys, Frank Alexan- the property.” However, the amendment also could negate the city’s incentive to expropri- der, former dean and professor at Emory states “property shall not be taken or dam- ate blighted properties and seem to gut its University School of Law and John Costo- aged by the state or its political subdivisions strategy of using expropriation to eliminate nis, professor and former chancellor of Lou- for the predominate use by any private per- threats to public health and safety. isiana State University. The Burgess case is son or entity or for the transfer of ownership However, Marshall said NORA doesn’t now on appeal to Louisiana’s intermediate to any private person or entity.” believe the 2006 constitutional amendments appellate court. A brief on behalf of Burgess This provision seemed to challenge prevent it from using its statutory power to was fi led in October, and NORA fi led a re- NORA’s strategy of taking blighted private expropriate properties as a means to elimi- sponse soon after. property and transferring it to another private nate threats to “public health and safety.” entity, such as Habitat for Humanity, and “The primary purpose of NORA’s expro- ROUGH WATERS AHEAD? was in stark contrast to the verdict handed priation of blighted property is not to transfer Today, NORA’s quest to turn the tide on down in Kelo v. City of New London. In the the property to a third-party,” said Marshal. urban decay continues despite voter rejec- Kelo decision, Associate Justice John Paul “It is to accomplish removal of a proven tion of an amendment on the Nov. 4 ballot Stevens, writing for the majority, said New threat to public health or safety.” that would have clarifi ed the meaning of the London could pursue private development To force examination of the constitu- troublesome Amendment 6. The law remains under the Fifth Amendment, which allows tionality of the amendments, NORA quietly that expropriated properties must be held for governments to take private property if the sought an appropriate suit to make its case. 30 years before being sold to a third party. land is for public use. The suit found the agency fi rst. Now, all eyes are fi xed on the appellate “Promoting economic development is a court. If the Burgess family prevails in the traditional and long accepted governmental BURGESS V. NORA appellate and Louisiana Supreme courts, function, and there is no principled way of In 1997, the City of New Orleans demolished the result will be a signifi cant setback for distinguishing it from the other public pur- an abandoned building on two lots owned by New Orleans’ efforts to use eminent do- poses the Court has recognized,” Stevens Joseph Burgess. At the time of demolition, main to resuscitate dozens of neighborhoods wrote, adding that local offi cials are better po- Burgess owed years of back taxes and fi nes crippled by neglected and abandoned prop- sitioned than federal judges to decide what’s for health and code violations. Burgess — erties. But, the determination of the people best for the community. Moreover, both the believed to be deceased — is survived by of New Orleans to rebuild despite these po- majority opinion and the dissent in Kelo fully heirs who could inherit any profi ts from the litical woes is a testament to their resolve. embraced the use of eminent domain — and sale of the lots. “Spending evenings and weekend days with the transfer of expropriated property to third In 2007, Burgess, represented by a court- the residents in their homes, church halls, parties — when the taking eliminates some appointed curator, sued NORA on the grounds schools and community centers has been “harmful property use.” that Amendment 6 prevents the agency from transformative for me,” Marshall said. “The Amendment 6 arguably undermines the transferring the property to Habitat for Hu- people who have returned to New Orleans ability of governments to transfer expropri- manity and makes it mandatory for NORA to following the storm are the most informed ated property to a third party. The combined offer to sell the property back to Burgess. and resilient citizens I’ve ever encoun- force of the two amendments seems to be a “Since 1994, NORA has expropriated tered.” mandate that seized property must be held thousands of blighted properties and has Marshall is certain they will fi nd a way for 30 years by the seizing authority before never been accused of abusing its statu- to weather the storm. ■

FALL 2008 33 Legal Technology

Electronic101 Practice Management and E-Discovery Revolutionize the Modern Practice of Law.

34 UF LAW PART I: One of the challenges for fi rms estab- It’s the really nitpicky stuff that has to be Making the case for lishing case and practice management sys- discussed.” electronic practice tems is in identifying which of the multiple While the set-up and implementation practice management systems will work for might be time consuming, the benefi ts of management the entire fi rm and its individual attorneys. installing a system that addresses the spe- “The ways in which lawyers practice cifi c needs of the fi rm, its attorneys and BY ADRIANNA C. RODRIGUEZ law are different. Even lawyers who prac- support staff pays off in the form of “oper- or those attorneys who tice the same type of law, or lawyers in the ating effi ciency,” increased effi ciency and have trouble program- same fi rm, don’t do it the same way,” Ad- productivity. ming their VCRs — and kins said. “Technology tends to standardize In a presentation, “Turning CHAOS you know who you are the way we do things; for instance time and into Cases,” Adkins estimated that imple- — mastering technology billing is cut and dry, but you can’t really menting practice management systems to install case and practice standardize the way that you practice law could save each attorney in a fi rm 15 min- management systems in and I think that’s one of the things holding utes per day. At $300 per hour, an addition- their law practices might seem like the im- people back.” al 15 minutes per day could translate into Fpossible dream. The good news is that case Through the Legal Technology Institute, $375 per week, or $1,500 per month for a and practice management systems result in Adkins travels to fi rms around the country total of $18,000 per year in increased bill- more effi cient use of attorney and staff time as a consultant. To date, the institute has able time. and a boost in productivity, resulting in sig- worked with more than 300 law fi rms, law While case and practice management nifi cant savings to the fi rm that is a dream departments, courts and law schools. systems have come a long way, they still come true. As a consultant, Adkins recommends have a ways to go, according to Adkins. The right case and practice manage- fi rms implement case and practice man- He estimates between 35 to 40 percent ment systems can help a fi rm’s attorneys agement systems in three phases. First, the of law fi rms around the country use a case and staff streamline both administrative, or interview phase where the fi rm’s needs are or practice management system. He expects “back offi ce,” and professional, or “front identifi ed and compiled into a report. This adoption of case and practice management offi ce” operations, such as case manage- is followed by the implementation phase systems to peak at about 60 percent within ment, software for substantive areas of law, where the software and hardware necessary the next fi ve to seven years. docketing and calendaring, document as- to establish the systems are put in place. Adkins has dubbed the latest in case and sembly, litigation support and research. Finally, the follow-up phase consisting of practice management systems as the “fourth “With a case management system, this training and testing is completed. generation.” This newest technology has the is really putting technology in the hands of “Part of my job as a consultant is to added capability of managing workfl ow by the lawyers,” said Andrew Z. Adkins III, educate them as to what’s available,” Ad- creating a sort of checklist that automati- director of the Legal Technology Institute. kins said. “[The practice management sys- cally routes items, tasks, documents, events Adkins has been working with case and tems] all basically do the same thing… . and alerts to people based on their role in practice management systems for more than 20 years. Practice management combines case management and other front offi ce tasks, and back offi ce tasks into one system. Firms conduct back offi ce and front of- fi ce tasks every day, but there is usually an overlap in record keeping which results in duplication of effort. Practice management systems allow for all those individual tasks to be stored in a central database, resulting in one-time data entry. Andy Adkins (left) and Larry Once data is entered, the central data- Marraffi no co-teach Law Practice Management. The base allows for increased effi ciency, pro- class is designed to teach ductivity and effectiveness within a fi rm’s upper-level law students the staff and attorneys, in part because mul- ins and outs of practicing law, from time and billing tiple users can access the data simultane- to case and practice ously to quickly fi nd information through management systems. search functions.

FALL 2008 35 case or matter. This is especially helpful at the end of the semester. The invoice Florida-based company InTouch in streamlining operations such as opening must be formatted to include date, client Legal specializes in legal office tech- new matters and confl ict checking. matter, description, and bills the profes- nology. When identifying the needs of “If you think of this process as a lot of sors for the amount of time spent in class, her clients, InTouch Legal President paper, that’s a lot of time in trying to track sending e-mails, attending meetings, Debbie Foster said she often encounters that information,” Adkins said. “If you can working on the project and studying. lawyers with the misconception that the do everything on a computer, then you get While the students set their own rates, management system is only for the use rid of the paper, and the the mock bills remain of their assistants. workfl ow system cre- “A small firm has outstanding. She makes it clear that for manage- ates a checklist for the got to find a way “It’s really an eye ment software to be effective, all mem- software to automati- opener for them,” bers of a fi rm must be committed to ded- cally route necessary in- to do more with said Adkins of the icating the time and resources to mak- formation to the appro- less and be more students who have ing it work for their fi rm, Foster said. In priate departments.” productive and never billed attorney addition, because of the time investment Another challenge in efficient.” fees before. “Most required up front to learn the new sys- the adoption of case and of these kids have tem, many don’t take full advantage of practice management technology is lack of worked for $10 an hour and here they are systems they have implemented. experience with the software. The key, Ad- charging $200, $300, $400 an hour.” “We are just all busy and the thought kins said, is to reach law students early. Marraffi no is no stranger to technol- of putting the brakes on to think about To this end, the University of Florida ogy. The solo practitioner has built his change and implementing new soft- is one of fewer than a dozen law schools Gainesville personal injury and civil liti- ware is just not an easy place to get to,” around the country that teaches a class gation practice around technology. Foster said. on law practice management, which in- “The whole reason I started my own Foster has seen an increase in small cludes lessons on case and practice man- practice was an excuse to buy a com- and mid-sized fi rms implementing case agement systems. puter,” said Marraffi no jokingly remem- and practice management systems and The class focuses on teaching students bering the monochromatic monitor and thinks it will continue. She estimated both the technological and logistical as- daisywheel printer he purchased when the cost for a fi rm of implementing man- pects of practice management. It has been opening his fi rst practice over 22 years agement software ranges between $800 co-taught by Adkins and Gainesville-area ago. “I love technology.” and $1,500 per person. attorney Lawrence J. Marraffi no (JD 84) The computer and printer was his For small and mid-sized fi rms, Fos- since the early 2000s. largest start-up investment, he said. ter said the leading practice manage- “It gets the students ready for the real In his practice, Marraffi no uses Aba- ment software her company installed practice of law coming out of school,” said cusLaw for practice management and was Amicus Attorney and Time Matters Marraffi no, who volunteers his time to teach Best Case bankruptcy software. Among by LexisNexis. the class. “I do it because I think it’s impor- the advantages of the software, Mar- “A small firm has got to find a way tant for the students.” raffi no cites its ability to automate his to do more with less and be more pro- The class doesn’t teach students how research and fi lings. ductive and efficient and there is no to litigate, but rather prepares them for the In addition, Marraffi no has installed other single investment that they can transition from the academic to the profes- remote log-on technology so he can ac- make that will help them achieve that,” sional world. It blends practice manage- cess his offi ce computer and network Foster said. “It’s the most bang for your ment, the daily ins and outs of billing and from anywhere. Such technology even buck when you’re looking for a way case management, as well as record keep- allowed him to complete an emergency to streamline.” ing, time management and marketing. fi ling for a bankruptcy case from an Ital- Both Foster and Adkins agree it’s the Adkins teaches the technological side of ian Internet café while on vacation. new generation of lawyers just coming practice and case management while Mar- He has also automated his messag- out of school, those who have lived life raffi no instructs students on handling dif- ing service and Dictaphone and is also in Outlook, that will make the biggest ferent types of clients and litigation, as well looking into adding Voice Over Internet push towards adopting practice manage- as accessing resources, joining professional Protocol. ment systems. organizations and getting a practice started. Marraffi no’s goal is to have a near-pa- “Technology is always changing and By the end, students develop a prac- perless offi ce within the next year. Among the new generations of lawyers that are tice management business plan as well as the advantages of a paperless offi ce, he coming who grew up with technology the fi rst part of fi lings in a practical prob- cites ease of document management and are starting to demand the use of tech- lem in areas anywhere from estates and access. Marraffi no’s personal injury prac- nology,” Adkins said. “They are the ones trust to bankruptcy. tice produces volumes of paper records, that are pushing buttons in law fi rms “This is one of the joys of teaching this such as medical records, which he cur- today. The newer crop coming in who class,” Adkins said. “It’s just so cool.” rently has to haul to the court for trial. grew up with multitasking, cell phone Most importantly, the students present “If I were paperless all I’d have to do and laptops. They are not the traditional Adkins and Marraffi no with an invoice is bring my PC to court,” he said. lawyers.” ■

36 UF LAW PART II: Ralph Losey (right), e-discovery author, joined Discovering Professor Bill Hamilton (left) in his e-discovery e-discovery class Oct. 28.

BY IAN FISHER f Abraham Lincoln were to step into the offi ces of a modern law fi rm, chances are good he’d en- counter a familiar sight — young associates poring over reams of “The University of Florida should be tices in the fi eld. One aspect of e-discov- legal papers. very excited about its leadership in this ery The Sedona Conference® emphasizes “We’ve been graduating peo- area,” said Hamilton, who serves as co- is cooperation with opposing counsel on ple out of law school who are prepared to chair of Holland & Knight’s e-discovery discovery issues. I team. “Other law schools have got to step “You want to be adversarial, obvi- practice law in the 19th century,” said noted e-discovery writer Ralph Losey, a share- up to the plate and teach electronic discov- ously, but at the same time, I don’t think holder at Akerman Senterfi tt. “They’re pre- ery because it’s a critical skill out there that you want to be adversarial on the issues pared to work with Abe Lincoln, who had a judges are looking for. It’s almost a survival pertaining to what information is avail- partner and an associate. They went through skill at this point. That’s why The Sedona able,” said Joseph P. Guglielmo, a plain- papers, and they went to a trial courtroom.” Conference® has come here in recognition tiff e-discovery expert for Whaley, Drake Losey said technology is driving elec- of Florida’s leadership in the e-discovery & Kallas. tronic discovery into the most rapidly- education world for students.” Ken Withers, a distinguished e-discov- evolving fi eld in the legal profession, but E-Discovery Evening panelist Patrick ery writer with The Sedona Conference®, law schools and lawyers are behind the Oot, Verizon’s director of electronic dis- moderated the event. Withers said two curve in adapting. In general, law students covery and senior coun- events have heightened are still trained to review a limited number sel, gave the example of E-Discovery= the importance of e-dis- of documents and build a case around what Verizon buying out MCI $13.5 million covery. The fi rst of these is given to them. That doesn’t bode well to illustrate how compli- were the amendments for effi cient management of today’s cases, cated and expensive e-dis- in billings for in 1983 and 1993 to the which can have millions of electronic docu- covery issues can be. Dur- outside counsel Federal Rules of Civil ments in a variety of formats that must be ing the legal preparation in one case alone. Procedure to facilitate reviewed, Losey said. for the buy-out, more than greater discovery. The “You’re not trained to deal with 5 mil- 2.4 million documents — 1.3 terabytes other driving factor in growing infl uence lion documents. Cases now — with just 10 of data — were reviewed. This required of e-discovery is the desktop PC and the witnesses in a corporation — they’re going 115 attorneys at one fi rm doing privilege exponential increase and ease in access- to have millions of documents,” Losey said. review and 110 attorneys at another fi rm ing information the PC makes possible. “You cannot look at each document. That’s doing timeline review. It took four months “Discovery went from being a means the real world; it’s not the Abe Lincoln world with attorneys working every day for 16 to an end — getting to trial — to being the of just having a few paper documents.” hours a day to fi nish the review, Oot said, end in and of itself,” he said. “The number Losey was one of a distinguished panel resulting in legal billings of $13.5 million of cases that actually go to trial decreased, of experts who addressed the emerging im- for outside counsel alone. and it’s now less than 3 percent of all cas- portance of electronic discovery during an Oot recently read an article indicating es fi led… . The stakes of discovery were “E-Discovery Evening” held Oct. 28 at UF only about 200 lawyers nationwide han- thereby raised.” which was co-sponsored by The Sedona dle e-discovery issues well. Oot said that All E-Discovery Evening speakers Conference® and the Levin College of Law. number needs to grow quickly and that agreed that this is the future of discovery “The Levin College of Law is one of advances in technology will streamline and students should try to learn about it. the fi rst law schools in the nation to offer a electronic discovery in the future. “Be smart, look at where the future course in what is being called ‘e-discovery,’ ” “As our general counsel put it when is, look at the trend,” Losey said. “This said Robert Jerry, dean and Levin Mabie and we fi rst started this [e-discovery] group, is where the opportunity lies. Take these Levin professor of law. “We’re very pleased he said, ‘This is the only practice within courses on e-discovery; learn about it. No- that, thanks to Adjunct Professor Bill Ham- the company that I actually see growing,’ body else in the fi rms you go to is going to ilton, we are also now the fi rst to co-sponsor ” Oot said. “Federal regulatory, litigation, know anything about it, trust me… There a conference on the topic with the very well- antitrust, intellectual property — he sees are a few fi rms, but there are very few, so respected Sedona Conference.” those groups shrinking where we’re hir- this is a time of opportunity. You’ve got to Hamilton, a Holland & Knight e-discov- ing people all the time.” study this stuff.” ery expert who organized the event, teaches With the e-discovery fi eld growing so For more information about e-discov- an e-discovery class — one of the fi rst in the rapidly, The Sedona Conference® has been ery and The Sedona Conference®, visit www. country — at the Levin College of Law. at the forefront of establishing best prac- law.ufl .edu/news/events/ediscovery/. ■

FALL 2008 37 Raising the Bar Jay White represents the state’s legal profession as president of The Florida Bar.

BY ADRIANNA C. RODRIGUEZ

irtually overnight, “Jay is truly a lawyer’s lawyer, having seven years practicing commercial and John “Jay” G. White represented many lawyers and firms complex business litigation, personal in- III’s (JD 83) client in his outstanding career,” said Gerald jury, wrongful death, professional mal- base swelled into F. Richman, president of the Richman practice litigation, class actions and of- the thousands. When Greer, P.A., firm. “It is very fitting that ficer and director representation. White took offi ce as his ‘clients’ will now include the 85,000 “As a double Gator (BS 62, JD 64), I Vthe 60th president of The Florida Bar, he members of The Florida Bar.” am very proud of Jay White,” Richman took on representation for the estimated White, a shareholder, director and said. 85,000 members of The Florida Bar. partner at Richman Greer, is the fifth at- White takes office as statewide budget And, as White points out, that number torney from the firm to serve as presi- cuts put a crunch on the judiciary. He grows with every bar examination dent of The Florida Bar in nearly half a is especially concerned about the more administered. century. He has been with the firm for than 10 percent budget cuts to the courts,

38 UF LAW profession and increasing mentorship opportunities for young attorneys. “It is important He stressed the importance of The we teach young Florida Bar and all of its committees, as well as all those committees not under attorneys that if you The Florida Bar, reflecting the makeup of are professional, civil, the bar’s population and providing broad representation for all its members. honest and have a Among the first steps towards the good moral compass, diversity goal is ensuring all members of the bar are aware when openings occur in those things are far the judicial system and apply for them. more important than This includes alerting members of the more than 150 voluntary specialty bars winning cases.” and local bars across the state, such as bar associations for women and minority as a young professional. Among them, attorneys, by e-mail when positions he mentioned UF graduate Robert V. become available. Romani (JD 73) and retired attorney Ed Another important step is having Campbell. senior members of the bar call and “I had wonderful mentors as a young encourage younger members and lawyer, not only did they teach me the minority members of the bar to get substance of law, but how we should be involved and to apply for openings. professional and civil in our practice,” Improving diversity requires young White said. attorneys get involved with The Florida White began learning those lessons Bar and voluntary specialty bars early during his time as a student at the on in their careers. University of Florida. He graduated in “The earlier you get involved the 1980 with an undergraduate degree in earlier you can build your reputation,” political science. White said. “I feel like I got a wonderful education One way White has identified to help and had a lot of fun doing it,” he said of get young lawyers involved in the bar his time at UF. from the beginning of their careers is As a law student, White received through mentorship programs. the American Jurisprudence Award in A committee is in the process of Administrative Law. During his time at looking into structuring a mentorship UF, White was a member of Phi Beta program for students and first- and Kappa Honor Society, Phi Kappa Phi second-year attorneys, White said. Honor Society, Phi Delta Phi Legal Some law schools are also participat- Society and Sigma Alpha Epsilon ing in the process of developing mentor- fraternity.

PHOTO BY MARK WALLHEISER MARK BY PHOTO ship programs. For White, the earlier Almost 25 years after finishing students and young attorneys become his studies at UF, White takes on the which could force delays throughout the involved in mentorship and attorney challenge of leading The Florida Bar. judicial system. groups the better. One of his many priorities during his As president, White has begun “It is important we teach young tenure, mentorship of young attorneys, looking into alternative solutions. He attorneys that if you are professional, stems from his experiences as a student hopes to resolve the problem before civil, honest and have a good moral and young attorney. leaving office. compass, those things are far more “It is really important that we teach “We need to find an adequate, important that winning cases,” White young lawyers and law students what is permanent funding source for the said. “Don’t get me wrong, winning appropriate and what is not appropriate,” judiciary,” he said. cases is important, but not at the extent White said. “The most important message In addition to addressing the budget of being unprofessional.” is that you can be professional and cuts, during his tenure, White will also White’s commitment to mentorship civil and still be a great lawyer and a focus on improving diversity in the legal stems from dedicated mentors he had great advocate.” ■

FALL 2008 39 Move over Judge Judy Judge Karen is in The House! Karen Mills-Francis is the star of a new daytime courtroom reality show, “Judge Karen.”

BY IAN FISHER

fter a chance encounter Further, her courtroom has a witness in a parking garage in stand and the witnesses are sequestered Miami, Judge Karen during other testimony. This is more Mills-Francis (JD representative of a real courtroom, while 87) had an idea for the other court TV shows often have the her next career step. witnesses standing with the litigants AMills-Francis was a county judge through the whole trial. for Miami-Dade County when she ran “When I agreed to do this show, it into her colleague, Circuit Judge David was important to me that it be court and Young, in the spring of 2007. Young had then entertaining,” Mills-Francis said. just been hired for his own TV show, The show also includes an “Ask which is now in its second season. Judge Karen” segment at the end of each “I saw him in the garage parking lot episode. Viewers send in videotaped and I congratulated him, and I said, ‘I legal questions, and Mills-Francis wonder why nobody has ever contacted researches their questions and answers me about a court show,’ ” Mills-Francis them on-air. Before stepping down from the said. “About two weeks later, I got a Mills-Francis is satisfi ed with how the bench in April to begin working on her call from someone from Sony Pictures show has developed, and it is doing well in program, Mills-Francis was a county Television asking if I would be willing the ratings, she said. judge in Miami. She won an election in to come to New York to audition for a “It’s kind of hard to be objective, be- 2000 against a 24-year incumbent judge. show. I did, and here I am today.” cause it is me on TV,” she said. “Of course Campaigning gave her a new sense of After a recommendation to Sony I’m going to say ‘Oh it’s a wonderful show, her community, she said. from Young, Mills-Francis is now TV’s because I did a great job.’ But then, others Mills-Francis handled domestic vio- “Judge Karen,” which began airing on have to say that, and I guess they have spo- lence, criminal traffi c and general mis- Sept. 8 in syndication. To differentiate ken because we have very good ratings.” demeanor cases as a judge. her program from others in the saturated According to Sony, the show is one of Prior to becoming a judge, Mills- court-TV show market, Mill-Francis the highest rated shows in Miami. Francis served as a traffi c magistrate for made a few innovative additions. For Mills-Francis was born and raised in two years in Miami. She also worked as example, she is the only TV judge who Miami, which some might call the TV a public defender and as a private de- allows the litigants in her courtroom to judge capitol of the world. Five of the fense attorney after law school. While direct and cross examine their witnesses, judges on TV came from Miami, Mills- working as a public defender in the which often turns contentious. Francis said. juvenile division, she began to notice

40 UF LAW some big problems with the juvenile defense attorney. I won on both sides, and justice system. “People talk about I got such a thrill out of being in trial that I “I was shocked when I went to juve- the problems and knew that it was what I needed to do.” nile court at the number of children who the conditions in adult Although TV judges didn’t exist when were sleeping on fl oors at the juvenile Mills-Francis was in law school, she draws detention center because they had no prisons, but nobody on her real-life courtroom experience to de- parent that would come and get them,” talks about what cide cases on her show. Mills-Francis said. “People talk about goes on with “A friend of mine said to me yester- the problems and the conditions in adult day that I’m real,” Mills-Francis said. prisons, but nobody talks about what these juveniles.” “R-E-A-L. The person you see on TV goes on with these juveniles. It’s worse work after taking a trial advocacy class at is the same person you’d see when you than adult prisons.” the UF College of Law. walked into a courtroom in Miami. I am At one point, Mills-Francis became a “I took trial advocacy, and in trial advo- no different from that person. I haven’t foster parent just so she could take a trou- cacy, you have to argue both sides in front changed anything. My clothes, I wore the bled child home with her. She continues to of a jury,” she said. “They give you a mock same robe as a judge, the jewelry, the hair, be very active in children’s issues, but Mills- case, you try the case as a prosecutor, and things I say, my personality — it’s who I Francis knew she wanted to do criminal then you turn around and try the case as a am; I’m not putting on a show.” ■

FALL 2008 41 PARTNERS

you structure a transaction, that is, the tax tail wags the dog,” said Gelberg, a practic- ing tax attorney and partner in the Miami law firm Lamont Neiman Interian Bellet P.A. “It is hoped this lecture series will motivate tax students to consid- er tax policy as a career option working to influence and change tax policy in the public sector — because the government’s tax policy affects us all.” Her desire to give back to the college led Gelberg to establish the Ellen Bellet Gelberg Tax Policy Lec- ture Series, which will bring a prestigious lecturer to the college every year to speak on tax policy topics to students and faculty. “It is hoped Tax policy lecture series established Her pledge of $500,000 this lecture will become eligible for series will xamining modern tax the college’s Graduate Tax Pro- 50 percent state matching motivate tax policy and how its im- gram, has pledged $500,000 dollars through the state’s students to Eplementation affects the from the Stein Gelberg Founda- Major Gifts Trust Fund Pro- consider tax economy and people’s lives is tion to the college’s LL.M Tax gram, which would increase the policy when the purpose of the newly en- Programs Endowment Fund. endowment to $750,000. structuring dowed Ellen Bellet Gelberg “Practicing tax attorneys “Ellen’s exemplary gift will transactions Tax Policy Lecture Series es- spend little to no time think- benefit our graduate tax students tablished at the University of ing about the policy behind the in perpetuity,” said Dennis A. Florida Levin College of Law. tax code. In fact, most of the Calfee, UF professor of law and Gelberg, a 1977 graduate of time the tax code dictates how alumni research scholar.

Dean Patrick honored by scholarship

ssistant Dean of Admissions he established The Goldstein Law Michael Patrick was honored Group. He focuses on the civil AOct. 24 with a scholarship prosecution of insurance fraud endowed in his name. Frank claims and the defense of insurance Goldstein (JD 93) of The Goldstein and corporate related matters. Law Group donated $40,000 The scholarship recipients will towards scholarships for UF Levin be chosen by the dean and/or law College of Law students in Patrick’s school fi nancial aid/scholarship name. The fund will be known as The committee. Third-year law students Goldstein Law Group Endowment in in fi nancial need with an LSAT Honor of University of Florida College score of 159 or higher are eligible of Law Dean Michael Patrick. to receive the scholarship, and Assistant Dean Michael Patrick, left, thanks alumnus Frank Goldstein Goldstein, a double Gator, must submit a 100-word essay. during the Mike Patrick Scholarship presentation, which took place Oct. 24 practices in South Florida where —Ian Fisher following UF’s Homecoming Parade.

42 UF LAW Florida Tomorrow The Campaign for the University of Florida Levin College of Law Update

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FALL 2008 43 Maximum professional impact W. Reece Smith Jr. (JD 49)

BY SPENSER SOLIS

ith a legal career span- “When they talked to me about “I sort of worked my way to ning more than 50 years, a legal instrument, I was a bit befud- the top and became chairman of the WWilliam Reece Smith Jr. dled,” he said. “An instrument to me, Junior Bar Conference two years (JD 49) shows few signs of slowing from my engineering training, was a down the road.” down. screwdriver or something like that.” One might say he did the same His impact on the legal profes- At UF Law, Smith served as in 1980, when Smith served as presi- sion and society as a whole has president of the Student Bar Associa- dent of the ABA. As ABA president, been a lasting one achieved through tion and was selected as a member of Smith was instrumental in establish- serving as president of The Florida Florida Blue Key. ing legal aid entities in private bar Bar, the American Bar Association During his senior year, a profes- settings across the country. (ABA) and the International Bar sor urged him to apply for a Rhodes “I was seeking to enhance access Association (IBA). Smith has also Scholarship. to the legal system for societal purpos- Smith served as attorney for the City of “I thought it would be wise to es,” he said. “The poor and the disad- Tampa and president of the Greater do what my professor suggested,” vantaged did not have that access.” “I was seeking Tampa Chamber of Commerce. he said. “To my surprise, I was se- During his term as ABA president, to enhance “I am very devoted to the law and lected.” Smith led a march of bar associations to the contributions that it can make Before heading to Oxford, Smith on Washington, D.C. The bar asso- access to the to a civilized society,” Smith said. started a law offi ce as a sole practi- ciation members lobbied Congress legal system Smith, who grew up in Plant tioner in Plant City with only his law to maintain funding of the Legal for societal City, Fla., gained an understanding books and a vacant offi ce. He had Services Corporation (LSC), a con- of the importance of helping others only one client who paid him a fee. gressionally-sponsored, non-profi t purposes. The from a grandmother who was fully “There was no public defender corporation that provides legal ser- poor and the engaged in community affairs. in those days and no organized legal vices to the poor across the country. disadvantaged “She was a very active woman, aid, so I defended indigents accused “President Reagan didn’t like interested in literature and higher of crime.” the LSC and his attorney general did not have learning,” he said. “She was a leader After studying private interna- announced that they were going to that access.” and I observed her.” tional law at Oxford, he was invited defund the program,” Smith said. Upon graduating from the Uni- by Dean Henry A. Fenn to teach at “We called upon our representatives, versity of South Carolina, Smith was UF Law. senators and congressmen and made commissioned by the Navy in 1946. “I taught for over a year and then our pitch on behalf of the Legal While aboard ship, he read a book by I was recruited by the fi rm that I’m Services Corporation.” Howard Fast about the pioneers’ re- still with, Carlton Fields,” Smith said. Reagan’s measure was ultimately lationship with the American Indian. Smith became curious about the defeated. To this day, the LSC contin- “Reading Fast’s book about how ABA at the beginning of his career. ues to assist the poor. we mistreated the Indians raised my “Nobody at Carlton Fields at that By virtue of becoming involved social consciousness,” he said. time was a member of the ABA,” he with the organized bar, Smith has Smith came out of the service said. “A lot of lawyers weren’t.” been able to make contributions to in 1946 still unsure about what to The ABA has continued to grow the legal profession and to the com- do with his life. Although he was in importance and now plays a pow- munity that he could not have other- trained as an engineer, he decided erful role in improving the legal fi eld wise made, he said. against a career in math and sci- as the national voice of the profes- “I became interested very early ences. sion, Smith said. in legal aid and ultimately that be- “My gifts, if any, were in the “It certainly has an infl uence on came sort of an avocation for me.” humanities, coming from the train- lawyer conduct and lawyer training,” Smith believes that a lawyer ing that my grandmother had given he said. should possess a strong character, a me years before,” he said. “I decided When he fi rst became involved commitment to society and profes- to go to law school and went to the with the ABA, Smith joined what sional improvement, and a high level University of Florida.” was then known as the Junior Bar of professional competency. Entering law school in 1946 Conference. As a member of the con- “Don’t go into law solely to make under the G.I. Bill, Smith didn’t im- ference, Smith networked with and money,” he said. “A lawyer must be mediately catch on to the lingo of befriended other young lawyers from willing to make a contribution to the the legal fi eld. different parts of the country. profession and to society.” ■

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Watson 60 ment address to Florida International A. McArthur Irvin of Atlanta, Ga. 1951 University’s College of Law on May 18. has been elected as a fellow into the William T. Harrison Jr., shareholder College of Labor and Employment with Williams Parkers Harrison Dietz & 1964 Lawyers. Being elected as a fellow Getzen, received the Sarasota County is the highest recognition by one’s Bar Association’s Distinguished Com- Gerald F. Richman has been appointed colleagues of sustained, outstand- munity Service Award during the by Gov. Charlie Crist to serve as a ing performance in the profession, association’s annual installation and member of the Fourth District Court exemplifying integrity, dedication and D’Alemberte 62 awards dinner Sept. 19. Harrison of Appeals Nominating Commission. excellence. was recognized for his dedication to The commission is comprised of nine community service and his life-long members with the role of identifying Jacksonville attorney Joseph P. Milton commitment to the legal profession. and nominating individuals to fi ll open became the fi rst recipient of the Fran judiciary positions in the Fourth Dis- Peacock Coker Florida Chapter of trict. Richman is president of the law American Board of Trial Advocates 1960 fi rm of Richman Greer, P.A. Community Service Award for his The St. Johns County Commission outstanding leadership as the ABOTA Richman 64 renamed and dedicated the St. Johns 1967 Foundation president in 2006 and County Court house the “Richard O. 2007. Milton also was recently Watson Judicial Center” in honor Benjamin F. Overton received the appointed by Chief Justice Fred Lewis of Senior Circuit Judge Richard O. Lifetime Achievement Award from the of the Florida Supreme Court to the Watson. Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. Florida Board of Bar Examiners Testing Commission, and has been elected as 1962 1969 the second vice president of the Florida Supreme Court Historical Society. Greer 69 Florida State University President Litigation attorney Alan G. Greer, a Emeritus Talbot “Sandy” D’Alemberte partner with the law fi rm of Richman has been honored by the International Greer, P.A. has been named The 1971 Academy of Mediators with its Lifetime Florida Bar Certifi ed Lawyer of the Ira H. Leesfi eld has been named the Achievement Award for his work in Year for 2008. Greer was selected for next president of The Melvin M. Belli developing the alternative dispute his exemplary professionalism, excel- Society, a charitable organization resolution movement. D’Alemberte lence, character and commitment to comprised of attorneys from around received the award during a ceremony The Florida Bar’s certifi cation pro- the world. Leesfi eld is the founder and Milton 69 in Coral Gables on May 16. In addition, gram and to the practice of law. Greer managing partner of the Miami law D’Alemberte delivered the commence- has also been named president of fi rm Leesfi eld Leighton & Partners.

Making the list Note from the editor: The individuals below self-reported their selections to the following lists.

Leesfield 71 Florida Trend Magazine Florida Super Lawyers Stuart R. Morris (JD 89) Legal Elite/ Up & Coming Leslie J. Lott (JD 74) Mark E. Stein (JD 89) Steven L. Beiley (JD 91) Michael T. Moore (JD 74) Jack R. Reiter (JD 94) Steve Walker (JD 74) Chambers USA 2008 Steven J. Solomon (JD 91) Dennis J. Wall (JD 77) Richard Fildes (JD 77) Nicole L. Goetz (JD 77) Kimberly Leach Johnson (JD 81) Hal Kantor (JD 72) T. Robert Bulloch (JD 02) Brian D. Stokes (JD 84) Nicholas Pope (JD 76) Reuben A. Doupe (JD 02) Guy Whitesman (LLMT/JD 85) Terry Young (JD 75) Scott Shuker (JD 93) Tuwana J. McMillan (JD 87) Richard M. Benrubi (JD 88) David K. Friedland (JD 88) Elizabeth Green (JD 86) Richard M. Benrubi (JD 88)

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actions, and products liability litiga- 1972 1973 tion. She was also named to the list Cesar L. Alvarez was named one of the Gerald A. Rosenthal has been named in 2002, 2003 and 2004. top most powerful Hispanics by Poder to Best Lawyers in America for the Power Issue, and “The 25 Best Latinos 15th consecutive year. Dallas attorney Frances Johnson in Business,” Hispanic Magazine’s Wright recently visited Beverly Hills, Power Issue, both in 2008. Alvarez is 1974 Calif., where she was working on a Kantor 72 the chief executive offi cer of the fi rm movie deal for a Dallas client about Leslie J. Lott has been appointed to Greenberg Traurig. the life of Sammy Davis Jr., based the Board of Trustees of the Histori- on the book Yes I Can. During this cal Museum of Southern Florida. Lott Hal Kantor will be featured in a new visit, she and her daughter, Leila, also was named as one of Florida’s edition of the book The Rainmaking dined with Hugh Hefner at his man- Top 50 Female Super Lawyers and Machine, published by Thomson sion in Los Angeles, Calif. Reuters. Kantor will be included in the as a top attorney in the intellectual property category. In addition, Lott chapter “Building a Practice Around a Terry C. Young was named as a and David K. Friedland (JD 83) Rosenthal 73 Passion,” written by nationally known top attorney in Florida for 2008 by celebrated the 25th anniversary in author Phyllis Weiss Haserot. Kantor Florida Super Lawyers magazine, September of Lott & Friedland, the recently presented the fi rst annual and as a highly ranked individual Coral Gables fi rm Lott founded in Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & fi rm lawyer by Chambers, USA, a 1983. Reed Law Review Book Award at The London-based worldwide guide to Florida Law Review’s senior banquet. the legal profession. 1975 Jeffery W. Warren was presented Susan S. Demers was honored with 1976 Lott 74 with the Douglas P. McClurg Profes- the Ralph Richards Award by the Nicholas A. Pope was named by sionalism Award by The Tampa Bay Clearwater Bar Association. Bankruptcy Bar Association for his Florida Super Lawyers magazine as a top attorney in Florida for 2008, outstanding ethical conduct and Debra E. Pole, a litigation partner and as a highly ranked individual professionalism over the course of in Sidley Austin’s Los Angeles offi ce, fi rm lawyer by Chambers, USA, a his career. Warren was also listed in was named to the Daily Journal’s London-based worldwide guide to the 2008 edition of Super Lawyers 2008 “Top Women Litigators in the legal profession. Magazine as being among the top California.” Only 75 women were Pole 75 10 attorneys in Florida. Warren is selected for the honor. Pole is a president and founding shareholder of seasoned trial attorney with experi- 1977 Bush Ross, P.A. ence in multi-district litigation, class Richard J. Fildes was named by Florida Super Lawyers magazine as a top attorney in Florida for 2008, and as a highly ranked individual fi rm lawyer by Chambers, USA, a London-based worldwide guide to Wright 75 the legal profession.

Nicole L. Goetz, formerly known as Nicole L. Smith, managing share- holder of the law fi rm of Asbell, Ho, Klaus, Goetz & Doupé, has been named co-chair of the Equitable Distribution Committee of Pope 76 the Family Law Section of The Florida Bar for 2008-2009.

Dennis J. Wall is the author of Litigation and Prevention Insurer Bad Faith, Second Edition, and a supplement, printed by West Pub- lishing Company. In addition, the Goetz 77 Excess and Surplus Lines Claims Association has just published “Big Claim, Low Limits,” an article that Wall co-authored with ESLCA Past Gators in Afghanistan U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Alex Harper (JD 04) President Ed McKinnon of California. carries his Gator spirit with him to the Khost Province, Afghanistan, near the Pakistani border, Wall is also the co-author of CAT where he has been serving since February 2008. Harper, pictured wearing the yellow shemaug, Claims, Insurance Coverage or scarf, is on leave from the Kern County, Calif., District Attorney’s Offi ce where he is a deputy for Disasters, to be published by Wall 77 district attorney. Harper is scheduled to return home in time for Thanksgiving this year. Thomson West in Summer 2008. He was appointed subcommittee

46 UF LAW The magic touch Derek Bruce (JD/MBA 98)

BY DANIELLE D’OYLEY

hen someone asks Triple that will shape policy and have a sig- Gator Derek Bruce (JD/ nifi cant impact on shaping both the WMBA 98) to describe him- economic and recreational climate for self in one word, they hear one answer not just Walt Disney World but for — blessed. Thankful for the opportu- our Central Florida community and nities he’s been afforded, he now de- the state of Florida in a lot of cases,” votes his career to a place that makes Bruce said. dreams come true for others. Another large aspect of his work As director of government rela- is collaborating with elected offi cials tions for Walt Disney World, he on community-based and charitable describes the position as a role that initiatives. For example, in 2007, works with both internal and external Bruce worked tirelessly with commu- stakeholders to protect and promote nity and business leaders who helped Walt Disney World through the devel- win support from city and county opment of legislation and government offi cials for three Orlando-area proj- policies and procedures. ects — a new performing arts center, Bruce said his current career is a renovated Florida Citrus Bowl and highly rewarding with a great deal of a new events center that will be home intangible benefi ts. to the Orlando Magic. These projects Bruce “Sometimes when you work at a will enhance recreational and enter- certain place, you can forget about just tainment offerings for Central Florida “A UF Law degree can open doors how much of an impact the work you residents and visitors. in ...areas that a person may not be do has on people,” he said. “But here But he hasn’t always worked at thinking of when they’re just making at Walt Disney World, I’m reminded “the happiest place on earth.” In fact, the decision to go to law school.” on almost a daily basis by interacting while at law school, he never imagined with people that we provide memories using his law degree for lobbying and success of fellow UF Law graduates. — magical memories — that last for a shaping public policy from a business In the business world, he has interact- lifetime for people and their families. perspective. An avid Trial Team com- ed with UF Law alumni in high profi le Just coming to work is remarkable.” petitor, one of his most memorable and important positions, such as chair- One of his greatest accomplish- experiences at UF Law was participat- persons, CEOs and general counsels ments as the director of government ing in the Trial Team Final Four com- of companies. relations was a recent project — an petition. It’s no surprise that he spent “A UF Law degree can open doors initiative to bring the United States his fi rst two years out of law school in so many areas that a person may not Bowling Congress’ Open Champion- focusing on litigation. be thinking of when they’re just mak- ship and Women’s Championship He quickly determined that his ing the decision to go to law school,” tournaments to Central Florida be- skill set was better suited to a different he said. “I’m a good case in point.” tween 2011 and 2029. On behalf of type of practice — that of government Bruce was also a winner of the Walt Disney World, Bruce worked law. Before fi nding his niche with Orlando Business Journal’s 2002 Up & with Osceola County government and Walt Disney World in 2006, he spent Comers, which originally published his the Central Florida Sports Commis- eight years at GrayHarris in Orlando self-description as a blessed individual. sion to help garner the community (changed to GrayRobinson in 2005) He said his good fortune relied in part support and fi nancing necessary to and was elected shareholder in 2005. on his parents, teachers and profes- secure these tournaments. “It was just a slight career path sional mentors, emphasizing the strong This is expected to bring tens of shift because so much of what I did support he’s had throughout his life. thousands of bowlers and spectators was representing private clients in “While I like to think I’m a tal- to Orlando, Fla., for 13 tournaments, their dealings with government enti- ented professional who works hard each lasting approximately 20 weeks. ties and agencies,” he said, explaining and has a lot of capabilities, when A powerful economic impact for Cen- his move to Walt Disney World. “But you step back and refl ect on it, you tral Florida and the entire state is an- now I do a similar kind of work for know that everything you do and ticipated — a predicted three-quarters one of the world’s most recognizable accomplish you’re standing on the of a billion dollars. companies.” shoulders of people who’ve helped “My favorite component of the Bruce described his UF Law de- to make that accomplishment pos- job is that I get to work on projects gree as invaluable, highlighting the sible,” he said. ■

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chair of the International Association of Defense Counsel Property Law 1982 1983 Committee and to the I.A.D.C. Julia Frey has been appointed to the West Palm Beach civil trial attorney Reinsurance, Excess and Surplus Florida Probate Rules Committee for John “Jay” G. White III became The Lines Committee. Wall has been The Florida Bar with service continu- Florida Bar’s 60th president when named by Florida Super Lawyers ing through 2010. She will attend he took the oath of offi ce during the magazine as a top attorney in Florida the major bar meetings around the Bar’s 2008 annual convention in Leet 81 for 2008. In addition, he is the only state to serve in this capacity critical June. Orlando attorney named among the to the administration of justice. 20 top Florida attorneys listed in 1984 Insurance Coverage Florida Super The Hon. Patti A. Christensen John Neukamm of the Mechanik Lawyers 2008. was elected to her second full term as the county judge for Nuccio law fi rm in Tampa was St. Johns County, Fla. recently elected to serve as chair- 1978 elect of The Florida Bar Real Ellen S. Morris, Esq. has been Property, Probate & Trust Law Frey 82 Michael J. Gelfand was appointed named The Florida Bar Elder Law by Gov. Charlie Crist to Florida’s Section. As chair-elect, Neukamm Section’s “Member of the Year.” Fifteenth Circuit Judicial Nominating will oversee the section’s 19 general She shared this honorable distinc- Commission. Gelfand’s article “The standing committees and 17 liaisons tion with Representative Elaine Plaza East Trilogy: Not a Nursery with other organizations and will Schwartz. This award was presented Rhyme, But Scary Warfare” was become chair of the section in July at the 2008 Annual Elder Law Sec- recently published in 82 Fla. Bar of 2009. tion Retreat in Clearwater Beach Journal 4 (April 2008). in July. Morris is a partner of Elder Brian D. Stokes was elected Gelfand 82 Law Associates PA. She was named Gary M. Kaleita was named by managing partner of Unger, Stokes, to Florida Trend magazine’s Florida Florida Super Lawyers magazine as Acree, Gilbert, Tressler and Tacktill, Legal Elite in 2007 and has an AV® a top attorney in Florida for 2008. P.L., formerly the Unger Law Group, Peer Review Rating, the highest of Orlando. rating afforded an attorney from Paul Mandelkern commented on Martindale-Hubbell. a case argued before the Florida Mitchell E. Widom, a partner Supreme Court regarding the consti- with the Miami fi rm of Bilzin 1979 tutionality of a special legislative act Sumberg Baena Price and Mandelkern 82 in a recent issue of Florida Medical Axelrod was recently recognized David M. Layman was the recipient by Florida Super Lawyers as one of Palm Beach County Legal Aid Business newspaper. The multi-page article quoted Mandelkern on the act of the top 100 lawyers in South Society’s 2008 Pro Bono Award for Florida. Additionally, he was a Nonprofi t Law. that gives a for-profi t hospital in St. Lucie County, rather than the medi- fi nalist for the Dorothy Shula cal staff, control over the medical Award for Outstanding Volunteerism 1981 staff’s bylaws. for his work on the board of the Kimberly Leach Johnson, a co- Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation. His Osborne 82 managing partner for Quarles and Marie Osborne was honored May 30 event, The Keymorada Invitational Brady’s Naples offi ce and Naples with the John Balikes Professional- Fishing Tournament, raised offi ce chair for trusts and estates, ism Award at the Miami Juvenile $492,000 for the Crohn’s was named a 2008 Florida Justice Center. Foundation this year. Super Lawyer by Law & Politics Media, Inc. Carol Browner (JD 79) has been James L. Leet, a McDonough Hol- appointed to the Advisory Board White 83 land & Allen PC shareholder, was of the Obama-Biden Transition. elected to the Sacramento Area Browner is a principal of The Commerce and Trade Organization Albright Group in Washington, D.C., (SACTO) Board of Directors. SACTO and former administrator of the is the Sacramento region’s leading Environmental Protection Agency facilitator of economic development, during the administration of President bringing together the organizations, Bill Clinton. Browner is a board information and resources in pursuit member for the UF Levin College Neukamm 84 of the jobs, talent and investment of Law Center for Governmental needed to ensure regional prosperity Responsibility, serves as a member and global competitiveness. of the Environmental and Land Use Law Program Advisory Board and periodically returns to teach Nelly N. Khouzam was appointed environmental law classes at UF by Gov. Charlie Crist to serve on the and the UF Summer Study Abroad Second District Court of Appeal in Program in Costa Rica. Lakeland. Stokes 84

48 UF LAW COURTROOM SKETCH COURTESY OF DANA VERKOUTEREN OF DANA SKETCH COURTESY COURTROOM

a multidisciplinary journal that al- Before the bench Scott Makar (JD 87) lows students both in the Levin BY ADRIANNA C. RODRIGUEZ College of Law and other colleges around campus to tackle current cott Makar received a bar- McCollum (JD 68) in February 2007. law and policy issues. The journal, rage of tough questions while Makar is the third to hold the position, which celebrated its 20th anniver- Sarguing his fi rst case before which was established in 1999 and sary in the spring, gives students the U.S. Supreme Court in March, whose term coincides with the attorney another opportunity to participate but the toughest one came from his general’s four-year term. in a law journal at UF. 7-year-old son Aaron, who watched in the courtroom with his mom, “The Supreme Court chamber is very intimate, Nancy Hogshead-Makar. but also has this grandeur about it. It’s a very “Did you answer them right?” was the fi rst thing Aaron wanted to comfortable environment in which to argue a case.” know as he greeted Makar (JD 87) Makar with son Aaron (7), on the steps of the U.S. Supreme As solicitor general, Makar over- “Law review had just cut their and wife Nancy in the Court after oral arguments. sees civil appeals in all state and federal invited membership in half, from nation’s capitol. While Makar wasn’t able to courts involving Florida interests, serves top 10 percent to top 5 percent, answer Aaron’s question at that mo- as legal policy adviser to the attorney leaving many law students without ment, he can now. general, and teaches at Florida State a similar educational opportunity. I In June, the court ruled 7-2 in University College of Law as the Rich- wanted them, as well as other moti- favor of Makar, who represented the ard W. Ervin (JD 28) Eminent Scholar. vated students, to have an option,” Florida Department of Revenue in The eminent scholar chair was named said Makar, who served on the law Fla. Dep’t of Revenue v. Piccadilly after a former Florida attorney general. review and was the Journal of Law Cafeterias, Inc. Makar’s interest in teaching and Public Policy’s fi rst editor–in- “It really is awe inspiring,” said began during his time at the Uni- chief. Makar of the historic courtroom and versity of Florida, when he taught Makar views the solicitor gen- its architecture. “It’s very intimate, the undergraduate business law eral position as combining the best but also has this grandeur about it. course at the College of Business aspects of academic teaching and It’s a very comfortable environment while juggling earning two master’s practicing appellate law. in which to argue a case.” degrees in business, a law degree, “I consider this a capstone job,” Makar argued the case as Florida’s and a Ph.D. in economics. Makar said. “This job is one of the solicitor general, a post he was ap- As a law student he founded the best I could imagine ever having as pointed to by Attorney General Bill Journal of Law and Public Policy, a lawyer or legal educator.” ■

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the Florida Justice Association for his 1986 contributions on behalf of the FJA’s 1989 Frank M. Bedell of Orlando has legislative efforts. Benrubi has been Amy U. Hickman of Delray become chair of the Trial Lawyers named as one of the 2008 Florida Beach was awarded the Florida Section of The Florida Bar. Bedell has Legal Elite and has also been included Adoption Council’s highest honor, previously served the bar as president in Florida Super Lawyers for the third the Adoption Star Award, for her of the Young Lawyers Division and consecutive year. work in the area of adoption. Bedell 86 as chair of the 2003 Annual Meeting Committee. Scott E. Ray was recently appointed David P. Milian was selected as a deputy chief in the Major Crimes as one of the Best Lawyers in Lynne Borsuk of Atlanta, Ga. has Section for the United States Attorney’s America in the specialty of been elected president of the Georgia Offi ce in the Southern District of Florida. Commercial Litigation. Association of Criminal Defense Law- yers.

Borsuk 86 Elizabeth Green, of the Orlando fi rm Latham, Shuker, Eden, and Beaudine was named to Florida Trend maga- Delray Beach City Commissioner zine’s Florida Legal Elite. Mackenson ‘Mack’ Bernard (JD 02 / LLMT 03) William E. Ruffi er, a partner with the law fi rm Dellecker, Wilson, King, McK- ackenson ‘Mack’ Bernard enna & Ruffi er, has been appointed stepped into political offi ce general counsel for the Boy Scouts Ruffier 86 this August fulfi lling a call to of America, Central Florida Council. M serve he’s felt since high school and He also serves on the organization’s setting a fi rst, not just for himself, but executive board and holds the rank of Eagle Scout. for many in Palm Beach County, Fla. When Bernard (JD 02 / LLMT 03) 1987 accepted appointment to the Delray Beach City Commission this summer, Madonna M. Finney of Tallahassee he became the fi rst person of Haitian Finney 87 was awarded the Florida Adoption Council’s highest honor, the Adoption descent to hold political offi ce in the Star Award, for her work in the area of county. Although about 10 percent of adoption. Delray Beach’s population is of Hai- tian descent, he is among fewer than Bernard Tuwana J. McMillan was named by a dozen persons of Haitian descent to Florida Super Lawyers magazine as a hold political offi ce anywhere in the that I’m using at the city commission.” top attorney in Florida for 2008. She state of Florida. As the only attorney on the com- McMillan 87 also began a one-year term as chair of “I love Delray Beach and I wanted mission, Bernard’s education at UF and the Workers’ Compensation section of work through his fi rm, which primarily The Florida Bar on July 1. a chance to make it a little bit better, to give something back,” Bernard said. “I focuses on tax, real estate and family Louis Nostro was named to the Best was raised in Delray Beach and I spent law, have prepared him to deal with the Lawyers in America Guide 2009 in most of my life in Delray Beach.” city’s home foreclosure woes. the areas of Tax Law and Trusts & Bernard emigrated to Delray Beach Bernard has several goals during Estates. from Haiti in 1986 at the age of 10. his time on the commission. He plans Nostro 87 After earning his undergraduate to help bring more affordable housing 1988 degree in political science and crimi- to the city. He will work to help the city Jaqueline Bozzuto was named by nology from Florida State University deal with the budget crunch and work Florida Super Lawyers magazine as a in 1997, Bernard came to the Univer- to make several streets in the city safer. top attorney in Florida for 2008. sity of Florida to earn his JD and LLM Bernard took the place of a com- in taxation. missioner who stepped down mid- Cathryn A. Mitchell has become part- term. In his fi rst political offi ce, he said ner with Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman. At UF, Bernard also met his wife he still has a lot to learn but is happy to Hickman 89 in New York, and will be spearhead- Shawntoyia N. Bernard (JD 03) and ing the fi rm’s new offi ce in Princeton. partner at Bernard & Auguste, Parnel be a public servant. His political ambi- [email protected] D. Auguste (JD 05). tions remain focused on being a com- “My professors really pushed me missioner for now as he plans to run Richard M. Benrubi, a partner at to consider tax law and they nurtured for the commission seat in March. Liggio, Benrubi & Williams in West me to follow my goal,” he said. “The “I’m a public servant, the people Palm Beach, received the Legislative skills that they taught me are the skills will decide,” Bernard said. ■ Leadership “Shoe Leather” Award by

50 UF LAW Making the cut Scott Sheftall (JD 76) BY IAN FISHER

cott D. Sheftall (JD 76) hadn’t wife at his side the whole tournament. seriously golfed for 35 years “I got to see what Coach Bob S before he decided to pick up his McKillop of Davidson was getting clubs and play in a few tournament at when he was telling his players qualifi ers. about the importance of translating a Sheftall entered a 2008 Senior dream into a belief, a genuine belief, U.S. Open sectional qualifi er in and not just a wish,” Sheftall said. Boynton Beach, Fla., on June 27. To “To see the players buy into his phi- say he didn’t expect to qualify would losophy of competition and actually be an understatement. make it happen with limited talent Sheftall birdied the 18th hole to was very inspiring and it really sort of force a sudden-death playoff to qualify galvanized in me a new sense of con- for the Senior U.S. Open, which fi dence. … That coupled with the fact was held at Broadmoor in Colorado that my wife Regina caddied for me Springs, Colo. On the third hole of the in the qualifi er. She had never seen playoff, he and his wife Regina, who me play competitive golf before; she was caddying, walked up to the green had never caddied for anyone. But and couldn’t believe what they saw. having someone believe in me and be Scott Sheftall claps on his way to the “It was a pretty special moment,” there to keep me calm and focused fourth hole of the U.S. Senior Open, held at the legendary Broadmoor golf Sheftall said. “I turned to my wife as and to persevere through leg cramps course in Colorado Springs, Colo. we walked up to the green and saw and everything — I think that was the that I only had a one-and-a-half-foot fi nal secret ingredient that made the putt, and I told her, ‘It looks like recipe for success work.” “I was awestruck by how wonderful we’re going to Colorado, baby.’ ” Back in his day job, Sheftall is it was to play in a national champion- Sheftall sank the short putt, and a trial lawyer for Sheftall & Torres, ship — to be inside the ropes... and he and his wife were off to Colo- P.A, which he founded in 1996, and to just enjoy the entire spectacle.” rado for practice rounds on July 28. his practice is mostly complex civil Sheftall practiced with former Gator litigation. The fi rm has developed was about as unlikely as me qualify- golfer Andy Bean, whom he had an affi nity for issues involving chil- ing for the U.S. Open.” coincidentally played against as an dren after Sheftall hooked up with But Sheftall is still a Gator at undergraduate at Davidson College. Dr. R. Rodney Howell, the chairman heart. His father went to UF in the And although Sheftall didn’t make emeritus of pediatrics at the Uni- 1930s, when it was an all men’s the cut or even play his best, he will versity of Miami. Howell is also a school with about 2,300 students, never forget the trip. Davidson graduate. he said. “It was an amazing, once-in-a- Sheftall is very involved with Sheftall grew up in Jacksonville lifetime experience, one that I truly children-related community service, and came to many historic Gator never expected to happen to me given and his wife teaches elementary games over the years. He attended the fact that I hadn’t really played school in inner-city Miami. the game against Auburn in which serious golf for about 35 years since “Not too many people could un- Steve Spurrier kicked a game-win- college, until about two summers ago, derstand and still can’t understand ning fi eld goal to clinch the 1966 when I decided I would play in a few why an ardent Gator like myself Heisman Trophy. tournament qualifi ers,” Sheftall said. — I’ve been a Gator since I was 5 Sheftall even named his two “Once I qualifi ed and went to Colo- years old — could be contributing boykin spaniel retrievers Tebow rado Springs with my wife for the so much to the University of Miami,” and Saurian, which fans used to call U.S. Open, I was awestruck by how Sheftall said. “But I’ve lived down Gator football players. A saurian wonderful it was to play in a national here for 30 years. As I said, the in- is an ancient ancestor to modern championship — to be inside the vitation I received from Dr. Howell, reptiles. ropes, to be in the locker room with who was a Davidson graduate, got “If there were any doubt in your the great players, and to just enjoy the me involved. I do have a passion for mind about my allegiance to the entire spectacle, which I did.” children’s health care and believe that University of Florida in spite of my Sheftall’s extra confi dence during lawyers should be involved in their comments about Davidson and the the qualifying tournament came both communities in a positive and visible University of Miami, that should from watching his alma mater David- way. For all those reasons, it just put it to rest,” Sheftall said. “You’ll son in an unlikely NCAA Basketball solidifi ed a connection with the Uni- note that I did not name my dogs Tournament run and from having his versity of Miami down here, which Wildcat and Hurricane.” ■

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National Advanced Forum on Litigating Daniel Uhlfelder was chosen as one 1990 Disability Insurance Claims on the topic of Florida’s future leaders by Florida Fisher & Phillips LLP is pleased to of “Techniques for Using Medical and Trend magazine. Uhlfelder is the fi rst announce that Steven Bernstein has Vocational Experts to Prove or Refute a non-minority member of the NAACP’s been appointed regional managing part- Claimant’s Disability” held in Boston, Okaloosa County branch, where he ner of the fi rm’s Tampa offi ce. Mass. in June. chairs the legal redress committee.

Lopez 90 The law fi rm of Hinshaw & Culbertson In May Tad A. Yates took the offi ce of 1997 announced that Burke G. Lopez has president of the Orange County Bar joined the fi rm’s Tampa offi ce as a Association. Yates practices criminal Sherri L. Johnson, of Dent & Johnson, partner. Lopez handles cases involving defense law with Kirkconnell, Lindsey, Chartered in Sarasota, received the coverage issues, commercial disputes, Snure & Yates, in Winter Park. 2008 Lynn Futch Most Productive personal injury, products liability, Young Lawyer Award from the Young premises liability and wrongful death 1993 Lawyers Division of The Florida Bar. litigation. The award is given to the young law- Scott Shuker, of Orlando-based law yer in Florida who has worked most Beiley 91 Florida Trend magazine recognized fi rm Latham, Shuker, Eden & Beaudine, diligently in bar activities and/or law board certifi ed criminal trial lawyer, has been named by Florida Trend mag- related public activities and who has an Stephen M. Walker, as one of the 2008 azine as one of Florida’s Legal Elite. excellent reputation for legal abilities and Florida Legal Elite. Walker is a sole integrity. Johnson also was recognized practitioner in Sarasota specializing in 1994 as the 2008 Woman Lawyer of the Year criminal defense. by the Manatee County Chapter of the Florida Trend magazine recognized Florida Association for Women Lawyers. Jack R. Rieter as one of the 2008 Camerlengo 91 1991 Florida Legal Elite. Reiter is a partner of Donald B. Stuart (LLM), a partner Adorno & Yoss announced that litiga- Adorno & Yoss, LLP and concentrates in the tax practice at Waller Lansden tion and bankruptcy attorney Steven L. his practice the areas of state, federal Dortch & Davis, LLP in Nashville, Tenn., Beiley has joined the fi rm’s Miami offi ce and administrative appeals, as well as has been appointed to serve a one-year as a partner. Beiley also have been general commercial litigation. term as vice chairman of the Tax and included by Florida Trend magazine Finance Practice Group of the American in its Florida Legal Elite list for 2008, 1995 Health Lawyers Association which recognizes the top 1.8 percent of Jeffrey M. Taylor was recently elected Brooderson 96 Florida’s 56,000 lawyers. to the board of directors of the Central Jason D. Lazarus, an attorney in Hol- Atlantic Region of the America-Israel land & Knight’s West Palm Beach offi ce, Joseph Camerlengo was sworn in as Chamber of Commerce. Taylor also received the “And Justice for All” award the president of the Jacksonville Bar has been elected to the advisory com- from the Legal Aid Society of Palm Association on June 12. Camerlengo mittee of the Middle Atlantic Chapter Beach County. The award was in recog- also was honored as a 2008 Florida of the Society of Corporate Secretaries nition of one of Lazarus’ recent pro bono Super Lawyer and named to the & Governance Professionals. Taylor cases, as well as his continued pro bono Jacksonville Business Journal’s is a partner at Blank Rome, LLP, in service to Legal Aid over the years. The Prescott 96 2008 top 40 under 40 list. Philadelphia, Penn. Taylor focuses his award was presented at the Legal Aid jcamerlengo@theplaintiffsfi rm.com. practice on representing public and Society’s 20th Annual Pro Bono Recog- private companies in securities law, nition Evening, on May 10 at the Palm The Florida Bar has reappointed Miami mergers and acquisitions, and corpo- Beach County Convention Center. attorney Julio C. Jaramillo to a three- rate law matters. year term on the board of directors of The law fi rm Broad and Cassel The Florida Bar Foundation, a statewide announced that Orlando associate Peter charitable organization that fosters 1996 Schoemann (LLMT) has been recog- Johnson 97 law-related public service programs on Richard J. Brooderson has joined the nized as being among the brightest and behalf of Florida’s legal profession. Altamonte Springs law fi rm of Chaires, most promising young business people Brooderson & Guerrero, P.L. as a in Orlando in the Orlando Business Beth S. Schick has joined the Orlando named partner. The fi rm represents Journal’s “40 Under 40” listings. law fi rm of Shuffi eldLowman. Her health care practitioners and entities primary areas of practice are corporate, and focuses in the areas of health law, estate planning and administration, as business law and administrative law. 1998 well as employment law. Shutts & Bowen partner, Harvey E. Oyer III, was selected to join the United Lazarus 97 Joanne Prescott, a shareholder in Steven J. Solomon, a member of the the Orlando fi rm Zimmerman Kiser States Committee of the Blue Shield, Bankruptcy and Insolvency Depart- Sutcliffe, has become board certifi ed which is the cultural equivalent of the ment of Adorno & Yoss, LLP, has been in workers’ compensation through The Red Cross. The Blue Shield provides included by Florida Trend magazine Florida Bar, effective Aug. 1. As a board emergency response to cultural property in its annual Florida Legal Elite list for certifi ed attorney, Prescott is identifi ed at risk during periods of armed confl ict. 2008. as a lawyer with special knowledge, skills, and profi ciency distinguishing her Lori V. Vaughan has been elected share- holder of Trenam Kemker of Tampa and Oyer 98 John V. Tucker of Tucker & Ludin, P.A. as a specialist in workers’ compensa- in Clearwater recently spoke at the 11th tion law. St. Petersburg.

52 UF LAW A man of fi rsts Alfredo Garcia (JD 81)

BY JASON SILVER s the fi rst Cuban-born dean There was never a dull moment of a U.S. law school at the St. in Miami during the 1980s as a AThomas University School of criminal attorney, Garcia said. Law in Miami, Fla., Alfredo Garcia “I always tell my students that (JD 81) takes great pride in being fi ve years of the Miami Vice days the fi rst in his family to graduate gave me all the excitement I needed from college and law school. for a lifetime of practicing criminal Garcia, who was president of the law,” Garcia said. “I had scary cli- Hispanic and Latino Law Student ents who even smashed in my car Association at UF Law, remembers windows, but I have no regrets.” the school giving him an opportuni- Garcia’s fi rst love was always ty to be successful by working hard. academics, and there’s nothing else “It was a distinct honor for me he’d rather do than teach his students because I was a fi rst-generation col- and learn from them as well, he said. lege and graduate school student,” “Your work should be your hob- he said. “UF Law gave me an op- by and your hobby should be your portunity to further my education work,” Garcia said. “I always wanted and represent my heritage and roots, to be a teacher since I was a kid, and which is a privilege.” it’s great to see your students develop Garcia After graduating UF Law, and then teach you things.” Garcia became an assistant state When Garcia arrived at the St. “A lawyer who works harder than attorney under Janet Reno during Thomas University School of Law Miami’s infamous high-crime “Co- 20 years ago, it had only 14 faculty his opponent is the most successful.” caine Cowboys” era. During that members and was newly approved by time he handled felony and narcot- the American Bar Association. Now, a lawyer who works harder than his ics-related cases, gaining experience under Garcia’s leadership, the school opponent is the most successful.” working against the best criminal boasts 40 faculty members and more Garcia, who has Gator football attorneys, he said. than 600 students. As an attorney and season tickets, said the most reward- “Being an assistant state attor- leading legal scholar, Garcia says stu- ing aspect of being the dean of St. ney was an incredible experience dents need to know the key to success Thomas University School of Law because I got great on-the-job train- is hard work and preparation. is what he gets back from students. ing against the best criminal defense “My favorite quote from Chuck “You learn a lot from your lawyers like Roy Black,” he said. Close is ‘Inspiration is for ama- students; it’s a two-way street,” he “It really sharpened my criminal teurs, the rest of us just show up said. “I’m very proud and excited litigation skills, which prepared me for work,’ ” Garcia said. “The best because my background mirrors the go into private practice in criminal attorneys I see in action are the ones mission and the values of the law defense law.” who prepare better than anyone, and school.” ■

Gregory S. Weiss has joined the law Bryan S. Gowdy became a board- been reappointed to a three-year term fi rm of Leopold-Kuvin in Palm Beach certifi ed appellate attorney and an as an at-large director of The Florida Gardens. equal shareholder in his fi rm, formerly Bar Foundation, a statewide charitable Mills & Creed, which is changing its organization that fosters law-related 1999 name to Mills, Creed & Gowdy. public service programs on behalf of Florida’s legal profession. Weiss 98 John Badalamenti, an appellate Orlando attorney A. Brian Phillips attorney with the federal defender’s (LLMT) has been appointed adjunct Richard P. Rollo was elected direc- offi ce in Tampa, was quoted in the professor of law at the University of tor of Richards, Layton & Finger recent ABA Journal article “Crime Florida Levin College of Law. in Wilmington, Del. in July. Rollo Registries Under Fire” concerning practices in the fi rm’s Corporate the constitutionality of the Adam Vee Leonard, general counsel for Litigation Department, representing Walsh Act. Florida Gulf Coast University, has Delaware corporations and their Leonard 99

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directors in shareholder class actions, John A. Williams has been elected contested mergers and acquisitions, shareholder of Trenam Kemker of 2002 and similar litigation. Tampa and St. Petersburg. T. Robert Bulloch, an attorney in Quar- les & Brady’s Trusts & Estates practice Renee E. Thompson of Ocala fi rm 2001 in the Naples offi ce, has been named Mateer Harbert won The Florida Bar to Florida Trend magazine’s “Up & Young Lawyers Division 2008 Out- McConnaughhay, Duffy, Coonrod, Comers” list in the magazine’s fi fth Pope & Weaver, P.A. announced the Rollo 99 standing Board Member Award. annual edition of the “Florida Legal addition of a new partner, Brian P. Elite.” The Sarasota law fi rm of Williams Carter of Pensacola. Carter joined Parker Harrison Dietz & Getzen the fi rm in July 2001 and began Leonard Keen has joined Myers & announced that Michael J. Wilson, a practicing in the Pensacola area in Kaplan, Intellectual Property Law, shareholder with the fi rm, has been October 2002. He concentrates his L.L.C. as a partner in the fi rm’s granted board certifi cation in taxation practice in workers’ compensation Orlando offi ce. A registered U.S. patent by The Florida Bar Board of Legal defense. attorney, Keen focuses on intellectual Harmon 00 Specialization and Education. property law, encompassing patents, The litigation practice at Greenberg trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, 2000 Traurig’s Tampa offi ce announced licensing and related matters, and the addition of associate Richard including IP prosecution, enforcement, Nikole D. Garcia has been elected J. Mockler, who will focus on litigation and business transactions. shareholder of Trenam Kemker of working with clients in Florida on Tampa and St. Petersburg. commercial, real estate, land use, environmental and other complex 2003 Jill Harmon will serve on the 2009 litigation. The litigation practice at Greenberg Piatt 00 Lake Nona Relay for Life Committee, Traurig’s Tampa offi ce announced the chaired by Orange County School The law fi rm of Weiss Serota Helf- addition of associate Don Crawford, Board member Daryl Flynn. man Pastoriza Cole & Boniske who will focus on working with clients announced that Blanca Maria Valle in Florida on commercial, real estate, Richard Hornsby has become board has joined its Miami offi ce, where land use, environmental, and other certifi ed in criminal trial law by The she will focus her practice on com- complex litigation. Florida Bar. Board certifi cation is mercial litigation. the highest level of evaluation by Ben Diamond has been named one Thomas 00 The Florida Bar of competency and Lonn Weissblum recently started his of Florida’s future leaders by Florida experience within an area of law, own fi rm, the Law Offi ces of Lonn Trend magazine. Diamond serves as and professionalism and ethics in the Weissblum in Boca Raton. The fi rm special counsel to state Chief Financial practice of law. Less than 1 percent of handles appeals in the Florida state Offi cer Alex Sink and is her senior legal all lawyers in Florida are board certi- courts and in the Eleventh Circuit and policy adviser. fi ed in criminal trial law. Court of Appeals, and provides legal research and writing services for JoAnn M. Guerrero has been Michael Best & Friedrich announced other attorneys nationwide. lonn@ promoted to named partner in Carter 01 that John N. Giftos has been elected weissblumlaw.com. the Altamonte Springs law fi rm of to partnership in the fi rm. Giftos is member of the fi rm’s litigation prac- tice group.

Penelope B. Perez-Kelly has been named a partner with the Orlando fi rm McClane Tessitore. Perez-Kelly’s Valle 01 practice centers on commercial liti- gation, trademarks, copyrights and Dear Editor... UF Law welcomes international business law. your feedback. Lauren E. Piatt has joined the law fi rm of Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Send letters to Lindy Brounley, Dobbs in the Atlanta, Ga. offi ce as an associate on the tax & employee UF LAW Editor, UF Law Heatwole 03 benefi ts team. Piatt’s practice areas Communications, P. O. Box include corporate law and federal tax law with a focus on entity formation, 117633, Gainesville, FL corporate governance, and the taxa- 32611-7633, or e-mail it to tion of corporations and pass-through [email protected]fl .edu. entities.

Terri N. Thomas has joined Shutts & Bowen’s Tampa offi ce. Thomas will join the fi rm’s litigation department.

54 UF LAW Pro bono pays off Jason Lazarus (JD 81) BY SPENSER SOLIS or one UF Law graduate, the “To me it was much more In one of his most recent pro phrase “And Justice for All,” appealing to help victims than to bono cases, Lazarus represented Frings especially true in the represent criminal defendants.” an elderly couple in a construction courtroom. Throughout his legal In the State Attorney’s Offi ce dispute. The pro bono clients hired career, Jason D. Lazarus (JD 97), a felony unit, Lazarus was exposed a roofi ng company to replace their double Gator from Miami, Fla. and to serious crimes, including grand roof. The roofer failed to complete an attorney for Holland & Knight theft, burglary, armed robbery and the job as contracted but continued LLP, has racked up more than 200 attempted murder. Lazarus then to demand full payment, Lazarus hours of pro bono service. moved on to the Special Assault said. “I knew that I would want to use Division at the State Attorney’s “After several months of pre- my law degree to the extent I could Offi ce, where he prosecuted many suit negotiations with the roofer’s to help people,” he said. “Including of the most serious crimes in the attorney, the roofer fi led a lawsuit Lazarus those who were less fortunate.” offi ce, including child abuse, felony against the pro bono clients,” he Lazarus was recently honored domestic violence and sex crimes. said. “I represented the clients for his service to those in need at “The most horrifi c crimes in during the months of litigation that “I knew that the Legal Aid Society’s 20th Annual that unit were the sex crimes against followed.” I would want Pro Bono Recognition Evening. For children,” he said. The roofi ng company ultimately Lazarus, an interest in serving the In his current position in the dropped the lawsuit. to use my public runs in the family. His father, litigation department at Holland & Lazarus developed a good law degree grandfather, stepmother and sister Knight LLP, Lazarus has continued relationship with the clients, who are all attorneys. to serve those in need by providing were extremely thankful, he said. to the extent “My grandfather meant a lot to representation to those who cannot “They praised me in letters to I could to me,” Lazarus said. “He always took afford it. While many attorneys Legal Aid and to my superiors here pride in being a lawyer.” simply write a check to the Legal at the fi rm.” help people.” Although Lazarus graduated Aid Society, Holland & Knight LLP Throughout his legal career, from UF with a fi nance degree, he actively encourages its attorneys to the pro bono clients Lazarus has quickly decided that he was destined do pro bono work, Lazarus said. represented have been genuinely for the legal profession, he said. Lazarus typically takes on deserving of quality legal help, he At UF Law, Lazarus was in the between two and three cases a year said. top 10 percent of his class and served from the Legal Aid Society. He is “These are people that without as a senior editor of the Florida Law always handling at least one case for good legal representation would Review. Before working at Holland & the society, he said. have nowhere to turn,” he said. “On Knight, Lazarus served as an assistant “There have even been times many occasions, they have been state attorney for the Fourth Judicial that I have called Legal Aid myself on the right side and have had very Circuit in Jacksonville. asking for cases.” legitimate complaints.” ■

Chaires, Brooderson & Guerrero. The the Atlanta, Ga., offi ce of Greenberg fi rm represents health care practitio- Traurig, LLP in the litigation/prod- 2005 ners and entities and focuses in the ucts liability group and Ashleigh The law fi rm Broad and Cassel areas of health law, business law and is an attorney with the Fulton announced the addition of Angela administrative law. County Offi ce of the Public Defender Lipscomb, who joins the fi rm’s Ft. in the complex felony trial division. Lauderdale offi ce as an associate in Lauren Heatwole was sworn in as The Merchant family resides in Mari- the commercial litigation practice the Young Lawyers Section secretary etta, Ga. group. Lipscomb 05 of the board of directors for 2008- 2009 for the Orange County Bar Arnstein & Lehr LLP has announced 2006 Association. that Gilda G. Romano has joined the Dustin N. Dailey, of Freeport, Fla., fi rm’s Fort Lauderdale offi ce as an has joined Burke Blue Hutchison John and Ashleigh (Bartkus) Mer- associate. She is a member of the Walters and Smith. He is maintain- chant welcomed their daughter, Elle fi rm’s litigation group and will focus ing offi ce hours in both the Burke Elizabeth, into the world on Aug. her practice in the area of complex 23, 2007. John is an attorney with commercial litigation. Blue Downtown Panama City offi ce Dailey 06

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and the Sandestin offi ce. Dailey has Resolution Board practitioner for Spoont has joined the fi rm as an based his preferred areas of prac- construction matters. Zelmer is associate in the West Palm Beach tice on his interests in real estate an associate in the Miami fi rm of offi ce. Spoont received the highest transactions and disputes, contract Shutts & Bowen’s construction score on the February 2008 Florida law, government law, land use and litigation group. Bar Examination for the Fourth Dis- business law. trict and as a result, he was invited

Tomasic 06 to speak at the induction ceremony Sasha A. Klein (LLMT), attorney for 2007 for new attorneys at the Florida Comiter, Singer, Baseman & Braun, Hillary A. Hussin has joined the Supreme Court in Tallahassee has been recognized by Cambridge Baltimore, Md. fi rm of Gallagher Who’s Who for showing dedication, Evelius & Jones LLP as an associ- Veniese A. Wilkinson was recently leadership and excellence in all ate. Hussin will practice in the elected treasurer of the Caribbean aspects of the law. fi rm’s litigation group principally Bar Association. Founded in 1994 on matters involving business and based in Miami, the association Zelmer 06 Brikena Tomasic was recently disputes, employment, property is a volunteer bar organization made admitted to practice before the disputes and the defense of medical up of attorneys in South Florida United States District Court of the malpractice claims. She will also working in both the public and Northern District of Florida as well work with the fi rm’s religious private sectors from an array of law as to the Middle and Southern clients on matters involving backgrounds. Districts of Florida. Tomasic is an employment and tort defense. associate in the Orlando fi rm of Spoont 07 Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor Farooq Mitha has been awarded a 2008 & Reed, P.A. Fulbright Grant for the 2008-2009 academic year. Zimmerman Kiser Sutcliffe in Orlando announced that Carnesha J. Diane J. Zelmer recently qualifi ed The law fi rm of Richman Greer Craft has joined the corporate prac- to be appointed as a Florida Depart- announced that attorney Joshua L. ment of Transportation Dispute tice group as an associate attorney.

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IN MEMORIAM Robert M. Montgomery Jr. (JD 57) passed away Aug. Act of 1970, leading legislation to establish the National Institute of Aging, 4, he was 78. Montgomery — known for his success and working on legislation that assured used cars adhere to federal safety in arguing multi-million dollar cases and representing requirements. high-profi le clients — was a longtime advocate and He was reportedly an advocate of healthy habits and did not smoke. supporter of the UF Levin College of Law. Rogers, a WW II veteran who received a Bronze Star for his action During his 40-year career, Montgomery, who in the European theater, was reelected 11 times to his seat representing lived and practiced in West Palm Beach, Fla., won an Florida’s Ninth Congressional District. estimated 65 settlements of $1 million or more. He After leaving Congress in 1979, Rogers joined the Washington law fi rm represented many high-profi le clients, including Burt Hogan & Harston where he began the fi rm’s health law practice. Reynolds during his divorce from Lonnie Anderson, and Theresa LePore, He is survived by his wife of 46 years, Rebecca, his daughter, Rebecca the Palm Beach County supervisor of elections during the “butterfl y” ballot Laing Sisto, a brother and four grandchildren. controversy of the 2000 presidential election. But it was his case against the tobacco companies that drew the most T. Paine Kelly Jr. (JD 36) passed away Aug. 5 from notice. Montgomery served as Florida’s lead attorney, forcing an $11.3 complications of a stroke. He was 95. billion settlement from tobacco companies to compensate the state for its Kelly practiced law until he was 92 and built his Medicaid expenses related to Floridians’ smoking-related diseases. nearly 70-year career in his hometown of Tampa, Fla. Montgomery’s most lasting legacy may be his generous philanthropy. Most of his 56-year career in trial law was with He donated an estimated $100 million to charity during his lifetime and Macfarlane Ferguson & McMullen. was a devoted supporter of the arts, serving as chairman of the Palm Well known and liked in Tampa courtrooms, Beach Opera for 25 years. Montgomery has been an infl uential and sup- Kelly’s personality was larger than life, as the story portive alumnus of the UF College of Law, and he served on the college’s of his WWII service demonstrates. He was captured Law Advisory Council for many years. Montgomery’s most recent gift to the by Germans as a young colonel in command of the 589th Field Artillery law school supported the building fund for the Martin H. Levin Legal Advo- Battalion during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944. Following his capture, cacy Center, which broke ground this summer. he orchestrated a successful escape with two others from a German POW Montgomery is survived by his wife Mary and daughter Courtney. camp, reportedly using a compass hidden in his jacket to make it back to Allied lines. Paul G. Rogers (JD 48), who earned the nickname His involvement in the Tampa community earned him an Outstanding “Mr. Health” during his time in Congress, passed away Citizen award. He also served on the State Game and Fresh Water Fish Com- Oct. 13 of lung cancer. He was 87. mission, local Red Cross committees, the Committee of 100, the Tampa Boys’ Rogers earned the title during his 24 years as a Club and as president of the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce. Democratic representative from West Palm Beach, Fla., In addition to his community involvement, Kelly was a devoted supporter for his work on environmental and health care legislation. of the UF College of Law, serving as an active trustee for many years. His accomplishments during his time in Congress He is survived by his wife of 68 years, Jean, and two daughters, Josie include serving as the main sponsor of the Clean Air and Carla.

56 UF LAW Golden opportunity Evelyn Davis Golden (JD 76) BY IAN FISHER

rom where Evelyn Davis parents and her teachers back in Golden (JD 76) has been, Moultrie. She was taught by an Fher career path comes as no all-black faculty in Moultrie that surprise. pushed her to work her hardest. Golden is now an attorney with “They didn’t accept that the U.S. Department of Housing and because you were black and poor Urban Development in Atlanta and that you couldn’t learn — that has worked as a public servant for you came from poverty, so you almost all of her career since law weren’t worth the effort,” Golden “I went to school at a time when school. said. “Everybody was challenged; we’d [women] walk into the Golden’s offi ce is responsible for everybody was expected to succeed, enforcing regulation of multifamily and the majority did.” library, people would shuffl e their housing developments insured by When Golden transferred to UF feet because I was a woman.” the Federal Housing Administration Law after her fi rst year at Brooklyn (FHA) and making sure owners keep Law School, she had a new obstacle their property in decent, safe and to face — gender discrimination. professor did not give her a research sanitary condition for the tenants. Although she was raised in position because she was pregnant. “Before going to New York I had the South during segregation, the “He said that I should be home somewhat of a background and life gender discrimination was bad to knitting blue booties, not knitting experiences that indicated that civil her because she was older and more booties, but blue booties for the rights would be something I’d be conscious of it. baby,” Golden said (Golden has two interested in,” Golden said. Golden “When you’re young, you kind grown daughters). “So I had some watched her parents and neighbors of know that you’re being slighted, interesting experiences there, but carpool to go to the polling place to but you’re not sure,” Golden said. overall, the faculty was very fair vote for John F. Kennedy. “There “Of course, some things were very and I enjoyed property classes, so was security in going to the poll obvious. Every summer we went I ended up doing property. Even together.” to the vacation reading club at the though the professor was horrible to Golden was born in 1951 in public library. There was a Negro me, I enjoyed employment law.” segregated Moultrie, Ga., and lived section and there was a white section Although Golden did not notice there until moving to New York in when I was in elementary [school]. any obvious racial discrimination 1963. Since graduating from the UF Every year, I got my little certifi cate toward her at UF, it has come up in College of Law in 1976, she has for completing all of the vacation her career. held numerous government jobs, reading for the summer, and I was “When I was a judge, it was including assistant attorney general always very proud of that.” weird, there were people that didn’t for Florida, assistant public defender At UF, a couple of professors like me because I was black and I for Orange County and Orange were openly sexist to her, but that was a judge, and they didn’t mind County judge. was relatively common in the early showing me,” Golden said. “Here Although Golden had done 1970s, she said. I have the power to put you in well in the segregated schools in “When I went to the University jail, and you’re disrespecting me. Moultrie, many in her new home of Florida, it was kind of scary It was a total disconnect. I found of New York did not expect her because I had never had some of that interesting. But in most of my education to be up to par. the challenges that I faced there,” career, I can’t say that, even though “When I fi rst came, they said, Golden said. “I went to school at a I felt there were some judges that I ‘Oh these A’s can’t be representative time when we’d (women) walk into felt were discriminatory, I can’t say I of what her educational level is,’ ” the library, people would shuffl e suffered tremendously from that.” Golden said. “They tested me and their feet because I was a woman.” Golden began working for found out, in fact, that they were. Golden, who was married, HUD in 2000 as attorney advisor They placed me in gifted classes, got pregnant in law school and in the Departmental Enforcement called special progress classes up continued through law school Center (DEC) before a stint in the there… Things changed for me after pregnant. An employment law Fair Housing Division, where she that.” professor constantly questioned assisted in clearing up a backlog of Golden attributed her success her in class about pregnancy pending fair housing complaints. In throughout school to both her discrimination laws, and an evidence July, she moved back to the DEC. ■

FALL 2008 57 Celebrate UF Law’s Centennial with an all classes 100 Year Anniversary reunion, family fun, and honoring your own! Albert UF LAW ALUMNI REUNION and Alberta will be there. You should be, too!

FRIDAY, APRIL 24 Century Welcome Reception

SATURDAY, APRIL 25 Continental Breakfast College Tours Heritage of Leadership & Distinguished Alumnus Ceremony Family BBQ Lunch with Albert & Alberta CLE Offerings Children’s Dinner (ages 5-12) Decade Dinners After Party at 2-Bits Lounge

SUNDAY, APRIL 26 Farewell Brunch

For more information, contact the Offi ce of Development and Alumni Affairs at (352) 273-0640.

As chair of the Law Center Association, I want to express my appreciation to We need your fi nancial support and our donors for their generous your involvement. support of the Levin College of Law. These contributions are vital to UF Law’s drive to excellence.

Tuition at UF Law currently funds a small percentage of the cost of educating our students. In comparison with the tuition charged by the 195 law schools reporting information to the ABA, our tuition is the 174th lowest. As a result, we must look to external funding sources to achieve our goals of maintaining and increasing quality.

That’s why your support is so important. Alumni and friends are the foundation of UF Law. Not only do you provide mentoring to our students, placement opportunities for our graduates and training in UF Law classrooms, you are dedicated to the fi nancial support of our college. UF Law donors have contributed $747,715 to the college’s Annual Fund and more than $26 million dollars to the college’s Capital Campaign — nearly 56 percent of our goal! Increased funding for UF Law is the key to our shared aspiration of elevating the University of Florida Levin College of Law into one of the nation’s great law schools.

It has been support from alumni like you that has enhanced the outstanding educational experience of students at UF Law. They are instructed by nationally-acclaimed faculty members teaching in the state-of-the-art facilities, and they have free access to unsurpassed information technology. Construction on the Martin H. Levin Legal Advocacy Center began this summer, the completion of which will provide an enormous complement to facilities that are the fi nest offered by any law school in the country.

You have an opportunity to see these new facilities for yourself during the UF Law Centennial Reunion April 24-26, 2009. I urge you to make plans to attend this memorable occasion to reconnect with old friends, make new ones, visit with students and faculty members, and to rekindle your pride of place in UF Law.

I hope you will return to UF Law for its Centennial Celebration this spring. You will be impressed. In addition, please get involved with your Law School — we need your fi nancial support and your involvement.

GO GATORS!

Bruce H. Bokor (JD 72) Chair, University of Florida Law Center Association

2007-2008

60 UF LAW UF LAW CENTER ASSOCIATION, INC. 2007-2008 I would like to thank each of you who supported our law school Bruce Bokor (JD 72), Chairman Peter Zinober (JD 69), Vice Chair during the ’07-’08 fi scal year. Your private contributions are directly W.C. Gentry (JD 71), Immediate Past Chair responsible for our law school’s success. Dennis A. Calfee (JD 75), Treasurer Ladd Fassett (JD 79), Secretary I am pleased to report that during this past year, our Annual Fund Active Members Charles W. Abbott (JD 53), Jacqueline Allee had a record performance, raising $747,715. The average Smith (JD 78), Cesar Alvarez (JD 72), Mark contribution from those who gave was a record high $569. This is A. Avera (JD 89), Jean Bice (JD 75), Bruce important because the Annual Fund is the source of money the dean H. Bokor (JD 72), Leslie W. Burke (JD 68), J. Thomas Cardwell (JD 66), Lawton M. Chiles, allocates to many academic and co-curricular student programs III, Richard B. Comiter (JD 80), Charles E. which bring national recognition to our law school. Commander (JD 65), Barry R. Davidson (JD 67), John A. DeVault, III (JD 67), John H. Dyer Jr. (JD 87), Ladd H. Fassett (JD 79), Andrew That was the good news. The even better news is there is room for Fawbush (JD 74), Michael L. Ferguson (JD 89), improvement. As we have noted in prior letters, our Annual Fund Betsy E. Gallagher (JD 76), Ellen Bellet Gelberg participation rate is lower than both our peer institutions, as well as (JD 76), W. C. Gentry (JD 71), Ellen R. Gershow (JD 83), Linda R. Getzen (JD 82), Gene K. many law schools that are perennially ranked lower than UF. Glasser (JD 72), Robert Glennon (JD 74), K. Lawrence Gragg (JD 74), Scott G. Hawkins (JD 83), Michael Heekin (JD 78), Elizabeth The current state budget crisis is putting severe pressure on the M. Hernandez (JD 83), Elizabeth A. Jenkins funding that the law school receives from the state. As a result, there (JD 76), Kimberly L. Johnson (JD 81), Hal H. is an increasing need for our alumni to do their part in helping our Kantor (JD 72), Frederick Wayne Leonhardt (JD 74), Christine N. Markussen (JD 72), Clifton A. law school. In short, we must change the culture of our alumni giving McClelland Jr. (JD 69), Donald Middlebrooks by increasing the percentage (JD 72), Michael D. Minton (JD 81), James of alumni that give back to the Moody Jr. (JD 72), Brian M. O’Connell (JD 79), Lindy Paull (JD 80), S. Austin Peele (JD 63), F. Annual Fund to a level that is at Wallace Pope Jr. (JD 69), Becky A. Powhatan- least on par with, if not higher, In order for the dean and his staff Kelley (JD 76), Mark Proctor (JD 75), Gerald than those schools with which F. Richman (JD 64), Jesse W. Rigby (JD 77), to do their jobs, we must do ours. Juliet M. Roulhac (JD 87), Oscar Sanchez (JD we compete. In order for the 82), Everett J. Santos (JD 66), Ernest A. Sellers dean and his staff to do their (JD 62), Lawrence E. Sellers Jr. (JD 79), Linda L. Shelley (JD 77), W. Crit Smith (JD 78), Mark jobs, we must do ours. A. Somerstein (JD 82), Laura J. Thacker (JD 87), Marjorie Bekaert Thomas (JD 76), Frank D. Your Alumni Council is working to broaden our base of alumni support Upchurch III (JD 74), John J. Upchurch IV (JD 68), George A. Vaka (JD 83), William A. Weber through appeals to classmates, and by encouraging fi rms with two (JD 76), Peter W. Zinober (JD 69). or more Gators to achieve 100 percent participation through the Ex-Offi cio Law Firm Giving Program. We also need more individuals and fi rms J. Bernard Machen, Paul A. Robell, to sponsor Book Awards. If you contributed to the Annual Fund last Robert H. Jerry II, Rahul Patel year, we look forward to your continued participation. If you did not LAW ALUMNI COUNCIL EXECUTIVE contribute to the Annual Fund last year, please consider making a COMMITTEE 2007-2008 contribution this year.

Rahul Patel (JD 97), President We have a great law school, and your support and participation are Mark Klingensmith (JD 85), Immediate Past President needed more now than ever before. Thank you for your involvement. Gary L. Printy (JD 82), President-Elect Carter Andersen (JD 98), Secretary Rahul Patel (JD 97) At Large Members President, University of Florida Law Alumni Council Tim Cerio (JD 95), C. Randolph Coleman (JD 78), Jeffrey D. Feldman (JD 81), Gregory Harrell (JD 99), Joseph C. Mellichamp III (JD 70), Matthew N. Posgay (JD 94), Cecil D. Rolle (JD 03), Sarah Elizabeth Rumpf (JD 03), Misty Chaves-Taylor (JD 95).

HONOR ROLL

FALL 2008 61 Financial Summary OF GIVING JULY 1, 2007 - JUNE 30, 2008

Donor Types:

Donor Pie Chart Donors Gift Count Gift Total Law Alumni 1,487 1,771 $1,306,763.10 Alumnus 22 28 $62,490.00 Friend 104 111 $868,123.10 Parent 16 38 $24,218.74 Student 1 1 $200.00 UF Faculty 8 35 $43,120.00 Community/Charitable Fund 10 19 $48,985.00 Corporation 89 107 $256,254.00 Family Foundation 10 12 $85,591.00 Foundation 8 8 $101,000.00 Other Organization 16 35 $41,172.46 Religious Org. 1 1 $150.00 TOTAL 1,772 2,166 $2,838,067.40

Total Cash Received: Donors & Gifts 2005-2006: Represents all gifts 3,000 to the Levin College of Law. State match money has been excluded. 2,782 2,503 2,500 2,440 Fiscal Year Amount 2,434 2,166 2004 $1,929,432 2,130 2,088 2,097 2,000 1,890 2005 $3,791,324 1,772

2006 $5,741,724 1,500 2007 $4,224,013 Donors Gifts 2008 $2,838,067 1,000

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0 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Fiscal Year

Endowment Income Fund Balance Interest Transferred Gifts to the law school’s endowment are not spent, but instead are carefully invested to 1998-1999 $43,410,446 $1,197,483 yield a dependable, stable source of income 1999-2000 $57,931,929 $2,129,167 Total Participation: in perpetuity. Approximately 4 percent of earned interest from the market value of the 2000-2001 $58,442,477 $2,907,585 Total Giving Participation 9.8% endowment fund balance was transferred 2001-2002 $59,837,880 $2,971,718 (all donor types) and spent for specific uses designated by 2002-2003 $46,903,630 $2,287,087 Total Alumni Giving Participation 8.3% donors and by college administrators for annual operating and administrative costs. 2003-2004 $52,975,580 $1,582,204 Annual Fund Participation 7.5% (The additional earned interest above the 4 percent is returned to the fund balance.) 2004-2005 $59,588,895 $1,634,109 The fund is managed by the University of Florida Foundation Investment Company 2005-2006 $67,250,539 $2,004,200 (UFICO), which oversees investments and law 2006-2007 $81,594,986 $2,512,741 school endowment income. 2007-2008 $83,571,816 $2,929,866

Finance

62 UF LAW Annual Fund Participation: Annual Fund Contributions Contributions received to non-endowed, non-building funds Fiscal Year Donors Participation 2004 1571 9.20% $800,000 2005 1595 9.34% $747,715 $722,826 2006 1623 9.51% $700,000 2007 1,439 8.21% $640,121 2008 1,315 7.5% $600,000

$552,703 2008 Average Gift: $569.03 $550,000 $529,672

2000 $500,000

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Gator Law Alumni Receptions

“Beat the Bulldogs” UF Law Florida Bar Mid-Year Meeting F. Wallace Pope Jr. W.C. Gentry Alumni Reception January 17, 2008 Scott G. Hawkins Dubose Ausley October 30, 2008 FIRM SPONSORS Ellen C. Ham Bruce H. Bokor FIRM SPONSORS Akerman Senterfi tt Oscar A. Sanchez Volpe, Bajalia, Wickes, Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg, Florida Bar Annual Meeting Grier Pressly Rogerson & Wachs Paul, LLP June 19, 2008 Scott G. Hawkins INDIVIDUAL SPONSORS White & Case FIRM SPONSORS Betsy Ellwanger Gallagher Jim Theriac Lott & Friedland Boies, Schiller, and Flexner LLP Ginny R. Neal Charlie Commander III INDIVIDUAL SPONSORS Greenberg Traurig Lawrence E. and Even Yegelwel Bruce Harris Jones Foster Stubbs Cathy M. Sellers Jr. Chris Hand Stumpy Harris Akerman Senterfi tt Crit Smith L.E. Hutton Malcolm B. Wiseheart Jr. Ruden McClosky Malcolm B. Wiseheart Jr. Corinne Hodak M. Therese Vento and Peter M. Avera and Smith J. Dudley Goodlette W.C. Gentry MacNamara INDIVIDUAL SPONSORS Rahul Patel Marc Wites Scott Atwood Peter M. MacNamara & Ronald J. Antonin Barry Rigby M. Therese Vento Stephen N. Zack F. Wallace Pope

GATOR LAW ALUMNI RECEPTIONS Alumni receptions and other events around the nation are made possible by annual fund contributions from fi rms and individuals who understand the long-term value of close ties to the law school, alumni and legal profession. Alumni Receptions

FALL 2008 63 I loved my time at UF as an undergrad, and staying in Gainesville for my law degree was one of the best de- cisions I’ve ever made. I recently joined a fi rm where all the lawyers are Gator alumni. To me, supporting the law school helps ensure that generations of Gator lawyers to come will continue to have the wonderful opportunities I have been privileged to have.

—SARAH ELIZABETH RUMPF (BA 00 / JD 03) Vose Law Firm, LLP Chairs & Professorships Winter Park, Fla. Dennis A. Calfee Eminent Scholar Chair in Federal Taxation Abel Band Terrance B. Adamson & Edith E. Holiday Matthew J. Ahearn David J. & Jerrie Akins David S.& Myrna L. Band Barnett, Bolt, Kirkwood, Long & McBride Philip B. & Barbara Barr Jr. S. C. Battaglia Family Foundation, Inc. W. Michael Black R. Mason & Amelia Blake Darryl M. & Mary Bloodworth Bovay, Cook & Ossi, P.A. Boyer, Dolasinski, Miller & Martin P.C. William A. & Laura Boyles Stephen J. & Sharon Bozarth Paul D. Fitzpatrick & Mary Jo Buckingham Jane D. Callahan Marc D. & Tracy D. Chapman Gary J. Cohen Alan B. & Lauren K. Cohn Richard B. Comiter & Associates P.A. Christopher R. D’Amico Alan H. Daniels Terrence T. & Jeanne Dariotis Dean Mead Lauren Y. Detzel Nathaniel L. & Debra Doliner Charles H. & Karen A. Egerton David H. & Kathryn Evaul Alfred M. & Eleanor Falk Alan S. & Marcia Gassman John N. & Ruth T. Giordano Robert E. Glennon Jr.* Scott E. & Cheryl L. Gordon Bradley R. & Vanessa R. Gould James A. Hauser Lynn J. & Evelyn R. Hinson Peter T. & Karla Dann Kirkwood Steven C. Lee Stephen A. Lind William V. & Shirley Linne Stephen R. & Paige B. Looney Peter M. MacNamara & M. Therese Vento Erick S. & Nancy B. Magno Robert W. & Barbara J. Mead Jr. Michael D. & Mary P. Minton Louis & Janet M. Nostro Jr. Brian M. & Joan B. O’Connell Robert E. & Jeanne Panoff Lindy L. Paull David H. & Cheryl R. Peek

Note: Names in the Honor Roll listing followed by The Endowed Fund an asterik (*) are members of the 1909 Society.

64 UF LAW Chad T. & Pamela O. Price Ronnie H. Walker Scholarship Fund Gerald T. Bennett Prosecutor/Public James D. & Suzanne Camp Jr. J. Stephen Pullum Anna C. Shea Defender Training Program L. Kinder & Barbara S. Cannon III Purcell, Flanagan & Hay, P.A. Berry, Day & McFee, P.A. Robert A. Caplen Richard M. & Gail M. Robinson Terrye Coggin Proctor Merit Memorial Brown, Suarez, Rios & Ruhl, P.A. Christopher & Lauren Carmody Jr. Scholarship Sarah E. Rumpf Denis M. De Vlaming Robert J. & Kathryn A. Carr Randolph J. & Sue N. Rush Kim O’Connor Matt Destry Mr. Justin M. Casp & Schwab Charitable Fund Theriac-Moore Families’ Scholarship Fund Douglas N. & Cathy J. Duncan Courtney Bradley Casp John J. & Lynn G. Scroggin Yolanda C. Jackson FL Public Defender Association, Inc. Jon C. Chassen Hans G. & Deborah M. Tanzler III James S. & Sharon Theriac III The Florida Bar Andrew R. Cheslock Tescher & Spallina, P.A. Florida Bar Foundation Ryan S. Cobbs David P. & Debbie M. Webb Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association R. John & Mary M. Cole II Williams, Parker, Harrison, Dietz & Getzen Other Endowed Gifts GrayRobinson, P.A. Community Foundation for Robert S. & Nannette M. Griscti Palm Beach & Martin County James J. Freeland Eminent Scholar Chair Allen L. Poucher Legal Education Rudy R. Gurrola Jr. Sarah Cortvriend in Federal Taxation Series Fund Jeffrey M. Harris Adam E. & Kristin M. Crall Harry S. Colburn Jr. Betty K. Poucher Leslie & Margaret Hess Evans & Sara T. Crary Richard B. Stephens Eminent Scholar Allen Norton & Blue Endowed Book Holland & Knight LLP Jerry B. & Anne O. Crockett Chair in Federal Taxation Award in Employment Discrimination M. James Jenkins Marion M. Cromwell Harry S. Colburn Jr. Allen, Norton & Blue Benedict P. Kuehne Raul A. & Mary L. Cuervo Deborah E. Cupples Brian M. O’Connell Estates and Trusts Abraham Lynn Laeser Richard E. Nelson Chair in Local Joshua D. Curry Book Award Endowment Law Offi ces Lyons & Sanders Government Stephen E. & Barbara E. Dalton Brian M. & Joan B. O’Connell Frederick P. Mercurio Jane B. Nelson C. Richard & Kathryn A. Parker William B. & Sara C. Dana Marion J. & Ellyn A. Radson Center for Race and Race Relations Lisa M. Porter Paul W. & Georgia R. Danahy Jr. Lecture Series Fund Candace Sylvia Preston Aaron M. & Kelly L. Davis Scholarships W. George & Enid Allen Rothman & Associates, P.A. Kelly F. & Cary B. Davis Kevin M. Schmitt C. LeAnn Davis Edward Downey Academic Endowment Coker, Myers, Schickel, Cooper and Stidham & Stidham, P.A. Kimberly A. Davis for Trusts, Estates and Fiduciary Sorensen, P.A. Trial Team Scholarship Adam & Regina Tebrugge Lauren Y. Detzel Administration Raymond M. Dominick Turner & Hodge LLP John A. & Sue S. DeVault III Edward & Julia D. Downey J. Phillip Warren David G. Vinikoor Juan M. Diaz Kurt M. Zaner Florida Constitutional Law Book William R. Wade Derek J. Dilberian Edwin Presser Scholarship in Law Award Endowment in Don & Pauline Waggoner Russell W. & Janice M. Divine Andrew T. & Anne Dixon Stephen Presser & Diane Archer Honor of Bill McBride Law Review Endowment Lawrence J. Dougherty Daniel J. Collin Robert S. Bolt Jolyon D. & Christine M. Acosta Charles T. Douglas Jr. Justin Hillenbrand Adelaide A. Sink Drew M. & Miriam R. Altman Mayanne Downs Phillip E. & Valerie B. Von Burg Gene K. Glasser and Elaine Glasser Fund J. Carter & Dana Andersen Kenneth J. & Michelle T. Drab Jr. Evan J. Yegelwel Fellowship Robert G. & Francyn T. Berrin Cory L. Andrews Dunwody, White & Landon, P.A. Yegelwel Family Foundation Bruce H. & Joanne K. Bokor Robert R. Pedlow & Mary Jane Angelo Donald A. & Gene S. Dvornik Evan J. & Arlene S. Yegelwel Ross N. & Candy Clark Robert W. Anthony Jr. John H. Dyer Jr. & Karen Caudill Dyer Maureen B. Clemente Kendall Coffey & Joni Armstrong Coffey James E. & Megan J. Ellis II Goldstein and Ray Scholarship in Honor of Alan B. & Lauren K. Cohn Kristina L. Arnsdorff Kenneth C. & Mary B. Ellis Assistant Dean of Admissions Michael James F. & Gayle T. Comander Frank A. & Sharon Ashton Theodore A. Erck III Patrick Gail Cornblatt Reubin O. & Donna-Lou Askew Patricia Combs Fawsett & Neil Oehlstrom Goldstein & Ray, P.A. Itzhak & Anna Ezratti F. Eugene Atwood & Dabney D. Ware Peter T. & Pat Fay Frank S. Goldstein Seymour J. & Barbara Frankfurt Mark O. Bagnall & Maria I. Urbina-Bagnall Fee Foundation, Inc. Baker & Hostetler LLP GrayRobinson, P.A. Endowed Scholarship Maurice M. & Judith L. Garcia Frank H. & Levan N. Fee III Herschel & Susan G. Gavsie G. Thomas & Sharon Y. Ball The Freedom Forum Joel R. Feldman & Allison D. Gene K. & Elaine Glasser Dane A. & Jennifer Baltich Malcom Kirschenbaum Skatoff-Feldman Michael B. & Susan Goldberg Martha W. & Richard R. Barnett Waldman Feluren Law School Faculty Scholarship William C. & Ronni Gompers Scott R. & Dana Bauries Brian J. & Stacy B. Fender Aaron R. & Lisa C. Cohen Sandra & Leon G. Joshua L. & Sara S. Becker Leslie E. Stiers & Melissa Fernandez Michael D. Eriksen Gulden Private Fdtn. David L. & Angela F. Benjamin Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Brian J. & Cherie M. Gavsie Barbara C. Hartley Cecilia M. Bidwell Meredith C. Fields Kevin Gunning & Sharon T. Sperling Robert H. & Lisa Jerry II* David L. Bilsker Daniel R. & Micah G. Fogarty John H. & Linda K. King David L. & Maida S. Kahn R. Mason & Amelia S. Blake M. Lanning & Jane P. Fox James R. & Erin G. Lavigne Russell H. & Karen H. Kasper Bruce H. & Joanne K. Bokor S. Katherine Frazier Thomas M. Parker Mitchell A. & Amy L. Kaye Richard K. Bowers Jr. & Janice K. Bowers Michael K. Freedman Blan L. Teagle & Lilijean Quintiliani Susan L. Lopatin David S. & Christine Boyce James E. & Allison A. Frye Jr. Gerald B. & Betty L. Stewart Samuel & Rose Riemer Matthew C. & Catherine D. Brewer Andrew M. Fussner John A. & Lana N. Sunner Private Foundation Theotis & Jeanelle G. Bronson Betsy E. Gallagher William E. Rosenberg Foundation Gain Brown & Megan A. Kelly W. C. & Susan Gentry Lewis “Lukie” Ansbacher Memorial Jeffrey M. & Barbara C. Rosenberg Joshua R. & Monica R. Brown Scholarship Patrick E. & Barbara H. Geraghty, Sr.* Ronald J. & Cheri M. Rothschild David D. & Jamey B. Burns Alan M. Gerlach Jr. Barry B. & Elaine K. Ansbacher Stuart A. & Evelyn Schechter Rocky M. Cabagnot Sybil B. Ansbacher Joyce Silverman McLin & Burnsed Scholarship Fund in Martin J. & Faith Sperry Honor of Walter S. McLin & R. Dewey J. Harold & Patty Stanley Jonathon F. & Lesly Wise Burnsed THE ENDOWED FUND provides a permanent foundation for the college McLin & Burnsed, P.A. and is indispensable in supporting important programs and activities. Donors give to this fund for many reasons: to provide scholarships, honor distinguished careers, memorialize loved ones, serve as an estate-planning tool, or to simply thank and support the college. The benefi ts from those gifts are immeasurable and allow the college to weather state cuts and plan for the future. The donors recognized on these and the following pages gave in the 2007-2008 fi scal year.

FALL 2008 65 John M. Gillies Norris & Foreman, P.A. Diane A. Tomlinson Kozyak, Tropin & Throckmorton Daniel J. Glassman Orlando P. & Jennifer L. Ojeda Jr. Seth P. & Shawna N. Traub Phyllis Kravitch Mandell & Joyce Glicksberg John C. & Elizabeth L. Oliver Tara V. Trevorrow Richard A. & Celeste L. Lazzara Allison M. Gluvna Toby V. & Berkley A. Olvera Richard G. Laurie B. Wack Joan A. Lenard Jonathan C. & Mary S. Gordon Taylor C. & Misty R. Pancake Bill & Ruth W. Wagner Leslie J. Lott & Michael T. Moore Meaghan C. Gragg Lindsay M. Patrick Rachel B. Wagner R. Layton Mank & Mary Stuart Mank Richard C. & Marjory E. Grant Matthew D. & Amber N. Patterson Glenn J. & Sheryl Waldman Louise Marra Alexander Grass Carl R. & Madge S. Pennington III Zachary D. Warren Jose E. Martinez Richard D. & Beverly W. Green Charles P. & Judith H. Pillans III Janelle A. Weber Chris M. McAliley E. John & Yali C. Gregory Michael A. Piscitelli & June Turner Piscitelli Winifred L. Wentworth Catherine P. McEwen Robert D. Keliher, Sr. & Linda Suzzanne Scott D. & Ingrid H. Ponce Steven J. Wernick Howell Melton, Sr. & Catherine W. Melton Griffi n F. Wallace & Christine R. Pope Jr. Scott L. & Lynda J. Whitaker George Mencio Jr. John F. & Nancy P. Halula James G. & Kathryn S. Pressly Jr. White & Case LLP Steven D. Merryday Nicolas Hamann Gary R. & Sharon H. Proctor Wilbert’s Stephan P. & Evelyn M. Mickle Gregory C. & Whitney C. Harper Paige E. Provenzano Jake R. Williams Donald M. & Victoria J. Middlebrooks Tim D. & Dyanne F. Henkel Albert D. Quentel Winton E. Williams Leroy H. Moe Richard H. & Jane G. Hiers John H. Rains IV Allen C. & Alicia Winsor James S. & Kelli O. Moody Jr. William T. & Peggy T. Hodges Patrick C. Rastatter & Mary A. Towne Wiseheart Foundation, Inc. Kevin M. & Eva C. Moore Holland & Knight Charitable Foundation, William P. & Laura M. Reich Malcolm B. Wiseheart Jr. John H. & Joan K. Moore II Inc. Richard M. & Garland L. Reid Marc A. & Jennifer Wites Federico A. & Cristina M. Moreno Mark L. & Susan J. Horwitz Resource Consulting Group, Inc. Dale S. & Kristeen R. Witt John & Cathy O’Sullivan Charles A. & Joy M. Intriago Harley E. & Posey C. Riedel II Richard M. & Elizabeth B. Zabak Peter R. Palermo Daniel C. & Sheena T. Irick Joshua H. & Cori W. Roberts Kurt M. Zaner Robert L. & Lyn S. Parks Edward M. & Mary Jackson James N. & LaTeshia R. Robinson II Andrew D. & Erica S. Schultz Zaron Alexander L. Paskay Jeffrey A. Jacobs Robin L. Rosenberg Robert R. & Diane J. Zelmer S. Daniel & Nancy Ponce Michael L. & Elizabeth P. Jamieson Louis K. & Denise D. Rosenbloum Philip E. Rothschild & Robin S. LLM Tax Law Programs Endowment Fund Elizabeth A. Jenkins & Charles E. Hudson Matthew L. & Nancy K. Rosin Rosenbaum Robert H. & Lisa Jerry II* Thomas K. Ruppert The Deaver Phoenix Foundation, Inc. Kenneth L. Ryskamp Timothy W. & Jennifer M. Jones Randolph J. & Sue N. Rush Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Lecture Harvey E. & Lois B. Schlesinger John A. & Margarette L. Jones Lanny & Denise M. Russell Series Buddy & Mary Lou Schulz JustGive Christopher J. Ryan The Lewis Schott Foundation Barry S. Seltzer Hal H. & Vicki Kantor Albert A. & Carolyn E. Sanchez Jr. Lewis M. Schott Howard & Nancy Snyder Stephen E. Kelly Steven E. & Rosalie M. Sanderson John E. & Lynda Steele Kimberly R. Keravouri Michael A. Sayre Peter T. Fay Jurist-In-Residence Program Stewart, Tilghman, Fox & Bianchi, P.A. Michael G. & Lucy W. Kerman Daniel L. & Diane L. Schaps R. Lanier & Nancy B. Anderson III Sidney A. & Annette Stubbs Jr. Jesse B. & Carolyn M. Kershner Michael J. & Praewnapa Schefer Reubin O. & Donna-Lou Askew Tigert Fund Robert D. & Elenore C. Klingler Tura L. Schnebly David A. & Melissa S. Baker Ursula M. Ungaro-Benages David T. & Carla C. Knight David C. & Caryn Watsky Scileppi Rosemary Barkett Ann E. Vitunac James N. Knight John H. & Julie H. Seibert Susan H. & Louis E. Black III A. Ward & Ruth Wagner Jr.* Brian H. Koch Lawrence E. & Cathy M. Sellers Jr. Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP Vic & Vicki J. Weinstein Russell Koonin Stephen W. & Diana J. Sessums E. G. & Alfreda S. Boone Michael G. Williamson Kubicki Draper Abraham M. & Joy M. Shashy Jr. Ed & Becky Carnes Thomas G. Nancy M. Wilson Steve & Penny Langston Lewis E. Shelley & Linda Loomis Shelley James I. Cohn William J. Zloch The Law Firm of Robert S. Griscti, P.A. John W. & Eleanor W. Sheppard Dean C. & Melinda B. Colson Rebecca Jakubcin Labor & Employment Alexandra N. Lehson Kevin M. Shuler Anne C. Conway* Law Book Award Fund Robert E. & Kathryn E. Lewis Rebecca Shwayri Marcia G. Cooke Janne C. Foster Rutledge R. & Noel D. Liles Kenneth M. Sigelman Jose A. Gonzalez Jr. & Mary S. Copeland Fisher & Phillips LLP Don R. Livingstone Bert C. & Joyce M. Simon Virginia M. Covington Joseph W. & Darcy Gagnon Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed Corinne R. Simon Marion M. Cromwell M T R, Inc. Michael D. & Diane Simon William P. & Natalie B. Dimitrouleas Richard H. Simons Charitable Trust Philip E. & Caroline Marshall David T. & Sandra G. Smith Michael T. & Paula S. Fay Faculty Professional Development Fund Lorie A. Mason L. Ralph Smith Jr. Peter T. & Pat Fay Richard H. Simons Charitable Trust c/o Matheson Appellate Law, P.A. Rod & Deidra C. Smith W. Ray & Jacquelyn Fortner Robert & Judith Kramer Gerald G. Matheson & Maureen Monaghan Rodney W. Smith William S. & Lyn C. Frates II Matheson W. Kelly & Ruth S. Smith Barry L. Garber W. Kelly and Ruth Smith Law Endowment Thomas M. & Shannon C. McAleavey W. Russell & Iralyn C. Snyder Alan S. & Susan F. Gold W. Kelly & Ruth Smith Donald L. Graham Michael J. & Marisa L. McDonald William R. Snyder Jr. White Collar Crime Endowed Book Award Alan G. Greer & Patricia Seitz Brian M. & Britton E. McPherson Joel S. & Stacy F. Speiller in Honor of Charles P. Pillans Shelby & Mary J. Highsmith Ryan G. & Tiffani F. Miller Brian J. & Elizabeth T. Stack Cynthia G. Edelman Family Foundation Robert L. Hinkle Lew I. & Jennifer I. Minsky H. Bradley & Audrey L. Staggs Daniel M. Edelman & Cindy Stein Daniel F. Molony James P. & Colleen C. Stevens William M. Hoeveler John H. & Joan K. Moore II Dustin P. Stevens James M. Hopkins Wolf Family American Property Law Andrew A. & Jessica A. Morey Stewart, Tilghman, Fox & Bianchi, P.A. Paul C. & Donna H. Huck Lecture Endowment M. Scotland & Margaret K. Morris Kimarie R. Stratos Frank M. Hull Michael A. & Betty M. Wolf Julie A. Moxley Robert L. & Terri Tankel Daniel T. Hurley Greg T. Mullane & Joy Sabino Mullane Jeffrey M. & Lisa S. Taylor Karen S. Jennemann Edward M. Rima Y. Mullins Jr. Lynsey A. Templeton Adalberto J. & Lazara E. Jordan Keith E. Myers Donald R. Tescher Gregory J. Kelly Noel H. & Marianne H. Nation Gregg D. Thomas James L. King Please report any corrections to Sara Cocolin at Shelly E. Nixon Don & Sara Tolliver Russell Koonin [email protected]fl .edu or call 352-273-0640.

The Endowed Fund

66 UF LAW I feel sincerely honored to receive Immigration Law Partnership Taxation Mark Citrin, Esq. Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor a book award. Through the & Reed, Pa (LL.M.) Income Taxation Of Estates & Trusts generous support of alumni, Emmanuel, Sheppard & Condon, PA Procedures in Tax Fraud Cases A. Brian Phillips book awards are a tradition that Insurance link the past with the future gen- Merlin Law Group, PA Professional Responsibility & The Legal Profession Intellectual Property erations of lawyers from UF Law. Dean, Mead, Egerton, Bloodworth, Lott & Friedland, PA After I graduate, I hope to be able Capouano & Bozarth, PA Intellectual Property Litigation In Memory of Andy Fredricks (Endowed) to help continue the tradition. Feldman Gale, PA Doug & Jack Milne Hill, Ward & Henderson, PA —EMILY BANKS (3L) International Business Transactions John C. & Tifi Bierley (Endowed) K. Judith Lane Administrative Law Creditors’ Remedies & Bankruptcy International Law Property Timothy M. & Lorena J. Cerio Jeffrey W. Warren, Esq. Marjorie & Bryan Thomas Professor Emeritus Mandell Glicksberg, Ian Leavengood Established by Andrew C. Hall, Esq. Advanced Bankruptcy International Litigation & Arbitration In Memory of Richard T. Leavengood, & Lames A. Hauser, Esq. (Endowed) Stichter, Riedel, Blain & Prosser, PA Michael J. McNerney, Esq. Esq. David C. Sasser Advanced Litigation Jurisprudence Jeffrey Brock Criminal Clinic – Public Defender Clinic Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Bill Hoppe, Esq. Remedies The Hon. W. Fred Turner Memorial Kantor & Reed, PA (Endowed) Labor & Employment Law Fassett, Anthony & Taylor, PA Advanced Problems in Bankruptcy Fisher & Phillips, LLP (Endowed) Criminal Law Securities Regulation & Debtor Creditor Law In Memory of Rebecca Jakubcin Anthony S. Battaglia, Esq. Daniel Aronson Jacksonville Bankruptcy Bar Association Thomas Edwards Land Finance Sports Law In Memory of The Honorable R. Timothy Jansen, Esq. Rick and Aase Thompson George L. Proctor Frances Greer Israel, Harris, Guidi, Rosner, Dunlap & Rudolph, PA Land Use Planning & Control Established by William C. Israel Agricultural Law & Policy Criminal Procedure – Odversary System Casey Ciklin Lubitz Martens & O’Connell State and Local Taxation Ernest A. Sellers Phillip J. Mays, Esq., In Honor of Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster Kantor & Ausley & McMullen, PA Appellate Advocacy Professor Kenneth B. Nunn Reed, Pa Taxation of Gratuitous Transfers Hicks & Kneale, PA Criminal Procedure – Police & Police Law & Psychiatry Gary Lee Printy, Esq. Richard H. Simons Charitable Trust Practices Lawrence Keefe Bruce Rogow/Rogow Greenberg Foundation Tax Policy Linnes Finney Jr., Esq. George A. Vaka Law Review Tax Analysts, Inc. Deferred Compensation Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed, Business Organizations Torts Andrew J. Fawbush, Esq. PA (Endowed) William A. Weber Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP (Endowed) R. Vinson Barrett, Esq. Eminent Domain & Takings Child, Parent & State Paul Linder, Esq. Bruce M. Harris, Esq. & Stumpy Harris, Esq. Legal Accounting Charles M. Rand, Esq. The Hon. Barbara Pariente & Brett Hendee, PA The Hon. Fred Hazouri Employment Discrimination Gerald Schackow Allen, Norton & Blue, PA (Endowed) Legal History Trial Practice Civil Procedure Bruce and Brad Culpepper Fox, Wackeen, Dungey, Sweet, Beard, Sobel Environmental Law Barry L. Davis/Thornton, Davis & Fein, PA & McCluskey, LLP Professor Mandell Glicksberg Award Legal Research & Writing Bill Bone, Esq. Gwynne A. Young Established by Robert A. Mandell Constance K. & Grover C. Freeman Bush Ross, PA W.C. Gentry, Esq. Robert H. & Lisa Jerry II & Tracy Rambo Milton, Leach, Whitman, D’Andrea, Estate Planning Catherine Barclift Memorial Charek & Milton, PA Civil Tax Procedure C. Randolph & Cheryl R. Coleman Monte J. Tillis Jr. Memorial (Endowed) Mediation R. Lawrence Heinkel, Esq. Edward F. Koren, Esq. (Endowed) Scott D. Sheftall James F. Page Jr., PA/Page Mediation Conservation Clinic Estates & Trusts Vaka, Larson & Johnson, Pl Alton & Kathleen Lightsey. Jones, Foster, Johnston & Stubbs, PA Media Law Volpe, Bajalia, Wickes, Rogerson & Wachs Brian M. O’Connell (Endowed) Thomas & Locicero, Pl Constitutional Law U.S. International Tax I Patrick E. Geraghty, PA Evidence Medical Technology And The Law Richard A. Jacobson, PA James E. Thomison Kenneth R. Johnson & Clarke, Silverglate, Campbell, Williams White Collar Crime Kimberly Leach Johnson & Montgomery, PA Negotiation, Mediation & Other Dispute In Honor Of Charles P. 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FALL 2008 67 While on our life’s journey, we must never forget those people and institutions that contributed to our personal successes. I am always proud to be a member of the legal profession. I am always grateful that I received my legal education at the University of Florida.

—EVAN J. YEGELWEL, ESQ. (JD 80) Founders Society - gold Terrell Hogan Ellis Yegelwel, P.A. Jacksonville, Fla. Charles W. & Betty Jo E. Abbott Terrance B. Adamson & Edith E. Holiday AT&T Attorneys’ Title Insurance Fund Bank of America v. Felisa Lallana John Bargas The Robert S. & Mildred M. Baynard Trust John C. & Tifi Bierley E. G. & Alfreda S. Boone Mary B. Bryant Lynn E. Burnsed James D. & Suzanne W. Camp Jr. Walter G. Campbell Jr. Carlton Fields Warren M. & Dorothy C. Cason Luther W. Coggin Jr. Coker, Schickel, Sorenson & Daniel Howard C. Coker Marshall M. Criser Irving Cypen John H. & Mary Lou D. Dasburg Dean Mead Jack C. Demetree Edward & Julia D. Downey The Dunspaugh-Dalton Foundation Jessie Ball duPont Fund Ray F. Ferrero Jr. The Florida Bar Florida Bar Foundation W. C. Gentry Family Foundation W. C. & Susan Gentry GrayRobinson William & Eva Gruman Andrew C. Hall & Gail S. Meyers* Wayne Hogan Holland & Knight Charitable Foundation Holland & Knight Icard, Merrill, Cullis, Timm, Furen & Ginsburg Justice Story Book Exchange Nick Kapioltas Robert G. Kerrigan Kerrigan, Estess, Rankin & McLeod Gerald J. Klein The Kresge Foundation Lane, Trohn, Bertrand & Vreeland Allen L. Poucher Jr. & Diane Larson Levin & Papantonio Family Foundation Fredric G. & Marilyn K. Levin The Lewis Schott Foundation Stephen A. Lind Lake H. Lytal Jr. John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Macfarlane, Ferguson & McMullen Margaret MacLennan

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68 UF LAW Ladd H. & Renee M. Fassett Peter M. MacNamara & M. Therese Vento Henry A. Finkelstein Memorial Erick S. & Nancy B. Magno Fisher & Phillips William H. McBride Jr. & Adelaide A. Sink Distinguished Donors The Florida Bar Tax Section Michael J. McNerney Fonvielle, Lewis, Foote & Messer Cynthia F. O’Connell FOUNDERS SOCIETY 1909 SOCIETY Michael K. & Jacqueline Friel A. Brian Phillips* Ellen B. Gelberg White & Case Members receive permanent The 1909 Society commemorates Gene K. & Elaine R. Glasser Stephen N. Zack recognition in the annual report. the founding year of the law Ruth Goodmark school and honors individuals Stumpy & Dorothy L. Harris* Partners GOLD: Annual Gifts and fi ve-year who support the law school’s James A. Hauser Justin Hillenbrand pledges of $100,000 and up. annual fund program. See page Thomas C. & Elisa V. Allison Corinne C. Hodak 75 for more details. Annual fund Dan Aronson* SILVER: Annual Gifts and fi ve-year Wayne & Patricia Hogan Family Foundation gifts (contributions designated to Jerald D. & Susan R. August* pledges of $50,000-$99,999. David & Marie Hyman non-endowed, non-building funds) Ausley & McMullen E. C. Deeno Kitchen of $2,000-$4,999. All current Philip B. & Barbara L. Barr Jr. Edward F. Koren Bilzin Sumberg DEAN’S COUNCIL members of the 1909 Society are Krome Realty Bill Bone* Members receive full President’s designated in this report by an LexisNexis Bovay, Cook & Ossi Council benefi ts and recognition, asterisk (*). Lawrence A. Lokken Jeffrey P. & Jan M. Brock* Kevin A. & Jeanette Malone invitations to special events, and Casey Ciklin Lubitz Martens & O’Connell Francis T. McCoy distinguished recognition in the TRUSLER SOCIETY Timothy M. & Jayne Cerio* Gene Moore III annual report. Annual gifts of $1,000-$4,999 Mark & Andrea H. Citrin Jon C. Moyle Members receive special C. Randolph & Cheryl Coleman National Conference of Bar Examiners BARRISTER: Gifts and fi ve-year recognition in the annual report. Richard B. Comiter & Associates Mark A. Nouss pledges of $25,000-$49,999. Anne C. Conway* F. Wallace & Christine R. Pope Jr. Bruce & Virginia M. Culpepper PARTNER: Gifts and fi ve-year ENRICHMENT SOCIETY James G. & Kathryn S. Pressly Jr. Brad Culpepper II Annual gifts of $100-$999. Mark J. Proctor pledges of $10,000-$24,999. Brian T. Degnan* Donors are recognized in the Reid, Ricca & Rigell Lauren Y. Detzel ASSOCIATE: Gifts and fi ve-year David M. Richardson annual report. Mark P. Dikeman pledges of $5,000-$9,999. Richman Greer Mayanne Downs Richard M. & Gail M. Robinson Thomas L. & Christine F. Edwards* Rumberger, Kirk & Caldwell Peter T. & Pat Fay Buddy & Mary Lou Schulz FL Public Defender Association Searcy Denny Scarola Barnhart & Shipley Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association Michael C. Maher Glenn W. Sturm Shutts & Bowen Foley & Lardner Martin Z. Margulies The Carl S. Swisher Foundation Richard B. Stephens Jr. Peter J. Genz* McLin & Burnsed James S. & Sharon L. Theriac III Hans G. & Deborah M. Tanzler III Patrick E. & Barbara H. Geraghty, Sr.* John M. McNatt Jr. Robert L. & Doris M. Trohn* Terrell, Hogan, Ellis & Yegelwel Robert E. Glennon Jr.* Robert G. & Joelen K. Merkel United Way of Miami-Dade John Thatcher Richard C. & Marjory E. Grant* Mershon, Sawyer, Johnston, Upchurch Watson White & U.S. Sugar Corporation Sandra & Leon G. Gulden Private Dunwody & Cole Max Mediation Group Philip E. & Valerie B. Von Burg Foundation Montgomery Family Charitable Trust Jeffrey W. & Susan P. Warren* A. Ward & Ruth S. Wagner Jr.* Harris, Guidi, Rosner, Dunlap, Rudolph & Morgan & Morgan Michael A. & Betty M. Wolf Charles T. & Linda F. Wells Catlin John B. & Ultima D. Morgan Samuel J. & Evelyn Wood Foundation Scott L. & Lynda J. Whitaker Brett T. & Rhonda K. Hendee Motley Rice Frank Wotitzky Winderweedle, Haines, Ward and Hicks & Kneale James H. Nance Yent Bayou Properties Partnership Woodman Mark Hicks National Center for Automated Info C. Steven Yerrid Susan Winn Hill, Ward & Henderson Research Zimmerman, Kiser & Sutcliffe Yegelwel Family Foundation Bill & Angela A. Hoppe Jane B. Nelson Evan J. & Arlene S. Yegelwel Jacksonville Bankruptcy Bar Association Brian M. & Joan B. O’Connell Founders Society - silver Yerrid Foundation Benjamin F. Overton Richard A. & Lisa G. Jacobson* Whit Palmer Jr. R. Timothy Jansen C. Wayne & Kethryn Alford Kitty Phillips Barristers Kenneth R. & Kimberly L. Johnson* Allen, Norton & Blue Betty K. Poucher Leonard H. Johnson C. DuBose & Sallie M. Ausley Justus W. Reid, Sr. Mark O. & Maria I. Urbina-Bagnall Jones, Foster, Johnston & Stubbs David S. & Myrna L. Band Stephen H. & Elizabeth P. Reynolds S. C. Battaglia Family Foundation Becky Powhatan Kelley* Barnett, Bolt, Kirkwood, Long & McBride Mikel M. Rollyson Robert S. Bolt Peter T. & Karla Dann Kirkwood Bedell, Dittmar, DeVault, Pillans & Coxe William E. Rosenberg Foundation Lauren K. & Alan B. Cohn K. Judith Lane* Joseph Benzinger Gerald A. & Ingrid M. Rosenthal* Cynthia G. Edelman Family Foundation Lewis, Longman & Walker Bruce H. & Joanne K. Bokor J. Quinton Rumph The Deaver Phoenix Foundation Paul R. Linder Carol M. Brewer Saliwanchik, Lloyd & Saliwanchik Daniel M. Edelman & Cindy Stein Brian J. McDonough Broad & Cassel John J. Schickel, Sr. John N. & Ruth T. Giordano Milton, Leach, Whitman, D’Andrea & Bush Ross Lewis M. & Marcia Whitney(d) Schott Goldstein & Ray Milton Daniel J. Collin Security Sales Frank S. Goldstein Michael D. & Mary P. Minton Community Foundation of Tampa Bay T. Terrell Sessums, Sr. K. Lawrence Maureen G. Gragg Louis & Janet M. Nostro Jr. Hugh F. Culverhouse Jr. Benedict A. Silverman William V. & Eva Gruman James F. & Dianne S. Page Jr. Meredyth Anne Dasburg Foundation Richard H. Simons Charitable Trust John H. Haswell Rahul & Swati R. Patel* George H. DeCarion W. Kelly & Ruth S. Smith Hal H. & Vicki Kantor Lindy L. Paull Kenneth C. Johnson & M. Debra L. Donner Gerald Sohn Chris M. & Kathleen D. Limberopoulos David H. & Cheryl R. Peek Dunwody, White & Landon Lynn D. Solomon Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed Stephen Presser & Diane Archer Philip I. & Barbara L. Emmer Steel, Hector & Davis Robert M. Ervin Sidney A. & Annette Stubbs Jr.

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FALL 2008 69 Gary L. & Suzanne Printy* Daniel F. Molony Glenn L. & Michele Criser J. Stephen Pullum James B. Murphy Jr. Barry R. & Paula Davidson Jorge F. Ramirez Tubilla Darrell W. Deborah J. Payne George L. & Sally K. Dawson* John M. Rawicz Mark S. Peters John A. & Sue S. DeVault III Bequests Oscar A. Sanchez & Lida R. Matthew N. & Kathleen B. Posgay Rosanne M. Duane Rodriguez-Taseff* Chad T. & Pamela O. Price James E. Eaton Jr. Randolph J. & Sue N. Rush Purcell, Flanagan & Hay Charles H. & Karen A. Egerton J. Parker Ailstock David C. & Ronna G. Sasser* Albert D. Quentel Dennis J. & Debra W. Eisinger* Timothy C. Blake Gerald D. & Joanne W. Schackow* John T. & Leah A. Rogerson III Kenneth C. & Mary B. Ellis Michael A. Bedke John J. & Lynn G. Scroggin Dale M. Swope & Diane Ross Patrick G. & Olivia B. Emmanuel* David M. Seifer Stephen F. Rossman Peter C. K. & Janet W. Enwall* John C. Bierley Lawrence E. & Cathy M. Sellers Jr.* Juliet M. & Derick J. Roulhac ESR Foundation Susan H. Black Ernest A. & Norma M. Sellers Albert A. & Carolyn E. Sanchez Jr. Fassett, Anthony & Taylor James D. Camp Jr. Scott D. Sheftall Sarah Helene Sharp Andrew J. & Melinda W. Fawbush Warren M. Cason W. Crit & Dee Ann Smith* Jacqueline Allee Smith Fee Foundation James F. Conner II Stichter, Riedel, Blain & Prosser Mark & Shari L. Somerstein Feldman Gale* Thomas & LoCicero Stewart, Tilghman, Fox & Bianchi William Goza Debra A. Doherty Bryan M. & Marjorie B. Thomas* Andrew K. & Marie S. Strimaitis Jeffrey D. Feldman* Howard L. Garrett James E. Thomison Tescher & Spallina Michael L. & Jane M. Ferguson* Robert Eugene Glennon Rick & Aase B. Thompson Donald R. Tescher William H. Ferguson* Harold A. Gokey George A. Vaka Timothy W. & Roslyn B. Volpe Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund William A. Weber John K. & Marie L. Vreeland Tony M. Fineman Ransom Griffi n White & Case Jack A. & Jordana S. Weiss James C. & Mary K. Fleming* Robert E. Gunn K. Taylor White Samuel G. Wells Florida Lawyers Legal Insurance Stumpy Harris* Gwynne A. Young* J. J. & Susan L. Wicker II Corporation James R. Holmes Williams, Parker, Harrison, Dietz & Getzen W. Ray & Jacquelyn Fortner Mark Hulsey Associates Michael K. Wilson The Freedom Forum Leighton D. & Phyllis H. Yates Jr.* Andrew M. Fussner Jeffery Q. Jonasen James A. Gale* David T. Knight Akerman Senterfi tt Betsy E. Gallagher W. George & Enid Allen Trusler Society Betty LaFace Juan J. Rodriguez & Marvie Ann Garcia- Cory L. Andrews Frederick W. Leonhardt* Rodriguez Barry B. & Elaine K. Ansbacher Abel Band, Chartered Gassman, Bates & Associates Sam H. Mann Jr. Sybil B. Ansbacher T. W. & Margrette P. Ackert* James L. & Emily P. George Harlan E. Markham Elinore Aronovitz Akerman Senterfi tt Ellen R. & James A. Gershow Baker & Hostetler David J. Akins Michael J. McNerney Linda R. Getzen Boies, Schiller & Flexner Herbert L. Allen Mark W. Merrill Meaghan C. Gragg Boyer, Dolasinski, Miller & Martin Robert & Rebecca Altman Alexander Grass Gene Moore III William A. & Laura M. Boyles J. Carter & Dana Andersen Peter J. & Amy S. Gravina John H. Moore II Paul D. Fitzpatrick & Mary Jo Buckingham Timothy G. & Carole W. Anderson* Greenberg Traurig Richard B. Bush Reubin O. & Donna-Lou Askew Robert W. Morrison Marie C. Hansen Trust Maria C. Carantzas Richard C. Ausness Corneal B. Myers Jr. Daniel B. & Kathy E. Harrell Mercer K. Clarke Avera & Smith Christy F. & Martha C. Harris Brian M. O’Connell Cobb Family Foundation Fletcher N. & Nancy T. Baldwin Jr. * Alan T. Hawkins Benjamin F. & Marilyn(d) Overton Gary J. Cohen G. Thomas & Sharon Y. Ball Scott G. & Lisa Hawkins* Edward C. Rood Dean C. & Melinda B. Colson Earl M. Barker Jr. & Ann I. Wingate Barbara J. Pariente & Raul A. Mary L. Cuervo Martha & Richard R. W. Barnett, Sr. Robert P. Rosin Frederick A. Hazouri* Nathaniel L. & Debra L. Doliner R. Vinson & Carlene A. Barrett* J. Quinton Rumph R. Lawrence & Elizabeth E. Heinkel* Jeffrey R. Dollinger Suzanne C. Bass Trust Dennis W. & Kathleen M. Hillier* David C. Sasser* Thomas M. Ervin Jr. Jean A. Bice B. Douglas Hind-Marsh Ronald Y. Schram Michael T. & Paula S. Fay David L. Bilsker John L. Holcomb Frank H. Levan N. Fee III W. O. Birchfi eld & Dana L. Ferrell* Roger Dean Schwenke Steve C. & Maxine S. Horowitz Donald J. Forman R. Mason & Amelia S. Blake T. Terrell Sessums, Sr. Mark L. & Susan J. Horwitz William S. & Lyn C. Frates II Darryl M. & Mary Bloodworth E. L. Roy Hunt Eric B. Smith Richard T. Garfi eld Jeffery A. & Shirley L. Boone* Thomas R. & Elizabeth M. Hurst* W. Reece Smith Jr. Michael B. & Susan Goldberg Danaya C. Wright & Kendal L. Broad* Scott C. Ilgenfritz & Scott E. & Cheryl Gordon Richard D. Fultz & Patricia L. Robert G. & Susan L. Stern Margaret D. Mathews* Stephen H. & Fay F. Grimes Burquest-Fultz* James S. Theriac III Elizabeth A. Jenkins Eric Stanley Gruman J. Thomas & Kathy A. Cardwell Alan C. & Ellen Jensen Don Q. Vining Perry G. Gruman Robert J. & Kathryn A. Carr Robert H. & Lisa Jerry II* A. Ward Wagner Jr.* Paul C. & Donna H. Huck Sylvia F. Carra-Hahn & William E. Hahn JustGive Sandra L. Warren Yolanda C. Jackson Central Florida Bankruptcy Law TLC Stanley Kaplan Test Prep Richard C. Jans Association Frank Wotitzky David B. Mishael & Barbara Kaszovitz* Russell H. & Karen H. Kasper Allan P. & Betsy F. Clark* Art Wroble Lawrence & Lynn M. Keefe* Kluger, Peretz, Kaplan & Berlin Richard P. Cole* Kimberly R. Keravouri Stephen N. Zack Christine N. Markussen & James P. Walsh Charles E. Commander James N. Knight William K. Zewadski George I. Milev Community Foundation for Palm Beach & Donald S. & Marilynn Kohla* Martin County Kozyak, Tropin & Throckmorton Gary D. & Nancy K. Condron* (d) denotes deceased Kubicki Draper Drew S. Fine & Susan E. Cook* James R. 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70 UF LAW Don R. Livingstone David H. Vickrey* Scott Lodin Volpe, Bajalia, Wickes & Rogerson Donna L. Longhouse Bill & Ruth Wagner Lott & Friedland Richard S. Weinstein Law Firm Giving Michael T. Moore & Leslie J. Lott Gregory F. Susan K. Wilder* M T R Wiseheart Foundation Attorneys in fi rms across Florida, Georgia and other key areas worked hard R. Layton & Mary Stuart Mank Malcolm B. Wiseheart Jr. to achieve 100 percent participation of UF Law grads in the Law Firm Giving Margaret D. Mathews & Scott C. Ilgenfritz Marc A. & Jennifer Wites Program. This program encourages Gators to make a gift to the Levin College Phillip J. & Stacey L. Mays* Dale S. & Kristeen Witt William J. & Helen W. McAfee Douglas A. & Patricia Wright of Law and support a variety of worthwhile programs. Listed below are the Thomas M. & Shannon C. McAleavey James E. & Vanda Yonge fi rm names, offi ce locations and volunteer champions of the participating Clifton A. & Kathleen H. McClelland Jr.* William K. 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Beasley Gary & Kimberly Blanchard Ronald P. & Kay W. Anselmo Samuel & Rose Riemer Private Foundation Dan Hamm & Judith E. Beasley M. Robert & Julia Blanchard Robert W. Anthony Jr. Jesse W. & Margo S. Rigby Edward R. & Jill F. Bechtold Block Land & Finance Co. Ronald J. Antonin Richard M. & Gail M. Robinson Joshua L. & Sara Becker Byron B. Block Kendall Coffey & Joni Armstrong Coffey Doyle & Barbara Rogers Thomas J. Becker Seymour S. & Gertrude Block Thomas R. & Dayna Arnold Paul G. & Rebecca Rogers* Robert J. & Emily Beckham Bart L. Cohen & Hazel Blockman-Cohen Kristina L. Arnsdorff Rogow Greenberg Foundation Frank M. & Ashley Bedell John A. & Lisa Bobango Beth L. Green Aronson & Bruce S. Rogow Dennis J. & Joan F. Beer Andrew J. & Carol Bohlmann Michael R. Aronson Rosenthal & Levy John M. & Brannon B. Belcastro Brian K. & Amy Bokor Frank A. & Sharon Ashton Matthew L. & Nancy Rosin Nancy H. Belli Richard A. Bolton Robert S. & Jena R. Atlass William F. Sheffi eld John E. 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FALL 2008 71 Greg & Sonya Brown Dennis G. & Pamela Corrick Joshua R. & Monica Brown Frederick C. Craig Jr. We make a living by what we get, but Thomas R. & Margaret Brown Evans & Sara Crary Steven R. & Karen Browning Bryan W. & Jodie Crews we make a life by what we give. Hunter J. Brownlee Jerry B. & Anne Crockett —Winston Churchill Michael J. & Rochelle Brudny Marion M. Cromwell Wayne P. & Jennie Bryan Duane H. & Pamela Crone Ernest T. & Susan Buchanan III Robert Scott & Ellen G. Cross Allen & Elmira Buckley Mary C. Crotty & Daniel S. Livingstone Aubrey Harry Ducker Jr. & Seymour J. & Barbara Frankfurt AnneMarie H. Bui Samuel L. & Lola Crouch, Sr. Laurie K. Weatherford Michael K. Freedman Brian D. Burgoon Elizabeth M. Crowder Douglas N. & Cathy J. Duncan Wilson & Erna Freeman Roy D. & Julianna Burke T. Spencer Crowley III David D. & Dayna G. Duncan W. John McHale III & Nancy S. Freeman Jason B. Burnett Paul M. & Jolie M. Cummings Victoria K. & Thomas C. Dunn R. Wilson & Sharyn K. 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72 UF LAW Vitauts M. Gulbis & Lynn S. Kiehne Miriam B. & Norman L. Hull William J. Gundlach Nancy B. Hunt Keving Gunning & Sharon T. Sperling Scott E. & Susan J. Hunt Jack O. & Mary O. Hackett II Daniel T. Hurley 1909 Society Melody A. Hadley Gary W. & Mary E. Huston The 1909 Society commemorates the founding year and approaching Timothy D. & Patricia G. Haines Gregg E. Hutt John E. & Shirley W. Hale Steven D. & Bonnie B. Hutton centennial of the University of Florida law school, while recognizing Eric J. & Kathryn L. Hall Thomas P. & M. Rebecca Hutton alumni and friends who sustain and advance the college with gifts to the Wallace H. & Tracy L. Hall International Carbon Bank Exchange annual fund in the amount of $2,000 – $4,999 during a single fi scal Patti W. Halloran Charles A. & Joy M. Intriago John F. & Nancy P. Halula Daniel C. & Sheena Irick year. Support at this level improves the quality and innovation of programs Ellen C. Ham A. McArthur & Jan T. Irvin for students, student organizations, teaching and research, academic Nicolas Hamann Jerold H. & Tanya Israel programs and services, and outreach efforts. Gifts to the annual fund Laurence C. & Jane Hames Ivan D. Ivanov include those designated to nonendowed, non-building funds. James L. & Lenore Hanapel Edward M. & Mary Jackson Linda C. Hankins Jeffrey A. Jacobs T. W. & Margrette P. Ackert Kenneth R. & Kimberly L. Johnson David F. & Elizabeth C. Hannan James R. Lussier & Nancy C. Jacobson Timothy G. & Carole W. Anderson Lawrence & Lynn Keefe Karl B. & Myrna A. Hanson Jr. Kevin E. & Martha Jakab Dan Aronson Becky Powhatan Kelley Larry D. Hardaway Michael L. & Elizabeth P. Jamieson Jerald D. & Susan R. August Donald S. & Marilynn Kohla Gregory C. & Whitney Harper Philippe C. & Susan O. Jeck Fletcher N. & Nancy T. Baldwin Jr. K. Judith Lane Gregory C. & Stephanie Harrell M. James Jenkins R. Vinson & Carlene A. Barrett Frederick W. & Victoria C. Leonhardt Bruce M. & Medea D. 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FALL 2008 73 Ross T. & Silvana Lessack Daniel F. & Elizabeth McIntosh Neil M. O’Toole Chauncey W. & Martha Z.Lever Jr. Frank M. & Nancy McMillan Richard E. & Eileen Ouellette Jack A. & Eileen G. Levine Kathleen M. McRoberts Wm. A. & Leila Oughterson Robert E. & Kathryn Lewis Jameil C. & Arleathia McWhorter Murray W. Overstreet Jr. Mark F. & Rochelle N. Lewis Natalia Medina Dennis E. Owen & Anne E. Raduns-Owen Class Gift Rutledge R. & Noel Liles Howell & Catherine Melton, Sr. Frederick D. & Lisa Page Mark K. & Sherri Lindenberg Howell W. Melton III Peter R. Palermo Robert R. & Cheryl K. Lindgren Drew T. Melville Taylor C. & Misty Pancake Students in the Fall 2007 William J. Lindsay Jr. George Mencio Jr. Robert E. & Jeanne Panoff and Spring 2008 classes Michael J. Linn Clancy V. Mendoza C. Richard & Kathryn Parker William V. & Shirley Linne Anthony & Kathryn Mennella Dale L. & Erin F. Parker gave back to their law William J. Liss Frederick P. Mercurio Thomas M. Parker school in participation rates Michael G. & Analisa Little Steven D. Merryday Edwin W. & Heather Parkinson III exceeding alumni this year, Joseph W. & Lucille Little Meredith M. Metzler Elaine I. Parris Christina V. Lockwood Andrew J. & Dawn M. Meyers Alexander L. Paskay contributing a combined James J. Long Irvin A. & JoAnn Meyers Marshall R. Pasternack $87,265 towards the class Stephen R. & Paige Looney Stephan P. & Evelyn M. Mickle Lindsay M. Patrick Susan L. Lopatin David W. & Susan L. Mikolaitis Matthew D. & Amber Patterson gift campaign for the law Ryan A. Lopez Frank E. & Michelle M. Miller B. Darin Patton school annual fund. Elliott H. & Leanore Lucas Steven E. & Kimberly F. Miller Elizabeth S. Paulk Alissa K. Lugo Robert L. & Penne Miller Frank A. & Joanne C. Pavese Jr. Meredith D. Lukoff Tiffani F. & Ryan G. Miller Kevin L. & Sherry B. Pearson Both classes helped establish Jacquelyn P. Lumpkin Wooden Pamela J. Mills Carl R. & Madge S. Pennington III Donald J. & Helen Lunny, Sr. Michael J. Minerva Marilyn Wolf Peterson groundwork for a culture of Donald A. & Linda S. Lykkebak Lew I. & Jennifer I. Minsky T. C. Phillips & Andrea E. Zelman giving, with the Fall 2007 Teresa J. Lynch James R. & Nanette Mitchell Robert A. & Caryl G. Pierce $28,375 Cynthia Z. & Mr. Alexander C. MacKinnon Mark S. Mitchell Francis E. & Rebecca Pierce III class generating Hugh MacMillan Jr. & Carol Goddard Charles S. & Carol Modell Charles P. & Judith Pillans III in gifts and pledges to be MacMillan Robert C. L. Moffat Charles Pillitteri paid over a fi ve-year period. Lester & Anita Makofka Mark R. & Marlisa Mohler Michael A. & Piscitelli & June Turner Robert C. & Jill R. Maland Ashley D. Money Piscitelli Sixteen percent of the John D. & Lynette Malkowski Jason D. Montes Dean R. & Lisa C. Plattner students participated in the Robin Paul & Margaret A. Malloy John W. & Emily Mooers Adina L. Pollan Marilyn M. Mallue & Henry E. Mallue Jr. Kevin M. & Eva Moore Scott D. & Ingrid H. Ponce campaign. The class gift Robyn L. Mandel Robyn E. Moore David F. & Katie Pope committee chair was Neil I. Paul & Holly Mandelkern Ivan A. Morales Kenneth C. Pope Patel. Robert Jay Manne & Grace Nixon Manne Federico A. & Cristina M. Moreno Nicholas A. & Patricia Pope Rodney S. & Elizabeth Margol Andrew A. & Jessica A. Morey John M. Porter Anthony P. Mario Jr. Charles R. & Laurie P. Morgan Lisa M. Porter Marks Gray Jon A. & Betsy Morris Robert V. & Beth Z. Potter Jr. The Spring 2008 class raised Patrick F. & Sheryl R. Maroney Thomas E. Morris Stephen J. & Barbara Powell the third highest class gift Samuel A. & Sarah G. Maroon James E. & Mari Moye Mark A. Prater amount, with 30 percent Philip E. & Caroline E. Marshall Greg T. Mullane & Joy Sabino Mullane J. Grier & P. Kristen Pressly III Thomas & Elizabeth Marshall Edward M. & Rima Y. Mullins Jr. Raymond C. & Colleen Preston Jr. of the class contributing W. Wesley Marston John B. T. & Heather Murray Jr. Robert H. & Kelly B. Pritchard $58,890. The class was Richard L. Martens Douglass E. & Janet Myers Jr. Paige E. Provenzano William E. & Katherine Martin Jr. Keith E. Myers Marion J. & Ellyn A. Radson led by committee chair Luis Antonio & Brenda Martinez Jr. NAPABA Law Foundation John H. Rains IV Delgado. Jose E. Martinez Judith W. & Charles I. Nash Jodi H. Ramanelli Lorie A. Mason Noel H. & Marianne Nation Dennis F. & Donna Ramsey Jr. Morris C. Massey Ginny R. Neal Rahul P. Ranadive The purpose of the class gift Matheson Appellate Law Shalonda T. Neal Charles M. Rand Gerald G. Matheson & Maureen Monaghan Michael R. & Laura L. Nelson John W. & Katherine Randolph Jr. campaign is not only to give Matheson James C. & Diane Nicholas Patrick C. Rastatter & Mary A. Towne back to the school but also James M. & Joan T. Matthews Shelly E. Nixon Kurt A. Raulin to recognize how past alumni C. Parkhill & Mason Mays Jr. Hubert C. & Lynn K. Normile Jr. Daniel C. Re & Terry Monson Re Alan K. & Karen K. McCall Norris & Foreman Austin F. & Mary L. Reed generosity has enhanced William R. & Laura A. McCall Jr. David B. & Wendy Norris Glenna Joyce Reeves the law school experience. Patrick M. & Donna McCann R. B. & Sylvia Norris Kevin E. Regan Kevin M. McCarty Thomas G. & Elizabeth Norsworthy William P. & Laura Reich These students, who are Daniel D. & Sigrid S. McCawley Kathleen M. O’Connor Richard M. & Garland Reid now alumni, have created Paul B. & Suzanne McCawley Terrence P. & Susan J. O’Connor Robert G. & Rhonda Reid a legacy that will provide Chad M. & Vicki L. McClenathen Kenneth A. Tomchin & Lisa S. Odom Charles A. & Catherine Reinhardt Jr. Rick H. & Nancy McClure Orlando P. & Jennifer Ojeda Jr. Julius B. & Jan O. C. Remmen meaningful support to the Marybeth McDonald & Eric W. Jarvis Matthew R. & Julie H. O’Kane William C. Rencher future scholars of law at the Michael J. McDonald & Heather L. 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Simon Robert G. & Amy J.P. Thornhill III B. Thomas & Carol H. Whitefi eld III Jeffrey M. & Barbara C. Rosenberg Michael D. & Diane Simon Thomas H. & Sandra Thurlow Jr. Wilbert’s Robin L. Rosenberg Cynthia L. Singerman James B. & Elizabeth Tilghman Wilcox Firm Howard M. Rosenblatt & Manisha Singh Mark N. Tipton James B. & Sharon Wiley Eve D. Ackerman Nathan A. Skop Byron A. & Julie S. Todman Thomas J. & Jean Wilkes Jr. Louis K. & Denise Rosenbloum James P. & Sarah Slaughter Don & Sara Tolliver Robert F. & Alaine Williams Rosenthal & Weissman Robert T. Brittany Smith Diane A. Tomlinson Joseph H. & Carole Williams Caran L. Rothchild Schuyler S. & Carrie Smith Schnelle K. Tonge Dirk A. & Kristine Williams Rothman & Associates Daniel E. Smith II Seth P. & Shawna N. Traub Gerald A. Williams Ronald L. & Barbara Rowland David T. & Sandra Smith Lansing J. & Joanne Roy Rod & Deidra Smith Raymond W. & Catherine Royce Dexter A. Smith & Bonita J. Young John D. Ruffi er Douglas A. Smith Sarah E. 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Watson Barry L. & Eunice Zisser L. David & Casey Shear Frank M. & Cathleen Talbot II H. Adams & Bonnie Weaver Joseph W. & Kylene Zitzka Jr. Lewis E. & Linda Loomis Shelley Robert L. & Terri Tankel David P. & Debbie Webb Howard L. & Beth Zoller Adam M. & Elizabeth Shonson Robert L. & Elizabeth Taylor Janelle A. Weber William P. & Jeannie Zox Kevin M. Shuler James A. & Lisa Taylor III Gerard F. & Joann Wehle Jr. Sarah E. Zuckerman

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FALL 2008 75 As a May 2006 graduate, I spent half my law school experience in the ‘Alpine Rooms’ and half in the college’s new, state-of-the-art class- rooms and library. Consequently, I am keenly aware of how alumni can shape the student experience. Regardless of facilities, one thing was always constant at UF…quality education and professors. I serve on the Law Alumni Council and donate to the law school because I want to ensure that UF Law continues to rise to new heights!

—EDDIE J. FERNÁNDEZ, ESQ. (JD 06) Shutts & Bowen LLP J.D. Alumni Orlando, Fla. Class of 1940 Class Total: $100.00 No. in Class: 22 Participation: 5% Enrichment Society Wilson Freeman Class of 1945 Class Total: $150.00 No. in Class: 6 Participation: 17% Enrichment Society Harry P. Edwards Class of 1946 Class Total: $462,100.00 No. in Class: 12 Participation: 33% Founders Society - gold Lewis M. & Marcia Whitney(d) Schott Trusler Society Patrick G. Emmanuel* Enrichment Society Robert S. Hewitt Class of 1948 Class Total: $2,200.00 No. in Class: 73 Participation: 4% Trusler Society Paul G. Rogers* Enrichment Society Howell W. Melton, Sr. Class of 1949 Class Total: $2,800.00 No. in Class: 88 Participation: 7% Trusler Society Alexander Grass Richard S. Weinstein Enrichment Society Bart L. Cohen Samuel L. Crouch, Sr. John A. Jones Al L. Schneider Class of 1950 Class Total: $475.00 No. in Class: 76 Participation: 8% Enrichment Society John M. Farrell Wm. A. Oughterson Rupert J. Smith John H. Sutherland

Please report corrections to Sara Cocolin at [email protected]fl .edu or call 352-273-0640. J.D. Alumni

76 UF LAW Class of 1951 Class of 1957 Trusler Society Class of 1966 Class Total: $11,602.46 Class Total: $205,500.00 Don R. Livingstone Class Total: $60,180.00 No. in Class: 89 No. in Class: 44 R. Layton Mank No. in Class: 174 Participation: 6% Participation: 16% Wilton R. Miller Participation: 9% Founders Society - gold Founders Society - silver Grace “Betty” W. Taylor* Founders Society - gold James D. Camp Jr. A. Ward Wagner Jr.* Enrichment Society W. Kelly Smith Enrichment Society Trusler Society Byron B. Block Founders Society - silver Mandell Glicksberg James E. Yonge J. Edward Curren Richard M. Robinson William T. Harrison Jr. Enrichment Society Robin Gibson Trusler Society J. Charles Gray Winifred L. Wentworth Paul W. Danahy Jr. J. Thomas Cardwell Jane R. Harris James O. Driscoll Allan P. Clark* Class of 1952 James C. Hoover Jose A. Gonzalez Jr. Class Total: $1,800.00 Peter C. Jones Enrichment Society William L. Hendry No. in Class: 39 Antonio Martinez Jr. Charles H. Baumberger Participation: 10% Class of 1958 Barry L. Zisser Ernest T. Buchanan III Trusler Society Class Total: $5,700.00 L. Kinder Cannon III Class of 1963 Doyle Rogers No. in Class: 60 Thomas C. Dunn Class Total: $7,850.00 Charles A. Intriago Enrichment Society Participation: 10% No. in Class: 94 Rutledge R. Liles Evans Crary Founders Society - silver Participation: 7% Frank M. McMillan Hayward H. Davis David Hyman Trusler Society Charles P. Pillans III Class of 1953 Enrichment Society W. O. Birchfi eld* Stephen J. Powell Class Total: $10,200.00 William T. Hodges S. Austin Peele Class of 1967 No. in Class: 45 Edward M. Jackson Bruce S. Rogow* Lewis M. Kanner Class Total: $44,110.00 Participation: 7% Enrichment Society Donald J. Lunny, Sr. No. in Class: 219 Founders Society - gold Ronald P. Anselmo John W. Mooers Participation: 8% Charles W. Abbott John F. Harris Founders Society - silver Class of 1959 Murray Kanetsky Enrichment Society C. Wayne Alford James L. King Class Total: $65,225.00 Larry S. Stewart No. in Class: 62 Partners Murray W. Overstreet Jr. Class of 1964 Participation: 6% Bill Hoppe Class of 1954 Class Total: $4,300.00 Associates Associates Class Total: $5,600.00 No. in Class: 132 William S. Frates II Albert D. Quentel Participation: 7% No. in Class: 42 Trusler Society Participation: 10% Enrichment Society Trusler Society Robert J. Boylston Barry R. Davidson Founders Society - gold Gerald F. Richman* Stephen W. Sessums John A. DeVault III E. G. Boone Enrichment Society Frederick A. Hazouri* Robert L. Trohn* Class of 1960 Haywood M. Ball Barry S. Sinoff* Associates Class Total: $1,700.00 Thomas J. Becker Enrichment Society Stephen H. Grimes No. in Class: 70 George D. Gabel Jr. Susan H. Black Participation: 6% Stephen D. Gardner Trusler Society Stephen E. Dalton Michael L. Jamieson Ned F. Sinder Trusler Society W. Ford Duane Bill Wagner Walter T. Rose Jr. Robert J. Head Jr. Class of 1955 L. Ralph Smith Jr. Enrichment Society Louis Kwall Class Total: $2,805.78 Hugh E. Starnes Thomas R. Brown Roger A. Larson No. in Class: 31 Robert A. Kimbrough Class of 1965 Alexander C. MacKinnon Participation: 16% L. David Shear Class Total: $50,821.56 Hubert C. Normile Jr. Founders Society – silver No. in Class: 135 David L. Robbins Class of 1961 Francis T. McCoy Participation: 11% Class Total: $5,750.00 Class of 1968 Trusler Society No. in Class: 73 Founders Society - gold Class Total: $23,575.00 W. Ray Fortner Participation: 10% Sidney A. Stubbs Jr. No. in Class: 187 Enrichment Society Trusler Society Founders Society - silver Participation: 10% Robert J. Beckham Robert J. Carr Stumpy Harris* Founders Society - gold W. Dexter Douglass John H. Moore II Partners Andrew C. Hall* Edward Siegel Enrichment Society Gerald D. Schackow* Partners Class of 1956 Paul M. Goldman Associates Patrick E. Geraghty, Sr.* Class Total: $128,200.00 C. Parkhill Mays Jr. Paul C. Huck Trusler Society No. in Class: 37 Irvin A. Meyers Trusler Society Richard C. Ausness Participation: 22% Raymond W. Royce Charles E. Commander Earl M. Barker Jr. Barristers Thomas H. Thurlow Jr. Steve C. Horowitz Dennis W. Hillier* William V. Gruman Douglas J. Milne* Class of 1962 Leroy H. Moe David L. Roth* Partners Class Total: $20,660.00 Enrichment Society John J. Upchurch IV Peter T. Fay No. in Class: 104 C. LeDon Anchors Jr. Trusler Society Participation: 16% Russell P. Chubb Enrichment Society Reubin O. Askew Founders Society - silver Wallace H. Hall Fred R. Baisden Jr. Douglas D. Batchelor Jr. Johnson S. Savary C. DuBose Ausley Michael J. Minerva John W. Sheppard Thomas R. Shahady Stephen J. Bozarth Partners J. Michael Swaine Ronald S. Frankel Enrichment Society Ernest A. Sellers Jerry B. Crockett Richard H. Wilson Jonathan C. Gordon Associates Marion M. Cromwell W. George Allen Robert P. Gaines

ALUMNI FROM MANY GRADUATING CLASSES made fi nancial commitments to help the college grow stronger and expand programs and services, thereby permitting the college to reach toward its full potential.

FALL 2008 77 Noel H. Nation G. Thomas Ball Class of 1974 Richard E. Ouellette William E. Hahn Class Total: $74,710.50 Tributes Lansing J. Roy Mark L. Horwitz No. in Class: 285 Robert F. Williams Donald S. Kohla* Participation: 13% In Honor of Brian Aungst, Jr’s Brian R. Wright Donald M. Middlebrooks Founders Society - gold Graduation Jon L. Mills* Class of 1970 Robert G. Merkel Jeanette G. Renfrow James S. Moody Jr. Class Total: $7,970.00 James S. Theriac III David A. Schmudde No. in Class: 203 Barristers In Honor of Gene and Elaine’s Clifford A. Schulman Glasser Birthday Participation: 9% K. Lawrence Gragg Enrichment Society Robert G. & Francyn T. Berrin Trusler Society Partners James W. Almand Bruce H. & Joanne K. Bokor Christy F. Harris Robert E. Glennon Jr.* Allan L. Casey Ross N. & Candy Clark Joseph C. Mellichamp III* Gwynne A. Young* Christopher M. Fear Maureen B. Clemente Malcolm B. Wiseheart Jr. Trusler Society Alan B. & Lauren K. Cohn John D. Fernandez Enrichment Society John Dudley Goodlette Timothy G. Anderson* James F. & Gayle T. Comander Steven W. Carta Richard P. Cole* Gail Cornblatt William J. Heffernan Jr. Dabney L. Conner David L. Kahn Andrew J. Fawbush Itzhak & Anna Ezratti William E. Dunwody III Frederick W. Leonhardt* Seymour J. & Barbara Frankfurt Elliott H. Lucas Charles M. Gadd Jr. Lester Makofka Leslie J. Lott Maurice M. & Judith L. Garcia David F. Hannan Michael T. Moore Herschel & Susan G. Gavsie James M. Matthews Allan L. Hoffman G. Carson McEachern III Harley E. Riedel II Michael B. & Susan Goldberg Richard A. Lazzara Frank D. Upchurch III* William C. & Ronni Gompers C. Richard Parker Donald A. Lykkebak Michael N. Schneider Enrichment Society Barbara C. Hartley Stephan P. Mickle Robert H. & Lisa Jerry II* Harold Silver Everett P. Anderson John C. Taylor Jr. Theodore R. Stotzer Joseph P. Carolan III David L. & Maida S. Kahn Harry Tempkins Russell H. & Karen H. Kasper L. Haldane Taylor R. John Cole II John K. Tucker Robert L. Taylor Robert Scott Cross Mitchell A. & Amy L. Kaye H. Adams Weaver Susan L. Lopatin Dale W. Vash Daniel D. Eckert Jeffrey M. & Barbara C. Rosenberg Class of 1971 W. Eric Venable Theodore A. Erck III Ronald J. & Cheri M. Rothschild Class Total: $58,940.00 Jonathan F. Wershow James L. Fly Stuart A. & Evelyn Schechter No. in Class: 219 M. Lanning Fox Class of 1973 Peter J. Fryefi eld Joyce Silverman Participation: 7% Class Total: $24,887.00 Martin J. & Faith Sperry Norman L. Hull Founders Society - gold No. in Class: 389 David T. Knight J. Harold & Patty Stanley Howard C. Coker Participation: 10% Jonathon F. & Lesly Wise Louis K. Rosenbloum W. C. Gentry Founders Society - gold Eliot J. Safer Barristers Gerald A. Rosenthal* In Honor of Professors Fletcher Edward O. Savitz Jr. Robert S. Bolt Baldwin and Walter O. Weyrauch Founders Society - silver Larry M. Stewart, P.A. Stephen N. Zack Stuart N. Hopen Buddy Schulz William P. White III Associates Associates Bruce I. Yegelwel John K. Vreeland Pamela O. Price Class of 1975 Trusler Society Leighton D. Yates Jr.* Class Total: $26,187.50 Edwin F. Hornbrook Darryl M. Bloodworth Trusler Society No. in Class: 363 Charles T. Sands Enrichment Society Martha W. Barnett Participation: 12% Mitchell H. Spingarn Larry B. Alexander Kenneth C. Ellis Barristers Robert V. Duss Mary B. Ellis Class of 1969 Maureen G. Gragg William J. Gundlach Peter C. K. Enwall* Class Total: $33,855.00 William H. McBride Jr. Karl B. Hanson Jr. Alan C. Jensen No. in Class: 182 Partners Louis F. Hubener III S. Daniel Ponce Participation: 12% Anne C. Conway* Thomas E. Morris Enrichment Society Trusler Society Founders Society - silver Bruce G. Shaffner Joseph W. Beasley Jean A. Bice James A. Hauser Martin J. Sperry Martha L. Cochran James R. Lavigne F. Wallace Pope Jr. Robert J. Telfer Jr. James F. Comander Associates A. Guy Neff Jr. Class of 1972 Paul M. Cummings Frank H. Fee III Enrichment Society Class Total: $64,589.31 Patricia Combs Fawsett Donald R. Tescher Barry A. Abbott No. in Class: 350 Lynn J. Hinson Theodore A. Deckert Trusler Society Participation: 12% Douglass E. Myers Jr. Charles H. Egerton David F. Pope Christopher A. Detzel Founders Society - gold James C. Fleming* Marion J. Radson William P. Dimitrouleas Jeffrey W. Warren* Clifton A. McClelland Jr.* Patrick C. Rastatter Alan M. Gerlach Jr. Robert W. Mead Jr. Founders Society - silver Hugh A. Richeson Jr. Richard D. Green Peter W. Zinober* Bruce H. Bokor George W. Selby Jr. James M. Haygood Gene K. Glasser Robert A. Heekin Enrichment Society Abraham M. Shashy Jr. James G. Pressly Jr. Roger C. Lambert James O. Birr Jr. Frederick D. Smith John E. Lawlor III William A. Evans Barristers W. Russell Snyder Jack A. Levine Alan G. Greer Hal H. Kantor William H. Stolberg Robert C. Maland A. McArthur Irvin Partners Kenneth A. Treadwell Rodney S. Margol Hugh MacMillan Jr. Richard C. Grant* S. Thomas Ullman Ann E. Vitunac Anthony P. Mario Jr. Henry E. Mallue Jr. Associates Gretchen Rebecca H. Vose Patrick F. Maroney Russell H. Kasper Joseph H. Williams Steven D. Merryday Christine N. Markussen Please report corrections to Sara Cocolin at Dale S. Wilson Austin F. Reed [email protected]fl .edu or call 352-273-0640. Trusler Society Art Wroble Ryland T. Rigsby T. W. Ackert* Robert L. Young David S. Romanik J.D. Alumni

78 UF LAW M. Stephen Smith III Rodney W. Smith James F. Stanfi eld James B. Tilghman Ursula M. Ungaro-Benages Jose F. Valdivia Jr. Richard G. Wack Vicki J. Weinstein John M. Welch Jr. Gerald A. Williams Craig G. Wolfson Class of 1976 Class Total: $44,920.50 No. in Class: 382 Participation: 12% Founders Society - silver Kevin A. Malone LEVIN ADVOCACY CENTER Thanks to support from Levin College of Law alumni and friends, UF Law faculty, staff Hans G. Tanzler III and students will soon enjoy a legal advocacy center second to none. The Martin H. Levin Legal Advocacy Center, a Scott L. Whitaker Barristers $6 million construction project, will expand legal advocacy education and provide state-of-the-art trial facilities for the Peter M. MacNamara college. Fred Levin, a 1961 alumnus of the UF law school, contributed $2 million for the center as the lead gift to M. Therese Vento the University of Florida Levin College of Law. In addition to signifi cant gifts from others, Levin’s gift was matched by Partners the State of Florida Alec P. Courtelis Facilities Enhancement Challenge Grant Program to bring the total contribution to Becky Powhatan Kelley* Marjorie B. Thomas* $5.2 million. Other donors included the Baynard Trust, the late Robert Montgomery of Robert M. Montgomery Jr. & Associates Associates in West Palm Beach, and Robert Kerrigan of Kerrigan, Estess, McLeod & Thompson in Pensacola. William A. Boyles Trusler Society R. Vinson Barrett* William H. Ferguson* Founders Society - gold Trusler Society Trusler Society Betsy E. Gallagher Edith E. Holiday James E. Eaton Jr. John L. Holcomb James L. George Partners Richard D. Fultz* Scott Lodin Daniel B. Harrell Lauren Y. Detzel Peter J. Gravina Enrichment Society Elizabeth A. Jenkins John J. Scroggin Peter P. Murnaghan* Joni Armstrong Coffey Enrichment Society Trusler Society Enrichment Society James P. Beadle Michael R. Band Virginia A. Lipton* Wallace B. Anderson Jr. Nancy H. Belli Richard A. Bolton Jesse W. Rigby Peter Baker Christopher D. Bernard Elias N. Chotas Barbara J. Staros* E. Sue Bernie Christine K. Bilodeau Jeanelle G. Bronson Terry A. Brooks James N. Daniel III Enrichment Society Theotis Bronson V. Robert Denham Jr. Carolyn A. Elliot Michael R. Aronson Kendall Coffey Ronald G. Duryea Jack J. Fine Joan F. Beer Jay P. Cohen Robert S. Griscti Michael D. Fowler David S. Boyce A. J. Donelson Jack O. Hackett II Jill Haberman Giordano David H. Evaul Charles F. Edwards Larry D. Hardaway Laurence C. Hames Richard J. Fildes Myrna A. Hanson Jeanette K. Helfrich J. Larry Hart Don H. Goode Randy M. Kammer Craig P. Hoffman Mark F. Lewis Freddie L. Goode Mark S. Kessler Stuart N. Hopen James J. Long Patti W. Halloran Steven C. Lee Glenn R. Hosken Richard L. Martens Leslie Hess Chauncey W. Lever Jr. Nancy B. Hunt Alan K. McCall Charles J. Kahn Jr. Grace Nixon Manne Donald E. Kelly Marilyn Wolf Peterson Roy H. Lasris Frank E. Miller Michael J. Korn Nicholas A. Pope Charles S. Modell Francis E. Pierce III Pamela A. Schneider Glenna Joyce Reeves Michael K. Saunders Colleen A. Preston Richard E. Stadler Charles A. Reinhardt Jr. Lewis E. Shelley Sandra G. Smith Jennifer A. West Tura L. Schnebly Linda Loomis Shelley Michael H. Streater Gail I. Winson Stephen W. Seemer Bert C. Simon Thomas J. Wilkes Jr. Kenneth M. Sigelman Victor M. Suarez Class of 1980 Richard M. Zabak Charles S. Stratton Alfred J. Ventura Class Total: $57,091.00 Class of 1976 Howard L. Zoller Class of 1979 No. in Class: 357 Class Total: $54,709.13 Participation: 9% Class Total: $44,920.50 Class of 1978 No. in Class: 326 No. in Class: 382 Class Total: $51,800.00 Founders Society - gold Participation: 12% Participation: 12% No. in Class: 375 Ultima D. Morgan Enrichment Society Participation: 10% Founders Society - gold Founders Society - silver Brian M. O’Connell Gregg D. Thomas Partners Evan J. Yegelwel John R. Wallace Cheryl R. Peek Founders Society - silver Partners B. Thomas Whitefi eld III David H. Peek Ladd H. Fassett Peter J. Genz* Class of 1977 W. Crit Smith* Partners Leonard H. Johnson Class Total: $15,280.00 Associates Peter T. Kirkwood Randolph J. Rush No. in Class: 326 Cheryl L. Gordon Lindy L. Paull Associates Participation: 10% Daniel F. Molony David C. Sasser* Mark S. Peters Lawrence E. Sellers Jr.* Albert A. Sanchez Jr. Trusler Society Jacqueline Allee Smith Dennis J. Eisinger* Dale M. Swope

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FALL 2008 79 Enrichment Society Founders Society - gold Lorinda S. Schreier Juan J. Rodriguez Richard K. Bowers Jr. John B. Morgan Sidney S. Simmons II Douglas A. Wright Penny H. Brill Barristers Glenn J. Waldman Enrichment Society Jon C. Chassen John N. Giordano William A. Winter Robert G. Abood Russell W. Divine Partners Class of 1984 J. Parker Ailstock Michael D. Eriksen Richard A. Jacobson* Class Total: $63,986.00 Frank A. Ashton Mark E. Goldstein Paul R. Linder No. in Class: 324 Frank M. Bedell Cynthia A. Hawkins Louis Nostro Jr. Participation: 8% Steven R. Browning Jennifer C. Hepler Mary C. Crotty Gary L. Printy* Founders Society - gold Philippe C. Jeck Jeffrey R. Elkin Oscar A. Sanchez* Edward Downey Gregory M. Keyser Belinda W. Engelmann Associates Ross T. Lessack Barristers Paul R. Game Mark Somerstein Robin Paul Malloy Alan B. Cohn Scott E. Hunt Timothy W. Volpe Chad M. McClenathen Partners Lucy W. Kerman Kathryn L. Mennella 1909 Society Bill Bone* Morris C. Massey Margaret Mathews* James R. Mitchell Trusler Society Kevin M. McCarty Neil M. O’Toole Trusler Society David J. Akins Frank A. Pavese Jr. Marshall R. Pasternack Robert Altman Barry W. Rigby Enrichment Society Dean R. Plattner Jeffery A. Boone* Rosalie M. Sanderson Nancy E. Bergold Charles M. Rand Kathryn A. Carr Susan M. Seigle Randal H. Drew, Sr. Paul S. Rothstein Linda R. Getzen Thomas F. Slater Stephen M. Durden Lanny Russell R. Lawrence Heinkel* James A. Taylor III Kenneth G. Ferguson III C. Douglas Wingate Margaret D. Mathews Christopher C. Hazelip Class of 1987 Gregory A. Nelson Class of 1981 M. Teresa Heekin-Davlantes Class Total: $9,605.00 Class Total: $33,193.50 Enrichment Society Charles B. Hernicz No. in Class: 376 No. in Class: 380 Robert W. Anthony Jr. Nancy C. Jacobson Participation: 8% Bryan W. Crews Participation: 11% Stanley D. Klett Jr. Partners Alys N. Daniels Founders Society - silver Cynthia Z. MacKinnon Mayanne Downs Alan S. Gassman Elizabeth C. Marshall Kenneth C. Johnson Associates Joel B. Giles Michael L. O’Neill Partners Robert F. Goodrich Juliet M. Roulhac Kenneth R. Johnson* Brian J. Stack Michael P. Haymans Kimarie R. Stratos Trusler Society Kimberly L. Johnson* Janis B. Keyser Helen W. McAfee Michael D. Minton William A. Troner Frances Spinale King David R. Vetter Kathleen M. Paustian Associates Susan S. Lerner Andrea E. Zelman Jo O. Thacker Gary J. Cohen James R. Lussier Enrichment Society Class of 1985 Trusler Society Marybeth McDonald Mary Jane Angelo Class Total: $5,080.00 R. Mason Blake David B. Norris Jane D. Callahan No. in Class: 364 Patricia L. Burquest-Fultz* Kevin L. Pearson Nancy E. Dowling Participation: 10% Susan E. Cook* Michael A. Piscitelli Harolyn H. Dutt Jeffrey D. Feldman* Robert V. Potter Jr. Associates John H. Dyer Jr. David H. Vickrey* Darryl R. Richards Raul A. Cuervo Karen Caudill Dyer Enrichment Society Edward J. Richardson Enrichment Society Steven S. Eichenblatt Luis A. Abreu Sheila L. Seig Bill Berke John F. Halula Frederick C. Craig Jr. Schuyler S. Smith Patricia G. Butler Jeffrey D. Kottkamp Alan H. Daniels Class of 1983 Donald C. Dowling Jr. Robin C. Lemonidis Joseph H. Davis III Class Total: $14,115.00 Brenna M. Durden Maureen Monaghan Matheson Cherie H. Fine No. in Class: 338 Steven Ellison Andrew J. Meyers Stephen E. Fogel Participation: 10% Gregg H. Fierman Dawn M. Meyers Robert D. Henry Stanley A. Gravenmier Pamela J. Mills 1909 Society Steven D. Hutton Timothy D. Haines L. Delane Olson Scott C. Ilgenfritz* Nancy H. Jackson Linda C. Hankins Lisa M. Porter Richard A. Johnston Jr. Trusler Society Michael G. Kerman William H. Robbinson Jr. Brian B. Joslyn James A. Gale* Elizabeth R. Krentzman Christopher J. Ryan Marvin A. Kirsner David B. Mishael* John E. Leighton Alan F. Scharf Cheryl K. Lindgren Enrichment Society Robert E. Lewis Sharon T. Sperling Robert R. Lindgren Thomas R. Arnold Mark K. Lindenberg Class of 1988 Barbara B. McGriff M. Robert Blanchard Lila I. McHenry Class Total: $8,712.81 James E. Moye Lavinia D. Dierking Daniel F. McIntosh No. in Class: 365 Kathleen M. O’Connor Gregory A. Fox Dennis F. Ramsey Jr. Participation: 5% C. Rufus Pennington, III Linda Suzzanne Griffi n Michael W. Smith Howard M. Rosenblatt John E. Hale Ali Steinbach Associates Gary L. Summers Cecile B. Hartigan Barry B. Ansbacher Class of 1986 Robert L. Tankel Scott G. Hawkins* Trusler Society Class Total: $25,587.67 Wallace C. von Arx III Dyanne F. Henkel Beth B. Mills* No. in Class: 391 Carl J. Zahner Elizabeth M. Hernandez Katherine G. Upchurch Participation: 7% Sharon A. V. Zahner Eugenio Hernandez Enrichment Society Richard H. Hiers Partners Class of 1982 Bruce R. Anderson Jr. Martin Lance Holden Mark Citrin Class Total: $54,375.00 Jonathan S. Coleman Edmond D. Johnson Thomas L. Edwards* No. in Class: 399 Kraig A. Conn William A. King Associates Participation: 11% Robin K. Davis Caroline B. Marshall Jeffrey R. Dollinger Jacqueline Fountas Laura A. McCall Trusler Society Nancy Pond Halula Please report corrections to Sara Cocolin at Terrence P. O’Connor Nancy K. Condron* Pierre J. Seacord [email protected]fl .edu or call 352-273-0640. T. Clay Phillips Lawrence Keefe* Michael D. Simon

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80 UF LAW Douglas A. Smith H. Bradley Staggs Gerard F. Wehle Jr. Class of 1989 Class Total: $5,646.00 No. in Class: 355 Participation: 7% Associates John T. Rogerson III Trusler Society Michael Ferguson* Enrichment Society Judith E. Beasley William B. Brockman Julianna K. Burke Marc D. Chapman Martin F. Cunniff Donald A. Dvornik Craig Robert Hersch Steven E. Miller Eric T. Olsen Jr. Gail M. Otero Stephen G. Stanton Howard A. Swett

As a member of the UF Law Alumni Council, I have the privilege of speaking to students and alumni about the importance of giving back to the law school. I recognize that because of the support of many Gators who came before me, I received a fi rst-rate legal education. It is the responsibility of each student and alumnus to give back to the school ensuring that future students continue to build on its distinguished tradition.

—A. FELIPE GUERRERO, ESQ. (JD 05) Dean, Mead, Egerton, Bloodworth, Capouano Class of 1990 & Bozarth, P.A., Orlando, Fla. Class Total: $7,990.00 No. in Class: 378 Participation: 5% Associates Yolanda C. Jackson Jack A. Weiss

Trusler Society David L. Bilsker Glenn L. Criser Julie A. Moxley Enrichment Society Joseph L. Amos Jr. Casey M. Cavanaugh Tracy D. Chapman M. Chris Edwards Suzanne M. Judas Bernardo Lopez John D. Malkowski W. Wesley Marston Edward M. Mullins Jr. Kenneth C. Pope William H. Rogner

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FALL 2008 81 Class of 1991 Robert J. Corcoran Jr. Class of 1996 Partners Class Total: $7,955.00 Edward Diaz Class Total: $4,790.00 Jeffrey P. Brock* No. in Class: 379 Sherrie B. Galambos No. in Class: 373 Trusler Society Participation: 7% Bruce M. Harris* Participation: 5% Andrew M. Fussner Heather Parkinson Trusler Society Trusler Society Enrichment Society Caran L. Rothchild Phillip J. Mays* Daniel W. Uhlfelder David L. Dixon Phillip S. Smith Enrichment Society Enrichment Society Aubrey Harry Ducker Jr. Robert G. Thornhill III Michelle Anchors Patricia D. Barksdale Jonathan A. Feldman Julie S. Todman Christopher W. Boyett Andrew J. Bohlmann Brian J. Fender Thomas P. Wert David A. Brennen Greg Brown Gregory C. Harrell Rhys L. Williams Valerie A. Conzo Brian J. Gavsie Maureen M. Hazen Steven J. Zimath Pamela J. Crone Shaw Q. Goodrich Cynthia J. Lee John R. Dierking Class of 1994 James F. Johnston Christina V. Lockwood John M. Gillies Class Total: $10,067.00 Jennifer A. Orlando Samuel A. Maroon Jon A. Morris No. in Class: 381 John D. Ruffi er Sarah G. Maroon Rima Y. Mullins Participation: 8% Carl C. Schreck Katherine Martin Sylvia A. Norris Associates Wendy V. Schreck Joy Sabino Mullane Dale L. Parker Matthew N. Posgay Jeremy M. Sensenig Ginny R. Neal Kelly B. Pritchard Henry T. Sorensen II J. Grier Pressly III Trusler Society Robert H. Pritchard David Tetrick Jr. Jodi H. Ramanelli Tony M. Fineman Kimberly B. Rezanka Dabney D. Ware Renee E. Thompson Thomas M. McAleavey Robin L. Rosenberg Thomas P. Thompson III Sharon H. Proctor Class of 1997 Richard G. Salazar Brian P. Trauman Marc A. Wites Class Total: $7,360.00 Edwin A. Scales III Ormend G. Yeilding No. in Class: 374 Mark N. Tipton Enrichment Society Participation: 5% Class of 2000 Tracy P. Williamson Evan R. Batoff Kimberly B. Blanchard Partners Class Total: $4,362.50 Class of 1992 Joseph V. Camerlengo Rahul Patel* No. in Class: 393 Class Total: $6,288.00 Duane A. Daiker Associates Participation: 7% No. in Class: 365 Dana A. Friedlander Maria C. Carantzas Trusler Society Participation: 8% Kenneth P. Hazouri Enrichment Society Mindy C. Nowakowski Trusler Society Megan A. Kelly F. Eugene Atwood Enrichment Society Barbara A. Puestow Martin E. Leach John M. Belcastro Adam L. Alpert Jacquelyn P. Lumpkin Wooden Enrichment Society Brian D. Burgoon Paul B. Bernstein Paul B. McCawley Jena R. Atlass Richard R. Chaves Brandon C. Biederman Mark R. Mohler Oliver D. Barksdale David M. Delaney David M. Cayce Thomas M. Parker Christine N. Bird Rosanna M. Flury Sandra G. Cayce P. Kristen Pressly Thomas E. Bishop Jeffrey A. Jacobs Mark H. Dahlmeier Barbara L. Richard Elizabeth A. Carrie Sigrid S. McCawley Steven E. Earle Carol B. Shannin Lisa A. Esposito Kurt A. Raulin Franklin D. Fields Jr. Nicholas A. Shannin Nancy S. Freeman Bonita J. Young Beth Ann Gause Marcelo R. Gomez Manisha Singh Paul A. Greenspan Courtney K. Grimm Lori A. Sochin Class of 1998 Eric J. Hall Jane A. Houk Cathleen A. Talbot Class Total: $6,040.00 Russell Koonin Eric S. Kolar Laura J. Varela No. in Class: 388 Ian R. Leavengood Participation: 7% John B. T. Murray Jr. Class of 1995 Marshall E. Rosenbach Frederick D. Page Class Total: $6,440.75 Trusler Society Derek A. Schroth John M. Porter No. in Class: 380 Jeffrey C. Andersen Paul V. Scott Laurie E. Stern John W. Randolph Jr. Participation: 6% Enrichment Society John A. Sapora Linda A. Alley Sara A. Tolliver Diane A. Tomlinson Partner Mrs. Brannon B. Belcastro Class of 2001 Douglas W. Tuttle Timothy M. Cerio* Rebecca L. Brock Class Total: $2,920.00 Susan M. Zahniser Trusler Society Michael C. Caborn No. in Class: 384 Andrew D. Zaron Kimberly R. Keravouri Matthew L. Rosin Participation: 4% Class of 1993 Dennis G. Corrick Enrichment Society Trusler Society Class Total: $21,598.50 Michael S. Dorris Scott E. Atwood James N. Knight No. in Class: 405 Francis B. Gibbs Caryn L. Bellus Enrichment Society Participation: 6% Natalie A. Goodwin Misty M. Chaves-Taylor Ellen C. Ham Ben Alexander Barristers Christopher G. Commander Jeffrey M. Hazen Rocky M. Cabagnot Mark O. Bagnall Willem A. Daman Ivan A. Morales T. Spencer Crowley III Frank S. Goldstein Stephen J. Delaney Ingrid H. Ponce Bradley R. Gould Partners Jennifer I. Minsky Scott D. Ponce Keith E. Myers K. Judith Lane* Lew I. Minsky Taylor K. Rose Christopher M. Sacco Trusler Society Thomas G. Norsworthy Jodie L. Spencer Erica S. Shultz Zaron Nancy T. Baldwin* William C. Rencher Brian K. Szilvasy Frederick W. Silverman Donna L. Longhouse Christine R. Sensenig Gregory S. Weiss Class of 2002 Enrichment Society Lynette Silon-Laguna Class Total: $9,597.00 Lori W. Smith Class of 1999 Yahn W. Bernier Class Total: $7,540.00 No. in Class: 402 Jeffrey M. Taylor Participation: 7% Lisa S. Taylor No. in Class: 388 Please report corrections to Sara Cocolin at Thomas A. Zehnder Participation: 7% Barristers [email protected]fl .edu or call 352-273-0640. Erick S. Magno

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82 UF LAW Enrichment Society Sara S. Becker John D. Campo Nancy E. Cason Srinivas R. Dantuluri C. LeAnn Davis James E. Frye Jr. Evan S. Glasser Melody A. Hadley Brian H. Koch Jennifer L. Kypreos Theodore S. Kypreos Jameil C. McWhorter Elaine I. Parris Matthew D. Patterson James N. Robinson II David C. Scileppi Julian M. Smothers Maura Q. Spingola Fradyn Suarez Allen C. Winsor

It is the duty of each generation to provide for the educa- tion of future generations. In my student days at UF, I was fortunate to have been the benefi ciary of this philosophy, and now I am honored to be the benefactor. It is exciting to think that some bright, ambitious students will have assis- tance in their quest for a legal education at the University of Florida. It is a privilege and a joy to help these students.

Class of 2003 —JAMES S. THERIAC III (JD 74) Class Total: $7,980.00 Howze, Monaghan, Theriac, No. in Class: 431 and Kramer PLC Participation: 12% Cocoa, Fla. Trusler Society Sarah Cortvriend Enrichment Society Mark A. Addington Joshua L. Becker Jessica M. Callow Ryan S. Cobbs Juan M. Diaz Miriam C. Dillard Linda C. Dolan Megan J. Ellis Melissa Fernandez Lauren C. Heatwole Todd E. Herberghs David L. Hirschberg Kevin E. Jakab Nicole C. Kibert Elenore C. Klingler Robert D. Klingler Robyn L. Mandel Susan L. Mikolaitis Shelly E. Nixon B. Darin Patton Anne E. Raduns-Owen Kevin E. Regan Sarah E. Rumpf Dexter A. Smith Leslie E. Stiers Scott A. Underwood Wade C. Vose J. Phillip Warren

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FALL 2008 83 Class of 2004 N. West Gregory Lisa Easler Class Total: $9,660.50 A. Felipe Guerrero Anthony P. Felice No. in Class: 399 Carolyn M. Kershner Eduardo J. Fernandez LLMT Tax Participation: 15% Ryan A. Lopez Oshia S. Gainer Class of 1975 Enrichment Society Meredith D. Lukoff Ashley N. Girolamo Class Total: $5,025.00 Joni L. Batie-McGrew Marisa L. McDonald Daniel J. Glassman No. in Class: 39 Matthew C. Brewer Michael J. McDonald Lacey D. Hofmeyer Participation: 15% K. Clayton Bricklemyer Meredith M. Metzler Ivan D. Ivanov Robyn E. Moore Kevin M. Jinks Barristers Joshua R. Brown K. Lawrence Gragg David D. Burns Charles R. Morgan Stephen E. Kelly Derek S. Cooper Jennifer L. Ojeda Carla V. Knight Partners Elizabeth M. Crowder Robert E. Glennon Jr.* Lauren E. Cury Enrichment Society Nelson D. Diaz Harry S. Colburn Jr. Joel R. Feldman All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle David M. Hudson Micah G. Fogarty William V. Linne Christopher M. Garrett and plant a fl ower wherever the fl ower Charles E. Roberts Allison M. Gluvna Class of 1976 Jason Gordon would grow in thought and mind. Class Total: $2,205.00 Whitney C. Harper Gregg E. Hutt —Abraham Lincoln No. in Class: 42 Daniel C. Irick Participation: 14% Sheena T. Irick Trusler Society Adria M. Jensen Orlando P. Ojeda Jr. Sarah J. Knight James B. O’Neal Marie E. Kjeer Toby V. Olvera Serena B. Lee Enrichment Society Taylor C. Pancake Gregory M. Lefkowitz Michael J. Linn Jack A. Levine Lindsay M. Patrick Alissa K. Lugo Lorie A. Mason Robert A. Pierce Natalia Medina Tiffani F. Miller Enrichment Society Ronald L. Rowland Amber N. Patterson Adina L. Pollan Howell W. Melton III Paige E. Provenzano Laura M. Reich Drew T. Melville Class of 1977 Allison L. Ringler William P. Reich Andrew A. Morey Class Total: $20,057.24 Michael J. Schefer Robert G. Reid Shalonda T. Neal No. in Class: 39 Anna C. Shea Michael A. Sayre Elizabeth S. Paulk Participation: 18% Brian A. Schneider Rebecca Shwayri Adam M. Shonson Founders Society - silver John H. Seibert Stacy F. Speiller Elizabeth A. Shonson Hans G. Tanzler III Loretta J. Thompson Daniel E. Smith II Barbara L. Serokee Barristers Clinton G. Wallace Seth P. Traub Kevin M. Shuler Peter M. MacNamara Jake R. Williams Janelle A. Weber Cynthia L. Singerman Elizabeth A. Wulff Thomas G. Wilson III Nathan A. Skop Partners Laura M. Young Melinda F. Wimbish Sarah A. Slaughter Philip B. Barr Jr. Matthew Z. Zimmerman Matthew L. Wolfe William R. Snyder Jr. Associates Sarah E. Zuckerman Gina D. Stein Nathaniel L. Doliner Class of 2005 Lynsey A. Templeton Enrichment Society Class Total: $19,495.00 Class of 2006 Schnelle K. Tonge Michael D. Fowler No. in Class: 375 Class Total: $15,341.83 Tara V. Trevorrow James A. Watson Participation: 18% No. in Class: 408 Jeffrey T. Troiano Partners Participation: 20% Lauren L. Valiente Class of 1978 Brian T. Degnan* Partners Christine L. Weingart Class Total: $4,100.00 Associates Thomas C. Allison Trusler Society Kurt M. Zaner No. in Class: 68 Cory L. Andrews Meaghan C. Gragg Enrichment Society Diane J. Zelmer Participation: 12% Jolyon D. Acosta Trusler Society Class of 2007 Associates Steffan K. Alexander Alan T. Hawkins Class Total: $4,980.00 William A. Boyles Drew M. Altman No. in Class: 445 Paul D. Fitzpatrick Enrichment Society Dane A. Baltich Participation: 4% Ronald J. Antonin Brad F. Barrios Enrichment Society Scott R. Bauries Amy N. Bokor Trusler Society David H. Evaul Jill F. Bechtold Brian K. Bokor Kristeen R. Witt Don H. Goode Angela F. Benjamin Eve A. Bouchard Enrichment Society Richard D. Green David L. Benjamin Terri M. Bowles Kristina L. Arnsdorff Bradley C. Grossenburg Todd C. Brister Staci N. Braswell Ryan E. Baya Ronald L. Siegel Tobi B. Butensky AnneMarie H. Bui Cecilia M. Bidwell Howard L. Zoller Robert A. Caplen Emily R. Cacioppo Andrew R. Cheslock Class of 1979 Christopher L. Carmody Jr. Jennifer M. Faggion Lauren F. Carmody Class Total: $17,350.00 Christopher M. Chestnut Courtney Bradley Casp Elizabeth B. Frock No. in Class: 47 Deborah E. Cupples Kaitlin Coffi nbarger Nicolas Hamann Kimberly A. Davis Joshua D. Curry Alexandra N. Lehson Participation: 19% Andrew T. Dixon Sara C. Dana John C. Oliver Tammi J. Driver Mrs. Cary B. Davis John H. Rains IV Robert A. Dykan Kelly L. Davis Garland L. Reid Douglas C. Edenfi eld Derek J. Dilberian Joshua H. Roberts Please report corrections to Sara Cocolin at Gregory L. Edwards Charles T. Douglas Jr. Corinne R. Simon [email protected]fl .edu or call 352-273-0640. Meredith C. Fields Michelle T. Drab Dustin P. Stevens Daniel R. Fogarty David D. Duncan Rachel B. Wagner Michael K. Freedman Dayna G. Duncan Steven J. Wernick

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84 UF LAW Partners Stephen L. Cordell Class of 1990 David H. Peek Alan H. Daniels Class Total: $4,150.00 John J. Scroggin Alan S. Gassman No. in Class: 53 Memorials Associates Michael A. Levey Participation: 6% Cheryl L. Gordon Robert L. Miller In Memory of Catherine Barclift James P. Stevens Barristers Enrichment Society Debra Barclift James B. Wiley A. Brian Phillips* Laurence C. Hames Enrichment Society In Memory of Dr. Joseph R. Julin C. Gray Johnsey Class of 1984 Don E. Goebel Kimon P. Karas Class Total: $1,185.00 Prof. & Mrs. Jerold H. Israel Steven C. Lee No. in Class: 73 Class of 1991 In Memory of Lewis Ansbacher William J. Lindsay Jr. Participation: 7% Class Total: $850.00 No. in Class: 63 Mr. & Mrs. Barry B. Ansbacher Class of 1980 Enrichment Society Participation: 8% Class Total: $33,756.25 John A. Bobango In Memory of Walter S. McLin III No. in Class: 47 Linda Suzzanne Griffi n Enrichment Society Block Land & Finance Company Michael G. Little Participation: 21% Rick H. McClure Darby, Peele, Bowdoin & Payne Charles Pillitteri Founders Society - gold Sharon A. V. Zahner Douglas L. Salzer In Memory of Robert G. Sommer Brian M. O’Connell Class of 1985 Daniel H. Waters Jr. Mandell & Joyce Glicksberg Partners Class Total: $6,325.00 Peter T. Kirkwood No. in Class: 74 Class of 1992 Lindy L. Paull Class Total: $1,450.00 In Memory of Sidney Aronovitz Participation: 9% Elinore Aronovitz No. in Class: 60 Enrichment Society Barristers Alfred M. Falk Alan B. Cohn Participation: 5% In Memory of the Gerald R. Kleedehn Associates Honorable George L. Proctor Patrick M. McCann Enrichment Society Christopher A. Detzel Jack A. Weiss Akerman Senterfi tt Charles I. Nash Enrichment Society Robert & Rebecca Altman Robert C. Rogers Jr. John A. Garner Stephen R. Looney W. Wesley Marston Gail S. Baker Class of 1981 Janice M. Baker Class of 1986 Class of 1993 Class Total: $7,459.00 Janet F. Barber Class Total: $1,515.00 Class Total: $2,190.00 No. in Class: 67 Berman PLC No. in Class: 49 No. in Class: 57 Edrie T. Brown Participation: 15% Participation: 8% Participation: 11% Jason B. Burnett Partners Trusler Society Central Florida Bankruptcy Law Randolph J. Rush Trusler Society J. Carter Perkins, Sr. Rosanne M. Duane, Association Enrichment Society Enrichment Society Cooper, Ridge & Lantinberg David E. Bowers Enrichment Society Robert J. Corcoran Jr. Elizabeth A. Carrie Jennifer C. Hepler David K. Cahoone The Decker Law Firm Jane A. Houk Craig P. Hoffman David P. Webb Dennis Levine & Associates John F. Jewell William R. Lane Jr. Jerry A. Funk Class of 1987 Douglas A. Smith Daniel C. Re Leonard H. & Jean B. Gilbert Class Total: $7,005.00 William P. Zox Anton H. Zidansek No. in Class: 62 Keving Gunning & Sharon T. Sperling Class of 1994 Karen S. Jennemann Class of 1982 Participation: 16% Class Total: $1,550.00 Jones & McCorkle Class Total: $5,315.00 Partners No. in Class: 63 Jeffry R. & Sharyn Jontz No. in Class: 61 Louis Nostro Jr. Participation: 8% Kosto & Rotella, P.A. Participation: 11% Trusler Society Lafl eur & Associates LLC Trusler Society Partners Douglas A. Wright Latham, Shuker, Eden & Beaudine Donna L. Longhouse Michael D. Minton Enrichment Society Kristyn B. Leedekerken Enrichment Society Associates Shawn M. Flanagan Carrie B. Lesser David A. Brennen Gary J. Cohen James W. Goodwin II Thomas & Mary Lobello III Gary W. Huston Marks Gray Trusler Society Scott E. Hunt Douglas N. Menchise Patricia L. Burquest-Fultz* Lisa S. Odom Class of 1995 Mark S. Mitchell Mark A. Prater Class Total: $550.00 Enrichment Society Adina L. Pollan Steven R. Cole Class of 1988 No. in Class: 74 Alan L. & Susan L. Proctor Stephen B. Hatcher Class Total: $750.00 Participation: 8% Daniel P. Rock Marvin A. Kirsner No. in Class: 43 Enrichment Society John T. & Leah A. Rogerson III I. Paul Mandelkern Participation: 5% Evan R. Batoff Lansing J. & Joanne Roy Class of 1983 Enrichment Society Nancy J. Gibbs Jennifer B. Salpeter & J. H. Williams Maurice D. Holloway Michael T. & Remedios Shadburn Class Total: $14,970.00 Jane D. Callahan Lawrence Y. Leonard Susan H. Sharp No. in Class: 60 Dirk A. Williams Frank M. Talbot II Smith, Hulsey & Busey Participation: 25% Class of 1989 Schuyler S. & Carrie Smith Class of 1996 Barristers Class Total: $1,350.00 Jodie L. Spencer Class Total: $700.00 John N. Giordano No. in Class: 63 Judith W. Stone No. in Class: 74 Trusler Society Participation: 8% Stutsman Thames & Markey Participation: 5% Ellen R. Gershow Enrichment Society Wilcox Firm J. Herbert Williams R. Lawrence Heinkel* Allen Buckley Enrichment Society Michael G. Williamson Gregory F. Wilder* Vitauts M. Gulbis Hunter J. Brownlee Enrichment Society Thomas P. Hutton Jennifer I. Minsky Wayne P. Bryan John E. Lawlor III Matthew R. O’Kane Michael R. Nelson Peter A. Rivellini

GRADUATES OF THE GRADUATE TAX PROGRAM — ranked in the nation’s top two — provided signifi cant fi nancial support so the college could continue to meet the challenge of achieving top-tier excellence in legal education.

FALL 2008 85 Class of 1997 Kathleen M. McRoberts Enrichment Society Class Total: $255.00 Robert H. Pritchard W. Michael Black This Honor Roll includes the No. in Class: 53 Robert T. Smith Thomas B. Christenson II names of all donors to the UF Participation: 8% Sara A. Tolliver Allison L. Ringler M. Bernadette Welch Levin College of Law from July 1, Enrichment Society Class of 2006 2007 to June 30, 2008. If your Teresa J. Lynch Class of 2002 Class Total: $1,155.00 name is not included and you think Keith M. Olivia Class Total: $625.00 No. in Class: 64 it should be, one of the following Class of 1998 No. in Class: 63 Participation: 6% may be the reason it is not: Class Total: $1,610.00 Participation: 6% Enrichment Society • The gift was made before July 1, No. in Class: 69 Enrichment Society Mrs. Micah G. Fogarty 2007, (and was recognized in a Participation: 4% Julius B. Remmen Phyllis C. Smith previous report) or after June 30, Kerry A. Ryan Timothy L. Smith Associates Joseph W. Zitzka Jr. 2008, (and it will be recognized Andrew K. Strimaitis Class of 2007 in a future Honor Roll). Enrichment Society Class of 2003 Class Total: $3,125.00 • You made a pledge instead Matthew J. Ahearn Class Total: $6,175.00 No. in Class: 78 of a gift and planned to fulfi ll Mark R. Mohler No. in Class: 80 Participation: 8% Participation: 8% your commitment after June Class of 1999 Trusler Society 30, 2008. (Only actual pledge Class Total: $300.00 Barristers Sarah J. Spear Erick S. Magno payments made between July 1, No. in Class: 45 Enrichment Society 2007 and June 30, 2008 are Participation: 4% Enrichment Society Jolyon D. Acosta listed.) Srinivas R. Dantuluri Jeffrey T. Troiano Enrichment Society Terrence T. Dariotis Christine L. Weingart • A personal gift was made William J. Liss Joy Sabino Mullane Richard I. Withers using your company’s check Rahul P. Ranadive or letterhead. In this case, you Class of 2004 Class of 2000 may be listed in the corporate Class Total: $10,900.00 Class Total: $875.00 and organization section of the No. in Class: 79 No. in Class: 64 Honor Roll. Participation: 6% Participation: 6% • We made a mistake. In spite Partners DECEASED DONORS of our best efforts, errors and J. Stephen Pullum Enrichment Society Mildred M. Baynard omissions occur. If so, please Enrichment Society Christopher R. D’Amico Robert B. Cole 1935 accept our apologies and Nathan R. Adams Christina V. Lockwood Alexander D. DeVitis Lealand L. Lovering 1959 notify the UF Levin College Clancy V. Mendoza of Law Offi ce of Development Ashley D. Money Robert M. Montgomery Jr. 1957 Matthew R. Ringler and Alumni Affairs, P.O. Box Class of 2001 Marcia Whitney Schott 1946 117623, Gainesville, FL Class Total: $1,085.00 Class of 2005 W. Paul Shelley Jr. 1939 32611, or email Sara Cocolin at No. in Class: 64 Class Total: $785.00 Blakeley R. Waite 1975 [email protected]fl .edu. Participation: 13% No. in Class: 77 Belledeane W. Warren Enrichment Society Participation: 6% Alton D. Bain

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Mary Adkins Legal Skills Professor Miami Herald, June 3, 2008 ■ Published “Seven Qualities for Beginning Appellate Attorneys,” 16 Quoted in an article discussing The Miami-Dade Public The Record (2008) (the journal of the Defender’s Offi ce plans to begin turning away thousands of cases Appellate Practice Section, Florida in the coming weeks, arguing it is so short-staffed and under Bar) funded that attorneys can’t effectively cover their assigned cases. ■ Received scholarship grant from Legal experts disagreed on whether public defenders can refuse the Association of Legal Writing cases simply because they are overworked. Dekle said, “The fi rst Directors to support development of an article on the effect of trial courtroom showdown you’re looking at is between the public defenders and technology on appellate practice and the judge and how quick they can get out of jail after the judge standard of review (2008) puts them in jail for not accepting cases. Refusing to accept DEKLE appointments in that situation is basically refusing to perform his Mary Jane Angelo constitutional duty.” Associate Professor ■ Published “Harnessing the Power of —George R. “Bob” Dekle, Legal Skills Professor Science in Environmental Law: Why We Should, Why We Don’t, and How We Can,” 86 Texas Law Review 1527 Fletcher N. Baldwin Elizabeth Dale (2008) Chesterfi eld Smith Professor Emeritus Affi liate Professor of Law; Associate ■ Published “Where Did Our Water ■ Received an Emerald Literati Professor of Constitutional and Legal Go? Give the Law a Chance” (op-ed, Network 2008 Award for Excellence History, Dept. of History with Richard Hamann and Christine for publishing the “Outstanding ■ Published “People v. Coughlin and Klein), Orlando Sentinel (Sept. 23, Paper” of 2007, “The Rule of Law: Criticism of the Criminal Jury in Late 2008) and Ocala Star-Banner (Sept. An Essential Component of the Nineteenth-Century Chicago,” 28 28, 2008) Financial War Against Organized N. Illinois U. L. Rev. 503 (2008) ■ Published “Reforming the Florida Crime and Terrorism in the Americas” (symposium) Water Resources Act of 1972: Beyond (with Theresa A. DiPerna), 14 J. of ■ Published “Death or Transformation? the First 35 Years” (monograph, Financial Crime 405 (2007) Educational Autonomy in the Roberts with Richard Hamann and Christine Court,” 43 Tulsa L. Rev. 725 (2008) Klein), in connection with the Century Jonathan R. Cohen ■ Published “People v. Coughlin and Commission for a Sustainable Florida, Professor; Associate Director Institute the Criminal Jury in Late Nineteenth- 2008 Water Congress, Orlando (2008) for Dispute Resolution Century Chicago,” 28 Northern Illinois ■ Presented “When the Rivers Run ■ Presented “Coping with Lasting Univ. L. Rev. 503 (2008) Dry: Water Challenges in Florida” (with Social Injustice,” Justice and Policing ■ Participated in panel discussion, Richard Hamann and Christine Klein), in Diverse Societies, sponsored by the “Religion Clauses of the First Common Reading Program, University John Jay College of Criminal Studies Amendment and Mark deWolfe Howe’s of Florida (October 2008) and several other universities, Puerto The Garden and the Wilderness, ■ Presented “Stumbling Toward Rico (2008) American Academy of Religion Success: A Story of Adaptive Law and ■ Presented “The Benefi ts and National Conference (November 2008) Ecological Resilience,” Symposium on Limitations of Apology” to a state- Environmental Resilience and the Law, wide web seminar for Florida judges Jeff Davis University of Nebraska College of Law and mediators addressing workers’ Gerald A. Sohn Term Professor (September 2008) compensation claims within the Offi ce of ■ Presented “Ethical Challenges in the ■ Presented “The Killing Fields: Judges of Compensation Claims (2008) Practice of Bankruptcy Law,” Annual Reducing the Casualties in the Battle Seminar, Central Florida Bankruptcy Between U.S. Endangered Species and Stuart R. Cohn Law Association (September 2008) Pesticide Law,” Vermont Law School John H. and Mary Lou Dasburg For a complete, three- (July 2008) Professor; Associate Dean for Patricia E. Dilley year listing of UF Law ■ Presented “Agricultural Impacts and International Studies Professor faculty scholarship, the Management of Water Resources: ■ Published “Freeze-Outs and ■ Won one of 12 Rockefeller view the UF Law A Case Study of Lake Apopka, Squeeze-Outs in American and Polish Foundation Innovation Awards Florida,” Annual Conference on Legal Law: Comparison, Contrasts and ($30,000) to Strengthen Social Faculty Report, and Policy Issues in the Americas, Rio Reform Recommendation,” 8 Warsaw Security for Vulnerable Groups for her available online at de Janeiro, Brazil (May 2008) University Law Review 38 (2008) proposal, “Restoring Old Age Income www.law.ufl .edu.

FALL 2008 87 Security for Low Wage Workers.” She Mark Fenster Joan D. Flocks accepted the award at a luncheon in UF Research Foundation Professor Director, Social Policy Division, Center New York, and a synthesis of the fi nal ■ Published Conspiracy Theories: for Governmental Responsibility papers will be made available to policy Secrecy and Power in American ■ Testifi ed on “Agricultural Exposures: makers, congressional staff, executive Culture (rev. 2nd ed., University of Pesticide Policy and Farmworkers” branch transition teams, and other Minnesota 2008) before the President’s Cancer Panel stakeholder communities (2008) ■ Presented “After Lingle,” 11th Annual (created in 1971 to annually advise Georgetown Environmental Law & the president on cancer policy), Nancy E. Dowd Policy Institute Litigating Takings Indianapolis, Ind. (October 2008) Chesterfi eld Smith Professor of Law; Conference, Stanford Law School ■ Presented “From the Public’s Co-director, Center on Children (November 2008) Perspective: Land Use and Socio- and Families ■ Presented “Democratic Property Environmental Justice in Florida,” ■ Participated in panel discussion, Ownership and the Commodifi cation University of Florida / University of “Masculinities Theory and Legal of Community,” Property Works in Costa Rica Conference, San Jose, Interpretation,” Southeastern Association Progress Conference, University of Costa Rica (June 2008) of Law Schools Meeting (July 2008) Colorado Law School (June 2008) ■ Presented “The Political Economy ■ Moderated two panel sessions, ■ Presented “The Dilemmas of Local of Pesticides,” Annual Conference International Society of Family Law, Transparency,” Annual Meeting, Law on Legal and Policy Issues in the 13th World Conference, Vienna, & Society Association, Montreal (May Americas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (May Austria (September 2008) 2008) 2008)

anonymous bloggers. He outlines the legal protections people Book round-up: Jon Mills have — or don’t have — to prevent these intrusions, and offers Privacy: The Lost Right options to bolster legal protections of privacy. Mills also relates his personal experiences as an attorney who has made successful arguments in several, high-profi le echnology has intruded into every aspect of modern life, court cases that have defi ned the First Amendment boundaries from how people die to how they conduct their public and of the press’ right to know and an individual’s right to privacy. Tprivate business. Although the benefi ts of technology are These included blocking the release of grisly autopsy photos obvious, the risks can be huge. of six young people murdered by serial killer Danny Rolling, That’s because every cell phone call, credit card transaction, preventing the posting of Dale Earnhardt Sr.’s autopsy photos discount card purchase, Internet site visited, or e-mail sent to the Internet, and closing the homicide investigation fi le or received is fair game for information poachers to containing detailed personal information on murdered fashion fi lch at will and without your knowledge. So states mogul Gianni Versace. a new book released this month, Privacy: The These cases were sensationalized in the media and riveted Lost Right (Oxford University Press), authored by public attention, but the privacy invasions of the information age Jon Mills, a University of Florida Levin College that don’t garner any attention can do equal harm, said Mills. of Law professor, dean emeritus, and founder “People are unaware of how many intrusions they face of the university’s Center for Governmental during everyday life because it is not in any intruders’ interest to Responsibility. put the public on notice, and when they do it’s usually only in “Technology has moved too fast for the the fi ne print,” said Mills. “We don’t know when somebody has law, which is not totally surprising,” said gathered and sold our private information, we don’t know that Mills. “The combination of the Internet and somebody looked at our medical records and that it affected the a broad range of scientifi c advances, like way we were treated in a job search.” genetic testing, has created information Mills said it is not just government or the press or the and societal changes with which the law anonymous bloggers or the data brokers that have the ability has not been able to keep pace.” to violate our privacy rights, it’s all of the above together. Privacy: The Lost Right draws on Mills’ Although Americans enjoy the conveniences of the Internet, academic, courtroom and legislative experiences camera phones and online commerce, Mills contends few of us and explores examples of privacy intrusions enabled surrendered all privacy for convenience — at least not knowingly. by technology ranging from disclosure of private “Americans cherish their privacy and the legal tools that online video rentals, Internet purchasing habits, protect it. At no time in our history have the challenges to spyware that tracks personal online viewing habits, personal privacy been so great,” said Janet Reno, former U.S. governmental and corporate intrusions, and attorney general. “Jon Mills is uniquely qualifi ed through legal, salacious or defamatory Web postings made by political and academic experience to address these challenges.”

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Alyson Flournoy UF Research Foundation Professor; USA Today, July 3, 2008 Alumni Research Scholar; Director, Environmental and Land Use Law Quoted in a front-page story in the USA Today. “In This War, Program Troops Get a Rousing Welcome Home,” Mazur commented on the ■ Published “Harnessing the Power relationship between increasingly elaborate celebrations for returning of Information to Protect Our Public troops and the absence of a military draft: “What motivates these Natural Resource Legacy” (with Heather ostentatious displays is the unspoken, almost unconscious guilt over Halter and Christina Storz), 86 Tex. L. the way military service works now. A narrow slice of Americans Rev.1575 (2008) serve again and again. It’s as if we’re saying, ‘We will engage in ■ Published “Supply, Demand, and Consequences: The Impact these very public displays of worship, provided you don’t ask us to serve.’ ” of Information Flow on Individual MAZUR Permitting Decisions under Section 404 —Diane Mazur, Professor of Law of the Clean Water Act,” 83 Indiana L. J. 537 (2008) ■ Presented “Protecting a Natural Resource Legacy While Promoting 2008 Water Congress, Orlando, Fla. ■ Presented “Sanctions and Human Resilience: Can It Be Done?” University (September 2008) Rights,” Conference on the Cuban of Nebraska School of Law (September ■ Served as an invited delegate at the Embargo and Human Rights, St. 2008) Century Commission for a Sustainable Thomas University School of Law, Florida, 2008 Water Congress, Orlando, Miami, Fla. (October 2008) Michael K. Friel Fla. (Sept. 25-26) ■ Participated in the roundtable, Professor; Associate Dean and Director, ■ Presented “When the Rivers Run Dry: “Gender, Cultural Identity, and Graduate Tax Program Water Challenges in Florida” (Mary Jane International Law,” 13th Annual LatCrit ■ Published Taxation of Individual Angelo and Christine Klein), Common Conference: Critical Interrogation of Income (with Martin Burke) (LexisNexis, Reading Program, University of Florida Electoral Systems and the Exercise of 8th ed., 2007 & 2008 Supp.) (October 2008) the Franchise, Seattle University School ■ Published Understanding Federal of Law (October 2008) Income Taxation (with Martin Burke) Jeffrey L. Harrison ■ Invited to serve as an advisory (3rd ed., 2008) Stephen C. O’Connell Chair committee member for the SSRN ■ Published Treatise, Modern Estate ■ Published “Wojciech J. Kocot, journal Discrimination, Law & Justice Planning (with Martin Burke and Elaine Comparing Promises: A US and Polish Gagliardi) (2nd ed., 2004-2008) Perspective,” 8 Warsaw University Law Thomas R. Hurst Review 72 (2008) Sam T. Dell Research Scholar and Michael W. Gordon Professor of Law John H. and Mary Lou Dasburg Edward Hart ■ Presented “The Role of Credit Rating Professor-Emeritus Head of Technical Services, Legal Agencies in the Current Financial ■ Published International Civil Dispute Information Center Crisis,” Cambridge Symposium on Resolution (with Baldwin, Brand and ■ Published “Hutchinson v. Valdosta: Economic Crime (September 2008) Epstein) (West. 2nd ed. 2008) A Supreme Court Battle Over Water ■ Elected as a Fellow in the American Closets,” 16 Southern J. of Legal Jerold H. Israel Bar Foundation History (2008) Professor Emeritus ■ Provided expert testimony on foreign ■ Presented “Technical Services and the ■ Published Modern Criminal law in a trial in the Supreme Court of Three R’s: Reinventing, Restructuring, Procedure (with Kamisar et al.) Bermuda (July 2008) and Renewing” (panelist), Technical (Thomson/West,12th ed. 2008) Services Special Interest Section, ■ Published Advanced Criminal Richard Hamann American Association of Law Libraries, Procedure (with Kamisar et al.) Associate In Law Portland, Ore. (July 2008) (Thomson/West, 12th ed. 2008) ■ Published “Where Did Our Water Go? ■ Presented “Law Librarianship,” ■ Published Criminal Procedure and Give the Law a Chance” (op-ed, with Valdosta State University Masters the Constitution (with Kamisar et al.) Mary Jane Angelo and Christine Klein), in Library and Information Science (Thomson/West 2008 ed.) Orlando Sentinel (Sept. 23, 2008) Program (September 2008) and Ocala Star-Banner (Sept. 28, Joseph Jackson 2008) Berta E. Hernandez-Truyol Legal Skills Professor ■ Published “Reforming the Florida Levin Mabie and Levin Professor; ■ Published “Approaches to Water Resources Act of 1972: Beyond Associate Director, Center on Children Compromise: A Comparative Analysis the First 35 Years” (monograph, and Families of the Constitutions of the United with Mary Jane Angelo and Christine ■ Published “Sex and Globalization,” States and the Republic of Poland,” 8 Klein), in connection with the Century 11 Harv. Latino L. R. 173 (2008) Warsaw University L. Rev. 83 (2008) Commission for a Sustainable Florida,

FALL 2008 89 Development” 2008 Joint Conference Florida Bar News, Sept. 10, 2008 of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) and the Quoted in an article on how the Department of Justice revises how it Association of European Schools of deals with corporate probes. Seigel, a member of the Attorney-Client Planning, Chicago, Ill. (July 2008) Privilege Task Force who dissented from its recommendations on the DOJ guidelines, praised the new policies and said they would avoid Shani M. King Assistant Professor; Associate problems that could arise from legislation on the matter. Director, Center on Children and “I think the new guidelines are actually quite good. I think that the Families department has listened to its critics . . . ,” he said. “It’s irrelevant ■ Presented “Challenging whether a company waives its attorney-client privilege, that’s not the MonoHumanism: An Argument SEIGEL issue. The important thing is a corporation wants to claim cooperation, for Changing the Way We Think the key is telling the prosecutor everything you know. Whether it’s About Intercountry Adoption” at the privileged or not is essentially irrelevant.” following conferences: New Scholars Workshop, Southeastern Association —Michael Seigel, Professor of Law of American Law Schools, Palm Beach, Florida (August 2008); Association for Cultural Studies Crossroads Conference, University of Michelle S. Jacobs ■ Published “Choices and Voices in the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica the 2008 Election: History is Upon Professor (2008); Gender, Family Responsibility ■ Us,” 19 Univ. Fla. J. Law and Pub. Published UN Shadow Report (U.S. and Legal Change Conference, Sussex Policy ix (2008) Human Rights Network Committee Law School, Brighton, UK (2008); ■ Published “The Stephen Colbert for the Elimination of Racial and Law and Society Annual Meeting, Problem: The Media Exemption for Discrimination, 2008) (contributing Quebec, Canada (2008) author) Corporate Political Advocacy and ■ Moderated panel on “Shifting the ‘Hail to the Cheese’ Stephen Family Responsibilities and Robert H. Jerry III Colbert Nacho Cheese Doritos 2008 Legal Change,”Gender, Family Presidential Campaign Coverage,” 19 Dean; Levin Mabie and Levin Responsibility and Legal Change Univ. Fla. J. L, & Pub. Policy 295 Professor Conference, Sussex Law School, ■ (2008) Participated on panel “’Say Brighton, UK (July 2008) Something New’: New Insights Into Dawn Jourdan and Scholarship About the Goals and Christine A. Klein Affi liate Professor of Law; Associate Responsibilities of Legal Education,” Chesterfi eld Smith Professor of Director, Center on Children and Annual Meeting, Southeastern Law; Associate Dean for Faculty Families; Assistant Professor of Association of Law Schools (July Development 2008) Urban and Regional Planning ■ Published “Water Transfers: The ■ ■ Published “Through the Looking Appointed to a term on the Case Against Transbasin Diversions Glass: Analyzing the Potential Legal Florida Board of Bar Examiners in the Eastern States,” 25 UCLA J. Challenges to Form-Based Codes” Testing Commission, which makes Envtl. Law & Policy 101 (2008) recommendations to the Florida (with Elizabeth Garvin), J. Land Use ■ Published “Where Did Our Water & Environmental L. (2008) Board of Bar Examiners about what Go? Give the Law a Chance” (op-ed, ■ Published “Interdisciplinary should be tested on The Florida Bar with Mary Jane Angelo and Richard Tourism Education in Interdisciplinary (2008) Hamann), Orlando Sentinel (Sept. ■ Teaching and Learning in Higher Appointed to the “Responsibility 23, 2008) and Ocala Star-Banner Education: Theory and Practice” (with Centered Management Committee,” a (Sept. 28, 2008) UF committee charged with exploring Tazim Jamal), in Interdisciplinary ■ Published “Reforming the Florida Learning and Teaching in Higher the feasibility of introducing an RCM Water Resources Act of 1972: Beyond Education: Theory and Practice (B. budget model to UF (2008) the First 35 Years” (monograph, ■ Chandramohan & S. Fallows, eds., Reappointed to the Bar Admissions with Mary Jane Angelo and Richard London: Routledge Falmer 2008) Committee of the ABA Section of Hamann), in connection with the ■ Published “Grounding Theory: Legal Education and Admissions to Century Commission for a Sustainable Developing New Theory on the Bar (2008) Florida, 2008 Water Congress, ■ Intergenerational Participation in Reappointed to the Finance Orlando, (September 2008) Committee of the University of Florida Qualitative Methods for Housing ■ Presented “Water Wars or Research” in Qualitative Housing Foundation (2008) Water Waste?” (plenary closing Research Methods (P. Maquin, ed., session), Water Wars: Use, Confl ict Clifford Jones London: Elsevier 2008) and the Future, Jacksonville ■ Presented “The Legal Challenges Associate in Law Research/ University and Florida Coastal School of Employing a Land Bank to Lecturer, Center for Governmental of Law, Jacksonville, FL (November Support Rural Affordable Housing Responsibility 2008)

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■ Presented “When the Rivers Run Simmons & Polsky) (6th ed., L. Simmons), 8 Florida Tax Rev. 715 Dry: Water Challenges in Florida” Foundation Press 2008) (2008) (with Mary Jane Angelo and Richard ■ Published Federal Income Taxation ■ Published Federal Income Taxation Hamann), Common Reading of Business Organizations (with of Individuals (with Bittker & Program, University of Florida McMahon & Simmons) (Foundation Zelenak) (Thomson, 3rd edition, (October 2008) Press, 4th ed. 2006 & 2008 Supp.) 2008 Cumulative Supplement No. 2) ■ Published Federal Income Taxation Lyrissa Lidsky of Corporations (with McMahon & Robert C.L. Moffat Stephen C. O’Connell Chair Simmons) (Foundation Press, 3d ed. Professor; Affi liate Professor of ■ Published “Where’s the Harm?: Free 2006 & 2008 Supp.) Philosophy Speech and the Regulation of Lies,” ■ Published Federal Income Taxation ■ Published “Fairness and Self 65 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. (2008) of Partnerships and S Corporations Interest: Re Forming Immigration ■ Published “U.S. Media Law Update,” (with McMahon & Simmons) Reform,” 13 Nexus 103 (2008) 13 Media & Arts. L. Rev. (Andrew (Foundation Press, 4th ed. & 2008 Kenyon, ed. 2008) Supp.) Jon L. Mills ■ Participated on a panel, “The Phases Professor; Director, Center for and Faces of the Duke LaCrosse Martin McMahon Jr. Governmental Responsibility; Dean Controversy,” Annual Meeting, Stephen C. O’Connell Chair Emeritus Southeastern Association of Law ■ Published “Comparing the ■ Published Privacy: The Lost Right Schools, Palm Beach, Fla. (July 2008) Application of Judicial Interpretative (Oxford University Press, 2008) ■ Quoted in the Aug. 6 edition Doctrines to Revenue Statutes ■ Published “Two Contemporary of Time Magazine regarding the on Opposite Sides of the Pond,” Privacy Issues in Poland: Liability First Amendment implications of a new attorney referral website

Lawrence Lokken New York Times, July 30, 2008 Hugh F. Culverhouse Eminent Scholar in Taxation; Professor Interviewed for a front-page New York Times article which ■ Published “Income Effectively explored Barack Obama as a law professor at the University Connected with U.S. Trade or of Chicago Law School, where Sokol was one of his students. Business: A Survey and Appraisal,” 86 Sokol said in describing Obama’s class, “For people who Taxes 65 (March 2008) thought they were getting a doctrinal, rah-rah experience, it Charlene Luke wasn’t that kind of class.” Assistant Professor —D. Daniel Sokol, Assistant Professor of Law ■ Published “Risk, Return, and SOKOL Objective Economic Substance,” 27 Va. Tax Rev. 783 (2008)

Pedro A. Malavet in Comparative Perspectives on for Internet Publication and the Professor Revenue Law (J.A. Jones, Harris & Registration of Communist Party ■ Published “The Story of Downes v. Oliver, eds., Cambridge University Affi liation,” 8 Warsaw University Law Bidwell: ‘The Constitution Follows the Press 2008) Review 110 (2008) Flag ... But Doesn’t Quite Catch Up ■ Published Federal Income Taxation, ■ Published “Law Schools as Agents With It,’ ” in Race and the Law Stories Cases and Materials (with McDaniel, of Change and Justice Reform in the (Rachel Moran and Devon Carbado, Simmons & Polsky) (6th ed., Americas,” 20 Fla. J. of Int’l L. 5 eds., Foundation Press 2008) Foundation Press 2008) (2008) ■ Published “Breaking UF Barriers: 50 ■ Published Federal Income Taxation of ■ Presented “Current Legal Issues and Years of Desegregation at UF” (op-ed), Business Organizations (with McDaniel Legal Education in a Global Society” Gainesville Sun (Sept. 13, 2008) & Simmons) (Foundation Press, 4th ed. (panelist), Center for American Law 2006 & 2008 Supp.) Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland Amy R. Mashburn ■ Published Federal Income Taxation (June 2008) Professor of Corporations (with McDaniel & ■ Presented “Legal Education, ■ Published “Can Xenophon Save Simmons) (Foundation Press, 3d ed. Professional Responsibility and Ethics” the Socratic Method?” 30 Thomas 2006 & 2008 Supp.) (panelist and moderator), Ninth Jefferson L. Rev. 597 (2008) ■ Published Federal Income Taxation of Annual Conference on Legal and Policy Partnerships and S Corporations (with Issues in the Americas, PUC-Rio, Paul R. McDaniel McDaniel & Simmons) (Foundation Brazil (May 2008) James J. Freeland Eminent Scholar in Press, 4th ed. & 2008 Supp.) ■ Served as Rapporteur, American Taxation; Professor ■ Published “Recent Developments Bar Association, World Justice Project ■ Published Federal Income Taxation, in Federal Income Taxation: The Year Outreach Meeting, Miami, Fla. (May Cases and Materials (with McMahon, 2007” (with Ira B. Shepard & Daniel 2008)

FALL 2008 91 Protection of Indigenous Knowledge,” Time Magazine, Aug. 6, 2008 Vivekananda School of Professional Studies (Law School) and Delhi Law A new Internet site, WhoCanISue.com, plans to help consumers School, Delhi, India (October 2008) determine whether they actually have a case and help them fi nd an ■ Discussed developments under attorney from a list of lawyers who advertise their expertise on the the UN Convention on Biodiversity, Web site. The attorneys will pay an annual fee of $1,000 to appear Conference of the States Parties, Bonn, on the site. University of Florida Professor of Law Lyrissa Lidsky Germany (2008) ■ believes the service “is likely to increase the number of lawsuits.” Presented a paper dealing with the human rights of indigenous people in But, adds Lidsky, who specializes in Internet law and the First the Amazon (the case of the Shuar), Amendment, “It’s a good thing to the extent people are vindicating Conference on the Inclusive Museum their legal rights to the extent they didn’t years ago.” (2008) LIDSKY —Lyrissa Lidsky, Professor of Law; UF Research Foundation Professor Lars Noah Alumni Research Scholar; Professor ■ Published “The Little Agency Winston P. Nagan ■ Presented “Love, Hate and the That Could (Act with Indifference Professor; Samuel T. Dell Research Human Rights Boundaries of the Law,” to Constitutional and Statutory Scholar; Director, Institute of Human The Anthropocene Crisis: Perils and Strictures),” 93 Cornell L. Rev. 901 Rights and Peace Development; Possibilities of the 21st Century, World (2008) Affi liate Professor of Anthropology Academy of Art and Science Assembly, ■ Published “Globalism from an Hyderabad, India (October 2008) William H. Page African Perspective: The Training of ■ Presented “Legal Culture Confronts Senior Associate Dean for Academic Lawyers for a New and Challenging Science in Search of a New Affairs; Marshall M. Criser Reality” (with Marcio Santos), 17 Paradigm of Humane Governance,” Eminent Scholar in Electronic Transnational Law & Contemporary The Expanding and Constraining Communications and Administrative Problems 414 (2008) Boundaries of Legal Space, Curvature Law; Professor ■ Published “The Rise of Outsourcing of Time, and the Challenge of ■ Published “Bargaining in the in Modern Warfare: Sovereign Globalization World Academy of Shadow of the European Microsoft Power, Private Military Actors, and Art and Science, Hyderabad, India Decision: The Microsoft-Samba the Constitutive Process” (with Craig (October 2008) Protocol License” (with Seldon J. Hammer), 60 Maine L. Rev. 430 ■ Presented “The Problems of Childers), 102 Northwestern U. L. (2008) Biodiversity and Biopiracy and the Rev. Colloquy 332 (2008)

IN MEMORIAM Dexter Delony

rofessor Emeritus Dexter Delony, passed away Oct. 16 following long illness. He was 91. Delony taught at UF Law for more than 30 years, educating thousands of Florida’s lawyers and leaders, Pincluding former governors Lawton Chiles and Rueben Askew. As a professor, Delony was revered by his students for teaching classes that successfully combined a generous helping of both theoretical law and its application. He retired from UF Law in 1983 and stated he was very proud to have seen the dramatic increase in women law students during his tenure at UF. Delony specialized in labor law, commercial law and arbitration, and was a nationally recognized and published authority in all three. Delony wrote Florida’s Uniform Commercial Code, and served for several years as chairman of the Labor Law Council of the Association of American Law Schools. Delony was recruited to the University of Florida in 1948 by then-President J. Hillis Miller from the University of Denver law school, where he served as an assistant professor. Before entering legal academia, Delony worked with Judge Beale at Beale & Delony in Tuscaloosa, Ala. He also worked as an attorney for the U.S. Department of Interior and the National Labor Relations Board. Delony earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Alabama and his Juris Doctor from Harvard University. He was involved in numerous legal organizations and was a member of both the American Bar Association and The Florida Bar. He is survived by his wife of 66 years, Jean Campbell Delony, daughter, Christine Vigue, two sons, Charles and John, three grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

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■ Participated in “Networks in Stephen J. Powell ■ Presented the keynote address and Communications” (an academic Lecturer in Law; Director, International workshop on mindfulness, New Jersey roundtable), Northwestern Law Trade Law Program; Affi liate Lecturer, ADR Day, New Jersey Institute for School, Searle Center for Regulation Department of Food and Resource Continuing Legal Education (2008) ■ Presented “Measuring Compliance Economics; Affi liate Faculty, Center ■ Presented a workshop on with Compulsory Licensing Remedies for Latin American Studies; Faculty, mindfulness for confl ict resolvers (co- in the American Microsoft Case,” International Agricultural Trade & led with Rachel Wohl), Pepperdine Conference on Remedies for Dominant Public Policy Center University Institute for Dispute Firm Misconduct, ABA Antitrust ■ Presented “Land Use Regulation, Resolution (2008) Section (June 2008) Foreign Real Estate Investment, and ■ Presented (with Daniel Shapiro) ■ Presented a paper (co-authored with Trade Agreements,” University of at the Negotiation Institute at Jeff Childers) about the enforcement Florida / University of Costa Rica Northwestern University School of of the American Microsoft judgments Conference, San Jose, Costa Rica Continuing Studies (2008) at the Remedies for Dominant Firm (June 2008) Misconduct Symposium at the ■ Presented “Andean Community, Elizabeth A. Rowe University of Virginia (June 2008) MERCOSUR, and UNASUL: A Associate Professor New Opportunity for Linkage of ■ Published “Proposing a Mechanism Juan F. Perea Trade with Labor and Other Human for Removing Trade Secrets from the Cone Wagner Nugent Johnson, Rights,” MERCOSUL and Civil Society Internet,” 12 J. of Internet Law 3 Hazouri and Roth Professor Law Faculty Workshop, Federal (2008) ■ Published Latinos and the Law University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil ■ Quoted in Andrew Abramson, “NCAA (with Richard Delgado and Jean (May 2008) Trying to Block Fantasy Leagues’ Move Stefancic) (Thomson/West 2008) ■ Presented “Humanizing Trade’s Into College Football,” Palm Beach ■ Presented keynote address at Economic Benefi ts: An Analysis Post (Aug. 27, 2008) Commemoration of Hispanic Heritage of MERCOSUL’s Effects on the ■ Presented “Who Are These People? Month, Environmental Protection Environment, Labor Standards, New Generation Employees and Trade Agency, Research Triangle, North Indigenous Populations, and Secrets,” 2008 Intellectual Property Carolina (September 2008) Health,” Ninth Annual University of Scholars Conference, Stanford Law ■ Presented a faculty colloquium at Florida Law / PUC-Rio Conference School (August 2008) the University of Georgia Law School on Legal & Policy Issues in the (September 2008) Americas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (May Thomas Ruppert 2008) Assistant In Environmental Law Don C. Peters ■ Published “Eroding Long-Term Director of Institute for Dispute Leonard L. Riskin Prospects for Florida’s Beaches: Resolution; Trustee Research Fellow; Chesterfi eld Smith Professor of Law Florida’s Coastal Construction Control Professor; Associate Director, Center ■ Published “Is that All There Is?: ‘The Line,” 1 Sea Grant L. & Pol’y J. 65 on Children and Families Problem’ in Court-Oriented Mediation” (2008) ■ Published “Yes We Can: Overcoming (with Nancy A. Welsh), 15 George Barriers to Mediating Private Mason L. Rev. 863-932 (2008) Sharon E. Rush Commercial Disputes” (with Eva ■ Prepared “Mindfulness and Law Irving Cypen Professor of Law Gmurzynska), 8 Warsaw Univ. L. Rev. Practice” (videotaped interview) for ■ Volunteered at request of Lamba 122 (2008) video series of cutting edge law (2008) Legal Defense to review and to ■ Published “Just Say No: Minimizing ■ Presented “Mediation and be named plaintiff, with Erwin Limited Authority Negotiating in Mindfulness,” University of Gothenberg Chemerinky and Robert Schapiro, Court-Mandated Mediation,” 8 and the Lulea Technological University, on amicus brief in Embry v. Ryan, Pepperdine Dispute Resolution L.J. Sweden (2008) an appeal seeking to overturn a 273 (2008) ■ Presented “Overcoming Barriers to Transborder Commercial Mediation,” The National Law Journal, Aug. 28, 2008 Rio de Janerio (May 2008) and Warsaw, Poland (June 2008) Quoted in an article on Chief Justice of the United States John Plummer John Roberts visit to UF Law. “To have the chief justice of our Assistant Dean, Administrative nation judge our Final Four Moot Court Competition is a great Affairs privilege for our students and the University of Florida. It is a ■ Participated on panel, “Dealing with tremendous understatement to say that it has elevated both the Diffi cult Economic Times,” Annual signifi cance of this annual event and the anxiety levels of our Meeting, Southeastern Association of Law Schools (July 2008) (also student competitors.” supported SEALS executive director — Robert Jerry, Dean; Levin Mabie and Levin Professor of Law and president in organizing and JERRY running the conference)

FALL 2008 93 Florida trial court’s invalidation of a Law, Center for Governmental Responsibility,” University of Costa Rica Washington second-parent adoption Responsibility, Tampa (2008) School of Law, San Jose, Costa Rica (2008) (2008) ■ Provided background information on Michael Siebecker ■ Presented “Trust and Disclosure,” constitutional issues for Miami Herald Associate Professor Monash University Centre, Italy (2008) story discussing a Key West case in ■ Published “The Duty of Care and ■ Presented “Trust, Effi ciency, and which judge ruled that Florida’s ban Data Control Systems in the Wake of Corporate Transparency,” Cambridge on gay adoptions is unconstitutional Sarbanes-Oxley,” 83 Chicago-Kent L. University, United Kingdom (2008) (2008) Rev. (2008) ■ Presented “Encapsulated Trust and D. Daniel Sokol Michael Seigel the Tragedy of Corporate Transparency,” Assistant Professor Alumni Research Scholar; Professor Washington University School of Law ■ Published “Order Without ■ Quoted in Gary Blankenship, “DOJ (2008) (Enforceable) Law: Why Countries Revises How It Deals With Corporate ■ Participated on panel titled, Enter into Non-Enforceable Competition Probes,” The Florida Bar News (Sept. “Global Banks as Global Regulators: Policy Chapters in Free Trade 15, 2008) The Equator Principles,” Corporate Agreements,” 83 Chicago Kent L. Rev. ■ Received “2008 Faculty Social Responsibility: Perspectives 231 (2008) Professionalism Award,” awarded from Law and Business Conference, ■ Presented “The Past and Future of by the Florida Supreme Court’s Georgetown University Law Center and Law & Entrepreneurship Scholarship Commission on Professionalism and the McDonough School Of Business, – A Multidisciplinary Perspective” the Florida Bar’s Standing Committee Georgetown University (2008) (written with Mark Suchman and on Professionalism (2008) ■ Invited to join the Network for Gordon Smith), Third Annual Law ■ Presented “U.S. Law and Sustainable Financial Markets (an & Entrepreneurship Retreat, Drexel Procedure for White Collar Criminal international think tank addressing School of Law, Philadelphia (October Cases,” Summer Program in regulation of capital markets) (2008) 2008) American Law for Brazilian Judges, ■ Presented “Legal Ethics and ■ Participated in “Networks in Prosecutors and Attorneys, UF International Corporate Social Communications,” an academic

Book round-up: Barbara Bennett Woodhouse Hidden in Plain Sight: The Tragedy of Children’s Rights from Ben Franklin to Lionel Tate

idden in Plain Sight reveals why Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. This fundamental human rights and principles book is a call to arms for America to again be a leader in H of dignity, equality, privacy, protection, human rights, and to join the rest of the civilized world and voice are essential to a child’s journey in recognizing that the thirst for justice is not for adults into adulthood. In her book, Barbara Bennett alone. Woodhouse explores how understanding Barbara Bennett Woodhouse explores the meaning of rights for children leads to a better children’s rights throughout American history, interweaving understanding of human rights for all. In the childhood stories of iconic fi gures such as Benjamin a moving account of children’s rights Franklin with those of children less known but no less throughout American history from courageous, like the heroic youngsters who marched for Benjamin Franklin to Lionel Tate, civil rights. How did America become a place where twelve- Woodhouse asks why the United year-old Lionel Tate could be sentenced to life in prison States alone rejects the most without parole for the 1999 death of a young playmate? In universally embraced human-rights answering questions like this, Woodhouse challenges those document in history, the United who misguidedly believe that America’s children already Nations Convention on the Rights of have more rights than they need, or that children’s rights the Child. She calls on the United pose a threat to parental autonomy or family values. She States to again become a leader in reveals why fundamental human rights and principles of human rights and children’s rights. dignity, equality, privacy, protection, and voice are essential Hidden in Plain Sight tells the to a child’s journey into adulthood, and why understanding tragic untold story of children’s rights for children leads to a better understanding of human rights in America. It asks why rights for all. the United States today, alone Compassionate, wise, and deeply moving, Hidden among nations, rejects the most in Plain Sight will force an examination of our national universally embraced human-rights resistance — and moral responsibility — to recognize document in history, the United children’s rights. http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8613.html

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roundtable, Northwestern Law School, Searle Center for Regulation Associated Press, Aug. 13, 2008 (2008) ■ Quoted in Competition Law 360 AP reported on conspiracy theories regarding government-involvement on the competitive effects of the US in the 2001 anthrax attacks and the apparent suicide of Army government bailout of AIG (2008) research scientist Bruce Ivins, whom the FBI was prepared to ■ Quoted in the Antitrust Source prosecute for perpetrating the attacks. Mark Fenster, author of a book on “Required Reading for the New on conspiracy theories, said the anthrax case is perfect for conspiracy Antitrust Administration” (2008) theorists because it is “as dangerous as it could possibly be, and also ■ Presented “Managing the Regulatory deeply mysterious.” The Bush administration’s penchant for secrecy Process: Regulating under Civil vs. Common Law and Cooperating doesn’t help, nor does its intelligence failures on Iraq, he said. Among Agencies,”24th PURC/World — Mark Fenster, Professor of Law, UF Research Foundation Professor Bank International Training Program FENSTER on Utility Regulation and Strategy, University of Florida (2008) Jessica de Perio Wittman ■ Published “Children and the Instructional Services Reference Constitution” (dictionary entry), Jeffry S. Wade Librarian, Lawton Chiles Legal Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court Associate in Law; Director of Information Center (Gale 2008) Environmental Division, Center for ■ Published “Beyond Print: A Second ■ Presented “Children’s Civil and Governmental Responsibility; Affi liate Life for Continuing Education,” 27(3) Political Rights,” The David. C. Baum Faculty, Center for Latin American Legal Information Alert 1 (2008) Lecture on Civil Rights and Civil Studies ■ Presented “Legal Research Podcasts” Liberties, University of Illinois Law ■ Published “Privatization and the for Exploring Online Instructional School, (October 2008) Future of Water Services,” 20 Florida Tools: A Showcase at the American ■ Presented “Financing the J. of International L. 179 (2008) Association of Law Libraries Annual Future: Early Childhood Policies in ■ Presented “Forest Management in Conference, Portland, Ore. (July 2008) Comparative Perspective,” 13th World Brazil and the U.S: Comparison of Conference, International Society Issues,” Ninth Annual Conference Michael Allan Wolf of Family Law, Vienna, Austria on Legal and Policy Issues in the Richard E. Nelson Chair in Local (September 2008) (also served as Americas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (May Government Law; Professor panel session moderator) 26-28, 2008) ■ Published The Zoning of America: ■ Elected to serve another three-year ■ Presented “Green Building as Private Euclid v. Ambler (University Press of term on the International Society of Environmental Lawmaking” (response), Kansas, 2008) Family Law, Executive Council Seventh Annual Richard E. Nelson Symposium, Green Building: Prospects Barbara Bennett Woodhouse Monique Haughton Worrell and Pitfalls for Local Governments, David H. Levin Chair in Family Legal Skills Professor Gainesville, Florida (February 2008) Law; Professor; Director, Center on ■ Presented “The Child Support Children and Families and Family Law System: The Competing Interests Henry T. Wihnyk Certifi cate Program of the Custodial and Noncustodial Legal Skills Professor; Director, Legal ■ Published Hidden in Plain Sight: Parent—Is it Really in the Best Interest Research & Writing and Appellate The Tragedy of Children’s Rights from of the Child?” 13th World Conference, Advocacy Ben Franklin to Lionel Tate (Princeton International Society of Family Law, ■ Published “Legal Writing: A Skill University Press, 2008) Vienna, Austria (September 2008) Polish Law Students Should Master in ■ Discussed Hidden in Plain Sight Law School,” 8 Warsaw University L. at the NACC 31st National Juvenile Danaya C. Wright Rev. 148 (2008) and Family Law Conference, National Clarence TeSelle Endowed Professor; ■ Served on the panel “Enhancing Association of Counsel for Children, UF Research Foundation Professor the Pedagogy of Oral Argument and Savannah, Ga. (August 2008) (plenary ■ Published “The Shifting Sands of First-Year Moot Court,” 13th Biennial session devoted to her book); on Property Rights, Federal Railroad Conference of the Legal Writing The Afternoon Magazine, National Grants, and Economic History: Hash v. Institute, Indianapolis (July 14 -17, Public Radio (Aug. 26, 2008); and United States and the Threat to Rail- 2008) on Connor Calling, WUFT 89.9 (Sept. Trail Conversions,” 38 Environmental 26, 2008) L. 711 (2008) Steven J. Willis Professor; Associate Director, Center on Children and Families ■ Published The Tax Law of Charities LEVIN COLLEGE OF LAW | 2008 REPORT FROM THE F Faculty Report Online UF LAW ACULTY and Other Exempt Organizations: Statutory Supplement (with Brennen http://www.law.ufl .edu/news/pdf/2008_faculty_report.pdf & Moran) (Thomson West, 2nd ed., 2008)

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IN MEMORIAM Walter Weyrauch Five decades of scholarship International Law, Yale Law School. The four spoke eloquently on the far-ranging infl uence of Weyrauch’s alter O. Weyrauch, distinguished professor scholarship and how it has swayed their own views and Steven C. O’Connell Chair, died Oct. 17 and studies. Wat the age of 89. “I don’t think I know anyone as curious as Walter “UF Law lost one of its intellectual giants with the Weyrauch,” began Professor Markovits. “He has passing of Distinguished Professor Walter Weyrauch,” the investigative curiosity of a three-year-old. He is said Robert Jerry, dean and Levin Mabie and Levin interested in not only what happened, but how and professor of law. “Walter has been an active presence why it happened. That is what law is all about.” at the law school. Many of our students and faculty An internationally known expert in comparative knew him and will mourn his passing.” law, Markovits’ research has concentrated on UF Law Professor Emeritus Walter Weyrauch socialist legal regimes, and more recently, on law reached a remarkable, record-setting milestone this reform in Eastern Europe. She commented that she, year — 51 years of continuous teaching at a single like Walter, is an immigrant to America, and spoke school. Despite being ill with cancer, Professor on the value of examining a culture through the lens Weyrauch took obvious pleasure on Sept. 29 in of another. the company of the nearly 150 people, including “Walter is fascinated by the law outside the current and former colleagues and students, who realm of the mighty and the decision-makers,” gathered in his honor to attend the “Walter Weyrauch she said, and praised his use of qualitative versus Symposium: Refl ecting on the Contributions to Legal quantitative research and analysis. Thought of Walter Weyrauch.” Walter Weyrauch joined the UF Law faculty in Weyrauch’s teaching and scholarship focused on 1957 as associate professor. He became professor in family law, business organizations, comparative law, 1960, was Clarence J. TeSelle Professor 1989-94, law and society, legal philosophy, and autonomous and became Stephen C. O’Connell Chair in 1994 informal lawmaking, and he has been widely and Distinguished Professor in 1998. He was named published in these areas. an Honorary Professor of Law at Johann Wolfgang His publications since 1999 include Gypsy Law: Goethe University, Germany, and has been visiting Romani Legal Traditions and Culture, University of faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, California Press, Berkeley, (Los Angeles and London, Rutgers University School of Law and University of 2001); Das Recht Der Roma Und Sinti: Ein Beispiel Frankfurt. Autonomer Rechtsschöpfung, Vittorio Klostermann “The law school has been a wonderful Publisher, (Frankfurt Main, Germany, 2002); environment, and was a fascinating environment for “Nonrational Sources of Scholarship: Remembering empirical study,” said Weyrauch in his remarks at the David Daube (1909-1999),” 19 Rechtshistorisches symposium. “There have been tremendous changes Journal 677 (2000); “A Theory of Legal Strategy,” in the 51 years I have been here, including dramatic 49 Duke Law Journal 1405 (with Lynn LoPucki, shifts in the diversity of the faculty and student body.” 2000); “Unwritten Constitutions, Unwritten Law,” To honor Professor Weyrauch, Frank G. 56 Washington and Lee Law Review 1211 (1999) Finkbeiner (JD 72) and T.W. Ackert (JD 72) have (also republished in Charles W. Collier, Basic Themes teamed with UF Law to create an endowment to fund in Law and Jurisprudence, Anderson Publishers, the Walter Weyrauch Distinguished Lecture Series 2000); and “Unconscious Meanings of Crime and in Family Law. The UF Weyrauch Lecture will affi rm Punishment,” 2 Buffalo Criminal Law Review 945 UF’s reputation as a leader in the area of family law (1999). scholarship, and the endowed lecture will attract Symposium speakers included Professors speakers of the highest quality, creating a lasting Inga Markovits, Friends of Joe Jamail Regents legacy for UF and for Professor Weyrauch. Chair, University of Texas School of Law; Lynn M. For more information about the Walter LoPucki, Security Pacifi c Bank Professor, University Weyrauch Distinguished Lecture Series in Family of California-Los Angeles School of Law; Alison Law, please contact Vince PremDas in the Offi ce of Barnes, Marquette University Law School; and W. Alumni Affairs at (352) 273-0640 or via e-mail at Michael Reisman, Myres S. McDougal Professor of [email protected]fl .edu.

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As a 1958 graduate of the U of F law school I enjoy receiving UF LAW. It is a fi ne publication. However, in an article on UF Law Student Wins Diversity Scholarship page 10 of the spring edition, I think the BY DANIELLE D’OYLEY proof reader missed a beat. That article ith a move from bustling Chicago to a sparse- “They didn’t treat me as a clerk,” he said. “They twice mentions “Florida Bar Association.” ly populated Tennessee town in his early treated me like an associate.” As a 50-year member of “The Florida teenage years, a stint as a 13-year-old college The fi rm’s specialty areas spanned the gamut, but Bar,” I can tell you that “Association” has W student, and a Jewish Puerto Rican background, Jesse his employers were perceptive to what Butler enjoyed not been a part of its name for that period Butler’s (2L) life has been anything but usual. working on and accommodated his strengths. He quick- of time. These experiences contributed to his selection as a ly learned what he did and didn’t like to do and ended This is a minor blip. Keep up the good work. 2008 Diversity Scholarship recipient by the Sarasota up focusing primarily on civil and commercial litiga- County Bar Association, a scholarship awarded to mi- tion and insurance defense — areas he sees himself fo- —CLARENCE JOHNSON (JD 58) nority students at Florida law schools with an interest in cusing on in the future. practicing law in Sarasota County upon graduation. The In addition to the direction the internship gave him, Congratulations on the FALL 2008 two recipients are given a $5,000 scholarship at the end he also says he has a completely different understand- edition, your fi rst as editor. ‘The ultimate of a 10-week employment period in Sarasota County. ing going into his second year of law school with more goal for UF LAW is to be a good read.’ It After writing an essay and undergoing an interview practical knowledge. He’s realized how much of what is indeed. process with both the Sarasota County Bar Associa- he studied was needed while working this summer. However (you knew this was coming, tion and his future summer employer, Syprett, Meshad, didn’t you?) on page 53, the editorial Resnick, Lieb, Dumbaugh, Jones, Krotec & Westheim- “They didn’t treat me as a clerk,” he said. comment re Ms. Lidsky’s quote in Time er, P.A., Butler was offered the scholarship and an in- “They treated me like an associate.” Magazine, leads to the question: Do sharks ternship with the fi rm. generally use cages in their killing? The Chicago native moved at age 13 to a small Ten- “I never expected to have to think about adverse —YOUNG J. SIMMONS (LLB 57) nessee town with a population of about 400 people, a possession after taking Property Law, but it came in stark contrast to his old home. Before he and his mother right away,” Butler said. “Everything I’ve studied came arrived, Butler said he didn’t believe many of his new into play somehow.” Yours is the best statewide story on neighbors had ever even seen new residents, let alone Because of his impressive performance, the fi rm has JESSE BUTLER water I’ve read in a very long time! Puerto Ricans or Jewish people. decided to keep Butler as a part-time employee during (2L) —CYNTHIA BARNETT, In addition to this culture shock, Butler also took the the school year and asked him to return next summer. If Florida Trend senior reporter and SAT when he was 13 and was accepted to University of everything goes well, he’s been told a position will be author of Mirage: Florida and the Tennessee at Martin as a part-time student, where he waiting for him upon graduation. Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S. enrolled during the eighth grade for computer science “They were very successful in luring me. Now I and chemistry courses. He was the youngest person have to say that the highest probability is that I will EDITOR’S UPDATE: Read the white ever accepted to the school. be there, especially since they want me to come back paper, “Reforming The Florida Water “It’s almost surreal looking back and thinking about and everything went so well,” Butler said. “I don’t Resources Act of 1972: Beyond the how I was sitting there and everyone around me was think I’ll have another fi rm where I’ll enjoy what I do fi rst 35 years,” written by UF Law twice my size,” Butler said. “They actually had to put as much as I did there.” professors and distributed to the Century phonebooks under me for my picture because I was a He encourages anyone with an interest in working Commission’s 2008 Water Congress held foot shorter than everyone else.” in Sarasota County to apply for the scholarship, as Sept. 24 & 25. Visit http://www.law.ufl . A year later he moved to Ft. 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