(syn) a friend of the court SUMMER 2010 Michigan State University College of Law Magazine

Street Law: Community Collaboration as a Bridge to Our Future

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Students at Lansing's Everett High School learn about law and the legal system through the new Street Law Program.

Managing Editor Erika Marzorati

Director of Marketing and Communications Kristen Lare Flory In This Issue Contributing Writers Tina Kashat Casoli; Liz Cezat, Cezat Creative Resources; 2 A Message From the Dean Katie Gallagher; Angela Hunt; Erika Marzorati; Sharifa Rahmany; Jennifer Rosa; Laurie Schaibly 3 Law College News Photography 3 MSU Law Community Mourns the Passing Tom Gennara, Gennara Photography; Julie Krueger; of Professor Alvin Storrs Erika Marzorati; Justin Munter; Prestige Portraits 3 MSU Law Board of Trustees Update Design 4 Revealing the Realities of Law School 4 Redhead Design Studio; Julie Krueger 5 MSU Law Students Bring Home Honors 6 Distinguished Speaker Series 6 Successful Symposia Board of Trustees 7 Arts & Humanities Corner Clifton E. Haley, ’61, President • Charles E. Langton, ’87, 12 Vice President • Linda M. Orlans, ’87, Vice President • 8 In and Around the Law College ... David J. Sparrow, ’51, Treasurer • Frederick D. Dilley, ’76, 9 Following In the Family Footsteps Assistant Treasurer • Raymond R. Behan, ’60, Secretary 10 Faculty Honors Announced • Lou Anna K. Simon, MSU President • Hon. M. Scott Bowen • Charles Janssen • Maurice G. Jenkins, ’81 • 12 Feature Hon. David W. McKeague • Colleen M. McNamara • 12 Street Law: Community Collaboration as a Bridge to Our Future Stacy L. Erwin Oakes, ’01 • David L. Porteous • G. Scott Romney • Joan W. Howarth, Dean • Kim A. Wilcox, Faculty notes Provost 18 18 Faculty Highlights 23 MSU College of Law Welcomes New Faculty Trustees Emeriti Hon. Marianne O. Battani, ’72 • Joseph J. Buttigieg, III, 24 OFFICE OF ADVANCEMENT News ’75 • Richard W. Heiss, ’63, President Emeritus • Edwin 24 A Message from the Director W. Jakeway, ’61 • Hon. Norman L. Lippitt, ’60 • John D.   25 Alumni Notes O’Hair, ’54 • Peter J. Palmer, ’68 • Kenneth Robinson • 29 John F. Schaefer, ’69 • Hon. Richard F. Suhrheinrich, ’63, The Alumni Association 2010 and Beyond President Emeritus • Hon. Robert E. Weiss (posthumous) 30 Complexity, Compassion, & Passion Drive Morganroth to New Challenges 32 At 90 Years Young, Michael Berry Makes Things Happen 33 Alumni Association Board of Directors 33 Linking to Our Past—Shaping Our Future Patrick Winters, ’03, President • Shannon Burke, ’05, 34 MSU Law: Past, Present, & Future President-Elect • Karl Ondersma, ’04, Vice President AMICUS is published by Michigan State University College of Law, 320 Law 35 Law Review Launches Scholarship College Building, East Lansing, MI 48824-1300. Reproduction or use, in whole • Matthew Rettig, ’04, Treasurer • Daniel Bliss, ’87, or in part, by any means and without the express written consent of the 35 Jewish Legal Society Networking Night publisher, is prohibited. Manuscripts, artwork, and photographs are submitted Secretary • Seth Rodack, ’96, Parliamentarian • Pamela at the sender’s risk; please enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope Amato, ’02 • Patrick Anderson, ’05 • Lorna Beard, ’96 • 36 Law Firm Challenge requesting return of material. The magazine and its associated parties and agencies assume no responsibility for unsolicited materials and reserve the Ugo Buzzi, ’08 • Kevin Clinesmith, ’07 • James Geroux, 38 3L Gift Campaign Launches right to accept or reject any editorial material. Submission of letters implies the right to reproduce same in magazine. Views expressed herein are not ’70 • Brian Hall, ’07 • Thomas James, ’05 • Jeffrey 38 In Memoriam necessarily those of this magazine or the Law College. No article herein shall Lower, ’02 • Eric Swanson, ’99 • Kristen Thomson, ’07 constitute an endorsement by this magazine, the Law College, or the persons 39 Circle of Friends and organizations associated with it. • Howard Victor, ’77 • Hon. Richard Zettel, ’84 • Dean Michigan State University College of Law programs, activities, and facilities Joan W. Howarth, Ex Officio • Laurie A. Schaibly, ’00, shall be available to all without regard to race, color, gender, religion, national spring commencement origin, political persuasion, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, height, Ex Officio 45 weight, veteran status, age, or familial status. Neither Michigan State University nor the State of Michigan is liable for any financial obligation incurred by the Michigan State University College of Law. The College of Law is an independent institution, which is not financially supported by MSU or the State. 2 A Message From the Dean Law College News 3 Amicus | summer 2010 Amicus | summer 2010

Law Collegeg News A Message from the Dean Once again, this issue of Amicus with the wider University, while enriching MSU Law Community Mourns the Passing of Professor Alvin Storrs provides some glimpses into the lively us all with a deeper connection to the and impressive world of MSU Law. arts and a unique lens through which we countless former students, his legacy at the Law College includes Looking through this issue, I was will examine important themes of law the hundreds of low-income clients who have been served by struck by the strong ties that make us and justice. the Law College’s Tax Clinic, which was started with funding a community. Collaboration plays such Our growing list of donors and new obtained by Professor Storrs. a key role in all our successes, and our giving opportunities underscore the ProfessorIn Memory of work and accomplishments today connect commitment that MSU Law alumni and Alvin Leonard Storrs Professor Storrs earned a B.A. from Mercy College in 1973; an deeply with our past and our future. friends have to providing promising 1950–2010 M.B.A. from University of Detroit in 1981; a J.D. from University Our Street Law program extends future students access to a quality legal of Detroit School of Law in 1982; and an LL.M. in taxation from our community, creating exciting new education. Several distinguished alumni With great sorrow, the Michigan State University College of Law New York University in 1984. He practiced with the law firm relationships with area high school featured in this issue—Dennis Archer, reflects on the passing of Professor Alvin Leonard Storrs, who of Hall, Andary, and Bilicki before assuming the role of tax students and teachers, and linking the Michael Berry, and Mike Morganroth— died April 26, 2010, after a lengthy illness. manager at Ernst and Whinney in Detroit. Prior to joining the Dean Joan W. Howarth Law College to the future. MSU Law exemplify our profound appreciation students, guided and supported by for our graduates and their dedication Professor Storrs had been a highly respected member of the MSU Law faculty, he spent three years as an adjunct professor at their professors and teaching partners, to leading the way for current and MSU College of Law faculty since 1987. He was chair of the the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, where he taught deepen their own knowledge as they future students. Taxation Law program and proudly served as faculty advisor courses in business planning and income taxation. educate local high school students about Sadly, our community suffered a to the Black Law Students Association. Professor Storrs taught Professor Storrs is survived by his wife, Regina, and their two law in everyday lives. The high school terrible loss this spring with the passing Basic Income Taxation, Corporate Income Taxation, and Deferred children, Alvin and Ashley; his oldest daughters, Verna Nevels students gain a better appreciation for of long-time professor Alvin Storrs. Al’s and Executive Compensation at the Law College, teaching most and Heather Holloway; his granddaughter, Ashlyn; and his dear our democratic society and their place passing brought the entire Law College recently in the fall 2009 semester. in it. For some, the program may be the family together to mourn and honor a mother, Amye Davis. Those who wish to share fond memories or spark that inspires them to join us one respected colleague, wonderful teacher, A trusted and effective faculty leader, Professor Storrs served as extend condolences to the family may send them to The Family day in the legal profession. and beloved friend. chair of the Dean Search Committee in 2007–08 and chair of the of Professor Alvin Storrs, c/o Michigan State University College Our interdependence is clear in so I am very privileged and proud to Faculty Appointments Committee in 2008–09. In addition to his of Law, 368 Law College Building, East Lansing, MI 48824-1300. many other wonderful things happening lead this extraordinary community. Our at the Law College. Our numerous individual contributions collectively competition successes highlight what our form a whole that is far greater than the MSU Law talented students can achieve through sum of its parts. Our history anchors us teamwork and excellent coaching. Our in difficult times, while our combined Board of Trustees new Faculty Honors pay tribute to key efforts propel us forward toward exciting figures in our past, while recognizing new territory. Working together with Update outstanding current professors who will respect for both yesterday and tomorrow, The Michigan State University Oakes, a former corrections “Stacy Erwin Oakes is a leave their own lasting impression on our we can accomplish great things for Board of Trustees appointed officer, has also worked Law College graduate who students and the law everywhere through ourselves, our Law College, and all of our Stacy Erwin Oakes, ’01, to the as a policy analyst for exceptional scholarship and teaching. communities. This lofty claim is proven has earned a reputation Our innovative partnership with by the achievements described in the MSU College of Law Board of the Michigan House of as a dynamic leader and inaugural Writer in Residence Sandra following pages. Trustees in February. Oakes Representatives and as a dedicated attorney. She Seaton draws on and strengthens ties is an assistant attorney law clerk for the Michigan is well respected for her general for the state of Department of Civil Rights. accomplishments as a leader Best regards, Michigan and lead developer Her experience in academia in both law and business,” of Erwin Properties, LLC. includes teaching as an said Dean Joan Howarth. adjunct at Saginaw Valley “We are honored to have her State University and teaching join the Board of Trustees.” Joan W. Howarth social studies at Saginaw Dean, Michigan State University College of Law Stacy L. Erwin Oakes High School. 4 Law College News Law College News 5 Amicus | summer 2010 Amicus | summer 2010

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Revealing the MSU LAW STUDENTS Bring Home Honors

MSU College of Law students brought home numerous honors advanced through the semi-finals, and ultimately finished third this spring from regional, national, and even international in the closing round. Students from law schools in Kentucky, competitions. The range of awards showcases our students’ Michigan, Ohio, and Ontario honed their interviewing and From enduring fall semester exams arbitration, moot court, and writing skills, and highlights the client-counseling skills at the event as they participated in Realit as a 1L to preparing for the bar exam, breadth and depth of the MSU Law curriculum. The following simulated law office consultations. MSU Law students tell it like it is. For real. of Law School exemplify just a few of the reasons MSU Law students made us ies • A group of MSU Law proud so far this year: students was named Thanks to our inaugural team of official student bloggers, get through it fine”) and reflections on summer employment (“it’s • The MSU Law Commercial Arbitration Team was named national B e s t Preliminary prospective students and others can learn what it really is like to comforting knowing that I have been prepared to succeed in the finalist in the American Bar Association Law Student Division’s Round Team at New be a student at MSU College of Law. Ten students signed on to the real world”) to one student’s musings about arguing on behalf of a 2009–10 National Arbitration Competition, held in January in York Law School ’s “Spartan bLAWg” project in February, launching a steady flow of McDonald’s Shamrock Shake, the Spartan bLAWg has something Orange, California. Rising 3L Eric Griggs, along with 2010 34th Annual Robert informative, entertaining, and thought-provoking commentaries for everyone. graduates Justinian Lane, Jane Moon, and Sarah Stempky, F. Wagner Labor and vied for the coveted national championship trophy after winning E m p l o y m e n t L a w on life at MSU Law. The bloggers continue to post bimonthly entries through the their regional round in November. This marked the third time Competition in March. From left: Patrick Burns (oralist), Jennifer LaMay (in- The pioneer group of bloggers includes rising 2Ls Ebonie Byndon- summer as they prepare for and take the bar exam; participate in in five years that MSU Law was represented in the final rounds The team comprised of house counsel), Joshua Patrick (captain and oralist), 2010 graduates Joshua Shara Youles (brief writer), Matthew Martin (in-house Fields and Brett Manchel; rising 3Ls Michael Epstein, Bobby study abroad programs; and gain work experience at a southeast of this competition. Patrick (captain and counsel) Ficklin, Zach Gasior, Jessica Kolongowski, Adrea Korthase, and Rob Michigan public defender’s office, the New York Attorney General’s • Brian Davis, ’10, and oralist) and Patrick Burns (oralist), along with rising 3Ls Stone; and Class of 2010 graduates Jason Blevins and Katherine Office, an Idaho Indian reservation, and more. Nick Passalacqua, Shara Youles (brief writer), Matthew Martin (in-house Hegg. From tips on surviving the Socratic method (“usually you ’10, advanced to the counsel), and Jennifer LaMay (in-house counsel), advanced final round of the to the semi-finals after finishing first among 46 teams in the Texas Young Lawyers opening rounds. It’s easy to forget that in all of our actions, we are dealing with people. Not things like contracts, or even “plaintiffs” and Association Midwest regional competition, • Susan Fyan, ’10, won the 2009 Intellectual Property Law “defendants,” but real people, with real names and real lives. It sheds a new light on freedom, and on character. It makes you held in February at The Writing Competition for her paper highlighting a unique aspect of India’s patent laws that has major implications for look at yourself. You might see a defendant, charged with a simple crime. Something you might have done, if the circumstances Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. that country’s pharmaceutical industry. The competition, The pair made an co-sponsored by Altacit Global and The Virginia Journal of Law required it. You never know. And there they are—facing the abrupt stripping of their freedoms. Call me weak, faint of heart, Brian Davis (left) and Nicholas Passalacqua impressive showing at and Technology, was open to students from American and Indian or other things that would be inappropriate to write here. I’m not those things, but I am definitely more aware. More aware the event, posting a 3-0 record in the preliminary rounds and law schools. Fyan’s award, which was announced in March, beating the University of Cincinnati team in the semi-finals. A earned her a $500 cash prize, a certificate, and consideration of what it means to be a citizen, what the purpose of the law is, what it means to be free in a nation of man-made laws. But total of 28 teams from law schools across Kentucky, Michigan, for publication in the sponsoring journal. Fyan completed and Ohio competed. the Intellectual Property & Communications Law Program at most of all, I am really thankful to be where I am today. To have had the benefits of a life that allowed me to not find myself MSU Law after spending nearly 20 years as a chemist in the • Jason Hegg, ’10, and Nick Kiella, ’10, won third place in pharmaceutical sector. in any situation subjecting me to the loss of my freedoms. And I think that experience will help me be not only a better the American Bar Association Law Student Division’s Region 6 Client Counseling Competition in February. The team was Congratulations to all of our talented and hard-working students! lawyer, but a better person. Because everything in this world, especially nowadays, is personal. ranked second after a trio of preliminary rounds, successfully — From “My Emotional Side” by Brett Manchel, June 3, 2010

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MSU Law Launches Is There a War on Terror? Torture, Rendition, Arts&Humanitiescorner Guantanamo, and Obama’s Preventive Detention International law and human rights experts examined legal Writer in Residence P rogram issues concerning Guantanamo prisoner detentions, torture, and their international implications in a Journal of International Austria and the MSU Law launched an innovative Law symposium held in February. Keynote speaker Michael P. 89 End of the Cold War arts-focused program this spring, Scharf, co-leader of a USAID-funded project that is working with partnering with playwright and the Ugandan government to create a special war crimes chamber librettist Sandra Seaton as its and truth commission, was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize inaugural writer in residence. The in 2005 for his help with the prosecution of major war criminals Writer in Residence Program is such as Slobodan Milošević, Charles Taylor, and Saddam Hussein. intended to more deeply connect Luncheon speaker Scott Horton, a lifelong human rights activist, faculty, students, and alumni to has served as counsel to Andrei Sakharov, Elena Bonner, and the arts. Distinguished other activists in the former Soviet Union; co-founded the The program is coordinated American University in Central Asia; and led a series of New York by University-wide Professor City Bar Association studies on human rights abuses connected Nicholas Mercuro, who teaches with the war on terror. Law and Economics and manages Sandra Seaton art-related projects at the Law College. The residency is an outgrowth of a series of art Speakerser i es Successful Symposia exhibitions Mercuro has helped acquire for display at MSU Law over the past nine years, all touching on themes involving law Family Pets and the Law and justice. Top scholars explored the changing nature of pets in our society During her time in residence, Seaton will write works in a March Journal of Animal Law symposium, which focused on The Spring 2010 Distinguished Speaker Series dramatizing legal issues, including a play focusing on African how the law affects household pets during legal proceedings. brought an exciting list of scholars to the Law American students at a Midwestern university during the civil The event featured Amy Breyer, a Chicago attorney with one of College to enrich and exchange ideas with MSU rights movement of the 1960s. Her new play will be jointly the only practices in the country devoted to animal law issues; Law faculty. The invigorating and thought- sponsored by the MSU College of Law, James Madison College, David Favre, the Nancy Heathcote Professor of Property and provoking series was arranged by Professor Susan and the MSU Department of Theatre. The Black Law Students Animal Law at MSU Law and an international leader in the fast- Bitensky, chair of the Programs Committee, along Association and other student groups will help facilitate the growing field; Linda Kalof, professor of sociology at MSU and a with Professors Kristi Bowman, Frank Ravitch, production. A follow-up symposium, which will be open to the fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics; and Georgina M. Glen Staszewski, and Mark Totten. This spring’s entire University community, will examine the treatment of Montgomery, assistant professor at MSU’s Lyman Briggs College speakers included: moral and legal issues in Seaton’s plays and other dramatic works. and the Department of History. • Professor Marci Hamilton “We are honored to have Sandra Seaton join Michigan State Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Responding to The Will of the People University College of Law as our first writer in residence,” said • Professor Gregory Mitchell Dean Joan Howarth. “Her presence and work will provide a Distinguished scholars from across the nation gathered at MSU University of Virginia School of Law wonderful opportunity for the entire MSU Law community to Law in April to present reactions to Barry Friedman’s The Will experience the arts and consider legal issues through a different • Professor Deana Pollard Sacks of the People: How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme medium.” Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Court and Shaped the Meaning of the Constitution. Friedman, vice From February 1 through March 15, the Law College hosted an Texas Southern University dean and professor at New York University School of Law, is a Austrian Cultural Forum New York exhibit examining Austria’s role MSU Law was awarded a $15,000 • Professor Josh Bowers constitutional lawyer who has litigated cases involving abortion, in the end of the Cold War. 1989: Austria and the End of the Cold g r a nt f rom t he M ic h i g a n University of Virginia School of Law the death penalty, and free speech. The Michigan State Law Review War documents the dramatic fall of the Iron Curtain in the “Year Humanities Council to support • Professor Sanford Levinson symposium brought together respected scholars of American of Miracles,” and the event’s profound impact on Austria and a Seaton’s mid-November play and The University of Texas School of Law constitutional history, law and politics, constitutional theory, and newly unified Europe. symposium. This marks the first Michigan People, Michigan Places comparative constitutionalism to contribute essays and discuss time since 1978 that the Michigan Our Stories, Our Lives their responses to Friedman’s book. Humanities Council has awarded a major grant to a law school. 8 Law College News Law college news 9 Amicus | summer 2010 Amicus | summer 2010

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Following in THE Family Footsteps For Adam Sabree, MSU College of Law was a natural choice. Aliyah, the more introverted of the two, says a rough 1L year His father, Eric, graduated from the Law College in 1996. “I had left her ready for a change. “I was lonely, I was by myself. remember when dad was here, and everyone having so much Having Adam around helped. He’s very social, and he got me out pride in the school,” says Adam. of the house more.” … In March 2010, the Lansing Black law schools across the United States. The report ranks IP When his parents learned that he would follow in his father’s As for Adam, having the benefit of his sister’s experiences was Lawyers Association presented programs based on breadth of core course offerings. footsteps, their reaction was immediate. “I’ve never seen him so “instrumental” in his adjustment to law school. “I know my its first-ever “Rising Star” Young proud in my life,” Adam says, describing his father’s response. weaknesses and her strengths. If I need help, I ask her,” he says. Professional Award to Mary … Our moot court successes were highlighted by another “He was very excited.” His mother, Badriyyah, initially focused “She’s a valuable resource. She’s been through it first, so that Ferguson, ’02, director of the annual ranking that placed MSU Law 10th in the country more on the logistics. Adam recalls, “The first thing she said was, helps.” ‘You can live with Aliyah!’” Diversity Services Office. The among 124 appellate advocacy programs. The Law School A little sibling rivalry also didn’t hurt when it came time to award recognized Ferguson for her Advocacy online rankings are based on performance in Adam wasn’t the only Sabree who had embraced his father’s compare grades. “If I was by myself, I might not work as hard,” commitment to increasing minority competitions during the 2009 calendar year. A team earns loyalty to MSU Law. His sister, Aliyah, who is two years older, Adam says. “It helps to compete a bit. We push each other.” enrollment within MSU Law, her points for each “top finish” as a semifinalist, finalist, or would be starting her second year at the Law College. dedication to student success, and her Mary Ferguson winner at a competition, with points awarded based on According to Aliyah, their father’s pop quizzes also help keep The two had been close growing up, but had spent little time them on their toes. “He calls Adam with random Con Law community service. the number of participating teams. together in the six years since Aliyah graduated from high school. questions,” she laughs. With both playing college basketball—she at Youngstown State … Data from the February 2010 Michigan bar exam show that … MSU Law welcomed two new staff members to the Law Having graduated in spring 2010, Aliyah has accepted a position University in Ohio and he at Caldwell College in New Jersey— 94 percent of MSU Law first-time testers passed, placing the College family in June 2010. Caroline Kingston, ’05, as an assistant prosecutor for Wayne County. Her job will take their visits home rarely overlapped. school second among Michigan law schools and well above associate director for student affairs and organizations, her into the Detroit Public Schools, where she will discuss school the corresponding statewide rate of 88 percent. MSU Law was and Meghan Short, ’04, co-director of the Academic While Adam didn’t immediately welcome the idea of living with violence and teach students how to report crimes and gang also one of only two in-state law schools to exceed the overall Success Program, will each provide important services to his sister, he says, “Since Mom was helping with the bills, I had activity. statewide pass rate, which includes repeat testers. help students successfully navigate through law school. to agree.” Not surprisingly, mom did know best. Aliyah’s new path seems shaped by both parents’ influences— her father’s love of the law and her mother’s commitment to The Michigan State Law Review continued its impressive ascent … KATHRYN E. FORT, ’05, was …  education. Badriyyah spent more than 20 years as a Detroit in the annual law journal rankings by Washington & Lee promoted to acting associate teacher and administrator, and now works with the Michigan University School of Law, the leading source for data on legal director of the Indigenous Department of Education. periodicals. The publication now ranks 62nd out of 250 ranked Law & Policy Center through flagship journals, marking an eight-point boost from last year June 2011. “Law Enforcement Adam and Aliyah have yet another family member to thank for and a 100-point rise in just five years. The Law Review also and Cooperative Public Safety their dedication to service. Great-grandmother Daisy Elliott is a jumped 14 spots in the broader category of student-edited Agreements,” an article Fort former state representative who co-sponsored Michigan’s historic journals—which includes those covering specialty subjects— coauthored with Professors Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act of 1976. placing 95th in a field of 575. Matthew Fletcher and Wenona Kathryn E. Fort Adam says their time together at MSU Law has increased his Singel, appeared in the Michigan respect for his sister. “It’s good to go through the same thing, … The Intellectual Property & Communications Law Program Bar Journal in February 2010. Fort also co-edited Facing the and it will make it more fulfilling when I get my degree,” he says. placed in the top 25 in the Mitchell Report on IP Curricula Future: The Indian Child Welfare Act at 30 with Professors Aliyah appreciates that the experience taught her to be more “overall points” category. MSU Law appeared in a seven-way tie Fletcher and Singel, which was published in 2009 by patient and outgoing. at number 17 out of 198 American Bar Association–approved Michigan State University Press. Contemplating his 3L year without Aliyah, Adam says, “I see myself being busy. I think I’ll survive.” Aliyah—always the big Aliyah Sabree, ’10, and Adam Sabree were joined by their father, Eric Sabree, ’96, mother sister—adds, “We shall see.” Badriyyah Sabree (not pictured), and great-grandmother, Daisy Elliott, at the February – By Erika Marzorati 2010 “Linking to Our Past—Shaping Our Future” event. 10 Law College News Law college news 11 Amicus | summer 2010 Amicus | summer 2010

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Professor kevin saunders, the Charles clark Chair of Law and Religion Faculty Honors Professor Saunders, a member of the faculty since 2001, is the A n n o u n c e d nation’s leading expert advocating restrictions on youth access to violent media. The author of Violence as Obscenity: Limiting the THE Michigan State University College of Law foundation through generous funding has Media’s First Amendment Protection and Saving Our Children from enabled the Law College to create a number of faculty honors to pay tribute to important figures in our school’s the First Amendment, he has also written more than thirty law review and journal articles, seven book chapters, and numerous history and to recognize tenured faculty for outstanding scholarship, teaching, and service. Recipients for three commentaries in legal and popular periodicals. categories of awards—Chairs, Professorships, and Faculty Scholars—were identified through a nomination process Saunders has testified about media effects on children before and selected in consultation with deans of four other law schools that have top scholarly reputations. U.S. House and Senate committees, the Michigan State Senate, and the California State Assembly. He has been asked by public interest groups to file amicus briefs in several prominent cases, MSU C ollege of law chairs including Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association, which involves California’s attempt to prohibit the sale of violent MSU College of Law Chairs, which are awarded for a renewable five-year term, are conferred on faculty members with national and video games to minors; the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case even international reputations in their fields. Chairs have notable records of significant scholarly achievement, along with a continuing during its 2010–11 session. dedication to exceptional teaching and meaningful service. MSU Law is pleased to present its first Chairs, Frank Ravitch and Kevin Saunders—two faculty members who embody the Law College’s commitment to excellence in the field of law. Prior to turning to the law, Saunders enjoyed a distinguished career as a mathematics educator and a period as a philosophy professor. content, Ravitch strives to present a variety of perspectives and His students benefit from his considerable experience as both a Named Professorships and Faculty Scholars create a respectful environment in which students feel comfortable teacher and a scholar. In the classroom, Professor Saunders guides voicing their opinions. students through the decision-making process while explaining The following professors were honored with the first Named important constitutional issues. He welcomes the lively dialogue Professorships and Faculty Scholar titles conferred by Michigan This summer, Professor Ravitch launched a study abroad program in that occurs among students who provide unique insights from their State University College of Law. The fall issue of Amicus will feature Kyoto, Japan, creating an exciting new opportunity for students and own varied backgrounds. these distinguished faculty members, along with the remarkable expanding the Law College’s international presence. The program is alumni and former professors for whom their honors are named. held at Doshisha Law School, where Ravitch was a Fulbright Scholar Saunders has a proven record of service, both within the Law on the Faculty of Law in 2001. College and in the greater legal community. In addition to teaching Professor CRAIG R. CALLEN has been named the Judge JOHN a variety of courses and seminars on Constitutional Law topics, he Professor Ravitch’s professional achievements are complemented by D. O’HAIR Professor of Evidence and Procedure. directs the King Scholars Program. He chaired the AALS Section on his commitment to service. He chairs the Association of American Professor david s. FAVRE has been named the NANCY Mass Communication Law and has been active on a national level Law Schools (AALS) Section on Law and Anthropology; serves as HEATHCOTE Professor of Property and Animal Law. an expert reviewer for the Fulbright Senior Specialists program in several other professional committees. Professor FRANK S. RAVITCH, the WALTER H. Professor CYNTHIA LEE STARNES has been named the LIZZIE through the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars; STOWERS Chair of Law and Religion Professor Charles H. “Chuck” Clarke was a member of the Law J. McSWEENEY Professor of Family Law. and has made dozens of presentations explaining the law before College faculty for 40 years. Upon his retirement in 1998, Professor Ravitch is a leading scholar in the area of law and religion. school groups, community groups, and service clubs. Professor Clarke was described as an “icon” whose “contributions Professor daniel d. barnhiZER has been named the Since joining the MSU Law faculty in 2002, he has authored BRADFORD STONE Faculty Scholar. Walter H. Stowers, a member of the first senior class at Detroit to the college will be part of the history that will live on for numerous articles, chapters, U.S. Supreme Court briefs, and books, College of Law in 1894, was a prominent African American attorney years to come.” He was widely known for his integrity and unique Professor BRIAN C. KALT has been named the HAROLD NORRIS including Marketing Intelligent Design: Law and the Creationist Agenda, who took several cases to the Michigan Supreme Court. A dedicated classroom presentation style. Clarke, who earned a doctor of laws Faculty Scholar. which will be released late this year by Cambridge University political activist and civil rights pioneer, Stowers co-founded the degree (LL.D.) from MSU Law in 1995, taught Constitutional Law. Press. In addition to his principal subject matter, Ravitch has also Professor NOGA MORAG-LEVINE has been named the GEORGE Plaindealer, Detroit’s first successful black newspaper. Using the pen He passed away on May 9, 2007. contributed works on civil rights law and disability discrimination. ROUMELL Faculty Scholar. name “Sanda,” he co-wrote Appointed: An American Novel, which Professor Ravitch shares his passion about the law with his dealt with the controversial issues of mixed-race friendships, Professor glen sTASZEWSKI has been named the A.J. students. Recognizing the sensitive nature of some of his course lynching, and segregation. Stowers died on August 21, 1932. 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In a Financially Trying Time, Community Collaboration as a Bridge to Our Future Street Law Invests in Our Future Street Law:By jennifer rosa

Don’t let the name “Street Law” deceive you; the latest addition to the Michigan State University College of Law selection of course offerings is not about the study of highways and infrastructure. Rather, it is part of a Law Related Education (LRE) program in which law students are trained to teach students in local public schools about the law and the legal system. The curriculum involves practical legal issues that are relevant to everyday life “on the street” and is presented using various methodologies in an interactive and hands-on manner. 14 Feature feature 15 Amicus | summer 2010 Amicus | summer 2010

MSU College of Law launched the Street facets of the students’ legal education are Law pilot program in fall 2009 as a two- developed. The law students synthesize credit course for second- and third-year law complex legal ideas, learn to think on students. Participating students attend a their feet, organize their thoughts, and 100-minute seminar each week in which communicate those thoughts to laypersons. they develop small group exercises, role History of Street Law plays, and simulations of legal proceedings MSU Law is not the first law school to under the guidance of a Law College implement the Street Law program. The faculty member. The law students use first Street Law course began in 1972 at these pedagogical practices when they teach Washington, D.C., Street Law program developing their own lesson plans, and they Georgetown University. Edward O’Brien, Lansing high school students during the in the mid-1970s, “Street Law gives law must use various pedagogical methods and a law student at the time, was given field component of the course. The themes students an incredible opportunity to test maintain flexibility to alter those plans as an assignment in a Public Interest Law that are taught include constitutional law, their understanding and management needed to meet the high school students’ course that required him to participate individual rights, criminal law, and the 2 of the law by presenting it to others.” In different learning styles. Accordingly, the in a community project. He paired up foundational principles of our legal system. doing so, they must synthesize and apply law students develop legal skills similar with a local high school teacher and The Street Law class is directly aligned the law so that the high school students to those of lawyers who must successfully taught law to high school students. The with the Law College’s mission statement, can comprehend the material, thus communicate with clients and jurors on a course began in two public high schools in in that the program “teaches and reinforces demonstrating formal knowledge of the continuing basis. Washington, D.C., and soon became part the ethical core of good lawyering, the law as the first portion of the framework Finally, the law students develop the of the curriculum at all D.C. high schools, values of professionalism and service, the suggests. professional identity component of their as well as several local juvenile and adult art of client representation … and the The Street Law course also helps MSU legal education as they demonstrate the correctional facilities and a community understanding of legal principles, private Law students strengthen legal skills as they social responsibility that is inherent in halfway house.3 The program subsequently rights, and public policy.” A successful use critical-thinking, decision-making, and educating the high school students. Just has been adopted in some capacity by over framework for legal education unites legal problem-solving skills to communicate as attorneys perform public service, the 70 U.S. law schools and 20 law schools analysis or formal knowledge; practical course material to the high school students. law students also begin giving back to outside the country.4 Sharifa Rahmany, ’10, and Meghan Glines, a rising 3L, participated in the Street Law program during its first year at MSU Law. skill; and professional identity, including The law students are responsible for their community. In one course, the three social responsibility.1 The Street Law course Bridge to the Community incorporates all three aspects of this legal Both the law student participants and Further, the collaboration with local Another significant benefit is that the education framework, thus preparing the community share the benefits of the school districts may instill public trust in MSU Law students act as role models and future lawyers for practice. Street Law program. For the law students, the legal community and respect for the law, mentors for their high school students. there is a sense of satisfaction that they thereby improving the public’s perception Through this relationship, the course can Knowledge, Skill, and “Street law gives law students an receive from public service. When the of lawyers. This is particularly important in guide high school students toward higher Professional Identity students evaluated the course at the end light of “troubling declines in public esteem education, and particularly into the legal Law students develop the knowledge of the semester, they recognized the for the profession and attorneys’ apparently profession, which lags behind other fields component of their education through incredible opportunity to test their preparation that is involved in teaching, but growing dissatisfaction with their work.”5 in minority representation. Currently, only in-depth investigation into the various whole-heartedly endorsed the program as Since the Law College’s move to East 9.7 percent of attorneys are minorities, as areas of substantive law. They must gain understanding and management of “a rewarding experience, both academically Lansing is fairly recent, this course acts as compared to 20.8 percent of accountants a practical understanding of the law and and personally.” The self-satisfaction they a bridge between MSU Law and the greater and 24.6 percent of physicians.6 public policy in order to convey the content the law by presenting it to others.” experienced presumably reflects the belief Lansing community and has the added The Law School Admissions Council to the high school students. According to that what they are doing influences the high benefit of encouraging the law students’ developed an initiative to address the need one law student who participated in a school students’ lives. sense of public service and fulfillment. for diversity within the law school applicant 16 Feature Amicus | summer 2010 Street Law is an awesome program. I had the The Street Law program provides high school students opportunity to be part of it my final two semesters at with knowledge of the law and their rights. Through MSU College of Law, while my teaching partner, Meghan our teaching, they gained a greater understanding of Glines, was involved during her second year. We first how the legal system works, their rights under it, how took Street Law as a class and then continued teaching to protect those rights, and what avenues of relief through an independent study. It was a very rewarding are available if those rights are infringed. The content “Our high school students were essential experience, and many factors contributed to it also resonated on a personal level with many students who being a successful one. Our supervising professors, sought to apply their deeper understanding of the law Jennifer Rosa and Laura McNeal, were always available, to real-life situations involving family members, friends, to the Street Law experience– encouraging, and willing to help. The high school or acquaintances who were involved in the legal system. teachers we worked with were supportive and helped watching them learn and apply complex legal to ensure that our teaching experience was a success. Our students demonstrated what they learned in many Last but definitely not least, our high school students ways. Through role-play exercises, they learned how concepts was simply amazing.” were essential to the Street Law experience—watching important it is to understand both sides of a situation in them learn and apply complex legal concepts was order to better advocate for their own positions. As their simply amazing. final Street Law project, the students conducted two mock trials in the MSU Law moot court room, which pool and the legal profession in general. The Law, the program helps the high school 1 William M. Sullivan et. al., Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law 12–14 (Jossey- The dedication that Professors Rosa and McNeal have to gave them an opportunity to apply their learning in American Bar Association is also concerned students understand public policy and the Bass/Wiley 2007). the Street Law program and their students was the key a more realistic environment. The students effectively with these statistics. As a result, the Board importance of laws in our society. Thus, 2 Edward L. O’Brien & Lee P. Arbetman, A New Clinical Curriculum: Teaching Practical Law to High School Students and to our success in the program. They went above and elicited the facts needed to prove their cases, gave they connect more with their environment of Governors restructured its goals and Inmates, 29 J. Legal Educ. 568, 574 n.22 (1977–1978). beyond what was expected. They were always compelling opening statements and closing arguments, included diversity within the profession and “are more likely to uphold the laws and 3 Kamina A. Pinder, Street Law: Twenty-Five Years and as one of four priorities.7 In addition, the be part of a community.” Counting, 27 J.L. & Educ. 211, 211–12 (1998). 4 Street Law, Inc., http://www.streetlaw.org (last visited July Association recently released a presidential Investment in the Future 19, 2010). initiative outlining recommendations to 5 Sullivan, supra at 136. In the present economy in which front- 6 Elizabeth Chambliss, ABA Comm’n on Racial and Ethnic increase diversity in the legal field and page headlines are anything but uplifting, Diversity in the Profession, Executive Summary, Miles created a committee to support programs to Go: Progress of Minorities in the Legal Profession (2005), the hope for our future is in our youth. For available at http://www.abanet.org/abastore/products/books/ and services designed to improve diversity abstracts/4520014_2005 execsumm.pdf. Street Talk this generation to succeed, students must A s t u D e n t p e r s p e C T IV E in the “pipeline” to the legal profession.8 The 7 ABA Mission and Goals (2008), available at http://www. not only be educated and informed, but abanet.org/about/goals.html. “pipeline” focuses on grade school students accessible via e-mail, had open-door policies, and were acted as witnesses, ruled on objections and admissions they must also have exemplary critical- 8 ABA Presidential Initiative Comm’n on Diversity, Diversity and consummates with bar passage. thinking, decision-making, communication, in the Legal Profession, The Next Steps (2010), available at willing to help in any way they could. Their constructive of evidence, and participated in jury deliberation. It The Street Law course addresses these http://new.abanet.org/centers/diversity/PublicDocuments/ feedback on our draft lesson plans and in-class teaching was rewarding to watch them successfully apply the and problem-solving skills to deal with a Diversity_Summary_Report.pdf. 9 allowed our high school students to receive better concepts they learned through the semester. We had an concerns since it is designed to make the changing world. The “ideal of democratic Amy Gutmann, Democratic Education, at xi (Princeton legal field more accessible to students from Univ. Press 1987). instruction and to gain greater knowledge of the law awesome group of students and are very proud of them. education … insists upon instituting 10 Michigan Department of Education, High School Social high-risk populations and helps inspire and the legal system. a common standard compatible with Studies Content Standards and Expectations 48 (2007), Street Law is a great program and we are glad to have them to pursue college degrees and careers available at http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mde/ diversity: children must be taught enough SS_HSCE_210739_7.pdf. Teaching Street Law requires a lot of preparation time been part of it. Professors Rosa and McNeal worked in law. In fact, a post-survey conducted on to participate intelligently as adults in the and hard work. Meghan and I met regularly to discuss hard to launch this program and did a wonderful job participating Lansing high school students political processes that shape their society.”9 and prepare lesson plans. We would determine what making it a success. The support Meghan and I received revealed that 77 percent of the students felt The Street Law course not only bridges we were going to teach and then divide the work. from the Law College, our professors, and the high that taking the Street Law course increased the gap between the Law College and the We completed much of the work individually and school teachers allowed us to walk into the classroom their interest in pursuing a college degree. Lansing community, it also unites our then combined our efforts to create the final lesson equipped with the knowledge and resources needed to Further, 44 percent of the participating high current legal field with our hopes for the plans from which we would teach. As most law school effectively teach our students, which was our foremost school students felt that the Street Law profession in the future. The potential students know, it can get pretty hectic at times with objective. Knowledge of one’s own rights and the course had at least a significant influence benefits of the course extend well beyond About the Author papers, midterms, finals, and other unexpected events. protections provided for those rights is the best way on their interest in pursuing a career in the the law students’ experience; they include Jennifer Rosa directs the Street Being able to rely on your teaching partner to carry you to facilitate a true understanding of and respect for the legal field. the sense of empowerment the high school Law program at MSU Law. As a through the busy times is an essential and important criminal justice system. That is exactly what is achieved Finally, the course benefits the entire students experience so that they may prosecutor in Los Angeles, Rosa aspect of team teaching. We could not have asked for through the Street Law program. community, since the high school students bring about greater justice, tolerance, and participated in a similar project, better teaching partners. We worked well together and which showed that a delinquency become a more informed electorate as they fairness as effective citizens. In short, “the were able to build from each other’s knowledge and cycle can be broken if students are skills, which translated into our students’ successful become more competent in understanding education of the next generation of citizens empowered with an understanding By Sharifa Rahmany, ’10, with contributions by Meghan Glines, grasp of the material. the laws that affect their lives. According is essential to the well-being of American of the laws affecting their daily lives. a rising 3L to Judith Zimmer, deputy director of Street constitutional democracy.”10 18 Faculty NOTEs Faculty NOTEs 19 Amicus | summer 2010 Amicus | summer 2010

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Professor BRUCE W. BEAN The letter discusses the need Professor Bowman also completed complete, consistent, and real- the American Bar Association in was one of four academic for the U.S. Supreme Court to an MSU Lilly Teaching Fellowship time disclosure of both internal February 2010. The Model Act experts who participated in a Professor SUSAN H. recognize a fundamental positive and in May 2010 presented traffic management practices was the culmination of several March 2010 Georgetown Law BITENSKY’s “The Poverty of constitutional right to excellent preliminary findings in her and external interconnection years of work by Professor Favre symposium in Washington, Precedent for School Corporal elementary and secondary study titled “Investigating Law agreements to prevent network and other members of the ABA D.C. The symposium, titled Punishment’s Constitutionality education so as to enable the Students’ Development of owners from blocking traffic Tort Trial and Insurance Practice “Combating Global Terrorism,” Under the Eighth Amendment,” prompt effectuation of a national Lawyering Skills Through the Use and impeding Internet access. Section (TIPS) Select Legal Panel featured 12 speakers from leading 77 U. Cin. L. Rev. 1327 (2009), curriculum which, in turn, would of Problem Solving Activities.” Without such requirements, on Emergency Management law schools, private law firms, the was selected for inclusion in the further assure the excellent quality the two argued, the FCC Regarding Animals. The Model United Nations, and the World University of La Verne Law Review’s of schooling at these levels. cannot respond effectively Act provides states and territories Bruce W. Bean Adam Candeub Bank who presented papers on “Selective Bibliographic Index to network discrimination. with guidelines regarding the Professor HANNAH BRENNER cutting-edge anti-corruption of Juvenile Law Publications reunification or adoption of presented at Ms. J.D.’s Third issues. Representatives of the (2008–2009),” available at companion animals following Professor KRISTI L. BOWMAN Annual Conference, “Avenues to U.S. Securities and Exchange law.laverne.edu/academics/ federal disasters and emergencies. presented “Rebuilding Schools, Advancement,” which was held in Clinical Professor NICOLE Commission and the U.S. lawreview/publications. Rebuilding Communities: The Chicago in November 2009. The DANDRIDGE co-presented Departments of State, Justice, and In June, Professor Favre was In March 2010, Professor Bitensky Civic Role of Public Schools conference was geared toward the two sessions at the AALS Annual Commerce also explained new named the 2010 recipient of was an invited speaker at the 33rd After Hurricane Katrina” at the many career options available to Conference on Clinical Legal the ABA TIPS Excellence in the policy initiatives of the Obama Annual Law Review Symposium January 2010 Association of those with a juris doctor degree. Education in Baltimore in May Advancement of Animal Law administration. Professor Bean’s held by the Claude W. Pettit American Law Schools (AALS) Professor Brenner facilitated a 2010. She co-presented both Award. The award recognizes article, “Hyperbole, Hypocrisy, and College of Law at Ohio Northern Annual Meeting, where she was workshop titled “Essential Skills “Uncovering: When and How to a TIPS Animal Law Committee Hubris in the Corruption–Foreign University. Professor Bitensky’s also elected chairperson of the for Women Lawyers: What You Incorporate Our Personal Critical member who has advanced Susan H. Bitensky Aid Dialog,” will be featured Nicole Dandridge presentation was titled “The AALS Education Law Section. Need to Know to Achieve Success Perspectives and Experiences in the humane treatment of in a forthcoming symposium Mother of All Human Rights: The and Satisfaction in Your Career” Clinical Teaching Across a Range of animals through the law. issue of the Georgetown Child’s Right to Be Free of Corporal Professor Bowman’s “Pursuing and presented on the “Avenues Critical Theory” and a poster titled Journal of International Law. Punishment as Hard International Educational Opportunities for to Public Interest” panel. “Implementing Backward Design Latino and Latina Students” was In April 2010, Professor Bean Law.” A fully footnoted version of in Creating Curricular Change.” published in the March 2010 issue Professor Brenner also presented Professor MATTHEW L.M. participated in a roundtable on the presentation will appear in of the North Carolina Law Review. on a panel about gender She also spoke at the American FLETCHER presented the International White Collar Crime a forthcoming issue of the Ohio The article was presented at the and the law at the Minority Bar Association/National Legal University of South Dakota School at the American Bar Association Northern University Law Review. University of North Carolina at Corporate Counsel Association’s Aid & Defender Association’s of Law’s Dillon Lecture, “Rebooting Section of International Law’s Professor Bitensky also spoke Chapel Hill’s April 2009 conference 10th annual Pathways to Equal Justice Conference in Indian Law in the Supreme Court,” spring meeting in New York City. in March 2010 at the Thirteenth titled “Looking to the Future: Diversity Conference in New May 2010 in Phoenix, Arizona. in February 2010. The lecture was A former chair and current senior Kristi L. Bowman Annual Conference for the Legal and Policy Options for York City in November 2009. Professor Dandridge co-presented presented in conjunction with the David S. Favre advisor to the Section’s Russia/ Association of the Study of Law, Racially Integrated Education “Identifying & Addressing Tax school’s biennial Native American Eurasia Committee, Professor Bean Culture and the Humanities, held in the South and the Nation.” Issues Resounding in Multiple Law Students Association presented “An Introduction to the at Brown University in Providence, Legal Contexts” and “How to Start Indian Law Symposium and Panoply of Yukos Litigation.” The Rhode Island. She presented as a In May 2010, she presented Professor ADAM CANDEUB and a Transactional Pro Bono Program.” the annual South Dakota Law talk focused on the Kremlin’s 2010 member of a panel devoted to the “Breaking Down Anti- Intellectual Property Fellow Daniel Review scholarly symposium. trial of two leaders of the former topic of how legalized violence Discrimination: Anti-subordination, John McCartney maintained Yukos Oil Company, who are against children may transform Anti-classification, and Education a voice in the debate over the In February 2010, Professor charged with stealing 25 million them over time into violent adults. in the United States and future of the open Internet Professor DAVID S. FAVRE was Fletcher also spoke at UCLA tons of oil. The two are nearing Israel” at Hebrew University’s with comments submitted to the principal drafter of the “Model School of Law’s Critical Race the end of an eight-year term for Professor Bitensky had a letter to Conference on Toleration, the Federal Communications Act Governing Standards for the Studies Program about his evading taxes on profits that the the editor published in the New Equality, and Segregation Commission in January 2010. Care and Disposition of Disaster book project tentatively titled Hannah Brenner company made off the same oil. York Times on March 20, 2010. in the Name of Culture. The filing emphasized a need for Animals,” which was adopted by Consent and Resistance: American Matthew L.M. Fletcher 20 Faculty NOTEs Faculty NOTEs 21 Amicus | summer 2010 Amicus | summer 2010

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Indians and Consent Theory. 2010, including Indian Country More Money: Reflections on the Professor RENEE KNAKE’s the May 2010 Law and Society more than 87,000 page views The UCLA Law program invites Today, Interlochen Public Radio, Financial Implications of Multiple article titled “The Supreme Court’s Annual Meeting in Chicago. during that month—the highest leading scholars to present on the San Diego Union-Tribune, Parentage” was published in Increased Attention to the Law of number since June 2009. issues involving racial justice the National Law Journal, and the Cardozo Journal of Law & Lawyering: Mere Coincidence or scholarship and practice. Native America Calling. Gender in winter 2010. Building Something More?” examines the Professors MAE KUYKENDALL on previous works in which she body of cases touching on the Professor Fletcher spoke on and ADAM CANDEUB Professor MICHAEL ANTHONY Finally, the “Turtle Talk” blog for advocates that a child may have role of attorneys and the practice “The Supreme Court and the the MSU Law Indigenous Law and launched The Legal E-Marriage LAWRENCE was cited in a more than two legal parents, this of law that dominated the 2009–10 Economics of Tribal Resistance” Policy Center, which Professor Project, a clearinghouse petitioner’s brief filed in the U.S. piece suggests ways in which U.S. Supreme Court docket. The at the Idaho Native American Fletcher directs, has surpassed for legislative proposals on Supreme Court in McDonald v. child support and other financial first to present a comprehensive Catherine M. Grosso Law Conference, which was held 663,000 hits as of July 1. With overview of the Supreme “e-marriage,” a concept aimed Chicago, which was argued in Renee Knake responsibilities may be allocated in March 2010 at the University approximately 1,000 hits a day, Court’s newest lawyering cases, at modernizing marriage. The February 2010. Two of Professor among those legal parents. of Idaho College of Law. “Turtle Talk” is one of the most- Professor Knake’s work will help project garnered significant Lawrence’s articles were cited: coverage in the blogosphere “Rescuing the Privileges or followed law blogs in the country. In a letter to the editor published scholars and practitioners alike Professor Fletcher was invited and traditional media, including Immunities Clause: How ‘Attrition in the New York Times on understand the meaning of the to present the Saginaw Valley Professor Kuykendall’s interviews of Parliamentary Processes’ Begat February 1, 2010, Professor Jacobs Court’s increased attention to State University Barstow Lecture lawyering matters. The article will with Detroit Legal News, Michigan Accidental Ambiguity; How Professors CATHERINE M. similarly asserts that parentage on Indian Law in April 2010, in appear in a forthcoming issue of Talk Network, and WJR; Kevin Ambiguity Begat Slaughter-House” laws conferring rights and which he explained the history GROSSO and BARBARA American University Law Review. Lavery’s interview of Professor (William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, responsibilities in more than two of Indian land law and discussed O’BRIEN continue work on a Candeub on NPR’s Morning 2009) and “Second Amendment how a 2007 decree ended major study in response to North adults may—in some cases—best Professor Knake was invited to Edition; and a joint interview Incorporation Through the a 170-year-old dispute over Carolina’s Racial Justice Act, which serve the interests of both the participate in a June 2010 panel Barbara O'Brien on North Carolina’s WPFT. Fourteenth Amendment Privileges Mae Kuykendall Michigan Indians’ land rights. was signed in August 2009. The child and potential parents. on “Social Websites and Legal or Immunities and Due Process study will examine approximately Ethics” at the American Bar Professors Kuykendall and Clauses” (Missouri Law Review, In May 2010, Professor Jacobs Also in April 2010, Professor 1,500 murder cases dating back Association’s National Conference Candeub spoke on a March 2007). The latter article was also gave the keynote address, titled Fletcher spoke about tribal courts to 1990 to determine whether on Professional Responsibility, 2010 panel on “Modernizing cited in several amicus briefs, “Jaycee has a Sperm Donor, an Egg and economic diversification racial bias played a part in which was held in Seattle. Her Marriage” at the Association for including one filed by 57 U.S. Donor, a Gestational Surrogate at the University of Michigan prosecutors’ decisions to pursue presentation centered on First the Study of Law, Culture and senators and 250 members of Native American Law Students the death penalty, jurors’ decisions but no Parents: How ART is Amendment concerns related the Humanities conference at the House of Representatives. Association’s Indian Law Day. to impose a death penalty, or Redefining Legal Parentage,” at the to legal ethics rules that are Brown University in Providence, Professor Lawrence joined seven either party’s decision to exercise American College of Obstetrics implicated when lawyers use Rhode Island. They also presented law professors from leading law In May 2010, Professor Fletcher peremptory strikes. Professors and Gynecology Junior Fellow social networking tools. “E-Marriage: Breaking the Marriage schools across the country in an gave the keynote address at the Grosso and O’Brien presented Research Day in East Lansing. Monopoly” at the American Law amicus brief filed in the same case. Melanie B. Jacobs Minnesota American Indian Bar preliminary findings from the In July 2010, Professor Knake and Economics Association’s Michael Anthony Lawrence Association’s Annual Continuing study at the Law and Society presented two papers at the Annual Meeting at Princeton Professor Lawrence’s new book, Legal Education program at Association Annual Meeting in International Legal Ethics University in May 2010. Radicals in Their Own Time: Four Leech Lake, Minnesota. He also Chicago in May 2010. They will Professor BRIAN C. KALT was Conference at Stanford Law Hundred Years of Struggle Toward participated in a panel discussion team up with the Michigan State interviewed by several Michigan School. The first presentation Gordon Smith posted Professor Liberty and Equal Justice in on “Anishinabe Treaty Rights in Law Review to host a spring 2011 media outlets—including WJR, addressed her research on the Kuykendall’s review of Bert America, is set to be released by Today’s World” at the event. symposium on the effect of race WLNS, and the Detroit Free Supreme Court’s recent focus Westbrook’s Out of Crisis: Cambridge Press in late 2010. in capital punishment cases. Press—regarding the spring on the law of lawyering. The Rethinking Our Financial Markets A leading expert on Supreme 2010 retirement of Justice John second presentation provided on “The Conglomerate” in Court Indian Law jurisprudence, Paul Stevens and nomination of an overview of “The First January. As a result, she was Professor Fletcher was interviewed Elena Kagan as his replacement. Amendment and Attorney invited to be a guest blogger Professors MICHAEL ANTHONY and quoted by numerous Professor MELANIE B. Advice,” a work in progress at the site for the month of LAWRENCE, FRANK S. Brian C. Kalt media outlets in the first half of JACOBS’ article “More Parents, that she also spoke about at April. “The Conglomerate” had RAVITCH, and KEVIN W. Frank S. Ravitch 22 Faculty NOTEs Faculty NOTEs 23 Amicus | summer 2010 Amicus | summer 2010

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SAUNDERS presented at the the College Athlete,” which Annual Meeting in Chicago, and in the First Amendment. Saunders first International Association documents their research in June at the biennial Policy History argues that parents—not of Law Schools Conference on sports law, will be published in Conference in Columbus, Ohio. retailers—should control youth Constitutional Law in September a forthcoming edition of the access to violent media. MSU College of Law 2009. Hosted by American Florida Coastal Law Review. University Washington College of Welcomes New Faculty Law and Georgetown University Professor FRANK S. RAVITCH Law Center in Washington, spoke on the January 2010 AALS Professor CYNTHIA LEE D.C., the conference brought Professor NICHOLAS Section on Law and Anthropology STARNES’ letter to the editor was together internationally renowned MERCURO will administer a panel in New Orleans; he also published in the New York Times Kevin W. Saunders constitutional law experts. $15,000 grant that MSU Law took over as section chair at the on June 21, 2010. Professor Starnes Nicholas Mercuro Lawrence’s “Reconciling Liberty received from the Michigan close of the panel. Professor explains in her letter that divorce Ravitch presented in March 2010 and Progressive Government,” Humanities Council to support legislation pending in New York The following faculty will join the MSU College of Law in fall 2010. Ravitch’s “Marketing Creation: The inaugural Writer in Residence at a university-wide program on would not, as the Times stated, Law and Human Origins,” and Sandra Seaton’s mid-November law and religion at Wake Forest make New York the last state to JENNIFer carTER-JOHNSON joins MSU Law as an Saunders’ “Comparative Law as play and a related symposium University. In May 2010, he spoke adopt no-fault divorce; the state assistant tenure-track professor teaching Patent Law. a Source of U.S. Constitutional arranged by Seaton and Gabriel at Petre Andrei University School already allows it, but only with Professor Carter-Johnson received a J.D. with honors from Definition” were included in Dotto, director of Michigan of Law in Iasi, Romania, where mutual consent and a one-year the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in microbiology he gave a full day of lectures discussions of constitutional law State University Press. separation period. The proposed from the University of Virginia. in an international context. on U.S. law and religion and legislation is more generous. In May, Professor Mercuro was constitutional interpretation. Starnes also points out that DAVID THRONSON, who earned his J.D. at Harvard invited to join the Michigan State Anne Lawton passage of a fast-track, unilateral Noga Morag-Levine Law School, joins us as a tenured professor; he will University Sustainability Visioning Professor Ravitch’s book, Marketing no-fault divorce law doesn’t always teach Immigration Law and Constitutional Law. He and Professor ANNE LAWTON was Group. The group is comprised of Intelligent Design: Law and the remove fault from the divorce VERONICA THRONSON, an associate clinical professor interviewed by Michigan Lawyers leaders in government, academia, Creationist Agenda, is expected equation. About half the states with a J.D. from City University of New York School of Weekly in April 2010 regarding a business, and the community to be released in late 2010 by make fault relevant to property U.S. Bankruptcy Court decision who can identify, analyze, and Cambridge University Press. Law, will start the new Immigration Law Clinic at MSU distribution and/or alimony. allowing a law firm to keep propose solutions to sustainability Law this fall. fees obtained by garnishing challenges confronting MSU BRIAN GILMORE joins the MSU Law Housing Clinic this a judgment debtor’s account, in the next ten years. Professor KEVIN W. fall as an associate clinical professor. Professor Gilmore despite its knowledge of the Dean GLEN STASZEWSKI SAUNDERS, the nation’s earned his J.D. from Clarke School of Law. debtor’s impending bankruptcy. helped organize and contributed leading expert advocating to a Michigan State Law Review In May 2010, Professor NOGA restrictions on youth access to Amy C. McCormick symposium titled “Responding Cynthia Lee Starnes MORAG-LEVINE presented her violent media, will co-author to The Will of the People.” The April Professors AMY C. McCORMICK paper titled “Common Legalism: an amicus brief supporting 2010 symposium brought together and ROBERT A. McCORMICK On the Common Law Origins of California’s upcoming appeal distinguished scholars of American participated in Florida Coastal American Legal Culture” as part before the U.S. Supreme Court in constitutional history, law and School of Law’s Sports Law of the Yigal Arnon Law & History Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment politics, constitutional theory, and Panel titled “Exploitation of the Workshop of the Buchmann Merchants Association. The case comparative constitutionalism Student-Athlete? Evaluating Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv involves a California statute to contribute essays and discuss Bloom, Oliver, O’Bannon, and University. She also presented prohibiting the sale of violent their reactions to Barry Friedman’s Keller.” The event was held in “Common Law, Civil Law and video games to anyone under The Will of the People: How Public April 2010 in Jacksonville, Florida. Precautionary Regulation: Lessons the age of 18; industry groups Opinion Has Influenced the The professors’ article “A Trail from the Long History of the Alkali challenged the law as a violation Robert A. McCormick Supreme Court and Shaped the Glen Staszewski of Tears: The Exploitation of Act” in May at the Law and Society of the Free Speech Clause of Meaning of the Constitution. 24 office of advancement news office of Advancement NEWs 25 Amicus | summer 2010 Amicus | summer 2010

the office of advancement Alumni Notes HelpingAlumni Reconnect a message from the director Send us your notes! We encourage all alumni to contribute information on accomplishments and special recognition in the legal profession and other fields. To submit your notes, please e-mail [email protected] or go to www.law.msu.edu/amicus. IF YOU reCEIVE A CALL from the MSU alumni as a team captain, your role is an College of Law Office of Advancement, important one in this effort. which manages fundraising and alumni Annual donor recognition events and relations activities, know that our call is newly implemented “Past, Present, and not just to request philanthropic support. Future” reunions bring alumni together to One of our primary goals is to reconnect share memories and network with fellow Dean Joan W. Howarth and deepen relationships with more of graduates. Both events are led by alumni our alumni throughout Michigan and who serve as host committee members. across the country. Toward this end, Alumni can also help connect students we have many programs underway with important internship, externship, to increase opportunities for current and employment positions. The MSU Law students, boost the reputation of the Career Services Office can work with you Law College, and increase the value of to arrange work experience opportunities James R. Geroux Martin L. Rogalski John E. Nemazi Steven L. Oberholtzer Hon. Colleen A. O’Brien your degree. for students who wish to follow your We strive to help alumni connect footsteps into the legal profession. through a variety of outreach initiatives While philanthropic support is vital EDWARD D. GOLD, ’64, Lawyer for his work in family at the school, at social events, and in to the continued success of the Law 1950s a shareholder at Butzel Long, law and estate planning. the workplace. MSU Law graduates are College, alumni input is invaluable in so was listed in the 2010 edition of Lawrence R. Donaldson, encouraged, for example, to participate in many ways. We truly value all levels of The Best Lawyers in America for ’69, a partner at Plunkett the Alumni Association Mentor Program. support and participation, especially in David Jerry Watters, ’57, his work in matrimonial law. Cooney’s Mount Clemens office, Through this program, alumni guide and this challenging economic environment. a partner at Plunkett Cooney’s was named a 2010 Michigan Steven L. Barney, support current students as they navigate However you choose to support your Bloomfield Hills office, was Super Lawyer for his work in ’72, a partner at Plunkett law school and begin to map out potential alma mater, your involvement will make listed in the 2010 edition of The alternative dispute resolution. Cooney’s Petoskey office, career paths. a difference as we work together to ensure Best Lawyers in America for his DAVID W. SOMMERFELD, was named a 2010 Michigan The annual Law Firm Challenge a bright future for MSU College of Law. work in medical malpractice ’67, a shareholder at Butzel Long, Super Lawyer for his work in encourages a little friendly competition If you are interested in supporting defense and personal injury was listed in the 2010 edition of professional liability defense. among firms with three or more alumni. MSU Law financially or through any litigation. This is Watters’ 10th The Best Lawyers in America for 1970s Whether your schedule only allows for of our many outreach programs, year on the Best Lawyers list. his work in trusts and estates. your financial participation, or whether please contact me at 517-432-6842 or James R. Geroux, ’70, a DAVID W. CHRISTENSEN, you are able to cheer on your fellow [email protected]. partner at Plunkett Cooney’s ’72, a member at Charfoos & Warm regards, 1960s H. William Reising, ’68, Detroit office, was listed in the Christensen, was named a 2009 a partner at Plunkett Cooney’s 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers Michigan Super Lawyer for his Flint office, was named a 2010 in America for his work in workers’ work in personal injury law. RICHARD D. REED, ’61, Michigan Super Lawyer for his compensation defense. He of Lewis Reed & Allen, was Tina Kashat Casoli work in civil litigation defense. was also recently named to the named a 2009 Michigan MSU College of Law Alumni Director of the Office of Advancement Stanley C. Moore III, Super Lawyer for his work in Association Board of Directors. government and municipal law. ’73, a partner at Plunkett JAMES A. REITER, ’68, Cooney’s Bloomfield Hills office, of Charfoos Reiter Hébert, was named a 2010 Michigan was named a 2009 Michigan CARL E. CHIOINI, ’71, was Super Lawyer for his work in Super Lawyer for his work in named a 2009 Michigan Super employment and labor law. worker’s compensation law. 26 office of advancement news office of Advancement NEWs 27 Amicus | summer 2010 Amicus | summer 2010

Alumni Notes

William G. Abbatt Maurice A. Borden Mark W. Peyser Linda M. Garbarino Rebecca G. Simkins Roderick J. Fracassi Kelly (Schadel) Arnold Lisa C. Hagan Barbra E. Homier Dr. Fernando Alberdi

listed in the 2010 edition of Michigan Labor & Employment Lawyers list for his work in the Detroit Free Press, C and G Robert L. Kaye, ’86, is a 2010 Michigan Super Lawyer The Best Lawyers in America Relations Association. He was intellectual property law. Newspapers, and WNIC Radio on a partner with Kaye & Bender for his work in products-related Carl Rashid Jr., ’74, for his work in business and also elected vice-president John E. Nemazi, ’81, the topic of seasonal depression in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He personal injury defense. of Butzel Long, was recently corporate, estate planning and and incoming 2011 president shareholder and head of the and anxiety, and was quoted in currently serves on the Florida appointed to the Oakwood probate, and real estate law. of the national Interstate Labor patent prosecution group a January 2010 ABCnews.com Bar’s Grievance Committee Douglas C. Bernstein, Healthcare System Board of Standards Association. at Brooks Kushman, was article on the tragedy in Haiti. and its Committee on the ’82, a partner at Plunkett Cooney’s David E. Hart, ’91, a Directors. He was also honored named a 2009 Michigan Unlicensed Practice of Law. as a Diversity Business Leader by Super Lawyer for his work in Bloomfield Hills office, was shareholder at Maddin Hauser Corp! Magazine, and was listed Ernest R. Bazzana, intellectual property law. named a 2010 Michigan Super Wartell Roth & Heller, was named in the 2010 edition of The Best ’78, a partner at Plunkett Theresa Smith Lloyd, Lawyer for his work in bankruptcy Dennis G. Cowan, ’84, a 2009 Michigan Super Lawyer. Lawyers in America for his work Cooney’s Detroit office, was ’79, a partner at Plunkett and creditor/debtor rights. a partner at Plunkett Cooney’s Scott W. Rooney, ’88, in real estate law and tax law. named a 2010 Michigan Super Cooney’s Bloomfield Hills office, Bloomfield Hills office, was named a partner at Nemes, Rooney was named a 2010 Michigan Steven L. Oberholtzer, a 2010 Michigan Super Lawyer for & McKindles, was named a Lawyer for his appellate work. Michael P. Ashcraft Super Lawyer for her work in ’81, shareholder and managing his work in land use and zoning. Michigan Super Lawyer for the Maurice A. Borden, ’82, Jr., ’92, a partner at Plunkett employment and labor law. partner at Brinks Hofer Gilson third year in a row, and as one James C. Thomas, ’74, was elected member of Sondee, Cooney’s Bloomfield Hills office, Gregory V. Murray, & Lione, was named a 2009 of metro Detroit’s top lawyers of counsel attorney at Plunkett Racine & Doren, PLC. Maurice’s was named a 2010 Michigan ’78, a founder and director of Michigan Super Lawyer for his by DBusiness/Hour Magazine. Cooney’s Detroit office, was practice is concentrated on Linda M. Garbarino, ’85, Super Lawyer for his work in Vercruysse Murray & Calzone, Martin L. Rogalski, ’79, work in intellectual property law. named a 2010 Michigan Super litigation, with a specialization in recently announced the formation professional liability defense. currently serves on the board for Lawyer for his work in white- was included on the 2010 insurance coverage and appeals. of Tanoury, Nauts, McKinney & Legal Aid of Western Michigan, collar criminal defense. Super Lawyer list for his work in Garbarino, PLLC. The firm will Rebecca G. Simkins, ’88, labor and employment law. the Debtors Bar Association, Hon. Colleen A. O’Brien, handle all aspects of litigation, of Barris, Sott, Denn & Driker, and the Jenison AMBUCS. Richard E. Vollbach Jr., ’81, has served as an Oakland with an emphasis on defending PLLC, was honored by the federal Mark W. Peyser, ’83, of ’92, was appointed by Governor County Circuit Court judge since hospitals and physicians in court judges of the U.S. District Harvey R. Heller, ’76, a Howard & Howard Attorneys, Granholm on December 21, 1998. She was appointed to the medical malpractice claims. Court for the Eastern District of partner at Maddin Hauser Wartell Loretta M. Ames, ’79, a was named a 2009 Michigan 2009, to serve as Arenac County 1980s Michigan Judges Association Michigan for her pro bono efforts. Roth & Heller, was named a 2010 partner at Plunkett Cooney’s Super Lawyer for his work Probate judge. He also presides Executive Board in 2008, and Michigan Super Lawyer for his Detroit office, was named a in civil litigation defense. over the Arenac District and Family work in professional liability 2010 Michigan Super Lawyer currently serves as chairperson of Jerome A. Galante, ’81, Dorothy H. Basmaji, Courts in his position. Prior to his defense and insurance coverage. for her general personal the MJA Corrections Committee. a partner at Plunkett Cooney’s ’86, a shareholder at Vercruysse 1990s appointment, Richard served as injury defense work. Murray & Calzone, was included chief assistant prosecutor for 12 Bloomfield Hills office, was listed Dr. Howard R. Belkin, in the 2010 edition of The Best on the 2010 Super Lawyer list for years, while contemporaneously Edward C. Dawda, ’77, ’84, a psychiatrist in private Michael D. Weaver, ’90, Lawyers in America for his work William G. Abbatt, ’82, her work in immigration law. maintaining a general civil a founding member of Dawda, practice in Birmingham, MI, a partner at Plunkett Cooney’s in personal injury litigation. shareholder at Brooks Kushman, practice in Standish, Michigan. Mann, Mulcahy & Sadler, was JACK H. FINN, ’79, was recently was recently interviewed by Bloomfield Hills office, was named elected president of the Mid- was named to the 2009 Super 28 office of advancement news office of Advancement NEWs 29 Amicus | summer 2010 Amicus | summer 2010

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Kelly (Schadel) Arnold, Tamar H. Schiller, ’97, was named general counsel ’05, recently joined Fidelity The Alumni Association Lisa C. Hagan, ’02, of Miller and corporate secretary of Dow National Title Group as claims Canfield, was elected to a two-year Kokam, a joint venture between counsel in the company’s term on the State Bar of Michigan The Dow Chemical Company, TK Omaha, Nebraska, office. Young Lawyers Section Executive Advanced Battery, and Groupe Council. Hagan represents Industriel Marcel Dassault. Dow all Michigan counties except Kokam, headquartered in Midland, Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb. Captain Eric W. Irwin, specializes in the manufacture ’07, is currently serving as a judge and sale of lithium ion battery Saraphoena B. Koffron advocate in the U.S. Army at Fort cells and packs. Arnold joined 2 0 1 0 Hood, Texas, and is presently in By Patrick Winters, ’03, president of the MSU College of Law Alumni Association Dow’s Legal Department in 2002. Barbra E. Homier, ’03, 2010 Iraq as Trial Counsel for the 1st was elected to the partnership Medical Brigade. He has practiced The second decade of the new millennium has only just begun. However, like the Law College itself, at Varnum. Homier focuses in the area of international and Roderick J. Fracassi, her practice on family law. the Alumni Association continues to look to the future, developing new benefits for Association ’94, was promoted to chief Ella M. Bully Cummings, operational law since July 2008. members, fostering its relationships with the students, and working with the Law College to increase counsel and assistant secretary ’97, is serving as a member of the stature and reputation of the Michigan State University College of Law. In addition to building on for Con-Way Freight. Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government Executive Session Dr. Fernando Alberdi, programs currently in place, the Alumni Association is looking forward to new and exciting programs Sanjum Punia, ’09, moved to on Policing and Public Safety. ’04, was hired by Honigman Miller and events in the years to come. Washington, D.C., after graduation Schwartz and Cohn as an attorney and is now an attorney for the This year, the Alumni Association funded a scholarship that will provide financial assistance to one or John reed, ’94, was hired in the Intellectual Property and Board of Veterans’ Appeals. by Jaffe Associates in October Technology Practice Group. more students beginning in 2011. The Association worked diligently toward funding this scholarship 2009 as senior vice president of Christopher M. Brown, with proceeds from the annual Alumni Association Golf Outing and, without stopping to rest on its marketing consulting and business ’99, of Miller Johnson, was laurels, is already working on increasing the scholarship to benefit the 1L students of 2012. The 2009 and product development. named a 2009 “40 Under Forty 2010s golf outing raised over $12,000 for the scholarship fund, and this year’s event will help us further Business Leader” by Grand Saraphoena B. Koffron, Rapids Business Journal. ’04, recently joined Miller expand our support for future MSU Law students. Johnson’s family law practice. Tami F. Johanson, ’96, Scott Lachman, ’10, will Now in its fourth year, our Alumni Mentor Program has been a monumental success for alumni, accepted the position of general begin a clerkship with the Nevada students, and the Law College. Alumni continue to volunteer to be paired with students to offer Supreme Court in August 2010. counsel of Service Solutions 2000s support, advice, a listening ear, and encouragement as students do the hard work of learning the law Americas at SPX Corporation. Matiss D. Kukainis, ’04,

while facing the challenges of seeking employment. The program has already become an asset to the beyond earned an LL.M. in International Law College, and it is becoming a nationally respected benefit offered to MSU Law students. Abigail M. Butler, ’00, was and European Union Law at the elected partner of Baker & Daniels. Riga Graduate School of Law Kendra S. Kleber, ’96, was The Alumni Association has come a long way in the past decade and is looking forward to the years Butler practices in product liability. in Riga, Latvia, in 2007. Kukainis named a federal administrative to come. The alumni board is now a national board and has members in five different states, which passed the Latvian Bar and has law judge with the Social Security started his own firm in Latvia. help serve the many students who are interested in MSU Law and the many alumni who reside in all Administration. She is currently 50 states and abroad. Our connection to and support of both alumni and students is stronger than stationed in Cleveland. James W. Low, ’01, of Sullivan, Ward, Asher & Patton, ever, and membership is becoming more and more valuable. If you are interested in joining the alumni was named one of 20 “Up & board, or in volunteering to help with the many programs and projects that the board sponsors, please Coming Lawyers” for 2009 by visit www.law.msu.edu/alumni. Michigan Lawyers Weekly. and 30 office of advancement news office of Advancement NEWs 31 Amicus | summer 2010 Amicus | summer 2010

added advantage is his ability to get to TV until Coleman started swearing, then When asked how he can represent know his clients as individuals and treat we would turn it down low.” As a result, all defendants who all but have “guilty” them with respect. the feds could clearly hear was the mayor’s stamped on their foreheads, Morganroth staccato of explicit swear words. replies, “Everyone is entitled to be Rolland McMaster was one of defended. I can represent anybody—with Morganroth’s most notorious clients. Mayor Young was upset by constant Complexity, some limitations based on principle— Intimidating in stature (6'6'') and government surveillance and asked if I feel that I can believe in the client demeanor (he personified a “union Morganroth to file a Bivens Action, which compassion, & and sense that the jury will see that I like goon”), he was the Teamsters’ chief allows for damages due to constitutional my client.” passion drive organizer in the 1950s and top aide violations committed by federal agents. to former Teamsters President Jimmy The next day, Morganroth had lunch One of his rules in these “tough-to- Morganroth to Hoffa before they parted ways. Federal with former Judge Sam Gardner and said defend” cases is that the client cannot lie agents repeatedly dug up McMaster’s that he was planning on filing the case. on the stand. “There is always some way to new challenges Michigan farms (he raised thoroughbred Word was passed on, and the next day, defend the client … if the client tells his or horses) on tips that Hoffa was buried both Judge Gardner and Morganroth her lawyer the truth. Generally speaking, there. Morganroth successfully defended got a letter from the federal government most of my clients have been honest with By liz cezat McMaster against numerous charges. saying Coleman Young was not under me,” he says. “It never helps the client to When McMaster died at age 93 in 2007, investigation. “That’s all he wanted fool the lawyer.” Morganroth delivered his eulogy. anyway,” Morganroth says. “He died with Readers can gain further insight into Dean Joan Howarth, Mike Morganroth, Michael Epstein, rising 3L, and Jason Weiner, ’10 just his pension. His remaining campaign In representing DeLorean—a former this legendary lawyer by watching HBO’s funds were used to build the African GM auto executive and entrepreneur— Kervorkian biopic, You Don’t Know Jack, American Museum in Detroit.” Complex challenges continue to motivate Morganroth was called on to be second partner of Morganroth and Morganroth, Morganroth and his team handled 43 in which Morganroth is played by actor Mayer (Mike) Morganroth, ’54, when chair when defendants in appellate cases PLLC, a Birmingham-based firm that cases and won them all. The flashy owner Morganroth and fellow alumnus Geoffrey Mike Ingram. He also will be portrayed many his age have retired. went to trial. He would tell lead attorneys he now manages with his son, Jeffrey of DeLorean Motor Co. faced several Fieger, ’79, defended Kervorkian in in a movie about DeLorean and serves at the counsel table what to say in their B. Morganroth, and daughter, Cherie extraditions and was charged with tax the Miller Wantz trial, which ended in as executive producer and consultant His legal career began auspiciously in client’s defense. Being well-prepared and Morganroth. The firm’s nine attorneys fraud, cocaine trafficking, and money acquittal. Morganroth came into the trial for the film. January 1955. As a newly minted lawyer strategic about his cases, especially in handle appellate law and eight other laundering. Morganroth says, “We were after the jury went out. Kervorkian later who had just graduated from Detroit In his personal life, Morganroth has court, earned him the trial part of the specialty areas, including criminal law, successful all the way down the line. We chose to defend himself and ended up College of Law and passed the bar exam, been happily married for 51 years to business as well. commercial law, and white collar crime. also got back all the assets (close to $67 serving a prison term. Morganroth was one of the few attorneys Sheila. They have three children and five million) that the trustee took from him.” in southeastern Michigan who handled Complicated matters are the hallmark of From Motown composers to Teamsters As friends and colleagues, Morganroth grandchildren. He enjoys golf, travel (Las appellate cases. Morganroth’s career, which spans more officials, from assisted suicide enabler Jack Morganroth proudly represented the represented Fieger in his successful Vegas is a favorite), and is an avid Detroit than five decades and is still going strong. Kervorkian to the late automotive pioneer late Detroit Mayor Coleman Young for defense against federal charges of illegal Lions fan—pretty amazing for a lawyer Having worked as an intern doing He holds a B.A. in both psychology and John DeLorean, and from the late Detroit 20 years, handling cases ranging from campaign contributions in the 2008 who doesn’t like to lose. appellate cases at a local law firm, he history from Michigan State University, Mayor Coleman Young to former Detroit charges of bribery to improper use of presidential election. Many colleagues launched his own firm to continue with which he earned along with his J.D. in Mayoral Aide Christine Beatty, Morganroth campaign funds. He recalls conversations have called on him over the years for that focus. At that time, appeals were less than four years combined thanks has represented clients whose cases depend at the Manoogian Mansion, when federal advice on trials and proceedings, and he’s only handled at the U.S. Supreme Court to an accelerated program for students on steadfast research, strategic legal agents were listening on wiretaps. happy to share his strategy when there’s level. Based on his growing expertise, Liz Cezat is a writer and marketing consultant with with top grades. He is the founding maneuvers, and sound legal advice. His Morganroth says, “We would turn up the no conflict of interest. Cezat Creative Resources, Inc., in Canton, Michigan. 32 office of advancement news office of Advancement NEWs 33 Amicus | summer 2010 Amicus | summer 2010

At 90 years young, Linking to Michael Berry Makes Things Happen our Past­– Shaping Our Future By liz cezat MSU Law alumni, students, and friends gathered on Thursday, Michael Berry is at a point in his life at which he could simply look While he was chairman of the Commission, Berry’s tenacious February 11, for an evening with the Honorable Dennis W. back and feel contentment and pride. Except this 90-year-old dynamo involvement in Detroit Metro Airport expansion, tight oversight of the Archer, ’70. The reception was hosted by the MSU College of is going top-speed on multiple fronts. Chief among his interests are bidding process, and execution of contracts earned him great respect. Law Black Law Students Association (BLSA). his large family, his legal practice, and his work as a philanthropist When a separate terminal for international travel was built, it was who advocates for better education and raises funds for many groups named in his honor. Archer was appointed associate justice of the Michigan Supreme and causes. Court in 1985 and elected to an eight-year term the following His reputation for high ethics, tireless work on behalf of many causes, Born in Highland Park, Michigan, and growing up with four brothers and an ability to “get big things done” brought him fame not only in year. In his final year on the bench, he was named the state’s and four sisters, Berry liked to study and was Michigan, but also nationally and internationally. most respected judge by Michigan Lawyers Weekly. Serving as eager to start working and get on with his life. mayor of Detroit from 1994 to 2001, Archer earned national and His rock-solid values of integrity, education, Berry was active in the Democratic Party, international respect for his success in changing the city’s image fairness, and equality were among those chairing the 16th Congressional Democratic and direction. In 2003, he became the first African American ingrained in him by his hard-working parents, District for four terms beginning in the 1960s, elected to lead the American Bar Association. Mariam and Charles Berry. The family attempted and holding other powerful posts. He became to return to their homeland of Lebanon with friends with several of the Kennedys, and was Archer spoke about the evolving legal profession, highlighting their family in 1930, but the depression there encouraged to run for higher office himself. improved access for minority and women lawyers over the was worse than in the United States, so they His professional life is anchored by a bountiful past several decades and emphasizing the need to continue returned and settled in Dearborn. Michael is home life. His marriage to Vivian produced four diversifying the field. Addressing law school students, Archer grateful for all the opportunities he has had in daughters and a happy, prosperous, and healthy encouraged tomorrow’s practitioners to maintain a high standard America. family—a life that was tested when Vivian was of professionalism, ethics, and service to others. killed in 1972. ABOVE: Dennis Archer, '70, and Dean Joan Howarth A good student who graduated from Fordson BLSA leaders at the event announced a new MSU Law Junior College and Wayne College, Berry BELOW LEFT (left to right): Aliyah Sabree, ’10, Badriyyah Sabree, Professor Tiffani Together, the family found the strength to giving opportunity aimed at maximizing the resources and Darden, and Professor Catherine Grosso originally wanted to become a doctor. The wait continue moving forward. Berry’s daughter Laura opportunities available to minority law students and the Law for medical school seemed too long, though, so BELOW RIGHT (left to right): Class President Brian Davis, ’10, Jerome Crawford, rising Harris, ’87, ran a successful divorce practice at her College community as a whole. Donations may now be directed he applied to Detroit College of Law (DCL). There he became friends 2L, Quinton Spencer, rising 2L, and Professor Brian Kalt father’s firm and worked as city attorney for Dearborn Heights. Berry toward BLSA scholarships, lectures and other special events, or with two others students, Arman Simone (now deceased) and David also has two teenage sons and is now married to Cindy, a government student study aids. Ambender. These three, who always studied and socialized together, relations professional. were dubbed “The Three Musketeers.” Due to a glitch in his class Berry has endowed a scholarship at MSU Law and has given generously A fundraising committee is being created to support this effort; schedule, Berry passed the bar exam and tried his first case in 1949, former BLSA and Wolverine Student Bar Association members one month before he graduated. to support the University of Michigan-Dearborn, Davenport University, Current and former members of MSU Law’s Jewish Legal Society (JLS), are encouraged to participate. For more information, contact Henry Ford Community College, hospitals locally and in Lebanon, along with other alumni and friends, participated in the group’s 2nd Upon graduation in 1950, he and his associates formed the law practice Tina Kashat Casoli, director of the Office of Advancement, at and many other causes. The Michael Berry Career Center at Dearborn Annual Networking Night on Tuesday, March 2. The evening, hosted at of Berry, Hopson & Francis in Dearborn. As the first Muslim of Arab Public Schools is named in his honor. 517-432-6842 or [email protected]. descent to practice law in the state of Michigan, Berry had to overcome Miller Canfield’s Detroit office, gave current students the opportunity a great deal of adversity. A 1983 Distinguished Alumnus (at DCL), his advice to MSU Law to meet and mingle with MSU Law alumni and former JLS members. students who plan to start their own practice is, “Get out early and Special guest Mayer Morganroth, ’54, was awarded the Jewish Legal Initially taking on every case, Berry later focused on municipal law. establish yourself. Work from sunrise to sunset, like I did. Let people Society’s Alumni Achievement Award for his ongoing contributions to In 1967, he was approached to serve on the Wayne County Road know who you are. Get to know people—that’s the secret.” the legal community. See the related article about Morganroth on page Commission. He won the election and quickly put his mark on the XX. agency by righting a skewed bidding system. In one instance, using To learn more about the fascinating life and accomplishments of his science education and lab training, he questioned the composition Michael Berry, read Michael Berry, a biography by Susan Griffin, also of fertilizer being purchased and was able to “right” the formula used, of Dearborn. opening up the bidding and saving vast amounts of taxpayer dollars. His sharp business acumen earned him the position of chairman, Liz Cezat is a writer and marketing consultant with Cezat Creative which he held for 10 of his nearly 16 years of service. Resources, Inc., in Canton, Michigan. 34 office of advancement news office of Advancement NEWs 35 Amicus | summer 2010 Amicus | summer 2010

MSU Law: Past, Present, & Future Law Review Launches

Alumni celebrated 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, and 60 years or more since graduating from Detroit College of Law (DCL) and Scholarship at Annual Alumni Reception MSU College of Law at Comerica Park’s The Michigan State Law Review held its annual alumni reception Tiger Club—the former site of DCL—on at The Townsend Hotel in Birmingham on Thursday, February Friday, November 20, 2009. Nearly 250 18. Special guest Ross Hammersley, ’06, spoke to attendees about alumni who attended the Past, Present, the benefits and responsibilities of representing the journal and and Future Celebration shared cherished school as a Law Review member. Hammersley, who served as 2005–06 editor-in-chief of the journal, is an associate at Olson, Law College memories as they gathered Bzdok & Howard in Traverse City. for a walk down memory lane. Seven journal members were recognized at the event for the Guest speakers included alumni from selection of their articles for publication in the Michigan State Law each of the celebrated class years, Review, Akron Intellectual Property Journal, and the Virginia Sports including the Honorable Matthew & Entertainment Law Journal. Those honored included George Sabaugh, ’99, the Honorable Karen Fort Howell, Elisa Lintemuth, Michelle Quigley, Lauren Russo, Alessa Thomas, Rob Harmer, and Aaron Lloyd. Hood, ’89, John Goldpaugh, ’79, Michael Legg, ’79, Thomas Lindahl, ’79, the This year’s reception also celebrated the Law Review’s continued Honorable Edward Plawecki, ’79, S. Gary rise in annual flagship journal rankings. Dean Howarth announced the new Michigan State Law Review Scholarship, Spicer, ’69, and Mayer Morganroth, ’54. initiated by 2009–10 Editor-in-Chief Megan Hard to build on and Class of 2010 graduate Megan Hard and sustain the journal’s success. The scholarship will provide support Professor Clark C. Johnson also spoke at for editorial board leadership and team-building training, the event. expanded marketing efforts, larger symposia, and scholarships or stipends for board members and student authors. This year’s event will be held on November 12. Graduates from the A steering committee consisting of Kathy Ossian, ’84, Don TOP (left to right): Rob Harmer (notes editor), ’10, Zachary Hansmann, Leigh Hansmann, Nystrom, ’00, Dan Bliss, ’87, and others will work with the ’09, and Dan Artaev (senior notes editor), ’10 classes of 1950 and earlier, 1960, 1970, Office of Advancement to help raise support for the fund. For ABOVE LEFT (left to right): Mahfouz Ackall (former editor in chief), ’09, and Megan Hard 1980, 1990, and 2000 are invited to more details about the Michigan State Law Review Scholarship (editor in chief), ’10 serve as host committee members. For or steering committee, please contact Tina Kashat Casoli at ABOVE RIGHT (left to right): Susan Asam, ’10, and Alessa Thomas, ’10 more information, please contact Tina 517-432-6842 or [email protected]. Kashat Casoli, director of the Office of Advancement, at 517-432-6842 or [email protected]. Jewish Legal Society Networking Night

Current and former members of MSU Law’s Jewish Legal Society (JLS), along with other alumni and friends, participated in the group’s 2nd Annual Networking Night on Tuesday, March 2. The evening, hosted at Miller ABOVE LEFT (left to right): Paul Koczkur, '79, Michelle Canfield’s Detroit office, gave current students the opportunity to meet and mingle with MSU Law alumni Grala-Koczkur, and Lawrence Donaldson, '69 and former JLS members. Special guest Mayer Morganroth, ’54, was awarded the Jewish Legal Society’s FAR LEFT: The Honorable Gene Schnelz, '57, and Betty Schnelz Alumni Achievement Award for his ongoing contributions to the legal community. See the related article LEFT: The Tigers welcome MSU Law and DCL alumni. about Morganroth on page 30. Jason Weiner, ’10, and Michael Serling, ’70 36 office of advancement news office of Advancement NEWs 37 Amicus | summer 2010 Amicus | summer 2010

Participating Firms & Team &Captains

Group I (3 to 10 alumni) Ackerman Ackerman & Dynkowski Alan T. Ackerman Bliss McGlynn Daniel H. Bliss, ’87 Center Management Services Thomas Guastello, ’70 Fieger, Fieger, Kenney, Johnson & Giroux robert M. Giroux, Jr., ’93 Langton Law Charles E. Langton ’87, MSU Law Trustee New Jersey Legal James Cortopassi, ’08 Maddin Hauser David E. Hart, ’91 Miller Johnson Christopher M. Brown, ’99 Rhoades McKee frederick D. Dilley, ’76, MSU Law Trustee Smith Haughey Rice & Roegge kristen A. Campbell, ’00

Group II (11 to 20 alumni) Creates Friendly Competition Among Firms, Dickinson Wright Peter J. Kulick, ’01 Raises Awareness and Funding for Programs Foster, Swift, Collins & Smith John Inhulsen, ’05 Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn kenneth T. Brooks, ’82 MSU College of Law launched the first annual Law Firm Challenge “The continued success of MSU Law depends on our ability to Participants were able to designate their gifts toward a variety Howard & Howard Andrew J. Munro, ’79 this year, sparking a bit of friendly competition among firms and build and maintain relationships with more of our graduates,” of MSU Law programs, including the Dean’s Fund for Excellence, Kitch Drutchas Wagner Valitutti & Sherbrook ronald E. Wagner, ’75 businesses while giving alumni a unique opportunity to support said Laurie Schaibly, ’00, director of alumni engagement. “The clinical programs, the Alumni Association scholarship, the Ralph F. Valitutti, Jr., ’76 their alma mater. Law Firm Challenge gives the Law College another way to Michigan State Law Review, and the Black Law Students Orlans Linda M. Orlans, ’87 reconnect with alumni, and we are thrilled that so many of our Association. Each participant received an MSU Law T-shirt. Varnum, Riddering, Schmidt & Howlett linsey (Gleason) Aten, ’08 Organizations and firms with three or more alumni were invited graduates are interested in supporting their alma mater.” to participate. Each was led by a team captain who asked fellow Firms were divided into three categories for the competition: Group III (21 or more alumni) alumni to contribute toward the goal of 100 percent participation. “It’s the right thing to do for our firm to participate in this those with 3 to 10 alumni, those with 11 to 20 alumni, and Clark Hill Charles A. Lawler, ’04 A total of 20 firms participated, raising more than $40,000. effort,” said Robert Giroux, Jr., ’93, a partner at Fieger, Fieger, those with 21 or more alumni. Dean Joan Howarth will host a Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone kathryn L. Ossian, ’84 Six firms achieved 100 percent participation: Ackerman Kenney, Johnson & Giroux. “We have seven graduates working at celebration luncheon for firms with the highest participation rates. Plunkett Cooney Joseph F. Babiarz, Jr., ’86 Ackerman & Dynkowski; Center Management Services; Fieger, Fieger Law, and we all appreciate what the Law College provided James R. Geroux, ’70 For more information, or to be a part of next year’s challenge, Fieger, Kenney, Johnson & Giroux; Langton Law; Miller Johnson; us—a great start to the success many of us have enjoyed. Now, James J. Murray, ’87 visit www.law.msu.edu/alumni/challenge or contact Laurie H. William Reising, ’68 and Orlans. it’s our turn to give back.” Schaibly at 517-432-6845 or [email protected]. Patrick E. Winters, ’03 38 office of advancement news office of Advancement NEWs 39 Amicus | summer 2010 Amicus | summer 2010 Circle of Friends The Class of 2010 left a meaningful Students had the option to either make mark at MSU Law this spring when it an immediate gift or a pledge for a future 2010 D onors to th e C o l l e g e o f L a w gn

launched the inaugural 3L Gift and Pledge i gift to be paid in May 2011 or later. Campaign. Spearheaded by this year’s class The response was very encouraging, MSU Law Salutes 2010 Donors Class of 1967 Mr. William F. Pawlick & Mrs. Karen Pawlick ift Ms. Barbara G. Robb Assoc. Dean Kathleen Payne* officers, the campaign began an annual with nearly 40 percent of graduating 3L MSU College of Law thanks the following & Mr. Jeffrey B. Goldsmith tradition aimed at fostering a spirit of students participating—a very competitive alumni, friends, corporations, foundations, Class of 1968 Mr. Howard J. Victor & Ms. Gail R. Victor giving among students. G number among other law colleges with faculty, and staff who have made a gift, pledge, Mr. James N. Martin Mr. Peter J. Mitoff Class of 1978 or pledge payment of $10 or more to date in similar programs. Mr. Mark H. Teklinski Ms. Nancy L. Davis Tuition at MSU Law covers only a portion 2010 to support our students and programs. Campa Mr. Charles G. Scifres & Ms. Dawn Scifres of the actual costs of attendance. Alumni, Donors to the program were included in a We appreciate your continued support! Alumni Class of 1969 Mr. Robert J. Sharkey faculty, staff, and others give back each prize drawing for gift certificates for bar donors are listed by class year along with their Mr. Lawrence R. Donaldson & Mrs. Ursula Donaldson Class of 1979 year so that MSU Law students have 3L study materials from Aspen Publishing, donor partners, if applicable. Donor partners who Mr. Franklin D. Gettleson Mr. Daniel J. Kehoe access to a high-quality legal education. Launches diploma framing, tickets to the Alumni graduated in different years are listed separately, Mr. Terry J. Smith & Mrs. Joan T. Smith Mr. David G. Kovac & Mrs. Mary B. Kovac The new campaign encouraged 3Ls to and additional scholarships for future Association homecoming football game under their respective class years. Non-alumni Mr. William A. Moore students.” donors are listed as friends. MSU Law faculty and Class of 1970 Mr. Scott R. Reid “pay it forward” to help provide the same and tailgate, and tickets to the Alumni Mr. James R. Geroux & Mrs. Patricia Geroux opportunities for those who follow in their Association Annual Golf Outing. The staff are marked with an asterisk. The Honorable Richard A. Santoni “We know that the Law College faculty Mr. Thomas Guastello Mr. Bryan A. Sunisloe footsteps. grand prize winner’s bar dues were paid Mr. Gerald P. Nehra & Ms. Peggy Jensen and staff care about us as students,” said Alumni & Ms. Patricia Sims Sunisloe for one year. For more information and The Honorable David M. Peterson “This is an exciting initiative by the Brian Davis, 2010 class president. “We see Class of 1949 & Mrs. Marilyn S. Peterson Class of 1980 to see a list of donors and prize winners, Mr. Norman W. Stern graduating Class of 2010,” said Dean Joan the importance of giving back through The Honorable Glenn C. Valasco Mr. William S. Ansert visit www.law.msu.edu/students/3L-gift. & Mrs. Marilyn J. Valasco Prof. Mary A. Bedikian* their example, and we hope to create a Class of 1951 Howarth. “By recognizing early on that Ms. Carolyn M. Breen Mr. David J. Sparrow Class of 1972 each and every gift matters, our students culture of giving in our class and in future Mr. William M. Cassetta & Mrs. Karen Cassetta Mr. Ira S. Auslander & Mrs. Marcia Auslander will help build better opportunities classes.” Class of 1952 Mr. James H. Coss & Mrs. Margaret J. Coss Mr. Thomas R. Fredericks Class of 1981 Mr. Howard C. Marderosian Mr. Jerome P. Ciaramitaro Class of 1954 & Mrs. Michelle M. Ciaramitaro Mr. Mayer Morganroth Class of 1973 Mr. Thomas M. Keranen In Memoriam & Mrs. Sheila Morganroth Mr. Robert J. Atkinson & Mrs. Susan Atkinson & Mrs. Victoria Keranen Mr. Alexander T. Ornstein Mr. David J. McCatty Class of 1957 J. Otto Ortwein, ’36, on December 10, 2009 Mr. Gerald L. White & Mrs. Gail White Mr. Gary M. Sklar Mr. Samuel S. Reiter Charles Snider, ’38, on June 9, 2009 Class of 1974 Class of 1982 Class of 1961 Courtney A. Evans, ’40, on December 11, 2009 Mr. Donald E. Engel Ms. Mary E. Barnes Mr. Morton Freed & Mrs. Natalie C. Freed Elmo J. Tibaldi, ’40, on October 11, 2009 Mr. David F. Oeming, Jr. Mr. Douglas C. Bernstein & Mrs. Amy Bernstein President Clifton E. Haley* Jack Newcombe, ’42, on July 19, 2009 & Mrs. Carolyn A. Haley Class of 1975 Mr. Robert S. Bonney Hon. Dale A. Riker, ’49, on July 2, 2009 Mr. James C. Leszczynski Mr. Robert B. Guyot, III & Mrs. Kristin Guyot Ms. Francine L. Cullari Mr. Stephen P. Vella & Mrs. Nancy J. Vella Carl M. Weideman Jr., ’50, on September 9, 2009 & Mrs. Rosemary M. Leszczynski The Honorable Richard T. Maltby Ms. Cyndy Zuzga Stanley Zimostrad, ’56, on August 24, 2009 Class of 1962 Mr. Douglas J. Maskin & Mrs. Marie Maskin Sam dubois, ’57, on March 9, 2010 Mr. Keith L. Leak Mr. Stanley V. Roose & Mrs. Elaine M. Roose Class of 1983 Manuel L. Papista, ’58, on January 23, 2010 Class of 1976 Mr. Joseph A. Bonventre Class of 1963 & Mrs. Joyce Ann Bonventre Mr. Errol R. Dargin Irving R. Blum, ’59, on January 3, 2009 Mr. John P. Moran The Honorable Shaun F. Cox Mr. Frederick D. Dilley Joseph M. Rozek, ’60, on June 9, 2009 The Honorable Richard F. Suhrheinrich Mr. Mark L. Dobias & Mrs. Michelle Ribant & Mrs. Beverly Suhrheinrich & Mrs. Elizabeth E. Dilley George A. Alderton III, ’61, on November 17, 2009 Mr. Donald R. Dillon, Jr. & Mrs. Joan Dillon Ms. Janet A. Hedin* Charles C. Cheatham, ’62, on September 18, 2009 Class of 1964 Ms. Hannah M. Fisher Mr. Thomas H. Hill & Mrs. Sue Hill Donald M. Blaty, ’73, on September 9, 2009 Mr. Charles R. Hrdlicka Mr. Kenneth M. Grifka Mr. Michael E. McInerney & Mrs. Kimberly McInerney Dr. Howard S. Jackson, ’74, on August 19, 2009 & Mrs. Loretta C. Hrdlicka & Mrs. Ghislaine L. Grifka Mr. John M. Jereck Mr. William J. Mann Mr. Kenneth J. Spitza Kenneth H. Embree, ’77, on November 5, 2009 Mr. Joseph H. Wagner Frederick W. Melamed, ’80, on November 22, 2009 Class of 1966 Class of 1984 Mr. Paul W. Broschay Victoria M. Desmarais, ’81, on October 17, 2009 Mr. James H. Ebel & Mrs. Sidra Ebel Class of 1977 Mr. James M. Buckley Tammy J. Reiss, ’88, on May 29, 2006 Mr. Frank R. Langton & Mrs. Judith Langton Mr. Thomas R. Bowen Mr. William R. Listman & Mrs. Kathleen A. Bowen Mr. Martin I. Caruso & Mrs. Genevieve Caruso Dennis A. Martin, ’89, on April 23, 2009 & Mrs. Arlene M. Listman Mr. Ronald A. Deneweth Mrs. Elizabeth D. Genetti Klein Scott Lachman (vice president), Jason Blevins (secretary), Tabbetha McLain (treasurer), Brian Davis (president) Dr. Lawrence E. Sporer, ’03, on November 24, 2009 & Mrs. Mary L. Deneweth & Mr. Mark S. Genetti * MSU Law Faculty/Staff 40 office of advancement news office of Advancement NEWs 41 Amicus | summer 2010 Amicus | summer 2010

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Mr. Thomas L. Howard Dr. Matthias I. Okoye & Mrs. Cordelia Okoye Class of 1997 Ms. Monica C. Inhulsen Mr. Brian P. Lick Ms. Kathryn A. Dcamp & Mrs. Constance J. Howard Ms. Tracey L. Robertson Mr. Andrew J. Morganti Ms. Kelly M. Martorano Mr. Scot A. Reynolds Ms. Catherine M. Derthick Mr. Christopher B. Kroll Mr. Robert J. Rogers Mrs. Stephanie A. Orrico & Mr. Michael A. Martorano Ms. Sarah M. Shaver Ms. Sarah M. Dinsmore Mr. Michael P. McDonald & Mrs. Tricia McDonald Mr. John C. Smallman Mr. Brian S. Pickell Mrs. Dawn McCloud Ms. Kirsten L. Thomson Ms. Sarah M. Elkins Mr. Sam Morgan & Mrs. Hillary McDonald Ms. Mary C. Wright Mr. Lee A. Sartori Mr. Sean P. McNally Mr. Douglas J. Upton Ms. Susan A. Fyan Mr. William T. Nahikian Ms. Theresa A. Sheets Class of 2004 Ms. Jie Xu Mr. Brandon W. Gardner Ms. Kathryn L. Ossian & Mr. James E. Linn Class of 1990 Ms. Sara C. Gaugier Dr. Fernando Alberdi & Dr. Katherine K. Alberdi Class of 2008 Mr. Michael J. Smith Assoc. Dean Connell Alsup, Ph.D.* Class of 1998 Ms. Jennifer R. Gorchow Mr. Bradley N. Deacon Ms. Linsey A. Aten Mr. Mark S. Torigian Mr. Joseph D. Buckman & Mrs. Paula A. Buckman Mr. Samuel J. Haidle & Mrs. Kelli Haidle Mr. Charles M. Hamlyn Mrs. Rebecca J. Dukes & Mr. Joshua Dukes Ms. Mary A. Bowen Mr. Victor S. Valenti & Ms. Rosa Bava Ms. Kim M. Hudson Mr. Barton W. Morris, Jr. Ms. Megan M. Hard Ms. Lara L. Kapalla & Mr. Jeremy Kapalla Mr. Brent L. Domann* Mr. Glen H. Pickover Mr. Jonathane M. Ricci Mr. Robbie R. Harmer Class of 1985 Mrs. Saraphoena B. Koffron & Mr. Mike Koffron Mr. Nolan L. Erickson Mr. Mark M. Talbot & Mrs. Laura Boyer Talbot Mr. Michael M. Shoudy Mr. Jason D. Hegg Mr. Kevin P. Benner Mr. Kenneth P. Lane Mr. Jared A. Geist Mr. Lee N. Willard Ms. Katherine A. Hegg Mr. Gilbert A. Borman Class of 1999 Mr. Charles A. Lawler & Mrs. Karen Lawler Mr. Aaron-Michael H. Sapp Ms. Victoria J. Hyde & Mrs. Katherine Elizabeth Borman Class of 1991 Mr. Christopher M. Brown & Mrs. Jodi M. Brown Ms. Veronica V. McNally* Mr. Kent D. Young Mr. Thomas P. Christensen Mr. William K. DeBraal & Mrs. Christine DeBraal Mr. Sean L. Carlson Mr. Jonathan P. O’Brien, Ph.D. Ms. Jean M. Ingersoll & Mr. Paul J. Coonrod Mr. Terry L. Cramer Mrs. Denise M. Hart & Mr. Marc E. Hart Mrs. Maria C. Dwyer & Mr. Dean Dwyer & Ms. Amelia V. Katanski Class of 2009 Mr. John A. Janiszewski Mr. Kim A. Gasior & Mrs. Diane K. Gasior Ms. Martha A. Kreucher Mr. Robert W. O’Brien Ms. Talia L. Talanda-Goetting Mr. Michael M. Ashkanani Mr. Anthony W. Jesko Ms. Anna A. Johnson Mr. William J. McHenry Ms. Kathleen E. Tocco Mr. Michael C. Rampe & Mrs. Lilia E. Rampe Ms. Elizabeth H. Bowker Class of 2005 Mr. Adam M. Jovanovic Ms. Regina L. Meo Ms. Julie A. Slane Mr. Matthew W. Bell Mr. Thomas A. Brady Ms. Patsy A. Stewart Class of 1992 Ms. Elizabeth V. Weisenbach Mr. Justin G. Fernstrom Ms. Bridget A. Karns Ms. Delphia J. Burton Ms. Lori A. Blankenship* Mr. Brian K. Kasiborski Mr. James M. Stover Ms. Denise S. Young Ms. Patricia A. Bolen Mr. Sean P. Gallagher & Ms. Kathleen Gallagher Mr. Oliver P. Langford Ms. Cortney L. Kellogg Mr. Brad M. Bowman Mr. Abimbola A. Obisesan Class of 1986 Mr. Kenneth T. Watkins Class of 2000 Mr. Nicholas P. Kiella Mr. Ronald L. Estes Mr. Martin B. Peters Ms. Jennifer S. Buckley Ms. Charleen M. Barnwell Mr. Che B. Peterson Mr. Kevin D. Kijewski Class of 1993 Mr. David J. Ford Mr. Russell Gregory & Ms. Pamela Gregory Mr. Joel R. Gerring Ms. Jennifer L. Robbins Mr. Douglas E. Koenig Ms. Carol R. Guyton Mrs. Lori Ann Thornhhill-Childress Mrs. Lisa R. Harris Mrs. Kathryn E. Fort* Ms. Christina M. Kohn & Mr. George Z. Childress Mr. Joseph J. Gavin Mr. David A. Schwartz Mrs. Rosemary E. Pomeroy Mr. Donald D. Nystrom Ms. Diana Shkreli* Ms. Margaret A. Kurzyniec & Mr. Mark C. Pomeroy Ms. Karen L. Finley Ms. Amy S. Graham* Prof. Daphne E. O’Regan* Mr. John P. Swallow Mr. Scott R. Lachman Mr. Robert M. Giroux, Jr. & Dr. Jonathan D. Walton Mr. John W. Inhulsen Mr. Eric S. Vanderveen Mr. Julien M. Landry Class of 1987 Mr. Kevin T. Grzelak Mrs. Laurie A. Schaibly* & Mr. Paul Schaibly Mr. Jason P. Mahar Mr. Kevin A. Wolff Mr. Brian A. LaVictoire Mr. Daniel H. Bliss & Mrs. Margaret L. Bliss Mr. Steven H. Stilman Mrs. Elan A. Stavros Nichols* Mr. Michael J. Wilson & Mrs. Jennifer J. LaVictoire Ms. Mary R. Brophy & Mr. Philip J. Kessler Mr. Todd J. Weglarz & Dr. David P. Nichols Class of 2010 Mr. James M. Leiby & Mrs. Karen Leiby Ms. Joanne B. Faycurry Class of 2006 Mr. Daniel Albahary Ms. Jane C. Li Mr. Roger E. Gobrogge & Mrs. Gwen B. Gobrogge Class of 1994 Class of 2001 Mr. Eric C. Bartley & Dr. Jamie M. Bartley Mr. Danila V. Artaev Mrs. Elisa J. Lintemuth Mr. Charles E. Langton Ms. Rene S. Roupinian Ms. Kalyn D. Redlowsk Ms. Kristin B. Bellar & Mr. James Bellar Ms. Susan E. Asam Mr. David C. Matelski Mr. Joseph F. Luther Mr. Edward T. Sable Mr. Caleb J. Shureb Mr. William C. Bower* & Mrs. Geneva S. Bower Mr. Matthew R. Barbuto Mr. Timothy P. Mckivergan Ms. Valerie L. MacFarlane Mr. Brian S. Weinstock & Mrs. Dawn Weinstock Mr. Richard W. Warren & Mrs. Lindsay E. Warren Mr. Jeffrey T. Gedeon Ms. Emily J. Barry Ms. Karen E. Michael Mr. James J. Murray & Mrs. Trish Murray Ms. Barbarose Guastello Class of 1995 Class of 2002 Mr. Michael R. Kaiser Mr. Jason E. Blevins Mr. Garret D. Miner Ms. Linda M. Orlans Mr. Marc S. Brown & Mrs. Jennifer Brown Ms. Michele M. Compton Mr. Gregory R. Kish Mr. Andrew M. Bossory Ms. Neda Mirafzali Ms. Kathleen L. Schmehl Ms. Kristen R. Gross & Mr. Carl Gross Ms. Mary A. Ferguson* Mr. Kevin S. Krystopik Mr. Patrick K. Burns Ms. Jiyoun Moon Mr. Edward D. Winstead Ms. Linda J. Metzger Mr. Neal D. Fortin & Mrs. Katherine H. Fortin Dr. Thomas S. Marks & Mrs. Kathryn Marks Mr. Ryan T. Carlson Mr. Anthony C. Mrzlack Class of 1988 Mrs. Jacalyn Newman Simon Mrs. Lisa C. Hagan & Mr. Brian A. Hagan Mr. Jeremy S. Pickens Mr. Mario A. Cascante Mr. Lucas J. Myers Mrs. Laura M. Dinon & Mr. Richard A. Dinon & Mr. James L. Simon Mr. Matthew W. Heron & Mrs. Shannon L. Heron Mr. Andrew T. Prins Ms. Jennifer L. Charest Ms. Kimberly L. Newvine Mr. Regan J. Duffy Ms. Louise B. Sable Prof. Emeritus Clark C. Johnson* Mrs. Bonnie R. Shaw & Mr. Jeremy E. Shaw Ms. Aliyya A. Clement Mr. Collin H. Nyeholt Mrs. Lisa A. Langton Ms. Sandra H. User Green & Mr. Jonathan Green Ms. Jami N. Jones & Mr. Bob Jones Mr. Drew M. Taylor Ms. Sarah E. Cochran Mr. Jon A. Oberlander Mr. Daniel R. Olson & Mrs. Julie Olson Mr. Edrick J. Overson Ms. Helen P. Moore Class of 1996 Ms. Nina G. Thekdi Mr. Christopher T. Coffman Mrs. Jennifer J. Palmbos Ms. Sheena M. Oxendine Mr. Michael T. Ratton Mr. Jeffrey Z. Dworin Ms. Anne-Marie V. Welch Mr. Gavin Cond Ms. Marian V. Wangler Mr. Curtis C. Warner Ms. Megan E. Courtney Mr. Joseph A. Parrish, Jr. Ms. Nancy P. Klukowski & Mr. Steven Klukowski* Class of 2007 Mr. Adam J. Curry Mr. Nicholas A. Passalacqua Class of 1989 Mrs. Naomi Gaynor Neilsen* Class of 2003 Mr. Ryan D. Byers Ms. Jenna M. Purdum & Mr. John L. Neilsen Mr. Erinn M. Cypher Mrs. Darlene M. Germaine & Mr. John Germaine Mr. Christian R. Biasell Mr. Kevin E. Clinesmith Mr. Thomas J. Rheaume, Jr. Mr. Charles M. Penzien Ms. Kathryn V. Dao Mr. Robert S. Huth, Jr. Mrs. Lavinia S. Biasell Mr. Thomas M. Deasy, Jr. Mr. Peter B. Rogers & Mrs. Kathleen M. Penzien & Mrs. Dana M. Goldberg Mr. Andrew S. Davis Ms. Jennifer A. Isiogu & Mr. Orjiakor N. Isiogu Mr. Mark R. Fletcher Mr. Michael J. Rubin Mr. Eric R. Sabree Mrs. Carrie R. Feeheley* Mr. Brian G. Davis

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Mr. Christopher J. Ryan Prof. David S. Favre* & Mrs. Martha E. Favre Mrs. Michelle R. Mitchell* Mr. Patrick D. Schefsky Ms. Kristen L. Flory* & Mr. William B. Flory & John S. Mitchell, M.D. Many thanks to the donors listed below, who are members of the Law College's Circle of Friends Donor Society for their cumulative giving. Ms. Rebecca B. Shand Mr. John A. Garcia* Prof. Noga Morag-Levine* & Mr. Jonathan Levine Ms. Holly M. Shannon & Mrs. Amy Lura Arnold-Garcia Prof. Lumen N. Mulligan* John J. Danhoff Society** Mrs. Joan R. Kalustian Mr. Raymond R. Behan, ’60 Ms. Ivy N. Shannon Mrs. Kimberly D. Gardner* & Mr. Robert Gardner & Mrs. Emily J. Mulligan $1 Million and Above Mr. Charles E. Langton, ’87 & Mrs. Lorraine Behan Mr. Todd J. Skowronski Mr. Kevin S. Gentry* Mr. Timothy B. Myers & Ms. Susan Myers & Mrs. Lisa A. Langton, ’88 Mr. James S. Bicknell, III, ’54 † † Ms. Megan E. Smith Prof. Catherine M. Grosso* Mrs. Sue L. Nelson* Mr. Donald L. Castle, Sr., ’36 Mr. Norman L. Lippitt, ’60 & Mrs. Doris Bicknell & Mr. Stephen P. Gasteyer & Mrs. Edna P. Castle † Mr. Michael J. Sonntag Dr. Alanna Nzoma & Dr. Jonathan K. Nzoma MSU College of Law Alumni Association Mr. Joseph J. Buttigieg, III, ’75 Ms. Sophia Souffront Mrs. Sarah E. Haigh* Mr. John A. Downs, II, ’43 † & Mrs. Mary K. Buttigieg Prof. Barbara M. O’Brien* & Dr. Richard E. Lucas † † Ms. Emily M. Stachowicz Mr. Maurice Haley & Mrs. Margaret Haley & Mrs. Clover E. Downs Ms. Jean A. Marson, ’72 Prof. Michele L. Halloran* Ms. Ruthanne Okun Mr. Russell A. Buyers, ’65 Ms. Emily J. Stockwell Mr. Geoffrey N. Fieger, ’79 Mr. Willard E. Munro & Mr. Robert W. Halloran Ms. Amanda J. Olivier* Ms. Jean P. Carl, ’68 † Mr. Mark A. Tarnavsky & Mrs. Keenie Fieger & Mrs. Marion J. Munro Ms. Hildur Hanna* Prof. Sean A. Pager* † Ms. Alessa J. Thomas † Prof. Emeritus Charles H. Clarke The Honorable Katherine L. Hansen Petoskey Harbor Springs Area President Clifton E. Haley, ’61 Mr. Harold W. Oehmke, ’72 † & Mrs. Leticia G. Clarke Mr. Wesley J. Todd Prof. Jeremy T. Harrison* Community Foundation & Mrs. Carolyn A. Haley & Mrs. Elizabeth Oehmke Mr. Jesse C. Viau † & Mrs. Laura E. Harrison* Mrs. Kathleen S. Prince* Mr. John F. Schaefer, ’69 Mr. Perry W. Richwine, ’27 Hon. Avern Cohn & Mrs. Lois Cohn Mr. Brandon K. Wagner † Mr. Philip D. Heavilin, II* Ms. Goldie Pritchard* & Mrs. Janet H. Richwine Mr. Daniel J. Desmet, ’85 Mr. Jason L. Weiner & Mrs. Nicole L. Heavilin Ms. Jessica I. Rademacher* Mr. David J. Sparrow, ’51 Prof. David S. Favre & Mrs. Martha Favre Mr. Daniel B. Ysabel Mr. Brian P. Henry & Ms. Mary E. Henry Charles H. King Society** Prof. Frank S. Ravitch* Dean Joan W. Howarth* & Ms. Carmen Estrada $500,000–$999,999 Hon. Richard F. Suhrheinrich, ’63 Prof. Robert M. Filiatrault, ’70 Friends Mr. Wayne R. Hutchison* Mr. John A. Resotko* & Mrs. Beverly Suhrheinrich & Mrs. Christine M. Martin-Resotko Mr. Peter B. Fletcher & Ms. Jaimie J. Hutchison Mr. L. D. MacLean, ’55 † Mrs. Elizabeth M. Abood-Carroll Mrs. Sally Rice* Mr. Kim A. Gasior, ’85, & Mr. David I. Carroll International Wholesale & Mrs. Frances MacLean Ms. Christene M. Richter Founders Club** & Mrs. Diane K. Gasior Ms. Theresa Allen* Mr. Marshall R. Isaacs & Ms. Elaine M. Isaacs † Mr. James L. Mattison $50,000–$99,999 Mr. Anthony E. Kenny, ’70 Prof. Emeritus Jack P. Apol* & Mrs. Carol M. Apol Ms. Danielle D. Jackson Asst. Dean Charles Roboski* & Mrs. Bertha Mattison † Prof. Melanie B. Jacobs* & Mr. Shane A. Broyles Prof. Jennifer A. Rosa* & Mr. Daniel Rosa & Mrs. Sharon A. Kenny The Arcus Foundation † Mr. Michael Berry, ’50 & Mr. Sam R. Jadaoun* & Mrs. Juliana H. Hanna Mr. William H. Paddison Mr. Alan J. Lazette Mr. Randy Avery* & Mrs. Tonya Avery Ms. Pamela A. Sanford* & Mrs. Janet Paddison † Mrs. Cynthia A. Berry Mr. John J. Jerry, Jr.* & Mrs. Nancy Jerry & Mrs. Charlene V. P. Lazette Mr. Scott C. Baldwin & Mrs. Susan K. Baldwin Ms. Dalal Saunders † Prof. Brian C. Kalt* & Ms. Sara K. Kalt Mr. Irvin H. Yackness, ’41 Mr. David W. Christensen, ’72 Barnes & Thornburg LLP Prof. Kevin Saunders* & Mary E. Scott, Ph.D. † Mr. A. Bart Lewis, ’64 Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center & Mrs. June Yackness Ms. Jenifer M. Franklin, ’97 Prof. Bruce Bean* & Mrs. Barbara Bean* Ms. Carrie L. Seib & Mr. Arthur Seib Mr. Albert Lopatin, ’53 † Ms. Jacklyn A. Beard* Ms. Margaret A. Kiel* Asst. Dean Elliot A. Spoon* Mr. Paul L. Greer, ’51 † & & Mrs. Beverly Lopatin Prof. Renee N. Knake* & Dr. Jeffrey J. Knake Prof. Susan Bitensky* & Mr. Elliot L. Meyrowitz Prof. Cynthia L. Starnes* & Mr. Michael Gorman A.J. Thomas Society** Mrs. Jacqueline Murphy Greer Ms. Dorothea J. Knight Mr. Peter J. Lucido, ’88 Ms. Rhonda Bleisner* & Mr. Tim Bleisner Assoc. Dean Glen A. Staszewski* $250,000–$499,999 Mrs. Doreen N. Hermelin Mrs. Julie Krueger* & Mr. Nicholas Krueger Mr. David M. Miro, ’30* & Mrs. Bernice Miro Mr. Lonnie Boone Ms. Rita C. Stevenson* Ms. Kerry S. Johnson, ’90 Prof. Kristi L. Bowman* Ms. Kelly A. Kussmaul* Mr. Paul J. Lay, ’69 & Mrs. Carol L. Lay Mr. Marvin R. Novick, ’52 † Ms. Kristin L. Sutton* † Prof. Hannah J. Brenner* Mr. James C. LaMacchia, II* Mr. Julian G. McIntosh, ’28 & Mrs. Margaret A. Novick Assoc. Dean Charles J. Ten Brink* Prof. Emeritus Edward J. Littlejohn, ’70 & Mrs. Vera McIntosh † Ms. Joyce E. Buckley Mr. Richard C. Lameti* & Mrs. Marti Lameti Herbert and Elsa Ponting Foundation Mrs. Betty Jo Lange* & Mr. Mark Lange Ms. Jennifer Thelen Ms. Cynthia C. Bullington* Mr. Mayer Morganroth, ’54 † Prof. David B. Thronson* Mr. Jerry Raymond, ’64 Ms. Margaret D. Burns* Lansing Lugnuts Heritage Club** & Mrs. Sheila Morganroth Assoc. Dean Michael A. Lawrence* & Prof. Veronica T. Thronson* & Mrs. Justine Raymond Prof. Craig R. Callen* $100,000–$249,999 Ms. Linda M. Orlans, ’87 & Prof. Deanne A. Lawrence* Prof. Mark A. Totten* Mr. Kenneth J. Robinson Mr. Josip Capelj Prof. Anne M. Lawton* & Ms. Kristin Rinehart Totten † Mr. Robert V. Parenti, ’51, † Mr. Justin F. Carter Mr. Samuel P. Frankel, ’35 Mr. Karl L. Seavitt, ’42 Mr. Michael C. Levine & Ms. Mary C. Levine Universal Wall Systems & Mrs. Laurie Parenti † Ms. Tina K. Casoli* & Mr. Daniel Casoli & Mrs. Jean Frankel & Mrs. Margaret L. Seavitt Prof. Edward C. Lyons* Mr. Gerald W. Vanderwal, III Mr. John D. Pirich & Mrs. Mary Beth Pirich Mr. Frederick J. Coleman Mr. Harold H. Gordon, ’51 † Mr. S. Gary Spicer, ’69 The Marriott Hotel of East Lansing Varnum, Riddering, Schmidt & Howlett LLP Prof. Stephanie L. Crino* & Mr. William O. Crino & Mrs. Marion T. Gordon Ms. Erika N. Marzorati* Mr. Paul L. Villemure Hon. Thomas A. Van Tiem, Sr., ’60 Prof. Nicole S. Dandridge* & Mr. Timothy D. Marzorati Mr. Richard W. Heiss, ’63 Benefactors Club** & Mrs. Helen Van Tiem Vital Projects Fund, Inc. Prof. Tiffani N. Darden* Mrs. Sheryl T. Matsudo* & Mr. Dean I. Matsudo & Mrs. Nancy J. Heiss Mr. George E. Ward* $25,000–$49,999 Mr. James E. Darnton Prof. Robert A. McCormick* inData Corporation Ms. Bonnie Davis & Prof. Amy C. McCormick* Warner Law Firm Mr. Alan T. Ackerman Ms. Heather Dickow Mr. James Mercurio* Mr. Andrew J. Welsch* Mr. Edwin W. Jakeway, ’61 & Mrs. Sharyl Ackerman & Mrs. Suzanne Jakeway Ms. Robin M. Doutre* Prof. Nicholas Mercuro* Ms. Beth Wey* Mr. George B. Bashara, Jr., ’60 † Mrs. Jane M. Edwards* Ms. Karen Michaels Women Lawyers Association Prof. Emeritus Clark C. Johnson, ’02 & Mrs. Suzanne Bashara Mr. Paul W. Edwards* Michigan State University Federal Credit Union of Michigan Foundation Mrs. Teresa Eldred* & Mr. Aaron Eldred Michigan State Bar Foundation Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, Inc. † * MSU Law Faculty/Staff Deceased ** These giving societies recognize donors for their lifetime giving to MSU Law. 44 office of advancement news spring commencement 45 Amicus | summer 2010 Amicus | summer 2010

d o n o r s o c i e t i e s ( c o n t . ) Spring Commencement Presidents Club** $10,000–$24,999 Michigan Supreme Court Justice Diane Hathaway, ’87, addressed George N. Bashara, Jr., Distinguished Alumni Award at the Mr. Patrick R. Anderson, ’05 Hudson-Webber Foundation Ms. Jennifer R. Poteat, ’04 the Class of 2010 at the Michigan State University auditorium ceremony. Faculty speaker Bruce W. Bean and student speaker Mr. Ralph W. Barbier, Jr., ’63 Mr. Richard W. Hughes, ’75 Prof. Albert T. Quick & Prof. Emeritus Brenda J. Quick Hon. Marianne O. Battani, ’72 Dr. B. J. Humphreys, ’57, & Mrs. Laura Humphreys Prof. C. Nicholas Revelos† on Friday, May 14. Justice Hathaway, who was elected to the Katherine A. Hegg, ’10, delivered moving and memorable Mr. Daniel H. Bliss, ’87 J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation Mr. Harry E. Roer, ’64 state’s highest court in 2008, also received the Honorable speeches to the 322 spring graduates and their guests. Mr. Saul Bluestone, ’68†, & Mrs. Eleanor Bluestone Mr. Michael H. James, ’78 Mr. George T. Roumell, Jr. & Mrs. Affie Roumell Mr. Irving R. Blum, ’59† Hon. Frank E. Jeannette, ’33† Mrs. Laurie A. Schaibly, ’00, & Mr. Paul M. Schaibly Mr. Clarence M. Burton, III, ’80 Mr. Maurice G. Jenkins, ’81, Mr. Carl J. Schoeninger, ’70, Mr. Milton W. Bush, Sr., ’34†, & Mrs. Lodie Bush & Mrs. Corlyss Connors-Jenkins & Mrs. Mary Beth Schoeninger Prof. Craig R. Callen Mr. Louis W. Kasischke, ’67 Mr. Michael B. Serling, ’70, & Mrs. Elaine K. Serling Mr. Ralph H. Cann, Jr., ’51 Mr. Edward L. Keller, ’59 Mr. Richard C. Shoop Mr. Henry N. Carnaby, ’84, & Mrs. Cathleen Carnaby Mr. Frank J. Kelley & Mrs. Nancy A. Kelley Mr. G. R. Sims, ’73 † Mr. Peter J. Carras, ’62, & Mrs. Barbara D. Carras Mr. Michael J. Kelly, ’88 Mr. Charles M. Sirhal, ’57 , & Mrs. Charlotte Sirhal Mr. Patrick G. Casey, ’59†, & Ms. Barbara M. Casey Hon. Kurt G. Kersten, ’53, & Mrs. Lenore E. Kersten Mr. A. Ronald Sirna, Jr., ’71 Mr. Daniel E. Castner, ’72 Mr. Konrad D. Kohl, ’51 Mr. David W. Sommerfeld, ’67, & Mrs. Anne T. Sommerfeld Ms. Carole L. Chiamp, ’72 Mr. Edward J. Kreski, ’81 Mr. Norman S. Sommers, ’42, & Mrs. Judy Sommers Ms. Karen A. Chopra, ’95 Mr. Donald A. Kuebler, ’66, & Mrs. Cheryl K. Kuebler Mr. Myzell Sowell, ’52† Mr. Daniel M. Clark, ’63, & Mrs. Suzanne Clark Mr. Lyndon J. Lattie, ’61 Hon. Larry J. Stecco, ’67, & Mrs. Pamela A. Stecco Mr. Michael G. Conniff, Sr., ’70 Assoc. Dean Michael A. Lawrence & Prof. Deanne A. Lawrence Mr. Robert J. Stephan, ’67, & Mrs. Mary A. Stephan Mr. Timothy J. Conroy, ’58 † † Mr. Frederick Lichtman, ’51†, & Mrs. Naomi Lichtman Mr. Monte R. Story, ’71 , & Mrs. Barbara B. Story Ms. Margaret A. Costello, ’88 Hon. Arthur J. Lombard Assoc. Dean Charles J. Ten Brink Mr. Jerry Cotter, Jr., ’59 † Mr. Robert C. Macomber, Sr., ’43†, Mr. Elmo J. Tibaldi, ’40 Mr. Thomas A. Cover, ’82 & Mrs. Dorothy Macomber Mr. Robert A. Tremain, ’70 Mr. Adam J. Dadaou, ’60 Mr. Charles A. Malone, ’70 Trott & Trott, P.C. Mr. George H. Denfield, ’53†, & Mrs. Renee Denfield Mr. Victor G. Marrocco, ’70 UAW Mr. Frederick D. Dilley, ’76, & Mrs. Elizabeth E. Dilley Mr. James N. Martin, ’68 CAP Council Mr. Sam DuBois, ’57† Mr. William M. Mazey, ’51†, & Mrs. Emma Mazey Region 1 CAP Mr. James W. Duff, Sr., ’67 Mr. Joseph F. McCarthy, ’72, Region 1A CAP "You have worked hard. You can be proud of what you have accomplished. If you continue to work hard, if you are better Mr. Ronald L. Estes, ’05, & Mrs. Janet A. McCarthy Region 1C CAP & Ms. Barbarose Guastello, ’06 Mr. Aubrey V. McCutcheon, Jr., ’61 Region 1D Retired Workers prepared than the other side—in whatever field you use your legal training—you will prevail! And you will make yourself, Mr. William J. Ewald, ’73 Mr. Martin McInerney Mr. Ronald E. Wagner, ’75 Ms. Virginia M. Farhat Mr. Thomas P. McKenney, ’78 Mr. Michael J. Watza, ’86, & Mrs. Janet M. Watza your family, and all of us proud to know you as fellow Spartans." — Professor Bruce W. Bean, faculty speaker Mr. Matthew S. Fedor, ’00, & Ms. Amy C. Slameka ’99 Mr. Richard D. McLellan, ’67 Mr. H. Wayne Wells Prof. Joseph L. Flack, Jr., ’76 Hon. Marion A. Moore, ’71 Mr. Russel C. Wells, ’64 Hon. Charles M. Forster, ’62, & Mrs. Dianna Forster Mr. Michael G. Morris, ’81 Mr. Douglas M. West, ’74 Mr. Michael D. Gibson, ’80 Mr. Andrew J. Munro, ’79 Mr. Richard N. Wiener, ’76, Mr. Gregory L. Gilbert, ’75, & Mrs. Cheryl A. Gilbert † Mr. Joseph A. Murphy, Jr., ’62, & Mrs. Rajkumari M. Wiener Mr. Donald W. Grant, ’42 & Mrs. Joanne Becker Murphy Mr. Thomas Guastello, ’70 Mr. John D. Nickola, ’66 Dr. Thomas H. Hammond Mr. Dennis H. Nystrom, ’67 Because the Law College is a private, & Dr. Christine M. Hammond Mr. Patrick J. O’Brien, ’77, & Mrs. Amy L. O’Brien nonprofit institution and separate 501(c)3 Prof. Jeremy T. Harrison & Mrs. Laura E. Harrison Mr. Robert C. Odle, Jr., ’69 from MSU, donations from our alumni Prof. Emeritus Nancy D. Heathcote Mr. Jules B. Olsman, ’78, & Mr. William L. Heathcote and friends help fund the Law College’s & Mrs. Barbara L. Grossman Olsman Mr. D. Craig Henry, ’71, & Mrs. Judith M. Henry programs and operations. Please keep Ms. Kathryn L. Ossian, ’84, & Mr. James E. Linn Mr. Stuart E. Hertzberg MSU Law in mind when making your Mr. Peter J. Palmer, ’68, & Mrs. Diane D. Palmer Mr. Frederick H. Hoffecker, ’70 charitable gifts, and consider the Law Assoc. Dean Kathleen E. Payne, ’77, Mr. Myles B. Hoffert, ’71 & Mr. Jeffrey B. Goldsmith College in your estate planning. Contact Mr. Charles P. Hoffman, Jr., ’79 Mr. Michael A. Pelavin, ’60†, & Mrs. Natalie Pelavin Tina Kashat Casoli at 517-432-6842 or James and Lynelle Holden Fund Hon. David M. Peterson, ’70, [email protected] to learn more. Mr. Lewis L. Hole, ’60 & Mrs. Marilyn S. Peterson Dean Joan W. Howarth & Ms. Carmen Estrada Mr. Frank M. Polasky, ’50

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Mark Your Calendars Join your fellow alumni and friends for the following events. Visit www.law.msu.edu/alumni/alumni-events.html for more information and to reserve a spot.

September October November 12 Family Picnic 7 Circle of Friends Donor 12 MSU Law: Past, Present, and Future MSU Law, East Lansing Recognition Dinner Reunion and Outreach Event Invitation Only Tiger Club, Detroit 30 State Bar Reception Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, Grand Rapids 15 5- and 10-year Reunions, King Scholar Reunion, GLBT/Triangle Bar Reunion East Lansing Marriott at University Place 16 Homecoming Tailgate MSU Law, East Lansing