Page 4 THE HLSA CONNECTOR THE Advocate belief that government can help? from page 1 Shure also asked Chen about the Perfect Together HLSA CONNECTOR people do so is a belief that government unusual role of the department: The Public cannot help. Public attitudes towards Advocate, he noted, is the only cabinet On September 27, half a dozen HLSA-NJ Newsletter of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey government have changed in recent member who is not appointed to do what members traveled to Cambridge to serve decades, Shure noted. When the Public the governor tells him to do. In light of on a panel encouraging current students to Winter/SpringVolume 3, Issue 2009 1 - Spring/Summer Fall/Winter 20072011 Advocate was first created, many believed this, and in light of the Public Advocate’s pursue legal careers in New Jersey. government potential role as a The panel, scheduled to coincide with would be able plaintiff in suits Still “Government Under Glass”? the beginning of the fall recruiting season, to help solve against other will include the Honorable Jack M. ChenLetter Maps From Public The Advocate’s President New Course TED WInE LMemoriamLS WILL BE 51ST some of the departments, he Sabatino ’82, J.A.D.; Amy Winkel- more pressing social and economic issues of asked Chen what he hears from and how By Stephen Herbes ’01 one reason people may do VANDERBILT LECTURER man ’87, Criminal Chief in the Office of Ronald K. Chen, the New the day, but now, many people no longer he relates to other cabinet members. Theodore V. “Ted” Wells,John Jr. Adler’76 will graduated kick the U.S. Attorney in Newark; Lowenstein Jersey Public Advocate, was the Earlier in this eventful year, our Spring believe in or want government help. The Public Advocate acknowledged off HLSA-NJ’s second fromhalf-century Harvard Collegeof Sandler partners Nicole Albano ’97 and speaker and honored guest at Symposium, Leaving The Law: Finding Your Shure moved on to pose this pair of that some cabinet members have Vanderbilt Lectures. Famous(cum most laude) recently in 1981. Steve Hecht ’92; and Michael the Association’s annual Spring Path and Making the Leap of Faith, featured approached him with for representing former HeVice was Presidential as National Passante ’03, an assistant municipal Symposium on June 19, 2007. a distinguished panel of former attorneys. suggestions as to Chief of Staff I. Lewis “Scooter”Merit Scholar Libby, andwho a prosecutor in Newark and coordinator of Also at the event, which Hosted by Genova, Burns & Giantomasi in where the Advocate’s was charged with perjury andJohn obstruction Harvard Scholar. of New Jersey Young Lawyers for Obama. took place at the Law Center in Newark, this free event was well-attended attention could be justice in the investigationJohn of graduated the leaked from focused in order to New Brunswick, the and the audience engaged the panel with identity of an undercover CIA operative, Summer Harvard Law School in help their own Association’s two 2007 probing questions about their career choices from page 3 1984. At the law school departments gain Summer Public Interest Fellows and how their individual identity led them he was Managing Editor more resources. He were introduced and presented to, and then away from, the practice of law. outside the courtroom. with certificates recognizing of the Harvard Civil also denied ignoring Public AdvocateEveryone Ronald enjoyed Chen (l), the Summer lively discussionFellowship and The attorneys I assisted placed an Rights-Civil Liberties the actions of other their achievements. Damon Program Coordinatorthe opportunity Bob Holmes to meet ’70 other and HLSA-NJHLS grads extraordinary amount of trust and President John Bartlett ’01 (r) congratulate Damon John Adler ’84 departments when King ’09 of Plainsboro spent a and current students. Trustee John Bartlett Law Review. confidence in me. Throughout the King ’09 and Josh Kipnees ’09. those actions were not ten-week summer at the New ’01 organized a fantastic event! According to his Greenberg Traurig firm summer, I was asked to compose in the public interest. Jersey Institute for Social Justice, and Josh Advocate, for example, is “in but not of” biography, “John H. Adler advised clients on sentencing memos, as well as motion Greetings! We also encourage you to pay your dues, After Chen and Kipnees ’09 served the same period with the Public Advocate – it is treated a corporate, commercial and real estate litigation papers regarding the admissibility of As hard as it is to believe that 2010 because they are what make programming like Shure completed their the Federal Public Defender. (The Fellows’ subsidiary of the department for matters as well as employment litigation. John evidence. Our supervisor also made it a has come and gone, we can look back on our Spring Symposium and our continuing dialogue, they opened activities are described in their own words budgeting purposes, but the department further assists clients with aspects of Dodd-Frank priority to regularly assemble panels of another year of exciting events for the efforts to support and mentor current HLS the discussion up to on page 3.) Kipnees’ father, Rob Kipnees does not have any supervisory power over compliance and other governmental concerns. attorneys in the office to present different Harvard Law School Association of New students with New Jersey connections questions from the ’80 of Lowenstein Sandler, was among the it. Among the first issues to draw Chen’s TedPrior Wells to ’76joining (r) with Greenberg client LewisTraurig, John viewpoints and some background on a Jersey. In November, we enjoyed the 54th possible. If you haven’t paid your dues yet, floor. For the next more than 50 alumni in attendance. attention while still “staffing up”: “Scooter”represented Libby, New formerJersey’s Thirdchief ofCongressional particular issue, be it the difference Annual Vanderbilt Lecture and the much- please mail them before the end of this staff to Vice President Dick Cheney. A Family Affair: Rob KIPNEES ’80 with son Josh ’09, one of the half hour, alumni New Century, New Advocate eminent domain, voting rights, and the District in the U.S. House of Representatives. 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