Cover 6/12/03 7:22 PM Page 1 SUMMER 2003 THE MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF ULAW TLAW THE LONG PLUS The Brazilian Exchange ARMOF UT AND LAW Mark Twain’s Guide for UT LAW’S STUDENTS Young AND ALUMNI ATWORK Lawyers AROUND THE WORLD International insolvency expert Professor Jay THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION Westbrook,’68 727 EAST DEAN KEETON STREET, AUSTIN, TEXAS 78705 C2_UFCU 6/6/03 6:23 AM Page 1 you cIofuld build the Forget the concrete and steel for now. How about building your perfect perfect financial institution on a solid base of local ownership. financial Better yet, you’d be one of the owners. You’d have no stockholders to impress. Instead, your financial institution institution, would operate on a not-for-profit basis with the sole purpose of would serving the needs of your community and the people who live what there. And it would be dedicated to achievement of the you include? financial goals of Main Street, not Wall Street. 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Your Hometown Lender. 01_Contents 6/9/03 11:04 AM Page 1 CONTENTS SUMMER 2003 TABLE OF In February the Law School celebrated the birthday of Judge William Wayne Justice,’42, and announced plans for a fundraising drive to establish a public interest endowment in his honor. See page48. F R O N T OF THE BOOK F EATURES BACK OF THE BOOK 2 VOIR DIRE TOWNES HALL NOTES 47 THE LONG ARM 4 IN CAMERA OF UT LAW NOTEWORTHY 48 Watt lights up the Oklahoma Supreme 8 DEAN POWERS Court, Getman talks labor, Now More Than Ever by Bill Powers 34 and a rare addition to the library How UT Law and its alumni 10 CALENDAR make a difference around the world CLASS NOTES 54 by John DeFore 12 AROUND THE IN MEMORIAM 62 LAW SCHOOL THE BRAZILIAN Fourth national championship win, faculty EXCHANGE CLOSING ARGUMENT 64 honors, and a new Keeper of the Peregrinus Texas’ Uncommon Laws by Corwin W. Johnson 16 FACULTY FOCUS 44 Recollections of Legislatures Past by Jack Sampson New relationships strengthen UT’s historic ties to Latin America 20 ALUMNI FOCUS MarkTwain’s Guide for Young Lawyers by Nina Cortell Cover photograph and photograph UTLAW 22 FOR THE RECORD this page by Wyatt McSpadden VOLUME 2 • ISSUE 2 02x3_Masthead/Letters/ads 6/9/03 12:03 PM Page 2 D I R E R I O “For someone as distinguished as V UTLAW Judge Sam Johnson, ’49, perhaps the rule should UT SCHOOL OF LAW have been relaxed.” WILLIAM W. KILGARLIN, ’62 Dean BILL POWERS JR. Asst. Dean for Development and Alumni NANCY BRAZZIL JUSTIN CASE UTLAW mag- azine won the silver medal for excel- Director of the Alumni Association TOM HENNINGER, ’92 lence in periodical improvement at Director of External Relations this year’s CASE Southwest District FRAN CHAPMAN IV awards. The district encompasses UT Law School Alumni Association President Mexico and the states of Texas, Ar- MIKE PERRIN, ’71 LETTERS kansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, and UT Law School Alumni Association President Oklahoma. The Council for Advance- STEPHEN TATUM, ’79 R E M E MBERING ment and Support of Education FRIENDS (CASE) supports educational profes- MAGAZINE REALIZE THAT SPACE FOR BIOGRAPHIES sionals in three thousand education Communications Director Iof those listed In Memoriam is institutions in forty-five countries. ALLEGRA J. YOUNG limited. However, for someone as Communications Strategy Manager distinguished as Judge Sam John- LAURA CASTRO TROGNITZ, ’97 son,’49, perhaps the rule should Class Notes and In Memoriam Editor have been relaxed so that mention IRMA SANTANA could also have been made that he Faculty Publications MICHAEL WIDENER served as a justice of the 14th Court of Civil Appeals, justice of the Su- Editor-at-Large NICHOLA FORTNEY preme Court of Texas, and judge of Editorial Assistance the United States Fifth Circuit Court JAN McINROY of Appeals. Creative Direction, Design, and Production Edna Philips’s husband, Tom, ’39, NANCY McMILLEN was not only a senior partner at Baker NANCY McMILLEN DESIGN Botts but was a president of the State Bar of Texas. WE WELCOME William W. Kilgarlin,’62 YOUR LETTERS AT: Santa Fe, New Mexico UTLAW Letters UTLAW Alumni Magazine 727 East Dean Keeton Street Editor’s Note: Thank you for your let- Austin, Texas 78705 E-mail: [email protected] ter. 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CONTACT INFORMATION: Write: UTLAW Letters CORRECTION Federal district UTLAW Alumni Magazine Telephone: (512) 232-1118 E-mail: [email protected] judge Thad Heartfield was identi- 727 East Dean Keeton Street Online: http://www.utexas.edu/law/ fied in “The Beaumont Founda- Austin, Texas 78705 depts/alumni/form.html tion” (Spring 2003) as a graduate of E-mail: [email protected]. UTLAW Magazine is published three times a year by The utexas.edu UT Law. He is a graduate of St. Mary’s University of Texas Law School Foundation, a nonprofit Law School. Fax: (512) 232-1354 corporation, 727 E. Dean Keeton St., Austin, Texas 78705. 2 UTLAW Summer 2003 02x3_Masthead/Letters/ads 6/9/03 12:03 PM Page 3 Your challenges take on many different forms. So do our solutions. 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Central Texas’ Fall Creek Vineyards (pictured here), established in 1975 by Ed Auler, ’69, and his wife, Susan, has received more than five hundred international, national, and state awards for its red, white, and Zinfandel wines. In the Napa Valley, fellow alumnus Charlie Meeker, ’67, the former president of Metro-Goldwyn Mayer, and his wife, Molly, established the award-winning Meeker Vineyard nine years later. The vineyard specializes in reds and produces 18,000 cases a year. P HOTOGRAPH BY G EORGE B RAINARD Summer 2003 UTLAW 7 08x11_Dean/Calendar/Ads 6/9/03 12:15 PM Page 8 POWERS DEAN Now More Than Ever How the Law School is investing in its core mission during tough times. S I HAVE SAID ON SO MANY OCCASIONS, WE HAVE exciting things our students and faculty are accomplishing. the best alumni in the country.