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HASTINGS -* U HASING LETTER TO ALUMNI ALUMNI / STUDENT PICTURE REUNIONs 2002 ChancellorKane Reflects GALLERY On the Past Quarter Century Alumnus-of-the-Year Events * Fresno Chapter * Sacramento Chapter * Black Alumni Chapter FACULTY NOTES * Latino Alumni Chapter * Feldman, Leshy Are New Faculty Mei CAMPUS NOTES * Lee Named Professor of the Year * Fred Butler Named Alumni Association New Student Welcome Receptions * Faculty in the News President * New York Chapter * Immigration Lawyers Honor Musalo * Boston Chapter * A Fond Farewell for Extern Chu * Seattle Chapter * HPILF Honors Professor Boswell; Summer Fellows Named Alumni Events CLASS NOTES * CareerServices Alumni Mentor Honor Roll * Hastings Alumni Association / Clara Foltz * Welcoming Alumni Volunteer Mentors Feminist Association Reception Honoring * At the Third-Year Champagne Reception Hastings Women * Public Interest Graduates Celebrate * Santa Barbara Chapter Reception * Kate Pine Is Alumni Association Director * LA Attorney Mahoney Elected Hastings Board Chair * Campus Speakers * Trial Advocacy Team Competes in Three FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE Contests COLLEGE * InternationalVisitors * Wilke, Fleury Gift Honors Firm's Hastings * Symposia Alumni * Hastings Graduates Win Judicial Clerkships * 1066 FoundationAdds $30,000 to Forrester Scholarship ON THE COVER: * Wain Fishburn Named 2002-03 National Campaign Chair 2002 National Moot Court Champions and 2002 clsmates Moe Keshavar4 Rob Hodil, and * 2002 Class Gift To Be Used in Walnut Room Joel Muchmore~(Photo: Bruce Cook) 2002 MOOT COURT NATIONAL CHAMPIONS COMMENCEMENT 2002 * A Commencement Photo Album THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL * Excerpts From US. Secretary of Agriculture SCHOLARSHIP TEA Ann Veneman's Address HASTINGS W? W .......................... LETTER TO ALUMNI IllZ" AUTUMN 2002 all *Hounded in 1878, Hastings this scholarships to make it feasible for academic year will celebrate who are accepted to attend. And, most 125 years of service to the legal recently, we have responded to the profession. We have a rich and colorful trends in the legal profession brought an history filled with achievements and about by globalization by establishing accolades, as well as examples of over- LL.M. degree program for foreign- which coming serious challenges. When Profes- trained lawyers, the first class of sor Thomas Barnes wrote our centennial started this August. larger history in 1978, Hastings College of the These are just a few of the It Law: The First Century, he summed up issues with which we have grappled. 25 our history by commenting: has been a very busy and productive years, and Professor Barnes was right - Through all its trials and tribulations, throughout it all our spirit has been undiminished, and Hastings has for all its changes, despite all its fail- "inimitable." Con- ures and its successes, Hastings . has remained "unique" and our fulfilled the vision of its Founder the sequently, this next spring during we hopes of its professors, and the desires annual Founder's Day celebrations and of its students. In the process, it has will have some special activities woven itself into the fabric of Califor- ing. We have embraced the technological publications to recognize and celebrate and future nia, and contributed to California's revolution in our classrooms, in our our 125 years of service. New phenomenal growth over the course of research capabilities, and in our student challenges are already apparent, but on our a century. As with every university that services arena. We have adapted our cur- allowing some time for reflection our future. responds to a true need in its origins riculum to place an important emphasis past can give us confidence in able to and continues to respond to changing on skills training, both for litigation and I hope that many of you will be but in needs, the history of Hastings College of for alternative dispute resolution. This be with us to share the occasion, of the Law will know no end, only many year actually also is the 10th anniversary any event we will dedicate an issue day and beginnings. of our widely recognized in-house Civil the Hastings Community to the Justice Clinic. When changes in federal the remembrances it brings so that all magnif- He concluded his book with this law made it impossible to continue the Hastings alumni can share in our prognosis: "Given its first century, it is 65 Club faculty tradition that brought icent past, our exciting present, and our unlikely that the second will be any less such enormous prestige to Hastings, we plans for the future. challenging, any less dramatic, any less responded by hiring those who are creative . But the present makes clear nationally acknowledged to be some of that the abiding issues remain, the spirit the most promising junior and mid-range is undiminished. Hastings will remain faculty, as well as prominent more senior unique, inimitable in its next century as faculty who have been awarded endowed it was in its first." Distinguished Professorships and Chairs. Now that we have come a quarter of We had to confront serious state budget Mary Kay Kane Chancellor and Dean the way into our second century, it cutbacks and steep increases in student seems an opportune time to reflect a bit fees in the early 1990s. But we have on our progress in these last 25 years. We maintained our commitment as a public have had, and will continue to have, institution to provide access to the legal many new beginnings. We have built a profession for those who otherwise metropolitan campus, including student might not be able to afford a first-rate housing and a new library/office build- legal education by developing grants and HASTINGS CAMPUS NOTES Fred Butler Named Alumni Association President In June, Fred D. articles that were published by the American * Pro-bono Hearing Officer for the San Butler began a Arbitration Association Dispute Resolution Francisco Office of Citizen Complaints; one-year term Journal, the LA Daily Journal, and the as the 88th Northern California Mediation Association. * Neutral for the Peninsula Conflict President of the Among his articles are "Coordination of Resolution Center in San Mateo; Hastings ADR Training and Programs," "Mediating * Past President of the Northern California Alumni EEO Cases," "Factors in Selecting a Neutral," Mediation Association; Association. A and "Race and Culture in ADR." 1986 graduate Prior to becoming a certified ADR * Former appointed member of the of the law provider, Butler represented both employ- California State Bar's ADR school, who previously received a Masters ers and employees and other parties before Committee; and in Public Administration from New York civil and administrative courts. For the past * "Citizen Diplomat" for the International University in 1977, Butler has made five years, however, he has concentrated his Council. contributions to Hastings over the years legal practice as a neutral and has served as Diplomacy on many different fronts, including his a neutral in more than 700 matters. Not surprisingly, given his extensive service since 1993 as a member of the He also created and staffed the Office of and important service, Butler has received Alumni Association's Board of Governors, the Public Adviser for California's first elect- numerous awards and honors over the as a longtime participant in both the ed Insurance Commissioner. He continues to years, including the ABA's American school's Alumni Mentor and Mock serve in that department's legal division on a Jurisprudence Award and the Northern Interview programs, and as one of the part-time basis, working on special projects. California Mediation Association's Com- founding members of the Hastings Black Before becoming an attorney, he served as munity Service Award. Upon Butler's Alumni Chapter, which designated him as the Executive Director of the White Plains selection as the Alumni Association Presi- the recipient of the Chapter's Alumnus- Housing Authority in New York. dent, Chancellor Mary Kay Kane com- of-the-Year Award in 2001. In addition, he Butler currently serves as a neutral for mented: "We are quite fortunate that Fred has been a frequent lecturer for Hastings' a number of organizations and courts, Butler will be heading up our Alumni LEOP program and a presenter at various including the American Arbitration Association during the College's 125th information sessions sponsored by the Association, EEOC, Kaiser Permanente, anniversary year. He is a most dedicated Hastings Career Services Office for the NASDR, and the U.S. Postal and longtime supporter of Hastings, and I benefit of students seeking legal Service/American Postal Workers Union, know that Fred will provide great leader- employment or other career opportunities. as well as the Federal District Court for ship as we celebrate all the contributions Fred D. Butler is based in San Francisco, the Northern District of California, that Hastings and its graduates have made where he serves as both an arbitrator and California Appellate Courts, and the San to legal education and to the legal profes- mediator with respect to a variety of Francisco, San Mateo, and Solano County sion during the school's first century-and- disputes. These include employment and Superior Courts, among others. He also a-quarter of service to the State of Califor- labor disputes; Equal Employment has filled volunteer positions for a number nia. A natural consensus builder, Fred will Opportunity Commission matters involving of organizations in the ADR field.