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University of California Hastings College of the Law VANTAGE POINT BUSINESS TITANS WITH A COMMANDING VIEW George Roberts ’69, Fritz Duda ’64, Parker Kennedy ’73, Barbara Banke ’78, Doug Shorenstein ’79, and Mark Harmon ’81 Spring 2009 Briefings 02 | FROM THE DEAN 03 | FOR THE RECORD Hastings students offer legal services to San Francisco residents. 04 | SIDEBARS News and notes from the Hastings community, including a database of health-care privacy laws, pioneering research into friendship and the law, and a lecture series on reproductive and genetic technologies. 56 | CLOSING STATEMENT Mark Lam ‘83, chair and CEO of Live365 Internet radio, pushes the communication envelope. inside Hastings In Depth 10 | FOCUS ON FACULTY For three decades, Professor Stephen Lind has taught countless Hastings students to appreciate the intricacies and relevance of tax law. 12 | CALLED TO COMMERCE Hastings alumni are extraordinary visionaries and tireless leaders who point the way for business in the twenty-first century. 34 | THE WORD ON BUSINESS LAW The Hastings Business Law Journal is a timely resource for the latest thinking on business and legal issues. Year by Year 36 | CLAss NOTES What’s new with your Hastings colleagues and classmates. { FROM THE DEAN } Hastings Dear Alumni and Friends, Assistant Dean, Advancement & This issue focuses on Hastings alumni in the business Communications | Jacqueline Ervin world. Whether as attorneys counseling large and Writers | Gertrude Arnold small businesses, venture capitalists financing start- Nicole Sadler ups, executives working in positions of influence in Photographer | Jim Block corporations large and small, or entrepreneurs, these Design | DCP talented graduates have added to their communities Board of Directors Donald Bradley ‘68 and the world by creating jobs and by producing Tina Combs ‘88 goods or providing services that meet the demands of Maureen Corcoran ‘79 the marketplace. Marci Dragun ‘86 Carin Fujisaki ‘85 Hastings graduates add value to business ventures by Thomas Gede ’81 bringing the critical thinking and problem-solving Claes Lewenhaupt ‘89 James Mahoney ‘66 skills they honed in law school in their courses and clinics to the decision-making, Brian Monaghan ‘70 management, and negotiation tasks that they engage in today as attorneys, business Bruce Simon ‘80 executives, financiers, and entrepreneurs. Contact Us Alumni Center Our alumni do business in every sector imaginable. This issue only skims the surface University of California of the many ways in which Hastings graduates are involved in the economy— Hastings College of the Law 200 McAllister Street Internet radio, corporate finance, entertainment law and management, wine and San Francisco, CA 94102 food, clean tech, patents, and Internet start-ups. 415.565.4615 www.uchastings.edu One of the great joys of being your chancellor and dean is the opportunity to meet Send change of address to so many of you, and to learn the exciting and often surprising twists and turns [email protected] your careers have taken since graduation. We love to hear your stories and hope Send class notes to you will continue to share them with us. Our community is large and varied, and [email protected] strengthened by the wonderful mix of vocations you have chosen. Hastings is published by the Alumni Center, University of California, Hastings College of the Law. ©2009 All rights reserved. Nell Jessup Newton ’76 Chancellor and Dean 2 SPRING 2009 { FOR THE RECORD } Students offer legal services to people in need Hastings students help more than 100 clients each month through the Legal Advice and Referral Clinic jointly sponsored by Hastings and the San Francisco Bar Association. This is just one of many ways that Hastings benefits the community. Here, passionate student volunteers lend a helping hand to San Francisco residents who need guidance with self-representation and judicial council forms. { UC HASTINGS 3 { SIDEBARS } Adrienne Konigar-Macklin ’84 fell in love with the law at Hastings. “I believed I could do anything,” she says. “Hastings made me realize that I could go into the world and make it a better place.” This attitude is the backdrop for her work as president of the California Association of Black Lawyers. Konigar-Macklin, an education law expert, campaigned on a platform of Equality in Justice for All and has aspi- rations of tapping into the California State Bar’s diversity pipeline and decreasing the state’s education disparity. She says, “I endeavor to accomplish my goals through increased commu- nity awareness and involvement in teen court opportunities, greater diversity on the bench, and better access to education and justice for underrepresented members of the community.” Konigar-Macklin is founder of Konigar & Associates, which represents school districts and administrators. Previously, she was general counsel for the Inglewood and Pomona school { districts, and the associate general counsel for the Los Angeles Unified School District. Empowering Externs 8 Hastings is well-positioned to take advantage of California’s wealth of judicial externships. Over 100 students participate in externships annually, and they consistently report that the experience improves their confidence as well as critical thinking and writing skills. Three externs each semester benefit from the Borina Foundation’s generosity as recipients of the Judge Robert Schnacke ’38 Scholarship. In 1995, June Schnacke, widow of Federal District Court Judge Robert Schnacke ’38, established the fund in his memory to provide scholarships to selected externs in the Northern District of California. Spring 2009 recipients are Agnieszka Adams ’09, Michelle Lee ’09, and Khanh Trieu ’09, and fall 2008 recipients were Michelle Alborzfar ’09, Hillary Baker ’09, and Arthur Meirson ’09. Meirson explains, “Because of the Schnacke Scholarship, I improved my research, writing, and analytical legal skills so that I will be a better lawyer and more compelling advocate.” Baker adds, “It was an honor to receive the scholarship, which reduced my loans and helped me save money for bar exam costs.” Hearing students’ accounts, it is no wonder that the Hastings community is grateful for the Borina Foundation’s longstanding support through the leadership of Sheila Burke and William Locke-Paddon, and indebted to Mrs. Schnacke for her generous foresight. 4 SPRING 2009 Friendship and the Law Should the law recognize friendship as it does other relationships? While the thought of the law creeping into your friendships may sound objectionable, it is the provocative question that Professor ETHAN LEIB grapples with in his scholarship. “My research is to uncover how friendship and the law interact, how the law regulates our friend- ships on the sly, and whether the law should promote or protect our friendships,” says Leib. Most people recognize why the law regulates relationships such as marriage and employment, but do not see why it would regulate their dealings with friends. “People want to believe that friendship is a special part of their private lives that the public sphere of the law can’t touch,” Leib says. However, he believes that the law infringes on our friend- ships at times when we do not even realize it, and he is trying to understand where the delicate balance between protection and overregulation lies. UC Hastings 5 Rutter Award Honoree Professor HeATHER FIelD was honored with the Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching, presented annually to a Hastings professor who demonstrates an outstanding commitment to classroom teaching. Field instructs students in taxation, and her research interests include the effect of tax law on businesses and business transactions. Prior to joining the faculty in 2006, she was a tax lawyer at Latham & Watkins for six years, focusing on federal taxation of corporations and partnerships. The Rutter Award is generously sponsored by William Rutter, founder of the Rutter Group, one of the leading legal publishing companies in the United States. “This award goes to a professor who opens students’ eyes and makes the law exciting,” Rutter says. “My hope is that it encourages faculty to devote more time to classroom teaching. I also want to give professors the incentive to go beyond the classroom to mentor and interact with students individually, in addition to their scholarly research.” 6 SPRING 2009 { SIDEBARS } In 1998, Brian Monaghan ’70 was diagnosed with stage IV melanoma and given six months to live. Eleven years later, he is still a practicing plaintiff’s attorney and shares the idea that there is hope against all odds in his new book. Monaghan and his wife, Gerri, have written The Power of Two: Surviving Serious Illness with an Attitude and an Advocate. “The idea started when we began writing lessons we learned along the way. My Irish humor is sprinkled throughout the narrative with the overlay of Gerri’s tips for effective advocates,” says Monaghan. The couple will donate a portion of the proceeds to cancer research. Monaghan, a prominent civil litigation attorney in San Diego, is a member of the Hastings Board of Directors. } Researching Health-Care Privacy Laws IN TODAY’S TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED WORLD, HEALTH-CARE PRACTITION- ERS ARE MOVING TOWARD ELECTRONIC DATABASES TO STREAMLINE RECORDS AND INCREASE EFFICIENCY. HOWEVER, PEOPLE WORRY ABOUT PATIENT PRIVACY ONCE SENSITIVE INFORMATION GOES ONLINE. STEVEN BONORRIS, ASSOCIATE DiRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT LAW, SAYS THAT AN EMERGING TREND IN GOVERNMENT LAW IS THAT THE STATES ARE TAKING STEPS TO LEARN WHAT LAWS ARE ON THE BOOKS.