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A Drug Tale BOSTON COLLEGE for the LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE Record Books WINTER 2019 BC.EDU/BCLAWMAGAZINE CLINICAL EDUCATION Ode to LAB Stories from the Crucible of Young Lawyering PRISON REFORM An Ex-Con’s Lament The Cruelty of Mandatory Minimums DEFYING THE ODDS, RANDALL McMILLAN ’95 ESCAPED THE UNRAVELING OF PRE-RENEWAL BROOKLYN TO EMERGE AS A FAIR-MINDED NEGOTIATOR, ADVISOR, AND INFLUENCER IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY BC Law Magazine CANDID Emma Coffey ’20 races through school to achieve her childhood dream. She is the first student in the 3+3 Program that enables BC undergraduates Photograph by DIANA LEVINE to combine senior year with the first year of law school.Page 12 Contents WINTER 2019 VOLUME 27 / NUMBER 1 Clockwise, from top left, Andrew ’96 and Jennifer Borggaard ’96; Professor Kent Greenfield; Abigail Rosenfeld ’21; student Vasundhara Prasad writes of the injustice of non-disclosure agreements in sexual abuse settlements. Features 38 7 20 For the Record Defying the odds, Randall McMillan ’95 withstood a bleak upbringing animated by art, clung to his love of music, and escaped the unraveling of pre-renewal 56 Brooklyn to emerge as a fair-minded negotiator, ad- visor, and influencer in the entertainment industry. By Chad Konecky 26 The Remarkable, Heroin-Laced, High-Seas, 50 Cartel-Sniffing Takedown Drawing upon a singular skill set, Andrés Torres ’08 built a case that Foremost 8 Impact How BC Law has Esquire spanned three continents 2 In Limine From the Editor. earned its place as a policy 38 Generations Jennifer ’96 to snag kingpin drug powerhouse; and more. and Andrew Borggaard ’96. traffickers and torpedo 3 For the Record a virtually undetectable Updates and contributors. 10 Faculty Scholarship 39 Class Notes smuggling operation. Professor Daniel Kanstroom By Brendan McKinnon ’19 4 Behind the Columns warns of a rule-of-law and 44 Alumni News A Dangerous Lie: human rights catastrophe. Tributes to Margaret Heck- Nationalism is blind to ler ’56 and Michael Deland 32 the value of diversity. 12 Candid Emma Coffey ’20. ’69; Berney’s Raiders; Bal- Once Upon a Time By Dean Vincent Rougeau liro ’81 reps Kevin Spacey. As BC Law’s clinical pro- 14 In the Field grams celebrate fifty Buddy Greene ’97, Rita 48 Click Reunion Weekend. years, alumni tell stories Docket O’Neill ’04, and four other about the seminal cases 6 In Brief: Professor Kent alumni on the job. 50 Advancing Excellence that changed their lives Greenfield’s new book when they were students. explains why corporate 16 Brainstorm 52 The 2018 Reunion By Jeri Zeder citizenship is a good thing; Dean Vincent Rougeau and Giving Report Ropes & Gray and BC Law Donnell Wright. host a major global intel- 56 In Closing Time to rethink On the Cover Randall McMillan ’95 photographed in Brooklyn. lectual property confer- 18 Evidence Far or near, non-disclosure contracts. Photograph by Joshua Dalsimer ence; student triumphs. migration is a fact of life. Vasundhara Prasad ’19 Photographs, clockwise from top left, MATT KALINOWSKI; DANIELLE RIVARD; REBA SALDANHA; THOMAS FUCHS Winter 2019 BC LAW MAGAZINE 1 IN LIMINE Foremost will be leaders anyway. So, he asks, what kind me an outlet,” McMillan says. “[It] helped me What We Learn from of world do you want? feel connected to what was happening in the the Littlest Leaders His question brings to mind our cover story streets that was positive, as opposed to what about Randall McMillan ’95, who was raised in was dangerous. It made me feel like I was Intelligence is a shameful thing to a struggling, violence-prone Brooklyn neigh- part of my environment, yet connected with waste. As a friend who works for borhood, a place that broke some of his best the things that were blossoming, not dying. It a nonprofit providing housing in friends and damaged many others. He saw the let me outside of those artificial borders my low-income neighborhoods is fond of saying, bad temptations. He could have succumbed. grandmother set for me. I honestly think my there are kids from every population who So what enabled this child of urban dysfunc- eclectic interest in music during those years is are going to be leaders, and they show up at tion to survive and ultimately thrive at the top why I’m here today…. I think that’s a parallel to random. Whether you take them in and love of America’s music industry instead? when I’m deal-making in the music business.” them or push them out and hate them, they The psychologist Howard Gardner theo- Cornell University taught other lessons. rizes that multiple intelligences contribute to “Adapting, effectively communicating, and an individual’s performance. He breaks these negotiating two different worlds—where I down into eight components: logical, spatial, was from and where I found myself—became linguistic, interpersonal, naturalist, kines- integral to my own survival and success. thetic, musical, and intrapersonal. I learned how to listen more and identify Humbly and in quiet statements and recol- the crux of what was important to people,” lections, McMillan emerges as a fine example McMillan explains. “I realized that interfac- of both my friend’s and psychologist Gardner’s ing that way would allow me to accomplish observations—that strength comes in many whatever my agenda was.” guises and out of many backgrounds, that A brain—allowed the space to grow and leaders are not made, they are born. And they flourish—is what McMillan’s story allows us are loved and respected along the way. to witness. There is a lot there. Read on. Have a listen: “There were many things VICKI SANDERS, Editor I wasn’t able to participate in…. 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