The Record Alumni Magazine Winter 2011

The Alumni Magazine of Boston University School of Law

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Re-energizing a post-Madoff SEC: Robert Khuzami (’83)

From the Old South to the U.S. Court of Appeals: Ojetta Rogeriee Thompson (’76)

Defending war crime suspects at Guantanamo: Suzanne M. Lachelier (’92) Christina M. Jimenez (’01)

Law firms face new business model:

An interview with James Jones, co-managing director and senior vice president of Hildebrandt Baker Robbins

Giving back:

Gerard Cohen (’62) Professor Dennis S. Aronowitz

To Russia, with success: Reinventing the movie theater Shari Redstone (J.D. ’78, LL.M. ’81)

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The Alumni Magazine of Boston University School of Law

Maureen A. O’Rourke Dean, Michaels Faculty Research Scholar, Professor of Law

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Shari Redstone (J.D. ’78, LL.M. ’81)

Office of Development & Alumni Relations Cornell Stinson, Assistant Dean Anthony Barbuto, Executive Director

Office of Communications & Marketing

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A journey to the U.S. Court of Appeals: Ojetta Rogeriee Thompson (’76)

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Re-energizing a post-Madoff SEC: Robert Khuzami (’83)

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A year in Nepal: Brendan Doherty (’06)

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Scoring a legal slam dunk: Pamela Wheeler (’95)

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Law firms face new business model

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Outsourced and in demand: Joshua Soloway (’06)

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Guantanamo law: Suzanne Lachelier (’92) and Christina Jimenez (’01)

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Veteran crusader: Robert Chisholm (’88)

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Alumni and the power of community in a challenging job market

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Alumni and Reunion Weekend

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Silver Shingle Awards

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Public interest at BU Law

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Alumni news

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School and student news

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Peter Resnik (’70) and Professor Susan Akram honored

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Ken Rose (’81) profiled in The Last Lawyer

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BU Law welcomes new faculty

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Commencement speaker 2010: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder

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Class notes

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Annual Report of Giving

Mary K. Gallagher, Director Sandra Miller, Publications Specialist Johanna Odwara, Design Specialist

Contributors Nora Dunne Bill Ibelle Gary Libman Christine Lindberg Joe Mielenhausen Priya Shah Elina Troshina

Photography Kerry Brett Bryan Broyles BU Photography National Amusements Mark Ostow, Ostow Photography Joel Sage

Printing Cranberry Printing and Graphics

Cartoonist Vasanth Sarathy (‘10), a second-year associate at Ropes & Gray, sketches the lighter side of law. His cartoon blog, “Legally Drawn,” received a record 15,000 hits in one day after legal tabloid Above the Law posted a link to his site. For more of his cartoons, visit www.legallydrawn.com.

On the cover: Shari Redstone (J.D. ’78, LL.M. ’81)

Dear alumni and friends, I was delighted to see so many of you at the annual Gala Dinner at the Ritz Carlton, Boston Common in October. For the first time, we presented BU Law’s Silver Shingle Awards at the Gala Dinner that is held during Alumni & Reunion weekend. The award recipients along with their photos appear beginning on page 33. Given the large turnout this year, we booked a larger space for the 2011 event at Mandarin Oriental, Boston.

Over the past few years, I have been able to meet many BU Law alumni and look forward to meeting more of you. One of the things that has impressed me is the broad range of fields in which our alumni excel. In this issue of The Record, you will find stories about fellow graduates who have followed a wide variety of career paths: business, sports, the judiciary, the government, the military, the nonprofit sector, traditional law firms and innovative niche firms.

We have also included stories describing the commitment of our alumni, students and faculty to public interest and pro bono work. As you may know, BU Law was one of four law schools in the country named

by National Jurist to its 2010 Public Service Honor Roll. Commitment to furthering the public good is one of the shared values of the BU Law community, and we are proud of all the work that you do.

Alumni have also been very generous in helping members of the BU Law community. In this difficult economy, many alumni have reached out to help the School, current students and other

alumni. In the following pages, you will find an article mentioning a few of the many who have stepped forward to help. It would be impossible to name everyone, but please know that we are very grateful for all of your support. If any of you are able to lend a hand to graduates or current students during this economic downturn by hiring them or offering networking assistance, please get in touch with Maura Kelly, our assistant dean for Career Development and Public Service, by phone at 617.353.3141 or email at kelly@bu.edu.

At BU Law, we continuously monitor developments in the legal profession to ensure that we are providing the legal education that best prepares our graduates for the marketplace they will enter. Last year, we invited James Jones of Hildebrandt Consulting to meet with faculty and staff to discuss the recession’s impact on the legal profession and some of the emerging trends in the business of practicing

law. We interviewed Mr. Jones for The Record so that we could share some of his insights with you.

We hope you enjoy this issue of The Record, and we welcome your feedback. You may contact the Alumni Office by phone at 617.353.3118 or by e-mail at lawalum@bu.edu. Thank you for your continued support; we look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Maureen A. O’Rourke, Dean

From life in the segregated Old South to the U.S. Court of Appeals

The journey of Ojetta Rogeriee Thompson (’76) Her great-grandfather was a South

Her rise to the federal bench has been

her world of separate schools, separate

Carolina plantation owner who bought

a head-spinning journey from all-black

movie theaters and separate swimming

her great-grandmother at a slave

Catholic schools in the segregated South,

pools—a parallel universe of substandard

auction, then lived with her as her

through Brown University and BU Law,

facilities for an entire race of second-class

husband. Now, more than a century

to one of the highest courts in the land.

citizens.

laws of the Old South, Ojetta Rogeriee

Thompson’s big break came following her

“It was a kind of schizophrenic

Thompson has become the first black

sophomore year in high school. Growing

experience,” she recalled. “In the context

judge to sit on the U.S. Court of Appeals

up in Greenville, S.C., during the 1950s

of our community, we were surrounded

for the First Circuit.

and 1960s, Thompson knew little beyond

by very loving and supportive people who

after her ancestors defied the segregation

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shielded us from much of the ugliness.

and was greeted by her new all-white

expression, but when I got to law school

But I still experienced the racism rather

family. Her new school, Scarsdale High,

they discouraged that kind of writing.

severely. To give you a feeling for what

had a reputation as one of the best high

it was like, Greenville was required to

schools in the nation—but diversity was

respond to the court decisions about

not its strong point. There was a grand

desegregation just like everyplace else;

total of three other black students at the

but rather than integrate the city’s largest

school—two SSSP students like herself

public pool, they retrofitted the pool,

and one whose parents actually lived

made it part of the zoo and filled it with

in town. Only one of them was in her

seals.”

grade.

In the summer of 1967, based on her

“I had never seen that much wealth,” said

grades and high PSAT scores, she was

Thompson. “It was a difficult transition.

offered a slot in the Summer Study Skills

Quite often, it was awkward in school,

Program (SSSP), hosted by Knoxville

but I learned to select my friends based

College. The program gathered black

on their interest, not on their color.”

students from throughout the South to engage in intensive academic study

Fortunately, the family Thompson

during two summers. It also involved

lived with was “warm and loving” and

placing some of these talented minority

welcomed Thompson as one of their

students with prosperous families up

own. The father was an editor at the New

north.

York Times, and the mother was a high school teacher in White Plains, N.Y.

Although Thompson leapt at the

They had five kids, the oldest of whom

chance—she craved the educational

was Thompson’s age.

opportunity and desperately wanted

“The fog lifted about a month before exams and I finally understood what these people were talking about. Once I started feeling comfortable, I found it to be quite enjoyable. We lived in our study groups back then and I made many wonderful friends.”

BU Law proved to be a valuable resource early in her legal career when she was running her own small firm in Providence, R.I. “One of the greatest pleasures of my life was to serve as tribal counsel for the Narragansett Indians,” she said.

“Native-American law was not taught in many places back then, but BU had an excellent reference section on the subject, and they made it available while I was negotiating the tribe’s land claims.”

After the tribe won federal recognition in 1983, Thompson negotiated the

to escape segregation—it was not

Thompson thrived academically in

such a simple decision for her mother.

Scarsdale, won a scholarship to Brown

Thompson’s father had died when

University and spent the summer in

she was 8 years old, and her sister had

between high school and college living

skipped a grade and was already off at

with a family in Giulianova, Italy. It was

As a private attorney, Thompson

college, so if Thompson left to live with

a long, long way from the segregated

negotiated the state’s then-largest

a family up north, her mother would be

Catholic schools of Greenville, S.C.,

settlement in a police brutality case

all alone.

which was all she had known just two

and was extremely active in child abuse

years before.

litigation. In 1988, she became the first

“Some of her friends told her they would never let their daughter live with

Thompson graduated from Brown

strangers,” said Thompson. “Others

with a degree in English and earned

told her that her daughter must be a

a scholarship to BU Law, which she

very tough cookie to want to do this.

remembers as the most daunting

My mother is a very spiritual person, so

intellectual adjustment of her life.

she did a lot of praying. Eventually, she

settlement with the state, which transferred tribal land from a private land management company to the tribe itself.

black woman appointed to the Rhode Island District Court. Nine years later she was the first black woman Superior Court judge in Rhode Island. Earlier this year, she became the first black person and the second woman appointed to

“I was confused my whole first year,” she

the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First

admitted. “I had gone to Brown when

Circuit (BU Law Alumna Sandra Lynch

So at age 15, Thompson boarded a

it was still an open curriculum—you

(’71) is the Chief Judge of that court).

train for New York and a new life in the

studied whatever you wanted and didn’t

That’s quite a string of firsts for the

wealthy suburb of Scarsdale. She arrived

have any grades. As an English major, I

great-granddaughter of a slave owner and

in Manhattan alone, stepped off the train

was rewarded for creativity and self-

a slave.

decided to let me go.”

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Re-energizing a post-Madoff SEC

Robert Khuzami (’83) targets fraud with innovative tactics When it comes to policing the graball-you-can world of high finance, Robert Khuzami is the man who has an eye on it all.

massive securities fraud scheme and then attempting to defraud the U.S. Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program to cover it up.

creating a unified database that makes it possible for the agency to track patterns among the tens of thousands of tips it receives each year.

As director of the Division of Enforcement for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) since March 2009, he has been responsible for restoring integrity and effectiveness to an agency rocked by Bernard Madoff’s $65 billion Ponzi scheme and questions about the agency’s effectiveness.

One of Khuzami’s boldest moves was to create five highly specialized investigative units, thereby developing the expertise needed to uncover fraud before it causes massive damage. The new enforcement units specialize in asset management and hedge funds; structured financial products; municipal securities and

“The Holy Grail in enforcement is to stop fraud early in its life cycle before investor money is gone, the wrongdoers have covered their tracks and the evidence has grown stale,” said Khuzami. “To achieve that goal, we need to be masters of our own docket—not simply be reactive, but to identify those market practices, products and transactions that present the greatest threat to investors, even if in the early stages, and move aggressively to stop them. To do that, you need people steeped in the markets. This is the only way to keep pace with the wrongdoers.”

Khuzami didn’t waste any time when he took over. By the end of his first year in office, he had orchestrated the largest restructuring in the division’s 75-year history. Six months later, he negotiated the largest financial penalty against an investment bank in SEC history—a $550 million settlement with Goldman Sachs, which was charged with misleading investors with a product based on subprime home mortgages.

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The Holy Grail in enforcement is to stop fraud early in its life cycle before investor money is gone, the wrongdoers have covered their tracks and the evidence has grown stale.

During the past year, the SEC has aggressively pursued fraud that occurred leading up to and during the economic crisis, including bringing cases against Citigroup, State Street, Reserve Fund, Countrywide, New Century, ICP Asset Management and Morgan Keegan, to name a few. In another case, the SEC charged the former chairman of what was once the nation’s largest nondepository mortgage lender, Taylor, Bean & Whitaker, with planning a

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“By increasing specialization, our staff can dive deep into particular market transactions, practices and products,” said Khuzami. “We are now more capable of identifying high-risk areas in advance and swiftly prosecuting the perpetrators.”

Keeping up with those wrongdoers is no small task, given the enormous profits to be made by cheating and the fact that the SEC is outnumbered and out-financed by Wall Street.

According to Khuzami, the agency has about one person for every 10 regulated entities, compared to a ratio of about one to one for the federal agencies responsible for banking regulation.

These specialized units dovetail well with another key reform: the creation of the Office of Market Intelligence. This branch of the SEC serves as the point of contact for all tips, complaints and referrals,

Although Khuzami was pleased by the summer budget increases, he will always have to rely on the dedication and talent of SEC attorneys to keep the financial world honest.

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“Relying on anticipated budget increases is like waiting for the cavalry—you don’t know when it’s coming, you don’t know how many will come, and you don’t know how long they’ll stay,” he said.

“Fortunately, despite the uncertainty of resources, we are rich in talented personnel who are here because this work inspires them.”

Inspired by watching the Watergate hearings as a teenager, he realized at an early age that law could be an exciting and noble career. Law school did not disappoint him. Khuzami worked for Professor Dennis Aronowitz during the early years of the Morin Center and served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law & Medicine.

But one of his fondest memories from his BU years was playing goalie for the law school hockey team and competing for the league trophy, a version of the famed Beanpot Tournament that was fondly known as the Piss Pot. “The trophy was a urinal spray-painted silver,” he said.

Tough prosecutor Before spending seven years as global head of litigation and general counsel for the Americas at Deutsche Bank, Khuzami built his reputation as a hard-driving federal prosecutor in New York. During his 11 years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where he ultimately headed the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force, Khuzami prosecuted a host of high-profile criminals, including: • Omar Abdel-Rahman, also known as the “Blind Sheikh,” who was the mastermind of the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993. The case, which Khuzami prosecuted with two others, involved a plot to launch simultaneous bomb attacks on U.N. 8

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• Patrick Bennett, architect of the largest Ponzi scheme in history at the time, a $700 million fraud against 12,000 investors. Bennett was convicted of 42 counts of fraud and money laundering and sentenced to 30 years in jail.

• More than one hundred defendants arrested in an undercover sting operation that was the largest simultaneous arrest in a securities fraud case in Justice Department history. The defendants in U.S. v.

Lino were convicted of racketeering, securities fraud, a scheme to defraud union pension plans, extortion and the solicitation of murder.

$700 million portfolio that averaged 29 percent returns over 10 years. Apparently, Bagdasarian was pretty convincing; just before prosecutors caught up with him, he persuaded Wall Street giant Salomon Brothers and others to underwrite a $200 million IPO for his new re-insurance company, Normandy America.

The bubble finally burst in 1996 when Bagdasarian, just 31, pleaded guilty to eight charges of securities fraud, bank fraud, perjury and conspiracy.

“He never had a penny of it,” said Khuzami. “His ability to pull off this scheme, and to deceive some very sophisticated financial players and institutions, underscores the principle in law enforcement that fraud knows no boundaries.”

Sophisticated fraud

Incompetent criminal

One of the most memorable cases Khuzami handled was against the financial wonder boy Christopher K. Bagdasarian, who bluffed his way into a multimillion-dollar lifestyle by scamming some of the nation’s biggest financial titans. Bagdasarian jetted around the country in a Gulfstream IV jet, lived on a California estate that was likened to Versailles and was dubbed by Fortune magazine as “the next Warren Buffet.”

Although Khuzami has prosecuted scores of impressive cases, he has also faced off against his share of knuckleheads. He remembers one in particular—a bank robbery case that left him shaking his head in disbelief.

The reality was that all his trading was done on a mock basis (no money changed hands). According to Khuzami, Bagdasarian convinced banks that his lack of full documentation was because he was functioning as a “protector,” a person in Europe who invests for royalty and other famous people to keep their names out of the news. Meanwhile, Bagdasarian’s scam was abetted by his co-defendant, Samuel White, a partner at the prestigious accounting firm Deloitte & Touche.

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Banks at the time were putting temporary tellers in large office buildings on Friday afternoons so that employees could cash their checks. They hired rent-a-cops to guard the money, and the temptation became too great for one of these special police officers.

“He decided to rob the tellers, who could identify him easily,” recalled Khuzami.

But that wasn’t the worst of it. “After the robbery, he went straight to the liquor store, bought a bottle of Jack Daniels, walked up to Prospect Park, downed the entire bottle and fell asleep there using the stolen money as a pillow.”

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A year in Nepal Brendan Doherty (’06) helps emerging democracy with new constitution

Brendan Doherty’s office is in the Nepali government building Singha Durbar, which literally means the “Lion’s Gate.”

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Nepal is home to Sagarmatha (more commonly known as Mount Everest in the West), the birthplace of Buddhism, and until recently a monarchy.

Since the 1950s, Nepal has cycled between absolute rule and democracy.

This all changed in 2006 as the Maoists’ decade-long “People’s War” finally forced the government to the negotiating table. What emerged was no small change—the abolishment of a monarchy, an interim constitution, and a Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the Maoists and the government. The interim constitution called for the election of a new legislature tasked with drafting the country’s permanent constitution by May 28, 2010.

In the midst of this historic process is BU Law alumnus Brendan H. Doherty (’06), who is serving as Chief of Party with the Public International Law & Policy Group (PILPG), an international pro bono law firm and nongovernmental organization providing legal assistance to governments in post-conflict states.

His role is to provide legal and technical support to the constitutional drafting process in Nepal.

From Cape Cod to Kathmandu A native of Chatham, Mass., Doherty never thought when he entered BU Law that a few years later he’d be halfway across the world, offering a hand in the forming of a new democracy. What he did know was that he “wanted to work at the intersection of law and policy. I wanted the analytical framework that comes with that law degree, to use it and apply it in a policy setting.”

After graduating in 2006, Doherty spent his first three years working at the U.S. Department of State. While there, he served as special assistant to the under 10

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When I sit down with these drafters to discuss issues of executive power or freedom of expression or judicial appointments, I can’t help but think: these are the framers of Nepal’s constitution…

This is a rare moment for a country, and it’s fascinating to be a part of it. secretary for political affairs on issues related to the United Nations and Africa.

He was a political officer in the U.S. Embassy for Addis Ababa, advising the U.S. ambassador on issues of human rights, internal politics, and drought and conflict conditions. Immediately prior to taking his position in Nepal, he served as deputy in the Office of War Crimes Issues, where he directly advised the ambassador-at-large on accountability and justice mechanisms, in-country political conditions, and bilateral and multilateral engagement strategies.

In November 2009, he took a year’s leave from the State Department to join PILPG in Nepal. Doherty describes his work as both detail-oriented and exciting. “Constitutional drafting is one of the most politically charged legal issues on the international stage,” he said. Helping a government to draft its new constitution was not a skill he expected to use when he took Professor Tracey Maclin’s constitutional law class. “What I learned in Tracey’s class I’m able to translate into very practical advice based on what our own country’s experiences were.”

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drafting process, including assembly members, lawyers, leaders within the political parties, and representatives from domestic and international NGOs, other governments and the United Nations.

He is very careful to respect the Nepali government’s role in this process and draws upon the diplomacy skills he developed working at the State Department.

“When I sit down with these drafters to discuss issues of executive power or freedom of expression or judicial appointments, I can’t help but think: these are the framers of Nepal’s constitution. This is a rare moment for a country, and it’s fascinating to be a part of it,” said Doherty.

“The lead-up to May 28 [the deadline for producing a constitution] was a very tense and uncertain period in Nepal,” said Doherty. The political parties kept negotiating, as many constituent assembly members and the public waited hopefully for an end to the political impasse.

“At the 11th hour the three major parties came together to extend the deadline by one year, to May 28, 2011,” he said.

The extension involved an agreement over general principles and specific points, including agreement that Prime

Brendan Doherty in his office in Singha Durbar, the Nepali seat of government, where he is helping to draft their new constitution as chief of party with the Public International Law & Policy Group. “While there may be an initial barrier or hindrance in that I am not Nepali or our organization is international, at the end of the day our success will ultimately depend on the quality of our work, delivered in a timely manner,” he said.

Minister Madhav Nepal would resign to make way for the new government. “It was a concession to the Maoists who are looking to return to power,” and who had earlier resigned in a dispute against the then Maoist prime minister, Doherty explained.

Some of the outstanding core constitutional issues included the type of leadership to be chosen: President?

Prime Minister? Both? As an additional resource, Doherty set up a roundtable so that his director at PILPG could share his experiences when assisting in the drafting of new constitutions in Kosovo, Bosnia and Iraq.

“We talk about whether balances in government power work in the sense of producing a stable state. We avoid normative statements as to what Nepal should do; that’s for Nepal to decide. I

provide the individuals here in Nepal with a variety of services, including legal memos translated into Nepali, one-on-one discussions and bringing in outside experts to have discussions and roundtables.”

Doherty said that he is grateful for this rare opportunity and is always mindful of the challenges faced when operating in a foreign context.

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Editor’s note: When we interviewed Doherty, he was wrapping things up to return to the State Department in Washington, D.C. where he will serve as special assistant to the under secretary for global affairs, assigned to Africa. He said he was looking forward to seeing friends and family and, he added, “the ocean, seafood—and yogurt-covered pretzels.”

“We have to be seen as providing quality advice and support. While there may be an initial barrier or hindrance in that I am not Nepali or our organization is international, at the end of the day our success will ultimately depend on the quality of our work, delivered in a timely manner.”

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Scoring a legal slam dunk

Pamela Wheeler (’95) negotiates on behalf of WNBPA hoop stars Pam Wheeler grew up in a family of sports fanatics.

She learned her hoop skills early on: “I was one of the first girls to have a real jump shot.” She played softball, too, but she was drawn more to basketball, playing forward from sixth grade in New Rochelle, N.Y., through Cole High School in San Antonio.

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my mind that I would be able to play professionally, because there was very little opportunity at that time to play, aside from internationally. I was a big sports fan, and I thought that the only way to do it was to have a fun office job.”

Wheeler cut her basketball career off

As a teen, Wheeler heard about Elaine Weddington Steward joining the Red Sox legal team. “She was one of the first black women I remember being in sports, and I remember it being a big deal when she got this job.”

States in the 1980s. When she arrived

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before heading to college. She knew that she wasn’t a strong prospect for college basketball, and even if she had been, there were no professional women’s basketball teams in the United at Dartmouth College, she focused on academics, majoring in history and religion—and spent her workstudy hours as the timekeeper for the intramural basketball league.

After college, she spent some time at Chase Manhattan Bank as a global custody relationship manager, but she knew she was going to law school. At BU Law, she landed internships in the general counsels’ offices of the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland A’s.

After graduating in 1995, Wheeler became general counsel and marketing director for famed agent Bob Woolf ’s Boston firm, which represented Celtics forward Larry Bird, Patriots quarterback Doug Flutie and TV host Larry King. She reviewed endorsement contracts and developed sports and entertainment marketing plans for Fortune 500 companies. She established the “Hit Dog” clothing line for Red Sox first baseman Mo Vaughn, and arranged personal appearances for Olympic gold medalist Florence Griffith Joyner.

educated and knows as much about sports as I do.”

Twelve years later, Wheeler, now 43, has achieved many career milestones. She counts among her biggest professional wins the successful negotiation of free agency and a flexible salary cap for her players. Both of these successes were achieved in negotiations of the

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While there are additional revenue streams to oversee, she is still waiting for the WNBA to command the same level of income as its male counterparts. The WNBA’s salaries for the 2010 season range from $35,880 to $101,500, plus bonuses. This pales next to the NBA’s average player salary of $4.9 million.

She acknowledges that it’s taking a while for women’s basketball to gain the same level of commitment from the nation’s sports fans.

“The emotional connection people seem to have with the WNBA hasn’t translated into an economic connection, so players aren’t making the money they should make. They aren’t getting the attention nationally that they deserve.”

The thought of helping to create and build an organization was not only appealing, but I thought I could see the rewards as we grew.

In 1997, she joined the Continental Basketball Association, the nowdefunct developmental league for the National Basketball Association, running a sponsorship, broadcasting and licensing platform for the league’s teams. Two years later, she was named director of the newly founded Women’s National Basketball Players Association (WNBPA), the first labor union of female professional athletes.

“The thought of helping to create and build an organization was not only appealing, but I thought I could see the rewards as we grew,” she said.

The move drew praise from her new boss, Billy Hunter, who was then executive director of the NBA and WNBA players’ unions. “She’s extremely sharp, decisive and exudes self-confidence,” Hunter told the New York Times. “She’s got the ability … to relate to all these women. She’s worked in corporate America, is Ivy League-

collective bargaining agreement between the players and the league. “Usually the agreements range between four and six years. But we’re probably in the bargaining mode for the two years leading up to any subsequent deal. And after negotiating the deal, a majority of our time is spent enforcing the terms and conditions.”

The union’s current battle is to protect players’ rights to new revenue streams.

“As the virtual landscape increases, there is more interest in the players’ involvement in these products, and more players’ likenesses are included.

We protect those players’ rights,” she explained. “Any time four or more players are used for commercial purposes, the third party has to obtain a group license from the WNBPA.” Wheeler oversees distribution of group license revenue of more than $300,000 annually to WNBA players, and negotiated an increase in WNBA off-season marketing agreements from $30,000 to $80,000 per player.

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Wheeler helps protect her players financially in other ways. She works on injury and workers’ compensation issues as well as postcareer preparation. She estimates that the average player’s career is about five years. After that, most become coaches in college or the WNBA. Her favorite part of the job is relating to players. “They are not only the best in the world at what they do, but they have a high regard for fans, and for helping to build women’s basketball in the United States and throughout the world,” she said. “They are highly committed to what they do.”

And the growing success of the WNBA provides a true arena for American girls who have “got game” to pursue their dreams.

“Now they enter grade school knowing that [the opportunity to play pro basketball] is available. Just having that avenue to aspire to has a tremendous impact on how successful they are, not only on the basketball court but off.

Because they know the sky’s the limit.”

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To Russia, with success

Shari Redstone (J.D. ’78, LL.M. ’81) reinvents the movie theater industry You’ve got to have imagination— not to mention generous doses of confidence, instinct and business savvy—to survey the challenging landscape of the U.S. movie theater industry and conclude that the path to success runs through Moscow.

But this was exactly what Shari Redstone concluded in 2002, when she agreed to put the enormous resources of her family’s international media empire behind a man who was running a singlescreen theater in the Russian capital. It was an unusual partnership designed to expand Redstone’s visionary concept of luxury movie theaters into the former Soviet Union.

“I loved the fact that everyone thought I was crazy for doing it,” said Redstone, President of National Amusements, which operates more than 1,000 Showcase Cinemas in the United States, Great Britain, Brazil and Argentina.

“I went to Moscow, and within two hours I decided that this was the place to be.

I was impressed with the energy of the people and their joy for life. You have to do your due diligence, but at the end of the day, it’s your gut.”

Redstone’s gut told her that Russia was a nation hungry for entertainment–an instinct that proved to be stunningly accurate. Rising Star Media, Redstone’s Russian entity with partners Paul Heth

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and Charles Ryan, now operates some of the most profitable theaters in the world. When the 3-D blockbuster “Alice in Wonderland” opened worldwide in March 2010, Rising Star’s Russian cinemas ranked second, third and fourth in the world in terms of gross revenues, exceeded only by Lincoln Center in New York.

“It gets better,” said Redstone, an irrepressible burst of pride sweeping across her face. “When ‘Shrek III’ opened several months later, we were No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3. Who ever thought the top three movie theaters in the world would be in Russia?”

For that matter, who ever would have thought back in 1936, when Shari’s grandfather, Michael Redstone, opened his first drive-in movie theater in a Long Island potato field, that it would grow into one of the biggest media empires in the nation? With Shari’s father, Sumner Redstone, at the helm, National Amusements grew well beyond the Showcase Cinemas empire, eventually buying up CBS and later Viacom, which is the parent company of Paramount Studios, MTV, BET and Nickelodeon, just to name a few.

Law as a new way of thinking With this as a pedigree, one might assume that Shari Redstone was destined from birth to assume her current role

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in the movie industry. But as a young woman, business wasn’t even a distant blip on her personal radar.

“I used to think business was boring,” she said. “I thought it was all black and white—nothing but charts and numbers.”

Instead, after graduating from Tufts University, Redstone decided on a career in the law. She enrolled in BU Law where, under the tutelage of Professor Sheldon Krantz, she developed a fascination for criminal law. After working as a criminal defense lawyer for two years, Redstone returned to BU to earn her master’s degree in tax law and practiced estate planning for several years.

“I was one of those people who loved law school,” said Redstone. “I was able to balance my life with the academic challenge. I worked hard and I played hard. I loved the relationships I developed with my law professors and the way law school challenges your mind in new ways. It helped me develop an eagerness to take on new challenges, which has been enormously important to me in the business world.”

In the mid-1980s, Redstone left the law to devote herself full time to raising her three children. During this period, she decided upon a new career path that would focus on what she describes as her life’s abiding passion—children and

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I loved the fact that everyone thought I was crazy for doing it. I went to Moscow, and within two hours I decided that this was the place to be. I was impressed with the energy of the people and their joy for life. You have to do your due diligence, but at the end of the day, it’s your gut.

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families. Among her many charitable activities during this period, Redstone taught constitutional law in the Boston public schools as part of the METCO program for inner-city youths. She also volunteered at the Trauma Center for Abused Children in Waltham, Mass., where she worked with social workers preparing kids for trial. It was this second experience that prompted her third foray into graduate school at BU, this time to earn her master’s degree in social work.

But this plan was cut short in 1994 when her father convinced her to work part time at the home office of National Amusements, which at the time was right up the road in Dedham, Mass.

One of the things she realized almost immediately was the value of her law training.

“When you go to law school, you never think the same way again,” she said.

“You’re not learning answers, you’re learning how to think and ask questions.

You learn to answer the questions and question the answers. You even learn to question the questions.”

Redstone found her legal training enormously valuable in the business world.

“You learn how to frame issues and how to assimilate all that new information and come up with a strategy.”

When she first entered the business, she mostly watched and listened. But, over time, she blossomed into a confident and forceful negotiator and business leader.

“I believe in teamwork, not hierarchy,” she said. “I have learned a lot about my strengths and weaknesses and have built a team with my weaknesses in mind.”

She describes herself as a passionate leader who strives to balance high expectations with a personal touch.

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“I hold myself and everyone around me to high standards of excellence.

Everything we do represents who we are,” she said. “I’m told that I’m tough, but I also think I’m really sweet. I bake cookies for all our management meetings and I know what every person on my management team likes. I never underestimate the importance of relationships.”

Reinventing movie theaters When Shari Redstone came into the family business, movie theaters were on the ropes. Competitors had overbuilt, and sophisticated home-based entertainment options siphoned off a large portion of the movie-going public. DVDs, bigscreen TVs, On Demand, TiVo and a host of other home entertainment options caused a serious slump in movie ticket sales.

Redstone responded with innovations of her own; her goal was nothing short of reinventing the whole idea of moviegoing.

“I wanted to create a compelling experience that would get people out of their homes and back into the theaters,” she said. “I wanted to personalize the experience and make everyone feel special.”

The result was the birth of the Cinema de Lux concept.

If you walk into Redstone’s new theater at Legacy Place in Dedham, you are immediately struck by the difference.

There is a grand piano in the lobby, and on weekends there is live entertainment for those who choose to linger before or after the movie. Rather than the typical popcorn-and-candy island, the expansive lobby is surrounded by a full-service food court with tenants such as Starbucks and Ben & Jerry’s. Off to one side, your eye is drawn to the gleaming chrome-andwhite upholstery of Redstone’s Studio 3

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restaurant and bar. If you’re not in the mood for drinks or a meal, you stroll over to the other side of the lobby where there is a comfortable lounge furnished with couches and easy chairs.

“We used to build theaters to get people in and out efficiently. Now we need to build them to get people to stay,” said Redstone. “You can come in before a movie and have a drink or dinner, or you can drop off the kids and relax with a cup of coffee and a magazine in a living-room atmosphere while you wait.”

But the most striking difference comes when you walk up to the second-floor “Lux Level” of the theater, where an extra $10 buys you access to a new level of elegance. Here the lighting is dimmed to create an atmosphere of luxury and intimacy. The lobby is a broad balcony overlooking the main lobby of the theater. Several separate sitting areas flow gracefully into one another, each with its own lighting, décor and ambience.

There is a sleek London-style club with a modern flair, a more intimate living room-style lounge, and bar-like seating on high stools overlooking the bustle of activity in the lobby below.

As you would expect, the movie theater provides stadium-style seating, but, on this level, the chairs are wide, deepcushioned leather recliners with broad, upholstered arms and individual tray tables that swing in front of you. Press a button on the arm of the chair and a waiter appears to take your meal or drink order, which will be served to you during the movie.

“I’m proud to be reinventing the moviegoing experience,” said Redstone. “There were a lot of naysayers who insisted this would only be for people with money.

But I believe that people will pay for quality. In this culture, you have to be either high-end or discount.”

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Shari Redstone introduced a “Lux Level” area at some of her theaters, with soft lighting, leather recliners and seat-side wait service. “I’m proud to be reinventing the movie-going experience,” said Redstone. “There were a lot of naysayers who insisted this would only be for people with money. But I believe that people will pay for quality.”

Beyond film But Redstone isn’t content to have her movie theaters be merely … well … movie theaters. She has also pioneered the idea of making them destinations for all kinds of live and broadcast entertainment. Showcase theaters have broadcast everything from live opera to major sporting events, including live Red Sox and Celtics games.

She also pioneered the Showcase Live venue at Patriot Place in Foxboro, which features live performances by current rock, pop and country artists, comedians, and big-name jazz musicians in an intimate setting that brings the performers “up close and personal” with the audience.

In keeping with her personal commitment to children and families, Redstone has launched a variety of family-oriented ideas at her theaters, including the Bookworm program, which promotes summer reading by providing free movie tickets to young children who turn in a book report, and the Kidtoon program, which shows G-rated movies for $3.50 on Saturday and Sunday mornings. She provides family days at her theaters for the Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse and an education night (complete with dinner and a movie) for firefighters and police officers.

on the board of directors of the DanaFarber Cancer Institute, the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and the Combined Jewish Philanthropies.

“I think I have a good perspective on what’s really important,” said Redstone.

“All of my life, I have thought that the most important thing in life is kids, and I have dedicated most of my philanthropic work to that belief. The business world gives me a powerful platform for doing that work.” n

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Law firms face new business model Alternative fee structures, unbundling and project management are key components James Jones of Hildebrandt Baker Robbins met with BU Law faculty and staff to discuss the implications of the current economic downturn for the legal profession. He also described some of the emerging trends in the business of practicing law. We interviewed him for The Record so that we could share his insights with you.

James W. Jones, co-managing director and senior vice president of Hildebrandt Baker Robbins

The writing has been on the wall for nearly a decade, but it wasn’t until after the economic crisis rocked the nation that law firms chose to read it: the traditional business model for large law firms simply isn’t sustainable.

“The driving paradigm in the legal marketplace for the last several decades has been growth and expansion,” said Jim Jones, co-managing director and senior vice president of the international legal consulting firm Hildebrandt Baker Robbins. “The goal among law firms has been to create a larger geographic footprint and increase the number of partners and associates. Meanwhile, there has been little attention to efficiency or cost-effectiveness.”

For nearly two decades, this unchecked growth has been fueled by automatic rate increases of 6 percent or more each year— an increase in legal fees that is double

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the inflation rate. According to Jones, it was only a matter of time before clients rebelled.

“The factors have been there all along,” he said. “The recession didn’t cause these changes, it accelerated them. Sooner or later, the market would have gotten here.”

But what was shaping up as an evolutionary change in the way legal services are priced and delivered has suddenly accelerated to the point where it may be better characterized as revolutionary.

“Firms will have to be driven much more by efficiency and cost-effectiveness,” said Jones. “What we’ve had for the last quarter-century is a seller’s market where law firms have dictated how services are provided and how they are priced.

But clients are clearly in control going forward.”

A whole new ballgame One clear message business clients have delivered to law firms is that the days of automatic annual fee increases are over. Corporations nationwide have been hammered by the recession, and their stockholders are demanding greater efficiency to bring profits back up to acceptable levels. This, in turn, has prompted corporate America to deliver an equally blunt message to the legal industry; and freezing hourly rates is only the first step in the process, according to Jones.

“This will affect every aspect of the legal marketplace,” he said.

The most notable changes Jones identified include: Alternative billing Up until now, almost all corporate legal work has been done on an hourly basis.

But this does not create much incentive for efficiency or cost containment; in fact, the incentive works in the opposite direction. When business was booming and the law firms were in control of a seller’s market, corporate clients had little choice but to accept this arrangement.

But the power balance between law firm and client has changed dramatically, and corporations are demanding a variety of alternative fee structures, including fixed fees, capped project budgets and heavy discounts when hourly rates are used.

“The billable hour will never disappear, but it will become a much smaller part of the overall fee structure,” said Jones.

Project management skills To make flat fees and capped budgets profitable, law firms will have to develop a whole new set of sophisticated management skills. No longer can they guarantee profits simply by charging $400 to $500 an hour for whatever time it takes to complete the project. Now they

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Firms will have to be driven much more by efficiency and cost effectiveness,” said Jones. “What we’ve had for the last quarter century is a seller’s market where law firms have dictated how services are provided and how they are priced. But clients are clearly in control going forward. will have to develop the knowledge base and management skills needed to estimate in advance how much time and resources a task will require and price it accordingly.

“Lawyers have done their work in the same way for a hundred years. Technology has not changed that process in any substantive way, it has just made it easier,” said Jones. “The drive going forward will be to determine how to redesign the legal work process—how to do it more efficiently.”

Jones said that, in the last two years, many firms have begun to do this in a methodical fashion, breaking down typical cases into their component parts and deciding which work can be done competently by junior lawyers, which work can be outsourced and which work can be done by non-lawyers. In a boom economy, businesses are willing to pay for the best without question; in today’s economy, they are no longer willing to pay for Rolls-Royce service when a Honda will do the job just fine.

To do this effectively, firms are increasingly hiring professional project managers who are often not lawyers at all, but instead are highly trained business managers. Jones predicts that in the new legal marketplace, project management skills will rapidly become an important skill for lawyers and an important resume

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item for young lawyers who want to rise rapidly within the firm.

“Firms have got to learn how to manage projects against budgets and fixed-fee schedules,” said Jones. “These are not skills that many lawyers have developed at this point. When you are charging by the billable hour, who cares about project management?”

Unbundling services Clients are increasingly less willing to give a single firm an entire piece of litigation or an entire transaction without question.

Instead, they are breaking down their legal needs and putting various parts of projects out for competitive bids. As Jones pointed out, not every legal task requires a $500-an-hour lawyer to complete it competently.

This process of breaking up legal projects into component parts—commonly known as “unbundling” in legal circles— is becoming increasingly common, both within law firms and among the corporations themselves.

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a fraction of the price by outsourcing it to India,” said Jones. “These outsourcing firms in India are growing at double-digit rates each year, and clients are going directly to them before their primary law firm is ever involved.”

In response, many large firms are offering unbundled services as part of their initial bids on high-stakes projects. Again, this requires skillful and informed project management that law firms are only recently beginning to develop in-house.

To a large extent, this unbundling movement is being driven by software innovations that allow many relatively routine tasks to be completed by nonlawyers.

“Technology has had a huge impact on the legal marketplace,” said Jones. “It has allowed clients to do some of the work themselves. For example, sophisticated clients can go online, access document assembly software, and use a ‘decision tree’ program to create a first draft of documents for many types of transactions without consulting a firm’s lawyers first.”

A new employment structure The amount of work available to large law firms has decreased dramatically during the current recession, a fact that has caused firms to cut staff, reduce hiring and rethink their entire corporate structure.

“For decades, law firms have operated on a simple ‘up or out’ system of advancement within the firm—either you make partner or you leave,” Jones said.

“Under this model, firms hire as many highly skilled young lawyers as possible and maintain a 16 percent attrition rate as they weed out the ones who will not make partner. The whole law firm world was divided into two types of animals: owners and owners-in-waiting. There is no other business in the world that operates that way.”

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The legal profession can no longer operate that way either, according to Jones. Partnership tracks are longer and, with room for fewer associates on that track to the top, firms will have to come up with more career path options for their associates.

“Firms are going to have to develop a system of six or seven categories in which it is understood that only a small number of lawyers are on track to become partners,” said Jones. “It will be perfectly OK to level out at a manager level and have a good career and the respect of your peers, even if you never become a partner.”

A boon for smaller firms The immediate impact of these economic pressures on the nation’s largest firms would be hard to exaggerate. According to Jones, 2009 was the worst year for the legal marketplace in the last half-century.

Based on a survey by the National Law Journal (NLJ), the largest 250 firms cut 4 percent of their lawyers in 2009, by far the largest staff reduction in the past 30 years. To put that in perspective, the last staff reduction among the top 250 firms occurred 17 years ago, when they cut 1 percent of their lawyers.

Not surprisingly, the hardest hit were associates. While the number of partners remained relatively stable in 2008, the top 250 law firms slashed associate positions by a staggering 9 percent, according to the NLJ. But while large firms are contracting, more of the large corporate work is flowing to small and midsized firms.

According to Jones, smaller firms are having considerable success luring midlevel work away from the mega-firms based on their ability to offer lower prices and more flexible fee structures.

“These changes will be a breath of fresh air for regional or boutique firms,” he said. “They are much more nimble and can respond more readily to the

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changing landscape. They do things more efficiently and are going to benefit from the [unbundling] trend.”

What about the students?

So what does this mean for law students and recent grads? According to Jones, the short-term prospects of finding one of those high-paying, 80-hour-a-week jobs at a mega-firm could be a bit daunting.

In 2009, many firms realized they were so overstaffed that they instituted deferral programs for their newly hired associates.

They actually paid them half their salary not to come to work, sometimes under the condition that they spend the year working in the public interest law sector.

The firm benefited from the cost savings, the new hires gained valuable hands-on legal experience, and the public interest organizations got free labor from top law school graduates.

But the arrangement also had two negative side effects: Graduates who actually wanted to work in public interest had trouble finding work—after all, how could they compete for a job against someone willing to work for free? Second, there were far fewer positions available at large firms for the Class of 2010.

Good news The good news, according to Jones, is that the realignment of the legal marketplace may well create more job opportunities for recent graduates in small and midsized firms.

“People coming out of law school today are going to have a heck of a lot of more professional options than I had,” said Jones. “They’re going to have far more flexibility in their career paths. If they don’t want to work at the pace to become an equity partner in a firm, they will have other respectable options at large firms that weren’t available before. And there may well be greater opportunity at smaller firms as well.”

Future landscape The legal profession is a cyclical business.

Today’s boom practice area may be tomorrow’s bust. So predicting the hot practice areas always comes with the qualification that trends can change rapidly. That said, Jones anticipates considerable opportunity for attorneys who specialize in financial regulation.

“We are re-regulating an entire industry, and that means a lot of work for lawyers with expertise in this field,” he said.

He also expects continued growth in energy law and a comeback for IPO and corporate finance lawyers.

As one would expect, bankruptcy law and corporate reorganization are likely to slow as the economy rebounds. But there is one surprising area of contraction, according to Jones. With the exception of international arbitration, he said litigation is likely to continue to contract.

“This has been the mainstay of legal practice in the U.S. for a long time, but it won’t be as robust a specialty going forward,” he said.

litigation outrageously expensive, which has made companies think twice before they file litigation as a matter of business strategy.

“Furthermore, one of the positive effects of Sarbanes-Oxley is that it has encouraged whistle-blowing earlier; and as a result, companies find out about problems and solve them before they become full-blown disputes.” n

Jones attributed this to several factors.

Tort reform has made a significant impact in limiting litigation and reducing the size of awards in several big markets, including Texas and California. In addition, electronic discovery has made

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participate in an online survey.

curriculum to be sure that we are offering

strategically as a law school. The project

the courses and programs that will best

involves eliciting the perspectives of BU

prepare our students for legal practice.

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externships, and introduced transactional

legal market’s needs, how well we are

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knowledge of the law.

retained Tom Clay & Associates Inc., a consulting firm with whom we have

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“We appreciate your help in this effort and thank you for taking the time to complete the survey. Your feedback will be very helpful in this process and we will update you on this project in our quarterly e-newsletters. We will continue to monitor the legal marketplace to assure that we are providing the best legal education for today’s marketplace to our students,” said Dean O’Rourke.

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Outsourced and in demand Joshua Soloway (’06) fills gap in legal market Joshua Soloway, founder of the Soloway Group

In a legal marketplace characterized by big-firm layoffs and scaled-back recruitment, it’s more important than ever for lawyers in the early stages of their career to be able to adapt, think on their feet and create their own career path.

“These days, there is much more importance placed on resilience and drive,” said Joshua Soloway (’06). “Law school does not provide the prepackaged career path that it used to. You have to think more about what you want and why you went to law school in the first place.”

Soloway is a prime example of this entrepreneurial spirit. Just three years out of BU Law, he founded his own niche firm in the world of international business law. He was turning a profit after just 10 months.

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“Law is a very institutionalized business,” said Soloway. “Things are done a certain way and have always been done that way. So you have to look for gaps in the service.”

“What we hear from our clients is that this is a good way for them to grow into the market,” said Soloway.

The gap Soloway spotted was a lack of legal assistance for small and midsized foreign companies hoping to crack the U.S. market. So, in September 2009, he created the Soloway Group to do just that.

The second primary service the Soloway Group provides is outsourced U.S. special counsel. This is project-based work, with Soloway functioning like a general contractor, finding the best U.S. lawyers to handle each particular phase of the client’s project.

Soloway serves as outsourced U.S. general counsel for companies that are not large enough to require a full-time general counsel in this country. His service is provided on a flat-fee retainer basis. Soloway is upfront with his clients that they are likely to grow to the point when they will require a full-time general counsel, and therefore will no longer need his services.

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“We view legal projects the same way an engineer or a construction company looks at their projects,” said Soloway.

In his role as legal project manager, Soloway identifies the firms his client should consider hiring for each portion of the project, collects and analyzes bid packages from those firms, and then

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We can negotiate better pricing because we know the market and because we are repeat customers with these large firms, while the foreign client, negotiating on its own, would be a one-time client of the law firm.

helps the client select the top two or three firms to interview for the project.

What he is selling are his contacts, his knowledge of the U.S. legal and regulatory climate, and his ability to create a competitive bidding process that ensures clients pay a fair price for their U.S. legal work.

“We can negotiate better pricing because we know the market and because we are repeat customers with these large firms, while the foreign client, negotiating on its own, would be a one-time client of the law firm,” he said.

Evolution of an idea Soloway spent his first three years out of law school honing his skills, first as an associate in a small New York City commercial real estate firm and then as a member of the Global StructuringFinancial Group at the mega-firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. In the latter capacity, Soloway helped structure a $1.2 billion carbon emissions offset project in China—one of the largest greenhouse gas offsets in history.

But when the bottom fell out of the securities industry in 2008, Soloway knew it was time to adapt—in a hurry. His initial concept was to offer government relations services for foreign companies. He saw the push for fundamental changes in U.S. energy policy as an opportunity for his clients in Canada to promote their environmentally friendly mining practices. But when energy reform lost its momentum in this country, Soloway knew he had to revise his concept.

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“My clients were telling me, ‘What we really need is capital. Can you help us raise capital in the U.S.?’ I had a strong background in finance, so I decided to shift our focus,” he said. “So our firm evolved from its initial government relations focus. We still provide those services, but now we are more focused on corporate finance.”

Avoiding the one-stop shopping net Soloway also decided to capitalize on what he saw as a weakness in the legal services industry. While there are enormous benefits to the onestop-shopping model offered by large firms, it also has serious drawbacks from the perspective of a midsized foreign client. For example, a foreign energy company may hire Law Firm X to handle its securities work, but that may not necessarily be the best firm to handle litigation when they are sued by a bondholder a few years later.

The one-stop-shopping net is designed to hold onto clients, not necessarily to refer them to the best firm for a particular task. “We free foreign clients from this net,” he said. “The securities lawyer they originally hired at Law Firm X doesn’t want to refer them to an excellent litigator at another firm because he’s worried that firm will cross-sell its own full-service model and Lawyer X will lose the client.”

By bidding out discrete services rather than relying on the one-stop-shopping model, the Soloway Group ensures that U.S. firms tailor their services to the client.

“If the client were to walk in the door of the big U.S. firm themselves, the firm would try to fit that client into their standard approach,” said Soloway. “Big firms are less flexible, less adaptable, and their primary goal is to win the business.

They are going to sell their process as the process, whether or not it’s the right fit for the client.”

Another venture Last summer, Soloway launched another venture, taking on the role of managing director of the New York office of Rainmaker Global Business Development. He views this position as complementary to the legal services provided by Soloway Group, since Rainmaker is a global company that helps foreign companies develop business opportunities in the United States.

“The work that I do at Rainmaker generates legal work,” he said. “It creates a market for our services at Soloway Group. It has been particularly attractive to Asian clients, especially the Chinese, since American business culture and regulatory systems are so different for them.”

Soloway sees himself as proof that although traditional opportunities at big firms may be scarce these days, there is still plenty of opportunity for those willing to think creatively about the legal services industry.

“You can learn so much more in a smaller, more entrepreneurial environment,” he said. “I’m a believer in learning by fire—that you learn best when you are thrown out of the nest and have to flap your own wings.” n

Hear Joshua Soloway discuss his role as an entrepreneurial lawyer in today’s legal business world in a BU Law podcast posted on Legal Talk Network (http://legaltalknetwork.com) and on BU Law’s Web site (www.bu.edu/law/events/ audio-video).

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Guantanamo law

Lachelier (’92) and Jimenez (’01) defend Guantanamo war-crime suspects The detention center at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base is the longtime home for hundreds of detainees accused of war crimes. It is here, on “Gitmo,” as the base is known in the military, that detainees are tried under heavy security conditions.

Navy Commander Suzanne M. Lachelier (’92) and Air Force Major Christina M. Jimenez (’01) are two of the attorneys who have defended these detainees.

Commander Lachelier When Suzanne Lachelier delivered the School’s 2010 Shapiro Lecture, she explained to BU Law students what it was like to practice law on Guantanamo. She told them about being blindfolded and transported in the back of a windowless van to meet with a client held in a secret location. She also described arguing one of her cases in a tiny courtroom located in an old air terminal. A translator, hidden behind a curtain to protect his/ her identity, is present to bridge language barriers. Cases are observed by spectators.

In another, more secure courtroom designated for the 9/11 trial, spectators sit behind glass and listen via a speaker system. There is a 40-second delay in transmission so that an intelligence officer monitoring the proceedings can place the discussions on mute when a sensitive topic arises. The security officer whispers in the judge’s ear, and the judge rules on what defense counsel can and cannot say.

Lachelier, who participated in the Criminal Law Clinic while at BU Law, has consulted with faculty members Wendy Kaplan and David Rossman on some of her Guantanamo detainee cases. Through them, Lachelier has arranged for BU Law students to help her with research. “The

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students took that on, and not for credit.

They were involved because they wanted to be, and I really admire that,” she said.

Lachelier began her career serving as counsel to the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power after graduating from BU Law in 1992. She joined the Navy Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps in 1994, serving as a defense counsel in Tennessee and California. After leaving active duty, she practiced at a large civil law firm in Los Angeles before returning to criminal defense work with the San Diego Federal Defenders Office. There, she represented indigent defendants in federal court trials, developed training programs for federal criminal defense attorneys, and handled federal appellate cases.

She rejoined the Navy active reserves in 2001 and was placed on active duty in 2008, representing Guantanamo detainees.

Major Jimenez Major Christina Jimenez comes from a military family: her grandfather was a World War II Army Air Corps bombardier who also earned a law degree; her father was an Air Force staff sergeant; and she has aunts, uncles and cousins who have served in all branches of the military.

She entered law school with the goal of becoming a criminal defense attorney.

“The military was a suggestion from my mother at the end of my third year in law school,” she said.

After graduating with honors with a concentration in Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Jimenez was commissioned

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in the Air Force. She has worked mostly in criminal law (or military justice) and was assigned to the Office of the Chief Defense Counsel, Office of Military Commissions.

In 2008, she became detailed defense counsel in two detainee cases, splitting her time for more than two years between Guantanamo, where she visited her clients, and Washington, D.C., where she researched and prepared her cases. What she recalls most about her Guantanamo experience was having to defend her clients’ basic rights.

“I remember the trial counsel arguing that the Constitution did not apply in Guantanamo,” she said. “As defense counsel, our time was spent arguing the relevance and applicability of the United States Constitution to those arrested and brought to Guantanamo Bay, as well as arguing the rules of evidence.”

In July 2010, Major Jimenez was reassigned to her current position on Osan Air Base in the Republic of Korea.

Lachelier and Jimenez aren’t the only BU Law alumni involved in Guantanamo cases. Frank Williams (’70), former Rhode Island Supreme Court chief justice and a Vietnam veteran, serves as the chief judge of the Court of Military Commission Review where rulings of the Guantanamo military commissions may be appealed. n

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I remember the trial counsel arguing that the Constitution did not apply in Guantanamo. As defense counsel, our time was spent arguing the relevance and applicability of the United States Constitution to those arrested and brought to Guantanamo Bay, as well as arguing the rules of evidence.

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Veteran crusader

Robert Chisholm (’88) leads growing practice

When our nation’s disabled veterans return home from the battlefield, medical and psychological assistance usually comes from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). As Abraham Lincoln said, the purpose of the VA was to “care for him who shall have borne the battle.”

Robert Chisholm (’88) of Chisholm Chisholm & Kilpatrick LLP in Providence helps disabled veterans access the care they need. It can be a challenging process, but Chisholm was well-prepared when he began to work with veterans.

After graduating from law school, he worked for Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in New York, specializing in employment discrimination. Chisholm then moved to Rhode Island to join the law practice run by his father, Vincent Chisholm (’54), where he handled workers compensation, personal injury and medical malpractice. “I got to go to court every day,” he recalled. “Workers’ compensation is a fast and furious practice here in Rhode Island—you get a case, you’re in court in three weeks.”

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arguing that his schizophrenia started in the service. The claim was denied, and Chisholm successfully appealed his uncle’s case to the Court of Veterans Appeals (now the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims). That court had just been created in 1988, and Chisholm’s name was placed on the court’s list of licensed attorneys. “I took one case here, one case there, and I enjoyed what I was doing,” he recalled. “They were interesting cases.”

build a national client base. He is also past president of the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims Bar Association.

Chisholm says that veterans law is still a young and growing field. Years back, there was only the VA, and if it denied a claim, that was final. Then in the late 1980s, the newly established Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims allowed for judicial review of those decisions.

Chisholm recalls one returning Vietnam veteran who waged a frustrating war against bureaucracy, trying to get benefits to help him cope with the debilitating after-effects of exposure to Agent Orange, including severe diabetes.

Before 2006, Chisholm was among only about 50 attorneys who specialized in veterans law. Up to that time, attorneys weren’t allowed to charge a fee for working on a veteran’s behalf until very late in the process. Since Congress changed the rules in 2006 to allow attorneys to charge fees, the number of veterans law attorneys has increased— and there is room for expansion, said Chisholm.

Today, most of his cases are with veterans. He is the past president of National Organization of Veterans Advocates (NOVA), which helped him

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His clients include veterans from World War II, Korea, Afghanistan and Iraq, but the majority are Vietnam veterans affected by Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

Meeting the burden of proof in veterans’ cases

For Agent Orange cases, veterans have to prove they set foot in Vietnam. While this former soldier certainly had been “in country” early in the conflict, the military didn’t have any record of his serving there. In times of conflict, when military leaders are giving verbal orders, recordkeeping is not always at the top of their priority list, so the burden of proof falls to the returning soldier.

This veteran turned to Chisholm for help. Together, they came up with an idea to provide the needed proof. “We found one of the letters he sent home to his mother,” said Chisholm. “It had the APO stamp from Vietnam. That’s how

we were ultimately able to prove he was there.” The veteran was able to win back benefits and obtain coverage.

Clients with service-related PTSD have even more to prove. “The VA puts them through their paces to see if the stressful event actually occurred,” he said. Some veterans have earned citations for combat, a Purple Heart, even combat badges, but often these aren’t enough proof, said Chisholm.

“Even for the first Gulf War, service records don’t show where these people served. It’s only recently that [service records] are becoming more computerized.”

Some veterans spend years in the appeals process. “It’s only getting worse,” said Chisholm. “The delay is horrible—every year we lose clients while cases are pending.” By “lose,” he means that they die while awaiting resolution of their appeals.

One problem cited by many is that employees in the Veterans Benefits Administration, an arm of the VA, are pushed to process claims quickly, which can lead to errors. Last March, the VA’s inspector general reported that nearly one out of four, or 200,000, VA files had errors. The U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims reported that, in 2008 and 2009, 70 percent of the cases it heard resulted in fee awards.

On behalf of NOVA, Chisholm has testified before the House and Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committees, including

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and PTSD. In 2007, the VA’s budget was increased so that it could hire thousands more employees. The Obama administration and the VA have pledged to end confusion over military records with computers tracking veterans’ details of service and post-service life.

“The VA is hiring a lot of attorneys to meet the demand,” said Chisholm, adding that every state has a regional office that processes claims, and the Board of Veterans Appeals hires attorneys.

For those considering veterans law, Chisholm recommends a background in disability and workers’ compensation law, and personal injury law, which provide the background for medical disability issues.

Many veterans law attorneys are veterans and former Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAGC) officers.

It’s rewarding, especially when a client gets a substantial award, or is no longer homeless, or when his children and spouse can get educational assistance.

It’s life-changing.

Part of the challenge in these cases is that the VA is dealing with an overwhelming number of claims from veterans of WWII and all subsequent wars. Last year, $30 billion—a third of the VA’s total budget—was paid in disability compensation to nearly three million veterans, and there are a million more veterans waiting, according to the VA. The recession has also pushed many veterans to file claims not only to assist with health care, but also to save their homes and educate their children and spouses.

“Veterans wait on average about six months to receive an initial answer on a disability claim,” said Paul Sullivan, executive director of Veterans for Common Sense, in an interview for a January 3, 2010 60 Minutes’ episode titled “Why the VA Frustrates Veterans.”

“If a veteran disagrees with the VA’s decision, the veteran waits another four years. That is a crisis.”

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an appearance before a junior senator named Barack Obama, about the delays and the right to hire counsel early in the process.

Some welcome changes in veterans law practice Chisholm also welcomes some hard-won changes in the veterans law field. “Every time Congress passes a new law, we end up fighting over what they meant by it, about regulations and how they should be applied,” he said.

However, Chisholm and other veterans’ advocates have noted positive changes within the system. The VA is making it easier for veterans to apply for PTSD benefits without having to prove a connection between specific incidents

To work on behalf of a veteran, whether as a lawyer or other advocate, you have to be accredited by the VA; about 3,500 have been accredited so far, said Chisholm. NOVA offers seminars, and the ABA’s “The Duty Bound” portal connects case-handling pro bono attorneys with law students seeking experience in veterans law.

Chisholm said that veterans law can be heartbreaking, but also very fulfilling.

“It’s rewarding, especially when a client gets a substantial award, or is no longer homeless, or when his children and spouse can get educational assistance. It’s life-changing.” n

Hear Chisholm discuss veterans law in a BU Law podcast posted on Legal Talk Network (http://legaltalknetwork.com) and on BU Law’s Web site (www.bu.edu/law/events/audio-video).

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The BU Law alumni network lends critical support in challenging job market The current economic downturn has made the search for jobs more challenging, and the legal profession has not been exempt. While BU Law alumni have always shared a connecton, Dean Maureen A. O’Rourke appealed to working alumni to lend a hand during this difficult period. Many alumni have been helping by hiring members of the BU Law community, sharing contacts, networking and mentoring.

students and each other,” said Maura

“Each week, we learn of wonderful stories of how alumni have assisted

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Kelly, assistant dean for Career Development and Public Service (CDO). “I certainly hope that this article inspires more connections between students and alumni.”

Hiring within the BU Law community Airgas Inc. founder and CEO Peter McCausland (’74) created a one-year company, specifically requesting a 2009

BU Law graduate. At the same time, Azad Assadipour (’09) unexpectedly found himself back in the job market.

Azad had lined up a position with a New York firm that was bought out. The position was gone, and he had already passed up opportunities to network during his 3L year.

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exam. “I was in an applicant pool where I could actually be competitive,” he said. He got the job, and loves it. He’s also grateful for BU Law’s help. “I really want to be a big supporter of anything Dean O’Rourke’s administration does.

Ultimately it comes down to the people, and I am very proud to be a member of BU Law.” Elizabeth Ditomassi (’89), deputy commissioner for the Mass. Department of Insurance, also teaches at BU Law. A loyal alumna, Ditomassi frequently has posted internship positions for BU students. “She is truly a great mentor for our students and all legal interns who work in her office,” said former CDO

Associate Director Sabrina Halloran.

Current 3L Stella Kim (’11) worked there during her 2L year.

When Virginia Valdez (’96 LL.M. American Law, ’97 LL.M. Banking & Financial Law) was general counsel for Accion, an international NGO with a Boston legal office, she met with Kelly and Halloran to discuss ways for J.D. and LL.M. students to gain experience in microfinance. BU Law has since sent a steady stream of students to Accion for summer internships and academic-year pro bono work. Three years ago, Accion sought an assistant general counsel, and Valdez hired Kevin Saunders (’07), who has continued the legacy. Saunders, who

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Send internship, entry-level and lateral job openings to the CDO.

Notify the CDO about pro bono opportunities.

Volunteer to mentor students, spend a day as a visiting adviser, review resumes or conduct mock interviews.

Work with other alumni to come up with creative ways to help unemployed graduating students.

Contact Cynthia Tow McPherson, the Career Development & Public Service Office recruitment & marketing manager, at 617.353.3145, or e-mail the information to lawhire@bu.edu. The CDO also invites alumni to send their best BU Law-related networking story, to publish in a future e-mail update.

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also co-teaches a class on microfinance through the Banking LL.M. program, has hired BU Law students for internships and pro bono work.

The power of networking Finding a position in this job market requires a lot of networking. The CDO recalled the hard work done by Adam Veness (’10). His starting date at a large law firm was deferred, and he wanted to dive into legal work in the interim.

The CDO gave him a list of alumni working in-house around Massachusetts.

“I e-mailed some of them asking if they knew of any available opportunities at their companies or at others,” said Veness. “I received responses with offers to meet for lunch, pass along my resume and more.”

And his networking paid off. His resume was forwarded from one alumnus, Edward Goddard (’90), at Kindred Healthcare, to another, Chris Kenney (’90), a founding member of Kenney & Sams and president of the BU Law Alumni Executive Committee.

“Chris was excited to interview a BU Law alumnus,” said Veness. Now working as a law clerk for Kenney & Sams until the end of his deferral, he said, “It is great to know that BU alums look out for their own.”

Alex Nicely (’09) was always interested in public interest law, but the low pay was “definitely a concern,” he said. He accepted an offer with a large law firm in Las Vegas, and then, because of the economy, his position disappeared.

He contacted one of his best friends, Jessica Sutton (’09), who had joined the Death Penalty Litigation Clinic in Kansas City, Mo. “It was a terrible market. I knew Alex was interested in public defense, so I gave him contact information for Ken Rose (’81).”

Sutton had spent her 3L spring break working with Rose at the Center for Death Penalty Litigation in North Carolina, thanks to the help of her supervisor, Professor David Rossman, in the Criminal Clinic. (Ken Rose is featured on page 39 and will give this year’s BU Law Shapiro Lecture on April 1, 2011.)

Sutton now refers to Rose as “family.”

“Because I had very limited finances to fund my trip to North Carolina, Ken and his wife hosted me in their home for the week. They drove me around RaleighDurham, cooked me red beans and rice, invited me to dinner with their friends, and generally treated me—a nearstranger—like a close friend,” she said.

She added, “[Ken] helped me get some essential experience for my resume, because it is very difficult to break into the death penalty field. I got my feet wet, and then I applied for jobs in the South.

Ken was very helpful and encouraging.”

After Sutton referred Nicely to Rose, Nicely decided to move to North Carolina and do some pro bono work with Rose. “He told me about this Racial Justice Act study, and he hooked me up,” said Nicely. “He’s been a mentor to me.

There was a time I wasn’t making much money on that, so he allowed me to stay at his house for a while.”

It was while Nicely worked at the Center for Death Penalty Research that he ran into a public defender. “I introduced myself, asked for advice, and they offered me a job,” said Nicely, who now is an assistant public defender with the North Carolina Public Defender’s Office.

Sutton recommended that people trying to find a job should be creative. “It’s more about the personal connections, the volunteer positions, and the creative options,” she said. Sutton added that she is impressed when she sees people

pitch volunteer roles and apply for grant money to create their own positions.

“It’s just much more of a creative process than it used to be,” she said. “It’s people taking risks.”

BU Law’s public interest connection “Most of our students come to law school with extensive community service experience, and they want to use their developing legal skills to continue this work through careers in public service and pro bono work,” said Kelly. Given the increased interest in this field, the law school has expanded the curriculum and student services to meet this growing trend.

Peter Krauthamer (’82) said this support for public interest careers wasn’t around when he was at BU Law. Krauthamer, the deputy director of the Public Defender Service of the District of Columbia, was not engaged with BU Law for many years.

Five years ago, he met with Dean O’Rourke, and he changed his view of the School’s focus on public interest.

Since then, Krauthamer has recruited on campus for summer interns and entrylevel attorneys. Through Krauthamer’s support, his agency—one of the most competitive public defender offices in the country—has hired five BU Law students: Tracy Walts (’08), Emily Cardy (’09), Adrian Angus (’11), Beth Rossi (’12) and Cordaro Rodriguez (’12).

Krauthamer returned to BU Law this fall to deliver the keynote speech at the Government/Public Interest Orientation, after which he spent a full day advising individual students.

Deepika Allana (’00), an attorney at the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) in Washington, D.C., contacted the CDO seeking applicants

for summer internships. “Deepika reached out, saying how receiving Public Interest Project (PIP) funds for a summer internship allowed her to obtain experience working on human rights issues,” said the CDO’s Carolyn Goodwin. “She worked in private practice for many years, but transitioned to working on international women’s health and rights issues, spurred in part by her law school summer experience (made possible by PIP). She wants to help expose BU law students to similar fulfilling careers, since she was able to get such exposure in law school.”

Beyond hiring Beyond hiring, alumni connect with students to help them learn about the profession and develop professional networks.

Maura Kelly reported that during the 2008-2009 academic year, 48 alumni came to campus to speak on panels or meet with individual students for career advising.

In addition, many alumni pass along opportunities and review resumes.

Others serve as mentors who establish relationships with individual students.

“Such generosity makes all the difference,” said Kelly.

Frank Mockler (’81), managing attorney at the Massachusetts Appeals Court, has served as a mentor to 1L students for many years. His mentoring efforts earned him the BU Law Alumni Mentor Award; he has advised numerous students about judicial clerkships.

A few years ago, the CDO began asking alumni to conduct mock interviews for students. “I ended up doing a ‘mock interview’ with a partner at McDermott Will & Emery, who is a BU Law alum,” said Sarah Kitchell (’10). “I got a callback for a full-day interview and a Winter 2011

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She’s now working full time in that firm’s health law department. “BU Law alumni are great!” said Kitchell.

years, always providing valuable advice.

Sophia is an incredible networker, and she encourages students to be creative and take risks in reaching out to people.”

Sophia Yen (’06) and Anthony Callobre (’85) hold meet-and-greets for alumni at their firm, Bingham McCutchen in Los Angeles. “Sophia Yen has been very generous with her time,” said Halloran.

“She is a young alumna who has been a great mentor for students interested in breaking into the Los Angeles legal market. She has participated in our Mock Interview Program and has met with many students over the past five

Yen returned to campus last year to speak with students about her work and how to break into the field of entertainment law. One of those students, Marcello Campos Santana (’11), is pursuing a career in entertainment law, and he took Yen’s advice to be creative. Santana wasn’t shy about approaching Universal Studios to suggest creating a legal internship for him. After a steady campaign for the position, he lined up an informational

interview. “They told me that I was the talk of the town,” said Santana. “They said, ‘I guess we have to see you.’” He got the job. “It’s just persistence. It’s just about meeting as many people as I can.”

When times get tough, it’s all about alumni gathering strength from each other, like any family.

“As Dean O’Rourke says, alumni truly are our greatest resources in helping students navigate their paths into the legal profession,” said Kelly. “We need you.” n

Trevor Rozier-Byrd (’10): You can never have too many connections Before coming to law school, Trevor Rozier-Byrd (’10) was a paralegal in the Pooled Investment Entities practice group at Sidley Austin LLP in New York. It was, in part, his work at Sidley that led RozierByrd to law school.

He began a year-long search that included outside-the-box thinking and extraordinary networking. Rozier-Byrd first explored connections he made through his brother, Terence (’06), a transactional attorney in New York

After his 1L year, Rozier-Byrd worked as a summer associate at a Boston litigation firm. Pleased with his work, the firm offered Rozier-Byrd a position for his 2L summer. Although Rozier-Byrd greatly enjoyed his experience and made terrific professional relationships, he still had a strong interest in corporate law.

Then he expanded his contacts to alumni, spanning different states and generations, including those connected to the Black Law Student Association, of which he was president. With the help of the CDO, he formed mentor relationships with two alumni who practiced in his area of interest. Rozier-Byrd recalled one such alum who “introduced me to everyone I needed to know in Boston.”

“It was a difficult decision, not because of the job itself, but because of the people I worked with there,” he recalled. “It was a great experience, but at the end of the day it wasn’t what I ultimately wanted to do.”

It was at that point that Rozier-Byrd took a step back to evaluate his options in the challenging job market. With two years of law school left, Rozier-Byrd said, “I was willing to bet on myself. I decided not to worry about the economy and the job market and focus on the things I could control, like doing well in school and my own professional development.”

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At the end of his 3L year, Rozier-Byrd received a job offer from a Boston-based firm, but he found he was still drawn to New York City. Rozier-Byrd called, among others, a mentor at Sidley to discuss the offer, including his concerns about his ability to move back to New York if he took his first job in Boston.

“I had maintained a relationship with some of the associates and, in particular, one of the partners whom I primarily worked for as a paralegal,” Rozier-Byrd

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said. “I had made it a point throughout law school to update them on my development, in the hopes of one day returning to the firm.” In the end, those relationships paid off, and Rozier-Byrd ultimately returned to Sidley Austin as an associate last fall.

When asked to reflect on his job search throughout law school, Rozier-Byrd said, “I wouldn’t change a thing. The reality is that, if the market had been different, and I had found a position I was comfortable with earlier in law school, it is unlikely that I would have been inclined to dedicate the time that I did to networking.

Looking back on it now, I feel very fortunate to have built the relationships that I did.

I have no doubt that they will be invaluable as I progress through my career.”

BU Law Alumni and Reunion Weekend Alumni enjoyed an event-filled weekend that included conferences, the annual gala dinner and Silver Shingle awards.

Professor Frankel inspired Fiduciary Law conference An October 29, 2010 conference titled “The Role of Fiduciary Law and Trust in the 21st Century,” which was inspired by the work of Professor Tamar Frankel, featured outstanding scholars and legal practitioners whose papers and commentaries will be published by Boston University Law Review.

Dr. Casscells honored at Pike Conference Dean Maureen O’Rourke presented the N. Neal Pike Prize to Dr. S. Ward Casscells, former U.S. assistant secretary of defense and an Iraq War veteran, who was recognized for his outstanding healthcare leadership in the Department of Defense. The October 29, 2010 Pike Conference, “Coming Home Injured: Care and Advocacy for America’s Veterans,” explored the post-Gulf War experience of veterans seeking medical help and the problems they have encountered, with the goal of suggesting concrete advocacy steps that can be taken to improve the quality of care.

Alumni Gala Dinner drew capacity crowd The Alumni Gala Dinner at the Ritz Carlton Boston Common this year, which also included the Silver Shingle Award presentations, drew a capacity crowd. Many attendees talked about why attending the reunion is important to them. “I think I went to law school with the nicest guys and girls on earth,” said Henry Shultz (’65), magistrate at the District Court of Newton, who has attended every reunion. “I’m now 70, but we started when we were 20, so coming here makes me feel young.” Two couples who met at BU Law—Class of 1995’s Natascha George & Douglas Cornelius and Carla Monroe Moynihan & Jim Moynihan—caught up with friends, too. “I am seeing friends here ... who I haven’t seen in years,” said George. “We are all very busy, so it is nice to have an event like this to see one another.”

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BU Law honors 2010 Silver Shingle Award winners during reunion weekend The Silver Shingle Awards are presented each year to outstanding alumni and friends of Boston University School of Law. Recognizing remarkable members of our community, awards are given in the categories of “Distinguished Service to the Profession,” “Distinguished Service to the School of Law,” “Distinguished Service to the Community” and “The Young Lawyer’s Chair.” A separate honor, the “Gerard H. Cohen Award for Distinguished Service to the School,” is presented to a Boston University School of Law administrative staff member. In celebration of these accomplished individuals, Boston University School of Law is proud to announce the 2010 recipients of the Silver Shingle and Gerard H. Cohen awards.

Lorraine Kaplan

individual attention on specific subjects rather than commercial study

Assistant Director, Banking & Financial Law program Gerard H. Cohen Award

aids and supplements to succeed, she founded LawTutors LLC, a legal education organization. She also founded Shah Law in Brookline, Mass., where she practices business law. She is the co-author of the

Lorraine Kaplan began

popular Aspen Legal Book series “What Not to Write” (named after

working at the School

her favorite show, “What Not to Wear”) and teaches for Emanuel Bar

in 1982, initially in the Registrar’s Office.

Review, founded by Steven Emanuel.

In 1986, she joined the Banking & Financial Law program, where

“In just a few short years, Tania has accomplished a great deal,” said

she continues to work. Lorraine is the staff member in charge of

Dean O’Rourke.

administrative matters and serves as the “institutional memory” for the

Howard S. Altarescu

program. “She truly is the glue that has held this program together for many years,” said Dean Maureen O’Rourke. “It’s hard to quantify the human element that connects people to an institution, but Lorraine certainly embodies it. She gives students a sense of belonging.” She is also an avid bird watcher and photographer who likes travelling to Maine and to the Rocky Mountains to photograph big mammals— and any other critter that will pose for her.

Tania N. Shah

Class of 1974 Service to the Community In addition to being a successful partner in the New York office of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Howard Altarescu serves as chairman of the board of Renaissance E.M.S. (Education, Music and Sports), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit

Class of 2000 Young Lawyer’s Chair

organization in the South Bronx.

A native of Irvine,

Renaissance offers to more than 1,000 at-risk youths free music classes,

California, Tania N. Shah

the experience of live performance, a basketball program that fosters

earned her undergraduate

camaraderie and teamwork, tutoring and homework help, a free SAT

degree from University of

prep class, and a support group for fathers of all ages. “Renaissance

California, Berkeley, and her Juris Doctor from BU Law, where she

E.M.S. broadens horizons for inner-city youth, lets them know that

was executive editor of the Journal of Science & Technology Law and

they have options in the world, and helps them develop the tools they

active in moot court competitions. Convinced that law students need

need to achieve their goals,” said Dean O’Rourke.

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Altarescu received his B.A. and B.S. in Management from BU School of Management and his J.D. from BU Law, where he was the editor of the BU Law Review. Today, he is head of Orrick’s Financial

Robert F. Grondine

Class of 1980 Service to the Profession

Institutions Industry Group, a multi-practice global group of partners

Robert F. Grondine joined

who have client relationship responsibilities for financial institutions

Baker & McKenzie in

around the world. He advises a number of financial institutions and

New York after graduating

government agencies with regard to the implications of financial

from BU Law, moved

markets regulation as well as in connection with complex capital

to the Baker office in Tokyo in 1982 and subsequently was elected

markets and debt financing transactions.

partner. He left Baker to become a partner at White & Case in 1992,

Jack M. Beermann

Professor of Law Harry Elwood Warren Scholar Service to the School

working first in its Los Angeles office and then moving back to Tokyo in 1992.

He has been consistently rated as a leading lawyer by all of the most prominent international lawyer rating services since they began rating

In addition to devoting

lawyers in Tokyo in the mid-1990s. He has been cited as a leading

time to his teaching and

lawyer in the fields of asset finance, especially in relation to aircraft

scholarship, Professor

finance in which he is considered a global expert; bank finance; project

Beermann has served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and has

finance; mergers & acquisitions; and most recently, dispute resolution.

chaired many BU Law committees. Most recently, he chaired the BU Law Appointments Committee, which is a major undertaking. His

Grondine made it a point to study the Japanese language and to

process and leadership led to a number of great faculty hires for the

develop a strong cultural sensitivity to the ways of Japan. These skills

school, including the five new professors who joined us this year. He

have made him extremely successful in serving his clients and in

has also served on university committees, including the University

becoming a leader in the legal and business communities of Japan.

Appointments, Promotion and Tenure Committee.

“Robert is not only a successful global practitioner but also an ambassador of goodwill who has demonstrated the best that our legal

“Jack is not only a gifted teacher and scholar but also a dedicated

system has to offer to his Japanese clients and colleagues,” said Dean

member of the BU Law community,” said Dean O’Rourke. “A law

O’Rourke.

school needs exceptional scholars and teachers to succeed. But it also needs professors who will help strengthen and guide the school

In addition to his legal work, Grondine has been an active leader in

through their dedication and leadership outside the classroom. Jack is

the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ) in U.S.-Japan

one of the people who make BU Law a success.”

trade matters since 1982. He has served as a member of its board of governors since 1995, and is past president and chairman. He has

Professor Beermann received his B.A., with distinction, from

lectured in both English and Japanese on issues such as corporate

the University of Wisconsin and his J.D., with honors, from the

governance and acquisitions as well as broader legal, political and

University of Chicago Law School. Before joining the Boston

cultural aspects of the U.S.-Japan trading relationship. He has also

University faculty in 1984, Jack clerked for Judge Richard Cudahy of

been a professor at Keio Law School, teaching corporate finance,

the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He has authored or

mergers & acquisitions, and international business transactions.

co-authored four books on administrative law, including a widely used casebook and the Emanuel Law Outline on the subject. His articles

Grondine received his A.B., magna cum laude, from Dartmouth

have appeared in many prominent American law journals.

College, and is a graduate of the FALCON program for Japanese Language at Cornell University’s Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Harvard Law School’s East Asian Legal Studies program, and BU Law, where he graduated magna cum laude.

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Public Interest

Public interest news 2009-2010 BU Law students, faculty and alumni share a strong commitment to public interest and pro bono work.

Here are some of the highlights from this year:

Alumni news

Peter Krauthamer (’82), deputy director of the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, delivered the keynote address at the Fall 2010 Public Interest Orientation and received a BU Law public service award.

Jill Furman (’92) received a BU Law public service award for her career-long commitment to public interest work, first as assistant district attorney for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and later as a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Consumer Litigation.

Matt Andrus (’04), an associate at Choate Hall & Stewart LLP, received the Mentor Program Alumni Award, given to an exceptional alumnus to honor his or her dedication to the Mentor Program. Andrus has been involved with the program since 2005 and has mentored 10 students. The award is based on student feedback.

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Kurt G. Calia (‘93) and Cassandra C. LaRae-Perez (‘02) (pictured with Victor Garo (‘65)), received the Victor J. Garo Public Service Award in 2010 for their continued commitment to public service. The awards were presented at the BU Law Pro Bono Program Kick-Off in October.

Through the BU Law Loan Assistance Grant Program, alumni in public interest positions received $94,000 in grant funding to assist with educational loans.

Ed Kelly (’91) received the Victor Garo Alumni Public Service Award in 2009 for his work to combat child and slave labor in Asia.

Public Interest School & student news

Nine students have received Dean’s Public Interest Scholarships since the program began two years ago. Five new Public Interest Scholars matriculated in Fall 2010.

Students participated in pro bono spring break trips to: •

New Orleans to help Hurricane Katrina victims

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Harlingen, Texas to provide assistance on immigration and asylum cases to people in detention centers on the Texas/Mexico border

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Detroit to provide assistance on foreclosure issues

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Vermont to draft motions and briefs in a public defender’s office

BU Law was among those law schools named by the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) to its Hurricane Katrina Honor Roll at the 2010 Annual Meeting. The AALS recognized law schools and their faculties, staffs and students for their involvement in helping to alleviate the suffering of those affected by Katrina.

BU Law was one of four law schools in the nation selected by National Jurist for its Public Service Honor Roll in 2010.

Students participated in a pro bono trip to Cambodia in May to work with alumnus Ed Kelly (’91) and SISHA, an Asian agency dedicated to fighting human trafficking and exploitation.

Clinical Professor Susan Akram accompanied the BU Law students, and together they drafted a concept paper for a women’s rights project to be run

by SISHA. Their work was effective and the project was quickly funded.

Jonathan Glick (’11), Joel Schmidt (’10) and Marc Aspis (’10) organized their own trip to Haiti between final exams and commencement. They spent a week helping Iniciativa Comunitaria, a Puerto Rican nonprofit that provides direct medical services to communities in need. The three students learned how to help triage patients, disinfect wounds and give injections, and helped with crowd control.

More than 200 students participated in the Pro Bono program in 2009-2010.

The student-run Public Interest Project (PIP) raised approximately $60,000 at its annual Public Interest Auction. The proceeds helped to fund 67 grants for students taking unpaid public interest summer jobs.

Alumni are welcome to attend the next PIP auction, to be held March 31, 2011. See www.bupip.org for more information.

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Peter Resnik (’70) and Professor Akram honored at pro bono celebration Dean O’Rourke congratulated Peter Resnik (’70), Clinical Associate Professor Susan Akram and BU Law students for their outstanding contributions in the field of public interest at the School’s annual Pro Bono Celebration in April 2010.

Resnik and Akram received Pro Bono awards from the dean. “[These attorneys] work tirelessly to break down barriers to opportunity and justice, volunteering countless hours to provide critical legal services to our most vulnerable citizens,” said Dean O’Rourke.

The 2010 Pro Bono and Community Service Award went to Resnik, a senior counsel at the international law firm McDermott Will & Emery. He has provided pro bono representation throughout his career, in particular to the homeless in Boston. Resnik also received attention nationwide when he began a book club for the homeless in Boston.

Inspiration came during a walk to work, when Resnik met Rob, a military veteran who spent his nights sleeping in the doorway of an Army recruiting station and his days in Boston Common. The two men discovered a shared love of books, and Resnik began lending books to Rob. Together they began a book club for homeless people to give them an opportunity to share literature and conversation as well as a respite from the challenges of their life on the streets.

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which is working with service agencies across the country to begin similar book clubs.

Professor Akram, the Pro Bono Faculty Award winner, was born and raised in Pakistan. Her early exposure to the struggles of refugees there steered her to immigration and refugee law. She worked as an immigration lawyer for many years before joining the BU Law faculty in 1993. Professor Akram teaches in the Civil Litigation Clinic, where she supervises law students in their representation of indigent clients in immigration and refugee cases. This year, she accompanied BU Law students on a pro bono trip to Cambodia. “I don’t do pro bono work,” she insisted in her acceptance speech. “I just do what has to be done.”

At the celebration, 45 J.D. and LL.M. students received certificates for fulfilling their “Pro Bono Pledge.” (J.D. students earn certificates by working a minimum of 35 hours on pro bono matters throughout their three years at BU Law; LL.M. students work a minimum of 12 hours to qualify.) “[These students] have learned to appreciate the responsibilities that attorneys share—that the privilege of earning a law degree, and of living a life in the law, comes with an ongoing obligation to advance the cause of justice and the rule of law,” said Dean O’Rourke. “And this is the greatest achievement of all.” n

You can see this video and others focusing on BU Law at www.bu.edu/law/events/audio-visual/ index.html.

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Alumni profiled in The Last Lawyer Book details relentless fight by Ken Rose (’81) for death row inmate accused of shooting an elderly man to death. Had Jones really killed him? For Rose, it didn’t matter. The focus wasn’t on innocence or guilt, but the death penalty sentence.

Rose found that Jones was convicted based on little physical evidence: the police did not dust the crime scene for fingerprints, and the whole case was based upon the word of one paid witness, Jones’ ex-girlfriend. The police did not investigate any other suspects. What’s more, Jones’ original trial lawyer had been related to the victim.

Ken Rose (’81), who has devoted his legal career to representing death row inmates, is the subject of The Last Lawyer: The Fight to Save Death Row Inmates by John Temple (University Press of Mississippi, 2009). The book chronicles Rose’s decade-long defense of Bo Jones, a mentally handicapped North Carolina farmhand convicted of murder.

Rose, a New Orleans-raised attorney at the Center for Death Penalty Litigation (CDPL) in North Carolina, called the case his most frustrating in 25 years.

“Bo Jones’ case reflected many of the things that makes these cases so compelling: a falsely accused client suffering from mental illness and intellectual disabilities; bad defense counsel; prosecutors who struggle with doubts about their case and their perceived duty to uphold a death penalty; biased judges; and the strengths and failures of our federal system of habeas review,” said Rose.

The lawyer took on Jones’ case in 1997, just days before the former farmhand’s scheduled execution. In the book, Temple describes the painstaking work of Rose and his colleagues to exonerate the man

Temple, a professor of journalism at West Virginia University, followed Rose for nearly five years and made more than 15 trips to North Carolina to gather details and conduct interviews for the book, according to Rose. The book won the 2010 Book Award from The American Society of Legal Writers.

“He succeeds in combining a crime mystery with detailed descriptions of the inner workings and thought processes of our legal team through post-conviction proceedings in a capital case,” said Rose.

“John’s narrative is not always flattering to either side, but it is honest.”

Rose did prove that his client had not received a fair trial and saved Jones from being executed. In 2006, after serving more than a decade on death row for a crime he did not commit, Jones was released.

Rose has continuously represented death row inmates since 1981, participating in more capital appeals cases than almost any other attorney in U.S. history, according to Temple’s research.

Rose became interested in death penalty litigation while a student at BU Law. Though he says he barely survived his first year, he thrived in legal aid and criminal law clinics and found inspiration

in Professor Michael Harper’s labor law class. Professor Eva Nilsen recommended that he apply for a volunteer position with Atlanta-based Team Defense Project, a small public-interest law firm that represented low-income people in capital cases. Despite a meager salary, Rose worked there as a staff attorney after graduating.

“I was attracted by the Team Defense philosophy of representing indigent persons on trial for their lives in the same way that big corporate law firms represent major corporate clients,” said Rose.

Rose eventually moved to the CDPL, a nonprofit law firm that provides legal representation to those accused of capital crimes. He served as director of the firm for 10 years but stepped down in 1996 to work as a staff attorney, his current position.

While his family has been a great source of support throughout his career, he admitted that they are also sometimes skeptical about his choice to represent alleged murderers. But he has no doubts about his chosen line of work.

“I came to know my clients as human beings and connected with them first as persons and secondarily as their lawyer,” Rose said. “I feel incredibly lucky to be paid to do work about which I am passionate.” n

Note: Ken Rose is this year’s BU Law Shapiro lecturer; he will speak at the School on April 1. Look for more information online at www.bu.edu/law/events.

Attorneys at the Center for Death Penalty Litigation (CDPL) represent about one-third of all death row inmates in North Carolina. For more information on the CDPL visit, www.cdpl. org. The CDPL seeks volunteers and has summer internships for law students. See page 29 about two alumni who worked with Rose.

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BU Law welcomes new faculty BU Law professors are nationally acclaimed for their teaching skills as well as their scholarship and are frequently consulted for advice by both the public and private sectors. We are proud to welcome Professors Alon Harel and Frederick Tung, and Associate Professors Khiara M. Bridges, Lilian V. Faulhaber and David H. Webber.

Alon Harel Professor of Law

Professor Alon Harel will be a visiting professor at BU Law during fall semesters for the next 10 years. He comes to us from Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where he is a faculty member as well as the Phillip P. Mizock and Estelle Mizock Chair in Administrative and Criminal Law. He has been a visiting professor at several schools including Columbia University, the University of Toronto and the University of Texas at Austin. He also has been a visiting fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School.

Professor Harel’s academic interests include law and philosophy and law and economics.

Frederick Tung

Howard Zhang Faculty Research Scholar Professor of Law Professor Frederick Tung comes from Emory University School of Law, where he was the Robert T. Thompson Professor of Law and Business. He researches and teaches in the areas of corporate and securities law, bankruptcy and the governance of financial institutions. He has served as a consultant on law reform for the Ministry of Justice in Ethiopia, the Center for Commercial Law and Economics in Indonesia and the California Law Revision Commission. He has also served as a lecturer in the law department at Peking University and been a member of the Consumer Law Task Force of the Atlanta Legal Aid Society. Before teaching, Professor Tung clerked for the Honorable Stanley A. Weigel in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, and practiced corporate and bankruptcy law with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Proficient in Mandarin, he was an interpreter for ABC News, covering the democracy movement in Beijing. He has also worked as a software engineer in Silicon Valley.

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Khiara M. Bridges Associate Professor of Law

Associate Professor Khiara M. Bridges was most recently at the Center for Reproductive Rights, where she enjoyed an academic fellowship that was co-hosted and cosponsored by Columbia Law School. She has written many articles on race and women’s experiences of reproduction. She graduated as valedictorian from Spelman College, receiving her degree in three years. She received her J.D. from Columbia Law School and her Ph.D., with distinction, from Columbia University’s Department of Anthropology. She was a member of the Columbia Law Review and a Kent Scholar. She has also been a reporter for the Miami Herald, speaks fluent Spanish and basic Arabic, and is a classically trained ballet dancer who performed professionally in New York City.

Lilian V. Faulhaber

Associate Professor of Law

Associate Professor Lilian V. Faulhaber comes to us from Harvard Law School, where she was a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law. Her primary academic interests are federal income tax, European Union law, tax policy, international tax, international law and comparative law. She clerked for Senior Judge Robert E. Keeton and Judge William G. Young, both on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, and was an associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York. She is a graduate of Harvard College, Cambridge University and Harvard Law School, where she was the editor-in-chief of the Harvard International Law Journal.

David H. Webber Associate Professor of Law

Associate Professor David H. Webber’s research focuses on the regulation of financial markets, with an emphasis on using empirical methods to study securities regulation and securities class actions. Professor Webber joins BU Law from New York University School of Law and the NYU Stern School of Business, where he was an academic fellow at the Pollack Center for Law and Business. Prior to his fellowship, he litigated corporate and securities cases in New York, including representing plaintiff shareholders in the largest-ever stock options backdating case. He clerked for the Hon. Harold A. Ackerman of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. Professor Webber holds a B.A. from Columbia University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law, where he was a Lederman/Milbank Fellow in Law & Business and a notes development editor for the NYU Law Review.

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BU Law Commencement 2010:

U.S. Attorney General Holder reminds graduates of past leaders who entered their careers in ‘an uncertain world’

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder addressed the Class of 2010, their families and their professors on May 16 at the 137th BU Law Commencement in Agganis Arena, where 487 students received their J.D. and LL.M. degrees.

Acknowledging that graduates were launching their careers while “entering an uncertain world” colored by recession, terrorist threats and war, the attorney general encouraged them to recognize the opportunities they face as well.

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how many of those leaders were trained in the law.”

He encouraged graduates to remember that other generations of new lawyers have faced difficult challenges and prevailed. The first class of students who entered BU Law School in 1872 witnessed the Great Fire of Boston that destroyed much of the city, the Panic of 1872 that launched a national and worldwide depression, and the difficulties of reconstructing the United States following the Civil War. He told the Class of 2010 that they would soon learn the lesson that others before them have learned: “Times of difficulty, of novel questions and new tests, are often the most exciting and consequential times to be a lawyer.

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attorneys—and, very often, of young attorneys—have kept our great American experiment in motion. Through our history, young lawyers were on the front lines of efforts to abolish slavery and segregation, to secure voting rights for women and civil rights for all, to provide health care for our seniors and our poor, and to guarantee decent wages for our workers.”

Finally, the attorney general told the graduates that they are now “stewards of our nation’s justice system” and urged them to use their gifts and training to improve that system and, in the process, to trust their instincts, their vision and themselves.

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Alumni are eligible for a PLI discount BU Law has partnered with the Practising Law Institute (PLI) to offer alumni the opportunity to join PLI at a reduced rate and receive unlimited access to PLI’s live and online training programs. This opportunity will provide participating BU Law alumni an all-access pass to more than 260 live PLI seminars and 2,500 hours of live and on-demand online CLE courses as well as weekly audio briefings focusing on the most topical issues concerning the legal community.

PLI’s legal intelligence is drawn from its expert faculty, comprised of members of leading law firms, corporate counsel and select U.S. government offices and it supports virtually every major practice area.

The special alumni rate of $1,500 (a portion of which is returned to BU Law) offers substantial savings over the regular individual membership fee of $3,495. For more information, call 800.260.4754 or visit www.pli.edu/subscriptions/bulaw.asp

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Class notes

Class Notes are compiled throughout the year for The Record based on, but not limited to, press releases sent to BU Law, reports from Google Alerts, a web-based content monitoring service and alumni submissions. Submit your class notes at www.alumni.bu.edu/law.

Juris Doctor (J.D.) Program

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1964

Morton Aronson was installed as the

John Bolis, who teaches mediation at universities throughout the Republic of Latvia, was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Latvian Academy of Sciences.

chairman of the board of directors of Atlanta

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Israel bonds. He is Of Counsel and a member of the franchise team at Federal & Hasson,

Thomas D. Burns celebrated the 50th anniversary of his law firm, Burns & Levinson.

Atlanta, and teaches franchise law at Emory Law School.

1952

Hon. Michael A. Silverstein received the

The Richard S. Milstein Scholarship Fund

2010 Chief Justice Joseph R. Weisberger

now endows more than 50 legal services

Judicial Excellence Award from the Rhode

and need-based scholarships. Formerly

Island Bar Association.

with Robinson, Donovan, Madden & Barry of Springfield, Mass., Milstein now advises Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education Inc. on strategic initiatives and long-range planning.

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1965

Hon. Armand Arabian, attorney for

Frank N. Fleischer, chair of the Public Finance Group at GrayRobinson in Tampa, Fla., was named in Best Lawyers in America 2011.

Alternative Dispute Resolution Services Inc., was named to the Los Angeles

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Industrial Development Authority Board of

Jack B. Middleton, president of McLane,

Ernest M. Haddad, associate dean for Special Projects at BU Law, chaired the ad hoc committee of the Boston Bar Association’s Diversity & Inclusion Section charged with interviewing affinity bar association leaders.

This led to the Boston Bar Association renovating its facilities to provide office space for six affinity bar associations.

Commissioners.

Graf, Raulerson & Middleton in Manchester,

Robert Spangenberg, research professor

N.H., received an award from the New

and founder of The Spangenberg Project at

Hampshire Supreme Court in recognition

George Mason University’s Center for Justice,

of his years of service and commitment to

Law & Society, received the Champion of

the bar and to the judicial branch of New

Indigent Defense Award from the National

Hampshire.

Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

Victor J. Garo appeared as a guest speaker at the annual Joint Service Club Dinner at the Medford, Mass., VFW. Demitrios M. Moschos, a senior partner in the Labor Employment and Employee Benefits Group at Mirick, O’Connell, DeMallie & Lougee in Worcester, Mass., was recognized as a “New England Super Lawyer”

by Law & Politics.

Edward W. Brooke (LL.B. ’48, LL.M. ’50, Hon. ’68) received the Congressional Gold Medal from President Obama in 2009, at a ceremony held in the Capitol Rotunda.

Brooke had grown up in a segregated Washington, D.C., neighborhood, and received his sociology degree from Howard University. Brooke served in the All-African-American infantry stationed in Fort Devens, Mass., where he volunteered to defend enlisted men in military court. He went on to earn a promotion to captain, the Bronze Star, and a Distinguished Service Award. After World War II, he enrolled in BU Law, his first racially integrated school, serving as a BU Law Review editor. He graduated in 1948, earned an LL.M. in 1950 and received an honorary degree in 1968. When he had trouble finding a position because of his race, he launched his own practice in Roxbury, Mass., and became actively involved in civil rights and veterans’ causes.

In 1962, he was elected the first African-American attorney general of Massachusetts. In 1967, he became the first African-American to be popularly elected to the Senate, serving until 1979. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004, and wrote the memoir Bridging the Divide: My Life (Rutgers University Press, 2006).

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1969 Daniel Muller, partner at Nixon Peabody, N.H., was featured in the 2010 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business as a leader in the fields of business and real estate in New Hampshire.

1970 Joseph A. Prim Jr., partner at Duca and Prim in Philadelphia, was named treasurer of the Philadelphia Bar Association.

Peter L. Resnik, senior counsel and head of the pharmaceutical and biotech products liability practice at McDermott Will & Emery, Boston, received the 2010 McDermott Award for Outstanding Achievement and Commitment to Pro Bono and Service to the Community.

1971 Martha J. Koster, of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, was recognized as a 2009 “Massachusetts Super Lawyer” by Law & Politics.

1972 Kay Hodge was elected chair of the Fellows of the American Bar Association.

Prof. Judith S. Koffler received her second Fulbright Award and spent 10 months as a faculty member at the University of Botswana in Gaborone.

Richard E. Mikels, of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, was recognized as a 2009 “Massachusetts Super Lawyer” by Super Lawyers.

1973 Jeffrey Demerath was one of 18 Armstrong Teasdale attorneys featured in the 2010 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.

Katherine M. Greenleaf was named chief operating officer for the University of Southern Maine.

Robert Lee Holloway Jr., shareholder and president of MacLean Holloway Doherty Ardiff & Morse of Peabody, Mass., was elected treasurer of the Massachusetts Bar Association for the 2009-2010 year.

Robert D. Kalinoski joined Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, Baltimore.

was featured in the 2010 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.

1974

Michael Oestreicher was appointed to the Jewish Foundation of Cincinatti’s board of trustees.

Hon. Shelvin Louise Marie Hall, of the Illinois First District Appellate Court, First Division, received the 2009 Liberty Achievement Award from the American Bar Association’s Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section.

Seymour W. James Jr., attorney in charge of the Criminal Practice of the Legal Aid Society in New York City, was re-elected as treasurer of the New York State Bar Association.

Hon. Linda K. Lager, administrative judge in the New Haven Judicial District, was appointed chief administrative judge of the civil division of Connecticut.

Glenn Lau-Kee, of Kee & Lau-Kee, New York City, was honored by the New York State Bar Association for public service.

Warren R. Leiden, of Berry Appleman & Leiden, San Francisco, was named in Who’s Who Legal: Who’s Who of Corporate Immigration Lawyers 2010.

Jim Purcell, president and CEO of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, was named chairman of the 2010 American Heart Association’s Southern New England Start!

Heart Walk.

Roberta Griffin Torian joined the Financial Services Regulatory Group at Reed Smith, Philadelphia.

1975 Walt Bistline is an artist-in-residence at Earlham College and recently co-led a threeweek college photography course in Turkey.

Bruce French Blaisdell was named executive director of the Vietnamese-American Initiative for Development in Dorchester, Mass.

Rikki J. Klieman has been an anchor for TruTv (formerly Courtroom Television Network) since 1994. Klieman has worked as a legal analyst and has played a lawyer and reporter on TV and in movies. She also is the author of her memoir, Fairy Tales Can Come True.

Phillip Jonathan Moss, of counsel at Fisher & Phillips, Portland, Maine, was named to the “Best Lawyers in America 2011” list and

1976 Charles “Chip” Babcock, an attorney at Jackson Walker, Houston, was recognized in Best Lawyers of America 2010; Texas Lawyer’s “25 Greatest Tax Lawyers of the Past Quarter-Century”; Texas Monthly’s “2009 Texas Super Lawyer”; and the 2010 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.

Morrison M. Bonpasse, president of the Single Global Currency Association, worked to overturn the conviction of Alfred Trenkler for a 1991 Roslindale bombing.

Robert J. Glovsky, president of Mintz Levin Financial Advisors, Boston, was named to Barron’s “Top 100 Independent Investment Advisors” for the third consecutive year.

Michael R. McElroy of Schacht & McElroy, Providence, R.I., was appointed treasurer of the Rhode Island Bar Association.

Hugh H. Mo received the “Trailblazer” award at BU Law’s Asian Pacific American Law Student Association’s Asian Pacific American Alumni Conference.

Merry L. Nasser, partner at Lesser, Newman & Nasser of Northampton, Mass., was honored as a “Woman of Justice” by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.

1977 John M. Cornish, co-chair of the Wealth Management Group at Choate, Hall & Stewart, Boston, was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Steven D. Huff, chairman of the Employee Benefits Practice at Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren, Milwaukee, was nominated as a BTI Consulting Group Client Service All-Star for 2010.

1978 Natasha C. Lisman, partner at Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak & Cohen, Boston, was elected to the executive committee of the International Lawyers Project. She was also

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named a 2011 “Best Lawyer in America” in the areas of commercial litigation and insurance law. In addition, she has been recognized as a “Top 50 Female Lawyer in Massachusetts” by Boston magazine.

Richard Schnoll was named partner at Cohn Lifland Pearlman Herrmann & Knopf of Saddle Brook, N.J. Michael D. Weisman joined Davis, Malm & D’Agostine, Boston, as a shareholder.

1979 Susan Leach DeBlasio, of Adler Pollock & Sheehan, Boston, was named a 2009 “New England Super Lawyer” by Law & Politics. This is her third consecutive year receiving this honor.

Bruce P. Keller, partner at Debevoise & Plimpton, New York City, served as counsel for the publisher sub-class in The Authors Guild, Inc., et al. v. Google Inc., a class action law suit claiming a violation of copyrights by Google Books.

Robert W. Lavoie, of Devine Millimet, Andover, Mass., was re-elected to a second term as chairman of the Merrimack Valley Planning Commission.

J. Bruce Maffeo, of Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, New York, was named a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.

Robert Rowe was appointed chair of the International Banking Federation’s Financial Crime Working Group.

1980 Gints Berzins is working for Beach Point Capital, a Los Angeles-based hedge fund, and anticipates moving to London to start up a European office for the firm.

Robert J. Coughlin was named team leader of the Corporate Trust practice at Nixon Peabody, Boston.

Darragh J. Davis, vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of PETCO, was named a finalist in the “2009 Corporate Counsel” in the San Diego Source.

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D’Agostine, Boston, was appointed chair of the Equal Justice Coalition of Massachusetts.

Randal A. Nardone is chief operating officer and director of Fortress Investment Group, LLC, in New York City, one of the largest hedge funds in the country. He is also secretary of Newcastle Investment Corporation.

1981 Joseph Hameline, of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, Boston, was

Iris S. Gomez, staff attorney at the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, was honored as a “Woman of Justice” by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.

recognized as a 2009 “Massachusetts Super

William H. Groner, senior/managing partner of Worby Groner Edelman, White Plains, N.Y., was named a 2009 “New York Super Lawyer” by Law & Politics.

a real property litigation firm. He and his son

Aundre Herron is a death-penalty appellate defense lawyer for the California Appellate Project. She is also an award-winning standup comedienne. She was featured in “No Tomorrow,” a PBS documentary that aired in January 2010.

least $100,000 to the charity of their choice.

Daniel M. Kimmel is a film reviewer and author who writes regularly for North Shore Movies, the Jewish Advocate and Variety, and teaches film classes at Emerson College and BU. His latest book is Jar Jar Binks Must Die (Fantastic Books, 2011), a collection of his essays on science fiction films over the last decade.

Dan Rea (’74) won two Emmys and received nine Emmy nominations during his 31-year career as a TV journalist. He now hosts a WBZ radio show called “Nightside with Dan Rea.” He also interviews BU Law professors, staff and alumni for the BU Law Podcast Series on Legal Talk Network (legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/ boston-university-school-of-law)

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Samuel B. Moskowitz of Davis, Malm &

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Lawyer” by Law & Politics.

Gregory V. Ruzicka is the principal and managing partner at Ruzicka & Wallace, LLP, Cole participated in the Fox reality TV show “Secret Millionaire,” where millionaires pose as poor for one week and then donate at

Gary R. Stickell, a solo practitioner in Phoenix, Ariz., received the Award of Special Merit at the 77th annual Arizona State Bar Convention.

Linda V. Tiano was named president of regional health plans of Health Net of the Northeast in Shelton, Conn.

1982 Charles A. Anton is the president of Anton’s Cleaners, with locations in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He also headed an

Sylvia Clute (’73) practiced law before deciding to focus on collaboration and mediation. She is helping set up the Virginia Center for Restorative Justice, and has launched the blog www.genuinejustice.com, where she focuses on aspects of the two models of justice: unitive and punitive.

She also recently wrote Beyond Vengeance, Beyond Duality: A Call for a Compassionate Revolution (Hampton Roads Publishing, 2010).

industry subcommittee focusing on

Gregory Oswald Griffin, chief legal

environmental laws and issues.

counsel for the Alabama Board of Pardons

Mark Broth, attorney at Devine, Millimet & Branch of Andover, Mass., has been named one of The Best Lawyers in America for more than 10 years, including 2011.

Gene Barton joined Pepper Hamilton, Boston, as partner in the corporate and securities practice group.

Ira Herman was named a 2009 “New York Super Lawyer” by Law & Politics.

and Paroles, was appointed by Alabama Governor Bob Riley to represent the Second Congressional District on the Alabama Educational Television Committee.

Josh H. Kardisch co-founded Kardisch, Link & Associates in Mineola, N.Y. Hon. Judge Jack Lu received a “Distinguished Alumni” award at BU Law’s Asian Pacific American Law Student Association’s Asian Pacific American Alumni Conference. Lu is an

Deborah Zider Read, member of the

adjunct professor at BU Law, a lecturer at the

executive committee and partner at

New England School of Law and an associate

Thompson Hine, Cleveland, received the

justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court.

2010 Inside Business Athena Award for “attaining and embodying the highest level

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of professional excellence in her profession,

Joseph Henry Alhadeff is the vice president

devoting time and energy to improve the

for global public policy and chief privacy

quality of life for others in the community,

officer for Oracle Corp. He is chair of

and actively assisting women in realizing

the Business and Industry Advisory

their leadership potential.”

Committee on Information, Computer and

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Communications Policy. He is also vice-chair

John B. Harkavy was named a “Top 100

Electronic Business and Information

Massachusetts Trial Lawyer” by the

Technology Committee.

American Trial Lawyers Association.

of the International Chamber of Commerce’s

Theodore Peter Augustinos, partner at

Timothy J. Langella, of Mintz, Levin, Cohn,

Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, Hartford,

Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, Boston, was

Conn., was elected to serve on the American

recognized as a 2009 “Massachusetts Super

Bankers Insurance Association’s board of

Lawyer” by Law & Politics.

directors.

Mark L. Morris was appointed managing

Michael Kenneth Barron, a corporate and

partner of Fox Rothschild, Philadelphia.

securities partner at DLA Piper, Boston, was

Lori Caron Silveira, of Adler Pollock & Sheehan, Boston, was named a 2009 “New England Super Lawyer” by Law & Politics for the third consecutive year.

Sari Ann Strasburg, owner of Strasburg Law of Bedford, N.H., was selected for the 2009 DirectWomen Board Institute, a program designed to identify and promote qualified female lawyers to serve on corporate boards

elected as a board observer to the board of directors for the Social Media Advertising Consortium.

Anne Gudelfinger runs her own practice in California, where she provides legal counsel regarding in-house legal department management and trademark protection and strategy.

Kurt Allen James, president of Lawyers

of public companies.

Clearinghouse, spearheaded a pro bono

1984

partnership, students will work with Lawyers

Christine J. Engustian, solo practitioner in East Providence, R.I., was named a Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design

partnership with BU Law. Through the Clearinghouse attorneys on pro bono cases related to affordable housing and other nonprofit transactions.

Accredited Professional by the U.S. Green

William Wade Kannel, of Mintz, Levin, Cohn,

Building Council.

Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, Boston, was

recognized as a 2009 “Massachusetts Super Lawyer” by Law & Politics.

James John Lang was appointed chief of the criminal division for the Office of the U.S. Attorney, District of Massachusetts.

Jay Nussbaum is a lawyer, martial arts expert, college professor, and author.

Nussbaum taught a very popular course at Cornell that combined martial arts and Eastern philosophy. He published his second book, A Monk Jumped Over a Wall (Toby Press, 2007), and he has taught karate all over the world, including Okinawa, Hong Kong, Israel, Malaysia and Thailand.

Paul Saltzman was appointed executive vice president, general counsel and head of the Clearing House Association, a bankowned private sector payments provider and industry forum.

Joseph Effron Wolfson, shareholder at Stevens & Lee, Valley Forge, Pa., was named to the Jewish National Fund Board of Directors.

1986 Jeffrey William Goldman, of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, Boston, was recognized as a 2009 “Massachusetts Super Lawyer” by Law & Politics.

Jay Steven Kogan handles intellectual property issues for DC Comics.

Susan Porter, attorney at the Employment and Labor Law practice area of Schottenstein Zox & Dunn Co., Columbus, Ohio, was named an “Ohio Super Lawyer” by Law & Politics.

1987 David Bunis was made partner at Choate Hall & Stewart, Boston.

Thomas Gerard Gunning, vice president and general counsel of EMD Serono, Rockland, Mass., was chosen as one of PharmaVOICE Magazine’s “100 Most Inspiring Leaders of 2009.” He was also named a “Leader in the Law” by New England In-House and Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.

David C. Harlow was named a 2010 “Rx for Excellence Award” winner by the Massachusetts Medical Law Report. His HealthBlawg was also named to the ABA Journal Blawg 100. Harlow is a health care

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Stuart L. Carroll has a law practice in Los

lawyer, consultant and principal of the Harlow Group of Newton, Mass.

Angeles, where he represents copyright

David G. Oedel, professor at the Mercer University School of Law in Macon, Ga., was appointed by Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue to a legal team addressing healthcare reform legislation.

holders pursuing infringement claims and devotes a significant part of his practice to copyright litigation in the Central District of California.

Derek Davis, attorney at Greenberg Traurig, Boston, was elected chair of the Cambridge

1988

College Board of Trustees.

Cynthia J. Larose, a member of the corporate section at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, Boston, received the BU Women’s Law Association Lelia Josephine Robinson Award.

Thomas J. Rechen, of McCarter & English of Hartford, Conn., was named a fellow at the Litigation Counsel of America.

David L. Schick, shareholder at GrayRobinson, Orlando, was named in Best Lawyers in America 2011.

Nicola “Niki” Tsongas represents the Fifth Congressional District of Massachusetts, and recently won re-election.

1989

Elisabeth A. Ditomassi, deputy commissioner and general counsel for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Division of Insurance, was named to the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers.

Mary-Laura Greely joined McDermott Will & Emery, Boston, as partner.

Lawrence J. Kotler, of Duane Morris, Philadelphia, was featured in the 2010 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business for his work in bankruptcy/ restructuring. Kotler’s practice group of bankruptcy/restructuring was also among the ones cited by Chambers USA. Neal Moskow was elected co-chair of the

Russell Beck opened Beck Reed Riden in Boston, where he focuses on trade secrets and noncompete agreements within intellectual property law practice. Beck also teaches trade secrets and restricted covenants at BU Law. Daniel S. Bleck, of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, Boston, was recognized as a 2009 “Massachusetts Super Lawyer” by Law & Politics.

American Association for Justice’s Trasylol Litigation Group.

Randy Shapiro has been promoted to vice president and general counsel for Newsweek.

1990 Adam J. Epstein, founding principal of Third Creek Advisors in Incline Village, Nev., was appointed to the OCZ Technology Group Board of Directors.

Jill B. Goldenberg, of Cohen Garelick & Glazier, Indianapolis, was recognized in the Best Lawyers in America 2010 for family law.

This is the third consecutive year she has earned this distinction.

Michael G. Menkowitz, of Fox Rothschild, Philadelphia, was named in the “Leaders in Law” ranking of the 2010 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.

Hemanshu Nigam opened a safety, security and privacy firm called SSP Blue.

Alan Ostfield was senior vice president and general counsel of the San Diego Padres Baseball Club, and is now president and CEO of Palace Sports and Entertainment as well as president and CEO of the Detroit Pistons.

Hon. Judge Sabita Singh, the first woman of South Asian descent appointed to be a Massachusetts district court circuit judge, was named a “Diversity Hero” by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.

Eric A. Zukoski, of Fort Worth, Texas, released a new jazz CD, An Old Sweet Song.

1991 Scott Mautner is general counsel of Symphony 3D Technologies.

Anu R. Mullikin served as the keynote speaker at a University of Massachusetts Lowell event recognizing business excellence.

Kin Wang Ng received a “Distinguished Alumni” award at BU Law’s Asian Pacific American Law Student Association’s Asian Pacific American Alumni Conference. Ng

The ABA Journal recently had a jury of 12 experts—nine lawyers, two scholars and a TV critic—pick their favorite legal TV shows of all time, and four of the top 10 law shows belonged to our own David E. Kelley (’83). #1: “L.A. Law” (1986-1994)—The Journal called it a “groundbreaking series about a boutique law firm ….

For lawyers of a certain age, Leland McKenzie is the managing partner they are still looking for. Douglas Brackman Jr. is the manager they seem to end up with.” #5. “The Practice” (1997-2004)—“Bobby Donnell … surrounded himself … with talented lawyers who lacked the pedigree necessary to cut it in BigLaw. They made up the difference with street smarts and sheer tenacity.” #6. “Ally McBeal” (1997-2002)—“The show was a slapstick soap opera whose law office served as a setting for anorexic fashion, sex-driven dialogue and permutating relationships.” #8. “Boston Legal” (2004-2008)—“The law-laden plots were twisted, the characters quirky and the dialogue some of the most jerk-your-head interesting on television.”

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is director of training in the Kings County District Attorney’s Office in New York City.

Limor Schafman, founder and president of Keystone TechGroup, was named the first woman president of the World Future Society’s National Capital Chapter.

1992 Deborah M. Autor, director of the Office of Compliance at the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research at the Food and Drug Administration, was named a finalist for the “Citizen Services Medal,” presented annually by the Partnership for Public Service to recognize a federal employee for a significant contribution to the nation in activities related to social services.

Michael Brown was appointed Village Justice of Lloyd’s Harbor, N.Y. Margaret R. Guzman was named a district court judge in Massachusetts.

Julia Huston joined Foley Hoag, Boston, as chair of the trademark and copyright practice group. She was also honored as a “Woman of Justice” by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.

Peter F. May was named vice president for legal affairs for the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.

David C. Wilkes, partner and co-founder of New York real estate firm Huff Wilkes Cavallaro, was elected chairman of the Appraisal Foundation, based in Washington, D.C. The foundation is authorized by Congress to set the standards for appraisals in the United States and to set national appraiser licensing qualifications.

Victoria Woodin Chavey joined Jackson Lewis, Hartford, Conn.

1993 NiaLena Caravasos, of the Law Office Of NiaLena Caravasos, was recognized as a 2009 “Pennsylvania Super Lawyer” in the field of criminal defense by Law & Politics.

This was her second year of inclusion.

Lisa Mercurio Estabrook joined Archer Norris of Walnut Creek, Calif., as special counsel.

Vickie L. Henry, formerly a partner and deputy chair of the litigation department at

Foley Hoag, Boston, joined Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) as senior staff attorney.

of Roseland, N.J., received a “Forty Under 40”

Renu Mago was named a Virginia State Bar assistant counsel.

committee at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris,

Simon J. Miller has joined the New York Office of Thompson Hine LLP as a partner in the Business Litigation group.

as a “Woman of Justice” by Massachusetts

William G. Ortner joined UBS Investment Bank as managing director and co-head of Structured Equity Capital Markets for the Americas.

Price, Smith & King’s litigation department,

Myron D. Quon received a “Distinguished Alumni” award at BU Law’s Asian Pacific American Law Student Association’s Asian Pacific American Alumni Conference. Quon is a senior lecturing fellow at Duke Law School and the executive director of the Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center.

Eugene Marvin Holmes joined Proskauer

Nigel Telman joined Proskauer Rose, Chicago, as partner.

Elaine Waterhouse Wilson, attorney in the Tax-Exempt Organizations group at Quarles & Brady, Chicago, was named in Best Lawyers in America 2011. She has held this distinction since 2007.

award from NJBIZ. Susan Finegan, chair of the pro bono Glovsky and Popeo, Boston, was honored Lawyers Weekly.

Meredith L. Grocott, partner in Schenck, has moved with the firm from their office in Morristown, N.J. to a new office in Florham Park, N.J.

Rose, Washington, D.C. Sean Keyvan, a partner at Sidley Austin, Chicago, was recognized as a “Rising Star Under 40” by Law360.

Carla Munroe Moynihan, a real estate partner at Robinson & Cole, Boston, received the “Mentor of the Year” award from her firm.

Jerrold Neeff, the founding principal of the Bostonian Law Group, focuses his practice in the areas of intellectual property, entertainment law, employment litigation and counseling. He is also a lecturer at BU Law.

1994

Annapoorni R. Sankaran, shareholder at

Carolina M. Avellaneda of McCarter & English, Boston, was named a “20 on the move” honoree by Boston Business Journal. A member of the firm’s labor & employment and business litigation groups, Avellaeda received the honor for her accomplishments as an employment lawyer and litigator as well as for her work to advance the interests of lawyers of color.

“40 under 40” list by Boston Business Journal.

Brent C.J. Britton, shareholder and chair of the Emerging Business and Technology Practice Group at GrayRobinson, Tampa, was named in Best Lawyers in America 2011 and was also recognized as one of Florida Trend’s “Legal Elite.”

Steven J. Tsimbinos was appointed first senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of OceanFirst Financial Corp. of N.J.

1995 Alka Bahal, co-chair of the corporate immigration practice group at Fox Rothschild

Greenberg Traurig, Boston, was named to the

Mark S. Scott joined Duane Morris, Miami, as partner.

Vince M. Verde joined Ogletree Deakins, Orange County, Calif., as co-managing shareholder.

1996 Stephen J. Krause, external legal counsel for Savi Technology Inc., is releasing his second folk CD, “Broke Down Beautiful.”

Brent O’Leary was listed as one of the “Top 40 under 40” in the Irish Echo newspaper.

Christina L. Paradiso, senior supervising attorney at the Legal Assistance Corporation of Central Massachusetts, was honored as a “Woman of Justice” by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.

David E. Runck was promoted to partner at Fafinski Mark & Johnson of Eden-Prairie, Minn.

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securities group at Bingham McCutchen,

chairman of the West Virginia Republican

Boston, was made partner.

Party.

1997

Asaf Hahami was named a member of Cozen

Adam M. Weisberger, of Adler Pollock

Peter Kals is an attorney at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission in Washington, D.C.

O’Connor, New York City.

& Sheehan, Boston, was named a 2009

Richard P. Palermo handles intellectual

David Stansbury was appointed judge of the Licking County, Ohio, Municipal Court.

property issues for DC Comics.

Angelique Magliulo-Hager and her husband, Rob, announced the birth of twin girls, Madison Nanea Hager and Riley Malulani Hager, on December 18, 2009.

Jung H. Park was made partner at Ropers

Liana P. Moore, partner at Bowditch & Dewey of Worcester, Mass., was named to the “2009 Top 40 Under Forty” by the Worcester Business Journal Online.

Stephen L. Pike joined Davis, Malm &

Lisa Bebchick was made partner in the

D’Agostine, Boston, as a shareholder in the

litigation department at Fried, Frank, Harris,

business law practice area.

Shriver & Jacobson LLP. She was also one of

1999

The Glass Hammer’s “35 Women Under 35

Craig Myers, of Strasburger & Price, Dallas,

Joy M. Napier-Joyce joined the employee benefits practice group at Gordon, Feinblatt, Rothman, Hoffberger & Hollander, Baltimore.

Irishman of the Year” by the Friendly Sons of

Azizah P. Yasin, of the Yasin Law Office, Boston, was elected to the Community Legal Services and Counseling Center Board of Directors. The nonprofit agency in Cambridge, Mass., provides legal assistance and mental health counseling to low-income individuals.

who owns Todd’s Twisted Balloon Company

1998

Star” by Super Lawyers.

Texas Monthly.

2000 Kevin M. Brennan, of Lowenstein Sandler, Roseland, N.J., was named the “Young St. Patrick of the Oranges.

Todd A. Neufeld, a former patent attorney

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Christi J. Braun, who practices in OberKaler’s health law and litigation groups in Washington, D.C., was elected principal of the firm. She is also one of only 12 lawyers from across the United States to be selected for the 2009 rankings of “Outstanding Healthcare Antitrust Lawyers.”

Charles M. Miller was made partner at Keating Muething & Klekamp, Cincinnati.

in Brooklyn, recently entertained at the White

2002

House.

Melissa Nott Davis, of McDermott Will &

Itai Nevo was made partner in the corporate and finance group at DLA Piper, Boston.

Emery, Boston, was named an “Up & Coming Lawyer” by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.

Justin Brian Rand, of Brinks Hofer Gilson &

Samuel S. Fagin was sworn in as a member of

Lione, Chicago, was named an “Illinois Rising

the Mount Kisco (N.Y.) Police Department.

Taruna Garg, an associate at Murtha Cullina,

Michael B. Stuart, attorney at Steptoe &

Boston, was named a “Diversity Hero” by

Johnson of Charleston, W.Va., was elected

Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.

Aundre Herron (J.D. ’80) is a death penalty appeals defense lawyer affiliated with Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation and appeared in the film Outside In, which examined the death penalty through the eyes of regular visitors to inmates on death row. She is also a stand-up comic.

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receiving this honor.

2001

was named a 2010 “Texas Rising Star” by

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Majeski Kohn Bentley, New York City.

Christian S. Na, vice president and general counsel at Danaher Corp., spoke at BU Law’s Asian Pacific American Law Student Association’s Asian Pacific American Alumni Conference and received a “Distinguished Alumni” award.

Rachelle Alyse Dubow, member of the corporate, mergers & aquisitions and

“Massachusetts Rising Star” by Super

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Jay Fialkov (’81) is deputy general counsel and an executive producer at WGBH public television. He also teaches courses about the legal aspects of the music business at Berklee College of Music. He previously was an entertainment lawyer whose clients included Phish, Mark Wahlberg and George Thorogood, and was founder and coowner of the Giant/Rockville record labels.

Samuel A. Lichtenfeld joined the real estate practice group at Baker & Daniels, Chicago.

Laura J. Maechtlen joined Seyfarth Shaw, San Francisco, as partner.

Stacy Malone was named executive and deputy director for the Victim Rights Law Center, established in 2003 as the first national nonprofit law center dedicated to serving the needs of rape and sexual assault victims.

Mika Mayer was named to Law360’s “10 IP Attorneys Under 40 to Watch.” Mayer was the youngest person ever to make partner at Morrison Foerster, and co-founded the nation’s first practice group devoted to investor due diligence of intellectual property.

Josephine Giovanna Binetti McPeak was made partner at McDonald Carano Wilson, Las Vegas.

Kelly Ruane Melchiodo was elected shareholder at Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson, Miami.

Roberta Harding Vespremi, of O’Melveny & Myers, Menlo Park, Calif., was part of the team representing Advanced Micro Devices in a worldwide monopolization suit against Intel. In November 2009, Advanced Micro Devices obtained a $1.25 billion settlement and wide-ranging injunctive relief. This historic settlement was one of the largest single plaintiff recoveries ever reported.

Amy Komoroski Wiwi, of Lowenstein Sandler, Roseland, N.J., was named to the 2010 New Jersey list of “Up-and-Coming Attorneys.”

2003 Kristopher Neil Austin, an associate at Foley Hoag, Boston, was named to the 20092010 Boston Bar Association Public Interest Leadership Program.

2004 Matthew J. Andrus, of Choate, Hall & Stewart, Boston, received the “Mentor Program Alumni Award” from BU Law. Over the past five years, Andrus has mentored 10 students through this program.

David Mark Dineen joined Sherin and Lodgen, Boston, as a litigation associate.

Barbara Lauriat is pursuing a PhD program and teaching IP-related subjects at the University of Oxford. She serves on the law faculty as the career development fellow in intellectual property law.

Aaron J. Mango, assistant U.S. attorney in the white-collar and general crimes division of the Western District of New York, was honored at the 57th annual Attorney General’s Awards for Outstanding Legal Skills and Work Ethic.

Marc S. Wilson, of Stinson Morrison Hecker, Kansas City, was named the Kansas Securities Commissioner.

2005 Elizabeth A. Badger, of Human Rights USA, worked with BU Law’s Asylum & Human Rights Clinic to help them succeed in a petition for habeas corpus in the District Court of the Middle District of Pennsylvania.

Dana Roxana Bucin, a corporate attorney at Updike, Kelly & Spellacy, Hartford, Conn., was featured in Hartford Business Journal’s “40 Under Forty.”

Tracey Bracco was promoted to senior associate at Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed, Orlando.

Sara Condon, of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, Boston, was named a 2009 Massachusetts Rising Star by Law & Politics.

Angela Gomes, a corporate associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Boston, was named to the 2009-2010 Boston Bar Association Public Interest Leadership Program.

Megan McCarthy joined Gennari Aronson of Needham, Mass., as an associate.

Brandon Michael Ress is an attorney with Fulbright & Jaworski, Austin, Texas, where he concentrates in trademarks, copyrights, intellectual property, technology and litigation.

Christina Ronan was promoted to the superior court trial team in Essex County, Mass.

Alexander Speidel serves as staff attorney/ hearings examiner with the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission in Concord, N.H.

Colin Grant Van Dyke, an associate in the environmental section and the energy and clean technology practice group at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, Boston, was named to the 2009-2010 Boston Bar Association Public Interest Leadership Program.

2006 Stephen F. Rickard was appointed assistant U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C.

2007 Rose Maureen Constance, an associate at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Boston, received the Burton Award for Legal Writing.

Colin Tobias Smith was named assistant attorney at Drobny Law Offices, Sacramento.

Rachel D. Thrasher, a research fellow at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, published “21st Century Trade Agreements: Implications for Long-Run Development Policy.”

2008 Peter F. Herzog joined Sherin and Lodgen LLP as a litigation associate.

Lilly O. Huang received the “Young Alumni” award at BU Law’s Asian Pacific American Law Student Association’s Asian Pacific American Alumni Conference. Huang is an associate at Goulson & Storrs, Boston.

2009 Margaret C. Barusch received the National LGBT Bar Association’s Student Leadership Award for her work founding Massachusetts Transgender Legal Advocates, a legal clinic committed to addressing the needs of low-income transgender Massachusetts residents.

Ruha Therese Devanesan, of the Internet Bar Organization, introduced the “Peacetones: Haiti Sings 2010” contest.

Yutian Ling, a fellow at the Matsuna Institute for Peace & Conflict Resolution at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, discussed intellectual property at “Google vs. China: The Clash of the Titans” during Intellectual Property Law Week 2010 at the William S. Richardson School of Law.

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2006

Achal Oza, a litigation fellow at the Lawyers’

Frederic Sudret is in Luxembourg as senior

Committee for Civil Rights, received the Jan

counsel and vice president for State Street

Jancin award from the American Intellectual

Bank Luxembourg S.A.

Lars Hauser and Cornelia Kalman (‘08)

Property Law Education Foundation.

2002

Zurich in July. They were joined by Patrick

Kristi S. Schubert joined Potter Anderson & Corroon of Wilmington, Del.

organized the second Swiss LL.M. reunion in

Li-Jung Hwang is an associate partner at Baker & McKenzie in Taipei.

Jessica E. Sutton is a staff attorney at the Death Penalty Litigation Clinic (DPLC), a

2003

nonprofit law firm dedicated to the defense

Alejandro Pignataro is a partner with Facio

of prisoners on death row throughout the

Abogados in Escazu, Costa Rica.

Luis E. Denuble Sanchez is at Noetinger &

litigation and also provides mitigation

Armando in Buenos Aires.

investigation, state post-conviction defense

2004

Graduate American Law (LL.M.) Program

Rainer Hoerning (‘03), Martin Mueller (‘02), Ariane Riedi (‘05), Heather Schmidli (‘97), Matthias Staedeli (‘04), Ivana Streuli-

country. DPLC specializes in capital habeas

and representation in clemency hearings.

Dueggelin (‘04), Tamara Frehner (‘04),

Nikolic (‘02) and Massimo Vanotti (‘05).

Yael Hezroni gave birth to her baby girl, Adi Miriam Sharon, on November 8, 2009.

Daisuke Takei is at Sumida Corporation, Tokyo, as an officer in the legal office.

Octavio Moura Andrade has joined a newly

2008

established firm, Contrucci & Restiffe in Sao

Patricia Arajuo is a commissioner at the

Paolo, Brazil, as a senior associate/partner.

Secretariat of Metropolitan Transportation of

Dr. Boris T. Grell is a Rechtsanwalte, an attorney-at-law, in Zurich, Switzerland.

Jeremy Johnson and his wife, Amy,

Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Cornelia Kalman is at Reber Rechtsanwälte in Zurich, Switzerland. She and Lars Hauser (’06) organized the second Swiss LL.M.

1998

announced the birth of a baby girl, Brynn Annika Johnson, on January 6, 2009. He also

reunion in Zurich in July.

Marc R. Buettler is a partner at Beglinger

recently launched Johnson, Gasink & Baxter

Anna Kowalczyk is back in Poland working at

in Williamsburg, Va.

Weil Gotshal in Warsaw.

Sang Hee Lee is working in the corporate department at Jisung Horizon law firm in

2009

Korea.

Edoardo Calcaterra has joined Castaldi,

Holenstein Attorneys-at-Law in Zurich, Switzerland, where he specializes in intellectual property.

2001 Hiroshi Kobayashi is in the international

Kunihiro Taniguchi heads the Norinchukin

Mourre & Partners in Milan, Italy.

Bank’s Singapore branch.

2010

in Japan.

2005

Ayako Kuroda is at Eli Lilly in Tokyo, Japan.

Dryden Liddle is general counsel at the Law

Hisahito Osuka is a legal officer at Quintiles

Eline Van Nimwegen has joined the

Finance Group in San Rafael, Calif.

Transnational Japan K.K.

Amsterdam office of Baker & McKenzie,

legal affairs department of Sekisui Chemical

Mark Kern (’95) is the CEO and chief creative officer of Red 5 Studios, an online game developer that he founded in California. Kern, former team lead for World of Warcraft, recently showed the studio’s first title, Firefall, at the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle. Due for release near the end of 2011, Firefall is a teambased action shooter that, according to Red 5 Studios, “thrusts hundreds of players together into a lush, dynamic open world combining intense competitive multiplayer and large-scale cooperative gameplay.”

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Gina Y. Walcott, Esq. (‘93) is executive director of Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers Inc. She is the first black director of a lawyer assistance program in the nation, a former assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts and a former civil litigator and prosecutor with the state attorney general’s office.

Wolcott was awarded the “Women of Justice” award by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, in conjunction with the Women’s Bar Association and the Massachusetts Association of Women Lawyers; was named one of the Ten Outstanding Young Leaders by the Boston Junior Chamber of Commerce in its 50th year celebration; and was invited to become a member of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation’s Society of Fellows—an honor extended to only half of one percent of the Commonwealth’s practicing bar.

working in the firm’s commercial, regulatory and trade section.

Graduate Banking and Financial Law Studies (LL.M.) Program 1993 Kenichi Takarada returned to Tokyo after graduation to join the structured finance team at Fuji Bank Limited. He has also taught a special lecture class at Hitotsubashi University.

1994 John J. Maalouf, a senior partner at Maalouf Ashford & Talbot, gave the speech “The Future of Energy Banking” at the Oil Council’s 2010 Americas Assembly.

1998 Ricardo Manuel Sousa is an equity partner at Prince Lobel, Boston, and works on a wide range of corporate, commercial real estate and telecommunications matters, primarily representing companies in the wireless industry.

1999 Andrew Jerome Morganti became a member of Ontario’s Law Society of Upper Canada, allowing him to practice law in Ontario. He also became a partner at Sutts Strosberg, Ontario.

2000 Pavlos Aristodemou is the managing partner of Harneys in Cyprus and was one of the three founding partners of Aristodemou Loizides Yiolitis, which merged with Harneys in 2009. His practice areas are banking and finance, private equity and capital markets, and corporate tax law.

2001 Mitchell Carroll was one of eight lawyers who made partner at Bingham McCutchen, Boston.

2002 Kathryn Muriel Colson joined Manhattanbased TitleVest as managing director of business development.

Ga. He is assisting James B. Blackburn Jr. in matters of creditor’s rights, banking and finance law, compliance and financial services transactions.

2003

Raul Serrano-Diaz is working in Puerto Rico

Paolo Barbanti Silva is a senior associate at Lombardi Molinari e Associati of Milan, Italy.

The firm specializes in debt and corporate restructuring.

bank, assigned to the mortgage, commercial

2004 Kunihiro Taniguchi (see American Law LL.M. Program)

2005 Donald Lancaster is with Bank of New York Mellon in the area of compliance and ethics. He is the managing director and part of global compliance, covering the global corporate trust business area of the bank.

Katherine M. Sikora Nelson is at Bank of New York Mellon’s global compliance and anti-money laundering departments. She is also the chair of the broker-dealer AML oversight committee.

2007

as the compliance officer for a local midsized and collections departments.

Graduate Intellectual Property (LL.M.) Program 2004 Jason Yao is in Hong Kong as an Asia Pacific Counsel for Acushnet Company, the maker of Titleist golf balls.

Graduate Taxation (LL.M.) Program 1979 Michael Dennis retired after 34 years with The Nature Conservancy.

Anabella Vegas is an associate at GómezPinzón Zuleta Abogados in Bogota, Colombia.

Robert J. Glovsky (see J.D. Program 1976)

2008

Tax Executives Institute.

Paul O’Connor was elected president of the

Colin T. Darke of Bodman, Detroit, was juried into the 18th annual National Juried Exhibition at the Bowery Gallery in New York City. Darke was one of only 35 artists selected to participate in the exhibition out of more than 400 artists.

1984

Sofia Tsachouridou is the director of legal affairs at Echo Bridge Entertainment, Needham, Mass.

1986

2009 Tawan Asawapattanakul is a legal officer at the Securities and Exchange Commission of Thailand.

Andrew B. O’Donnell, partner at Mirick, O’Connell, DeMaillie & Lougee in Worcester, Mass, was named a “New England Super Lawyer” by Law & Politics.

Richard Jones was made partner at Sullivan & Worcester LLP in Boston.

1988 Eric Gurgold was made partner at Henderson, Franklin, Starnes & Holt in Fort

Takahiro Hanai passed the New York bar exam, and is at Norinchukin Bank in Japan.

Myers.

Denton C. Hill is associate attorney at Wiseman, Blackburn & Futrell of Savannah,

was named to the 2011 “Best Lawyers in

David Schick, of GrayRobinson, Orlando, America” list of outstanding attorneys.

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Ameek Ashok Ponda was appointed to the

Jo Ann Rooney was appointed president of Mount Ida College in Newton.

Ponda is a tax partner and member of the

2003

Internal Revenue Service Advisory Council.

Bradley Migdal announced the birth of a baby girl, Ava Brooke, September 23, 2009.

management committee at Sullivan &

1995 Jeff Pirner, district manager with H&R Block in Boston, hosted a live chat on “Tax Chat With Jeff Pirner” on Boston.com.

1996

Worcester, Boston, and an adjunct professor

2005

at the BU Law Graduate Tax Program.

Sara Condon, (see J.D. program 2005)

2010

2002

Amy Kaufman McLellan, an attorney in Andover, Mass., spoke at the BU Law Commencement.

Avi M. Lev was elected shareholder at Davis, Malm & D’Agostine PC of Boston.

Anu Mullikin (see J.D. program 1991)

In memoriam The Honorable Max H. Reicher (LL.B. ’30), New Britain, Connecticut

Jacob S. Levine (J.D. ’60, LL.M. ’66), New Bedford,

James A. Sayer Jr. (LL.B. ’51), Salem, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

John H. Bustamante (LL.B. ’52, CAS ‘53), Cleveland, Ohio

Harold H. Goodkowsky (LL.B. ’32), Old Orchard Beach, Maine

Gerald F. O’Malley (LL.B. ’60), Grafton, Massachusetts

Neil L. Dow (LL.B. ’52), Norway, Maine

David Altschuler (LL.B. ’61), Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts

David Feinstein (LL.B. ’35), Canton, Massachusetts The Honorable Lawrence H. Miller (LL.B. ’52), Errol, New Louis B. Cappuccio Sr. (LL.B. ’39), Westerly, Rhode Island Joseph J. Nissenbaum (LL.B.. ’39), Somerville, Massachusetts

Robert B. Dugan (LL.M. ’61), Lexington, Massachusetts

Hampshire The Honorable Robert H. Temple (LL.B. ’52, DGE ‘48), Dover,

Samuel Katzman (LL.B. ’46), Newton Center, Massachusetts

New Hampshire

Harold Meyers (LL.B. ’47), Boston, Massachusetts

The Honorable Vincent D. Dunn (LL.B. ’53), Concord, New Hampshire

S. Harold Skolnick (LL.B. ’40), Miami, Florida

William Coniaris (LL.B. ’62 DGE ‘50, CAS ’56) Swampscott, Massachusetts Edward M. Altman (LL.B. ’63, CAS ‘60), Cambridge, Massachusetts John F. Flynn (LL.B. ’63), Warwick, Rhode Island

Paul Arthur Barron (LL.B. ’41) Golden, Colorado

Robert M. Silver (LL.B. ’53), San Jose, California

Robert S. Phillips (LL.B. ’46), Naples, Florida

Raymond J. Surdut (LL.B. ’53), East Providence, Rhode Island

Rupert D. Morrill (LL.B. ’48), Falmouth, Massachusetts

Martin M. Temkin (LL.B. ’53), Providence, Rhode Island

Charles E. Price (J.D. ’48), Amherst, New Hampshire

Paul Keith Marshall (LL.B. ’54), Kingfield, Maine

The Honorable Stanford L. Strogoff (LL.M. ’48, LL.B. ’42),

Lt. Colonel Willard R. Terry (LL.B. ’49), Royal Oak, Michigan

John R. Linnell (LL.B. ’64), New Gloucester, Maine

Worcester, Massachusetts

York Samuel J. Kolodney (LL.B. ’49), Providence, Rhode Island Barry D. Berkal (LL.B. ’50), Peabody, Massachusetts

Robert Regner Arvidson (LL.M. ’70), West Hartford,

Brock Lewis (LL.B. ’55), Sandwich, Massachusetts

James E. Wallace Jr. (LL.M. ’70), Worcester, Massachusetts

Jon A. Asgeirsson (LL.B. ’56), Reading, Massachusetts

The Honorable Reuben K. Davis (LL.B. ’49), Rochester, New

David C. Reid (LL.B. ’68), Pittsford, New York

Connecticut

The Honorable Charles J. Contas (J.D./LL.B. ’49), Keene, New Cyril H. Gelfand (LL.B. ’55), Bridgeport, Connecticut Hampshire

William L. Thompson (LL.M. ’66), Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania

Roger P. Welch (LL.B. ’49), Westbrook, Maine

The Honorable Alvin C. Tamkin (LL.B. ’48, SMG ‘46), Needham, Massachusetts

George Meade Emory (LL.M. ’64), Iowa City, Iowa

Arthur “Art” Cohen (LL.B. ’57), Henderson, Nevada Earle C. Cooley Jr. (LL.B. ’57), Osterville, Massachusetts Leonard Michael Cocco (J.D. ’58), Trumbull, Connecticut

Stanley Charmoy (LL.M. ’72), Boston, Massachusetts Robert Eric Marum (J.D. ’72, LL.M. ’73), Simsbury, Connecticut Edward R. DiPippo (J.D. ’73), North Kingstown, Rhode Island Philip F. Sullivan (J.D. ’75), Simpsonville, South Carolina John B. Curry (J.D. ’77), Belchertown, Massachusetts Meade G. Burrows (J.D. ’79), Northampton, Massachusetts

Shayle Robinson (LL.B. ’50), Warwick, Rhode Island

Robert J. Eaton (LL.B. ’58), Bangor, Maine

Samuel H. Zeltserman (LL.B. ’50), Brighton, Massachusetts

Alfred H. Kafka (LL.B. ’58), Sharon, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

Jack J. Furman (LL.B. ’51, CAS ‘49), Osterville, Massachusetts

Francis P. Scigliano (LL.B. ’58), Burlington, Massachusetts

Matthew L. Lunenfeld (J.D. ’97), Charlestown, Massachusetts

Allan Green (LL.B. ’51) Cambridge, Massachusetts

Edward M. Swartz (LL.B. ’58), Palm Beach, Florida

Benjamin Donald Hatfield (J.D. ‘05), Spring, Texas

Joanne “Jody” Acford (J.D. ‘80), West Newton,

According to University records, from July 1, 2009 to January 31, 2011

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By the book: published alumni Former BU Law lecturer Iris S. Gomez (’80), a staff attorney at the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, published her first novel, Try to Remember (Grand Central Publishing, 2010). Gomez is also the author of two books of poetry.

Try to Remember tells the story of Gabriela, the daughter of a Colombian family struggling to make it in Miami. Because Gabriela has the language skills and cultural know-how her parents lack, she is forced to handle the family’s problems. When her father loses his job and begins to act erratically, Gabriela knows that if she can’t find a way to help him before he slips into madness, her family could face deportation.

Gomez lives in Milton, Mass., with her husband, Phil Kassel (’80), and their two children.

Other recently published BU Law alums include:

Edward J. Bander (’51): The Hidden History of Essex Law Daniel M. Schwartz (’81): The Future of Finance: How Private School, Trafford Publishing, 2010 Edward D. McCarthy (’62): The Malpractice Cure: How to Avoid the Legal Mistakes that Doctors Make, Kaplan Publishing, 2009 Gerald L. Nissenbaum (B.S. ’63, J.D. ’67, LL.M. Tax ’85): Sex, Love, and Money, Hudson Street Press, 2010 Alan J. Cushner (‘65): Obey or Die: Josh Parker and the Facets Project, CreateSpace, 2010 Robert B. Smith (’65): Riches Among the Ruins: Adventures in the Dark Corners of the Global Economy, AMACOM, 2009 Norman Gross (’69): Second edition of America’s LawyerPresidents, Northwestern University Press, 2009 Daniel Kimmel (’80): Jar Jar Binks Must Die, Fantastic Books, 2011

Equity and Venture Capital Will Shape the Global Economy, Wiley, 2010 Richard L. Kohan (LL.M. ’83): co-author of the digital version of 2010 Guide to Tax and Wealth Management.

Peter Meltzer (’83): The Thinker’s Thesaurus, second edition, Norton, 2010 Vanessa E. Place (’83): The Guilt Project: Rape, Morality, and Law, Other Press, 2010 Gary P. Poon (J.D. ’84, LL.M. ’85): The Corporate Counsel’s Guide to Mediation, American Bar Association, 2010 Russell Beck (’89): Negotiating, Drafting, and Enforcing Noncompetition Agreements and Related Restrictive Covenants, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, 2009

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Letter from the Assistant Dean Dear alumni and friends, Fiscal year 2010 (July 1, 2009–June 30, 2010) marked a new highpoint in overall fundraising success for Boston University School of Law. Thanks to the generosity of our community, the School raised $3,673,217 in cash gifts received from 2,072 alumni and friends, surpassing the prior record of $2,431,316 set in FY08. Although a magnificently generous estate gift this year of more than $1.1 million helped us achieve this milestone, we would have exceeded the FY08 record by $82,467 without it, making this an outstanding year in our fundraising history.

Many of you may recall classes taken with Professor Dennis Aronowitz, who passed away in 2009. His wife, Patricia Aronowitz, passed away in 2010, and the Patricia M. Aronowitz estate provided for their legacy to live on at BU Law through an extraordinary $1.4 million bequest ($1,159,434 given in FY10). Their gift is one of the single largest bequests in the law school’s history, and it will fund one of the School’s core fundraising priorities, student financial aid. An article with more information about the Aronowitz estate gift appears later in this report.

In addition to the magnificent Aronowitz bequest, a few other significant cash gifts stand out in FY10, helping to send this year into the record books: The Robert and Barry Clayton Scholarship Fund was established with a gift of $250,000 from the Barry M. Clayton Trust. In part, this gift was made in honor of Barry’s uncle, Robert Clayton, who was a 1924 graduate of the School. This endowed scholarship will provide annual awards to one or more students enrolled at the School of Law. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation made a grant of $150,000 in support of Professor Kevin Outterson’s work studying the legal ecology of antibiotic resistance. Access to effective antibiotics is critical to public health, but antibiotic resistance threatens to undermine many of the health gains from the past 60 years. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began a campaign this fall to stop the overuse of antibiotics, in an effort to change behavior that contributes to this problem. Professor Outterson leads a team of biomedical researchers from BU, Harvard, UMass and the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy. They will study the impact of legal regulation on antibiotic resistance. For example, they will examine whether patents encourage drug companies to aggressively market antibiotics as the patent expiration looms.

The School of Law also received an anonymous gift of $100,000 that supports Public Interest Programs and the School’s Civil Litigation Clinic, as well as a bequest of $60,000 from the estate of John Begley (’52) that will support student scholarships.

We thank each of you for your gifts, small and large, to the School in FY10.

As we constantly think of better ways to engage alumni with BU Law and connect you with each other, we formally surveyed all alumni for the production of a printed alumni directory (also available on CD-ROM). Working in partnership with Harris Connect, the leading alumni directory publisher, we are pleased to announce that the 2010 edition of the Boston University School of Law Directory is now available. The directory is sorted into easy-to-use sections; to make networking with other alumni easy, it includes business information as well as e-mail addresses. If you did not place an order at the time of your survey update, a limited number of copies are still available for purchase—please contact Harris Connect at 800.877.6554 or customerservice@harrisconnect.com with inquiries.

Of course, the additional benefit of this survey and the production of a directory is that all of the updated information is available to you through the BU Law Connection on our Web site. To access the online alumni directory and networking site, just go to www.alumni.bu.edu/law and register. Many thanks to all alumni who responded and contributed to the most complete and up-to-date reference of our more than 20,000 alumni worldwide!

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Donor Profiles Gerard Cohen (’62) discusses his longstanding generosity to BU Law really serious, but it asked me, ‘How soon do you think you can pay this back?’ I said, ‘As soon as I am able.’ They were so great. I believe in paying back when people are nice to me.”

Twenty years ago, the dean asked him to join the alumni executive committee, and he has been an active member ever since. His generosity has been immeasurable, in terms of both the personal time and effort he has devoted to the School and the financial support he has provided.

Gerard Cohen, with Cohen Award winner Lorraine Kaplan and Dean Maureen O’Rourke

Gerard H. Cohen (’62), has been a friend, benefactor and counselor to BU Law for many years.

He had not planned to go to law school.

His friends gave him the idea when he was finishing his undergraduate studies at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, where he was studying finance.

“One day I was walking down the street, and I asked my fraternity brothers where they were going. They said they were going to take the law exam, and asked me, ‘Are you going?’ Sure enough, I decided then I would, too.”

“I wasn’t even sure I would go into law,” he said. He didn’t, but, said Cohen, “A law degree turned out to be very useful.”

Today, Cohen is the CEO of Western Carriers, based in Auburn, Mass. He

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says he uses his law degree all the time as he works with labor unions, contracts, leases, real estate transactions, employee discrimination suits, financial issues “and a lot of lawsuits on all the things that happen with trucks. It’s helped immensely. That’s why I encouraged my children to go on to law school,” he said.

“BU Law is a school that really teaches you how to think.”

He received a scholarship to attend BU Law and has always remembered the help he received. He paid for his children’s education, and he always wanted to give back—to help others get a BU Law education, too. That’s why he has contributed generously over the years.

“When I received my scholarship 50 years ago or so, one of the questions I was asked on the applications wasn’t

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In 1994, the School presented him with a Silver Shingle Award for Distinguished Service to the School. That same year, his family established the Gerard H. Cohen Award, which is presented annually at the Silver Shingle Awards ceremony to a member of the BU Law administration who has shown unselfish and distinguished service to the School.

For the past several years, he has also matched the 3L Class Gift.

How does he appeal to other alumni to help? “I always ask them, ‘Did you get a good education? You got your job now, maybe you wouldn’t have if it weren’t for BU Law.’” He is proud of the way BU Law has grown over the years. “It has great professors and staff,” he said. “Boston is a great place to live. Now you don’t have to recommend it so much to potential students. Today, the school speaks for itself.” n

Donor Profiles Professor Dennis S. Aronowitz and wife bequeath $1.4M gift to BU Law became the first director of the Morin Center, and later launched the first program in the country leading to an LL.M. degree in Banking Law. He served as the faculty adviser to a new journal, the Annual Review of Banking Law (now Review of Banking & Financial Law), and taught Government Regulation of Banking to LL.M. students. Today, the student who achieves the top grade point average in the Banking & Financial Law Program receives the Dennis S. Aronowitz Award, a fitting tribute to a man who consistently challenged his students to excel.

No one who took first-year Civil Procedure with Professor Dennis Aronowitz will ever forget him. He was a forceful—even daunting—presence in the classroom, and he left an indelible impression on the minds of his students.

Thousands of lawyers learned to think on their feet while mastering court rules under his intellectually rigorous style of questioning.

Professor Aronowitz passed away on February 10, 2009. He and his late wife, Patricia, jointly provided a legacy gift of $1.4 million to establish the Louis and Flora Aronowitz Scholarship Fund, in memory of his parents. The endowed fund will provide scholarships to “needy and deserving” law students.

Nancy Barton (’76), a former student of his, recalled: “Professor Aronowitz was demanding, but fair, and he set high standards for performance. In his first-year Civil Procedure class, you had

to be prepared and smart—much like the best trial lawyers. He challenged the class to think, to try to distinguish cases that seemed impossible to distinguish, to articulate the policy rationales (or lack thereof ) that characterized the decisions, and to speak with confidence. He had the highest intellect, and he exemplified the discipline that he was demanding from his students. I was honored to know Professor Dennis Aronowitz, and I was saddened to learn of his death. The bequest he has left to BU Law speaks volumes about his commitment to the School and, more important, to the thousands of students that he taught to think like lawyers.”

“We are grateful to Dennis for all of the contributions he made to the BU Law community during his lifetime and for the generous bequest that he and Patricia made,” said Dean Maureen A. O’Rourke. “He was a good friend to the School and will not soon be forgotten by faculty or alumni who knew him.” n

Professor Aronowitz was one of the first law professors to treat Banking Law and Regulation as a separate subject.

BU Law’s Morin Center for Banking & Financial Law grew out of a course he taught in Banking Law. In 1978, he

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Law Fund & Annual Giving Programs

Year in Review Unrestricted contributions to the Law Fund directly enable Dean O’Rourke to address a wide range of immediate and important needs. In FY10, about 24 percent of the overall cash gifts received, or $884,009, was given as unrestricted support to the Law Fund. We owe a special thanks to our National Law Fund co-chairs, Richard E. Mikels (’72) and Oscar Wasserman (’59), who led the BU Law Fund through difficult financial times during their two-year terms that concluded in June 2010. Of course, no summary of the Fund would be complete without saluting its chief benefactor, Gerard H. Cohen (’62) and his wife, Sherryl W. Cohen (GRS’60), whose extraordinary annual support for the Fund through the years is unmatched. In FY10, Gerry made unrestricted gifts totaling $62,500 to BU Law, with $25,000 of that amount being used as an “11th hour” 1:1 challenge match to inspire new and increased gifts to the Fund for the month of June.

Total Cash Giving to BU Law Fiscal Years 2005-2010 $4,000,000 $3,673,217

$3,500,000 $3,000,000 $2,431,316

$2,500,000 $2,232,554 $2,055,515

$2,000,000

$1,870,726

$1,500,000 $1,196,102 $1,003,982

$1,000,000

$1,006,208

$1,021,910

$944,418

$884,009

$660,188

$500,000 $0

FY 2006

FY 2005

FY 2007

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Law Fund & Annual Giving Programs Alumni, students and friends support the Law Fund through a variety of ways, including the following:

2009 Reunion Class Giving: From October 23 to 24, 2009, members of the classes of 1959, 1964, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1994, 1999 and 2004 returned to campus to celebrate their respective reunions at the first joint BU Law and Boston University Reunion & Alumni Weekend. Open to all graduates of Boston University and featuring more than 100 university-wide events and activities, the new Alumni Weekend proved an enormous success. BU Law kicked off the weekend in the Photonics Center on Friday night with a special tribute reception and dinner honoring the career of Professor Fran Miller (’65) that featured more than 100 alumni and former students. The Class of 1959 also gathered for a special 50th Reunion barbeque at the home of classmate Charlie Barrett on Friday evening.

Saturday provided stimulating alumni college sessions, followed by the University’s Alumni Awards luncheon with our very own Martha Coakley (’79) as the keynote speaker. The highlight of the 2009 Reunion was the Annual Gala Dinner and cocktail reception hosted by Dean O’Rourke at the Intercontinental Hotel in downtown Boston.

With nearly 200 guests in attendance, the room was filled with former classmates, as Dean O’Rourke gave a School update and shared highlights from each reunion class. Several months prior to the reunion celebrations, many alumni participated on reunion class committees that reached out to classmates for reunion gifts and encouraged attendance. Through the committees’ efforts and the generosity of their classmates, 395 alumni from the 10 classes celebrating their 50th down to their 5th reunions contributed nearly $1.3 million to the law school in honor of their respective reunions. [Gifts made in the fiscal year prior to and fiscal year of reunion weekend are given reunion credit. Gifts made in honor of the 2010 Reunion will be reflected in the report for FY11.]

2010 3L Class Gift: The Class of 2010 held their

2010 Law Firm Challenge: The Law Firm Challenge

Class Gift drive in the spring, raising $5,478 from 91

is designed to give alumni at law firms across the

class members. Combined with generous matching

country an opportunity to reconnect with their alma

gifts from Gerard H. Cohen (’62) and Elaine and

mater, promote giving to the Law Fund in a fun and

Oscar Wasserman (’59), the total amount raised

challenging way, and enhance their firm’s profile within

for the 2010 Class Gift was $19,300. Although the

the BU Law community, especially among future firm

students of Section B led the section challenge

associates—current BU Law students. In FY10, there

with a participation rate of 34.5 percent through

were 1,859 alumni working at 104 firms that had five or

commencement on May 17, 2010, Section C had taken

more alumni. Of this group of alumni, 285 contributed

the lead by June 30, with a participation rate of 35.2

$726,000 to the law school as part of the Challenge.

percent. Thank you to all who participated, especially

On behalf of the students, faculty and staff, we thank

the 3L Class Gift committee members.

all of our alumni donors employed at these firms for their generous support. Special thanks also to our alumni who served as their firm’s representative for the Challenge. Their leadership and enthusiasm helped drive this effort.

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Law Firm Challenge: Firm Leaders 2009–2010 Firms with 500 or more attorneys

Firms with 25–99 attorneys

Highest alumni participation:

Highest participation:

First place: Akerman Senterfitt–76.92%

First place: Mirick, O’Connell, DeMallie & Lougee LLP–57.14%

Second place: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo

Second place: Craig and Macauley PC–50%

PC–43.18% Highest total dollar amount: Highest total dollar amount:

First place: Craig and Macauley PC–$13,500

First place: Kirkland & Ellis LLP–$444,275

Second place: Riemer & Braunstein LLP–$2,120

Second place: Proskauer Rose LLP–$38,941 Firm representative: Firm representatives:

Demitrios M. Moschos (‘65) Mirick, O’Connell, DeMallie & Lougee LLP

Meg Bailey (‘08) Bingham McCutchen LLP Daniel McCaughey (‘04) Ropes & Gray LLP Anthony Picchione (‘04) WilmerHale Colin Grant Van Dyke (‘05) Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo PC

Firms with 5–24 attorneys Highest participation: First place: Levin and Levin LLP–40% Second place: Sugarman and Sugarman PC–33.33%

Firms with 100–499 attorneys

Highest total dollar amount:

Highest participation:

First place: Sugarman and Sugarman PC–$30,048

First place: Day Pitney LLP–35.29%

Second place: Levin and Levin LLP–$3,000

Second place: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP–28.57% Highest total dollar amount: First place: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP–$3,070 Second place: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP–$2,500 Firm representatives: Monica Cafaro (‘08) Brown Rudnick LLP Kathryn Piffat (‘89) Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

In the donor roll that follows, you will learn the names of those who have made an outstanding commitment to Boston University School of Law and its mission as a world-class law school. It is with great appreciation that the School of Law recognizes these generous alumni and friends.

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Donor Roll

Fiscal Year 2010

Giving Categories President’s Circle - $25,000 or more

July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010

President’s Associates - $10,000 to $24,999 Dean’s Club - $5,000 to $9,999 Fellow - $2,500 to $4,999 Barrister - $1,000 to $2,499 Friend - $500 to $999 Donor - $1 to $499

ALUMNI GIVING Class of 1934

Class of 1946

Alan M. Edelstein

George L. Greenfield

Thomas D. Pucci

Donor

Roger A. Putnam

Richard T. Reed

George Brenneman Barner

Barrister Janice H. Wilkins

Linwood M. Erskine Jr. Sumner S. Fanger

Norman M. Shack

Robert H. Temple Norman Dion Schwartz

Class of 1935

Class of 1947

John Hugh Furfey

William B. Tyler

Irwin P. Garfinkle

Donor

Donor Jay M. Esterkes

Richard S. Kelley

Friend Henry A. Tempone

Class of 1953

Bette S. Paris

Douglas A. Kydd Jr.

Donor Edward J. Bander

Barrister Christopher A. Barreca

Donald Zeman

Burton E. Mabry

George N. Beauregard

Donald T. Shire

Edward P. McDuffee

Richard A. Dodge

Philip B. Prince

Harry J. Elam

Donor Albert J. Callahan

Murray L. Townsend Jr.

Richard M. Feingold

Robert B. Gates

William T. Walsh

Marion R. Fremont-Smith

William I. Harkaway

Alfred F. Glavey

Malcolm Jones

Allan Green

Vartkis Paghigian

Lillian P. Thomas

Class of 1939 Donor Richard H. Keefe

Class of 1940

Class of 1948 President’s Associates George Michaels

Harold Kropitzer

Robert L. Cram

Barrister George N. Hurd Jr.

Class of 1950 Barrister Arnold Bloom

Gerald H. Lepler

Henry S. Palau

Class of 1941

Friend Reynold F. Paris

Louis G. Matthews

Eugene G. Panarese

Nathan M. Silverstein

Charles H. McLaughlin

G. Franklin Smith

Louis A. Genovese

Donor Christine E. Donna

Hjordis C. Stevens

Joseph Sequeria Vera

Donor

John P. Luddy

Donor Robert S. Amery

Leonard A. Turgeon

Donald F. Zezima

Paul Arthur Barron

Leonard S. Michelman

Barry D. Berkal

Dwight N. Vibbert

Glendora McIlwain Putnam

Jere R. Clifford

Jack L. Wolfson

Class of 1954

Robert S. Prince

Stella Hackel Sims

Charles E. Holly

Class of 1952

Donor

Barrister

Class of 1942 Friend Sidney Heimberg

Class of 1943 Donor Thomas D. Burns Luba Young Lepie

Class of 1945

Class of 1949

Sumner Allen Marcus Arthur M. Mason

Barrister Robert B. Kent

Jerome D. Ogan

Friend Dexter M. Kohn

Herbert T. Silsby II

Donor Jean N. Arlander

Edward C. Wynne

Monte G. Basbas Jason S. Cohen

Leonard S. Sawyer Benjamin Wright

Class of 1951

Donor

Charles J. Contas

Barrister Arthur E. Bean Jr.

Kathleen Ryan Dacey

Bayard T. Crane Jr.

Louis A. D’Angio

President’s Circle Paul R. Sugarman Fellow Alan Altman

President’s Circle Estate of John R. Begley

Barrister Mitchell J. Greb

Barrister Allen B. Schwartz

Donor F. Monroe Allen

Friend Francis C. Newton Jr.

Edward R. Fink

Donor

Charles M. Healey III

Samuel Simon Anter

Marvin M. Horwitz

Alan S. Flink

Lawrence Aaron Kellem

Joseph T. Little

Anthony D. Taliente

Richard S. Milstein

Richard W. Wennett

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Class of 1958

Friend

Friend

David M. Prolman

President’s Circle

Fellow Jason A. Gottlieb

Mitchell Samuelson

Levon Kasarjian Jr.

Gordon P. Ramsey

Donor

Donor

Charles A. Roover

Robert J. Bagdasarian

Gilbert W. Cox Jr.

George R. Sprague

Ronald H. Bean

John J. DaPonte Jr.

Myron R. Bernstein

John J. Dumphy

Class of 1965

Frederick C. Cohen

William M. Finn

Dean’s Club

Samuel C. Fish

Alan Bernard Fodeman

Neil Sugarman

Katherine Liacos Izzo

Wallace H. Myers

Fellow

R. Joseph O’Rourke

Joseph P. Nadeau

Edward S. Snyder

Earle Groper

Julie Rate Perkins

Edmund R. Sledzik

Barrister

Marvin W. Kushner

Robert A. Racine

Arthur L. Stevenson

Lawrence S. Cohen

Donor

Frank D. Marden

Donald M. Robbins

Dale G. Stoodley

Charles B. Curtis

Martin A. Dworken

E. Donald Riddle

David A. Shrair

Jules L. Garel

Robert Taft

Robert P. Weintraub

Robert T. Butler Dean’s Club Elliott I. Mishara Barrister Allen Rubin Friend Morton W. Appleton J. Robert Dyment Fernand J. St. Germain

Barrister Allan J. Landau Arnold I. Zaltas Friend Wallace F. Ashnault Donor John F. Donahue

Morris Jay Gordon

Stephen R. Weidman

Hugh B. Hartwell

Classof of1959 1959–– Class 50th Reunion 50th Reunion

Lawrence M. Liebman George N. Tobia

Class of 1956 Barrister Jack B. Middleton Donor Jules W. Breslow Norman F. Burke Robert S. Linnell Richard S. Miller Bernard R. Silva Jr.

Class of 1963

Gerald J. Phillips

John F. Atwood

Friend

President’s Associates

Judith Glaser Belash

Peter B. Sang Donor

Class of 1961 Stephen V. Dubin

George Findell Jr.

President’s Associates Oscar A. Wasserman

Barrister

Jerome H. Fletcher

Saul D. Behr

Morton E. Marvin

Frank S. Ganak

Charles M. Burnim

Dean’s Club Dwain B. Smith

Evandro R. Radoccia Jr.

Matthew S. Goldfarb

Paul B. Carroll

Eugene L. Rubin

Kenneth S. Green Jr.

Edward L. Colby Jr.

Frederick A. Griffen

Peter M. Collins

Louis P. Massaro Jr.

Paul R. Devin

Elwynn J. Miller

Sean M. Dunphy

Joseph J. Parrilla

Fredric L. Feinstein

Lois G. Pines

Lloyd S. French

M. Robert Queler

Douglas H. Haley Arthur W. Havey

Fellow Morton H. Aronson William Landau John J. Norton Barrister Karnig Boyajian

Allan van Gestel Friend Leonard I. Shapiro George H. Stephenson Donor George L. Bernstein

Class of 1957

Donor Henry N. Frenette

Joel Gary Cohen

Classof of1964 1964–– Class 45thReunion Reunion 45th

Richard A. Davis

Friend

President’s Circle

Lawrence S. Gates

Edward M. Rockett

E. Whitney Drake

John R. Robinson

Issie L. Jenkins

Mel Lewis Greenberg

Donor

Norman Douglas Kline

Barrister Joel Held

H. Alfred Casassa

Bert L. Gusrae

Martin S. Malinou

Emilio D. Iannuccillo

Bertram S. Patkin

Morton Holliday

Friend Ernest M. Haddad

Daniel H. Krivit

Emanuel N. Psarakis

Sanford A. Kowal

Frank J. Santangelo

Alfred Legelis

Michael A. Silverstein

Stanley C. Urban

Charles B. Swartwood III

Herbert Lemelman

Richard O. Staff

Barry R. Weiss

Charles N. Miller John Edward O’Keefe Alan C. Pease

Frances H. Miller

Donor

Friend James W. Killam III

L. Barry Tinkoff

Victor J. Garo

Philip S. Sternstein Vieri Guy Volterra Lewis L. Whitman

Ralph Cianflone Jr.

Class of 1962

Donor Barry S. Gilvar

President’s Circle

Paul A. Lietar

Gerard H. Cohen

Carl B. Lisa

Melvin Stephen Katzman Philip R. Levine Daniel S. Lynch Jr. Ronald J. McDougald Maurice Mcwalter Jr. Richard S. Mittleman Michael C. Moschos Ronald A. Partnoy Richard G. Ross John J. Ryan III Howard Scheinblum Henry H. Shultz Michael L. Widland Christopher R. Wood

Herbert P. Phillips

Class of 1960

Barrister

Donald H. Marden

Nicholas Sarris

Fellow Henry S. Levin

Albert P. Lindemann Jr.

Alan S. Novick

Class of 1966

Edward D. McCarthy

Charles E. Olney

Barrister

Barrister Richard S. Hanki

Edward Harvey Resnick

David J. Palmer

Irving H. Picard

Richard S. Scipione

Burton Peltz

Barry Y. Weiner

Albert J. Savastano Herbert M. Shapiro John A. Wickstrom

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Leon J. Glazerman

Ray A. Meyer

Michael A. Meyers

Elliott C. Miller

Karl L. Halperin

Charles S. Mitchell

Sheila H. Mondshein

Alan M. Parness

Lawrence Levy

Arthur W. Hughes III

Andrew Radding

Roland F. Moots Jr.

Isabelle Katz Pinzler

Donor Gregory R. Baler

William H. Hyatt Jr.

Paul A. Roberts

James L. Morse

George Edward Ross

Howard B. Lane Jr.

A. Ned Rogin

Martin S. Needelman

Stanley A. Bleecker

Thomas Royall Smith

James D. Latham

Lawrence Rosenbluth

Kenneth M. Nelson

Samuel Harrison Chorches

Michael Magruder

Sara Ann Sanders

Edward D. Tanenhaus

Donald P. Norris

John M. Downer

Edward Colquitt Minor

Robert E. Sapir

Paul H. Waldman

James M. Oathout

Michael R. Garfield

James A. Moreland

Eugene S. Summers

Brainard L. Patton

David L. Golden

Michael Popowski III

Wade M. Welch

David E. Putnam

Lynne Hans

Catherine L. Salisbury

Arlene R. Winkleman

Joseph S. Radovsky

Ronald Jacobs

William J. Salisbury

Class of 1971

Elliott L. Zide

Martin Kantrovitz

Stephen M. Randels

William W. Southworth

President’s Circle

Arthur L. Lappen

Mitchell S. Riffkin

Charles J. Speleotis

William H. Kleh

Mary E. McCabe

Joseph R. Tutalo

Classof of1969 1969–– Class 40th Reunion 40th Reunion

Willard R. Pope

John L. Vecchiolla

William E. Rabb

Alan I. Weinberg

Kenneth S. Robbins Steven J. Schwartz Jerome D. Sekula Sheldron Seplowitz Stephen C. Steinberg Christopher G. Von Glahn William Wells Willard

Dudley H. Willis

Class of 1968 Fellow Mortimer B. Fuller III Barrister Lawrence E. Kaplan Kernan F. King

President’s Associates William Macauley Dean’s Club Barbara B. Creed Marvin M. Goldstein James C. Pizzagalli Barrister Gerald Charles Miller Bruce J. Wein

Allen Whitestone Willard Prodgers Yeats

Martin A. Rosenman

Barrister

Elliot Savitz

Peter H. Sutton

James W. Tello

Friend

Michael A. Wheeler

Richard C. MacKenzie

Henry W. Winkleman

Richard H. Saxe

Class of 1970

Donor

President’s Circle

Robert David Abrams

Bettina B. Plevan

Carol A. Anthony

Dean’s Club

Peter B. Benfield

James F. McHugh

William S. Botwick

Barrister

Morton Alan Cohen

Brian L. Bilzin

Carol C. Conrad

Friend

James J. Cotter III

Gerald Ament

William C. Decas

Michael M. Davis

Melvin Foster

Samuel S. Perlman

Friend Arthur H. Bill

Peter W. Segal

Thomas E. Cimeno Jr. Beth Ann F. Gentile

Gerald L. Nissenbaum

Friend Richard D. Mondre

Barrister Richard J. Talbot

Donor S. Reid Alsop

David M. Singer Richard E. Talmadge

Donor

Roger J. Geller

Jeffrey R. Whieldon

Fredric H. Bender

Gladys J. George

Friend Sheldon M. Goldstein

Jeffrey S. Cates

Donor Stephen B. Angel

Cornelia C. Adams Karen McAndrew Allen

Robert L. Cullinane

Phillip N. Armentano

Kenneth A. Behar

Patrick J. King

Kenneth C. Cummins

Richard G. Asoian

Bruce W. Bergen

Ralph E. Lerner

Robert Droker

Ronald G. Busconi

Paul L. Black, USAF(Ret.)

Harley M. Smith

Malvin B. Eisenberg

Anthony John Catalano

Susan M. Cooke

Donor Anthony J. Aftuck

Ellen Flatley

R. David DePuy

Dennis M. Cronin

Richard M. Gaberman

Michael E. Faden

R. Laurence Cullen

Joseph S. Alen

Helen Gillmor

Marvin H. Glazier

Robert Bunten Field Jr.

Ralph A. Barbagallo Jr.

John P. Gillmor

Roland Gray III

Richard E. Galway Jr.

Michaele Snyder Battles

Morton E. Grosz

Henry J. Griswold

Elizabeth H. Gemmill

Robert H. Burke

Linda Levine Grunebaum

Norman Gross

Clayton F. Harrington Jr.

William M. Pinzler

Mark N. Busch

Richard S. Hackel

George R. Halsey

Peter J. Herrick

Erica L. Powers

Owen F. Clarke Jr.

Alan W. Heifetz

Thomas A. Kelley

Robert L. Hollingshead

Paul H. Rothschild

Joseph D. Cronin

Douglas G. Hyde

Julie A. Koppenheffer

Peter A. Janus

Mary L. Z. Sanderson

Robert B. Dalton

John A. Karpinski

Michael S. Krout

James Downey Johnston

Edward M. Silverstein

Ernest E. Falbo Jr.

Michael A. Laurano

Stephen H. Lewis

Thaddeus J. Keefe III

George D. Welch

John E. Friberg

William F. Malloy

F. Graham McSwiney

Mary Susan Leahy

Steven L. Zimmerman

Class of 1967 President’s Associates Robert B. Goldfarb

John Ralston Pate Jr.

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Barrister

Lyle F. Nyberg

Philip Lerner

Madeline E. Dudley

Wayne B. Bardsley

Paul W. Onkka Jr.

Stephen T. Lindo

B. Andrew Dutcher

Barbara S. Fredericks

Richard Bradford Osterberg

Leon J. Lombardi

Alan H. Einhorn

Thomas Robert Kiley

Jeffrey R. Parsons

James E. McGuire

Richard D. Eisenberg

Jane Michaels

Harvey J. Putterbaugh

Robert S. Moog

Marc Allyn Elfman

Paul Allan Schott

Alexander P. Rosenberg

Garland F. Pinkston Jr.

Peter Lee Freeman

Joseph John Sweeney

Catherine S. Shavell

Harold M. Pressberg

Barry A. Friedman

Friend

Charles F. Shaw III

Mark H. Raider

Marc B. Friedman

Jeffrey T. Demerath

Henry P. Sorett

James E. Rooks Jr.

Steven Jay Goldstein

Kristen C. Nelson

Daniel J. Steininger

Rhoda E. Schneider

Michael Cleland Harvell

Donor

Kenneth H. Tatarian

Melinda S. Sherer

James C. Hession

Robert P. Alexander

Franklin M. Walker Jr.

Drew Spalding

Carolyn Willa Kone

Robert Henry Beck

Margaret A. Weekes

Arthur J. Spector

Stephen P. Koster

Joan W. Cavanagh

Marcus Samuel Weiss

Susan E. Stein

Linda K. Lager

Catherine Clement

Anna Christina Wolfe

Ellen Yankiver Suni

Richard A. Laraja

Linda Scholle Cowan

Liz Ryan Cole

Howard Chin Lem

Kathleen Kirk David

David J. DeMoss

Lucinda E. White

Leslie Waters Lewkow

Michael Charles Denny

Lawrence S. Elswit

Classof of1974 1974–– Class 35th Reunion Reunion 35th

Stephen D. Tom Allan W. Ziman

Carol Bensinger Liebman

Eric Michael Epstein

Carolyn N. Famiglietti

Andrew D. Epstein

Howard L. Felsenfeld

Philip Ettman

Norman J. Fine

Stanley N. Freedman

Warner S. Fletcher

Paul V. Freeman Jr.

Laurence M. Friedman

Barbara S. Gard

Franklin Fruchtman

President’s Associates Norbert Alonzo Simmons Dean’s Club Richard E. Mikels Barrister Roger A. Nelson Friend Sandra Lee Moody Thomas Elwood Peckham Kenneth Isaac Wirfel Donor Robert Gregory Burdick Jr. Gail V. Coleman Barbara Brower Conover

Richard Craig Goldman David F. Grunebaum Christopher H. Hartenau Peter Edward Hewitt Arthur Harold Johnson Julian L. Kalkstein

Peter Van Keuren Funk Jr. W. John Funk Michael H. Glazer Dennis I. Greene Joel P. Greene

Dean’s Club Peter McCausland Daniel J. Rea Jr. Fellow Howard S. Altarescu Anthony M. Feeherry Jeffrey D. Woolf Barrister Benjamin L. Jung Richard A. Karelitz Ken W. Shulman Friend Pamela S. Green

Class of 1975

Kathryn R. Lunney John H. MacMaster

Dean’s Club

Stephen A. Marcus

Alan Evan Reider

Marianne McGettigan

Linda Dallas Reider

James Arthur McGraw

Fellow

James I. Murray

David W. Carpenter

Robert M. Pu

Mary Lee Wolff

Richard C. Sammis

Barrister

Harris J. Samuels

Richard M. Belanger

Nancy A. Sutherland

Jeffrey H. Lane

Howard Owen Weissman

Andrew James Ley

Stephen Edward Weyl

Eric M. Reuben

Geoffrey Alan Wilson

Meredith B. Reuben

Jeffrey Martin Winik

Dane Roger Kostin

Leora Harpaz

Michele G. Kostin

Anne Hoffman

William A. Lewis Jr.

Stephen L. Hopkins

Helen I. Lom

Pamela S. Horowitz

Steven H. Bowen

Stephen M. Marcusa

Katherine Walker Keane

Elsa Cole

Friend

Class of 1976

Arkley Lawrence Mastro Jr.

Craig M. Keats

Richard Driansky

President’s Circle

Andrew Joseph Mullen

Grafton J. Corbett

David C. King

Henry H. Dearing III

Daniel F. Egan Jr.

Philip S. Beck

Frederick M. Pryor

Ann-Louise Kleper

President’s Associates

Charles Duryea Smith

Judith Nelson Dilday

Charles Wilbur Lamar III

John Henry Kohring

David C. Elliott

Susan P. MacEachron

Joel G. Chefitz

Phillip C. Koutsogiane

David W. Faunce

David M. Neubauer

J. Michael Schell

Elliott N. Kramsky

Ernest A. Goetz Jr.

Steven James Weinstein

Dean’s Club

Brian W. LeClair

Robert J. Gordon

Donor

Nancy E. Barton

Paul Frank Lorenz

C. Lawrence Grubman

George W. Adams III

Harry J. Weiss

Caroline L. Meuly

John Roderick Staffier Edward Mayer Stern Allen W. Stokes Jr. Patricia Ann Sullivan Ellyn Weiss

Donor Douglas A. Biggar

Paul Sherman Samson

Shelvin Louise M. Hall

Felix Von Baxter

Fellow

Kathleen Gill Miller

Arnold P. Hanson Jr.

Michael E. Chubrich

Marc J. Lust

Bruno Mongiardo

Peter H. Jacoby

Margaret Clark

Barrister

Anthony F. Muri

Harvey M. Kaplan

Della R. Cohen

Carolyn Jacoby Gabbay

Dean’s Club

Howard P. Newton

Stanley D. Katz

Richard F. Collier Jr.

Gary H. Glaser

Hugh R. McCombs

Theodore S. Novak

Warren R. Leiden

Sandra Y. Dick

Robert J. Glovsky

Robert Lowell Weiss Jr. Richard B. Weitzen

Class of 1973

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Ellen K. Schwartz

Christopher S. Pitt

Leslie S. Newman

Scott A. Fisher

Denzil D. McKenzie

James E. Sheldon

Kirk C. Rascoe

Robert E. Paul

Margaret M. Gilligan

Jack Alan Rovner

Lewis A. Silverman

Toby Kamens Rodman

Dean Richlin

Steven M. Glovsky

Friend

Edward M. Spiro

David H. Sempert

John S. Rodman

Elin H. Graydon

Hugh H. Mo

Oliver W. Stalter

Russell J. Speidel

David E. Schaffer

Mark J. Gundersen

Danielle E. Wuchenich

John C. Sullivan

Judith S. Yogman

Alan R. Schwartz

Susan F. Kelley

Donor

Jerome F. Weihs

H. Frances Kleiner

Michael S. Albert

Alexander Whiteside

Class of 1978

David E. Shellenberger John R. Stopa

Robert W. Lavoie

Anne Mitchell Atherton

Byron E. Woodman Jr.

President’s Associates

Hollis G. Swift

Amir J. Malin

George A. Bachrach

Marianne G. Zurn

Ellen J. Flannery

Robert Volk

Elizabeth K. McCarthy

William A. Kamer

Debra Ann Weiner

Craig D. Mills

Dean’s Club

Stuart J. Yasgoor

Barrister Michael E. Haglund

Paul O’Connor

Russel T. Hamilton

Martha Osborne

Thomas G. Robinson

Daniel C. Walden

Classofof1979 1979–– Class 30th Reunion 30th Reunion

Friend James L. Alberg

Barrister

Frank W. Barrie Neal S. Baseman Virginia D. Benjamin Arthur Paul Bergeron Temmie B. Brier Jan Alan Brody Lynda G. Christian Brian J. Coyne John C. Cuddy James C. Dimitri Linda J. Dreeben John K. Dunleavy Richard J. Eisenberg Thomas J. Engellenner George J. Felos John W. Fieldsteel Scott A. Forsyth Greg S. Friedman Mary K. Gallagher Myra Miller Gordon Katherine A. Hesse

Class of 1977

James F. Crowley Jr. Barbara Guss Kemp Robin Beth Matlin John B. Miller Joseph F. Ryan Donor Robert C. Barber Gaylen Kemp Baxter William C. Black Michael P. Boyd Mario Brossi Frank Campbell Jr. Dorothy A. Darrah Allen N. David Guy Richard Eigenbrode

Nancy M. Highbarger

Marshall A. Gallop

David R. Hodas

Stanley Greenberg

Tracy Hollingsworth

R. Burr Tweedy Jr.

Joan B. Chamberlain Paul H. Friedman Michael J. Kliegman Joseph A. Levitt Alan R. Skupp Friend Wendy M. Bittner Stanley L. Ferguson Nancy E. Yanofsky Donor Stephen H. Alpert Jeffrey Baxter William M. Berenson James Blakey Jean Braucher Susan H. Fischer

H. Fay Beckford Peters Donald V. Romanik

President’s Circle Richard Cartier Godfrey

John J. Rosenberg Roger M. Ross

Dean’s Club Mary A. Akerson

Daniel M. Shields Stephen E. Socha

David L. Feld

Jacqueline F. Stein

Fellow Michael D. Gayda

Robert Lee Swanson

Mark Schonberger

Jeffrey M. Werthan

Nadine R. Shaoul

Susan M. Werthan

Sue Schmutter Tebor

Class of 1980

Craig S. Thompson

President’s Circle

Barrister Caroline D. Davis

Robert F. Grondine Dean’s Club

Richards Huff Ford

Neal L. Wolkoff

Friend Jeffrey L. Berkowitz

Fellow Claudia O. Crowley

Eliza W. Fraser

Leo T. Crowley

James D. Masterman

Daniel M. Freedman

Robert G. Rowe

Norman S. Heller

Marc M. Gaelen

Dean Steven Travalino

Sandra Jean Holman

Camille Hope

Clyde R. Garrigan

Gregory E. Hudson

John J. Finn Barrister Joanne P. Acford

David L. Kay

Eugenie C. Gavenchak

Donor Samuel Abloeser

Dale R. Johnson

Thomas H. Kelley

Louise E. Halevy

Gary A. Alexion

Barry J. Swidler

W. Terence Jones

William H. Groner

Kenneth Albert Krems

Joe Hegel

Robert Allan Axelrod

Friend

Mary Louise Kennedy

Steven M. Kwong

Gary E. Hicks

Susan T. Bailey

Scott E. Cooper

Francis D. Landrey

Jeffrey A. Lester

Shepard A. Hoffman

James M. Beslity

Hal S. Davis

Sybil L. Levisohn

Philip Francis Holahan

Bruce T. Block

Deborah J. Goldman

Anne Hewitt McAndrews

Robert Y. Lider

George C. Jones

James H. Broderick Jr.

Laurie A. Kamaiko

Samuel P. Moulthrop

Richard M. Lipsman

Sharen Litwin

Vickery Hall Kehlenbeck

David S. Brown

James A. Normand

Samuel Perkins

James C. May

Bruce A. Langer

Katalin B. Brown

Dawn C. Ryan

Marjorie R. Perlman

Amy L. Mower

Wendy D. Levine

Charles T. Brumback Jr.

Donor

Eugene A. Reilly

Susan Hall Mygatt

Scott L. Machanic

Mark E. Cohen

Christopher N. Ames

Rebecca A. Schenk

Stuart A. Offner

David M. Mindlin

Edward G. Coss

Ann Burns Andreas

Louis Jon Schepp

Ross Collins Owens III

David G. Nation

Virginia M. Fettig

Marcy A. Bass

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Donor Roll Diane Giles Berliner

Elizabeth D. Schrero

Donald B. Shanin

Alexander A. Randall

Peter H. Swartz

Despena F. Billings

Harvey C. Silverstein

Amy L. Shapiro

Carmin C. Reiss

Sandra L. Tanen

Thomas P. Billings

Nancy Ellen Spence

Donald F. Simone

Joseph A. Rotella

Martha A. Toll

Genise W. Teich Blum

Joel D. Teibloom

Wendy H. Smith

Rebecca J. Scheier

Seth I. Truwit

Bernard H. Campbell

Laura E. Udis

Steven G. Sonet

Mary J. Schnurr

Susan B. Tuchman

Judith A. Clark

Scott C. Wakefield

Edna H. Travis

Salvadore V. Spalitta

John V. Veech

Class of 1981

Richard J. Wasserman

Alexander Spaulding

Carol P. Wessling

Christine Schwab Werner

Gail S. Strassfeld

William T. Whelan

Johnny J. Williams

Neil D. Wheelwright

Myrna L. Wigod

Andrew Winder

Class of 1983

Classofof1984 1984–– Class 25thReunion Reunion 25th

Jonathan S. Cole Emily J. Cooke Jeffry A. Davis Richard Andrew Dennett Lynn L. Dyer Floralynn Einesman Kenneth J. Eisner George E. Foote Arthur H. Forman John T. Gilbert Susan G.L. Glovsky Michael K. Golub Scott M. Green David A. Gunter Bonnie Spaccarelli Hannon Mary D. Harrington Joan Barkhorn Hass Joseph E. Kaidanow Barbara R. Kapnick Michele R. Kaufmann Michael A. Kehoe Stefanie Kessler Larson Karen J. Levitt P. Ann Lomeli Emily A. Maitin Cary A. Metz

President’s Associates Susan H. Alexander Barrister H. Joseph Hameline Ilisa Hurowitz Sarah A. Rothermel Daniel M. Schwartz Michael A. Tanenbaum Friend Ronald M. Davids Ina Plotsky Kupferberg James H. Rotondo Robert P. Suglia Diana L. Wainrib David C. Wright Donor Richard D. Belin Carol Boorstein Robert A. Carpentier Stacey Channing Lorraine Mindis Cherrick Martin J. Clifford Richard Keith Colman Jacqueline Doig Richard R. Downey

Margaret D. Xifaras

Class of 1982 Dean’s Club John K. Skrypak Fellow Michael B. Berman Keith F. Higgins Kevin T. Van Wart Barrister Joseph A. Colagiovanni Eileen M. Herlihy Lawrence J. Reilly Glenn E. Siegel Friend Michael H. Hurwitz Harvey Shapiro Donor Joe Boynton Paul Cherecwich Jr. Jeffrey J. Coniaris Gabriel Falbo Michael Fertig

President’s Circle Kenneth P. Morrison Barrister Steven M. Bauer Sharon G. Coghlan Paul V. Crawford

Dean’s Club Michael D. Fricklas Fellow Peter S. Linden

John C. Englander

Barrister Charles C. Cornelio

Friend Dena Elizabeth Palermo

Friend Edward R. Gates

Bruce E. Rogoff

Jonathan N. Halpern

Donor Marc J. Becker Carl B. Bindman Jacqueline Jacobs Caster Alison M. Clark John D. Craven Jonathan D. Fink Aida Abboud Gennis Steven R. Gustavson James C. Hasenfus Paul S. Horn Robert P. Landau

Michael A. Schlesinger David Scott Zimble Donor Matthew J. Anderton Susan M. Banks Teresa A. Belmonte Sarah J. Berger Leslie Ann Bergman Marie P. Buckley William Contente Howard M. Cooper Paul R. Cortes-Rexach Harvey D. Cotton

Rosemary C. Meyers

Lynne M. Durbin

Carol Miller

Martin A. Edelstein

Maura K. Moran

Virginia L. Ferko

Dana Scott Fried

Adrienne S. Masters

Robert F. Moriarty

Christopher R. Gannon

Joan B. Gross

Anne M. DesormierCartwright

Brian W. Mellor

Molly S. Mugler

Robert G. Holdway

Emily D. Dickinson Leete

Mark Graham Hanson

Eric I. Michelman

David N. Neusner

Timothy J. Hufman

Christine J. Engustian

Brian S. Harnik

Ruth A. Moore

Timothy A. Ngau

Paul V. Jabour

Suzanne M. Fay Glynn

R. Kevin Kennedy

Cornelius Joseph Murray

Nancy J. Nitikman

Anne M. Johnson

Lisa B. Goldstein

Steven B. Kutscheid

John A. Piccione

Robert O. O’Bannon

Cora S. Koch

Michael A. Gollin

Joel D. Levinson

Peter A. Pizzani Jr.

Karen Mathiasen

Debra A. Lewis

William H. Gordon

Richard H. Otto

Robin R. Pruitt

Sheryl Gross-Glaser

William C. Pericak

Alexander G. Nossiff

Paula L. Liang

Michael Y. Ra’anan

Jonathan W. Haddon

Dominic A. Petito

Barry Michael Okun

Brant K. Maller

Thomas E. Schwab

Amy L. Harrison

David B. Picker

James J. Rigos

Eleanor R. Miller

Ruth S. Sharfman

A. Neil Hartzell

Deborah A. Porder

Bradley A. Roe

Mary Lee Moore

Kenneth Simon

Joseph K. Juster

James Ramlow

Kenneth J. Rose

Philip D. Murphy

Alan E. Sorcher

Bernard Kaplan

Jennifer S. D. Roberts

David S. Rosenthal

Joseph Raheb

Wayne E. Southward

Susan J. Katz

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Timothy J. Langella Nancy E. Little

Joanne M. D’Alcomo

Donor Roll Mark H. Leeds

Joel Steven Finkelstein

Carolyn L. Federoff

Donor

Donor

John T. Lu

Stacey Orr Gallant

Jeff Brian Feigelson

Bruce H. Bagdasarian

James Simmons Armstrong

Matthew H. Lynch

Rachel Goldberg

Brian Gordon Fox

Deborah Ellen Barnard

Timothy P. Bass

George John Markos

Bruce Howard Goldman

Halsey Barker Frank

Lisa M. Barr

Johanna Klip Black

Terry Marvin

Ronald M. Gootzeit

Linda G. Bauer

Peter J. Dill

Howard B. Haas

Howard J. Goldsmith

Julie Stiles Matuschak

Michael Joseph Betcher

Edward Andrew Fallone

Stacey McConnell

F. Theresa Hart

F. Christian Haab Jr. Daniel W. Halston

Dean Graham Bostock

Cynthia M. Gesner

Rene Myatt

Jonathan B. James

Alexandra Burling Harvey

Seth Whitham Brewster

Linda F. Goldwyn

Daniel John Jacobson

Laurence Robert Bronska

Monika Krizek Griffis

Joe D. Jacobson

Mindy Gottlieb Davidson

Robert Read Hudson

J. Bennett Johnston

H. Peter DelBianco Jr.

Robert Iannucci

Michael J. Kaminsky

William Anson Garrett

Peter W. Kronberg

Christopher Howard McCormick

Paul B. Kaplan

Steven N. Gersten

Linda R. Kurtz

Richard Oliver Lessard

Samuel Jerrold Gesten

Cynthia J. LaRose

Jeffrey Alan McCurdy

Mark H. Likoff

Andre Henry Madeira

Charles Scott Nierman Howard D. Novick Robert C. Pasciuto Gregory G. Peters Susan W. Peters Thomas K. Pierce Harold W. Pskowski

Gerald K. Kelley Debra Beth Korman James John Lang Thomas J. Luz David P. Maslen

John Joseph Monaghan

Allison Rock

David Robert Lyle

Julia Emmeline Teebor Greenblatt

Laura Nash

Merrick Lawrence Gross

Adrian N. Roe

Andrew C. MacLachlan

Virginia Herrero Pagliery

Andrew Grimes Neal

Sandra A. Quigley

Deborah Robin Novick

Steven David Masters

John L. Hackett

Susan P. Sprung Melissa E. Stimell

Tracey Claire Kammerer

Debra C. Price

Andrew Lee Matz

Bradd S. Robbins

Shauna E. Tannenbaum

Jennifer L. Lauro

Joel E. Rappoport

Jayne E. M. McLaughlin

Fred A. Robustelli

Robert B. Teitelman

Craig Alan Roeder

Eileen F. Morrison

Daniel Francis Markham

Susan Lieberman Smotrich

Frank Joseph Vargish III

Joseph Ronson

Andrew Murray Morrow

Daniel Michael Marposon

Oscar E. Soto

Andrew N. Nathanson

Peter James Martin

Amy J. Spitofsky

Richard C. Oh

Todd Andrew Mayman

Jean Shioji Thaiss

Steven Keith Platt

Pia Jessica North

Lynn B. Whalen Pamela Hope Worstell

Robbin Newman Reiff

Class of 1985

Meryl Litner Rosen Patricia Ann Roy

John J. D. McFerrin-Clancy

Fellow

James Andrew Schragger

Nancy A. Daly

Scott Lance Steinberg

Benjamin R. Robinson

Shari A. Revkind

Steven V. Napolitano

Catalina Jean Sugayan

Valerie T. Rosenson

Margit Roos-Collins

Barrister

Mark D. Swartz

Jonathan Sherman Springer

William George Salim

Jonathan L. Awner

Deborah Miller Tate

Sarah G. Tischler

Perry Marshall Smith

A. William Caporizzo

George W. Tetler III

Carolyn Schwarz Tisdale

Janiece Brown Spitzmueller

President’s Circle

Robert Evans III

Daniel Van Doren

Beth Tomasello

Dana Juan St. James

Lisa G. Beckerman

Kenneth Williams

Jeffrey Lynn Van Hoosear

D. Craig Story

Barrister

Jennifer Yeo

Jordan Yospe

Ann R. Stravalle-Schmidt

Frederick B. Hnat

Class of 1986

Class of 1987

Walter G. Van Dorn Jr.

Jody L. Irwin

Elahna Strom Weinflash

Christopher J. Panos

President’s Associates

Fellow Anastasios Parafestas

Gwynne Gorton Zisko

Kathryn A. Piffat

Edward M. Fox David M. Henkoff Evan K. Kaplan Jonathan Robert Rod David J. Shladovsky Gail P. Sinai Friend Ronald J. Katter

Wayne E. Smith Stephen M. Zide Barrister

Barrister Martin P. Desmery

Classof of1989 1989–– Class 20thReunion Reunion 20th

Andrew C. Sucoff

Class of 1988

Friend

Barrister

Anthony A. Bongiorno Richard A. Brown

Timothy Charles Blank

Kenneth Joseph Parsigian

Sonya J. Brouner

James C. Fox

Michael I. Rothstein

Douglas Scott Brown

Gary Domoracki

Henry M. Rosen

Timothy Shawn Sinnott

Karen Lee Ling

Randy L. Shapiro

Friend

Friend Edward L. Corbosiero

Rosemarie Mullin

Donor

John E. Arbab

Kim M. Rubin

S. Charles Archuleta

Suzanne Elizabeth Palmer

Stephen Howard Kay

Friend

Irene H. Bagdoian

Kimberly S. Davis

Donor

Lawrence S. Levin

Elizabeth Kagan Cooper

Daniel S. Bleck

Simon Dixon

Yale H. Bohn

Diane Marie Morgenthaler

Todd L. Kahn

Aileen Denne Bolton

Raymond Francis Dolen

Timothy G. Caron

Thomas James Phillips

Judith V. Scherzer

Susan R. Byrd

William J. Duensing

Elliot David Eder

Steven D. Schwartz

Howard M. Singer

Stephen Cesso

Donor Paul Justin Alfano Elise K. Butowsky Thomas Andrew Cohn Steven Mark Curwin Amanda D. Darwin

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Donor Roll Geraldine E. Champion

Patrice S. Kester

R. Webb Steadman

Harold J. Feld

Michael A. Conley

Tess Jennifer Kline

Andrew W. Stern

Katherine A. Frerichs

Tracy Croft Daugherty

Jessie M. Klyce

Roberto Velez-Colon

Tim Futrell

Ann M. Dietrich

Theodore A. Lund

Gwendolyn H. Yip

Lisa Greene Heller

Sally P. Everett

Henry David Megaw

David Gordon Yu

Ron I. Honig

Heidi Marie Fallone

Linda L. Mesler

John Fulginiti

Andrew D. Myers

Class of 1992

Richard D. Kahn

Rafael A. Ovalles

Friend

James A. MacLeod

Joshua Katz

Jerrold Panich

Wendy Knudsen-Farrell

Diane Ellen McTigue

Glenn M. Kurtz

Rachel Kaplan Reicher

Joanne M. Lynch

Matthew A. Miller

Arthur B. Laby

Gary Rosen

David H. Pawlik

C. Matthew Olton

Corinne E. Lax

David E. Russell

Donor

William G. Ortner

Joyce Stamp Lilly

Julie B. Siminoff

Lowell D. Aptman

Terry Dodson Poling

Valerie Joan McNevin

Ronald H. Surabian

Mark E. Chavey

Edwin Huvon Raynor

Roberta Harris Muench

Lori H. Watson

Jeffrey M. Frank

Kevin T. Russell

John G. Nossiff

Allen D. Webster

Silvia P. Glick

Laurie Slosberg

Barrett C. Sheridan

Rachel Ann Yates

Kenneth B. Goldberg

Deborah L. Snyder

Elizabeth Lara Greene

Seth R. Weissman

Eric L. Stein Alexandra E. Trinkoff

Class of 1991

Gail Oxfeld Kanef

Jennifer A. Kasmin Lisa Podewils Korologos

Class of 1995 Dean’s Club David V. Wooten Fellow Eugene Marvin Holmes Barrister Douglas E. Cornelius Natascha S. George Carla Munroe Moynihan James J. Moynihan Friend Moyahoena N. Ogilvie Donor Anna Bastian Daniel Candee Kathleen Marie Conlon Jeffrey D. Duby Sean F. Eagan

Barrister Joseph L. Faber

Michael Bennett Kanef Jeffrey A. Levinson

Classof of1994 1994–– Class 15thReunion Reunion 15th

Thomas C. Farrell

Peter F. May

Barrister

John N. Riccardi

Jeffrey A. Miller

Andrew P. Strehle

John S. Nitao

Friend

Fellow

Donor Ross Williams Baker

Christopher M. Ogle

Dawn L. Goldstein

Mark S. Cheffo

Eddirland D. Christel

Michael S. Perlstein

Donor

Barrister

Donna L. Culver

Kimberly A. Sigler

Rita L. Brickman

William Harry Priestley

Karyn Schwartz Blad

Norma Jean Dickens

Pierre N. Simenon

Carolyn J. Campbell

Peter D. Rosenthal

Leiv H. Blad Jr.

Maria D. Dwyer

Carlos A. Valldejuly

George A. Casey

Glenn T. Sarka

Christopher A. Kenney

Daniel S. Field

Andrew E. Seewald

Donor

Celina Gerbic

Class of 1993

Yi-Ping Chen Rick J. Fucci

Ralph N. Sianni

Kenton L. Ball

Kenneth James Gordon

President’s Associates

Joseph Robert Ganley

Steven H. Silverman

James Jeffrey Berriman

Colleen M. Granahan

Xinhua Howard Zhang

Gary Arthur Gegenheimer

Pamela R. Trimble

Constance Ellen Boukidis

Victoria E. Green

Barrister

William J. Graham

David Breen

Pamela Beth Greene

Peter K. Levitt

B. David Hammarstrom

Class of 1996

Barbara L. Cullen

John Tobias Hecht

Friend

Theodore D. Lustig

Peter L. Ebb

Joseph S. Huttler

Ana Maria Francisco

H. Jefferson Megargel II

Richard Joseph Fabian

Moira D. Kelly

James B. Goldstein

Daniel Joseph Morean

Andrew M. Felner

Andrei Kodjak

David M. Mcpherson

Lynn S. Muster

Elizabeth Livesay Fry

Jonathan J. Konoff

Joseph P. Patin II

Edward Notargiacomo

Hilary C. Gabrieli

Ilene S. Kreitzer

Marc J. Rachman

Neil P. O’Callaghan

Jeffrey N. Lavine

Catherine S. Stempien

Mia S. Blackler

Lisa Gianelly-Levinson

Laura Schotsky Olton

John M. Blumers

Edward J. Goddard

Paul B. Linn

Donor

Christine A. Palmieri

Maureen Foley Connolly

Michael I. Goldberg

Deborah Musiker

Sarah C. Baskin

Babak A. Pooya

David A. Copland

Lawrence Michael Gordon

Elizabeth A. Parish

Ann Marie Celia Beaudoin

Matthew A. Renert

Lauren G. Dome

Terrie J. Hanna

Eunhae Park

Joan Fleischauer Beer

Elizabeth G. Scherer

Angelo Evangelou

Jonathan J. Hass

Glenn R. Pollner

Joan E. Cirillo

Evelyn Dawn Shen

Lisa Anne Gomez

Shannon M. Heilman

David Lee Rihtarchik

Tracy A. Craig

Jeffrey E. Swaim

Andrew R. Hough

Elizabeth S. Kardos

Pamela H. Schwager

Stephen M. Edwards

Kenneth T. Willis

Jeanne Atwood Kalin

Michael Ernest Tucker Benjamin Andrew Zelermyer

Class of 1990

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Barrister Christi J. Offutt Helen R. Pfister Donor Stephen G. Baron Nicole Telecki Berry

Donor Roll John Kelliher

Sandra K. Davis

Friend

Sara Alexis Condon

Barrister

Matthew T. Levy

Andrea E. Girolamo-Welp

Christopher M. Loveland

Mark R. Curiel

Matthew J. Andrus

Robert A. Maynez

Gary Michael Grossman

Donor

Felix Dashevsky

Jun Qi

John T. McKenna

Eric D. Levin

Franya G. Barnett

Melissa Nott Davis

Friend

Mark K. Molloy

Christopher T. Meier

Tara B. Burdman

Edward F. Dombroski Jr.

Luciana Aquino-Hagedorn

Ronan Peter O’Brien

Matthew D. Mitchell

Jane K. Chan

Howard P. Goldberg

Donor

Shirin Philipp

Michael S. Portnoy

Elizabeth K. Chen

John G. Hofmann

Farhad R. Alavi

Clare F. Saperstein

Christine E. Radice

Mark E. Dahl

John Christopher Jennings

Jesse T. Anderson

Nina Michelle Sas

David F. Schink

Christine Marie Fitzgerald

Avi Meir Lev

Hugh L. Brady

Jon C. Schultze

Raisha Vaidya

Marianne S. Geula

Janet Kim Lin

Miller Brownstein

Shera Gittleman Golder

Venu M. Manne

Peter Cuomo

Thomas Gray

Kelly Ruane Melchiondo

Rebecca M. Ginzburg

Timothy P. Heaton

Ruth Kristine Miller

Jennifer M. Kiely

John R. Hession

Adam W. Kiracofe

Jeffrey R. Katz

Catherine Olender Neijstrom

Ori Katz

Scott C. Owens

Dana Krueger

Panda L. Kroll

George B. Pauta

Samuel Thomas Lockner

Julianna Thomas McCabe

Hillary A. Pelletier

Daniel V. McCaughey

Christopher Miller

Sarah Ann Smegal

Gregory Gallagher Nickson

Mary-Rachel Rosenfeld

Catherine Mitchell Wieman

William S. Norton

Class of 2003

Eric W. Pinciss

Barrister

Miss Kristen Leigh Sweat

Trishka Waterbury Joshua J. Wells Mara K. Youdelman

Class of 1997 Dean’s Club Christian S. Na

Classof of1999 1999–– Class 10th Reunion 10th Reunion President’s Circle Ryan Roth-Gallo Barrister Rebecca A. Galeota

Barrister

Friend

Andrea L. Hillier

Amiel Z. Weinstock

Friend

Donor

Patricia Ann Ades Vanstory

Nathan T. Bouley

Donor

Daniel J. Caffarelli

Kimberly A. Altschul

Jeremy A. Colby

Shawn Ambwani

Timothy Crass

Muhammed M. Awan

Anthony Gene Dimaria

Michael S. Branley

Thomas R. Dussault

James Dowd

John Paul Floom

Charlotte Edelman Richard Charles Farley Jr.

Alexander Stampf Michael Patrick Twohig Adam M. Weisberger

Class of 2001

Melissa Droller Kirkel

John J. Okray Christian A. Pugaczewski

Wendy L. Fritz

Cathryn Elizabeth Vaughn

Barrister

Donor

Brian P. Villarreal

John K. Gross

Michael S. Arnold

Jennifer A. Zarutskie

Kristen Byrnes Floom

Leiha Macauley

Virginia A. Greiman

Danielle D. Fredericks

Kathleen Gabriel Servidea

Kristen L. Hunter

Class of 2005

Mayra L. Garcia

Jennifer E. Greaney

Friend

Berit H. Huseby

Robert William Guazzo

Noah A. Hochstadt

Lisa Heather Bebchick

Judith A. Joseph Jenkins

Adam D. Janoff

Timothy C. Hogan

Marc Fader

Robert Victor Kanapka

Tara L. Johnson

Sharon L. Holden

Catherine B. Kelleher

Robert Gordon Kester

Donor

Friend Brook Leonard Ames

Edward P. Kelly

Christi J. Braun

David A. Kluft

Andrew G. Heinz

Joyce Y. Law

Michael S. Kenwood

Christopher M. Condon

Cristina M. Lopez

Ronald Mark Leshnower

Ilya Minkin

Anurag Maheshwary

Namita Elizabeth Mani

Helen A. Muskus

Melissa L. Paddock

Kleindinst Clyde Vanel

Allison Pearsall Miller

Elizabeth Eun Ju Nam

Marc D. Rie

Sheila Marie Pozon

Elizabeth A. Perl

Joseph H. Selby

Angela C. De Cespedes Wenke

Marisa L. Pizzi

Jeffrey J. Wick

Robert George Young

Michael D. Tauer

Class of 1998

Class of 2000

Class of 2002

Sarah Avrick Tauer Christine Vargas

Barrister

Fellow

Barrister

Nevin Boparai

Tracy K. Evans-Moyer

Erich S. Lee

Adam Daniel Raucher

Daniel G. Wani

Craig A. Buschmann

Richard Michael Jones

Barrister

Jeremy Turk

Heather R. Zuzenak

Padma Choudry

Donor

Mark E. Bamford

Joseph Zambuto

Adrienne Sorg Domey

Lisa M. Alexander

Cindy Zee Michel

Donor

Classof of2004 2004–– Class 5th Reunion 5th Reunion

Benjamin Bejar

Lee K. Michel

Obert H. Chu

President’s Associates

Austin B. Clayton

David John Nagle

David Lee Click

Russell Jay Stein

Alexandra Meghan Gorman

Fellow Brian Douglas Eng

Jamie W. McGloin-King Rachel D. Oshry Christopher D. Strang Colin Grant Van Dyke Sophia K. Yen

Deanna Gard Sheridan

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Jeremy M. Denlea

Karen Kwatetso Quartey

Erica L. Hepp

Rose Maureen Constance

Anna M. Schleelein

Mariya Deryugina

Sasha S. Rao

Bradley W. Micsky

Cheryl A. Cappiello Edson

Daniel Schleifstein

Kaitlin Drummond

Erica Lyn Rice

Paul Steven Mistovich

Bridgett Wines Elliott

Benjamin B. Strawn

Anthony J. Dutra

Kieran E. Riley

Anita J. Pancholi

Christopher Xavier Elliott

Joshua F. Tom

Nika Elugardo

David Zachary Roiter

Miriam L. Pogach

Timothy J. Famulare

Ross M. Epstein

Kristen L. Feeley

Class of 2009

Samantha Gail Rothaus

Gideon Reitblat

Sharee Dominique Eriks

Trevor L. Rozier-Byrd

Pamela Sawhney

Jonathan H. Feiler

Friend

Christopher R. Freeman

Andrew Peter Sutton

James Ernstmeyer

Vasanth Sarathy

Jennifer A. Taylor

Mary Elizabeth Findlay

Erica J. Saxum

Amy E. Guerard

Donor

Aaron M. Schue

Julie Babayan

Michael James Finnerty

Marcelo Nelson Illarmo

Thomas J. Fraser

Joshua Segal

James Joseph LaRocca

Zoe K. Cooper

Sarita M. Frattaroli

April H. Seligman

Nathalie A. Le Ngoc

Jeannetta CraigwellGraham

Rebecca Hicks Gallup

Cristina M. Serrano

Jacqueline A. GiordanoHayes

Christopher M. Snow

Darren M. Goldman

Shane D. St. Hill

Jonathan D. Gordon

Noreen M. Stackhouse

Anthony A. Gostanian

Katherine M. Sullivan

Ariel Esther Greenstein

Maura C. Sullivan

Dustin F. Guzior

Thomas J. Szivos

Yomarie Silva Habenicht

Adam M. Veness

Devon A. Haft

Scott R. Walshon

Courtney E. Hunter

Emily A. Weber

Elizabeth A. Gross

Mary Jacobsen Teague Thomas Green Terbell Sarah M. Waelchli

Class of 2006 Donor Christine Henry Andresen Sean Chao

Wijewardena Bloom

Robert S. Levine Andrea Lee Lin Joel B. Lofgren

Mark Alvin Douglas Rachel A. Evans Daniel E. Fierstein

Erika C. Farrell

Lauren Mallen

Michael Paul Franck

Jon M. Martinez

Noemi A. Kawamoto

Kelly A. Gabos

Andrea J. Mueller

Paul J. Kim

Jimena Gonzalez De Cossio Higuera

Keum Nang Park

Chang-Kuk Lim

Alynn Cassidy Perl

Nicole S. Murray

Christopher J. Kiyan

Lauren E. Reznick

Yihong Ni

Amy Rose-Perkins

Rachel D. Phillips

Stephen Ryan

Carissa Rodrigue

Alessandro J. Sacerdoti

Kevin P. Rollins

Kristen Smith

Katelyn H. Rood

Amanda H. Stumm

Amit Sondhi

Melissa E. Sydney

Adaline R. Strumolo

Brian K. Yoo

Katherine Ward

Class of 2008

Class of 2010

Mary C. Lewis-Pierce

Donor Jeffrey S. Arbeit

Friend

Yakun Li

Brian Michael Bartlett

Kaleb C. Lockwood

Meghan S. Bailey

Stephanie B. Hoffman

Alex A. Lozada

Daniel Joseph Beck

Matthew S. Hyner

Ashleigh J. Lynn

J. Jordan Scott

Nadya C. Bosch

Donor

Michelle Lorraine Marion

Joshua H. Soloway

Monica Cafaro

Jill T. Ambrose

Molly R. Melcher

Alexandra D. Thaler

Tracy Solomon Dowling

Marc N. Aspis

Katherine L. Milligan

Irena Zolotova

Susan A. Dunn

Adrienne H. Bossi

Elitza Miteva

Jesse A. Fecker

Arthur Aaron Bright

Robin Morse

Debra M. Koker G. James Kossuth Heather W. Lepar Jeffrey A. Loesel Samuel Michael Mirkin Bradley C. Morin Carly J. Munson Leona Sylvia Osborne Ethan F. Ostrow Kevin S. Prussia Stephen F. Rickard Melissa S. Rones Denise R. Rosenhaft Joshua D. Roth

Class of 2007

Simerdip K. Khangura Anuj Kumar Khetarpal Sarah J. Kitchell Ling Wu Kong Phillip R. Kurs Jacqueline Lee

Ricardo Ganitsky

Khadijah Britton

Amanda Nicole Muller

Friend

Jessica M. Garrett

Daniel A. Broderick

Amy K. Nguyen

Deitzah A. Woll

Christine M. Gealy

Rostislav I. Bul

Katerina M. Novak

Donor

Rachel M. Irving

Karen L. Burhans

Laura Shoshana Olch

Tokunbo Akinbajo

Haydon A. Keitner

Javier E. Castro

Laura K. Palmer

Benjamin J. Armour

Rebecca L. Kurowski

Marissa L. Caylor

Costantino Panayides

Daniel D. Bahls

Brandon S. McGathy

Nina Chen

Kimberly Ann Parr

Sonia M. Bednarowski

Sara K. Mills

Jonathan S. Crabtree

Avni P. Patel

Manique Sanjeevani

Alex N. Niederman

Jeffrey I. Davis

Lana Popovic

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Robin L. Wish John Michael Yarwood Wei Zhang

Class of 2012 Donor Carolyn J. Kendzia

Donor Roll FRIENDS, CORPORATIONS & FOUNDATIONS GIVING President’s Circle

Maureen A. O’Rourke

Michel Family Foundation

Anonymous

Charles Schwab Charitable Fund

The Estate of Patricia M. Aronowitz Barry M. Clayton Trust Sherryl W. Cohen Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund

Centralis Partners Inc.

Philips Medical Systems

Zimble Family Charity Fund

William E. Ryckman Jr.

Donor

City Optical

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

David J. Seipp

Bruce A. Adams

Henry & Linda Cohn

The Stein Family Foundation Inc.

Theodore S. Sims

Aetna Foundation Inc.

P. J. Collier

Thomson Reuters

Sachin S. Agarwal

Mary C. Connaughton

Friend

Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP

Cooper Sapir & Cohen PC

Fellow

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

The Gayda Family Foundation

Public Interest Project Student Auction

Jason A. Gottlieb, Attorney PC

Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

Hudson Valley National Foundation Inc.

The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation

The Estate of Luke F. Kelley

WilmerHale

The Schonberger Family Foundation

President’s Associates

PIP Textbook Sales

120 Wooster LLC Advisors Charitable Gift Fund Roger Astmann Daniela Caruso Kristin A. Collins Combined Jewish Philanthropies Ernst & Young Foundation ExxonMobil Foundation

Marjorie W. Sloper Charitable Foundation

Graco Foundation

Sullivan & Worcester LLP

Cornelius K. Hurley Jr.

Barrister

IBM Corporation

Abby Grossman Modell

Marlene H. Alderman

Michael Abby Modell Foundation Trust

The Bar/Bri Group

Nissenbaum Law Offices

Law Offices of Karnig Boyajian

Marty Corneel Goodwin Procter LLP Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

Peggy Meyerhoff Pearlstone Foundation Richard L. Pearlstone The Schell Family Foundation The Simmons Family Foundation Hinda & John G. Snyder

Alice H. Barreca

Covington & Burling Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation Law Offices of Victor J. Garo GE Foundation Hanki Family Trust

Mr. & Ms. Donald A. Stern

Neil S. Hecht

Dean’s Club

Houghton Mifflin Company

Biogen Idec Foundation Inc. Deloitte Foundation

Kenney & Sams PC

The Sidney Heimberg Trust

Cianflone & Cianflone PC

Richard S. Corry

American Biltrite Charitable Trust

Dr. & Mrs. Robert Cosentino

Amica Companies Foundation

Rose Mary Delldonna Stacey Dogan

Emma A. Amodio Revocable Trust

Anne-Marie Dorning Anne C. Dranginis

Anonymous

Duke Energy Foundation

The Hon. & Mrs. Arnold W. Aronson

Antoinette L. DuPont Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth D. Elgart

Arruda & Beaudoin LLP Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore

Elgo Investments Inc.

The Sidley Austin Foundation

Erin Elwood

Barbara and Gil Kemp Foundation Inc.

AXA Foundation

Loretta Faluade Photography

Alissa & Gerald F. Leonard

Bank of America Foundation

Felos & Felos PA

Anthony James Barbuto

Reid Fishman

Dena E. Barisano

James E. Fleming

Be. Yoga

FMF Givingstation

Dr. & Mrs. Abraham Bernstein

Foley Hoag LLP

McDermott Will & Emery LLC McGuire Woods Law Offices of Hugh H. Mo PC David & Yetta Moeser Trust Newsweek The Paris Family Foundation Mark Pettit Jr. Ropes & Gray LLP Ruberto Israel & Weiner PC

Tarek M. Fahmy

Arunima Bandyopadhyay

Stanley Z. Fisher

The Law Offices of Wendy M. Bittner

Ruth V. Foot Revocable Trust Dan J. Freehling

Richard S. Blum Trust

Christopher Gabrieli

Robert G. Bone

Gabrieli Family Foundation

Boston College

Gannett Foundation Inc.

The Boston Foundation

Giving Express Online

Christian Bratina

Glynn Law Offices Charles A. Goglia Jr.

Brockton Animal Hospital

Francine L. Goldfarb & Paul Goldschmidt

Peter B. Sang Revocable Trust

Braverman & Lester

The Feld Law Firm PC

Kirby McInerney & Squire LLP

Tamar Frankel

Kirkland & Ellis Foundation

The McCausland Foundation

Pnina Lahav

Eugene P. Schwartz Family Foundation

Marilyn & Dennis Buchenholz

Joan Levitt Trust

Cornell L. Stinson

Gerald F. Burke

Medco Health Solutions

Lincoln Financial Foundation

Tax Executives Institute Inc.

Law Offices of Frank Campbell

Goldman Sachs

Susan Shay Mayer

David I. Walker

Cheryl & Herbert Carlson

Roberta Goorno

McKenzie & Company

Larry W. Yackle

Denise Jefferson Casper

Arthur Grace

Law Offices of Elliott I. Mishara James M. Molloy

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Mediation Resolution

Sid’s Carpet Barn Inc.

The Grunebaum Family Fund

Mr. & Mrs. William Meehan

Kenneth W. Simons

The Jan & Brian Harnik Living Trust

MetLife Foundation

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Law Offices of Eric I. Michelman

Robert D. Sloane

Robert Hildreth HiLife Vitamin and Herb Company

Richard S. Miller Revocable Living Trust

Ilana Hurwitz Starfield

Susan E. Hoaglund

MMC

Adam Holland

Law Offices of Rene Myatt

Donald F. Hunt Sr.

Monroe & Florence Nash Margarite A. Monterosso-Hunt

Roisin D. Hunt Law Offices of Paul V. Jabour Jamspot John Hancock Financial Services Company

Nancy J. Moore Law Office of Eileen Morrison Eva S. Nilsen

Johnson & Johnson

NYCharities.org

Chris Jones

Virginia Ohanian

JustGive

Ohanian Family Foundation Inc.

Law Offices of Martin Kantrovitz Kaplan Inc. Kellogg & George PC Ralph D. Kidder Elaine F. Kramer Betsy P. Kutner Lane & Bentley PC Robert A. Lawrence Gary S. Lawson

Old Mutual Asset Management Nannette Olszewski Oppenheimer Funds Legacy Program Kevin Outterson Patricia Pac Joseph J. Parrilla Revocable Living Trust

Gay Goslin Smith David Starrett Erin R. Steenblock Hildreth Stewart Charitable Foundation Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Rosemary P. Tarantino Jack & Roz Tarlow Law Offices of Kenneth H. Tatarian Carol Tellefsen Maryann G. Terzak Lillian P. Thomas Family Trust Marianne Tierney Top Shelf Liquors Claudia N. Trevor-Wright UBS Foundation USA United Way of Rhode Island University of Michigan The Honorable Robert F. Vacchelli Mira J. Van Doren

George Levine

Lawrence Peltz & Chris Perkins

Levitt Law Group

Lois G. Pines 1977 Trust

Qin Wang

Judith & Lester Lieberman Foundation

S. K. Platt & Company

Christina A. Wolfe

The Plymouth Rock Foundation

VIM Fitness

Little & Little Deanna Lomax

Elliott B. Pollack

Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP

Brierly Lombard and Co. Inc.

The Prudential Foundation

Welch & Donohoe LLP

Michael W. Look

Susan Ramsey & Richard J. Resnick

Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Zammuto

Priscilla Maureen Louie

Jill K. Rood

Zurn Sharp & Heyman LLP

Herman David Luck Charitable Trust

RoseArt

David B. Lyons

David B. Rossman

MacMaster Law Firm Ltd.

The Aaron & Sylvia Rothenberg Family Foundation Inc.

Stephen G. Marks

Peter Sacks

Sara Marshall

James A. Schultz

Christine A. Marx

Rita R. Schwartz

Scot Maxwell

Rita R. Schwartz Trust

Linda C. McClain

Jeffery Shneidman

M. Tracey Maclin

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Alumni Volunteers As an integral part of BU Law’s tradition of leadership, alumni volunteers play a key role in ensuring the success of the School and building the strength of the BU Law community. Your time and commitment are essential in achieving our goals as a top-tier law school, and your involvement serves as an inspiration to other alumni to join you in promoting and preserving the character and quality of this great institution. We thank and greatly appreciate all of our alumni volunteers and friends.

Alumni Association Executive Committee 2009-2010 John J. Finn (’80) President Christopher A. Kenney (’90) President Elect James C. Fox (’86) Vice President Leiha Macauley (’01) Vice President Carla Munroe Moynihan (’95) Vice President Andrew J. Ley (’75) Treasurer Kathryn A. Piffat (’89) Recording Secretary Denzil D. McKenzie (’76) Corresponding Secretary Christopher D. Strang (’05) Parliamentarian Richard E. Mikels (’72) National Law Fund Co-Chair Oscar A. Wasserman (’59) National Law Fund Co-Chair Deanna Gard Sheridan (’03) National Young Alumni Council (YAC), President Brook Leonard Ames (’05) YAC, Member Julia Bell Andrus (’04) YAC, Boston Regional Officer Jennifer A. Taylor (’05) YAC, Member Christopher Valente (’09) YAC, Member Colin Grant Van Dyke (’05) YAC, Member Edward Zacharias (’06) YAC, Member Joanne P. Acford (’80) Susan H. Alexander (’81) Peter Bennett (’85) Timothy Charles Blank (’86) Leslie E. Bloomenthal (’65) David Breen (’90) Robert Brennan (’90) Doug Scott Brown (’88) Gerard H. Cohen (’62) Derek Davis (’89) Martin P. Desmery (’87)

Gary Domoracki (’89) James N. Esdaile Jr. (’70) Joseph L. Faber (’91) Thomas C. Farrell (’91) Michael Charles Fondo (’90) Ana Maria Francisco (’93) Carolyn Jacoby Gabbay (’76) Rebecca A. Galeota (’99) Victor J. Garo (’65) Celina Gerbic (’91) Robert J. Glovsky (’76) Ernest M. Haddad (’64) Eileen M. Herlihy (’82) George M. Herlihy (’47) Kay Hideko Hodge (’72) Richard A. Karelitz (’74) William Landau (’59) Maureen A. MacFarlane (’89) Lisa Wendy Martin (’01) Karen Mathiasen (’81) Edward D. McCarthy (’62) Richard E. Mikels (’72) Frances H. Miller (’65) James J. Moynihan (’95) James A. Normand (’80) Jeffrey R. Parsons (’73) Roger A. Putnam (’51) Daniel J. Rea Jr. (’74) Bruce E. Rogoff (’83) Eugene L. Rubin (’61) Kim M. Rubin (’88) Andrew P. Strehle (’94) Andrew C. Sucoff (’89) Neil Sugarman (’65) William B. Tyler (’51) Barry Y. Weiner (’66)

James B. Lockhart (’59)

Jinanne S. J. Elder (’74)

E. Arthur Morin Jr. (’59)

Anthony M. Feeherry (’74)

John J. Norton (’59)

Thomas J. Flygare (’74)

Emanuel N. Psarakis (’59)

Richard W. Gleeson (’74)

Michael A. Silverstein (’59)

Pamela S. Horst-Green (’74)

Walter G. Vartanian (’59)

Seymour W. James Jr. (’74)

Vieri Guy Volterra (’59)

Richard A. Karelitz (’74)

Oscar A. Wasserman (’59)

Barbara F. Katz (’74)

Lewis L. Whitman (’59)

William N. Kleinman (’74)

Beverly W. Boorstein (’64)

Glenn Lau-Kee (’74)

David Crystal II (’64)

Leon J. Lombardi (’74)

Sheldon S. Frankel (’64)

Ke-Ching Ning (’74)

Ernest M. Haddad (’64)

Thomas W. Porter (’74)

Joel Held (’64)

Daniel J. Rea Jr. (’74)

Carl B. Israel (’64)

Nancy A. Serventi (’74)

John R. Linnell (’64)

Martha M. Coakley (’79)

Donald H. Marden (’64)

Robert G. Rowe (’79)

Charles R. Parrott (’64)

Joseph O. Scardino (’79)

Richard R. Porteus (’64)

Cerise Jalelian Keim (’84)

Harry J. Riskin (’64)

Steven F. Smoot (’84)

John G. Serino (’64)

Gary Domoracki (’89)

Norman J. Singer (’64)

Frederick B. Hnat (’89)

Charles B. Swartwood (’64)

Randy L. Shapiro (’89)

Gerald Taube (’64)

Dawn L. Goldstein (’94)

Thomas A. Wooters (’64)

B. David Hammarstrom (’94)

Richard G. Asoian (’69)

Andrew P. Strehle (’94)

Edward C. Coaxum Jr. (’69)

Jeremy A. Colby (’99)

Barbara B. Creed (’69)

Rebecca A. Galeota (’99)

Pasco Gasbarro Jr. (’69)

Nicholas Ashley Ogden (’99)

Richard A. Glaser (’69)

Juan Manuel Vazquez (’99)

Marvin M. Goldstein (’69)

Matthew J. Andrus (’04)

Roland Gray III (’69)

Amanda Lima Glinksi (’04)

Michael T. Healy (’69) Barry N. Koslow (’69)

3L Gift Committee

William Macauley (’69)

Sharee Dominique Eriks (’10)

Sheila H. Mondshein (’69)

Anthony A. Gostanian (’10)

2009 Reunion Class Committee Members

Brainard L. Patton (’69) Joseph S. Radovsky (’69)

Jacqueline A. Giordano-Hayes (’10) - Chair

W. P. Colin Smith Jr. (’69)

Matthew S. Hyner (’10)

Morton H. Aronson (’59)

Allan P. Weeks (’69)

Anuj Khetarpal (’10)

Charles W. Barrett (’59)

Bruce J. Wein (’69)

Ariel J. Soiffer (’10)

Karnig Boyajian (’59)

Michael A. Wheeler (’69)

Shane D. St. Hill (’10)

Alan T. Dworkin (’59)

Howard S. Altarescu (’74)

Lawrence S. Gates (’59)

Margaret W. Brill (’74)

Steven A. Koplin (’59)

Judith Nelson Dilday (’74)

William Landau (’59)

William S. Eggeling (’74)

A special note of recognition and appreciation goes out to alumni who have served as alumni event hosts, members of host committees and mentors to our 1L students. Additional thanks to the many alumni who informally contribute their invaluable time, wisdom and energy in so many varied ways to help build and strengthen the BU Law community, both on and off campus.

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Contact Information and Staff The Esdaile Alumni Center has made every effort possible to ensure the accuracy of this donor roll. In the event that we have inadvertently omitted your name or listed you incorrectly, please let us know so that we may correct our records. Also, please feel welcome to contact us with any questions you may have or to discuss a gift.

Emily Archibald

Ernest Haddad

Assistant Director of Annual Giving

Associate Dean of Special Projects

617.358.5459

617.353.3154

evarch@bu.edu

ehaddad@bu.eu

Anthony Barbuto

Cornell L. Stinson, J.D.

Executive Director of Development

Assistant Dean of Development

& Alumni Relations

& Alumni Relations

617.353.3118

617.358.5351

abarbuto@bu.edu

cstinson@bu.edu

Erin Elwood

Samantha Waite

Assistant Director of Alumni Relations

Development Coordinator

617.358.4873

617.353.6647

erine@bu.edu

swaite@bu.edu

For more information or to discuss a gift: Esdaile Alumni Center Boston University School of Law 765 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215 Phone: 617.353.3118 Fax: 617.353.7744 E-mail: lawalum@bu.edu www.bu.edu/law/alumni

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BU Law Connection

Expand your access. Maintain your privacy.

Boston University School of Law has expanded access for members of its Alumni Online Community. This initiative enables alumni to network beyond the BU Law community—while maintaining the privacy you currently enjoy.

Benefits of this expansion include: Access to the University’s nearly 300,000 alumni via networking tools and personal connections Access to more than 7,000 registered BU Law alumni Tools for locating classmates, alumni of specific student groups and professors Continued privacy outside the BU Law community (your profile will be visible only to fellow BU Law alumni, unless you elect to adjust your privacy settings)

The BU School of Law is committed to providing its alumni with relevant, user-friendly tools for making professional and personal connections. If you have any questions or concerns regarding these new features, please contact Erin Elwood at erine@bu.edu.

www.bu.edu/law/alumni

Nonprofit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Boston, MA Permit No. 1839

Save the Date Next Reunion & Alumni Weekend is October 28-30, 2011 All BU Law alumni are invited to attend, with special recognition to our graduates from classes ending in 1 and 6!

October 30, 2010, Annual Alumni Gala and Silver Shingle Awards Presentation

Plan to join us in Boston for our Annual Alumni Gala Dinner and Silver Shingle Awards Presentation on Saturday, October 29, 2011 at Mandarin Oriental Boston.