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The Man Who Would Be Mayor: Michael Flaherty (’94)

Helping Madoff’s Victims: Irving H. Picard (’66)

Voices For Veterans: Kirk Bauer (’78) Nathaniel Dalton (’91) Peter McCausland (’74) Anna Schleelein (’08)

Giving Back: Michael Schell (’76)

Climbing Above the Culture Clash Gary Locke (’75)

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Voices For Veterans

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The Man Who Would Be Mayor

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BU Law Looks at the Economy

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America’s Future Trust-Brokers

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Leading From the Outside: Con Hurley

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Helping Madoff’s Victims: Irving H. Picard (’66)

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New Faculty: Stacey Dogan and Abigail Moncrieff

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Professors Brodley and Baram Announce Retirement

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Professor Fran Miller Is Honored

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School Mourns Loss of Passing of Margaret der Hagopian

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Q&A With Professors McClain and Silbaugh About Their

Gender, Law & Public Policy Class

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Public Interest Project Celebrates 25 Years

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Howard Dean Delivers 2009 Commencement Speech

13 25 Maureen A. O’Rourke Dean, Michaels Faculty Research Scholar, Professor of Law

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

Office of Communications & Marketing

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Michael Schell (’76) Talks About Giving Back

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Silver Shingle Awards

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

Contributors

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Class Notes

Sara Gelston Bill Ibelle

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Annual Report of Giving

Elizabeth Ress Jordan Smock Jane Whitehead

Photography

On the cover: Gary Locke (’75)

BU Photography Mark Ostow, Ostow Photography Joel Sage

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Dear Alumni and Friends, You’ll find many timely stories in this year’s edition of The Record. We interviewed Irving Picard (’66), the trustee appointed to liquidate the estate of Bernard Madoff, engineer of the largest Ponzi scheme ever conducted. We profiled Professor Tamar Frankel, whose prescient 2006 book Trust and Honesty: America’s Business Culture at a Crossroad suggested that the growing fraud and abuse of trust in this country could have a widespread impact on America’s economy and prosperity. We also asked Con Hurley, director of the Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law, and a frequent commentator on the financial crisis that has gripped U.S. and world markets, to share his observations on the economy with The Record. We talked with Michael Flaherty (’94) about his campaign to become mayor of Boston, and with alumni who are assisting veterans returning from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Gary Locke (’75), the son of immigrant shopkeepers, also spoke with us about his remarkable journey to become our country’s first Asian-American governor and U.S. secretary of commerce.

Clearly, the past year has been a tumultuous one. The recession has affected almost everyone, and alumni donations have been adversely affected at a time when our students need financial support more than ever. I encourage all of you to support the School in any way you can. If you can hire a BU Law student or graduate, I urge you to do so. If you can make a donation to the annual fund, whether you’re a regular contributor like Mike Schell (’76), whom we profile in these pages, or someone who has never given before, now is the time to help out. Your contribution will make a difference in the lives of our students, who are facing unprecedented challenges as they prepare to enter the legal profession.

BU Law continues to be recognized as a top-tier school in legal circles, both nationally and internationally. U.S. News & World Report ranked our health law program #4, our tax law program #6, our intellectual property law program #11 and the law school overall #20 out of 184 accredited law schools nationwide. Our faculty is widely and consistently acclaimed for its teaching and scholarship, giving the School added prestige and helping to attract highly qualified applicants. In fact, applications to BU Law were up 29 percent this year (nationally, applications to law school were up 6.5 percent). We received more than 7,600 applications for 265 slots, allowing us to be even more selective in the admissions process.

If you’d like to meet some of our students online, get in touch with old friends or network with other alumni, you can join the BU Law Connection. We’ve created this site to help you connect more easily with members of the BU Law community. You can also submit a class note through the Connection and let your fellow alumni know what you are doing. To take advantage of all the Connection has to offer, just go to our Web site, www.bu.edu/law, click on BU Law Connection and follow the prompts to register.

It’s quick and easy.

As always, we appreciate your feedback. Tell us what you’re thinking and give us your suggestions for stories. 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

Voices For Veterans Members of the BU Law community work in every corner of the public interest world — and their stories continue to inspire us. These alums from four generations have pioneered programs championing the rights of military veterans to receive effective rehabilitation, community support, adequate benefits and employment opportunities.

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Kirk Bauer knows first-hand that sports can help people rebuild lives. After losing a leg to a grenade injury during the Vietnam War at age 21, he found a steep downhill path to recovery when fellow veterans introduced him to a skiing program run

by Disabled Sports USA (DS/USA).

The Veterans’ Veteran: Kirk Bauer (’78) Executive Director, Disabled Sports USA www.dsusa.org

Bauer reinvented himself as a competitive ski racer and one of the first fully certified disabled ski instructors in the country.

Today he is a nationally recognized advocate for disabled sports, and serves as vice chair of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. Since 1982 he has spearheaded the growth of DS/ USA into the country’s largest sports and recreation organization for physically disabled people, with 100 chapters nationwide.

“I saw the issue of disabled rights as parallel to civil rights,” said Bauer in a recent telephone conversation. His training at BU Law played a key role in his effectiveness as an advocate and strategist. “I felt that

The Guardsman’s Neighbor: Nathaniel Dalton (’91) Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Affiliated Managers Group Co-founder and Executive Board Member, Guard Support of Massachusetts www.guardsupport.org

What happens to the families, jobs and businesses of National Guardsmen and women when they leave for active service?

Nate Dalton, a top executive for the asset management company Affiliated Managers Group, had not given the question much thought until a conversation in 2007 with his Swampscott neighbor, Michael Finer.

Finer explained to Dalton the challenges he faced as he prepared to deploy to Iraq for a year as a lieutenant colonel in the Massachusetts National Guard.

As president of a financial planning group, Finer was better placed than many National Guard colleagues to weather the time away from his business. But for many selfemployed workers and small business owners, deployment can have drastic economic results, he told Dalton. “These are people who put their lives on hold to serve us,” Dalton said. He felt the private sector had a responsibility to step up and serve them back.

with a legal education, I could help people with disabilities move forward,” he said.

In the winter of 2002–03, as the U.S. invasion of Iraq loomed, Bauer and colleagues at DS/USA devised a strategy to offer wounded returning soldiers the same rehabilitation through sport that had helped them find new hope in lives torn apart by injury. Since then, the Wounded Warrior Disabled Sports Project has served more than 2,500 seriously wounded veterans, providing free individualized training in many winter and summer sports, with transportation, lodging and adaptive equipment.

“The results have even surprised me,” said Bauer, citing a February 2009 survey by HarrisInteractive, commissioned by DS/USA, showing that program participants are twice as likely to be employed than the general population of adults with disabilities. “They are really getting on with life,” he said, adding that their courage and capacities remind us that “people with disabilities are people first.”

In August 2007, with Finer and other friends in the legal and business community, Dalton launched Guard Support, a nonprofit dedicated to boosting support services for Massachusetts National Guard soldiers and their families.

Guard Support aims to plug gaps in government-provided support, by setting up a range of services such as giving emergency cash for child care, housing and utility bills; setting up Internet connections between overseas troops and families at home; and supporting groups that organize moraleboosting send-off and homecoming events.

A major focus is linking entrepreneurial veterans with business planning, training and access to capital to help them launch or re-launch small businesses.

For Dalton, the most touching aspect of this homegrown response to a national emergency is “the level of gratitude from people to whom we should be grateful.”

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The Corporate Supporter: Peter McCausland (’74) Chairman and CEO, Airgas Inc. Supporter of Operation Homefront www.operationhomefront.net and Operation Home and Healing www.operationhomeandhealing.org

The Accidental Advocate: Anna Schleelein (’08) Staff Attorney at Shelter Legal Services Co-founder, Veterans’ Advocacy Network Phone: 617.338.0572

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As a father whose son was deployed to Iraq in 2002 during the run-up to Operation Iraqi Freedom, Peter McCausland knows that having loved ones in harm’s way “wreaks havoc on families and individuals.” So when a poll of more than 14,000 of his Airgas Inc. employees showed company-wide support for backing Operation Homefront, a nonprofit that provides emergency help for military families and wounded veterans, McCausland welcomed the call to corporate action.

In 2008, Airgas pledged $300,000 to Operation Homefront, to be paid over three years. The company also aimed to hire 100 veterans of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. In addition, Airgas offered a “Welding 101” course to any veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan service who was interested in a career in welding. So far, Airgas has hired 25 veterans and trained about 10 welders, numbers that McCausland is confident will rise quickly as the programs become established. Airgas associates in 830 locations across the country work with local chapters

of Operation Homefront on service projects that include planning fundraisers, providing back-to-school supplies for schoolchildren with parents on active service, and sending care packages to servicemen and women.

After McCausland and his wife, Bonnie, welcomed their son home from Iraq, Bonnie decided to found Operation Home and Healing (OHH), to be offered through the long-established Council For Relationships.

Funded through the McCausland Foundation, a private family foundation, OHH aids veterans living in Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey. It offers counseling and therapeutic services to veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan who suffer from the emotional after-effects of combat, including post-traumatic stress disorder. OHH also provides counseling to family members of service personnel involved in those conflicts.

“My whole family is involved in this. We all see this as a pressing need that has gone unaddressed for too long,” said McCausland.

Anna Schleelein was a first-year law student when her boyfriend, now fiancé, retired from the U.S. Marine Corps in 2005 on medical grounds. His application for health care and disability allowances from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) ended in what he considered an inappropriately low appraisal of his level of disability.

benefits. With guidance from Maura Kelly,

With Schleelein’s help, he decided to appeal the decision. “We didn’t know where to start,” said Schleelein, now a staff attorney at Newton-based Shelter Legal Services.

But BU Law librarians helped with research and bought books on veterans’ benefits for the library, and Schleelein built a case that resulted in the VA’s reassessing her fiancé’s disabled status, with a corresponding rise in benefits.

in basic veterans’ benefits law now staff the

Their success encouraged Schleelein to see fellow law students as “a great untapped resource” for supporting veterans seeking

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then director of the Pro Bono Program at BU Law, and Susan Prosnitz of Suffolk Law School’s Rappaport Center for Law and Public Service, the Veterans Advocacy Network phone line opened in June 2008, in partnership with the Massachusetts Bar Association (MBA). Students who are trained MBA’s phone lines on Mondays from 3 to 5 p.m., and refer veterans to sources of legal assistance, including a network of 50 volunteer attorneys accredited by the VA. “You really have to realize that this is something we owe them,” said Schleelein.

What most strikes her about the service’s clients, she said, is “the tenacity of these

[Ed. Note: See related story on Schleelein on page 28.]

The Man Who Would Be Mayor:

Michael Flaherty’s (’94) Bid to Lead the City of Boston Running against an incumbent is

constituents. But it was his experience

District Court, with its many repeat

always difficult. Challenging Boston’s

as an assistant district attorney, with

offenders, he assessed the system and

longest-serving mayor is an even more

its street-level view of the fallout from

concluded: “When it comes to public

formidable task. But Boston City

underperforming schools, substandard

safety, especially youth violent crime,

Councilor-at-Large Michael Flaherty

housing and inadequate social services,

we’re not going to be able to arrest and

(’94) decided to take the challenge and

that became a major driver behind

prosecute our way out of the problem.”

try to derail Mayor Thomas Menino’s

his decision to run for public office.

bid for a record fifth term in office.

So he decided to approach this problem

Flaherty served from 1996 to 1998 as

from a different angle. He left the DA’s

Flaherty, whose father, Michael

an assistant district attorney for the

office to join J. Albert Johnson (later

Flaherty Sr., was a 12-term state

Suffolk County District Attorney’s

Johnson, Hassett & Hanley). In 1999,

representative for South Boston, inhaled

office, trying cases in East Boston,

Flaherty won a seat on the Boston City

local politics as a child, holding signs

Charlestown and Roxbury district courts.

Council and has been continuously re-

for his dad, passing out campaign

As a prosecutor, Flaherty recalled, “You

elected since then, serving as council

pamphlets, attending political events

see a lot, some of it very taxing, very

president from 2002 to 2006. He has

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municipal elections, demonstrating broad popularity beyond his Irish roots to appeal to constituencies as diverse as the Vietnamese and Russian communities. Through his “Kitchen Table Conversations Tour,” Flaherty has met with Boston residents to hear their ideas to improve the city.

make the city government’s budgeting, record-keeping and planning accessible to the public; and a data tracking and analysis system called CitiStats, already in use within several U.S. cities, including Somerville.

Another important campaign theme is keeping families in Boston, with

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stayed active in his old neighborhood, coaching Little League and youth hockey and serving as director of the South Boston Citizens Association.

Flaherty credited Professor Robert Volk,

Flaherty also draws upon his personal experiences to inspire his political views. His pitch for mayor sounds themes that have preoccupied him since his ADA days: turning around the public schools, reducing youth violent crime, decentralizing policing to give more power to district police captains, and streamlining government spending by making decisions based on real-time data.

One of his major priorities is to bring greater transparency and accountability to government operations, which he says will help the city identify areas of wasteful spending. He advocates using such tools as the Internet to

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and Writing Program, with teaching him to research and write like a lawyer in that first year, as well as keeping an eye on his extracurricular activities.

“Professor Volk was always looking on, making sure I was doing what I was supposed to be doing,” he said.

He reached out to the city’s expanding gay and lesbian population, becoming the first citywide elected official to endorse same-sex marriage in 2001.

He later helped push through the council an ordinance known as the transgender protection law, which bans discrimination against people based on their gender identity or expression.

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When it comes to public safety, especially youth violent crime, we’re not going to be able to arrest and prosecute our way out of the problem.

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such proposals as increasing affordable, family-sized housing and expanding neighborhood crime watches.

In his ambitious campaign, Flaherty

“I’m a city kid. I was born and raised in the city,” said Flaherty, 40, who grew up in Boston and still lives in his old neighborhood with his wife, Laurene, and their four children, three of whom attend the Murphy School in Dorchester.

for the city when he first took office in

Flaherty’s own education took him from Boston College High School to Boston College and then to BU Law. The first year of law school was tough, he said, not least because he continued to work as a driver for Airborne Express Company, a job he’d had since leaving high school.

said he refrains from ugly politics. He conceded that Tom Menino was good 1993, but also said he believes that a new generation needs a new kind of politics — with a new politician to lead the way.

Flaherty’s hope is that his approach to politics and governing, coupled with his longtime love for the city, will persuade Boston voters that it’s time for a change — and that he is the best candidate for the job.

So far, his hard work has paid off — Flaherty took second place in the September primary, and will face off

While learning torts, contracts and other 1L subjects, he was working as a courier, delivering freight to warehouses citywide, and loading and unloading airplanes at Logan Airport. As a member of Teamsters Local Union 25, he gained a first-hand understanding of the importance of “good wages, good benefits and good safety conditions” for

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against Menino in November. In The Boston Globe, Flaherty told his followers on primary night, “If everyone in this room stands with me, rolls up their sleeves, and helps me throw a shoulder into this effort, we will change Boston.”

For more information on how Flaherty does in November, go to www.cityofboston.gov/elections/results.

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America’s Future Trust-Brokers: Professor Tamar Frankel on the Financial Crisis and the New Course It Has Inspired Trust.

It’s a concept that’s on shaky ground in the financial world these days. But according to BU Law Professor Tamar Frankel, it remains the cornerstone of our entire economic system.

Frankel has devoted much of her storied legal career to the concept of trust, teaching and writing extensively on corporations, mutual fund regulation and fiduciary law, serving at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and visiting at the Brookings Institution. Earlier this year, she testified before Congress about Bernard Madoff ’s $65 billion Ponzi scheme, and offered

recommendations on how to reform our beleaguered regulatory system.

Reform is essential, Frankel told Congress, because no investment system can flourish in the absence of trust between investors and financial institutions. She expanded on these thoughts in a recent interview with The Record.

“Over the last 30 years, there has been a shift away from a reliance on law and morality toward self-protection as a way to regulate the system,” she said. “The assumption is that people should protect themselves in financial matters by educating themselves.”

But this simply won’t work, argued Frankel, noting that the investors who lost their shirts in the Madoff scandal included many of the most sophisticated individuals and institutions.

“We live in a specialized society, so some services cannot be adequately supervised by the recipient,” she said. “I cannot supervise the work of my surgeon when he performs heart surgery, nor can a person supervise the work of his lawyer, or the services of their financial advisers.

In order for the system to work, we have to entrust our money to our financial advisers, just as we have to give our surgeon authority over our body.”

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Frankel attributes the erosion of trust to a fundamental shift in business culture that began with the deregulation frenzy of the 1980s, which was based on the faulty assumption that markets can regulate themselves.

“There was a growing hostility toward the law and a growing admiration for innovation, regardless of what that innovation was aimed at,” said Frankel. “So the business world became increasingly focused on innovating loopholes — actions that would be considered immoral in another climate, but do not violate the precise letter of the law. In our current financial culture, morality is considered stupid: ‘If you have an opportunity to grab and you don’t, you’re a fool.’”

Over time, even the regulators got drawn into this culture, adopting an “everybody’s doing it” attitude, which led them to overlook minor irregularities.

As a result, understandings of what constituted actionable dishonesty became elastic and, as we are now painfully aware, that elasticity ultimately stretched beyond the breaking point.

“We have created a culture based on the belief that ‘Whatever is good for private persons who hold power over

others is good for the country,’” said Frankel. “Yet power over others, whether by the government or by the private sector, must be balanced. That culture of ‘freedom for power-holders’ is still here.

You don’t create a culture in one day, and you don’t change a culture in one day.”

Frankel states that private powerholders are very important to balance government power. And so is the reverse.

Her prescription for change is to create a regulatory system that will enable regulators to know more about the markets, and then act before the system is threatened. According to Frankel, the SEC should shift its resources to teams of specialized financial examiners who have the expertise required to catch dishonest behavior before it becomes pervasive. The activity of these examiners should be most intense during times of rapid growth, when innovative abuses are more likely to occur, rather than reacting after major institutions crash.

Frankel recalled that during her year and a half at the SEC she was struck by how little the agency knew about developments in the financial markets, where the innovations were coming from and where they were heading.

“The way to change the current culture is to closely follow what the market is doing, and find out what the real problems are,” she explained.

Now in her 80s, Frankel shows no signs of slowing down. Over the years she has published more than 60 articles and book chapters, including two books in the past two years: a teaching book on Fiduciary Law and a case law companion to her prophetic 2006 book, Trust and Honesty: America’s Business Culture at a Crossroad. She is currently at work on a case-based teaching book on securitization with co-author Mark Fagan, a short book on con artists and their victims, a book on the theory of

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fiduciary duties for Oxford University Press, and an article on fiduciary duties of financial brokers. She is regularly quoted in the national media.

But Frankel’s proudest accomplishment of late has been the creation of a multidisciplinary course that exposes BU Law students to real ethical dilemmas in the business world. The class is designed to show how fraud and dishonesty evolve, even among those who don’t necessarily set out to become con artists. Students study the unfolding of the Enron and WorldCom scandals; the fall of accounting giant E.F. Hutton; and the life of the man whose name has become synonymous with large-scale fraud, Charles Ponzi.

Ponzi is a particularly powerful teaching case because, as Frankel’s students discover, the legendary swindler actually started out with a legitimate strategy to profit legally from unstable exchange rates between countries. It wasn’t until his get-rich-quick plan failed that he developed his now-infamous pyramid scheme. Frankel uses the case study to demonstrate that there is no bright line between a Ponzi scheme and a legitimate business model.

“American corporations pay dividends on one hand, while borrowing money or refinancing to pay those dividends.

It’s a model that is very close to a Ponzi scheme,” she said. “It’s a slippery slope.

It’s not black and white. Through our discussions and role plays, the students begin to understand that.”

Frankel said that student responses to the course have been overwhelmingly positive, especially about the realworld applications it offers. Said Frankel, “Students wrote that they valued the course highly because they learned the relationship between the law and the outside world in which they will practice.” n

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Leading From the Outside:

Ivory Tower Offers Objective View of Economic Crisis, Says Hurley Four years ago, Cornelius “Con” Hurley arrived at BU with a vision.

As the new director of the Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law, he wanted to make the 30-year-old graduate program into more than just an academic training ground for lawyers. He also wanted it to be a player on the national scene — a thought leader in the world of national and international finance.

“The graduate program was already very successful,” said Hurley. “But there was greater potential, and we made a conscious decision that it would be better for the Morin Center and for the law school in general if we did more things that addressed the practical world.

It’s fine to run a graduate program, but making a real contribution to the ongoing debate is where it’s at.”

His timing couldn’t have been better.

Two years into his tenure, the bottom fell out of the world’s financial markets; several of the nation’s largest banks were poised to sink under the weight of bad loans, threatening to pull the rest of the nation’s financial system down with them.

Suddenly banking law and regulation was no longer the esoteric concern of an elite club of experts, but of vital interest to every American. It was, and still is, the biggest economic plight facing the United States since the Great Depression.

With two years of preparation under Hurley’s leadership, the Morin Center was ideally positioned to step into the tumult. Hurley himself — a plainspoken man with a flair for cutting to the bones of an issue with an air of insightful congeniality — has become one of the go-to experts for media outlets around the country.

Hurley said his position at the Morin Center puts him in a unique position to provide unbiased commentary, because he has no client interests to advocate for or political administrations to satisfy — yet he has decades of experience in the industry.

Hurley sits with more than a dozen other lawyers on the American Bar Association’s task force on financial regulatory reform. It is this task force that will weigh in on reform issues on behalf of the legal profession and the ABA. According to Hurley, “Not having the ‘burden’ of client interests is quite useful as we consider the shape of the financial industry going forward.”

Hurley brings this same approach to his service as an “independent director” of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston. One of his colleagues on that board, Arthur Connelly, chairman of the American Bankers Association, said, “We can count on Con to move the discussion in a positive and strategically helpful direction.”

Said Hurley, “The ‘Ivory Tower’ has become a pejorative term these days, but the Ivory Tower is not such a bad perch for assessing what we’re going through right now.”

“The Buck Starts Here,” a twice-amonth luncheon forum for lawyers, regulators and business leaders that uses a fast-paced and innovative format to stimulate insightful discussion of the hottest financial topics of the moment.

The two-hour program begins with a summary of the developments since the last session, followed by a “drill down” session on a particular hotbutton issue. It concludes with a Q&A session with panelists who include law firm partners, regulatory officials and business CEOs. Topics have ranged from Ponzi schemes to hedge fund regulation to the future of securitization.

“Each session is videotaped and posted on the Morin Center’s Web site for the whole world to see,” noted Hurley.

One recent program focused on President Obama’s proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency, specifically on a proposal to eliminate federal pre-emption laws so states could enact their own stricter regulations.

The topic elicited a lively debate as to whether the plan would improve regulation — or create utter chaos.

The Morin Center oversees the publication of the Review of Banking and Financial Law twice a year, co-sponsors a series of three-day financial CLE programs in partnership with the ABA, and hosts a lecture series that has featured some of the most powerful individuals in the financial world, including the vice chairman of Citigroup, the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, and Congressman Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee.

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“Eighty people signed up in August, on the hottest day of the year with a hurricane brewing off the coast,” said Hurley. “That tells you something about the need for this. This is our effort to put the crisis in perspective.

We do it, not here in the Ivory Tower, but at downtown law firms where this will all play out.”

While Hurley’s plethora of outreach programs hits its stride, the center’s graduate program continues to thrive with more than 70 students and two dozen adjunct faculty — each one of whom is an active practitioner in his or her field of expertise. Hurley said this adjunct arrangement is in keeping with the school’s philosophy of providing a practical legal education.

The stakes couldn’t be higher, according to Hurley.

“I think we are in the process of fundamentally changing capitalism,” he said. “How we play this out will say a lot about ourselves. This goes beyond beleaguered banks. We have thrown a federal safety net under the entire system.

As we remove elements of that safety net, it will determine what we become.”

Hurley is hopeful but not optimistic, based on what he has seen so far.

“The Fed has said quite explicitly that 19 banks — those with assets of more than $100 billion — will not fail,” he said. “I think that the safety net just puts off the day of reckoning. I don’t think we can afford NOT to let some of them fail.”

The ‘Ivory Tower’ has become a pejorative “term these days, but the Ivory Tower is not such a bad perch for assessing what we’re going through right now.

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“That’s where the expertise is — in the marketplace,” said Hurley, who previously served as general counsel for Shawmut Bank, as a partner in a financial services consulting group, and as assistant general counsel to the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C., as it was crafting the International Banking Act of 1978.

“The J.D. program is superb at teaching the theory of law, but as you become more focused the need for practitioners increases. The graduate program’s faculty consists of law partners, leaders in key government agencies, and senior corporate counsel.

With obvious pride, Hurley observes, “They are in the real world dealing with the issues as they come up and share that experience with our students.”

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The savings and loan crisis of the 1980s provides an excellent illustration, according to Hurley. The government propped up those dysfunctional institutions for years based on the belief that, with some help, they would be able to work themselves out of trouble.”

“But they just got themselves into deeper trouble,” he said.

The reason is that the bailout gave the banks no incentive to change the behavior that got them in trouble in the first place — and Hurley sees no indication that this bailout will be any different.

“These 19 banks are hampering the economic recovery,” he said. “They have been reluctant to lend, they have

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not changed their risk management practices in any significant way, and we know now that they are back to their old compensation practices.”

“My concern is that three years down the road, we will think that things are better — but nothing will have changed. We will be just as susceptible to systemic collapse as we were a year ago when AIG almost went under.”

As the crisis continues, Hurley is constantly on the lookout for ways to bolster the Morin Center’s position as a thought leader.

“Boston University is a big place, so in addition to reaching out to external resources, we need to tap into the wealth of University resources we haven’t leveraged yet,” he said, adding that finding the solution will require a cross-disciplinary approach.

For example, the issue of outrageous executive compensation packages is one of organizational development and governance — so he would like to call upon James Post, an expert on corporate governance at the BU School of Management. He also hopes to tap such people as Laurence Kotlikoff in the Economics Department and Zvi Bodie, also of the School of Management, who are nationally recognized figures in the areas of retirement and investment management.

“If we only come at this problem with lawyers, it will be like the old saying, ‘To a man with a hammer, every problem looks like a nail,” said Hurley.

University President Robert Brown has articulated a vision that encourages multidisciplinary activities at all levels of the University. Hurley and the Morin Center are realizing that vision and enhancing the law school and the University experience in the process. n

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Picard’s Unenviable Task:

To Help Madoff’s Victims Recover Whatever They Can Bernard Madoff’s 150-year sentence may ensure he spends the rest of his life in prison, but it does nothing to heal the gaping financial wounds suffered by more than 14,000 victims of the largest Ponzi scheme in history.

That daunting task has fallen on the shoulders of Irving H. Picard (’66), the court-appointed trustee who is overseeing the Madoff bankruptcy.

Picard is the man responsible for recovering as much money as possible for the victims, and devising a plan to divide it up fairly among them.

One would think this Robin Hood role would make Picard a hero among the victims, but he is already the subject of four lawsuits, including one class action, filed by the very people he has been hired to help. The problem is that even if Picard is wildly successful in his quest, there won’t be nearly enough money to go around.

The painful fact is that the spectacular “earnings” Madoff engineered on his customers’ behalf never existed, and most of the staggering $18 billion they gave him to invest is long gone.

As Picard wrote in his first interim

report on June 30, Madoff “shrouded himself in an unapproachable Wizard of Oz–like aura,” creating an illusion of fantastic returns when, in fact, not a dime of his clients’ money was ever invested. Instead, Madoff pocketed his clients’ money to support his own lavish lifestyle, while paying out enough to early investors to keep the fraud going and the money rolling in.

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someone — and I’m it,” said Picard.

“You’ve got to have a thick skin; you’ve got to be made of shoe leather.”

The central issue in the lawsuits is Picard’s “money-in/money-out” policy for dividing up the money he is able to recover. Under this plan, anyone who

money comes out of the money that should go to the net losers,” said Picard.

“To me, that’s not fair. My personal view is that if we simply use the [latest] statements, we would be continuing the Ponzi scheme. We would be continuing to let Bernie Madoff decide who gets paid and who gets [burnt].”

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is a “net loser” — that is, anyone who invested more money than they withdrew — is eligible to claim the amount they lost. So a person who invested $2 million but only withdrew $500,000 is eligible to claim a $1.5 million loss. But anyone who is a “net winner” — those who withdrew more money than they invested — cannot claim anything.

As a result, several net winners have sued Picard, arguing that victims should be eligible to claim the amount shown on their final investment statements.

The problem with that, said Picard, is that the money reflected in those statements — a total of $65 billion — never existed. It was pure fiction.

“If you go with the [latest] statements, people who already took out more than they put in continue to get money. That

No matter which plan is ultimately used to divide up the money, investors will only receive a fraction of the money they thought they had earned. It is Picard’s job to make that fraction as large as possible.

It is a daunting task.

The number and variety of responsibilities that fall on Picard’s shoulders is enough to make anyone’s legs buckle. To begin with, Picard was immediately responsible for taking over Madoff ’s business and overseeing it until its legitimate portions sold. This required him to manage Madoff ’s 140 employees, deal with their health benefits and 401(k) plans, and gradually lay them off so the business could be closed down.

To do this, he hired a team of consultants, attorneys and even an

art expert to appraise the hundreds of thousands of dollars of art in Madoff ’s offices. Picard’s favorite piece — one that embodies the whole case — was a Claes Oldenburg sculpture of an ordinary screw. Madoff kept the four-foot-tall sculpture, titled “The Soft Screw,” behind his desk.

“So anyone talking to Madoff would be looking at this screw,” said Picard.

“It’s kind of ironic, don’t you think?”

In order to liquidate Madoff ’s business assets, Picard first had to find them.

This hasn’t been easy, given the fact that Madoff was an extraordinarily wealthy crook who was well aware that the feds were going to catch up with him sooner or later. So Picard also manages a team of legal, financial and forensic experts who have been combing the world’s financial markets to find these assets.

“This case is like an octopus, and the tentacles keep growing longer,” said Picard.

Meanwhile, Picard has issued more than 230 subpoenas and 90 letters of warning in his effort to track down and litigate the recovery of all of the investor money that was paid out to preferred investors to prop up the Ponzi scheme.

According to Picard’s June 30 progress report, these efforts have “unearthed a labyrinth of interrelated international

About Irving H. Picard Firm: Baker & Hostetler LLP’s New York City office, where he is a partner and noted expert in bankruptcy and restructuring. He serves as the court-appointed trustee under the Securities Investor Protection Act (SIPA) in the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC.

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Chapter 11 plans and drafting disclosure statements, nonsubstantive consolidation and true sale opinions; and provided advice regarding bankruptcy remote entities.

Associations: New York and American Bar Associations (ABA Business Law and Litigation Sections, Business Bankruptcy Committee), the American Bankruptcy Institute, Commercial Law League of America (Bankruptcy Section), Federal Bar Council, Registry of Mediators for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court (SDNY), the Turnaround Management Association. Associate member of the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees and the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors.

funds, institutions and entities of almost unparalleled complexity and breadth. … The relationships between the involved entities are tangled and frequently involve many nations, various funds and complicated corporate structures and jurisdictional issues.”

These recovery efforts fall into two main categories: “preferential transfer” claims and “fraudulent transfer” claims. The preferential transfer claims are based on the contention that much of the money withdrawn in the 90 days before federal authorities seized Madoff ’s business was based on insider tips that the axe was about to fall. The numbers tell the story.

“We’re looking at something like $6 billion that went out the door in the 90 days before Madoff ’s company was seized,” said Picard.

For example, in July Picard filed a $44.8 million suit against Madoff ’s wife, Ruth, claiming that in the last two years alone she withdrew a staggering $23.7 million from the company to “support her lavish lifestyle.”

Of course, not all of the recent withdrawals were shady. Some investors were making routine withdrawals to pay taxes, college tuition or medical bills. So it is Picard’s responsibility to determine which of these withdrawals to go after and which to leave alone.

“We’re following the money,” he said.

“One of the things I always marvel at when I do these cases is how much paper these people maintain.”

Picard is also going after the so-called “fraudulent transfers” — returns paid to certain investors that were clearly out of line with what any investor could reasonably expect. These actions don’t require Picard to prove the defendant was a co-conspirator, only that they “knew or should have known” that no legitimate investment could produce the kinds of returns they were receiving.

For example, while most investors were receiving paper “earnings” of 10 to 12 percent, others were reaping profits that were truly extraordinary. Picard filed a $6.7 billion suit against Jeffry Picower

on May 12, claiming the former lawyer, his hedge fund and his philanthropic organization “claimed annual rates of return that were more than 100 percent, with some annual returns as high as 500 percent or even 950 percent per year.”

The complaint alleges that Picower withdrew $12 billion from Madoff ’s firm in 2008, including $6 billion in the 90 days prior to seizure of the business.

He has also set up a hardship program geared toward getting money quickly to the people who were hardest hit by the Madoff scam.

“Picower and the other defendants were among the primary beneficiaries of this scheme, reaping billions of dollars of other people’s money,” Picard said in the complaint.

“There are parents caring for disabled children, elderly people with serious medical problems, people who are potentially losing their homes,” said Picard. “Some retired early because they believed they had a lot of money, then woke up one morning and found out they had nothing. And this is happening at a stage in their lives, especially in this economy, when they’re not going to find a job.”

Picower has filed a motion to dismiss the complaint, a move that indicates this is likely to become protracted litigation.

“I know a lot of people don’t think I stay up at night thinking about them. But I do.”

So far, Picard has recovered $1.25 billion and has filed litigation (including the Picower suit) to recover up to $14 billion more. In addition, he is in separate out-of-court settlement negotiations with a number of other individuals and institutions.

Picard is 68 years old, so this is likely to be the last case of his career of such magnitude, one that could very well define his legacy. What is his ultimate goal in the case?

Another avenue of recovery available to Picard would be to file suit against those individuals and entities he believes actively conspired with Madoff to perpetuate the fraud.

These would be suits against feeder funds that were knowingly funneling clients into the Ponzi scheme in return for preferred treatment.

“To recover as much money for the victims as possible, of course,” he said.

“I would also like to be remembered as a lawyer who was thoughtful, did what he believed was right, did his work to the best of his ability, and had compassion for the victims.” n

As if all this weren’t enough, Picard also managed a massive public information operation geared toward ensuring that everyone who was eligible to file a claim did so by the July 2 deadline, and he continues this operation to keep claimants informed of his progress. In addition to a steady stream of press releases, Picard has held an in-person informational meeting with creditors, established 1,000 phone lines for those who couldn’t attend the meeting, posted a video of the meeting on the Internet, established a toll-free hotline that has fielded more than 6,000 calls, and set up a Web site (www. madofftrustee.com) with up-to-theminute information on his recovery.

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Climbing Above the Culture Clash An Interview With U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke (’75)

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On Aug. 5, 2008, Gary Locke (’75) could be found dashing through the streets of Chengdu, China, carrying the Olympic torch that, in just three days, would launch the 2008 games in Beijing.

Locke is not an athlete. In fact, while growing up in Seattle, his ChineseAmerican parents didn’t allow him to play sports so he’d have more time to

Locke’s stunning career trajectory took another leap forward in March when President Barack Obama chose him to become the 36th U.S. secretary of commerce, entrusting him with a key role in guiding the nation’s economic recovery.

The magnitude of Locke’s journey was driven home to him soon after he

I loved BU Law. It was intellectually “stimulating and I had some great professors.

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devote to his studies. Yet there he was, decked out in a red and white Chinese running uniform, sprinting through the streets of his ancestral homeland as part of a relay that began four months earlier in Olympia, Greece, and traveled 85,000 miles across six continents.

What brought Locke this unusual honor was his unlikely rise from humble roots as the son of immigrant shopkeepers to become the first Asian-American governor in U.S. history. As governor of Washington state, he presided over an economy that is more dependent on foreign trade than any other state in the nation, courting high-level Chinese contacts in his efforts to promote the state’s manufacturing, high-tech and service industries.

When he left office eight years later, he built upon these contacts as a partner in the international practice group at Davis Wright and Tremaine in Seattle.

His diligent efforts were rewarded in July 2006 when he was granted a rare private meeting with Chinese Premier Wen Jibao in Beijing, and again that same year when he convinced Chinese President Hu Jintao to begin his U.S. tour in Washington state.

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was elected governor, when his family made a pilgrimage to their ancestral village of Jilong in southern China.

“It was like stepping back into the 1800s,” said Locke. “We took the hydrofoil from Hong Kong up the Pearl River to our family village, and visited the house my grandfather was born in.

My parents hadn’t been back since they were married 50 years earlier. The house is in a village of 150 people, which is less than a half-mile from a city of 2 million — and there are still no flush toilets.”

This was not the first time Locke had experienced such a cultural jolt. When he was 10 years old, his father took him to Hong Kong to visit his paternal grandmother.

“She was living in a compound that was like a refugee camp on the hillside of Hong Kong,” said Locke. The floors of her six-by-six room were dirt, she slept on a bench and had no plumbing.

“It was a complete culture shock, and I was very homesick for the U.S.,” he recalled. “It helped me appreciate the incredible life I had there.”

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clash. His parents, like many immigrant couples, wanted their children to retain the values and traditions passed down from their ancestors. But this was 1950s America, and cultural conformity was the order of the day.

“We were bombarded by television shows like ‘Father Knows Best’ and ‘The Donna Reed Show,’ where mothers vacuumed the house in high heels and pearls. I had a third-grade teacher who would ask every student what we had for breakfast, and if it wasn’t a traditional American breakfast, we got our hands slapped with a ruler.

[Our family] usually ate a kind of rice porridge with fish and vegetables, so I got my hands slapped a lot.”

As a result, Locke grew up believing he had to choose between being Chinese and being American. It was not until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s that he learned to reconcile the two.

In spite of his adolescent struggles, Locke ultimately fulfilled his parents’ dreams, attending Yale University on scholarship and later graduating from Boston University School of Law. He chose law as a career path believing he would probably work in AsianAmerican legal services after graduation.

“I was in college during the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War protests, and decided that the best way to make change was by using the law rather than burning buildings,” he said. “I loved BU Law. It was intellectually stimulating and I had some great professors. I always tell people that even if you never practice law, a legal education sharpens your analytical skills and critical thinking.”

Locke’s initial plans for his legal career took an unexpected turn after his second year of law school when he won a Rule 9 internship, a Washington state program that allows law students to represent misdemeanor cases. A year later, he landed a job in the Washington District Attorney’s office prosecuting major felonies, including capital murder

cases. His transition into politics was a steady upward climb, from state representative to county executive to the governor’s mansion in 1997.

too. But his most lasting legacy may be his dedication to opening foreign markets for the state’s technology, agriculture and service industries.

As governor, Locke quickly developed a reputation as a “New Democrat”: socially liberal but fiscally conservative.

Calling education “the great equalizer,” he reduced class size and created a scholarship program for workingclass families that reached 15 percent of every graduating class in the state. He also increased funding for public colleges, which increased faculty salaries and enrollment.

These skills, coupled with his reputation as a detail-oriented manager, are what prompted President Obama to make him a part of his economic recovery team.

Germany and Latin America. Many of these restrictions simply deprive the United States of sales and hurt job creation in this country. We should focus on strengthening restrictions on those items that would have a clear impact on national security and loosen the restrictions on those products that are readily sold in other countries.”

As U.S. secretary of commerce, Locke has several short-term goals which, although administrative in nature, will have a long-term impact: conducting an accurate 2010 U.S. Census; cutting the four-year wait for patent approvals to one year; and launching new weather satellites to be operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

He added, “My position is that the U.S. offers China highly valued goods and services that can raise the standard of living in China, while creating jobs in America.

We can export technology for food production, medical care, engineering and education, as well as technologies to reduce the carbon emissions that contribute to global warming.”

Among his top long-term goals is to improve trade relations with China, which he believes will have the added benefit of giving the United States more leverage in influencing Chinese foreign policy and human rights policies. To do this, he would like to loosen several of the trade restrictions that are currently in place.

Locke’s story is a decidedly American one. It is tempting to wonder what his grandfather would think — a man who came to America briefly in the late 1800s to work as a houseboy a mile from the governor’s mansion his grandson would one day inhabit.

Following his historic victory to become governor of Washington in 1997,

When the recession hit following the 9/11 attacks, Locke had to freeze many of these programs; but he emphasizes that he never resorted to laying off teachers, increasing class size or cutting scholarship funding.

“I’m very proud of what we were able to do in tough economic times,” he said.

During that same period Locke instituted a subsidy program for working people who could not get health insurance from their employers, and created a state-run food stamp program when the federal government slashed the national program. He also earmarked $40 million to build housing for migrant farm workers.

I saw the conditions farm workers and “their families lived under and realized that

“I saw the conditions farm workers and their families lived under and realized that they are feeding the United States and the world,” he said. “The conditions reminded me of my grandmother in Hong Kong, and it just didn’t seem right.”

they are feeding the United States and the world. The conditions reminded me of my grandmother in Hong Kong, and it just didn’t seem right.

During his eight years in office, Locke developed a reputation as one of the state’s most business-friendly governors.

Against the odds, he persuaded Boeing, the state’s largest employer, to manufacture its new 787 jetliner in Washington, after the company had put the project out to bid in other states. And he prevented the Seattle Seahawks from pulling up stakes,

“The Chinese recognize that the trade imbalance is unhealthy; they want to buy more U.S. products,” he said. “But there are currently barriers to some of what they want to buy. The National Academy of Sciences has concluded that some of these restrictions are counter to U.S. interests because these items can be easily bought from Canada,

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Locke was fond of saying, “It took my family 100 years to go one mile.”

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BU Law Welcomes New Faculty At the core of any law school is its faculty. BU Law professors are nationally acclaimed for their teaching skills as well as their scholarship, and they are frequently consulted for advice by both the public and private sectors. We are proud to welcome the following two members to our faculty: Stacey L. Dogan and Abigail R. Moncrieff.

Stacey L. Dogan

Abigail R. Moncrieff

Professor Dogan, who joins the BU faculty from Northeastern University School of Law, is a leading scholar in intellectual property law. She has written many articles on the application of trademark and copyright law to the online environment, with a particular emphasis on the role of intermediaries, such as Napster and Google. Her most recent article, co-authored with Mark Lemley of Stanford, considers the role of antitrust law in regulated industries, and contends that antitrust courts have an important role to play in curbing “regulatory games.”

Abigail Moncrieff joins the BU Law faculty from Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics, where she was an academic fellow. While at the Petrie-Flom Center, Professor Moncrieff argued for federalization of medical malpractice policy in an article published in the Columbia Law Review.

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Professor Dogan has presented her research at numerous national and international conferences, and her writings have appeared in publications including the Stanford Law Review, Emory Law Journal, Iowa Law Review, and Texas Law Review.

In the fall of 2008, she became the co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Copyright Society, a peer-reviewed copyright journal. She is also the incoming chair of the intellectual property section of the Association of American Law Schools.

She is an active participant in educational programs with the local bar, leading seminars and discussions for the Boston Bar Association, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education and the Massachusetts Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts. She also has participated in executive training sessions through the Northeastern University high-technology M.B.A. program.

Before Professor Dogan went into teaching, she practiced for several years with the Washington, D.C., law firm of Covington & Burling, where she specialized in trademark, copyright and antitrust law.

She also served as a law clerk to Judge Judith Rogers of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

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Moncrieff ’s academic interests include healthcare law, healthcare law & economics, structural constitutional law, and legislation. In 2002, Professor Moncrieff was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study comparative healthcare policy in Switzerland (one of the only countries in Europe that still relies on private insurance to finance healthcare delivery).

She received her J.D. from the University of Chicago, and clerked on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for Judge Sidney R. Thomas. At BU Law, Professor Moncrieff teaches the first-year legislation course as well as a seminar on healthcare law & the Constitution. In her writing, she continues to tackle structural governmental barriers to efficient healthcare delivery in the United States.

BU recently awarded Prof. Moncrieff the Peter Paul Development Professorship. The award was established in 2006 by a gift from BU alum and trustee Peter Paul to recognize the “very best young faculty” who are within the first two years of their appointments to Boston University. The competition is University-wide; recipients are supported for three years in their research and scholarly pursuits.

Professors Brodley and Baram Announce Retirements We are grateful to Professors Michael Baram and Joseph Brodley for their many contributions to the School and wish them a healthy and happy retirement.

Professor Joseph Brodley, after a long and distinguished career as an antitrust scholar, retired at the end of the Spring 2009 semester. Boston University Law School hosted a symposium honoring Professor Brodley’s contributions to antitrust law on September 18, and the Boston University Law Review will publish the contributions.

Professor Brodley, The Honorable Frank R. Kenison Distinguished Scholar in Law, joined BU Law in 1979 and taught courses in antitrust law and economic regulation. He is recognized internationally for his experience in antitrust issues. In addition to lecturing in the United States and Europe, he has served as a consultant to many organizations including the Federal Trade Commission and the Ford Motor Company, and testified before numerous congressional committees. In 2001, Professor Brodley served as visiting scholar at the Federal Trade Commission and earlier as a visiting fellow at Oxford and Cambridge universities. Professor Brodley served as a member of the Board of Advisors of the American Antitrust Institute in Washington. In addition, he served as interim dean of BU Law and as associate dean for research for many years.

Professor Brodley’s most recent articles are “Predatory Pricing: Strategic Theory and Legal Policy” and “Predatory Pricing: Response to Critique and Further Elaboration,” both published in the Georgetown Law Journal and “Patent Settlement Agreements: Preliminary Views” (with Dean Maureen O’Rourke) in Antitrust Magazine. His work was also published in such journals as Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review and Boston University Law Review.

Professor Michael Baram came to BU Law in 1981 and has taught environmental law, occupational health law, biotechnology law, corporate risk management and products liability. He also held faculty appointments at the School of Public Health and the Bioinformatics Department.

“I am officially retired from BU but will be quite active,” Professor Baram said. He’ll be working with some international colleagues to finish a book on regulating risks of genetically modified agriculture, continuing as a pro bono legal volunteer at the Boston office of the Conservation Law Foundation, and developing environmental and safety regulations for energy projects with a team of experts from Norway. “I’m writing on social control of hazardous technologies,” he added. “It has been my main concern since my days as a professor at MIT many years ago.” More importantly, he said he’ll not only be using the time to enjoy his grandchildren and relax, but to also reflect. “I’m trying to discern what real wisdom I have gained from all the legal and other knowledge I have acquired.”

He was previously a professor and dean at MIT and partner in the Boston law firm of Bracken and Baram. He has provided consulting and legal services to numerous public and private organizations.

His publications include seven books, including Managing Chemical Risks, Safety Management, Alternatives to Regulation and Corporate Disclosure of Environmental Risks. His studies have been published by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, the Administrative Conference of the United States and other organizations, and more than 110 of his articles have been published in legal, professional and academic journals, books and other media including various law reviews, Science, The New York Times, Environmental Health Perspectives and Safety Science Journal.

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Professor Fran Miller is Honored for 40 Years of Dedication to the School The majority of alumni who have passed through BU Law’s doors over the past 40 years have benefited from Professor Frances Miller’s devotion to the School and her enthusiasm for teaching. She reshaped the way health law was taught, shifting our focus from medical malpractice to a more complex exploration of health care organization, finance and delivery.

She was also instrumental in building the University’s health law program, a collaborative effort of the Schools of Law and Public Health. She holds appointments at each of those Schools as well as the School of Management.

Over the past 40 years, most students have learned health law or trusts and estates or both from her. She is widely acclaimed for her substantive expertise, sense of humor and gift for teaching.

In recognition of her outstanding ability, Boston University awarded her its highest honor, the Metcalf Cup and Prize for teaching excellence, in 1989.

Fran, as she is known to most alumni, will retire from Boston University in December. A large number of her former students joined to honor her at an October 23, 2009, dinner during Reunion Week festivities. Many who attended spoke of her zest for knowledge, which has led her to become one of the foremost experts on American health care law and policy, and a specialist on comparative health systems.

In 1993, she served as a consultant to the White House Task Force on Health Care Reform. She was awarded two Fulbright scholarships to research the effects of competition on British health systems, as well as a Kellogg Foundation National Fellowship to study the delivery of healthcare in Europe, Africa, South America, the Middle East and China. Also known for her expertise in trusts and estates, she was a major contributor to and starred in two PBS television series on estate and financial planning in the 1980s.

If you would like to celebrate Fran Miller’s legacy and her contributions to the BU Law community, you may make a donation to the BU Law Annual Fund in her honor by visiting www.bu.edu/law/alumni/giving/gift/franmiller.html

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Over the course of her career, Fran has been a dedicated scholar, writing a book and publishing more than 85 articles and book chapters. She has also served as the faculty editor of the American Journal of Law and Medicine at the School and as a trustee of the Joslin Diabetes Center and of Mount Holyoke College.

The enduring relationships Fran formed with students and alumni, as well as the countless contributions she has made to BU Law, the School of Management, and the School of Public Health, have earned her the community’s deep gratitude and respect.

As to the next chapter of her life (Fran doesn’t use the word retirement), she is looking forward to teaching in Hawaii this spring, writing short stories and spending time with her family. She even plans to teach a trusts and estates class at BU Law next fall, giving our community a little more time to say goodbye. n

School Mourns Passing of Margaret der Hagopian Boston University School of Law mourns the passing of Margaret “Margo” Der Hagopian, who passed away in Winchester on July 22, 2009.

She is survived by her brother Robert Hagopian and her nephew, Andrew Hagopian, and his family. She was 82.

faculty and staff who were fortunate enough to know her. Even after her retirement in 2006, Margo continued to serve the School as its historian, and she never lost touch with those members of the BU Law community about whom she deeply cared.

Her memorial at Marsh Chapel and in the BU Law School was well attended by many who loved her.

“Margo was a rare and delightful person,” said Dean Maureen O’Rourke.

“She nurtured and supported our law students and alumni for more than half a century. Long after she earned a relaxing retirement, she chose to remain a vibrant contributor to the School. Few people have been as dedicated to the School and as loved by faculty, staff, students and alumni.”

“We just want to thank everyone for the wonderful tribute that BU School of Law had for Margo,” said Andrew Hagopian.

“It was wonderful to hear of how she has touched everyone. Margo would be very honored to know the impact she has had on not only the students and faculty but also the history of the school.”

After joining the staff of BU Law 62 years ago in 1947, Margo became the heart and soul of the School through her dedication to excellence and her unwavering kindness to all students,

The daughter of Armenian immigrants, Margo was a lifelong resident of Newburyport. She earned an associate’s degree in commercial science from Boston University’s College of Practical Arts and Letters in 1947. That same

year, she began working in the law school as a secretary to the faculty. She was hardworking and personable, and she was quickly promoted several times, eventually becoming assistant to the dean. In her long relationship with the law school, Margo worked under nine deans. Her meticulous documentation of the School’s history has preserved the chronicle of BU Law for future generations. Almost every corridor of the law school contains framed photos of distinguished alumni, thanks to Margo’s tireless efforts to preserve their stories.

“Margo was a presence not only in the alumni community, but also throughout the entire law school. She was strongly involved in organizing alumni events, and she often attended the board of trustees and the board of visitors meetings,” said Professor Stanley Fisher, who met Margo when he joined the BU Law faculty in 1968.

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Professor Robert Volk (’78) recalled Margo’s dedication. “I first met Margo when I was a student at BU Law, working in the law library. From time to time, I would be sent to the Dean’s Office to make deliveries and run errands for Margo. She seemed to run the law school. When I joined the law school in 1980, first with the Morin Center, and then as director of the Writing Program, I learned that Margo really did run the law school! Her hard work and dedication to the law school cannot be overstated, and we will all miss her.”

of Margo’s since Margo hired her in 1951. “It meant a great deal to her to have that contact with students.

She liked it, and they appreciated it.

They appreciated that someone cared about them enough to stay in touch.

She went out of her way to be nice to them and ask about their families.”

BU Law and Boston University honored Margo many times for her unwavering support. She was the first recipient of the Student Bar Association award honoring outstanding service and contribution to the student body in

was a rare and delightful person,” “saidMargo Dean Maureen O’Rourke. “She nurtured and supported our law students and alumni for more than half a century.

Margo was witness to great transformations at BU Law. She made the move from the School’s former location on Beacon Hill at 11 Ashburton Place to its current site at 765 Commonwealth Avenue.

At the start of her career, BU Law graduated around 90 people each year.

Today, the School graduates nearly 500 J.D. and LL.M. students.

“We’ve become quite a different law school in the years Margo has been here.

And Margo reminds us that we were just a little downtown law school,” said Professor David Seipp, who worked with Margo in her efforts to preserve and document BU Law’s history.

Through all the changes, her dedication to the School’s community never faltered. It was the connections she made over the years that she valued most about her experience at BU Law. “For her, it wasn’t just, ‘Oh, I met you; hello, goodbye,’” said Irene Moustakas, director of Personnel Services at BU Law and a close friend

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1987. Later that year, she received the John S. Perkins Distinguished Service Award. This award is presented annually by the Boston University Faculty Council for those who have “served the University with great distinction and have made important contributions toward the goals of the University.”

In 1988, Margo received the Silver Shingle Award, the highest honor given by the law school, for Distinguished Service to the School of Law. She received the Gerard H. Cohen Award in 1995. At the reception for the latter honor, a description of Margo’s accomplishments stated, “By 1983, she had total responsibility for the operational budget, personnel and payroll, faculty appointments, accreditation reports and countless other administrative duties. She was literally a one-woman administration.” Professor Seipp noted, “We’ve essentially been replacing Margo with whole staffs.”

At the 125th anniversary of Boston University School of Law in 1997, the Annual Alumni Gala was held in honor

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of Margo for her 50 years of service to the School. Margo told BU Today, “I can’t imagine anyone having a better time anywhere than I’ve had here….

I’ve enjoyed my years here so much that they haven’t seemed like work.”

Robert Kent (’49) said in his speech honoring Margo during this event, “It is often said that no one is indispensable.

Maybe so, but this woman came close.”

“The larger part of Margo’s effect has not come from her ability to administer, advise and direct the life of the School,” said then-Dean Ronald A. Cass in a letter announcing the event. “It has been a simple and rare quality: she loves people so readily and fully that we cannot help falling in love with her.”

This seemed especially true for the law students at the School whom Margo cared for long past their graduations.

“I first met Margo 53 years ago when I was a first-year law student,” said Morton Aronson (’59). “She had great empathy and understanding of the trials and tribulations of law students. Margo always went the extra mile to be helpful.”

In many cases, her service to the students is what alumni remember best about their experience at BU Law. “She stayed in touch with graduates throughout the country — and the world, for that matter. To the students, although she never admitted or acknowledged it, she really functioned as the School’s ‘go to’ person. She was the one a student would turn to in the event of a problem or question,” said Paul Sugarman (’54). “Margo is synonymous with the Boston University School of Law.” It was clear that Margo loved the law school, and the School of Law was fortunate to have been her second home for so many years.

“Margo Hagopian is one of a kind,” said Sugarman. “There is no mold, and I doubt that there will ever be another Margo.” n

Q&A with Professors Linda McClain and Katharine Silbaugh Professors Offer Course on Gender, Law & Public Policy This Fall Over the past few decades, the conversation about gender and the law has expanded beyond feminist legal theory to include a much broader discussion of social and political equality across a wide spectrum of situations.

Ending gender discrimination and securing women’s rights has become a priority for some policymakers, including President Obama, who appointed a new White House Council on Women and Girls. An August 17, 2009, article in The New York Times Magazine titled “The Women’s Crusade” asserted that the oppression of women and girls worldwide has become the human rights cause of our time. Family definition, same-sex marriage, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights, black masculinity issues, reproductive rights, freedom from domestic violence, and work-life balance are just a few of the topics encompassed within the broad category of gender today. This past

spring, Professors Linda McClain and Katharine Silbaugh pioneered the new BU Law colloquium “Research on Gender, Law & Public Policy.” The course allowed second- and third-year students at BU Law — along with BU professors and political science graduate students — the opportunity to meet with experts in the field to discuss their works in progress. Using gender as a lens through which to view many different topics in law and policy, Silbaugh and McClain capitalized on the wealth of experts at BU and in the region.

Pnina Lahav. And there was student interest

In structuring the course, McClain and Silbaugh chose to expose students to a range of different methodologies and perspectives, enlisting experts in law, history, political science, social policy and literature who are exploring issues of gender, law and public policy.

Students were asked to examine scholarly work, think critically about it and become familiar with some of the varied approaches scholars may take when examining a topic.

LM: [We hoped to give] students a chance

in bringing in high-level scholars who have developed expertise across different areas that touch on gender.

Linda McClain: I think that a lot of pressing issues of law and policy involve gender in some way. By that, I don’t mean simply questions of women’s basic equality, but also issues about things like family definition, the rights of gay men and lesbians and of transgendered persons, just to name a few.

Q: What did you hope to accomplish with this course?

to see how very significant law and policy issues involve gender questions, and also to give them the chance to meet and interact with leading scholars who make gender a focus of their scholarly work — not just law professors, but also people in some other disciplines as well.

McClain and Silbaugh answer questions about the Gender, Law & Public Policy course, which McClain will teach this fall.

Q: What was your primary motivation for developing an upperlevel course on law and gender?

Kate Silbaugh: We wanted to capitalize on expertise that Linda and I share, as well as [BU Law professors] Kristin Collins and

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KS: The students were happy with it, and I thought it was a great success. We had a great line-up of speakers, and the students worked incredibly hard. They gained

Q: How does this seminar add to someone’s understanding of the law?

LM: Examining the underlying assumptions being made helps people better understand

an understanding of a scholar’s process, something traditional courses can’t deliver.

This is what we had hoped to accomplish.

Q: Who participated in last semester’s course?

the law and policy arguments. For example, one of our speakers, Professor Elizabeth Emens of Columbia University, was looking at how people use arguments about nature, either as a reason why we can’t really change things or as a reason why we have to change

LM: We had 15 students, including one

things. She explored disability, sexual

our colloquium. We will do that again this semester when Professors Anita Allen [of the University of Pennsylvania] and Kim Scheppele [of Princeton] visit BU. Last semester, we had Professor Reva Siegel, a leading legal historian at Yale, present recent work on how opponents of abortion have adopted pro-choice rhetoric about women’s rights to argue that abortion harms women.

[She also presented] a work in progress on recovering the history of the early abortion rights movement.

graduate student in political science. It was

orientation, gender, race and aging. And I

mostly female students, but we had two male

think once students read that paper, it gave

KS: We were trying to make sure that we

students. Any professors who wanted to

them some new tools for thinking about how

invited speakers with a range of different

attend were also welcome; we probably had

people have certain assumptions about what

expertise, so we looked for history, political

anywhere from two to five professors come to

the proper role of law is.

science, social policy and literature, for

each session.

Q: What was the format of the colloquium?

KS: We met with students the week before

Q: Who are some of the outside speakers who have served as experts for this colloquium, and how were they selected?

example. We also wanted a variety of topic coverage, so there were some scholars who spoke about the lives of low-income women, some about reproductive rights, some about marriage, some about disability, some about

the speaker would come, and we would

LM: We tried in the first instance to go with

transgendered issues. … [Wellesley Professor]

talk about the paper that was going to be

some local people. We have a large number

Diana Williams talked about interracial

presented. Students were encouraged to think

of law schools in the Boston area, and we

marriage during the Reconstruction period in

about the author’s decision-making: both

also have some wonderful people here at

New Orleans and the laws addressing it.

decisions about focus, coverage and scope,

the University. We had the dean of the

as well as how the particular paper fit into

College of Arts and Sciences, Gina Sapiro,

the larger research agenda. During class,

[who presented her paper “The Gender

students could engage the speaker about those

Basis of American Social Policy.”] Other

KS: I have taught a Women & Law class and

decisions.

speakers included Harvard Law School

a Women, Work & Families class for many

Professor Jeannie Suk, who analyzed how LM: We would put the work in context, if

years. I have a longstanding interest in the

gender, privacy and the home feature in the

necessary — for example, we would explain

way law perceives women’s roles, and the way

Supreme Court’s Fourth Amendment cases,

its connection to certain gender and law

and Northeastern Professor Martha Davis,

cultural understandings of women’s roles are

debates or issues. We would give students a

who presented her paper “Welfare, Work

chance to discuss the points they raised in

and Education.” We also took advantage of

I have written at length about the way

their weekly reaction papers. If we saw certain

opportunities where a well-known scholar

law captures and fails to capture the value

common themes in the reaction papers, we

was coming to the law school for another

generated by women’s domestic labor. I also

would invite the students to discuss them.

reason and was willing to participate in

have written about the ways urban planning,

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Q: What is your background in the subject area?

reflected in the law.

which is reflected in land use regulation, reflects particular ideas about women in homes as they interact with workplaces. I’ve written about work-family policy generally.

I also just published a book with a colleague

Q: How does the Gender, Law & Public Policy colloquium differ from other gender-related courses at BU Law?

from another law school called The Essentials

LM: Rather than have a whole course devoted

of Family Law.

to a study, say, of feminist legal theory, you’re

LM: I went into law teaching with a strong interest in doing work in gender and law and feminist legal theory. When I started at Hofstra University, I designed the feminist legal theory class. Toward the end of my time at Hofstra, I designed a gender colloquium with a colleague [Joanna Grossman], who

learn? And it changes semester to semester.

This semester we’re going to have a session on rights of women in Islam and Judaism to public prayer. We didn’t really discuss women and religion last time.

really looking at gender as a very big category.

And I think that students also like the

And you are looking at an array of speakers,

opportunity to be able to engage with each

not all of whom may approach the topic from

other in a relatively small class where they

a feminist theory perspective. For example,

are challenged to express their reaction to a

this fall one of our speakers from Suffolk

piece and to try to assess the strengths and

[Frank Rudy Cooper] has done a lot of work

weaknesses of it. In other words, it’s not

on black masculinity. And so he’s going to be

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is the co-editor of my new book, Gender

looking at the recent arrest of Professor Gates

Equality. So I had done it one time before I

through the lens of black masculinity theory.

came to BU.

a lot of law and policy debates, what can we

It’s not a systematic course, where a student

I have always had an interest in gender as a

would go in and come out knowing seven

category of analysis. When I went into law

different schools of feminist thought and

teaching, one of my big goals was to be able

15 current debates among feminists. It’s

to do more with that interest, to write and

more like, if we try to focus on gender and

teach in that area.

how questions of gender are at the heart of

Professor McClain’s latest book, Gender Equality: Dimensions of Women’s Equal Citizenship (Cambridge University Press 2009), looks at the discrepancy between nations’ formal commitments to gender equality and the experiential reality of women’s lives. McClain co-edited the book with a former colleague at Hofstra University, Professor Joanna Grossman.

The book brings together 21 experts from different disciplines to look at gender equality through the lens of citizenship, covering topics ranging from “Stem Cells, Disability and Abortion: A Feminist Approach to Equal Citizenship” to “Gender and Human Rights: Between Morals and Politics.”

Editor’s note: BU Law Professors Kristin Collins, Pnina Lahav, Linda McClain and Katharine Silbaugh each specialize in aspects of gender and the law, along with many other academic interests. McClain will teach this course again in the fall with a new lineup of scholars that includes Collins and Lahav.

The collection of articles covers constitutional citizenship, political citizenship, social citizenship, sexual and reproductive citizenship and global citizenship — all in exploration of the gap between the ideal of gender equality and the current reality, and what it would take for the ideal to be realized.

On October 23, 2009, McClain moderated a panel at the daylong symposium at BU Law, “Courting Change: Legal Perspectives on Contemporary LGBT Issues,” which examined legal issues surrounding LGBT rights.

On October 27, 2009, BU Law hosted a panel on the book, moderated by Professor Pnina Lahav, and a reception. Panelists included BU College of Arts and Sciences Dean Gina Sapiro, BU Women’s Studies Director Diane Balser and Harvard Kennedy School of Government Professor Jane Mansbridge.

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Public Interest Project Celebrating 25 years at BU Law Suffering Kaudwane natives,

more crucial during an uncertain

are eligible for a maximum of $4,000,

disabled war veterans and distraught

economy. Now more than ever,

equal to working 40 hours per week

homeowners are just a few examples

nonprofits providing legal services

for 10 weeks. Recipients report

of the clientele assisted by BU Law

are facing shrinking budgets and

weekly work hours, and are paid each

students. These students are spending

corresponding layoffs. PIP grant

week via grants processed through

their entire summers providing pro bono

recipients are invaluable to these firms.

Boston University’s payroll system.

BU Law alumna Anna Schleelein (’08)

Though sending a weekly timesheet

[see story on Schleelein, page 6] is

to Boston from Africa was a bit of a

But without funding from the law

grateful for the number of PIP grant

hassle for Andrew Novak (’09), he

school, summers spent working

recipients able to assist with her work

describes his Botswana experience as

at nonprofits would be financially

at Boston’s Shelter Legal Services (SLS).

amazing. “I spent most of my time

impossible for many students. Since

Due to limited resources, SLS, which

working on indigenous rights issues

1984, the law school’s Public Interest

provides services to homeless or low-

and Zimbabwean refugee issues,” said

Project (PIP) has raised funds in order

income women and veterans through

Novak, who worked for a grassroots

to allocate grants to BU Law students

onsite clinics throughout Boston, relies

NGO, the Ditshwanelo Botswana

pursuing unpaid public sector work.

on law student volunteers to staff its

Centre for Human Rights in Gaborone.

Now the largest student-run organization

clinics. “We currently have 17 BU Law

on campus, PIP is celebrating its 25th

students who are volunteering with our

anniversary. Over the years, PIP has

organization, which is more than any of

grown into more than just a fundraising

the other Boston-area law schools,” said

organization; it creates opportunities

Schleelein. “Without their assistance,

that bond students with underprivileged

we would not be able to serve nearly

communities throughout the world.

as many clients as we have this year.”

Resources for students working

In 2008, PIP provided grants to more

a 15-member body appointed by the

with nonprofit, public-interest and

than 60 students, nearly one-third of

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

government organizations are even

the law school’s 1L class. All students

The Committee oversees the provision

legal services to clients traditionally underrepresented by the law.

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Life-affirming experiences are in no shortage among past PIP grant recipients.

Margaret Barusch (’09) said her 2007 and 2008 PIP grants jump-started her career. Her PIP grants allowed her to spend her summers working for the Committee for Public Counsel Services,

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of legal representation to indigent persons in criminal and civil court cases and administrative proceedings in which there is a right to counsel.

unique background and creativity.”

With ideas such as book sales, finalsweek moustache contests, and “Men of BU” calendars, PIP students are

donations, such as the dean’s parking spot and dinners with professors. Hefty financial donations from Goodwin Procter, Lexis Nexis, Westlaw and Barbri also help to augment the PIP fund.

“When I entered law school, I knew I

constantly inventing new opportunities

wanted to become a public defender,”

for fundraising. “We do the ‘Beantown

Over the years, PIP has become more

said Barusch. “At the Committee for

Shootout’ basketball game against

than a fundraising organization.

Public Counsel Services, I was able to

Boston College every fall, raise money

For BU Law students and alumni,

spend time in court representing clients,

from our spring and fall phone-a-thons,

the organization’s efforts have led to

visiting clients in local jails, researching

and host events like a private showing

priceless experiences. “From a personal

criminal law issues and writing memos

of the most recent James Bond movie

perspective, working with my clients

and motions. Because of my PIP grant,

at the Fenway cinema,” said Bossi.

was the best part of the summer,”

I was able to work with dozens of fascinating clients, and at the same time get experience that will help me get my dream job as a public defender.”

The organization’s main source of income, however, is its annual auction gala, which draws generous donations from students, faculty, alumni and

said Barusch. “From a professional perspective, the opportunity to sit in on a variety of lawyers’ meetings with clients and witnesses was the best part.”

While many students only apply

the Boston community for both its

In the future, PIP directors hope the

for grants for their 1L summers,

live and silent auctions. While there

organization will not only be a great

grant recipients often stay involved with PIP’s board, helping to raise financial support for the next wave of 1Ls. Almost immediately after the spring semester comes to a close, new board members start working on the upcoming year’s fundraising initiatives.

[PIP’s] assistance, we would not “beWithout able to serve nearly as many clients as we have this year. ” —Anna Schleelein (’08)

“I think the organization has a lot to offer,” said Adrienne Bossi (’10), a

are high-value items like Cape Cod

professional resource, but also a valuable

PIP student director. “I like the idea

getaways and signed movie scripts up

networking opportunity. “We tried

that each year, a new board helps PIP

for bid, the law school’s tight sense of

this year to be more of a social group

evolve a little more. We’re constantly

community and camaraderie is reflected

than just a funding organization,” said

growing with each new board’s

in the most-coveted faculty-themed

Bossi. “I hope that has taken root.”

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Gov. Howard Dean Delivers 2009 Commencement Speech After nearly three decades of political, professional and grassroots involvement, former Vermont Governor and Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean is ready to pass the torch. In his commencement address to BU Law’s Class of 2009, he talked about his years of experience being used as a benchmark for change, and cited the newly minted graduates as an example of what the face of change looks like today.

“You are the first multicultural generation that sees yourselves how you really are, and so the very first thing you do when you’re in your 20s is to elect a multicultural president, which is extraordinary,” said Dean. “We are witnessing a change, a transfer of power to a new generation of Americans.”

And Howard Dean knows change when he sees it. As the longest-serving governor in Vermont history, from 1991 to 2003, as well as a physician, he was the momentum behind the state’s Dr. Dynasaur Program, an initiative that provides near-universal healthcare coverage for pregnant women and children. The program, the first of its kind in the United States, thrust Vermont into the spotlight as a national leader in healthcare. In 2000 he signed

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During his campaign to be nominated as the Democratic Party’s 2004 presidential candidate, Dean used the Internet to gain financial and voter backing. Despite his failed run for the nomination, his grassroots tactics served as a model for future elections. Barack Obama followed Dean’s lead, harnessing technology to galvanize younger voters and to help secure the presidential nomination in 2008.

Despite Dean’s pioneering history, he is quick to attribute the success of the recent election to the graduates in the audience. “My generation could put a million people on the streets of Washington, D.C., but your generation sends a million e-mails to Congress and shuts down the congressional e-mail system for three days. You are smarter and more pragmatic, and you believe in talking to each other,” said Dean. “That is the hallmark of your generation — to set aside the things we fight over and focus on the things we agree on.”

One of the hallmarks of Dean’s career emerged when he became chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and set as a goal the idea to smash the

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long-held belief that traditionally red and blue states could not meet in the middle. With his “50-State Strategy,” Dean aimed to create a Democratic Party presence in Republican strongholds.

Obama’s adaptation of this strategy in the 2008 presidential race earned votes in regions once considered Democratunfriendly.

While comparing the 2008 voter turnout rate to “an earthquake for everybody in my generation and for everybody in the past two or three generations in politics,” Dean was quick to caution that the work is far from over.

“Politics is not all about running for office,” said Dean. “It’s also community organizing, belonging to your community library, working in your church or your synagogue or your mosque to find ways to help less fortunate people have a chance. It is anything that organizes human beings.

We need you to be involved.”

Dean added, “This is an extraordinary country, but democracy is like every other invention of human beings: If you don’t nurture it, it dies. You have changed the culture of America to reflect what America really is. Don’t blow it.” n

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You’re kidding yourself if you think that what you paid in tuition is a fair trade for what you got back,” said Schell. “If you want to have a school the quality of BU Law — and that’s important to me — then you need alumni and parents who are willing to contribute, not just financially but also with their time.

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Michael Schell (’76) talks about giving back When Michael Schell graduated from

time to get some career training that was

Columbia University in 1969 with a

a little more practical than his in-depth

degree in English, he concluded that

knowledge of the Romantic poets. So

he was qualified to do one thing —

Schell enrolled at BU Law, graduated in

teach high school. The problem was he couldn’t find a job.

1976, and eventually became executive vice president for the Alcoa Corporation,

He worked in construction, taught sixth

in charge of the company’s international

grade, and after four years decided it was

business development.

It goes to show what a good law school education can do for a person.

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for what you got back,” said Schell. “If you want to have a school the quality of BU Law — and that’s important to me — then you need alumni and parents who are willing to contribute, not just financially but also with their time.”

country,” he said, noting that the board is made up of “highly successful, intelligent and diverse” graduates of the school.

Throughout Schell’s long and successful career, he has continued to foster strong ties to his law school alma mater. As one of his many contributions, he serves as a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board, an activity he sees both as a way to give back to the school and to enrich his own life.

In addition to his board work, Schell has volunteered his time to help secure graduation speakers, meet with firstyear students to talk about his career, and even teach a class or two along the way. He believes this type of personal participation is an excellent way for alumni to help the current generation of students find their niche in such a wideranging profession.

“Being a lawyer is, among other things, about developing networks around the

“As you get older, you realize that things come to you by dint of hard work and

talent, but also because other people have made sacrifices and contributions,” he said. “All of the selfless contributions from the alumni and board members are what make it possible for BU to continue as one of the top law schools nationally.

If I can be useful by re-contributing some of the benefit that came my way, I believe that it is a good thing to do.”

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Schell Cites BU Law as the Catalyst for His Career Michael Schell’s career trajectory since graduating from BU School of Law in 1976 has been a steady upward flight.

Based on an internship following his first year, Schell landed a position in the corporate law department of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft for two years, moved on to the mergers and acquisitions department at Skadden Arps, and became a partner in 1984.

“Coming out of BU, I found that I was well equipped wherever I went and whatever challenges I had to deal with as a young lawyer,” he said. “I had great teachers, particularly in my first year. Every teacher I had that year made an enormous intellectual impact on me. They showed me a new way to think about things and approach problems that I still use to this day.”

After 19 years as a Wall Street lawyer, Schell decided to try his hand at investment banking, serving as vice chairman of Global Banking for Citigroup. Last year Alcoa, one of his long-term clients at Skadden Arps, persuaded him to come aboard to run the aluminum giant’s business development efforts.

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“My job is to survey industries worldwide to identify business opportunities for Alcoa,” said Schell. The scope of his search is enormous, since aluminum is used in a wide range of items, from commercial airplane wings and armored personnel carriers for the military to automobile engines and litho plates for printing newspapers and magazines — and of course, the production of beverage cans.

With the recent economic downturn, much of Schell’s efforts have focused on improving the efficiency and environmental sustainability of aluminum production. He noted that it takes a great deal of energy to extract aluminum from the ground and refine it into a useable form.

“Because a large chunk of the industry is energy, we have to face up to the whole carbon footprint issue,” he said. “A large part of my business development efforts is looking for green energy opportunities. The cleanest source of energy is hydroelectric, and we have a number of smelters around the world that run on hydro. The newest one is in Iceland. We are also investing in substantial hydro operations in Greenland, Brazil and Western China.”

BU Law Honors 2009 Silver Shingle Award Winners 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 is presented to a Boston University School of Law administrative staff member, the “Gerard H. Cohen Award for Distinguished Service to the School.” In celebration of these accomplished individuals, Boston University School of Law is proud to announce the 2009 recipients of the Silver Shingle and Gerard H. Cohen awards.

Cheryl Constantine The Gerard H. Cohen Award for Distinguished Service to the School

Trujillo is also on the board of directors of the Hispanic-American

Cheryl Constantine joined BU Law in 1996 as the assistant director

Prior to coming to the United States, the Venezuelan native worked

of financial aid, and in 2001 was promoted to associate director.

in corporate and banking law for a private law firm, but also

Constantine is active in state, regional and national financial

volunteered her time as a legal counselor in government and nonprofit

aid associations, including as a member of the Graduate and

organizations, focusing her efforts on abandoned and abused children.

Professional Concerns Committee for both the state and eastern

In 1999, Trujillo received her law degree at Universidad Católica

regional associations. On the state level she served as co-chair for this

Andrés Bello in Venezuela and her LL.M. in banking and financial law

committee. In 2009, she was elected to the executive council for the

from BU Law in 2001. She is pursuing a Master’s Degree in finance

Massachusetts Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.

and economics at Boston University.

Chamber of Commerce and the advisory board of Veritas Bank (the first Latino bank of New England).

Prior to BU Law, Constantine worked for Knight College Resource Group (now Key Education Resources, a division of Key Bank), an education loan provider. She spent five years at Knight, becoming the supervisor for the department that originated the federal and private loans for medical and dental students. Constantine received her B.A.

Jacqueline Jacobs Caster (’83) For Distinguished Service to the Community Jacqueline Jacobs Caster is the founder and president of the Everychild

from Trinity College and her M.P.A. from Suffolk University.

Foundation, a women’s nonprofit organization dedicated to combating

Carolina Trujillo (’01) Young Lawyer’s Chair

Angeles area. This organization is comprised of approximately 200

childhood disease, abuse, neglect, poverty and disability in the Los Los Angeles–based women who, in lieu of fundraisers, each annually donate $5,000 in dues. With this money, the organization makes a

Carolina Trujillo serves as the director of homeownership counseling

single $1 million community grant each year to a project serving a

for the Neighborhood of Affordable Housing (NOAH), located

critical unmet need of local children.

in East Boston. NOAH is a community development corporation structured to collaborate with and support residents and communities

In 2004, the Association of Fundraising Professionals selected

in their pursuit of affordable housing strategies, environmental

Everychild Foundation as the Outstanding Private Foundation in Los

justice, community planning, leadership development and economic

Angeles. To date, Everychild Foundation has served as the template

development opportunities. At NOAH, she teaches first-time

for at least six new charitable groups in the United States. Prior to

homebuyer classes and works individually with customers in the

founding the nonprofit, Caster practiced real estate law with Loeb

areas of credit, financial fitness and mortgage counseling. In 2007,

& Loeb in Los Angeles in the mid-1980s, and later left the field of

she started a foreclosure prevention unit that helped more than 700

law for a career in urban redevelopment. After several years with

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Howard Zhang (’93) For Distinguished Service to the Profession Howard Zhang is a resident partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell’s Beijing office and a member of the firm’s corporate department.

Zhang represents leading private equity firms, venture capital funds, investment banks, multinational companies and entrepreneurial growth companies in complex cross-border transactions and financing activities. He focuses on mergers and acquisitions, including private equity portfolio investments, buyouts, joint ventures and strategic investment transactions. He is listed in many legal industry Dean Maureen O’Rourke, Jacqueline Jacobs Caster (’83), Howard Zhang (’93), Carolina Trujillo (’01), Thomas Farrell (’91) and Cheryl Constantine

publications, including The Legal Media Group: Guide to the World’s Leading Private Equity Lawyers; Practical Law Company’s Cross-border Private Equity Handbook; International Who’s Who of Professionals; and,

for more than a decade, performing economic feasibility studies for large-scale urban renovation and cultural projects. Caster was given the Humanitarian Award for three organizations: First Star in 2004, The Optimist Youth Home in 2005, and Shane’s Inspiration in 2006.

She was also named Santa Monica/Westside YWCA Woman of the Year for 2005. Caster received her B.A. from Pomona College, her master’s in city and regional planning from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and her J.D. from BU Law.

Thomas Farrell (’91) For Distinguished Service to the School Thomas Farrell has served for more than 14 years as a member of the BU Law Alumni Association’s Executive Committee, including a term as its president. He also helped found the Law Student Ethics Awards Initiative, which is now entering its fifth year. The Initiative honors students from 11 area law schools for their exceptional commitment to ethics. Farrell remains active in helping Boston University School of Management develop and market an innovative executive business education training program for lawyers. He received the 2007 Corporate Counsel Excellence Award from the area’s in-house bar, and served as a member of the board of editors of New England In-House, an affiliate of Lawyers Weekly. He regularly meets with and assists younger lawyers who are in transition or considering a professional change.

Farrell is the founder and principal of Farrell & Associates, PC, a solo practice law firm specializing in corporate transactional work.

Since its founding in 2006, he has handled more than $400 million in transactions. Previously, he was associate general counsel of Tyco International, where he served under Tyco’s new management as co-lead attorney of the company’s merger, acquisition and divestiture function, and had served as the deputy general counsel of SimplexGrinnell, a Tyco operating company. Farrell received his B.A. from Middlebury College and his J.D. from BU Law.

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as a leading lawyer in corporate finance, AsiaLaw (2004). He is also a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board at BU Law. Zhang graduated from Shanghai International Studies University in 1981, and in 1982 received his post-graduate certificate from the United Nations Training Course at Beijing Foreign Studies University. In 1993, he received his J.D. from BU Law, where he was a recipient of the American Jurisprudence Award and the topics editor of the Boston University International Law Journal.

Alan R. Stern (’09) For Distinguished Service to the School Alan Stern entered BU Law in the fall of 2006 with a B.A. from New York University, graduating on the Dean’s List and magna cum laude. He gained experience at the Brooklyn Legal Aid Society, where he assisted victims of domestic violence, as an aide to New York State Assemblyman Thomas DiNapoli, and at the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office.

After his first year at BU Law, Stern was designated a G. Joseph Tauro Scholar, a recognition given to the top 10 percent of his section. As a tribute to his exemplary work and dedication, he earned membership on the Review of Banking and Financial Law, and he was elected to serve as an articles editor. In the summer of 2007, he was selected as a judicial intern for the Honorable Michael Dolinger, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

BU Law professors said that Stern stood out with his love of learning, breadth of interests and valuable contributions to class discussions. His academic achievement and his devotion to friends and service were all the more remarkable given his struggle with illness. Stern temporarily left school to deal with his illness, but he stayed in touch with the BU Law community.

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J.D. Program

the Champion of Indigent Defense Award from

Pamela Rehlen and her husband live in

the National Association of Criminal Defense

Castleton, Vt., where they own and manage

1951

Lawyers (NACDL).

several businesses, including the Castleton

Marion R. Fremont-Smith received the

1963

Vanguard/Lifetime Achievement Award for distinguished lifetime achievement in the nonprofit sector from the Nonprofit Organizations Committee of the American Bar Association Section of Business Law.

Village Store, the Benson Village Store, the Birdseye Diner, the Castleton Pizza Place and

Theodore Carter was appointed to the

Deli, and the Blue Cat Bistro. She’s just finished

international projects advisory board for the

a book, The Blue Cat and the River’s Song.

National Center for State Courts in Arlington, Va.

1969

1965

Norm Gross’ second edition of America’s

1958

Frank N. Fleischer was named in Super Lawyer’s

Lawyer-Presidents: From Law Office to Oval Office,

Bernard Fielding is in South Carolina, where

2009 “Florida Super Lawyer” list.

he lives with his wife and has practiced law for

Martin Lobel was appointed by Maryland

51 years. He has served as general counsel for the South Carolina Morticians Association, the National Funeral Directors and Morticians Association, and the National Hampton Alumni Association.

Governor O’Malley to the Maryland Business Tax Reform Commission. Lobel’s article “What next, after outrage?” was published by www.

NiemanWatchDog.org; “Territorial Taxation:

was published by Northwestern University Press. He lives in Sedona, Ariz.

1970 Alan Parness, counsel to Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, was installed as the chair of the Committee on State Regulation of

An Invitation to Tax Avoidance and Evasion”

Securities of the American Bar Association’s

1959

appeared in Tax Notes.

Section of Business Law. He has been with

Mort Aronson, at Federal & Hasson and

D.M. Moschos was named chair of the

Cadwalader since 1973.

adjunct professor at Emory University Law

Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce.

Richard Soden received the American Bar

School, received the American Association of Franchising and Dealers Total Quality Franchising Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Neil Sugarman, principal of Sugarman & Sugarman, received the American Bar Association Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section’s Pursuit of Justice Award.

1961 Judge Armand Arabian was appointed the commissioner of the Industrial Development

1968

Association’s Spirit of Excellence Award.

1971 Jay D. Roth was awarded the French Legion of Honor by President Nicolas Sarkozy for his work creating and promoting the Franco American Cultural Fund (FACF).

Authority Board of Los Angeles.

Helen Gillmor is chief judge of the District Court

1962

her husband, John Gillmor (’68). John Gillmor

Edward McCarthy published The Malpractice Cure:

is employed by the state Attorney General’s

How to Avoid the Legal Mistakes that Doctors Make.

Office, concentrating in land matters.

Robert L. Spangenberg joined George Mason

Jordan Krasnow, a director at Goulston

University as research professor, and founded

& Storrs, received the Robert S. Swain Jr.

1973

The Spangenberg Project at the school’s Center

Distinguished Service Award at the Real Estate

Clark Evans Downs retired from Jones Day,

for Justice, Law and Society. He also received

Finance Association’s annual gala in October.

where he practiced energy law for more than

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1972 Judith Koffler received her second Fulbright Award, and is a faculty member at the University of Botswana in Gaborone.

20 years, and is now a middler at Yale Divinity

Katherine Hess received the Excellence in

Stephen Keller recently passed the 20-year

School, due for his master’s in May.

Leadership Award from the Woodward School

mark with the National Treasury Employees

for Girls in Quincy.

Union, where he is senior counsel for

Robert Holloway Jr., shareholder and president of MacLean, Holloway, Doherty, Ardiff & Morse PC, was elected treasurer of the Massachusetts

1978

compensation negotiations.

Bar Association for the 2009–2010 year.

Gary Bockweg, chief of the Office of Court

1983:

Administration Technology, led an effort

Steven Fischbach has held public interest

Michael Kreidman has been practicing solo for

to design, develop and implement a case

positions at Rhode Island Legal Services, where

management/electronic case files system to be

he has worked on a variety of racial justice

implemented at all federal courts.

issues. Last spring he accompanied a group

more than 15 years in Manhattan, specializing in sports-related and entertainment transactional work.

1974 Claudia Damon, of the Manchester, N.H., firm McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton PA was

of law students from BU to New Orleans, and

1979 Lois Herzeca joined Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP as partner.

selected by the N.H. Bar Foundation as a 2009

Robert W. Lavoie, of Devine Millimet in

honorary fellow. She was commended for

Andover, was reappointed to a second term

her outstanding commitment during the two

on the Massachusetts Access to Justice

five-year terms she served (1998–2008) on its

Commission.

IOLTA Grants Committee.

Craig D. Mills, a partner at Nixon Peabody LLP,

Judge Shelvin Louise Marie Hall of the Illinois

was recently recognized in the 2009 edition

First District Appellate Court, First Division,

of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for

received the 2009 Liberty Achievement Award

Business.

from the American Bar Association’s Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section.

1980

Steven W. Hanscom joined the Pen Bay

Bonnie Glatzer joined Nixon Peabody LLP as

Healthcare Board of Trustees.

partner in the Labor & Employment Division.

Emily S. Starr, of Ciota, Starr & Vander Linden

H. Peter Haveles Jr. joined Kaye Scholer LLP as

LLP, received an MCLE Scholar-Mentor Award.

partner.

1975

Douglas Humes is in solo practice doing real

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

Meg Cheever received the Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania Award for her

estate, small business and estate planning in Bryn Mawr, Pa. He writes for his local retirement community newsletter, is president of the local historical society, and is involved in the affairs of his Quaker Meeting.

has supervised other BU Law students working on appeals of rental assistance benefits from FEMA. Robert Khuzami joined the Securities and Exchange Commission as director of the Division of Enforcement.

David Kratz was appointed president of the New York Academy of Arts.

1984 Michael D. Fricklas, executive vice president and general counsel of Viacom, was honored with the World Recognition of Distinguished General Counsel Award.

Robert Whitney joined White and Williams LLP’s Boston office as counsel in the commercial litigation department, and as member of the insurance coverage and bad faith practice group.

Gregory Woodworth was named general counsel of National Life Group.

1985 Ricardo Casellas is a named partner in the eightlawyer commercial litigation boutique of Casellas

Daniel Kimmel celebrated 25 years as a

Alcover & Burgos PSC, and president of the Puerto

professional film critic with the publication of

Rico Chapter of the Federal Bar Association.

Philip J. Moss, of Fisher & Philips’ office in

his fourth book, I’ll Have What She’s Having:

Portland, Maine, was named in The Best Lawyers

Behind the Scenes of the Great Romantic Comedies.

Thomas Cohn is of counsel to the Venable LLP

in America 2010.

He writes for the Worcester Telegram, the

Michael Oestreicher was elected chair of the

Gazette, the Jewish Advocate, Variety, and the

dedication to the Pittsburgh-area parks.

Cincinnati State Board of Trustees.

Internet Review of Science Fiction. He also teaches

1976

David Szabo was appointed to the

Charles “Chip” Babcock, partner at Jackson Walker LLP, was named in The Best Lawyers in America 2010.

film at Suffolk University.

Massachusetts Health Information Technology Council.

New York office.

Benjamin Feder joined Kelly Drye as bankruptcy and restructuring special counsel.

1986 Gregory Chafee is of counsel to Morris, Manning & Martin LLP. James C. Fox was named president of the Northeast Chapter of the Turnaround

Carolyn Jacoby Gabbay, a partner at Nixon

1982

Peabody LLP in Massachusetts, was recognized

Timothy S. Hollister of Shipman & Goodwin in

in the 2009 edition of Chambers USA: America’s

West Hartford, Conn., will be featured in The

Eileen F. Morrison was elected president of

Leading Lawyers for Business.

Best Lawyers in America 2010.

the board at The Second Step, which provides

Management Association.

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services for survivors of domestic violence and

Steven Meyer became board-certified in

their children.

business litigation by the Florida Bar. He is also board-certified as a civil trial advocate by the

William Rogers joined Day Pitney LLP as

National Board of Trial Advocacy. He is a sole

partner.

Eric Werner joined Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP.

counsel of EMD Serono, was chosen as one of

Legislative Affairs Team.

Melanie Jacobs was awarded tenure at MSU

1990

Shanghai and Beijing and lectured at Fudan

president, general counsel and director of

Thomas Gunning, vice president and general

Jay Heimbach joined President Obama’s

practitioner in Boca Raton.

Richard Fabian was promoted to senior vice

1987

1994

litigation at RiverStone Resources.

College of Law. She also spent three weeks in University in Shanghai. While in China, her boyfriend, Shane Broyles, proposed to her while they were at the Great Wall. They will marry March 14 in New York City.

PharmaVOICE Magazine’s 100 most inspiring

1989

leaders of 2009.

Ted Lustig was named partner at Seyfarth Shaw

Dan Offner was selected to lead Nixon Peabody

LLP.

LLP’s newly launched intellectual property

Kenneth Parsigian, a partner in Goodwin Procter’s litigation department and chair of its pro bono committee, was honored by the American Bar Association with the John Minor

transactions group.

1991

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

Edward J. Kelly joined the firm of United

Rothschild LLP in Roseland, N.J., was named in

Award.

Trademark & Patent Services as its chief

the 2009 “40 Under 40” list by New Jersey Law

international operations officer.

Journal.

1988

Anu Mullikin (’96 Tax, ’91 J.D.), of Devine,

Douglas S. Brown, senior vice president

Greg Ewing published “Court Awards

Millimet & Branch PA in Manchester, N.H.,

and general counsel of UMass Memorial

$400,000 to Patient for Physician’s Refusal

was elected by The New Hampshire Charitable

Healthcare, received the Outstanding In-House

to Provide Sign Language Interpreter” in the

Foundation to its statewide board of directors.

May 2009 Healthcare Litigation and Liability, a

Wisdom Public Service and Professionalism

Counsel Award for distinguished service as an attorney employed in a legal role at a nonprofit organization from the Nonprofit Organizations Committee of the American Bar Association Section of Business Law.

Lizette Pérez-Deisboeck has joined Battery Ventures, a venture capital and private equity

Annapoorni Sankaran, a shareholder in the

innovation worldwide, as general counsel in the

Boston office of the international law firm

firm’s Waltham office.

Greenberg Traurig LLP, was honored with the

Practice, 2d, a guide on taking and perfecting

1992

an appeal in New York state. She has served

Michael Dana Rosen joined Boston firm

Division, First Judicial Department since 1990.

Ilan S. Nissan was named O’Melveny & Myers LLP’s M&A practice group co-chair.

Jeffrey Skerry practices in a small Boston office representing small businesses, lenders, trusts and individuals.

Steven Slutsky has spent more than a decade advising boards of directors and C-suite executives on executive and directors’ compensation.

Susan Stenger is a partner at Burns & Levinson LLP in Boston, which covers appellate practice,

Ruberto, Israel & Weiner as a shareholder.

1993 Sarah (Clark) Baskin practices employment and employee benefits litigation with the law firm Jackson Lewis LLP. Patricia Dilley received the Rockefeller Innovation Award for her proposals on Social Security.

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David Runck was named partner at Fafinski Mark & Johnson PA, a Minnesota-based law firm.

Joe Salama runs his own mediation practice, specializing in facilitative mediation. He was television in San Jose, and does speaking

Networks International.

engagements on mediation and conflict

David P. Spada married Claudia DiNitto in

Elaine Waterhouse Wilson, partner at Quarles

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community at large.

recently featured on Comcast community

1989

Commission’s Office of the General Counsel.

for her promotion of diversity within the law

of International Communications of Discovery

Positano, Italy; they live in Auburndale, and are

the appellate group of the Securities and Exchange

AD Club of Boston’s Rosoff Mentor Award

Chance Patterson was appointed vice president

probate litigation and entertainment litigation.

Michael Conley was named the deputy solicitor in

Association.

firm focused on investing in technology and

Risa (Kane) Gold wrote New York Civil Appellate

as a principal court attorney at the Appellate

publication of the American Health Lawyers

expecting their first child.

& Brady LLP in Chicago, was named in The Best Lawyers in America 2010.

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management throughout Northern California.

1997 Christopher Joralemon joined Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP as partner.

Liana Moore was named in the 2009 “40 Under 40” list by the Worcester Business Journal Online.

1998 Kimberly Atkins received her Master’s Degree

Oral Katz was named partner at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter and Hampton LLP.

in journalism from Columbia University, and

Ethan Kominsky was elected to the board of

is a journalist in the Washington, D.C., bureau

directors of the Palm Beach County Justice

of Lawyers USA, where she covers the U.S.

Association, of which he has been a member for

Supreme Court, Congress and federal agencies.

more than three years.

Benjamin Bejar and Mary (Osterbauer) Bejar recently celebrated their 7th wedding anniversary. Benjamin is assistant county

2002 Kathryn Colson joined TitleVest as managing

attorney with the Rice County Attorney’s Office

director of business development.

in Faribault, Minn. Mary continues her legal

Taruna Garg, an associate at Murtha Cullina

consulting work from home while caring for their three boys: Jacob, Samuel and their newest addition, Maxwell Eliot.

Gregory Iskander is with Littler Mendelson in California, where in addition to employment discrimination and wage and hour litigation, Greg continues to focus on privacy and information security, as well as corporate and government investigations.

Erica McCregor was named counsel at Tucker Ellis & West LLP in the firm’s Cleveland office.

Jung H. Park was promoted to partner at Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley, a Redwood City, Calif., firm.

LLP, was named 2009 “Unsung Heroine for Brookline” by the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women.

Ruth Miller is with the Drug Enforcement Administration, USDOJ, in Arlington, Va., as

2008 Tal Dibner was named business group associate at Bowditch Dewey LLP.

American Law Program 1999 Pascal Marmier has been appointed director and consul of Swissnex in Boston.

2000 Ping Chiang is with NVIDIA Corporation in Taipei.

attorney in the Diversion and Regulatory Policy

2001

Section, Office of Chief Counsel. She married

Stephanie Chalberg and her husband, Tom,

Stephen Clermont last year in a celebration

welcomed Annika.

joined by Ruth’s classmates Laura Maechtlen and Kathleen Romanow.

Chen Chi Huang is in Taipei with L&P Attorneysat-Law.

2003

Cynthia Kalathas is head of the New York

John J. Quick, an associate of the law firm

representative office of Arendt & Medernach

of Weiss Serota Helfman Pastoriza Cole &

LLC.

Boniske P.L. in Miami, was selected for the

Tobias Wintermantel and his wife, Aila,

William L. Ryan was named in New Jersey

second consecutive year as a “Top Up and

Monthly’s 2008 “Super Lawyers and Rising

Comer” in Florida Trend’s annual “Legal Elite”

Stars” list. Ryan, a partner in the Haddonfield,

publication. He was also appointed chair of

N.J., office of Archer & Greiner PC, was

the Historical Museum of Southern Florida’s

recognized in the practice area of construction

young professional group, the Tropical Pioneers

litigation.

(Tropees).

1999

2004

Joshua Bish was named partner at Reed Smith LLP.

Brandy Karl and Tom O’Grady welcomed

welcomed Julias Gerhard. Tobias is an associate with Allen & Overy in Frankfurt.

2002 Vera Caimo is an associate with Claeys & Engels in Brussels.

Juliana Calil was promoted to attorney in the Internet group at Disney, where she will work

Allegra Faye O’Grady in Santa Clara, Calif.

with the U.S. technology and international

Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP.

2005

Douglas Marrano was named partner at

Divya George is with the legal department at

Dana R. Bucin was named in the “Hartford 40

Donovan Hatem LLP in Boston and New York

AT&T.

Under 40” list by the Hartford Business Journal.

Eric Hurwitz was named partner at Stradley

City, and is relocating to New York to become resident partner. New England Super Lawyers &

2006

Rising Stars Magazine named him to its 2008

Dena D. Fazio, an associate at Hinckley,

“New England Rising Stars” list.

Allen & Snyder LLP, earned the U.S. Green

David Morris is group corporate counsel at

Building Council’s LEED (Leadership in Energy

TripAdvisor LLC in Newton.

Courtney Worcester was elected of counsel at Pepper Hamilton.

2000 Aaron Adams was named partner at Barnes & Thornburg.

and Environmental Design) professional accreditation.

teams.

Julio Quiroga is president of his own sports business company in Buenos Aires, TMC (Talent Management Co. S.A.). He and his wife, Magdalena, welcomed Belisario.

2003 David Quinke is an associate with Gleiss Lutz in Stuttgart.

2007

Veronica Rojas is litigation coordinator with

Shane Kiggen (Tax ’08, J.D. ’07) is in Ernst &

Knoblock & Coxhead in Miami and has begun

Young’s transaction advisory services in Boston.

her M.B.A. studies in international business.

Daniela Stagel is living in Duesseldorf and is

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with the intellectual property department of

global private equity firm Advent International.

affiliated with Patrimonio Hoy, a microfinance

Lovells.

The transaction marks the first Dominican

firm geared for home improvement for very low-

leveraged buyout and the largest Caribbean

income families.

Minoru Takana is a senior manager with the intellectual property alliance & licensing

infrastructure financing in recent years.

department and intellectual property division

Thanarak Naowarat is a presiding judge of the

of Sony.

Central Intellectual Property and International Trade Court in Thailand.

2004 Natasha Aljalian welcomed Gabriel. She is

Shizuka Sayama welcomed a baby daughter.

an associate in Goodwin Procter’s litigation

Florian von Eyb and his wife, Stephanie,

department.

celebrated their wedding last year.

Yuan-Yi Fang returned to Taiwan and is

2008

assistant professor of law at Aletheia University.

Joachim Knoll is partner at dispute resolution firm Brown & Page in Geneva.

Andrea Armelin da Cunha is the Angola project coordinator at the World Bank.

1991 Andres Lapadula (Caracas, Venezuela) won LatinLawyer’s Deal of the Year 2008 Award for the restructuring of the Orinoco oil projects. He also led the team that represented Venezolano de Credito S.A., Banco Universal, Venezuelan trustee in the refinancing of the HAMACA (PDVSA, Chevron and ConocoPhillips) and SINCOR (PDVSA, French oil company Total, and Norway’s StatoilHydro) heavy oil projects in the Orinoco belt.

Georgios Kazas is an associate attorney at

1994

Caroline Ming is with International Legal

Zisis Constantinou and Partners, specializing in

Counsel at SGS Group in Geneva.

criminal law.

Dave Morganelli was appointed chair of the

2005

Mayalen Lacabarats is at Dechert LLP in Paris.

Island Society of CPAs. Dave chairs the tax

Eiji Hagio is an advisor with the investment

Sara Mahboob is a project/research manager for the Center for Economic Research in

Providence. He is a member of the Alumni

management & advisory group of Tokyo Electric Power Company. He and his new fiancée plan to

Pakistan.

marry by year’s end.

Francesco Spreafico and his wife, Manú, were

federal and state tax committee of the Rhode practice at Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP in Association Board of Governors of Providence College and is chairman of the Town of Milford Finance Committee.

Makiko Harigai is with Cisco Systems Japan in

married last year and are in New York, where he

Tokyo.

is at Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP.

Pauline Loiseleur des Longchamps is an intern

Sawako Yasuda is in-house counsel at Daikin

with Veolia in Milwaukee.

Industries.

Giorgio Recine is a partner with Agnoli Bernardi

Helen Yost and her husband, Bill, welcomed

securities and corporate legal practice since

and Associati in Milan.

Edward James.

1992. He is a member of the Policy & Economics

Joerg Struempe is at Quinn Emanuel LLP in

Xiaoxiao Zhou is an associate with Fangda

Silicon Valley.

Partners.

2006 Mathilde Cabanettes is junior in-house counsel for Atos Origin, a French software and computing services company.

1995 Paul Johnson was appointed a member of the board of directors of American Capital Partners.

Paul has conducted a national and international

Council of Gerson Lehrman Group, an investment research firm.

Carolina Rossini received a grant from the

1997

Open Society Institute for strategy building and

Michael Spivey is vice president of global

awareness-raising related to open educational

compliance for Wal-Mart International. Since

resources in Brazil. She is with the Harvard

joining Wal-Mart in 2003, he has advised

Berkman Center and FGV Law School in Sao Paolo.

multiple business segments, including serving as Patriot Act compliance officer.

Santiago Lynch and his family welcomed Gonzalo.

1998

Xun Feng and his wife, Wei-Wu, welcomed Nancy.

Graduate Program in Banking and Financial Law

Qiqi Huang and her husband are living in

1989

mergers and acquisitions. He is featured in The

Stefan Rath is with Bank Vontobel in Munich.

2007

Chicago and welcomed Nelson.

Ricardo Charvel has worked for the past four

Vera Martinez was mentioned in October’s

years for CEMEX in Monterrey, Mexico, as VP

LatinLawyer. Vera was one of the lawyers who

of institutional relations and communication

negotiated the acquisition of Aeropuertos

in Mexico, responsible for government affairs,

Dominicanos Siglo XXI S.A. (Aerodom), for the

community relations, media relations and corporate social responsibility. He is also

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Ramiro Barbosa launched a law firm, Barbosa Abogados, in Buenos Aires, where his main practice areas are banking and financial law, loan restructuring, capital markets and International Who’s Who of Banking Lawyers.

1999 Ricardo Calderon became partner of Ritch Mueller, SC. Andrew Morganti is with Sutts Strosberg LLP

and will open the Toronto office. He continues

Romuald Kpade of Rhode Island is practicing at

to practice capital markets and shareholders’

Citizens Financial Group.

rights litigation.

intellectual property law.

Barbara Lauriat is the career development

Carlos Mainero Ruiz is practicing at White and

fellow in intellectual property law at St.

2004

Case in New York.

Catherine’s College, Oxford. She is working

Petros Fatouros and his law firm, Fatouros

Bernardo Massella of Rome is practicing at

Lampropoulos & Associates, organized an

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton.

economic forum “The Young Generation and the Global Economic Crisis” at the HellenicAmerican School of Athens College in May.

2005 and 2007 Ernesto Bournigal (’05) and Vitelio Mejia (’07) also negotiated the acquisition of Aeropuertos Dominicanos Siglo XXI S.A. (Aerodom), for the

Beatriz Spiess of Buenos Aires is practicing at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton.

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global private equity firm Advent International.

1973

The transaction marks the first Dominican

Robert Barr is the executive director of the

leveraged buyout and the largest Caribbean infrastructure financing in recent years. They were also mentioned in October’s LatinLawyer.

2006 Samuel Mirkin is practicing exclusively in the

Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at the University of California–Berkeley School of Law. Barr joined the Board of Directors for ThinkFire,

a dissertation focusing on the 1878 Royal Commission on Copyright. At Oxford Law, she teaches IP law and trademark and copyright law.

2005 Brandon Ress is in the trademark practice at Fulbright & Jaworski in Austin, working on trademarks, trade secrets and occasional copyright projects.

Graduate Tax Program

an intellectual property advisory, brokerage and

1978

licensing firm. The UC Berkeley School of Law

Alan S. Goldberg was appointed by the

recently created a scholarship in his honor.

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the

distressed-debt trading group at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP.

1982

Antoine Narmino founded a legal advisor

Eileen Herlihy is an associate professor of law

office in Monaco, Branado Consulting, with two

toward a doctorate in the law faculty with

at New England Law Boston, where she teaches

Commonwealth of Virginia to the Commonwealth of Virginia Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Board for a three-year term.

patent law, current issues in patent law, and

1985

Property.

property, and is co-director of the school’s

Michael Cooper is a partner at Looper, Reed &

Intellectual Property Institute. She is co-chair of

McGraw in Dallas.

2008

the Intellectual Property Litigation Committee

partners, and also founded Monaco Intellectual

Daniel Alarcon is in Colombia working in the Ministry of Finance, in charge of developing regulations for the Colombian microfinance industry.

Colin Darke joined the debtor-creditor rights

of the Boston Bar Association. She recently

1996

published her paper “Appellate Review of Patent

Anu Mullikin, see 1991 J.D. notes.

Claim Construction: Should the Federal Circuit Be Its Own Lexicographer In Matters Related to The Seventh Amendment?” in the Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review.

& bankruptcy group of the Detroit law firm Bodman LLP. The Norton Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice 17, no. 3, published Darke’s article, “What Is In a Trustee’s Arsenal for Objecting to Proofs of Claim? An Analysis of In re Kirkland.”

2009

1999 Val Gurvits is a corporate attorney and founding partner of the Boston Law Group LLP. His practice focuses on software, including software license negotiation, copyrights and trade-secret protection. He teaches e-commerce law at BU Law as a lecturer.

Roy Dias of Miami is practicing at Diaz Rues LLP.

2004

Cristián Casanova Dominguez of Santiago is

Brandy Karl is a residential fellow at Stanford

practicing at Carey and Allende.

Hung-Ming Hsieh is interning with the SEC in Washington, D.C.

2000 Andrew Rothstein is an associate in the private client and trust department at Goulston & Storrs in Boston, which he joined in 2007.

2001 Inna Shestul is at Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus in Arlington, Va.

2003 Frederico Carvalho practices in the M&A transaction services section of Deloitte & Touche in Sao Paolo.

Law School’s Center for Internet and Society.

While there, she litigated with the Fair Use Project in a variety of cases, including Rowling

2004

v. RDR and Lennon v. Premise. As a fellow, she

Jeremy Johnson and Amy Johnson welcomed

Arsala Kidwai was awarded the IDLO

litigates copyright fair-use cases and researches

Brynn Annika. Jeremy launched Johnson, Gasink

Fellowship, and will be working in Rome.

issues at the intersection of technology and

& Baxter LLP in Williamsburg, Va., as one of

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three partners.

Jinghua Liu was promoted to special counsel at the Beijing office of Baker & McKenzie.

Light of the Current Economy, for Revising the Way §304 Applies to International Transactions,” which he wrote with the help of Professor Skip Patton, was published in the

2006

August Tax Management International Journal.

Maryam Assad is practicing at Rafii &

Pablo Revilla has been in the tax area of the

Associates in Los Angeles.

General Prosecutor’s Office in Buenos Aires

2007

since 2002 and serves as secretary of the board

Cory Bilodeau is practicing at Fletcher, Tilton &

of the Argentine Fiscal Association until 2010.

Whipple in Worcester.

Caren Schindel is a partner at McLaughlin, Richards, Mahaney, Biller & Woodyshek in

2008

Natick, working with divorce, estate planning,

Steve Goldman’s article “Corporate Expatriation: A Case Analysis” was published in the Florida Tax Review. He is at Thomson

Medicaid planning, elder and tax law.

Allison F. Tilton opened Tilton Law LLC in

Reuters.

Waltham, practicing in the areas of estate

2008

Tilton Law LLC serves both Massachusetts and

planning, estate administration, and taxation.

Linda Fisher opened her own estate planning

New Jersey.

practice in Norwood.

Shane Kiggen (Tax ’08, J.D. ’07) see 2007 J.D. notes.

Adrian Martinez is at KPMG ICS in Silicon Valley.

Ruth Mattson is an estate, financial and tax planning associate at Bowditch & Dewey in Worcester.

Luciana Pires is in international tax at Deloitte & Touche in San Jose.

Rita Popot is tax counsel at the Massachusetts Department of Revenue in Boston.

Ben Willis finished his first year at PriceWaterhouseCooper’s M&A section in Washington, D.C. He also published an article on the effect of debt recharacterization on worthless securities deductions in the July 2009 Tax Adviser.

2009 Steve Gerlach is a third-year associate at Bernstein Shur in Portland, Maine, and is practicing in the areas of corporate tax, state and local taxation, taxation of intellectual property, and employee benefits.

Michael Giles, after sitting for the Utah bar exam this summer, is with the estate planning/ tax section of Bennett Tueller Johnson and Deere in Salt Lake City.

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ANNUAL REPORT OF GIVING FISCAL YEAR 2009

Dear Alumni and Friends, Like most academic institutions across the country dealing with the impact of the severe recession, Boston University School of Law faced an array of challenges in the fiscal year that ended on June 30, 2009. As we began the 2009 fiscal year in the summer of 2008, it was not conceivable that in only a few months the nation would be gripped by an economic crisis so dire that it would bring most of our financial institutions to the very brink of collapse.

A year later, our financial markets appear to be recovering and beginning a slow climb out of recession. BU Law has also weathered this financial storm without severe consequences. The fiscal planning that President Brown and Dean O’Rourke put in place early last fall to counter the effects of the recession enabled our faculty, students and staff to continue our enterprise without harsh cutbacks to academic program areas, student services and financial aid, and most importantly without layoffs.

However, even our very sound fiscal planning would not have been as effective without the financial support of our generous alumni and friends.

In the 2009 fiscal year (July 1, 2008–June 30, 2009) the Law School received cash gifts totaling $1,870,726 from 2,279 alumni and friends. We thank the many of you who maintained or even increased your giving in FY09, notwithstanding your real fear of what the future would hold. Although every single gift in FY09, no matter how small, helped us avoid a more serious financial picture, a few significant gifts are worthy of special mention.

Paul R. Sugarman (’54), a longtime supporter of BU Law, and his wife, Susan, made a wonderful pledge of $100,000 to establish the Paul R. and Susan J. Sugarman Scholarship Fund. The income from this permanently endowed fund will provide annual scholarship awards to one or more students enrolled at the School of Law. This is a welcome addition to our financial aid offerings, especially as the debt burdens of our students remain a concern.

Also in FY09, the School of Law received $167,000 from the Marion Kauffman Foundation as part of a new three-year grant in support of Professor Michael Meurer’s research and work in the area of innovation.

Loyal Law School alumni continue to remember us in their wills and estate plans, and we encourage all alumni to consider a testamentary provision for the School as a way of demonstrating your ultimate support for your alma mater. The estates of Joseph F. Holman (’50) and Mary G. Sullivan (’49) made gifts of $50,000 and $49,626, respectively. Their gifts will ultimately support our building facilities and our unrestricted needs.

Notwithstanding the current economy and its impact on alumni giving, Dean O’Rourke and I have continued our conversations with many of our most supportive alumni regarding the Law School’s strategic plan and how additional gift revenue will be needed to make that plan a reality. We are determined to reach out to as many alumni as possible no matter where they reside and practice geographically as we ramp up our fundraising efforts. Indeed, BU Law alumni are positioned in almost every major industry and legal market across the nation and beyond. Although a significant number of alumni remain in New England, we have growing numbers of alumni on the west coast and abroad.

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Alumni Breakdown by Geographic Region

42.2%

New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI and VT)

17.3%

New York/New Jersey and U.S. Territories (NJ, NY, PR, VI)

8.6%

All International

8.5%

Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, PA, VA and WV)

7.8%

West Coast (AZ, CA, HI and NV)

5.8%

Southeast (AL, FL, GA, NC, SC and TN)

5.0%

Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KY, MI, MN, MO, OH and WI)

2.1%

South (AR, LA, MS, NM, OK and TX)

1.5%

Northwest (AK, OR and WA)

1.3%

Mountain/Plains (CO, ID, KS, MT, ND, NE, SD, UT and WY)

As the chart indicates, we have alumni in 49 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands and more than 1,700 alumni in countries around the globe. If you would like a list of alumni in your state or region, please go to the law school’s website at www.bu.edu/law/alumni and register to use our alumni directory and networking site, the BU Law Connection. You can do any number of searches there for alumni.

Thanks again to all of you who give extraordinary amounts of your time, energy and finances in support of this institution.

Sincerely,

Cornell L. Stinson, J.D. Assistant Dean, Development and Alumni Relations

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Law Fund & Donor Roll Unrestricted contributions to the Law Fund directly enable Dean O’Rourke to address a wide range of immediate and important needs. In FY09, more than 50 percent of the overall cash gifts received, or $944,418, was given as unrestricted support to the Law Fund. We owe a special thanks to our National Law Fund Co-chairs, Richard Mikels (’72) and Oscar Wasserman (’59), who began their roles leading our Annual Fund during this unprecedented year of financial upheaval. Alumni, students and friends support the Law Fund through a variety of ways, including the following: The 2009 3L Class Gift – The class of 2009 held their class gift drive in the spring, raising $2,612 from 75 class members. Combined with the matching gifts of our generous alumni, Gerard (’62) and Sherry Cohen (GRS ’60) and Oscar (’59) and Elaine Wasserman, the total amount raised for the 2009 Class Gift was $8,224.24. Section C led the section challenge with a participation rate of 31.4 percent. Thank you to all who participated, especially the 3L Class Gift Committee members, Brenda Carr, Ann Chernicoff, Stephany Collamore, Jeannetta CraigwellGraham, Mitchell B. Klein, Claire Koehler, Danielle Nellis and Addie Strumolo.

Reunion Class Giving – On October 10–11, 2008, members of the classes of 1958, 1963, 1968, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, 1998 and 2003 returned to campus to celebrate their respective reunions. The weekend kicked off with a cocktail reception for all alumni and their guests on Friday evening. Saturday provided stimulating alumni panel sessions followed by a Reunion Class BBQ, the annual Golden Circle Celebration for the 50th reunion class, and the annual gala dinner and cocktail reception hosted by Dean O’Rourke at the Intercontinental Hotel in Boston.

In honor of their reunions, members of these classes contributed over $290,000 in gifts to the School.

2009 Law Firm Challenge – The BU Law Firm Challenge had another successful year with more than $508,888 donated by alumni at law firms across the country! The Law Firm Challenge is designed to give alumni at law firms an opportunity to reconnect with their alma mater, promote giving to the Law Fund in a fun and challenging way, and enhance their firm’s profile within the BU Law community, especially among future firm associates — current BU Law students. We salute the generosity of our loyal alumni at law firms and particularly thank the Firm Representatives for their efforts in FY09. They are: Meg Bailey ’08, Bingham McCutchen LLP; Mark Curiel ’02, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP; Marian Baldwin Fuerst ’91, Chadbourne & Parke LLP; Andrew Heinz ’05, Kirkland & Ellis LLP; Michael J. Kendall ’93, Goodwin Procter LLP; David Loughnot ’05, Bingham McCutchen LLP; Daniel McCaughey ’04, Ropes & Gray LLP; Anthony Picchione ’04, WilmerHale; Kathryn Piffat ’89, Edwards

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Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP; Elias Schilowitz ’05, Proskauer Rose LLP; Colin Grant Van Dyke ’05, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, PC; Jenna Ventorino ’08, Goodwin Procter LLP; Sophia Yen ’06, Bingham McCutchen LLP and; Joseph Zambuto ’02, Covington & Burling 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.

Law Firm Challenge Winners 2008–2009 Firms With 500 or More Attorneys

Firms With 25–99 Attorneys

Highest Alumni Participation:

Highest Participation:

First Place: Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky

First Place: Craig and Macauley PC - 83.33%

and Popeo, P.C. - 61.22%

Second Place: Riemer & Braunstein LLP - 33.33%

Second Place: McGuireWoods LLP - 60.00% Highest Total Dollar Amount: Highest Total Dollar Amount:

First Place: Craig and Macauley PC - $12,300.00

First Place: Kirkland & Ellis LLP - $238,321.00

Second Place: Riemer & Braunstein LLP - $4,650.00

Second Place: Proskauer Rose LLP - $15,325.00

Firms With 100–499 Attorneys

Firms With 5–24 Attorneys

Highest Participation:

Highest Participation:

First Place: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP - 66.67%

Tied: Corwin & Corwin LLP - 40.00%

Second Place: Robinson & Cole LLP - 45.45%

Levin & Levin, LLP - 40.00%

Highest Total Dollar Amount:

Highest Total Dollar Amount:

First Place: Edwards Angell Palmer

First Place: Sugarman and Sugarman, PC - $30,380.24

& Dodge LLP - $3,390.01

Second Place: Levin & Levin, LLP - $3,550.00

Second Place: Robinson & Cole LLP - $3,175.00

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Giving Categories President’s Circle - $25,000 and above President’s Associates - $10,000 - $24,999.99

Donors

Dean’s Club - $5,000 - $9,999.99 Fellow - $2,500 - $4,999.99 Barrister - $1,000 - $2,499.99 Friend - $500 - $999.99

Fiscal Year 2009 CLASS OF 1930

CLASS OF 1948

Donor Jerome Weinberg

President’s Circle Edward W. Brooke

CLASS OF 1935 Donor Lillian P. Thomas

CLASS OF 1939 Donor Sarah Smith Friedman

CLASS OF 1940

President’s Associates George Michaels Donor Christine E. Donna Reynold F. Paris Glendora McIlwain Putnam Stella Hackel Sims Charlotte G. Ventola

CLASS OF 1949

Barrister Nathan M. Silverstein Donor Robert S. Amery James N. Barrett Jr. Barry D. Berkal Jere R. Clifford George T. Costes Charles E. Holly Sumner Allen Marcus Arthur M. Mason Jerome D. Ogan Robert F. Preti

Donor Robert L. Cram

President’s Circle Mary G. Sullivan*

Leonard S. Sawyer

S. Harold Skolnick

Barrister Robert B. Kent

Edward C. Wynne

CLASS OF 1941 Barrister Louis A. Genovese

Donor Jean N. Arlander Monte G. Basbas

Benjamin T. Wright

Donor - $1 - $499.99

CLASS OF 1952

Edward R. Fink

Donor Samuel Simon Anter

Lawrence Aaron Kellem

Alan S. Flink P. Louis Johnson Jr. Joseph T. Little Frankland W. L. Miles Jr. Richard S. Milstein Francis C. Newton Jr. Thomas D. Pucci Norman Dion Schwartz Robert A. Shaines David E. Stevens Robert H. Temple Sidney Weinberg

Albert J. Zahka

CLASS OF 1953

CLASS OF 1951

Barrister Donald T. Shire Donor Leonard A. Berkal

Donor Eunice P. Howe

Jason S. Cohen

Barrister Arthur E. Bean Jr.

Charles J. Contas

Louis A. D’Angio

Albert J. Callahan

Robert S. Prince

Bayard T. Crane Jr.

Allan Green

William I. Harkaway

Alan M. Edelstein

George L. Greenfield

Malcolm Jones

Linwood M. Erskine Jr.

A. Vincent Harper

Vartkis Paghigian

Sumner S. Fanger

Norman M. Shack

Henry S. Palau

Irwin P. Garfinkle

William B. Tyler

Eugene G. Panarese

Floyd L. Harding

G. Franklin Smith

Richard S. Kelley

Donor Edward J. Bander

Harold Kropitzer

George W. Bunyan Jr.

Douglas A. Kydd Jr.

Andrew T. Campoli

CLASS OF 1954

William M. Macdonald

Sumner Darman

Edward P. McDuffee

Harry J. Elam

President’s Circle Paul R. Sugarman

John Thomas Pappas

Richard W. Foss

Philip B. Prince

Alfred F. Glavey

Iris A. Shaw

Gerald H. Lepler

Paul B. Slate

Louis G. Matthews

Murray L. Townsend Jr.

Charles H. McLaughlin

William T. Walsh

Dwight N. Vibbert

CLASS OF 1943 Donor Thomas D. Burns

CLASS OF 1945 Donor Kathleen Ryan Dacey

CLASS OF 1946 Barrister Janice H. Wilkins

CLASS OF 1947 Donor Lola Dickerman Jay M. Esterkes Charles A. George

CLASS OF 1950

Bette S. Paris

President’s Circle Joseph H. Holman*

Fred Ross

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Samuel A. Wilkinson Jack L. Wolfson

Joseph Sequeria Vera

Charles M. Healey III Anthony D. Taliente Richard W. Wennett

CLASS OF 1955 Dean’s Club Elliott I. Mishara Barrister J. Robert Dyment Allen Rubin Donor Walter R. Budney Martin A. Dworken Barbara V. Evans Jules L. Garel Morris Jay Gordon Hugh B. Hartwell John D. McLellan Jr.

CLASS OF 1956 Barrister Jack B. Middleton Donor Jules W. Breslow Norman F. Burke William H. Clifford Jr. John P. Liberty Robert S. Linnell Richard S. Miller Frank E. Pollard Jr. Domenic J.F. Russo Bernard R. Silva Jr.

Fellow Alan Altman

CLASS OF 1957

Barrister Mitchell J. Greb

Friend Joseph C. Sweeney

Friend Ronald L. Kellam

Donor Paul K. Arsenian

Donor George Amos Bustamante

H. Alfred Casassa

Kenneth J. Dilanian

Joseph Chester Cressy

Lester Edelman

Frank H. Handy Jr.

Raymond A. Cox

Emilio D. Iannuccillo

Nancy Troy Lovett

Irving David Labovitz

Friend Mitchell Samuelson

John R. D. McClintock

Barrister Lawrence S. Cohen

Willard R. Pope

Robert A. Kaloosdian

Gordon C. Mulligan

Charles B. Curtis

Paul R. Salvage

Robert D. Myers

Victor J. Garo

Jerome D. Sekula

Charles N. Miller

Donor Robert J. Bagdasarian

Wallace H. Myers

Martin Lobel

Sheldron Seplowitz

Alan C. Pease

Ronald Bean

Joseph P. Nadeau

Gerald J. Phillips

Sherwood R. Spelke

Bernard Poliner

Myron R. Bernstein

Edmund R. Sledzik

Robert S. Toyofuku

Stephen C. Steinberg

Nicholas Sarris

Frederick C. Cohen

Richard D. Stapleton

William Wells Willard

Albert J. Savastano

Katherine Liacos Izzo

Arthur L. Stevenson

Friend Robert Belton

John A. Wickstrom

Richard Murray

Dale G. Stoodley

Charles M. Burnim

CLASS OF 1967

CLASS OF 1963 45th Reunion

Paul R. Devin John S. Goodnow

President’s Associates Robert B. Goldfarb

Stephen M. Kass

Gerald L. Nissenbaum

Barrister George Findell Jr.

Frances H. Miller Peter B. Sang

Barrister Richard J. Talbot

John J. Murphy

Edward A. Shapiro

Jeffrey R. Whieldon

Donor John F. Atwood

Donor Saul D. Behr

Friend John L. Vecchiolla

Avram N. Cohen

Paul B. Carroll

Fellow Allan van Gestel

Frank S. Ganak

Edward L. Colby Jr.

Donor Anthony J. Aftuck

Matthew S. Goldfarb

Peter M. Collins

Barrister Morton E. Marvin

Kenneth S. Green Jr.

Sean M. Dunphy

Frederick A. Griffen

Lloyd S. French

Evandro R. Radoccia Jr.

Bert Levine

Douglas H. Haley

Bernard R. Fielding

Eugene L. Rubin

Louis P. Massaro Jr.

Arthur W. Havey

Earle Groper

Friend Leonard I. Shapiro

John J. McCarthy

Paul A. Heller

Elwynn J. Miller

Ronald J. McDougald

Donor Ralph Cianflone Jr.

Joseph J. Parrilla

Maurice McWalter Jr.

Robert Taft

M. Robert Queler

Richard S. Mittleman

Stephen R. Weidman

Joel Gary Cohen

Alfred Legelis Herbert Lemelman

CLASS OF 1958 50th Reunion Dean’s Club Jason A. Gottlieb Barrister Wallace F. Ashnault Allan J. Landau David Lee Turner Arnold I. Zaltas Friend Edward H. Torgen Donor Sidney J. Dockser

Marvin W. Kushner Frank D. Marden

CLASS OF 1959

R. Joseph O’Rourke Julie Rate Perkins Donald M. Robbins David A. Shrair Robert P. Weintraub

CLASS OF 1961 President’s Associates Stephen V. Dubin

Kenneth S. Robbins

Joseph S. Alen Michaele Snyder Battles David M. Blumenthal Mark N. Busch Robert B. Dalton Stephen L. Dashoff Margaret H. DouglasHamilton Ernest E. Falbo Jr. Lloyd A. Fisk

Demitrios M. Moschos

E. Whitney Drake

CLASS OF 1964

Bert L. Gusrae

Dean’s Club Harry J. Riskin

Herbert Pitta Jr. John J. Ryan III

Arthur G. Greene

Michael C. Moschos

Karl L. Halperin Arthur W. Hughes III

President’s Associates Oscar A. Wasserman

Douglas S. Hatfield

Dean’s Club William Landau

Sanford A. Kowal

Barrister Ernest M. Haddad

Robert M. Schacht

John R. Robinson

J. Howard Solomon

Fellow John J. Norton

Philip Tierney

George H. Stephenson

Stanley C. Urban

Friend Frank J. Santangelo

Barrister Morton H. Aronson

CLASS OF 1962

Donor James P. Carty

Michael L. Widland

Donor Karnig Boyajian

President’s Circle Gerard H. Cohen

James M. Geary Jr. John E. Higgins Jr.

CLASS OF 1966

Jean L. Rehbock

Henry N. Frenette

Dean’s Club Edward D. McCarthy

Paul A. Lietar

Barrister Irving H. Picard

William J. Salisbury

Barrister Darald R. Libby

Charles E. Olney David M. Prolman

Friend Lawrence T. Holden Jr.

Gordon P. Ramsey

Barry Y. Weiner

Michael A. Silverstein

Friend Robert J. Ferranty

George R. Sprague

Richard O. Staff

Levon Kasarjian Jr.

Philip S. Sternstein

Richard S. Scipione

CLASS OF 1965

Donor Gregory R. Baler

Lewis L. Whitman

Donor Richard S. Barton

Dean’s Club Neil Sugarman

Peter T. Dawson

Roland J. Caserta

Michael R. Garfield

James W. Killam III Martin S. Malinou Bertram S. Patkin Emanuel N. Psarakis

CLASS OF 1960

Morton Holliday

Carl B. Lisa

Richard G. Ross

William H. Hyatt Jr. Stanley J. Krieger James D. Latham Michael Magruder

Cornelius P. Sullivan

Edward Colquitt Minor Michael Popowski

Christopher R. Wood

Donald E. Quigley Catherine L. Salisbury William W. Southworth Charles J. Speleotis Joseph R. Tutalo Alan I. Weinberg Patrick K. S. L. Yim

Stanley A. Bleecker

CLASS OF 1968 40th Reunion

John M. Downer

Fellow Henry S. Levin

John J. DaPonte Jr.

Fellow Robert M. Cohen

John J. Dumphy

Stephen A. Kolodny

Ronald Jacobs

Barrister Richard S. Hanki

William M. Finn

Edward S. Snyder

Arthur L. Lappen

Alan Bernard Fodeman

Patrick J. King

Howard Scheinblum

Barrister Robert G. Anderson Mortimer B. Fuller III Kernan F. King Samuel S. Perlman Peter W. Segal

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Stephen H. Lewis

Thomas Royall Smith

Michael A. Meyers

David L. Taylor

Richard D. Mondre

Martin S. Needelman

John Andrew Tierney

Donor S. Reid Alsop

Kenneth M. Nelson

Paul H. Waldman

James M. Oathout

Jeffrey S. Cates

Allen Whitestone

John Ralston Pate Jr.

Robert L. Cullinane

Brainard L. Patton

Jerry H. Dolchin

Barrister Roger A. Nelson

Jane Michaels

Friend William A. Lewis Jr.

Kristen C. Nelson Kenneth H. Tatarian

Willard Prodgers Yeats

Donor Robert Gregory Burdick Jr. Charles Larry Carpenter Jr.

James M. Pool

CLASS OF 1971

Barbara Brower Conover

Donor Robert Henry Beck

Robert Droker

David E. Putnam

Linda Scholle Cowan

David W. Brown

Malvin B. Eisenberg

Joseph S. Radovsky

President’s Circle William H. Kleh

Kathleen Kirk David

Joan W. Cavanagh

Ellen Flatley

Martin A. Rosenman

Michael Charles Denny

Thomas A. Cloutier

Morton E. Grosz

Elliot Savitz

Fellow Sandra L. Lynch

Douglas J. Dok Jr.

Hilary J. Dalin

Richard S. Hackel

David M. Singer

Peter H. Sutton

Andrew D. Epstein

David J. DeMoss

Douglas G. Hyde

James W. Tello

Victor Michael Ferrante

David Jeffrey Dorne

John A. Karpinski

Allan P. Weeks

Barristers Ralph A. Ford

Paul V. Freeman Jr.

Lawrence S. Elswit

Michael A. Laurano

Michael A. Wheeler

David F. Grunebaum

Mark D. Engel

William F. Malloy

Henry W. Winkleman

Friend Herbert Myles Jacobs

Christopher H. Hartenau

Carolyn N. Famiglietti

Richard H. Saxe

Catherine L. Heron

Howard L. Felsenfeld

William S. Botwick

F. Robert Houlihan

Norman J. Fine

Richard C. MacKenzie

Arthur Harold Johnson

Warner S. Fletcher

Donor Robert David Abrams Peter B. Benfield Carol C. Conrad James J. Cotter III William C. Decas Charles W. Deuser II Melvin Foster Roger J. Geller Richard M. Gibbons Richard W. Grant Jeffrey B. Gray Richard H. Greenstein Mark R. Haflich Julian T. Houston Martha J. Koster Thomas R. Lebach Robert D. Lewin Claude L. Lowen Russell I. Lynn Kenneth F. MacIver Jr. Michael R. Miller Pliny Norcross III Lansing R. Palmer Harry P. Photopoulos William M. Pinzler Erica L. Powers Paul H. Rothschild Edward M. Silverstein Mary L. Z. Sanderson Jane Wolf Waterman Steven L. Zimmerman

Thomas Lawrence Knaphle

Franklin Fruchtman

Dane Roger Kostin

Peter Van Keuren Funk Jr.

Michele G. Kostin

Dennis I. Greene

Winfield Watson Major Jr.

Joel P. Greene

William F. Manley

Leora Harpaz

Stephen M. Marcusa

Anne Hoffman

Arkley Lawrence Mastro Jr.

Katherine Walker Keane

Sandra Lee Moody

Craig M. Keats

Andrew Joseph Mullen

David C. King

Anna Sue Rominger

Ann-Louise Kleper

George Russell Sparling

John Henry Kohring

John Roderick Staffier

Phillip C. Koutsogiane

Allen W. Stokes Jr.

Elliott N. Kramsky

Arthur C. Sullivan Jr.

Brian W. LeClair

Mark L. Sullivan

Kathleen Gill Miller

Mary Morrissey Sullivan

Howard P. Newton

Patricia Ann Sullivan

Theodore S. Novak

Lawrence Alan Weiner

Stephen Patrick Nugent

Robert Lowell Weiss Jr.

Richard Bradford Osterberg

Richard B. Weitzen

Jonathan Tyler Parkhurst

Thomas F. Williams

Charles F. Shaw III

Kenneth Isaac Wirfel

Larry L. Simms

Myrth York

William J. Snell III

Thomas Robert Kiley

Richard F. McCarthy Robert G. McSweeney

CLASS OF 1970

Richard A. Millstein

President’s Associates Bettina B. Plevan

Judith Hale Norris Andrew Radding Lawrence Rosenbluth

Dean’s Club Alfred J. Egenhofer

Robert E. Sapir

Jay M. Forgotson

David Sholes Elliott L. Zide

Fellow James N. Esdaile Jr.

CLASS OF 1969

Friend Peter J. Herrick

President’s Associates William Macauley

Dean A. Stiffle

James C. Pizzagalli

Donor Cornelia C. Adams

Dean’s Club Barbara B. Creed

Frank J. Williams

Karen McAndrew Allen

Marvin M. Goldstein

Craig W. Barry Jr.

Barrister Gerald C. Miller

Kenneth A. Behar

Richard E. Talmadge

Paul L. Black

Bruce J. Wein

William R. Blane

Friend Arthur H. Bill

Michael D. Brockelman

Thomas E. Cimeno Jr.

Roy P. Creedon

Beth Ann F. Gentile

Dennis M. Cronin

Donor David Allen

Michael M. Davis

Stephen B. Angel

Marshall I. Etra

Phillip N. Armentano

Robert Bunten Field Jr.

Richard G. Asoian

Richard E. Galway Jr.

Ronald G. Busconi

Elizabeth H. Gemmill

Anthony John Catalano

Lawrence T. Graham

Michael E. Faden

Clayton F. Harrington Jr.

Marvin H. Glazier

Robert L. Hollingshead

Roland Gray III

Peter A. Janus

Norman Gross

Mary Susan Leahy

CLASS OF 1972

George R. Halsey

Elliott C. Miller

Paul Allan Schott

Neil F. Hulbert

Walter L. Mitchell III

President’s Associates Samuel Marvin Fineman

Julie A. Koppenheffer

Isabelle Katz Pinzler

Laura A. Kaster

Michael S. Krout

Robert H. Segersten

Dean’s Club Richard E. Mikels

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CLASS OF 1973 35th Reunion Dean’s Club Hugh R. McCombs Fellow Clark Evans Downs Barrister Wayne B. Bardsley

Joseph John Sweeney David H. Lee

Anthony F. Muri William J. Novak Lawrence E. Uchill

Roger C. Stanford Daniel J. Steininger Marcus Samuel Weiss Anna Christina Wolfe

CLASS OF 1974 President’s Associates Richard A. Karelitz Peter McCausland Dean’s Club Daniel J. Rea Jr. Barrister Arnold P. Hanson Jr. Jeffrey D. Woolf

Friend Jane C. von der Heyde

Donor George W. Adams III

Denzil D. McKenzie O. Rogeriee Thompson Danielle E. Wuchenich

Barrister Joan B. Chamberlain

Gary D. Zanercik Marianne G. Zurn

Ken W. Shulman

Felix Von Baxter

Stephen D. Tom

Kenneth J. Berk

Donor Howard S. Altarescu

Michael E. Chubrich

Friend Thomas J. Engellenner

Della R. Cohen

Peter I. Mason

Barrister Thomas G. Robinson

Benjamin S. Bilus

Richard F. Collier Jr.

Steven H. Bowen

John Nicholas Datesh Jr.

Donor Michael S. Albert

Friend James L. Alberg

Elsa Kircher Cole

B. Andrew Dutcher

David I. Altman

Robert C. Barber

David M. Covey

Richard D. Eisenberg

Anne Mitchell Atherton

Gaylen Kemp Baxter

Donor Miriam H. Babin

Henry H. Dearing III

Barry A. Friedman

George A. Bachrach

Robin Beth Matlin

Jeffrey Baxter

Judith Nelson Dilday

Marc B. Friedman

Frank W. Barrie

William M. Berenson

David C. Elliott

Andrew A. Glickson

Virginia D. Benjamin

David W. Faunce

Steven Jay Goldstein

Anthony M. Feeherry

Jules S. Goodman

William J. Bloomer

Robert J. Gordon

Laurence Eric Hardoon

C. Lawrence Grubman

Michael Cleland Harvell

Lloyd J. Heller

Harold Michael King

Richard P. Jaffe

Linda K. Lager

Stanley D. Katz

Howard Chin Lem

Glenn Lau-Kee

Leslie Waters Lewkow

Warren R. Leiden

Carol Bensinger Liebman

Philip Lerner

Gary F. Locke

Stephen T. Lindo

George P. Lordan Jr.

Leon J. Lombardi

Kathryn R. Lunney

Bradford S. Lovette

John H. MacMaster

Stephen M. Mason

Marianne McGettigan

James E. McGuire

James Arthur McGraw

Robert S. Moog

James I. Murray

Garland F. Pinkston Jr.

David M. Neubauer

Robert H. Ratcliffe

John L. Norton III

Rhoda E. Schneider

Charles A. Pillsbury

Melinda S. Sherer

Robert M. Pu

Drew Spalding

Stephanie J. Racin

Susan E. Stein

Richard C. Sammis

Allan W. Ziman

Harris J. Samuels

Donor Walter J. Boldys Stephen R. Bosworth Harris B. Brown Frank Campbell Jr. James F. Crowley Jr. Allen N. David John F. DeBartolo Edmonde P. DeGregorio Guy Richard Eigenbrode John J. Finn David J. Fischer Scott L. Fredericksen Marshall A. Gallop Stanley Greenberg Roberta A. Grimes Barbara Guss Norman S. Heller Kay Hideko Hodge Eric H. Karp David L. Kay Peter L. Knox Kenneth Albert Krems Jeffrey A. Lester Sybil L. Levisohn Sharen Litwin John B. Miller Judith Ann Moldover Amy L. Mower Susan Hall Mygatt Stuart A. Offner Ross Collins Owens III Kirk C. Rascoe Toby Kamens Rodman David H. Sempert Michael T. Shutterly Richard J. Sims Michael S. Sophocles Russell J. Speidel Richard W. Stern Ellen Davis Sullivan Mark D. Swanson Steven H. Talkovsky Penelope Wells Judith S. Yogman

Judith M. White

CLASS OF 1978 30th Reunion

Stuart J. Yasgoor

CLASS OF 1975 President’s Associates Paul E. Heimberg Fellow David W. Carpenter Barrister Jeffrey H. Lane Andrew James Ley Roger M. Ritt James Manly Sack Paul Sherman Samson Friend Richard Driansky Charles Wilbur Lamar III Richard J. Levin Susan P. MacEachron Eric M. Reuben Meredith B. Reuben Steven James Weinstein

Nancy A. Sutherland Jeffrey Martin Winik

Jan Alan Brody Lynda G. Christian John C. Cuddy Linda J. Dreeben Ross N. Driver John K. Dunleavy John E. Edison John W. Fieldsteel Janet B. Fierman Scott A. Forsyth Gregory L. Foster Greg S. Friedman Mary K. Gallagher Myra Miller Gordon Charles F. Grimes Leonard Gross Richard D. Hawke Katherine A. Hesse Nancy M. Highbarger Sandra Jean Holman Scott M. Huiras Dale R. Johnson Mary Louise Kennedy

Hope Brock Winthrop

Francis D. Landrey

CLASS OF 1976

Anne Hewitt McAndrews

President’s Circle Philip S. Beck Joel G. Chefitz Linda S. Peterson J. Michael Schell

Samuel P. Moulthrop

Dean’s Club Nancy E. Barton Harry J. Weiss

Louis Jon Schepp

Barrister Carolyn Jacoby Gabbay Gary H. Glaser Robert J. Glovsky Irving L. Gornstein Mark S. Granger Walter E. Hanley Jr. Marc J. Lust

Richard M. Lipsman

Marjorie R. Perlman Michael L. Prigoff Eugene A. Reilly Rebecca A. Schenk Michael O. Sheehan James E. Sheldon L. Seth Stadfeld Oliver W. Stalter John C. Sullivan Elbert Tuttle Jerome F. Weihs

Michael J. Kliegman

CLASS OF 1977

Alexander Whiteside

Fellow Ellen J. Flannery

Byron E. Woodman Jr.

Russel T. Hamilton

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Joseph A. Levitt Nancy E. Yanofsky Friend David R. Gellman Gary E. Hicks

Wendy M. Bittner James Blakey David E. Dryer Susan H. Fischer Daniel M. Freedman Clyde R. Garrigan Michael H. Gurchin Joe Hegel Shepard A. Hoffman N. Landon Hoyt Martin R. Jenkins George C. Jones David B. Kamm Vickery Hall Kehlenbeck Robin E. Keller Bruce A. Langer Allan L. Lockspieser Kenneth R. Luttinger Scott L. Machanic Mary Ellen McMeekin David G. Nation Leslie S. Newman Robert E. Paul Gail Pennington Kathleen J. Phillips Marc S. Plonskier Michael S. Popkin Dean Richlin John S. Rodman David E. Shellenberger Nancy S. Shilepsky Alan R. Skupp Pamela R. Stirrat John R. Stopa Hollis G. Swift Robert Volk Debra Ann Weiner Suzan E. Willcox

CLASS OF 1979 President’s Circle Richard Cartier Godfrey

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President’s Associates Craig S. Thompson Dean’s Club Mary A. Akerson Fellow Michael D. Gayda Sue Schmutter Tebor Barrister Randall A. Constantine Caroline D. Davis Richards Huff Ford Lois F. Herzeca Amy N. Lipton Loretta M. Smith † Friend Jeffrey L. Berkowitz Eliza W. Fraser James D. Masterman Dean Steven Travalino Donor Samuel Abloeser Robert Allan Axelrod Susan T. Bailey Andrew B. Belfer James M. Beslity Bruce T. Block James H. Broderick Jr. David S. Brown Meade G. Burrows Gary K. Feldbaum Virginia M. Fettig Scott A. Fisher Anne H. Foley Garry G. Fujita Erick J. Genser Margaret M. Gilligan Steven M. Glovsky Elin H. Graydon Kenneth Ingber Susan F. Kelley Betty L. Krikorian Robert W. Lavoie Craig D. Mills Paul E. Nemser Paul O’Connor Martha Osborne Thomas J. Roccio John J. Rosenberg Roger M. Ross Robert G. Rowe Stephen E. Socha Jacqueline F. Stein Robert Lee Swanson Michael N. Vaporis T. Kirk Ware Jeffrey M. Werthan Susan M. Werthan

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CLASS OF 1980

John A. Neale

James T. McCormick

Joseph A. Rotella

President’s Associates Robert F. Grondine

David N. Neusner

Barry Michael Okun

Rebecca J. Scheier

Timothy A. Ngau

James J. Rigos

Robert G. Stewart

Nancy J. Nitikman

Kenneth J. Rose

Joseph S. Tesoriero

Robert O. O’Bannon

David S. Rosenthal

Donna K. Thiel

Susan M. Orr

Donald B. Shanin

Neil D. Wheelwright

Richard H. Otto

Amy L. Shapiro

Deborah A. Porder

Norma J. SilvermanKurman

Fellow H. Peter Haveles Jr. Barrister Claudia O. Crowley Leo T. Crowley John J. Finn

Jennifer S. D. Roberts

Wendy H. Smith

Barry J. Swidler

Scott D. Rubin

Friend Scott E. Cooper

Elizabeth D. Schrero Harvey C. Silverstein

William H. Groner

Kay S. Slonim

Eve T. Horwitz

Nancy Ellen Spence

James A. Normand

David S. Szabo

John F. O’Brien

Laura E. Udis

David B. Picker

Angel A. Vazquez

Kathryn L. Roseen

Melodie A. Wing

Dawn C. Ryan

Philip C. Worden

Donor Christopher N. Ames

Glen S. Yanco

Fellow Ira L. Herman

CLASS OF 1981

Keith F. Higgins

Dean’s Club Susan H. Alexander

John K. Skrypak Kevin T. Van Wart

Barrister Stephen B. Feder

Barrister Eileen M. Herlihy

Daniel V. Bakinowski Jason R. Baron Marcy A. Bass Ellen S. Bass-Tripp Arnold Baum Diane Giles Berliner Judith A. Clark

Arthur H. Forman Maria Joy Frank Susan G.L. Glovsky Scott M. Green Bonnie Spaccarelli Hannon Mary D. Harrington Melissa A. Jad Joseph E. Kaidanow Barbara R. Kapnick Kenneth S. Kasper Michael A. Kehoe Stefanie J. Kessler Jeffrey S. Leonard Karen J. Levitt P. Ann Lomeli Emily A. Maitin Margaret C. Mazzone Cary A. Metz Rosemary C. Meyers Carol Miller Robert J. Molloy Maura K. Moran Henry I. Morgenbesser Robert F. Moriarty

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Sharon G. Coghlan

Paul M. Weiser

William T. Whelan

Christine Schwab Werner

Friend Jack M. Farris

Johnny J. Williams

CLASS OF 1982

Friend Neil S. Witkes

Friend Stacey Channing

Marshall D. Feiring

Barrister Jacqueline Jacobs Caster

Lawrence J. Reilly

Jeffrey M. Cooper

Ronald M. Davids H. Joseph Hameline Ilisa Hurowitz Ina Plotsky Kupferberg Robert P. Suglia

Donor Philip Blumstein Joe Boynton E. Drew Cheney Paul Cherecwich Jr. Joseph A. Colagiovanni Trudy Weiss Craig

Diana L. Wainrib

Jeffrey M. Dvorin

Donor Carol Boorstein

Mark J. Gentile

William M. Brainard Robert A. Carpentier Martin J. Clifford David H. Colburn Richard Keith Colman Paul A. Cote Jr. Leonard M. Davidson Jacqueline Doig Richard R. Downey Lynne M. Durbin Martin A. Edelstein Lynne E. Elfland Jane W. Gumble Mark Graham Hanson Brian S. Harnik Elizabeth Palmer Higgins Steven B. Kutscheid Karen Mathiasen

President’s Associates Kenneth P. Morrison

Richard J. Wasserman

Michael A. Tanenbaum

Emily J. Cooke

Floralynn Einesman

Robert E. Ward

Sarah A. Rothermel David C. Wright

Jeffry A. Davis

Gerri Lynn Sperling

CLASS OF 1983 25th Reunion

John G. Fioretta Joan B. Gross Abbey Handelsman-Chill Robert G. Holdway Michael H. Hurwitz Paul V. Jabour Anne M. Johnson Milburn D. Kight Scott A. Kobler Debra A. Lewis Paula L. Liang Brant K. Maller Eleanor R. Miller Jordan H. Mintz Mary Lee Moore Philip D. Murphy Lynn S. Okin Deborah Zider Read Carmin C. Reiss

Bruce E. Rogoff Donor Anthony M. Brizzolara Anthony Cefalogli John D. Craven Timothy S. Egan Jonathan D. Fink Lawrence E. Fleder Aida Abboud Gennis Howard S. Goldman Franklin B. Haaz James C. Hasenfus Paul S. Horn Robert P. Landau Timothy J. Langella Nancy E. Little Adrienne S. Masters F. Graham McSwiney Brian W. Mellor Forrest D. Milder Ruth A. Moore Mark L. Morris Garrick R. Mullins Elizabeth Carlson O’Neil Peter A. Pizzani Jr. Michael Bruce Pollack Robin R. Pruitt Kathleen A. Quinlan Leslie D. Rosenthal Thomas E. Schwab Alan E. Sorcher Wayne E. Southward Peter H. Swartz Philip Tabas Sandra L. Tanen Martha A. Toll Susan B. Tuchman Sally A. Vanderweele John V. Veech Carol P. Wessling David E. Wilson

CLASS OF 1984

A. William Caporizzo

Catalina Jean Sugayan

William Moorman Jr.

Barrister Howard M. Cooper

Charles Brian Deull

Deborah Miller Tate

Andrew Murray Morrow

Robert Evans III

George W. Tetler III

Steven Keith Platt

Edward M. Fox

Daniel Van Doren

Marina Rabinovich

David M. Henkoff

Lawrence H. Wertheim

Valerie T. Rosenson

Evan K. Kaplan

Kenneth Williams

Janet M. Sheppard

Michael Elan Katzenstein

Joseph D. Zaks

Carolyn Schwarz Tisdale

Jonathan W. Haddon Jonathan N. Halpern Karen E. Minton Michael A. Schlesinger David Scott Zimble

Gail P. Sinai

Donor Matthew J. Anderton

Friend Michael David Trager

Charles A. Baker III

Donor Paul Justin Alfano

Susan M. Banks Jeffrey C. Brown Francis J. Browne Marie P. Buckley William Contente Paul R. Cortes-Rexach Charles W. Eager III Deborah P. Fawcett Pamela C. Gilman I. Andrew Goldberg Lisa B. Goldstein Kathryn S. Gutowski Steven J. Hurwitz Joseph K. Juster Anthony C. LaPlaca Richard K. Lichtman John T. Lu Matthew H. Lynch George John Markos Terry Marvin Jeanne M. Mathews Stacey McConnell Charles Scott Nierman Daniel W. Nye Robert C. Pasciuto Gregory G. Peters Susan W. Peters Thomas K. Pierce Lawrence J. Profeta Harold W. Pskowski Allison Rock Adrian N. Roe Susan P. Sprung Melissa E. Stimell Philip Sweeney Robert B. Teitelman Edward Waldman Barbara Marie Watson Chris R. Zentgraf

CLASS OF 1986 President’s Associates Wayne E. Smith

CLASS OF 1988 20th Reunion Barrister Sonya J. Brouner Kim M. Rubin Judith V. Scherzer Lynne Toshi Toyofuku

Beth Tomasello

Friend Elizabeth Kagan Cooper

Jeffrey Lynn Van Hoosear Neal S. Winneg

Howard M. Singer

Stephen M. Zide

CLASS OF 1987

Peter Bennett

Barrister Timothy Charles Blank

Donor Peter M. Appleton

President’s Associates Lori Anne Czepiel

James Simmons Armstrong

Elise K. Butowsky

James C. Fox

Thomas Andrew Cohn

Mark E. Langfan

Fellow Joanne S. Gill

Johanna Klip Black

Steven Mark Curwin

Henry M. Rosen

Amanda D. Darwin Kimberly S. Davis

Friend Daniel W. Halston

Simon Dixon

John M. Harpootian

Anastasios Parafestas

Raymond Francis Dolen

Andrew C. MacLachlan

Michael I. Rothstein

Bruce F. Dravis

Suzanne Elizabeth Palmer

Anita J. Drew

Gay L. Schreiber

Friend Edward L. Corbosiero

Susan Elman

Donor John E. Arbab

Dean Graham Bostock

Eileen Paalz Baldwin

Steven D. Schwartz

William Alexander Bogdan

Timothy Shawn Sinnott

Paul A. Caimi Sharon L. Gerstman Chapman

Donor Frederick Smead Armstrong

Kelly Kevin Cline

Bruce H. Bagdasarian

James Howard Cohen

Linda G. Bauer

David G. Curran

Michael Joseph Betcher

Lawrence L. Athan Jr.

Stacey Orr Gallant Jay Steven Geller Rachel Goldberg Bruce Goldman Ronald M. Gootzeit David Mark Greenbaum Howard B. Haas Bonna Lynn Horovitz Carole Annette Jeandheur William Wade Kannel Ronald J. Katter Dennis L. Kern Debra Beth Korman James John Lang Aurelle S. Locke Thomas J. Luz Michelle Marie Marchant Christopher Howard McCormick Jeffrey Alan McCurdy Michaela Shea McInnis John Joseph Monaghan Andrew Grimes Neal Paul Vilaro Nelms Deborah Robin Novick Debra C. Price Joel E. Rappoport

CLASS OF 1985

Craig Alan Roeder

Fellow Steven V. Napolitano

Seth H. Ross

Meryl Litner Rosen

Paul Saltzman

Timothy F. Ryan

Barrister Jonathan L. Awner

Michael Robert Stern

James Andrew Schragger

C. Leland Davis Alan Stanford Fanger Laura Jean Ginett Jeffrey William Goldman Howard J. Goldsmith Michael K. Golub Ramon Rafael Gonzalez Alexandra Burling Harvey Elizabeth Marie Hayashi Joseph Martin Herlihy Janine Heather Idelson Joe D. Jacobson James Edward Jones Jr. Michael J. Kaminsky Paul B. Kaplan Felicia Miller Leeman

Wendy Nevett Bazil Maria-Elisa Ciampa

Barrister Mindy Gottlieb Davidson

Peter J. Dill Edward Andrew Fallone

Martin P. Desmery

Michael Philip Flammia Cynthia M. Gesner Monika Krizek Griffis Patricia M. Hickey Robert Iannucci Todd L. Kahn

Stephen Howard Kay

Jamie Klein Kapel Peter W. Kronberg John J. D. McFerrin-Clancy Ira N. Morris Rosemarie Mullin Robert P. Nault Bradd S. Robbins Kenneth N. Smolar Susan Lieberman Smotrich

Laurence Robert Bronska

Edgar Cleveland Snow

Kim W. Comfort

Oscar E. Soto

James T. Curtis

Amy J. Spitofsky

H. Peter DelBianco Jr.

Lynn B. Whalen

Eugene Feher

Pamela Hope Worstell

David L. Garfinkle

Charles C. Zatarain III

Elizabeth Lee Gibbs

Stephen Ziobrowski

John L. Hackett

CLASS OF 1989

Tracey Claire Kammerer

Dean’s Club Lisa G. Beckerman

Steven Michael Kornblau Lawrence S. Levin

Barrister Derek Davis

Daniel Steven Lubell Daniel Michael Marposon

Gary Domoracki

Todd Andrew Mayman

Christopher J. Panos

Thomas James Phillips

Richard Oliver Lessard

Dana Juan St. James

Stephen Jeffrey Levy

Perry Marshall Smith

Mark H. Likoff

D. Craig Story

David Robert Lyle

Walter G. Van Dorn Jr.

Mardic A. Marashian

Elahna Strom Weinflash

Andrew Lee Matz

Gwynne Gorton Zisko

Kathryn A. Piffat Andrew C. Sucoff Friend Randy L. Shapiro Donor Michael Bailes Daniel S. Bleck

Jayne E.M. McLaughlin

Aileen Denne Bolton

Cynthia Mead

Anthony A. Bongiorno Fall 2009

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Richard A. Brown

Shannon M. Heilman

R. Webb Steadman

Joan E. Cirillo

Lisbeth M. Bulmash

Richard William Jensen

Andrew W. Stern

Harold J. Feld

Stephen Cesso

Patrice S. Kester

George H. Thompson Jr.

Tim Futrell

Michael J. Chazan

Marie A. Lavalleye

Orlando Vidal

Lisa Greene Heller

Michael A. Conley

Joan A. Lieberman

Gwendolyn H. Yip

Vickie L. Henry

Ann M. Dietrich

Roger R. Lipson

David Gordon Yu

Ron I. Honig

Heidi Marie Fallone

Theodore A. Lund

John Fulginiti

Derek Bryan Matta

Jonathan Scott Gaines

Susan K. McClements

Sarianna T. Honkola

Henry David Megaw

Richard D. Kahn

Andrew D. Myers

Joshua Katz

Patricia L. O’Beirne

Corinne E. Lax

Jerrold Panich

Elizabeth L. Manning

Paul William Patten

Neal Elan Merker

Gary M. Rosen

John G. Nossiff

David L. Schrader

Andrea Celli Raiti

Julie B. Siminoff

Andrew N. Raubvogel

Willis Walker

Ronald E. Richter

Allen D. Webster

Barbara Lynne Shycoff

James S. Whitcomb

Eric L. Stein

Philip B. Ytterberg

Suzanne Schulze Taylor

CLASS OF 1992

Janet P. Judge Alexander D. Kisch

CLASS OF 1995 Dean’s Club David V Wooten Fellow Derrick Sean Cort Eugene Marvin Holmes Carla Munroe Moynihan

Fellow Susan F. DiCicco

Lisa Podewils Korologos

Barrister Douglas E. Cornelius

Richard Ira Lefkowitz

Barrister David H. Pawlik

Natascha S. George

Joseph J. Laferrera

James J Moynihan

James A. MacLeod

Friend Wendy Knudsen-Farrell

David M. McPherson

Donor Christopher R. Bush

Simon J. Miller

Donor Nikos D. Andreadis

Daniel Candee

Joseph P. Patin II

Kathleen Marie Conlon

Joanne L. Bauer

Edwin Huvon Raynor

Julie A. Dascoli

Douglas D. Robinow

Jeffrey D. Duby

Sheri L. Rosen

Sean F Eagan

Kevin T. Russell

Michaelanne Ehrenberg

Deborah L. Snyder

Abigail Hepner Gross

Catherine S. Stempien

Andrea Platner Hellman

Vanessa Tsourides

Lauren Panora Houghton

Seth R. Weissman

Glenn M. Johnson

Barry Philip Wilensky

Laura Stephens Khoshbin

Mark F. Williams

Stella Pei-Fen Lin

Darca L. Boom Charlsa Sandy Broadus Kristopher D. Brown Michael J. Brown Steven L. Elbaum

CLASS OF 1991

Jeffrey M. Frank Silvia P. Glick

Michael Ernest Tucker

Barrister Suzanne D.T. Lovett

Gerri Brother Weiss

Joseph L. Faber

Jill Gould

John B. Wholey Jr.

Thomas C. Farrell

Hilary M. Henkind-Plattus

CLASS OF 1994

Jonathan C. Wilk

Anna Therese Green

Michael Bennett Kanef

Steven Sereboff

Laura S. Kershner

Erin B. Newman

Benjamin Andrew Zelermyer

Fellow Regan P. Remillard

Friend John N. Riccardi

Jeffrey A. Levinson Rebeca C. Martinez

Barrister Dawn L. Goldstein

Moyahoena N. Ogilvie

Donor Evan H. Ackiron

Peter F. May

Andrew P. Strehle

Jeffrey A. Miller

Thomas F. Poche

Mitchel Appelbaum

John S. Nitao

Friend Alison T. Bomberg

Barrister Karyn Schwartz Blad

David Benfield

Michael S. Perlstein Kimberly A. Sigler

Leiv H. Blad Jr.

Emilie Anne Benoit

Donor Heather V. Baer

Mara D. Calame

Pierre N. Simenon

Rita L. Brickman

Eddirland D. Christel

David Scott Simon

Carolyn J Campbell

Maria D. Dwyer

Catherine Watson Koziol

Joseph Robert Ganley

Alexandra E. Trinkoff Louis K. Tsiros

CLASS OF 1990 Dean’s Club Mark S. Cheffo

Elizabeth S. Kardos Christopher A. Kenney Friend Andrew M. Felner

Benjamin S. Frisch

Donor James Jeffrey Berriman

Victoria E. Green

David J. Breen

Debra Ann Grossbaum

Malcolm L. Burdine Aline G. Carriere Ruth Bell Clark Allyson H. Cohen Barbara L. Cullen Andrew M. Cummings Steven M. Fishman Mrs. Elizabeth Livesay Fry Hilary C. Gabrieli Michael G. Giarrusso Edward J. Goddard Lawrence J. Goodman Jonathan J. Hass

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Kenneth B. Goldberg

CLASS OF 1993 15th Reunion

Gary Arthur Gegenheimer William J. Graham B. David Hammarstrom

President’s Associates Xinhua Howard Zhang

Lauren Simon Irwin

Fellow Aaron R. Sokol

Donald Paul Koch Jr.

Barrister James B. Goldstein

Theodore D. Lustig

Peter K. Levitt

H. Jefferson Megargel II

Lance A. Kawesch Robert A. Lawsky Howard Mandelcorn

Jeffrey N. Lavine

Ross M. Weisman

Paul B. Linn

Friend Stephen M. Edwards

Lynn S. Muster

Marc J. Rachman

Andrew J. Pitts

Laura McKay Deborah Musiker Eunhae Park Kim S. Sawyer Deborah L. Schenfeld Ann M. Sheridan

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Daniel Joseph Morean Christine A. Palmieri

Donor Lisa A. Bail

Ruth H. Silman

Sarah C. Baskin

Steven M. Ziolkowski

James T. Bork

Kenneth T. Willis

Catherine E. Long Colleen A. Murphy Colleen D. O’Connell Ian C. Pilarczyk William Harry Priestley Andrew E Seewald Cynthia M. Selya Ralph N. Sianni Ross D. Silverman Jeffrey Trey

CLASS OF 1996 Donor Nicole Telecki Berry Mia S. Blackler John M. Blumers Maureen Foley Connolly David A. Copland Lauren G. Dome Lisa Anne Gomez Charles A. Hope John J. Kelliher Matthew T. Levy Robert A. Maynez Mark K. Molloy Jaehong David Park Shirin Philipp Clare F. Saperstein Jon C. Schultze

Trishka Waterbury Joshua J. Wells Mara K. Youdelman

CLASS OF 1997 Donor Kimberly A. Altschul Antoinette L. Banks Michael S. Branley Sandra L. Cardone Michael T. Dougherty James M. Dowd Charlotte Edelman Richard Charles Farley Jr. Mayra L. Garcia Melissa Annette Juarez Matthew N. Kane Robert Gordon Kester Ronald Mark Leshnower Laura A. Malouf David Guigou Martin Kelly M. Miley Cornelius Joseph Murray Helen A. Muskus David Joseph Orticelli Elizabeth A. Perl Ari Brett Pollack

CLASS OF 1998 10th Reunion Barrister Tracy K. Evans-Moyer Richard Michael Jones Friend William F. Meehan Eric Rogers Donor Theonie J. Alicandro Lisa Bellanti Randall P. Berdan Austin B. Clayton Sandra K. Davis Jenny M. Fujii April L. Gruder Jennifer Horner Brian J. Knipe Eric D. Levin James C. McCarroll Ryan A. McDonald Christopher T. Meier Brenda A. Moffitt Milan K. Patel Michael S. Portnoy Michael J. Purvis

CLASS OF 1999 Dean’s Club Ryan K. Roth-Gallo Fellow Rebecca A. Galeota Donor Nathan T. Bouley Daniel J. Caffarelli Carrie E. Carbone Jeremy A. Colby James A. Crowell Anthony G. Di Maria Thomas R. Dussault John Paul Floom Kristen Byrnes Floom Jennifer E. Greaney Noah A. Hochstadt Sharon L. Holden Edward P. Kelly Melissa L. Paddock Gavin James Reardon Carl J. Ricci Kathleen J. Sher Elisabeth Calvert Smith Juan Manuel Vazquez

CLASS OF 2000 Barrister Mark E. Bamford Cindy Zee Michel Lee K. Michel Friend Timothy P. Heaton Donor Allison Michele Baker Franya G. Barnett Rachel B. Biscardi Michelle Cirillo Lynda L. Crews Marianne I. Geula Shera Gittleman Golder Thomas Gray Brendan J. Greene Nur-Ul Haq Jeffrey R. Katz Andrea Long Julianna Thomas McCabe Daniel Avram Miller Mary-Rachel Rosenfeld Julian A. Stapleford Cynthia Su-Lee Tsai Michael Patrick Twohig Adam M. Weisberger Tae-Hoon C. Won

Christine E. Radice

CLASS OF 2001

David F. Schink

Barrister John K. Gross Leiha Macauley

Donor Joseph L. Devaney III

Donor Michael S. Arnold

Friend John B. Koss

Kathleen M. Gabriel

Monique A. Austin

Christopher D. Strang

Sarah Elizabeth Hancur

Brian R. Chase

Colin Grant Van Dyke

Cynthia Lambert Hardman

Wendy L. Fritz

Melissa Toner Lozner

Marla Sharyn Grant

Donor Laura Barrese-Muller

Tony R. Maida

Berit H. Huseby

Rebecca Louise Bell

Daniel Marinberg

Kristin L. Jenkins

Nevin Boparai

John Maynard

Robert Victor Kanapka

Erick Ignacio Diaz

Jesse R. Moore

Catherine B. Kelleher

Jason W. Georgitis

Sharon Hussong Moscato

David A. Kluft

Elizabeth A. Gross

Matthew Kayl Smith

Donna Haber Kornberg

Andrew G. Heinz

Eric B. Tennen

Cristina M. Lopez

Krietta Kai Bowens Jones

Carolina Trujillo

Axel Kyrill Makoski

Daniel Kaufman

Alina Bowe Zanetti-Leon

Allison Pearsall Miller

Bradley W. Micsky

Kendrick D. Nguyen

Sherrie Avalon NilesThorne

CLASS OF 2002

Sheila Marie Pozon

Rachel D. Oshry

Barrister Joseph Zambuto

Elizabeth M.H. Russo

Julie A. Zovko

Sarah Avrick Tauer

Donor Marianne Fawzi Bechara

Heather R. Zuzenak

Gideon Reitblat

Benjamin J. Berger

CLASS OF 2004

Whitney French Seeburg

Anna Maria Carrasquilla

President’s Associates Russell Jay Stein

Alexander F. Speidel

Obert H. Chu Amber C. Coisman

Anita J. Pancholi

Michael D. Tauer

Miriam L. Pogach Elias L. Schilowitz

CLASS OF 2006

Mark R. Curiel

Barrister Daniel V. McCaughey

Melissa Nott Davis

Gregory Gallagher Nickson

Donor Christine Henry Andresen

Edward F. Dombroski Jr.

Anthony Jude Picchione

Wendy Wei-Hsing Chan

Timur Feinstein

Sean Chao

Tracy A. Hannan

Friend Julia Bell Andrus

John G. Hofmann

Matthew J. Andrus

Erika Farrell

John Christopher Jennings

Jun Qi

Michael Paul Franck

Sabre B. Kaszynski

Nicole J. Williams

David Suk-Bin Hong

Avi Meir Lev

Debra M. Koker

Ritu Madhure Manjunath

Donor Farhad R. Alavi

Venu M. Manne

Luciana Aquino-Hagedorn

Evelina Manukyan

Miller B. Brownstein

Joshua E. Levit

Kelly Ruane Melchiondo

Rebecca M. Ginzburg

Ruth Kristine Miller

Hemanth C. Gundavaram

Catherine Olender Neijstrom

Jason M. Hall

Lior J. Ohayon

Kaley E. Klanica

George B. Pauta Samuel B. Pollack Tal Simone Sapeika Toshihiro Ueda Fernando A. Vicente Catherine Mitchell Wieman Anne C. Wojewoda

CLASS OF 2003 5th Reunion Barrister Stephanie L. Ives Friend Andrew M. Yang

Alexandra D. Diaz-Almaral

G. James Kossuth Carly J. Munson Gladys Nathalia Osorio Ethan F. Ostrow Kevin S. Prussia

Jennifer M. Kiely

Melissa S. Rones Denise R. Rosenhaft

Dana Elizabeth Krueger

Joshua D. Roth

William S. Norton

J. Jordan Scott

Monica N. Sahaf

Mitchell Leff Stoltz

Leanne Elizabeth Scott

Michelle L. Wolf-Boze

Robert D. Smith

Sophia K. Yen

Loly Garcia Tor

Edward Gerald Zacharias

Cathryn Elizabeth Vaughn Brian P. Villarreal

CLASS OF 2007

CLASS OF 2005

Friend Sonia M. Bednarowski

Fellow Brian Douglas Eng

Andrea Tkacikova Donor Akintokunbo Akinbajo

Barrister Brook Leonard Ames

Mia M. Antonetti

Angela Gomes Fall 2009

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Lauren M. Arcoma

Daniel Schleifstein

Priscilla D. Nellis

Shanta A. Tewarie

Yihong Ni

Fellow William W. Park

James E. Fleming

Cheryl A. Cappiello Edson Timothy J. Famulare

Seth W. Thomson

Andrew J. Novak

Elias Schonberger

Susan M. Forti

Kristen L. Feeley

Claudia F. Torres

Kaitlin R. O’Donnell

Marjorie W. Sloper

Christopher Gabrieli

Adrianne Ortega

James Gammill

Rachel D. Phillips

Barrister Marlene H. Alderman

Robin M. Plachy

Ann Chase Allen

Wendy Jane Gordon

Sarah P. Gasper

Donor Jacinta Lynn Alves

Katherine A. Proctor

Sarah M. Eldridge

Peter B. Hadler

Jonathan A. Amar

Carissa Lynn Rodrigue

Tamar Frankel

Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel B. Green

Ian N. Jaquette

Julie Seta Babayan

Katelyn H. Rood

Neil Hecht

Matthew Grieco

Diana Jong

Margaret C. Barusch

Carolyn M. Rucci

Pnina Lahav

Linda Levine Grunebaum

James Joseph LaRocca

Joan M. Bennett

Gregory E. Santos

Laura Ruth Lane-Reticker

Margaret D. Hagopian †

Nathalie A. Le Ngoc

Alexander J. Burakoff

Julie Elizabeth Scourfield

William E. Ryckman Jr.

Joel B. Lofgren

Emily A. Cardy

Amit Sondhi

Craig Young

Mr. and Mrs. Quentin Holmes

Amy Hartmann Martell

Brenda C. Carr

Nellie E. Staley

Jon M. Martinez

Katrina N. Chapman

Erik J. Stone

Friend Michael J. Bohnen

Vera Rocio Martinez Lopez

Athena N. Cheng

Adaline R. Strumolo

Yoshihisa Masaki

Ann Chernicoff

Andrew Peter Sutton

Kunal Pasricha

Stephany Collamore

Kelly L. Swanston

Alynn Cassidy Perl

Zoe K. Cooper

Tanna V. Tanlamai

Lauren E. Reznick

Jessica Lynn Costa

Christopher J. Valente

Matthew I. Rymer

Matthew S. Cote

W. Verlenden

Kimberly A. Sexton

Jeannetta K. CraigwellGraham

Jeffrey L. Vigliotti

Benjamin P. Damsky

Tracy S. Zupancis

Jonathan H. Feiler Xun Feng Christopher Scott Feudo

Lindsey N. Singeo David W. Skinner Jordana Fish Sobey Amanda H. Stumm Ena Sungyun Suh Melissa E. Sydney Kenneth Nelson Thayer Anabella Vegas Zubeldia George J. Webber Brian K. Yoo

CLASS OF 2009

Mary C. Davis Lindsay Dembner Rebecca Jean Dent Kris David Desrosiers Ruha Therese Devanesan Carlos E. Duque Benjamin J. Eichel Rachel A. Evans Stephen R. Ferrara

Suzanne M. Young

CLASS OF 2010 Friend Mary Alice Hiatt Donor Courtney E. Hunter Adrienne Bossi Lauren M. Turner Rebecca H. Hicks

Robert G. Bone Milton P. Caster Lawrence A. Cohen Kristin Collins Michael C. Harper Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Kals Mr. and Mrs. Gerald F. Leonard Kevin Outterson Mark Pettit Jr. David J. Seipp Cornell L. Stinson Charles B. Swartwood III David I. Walker Larry W. Yackle Donor Anonymous Michael Baram

CLASS OF 2008

Daniel E. Fierstein

Fellow Adam H. Forkner

Bret A. Finkelstein

CLASS OF 2011

Paul Bellenoit

Michael S. Hacker

Donor Olga Yevtukhova

Sandra Butler

Barrister Moowi Kim Donor Jeffrey S. Arbeit Vincent M. Bidez Tasnin R. Chowdhury Jesse A. Fecker Ricardo Ganitsky Jessica M. Garrett Christine M. Gealy Penelope E. Gronbeck Kelly C. Holden Tomoko Imakita Haydon A. Keitner Geoffrey J. Klimas Rebecca L. Kurowski Mayalen Lacabarats Brandon S. McGathy Sara K. Mills Anna M. Schleelein

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Friends of bu law

Yasamine Hashemi James Hsiao

President’s Circle Anne F. Brooke

Erik J. Jensen

Sherryl W. Cohen

Matthew J. Kane David S. Kantrowitz

President’s Associates Marty Corneel

Sarah E. Kaskel

Richard L. Pearlstone

Jennifer A. Kennedy

Albert P. Pettoruto Jr.

Michelle A. Kick

Mr. and Mrs. John G. Snyder

Mitchell B. Klein Claire E. Koehler Arielle B. Kristan Daniel E. Levin Devra S. Lobel Jennifer Anne Lunsford Anat Maytal Nicole S. Murray Amrita K. Nangiana

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Mr. and Mrs. Donald Stern

Catherine Butler Joyce E. Cannon Daniela Caruso Douglas Campbell Chamberlain Frances B. Charles Michele A. Clopper Jeremy T. Cohen Mary Connaughton Frank J. Connors Ralph B. D’Amico Jr. Susan A. Debrigard Roisin Diamond

Kathleen Stern

Thomas Peter DiNapoli

Dean’s Club Randy Hertz

Margery E. Duffy

Jeffrey S. Huang Sally Mitchell James M. Molloy Maureen A. O’Rourke

Marian Dioguardi Mary Jane Eaton Ruth R. Faris Alan L. Feld Kristin C. Field Stanley Z. Fisher

Janet Fletcher

Bernard S. Gelber

Margaret B. Holton Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Hurley Nancy Lee Juskin Wendy Kaplan Jae & Cyndi Kim Sarah J. Kitchell Dr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Klein Lois H. Knight Andrew Kull Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Latimer Gary S. Lawson Kathryn Levi Eleanor G. Levine Karen J. Levit Mr. and Mrs. Bert Libon Priscilla Maureen Louie David B. Lyons Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Maletz Anel Martinez Loretta Mary McClary Mary Meenaghan Mr. and Mrs. Silvio Micali Kent D. Milligan Nancy J. Moore Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Nash Douglas F. Newman Rebecca Sachs Norris Elaine B. Ostroff Lois B. Parker Peter E. Pochi Mr. and Mrs. George J. Power Jr. Susan Ramsey Christine Relleva Marshall A. Ries Jr. Jennifer E. Roosa Norman L. Rosin David B. Rossman Patrick John Rowland Anne H. Sawmiller

Edith B. Schpero Dr. and Mrs. W. George Selig Anne W. Shea Katherine B. Silbaugh Kenneth W. Simons Joseph W. Singer Robert D. Sloane Gay Goslin Smith Anne C. Smith Thomas Snoeckx M. F. Sommerville Subbiah Subramanian Katherine Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sundquist

Peggy Meyerhoff Pearlstone Foundation

Thompson & Knight Foundation

Combined Jewish Philanthropies

The Schell Family Foundation

United Way of Rhode Island

Cooper Sapir and Cohen PC

Dean’s Club Community Foundation of New Jersey

West Corporation

Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation

Deloitte Foundation

Young Family Foundation

Fineman Realty Pertners

Friend Larry & Judy Cohen Foundation Inc. Fidelity Foundation LyondellBasell McDermott Will & Emery Charitable Fund McGuire Woods The Nellie Mae Education Foundation Inc. Newsweek Normand & Associates Ropes & Gray LLP Ruberto, Israel & Weiner, P.C. Peter B. Sang Revocable Trust Eugene P. Schwartz Family Foundation Seyfarth Shaw LLP Sprint Foundation Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Yoree Inc.

Goodwin Procter LLP Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP The Stein Family Foundation Inc. Fellow Biogen Idec Foundation

Louise Tagliavini

Abraham Fuchsberg Family Foundation Inc.

Mr. and Mrs. Jack & Roz Tarlow

Schonberger Family Foundation

Elizabeth M. Taylor Carol Tellefsen

The Gayda Family Foundation

Barbara Bowman Tobias

The Estate of Luke F. Kelley

Kathy C. Tomlin

Palace Head Foundation Inc.

Dr. and Mrs. William D. Tompkins Claudia N. Trevor-Wright David I. Walker Mr. and Mrs. John F. Walsh III John T. Weldon Jr. Charles Whitehead Laura Wiesen Elisabeth M. Wolfish

Corporations and Foundations President’s Circle Federated Investors, Inc Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Joseph F. Holman Irrevocable Trust Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Kleh Family Foundation Public Interest Project Student Auction The Estate of Mary G. Sullivan WilmerHale President’s Associates The C.E. & F.C.A. Foisy Foundation Hudson Valley National Foundation Inc. The McCausland Foundation Nissenbaum Law Offices Occidental Petroleum Corporation

Marjorie W. Sloper Charitable Foundation Barrister 120 Wooster LLC AMG Charitable Gift Foundation Choate Hall & Stewart, LLP Covington & Burling E. Joseph Evans Trust Farrell & Associates PC Adele and William Feder Private Foundation FJC Law Offices Of Victor J. Garo Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund Houghton Mifflin Company Jewish Community Endowment Foundation Kirkland & Ellis Foundation The Estate of Samuel H. Malinow McKenzie & Company Michel Family Foundation National Grid USA Service Company Inc. New York Stock Exchange Foundation Ryder System Charitable Foundation The Charles Schwab Charitable Fund Norman M. Shack Charitable Foundation Tax Executives Institute, Inc.

The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation

Donor Aetna Foundation Inc. American Biltrite, Inc. Charitable Trust Amica Companies Foundation Appleton & Appleton LLC Barrett Foundation Big Tiger Music Inc. The Law Offices of Wendy M. Bittner Blank Rome, LLP Boeing William S. Botwick Trust Braverman and Lester Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Brockton Animal Hospital Bryan Cave LLP Law Offices of Malcolm L. Burdine LLP Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP Law Offices of Frank Campbell The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation Cianflone & Cianflone,P.C. Coach

Microsoft Giving Campaign/Matching Prog.

The Minneapolis Foundation MMC

The Dorsey & Whitney Foundation

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Dow Jones & Company, Inc

Nacco Industries Foundation

Ernst & Young Foundation

Monroe & Florence Nash Foundation, Inc.

Felos & Felos, P.A.

Neighborhood of Affordable Housing

Fifth Third Bank Franciscan Hospital For Children

O’Melveny & Myers

Gabrieli Family Foundation Gannett Foundation Inc.

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker

GE Foundation Genentech Employee Giving Program

The Prudential Foundation Joseph L. Rome Charitable Trust

Giving Express Online Goldman & Pease LLC

Rosenberg & Giger P.C.

Goldman Sachs Graco Foundation

Honorable Angelo G. Rossi Scholarship Fund

The Grunebaum Family Fund

Seward & Kissel LLP Sid’s Carpet Barn Inc.

Hardings Law Offices

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Hartford Insurance Group Harvard University

Tappan Management Company

Harvard University Planning Office Holland & Knight LLP

Lillian P. Thomas Family Trust

IBM Corporation

Thomson Financial

Law Offices of Paul V. Jabour

Tower Hill School

John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company

UC Physicians Inc.

The Travelers Foundation United eWay

Johnson & Johnson

Upton & Hatfield, LLP

Kaplan Inc.

Webber & Webber

Law Offices of Ronald J. Katter

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Kawesch Law Group LLC

Wells Fargo Foundation

Kaye Scholer LLP Kee & Lau-Kee PLLC

Thomas F. Williams & Associates, P.C.

Kenney & Sams, P.C.

Zurn Sharp & Heyman LLP

Koletsky, Mancini, Feldman & Morrow Levit Law Group Judith & Lester Lieberman Foundation Herman David Luck Charitable Trust MacMaster Law Firm, Ltd Maletz Family Trust Law Offices of Bruce Matzkin LLC McDermott, Will & Emery LLC Mediation Resolution Metropolitan Life Foundation Fall 2009

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Alumni Volunteers 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 the BU Law experience. Thank you to our alumni volunteers and friends.

Alumni Association Executive Committee 2008–2009 Richard Karelitz, ’79 - President John J. Finn, ’80 – President Elect Christopher Kenney, ’90 – Vice President Carla Munroe Moynihan, ’95 – Vice President James Fox, ’86 – Vice President Andrew J. Ley, ’75 – Treasurer Kathryn Piffat, ’89 – Recording Secretary Leiha Macauley, ’01 – Corresponding Secretary Erica Mastrangelo, ’04 - Parliamentarian Christopher Strang, ’05 – Young Alumni Council President Richard Mikels, ’72 – National Law Fund Co-chair Oscar Wasserman, ’59 – National Law Fund Co-chair Joanne Acford, ’80 Susan Alexander, ’81 Peter Bennett, ’85 Timothy Blank, ’86 Leslie Bloomenthal, ’65 David Breen, ’90 Gerard Cohen, ’62 Derek Davis, ’89 Martin Desmery, ’87 Gary Domoracki, ’89 James Esdaile, ’70 Joseph Faber, ’91 Thomas Farrell, ’91 Michael Fondo, ’90 Carolyn Gabbay, ’76 Rebecca Galeota, ’99 Victor Garo, ’65 Celina Gerbic, ’91 Robert Glovsky, ’76 Mark Granger, ’76 Ernest Haddad, ’64 George Herlihy, ’47 Eileen Herlihy, ’82 Kay Hideko Hodge, ’72 Evan Kaplan, ’85 William Landau, ’59 Maureen MacFarlane, ’89 Lisa Martin, ’01 Karen Mathiasen, ’81

Edward McCarthy, ’62 Denzil McKenzie, ’76 Frances Miller, ’65 James J. Moynihan, ’95 James Normand, ’80 Andrea Nuciforo, ’89 Roger Putnam, ’51 Daniel Rea, ’74 Bruce Rogoff, ’83 Eugene Rubin, ’61 Jennifer Serafyn, ’01 Andrew Strehle, ’94 Andrew Sucoff, ’89 Neil Sugarman, ’51 Annabelle Terzian, ’51 William Tyler, ’51 Barry Weiner, ’66

2008 Reunion Committee Members Wallace Ashnault, ’58 Bernard Fielding, ’58 Jason Gottlieb, ’58 Harvey Resh, ’58 David Turner, ’58 Murray B. Weil, ’58 Arnold Zaltas, ’58 Jerald D. Burwick, ’63 Jim Fitzgerald, ’63 Karen Hersey, ’63 Richard Snyder, ’63 John Abodeely, ’68 Karin Blake, ’68 Marcus Cohn, ’68 Charles Douglas, ’68

Richard Steinkamp, ’68 David Vigoda, ’68 Eliot Zide, ’68 Dennis Greene, ’73 Kathy Greenleaf, ’73 Laura Kaster, ’73 Jane Michaels, ’73 Joan Gozonsky Chamberlain, ’78 Robert Volk, ’78 Gregory Cava, ’83 Steve Gustavson, ’83 Joel Maxman, ’83 Alan Zuckerbrod, ’83 Thomas J. Rechen, ’88 Elizabeth Bertolozzi, ’93 Vickie Henry, ’93 Ron Honig, ’93 Eric Kaplan, ’93 Bill Samers, ’93 Kim Atkins, ’98 Alexander Bopp, ’98 Tracy Evans Moyer, ’98 Kathleen Paralusz, ’98 Michael Portnoy, ’98 Eric Rogers, ’98 Bill Ryan, ’98 Mark Schamel, ’98 Cassandra Aquart, ’03 Deanna Gard, ’03 Debbie Ibrahim, ’03 Judith Jenkins, ’03 Mark Ford, ’03 Zach Smith, ’03 George Soterakis, ’03

Richard McCarthy, ’68

3L Gift Committee Brenda Carr, ’09 Ann Chernicoff, ’09 Stephany Collamore, ’09 Jeannetta Craigwell-Graham, ’09 Mitchell B. Klein, ’09 Claire Koehler, ’09 Danielle Nellis, ’09

Bruce Ramsey, ’68

Addie Strumolo, ’09

George Gormley, ’68 John P. Gillmor, ’68 Alan Granwell, ’68 Richard Hackel, ’68 Larry Kaplan, ’68 Jordan Krasnow, ’68

A special note of recognition and thanks goes out to the many members of the Young Alumni Council and students that helped build the BU Law Community both on and off campus.

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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. Please also feel welcome to contact us with any questions you may have or to discuss a gift.

Anthony Barbuto

John Nissenbaum

Executive Director of Development & Alumni Relations 617.353.7039 abarbuto@bu.edu

Leadership Gifts Officer 617.358.4756 jnissen@bu.edu

Roisin Diamond Assistant Director of Annual Giving 617.353.8012 huntr@bu.edu

Erin Elwood Alumni Officer 617.358.4873 erine@bu.edu

Kassie Tucker Senior Staff Coordinator 617.353.6647 ktucker@bu.edu

Cornell L. Stinson Assistant Dean for Development & Alumni Relations 617.358.5351 cstinson@bu.edu

Ernest Haddad Associate Dean of Special Projects 617.353.3154 ehaddad@bu.eu

To give a gift, go to www.bu.edu/law/alumni

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