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Widener University School of Law Board of Overseers Eugene D. McGurk Jr., Esq. ’78, Chair Dean Linda L. Ammons, JD, Ex Officio Renae B. Axelrod, Esq. ’91, Ex Officio Steven P. Barsamian, Esq. ’75 The Honorable Raymond A. Batten ’79 Scott E. Blissman, Esq. ’97 C. Grainger Bowman, Esq., Vice Chair John T. Carroll III, Esq. ’81 Michael G. DeFino, Esq. ‘75 The Honorable Susan C. Del Pesco ’75 Risa Vetri Ferman, Esq. ’92 Geoffrey Gamble, Esq. Jacqueline G. Goodwin, EdD Matthew M. Greenberg, Esq., Ex Officio President James T. Harris III, DEd, Ex Officio Richard K. Herrmann, Esq. The Honorable Randy J. Holland Robert A. Honecker Jr., Esq. ’81 Bret D. Keisling, Esq. ’05 Vice Dean J. Patrick Kelly, Ex Officio Peter M. Mattoon, Esq. Vice Dean Robyn L. Meadows, Ex Officio Kathleen W. McNicholas, MD, JD ’06 Edward B. Micheletti, Esq. ’97 George K. Miller Jr., Esq. ’81 Kathryn J. Peifer, Esq. ’02 Vivian L. Rapposelli, Esq. ’93 Scott W. Reid, Esq. ’02
National Advisory Council Thomas L. Sager, Esq. The Honorable Thomas G. Saylor John F. Schmutz, Esq. The Honorable Gregory M. Sleet Bernard W. Smalley Sr., Esq. ’80 Lee A. Solomon, Esq. ’78 Craig A. Styer, Esq. ’90 Lee Trainer, Esq. ’89 The Honorable Joseph T. Walsh John A. Wetzel, Esq. ’75 Douglas M. Wolfberg, Esq. ’96
Marc R. Abrams, Esq. ‘78 Michael J. Aiello, Esq. ‘94 Howard K. Alperin, Esq. ‘90 Miriam Benton Barish, Esq. ‘92 Carl W. Battle, Esq. ‘82 Kyle D. Bowser ‘91 Alexander Bratic Michael A. Brown, Esq. ‘91 Charlene D. Davis, Esq. ‘84 Claire M. DeMatteis, Esq. ‘92 Dr. Robert D. Gober, Esq. ‘79 Ronald P. Goldfaden, Esq. ‘76 Mitchell Gurwicz, Esq. ‘95 N. Lynne Hughes, Esq. ‘89 Brenda Alderman James, Esq. ‘92 Wayne D. Kimmel, Esq. ‘95 Alan B. Levin, Esq. ‘80 Robert O. Lindefjeld, Esq. ‘93 Kenneth J. Lopez, Esq. ‘95 Harry Dillon Madonna, Esq. ‘97 James J. Maron, Esq. ‘85 Eugene D. McGurk Jr., Esq. ‘78
Franklin A. Miles, Esq. U.S. Rep. Patrick J. Murphy, Esq. ‘99 John L. Reed, Esq. ‘91 Cynthia R. Ryan, Esq. ‘79 Leif R. Sigmond, Jr., Esq. ‘90 Timothy J. Snyder, Esq. ‘81 Douglas J. Steinhardt, Esq. ‘94 Alice W. Strine, Esq. ‘92 Leslee Silverman Tabas, Esq. ‘79 CAPT Robert P. Taishoff, JAGC, USN (ret.) ‘89 James J. Veneruso, Esq. ‘75 Richard P. Zaretsky, Esq. ‘75
“Education takes place outside and inside the classroom. The opportunities are not mutually exclusive, and I think that’s the more valuable lesson to take from this experience.” –Ashley Talley ‘13 on her experience studying in Widener Law’s Lausanne, Switzerland program
“We pushed the boundaries of our programs, created new relationships, and took advantage of tremendous opportunities that combine theory, skills, and service.” Dear Friends: The 2009-2010 academic year was filled with milestone celebrations. Among the most notable, we celebrated the 35th anniversary of our first Delaware class’s commencement and the 20th anniversary of the Harrisburg campus’s founding. It was also a year in which the word connectivity held great meaning for us. We pushed the boundaries of our programs, created new relationships, and took advantage of tremendous opportunities that combine theory, skills, and service. We not only trained our students for excellence in the legal profession, but our scholars also engaged other members of the academy and the practice, and we provided expertise to the greater global community. On the following pages, we can only summarize some of our achievements and activities of the past year and report how others perceived our contributions. I hope that after you read this report, you will conclude with us that it was a very good year. Thank you for your interest and for helping to make our successes possible. Sincerely,
Linda L. Ammons Associate Provost and Dean
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n 2009-2010, more than ever before, our neighbors—regional, national, and international—
sought our expertise, our leadership, and our solutions. The Widener Law community answered the call,
“ I believe in Widener.” Thomas L. Sager, Senior Vice President and General Counsel for E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company and Widener Law Overseer, speaking about Widener’s diversity initiatives at the 4th Annual Dean’s Leadership Forum on Diversity in Harrisburg
extending knowledge, sharing skill, and serving proudly. Through these connections, we sought new opportunities to develop and test theory, to teach it in innovative ways, and to lead in its application. As we prepare to enter our fifth decade, Widener Law is taking its accumulated experience and striking a productive and sustainable balance between theory and practice, between the academy, the legal profession, and the greater community.
“ When you leave here, if you choose, you will have the tools to make a difference in people’s lives every day.” U.S. Attorney for South Carolina and Widener Law alumnus William C. Nettles, delivering the Distinguished Lecture on Trial Advocacy and Professionalism to Widener students participating in the Harrisburg Intensive Trial Advocacy Program
“ These real-life experiences a or international organization substantially broaden the op
“I want to give Dean Ammons and the law school great credit. Law schools have a lot of priorities, and it says great things about the school that this was a priority.” Delaware Lieutenant Governor Matt Denn at the dedication of Widener Law’s new Delaware Campus Clinic Wing
“ We need solutions—not excuses, and her report offers many recommendations that we will work with the General Assembly, Attorney General Beau Biden, and others to make real.” Delaware Governor Jack Markell, expressing gratitude for Dean Linda Ammons’ independent review examining the state’s statutory and administrative procedures governing child sexual abuse
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allow students to work inside a government n with a focus on global health law issues, and pportunities available to Widener Law students.”
f Law Michele D. Forzley, speaking on students who secured global through the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and the U.S.
“[John] Dernbach made a statement that I appreciate because it casts the challenge of shifting norms for how we do things – whether writing laws, designing buildings,
Widener Law he possibilities endless.”
or teaching children…” Andrew Revkin, blogging for The New York Times
U.S. Representative Patrick J. Murphy ‘99 addressing the students and faculty during a visit to the Harrisburg Campus
ermesh’s appointment will enhance the ability of the SEC to promote ion by coordinating federal and state law in areas, including corporate which both sets of laws play a significant role.”
Meredith Cross, director of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance, speaking on Professor Lawrence A. Hamermesh’s appointment to serve as attorney fellow with the SEC’s Office of Chief Counsel of the Division of Corporation Finance
Preparing to Practice and Serve “The Widener Health Law program enabled me to broaden my understanding of the many issues facing the delivery of health care and the insurance industry. The quality of the instruction at the Health Law Institute was outstanding.” Richard F. Levins, LLM ‘91, vice president and deputy general counsel for Independence Blue Cross, speaking on the 20th anniversary of the Widener Health Law Institute
In a year of milestones, recognition, and new growth, the law school celebrated the anniversaries of signature programs in tandem with the launch of new, innovative initiatives. In October 2009, we celebrated the Harrisburg Campus’s 20th Anniversary with a Founders Day celebration. Speakers at the event—including Widener University President James T. Harris III, Anthony J. Santoro, the founding dean of the campus, and a number of professors, alumni, and friends of the school—paid tribute to the Harrisburg Campus’ pioneers, their vision, and the law school’s success in Pennsylvania’s capital.
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The Health Law Institute, directed by John Culhane, celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2009.
The same month, we launched the dual-campus Environmental Law Center, the first academic-civic initiative operated cooperatively by Harrisburg and Delaware faculty. A natural extension of one of the law school’s signature programs, the center marries the resources of the Delaware Campus’s Environmental and Natural Resource Law Clinic—which itself celebrated its 20th Anniversary in 2009—with the Harrisburg campus’s newly formed clinic of the same name. With the motto “Law for Sustainability,” the new center confers distinct advantages to faculty, students, and the community. Its distinguished faculty now has a formal venue in which to share expertise across campuses. Students have gained tremendous opportunities for practical experience in the discipline. Public and private decision-makers have gained an unparalleled resource when confronting legal issues related to the environment, energy, and climate change. More broadly still, the law school’s regional communities have gained new defenders of their natural resources. Through the Widener Law Environmental Help Line, operated by the new Harrisburg Environmental and Natural Resources
Law Clinic and funded by a grant from the Pennsylvania chapter of the Sierra Club, citizens can request legal assistance and information about environmental issues and the law. We invite you to learn more about the center’s activities at blogs.law.widener. edu/envirolawblog.
The center was not alone in marking milestones in 2009-2010, a year that in Delaware was begun with the dedication of the new public service wing. The law school’s first clinic, The Delaware Civil Law Clinic, celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2009. Since 1984 it has provided critical civil legal services to low-income members of our communities while affording our students vital opportunities to learn the practice of law and the value of service. The Health Law Institute celebrated its 20th anniversary,
capping two decades of innovative, multi-disciplinary programming that has earned it a national reputation. Like our environmental law program, the Health Law Institute marked its anniversary by launching a new program: the Health, Education, and Legal assistance Program: A Medical-Legal Partnership (HELP:MLP). This innovative program provides direct legal services to lowincome residents of Chester, Pennsylvania, working with them to resolve legal and social issues that negatively impact their health. On the Harrisburg campus, the Law and Government Institute celebrated its 10th anniversary, continuing to mesh the practical and academic study of administrative and legislative law, and launched a new program of its own: the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission Pro Se Representation Program. Other anniversaries included the Hugh B. Pearce Competition (20 years), the Legal Education Institute (15 years), and the Public Interest Resource Center (5 years).
Washington & Lee ranks the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law 1st among student-edited law journals based upon citations in federal and state court opinions under “Corporate Law” and “Business Law” and 10th among 411 specialized law reviews in the United States.
Internships, Externships, Fellowships, and Service Every year, a broad range of courts, law firms, corporations, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations offer our students invaluable opportunities to put what they’ve learned into practice. We are grateful for their willingness to engage these future legal professionals, to teach them, and to invest in the future of the profession.
Judicial Externship Placements Judge John A. Almeida Superior Court of New Jersey, Mt. Holly Judge Thomas L. Ambro United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, Wilmington, DE Judge Bruce F. Bratton Dauphin County Court of Common Pleas, Harrisburg, PA Judge Linda K. Caracappa United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania Judge Ellen Ceisler Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, PA Judge Alan N. Cooper Family Court of Delaware, Wilmington Judge Rose Marie DeFino-Nastasi Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, PA
Judge Michael A. Donio Superior Court of New Jersey, Mays Landing
Judge Richard A. Lewis Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County, PA
Judge Kathrynann W. Durham Court of Common Pleas of Delaware County, PA
Judge O. Robert Lidums Maryland Circuit Court, Elkton
Justice J. Michael Eakin Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Judge James J. Fitzgerald III Superior Court of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Judge Susan Peikes Gantman Superior Court of Pennsylvania, Conshohocken Judge Edward Griffith Court of Common Pleas of Chester County, PA Justice Randy J. Holland Delaware Supreme Court Judge Mary M. Johnston Delaware Superior Court, Wilmington Judge John E. Jones, III United States District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania Judge Kent A. Jordan United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, Wilmington, DE Judge Jan R. Jurden Superior Court of Delaware, Wilmington Judge Mary Hannah Leavitt Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg
Judge Jose L. Linares United States District Court, District of New Jersey
Judge Joseph R. Slights, III Delaware Superior Court, Wilmington
Cumberland County District Attorney’s Office
Chief Justice Myron T. Steele Delaware Supreme Court
Dauphin County Bar Association
Judge R. Barclay Surrick United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Justice Virginia Long New Jersey Superior Court, Trenton
Judge Allan L. Tereshko Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, PA
Judge Carol S. Moore-Wells United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Magistrate Judge Mary Pat Thynge United States District Court, District of Delaware
Judges Michael K. Newell Family Court of Delaware, Wilmington
Judge Charles H. Toliver, IV Delaware Superior Court, Wilmington
Judge James F. Nilon Court of Common Pleas of Delaware County, PA
Judge Aida Waserstein Delaware Family Court, Wilmington
Judge J. Wesley Oler, Jr. Court of Common Pleas of Cumberland County, PA Judge Ann A. Osborne Court of Common Pleas of Delaware County, PA Vice Chancellor Donald F. Parsons Delaware Court of Chancery, Wilmington
Judge Jeffrey D. Wright Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County, PA
Additional Internship, Externship, and Public Interest Law Placements
Dauphin County District Attorney’s Office Dauphin County Public Defenders Office Delaware Attorney General’s Office Delaware Court of Chancery Delaware Department of Justice Delaware Department of Public Health and Social Services Delaware Public Defenders Office Delaware Supreme Court Delaware Volunteer Legal Services (DVLS) Domestic Abuse Project Doroshow Pasquale Krawitz & Bhaya Essex County Superior Court First Judicial District of Pennsylvania Food Bank of Delaware Fugitive Safe Surrender Geller, Wiley, Petro & Robinson
Acquista & Associates, P.C.
Goldberg Katzman
American Legislative Exchange Council and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
Gonser & Gonser, P.A
Judge Mardi F. Pyott Family Court of Delaware, Dover
Armstrong Industries
Handler Henning
Benedetti & Lowe
Harrisburg City Solicitor’s Office
Judge Timothy R. Rice United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Boys and Girls Clubs of America
Harrisonburg Virginia Downtown Renaissance
Justice Henry duPont Ridgely Delaware Supreme Court
Burlington County Public Defenders Office
Judge Sue L. Robinson United States District Court, District of Delaware
Butler County Public Defenders Office
Judge Andrea L. Rocanelli Delaware Court of Common Pleas, Wilmington Judge Jane R. Roth United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, Wilmington, DE
Chief Judge Gregory M. Sleet United States District Court, District of Delaware
Camden County Prosecutor’s Office Chester County District Attorney’s Office Cincinnati Insurance Colage of Delaware Comcast Interactive Media (CIM) Committee of Seventy Community Legal Aid Society, Inc. (CLASI) Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Culpeper County Commonwealth Attorney’s Office
Hawke McKeon Herr & Low, P.C. ING DIRECT Legal Department Judiciary of the State of New Jersey Kings County District Attorney’s Office Latin American Community Center Law Office of Joseph P. Nahas Law Office of Stephanie J. Brown, Esq. Lebanon County District Attorney’s Office Legal Aid of Southeastern Pennsylvania Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin McNees Wallace
H. Albert Young Fellow in Constitutional Law Professor James R. May and Distinguished Professor John C. Dernbach at the October 2009 launch of the dual-campus Environmental Law Center
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Judge Calvin L. Scott Delaware Superior Court, Wilmington
Bucks County Office of the Clerk of the Court
Gover, Perry & Shore Law Firm
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Widener Law Professor James W. Diehm, a founding member of the Widener-Harrisburg faculty,speaks at the Harrisburg Campus Founders Day Celebration.
Middlesex County Public Defender MidPenn Legal Services Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office Morgan and Lewis LLP Morris County Prosecutor’s Office
Social Security Administration, Office of General Counsel
Nationalities Service Center
South Jersey Legal Services
New Castle County Court of Common Pleas
Superior Court of Delaware Superior Court of Pennsylvania
New Jersey Appellate Division
Swartz Campbell
New Jersey Attorney General’s Office
The Pardons Project
New Jersey State Parole Board
Tyco Electronics Corporation
New Jersey Supreme Court New York University Medical Center
United Nations Headquarters Department of Political Affairs
North Carolina Department of Justice
United States Army
Office of the Attorney General of Maryland
United States Attorney’s Office
Office of the State’s Attorney for Allegany County, MD
United States Coast Guard
United States Bankruptcy Court United States District Court for the District of Maryland
Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office Pennsylvania Board of Pardons Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole Pennsylvania Coalition against Rape Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court
Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission
Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas Orphan’s Division
Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Pennsylvania Criminal Defense Clinic Pennsylvania Department of Banking Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Pennsylvania Department of Education Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Pennsylvania Department of State Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Pennsylvania Housing and Finance Agency
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Pennsylvania Office of the Inspector General
Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Philadelphia Defender’s Association Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office Philadelphia Law Department Philadelphia Public Defenders Office Potter Anderson & Corroon Project for Older Prisoners (POPS) Program Project for Older Prisoners - SURJ Public School Employee’s Retirement System Rhoads & Sinon
Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission
Riley and Fanelli, P.C.
Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board
Schmidt Kramer
Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General
Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis
Pennsylvania Office of the Consumer Advocate
SAP America’s Inc.
Schrom & Shaffer, P.C. Segal, McCambridge, Singer & Mahonoy Shapiro Law Office, P.C.
United States District Court for the District of New Jersey United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania United States Navy Judge Advocate General Corps United States Patent and Trademark Office United States Trustee Program University of Pennsylvania Quaker Classic Mock Trial Veterans Law Clinic Villanova Islamic Foundation Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA) Wake County Public Defender’s Office Widener Law Consumer Bankruptcy Clinic Widener Law Delaware Civil Law Clinic Widener Law Environmental Law Clinic
Endowed and Sponsored Scholarships, Student Awards, and Fellowships 2009-2010
Howard Berg Scholarship John C. Warrington Memorial Scholarship Nancy and Howard Finkelman Scholarship Pamela Karpouzis Memorial Scholarship Paul Isaac Leiter Memorial Scholarship Pennsylvania Bar Foundation Minority Scholarship
By endowing and sponsoring student awards, scholarships, and fellowships, our alumni and friends embrace and encourage excellence in legal scholarship and reward professional potential.
Thomas S. Lodge Memorial Scholarship
ENDOWED AND SPONSORED SCHOLARSHIPS
ENDOWED AND SPONSORED STUDENT AWARDS
Alexander V. Sarcione, Jr. Memorial Scholarship
Alexander V. Sarcione, Jr. Memorial Award
Alfred Avins Memorial Scholarship
Charles J. Zencey Memorial Award
Angelina & Victor Piccone Memorial Scholarship
Commercial Bar Review Awards
Pennsylvania Bar Foundation Scholarship Taishoff Family Endowed Scholarship
Bank of America Scholarship
Dean Arthur A. Weeks Outstanding Service Award
Bernard S. Wildstein Scholarship
E. John Wherry Jr. Award
Bruce M. & Elizabeth M. Monroe Scholarship
Graham Foundation Award
Charles P. Mirarchi, Sr. Memorial Scholarship
GreenWatch Institute Award in Memory of Charles Zencey
Dean Anthony J. Santoro Scholarship
GreenWatch Institute Scholarship Award in Memory of Jerry Shields
Dean’s Minority Student Scholarship
Howard M. Berg Award
Delaware Association of Lawyers’ Spouses Scholarship
International Academy of Trial Lawyers Award
E. Wallace Chadwick Memorial Scholarship
James S. Bowman American Inn of Court Award
Edmund Dobrowolski Memorial Scholarship
John A. Fillion Memorial Award
Esther F. Clark Memorial Scholarship
Judge J. Cullen Ganey Criminal Procedure Award
Fairfax Leary, Jr. Memorial Scholarship
Lindsay Law Library Award
Friends of Widener University School of Law Scholarship
Lucinda Peipher Memorial Award
George C Blissman, Sr. Memorial Scholarship
Nicole Cullison Memorial Award
Most Promising Civil Litigator Award Patricia N. Holsten Memorial Award for Public Interest Pro Bono Service
Widener Law Harrisburg Civil Law Clinic
Harvey Alan Chernoff Memorial Scholarship
Widener Law Veterans Law Clinic
Hon. James C. Crumlish Scholarship
Wills for Heroes
Hon. Joseph W. deFuria Scholarship
Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association James J. Manderino Award for Trial Advocacy
World Health Organization (WHO)
Hon. Ned L. Hirsh Memorial Scholarship
Reed Hamilton Memorial Award
YWCA Domestic Violence Legal Clinic
Hon. William Duffy Memorial Scholarship Honey F. Golby Memorial Scholarship
The Honorable Helen S. Balick Award The Honorable Joseph W. deFuria Commencement Award
Widener Law’s MJ in Corporate Compliance is one of only five programs approved by the Corporate Compliance Board and the only such program approved in the United States.
Thomas P. Lomax and Nicholas Theodore Memorial Award
Margaret F. England
James G. Lare
Thomas Russo
Cary L. Flitter
Hon. Richard A. Lewis
G. Philip Rutledge
William J. and Ella C. Wolf Award in Real Property Law
Jennifer Fontaine
Alexandra Makosky
Hon. Thomas Saylor
Selected Symposia, Conferences, and Other Programming
William J. Conner Memorial Award for Administrative Law
Mary Jane Forbes
Terrence J. Marlowe
Rebecca Scalio
July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2010
Michele D. Forzley
Edward M. Marsico
Daniel R. Schuckers
Patricia Fox
Mary K. Marzolla
Mary Catherine Scott
Robert B. Furr, Jr.
Thomas J. McCarthy
Raymond Scott
Ruth Ganister
Michael S. McGinniss
Keith Sealing
Kara K. Gendron
David B. Miller
Hon. Brendan Shannon
Virginia Gibson
George K. Miller
Martin J. Siegel
James L. Goldsmith
Linda Mischler
John S. Sitzler
As the only law school in Harrisburg and in Delaware, Widener Law takes seriously its obligation to provide on both campuses a regional venue for legal scholarship and professional development. Following is a selection of programming held during academic year 2009-2010.
Zelda K. Herrmann Memorial Cup Award
SPONSORED FELLOWSHIPS Domestic Violence Research and Advocacy Fellowship DuPont Public Interest Fellowship E. Wallace Chadwick Constitutional Education Fellowship
Eileen Grena
Scott J. Mitnick
Joseph G. Skelly
John F. Schmutz Corporate and Business Law Institute Fellowship
Richard G. Handler
Bruce M. Monroe
Hon. Gregory M. Sleet
W. Bruce Hemphill
Gerald P. Morano
William M. Sloane
Tabas COVEAR Student Coordinator
Neil Hendershot
Alexander Murphy Jr.
Verne R. Smith
Major Roy A. Hilferty
Marion R. Newbold
Christopher M. Spletzer
Matthew I. Hirsch
Dr. Andrew Newman
Hon. Patricia Tate Stewart
Adjunct Faculty Our adjunct faculty are exceptional practitioners who bring real-world perspective and specialized experience to expand and enrich our students’ understanding of the law.
Hon. Randy J. Holland
Hon. George Winthrop Overton
Jean Stoyer
Vera Holmes
Mary Alice Peeling
James Stuhltrager
Janine Howard-O’Rangers
Pam L. Perry
Susan Sullivan
John C. Andrade
Damian Sean Jackson
Samantha J. Prince
Kenn Tacchino
Hon. Jack B. Jacobs
Russell C. Raphaely
Randi Blackman Teplitz
Mary Jacobson
Mary Kay Rauenzahn
Roseann B. Termini
Sara A. Austin Jill Baisinger Patti Bednarik William A. Behe Carol A. Benson John S. Benson Hon. Robert G. Bigham David A. Breen Hon. William C. Carpenter, Jr. John T. Carroll III James H. Cawley Gregory P. Cermignano Monica Cliatt Kathleen Conn Hon. Robert B. Coonin Patricia Dailey-Lewis Robert H. Davis Jr. Vincent C. DeLiberato, Jr. James D. Dinnage Karen Durkin Hon. J. Michael Eakin Michael Patrick Edmiston
Riki Redente
Hon. Dexter M. Thompson, Jr.
Regina M. Reidenberg
Kathleen M. Turezyn
John G. Knorr
Michael E. Riley
Robert J. Valihura
Jonathan Krinick
Dr. Philip L. Rothbart
Alfred P. Vitarelli Jane W. Voegele Hon. Joseph T. Walsh Bruce Warshawsky John R. Washlick Edward J. Weiss John A. Wetzel Royce A. White Samantha J. L. Wilson Michael Wiseman Harry L. Witte Douglas M. Wolfberg Rafael X. Zahralddin-Aravena Barbara A. Zemlock
CLE Program – The Language of Justice: Administrative Agencies for Judges and Court Interpreters Dean’s Leadership Forum on Diversity – An Idea Becomes an Ideal in Central Pennsylvania and Beyond Delaware Board of Bar Examiners PreAdmission Conference Delaware County Alumni CLE Program – Email, Ethics & Metadata Delaware Supreme Court Oral Arguments Delaware Valley Legal Writing Consortium, Fourth Semiannual Meeting Distinguished Jurist in Residence Thomas G. Saylor Lecture and CLE Program – The Nature of Judging Federalist Society Debate – The Right to Bear Arms Federalist Society Presentation – Do We Trust Judges Too Much? Did the Framers? Federalist Society Presentation, featuring Michigan Supreme Court Justice Stephen Markman – The Constitutionality of Capital Punishment Forty-Second Annual Delaware Tax Institute Fourth Annual John L. Gedid Lecture – Rethinking Bankruptcy Law in the Aftermath of a Financial Crisis Harrisburg ITAP Lecture, featuring United States Attorney (SC) William C. Nettles, Esq. ’92 – Trial Lawyers: Phantom Instruments of Change
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Professors John Gedid and Wesley Oliver, of the Law and Government Institute, which celebrated its 10th Anniversary in 2009-2010
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Bartholomew J. Dalton
Hon. Harold U. Johnson, Jr. Melanye K. Johnson
ACLU Conference on School Discipline – Exploring the Options
Leadership, Scholarship, Teaching “There’s probably not a month that goes by that I don’t remind myself of a quote that Professor Diehm, my evidence professor, made...” Scott Blissman ‘97
At the local, state, and federal levels, among their colleagues, and in front of their students, our faculty realized the success that comes with exceptional scholarship, engagement, and leadership in 2009-2010. Our students, the primary beneficiaries of their efforts, learned from professionals at the top of their fields, whose scholarly works are cited with increasing frequency, and whose expertise is in unprecedented demand. The following is a sampling of their recent accomplishments. Professor Lawrence A. Hamermesh was appointed to serve as attorney fellow with the Office of Chief Counsel of the Division of Corporation Finance at the Securities and Exchange Commission. In his position with the SEC, Professor
Hamermesh will provide counsel on issues related to coordinating federal securities law and state corporate law. Professor Juliet M. Moringiello was appointed the Robert Professor Lawrence A. Hamermesh was appointed to serve as attorney fellow with the Office of Chief Counsel of the Division of Corporation Finance at the Securities and Exchange Commission.
M. Zinman American Bankruptcy Institute Resident Scholar
for the spring 2010 semester, assisting the ABI with its education programming on bankruptcy information. Professor John L. Gedid was appointed to the Pennsylvania
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Bar Association Constitutional Convention Commission,
which will examine the Pennsylvania constitution and make recommendations for revisions. Professor Gedid also received the James S. Bowman Award from the Pennsylvania Bar Association Administrative Law Section, which honors an attorney who is influential in the practice of administrative law in the state.
Associate Professor Jill E. Family was awarded the National Administrative Law Judiciary Foundation’s 2010 fellowship, which encourages research and scholarship that
promote the improvement of administrative justice. Professor Family’s fellowship work will examine the lack of transparency in immigration law and how it contributes to problems in the immigration court system. Distinguised Professor John C. Dernbach received the 2010 award for distinguished service to the profession from
the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Environmental and Energy Law Section. Associate Professor Nicholas A. Mirkay III was honored with the Red Ribbon Humanitarian Award, given by the Delaware HIV Consortium in recognition of his efforts to improve the consortium and the community. Professor James R. May was elected a fellow of the American College of Environmental Lawyers, a professional
association of distinguished private-sector attorneys who practice environmental law. Widener Law faculty published six books in 2009-2010: D. Benjamin Barros, ed., Hernando De Soto and Property in a Market Economy (Ashgate 2010). John D. Dernbach, Writing Essay Exams to Succeed in Law School (Not Just to Survive) (3rd ed., Aspen 2009). Michael R. Dimino, Bradley Smith & Michael Solimine,
Voting Rights and Election Law (LexisNexis 2010).
Members of the media solicited the Widener Law faculty’s expertise 421 times last year.
Associate Professor Jill E. Family was awarded the National Administrative Law Judiciary Foundation’s 2010 fellowship.
Health Law CLE Program – Health Care Reform: Are We There Yet? Second Annual Health Law Institute Regulatory Compliance Program – Issues in the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Industries Institute of Delaware Corporate and Business Law CLE and Webcast – The Intersection of Federal Bankruptcy and State Corporate Law Law and Government Institute Presentation – Health Care Fraud and Abuse in an Era of Reform Legal Information Center CLE Program – Free and Low-Cost Online Legal Research Legal Methods Faculty CLE Program – Thurgood Marshall: A Persuasive Practitioner, a Solicitous Scholar, and a Just Jurist Martin Luther King Day Commemorative Program – Tribute to the Honorable Murray M. Schwartz Pennsylvania Bridge the Gap Program Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole Training and CLE – Understanding the Pennsylvania Parole System: Outcomes, Operations, Objectives
Jean M. Eggen, Toxic Torts in a Nutshell (Nutshell Series, Thomson West 4th ed. 2010). David R. Hodas, et al., Climate Change Law: Mitigation and
Adaptation (West Group 2009). Juliet M. Moringiello, ed., Bankruptcy Overview:
Issues, Law and Policy (6th ed., American Bankruptcy Institute 2010). Five members of the Widener Law legal writing faculty captured four of seven competitive summer scholarship Directors and the Legal Writing Institute. The professors,
Alison Donahue Kehner, Mary Ann Robinson, Jean K. Sbarge, Jennifer Lear, and Amanda Smith, represent both Widener Law campuses.
Widener Law Journal Symposium – Internet Expression in the 21st Century: Where Technology and Law Collide Widener Law Review Symposium – Health Law & the Elderly: Managing Risk at the End of Life
Alexander & Ann Bratic Jurists’ Society Robert D. Gober Walter & Alice Strine Chancellors’ Club George Miller Jr. Leslee Silverman Tabas
Wills for Heroes
Ambassadors’ Club
Wise Latina Day – Justice Sonia Sotomayor and the U.S. Supreme Court
Marc Abrams Douglas Wolfberg Partners’ Club Anthony Clark
Honor Roll of Donors For Gifts Received July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2010
Michael DeFino & Valerie DeFino
Leadership Circle $100,000 +
Harry Dillon Madonna
Founders’ Club $50,000-$99,999
Bruce & Elizabeth Monroe
Jurists’ Society $25,000-$49,999
Twenty-Fifth Annual Francis G. Pileggi Distinguished Lecture in Law – When the Government is the Controlling Shareholder: Implications for Delaware
Chancellors’ Club $20,000-$24,999
Fifth Annual Raynes McCarty Lecture – Health Care Reform: The Long View
Partners’ Club $5,000-$9,999
Taishoff Advocacy, Technology and Public Service Institute Conference – Innocence and Forensics
Founders’ Club
Ambassadors’ Club $10,000-$19,999
Ronald Goldfaden Richard Herrmann Dr. Kathleen McNicholas Hon. Joseph Walsh John & Donna Wetzel Stephen Wirth Benefactors Linda Ammons Carl Battle Jonathan Bigley Scott & Tanya Blissman James Bohorad Hon. Ida Chen
Benefactors $2,500-$4,999
Antonio Ciccone
The National Judicial College – Administrative Law: Advanced Seminar
Dean’s Council $1,500-$2,499
Joel & Kim Feller
Annual Sports and Entertainment Law CLE Symposium – Sports, Film/TV, Music, & Ethics
Law School Associates $1,000-$1,499
Alan & Ellen Levin
Bench and Bar Club $500-$999
Eugene McGurk Jr.
United States Veterans Court of Appeals Oral Arguments Veterans Law Symposium and CLE – Basic Veterans Law Visiting Scholar Michelle Harner – Activist Distressed Debtholders: The New Barbarians at the Gate?
Century Club $250-$499 Leadership Circle CAPT Robert Taishoff, JAGC, USN (ret.)
John Clark Jr. Wayne Kimmel M. Jane Mahoney Edward & Melissa Micheletti Thomas Nason II Brendan & Jennifer Ratigan Alexander & Nancy Sarcione Leif Sigmond Jr.
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grants, awarded by the Association of Legal Writing
Eleventh Annual E. John Wherry, Jr. Distinguished Lecture on Trial Advocacy and Professionalism, featuring Superior Court Judge John A. Parkins, Jr.
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Distinguished Professor John C. Dernbach, left, and Robert B. McKinstry Jr., the receipients of PBA distinguished service awards
Dean’s Council Hon. Raymond Batten Gary & Soyce Beste Todd Victor Clark
Charles Knothe & Mary Knothe
Century Club
Bob & Eileen Cooper
Jonathan Krinick & Susan Goldberg
Joseph Alacqua & Susan Alacqua
Hon. Susan Del Pesco
Theodore Kurlowicz & Alexandra Kurlowicz
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald A. Amarant
Claire DeMatteis Mitchell Gurwicz
Jean Woodson Lodge
Harold Anderson
W. Bruce & Dorothy Hemphill
Kenneth Lopez
Andrew Appel
Robert Honecker Jr. & Kim Roberts
Sharon Lopez
Jennifer Armstrong
Brenda James
Roger Margolis
Norman Ashworth & Ann Ashworth
Andrew & Heather Doheny Jefferson
Jane P. Maroney
Robert Ayars & Barbara Komar Ayars
James May & Dr. Kathleen Siren
Hon. Joshua W. Martin III
Kathy Banfield
Robert McCann
James McGann
John Barr
Kevin & Deborah McCreery
James McMahan III
Patrick Barry
Nathaniel & Cheryl Nichols
John D. Leekley Jr.
Peter Chamas
Joseph & Teresa Miller
Martin Belisario
John Pachkowski & Mary Alice Peeling
Kevin McCann & Sheila McCann
Joel Chernock
Rick & Jennifer Miller
Gary Berg
Hon. Paul Panepinto
Carolyn Mary McNeice
Todd & Dana Harrington Conner
Nicholas Mirkay III
George & Kristen Opdenhoff Bibikos
Robert & Kathryn Pincus
James & Mike McQueeny
Craig DeFazio
Hon. Marianne Ossmer Mizel
Maribeth Blessing
Alan & Rita Polonsky
Robyn L. Meadows
Arthur Dent
Maria Moffa
David Brown
John Reed
Franklin A. Miles Jr.
Alice Eakin
Michael A. Monteleone
Joshua Burg
Dr. Philip Rothbart
Anthony Morash
Hon. J. Michael Eakin
Bruce Mundorf
Joseph & Kathleen Curry Burke
Thomas Sager
Hon. George Overton
Hon. Maureen F. Fitzpatrick
Richard Nelson & Roberta Mann
Kathleen Burke
John & Eileen Schmutz
Robert Pasquale & Barbara James
Patricia Fox
Hon. John O’Grady
Richard Burridge
Timothy & Shirley Snyder
Carl and Arlene Pearce
James Francis & Theresa Kilcur
Rosemary Pall
Henry Butehorn
James Veneruso
Francis Pileggi Sr.
Geoffrey Gamble
Steve Parsons
Anthony Capone
Hon. William T. Quillen & Marcia Quillen
John and Carol Gedid
A. Charles Peruto Jr.
Jerome Capone
Eileen Caplan Seaman
Bruce George
Robert C. Power
John Capowski
Bernard Smalley
Gretchen Gilchrist
Charles Proctor III & Maria Proctor
Hon. John P. Capuzzi
Lee Solomon
Jay Ginsburg & Sherry Ginsburg
Michael Reid II
Philip Trainer Jr.
Michael J. Goldberg & Anne Goldberg
Hon. M. DeSales Haley Reis
Hon. William Cecil Carpenter Jr. & Marilyn Carpenter
Karen Ulmer
Jacqueline Goodwin
Hon. Maurino Rossanese Jr.
Francis Catania Jr.
Edward and Anne Waldron
H. Barton Greenspan
G. Philip Rutledge
Dennis Citron
Donald Walsh & Joyce Walsh
Gary & Nancy Catania Gremminger
Thomas Savitsky
M. Blake Cleary
Richard E. Weltman
Gerald B. Halt Jr.
Andrew Schaeffer
Francis Clifford
Robert L. Hayman Jr.
Martin Sendek & Laury Sendek
Ann E. Conaway
Selma Hayman
Charles Shurr
Matthew Connahan
Barbara Silver Hutcheon
Donald Smith
Michele Conte
Damian Jackson
William Snell
Alan Cooper
Michael & Margaret Jacobs
Min Suh
Deborah Cooper
Lisa Jaeger
Thomas Uliase & Carolyn Badger Uliase
Michael Cozzillio
Michael Joyce
David T. Videon & Lynn Videon
George Dale & Mary Dale
Bret Keisling
J. Scott Watson & Laura Watson
Mario D’Alfonso
Jay & Bebe Kivitz
Charles Williams & Janelle Williams
Richard Deitrick
Stephen Klincewicz
Michael Wolanski
Frank DePasquale Jr. & Lisa DePasquale
Law School Associates Spiros Angelos Steven Barsamian Michael Brown Carroll Morgan Carpenter Stephen & Pamela Carroll The Late Hon. Francis J. Catania Vincent Ciecka Robert DeLong Jr.
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Alissa Balotti Anderson
William Paul Fedullo
Bench and Bar Club
Cary & Nancy Flitter
Diane Andrews
Holly Barbera Freed
Dale & Barbara Trevisan Ardizzone
Paula Garrison
Renae Beth Axelrod
Don & Deborah Ginsburg
G. Alan & Denise Nagle Bailey
Matthew & Nancy Gitterman
Alan Belfus & Linda Belfus
Robert T. Greaney
C. Grainger Bowman & Sandra Bowman
Vera Holmes & Hon. Charles Toliver IV
Milton Brown & Yvonne Brown
Leslie Johnson
Thomas Bullock
Samuel Ariel Landy
Widener Law faculty published 48 articles within the last year. They also published 6 books, 7 book chapters, and 44 other assorted works.
Associate professor michael r. dimino was one of six faculty to publish a book in 2009-2010.
Ronald DeSimone
Richard Handler & Susan Handler
Randy & Brenda Lee
Michael Diamondstein
Stephanie L. Hansen
Paul Lefebvre
James & Cathleen Diehm
Edwin & Susan Carroll Harron
Robert Lindefjeld
Linda Blanchfield Dillow
William Heimbuch
Michael Lione & Madeline Lione
Jennifer DiMario
Roger Holcomb & Catherine Holcomb
Daniel R. Losco
Eugene & Marie Janton DiPrinzio
Craig Hoogstraten
F. Kevin Lynch & Isabel Warren-Lynch
Douglas E. DiSandro & Patricia DiSandro
Harry P. Hurvitz
Robert Mallard
Stuart Doctorovitz
Gregory Jacobs
Mary Jane Mallonee
Hon. Michael A. Donio
Clay Jester & Ann Jester
Francis Marshall Jr.
Gerald Strubinger Jr. & Carolyn Strubinger
Rex Donnelly
Daniel Johnson
Lynn Martosella
Heather Tereshko
Lisa Duda
Guy V. Johnson & Diane Lawson
Mary Marzolla
Mardi Thompson
Karen Durkin & David Twaddell
Patrick and Marcia Johnston
Peter & Joan Mattoon
Rebecca W. Tulloch
Erin Edwards
Hon. Jan R. Jurden
Gregory McCarthy
Clare Uses
Margaret Fleming England
Craig Karsnitz & Kathiann Karsnitz
Harry McCurdy
Christine Sudlow Ewan
Benjamin W. Keenan
Joseph McGowan Jr.
John Fenerty Jr.
Linda L. Keichline
Robert McPherson
Christina Fisher
Eleanor Kelly
William Meehan
Stephen Fogarty
James & Sharon Brady Kelley
Susan Mensch
Ann Fruth
J. Patrick and Victoria Kelly
Todd Miller
Peter Geraghty
Rosemary Killian
Amil Minor
Lawrence Gibson
Stephanie Kleinfelter
Frederick & Denise Mogel
Mary Glancey
Joan Taft Kluger
Richard Morrissey
Lee C. Goldstein
Michael Konowal
Richard H. Morse
Lisa Goodman
David & Cheryle Kouser
Dorothy Muir
Ronald Graham
Christopher Koyste
Cecilia Muneses
Eric & Ilean Grayson
Robert Krapf
Maria D. Murphy
Russell Hakes
Kenneth Kristl
Lawrence Hamermesh
Bernard & Nicole Kwitowski
Cornelius Clement O’Brien III & Margaret O’Brien
Eric Solotoff Jeffrey & Jane Sprecher Monté Squire
Reena Pushpangadan Barry Rabin Alann Ramirez James Reed Thomas & Emily Reed Joseph Risi Judith Ritter Raymond Rodriguez Frances Roggenbaum
Virgie Vakil Henry & Donna Szuszczewic Van Blunk Phillip S. & Florence Van Embden Orville Walls III Stephen Wenger Frances Merino West & Edward Hinton Richard White Gerald R. Winton David & Dona Wolsko Zimmerman
Patricia Ronayne
Corporations
Melvyn Rothbard
Jurists’ Society
Keith Rothman
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
LeaNora Ruffin Mary Sabulsky
Partners’ Club Parcels, Inc.
John E. O’Brien
Hon. Paul R. Sacks
Kevin & Alice O’Brien
Michael & Jeanne Saile
Benefactors
Gregory Paglianite
Michael Sandul
Bank of America
Noelle Palazzo
Philip Sarcione
Comprehensive Medical Practice
The Hon. Donald F. Parsons Jr. & Ethel Parsons
Edmund Scacchitt
Nason Construction, Inc.
Anthony Sciolla Jr.
PNC Foundation
David & Donna Peachey
Gregory & Carol Sciolla
Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
Robert Pearce
Keith E. Sealing
Kathryn Peifer
Irving Seltzer
Fortunato Perri Jr.
Michael Shawaryn
John & Lori Nicoletti Peruto Christian Petrucci
Michael Sherlock & Mary Schnappauf Sherlock
Law School Associates
Christopher Platt
Jane Shershenovich
Ginsburg Properties, LLC
William Prickett & Elizabeth Prickett
Fred Shuker & Carolyn McDermott
Hershey Entertainment and Resorts
Thomas Puleo
William Sloane
United Mobile Homes
Aspen Publishers, Inc. Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund 09 i 10 annual report
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Professor John L. Gedid was appointed to the Pennsylvania Bar Association Constitutional Convention Commission.
Dean’s Council
Student Successes Speak for Themselves “Winning the award for the best petitioner’s brief and achieving the overall highest brief score in the competition is really a tribute to the legal writing and research skills Widener has instilled in us.” Widener Law student Alaina Schroeder, on her success with teammate Jim Hoppenjans at Fordham University School of Law’s 35th Annual Irving R. Kaufman Memorial Moot Court Competition
Widener Law students continued to exceed our highest expectations for achievement in scholarship, professional development, and pro bono service during the 2009-2010 academic year. They distinguished themselves no less after graduating, maintaining high bar pass rates and gaining employment in numbers well above the national average.
Their academic successes occurred more often than ever on a national scale. Washington & Lee ranked the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law first among student-edited law journals based upon citations in federal and state court opinions under “Corporate Law” and “Business Law” and tenth among 411 specialized law reviews in the United States.
Students from both the Harrisburg and Delaware Campuses excelled in a number of national moot court competitions across the country last spring: Damiano del Pino, Delaware Campus Student Bar Association president, after being awarded the student pro bono service award by the Philadelphia Bar Association
• A ngelina Freind, Adrienne Robertson, and Nina Staggers won the best brief award and reached the final round of the inaugural National Cultural Heritage Law Moot Court Competition sponsored by DePaul University College of Law, in which Ms. Staggers also won the best oralist award.
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• Jim Hoppenjans and Alaina Schroeder won the award
School Mardi Gras Invitational Sports Law Competition.
Mr. Spangler was the runner-up for the competition’s best advocate award. • Valerie Davis, Hillary Prutzman, Katelyn Cutinello, Kathryn Schweitzer, and Kristy Kirk reached the quarterfinal round in the Mid-Atlantic Super Regional Round of the Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.
• A nthony Czuchnicki and Peri Fluger advanced to the semifinals of the 26th Annual Cardozo/BMI Entertainment and Communications Law Moot Court Competition at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at
Yeshiva University in New York City. Leadership and service to their profession and their communities remained priorities for our students in 2009-2010. Harrisburg student Paul Edger was elected Governor of the American Bar Association Law Student Division for the Third Circuit. In this role Mr. Edger represents the interests of more than 5,000 law students from every law school in Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey to the American Bar Association. Delaware student Damiano del Pino was honored by the Philadelphia Bar Association with the student pro bono
for best petitioner’s brief at the 35th Annual Irving
service award. Mr. del Pino was instrumental in bringing
R. Kaufman Memorial Moot Court Competition held
the Wills for Heroes program to the Delaware Campus, the program’s only Delaware site. Mr. del Pino currently serves as the Delaware Campus’s Student Bar Association president, and has volunteered countless hours for child services and veterans affairs throughout the community.
at Fordham University School of Law and achieved the competition’s overall highest brief score. • Robert Bailey, Jack Spangler, and John “Jack” Sweeney advanced to the semifinals of the Tulane University Law
17.7% of the class of 2009 attained judicial clerkships last year. The national average was 8.7%.
Bench and Bar Club
Lake Tobias Wildlife Park
Geneva Worldwide, Inc.
Merrill Lynch and Company
Patriot Systems Group, LLC
Metlife
Century Club Bedford Springs Resort Daiichi Sankyo Inc Exxon Mobil Corporation Johnson & Johnson Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation PNC Bank
Paul Edger, Governor of the ABA’s Law School Division, 3rd Circuit, at the Harrisburg Student Bar Association’s 2010-2011 Presidential Debate
Microsoft Corporation Molly Brannigans Reading Phillies Baseball Club
Benefactors
Sasha’s Hideaway
Cole, Schotz, Meisel, Forman & Leonard, P.A.
Sass Salon & Day Spa
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates
Ski Roundtop The Boeing Company The Cellar
Dean’s Council Ansell, Grimm & Aaron, P.C.
AIG Matching Grants Program
The Dunn & Bradstreet Foundation Matching Gift Program
Air Products & Chemicals Inc.
The Wistar Institute
Landis Rath & Cobb LLP
Allenberry Resort Inn & Playhouse
Theatre Harrisburg
Altoona Curve Baseball Club
Thomas J. Carbone Insurance Agency
Antique Automobile Club of America Museum
Twin Ponds
Blue Mountain Outfitters
Widener Law Bookstore
Donors
Goldfein & Joseph, P.C.
Law School Associates Ballard Spahr LLP Carolyn M. McNeice P.A.
Water Golf on City Island
Chance & McCann LLC The Mutual Fire Foundation Inc.
Century Club
DelGrosso’s Amusement Park
Leadership Circle
The Walter M. Strine and Alice Washco Strine Foundation
The Ellen M. & Peter M. Klein Foundation, Inc.
Franklin Development Group, LLC
Taishoff Family Foundation
Chancellors’ Club
Donors
Fulton Financial Corp.
Founders’ Club
Harriette S. & Charles L. Tabas Foundation
Carl & Doris Schnee Foundation Inc.
Char’s Bella Mundo Columbro Consultation Services
Geiger & Loria Reporting Service Harrisburg Senators Baseball Club Hershey Bears Hockey Club JP Morgan Chase Kraft Incorporated
Foundations
Barra Foundation, Inc. Jurists’ Society The Bank of America Charitable Foundation, Inc.
Dilworth Paxson LLP Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC Edward Waldron Attorney At Law Karen Ann Ulmer, P.C. Law Office of Eileen Caplan Seaman R A Cooper, LLC
Law Firms
Spiros E. Angelos, Esq.
Jurists’ Society
Steven P. Barsamian, Esq.
Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP
Vincent J. Ciecka, P.C.
Herrmann Family Foundation
Young Conaway Stargatt Taylor LLP
William P. Fedullo, Esq.
Benefactors
Ambassadors’ Club
Bench and Bar Club
American College of Bankruptcy Foundation
Morris James LLP
Charles S. Knothe, P.A.
Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP
F. Kevin Lynch, Esq.
Pennsylvania Bar Foundation
Raynes McCarty
Ferry, Joseph & Pearce, P.A.
Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A.
J. Scott Watson, P.C.
Ambassadors’ Club Ethel Sergeant Clark Smith Memorial Fund
Dean’s Council The Graham Foundation Law School Associates Generoso Pope Foundation
Bench and Bar Club
Ashby & Geddes Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz DeFino Law Associates Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin Page, Wolfberg & Wirth, LLC
Law Office of A. Charles Peruto, Jr. Law Offices of Jay H. Ginsburg, P.C. Law Offices of Milton W. Brown Michael J. Diamondstein, P.C. Teresa A. Miller, Esq. Thomas F. Bullock, Esq. Uliase & Uliase
Kenyon Charitable Foundation
Century Club
The Hutcheon Family Fund
Aronberg & Kouser, P.A. Christopher S. Koyste, LLC DePasquale Law Offices, LLC
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Pictured (left to right): Nina Staggers, Associate Professor Leslie Johnson, Angelina Freind and Adrienne Robertson at the National Cultural Heritage Law Moot Court Competition sponsored by DePaul University College of Law
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Pennsylvania Bar Association Healthcare Law Committee
Partners’ Club
Peri Fluger (left) and Anthony Czuchnicki at the 26th Annual Cardozo/ BMI Entertainment and Communications Law Moot Court Competition at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University in New York City
Law Firm of Barry S. Rabin Law Office of Maribeth Blessing LLC Law Offices of Jerome Capone Law Offices of Joseph F. McGowan, Jr. Law Offices of Ronald DeSimone Law Offices of Stuart B. Doctorovitz Law Offices Phillip L. Van Embden Losco & Marconi P.A. Mario J. D’Alfonso, LLC Michael L. Sandul , P.A.
Philip Trainer Jr. Bench and Bar Club
Bench and Bar Club
Geoffrey Gamble
Lindsay Law Library
Jacqueline Goodwin
C. Grainger Bowman
Patricia Ronayne, Esquire, P.C.
Century Club
Century Club
R. Patrick McPherson, AAL, ALC
Peter Mattoon
The Fenerty Law Firm LLC
Delaware Chapter of the Federal Bar Association
Todd S. Miller & Associates
Donors
Donors
James S. Bowman American Inn of Court
Achille & Ellermeyer
Peter J Daley, II Committee To Re-Elect
Alongi & Associates, LLC
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Law School Associates The Center for Forensic Economic Studies, Inc.
WISE - Widener School of Law
Kathryn Peifer Donors Hon. Thomas G. Saylor Jr.
National Advisory Council Leadership Circle
Andrew J. Monastra, P.C.
Law Offices of Brad Sahl PC
The Cushane Law Firm, LLC
Badmus Immigration Law Firm
Law Offices of Douglas Jon Tkacik
The Hawkins Counsel Group, LLC
Law School Overseers
Berkowitz & Raiken
Law Offices of John G. Malone, Esq., P.C.
The Law Office of Jon D. Hoover
Chancellors’ Club
Branigan & Ortiz, LLC, P.C.
Law Offices of Michael Crilly
The Law Offices of Kathryn M. Laughlin
George Miller Jr.
Chatburn & Tighe, P.A.
Lois J. Dawson, Esq.
The Paul Group, LLC
Clark & Clark, LLC
Long & Ramsay, P.C.
Thomas E. Dowey, Esq.
Covey & Associates, P.C.
Mangione & Associates, P.C.
Thomas J. Di Pilla Jr., Esq.
Cozen O’Connor
Mark G. Slavis, P.C.
Vincent J. Giusini Law Office
Partners’ Club
Dluge & Michetti
Mattioni, Ltd.
VM Gokea Law Group PLLC
Michael DeFino
Dunn Law
Michael LaRosa, LLC
Yoosei S. Lee, C.P.A., P.A.
Richard Herrmann
Chancellors’ Club
Gayle J. Ryba, P.A.
O’Brien Bower, P.A.
Dr. Kathleen McNicholas
Leslee Silverman Tabas
Hon. Joseph Walsh
Ambassadors’ Club
John Wetzel
Marc R. Abrams
Benefactors
Partners’ Club
Scott Blissman
Ronald P. Goldfaden
Organizations
Gusmorino & Marx
Paul H. Masciantonio, Esq.
John D. McAllister, Inc.
Prince Law Offices, P. C.
Joseph V. Cardona, Esq. P.C.
Ragonese, Albano & Viola
Pennsylvania IOLTA
Klingensmith & Dolan
Robert F. Casey, P.C.
Founders’ Club Sierra Club
Law Office Kathleen S. Chasar
Robert M. Adochio,Esq.
Law Office Nathan Van Embden
Robert Stein & Associates, PLLC
Law Office of Bernard P. Hvozdovic, Jr., LLC
Robert V. Witsil Jr. P.A.
Leadership Circle
Chancellors’ Club Mid-Atlantic Environmental Law Center
Ambassadors’ Club Douglas Wolfberg
Eugene McGurk Jr. Edward Micheletti
CAPT Robert P. Taishoff, JAGC, USN (ret.) Founders’ Club Alexander Bratic Jurists’ Society Dr. Robert D. Gober Alice W. Strine
Benefactors Carl W. Battle
Dean’s Council
Wayne D. Kimmel
Ronald H. Elgart, Esq.
Partners’ Club
Hon. Raymond Batten
Law Office of Edwin M. Matzkin
Alan B. Levin
Ronald K. Sharer Esq.
American College of Bankruptcy
Hon. Susan Del Pesco
Law Office of Scott R. Jay
Eugene D. McGurk, Jr.
Ronald L. Lueddeke
Andrew McK Jefferson
Law Office of Stanley Werse
Leif R. Sigmond Jr.
Sawyer Gale Laughlin & Schneider LLP
Benefactors
Law Office of William G. Massa
Sherry L. Horowitz, Attorney At Law
Law Office of William Golden
Simon and Lupo Attorneys at Law
Law Office of Denise D. Nordheimer, LLC
Rodney Walton Robinson, Attorney
Law Office Scott L. Little
Smith, Magram, Berenato, Michaud, P.C
Law Offices Marsten and Ray
Steiner Law Office, P.C.
Delaware State Bar Association Dean’s Council Green Watch Institute United Way of Delaware Tocqueville Society
Thomas Sager John Schmutz
Dean’s Council Claire M. DeMatteis
Law School Associates
Mitchell Gurwicz
Steven Barsamian
Timothy J. Snyder
Bernard Smalley
James J. Veneruso
Lee Solomon
50.8% Private Practice 97.5% 95.6% 93.3% 91.9% full-time 91.0% 89.9 graduates employed 30.0% Judicial Clerkship
Class of 2009 Full-Time legal employment by sector (among nine months after graduation) Delaware Campus Delaware Campus Both Campuses
13.1% Government
Employment rates
Law School Associates Franklin A. Miles Jr. Bench and Bar Club Kenneth J. Lopez
49.2% Private Practice
3.8% Judicial Public Interest 30.0% Clerkship
25.4% JudicialDelaware ClerkshipCampus
13.1% Government
17.6% Government
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Century Club Robert O. Lindefjeld
3.9%
Business/Industry
Donors
3.4%
Public Interest
0.5%
Academic
Rep. Patrick J. Murphy Cynthia R. Ryan
2.3% Private Business/Industry 50.8% Practice
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93.3%
Linda L. Ammons
97.5%
91.9%
91.0%
95.6%
89.9%
92.6% 96.2%
17.3% Judicial Clerkship
88.3%
Dean’s Council James R. May
Employment rates
93.3%
97.5%
91.9%
91.0%
95.6%
Mary Alice Peeling
Bench and Bar Club
89.9%
92.6% 96.2%
50.8% Private Practice
Law School Associates
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Employment rates
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Dana L. Harrington Conner Alice E. Eakin Patricia Fox John L. Gedid Michael J. Goldberg
21.3% 88.3% Judicial Clerkship
Harrisburg Campus
Paula D. Garrison Robyn L. Meadows
25.3% Government
Harrisburg Campus employment within nine months of graduation
Dorothy D. Hemphill
Leslie A. Johnson
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46.7% Private Practice
Benefactors
Nathaniel C. Nichols
Business/Industry 08 08 DE HB Public Interest
Harrisburg Campus
Faculty & Staff
Deborah M. McCreery
2.3% 07 NAT 3.8% AVG
Susan L. Goldberg
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15.1%
6.7% Private Business/Industry 46.7% Practice 21.2% 13.2% 9.6% 9.8% 2.7% Public Interest 17 .3% Judicial Clerkship
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1.3% Government Academic 25.3% 07 08 08 NAT DE HB 6.7% Business/Industry AVG 2.7%
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Public Interest
July 2010 Pennsylvania bar passage 1.3%rates Academic for Widener Law Graduates (first attempt) 82.6%
87.7% 84.7%
DE
HB
Robert L. Hayman Jr. Roberta F. Mann Rosemary R. Pall Robert C. Power Century Club Barbara L. Ayars John J. Capowski Francis J. Catania Jr. Ann C. Conaway Michael J. Cozzillio
21.3% Judicial Clerkship
15.1%
21.2% 9.8%
Clerkship
20.6%
12.4% 8.8%
46.7% Private Practice 08 08 08 09 09 17.3%NAT Judicial Clerkship DE HB DE HB 21.2% 20.6% AVG 13.2% 12.4% 25.3%9.6% Government
6.7%
Business/Industry
09 NAT AVG 8.8%
PA AVG
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07 07 07 DE HB NAT 21.3% 15.1% AVG 9.8% Judicial Harrisburg Campus
13.2% 9.6%
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judicial clerkship placement (percentage of entire PA Bar graduating class)
Nicholas A. Mirkay III
Law for the Greater Good “This kind of public service is at the heart of what Delaware is all about. We value Widener as a great partner.” Delaware Governor Jack Markell speaking at the dedication ceremony for the new public service wing on the Delaware Campus
For members of the Widener Law community, participation in public service is both a privilege and a responsibility. In 2009-2010, in addition to participating in the law school’s rich variety of clinics and externships, faculty and students embraced volunteerism, serving their communities through a multitude of activities. At Widener, the law is truly an instrument for positive change. Dean Linda Ammons led the Widener Law community’s
pro bono efforts. At the behest of Delaware Governor Jack Markell, she undertook and completed an exhaustive independent review of Delaware’s statutory and administrative policies and procedures governing child sexual abuse. The governor’s request came in the wake of a
DEAN LINDA L. AMMONS accepts DELAWARE GOVERNOR JACK MARKELL’S charge to lead the state’s inquiry into statutory and administrative policies governing cases of child sexual abuse.
horrific case of serial abuse allegedly perpetrated by a Delaware pediatrician. Following her review, Dean Ammons presented a list of 68 specific recommendations to the governor, which contributed to the enactment of a number of new laws designed to further safeguard Delaware’s children. On both the Harrisburg and Delaware Campuses, faculty, staff, and students came together to participate in Wills for Heroes events, which provided pro bono preparation of wills
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and other estate planning documents to community first responders. The Harrisburg event was the first to be held on a Pennsylvania law school campus, and on the Delaware Campus, Widener Law became the Delaware Affiliate of the National Wills for Heroes Foundation and the only law school in the nation to serve in this capacity.
The law school also participated in the Yellow Ribbon Program, a voluntary program through which universities fund additional tuition expenses that exceed the amount of the core tuition benefits provided by the Post-9/11 GI Bill.
By participating in this program, Widener Law contributed up to 50% of expenses that exceed the base benefit, and the Department of Veterans Affairs then matched the amount Widener provided for eligible student veterans. On both campuses, students participated in a number of service initiatives. Funded by grants from the American College of Bankruptcy and the American College of Bankruptcy Foundation, Delaware students, under the supervision of Director of Clinical Programs Nick Nichols, participated in a public awareness campaign that informed seniors of their rights under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
Students on the Harrisburg Campus likewise participated in the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission Pro Se Representation Program. Operating under the auspices of the Pennsylvania Civil Law Clinic, students provide low-income consumers assistance in navigating the formal complaint process before the PUC. Harrisburg Campus students again held a successful Relay for Life event to raise money for the American Cancer Society, and students on both campuses responded to the Haiti earthquake crisis with a number of fundraising efforts. In addition to community service, faculty and staff over the past year have spearheaded efforts to make both Widener Law
With the guidance of Professor Michelle Forzley, seven Widener Law students secured summer placements in global health externships or research positions through the World Health Organization, United Nations, or the U.S. Department of Commerce.
campuses more environmentally friendly. These efforts led Widener Law to become one of just five law schools in the nation to be accepted as a partner in the American Bar Association’s US Environmental Protection Agency Law Office Climate Challenge. These efforts did not go unnoticed.
Indeed, National Jurist Magazine named Widener Law a “Magna Cum Laude” law school for its green practices, placing the law school among the top twelve in the nation.
James W. Diehm
Anna P. Hemingway
Andrew L. Strauss
Karen Durkin
Stephen E. Henderson
Constance M. Sweeney
Ann E. Fruth
David R. Hodas
Arlene R. Trapuzzano
Russell A. Hakes
Sydney T. Howe-Barksdale
Nancy Ravert Ward
Lawrence A. Hamermesh
Michael Hussey
Suzanne L. Watts
Patrick J. Johnston
Katherine Mason Jones
Serena M. Williams
Eleanor A. Kelly
Alicia B. Kelly
J. Patrick Kelly
Cassandra I. King
Kenneth T. Kristl
Susan A. King
G. Randall Lee
John D. Kitchen
Anonymous
Mary Jane Mallonee
Eric M. Kniskern
Partners’ Club
Mary K. Marzolla
Ann B. Kolodzey
Anthony Clark
Thomas J. Reed
Jennifer M. Lear
Stephen Wirth
Judith L. Ritter
Todd A. Lineburger
LeaNora J. Ruffin
The Late Robert Justin Lipkin
Keith E. Sealing
Edmund B. Luce
Donors Anonymous Molly M. Acri Maggie Stewart Adams Mary Allen Reza Amin Nicole E. Ballenger D. Benjamin Barros Ashley N. Barton Lawrence J. Connell Erin Daly John C. Dernbach Walter L. Derricotte Robert J. Dolbin Suzanne M. D’Orazio Anthony P. Doyle Torill Drury Jules Epstein Tonya M. Evans Jill E. Family Stephen E. Friedman Diane M. Goltz Sandra L. Graeff Eileen Ayse Grena-Piretti James R. Hampton
Dean of Student Affairs Keith Sealing with members of the Student Bar Association at the Harrisburg Campus Relay for Life
Denise M. Manelski Doretta Massardo McGinnis Colleen K. McKeone
Chancellors’ Club
Benefactors Hon. Ida Chen Antonio Ciccone John Clark Jr. Thomas Nason II Dean’s Council
Judith A. McLaughlin
Robert & Kathryn Pincus
Mary Louise Morin
Thomas Sager
Juliet M. Moringiello
John Schmutz & Eileen Schmutz
Katharine F. Nelson Wes Oliver Peggy O’Neill Edward K. Osei Carol A. Perrupato Randle B. Pollard Thaddeus Mason Pope David Raeker-Jordan Susan Raeker-Jordan Laura K. Ray Paul L. Regan Christopher J. Robinette Mary Ann Robinson Linda M. Sarro Jean K. Sbarge Mary Catherine Scott Michael J. Slinger Verne R. Smith Leonard N. Sosnov
Law School Associates Carroll Morgan Carpenter The Late Hon. Francis J. Catania Franklin A. Miles Jr. Anthony Morash Hon. William T. Quillen & Marcia Quillen Donald Walsh & Joyce Walsh Bench and Bar Club C. Grainger Bowman & Sandra Bowman Hon. J. Michael Eakin Geoffrey Gamble Jacqueline Goodwin H. Barton Greenspan Jean Woodson Lodge Jane P. Maroney Hon. Joshua W. Martin III Michael A. Monteleone Michael Wolanski
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Alan E. Garfield
Mary Ellen Maatman
Friends
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2009-2010 Student Bar Association President Destiny Prater and Taishoff Professor of Law Tom Reed counsel a client during the Delaware Campus Wills for Heroes Program.
Century Club David Brown Richard Deitrick Lee C. Goldstein Hon. Jan R. Jurden
Thomas J. Weiner
Partners’ Club
Linda L. Keichline
Henry and Leola Weller
Hon. Joseph Walsh
Peter Mattoon & Joan Mattoon
Michael Wims
Richard H. Morse
Alan & Patricia Zarkoski
The Hon. Donald F. Parsons Jr. & Ethel Parsons
Leo and Sybil Zeftel
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Robert Pearce, PhD
Benefactors Alexander & Nancy Sarcione
Marc T. Zubrow
Dean’s Council
Libby Zurkow
Gary & Joyce Beste
Current Widener Law Students
Law School Associates
Thomas & Emily Reed
Albert M. DiGregorio
James & Eileen McKiernan
Fred Shuker & Carolyn McDermott
Lea duPont
Kenneth & Augusta McKusick
Donors
Nancy J. Durbin
Judith Melman
Heshie and JoAnn Aiello-Rudick
Mary Anne Edwards
Kerry Meluskey
Law School Associates
Carol A. Ammon
Sarah Farmer
Angella Moore & Tracy Borda
Robert T. Greaney
Richard and Gloria Anthony
Patricia Fleming
Felice C. Morgan
Donors
Thomas R. Ashley
Michael Scott Ford
James & Elizabeth O’Neill
Gjergji Asllani
Robert and Dawn Bantivoglio
Edward T. Gallagher
David & Donna Orenstein
Peter G. Aziz
George Barnett and Mary Hopper
Tina Georges
Pearl Osborne
Timothy J. Condus
Darryl & Nancy Barton
Jonathan D. Golby
Joseph J. Pellecchia
Donovan J. Deluca
Robert & Elizabeth Beste
Yolanda Gomez
Ernest H. Pescatore
Jeffrey J. Dunn
Richard & Helaine Gordon
Dr. Spencer Phillips
Century Club
Marcia Bloomfield
Caleb C. Enerson
Audrey Boksan
Marvin & Marcia Halbert
Craig Pogach
Norman Ashworth & Ann Ashworth
Aqua G. Etuk
Dr. & Mrs. Steven L. Reiner
Todd Miller
Harry & Dana Bosk
Charles & Meredith Hatfield
Predrag Filipovic
Tomi Helojoki
Joseph & Joan Rosenthal
John E. O’Brien
Mary Beth Brady & Joe Vigorita
Adam R. Gibbons
Robert & Kathleen Henry
Noel Rubinton
David & Donna Peachey
James & Maria Brierly
Daniel P. Hagelberg
Lauren Huebner
Jonathan Rudnick
Keith Rothman
Henry & Leslie Brubaker
Christina M. Kontis
Vincent & Jenny Hughes
Allan Rusten
Clare Uses
Rhoda Carp
Daniel G. Kunze
Jodi A. Hutchinson
Raymond & Loretta Santarelli
Virgie Vakil
Hon. Michael N. Castle & Jane Castle
Brian S. Legum
Allen L. Johnson
Hon. Thomas G. Saylor Jr.
Gerald R. Winton
Scott & Jill Chiccino
Mary E. Lenti
Brian & Bunny Christopher
Richard & Maxine Kahn
Edward Schall & Rhoda Schall
Elizabeth A. Mercogliano
Patricia & William Christopher
Lorraine A. Kendle
Carl Schnee
Justin A. Patterson
Richard Christopher
Joseph Kestner Jr.
James W. Semple
Kathryn A. Robinson
J. Michael & Katherine Connor
Margaret M. Kraft
William A. Silver
Maeve V. Scanlon
Thomas Corrigan
Elsie C. Lawton
Frederick Simon
Kenneth L. Wan
Noriss L. Cosgrove
Meaghen & Gilbert Leidig
R. Bradley & Noreen Slease
Dr. Patricia M. Curtin
John & Carol Lippert
Linda Snyder
Terri Dean
David Lodge
Phillip & Joan Spiegelman
Anthony DeGrandi
Gail T. Lodge
Vincent Delduca
James & Mike McQueeny Carl & Arlene Pearce Francis Pileggi Sr. Edward and Anne Waldron Bench and Bar Club G. Alan & Denise Nagle Bailey Michael & Margaret Jacobs Mark John Kenyon
Donors Howard Aaronson Dennis & Darlene Anderson Vincent & Mary Anuw Edward & Tish Applegate Bernard & Elizabeth Barrett
Parents of Current and Former Widener Law Students
Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Berosh
Martha F. Steel
Founders’ Club
Joseph & Marie Bonk
Jennifer M. Lohkamp
William & Christine Sudell
Alexander & Ann Bratic
Tim & Judie Boyle
Ralph DeLucia
Antoinette E. Lutz
Edwin Tocker
Chancellors’ Club
Quentin & Jenny Dexter
Kathleen Lynch
Elizabeth M. Tome
George Miller Jr.
Philip Difebo
Thomas J. Lyons
Guy & Susan Townsend
Cynthia McCormick
Emilia Bertugli
Thomas & Ellen Carbone Arthur Carlson Allen & Debbie Carnes Jerry & Cynthia Cole
Daniel T. Coleman
Joseph Noonan
Brian Wade
Hon. John. J. O’Grady
Samuel J. Costa
Mary Ellen & William Conaboy
Brenda O’Hern
Jude Walsh & Maryanne Walsh
Anthony J. Santoro
Michael F. Cotter
Raymond & Ellen Console
Craig & Carol Pahls
Patrick T. Waters
Nancy L. Stanford
Joseph J. DelSordo
Robert Cook
Douglas Perry
Daniel Whitney & Pamela Johns
John A. Wetzel
Robert L. Dluge Jr.
William Coopersmith
William & Loretta Pietrangelo
Eric & Lucy Wildrick
David Coskey
John & Maryanne Post
Mary Grace Williams
Anita Czuchnicki
Warren & Janice Prince
Lawrence S. Wind
James Darragh
Frank Provanzo
David Wingerter
Class of 1975
Jay D. Goldstein
Denise Days
Robert & Diane Quietmeyer
Michael & Kathy Woodward
Partners’ Club
William E. Howell Jr.
Joseph & Kathleen DiSanti
The Rieben Family
Brian & Diane Zwaan
Michael G. DeFino
Richard A. James
Jeffrey & JoAnn Dorry
Dan & Eileen Robinson
Michael B. Joseph
Mark & Kimberly Dougherty
John H. Robinson
Widener Law Legacy Society
John A. Wetzel
Brian Dunlop
John & Roberta Ryan
Dean’s Council
Jeffrey & Jody Durr
Frank & Judy Santo
Curt & Hope Enerson
E. Joseph & Gail Schlafer
For individuals who have included Widener University School of Law in their estate planning
David Ferry Jr. & Mary Ferry
Paige Schmittinger
Hon. Robert S. Blasi
Rita S. Polonsky
Dale & Sandra Glotfelter
Brian & Cynthia Searls
Francis J. Clifford
James J. Veneruso
George & Cathy Gottesman
John J. Shea Jr.
Lee & Robin Greenspan
Jamie Spakow
David & Halina Guttridge
Wanda Staggers
Patrick & Susan Hayes
Richard Stanzione
Joseph & Francesca Hoeffel
Donald Strauch
Christine James
Syamala Swaminathan
Kyvele Karpouzis
Thomas & Anne Tauro
Thomas & Diane Kearney III
Mr. & Mrs. Harry Taylor
Richard & Robin Kenner
Nino V. Tinari
Matthew Klena
Ernest & Linda Villa
Michael G. DeFino Ann Geisheimer Barton Haines Selma Hayman Rocco Imperatrice III Florence Kassab Donald E. Matuso Eugene D. McGurk Jr.
Alumni Donors by Graduating Class
Hon. Susan C. Del Pesco Alan H. Polonsky
Don A. Erlandson Laurence Gallagher Charles Gaylor III
Alan F. Lehman Gary C. Linarducci Thomas C. Louthan Richard S. Marx Charles A. O’Connell III G. Carter Pierce
Law School Associates
Larry S. Raiken
Steven P. Barsamian
Walter Joseph Ray Jr.
Vincent J. Ciecka
Rodney W. Robinson
John D. Leekley Jr.
Robert L. Rumack
Kevin P. McCann
Howard H. Sherman
Robert Pasquale
Mark D. Sperber
Louis E. Slawe
Class of 1976
Vincent N. Melchiorre
Bench and Bar Club
Linda Needleman
Partners’ Club
Hon. Maurino J. Rossanese Jr.
Ronald P. Goldfaden
Ronald I. Kunkel
Century Club
Benefactors
Elizabeth Kutschman
Dennis L. Citron
M. Jane Mahoney
Mitch Lamoureux
George F. Dale
Bruce & Linda Landis
Amil M. Minora
Charles Lang
Hon. Paul R. Sacks
James & Barbara Larkin
Edmund J. Scacchitti
Dean’s Council Eileen B. Cooper Hon. Paul P. Panepinto
Anthony J. Sciolla Jr.
Law School Associates
Gregory E. Sciolla
Stephen Carroll
Aleta & Norman Levine
William M. Sloane
William Paul Fedullo
Mindy S. Levy
Donors
Dimitri Mallis
Bench and Bar Club
Christopher Almy
Dan Malycke
Alan Belfus
Hon. Dudley N. Anderson
Armand & Carole Mancini
Thomas F. Bullock
Louis J. Arnold
Steve & Marsha Matzura
Joel Chernock
Veronica B. Boettger
James & Cheryl McCarrie
Charles W. Proctor III
Donald C. Brown
Michael & Deborah McIlmail Michael McMahon Michael Myers
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Over 60 Widener Law students gathered at Sam Bucca’s in Harrisburg to participate in a nine-ball pool tournament. Proceeds from the event went to the Red Cross of Harrisburg for relief to Haiti.
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Yoosei & Boksook Lee Elliott & Doris Leisawitz
Bringing Widener to the World and the World to Widener “We look forward to not only sharing a view of our case management and judicial processes, but also learning how our Russian counterparts perform the essential functions of an initial jurisdictional court.” Chief Magistrate of the Delaware Justice of the Peace Court Alan G. Davis ‘99, addressing the court’s Annual Judicial Education Seminar, which in December 2009 hosted a delegation of Russian justices at Widener Law as part of the Open World Project of USAID
By teaching, presenting, and publishing internationally, Widener Law faculty continued last year to improve the reach of their ideas and expand the law school’s global circle of friends and colleagues. The world came to us as well. Visits by international legal delegations, visiting scholars, and exchange students broadened our perspective and heightened our awareness of international legal and social issues. Our students were hardly content to stay in Harrisburg and Wilmington. They augmented their studies with a range of opportunities abroad. Professor Larry D. Barnett spoke over the summer at four Italian universities, presenting his recent research
Associate Professor Thaddeus Mason Pope with a Chinese colleague at the December 2009 International Health Law Conference at Southwest University of Political Science and Law in Chongqing, China.
on societal conditions leading to the adoption in Europe of legislation recognizing same-sex partnerships and same-sex marriage. Professor Barnett also presented his work at the International Sociological Association’s annual meeting in Gothenberg, Sweden. Associate Professor D. Benjamin Barros presented “Negative
Causation and Mechanisms,” at the Mechanisms and Causality in the Sciences Conferences held at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England.
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Distinguished Professor John C. Dernbach also spent time
in the United Kingdom, delivering “Environmental Justice and Sustainability: Setting the Agenda for Legal Education,” the keynote address at the Conference on Environmental Justice in Legal Education, at the University of Warwick, Coventry. Professor Dernbach also spoke at the seventh Colloquium of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Wuhan, China, where he delivered “Progress Toward
Sustainability: a Report Card and a Recommended Agenda” and “Navigating the U.S. Transition to Sustainability: Matching National Governance Challenges with Appropriate Legal Tools.” In July 2009, Professor John J. Capowski co-chaired the panel on Interdisciplinary Research and Evidence Law at the second International Conference on Evidence Law and Forensic Science at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing. While there, he presented his paper
“China’s Uniform Provisions of Evidence and the Convergence of Civil Law and Common Law.” In December 2009, Associate Professor Thaddeus Mason Pope and Visiting Distinguished Professor Michele D. Forzley joined Dean Linda Ammons at the International Health Law Conference at Southwest University of Political Science and Law in Chongqing, China. Their visit continued to
expand Widener’s presence in Asia and highlighted our exchange program with Southwest University, the law school’s newest and first in Asia. It augments programming in Kenya, Switzerland, Australia, and Italy. In 2009-2010 we were also pleased to host a number of visitors from abroad. A delegation of Russian jurists visited the Delaware Campus when Widener Law and the Legal Education Institute hosted the Delaware Justice of the Peace Court’s annual Judicial Education Seminar. Faculty on the Delaware Campus hosted and consulted with a delegation of Taiwanese judges and attorneys on a trip organized by the Delaware International Trade and Development Office. In addition to visiting jurists, a new summer international exchange certificate program brought Russian and British students to Widener to study US corporate law.
In the last ten years, Widener Law faculty have made nearly 90 international presentations.
Century Club
Jay E. Kivitz
Kenneth J. Slomienski
Hon. William Cecil Carpenter Jr.
Roger T. Margolis
Lawrence S. Wind
Francis J. Clifford
Hon. John J. O’Grady
Charles E. Woolson Jr.
Century Club
Class of 1978
Andrew H. Appel
Ambassadors’ Club
Richard T. Morrissey Michael J. Saile Dona Wolsko Zimmerman
Academic excellence, as well as the efforts of Visiting Distinguished Professor of Law Michele D. Forzley and the Health Law Institute, secured global health law externships for seven of our students. Their placements and areas of study included the following: • David Walker with the World Health Organization’s Director of Medicines Department: Comparative study of how countries legislate access to essential medicines • Celisse Williams with the United Nations’ 2015 Millennium Campaign: Assessment of how UN member countries are working to end extreme world poverty • Linda Zhang and Nathan Trexler with the International Trade Administration at the US Department of Commerce: Research on emerging legal issues related to the procurement of pharmaceuticals
Jerome M. Capone
Marc R. Abrams
Donors
Richard G. Handler
James L. Capobianco
Gregory R. Jacobs
Joseph V. Cardona
Harry C. McCurdy
Eugene D. McGurk Jr.
Donors
Law School Associates
Edward B. Carter Jr. J. William Ditter III Charles Halpin III Thomas G. Klingensmith Ronald L. Lueddeke Gerard E. Maney Louis P. Mellinger Donald Scace Jr. Andrew S. Wade Daniel F. Wilton
Francis P. Bach John J. Branigan
Spiros E. Angelos Lee A. Solomon
James R. Columbro
Richard E. Weltman
J. Patrick Fitzgerald
Bench and Bar Club
Michael J. Fromhold
G. Alan Bailey
Robert C. Geller Jr.
James J. McGann
A. Jeffrey Grob
Teresa A. Miller
Dean C. Johnson
Bruce M. Mundorf
Edward J. McGlinchey Jr.
Class of 1977
Pamela C. Meitner
Bench and Bar Club
Hon. Margaret T. Murphy
James Francis Kilcur
Benefactors
Frank J. Rubinate Mark G. Slavis
Century Club Matthew J. Connahan Hon. Michael A. Donio Francis Marshall Jr. John E. O’Brien Thomas I. Puleo Phillip S. Van Embden Donors John G. Achille Robert M. Adochio
• Yuanyou “Sunny” Yang with the World Health Organization: Report on health reform in China with a rule-of-law focus
James B. Bechtel
• Kelly Hicks and Ashley Talley with the World Health Organization: Research on the international and domestic laws on controlled substances used in medical treatment
Leslie Noftsinger Coates
Jeffrey S. Brown Robert R. Burke Thomas P. Collins Wendy C. Dignazio Joseph Flickinger III Ann E. Green Edward J. Leonard Daniel J. Maisano Suzanne M. McDonough-Boggia Alan H. Paikin Susan F. Paikin Wayne Partenheimer
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Visiting Distinguished Professor of Law Michele D. Forzley (left) with 2010 Global Health Ambassadors Nathan Trexler, Linda Zhang, Yuanyou Yang, David Walker and Celisse Williams
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A. Richard Heffron
Russian Judges of the Leningrad region at the Delaware Justice of the Peace Court’s annual Judicial Education Seminar
Andrew E. Di Piero Jr. Eugene A. DiPrinzio Douglas E. DiSandro
Century Club
Andrew D. Rahaim
Donald A. Emeigh Jr.
Joseph A. Alacqua
Thomas H. Ramsay
David J. Ferry Jr.
William J. Heimbuch
Jeffrey Stuart Roth
M. Scott Gemberling
Sharon B. Kelley
Barbara C. Siegell
Patricia E. Hall
Gregory C. McCarthy
Vernon A. Taylor
Guy V. Johnson
William A. Meehan
Roger R. Ullman
Joseph T. Labrum III
Frederick R. Mogel
Weeun Wang
Kathryn Luce Labrum
Kevin A. O’Brien
Robert V. Witsil Jr.
Mark Mattia
Philip V. Sarcione
Robert F. Zane
Thomas X. McAndrew Jr.
Mardi R. Thompson Gary M. Perolman
Donors
Hon. Irvin J. Snyder
Mary Androski-Maric
Jerry H. Steiner
Frank Farmer Jr.
William J. Underwood
Brian T. Fischer
William B. Ziff
Raymond J. Hancock
Class of 1979
John Franklin Hartzel
Jurists’ Society
Timothy P. Inemer
Dr. Robert D. Gober
Laurence I. Levinson
Chancellors’ Club
Henry R. Minissale
Leslee S. Tabas
Robert A. Mosakowski
Dean’s Council Hon. Raymond Batten
Joseph F. Murray Cynthia R. Ryan Gary I. Spivack
Elisa A. Bongiovanni John S. Campbell June C. Cipressi Gerald E. Darling
Jesse Lawn Pleet
George K. Miller Jr.
Mitchell J. Shore
Dean’s Council
David M. Taylor
Robert A. Honecker Jr.
Class of 1982
Timothy J. Snyder
William D. Himmelreich
Law School Associates
Scott R. Jay
Cary L. Flitter
John R. Kancilia Hon. Kathleen C. Lucas John Meighan William F. Merz Barry F. Penn
Bernadette Mooney-Burns
Chancellors’ Club
Jane F. Engler
Joseph H. Jones Jr.
Janis R. Melfi
Century Club John J. Barr Michelle C. Berk Wayne John Carey John T. Carroll III Mary Vinciguerra D’Ambrosio
Benefactors Carl W. Battle Law School Associates Don S. Ginsburg Bench and Bar Club Carolyn Badger Uliase Thomas R. Uliase Century Club Kathiann E. Karsnitz
Bench and Bar Club
Marilyn E. Sternstein
Steve Parsons
Michael J. Valoris
Rosemary K. Killian
Charles Peruto Jr.
John K. Welch
Joseph J. Risi
Century Club
Jack L. Werbler
Jeffrey K. Sprecher
Mario J. D’Alfonso
Class of 1980
Karen Durkin Stephen R. Fogarty Eric L. Grayson
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Sherry L. Horowitz
Donors
Class of 1981
Benefactors Alan B. Levin
Frances Merino West Donors Alexis L. Barbieri Carolann J. Dougherty
Harry P. Hurvitz
Law School Associates
Matthew A. Eldridge
Clay T. Jester
Bernard W. Smalley
Eric L. Episcopo
James A. Kelley
Bench and Bar Club
David S. Kouser
Hon. Maureen F. Fitzpatrick
Michael B. Lione
Barbara Silver Hutcheon
F. Kevin Lynch
Charles S. Knothe
Susan E. Mensch
Hon. Marianne Ossmer Mizel
James C. Reed
David T. Videon
Michael L. Sandul
Marsha A. Frederick-Fritz Ruth Parzen Goldberg Richard J. Gordon Jr.
A delegation of Taiwanese judges and attorneys pose with professors Erin Daly, jean eggen, Larry Hamermesh, and Edward osei.
professor john capowski at the second International Conference on Evidence Law and Forensic Science at the China University of Political Science and Law in Bejing
Richard J. Laiks John G. Malone John R. McCarnan Mark D. Phillips Buck Smith
Joseph E. Ruth
David Sobotka
Gregory J. Rubis
Joseph J. Santarone
Nanci Olivere Weber
Gail O’Neal Shuey
W. Scott Simonton
Leon A. Williams
Philip A. Steinberg
Perry H. Sobel
Peter E. Warshaw
Class of 1986
Class of 1987
Dean’s Council
Law School Associates
Dr. Philip L. Rothbart
Carolyn Mary McNeice
Law School Associates
Bench and Bar Club
Hon. George W. Overton
Andrew L. Schaeffer
Bench and Bar Club
Donors
Arthur L. Dent
Century Club
Justin P. Borkowski
Selma Hayman
Linda Blanchfield Dillow
Carl V. Buck
Theodore T. Kurlowicz
Louis M. Cambria
Francis Leonard Zarrilli
Class of 1983 Dean’s Council W. Bruce Hemphill Bench and Bar Club Gary R. Gremminger Thomas R. Savitsky
Robert J. Krapf Barry S. Rabin Mary M. Sabulsky Mary Schnappauf Sherlock Donors Michael J. Cunningham Jr. David R. Finkel Carl E. Funk Ellen L. Glass Michael A. Maucher Jeffrey C. McCullough Thomas P. McGovern Harry D. McMunigal Joan Jeffein Miller Philip R. Rosenfeldt Gerard K. Schrom Lynn L. Smith Tempe B. Steen Barry J. Tomlinson
Class of 1985
Joseph D. Burke
Law School Associates
Kathleen M. Burke Ronald DeSimone Lawrence J. Gibson Roger M. Holcomb
Samuel Ariel Landy Bench and Bar Club Martin J. Sendek
Daniel R. Losco
Century Club
Donors
Ronald A. Amarant
Hope B. Bernstein William A. Burns Harriet L. Chappell
Alan N. Cooper Joseph F. McGowan Jr. Cornelius Clement O’Brien III
Century Club
C. Salvatore D’Alessio
Frank C. DePasquale Jr.
Gary B. Eidelman
Daniel P. Johnson
John W. Hollawell
John M. Peruto
Walter J. Klekotka
Lori Nicoletti Peruto Donors Glenn Lamont Blackwell Brian J. Collins Richard A. DiLiberto Jr. Anthony Giambrone Jr.
Cynthia Kassab LaRosa Michael D. LaRosa Brian P. Meehan Joseph A. Paone Marcia E. Sless
Class of 1988
Anne Covey
Irving Seltzer
Vincent J. Giusini
Dean’s Council
Lois J. Dawson
Donors
William J. Golden
John M. Pachkowski
Samuel S. Driver
Michael P. Albano
Jeffry B. Herman
Ronald H. Elgart
Peter J. Barnes III
Jane A. Kane
Francis M. Hadden
Kathleen M. Conover
Gerald M. Klein
Vicki Ann Hagel
Thomas Joseph DiPilla Jr.
Craig S. Laughlin
Bench and Bar Club Jay H. Ginsburg Maria A. Moffa
Michael Kaplit
Lawrence T. Foti
William G. Massa
Century Club
Judith Malin
Marita Malloy Hutchinson
Edwin M. Matzkin
Hon. John P. Capuzzi
Paul Masciantonio
Kathryn Marie Jakabcin
John D. McAllister Jr.
Teresa A. Cheek
Michael S. Morris
Bruce W. Joseph
Karen A. Myszka-Ostberg
Fortunato N. Perri Jr.
Class of 1984
Natalie Pouch-Kavetsky
Dorothy H. Lin
Karen S. Norris
Alann M. Ramirez
Bench and Bar Club
Maureen Touey Thede
Thomas V. McDonough
Arthur S. Novello
Donors
J. Scott Watson
Robert Edward Ulaky
Stephen R. Permut
Laurie Susan Polleck
Scott E. Chambers
Beverly A. Plutnick
John L. Pund Jr.
Patricia A. Ebner
Anthony R. Repici
Anne M. Rigney
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Century Club
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Strength in Diversity “Widener is proud to have advanced beyond the ‘talking’ phase of the need for a more diverse bar and bench and to have moved to the ‘action’ phase, where we are able to demonstrate leadership and a commitment to effecting real change.” Dean Linda Ammons, speaking at the opening of the 2010 JURIST Academy, a Widener summer program that encourages minority undergraduates to pursue a legal education
In February of 2010, we welcomed Anthony D. Pledger to the law school. As the school’s new multicultural affairs officer, Mr. Pledger coordinates a range of activities that highlight issues of diversity at the law school and in our community. His plate is full. In 2009-2010, we continued to improve access to legal education for historically underrepresented groups, promote awareness of diversity issues in the legal profession, and further our commitment to diversity among our students through minority scholarships. Our efforts range from pipeline programs for minority high school and college students, to continuing legal education for practicing attorneys, to efforts at ensuring our student population continues to reflect more accurately those whom the legal profession serves.
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Newly-appointed multicultural affairs officer Anthony D. Pledger
Over the past year our diversity pipeline programs continued to promote the possibilities of legal education and careers to groups historically underrepresented in the profession. The JURIST Academy opened for the third year on the Delaware Campus, introducing minority undergraduates to the practice of law and educating them about the law school admissions process. The DuPont Diversity Pipeline Program again paired Widener Law students and volunteer attorneys from Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor with minority students from Wilmington’s Howard High School, exposing them to legal issues and legal careers through mentoring and visits to the Delaware campus. These programs complement the Student
Bar Association’s long-running Diversity Pipeline, which
exposes area high school students to the profession through interaction with Widener Law students and participation in a mock trial competition. We also continued to support students from historically underrepresented groups, awarding the inaugural Dean’s Minority Scholarship to first-year student Roshin Thomas.
Widener Law continued to draw attention to the need for increased diversity throughout the legal profession by hosting continuing education events and honoring legal practitioners who have championed the cause of equality. In March 2010, we held the 4th Annual Dean’s Leadership Forum on Diversity on the Harrisburg Campus. This daylong event focused on diversity in central Pennsylvania and featured renowned academics, practicing attorneys, and corporate officials addressing a variety of issues related to equality in the workplace. The law school also recognized the efforts and accomplishments of the Honorable Murray M. Schwartz, retired chief judge for the United States District Court in Delaware, by presenting him with the first Martin Luther King Jr. Semester of Service Award. Judge Schwartz was
instrumental in the desegregation of New Castle County schools in the late 1970s and was honored at Widener Law by a panel of speakers who recounted his work for equality in Delaware.
Laurence R. Feinstein
Donors
Jennifer L. Hekking
Ann M. Badmus
Katherine F. Mulcare
Brian A. Carlis
Edward Obertubbesing
Edward J. Cermanski
Charles E. O’Connor Jr.
Martin P. Convery
Michael S. Paul
Faith P. DiLiberto
Marvin A. Robinson
Roseanne Raimondo Duffy
Arlene B. Rubin
Louis S. Flocco
Paul F. Schaaff
MaryAnn T. Johnson
Jonathan Shub
Mary Ann Jordano
Larry D. Sullivan
Jeffrey L. Klein
Theodore J. Tacconelli
Bari S. Krein
David A. Williams
Timothy R. Lawn
Class of 1989 Leadership Circle CAPT Robert P. Taishoff, JAGC, USN (ret.)
In the last three years, Widener Law has brought hundreds of minority aspiring legal professionals to campus for a preview of law school and legal professions through the JURIST Academy, DuPont Diversity Pipeline, and other high school pipeline programs.
Todd M. Bales John F. Brady Lois M. Campana Lisa J. Cappolella
John Paul Lynch Paul T. Porrini
Martin S. Coleman Law School Associates
Jeffrey S. Shorr
Joan P. Depfer
Michael J. Brown
Wade F. Suthard
Nancy B. DiStefano
Matthew Gitterman
Scott P. Towers
Dale S. Douglas
Stanley F. Werse
John R. Evans
Michele Punturi Yarnoff
Sharon O’Neill Finnegan
Vincent S. Ziccolella
Leonard N. Florio
Peter Chamas
Class of 1991
James D. Gaumond
Benefactors
Lisa M. Jaeger
Leif R. Sigmond Jr.
Michael E. Joyce
Dean’s Council
Helen M. Richards Michael G. Sabo Michele Squires Sherman
Law School Associates
Francine Zuzzolo Taylor
Bench and Bar Club
Vera M. Holmes
Francis X. Wickersham
Dale S. Ardizzone
Philip Trainer Jr. Century Club William L. Prickett
Class of 1990
Milton W. Brown
Mary Alice Peeling
John P. Gilligan Keith G. Gomer James J. Haley Jr.
Century Club
John L. Reed
Barbara Komar Ayars
Bench and Bar Club
Joelle P. Hitch
Barbara Trevisan Ardizzone
Jeffrey R. Hoffmann
Renae B. Axelrod
Nadia M. Jannetta
Donors
Todd E. Conner
Curtis C. Johnston
Joel B. Albert
Gretchen C. Gilchrist
David A. Kase
Emmanuel J. Argentieri
Hon. M. DeSales Haley Reis
Nancy A. Koroly
Maureen Cleary Argentieri
Century Club
Scott R. Lipson
Peter R. Geraghty Richard R. White
Jeremy S. Bannister Elizabeth D. Berenato Mary Fagan Caloway Robert S. Cosgrove Paul R. Darkes Joseph A. Juliana Melisa Keller-Silver Kathleen M. Miller James J. Ruggiero Jr.
Maribeth Blessing Lisa A. Duda Ronald M. Graham Michael J. Konowal Maria D. Murphy
Denise Marone Cecilia M. McCormick Joseph P. McDonald Peggy McKeon Andrew John Monastra Maureen A. Ostien
Patricia M. Ronayne
Derek A. Popeil
Donors
Daniel S. Sweetser
Pamela S. Allen-Wilson Paul A. Alongi
John M. Tereniak Douglas J. Tkacik Cynthia F. Towers Joseph P. Walsh
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Dean Linda L. Ammons and Thomas l. Sager, senior vice president and general counsel of DuPont, at the 4th Annual Dean’s Leadership Forum on Diversity
Mary K. Schwemmer
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Lisa M. Haly
Martin G. Belisario
Michael T. Hamilton
Jude T. Walsh
Michael N. McGinnis
Robert O. Lindefjeld
Susan J. Scutti
Lisa L. Coleman
Diane M. Willette
Maria C. McLaughlin-Sisofo
Cecilia M. Muneses
Robert Torres
Carol A. Crisci
David G. Wilson
David A. Miller
Frances R. Roggenbaum
Hubert C. Whan Tong
Nan A. Davenport
Michael K. Yarnoff
George J. Ozorowski
Donna Szuszczewic Van Blunk
Michael S. Pavlick
Henry E. Van Blunk
Class of 1992 Jurists’ Society Alice W. Strine
Linda S. Pellish Brian J. Preski Anne E. Reigle
Dean’s Council
Kevin R. Shannon
Claire M. DeMatteis
C. Russell H. Shearer
Brenda A. James
Peter S. Taub
Robert E. McCann
James M. Tressler
Law School Associates
Nikolaos I. Tsouros Thomas O. Williams
Donors Donald G. Brabson
Class of 1994 Law School Associates Eileen Caplan Seaman
Ronald R. Cowell
Mark J. Kogan
Kerri A. Daily
Bench and Bar Club
Peter J. Daley II
Kathy L. Banfield
Connie I. Flauaus
Michele F. Conte
Deborah Nitzberg Harad
Lisa B. Goodman Craig A. Hoogstraten Robert P. McPherson
Dana L. Harrington Conner
Benefactors
Dariel M. Janerette
Jennifer L. Miller
Gerald B. Halt Jr.
Joel J. Feller
David S. Kogos
Charles N. Shurr
Michael P. Reid II
Dean’s Council
Century Club
Andrew McK. Jefferson
John F. Fenerty Jr.
Bench and Bar Club
John R. Matlusky
Ann E. Fruth
Sharon R. Lopez
David M. McCanney
Christopher S. Koyste Lynn M. Martosella Eric S. Solotoff
Century Club Richard E. Burridge Curtis J. Crowther
Edward L. Jones William W. Keffer
Joan N. Hook
Joan Taft Kluger
Tracy L. Henry
James V. McMahan III
Steven Carabases
Stephen Daniel Harper
Bench and Bar Club
Daniel T. Gallo Jr.
Bench and Bar Club
Class of 1993
Leslie A. Johnson
William J. Erle
Kenneth M. Lipowitz Maureen T. Marron Stacy J. Martin
Richard L. Morris Jr. Thomas J. O’Malley Michael A. Penn MaryKay Rauenzahn
Antonella M. Madonia Douglas T. Marx Jeffrey W. McDonnell Marjorie S. Roshkoff Gayle J. Ryba Raymond J. Santarelli Mary Catherine Scott David J. Shannon Joseph B. Siedlarz
Donors
Joseph B. Silverstein
Timothy Aloysius Adams
Kenn B. Tacchino
Margie A. Anderson
Nancy A. Whan Tong
William Anklowitz Susan Davidson Borden
Class of 1995
W. Benjamin Broadwater
Benefactors
Rae S. Campagnola
Jonathan P. Bigley
Susan G. Clark
Wayne D. Kimmel
Gerald F. Strubinger Jr.
Dean’s Council
Rebecca W. Tulloch
Mitchell Gurwicz
Donors
Heather Doheny Jefferson
Craig E. Bennett
Law School Associates
Russell D. Bowman Jr.
Karen A. Ulmer
Joseph Cagnoli Jr.
Bench and Bar Club
Thomas R. Chesnick
Kenneth J. Lopez
Jeffrey L. Dashevsky
Rick S. Miller
Alice A. Deck
Min S. Suh
Martin T. Durkin Jr.
Charles D. Williams
Coleen M. Fadden Lisa G. Faden Linda Squadroni Galella
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Eileen Ayse Grena-Piretti Bernard P. Hvozdovic Jr. Gregory J. Kelley Andrew C. Lynch
Jurist Academy students with Dean Ammons, Chun Jang of Fredericks Lathan, Ernest Tuckett of DuPont, and Professors Sydney HoweBarksdale and Iva Johnson Ferrell
Pictured (left to right): the Honorable Thomas L. Ambro of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Professor Catherine J. Lanctot of Villanova Law School, Professor John G. Culhane, the Honorable Murray M. Schwartz, Dean Linda L. Ammons, Professor Robert L. Hayman Jr., the Louis L. Redding Chair and Professor of Law & Public Policy at the University of Delaware Leland Ware, and then Executive Director of the Delaware ACLU Drewry Nash Fennell, Esq. at the 2010 Martin Luther King Day Commemorative Program Brett W. MacDonald
Class of 1999
Carl A. Malatesta
Law School Associates
Carl J. Minster Michael J. Mullen Lisa A. Puglisi
Robert R. DeLong Jr. Bench and Bar Club
T. Andrew Rosen
Diane M. Andrews
Varvara Lesu Gokea
Kelly Klimkiewicz Swartz
Donors
Jacqueline H. Stiles
Richard F. Goldenziel
Daniel A. Toadvine
Chase T. Brockstedt
Kevin H. Teffeteller
David I. Goodfriend
Justin B. Wineburgh
Jeanne M. Brown
Robert C. Trichilo
Susan Kessock
Class of 1998
Andrew S. Dashevsky
Raymond J. Warburton
Carol A. Ryan Livingood
Mary K. Marzolla
Barry H. Williams
Kenneth F. Mitchell
Christian M. Petrucci
A. Judd Woytek
Dr. Stephanie (Tomasso) Oscarson
Linda Harver Young
Irwin Siegel
Century Club
Jon D. Hoover
Julie A. Yutesler
Carl S. Wexler
Henry P. Butehorn
Eric M. Kniskern
Kathleen S. Chasar
Class of 1996
Class of 1997
Christopher J. Platt
James M. Kron
Steven L. Chung
Raymond L. Rodriguez
Kao H. Lu
Ambassadors’ Club
Partners’ Club
Douglas M. Wolfberg
Harry Dillon Madonna
Century Club
Edward P. Seeber
Joel D. Beach
Rex A. Donnelly
Janene M. Smith
Edwin J. Harron Susan C. Harron Scott A. Holt Paul A. Lefebvre
Donors Anthony F. Cantarella
Carolyn G. Connors Lani M. D’Agostino
Benefactors Brendan D. Ratigan
Donors Wilson King Barnes III
Partners’ Club
Benefactors
Kathleen M. Breslin
John A. Feichtel
Bruce M. Monroe
Scott E. Blissman
Ann McGee Carbon
Frances H. Ferrara
Benefactors
Tanya C. Blissman
Thomas E. Dowey
Steven B. Fisher
James C. Bohorad
Edward B. Micheletti
Niels C. Eriksen
Century Club
Paula A. Fontello
Alissa Balotti Anderson
Morgan A. Holtman
Christine Sudlow Ewan
Leslie W. Knapp Jr.
Stephanie E. Kleinfelter
Maryanne M. Lewis
Frank R. Emmerich Jr.
Carol L. Gallagher Felicia Anne Gojmerac David C. Kennedy Thomas M. Krick
Bench and Bar Club Damian S. Jackson Stephen L. Klincewicz
Karen R. Ellsweig Barbara L. Feudale Kristen M. Fraser
Heather Mayer Rep. Patrick Murphy Marlo Pagano-Kelleher Scott T. Reese James M. Robinson Ronald K. Sharer Gregory J. Spadea Kristopher T. Starr Claire S. Swift-Voigt Amy M. Vanni Denise S. Vicario
Century Club
Jane Shershenovich
Aaron T. Marshall
Diane Magram
Harold P. Anderson
Orville R. Walls III
Mark J. O’Brien
Class of 2000
Michael R. Nestor
Patrick C. Barry
John D. Pirnot
Law School Associates
Brian M. Nixon
M. Blake Cleary
John C. Pasquantino
Michael J. Diamondstein
Christal A. Pike-Nase
Donors
Michael G. Crilly
Frank X. Acocella
Barbara J. Dietrich
Britt E. Anderson
Daniel E. Lohr
Jeffrey R. Ramberg James M. Reeder
Van Barnette Marilyn H. Bromels
Jason C. Powell Brad S. Sahl Patricia A. Shatynski Jennifer C. Uzzi Patricia A. Widdoss
Holly M. Barbera Freed Bench and Bar Club Donald A. Smith William R. Snell
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Yvonne Takvorian Saville
Donors
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Scott LaMarr Little
Influential, Responsive, Relevant “We are delighted Justice Saylor has agreed to take on this role. He is an expert at constitutional theory and its actual application in the world of legal practice. He will give our students hands-on advice and counsel that will add an important component to the Law & Government curriculum.” Professor John L. Gedid on the law school naming Justice Thomas G. Saylor Distinguished Jurist in Residence
In 2009-2010, our campuses hosted 71 symposia, CLE programs, conferences, and other scholarly and professional events. Our students, faculty, and guests came to meet and learn from experts in their fields, distinguished jurists, and elected officials at the local, state, and national levels. Rarely has our role as a hub for scholarly research and inquiry, reasoned debate, and professional development been so pronounced. We witnessed the law in action and at some of its highest levels. The Delaware Supreme Court heard oral arguments in three cases in the Delaware Campus’ Ruby R. Vale Moot Courtroom. In the same venue, the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims heard oral arguments in the case of Posey v. Shinseki. For our students and visitors, the proceedings and the question and answer sessions that followed provided invaluable insight. Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice and Distinguished
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The law school named Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Thomas G. Saylor Distinguished Jurist in Residence.
Jurist in Residence Thomas G. Saylor delivered his lecture, “The Nature of Judging,” in Harrisburg, and the Delaware
Campus honored a group of regional jurists, many of them Widener Law alumni, for the 3rd Annual Judges Day. We were also honored to host Michigan Supreme Court Justice Stephen Markman, Delaware Superior Court Judge John A. Parkins Jr., and others. Judges also came to learn, as Widener Law hosted the National Judicial College, which welcomed administrative law judges for a four-day Administrative Law Advanced Seminar, taught by National Judicial College faculty, including Dean Linda Ammons.
The law school honored retired Delaware Judge Helen S. Balick for her contributions to bankruptcy jurisprudence. Dean Linda Ammons hosted the installation of Judge Balick’s portrait and announced the forthcoming Helen S. Balick Business Bankruptcy Chair. This capped a daylong program entitled “The
Intersection of Federal Bankruptcy and State Corporate Law,” which featured Harvey R. Miller of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP as its keynote speaker and four panels of bankruptcy experts. It was one of several activities that focused bench and bar on the topic. In Harrisburg, the 4th Annual John L. Gedid Lecture, entitled “Rethinking Bankruptcy Law in the Aftermath of a Financial Crisis,” was delivered by Melissa B. Jacoby, the George R. Ward Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law. The event honors Professor Gedid for his longtime service and leadership. The law school also marked the 25th anniversary of the Francis G. Pileggi Distinguished Lecture in Law, a premier corporate law forum for practitioners,
judges, and academics, presented annually by the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law. The lecture, “When the Government is the Controlling Shareholder: Implications for Delaware” was delivered by Edward B. Rock, the Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Expertise was by no means limited to corporate law, however. We learned from top scholars and practitioners in health law, including Princeton University Professor Paul Starr, who gave the 5th Annual Raynes McCarty Lecture, “Health Care Reform: The Long View,” as well as experts in legal technology, environmental law, constitution law, and others.
Widener Law hosted 71 conferences, symposia, CLE programs, and other scholarly, professional development, and public service events last year.
Century Club
Class of 2002
Melvyn H. Rothbard
Jennifer D. Armstrong
Dean’s Council
Stephen J. Wenger
Todd Victor Clark
Donors
Bench and Bar Club
Kelly L. Bender
Stephanie L. Hansen Donors David R. Alperstein Lindsey Dickinson Baynard Amanda L. Brinton Diana Clift Cebrick
We were also joined by a number of public office-holders. Delaware Governor Jack Markell, Lieutenant Governor Matt Denn, and members of their administration were present on several occasions. Delaware Senator Edward E. Kaufman lectured the Delaware campus faculty, launching the fall 2009 slate of faculty development events, and in Harrisburg, U.S. Attorney for South Carolina William C. Nettles ‘92 delivered the Distinguished Lecture on Trial Advocacy and Professionalism to students participating in the Intensive Trial
Advocacy Program at the Harrisburg Campus. The Local Leaders Series, co-sponsored by the faculty of the law school and the Student Bar Association, again brought influential area leaders to the Delaware campus. Speakers
in this series over the past year included Teresa Mason, Chief of Staff for the Delaware Attorney General; Benjamin Strauss ’90, then-president of the Delaware Bar Association; former Delaware Governor Ruth Ann Minner; and New Castle County Executive (now U.S. Senator) Chris Coons.
Cherriel N. Laidley
Craig C. DeFazio
Donald J. Bowman Jr.
Century Club
Elaine F. Duffus
Margaret Fleming England Robert W. Mallard
Timothy P. Brennan Jennifer M. Endrzejewski James S. Green Jr.
Tiffany G. Lydon
Kathryn J. Peifer
Jamie M. Magnani
Donors
Rochelle M. Howard
Susan M. Potts
Cindy R. Becker
Catherine S. Lajoie
Julie E. Steinbacher
Jonathan P. Cohen
Troy E. Larson
Patrick W. Straub
Michael J. Dolan
Darryl J. Liguori
Meredith R. Weisel
Dianne L. Elliott
Joshua K. Losey
Class of 2001
Deborah J. Galonsky
Chunsheng Lu
Joy Abbot Inkpen
Melissa A. Bevan Melewsky
Dale T. Jenkins
Denise D. Nordheimer
Century Club Michael F. Shawaryn
Charlotte P. Hameka
Wendy Moragne
Ronald G. Poliquin
James L. Newman
Sally Nuttycombe Rutherford
Donors
Heather L. Nicoletti
Marc B. Samuelson
Nicole E. Ballenger
Riki R. Redente
Nancy L. Stanford
Vincent L. Champion
Brandon D. Richards
Lisa L. Coggins
Michael L. Saile Jr.
Class of 2004
Sarah E. DiLuzio
N. Randall Sees
Matthew P. Domines
Roger J. Traversa
Michael B. Grasso
D. Patience Welch
Hina Haq
Christopher D. Zalesky
John F. Kennedy
Jennifer Zimmerman
Heather A. Tereshko
Paul M. Lambrecht Kathryn M. Laughlin Matthew B. Lunn
Class of 2003 Bench and Bar Club
Century Club Gary D. Berg Benjamin W. Keenan Bernard T. Kwitowski Dorothy E. Muir Donors Robert F. Casey Timothy G. Daly
Susan Doney Mack
Bruce George
Michael T. McGlone
Century Club
Amy L. Groff
Michelle M. O’Hanlon
George A. Bibikos
Stephanie Derr Imbesi
Stacia A. Ritter
Kristen R. Bibikos
Michael P. Mineo
Joan D. Samuel
Deborah A. Cooper
Michele C. O’Dowd
Mark A. Schiavo
Erin A. Edwards
Peggy O’Neill
Barbara M. Smith
Mary P. Glancey
Peter M. Vaughn
Gregory W. Paglianite
Class of 2005
Antoinette T. Flora
Bret D. Keisling
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Pictured (left to right) Professor Robert C. Power, associate dean of faculty research and development for the Harrisburg Campus; alumnus William Nettles ’92, U.S. Attorney for South Carolina; and Associate Professor J. Palmer Lockard II, director of the Harrisburg ITAP program
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Bench and Bar Club
Century Club
Class of 2007
Class of 2008
Class of 2009
Jennifer A. Berosh
Joshua H. Burg
Donors
Century Club
Century Club
Alicia A. Blankenship
Kimberly A. Allen
Jennifer L. DiMario
Anthony J. Capone
John D. Cirrinicione
Christina M. Fisher
Jennifer N. Bergin
Stuart B. Doctorovitz Noelle Palazzo Monté T. Squire
Thomas A. Cushane
Donors
Leo L. Dunn
Deborah E. Ballantyne
Lee C. Durivage
Sarah J. Brown
Justin K. Edelson
Matthew J. Butler
Elizabeth A. Flaherty
Jimmy C. Chong
Kara M. Guzzetti
Patrick J. Collins
Nicole S. Hartman
Michael J. Dennin
John Herman
Barbara L. Gauger
Amy C. Huffman
Benjamin M. Hoffman
Edward M. Janzekovich
Marci M. McNair
Richard P. Lomurro
John S. Pontius Jr.
Joshua H. Meyeroff
Devera B. Scott
Tara Mondelli
Jennifer Stonerod
Kimberly K. Moraski
Edward L. Valio
Meghan A. Perry
Jennifer L. Walker
Lauren A. Pisapia
Henry M. Weinfeld
Robert F. Poppiti
Class of 2006
Stephen W. Ries John P. Sanderson III
Partners’ Club
Christopher F. Schellhorn Jr.
Dr. Kathleen W. McNicholas
Thomas A. Uebler
Donors
Michael J. Veneziani
Meredith Allie-Gordon
Charles B. Vincent
Sara E. Auerbach Mitchell R. Ayes Rahat N. Babar Ryan D. Briskin Angela M. Coxe Corinne M. Foley Valerie L. Francks Jeanne M. Gibson
Donors Anonymous Brian T. Cagle Tamika A. Crawl-Bey Rolando A. Diaz Katharina Earle Clarissa L. Freeman Michelle L. Groleau Robert L. Hawkins Bonnie A. Hershberger Lindsay R. Janel Christopher E. Jones Joy L. Kolodzi Danielle K. Kuzminski
Elvira N. Berry Matthew A. DeNucci Sonya Dore Catherine M. Dotto Amy L. Dreibelbis Erin K. Grady Elissa A. Greenberg Kelly L. Lombardo Regina M. Matozzo Amy J. Miller Mark M. Saltzburg Morgan L. Seward Jarrett Vine Hui-Ju Wu
Christopher J. Bonk Yury Byalik Grant Cannon Ryan S. Carlson Jorge L. Conforme Katelyn E. Cutinello Krista L. Deats Kusha A. Desai Kim A. De Tombeur Matthew Eyet Megan C. Fram Amy M. Glass Amanda L. Golia Alina Habba Robert D. Kinnear Nekeshia M. Maloney Steven J. Matzura
Steve J. Kwon
Class of 2010
Daniel A. Mancini
Century Club
Matthew J. McHugh
Reena Pushpangadan
Grace C. Nguyen
Thomas L. McGlaughlin Eyad Mizian James E. Moore Troy A. Riddle Douglas J. Welty Ian P. Wetzel
Donors Jason D. Alterbaum Mary Ann Andrews Alexander F. Becker
Kimberly K. McEwen
Lauren M. O’Connell Eid E. Qaqish Richard E. Remson Michael C. Rovito Nicole M. Santo Diana C. Schimmel Bianca A. Smith Steve Snair Dana C. Suter Mia C. Tinari Jonathan M. Villa Shawn-Ryan White Clifford P. Yannone
Billie Jo A. Matelevich-Hoang James K. Matelevich-Hoang Suzanne D. Montgomery Keli M. Neary
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Lisa M. Pectol Geoffrey F. Sasso Louis A. Totino Elizabeth A. Tucker Geoffrey K. White
Dean Linda L. Ammons and National Judicial College participants
(From Left) Delaware Supreme Court Justices Jack B. Jacobs, Carolyn Berger and Henry du Pont Ridgely
Guy & Susan Townsend
Paul O. Karpouzis
Charles M. Townsley Jr.
Tina Georges
Thomas J. Weiner
Prof. Robert J. Lipkin
Alan & Patricia Zarkoski
Bob & Eileen Cooper
George & Mary Hopper
Marc T. Zubrow
Lauren J. Huebner
Louis & Sally Mangione
Vincent & Jenny Hughes
Mangione & Assoc. PC
Jodi A. Hutchinson
Maryanne F. Post
Scott & Tanya Blissman
Maryanne H. Post
Marcia Bloomfield
Barbara Valavanes, in honor of her 85th birthday
Branigan & Ortiz, LLC, P.C.
Tina Georges
John D. Cirrinicione
Kyvele Karpouzis
Ralph DeLucia Jr.
Widener University School of Law Veterans Law Clinic
Albert M. DiGregorio
Linda L. Keichline
First Judicial District Court Common Pleas Board of Judges
Allen L. Johnson Lorraine A. Kendle Joseph F. Kestner Margaret M. Kraft Carla Laub Gilbert & Meaghen Leidig David Lodge Gail T. Lodge
Honorary Gifts
Dr. Kathleen W. McNicholas
Jean Woodson Lodge
Widener Law alumni and friends contributed generously in honor of the following individuals and programs.
Carol A. Ammon
Jennifer M. Lohkamp
Thomas R. Ashley
Antoinette E. Lutz
Robert & Dawn Bantivoglio
Thomas J. Lyons
Dean Linda L. Ammons
George A. Barnett
Christopher & Susan Aitken Mascioli
Leslee Silverman Tabas
Robert & Elizabeth Beste
Cynthia McCormick
James Columbro
Mary Beth Brady & Joe Vigorita
Columbro Consultation Services
Carroll Morgan Carpenter
Doris Zinck WISE
Thomas & Emily Reed Hon. Charles P. Mirarchi, Jr. JoAnn & Heshie Aiello-Rudick
Henry & Leslie Brubaker
Laurence R. Feinstein
Patricia D. Fleming Marvin & Marcia Halbert
Memorial Gifts
Eugene McGurk Jr. Denise Marone Law Offices of Brad Sahl P.C.
Kevin & Deborah McCreery
Widener Law alumni and friends contributed generously in memory of the following individuals.
Eugene D. McGurk Jr.
Dean Alfred Avins
Mattioni, Ltd.
Hon. Michael N. Castle & Jane Castle
James & Eileen McKiernan
Gregory Jacobs
Angella Moore & Tracy Borda
Scott & Jill Chiccino
James & Elizabeth O’Neill
Brian & Bunny Christopher
Ernest H. Pescatore
Richard T. Christopher
James W. Semple
William & Patricia Christopher
R. & Noreen Slease
The Widener Law Faculty, Staff, and Alumni
Thomas Corrigan
Martha F. Steel
Noriss L. Cosgrove
Edwin Tocker
Vanessa George
Dr. Patricia M. Curtin
George W. & Muriel D. Overton
Brenda O’Hern
Dr. Vincent Delduca Jr.
Hon. George Overton
Caleb Enerson Curt & Hope Enerson Linda Hahs Flaharty, for her 35 years of service to Widener University School of Law
Jacqueline R. Kaplin John & Roberta Ryan
Quentin & Jenny Dexter Lea C. du Pont Philip Difebo Nancy J. Durbin
Raymond Hancock
Mary Anne Edwards
Joseph A. Kutschman III
Edward T. Gallagher
Elizabeth Kutschman
Michael J. Goldberg & Anne Goldberg
Ken Lipowitz Kenneth Lipowitz Harry C. McCurdy The Family of Harry C. McCurdy
Richard & Helaine Gordon
John Clark Jr. Law Office of Eileen Caplan Seaman Judges W. Richard Eshelman & Frederick Edenharter Jeffrey & Jane Sprecher
David & Donna Orenstein Noelle Palazzo Craig B. Pogach Stephen W. Ries The Paul Group, LLC William A. Silver
Jerry Shields Green Watch Institute Nicholas Patinos, Constantine Kermes, & Rita Snyder Kyvele Karpouzis Jeffrey S. Welch ’78 Hon. James J. McGann
Eileen Ayse Grena-Piretti Charles & Meredith Hatfield Tomi Helojoki Robert & Kathleen Henry
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Local Leaders Series participants Teresa Mason (left) and former Delaware Governor Ruth Ann Minner (right)
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Ray J. Hancock
Esther Clark
Law Offices of Ronald DeSimone
Vision and Progress “Quite frankly, everything I’ve been able to achieve, and everything I set out to achieve, I was able to accomplish because the Delaware Law School of Widener University came into being and because of people like you who are here tonight allowed me that opportunity.” CAPT Robert P. Taishoff, JAGC, USN (ret.) ‘89, receiving the Outstanding Alumnus of the Year Award at the April 2010 35th Anniversary Gala
35 years after our first graduating class’s commencement, we find our law school fundamentally changed from the one in which they enrolled in 1971. This change is the result of their investment, that of every alumna and alumnus that came after them, and the dedicated efforts of Widener Law’s friends and family. Our growth and success have been made possible because of their generous financial assistance, their volunteerism, and their many interventions on our behalf. While we may be able to quantify these contributions, we cannot overstate their value to Widener Law or our gratitude for them. The 2009-2010 fiscal and academic year was characterized by these good works. It was a year, fittingly, that began with the dedication of the Delaware Campus’ new public service wing, a facility made possible by a generous 2008 Longwood Foundation grant. Our faculty and students provide thousands
Jeff Schmidt, director of the Pennsylvania chapter of the Sierra Club, speaks at the Harrisburg dedication of the Environmental Law Center.
of pro bono service hours each year at this facility. Its completion coincided with the launch of a series of new initiatives and the continuation of several longstanding commitments, all made possible by our alumni and friends.
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John A. Wetzel ’75, through a very generous combined cash and
planned gift, created the John A. Wetzel Endowed Scholarship Fund. The fund will provide scholarship support for deserving students who have taken nontraditional routes to law school admission. It is both an acknowledgment and an enlargement of the law school’s longstanding willingness to support promising, highly qualified candidates for the bar, regardless of the path they have followed to law school.
The Sierra Club, through one of the most substantial
gifts to a Harrisburg Campus program in the law school’s history, enabled us to establish the Harrisburg Environmental and Natural Resource Law Clinic, a critical component of the new, dual-campus Environmental Law Center. The Barra Foundation supported our Health Law Institute’s establishment of the Health, Education, and Legal Assistance Project: A Medical-Legal Partnership (HELP:MLP) in Chester, Pennsylvania. The Ethel Sergeant Clark Smith Foundation also provided valuable support for this program. The Bank of America Foundation renewed its support for the
Public Interest Resource Center’s Financial Literacy Education Program (FLEP) in Wilmington. Leslee Silverman Tabas ’79 was instrumental in securing a major gift from the Harriette S. & Charles L. Tabas Foundation. The gift establishes the Leslee Silverman Tabas and Richard S. Tabas COVEAR Community Awareness Project, a critical resource for domestic violence education and advocacy. E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company and Morris James LLP continued their longstanding support for the law school’s
diversity pipeline programs. Ashby & Geddes, Bayard, P.A., Mark R. Abrams ’78, Cole, Schotz, Meisel, Forman & Leonard, P.A., Ferry, Joseph & Pearce, P.A., and Landis Rath & Cobb LLP added their names
to the list of the Helen S. Balick Business Bankruptcy Chair’s generous supporters. Firms funding the chair now number 11. They are joined by a number of generous individuals.
The law school awarded $4.2 million in scholarship and other financial aid to its students last year.
E. John Wherry, Jr. Anthony DeGrandi Elsie C. Lawton Kenneth & Augusta McKusick Felice C. Morgan O’Brien Bower, P.A. Thomas & Emily Reed Steven & Debra Reiner Robert Stein & Associates, PLLC
The American College of Bankruptcy and the American
Alumnus of the Year Award:
College of Bankruptcy Foundation again enabled the Delaware Civil Law Clinic to provide the Financial Advocacy Program for Seniors.
CAPT Robert P. Taishoff ’89, USN, JAGC (ret.)
Dr. Robert Gober ‘79 provided a generous gift that funded a
Outstanding Service Award:
Green Watch Institute
Damian S. Jackson, Esq. ’96
Alumni Event Sponsors
Lifetime Service Award:
35TH ANNIVERSARY GALA
remarkable campus improvement in Delaware: the Dr. Robert Gober ‘79 Legacy Fountain and Plaza. He continues to be joined by hundreds of alumni and friends who have placed commemorative pavers at the site. Last year, a number of individuals, law firms, corporations and foundations provided particularly generous support for the Widener Law Fund, the unrestricted fund that provides the law school invaluable budgetary flexibility. They were led by the Walter M. Strine and Alice Washco Strine Foundation, Alexander Bratic, George K. Miller, Page, Wolfberg & Wirth, LLC, and the Mutual Fire Foundation Inc.
Corinne M. Foley ’06
Elizabeth M. Tome The Wistar Institute Michael Wims Charles Zencey
The late Honorable Charles P. Mirarchi Jr.
Abington Reldan Metals
Widener Law Legacy Awards:
William E. Averona, P.C.
A. Charles Peruto Sr., Esq., Alexander V. Sarcione
Renae B. Axelrod
Sr., Esq., the late Honorable G. Fred DiBona, and the late Thomas S. Lodge, Esq.
Anapol Schwartz
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Axelrod Steven B. Barsamian Beneficial Savings Bank Calcom Technologies Cape Investigations Center for Forensic Economic Studies Cescaphe Ballroom Jimmy Chong Cibik & Cataldo Cozen O’Connor Crest Roofing D’Angelo Restaurant DePasquale Law Offices Jennifer DiMario DiPiero Court Reporting Dispute Resolution Institute LLC DVFG Advisors Edelstein Martin & Nelson Electronic Reporting Stenographic Esquire Solutions
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Alumni Award recipients at the April 2010 35th anniversary gala
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In a year of so many fulfilled opportunities, it was perhaps only fitting that on the 35th anniversary of its commencement we recognized the class of 1975, whose embrace of a key opportunity launched our law school. They and the law school will commemorate their efforts with a stained glass window, dedicated to the Delaware Law School and placed in the Alfred Avins Special Collections Library. Moreover, in April the Widener Law community gathered in Philadelphia for a 35th Anniversary Gala and alumni awards ceremony. Awards presented at the event included the following:
Outstanding Recent Alumna Award:
Simon and Lupo Attorneys at Law
Leif R. Sigmond Jr. ’90 with Mrs. Arlene Pearce, mother of the late Hugh B. Pearce, and Dr. Robert Pearce, the late Mr. Pearce’s brother, at the 20th Annual Hugh B. Pearce Trial Advocacy Competition
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Leif R. Sigmond Jr. ’90
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In April of 2009, the family of the late Hugh B. Pearce gathered with alumni, faculty, and staff to mark the 20th Annual Hugh B. Pearce Trial Advocacy Competition. The annual event was named in memory of Mr. Pearce, a Widener Law student, promising advocate, and helicopter pilot who died in a 1989 Delaware National Guard helicopter crash. Twenty years later, the gathering of his friends and family was at once a celebration of his life and the launch of a new effort in his name: the Hugh B. Pearce Memorial Scholarship. Among those present was Leif R. Sigmond Jr. ’90, a friend of Mr. Pearce’s and the architect of the new scholarship. Since that day, Mr. Sigmond, a partner at McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP, has not only contributed generously to the Pearce Scholarship Fund but has worked tirelessly to recruit the support of alumni and friends. With the help of the Hugh Pearce Scholarship Committee, Mr. Sigmond has reached out through phone calls, letters, and at alumni gatherings, helping the scholarship fund reach its halfway mark in just a year and half. Of his efforts, he says, “I am honored to do my small part in helping to establish this scholarship in Hugh’s name. Hugh was a great friend whom I miss to this day. My hope is that this scholarship will keep Hugh in the hearts and minds of his Widener family forever.” If you are interested in contributing to the Hugh B. Pearce Memorial Scholarship, please contact Rosemary Pall, Esq. at 302.477.2169.
Omni Abstract Agency LLC
WIDENER WOMENS’ NETWORK
Palmarella, Curry & Kelly, P.C.
Anapol Schwartz
Honorable Paul P. Panepinto
Miriam B. Barish
Meghan A. Adams Perry
Kimberley Kluchnick
Peruto Family
Mattleman Weinroth & Miller
Precision Reporting Inc
Katharine Mayer
Larry Raiken
McCarter & English
Raynes McCarty F. Kevin Lynch, Esq.
Remax 2000
Fifth Annual Harrisburg Alumni and Friends Golf Outing
Harrington & Harrington
Richard A. Kennedy Associates
AACA Museum
Hockfield Hasner Weiss & Rosenberg
Richard Cappelli, Esq.
Allenberry Inn & Resort
Imperatrice, Amarant, Capuzzi & Bell
Stephen W. Ries
Altoona Curve
Industrial Valley Abstract Company
Ron Panepinto Jewelers
ARAMARK
James DeCrescenzo Reporting LLC
Rothberg & Federman P.C.
Avon (compliments of Mary Lou Morin)
Kaplan Leaman & Wolfe
Jonathan Saidel
Blissman Family
Kappa Alpha Psi
Seagull Legal Services
Blue Mountain Outfitters
Karen Ann Ulmer, P.C.
Stewart Title Guaranty Company
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
Kenneth L. Baritz & Associates
Summit Court Reporting
Char’s Bella Mundo
Kenneth R. Schuster & Associates
Swartz Campbell
DelGrosso Amusement Park
Kent & McBride
Transperfect Legal Solutions
Five Star Golf
The Killino Firm, P.C.
Trenchtech
Geiger & Loria Reporting Service
Kogan Trichon & Wertheimer
Union Hospital of Cecil County
Harrisburg Senators
Law Office of Jay H Ginsburg
United American Insurance Group
Hershey Bears
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD MEETINGS
K&L Gates LLP
Renae B. Axelrod
Lakemont Park
Cozen O’Connor
Lightman Welby Stoltenberg & Caputo, Attorneys at Law
RecordTrak
Law Office of W. Bruce Hemphill Law Offices of Kenneth N. Brodsky, LLC Law Offices of Proctor Lindsay & Dixon Law Offices of Stephen J Negro Law Offices of Stuart B. Doctorovitz Lawyers Funding Leonard Sciolla Hutchinson Lori Hynson Acct Management Magna Legal Services
Anne M. Madonia
KENT & SUSSEX ALUMNI RECEPTION Diane M. Andrews
Lake Tobias Wildlife Park
Manada Golf Club Molly Brannigans Omni Bedford Springs Resort Page, Wolfberg & Wirth, LLC
Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin
NEW JERSEY ALUMNI COCKTAIL RECEPTION
McCormick & Priore
Michael V. Benedetto
Medical Legal Reproductions Inc
Robert A Honecker, Jr.
Messa & Associates P.C.
NORTHERN NEW JERSEY ALUMNI BREAKFAST
Ski Roundtop
Ronald P. Goldfaden
Sutliff Cadillac.HUMMER.Saab
National Association of Independent Land Title Agents Northwestern Mutual Insurance Co
Panera Bread ProActive Settlement Solutions Reading Phillies Sasha’s Hideaway Sass Salon and Day Spa
The Cellar
Hon. Randy J. Holland
Alice W. Strine
Mozelle E. Daniels
Larry S. Raiken
Twin Ponds
Andrew McK. Jefferson
Leslee Silverman Tabas
Karen Durkin
Stephen W. Ries
Water Golf on City Island
Peter M. Mattoon
CAPT Robert P. Taishoff
Sheila Dow Ford
Joseph J. Santarone
Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby LLP
Dr. Kathleen W. McNicholas
James J. Veneruso
Prof. Tonya Evans
Jennifer Stonerod
Edward B. Micheletti
Richard P. Zaretsky
Trent Hargrove
Angela Taylor
Widener University School of Law Bookstore
George K. Miller Jr.
Renardo L. Hicks
Karen Ann Ulmer
The Late Hon. Charles P. Mirarchi Jr.
Dean’s Minority Advisory Committee (delaware)
Jacqueline Jackson-DeGarcia
Kathryn J. Peifer
Maria E. Bermudez
Sharon R. Lopez
Scott W. Reid
Michael A. Brown
Vice Dean Robyn L. Meadows
Thomas L. Sager
Priscilla A. Chatman
Franklin A. Miles
Hon. Thomas G. Saylor
Jimmy C. Chong
Donald Morgan
John F. Schmutz
James E. Elam IV
Tyrone Powell
We are exceptionally fortunate. During the 2009/10 academic and fiscal year, roughly 1,000 alumni and friends volunteered their time and their talents to Widener Law. The law school put their expertise to good use on governing boards, in moot court competitions, in pro bono service programs, and in myriad other ways.
Hon. Gregory M. Sleet
Cheryl L. Gaston
Peter Speaks
Bernard W. Smalley Sr.
Gretchen C. Gilchrist
Hon. Jeannine Turgeon
Hon. Lee A. Solomon
Robert L. Hawkins
Derrick P. Williamson
Benjamin Strauss
Carol A. Herring
LaToya C. Winfield
Philip Trainer Jr.
Vera M. Holmes
Hon. Joseph T. Walsh
Emeka Igwe
Alumni Association Board of Directors
John A. Wetzel
Damian S. Jackson
Renae B. Axelrod, President
Douglas M. Wolfberg
Brenda A. James
Steven P. Barsamian
They are too numerous to include here in full. Below we have listed Widener Law’s governing and advisory boards, whose leadership and guidance is indispensable to our law school. We invite you to view the full Honor Roll of Service online: http://law.widener.edu/honorroll
National Advisory Council
Hon. Joel S. Johnson
Hon. Raymond A. Batten
Marc R. Abrams
Cherriel N. Laidley
Tanya C. Blissman
Environmental Law Center Advisory Board Thomas Au Donald Brown Joel Burcat John Cellucci Jeremy Firestone Mary Ann Grena Stephanie Hansen Debbie Heaton Philip Hinerman Todd Lineburger Stephen Madigosky Dave Markell Verne Smith David Sunday Marianne Tyrrell
Michael J. Aiello
Jennifer Levy-Tatum
Hon. Richard M. Cappelli
Howard K. Alperin
Cecilia M. Muneses
John Cirrinicione
Miriam Benton Barish
Hon. George W. Overton
Frank C. DePasquale, Jr., Vice President
Carl W. Battle
Rodney D. Ray
Kenneth D. Federman
Kyle D. Bowser
Scott W. Reid
Catherine N. Harrington
Alexander Bratic
Troy A. Riddle
W. Bruce Hemphill
Michael A. Brown
Hon. Calvin L. Scott
Christopher A. Iacono
Claire M. DeMatteis
Everette L. Scott Jr.
Emeka Igwe
Dr. Robert D. Gober
Bernard W. Smalley, Sr.
Damian S. Jackson, Secretary
Ronald P. Goldfaden
Monté T. Squire
John F. Kennedy
Mitchell Gurwicz
Min S. Suh
F. Kevin Lynch
N. Lynne Hughes
Damon G. Tyner
Anne M. Madonia
Wayne D. Kimmel
Orville R. Walls III
Lynn M. Martosella
Alan B. Levin
Richard K. Washington Jr.
Cecilia M. McCormick
Robert O. Lindefjeld
Leon A. Williams
Jeffrey W. McDonnell
Kenneth J. Lopez
Dean’s Diversity Board (harrisburg)
Frank J. McGovern
Eugene D. McGurk Jr.
Thomas E. Brenner
James F. Metka
Franklin A. Miles
Monica D. Cliatt
Anna Darpino Morris
U.S. Rep. Patrick J. Murphy
Samuel T. Cooper III
Noelle Palazzo
Cynthia R. Ryan
Vera Cornish
Hon. Paul P. Panepinto
Leif R. Sigmond
Hon. Pedro A. Cortés
Jonathan E. Peri
Timothy J. Snyder
Prof. Michael J. Cozzillio
Charles W. Proctor III
2009-2010 governing and advisory boards For service to the law school between July 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010
To all our volunteers, thank you. Your contribution to the law school and our students is truly priceless.
Board of Overseers Eugene D. McGurk Jr., Chair Renae B. Axelrod Steven P. Barsamian Hon. Raymond A. Batten Scott E. Blissman C. Grainger Bowman Hon. M. Jane Brady Michael G. DeFino Hon. Susan C. Del Pesco Geoffrey Gamble Jacqueline G. Goodwin EdD Hon. Philip A. Gruccio Richard K. Herrmann
James J. Maron
Maria C. McLaughlin
Health Law Institute Advisory Board Adam L. Balick Deborah E. Ballantyne Jennifer Gimler Brady Eileen M. Coggins John G. Culhane Deborah Datte Andrew J. Fichter Dr. Linda Gilliam C. Mitchell Goldman Bruce Hartman Katherine B. Kravitz Donald Legreid Dr. Evan Y. Liu Dr. Kathleen McNicholas Stephen R. Permut Arnold J. Rosoff Barry Sickels Dr. Robert A. Simmons Stanton Smullens Ronnie Solomon Peggy Tighe John R. Washlick
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FY10 financial overview FY10
Legal Education Institute Advisory Board Margaret M. Adams Laura Ahtes Roger A. Akin Nicole E. Ballenger Wendy S. Cathers Mindy S. Cohen Donna M Colarulo Angela R. Conway Jennifer Duffy Amy Goodman Michael J. Hawley Hillary Heebner Anthony Iannini M. Resha Jeneby Steve Martin Deborah M. McCreery Peggy O’Neill Erin E. Rybicki Karen Ellison Paula A. Wright
Revenues
92.1% Net Tuition Revenue 3.9%
Endowment Revenue
2.8%
Miscellaneous
0.7%
Annual Giving*
0.5%
Investment Income
Expenditures
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The Dr. Robert Gober ’79 Legacy and Plaza 92.1%Fountain Net Tuition Revenue
43.53% Instructional
3.9%
Endowment Revenue
14.66% Academic Support
2.8%
Miscellaneous
12.28% University Services
0.7%
Annual Giving*
10.15% Maint.-Operations
0.5%
Investment Income
8.77%
Institutional Support
5.72%
Student Services
4.02%
Depreciation
0.70%
Debt: (Interest, fees & other)
0.26%
Auxiliary Enterprises
*Includes charitable gifts for operating funds only. Excludes gifts for endowment, capital, and other projects.
Endowment Funds $2,446,705
11% Parents, Friends, Faculty,2.8% Staff and Students
$235,063
Special Projects
$2,288,336
12.28% University Services
0.7%
Annual Giving*
10.15% Maint.-Operations
0.5%
Investment Income
8.77%
Institutional Support
5.72%
Student Services
4.02%
Depreciation
FY10 Gift Dollars by Source
$233,675
$222,001
$212,436
FY10 Alumni giving
Miscellaneous
Capital Projects
$212,436
$137,287
$222,001
$233,675 18% Alumni
0.70% Debt: (Interest, fees & other) $323,250 26% Foundations and Family Foundations $290,455 23% Other Organizations 0.26% Auxiliary Enterprises Endowment Funds $2,446,705
$276,839 22% Corporations and Law Firms $233,675 18% Alumni
Annual Giving
$1,176,856
Capital Projects
$235,063
$137,287 11% Parents, Friends, Faculty, Staff and Students Special Projects FY08
FY09
FY08
$2,288,336
FY10
law school comprehensive campaign: Progress to Date Endowment Funds $2,446,705
$235,063
Special Projects
$2,288,336
Grand Total July 30, 2010 $6,146,961
Funding Goal $12,000,000
$233,675
Capital Projects
$222,001
$1,176,856
$212,436
Annual Giving
Grand Total July 30, 2010 $6,146,961
Widener Law’s comprehensive campaign will provide its students and the broader legal community a range of new resources and opportunities. Now at more than halfway to our goal of $12 million, we would like to express our gratitude to those who have brought us this far and to those who will take us the rest of the way. For more details about the campaign and how you can help, please contact us at 302.477.2172. $323,250 26% Foundations and Family Foundations $290,455 23% Other Organizations
Funding Goal $12,000,000
FY09
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