Georgetown Law Magazine: Spring 2023

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G EO RGETOW N LAW Spring 2023 ELIZABETH TERRY Editor BRENT FUTRELL Director of Design INES HILDE Associate Director of Design JUNE SHIH Executive Director of Communications MERRIE LEININGER Director of Media Relations and Spokesperson KATHERINE CUTLER Director of Internal Communications RICHARD SIMON Director of Digital Strategy JACLYN DIAZ Communications and Social Media Manager BEN PURSE Director of Video Production MADELINE PORTILLO Communications Coordinator CONTRIBUTORS Sara Piccini PHOTOGRAPHY Michelle Frankfurter, Brent Futrell, Ines Hilde, Sam Hollenshead, Bill Petros, Melissa Ryan, Georgetown Law Library Special Collections, Getty Images, US Congress/ wikimedia MATTHEW F. CALISE Assistant Vice President of Alumni Engagement GENE FINN Assistant Dean of Development and Alumni Affairs WILLIAM M. TREANOR Dean and Executive Vice President Paul Regis Dean Leadership Chair Front and back cover photos: Brent Futrell Contact: Editor, Georgetown Law Georgetown University Law Center 600 New Jersey Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20001 editor@law.georgetown.edu Address changes/additions/deletions: 202-687-1994 or e-mail addup@georgetown.edu Georgetown Law magazine is on the Law Center’s website at www.law.georgetown.edu Copyright © 2023, Georgetown University Law Center. All rights reserved.

Cover: The Blume Public Interest Scholars pictured here are just a few of the hundreds of current Georgetown Law students making a difference through clinics, internships and volunteer activities.

This page: At the 2023 Home Court basketball game, Georgetown Law alumni and friends raised more than $800,000 for the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless – led by Georgetown Law alumnae for more than three decades.

For more on Georgetown Law’s leadership in training lawyers for public interest careers, see page 12.

Photo Credit: Brent Futrell

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THOUGHTS FROM THE DEAN: TRAINING HOYAS FOR OTHERS I am pleased to share with you the latest issue of our alumni magazine, which has a fresh new look, with plenty of photos to give you a glimpse of how busy our campus life is these days. In 2022, we held an unprecedented three reunions, playing catch-up as we emerged from pandemic restrictions.

It was a joy to welcome back so many of you, and I look forward to our next reunion weekend this October.

you Hoya Lawyas who are working toward the greater good in your communities and our world.

Our cover story focuses on our efforts to support our public interest-minded students, always a strength here at the Law Center. I started my own legal career in the Department of Justice, and when I was interviewing to become the dean of this great law school, I was impressed by the way Georgetown focuses on educating lawyers to make a difference in the world. Strengthening our programs for students interested in public interest careers is so important to me. I salute the thousands of

With all best wishes for you and yours,

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On a more somber note, I would like to pay tribute to our Registrar Simone Woung, who passed away unexpectedly in March. In so many ways, Simone, a 1997 graduate of the Law Center who built her 30-year career here, made this community a better place. On the facing page you’ll find a few words about her life and contributions. I also encourage you to visit our website to read her obituary and the many heartfelt testimonies posted in her memory – and to add your own, if you remember her either from her student days or in her staff roles.

William M. Treanor Dean and Executive Vice President Paul Regis Dean Leadership Chair

In Memoriam: Dean Simone Woung, L’97 The Georgetown Law community suffered a deep loss this March when Simone Woung, L’97, Assistant Dean and Registrar, died after a sudden and brief illness. Woung spent most of her 30-year career at the Law Center – first as a student worker, then with the Residence Life, Financial Affairs and Registrar’s offices. She served for three years as registrar at Marymount University before returning to lead the Office of the Registrar in 2018.

Colleagues and friends remember her as unfailingly kind, patient and dedicated in a detail-oriented role that interacts with all corners of the institution. Georgetown Law extends sincerest sympathy to Woung’s husband, Carl Binns, LL.M.’01, to their young daughter and to all who knew and loved her.

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Justice for Ukraine Center on National Security to Assist War Crimes Investigations Georgetown Law’s Center on National Security (CNS) has been selected by the Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group (ACA) to coordinate international assistance to Ukrainian prosecutors investigating war crimes committed during the Russian invasion of their country. The ACA was co-founded by the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union.

Funded by a two-year, $20 million grant from the U.S. State Department, the ACAGeorgetown team, led by CNS Executive Director Anna Cave, former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson and faculty coordinator Professor Mitt Regan, is setting up teams in Washington and Kyiv and drawing on expertise from lawyers, scientists, psychologists and Ukrainian citizens themselves to collect evidence and advise Ukrainian prosecutors on the massive task at hand. “We can’t deliver justice alone,” said Ukraine’s Prosecutor General, Andriy Kostin, during a February visit to the Law Center. “I’m really grateful… to Georgetown for taking this case.”

(Above:) During a September trip to Kyiv, CNS’s Anna Cave met with Prosecutor General of Ukraine Andriy Kostin. Kostin then spoke at Georgetown Law when he visited Washington in February of this year.

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Tech Institute Launches Fellowship to Improve Access to Courts The Institute for Technology Law & Policy in November launched the Judicial Innovation Fellowship (JIF), which will embed technologists and designers into state, local and tribal courts to help improve and simplify the public’s online interactions with court systems.

“The goal is not to incorporate technology into courts simply for technology’s sake, but to improve the ease with which users interact with courts, make courts more equitable and increase court transparency and accountability,” said cofounder Professor Tanina Rostain.

JIF, co-led by Rostain and Schmidt Innovation Fellow Jason Tashea, expects to place its first set of three fellows in three courts this fall.

Georgetown Law Withdraws from U.S. News Rankings In November, Georgetown Law announced it would no longer participate in the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings, a decision also made by some 40 other leading law schools.

“We withdrew after reaching out to U.S. News repeatedly for a decade, urging them to improve their rankings, without success,” Dean William M. Treanor said, citing a flawed scoring system that unfairly emphasized spending per student and penalized schools for supporting public interest students with fellowships and loan forgiveness. “Since our founding, public service has been at the heart of Georgetown Law’s mission,” Treanor wrote in November. “We have built the strongest clinical law program in the United States, have placed more graduates in public interest careers than any other top law school... We do these things despite the fact that the U.S. News law school rankings discourage it.”

While U.S. News has since moved to address some of these concerns, Treanor said the revised rankings continue to miss the mark, especially when it comes to transparency about its rankings algorithm and legal expertise. “Many of the problems with the rankings have reflected a lack of knowledge about the way legal education works,” Treanor said. “You can’t be an umpire if you don’t know baseball.”

For more, read Treanor’s March 13 article in Slate.com, “U.S. News and World Report Has a New, Aggressive Defense of Its Rankings. Law School Deans Like Me See It for What It Is.”

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Center for the Constitution Unveils Website on Originalist Scholarship

The Georgetown Center for the Constitution celebrated its tenth anniversary last year with a gift to the scholarly community: a new online guide to originalist scholarship on the United States Constitution. Visitors to the site will find summaries of more than 1500 law review articles, essays and other items, each linked to relevant sections or clauses of the nation’s founding legal document.

“The Interactive Constitution is an important step in taking originalism from the abstract of academia and into practice,” said Alexa Gervasi, L’16, the Center’s executive director.

Kassie Dulin, L’21, who contributed to the project as a student research assistant, added that working on it was “one of the most enriching experiences of my law school journey.”

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“It was inspiring to take part in a truly global conversation about visionary action. Experiences like these help us prepare the next generation of climate policy leaders.”

— Georgetown Climate Center Executive Director Kate Zyla on participating in the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt

Dean Treanor Inducted Into American Academy of Arts and Sciences Last fall, Dean William M. Treanor traveled to Cambridge, Mass. to take part in an induction ceremony for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an honorary society founded in 1780. As part of the event, he added his signature to some 13,000 others in the Academy’s Book of Members.

Though Treanor’s election was announced in 2020, his formal induction was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “It is a tremendous honor to be part of this organization, and I am glad to be able to participate in its important work,” he said.

Treanor will continue to serve on an advisory committee for the Academy’s Access to Justice initiative.

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Carnegie Endowment Leader Welcomes New LL.M.s Mariano-Florentino “Tino” Cuéllar, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former justice of the Supreme Court of California, gave the welcome address to new LL.M. students in September. Before an audience of students from some 70 countries, Cuéllar spoke on a wide range of subjects, including his childhood on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, his approach to decision-making during his tenure on California’s highest court and his belief that education and communication are key to strengthening international relations in these polarized times.

Promoting Sustainable International Trade and Development Last spring, Georgetown Law’s Institute of International Economic Law (IIEL) launched the Center on Inclusive Trade and Development (CITD). Co-directed by Professor from Practice Jennifer Hillman and Visiting Professor Katrin Kuhlmann, CITD provides a forum where stakeholders from academia, NGOs, businesses and international organizations can collaborate on making international trade rules more inclusive and sustainable.

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A Jumpstart for Graduates on Capitol Hill This spring, the Law Center launched a new initiative to support recent graduates seeking careers in Congressional offices. The Capitol Hill Fellowship provides stipends of up to $20,000 to graduates wishing to take four-month unpaid positions on the Hill so that they can gain experience in legislative advocacy and build the networks they need to find permanent employment in government service. Five fellowships will be awarded for positions starting this fall. If you work in Congress and are interested in hosting a fellow, or would like to help sponsor this opportunity for additional students, please contact the Office of Public Interest and Community Service (OPICS).

As part of the Fall 2022 New Student Orientation, incoming 1Ls took a walking tour of nearby Capitol Hill landmarks with Georgetown Law COO David Mao, L’93.

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Seen on Campus The Law Center welcomed scores of visitors over the past year, including: (1) Mahnaz Afkhami, who spoke about the recent protest movement in Iran from her perspective as a longtime activist and former Minister for Women’s Rights; (2) David Blatt and Lisa Blatt, both partners at Williams & Connolly, LLP, Distinguished Lecturer and former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement and NPR’s Legal Affairs Correspondent, Nina Totenberg. Lisa Blatt, chair of her firm’s Supreme Court and Appellate Practice, was honored at the Supreme Court Institute’s spring reception; (3) White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish K. Jha and former CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding, who joined Professor Lawrence Gostin to discuss lessons learned and how they can be applied to preparing for future pandemics; (4) Eric Holder, senior counsel at Covington & Burling LLP and President Barack Obama’s first Attorney General, presented the 2022 Dean’s Lecture to the Graduating Class; and (5) Connecticut Attorney General William Tong and (6) Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, both speakers at the 19th Annual Immigration Law & Policy Conference.

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Building Community: New DEI Leadership Georgetown Law has expanded the team directing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. Lawyer and workplace diversity expert Anjali Bindra Patel joined as our first Chief Diversity Officer, while Itunu Sofidiya transferred from the law library to become the first full-time director for RISE, our program for students from backgrounds underrepresented in the legal profession. Dean William M. Treanor also appointed Professor Robin Lenhardt, co-director of the Georgetown University Racial Justice Institute, to serve as Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.

The Law Center remains committed to enabling every person at Georgetown Law to thrive and make important contributions to our community – and to the law. Priorities this year include expanding support for student programming, advising students, faculty and staff on DEI matters and devising a long-term strategic plan.

Top photo: Last August, 120 1L students – the largest cohort yet – participated in a pre-orientation week offered by RISE, Georgetown Law’s program for J.D. students from backgrounds underrepresented in the legal profession.

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SCOTUS @ Georgetown Law With their chambers just blocks away, Supreme Court Justices occasionally take the short trip to campus. In recent months, there were multiple opportunities for Georgetown Law students, faculty and alumni to hear from members of the nation’s highest court.

Justices Kagan and Sotomayor Honor Judge Katzmann

Justice Breyer and Indian Justice Ramana Connect

Justice Kavanaugh Marks the End of the 2022 Term

In June, Associate Justice Elena Kagan and her colleague Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor both paid tribute at a memorial service for the late Judge Robert A. Katzmann, who for more than 20 years sat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Katzmann had deep ties to Georgetown University, including being named the Walsh Professor of Government at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute and serving on the Law Center’s Board of Visitors.

Associate Justice Stephen Breyer and Chief Justice of the Indian Supreme Court N.V. Ramana joined Dean William M. Treanor for a Zoom conversation touching on multiple topics, from diversity in the judiciary to lessons learned from each other’s legal systems. The Indian organization Society for Democratic Rights, founded by alumni Vibha Datta Makhija, LL.M.’92, and Kashish Aneja, LL.M. ‘19, co-sponsored the event.

Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh attended the Georgetown Law Supreme Court Institute’s end-of-term reception, an annual event at which members of the Supreme Court bar, Georgetown Law faculty and students and occasionally, the Justices themselves, have a chance to share notes on recent cases and judgments.

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Justice Sotomayor Addresses GLJ Alumni Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor headlined the 2022 Georgetown Law Journal Alumni Banquet. In conversation with outgoing Editor-in-Chief Agnes Lee, SFS’17, L’22, she reflected on her own experiences writing for the Yale Law Journal in her student days, the weekend she was nominated

by President Barack Obama to serve on the court and her views on the power of language in judicial opinions. Some 300 current and former GLJ editors and their guests were in the audience at Washington’s Conrad Hotel for the event. Before the dinner, Sotomayor greeted Lee, incoming Editor-in-Chief Maya Gandhi, SFS’20, L’23, and Dean Treanor.

Justice Barrett Remembers Judge Silberman Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett took part in a memorial event honoring the late Judge Laurence H. Silberman, a longtime member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit who also taught at Georgetown Law as a Distinguished Visitor from the Judiciary.

Barrett, a former Silberman clerk, praised the judge for his “mix of humility and confidence.” Three other Silberman clerks, Paul Clement, a former U.S. Solicitor General and Distinguished Lecturer at Georgetown Law, Judge Carl Nichols of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and Sarah Harris, a partner at Williams & Connolly, LLP, each shared their own memories on a panel moderated by Professor Randy Barnett, the Patrick Hotung Professor of Constitutional Law and Faculty Director of the Center for the Constitution.

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How Georgetown Launches Public Interest Careers

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harlotte Gilliland landed her dream legal job while still a law student. This May, the Georgetown 3L will become an assistant public defender for the D.C. Public Defender Service, an office where entry-level hires typically already have a judicial clerkship or a few years of trial experience on their résumés.

Gilliland is part of a proud tradition. Over the years, Georgetown Law has been able to help more graduates – nearly a quarter of all alumni since 2010 – move straight into public service law jobs than any other top law school in the United States.

It’s a record the school has worked deliberately to build. From an unrivaled number of clinics offering legal practice experience, to staff dedicated to advising on public interest internships and jobs, to an innovative loan repayment and forgiveness program for graduates who commit to public service careers, year after year, the Law Center has expanded opportunities for students seeking to work in the public interest.

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Gilliland says she came to Georgetown hoping to become a public defender and quickly found many chances to build her résumé: The Habeas Corpus Post Conviction Practicum, where she researched options for a prisoner sentenced to life without parole.

The Criminal Defense and Prisoner Advocacy Clinic, which had her teaching legal writing at a women’s prison in Maryland. A leadership role in Georgetown Defenders, a student organization for aspiring public defenders.

Summer jobs and internships with the D.C. and Mecklenburg County, N.C. public defender offices. And perhaps most importantly, a supportive network.

“My closest friends are all interested in public interest – my best friend here is also going to be a public defender. It’s felt really good to have a community,” she says. ”Public defense is very hard and very emotional.

Having people who understand that is huge.

“I’m so happy I ended up picking Georgetown.”

Georgetown Law has been able to help more graduates – nearly a quarter of all alumni since 2010 – move straight into public service law jobs than any other top law school in the United States.

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Employers have come to trust that Georgetown Law graduates are ready to hit the ground running. Patricia Mullahy Fugere, C’81, L’84, who spent three decades as executive director of the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, says, “I worked with hundreds of terrific Georgetown law students and graduates – interns, externs, fellows, staff attorneys, intake attorneys, board members and event volunteers. Their skills, experience, passion and commitment to justice prepared them well for the Legal Clinic’s important work for housing justice.”

Another advantage Georgetown’s public interest students have is the opportunity to learn from adjunct and visiting professors with high-level public sector experience. After graduating, Tristan Leavitt, L’11, went straight to the staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee under then-chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley, and spent the next two decades in government service, including stints as acting head of both the U.S. Office of Special Counsel and the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board. He says that the specialized coursework he had access to made it possible for him to work on complicated government oversight cases right out of law school. To name just a few examples, he studied administrative law with federal judge Laurence Silberman and congressional investigations with former White House Chief of Staff John Podesta, L’76 and federal judge Richard Leon. He was also a research assistant to Judith Richards Hope, a practicing attorney and staffer in the Ford and Reagan administrations who taught a seminar on “The Art of the Washington Lawyer.”

“The career experience of instructors at Georgetown was second to none,” says Leavitt, who recently became president of Empower Oversight, a nonprofit watchdog organization. “It was invaluable to my government career.”

“I was in the Street Law and Juvenile Justice clinics, and it was through those clinics that I learned about the impact that the law actually has on people’s lives and how important it is to be faithful to the law. I think it’s this commitment to engaging with the community and outside world that sets Georgetown apart from other law schools.”

– Hon. Pamela K. Chen, L’86, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York Left: Charlotte Gilliland, L’23, outside the courthouse where she soon will be representing clients with the D.C. Public Defender Service. Below: Georgetown Law students who traveled to Texas over spring break to volunteer in an immigrant detention center.

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OPICS IN NUMBERS

Expanding Georgetown’s Public Interest Footprint Landing a paid public interest job straight out of law school can be more difficult than getting hired by an elite law firm. Most public interest organizations have limited openings, especially for entry-level attorneys. Competition is fierce, even among students from the nation’s leading law schools.

Georgetown Law has unique locational advantages when it comes to helping students find work in this sector. Government and public policy externships, internships and summer jobs are easier to secure when your school is blocks away from the U.S. Capitol, the White House, multiple government agencies and nonprofits advocating for every cause under the sun. But the Law Center has also invested significant resources into making it easier for public interest students to pursue their career ambitions.

Clinical Experience Since the founding of the Criminal Justice Clinic in 1971, the number of clinics giving J.D. students hands-on legal experience has expanded to 19. Every year, more than 300 students learn to write briefs, interview clients and research legal issues in everything from equity in education to environmental justice to social enterprise law.

Advising In 1996, Barbara Moulton, L’89, returned to Georgetown Law to launch the Office of Public Interest and Community Service (OPICS), one of the nation’s first law school career offices dedicated to helping students find work in the public and nonprofit sectors. Today, OPICS has a staff of 13, under the leadership of Morgan Lynn-Alesker, L’07. In addition to advising individual students, the team also organizes multiple informational events each semester and coordinates ways for all students – public interest-bound or otherwise – to do volunteer work.

This year, students in the Harrison Institute for Public Law’s Policy Clinic worked with Councilmember Brooke Pinto, L’17, and stakeholders in D.C.’s historic Chinatown neighborhood on efforts to support small businesses and preserve cultural heritage.

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Every day, about two dozen students and alumni hold scheduled, one-onone meetings with career counselors (and several more stop by impromptu or e-mail staff with questions)

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hours of pro bono work were carried out collectively by the J.D. Class of 2022 during their law school years, and more than 200 members of the class fulfilled the Pro Bono Pledge (doing at least 50 hours of law-related volunteer work)

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HOYAS FOR OTHERS Office of Public Interest and Community Service (OPICS) OPICS PROGRAMMING

At The Helm: Morgan Lynn-Alesker, L’07

“Public Interest on Purpose” series for 1Ls: The series focuses on helping first-year students refine their career and course of study plans and offers a networking fair with representatives from federal, state and local government agencies.

Fellowship application advice: Counselors offer workshops for 2Ls and 3Ls on applying for competitive fellowships such as the Skadden and Equal Justice Works fellowships and various government honors programs.

Partner events: Law Center clinics, student groups, and Centers and Institutes co-host opportunities for real-world insight – for instance, a Security Clearance Q&A session with the Center on National Security, a field trip to the D.C. Public Defender office led by Georgetown Defenders and a discussion of career pathways organized by the Human Rights Institute.

Morgan Lynn-Alesker says that when she started law school in 2004, she knew she wanted to work in public interest, but wasn’t sure what that would look like.“ Georgetown helped me figure that out.

With the support of OPICS, I got a dream job at an organization doing important community-based work, representing survivors of domestic and sexual violence,” she says. And a few years later, after the nonprofit she was working at closed and her path was unclear, she learned of an opening at OPICS. “I could think of nothing better to do than give back to the community that shaped me and to help a new generation of public interest attorneys plan their journeys. It was honestly quite magical,” she says.

Lynn-Alesker returned to Georgetown Law in 2012, and after OPICS founder Barbara Moulton retired at the end of 2020, was promoted to Assistant Dean for Public Interest Programs. It turns out she had a second dream job in her – leading the OPICS team.

“Building community and support systems for students who are passionate about repairing the world is incredibly fulfilling,” she says.

“I’m most proud of the micro moments – connecting two students who become best friends and partners in their careers, introducing a student to an employer that ends up resonating with them completely, or to an alum out in the field who can show them what being a lawyer can look like. And doing all this in an office where we have built a caring, collaborative, loving environment.

“The OPICS team and the students we support inspire me on a daily basis.”

“OPICS can’t be really captured in numbers. There are things we can quantify, but the spirit of OPICS is also a vibe, a welcoming space. Students come here maybe to talk about career stuff, maybe to debate politics, but mostly for friendship, camaraderie and to fill up on the inspiration that fuels their passion for work that brings meaning.” – Lauren Dubin, Director of 1L Counseling (and part of the founding OPICS team)

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HOYAS FOR OTHERS Scholarships

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In 1988, the Law Center launched the Public Interest Law Scholars (PILS) program, with academic opportunities and career guidance. A few years later, PILS started offering partial scholarships. In 2018, thanks to a generous gift from Bruce, L’80, and Ann Blume, PILS became the Blume Public Interest Scholars Program. Today, it provides fulltuition scholarships to ten incoming J.D. students each year, along with other networking and mentorship opportunities such as the new Leaders in Residence Program, where lawyers from a variety of fields come to campus to give the scholars a look at public interest law in the real world.

In recent years, Blume Scholars have launched careers in positions ranging from the honors programs at the Department of Justice and other federal agencies to judicial clerkships, legal aid and public defender offices to nonprofit organizations via Equal Justice Works and Skadden Fellowships.

Georgetown Law students exploring public interest careers have access to dedicated financial and job placement support. The newest is the Capitol Hill Fellowship Program, which provides a $20,000 stipend to recent graduates in short-term unpaid internships in Congressional offices. The best-known is probably Public Service Summer Grants, which guarantee up to $5,500 for students in public interest summer positions. There are several other summer and postgrad fellowships available exclusively through the Law Center. For example, Organizational Fellowships place graduating students in local government agencies and Georgetown Justice Fellowships subsidize a graduate’s first-year salary. There are also a number of summer fellowships that replace or enhance summer grants, including the Georgetown Gideon Summer Fellowship Program for interns at a U.S. public defender office and the Women’s Bar Association Foundation Summer Fellowship for an internship with a nonprofit dedicated to serving women and girls in the D.C. area.

Founded in 1986 to help students with their loan payments during the earliest and lowest-paid stage of their public interest careers, Georgetown Law’s Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP) is one of the country’s oldest and most innovative programs of its kind. It uses forgivable loans to offset student loan payments for graduates working in public interest jobs for up to 10 years, at which point they can become eligible for federal loan forgiveness.

More than 1,000 alumni currently participate.

A World of Opportunity There are students who know from Day One exactly what kind of work they will do. Others, like Sonia Geba, L’24, see the wide array of opportunities available at the Law Center and use their three years on campus to explore a bit.

Geba, a Blume Scholar, has long been drawn to advocacy. In college, she was part of a group raising awareness around homelessness.

Last fall, Visiting Professor Sara Colangelo, L'07, and some of her students in the Environmental Law & Justice Clinic met with community leaders to hear how their D.C. neighborhood was being affected by a nearby trash transfer facility.

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She then joined the Jesuit Service Corps, which led her to a children’s advocacy organization in New York City, where one of the issues she worked on was youth immigration. This is what made her want to be a lawyer, she explains.

“At that time there was family separation going on at the Mexican border.

I’m a native Spanish speaker, so I felt I could do some helpful work,” she says.

At the Center for Applied Legal Studies, Georgetown Law’s asylum clinic, Geba and a fellow student worked with a former gang member from El Salvador, and based on abuse he’d suffered in prison back home they were able to secure Convention against Torture relief for him, preventing his deportation.

This year, Geba also spent part of her winter break and her entire spring break in South Texas, leading two groups of Georgetown Law volunteers helping immigrant detainees prepare their asylum applications.

Whether Geba will pursue immigration law full time is still up in the air, however, as she explores other issues. She has Ukrainian heritage and spent a year in that country on a Fulbright scholarship, so the ongoing Russian invasion affects her deeply. When the Georgetown-Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group project supporting Ukraine’s war crimes prosecutors launched late last year at the Center on National Security (see page 4 for more information), Geba offered her language and research skills to that effort as well.

With one year to go before graduation, she has a lot to think about. But she’s not alone. She’s surrounded by fellow Blume Scholars who also have big plans for righting the world’s wrongs.

“We have this little cohort, a community,” she says. “Every time I come across a Blume Scholar, it’s always a person that I can see eye to eye with.”

Sonia Geba, L’24, a Blume Public Interest Scholar, has spent time this year working on both asylum cases at the southern border and the international effort to bolster war crimes prosecutions in Ukraine.

Photo credit: Migrants, Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, January 2020; US Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick/wikimedia

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HOYAS FOR OTHERS “Georgetown Law’s tradition of preparing lawyers to go out and make a difference is one of the things that most made me want to serve here. I’m proud to have been able to build on what we offer over the past 13 years and can think of no better legacy for a law school to have.” ­— William M. Treanor, Dean and Executive Vice President and Paul Regis Dean Leadership Chair

“My 1L Criminal Justice class with Professor David Cole (now the ACLU Legal Director) sparked my interest in a lot of the issues that are now at the forefront of my practice. I remember discussing the Norfolk Four case, where four Navy sailors were coerced into falsely confessing – including one who I went on to represent in his efforts to seek compensation for his wrongful conviction.

There are countless people across the country who need quality legal assistance, for reasons both big and small. Even individual representations can generate systemic change, and it is so rewarding to use your professional skills for a broader purpose.”

– Liz Lockwood, L’14, founding partner of Ali & Lockwood LLP, a boutique firm specializing in civil rights litigation

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Free to Follow the Call to Serve For a lot of law students, a public interest career may not seem like a viable option – mostly for financial reasons. A private sector salary can look pretty attractive when student loans loom, or when a baby’s on the way.

Since 1986, with a combination of commitment and creativity, Georgetown Law has helped relieve those pressures for its graduates working in public interest careers through its Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP).

Georgetown’s LRAP has evolved and adapted over the years. The current version works in conjunction with the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness program established in 2007, under which eligible participants working in public service fields earn forgiveness of their remaining student debt balance after ten years of student loan payments. The Georgetown LRAP bridges that decade for incomeeligible graduates in qualifying public interest jobs, providing forgivable loans for participants to use toward their student loan payments.

Georgetown Law’s Financial Aid staff advise LRAP participants throughout the entire process and has stayed current on all the latest ins and outs of pandemic-related repayment suspensions and legal wrangling over other debt forgiveness proposals.

In February of this year, ACLU of Pennsylvania attorney Andrew Christy, L’12, learned that his decadelong commitment to service had been recognized as complete by the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. Not only was his sizable student loan balance now paid in full, but because he’d been part of the generous Georgetown Law LRAP, for him, law school had been almost free.

Along the way, the LRAP staff guided him through the bureaucratic snafus often present in the federal program.

“I have been able to actually afford to live on a public interest salary. I bought a house, married my college sweetheart and have had an all-around joyous life,” says Christy.

“I am extremely grateful that I have never once had to worry about how I would afford my payments or feel the debt hanging over me.”

Hoyas for Others “Hoyas for Others” is the Georgetown version of the traditional Jesuit school motto of “men for others.”

In nonprofit jobs, in government positions, in pro bono work in their firms and service projects in their communities, thousands upon thousands of Georgetown Law graduates are showing the world what that slogan really means.

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Use Your Power The Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, which provides accessible legal services to and engages in advocacy on behalf of the homeless and vulnerable in the nation’s capital, has Georgetown Law knit into its history and work. Patricia Mullahy Fugere, C’81, L’84, co-founded the organization in 1986 and served as its executive director from 1991 until she passed the baton last year – to Amber Harding, L’03, who first began working there as a student. For 36 years, Georgetown Law students and alumni have organized the annual “Home Court” fundraiser for the clinic, raising over $12 million to date.

Fugere and Harding, who co-teach the Georgetown Law seminar “Homelessness, Poverty and Legal Advocacy,” recently reflected on their career paths and the meaning they find in their work.

AH: During orientation, I went to the OPICS office and said, “Help me! I want to do civil rights work with homeless people.

Am I in the right place?” And they said, “Yes! You need to talk to Patty Fugere.” So I basically just hung out with Patty, following her around, having lunch with her. One day I called her and I said, “I have two summer internship offers. Which organization do you think would be a better fit?” And she said, “Neither. Come work for us.”

PMF: I did not have a lifelong passion to become an attorney myself. As a Georgetown undergraduate, I did some tenant organizing, and I thought law would give me tools to make housing more affordable. Then I got involved with a group of lawyers looking to address homelessness, which led to establishing the Legal Clinic.

AH: Through OPICS, I found a community of other public interest students. OPICS also helped me through applying for the Equal Justice Works fellowship and getting placed at the Legal Clinic. And I’ve been here ever since.

PMF: It’s important for lawyers to recognize the privilege that we have.

Doors open to us that do not open to other people. I think we should use our privilege to craft a more just world. We can also help build the next generation of justice warriors. I think of our seminar students, who are so impressive and have been a great source of joy and energy for me. And my daughter, who was not quite four years old when I started as executive director, is a 2017 graduate of Georgetown Law and works for the D.C. Council – another example of using the law to work in the public interest.

AH: As a lawyer, you learn ways of expressing yourself that can be very persuasive. So at the end of the day, have you used your power to make the world a better place?

“A 1L Week One class on legislating facial recognition technology and the Federal Legislation Clinic were instrumental in gathering the confidence and skills I needed to succeed as a new attorney on Capitol Hill. Public service thus far has been an immensely rewarding experience. I don’t know what the future holds, however, I can foresee Georgetown’s motto, Law is but the means, justice is the end, serving as an internal compass of sorts.”

– Donalene Roberts, L’19, Assistant Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives

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hanks to Senators Patrick Leahy, L’64, H’94 and Dick Durbin, F’66, L’69, eleven women members of Georgetown’s Black Law Students Association (BLSA), including Odunayo Durojaye, C’19, L’22, Cheyenne Freely, L’22 and Jade Baker, L’22, had the opportunity to attend the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearings on Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court last spring. Reflecting on witnessing the testimony of the judge who would become the Supreme Court’s first Black woman justice, Baker said, “Black women only make up two percent of the entire legal profession. So we always have each other’s back. I’m so grateful that I had the experience to support her.”

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ll-nighters aren’t just for exams. When the Supreme Court reopened oral arguments to visitors last October, Georgetown Law students were eager to snag the coveted tickets – and a few went so far as to camp out on the sidewalk to ensure they’d be among the first in line.

Jane Sul, L’25 and Ryan Lee, L’25, classmates in Professor Irv Gornstein’s 1L Constitutional Law class, were all smiles even after spending a chilly night on air mattresses before attending arguments in National Pork Producers Council v. Ross, a case they had also watched being mooted at Georgetown Law’s Supreme Court Institute.

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he Georgetown Gilbert and Sullivan Society, established at the Law Center in 1973, doesn’t only perform the tried and true G&S repertoire.

In Spring 2022, they put on “Legally Blonde,” the Broadway musical based on the hit movie about a not-so-dumb blonde who enrolls at a certain law school in Cambridge, Mass. The show was a perfect fit for a law student production. As Elle Woods herself might have said about choosing it, “What, like it’s hard?”

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People told me that being a 1L is hard, because you’re removed from the law that you actually want to study. But events like this invigorate me. It doesn’t feel so removed from what I actually want to do.

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CLASS OF ‘22 FACES BRIGHT FUTURE AFTER ENDURING CHALLENGES “Perseverance” seemed to be the unofficial theme of Georgetown Law’s 2022 commencement, as speakers and the graduates themselves celebrated completing their degrees in the midst of a global pandemic and a polarized political climate.

Braving 90°F heat, 671 J.D. and 700 LL.M. graduates and their guests gathered on the Hilltop campus for the first full-scale commencement ceremony since 2019.

Civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill, H’22, president emerita of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, praised the newly minted lawyers sitting before her. “[Lawyers] need to be determined and imaginative and dedicated and relentless. And that, Graduating Class of 2022, I know you are, because you’ve persevered these past three years. I know you are trained to keep pushing, overcome setbacks, to move forward no matter what.”

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FA C U LT Y WELCOMES NINE NEW MEMBERS A bumper crop of distinguished scholars — including three Georgetown Law alumnae — joined the Georgetown Law faculty in the 2022-23 academic year, bringing their expertise in taxation, international economic law, housing policy, legal writing and much more.

PROFESSOR DOROTHY BROWN, L’83, MARTIN D. GINSBURG CHAIR IN TAXATION’s scholarship focuses on the intersection between tax policy and civil rights, as she explains in her acclaimed book “The Whiteness of Wealth.”

She returned to the Law Center after teaching law at several universities, most recently at Emory. “At this point in my career, I want to make change, and you make change by working with policy makers. So being in D.C. and coming home to Georgetown is a big plus for me,” she says.

PROFESSOR KATHLEEN CLAUSSEN spent several years working at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague and the Office of the United States Trade Representative before joining the faculty of the University of Miami School of Law. “Georgetown has one of the best international law faculties in the world. I’m excited to learn from my new colleagues,” says Claussen, a graduate of Yale Law.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ANUPAMA CHATURVEDI CONNOR, L’02 first came to the Law Center following the footsteps of her judge great-grandfather, her lawyer grandfather and her sister, who is also a Georgetown Law graduate.

She met her husband here, and throughout their careers they have traded off positions in the public and private sectors as they raised their children. She is excited to join the Legal Practice and Writing team, especially since her year as a Law Fellow was a highlight of her own student days. “It’s sweet on every level,” she says.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SARA KAISER CREIGHTON, L’10 “caught the litigation bug” while a student in the Georgetown Law Appellate Litigation clinic, and her post-law school career included both private practice and work in a nonprofit litigation group. Still, she had fond memories of helping teach Legal Practice to 1Ls when she was a Law Fellow, and has returned to her alma mater to help supervise the current Law Fellows.“ I’m really very lucky to be where I am. The students blow me away,” she says.

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ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AMY J. GRIFFIN didn’t have the option to take specialized courses in legal writing when she was a student at Berkeley Law. After stints as a commercial litigator and full-time parent, she took a part-time position teaching legal writing at Notre Dame, and found it to be a great fit. From there she taught at the University of Colorado, and now has come to Georgetown Law. “Georgetown has a national reputation for taking legal writing really seriously,” she says.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MARK JIA has long been interested in comparative transnational law. He studied Chinese law as a Rhodes Scholar, then after graduating from Harvard Law clerked at the Supreme Court for retired Justice David Souter and for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, finding the latter to be a kindred spirit in exploring foreign legal systems. “Georgetown is such a cosmopolitan place. It’s quite a thrill that I can simultaneously pursue my interests in American law and Chinese law,” he says.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR NICOLE SUMMERS was drawn to the study of housing law while a student in Harvard Law’s Legal Aid Bureau, a clinic she later returned to help lead. At Georgetown Law, she is not teaching in a clinic at this time, but she appreciates the school’s strong clinical program. “Georgetown feels like an excellent fit for me. It really feels like people here value public interest and the practical world of law,” she says.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DANIEL WILF-TOWNSEND didn’t enjoy Civil Procedure while a student at Yale Law School, but once he began working in appellate litigation he began putting what he learned into context. Now he has the chance to explain it all to his own Civil Procedure students. “Getting to learn and work on legal issues in a city where people around you are all doing the same thing is an exciting place to be,” he says.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JONATHON ZYTNICK has been interested in policy since childhood. In addition to his J.D. from Yale Law School, he earned a Ph.D. in economics at Columbia as a way to further his explorations of how policy and law can improve people’s lives. He’s looking forward to continuing his work at Georgetown. “Policymakers call up professors at Georgetown and say, ‘Walk me through this issue.’ That’s real-world impact,” he says.

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he 591 1Ls and 524 graduate students who arrived on campus last fall are an impressive lot. The new J.D. class holds the school’s highest ever median grade point average and LSAT scores and include dozens of Phi Beta Kappa members, varsity athletes and undergraduate campus leaders.

But during orientation week, Dean William M. Treanor reminded the new students to look beyond the numbers and get to know their classmates as individuals. Putting together a class is much like assembling an orchestra, he explained, with each member bringing unique perspectives. “We want a symphony – the piccolo players, and the violinists, and the trombone player and the timpanist,” said Treanor.

“Education works when all the instruments express themselves.”

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Professor Susan Low Bloch, Reynolds Family Endowed Service Professor (Established by Hope C. Reynolds, B’75, P’03 and Thomas A. Reynolds III, B’74, P’03) Professor William Buzbee, Edward and Carole Walter Professor of Law (Established by W. Edward Walter, L’80 and his wife, Carole) Professor Anupam Chander, Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Technology (Established by Scott K. Ginsburg, L’78) Professor Laura Donohue, Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and National Security (Established by Scott K. Ginsburg, L’78) Professor Deborah Epstein, Agnes Neill Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law (Established through a bequest from the estate of Agnes N. Williams, L’54) Professor Lilian Faulhaber, Ralph H. Dwan Chair in Taxation (Established in honor of Ralph Hubert Dwan, former University Regent and member of the adjunct faculty) Professor Kristin Henning, Blume Professor of Law (Established by Bruce Blume, L’80 and his wife, Ann) Professor Emma Coleman Jordan, J. Crilley Kelly and Terry Curtin Kelly Professor of Business Law (Established by the late J. Crilley Kelly, L’73 in memory of his wife, Terry) Professor Gregory Klass, Frederick J. Haas Chair in Law and Philosophy (Established through the estate of Frederick J. Haas, L’26)

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Professor David Koplow, Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law (Established by Scott K. Ginsburg, L’78) Professor Naomi Mezey, Agnes Neill Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law (Established through a bequest from the estate of Agnes N. Williams, L’54) Professor John Mikhail, Carroll Professor of Jurisprudence Professor Julie O’Sullivan, Agnes Neill Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law (Established through a bequest from the estate of Agnes N. Williams, L’54) Professor Paul Rothstein, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law (Established by Carmack Waterhouse, L’35 and his wife, Mary) Professor Tanina Rostain, Agnes Neill Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Justice Innovation (Established through a bequest from the estate of Agnes N. Williams, L’54) Professor Hillary Sale, Agnes Neill Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law (Established through a bequest from the estate of Agnes N. Williams, L’54) Professor Howard Shelanski, Joseph E. and Madeline M. Sheehy Chair in Antitrust Law and Trade Regulation (Established in honor of Joseph E. Sheehy, L’24 and his wife, Madeline) Professor Abbe Smith, Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law (Established by Scott K. Ginsburg, L’78) Professor Jane Stromseth, Francis Cabell Brown Professorship of International Law (Established by former Georgetown Board of Regents member Francis Cabell Brown, Jr.) Professor Madhavi Sunder, Frank Sherry Professor of Intellectual Property (Established through a bequest from Frank B. Sherry, L’40 and by alumni in the Intellectual Property field) Professor Joshua C. Teitelbaum, David Belding Professor of Law (Established by David Belding, L’71)

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/ Sheila Foster Co-Cities: Innovative Transitions toward Just and Self-Sustaining Communities (MIT Press)

In Co-Cities: Innovative Transitions toward Just and Self-Sustaining Communities, Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Urban Law and Policy Sheila Foster and co-author Christian Iaione of Luiss University in Rome describe a collaborative approach to urban management. “The idea of a co-city is to co-create, co-construct innovative forms of new goods and services. It is geared toward putting communities at the center and not being top-down,” says Foster.

/ Brad Snyder Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment (W.W. Norton)

Anne Fleming Research Professor Brad Snyder, author of the new biography Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment, says the justice, who served on the high court from 1939-1962, lived “an incredible American story… If he were alive today, he’d be on three or four different social media platforms and have a zillion followers.”

/ Mitt Regan Drone Strike: Analyzing the Impacts of Targeted Killing (Palgrave)

In researching his new book Drone Strike: Analyzing the Impacts of Targeted Killing, McDevitt Professor of Jurisprudence Mitt Regan reviewed 20 years of U.S. drone strike records and concluded that such campaigns are often carried out with insufficient information and analysis. “Decision-makers need to engage with the evidence — decisions about life and death are too important to be based on untested assumptions,” he says.

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lumni, students, faculty, and staff gathered last April to toast a half-century of the Black Law Students Association’s Georgetown chapter and present the inaugural Spirit of BLSA Award to two founding members, former Dean of Admissions David Wilmot, L’73, and Curtis White, L’71. Past and current student leaders shared memories and expressed hope for the next 50 years.

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n November, Georgetown Law hosted a celebration of the Denny Center for Democratic Capitalism, founded in 2020 by alumnus James M. Denny, L’60. The center, which is dedicated to reconciling the benefits of free market capitalism with the values and expectations of a democratic society, issued its Inaugural Report on the Health of Democratic Capitalism last May. A highlight of the gathering was the installation of Denny Center Faculty Director James Feinerman as the James and Catherine Denny Chair in Democratic Capitalism.

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uring the special reunion last spring, Dean William M. Treanor hosted a ceremony to dedicate the lawn between McDonough Hall and the Edward Bennett Williams Law Library to one of his predecessors, Paul Regis Dean L’43, LLM’52, H’69, who served as Georgetown Law’s dean from 1954 to 1969. As Treanor explained in his opening remarks, Dean is remembered as “the founding dean of the modern law school,” having shepherded the process of moving the campus from a single building on E St. NW to its current location.

“Paul Dean also restructured the graduate program, improved the quality of the faculty and student body and expanded the variety of courses in criminal justice and poverty law,” said Treanor. “Through these myriad contributions, and now through the naming of the Paul R. Dean Green, his legacy will have an enduring significance for all who walk our campus.”

Left: Sen. Patrick Leahy, L’64, H’94, paid tribute to Dean; right: more than 20 members of the Dean family attended the dedication.

THE BUSINESS LAW SCHOLARS (BLS) program has a new space in McDonough Hall where Scholars can study, hold meetings or even participate in job interviews. Investor and philanthropist Sara Crown Star, L’85, funded and directed its renovation. She and her husband, James, have been generous BLS supporters and leaders, having endowed both its Business Skills Endowed Programming Fund and Visiting Professorship/Executive Director Fund.

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After a pandemic pause, Georgetown Law reunions had a big comeback in 2022. We held a supersized spring reunion for the classes that weren’t able to meet in 2020 and 2021, got back on track with our fall reunion and even held a special gathering for the newest alumni from the classes of ‘20 and ‘21, who missed out on full-scale commencement ceremonies.

If your graduation year ends in a 3 or an 8, we hope you’re planning to join us in Washington for the next reunion weekend, October 20-22.

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ROBERT F. DRINAN S.J. LAW ALUMNI PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD Deborah L. Markowitz, L’87 established the Vermont League of Cities and Towns Municipal Law Center after clerking with Vermont Supreme Court Justice Louis Peck. In 1999 she was elected Vermont’s Secretary of State, and in 2010 ran for governor. Since then, she has focused on environmental policy: first as Secretary of the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources and currently Vice President and Massachusetts State Director for The Nature Conservancy. She has also served on the board of advisors for the Georgetown Climate Center.

PAUL R. DEAN ALUMNI AWARDS Nelson M. Jones III, L’77, L’80 obtained both his J.D. and LL.M. from Georgetown Law while on active duty in the U.S. Marine Corps. He lives in Houston, where his practice areas include bankruptcy, business and commercial litigation. He is legal advisor to the Naval Academy Minority Alumni Association and serves on the Board of Visitors for Georgetown Law. Jones is also in the National Bar Association’s Fred Gray Hall of Fame, for lawyers who have made significant contributions to the cause of justice.

PAUL R. DEAN ALUMNI AWARDS Vibha Datta Makhija, L’92 is a Senior Advocate at the Indian Supreme Court (ISC), the third woman to hold this designation. Her legal forte lies in areas of constitutional and criminal law and she has steadily contributed to Indian judicial reforms. As a member of the Georgetown Law Asian Law Alumni Advisory Board, she has helped raise the Law Center’s profile in India. She is also co-founder of the Society of Democratic Rights, which cosponsors a Comparative Constitutional Law Series with Georgetown Law. PAUL R. DEAN ALUMNI AWARDS Timothy J. O’Neill, L’77 joined Goldman Sachs in 1985 and has served in many senior roles at the firm, including currently as senior counselor in the Executive Office and member of the Management Committee. He and his wife, Linda O’Neill, N’77, are generous supporters of Georgetown Law, having established the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and its Center for Transformational Health Law. O’Neill has served on the Georgetown University Board of Directors and is currently chairman of the Investment Committee.

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IN MEMORIAM

The Hon. M. MARGARET MCKEOWN, L’75, H’05, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, visited campus last fall to discuss her book Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas—Public Advocate and Conservation Champion. In this new biography, she explores the dual roles that put Douglas squarely in the center of ethical dilemmas: in addition to being the longest-serving Supreme Court Justice, he was a citizen advocate for the environment.

BACK AT GEORGETOWN LAW In August, Alexa Gervasi, L’16, was named Executive Director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution – where she was program manager while she was a student in the evening program.

“I could not be more honored to be returning to Georgetown Law and the Center. This is where my passion for the Constitution and the rights it guarantees was ignited,” said Gervasi.

• Janice Adams L’74 • Joseph Artabane C’71, L’74 • William Bauer L’60 • Lawrence Bershad L’64 • Dale Breed L’83 • Marvin Brenner L’65 • Francis Buckley L’67 • Lawrence Bulman L’63 • Marvin Burley L’55 • Ronald Burton L’67 • Thomas Carolan C’58, L’61 • Ted Choi L’93 • Peter Cinquegrani L’84 • Harvey Cohen L’59, L’61 • Harry Connelly L’63 • James Connelly L’72 • Justin Constantine L’14 • Betty Crook L’54 • Andrew Curtis L’83 • Thomas Davis L’67 • Timothy DeBeer L’11 • James DeGiacomo L’56 • Edward Dolan L’78 • James Duggan C’64, L’69 • Neil Ekblom L’85 • Deborah Estes L’76 • Janet Evans L’76 • Elaine Falender L’78, MSFS’78 • James Faulkner C’66, MS’68, L’70 • Richard Fulton L’83 • Thomas Gachet L’76 • Francis Gallagher C’81, L’86 • Francis Galloway L’54 • Brendan Geraghty L’59 • Ernest Ginsberg L’63 • Robert Goss L’77 • Mary Jo Grotenrath L’59 • George Haldeman L’69 • Carl Hall L’65 • Ann Hamilton L’99 • Robert Horan L’61 • Jack Janetatos L’64, L’66 2023 Spring 35

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as chair of the New York State Ethics Commission.

Len Cavise, emeritus professor at DePaul College of Law and self-described “nice Italian Catholic boy,” has written The Gentile’s Guide to the Jewish World, a humorous guide to Jewish customs, holidays and ceremonies for fellow gentiles.

In his new book, The 7 Secret Keys to Startup Success, David Muchow, F’66, managing partner of MuchowLaw and adjunct professor at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service, identifies the major causes of startup failures and provides practical advice for growing a successful company.

1974 Brian F. Amery, co-founder and chair emeritus of Bressler, Amery & Ross, was honored with a 2022 ICON Award from the New Jersey business journal NJBIZ. Gov. Kathy Hochul reappointed Associate Justice Robert J. Miller of the Appellate Division, 2nd Department, to the New York Commission on Judicial Conduct in July 2022. Miller also serves

1975 The Hon. M. Margaret McKeown, H ’05, was honored with the 2022 American Inns of Court Professionalism Award at the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference in Big Sky, Montana.

She has been a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit since 1998, and is nationally recognized for her work on gender issues, judicial ethics and international rule of law.

1976 Inspired by his love for writing and golf, John Jenchura has published his first novel, Persons of Interest, a murder mystery set at a country club outside of Philadelphia.

1977 In his seventh book, The Myth of Human Rights, Bob Black engages with the relevant work of thinkers ranging from Max

MILESTONES IN FLORIDA Five Georgetown Law alumni were recognized by the Florida Bar at a 50-Year Member and Senior Counselor Luncheon held in June 2022:

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Stirner to Noam Chomsky, positing that every claim of right is a veiled threat of violence.

1978 James Astrachan (LL.M.), a partner at Goodell DeVries in Baltimore, was selected by the Maryland Daily Record as a 2022 Icon Honors recipient. Astrachan is founding chair of the Maryland State Bar Association’s Intellectual Property Committee.

Robert Friedman has joined the Los Angeles office of Carlton Fields as a shareholder in the firm’s Real Estate and Commercial Finance Practice after running his own firm for more than 25 years.

1979 The Hon. Leslie Hayashi was elected to a second term as treasurer of the National Judicial Conference (NJC) Board of Trustees. She is a retired judge of the Oahu First Circuit District Court of Hawaii and served on the NJC faculty for more than 20 years.

In his recently published Journal of Supreme Court History article, “’Lost Laws’ to ‘Eat Anywhere’: D.C. v. Thompson and the Road to Brown,” former Department of Justice attorney Charles Sheehan tells the story of a little-known but significant 1953 U.S. Supreme Court case instigated by civil rights activist Mary Church Terrell after she was denied service at Thompson Cafeteria in Washington, D.C. The court ruled unanimously that the restaurant’s segregation policy was illegal. Chief Justice Earl Warren noted that the case was an important precursor to Brown v. Board of Education.

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New York attorney William Michael Ried has published Pandion, his third novel, a mystery centering on a billionaire’s son contending with the aftermath of a plane crash and the collapse of the family empire.

Michael Sapir is CEO and co-founder of ProShares, a premiere exchange traded fund (ETF) company. The company introduced the first Bitcoin-linked ETF, BITO, in October 2021. Sapir was subsequently named by Bloomberg Businessweek to the 2021 Bloomberg 50.

1983 Sherry Cassedy, a divorce lawyer, mediator, teacher and licensed minister, provides support, guidance and practical resources for couples in her recent book, Marriage Unveiled: The Promise, Passion, and Pitfalls of Imperfectly Ever After.

President Joe Biden appointed Andrew Fois, C’79, as chair of the Administrative Conference of the United States. Fois’ appointment was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in May 2022. Fois previously served as an attorney advisor in the Office of Legislative Affairs at the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.

Mary Balent Long, LL.M.’84, is the office managing partner at Fox Rothschild’s Atlanta office.

She is a member of the firm’s Taxation & Wealth Planning Department.

1984 Robert Diffenderfer was sworn in as chair of the board of

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weaves together the voices of more than 130 Japanese Americans incarcerated by the U.S. government during World War II in When Can We Go Back to America?, a book for young readers. Kamei also teaches a history course at the University of Southern California on the constitutional relevance of Japanese American incarceration, for which she received a 2022 USC Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award. directors for the Chamber of Commerce of the Palm Beaches in Florida this past November. He is a shareholder at Lewis, Longman & Walker in the firm’s West Palm Beach office, specializing in governmental and environmental and land use law.

Carla Ford, general counsel for U.S. VETS, an organization that serves military veterans and their families, was named 2022’s Corporate Counsel of the Year in the Nonprofit/Government/Municipal category by Los Angeles Business Journal.

In Harvard’s Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science, Patrick Schmidt tells the story of the Harvard Department of Social Relations, which drew notable researchers like sociologist Talcott Parsons and Timothy Leary, remembered for his unconventional drug research.

1985 John Meagher was appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida to serve on the state’s Third District Court of Appeal Judicial Nominating Commission. Meagher is chair of the Insurance Practice Group at Shutts and Bowen and managing partner of the firm’s Miami office.

1986 Fox Rothschild has named Peter Tucci co-chair of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. He is a partner in the Philadelphia office who handles a variety of corporate matters, both domestic and international.

1988 Ilene Weininger Jaroslaw, MSFS ’88, and three partners founded the New York law firm of Elliott Kwok Levine & Jaroslaw in May 2022. EKL&J is a dispute resolution and legal advisory firm specializing in white collar defense and investigations, complex business and IP litigation, and domestic and international regulatory matters.

1989 Andrew Nevas, a partner at Verrill in Westport, Connecticut, successfully argued an appeal before the Connecticut Supreme Court in 2022 on behalf of his client, real estate management and investment company AGW SonoPartners. The case is believed to be the first time that an appellate level court has addressed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the obligations of commercial landlords and tenants.

1990 Pacifico DeCapua Jr., a general practice attorney from Milford, Massachusetts, is currently serving as a district court judge.

He was nominated to the bench

by Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker in 2021.

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has appointed Peter Kang to the magistrate judgeship in San Francisco. Prior to his appointment, Kang was a partner at Baker Botts in the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation Practice Group.

IN MEMORIAM • Carl Jesina L’61 • Bonni Kaufman L’84 • Joseph Kennedy L’68, L’71 • William Kuhs L’66 • A. Paul Lanzillotta L’61, L’64 • Chrys Lemon L’02 • Thomas Lennon L’63 • Mary Lomax L’88 • Jerry Longarzo B’84, L’87 • Jack Lynch L’63 • Durkin Manning L’77 • John McCarthy C’51, L’54, L’55, MA’61 • Thomas McElligott L’51 • Thomas McGunigal L’63 • Thomas McKee L’61 • Keven McKenna F’67, L’72 • Samuel McMullen L’76 • Francis Meagher L’52 • Florence Messier L’00 • William Meyers L’64 • David Milne L’65 • Bruce Morton L’73 • Stephen Moynahan C’57, L’61 • Vernon Mummert L’66 • William Murphy L’57 • Ocie Murray L’69 • S. Lee Narrow L’67 • John O’Donnell L’59 • Kevin O’Leary C’81, L’86 • Michael Olivas L’81 • Manuel Padilla C’53, L’56 • Francis Paradiso L’59 • Delores Parker L’79 • John Ponsetto L’64 • Barry Portman L’69 • Theodore Potthast L’62 • Susan Quinones L’78 • John Rogers L’77 • Patrick Rogers L’82 • Robert Romano C’69, L’72 • Robert Scheibe L’70 • John Schule L’68 2023 Spring 37

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Retired Wall Street lawyer John Oller, L’81, chronicles the intertwined evolution of sophisticated policing methods and the transformation of street gangs in his recent book, Rogues’ Gallery: The Birth of Modern Policing and Organized Crime in Gilded Age New York.

The District of Columbia Bar honored Susan Keller Pascocello as the 2022 recipient of its Beatrice Rosenberg Award for Excellence in Government Service. Keller is senior advisor at the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Office of the General Counsel. She also serves as Distinguished Development Diplomat in Residence at Georgetown Law and a visiting professor at the Law Center’s O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. Bradley Risinger has been appointed managing partner of Fox Rothschild’s Raleigh, North Carolina office. A partner in the Litigation Department, he appears frequently before the North Carolina Business Court and state and federal courts across the Southeast.

1991 Veteran data privacy lawyer Dominique Shelton Leipzig has joined Mayer Brown in Los Angeles as a partner in the Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Practice.

She represents companies on issues including privacy, global data security compliance, data breaches and investigations.

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1992 In The PI Guidebook: How the Promotability Index® Can Help You Get Ahead in Your Career, executive coach and consultant Amii Barnard-Bahn provides resources to help readers assess their unique strengths and opportunities and master leadership skills.

James Burroughs II is senior vice president, government and community relations, and chief equity and inclusion officer at Children’s Minnesota, one of the largest pediatric health systems in the United States. Prior to joining the organization, he served in the Office of Governor Mark Dayton, where he was the State of Minnesota’s first chief inclusion officer.

David Dowd, C’89, is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Potomac Law Group and a member of the firm’s Government Contracts; Privacy and Cybersecurity; and Litigation practice groups.

Jennifer Manner (LL.M.), senior vice president of regulatory affairs at EchoStar Corporation/ Hughes Network Systems, discusses the evolution of spectrum use and management resulting from the rise of 5G in wireless technologies in her book

Spectrum Wars: The Rise of 5G and Beyond.

as well as regulatory compliance and other matters.

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Dianne Chipps Bailey serves as chair of the Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI) Council at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. She is managing director and national philanthropic strategy executive for philanthropic solutions at Bank of America.

Joel Barrows (LL.M.) has published Deep Purple Cover, the fourth novel in his Deep Cover series, with a plot revolving around a missing vineyard owner and the FBI special agent who must reach out to someone from her past to solve the case.

Norman Semanko was named managing shareholder of Parsons Behle & Latimer’s Boise, Idaho, office. He is the firm’s water law practice group leader in the Pacific Northwest Region, and was featured in a cover story in the May 2022 issue of Irrigation Leader magazine.

1994 Kelly Mariotti, B’91, is president and CEO of the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers in Washington, D.C. She previously held dual roles as head of the Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association and vice president of client services at Association Headquarters Inc. Angela Montez, special counsel for Eversheds Sutherland US, has been appointed to the national board of directors of Gift of Adoption Fund, a national nonprofit that provides assistance in adoptions of vulnerable children.

Joanne Zimolzak has joined the International Association of Defense Counsel, an invitation-only global legal organization for attorneys who represent corporate and insurance interests.

She is a member of the firm at Dykema Gossett in Washington, D.C., and focuses her practice on commercial litigation.

1995 Jason Gould, C’92, has rejoined Carlton Fields and is of counsel in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. A member of the Life, Annuity and Retirement Litigation Practice, he advises clients on class action and other lawsuits,

Maneesha Mithal, C’91, has joined the privacy and cybersecurity practice at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati as a partner in the Washington, D.C. office.

She previously served more than 20 years at the Federal Trade Commission, most recently as associate director of the Division of Privacy and Identity Protection.

Emilie Rajaratnam Ninan, MBA ’95, co-chair of Ballard Spahr’s Finance Department, was named the private sector winner of the 2022 Freda Johnson Award for Trailblazing Women in Public Finance, presented by The Bond Buyer and Northeast Women in Public Finance. Her legal practice focuses on the financing of facilities for educational institutions, utility systems, manufacturing, affordable housing and healthcare.

1996 Susan Ballard Salyer is general counsel and corporate secretary at Veritiv, a Fortune 500 provider of packaging, publishing and hygiene products. She previously served as the company’s senior vice president and chief compliance and sustainability officer.

April Condon, C’92, a real estate partner at Day Pitney, collaborated with former partner Rodney Dillman on The Lease Manual, which answers lease-based questions from real estate professionals. The book includes an exploration of the lessons learned from COVID-19 and its impact on the industry.

How well do you know U.S. tax law? In his latest book, American Tax Trivia: The Ultimate Quiz on U.S. Taxation, corporate tax

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IN MEMORIAM • Edward Shank L’57 • Robert Silverstein L’74 • Steven Solomon L’82 • Arnold Stahl L’59, L’62 • Ronald Sullivan L’60 • James Sullivan L’79 • Robert Talcott L’74 • William Taylor L’84 • Paul Tellier L’88 • Nancy Thoma L’95, L’05

MANAGEMENT EXCELLENCE

• Jimmy Tigani L’61 • Natale Urso L’53 • Gerald Walsh L’63 • Patrick Walsh L’63 • David Ward L’61 • Michael Williamson L’76 • Albert Wilson L’59 • Thomas Wilson L’61 • John Wood C’58, L’61 • John Young L’62 • William Zifchak L’71

Barbara Morton (LL.M.), deputy chief veterans experience officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs, was honored with a 2022 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal in the category of Management Excellence. The “Sammies” are considered the Oscars of government service. Morton was recognized for her work developing a customer service framework to significantly enhance the delivery of services and benefits to veterans. attorney Mike Kowis (LL.M.) challenges readers to 250 questions about the history of U.S. taxation, important case law, tax forms, audits and much more.

Jose Leiman has joined AST SpaceMobile, a satellite designer and manufacturer based in Midland, Texas, as senior vice president of global tax.

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Seth Row, a partner in the Portland, Oregon office of Miller Nash, has been elected as a fellow in the American College of Coverage Counsel, comprised of lawyers from the U.S., Canada and Bermuda who focus their practice on insurance law and the representation of insurers and policyholders. Row leads Miller Nash’s insurance recovery practice team.

In September 2022, Matthew Blackburn co-founded the Sullivan Blackburn Pratt law firm in San Francisco with five partners.

The firm focuses on complex civil litigation, including bankruptcy, intellectual property and complex commercial litigation.

The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA), a national trade association, promoted Andrew Topps to vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary, effective Sept. 1, 2022.

Topps had previously served as deputy general counsel.

1998 Lisa Bertrand Brathwaite is the CLE administrator at the international law firm of Crowell & Moring.

1999 In April 2022, the 6th Judicial District of New York elected Elizabeth Aherne as the first female Supreme Court justice seated in Ithaca, Tompkins County. An adjunct professor at Cornell Law School, Aherne practiced as a transactional attorney and litigator for more than 20 years.

Marcus Huntley was promoted to head deputy of collaborative and restorative justice at the Los Angeles County Public

Defender’s Office. He is responsible for managing the office’s AB109 Unit, which represents clients who are released from state prison on post-relief community supervision; the Collaborative Courts, which provide substance use and mental health treatment; and the Records Clearing Unit/ Homeless Mobile Unit.

board of directors of the Legal Writing Institute.

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Julia Gatto has joined Steptoe & Johnson’s Investigations and White-Collar Defense Group as a partner in the New York office.

She formerly worked as a federal defender, representing nearly a thousand individuals in criminal cases over 14 years.

Jeanine Conley Daves is office managing shareholder of Littler’s New York City office and represents clients in employment-related disputes and workplace investigations. Outside of her practice, Daves serves on the board of directors of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

Kristen Murray has been appointed associate dean of academic affairs at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law. She is the managing editor of Legal Communication & Rhetoric: JALWD and a member of the

2001 Rebecca Bjork has joined Duane Morris’ Employment, Labor, Benefits and Immigration Practice Group as special counsel in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office.

Arie Heijkoop Jr. has joined Haynes and Boone as a partner in the firm’s Investment Management Practice. Based in the Washington, D.C. office, 2023 Spring 39

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Genevieve Grabman relates the story of her harrowing, high-risk pregnancy and what she learned about the state of maternal care in the United States through the experience.

Paul Knothe has been elected partner at Liebert Cassidy Whitmore in Los Angeles. He represents public agency and community college clients in employment law, with an emphasis on public safety issues.

Last February, two Georgetown Law alumni, Loren AliKhan, L’06, and John (J.P.) Howard III, L’10, were sworn in on the very same day to serve as associate judges on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. AliKhan was previously Solicitor General of the District of Columbia and Howard was an administrative law judge with the D.C. Office of Administrative Hearings. Chief Judge Anna Blackburne-Rigsby administered the oath of office. he focuses on advising asset managers and fund sponsors, registered funds and trusts, and independent directors on various legal, transactional and compliance matters.

R. Colgate Selden (LL.M.) has joined Blank Rome as a partner in the Washington, D.C., office as a member of the firm’s Financial Institutions Litigation & Regulatory Compliance Practice Group.

Earlier in his career, he helped establish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), subsequently serving as senior counsel in the CFPB’s Office of Regulations.

Trial attorney Thomas Sjoblom (LL.M.) is a shareholder in the Washington, D.C., office of Carlton Fields. He represents individuals and entities in government investigations and law enforcement actions, as well as shareholder lawsuits involving a variety of complex securities matters.

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attorney and former federal prosecutor, Suchar worked closely with Maslon partner Steve Schleicher on a pro bono basis representing the State of Minnesota in its prosecution of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd, helping to coordinate the state’s cross-examination on useof-force issues.

Regulatory attorney David Tallman has joined McGlinchey Stafford as a member of the Financial Institutions Compliance Practice Group. Tallman is based in the firm’s Houston and Dallas offices.

2004 Paul Foley has joined the firm of Mirick O’Connell in Worcester, Massachusetts as a partner in the Business Group, representing family-owned and closely held businesses and entrepreneurs. Previously, he was the managing partner at Mountain, Dearborn & Whiting.

Lisa Marie Kaas is a partner at Hollingsworth in Washington,

D.C. She has a broad civil litigation practice representing U.S. and multinational businesses in a range of industries, including pharmaceutical and health care products, transportation, aviation and energy.

2005 Jolie Apicella has joined Wiggin and Dana as a partner in the New York office. A member of the firm’s Litigation, Health Care and White Collar departments, Apicella previously served as healthcare fraud chief in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.

Grant DeFehr is chair of the 2022-23 Heart Challenge, with a leadership role in the American Heart Association’s signature Heart Walk and its campaign for stroke awareness, CycleNation.

DeFehr is vice president of business development for Oklahoma City-based Mammoth Energy Services.

In the spirit of Mitch Albom’s bestselling Tuesdays with Morrie, Jared Dunkin (LL.M), a vice president and senior tax counsel

SPORTS PIONEER

2003 Alex Choinski has joined Hunton Andrews Kurth as counsel in the firm’s Houston office. He advises on a wide variety of project-related, corporate and structured financings. Prior to joining the firm, Alex was in-house counsel at ExxonMobil.

Corporate transactions attorney J.A. Glaccum has joined Hunton Andrews Kurth as a partner in the firm’s Houston office. He represents companies across a broad range of industries including the energy sector.

In Challenging Pregnancy: A Journey through the Politics and Science of Healthcare in America,

Sports Business Journal named Susan O’Malley as a 2022 Champion: Pioneers and Innovators. O’Malley, L’07, became the first female president of an NBA team when she assumed that position with the Washington Bullets in 1991 at age 29. She also oversaw the opening of the MCI Center (now Capital One Arena) in 1997. O’Malley is now a senior instructor in the Department of Sports and Entertainment Management at the University of South Carolina.

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In her new book Eat and Flourish: How Food Supports Emotional Well-Being, Washington Post journalist Mary Beth Albright, L’06, draws on cutting-edge scientific research to explain the food/ mood connection and explains how to develop a healthful eating pattern for life.

with FTI Consulting, wrote Wednesdays with Avrom: Insightful Lessons from a Remarkable Man, sharing the life lessons he gained in his weekly visits with a community leader during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Delia Patterson has been elected president of the Energy Bar Association. Formerly an executive with the American Public Power Association, she currently works as senior director of regulatory affairs and compliance for Arizona’s Salt River Project utility company.

2006 Tom Coale hosts a weekly talk show for WBAL Newsradio 1090 AM/101.5 FM. The show runs from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. every Saturday and can be heard in the Baltimore metro area or streamed online at WBAL.com.

Coale is a partner with the Maryland government relations firm of Perry, White, Ross & Jacobson and represents client interests before the Maryland General Assembly, Executive Branch and local governmental bodies.

Katie Creedon, MBA’06, has joined Fish & Richardson as chief legal talent and inclusion officer.

She is responsible for leading the firm’s recruiting, professional development, DEI and pro bono teams across Fish’s offices in

the United States, Germany and China.

Bonard Molina Garcia, an international arbitration attorney and independent scholar, has written Ontological Branding: Power, Privilege, and White Supremacy in a Colorblind World, using philosopher Martin Heidegger’s tool ontology to investigate racism in the United States.

Douglas P. Hibshman is managing partner at Fox Rothschild’s Washington, D.C., office. A member of the firm’s Litigation Department, he represents national and international clients in complex contract, compliance, tax controversy and litigation issues.

Real estate attorney Benjamin Lee has joined Polsinelli as a shareholder in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. He represents clients in commercial real estate transactions, with a particular emphasis on commercial leasing on behalf of landlords and tenants in office, industrial, and retail environments.

Gregory Moore has joined Blank Rome’s Commercial Litigation practice group in the Houston office. Moore handles matters including class actions, breach of contract claims, and disputes related to economic damage,

personal injury and professional services.

and information governance processes and best practices.

James Tracy, F’02, is special counsel at Windels Marx in the firm’s New York City office. His practice focuses on commercial litigation.

Shai Kalansky is a partner and member of the Corporate Department at Morrison & Foerster in San Diego. His practice focuses on corporate and transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions (representing both buyers and sellers), venture capital financings and a broad range of securities offerings.

2007 Douglas W. Dahl II (LL.M.) has been appointed chair of the Employee Benefits Practice Group at Bass, Berry & Sims. He is based in the firm’s Nashville, Tennessee office.

Gov. Gavin Newsom of California has appointed Jeannette Quick as deputy commissioner of investor protection at the California Department of Financial Services and Innovation. She focuses on digital assets and ensuring that states securities regulation is inclusive of all communities.

Nury Yoo has joined Faegre Drinker as a partner in the Product Liability and Mass Torts Practice Group and as a member of the firm’s food litigation and regulatory practice in the San Francisco and Los Angeles offices.

2008 Ross Bagley is a partner in Pryor Cashman’s Litigation and Intellectual Property Practice Group, based in the firm’s New York City office. His practice focuses on litigating, arbitrating and mediating commercial disputes for individuals and business owners bringing or responding to breach of contract, IP infringement, termination and other claims.

Emil Bove is a member of Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi in the firm’s Government and Corporate Investigations Group in New York City. Prior to joining the firm, he served as co-chief of the national security unit at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.

Kimberly Duplechain is a shareholder in the Washington, D.C., office of Littler. She advises the firm’s attorneys and their clients on electronic discovery

Jinwoo Park was appointed executive director of the D.C. Criminal Code Reform Commission (CCRC) in May 2022. Prior to his appointment, he served as a senior attorney advisor for the CCRC and assisted in drafting many provisions included in the Revised Criminal Code Act of 2021.

2009 Alycia Michelle Guichard (LL.M.) was honored with the 2022 Corporate Leadership and Philanthropy Award from Children’s Rights, a national advocacy organization. Guichard is global corporate counsel and legal, security & public policy pro bono program manager at Verizon.

Richard Kim has been elected partner at Latham & Watkins.

Practicing in the San Francisco Bay area, he advises on capital markets matters and transactions within the technology and life sciences sectors, representing both issuers and underwriters.

Joshua Pierce is a partner at Morrison & Foerster in Boston. A member of the Finance Department and part of the Real Estate Group, he represents domestic and foreign investors in largescale acquisitions, financings and dispositions of U.S. commercial real estate assets.

Brett Siglin (LL.M.) is a director in the Real Estate Practice Group at Fennemore in Phoenix. He advises clients on the negotiation of debt and equity terms, development agreements and construction contracts. Opportunity Zone Magazine named him 2023 Spring 41

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Jeff Kosseff, an associate professor of cybersecurity law at the U.S. Naval Academy, wrote The United States of Anonymous: How the First Amendment Shaped Online Speech to explore how the right to anonymity has shaped American values, politics, business, security and discourse.

a “Top 25 OZ Influencer” in 2021 in the category of attorney.

2010 Benjamin Akley is a partner in Pryor Cashman’s Litigation, Intellectual Property, and Media + Entertainment Groups. Based in the firm’s Los Angeles office, he focuses on complex entertainment and commercial disputes on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants.

Rebecca Asen, former associate general counsel at IDEXX, has joined Bernstein Shur as director of attorney recruiting and professional development. She also serves in a volunteer role as a director of the Finance Authority of Maine.

Shauro Bagchi, a partner at Maslon in Minneapolis, has been elected to the firm’s Governance Committee. Bagchi is co-chair of Maslon’s Corporate & Securities Group.

Amanda Witts is counsel at Mitchell Sandler, a boutique financial services law firm founded in 2019. She represents parties at all stages of litigation in federal and state courts, including employment, commercial, products liability and mass tort matters.

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The work of human rights lawyer Brigadier Siachitema (LL.M) is featured in the 2022 documentary film The Grab, which exposes actions by nations including China and Saudi Arabia to control food and water resources beyond their borders.

Siachitema, a consultant lawyer with the Southern African Litigation Centre, has led efforts in his native Zambia to defend local villagers displaced by land grabbers.

Jessica Stewart, M.A.’01, is director of the Strategy, Forces and Resources Division at the Institute for Defense Analyses.

She leads a staff of researchers who work on diverse topics including nuclear weapons policy and strategy, organizational management and effectiveness, and force capability and force structure analyses.

Tom Werge is a partner at Werge Law Group, established through the merger last year of Werge Law and Signal Law, two Denver-based boutique law firms founded by Werge and Greg Corbin, respectively. His practice focuses on civil litigation, business law and music law. Werge is also an active musician, performing as a vocalist with the band 12 Cents for Marvin.

Austin Wyker (LL.M.) is a shareholder and member of Greenberg Traurig’s Tax Practice in Dallas.

He advises clients on the legal, business and tax aspects of joint ventures with a focus on joint ventures in real estate.

Washington, D.C. A member of the firm’s Finance & Financial Institutions Practice and Energy Industry Team, she counsels developers and investors in the acquisition, sale and financing of renewable energy facilities.

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Christine Wyman has been promoted from senior principal to partner at Bracewell. Based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office, she is a member of the Policy Resolution practice group.

Rebecca Borgese is a partner at Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti in Morristown, New Jersey. Her practice focuses on arbitration, litigation, mediation and regulatory compliance in the financial services industry.

Uchenna Ekuma-Nkama has been promoted to partner in Dentons’ Atlanta office. A former federal prosecutor, she is the U.S. region co-chair of the firm’s Global Compliance and Investigations practice and a member of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution group.

Erin R. Hines (LL.M.) has joined Chamberlain Hrdlicka in Atlanta as senior counsel in the firm’s Tax Controversy & Litigation practice.

She previously served as special trial attorney in the Office of Chief Counsel at the Internal Revenue Service.

Marissa A. Lalli has been promoted to partner at WilmerHale in the firm’s Boston office. Her practice focuses on intellectual property litigation and complex commercial disputes.

Alisha McCarthy was promoted to partner at Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler in New York. McCarthy is a litigator focusing on complex commercial disputes with a practice spanning civil and white-collar criminal matters.

Jennifer O’Connor is a member of the firm at Epstein Becker Green. Based in the firm’s New York office, she focuses her practice on a wide range of complex commercial and employment-related matters, with particular emphasis on the financial services industry.

Senayt Rahwa has been elected partner at Foley & Lardner in

2012 Reed Abrahamson has been promoted to partner at Faegre Drinker. He is a member of the firm’s FDA Regulatory Team in the Washington, D.C., office.

Monica Carmean earned her Master of Divinity degree from the University of Chicago in June 2022.

Bank of America executive Antony Ghee (LL.M.)’s new book, People Over Politics: A Nonpartisan Analysis of the Issues that Matter Most, offers a primer on the complex issues impacting the U.S.: the economy, foreign policy, climate concerns, civil rights and more.

Laura Layton has joined Baker Donelon’s Corporate Group as of counsel in the firm’s Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee, offices.

She represents clients in the franchise, distribution and hospitality industries.

Victor Liang is a partner at Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco. A member of the firm’s Finance Department and part of the Finance & Projects group, he represents borrowers, lenders and other financial institutions in connection with domestic and cross-border financial transactions.

Louis Mendez is a partner in the Financial Institutions and Insurance practice groups at Bressler, Amery & Ross in the firm’s Birmingham, Alabama, office. He was recognized last year as a Next Gen: Law award-winner by the Birmingham Business Journal.

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Katie Shay has been named associate general counsel and director of human rights at Cisco Systems, a multinational digital communications technology corporation headquartered in San Jose, California.

2013 Ericka Aiken was elevated to partner at WilmerHale in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office effective Jan. 1, 2023. She focuses her practice on investigations and criminal, appellate and Supreme Court litigation.

Conrad Bolston has been promoted to counsel at Vinson & Elkins in Washington, D.C. He focuses his practice on environmental enforcement and litigation, compliance counseling and white-collar defense. Bolston is a former defensive tackle for the Minnesota Vikings and the Green Bay Packers.

Jaime Cardenas-Navia is a partner in the New York office of Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg, a boutique national trial firm. He has extensive experience representing plaintiffs and defendants in patent infringement disputes involving a broad range of complex technologies.

John Anthony Castro (LL.M.), CEO of AiTax, has launched a presidential campaign.

Christopher Dufek was promoted to counsel at Hunton Andrews Kurth. Based in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office, he focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation, including civil, class action and international matters.

Naima Farrell was elected to partnership at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, effective Jan. 1, 2023.

She represents clients in a wide range of employment litigation matters, including cases involving allegations of discrimination, harassment, retaliation and wage-and-hour violations.

Matthew Levy has been promoted to partner at Proskauer in the Private Credit Group. Based in the firm’s New York office, he

represents a wide array of credit providers, including private debt funds, BDCs, sovereign wealth funds and other investors.

Trial attorney Stephanie Noble is a partner in the Houston office of Vinson & Elkins. She has experience representing clients in a wide array of cases, including energy, contract, shareholder and construction disputes.

John Rothman has joined Goulston & Storrs in New York as counsel in the Real Estate Group.

He focuses his practice on commercial leasing for office, retail, restaurant and industrial properties. Rothman has been recognized for his pro bono work and received the Legal Aid Society’s Pro Bono Publico Award in 2021.

Thomas Scopelitis is of counsel in the New York office of Carlton Fields. A member of the firm’s Agency Lending and Real Estate and Commercial Finance practices, he represents lenders in commercial real estate financing transactions, with an emphasis on multifamily housing transactions under the Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae multifamily finance programs.

Allyson Seger is counsel at Vinson & Elkins in the firm’s Austin, Texas, office. Her practice focuses on the U.S. federal income tax aspects of complex cross-border and domestic transactions.

Real estate attorney Tyler Vinal is counsel in the New York office of Vinson & Elkins. He advises on matters including high-level leasing/licensing transactions and the development, purchase and sale of commercial property.

2014 Andrew Blumenthal has been elected partner at Latham & Watkins in New York. A member of the Capital Markets Practice and Corporate Department, he advises corporate, private equity and banking clients on capital markets, securities and corporate governance matters.

Shari Dwoskin is a partner in the Boston office of Brown Rudnick.

A member of the firm’s Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring practice group, she represents unsecured and ad hoc creditors’ committees, secured lenders, bondholders and post-confirmation trusts.

Benjamin Eisenstat has been elected a member at Caplin & Drysdale. Based in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office, he assists individuals and corporations in civil and criminal tax controversies.

Lauren Goldman is counsel at Boies Schiller Flexner in New York. She represents clients in state and federal courts in a wide range of litigation matters, including complex civil litigation, contractual disputes, securities fraud and employment disputes.

Lisandra Ortiz is a member at Miller & Chevalier in Washington, D.C. She concentrates her practice on federal tax controversy matters, both in litigation and before the Internal Revenue Service in examinations and appeals.

2015 Labor and employment attorney Philip Baldwin has joined Goodwin Procter in San Francisco as counsel in the firm’s Litigation Group.

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo has appointed Jonathan Everhart, LL.M.’19, S’20, as a member of the Investment Advisory Council, the principal advisory body to the Secretary of Commerce on the promotion and retention of foreign direct investment to the United States. Everhart, CEO of Global ReEnergy Holdings, was also recently invited to join the Bretton Woods Committee, an organization of global leaders in finance and economics.

Bruce Friedrich, executive director of the Good Food Institute, appears with Bill Gates in the 10-part educational series “Solving for Zero,” inspired by Gates’

bestselling book “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster.” Available on Wondrium, the series follows the work of scientists developing solutions leading to net-zero carbon emissions, including agricultural solutions.

Mike Smith has been promoted to shareholder at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck in Denver.

A member of the firm’s Natural Resources Department, his practice spans regulatory compliance, rulemaking, enforcement actions, transactions and litigation.

Jessica Westerman has joined the Washington, D.C., law firm of Kalijarvi, Chuzi, Newman & Fitch as an associate. She represents labor unions and their members in connection with illegal and unfair workplace practices, including discrimination, retaliation, and wage and hour violations.

2016 Hunton Andrews Kurth associates Hannah Flint and Reiko Koyama were among a group of attorneys hosting a mini career fair for girls last spring at Kelly Miller Middle School in Northeast Washington. Koyoma, who was a co-organizer of the event, stressed the importance of mentorship for the next generation of young women.

Trusts and estates attorney Zach Haupt (LL.M.) has been promoted to special counsel at the Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell in Wilmington, Delaware.

Craig Tarasoff has joined Kirsch & Niehaus in New York City. He represents clients in commercial, employment, real estate, intellectual property and other litigation.

Adam Young has joined Fox Rothschild in Exton, Pennsylvania, as an associate in the Taxation & Wealth Planning Department. He previously worked in the Office of Chief Counsel at the Internal Revenue Service.

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Ayan Roy-Chowdhury and Won Yoon are principals at the intellectual property firm Fish & Richardson in Washington, D.C. Roy-Chowdhury focuses his practice on patent prosecution and counseling, opinion work, due diligence studies and other intellectual property matters. In addition to his J.D., he holds a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering. Yoon provides a variety of patent legal services including patent prosecution, Patent Trial and Appeal Board post-grant proceedings, due diligence, and infringement and invalidity opinions.

Tiffany Chantel Weston, a patent litigation attorney at Latham & Watkins in Washington, D.C., was profiled in an October 2022 Law.com article after she successfully argued her first case in federal court as a third-year associate. On 24 hours’ notice, she traveled to California to appear before San Francisco U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup, bringing a motion for summary judgment on behalf of client Meta Platforms. Nikki Vo, Meta’s director and associate general counsel for IP litigation, said Weston “hit it out of the park.”

2018 Caroline Snyder has joined Pierce Atwood as an associate in the firm’s Business Practice Group in Portland, Maine.

2020 Jené C. Clayton (LL.M.) has joined the Baton Rouge office of Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson as an associate in the Environmental Group.

Parker Erickson has joined Sullivan Hill as an associate in the San Diego office. He is a member of the firm’s Commercial and Business Litigation, Construction Law and Insurance Coverage practice groups.

Benjamin Gold (LL.M.) has joined Madison International Realty in New York City as an associate. He assists the firm with tax structuring, tax reporting and advice on both U.S. and foreign tax implications of real estate transactions.

2021 Allison Carlon is an associate at Williams Mullen in Richmond, Virginia, and a member of the firm’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Practice.

Cody Deckert (LL.M.) has joined the Charleston, South Carolina, office of Saxton & Stump. He

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is a member of the firm’s Trusts and Estates Group, as well as the Business, Corporate and Tax Group.

Carolyn King is an associate at Morris Nichols in Wilmington, Delaware. Her practice focuses on corporate governance issues involving the Delaware General Corporation Law.

2022 Jake Brice has joined Fox Rothschild in Greenville, South Carolina, as an associate in the Taxation & Wealth Planning Department.

Fares Chehabi is an associate in the Boston office of Sidley Austin and a member of the firm’s Private Equity and Investment Funds groups.

Treasures of the Georgetown Law Library: Hempstead and Great Sampford Land Grant, 1280

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n the year 1280, Alan, son of Geoffrey, agreed to lease to Robert Cocus and his wife Beatrice and their heirs “3 ½ acres in a field called Wodecroft in Hempstead” and “2 acres in a field called Hegefield in Great Sampford” for 15 pence per year (at the time, roughly five days’ wages for a skilled tradesman). The deal was recorded in Latin on a 5 inch by 8 inch piece of vellum, folded three times and sealed with wax.

Today, nearly 750 years after its creation, the document – its calligraphy still fully legible – can be found in a custom-made linen clamshell box in a temperature- and humidity-controlled room in the Edward Bennett Williams Library.

The “Hempstead and Great Sampford Land Grant” is the single oldest item held in the Georgetown Law Library. Purchased from a fine books dealer in 2006 along with five other similar land conveyances from the same region and period, the documents offer researchers insight into early concepts of property law prevalent in medieval and early modern Britain. “The language in the six grants reveal a “creeping in of the ‘modern’ style of language and intent in Jurisprudence in Europe,” says Special Collections Librarian Hannah Kim. The Land Grant is just one of some 3,500 treasures of legal history – from rare books and manuscripts, to files chronicling the establishment of the Legal Services Corporation in the 1960s, to the litigation files of the National Trust for Historic Preservation – just waiting to be discovered during a visit to the EBW basement’s ever-growing “Special Collections.”

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