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LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS Loyola University New Orleans President The Rev. Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J. Interim Dean Kathryn V. Lorio, J.D ’73 Associate Dean for Academic Affairs The Rev. Larry Moore, S.J. Associate Dean for Student Affairs Stephanie Jumonville, J.D. ’86 Assistant Dean of Admissions and Minority Affairs K. Michele Allison-Davis Vice President for Institutional Advancement Bill Bishop Associate Vice President for Development Chris Wiseman ’88 Associate Vice President for Marketing Terrell F. Fisher ’76 Loyola Lawyer Editor Publications Editor Ray Willhoft ’00 Loyola Lawyer Designer Craig Bloodworth University Photographer Harold Baquet Senior Development Officer College of Law Suzanne Valtierra Law Alumni and Annual Fund Officer Alice Glenn Director of Public Affairs and External Relations Meredith M. Hartley Communications Coordinator James Shields Contributor Nathan C. Martin
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From the Dean
As this academic year draws to a close, it is an appropriate time to reflect on the status of the law school and the significant accomplishments of 2010 – 2011. One of the major innovations of this year is the institution of a program designed to enhance the success of our students—in law school, on the bar examination, and in practice after graduation. Newly created were a course stressing legal analysis and writing, expansion of one-on-one sessions for students with professors dedicated to individual student needs, and a guided curriculum to better prepare students for the challenges ahead. The results of these efforts by our Academic Support Program have been encouraging and promise even greater success in the next few years. It is a goal of the College of Law to enrich the learning experience of students with a variety of learning opportunities, in and outside the traditional classroom venue. This year, we were afforded the chance to hear from a number of distinguished attorneys, including President Torben Melchior of the Supreme Court of Denmark, Dean Timothy Endicott of the Faculty of Law of Oxford University and the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation Scholar, and Professor Anastasia GrammaticakiAlexiou of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Law. Additionally, oral arguments of the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals and the Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board were held on campus this spring, as were panel discussions including one conducted by the United States War College under the auspices of its Eisenhower Series College Program and another focusing on the constitutionality of the Obama Health Law. Also, the Loyola Law Review sponsored a legislative symposium on recent developments in Louisiana law, and the Loyola Journal of Public Interest Law hosted an immigration symposium. Our students celebrated a number of successes in moot court competitions, earning our moot court program recognition as one of the top 10 in the nation. Victories include placing first in the National Criminal Procedure in San Diego, recognition as runner-up in the Tulane Mardi Gras Sports Law Invitational, and receiving citations for both best oralist and outstanding brief in the Bankruptcy Competition in New York. Our clinical students were instrumental in obtaining a significant settlement for clients who were being discriminated against in housing based on family status and have also been working with low-wage immigrant workers to recover wages promised to them as they helped to rebuild New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. Sincere congratulations are extended to our 2011 graduates from whom we expect major achievements. We hope you will remember your alma mater with fondness and loyalty in the years to come. As I prepare to return to teaching, I thank you all for your encouragement and support this year and the honor you bestowed upon me by allowing me to serve as your dean. I leave this office with an insight that could only be provided by having served in the capacity as dean, and I appreciate that opportunity. Finally, I hope you will all join me this summer and in the fall, as we welcome our ´ ´ Lopez, new dean, Professor Maria Pabon and that we all unite behind her to continue the progress of Loyola College of Law.
—Kathryn Venturatos Lorio, J.D. ’73 Interim College of Law Dean Leon Sarpy Professor of Law
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Make a Gift in Memory of Dean Brian Bromberger You can help the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law continue the legacy of the late Dean Brian Bromberger by contributing to The Brian Bromberger Memorial Fund today. Your donations will help create an endowed scholarship to benefit future law students, ensuring that they receive an outstanding legal education. For more information or to make a gift, contact: Suzanne Valtierra Senior Development Officer College of Law 7214 St. Charles Avenue, Box 909 New Orleans, LA 70118 (504) 861-5442 smvaltie@loyno.edu Or visit giving.loyno.edu to make your gift today.
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News College of Law hosts immigration symposium As the firestorm surrounding immigration in the United States continues to divide the nation, the College of Law and the Loyola Journal of Public Interest Law brought together legal scholars and experts for a day to examine best practices for states to work within federal guidelines. “Federalism at Work: State criminal law, noncitizens and immigration related activity” was held on November 5. The symposium examined the role that state criminal law has or should have in the context of immigration, immigration-related activities, and unauthorized or undocumented migration. The keynote speaker was Professor Bill Ong Hing of the University of San Francisco School of Law, who has authored numerous academic and practice-oriented publications on immigration policy and race relations. Speakers on the first panel addressed the use of state criminal law to heighten, complement, or independently accomplish state immigration-related goals, with state initiatives such as Arizona’s Senate Bill 170, which requires law enforcement to stop and check the status of those they believe reside in the state illegally. The second panel featured law professors with
expertise in immigration, criminal justice, and constitutional law, and clinical law professors with practice expertise. In addition, panelists discussed how these issues have played a role in Louisiana law enforcement and in the Louisiana legislature. Symposium participants included: Jennifer Chacón, senior associate dean for academic affairs, University of California, Irvine School of Law; Nora V. Demleitner, dean and professor of law, Hofstra University School of Law; Ray T. Diamond, the Jules F. and Frances L. Landry Distinguished Professor Law, Louisiana State University Law Center; Ingrid Eagly, acting professor of law, UCLA School of Law; César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, Capital University Law School; Hiroko Kusuda, assistant clinical professor, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law; Karla McKanders, associate professor of law, University of Tennessee College of Law; and Joe Harrison, representative from the 51st District to the House of Representatives, State of Louisiana. Loyola Assistant Professors of Law Andrea Armstrong and Johanna Kalb moderated. Papers and symposium proceedings were published in the spring 2011 volume of the Loyola Journal of Public Interest Law.
Panelists for the immigration symposium sponsored by the College of Law and the Loyola Journal of Public Interest Law
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Military Court comes to campus The College of Law hosted a special session of the U.S. Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals on November 16. The U.S. Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals is an independent appellate judicial body authorized by Congress and established by the Judge Advocate General of the Air Force. The court hears and decides appeals of Air Force court-martial convictions and pending appeals. The special three-judge panel session at Loyola was part of the court’s “Project Outreach,” which holds court away from its permanent courthouse in Washington, D.C., and is
intended to educate and demonstrate to the public the operation of a federal court of appeals and the military criminal justice system. Following the case, the judges and advocates answered questions from those in attendance.
Professor Monica Hof Wallace (center) and judges for the U.S. Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals
College of Law long-time employee honored The College of Law held a reception to pay tribute to one of its longest-standing employees, Semora “Lola” Davis. Davis, the assistant director of law admissions, retired last year after working at the university for 38 years. The tribute helped raise money for a scholarship in Davis’ name, created by the Black Law Student Association. The scholarship is awarded to two African-American first-year law
students who exhibit an interest and commitment to public service and/or to Loyola BLSA activities. “Lola worked with Loyola’s BLSA chapter from the time she arrived at Loyola. This was BLSA’s way of memorializing her immeasurable contributions to BLSA and African-American students at the law school,” said Michele Allison-Davis, assistant dean of admissions in the College of Law.
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On the Record
News Former Denmark Supreme Court justice presents at Loyola The College of Law presented a lecture by the former president of the Supreme Court of Denmark, Justice Torben Melchior, on Feb. 17. In his presentation, “The Highest Courts in a Globalized World–A Danish View,” Melchior discussed some of the challenges and opportunities facing the highest courts of the international community by examining the Danish contribution to judicial globalization in such areas as the choice between judicial activism and judicial restraint, the process of judicial appointments, and the conflict between the legislature and the judiciary on sentencing. Melchior earned a bachelor of law degree from the University of Copenhagen in 1964 and a master of laws in 1965 from Harvard University School of Law. He served for one year as secretary to the Parliamentary Ombudsman before beginning a 15-year career in the Ministry of Justice, where he later served for six years as director of the Family Law Directorate. For five years, he was the judge for the Eastern Court of Appeal in Copenhagen, before beginning a 13-year term at the Supreme Court of Denmark. He was president of the Supreme Court from 2004 to 2010, when
he reached the mandatory age of retirement. Melchior was a longstanding adviser to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on the Nuclear Law Committee, chairman of the Drafting Committee on Revision of Conventions on Compensation for Nuclear Damage, and spent one year as the chairman of the Committee of the Whole for the International Atomic Energy Agency diplomatic conference. He also served as president of the Network of the Presidents of the Supreme Judicial Courts of the Justice Torben Melchior, former president European Union. of the Supreme Court of Denmark
Law professor from Greece lectures at Loyola The College of Law and the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation presented “Legal Protection of Cultural Heritage: A Human Rights Based Approach,” a lecture by Professor Anastasia Grammaticaki-Alexiou of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Law in Greece on February 23. Grammaticaki-Alexiou teaches private international
law and international uniform law. She has taught as a visiting professor at American law schools, at the interuniversity European Master’s Program in Human Rights and Democratization in Venice, and Tulane University’s study abroad program in Greece. She is a member of the International Law Association, the International Academy of Comparative Law, the Greek Association of Private International Law, and the Greek Association of International Law and International Relations. She is vicechairperson of the Committee of Private International Law of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs and has served in various committees of the Ministries of Justice and Foreign Affairs. Her interests also include international protection of cultural goods, human rights, private international law, and biotechnology and cyberspace law.
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Professor Robert Verchick joins Obama in launching conservation initiative Robert Verchick, Gauthier-St. Martin Eminent Scholar and Chair in Environmental Law, joined President Barack Obama on February 16 to celebrate the launching of his conservation initiative, “America’s Great Outdoors,” in a ceremony held in the East Room of the White House. Verchick served on an inter-agency AGO workgroup Robert Verchick, Gauthier-St. Martin and was a Eminent Scholar and Chair in c o n t r i b u t i n g Environmental Law
author of the report submitted to the president. Verchick returned full time to Loyola in January after serving for 12 months as the deputy associate administrator of the Office of Policy with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Verchick is also the author of Facing Catastrophe: Environmental Action for a Post-Katrina World. Last April, Obama established the AGO initiative at a White House conference in Washington to develop a 21st-century conservation and recreation agenda which would strengthen the connection between Americans and the outdoors. During the summer, senior administration officials held 51 “listening sessions” and received more than 105,000 online comments, regarding approaches to protect U.S. lands and waters, ways to better connect Americans to the outdoors, and strategies for local communities to protect and restore the places they love.
Brendan Brown Lecture Series presents James Thuo Gathii The College of Law’s Brendan Brown Lecture Series presented James Thuo Gathii, who lectured on “Food Sovereignty for Poor Countries in the Global Trading System,” on April 12. The Brendan Brown Natural Law Institute, established through the generosity of the late Professor Brendan Brown, sponsors a major annual lecture, colloquia, and other scholarly activities in keeping with Professor Brown’s love of natural law and scholarly discourse. Gathii is the associate dean for research and scholarship and the Governor George E. Pataki Chair of International Commercial Law at Albany Law School, where he has been on the faculty since 2001. His research and expertise are in the areas of public international law, international economic, international intellectual property, and trade law, as
well as on issues of good governance and legal reform as they relate to the Third World and subSaharan Africa in particular. Gathii has published more than 40 articles and book chapters. He has presented his research at several law schools and around the world. Gathii received his LL.B. from the University of Nairobi and his LL.M. and S.J.D. from Harvard Law School. James Thuo Gathii
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The Loyola Legacy
The Anzelmo Family Passes Down A Legal Tradition BY NATHAN C. MARTIN Three generations of Anzelmos currently practicing law in Louisiana—Salvador, J.D. ’50, his sons, Tommy ’70, J.D. ’73, and Don, J.D. ’76, and Tommy’s son, Tom, Jr., J.D. ’99—have in common blood, juris doctorate degrees from Loyola, and a deep love and excitement for the law and the fascinating ways it evolves. Each describes his profession in terms of a constant learning experience, something that is practiced and never perfected, a discipline whose rules change from day to day. They call it a jealous profession because it demands so much of their time and energy—but while building thriving practices, each has also nourished a strong family. Their successful balance of dedicated lawyering and family life has resulted in a robust lineage of Louisiana attorneys—one that could conceivably stretch far longer than three generations.
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A Premonition and the War
it would only be for a year, but the year was over in June, and we were still there in November. Then we Salvador Anzelmo made deliveries on his bicycle were federalized, and that was the end of that. We for his father’s grocery and meat market on Canal went overseas, to London.” Sal arrived in London at the beginning of The Street, in New Orleans, while he was in grade school. The family worked in the store and lived mostly from Blitz—a sustained strategic bombing of London what they could not sell. Although Sal’s father worked by the Nazis that lasted 76 straight nights in 1940 - 41. With little need hard enough to instill in Sal for music among the a work ethic that would blasts and carnage, the catapult him later in life to Army band of which Sal the upper reaches of was a part was recruited Louisiana politics, the for help as medical aids. family was poor. Sal, born in During the bombing, 1921, the youngest of five Sal had two close calls children, remembers his that caused major mother putting cardboard damage to his eardrums in his shoes when the soles and earned him two wore out. And even though Purple Hearts. the cost of Catholic school “I went through tuition was small, the family London and lost this ear could not afford it. Sal went with a live bomb,” Sal to McDonough #9, a public says. “I should have been school, instead. discharged, because when It turned out enrollment you have an aperture in in McDonough #9 was your eardrum, any fortuitous for Sal’s career, concussion goes straight because in sixth grade, his Salvador Anzelmo, J.D. ’50 during his to your brain. But I teacher, Ms. Aberdeen, military days. wasn’t. And then I lost recognized his future path: “Any time she called on me to answer a question,” Sal [my other] eardrum with a buzz bomb.” After The Blitz, Sal returned to his duty as a says, “instead of a one-word answer I would lecture a little bit. It was never just a word—it was like a couple drum major and staff sergeant for the 156th infantry of sentences. And she said, ‘You know, you’re going to band. Though the injuries to his ears had left him unable to hear chord changes, Sal could still read be a lawyer one day.’” Sal’s teacher’s premonition stuck with him through music and get by as what he calls a “mechanical middle and high school, and upon graduation, he had musician.” The height of the band’s prestige came in secured a band scholarship to Louisiana State 1945, when they were selected to play at the University—he would be the first in his family to Potsdam Conference for the delegation responsible attend college, and he still had his sights set on for deciding how to punish Nazi Germany. Among becoming a lawyer. Sal played saxophone and clarinet his audience were Communist Party General for the LSU band, and was also a drum major in the Secretary Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister National Guard. Meanwhile, war was brewing in Winston Churchill, and United States President Harry S. Truman. Shortly after this performance, Sal Europe and Asia. “The war came, and I could have stayed in was discharged and sent home to New Orleans, school, but then risked getting drafted,” Sal says. where he enrolled in the Loyola University New “We were told that if we joined the National Guard Orleans School of Law.
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other legislators: State Senator Adrian Duplantier, J.D. ’49, H’93, who would become a federal judge; and fellow State Representative Moon Landrieu ’52, J.D. ’54, H’79, H’05, By the time Sal was immersed in law school, he who would become mayor of New Orleans in 1970 and was married and had his first child, Tommy. To support his largely oversee the desegregation of the city. Sal, Landrieu, and family while going to school on a veteran’s scholarship, Sal Duplantier were often the only three votes cast against the 29 held down two jobs—one at his brother-in-law’s casino pro-segregation bills passed in those special sessions, and each man went on to further strive restaurant and another as night toward the desegregation of manager at his brother’s liquor New Orleans. store, where he would study It was during Sal’s work on between sales. It was among desegregation—his three terms cases of wine and whiskey— as state representative, his work not the quiet law library with Mayor Landrieu’s office, stacks—that Sal received much and afterward as city attorney of his legal education. for New Orleans’ first black Though the dean of the law mayor, Ernest “Dutch” school was unhappy with Sal Morial—that his sons Tommy having two jobs—even one job and Don became cognizant of was considered too much of a the work their father did. The distraction for law students and incredibly strong public was enough to elicit sentiment against integration punishment, if not expulsion, meant those working on its from the school—Sal made the behalf often faced cruel rebukes. grades and graduated fifth in The events of this period had his class of 60 graduates. different effects on Tommy and Sal practiced public law in Don, but to each it was New Orleans after graduation, During law school, Salvador Anzelmo, J.D. ’50 formative in their decisions to and in 1960, successfully ran worked as night manager at his brother’s liquor become lawyers—or not. for a seat in the Louisiana state store, where he would study between sales. “I believe I learned every dirty legislature. The United States at that time was reeling from Brown v. Board of Education, and word I know by answering the phone at my house,” Tommy Civil Rights battles flared throughout the South. Shortly after says. “My dad was subject to an incredible amount of harsh Sal was elected in 1960, the governor of Louisiana convened criticism because he and Moon and Adrian were standing up five special sessions of the legislature in order to pass laws to the enormous weight of public opinion. My brother and I blocking the federal government from imposing integration had to be escorted occasionally into our all-white school.” Despite these events, this period also imprinted a in Louisiana’s schools. During these sessions, Sal found himself largely alone in his stance against segregation, save two profound impression on Tommy that his father was a beacon
Law School and the Desegregation of New Orleans
“Loyola just reinforced the way I was raised. I guess I got this from my father—practicing law is a privilege, I always knew that, and an obligation, and a wonderful way to provide for your family and the community, as well. That was always a part of me, and Loyola just reinforced those great values I had.” —Don Anzelmo, J.D. ’76
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toward practicing medicine, Don had a change of heart: “I realized that I totally hated chemistry and the sciences and didn’t know what I was thinking,” he says. “The more I thought about it, I realized I should go with what I was good at. I always seemed to write well and speak well enough, so it was a natural changeover [to pursue law].”
Loyola Law Becomes a Legacy Once they decided to practice law, choosing a law school was not a difficult decision for Tommy or Don. “I was accepted to Loyola, Tulane, and LSU, all three schools I applied to,” Don says, “and it never Three generations of Anzelmos: Salvador, J.D.’50, once crossed my mind not to go to Loyola. It was Tommy ’70, J.D. ’73, and Tom, Jr., J.D. ’99. my first choice because my father went there and of integrity and principles, a man of strong moral fiber and Tommy went there and they both spoke so highly of it. great courage. This impression solidified Tommy’s urge to But regardless of how high they spoke of it, my experience follow in his father’s footsteps at Loyola far exceeded and live up to the model his anything I had expected.” dad made for him. The lessons Tommy and “I went from wanting to be a fireman “I went from wanting to to wanting to be a lawyer. And my dad Don learned at Loyola were be a fireman to wanting to be a not so much revelations as was the shining example.” lawyer,” Tommy says. “And my reiterations of things they —Tommy Anzelmo ’70, J.D. ’73 had already been taught. dad was the shining example.” Don, Tommy’s younger Tommy, who had always brother, had a very different wanted to be a lawyer and reaction to the tumultuous political situation in which his spoke to his father about it, was already familiar with father had become embroiled. specific principles—like the importance of group “Because of my father’s experience in public life,” Don work and singular preparation—emphasized at says, “I loathed politics growing up. I might have been jealous Loyola. For Don, the principles were more general because of the time it took him away from us—he lived and breathed it. When he said he would represent his district, he did.” From a young age, following in his father’s footsteps appeared to Don the last thing he wanted to do. He was aware of the amount of time away from his family his father had to spend, and as he became older, the urge to carve a path in a different profession was still strong. “I fought going to law school,” Don says. “I wanted to be a doctor. I knew that my father worked extremely hard, and his practice always seemed to come first—I now know better, but it appeared that way while I was growing up. From the outset, I had the mindset that I would try something else.” Salvador Anzelmo, J.D.’50 at his However, once he began to pursue the course 90th birthday party.
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but equally recognizable from his upbringing. “Loyola just reinforced the way I was raised,” he says. “I guess I got this from my father—practicing law is a privilege, I always knew that, and an obligation, and a wonderful way to provide for your family and the community, as well. That was always a part of me, and Loyola just reinforced those great values I had.” Tommy and Don both entered the public sector The Anzelmo Family: Tommy ’70, J.D. ’73, Kristen (Tommy’s daughter), upon their graduations from Salvador, J.D.’50, Tom, Jr., J.D.’99, and Don, J.D.’76. Loyola—Tommy as a clerk, assistant city attorney, and deputy city attorney for New on insurance defense. He is also a magistrate for Orleans’ City Attorney Office; and Don as clerk in the city of Harahan, La., and says he probably federal court. Later, the brothers reunited in the New would like to become a judge some day. The three generations of Anzelmos who Orleans office of McGlinchey Stafford, P.L.L.C., a prominent firm. Both eventually parted with currently practice in New Orleans—Sal, Tommy, McGlinchey, Tommy to start his own firm in Metairie, and Tom, Jr.—eat breakfast together each Friday La.—McCranie, Sistrunk, Anzelmo, Hardy, McDaniel, morning in the restaurant of the Windsor Court & Welch, L.L.C., where he practices mostly insurance Hotel. In the soft sunlight shining through the defense and defense of governments—and Don to large windows that overlook the courtyard, Monroe, La., where he works mostly on worker’s grandfather, father, and son discuss issues related compensation cases with the firm Snellings, Breard, to cases they are working on, and anything else that comes to mind. Tom, Jr., describes these Sartor, Inabnett & Trascher, L.L.P. interactions as great learning experiences— chances to tap the accumulated knowledge of his A Third Generation Like his father before him, Tommy had begun family’s legal minds. “I always look forward to breakfast on Friday law school with a wife and a child—and like his mornings,” Tom, Jr., says. father, he held a job while “Often times we butt he studied and was disciplined because of it. “I’m lucky to be part of this family, and heads when we’re talking about issues in our cases, Tommy’s son, Tom, Jr., I’m lucky to be able to continue the but it’s absolutely helpful would grow up much the tradition of being an attorney and an every time. My practices, way his father did, always Anzelmo, and a Loyola graduate.” my experiences are just so wanting to be a lawyer, small compared to theirs. and he fulfilled his dream —Tom Anzelmo, Jr., J.D. ’99 I’m lucky to be part of after graduating from this family, and I’m lucky Loyola School of Law in 1999. He practices with Johnson, Johnson, Barrios to be able to continue the tradition of being an & Yacoubian in downtown New Orleans, focusing attorney and an Anzelmo, and a Loyola graduate.”
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WJP Director Luz Molina and her staff assist workers every Thursday at the wage claim clinic.
Giving a Voice to Workers The Workplace Justice Project provides legal counsel to those in need By James Shields
uU An influx of immigrants and low-wage workers moved to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina to help with rebuilding efforts. More than five years later, affordable legal counsel needed to protect their rights is still in high demand. The Workplace Justice Project in the Stuart H. Smith Law Clinic and Center for Social Justice is allowing the Spanish-speaking and low-wage workers in the community to feel that their voices are heard. Two local grants, totaling more than $87,000, were recently given to the WJP in the clinic, which educates, advocates, and litigates for lowwage workers in the greater New Orleans area. The clinic received $67,700 from the Baptist Community Ministries of New Orleans and $20,000 from the IMPACT 2010 Program at the Greater New Orleans Foundation. The grants will allow the clinic to hire more staff and continue their efforts. BCM is a private foundation that provides financial support to nonprofit organizations in the five-parish greater New Orleans region. GNOF is a regional leader in promoting responsible philanthropy and equitable outcomes by connecting donors to community needs. Loyola’s application was subjected to a rigorous process by Baptist Community SPRING 2011
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Ministries, and in the end, Loyola was awarded the grant because “the WJP’s application was thoughtful, measured, yet comprehensive. The request was modest for the level of effort the project planned to implement,” said Luceia LeDoux, vice president of public safety/governmental oversight grants at BCM. “It was also well-executed, we think WJP will raise awareness in the legal community regarding the scope and impact of unpaid wage claims. In addition, actual wage recovery, through litigation, or mediation, will occur.” Richard Martinez, program officer for GNOF, says the organization took the clinic’s extensive track history into consideration when awarding their grant. “The Wage Clinic stands out as an example of the leadership and role they play in supporting the rights of our region’s diverse population, including Latinos,” said Martinez. The clinic, which has recovered more than $500,000 in lost wages since 2005, allows third-year law students the opportunity to represent indigent clients under the supervision of experienced attorneys. By participating, student practitioners not only have the chance to experience firsthand what it’s like to represent clients, but they also have an opportunity to further the Jesuit ideals of 17
practitioner Haim Vasquez-Echeverri echoes scholarship and service at Loyola by providing legal Moore’s feelings. representation to the needy. “I believe that the work that is done at the WJP Martinez added, “We hope that that the WJP is a very important can maintain a element in the robust number of rebuilding of New cases in litigation “It (the clinic) helps educate workers so they Orleans. After and recover the Katrina, a great can help themselves by keeping out of situations unpaid wages of number of day workers and that would require our services. We would be laborers and continue to very pleased if there wasn’t a need for such a construction advocate for wage clinic, because it would mean everyone is being workers moved to lien litigation to the city. As these make contractors treated fairly. Unfortunately, that will never be workers played an responsible for the case.” important part in worker’s wages.” —Joseph Moore, the rebuilding of “As far as the city, they also rebuilding, I feel Third-year Law Student were victims of that it has to fraud in the part happen from the of contractors that inside out. refused to pay Unfortunately, it them for the work is going far too they performed. slow. This is where WJP is providing the clinic comes an avenue for in. It offers legal these workers to services to those be able to recover who are unable to what is owed to afford legal counsel,” them.” says third-year law WJP Director student and clinic Luz Molina, the practitioner Joseph Ja c k Ne l s o n Moore. “Further, it Distinguished helps educate Professor of Law workers so they can at Loyola, is help themselves by grateful for the keeping out of s t u d e n t situations that practitioners like would require our Mo o r e and services. We would The Loyola Law Clinic, in conjunction with the Catholic Charities’ Vasquez that come be very pleased if Hispanic Apostolate, holds wage claim clinics every Thursday through her clinic. evening at the Carrolton United Methodist Church. there wasn’t a need A former law for such a clinic, s t u d e n t a n d practitioner who has been because it would mean everyone is being instrumental in the work of the clinic is Vanessa treated fairly. Unfortunately, that will never Spinazola, J.D. ’07. Spinazola, now a staff be the case.” attorney with the Law Clinic, is also employed Another third-year law student and clinic
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with the Pro Bono Project which has teamed with a positive moment in someone’s life,” says Yee. Loyola and the Catholic Charities’ Hispanic Preparing for a career beyond graduation can be Apostolate to hold wage claim clinics every a daunting task for students. Working in the clinic T h u r s d a y not only provides evening. h a n d s - o n Wo r k e r s experience that seeking to file a c o u l d n’t be “After Katrina, a great number of day laborers complaint can obtained without and construction workers moved to the city. As come to the clinic years of work after these workers played an important part in the for assistance in graduation, but the rebuilding of the city, they also were victims of composing a availability of letter to their e x p e r i e n c e d fraud in the part of contractors that refused to pay employer seeking professionals, such them for the work they performed. WJP is unpaid wages. as Molina, who providing an avenue for these workers to be able After four weeks serve as mentors to have passed and if the students. to recover what is owed to them.” a satisfactory “Working with —Haim Vasquez-Echeverri, response hasn’t Professor Molina Third-year Law Student been received, has been very f o l l o w - u p rewarding. She has appointments are had many years of scheduled where experience that she the clinic can begin the process to recover wages has been kind enough to pass along to me and my through the court system. peers. She has helped me to improve my writing and Law student and practitioner Alex Yee jumped speaking skills,” Yee says. at the chance to work in the clinic with Molina Vasquez-Echeverri adds, “I could not ask for a better when a spot opened up to work on an Age mentor. Working under her has allowed me to grow Discrimination in Employment Act case. Yee has from ‘student’ to ‘practitioner.’ Her role is not just one of always planned on a career in business law, supervising our work but one of commitment to our helping with wage disputes and the other areas of success. She makes a constant effort to teach while the employment law field. allowing you to develop as an attorney.” Yee doesn’t think rebuilding of the city is The grants will serve as a catalyst for expansion of strictly the focus of the clinic. “The work we do visibility of the program. “We hope meaningful makes steps toward helping people to get paid for progress will be to inform the strengthening of sorely the work they have done. The thing that has needed oversight and regulatory mechanisms to surprised me the most is the prevalence of people address the identified problem,” LeDoux said. getting taken advantage of,” says Yee. The grants received by the WJP will also allow Helping those without the opportunity or ability to Molina and her team to expand their outreach. help themselves can be a very emotional experience. “We’ve also seen a need to make inroads to help “There was a case that I worked on recently local musicians and those working in the restaurant that made me truly appreciate what I do. The industry. The grants could be a catalyst to help case resulted in a default judgment after a people in need that otherwise might not have the hearing before a judge. My client was so resources to protect themselves.” appreciative to have someone represent him for For more information on the Stuart H. Smith no money that he began to tear up after we left Law Clinic and Center for Social Justice, visit the courtroom. It made me feel like I had created www.loyno.edu/lawclinic
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Global Appeal Professor Patrick R. Hugg provides students with an international perspective
fF For Patrick R. Hugg, John J. McAulay Distinguished Professor and chair of the International Committee of the South East Association of Law Schools, the study of law is a global endeavor—a concept he and his colleagues have continued to expand upon at the College of Law for the past 25 years. Hugg earned an A.B. from Spring Hill College in 1970, a J.D. from the University of Louisville in 1978, and an LL.M. from Tulane University in 1981. Prior to joining Loyola in 1986, he practiced labor and employment discrimination law in New Orleans. His research and teaching interests include Professor Patrick R. Hugg the fields of comparative law, European Union law, and International Trade. But it is Hugg’s passion and belief in the importance of studying comparative law that have made him such an asset to the College of Law. “It is important to me that students are exposed to other cultures,” says Hugg. “Exposure to different religions, activities, and legal systems all enhance a legal education, particularly for students studying law today, as globalization forces civil and common law interaction. Our students have a serious advantage over those unexposed to both legal traditions.” Since becoming director of international programs at the College of Law 11 years ago, Hugg has continued to grow the study abroad programs started by Professors Keith Vetter and James Klebba, making them some of the top programs of any law school. “We have some of the highest quality comparative and international programs,” says Hugg. “We take students to the action and allow them to interact directly with the legal actors in their own legal environments.” 20
The College of Law currently sponsors established international programs in six foreign countries: Austria, Brazil, Costa Rica, Hungary, Mexico, and Russia. These programs are taught by Loyola faculty as well as faculty from the host law schools abroad, and they offer a broad selection of comparative and international law courses with particular emphasis on those relevant to the host countries’ legal systems and cultures. Yet more novel, the College of Law annually sponsors two 10-day peripatetic or immersion international seminars. One focuses on the institutions of the European Union, with lectures by principal leaders in the institutions, attendance at oral arguments, and social events with the judges and lawyers, traveling via Brussels, Luxembourg, and Strasbourg. The other moving seminar explores the roots of civil law and visits Istanbul—the former Byzantium where Justinian developed the Corpus Juris Civilis (a foundational collection of law for the civil law tradition)—Ephesus, and concludes in Greece. Consistent with Loyola’s strategic goal, the College of Law has developed these extensive international educational experiences. The popularity of these programs has continued to grow, now with waiting lists for several of them. Last summer, 200 students from throughout the U.S. participated in the college’s international programs, including students from Australia, Turkey, Russia, and the Netherlands Antilles. At the College of Law, one-third of first-year students participate in the programs each year. “We also take pride in being one of the few law schools in the U.S. that offer language instruction to supplement our law curriculum, emphasizing the importance of serious engagement with other legal systems and cultures,” notes Hugg. LOYOLA LAWYER
In addition to the summer programs, the college sponsors the Moscow State University, Yeditepe University in Istanbul, The Annual Visiting Michaelle Pitard Wynne program that invites a Netherlands Antilles, Sogang University, South Korea, and most distinguished foreign scholar each year to offer a special seminar in recently Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece. Through these current issues of international law; participates in the VIS memorandums, the universities agree to advance and promote good will and to further their increased International Arbitration Moot cooperation by offering competition in Vienna, Austria, international educational involving Loyola faculty and a opportunities to their students team of Loyola students; and while advancing faculty facilitates regular visits of law cooperation, exchanges, research, faculty between Loyola and many and visits, as well as other forms foreign institutions. of collaboration. Never one to rest on the law While in Kirkuk, Hugg school’s achievements, Hugg also lectured to students, met continues to explore new ways to Kirkuk Governor Abdurrahman Mustafa Fattah met with Patrick with local bar association groups, expand the study abroad Hugg; Dr. Fared Jassam Al-Qaysi, dean of Kirkuk University’s and gave out a scholarship for one programs and establish new College of Law; and members of the PRT’s Rule of Law section. Iraqi student to participate in relationships with law schools in Loyola’s Vienna program. He other countries. Last spring, hopes in the near future that representing Loyola, Hugg “We have gifted faculty members who students and leaders from Kirkuk visited Kirkuk University in will visit Loyola to further Kirkuk, Iraq, to sign a naturally engage students and make the continue the “conversation” groundbreaking Memorandum programs authentic. It truly takes a between the two universities. of Understanding between the whole faculty to produce these rich In addition, Kirkuk two institutions. The visit and learning experiences.” Governor Abdurrahman Mustafa the development of the —Professor Patrick R. Hugg Fattah met with Hugg; Dr. Fared Memorandum were facilitated Jassam Al-Qaysi, dean of Kirkuk by the Rule of Law section University’s College of Law; and of the Kirkuk Provincial members of the PRT’s Rule of Reconstruction Team of the U.S. Law section to congratulate the Embassy in Iraq. institutions on their new When Hugg was initially relationship and to encourage approached, he realized the additional academic and importance and potential of the professional partnerships and trip to Iraq, and the relationship exchanges between Americans was fully supported by the late and Kirkukis. College of Law Dean Brian Under Hugg’s direction, Bromberger, who had always the College of Law’s study stressed the importance of abroad programs have international relations. Representing Loyola, Patrick Hugg visited Kirkuk University in continued to thrive, but he is “Brian, in addition to being Kirkuk, Iraq, to sign a groundbreaking Memorandum of quick to point out that success a close friend, was a wonderful Understanding between the two institutions. comes from the entire faculty. leader of the College of Law “We have gifted faculty members who naturally engage students and was consistently supportive of faculty at Loyola using their time and resources to reach out to other institutions to create and make the programs authentic,” Hugg explains. “It truly takes a and foster a relationship that will continue to be fruitful for whole faculty to produce these rich learning experiences.” For more information on the College of Law’s study abroad years to come,” notes Hugg. The College of Law has also entered into similar agreements with programs, visit www.loyno.edu/ip
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A Man of Mergers and Acquisitions Richard E. Chandler, Jr., J.D. ’81 finds success in house By Ray Willhoft ’00 When Ohio-born Richard E. Chandler, Jr., J.D. ’81 decided chance to be involved in different areas,” he explains. “With to attend law school in the Deep South, little did he know what corporations continuously developing global interests, in-house impact it would have on the rest of his life. And though he has led practitioners gain exposure to issues that are frequently in the news.” Chandler previously served as Senior Vice President, more than 100 mergers and acquisitions during his legal career, the General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary of Smith biggest merger of his life took place on campus. After receiving his undergraduate degree in anthropology from International, Inc., a Fortune 500 company, where he led the the University of Cincinnati in 1978, Chandler decided to take a negotiating team in more than 35 acquisitions around the more practical approach to his career and turned his attention to world, including its $11.3 billion merger with Schlumberger in 2010 and its $3.2 billion tender offer for W-H Energy Services the study of law. “Anthropology was intriguing, but not very practical,” says in 2008. He also was responsible for developing and managing Chandler. “I always had an interest in politics and law, so attending the company’s international legal strategy, including the design and implementation of its legal compliance program. From law school was a logical choice.” Chandler thought it would be fun to study in New Orleans, a 1986 to 2005, Chandler served as Vice President and General place he had enjoyed visiting before, and Loyola’s dual civil law and Counsel of M-I/SWACO, a leading supplier of engineered common law curriculum was the perfect fit since he wasn’t sure he drilling fluid systems and drilling waste management and environmental solutions. would be practicing law in Louisiana Today, Chandler serves as Executive after graduation. Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & However, studying at Loyola not only General Counsel for CB&I, one of the provided Chandler with great memories world’s leading engineering, and a solid legal education, but it also procurement, and construction enabled him to meet his wife, Isabel, who companies and a major process was an undergraduate student majoring in technology licensor, in The Woodlands, education at the university. The couple was Texas. He and Isabel have been married even married on campus at Holy Name of for 32 years, and they have four children. Jesus Church. In March, Chandler was invited back “I did all the wrong things in law to campus to speak to College of Law school,” jokes Chandler. “I met a girl, fell in Associate Professor Trey Drury’s Corporate love, got married, and had a baby, all while Finance class, where he discussed how he studying law and working.” Chandler paid Richard E. Chandler, Jr., J.D. ’81 spoke took his former company through the for his education by working as a law clerk to the Loyola Corporate Finance class. merger with Schlumberger. With his for a small criminal defense law firm. After graduating from Loyola, Chandler returned to Ohio to extensive experience as an in-house practitioner, Chandler was the practice law, but his life changed again in 1982 after he decided perfect guest lecturer, and he was happy for the opportunity to to work for Halliburton in Houston as Regional Counsel to its reconnect with his alma mater, especially since it served as the catalyst Latin America operations. Though Chandler initially took the for the major successes in his life. “Much of what I have accomplished is rooted in the great legal in-house position as a means of providing for his family, he soon discovered that he enjoyed working as an in-house practitioner education I received at Loyola,” Chandler says. “I encourage all Loyola due to the exposure he received on a number of issues, law students and alumni to appreciate what they are taught in the classroom and apply it to whatever path they choose.” particularly those with an international aspect. Of course, if they happen to meet their future spouse on campus, “What I enjoy about in-house practice is that it allows you to cross over into a variety of other departments and gives you the then that just makes “the deal” all that much better.
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“What I enjoy about in-house practice is that it allows you to cross over into a variety of other departments and gives you the chance to be involved in different areas. With corporations continuously developing global interests, in-house practitioners gain exposure to issues that are frequently in the news.” —Richard E. Chandler, Jr., J.D. ’81
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Cullen Landry ’64, J.D. ’66 and The Midnight Streetcar Band (www.midnightstreetcar.co m) released The Crescent City Transfer Album on November 6, 2010. The work is expected to drive a renaissance of New Orleans R&B music, which evolved into Rock and Roll in the late 50s and 60s. During his days at Jesuit and Loyola, Cullen helped defray the cost of his education with his work in the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame band, The Jokers. During his years with The FBI and following his return to New Orleans as a practitioner and judicial hearing officer, the love of New Orleans and its music was a constant. In 2003, he formed the Midnight Streetcar and insisted that the repertoire be totally enriched with the works of the creative giants who had been performing during his Jesuit and Loyola days. The first words of the liner notes, Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, reflect the spiritual approach to this album and life in general that Cullen first encountered at Jesuit and Loyola. The band dedicated the music to their music mentors, Dave
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James R. Conway III ’68, J.D. ’68, Metairie, La., of Lemle & Kelleher, L.L.P., was listed in The Best Lawyers in America for 2011 in the area of real estate law.
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’75, Kenner, La., of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, attended the Governor’s Celebration and New Year’s Party at the Governor’s Mansion in Baton Rouge, La. Gerald was honored to attend the event, which fell on his birthday.
Charlie Gay, J.D. ’76,
Lemle & Kelleher, L.L.P., was listed in The Best Lawyers in America for 2011 in the areas of intellectual property law, maritime law, and mass tort litigation.
Adams and Reese partner, was named the Best Lawyers’ 2011 Medical Malpractice “Lawyer of the Year” in New Orleans. Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession, is designating “Lawyers of the Year” in highprofile legal specialties in large legal communities. Only a single lawyer in each specialty in each community is being honored as the “Lawyer of the Year.”
Donna D. Fraiche, J.D. ’75, New Orleans, La.,
Mark Surprenant, J.D. ’77, New Orleans, La.,
The Hon. Charles A. Imbornone ’68, J.D. ’71, New Orleans, La., retired as first city court judge after 30 years on the bench.
Richard B. Foster, J.D. ’74, New Orleans, La., of
replaced Arthur G. Koumantzelis as a Five Star Quality Care, Inc. (FVE) independent director and member of FVE’s Audit, Compensation, and Nominating and Governance Committees. Donna is expected to serve the remainder of Koumantzelis’ term that will expire at the 2012 annual meeting of shareholders.
Gerald Woods ’71, J.D.
Adams and Reese partner, was appointed the 2010 – 2011 chair of the Louisiana State Committee of the American College of Trial Lawyers. His one-year tenure commenced with the conclusion of the Annual Meeting of ACTL in Washington, D.C., on September 26, and continues through the conclusion of the Annual Meeting in San Diego, Calif., on October 23, 2011.
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Scott Delacroix, J.D. ’81, Madisonville, La., Adams and Reese partner, was elected to the St. Tammany West Chamber of Commerce Executive Committee as vice chairman of governmental affairs for 2011. Scott joins eight business leaders elected to the committee, which works to promote business in the community, provide programs and activities that benefit the Chamber’s 1,000 plus members, and strengthen the business climate of St. Tammany Parish.
Paul M. Lavelle, J.D. ’81, a partner at the New Orleans, La., office of Beirne, Maynard & Parsons, L.L.P., and a member of the Louisiana Bar, was named chair of The Voice of the Defense Bar’s (DRI) Law Institute.
Ronald Lampard, J.D. ’82, New Orleans, La., was appointed director of the Community Justice Agency for Jefferson Parish.
Richard F. Williams, J.D. ’83, a veterans law judge with the Board of Veterans Appeals in Washington, D.C., retired to open an art gallery in
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Buffalo, N.Y. He and his wife are artists. He will also represent veterans before the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. Richard had 31 years of federal service, to include a medical corpsman in Vietnam, physician assistant for the VA hospital in New Orleans, and after graduating from Loyola, 26 years with Board of Veterans Appeals.
Timothy Averill, J.D. ’85, Mandeville, La., took over as the Louisiana Supreme Court’s judicial administrator in January. Timothy worked 19 years as a deputy judicial administrator for the court. He recently worked in the law office of retired Chief Justice Pascal Calogero, J.D. ’54 after completing a two-year fellowship with the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.
Brian P. Quirk, J.D. ’89, managing partner of Irwin, Fritchie, Urquhart & Moore, L.L.C., was installed as president of the New Orleans Bar Association on Nov. 18. The New Orleans Bar Association represents the interests of lawyers practicing in the New Orleans metropolitan area.
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Ranord J. Darensburg, J.D. ’91, New Orleans, La., served by order of the Louisiana Supreme Court as judge pro tempore to the Juvenile Court for the Parish of Orleans.
Maurice Hew, Jr. ’88, J.D. ’91 was promoted to associate professor of law at the Thurgood Marshall School of Law in Houston, Texas, where he teaches doctrinal and clinical immigration-related courses and professional responsibility.
Patrice Downing Cusimano, J.D. ’94, Arabi, La., an attorney with the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal, was elected president of the Kiwanis Club of St. Bernard-Arabi for the 2010 – 11 term.
Harold J. Flanagan ’84, J.D. ’95, of Flanagan Partners, L.L.P., New Orleans, La., was named to the 2011 edition of Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. He also received the Monte M. Lemann Distinguished Teaching award from Tulane Law School.
Keith B. Hall, J.D. ’96, was selected to serve as chair
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that brings Catholics and Protestants together to address and heal the social, political, and religious divisions in the country.
Joe Connors, J.D. ’97
Laurie W. Maschek, J.D. ’99 opened her own
practices in the areas of trusts, estates, and related matters in Ellsworth, Maine, and Naples, Fla. Also, thanks to the flexibility afforded by the Internet, he and his wife have been able to spend more time at their farm in northern Maine and are in the process of converting it to a completely organic operation.
Meryl Tracey Andry ’95, J.D. ’98, was formerly working for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management as an attorney/leasing program manager. She and her family relocated from New Orleans to Katy, Texas. She is now an attorney with BP America, Inc., working in the Gulf of Mexico region. Her family has grown to include four daughters, Mathilde (12), Grace (7), Eleanore (3), and Adelaide (1). Her husband, Robert Andry, is wonderful and such a great daddy.
Andrew Hill, J.D. ’98 is working at Corrymeela, a peace and reconciliation centre in Northern Ireland
office located at 118 Village St., Suite A, Slidell, LA 70458. Her phone number is (985) 641-3311. She is specializing in workers compensation.
Hoy R. Hughes, J.D. ’99 is pleased to announce the formation of The Hughes Law Firm, L.L.C. His practice is located in St. Rose, La.
Lee Reid ’96, J.D. ’99, Adams and Reese Partner, New Orleans, La., was appointed chairman of the New Orleans Public Library Board. Lee joined the NOPL board in 2007 and serves as vice chair of the NOPL Foundation. The chair position is appointed by the mayor of New Orleans.
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Sharonda Williams, J.D. ’01, New Orleans, La., partner, Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, L.L.C., was included in New Orleans’ Gambit’s “40 Under 40” list.
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Chris Kane, J.D. ’04, of Adams and Reese, New Orleans, La., has been appointed to the New Orleans Building Corporation (NOBC) and charged with managing and developing under-used, deteriorated, or vacant city properties. Chris is the president of the Algiers Economic Development Foundation and has been involved in various recovery legal issues since the 2005 hurricanes. He co-founded a not-for-profit corporation designed to specifically assist small business recovery called Desire NOLA, which has been nominated for numerous service awards and has been recognized by many respected community leaders. During his leadership tenure, Desire
NOLA contributed to more than $1 million in economic impact in the New Orleans region.
Jeff Landry, J.D. ’04, New Iberia, La., won the 3rd Congressional District seat in November 2010. Amanda Wingfield Goldman, J.D. ’06, New Orleans, La., was hired as an associate within the labor & employment and litigation areas of Coats Rose.
Justin J. Boron, J.D. ’10 joined Adams and Reese as an associate with the firm’s New Orleans office in the Litigation Practice Group.
Alison McCrary, J.D. ’10, New Orleans, La., was
welcomed by the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph as a candidate for religious life in a ceremony on October 1, 2010, at its Ministries Center on Lakefront Ave. in New Orleans. Her acceptance as a candidate begins two years serving in ministry and living in community with Sisters of St. Joseph in New Orleans. Alison serves the cultural community in New Orleans as a Soros Justice Advocacy fellow at the Louisiana Justice Institute.
Nikki Demetria Thanos, J.D. ’10, fellow at the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice, was included in New Orleans’ Gambit’s “40 Under 40” list.
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Jessie Scott Haynes, J.D. ’04, associate at Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith, and David Haynes, Jr., J.D. ’04, in-house for Ochsner Health System, had a baby boy in February. Kerri Thomas Kane, J.D. ’04, associate at Irwin Fritchie Urquhart & Moore, L.L.C., and Chris Kane, J.D. ’04, partner with Adams and Reese, L.L.P., had a baby girl, Emery Ella Kane, in February.
Katharine McIntyre, J.D. ’05, and her husband, Charles Aaron McIntyre, J.D. ’05, are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter, Sophie Clara McIntyre, on September 15, 2010, in Front Royal, Va. She weighed 7 lbs., 12 oz. and was 20.5 inches long.
Chris Robison, J.D. ’03, and his wife, Erika Robison, are excited to announce the arrival of their daughter, Lillian Grace, who was born on May 24, 2010. Lilly joins big brothers Colin, age 8, and Ian, age 6, who are thrilled to have a baby sister!
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Continuing Legal Education says Thank You! Loyola wishes to thank the following speakers and advisory board members for a successful fall 2010 programming season. Thank you for your support! ESSENTIAL ISSUES AFFECTING CORPORATE ATTORNEYS AND IN-HOUSE COUNSEL Steven R. Boutwell; Kean Miller Scott D. Chenevert; Jones Walker Asher J. Friend; Jones Walker John Jerry Glas; Deutsch Kerrigan & Stiles Edward F. Harold; Fisher & Phillips, L.L.P. Jay Jalenak; Kean Miller Frederick Theodore “Ted” Le Clercq; Deutsch Kerrigan & Stiles Kelly McNeil Legier; Louisiana State Bar Association Jason Stein; Jackson Lewis, L.L.P.
A DAY WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Alan G. Brackett; Mouledeaux, Bland, Legrand, and Brackett David A. Duhon; U.S. Department of Labor–OWCP The Hon. Larry Price; Office of Administrative Law Judges Kitty Prieur, LRC, CRC, CCM, OWCP; Kitty Prieur, L.L.C. Gregory S. Unger; Workers’ Compensation, L.L.C.
SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY—PREPARING FOR THE HEARING Monica Anderson; Social Security Administration, New Orleans The Hon. Kerry J. Anzalone; Social Security Administration, New Orleans Rebecca Dean; Social Security Administration, New Orleans Rod Dues; The Law Office of Rod Deus Earnie A. Joe; Social Security Administration, Region 6 Viki W. Lovelace; Social Security Administration, New Orleans Lisa Mirman; Social Security Administration, New Orleans Susan Ogden; Social Security Administration, New Orleans Eric Poole; Social Security Administration, Region 6 The Hon. Joan Parks Saunders; Office of Disability Appeals & Review, Region 6 Michael Sullivan; Social Security Administration, New Orleans The Hon. Glynn F. Voisin; Social Security Administration, New Orleans The Hon. Jay C. Zainey; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana
PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF FEDERAL AND STATE RULES OF EVIDENCE IN A COURTROOM SETTING The Hon Paul A. Bonin; Louisiana 4th Circuit Court of Appeal The Hon. James J. Brady; U.S. District Court–Middle District Clement P. Donelon; Law Office of Clement P. Donelon The Hon. Stanwood R. Duval, Jr.; U.S. District Court–Eastern District The Hon. Rosemary Ledet; Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans Richard K. Leefe; Leefe Gibbs Sulllivan Dupré & Aldous
FEDERAL CIVIL PROCEDURE—NAVIGATING THE MINE FIELDS AND AVOIDING THE PITFALLS Stevan C. Dittman; Gainsburgh, Benjamin, David, Meunier & Warshauer Thomas M. Flanagan; Flanagan Partners, L.L.P. Cassie Giarrusso; Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, L.L.C. Robert A. Kutcher; Chopin Wagar Richard & Kutcher, L.L.P. The Hon. Ivan L.R. Lemelle; U.S. District Court– Eastern District of Louisiana David L. Patron; Phelps Dunbar
H. Minor Pipes, III; Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, L.L.C. D. Skylar Rosenbloom; Phelps Dunbar Nicole S. Tygier; Chopin Wagar Richard & Kutcher, L.L.P. Irving J. Warshauer; Gainsburgh, Benjamin, David, Meunier & Warshauer
ANNUAL ESTATE PLANNING CONFERENCE Dane Ciolino; Loyola University New Orleans College of Law Katherine Conklin; McGlinchey Stafford Anthony M. DiLeo; Attorney at Law Gary J. Elkins; Elkins, P.L.C. Michael E. Guarisco*; Guarisco & Cordes, L.L.C. Kerry R. Hawkins; Internal Revenue Service, Oklahoma City, Okla. Mary C. Hester; Taylor, Porter, Brooks & Phillips, L.L.P. Donald O. Jansen; The University of Texas System Jeffrey W. Koonce; Phelps Dunbar David J. Lukinovich*; David J. Lukinovich (A.P.L.C.) Joseph W. Mengis; Perry, Atkinson, Balhoff, Mengis & Burns, L.L.C. Carole Cukell Neff; Sessions, Fishman, Nathan & Isreal, L.L.P. William A. Neilson; Loyola University New Orleans College of Law Robert L. Perez*; Perez, McDaniel & Faust, L.L.P. Jerome J. Reso*; Baldwin Haspel Burke & Meyer, L.L.C. Kenneth A. Weiss*; McGlinchey Stafford
ANNUAL FAMILY LAW CONFERENCE Bernadette D’Souza; Southeast Louisiana Legal Services Jack L. Dveirin*; Attorney at Law Paul A. Landry; 16th Judicial District Court Steven Lane; Herman, Herman, Katz & Cotlar Bernadette Lee; Morris, Lee & Bayle, L.L.C. Richard P. Lemmler, Jr.; Louisiana State Bar Association Edith Morris; Morris, Lee & Bayle, L.L.C. David M. Prados; Lowe, Stein, Hoffman, Allweiss & Hauver Kern T. Schafer; Schafer Group, Ltd. Frank P. Tranchina, Jr.*; Tranchina & Mansfield, L.L.C. Kathy D. Underwood; Underwood Law Firm, L.L.C. Lynne Wasserman*; Attorney at Law Marc D. Winsberg*; Winsberg & Associates, L.L.C.
BACK TO SCHOOL CLE SKILLS TRAINING COURSES Rachel Africk; Orleans District Attorney’s Office The Hon. Terry Q. Alarcon; Orleans Criminal District Court Dane Ciolino; Loyola University New Orleans College of Law Joshua A. DeCuir; Kantrow Spaht Weaver and Blitzer (A.P.L.C.) Marie Erickson; Supreme Court of Louisiana Amy Hale-Janeke; 5th Circuit Court of Appeal Joseph P. Lopinto, III; Louisiana House of Representatives, District 80 Charles J. Lowry; Fastcase, Inc. R. Judson Mitchell, Jr.; Loyola University College of Law Townsend M. Myers; Attorney at Law John W. Redmann; Office of John W. Redmann, L.L.C. Lynne Wasserman; Attorney at Law * Advisory Board Member
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Events Annual Law Alumni Luncheon celebrates successes, honors alumnus More than 250 alumni joined together in celebrating the his class at Loyola and served as associate editor of the College of Law at the Annual Law Alumni Luncheon on Loyola Law Review. He is an emeritus member of the February 4 at the Ritz Carlton New Orleans. College of Law Visiting Committee. His wife, Louana Law alumnus and Loyola Trustee Emeritus Theodore Frois, J.D. ’88, is also a graduate of the College of Law. (Ted) Frois, J.D. ’69, received the 2011 St. Ives Award, In August 2009, Frois was named trustee emeritus. the highest honor awarded by the College of Law Alumni Frois’ term with Loyola’s Board of Trustees began in 1999, Association. The St. Ives Award, named for the patron saint and from August 2005 to May 2008, he served as chair of of lawyers, is presented annually to alumni who have the board. He was instrumental in the establishment of volunteered services to the College of Law or the university, the Exxon Scholars Minority Scholarship program for the maintained the highest standards of the profession, and College of Law. In 2001, he and his wife endowed the Ted furthered the mission of the alumni association. and Louana Frois Distinguished Professorship of “I am honored to be among the individuals who have International Law Studies. In 2006, they endowed the received the St. Ives Award,” said Frois. “My Loyola Major Theodore C. Frois (MIA Dec. 6, 1950, Korean education gave me the building blocks for a successful War) Military Scholarship. Frois, a New Orleans native, legal career, but more importantly, Jesuit values taught now resides in Houston. me that life is more meaningful if you use your success to help others finish well.” Frois retired last year from the Upstream Companies of Exxon Mobil Corporation, where he served as the general counsel, responsible for worldwide legal activities in the exploration, development, production, and gas and power marketing business of the company. Law Alumni Association President Dan Tadros, J.D. ’92 (left), and Ben Saunders, J.D. ’69 (center), He graduated in the top 10 of presented Theodore (Ted) Frois, J.D. ’69 (right), with the 2011 St. Ives Award.
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Seated: Jeannine Roques, J.D. ’94, Kelly Barbier, J.D. ’92, Brian Ballay, J.D. ’04, Amanda Ballay; Standing: Mary Dumestre, J.D. ’88, John Denenea, J.D. ’88, Mary C. Ehret, J.D. ’98, Suzanne Scalise, J.D. ’03, Dr. Lloyd S. Jolibos, Jr., J.D. ’03 LOYOLA LAWYER
Fall 2010 Skills Curriculum Course Volunteers Loyola University New Orleans College of Law and Pat Phipps, director of the Skills Curriculum, extend recognition and sincere appreciation to the following distinguished volunteer speakers who taught Skills courses during the fall 2010 semester.
TRIAL TACTICS William J. Sommers, Jr.; Duncan, Courington & Rydberg, L.L.C.
HOW TO DRAFT A PLEADING—PLEADINGS DRAFTING Erin F. Lorio; Peragine & Lorio, L.L.C. Amanda Butler; Peragine & Lorio, L.L.C.
THE LAST TRANSACTION HERO—AN INTRO TO THE SALES & USE TAX Kristian A. Gerrets; State and Local Tax Group, KPMG, L.L.P.
USING DEMONSTRATIVE EVIDENCE AT TRIAL Marion D. Floyd; Attorney at Lw
REPRESENTING THE FEDERAL CRIMINAL DEFENDANT Marion D. Floyd; Attorney at Law HOW TO WRITE A WILL Robert Angelle; Attorney at Law PRACTICAL LEGAL RESEARCH Francis X. Norton: Loyola University Law Library HOW TO HANDLE THE CRIMINAL CASE Karla M. Baker; Baker Law Firm, L.L.C. Thomas M. Calogero; Martin E. Regan Eugene P. Redmann; Attorney at Law HOW TO WRITE & ARGUE A MOTION—MOTION PRACTICE Bobby J. Delise; Delise & Hall DEVELOPING THE THEME & THEORY OF THE CASE William J. Sommers, Jr.; Duncan, Courington & Rydberg, L.L.C. USING THE INTERNET FOR LEGAL RESEARCH Brian T. Huddleston; Senior Reference Librarian, Loyola University Law Library VOIR DIRE—JURY-PICKING 101— COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUES Craig J. Mordock; Butler Mordock LEGAL LETTERS: COMMUNICATION FOR LAWYERS Warren Horn; Heller, Draper, Hayden, Patrick & Horn, L.L.C. DEPOSITION SKILLS WORKSHOP William J. Sommers, Jr.; Duncan, Courington & Rydberg, L.L.C. DRAFTING CORPORATE DOCUMENTS Megan Riess; Fishman, Haygood, Phelps, Walmsley, Willis & Swanson Joshua Decuir; Kantrow, Spaht, Weaver & Blitzer
LOUISIANA & FEDERAL CLASS ACTION SEMINAR Eric J. O’Bell; Of Counsel, Gauthier Houghtaling & Williams PERSUASION FOR THE GENERATIONS & GENDERS Dominic J. Gianna; Middleberg, Riddle & Gianna DIGITAL LAWYERING—HOW TO USE TECHNOLOGY TO YOUR ADVANTAGE BETTER E-MAIL MANAGEMENT TO CREATING A PAPERLESS OFFICE Ernest Svenson; Svenson Law Firm MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS Steven C. Serio; Fishman, Haygood, Phelps, Walmsley, Willis & Swanson THE ART OF PERSUASION William J. Sommers, Jr.; Duncan, Courington & Rydberg, L.L.C. HANDLING THE SOCIAL SECURITY CASE Chris A. Cornaghie; Cornaghie Law Firm SOLO & SMALL PRACTICE OFFICE MANAGEMENT— SURVIVING IN THE ECONOMY Sheila M. Wilkinson; Law Offices of Sheila M. Wilkingson, P.L.C. TECHNOLOGY & THE LAW—BEYOND WORD PROCESSING Charles O. Taylor; Chehardy, Sherman, Ellis, Murray, Recile, Griffith, Stakelum & Hayes, L.L.P. NEGOTIATION TECHNIQUES Bobby J. Delise; Delise & Hall COURTS IN ACTION The Hon. Nancy Amato Konrad; Chief Judge, Juvenile Court, Div. C COURTS IN ACTION The Hon. Madeleine M. Landrieu; Judge, Civil District Court, Section 7, Div. E
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Faculty
News Assistant Professor of Law Andrea Armstrong presented her draft paper, Slavery Revisited in Penal Plantation Labor, at LSU for the Louisiana Junior Faculty Forum on February 18, 2011. She also participated in the studentorganized Disorientation conference at Loyola and discussed critical legal theory and its application to law schools.
Deputy Law Library Director Brian Barnes published a short article titled “MC Law Judicial Data Project - A Research Tool for Success,” MDLA Quarterly, Fall 2010.
Associate Professor of Law John Blevins was a panelist for “Regulation of the Internet,” Federalist Society Telecommunications and Electronic Media Practice Group, National Press Club, Washington, D.C. (Dec. 16).
Clinical Professors Cheryl Buchert, Hiroko Kusada, and Judson Mitchell presented “Fighting for the Legal Rights of New Orleans Residents after Hurricane Katrina” during a roundtable discussion with four Japanese professors of law, planning, and architecture and a Kobe University doctoral student visiting from Japan on
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February 1, 2011. The Japanese professors have been active in supporting residents’ needs after the 1995 Kobe earthquake and planning for future disaster recovery needs in Japan. The purpose of the New Orleans trip was to understand housing and land use issues faced by residents after Katrina and the legal and advocacy work related to these issues. Under Assistant
Clinical Professor Law Davida Finger, the Law
Clinic (Community Justice section) is local counsel on the Ridgely, et al v. Federal Emergency Management Agency, et al, Case No. 072146 (E.D. LA), in which a $2.65 million settlement was reached (final approval Dec. 14, 2010). The class action lawsuit is about whether FEMA improperly denied continued housing assistance in connection with Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The Law Clinic joined with pro bono counsel from around the country on this case including attorneys from Weil, Gotshal & Manges, L.L.P. Attorneys of record from the Law Clinic are Davida Finger and Bill Quigley.
Assistant Professor of Law Johanna Kalb and co-author Professor Martha Davis, Northeastern University School of Law,
are publishing an issue brief for the American Constitution Society titled Oklahoma State Question 755 and An Analysis of AntiInternational Law Initiatives. Kalb’s article “Human Rights Treaties in State Courts: The International Prospects of State Constitutionalism after Medellin” will appear in the Penn State Law Review symposium issue. Kalb’s invited essay “Litigating Dignity” will appear in the State Constitutional Commentary issue of the Albany Law Review. She presented her work-inprogress “From Commitment to Consolidation: The Generative Function of International and Comparative Citation” at the 2011 Northeast Regional Scholarship and Teaching Development Workshop at Albany Law School.
Associate Professor of Law Blaine LeCesne’s
Victor H. Schiro Professor of Law James Klebba was
book titled Louisiana Civil Procedure: Cases and Materials was published by Esquire Books, Inc.
featured as an “Author in Residence” at the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) booth at the AALS meeting in San Francisco on January 5. He demonstrated his CALI exercise “Jurisdiction over the Person.” Over the course of the next several months, Klebba has been asked to prepare a
major revision and update of this exercise, first released in 1998. The revision will be necessary because of two important personal jurisdiction cases, coming from New Jersey and North Carolina, which will be decided by the Supreme Court by the end of the current term this June. The cases are: Nicastro v. J. McIntyre Machinery, Ltd., 987 A.2d 575 (N.J.), cert. granted, 131 S. Ct. 62 (2010) (09-1343) (argued Jan. 11, 2011). Foreign manufacturer, stream of commerce, specific jurisdiction. Brown v. Meter, 681 S.E.2d 382 (N.C. Ct. App. 2009), cert. granted sub nom, Goodyear Luxembourg Tires SA v. Brown, 131 S. Ct. 63 (2010) (No. 10-76) (argued Jan. 11, 2011). General jurisdiction.
Ferris Family Distinguished Professor of Law M. Isabel Medina has written the competition problem for the 16th Annual Uvaldo Herrera National Moot Court Competition. The problem involves a complex legal issue, drawing students from
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the nation’s top law schools enabling them to hone their brief-writing and oral advocacy skills, and facilitating relationships with judges and practitioners.
Reference Librarian and Associate Professor Francis X. Norton, Jr., contributed “Twelve Directors, A quick view of new academic library directors” to the American Association of Law Libraries website (www.aallnet.org/products/p ub_sp1012.asp).
Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor Denise Pilié spoke at the Energy Bar Association on the topic of “The First Wave of Claims Following Deepwater Horizon: A Discussion of the Feinberg
Process” on January 27, 2011.
Associate Professor of Law Markus Puder received Loyola’s Senate Research Award for 2010 at the President’s Convocation on January 21, 2011.
Professor of Law and Director of the Loyola Law Clinic & the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center Bill Quigley authored a chapter “Torture and Human Rights Abuses at the School of the Americas WHINSEC,” in THE UNITED STATES AND TORTURE: Interrogation, Incarceration and Abuse (New York University Press 2011). Quigley was one of four finalists for the 2011 Urban Affairs Association – SAGE Publications Marilyn Gittell Activist Scholar Lecturer
Award in 2011. Quigley also served as: speaker, “Justice Delayed is Justice Denied: How to Destroy an African American City in 33 Steps,” NYU School of Law Martin Luther King, Jr., Celebration Address, February 8, 2011; speaker, “Advocacy Lessons from Katrina and Haiti,” Fordham Law School, February 2, 2011; speaker, “Guantanamo Grinds On,” Witness Against Torture and Dorothy Day Catholic Worker, Washington D.C., January 7, 2011; Pro bono litigation: Doe v Jindal, USDC ED LA, February 16, 2011 constitutional challenge to Louisiana law which makes a person convicted of solicitation of oral or anal sex a registered sex offender. Cocounsel along with Center for Constitutional Rights and Davida Finger of the Law Clinic.
Gauthier-St. Martin Eminent Scholar and Chair in Environmental Law Robert Verchick delivered the closing address for a conference titled, “Toward a Well Adapted Future in the Puget Sound: A Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation and the Law,” hosted at Seattle University and sponsored by the Bullitt Foundation and the Center for Progressive Reform.
Henry F. Bonura, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Law Jeanne Woods spoke on a panel at a conference on international criminal justice at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies of the University of London in March.
Congratulations to the following law alumni who were included in the
New Orleans CityBusiness Leadership in Law Class of 2011, which recognizes the area’s 50 leading legal professionals based on their professional and community achievements. Hank Arnold, J.D. ’88 Regina Bartholomew, J.D. ’99 Kay Baxter, J.D. ’94 Michael Brandner, J.D. ’02 Edward Downing, J.D. ’82 Stephen Dwyer, J.D. ’76
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Susan Henning, J.D. ’80 A.J. Krouse, J.D. ’84 Terrence Lestelle, J.D. ’74 Michael Mentz, J.D. ’81 The Hon. Robin Pittman, J.D. ’96 David O’Quinn, J.D. ’87
Brian Quirk, J.D. ’89 Antonio Rodriguez, J.D. ’73 Timothy Scott, J.D. ’91 The Hon. Henry Sullivan, J.D. ’74 Bobby Truitt, J.D. ’87
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