CLASS ACTION

CELEBRATING 50 YEARS SINCE GRADUATION

Santa Clara Law welcomed several members of the class of 1968 for their Medal Ceremony on the Dean’s Terrace during Law Reunion Weekend in October. From left are William “Bill” Pohle J.D. ’68, John Chessell J.D. ’68, Joel Primes J.D. ’68, Dean Lisa Kloppenberg, Alan Nobler J.D. ’68, Jack Ritchey J.D. ’68, and Thomas “Tom”

Ferrito J.D.

’68.

Alumni

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1963 Hon. Leon Panetta

B.A. ’60 and his wife, Sylvia, were honored with the Distinguished Citizen Award by the San Francisco Commonwealth Club in April 2018.

1969 Edward Lozowicki

is serving a second year as co-chair of the American Bar Association’s Arbitration Committee. The group provides CLE programs, publications, and other resources for arbitrators and attorneys.

1974 Richard M.

Hluchan is president of Georgetown Alumni Association. He is a partner in the law firm Hyland Levin LLP based in Marlton, New Jersey, where he practices land use and environmental law.

1975 Jim Gaffney B.S.

’71 is executive director of Doerner, Saunders, Daniel & Anderson in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He manages business operations. Previously he was corporate director of Bullivant Houser Bailey in Portland, Oregon.

1977 Hon. Thierry

Colaw, a retired Orange County Superior Court Judge, has joined Judicate West, a private dispute resolution service. He spent 21 years on the bench after 20 years of private practice as a civil litigator.

1978 Gilbert Paul

Carrasco received a Fulbright Award to lecture and teach human rights law at Ukrainian Catholic

KENDRA LIVINGSTON

University. He is a professor of law at Willamette University College of Law in Salem, Oregon and also serves as chair of the Civil Rights Section of the American Association of Law Schools. Donald Temple received the lawyer of the year award from the Metropolitan Washington Area Employment Lawyers Association.

1979 William F. Abrams

is in the IP and litigation and dispute resolution practices at Foster Pepper in Seattle. He has served as lead counsel in more than 100 patent, trade secret, and IP cases since 2000, and has been named a Top 75 IP Lawyer in California since 2009. In 2017, he successfully defended a challenge to

Seattle’s tax on gun sales. Previously, he practiced at Steptoe & Johnson in San Francisco.

1980 Hon. Drew Takaichi

received the Judge of the Year award from the Santa Clara County Trial Lawyers Association.

1982 Hon. Timothy J.

Schmal has been appointed to a judgeship on the Santa Cruz County Superior Court. He previously was a sole practitioner, and from 2008 to 2014 was a partner at Burton, Schmal and DiBenedetto. He has also served as associate and partner at Gassett, Perry and Frank and as an instructor at Santa Clara Law.

1983 David Long is a partner with Ice Miller where he is a member of its public affairs group. He spent more than 20 years in the Indiana state legislature.

1987 Mark Duffy, Hon. Christopher Acker, Randall

Tinsley, and Mark Connell met in Memphis, Tenn., for a mini-reunion.

1988 Jon Olin was appointed Senior Vice President for Corporate Strategy and Administration at Amerijet.

1990 Chris Carr served as the U.S.-Italy Fulbright Distinguished Chair of Business and Economics in Napoli, Italy. Carr is a tenured professor at the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo College of Business.

1991 Michael Callagy

has been named as San Mateo County Manager. Callagy joined San Mateo County as one of three deputy county managers in 2013 after a 29-year career with the San Mateo Police Department where he ran day-to-day operations and retired as the deputy chief. In 2016, he was named assistant county manager. John Slebir is senior vice president for business development and general counsel at VIVUS, a biopharmaceutical company in Campbell. Previously, he was an attorney at Wilson Sonsini.

1992 Mark Heyl is chair of the cannabis industry group at Hopkins & Carley in San Jose. He is also chair of the firm’s corporate practice and merger and acquisitions groups.

1993 Tim Brugh has recently joined Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP as a Partner in the firm’s estates, trusts, and tax planning private wealth practice in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. He was West Coast director of fiduciary services for Goldman Sachs for more than a decade. Lauren Downum is a director and private wealth advisor at Union Bank in San Francisco. Previously, he was at Wells Fargo for 18 years, serving 11 years as senior vice president and wealth advisor. Both Robert Soran, partner at Downey Brand in Sacramento, and his classmate Janlynn Fleener B.A. ’90, partner and chair of the litigation practice group at Downey Brand in Sacramento, were named 2018 top lawyers by Sacramento Magazine.

1994 Frank Nguyen is vice president of intellectual property and licensing for Intuitive Surgical, a pioneer in the field of robotic-assisted surgery. Scott McElhern, partner at Downey Brand in Sacramento, was named a 2018 top lawyer by Sacramento Magazine.

1995 Matt Armanino will become CEO of Armanino, one of the top 25 largest accounting and business consulting firms in the United States, in January. He has been chief operating officer since 2008. Delma Locke was honored by Congressman Ro Khanna with a Hispanic Heritage Month Award for her leadership and community service in Silicon Valley. Locke is vice president and deputy general counsel at Singularity University and she also serves as vice chair of the Board of Advisors for the Katharine & George Alexander Community Law Center in San Jose.

1996 Hon. Shauna

Chastain B.A. ’91 has been appointed to be a judge on the Solano County Superior Court by Governor Jerry Brown. Previously, she was a sole practitioner since 2007, and had been an associate at Mattice Law Offices and at the Law Offices of Lynne Yates-Carter. Tricia Timm is general counsel and corporate secretary at Looker, a data platform company in Santa Cruz. Previously she was senior vice president and general counsel at SugarCRM. Susan Woodhouse has been listed as an up-andcomer by Human Resource Executive magazine and Lawdragon for the 2018 annual rankings guide.

1997 Darren Donnelly

joined Polsinelli’s Silicon Valley office as a principal in its Intellectual Property Department. He represents clients in patent and other technology and intellectual property disputes and regularly leads teams in the U.S. District Courts, before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and at the

Celebrating Santa Clara Law Super Lawyers

Eight Santa Clara Law alumni have been selected as 2018 Top Northern California Super Lawyers: Peter Boutin J.D. ’75, Hon. Wendy Getty J.D. ’92, Niall McCarthy J.D. ’92, Leigh Burnside J.D. ’92, Daniel Coyle J.D. ’85, Tim Thompson J.D. ’87, Neda Mansoorian J.D. ’99 and Richard Bolanos J.D. ’83.

Five Santa Clara Law alumnae have been named to the 2018 Women Northern California Super Lawyers List: Mary Alexander J.D. ’82, Catherine A. Bechtel J.D. ’99, Leigh W. Burnside J.D. ’97, Neda Mansoorian J.D. ’99, and Natasha M. Parrett J.D. ’99.

Three alumni were named to the 2018 Northern California Super Lawyers Rising Stars list: James Giacchetti J.D. ’15, Abimael Bastida J.D. ’14, and Christopher Boscia J.D. ’08.

John R. “Jack” Williams J.D. ’65 Elizabeth A. Williams J.D. ’98

Father-Daughter JAMS Team

In September, Elizabeth A. Williams J.D. ’98 and her father, John R. “Jack” Williams J.D. ’65, joined JAMS, the largest private alternative dispute resolution provider in the world. Previously, the father-daughter team had a private mediation firm, Williams and Williams Mediation, founded in 2001 to specialize exclusively in the mediation and settlement of pre-litigation and litigated civil matters.

For more than 20 years, Elizabeth Williams has been resolving litigated disputes in a range of civil matters, including personal injury, premises liability, and many employment matters involving discrimination, sexual harassment, wrongful termination, and wage and hour issues. She also co-designed and co-taught a course in legal negotiation at Santa Clara Law as well as mediation courses at San Jose City College.

Jack Williams has more than 50 years of experience in civil litigation as a trial lawyer, as a mandatory settlement conference pro tempore, and as a private neutral mediator in the Bay Area. He also taught trial practice, trial preparation, and negotiation and mediation at Santa Clara Law as an adjunct faculty member for more than 30 years, beginning in 1970.

Since becoming a full-time mediator in 1999, he has successfully mediated thousands of cases in all subject matters, including personal injury, priest and sexual abuse, wrongful death, employment, high-tech and intellectual property, real estate, construction defect, insurance and bad faith, and cases with deep complexity involving multiple parties.

Federal Circuit representing innovation-focused companies. Previously with Fenwick & West, Donnelly holds a master’s degree from Stanford University in EngineeringEconomic Systems, as well as his bachelor’s degree from Stanford University in Mathematical and Computational Science and Economics. Grace Hum is assistant dean of students at U.C. Hastings College of Law.

1998 Kelley Kulick is a deputy public defender for Santa Clara County. She was featured in an April 2018 Frontline article about her client, Lukis Anderson, who was cleared of murder charges after his DNA was found on a victim’s fingernails. Anderson had never met the victim.

1999 Michael Reiter is on the planning commission of the city of Redlands. He practices municipal law with Milligan, Beswick, Levine & Knox. Scott Shipman is vice president and chief privacy officer at Intuit. Keith Wattley was one of 20 Obama Foundation Fellows selected from more than 20,000 applicants. He is founder and director of UnCommon Law in Oakland, a legal non-profit that represents California prisoners serving life terms with the possibility of parole (see page 10).

2001 Garret Murai is a top author in JD Supra’s 2018 Reader’s Choice Awards. He practices construction law at Wendel Rosen. Jennifer Wintrode Shuler was honored for her pro bono work by the Florida Bar. She is the deputy assistant county attorney for Bay County, and has accepted approximately 30 case referrals from Legal Services of North Florida, mainly assisting low-income clients in domestic violence and family law cases. Previously, she has done pro bono work for the Panhandle Animal Welfare Society and at a legal aid restraining order clinic in Detroit.

2003 Sameer

Khedekar was named to Lawdragon’s Guide of 20 top practitioners in the area of corporate immigration law. Erik Khoobyarian was named pastor of Presbyterian Church of Western Springs in Illinois.

2004 Greg Lundell is a partner at Haley Guiliano in San Jose. His practice includes audit-based licensing compliance, trade secret disputes, and technology transfer. Previously, he spent a decade at public companies, including TiVo and the Kudelski Group. Nikki Pope is the new managing director for the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara Law (see page 6).

2005 John Shimmick, a patent attorney with expertise in the medical device industry, left Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati to join FisherBroyles’ Palo Alto office. Before becoming a lawyer, he worked for over a decade as an engineer in the medical device industry, and is a named inventor on more than 30 patents. Christopher Zand is director of Private Client Group for Osterweis Capital Management. Prior to joining Osterweis, Zand was vice president and principal at Brouwer & Janachowski and

vice president with Bernstein Global Wealth Management. He is a member of the board of directors for the International House at U.C. Berkeley and the board of directors for Legal Services for Children, where he also serves on the finance committee.

2008 Kevin J. Albanese

B.S. ’96 received the 2018 Businessman of the Year Award from the Silicon Valley Organization. Philip Ou was honored by Law360 as Rising Star for technology practitioners under age 40. He is of counsel at Paul Hastings LLP.

2009 Samar Shah was featured in an article about his firm in law.com. The firm caters to San Antonio, Texas’ growing technology scene.

2010 Darrin Gambelin

is counsel at Downey Brand in San Francisco. He is a member of the firm’s natural resources group, where he assists clients with permitting, compliance, and regulatory enforcement matters.

2011 Daniel Keese is counsel at Perkins Coie in Portland, Oregon, where he practices intellectual property litigation. He has been with the firm for four years, and previously worked for Ropes & Gray in Silicon Valley. Jeff Leng is senior patent counsel at eBay.

2012 Christina Fialho

B.A. ’06 fights to abolish immigration detention through Freedom for Immigrants, a non-profit she co-founded. Her husband J.P. Rose B.A. ’06 is a staff attorney at the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity. C. James Oh is an associate at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton in Menlo Park, where he is on the electrical engineering and software team in the firm’s IP department. Previously, he was with an IP firm in San Jose. Da Zhuang is an attorney at Structure Law Group in San Jose. His practice primarily focuses on corporate transactional matters and complex business and commercial litigation. Previously, he was inhouse counsel at a Chinese technology company, and also worked at Perkins Coie and Dechert.

2013 Brice Hamack

works for Legal Aid in Canberra, Australia. He was profiled on Australian radio about his journey to Islam. Christen Lee is EEO Officer for the State of Hawaii Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. She serves as the liaison between the United States Department of Labor Civil Rights Center on matters pertaining to services provided by the State of Hawaii Department of Labor and Industrial Relations under Title V of the Civil Rights Act, and researches and coordinates new programs regarding civil rights, language and disability access to DLIR programs and services under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. Ryan Minarovich has been named chief counsel at Medici, a mobile telehealth communication platform for doctors and patients. He was most recently a corporate and securities attorney at the San Diego office of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman.

2014 Nicole Shanahan

was named one of 18 millenials changing the face of legal tech by Legaltech News. She is founder of ClearAccessIP, an integrated patent management and collaboration software.

2016 Mallory Barr and Tamarah Prevost are associates at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy in Burlingame. Austin Jackson is an attorney with the Structure Law Group. He represents clients in complex business and commercial litigation, transactional work, and alternative dispute resolution. Lizbeth Mateo made headlines for being one of the first undocumented immigrants to be appointed to a statewide post in California. State Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon appointed her to a an advisory committee that seeks to improve access to college for low-income California students. Mateo came to SCU in October to receive the 2018 Santa Clara Law Social Justice and Human Rights Award.

2017 Brit Janeway

Benjamin married Patri Aaron Forwalter-Friedman on Feb. 10, 2018, at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. She is an associate at Meakins Law in Berkeley.

2018 Jodi-Kaye Haber

was awarded a California ChangeLawyers scholarship. California ChangeLawyers (formerly the California Bar Foundation) is a statewide foundation that empowers the next generation of lawyers, judges, and activists to create a more diverse legal profession, a fair justice system, a better California.

NCIP & Law Alumni

The Northern California Innocence Project (NCIP) is proud to have two Santa Clara Law School alumni working on their team.

Missy O’Connell J.D. ’03, NCIP attorney & policy liaison, began working at NCIP in 2010. Through Missy’s leadership, NCIP co-sponsored four bills this past legislative session.

Todd Fries J.D. ’09, NCIP associate director, began working at NCIP in 2007 as a clinical law student and returned to NCIP in 2010 as a research fellow as part of the law school’s post-graduate fellowship program. In 2014 and 2016, Todd helped to organize Restorative Justice retreats for NCIP exonerees.

In Memoriam

1950 Thomas Moore, May 9, 2017. He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He spent two years working for the FBI after law school. He practiced law for more than six decades in Oregon. He was a member of the Oregon State Bar Board of Governors. Survivors include his wife, Mary Ellen, four children, and six grandchildren.

1951 Maurice Henry

Fredericks, April 20, 2018. He was a Navy pilot during World War II. He was a North Bay native, and practiced law in Santa Rosa at Golis & Fredericks, and later was a sole practitioner. The Golis and Fredericks firm founded and developed the city of Rohnert Park. He was active in the community, serving on the local school board and as president of the Rohnert Park Chamber of Commerce. Survivors include his wife, Betty, three children, and four grandchildren.

1953 Donald Richardson, April 23, 2018. He attended Stanford University and served in the Navy. He was chair of the board of directors of the San Jose Central YMCA and was also president of the downtown San Jose Rotary Club. Survivors include his wife, Marilyn, and two children.

1959 Robert L. Cross,

August 5, 2018. He joined the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps as a special agent and served in San Francisco, Japan, and Korea, and returned to earn his law degree from Santa Clara Law. He joined IBM as legal counsel in 1961 and served in Boulder, Colorado, San Jose, and Los Gatos until his retirement in 1990. He spent the next 20 years volunteering his legal expertise for parents of developmentally disabled children through California Association of State Hospital Parent Councils for the Retarded. He loved music, skiing, and traveling. Survivors include his wife of 64 years, Marilyn, two sons, and one grandson.

Buford “Larry” Toney B.S.

’53, April 20, 2018. He grew up in Pleasanton. During college he was in ROTC and he went onto active military duty in the Marines. He worked in criminal defense law, retiring in 2005. Survivors include his wife, Gloria, eight children, 12 grandchildren, and one greatgrandchild.

1960 Harold Alphonse

B.S. ’54, Jan. 17, 2018. He was a family law attorney in Campbell. Survivors include his wife, Patricia, three children, and seven grandchildren. William H. Collard, August 18, 2018. He was a veteran of the Korean War, serving in the U.S. Air Force as a Special Agent for the Office of Special Investigation. For nearly six decades, he practiced law, most recently as partner, for Friedman and Collard. He was the founding president of Big Brothers/ Big Sisters of Sacramento, and was involved with many other community and charitable organizations. Survivors include his wife, Ann, two children, three stepchildren, and seven grandchildren.

1962 Kevin P. Ryan, March 23, 2018.

1963 Jack Arancio B.S.

’55, April 2, 2018. He served in the Army for two years before attending law school. He practiced law in Monterey for over 50 years. He enjoyed golf and oil painting. Survivors include two sons, one granddaughter, and two siblings.

1965 Russell M. Allen, May 2, 2018. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University, where he was a sports writer for the Stanford Daily. He retired from his law practice in 2016 as a partner in Allen & Sheridan in Portland, Ore. His practice areas included transportation, business, estate planning, and probate. Survivors include his wife, Joyce, three children, three stepdaughters, six grandchildren and step-grandchildren, and two siblings.

1966 Richard S. Burriss,

July 19, 2018. While earning his law degree, he worked for Lockeed. He began his law practice in 1967 in Los Altos and relocated the firm to Mountain View in 1979. He spent more than 50 years practicing business law. He mentored many law students and young lawyers, taught at San Jose State, and served as Judge Pro Tem for the Santa Clara County Superior Court. He enjoyed hunting, camping, fishing, and horseback riding. A 40-year resident of the Santa Cruz mountains, he later became a full-time resident of Kauai after spending up to 6 months a year there since 1981. Survivors include his wife, Susan, three children, and four grandchildren.

1967 James G. Leathers,

June 19, 2018. He practiced tax law in San Francisco at Chickering & Gregory and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. In 1991, he opened up his own firm near Lafayette, where he practiced for more than 15 years. He was a lifelong Bay Area sports fan, skier, fisherman, bird hunter, and golfer. Survivors include his wife of nearly 50 years, Carol, three sons, and two grandchildren.

1968 Lawrence “Larry”

Perrin, May 11, 2018. Survivors include his wife, Paula, daughters Kimberly and

Kristin Perrin B.S. ’04, MA

’17, director of finance and administration for the Silicon Valley Executive Center at the Leavey School of Business at SCU.

1970 Paul B. Kemp, July 1, 2018. A resident of Los Gatos, Calif., he was a trial attorney for more than 48 years. He enjoyed travelling, skiing, local sport teams, and concerts. He also had a passion for wine and he and his wife created the Loma Prieta Winery in Los Gatos in 2003. Survivors include his wife, Amy, three sons, and a granddaughter.

1975 Richard A. Hankins,

June 3, 2018. After practicing law in the Bay Area for several years, he established his own firm in the 1990s in Modesto, where he practiced family law and criminal law. He was a passionate fan of baseball and football. Survivors include his son, his sister, and a niece. Randolph “Randy” Leong, Jan. 15, 2018. He practiced law in Honolulu for 42 years, and was also a real estate broker. Survivors include his wife, Sonia, his mother, four sisters, and three sons.

1976 Sherry Teachnor, Oct. 22, 2017. After law school, she was national