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Lit UpBrilliant new law center reflects contemporary approach to education.
Baltimore LawFall 2013
The magazine of the University of Baltimore School of Law
VoL. 1, No. 1
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| 2 | Baltimore Law
y first year at the University of Baltimore
School of Law has been a fascinating
whirlwind of activity and change. I’ve
loved every minute of it and learned a
lot about this great school.
The most unmistakable sign of change at UB
is the new John and Frances Angelos Law Center,
a sunlit, state-of-the-art, sustainable marvel of
design. Though the building is 12 stories tall and
clad in white aluminum and glass, it is no ivory
tower in the traditional sense.
Nor is there any stodginess in the law school’s
approach to teaching law at a time when the legal
profession is evolving dramatically. The challenges
are daunting, but UB is well-positioned to meet
those challenges, and I’m proud to be a part of that
endeavor. After 30 years of legal practice in the
public and private sectors, I wanted an opportunity
to help prepare the next generation of lawyers.
And I wanted to do that at a school that doesn’t
simply adjust to changes in the marketplace but
anticipates and helps to shape them.
These aren’t small goals, but they’re necessary.
To do well by students, and by the communities
M
welcomeFrom the Dean Ronald Weich
we serve, law schools today must partner with other
disciplines. They must equip students to work with
the information technology that is transforming the
profession. They must give students the chance
to gain real-world lawyering experience before
graduation. Above all, law schools must be willing to
adjust course and remain nimble as the profession is
buffeted by change.
It’s been a year of hard work but also a year of
celebration. Guests who helped open our new law
center included Vice President Joe Biden and U.S.
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, as well as Gov.
Martin O’Malley, Chief Judge Robert Bell and scores
of other Maryland leaders. Many other prominent
legal figures, including my former boss, U.S. Attorney
General Eric Holder, visited Baltimore during the year
to speak to UB students.
We are delighted to share these and other exciting
developments with you in this first issue of Baltimore
Law. I hope this publication makes you as proud to
be a part of the UB community as I am.
Ronald Weich
Dean
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10LIT UP The new John and Frances Angelos Law Center reflects and highlights the modern education offered within.
18On the Map Professor Colin Starger plots the genealogy of U.S. Supreme Court decisions.
14Ronald Weich didn’t come up the academic pipeline. Legal experts call him just right for the job.
fall 2013
in this issue:
departments
Legal Briefs ........................... 04
Annual Giving Report ............ 20
Notes ................................... 26
In Closing ............................. 32The Unconventional Dean
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legalbriefs
UB School of Law Joins Forces With KIND to Help Young Immigrants
ere’s the scene: A small boy
—in his Sunday best and
clearly nervous—sits in a
large, formal chamber in Baltimore. All
around him, other youngsters, some as
young as 2 or 3, are standing, sitting, talking, moping. All
of them wear an expression that seems to ask: When will
this be over? What am I doing here?
The children, who are awaiting a hearing in the federal
courthouse, have been apprehended by the Department
of Homeland Security and are facing deportation.
According to KIND—Kids In Need of Defense—23,000
children will arrive alone in the United States in 2013.
The national nonprofit, founded by actress and UNHCR
special envoy AngelinA Jolie and the Microsoft Corp.,
provides pro bono legal services to unaccompanied refu-
gee and immigrant children in the United States. In June,
UB became the first law school in the nation to house
KIND, which works with the Immigrant Rights Clinic. (The
group has had an office in Baltimore since 2009.)
The problem of children left to fend for themselves is
becoming epidemic. According to U.S. Border Control
statistics, nearly 25,000 unaccompanied children were
apprehended in fiscal year 2012—up from about 8,000
in FY 2008. Most came from Central America, KIND says.
The children leave home because of violence, poverty,
political turmoil, abandonment and other factors.
Most of the children can’t comprehend the legal proce-
dures they face and the options open to them, advocates
say. And they do have options: roughly 40 percent of
unaccompanied minors detained in federal shelters were
eligible for some form of legal status, a 2012 report by
the Vera Institute of Justice in New York said.
But to fight for legal status—to fight being returned to
the places they fled—these children need lawyers. More
H than half of the unaccompanied minors detained do not
have legal representation, according to KIND.
Back to our scene: An important extra sits next to the
boy—a UB law student who is determined to persuade a
judge to let the child remain in the United States.
The student, too, is nervous. A lot is on the line. But
University of Baltimore law clinic leaders say that in most
such cases, the government, the judge and the other
parties involved find a way for the child to stay.
“Generally, we find that the government does not want
to just send kids back over the border without knowing
what’s going to happen to them,” said Professor elizA-beth Keyes, director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic, or
IRC. “The technical standard is that the child is abused,
abandoned or neglected. Once that is established and
the child has legal status, we all work together to find a
solution.”
liz shields, supervising attorney for pro bono programs
for KIND in Baltimore, said she hoped the nonprofit could
serve as an example of a “different kind of law practice”
that offers clinical and nonclinical students the chance to
gain practical experience by helping pro bono attorneys.
She also said she enjoyed working with the clinic.
“I love placing cases with the IRC because rather than
wanting one of the ‘neatest’ or most straightforward
cases, the IRC welcomes the most difficult and challeng-
ing cases which allow for nuanced arguments, often
contain ‘bad’ facts and ultimately provide an opportunity
for the students to create new legal arguments,” Shields
said. “Being located next door to the IRC means they are
the first folks I think of when a new case comes through
the door.”
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A Sampling of News from the Centersn The sAyrA And neil Meyerhoff Center for fAMilies, Children And the Courts received several grants
in 2013 to support its Truancy Court
Program: $83,751 from the Department
of Family Administration’s Special
Projects Grant Program of the Maryland
Judiciary and $15,000 from the Zanvyl
and Isabelle Krieger Fund. In late 2012,
CFCC received a $300,000 grant from
AT&T, as well as $60,000 from the
Charles Crane Family Foundation. The
fifth Urban Child Symposium, “A Holis-
tic Approach to the Urban Child’s Trau-
ma: From the Eyes of the Beholder,”
attracted 200 people on April 4. rAin Pryor—singer, actress, producer and
daughter of the comedian riChArd Pryor—gave the keynote address.
n The School of Law and the Center for internAtionAl And CoMPArA-tive lAw were the hosts May 21 to 23
to the annual meeting of the Euro-
pean-American Consortium for Legal
Education and its academic colloqui-
um on “Multi-level-governance and
Federalism.” On April 3, Anne Peters,
professor at the University of Basel and
president of the European Society of
International Law, gave the University
of Baltimore Stead Lecture, “Transpar-
ency in International Law.” The 2012
Stead Lecture, “Drones, Kill Lists and
American Values,” was presented on
Nov. 13 by sCott shAne, a national se-
curity reporter for The New York Times.
n The Sixth Annual Feminist Legal
Theory Conference, sponsored by the
Center on APPlied feMinisM, was
held March 7 and 8. sen. AMy Klobu-ChAr, a Democrat from Minnesota and
Professor John Bessler’s wife, gave
the keynote address.
Above: The 2013 Baltimore Scholars (from left): Joshua Dowuona (Morgan State University), Chanel White (Coppin State University), T. Feweh Dempster (Coppin State University), Sandy Sellman (Bowie State University, now a 1L at UB), Glenn George (Morgan State University), Antioneya Hall (Bowie State University), Matthew Bradford (Morgan State University, now a 1L at UB) and Melody Clark (Bowie State University).
New Fannie Angelos Program: Encouraging Diversity in the Law
$1 million gift from Peter Angelos, ll.b. ’61, has permitted the expansion
of the School of Law’s Baltimore Scholars program, an intensive, one-on-
one approach to enhancing diversity in legal education and in the wider
legal community.
The five-year-old program has been renamed the Fannie Angelos Program for Aca-
demic Excellence after Angelos’ sister, a 1951 UB School of Law graduate.
The program, directed by Professors MiChAel higginbothAM and MiChAel Meyerson and administered by lenorA giles, is a partnership with Maryland’s four
historically black colleges and universities, or HBCUs: Bowie State University, Coppin
State University, Morgan State University and the University of Maryland Eastern
Shore. The program has helped 36 HBCU students enter law school.
Each year, eight undergraduate HBCU juniors and seniors are chosen as Baltimore
Scholars to take part in a two-week “boot camp,” in which they attend classes, read
cases and write assignments for review by law school faculty. The scholars also meet
with law students, visit law firms and speak with lawyers and judges.
The scholars then enroll in a semester-long Princeton Review LSAT preparation class
paid for by the University of Baltimore School of Law. Each scholar is assigned a law
faculty adviser and a law student mentor.
The scholars are not required to attend law school at the University of Baltimore,
but those who complete the program successfully, maintain a cumulative undergrad-
uate grade point average of 3.5 and score 152 or higher on the LSAT receive a full,
three-year scholarship to the University of Baltimore School of Law.
This year, four scholars attend the UB School of Law on full, three-year scholarships.
A second part of the program provides an LSAT preparation class to more students.
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legalbriefs
House Democratic Leader Nancy pelosi (D-Calif.), a Baltimore native, delivered the School of Law’s commencement address on May 20, 2013. Here are excerpts:
Today, you graduate at a time when public service is not
only commendable, it is essential; when our common values
of fairness and equality must not only be restated, but they
must be strengthened. What we need now is the courage—
your courage—to face, confront and overcome some of the
challenges of our time, the challenges to our democracy. […]
[T]he challenges that we face today … threaten the middle
class and we must strengthen it, as I keep saying, in keeping
the American Dream alive. We must honor the spirit of the
great motto of this university, it’s fabulous: “Knowledge that
works.” … Right now, the doors of opportunity are closed to
many in our society. We must restore confidence in our econ-
omy, this is one of our challenges—to restore confidence in
our economy by creating good-paying jobs for our workers, by
making it in America and reigniting the American Dream.
We must address this challenge, but I think it’s important for
us to recognize that it is the issue of income disparity. We must
close the gaping hole—40 years ago, those who measure
such things determined that the average CEO ... made about
40 times what the average worker made. ... Today, the
average CEO ... makes about 350 times the average worker.
... Productivity continues to increase, but the workers do not
get the rewards.
So, this is something that we have to address because
income disparity undermines the middle class. … And one
of the ways that we can address the disparity in income is to
address the disparity in education. To make sure that every
person can participate in our country’s prosperity, we must
end disparity in education by supporting our teachers, by
supporting education and by making college more affordable
to many more people. … We must decrease the deficit. But
nothing brings more money to the Treasury than investing in
education. […]
So, it’s up to you to have the courage to stand up for
our values and keep the doors of opportunity open to all.
Throughout our history, from the Bill of Rights to Brown v.
Board of Education to the present, the realization of individ-
ual, political and economic rights has been central to the
strength of our democratic ideals. My charge to you today is
to build on that tradition and to make that legacy your own;
to know that you have the confidence, you have the legal
education … and the moral wherewithal to pursue the work
of justice.
From left: Marie Van Deusen, J.D. ’89; USMD Regent Thomas Slater; UB Provost Joseph Wood; UB President Robert L. Bogomolny; U.S. House of Representatives Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi; and UB School of Law Dean Ronald Weich.
commencement
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JessiCA eMerson, J.d. ’13, already had
a career when she applied to the Univer-
sity of Baltimore School of Law. A social
worker at the Mount Sinai Adolescent
Health Center in New York, Emerson
worked with young survivors of
sex trafficking.
Observing the adolescents and the
staff as they worked with attorneys to
craft and eventually pass the New York
State Safe Harbor Act, which decrimi-
nalizes prostitution for minors, Emerson
had an “aha” moment.
“I realized then the terrific partnership
that law and social work can make and
became inspired to put my social work
skills to similar use,” said Emerson, who
has a master’s degree in social work
from Columbia University.
Emerson jumped into law school—and
extracurricular activities—with vigor. She
served as president of UB Students for
Public Interest, or UBSPI, which raises
money for stipends that allow students
to work for a public-interest organization
over the summer. She was awarded
the U.S. Court of Federal Claims Bar
Association’s Carole Bailey Scholarship,
an award given law students with a
demonstrated commitment to public
service, as well as the University of Balti-
more School of Law’s Samuel I. “Sandy”
Rosenberg public-service scholarship.
Emerson competed for and won a
two-year Equal Justice Works fellowship
at the Women’s Law Center of Maryland,
where she is working to implement a
new Maryland law that allows survivors
of sex trafficking to vacate their prostitu-
tion convictions.
“It is truly my dream job,” Emerson
said. “After three years in law school, I
am finally able to immerse myself in an
issue I have been passionate about for
the better part of a decade.”
Emerson is also developing a training
program for attorneys that will teach
them how to use the new Maryland leg-
islation to aid sex-trafficking survivors.
In return, the lawyers agree to take the
cases on a pro bono basis.
Even though Emerson is a New York
native, she’s committed to doing her
fellowship in Baltimore.
“The public-interest providers in this
community remain as deeply committed
to the integrity and advancement of the
city’s residents as any I’ve ever seen,”
she said.
Emerson said she looks forward to
returning the favors done for her at the
University of Baltimore School of Law:
“The mentoring I received from both
the faculty at UB and the public-interest
community was invaluable to me, and
I can’t wait to be a part of offering that
same support and encouragement to
another student like me.”
03 28Of the region’s nine law schools, UB ranked
third in the percentage of first-time test
takers who passed the Maryland bar in July
2012, behind GWU and Georgetown.
23In 2012, UB ranked 23rd in the
country in the percentage of students
employed at graduation.
The UB School of Law’s clinical program
was ranked 28th in the nation by U.S.
News & World Report for 2014.
bythenumbers
legalbriefs
alumni profile
Jessica Emerson
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“Our laws evolve—they have to evolve to reflect
the will of the American people. They’re going to
continue to evolve.”Vice President Joe Biden, APril 16, 2013
distinguished visitors
legalbriefs
“What is
unclear is whether
[globalization]
will positively or
negatively affect
human rights … for
the bottom billion
of the world’s
population.”HArold HongJu KoH, former stAte dePArtment legAl AdViser, lAngenBerg lecture, mArcH 12, 2013“[The new
law center] is a
modern testament
to that hunger and
thirst for justice
that Marylanders
throughout the
generations have
always had.”goV. mArtin o’mAlley, APril 16, 2013
“[The right to vote]
is not a Democratic
issue. This is not a
Republican issue.
This is not an issue for
Independents. This is
an issue for everyone.”tHomAs e. Perez, tHen-AssistAnt Attorney generAl for tHe u.s. dePArtment of Justice’s ciVil rigHts diVision, JAn. 23, 2013 (Perez is now tHe u.s. secretAry of lABor)
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“The foundation of this democratic republic is the
rule of law—the most fragile aspect of our system.”cHief Judge roBert m. Bell, APril 30, 2013 (Bell retired in July)
“A society is only as good as its lawyers, and its lawyers are only as good as its law schools.”u.s. suPreme court Justice elenA KAgAn, APril 30, 2013
“[A]ll of you will be called upon to fulfill
the ideal that has always been at the center
of your legal education and the heart of your
chosen profession: not merely to serve clients
or win cases, but to do justice.”u.s. Attorney generAl eric Holder, noV. 8, 2012
“Laws need to be as sophisticated as the people breaking them.”sen. Amy KloBucHAr (d-minn.), mArcH 8, 2013
legalbriefs
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UB’s brilliant new law center is a 3-D metaphor
for the contemporary education offered inside
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| 12 | Baltimore Law
he new John and Frances
Angelos Law Center at
the University of Balti-
more is an ivory tower
all right—it’s white and
12 stories tall—but it
bears no resemblance
to the fusty academy of the popular
imagination.
It might bear no resemblance to any
building you’ve ever seen.
A juxtaposition of cubes, the school
fills the compact site of a former parking
lot at the corner of Mount Royal Avenue
and North Charles Street in midtown
Baltimore. From a distance the build-
ing’s white-and-black checkerboard
façade makes it look like a monochrome
Rubik’s Cube, but up close the structure
is more dazzling than minimalist.
In the lobby, strings of confetti-like
LED lights lead the eye up through
an atrium that runs the full height of
the building like a stalk. The open
core is crisscrossed by catwalks and
free-standing stairs that link the two,
asymmetric sides of the building.
The dominant materials are glass,
concrete and blond wood, set off by
shots of lime, yellow and orange on
walls, floors and furniture.
But it’s the use of glass that most
characterizes the new law school. Class-
room and office doors and walls are
see-through. So are the front elevators.
Even the dean’s office is transparent.
The building is an open book.
With cutting-edge technologies for
heating and cooling and a system to
capture and reuse rainwater, it’s also
a highly sophisticated structure that is
expected to earn LEED Platinum status
from the U.S. Green Building Council.
No Powdered WigsGerman architect Stefan Behnisch,
who won an international design com-
petition to land the job, said University
of Baltimore President Robert L. Bogo-
molny was “looking for something to
give students a feeling that the future
is different, the future is changing”—
and that the future is in their hands to
create. (Chancell0r William E. “Brit”
Kirwan lauded the president’s efforts,
saying he thinks of the new building as
“the house that Bob built.”)
Above all, Behnisch said in an inter-
view, the University of Baltimore did not
want a law center that was “stuffy like
the British lawyers with their hairdo.”
School of Law Dean Ronald Weich
finds the new building anything but
stuffy or staid, and says its design
is an apt metaphor for the rigorous,
practical and modern legal education
provided by the law school.
“I saw it the first time I toured the
building,” Weich said in a December
2012 interview in The BuildUp, a uni-
versity newsletter that chronicled the
construction of the law center. “This
is more than an innovative, dramatic
design—it’s also a symbol of legal ed-
ucation in the 21st century. In fact, it’s
a reflection of law itself, creating order
out of complexity.”
Weich added that there was “a
statement” in the use of concrete
and glass: “We teach our students
that law is about real people and live
problems. There’s a grittiness to the
building that’s going to bring a lot of
energy and creative thinking to our
whole community.”
Behnisch, whose practice is based
in Stuttgart, Germany, with offices
in Munich and Boston, is the son of
prominent postwar German architect
Günter Behnisch. Behnisch père reject-
ed authoritarian Nazi architecture and
sought to counteract its pomposity
and heaviness by creating structures
stripped down to their essential
elements, according to architect and
commentator Klaus Philipsen.
Stefan Behnisch, too, seeks this
“lightness of being” in his build-
ings, wrote Philipsen of Baltimore’s
ArchPlan Inc. in a blog post. With wide
expanses of glass, free-floating stair-
ways, thin tubular railings and bright
colors, as well as unpainted materials
and exposed ductwork, Behnisch’s
creations are open and cheerful—but
they are more than that.
In a 2011 interview with the World
Intellectual Property Organization
magazine, Behnisch said he sought
to bring people together with his
he John and Frances Angelos Law Center, at the corner
of North Charles Street and Mount Royal Avenue, is named
after the parents of School of Law alumnus Peter Ange-los, LL.B. '61, who donated $15 million to the project. UB raised
a total of $22 million in private funding for the building, which
cost $119 million. Here are some particulars about the law
center, for which ground was broken on Aug. 26, 2010:
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“It’s time for law to be innovative,”
she said.
‘The Best Of Disinfectants’
Weich recalled the words of former
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis D.
Brandeis, who remarked that sunlight
“is said to be the best of disinfec-
tants.”
“Like Brandeis, I like transparency,”
Weich said in the newsletter interview.
“I want people to know what’s going on
in the law and in our school.”
Continued Weich: “The building is
undoubtedly complex. It’s multifacet-
ed and multidirectional. But it’s also
systematic and intentional, and to me
that’s a symbol of how the law brings
order to our chaotic lives. The fact that
it’s also a highly sustainable building
shows that we can leverage a measure
of control over our environment. I think
that’s just inspired.”
Professor William Hubbard, who
teaches intellectual property law, said
that the school’s design was indeed
inspirational—and that it reminds stu-
dents and faculty of why they went into
law in the first place.
“Sometimes claiming physical
spaces can affect the activity within [is]
a concept that is given lip service,” he
said. “But here I think it’s true.”
Charles Cohen contributed reporting to this article.
designs. (Behnisch designed an exten-
sion of the group’s Geneva, Switzer-
land, headquarters.)
“I like creating spaces where people
can work and live together; where they
can communicate, interact and work
in an interdisciplinary way,” Behnisch
said. “Such buildings have a great
impact on our society, and designing
them is a great honor.”
At the law center, students study at
counters overlooking the atrium, or
sit and talk together in the clusters of
colorful upholstered chairs scattered
throughout the building. Faculty, staff
and students mingle in the tangle of
said. “We can make sure that our law
graduates are prepared to contribute
to the tectonic shifts we’re seeing in
the global economy and in our national
institutions. Or we can marginalize
ourselves by sticking to old beliefs and
old ways of doing things.”
So far, the building has earned rave
reviews from the people who use it.
Professors said the striking design had
improved morale.
“It’s not just aesthetics,” said Robert
Rubinson, director of clinical educa-
tion. “It’s how students feel about
their learning experience. I think the
building clearly enhances that.
n 12 stories
n 192,000 square feet
n 15 classrooms
n 29 large- and small-group study spaces
n 32,000-square-foot library
n 300-seat moot courtroom
n Green roofs and terraces with plantings and trees
n Cutting-edge technologies for heating and cooling
n Central atrium featuring natural light, greenery and areas for contemplation and collaboration
n Indoor and outdoor water features
n Rainwater capture and reuse
“the university of baltimore did not want a law center that was “stuffy like the british lawyers with their hairdo.” Architect stefan behnisch
catwalks and stairs, and co-workers
wave to each other through glass walls
and doors.
Weich, who said buildings should
“facilitate” the work of the people who
use them, said in the BuildUp article
that the law center’s design represent-
ed a new way of thinking about the law
and legal education.
“We face a stark choice,” Weich
“There is a rush of excitement when
you walk into a building and it makes
you feel good about yourself and what
you are doing. You are more open to
learning.”
Professor Barbara White, who teach-
es business law, said the building was
a reminder that the legal profession is
changing and that it’s time legal educa-
tion changed with it.
By hope Keller
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Dean Ronald Weich Unconventional candidate reflects after a year
By Joe Surkiewicz
he view from atop the University of
Baltimore School of Law’s gleaming
new building encompasses some of
Baltimore’s major arteries: Charles
and St. Paul streets, Interstate 83,
Mount Royal Avenue. Across the highway is Penn-
sylvania Station.
“From the 12th floor, looking out across Balti-
more, you realize where you are,” said Dean Ronald
Weich. “It’s the proverbial crossroads.”
The law school sits at a metaphorical crossroads
as well. With the legal profession confronting a
sharply straitened marketplace, legal education
is facing unprecedented challenges. Applications
are down and class sizes are shrinking at law
schools across the nation. Newspaper articles raise
the specter of law schools closing and graduates
reduced to working at Starbucks because they can’t
find jobs as attorneys.
Into this breach comes Weich. At 53, he has
served multiple stints on Capitol Hill, advising
some of Washington’s most powerful politicians,
and has also spent time in private practice. Until
last year, the one area he hadn’t worked in was
academia.
He’s perfect for the dean’s job, those who know
him say.
“I know the challenges law schools are facing,”
said U.S. District Court Judge James K. Bredar, who
met Weich shortly after they both graduated from
Yale Law School. “UB Law couldn’t have found a
better person to lead it.”
Weich, Bredar said, is “incredibly talented with
people and intelligent about relationships. He can
figure out how to make a deal happen and has a
talent to make people comfortable. He’s disarming,
very funny, quite sharp, engaging, energetic and
creative.”
It is Weich’s unconventionality that makes him the
right person to lead the law school now, said Bredar,
who serves on the U.S. District Court for the District
of Maryland, Northern Division in Baltimore.
“[He’s] what the school requires at this point,”
Bredar said, citing Weich’s stature in Washington.
“UB has two assets other schools would like to
have: an extraordinary physical plant and a vision-
ary new leader with a fresh perspective. Ron is a
uniquely gifted guy who will sort out those chal-
lenges.”
Weich acknowledged that the traditional model
for a law dean is a law professor who’s worked
his or her way up to the top spot.
“There’s a growing recognition that the
job isn’t about teaching,” said Weich,
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challenges facing the institution.
“If there’s ever been a low point in
law schools, this is it,” Better said.
“But he saw it as an opportunity to
make a difference. For Ron, this is the
time to do this—a special opportunity
to make a difference.”
A year after he started, Weich has
settled into his corner office in the
brand-new John and Frances Angelos
Law Center and into the job.
“They were looking for something
different—and that’s me,” he said with
a laugh. “The problems facing UB Law
are varied. But the situation isn’t dire—
or as bad as [it is at] other law schools
around the country.”
For one thing, the school is on solid
financial footing.
“State funding has remained level,”
Weich said. “Other states have seen
significant funding cuts.”
One of his first decisions was to
shrink the class of 2013 by 50 students,
or by roughly 15 percent.
“The class will have a better educa-
tional experience and there will be less
competition for [students] when they
enter the job market,” Weich said. “It’s
a sensible reaction. We also won’t be
digging deeper into a smaller applicant
pool, which means we’ll get people
Weich, Himeles said, is “[the most]
humble guy you could ever meet—he’s
just a regular guy.”
Himeles said the dean is also a prag-
matist.
“He’s a leader who people want to
follow and he gets things done in a way
that doesn’t ruffle feathers,” Himeles
said. “He just inspires people.”
And he seems to like them too.
Himeles recalled that shortly after
Weich became dean the two attended a
game at Camden Yards.
“I was chatting with Ron, asking him
how things were going,” Himeles said.
“A guy sitting in front of us in the stands
turned around and asked Ron if he was
the new dean. The guy had just gradu-
ated. Ron really engaged with him and
asked him to stop by his office.”
Another Weich trait is knowing his
own mind.
Herbert Better, who also worked
with Weich at Zuckerman Spaeder, said
Weich called him last year to discuss
the UB job offer.
“I said, ‘Do you really want to do
this?’” Better recalled. “His answer was
‘yes.’ It was clear to me he was really se-
rious—that he had thought about it and
viewed it as a tremendous opportunity.”
Better said Weich fully grasped the
seated in his light-filled, seventh-floor
office. “It’s about representing the
university in these different times,
presenting its case to the applicants,
the donors, the administration and the
faculty.”
He listed some of the political tal-
ents he learned over his 30-year career
in the public and private sectors:
building consensus, forging compro-
mise and holding the attention of an
audience.
“So far, I’ve found all these skills
transferable,” he said.
Before becoming dean at UB in July
2012, Weich served as the assistant
attorney general for legislative affairs
in the U.S. Department of Justice, a
position to which he was appointed by
President Barack Obama in 2009.
“It’s a very high position at the DOJ,
with very challenging and complicated
work,” said Judith C. Appelbaum, who
met Weich when they both worked for
Sen. Edward Kennedy and who later
served as one of Weich’s deputies at
the Justice Department.
“He manages difficult situations
well,” continued Appelbaum, now a
visiting professor of law and the interim
director of the Federal Legislation and
Administrative Clinic at the George-
town University Law Center. “He has a
set of values that transfers anyplace.
He understands competing interests.
He keeps people motivated and satis-
fied. It was a brilliant selection by UB.”
Martin Himeles, managing partner at
Zuckerman Spaeder’s Baltimore office,
got to know Weich when the latter
worked at the law firm’s Washington
office in the 1990s after serving as
chief counsel to Sen. Kennedy.
Dean Ronald Weich with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder at the University of Baltimore School of Law in November 2012.
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who will succeed.”
Looking ahead, Weich said that the
School of Law will make sure students
get hands-on, practical experience,
especially when it comes to technology.
“They need to be sophisticated about
the ways technology is changing every
aspect of law practice, from complex lit-
igation to business transactions. They
need to understand how lawyers solve
problems in the 21st century,” Weich
said. “The new building reflects that.
Of course, our classroom technology
is state-of-the-art. And beyond that,
this may be the most contemporary law
school building in America.”
Weich’s vision for the school
recognizes that UB can serve popu-
lations beyond J.D. students, such as
practicing lawyers who seek spe-
cialized post-graduate training and
foreign-trained lawyers, who can sit
for the bar examination in Maryland,
New York and Washington, D.C., after
receiving an LL.M. degree in the Law of
the United States.
And, with a nod to the nearby railroad
station that puts Capitol Hill less than
an hour away, Weich said he has been
tapping his Washington connections.
“I’ve begun to open some internship
opportunities in D.C.,” he said. “And
I want to work with UB alumni in D.C.
to broaden the availability of jobs and
strengthen UB Law’s stature.”
The law school’s reputation as a place
where students get a solid, practical ed-
ucation is “an important asset,” Weich
said, but he stressed that it doesn’t fully
describe the rigorous academic training
students receive from the school’s
expert faculty.
“We don’t just offer a practical ed-
ucation. We offer an excellent educa-
tion,” Weich said. “It’s not just voca-
tional. It’s also teaching students how
to think and analyze and apply legal
theory.”
But the University of Baltimore will
always keep its eye on the real-world
practice of law, he said.
“That’s why UB Law grads succeed in
n Born in New York City in
1959, raised in the Bronx.
n Attended Bronx High
School of Science
(“despite no aptitude
for science whatsoever,”
Weich says).
n Played a gangster in two
musicals, “Kiss Me Kate”
and “Guys and Dolls,” at
Yale University.
n Began his career in 1983
as an assistant district
a rough job market,” Weich said. “For
example, it’s no accident that our stu-
dents get a disproportionate number
of Maryland judicial clerkships. The
judges know that UB students have the
skills to be effective.”
He noted that the law school seeks to
provide every student an unpaid clerk-
ship after their first year and encour-
ages all to take advantage of hands-on
experience before graduation.
Weich said his first year has gone by
quickly and he’s happy with the team
he assembled to move the law school
forward.
“We’ve got a good group working on
this project,” he said. “We’re feeling
good. It’s a tough time and the job mar-
ket is very tight for graduates. But we’re
so much better positioned than other
law schools to thrive.”
Get to Know Ron Weich
attorney in Manhattan,
where he acquired the
nickname “Dis Con Ron”
for his propensity to let
sympathetic defendants
plead guilty to disorderly
conduct.
n Served as counsel, general
counsel and chief counsel
to Sen. Edward Kennedy
from 1990 to 1997.
n Represented the Oneida
Indian Nation of New York
and the International
Brotherhood of Teamsters,
among other clients, while
in private practice from
1997 to 2004.
n Began work for Senate
Democratic Leader Harry
Reid in 2005 on the same
day Barack Obama
became a senator.
n Completed the New York
City Marathon in 1984
(3 hours, 52 minutes)
and 1985 (4 hours, 21
minutes).
“He can figure out how to make a deal happen and has a talent to make people comfortable. He’s disarming, very funny, quite sharp, engaging, energetic and creative.”
n Married to Julie Stewart,
president of Families
Against Mandatory
Minimums, and father of
Sophie, 13, and Sara, 10.
n Enjoys tennis, running
and touch football.
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er lived abroad from ages 2 to 16, with
eight years in Hong Kong and stays in
Australia, Greece and Malaysia.
He finished high school in north-
ern California, where he continued
developing a passion for computers
conceived in ninth grade.
Enrolling at the University of Cali-
fornia at Los Angeles, he planned to
be a math major but quickly changed
direction.
“It was way too intense,” said Starg-
er, who switched to history and got
involved in competitive debating.
After graduating summa cum laude,
Starger was hired by a California
startup that was developing deriva-
tives-trading software.
“It was an exciting time to work in
Silicon Valley and I was financially
independent right out of college, but at
the end of the day I wasn’t interested in
derivatives,” Starger said.
He soon discovered what he was
interested in: prisons and the pursuit of
litigants will advance many arguments
and cite competing precedents. And
then the court will choose a winner in
the case by choosing one line of prece-
dent over another.”
Then that case itself becomes prece-
dent for future litigants to cite.
“This creates a chain of precedent,”
Starger said. “Opinion A cites Opinion
B, which in turn cites Opinion C, and so
on all the way back to the Constitution.”
The genesis of the mapping project—
which has been subsidized by a Univer-
sity of Baltimore grant and law school
support—was Starger’s research on
dissenting opinions in the high court’s
due-process jurisprudence.
“I wanted to figure out a way to show
how dissents contribute to the devel-
opment of the law and to visually show
it,” Starger said. “I want dissent to be
part of the story.”
Starger, a New York native, took a
circuitous route to Baltimore. His father
was an international banker and Starg-
MColin Starger plots SCOTUS genealogy
on the map
Man has made maps for thousands
of years to help people navigate their
world, the better to understand it.
Some of the earliest maps, on the walls
of France’s Lascaux caves, are dots
representing the stars.
With inventions such as the com-
pass, sextant, telescope and printing
press, maps became more precise and
more widely used. Today, with com-
puters, mapmaking has taken another
gigantic leap forward.
Professor Colin Starger has a carto-
graphic idea of his own: He is mapping
Supreme Court decisions —majority
opinions, dissents and concurrenc-
es—using computer software to plot
relationships that show how various
lines of precedent have evolved.
That is, he’s mapping the arguments
in long-running legal controversies.
“It’s about how Supreme Court
doctrine works,” said Starger, 43,
who joined the UB law faculty in 2010.
“In any Supreme Court controversy,
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justice for innocent prisoners.
His watershed moment came in
1992, when he was arrested during a
demonstration in San Francisco.
The protest was called after the
acquittal of four L.A. police officers
charged with savagely beating black
motorist Rodney King, a 1991 incident
recorded on videotape and widely
viewed around the world.
“The police arrested everyone within
a square block,” Starger said, recalling
the Mission District rally. “I spent two
and a half days in jail and it completely
changed my worldview.”
After being slapped in plastic hand-
cuffs and hustled onto a bus, Starger
and other demonstrators were taken to
the Alameda County jail.
“My first memory of that place is of
the intake,” Starger said. “You had to
take off all metal—earrings and so on.
The punk rocker in the line right in front
of me took about 30 minutes to get all
the studs and rings out of his face.”
A National Lawyers Guild attorney
represented Starger at his arraignment.
“There was no charge, just release,”
said Starger, who recalled that he and
a friend who’d also been arrested were
shipped back across the Bay Bridge to
San Francisco and dropped off near a
freeway.
“The experience was eye-opening,”
Starger said. “I was treated like a crimi-
nal. We were all scum in the eyes of the
authorities. I developed a very strong
suspicion that what I understood of the
world was wildly incomplete, that I had
not glimpsed the whole truth and that I
should try to find out more.”
Said Starger: “If they treated a
middle-class white guy like that, what
about others?”
He set out to investigate, working
with the American Friends Service
Committee and volunteering on prison
visits. After these experiences, Starger
applied to law school.
“I decided to make my money where
my mouth was,” he said.
He got in touch with his high school
friend Darren Kumasawa, a programmer.
“As we went to work I realized it
could work for the Supreme Court and
I saw its potential,” said Starger, who
in his second year at UB received a
provost’s technology grant to develop
the mapping technology for use in the
classroom.
“It mixes the things I love, debate
and rhetoric, drawing connections and
relationships, using computer schemat-
ics and math,” Starger said.
The maps are genealogical, showing
the different lines of argument that led
to a decision. They distill arguments
that can run 30 pages or more and they
clearly locate the controversy.
Practically, the maps help law profes-
sors teach any area of doctrine, Starger
said, adding that appellate advocates
also could use maps to determine the
essence of competing traditions.
Professor Amy Sloan, associate dean
for academic affairs, has used Starger’s
mapping technology.
“As a professor I have to look at
the whole body of law on a particular
subject to see what to emphasize and
deemphasize to help students see the
big picture,” Sloan said. “[The maps]
help me put together a course that will
make sense to students.”
Sloan said being able to follow the
“trail” of jurisprudence visually from
one point to the other allows students
to more easily grasp the development
of doctrine and, moreover, gives them
a look at how U.S. legal institutions
operate.
Starger said creating a doctrinal map
is far from sketching out a kind of legal
Cliff’s Notes.
“It’s not automated,” he said. “It
requires reading and interpreting lines
of authority and then presenting it in a
way that’s nearly instantaneous. It’s a
way to present the basic business
of law.”
Hope Keller contributed reporting to this article.
Starger said he’d sworn never to go
into law, as most of his friends from the
UCLA debating team had done.
“But I was wrong,” he said. “I saw
how incredibly helpful lawyers were
when I was arrested.”
Fast forward: Starger was accepted
at Columbia. After graduating in 2002—
he served as graduation speaker for
his J.D. class—Starger clerked for
Magistrate Judge Michael Dolinger in
the Southern District of New York and
in 2003 was hired as a staff attorney by
the Innocence Project at the Cardozo
School of Law.
“It was a phenomenal job,” said
Starger, who was the lead counsel on
four DNA exonerations, including one
off Oklahoma’s death row.
Starger then moved on to the Law-
yering Program at New York University,
where he taught legal research, writing
and lawyering skills to first-year stu-
dents. Doing so helped him make the
transition from practice to academia.
“The academic thing made sense
and deepened my study of rhetoric—
what persuades, which goes back to
Aristotle,” he said.
It was at this point that he began
conceiving a way to represent doctrinal
thought visually.
“The computer programmer side of
me kicked in,” Starger said. “I could
picture how the software could work.”
To see Professor Colin Starger’s SCOTUS maps, visit
law.ubalt.edu/stargermaps
By Joe Surkiewicz
This list represents all donors who have given to the School of Law and School of Law alumni who have given to any fund at the University of Baltimore in fiscal year 2013 (July 1, 2012-June 30, 2013). We greatly appreciate each gift given in support of the School of Law and the University of Baltimore, and we have made every effort to ensure the accuracy of this listing. Please notify Laurie TerBeek, director of external relations, of any inaccuracies or omissions by contacting her at 410.837.4358 or at [email protected]. We regret any errors.
$1,000,000 or morePeter G. Angelos, LL.B. ’61
The Peter and Georgia Angelos Foundation, Inc.
$500,000 - $999,999Lillian P. Hackerman and Willard Hackerman
Whiting-Turner Contracting Co.
$250,000 - $499,999AT&T Inc.
$100,000 - $249,000DLA Piper US LLP
Essex Community Connection, Inc.
Estate of Morton L. Kemper,** J.D. ’35
Estate of Michael E. Loney,** J.D. ’65
Leonard E. Moodispaw, J.D. ’77
$50,000 - $99,999THE ASSOCIATED: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore
Barry M. Chasen, J.D. ’80, and Lyn E. Chasen
The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region
Duane Morris, LLP
Hyatt & Weber, P.A.
Alan J. Hyatt, J.D. ’78
William F. Kiniry, Jr., J.D. ’76
Sayra Wells Meyerhoff, J.D. ’78 , M.S. ’04, and Neil Meyerhoff
PNC Bank Corp.
Marie Van Deusen, J.D. ’89
$25,000 - $49,999Kenneth O. Hassan, J.D. ’74
Zanvyl & Isabelle Krieger Fund, Inc.
Legg Law Firm, LLC
Heidi L. Levine, J.D. ’95
Carol M. McGowan, J.D. ’87
$10,000 - $24,999Anonymous
Geena Asiedu, J.D. ’09 and Kenneth K. Asiedu, M.S. ’92
R. Roland Brockmeyer, J.D. ’64, and Lorraine J. Brockmeyer
Jana Howard Carey, J.D. ’76 and James H. Carey
Cohen, Snyder, Eisenberg & Katzenberg, P.A.
Richard and Rosalee Davison
The Judi & Steven B. Fader Family Foundation
Judith G. Fader, J.D. ’85 and Steven B. Fader, J.D. ’83
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
Michael C. Hodes, J.D. ’75
Stephen Z. Kaufman, J.D. ’69
The Law Offices of Peter G. Angelos
Miles & Stockbridge, P.C.
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Richard and Rosalee C. Davison Foundation, Inc.
The Elizabeth B. and Arthur E. Roswell Foundation
Neil J. Ruther, J.D. ’76
Holly H. Sadeghian, J.D. ’88
Saul Ewing, LLP
James L. Shea
Silverman, Thompson, Slutkin & White
Steven D. Silverman, J.D. ’91
$5,000 - $9,999Association of Corporate Counsel
Barbara A. Babb* and Peter Toran*
H. Dean Bouland, J.D. ’78
Arthur B. Brisker, LL.B. ’69
Ellen Fedder and Joel D. Fedder
Fick & May
Nathaniel C. Fick, Jr., J.D. ’75
Herbert S. Garten, A.B.A. ’53
The Herbert N. Gundersheimer Foundation, Inc.
Marianne Schmitt Hellauer, J.D. ’80 and Robert E. Hellauer, J.D. ’80
Hermina Law Group
George W. Hermina, J.D. ’90
Gerald W. Kelly, Jr., J.D. ’96
Kevin M. Loney
Kathleen Howard Meredith, B.A. ’76 , J.D. ’78
Alice A. Proietti and Joseph T. Proietti, J.D. ’06
Frances S. Sellers and Mortimer N. S. Sellers*
William Roger Truitt, J.D. ’82
Venable LLP
The Walton Family Foundation, Inc.
Bonnie L. Warnken, J.D. ’90 and Byron L. Warnken,* J.D. ’77
William E. Cross Foundation, Inc.
$2,500 - $4,999Anonymous
Bradley W. Bloodworth, J.D. ’00
Clifton L. Brown, Jr., J.D. ’78
Phillip J. Closius*
annual giving report
he University of Baltimore School of Law has a very new look. if you haven’t yet had the opportunity to explore our light-filled halls, i hope you can vis-it soon. But, while our facility is modern and cut-
ting-edge, our foundation has remained the same—we are still the law school that offers endless opportunities to our students, equip-ping them with all the tools they need to succeed.
our alums give for many different reasons but, at the core of it all, they give because graduation is not an ending but a beginning. A UB diploma is an invaluable entrée to the legal community in which members of the UB family offer each other a career-long network of mentorship and support.
Thank you for enabling us to do what we do best—prepare our students to hit the ground running. And, while our doors may look a bit snazzier than they did when you graduated, thank you also for continuing to welcome our graduates with open arms when they walk out of them.
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“Being a lawyer, we would learn, was to embark on a lifelong series of daily challenges, entrusted with finding solutions that would make a difference in the life of someone willing to put those challenges in your hands. UB uncovered the practical side of law, in an almost clinical approach, underscoring the need to focus attention on the single, exclusive importance of each and every case in turn.”
– Nathaniel C. Fick Jr., J.D. ’75
“Supporting UB goes without saying. … The University of Baltimore is a network and a community that continues to ‘have your back’ throughout your entire career. Giving back to my UB community is like helping family.”
– Isabel M. Cumming, J.D. ’93
John T. Faulkingham, J.D. ’95 , M.B.A. ’95
Michele Gilligan*
Louis E. Gitomer, J.D. ’76
Estate of Albert P. Halluin,** J.D. ’69
Charles F. Harenza
Gilbert A. Holmes*
Kaplan Bar Review
Maryland Workers’ Compensation Education Association, Inc.
Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.
James P. Nolan, J.D. ’74
Pfizer Foundation Matching Gifts Program
Renee Sanchez
Paul L. Saval, J.D. ’80
Victoria Schultz,* J.D. ’89
Thomas H. Sheppard, II, J.D. ’08
Kerry D. Staton
Harry C. Storm, J.D. ’79
Evan K. Thalenberg, J.D. ’85
James A. Vidmar, Jr., J.D. ’80
Joan M. Worthington, B.S. ’84, M.B.A. ’91 and John B. Bartkowiak, Jr., J.D. ’73
$1,000 - $2,499The Ades Family Foundation, Inc.
Renée Bronfein Ades, B.S. ’74 , J.D. ’00
Hallie M. Ambler, J.D. ’96 and Bruce M. Ambler, J.D. ’96
John W. and Mary A. Beckley, J.D. ’74
Alan J. Belsky, B.A. ’87 , J.D. ’91
Bruce D. Block, J.D. ’80
W. Kennedy Boone, III, J.D. ’67
Brown, Goldstein, Levy, LLP
Fred B. Brown*
Mary B. Buonanno, J.D. ’84
Jana C. Burch, J.D. ’87 and Richard C. Burch, J.D. ’76
Carol S. Carton and Allen M. Carton
George M. Church, M.B.A. ’75 , J.D. ’77
Frank E. Cicone, LL.B. ’56
Coleen S. Clemente, J.D. ’83
Betty W. Cohen
Harry Cohen
John A. Currier, J.D. ’78
Timothy A. Dachille, J.D. ’85
G. Thomas Daugherty, J.D. ’76
James M. Di Stefano, J.D. ’86
Thomas Donohue, J.D. ’77
Garrett G. Epps*
Robert P. Fitzsimmons, J.D. ’78
Wendy C. Gerzog*
Audrey A. Gilbert
Michele E. Gilman*
Stuart M. Goldberg, B.A. ’70, J.D. ’74
Leigh S. Goodmark*
Toni-Junell J. Herbert, J.D. ’90
Holmes & O’Connor, P.A.
Katherine A. Holmes, B.A. ’84 , J.D. ’88 and L. Clifton O’Connor, J.D. ’01
Leeann K. Kelly-Judd, J.D. ’95
Mary-Margaret Latchford, B.S. ’68 and Paul C. Latchford, J.D. ’73
Fran Lessans and Martin B. Lessans, J.D. ’68
Martin B. Lessans, J.D. ’68
Dana M. Levitz, J.D. ’73
Jack Lynch*
Barbara A. Maher , J.D. ’68 and James F. Maher, J.D. ’68
Darren M. Margolis, J.D. ’95
Eileen McCarthy and Ward McCarthy
Rachel T. McGuckian, J.D. ’93
Lois Minderhout
Stephen M. Nickel, J.D. ’01
Elizabeth G. Osterman, J.D. ’85 and Richard J. Osterman, Jr., J.D. ’80
Ronald W. Parker, J.D. ’73
Don J. Pelto, J.D. ’85
Sylvia S. Powell, J.D. ’02 and Barry W. Powell, M.P.A. ’95 , J.D. ’03
Walter T. Price, Jr., J.D. ’69
Charles A. Rees*
Shemer Bar Review, LLC
Leon Snead, J.D. ’69
Deborah G. Spector, J.D. ’91 and Frank W. Spector, J.D. ’91
Sports Tickets Unlimited
Paul S. Sugar, J.D. ’75
T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.
Carolyn H. Thaler, J.D. ’74 and David S. Thaler
Ernestine Thomas, B.A. ’89 and Basil A. Thomas, LL.B. ’35
Charles Tiefer*
Will Tress*
Ronald H. Weich*
Robin Z. Weyand, J.D. ’96
Barbara Ann White*
William K. Wilburn, J.D. ’77
WKWilburn, P.C.
WS Investments Trust
$500 - $999Betty S. Adams, J.D. ’90
Frances A. Apostolo, J.D. ’89
Thomas L. Atkins, J.D. ’75
Damon K. Bernstein, J.D. ’79
John Bessler*
Ira A. Burnim and Elizabeth J. Samuels*
Charles G. Byrd, Jr., J.D. ’87
John F. Calabrese, J.D. ’69
Carl C. Coe, Jr., J.D. ’82
Maureen B. Cohon, B.A. ’79 , J.D. ’82
Colgate Investment
Continental Title Group
Royal W. Craig, J.D. ’89 , M.B.A. ’89
Gerard F. Devlin, J.D. ’69
Gregory Dolin*
Paul J. Duffy, J.D. ’92
Sarah K. Duran, J.D. ’05
Eric B. Easton*
James F. Farmer, J.D. ’78
Peter S. Fayne, J.D. ’90
Nadia J. Firozvi, J.D. ’05
Sloane L. Fish, J.D. ’06
H. David Gann,** LL.B. ’51
Helaine S. Gann
Ann K. Goodman, J.D. ’94
Linda M. Googins, J.D. ’93
Francis J. Gorman
John F. Gossart, Jr., J.D. ’74
Patricia K. Hammar, J.D. ’99
Hassan, Hassan & Tuchman, P.A.
Michael J. Hayes*
Katy Helfrich
James T. Hemelt, J.D. ’84
David H. Hugel, J.D. ’73 , M.S. ’77
Natalie M. Hynum
Mary J. Kaltenbach, J.D. ’53
Michael L. Kerley, LL.B. ’68
Elizabeth Keyes*
Parag Khandhar*
Daniel B. King, J.D. ’79
Howard S. Klein, J.D. ’83
Marcia S. Kupferberg, J.D. ’83
Carmela S. Lane and Stephen C. Lane
James V. Lane, J.D. ’73
Jaime Lee*
Daniel E. Liebfeld, LL.B. ’63
Alexandra A. McKeown, J.D. ’06
Lynn McLain*
Margaret A. Mead, J.D. ’89
Linda S. Mericle, J.D. ’91
Michael Hodes, LLC
John O. Mitchell, III, B.S. ’63, J.D. ’70
Bryan G. Moorhouse, J.D. ’77
Judith B. Moran, J.D. ’95 and Edmond J. Moran, Jr.
Scott A. Morrison, J.D. ’90
James W. Motsay, J.D. ’81
Jane C. Murphy*
Odeana R. Neal*
Lois M. Neilson and Vernon L. Neilson, LL.B. ’51
James J. Nolan, Jr., J.D. ’77
Lisa Stello O’Brien, J.D. ’85
Michael P. O’Day, J.D. ’01
Tracey N. Pate, J.D. ’91 and Michael T. Pate, J.D. ’91
John R. Penhallegon, J.D. ’79
Roger L. Pickens, J.D. ’75
Deborah L. Potter
Susan T. Preston, J.D. ’79
Mary Ragsdale
Isabel Crystal Reamer Rappaport, J.D. ’88
Oscar Renda
Margot E. Rogerson
John R. Rush, J.D. ’75
Howard M. Schoenfeld, LL.B. ’66
Randall L. Scott, J.D. ’80
Amy E. Sloan*
Susan T. Preston, J.D. ’79 and Craig R. Smith
State Farm Insurance Companies
Gail M. Stern, J.D. ’79
Linda S. Stone and Donald H. Stone*
Donna M. D. Thomas, J.D. ’93
Harry G. Tsitouris, **J.D. ’70
Angela M. Vallario,* J.D. ’91
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Allan L. Zalesky, J.D. ’66
Michael V. Ziccardi, J.D. ’08
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John C. M. Angelos, J.D. ’90
Herbert J. Arnold, Jr., LL.B. ’55
Louis A. Becker, III, J.D. ’70
Lisa A. Bernstein, J.D. ’99
Charles M. Blomquist, J.D. ’00
Michael C. Blum, J.D. ’96
Roland R. Bounds, J.D. ’53
Richard W. Bourne*
Catherine A. Bowers, M.A. ’87, J.D. ’00
Cathleen N. Brockmeyer, J.D. ’84
Jean R. Buchen, J.D. ’77
Jill M. Bussey, J.D. ’03
William P. Caruthers, J.D. ’78
L. Anthony Casalena
Bernard P. Codd, J.D. ’96
Michelle W. Cole, J.D. ’98 and William H. Cole, IV,* M.A. ’96
Robert D. Cole, Jr., J.D. ’92
Christopher E. Collins, J.D. ’03
Andrew C. Cooper, J.D. ’82
Francina J. Critzman, B.A. ’87 , J.D. ’89
David Daneman, J.D. ’89
Karen E. H. Davidson, J.D. ’06
Donna M. Davis, M.S. ’89 and Sean D. Davis, J.D. ’94
Claudia A. Diamond,* J.D. ’95
Amy Dillard*
Michael R. Dodd, J.D. ’10
Richard W. Douglas, J.D. ’76
Norman A. Drezin, J.D. ’74
Michael A. Duff, J.D. ’85
Myrna J. Dunnam, J.D. ’78
Suzette White Eckhaus, J.D. ’83
Lawrence D. Eisen, J.D. ’96
Robert I. Elan, J.D. ’75
Oleg Fastovsky, J.D. ’08
Daniel F. Feeney, J.D. ’83
Nancy S. Forster, J.D. ’84
Donald C. Fry, J.D. ’80
Morris L. Garten, J.D. ’95
Susan M. Gerhart
Jayme Gibbs, J.D. ’83
Veronica M. Gillespie, LL.M. ’98
Emma L. Goerlich
Michael I. Gordon, J.D. ’59
Leo E. Green, Jr., J.D. ’84
Nienke Grossman*
Steven P. Grossman*
Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
Sandra R. Gutman, J.D. ’78
Melodie C. Hahn-Hengerer, J.D. ’02 and Geoffrey G. Hengerer, J.D. ’02
Kevin W. Harp
Robert J. Heitzman, J.D. ’70
Paul R. Herrick, J.D. ’93
Timothy J. Hogan, J.D. ’78
Thomas A. Hollweg, J.D. ’05
William C. Hookham, J.D. ’73
Marshall T. Horman, J.D. ’02
Gregory S. Hrebiniak, J.D. ’75
Jamie B. Insley, J.D. ’78
Cassie Jackson, J.D. ’12*
Cassie Jackson, J.D. ’12* and Vincent P. Jackson, J.D. ’13
Armin Jaeger, III, LL.B. ’60
Gretchen L. Jankowski, J.D. ’94
Michael L. Jennings, J.D. ’86, LL.M. ’94
Brian M. Judge, J.D. ’92 , M.B.A. ’92
Karmen M. Kater-Slezak, J.D. ’91
Allen J. Katz, J.D. ’73
Sandra L. Katz and Laurence M. Katz
J. Mitchell Kearney, J.D. ’88
Larry Keen, J.D. ’02
Dale P. Kelberman, J.D. ’75
Julianne J. Kelly
Kevin K. Kercher, J.D. ’84
Richard Klitzberg, J.D. ’66
Sharon T. Kohler, J.D. ’80
Jules G. Kollar, J.D. ’79
Dionne K. Koller*
Eric A. Kuhl, J.D. ’90
Benjamin Kurtz
Robert Lankin, J.D. ’76
Law Offices of Ronald R. Hogg
J. Michael Lawlor, J.D. ’73
Alan C. Lazerow, J.D. ’10
Eugene M. Lerner, J.D. ’54
Barry F. Levin, J.D. ’84
Matthew Lindsay*
Andrew A. Lioi, LL.M. ’57
Robert M. Masters, J.D. ’90
Stephen M. May, J.D. ’81
Saul McCormick, J.D. ’79
T. Wray McCurdy, J.D. ’84
M. Tracy McPherson, J.D. ’86
Lisa L. Mervis, J.D. ’71
Marilyn B. Miles, B.A. ’72 and Richard L. Miles, J.D. ’73
Thomas Minkin, J.D. ’65
Herbert B. Mittenthal, LL.B. ’66
Thomas A. Murphy, J.D. ’75
Megan D. O’Connor, J.D. ’08
Ann W. Parks, J.D. ’95
Christopher J. Peters*
David A. Plymyer, J.D. ’78
Kenneth A. Porro, J.D. ’87
B. Sean A. Radin, J.D. ’05
James H. Rees, J.D. ’95
Ernest A. Renda
Don E. Richardson, LL.B. ’68
Robert V. Russo Attorney at Law
Ria P. Rochvarg, J.D. ’92 and Arnold Rochvarg*
Robert J. Romadka, LL.B. ’53
Morton J. Rosenberg, J.D. ’67
Robert V. Russo, J.D. ’90
William F. Ryan, Jr., J.D. ’79
Sarah M. Sawyer
Robert J. Schott, B.S. ’63 , J.D. ’66
Suzanne Schwartz
Jennifer R. Scott, J.D. ’05
Charles Shafer*
David C. Sharman, J.D. ’73
Mark A. Simanowith, J.D. ’07
Thomas G. Slater, J.D. ’80
Frederic N. Smalkin*
John J. Sofia, Jr., J.D. ’68
Thomas S. Spencer, J.D. ’79
Zachary J. Stewart
Thomas B. Stone, Jr., J.D. ’76
Andrea R. Marceca, J.D. ’94 and Brian P. Strong, J.D. ’94
Victoria A. Sulerzyski, J.D. ’06
The Law Office of Brad S. Sures
Bradley S. Sures, J.D. ’80
Kathleen M. Sweeney, J.D. ’75
S. Scott Tate, J.D. ’99
David L. Terzian, J.D. ’72
Jefferson L. Triplett, J.D. ’01
William Turc, Sr., J.D. ’69
John Umholtz
Jeffrey M. Voluck, J.D. ’75
Susan B. Watson, J.D. ’76
Robert M. Webb, J.D. ’80
Michael L. Weed, J.D. ’69
Jason F. Weintraub, J.D. ’08
Jeremy B. Wilson, J.D. ’06
Jacqueline Dawson, J.D. ’77 and Steven D. Wyman, J.D. ’77
Derek B. Yarmis, J.D. ’92
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Angela N. Abshier, J.D. ’02
Dale A. Achenbach, J.D. ’87
Anne R. Adoryan
Osasumwen Z. Airhiavbere, J.D. ’09
Jeffrey J. Albrecht, J.D. ’07
Steven A. Allen, J.D. ’75
Fred Allentoff, J.D. ’84
Donald L. Allewalt, Jr., J.D. ’77
Monique D. Almy, J.D. ’87
Shara B. Alpert, J.D. ’95
Alvin Sellman, Attorney-at-Law
Parke E. Americus, J.D. ’67
Youngcheu An, J.D. ’02
Elizabeth Anderson
Robert A. Angelo, J.D. ’73
Michael I. Angert, J.D. ’99
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Richard J. Apley, J.D. ’74
Cathy A. Applefeld, J.D. ’90 and David B. Applefeld, J.D. ’90
Hope H. Armiger, M.B.A. ’86 and David W. Armiger, B.A. ’73, J.D. ’75
Kwame Asafo-Adjei, M.P.A. ’94, LL.M. ’08
Kerby R. Baden, J.D. ’06
Maurice W. Baldwin, Jr., LL.B. ’69
Rignal W. Baldwin, Jr., J.D. ’75
Sabrina Balgamwalla*
James A. Barry, J.D. ’86
Ashley E. Bashur, J.D. ’09
Baumohl Hamburg LLC
Jessica Beaver, J.D. ’10
Linus and Laura Beck
Margaret and Robert A. Beck
Michael J. Beck
Janell N. Bell, J.D. ’04
Robert M. Bell
Celeste G. Bendetti
Elizabeth W. Benet, J.D. ’92
Michael T. Benson, J.D. ’75
Rodney L. Benson, J.D. ’80
Gary A. Berger, J.D. ’79
Benjamin J. Biard, J.D. ’03 , M.B.A. ’03
Edward M. Biggin, J.D. ’02
Raymond M. Bily, Jr., J.D. ’85
Bryan A. Bishop, J.D. ’89
Clinton R. Black, IV, J.D. ’82
Bryan D. Bolton, J.D. ’83
Wilbur W. Bolton, III, J.D. ’78
A. Gordon Boone, Jr., LL.B. ’63
Christopher A. Boyd, J.D. ’10
Jonathan W. Bradbard, J.D. ’06
Kevin F. Bress, J.D. ’84 , M.S. ’84
Livio R. Broccolino, J.D. ’77
Betty S. Brody, J.D. ’78
David A. Brown, J.D. ’09 , M.B.A. ’09
George E. Brown, J.D. ’99
John F. Brown, Jr., LL.B. ’59
John F. Brown, J.D. ’75
Kenneth A. Brown, J.D. ’93
Karis Evans Brown, M.B.A. ’87 and Neal M. Brown, J.D. ’84
Patricia M. C. Brown, J.D. ’86
Valentine A. Brown, J.D. ’95
Michelle L. Brown-Glennon, J.D. ’95 and Garret P. Glennon, J.D. ’96
Michael P. Bryant, J.D. ’06
Jacqueline D. Byrd, J.D. ’98
Rex S. Caldwell, III, J.D. ’87
Walter S. Calwell, Jr., LL.B. ’56
Irvin N. Caplan, LL.M. ’91
Jay M. Caplan, LL.B. ’69
Richard D. Caplan, J.D. ’80
James D. Cardea, J.D. ’95
David E. Carey, J.D. ’89
Carol L. Carnett, J.D. ’90
Philip T. Caroom
J. Randall Carroll, J.D. ’78
Sean P. Casey, J.D. ’99
Colin J. Casler, J.D. ’07
Chamberlain Construction, Inc.
Stephanie Chamberlain, J.D. ’93
Julia M. Cheikh, J.D. ’03
Mary Claire Chesshire, J.D. ’93
Evan A. Chestnut, J.D. ’12
Marjorie L. Clagett, J.D. ’77
John R. Clapp, J.D. ’79
Ellen Cobb
Erin Coleman, J.D. ’09
Eric B. Compton, J.D. ’06
Timothy A. Cook, J.D. ’87
Danna M. Crowley, J.D. ’79
Crown Title Corporation
Niti Crupiti, J.D. ’86
Isabel M. Cumming, M.B.A. ’89, J.D. ’93
Louis Curran
Crystal A. Curry Newland, J.D. ’04
Paul T. Cygnarowicz, J.D. ’92
D2L Behavioral and Investigative Consulting Services, LLC
Barry J. Dalnekoff, J.D. ’74
Wallace Dann, J.D. ’50
Gloria Danziger*
Geoffrey S. Darnell, J.D. ’90
Arnold D. Dashoff, J.D. ’72
Charles H. Davis, J.D. ’78
Chester G. Davis, Jr., J.D. ’93
R. Scott Davis, J.D. ’77
Nancy L. Davis-Loomis
Steven A. G. Davison*
Shannon C. Dawkins Wrenn*
Patricia A. Day, J.D. ’76
Eleanor M. Dayhoff-Brannigan, J.D. ’10
Albert G. De Bliss, J.D. ’60
Christopher P. Dean, J.D. ’04
Michael A. Dean, J.D. ’98
Gary F. Debruin, J.D. ’95
Mark S. Decker, Jr., J.D. ’12
Anthony B. Defranco, J.D. ’08
Frank T. Despot
Pamela DeStefano and Christopher DeStefano
Phyllis A. DeStefano and Dean DeStefano
Bonnie Noel Devlin
Caroline N. Dewey
Charles T. Dillon, J.D. ’00
Anthony J. DiPaula, J.D. ’84
Derek E. Dittner, J.D. ’95
Steven B. Dolchin, J.D. ’74
Thomas M. Donnelly, J.D. ’00
Thomas E. Donoho, LL.B. ’66
Daniel J. Dregier, Jr., J.D. ’75
Patrick R. Duley, J.D. ’70
J. Michael Earp, J.D. ’79
Norman A. Ehrlich, J.D. ’73
Lori J. Eisner, J.D. ’82
Mahasin S. El-Amin, J.D. ’09
Donald L. Elmore, J.D. ’70
Alan R. Engel, J.D. ’80
David F. Engstrom, J.D. ’70
Judith R. Estrin, M.A. ’83
Mary P. Evatt, J.D. ’77
John F. Fader, II
Lisa J. Fales, J.D. ’90
Kenneth W. Farrar, J.D. ’74
E. Richard Feustle, J.D. ’70
Richard A. Finci, J.D. ’84
Elliott L. Fineman, J.D. ’81
Stacy E. Finn, J.D. ’92
Elizabeth B. Fisher, J.D. ’05 and Christopher M. Demski, J.D. ’04
James F. Flynn, LL.B. ’68
Michael F. Flynn, Jr., J.D. ’78
Michael R. Foster, J.D. ’75
Richard W. Foster, J.D. ’95
Barbara Hull Francis, J.D. ’80
Richard B. Friedler, J.D. ’06
Anne C. Gamson, J.D. ’77
Hal Gann
Marvin J. Garbis
Dominick A. Garcia, J.D. ’80
Daniel B. Garfink, J.D. ’95
M. Teresa Garland, J.D. ’86
Nichole C. Gatewood, J.D. ’04
Glenn A. Gerber
Richard L. Gershberg, J.D. ’79
A. Allan Gertner, J.D. ’74
Gorman A. Getty, J.D. ’05
Gregory H. Getty, J.D. ’78
Stewart H. Getz, J.D. ’83
Stephen A. Gibbons, J.D. ’04
Danielle B. Gibbs, J.D. ’96
Robert G. Gibbs, J.D. ’84
Stephen G. Gilden, LL.B. ’66
John A. Gilpin, J.D. ’78
Antonio Gioia, B.S. ’81 , J.D. ’83
Paul G. Goetzke
Harvey D. Gold, LL.B. ’62
Avrum S. Goldberg, J.D. ’78
Mary C. Gorman, J.D. ’81
Harry C. Goudy, Jr.
Frederick W. Goundry, J.D. ’91
Victoria L. Grace, J.D. ’03
Brandy J. Gray, J.D. ’03 and Clifton R. Gray, J.D. ’03
Mitchell A. Greenberg, J.D. ’91
Ileen M. Greene, J.D. ’81
Joshua C. Greene, J.D. ’02
Lawrence Greenebaum, LL.B. ’54
Kimberly S. Grimsley, J.D. ’00
Andrew P. Gross, J.D. ’08
Thomas C. Groton, III, J.D. ’74
Louise B. Gussin, J.D. ’94
John Hagenbrok
Candice L. Hall, J.D. ’09, Certificate ’11, LL.M. ’11
Elizabeth A. Hambrick-Stowe, J.D. ’83
Michael B. Hamburg, J.D. ’94
John J. Handscomb, J.D. ’93
Andrew A. Handy, J.D. ’70
Thomas P. Hanley, B.S. ’80
Nancy A. Harford, J.D. ’85
Michele R. Harris, J.D. ’98
William L. Haugh, Jr., LL.B. ’68
Priscilya M. Hawkes, J.D. ’06
Nicholas B. Hawkins
Katherine A. Hearn, J.D. ’92
Rena W. Heneghan, J.D. ’92
Darrell L. Henry, LL.B. ’65
Hurst R. Hessey, J.D. ’79
Thomas G. Hicks, Sr., J.D. ’89
Lakeshia N. Highsmith, J.D. ’04 , M.B.A. ’04
W. Charles Hitt,** LL.B. ’35
Diana K. Hobbs, J.D. ’98
Burton S. Hoffman, J.D. ’63
R. Neal Hoffman, LL.B. ’69
Joanne Hogg and Ronald R. Hogg, J.D. ’77, LL.M. ’89
Carol L. Hopkins, B.A. ’84 , J.D. ’89
Lisa Horn, J.D. ’89 and Edward J. Horn, B.S. ’92
Harve C. Horowitz, J.D. ’74
Deborah Howard
William R. Hubbard*
Lawrence T. Hurwitz, J.D. ’83
Domenic R. Iamele, LL.B. ’69
Juan Icaza
Gary J. Ignatowski, J.D. ’81
Wade H. Insley, III, J.D. ’68
Glenn A. Jacobson, J.D. ’79
Kathleen H. Jarmiolowski, J.D. ’03
David Jaros*
Rosalind M. Jeffers, J.D. ’95
Wilbur C. Jensen, LL.B. ’52, LL.M. ’54
Margaret E. Johnson*
Cynthia H. Jones, J.D. ’92
Carol T. Jones, M.P.A. ’90 and Gregory J. Jones, J.D. ’89
Harvey C. Jones, II, J.D. ’54
Keith S. Jones, J.D. ’73
William Jones, J.D. ’98
Alan M. Kagen, J.D. ’92
Alain N. Kamwa, LL.M. ’10
Kananack Law
William J. Kananack, J.D. ’73
Ronald A. Karasic,* J.D. ’78
Anthony R. Katz, J.D. ’75
Charles B. Keenan, Jr., LL.M. ’91
Brian J. Kelly, J.D. ’01
Richard D. Kettell, J.D. ’91
Jennifer S. Kim*
Bayly H. Kirlin, J.D. ’05
Klein’s Shoprite
Ellen L. S. Koplow, J.D. ’83
Matthew P. Kraeuter, J.D. ’09
Harold L. Kramer, J.D. ’61
Phyllis B. Kramer, J.D. ’77
Robert J. Kresslein, J.D. ’80
Dominic A. Lancelotta, J.D. ’97
Stephanie Lane-Weber, J.D. ’77
Edward J. Lang, J.D. ’73
Daniel R. Lanier, J.D. ’85
Garrett A. Lardiere, J.D. ’69
Law Offices of David B. Shapiro
Law Offices of Robert J. Fuoco
Ronna K. Lazarus, J.D. ’93
Joseph F. Lechman, J.D. ’70
Sarah A. Lehr, J.D. ’09 and Michael Lehr, J.D. ’09
Jane M. Leiman, LL.B. ’44
Daniel W. Lenehan, J.D. ’77
Patricia M. Lesnick, J.D. ’88
Lessans, Praley & McCormick, P.A.
Lynn R. Levitan-Goldberg, J.D. ’93
Delane S. Lewis, J.D. ’93
Frank G. Lidinsky, J.D. ’76
Steven D. Link, J.D. ’09
Wendelin I. Lipp, J.D. ’78
Eugene R. Littleford, J.D. ’78
YaoHui Liu, LL.M., ’11
Joyce Loney
Steven A. Long, J.D. ’10
Susan M. Lord, J.D. ’84
Kathleen H. Lorenzo, J.D. ’05
Lucy A. Loux, J.D. ’75
Cylia E. Lowe, J.D. ’03 , M.S. ’08
Linh H. Ly
Robert S. Lynch, J.D. ’82
Robert W. Lynch, J.D. ’82
Michael P. Lytle, J.D. ’02
Martin P. Maarbjerg, J.D. ’09
Blair W. MacDermid, LL.M. ’11
Joseph V. Mach, Jr., J.D. ’73
George S. Mahaffey, Jr., J.D. ’00
Susan S. Maher, J.D. ’88 and Patrick E. Maher, J.D. ’88
Michael E. Malone, J.D. ’92
Cynthia A. Mancini, J.D. ’87
Michael H. Mannes, J.D. ’70
V. Peter Markuski, Jr., J.D. ’82
Shirley S. Massey, B.S. ’86 , J.D. ’88
Karen B. Mathura, J.D. ’99
Jacob Matz, J.D. ’51
Elaine F. Maxeiner
James R. Maxeiner*
May and Smith, P.A.
Patrick J. McAndrew, J.D. ’96
Brian J. McCreesh, J.D. ’68
Audreyline G. McFarlane*
Joseph G. McGraw, Jr., J.D. ’84
Kevin McKay
Sandra J. Metz, J.D. ’81
Carlina and Bruce Meyer
Michael C. Michaud, J.D. ’83
Joseph A. Miklasz,** J.D. ’68
Kimberly A. Millender, J.D. ’95
Tina S. Miller
Joyce T. Mitchell, J.D. ’79
Susan H. Mitchell, LL.M. ’06
Carl A. Mohrwinkel, J.D. ’77
Babak Monajemi, J.D. ’11
Julianne M. Montes de Oca
J. Kristen Moore, J.D. ’01
Robert R. Morrow, J.D. ’86
Andrew Moss, J.D. ’10
H. Barnes Mowell, J.D. ’87
Frank J. Mucha, Jr., LL.B. ’66
J. Edward Muhlbach, LL.B. ’62
Carl A. Muly, Jr., J.D. ’62
Maureen Musselman-Filo, J.D. ’05 , M.B.A. ’05
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Michael R. Naccarato, B.S. ’91, M.B.A. ’95 , J.D. ’08
Renée Nacrelli, J.D. ’93
Michael S. Nagy, J.D. ’95
Kerry K. Neal, J.D. ’06
Betty B. Nelson, LL.B. ’50
Loc P. Nguyen, J.D. ’90
C. Philip Nichols, Jr., J.D. ’73
Gregory M. Nicholson, J.D. ’87
Saundra A. Nickols, J.D. ’87 , M.P.A. ’87
John E. Nunn, III, J.D. ’83
Herbert R. O’Conor, III, J.D. ’74
Samuel J. Oddo, J.D. ’58
Marc A. Offit, J.D. ’86
Andrew Offman
Michael D. Oliver, J.D. ’89
Leandra L. Ollie, J.D. ’97
Barry A. O’Neill, LL.B. ’65
George M. Oswinkle, J.D. ’75
Chris A. Owens, M.S. ’81 , J.D. ’84
Ronald C. Owens, J.D. ’73
Megan B. Owings, J.D. ’04
Thurman K. Page, J.D. ’02
Christopher L. Panos, M.S. ’84, J.D. ’89
William Parra, J.D. ’99
John L. Pensinger, J.D. ’76
People For Animals, Inc.
Melanie C. Pereira, B.S. ’77 , J.D. ’87
Michael G. Perkins, J.D. ’08
Kristen B. Perry, J.D. ’00
Ian A. Pesetsky, J.D. ’95
Loreto R. Pettini, J.D. ’81
Philip A. Petty, J.D. ’80
Douglas B. Pfeiffer, J.D. ’80
J. Harrison Phillips, J.D. ’65
Louis Piantadosi
Jean-Claude Pierre, Jr., J.D. ’95
Michael D. Pintzuk, LL.B. ’63
Robert E. Polack, J.D. ’75
Mary L. Ponticelli, J.D. ’79
Grant Posner, J.D. ’09
Eddie L. Pounds, J.D. ’05
Todd K. Pounds, J.D. ’89
Leslie A. Powell, J.D. ’86
James A. Powers, J.D. ’87
Brenda Piskor Prevas, M.A. ’90 and Peter A. Prevas, J.D. ’85
George A. Quick, J.D. ’67
Mariel A. Rakijas
Raritan Plaza LLC
Merrilyn E. Ratliff, J.D. ’09
Josephine A. Reina
F. D. Renda
Michael O. Renda
Michele Renda
Andrew D. Richmond, J.D. ’92
William W. Riggins, III, J.D. ’93
Jason Ritterstein
Stuart J. Robinson, J.D. ’74
Samantha P. Rodier, J.D. ’05
Kurt P. Roper, B.A. ’04 , J.D. ’08
Derek P. Roussillon, J.D. ’03
Joel D. Rozner, J.D. ’76
John P. Rue, II, J.D. ’74
William F. Ruehl, Jr., J.D. ’66
G. Darrell Russell, Jr., J.D. ’67
G. Adam Ruther, J.D. ’07
Edward B. Rybczynski, J.D. ’52
Paul H. Saccoccio, J.D. ’75
Kevin C. Salkowski, J.D. ’00
William A. Saltysiak, J.D. ’82
John P. Sanderson, J.D. ’79
Peter S. Saucier, J.D. ’80
Mark Schapiro, LL.B. ’68
Ruth M. Schaub, J.D. ’00
Gerald Scheinker, J.D. ’67
Ronald D. Schiff, J.D. ’71
Sidney Schlachman, LL.B. ’51
Carl R. Schlaich, J.D. ’81
Joshua E. Schmerling, J.D. ’08
Edwin and Linda J. Schmidt
Joseph M. Schnitzer, J.D. ’85
Walter D. Schwidetzky*
Mark F. Scurti, J.D. ’91
Donna J. Senft, J.D. ’00
David B. Shapiro, J.D. ’84
Stephen J. Shapiro*
John R. Sheridan, J.D. ’72
Lori Sherwood, J.D. ’99
Linda Lee Shields, B.S. ’76 , J.D. ’98
Mary K. Shock, J.D. ’93
Robert A. Shocket, J.D. ’74
Cynthia A. Shreaves, J.D. ’84, LL.M. ’89
Paul Silberman, LL.B. ’60
Robin Silver-Goldberg, J.D. ’84
Dennis G. Silverman, J.D. ’74
David W. Simons, J.D. ’78
Elliott H. Singer, LL.B. ’68
Erika D. Slater, J.D. ’95 and Joshua F. Slater
James M. Slattery, J.D. ’74
Harvey J. Slovis, J.D. ’73
Nancy A. Smith, J.D. ’94
Michael B. Snyder, J.D. ’00
Taofiq A. Solola, J.D. ’03
Jerry S. Sopher, J.D. ’62
Richard H. Sothoron, Jr., J.D. ’69
Ronald L. Spahn, LL.B. ’67
Gail K. Spielberger, J.D. ’91 and John R. Spielberger, J.D. ’82
Robert M. Stahl, IV, B.S. ’83 , J.D. ’88
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Lawrence F. Stevenson, J.D. ’72
Joseph M. Strampello, J.D. ’81
Esther A. Streete, LL.M. ’04
Thomas C. Summers, J.D. ’81
Christopher W. Swain, B.A. ’07, J.D. ’12
Gary E. Talles, J.D. ’70
Linda L. Tanton, J.D. ’75
Cheryl S. Taragin, J.D. ’86
Barry D. Tayman, LL.B. ’68
Teresa D’Antuono Teare, J.D. ’05
William R. Teets, Jr., J.D. ’85
Debra A. Thomas, J.D. ’94 and Anthony W. Thomas, J.D. ’95
J. Edward Thomas, Jr., LL.B. ’64
Linda M. Thomas, J.D. ’91, LL.M. ’93
Glen Thompson
Laura A. Thurston, B.S. ’92 and David L. Thurston, B.S. ’85 , J.D. ’92
W. Scott Tinney, J.D. ’99
Leonard Tober, J.D. ’81
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Robert L. Troike, LL.B. ’64
Kimberly M. Truitt
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Rene E. B. Tywang, J.D. ’08
Frank A. Vana, LL.B. ’67
Melanie A. Vaughn, B.A. ’82, J.D. ’86
Daniel P. Vavonese, J.D. ’95
Michael F. Vitt, J.D. ’99
Kemp Vye, J.D. ’77
Gary A. Wais, J.D. ’83
Christopher D. Walker
Gregory E. Walker, J.D. ’06
Joshua Wall, J.D. ’78
Karen L. Walsh
Gregory C. Ward, J.D. ’98
Joanna L. Watson, J.D. ’06
Barbara B. Waxman, J.D. ’80
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Lori B. Weiman, J.D. ’94
Sidney Weiman, LL.B. ’62
Jeffrey T. Weinberg, J.D. ’78
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Drucilla L. Wells, J.D. ’77
William E. Whaley, J.D. ’65
Frederick White
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Frank R. Wieczynski, LL.B. ’68
Kenneth A. Wilcox, J.D. ’62
Justin D. Wilde, J.D. ’08
Wildlife International
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Samuel D. Williamowsky, J.D. ’75
David E. Williams, J.D. ’98
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Thomas G. Wiseman, J.D. ’82
Joseph Wolenski
Robert H. Wolf, J.D. ’74
Thomas M. Wood, IV, J.D. ’80
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Robert P. Anderson, J.D. ’70
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Judson Arnold, J.D. ’11
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Peter A. Ball, J.D. ’08
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Lawrence Bovich
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Harry S. Bullen, Jr., LL.B. ’65
Benjamin M. Bunin, J.D. ’06
Herbert M. Burk, Jr., J.D. ’77
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Arthur P. Caltrider, Jr., J.D. ’83
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Robert J. Canavan
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Mary J. Dennis, J.D. ’84
Brian C. Dent, J.D. ’02
John F. Desimone, J.D. ’96 , M.B.A. ’96
Lyne Rober Desroches, J.D. ’11
Kimberly B. Detrick, J.D. ’86
Michael E. DiBella, J.D. ’11
Lee A. Dix, J.D. ’01
Lauren M. Dodrill, J.D. ’08
Christopher P. Downs, J.D. ’86
William D. Doyle, J.D. ’07
Emily A. Dubick, J.D. ’11
Justin Dull, J.D. ’09
Ronald J. Dunaway, J.D. ’66
Jack Dunlap, LL.B. ’64
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Deborah S. Duvall, B.A. ’86 , J.D. ’89
Laura J. Earley, J.D. ’93
Joyce A. Edmondson, J.D. ’91
Charles H. W. Effinger, Jr., LL.B. ’64
Nicole Rene Egerton- Taylor, J.D. ’00
Morad Eghbal
Barry A. Eisenson, J.D. ’71
Jeremy M. Eldridge, J.D. ’06
Paula P. Elfont, J.D. ’95
Charles M. Elliott, LL.B. ’65
Roger L. Elliott, J.D. ’77
Walter E. Ellman, Jr., J.D. ’84
Philip M. Ermer, J.D. ’83
Carlos A. Espinosa, J.D. ’01
Donald W. Evans, J.D. ’78
Martina D. Evans, B.S. ’90, M.B.A. ’94 , J.D. ’94
John B. Evermann, J.D. ’11
Raymond M. Faby, LL.B. ’60
Timothy S. Faith, J.D. ’08
George H. Falter, III, J.D. ’93
Susan S. Farley, J.D. ’90
Olivia D. Farrow, J.D. ’95
Lee F. Fedner, J.D. ’74
Ellen B. Feldman, J.D. ’88 and Howard R. Feldman, J.D. ’88
Melanie D. Fenwick Thompson, J.D. ’99
Jane and James Fischer
Richard V. Fisher, J.D. ’76
Garrett M. Fitzgerald, J.D. ’12
Charles M. Fitzpatrick, J.D. ’03
Michael C. Flannery, J.D. ’75
Katherine Dregier Fones, J.D. ’00 and John C. Fones, J.D. ’92
Rachel B. Foreman, J.D. ’09
Alan S. Forman, J.D. ’77
James R. Forrester, J.D. ’98
Jerold M. Forsberg, J.D. ’75
Adam S. Frank, J.D. ’94
Carlendra A. Frank, J.D. ’09
Richard A. Froehlinger, III, B.S. ’85, B.S. ’87 , J.D. ’91
E. Milton Frosburg, J.D. ’54
Lori E. Furnari, J.D. ’90
James E. Gaffigan, J.D. ’70
Susan R. Gainen, J.D. ’84
Sharon R. Gamble, J.D. ’87
George J. Gannon, Jr., J.D. ’85
Phiona Gardner, J.D. ’00
Roland M. Gardner, J.D. ’77
Alan F. M. Garten, J.D. ’80
Ruth A. Gazaille, J.D. ’95
Anthony Geddie, J.D. ’00
Lenore R. Gelfman, J.D. ’73 and Richard D. Gelfman
Lena Gentile
Mary E. Gepherdt, B.S. ’83 , J.D. ’89
Andrew D. Geraghty
Joseph M. Giannullo, Jr., J.D. ’88
James S. Gibbons, J.D. ’73
Louis J. Gicale, Jr., J.D. ’75
Mark A. Gilder, J.D. ’76
Sheena K. Gill, J.D. ’06
Nona K. Gillan, J.D. ’94 and Paul A. Gillan, Jr., J.D. ’95
Nancy L. Giorno, J.D. ’73 and Frank D. Giorno, J.D. ’73
Stacie A. Glaze-Moore, J.D. ’97
Corie W. Godine, Jr., J.D. ’95
Elissa E. Goldfarb, J.D. ’86
David L. Goldheim, J.D. ’71
Richard C. Goldman, J.D. ’74
Barry C. Goldstein, J.D. ’95
Joshua A. Goldstein, J.D. ’06
Bruce E. Goodman, J.D. ’80
Charlotte Lee Gordon, J.D. ’07
Paul Gorman, J.D. ’92
F. Michael Grace, J.D. ’82
Patricia A. Grace, J.D. ’87
Samuel M. Grant, J.D. ’81
James T. Gray, LL.B. ’55
Cheryl D. Green, J.D. ’01
Matthew W. Green, Jr., J.D. ’00
James P. Gregorowicz, J.D. ’95
Mark Houston Grimes, J.D. ’00
Eve M. Grobowski, J.D. ’10
Louis K. Guth, J.D. ’91
Charlotte Gutto
Dorothy M. Guy, J.D. ’96
Franca Hadfield
Lisa B. Hall, J.D. ’93
Livya G. Hament, B.S. ’91 and John M. Hament, J.D. ’81
Mark P. Hanley, LL.B. ’67
Mary L. and John J. Hansen
Gina M. Harasti, J.D. ’91
Nichole Michele Hardman, J.D. ’02
E. David Harr, J.D. ’70
Paul F. Harris, Jr., J.D. ’75
Rachel L. Harris, J.D. ’93
Jan T. Hartman, J.D. ’99
Tracey A. Harvin, J.D. ’00, LL.M. ’00
Nancy L. Haslinger, J.D. ’86
John M. Hassett, J.D. ’79
Sara Hassman, J.D. ’83
Charles T. Hathway, J.D. ’88
John J. Hathway, J.D. ’85
Eric H. Haversack, J.D. ’05
Dennis R. Hayden, J.D. ’81
Callie L. Smith, J.D. ’10 and Justin Hayes, J.D. ’10
Richard S. Haynes, J.D. ’75
Kendra E. Hayward, J.D. ’04
Stephen M. Hearne, J.D. ’75
Robert L. Hebb, J.D. ’93
Fred S. Hecker, J.D. ’87
Steven M. Heinl, Jr., B.A. ’07, J.D. ’12
Ryan A. Hendricks, J.D. ’01
Richard G. Herbig, J.D. ’74
Terence Y. Herndon, J.D. ’04
William E. Hewitt, J.D. ’74
Beverly I. Heydon, J.D. ’96
William Hickey, III, J.D. ’03
David A. Hicks, J.D. ’82
Bruce C. Hill, J.D. ’75
Robert A. Hincken, LL.B. ’69
Keith O. Hinder, J.D. ’09
Lisa K. Hoffman, J.D. ’87
Donna K. Hollen, B.A. ’86 , J.D. ’89
Brenda Holley, J.D. ’02
Charles M. Honeyman, J.D. ’81
John D. Hooks, J.D. ’03
Arnold J. Hopkins, J.D. ’64
George T. Horman, J.D. ’73
Nancy J. Horrom, J.D. ’82 and Michael H. Horrom, J.D. ’74
Ashley H. Hou, J.D. ’97
Matthew P. Howard, J.D. ’05
Phillip J. Howard, LL.B. ’66
Sherrie T. Howell, M.S. ’85 , J.D. ’92
Griffith E. Hubbard, II, J.D. ’96
James O. Hutchinson, J.D. ’76
Elise M. Ice, J.D. ’00
Damani K. Ingram, J.D. ’96
Charles J. Iseman, J.D. ’77
Michele D. Jaklitsch
Cheryl L. Jamison, J.D. ’05
Howard A. Janet, J.D. ’79
Colleen S. Jennings, J.D. ’03
William O. Jensen, Jr., LL.B. ’56
Imtiaz M. Jindani, J.D. ’07
Lawrence O. Johnson, J.D. ’65
Joseph S. Johnston, J.D. ’07
William D. Johnston, J.D. ’67
James J. Jones, J.D. ’84
John A. Jones, J.D. ’80
John H. Jones, J.D. ’79
Kimberley S. W. Jones, J.D. ’94
Terri-Ann Jones, J.D. ’09
John A. Jordan, LL.B. ’66
Chester M. Joseph, LL.B. ’66
Jamie Joshua, J.D. ’10
Conrad W. Judy, III, J.D. ’11
Martha T. Kahlert and George H. Kahlert, Sr.
Suzanne Kalwa, J.D. ’10
Lesley H. Kamenshine, J.D. ’10
Lawrence J. Kansky, J.D. ’10
Milton Kaplan, LL.B. ’56
Taylor S. Kasky
Stanley A. Katz, LL.B. ’58
Bruce E. Kauffman, J.D. ’77
Michael P. Keehan, J.D. ’73
Gina M. Keelty, J.D. ’04
Hope Keller*
Cecelia A. Keller, J.D. ’88
Colin M. Kelly, J.D. ’03
Neal A. Kempler, J.D. ’10
Amin Khakpouri, J.D. ’11
Fekadeselassie F. Kidanemariam, LL.M., ’09
Trevor A. Kiessling, Jr., J.D. ’83
Nicholas J. Kiladis, J.D. ’64
John H. Kim, J.D. ’08
William H. Kirkpatrick, II, J.D. ’80
Thomas E. Klug, J.D. ’70
W. Roland Knapp, Sr., LL.B. ’67
James H. Knebel, J.D. ’72
J. Rhett Knight, J.D. ’11
F. Kirk Kolodner, J.D. ’79
Diane Kopcha Katlic, J.D. ’76
Marci Kornacki, J.D. ’00
Peter J. Korzenewski, J.D. ’02
Jeffrey L. Krasney, J.D. ’86
Frank M. Kratovil, Jr., J.D. ’94
Michael J. Kravitz, J.D. ’00
Albert T. Krehely, Jr., J.D. ’82
Daniel J. Krolikowski, J.D. ’87
Kelly A. Krumpe, J.D. ’04
Mary F. Kuhn, B.A. ’82 , J.D. ’86
David N. Kuryk, J.D. ’72
Peter J. Lally, Jr., J.D. ’73
Sandra L. Lamparello, J.D. ’96
Ari N. Laric, J.D. ’06 , M.B.A. ’06
Law Office of Thomas J. Maronick, Jr. LLC
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Edward U. Lee, III, J.D. ’96
Daniel G. Leeds, J.D. ’77
Andrea Lehman
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Paul R. Levene, J.D. ’74
Burton H. Levin, J.D. ’83
Paul M. Levin, J.D. ’54
Jeffrey D. Levine, J.D. ’95, LL.M. ’00
Ann E. Levinstim, J.D. ’10
Jason D. Levy, J.D. ’06
Elliot N. Lewis, J.D. ’76
Patricia H. Ley, J.D. ’06
Jim Liang, J.D. ’06, LL.M. ’07
Nicole T. Liberto, J.D. ’95
Edward J. Lilly, J.D. ’71
Lincoln Financial Group Foundation, Inc.
Megan E. Livas
R. Brady Locher, III, J.D. ’11
Alvin B. London, J.D. ’54
Frances J. Longshore, J.D. ’59
Dana A. Losben, J.D. ’08
Theodore Losin, LL.B. ’59
Stephanie E. Lurz
Noreen A. Lynch, J.D. ’84
Byron E. MacFarlane, J.D. ’08
Bennett B. Malawer, J.D. ’74
Ronald L. Maltz, J.D. ’97
Christopher G. Mancini, J.D. ’11
Pauline Mandel, J.D. ’90
George N. Manis, J.D. ’63
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Carl W. Mantz, J.D. ’80
Paul G. Marcotte, Jr., J.D. ’80
Bradley A. Marcus, J.D. ’06
Julie L. Marindin, J.D. ’95
Frank A. Marino, J.D. ’80
Thomas J. Maronick, Jr., J.D. ’06
Thomas J. Maronick, J.D. ’80
Kathryn A. Marsh, J.D. ’02
Ebony-Joy M. Martin, B.S. ’06
Salvatore Martino, J.D. ’89
Joanne R. Marvin, J.D. ’79
Elise J. Mason, J.D. ’74
Latane J. Mason, J.D. ’05
Michael Massarini, J.D. ’09
Paul M. Matheny, J.D. ’91
Cathy L. Mattern, J.D. ’82
Philip I. Matz, B.S. ’60 , LL.B. ’67
Douglas A. May, J.D. ’98
Dionne Knight Mayfield, J.D. ’02
John F. McClellan, LL.B. ’68
Ryan M. McConnell, J.D. ’10
William L. McCraney, J.D. ’74
Anastasia L. McCusker, J.D. ’10
William T. McFaul, J.D. ’60
Thomas B. McGee, J.D. ’71
Michael F. McGinn, J.D. ’09
Dennis P. McGlone, J.D. ’86
James C. McKinney, J.D. ’75
Laurie McKinnon, J.D. ’86
John M. McLoughlin, J.D. ’65
Jerome S. McManus, Jr., B.A. ’86, J.D. ’89
Sandra Q. McManus, J.D. ’96
Brian J. McNamara, J.D. ’81
Donna G. McQueen, J.D. ’87
Ryan E. McQuighan, J.D. ’08
Shelley J. McVicker, J.D. ’87
Heather L. Mehigan, J.D. ’00
Martin S. Mendelsohn, LL.B. ’59
Henry T. Meneely, J.D. ’73
Nevin T. Meneely, J.D. ’10
Meredith Corporation Foundation
Myshala E. Middleton, J.D. ’10
Christopher Millard, J.D. ’96
Daniel J. Miller, J.D. ’07
James H. Miller, J.D. ’02
Shawn A. Millet, J.D. ’94
Dorothy H. E. Min, J.D. ’09
Ethan B. Minkin, J.D. ’98
Scott A. Mirsky, J.D. ’97
John T. Mitchell, M.P.A. ’92, Certificate ’92, , J.D. ’03
Michael A. Mitchell, J.D. ’97
Ronni H. Monaghan, J.D. ’08
William F. Monaghan, II, J.D. ’82
David W. Monsma, J.D. ’90
Jared S. Monteiro, J.D. ’11
Ryan Spence Montgomery, J.D. ’00
Kathleen O. Moon, J.D. ’81
Hans I. Moore, J.D. ’08
William H. Morgan, J.D. ’97
Kenneth J. Morilak, J.D. ’96
Thomas C. Morrow, J.D. ’75
William T. Morton, J.D. ’79
Andrea M. Moses, J.D. ’95 , M.B.A. ’95
Robert M. Moss, LL.B. ’65
Katherine Demont Moxley, J.D. ’00
Richard J. Muffoletto, Sr., LL.B. ’50
Allison M. Mulford, J.D. ’08, M.B.A. ’08
William M. Mullen, J.D. ’80
Mary J. Mulligan, J.D. ’92
Brendan C. Murphy, J.D. ’11
Kevin P. Murphy, J.D. ’78
Michael T. Murphy, J.D. ’83
Holly A. Musselman, J.D. ’96
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Cory L. Myers, J.D. ’06
Rebecca D. Myers, J.D. ’93
Sahar Nasserghodsi, J.D. ’11
Kimberly H. Neal, J.D. ’07 and Aaron D. Neal, J.D. ’07
Richard D. Neidig, J.D. ’75
Brian A. Neil, M.B.A. ’09 , J.D. ’09
Andrew J. Nelson, J.D. ’06
Jeffrey P. Nesson, J.D. ’82
Thomas C. Newbrough, Jr., B.A. ’81, J.D. ’83
Delores M. Newsome, M.S. ’81, J.D. ’93
Autry N. Noblitt, J.D. ’65
Harry J. Noonan, J.D. ’78
Denice R. Norris, J.D. ’92
Robert Wayne Nuckles, LL.M. ’00
Alice D. O’Brien, J.D. ’01
Marian M. O’Conor, J.D. ’87
Thomas F. Offutt, J.D. ’73
Jumoke Oladapo, LL.M., ’09
Frederick A. Olverson, J.D. ’64
Kathleen A. O’Neill
Bradley Or
Eugenia K. Ordynsky, J.D. ’93 , M.B.A. ’93
Loretta O. Orndorff, J.D. ’80
Chantel R. Ornstein, M.P.A. ’96, J.D. ’97
Stanley G. Oshinsky, J.D. ’79
Ugur Ozyuruk, LL.M., ’10
Angela D. Paavola, J.D. ’84 and Samuel H. Paavola, J.D. ’75
Eugene O. Palazzo, J.D. ’77
Venk Paluvai, J.D. ’09
Carrie A. Parente
Cassia W. Parson, J.D. ’91 , M.B.A. ’91
Christopher M. Patterson, J.D. ’78
Eva M. Pearlman, LL.M. ’93
Anne K. Pecora, J.D. ’73 and Richard F. Pecora, J.D. ’70
Linda T. Penn, J.D. ’86
Robert M. Perkins, J.D. ’09
Lucy Perone
Thomas C. Perrone, J.D. ’77
Daniel Jay Pesachowitz, J.D. ’00
Phi Alpha Delta
Angela Phillips and Daniel G. Phillips
Daniel D. Phillips, J.D. ’10
John D. Phillips, J.D. ’67
Lynn E. Pickens, J.D. ’91
Robert A. Pinkner, LL.B. ’65
Barbara M. Porter, J.D. ’78
Suzanne W. Posner, J.D. ’80
Nathan J. Postillion, J.D. ’10
Jason R. Potter, J.D. ’05
Catherine A. Potthast, J.D. ’84
Matthew T. Powell, J.D. ’11
John Frederick Price, J.D. ’80
Michael W. Prokopik, J.D. ’79
Mary E. Quillen, J.D. ’93
Harry E. Quinn, LL.B. ’68
Phillip E. Radabaugh, J.D. ’74
Frank J. Ragione, J.D. ’73
Tracy C. Rammacca, M.B.A. ’88 and Joseph D. Rammacca, J.D. ’93
Martha T. Ramsey, J.D. ’82
Charles S. Rand, J.D. ’73
Rosemary M. Ranier, J.D. ’77
Lauri F. Rasnick, J.D. ’95
Natalie H. Rees, J.D. ’78
Mary C. Reese, J.D. ’89
Theresa M. Regner, J.D. ’03
Ernest M. Reitz, B.S. ’94 , J.D. ’98
Ruth E. Reller and Walter L. Reller
Carol Renda
Colleen K. Rettig, J.D. ’88
Raymond L. Rhine, J.D. ’54
Barbara W. Rice, J.D. ’77 and Herbert L. Rice, Jr., B.S. ’80
Margaret Swain Ricely, R.N., J.D. ’87
Carrie B. Riley, J.D. ’93
Richard M. Rinaudot, J.D. ’69
John F. Robbert, LL.M. ’95
Marvin N. Robbins, J.D. ’71
Valerie A. Rocco, J.D. ’76
Paul R. Rochlin, LL.B. ’58
Stanley C. Rogosin, J.D. ’74
Lisa Cahn Rolnick, J.D. ’02
Stuart R. Rombro, J.D. ’73
Stephen R. Roscher, J.D. ’87
Joshua Roseman, J.D. ’56
Jules H. Rosenberg, J.D. ’80
Norman Roskos, J.D. ’64
Riccardo A. Ross, J.D. ’03
Mary Rumbaugh and Robert Rumbaugh
Kevin C. Rupert, Certificate ’89, M.B.A. ’92 , J.D. ’96
Loretta Russell Hoffmann
William F. Rutkowski, J.D. ’63
Charles J. Ryan, III, J.D. ’85
Debra R. Salim, J.D. ’07
Ryan B. Saltzman, J.D. ’05
Harrie S. Samaras, J.D. ’84
Joan T. Sargent, J.D. ’84
Wilmer J. E. Sauerbrey, J.D. ’64
Vinayak Saxena, J.D. ’10
Gerald P. Scala, LL.B. ’69
Alexander L. Scarola, J.D. ’99
Steven L. Schaeffer, J.D. ’83
Joseph N. Schaller, J.D. ’87
John F. Schatz, J.D. ’66
James P. Schell, LL.B. ’61
Josephine N. Schlick, J.D. ’09
Eric N. Schloss, J.D. ’94
Elissa K. Schoedel, J.D. ’05 and Vincent J. Halloran, M.B.A. ’05
Otto P. Schulze, LL.B. ’55
Calley R. Schwaber, J.D. ’01
Samuel A. Seidler, J.D. ’87
Ren Serey, J.D. ’89
William H. Sewell, LL.B. ’69
Scott A. Shail, J.D. ’99
Steven E. Shane, J.D. ’98
Mary Carol Shannahan, J.D. ’06
Antone D. Shaw, M.B.A. ’89, J.D. ’92
Gareth D. Shaw, LL.B. ’63
Nicole C. Shaw, J.D. ’98
Michael J. Sherbin, J.D. ’65
Timothy H. Sheridan, J.D. ’91
Sarah B. Sherman, J.D. ’08
Maher M. Shomali, J.D. ’06
Rose Shovlin
Richard M. Shure, LL.B. ’68
David J. Shuster, J.D. ’94
Dean A. Siedlecki, J.D. ’88
Lisa M. Sifford, J.D. ’94 and Franklin D. Sifford, J.D. ’97
Edgar P. Silver, LL.B. ’53
Alexander M. Silverstein, J.D. ’95
Catherine A. B. Simanski, J.D. ’12
Lani Sinfield, J.D. ’10
Keith R. Siskind, J.D. ’86
Phyllis O. Siskind, A.A. ’51
Jerome P. Skyrud, J.D. ’79
Lucy L. Slaich, J.D. ’03
Smart Shopper Magazine
Adam G. Smith, J.D. ’12
Cheryl Jeanine Smith, J.D. ’00
David B. Smith, J.D. ’72
Gordon Smith, J.D. ’11
John S. Smith, J.D. ’86
Andrew R. Smullian, J.D. ’07
Lee M. Snyder, LL.B. ’66
Dennis H. Sober, J.D. ’75
S. Leonard Sollins, LL.B. ’52, M.S. ’85
Laurie N. Solomon, J.D. ’85
Richard A. Somerville, J.D. ’75
Jayson A. Soobitsky, J.D. ’88
Nicole M. Soraruf, J.D. ’10
Roslyn J. Soudry, J.D. ’76
Elaine P. Spector, J.D. ’96 and Yale R. Spector, J.D. ’97
Robert S. Sperling, J.D. ’83
Kenneth J. Spindler, J.D. ’79
Lisa S. Spitulnik, J.D. ’99
Stanislav Spivak
Joy A. Springfield, J.D. ’99
Paul N. St. Hillaire, J.D. ’97
Taren N. Stanton, J.D. ’07
Sheila S. Steelman, M.A. ’86 and Barry L. Steelman, J.D. ’78
Aaron J. Stein, J.D. ’91
Stuart Steiner, J.D. ’67
Gregory L. Stephenson, J.D. ’77
Kevin D. Stern, J.D. ’11
Harry P. Stringer, Jr., J.D. ’80
David A. Stucky, J.D. ’09
Michael Stultz, M.A. ’87 , J.D. ’91
John W. Stupak, J.D. ’80
Diane C. Sullivan, J.D. ’87
Henry W. Supinski, J.D. ’76
Christina Sutt, J.D. ’11
Ted Tai, J.D. ’04
Curtis E. Tatum, J.D. ’09
Patrick Taylor
Thomas G. Taylor, LL.B. ’65
Andrew E. Teitelman, J.D. ’03
Samuel Teitelman, J.D. ’75
Laurie TerBeek*
Michael G. Terhune, J.D. ’09
Joanne Kalus Thaler, J.D. ’78
John W. Thomas, Jr., LL.B. ’55, LL.B. ’67
Paul B. Thompson, J.D. ’76
Lisa R. Thornton, J.D. ’95 , M.P.A. ’95
Eileen Tiffenbach and David Tiffenbach
Barbara M. Tilghman, J.D. ’82
John R. Toston, Sr., A.A. ’51, B.S. ’53 , LL.B. ’57
Bill L. Treadwell, J.D. ’70
Genevieve N. Trego, J.D. ’09
Stanley Turk, J.D. ’91
James H. Tuvin
Edward M. Ulsch, J.D. ’74
Judith A. Urban, J.D. ’97
V.A. Tramontano & Son
Julia Rafalko Vaughn, J.D. ’94, LL.M. ’00 , B.S. ’09
Robert D. Vinikoor, J.D. ’76
Dean Vlahopoulos, J.D. ’97
Edward F. Vlcek, J.D. ’90
Katelyn Vu
Robert D. Waldman, LL.M. ’91
Gregory B. Walz, J.D. ’95
Mollie Wander, J.D. ’10 , M.B.A. ’10
Roxanne L. Ward, B.S. ’90 , J.D. ’00
Ann Doherty Ware, J.D. ’95
Deborah Y. Warner, J.D. ’98
Tracey P. Warren, J.D. ’02
Paul Wartzman, LL.B. ’51
Eleanor Wascavage
Bradley A. Wasser, J.D. ’10
Dale E. Watson, J.D. ’74
Genelle R. Watts, J.D. ’88
Thomas J. Waxter, III, J.D. ’91
Joseph M. Weeda, J.D. ’08
H. Charles Weigand, LL.B. ’68
Jesse S. Weinberg,** LL.B. ’40
John S. Weiner, J.D. ’75
Harvey M. Weisberg, J.D. ’65
Heather M. Welch, J.D. ’10
Marcie B. Wendell, J.D. ’90 and Gregory T. Wendell, M.S. ’91
Nancy C. West, J.D. ’80
Stan Whiting, J.D. ’75
Kristina B. Whittaker, J.D. ’81
Sarah E. Widman, J.D. ’04
Albert R. Wilkerson, J.D. ’65
Jennifer K. Williams, J.D. ’97
Melinda G. Williams, J.D. ’95
William L. Williamson, J.D. ’70
Christian B. Wilson, J.D. ’76
Roger M. Windsor, LL.B. ’65
Susan Winestein, J.D. ’89
Alan M. Winner, A.A. ’48 , J.D. ’39
William J. Wiseman, III, J.D. ’66
Lisa I. Wojeck, J.D. ’97
Christopher Dale Wolf, J.D. ’00
Cyd B. Wolf, J.D. ’82
Shawn C. Wolsey, J.D. ’02
Ronald R. Wolz, J.D. ’91
Kristin H. Woolam, J.D. ’96
Steven P. Wright, J.D. ’06
Michael T. Wyatt, J.D. ’89
Susan M. Wyckoff, J.D. ’96
Lacey D. Yegen, J.D. ’09
Edward W. Yoder, J.D. ’66
Lauren Young
James S. Zavakos, J.D. ’97
Robert S. Zelko, LL.B. ’59
Lauren Ziegler, J.D. ’11
Christopher Ziemski, J.D. ’04
Craig L. Zissel, J.D. ’05
M. Trent Zivkovich, J.D. ’06
Emily L. Zychowicz, J.D. ’09
Gifts in Kind A People United, LLC
Elizabeth Anderson
Peter G. Angelos, LL.B. ’61
Sabrina Balgamwalla*
Baltimore Coffee and Tea Company, Inc.
Baltimore Comedy Factory
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Blue Agave
The Brewer’s Art
Brown, Goldstein, Levy, LLP
Kimberly N. Brown*
Captain Larry’s
Center Stage
Continental Title Group
Louis Curran
Todd Czapski
Dan Brothers Shoes
Danielle Cover Photography
Claire D’Antonio
Caroline N. Dewey
Claudia A. Diamond,* J.D. ’95
Downtown Dog Resort and Hospital
Eric B. Easton*
Oleg Fastovsky, J.D. ’08
Federal Hill Fitness
Federal Hill Main Street
Susan M. Gerhart
Michele E. Gilman*
Jill Green,* J.D. ’94
The Greene Turtle of Hunt Valley
Grilled Cheese & Co.
Nienke Grossman*
John Hagenbrok
F. Michael Higginbotham*
William R. Hubbard*
Indigma Indian Restaurant
David Jaros*
Kali’s Restaurant Group
Kaplan Bar Review
Elizabeth Keyes*
Parag Khandhar*
Jennifer S. Kim*
Dionne K. Koller*
Jeri Lande
Robert H. Lande*
Kenneth Lasson*
Jaime Lee*
Patricia M. Lesnick, J.D. ’88
Lexis-Nexis
Matthew Lindsay*
Liv2Eat
Katie Loncarich*
Matthew John’s Hair & Nail Salon
Meadow Mill Athletic Club
Leslie S. Metzger,* B.A. ’84, M.P.A. ’92
Michael I. Meyerson*
Minato Sushi Bar
Anne T. Modarressi
Crystal Moll
MOM’s Organic Market
Mother’s Federal Hill Grille
Noble’s Bar & Grill
Lydia Nussbaum
Pandora’s Locks Hairbraiding
Residence Inn by Marriott
Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
Jason Ritterstein
Ropewalk Tavern
S.A.F.E. Management
Sammy’s Trattoria
Renee Sanchez
Schifanelli & Associates, LLC
Shapiro’s Café
Shemer Bar Review, LLC
Shucker’s
Soup’s On Baltimore
Spirit Cruises
Starbucks Coffee Company
Colin P. Starger*
Supano’s Steakhouse
Ten Thousand Villages
Thai Arroy
Angela M. Vallario,* J.D. ’91
Bonnie L. Warnken, J.D. ’90, and Byron L. Warnken,* J.D. ’77
Eleanor Wascavage
Ronald H. Weich*
Zelda Zen
Zena’s Spa & Salon
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LLP. He is the first managing
partner to be chosen from the
Baltimore office, according to
the Baltimore Business Journal.
williAM MCCArthy,
J.d. ’87, ll.M. ’92
In its list of CEO/CFO “Dream
Teams of Baltimore,” the
Baltimore Business Journal
recognized McCarthy for his
work at Catholic Charities of
Baltimore, where he is the
executive director.
viCKi sChultz, J.d. ’89, joined
the law school in November
2012 as the associate dean for
administration after serving
as deputy assistant attorney
general in the Civil Rights
Division at the U.S. Department
of Justice. Schultz previously
served as senior adviser at the
Maryland Department of Labor,
Licensing and Regulation and
has worked in Maryland in the
community development and
legal services field during her
legal career.
AlAn s. sChwArtz, J.d. ’84
Schwartz was promoted to
partner at Ingerman & Horwitz
LLP in Baltimore.
MArtin wong, J.d. ’85
Wong was hired by Think
Finance as the company’s first
chief integrity officer.
1990srobert d. Anbinder, J.d. ’92
Anbinder has been elected
president of the Baltimore Bar
Foundation Inc., the charitable
arm of the Bar Association of
Baltimore City.
MelissA M. boyd, J.d. ’99
Boyd, a partner with High
Swartz LLP, based in Norristown,
Pa., was appointed to the
Pennsylvania Bar Association’s
Family Law Section executive
committee.
MArtin dorsey, J.d. ’97 Dorsey was named to a Baltimore City District Court judgeship by Gov. Martin O’Malley in August.
neil duKe, J.d. ’98 Duke, a principal in Ober Kaler’s Employment Group, was named to the Maryland Public Broadcasting Commission, the governance board for Maryland Public Broadcasting.
thoMAs P. dwyer, J.d. ’94 Dwyer joined the Philadelphia office of Pepper Hamilton LLP as a partner in the Corporate and Securities Practice Group.
dAvid ellin, J.d. ’97 Ellin, of the Law Office of David Ellin P.C., was named to The Daily Record’s “Successful Before 40” VIP list.
dAvid gildeA, J.d. ’93
Gildea was named by The Daily
Record as one of the “Most
Admired CEOs” for private
companies with fewer than 50
employees.
lAwrenCe s. greenberg, J.d. ’94
In May, Greenberg was
inducted as the 60th president
of the Maryland Association for
Justice (formerly the Maryland
Trial Lawyers Association).
rodney e. hill, J.d. ’96
Hill was named chief of internal
affairs for the Baltimore Police
Department in May.
williAM holzMAn, J.d. ’94
Holzman was promoted to
vice president of retail leasing
for St. John Properties Inc., a
Baltimore-based real estate
development and management
company.
greg P. JiMeno, J.d. ’99
In June, Jimeno was named
the 82nd president of the Anne
Arundel Bar Association.
robert KAsuniC, J.d. ’92
In April, Kasunic was appointed
associate register of copyrights
and director of registration
policy and practice at the U.S.
Copyright Office. Previously he
was deputy general counsel
of the Copyright Office. In his
new role, Kasunic serves as the
principal adviser to the register
on legal and business issues
relating to the administration
of the national registration
system. He will also play a
major role in implementing
the office’s forthcoming
Compendium of Copyright
Office Practices.
dAvid A. “sKiP” PriChArd, J.d. ’96
Prichard was named president
and CEO of OCLC, an online
library cooperative based in
Dublin, Ohio.
MArK sCurti, J.d. ’91
Scurti, an adjunct professor
at the UB School of Law, was
named to a Baltimore City
District Court judgeship by Gov.
Martin O’Malley in August.
Kevin sheA, J.d. ’91
Shea was recently promoted
to administrator of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture’s
Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service. He had
served as acting administrator
since June 2012.
alumni
1970sJosePh PersiCo, J.d. ’75
Persico, managing partner of
Rosenn, Jenkins & Greenwald
LLP in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., was
selected to the Pennsylvania
Super Lawyers list for 2013 in
the area of real estate law.
the hon. thoMAs g. ross, J.d. ’78
Queen Anne’s County Circuit
Judge Ross has begun a
two-year term as chair of the
Maryland Conference of Circuit
Judges, or CCJ. The CCJ serves
as a policy advisory body to
the chief judge of the Maryland
Court of Appeals.
1980sbriAn P. dArMody, J.d. ’81
Darmody has been named
associate vice president for
corporate and foundation
relations at the University of
Maryland.
robert n. grossbArt, J.d. ’86
Grossbart was elected to the
Maryland Volunteer Lawyers
Service board of directors.
Anne Colt leitess, J.d. ’88
In June, Leitess was sworn in as
the first female state’s attorney
for Anne Arundel County.
bArry levin, J.d. ’84
Levin has been named
managing partner at Saul Ewing
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2000sronAld J. Allen, J.d. ’02
SuperiorReview, a Houston-
based document-review firm,
has named Allen regional sales
director, in charge of expanding
and developing the firm’s
service offerings. He will also
focus on large corporations and
law firms involved in global
litigation.
h. briggs bedigiAn, J.d. ’02
Bedigian, partner at Gilman
& Bedigian LLC, received
the Maryland Association
for Justice’s Maryland Trial
Lawyer of the Year Award.
The award recognizes the
Maryland trial lawyer, or team
of trial lawyers, that made the
greatest contribution to the
public interest by trying or
settling a case of precedential
value—precedential because
it changed the law to benefit
Marylanders or because the
case “sent a message” to those
who might seek to trample the
rights of Maryland citizens.
geoffrey g. hengerer, J.d. ’02
Hengerer joined the Baltimore-
based firm of Silverman
Thompson Slutkin & White as a
member in September.
JonAs JACobson, J.d. ’00
Jacobson has joined the new
government relations firm of
Perry, White, Ross & Jacobson
in Annapolis.
niCole PAstore Klein, J.d. ’00
Klein was named to a Baltimore
City District Court judgeship by
Gov. Martin O’Malley in August.
JiM liAng, J.d. ’06, ll.M. in tAXAtion ’07
Liang has been elected
a partner of Baltimore’s
Rosenberg Martin Greenberg
LLP, representing individuals
and entities in federal and state
tax controversies and litigation.
Previously, Liang was employed
as a certified public accountant.
Liang also volunteers with
the Maryland Defense Force,
which provides supplemental
professional and technical
support to the Maryland
Military Department and the
Maryland National Guard.
KiMberly neAl, J.d. ’07
Neal, an associate with
Niles, Barton & Wilmer LLP in
Baltimore, was named to The
Daily Record’s “Successful
Before 40” VIP list.
dennis robinson Jr., J.d. ’02
Robinson, partner at
Baltimore’s Whiteford Taylor
& Preston LLP, was named to
The Daily Record’s “Successful
Before 40” VIP list.
tArA shoeMAKer, J.d. ’07
Shoemaker, principal of Tara
Shoemaker & Associates in
Frederick, received the Small
Firm Award in the Pro Bono
Resource Center of Maryland’s
annual Maryland Pro Bono
Service Awards.
e. hArrison stone Jr., J.d. ’02
Stone joined ConnectYourCare
as general counsel. The Hunt
Valley-based organization
specializes in health care
savings account administration.
bob vAn gAloubAndi, J.d. ’05
Galoubandi has been elected
a partner of Rosenberg Martin
Greenberg LLP. Galoubandi
represents banks, lending
institutions, private lenders and
businesses in all aspects of real
estate lending and troubled
loan workouts. He was named
a Maryland Super Lawyers
Rising Star for Bankruptcy and
Creditor/Debtor Rights in 2013.
publications
BooksJohn bessler
Cruel and Unusual: The
American Death Penalty and the
Founders’ Eighth Amendment
(Northeastern University Press,
2012).
eriC eAston
Mobilizing the Press: Defending
the First Amendment in the
Supreme Court (Vandeplas
Publishing, 2013).
gArrett ePPs
American Epic: Reading the U.S.
Constitution (Oxford University
Press, 2013).
Wrong and Dangerous: Ten
Right-Wing Myths About Our
Constitution (Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers, 2012).
leigh goodMArK
A Troubled Marriage: Domestic
Violence and the Legal System
(New York University Press,
2012).
f. MiChAel higginbothAM
Ghosts of Jim Crow: Ending
Racism in Post-Racial America
(New York University Press,
2013).
lynn MClAin
Emerita Professor McLain
completed the manuscripts for
the third edition of her three-
volume treatise on Maryland
and federal evidence law, and
for the fourth edition of her
volume on the Maryland Rules
of Evidence. They are slated for
publication by Thomson West in
late 2013.
MiChAel Meyerson
Endowed by Our Creator: The
Birth of Religious Freedom in
America (Yale University Press,
2012).
bArbArA J. wilKins, J.d. ’00
Wilkins has been appointed
government relations officer for
Anne Arundel County by County
Executive Laura Neuman.
2010sAlyssA brown, J.d. ’12
A University of Baltimore Law
Review note by Brown was
cited in a report to Congress
prepared by the Congressional
Research Service. Her note
addressed antitrust issues that
can arise when pharmaceutical
companies settle patent
infringement cases. It was
cited in the report before the
Supreme Court ruled on FTC v.
Actavis in June.
MiChAel dodd, J.d. ’10
Dodd, an attorney with
Simmons & Dodd LLP, in
Cambridge, Md., was named to
The Daily Record’s “Successful
Before 40” VIP list.
Christine r. hogAn, J.d. ’12
Hogan was hired as an
associate attorney at Adelberg,
Rudow, Dorf & Hendler LLC in
Baltimore.
AlAn lAzerow, J.d. ’10 Lazerow, a member of
Whiteford Taylor & Preston’s
Business Reorganizations and
Bankruptcy Litigation group,
was a 2013 recipient of The
Daily Record’s “20 in Their
Twenties” award.
JAnA l. PonCzAK, J.d. ’12
Ponczak opened her solo
practice, The Law Office of Jana
L. Ponczak, in Pikesville.
rAChel severAnCe, J.d. ’12
Severance was hired as an
associate at Niles, Barton &
Wilmer LLP in Baltimore.
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notesMortiMer sellers
Parochialism, Cosmopolitanism,
and the Foundations of
International Law (Cambridge
University Press, 2012).
“The Constitutional Thought of
Alexander Hamilton” is to be
published as a chapter in Denis
Galligan (ed.) Constitutions and
the Classics (Oxford University
Press, 2013).
byron wArnKen, J.d. ’77
Maryland Criminal Procedure:
A Treatise is scheduled for
publication this fall. The three-
volume work is intended as a
comprehensive resource for
Maryland’s judges, prosecutors,
defense counsel and law
students.
Articles & ReportsgildA dAniels
“Lining Up: Ensuring Equal
Access to the Right to Vote”
was published in August by the
Advancement Project and the
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil
Rights Under Law.
neil dilloff
“Law School Training: Bridging
the Gap Between Legal
Education and the Practice of
Law” (24 Stanford Law & Policy
Review 425, 2013). Dilloff, an
adjunct professor, is a partner
at DLA Piper’s Baltimore office.
wendy gerzog
“Koons: Interest Deduction
and FLP Valuation Practice
Pointers” (140 Tax Notes 375,
July 22, 2013).
“Valuing Fractional Interests
in Art for Estate Tax Purposes”
(139 Tax Notes 1073, May 27,
2013).
“When Sommers Are
Winters: Do Blanks Denote
Revocability?” (138 Tax Notes
1477, March 25, 2013).
“Wimmer Wins FLP Annual
Exclusions” (138 Tax Notes 489,
Jan. 28, 2013).
“Valuation Discounting and the
Lottery Cases” (137 Tax Notes
917, Nov. 19, 2012).
“Another Turn with Turner” (136
Tax Notes 1613, Sept. 24, 2012).
“Not All Defined Value Clauses
Are Equal” (10 Pittsburgh Tax
Review, 2012).
MiChele gilMAn
“The Poverty Defense” (47
University of Richmond Law
Review 495, 2013).
“The Class Differential in
Privacy Law” (77 Brooklyn Law
Review 1389, 2012).
leigh goodMArK
“Transgender People, Intimate
Partner Abuse, and the Legal
System” (48 Harvard Civil
Rights-Civil Liberties Law
Review, 2012).
nienKe grossMAn
“The Normative Legitimacy
of International Courts” was
selected for presentation at the
Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior
Faculty Forum, which took place
at Yale Law School in June.
dAvid JAros
“Perfecting Criminal Markets”
(112 Columbia Law Review 1947,
December 2012).
elizAbeth Keyes
“Examining Maryland’s
Views on Immigrants and
Immigration” (43 University of
Baltimore Law Forum 1, 2013).
“Beyond Saints and Sinners:
Discretion and Narrative
in Immigration Law” (26
Georgetown Immigration Law
Journal 207, 2012).
robert lAnde
“Cartels as Rational Business
Strategy: Crime Pays,” co-
written with John M. Connor (34
Cardozo Law Review 427, 2012).
“A Traditional and Textualist
Analysis of the Goals of
Antitrust: Efficiency, Preventing
Theft From Consumers, and
Consumer Choice” (81 Fordham
Law Review 2349, 2013).
“Toward an Empirical
Assessment of Private Antitrust
Enforcement,” co-written with
Joshua P. Davis (36 Seattle
University Law Review 1269,
2012).
Lande also co-wrote
“Comparative Negligence With
Joint and Several Liability:
The Best of Both Worlds” (1
University of Baltimore Law
Review Online 1, Dec. 13, 2012).
CleMent lAu
“American Public Library Law
(美国公共图书馆法研究)”
appeared in the Tushuguan
zazhi (图书馆杂志), a library
journal in China.
MAtthew lindsAy
“Immigration, Sovereignty,
and the Constitution of
Foreignness” (45 Connecticut
Law Review 743, February 2013).
lydiA nussbAuM
“ADR’s Place in Foreclosure:
Remedying the Flaws of a
Securitized Housing Market”
(34 Cardozo Law Review 1889,
July 2013).
MAX oPPenheiMer
“Patents 101: Patentable
Subject Matter and Separation
of Powers” (15 Vanderbilt
Journal of Entertainment and
Technology Law 1, 2012).
“Four Things Every Inventor
Should Do by March 15”
(Oklahoma Journal of Law and
Technology’s blog, Feb. 28,
2013).
elizAbeth sAMuels
“Surrender and Subordination:
Birth Mothers and Adoption
Law Reform” (20 Michigan
Journal of Gender & Law 33,
2013).
MortiMer sellers
“International Legal Positivism”
(Proceedings of the 106th
Annual Meeting of the American
Society of International Law,
2012).
ChArles tiefer
In February, the American
Federation of Government
Employees released a legal
memorandum—“Reducing
Spending on Service Contracts
In Order to Comply With
Sequestration”—by Professor
Tiefer that was quoted in The
Washington Post, among other
news outlets.
faculty
At the annual meeting of the
American Association of Law
Schools, held in January 2013
in New Orleans, Professor
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José Anderson was elected
national chair of the nearly
800-member section on
litigation for 2013-2014.
Professor bArbArA bAbb,
director of the Sayra and Neil
Meyerhoff Center for Families,
Children and the Courts, spoke
May 31 at the 50th Anniversary
Conference of the Association
of Family and Conciliation
Courts in Los Angeles. She
discussed changes and trends
in family courts.
Professor John bessler
spoke Dec. 8, 2012, to the 2nd
Oslo International Symposium
on Capital Punishment. On Feb.
14, Bessler provided written
testimony to Maryland’s Senate
Judicial Proceedings Committee
about the repeal of the state’s
death penalty.
Professor gildA dAniels
served as a guest speaker at
the discussion group A.C.T.O.R.
(A Continuing Talk on Race) on
Nov. 4, 2012, and discussed
voter suppression and the 2012
election.
In March, Professor eriC
eAston completed a three-year
term as chair of the Section on
Legal Education and Admission
to the Bar of the Maryland State
Bar Association and became
immediate past chair of the
section. In April, Easton was
named Faculty Member of the
Year by the Black Law Students
Association.
Professor MiChele gilMAn,
director of the Civil Advocacy
Clinic and co-director of the
Center on Applied Feminism,
presented “The Return of
the Welfare Queen” at a
symposium titled “Gender
Matters: Women, Social Policy
deAn ronAld weiCh
In an op-ed published in The Daily Record
on Feb. 21, Dean Weich addressed concerns
about upheaval in legal education and in the
legal marketplace and described the School
of Law as well-positioned to flourish despite
the changes. Wrote Weich: “Increasingly,
lawyers work in tandem with other profes-
sionals on multi-faceted assignments. They
must be fluent in the sophisticated infor-
mation technology that dominates both lit-
igation and commercial matters today. They
are often judged—and compensated—ac-
cording to the outcomes they achieve rather
than the hours they tally. And in this fast-
paced, competitive atmosphere, law school
graduates don’t always have the luxury of
on-the-job training. Not all law schools will
successfully adapt to this brave new world,
but I’m confident the University of Baltimore
will do so.”
Professor gildA dAniels
Professor Daniels was the author of an op-ed
that appeared in The Baltimore Sun on Feb.
27, the day the Supreme Court heard argu-
ments in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder.
She argued that the court must not roll back
voting rights, specifically Section 5 of the Vot-
ing Rights Act, which requires “covered ju-
risdictions” to get federal approval of voting
changes before they can implement them.
Wrote Daniels: “Many of the outlawed acts
of the past have comparable companions
in this new millennium. Poll taxes are the
forefathers of voter ID laws, and the old
literacy tests are similar to proof of citizen-
ship laws. These contemporary methods
of voter suppression may not be as overt
as George Wallace standing in the school-
house door or Bull Connor refusing to reg-
ister African-American citizens to vote, but
the impediments to voter registration and
voter participation are very much the same
in intent and impact.”
Professor dionne Koller
Professor Koller was quoted in an April DC
Bar cover story titled “Playing It Safe: Are
Concussions Ruining Sports?” Koller said
she believed football could adjust its rules
and still thrive. “The NFL … can change the
expectations of the fans by evolving the
game and emphasizing passing, catching,
running, kicking, and strategy,” she wrote.
“There’s a lot that goes on in that sport. It
doesn’t have to be marginalized because it
loses some of the violence. Look at [Olym-
pic] hockey—people start appreciating the
strategy and the team aspects when you
take out the fights.”
Professor MiChAel Meyerson
Professor Meyerson published an op-ed
in The Baltimore Sun on April 21 about
cyberbullying. Wrote Meyerson: “Cellphones
and the Internet have not only altered the
way we communicate, they have changed
the way we can injure one another. The
telecommunications revolution has created
the capability of causing far greater harm
to children than the bullying many of us
remember from when we were young.”
Professor ChArles tiefer
Professor Tiefer was quoted in a June 20
Bloomberg News story about the growing
use of contractors to vet job-seekers for se-
curity clearances. “The notion that govern-
ment officials have the final decision about
granting or denying clearances is a mere fig
leaf, and a pretty small one at that,” Tiefer
said in the article, which appeared in The
Washington Post’s business section. Tiefer
is a former member of the U.S. Commission
on Wartime Contracting.
in the news
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and the 2012 Election” on
April 2 at American University
Washington College of Law.
Gilman became president of
the board of the Public Justice
Center in June.
Last spring, Professor
leigh goodMArK was named
Faculty Member of the Year
by the Baltimore Women’s
Bar Association and also
received the Robert M. Bell
Award from UBSPI. In addition,
Goodmark presented a talk titled
“Rethinking State Intervention
in Intimate Partner Violence” at
the American Association of
Law Schools’ annual meeting
in New Orleans on Jan. 7. Her
article “Transgender People,
Intimate Partner Abuse, and
the Legal System,” published
in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil
Liberties Law Review, was the
focus of the Harvard journal’s
annual fall colloquium, held
Nov. 5, 2012. A month earlier,
Goodmark was a keynote
speaker at the University
of Buffalo School of Law’s
Conference on Intimate
Partner Violence.
In 2012, Professor nienKe
grossMAn served as a legal
adviser to the government
of Chile in a maritime
dispute (Peru v. Chile) in the
International Court of Justice
and in December attended
oral hearings in The Hague,
Netherlands.
Professor gilbert holMes
was selected as dean of the
University of La Verne College of
Law in Ontario, Calif. He began
his tenure this past summer.
Professor MArgAret
Johnson has been appointed
chair of the Planning Committee
for the 2014 American
Association of Law Schools’
Section on Clinical Legal
Education Conference, which
is the largest section of the
AALS and hosts the annual
conference for clinical law
professors.
Professor elizAbeth Keyes
spoke on U.S. clinical legal
education at the 2013 Law and
Legal Education in the Americas
Conference, held in June by the
University of Detroit Mercy.
Professor robert lAnde
was one of three recipients
of the 11th annual Jerry S.
Cohen Award for the best
antitrust scholarship of 2012.
He received his award at the
American Antitrust Institute’s
Annual Conference on June 12.
Lande and John M. Connor, co-
authors of “Cartels as Rational
Business Strategy: Crime Pays”
(34 Cardozo Law Review 427),
split an $8,000 prize and each
received an original piece of
artwork.
Professor Kenneth lAsson
spoke at a conference at
Goodenough College, University
of London, on Dec. 2, 2012. The
title of his presentation was
“Antisemitism on Campus.”
The conference was sponsored
by the Journal for the Study of
Antisemitism.
The CALA Committee for the Jing
Liao Award for the Best Research
in All Media chose CleMent
lAu, associate director
for technical services and
administration in the law library,
as the 2013 recipient of the Jing
Liao Award. Lau was selected for
his publication “American Public
Library Law (美国公共图书
馆法研究),” which appeared
in the Tushuguan zazhi (图书
馆杂志), a library journal in
China. The award came with a
$500 prize.
Professor Audrey
MCfArlAne spoke at a
symposium at Fordham Law
School in honor of the 40th
anniversary of the Fordham
Urban Law Journal. Her panel
was titled “What Is Urban Law
Today?”
Professor JAne MurPhy’s
legal scholarship was cited
in a June 12 New York Times
online op-ed titled “Is Forced
Fatherhood Fair?” The article
concludes: “Policies that
punish men for accidental
pregnancies also punish those
children who must manage a
lifelong relationship with an
absent but legal father.”
Professor MAX
oPPenheiMer served as a
judge for the Emmy Awards and
for the University of Maryland,
College Park’s Inventor of the
Year award.
In April, Professor elizAbeth
sAMuels testified in favor
of an adoption law reform
bill before the Ohio Senate
Committee on Medicaid,
Health and Human Services. In
March she submitted written
testimony to the Ohio House
Judiciary Committee.
Professor MortiMer
sellers has been elected a
member of the Association
Internationale de Droit
Constitutionnel. In addition,
Sellers has been selected,
with Professor Stephan Kirste
of the University of Salzburg,
as the general editor of the
Encyclopedia of the Philosophy
of Law and Social Philosophy.
In July, Sellers was a plenary
speaker at the biennial
conference of the International
Association for the Philosophy
of Law and Social Philosophy in
Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He was
also invited to speak in October
at the European University
Institute and the Alberaccio
Macchiavelli to honor the 500th
anniversary of the publication
of Niccolò Machiavelli’s The
Prince.
To mark the retirement of the
Hon. Robert M. Bell, chief
judge of the Maryland Court of
Appeals, Professor byron
wArnKen, J.d. ’77, along with
50 law students and lawyers,
compiled a 250-page book
covering Judge Bell’s 209
criminal law opinions—majority,
concurring and dissent—during
his 23 years on the Court of
Appeals.
adjunct faculty
The hon. John f. gossArt Jr.,
U.S. Immigration Judge of the
Baltimore Immigration Court,
retired in August after 32 years
on the bench and 42 years of
federal service. Judge Gossart
has taught immigration law
at UB for 17 years. He plans to
continue teaching at the law
school in retirement.
President Barack Obama’s
notes
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nomination of federal
magistrate PAul griMM to a
seat on the U.S. District Court
in Maryland was confirmed by
the Senate on Dec. 3, 2012.
Judge Grimm is a long-serving
member of the UB adjunct
faculty.
On April 10, AlAn neMeth took
part in a panel discussion—
“Trending Topics in Animal
Law”—at the University of the
District of Columbia David A.
Clarke School of Law. Nemeth
talked about the intersection of
animal law and family law. He
pointed out that 25 states and
the District of Columbia have
passed domestic violence bills
designed to protect pets and
that family law could develop
to include joint custody and
visitation of pets.
staff
ethel bAnKs joined the Office
of Finance and Administration
at the School of Law in
September as an accounting
clerk. She has 15 years of
accounting experience and
most recently worked in
the Finance Department of
American University.
Jernee brAMble, associate
director of law placement, was
chosen as June’s “Member
Spotlight” for WALRAA,
the Washington Area Legal
Recruitment Administrators
Association. Bramble serves
as the 2013 co-chair of
the association’s Diversity
Committee.
heAther Cobbett joined
the law school in December
2012 as the assistant director
of communications and
external relations. Cobbett
has a master’s degree in
public relations from the S.I.
Newhouse School of Public
Communications at Syracuse
University and a bachelor’s
in communication studies
from Canisius College. She
previously worked as the
community services assistant
for Finger Lakes Health in
Geneva, N.Y.
hoPe Keller joined the law
school in November 2012 as
the director of communications
after leaving The Baltimore
Sun, where she was an editor.
She has worked as a reporter
and editor at several other
newspapers, including the
International Herald Tribune,
The Philadelphia Inquirer and
The Daily Record.
lAurA PAnozzo joined the
Office of Law Admissions as
admissions counselor in March.
Previously, Panozzo spent
five years at Siena Heights
University in Adrian, Mich., as
an admissions representative
and an assistant women’s
basketball coach. She has a
bachelor’s degree in sport
management and a master’s
in organizational leadership
from Siena Heights, where she
was a four-year starter for the
women’s basketball team.
eMily rogers, J.d. ’12, joined
the law school in 2012 as the
assistant director of the Law
Career Development Office,
where she helps manage the
externship programs and
coordinates public-interest
programming and events.
Rogers is experienced in
immigration law and public
policy.
KAtie rolfes, administrative
assistant in the Office of
Academic Affairs, received
a 2012 UB Staff Recognition
Award.
students
ebony thoMPson, J.d. ’13,
received a 2012 Marjorie Cook
Endowed Scholars Program
award, which is given to women
graduate students studying
law or public policy who are
committed to empowering
women and advancing their
social status through a career
in law or as a policymaker.
KAtie gAllAgher, J.d. ’14,
testified March 7 before
the Judiciary Committee
of the Maryland House of
Delegates on a bill to prevent
cyberbullying.
tiffAny fountAine, J.d. ’14,
was named to Lawyers of
Color’s Inaugural Hot List,
which recognizes successful
early- to mid-career attorneys
under 40.
CAroline MAPP, J.d. ’14,
earned the position of senior
editor on the Southern
Region Black Law Students
Association Law Journal, based
on her participation in the
publication’s summer “write
on” competition.
AMAndA webster, J.d. ’13,
took third place in the College
of Labor and Employment
Lawyers and American
Bar Association Section of
Labor and Employment Law
Annual Law Student Writing
Competition for 2011-2012.
Webster was honored for her
scholarly paper “The Collective
Bargaining Chips Are Down:
How Wisconsin’s Collective
Bargaining Restrictions Place the
U.S. in Violation of International
Labor Laws.”
tAwny holMes, J.d. ’13, was
named to the board of directors
of the National Association of
the Deaf for the 2012-2014 term.
Holmes was appointed to serve
as an adviser on education and
early-intervention issues. She
focused on education law at UB.
Five 2013 graduates have
been chosen by the Law
Career Development Office
as the first class of University
of Baltimore School of Law
Apprentice Fellows. The
fellows work as paid, full-time
law clerks with nonprofits or
government organizations that
provide legal services. This
year’s fellows are rebeCCA
siMPson, Free State Legal
Project; KAtheryn Anderson,
Maryland Disability Law Center;
reXAnAh wyse, Catholic
Charities, Esperanza Center,
Immigration Legal Services;
MiChAel stone, Homeless
Persons Representation Project;
and greg Kuester, Office of
the Maryland Attorney General,
Associate Program.
in memoriam
Third-year law student John
Minderhout died suddenly
on April 16. He had planned
to practice law on the Eastern
Shore, where he lived with his
wife, Tui. Before enrolling in law
school, Minderhout worked as
an editor, writer, translator and
teacher.
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in closing By Garrett Epps
any years ago,
William Faulkner
had an epiphany.
“One day,” the
author said later, “I
seemed to shut the door between me and
all publisher’s addresses and book lists. I
said to myself, Now I can write.”
As a law professor, I’ve spent nearly two
decades fretting about law review editors
and webmasters. One day about four years
ago, I decided I would write something just
for myself. Maybe only I would ever read it,
but the writing would be fun.
Thus, for nearly two years I read the
Constitution’s text every day, and wrote—
for my own satisfaction alone—an analysis
of what the Constitution really says, article
by article, clause by clause, amendment by
amendment.
It was fun, and more than fun: It was the
most satisfying work I have done in my 20
years as a legal scholar. It was the kind of
experience law teaching is supposed to
provide and too seldom does—the chance
to think about the law and the Constitution
independent of the latest headlines and
the vagaries of five justices of whatever
Supreme Court is current.
Remarkably, what I wrote has now been
published by Oxford University Press as
American Epic: Reading the U.S. Consti-
tution. That fact astonishes me; no one
should get paid for having that much fun.
I didn’t read the Constitution seeking
light on the subjects of the day—the Af-
fordable Care Act, same-sex marriage, the
Voting Rights Act. Instead, I just read, in
all the ways I know how. I used the modes
of Bible reading I learned in a Christian
school decades ago; I used my training
as a lawyer, with specific techniques in
interpreting contracts and statutes. I used
ways of reading I learned many years ago
as a folklore major in college. And finally, I
read the Constitution as lyric poetry.
I learned something from each way
of reading. Some parts of the Constitu-
tion are Homeric; some are as dry as the
English Statute of Frauds. Some are as
elusive as a poem by Emily Dickinson, and
some—for example, the “thou shalt nots”
of the Bill of Rights—echo the thunder
atop Mount Sinai. Sometimes we find the
meaning in the thunder—and sometimes in
the still small voice.
I think most citizens should take time
to give the Constitution—even the “boring
parts”—a careful read. Though it contains
many disparate parts, “we the people”
need to read the entire text—and, whoever
we are, to read it with our entire selves.
“Law, say the gardeners, is the sun,”
the poet W.H. Auden once wrote; and
gardeners may see in the Constitution a
diagram of growth; engineers a blueprint;
scientists the ongoing record of an
experiment. All these modes of reading
should play a part in our national game of
interpretation. The Constitution is not just
for judges and lawyers, nor for historians.
It is for all of us.
The Russian-American novelist Vladimir
Nabokov once suggested that a good read-
er does not need specialized training but
does need a dictionary, some imagination,
a good memory and some artistic sense.
When I read the Constitution as this
kind of reader, it says some surprising
things to me. It says some of them in the
words it chooses; it says some of them in
the way it places words and ideas in con-
junction, or separates them; it says some
in the words it doesn’t say and the places
where it doesn’t say them.
Here are some things the Constitution,
one way or another, says to me:
n It seeks to create a powerful national
government, not to restrain it.
n It aims to restrain state governments,
not to empower them.
n It contains seven amendments en-
acted since 1787 that further restrict
the states, and further empower
Congress to enforce them.
n Congress is the most important polit-
ical institution in American political
life—not the president, not the state
governments and certainly not the
Supreme Court.
n Neither state nor federal govern-
ments have any power to supervise
our spiritual lives.
n The right of citizens to vote, men-
tioned more often in the text than
any other right, is the central right of
our form of government. I can’t find
anything in the text that allows the
Supreme Court to decide that Con-
gress has protected it too much.
I could go on, but my reading is my own.
You may read it differently. If so, you have
my respect as long as you are reading this
Constitution.
Not Magna Carta; not the Articles of
Confederation; not the Declaration of
Independence; not Madison’s Notes or The
Federalist or The Road to Serfdom.
This Constitution, not common law.
This Constitution, not “natural law.” This
Constitution, not “divine law.”
If you are a reader of this Constitution,
then I welcome your disagreement; to
quote Walt Whitman, our greatest consti-
tutional poet, “every atom belonging to me
as good belongs to you.”
Garrett eppS is a professor at the School of Law. a former reporter for The Washington Post, he is the author of two novels and four books of legal nonfiction. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, The Nation and the Los Angeles Times. He is a contributing editor at The American Prospect and legal correspondent for theatlantic.com. His latest book, American Epic: Reading the U.S. Constitution, was published by Oxford University press in august.
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