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contents F r o m T h e U n i v e r s i t y o f D e n v e r S t u r m C o l l e g e o f L a w
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Creating a New Vision for
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Law Blog Makes Waves
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D e p a r t m e n t s A Message from Dean JuárezRevisiting the Strategic Plan
News Briefs Environmental Law program wins prestigious award, SCOL students challenge the U.S. government, latest law school rankings and more
Faculty HighlightsPublications, presentations and awards
Development NewsLaw Firm Alumni Challenge update, mentoring program seeks participants, esteemed alumnus Milt Morris, JD’39, leaves a rich legacy
Alumni Profile Jennifer Reba Thomaidis carves a new niche as national pet attorney
2007 Honor Roll of Donors
Legal Affairs Receptions, conferences and reunions
Class Notes Catching up with alumni
A Tribute to Robert Yegge andRemembering Harry Lawson
In Memoriam
2007 Calendar of Events
Cover illustration: David Cutler is a freelance illustrator whose work has appeared in the pages of Time, Newsweek, Washington Post and Forbes among others. He makes his home in Connecticut. www.davecutlerstudio.com
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Dean José R. Juárez, Jr. l e t t e r Letter from the Dean
Dear Alumni and Friends:
I write at the beginning of the summer, when the hustle and bustle of the Ricketson Law
Building is replaced by a much calmer and quieter hum of activity. Fewer students are taking
summer session courses and many of our recent graduates are in the building as they study for
the July 2007 bar examination, but, as is to be expected, their time and energy is consumed by
their studies.
This is, therefore, a good time to plan for the coming year and to consider the future of the
University of Denver Sturm College of Law. Several articles in this issue discuss the College of
Law’s forthcoming re-examination and revision of our Strategic Plan. In 2000, faculty, alumni,
students and staff worked together to produce the College of Law’s last Strategic Plan. This 2000
Strategic Plan was an ambitious undertaking and it set forth lofty goals for the College of Law.
We have met many of those goals and we continue to work on others.
Much has changed since 2000. The College of Law has become the Sturm College of Law. We
moved to a magnificent new building that provides the physical infrastructure for a first-rate
legal education. We have nearly tripled the number of applications we receive, and the median
LSAT scores and undergraduate GPAs of our entering students have risen substantially. We have
increased the number of faculty, and the members of the faculty continue to improve the quan
tity and quality of the scholarship they produce.
So, what do these changes mean for the Sturm College of Law? What is a first-rate legal edu
cation in the 21st Century? Are we teaching all the skills lawyers utilize in the daily practice of
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law? Are we meeting the challenge set out in the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching’s recent report, Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law? Are we
linking the interests of legal educators with the needs of legal practitioners and with the public
the profession is pledged to serve, fostering what can be called “civic professionalism?”
These are hard questions, and they require the expertise of the entire Sturm College of Law
community to answer them appropriately. For this reason, I am asking faculty, students, staff,
alumni and friends of the College of Law to work together in examining and revising our
Strategic Plan so that we can train the best lawyers for our nation—and our world—in the 21st
century.
In the coming months, you will hear more about the revision of our Strategic Plan. The hard
work of the DU Law faculty, students and staff will be complemented by the contributions of
our alumni. The Alumni Council, under the leadership of Chair Howard Kenison, JD’72, will
soon announce a series of meetings with alumni intended to solicit your views about how we, at
the Sturm College of Law, can produce the very best lawyers. These meetings will be held in
Denver, as well as other parts of the country where we have significant numbers of alumni.
I hope you will participate in these meetings. Your input can help to ensure that we provide
today’s law students with the education they need to meet the challenges of the 21st century. I
look forward to hearing from you and working together to shape an even greater law school.
Warmest regards,
José R. (Beto) Juárez, Jr.
Dean and Professor of Law
University of Denver Sturm College of Law
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University of Denver
STURM COLLEGE OF LAW
alumni magazine AUGUST 2007 Volume 4, No. 2
EDITOR Meghan Howes
Director of Communications Office of Communications
University of Denver Sturm College of Law
editorial board Kirk Baughan, Dave Ruderman, Michael J. Meyers, Josie McSwain-Levin, Christopher Wangelin, Jennifer Savage
PUBLISHER Maureen Regan Johnson
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2007 University of Denver Sturm College of Law All rights reserved.
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UNIVERSITY OF DENVER STURM COLLEGE OF LAW VOLUME 4, ISSUE 2 • AUGUST 2007
The Sturm College of Law publishes the College of Law Alumni Magazine twice a year – summer and winter – for alumni and friends of the law school.
Magazine production is managed by the Office of Communications, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, 2255 E. Evans Ave., Suite 315, Denver, CO 80208.
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PHOTO CREDITS: Mike Richmond: pp. 24, 58, 59 (top row). Wayne Armstrong: pp. 43, 48, 60. University Photo: pp. 47, 48
Eric Weber: pp. 57, 78 (top L). CU School of Law Office of Communications: p. 59 (bottom). Scott Dressel-Martin: p. 61.
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Meghan Howesl e t t e r s Letters to the Ed itor
Dear Ms. Howes: I was impressed to read the article by
Linda Knight, which decried the unequal treatment of indigent persons in the criminal justice system. Staking out a controversial issue rather than self-congratulatory endorsement of faculty tomes in obscure publications evidences the law school’s commitment to the practice of law, even if unequal to academic hyperbole.
For any law student or veteran of criminal defense, the one-sided effect of money and power on the court system is not only an eye-opener but a puss-oozing wound of ignored justice. While many fine young lawyers find their careers in the prosecution of crimes, in times an ichthyosis of humanity too often prejudices them against justice for the sake of convictions. The poor become victimized by sterile policies demanding plea bargains to unproven crimes or long-term imprisonment while awaiting humanity only reserved for jury verdicts. The public defender’s office has neither the time nor resources to offer each defendant a fair trial and thus must surrender to the duress of the plea offer, despite denial of the duress imposed by the threat of continued jail time while awaiting trial.
Middle class defendants face a similar draconian choice between financial disembowelment by going to trial or acceptance of certain criminal penalties. Prosecutors, who must provide convictions in order to remain viable, then induce convictions gained easier by plea agreement than by trial. The concept of dismissal under a deferred prosecution has given way to intractable policies of plea-bargained convictions regardless of the facts, truth, or justice. Private counsel must then stand before the tribunal and mouth the lie that there has been no duress imposed upon the defendant to accept the plea offer, even
though the financial element, gleaned by the prosecution, stakes its claim on the case in opposition to a full examination of
the facts. As to the wealthy, the public only need watch
tabloid television and recall the O.J. Simpson or JonBenet Ramsey circuses to learn for whom “justice” is reserved. I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to explore this system, first through the student law office and, time and again, through trials rather than mouthing lies for a plea agreement.
Yours very truly, Thomas C. “Doc” Miller
Dear Ms. Howes: I write in regard to the article entitled “DU Law
Students Win Majority of Colorado Supreme Court Clerkships,” published in Volume 4, Issue 1 of the University of Denver Sturm College of Law Alumni Magazine. I believe the article is wholly remiss in not mentioning the nine DU Law graduates who are currently serving as law clerks for judges on the Colorado Court of Appeals. Instead of acknowledging the success DU Law graduates have had in obtaining clerkships with the Colorado appellate
See Letters on page 42
Do you have something to say? Then let us hear it. Send your comments to
editor Meghan Howes by e-mail to: [email protected]. Or by mail to: Office of Communications, DU Sturm College of Law 2255 E. Evans Ste. #315 Denver, CO 80208.
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News Briefs
SCOL Environmental Law Program Wins Top Honors
briefs The American Bar Association is
honoring the University of Denver Sturm College
of Law with the association’s highest award for
achievement in environmental law, a recognition
bestowed in the past on law schools rated among the
best in the field.
The ABA, with more than 400,000 members
nationwide, is naming DU’s Environmental and
Natural Resources Law Program the recipient of its
annual Award for Distinguished Achievement in
Environmental Law and Policy.
Professor Federico Cheever, director of DU's envi
ronmental and natural resources law program, said the
award comes as the United States and the world
embark on what may be the most important period of
environmental study and protection since the 1970s.
“It’s really an extraordinary era for environmen
tal and natural resources law,” he said. “This is the
age of climate change and a new generation of envi
ronmental problems.”
With its goal of educating students in both theo
ry and real-world practice, Cheever said the Sturm
College of Law strives to prepare lawyers who will
face issues ranging from endangered species to cli
mate change to alternative energy.
He called the award “a real recognition for the
extraordinary range of activities and experiences
that the Environmental and Natural Resources Law
Program at the Sturm College of Law provides.”
Dean José R. Juárez, Jr. said the award recognizes
the ongoing work being done at DU.
“The Environmental and Natural Resources Law
Program at the University of Denver Sturm College
of Law has a long and distinguished history of serv
ice to the legal profession and to the community,” he
said. “The program’s faculty produce exemplary
scholarship while also providing excellent training
to the next generation of environmental lawyers.”
The ABA award was established to honor the
work of institutions making extraordinary contribu
tions to environmental law. The University of Denver
was nominated by 1972 DU Law graduate Howard
Kenison, of the firm Lindquist & Vennum PLLP.
Find more information online at: American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Environmental Law:
www.abanet.org/publicserv/ environmental/home.html
Sturm College of Law Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program:
www.law.du.edu/naturalresources/
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Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law Creates Speaker Series When Robert Chang was named this year’s Sturm Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law, he immediately began to explore the ways in which he could contribute to the DU community during his time on campus. Chang’s exploration resulted in the development of the Sturm Distinguished Speaker Series, which launched in March.
“The impetus for this came from conversations I had in the fall with Dean Juarez and Associate Dean Bryan,” said Chang, professor of law and J. Rex Dibble Fellow at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. “We decided that bringing in distinguished scholars who could help me think about the question of national belonging, broadly conceived, would help me with my work as well as contribute to the intellectual life of the entire law school community.”
Adrienne Dale Davis, Reef C. Ivey II Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law kicked off the speaker series with her presentation entitled, “Slavery, Reparations, and Conceptions of Justice.” Davis was followed by Hiroshi Motomura, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Law and Associate Dean
of Faculty, University of North Carolina School of Law; Frances Lee Ansley, Distinguished Professor, University of Tennessee College of Law; and Ann Scales, Associate Professor of Law, Sturm College of Law.
“We thought it was important that we do this through public lectures to which the law school community as well as the broader DU community was invited,” said Chang. “I was pleased that we had a great turnout from faculty, staff, and students from the law school and other DU departments.”
Prof. Bob Chang, Sturm Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law
Chang said he plans to continue the speaker series next year before returning to Loyola.
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News Briefs
DU Students Challenge the Federal Government Before even passing the Bar exam, a team of recent University of Denver Sturm College of Law graduates have gained some impressive experience, arguing in a legal arena many attorneys never visit.
Three freshly minted grads went toe-to-toe with the U.S. government the week of May 28. Under a new program that allows student lawyers to try cases in federal court, they argued for a Supermax prison inmate over his constitutional right to write and publish articles.
May graduates Donald Bounds, Jack Hobaugh, Jr. and Michelle Young joined Assistant Professor of Law Laura Rovner, who acted as supervising attorney, to argue for 31-year-old Mark Jordan, serving terms for bank robbery and murder at the Colorado Supermax facility in Florence.
Jordan is suing the government over rules that prohibit him from acting as a reporter or publishing articles under a byline. Jordan has written on a variety of topics, including civil rights and a prison visit from his daughter, who has Down syndrome. While Rovner was present throughout the three-day call, the students handled everything from the opening argument to the closing statement.
Federal Judge Marcia Krieger was stern, at times demanding, as she heard the case from the bench without a jury. But she was also patient with the new graduates, who were still studying for the July Bar exam.
Bounds, a 59-year-old former commercial building contractor, said the real-life experience was priceless, but it didn’t come easy. The students prepared the case for nearly a year, working through the Christmas holiday to file motions and working until midnight or later every night for weeks leading up to the trial.
Hobaugh, 51, also came to Sturm after a successful career. He continued working at his telecommunications job while attending night school for four years, including summers. “Most of my friends are already winding down and counting the days to retirement,” he said. “Here I am, counting down the days to my new career.”
Young, 28, said preparing the case was an unforgettable experience. In addition to presenting an issue with the potential for national impact and working in an area she is passionate about, the students also spent time at Supermax and interviewed several other inmates, including Theodore Kaczynski, the so-called “Unabomber,” to help understand how prison rules affect inmates’ ability to express their thoughts.
Rovner knows the students had a tough case to try, steeped in complex legal theory and the thorny issue of what rights prisoners give up as a part of their incarceration. She said it’s the kind of tough issue students at the law school’s Civil Rights Clinic frequently have to grapple with. “I thought that they did a really effective job,” Rovner said. “It was hard. You just can’t predict everything that will happen in a trial. But they handled it with real thoughtfulness and grace, and most importantly, they were there to represent their client, and they did.”
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Ashley Pollock, Kathleen Potter, Zachary Dickerson, Eric Grijalva, Prof. Hickey and
Michael Goldstone (left to right)
DU Students Help toCraft New Colorado Law When the law didn’t seem to meet the needs of clients coming into the Sturm College of Law’s clinic, Visiting Professor Wendy Hickey’s students did something about it.
They changed it. Hickey’s DU law clinic classes spent one year researching and
then pressing for a new state law to help workers fight back against employers who illegally withhold wages. The result, House Bill 1247, was sponsored by Denver Democratic State Rep. Joel Judd and wound its way through committee hearings, the halls of Capitol Hill, floor votes and onto Gov. Bill Ritter’s desk.
The governor signed the bill into law May 31. Eight second- and third-year students helped craft the lan
guage, testified at hearings, helped clients from the law clinic testify before House committees and wrangled with lawmakers in the Capitol’s hallways.
The students had support from Judd (JD ‘75) and a boost from fellow DU law alumnus and Rep. Terrance Carroll (JD ‘05), D-Denver, and Sen. Ron Tupa, D-Boulder, for a bill that strengthens incentives for employers to pay due wages to employees in a timely manner and increases penalties for
See DU Students on page 11
New Climate Change Law and PolicyCourse Offered
Maintaining its position at the forefront of natural resources and environmental law, the Sturm College of Law has added a new course to its curriculum: Climate Change Law and Policy.
The course was developed in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent rebuke of the Bush administration for its inaction on global warming. In its first case on climate change, the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, declared that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are air pollutants under the Clean Air Act. The decision could lead to more fuel-efficient cars as early as next year.
DU has been fighting for “cleaner” cars for several years. In 2005, DU’s Environmental Law Clinic—through its partnership with the Center for Biological Diversity—and Friends of the Earth teamed up to file a case against the federal government mandating the development of an attainable plan to implement greater use of alternative fuel vehicles (ATFs)— vehicles that burn non-petroleum fuel. The case was resolved in favor of the plaintiffs in March 2006.
Domestically produced, ATFs have cleaner emissions than vehicles burning petroleum. If less petroleum is used nationwide, there will be less need to drill for oil, fewer accidents resulting from the transport of oil and fewer disputes over the possession of oil.
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National Pantsuit Day Examines Gender Inequality in the Legal Field
DU Law Professor Roberto Corrada and law student Ted Friedman
dressed the part for National Pantsuit Day.
The notion that women must wear skirts in order to appear professional may seem ludicrous in 2007. However, many female lawyers still confront this view every time they set foot in the courtroom.
To explore the greater issue of gender inequality in the legal profession, the DU Law Social Justice Action Group sponsored National Pantsuit Day on
April 5. Programming included a lunchtime panel moderated by DU Law Professor Nancy Ehrenreich, and an evening reception featuring keynote speeches from Professor Kathleen Bergin of South Texas College of Law and Professor Gowri Ramachandran of Southwestern Law School. Bergin wrote Sexualized Advocacy: The Ascendant Backlash Against Female Lawyers and Ramachandran wrote Jewelry, Makeup, Tattoos, and Piercing.
During the lunchtime panel—which included Ramachandran, DU Law Professor Joyce Sterling, Trial Team Coach Karen Steinhauser and DU Law alumna Lindy Frolich, JD’88—many in the audience sided with the argument that lawyers should be able to wear anything they choose in court, including pantsuits. Other participants voiced their hesitancy with this, acknowledging that some judges and jurors consider a pants-clad female attorney unprofessional. Most everyone in attendance agreed with the point Frolich raised, however.
“Who is the most important person in the courtroom?” she asked. “Your client. So dress however you think will most benefit your client. Be professional. Be comfortable. If you’re uncomfortable, you’re not going to do well in court.”
To show solidarity for their female peers, two male members of the Sturm College of Law community attended the lunchtime panel wearing skirts, albeit one was a kilt.
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DU in U.S. News & World Report’s Top 100 Law Schools
For the sixth year in a row, U.S. News & World Report ranked the Sturm College of Law among the top 100 law schools in the nation.
The publication’s annual ranking of “America’s Best Graduate Schools” lists the Sturm College of Law among the nation’s top-tier schools, tied at No. 77 with Rutgers School of Law-Newark, University at Buffalo Law School-SUNY, University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Law, and the University of Richmond School of Law.
Additionally, the Sturm College of Law’s Environmental and Natural Resources Program ranks No. 16 in the country for environmental law studies. Sturm ties at No. 21 for tax law and is ranked among the nation’s 100 most selective law schools.
“It is gratifying that the achievements of our environmental law and tax law programs have been recognized,” said Dean José R. Juárez, Jr. “We will continue to work to achieve similar recognition of other excellent programs at the Sturm College of Law.”
According to the study, nearly 85 percent of DU Law students had a job waiting for them at graduation, and nearly 99 percent were employed within nine months of graduating.
U.S. News & World Report ranks law and other graduate programs annually, incorporating both expert opinion and statistical data collected in surveys of more than 1,200 programs and 12,500 academics and professionals.
In a separate report by the National Jurist, the Sturm College of Law ranks No. 5 among U.S. law schools in its 2007 Diversity Rankings. The ranking is based on the increase in enrollment of minority law students at DU from 10 percent in 2000 to 18.7 percent in 2006—an increase of 87 percent.
16th Annual RMLUI Land Use Conference
With an overall theme of sustainability, the Rocky Mountain
Land Use Institute’s 2007 Land Use
Conference, held in March, featured a
symposium on resolving land use dis
putes by the Massachusetts-based
Consensus Building Institute.
“Our theme of
sustainability res
onated with partici
pants and proved to
be very timely,” said
RMLUI Executive Director James
van Hemert of this year’s conference,
which drew nearly 650 participants
including many nationally recognized
leaders in the field of land use. “In all
my years as executive director and as
an attendee in prior years, never has
RMLUI pulled together such a
diverse, talented and inspirational
group of speakers for the conference.”
Other topics explored during this
year’s conference included water-
conservation issues, land-use ethics,
recent land use decisions in the Rocky
Mountain West, the history of urban
sprawl, public health issues, and
See RMLUI on page 31
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Architect of English Civil Law Reform Visits DU
Retired Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales Harry Woolf
Harry Woolf, retired Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, and author of the Woolf Report on alternative dispute resolution in England, joined a distinguished panel of legal minds at the Civil Justice Reform Summit hosted by DU’s Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS) in April.
An advocate of reforming the legal system to make it simpler and more efficient, Woolf has argued for discovery rules that bar opposing parties from bombarding each other with irrelevant paperwork and pointless motions, and has worked to replace legal jargon with clear language anyone can understand.
“The whole idea was not to push parties apart but to pull them together,” said Woolf. “A great deal of litigation in my country is now settled without any proceedings.”
The Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System, led by former Colorado Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Love Kourlis, is dedicated to reforming the American legal system. “Everyone is concerned about the cost and complexity of the civil system,” said Kourlis. “Everyone is concerned that we are pricing litigants out of the court system.”
Key areas in need of reform in U.S. civil courts include the lengthy process of discovery, the barrage of motions attorneys file and the extensive use of expert witnesses. The process is becoming too cumbersome and too expensive for ordinary people to navigate, according to Kourlis.
Reflecting on his reform efforts in England and the task facing the Institute, Woolf said the work is important because the rest of the world looks to English and American legal systems for guidance.
Additional summit attendees included Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Justice Michael Bender of the Colorado Supreme Court, Chief Judge Janice Davidson of the Colorado Court of Appeals and Sturm College of Law Dean José Roberto Juárez, Jr.
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employers who willfully withhold pay. Hickey says that while an earlier class identified
the need and did a lot of the early legwork, it was this semester’s class that found itself scrambling to find support for the measure with just a week left to file bills for the session. Judd said the students added real-life testimony in crucial committee hearings that helped drive the issues home.
The students who took part in the class are: Zachary Dickerson, Jennifer Eyl, Michael Goldstone, Eric Grijalva, Yoon Kim, Ashley Pollock, Katie Potter and Stephanie Shannon. None feel the call to go into politics, but all say the insights they gained will help them in their law careers.
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Bringing theFuture into the
presentReexamining the law school’s
strategic plan J. L. Sommars Contributing Writer
This year, Dean Juárez will sit down and draft a new vision for the Sturm
College of Law. But before he pens any ideas, he wants to hear from students, fac
ulty and especially you, the alumni. It’s been said that planning is “bringing the
future into the present so you can do something about it.”
If that’s the case, then the future will soon be paying a visit to the University of
Denver Sturm College of Law.
Dean Beto Juárez, Jr. has announced a major initiative to “revisit and
update” the school’s strategic plan. “Our goal is to identify the existing
strengths of the law school with respect to teaching and scholarship, and to lay
out our aspirations for further improvements in those critical areas,” he says.
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“When I applied for this position I
got the chance to read our current
plan,” Juárez explains. “It was clear a
great deal of time and effort had been
put into it. But one of the things I dis
covered as I got to know DU better
and better was that several of our
strengths aren’t recognized in that
document.
“For example, since it was written
in 2000, we’ve hired additional faculty
in the area of intellectual property law.
It’s now a strength for us. So the ques
tion is, ‘How do we want to develop
this?’ We haven’t thought about this
in a systematic way.
“Another unrecognized strength is
employment and labor law. We have
more faculty writing and teaching in
this area than almost every other law
school in the country. This wasn’t
something that was necessarily
planned out. It just so happens there
are a number of us who work in that
“Strategic planning means
addressing changing priorities, not just
maintaining the status
quo.” -Kerry Plemmons
in the wings to take over. If we have
people who work in particular areas
and those people are no longer here,
is this, in fact, something we contin
ue to deeply care about as an institu
tion?”
“Strategic planning is all about
asking tough questions like these,”
says Kerry Plemmons, a former
Starbucks executive who is an associ
ate clinical professor of marketing at
DU’s Daniels College of Business.
“Industry leaders focus on what they
do best. They’re obsessed by it.
Whether it’s value, quality, service,
convenience or innovation, they
leverage this special capability to
stand out from their competitors.
This is a great opportunity for the
law school to examine and enhance
their competencies. The rewards
can be enormous.”
Plemmons adds, “Strategic plans
are also notable for the things that are
area and so what should we do with that?” he queries. left out. Industry leaders avoid the temptation of
Juárez also acknowledges that some aspects of the ‘being all things to all people.’”
original plan simply aren’t realistic. “We talk about “Looking back, I learned you can’t jump on every
developing a health law program. Well, our health law fad bandwagon,” admits professor of law Sheila
program has largely consisted of former Dean Hyatt, who served on the strategic planning commit-
Edward Dauer who has done remarkable work over tee in 2000. “It’s easy to write a plan that has some-
the years offering a number of courses to our stu- thing for everybody so everybody can be behind it. I
dents. Ed is about to retire and there’s no one waiting think we may have been guilty of that.”
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“The core leadership group has to be forcefully “The plan was unique at the time and received
behind the plan and make sure it gets implemented, national attention from other law schools,” Moye
even if it means some things you did in the past have says. “Previously, the faculty had developed strategies
to be jettisoned,” she adds. “Strategic for curriculum, but never before
planning means addressing changing
priorities, not just maintaining the sta
tus quo.”
One example she cites from the
2000 plan is the stated goal of “creat
ing a program and identity as a center
of learning for technology/telecommu
nications law.”
“We drafted the plan during the
height of the dot-com boom,” she
says. “There was speculation that as
many as half of our students would
become lawyers in this industry. Then
the bubble burst and the demand sim
ply hasn’t materialized.”
A Change of Plans The 2000 plan focused on three major
themes, says John Moye, a Denver
attorney who served as committee
chairman. “The first was identifying
and developing the critical skills need
ed to practice law in the 21st century.
The second was the role of technology
in our rapidly changing environment.
And the third was expanding our addi
tional degree opportunities, such as
the one-year ‘executive’ law degree.”
“Trying to figure out how you become better
without losing what is already
great about the law
school is a challenge.”
-Dean Beto Juarez
had the faculty, staff, alumni and
others in the legal community sat
down and concentrated on all the
aspects required to provide the
highest quality legal education and
put it down on one document. So,
in that respect, it was groundbreak
ing work.”
“We are a different law school
than we were in the past and
change is always difficult,” says
Juárez. “Trying to figure out how
you become better without los
ing what is already great about
the law school is a challenge.
That’s what this planning process
is all about.”
So what does Juárez, who is
approaching his first anniversary on
the job, feel are DU’s strengths?
“When I think about what makes
DU a great law school, I think it’s
the tradition we have of producing
first-rate lawyers who are able to
graduate and hit the ground run
ning. All of us need additional train
ing after we graduate, but I think
our graduates are better prepared
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than graduates of most law schools. That’s an
important part of our history and a continuing
strength for us.”
“We also have a terrific faculty who are really
devoted to both teaching and scholarship,” he contin
ues. “The vast majority of the faculty deeply care
about their teaching. And this is very, very impor
tant. At a lot of law schools the faculty either con
sider themselves good teachers or good scholars,
but not both. What I love about DU is that most of
the faculty aspire to do both.”
“So the challenge is developing an infrastruc
ture that’s going to allow these strengths to con
tinue and develop further,” he says. “But an even
greater challenge is the need to raise more money
for scholarships.”
“We’re not going to be able to continue to attract
the very best students if we don’t increase our schol
arship money. Our competitors are trying to lure
away our very best students by offering them more
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is on the horizon
scholarship money than we’re able to,” he says. “If
we want to meet the goals that we set out in the
strategic plan for diversifying the student body even
more than it already is now, we’re going to have to be
able to offer more scholarship money to attract those
diverse students.”
“We also need more scholarship money simply
because the debt burden that our students are gradu
ating with is so high, it is precluding many of them
from doing the kind of work they’d like to do, like
public interest,” he explains. (The average debt-load
of graduating DU students is approximately $90,000
but frequently can be as high as $150,000.)
"The practice of law is changing and we need to
change with it," Juárez goes on to say. "The Carnegie
Foundation is publishing a study of legal education in
this country and what they're telling us is law schools
aren't paying enough attention to what's going on
out there with regard to the practice of law and get
ting our students ready to succeed in this new envi
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ronment. So what I hope we're able
to do with this strategic planning
process is to get input from our alum
ni who are out there in the real world.
They can tell us the skills needed in
their daily work and we can develop
the curriculum that will make our
graduates even more effective."
“If we do that,” he says, “then I
think the strategic plan will be an
immediate success, whether or not
we ever achieve all the ambitious
goals we identify.”
Building on the Past “This planning process is our
opportunity to really think seriously
about what a legal education should
be,” Juárez continues. “One of the
things that I’m very proud of is that
DU has been a pioneer in legal educa
tion for a very long time. We invent
ed clinical legal education over a hun
dred years ago with the establishment
of the Student Law Office. We have a
long tradition of offering very
practical education that trains our
students to be trial lawyers and we
have shaped our curriculum to
“Once the decisions are made
and agreed upon, I’m going to
constantly push the
faculty and staff to actually
make those things happen.”
-Dean Beto Juárez
most lawyers have to understand.
Harvard is now doing that. They’ve
finally figured it out, years later.”
But Plemmons, an entrepreneur
who has counseled dozens of organi
zations, cautions, “Writing the plan is
the easy part. Getting the entire
organization to buy into it and use it
as a template for decision making is
where the leadership and hard work
come in.”
Juárez admits from past experi
ence that “Strategic plans have a
tendency to end up with a very
thick layer of dust on the book
shelf.” But he’s determined that
won’t happen at DU.
“Once the decisions are made and
agreed upon, I’m going to constantly
push the faculty and staff to actually
make those things happen,” he says.
“I’ll be able to respond to requests
for resources by asking the person,
‘How does this further our plan and
help us meet our goals?’ If it doesn’t,
we shouldn’t be doing it because
we’ll always have limited resources
and the question is how do you use
those limited resources?”
meet the realities of law practice as they change.” “We don’t want to charge our students any more
“For example,” he says, “we started requiring tuition than we absolutely have to,” explains Juárez
administrative law a long time ago because we under- (yearly full-time tuition at SCOL is currently
stood this was something that, in today’s law practice, $32, 190). “And when we go out and ask alumni and
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other supporters to contribute to the law school,
we want to know their money is being well spent
and that we’ve thought carefully about why we’re
asking for their financial support.”
What Next? “I’m going to appoint a faculty committee that
will be responsible for spearheading this planning
effort,” says Juárez. “This committee will also have
student and alumni representatives. Working closely
with Howard Kenison, chair of the Alumni Council,
we plan to reach out to alumni, to solicit their ideas,
participation and support. This will involve schedul
ing group meetings in Colorado, as well as in cities
across the country where we have high concentra
tions of graduates. We want to get their feedback
about what they think we should be doing.”
Juárez encourages alumni to contact Kenison
by e-mail at [email protected] or Kirk
Baughan, director of alumni relations and develop
ment at [email protected] or 303-871-6123, if
they’d like to share their ideas or volunteer to be a
part of the process.
The dates, times and locations of the group
meetings, as well as updates of the planning
process, will be published in upcoming issues of
this magazine.
“There are lots of ways alumni will be able to
participate,” says Juárez. “Some of them will be on
the official committee, but many more, I hope, will
get involved in the discussions.”
DU Law School’s Vision & Strategies
What’s changed since 2000? You tell us!
In 2000, the Strategic Planning Committee chaired by
John Moye agreed on the following vision: “The
University of Denver College of Law aspires to be a
preeminent law school, with a faculty that is widely
recognized for its successful and innovative teaching in
both traditional and emerging areas of study, as well as
for its scholarly achievements. The College of Law’s
goals are to attract local, national and international stu
dents of high academic quality, drawing strength from its
firm roots in the region, and to produce graduates recog
nized as outstanding lawyers whether in private practice,
government or in the corporate world. We also aspire to
graduate students who are recognized as outstanding
community leaders and achievers in non-legal fields.”
The committee also detailed the strategies required
to achieve the vision and make it come to life.
To read the entire document, paste the
following address into your web browser :
www.law.du.edu/alumni/plan.pdf
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You Say You Want a
Revolution It began as two law students’ idea for extracurricular credit. Now, under sage guidance, it stands to revolutionize teaching
methods and media coverage of significant trials.
Brendan Harrington
In January 2007, Professor Jay Brown and
seven law students at the Sturm College of Law
launched a new law blog called The Race to the
Bottom. The blog is an open forum specifically
focused on corporate governance in the post
Sarbanes-Oxley era. The online journal takes an
opinionated stance toward corporate mismanage
ment and the regulation thereof.
The Race to the Bottom blog started when two
eager, first-year students had an idea for an extracur
ricular project. In their second semester at SCOL,
Armin Sarabi and Matthew Pangborn approached
Professor Brown with the idea of creating a law
journal focused specifically on corporate gover
nance. Considering the technological age in which
Educational Experience
we live, Brown encouraged them to turn their idea
and enthusiasm into a blog instead. Thus was born
The Race to the Bottom, a collaborative project
between students and faculty that has taken the
online law-journaling world by storm.
Sarabi and Pangborn dug into the project imme
diately. They enlisted fellow students Vaughn
Marshall and Patrick Greenleaf to help them devel
op the idea. It was up to the students to design, build
and launch the Web site—a very time-consuming
process—and they met several times each week to
work on it. They were adamant that the site would
be professional, with a clean presentation and easy
navigation. But most importantly, it had to be accu
rate from a scholarly standpoint.
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“The quality of content is very important to us. We want it to be a legitimate source of analysis."
-Armin Sarabi
And for that reason, Professor Brown stayed
involved from the beginning, putting in just as much
time as an advisor on all things law. “From the get-
go, it was a collaborative effort,” Sarabi explains.
“It’s good to have someone on the faculty with even
more motivation than we have.”
The team grew with the addition of Babak
Salman Banaei, Frank Tsu and Andrew Hayden.
And finally, after nearly one year of hard work and
late nights, The Race to the Bottom blog was
launched. “We didn’t know what to expect,” says
Sarabi. “But it was very successful right off the bat.”
Much of that success is the result of fortuitous
timing. Brown and company went public with the
site just two months before the beginning of the
United States vs. Joe Nacchio trial in Denver—an
insider trading case with a national audience. Over
the next several weeks, the team of eight would take
turns sitting in on court sessions and posting reports
of the proceedings as they unfolded. It was this cov
erage of the Nacchio trial that realized the blog’s
great potential. Not only was it the first student-fac
ulty collaboration of its kind, but a revolutionary
stroke in how courtroom proceedings are reported
to the public.
“The Nacchio trial was the best thing that
could’ve happened,” says Sarabi.
The Educational Angle In approaching the project, Professor Brown first
thought of his pupils. “How can you involve stu
dents so it is useful and educational?” he pondered
as the trial approached. Being in the courtroom for
such a significant case gave the students a chance to
observe a real-life trial with real high stakes. It
became a powerful teaching tool.
“It was a really good learning experience for
us,” says Sarabi. “It was a chance to get more in-
depth. Sitting in on a trial should be a requirement
for law students. It is more of a hands-on experience
than sitting in a lecture class. It takes a two-dimen
sional experience and turns it into a three-dimen
sional experience.”
As part of their responsibilities, the students
were required to pull all the briefs, copy all relevant
materials and post the information on the site—
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quite an additional workload to their already heavy
2L duties. Enriching the educational experience even
more was the addition of Daniels College of Business
professor Kevin O’Brien, who would report on the
trial from a business perspective and work with the
law students personally. “It is incredibly valuable to
have his expertise,” says Brown.
“You don’t typically get that one-on-one experi
ence with a professor in law school. And [these aren’t]
just any professors,” says Sarabi of his time spent with
professors Brown and O’Brien. “Jay will sit and review
our work over and over again. It gives us the [opportu
nity] to really understand how legal analysis works.”
The Journalistic Angle Beyond their own educational experience, The Race
to the Bottom team set new standards for law blogs
nationwide and how trials are reported by the media.
“To this point, most law blogs are vanity fairs,”
opines Brown, that offer singular viewpoints from
the industry professionals who run the sites. But The
Race to the Bottom blog is different. It offers detailed
analysis of—in this case—an actual trial, presenting
the facts for discussion and debate.
In April 2007, The Race to the Bottom was
named “Law Blog of the Day” by Peter Lattman of
The Wall Street Journal. “Among the best sources of
Nacchio news, at least for us legal beagles, is The Race
to the Bottom, a blog maintained by Professor Jay
Brown and his students at the University of Denver
Law School [sic],” Lattman wrote. And the kudos did
not stop there. Universally, the blog was cited as the
most accurate, professional, and real-time source
available for news on the Nacchio case.
While both Denver newspapers covered the daily
proceedings as well, their reportage paled in compar
ison. “Even students have more experience in this
than the media,” says Brown. The newspapers would
gloss the highlights of each day, writing for general
consumption. On the other hand, The Race to the
Bottom team reported the subtle details that are so
critical in a jury trial. While the students took a more
questioning posture, observing cause and effect of
courtroom manipulations firsthand, Brown often
took a professorial angle, discussing the techniques of
attorneys on both sides and offering experienced
insight to their methods.
On day four of the trial, for example, Brown
reported, “[Defense attorney] Stern also made his
first appearance since the opening and had a tough
time of things. He is less crisp and more folksy, pac
ing side to side (a constant squeaky sound from the
floor audible to the audience). More so than [prose
cutor] Stricklin, he elevates his voice and occasionally
strikes the podium for emphasis. He is less fluid with
the technology, at one point having to rely on the
government to put exhibits up on the computer
screen. His questioning style generated a raft of
objections … [that] broke the flow of his questioning,
making it less effective.”
In this way, Brown used the site as an education
al tool. In addition, however, he spent ample time dis
cussing the legal issues at hand, thereby legitimizing
the site as a valid source for news and legal analysis. It
did not take long for the local papers to catch on.
The Denver Post enlisted Professor Brown to
write a regular column analyzing the trial for their
paper and the Rocky Moutnain News engaged the
blog team in a question-and-answer session over a
four-day period while the trial was winding down.
Despite the cooperation with these newspapers, how
ever, the blog itself remained the authoratative
NOTE: The Race to the Bottom is an exhaustive resource on corporate law. Visit the site online to explore the depth of this team’s research at: www.theracetothebottom.org. As a result of the ideas generated by the blog, Professor Brown has written a number of related articles
addressing corporate governance. Find these papers at: www.ssrn.com/author=83233.
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resource for in-
depth and timely
discussion of the
Nacchio trial.
According to
Brown, The Race
to the Bottom blog
receives 1,000 hits
per day. “That’s nothing for a newspaper, but this is
a very qualified readership. It is specialized con
sumption … an extraordinary level of audience,” he
explains. The blog posts also are included in a
newsletter that is distributed to approximately
10,000 lawyers.
The Bigger Picture Cameras are not allowed in the courtroom.
Neither are cell phones or television coverage. We are
accustomed to seeing sketches of the primary players
caught in pensive stencil. In this high-tech era, how
ever, laptop computers are allowed in the courtroom.
And that fact alone stands to change the way in which
trials are reported to the outside world.
“In the academic world, there is a need to get
ideas out faster than the traditional law review
process,” says Brown of the role technology plays
today. The Race to the Bottom blog addresses exact
ly that need. For the first time, industry insiders are
recording the intricacies of courtroom proceedings
and revealing these details to the outside world as
they unfold. And in this sense, Brown and the team
from DU are revolutionizing trial coverage, both by
the media and within the legal industry.
“I don’t think about it that way,” responds
Sarabi. “We just keep our nose to the grindstone [and
try] to offer something that the local community can
take advantage of.”
“Our goal is to encourage the academic mission,”
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Brown states, returning the focus to his students and
the educational value of such an endeavor. “This blog
is evolving the direction of scholarship.” Professor
Brown is clearly most proud of that unexpected
accomplishment. He hopes that this work will identify
a new model of student-faculty collaboration that more
schools can duplicate.
Brown recognizes the step his students have
taken for the legal community as a whole. And so
too, does the Sturm College of Law administration.
In May, the University presented Sarabi, Matthew
Pangborn, and Vaughn Marshall with a Student
Leadership Award to “recognize students who have
implemented a new program or have significantly
modified an existing program, which better serves
the community at large.”
The Race to the Bottom has evolved into a
sophisticated and comprehensive source for discourse
on Corporate Governance law. And as the Nacchio
trial fades into the history books, the blog team will
continue their pioneering endeavor. Raising scholas
tic standards and revolutionizing media coverage of
significant trials is quite an achievement. Sarabi
shrugs, “The chips just fell into the right place.” And
the team goes on, unfazed.
Above left- Armin Sarabi and Professor Brown. Below: Matt Pangborn, Professor Brown, Vaughn
Marshall, Armin Sarabi and Professor Kevin O’Brien.
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RACHAEL ARNOW-RICHMAN PUBLICATIONS “Cubewrap Contracts and Worker Mobility: The Dilution of Employee Bargaining Power via
JERRY BORISON PUBLICATIONS Took sabbatical to prepare a course on UCC 9-Secured Transactions.
Completed the second edition of a casebook entitled (co-authored with David
Richardson of University of Florida Graduate Tax Program and Steve Johnson of University of Nevada School of Law), which is one of about a dozen being published in a Graduate Tax Series by LexisNexis for use in Graduate Tax Program courses rather than in
Panelist, “Strategies for Handling Cases Involving the Trust Fund Recovery Penalty,” ABA Section of Taxation meeting, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (January
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Standard Form Noncompetes,” 2006 MICH. STATE L. REV. 963 (symposium issue). Civil Tax Procedure
ETC. Serves on Moms Rising Advisory Committee on Maternal Profiling/Family Responsibilities Discrimination
law school courses. AALS Section on Labor & Employment Law: Drafting Committee, AALS Mid-Year Professional CONFERENCES Development Program Proposal
ARTHUR BEST 2007). PUBLICATIONS “Impediments to Reasonable Tort Reform: Lessons from the Adoption of Comparative Negligence,” 40 Indiana L. Rev. 1 (2007).
Basic Tort Law, Second Edition (Aspen, 2007).
Evidence: Examples and Explanations, Sixth Edition (Aspen, 2007).
Wigmore on Evidence, 2007 Supplement (Aspen, 2007).
CONFERENCES Panel Moderator for DU Law’s 2nd annual conference on law and domestic violence, Battered Mothers and Witnessing Children: Failure to Protect and Conceptions of State Accountability, University of Denver Sturm College of Law (March 2007).
Panelist, two ABA Section of Taxation meetings involving different aspects of representing taxpayers before the IRS Appeals Office, Washington, D.C. (May 2007).
JAY BROWN PUBLICATIONS “Corporate Governance, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Limits of Disclosure,” University of Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-27 (April 25, 2007), online version: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm? abstract_id=982444.
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“Feds Won’t Tolerate A Rigged Game,” Denver Post (April 23, 2007).
“Legal analysis: Law could have aided Nacchio in ‘01,” Denver Post (April 12, 2007).
“Legal Analysis: Prosecution’s Promises Not All Delivered,” Denver Post (April 7, 2007).
“Legal Analysis: Foresight Gives Prosecutors the Last Word,” Denver Post (April 11, 2007).
“Legal Analysis: In Courtroom With Three Judges, Only One With Gavel Matters,” Denver Post (March 25, 2007).
PRESENTATIONS
Empiricism,” 101 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW COLLOQUY
BOB CHANG PUBLICATIONS “Testing the ‘Model Minority Myth’: A Case of Weak
101 (2007) (with Rose Cuison Villazor).
Afterword, “The Race Question in LatCrit Theory and Asian American Jurisprudence,” 7 NEVADA LAW JOURNAL (forthcoming 2007) (with Neil Gotanda).
“Who Are You Rooting For? Transnationalism, the World Cup, and War,” in Pedagogies of the Global: Transnationalism, Ethnicity and the Public Sphere (Arif Dirlik ed., Paradigm Publishers 2007).
“Islam and Financial Markets in Turkey,” Sutton Colloquium, University of Denver Sturm College of Law (March 2007).
“Islam and Financial Markets in Turkey and the West Bank,” Denver World Affairs Council and Education Outreach, Institute of International Education (March 2007).
“Enron and Corporate Governance,” Istanbul Stock Exchange (December 2006).
MEDIA The Race to the Bottom (www.theracetothe bottom.org) was written up in the Wall Street Journal Law Blog (see story on p. 21).
Interview on Colorado NPR about the Joe Nacchio/Qwest trial, April 19, 2007.
PRESENTATIONS Speaker, “Sex Politics and Gender Violence” Conference, University of Denver Sturm College of Law (February 2007).
Panel Moderator, “Queering Domestic Violence: GLBT Parents and Children,” at DU Law’s 2nd annual conference on law and domestic violence, Battered Mothers and Witnessing Children: Failure to Protect and Conceptions of State Accountability, University of Denver Sturm College of Law (March 2007).
Panelist, “Being Asian/American in the Legal Profession,” University of Denver Sturm College of Law (April 2007).
Speaker, “Unpacking Stereotypes in the Aftermath of the Virginia Tech Tragedy,” University of Denver Sturm College of Law (April 2007).
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Attended AALS Annual Clinical Conference in New
“Community Based Advocacy Efforts to Support Guild-
“Teaching Students to Effectively Work with Clients,” ABA/NLADA Equal Justice Conference
“Beyond Legal or Illegal: Ethical Issues Surrounding Undocumented Workers’ Status in Civil Litigation,” University of Denver Law Review Symposium, “Immigration: Both Sides of the Fence” (February
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PRESENTATIONS Board of Directors, LatCrit (Critical Latina and Latino Legal Theory, Inc.)
ALAN CHEN 2007). PUBLICATIONS Signed a contract with Aspen Publishers, securing publication of Law, Lawyering, and Social (March 2007). Change upon completion. The book will be a set of teaching materials designed for use in courses examining the legal profession’s role in pursuing and achiev- Immigrant Rights,” National Lawyers ing social change. Southwest Regional Convention (April 2007).
PRESENTATIONS APPOINTMENTS “Cafeteria Plan Federalism: Morrison, Castle Rock, Board of Clinical Legal Education Association and Domestic Violence as a Joint National-State Concern.” University of Houston Law Center (March 2007).
“Qualified Immunity: Unpacking the Issues,” 25th Annual Section 1983 Civil Rights Litigation Program, Georgetown University Law Center (April 2007).
CHRISTINE CIMINI CONFERENCES Attended AALS Annual Conference (January 2007).
Attended ABA/NLADA Equal Justice Conference (March 2007).
Attended National Lawyers Guild – Southwest Regional Convention (April 2007).
(through 2007).
One of four members asked to be on the Scholarship Committee of the AALS Clinical Section (2007).
Co-Chair of the AALS Clinical Section, Regional Conference Committee.
ETC. Community Legal Education Project: Supervised civil clinic students on a legal education project designed to inform workers and employers of their legal rights and responsibilities. Students drafted a manual and taught two classes at El Centro Humanitario Para Los Trabajadores.
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Executive Committee, University of Denver Chapter, American Association of University Professors
PRESENTATIONS “Applying the Science of Learning to the Law Classroom,” Lecture and Workshop, Washburn University School of Law (March 2007).
“Active & Collaborative Learning II: Advanced Stages,” Innovation in Law Teaching Workshop, University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, Wis.
ROBERTO CORRADA APPOINTMENTS Member, Colorado State Personnel Board (nominated by Governor Ritter)
Guest appearance and recipient of Santa Clara County Supervisor’s Certificate of Commendation, CaliToday Media and Community Celebration, San Jose Performing Arts Center, San Jose, Calif., (December 2006).
Speech on sharing experiences as women of color to FOCA, DU students and community members, Driscoll Center (February 2007).
Book signing and speech: From Literary Creativity to Community and Nation-Building: The Female Motif in Vietnamese and Vietnamese-American Literature, San Jose Public Library, San Jose, Calif. (March 2007).
Panelist and speaker, “Potential Impact of State-of-the-Art Artificial Intelligence on Foreign Direct
(February 2007).
ED DAUER Dean Emeritus and Professor Ed Dauer retired from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law faculty in June 2007.
WENDY DUONG PUBLICATIONS “Following the Path of Oil: The Law of the Sea or Realpolitik— What Good Does Law Do in the South China Sea Territorial Conflicts? 30 No. 1 FORDHAM J.INT’L LAW (Fall 2007).
PRESENTATIONS Keynote speaker, “Bridge to the Bar and Beyond,” Vietnamese American Bar Association of Washington “Raising the Bar” annual banquet, the Women’s Club, Seattle, Wash. (November 2006).
Investment in the Developing Nations,” Sutton Colloqium, University of Denver Sturm College of Law (March 2007).
K.K. DUVIVIER PUBLICATIONS “Out of the Bottle: The Genie of Direct Democracy,” 70 ALB. L. REV. 101 (2007).
“The United States as a Democratic Ideal? International Lessons in Referendum Democracy,” 79 TEMPLE L. REV. 821 (2006).
“The House that Jack Built with Effective Transitions,” 36 COLO. LAW. 51 (January 2007).
“E-Etiquette: Thoughtful E-Mail Correspondence,” 36 COLO. LAW. 79 (March 2007).
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PRESENTATIONS “Global Warming Debate Ignores the 800-pound
Facilitator, 2007 Fulbright Conference attended by 258 scholars representing 58 countries. Also gave two presentations on “The Strengths and Weaknesses of the American Legal System,” Denver, Colo. (April
Career Services (February 2007). 9th Amendments,” Ventura Star (April 2007; a ver“Shooting May Force High Court to Address 2nd,
McGeorge School of Law), ALWD 2007 Biennial “Hands Off Electoral College,” The Denver Post Conference (June 2007). (February 11, 2007; co-authored with Jim Riley).
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“Renewal Issues for LRW Faculty Contracts” (with Gorilla,” The Toledo Blade (February 2007). Hether MacFarlane, University of the Pacific,
“Writing Samples for the Job Search,” DU Office of
sion of previous item). ETC. Member of the Association of Legal Writing CONFERENCES Directors (ALWD), the only professional organization exclusively for directors of legal writing programs from law schools throughout the world. Through the efforts of Prof. DuVivier, the Sturm College of Law was chosen as the host school for 2007). ALWD’s 2007 Biennial Conference on June 14, 15, and 16. The focus of the conference was “Best MEDIA Practices in Teaching, Management, and Scholarship.” Plenary speakers included Ralph L. Brill (Chicago-Kent College of Law), Eric Easton (University of Baltimore School of Law), Judith Welch Wegner (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and Peter A. Joy (Washington University School of Law).
ROBERT HARDAWAY PUBLICATIONS “Of Cabbages and Cabotage: The Case for Opening Up the U.S. Airline Industry to International Competition,” 34 Transportation Law Journal 1 (Spring 2007).
“Constitutional Rights: Ninth Amendment May Trump Second,” The Sun News (April 2007).
“Detainees Lack Habeas Corpus Rights,” The Baltimore Sun (February 2007).
Appeared on KOA radio to discuss his book, The Electoral College and the Constitution: The Case for Preserving Federalism (Greenwood Press). Also testified at the Colorado Senate hearings on a state plan to circumvent the Electoral College (April 2007).
MARTIN KATZ PUBLICATIONS “Unifying Disparate Treatment (Really),” 59 Hastings Law Journal Issue 3 (forthcoming February 2008).
“Reclaiming McDonnell Douglas,” 83 Notre Dame Law Review, Issue 1 (forthcoming November 2007).
“Unconscious Bias in Employment Discrimination Law,” Legal Times (May 21, 2007).
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TAMARA KUENNEN PUBLICATIONS “‘No-Drop’ Orders: Exploring the Bounds of Judicial Intervention in the Lives of Domestic Violence Victims,” 16 UCLA WOMEN’S LAW J. 39 (2007).
“Analyzing the Impact of Coercion on Domestic Violence Victims’ Decision-Making,” 22 BERKELEY J. OF JUSTICE AND GENDER (June 2007).
PRESENTATIONS “Sex Politics and Gender Violence,” hosted by the Sturm College of Law (SCOL), the Student Bar Association and the Chancellor’s Scholars. Panelist, “Classifying Sexual Assault and Gender Violence as
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Civil Protection PUBLICATIONS Co-authored Environmental Regulation of Colorado Real Property (Bradford Press, 2007).
Co-authored Teacher’s Manual to Cases and Materials on Natural Resources Law (West 2007).
Working on second edition to Law of Toxic Substances and Hazardous Wastes, with John Applegate and Jeff Gaba, (Foundation Press, publication expected 2008-09).
Annual update to Law of Property Rights Protection: Limitations on Governmental Powers (Aspen Law and Business 2006).
Hate Crimes.” Moderator, “Drafting Effective Legislation,” (March 2007).
“Battered Mothers and Witnessing Children: Failure to Protect & Conceptions of State Accountability,” at the 2nd annual conference on domestic violence hosted by SCOL. Moderator, panelist at the closing plenary, entitled “Violence Against Mothers, Violence Against Children: Law, Morality and Conceptions of State Accountability – Finding a Feminist Vision.” (March 2007).
“Civil Protection Order Strategies: Satisfying the Relationship Requirement,” sponsored by The Center for Survivor Agency and Justice (April 2007).
CONFERENCES Panelist, two sessions for the ABA Section of Environment, Energy and Resources, 36th Annual Conference on Environmental Law (March 2007).
ETC. Assisted with, and was a consultant on McCarran International Airport v. Sisolak, cert denied by US Supreme Court in January 2007.
G. KRISTIAN MICCIO AWARDS Awarded a Fulbright and will serve as a Fulbright Scholar in Ireland (2007-2008).
Awarded a Public Good Grant to study the efficacy of legal services for battered women.
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PUBLICATIONS APPOINTMENTS “States as Innovation Systems Laboratories” was selected for presentation at the Intellectual Property Law Scholars Conference co-hosted by University of California, Boalt Hall Law School and Stanford
Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science and Technology, which is co-sponsored by the Arizona State University, Sandra Day O’Conner Law School
Served as a referee for the peer-reviewed law journal
to Protect and Conceptions of State Accountability,” University Law School Intellectual Property Law at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. Journal. More than 200 participants from as far away as
Joined the Board of Advisors for the Wake Forest
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CONFERENCES University Law School. Coordinated and ran DU Law’s second annual “Battered Mothers and Witnessing Children: Failure
Australia attended 20 panels comprised of approximately 60 panelists (March 2007).
Plenary panelist, “Locating the Contours of State Accountability in an Age of Denial,” at DU Law’s and the American Bar Association. second annual conference on law and domestic violence, “Battered Mothers and Witnessing Children: Failure to Protect and Conceptions of State Accountability” (March 2007).
MIKE MIRELES PUBLICATIONS “Adoption of the Bayh-Dole Act in Developed Countries: Added Pressure for a Broad Research Exemption in the United States?” Maine L. Rev. (2007) (symposium on biotechnology and patent law).
“States as Innovation Systems Laboratories: California, Patents, and Stem Cell Technology,” 28 Cardozo L. Rev. 1133 (2006).
“The Intended and Unintended Consequences of the Bayh-Dole Act,” in Intellectual Property and Information Wealth (Praeger Press 2006).
Taught at George Washington University Law School’s Munich Intellectual Property Law Summer Program at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law.
Selected as a Cardozo Fellow to attend the Cardozo Law School Modest Proposals Intellectual Property Law conference.
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inclusionary housing planning.
The theme of next year’s conference is “Sustaining
the Next 100 Million,” and will include tracks on
designing for density, growth management and con
servation strategies and the Religious Land Use and
Institutionalized Persons Act. For more information
about RMLUI and its annual land use conference,
visit www.law.du.edu/rmlui.
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(Winter 2007).
PUBLICATIONS “The Landmark 2005 Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements,” Texas International Law Journal (Spring 2007).
“New International Human Rights,” Symposium Issue of Peace and Policy Journal entitled “Transforming the United Nations” (Spring 2007).
VED NANDA AWARDS Ved Nanda International Law Appellate Advocacy Competition inaugurated, Sturm College of Law
Rights,” International Law Student Association Annual Conference, Washington, D.C. (March 2007).
“Immigration and International Law,” World Jurist Association International Conference, Los Angeles, Calif. (April 2007).
“The Tragedy in Darfur: International Law Implications,” International Leaders Council, Denver, Colo. (April 2007).
“International Perspectives on the Death Penalty,” UN Initiatives for the Protection of University of Denver (April 2007).
“The Tragedy in Darfur: The Responsibility to Protect,” Commerce City Rotary (May 2007).
“Conflict of Laws,” in 2006 Annual Survey of Colorado Law, CLE in Colorado (Spring 2007).
PRESENTATIONS “Terrorism and International Law,” Denver Stapleton Rotary (January 2007).
“Foreign and International Law in US Courts,” Hague Conference of Private International Law, The Hague (February 2007).
“Global Warming and International Law,” Orlando, Fla. (February 2007).
“Terrorism, Human Rights, and International Law,” Chaman Lal Memorial Distinguished Lecture, New Delhi, India (March 2007).
“What is Wrong With the Teaching of International Law?” American Society of International Law, Washington, D.C. (March 2007).
“NGOs and International Protection of Human
“The World Trade Organization and the Soft Lumber Dispute Between the US and Canada,” McGill University, Montreal, Canada (May 2007).
“Development of International Law by the International Court of Justice,” The Hague (June 2007).
“Recent Developments in International Environmental Law,” Brussels, Belgium (June 2007).
“US-India Relations and the Nuclear Issue,” NGO group, San Francisco, Calif. (June 2007).
MEDIA Regular columns on international topics for the Denver Post.
Several appearances on local radio and television.
Several interviews on BBC World Radio and Voice of America.
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JULIE NICE PRESENTATIONS “The Deconstitutionalization of Poverty Law,” Fordham Poverty Law Conference, New York City
ROCK PRING PUBLICATIONS Authored 14 articles on international rivers with the students from Spring 2007 International Water
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(March 2007).
“Building the Future Toward Equal Justice,” Wisconsin Equal Justice Conference, Milwaukee, Wis. (March 2007).
“The Four Corners of Marriage,” International Conference on Social Sciences, Honolulu, Hawaii (May 2007).
“Whither Gender?” Center for Education in Law and Democracy, Denver, Colo. (June 2007).
STEVE PEPPER CONFERENCES Designed and led a three-hour workshop on Ethics and the Law for the 61st annual National Conference of the Society of Corporate Secretaries & Governance Officials (June 2007).
“The Impact of Energy on Health, Environment, and Sustainable Development,” in International Bar Association’s Beyond the Carbon Economy: Energy and Environment Futures (with Alexandra Haas and Tyler Drinkwine) (forthcoming Oxford University Press 2008).
REPORTS “Namibia: Sustainable Water Development” for The Driest Country South of the Sahara (study for the Watermark Initiative, advisors to the Namibian Government).
PRESENTATIONS “US Environmental Law” and “US Energy Law” (seminars in the Masters in Energy and Environmental Law Program, University of Leuven, Belgium) (January 2007).
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“Massachusetts v. USEPA: The US Supreme Court LAURA ROVNER
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Finally Acknowledges Climate Change,” Sturm College of Law American Constitution Society panel (April 2007).
“The Impact of Energy on Health, Environment, and Sustainable Development” at the conference of the Academic Advisory Group to the International Bar Association Section on Energy, Environmental, and Natural Resources Law, Banff, Alberta, Canada (June 2007).
“Environmental Litigation Clinics as a Teaching Method,” at the Symposium on Teaching Energy, Natural University of Calgary Faculty of Law, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (June 2007).
MEDIA Appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered in an interview about Olympic Park bomber Eric Rudolph and his right to publish from behind bars (July 2007).
to Named Plaintiffs in Employment Discrimination Class Actions,” 10 EMP. RTS. & EMP. POL’Y J. 395 (Chicago-Kent College of Law)
NANTIYA RUAN PUBLICATIONS “Bringing Sense to Incentives: An Examination of Incentive Payments
Resources, and Environmental Law, (vol. 10, no. 2, 2006).
PAULA RHODES CONFERENCES M o d e r a t o r / C o m m e n t a t o r, “Regional and International Systems for Protecting Battered Women and Children,” 2nd annual conference on domestic violence, “Battered Mothers and Witnessing Children: Failure to Protect and Conceptions of State Accountability,” (March 2007).
APPOINTMENTS Elected co-chairperson of the DU Faculty of Color Association (FOCA).
JOHN SOMA PRESENTATIONS “A Forward Looking Analysis of Privacy, “ ITechLaw Association’s Annual Meeting and World Conference, Chicago, Ill. (April 2007).
CONFERENCES In conjuction with the Privacy Foundation (www.privacyfoundation.org) and the International Technology Law Association, (www.itechlaw.org), presented the Privacy Foundation Seminar, Corporate Privacy: the HP Board of Directors Affair, at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law (February 2007).
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DAVID THOMSON PUBLICATIONS Book Review of Lifting the Fog of Legalese: Essays on Plain Language, in 36 Colorado Lawyer 87 (May 2007).
ELI WALD PUBLICATIONS “U.S. Lawyers: Speak Out,” THE NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL (April 9, 2007).
“Disqualification of Government Lawyers: The Law
“The New Disclosure Landscape: Representing Entities under revised ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct 1.6 and 1.13,” Co-sponsored by DLA Piper UK LLP and the American Chambers of Commerce Legal Committee, Beijing, China (March
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“Use of Wimba Live Classroom in Online Pedagogy,” (presentation to University of Denver Faculty, April 2007).
“CLE on Ethics, Privacy and the New Electronic 2007). Discovery Rules,” Privacy Foundation, (April 2007).
Conference Poster session on Podcasting and Vodcasting at “Technology and The Human Intellect: Computer Literacies and Development of the Creative Mind,” (DU’s Center for Teaching and Learning, April 2007).
“The Use of Student Response Systems (Clickers) in Law School Pedagogy: A Workshop on Methods to Increase Interaction in Class,” Summer Conference of the Institute for Law School Teaching, Boston, Mass., (June 2007).
“An Independent Judiciary under the Model Code of Judicial Conduct,” National Judicial College, Beijing, China (April 2007).
AWARDS “Reporting Lawyer Misconduct: Is There a Gap Between Rules of the Professional Conduct and Lawyer Behavior?” (with Prof. Joyce Sterling) Professional Research Opportunities for Faculty (PROF) Fund, University of Denver (April 2007).
ETC. People v. Lincoln, 05 CR 2027 (Mesa, Colorado). Submitted written ethics opinion and testified in court regarding an issue of first impression: Whether Colorado law allows for a disqualification of a district attorney based on the district attorney’s prior representation of a witness for the government (March 2007).
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(4th ed. 1983-2006, Thomson-West Publishing).
“China’s Cities, Globalization, and Sustainable Development: Comparative Thoughts on Urban Planning, Energy, and Environmental Policy,” 5 WASH. U. GLOBAL STUD. L. REV. NO. 2 (2007).
PRESENTATIONS “American Development: Thoughts on Local Zoning, Global Urban Collapse, and Environmental Doom,” Arizona Bar
ED ZIEGLER PUBLICATIONS Two quarterly updates to five-volume zoning treatise, Rathkopf’s The Law of Zoning and Planning
“American Cities, Growth, and Sustainable Development,” City of Denver Public Library, Global Green Lecture Series, Denver, Colo. (April 2007).
“Urban Planning, Housing, and Social Cohesion,” University of Barcelona Law School, Barcelona, Spain (March 2007).
“American Cities, Urban Planning, and Sustainable Development,” Pantheon-Sorbonne University of Paris I, Paris, France (March 2007).
Cities, Growth, and Sustainable “American Cities, Growth, and Sustainable Development,” Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute 16th Annual Conference, Denver, Colo. (March
Association/Arizona Planning Association 2007). Annual Land Use Law Conference, Scottsdale, Ariz. (June 2007).
Legacy Bricks at DU Law Make Your Mark and Make a Difference!
You are invited to join the growing number of friends and supporters of the University of Denver Sturm College of Law who have chosen to create a legacy and commemorate their and others’ accomplishments at DU Law.
Commemorating a legacy brick is a great way to make a lasting impression while helping to ensure the success of future generations of DU Law students and supporters.
Legacy bricks adorn the elegant west terrace of the Frank H. Ricketson Jr. Law Building and are seen by thousands of students, alumni and visitors to the University of Denver each day.
Your brick can be inscribed with two lines of text with up to twenty characters per line.
For more information or to purchase your engraved brick, please visit www.law.du.edu/buyabrick
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SCOL Alumni Answer the Call
At this, the end of its second year, the Law Firm
Alumni Challenge proves to be an innovative and
effective method to engage alumni in the financial
well being of the Sturm College of Law. For FY ’07,
which ended on June 30, 24 Denver law firms par
ticipated in the fundraising campaign and raised
over $90,000 to support student scholarships and
other academic programs. Compared to 16 firms
that participated in FY ’05, this marks a 50 percent
increase in firm involvement and highlights DU
Law’s drive to establish strategic partnerships with
law firms in the Denver legal community.
126 DU Law alumni employed at the firms
listed on page 38 made a gift back to their law
school alma mater, which equates to a 42 percent
giving rate. This number is up more than six
percent from fiscal year ‘06, when 89 out of 249
graduates working at law firms made charitable
contributions.
The Sturm College of Law would like to extend a
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special thank you to the law firms of Baker &
Hostetler,
Craigmile, and Fogel Keating Wagner Polidori &
Shafner, which all achieved 100 percent giving for a
second year in a row. We would also like to thank
fundraising captains – Paul Karlsgodt, JD’97, Phil
Johnson, JD’74, Craig Joyce, JD’80, Chris Little, JD’87,
and Art Karstaedt, JD’75 – for their efforts at their
Bennington Johnson Biermann & respective firms and for helping identify new firms to
participate in the Law Firm Alumni Challenge.
For more information about participating in the
Law Firm Alumni Challenge, please contact Dave
Ruderman, Director of Annual & Special Giving, at
303-871-6849 or [email protected].
Law Firm Alumni Challenge – Fiscal Year 2007
Participating Law Firms
Number of DU Law Alumni
at Firm
Number of DU Law Alumni Who Made a Gift
Firm Giving Percentage
Amount of Money Raised
Baker & Hostetler, LLP 15 15 100 $2,700
Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP 9 5 56 2,500
Bennington, Johnson, Biermann, & Craigmile, LLC 4 4 100 5,625
Berenbaum, Weinshienk & Eason, PC 18 6 33 990
Burg, Simpson, Eldredge, Hersh & jardine, PC 11 4 36 700
Burns, Figa & Will, PC 11 4 36 2,900
Dorsey & Whitney, LLP9 9 1 11 100
Faegre & Benson, LLP 23 9 39 7,550
Fairfield & Woods, PC 8 5 63 6,070
Fogel, Keating, Wagner, Polidori & shafner, PC 8 8 100 22,500
Grimshaw & Harring, PC 11 5 45 700
Hall & Evans, LLC 14 6 43 625
Harris, Karstaedt, Jamison & Powers, PC 13 5 38 460
Hogan & Hartson, LLP 11 4 36 25,190
Isaacson Rosenbaum, PC 19 6 32 6,075
Kennedy, Childs & Fogg, PC 11 1 9 25
Kutack Rock, LLP 18 8 44 3,975
Lindquist & Vennum, PLLP 6 4 67 360
Messner & Reeves, LLC 11 2 18 300
Montgomery, Little, Soran & Murray, PC 15 10 67 925
Rothgerber, Johnson & Lyons, LLP 16 6 38 1,150
Snell & Wilmer, LLP 11 1 9 250
Wheeler, Trigg & Kennedy, PC 10 4 40 650
White & Steele, PC 18 3 17 350
Totals: 300 126 42 $92,670
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great way to make the classes more interesting for his
students. “I enjoyed teaching...it was a real pleasure for
Milt supported the University of Denver and the
Sturm College of Law in many ways through the
years, including establishing an endowed scholarship
fund at the law school with gifts totaling more than $2
million. In honor of Milt’s commitment and loyalty to
the law school, room 190 in the law building was
A Rich Legacy The University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law
lost one of its most ardent supporters with the death of
Milton Morris (JD ’39) on February 2, 2007. He was me,” he said.
91 years old.
Milt graduated from the University of Denver
College of Law in 1939. He and his wife, Jean, whom
Milt knew since childhood, were married in 1942 and
were very active in the Denver community. Their
interests particularly focused on the University of
Denver and the National Jewish Hospital. Jean’s great
aunt helped establish both the National
Jewish Hospital and the United Way in
Denver. Jean passed away in 1999.
After serving in World War II, Milt
returned to Denver and joined the firm of
Feder, Morris, Tamblyn & Goldstein, where
his practice focused on real estate law. Milt
took a refresher course at the DU College of
Law and was recruited by the dean to teach a
course in business law, aiming to meet the
demands of the many returning GIs enrolled
at DU. Milt kept teaching business law for 11
years and loved it.
One of the things he enjoyed most was
looking for ways to inject humor into the
classroom, eventually scripting his lectures so consis
tently that he would use the same joke or funny story
at the same place in any given session, year after year.
According to Milt, adding humor to his lectures was a
named the Milt and Jean Morris classroom.
Jean and Milt Morris, JD ’39
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Student Mentors Can Make a Difference
lished. The law profession is no different. Would you, as an established professional, be interested in guiding a student through the rigors of law school and the murky waters of launching a career? Well, here is your chance.
writing and oral communications and is required for all 1L students. As an integral part of the class, the Lawyering Process Mentoring Program is designed to bring practitioners and students together in a structured environment and enhance the students’ learning. Unlike most mentoring programs, mentors and students have defined responsibilities, a fixed number of meetings and established objectives. All students are required to participate.
by Michael G. Massey, JD’71, Lawyering Process Professor of the research in both an oral presentation (with the
Most professionals can look back on their careers mentor) and an office memo. During the course of the fall semester, the mentor meets with the student three and name an individual who helped them to get estabtimes. The first meeting is a “meet and greet”; the second meeting is research oriented; and the third meeting is an oral presentation of the results of the student’s research on the specific problem being used in class. The first meeting occurs in early September; the second meeting in October and the third meeting in early
The Lawyering Process class at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law teaches basic research,
November. While there is no specific time to meet with the student, mentors are expected to meet with their respective students during approximately a two-week period. The two-week time frame is important to the success of the program.
4. The second semester focuses on persuasive writing, and the student writes a trial or appellate brief and presents an oral argument to a panel of judges. Mentors again meet with their assigned students three times during this semester. The first meeting is to dis-The following specifics more clearly articulate the
scope of the program. cuss complaints and answers, letters to clients and
1. Each mentor is assigned to a 1L Lawyering Process student. Each mentor receives a basic resume from the student and his or her contact information. Each student, then, receives the same information from the mentor. Unless the circumstances otherwise require, the mentor and the student are together for the entire academic year.
2. At the beginning of the fall semester, mentors are given basic information about the Lawyering Process course and a short outline of the mentoring guidelines. Lawyering Process professors involved in the program then provide mentors with more class-specific information before second and third meetings.
3. The first semester of the Lawyering Process class focuses on objective writing, and each student researches a specific problem and presents the results
opposing counsel or the nature of the mentor’s practice; the second meeting is a practice oral argument; and the third meeting is a final dinner. The first meeting usually takes place during the last two weeks of January, the second meeting early in March and the final meeting in mid-April.
5. The mentor has the responsibility to contact the student and schedule a mutually convenient meeting date. Each meeting should last approximately 30-60 minutes (excluding war stories). The location of the meeting is to be determined by both mentor and student, but students should enjoy being in a “real” legal environment. Indeed, a student may have never been in a law office until this mentor meeting.
6. With mutual agreement, the mentor and the student may meet more frequently.
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[email protected] or Program Coordinator Christopher Massey at [email protected]. You may volunteer to be a mentor by completing a mentor volunteer card, available through the Sturm College of Law Development Office, or you may volunteer online at www.law.du.edu/alumni. You do not have to be an alumna/us of the Sturm College of Law to participate in this program. Thank you in
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7. Contact after the first year is optional but encouraged. Often a mentor can assist a student in choosing classes throughout the student’s law school career. And when a student becomes a member of the bar, the student’s need for a mentor may increase. The program encourages these extended relationships between mentor and student.
If you need more information about the program, please contact Professor Michael G. Massey at advance for your interest.
Internship Program Seeks Additional Sites The number of students participating in the Sturm College of Law’s internship program is on the rise,
according to Ann Vessels, Sturm College of Law lecturer and director of the program.
“We’ve had a banner year,” said Vessels. “For the past three years, we’ve had between 282 and 288
interns each year. This year, we’ll have 330. We have about 30 interns working outside of Colorado this
summer and as far away as Argentina.”
Vessels attributes the program’s increasing popularity to a number of factors, including a greater
emphasis on practice-based legal education. “Internships provide many experiences to students that are
critical to a balanced legal education,” she said. “Depending on the internship, students are involved in
researching and writing, client interviews, settlement conferences, hearings, trials, and they may even try
cases on their own. They start to understand what it means to ‘practice’ law.”
Additionally, said Vessels, students are realizing that internships usually result in valuable connections.
“Students have an incredible opportunity to network while at their internship,” she said. “Students who
understand the importance of networking, and utilize the channels opened to them in their internship,
almost always secure a job.”
With more students seeking internships, additional mentors are needed. “We’re always looking for
internships out of state or out of country. I’m particularly interested in cultivating opportunities in
Washington D.C. and New York City, but really anywhere throughout the country,” said Vessels.
To learn more about becoming an internship site for a DU Law student, visit www.law.du.edu/internships.
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Alumni Career Network (CAN)– A vital link between law students and alumni
ly learn the inside story on the practice of law—
from a lawyer. Alumni volunteers that work in the
legal profession provide a crucial part of the educa
tion program at the University of Denver Sturm
Network has been the link for students to connect
with alumni and seek guidance on a certain geo
graphic area or job setting. When the program began
in 2000, a few dozen alumni, mostly in Denver, vol
unteered to provide career advice to students.
Today, hundreds of alumni across the nation volun
teer to advise students about their careers.
There is only one way that our students can real- Alumni can now register online for the ACN.
Alumni provide basic contact information and iden
tify their specialty law practice areas. All of this
information is stored in a database that can then be
accessed by students with guidance from counselors
College of Law. in the DU Law Career Development Center.
For the past seven years, the Alumni Volunteer To be a part of the Alumni Career Network, con
tact Gretchen Haas, career consultant, DU Law
Career Development Center, at 303-871-6341 or
[email protected]. Online program registration can
be found at www.dulawcareers.net
Letters continued from page 4
Beginning in the summer of 2007, the program is
evolving with a new name, the Alumni Career
Network (ACN), and moving to emphasize tech
nology to increase the effectiveness of the program.
The fundamentals of the program will still be the
same: alumni providing advice and information on
particular practice areas, specific employers, and/or
geographic areas to students.
“Just as the practice of law is becoming more inno
vative using computers and databases, the Alumni
Career Network program will be moving to a Web-
based program to facilitate more effective interaction
between students and alumni,” said Gretchen Hass,
career consultant at the Sturm College of Law.
courts as a whole, the article incorrectly reported that DU Law graduates garnered a majority of Colorado Supreme Court clerkships. Each Colorado Supreme Court Justice hires two law clerks per year. Accordingly, DU law graduates represent only four of the fourteen law clerks, rather than a majority. Failing to mention the law clerks on the Colorado Court of Appeals is a disservice to the current law clerks, as well as DU Law students who are considering judicial clerkships upon graduation. DU Law should recognize the tremendous success its graduates have in obtaining clerkships at all appellate levels in Colorado.
Sincerely, Cheryl R. Miller, JD’06
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By Chase Squires
Jennifer Reba Thomaidis: Pet Lawyerp r o f i l e Sturm College of Law Alumni
Attorney Jennifer Reba Thomaidis made her
debut in the field of pet litigation as a child more
than 20 years ago, but it took those two decades and
a semester at the Sturm College of Law to help her
realize she was already on the path her life would
follow.
Thomaidis, 29, grew up on a Maryland farm.
Any kind of animal she could adopt, rescue or con
vince her parents to buy became a pet. At 8 years
old, when she made a pragmatic pitch to keep her
father from putting down a sickly calf, she had no
idea it would lead to her career as an attorney
focused on the emerging area of pet law.
Yes, pet law.
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“I’ve always loved animals. I’ve always wanted passed the bar exam, Hammond’s encouragement
to work with animals,” Thomaidis said. “I was
going to become a vet, but after college it came
down to ‘Do I want to go to school to learn how to
work on animals, or do I want to fight for ani
mals?’ I decided I wanted to fight for animals.”
In law school at the University of Baltimore,
she said she was still uncertain how to pursue her
passion. She wrapped up her final semester as a vis
iting student at the University of Denver Sturm
College of Law to be closer to her new husband,
2006 DU Law graduate Jim Thomaidis. It was
there that she said adjunct law professor Byron
Hammond exposed her to developments in animal
law, and law clinic professor Jay Tutchton encour
aged her to make a difference.
When she became keen on pet law, pet trusts,
pet custody and the legal areas attached to emo
tional bonds people develop with their pets,
Hammond urged her on.
“When we came around to pet trusts, I saw her
light up,” said Hammond, who has set up trusts for
his own pets in his estate planning. “She came to
me after class and said, ‘How do I make a career
out of this?’ I said ‘I’m not sure I know of a soul in
the country making a practice out of this: Do it.’”
“If anybody can do it, she can. She’s got the
drive,” Hammond said. “I fully expect her to be the
national expert in this.” In less than a year since she
is leading Thomaidis into a string of high-profile
cases, pushing the envelope of animal law.
She represents more than 200 people in a class-
action lawsuit against Menu Foods, the Canadian-
based pet food producer tied to allegations of taint
ed food blamed for sickening and killing pets
across the country. But she’s also locked in a battle
over breed-specific dog bans in Colorado cities,
that bar such breeds as pit bulls from city limits.
Additionally, Thomaidis is pressing for laws to
make it easier for pet owners to win damages in
cases of pet malpractice and loss, even while many
courts still view pets as property, only allowing
damages that reflect the actual cost of the lost pet—
not emotional trauma.
Tutchton, her former instructor, said
Thomaidis has found an area in which the law has
fallen behind. “There’s a huge gap in this kind of
law in Colorado,” he said. “It’s generally an area
where the law doesn’t recognize people’s lives and
how we feel about our pets.” He believes the path
she has chosen will be difficult, but that she can
make a difference.
“My goal is to be a leading force in changing
these laws,” Thomaidis said. When it comes to the
value of an emotional connection, “There’s this
gray area with pets, and I think judges are reluctant
to go there.”
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Volunteers Wanted! Student Assistance and Involvement
Alumni Career Network (ACN) Join a network of alumni who serve as a resource for current students to provide information about a certain geographic area or job setting. This program was formerly known as Alumni Volunteer Network (AVN)
Partners at Law dinner/brunch Provide legal career advice to current student at a dinner or brunch setting held twice a year
1-L Alumni Mentors Serve as a mentor to first-year students that is integrated into the 1L Lawyering Process Research and Writing class
Moot Court Judges Judge the moot court competitions held each year at the College of Law
Career Panelist Provide your expertise and talk about your experiences as a panelist
Mock Interviewer Help prepare law students for the interview process
Loan Repayment and Assistance Program (LRAP) Committee Serve as a member of this committee to secure program funding and select LRAP recipients
Class Leadership
Alumni Reunions and Class Giving Campaigns Assist in the planning and organization of class-year alumni reunions and organize class giving campaigns
Scribes
Contact classmates and compile updates on class members for DU Law Alumni Magazine
Recent Graduate Reunion Organize this annual networking event for those alumni who graduated 10 years ago or less
Golden Barrister Reunion Committee Organize the annual Golden Barrister Reunion and other activities for this group of alumni who graduated 50 or more years ago from the College of Law
Law Firm Leadership
Law Firm Alumni Giving Campaigns Organize an annual campaign of fellow DU law grads in your law firm to encourage gifts to the law school. The emphasis of these campaigns is on alumni participation.
Alumni Events
Law Stars Dinner Secure tables and sponsorships for the annual Law Stars Dinner DU vs. CU Golf Tournament Organize the annual Barristers Boot DU vs. CU golf tournament
College of Law Leadership Councils
Alumni are encouraged to express their interest in serving on these councils. Membership on these councils is governed by the policies of the College of Law and/or by-laws of the organizations.
DU Law Alumni Council
Serve as a member of the 50-member Alumni Council that stimulates and encourages the loyalty and enthusiasm of the alumni of the College of Law
Environmental Law and Natural Resources Program Advisory Council Provide advice and counsel for the NREL program
International Law Advisory Council Provide advice and counsel for the international legal program
Lawyering Process Research and Writing Advisory Council Provide advice and counsel for the legal research and writing program
Student Law Office Advisory Council Provide advice and council for the student law clinic
Dean’s Diversity Council Serve on working groups that are studying and implementing programs to diversify the legal profession Alumni Magazine Editorial Board
Alumni involvement is vital to help achieve the mission of the Sturm College of Law.
For more information and to volunteer for these opportunities please contact Jenny Savage, Alumni Relations Coordinator, at [email protected] or 303-871-6398.
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From Tragedy Comes AState of Grace
The SCOL family comes together in times of need In the wake of several tragic losses, the DU Law community is helping to honor its own through gifts, mone
tary donations and overall solidarity. “The dynamic in which this fundraising occurred is tragic, but I’m noth
ing short of amazed at the outpouring of support,” said Dave Ruderman, director of Annual & Special Giving
for the Sturm College of Law.
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The fundraising to which Ruderman
referred came in the wake of two student
deaths earlier this year. Stephanie Boruta, 3L,
and Devang Vyas, 3L, both of whom were slat
ed to graduate in the spring, died suddenly in
early 2007. The students were honored posthu
mously at the Sturm College of Law’s gradua
tion ceremony in May. Boruta’s family was on
hand to accept her diploma, while Vyas’ family
watched the ceremony live on streaming video
from their home in New Jersey.
Shortly after Boruta’s death, her family
announced plans to establish a scholarship fund
in her name to benefit future DU Law students.
In just six weeks, friends and family raised more
than $20,000 for the Stephanie E. Boruta
Memorial Annual Scholarship Fund. “I’ve been
doing this for more than two years, and this is
the fastest I’ve ever seen a fund grow,” said
Ruderman. “The grassroots effort to build this
scholarship really amazes me.”
Stephanie Boruta
Recent DU Law graduate Nick de la Garza,
JD ‘06, also passed away suddenly in early
2007. Described by his mother, Cheri, as “a
people person,” de la Garza was in the process
of building a family law practice at the time of his
death. “With his facility with words, he would
have made a really ‘mean’ litigator,” said Cheri.
“But he wanted to help people, especially chil
dren, with his law degree.” A memorial book
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fund in de la Garza’s name has been created at the
Sturm College of Law’s Westminster Law Library.
The fund emphasizes publications related to de la
Garza’s areas of interest: family law, professional
responsibility and ethics, and the history of law.
In November 2006, a hit-and-run accident in
downtown Denver claimed the lives of student
Frank Bingham’s wife and two small children.
Bingham, 1L, a former elementary school princi
pal who enrolled in the Sturm College of Law last
fall, was the sole survivor. When he announced
plans to donate books to Lincoln Elementary
School, where his daughter Macie was a student,
the DU Law community was among the first to
participate in the book drive. Called Bingham
Books, the project quickly grew in scale and may
become an ongoing charity. Since the inception of
Bingham Books, 4,000 new books have been col
lected and donated to schools and libraries
throughout the Denver metro area in honor of
Becca, Macie and Garrison Bingham.
Stephanie Boruta’s parents accepting her diploma
Nick de la Garza
For additional information about the funds highlighted in this story, contact
the Sturm College of Law’s Office of Alumni & Development at 303-871-6849.
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The University of Denver Sturm College of Law is proud to recognize the generosity of alumni and friends who made a gift to DU Law this past fiscal year
(July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2007).
Dean’s Circle Giving Levels
FOUNDERS $50,000+
DIRECTORS $25,000 - $49,999
COUNSELORS $10,000 - $24,999
CHIEF JUSTICES $5,000 - $9,999
JUSTICES $2,000 - $4,999
BARRISTERS $1,000 - $1,999
GOLD Club (Graduates Of the Last Decade) Recognition As recent DU Law graduates, GOLD Club members display their commitment to the Sturm College of Law through generous gifts during their first ten years after earning
their degree. GOLD Club donors are recognized with ∆ in the Dean’s Circle.
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& Melissa M. Schleuger Daniel H. Schoedinger SallyeWrye Smith Erin Marie Smith Bryan J. Stanley Randy R. Strandberg & JoAnn Strandberg Dean F. Stumvoll & Sally E. Stumvoll Ralph G.Torres & Lynn Davis Torres RobertW.Wandel Jr. & Margie Wandel Mary A.Wells Esq. Peter D.Willis & Rosemary K.Willis Thomas HenryWilson III & KarinWilson A. Stephen Zavell & Gloriah Zavell
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The Denver Foundation 1
DIRECTORS $25,000 - $49,999 Arnold & Porter LLP Faegre & Benson Foundation Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund Julie AnnWrigley Foundation Morrison & Foerster Foundation Sherman & Howard L.L.C. ThomsonWest Transportation Lawyers Association ViolaVestal Coulter Foundation
COUNSELORS $10,000 - $24,999Broe CompaniesBrownstein Hy arber & Schreck, P.C.Center for the New American Century, Inc.Colorado Defense Lawy tionColorado Health FoundationFederated Department Stores, Inc. Fogel, Keating,Wagner, Polidori and ShafnGelt & Grassgreen P.C. Holland & Hart, L.L.P. Lulu Frankel Foundation Moye|White LLP Otten, Johnson, Robinson, Neff
& Ragonetti Charitable FoundaReilly, Pozner & Connelly LLP Ute Mountain Ute Tribe
CHIEF JUSTICES $5,000 - $9,999Accenture Foundation, Inc. Burg, Simpson, Eldredge, Hersh & Jardine, P. .ColoradoWomen’s BarAssociation FoundatiDeloitte Foundation Ernst &Young Foundation Hall & Evans, L. L. C. Foundation Holme, Roberts & Owen, LLP John J. and Margaret R. Gilbert Foundation KPMG Foundation LandAmerica Financial Group, Inc. Lindquist &Vennum, P.L.L.P. Merlin International, Inc. Otten, Johnson, Robinson, Neff &
Ragonetti, P.C. Patton Boggs Foundation Perry Rose LLCSchramm Foundation ShughartThomson & Kilroy, P.C. Weckbaugh Foundation
JUSTICES $2,000 - $4,999 Arapahoe County Bar Foundation Stevinson Automotive Services, Inc. Baker and Hostetler, LLP Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP CBT &Trust Colorado Bar Association Colorado Bar Foundation Colorado Indian Bar Association
Daniels Fund Davis Graham & Stubbs, LLP Denver Bar Association Dorsey &Whitney LLP Douglas A. Jorden, P. C. Fairfield &Woods P.C. First American HeritageTitle Gannett Foundation GHP Horwath, PC Hayes, Phillips, Hoffmann & Carberry, P.C. Henry Luce Foundation, Inc. Hogan & Hartson L.L.P. Icenogle, Norton, Smith & Blieszner, PC Kaiser Permanente Littler Mendelson McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP Montgomery Little Soran Murray & Kuhn P.C. Murphy Oil Corporation Ridley McGreevy &Weisz, PC Rose Foundation Slater Foundation
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BARRISTERS $1,000 - $1,999.
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& Bailey, LLC Chambers F y FundChevronTexacoCitywide BanksClar LLCColorado HazardousWaste
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BARRISTERS $1,000 - $1,999 Attorney Service Center Inc.
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$5,000 - $9,999
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Chambers Family FundChevronTexaco Chambers Family FundChevronTexacoChambers Family Fund
Citywide BanksClarion Associates of Colorado, LLC Citywide BanksClarion Associates of Colorado, LLCCitywide Banks
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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
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ProfessorTimothy M. Hurley Professor Sheila K. Hyatt Professor Sam Kamin Professor Martin J. Katz ProfessorTamara L. Kuennen Professor Lucy A. Marsh Professor M l G. MasseyProfessor G n Miccio Professor Mike S. Mireles
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Vodafone-US Foundation * deceased ∆ GOLD Club donor
Class Giving by Decade The Class Giving by Decade list includes all DU Law alumni who made a gift to the Sturm College of Law during Fiscal Year 2007.
If an alumnus/a has earned more than one degree from DU Law, the JD graduation year is used for the decade listing.
1920s Charles F. Brannan, JD’29
1930s Laurence M. Guilford, JD’36 Gerald A. Kay, LLB’39 1
Milton Morris, LLB’39 * (Founder) Charles A. Petrie, JD’31 * (Counselor) Harry G. Shapiro, LLB’38
1940s Ralph W. Ball, JD’48 Tyson Dines Jr., LLB’49 William J. Donlon, JD’49 Howard E. Erickson, JD’49 Ralph Frizzell, LLB’49 Edward O. Geer, JD’49 Percival B. Hamilton, JD’49 Robert F. Hemphill Sr., JD’47 Louis Johnson, JD’48 (Barrister) James H. Leach, JD’49 Robert H. McWilliams Jr., JD’41 (Barrister) Harold P. Moss, JD’41 Aldo G. Notarianni, JD’48 Gerald M. Quiat, JD’48 (Chief Justice) Michael E. Reidy, JD’43 Jane A. Simpson Gearhart, LLB’42 Robert Gates Wilson Sr., JD’48
1950s Jack K. Agee, LLB’57 (Barrister) Walter P. Babich, LLB’57 (Barrister) Jon D. Boltz, LLB’57 Burton C. Boothby, JD’50 (Barrister) William L. Bromberg, LLB’53 Edward J. Bronson, JD’59 Mackintosh Brown, JD’57 (Justice) Bruce T. Buell, LLB’58 Donald H. Burkhardt, LLB’57 Harry E. Carleno, JD’55 Richard D. Casey, LLB’50 Roger Cisneros, JD’57 (Justice) John J. Conway, JD’56 Alfred P. Davis, LLB’54 Herbert W. DeLaney Jr., LLB’51 J. Robert Dempster, JD’59 (Chief Justice) Lysle R. Dirrim, JD’52 William T. Diss, JD’59 (Chief Justice) Donald J. Drake, JD’50 George J. Duckworth, LLB’52 Richard L. Eason, JD’56 Arthur A. Ellis, JD’50 Harold M. Flanagan, JD’50 Thomas W. Gibb, JD’51 Albert S. Golbert, JD’56 (Barrister) Herbert N. Grayson, JD’51 Jack Greenwald, JD’52 Earl T. Greinetz, JD’53 Oliver W. Gushee Jr., JD’57 Martin J. Haley, LLB’59 William E. Harder, JD’59 (Barrister) Daniel S. Hoffman, LLB’58 (Director) Leland S. Huttner, LLB’53 (Barrister) R. Robert Irwin, LLB’57 Edward N. Juhan, JD’54 (Barrister) Paul W. Kaiser Jr., JD’55 William E. Kenworthy, LLB’56 Geraldine R. Keyes, JD’54 Donald A. Klene, JD’58 Edward Lehman, JD’51 (Justice) Robert O. Lewers, LLB’50
David C. Little, LLB’58 Lawrence Litvak, JD’52 John W. Low, JD’51 (Barrister) Wallace Lundquist, LLB’55 * Jacques A. Machol Jr., JD’51 (Justice) Alvin J. Meiklejohn Jr., JD’51 Martin P. Miller, JD’51 * Albert L. Minton, JD’50 Donald S. Molen, LLB’53 William C. Morr, JD’58 Alvan E. Morrison, LLB’52 Leonard A. Mues, JD’53 David M. Naiman, JD’55 James M. Nelson, JD’52 * Albert H. Newton Jr., JD’57 Charles J. Onofrio, LLB’53 Howard E. Parks Jr., JD’53 John S. Pfeiffer, LLB’54 Thomas G. Pitus, JD’57 George W. Powell, JD’58 Ralph T. Randono, JD’56 1
Alwin E. Riede, JD’51 Richard D. Robb, JD’53 Patricia W. Robb, LLB’58 David L. Roberts, JD’59 Donald W. Roe, LLB’50 Eliu E. Romero, LLB’54 Stanton D. Rosenbaum, LLB’53 (Justice) Stanley G. Saliman, JD’59 Daniel J. Shannon Jr., JD’54 Ronald T. Shannon, JD’58 Dwight K. Shellman Jr., JD’59 Sheldon Silverman, JD’51 Robert H. Smith, JD’53 Roy L. Smith Jr., JD’54 Jerry N. Snyder, LLB’56 Ellis J. Sobol, LLB’52 Alfred R. Sondern, JD’53 Donald E. Spiegleman, LLB’58 Richard W. Stanton, LLB’51 * (Counselor) Ivan J. Strayer, JD’57 Donald L. Sturm, LLB’58 (Founder) Russell A. Stuska, LLB’56 1
Henry W. Toll Jr., JD’55 Bertlen F. Turner, JD’54 Virgil D. Vochoska, LLB’58 Anthony F. Vollack, JD’56 Frederick M. Volz, JD’53 William P. Waggener, LLB’54 Raymond W. Weaver Jr., LLB’58 Harold M. Webster Jr., JD’52 1
Harold M. Webster Jr., JD’52 1
Robert B.Yegge, JD’59 * J. Bayard Young, LLB’53 Ronald I. Zall, JD’52 Keith H. Zook, JD’53
1960s Arthur H. Anstine, JD’65 Andrew S. Armatas, JD’65 Lawrence A. Atler, JD’60 Robert G. Avey, JD’68 Sara J. Beery, JD’68 Thomas Quentin Benson, JD’67 Steve N. Berkowitz, JD’68 Brewster Blackall, LLB’61 Donald E. Blanchard, LLB’62 Stuart L. Boulter, JD’68 William E. Brayshaw, JD’65 Jeffrey L. Brown, JD’67 Valerie G. Brown, JD’67 C. Willing Browne III, JD’66
Alan H. Bucholtz, JD’65 (Barrister) James F. Buresh, JD’69 (Barrister) Ronald C. Butz, JD’65 E. Colby Cameron, JD’68 John W. Carey, JD’65 T. Michael Carrington, JD’69 Jorge E. Castillo, LLB’61 William S. Corrigan Jr., JD’68 Jerold D. Cummins, LLB’61 Gary F. Dailey, JD’66 Bernelle Demo, LLB’60 James J. Doherty, JD’61 Allan S. Dorsey Jr., JD’69 Eugene E. Drake, JD’63 Jack D. Feuer, JD’66 Richard A. Fleischman, JD’67 (Barrister) Elbert F. Floyd, JD’63 (Barrister) Clark A. Floyd, JD’65 James G. Floyd, JD’69 Marshall A. Fogel, JD’65 (Justice) David A. Fogel, JD’68 M Allan Frank, JD’67 (Justice) Sheldon E. Friedman, LLB’60 Robert R. Gallagher Jr., LLB’60 Clifton H. Garrott, LLB’63 James P. Gatlin, JD’68 Paul F. Glasgow, JD’66 Charles Goldberg, JD’64 Ronald K. Griffith, JD’68 E. David Griffith, JD’69 Michael T. Gustafson, JD’68 James A. Hannah, JD’62 Richard L. Harris, JD’62 Carl L. Harthun, JD’61 Jordan Hochstadt, JD’64 Elliott R. Husney, JD’65 Paul A. Jacobs, JD’68 (Justice) Peter Keppler, JD’69 William J. Klein, JD’67 Richard W. Knudsen, JD’69 Donald L. Kortz, JD’64 (Barrister) Marvin A. Kunde, LLB’60 Maxine Kurtz, JD’62 Richard W. Laugesen, JD’62 (Chief Justice) Lawrence D. Lavers, JD’65 Peter C. Maxfield, JD’66 Curtis H P Menefee, JD’65 R. Frederick Miles, JD’68 Ronald J. Miller, JD’68 Dennis M. Miller, JD’69 M. Dean Montgomery, JD’66 Clyde D. Moslander III, JD’61 Arthur J. Movius, JD’65 Harold L. Neufeld, JD’64 Julie T. Obering, JD’68 Arthur B. Odden, LLB’62 David A. Ogilvie, JD’67 Wolfgang H. Otto, JD’65 Frederick S. Otto, JD’68 (Justice) John D. Pearson, JD’65 Stephen S. Phillips, JD’68 Leonard P. Plank, LLB’60 John S. Potter Jr., LLB’61 (Justice) Gary L. Ransom, JD’68 William G. Riddoch, JD’65 John Olmstead Rittenhouse Jr., LLB’60 Frank L. Robinson, JD’69 (Chief Justice) Raymond C. Rose, JD’67 Sigmund J. Rosenfeld, JD’64 John J. Rossi, JD’66 Rocco A. Santarelli III, JD’68 E. Eugene Schnabel, JD’61
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Class Giving by Decade Daniel H. Schoedinger, JD’69 (Barrister) Kent C. Schroeder, JD’67 Jarvis W. Seccombe, JD’64 Richard C. Seff, JD’66 Richard D. Seibel, JD’61 Thomas R. Sharp, JD’69 James I. Shepard, JD’68 Martin H. Shore Sr., JD’69 (Justice) Mayo Sommermeyer, JD’64 Joyce S. Steinhardt, JD’68 Kasiel Steinhardt, JD’68 Sidney B. Strange, JD’69 George W. Swainston, JD’67 * Thomas P. Sweeney, JD’60 Richard D. Turelli, LLB’63 Lloyd R. Wade, JD’64 John Sumpter Walker Jr., JD’60 Thomas J. Wegs, JD’68 Stephen A. Weinstein, JD’67 William Sherwood Wilkinson, JD’60 Peter D. Willis, JD’68 (Barrister) Gerald W. Wischmeyer, JD’66 Robert J. Wittenbrink, JD’63 Bill J. Zimmerman, JD’64 James D. Zimmerman, JD’69
1970s Thomas J. Abood, JD’77 Roy A. Adkins, JD’79 Miriam Aguiar, JD’78 John W. Allison Jr., JD’74 Leland P. Anderson, JD’75 Ryan P. Armbruster, JD’75 Charles R. Aschwanden, JD’78 John T. Baker, JD’73 Theodore L. Banks, JD’75 (Barrister) Robert F. Bates, JD’72 Douglas P. Bates, JD’74 K. Kent Batty, MSJA’76 Dennis D. Becker, MSJA’76 K. Holly Bennett, JD’79 Karen Dee Benson, JD’77 Kirk A. Benson, LLM’78 John Bernick, JD’75 Douglas E. Best, JD’75 Michael C. Beutz, JD’73 Andrew L. Blair Jr., JD’72 (Justice) Ronna W. Blaser, JD’75 Timothy R. Bloomquist, JD’72 Alfred S. Blum, JD’75 1
Kathleen M. Bowers, JD’77 Jerry K. Boyd, JD’70 George W. Boyle II., JD’71 Brad W. Breslau, JD’79 Sandra J. Brinck, JD’78 Gary R. Brown, JD’73 James E. Brown, JD’74 Thomas L. Brownfield, JD’76 James F. Burger, JD’73 Thomas J. Burke Jr., JD’70 Patrick J. Burke, JD’73 Kevin H. Burke, JD’79 John E. Bush Jr., JD’76 Robert C. Byrne Jr., MSJA’76 Bruce P. Candlin, JD’74 Deborah Turner Carney, JD’76 T. J. Carney Esq, JD’77 Craig R. Carver, JD’74 (Barrister) Ruth Casarez, JD’73 Curtis H. Castleman Jr., JD’70 Stephen E. Cavan, JD’78 Marc A. Chorney, LLM’79 Steven A. Christensen, JD’79
Jon B. Clarke, JD’72 W. Michael Clowdus, JD’75 Patricia L. Clowdus, JD’78 Arthur H. Colas Jr., JD’73 William Howard Colbert III, JD’78 James Graham Colvin II, JD’71 Rebecca Ann Comstock, JD’77 James B. Conley, JD’79 Christopher C. Cross, JD’79 Ronald G. Crowder, JD’78 Richard F. Currey, JD’75 John A. Dates, JD’72 Randy W. de La Garza, JD’73 Kathleen K. DeMont, JD’78 David R. DeMuro, JD’76 Charles B. Dickson, JD’72 Janet M. Dickson, JD’72 Robert J. Dieter, JD’72 Jerre W. Dixon, JD’70 Stuart Dorsky, LLM’79 Paul K. Driessen, JD’76 Leon F. Drozd Jr., JD’79 John M. Dudgeon, JD’74 Robert R. Duncan, JD’74 Peter L. Durante, JD’74 Kristen K. Dutton, JD’77 John M. Eckhardt, JD’77 Laurence H. Edelman, JD’74 Charles L. Ehrenpreis, JD’76 Stephen R. Ehrlich, JD’77 Nancy B. Elkind, JD’79 Candace C. Figa, JD’78 (Justice) James L. Finegan, JD’79 John S. Finn, JD’75 Martin E. Flahive, JD’76 1
Frances P. Forman, JD’76 Daniel M. Fowler, JD’74 Martha S. Fulford, JD’78 James Gehres, JD’70 (Justice) Theodore Z. Gelt Esq., JD’75 (Counselor) John T. Geocaris, JD’77 Monica S. Glickman, JD’76 (Barrister) Theresa W. Goldhamer, JD’73 Stanley L. Grazis, JD’76 1
Mary Jo Gross, JD’79 Edward J. Grossman, JD’79 Mary L. Groves, JD’78 Mark D. Gruskin, JD’76 George A. Hacker, JD’74 Lenn M. Haffeman, JD’79 Maria N. Hagener, JD’74 John H. Hague, JD’76 Noralyn Olom Harlow, JD’73 Robert Ward Harris, JD’73 Frank J. Harshman, JD’70 William E. Hart, JD’72 Daniel M. Haskell, LLM’78 Susan M. Heath, JD’77 Ralph B. Hegsted, JD’77 David C. Herrick, JD’74 John D. Hershner Jr., JD’75 David B. Higgins, JD’72 Christa K. Meyer Hinckley, JD’79 Mary T. Hoagland, JD’75 (Barrister) Lewis Jarvis Hoch, JD’77 Albert Hoffman, JD’70 (Barrister) Anthony E. Holt, JD’74 George H. Homm, JD’79 Nancy A. Hopf, JD’77 Robert L. Horey, MSJA’72 Virginia Byrnes Horton, JD’78 Wesley B. Howard Jr., JD’79 C. Douglas Hurst, JD’73 Jack N. Hyatt, LLM’78
F. Scott Jackson, JD’71 (Justice) Steven K. Jacobson, JD’76 Dennis J. Jacobson, JD’78 Philip E. Johnson, JD’74 (Chief Justice) Gary S. Joiner, JD’75 Peter F. Jones, JD’70 William R. Jordan III, JD’72 John E. Joslin, JD’72 Michael W. Josserand, JD’72 Nancy L. Juday, JD’74 Charles S. Kamine, JD’75 Darlene M. Kamine, JD’75 Ira M. Karet, JD’71 Daniel J. Kaup, JD’76 John L. Keane, JD’77 William L. Keating, JD’71 (Chief Justice) Robert A. Kell, JD’78 Thomas B. Kelley, JD’72 (Justice) Howard A. Kenison, JD’72 (Justice) Harry A. King III, JD’75 Paul A. King, JD’78 Lawrence R. Kueter, JD’76 Alan D. Laff, JD’74 (Justice) Ralph B. Lake, JD’73 (Justice) Gerald A. Lane, JD’72 Marguerite T. Langstaff, JD’76 James B. Lapin, JD’72 Paul H. Lawrence, JD’73 Ralph E. Layman III, JD’71 John M. Lebsack, JD’78 Charles C. Ledbetter, JD’73 John P. Leopold, JD’74 Judith D. Levine, JD’75 Paul A. Linton, JD’75 Neil E. Lipson, JD’78 Louis F. Lobenhofer, LLM’79 Frederick J. Lockhart Jr., JD’74 Niels Loechell, JD’74 Fred R. Lopez, JD’72 Jacques A. Machol III, JD’77 (Barrister) Jennifer J. Macy, JD’78 Patricia Anne Madsen, JD’76 Ruth C. Malman, JD’78 James H. Marlow, JD’79 David M. Martin, JD’74 Raymond W. Martin, JD’77 Margaret Martinez, JD’72 Antoinette C. Martinez, JD’77 Geoffrey A. Martis, JD’70 Michael G. Massey, JD’71 Fay M. Matsukage, JD’79 Richard F. Mauro, JD’70 Pamela W. McClune, JD’76 Robert S. McEwan Jr., JD’73 John G. McGill, JD’76 Dan McGrew, JD’70 Gilbert F. McNeish, JD’71 Theodore H. Merriam, JD’78 Norman H. Meyer Jr., MSJA’79 Donald E. Mielke, JD’73 Laird T. Milburn, JD’71 Robert R. Miller, JD’76 Peter L. Monzures, JD’72 Karin Wyman Morgan, JD’79 Lee D. Morrison, JD’77 C. Arthur Morrow, JD’70 James J. Moylan Esq., JD’71 Barbara J. Mueller, JD’78 Steven F. Mueller, JD’78 Mark R. Muller, JD’78 James M. Mulligan, JD’74 (Chief Justice) Richard A. Munson, LLM’79 Richard W. Myers, JD’70 (Barrister) Thomas J. Naleid, JD’72
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Class Giving by Decade Stanley D. Neeleman, JD’72 David L. Nelson, JD’71 James E. Nelsen, JD’73 R. James Nicholson, JD’72 (Justice) Garth L. Nieschburg, JD’70 William S. Nowland II, JD’70 Kevin E. O’Brien, JD’77 William K. Olivier, JD’74 Linda J. Olson, JD’79 Brian E. O’Reilly, JD’74 Reynaldo Ortiz, JD’78 John G. Otto, JD’73 William T. Overton, JD’70 Kenneth M. Plotz, JD’73 Richard B. Podoll, JD’77 Steven R. Polidori, JD’77 (Justice) Connie Cox Price, JD’78 Cynthia M. Pring, JD’74 (Barrister) Beverly J. Quail Roble, JD’74 (Justice) Lawrence Raful, JD’75 Janice K. Ranson, JD’76 John H. Reed, JD’72 Gudrun J. Rice, JD’73 Douglas S. Robertson, JD’73 Joseph E. Ronan Jr., JD’75 (Justice) John A. Ronca Jr., LLM’79 Richard B. Rose, JD’78 Harold R. Roth, JD’75 Aurora R. Ruiz-Hernandez, JD’76 Marilyn M. Ruland, JD’73 George M. Rushforth, JD’71 John A. Sadwith, JD’79 O. Edward Schlatter, JD’70 (Justice) Karl F. Schmitt, JD’70 Terrence M. Schumacher, LLM’78 B. Lee Schumacher, JD’79 Douglas G. Scrivner, JD’77 (Founder) Thomas J. Seaman, JD’73 Dennis K. Shelton, JD’75 John F. Shepherd, JD’79 Jane Anne Shiley, JD’78 Sharon E. Shuteran, JD’78 Angelo J. Siccardi, JD’77 Sasha Siemel, JD’75 Jack C. Sloan, JD’70 Sheldon H. Smith, JD’73 (Justice) Andrew C. Snyder, JD’73 Leslie B. Speed, JD’78 Scott W. Stauffer, JD’79 Jerry L. Stout, JD’70 Richard S. Strauss, JD’77 Jan H. Susee, JD’71 (Justice) Raymond L. Sutton Jr., LLM’79 Spencer W. Swalm, JD’78 Dan R. Swenson, JD’77 Constance C. Talmage, JD’78 Cheryl A. Tangen, JD’79 Don R. Teasley, JD’74 Alex C. Tejada, JD’75 Bruce L. Thomas, JD’74 Gregg A. Thomas, JD’75 Stephen M. Thompson, JD’74 Alexander L. Thomson Jr., JD’75 Margaret L. Toal, JD’79 Robert C. Tobias, JD’71 Ralph G. Torres, JD’70 (Barrister) Anthony S. Trumbly, JD’78 Andrew S. Turi, JD’76 Terry E. Turner, JD’73 M. Caroline Turner, JD’76 Joe T. Ulibarri, JD’70 Ward L. Van Scoyk, JD’77 James P. Vandello, JD’73 David A. Veeder, JD’72
Mark A.Vogel, JD’74 & LLM’76 Robert A. Wagner, JD’73 (Justice) Christine M. Waisanen, JD’75 James R. Walczak, JD’77 (Justice) Maryann Walsh, JD’74 James K. Watkins III, JD’72 Nancy E. Watson-Tansey, JD’76 Richard J. Wedgle, JD’78 Jo Ann Weinstein, JD’73 David H. Weiss, JD’77 Gina B. Weitzenkorn, JD’75 Mary A. Wells Esq., JD’77 (Barrister) Dan S. Whittemore, JD’71 Alvin L. Wiederspahn, JD’76 Charles A. Wilkes Jr., JD’79 Keith C. Williams, JD’72 Nancy E. Williams, JD’74 (Justice) Donn H. Wilson, JD’75 (Justice) Dee P. Wisor, JD’75 (Justice) Richard D. Wolber, JD’78 Dean M. Wolcott, JD’71 Franklin E. Wright, JD’70 John V. Zadvinskis, JD’77 Margot Zallen, JD’77 A. Stephen Zavell, JD’76 (Barrister)
1980s Regina M. Adams, JD’83 Gary L. Alexander, JD’81 (Barrister) Ellen G. Alires-Trujillo, JD’88 Katherine E. Allen, JD’87 Geoffrey P. Anderson, JD’85 Sonna Marie Anderson, JD’85 Mark C. Apovian Esq., JD’88 James A. Askew, JD’86 David C. Aspinwall, JD’80 Alan D. Avery, JD’83 1
Mitzi Grove Ball, JD’87 Mitchell J. Ballweg, JD’86 Holden Joseph Bank, JD’87 Cynthia Lynn Barnes, JD’85 Brian J. Bauer, LLM’87 Robin L. Beattie, JD’86 Sonja Ann Becker, JD’82 Gary David Berg, LLM’82 Karen Barton Best, JD’82 Janet L. D. Bieringer, MSJA’83 Dirk T. Biermann, JD’81 Joan Blaik, JD’81 Peter H. Blair Jr., JD’83 Catherine J. Boggs, JD’81 (Justice) Elizabeth S. Bohanon, JD’84 1
Darin J. Boles, JD’87 Brian P. Bonell, JD’86 James B. Borgel, JD’84 Patricia L. Bortz Schuster, JD’85 Richard J. Botos, JD’86 David W. Brenman, JD’80 Donald R. Brockus, JD’82 Rodney F. Brown, JD’82 Stephen Lau Brown, JD’87 Jeffrey A. Bruner, JD’84 Joanna L. Kowalik Bruner, JD’85 James T. Burghardt, JD’80 Donald Ault Burkhardt, JD’89 Joan B. Burleson, JD’85 (Chief Justice) Nancy Chase Burton, JD’80 Robert Rogers Carlson, JD’86 Christine K. Cave, JD’82 (Barrister) Barbara G. Chamberlain, JD’81 Jay June-kun Choi Esq., JD’88 Steven C. Choquette, JD’86 Glenn G. Cleek, JD’88 Nancy Lin Cohen, JD’81
Jeremy P. Cohen, JD’86 Keith R. Combs, JD’84 Leonard M. Cooper, JD’85 William J. Cowlin Jr., JD’86 Dorothy J. Cramer, JD’80 Michael R. Cranmer, JD’84 Margy Marie Crosley, JD’88 Bradley D. Crown, JD’86 (Justice) Lynda Carney Crum, JD’87 Gregory J. Cucarola, JD’84 Robert J. Cunningham, JD’81 Frank P. D’Alessandro, JD’84 Michael J. Daley, LLM’87 Gregory R. Danielson, JD’83 Diane Marie Dash, JD’85 Barbara M. Davis, JD’83 (Justice) Margaret A. Davis, JD’84 Fred J. Diss, JD’86 Rocco A. Dodson, JD’81 Michael B. Drury, JD’87 Delphia Nash Duckens, JD’80 Mary Jo Duckworth, JD’84 K.K. DuVivier, JD’82 Leslie Ann Eaton, JD’88 Lauri O. Edles, JD’87 Alan Epstein, JD’80 James R. Erickson, MSJA’83 Robert C. Erler, JD’82 Stacie G. Evans, JD’82 Suzanne Farver, JD’82 (Barrister) Loretta J. Feehan, JD’87 Michael F. Feeley, JD’82 Martha Chandler Ferris, JD’86 Randall J. Feuerstein, JD’80 Leslie A. Fields, JD’81 (Barrister) Lillian H. Filegar, JD’80 James R. Flagg, LLM’89 Steven Myron Flansburg, JD’85 William J. Fortune, JD’80 Evelyn L. Fox, JD’88 Roger D. Fraley Jr., JD’84 Betsy A. Friedlander, JD’84 Neil H. Friedman, JD’86 Mark W. Fullmer, JD’89 Pamela A. Gagel, JD’85 (Barrister) John J. Gallegos, JD’84 Watson W. Galleher, JD’87 John R. Garland, LLM’83 J. Wadine Gehrke, JD’84 Sarah S. Godfrey, JD’88 Neil M. Goff, LLM’81 Donald C. Gorder, JD’80 Bruce J. Gordon, JD’80 George W. Gray III, JD’85 Carol S. Grudis, JD’82 (Barrister) John W. Grudis, JD’83 (Barrister) David C. Gryce, JD’83 Sheila M. Gutterman, JD’87 Gregory B. Ham, JD’86 James T. Hannon, JD’84 Calvin T. Hanson, JD’83 Robert W. Hanula, LLM’84 Michael E. Harr, JD’85 Mindy Harris, JD’80 Frances C. Hartogh, JD’82 Larry D. Harvey, LLM’82 Kevin W. Hecht, JD’86 Brett Steven Heckman, JD’85 Alan B. Hendrix, JD’80 1
Barbara Selene Henk, JD’88 Gregory W. Heron, JD’84 (Justice) Woodson L. Herring, LLM’89 Patricia A. Hertzler, JD’80 R. Skip Hibbard III, JD’81
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Class Giving by Decade James David Hopkins, JD’89 Kurt A. Horton, JD’80 Lisa A. Hutar, JD’87 Sally Marshall Hyde, JD’85 Gregory Francis Intoccia, JD’85 Nina A. Iwashko, JD’82 Robbi J. Jackson, JD’87 (Justice) Matthew P. Jaffe, JD’81 Amelie Buchanan Johnson, JD’84 Joseph D. Johnson Jr., LLM’88 Richard M. Jones Jr., JD’85 Martha W. Jordan, LLM’88 (Barrister) Craig D. Joyce, JD’80 John George Kallis, JD’88 Elizabeth Lamb Kearney, JD’86 Alan M. Keeffe, JD’85 Dennis C. Keeler, JD’81 Matt W. Keller, JD’89 Lorene R. Kelly-Hollister, JD’80 Mary Ann C. Kerwin, JD’86 C. Todd Kettelkamp, JD’85 Jacquelyn Kilmer, JD’87 Dale L. Kingman, LLM’82 Frederick W. Klann, JD’82 Janice L. Koch, LLM’85 Laurie B. Krimbill, JD’87 Frederic T. Kutscher, JD’81 Timothy J. Lamb, JD’81 Juli E. Lapin, JD’84 Jennifer Cook Lewis, JD’85 Randi Jo Lewis, JD’86 Celine M. Lillie, JD’85 (Justice) Mark S. Lillie, JD’84 (Justice) Deborah Ann Linn, JD’81 Charles Chandler Lippitt, JD’89 Christopher B. Little, JD’87 Gary P. Maack-Magnusson, LLM’85 Arnold C. Macdonald, JD’85 D. James Manning, LLM’81 Frederic H. Marienthal III, JD’82 (Barrister) Anthony J. Marino, JD’84 Jackie S. Mason, JD’80 Rex T. Matsumura, LLM’85 Saranne K. Maxwell, JD’87 Christopher Robert McClear, JD’89 Marshall W. McCullough, JD’87 Ann Carroll McCullough, JD’89 Karen McMurry, LLM’80 Stewart McNab, JD’84 (Barrister) Joan H. McWilliams, JD’82 (Barrister) Steven P. Meier, JD’85 Anthony Melonakis, JD’83 Linda W. Metzner, JD’87 Patrick J. Meyer, JD’85 Brian D. Milligan, JD’85 Jeff Victor Milstead, LLM’85 Gina S. Moore, JD’83 Peter T. Moore, JD’81 Elizabeth C. Moran, JD’86 Kathryn K. Morrison, JD’85 (Barrister) John M. Morrison, JD’86 Marla Dawn Music, JD’83 Sally S. Nadel, JD’82 Katharine K. Nanda, JD’81 (Counselor) Lee J. Ness, LLM’86 Mary Sillstrop Obermiller, JD’86 Christine O’Connor, JD’84 Kathleen Ann Odle, JD’88 (Barrister) Ann P. Ogden, JD’80 Renée Warren O’Rourke, JD’84 Donald M. Ostrander, JD’82 John Leonard Palmquist, JD’87 Raul S. Pastrana, JD’86 (Barrister) Cary Colt Payne, JD’88
Jennifer A. Payne, JD’89 Thomas C. Pearson, LLM’87 David R. Penna, JD’85 Debra Piazza, JD’85 George A. Pierce Jr., JD’81 Michael J. Polakovic, JD’82 Frederic H. Poor III, LLM’84 Linda S. Portman, LLM’86 Cheryl L. Post, JD’84 Douglas K. Powers, JD’81 James E. Puga, JD’89 Katherine A. Raabe, JD’82 Warren A. Rachels, LLM’84 (Barrister) John H. Raforth, LLM’88 Roger H. Randall, JD’84 Bloor Redding Jr., JD’84 Clayton A. Reeves, LLM’86 Kevin Dean Rhodes, JD’85 (Barrister) Peggy Ann Richter, JD’85 Terence Mark Ridley, JD’85 Kathie Troudt Riley, JD’86 H. G. Roberts, MSJA’82 Charlotte R. Robinson, JD’82 John M. Roche, JD’81 Jeanne K. Root, JD’84 Patrick M. Ryan, LLM’85 David W. Sage, JD’88 Andrew A. Saliman, JD’88 1
Arthur J. Saltarelli, JD’88 Marc E. Salzberg, JD’84 Gregory A. Sanderson, LLM’88 Michael V. Schaefer, LLM’80 Marilyn Gonser Schalge, JD’88 Carolyn W. Scott, JD’87 Donna L. Shaft, JD’83 Kevin R. Shaney, LLM’81 Michael Lawrence Shea, JD’80 Linda J. Shoemaker, JD’82 Linda L. Siderius, JD’82 Cynthia R. Skeen, JD’81 Diane Vaksdal Smith, JD’84 Andrea Lynn Smith, JD’88 C. Jean Smollett, JD’80 April L. Snook, JD’85 Theresa Ann Spahn, JD’87 Michelle M. St. Pierre, JD’89 Nancy J. Stara, LLM’85 David L. Starbuck, JD’83 Marie Bloom Stears, JD’88 Mary A. Steefel, LLM’84 Lizbeth J. Stenmark, JD’87 David Alan Stephan, JD’88 Michael Brice Sullivan, JD’83 Michael W. Sutherland, JD’84 Stephen R. Swanson, JD’87 Alan D. Sweetbaum, JD’83 Cameron J. Syke, LLM’86 Ferdinand L. Torres, JD’82 Christopher B. Tremaroli, JD’87 Martha D. Trupp, JD’88 Bernie M. Tuggle, JD’83 Eric Twelker, JD’87 Joel N. Varnell, JD’81 Marcia K. Vigil, JD’83 Michael W. Vigil, JD’85 James R. Walker, JD’85 Rhonda J. Watson, JD’83 John A. Weeda, JD’84 Mark A. Weinberg, MSJA’84 Leo Michael Weiss, JD’85 Debra K. Wilcox, JD’86 Janet Kay Williams, JD’89 Michel P. Williams, JD’89 Thomas Henry Wilson III, JD’84 (Barrister)
James H. Wishaar, LLM’81 Cynthia L. Wolf, JD’84 R. Alan Woodard, JD’80 Kristina Margaret Woods, JD’84 Timothy C. Woods, JD’84 Sharon Tarr Worley, JD’83 Karen L.Yablonski-Toll, JD’81 Gwen Jarahian Young, JD’84 Katherine M. Zelko, JD’82 Mathew P. Zieringer, LLM’81
1990s George Harris Adams, JD’90 Paul Edward Ailslieger, LLM’93 Jeffrey Lee Albright Jr., JD’96 David Samuel Allen, JD’96 Henry Williams Atkinson, LLM’99 Kent James Baril, JD’92 Jeff J. Barker, JD’95 Arlene S. Barringer, JD’95 Edward M. Bearman, JD’90 Kathleen Todd Beesing, JD’95 Melissa Claire Bender, JD’99 Karen C. Bennett, JD’97 Michael George Bennett, JD’97 1
Angel E. Benton, MSLA’90 Kelly R. Berg, LLM’96 Michelle Lynne Berger, JD’91 Cassandra V. Bethel, JD’91 Donald Laird Blue Jr., JD’93 Deborah L. Buckley, JD’92 Jamey Layne Burnett, JD’96 Thomas Jackson Charlton Jr., JD’90 Benjamin W. Chase, LLM’99 (Barrister) Christine Noelle Chauche, JD’91 1
Richard Adam Cohen, LLM’94 Theresa Lynne Corrada, JD’92 (Justice) Brent L. Corrigan, LLM’90 Lisa Lynn Dator, JD’94 John H. Davis Jr., LLM’93 Dineen T. Deel, JD’91 Stephen Wayne Donelson, JD’91 Mary Jo Dougherty, JD’92 Thomas John Dougherty Esq., JD’99 1
Monica Ghosh Driggers, JD’92 Erik Lawrence Droutman, JD’93 Stephanie E. Dunn, JD’93 Anton Vance Dworak, JD’93 Laura Butler Embleton, JD’91 Paul Stephen Enockson, JD’97 William Dudley Esbenshade, JD’92 Theodore D. Fay III, JD’97 1
Jessica Vartanian Fenton, JD’95 Keith Robert Fevurly, LLM’92 Gina Marie Fields, LLM’95 Claire D. Fitzgerald, JD’97 Tod Edmund Fitzke, JD’91 Nicolle Mary Fleury, JD’97 Paul B. Fortney, JD’97 Terry L. Fowler, JD’92 Don A. Frederick Esq., JD’92 Laurence John Free, JD’93 (Justice) Jeffrey Brian Frishman, LLM’91 Kandace C. Gerdes, LLM’91 Peter A. Gergely, JD’94 Anne M. Gish, JD’90 1
Erin Elizabeth Goff, JD’99 Janet Lee Goold-Gerak, JD’98 Michael Aaron Gorbaty, JD’98 John Christopher Haas, JD’94 Margaret T. Hale, JD’98 Thomas R. Harper, JD’98 Holli Lyn Hartman, JD’99 Marianne M. Hayes, JD’91
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Class Giving by Decade Craig A. Hillier, LLM’94 Eric Lawrence Hilty, JD’92 Tamara A. Hoffbuhr Seelman, JD’97 1
Edward Michael Hoffman, JD’92 Jeffrey Nathan Holappa, JD’99 1
Christopher R. Holcom, JD’93 William Linquist Horner, JD’94 Angela Lynn Humphreys, JD’97 James M. Hunsaker, JD’97 Kristina Marie James, JD’98 Floy Herta Jeffares, JD’92 Julie Lynn Kaminski, LLM’92 1
Paul G. Karlsgodt, JD’97 Ellen O’Brien Kauffmann, LLM’91 Leslie F. Kline-Capelle, JD’90 Peter K. Kloepfer, LLM’91 Leslie Parpal Kramer, JD’94 (Barrister) Thomas H. Kraus, JD’93 Karen E. Leaffer, LLM’91 Heather Lengwin, JD’98 1
Robert J. Leonard, JD’91 Rex A. Logemann, LLM’96 Jeffery Charles Lowe, JD’91 Daniel Myron Lucas, JD’94 1
Philip Arthur Lyons, JD’98 1
Stuva William N. Maniatis, JD’94 1
Sarah Jane Maresh, JD’92 Ryan Timothy Martin, JD’97 Roy Roger Martinez Jr., JD’92 Joel Andrew Mayo, JD’95 Stephen K. McAnarney, LLM’94 Janet Lawler McDaniel, JD’95 Anne Patricia McDonald, JD’91 (Justice) Sean Thomas McGuire, JD’91 Dawn Michelle McKnight, JD’96 Debra J. Meachum, JD’96 Theresa M. Mehringer, JD’91 Melissa Ann Menter, JD’98 Mark Earl Merric, JD’95 Kathleen Meyers, JD’99 Steven Woodrow Moore, JD’93 Craig Morlang, LLM’94 Eve Baker Moulding, JD’94 Brian A. Murphy, JD’99 Amy White Naes, JD’90 1
David M. Naples, LLM’93 Mark Andrew Neider, JD’96 1
Neile Allison Neider, JD’96 1
Michael S. O’Brien, MSLA’91 Tamra A. Palmer, LLM’96 Anne Elizabeth Parmley, JD’93 1
Jon-Mark Colwell Patterson, JD’96 Kevin Howard Peck, JD’96 Jeffrey Darrell Pederson, JD’98 1
Jacalyn Waple Peter, JD’94 Robert Brent Proctor, LLM’92 James R. Robb, JD’90 Jonathan Scott Robinson, JD’93 Scott Thomas Rodgers, JD’90 Nora E. Roth, JD’90 Cheryl Ann Rowles-Stokes, JD’94 Nantiya Ruan Rogers, JD’99 Seema Sachdev, JD’97 Kristin D’Ann Sanko, JD’91 (Justice) Gregory Mark Scheer, JD’99 John Douglas Scherling, JD’90 Sarah Ellen Scofield, JD’98 1
Malcolm Burns Seawell, JD’91 1
L. W. Fenton Sharrow, JD’97 Scott M. Simmons, LLM’95 Theodore C. Skokos, LLM’96 Erin Marie Smith, JD’90 (Barrister) Robert Brandon Smith, LLM’93 David A. Sprecace, LLM’93
Sarah Kamuela Stromberg, JD’99 1
Melinda Ann Taylor, MSLA’94 1
Janice Lynn Tonz, JD’94 Brent A. Tracy, JD’98 Robert Matthew Trombly, JD’91 Joseph L. Trombo, JD’94 Paul E. Upsons, JD’94 Deborah K. Van Wyke, JD’98 Ruth Leab Wadsworth, JD’93 Julie Miles Walker, JD’94 Margaret Bergelin Walker, JD’95 Todd Philip Walker, JD’99 Charles Alan Warren, JD’93 Valerie Angela Wenderoth, JD’94 Carolynne C. White, JD’93 Brian Ralph Whitney, JD’92 1
Geoffrey Thomas Williams Jr., JD’99 Mark Cameron Willis, JD’99 Joseph Rowland Winston, JD’90 Karen Leigh Witt, JD’90 1
Eric N. Wolpin, JD’92 David Brett Woods, JD’90 John W.Yeargan Jr., LLM’91 Deborah Zalesne, JD’92 Donald Leroy Zink, JD’98 Mary Gilliam Zuchegno, JD’91
2000s Amber Lane Abbuhl, JD’05 Bradley Kent Benson, LLM’02 Hilary Beth Bloom, JD’04 Jacquelyn S. Booker, JD’00 James Ford Booth Jr., JD’04 1
Errol Irving Brown, JD’05 1
Mitchell John Butler, JD’03 Michelle Renee Canerday, JD’05 1
Raymund Degracia Caparas, JD’05 1
Marcie L. Cassell, JD’01 Colleen Elizabeth Chase, JD02 1 (Barrister) Se Hyuck Choi, JD’05 1
Laurie A. Clark, JD’04 1
Jason Cobb, JD’05 1
Casie D. Collignon, JD’03 Debra A. Conroy, LLM’01 1
Daniel Robert Coombe, JD’04 1
John F. Cornell, JD’06 1
Matthew J. Costinett, JD’02 1
Cory M. Curtis, JD’03 Megan M. Curtiss, JD’02 1
Blair Ellen Daniels, JD’07 1
Frank Christopher Debick, JD’01 1
Jonathan Lim Dhillon, JD’04 1
Tara Leigh Dunn, JD’05 1
Erich Matthew Eischen, LLM’06 1
Valeria Elliott, LLM’00 Scott Lee Ellis, JD’01 Elizabeth Ann Fazio, JD’06 Jeremy Ivan Ferrin, JD’07 1
Russell Grady Gamble, JD’03 1
Rebecca S. Gervasi, JD’01 Meredith Rachel Ginn, JD’07 1
Tamara Frances Goodlette, JD’04 1
Marianne Gordon, JD’04 Jane P. Grinney, JD’04 John Wells Hake, JD’05 Tomi Lynn Hanson, JD’07 1
Kourtney Kowalski Hartmann, JD’03 Jeri J. Hatch, JD’01 Douglas Robert Hegg, JD’00 Bragg E. Hemme, JD’02 1
Jon Russell Hertzog, JD’05 1
Patricia Ann Hodges, JD’02 Clinton L. Hooker, LLM’02 Margaret J. Hoyt-Hoch, JD’01 1
Brent Steven Hultquist, JD’05 Richard Todd Irwin, JD’01 Jennie Ruth Johnson, LLM’04 Philip Samuel Kaplan, JD’07 1
John Arthur Karasek, LLM’04 Matthew J. Kavanagh IV, JD’00 1
Michael O. Keating, JD’01 (Justice) Katherine Ann Kelley, JD’07 1
Susan P. Klopman, JD’01 Andrew R. Kroll, LLM’04 1
Paul James Kyed, JD’06 1
Phillip Andrew Laird Jr., JD’00 1
Evan Palmer Lee, JD’07 1
Karl F. Leppmann, LLM’04 Matthew Morgan Linton, JD’06 Michelle Patricia Linton, JD’06 John Watkins Lovett, JD’01 Cody Dan Luther, JD’07 1
Suzanne Carman MacDonald, JD’01 Meghan Capra Martelon, JD’03 Kristen Mary McLaughlin, JD’06 Carol J. Mihalic, JD’00 James H. Morgan, LLM’03 1
Joseph Oliva Jr., JD’04 1
Jeffrey James Owen, LLM’01 Mark L. Parrish, JD’06 1
Jack Davy Patten III, JD’05 Nancy Lou Peterson, JD’04 Azam Rajan, JD’03 Carmen Nicole Reilly, JD’04 John B. Ridgley, JD’00 Robert Emmet Riley, JD’03 Timothy James Riley, JD’06 1
Adam Rix, JD’02 Bret J. Roundy, JD’02 1
Hattie Russell, LLM’04 1
Tami L. Sapp, JD’03 Gary Lee Schleuger Jr., JD’01 (Barrister) John Raymond Sharp, JD’05 Ty Sheaks, JD’03 Vikrum Juspreet Singh, JD’06 1
Scott P. Sinor, JD’00 1
Max S. Stich, JD’05 1
Debbie Tanakaya, JD’02 Mark Reid Thomas, JD’07 1
Louis Larson Underbakke, JD’03 Culver Van Der Jagt, JD’03 Jacquelyn R. Wayne, JD’03 Tracie Anne Williamson, LLM’00 1
Richard D. Woolbert, LLM’04 Lauren A. Wright, JD’00 1
Sandra L. Wright, JD’01 Paul Zarlengo, JD’01 1
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Judges’ Day 2007
Top row, l-r: Blair Kanis (center), winner of the Hartje Objective Writing Award in the Lawyering Process program, flanked by the award’s namesake, Associate
Professor Jeffrey Hartje and Lawyering Process Professor Dori Kaplan; Cyd Dillard, winner of the Reese Persuasive Writing Award (center), with Professor John
Reese and Lawyering Process Professor Andrea Bloom. Bottom row, l-r: K.K. DuVivier, DU Law Professor and Director of the Lawyering Process program, wel
comes attendees to the Seventh Annual Judges’ Day. DuVivier, JD ’82, created Judges’ Day in 2000 as “…an opportunity for the law school community to honor
judiciary from the Rocky Mountain region and for students to interact with judges and to hear real oral arguments to the Colorado Court of Appeals.”; Judge
Robert Russell, 18th Judicial District, and Judge Richard G. McManus, Jr., Edgewater Municipal court (left to right); Colorado Court of Appeals Judge Jerry N.
Jones, JD’86, and Court of Appeals Judge Diana Terry.
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2nd Annual Domestic Violence Conference
Barrister’s Boot
Top row, l-r: Panelists from the second annual conference on domestic violence at the Sturm College of Law—“Battered Mothers & Witnessing Children: Failure to
Protect & Conceptions of State Accountability”—included (left to right) Shari Shink, J.D., Director, Rocky Mountain Children’s Law Center; Sheila Addison, family
therapist; Prof. Leigh Goodmark, University of Baltimore School of Law; Jerry Silverman, Senior Policy Analyst, HHS Office of the Secretary for Planning Evaluation,
Federal Consultant, Green Book Project; and moderator Prof. Tamara Kuennen, University of Denver Sturm College of Law; Friday’s Keynote Speaker, Prof. Evan
Stark, Rutgers-Newark and the University of Medicine and Dentistry School of Public Health; DU Law Prof. G. Kristian Miccio, lead organizer of the conference,
provides opening remarks. Bottom row, l-r: The Ballard Spahr foursome: (l-r) Michael Clowdus, JD’75; Tom Duncan; David Brenner; Beverly Quail, JD’72; The win
ning foursome that kept the Boot at DU included (l-r) Greg Little; Chris Little; JD’87; C. Todd Drake and Dave Little, JD’58 (not pictured); (Back l-r) DU Law Dean
Beto Juárez, Kirk Baughan, executive director of development; Mike Meyers, director of alumni relations. Front row (l-r): Jenny Savage, DU Law alumni relations
coordinator; Elisa Dalton, director of communications and alumni relations, CU Law School; Danielle Corland, CU event coordinator and Stu Bennett, JD’74,
Barrister’s Boot event chair.
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May 2007
Top row, l-r: Dean Roberto “Beto” Juárez, Jr. kicks off the May 2007 commencement ceremony, held at DU’s Magness Arena in the Ritchie Center;
Commencement Student Speaker Lonnell Grant Wylie; Commencement speaker John W. Suthers, Colorado Attorney General, receives an
honorary degree from Chancellor Robert Coombe (left) and is hooded by University of Denver Provost Gregg Kvistad. “I am proud of every day
I have spent as a lawyer,” said Suthers. “I hope you will find your career, regardless of where it takes you, similarly rewarding.” Bottom row, l-r:
Graduate Amy Bowers (Yuroc); Mark “Hawk” Thomas; Connie Wang; Cell phone calls from the ceremony floor assist in finding family and friends
in Magness Arena.
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Top row, l-r: DU Law Student Ambassadors welcome alumni and friends to the Recent Graduate Reunion; (l-r) Jonathan Schultz, JD’06; Linda Phillips, JD’03;
Nita Dunn; Randy Dunn, Esq. Bottom row, l-r: (l-r) Catherine Chan, JD’03; David Fennell, Esq.; Igor Serbinin, JD’04; Kevin Zalouclek, JD’05; Selvoy Fillerup,
JD/MSLA Candidate (with megaphone) cheers on the DU Pioneers hockey game with wife Annie (bottom left) and friends Ryan and Carrie Brady.
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1940 CHARLES KAROWSKY
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1940sCharles Karowsky celebrated his 90th birthday this year. He writes a column for his local newspaper, The
Carroll’s poem, The Walrus and the Carpenter.
1951 ED LEHMAN Ed Lehman is the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Lehman Communications Corporation. The company publishes three daily newspapers—the Daily Times-Call, the Loveland Reporter-Herald and the Cañon City Daily Record—and four weeklies— the Louisville Times, the Lafayette News, the Erie Review, and the Superior Observer. Lehman Communications Corporation has been listed among Colorado’s top 200 privately owned companies and Ed was recently recognized for his 50 years of service to the company. As a third generation Colorado native, Ed began his newspaper career in the news departments of Denver’s two large dailies during the seven years he attended the University of Denver. He practiced law in Denver and was a Deputy District Attorney and a State Representative. He continues to maintain an active business and social schedule in Longmont, Boulder and Denver.
Greeley Tribune. In his column, Charles reports the many thoughts and musings of a salty, bold, naïve yet astute walrus based on the character from Lewis
1953 ROBERT H. SMITH Robert H. Smith considers his legal education at DU critical to his success in fund development for 39 years. He is currently on the Board of Trustees of the San Diego Maritime Museum and recently published the sixth update to Smith’s Guide to Maritime Museums of North America, and a little history of the development of New York’s Erie
Canal entitled, Clinton’s Ditch: The Erie Canal – 1825. He continues to write other short stories, as well.
1956 FRANCIS W. JAMISON Francis W. Jamison, Professor of Law Emeritus, continues to teach law for the American Academy of Judicial Education. His classes include In-Depth Confessions, Motions to Suppress and Basic Evidence. Francis is also Of Counsel with Golden lawyers, Bradley and Devitt.
1950sRussell (Jack) Megrue retired from the F.B.I. and continues to live in Columbus, Ga. He sends greetings to his fellow classmates of 1956.
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n o t e s 1957 ALBERT H. NEWTON JR. In 1957, Albert H. Newton Jr. set up private law offices in Yreka, Calif. He was elected District Attorney in the County of Siskiyou in June 1958 and married Dorothy Ann Smith in November of the same year. In 1967, he left the District Attorney’s office and eventually set up a private practice with his older brother under Newton and Newton Professional Corporation where he continues to practice law today. He has been Chairman of the Board of the Scott Valley Bank for the past 20 years. Albert remains active in hay ranches and cattle operations, and enjoys annual trips abroad with his wife. He has four children—Kathy, Al, Linda and Ann—and eight grandchildren.
Richard Seibel is now completely retired after 32 years of full-time patent practice, primarily as a partner in the Pasadena,
Calif. firm of Christie, Parker and Hale, and a dozen years of part-time practice. He and his wife now enjoy worldwide travel and have visited all the continents, mostly visiting locations off the beaten path in Asia. His most remarkable journey was a 16-day hike to Nepal’s Mt. Everest base camp to celebrate his 75th birthday.
1964 JAMES L. BILLINGER After 31 years of service with the Federal Government, James L. Billinger retired from the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation. He and his wife, Mary Jane, enjoy traveling, gardening, exercising, discussing and cussing politics, their friends, dog, and following the lives and careers of their son, Mark, and his wife, Megan.
1960sThey are keeping their fingers crossed for grandchildren.
1966 BOB GORDON JR. Bob Gordon, Jr. is grandfather to four granddaughters who love him severely, and considers all other news of lesser importance. “Mabuhay to all my friends,” he writes.
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1967 GEORGE KONDOS George Kondos had two Barnes & Noble book signings this year for his first two novels, The Paths of Love and Glory and Vengeance Trail, and has submitted queries for publication of his third, The Curse of Aphrodite. He vacationed with his wife, Jean, in Palm Desert, Calif., and they are looking forward to a trip this fall to Tuscany and the Amalfi Coast. Early in the year, his daughter, Kim Kondos (JD ’81) and son-in-law John Voorhees hosted a fundraiser at their home for Sen. Joe Biden, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in support of his bid for the democratic nomination for President.
1968 DAVID WORK David Work is Executive Director Emeritus for the North Carolina Board of Pharmacy and has taught pharmacy law and ethics at UNC-Chapel Hill. He has served as a pharmacist, was a corporation lawyer for Blue Cross in Chicago, Ill., and was a former President of The National Association of Board of Pharmacy and the Chapel Hill Chapter of The United Nations Association. In 2004, he1960sreceived the Hubert H. Humphrey Award from the American Pharmacists Association for exceptional service in government and public policy. On May 12, 2007, he was awarded the Honorary Doctor of Human Letters during Wingate University’s commencement ceremony. He is the father of three daughters with successful careers in academia and international economics and is “Pops” to four grandchildren.
1969 THOMAS F. CONLON Thomas F. Conlon was one of a group of Americans working in the U.K. who were invited to meet Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip in Buckingham Palace this year. Thomas moved to London in the early 1970s to study law at the London School of Economics where he received an LLM. He worked in London as an entertainment lawyer for Peter Sellers, Julie Andrews, and various U.S. film directors and producers. He eventually moved his practice to financial law in the City of London, serving as a director and on the main board of international fund managers Henderson Global Investors. In London, Thomas won the Grand Prize for International Law from The Hague Academy of International Law at the World Court, Holland, for his writing on international treaty law. He was also an Adjunct Professor of Law at both the University of Notre Dame Law School and Pepperdine University Law School. While on the faculty of both law schools, he organized the first “Barrister Bowl,” a co-ed football game in Hyde Park, between the law students of both institutions, which has become an annual fixture. He has served as Chairman of the Kennedy for President Committee in the U.K. and was elected a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in New York and San Francisco. He later served as one of the international officers (General Counsel) of the Democratic Party. Besides his U.S. litigation practice, Thomas writes on white-collar crime and money laundering, and also serves as Director of American Citizens Aboard, a Geneva, Switzerland-based international organization promoting the interests of some 5.5 million U.S.-taxed, but largely disenfranchised Americans living outside the United States. He lives in Kent with his English barrister wife, Alison, and their 15-year-old daughter, Samantha.
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In 2006, Denny Seitz retired from a 51/2-year stint with the New Mexico Public Defenders Department. He and his wife, BJ Hall, will move to Penrose, Colo. this summer where they plan to enjoy retirement with their horses.
1970 SUSAN WENDALL WHICHER Susan Wendall Whicher calls herself a “recovering lawyer,” who fills her days with crafting, singing and writing in New Britain, Conn. She works for the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra doing administrative and fundraising work, volunteers with the restoration efforts of Trinity on Main Cultural Center, and sings with The New Britain Chorale, a group that performs major sacred words.
Lyle Barron retired from law practice and returned to his hometown of Carlsbad, N.M. He married his high school sweetheart, Barbara, in 1997 and they are enjoying life in a small town. He is using his Web site, www.lylesmbc.com, to further the interests of Carlsbad and is a prime advocate of home rule and the county animal control ordinance, both of which are hot-button issues in the area. He writes, “It would be sufficient to say I am the prime mover of all things controversial here.”
1971 JAMES WILLIAM HOPKINS James William Hopkins, retired after 25 years on the bench, was recently appointed Senior Judge by the Missouri Supreme Court to fill in wherever needed.
1972 JOHN P. DAVIDSON John P. Davidson closed his law practice after 33 years in his hometown of Raton, N.M. About a year later, he opened the Heartworks Stress Management Center in the location of his former law practice. John writes, “In the course of learning over many years how to manage the stress of a law practice, I discovered that I enjoyed teaching others how to manage stress more than I enjoyed participating in the process by which so many people experience it.” He is available to consult with those in the legal field on effective techniques and technologies for addressing stress for themselves and for their clients. John can be contacted through www.heartworksnm.com.
Gerald Allen Lane is busier than ever after retiring five years ago. During the past year, he and his wife Marion have traveled to New Zealand for kayaking, hiking and sailing; to Belize for sailing and fishing; to Miami for a 50th high school reunion; to New Mexico for a National Active & Retired Federal Employees (NARFE) convention; and to Michigan, Chicago, and San Francisco to visit family. Jerry is active as president of the local NARFE attending conferences and lobbying. He has four grandchildren.
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Howard Kenison was appointed by American Bar Association President Karen Mathis to chair a working group that prepared a white paper on Environmental Issues and the Rule of Law,
which he presented April 16, 2007 at the ABA’s International Rule of Law Symposium in New York. He is also involved with the Northeast Greenway Corridor Project, serving as chair of the Colorado Attorney General’s working group for the project, which is working to develop green-ways, parks and trails. He has served on the State Bard of Parks and Outdoor Recreation, and on the board of Great Outdoors Colorado, where he helped preserve thousands of acres of open space.
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1970s
JARED JOHNSON Jared Johnson is in his 15th year as a Hearing Officer for the State of Colorado, adjudicating disputes between employers and employees over unemployment insurance. His major hobby continues to be Third World travel as he has now been to almost 90 countries. Last year, he climbed to about 19,800 feet on Mount Everest, “plenty high enough for a guy pressing 60 with no particular technical mountaineering skills to speak of,” he writes. He spent February in Burma and the Philippines and hopes to travel to Libya in the coming year.
1974 JOHN LEOPOLD On October 31, 2006, John Leopold retired from the 18th Judicial District as a District Judge (19 years) and Chief Judge (4 years). He and his wife, Terry, recently traveled to New York City to visit family, soak up the great culture, and attend a two-day training session at JAMS, which he joined as an arbiter, mediator, special master and statutory judge. He continues to find himself quite busy with work and travel.
1975 ENSON (QUIZZY) MAATTALA From 1992-3, Enson (Quizzy) Maattala lived in Library, Penn. He spent the following year in Rochester, Minn., and then nine years in Owatonna, Minn. He has lived the past five years in Moorhead, Minn.
1976 JOHN W. O’DORISIO John W. O’Dorisio was named a 2007 Colorado Super Lawyer for real estate. He works with developers, contractors and major lending institutions on complex and significant commercial real estate transactions, and has extensive experience in drafting and negotiating commercial leases. He is well known for helping sports franchises develop stadiums and arenas, having been real estate counsel to the Denver Broncos Football Club in the construction of Invesco Field.
1977 PERRY L. GOORMAN Perry L. Goorman married Denver Fire Dept. Lt. Jacqueline Larson on April 19, 2007. They were married on their wedding trip and honeymoon to Beqa Island, Fiji.
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Janice Kaye Ranson is currently serving a two-year term as Chairman of the North Colorado Medical Center Foundation. She lives in Greeley along with her husband, Dr. Richard Halbert, to whom she has been married since before law school, and their 14-year-old daughter, Annie. After 20 years in San Diego, she is happy to be back in Colorado.
1978 RUSSELL FRYE Russell Frye is in his third year of solo practice in Washington, D.C. and loving it. One of his cases, a U.S. District Court ruling that the Department of Agriculture cannot prevent meatpacker Creekstone Farms from testing its cattle for Mad Cow disease, was widely reported in Europe and Asia. He also represented parties in two environmental cases heard by the Supreme Court this term.
Robert J. Erickson became Director of Legal Services for Pinnacol Assurance in Denver, Colo.
1981 FRANKLIN M. WARD Franklin M. Ward retired as an Administrative Law Judge with the Maryland Office of Administrative Hearings in mid-2003. He and his wife then moved to Frederica, Del., where they continue to enjoy retired life in a quiet neighborhood with their dog, Casey.
1980s
Eileen I. (Wilhelm) Elliott is living in Richmond, Va., where she focuses on commercial litigation and health care law and policy with the Burlington law firm of Shems, Dunkiel, Kassel & Saunders, PLLC. She was the Deputy Secretary of Vermont’s Agency of Human Services from 2003-2005 and the Commissioner of the Social Welfare Department from 1999-2003. From 1993-1999, she worked for the Vermont Office of the Attorney General, serving as Chief of the Human Services Division, and before that, as Assistant Attorney General to the Agriculture Department. She spent the first decade of her professional career in Idaho and Connecticut. Eileen has been married to her husband, Brad, for 20 years and they have a 13year-old daughter named Rosalyn.
1982 BERRY MITCHELL Berry Mitchell is the Director of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) for the United States District Court, District of Rhode Island, where he also serves as a staff arbitrator and mediator on the Court’s ADR panel. From 2006-April 2007, he served as co-chair of the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution Court ADR Programs Committee. Currently, Berry serves as an advisory group member and consultant to the Federal Judicial Center’s Program for Consultations in Dispute Resolution.
George Cooper is working as an Account Executive for Centennial Precious Metals/USAGOLD in Denver. Centennial Precious Metals/USAGOLD is one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious precious metals brokerage firms.
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1983 LUCIEN DHOOGE Lucien Dhooge was promoted to Professor of Law at the University of the Pacific. He spent May and June traveling and teaching in Albania, the Netherlands, Ukraine, Taiwan and China. He lives in San Francisco, Calif. with his wife, Julia.
1984 CHRISTOPHER PHILLIP WRIST Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox welcomed Christopher Phillip Wrist, Of Counsel, to the firm in March 2007. Christopher has 20 years of experience in patent law with a focus on electronics. Prior to his appointment at Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, Christopher was Of Counsel at Oliff & Berridge, PLC in Alexandria, Va.
1985 PHIL WESTERMAN Phil Westerman is employed with the United States Department of Justice in Atlanta, Ga. as an Administrative Officer for the Atlanta Field Division, Drug Enforcement Administration.
Anne Stark Walker has worked at the Office of Legal Services at the Colorado School of Mines since 1999, currently serving as General Counsel. In this position, Anne provides legal counsel to the university and serves as the pre-law advisor for undergraduates and alumni interested in attending law school.
Gregory J. Smith joined the National Institute for Trial Advocacy in Louisville, Colo. as director of publications. He serves as president elect of the Association for Continuing Legal Education
1980sand will assume the office of president on August 1. Prior to joining NITA, Greg was editorial director for Bradford Publishing Company and, before that, director of publications for Colorado Bar Association CLE. He lives in Highlands Ranch, Colo., with his wife, Dana Collier Smith, who is an Assistant Executive Director for the Colorado Bar Association. He has two sons—Cooper, 14, and Connor, 12—and three rambunctious Beagles named Bailey, Buster, and Beatrice.
Leonard (Len) Cooper retired as planned and moved to Silver Spring, Md.
This year, Britton Morrell celebrates ten years of working as a solo practitioner in his own law office. Britton represents employees in workers compensation, employment discrimination, and social security matters. Recently, he successfully defeated a motion for summary judgment for all 26 plaintiffs in an ADA discrimination claim. He enjoys traveling with his family, and recently completed his second year as an adjunct professor at the University of Northern Colorado teaching Constitutional Law. He writes, “Teaching provides a very welcome intellectual break from my ‘day job.’”
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After spending 14 years with IMG and a few years working with Bill Daniels and his family at America Presents, Jon Franklin started The Sports and Entertainment Company LLC (Sports-EntCo) in 2002. He stays busy with many fun and exciting projects in which he is able to work with great people and visit interesting places. Sports-EntCo, which is involved in numerous sport sponsorships and manages dozens of athletes including Olympic Gold Medalists and World Champions in various sports, was recently featured in Ski Racing magazine. For more information, visit www.sports-entco.com. Jon writes that his chil-dren—Noah, 13, and Paris, 10—are maturing into articulate and accomplished individuals and reports that, “life is fine.”
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1986 PAUL VAUGHAN Upon retirement as a public defender for the state of New Mexico, Paul Vaughan discovered he had too much time on his hands. He now fills that time serving as a contract attorney for respondents in dependency and neglect actions in children’s court. He is also involved with two choirs and a band in Las Cruces, N.M., where he plans to live forever. He writes, “Any and all are invited to stop in and visit should you ever be in southern New Mexico, the REAL sunshine state.”
Karen Zerhusen Kruer accepted a new position as Executive Director of the NKU Foundation at Northern Kentucky University in Highland Heights, Ky.
1987 DAVID S. ROLFE David S. Rolfe established and continues to run both the Pro Se Mediation clinic for the Elbert county District court and the Pro Se Dissolution of Marriage clinic for the Douglas County District court. He has sat as a Board Member on the Thursday Night Bar steering committee, the CBA Fee Arbitration Committee, the Denver Bar Fee Arbitration Committee and the Supreme Court Grievance Committee. In addition, David currently sits on the Board of the AFCC, CCMO legislative committee, and chairs the Attorney/Mediator Dialogue Conference committee. His practice is concentrated in the areas of Domestic Relations.
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Stanley Rasmussen recently transferred to the staff of the U.S. Army Office of General Counsel. He was also selected to participate in the 2007 Leadership Kansas program. The Leadership
1980sKansas Program educates participants about business and social issues affecting the state and aims to build a network of contacts they can use in career and volunteer activities around Kansas.
1988 STEVEN M. FRANCY Steven M. Francy accepted the position of Executive Director of RNs Working Together, AFL-CIO in Washington, D.C. RNs Working Together is a coalition of ten AFL-CIO unions representing over 200,000 registered nurses.
Ellen McElroy joined Pepper Hamilton LLP as a partner in their Washington D.C. office where she will work in the tax practice group. Ellen remains active in the legal community, serving as vice chair of the American Bar Association’s Tax Accounting Committee, and previously serving as chair of its Capitalization Subcommittee. She is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center.
David Allen and Deborah (Bourne/Mallory) Allen are ERISA attorneys practicing in the Chicago area. They own Strategic Benefits Consultants, Inc., dba Gardner & White, an employee benefits consulting firm and brokerage in Oak Brook, Ill. with satellite offices in DeKalb and Madison, Wis. They have four children: Samantha, 13, a passionate volleyball and softball player; Phillip, who is stationed with his family in Hawaii flying F-15s with the HANG; John, stationed in Dover, Md., flying C-5s; and Grant, stationed in Washington, D.C. as a third year medical student at Georgetown University.
1989 MICHELLE M. ST. PIERRE Michelle M. St. Pierre was elected to partnership in the Denver office of Baker Hostetler in January 2007. She is a member of the Tax Group and concentrates her practice in entity structuring and business succession planning.
1990 PATTY WELLINGER In addition to celebrating her 14th anniversary with the Westminster Law Library, Patty Wellinger received a two-year appointment to the Grants Committee of the American Association of Law Libraries.
1991 GREGORY MAYERS In August, Gregory Mayers and wife Lisa Mayers (JD ’93) will celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary in Pebble Beach, Calif. They have two children—Annika, 5, and Nathaniel, 2. Greg is Vice President and General Counsel of HealthTrans, a pharmacy-benefits administrator located in the Denver Tech Center. Lisa is partner with the downtown Denver firm of Grimshaw & Harring. When they are not practicing law or chasing the children, Greg and Lisa still enjoy playing golf.
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1992 CHARLES FELDMAN Charles Feldman was named a Colorado 2007 Super Lawyer. He resides in Steamboat Springs, Colo. where he leads Feldmann, Nagel & Associates LLC.
1993 LISA MARTIN After meeting in law school, Lisa Martin and Lee Osman married in 1994 and have since added three healthy and happy children to their family—Celia 8, Graham 6, and Karlee 4. They are partners together in the IP group of Dorsey & Whitney LLP located in Denver, Colo.
1994 BLAINE GADOW Blaine Gadow and Jenny Griesemer Gadow celebrated their 13th wedding anniversary this year, along with their son, Darren Gadow, age 17 months. Blaine continues to practice medical malpractice defense law with Fadel Cheney and Burt, while Jenny continues to practice family law with Fromm Smith and Gadow. Both firms are located in Phoenix, Ariz.
Cozen O’Connor recently elected Jennifer Poynter to membership in the firm, one of only 17 associates promoted firmwide. Jennifer practices in the subrogation and recovery department, concentrating her
practice on construction defect, product liability and negligence/contract claims. She also serves as president of the Arapahoe County Bar Association and on the Board of Governors for the Colorado Bar Association. In 2002, she received the Tommy Drinkwine Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year Award. She was recognized for her commitment to pro bono work in 1998 with the Faculty of Federal
Advocates Pro Bono Services Program Distinguished Service Award.
Leslie Kramer, of Faegre & Benson, was named to the NameProtect Trademark Insider, “Top 50 Trademark Attorneys” list for 2006. Leslie was the only Colorado attorney named to the list, which recognizes leading trademark attorneys and law firms on a national basis. Faegre & Benson works with trademark clients such as Crocs, Target, Wells Fargo, Zippo and United Agri Products.
Tamara Gilida became a director and shareholder of the firm Icenogle, Norton, Smith & Blieszner.
1995 JOHN SCOTT
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Following graduation, John Scott returned to Camp Pendleton as a Judge Advocate with the Marines. In 1998, he left active duty and returned to Denver, Colo. until 2004 when he was recalled to active duty to serve as chief prosecutor with the Marines in Iraq. He was again recalled to active duty in 2005-06 for a stateside tour. Currently, John serves as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Marine Corps Reserves and practices criminal law in Littleton, Colo.
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After serving as Director of Student Legal Services at Colorado State University, Margaret Walker became a clinical professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. In February 2007, she was elected chairperson of the Denver Collaborative Divorce Professionals group.
After graduation, Kris Bates worked as the Executive Director for a local nonprofit organization that she helped found called Dress for Success Denver. For the past three years, she has worked as the Legal Division administrator at Denver Water. She is remarried to Michael Bates and they have three children—Madilyn, 12, Elizabeth, 10, and William, 2.
1996 LAUREL BURKE Laurel Burke remarried Alan Burke in January at Red Rocks Chapel and they are living happily in Denver with their dog and four cats. Laurel and Alan enjoy escaping to Fraser/Winter Park occasionally and look forward to a honeymoon cruise in June, and visiting family in Ireland in August.
1997 BRENT DECHERT Brent Dechert continues to live in Kokomo, Ind. with his wife, Amy, and their twin girls, Mara and Keara, born in August 2006. Brent has a general practice of law in Kokomo and welcomes old friends to contact him at 765-432-3428.
In January 2007, David Forkner became an equity partner at Williams & Connolly LLP in Washington, D.C.
1998 DEVI MCKALKO In 2002, Devi McKalko (Moon) married at home in Hawaii, then returned to Arizona where she had been working in the international tax-planning group of a multinational company. Currently, she works for the IRS. During an IRS business trip in Nashville, Tenn., Devi gave birth to her first and only child, Tiffany, who is thriving.
1999 JULIUS HARMS Julius Harms is currently completing his dissertation at Arizona State University after being admitted to candidacy in the Public Administration Ph.D. program. He anticipates an academic career in law or public administration after graduation. Julius also completed an MPA degree at the
1990sUniversity of Colorado at Denver with an environmental management, policy and law emphasis.
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2001 AMY LOFTSGORDON After driving 4,000 miles with her husband and dogs, Amy Loftsgordon reached Panama City, Panama and began work for the firm Castle Meinhold & Stawiarski. She can be reached at [email protected].
Rebecca Wahl Ronzan is currently stationed in Europe serving as a Judge Advocate General in the U.S. Army. In October, she and husband Davide Ronzan welcomed
their first child, Giulia, into the world with a Baptism celebration in Sassuolo, Italy.
Peter Schreck joined the corporate department of Detroit law firm Kotz, Sangster, Wysocki & Berg P.C. where he focuses on mergers and acquisitions, commercial real estate transaction, and advising companies doing business in China. He lives in Northville, Mich. with his wife, Ann, and daughter, Audrey.
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Jordan Busch moved to Portland, Ore. in 2003 and opened a chicken wing joint called, Fire on the Mountain Buffalo Wings in December 2004. He reports that business is great and that a second location is slated to open early this fall. “I am proud to say I have never practiced law a day in my life and have pursued my lifelong dream,” writes Jordan.
2002 MAGDALENA OSBORN Magdalena Osborn joined Gust Rosenfeld P.L.C. in Tucson, Ariz. as an Associate in the Litigation department. Her focus is on civil litigation, including complex contracts, health care law, insurance defense, labor and employment law, and personal injury. Prior to this position, Magdalena interned with the District Attorney of Colorado Springs and also with in-house counsel at an applications service provider in Denver. She remains active in the community, serving as a member of the Tucson Centers for Women and Children, and as a board member of the Milk Money Foundation.
Alexandra Katsiaficas Wagner works in Denver as a solo practitioner specializing in Immigration Law. She primarily assists clients with family-based visas, citizenship and naturalization issues through U.S. Citizen & Immigration Service. Alexandra also works on removal defense and political asylum cases in federal Immigration Court.
2004 COLIN L. MURCHISON Colin L. Murchison joined Jackson Walker LLP as an associate in the Tax and Estates section of the Fort Worth, Texas office. He also serves as a director on the American Red Cross Chisholm Trail Chapter, the
Tarrant County Adult Protective Services Community Board, and the Trinity Valley School Alumni Board.
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After moving to Portland, Ore., Cindy Lay began work in the legal department of The Regence Group/Blue Cross Blue Shield. In this position, Cindy focuses on matters related to privacy and HIPAA. She and her family love living in the Pacific Northwest.
Brent Chicken is performing mineral title examination, complex commercial energy litigation, administrative oil and gas law, and related energy transactions as an Associate at Beatty & Wozniak PC, a premier Rocky Mountain energy law firm. In April 2007, he married Colorado native Rebecca Ann Hepler, and honeymooned in Akumal, Mexico.
Nancy Cornish was elected to the 2007-08 Board of the Colorado Women’s Bar Association as co-chair of the Professional Advancement Committee during the recent CWBA Convention held in
Vail, Colo. Prior to the appointment, Nancy served on both the membership and judicial committees. She continues to work as an Associate at Kissinger & Fellman PC. For more information about the CWBA, go to www.cwba.org.
2000sIgor Serbinin is eagerly awaiting the birth of his second daughter this summer. In December 2006, the Serbinin family attended a wedding in Morocco and traveled to Germany to meet up with family and introduce them to their two-year old daughter, Lydia. On the career front, Serbinin Law Firm merged with Catherine A. Chan PC (Catherine A. Chan, JD ’03) to form Chan Serbinin LLC, which
will be part of International Business Law Solutions Group LLC (IBLSG) with offices in Denver, Boulder, Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia. Last fall, Catherine and Igor had the opportunity to travel to Russia and visit with former DU LLM law students from Moscow. It is the intention of IBLSG to participate in the law student exchange program between Moscow State University and the DU Sturm College of Law.
2005 MARK HOBRATSCHK After passing the Florida Bar Exam, Mark Hobratschk began work in a public interest position in Tampa Bay. In this position, Mark represents people with rare and chronic disorders in Social Security disability proceedings. He ultimately hopes to start a health and disability law practice in the area.
After interning for the El Paso County District Attorney, Adrienne Jacobson began work with the Colorado Department of Corrections. Her work focuses on the implementation of the Montez Remedial Plan, a settlement agreement entered into between the Department of Corrections and a
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class of disabled inmates. She recently had the opportunity to discuss the future of the Department with Gov. Bill Ritter. Adrienne remains an active member of the community, participating in such groups as the Open Space Advisory Committee and the Manitou Springs Education Foundation.
Upon finishing her clerkship with Judge Jerry Jones at the Colorado Court of Appeals, Christina Valerio looks forward to joining the litigation team of Wheeler Trigg Kennedy this fall. In April, Christina welcomed a daughter, Grace Helena, into the family.
Jack D. Patten III accepted an associate position at Baker Hostetler in January 2007. Prior to this position, Jack served as a law clerk for the Honorable Robert G. Games, United States District Court, Western District of Louisiana.
2006 MATT LINTON
Matt Linton will complete a judicial clerkship with Chief Justice Mary Mullarkey of the Colorado Supreme Court this August, then immediately join the Denver firm of Kennedy Childs & Fogg, where he will practice health care law and medical malpractice defense litigation. He is also busy planning an August wedding with his fiancé, Alena Amundson (JD ’07) at the Denver Botanic Gardens.
In April 2007, Melissa Dougherty Anderson joined the State of Colorado Department of Revenue Hearings Division in Lakewood, Colo. Her job focuses on keeping Colorado’s roadways safe by conducting administrative drivers license revocation and suspension hearings for DUI offenders and habitual traffic offenders. She writes, “I am enjoying the practice of Administrative Law and especially the government hours and benefits. It’s all about maintaining a balanced lifestyle for my family.”
In December 2006, Gibbs, Giden, Locher & Turner LLP named William H. Luttrell Managing Partner of their Las Vegas office. Gibbs, Giden, Locher & Turner LLP is a well-respected construction law firm with headquarters in Southern California.
Since graduation, Matt Koren has worked as an associate of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck PC and also as a major in the Marine Corps reserves where he was recently activated for a tour in Iraq as a tank platoon commander. He is scheduled to return home in June 2008.
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Prof. Robert Yegge June 17, 1934
December 16, 2006 He lived for the law and, by his life, made clear
that his abiding commitment was to use the law
to foster the aims of a more just and equitable
society. As legal educator, in his transforming
work at the University of Denver College of
Law, as the author of many books and by his
many and varied contributions to the legal pro
fession—especially to the American Bar
Association—he became one of the most beloved
and esteemed members of our profession. But
there was so much more to the man.
Throughout his life, Bob had an abiding pas
sion for human rights and civil liberties. For him, these interests were neither fleeting nor episodic, but lay at the core of his being, like an inextinguishable flame. To cite but one example, he worked tirelessly to broaden the opportunities for minorities in the legal profession, notably expanding the opportunities for minorities and women to attend his law school.
His devotion to the students at the law school was legendary. It was evident to all that he cared passionately for “his” students, that he treated them as family and made it clear that they were an important part of his life. In a word, he cared about them because, by nature, he was endowed so to care. He constantly worked for an environment in which the powers of an individual might come to their fullest
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Two Giants possible fruition unencumbered by artificial and constricting barriers—whether of race, religion, gender, or national origin.
Accordingly, shortly after becoming Dean in 1965 (one of the youngest in the country at the time), he initiated what became a nationally recognized emphasis on interdisciplinary studies. Through his efforts, Denver became the epicenter for the “Law and Society” movement and a home for the Law and Society Association and the Law and Society Review.
Inheriting an abiding love for the arts from his mother, Bob always played a significant role in the cultural and civic life of the Denver Community. Among many other arts and humanitarian causes, he served as Chair of the Colorado Council on the Arts and Humanities, Chair of the Mile High Chapter of the American Red Cross and Chair of the Colorado Prevention Center. A Life Member of the American Law Institute and American Bar Fellow, he served as Chair of the Henry Luce Scholar Selection Committee since 1972.
On a personal note, our earlier friendship came to deeper fruition when he served on the editorial board of the Judges’ Journal during my two decades as chair of that publication. In our editorial meetings and, afterwards, in a variety of social settings, Bob was such a delightful collaborator and companion. One never left Bob’s company without a deeper recognition of his gifts of intellect, character and, always, his enveloping charm.
By now it must be clear that I was a great admirer and devoted friend of Bob Yegge. My association with him over the last three decades of his life was surely one of the joys of my own life.
On the day following Bob’s death, a Denver newspaper carried a highly adulatory summary of his life and contributions. However, the arti
cle was wrong on one point. The writer noted that, “as an only child and [having never married], Yegge leaves no survivors.” In actuality, Dean Yegge left many “survivors.” Even a cursory enumeration would surely include:
All of the students whose lives were touched by this extraordinary teacher—they “survive.”
Every individual who was able to embrace an opportunity otherwise foreclosed but for the actions of Bob Yegge—they “survive.”
Each individual who, in the words of Robert Kennedy (frequently quoted by Bob), “stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice,”—they too, certainly, “survive.”
All of these things not only survive, but will endure.
With respect to the more private and personal spheres, for his many acts of kindness, for his extraordinary fidelity as a friend, and his manifold generosity, these too will survive as the private possessions of his many, many beneficiaries. With Bob’s passing, the world is left much poorer in courage and kindness; in whimsy and wisdom.
He will be missed by many, and many will continue his work.
Rest in peace, good friend.
—Excerpted from “Remembering Bob Yegge,” by the Hon. Francis J. Larkin. Originally printed in Volume 17, Number 2, of Experience, the magazine of the Senior Lawyers Division of the American Bar Association. Used with the author’s permission.
There is a Native American saying: “We will always be remembered forever by the tracks we leave.” Dean Yegge left deep and distinctive tracks of enormous integrity, enlight
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ened wisdom, the courage of a lion, a nurturing and caring heart, unselfish generosity and consideration of others, illuminating vision, and moving inspiration. The Dean not only recognized and appreciated the value of diversity and inclusion. He did something about it. Because, as he once said, “It was the right thing to do. It needed to be done.”
In the early 1960s there was a profound dearth of Hispanic lawyers in the Southwest. The Dean obtained a $50,000 Ford Foundation grant in 1967 for an intensive summer law program for Hispanics.
The first summer was such a resounding success that shortly thereafter, the Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO) was founded as a nonprofit project of the ABA Fund for Justice and Education to expand opportunities for minority and low-income students to attend law school. Over the past 35 years, more than 7,500 students have participated in CLEO’s pre-law and law school academic support programs, successfully matriculated through law school, passed the bar exam and joined the legal profession.
Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “Life’s most persistent and urgent questions is: What are you doing for others?” Dean Yegge immediately comes to mind. He made a monumental difference and this difference serves as a major cornerstone of his wonderful life legacy.
Let our memories of Dean Yegge be happy ones that leave an afterglow of happy times. Although our lives will never be the same, and we will greatly miss him, we have to let him go. However, we are forever grateful and truly glad that he came our way, touching and enriching our lives. His memory now becomes a treasure that we will cherish forever in our hearts. We let you go, Dean Yegge, with all our love and God’s blessings.
—Justice Patricio M. Serna, JD’70, (excerpted with author’s permission from remarks made at the memorial service for Dean Robert Yegge, Jan. 13, 2007).
Bob Yegge and Harry Lawson
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Prof. Harry O. Lawson July 29, 1925
March 21, 2007 Professor Lawson was a powerful influence in
many people’s lives. A dedicated professor
and a prominent leader in his field, he left his
mark on both the University of Denver Law
community and the Colorado judicial system
as a whole.
Prof. Lawson played a key role in reforming Colorado’s judicial system more than 40 years ago. He served nine years with the Legislative Council in the 1960s, where he lead the charge for significant reforms including the merit selection of judges, state funding of Colorado’s courts and central funding of the state’s Public Defender system. He served 12 years as the State Court Administrator and, through it all, was on the University of Denver Law School faculty for 25 years.
The true motivating force in establishing the Master of Science in Judicial Administration (later the MSLA) program at the University of Denver College of Law in 1971, Prof. Lawson developed the program into one of the premier judicial and legal administration curricula in the country. Lawson directed the course on his own until 1980 (when Prof. Robert Yegge joined him as codirector) and eventually retired from teaching in 1997.
On November 16, 2001, Chief Justice William Rehnquist of the United States Supreme Court inducted Prof. Lawson into the Warren A. Burger Society, in recognition of his time and talent, and dedication to improving the nation’s state-court system. It was a well-deserved and long-due honor to the man who was so passionate about his work.
Prof. Lawson was instrumental in shaping both the Colorado judicial system and the SCOL curriculum as we know them today. A gifted teacher and a good friend, he will be dearly missed by all.
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Frederic K. Gray, J.D. 1938, died September 21, 2006, in Amarillo, Texas
Milton Morris, LL.B 1939, died February 2, 2007, in Denver, Colo.
Charles Ozias Jr., LL.B 1939, died March 8, 2007, in Denver, Colo.
William Hazel Harrell, LL.B 1949, died August 18, 2006, in North Carolina.
Fred W. Vondy, J.D. 1949, died April 20, 2007, in Denver, Colo.
Morton McGinley, J.D. 1951, died October 31, 2006, in Denver, Colo.
Raymond R. Pope, LL.B 1951, died December 27, 2006, in Loveland, Colo.
William R. Banks, J.D. 1951, died January 31, 2007, in Aurora, Colo.
Martin P. Miller, J.D. 1951, died May 18, 2007, in Littleton, Colo.
E. Lee Hamby, LL.B 1955, died January 2, 2007, in Denver, Colo.
Wallace Lundquist, LL.B 1955, died January 14, 2007, in Colorado Springs, Colo.
George K. Folsom Jr., J.D. 1956, died January 2, 2007, in Reno, Nev.
Wright J. Morgan Jr., J.D. 1957, died December 14, 2006, in Broomfield, Colo.
Lester A. Willson Sr., J.D. 1957, died May 10, 2007, in Lakewood, Colo.
The Honorable Richard “Dick” Greene, J.D.1957, died June 12, 2007, in Littleton, Colo.
John D. Herron, LL.B 1959, died December 3, 2006, in Hawaii.
Jack W. Brockman, J.D. 1963, died August 23, 2006, in Denver, Colo.
Everett L. Ashley, J.D. 1965, died March 16, 2007, in Tulsa, Okla.
George W. Swainston, J.D. 1967, died January 29, 2007, in Reno, Nev.
Stanley D. Tabor, J.D. 1972, died January 12, 2007, in Chapel Hill, N.C.
Teri P. Campbell, MSJA 1974, died December 4, 2006 in Denver, Colo.
R. William Linden Jr., MSJA 1974, died January 31, 2007, in Portland, Ore.
Peter L. Richard, J.D. 1974, died February 14, 2007, in Sloatsburg, N.Y.
Kathryn Mobley Cumpstone, J.D. 1975, died December 6, 2006, in Wethersfield, Conn.
Lee D. Anderson, J.D. 1976, died September 18, 2006, in Mitchell, S.D.
Paula J. Gumbiner, J.D. 1986, died September 7, 2006, in Englewood, Colo.
Willis A. Belford Jr., J.D. 1984, died October 19, 2006, in Colorado Springs, Colo.
John N. Galbavy, J.D. 1989, died October 27, 2006, in Golden, Colo.
Elizabeth A. Booth, J.D. 1991, died November 13, 2006, in Denver, Colo.
Barbara Lee Simmons, J.D. 1994, died September 16, 2006, in Ft. Collins, Colo.
Lee N. Bowden, J.D. 1997, died April 3, 2007, in Morrison, Colo.
James McKenzie Alexander IV, J.D. 1999, died September 14, 2006 in Denver, Colo.
Robyn R. Reed Fuller, J.D. 2001, died November 5, 2006, in Brighton, Colo.
Marlon R. Jagnandan, J.D. 2004, died September 2, 2006, in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Christopher Gierach, J.D. 2004, died June 5, 2007, location unknown.
Nicholas Arthur de la Garza, J.D. 2006, died March 9, 2007, in Denver, Colo.
Professor Harry O. Lawson, (founder, DU Law’s MSLA program), died March 21, 2007, in Aurora, Colo.
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2007 Calendar University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Saturday, August 25, 2007 DU Law Partnership with Community Day
2007Saturday, August 25, 2007 SBA Derby Days
Wednesday, September 5, 2007 Career Development Mock Interview Day Mentor Orientation Dinner
Thursday, September 28, 2007 15th Annual DU Law Stars Dinner
Friday, October 26, 2007 DU Law Reunion Weekend Honoring the classes of 1963, 1967, 1977, 1982 and 1997
Saturday, October 27, 2007 Unveiling of Westminster Law Library Sign Golden Barrister’s Induction and Brunch
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Thursday, October 11-Monday, October 14, 2007 International Law Students Association National Fall Conference
Wednesday, November 7 & Thursday, November 8, 2007 PALS Dinner
Saturday, November 10, 2007 PALS Breakfast
Thursday, January 24, 2008 Career Development Mock Interview Day
Thursday, January 24th, 2008 Annual Named and Endowed Scholarship Reception
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 Career Information Fair
Note: All events to be held at the Sturm College of Law unless otherwise noted.
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SSaavvee TThhee DDaattee!! Thursday September 27, 2007
The 15th Annual DU Law Stars Dinner benefiting the Student Law Office and the DU Law General Scholarship Fund
Marriott Denver City Center 1701 California Street Denver, Colorado
Congratulations to this year’s honorees! Peter D. Willis, JD’68 Constance C. Talmage, JD’78 Sheila K. Hyatt Mary Kay Hogan, JD’96
Outstanding Alumni Alumni Professionalism Excellence in Teaching Bruce B. Johnson
Award Award Award Outstanding Young
Alumni Award To register for the 2007 DU Law Stars, please contact: Office of Alumni & Development
Michael J. Meyers [email protected] 303.871.6122