TEMPLE UNIVERSITY JAMES E. BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW • LAW SCHOOL AND ALUMNI NEWS • FALL 2008For Frank McClellan, the intersection ofmedicine and law represents a place wherepublic health can be either fostered or stifled.“The law can serve as a barrier to the extentthat it precludes innovative efforts on the part ofhealth care institutions and communityorganizations, and it can promote it by creatingobligations on the part of institutions andmaking sure there are no unnecessary barriersto improving health,” says McClellan, who justwrapped up a 28-year career teaching atTemple Law. “While legislators sometimes getadvocates for different positions, they oftentimesdon’t have the sort of independent academicresearch explaining what the law really does andthe unintended consequences of statutes theyhave before them.”That mindset explains why McClellan’sretirement should come with quotation marksaround it. While he has left the classroom,where he was one of the law school’s most popular andeffective teachers, he will remain active at Temple. McClellanhas always had a keen interest in improving the healthcarelaw curriculum and plans to continue working on varioushealthcare law projects at Temple. McClellan and ScottBurris, a professor of law at Temple and associate director ofthe Center for Law and the Public’s Health at the JohnsHopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, are working tobegin a collaboration, which they envision as an interdisci-plinary research center and source of guidance and expertisefor both policymakers and community health groups.“What we’re hoping to do is establish both research andcurriculum development initiatives,” McClellan says. “Frommy perspective, the biggest emphasis is going to be on thelinking—building bridges between the law school and themedical school, the law school and the business school, sothat we all get to know each other and can meet each other’sneeds in research as well as teaching.“The second part for me, which is really important, is tomake the expertise in the various schools of the universityworking on health law available to community organizationsand grass-roots kinds of efforts to improve the health of thecommunity.”Imparting expertise to those who need it; if you needed atagline to Frank McClellan’s nearly 30-year teaching career,you could do a lot worse than that.building bridges between law and medicineHealth law expert Frank McClellan retires from faculty continued on page twoTEMPLE WELCOMESTWO NEW PROFS The 1L’s are not the only new faces at the lawschool this fall. The law school faculty alsowelcomes two new members to its ranks:Kristen E. Murray and Sandra F. Sperino. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR KRISTEN E.MURRAYjoins Temple’s distinguished legalwriting faculty as an associate professor of law.She will teach the intensive legal research andwriting course for first-year students as well assome upper-level seminars. “Kristen Murray is asplendid addition to our program. She brings awealth of experience as both a teacher of legalwriting and an administrator of legal writingprograms,” explains Jane B. Baron, Temple’s I. Herman Stern Professor of Law and AssociateDean for Research. Before joining the Temple faculty, Murraytaught legal writing at George WashingtonUniversity Law School. She was also associatedirector of the legal research and writingprogram, which serves about 500 J.D. studentsand 50 LL.M. students. While at GW, shepublished articles in the field of legal educationand technology. In addition to her experience in academia,Murray practiced law in both the New York andWashington, D.C. offices of Latham & Watkins.She considers her years in private practice ashaving “informed [her] experience as a teacher”because she learned firsthand how writing isrelevant in practice.Murray earned a J.D., cum laude,fromGeorgetown University Law Center in 2000, anda B.A., cum laude with University Honors,fromAmerican University in 1997. She is currentlyworking on a M.A. in Education and HumanDevelopment at George Washington University.Through her graduate studies, Murray hasacquired extensive knowledge in adult-learningtheory and pedagogy, which her legal writingcolleagues at Temple regard as a valuable asset. “I am looking forward to learning from her about advancements in teaching adults, inreaching the maximum number of students, and in teaching to different learning styles,” says Temple Associate Professor of Law KathrynM. Stanchi.Similarly, Murray is enthused about joiningthe Temple faculty. She was drawn to Temple bythe national reputation of its legal research andwriting faculty and by the law school’scontinued on page twoKRISTEN E. MURRAYSANDRA F. SPERINOROME, SUMMER 2008, BY JOHN MYERS• • •In 1981, McClellan was teaching law at DuquesneUniversity when Peter Liacouras, then dean of Temple Law,came calling. The two had crossed paths a decade before atYale University, where McClellan was studying for his LL.M.and Liacouras was serving a fellowship. The dean pitchedTemple Law’s strengths—diversity among both faculty andstudents, a strong international program, and links with theSchool of Medicine—and McClellan was hooked.“I saw it, really, as an opportunity to interact with manydisciplines and to develop myself as well as the curriculum,”he recalls.At Temple, McClellan specialized in torts, bioethics, andmedical malpractice; he also lectured at the School ofMedicine on various topics related to law, medicine, andethics. While he went on to write numerous books and lawreview articles on these subjects, it was perhaps his teachingthat made the greatest impact during his almost threedecades at Temple Law.“It must be emphasized that Frank is an outstandingteacher,” says Dean JoAnne Epps. “His commitment toinstruction is unwavering, as is his understanding thatteachers both educate and inspire. His colleagues will misshim, and I’m sure I speak for legions of students in predictingthat they will miss his presence too.”2 • TEMPLE ESQ. FALL 2008McClellan’s affinity for teaching manifested itself early;he stepped into a classroom just two years after graduatingfrom law school. Over the years, that enthusiasm has notwaned in the least. The give and take that marks the besteducational experiences has provided a decades-longintellectual spark.“The idea of being paid to come in and think andexchange ideas and to encourage other people to developtheir own ideas has always been so invigorating to me,” he says. “Even when you have disagreements aboutpolicies and ideas, just the exchange that takes place is so exciting.”As a professor, McClellan has seen his interest evolvefrom the law itself to its underlying policies and tointerdisciplinary perspectives. Along the way he has madea point of integrating those new focuses into his classes,welcoming guest speakers from medicine and economicsand a host of other fields to illuminate his own teachingwith alternative viewpoints from outside the law.“I want the students to see how, when law looks at thesame issue or problem but from a different experiencebase or different philosophy, it brings out differentconcerns and different ideas,” he says. “That’s the partthat really excites me the most, and I hope that in myclasses at this point, students get a lot of that.”• • •MCCLELLAN. . . continued from page oneNEW FACULTY. . . continued from page onecommitment to scholarship in this area. In fact, her onlyreservation about coming to Philadelphia is “surviving as aYankees fan in a Phillies town!”ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SANDRA F. SPERINOwas alsodrawn to Temple largely because of the faculty, whom shedescribes as “a high caliber, impressive group of scholarswho are very engaged in the daily life of the university.”Professor Baron notes that Sperino will further enhance the caliber of this group through her effectiveness in theclassroom and her excellence in scholarship: “She willmeet a variety of curricular needs at the law school, mostnotably in torts, employment discrimination, and civilprocedure. She is an experienced teacher who has alreadyamassed impressive scholarly credentials, having writtenseveral articles in such journals as the Houston LawReview,the Saint Louis University Law Journal,and theKansas Law Review.” Sperino has also served as acontributing editor to several ABA publications onemployment law.Sperino taught as a visiting assistant professor at boththe University of Cincinnati School of Law and the SaintLouis University School of Law. She was also selected toparticipate in a teaching fellowship program at theUniversity of Illinois College of Law. When speaking withSperino, it is clear that teaching law is her passion. “I lovethe moment when a student who was formerly timid anduncomfortable in the classroom begins to demonstrate self-confidence and the ability to think like a lawyer,” she explains.Sperino also worked as an attorney at the law firm ofLewis, Rice & Fingersh in St. Louis, where she practiced atboth the state and federal levels and co-authored a brief forthe U.S. Supreme Court. In the classroom, she seeks touse her private-practice experience, to, as she puts, “tietogether doctrine, legal history, legal theory, public policy,and practical implications in a way that sharpens theanalytical skills of her students.” Prior to her experience inprivate practice, Sperino clerked for two years for JudgeDonald J. Stohr of the U.S. District Court of the EasternDistrict of Missouri.Sperino earned a J.D., summa cum laude,from theUniversity of Illinois College of Law in 1999; an M.S. inJournalism, summa cum laude,from the University ofIllinois College of Journalism in 1999; and a B.A., summacum laude,from Texas Tech University in 1995. In lawschool, Sperino was editor-in-chief of the University ofIllinois Law Reviewand received legal publication andacademic achievement awards. Commenting on the arrival of Murray and Sperino atTemple, Dean JoAnne A. Epps says, “Given their priorteaching experience, both of these professors are preparedto be immediately effective in the classroom, as well ascontributing perspectives on the ways other institutionsdeliver legal education. We are delighted to welcome themboth to the Temple community.”LL.M. PROGRAM ATTRACTSDIVERSE INT’L GROUPForty-six foreign-trained lawyers were awarded LL.M. degreesfrom Temple Law in 2008. They come to Philadelphia fromcountries all over the world, such as Turkey, India, Slovakia,Germany, Nigeria, Brazil, China, Great Britain, Ireland, Israel,Japan, Mexico, Poland, Taiwan, and Venezuela. Established in 1974, the law school’s International LL.M.program has provided advanced legal education for morethan 600 graduates now practicing and teaching throughoutthe world, and boasts an extensive—and growing—worldwidealumni network.McClellan served Temple Law in manys ways during histenure, sitting on important internal committees andparticipating in numerous initiatives designed to ensurethat Temple remained the diverse, outward-looking lawschool he came to with such enthusiasm nearly 30 yearsago. As Epps puts it, “He is wise in an understated butprofound way, and the law school will miss his thoughtfuljudgment. Frank is also highly principled, and could alwaysbe counted on to keep us focused on our core mission and goals.”Those principles will be applied in his new endeavors aswell. McClellan plans to make violence reduction—an issuethat truly energizes him—a priority in his ongoing work.“If you can, through research and through bridges ofcommunication, begin to solve those kinds of problems,that is the highest service that an institution and aprofessor can offer,” he says. “You’re developingknowledge, you’re going to have to engage in research, and you’re going to have to write about it, but at the sametime your focus is on real, serious problems that need the attention of the best thinkers that we can find toaddress them.”In the end, that passion for law—and education—as a tool of social justice may well be McClellan’s legacy. It is certainly what he worked diligently to impart to his students.Asked what he hoped those whom he taught walkedaway with, McClellan replies carefully, “I hope to beremembered as a teacher who cared deeply about hisstudents and always tried to challenge them to think aboutthe values at stake in legal controversies and the impact oflaw on ordinay people.”—Tom Durso1984TEMPLE ESQ. FALL 2008 • 3DEAN AND ALUM AMONG TOP 25 WOMEN ATTY’SDEAN JOANNE A. EPPSNOTESClass1970JUDGE ALAN D. LOURIE,of the U.S. Court of Appeals for theFederal Circuit, was awarded the first DistinguishedIntellectual Property Professional Award for “extraordinaryleadership in the intellectual property community and alifetime commitment to invention and innovation” by theIntellectual Property Owners Educational Foundation. 1974JOHN B. LANGEL has been named board chairman forDelaware Valley Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association.Langel is a partner in Ballard Spahr and Ingersoll’s litigationdepartment and is partner-in-charge of the labor,employment and immigration group.EDWARD McINTYRE,a partner at Solomon WardSeidenwurm & Smith in San Diego, California, has beenappointed to the State Bar’s committee on professionalresponsibility and conduct, which issues advisory ethicsopinions. McIntyre focuses on business litigation andlawyers’ professional responsibility law. 1977WILLIAM T. MacMINNhas been appointedmanaging partner at Antheil Maslow &MacMinn, a Bucks County-based firm.MacMinn has been a partner at AntheilMaslow & MacMinn since 1993 andconcentrates his practice in the area oflitigation, including defense, commercial, employment,collection, construction, and personal injury. ABBE F. FLETMAN,LL.M. ’98CIVIL RIGHTS MEMOIR RECEIVES ACCOLADES“David Kairys is one of the grand long-distance runners in the struggle for justice in America. Hisbrilliant legal mind and superb lawyerly skills are legendary. This marvelous book is his gift to us!”— Cornel West, Princeton University, author of Race MattersHOW WOULD A FOUNDING FATHER THINK ABOUT THE INTERNET?Intellectual property expert David Post draws on Thomas Jeffersonto examine the world of cyberspaceWho governs the Internet, and how? What kind of lawdoes it have, what kind of law should it have, and who will make that law? In In Search of Jefferson’s Moose:Notes on the State of Cyberspace,a new book to bepublished in January 2009 by Oxford University Press,Professor David Post looks at these questions throughJefferson’s eyes, re-creating Jefferson’s encyclopedia of theNew World (“Notes on the State of Virginia,” 1786), butthis time for cyberspace. What kind of a “place” is it? How does it work? How did it grow as fast as it did? What kind of new things, and what kind of old things, are out there?How did they get there, and how do they get from oneplace to another? What kinds of communities form there?What principles should guide our law-making efforts, andthe design of our law-making institutions, in a global place like this? In writing Philadelphia Freedom,Memoir of a Civil Rights Lawyer,Professor David Kairys, says KirkusReview,“has sifted through hefty files of documents toreconstruct events in and out of court and to recreateconversations with clients, witnesses, judges and otherlawyers.” The book reveals a lengthy and passionate careerthat continues to unfold.Kairys began as a public defender—and was not yet amember of the bar—when he took up the cause of JamesJiles, an escapee from a chain gang who was facingextradition to Georgia. Kairys’ victory in this case was onlythe beginning. In 1971, with funding from the NationalEmergency Civil Liberties Committee, he and partner DavidRudovsky opened a private practice that owed much of itswork to, as Kairys writes, “the brutality and lawlessness ofthe Philadelphia police.” When a group of Catholic antiwar activists broke into adraft-board office in nearby Camden, NJ, Kairys defendedthe “Camden 28,” a case that drew national attention. Heconvinced an FBI informant to testify for the defense thatthe informant and the FBI provided the plans, tools, andfunding including groceries to make the raid happen. Theresulting acquittal inspired Supreme Court justice WilliamBrennan to describe the trial as “one of the great trials ofthe twentieth century.” And along the way, he tries to figure out whyJefferson had a mooseshipped to him in Paris(where he was serving asUS minister to France) and mounted in the lobbyof his residence. The book represents a continued intellectualjourney for Post; hepreviously co-authored Cyberlaw: Problems of Policy andJurisprudence in the Information Age(with Paul SchiffBerman and Patricia Bellia), and has published numerousarticles on intellectual property, the law of cyber-space, and the application of complexity theory to the law.Post is the I. Herman Stern Professor of Law at TempleLaw. He is also an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute anda contributor to the influential Volokh Conspiracyblog.Before coming to Temple Law in 1997, Post clerked withthen-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the D.C. Circuit Courtof Appeals, spent six years at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering inWashington D.C, and then clerked again for JusticeGinsburg during her first term on the Supreme Court.Philadelphia Freedomincludes many such high-profilecases, including a free-speech suit brought by Dr.Benjamin Spock that went to the Supreme Court. The bookis earning the praise of the trade press as well as that ofother legal scholars. “With engaging, insider stories . . . this book evokes the ebullient spirit of progressive socialchange launched in the 1960s and should be read byaspiring and practicing lawyers as well as anyoneinterested in American social history,” says Harvard LawProfessor Martha L. Minow. Kairys continued as a full-time civil rights lawyer until1990, when he joined the Temple Law faculty. In 1996, he conceived the city lawsuits against handgun manufac-turers, and his public-nuisance theory has become thebasis for a range of challenges to corporate practices thatendanger public health or safety. His recent articles focuson the history of civil rights, the role of courts and themeaning of the rule of law, and a range of issues related to handgun violence. Kairys’ previous books include WithLiberty and Justice for Some,and he edited and co-authored the bestselling progressive critique of the law, The Politics of Law.Philadelphia Freedom book signing and talk Thursday, October 16 at noonDuane Morris LLP Moot Court RoomKlein Hall, Temple UniversityJUNE 2008Temple Law’s new dean, JoAnne A.Epps, and Temple Law graduates and litigatorsAbbe F. Fletman ’98 and Donna Lee Jones areamong the group of influential attorneys listedin theLegal Intelligencer’s“Women of the YearLawyers in Pennsylvania.” The recipients werehonored at the Women in the ProfessionHonorary Luncheon co-hosted by the NationalAssociation of Women Judges.Dean JoAnne A. Epps is a leading scholar inthe areas of trial advocacy and criminal proce-dure who served as associate dean of academicaffairs at Temple Law since 1989. She replacedRobert J. Reinstein in July 2008, and is the firstwoman to serve as dean and the secondAfrican-American to attain that position. Litigation lawyer Abbe F. Fletman, ashareholder at Flaster/Greenberg, is head ofthe litigation section of the intellectualproperty practice group and a member of thecommercial litigation practice group inFlaster/Greenberg’s Philadelphia office. Fletmanearned an L.L.M. in Trial Advocacy at Temple in1998, is an instructor in Temple’s Academy ofAdvocacy, and a barrister in the school’sAmerican Inn of Court.Donna Lee Jones has been an associate atSaltz, Mongeluzzi, Barrett & Bendesky inPhiladelphia since 2001. She earned an LL.M. inTrial Advocacy from Temple Law in 2005, andwas the recipient of the faculty award given toone LL.M. graduate a year. DONNA LEE JONES,LL.M. ’05Sonly PAUL M. UYEHARAleaves Philadelphia’sCommunity Legal Services after 27 years.In September, he will assume a position inthe civil rights division of the U.S. JusticeDepartment in Washington DC. In his newposition, Uyehara will continue to focus onlanguage access issues. 1989MARGARET GALLAGHER THOMPSON,who currently serves aschair-elect of the probate section of the Philadelphia BarAssociation, will be installed as chair of the section inJanuary 2009. Thompson is chair of Cozen O’Connor’strusts and estates practice. 1990DAVID J. DRAGANOSKYhas joined Shemtob Law, a divorceand family law firm, as a partner. He previously was apartner in the family law department of Fox Rothschild. DONNA GERSONhas written “The Modern Rules ofBusiness Etiquette,” published by the American BarAssociation. Gerson wrote the book with husband David Gerson, a partner in Morgan Lewis & Bockius’Pittsburgh, PA office.KRISTA P. HARPERhas joined Curtin & Heefner as a partnerin the real estate and business and municipal financesections. 1991 GEORGE R. SMAWLEYhas published an article, “By theContent of Character: The Life and Leadership of MajorGeneral Kenneth D. Gray, (Retired) (1966-1997), The FirstAfrican-American Judge Advocate General Officer,” in theMilitary Law Review.The article explores the life ofAmerica’s highest ranking African-American militaryattorney. Smawley is the assistant executive officer for theOffice of The Judge Advocate General. In 2006 he servedin Afghanistan as the deputy legal advisor for combinedjoint task force headquartered at Bagram Air Field. 1992DANIEL R. MILLERhas been a prosecutor in the DelawareDepartment of Justice (DDOJ) for the last 14 years, andserves as director of DDOJ’s Medicaid fraud control unit.Miller is also vice president of the National Association ofMedicaid Fraud Control Units.1993TRACY QUINNis a partner and chair of the intellectualproperty practice at Reed Smith, where she oversees 67intellectual property attorneys worldwide and three patentagents. She works at the firm’s Philadelphia office, whereshe started as a fifth-year associate in 1999.4 • TEMPLE ESQ. FALL 2008CRYSTAL L. BROWN ’05is an associate at BryanCave in New York City, where her practice is comprisedof a wide variety of federal and state litigation mattersinvolving employment, securities, bankruptcy andcontract law. Brown has assisted in conducting severalinvestigations, including an internal investigationinvolving claims of sexual harassment and hostile workenvironment, and an independent investigationexamining accounting and securities compliance anddisclosure issues. Brown joined Bryan Cave afterclerking for Judge Clifford Scott Green of the U.S.District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.1986Cozen O’Connor member CATHERINEBONAKER SLAVIN recently moderated apanel for the Aviation Trial Demonstrationsand Cutting Edge Issues CLE Seminar,presented by the ABA section of litigationaviation committee and the New York CityBar. Slavin’s panel was titled “Persuasion After theEvidence.” Slavin focuses her practice on aviation litigation.1987CHRISTOPHER J. PIPPETT, LL.M.,a partner in theChesterbrook office of Saul Ewing, has been namedpresident of the board for Habitat for Humanity of ChesterCounty. Pippett concentrates his practice of law in theareas of corporate, banking and real estate law. LORI SHEMTOBhas been certified as anarbitrator by the American Academy ofMatrimonial Lawyers. Shemtob, whopractices family law exclusively, is also afellow of the American Academy ofMatrimonial Lawyers. She is a frequentlecturer and faculty member on topicsrelated to family law issues, and recently spoke to theLehigh Valley Psychological Association on “Marriage,Divorce and Custody: What therapists need to know aboutPennsylvania Laws.”GINA MAISTO SMITHhas been elected a partner at BallardSpahr Andrews & Ingersoll. Smith is a partner in thelitigation department and a member of the white-collarlitigation group, health care group, corporate complianceand investigations group, the Medicare part D complianceteam, and the higher education industry group. 1988DENISE H. HOUGHTON,a Cozen O’Connormember, has authored a chapter in thenew life sciences text Life Sciences ClientStrategies (Inside the Minds),publishedby Aspatore, Inc. Houghton’s chapter istitled “Key Considerations When Workingwith Clients in the Life Sciences Arena.” Prior to lawschool, Houghton was a registered nurse at a majorteaching hospital in Philadelphia. Houghton is a member ofCozen O’Connor’s general litigation department andfocuses her practice on the defense of pharmaceutical andmedical device companies. MARY J. HUWALDT, has been named deputy generalcounsel at Armstrong World Industries, based in thecompany’s Lancaster, PA headquarters. Before joiningArmstrong in 2000, Huwaldt was a partner at Caplan &Luber in Paoli, PA.JOHN G. THOMAS IIIreceived the Christensen Award forexcellence in teaching and outstanding service to studentsat year-end ceremonies held at Northampton CommunityCollege in Bethlehem, PA. Thomas joined the full-timecollege faculty in 1998 after retiring from the U.S. ArmyJudge Advocate General Corps and working as a managingattorney and legal cost consultant in Philadelphia. Underhis leadership, the college’s paralegal program achievedapproval from the American Bar Association, a designationheld by less than 30% of all paralegal programs throughoutthe country.1979JOSEPH D. MANCANO,a partner ofPietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick &Raspanti, spoke at the Professional LinesAttorney Network Regional Workshop inNew York in June 2008. The seminar,“Riding out the Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis,” included anin-depth look at the history of the crisis and addressedcriminal and civil liability issues associated with the sub-prime market. Mancano serves as vice-chair of the firm’swhite-collar criminal defense group. 1982PAUL L. REGANreceived the Outstanding Faculty Award atthe Widener University School of Law 2008 commence-ment exercises, as determined by a vote of the graduatingclass. Regan has been a member of the Widener lawfaculty since 1994. He teaches and writes in the areas ofcorporate law, corporate finance and contract law. 1983 PETER BRAMPTON KOELLEleaves Bryn Mawr College after17 years teaching courses on Spanish and Portugueselanguage, cultural history of the Spanish-speaking world,and Sephardic history. Koelle continues to be engaged inresearch.1984MARC RASPANTI,chair of the white-collar criminal defensepractice of Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti,co-authored an article in St. John’s Law Reviewentitled“Why Do They Do It?: The Motives, Mores, and Characterof White Collar Criminals.”MAURY B. REITER,managing principal and member of the tax and estates andreal estate transactions groups at Kaplin Stewart Meloff Reiter & Stein inBlue Bell, PA, has been re-electedtreasurer of Volunteers of America. Reiterhas been involved with Volunteers ofAmerica at the local and national levels for the past 11 years. The national nonprofit social servicesorganization provides a wide range of community-levelhuman service programs.CRYSTAL L. BROWNBROWN AND MENDELNAMED TO UNIVERSITYGALLERY OF SUCCESSCrystal L. Brown ’05 and M. Mark Mendel ’57have been selected for induction intoTemple University’s Gallery of Success. Eachyear, two distinguished alumni from each ofTemple’s schools and colleges are recognizedfor outstanding success in their fields.TEMPLE ESQ. FALL 2008 • 51994PHILIP C. AKAwas recently awarded a faculty excellenceaward in research from Chicago State University, where heis a professor of political science. His most recentpublication is “Assessing the Constitutionality of PresidentGeorge W. Bush’s Faith-Based Initiatives,” in the Journal ofLaw and Society.Aka is also an adjunct professor of law atIndiana University School of Law. DAVID TEDHAMS,Deputy Staff Counsel of the D.C. Court ofAppeals, has edited the Appellate Practice Manual for theDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals,which was lastupdated in 1992. It is being published by the BarAssociation of the District of Columbia.MICHAEL VALENTINEwas named vice president for humanresources for the New York Timesin June 2008. PreviouslyValentine was vice president for human resources atPublishers Circulation Fulfillment.1995EMMANUEL O. IHEUKWUMEREhas been elected to theboard of directors of the Philadelphia Trial LawyersAssociation. He is with the Emmanuel Law Firm, a personalinjury firm specializing in medical malpractice.CLARK A. JABLONis a founding partner ofPanitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel, anintellectual property law boutique firmfounded in 2008 in Philadelphia. Clarkpracticed patent law for the previous eight years at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. DANIEL J. ROVNER,a partner at Post &Post, has been appointed a hearingcommittee member for the disciplinaryboard of the Supreme Court ofPennsylvania. Rovner’s appointment is for a three-year term serving Bucks,Montgomery, Delaware, Chester, Berks,Schuylkill and Northampton counties.1996 MICHAEL F. SNYDERhas been elected ashareholder at the intellectual propertyfirm Volpe and Koenig, where his practiceencompasses patent, trademark, tradedress and copyright prosecution andlitigation, licensing, due diligence andinternet law. 1997DAVID H. BLEICKENhas been named deputy secretary ofthe Pennsylvania State Banking Department, where heoversees non-depository institutions and consumerservices. Bleicken is also president of the AmericanAssociation of Residential Mortgage Regulators.2008 GALLERY OF SUCCESS INDUCTEE M. MARK MENDEL ’57is the president of the law firm of M. Mark Mendel, a five-attorneypersonal injury law firm in Philadelphia. Born in Germany, he came to theU.S. in 1939. Mendel earned a B.S. and and M.A. at Temple Universitybefore attending law school. Throughout his legal career, Mendel hasspecialized in trial law in the areas of tort litigation and public utilities.Before launching his own firm, he served for seven years as public utilitiessolicitor for the City of Philadelphia, and as solicitor of the PennsylvaniaTransportation Assistance Authority. In 1978, Mendel was elected presidentof the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, which in 2008 awarded himthe Lifetime Achievement Award. Mendel also lectures in the law school’sLL.M. in Trial Advocacy program.KELBY BRICKhas been named vice president of regulatoryand strategic policy at GoAmerica, a provider of relay andwireless communications and professional interpreterservices for deaf, hard-of-hearing and speech-impairedpersons. Previously, Brick was the director for law andadvocacy at the National Association of the Deaf. BETH LINCOW COLEspoke before the Burlington County BarAssociation about employment workplace investigations.Cole's law firm concentrates on protecting small employersin the Delaware Valley from employment claims.SCOTT NAIDECHis a partner in the New York office ofChadbourne Parke, where he represents a broad array ofprivate fund sponsors in the structuring, establishment andoperation of their funds, and advises clients on a numberof other complex business transactions. JONATHAN A. STEVENSwas admitted to the partnership ofJones Day. He is a partner in the tax practice of the firm’sNew York office.DONALD R. WAGNER,a shareholder inStevens & Lee’s environmental group, hasbeen appointed to Pennsylvania’s CleanupStandards Scientific Advisory Board.Wagner is a Pennsylvania-licensedprofessional geologist as well as anattorney.1998SEAN M. HARThas moved from Flamm,Boroff & Bacine to the Office of GeneralCounsel at PPL in Allentown, PA. He will be managing PPL’s labor andemployment matters.RUE LANDAUhas been appointedexecutive director of the Philadelphia Commission onHuman Relations by Mayor Michael Nutter. PCHR is thecity agency that enforces civil rights laws and deals withinter-group conflict within the city. Previously, Landau hadbeen a senior attorney in the housing unit at CommunityLegal Services since 1998. 1999LUCRETIA C. CLEMONShas been elected partner at BallardSpahr Andrews & Ingersoll in the litigation department. She is also a member of the labor, employment andimmigration group and a member of the corporate diversity practice. ROBYN D. (KOTZKER) LEVITANhas joined HangleyAronchick Segal & Pudlin as an associate in the litigationpractice.2000MARK ANDERSONwas recently appointed by Governor Jon S. Corzine to serve as New Jersey’s first MedicaidInspector General. Anderson previously served as anassistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District ofPennsylvania where he handled cases involving health careand Medicaid fraud, telemarketing fraud, procurementfraud, and drug diversion cases. BETH FRIEL has been named vicepresident of human resources forHarleysville Insurance. Friel has been withthe company since 2006 when she servedas assistant vice president and assistantgeneral counsel. Friel formerly was anassociate with Montgomery, McCracken,Walker & Rhoads.HERB PINDER,the editorial page editor of the Journal Newsin suburban New York City, has received the New YorkNewspaper Publishers Association “Distinguished EditorialWriting Award of Excellence” for a series of editorials onthe wrongful conviction of Jeffrey Deskovic, an InnocenceProject exoneree. Pinder also received the 2007 first-prizeaward for editorial-writing from the New York StateAssociated Press Association for opinion pieces heauthored on the same subject. VICTORIA L. ZELLERShas been named a member of CozenO’Connor. Resident in the firm’s Philadelphia office, Zellerspractices in the labor and employment group. Followinglaw school, Zellers clerked for Judge Ronald J. Freeman ofthe Superior Court of New Jersey Family Division. 2001 JOEL C. TROTTER has joined GlaxoSmithKline, where he issenior counsel in the sales, marketing and managed caregroup. 2002CHERYL CUTRONAhas been awarded the Sir Francis BaconDispute Resolution Award, given annually by thePennsylvania Bar Association’s alternative disputeresolution committee. Since 1991, Cutrona has served asexecutive director of the Good Shepherd MediationProgram. GREG T. KUPNIEWSKIhas joined Flaster/Greenberg as anassociate and member of the financial restructuring,bankruptcy and risk management practice group. Prior tojoining Flaster/Greenberg, Kupniewski was an associate atBlank Rome in Philadelphia. CHRISTIAN P. MARRONEhas been appointed by SecretaryRobert Gates to serve as principal deputy assistantsecretary of defense for legislative affairs. M. MARK MENDEL6 • TEMPLE ESQ. FALL 2008ALUMS PROMOTE RULE OF LAW IN SERBIA, RUSSIAN FEDERATIONNeil Nolen ’95 (shown at a press conference, far right) is thenew country director for the American Bar Association’sRule of Law Initiative in Belgrade, Serbia. Another TempleLaw alum, Gleb Glinka ’81 (not shown), is country directorfor the Russian Federation.Jeffrey A. BartgesClass of 1983 Steven B. Goodman Class of 1993IN MEMORIAMTEMPLE ESQ.Published by the Temple University BeasleySchool of Law for alumni and friends.JOANNE A. EPPS, DEANPublications Director: Janet Goldwater Art Director: Gene GilroyPhotography: Joseph Labolito, Kelly & Massa Send letters and comments to: Janet Goldwater, Temple Esq. Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law1719 N. Broad Street, Room 510Philadelphia, PA 19122Email: janet.goldwater@temple.edu Fax: (215) 204-1185Change of address: (215) 204-1187MAY 2008Charles D. Swift, a prominent Navy JudgeAdvocate General lawyer who represented Salim Hamdanin the U.S. Supreme Court caseHamdan v. Rumsfeld,wasthe featured speaker at the law school’s commencementceremony held in the Liacouras Center and attended byfamily and friends of the 448 students being awarded J.D.and LL.M. degrees. Hamdan v. Rumsfeldis the landmark decision in whichthe U.S. Supreme Court held that the military commissionsystem set up by the President to try detainees atGuantanamo Bay lacks “the power to proceed because itsstructures and procedures violate both the Uniform Code ofMilitary Justice and the four Geneva Conventions signed in1949.” Specifically, the Court held that the Presidentialorder creating the commissions was invalid because itviolated federal statutes and treaties. The June 29, 2006 Supreme Court decision washanded down just days after defense attorney Swift hadbeen named one of the 100 most influential lawyers inAmerica by the National Law Journal.In October 2006, theNavy announced plans to dismiss Swift under its “up orout” promotion policy. When he left, he had more thantwelve years of litigation experience in the U.S. military. The same year, the American Civil Liberties Union awardedSwift its highest honor, a Medal of Liberty, in recognition ofhis dedication to preserving the rule of law during wartime.In 2008, Swift was a professor at Emory UniversitySchool of Law, where he taught international humanitarianlaw, criminal law, evidence and military law. In addition,Swift serves as acting director of a law school clinic ininternational humanitarian law. Prior to joining the Emoryfaculty, Swift was a Lieutenant Commander in the JudgeAdvocate General’s Corps, assigned to the Department ofDefense Military Commissions. 2003 RYAN W. O’DONNELLhas been elected ashareholder at the intellectual propertyfirm Volpe and Koenig. His practicefocuses on patent, trademark andcopyright prosecution, with an emphasison the chemical, medical and mechanicalindustries.GREGG PERCHICKand MELANIE J. LEVIN (PERCHICK), LL.M. ’08,were married in May 2008 in Philadelphia.Perchick has joined Klehr, Harrison, Harvey, Branzburg &Ellers as an associate in the real estate and finance group. 2005MARSHAL H. DAVISmaintains a general business lawpractice with an emphasis on tax law consulting andplanning on the local, state and federal levels. He wasformerly a tax advisor at Ernst & Young.MICHAEL DROSSNERannounces the opening of DrossnerLaw, where he represents individuals during all stages ofgovernment investigations and proceedings, conductscriminal trials in federal and state courts, and handles civilrights litigation2006WILLIAM C. KATZhas joined GluckWalrath in the firm’sTrenton, NJ office in the litigation and public entity/municipal law practice groups. 2007KENNETH E. JACKMANand ZACHARY I. SHAPIRO,bothassociates at Richards, Layton & Finger in Wilmington, DE,work in the firm’s business department. 2008JOHN WILLIAMS AITCHISONwas awarded the Philadelphia Trial LawyersAssociation’s James J. Manderino Awardfor Trial Advocacy at the association’sannual meeting. The award is presentedto graduating law students in memory ofthe late speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. JULY 2008 JENNIFERRUSSELL WAS AWARDEDTHE HIGGINBOTHAMFELLOWSHIP TOSUPPORT A SUMMERINTERNSHIP AT THESENIORLAW CENTER INPHILADELPHIA. STUDENTS AND ALUMS EXCELIN PUBLIC INTEREST LAWJENNIFER RUSSELL ’09received an A. Leon HigginbothamFellowship, sponsored by the public interest section of thePhiladelphia Bar Association. Each year, an agency ischosen to receive $4,000 in support of a summer intern.Russell, who was one of three Temple Law interns, wasselected to receive the fellowship. Russell will work at theSenior Law Center in Philadelphia, where she had internedthe previous summer.MELANIE TAMBOLAS ’08won first prize in thegraduate/alumni/faculty/staff category of the “Be Your Own Boss Bowl,” sponsored by the Innovation andEntrepreneurship Institute of the Fox School of Business.Tambolas won cash and prizes worth more than $7,000 for a business plan for the non-profit organization, After-Schoolhouse, which would establish academically rigorousand comprehensive after-school programs to prepare low-income students from public schools for success in college. AISHA BARUNI ’05, WILLIAM SHUEY ’08,and BRIAN WANG’08were awarded Independence Foundation Fellowshipsto pursue public interest work in Philadelphia. Baruni willwork at Community Legal Services in the consumerhousing unit, Shuey will work at Regional Housing LegalServices, and Wang is taking a position at NationalitiesService Center. RASHEEDAH PHILLIPS ’08was awarded a Martin LutherKing Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network.With that support, she will join the family advocacy unit atCommunity Legal Services. AMI MODY ’08 was named a Philadelphia Public InterestFellow. Mody will spend her fellowship year working atEducation Law Center before joining Morgan Lewis &Bockius as a second year associate. DEFENSE ATTORNEY IN HAMDANIS 2008COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER“OUR JOB IS TO DEFEND OUR CLIENTS,” CHARLES D. SWIFT, LL.M.’06 TOLD THE 2008 GRADUATING CLASS OF TEMPLE LAW. “THE LAWIS PERSONAL. YOUR CLIENTS WHO YOU ARE GOING TO MEET,WHETHER THEY BE EXECUTIVES OR THE DOWNTRODDEN, WILLLEARN ABOUT THE LAW FROM YOU. YOU WILL BE HOW THEY SEETHE JUSTICE SYSTEM.”TEMPLE ESQ. FALL 2008 • 7I did not disappoint you.—N. Jeremi Duru, Outstanding Professor of the YearProfessor Duru joined the law school faculty in 2005—thesame year as the 2008 graduating class—making itparticularly poignant that he was chosen by the graduatingclass to receive the George P. Williams III Memorial Awardfor the Outstanding Professor of the Year. “I have a warmspot for this class because we got into this together, “saidDuru. “Your first year was my first year. One thing I hopeyou never saw was I wanted desperately not to disappointyou all. And this award means a lot to me because itmeans that I did not disappoint you.”SEND US YOUR NEWS!TEMPLE ESQ. welcomes news and photosof our alumni/ae. Please include: Fullname, Class, Degree, and a way to reachyou if we need to confirm information.Send to:Janet GoldwaterTemple Esq.Temple University Beasley School of Law1719 North Broad StreetPhiladelphia, PA 19122Email:janet.goldwater@temple.eduWhat kept me here was you,the students.—Professor Robert J. Reinstein, retiring fromdeanship after 19 years“When I became dean it was a very good law school. It’snow a great law school. We have hired remarkable faculty.They are great scholars, but they are also great teachers.. ..“What kept me here was you, the students. Your class isgraduating with the highest academic credentials in thehistory of the law school. Despite all the academic andpersonal pressures that you’re under, our studentscontribute their time to serve people who would nototherwise be able to afford legal expertise. . . .”We were a team. —Jonathan A. Grode Evening division graduation speaker“No one ever told me that law school was a team sport.And no, I’m not referring to one of those star-crossed Philly squads subjected to thecurse of William Penn. What I mean, is that when Ifirst considered entering lawschool, I envisioned this highlycompetitive cut-throatenvironment where everyonewas out for him or herself;where everyone wasconcerned with his or her ownsuccess, potentially to thedetriment of others. “I [now] know that myoriginal impression could nothave been further from the truth. This experience, thisaccomplishment, was not something that any of us couldhave done alone. There was an understanding between ourclassmates that we all would, from time to time, struggle inCommencement 2008 balancing the needs of our families, the responsibilities ofemployment, and the pursuit of academic success. Thisunderstanding led to a certain and distinct camaraderiewhere, when someone needed notes, explanation orencouragement, we were there for each other. Instead ofmoving against one another, there was a clear and succinctcomprehension that we were all in this together, allsearching for a common goal and a shared understanding.We were a team.”Greatness without goodnessis very hollow indeed.—Emily Patricia Simpson Day divisiongraduation speaker “For the past three years,every time we entered the lawschool we passed a large bustof Abraham Lincoln, ‘Lincolnthe Lawyer’. This often mademe smile, simply because Ihappen to like Lincoln, butrecently I realized how veryfitting it is that his was the firstface we saw when we arrivedat school each day. You see,Lincoln once said, ‘If you are resolutely determined tomake a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half donealready. Well, if 51% of becoming a lawyer is resolving todo so, what’s the other 49%? It’s finishing your first week ofclasses and wondering if you have the courage to return onMonday—and then returning again and again; it’spocketing a new little pebble of knowledge and realizingthat somehow you’ve stumbled upon a canyon of things yetto learn—and then diving into that canyon; it’s replacingsleep and socializing with contracts and con law; it’slearning to fight passionately, and respectfully, for yourcause; it’s finding your voice, and using it. “On our orientation day we were told that the practice oflaw is a decent and honorable profession. In my threeyears at Temple I have met a lot of lawyers who, by theirexample, have convinced me that this is true. I’ve spent alot of time thinking about how we can convince the worldthat it’s true, and ultimately I think all we can do is be asgood as we can be. It seems that sometimes in the questfor greatness, goodness gets lost. But really, greatnesswithout goodness is very hollow indeed. Our time at Templehas taught us how to be very good lawyers, lawyers whopractice with integrity, and grace. If someday someonecalls us great—that’s just gravy.”ROBERT REINSTEIN (RIGHT) WITH INCOMING DEAN JOANNE A. EPPSAND ASSOCIATE DEAN ROBERT J. BARTOW(FROM LEFT) PROFESSORSELEANOR MYERS, SCOTT BURRISAND ALICE ABREUELIZABETH HIGHABBY MOYER AND EUGENA OHCHAD KURTZPROFESSOR JEREMI DURU’TEMPLE UNIVERSITY JAMES E. BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW • LAW SCHOOL AND ALUMNI NEWS • FALL 2008NON-PROFITORGANIZATIONU.S. POSTAGE PAIDPHILADELPHIA, PAPERMIT NO. 1044Summer in u.s.for Chinese LL.M.’sTEMPLE UNIVERSITYJAMES E. BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW1719 North Broad StreetPhiladelphia, PA 19122VISIT OUR WEBSITE: www.law.temple.eduWRITE TO US: lawalum@temple.eduSUMMER 2008Thirty-seven students enrolled inTemple Law’s LL.M. program for Chinese lawyersspent 10 weeks studying at Temple’s main campus.To supplement their studies and understanding ofthe U.S. legal system, the students traveled toWashington, D.C. where they met with JusticeAntonin Scalia, visited the Chinese embassy, andtoured capitol sights.CALENDAR OF EVENTSFriday, September 12, 2008 NYC ALUMNI RECEPTION NYC Bar Association, 42 W. 44th Street 5 to 7 pmTuesday, September 23, 2008DELAWARE-CHESTER COUNTY ALUMNIRECEPTIONSpringhaven Club, Wallingford 5:30 to 7:30 pmThursday, September 25, 2008 WASHINGTON DC ALUMNI RECEPTIONThe Caucus Room, 401 9th Street NW6 to 8 pm Sunday, September 28, 2008CHICAGO ALUMNI RECEPTION BRUNCH11 am to 1 pmRitz Carlton, 160 E. Pearson StreetThursday, October 2, 2008FRIEL SCANLAN LECTURE PRESENTED BY HENRY RICHARDSON Duane Morris LLP Moot Courtroom, noonMonday, October 6, 2008BUCKS COUNTY ALUMNI RECEPTIONBucks County Bar Association135 E. State Street, Doylestown5:30 to 7:30 pmMonday, October 13, 2008 TLAA GOLF OUTINGFrankford/Torresdale Country Club Thursday, October 16, 2008PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM BOOK SIGNINGAND TALK , AUTHOR DAVID KAIRYSDuane Morris LLP Moot Court Room, noonMonday, October 20, 2008 ARLIN AND NEYSA ADAMS LECTUREPRESENTED BY THE HON. ALEX KOZINSKIDuane Morris LLP Moot Courtroom, 4 pm Tuesday, October 21, 2008MONTGOMERY COUNTY ALUMNI RECEPTIONMontgomery County Bar Association100 W. Airy Street, Norristown5:30 to 7:30 pmThursday October 23, 2008PA BAR ADMISSIONS CEREMONYPhiladelphia City HallCeremonial Courtroom 6534 to 7 pmSaturday, November 8, 2008 INTERSECTIONS OF TRANSGENDER LIVES AND THE LAWPolitical and Civil Rights Law ReviewSymposium Shusterman Hall, 8:30 am to 5 pmNext >