TEMPLE UNIVERSITY JAMES E. BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW • LAW SCHOOL AND ALUMNI NEWS • SEPTEMBER 2009Law School Receives $1.3 Million in Cy Pres FundsCourt-approved funds will support consumer law projectINSIDEPage 2 • Rendell addresses ’09 graduates Page 4 • Four faculty members named to newly endowed chairsPage 5 • Class notesPage 8 • Epps testifies at Sotomayor hearingsIn 2007, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals awarded $30 million to roughly 1.7 million class members in the settlement of Carnegie vs. Household International and H&R Block. When the dust settled, $1.3 million dollars of unclaimed cy pres funds remained. Committed Temple Law alums Carolyn Lindheim ’87 and Steven Angstreich ’70, both attorneys with Weir Partners in Philadelphia, successfully petitioned to have those unclaimed funds assigned to the law school. Carnegie vs. Household International and H&R Block was a class action suit on behalf of individuals who received a refund anticipation loan (RAL) from Beneficial National Bank through any H&R Block office between 1994 and 1996. The court found that defendants H&R Block and Beneficial National Bank made misrepresentations and charged undisclosed fees on tax RALs. Cy pres refers to the doctrine,applied especially to cases of charitable trusts or donations, that when the settlor or donor’s intended purpose becomes impossible, the court may substitute a more suitable purpose. In this case, argued attorneys Lindheim and Angstreich, the support of an educational program in consumer law at Temple would prove a worthy purpose for the unclaimed funds.The funds will support a substantive course in consumer law and expanded student clinical and experiential opportunities in the areas of predatory lending, consumer bankruptcy, consumer credit, consumer fraud, mortgage foreclosure, and tax preparation assistance. The law school will partner with legal agencies in the community where students will gain hands-on experience. TEMPLE LAW RANKS HIGH IN TRIAL AD, LEGAL WRITING, INTERNATIONALTemple University Beasley School of Law’s programs in Trial Advocacy, Legal Writing and International Law continue to be recognized among the nation’s best by US News and World Report.In the publication’s 2010 edition of school rankings, Temple’s award-winning Trial Advocacy program is again ranked at the top, this year at number two. The Legal Research and Writing Program at Temple is ranked seventh, and has been in the top ten every year since legal writing programs have been ranked. Finally, Temple’s outstanding program in International Law continues to rise in the rankings, this year to number 15.For the first time this year, US News & World Report also ranked part-time law programs and Temple’s part-time program—known as the Evening Division—was ranked seventh in the nation. Temple’s evening division was founded in 1895, and this recognition is a tribute to the program that Temple has maintained and cultivated since its founding.MIA ROBERTS ’06, A FORMER “TRIAL TEAM STAR,”RETURNS TO THE LAW SCHOOL AS A TRIAL TEAM COACH. ROBERTS HAS WORKED AT THE DEFENDER ASSOCIATION OF PHILADELPHIA SINCE GRADUATING IN 2006.Dean JoAnne Epps expressed her deep gratitude for this innovative contribution from Angstreich and Lindheim: “Their vision for the use of these funds will enhance opportunities for our students and faculty. It will also pay tribute to the work done by trial lawyers in representing individuals who have suffered from predatory lending practices. Carolyn Lindheim was a student in the first Evidence class I taught at Temple in 1985. It is very rewarding to see her success and to have the Law School benefit from the great work that she and Steve Angstreich did in this case.”At Weir, Angstreich litigates sophisticated and complex individual and class action cases. He has successfully handled numerous class actions in the fields ofsecurities, antitrust, consumer fraud, toxic exposure, breach of fiduciary duty, waste and mismanagement, and land fraud. In addition, Anstreich serves as a mediator and arbitrator in complex alternative dispute resolution efforts and is active as an arbitrator on behalf of the U.S. District Court of New Jersey.Lindheim engages in class action suits as well as complex individual commercial litigation. She has been involved with several cases tried to verdict, including class actions for breach of fiduciary duty, consumer fraud and toxic exposure. She has also litigated cases involving sophisticated contract and consumer fraud issues as well as professional malpractice.STEVEN ANGSTREICH ’70 AND CAROLYN LINDHEIM ’8726600 TLS:ESQ_Sept06/f 8/27/09 2:00 PM Page 12 • TEMPLE ESQ. SEPTEMBER 20092009 COMMENCEMENT SPEAKERGovernor addresses 2009 gradsPennsylvania’s 45th Governor, Edward G. Rendell, was TempleLaw’s 2009 commencement speaker. He gained nationalprominence first as a popular mayor of a large city, and laterwhen he served as general chair of the Democratic NationalCommittee during the 2000 presidential election. Rendell waselected to the highest position in the Commonwealth in 2002,and is currently serving a second term. Before serving asgovernor, he was Philadelphia’s mayor from 1992 through 1999.Prior to that, Rendell was elected district attorney of the City ofPhiladelphia for two terms from 1978 through 1985. Graduation 2009FROM LEFT: ASSOCIATE DEAN MARYLOUISE ESTEN, UNIVERSITY VICE PRESIDENTWILLIAM BERGMAN, AND ROBERT DANIELS ’62.FRONT ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: ROBERT ROVNER ’68, JUDGE THEODORE DAVIS ’63,ASSOCIATE DEAN ROBERT BARTOW; BACK ROW: PROFESSORS SPENCER RAND,DAVID KAIRYS AND CRAIG GREEN.BELOW, LEFT: MICHAEL SIRKIN ’09,DAY DIVISION SPEAKER; BELOW,RIGHT: COLIN FARRELL ’09,EVENING DIVISION SPEAKER 26600 TLS:ESQ_Sept06/f 8/27/09 2:00 PM Page 2TEMPLE ESQ. SEPTEMBER 2009 • 3CRAIG GREEN HONORED FOR“EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING” Each year at graduation, one member of the facultyreceives a pleasant surprise when he or she is announcedthe winner of the George P. Williams III Memorial Award.Each year, students vote to select the professor mostdeserving of recognition for excellence in teaching. The2009 honoree, Associate Professor Craig Green, says “Ican’t believe it even now.” “This is a school that values teaching deeply and ispacked full of great practitioners of the art,” continuesGreen. “The honor of being recognized among that pool isliterally incredible.” Green has been a popular professor at Temple Lawsince joining the faculty in 2004. He teaches courses onfederal courts, administrative law, civil procedure andconstitutional law, and his primary research concerns thefederal courts’ role in overseeing the executive branch. “I come from a long line of teachers with mygrandfather a geography professor and my mother in firstgrade,” says Green. “There’s nothing more gratifying thanhelping students grasp what once seemed impossiblycomplex. Teaching is the most rewarding and exciting partof my job, and I’m grateful every day for the students andcolleagues who make it so.” Green earned a J.D. from Yale Law School, after whichhe clerked for Judge Pollak of the Eastern District ofPennsylvania and Judge Garland of the D.C. Circuit. In2001, Green worked in the Solicitor General’s Office as aBristow Fellow, and thereafter as a trial attorney for theDepartment of Justice’s civil appellate staff. JULY 2009 Professor GregoryMandel has been appointedAssociate Dean for FacultyResearch. He succeedsProfessor Jane Baron, whosteps down from the post after four years to resume herown research and scholarlywork. Baron was the inauguralholder of the position, createdin 2005 to support andenhance faculty scholarship. “I am delighted to welcomeGreg as a member of the lawschool administration,” saysDean JoAnne A. Epps. “He has big shoes to fill, as Jane did an outstanding job in overseeing the creation anddevelopment of the role of research dean. I am certain thatGreg will continue the model of supporting and encouragingfaculty scholarship, while also helping faculty in all aspectsof their professional development.”Mandel, who teaches intellectual property with a specialemphasis on the intersections between technology, science,and law, expressed enthusiasm for his new role and for theresearch being done by his colleagues on the “tremendous”Temple Law faculty. In his new position, Mandel envisions furthering the law school’s mission by fostering research and scholarshipthat improves and advances the law and legal system.According to Mandel, the three main elements ofsuccessful faculty scholarship are: “quality, visibility, andquantity, in that order.” The law school’s commitment toquality has never been stronger. Noting that the TempleLaw faculty already has an “extremely strong group ofscholars,” including a particular recognized strength ininternational law, Mandel hopes to “broaden the base offaculty producing high quality and exciting research.” InMandel’s view, the law school can strengthen its leadershiprole not just in teaching the law, but also in improving it. One way to enhance the quality of faculty scholarship isto embrace work at the forefront of scholarly methodology—something Temple Law is well positioned to do. Mandelexpresses enthusiasm for the range of opportunitiesavailable to legal scholars today. Mandel explains that whiletraditional approaches like legal philosophy and narrativescholarship retain a vital role, they can be combined withnew and emerging trends like interdisciplinary, empirical,and experimental scholarship to produce fresh perspectiveand results. This combination can provide “real worldtraction” because integrating various methods recognizes andresponds to the fact that law unfoldswithin the context of lived and social experience.That “real world traction” iscrucial, says Mandel. It means thatTemple Law scholarship will gain theeyes and ears of legislators, judges,and practitioners as they considerthe law and fashion social policy.This increased visibility will be anatural byproduct of scholarship that directly seeks to improve thelaw and anticipates its own use by members of its target audience. Mandel recognizes that gaining visibility requires“making sure our good ideas get noticed,” and he iscommitted to the task. It’s not just a matter of recognitionfor recognition’s sake, he explains, but recognition asreward for improving the role that law plays in society. “Partof our job as a law school faculty is to improve the law, andat the core of this effort is our scholarship.” Combinedproduction and promotion of high quality work will continueto enhance the standing of the law school—thus benefitingeveryone associated with it—as well as the communities inwhich we all live and work. In his new position, Mandel will work to provide crucialsupport to enhance the quality of faculty scholarship. Inthe coming months, he plans to meet with individualfaculty members to discuss their short and long termscholarly goals, vision, and needs. He hopes that byfacilitating the development of junior faculty and identifyingsynergies among faculty interests, both within the LawSchool and the University, he can bring to light anenhanced “culture of scholarship” that will lead to anincrease in interaction and collaboration aroundscholarship among the Temple Law faculty and beyond. Prior to joining the law school faculty in 2007, Mandeltaught at Albany Law School, where he was a professor oflaw and associate dean for research and scholarship. Heearned a J.D. from Stanford Law School and a B.A. fromWesleyan University. Mandel has published numerousarticles and book chapters, two of which have beenselected as top articles of the year in intellectual propertyand patent law. He has presented his work internationallyat over thirty law schools, as well as for the United Nations,Second Circuit, Environmental Protection Agency, andAmerican Bar Association.GREGORY MANDEL NAMED NEW ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR FACULTY RESEARCHProfessor of intellectual property says he will continue to enhance “quality, visibility, and quantity” of faculty scholarshipTHE HONORABLE DIANE P.WOOD TO DELIVER INAUGURAL CON LAW LECTUREMonday, October 12, 2009, 4 pm Duane Morris LLP Moot Court Room, Temple University Main CampusThe Honorable Diane P. Wood of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit willdeliver the Arlin M. and Neysa Adams lecture in Constitutional Law. Judge Wood wasnamed to the bench by President Clinton in 1995. She was widely cited in the press as aleading candidate for the Supreme Court vacancy created by the retirement of JusticeDavid Souter until the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for that position. The ArlinM. and Neysa Adams Lecture in Constitutional Law was established in 2006 and ispresented annually to the law school community by a speaker of national stature. The lecture honors Judge Adams, who served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the ThirdCircuit from 1969 to 1987 and is currently of counsel to Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis.Adams also served as Secretary of Public Welfare for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvaniafrom 1963 to 1966, and is a past Chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association.26600 TLS:ESQ_Sept06/f 8/27/09 2:00 PM Page 34 • TEMPLE ESQ. SEPTEMBER 2009RONALD JAY COHEN ’69 TO PRESENTINAUGURAL LITIGATION LECTURERonald Jay Cohen ’69, the founding partner of Cohen Kennedy Dowd & Quigleyin Phoenix, Arizona, is a nationally recognized litigator in the area of complexcommercial litigation. He has served on the board of trustees and the executivecommittee of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy. Cohen has also beenrecognized for teaching the art of trial advocacy; in 1998 he received the Hon.Robert E. Keeton Award from the National Institute of Trial Advocacy. The lecture was established this year in honor of Edward J. Ross ’69, asuccessful litigator who died of cancer in January 2008. Edward J. Ross Memorial Lecture in Litigation Thursday, November 12, 2009, 4 pmDuane Morris LLP Moot Court RoomROBERT J.REINSTEINInaugural holder of theClifford Scott Green Chair in LawRobert J. Reinstein retired from his position as law school dean anduniversity vice president after 19 years to return toteaching and scholarship.He has been a member of the law school faculty since1969, where he teaches and publishes in the area ofconstitutional law. In addition to his professorship, heserved as university counsel for Temple University from1982 to 1989.In his role as dean and vice president, Reinstein greatlyexpanded both the law school’s and the University’sinternational programs.In addition to expanding study opportunities in Tokyo,Rome, Athens, and Tel Aviv, Reinstein established theMaster’s of Law Program for Chinese students in Beijing,which is China’s first and only foreign law degree-grantingprogram. The LL.M. program is the centerpiece of TempleLaw’s extensive “rule of law” program in China, whichincludes judicial trainings and curriculum development forChinese law professors. In 2002, he was the recipient ofthe National Friendship Award, presented by the PrimeMinister of China in recognition of his work in legaleducation in that country. Reinstein’s legal experience includes clerking for JudgeFrank A. Kaufman of the U.S. District Court for the Districtof Maryland in 1968. In 1970, he joined the NAACP, wherehe was a consulting attorney and participated in a numberof successful class action civil rights cases for seven years.From 1977 to 1978, he worked with the U.S. Departmentof Justice as a senior attorney in the appellate section ofthe civil rights division and later, from 1979 to 1980, aschief of the general litigation section.Reinstein earned a B.S. from Cornell University in 1965and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1968. Hispublications include ReconstructingMarbury, co-authoredwith Professor Mark Rahdert.Reinstein is the first holder of the Green chair, named inhonor of Judge Clifford Scott Green ’51, who died in 2007.During 36 years on the U.S. District Court for the EasternDistrict of Pennsylvania, Judge Green presided over anumber of notable cases, and was regarded as one of themost popular judges in the district. Green was a long-timeadjunct professor at the law school, teaching evidence,criminal law and criminal procedure. In the early 1970’s,he was instrumental in creating the Temple-LEAP mocktrial competition for high school students. He was afounding member of the law school board of visitors and a member of the university’s board of trustees and, in1997, he was awarded an honorary doctor of laws degreeby the university.JONATHAN C. LIPSONPeter J. Liacouras Professor of LawJonathan C. Lipson, who joined the faculty in 2004,teaches popular courses in contracts and a variety ofbusiness and transactional law courses. Although hisresearch focuses on business failure systems, he has also written extensively on the U.S. secured credit systemand constitutional issues in bankruptcy. While a visitingprofessor at the University of Pennsylvania in 2007, Lipson developed and taught Debt and Democracy, aseminar that grew out of his research into constitutionalissues in bankruptcy. Lipson’s recent work has focused on the control ofinformation involving troubled companies. His forthcomingarticle, “The Shadow Bankruptcy System,” exposes howhedge funds, private equity funds and other privateinvestors have been able to manipulate the bankruptcyreorganization system by concealing their identities andmotives. He is also conducting an empirical study of theuse of examiners in large bankruptcy cases. In addition to teaching and traditional scholarship,Lipson has emerged as a solution-oriented leader in hisfield of inquiry. He was a consulting expert in the Enronbankruptcy and sits on several committees of the American Bar Association and the Association of AmericanLaw Schools. In April 2009, Lipson collaborated with Professors DavidA. Hoffman and Peter H. Huang to host an invitation-onlysymposium titled Complexity and Collapse: The CreditCrisis.The one-day event brought together more than fiftypracticing attorneys, business executives, bankruptcyjudges, and academics to focus on the complexity of globalcapitalism as a source of economic collapse and to developproposals for protecting investors from future collapse,even in the face of potentially increased complexity. Lipson earned a J.D. from the University of WisconsinLaw School in 1990 and a B.A. from the University ofWisconsin in 1986.FRANK M. MCCLELLAN Phyllis W. Beck Chair in LawProfessor Emeritus Frank M. McClellan will hold the PhyllisW. Beck Chair in Law for the 2009-2010 academic year.The Phyllis W. Beck Chair in Law was created in 1997 byThe Independence Foundation in honor of PennsylvaniaSuperior Court Judge Phyllis W. Beck ’67. Previous BeckChair holders are Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Theodore M.Shaw and Sylvia A. Law. McClellan, who has taught courses in torts, bioethics,and medical malpractice, has long been a prominentpublic health advocate in Philadelphia and acrossPennsylvania. He has served in a variety of roles, includingfor the past two years as a member of the advisorycommittee for the Office of Minority Health for theCommonwealth of Pennsylvania. During this time, he hasbecome increasingly aware of the evolving roles thatlawyers play in the delivery of effective healthcare to poorand underserved minorities. While this year’s holder of the distinguished chairofficially retired from teaching in 2008, McClellan remainsas busy and engaged as ever, with plans for twoconferences and a new multidisciplinary course proposal inthe upcoming academic year. The recently establishedCenter for Health Policy, Law and Practice provides a homefor McClellan’s work. Founded in spring 2009 withProfessor Scott Burris, the center is a multidisciplinaryprogram housed in the law school that aims to develop andsupport research and teaching partnerships amongmembers of the law school, medical school, businessschool, nursing school, school of public health andcommunity organizations.McClellan earned a B.A. at Rutgers University, a J.D. atDuquesne School of Law, and an LL.M. at Yale Law School.In addition to authoring numerous law review articles andbook chapters, McClellan has written an award-winningbook, Medical Malpractice: Law, Tactics and Ethics,andco-authored Torts: Cases, Problems and Materials.Distinguished faculty named toEndowed ChairsREINSTEINMCCLELLANLIPSONcontinued on page five26600 TLS:ESQ_Sept06/f 8/27/09 2:00 PM Page 4SALIL K.MEHRAJames E. BeasleyProfessor of LawSalil K. Mehra, a widelyrecognized expert inthe fields of antitrustand intellectualproperty, has been amember of the facultysince 2000. He hasbeen named a James E. Beasley Professor of Law. Mehrateaches courses in antitrust, business associations,contracts, corporations, international business transactionsand Japanese law. Prior to joining the faculty, Mehra clerked for ChiefJudge Juan R. Torruella of the U.S. Court of Appeals forthe First Circuit, and then worked at the antitrust division ofthe Department of Justice. Mehra also worked at the NewYork law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where hispractice included antitrust, First Amendment, and takeoverdefense litigation. In spring 2009, Mehra was awarded the prestigious AbeFellowship by the Japan Foundation Center for GlobalPartnership and the Social Science Research Council. Thefellowship recognizes Mehra’s research using interactive,online cartoons to explore differences in how people inAmerica and Japan understand causation, which isimportant in allocating responsibility for harm suffered asthe result of tortious conduct. Mehra will use the fellowshipto pursue research in connection with his ongoingcomparative study in which he is using online nonverbalcartoons illustrating industrial-age tort scenarios to explorewhether and how Westerners and Asians differ in their viewof causation. In addition to his cultural cognition research,Mehra is also engaged in an empirical analysis of howWikipedia’s internal dispute resolution system works. Mehra has taken an active leadership role outside ofacademia as well. In 2008, he became the chair of theexecutive committee of the section on antitrust andeconomic regulation of the American Association of LawSchools. He is also the academic liaison for the AmericanBar Association’s section on antitrust.Mehra earned a J.D. from the University of Chicago in1995; an M.A. in Asian Studies from the University ofCalifornia at Berkeley in 1992; and an A.B. from HarvardUniversity in 1991.1958EDWARD BLUMSTEINis the new president of the board oftrustees of the Council for Relationships (CFR), the nation’soldest and largest relationship counseling agency.Blumstein, who specializes in mediation and arbitration forfamilies, businesses and government agencies, has beeninvolved with CFR for many years. A family mediator since1982 and a mediation trainer since 1994, he wasinstrumental in establishing a mediation program inPhiladelphia Family Court. 1961STEVEN SHAPIROand his wife, Adele, celebrated their 50thwedding anniversary this past June. Shapiro has been apart-time mediator for the Superior Court of the District ofColumbia since retiring eight years ago from the position oftrial section chief at the U.S. Department of Justice inWashington, DC.1963U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE JAMES M. MUNLEYreceived a Doctorof Humane Letters, honoris causis,from MarywoodUniversity at its May 2009 commencement. 1964MAYER HORWITZ,of counsel to Dashevsky, Horwitz, Kuhn& Novello, served as the first president of The Louis D.Brandeis Law Society Foundation, which in April 2009hosted its first annual scholarship luncheon. 1973 MARC ROBERT STEINBERG,managing partner at theLansdale, PA firm of Rubin, Glickman, Steinberg andGifford, participated in a seminar entitled “Five CountyCriminal Practice” presented by the Pennsylvania BarInstitute. Steinberg is currently the president of the boardof directors of the Montgomery Child Advocacy Project. TEMPLE ESQ. SEPTEMBER 2009 • 5NOTESClassNELSON DIAZ ’72 NAMED TO WHITE HOUSE COMMISSIONJUNE 2009President Obama recently appointed The Honorable Nelson Diaz ‘72to the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships. The 28-personcommission is charged with recommending prospective White House Fellowsto the President. Judge Diaz served on the Philadelphia Court of CommonPleas from 1981 to 1993, the first Latino to serve. He was also appointedadministrative judge by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Diaz, who has beenof counsel at Cozen O’Connor since 2007, has also served as city solicitor ofPhiladelphia. He was appointed general counsel for the U.S. Department ofHousing and Urban Development under President Clinton, and is a formerchair of the Democratic National Committee’s Hispanic Caucus.MEHRAENDOWED CHAIRS. . . continued from page four1976STEVEN R. COHENhas been elected chair of the labor andemployment law section of the New Jersey State BarAssociation, and will serve a two year term. Long active inthe New Jersey bar, Cohen also serves on the legislativecommittee and has served as an officer of the labor sectionfor the past eight years. Cohen is a shareholder in theMount Laurel, NJ firm of Selikoff & Cohen. 1980STEWART J. EISENBERG,a founder andsenior partner of Eisenberg,Rothweiler, Winkler, Eisenberg & Jeck, hasbeen named president of the PhiladelphiaTrial Lawyers Association. Eisenberg alsoserves on the board of governors of theAmerican Association for Justice. 1982ROBERT J. INCOLLINGOhas been elected co-chairman of theconstruction section of the New Jersey State BarAssociation. He also serves as a commercial arbitrator byappointment of the Superior Court in Camden andBurlington counties and is a contributing author of“Residential Construction & Renovation: A Legal Guide forNew Jersey Homeowners,” published by the New JerseyState Bar Foundation.PAUL L. REGANreceived the Outstanding Faculty Award atthe 2009 commencement of Widener University School ofLaw in Wilmington, DE, as determined by a vote of thegraduating class. Regan has been a member of theWidener law faculty since 1994. where he teaches andwrites in the areas of corporate law, corporate finance, and contracts.1983 LEONARD A. BERNSTEIN,a Reed Smithpartner, has been elected to a second two-year term as president of the board ofdirectors of the Support Center for ChildAdvocates. 1984MARC S. RASPANTI,a partner in the firmof Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick andRaspanti, spoke at the American BarAssociation’s National Institute on HealthCare Fraud in May 2009. Raspanti’spresentation was titled “AlternativeDispute Resolution in Fraud Cases.”26600 TLS:ESQ_Sept06/f 8/27/09 2:00 PM Page 51985 RENARDO L. HICKS, LL.M., a shareholder with Stevens & Lee, presented two seminars at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. Hicks discussed current issuesin the natural gas industry andPennsylvania’s need for a gas distributionsystem infrastructure surcharge at the PBI Public Utility Law Conference in May 2009. He also presented a continuing legal education seminar that focused on techniques to make positive and persuasive public presentations. 1986KENNETH H. RYESKY is practicing law and teaching at Queens College, City University of New York. He recently published two articles: “Honorary Board Membership, Real Tax Liability: Limits to Tax-Exempt Organization Honorary Board Member Immunity under Internal Revenue Code § 6672,” 24 Akron Tax Journal 93 (2009); and “A Jewish Ethical Perspective to American Taxation,” Rutgers Journal of Law & Religion, Spring 2009.1990 JOHN W. PAUCIULO, a partner in White and Williams’ business department, has been named chair of the business and corporate practice group. Pauciulo also serves on the board of directors of Philadelphia Neighborhood HousingServices, a non-profit organization providing affordable housing and providing pro bono legal services through the Homeless Advocacy Project.JACQUELINE G. SEGAL has been elected to the partnership of Fox Rothschild. She practices in the litigation department in the Chester County, PA office. Segal concentrates her practice on family and domestic relations law.MARK W. TANNER of Feldman, Shepherd, Wohlgelernter, Tanner, Weinstock & Dodig has been appointed co-managing partner of the personal injury firm. Tanner shares this role with Alan M. Feldman, one of the firm’s founders. Tanner also addressed medical malpractice litigation at The Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania continuing medical education program in June 2009. 1992RICHARD GELLER was appointed Planning and Zoning Commissioner for the Orange County, FL district that includes Disney World. He is a partner with Fishback Dominick in Winter Park, practicing in the area of business and commercial litigation.JOHN J. HAGGERTY has joined Fox Rothschild as a partner in the litigation department. Haggerty divides his time between the firm’s Warrington, PA and Philadelphia offices. Prior to joining Fox, Haggerty was chair of the business litigation group of a large Cleveland, OH firm. 1994JAMES D. CASHEL, a former partner with Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, has been named general counsel for Environmental Tectonics Corporation, based in Southampton, PA.DAVID T. SHULICK, president of Delaware Valley High School, has announced that the school was awarded a new three-year contract from the Philadelphia School District at a new flagship site in Philadelphia on Kelly Drive. Shulick, who has been president of DVHS since 1999, also chairs the Shulick Law Offices, a civil litigation firm.1996SANDRA A. JESKIE, a partner at Duane Morris and a member of the firm’s trial practice group and co-chair of the firm’s information technologies and telecom interdisciplinary practice group, has been named vice president of the International Technology Law Association. 1999CHERYL A. GARBER has been elected to the partnership of Fox Rothschild, where she practices in the litigation department of the Bucks County, PA office. 2002CHRISTIAN P. MARRONE has been appointed by Defense Secretary Robert Gates as his special assistant after spending the past five months as the acting assistant secretary of defense for legislative affairs.CHRISTOPHER J. SPIZZIRRI has joined Morris James in Wilmington, DE as an associate and the firm’s electronic discovery coordinator. 2003 MICHAEL HIGGINS has joined Jackson Lewis as an associate in the employment law firm’s Philadelphia team after spending almost two years in the firm’s Boston office. RENEE C. VIDAL, LL.M. IN TAXATION, a Flaster/Greenberg shareholder, presented at a seminar at the Chamber of Commerce of Southern New Jersey: “Strategies to Deal with the Recession’s Challenges: Surviving 2009 and Beyond.”Vidal, who concentrates her practice in estate and tax planning, spoke about developing a strategic plan and protecting the tax exempt status of non profit entities.6 • TEMPLE ESQ. SEPTEMBER 2009 S. Robert Levant Class of 1951 Albert Hoffman Class of 1955 Evelyn M. Ward Class of 1961 Lawrence Grant Class of 1965 Richard M. Snyder Class of 1966 George S. Test Jr. Class of 1972 Bruce J. Jenner Class of 1975 Terrence J. Schade Class of 1975 Stephen R. Kirkman Class of 1977 Rosalie Davies Class of 1979 Mark Blank Class of 1983 Dillano Ragbirsingh Class of 1983 Mary M. Bussard Class of 1987 Sharon Hong Class of 1991 Linda M. Bagnato Class of 1992 William F. Schladebeck Class of 1993 Adriana O. Berger Class of 1998IN MEMORIAMTEMPLE ESQ.Published by the Temple University Beasley School of Law for alumni and friends.JOANNE A. EPPS, DEANPublications Director: Janet Goldwater Art Director: Gene GilroyPhotography: Joseph Labolito, Kelly & Massa, Janet Goldwater Send letters and comments to: Janet Goldwater, Temple Esq. Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law 1719 N. Broad Street, Room 510 Philadelphia, PA 19122Email: janet.goldwater@temple.edu Fax: (215) 204-1185Change of address: (215) 204-1187LL.M. FROM CAMBODIA WINS PHILA BAR ASS’N AWARDCharya Chum, LL.M. ’09, has been awarded the International Law Award by the International Law Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association. The award is given annually to two foreign graduate law students in the Philadelphia region in recognition of outstanding achievement in international law or human rights. Chum, who graduated from Temple’s LL.M. program in May, holds a law degree from the Royal University of Law and Economics in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Before entering the LL.M. program, Chum worked at the Documentation Center of Cambodia, a research institute dedicated to seeking justice on behalf of victims of the Khmer Rouge. There, she helped villagers from the Cambodian provinces gain access to the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.CHARYA CHUM, LL.M. ’09, WITH MICHAEL E. SCULLIN OF MCELROY, DEUTSCH, MULVANEY & CARPENTER AND CO-CHAIR OF THE INTERNATIONAL LAW COMMITTEE OF THE PHILA BAR ASSOCIATION.2008AMBER RACINE, an associate at Anapol Schwartz, Weiss, Cohan, Feldman & Smalley, has been elected to the executive board of the Barristers’ Association of Philadelphia. Racine concentrates her practice on consumer class actions,consumer fraud litigation, pharmaceutical litigation and other civil and commercial litigation. 26600 TLS p6:Layout 1 8/27/09 2:17 PM Page 1M. MARK MENDEL ’57 1929~2009Medical malpractice and public utilities law expert died August 26, 2009.M. Mark Mendel, who headed a five-attorney personal injuryfirm, was president of The Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association in 1978, and an active leader of the association throughout his career. Mendel attended Temple University as an undergraduate before entering law school and was a committed and generous alumni. He served as a General Alumni board member since 1952, and is also a past president of the Varsity Club (now the Owl Club). In 2003 Mendel was awarded the Temple University General Alumni Association’s highest alumni award, the Alumni Distinguished Services Award. “He will be missed,” says Dean JoAnne Epps.SEND US YOUR NEWS!TEMPLE ESQ. SEPTEMBER 2009 • 7TEMPLE 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.eduALUMNI ASS’N PRESENTS AWARDS JUNE 4, 2009The Temple Law Alumni Association honoredPresident Elect Sheryl Axelrod ’93 with the TLAA Service Awardfor “extraordinary dedication and service in furthering thegoals of the Association.” Each year, one member of theassociation’s executive committee is singled out for this award. A special Partner Award went to Director of Special EventsDorothy Lee in recognition of her commitment to the lawschool and its alumni. This award goes to a non-member “whohas made great and substantial contributions to the success ofthe association above and beyond the call of duty.” DOROTHY LEE“The benefit of pushing ourselvestowards the unfamiliar”DEAN EPPS ADDRESSES DIVERSITYBelow are selected remarks from the the 2009 Judge A.Leon Higginbotham Memorial Public Interest Lecture:“Though there have been great strides in diversifying thelegal profession, there is still much to do.”“In preparing this lecture . . . I thought about my momand how she had always wanted to go to college. At thattime schools had three tracks: the academic track, thecommercial track, and the general track. My mother, whohad always dreamed of being a doctor, chose theacademic track. Not only did the school say no to herchoice, but her guidance counselor laughed at the ideauntil tears ran down her cheeks. When I, some 35 yearslater in the same school system, had the obligatory meeting with my guidance counselor, she encouraged me to become a hairdresser. My mother asked me to do something she had not been allowed to do . . . and the difference was the times had changed. Myguidance counselor didn’t laugh. She didn’t help, but shedidn’t laugh.”“. . . Both [O’Connor and Higginbotham] went to lawschool in the years following World War II, long before therewas any consensus that women and blacks were suitablecandidates for legal careers. Despite excelling in lawschool, neither was able to find work in major law firms,due to their respective race and gender. As a result, theyeach opened their own practice and went on to publicservice. Were they destined to be trailblazers, or were theyforced to become so?”“Being different—and the sense of exclusion that sooften comes as a result—has the potential to motivate, toenergize, to inspire. Whether you’re moved by beingfrustrated, sad or perplexed, your ability to see the worldand its potential in a way that is different from the personnext to you, is where opportunity and creativity andinnovation are born. . . . So our challenge is to understandthe benefit of pushing ourselves towards the unfamiliar.”“Diversity makes us better than we would be without it.Although diversity makes us uncomfortable, that diversityspurs creativity. What is great about our world is that weare all different. What’s challenging is that ours is aprofession that loves conformity. The problem is thatconformity can be anesthetizing, dulling the divergent ofthe creative and potentially creative instincts of those thatare different from us.” “Embracing diversity gets easier with understanding. Sotreat yourself to a conversation—a real conversation—withsomeone different. Don’t expect the conversations toalways be easy, but they will be beneficial.” JUNE 9, 2009Dean JoAnne A. Epps was doubly honoredby the Philadelphia Bar Association when they named her this year’s recipient of the Sandra Day O’ConnorAward—and simultaneously invited her to deliver theprestigious Judge A. Leon Higginbotham Memorial PublicInterest Lecture. “Most years, the Higginbotham Lecture and the SandraDay O’Connor Award are separate events, on separatedates and feature different individuals,” said Epps,beginning her lecture. “Today presents me a wonderfulopportunity to talk about these two legal giants in the samebreath and to celebrate the things they shared.“They were each trailblazers and changed historythrough both their achievements and their impact.Together, they remind us of how our lives are enriched by the gifts of those who paved our way.”Because the annual award and lecture event was heldshortly after Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to theSupreme Court, Epps took the opportunity to allude toSotomayor’s controversial remarks. “As most of you know,public speeches have taken on a whole new significance in the last few weeks. Most of the best lines I wrote I tookout,” joked Epps. In her lecture, Life is a Public Interest Journey,Eppsfocused on the significance of increasing diversity,mentoring, and contributing to the public good. Shefocused on inadequate education and inequalities in thelegal profession and in legal representation. Epps stressed the importance of finding one’s own path to making a contribution: “There is no one right way tomotivate yourself to give. But giving is immensely rewarding.”“Judge Higginbotham was one of ournation’s most passionate and steadfastchampions for civil rights,” noted Epps.“He reminded us of what we shouldstand for: that as lawyers we have aspecial obligation to influence thecourse of events for the good. He alsoreminded us… that we are first andforemost world and community citizens. “Justice O’Connor pursued a quiet, solution-oriented judiciary. Herachievements remind us that, justlike the booming visionary, the quiet,principled pragmatist has an importantrole to play in influencing the course of events.“Judge Higginbotham and JusticeO’Connor both remind us that throughour voices and our actions we can touchthe lives of others. That if we don’t standfor something, we live for nothing.” The Higginbotham Lecture was first delivered in 1999 by Marian WrightEdelman of the Children’s Defense Fund, and has sincefeatured notables such as Juan Williams, Charles J.Ogletree, Chaka Fattah, Cornel West, Kweisi Mfume, and Gwen Ifill. Established in 1993, the O’Connor Award goes annuallyto a leading female attorney in Philadelphia in recognitionof both significant legal accomplishments and acommitment to furthering the advancement of women both professionally and in the community.Epps, who assumed the deanship in July 2008, haslong been active in women’s and minority organizations.She served as vice chair of the Pennsylvania gender taskforce, and was a member of the Third Circuit task force onequal treatment in the courts, a member of the task force’scommission on race and ethnicity, and was co-chair of thecommission’s committee on special issues in criminaljustice. Epps has served on the board of Women’s Way,and is an affiliated member of the women’s studiesdepartment at Temple University. Before becoming dean,she was the adviser to both the Women’s Law Caucus andthe Black Law Students’ Association. Epps is also active inmany professional organizations; she is an officer of theAmerican Bar Association section of litigation and serveson several ABA committees. The dean received a B.A.degree from Trinity College in Hartford, CT in 1973 and aJ.D. degree from Yale Law School in 1976, and is amember of the American Law Institute. “There’s no one right way to give,” Epps said, in theconclusion of her speech. “No matter what your area ofpractice, you can be a protagonist for justice.” WITH DEAN EPPS, FROM LEFT, ARE MARCEL PRATT ’09, JENNIFERSUPPLEE ’09 AND ADEWALE OYEJIDE ’10.SHERYL AXELRODDEAN RECEIVES O’CONNOR AWARD,DELIVERS HIGGINBOTHAM LECTURE26600 TLS:ESQ_Sept06/f 8/27/09 2:00 PM Page 7Dean Epps testifies for SotomayorJULY 16, 2009Dean JoAnne A.Epps testified before the membersof the U.S. Senate JudiciaryCommittee in support of SupremeCourt nominee Sonia Sotomayor,who was confirmed on August 6,2009. Epps, who spoke on behalfof the National Association ofWomen Lawyers (NAWL), said thatSotomayor is “highly qualified toserve as an associate justice of theSupreme Court” and that “herappointment would advance thevery important message thatwomen have a contribution tomake at the highest levels” of thelegal profession.“It was thrilling,” said Epps,who was the only person from thePhiladelphia area invited to speakat the hearings. She shared thespotlight with a long list ofprominent witnesses, includingNew York City Mayor MichaelBloomberg, New York County District Attorney RobertMorganthau and former FBI Director Louis Freeh. Epps had co-chaired a NAWL committee that evaluatesSupreme Court nominees. The committee went to workwithin 48 hours of President Obama’s nomination ofSotomayor in late May. After an intensive evaluation ofSotomayor’s legal ability, temperament and support ofissues of importance to women, the committee came to afavorable consensus on her qualifications and chose Epps to represent NAWL at the confirmation hearingsshould the organization be called upon by the SenateJudiciary Committee.In her testimony, Epps noted that female lawyers stillface barriers, and cited figures to support her statement.She urged that senators “send a strong message” byconfirming her. TEMPLE UNIVERSITY JAMES E. BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAWLAW SCHOOL AND ALUMNI NEWSSEPTEMBER 2009VISIT OUR WEBSITE: www.law.temple.eduWRITE TO US: lawalum@temple.eduNON-PROFITORGANIZATIONU.S. POSTAGE PAIDPHILADELPHIA, PAPERMIT NO. 1044TEMPLE UNIVERSITYJAMES E. BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW1719 North Broad StreetPhiladelphia, PA 19122Friday, October 2, 2009DOES THE CONSTITUTION FOLLOW THE FLAG?THE EVOLUTION OF TERRITORIALITY IN AMERICAN LAWConference sponsored by the Institute for Int’l Law and Public PolicyMonday, October 12, 2009THE CHANGING FACE OF DIVERSITY JURISDICTIONArlin M. and Neysa Adams Lecture in Constitutional LawPresented by Hon. Diane P. WoodDuane Morris LLP Moot Court Room, 4 pm Friday, October 16, 2009GALLERY OF SUCCESS INDUCTIONHonoring Steve Angstreich ’70 and Carolyn Lyndheim ’87Tuesday, October 20, 2009PA BAR ADMISSIONS CEREMONYPhiladelphia City Hall, 4 pmFriday, October 23, 2009 CLIFFORD SCOTT GREEN CHAIR IN LAWPRESENTATIONSenator Arlen Spector, Chancellor Peter J. Liacouras, Professor Robert J. ReinsteinDuane Morris LLP Moot Court Room, 3 pm Thursday, November 12, 2009 EDWARD J. 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