TEMPLE UNIVERSITY JAMES E. BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW • LAW SCHOOL AND ALUMNI NEWS • FALL 2014Inaugural Shusterman Professor is pioneer inempirical studies and behavioral economicsOn July 1, 2014, David A. Hoffman assumed the first MurrayH. Shusterman Professorship in Business and TransactionalLaw. The new academic chair is funded through thegenerosity of prominent Philadelphia business attorney andlongtime Temple Law supporter Murray H. Shusterman ’36. Professor Hoffman joined the faculty of Temple UniversityBeasley School of Law in 2004. In 2012 he was named aJames E. Beasley Professor of Law.“I couldn’t be more delighted about David’s selection asthe inaugural holder of the Murray H. Shusterman Chair,”said Dean JoAnne Epps. “David’s teaching and scholarshiphave laid the groundwork for an innovative business andtransactional curriculum that both inspires and preparesstudents in the best traditions of Temple Law School.” Hoffman is a demanding Socratic instructor, teachingcontracts, civil procedure, corporations and law andeconomics. In 2011, along with Professors Edward Ellers and Eleanor Myers, he developed an innovativetransactional skills simulation course for all first-yearstudents. The course teaches students negotiating,counseling and drafting skills in the context ofrepresenting chefs or entrepreneurs starting a newrestaurant in Philadelphia. The 2013 graduating classrecognized Hoffman’s dedication as a teacher with theGeorge P. Williams Memorial Award.“I’m incredibly honored to be the inaugural holder ofthe Shusterman Chair,” says Hoffman. “I feel especiallylucky to have had the opportunity to get to know Murray[Shusterman], and to learn from him about his wonderfulcareer as a lawyer, businessman, and teacher here atTemple. His success illustrates the potential unlocked bya degree from Temple Law, and I’m simply blown away byhis nine-decade long relationship with the law school. david A.HoffmanMurray H. Shusterman Professor in Transactional and Business LawStudent wins LGBT writingcompetition—and helps makehistory in PennsylvaniaAUGUST 2014The events in the life of third-year evening law student Colin Saltry ’16demonstrate—yet again—that political advocacy,academics and the workplace can not onlycoexist, but often bolster one another. This summer in Manhattan at the LavenderLaw Conference and Career Fair, the NationalLGBT Bar Association announced that ColinSaltry was the winner of the InternationalAssociation of LGBT Judges Writing Competitionfor his paper “What’s (Who You) Love Got To Do With It.” The Temple Law student’s winning paperexplores whether it is permissible to exerciseperemptory challenges based on a prospectivejuror’s sexual orientation. Saltry’s choice of topiccombined his interest in LGBT advocacy andvaluable experience he had gained out of theclassroom. “I work as a tipstaff (court officer) for JudgeMarlene Lachman in the Philadelphia Court ofCommon Pleas so I’m pretty familiar with thejury selection process,” Saltry explains. UNDER A RAINBOW UMBRELLA AT THE 2014 PRIDEPARADE ARE, FROM LEFT: JUDGE DAN ANDERS,MARGARET LESSER, ROBERT OCHOA, ALLISONSTEINBERG ’16, COLIN SALTRY ’16, AND JUDGE ANN BUTCHART ’93.continued on page twocontinued on page twoNational JuristsaysTemple Law is ’best value’Temple Law was named a “Best ValueLaw School” by National JuristMagazinein a report published insummer 2014. Temple is the only lawschool in Philadelphia cited by themagazine and has been a consistentpresence on the list for the pastseveral years. In rating law schools for value,National Juristexaminesacademic and financial variables,including the law school’s tuition,student debt accumulation,employment success, bar passage rate and cost of living. Employment is given the greatest weight—35percent—because of the recent decline in hiring. 2 • TEMPLE ESQ. FALL 2014In the paper, Saltry observes that voir direrequireslitigants to impanel fair and impartial juries, and concludesthat the use of peremptory challenges should reflectlegitimate concerns for bias, not the use of stereotypes andinnuendo as proxies for bias.“The protections afforded under the Batson v. Kentuckyline of cases—proscribing the discriminatory use ofperemptory challenges to exclude potential jurors on thebasis of race and gender—are an appropriate remedy,”Saltry argues. “While there are practical considerations thatmight hinder the inclusion of sexual orientation underBatson,failure to do so practically excludes LGBTindividuals from America’s most cherished publicinstitution: serving on the petit jury. Courts must improvetheir voir direprocedures to protect the rights of all whoenter their courtrooms—regardless of who they are or whothey love.” TEMPLE CONNECTION PLACES SALTRY ATHISTORIC MOMENT IN PENNSYLVANIAAt the end of May 2014, when Judge John E. Jones IIIstruck down Pennsylvania’s Defense of Marriage Act, he opened the Commonwealth to same-sex marriage.Saltry, who was working full-time for Judge Lachman at the Criminal Justice Center, was eager to find a way tovolunteer his time as a participant in this historic momentin LGBT history. He soon heard from Temple Lawclassmate Allison Steinberg ’16, who was interning in thesame building for Judge Ann Butchart, that Judge Butchartwas officiating private ceremonies in her chambers. In June, Steinberg alerted Saltry that Judge Butchartand Judge Dan Anders were planning to perform amarriage ceremony for a group of fourteen same-sexcouples at Philadelphia’s summer 2014 LGBT Pride Day.Saltry immediately volunteered his services, and his offerwas accepted.“I’d been looking forward to equal marriage inPennsylvania for a long time, so when the Whitewood v.Wolfdecision came down I was ecstatic,” says Saltry, whowas joined by classmate Allison Steinberg in volunteering at the group ceremony. “It was an enormous privilege to be part of this historic moment.”Saltry looks forward to developing legal skills to advancehis advocacy, but is quick to acknowledge the work ofprevious generations. “Lawyers play an important, but not central, role in history’s great movements. Thosegenerations of individuals discriminated against because of who they are and who they love did most of the legworkin achieving equality in this case. But you can’t ignore the vital role attorneys have played in carrying their causeover the finish line.”“I’m still not entirely sure what I want to pursue aftergraduation, but this experience has helped solidify mydesire to work directly with people in need,” says Saltry.“Whether it’s representing under-privileged clients in thecommunity, or helping newly married same-sex couplesnavigate the absurd obstacles imposed by 19th centurysensibilities, I want to be there to help.”STUDENT HELPS MAKE HISTORYcontinued from page oneThe resources contributed by this chair will help us to build Temple’s transactional curriculum and burnish ourreputation as a center of scholarly excellence. ” Hoffman writes about law from an empirical perspectivein three fields: contracts, procedure, and risk perception.Using experimental methods, Hoffman explores whyindividuals dislike breach of contract, when they will takeprecautions against breach, and how damages will beawarded. Current projects include a study of recitals ofcontract consideration, a survey of lay understanding ofwhen a contract has been formed, and an exploration ofhow the process of forming a contract can change how we feel about counterparty behavior.In other work, Hoffman has empirically explored thelitigation system. Focusing on court dockets, he has co-authored the first comprehensive study of litigation inwhich plaintiffs seek to “pierce the corporate veil,” a paperon privacy litigation in federal court, an analysis of therelationship between motion practice and settlement, and an analysis of the meaning of “materiality” under thesecurities law. His most recent work in this quantitativevein, which focused on the organization of causes of action in federal court complaints, was the subject of the 2012 Friel-Scanlan lecture he delivered to the lawschool community.Finally, as a member of the Cultural Cognition Project,Hoffman collaborates with a select group of scholars toexamine how people’s cultural values mold their policybeliefs and risk perceptions. For example, one recentDAVID A. HOFFMANcontinued from page onepaper illustrated how the perceived benefits and risks ofpolitical demonstrations are contingent on our values. He is currently working on a paper comparing the performanceof judges, lawyers, law students and citizens at avoidingbias in legal decision-making. The New York Timesrecognized his work with the Cultural Cognition Project as one of 2009’s notable ideas of the year.In 2014, Hoffman was listed as one of the top ten mostcited law professors in the country in the field of law andsocial science, and was the top-ranked scholar in any field in the country under the age of forty.Professor Jeffrey Dunoff, who chaired the facultycommittee that nominated Hoffman, notes that “DavidHoffman has done ground-breaking research in the areas of business and transactional law. He is a dynamicteacher who has inspired Temple students to pursuecareers in these areas. And he has been at the center of the law school’s intellectual life since the moment hejoined the faculty. It would be hard to imagine a betterchoice to serve as the inaugural holder of the Murray H.Shusterman Chair.” Hoffman earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School, cum laude,and his B.A. in archaeology and history fromYale College, cum laude.Prior to becoming a law professor,Hoffman clerked for Judge Norma L. Shapiro of theEastern District of Pennsylvania and practiced law withCravath, Swaine, & Moore LLP. MURRAY H. SHUSTERMAN ’36: $1.2 MILLION GIFT ENDOWS CHAIRIn 2013, Murray H. Shusterman ’36 donated $1.2 million to create the Murray H. Shusterman Professor in Transactional and Business Law“Dave Hoffman’s scholarly work anddedication to teaching embodies whatI envisioned when I decided to endowa professorship at the law school Iadmire,” says benefactor Murray H.Shusterman. “He is a wonderfulchoice to hold the chair.”Prior to funding the ShustermanChair, the senior counsel at FoxRothschild and expert in business andreal estate law demonstrated a lifelongcommitment to Temple UniversityBeasley School of Law with thefollowing contributions: •In 1959, the law school’s firstmajor fundraising organization,the Temple University LawFoundation, was founded byShusterman and a group ofTemple Law alumni that includedJudge Charles Klein ’21, SamuelLander ’31, and Judge EthanAllen Doty ’31.•In 1981, he established TheMurray H. Shusterman Israel-Temple Law School ExchangeProgram Fund.•In 1994, Shusterman and his family gave one of the largest gifts to date to the law school, a $1 million gift towards the restoration of a historically certified English Gothic church on Temple’s campus that opened in 1997 as Murray H. Shusterman Hall.DAVID HOFFMAN WITH BENEFACTOR MURRAY SHUSTERMAN ’363 • TEMPLE ESQ. FALL 2014TEMPLE LAW PRESENTATIONS AT THE LAW AND SOCIETY CONFERENCEPublic Policy Scholars (student) presentationsGERARD LEONE:How Are We Supposed to Regulate theInternet? The Means and Rationales of the Forms of the United States’ Two Potential Regulatory RegimesAARON SPENCER:Sexual Assault in the MilitaryLAUREN MARSH:The Intersection of Domestic Violenceand International Child AbductionMICHAEL RESNICK:Financial Regulation, the Volcker Rule and an Appropriate Governmental Response toFinancial RiskELYSSA GESCHWIND:Moving from an Enforcement Modelto a Compliance Model Under the Fair Housing ActJESSICA PELLICIOTTA:Connected Cities: A Comparison of Citywide Efforts to Increase Broadband Adoption and Broadband SpeedsFRANK IANNUZZI:Reviving Postal Banking: Utility Finance for the Contemporary American CitizenJARED BURNS: In Support of a Modified MarketplaceFairness ActANDREA ANASTASI:Coming Out Against ConversionTherapy: Legal Responses to the Solution Without A ProblemBEN KRAUT:Mitigating Future Water Conflict Through the Universal Proliferation of the United NationsConvention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International WatercoursesMARY JONES:Two if by Sea: The Solution to MarinePollution Requires More Problem-SolvingSARAH ESCALANTE:Philadelphia Discovery CourtCHRIS YARACS:Punishment Profiteers: MassIncarceration, Prison Privatization, and Our GrowingCorrections EconomyRACHEL MATESIC:Government Bake Sales and WelfareSponsorships: Public-Private Partnerships in theModern EconomyFaculty presentationsPROFESSORS ALICE ABREU AND RICK GREENSTEIN: The Rule of Law as a Law of Standards: Interpreting the Internal Revenue CodePROFESSOR NANCY J. KNAUER:Measures andMismeasures of Equality (presented at plenary session)PROFESSOR BRISHEN ROGERS:Worker Power in GlobalLabor GovernanceFREEDMAN TEACHING FELLOW ELIZABETH KUKURA:Contested Care: The Politics of Research, Evidence and Knowledge in U.S. Childbirth PoliciesFREEDMAN TEACHING FELLOW KERRIN WOLF:Assessing the Public Heath Effects of Exclusionary School Punishment‘Law and Inequalities’ focus for student, faculty scholarsGRADUATING TRIAL TEAMMEMBER WINS “TOP GUN”JUNE 2014Only weeks after graduating, Caroline Power ’14was the winner of the Top Gun Tournament, a trialcompetition sponsored by Baylor Law School in Waco,Texas. A seasoned Temple Law trial team competitor,Power beat out participants from 16 other law schools towin $10,000 and the title of Top Gun.Power, who will start as an associate at Dechert this fall,went into the tournament with plenty of experience. Shecompeted on this year’s National Trial Team, winning theregional competition and advancing to the nationalquarterfinals. Still she said, “This is the toughestcompetition I’ve been in. Just the dynamics of it, thepressure of it.”At the Top Gun Tournament, the top 16 trial advocacyschools in the nation are invited to compete under unusualcircumstances: No advance preparation is permitted. Uponarrival, each student is given only 24 hours to preparebefore trying the case. Contestants this year argued a caseregarding copyright law in which a publisher was accusedof encouraging a novice writer to take elements from anestablished writer’s series of children’s books. Power quickly reviewed depositions, records, andphotographs before the case, and worked with new piecesof evidence as the tournament progressed. Ultimately, shewas undefeated, beating law students from WashingtonUniversity, University of Denver, Yale University, and finallyFaulkner University. Power was coached by Professor SaraJacobson, Director of Trial Advocacy, and assisted bysecond chair Victoria Miranda ’15.Temple Law is the only school to take top honors twicesince the tournament was launched in 2010. That year,Jeffrey Goodman ’10, now with the Philadelphia firm ofSaltz Mongeluzzi Barrett & Bendesky, was the inauguralTop Gun. CAROLINE POWER ’14 WITH LEONARD E. DAVIS, CHIEF JUDGE OFTHE U.S. DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS,AND ROY BARRETT OF NAMAN HOWELL SMITH & LEE. Student scholars present alongside faculty at international conference MAY 2014The annual meeting of the Law and SocietyAssociation drew an unprecedented number of Temple Law student scholars to present their research alongsidetheir professors. Fourteen students, joined by six members of the faculty, traveled to Minneapolis where theirpresentations were heard by scholars from around theglobe at the four-day conference focusing on “Law andInequalities: Global and Local.” The Law and Society Association is “committed to socialscientific, interpretive, and historical analyses of law acrossmultiple social contexts.” In the years since the associationconvened its first meeting in 1975, the conference hasbecome a large and fertile forum, attracting a diverse group of academics from across the social sciences thatincludes—in addition to legal scholars—sociologists,political scientists, historians, anthropologists,criminologists, and many others. Conference presenters are typically faculty members,and the occasional doctoral student. It is rare for lawstudents to be invited to present their work. The TempleLaw students—known as Law and Public Policy Scholars—presented work resulting from their participation in theTemple Law and Public Policy Program, directed byProfessor Nancy J. Knauer. Last year, five Law and Public Policy Scholars presentedpapers at the Law and Society annual meeting. This year’sincreased total of 14 presenting students signals thegrowing success of the program. LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY SCHOLARS: MAKING AN IMPACT“This [writing and presenting papers] is a new competencyfor law students,” says Knauer, who herself participated inone of the conference’s three plenary sessions. “They wereamazing. They presented their papers on panels alongsideprofessors and scholars from around the world.” Launched in 2012, the Law and Public Policy Programbegins with a summer in Washington, D.C. Participantssimultaneously intern in policy positions in government orNGOs, take courses, and write white papers, often relatedto their work. When the students return to Philadelphia in the fall, they shift their focus from the federal to themunicipal level, and work collaboratively on urgent policyissues facing the city. After the students write policypapers, they are encouraged to present them atconferences or seek distribution in news outlets, journals, blog posts or op-ed pieces. Public Policy Scholar Lauren Marsh says presenting herpaper at the conference was an invaluable experience:“Not only was I able to spend a few days immersing myselfin the research of academics and scholars from across theglobe, but I was able to present my own original researchin an environment which accepted me as a peer. Writingan academic paper which focused on a topic that is soegregious, yet invisible to so many, really opened my eyesto the breadth of legal problems which I can address in myfuture career.” While the Law and Society meeting has proved a fertileforum for students to present their work, Law and PublicPolicy Scholars are making an impact in other venues aswell. One student presented her work on human traffickingat a criminology conference in Budapest; another haspublished his work on union practices with bothForbes.com and The Atlantic. Other Scholars haveproposed new tax credits, revised the business privilegetax, proposed civil rights legislation, tackled the issue ofvacant land, and outlined ways to better serve residents with limited English proficiency.LAW AND PUBLICPOLICY SCHOLARLAUREN MARSHPRESENTED APAPER ON THEINTERSECTION OFDOMESTICVIOLENCE ANDINTERNATIONALCHILD ABDUCTION.PROFESSOR NANCY KNAUER WAS A PANELIST AT A PLENARYSESSION “MEASURES AND MISMEASURES OF EQUALITY.”4 • TEMPLE ESQ. FALL 20141970sIn August 2014, private practitionerTHEODORE SIMON ’74 was sworn in aspresident of the National Association ofCriminal Defense Lawyers at its annualmeeting in Philadelphia. Simon previouslyserved as president-elect, secretary,treasurer, first and second vice president, as well as on the board of directors for eleven years. He is also a trusteeof the Foundation for Criminal Justice and chaired theFoundation for Criminal Justice Awards Dinner in held inAugust 2014 at the National Constitution Center.JUDGE CAROL E. HIGBEE ’76, of the New Jersey SuperiorCourt, moved to the appellate division in August 2014. The appellate division of the Superior Court is New Jersey’sintermediate appellate court, where 32 judges hear appealsfrom decisions of the trial courts, the tax court and stateadministrative agencies. Higbee was first appointed to thebench by Gov. James Florio in 1993, served on the civilbench in Atlantic County for 21 years, and was namedpresiding judge of the civil division in 2005. Fox Rothschild announced that PRINCEALTEE THOMAS ’76is a new co-chair ofthe firm’s diversity committee. Thomas,who is counsel in Fox Rothschild’sPhiladelphia office, also serves on theboard of the Philadelphia Diversity LawGroup and is a member of the board ofthe Consumer Bankruptcy Assistance Project. Hepreviously chaired the minority bar committee of thePennsylvania Bar Association.CARL HITTINGER ’79has joined Baker & Hostetler as apartner and litigation coordinator for the Philadelphia office, where he will be responsible for establishing amultidisciplinary litigation practice in the office. Theaddition of former DLA Piper antitrust attorney Hittingerrepresents the first time Baker & Hostetler has expandedits Philadelphia office beyond an intellectual propertyfocus. Also at Baker & Hostetler, in the New York office, is managing partner GEORGE A. STAMBOULIDIS ’79.Hittinger and Stamboulidis clerked together, 35 years ago,for U.S. District Judge Louis C. Bechtle of the EasternDistrict of Pennsylvania. JOSEPH MANCANO ’79and fellow Temple Law alumnusMARK E. CEDRONE ’85have formed the Philadelphialitigation firm of Cedrone & Mancano. (Note from editor: In the June 2014 issue of Temple Esq.,Mancano was incorrectly identified as Class of ’99).NOTESClassLoyalty comes in many forms for Temple Law supporterDavid W. Sass ’60 Born in Germany and raised in Brooklynby hardworking parents, Temple LawSchool alum David W. Sass ’60 says hisyears at P.S. 92 and Erasmus Hall HighSchool prepared him well for whateventually followed: a long and satisfyingcareer in the law. Sass says he always knew he wantedto be a lawyer. Starting at a young age,he devoured novels about lawyers andthe legal system. Later, instead of goingstraight from college to law school, hisintellectual curiosity led him to take abreather at Oxford University, where hestudied the 17th century origins ofcommon law. Sass says he enjoyed law school—a lot. “We had, in my estimation, one ofthe best classes ever. We all became very good friends and stayed friends,” he remembers. “There was a genuinecamaraderie with the professors, we did a lot of thingstogether after class, discussing issues and just socializing.” Sass’ loyalty to the law school has taken many forms.Most recently he made a $25,000 testamentary gift to the Temple Law Foundation, an alumni fundraisingorganization. Sass recently retired from serving on theboard of that foundation. He is currently an honorarytrustee for Ithaca College after serving for 21 years on theBoard of Trustees, one of which was spent as vice chair.Loyalty is also a trait that has servedSass well in his legal career. When he joined the New York City firm ofMcLaughlin & Stern, he was one ofonly seven lawyers. Sass has watchedhis firm grow to become a 100-lawyerfirm. “The firm grew in a strange way,” says Sass. “When a lot of firmsstarted dropping estates and trusts, wepicked up a lot of lucrative practices.”As co-chair of the firm’s corporatedepartment, Sass does a wide range ofcorporate work but has specialized inIPOs, and mergers and acquisitions.In addition to the extensive timeand energy he devotes to his almamaters and to his law practice, Sasssays, “I read a lot, I play a lot of tennisand travel. Most importantly, I’ve been happily married for56 years and we have two children, five grandchildren, and a great grandchild,” says Sass, whose wife Evelyn is a talented artist and former buyer for Bloomingdale’s. Why does the busy co-chair of the corporatedepartment at a prestigious New York City law firm makegiving back to the educational institutions that shaped hiscareer a top priority? 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ExploreCharitable Gift AnnuitiesFor more information,please contact: Rebecca CalvertGift Officerrebecca.calvert@temple.edu215-204-8983Colleen UhniatExecutive Director of Developmentcolleen.uhniat@temple.edu215-204-22465 • TEMPLE ESQ. FALL 20141980sSTEVEN L. SUGARMAN ’80was a featuredspeaker at the recent PBI program, “ADay on Real Estate.” A frequent lectureron community association law, Sugarmanis the course planner for PBI’s upcomingprogram, “Litigating Condominium &Homeowner Association Cases” to be held in November2014. He also teaches the course “Condominium andHomeowner Association Law” as an adjunct professor at Villanova Law School. PHYLLIS HORN EPSTEIN, JD ’80, LLM ’84isthe recipient of the Pennsylvania BarAssociation’s Presidential SpecialAchievement Award for her service astreasurer from 2011 to 2014. Epstein is apartner with Epstein, Shapiro & Epstein,where she specializes in the areas of taxplanning and representation before the IRS. In June 2014,Epstein moderated a panel at the ABA Tax Sectionmeeting, “Taxation of Settlements and Damage Awardsunder Section 104 (a) of the Internal Revenue Code.” She also spoke at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s seminar,“The Family of Laws.”H. KIRK HOUSE ’80has been named director of thePennsylvania Public Utility Commission’s Office ofCompetitive Market Oversight. House has worked with the Public Utility Commission for thirty years. ROSEANN B. TERMINI ’85recently published “The Role ofthe United States Federal Food and Drug Administration:Regulator, Watchdog, Facilitator or All of These?” in theNorth Carolina Central Biotechnology and PharmaceuticalLaw Review.Also in 2014, she spoke on “CareerOpportunities in Food and Drug Law” at the Food and DrugLaw Institute’s annual conference, and was conferencedirector and speaker at “FDA Matters,” a CLE on food anddrug law conducted by Widener University’s Food andDrug Law Association. Termini is the vice chair of thePennsylvania Bar Association’s healthcare law committee.In April 2012, FREDERIC C. HEYMAN ’87partnered withRoger Bennett to form the law firm of Bennett & Heymanin Baltimore, MD. The firm concentrates its practice in the areas of medical negligence and catastrophicpersonal injury. Dilworth Paxson partner MATTHEW I. WHITEHORN, LLM INTAXATION ’87,has been appointed to the Internal RevenueService’s advisory committee on tax exempt andgovernment entities (ACT). ACT members are appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury and advise the IRS onoperational policy and procedural improvements.Whitehorn chairs Dilworth Paxson’s employee benefitsgroup and the Philadelphia Bar Association’s employeebenefits committee.CCI Consulting/Career Partners International has named MARIE KILLIAN ’88vice president and practiceleader of human resource consulting. CCI providesoutplacement, executive coaching, career transitionand other human resource services.1990sIn June 2014, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter namedVANESSA GARRETT HARLEY ’91commissioner for the city’sDepartment of Human Services. Harley was previouslydeputy commissioner.SAMUEL S. CHOY ’92has been named partner at King &Spalding in its tax and employee benefits and executivecompensation practices. Choy, who is based in Atlanta,GA, joins King & Spalding from McKenna Long & Aldridge.DANIEL JECK ’92,a partner at Eisenberg,Rothweiler, Winkler, Eisenberg & Jeck,recently lectured on chest pain andmoderated “Emerging Topics in Med Mal:Trying Urgent Care and ER Cases,” a CLEhosted by the Pennsylvania Associationfor Justice. In May 2014, DOLORES M. BOJAZI ’93was honored by the Marian Anderson Historical Society, and heraccomplishments were recognized in an address to theU.S. House of Representatives by Congressman RobertBrady. Bojazi, who began her career as an advocacycoordinator at Women Against Abuse, trained thePhiladelphia Police Force in legal response procedure and proposed an appeal procedure for emergencyprotection orders, which was adopted into law in 1988.She continued her advocacy work as a union organizer forthe United Auto Workers, where she represented the union at the National Labor Relations Board. Bojazi then workedin the Philadelphia Defender Association and in theBurlington and Camden Public Defenders Office. She has also worked at Freedman and Lorry, and Mattleman,Weinroth, and Miller. Bojazi currently practices law in herown office, where she focuses on criminal and family law. Lou Agre ’87: ‘friend to workingpeople’ is honored byUnemployment ProjectJUNE 2014The PhiladelphiaUnemployment Projectpresented Lou Agre ’87 withthe Economic Justice Award ata jazz gala in Philadelphia,where Agre was cited for hiswork as a “union leader, wardleader and friend to workingpeople.” Agre’s work with PUPbegan in the 1980s when hevolunteered to represent laidoff workers at unemploymenthearings. He has been a laborattorney and now is a business agent for Local 542 of theOperating Engineers, and is president of the PhiladelphiaMetal Trades Council. Agre is also the Democratic wardleader in Manayunk and Roxborough.Matthew Wilson ’99 is new law dean at University of Akron JULY 2014Matthew J. Wilson, a member of the Class of 1999 who later returned toTemple University Japan as a law professor and administrator, has been appointeddean of the School of Law at The University of Akron. Wilson leaves the faculty ofthe University of Wyoming College of Law to assume the deanship. An expert in international law and education with fluency in Japanese, Wilsontaught on the faculty at Temple University Japan from 2003 to 2009. He directedTemple Law’s year-round LL.M. programs and spring semester J.D. program. In hislast year in Tokyo, Wilson was senior associate dean and chief academic officer atthe 3,000-student campus. Anthony Scanlon ’88 inducted toDelco Common Pleas CourtJULY 2014The Delaware County, PA Court of CommonPleas added a new name but an old face to the bench withthe induction of Anthony D. Scanlon ’88. Judge Scanlon,who has practiced law in the area for 26 years, has spent the last 10 years as a magisterial district judge inSpringfield, Delaware County andpreviously worked as a trial attorneyin the county Public Defender’sOffice. He had also worked in themunicipal unit of the PhiladelphiaDistrict Attorney’s office and served as an assistant solicitor in Delaware County.ANTHONY D. SCANLON ’88,WITH HIS WIFE, BARBARA,AND SONS PATRICK, RYANAND DAVID.TEMPLE ESQ.welcomes news and photos of ouralumni/ae. Please include: Full name, class,degree, and a way to reach you if we need toconfirm information.Email: janet.goldwater@temple.eduSend to:Janet GoldwaterTemple Esq.Temple University Beasley School of Law1719 North Broad StreetPhiladelphia, PA 19122SEND US YOUR NEWS!6 • TEMPLE ESQ. FALL 2014David Cohen Class of 1952Max Meshon Class of 1952Charles E. Mitchell Class of 1954Hon. Nicholas Kozay Jr.Class of 1956Anthony H. MurrayClass of 1957Steven F. Gadon Class of 1959David E. Frankhouser Class of 1970IN MEMORIAMTroutman Sanders announced thatAARON ABRAHAM ’95has joined the firm as a partner in its New York City office,where he will focus his practice on construction anddevelopment. Abraham joins Troutman Sanders fromGoulston & Storrs. Abraham is the twelfth partner to jointhat office since in the last year.The Securities and Exchange Commission announced thatSTEPHANIE AVAKIAN ’95has been named deputy directorof enforcement. Avakian previously worked in the SECDivision of Enforcement as a branch chief in the New YorkRegional Office, and later served as a counsel to SECCommissioner Paul Carey. Avakian rejoins the SEC from thelaw firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, whereshe was a partner in the New York office and a vice chairof the firm’s securities practice. In March 2014, LISA A. HANSSEN ’95 wasnamed deputy general counsel of BerlitzCorporation in Princeton, NJ. Berlitzprovides language and cross-culturalcommunication and leadership trainingthrough 550 company-owned andfranchised locations in more than 70countries. Prior to joining Berlitz, Hanssen provided in-house counsel at Flowers Foods, Tasty Baking Companyand PMA Group of Insurance Companies.BRENTON L. SAUNDERS ’96was recently appointed chiefexecutive officer and president of Actavis, a manufacturerand developer of prescription drugs. Saunders waspreviously chief executive officer and president of ForestLaboratories, which was acquired by Actavis in July 2014.CHRISTINA D. FRANGIOSA ’97has beenappointed vice-chair of the trademarksand unfair competition division of theAmerican Bar Association’s section ofintellectual property law for the upcomingyear. In addition, she has been appointedthe section liaison to the ABA’s cyber-security task force. Frangiosa specializes in intellectualproperty and technology law at Semanoff OrmsbyGreenberg & Torchia in Huntingdon Valley, PA.DENISE M. BOWMAN ’98has been named chair of theLower Bucks County Chamber of Commerce board ofdirectors for the 2014-2015 term. Bowman is a partner atHill Wallack in Yardley, PA, where she is a member of thebusiness and commercial and complex litigation practice.Drinker Biddle Reath announced that KEITH WALTER ’98has joined the firm as a partner in the intellectual propertygroup. He previously practiced at Novak Druce ConnollyBove Quigg.2000sLINSEY BOZZELLI ’00of the Philadelphiaoffice Blank Rome has been recognizedby the Pennsylvania Diversity Council withits “Most Powerful and Influential Women”and “Leadership Excellence in Law”awards. Bozzelli is vice chair of BlankRome’s corporate, mergers and acquisitions, and securitiespractice group. She has been actively involved in many of the firm’s pro bonoinitiatives, including representingseveral nonprofit organizations, as well as various clients in connection with their petitions for asylum in the U.S.Bozzelli serves on the board of trustees of the PhiladelphiaBar Foundation and the Pennsylvania Hospital IntensiveCare Nursery Family Council.CHRISTINA HOUSTON ’03has left K&L Gates to join DLAPiper in Wilmington, DE as a partner in the corporate andfinance practice. Houston is a member of the AmericanBar Association business law section and serves as chair of the website subcommittee of the section’s committee on legal opinions.TEMPLE ESQ.published by the Temple University Beasley School of Law for alumni and friends. JoAnne A. Epps, DeanPublications Director: Janet Goldwater, Art Director: Gene Gilroy,Photography: Joseph Labolito, Kelly & Massa, Ryan Brandenberg, 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 19122. Email: janet.goldwater@temple.edu,Fax: 215.204.1185.To change your email, home or office address: lawalum@temple.edu or215.204.1187Kevin Toth ’98 leaves insurance firm for Nelson BrownKevin Toth ’98 has left Harleysville Insurance to become executive vicepresident and chief operations and strategic officer for Blue Bell, PA-basedNelson Brown & Co. (known until August 2014 as Nelson Levine deLuca &Hamilton), a law firm that focuses on representing the insurance industry. Tothworked at Harleysville for ten years, and in his last three months served as thefirm’s senior operating executive. Harleysville was a longtime client for NelsonBrown, which has 30 lawyers in Blue Bell and another 20 in New York andsmaller locations in New Jersey, Ohio, District of Columbia, North Carolina andLondon. Prior to his career in the insurance industry, Toth was a financialservices litigation attorney at Reed Smith.Scott Cooper ’92 elected president of Temple University Alumni AssociationJULY 2014Scott F. Cooper ’92 has been elected president of the Temple UniversityAlumni Association and a member of the university’s board of trustees. A partner atBlank Rome in Philadelphia, Cooper chairs the labor and employment group and is afounder of the trade secret and non-compete litigation group. He is also a formerchancellor and president of the Philadelphia Bar Association.Cooper has been an active member of the Temple community for more than 20years. While in law school, he was the first student to simultaneously serve asmanaging editor of the Law Review,be a member of the Moot Court Honor Society, amember of the National Trial Team, and graduate with honors. Following law school, he clerked for Judge Herbert J. Hutton in the U.S. DistrictCourt for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania before joining Blank Rome in 1993,where he has practiced since. He has also taught as an adjunct professor at the law school since graduation. Outsidethe office, Cooper is a licensed volunteer youth soccer coach, vice president of the Moorestown Soccer Club, andplays competitive soccer in two adult leagues.Eric Vos ’92 sworn in as FederalPublic Defender in Puerto RicoAUGUST 18, 2014Eric Alexander Vos ’92 returns to the island of his childhood as Federal Public Defenderfor the District of Puerto Rico. Vos grew up in PuertoRico before leaving to enroll in Clark University, where he earned a B.A. in geography and internationaldevelopment in 1984. After graduating from Temple Law in 1992, Vos opened his own law firm where heengaged in private practice for several years. He joinedthe Federal Defenders’ Offices in 1996 as a trial attorneywith the Federal Defender for the Eastern District ofPennsylvania. After ten years in Pennsylvania, Vosmoved to the District of Maine as an assistant federaldefender for three years. Since 2009, Vos has been an attorney advisor at thelegal policy and training division of the Defender ServicesOffice. In that position, Vos traveled to dozens of FederalDefenders’ Offices, including Puerto Rico, to providetraining tailored to the local needs of both FederalDefenders and Criminal Justice Act panel members.ERIC VOS ’92 IS SWORN IN BY CHIEF JUDGE SANDRA LYNCHOF THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT.2010sERIN E. LAMB ’10joined Rawle &Henderson as an associate in the firm’sPhiladelphia office. Lamb concentratesher practice in the areas of catastrophicloss, product liability, construction,premises liability, and general casualty matters.JONAS K. SEIGEL, LLM IN TRIAL ADVOCACY ’11,was chosenby the New Jersey Bar Association as its 2014 YoungLawyer of the Year. Seigel is a partner of the Ridgewood,NJ-based personal injury firm, Seigel Capozzi Law Firm.Greenblatt, Pierce, Engle, Funt & Floresannounced that ASHLEY E. SHAPIRO ’11has become an associate with the firm.Shapiro will practice out of thePhiladelphia and Haddonfield, NJ offices,concentrating in the areas of white collarcriminal defense and corporateinvestigations, as well as criminal defense matters. 7 • TEMPLE ESQ. FALL 2014In June 2014, LINDA A. KERNS ’03waselected to a four-year term as associategeneral counsel of the PhiladelphiaRepublican City Committee. Kerns is aprivate practitioner in Philadelphia.AHSAN A. JAFRY ’04joins the Cherry Hill,NJ office of Bums Whites, where he willpractice medical malpractice law. Jafry also serves on theNew Jersey Supreme Court’s committee on model civil jurycharges and teaches trial advocacy as an adjunct professorat Rutgers School of Law-Camden.DANIEL JT MCKENNA ’04has been named a partner at thePhiladelphia office of Ballard Spahr. As public servicecoordinator for the Young Lawyers Division of the AmericanBar Association, McKenna implements the nationwide Willsfor Heroes program, through which volunteer lawyers andlegal professionals provide estate-planning documentsfor first responders and emergency personnel. KIMBERLY A. FREIMUTH ’05was one of 13attorneys recently elevated to partner atFox Rothschild. Freimuth practices in thefirm’s Warrington, PA office.MARK FURLETTI ’06has been named apartner at Ballard Spahr in Philadelphia,where he concentrates his practice in thearea of business and finance law. Before joining BallardSpahr, Furletti worked for the Federal Reserve Bank ofPhiladelphia for several years.RICKELL HOWARD ’06has joined the Children’s Law Center,based in Covington, KY, as the Ohio director of litigationand policy. Howard is also a board member of the CentralCommunity Health Board and the Greater CincinnatiHomeless Coalition. She is the founder of the Wise Counsellegal ministry at her church, Light of the World Ministries,where she provides pro bonolegal services. Important Developments in Bankruptcy, Consumer and Contract Law The (Un)Quiet Realist: Building and Reflecting on the Contributions of Bill WhitfordTEMPLE WELCOMES 15THCLASS OF CHINESE LLM’S AUGUST 4, 2014The Temple-Tsinghua Master of Lawsprogram, based in Beijing, China, welcomed its 15thentering class. With 49 students, it is the largest class everenrolled in the program. Students from the public sectorinclude judges, prosecutors, and legal officials withagencies such as the China Securities RegulatoryCommission, Ministry of Justice, and State IntellectualProperty Organization; those from the private sector includecounsel from China Unicom, Dacheng Law Firm, Google,Lenovo, Nokia, Sinopec, Standard Chartered Bank, andYingke Law Firm.Seated at far right is Associate Professor John Smagula,Director of Asian Programs and China Rule-of-Law Program.Interested in hosting a 5, 10, 20 . . . 50 year classreunion? Let us help you. The Temple University Beasley School of LawAlumni officecan provide you with marketingassistance to get the word out to your formerclassmates about your event. For more information, please call Colleen Uhniat,Executive Director of Development at or email colleen.uhniatc@temple.edu.Wondering what yourclassmates are up to?Let us help you host a class reunion!TEMPLE LAW REVIEW SYMPOSIUMFriday, October 24, 2014Temple Law School, 9 am to 4 pm CLE:5 PA credits, including 1 ethics creditwww.law.temple.edu/whitfordFor more information or to register call 215-204-2325The symposium will bring together nationally acclaimedexperts in Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization, consumercontracting and consumer protection to examine the work ofUniversity of Wisconsin Professor Emeritus Bill Whitford,one of the nation’s leading scholars in the field. Confirmed participants include: Douglas Baird,University ofChicago; Bob Hillman,Cornell University;Melissa Jacoby,University of North Carolina; Bob Lawless,University ofIllinois; Ethan Leib,Fordham University; Lynn LoPucki,UCLA;Stewart Macaulay,University of Wisconsin;Katherine Porter,UC Irvine;Iain Ramsay,University of Kent (UK); David Skeel,University of Pennsylvania; Jay Westbrook,University of Texas.The symposium will be led by Temple University’s Harold E. Kohn Professor of LawJonathan Lipsonand University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law ProfessorJean Braucher.Papers presented will be published in theTemple Law Review.TEMPLE UNIVERSITY JAMES E. BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAWLAW SCHOOL AND ALUMNI NEWSFALL 2014VISIT 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 19122Former Federal ProsecutorJoins FacultyTEMPLE LAW CLASS OF 2014 SEPTEMBER 2014The most recentaddition to the Temple Law faculty,Professor Lauren Ouziel, comes toTemple Law after clerking, working inprivate practice, and serving for almost a decade as a federal prosecutor in New York and Philadelphia. Starting inJuly, Ouziel became a full-time professorof law, teaching evidence, criminalprocedure, and civil procedure.“I love being a lawyer, and I lovedpracticing law,” explains Ouziel. “I find itequally rewarding, though, to be able totake a few steps back and consider howmy own experiences fit in to the muchlarger systemic picture—and why andhow that picture looks the way it does. Inmy practice, I always enjoyed mentoring newer lawyers aswell as law students, and I look forward to mentoring evenmore as a law professor.”Ouziel, who has taught law students previously, says shedraws on her experiences in practice when she enters theclassroom. “I might bring to life a rule of evidence or legalissue with reference to a particular case I tried; or I mighttell a student who offers a novel legal argument: ‘Great! Ilove it, and here’s all the reasons you should be right—but a judge probably won’t buy it, and here’s why.’”Ouziel’s research, which focuses on institutionaldynamics in criminal investigation and adjudication, hasaddressed differences between the federal and statecriminal justice systems in dynamics between and amongcourts, lawmakers and law enforcers,and the ways in which those differencesinfluence public perceptions of legitimacyand, in turn, case outcomes.“Constitutional doctrine and legislationdo very little, in practice, to regulate thecriminal justice system,” says Ouziel.“Any real balancing of the system comesprimarily through the interplay of thegroups that comprise it: prosecutors,judges, juries, sentencing commissions,legislatures. To the extent we thinkcriminal justice in this country should beadministered differently than it currentlyis, we need to consider what motivatesthe actors within each of theseinstitutions, and how laws, policies andnorms influence those motivations.”Ouziel earned a B.A. in history from Harvard Universityand a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, whereshe was the writing and research editor of the ColumbiaLaw Reviewand a James Kent Scholar and Harlan FiskeStone Scholar. Following graduation from law school, sheclerked for Judge Lewis Kaplan of the U.S. District Courtfor the Southern District of New York. She went on topractice for three years at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York before serving as a federalprosecutor for eight years. Before joining the Temple Lawfaculty, Ouziel spent two years as a visiting professor atVillanova Law School.LAUREN OUZIEL Thursday, September 18, 2014CLASS OF 2003 NETWORKING AND SOCIAL HAPPY HOURFado Irish Pub1500 Locust Street, 5:30-8 pmWedenesdays, October 1 to November 19, 2014MEDICINE AND THE LAW CLEWednesdays, 6-8:30 pmCLE: 18 credits (1 ethics)Wednesdays, 6-8:30 pmFor more information, go towww7.law.temple.edu/events/medicine-and-the-law/Thursday, October 9, 2014HAROLD E. KOHN LECTUREHon. Leo E. Strine Jr.Chief Justice, Delaware Supreme CourtDuane Morris LLP Moot Court Room, 4 pmcalendar of eventsTuesday, October 14, 2014HERBERT F. KOLSBY LECTURE IN TRIAL ADVOCACYChilton Varner, Partner at King & Spaulding“Reflections on Atticus Finch and Scout”Duane Morris LLP Moot Court Room, 11:45 amFriday, October 24, 2014TEMPLE LAW REVIEW SYMPOSIUM*Important Developments inBankruptcy, Consumer and Contract LawCLE: 5 PA credits (1 ethics credit)Temple Law School, 9 am-4 pm* see page 7 for more detailsNext >